skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whelp, if you took that as a sell signal when he sold 30% of his stock in 2018, you probably did very poorly in the market since then: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...

Of course, he lost out selling at $100/share (vs today's $300+/share). And in 2014 when he sold a bunch of stock at $50/share. I'm going to say that if history has any saying in this, it means that the stock will be at $600/share the next time he sells.
We don't have slaves anymore. At least not in Western societies. So I am not sure how it's relevant - sure, people in the past had got a lot of things wrong. They thought diseases come from bad smells, eating arsenic can cure you, and yes - some of them also thought owning slaves is ok. Now we know better about these things. We don't have slavery anymore - at least in the West (curiously, nobody seems to give a tweet about it still existing in other parts of the world?)

That doesn't mean they got everything wrong - some things they did get right, even though they came short in implementing them - just as we do. They were imperfect people - just as we are. It doesn't mean because there was slavery in the past we can't have free speech now - that makes no sense. It's just a collection of non-sequiturs - "founders were imperfect by our ideals 250 years forward, we should reject literally everything that was done" - and what?

> Public discourse has been dominated by white, rich men since the inception of the US, and history is full of examples of active suppression of speech by women and minorities.

And to fix that, we need more active suppression of speech, surely? Makes total sense, right? Because if rich, white men suppressed speech, and it was bad, then if we have now rich people, a small number of whom would be not white, not male and one or two maybe even non-binary transgender - if those people would be actively suppressing speech, then of course it'd be great. What a bunch of nonsense!

> I just really don't wanna go "back to the good old times" either.

Nobody wants that. Where would you get the idea? Of course people that want free speech don't mean they want to give up antibiotics and painkillers, stop driving cars, forgo electricity, never have a proper dental work, and do any other things that were done 250 years ago that we don't do anymore. Why would they? They just want to speak freely and discuss the ideas freely. It's not and never been the package deal - either we have slavery and free speech, or we have neither. In fact, it is the opposite - of course, if we have slavery, we can't have full freedom, as you correctly noted, free speech has to be free for everybody - any gender, any race, any societal stature. Big Tech is completely opposed to this.
KHTML was a pretty viable alternative to the mess that was Gecko at the time. And there were already some (underserved) alternative platform ports in-progress at the time.
This reminds me of lawsuit against Amazon because it's not, actually, always Day 1.
what do you consider "sensitive telemetry"?
Sounds like shitty property tax laws. That kind of law is not normal in the rest of the world, afaik.
The problem with "Don't Be Evil" is that it assumes everyone agrees on what the definition of "evil" is. But that is absolutely not the case. We live in a post-Christian/post-religious society where - aside from the basic human instinct of survival - no one agrees on First Principles. The dominant ideology in society now is Liberalism. And I don't mean American liberalism. I mean actual Liberalism - freedom of speech, expression, assembly, religion, etc. Because of this, there is a diversity of thought and moral relativism, so "evil" means different things to different people. A rural, socially conservative Christian's idea of "evil" will likely be very different than an urban, secular, and progressive definition of "evil." Without a dominant ideology guiding society using a set universal moral code, there will always be conflicts regarding First Principles, different sets of facts, etc.
As far as I’m aware the justification is “no executing pages you can write to at runtime” (because it’s a huge security issue). They give safari an exception to that because you can’t make a JIT without doing that, and that’s the most straightforward way to get fast JavaScript.
I'm not sure if I buy that counterfactual. Taken to its logical conclusion, you can say that about any piece of art, or anyone you meet, or any event in your life. I don't believe that these are such interchangeable items. Taking your example of an alternate photo of a 5yo waving to her dad, or a mother hugging her son, they express different things compared with the photo in question, with the original photo giving me a sense of the joy of returning to a youthful life full of promise, while the 5yo waving photo would be of the relief of a father knowing that he will be able to raise his daughter, and the last would be of a dutiful son returning.
I think you can still see scores in search? Or is that only for old comments?
no, it probably won't cause a massive pump... For every seller there's a buyer.. who would be in the other side of the trade if tether is deemed worthless?

A more probable scenario is that trading pairs against USDT will just get halted.
Would be interesting to see something like this governed by a community. Interesting in the light of DAO ownership. Any notable projects like this?
The system we currently rely on is founded on proof of violence, which also creates a colossal amount of waste, and not just in our garbage dumps.

And you seem to be ignoring my point, that until we internalize the costs of burning fossil fuels, there will always be someone willing to burn it, even if it's not bitcoin miners.
I don't know about you but I'm not 'selling' my work to the business like a black box, I am working under the direct supervision of the business and any and all work that I do is the result of a team effort and direction from management, non-engineering, and engineering staff. Let me emphasize: all the work that gets put into production is a team effort and a team responsibility.

I'm not begging anyone to let me prove my technology, I'm working with management to come up with a solution that will work for the customer. Oftentimes management will forbid or otherwise prevent me from using a better, more robust technology that would have prevented more production issues because of short-sightedness. If I pointed this out and was still told to go ahead with the short-sighted solution, and it breaks in production, whose fault is that?

I'm not suggesting the 'it's your problem now, have fun' approach, I'm suggesting the 'pay overtime for overtime work' approach. This is nowhere even near to 'breach of contract', please don't throw around lawyer-like terms when you clearly don't understand what's being discussed.
If Tether crashes, many people will lose faith in crypto completely and sell everything.
Run containers on your Mac with Lima
I'm curious how a judge tosses this out. Do they just say "Look, the law has nothing to do with stopping evil, so stop asking us to try"?
We are working with many of them on Baas256.com … Solana, Poligon, BSC… and many more.
> In most developed countries there are strict rules about driving. You are expected and required to drive according to certain rules to keep other people safe. There are rules for driving because the right of other people to not get injured or killed are considered more important than your right to do what you feel like.

Driving your automobile legally on the road is statistically responsible for many many deaths. No two ways about it. That makes your next rhetorical question a failure. You also couldn't address the flu one either.

> Do you think restricting your right to drive drunk on a pavement is "strange collectivism"?

No.
That's exactly what a lot of bitcoin critics want.
True that…
At least they have a better chance then if they went against the current motto "Do the right thing" (ie: the right thing for who? the advertisers?).
> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan

You’re taking the same company that repeatedly used their api to kill all the third party competitors to their horrible client(s)? I avoid Twitter like the plague And even I followed them enough to know they are anything but open.
You’re now moving the goal post.

You said there were “enormous amounts of money stolen or destroyed” as a result of “ weaknesses in the [Ethereum] blockchain.”

The consensus issue where one client forked off isn’t evidence of that at all. Even the article you link to says it seems that the network was stable and the impact was minimal. Even in this particular attack, doing a double spend would be rather difficult.
If Google was able to fire workers for being evil, I think these employees have a case for the reverse as well.

Many contract disputes boil down to the definition of the term "reasonable" so why would "evil" be different? Ultimately it's on Google for including the word in legal documents.
> cheapest energy source (fossil fuels).

Renewables are often cheaper - it depends.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/most-new...
> In a corporation like Twitter, only people who can afford a financial stake have a say

So just like real life, where a rich corporation can use its money to spend on Ads to attack politicians who dont support the corporation.
Hope we have 2.0 soon…
For me, the best feature of the old finder was, you could take a file or folder from somethere, drag it to the desktop. Use it from there. Then, once you had finished your project you could tell the finder to move the folder from the desktop back to where it belongs.
I'm not arguing for Apple to open-source their OS, I just want them to make something that's truly better than Linux/Windows for once. They have an unconscionable amount of money, and they do nearly nothing with it. My original argument was having more money doesn't neccesarily build better software, and MacOS is a prime example of that. A few notes though:

> If that did happen, who pays for all the maintenance and new features on Mac?

This is probably the last thing I'd worry about if MacOS was open source. As it stands today, Apple basically "maintains" the Mach kernel by strapping BSD patches onto the XNU kernel and praying nothing breaks, if the community maintained it we probably wouldn't need to wait months for new iterative versions to come out and fix relatively simple issues.

> I've seen many, many examples of this across SaaS and other products - they take some free code, do nothing but repackage it and brand it, keep the profit and give nothing back to the creators.

And that's fine. That free software is intended to support other people, and it's why there are distinctions between GPL and BSD licensing. When you write open-source software, imagining such a "worst case" scenario is the first things developers do, and they choose their license accordingly. In the Streamlabs example you brought up, the community rightfully called them out for being a ripoff of OBS, and encouraged people to go use the free version instead. Like I said earlier, "money is the problem, not the solution."

> No one paid for WinRAR back in the day and if we just let that model continue, 80% of the awesome software today wouldn't exist.

People didn't pay for WinRAR because

1. It didn't force you to.

2. There were several free alternatives, like 7ZIP.

As you've mentioned earlier, the majority of "awesome software today" is really just free software strapped together with twine and bubblegum. 80% of SaaSes these days are simply frontends to software that could absolutely run locally. Even SaaSes don't see the end-user as an important asset, since the "new hotness" is moving on to B2B sales and bootstrapping directly onto another successful company like a parasite. Whether or not you consider this to be the utopian world of proprietary software is up to you, but I certainly appreciate things better in the FOSS world.
It reminds me when Debian shipped with "Iceweasel" instead of Firefox because of some licensing nonsense.
Joplin has its quirks but overall is a great, mature WYSIWYG markdown editor with syncing/backups and an Android app.
I have not tried to program in any of them except Kotlin, and I had an immediate allergic reaction to that.

However, all of them seem to be common enough I've heard of them before looking at the JVM wikipedia page, and it seems like Google is committed to Kotlin for Android going forward.

And all of them except Scala seem to have originated after the timeframe mentioned above.

I don't have a strong contrary opinion to yours; I just don't see where yours is coming from.
Neat. This could be embedded into a Lisp/Clojure syntax.
I for one, welcome our frog-celled robot overlords.
We definitely don't live in a post-christian/post-religious society. Lawmakers regularly cite the bible and other religious texts when making laws.
What reason to publish except 1) make profit or 2) have fun?

Self-publishing can cover both. Quality might be a constraint for either, but again, it's not guaranteed
And many people don't realize as well that only top-tier publishers actually staff or hire 'professional' editors.

A lot of the books you'll find from 'real' publishing companies are just peer-edited by a group of people who were told they'd get their name stamped in the imprint if they read through an advance copy. Not much better than self-editing, but still...
Being evil isn't illegal. See: Washington, District of Columbia
Chromecast has to be negotiated through the Google cloud service, since Google designed this from day one to lock Chromecast down. Chromecast is largely an anti-feature given how Google designed it to be lock-in.

What's stupid is Android TV means I can run any app I want, and they can't stop me, so Chromecast ends up being a kind of idiotic solution that never quite finished its search of a problem.

As in, I can use Steam Link or Moonlight to become a thin client of a real computer, I can Plex my entire (legal) library, or use any cloud service natively from the device.

All the things I ever really wanted to Chromecast felt like it was a third class citizen compared to the Android TV experience; and I just mean the purely playback part of it, not the client UI part (which Chromecast doesn't, and isn't meant to, have).
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The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
You need trusted authorities anyway. Anyone may show at your home and steal your crypto currency at gun point, you may pay for items that are not delivered, your employer may not pay you. Authorities and the rule of law are fully needed for any functional society. Crypto currencies as an anarchist dream are impossible as a very complex society is needed to produce them, and that society requires to be functional.

If someone wants anarchism they should simplify and use gold or some other easier to carry and exchange.
Crypto assets? Over-collaterized? That really sounds like something that works, until it doesn't. That is sometime in future when market crashes and everything comes down...
TEST instruction in x86/x64 is the same as AND instruction (bitwise and), but result of the computation is discarded (only flags are retained).
You can't rely on the consumers of electricity to solve the problem of it coming from fossil fuels. This is a policy problem, and unless people start caring about what goes on in government it doesn't matter. Washington, for example, has demonstrated recently that even an administration that is supposed to be taking climate change seriously has encouraged fossil fuels to flourish.
Do you buy legal entity based in EU (Italy)? or only US?
I see. Could you say more about meta-meaning?
Well going by some of their other comments, probably not nothing.
The law isn't unrelated to stopping evil, but it isn't able to determine what evil is.

Whether an act is "evil" is a theological question, so to the extent plaintiffs are actually relying on the word "evil", separation of church and state will prevent the court from even considering their claims.
Chromium is big. I think the last time I looked, it's larger than all the BSDs combined.
Most law exists to punish lawbreaking, and courts enforce those laws; they do not directly legislate what is or is not evil. The laws reflect the mores of society, and courts are typically not called upon to make sweeping definitions of what those mores are.
So far so good! It matches my desired style and feature set, so I’m probably the ideal candidate ahah.

Left a GitHub issue with the precompiled binary install. But it might be my fault.

The closest thing to this in terms of out of the box simplicity is probably Material theme for MkDocs [1], which has other features, but no official blog support.

[1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
Good for both: Twitter and Jack.
I think people who advocate for these ideas think they'd be useful for some men some of the time.

Much like having a footpump in the garage - you might not need it this day, or even this year. Some people will get through life without ever needing a pump. But if you need to inflate a tyre? You'll be glad to have it. And almost anyone can get a flat tyre.
Yes, thats it!
please tell me it had some way of playing the "llama's ass" mp3 when you booted the computer/car, or at least a hotkey on the keyboard
I would assume it would be about “don’t be evil” being such a broad, noncommittal statement.
Sorry Google, you created this farce by coddling these morons and many others like them
I guess other companies now will be wary of adding altruistic goals. No good deeds go unpunished.
> For example because an immutable monetary policy won't be seen as a feature.

Each nation would love to be able to manipulate the supply itself—why not, if people will let you get away with it?—but the fact that other nations can't do the same could be seen as a feature.
It's an argument against justifying CEO pay (or returns on capital) by appealing to what's owed due to the supposed risk taken. I'm saying that not just wealth is relative, but (relatedly, yes) so is risk. The risk your average worker at a megacorp operates under every day is far more meaningful than the risk the CEO, or the idle investor class, takes in their roles, even if the worker's risk is relatively tiny in dollar terms.

This isn't even an argument against the compensation itself, but an argument against a particular justification for why it's "right" that things are structured this way, or why it's necessary that they are, which argument is fairly common, but, IMO, laughably weak. Yet you see this argument advanced fairly often, in exactly these terms: "well of course megacorp CEOs are paid millions per year, look at all the risk they take that you don't have to, that's why they're paid the big bucks!" or "it's not just necessary but right that we reward capital, look at all the risk capital takes!" Meanwhile, my oh my, please, give me their "failure" state when that risk is realized.
I don't see Twitter as an improvement over what we had before.

The same people controlling the media once, are on the boards of the companies that allegedly made the change possible.

On the other hand, their faces are hidden now, so we can't really say if a certain topic is legitimately important for the general public or the consensus has been fabricated or, even worse, their platform has been abused and we won't know until it's too late because it's bad PR.

At least in the past I could almost be sure that a media outlet was not easy to infiltrate so their opinion reflected their beliefs and I could take a stance pro or against.

For example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitte...

Now if I think Twitter has been corrupted by malevolent entities, I can't really do a lot about it, because I risk to.lose my voice too.

There aren't many other ways I can have the same exposure.

There's a completely different set of incentives at play.
Well the definition of evil is being immortal and wicked. https://stallman.org/google.html has a list of many wicked things that Google has done and there's many others. So maybe they could use some of those things as proof that Google has betrayed the DBE motto. I doubt that anything will come of of this or that a judge won't dismiss this in a quick matter.
Yes: https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/
The ULP coprocessor still uses a small amount of power, as does its few KB of NVRAM. The idea of the intermittently powered FRAM thing is that it can be powered down completely, then start up again and continue from a checkpoint. I haven't read the paywalled article, but it looks to me like the main contribution in the project was hacking circuit python to transparently checkpoint itself every so often, so that it can restart when power is restored.

I don't really understand why they used the second (msp430) microprocessor, instead of add-on FRAM like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1895

It also seems to me that micropython is great for some things, but in this particular deployment it is increasing the hardware cost and complexity quite a bit.
Following security advice blindly is never a great idea. I don't think modern browsers will fall back below TLS 1.2 anymore (or at least not automatically), so offering support for TLS 1.0 doesn't impact them.

Then the question is what do you want to do with older browsers? Do you want to give them a browser error that users probably can't understand or do you want to let them in and shop?
It's not theological. It is moral. Atheists have a moral code. So does a society.
It would be a net positive for the space long term if people who confuse centralized stablecoins like Tether with decentralized "commodity" coins like bitcoin sell out completely. Concentrates bitcoin in the hands of stronger hodlers who understand what's actually going on and have a longer term investing thesis.
If you found CS6 buggy... you'd hate Photoshop / Illustrator CC 2022. Rife with bugs and basic problems with saving that mess with the workflow. Adobe is even once again making "Save for Web" a "legacy" feature, meaning they will remove it and replace it with... nothing. Adobe support is nonexistent at this point. There's no one home, and the decisions they make are terrible. Yes, the "select object" tooling and some of the new neural filters are pretty amazing, but if you can't get simple things like a Save dialog right... what's the point?

I'm looking for a new vendor too. I would love to cancel my company's CC subscriptions. The problem is we're meshed into the Adobe ecosystem to a certain extent, in particular editable AI/PDF files are still the only real option for getting graphics with movable type to printers who need to do on-the-fly modifications before going to press (so our studio isn't swamped with "please change the date on this ad and send us a new outlined version").

However, it's become clear that Adobe is now leveraging its monopoly to sit back and charge monthly while breaking, abandoning, and failing to fix software that worked for years.
Heat death would be a part of our simulation, not necessarily of the host. But since all of this simulation theories are basically religious beliefs, it is not very interesting reasoning about it.
It typically takes more than 20 hours on my dual core laptop. It's a pain, but once compiled I get the best of both worlds: fast as chrome, privacy friendly as firefox.

EDIT: Looks like popularity is on the rise [1]. Hopefully it will make it into the community repository.

[1] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages/ungoogled-chromium
If you're still relying on DRM functionality, a DRMed source could suddenly demand you upgrade the firmware and refuse to work until you do.