skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't disagree more.

I personally look only at reviews (trying to tell what's paid or fake) / price.

Some (if not most) of the best experiences and services I purchased had terrible websites and I often thought about offering to prop something up for them - it's not a terribly lucrative field though.

Anecdotally, I found it easier to raise money after having a nice designed website.
That would just lead to all the mining happening in North Korea and Iran since they can't be sanctioned for defecting from climate accords.
That only means that iOS is easy for toddler use-cases. ;)

(iOS user here)
Apr 1, 2019
i read that as "why bother with a hacked up chromium when i can just use firefox"
PoA is centralized, by definition. You are approved to be a validator by some trusted entity. In theory, this can be a group or consensus (you could imagine a PoA scheme where the set of authorized validators is passed around like a HOSTS file), but you still need to trust the mechanism that authorizes validators. You lose your right to be a validator through misbehavior; you are removed from the list of authorized validators, and hence can't do it anymore.
None. Just use a simple function call like almost every other language. Why is

std::cout::write(myInt)

such a hard thing to write that we decided

std::cout << myInt

was a better idea?
I don't assume they are enlightened, I assume they are just as random as us. They will eat children for dinner and speak entirely in curse words, and our customs will seem just as insane to them.

If you go back a couple hundred years and talk to the people then I imagine you could achieve a similar effect. They were just as certain they were correct as we are, and they are just as wrong.
A Visit from the Fire Department, Thanksgiving Morning, 2a.m
A stranger saved my life on Thanksgiving morning.

Maybe that’s a little melodramatic. But then, I tend to be a little overwrought where toxic fumes are concerned.
It's giving an idea of the order of magnitude. Kind of like comparing outputs of an industry to outputs of countries. It's also an argument that we are within a few orders of magnitude of it mattering today, so therefore tomorrow we could be in trouble.
I hear it in this video too. Both the presenter Susan Kare and the 2 interviewers speak at like 75% of the rate I expect people to, today.

I speculate the fact video is used differently today than in 1984 is the culprit. Video today needs to be entertaining and compelling. It must keep ones interest. In 1984 there were fewer (video) resources and so they could take their time, and allow the viewer to experience and interpret the material on their own, without the worry or risk that the viewer would "change the channel."
> The problem here is "Don't Be Evil" is so vague.

That should be Google's problem. It would have been better if they had never stated that intention. They used it to ingratiate themselves to Mozilla and Linux users.
How to “Think Different”
Do you enjoy regurgitating the same comment over and over again? Please keep your anti-mask/anti-vaccine garbage to yourself.
For public companies, this can be considered securities fraud - in the Matt Levine sense.
Oh that’s really cool. Wonder if there’s an add on for windows/mac/Linux that achiever the same functionality
You're silly.
Where would one learn Latin short of going back to uni? I’m fascinated by the language and there doesn’t seem to be many non-lawyerly resources available
I hear no accent - only cadence, being more methodical than today's "impress me with many words" approach to communication.
If those are actually monthly figures you might be right, but I'm still not convinced that they are. $40/mo sounds implausibly high to me. Even if Roku, in a non-monopolized space, managed to swing a hefty 30% cut, that would mean an average of $120 spent on streaming services per month.

Are sports channels really expensive? Is that what I'm missing?
If he really has a PhD he should face some consequences for this.
I wonder if something like this for wasm. Would be interesting to see something like this in browser
> The problem here is "Don't Be Evil" is so vague.

Exactly, depending on your political viewpoint, "Don't Be Evil" could mean some/all of the following:

- Not doing business with China

- Not doing business with ICE

- Not doing business with any government

- Not doing business with any other business that has currently-employed "evil" (politically incorrect) employees

- Not building ad-tech

- Not building free products where the monetization model involves user tracking

- Not hiring enough minorities

- Not firing "evil" employees (employees who are politically incorrect, who voted for X evil candidate, who don't fall in line with "good" thought/speech, etc)
> it wasn’t derided as some ambiguous concept prior to this lawsuit.

It was routinely criticized for exactly that by many google critics online.
I have The Cuckoo's Egg sitting on the table next to me, dog-eared with about 30 pages left. Thanks for writing it!
Apple //e & ][+ had one built in. It was called the "monitor". You typed "CALL -151" and you started typing assembly code. You could run, save, dump memory and read registers. When I got my first 286 I was surprised I couldn't do the same thing.
> This isn't true for anything else - there's no other industry that so directly turns energy into money without limits.

Aluminum refining maybe, but even then you are going to run out of ore to turn into aluminum. This really highlights how novel the mining economics are.
Male spaces. The freedom to vent about male issues.

Feminism goes out of their way to cancel male spaces while building up female spaces. Video games made by men for men? Bad, needs to include women! And so on. But when men tries to get a place in female spaces they just say "go make your own, don't depend on women for everything!", as if they let men make their own spaces...

Feminism also started shaming men who complain about women. Women are still allowed to complain freely about men. Don't they understand how damaging this is for men's mental health that they aren't allowed to let out steam while women are free to do so?

And lastly they are practicing a lot of toxic masculinity. If I bring up male issues as I did here, feminists will come and say things like "Are you so weak that you need to complain and let out steam just to manage your day? Grow up!", or "Why do you need your own space, can't you handle women around you? Don't be a child, just learn how to socialize and all your issues are solved!". Those are examples of toxic masculinity, they fail to acknowledge that there are actually a lot of weak men out there who would benefit greatly from having greater access to these things. But instead they just say that men have to be stoic or they aren't welcome in feminist society. And I bet this post will get such toxic masculinity responses from feminists who argue that men just have to be more stoic and everything will be fine.

"But feminists says men should cry more!", they say that, but they don't mean it. If a man cries such that it inconveniences a woman, guess what? It is the man who is bad. The woman complaining about the main crying is obviously correct, the man should have been stronger, but now he is so weak that it burdens the woman and that is bad. "But you can't expect a person to handle too much emotional labor!", well, the thing is, I've never seen a situation where a woman complained about a man crying and feminists didn't took her side. How can that be taken as anything but toxic masculinity? If they really wanted men to cry more then they should encourage women to handle that burden rather than totally drop the ball and shame men who dare to cry.
there are also other companies working on webkit, e.g, sony.

Apple's investment in safari/webkit goes up and down. They've actually made a lot of investments since 2019 or so. Probably less so for the previous 6 years before that. But again, webkit was very innovative in the early 2010s
> No, the problem is it’s flatly ridiculous to claim an employee code of conduct binds the company

Not only is it not ridiculous, but that employment policies like CoC’s generally constitute binding contracts (which, inherently, bind both parties) is fairly well established in employment law.
Ah yes, for example the “Axis of Bad” [0] that then-President George W Bush famously named shortly after 9/11. Yes, that prohibition on the Government declaring things to be ‘evil’ is absolutely a real thing that exists in the real world in which we all live.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil
I have uploaded a video to youtube using this animation with some free royalty song I found online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztv--KzSGDc
Yea, that is pretty low. I stabilized at a couple dozen. I run out of tweets on days when I'm being particularly idle, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing.

I also do get a trickle of new accounts. I recognize a name after appreciating their threads a few times, and then click through to their profile and read a bit to increase my sample size. If it turns out I got a skewed sample, I unfollow them using the same process I described above.

This process really feels like almost no work, and I've gotten enormous benefits from it. Most concretely, it's been trivial to frontrun traditional media and public health recommendations by several months during the entirety of the pandemic. I can pretty much credit my Twitter feed with myself and my extended family getting through the pandemic much more safely and healthily (incl mental health) than we likely would otherwise have.
That seems to let one off the hook. Suppose that if person X dies you inherit his million-dollar wealth. We're out camping and you have the opportunity to do him in. So YOU'RE not evil in taking that opportunity: but rather, what, the campground is evil for making the opportunity happen, or the legal system is evil for permitting inheritance and not universal surveillance?
Most people don't like to cook or don't care enough to do it themselves. The average household spends an inordinate amount on takeout and that figure will only grow [1].
One could argue 'dark kitchens' are dystopian... food prepared by chefs emulating the menus of restaurants with which they have no affiliation. This has become common in cities all over the world. Deliveroo's dark kitchen network started off using recycled shipping containers [2]. Those who have to prepare meals for multiple mouths (aka parents) eventually get burnt out by cooking.

I love cooking, but I don't see this as dystopic; the kitchen is ripe for technological revolution, and I welcome the democratization of good and (hopefully) healthy food.

[1] https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/why-more-people-ar...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...
No, it really isn't like that. I'm not asking someone to do anything, I'm just observing that if someone already does something that we do not berate them for it but instead take their contribution at face value rather than on account of the venue.
They signed an employee code of conduct which included "Don't Be Evil".

The employee code of conduct, that they were made to sign as a condition of employment has the directive "Don't Be Evil" in it? Did Google legal review that document? Although often made fun of, there is a reason IBM legal required a license change in JSLint to get out of its "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." license clause. Heck, Google Code wouldn't host JSMin-PHP because of that clause ( https://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code ).
They probably have a checklist of best practices (depending on the interpretation of "best") they immediately apply to almost every SaaS they purchase.
I use a adblocker, but I turned it off and made this screenshot to show how it's really hard to differentiate ads now:

https://i.ibb.co/pwt1JT0/image.png
Google was pretty good at making people think Google was different.
Finally, now they just need to add networking then C++ will have a “good enough” standard library.
It is head spinning the the future of the US academic research depends on a renegade student in a adversary country and a foreign copyright law and court system.
I don’t think Italian is too far off. The word endings changed, but roots are mostly (all?) the same. If you can read one I think you can pick up the other usually…?

Or I guess seminary school will teach you if law isn’t your thing…..
When the money system seized up post Bear Stearns, money laundering was what saved a lot of banks. Illegal money was the only liquidity still being pushed through the pipes while all the other valves seized up.

https://amp.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-ba...
Working at an early-stage company as an early-stage engineer
Its better to use GCC intrinsic api https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.3.0/gcc/x86-Built-in-Fu...

It really tough to write x86 assembly.
And while we're at it, take any imaginative 'thing' that fits like a fabled Panacea of Axiom and conclude any conclusion as "matter of fact" in another reality, which will never be dealt with in the physical whatsoever. My, what a fork of paths have we diverged from the seeking to understand the physical.

Anyone? Smells like a bad test suite that's been patched by hiding the failing tests through a layer of indirection.
Stablecoins combine the worst features of the old system and crypto so CBDCs should be better.
Was it just my memory, or were the ads also restricted to the columns to the side of the results, not being within the column containing the results?
No one treats it that way.

A reasonable person should understand it not as requesting to make subjective personal judgments but rather as what it clearly was meant as: "Don't be Microsoft"
It makes the "SIV fixes this" a non-sequitur. "SIV fixes this" is like saying "not using GCM fixes this" which (for avoiding a problem in GCM) is somewhat uninteresting.
The app is different. You can certainly use Netflix on a recent Apple TV [1].

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23887
No, you are not to believe that, there is no evidence for it. But there is plenty of evidence that nation states in general have done research on the weaponizing of disease.

Note that that doesn't rule out that it wasn't the case, but it is to the best of my knowledge not something that we have even a shred of direct evidence for.
Nah. I definitely don't rave about split views. Don't like them at all.
Wouldn't your hypothesis undermine research that suggests the important pieces of communication are non-verbal(7% words, 38% tone, 55% body language...roughly depending on which research you use).

Also, I don't see a way to actively separate information and emotion while someone is communicating to you while still being able to fully understand...that would just mean you are not paying attention to at least one of the signals...but maybe that IS what is happening when people pay more attention to body language and tone over the actual content.
Determining what is evil is not the exclusive privilege of religion.
I have a big Ubuntu desktop from 2015. With a graphics card. Playing Unity video games on it make the fans sound like an airplane is taking off.

My M1 plays the same Unity games with 0 fan noise. With the same performance.

I haven't had any hiccups on the M1. It just works.

Only pain point with the mac is the UI for window management and file management. But that's more personal preference and having been spoiled by the variety of options on Linux.
This seems to say that nobody really understands why.
I was around at the time, and webrings were useless from the start. Mailing lists, usenet and IRC were fine but they were just as viciously combative and abusive as any social media we have now. You're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses.

You might also be forgetting that Google first became big because they created a search engine that actually worked. Getting Altavista or Lycos to find what you were looking for was a real skill.
That's a clever rule. Does most justice systems in the world have this?
Thanks, I just got back to this thread and you already linked it for me :) I didn't want to risk being seen as hijacking a thread.
Guess the WHO didn't give them quite the same consideration they did Xi.
I think the real problem these things need to solve is proof of time. The big issue with digital currency is double-spending. To get around that the first spend is generally considered the real one, but proof or work, stake, or other are used to indirectly time stamp a transaction. Bitcoin isnt a distributed ledger, it's a distributed notary. Everything (not just currency) will change when (if) a verifiable time stamp becomes available.
Your founders were a bunch of tossers. The American fascination with elevating them to god like status is laughable.
How about for fiction? Anyone have any tips or success stories?
Bitcoin tolerated the recent Chinese ban on mining without any apparent ill effects. That seems like a decent stress-test of the decentralised thesis.

But in any case, Ethereum is going to try PoS, so we'll see what happens.
> TBH, I think almost everyone treats the former statement, as meaning the latter. Did you mistype here?

I don't think so. For example, there are religions that consider the lending of money to be evil, but I am quite certain Google did not have in mind that adherents of these religions should leak documents to the press if Google were to offer a credit card. Likewise, Google was not interested in the moral views of its conservative religious employees when it started offering various types of support for LGBTQ people.

I think when most people hear, "Don't be evil," they understand it to mean things along the lines of, "Don't be unfair to users, don't act with malice, don't lie, cheat, or steal, etc." I.e. don't do things that are essentially universally considered evil. I do not believe many people interpret that as, "protest every time Google violates your personal moral code, no matter how esoteric or idiosyncratic."
AppleTV is a device like a Roku box or stick. AppleTV is also an app on iOS devices, roku boxes, etc. AppleTV the device has Netflix and Disney+ available, among many other apps.
If you don't mind me asking: how does the visa work for the UK from EU? For a long time now I've had your same idea to move to London (or close by) for a stint, from a different EU country, but then Brexit happened and I had basically given up hope.
So has this been peer reviewed and has the data been verified?

This seems like such a simple idea I really don’t understand why this hasn’t been properly tested before.
Firefox is a well-known project that I've followed for one and a half decade, with roots much older than that and an established an well-known governance structure. I'd certainly trust them as much if not more than Google.

Unlike this project, which is very much from "internet randos"
Hit me up when women and trans people start oppressing cis men. Until then, "play mad-libs" doesn't really hold up any water. There is this thing called history, and it backs the above person's comment.
Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses
> If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would already exist, but they don’t.

The same could be said for anything that doesn’t always exist.

> because no sane VC would invest enough capital to build an alternative YT

Perhaps no European VC. The premise of a VC is that you fund things that aren’t a sure bet, on the hopes that a few ventures will be successful. VC has always been high-risk, high-reward, and you don’t need to start at YouTube scale. It is possible to start with modest funding and grow from there.

> Given the current consumer preferences no independent free video streaming could compete with YT unless Google was broken up into multiple companies.

Vimeo continues to exist. As does DailyMotion. As does twitch. As do Chinese alternatives.

Stop making excuses for businesses.
Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won't go into details about the questions because there's nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there.

1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying "I will only need 20 minutes for this", while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify "important, critical leaders"? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted!

2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to react quickly.

3) For an engineering manager position, I only interviewed with only technical person. To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.

4) Of all the people I spoke to, the hiring manager was the one I spoke the least with. The phone screen was one of the "I only need 20 minutes for this" calls. The other one was quite amusing, and is described below.

5) After the loop was done, the recruiter called me to congratulate me on passing, and started discussing details of the offer, including sending me a document described the equity program. Recruiter mentioned that the hiring manager would be calling me to discuss the position next.

6) SURPRISE INTERVIEW! I get a call from the hiring manager, he congratulates me on passing the loop, then as I prepare to ask questions about the role, he again says "I need to ask you two questions and need 20 minutes for this". Then proceeds to ask two random questions about platforms and process enforcement, then hangs up the call after I answer. Tells me he'd be calling in a week to discuss the position.

7) I get asked for references.

8) After passing the loop, have the recruiter discuss some details of the offer, have the hiring manager tell me they'd be calling me after a week, I get ghosted for about 3.5 weeks. References are contacted and feedback is confirmed positive.

9) I ping the recruiter to see when the offer is coming - it's not coming. They chose another candidate. I am fine with it, even after being offered verbally, but the ghosting part after wasting so much of my time seems almost intentional.

10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: "don't come. It's a mess and a revolving door of people". I was shocked with the response.

11) I get called by the recruiter saying that another director saw my feedback and is very interested in talking to me and do an interview loop.

Guess I'm not joining, then.

I am ok with passing loops, being rejected, I've seen it all. But being ghosted after acceptance is a first. What a bizarre place this is.
Another one who it worked completely fine for. Zero issue here. Firefox on X11.
IPOs and Beyond: A Guide to Exit Options for Companies
Re: Portugal. It was a football team. One player was from SA. Came back, infected the others. Evidently.

The point being, it was not 13 independent cases. One case...12 transmissions to closely related peers.
Life doesn't oxidize every oxide.
I'm not a lawyer, but I will be shocked if this principle is sufficient to allow them to win this case. We'll see.
I don't think it applies strictly to contracts of adhesion, just contracts where a single party was the drafter of the bad term.

This case will not hinge on what the definition of "evil" is, but on whether "don't be evil" was a real term of the contract or some errata in the employee handbook. And even then, the complaint isn't "Google was evil" but rather "Google's handbook said to point out evil when I see it and they fired me for it".