skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, in Europe your only real options are moving to the US, working remotely in a cheaper location in Europe (perhaps even as a contractor to the US), or working for a company/country with a better work balance and just fitting your life around work. I've done the latter two and it's worked out okay, but I still don't own a home even after 7 years working (and some of that for FAANG).

But I think Americans really don't understand how different Europe is. Programming is barely a white-collar job here vs. Law or Real Estate, etc. and the quality of life is just lower (less car ownership, much smaller homes without swimming pools or air conditioning, tiny kitchens without garbage disposal, American fridge-freezers or dishwashers, etc.)

The Tech Bro memes don't apply here.
Looks like the author of the video misses the point by about a mile, taking it in the most literal sense possible. His argument is basically "yes, you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because it was playing off the contemporary popularity of Western and its tropes, and since that is long gone, repeating it in a literal sense, as a Western parody, would be a no go now, because nobody cares anymore about Westerns". Which as I said, misses the point about a mile - the point is not about recreating the same movie, it's about making the same kind of movie - the movie pushing the boundaries and being as offensive as possible on purpose, the movie highlighting the hot topics not by solemnly lecturing the viewer, but by lampooning the hell out of it. The refutation of this point would be to provide an example of current irreverent offense-to-11 lampooning of current tropes-de-jour. I don't know - Marvel movies? Woke diversity-inclusion drama? Something else?

So the author is right - nobody wants to literally make the same movie today, because the same movie is already have been made! It's however a prime example of being right on technicality and completely wrong on substance - the point is not to make a copy of Blazing Saddles, the point is making that kind of irreverent and boundless satire, which is appropriate in all times and all societies - but I can't see how Woke Hollywood could ever make something like that.

Another argument is "but we don't submit to every woke demand and not everybody is getting cancelled" - of course not! If Hollywood tried to submit to every woke demand and avoid every complaint from twitter mob, no movie would be ever made at all. Of course, there's a lot of complaints that are ignored. That doesn't exclude the fact that there are clear boundaries where Woke Hollywood would never dare to tread. And irreverent no-holds-barred satire of the Blazing Saddles mold is out of these boundaries.

Next argument is "well, there are stand-up comics and they aren't thrown in jail". Yeah, sure, we're not there yet. But we also not where we were when Blazing Saddles was made. We're somewhere in between the one and the other. And we're moving away from the Blazing Saddles.
My guess is because it runs on tablets, which has a lot of the same UX concerns as mobile.
Not according to the legal advice I received when I founded my company and attempted the Thiel trick.
Good point. I still do find the original sentiment odd and confusing.
. Improve relationships between the community
. Not dependent from the estate or the government for the providing of services (water, light...)
. Auto sufficient in providing food to the community
I'm not supporting capitalism (with all its problems), copyright or intellectual property, but in the real world, kindness doesn't really exist. Setting up a market for kindness is not going to work very well.
both are likely true
Which is the safest and cheapest country for travelling in?
I mean, there’s these posts on Hacker News claiming to be from former AWS employees saying they stole customer data to launch competing services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929959

There’s also mainstream reporting that Amazon employees used retail sales data to launch competing products: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

Maybe the first story is fake and the second is real… but they both point to a “win at all costs” company culture where policies might be violated, even if it threatens trust in the platform and a PR problem when exposed.
But on other hand Google grows so fast and has so much churn that it used to be you would be in like 50% percentile in a year and it top percentile in few years. Which it turn means that on any given moment most employees are not veterans.
So the Autopilot in a Tesla is designed to allow the driver to check the weather and plan her destination?

Aircraft don't often cluster together meters apart and travel in the same directions. If they did, Autopilot would certainly be used differently. This is why I think it is irresponsible to use the term for automobiles.
It makes me miss my old Windows Phone. I prefer Linux on the desktop, but the old Nokia Windows Phones were quite excellent phones. If my old Nokia had gotten an official W11 update I would seriously consider pulling it out of the drawer again.
The single worst bootlicking, uncle tom, non-spam post I've ever read on the site. What could possibly be your motivation?
I try to write about such ideas at Eclogiselle.com.
These sorts of objections always seemed superficial to me. To the former point, I gurantee you that parts of Australian English are in fact discouraged whether rightly so or not. Australians casually use expletives that are heavily frowned on in the USA for example and I gurantee you 'hoodlum' English does as well.

To the ladder and imo more significant point, the reason a lot of the sort of African American vernacular you're addressing is discouraged is because there is no inherently african/black language. It's an outcome of societal factors. It's frowned upon by institutions, albeit for pettier/racist reasons by individuals, because it implies a racially biased failing by the systems of education which are otherwise viewed as having successfully (to a degree) normalized the prestige grammar with other enrolled pupils.

Whether or not the prestige grammar should be held in such high esteem is red herring, imo anyway, when compared to asking why the systems of education are so obviously able to yield the desired outcome for students so long as they have the right skin color. We'll never be able to achieve antiracist goals with tools and systems that have racist effectiveness.
I was not aware of how much damage he did until my mid 20's and it led to about 2 years in therapy to work through it all. This story is one of countless stories where he has acted out of line. A benefit of my career is that I had enough capital to pay out of pocket for a very effective therapist.

I ended up gaining a far better understanding of who he is as a person and perhaps even why he is the way he is. This has allowed me to come to terms with his actions enough to forgive and forget (for the most part) and move forward with my life. I still call him once a year on fathers day, an attempt to extend the proverbial olive branch, but he never picks up.

All in all my life goes on and I am happy and healthy. I am extremely grateful for the community I live in, the fantastic friends I have surrounded myself with and (most importantly) my incredible wife who helped me through a lot of the pain over the years. I wouldn't be where I am today were it not for her.
Hopefully they don't intend to repeat the folly of trying to produce a single UI consistent across mobile and desktop.

Perhaps one day we'll see some elegant magic that's usable across the spectrum from pocket to desk devices, but it would suck if it means any future generations of desktop OS dumbed down chasing (likely mythical) unification.
It's also why airplane pilots do much more than they theoretically would have to – under normal conditions, a modern autopilot should be able to handle the whole flight without human supervision.

But then the human won't be reacting fast enough when he is needed to handle an unforeseen problem, so they're kept in the loop and active, just in case.
Sometimes, yes.

But really there's all kinds, from "we don't want this guy who insists on keeping the old C++ codebase alive" to straight-up people who engage in fraud because they think the company owes them.

That said, my personal view is that you should keep "legacy employees" unless they explicitly refuse to work.
Can anyone explain how US traffic rules operate?

Where I live if someone enters your lane and you hit them it is always their fault. You have right of way in your lane that is absolute - no one can cut you off.

So why is Tesla driver at fault?
Compared to how much PlayStation OS gets upstreamed into Linux? If you don’t want to upstream, you won’t; if you want, you will. GPL doesn’t force anyone to give back, it merely prevents one from using your project if they don’t.
Balancing binary tree.
> so you can see and contribute to the code, but cannot compete with them using the same code.

You actually can.

You just cannot without giving back.

That's the intended beauty of it.

Edit: let me point out that I am not an AGPL evangelist. I'm less annoyed at it than I used to be but I still prefer liberal licenses for almost everything.
Is there a disease that makes us love cats - https://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/07/esc_loving_cats/campu...
He indicated for at least 3 seconds first. That's not really a panic swerve. He might have simply misjudged the existence or speed of the Tesla.
I mean, have you seen some of the people on the road?
Not really, she just made a bad choice, bet they have lots of wind and for what they paid could have bucket loads of heat power with a thermal bank.

And why didn't she insulate her home with in an inch of it's life, clearly the first place to spend any money.
I can't seem to reply to it but I second poorjohnmacafee's comment about creating a business.

I was in a similar place to you 6 years ago, it never really clicked for me in a regular job.

I started my own small business in the vein of Max Maher/Rohan Gilkes/Sweaty Startup (moving service/house cleaning etc. ). I knew nothing about the industry I chose and worked on average about 25 hours a week. The competition is weak as the brightest/best are all (generally) in coding/tech/law/finance.

Plenty of options out there to start something low risk and cheap.

It just clicked for me, I've really enjoyed the process and I genuinely did struggle at every job I ever held.

It can be tough but the rewards are great if you are suited to running a business.
> "but tons of opportunities to just copy-paste-modify were lost due to license concerns".

Well, that's the point. GPL is working as intented.
Recently I've been thinking the exact opposite things.

Many novice artists get too hung up on doing "exercises", because they're easy, straightforward, and comfortable (compared to doing the real thing). They waste a lot of time without improving all that much, because repeating exercises out of context can quickly become mindless, people tend to lose sight of the real purpose (making good drawings/paintings), and instead keep drawing boxes to "practice" perspective or get better at drawing straight lines.

I think what you need is a combination of what he's calling "scrimmage" and "drill".

To develop skills the fastest - try to do the thing that is as close to the specific real thing you want to do as possible. If you want to design characters - spend most of your time designing characters. You won't find a way to grow faster than by doing exactly what you want to get good at.

Then you can analyze your artwork, find the skills you're the weakest at, and deliberately practice them. But still, do it in the context of doing the real thing.
You kind of gave up the game by pointing out that GPL-folk distinguish between developers and users. It’s the key flaw in the GPL approach and all you need do is scroll a little bit to find a developer being told to fuck off for merely questioning the source disclosure requirement of GPL. Why do the authors of software command less respect than users thereof from those ostensibly working to elevate software?

Developers are users too. They use code. The GPL community’s insistence on segmenting those two groups and valuing the needs of one over the other for the last thirty years has led to way more angry threads than the world has ever needed. A community built upon unassailable rights granted to one class whilst mandating behaviors in another is somewhat incongruent at its base because it doesn’t track with unconscious notions of fairness and equality that most people carry. It also explains why developers are usually the one chirping about it, because they’re the second class in this picture. How that remains elusive after all the bloodsport and drama over this license is something I’m not sure I’ll ever understand.

I say that understanding the entire rationale, by the way. I absolutely get why both sides say what they say and I’m not disputing what you’re fighting for. Negotiation at gunpoint is what it is (again, scroll), and despite fighting what is otherwise a good fight worth believing in, expecting those at gunpoint to go along with no complaints is a bit naive in itself and a shocking lack of communal social understanding among the free software community. “Why won’t they work with us? We are telling them exactly what to do” is a self-evident position.

So instead we do this thread on HN and Slashdot and whatever every few weeks and get it out of our systems, then go back to status quo of not understanding each other nor why either side is much interested in engaging the other. It’s honestly puzzling that people still try.
I consider the viral thing of copyright a good thing, similar to a meme going viral. While technically the law, people were pretty upset when a "meme tax" was being discussed because the copyright owners of the sources of many memes were seeking compensation.

The idea of going viral as making it something everyone can partake in and something nobody can tell you not to do as long as you don't try to restrict others is pretty positive.

Companies and copyright firms will have us believe the "viral" just refers to the way COVID is viral, but it's become more than that.

Any company advocating against or complaining about GPL isn't worth paying attention to, in my opinion. In this case, the one of an individual developer, that's not the case though. Not everyone who chooses GPL wants to kill copyright, especially people in the game dev world whose entire business is that of copyright. For those people, GPL is the wrong license to release their source code by for many reasons, though it's also the right license to release their source code by for many others.

I've always seen copyleft as a fight against copyright, an abuse of the system meant to accumulate private wealth and restrictions, by forcing people to give up their private gains or make them reinvent the wheel if they wish to keep their IP to themselves.

Any patent owner will say IP is necessary for the market to stay competitive, anyone who's ever had to buy patents (media codecs, mobile communication, etc) or who's been sued by patent trolls will likely say that patents stifle innovation instead. It's all about what you gain personally.

I like the idea of copyright for individuals, but corporate copyright as a thing that can be sold, bought, or pooled, has been so terribly restrictive to most of the world that I'm in favour of a massive reform.
Making your code useless to some of potential users is a useful feature?
Seems like the meat is at:

https://en.alda.is/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ICELAND_4DW.pd...
The original Pirates of the Caribbean was a superb work of its genre with classic acting, humor, and subtle characterization that you do not give it credit for.

https://youtu.be/zhdBNVY55oM

As far as claiming “every superhero film” - that’s a tall order. While one can say most MCU (and perhaps DCEU films) share a certain level of formulaic quality that make them easy to reduce and denounce, there are always outliers. Consider the neo-Western greatness of Logan. The contemplative complexity of Unbreakable. I didn’t even mention the late Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight.
Truthfully? Prioritizing bottom up innovation has to oddly enough happen from the top down. Give middle and front line managers the responsibility and mandate to continually foster such a culture, and that’s what this is, culture. If you’re stuck in a company that doesn’t do this… and if you want to do amazing things, just be honest with yourself - is this the place for you?
Both can be right. What matters is the ratio of deaths caused to deaths avoided.
Probably a lot, especially before the money came flooding in.
Does turn signal give you right of way in US? It usually is indication that you will switch lanes, but is there any rule that forces the drivers in the lane to be switched to accommodate you?
This sounds good. How do you imagine getting there? GPL people think that contributing to this ideal is only worth it if you also require all participants to take part in the ideal. Thereby granting that at least the GPL software stays in that ideal world.
I'm curious to listen about stories where released source code under BSD became a problem because some company re-appropriated it. So far I don't think I have heard about such story, can someone chime in?
I don't think it does. From reading through some of the history of this project, there is already years of work getting Windows 10 (not mobile) to work on a Windows phone, and there are a lot of applications and even a new shell to allow that. A lot of what is shown in the video is those applications, not bare W11.

I've been using W11 for a week and most of the giant weird touch interfaces are gone.
Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999)
Especially as a student around WP8 times it was good value for money. One could either buy a flagship Android or an expensive iPhone to get a good phone, as a cheap Android was laggy and not very fun to use. But a Nokia Lumia at the same price point as a cheap Android would be very snappy and nice to use.
I read the first few pages. It was riddled with problems.

1. Section 1.1 shows an APL program "1 2 2 2 2 2 ⊤ n" and says, "The confusion here lies in the fact that you might not know what ⊤ means.". Nope. The confusion is that I don't know what any of the symbols do or how an APL program is structured. I expect this is the case for most readers.

2. There are 3 examples here. The discussions of the examples are not next to the examples. It is all jumbled up and hard to read.

3. The Java example spells main as mian.

4. Section 2 says, "programmers write a lot more code than they read". That is incorrect. For example, normally I read several of the solutions on Stackoverflow before I decide which one to copy and paste :-)
There is such a thing as irreducible complexity, no matter how you implement it, the solution will always have at least that complexity. This means that in a non-trivial system there will be some services that definitely won't fit in your head.

The safest way to build with micro services is still to start with a monolith. When you find a good reason like performance you can split of a micro service.
They often start with text from Gutenberg and report issues (typos etc.) back upstream, which is cool.
Thanks for confirming. I'm certain I saw something in a documentary recently so is it entirely incorrect or is there some technicality?
First of all, this applies to nearly half of the developed world where people work and pay insurance premiums, and the systems in most non-US countries still seem to function relatively equitably. Implying that one can't be grateful in the US because of the existence of insurance premiums feels like yet another example of American exceptionalism because many other countries have figured it out.

Second, it's not that difficult for me to picture a scenario in which someone is grateful for the access to healthcare and health insurance that a typical Googler in the US has. Particularly if you've ever traveled to poorer countries (or just been exposed to more disadvantaged environments) where a lot less is taken for granted, it's often easy to find things in your life for which you are grateful.

Besides, they're likely not paying additional insurance premiums on top of Google's contributions, so the insurance bills are usually copays that aren't ludicrously high.
Not necessarily. Linux kernel is GPL, sure, but if you look at eg language runtimes, or various servers, GPL is no longer obviously dominant.
But this is the problem, it’s not this place anymore. Unlimited money corrupt absolutely. At some moment you just look at all these projects and they are moat to defend ads/search and napalm any even remote competition. With such priorities comes different kind of moral. On top of that Google sucks at efficient organization management and product management and just masks it with money.
Ah right, I forgot about the WFH part. I can imagine one’s leverage declining quickly in that case. Special circumstances, plus out of sight out of mind.
If what you say stands, they should also include all of Microsoft's proprietary code in the learning process. Do you see that happening?
Google's health insurance is pretty good (although not the very best out there). I can't speak to everyone's situation, but at other companies where I've worked I normally had to pay around $1,000/year in mostly pretax dollars for health costs (employee portion of premiums + copays). With my current health insurance at Google, my health plan is typically a net gain financially as long as I have <$10k in medical costs per year (no premiums + employer HSA contribution + HSA tax benefits).
"there is probably the option of negotiating a different license for your use."

I feel most people don't understand that their projects are unbillable and "negotiating" is not an option.

If you project is avaliable through AWS/GCP console I could "pay" at my discresion.

If there was a clear price and billing details, I can email my boss and get it authorised

If something needs to be negotiated, we have to get senior stakeholders involved - those people don't move for less than 100k, you will never get paid.
I do not care if "potential user" is big corp that do not intend to contribute back. So yeah, it is a feature.
Almost yeah, but there are still lots of carburetor engines, like lawn mowers, bush-cutters, chainsaws and other small machines, and also a lot of (older and retro style) motorcycles use them.
Erm, but it is GPL that’s being viral. Not copyright, and also not other Open Source licenses - just GPL. That’s why you won’t get a license incompatibility problem without GPL in the mix.
> less car ownership, much smaller homes without swimming pools or air conditioning, tiny kitchens without garbage disposal, American fridge-freezers or dishwashers

I’m not sure I’d conflate less material goods with lesser quality of life.

I think the quality of life is objectively better in most of (western) Europe. Maybe for software engineers in specific it’s worse.
If you're deploying to a server you'll want to pip install dependencies on the server. If you're using docker you'll want to pip install dependencies in your container. If you're deploying to an end users computer you'll want to use pyinstaller, which admittedly is not trivial to get working in all cases.