skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death by committee is a real thing and it is a problem you need to architect around, but the answer to this is not to consolidate power. Instead, you build up a structure and system by which decisions can be made and a process that all members must abide by. If the core persons (the values of the bus factor) are unwilling to subject themselves to such a system and to work to design such a system, then the project will fail eventually under them, or it simply isn't such a great project.

Implementing such systems is absolutely a challenge as there is negative feedback to such things all the time; designing such a system, putting persons in place whose job it is to enforce the process, putting persons in place to weigh in on if an action or decision matches the letter and spirit of the process, all of this take a lot of discipline and maturity from the participating members; I've done this with several orgs now, and even with backing from the VP level, at best I get belligerent participants, and truly I cannot tell if their resistance is that they don't like the decisions we make, or if they just don't understand the process and want the ability to complain to someone directly.

Most of the issues you get with multiple stakeholders is because of a lack of discipline within the org; people who are too used to "just doing things" without really considering the full consequences of actions in favor of just doing what they want. You see this in basically every collective project, not just programming projects too. I consider it a win if we have people begrudgingly participating, but ultimately participating.
The rant about "proprietary chargers" for laptops was also untrue, there was uniform 19V brick-type power supply units with uniform 5.5mm barrel connector for at least 15 years.
I wouldn't say that it has deeper worldgen, but because it replaces voxel terrain with a lower lod after a certain distance, the world has a feeling of massive scale. You can see a far away mountain range on the horizon and actually journey there, then glide down it to an even further sea.
Afaik the new site2 system also shows lod levels for generated structures.
I almost said "wow, who has a 24 port fiber switch in the garage", then I remembered I have one in the closet going to my servers.

Dang, we are still geeks.
Does this not work? https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/quakespasm
Search for the words "or otherwise" in that block of text. I've had multiple discussions with the legal department at that employer and they refused to remove those words from the text.

So it's not enough to just have those phrases in there (as they already are)...

13.4 (c) hereby assign to us by way of future assignment with full title guarantee (insofar as title to them does not automatically vest in $COMPANY as a consequence of your Employment subject to clauses 39-43 of the Patents Act 1977) all copyright arising in any original material (including source code and object code for software) and all other Intellectual Property Rights produced by you in the course of your Employment, whether during our normal hours of business or otherwise, or at the premises or using our facilities or otherwise, for the whole term of such copyright including any extensions or renewals thereof and including the right to sue for damages and other remedies for any infringements of the copyrights; and
Virtual machines, then lean containers, now this... I predict that in a few years we will rediscover static binaries and we will finally find closure.
This is not a good analogy. A substantial chunk of the value of software is often the idea, not only the time worked on something. Ideas and inventions don’t happen on a schedule. Think of a chemist that is tasked with finding a way to synthesize a compound. He tries all day at work, and in the evening, on the couch, he’s struck by a bolt of enlightenment. Who does that idea belong to? German law would be pretty clear - to the company. And often, software is similar.
There might be more, but the only one I checked out is https://akash.network
I'm wondering why they did this themselves, and didn't license IKEA to produce & sell it.
The author founded and ran a blockchain company for years, has done conference talks on modern cryptography you can find on youtube, and wrote an open source zero knowledge proof library.
Eh, aside from making java and bedrock incompatible, requiring Xbox live accounts to play, deleting customer accounts in the transition to Xbox live, making realms which are different somehow from java and bedrock (many parents had a devil if a time figuring out how to setup a server for kids playing on all the platforms during lockdown)... Aside from this they didn't ruin it.
Do you have any examples? In my experience projects with only one or two developers just move too slow and often stall for months or just die because they have other things to do in life.
It might not. And perhaps that's the intention? That is, we see what is not working, and we double down again and again on that same dysfunctional "solution".

On top of that the nature of the context has changed. The 20th Century was about efficiency and massive scale. On the other hand, the 21st Century requires iteration and agility. Yet we insist on using a 20th Century tool for a 21st Century job. That's not working.

But, again, perhaps that's the intention. The Union weakens. Central command gets stronger. And our basic rights and liberty disolve - slowly but surely.
This is why I pirate all my kindle books and keep them locally in epubs/mobis. You either have it or you don't.
> Nobody is forcing people to use Facebook or any of Facebook's family of apps. I personally don't use FB or any of its apps for the last 10 years and I'm totally fine.

Sorry, this so unbeliably the wrong attitude. Compare with food producers, car manufacturers etc building toxic, addictive, dangerous products and being allowed free access to the market on the basis that "nobody is forcing consumers to buy their products".

The vast majority of people cannot judge whether the use of a digital product is safeguarding their interests and welfare, both individually and as a society. Unless and until there is recognition of this fundamental fact we must acknowledge that one industry in particular has been excempted from oversight for reasons that are not doing the political class any favor.
Nothing in the APL requires he transfer the git repos to them. If they own the license, he needs to update the license and copyright statements to match reality, maybe send them a courtesy copy in a tarball or whatever. That's all.

Copyight cannot demand this ridiculous thing.
Minecraft is one of the biggest games of my teenage years, starting in Alpha, and I always was a bit paranoid, making backups and copies of things. As the sibling comment points out, you can go back in versions from the game launcher itself and I recently did a nostalgia trip loading up those worlds again, seeing how the game has evolved, how my playing style evolved... By loading them into a few intermediate versions, you can even get them to load in the latest one ! I really appreciate to be able to do that. (Even if I still have a couple of copies of the older versions I could play with !)
How to Fix Disjointed Traces with Context Propagation
The only real decentralisation is the one constituted of 8 billion brains and 8 billions bodies which are all roughly the the same size and strength

All the other types of decentralisation are marketed to you by early adopters who want you to pump their coin in order for their asset to increase in price

They are ironically using the concept of decentralisation to centralise wealth and power in their hands

Of course even if with their dishonest intent they can never quite beat the real decentralisation provided by nature which makes it so that even the most powerful “human” ever (Jesus Christ) only has an extremely limited amount of power over the totality of humanity.

Matter of fact “he” only gets to be the spokesman of otherwise already popular concepts such as compassion , love and the reward for those who practice them
Js and Ajax calls where useful to everybody, including the companies paying for developers time. Web3 with P2P and federation seems exactly the opposite of how companies make money. So it's what I'd like to use but it's not what I'm expecting to be paid to develop.

Actually I've got a customer using Ethereum first and then Algorand to timestamp events but it was only a little more than calling a HTTP API for us.
>and episode 4

This is where my playthroughs really grind to a halt. episode 4's levels were primarily designed by Sandy Peterson, who is also responsible for some of Doom 2's more infamous levels. He seems to like very large, difficult to navigate levels with painful traps. It's in total contrast to the tight, iconic levels of episode 1.
1. You claimed "Apple, probably in 2016, tried to hide their malice when they paid millions to their own tech who posted a customer's nude on Facebook."

2. You are asked to substantiate above claim.

3. You could not (your verge link says no such thing), so you simply chose not to address the misinformation or disinformation that you posted.

A simple "I was incorrect about my recollection of this event" would have sufficed.
there's some mods that add lod to minecraft with some stunning results

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/lod-level-of-de...

https://github.com/PorkStudios/FarPlaneTwo
> The electric power consumption at our place is under 5.5 kWh per day on average, with very few peaks.

That's why your back-of-the-envelope doesn't necessarily add up with the author's.

In the US South (at least where people run AC) it's entirely possible to use 24 to 48 kWh per day. There are big, fancy houses people own that could double, triple or quadruple that.

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity...
books 2000 years ago were not written to talk about feelings. this is rather recent in litterature circa 16th or 17th century onward
Fixing the Logitech MX Ergo Trackball Mouse Buttons
Isn't that Dogecoin? (although inflation rate itself is deflationary - dropping from 5% pa about now to 2% in about 20 years)
I would like to see something that already exists and was used successfully first, so I don't go and talk to one empty handed... It's one thing to say: "I'd like to keep ownership of code I write on my free time" and another to add "like all these others do so already" to that statement.

Maybe I could try emailing the FSF and asking for hints, as I'm registered with them to be able to contribute to emacs, and actually need to inform them about employment contracts changes and things like this in general.

But still, there must exist somebody, somewhere, that has something reasonable written in their employment contract we could use as reference.
Copyright is automatically the employer's in the UK: the term is "in the course of employment", and no contractual language is required. The employer is effectively the author.

What that term means is a matter of case law, and is different if you are contracted / self-employed. Typically it is interpreted in a pro-employer manner, and if you are employed to write code then then assume that all the code you write is your employer's.
One more point from that article I noticed: in a section talking about taking on multiple projects, the author writes "This is how much of Hollywood works."

How can you not think: well, if this is how much of Hollywood works now, isn't that proof that you don't need a blockchain for it?!
I agree, but in the meantime...
Is the price o.k. though?
I reckon so. It was interesting and well done. I suppose they've had a thousand plus years to practice though.
We just use intermediate machines/jump-hosts :-)

It depends on the customer and the project. Most want git-ops, but often they also want kubectl. The overhead of having to build, instrument and manage the infrastructure to run software on a Kubernetes cluster is often a pretty big surprise for many of our customers. So in order to debug, developers still resort to kubectl to get a shell in a pod or viewing logs.

This is also why I'm against Kubernetes for most projects. It require a high level of maturity in the development team to do right. When you see some one who knows what they're doing, Kubernetes is amazing. For most people however, picking something more "classic" is going to make their life much easier. This is especially in the light of what most want is just some easy way to saying: "Run this container image on those two hosts".

So far the best solution I've been able to come up with is Ansible and AWX. Developers can then bump a version number in an group_vars file and click "launch" in AWX.
Honestly, any ODFM system is so incredibly resilient they will work over nearly any medium. I've tested powerline ethernet airgapped, and it still faster than the WiFI on the embedded system I was testing.
Agreed. The Quake scene has been very vibrant for 25 years now, even increasing in quantity AND quality of maps and mods in recent years. I always have quakespasm-spiked installed on all of my computers and play new and old maps weekly.
DOPA, Alkaline, Arcane Dimensions, and so many other map jams and map packs, it's awesome!

I like that this re-release sparked extra interest, but I think QSS is by far the better engine.
I use them for the motion tracker in my https://gifmemes.io project. I have to say, getting it to work with webpack was a pain.
I was just looking into Harbormaster. Does it play well with Traefik? Seems like a good combo in theory at least. I'm already running Traefik, but haven't found a nice way to automatically upgrade and make sure docker-compose is running for all projects I'm hosting.
The toto-todo method: a simple notebook
Imagine a world where infrastructure, libraries and developer tooling are all there. Imagine the reduction in costs for infrastructure, security (sure you still have to do it but the body looks completely different) and all that goes with having a "backend". Suddenly you don't even need to run a business to afford supporting an app that loads of people use.

Sure, you will still have backend processes but the exposure to "the app" is greatly reduced.
They probably do have a transaction log in the form of an online webpage or dashboard.

But Amazon wants a statement with a billing address and the card number.

That's one reason I only use my credit card on Amazon - it has such a statement available in case I ever need one, while most of my other cards do not.
The solutions are already there... there is a lack of will from the corporations to implement them. google checking gpg signature? nope.

The internet is unfortunately not user-centric enough, there is much more value in sending crap html emails "only 10 hours left 50% discount" and scanning your emails than there is to provide users with secure communications.

let's all sign our emails to raise awareness of google's & outlook shortcoming

P.S : we tend not to sign our emails since it is not the standard, standard is de-facto dictated by google and outlook now.

P.P.S : seeing an unsigned email would raise suspicion if the standard was the opposite, a filter could even classify between signed and unsigned

P.P.P.S : you would only bother to verify the identity for the emails you care for

P.P.P.P.S : if you think google does not dictate the standards, feel free to point to me the part of the rfc that mention that residential ips are not valid.
> Both support PC but only Bedrock supports other plattforms.

You mean Bedrock supports consoles.

Java supports Mac and Linux, so it's also multiplatform. Just different platforms.
Almost every one of my projects has a bus factor of 1.

That’s OK, because most were written for my own use, in other projects.

The one project that I wrote, that is used by thousands, around the world, has been taken over by a new team, and I hardly have anything to do with it, anymore. It took ten years, of running the project alone, to get to that place.

In all my projects, these days, I develop them as if they are major corporate initiatives. I believe this makes it easier for others to use and understand (I also tend to use the MIT License).
> Arguably the real innovation of the blockchain seems to me to be at least as cultural as it is technical, in its spooky ability to gather and organize a group of incredibly motivated people and continuously reward them for spreading the gospel of the blockchain.

So, it's a religion.
Is the strategy you're talking about (digging straight down upon spawn, as I've seen people do) just applicable to speedrunning, or does your average player learn to do that eventually as well?
Goldman Sachs isn't wrong in this analysis about Bitcoin
Which ISPs kill your purchased content when you leave?

At Comcast/Xfinity when you cancel all services your account still remains, and you can stream your purchased content the web or through their mobile streaming app when signed in on your account.
Economy Concepts – Part 2
> I believe you've misunderstood the intention and the effect of the change.

No, and I don't think I have made any comment on the intention. I understand what they were going for. My point is specifically what you are saying: It massively changes the game play. If I wanted different game play I would play a different game. Every update so far, including the ones since MS takeover have felt like natural progression of the game to me. I enjoyed those updates and have lots of good things to say about them and the way they expanded the game.

This update feels to me like it should have been a different game, or a mod. That's the contrast I was trying to highlight with my comment.

It's worth noting I'm not claiming anything as a fact. I was stating my personal opinion and concern for the direction the game is headed in, relative to my own expectations, after a decade of playing Minecraft. I explained why I think that way, because we're on HN.

> The holes in the ground that you dislike are entry points to that system

Those existed before, just that covering them and getting the materials for it if you're not a fan of big craters and abysses in the ground wasn't a project of its own before.

> So the transition is from a static grind to the new system based on cave exploration and risk.

Cave exploration and mob bashing is still grinding. This will get old fast if you just want to get to it and build your base or whatever self assigned goal you have.

> It's more dynamic and engaging, directly the opposite of your claim here.

That is entirely subjective.

> You point out that it makes it more difficult to go from one peak to the next, which is accurate (though in my opinion you overstate the difficulty)

That wasn't my claim, no. I said it is now more difficult to see directly from the water, because the landscape is raised so much relatively the water. Overcoming that is just tedious, not difficult, because you have to get out of the boat every so often to get a view of the landscape.

For me it is comparable to amplified maps no longer being opt-in, basically. It's fun for a change, but not the game experience I am looking for most of the time. Now I no longer get to pick unless I stick with old versions, which of course sucks for online play.
> My sadness comes from the fact people perceive X N as better than X N-1

Terminator 3

Home Alone 3

Jurassic Park 3

Police academy 3

Alien 3

The list is long...
The biggest and most damning mistake ID Software ever did was to always start fresh.
There was a generation of players who started with Quake and just kept on playing it. Same for Quake 2 and Quake 3. This meant that the FPS player base became very segmentet in a genre which has a pretty heavy learningcurve.

ID Software never went the Valve route with a Steam like application with engine updates and so on, in the end they always abandoned the player base that was built up. Modders kept the quake games alive but they couldn't fix the game engines.

Back in the day Quake series was the big games, not Counterstrike.
ID Softwares lack of investment opened up the door for Valve.

It was theirs to loose and they lost it.
I suggest you try reading the thread again after getting some oxygen or something. All the answers are there.
You could do much larger chunks on gen.
Bumble gave him a cake for five years service recently, so the company can’t be that bad really.

https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1446071099989663745?s=...

Surely we can overlook the whole “give us your damn open source personal projects copyright grab or you’ll be chewing on big legal problems buddy” thing given the companies generosity with cake?

The cake shows that Bumble really are good people.

Reminds me of those famous words “speak softly and carry a big cake”.
Note that that pricing for the 1x1 wall stud is for a set of 3, so the pricing is not _that_ outrageously expensive.
That's not exactly support though is it, it's just that you don't like their business model. Counterfeits are like half of what they sell these days. Hell that's what amazon basics is.
Yeah they were pretty brutal! Like the difficulty is somewhat frustrating, but I actuslly thought they had some clever architechture and puzzles.
So does that mean there is literally nothing I can do about it? Except becoming a contractor?
His "domains" are highly selective to what he can get away with saying safely.
Tip: Time-Proportional Instruction Profiling [pdf]
What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream
Also, you can use mcaselector to delete the parts of your old saved games where you haven't built anything and let them regen with the 1.18 algo. I just did that with a save and the new terrain smoothly blended in with the old.
Reminds me that I like the phrase "only a fraction of $x does $y." People seem to ignore 9/10 and 200/1 are fractions.
You could set up domain boundaries where everything in that domain is relatively isolated from other domains. When nearing an ungenerated domain, do the procedural + evolutionary generation and handle the borders blending. Domains could be tectonic plates. This would cause hitches on exploration, but they would be relatively infrequent and overall few since domains would be so large.
Elon Musk might think web3 bs because even he's rich, but Web3(or blockchain) operating out of his control.
Indeed it is. Incredible project
The underlying paper studies Legos, not toys in general, so the article title is misleading. The article says "Average returns on LEGO sets are 10-11% annually", but "are" should be "were" since we don't know what LEGO returns will be going forward. The same is true of stock market returns -- past high returns do not necessarily mean future returns will be high.
> Money doesn’t matter.

That would be a pretty huge departure from how we currently create and transact anything of value, so I’d say I don’t understand that.
Interesting, is there a market for second hand Lego sets ?
I recently topped off a chainsaw with motor oil and noticed that it flung everywhere. Chainsaw oil has some additives in it that allow the oil to be picked up by the chain at high speed but not flung off the chain. I wonder how this question would be addressed using vegetable oil.
I wondered briefly if someone was making a retelling of The Wheel of Time from the point of view of the Forsaken. That would make for an interesting uncanonical novel.
How much you get for shilling?
I do that, most home servers don't need high availability/scalability.
Yes but it caused a revolution in gaming which other studios were able to work off of and refine, eg Half Life. But at the time, there was truly nothing like it, with its full 3D, which is harder to develop for but clearly was the future of gaming.

You have to look at what was available at the time, basicly doom clones and the build engine.
Yeah, I should have done both. In retrospect, Bossman is a legit confidence man. I've got another post that I will possibly get finished over the holidays about him. Local Facebook groups have angry ex customers posting regularly about how they were ripped off one way or the other by him.