skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a weird mix of buddhist "I was and am at peace with this", but with a "I feel like I missed out" mixed in. But he fully admits it's his own fault because he was up in his own world, instead of leaving the business end to his agent.

But I don't believe this would stand up in court. There was a verbal agreement before he signed a contract. He was paid for his one-off contribution; I don't know how much work he delivered or how many hours he put into it, but 20K is half a year's income for some people, not to be sniffed at.

This has come up recently as well in some drama about voice acting on the one hand, and video game soundtracks on the other. Normally you get paid for the time spent, or the amount of your contributions used. But in the case of the voice actor, they decided the normal amount - or as it turned out later, a chunk well above the normal amount - wasn't enough and they threw it onto the internet.

But in the end, I think this is just a business transaction - one part of one part of the game, paid for with a five figure sum. The author neglected to do his due diligence and neglected to review and sign the contract in a timely fashion. Mojang and Microsoft may be susceptible to a lawsuit because the author never surrendered the rights to his work until now, but his unwillingness to cooperate while accepting payment for work delivered won't work in his favor.

And while he gave the text up into the public domain, I don't know if this holds up in court; iirc, copyright law only applies if you defend your copyright. Which means that if the author's copyright is voided, then Microsoft's copyright for Minecraft and all it contains might take over, and they might sue him instead. I'm not a lawyer or versed in copyright law, so this is just fantasizing.
> turn the fan on when you poop

Windows also work well.
Is it a conspiracy theory once you have open documents proving it, or a conspiracy fact? Looks like these things like the Snowden revelations go very fast from "it's not happening" to "it's happening but everybody knew it and it's no big deal".

Basically you are allowed to believe in conspiracies only as long as that belief will have zero consequences for the regime.
This doesn't necessarily follow. Law enforcement having near realtime access to everything you ever photographed is a worse situation then them having to know in advance which things you might be storing, so they can add a fingerprint of it to a database and then wait until your device matches and uploads it.

CSAM is a serious problem and you're ignoring Apple's moral or even repetitional obligation to try to address it. However poorly.

We shouldn't be hyperbolic and just flatten levels of badness, or we'll can never find a compromise (which is, I suspect, just how you want things).
Understanding Startup Equity
I have asked for sources recently and they just sent me a link to a .tar the next day.
I don't agree at all. The JVM gets much much better performance than that, and it runs on a runtime that supports ~all platforms. Idiomatic Java and C code will be within ~25% of each other. [1]

Being 4x slower is pretty abysmal, honestly. I would expect a small penalty for running the JIT, but after that the jitted WASM code and native code should be identical. If the hype is to be believed, the jitted code should actually be better than native code.

Maybe running the JIT is just really slow? If the native program ran for a minute, would the WASM version run in 4 minutes, or 1.15 minutes?

[1] https://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=4
Hanging out at the mall died long before covid.
> Before someone comments about "go to a rock climbing gym" or "go to a coffee shop" - I tried all of those things. It's not that simple.

So, you are choosing the cheapest/easiest of the options out there: to talk to people that are forced to see you in person every day of the week. To that, I can only say: good luck.
This is the ideal scenario when building these out. Automate a lot of the low-hanging fruit that most people are going to be looking for, then seamlessly convert to a support chat with a human as needed
> “You can't watch a really good movie with a satisfying conclusion, they are all written for a sequel.”

This only applies to the Disneyfied mega-blockbusters that represent a large share of production dollars but a small share of movies created overall.

It’s never been easier to find and access good movies, new and old. No matter if they’re from Iowa or France or Korea, practically anything is available on streaming a few clicks away. The problem is really the overwhelming abundance of choice. Given the choice of “The Batman” and “The Northman”, people will default to the familiar title and then complain that it’s derivative and anticipates a sequel.
I don't think they're getting more digital and disembodied. I do think they've become far more homogenised and corporate and far less individual and authentically creative. And tech has enabled that.

There are countless examples. In the arts, artists would literally start with a blank canvas and fill it with imagination. Trad media are almost infinitely flexible. You can paint extreme photo-realism with oils, or extreme abstraction, or something between them. The limiting factor is imagination, not the medium.

Photoshop, Illustrator, and AI art generators are far more limited. You start with a set of standard tools which force you to approach creativity in standard ways. If you're in a hurry you can click-bang with a plugin.

Behind this are uniform corporate expectations of how art and design are supposed to be styled.

Example: currently images are supposed to be generic flat cartoony characters doing useful things. There's plenty of inoffensively tame corporate blue and/or green, some nice rounded maybe slightly quirky sans serif fonts, and standard layouts and sections. Sites that want to seem a little more exciting use red and orange - still pale though - and perhaps some actual photos.

It's all so tame. So is corporate productivity culture - to do lists, self-improvement, efficiency, fitness. And so on.

There's almost no randomness, unscheduled weirdness, surprise, or creative passion. (Real passion, not corporate "yes I'm passionate please hire me.")

When was the last time anyone was genuinely surprised by something they saw online? Not in the "Cool meme!" or "OK quite edgy" sense - but in the "Who ordered that and where did it come from, actually this is amazing" sense.

There's a sense in which all of this is like Newspeak. It actively trains people not to be too original or imaginative. I don't think that's a good thing.
I’ve worked at orgs where the problem with freeware wasn’t the lack of cost, but the lack of support/indemnity/assurance and the lack of a contract to establish a legal framework for the dependency.
Mojang clearly did not understand the conversation perfectly well, if they did they wouldn’t have sent the check until the contract was signed.

I mean, ignore all the stuff about friends, blah blah, Carl has apparently signed them up for whatever the defaults are under (based on other comments) UK IP laws?
When B wakes up the 1st thing it does is state.exchange(sleeper,…), which returns unlocked, and set the state to sleeper.
I think it works.

I had some concerns about the second one, but I think it works too…
Nigerian prince scams still rake in over $700k a year (2019)
Ah ok that makes sense, and if you choose to use `Sum Int` you'd be technically implementing the Monoid abstraction for that type. In practice because the `Int` type is a signed, fixed-size integer it would break the laws for all integers.

In that case it would still be a useful abstraction but you would have to be aware that your `Int` will wrap around for large values which kind of makes `Int` a poor choice.

`Integer` would be better but is still somewhat finite because computers.
> Julian believed the copyright was worth more and so rejected the offer.

Julian didn't read the contract when he first got it, because he apparently didn't care.
The author in question was born in 1916, and the book appears to be from 1988. I suppose the past truly is a foreign country, even if that past isn't that long ago.
The definition of "conspiracy theorist" in practice is just someone the listicle writer or tweet author doesn't like.
I feel like they haven't really been about "the community" since they started selling most Pis to companies who use them in their products instead of to regular people, and then calling it "supply chain issues".
Thank you for that last paragraph. This is very helpful to know.
I've been wondering how long it would be before something like this happened ever since e-sports cycling started. Longer than I thought it would is the answer!

I'm sure there's simpler ways as well: you could manipulate the spindown test that the turbotrainer does for calibration to make it think the flywheel is heavier than it really is, for example.

At the non-pro level cheating is absolutely rife. Mostly through people lying about their weight. In every open zwift race there are performances that would put a person in the top 0.1% of riders globally being put down by half the field!
Have you considered that these "detractors" might just be former users of the language themselves, who felt liberated once they tried something else, and want to help other people not feel stuck as well?
Research Proposes 'Moral' Sanitization for Text-to-Image Systems
The one I remember best was "The Spy Who Loved Me", where the plot of the novel is about a woman in a cabin or something and the relation to the movie is... Zero.

But it wasn't the plots that I thought were worse, but the writing itself.
The .RECIPEPREFIX variable is indeed specific to GNU make.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Special-V...
Sure, or even slightly worse, a culture of "I don't believe in science."
Can someone explain what is the news here? I'm struggling to follow.

1. Is raspberry.social the Mastodon server by the actual Raspberry people?

2. They hired an ex police person? What is the context here that makes this so dramatic?

3. What is #fediblock? Is this a Mastodon wide block? That terrifies me, that's king of against the whole nature of a decentralised network right? Are we introducing "centralised" behaviour into the decentralised network?
"oral exam" sounds funny. I can't help but imagine a person (whom I visualize as Bryan Cranston for obvious reason) examining someone with their mouth or having their mouth examined :-]
How safe is bladerunner.social? Do we know who runs it, what their privacy policy is, where the data is housed, etc.?

If I clicked that link, and bladerunner.social served me malware, where is the "throat to choke"?
If it were to fall from a height of 14m on Mars, it would reach a speed of 36km/h when hitting the ground after 2.74 seconds of free fall (let's ignore the thin Mars atmosphere). Gravity is 3.7m/s/s.

On Earth after falling from 14m (again, ignoring the atmosphere) you reach 59.6km/h on impact after a mere 1.69 seconds.

On the Moon it reaches 24.3km/h after 4.2 seconds. Gravity is 1.6m/s/s.
They're both Turing machines, if that's what you're getting at.

In practice, no, a console is not a general purpose computing machine.

On iOS, by design, you can install almost any kind of application even without jailbreaking it. Which people do, you can have Excel and Maps and IDEs and whatever.

Consoles, by design, do not allow that. It's almost strictly meant for games and media.

And again. I don't care. Both types of walled gardens should be abolished.
What is the state of dart for cross-platform development? I looked a few years ago and it seemed like progress was being made for web development and desktop use, if I remember correctly.
These are almost always saved by the business/chat app.
TIL that a brilliant physicist nearly failed his physics exam (sort of). What is revealing is the broad-based knowledge that was expected of any student of those times. Unlike the super-specialities of today. A career in such fields (rather in any field) in those days required total dedication to academics. Also the importance of oral arguments and oral debate.
Play SuperTux online
Do people really think quantum computing improvement is already on the asymptote of a sigmoid?
I think feeling of freedom have a lot of value... liability rules may decrease death and injury rate, in which case the question is a tradeoff between QALYs (death and injury) and QALYs (feelings of freedom).
No, so we can harvest their eyes and use their brains for research.
Number of states banning TikTok on government devices
Another way to put it is that people who rely on these tools to think will not think for themselves. Which is ironic given these tools are built to give us our time back to think in the first place. Self-creation(real passion) cannot be replaced by AI. Those who understand will continue to create and put in the effort regardless of AI innovations and combat this sense of nihilism.
Say One Thing Well
In a strange way, book that really influenced me is "Evolution of physics", I read as a student by Einstein and Leopold Infeld. I am not sure how better it is to normal physics book, but it was way more readable and interesting than my textbook. Another book that really influenced me a lot is "Calculus wars" and "Infinite powers".

They just made subjects that I did not care about into things that were human and part of a great story of human discovery. Made me appreciate and learn that I cannot take anything for granted.
It’s true of any profession. Most people only learn the exact skills they need for their very specific job. If you ask them about anything slightly out of the way they won’t know. (Some people are exceptions of course)

I think it’s one of the downsides of economic specialization. Although the upsides probably outweigh it substantially.
It's always the byte at chip-address 0x50, data-address 0x20 that is overriden with the value 0x00. Since this byte _should_ have value 0x11 the EDID checksum doesn't match the data anymore. So then my computers reject the entire EDID and either output nothing or only output at the lowest resolution possible. This byte is part of the chroma "blue_y" information. Clearly, this byte shouldn't normally be written to when attaching HDMI.

Reviewing my investigation notes from a year ago when I enabled I2C tracing, the issue is somehow caused by Xorg writing 0x00 to chip-address 0x54, data-address 0x20 when the monitor is connected. Although, I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to manually write to this location using i2cset, possibly due to the write-protection mechanism - my memory's hazy here. This is where I'd have to continue investigating if I ever get around to it again. But I'd expect this to not even be possible - the write-protection _should_ block a write through the wrong address.
> Wow, what an unpleasant hate-filled response to a single paragraph taken out of context from the entire post.

Oh please, enough hyperbole, we got already that in his post.

I read his entire post before I posted my reply, and his entire post is whining about how much the employees who ultimately contributed to building, selling, marketing, administration and supporting the game got paid compared to his contribution which, in all honesty, added virtually nothing to the game.

> The fact that his work is still referenced, is still part of the game, and wanted by people on t-shirts/mugs/etc is significantly more contribution than the moronic made-up "0.000000000001%" number you claim.

His contribution being referenced has nothing to do with the quality of the contribution. IOW, people are referencing the content because it's part of the game; had his contribution been swapped out with any other content, they'd still be referencing it.

As far as you calling me a moron goes, objectively, his contribution to the success of the game, measured by almost any metric you'd care to use, is statistical noise. If it were not there no one would care. If it were removed no one would care.

> So please have a little empathy, it is not easy to know if you are being treated fairly in this complicated world today.

I have empathy for those who area treated unfairly. This poster was overpaid for what he produced. There's a line of people who would have done a better job for half the money while still making a decent living.

He hit a jackpot, and is too self-involved to realise this, even now. His lack of self-awareness is so high that, while reading his whine, I half thought it was satire or parody of some sort.
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical, but I'd like to know this too. My observation is that what started as a decent idea was quickly hijacked by marketing departments and got corrupted so quickly that they've become an annoyance to me -- not unlike pop-ups, browser push notifications, and so forth. It's the "tinted car windows" of the web, immediately putting your site into a bad neighborhood.

Anecdotally, I've had far more success DM'ing companies on Twitter -- I don't think I've ever gotten a bot-like, automated response when taking that route, and I've had really specific questions answered quickly and thoroughly.
Given a question it decides whether to search internet or not. In case of internet search, it shows the source of information (reference links)
Some of Black Mirror episodes are better than many films, and their concepts would absolutely work if expanded to full length features.
I've made friends with a few former police officers. And they usually tell me the job silently destroys you inside. The job makes you deal with the worst of the worst daily and after a few years, mentally you are fucked. If an officer wants to do something that is constructive rather than destructive of society, they should be commended.

The friends that have left the profession would rather work fastfood than anything even tangentially close to law enforcement, like security.
It doesn’t seem surprising to me that a big corporation is (was?) overstaffed.
> Do frameworks share lots of commonality, and/or are they just minimal in nature?

In my experience, most of the popular web frameworks in Rust are pretty minimal. Think Go's standard library or express from Node.
This is one reason why I regularly participate in Crossfit. It pushes me into a very uncomfortable place, perhaps even painful. Yet it has a strong grounding effect on my mental health, and makes me feel alive. Other stress/pain in my life seems much more manageable somehow.
It says there wasn't really any wormhole. Instead there was something intended to simulate some ideas about wormholes.

It's as if someone claimed he had a car and said he'd pick me up for a date ... but it turned out he actually had no car, only iRacing.
It is less a problem in my native language as well! I'm Dutch but I have spoken almost exclusively English for work the past 20 years and yet, in Dutch, I have far less issues. That's funny, until you said it, I never thought about that. At least not as it being any relation to this.
More effective, and much longer runway. My house is paid off and my expenses are minimal. Cities full of cool people are usually incredibly expensive. Would I rather spend the money on rent or on my startup?
I think what you’re describing could be because the pace of life was slower, there was less competition for everything, the consequences of making mistakes less severe, the general economic situation easier, and it was worth a lot more to learn and know something. There was also more quality work to be found in software, relatively speaking.
Ha interesting, I didn't really expect a serious answer but very cool. I looked into haxe a while back when I was gearing up for a significantly complex project targeting lua 5.1.

I ended not using it mostly because of unfamiliarity and it felt like it would add a fair bit of complexity. Didn't want to pick up a whole new ecosystem for that project.

I ended up using fennel, which solves most of my practical problems with lua without really making anything harder. Doesn't help with the package ecosystem or build process but I ended up just taking that compromise.

Don't regret it, still use fennel anywhere I'm forced to use lua, including hammerspoon and mud client scripting. I think if I was going to work heavily in lua long-term I'd go back and invest in haxe for it.
The third option is that it genuinely makes me happy, because it implies we're taking care of everyone more. My money going to charity is fine. My money going to taxes implies other wealthy people like me are also chipping in for schools, healthcare, etc.
Neural networks can approximate the function fine. The issue here is reinforcement learning works by initially random or largely random action followed by feedback to get better. This means you fail over and over, possibly millions, possibly billions of time before you ever get good. If you're learning to play chess or go or Starcraft, that's fine. If you're learning to perform high-precision industrial process control, I'm not sure you can afford that much initial waste, and it may take centuries to get through enough iterations since the process does not take place entirely inside of a computer.
Wasn't it always a fiction? Her premise for Theranos was to perform blood tests with minimal amount of blood even though the science wasn't there. I would love see a pitch decks for the raises prior to Sunny. How do you raise $200m when VC money was hard to come by during the recession?
Germany: More traffic restrictions likely as DB hunts faulty sleepers
> The fact that he admits that he sat on this for eight years (regardless of reason) means he was not actively defending his intellectual property.

I'm not sure what this means. Copyright doesn't need to be defended. In any case copyright is a big mess without a signed contract. This just muddles the waters even more.
Really puts Heisenberg in context. No wonder he seems so bitter.
What can you really do with a loan in cryptoland?

Not much --- gamble/speculate maybe?. To really make use of it, you have to convert it into real world currency. This often comes with a 1-2% transaction fee. You lose a lot of potential borrowers at this point.

The fact that crypto is not a functioning currency detracts from all things crypto.
Does code-server[1] meet your needs? It's self hosted and has been meeting by (albeit) hobbyist needs well.

[1] https://github.com/coder/code-server
see also: 2 hour hbomberguy about the "oof" sound from Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI
It's worth something to the few that value it. True believers will truly believe. Surveys consistently find that 3-4% of respondents believe in the subterranean lizard people waiting to take over the world, too.
That I start a code file with a special tag, that I have to be careful not accidently emitting e.g. white space (because it is a template engine ;)), that I am not accidently emitting the source code of my program because a tag was not closed, ...

Like the poster above: I totally support PHP ... it is good, it has surprisingly well aged in the recent years, and it perfectly has its place ... but it has warts. Nothing bad, nothing tooling could not compensate ... but there are warts because of its origin.

Other languages has warts too: Java has no real generics, Python has it when you do indenting wrong and let us not start on JavaScript or god forbid VisualBasic. As a C# fanboy, i have to rely on others to see warts there ;)
Damn, this is a really high quality, high effort video, with a lot of nice pictures. Thanks for posting.
> 1. The picture(s) in question mentioned above which got an account shut down and police notified was not a 'child in a bath', it was close ups of a child's genitals

No, the example of Google calling the police on a parent given in the NYT article was because the parent sought medical assistance for their child during lockdown and the doctor requested pictures of the issue the child was having.

This is no more an acceptable reason for Google to report parents to the police for child abuse than taking pictures of your child's first bath, and taking pictures of your child's milestones has long been something that people have done.