skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of commenters are stuck on the €20k the author was paid for the work and their completely human reaction (jealously, etc) to seeing the payout other people who worked on the game got after the buy out.

Yes they got paid for producing the work, yes they were jealous. Yes they reacted like most humans would.

But, that €20k did not cover the copyrights to the work. Just the creating of it. Regardless as to whether you think the original payment was really good. The copyright sits with the artist, not those that commission it, unless the artist signs it away. That didn't happen. That's Mojang's fault not the artist. And the fact they were trying to pressure the artist into doing that shows that that is the real issue.

This post is not about the money or the jealously. It is about the emotional journey the author went on, with their human emotions, and what they thought of as friends. And the different stages of said journey.

If I was more cynical about this piece I would suggest that releasing the poem under CC was easily the worse thing the author could have done from MS/Mojangs point of view. Clearly a decision was made by them that should a lawsuit come about they weren't worried. Releasing it as it has been side steps this completely, leaving the power with the author.

Ultimately though I enjoyed the story.
I don’t think it’s weird that people don’t behave “rationally” in the crude sense of that word[1]. But it seems really weird to be happy about your tax rate going up. Consider the alternative: for example, you could give the money to charity that works in developing countries. So there seems to be two explanations:

(1) Either you consider yourself prodigal and want an authority to take care of your spending for you.

(2) Or you have weirdly framed your views for extra shock value; and you simply dislike inequality and suffering; and you think that the state can help alleviate some of it by reallocating social resources in a socially beneficial manner. And you think it would be just if they also would take some money from you, even if it’s done by force. There is really nothing surprising about this view; I would rather say it is very popular. (And, unfortunately, for most people that feeling for equality doesn’t spread beyond their own country.)

[1] In principle, rationality in economics doesn’t necessarily imply egoism. It just means that the choices made by a person have nice properties like completeness or transitivity. Whether your choices maximize your consumption, consumption of other people, the scientific progress or the amount of plastic in the world ultimately doesn’t matter.
I was in the exact situation as you are. I moved my custom domain to iCloud Mail. I'm not sure how complete the custom domain is with iCloud Mail. It basically uses the custom domain email to redirect to your @icloud.com email address. In email clients I have to login as username@icloud.com and set my name@lastname.com email as an alias. It works perfectly though, I'm very satisfied.

My Google account still exists at name@lastname.com, I can still OAuth with that account. My Gmail inbox is just not updated anymore since the emails are actually going to Apple's servers. I requested a Google Takeout (basically all the files and emails associated to your account" so if I ever lose access to that account, I don't lose the files.
Wait, I thought Minecraft bought out Mojang, not bought Minecraft from Mojang? If they really did just buy the game and not the entire company, I think you're right and Microsoft may be in violation. If they bought the company, they would have inherited the license as I understand it.

EDIT: IANAL but as long as Minecraft continues being sold by Mojang, not Microsoft, it shouldn't matter whether Microsoft owns the company or not as long as the implied contract was with Mojang, not e.g. Notch.
I use custom email domain with apple and do the same catch all.

Embarrassingly, I found one of my ex colleague’s company selling my data
> My understanding is that the organisation's goal is figuring out how to spend money effectively and without bias.

Sure, but there will always be some bias. It's one of those things: they're wrong if they believe they can do away with all bias. Moreover, they are so wrong, I can't hold them responsible for it, even if they say they will hold themselves responsible for it. It's like a child saying "I will be responsible for building a time machine." You can't hold them responsible. But I get where you're coming from, I used to be more in your camp, but the longer I am out of academia the more I tend to look at the world in "grey terms" (I'm not implying you're still in academia or anything, that's just how my life journey is progressing at the moment).

Oxford is one of their biases that they can't seem to get rid off. It's super clear. Also, it's understandable. When I look at where I'd hire the best CS students, I'd go to students that studied VUSEC courses (a research group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

I've been telling all kinds of people that only top tier CS students can complete their courses. But they haven't seen what I've seen (or they can't convince their managers). It's really a tough bias to get rid of, you understand your own uni intuitively so much more than anyone else's uni. Because does VUSEC really have the best students? Probably not. Is Oxford really the best place to be close to the best intellectual minds? Probably not.

And I get that there's a fundamental point to be made (I'm making one myself that one can't get rid of all bias). But when I read the comments I'm reading too much emotion, not enough reason and empiricism. I don't want drama on HN, I want awesomeness about science and the world, which is what I usually find :)
Yes, like I said elsewhere - there's a lot of temporarily embarrassed billionaires here.
SQLite is designed for concurrent access to the same db from multiple processes. All relevant locking happens in the DB file itself.
aaps?
FTX NFT URLs now go to a restructuring website
Assume your startup idea is bullshit and find corroborating evidence
So many thousands of words
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Most tech layoffs are not software engineers, they’re other positions (which make far less money). All the companies that froze hiring have laid off massive chunks of their recruiting and hiring teams, for example.

Sales teams have been impacted eg at Adobe, and some companies are cutting HR and support staff.

But that’s not the point, even responsible “normal” workers can’t really be expected to save more than a few months of living expenses, maybe a year if they’re an older employee. I expect most full find a job before then, but that’s “months” away from a really tough time.

Even if they don’t starve, it can still be pretty negatively impactful - it’s expected many will draw into retirement and savings, or will need to move to a cheaper housing situation (which is hard in SF), or will struggle to pay for children’s education costs. Some will take on credit card debt to cover expenses, or move in with their parents, or whatever. Starving vs “this billionaire lost a few hundred million” still a lot of room for normal people to suffer.
I guess one thing would be to catch up with all the ISO releases since late 90's.

"Modern Fortran" book would be one way of doing it,

https://www.manning.com/books/modern-fortran
> Send a QR code or a link that can be used only once.

I most often have to spell my contact details in a voice phone call because my primary job is to communicate to live people all over the world, not to code. Believe it or not but people actually call my office desk phone regularly (although I always prefer email if possible). Even in the IT sector (let alone administrative tasks, healthcare, utilities, etc), whenever you need a rack in a datacenter, new servers or whatever you often are meant to submit your phone number on their website and then they call you. Some very big Internet and datacenter operators don't advertise any ways to contact them other than by phone, some would publish an email or a contact form but ignore you until you call them.

> Why have an identifier that any number of people can use to contact you?

The same as the above.
How do you estimate for a 're-build' in software?
Having experienced multiple 're-build' projects in my career, I know that it is hard to capture all of the requirements from the working software. Often because of the size of the code base and lack of documentation. To the client, it seems clear what is required - that is all of the features from their existing project with an upgrade / change of framework and infrastructure.

In each case, either an estimate has been performed and failed to capture all of the required features, or the estimating process has been deemed too expensive to do thoroughly. And so the business (questionably) decides to use Agile / Scrum methodologies to complete the project.

This in effect means we have waterfall-esqe project in that it has fixed requirements, but an acceptance that we're going to have to work it out as we go along, in an imperfect 'Agile' manner.

This leads to a high probability of either project time / budget overruns or an unhappy client who perceives that the new software lacks capability that was present in the previous version.

Specifically, the question is: How do you estimate (in terms of time and cost) for a 're-build' where you are rebuilding an existing piece of software, and can agile be used?

I'm anticipating the following answers, but would like to hear from anyone who has experience of a process that has worked.

- Is the answer simply that you don't? Maybe the business has to accept that software that has evolved over years will be expensive to replace. How does a business make a decision whether the project is worth undertaking?

- Is the answer that the business has to agree to undertake the project in an agile manner, and monitor progress regularly to help them to decide whether to continue?

- Is the answer that the estimate should be undertaken and paid for as a project in it's self. You would then be tasked with estimating how long you need to produce a good estimate? Understanding a project properly could take an amount of effort not far short of implementing in code.

Related reading I've done before posting this question:

Is it possible to use Agile methodologies in a fixed price contract?

https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/29/is-it-possible-to-...

In Agile project management, how do we estimate the completion date to win a contract?

https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/28051/in-agile-projec...

Martin Fowler / ThoughtWorks on Agile estimation in general

https://info.thoughtworks.com/rs/thoughtworks2/images/tweboo...
Definitely not something a cult would do
Intel were apparently using that for backwards compatibility on Arc[1]. I guess it wasn't good enough and they're using DXVK instead? Or is this new "native" mode DXVK instead?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/intel-turns-to-code-...
Network distillation to the rescue! Provided that you have the means to distill in the first place :D
He (gmk) didn't start it, but he certainly provided support/funding to it.
Which is mistaking the most sales for the most popularity. There is a universe of games that have huge number of users, but doesn't sell copies.
Because language usefulness pretty much scales with stdlib features. Tools then get built around that pretty printer, instead of everyone having their bespoke implementation. The Java ecosystem is many things, but you cannot say it isn't homogenous. Dependency injection ? Every single project that has gone on to use annotations will be using the same @Inject. And so on, for many, many featyres.
I was like this once, i didn't go on antidepressants but i thought my world was over. Let me just tell you that this a small blip and you will learn to live with it. The intensity at which you hear it now will dampen by ten folds as time goes on. In some people it can also randomly disappear

What helped me
-Sleeping with a fan / aircon / noise machine
-Listening to music / coffee shop bg sounds during work
-Not having many silent moments at home, having music on etc to distract myself

I always wear ear plugs at loud events like gigs etc, something I always should have done. You need to stop listening to it, to see if its gone or how high it is. Eventually your brain will zone it out.

also this is a crazy suggestion but moving to Asia also helps, there is always traffic, fans, aircons and beach sounds
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons by Liu Hsieh,
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One quarter of the way in. #chefskiss!
The problem is that the studio leadership made the deliberate decision to aim for something our data showed we could not deliver, relying on overtime to compensate for the overambitious scope. Which is not a feasible solution and, unsurprisingly, did not work out.
> He mentions that there were only five people actually on the actual dev team _at launch_?

How would he know? From his own account, he was nothing more than a contract supplier who supplied one single thing.

He claims that they were friends, but his own account of the whole mess shows that that isn't true.
Spoken like someone who knows the answer :)
> he implicitly assigned a transferable non-exclusive license to Mojang

This is almost correct. If this was decided in the US, his discussions and acceptance of payment gave Mojang a non-transferable license. During the sale to Microsoft, he was a stakeholder. Microsoft failed to acquire a license, which was why they were trying to force him to sign a contract with terms - of perpetual transfer - that he did not agree to. Mojang needed that signed otherwise Microsoft needed to negotiate a license or purchase from him directly. Microsoft did not do this so they don't own it nor did they have the right to distribute his work until he public-domained it. They are still guilty of infringements up to the date he public domained it, but he seems to have released he right to pursue this as part of this essay.
I migrated from Outlook’s custom email domain to Apple’s. It took a couple of changes with the DNS records and exporting the emails from Outlook.

In Apple, you can change the login details for your account to your custom domain.

Sounds like a project though - I also have a paid Bitwarden account which I use for my 2FA codes. Works well for me
I'd group them in two big segments.

1) Sales chat

2) Support chat

Both of them I prefer over emailing, calling or writing into some contact box and receive an answer days later. Live chat windows are in almost 100% of the cases I've interacted with them quicker, as they tell you if someone is online and how many minutes you are expected to wait.

Sometimes 1) can be spammy when they make sounds or open automatically but I still prefer to ask a quick product question before signing up for something via the chat than emailing someone.
So mouth breathe?
Rocky Linux is developed by a large team, some who are paid too and some who are strictly volunteers, but yes, Gregory Kurtzer's own company (https://ciq.co) has invested quite a bit into Rocky Linux. (Many developers, FIPS validation alone is upwards of a million USD, etc)
> No, they don't.

Yes, they do.

Again: the total number of organ transplants in the US is 40 000 per year. For a population of 330 million people

> But I'm very well aware that no one actually cares to hear my point of view.

What is your point of view? Is it this: "I just think this is a procedure that gets a lot of hype and it takes away from us pursuing something that might be better overall"?

This is patently false because we spend significantly more effort on "something that's better overall": anything from preventive medicine to non-invasive treatments to ...

To give you my first hand experience: I had a non-malignant tumor removed from the esophagus 10 years ago. Even 20 years ago the way to do it was by cutting you up from the side, with 20% mortality rate. Now it's done in 15 minutes through a tube, with a check up a week later.

But if we trust your experience, nothing is done to do better, everything is diverted to organ transplants.
I remember seeing cubes that have solid inside that has melting point around (good temperature to drink coffee).

You put them in a cup and it

1. Quickly cools coffee to that temperature (by increasing temperature and melting).
2. Keeps coffee at that temperature for some point (doesn't go lower until liquid inside is back solid).

I've gave it a cursory google and can't find a name.
Not really. If this was the post on HN I'm sure people would be more sympathetic because it leaves out all the important details, like the fact that he actually received €20k for it and the pompous idea that he's one of the creators of Minecraft.
Nope! You can do better and you should if you want a real discussion.

Have a good one, mate.
Yeah looking at the contract, it seems exactly like the kind of thing you’d want to have for content in a game. It removes all complexities as you may need to edit or do whatever to it years later.

Imagine if all the developers expected to both be paid to write code and still own the rights to the code.
I don't think he wanted "more," exactly - he felt excluded. It felt like something out of the character of friendship he wanted.
Well he never signed the contract so...
I interpreted GP's comment to be more about how it's inevitable that businesses track consumer patterns, because after all it's directly their data. Who bought it is usually irrelevant.

That still leaves the purchase data freely available, and if you purchase the same kinds of items regularly you can probably build a profile. The purchase data itself is still valuable and still tracked.
He does not develop it whatsoever. Really all he does is talk, so basically zero development value. He certainly likes to take credit though for all the work all of rocky's volunteers do.
>legacy reflection API

Did I miss something somewhere ? java.lang.reflect is still the standard way of doing Reflection.
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>> For one thing, Quanta and Nature are not mainstram media

That's not where I read about it.
Or Amazon Snowmobile, which is a literal container truck on the road.
> Mojang subsequently wanted to purchase that copyright and hence why they sent the contract for £1 to be signed.

That is the move by Mojang that I didn't understand. They were about to be paid 2.5 billion. Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract? They could easily afford that, and with his financial troubles at the time, Julian would probably have signed it.

And he'd have missed out on his subsequent personal growth, and we wouldn't have gotten this beautiful story, and the universe wouldn't have gotten the End Poem, but Microsoft would, and the world would have been more normal, predictable, corporate. But he would have been able to eat and pay rent.
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Knowing some superartistic and talented people, I generally agree.

But Mick's case is very different. Mojang did pay, the guy did write, it's just that the guy wanted more than there was there in the informal agreement.

Mick Gordon did sign, idSoftware did not follow the contract, failed to pay on multiple occasions and did not even try to come back to reason in the longer term. Then there's the whole OST story, which is a different kind of evil. Marty Stratton, the producer of the game, played a very dirty game with Gordon with all of the blame shifting and payment problems and that horrible, horrible original reddit post.
Google scans your data for anything it finds objectionable. Here's another example of Google flagging and deleting a video from a user's Drive storage: https://twitter.com/nicholasdeorio/status/158386625133969818...
I remember someone saying that Oxygene is basically Popcorn at half speed with wind noises, so I see where you're coming from.
It has one based indexing. That's because they're catering to matlab guys, not professional developers.
"A Meditator’s Practice Guide to The Mind Illuminated" book helped in improving mind clarity like switching from SD to FHD. even though the author is caught in scandals, the content is solid.
The awareness of the fact that extreme smog is not cool is growing, but still a large group of people (perhaps even a majority) accept it as a fact of life. In the eighties, it was so much worse here (there were heavy industrial plants - steel mills etc., without any pollution filtering, running at full steam in city centers of Zabrze, Katowice, Bytom etc.), that those who rememeber it perhaps still see current situation as a massive improvement.
It is in the interests of North American consumers for the company to maximise it's revenue from other regions to help fund product development. Higher price points in developing countries would make the product largely unaffordable there, reducing revenue.
Never rewrite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I read the whole thing. It was somewhat overwritten. Not my favorite ever post-hallucinogen-trip essay.

I agree with other commenters that the author is greedy and petty. He accepted €20,000 for his work, a decent amount. Then he decided that he should make way more money because the game was successful. Then he tried to take advantage of the fact that he hadn't signed a contract, even though he had obviously accepted the terms when he accepted the money. He behaved shittily by not honoring an informal contract. He tried to paint it as some huge company legal dept vs little guy thing based on the fact that it's now Microsoft and yes, work for hire contracts drafted by corporate lawyers do look evil. But he had already reneged on his handshake agreement, after spending the 20K, even before big companies or professional lawyers were involved.

Now he's trying to parlay his brush with fame into Substack subscriptions. Good luck to him.
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MS can now use the End Poem in spin off products, or even adapt it and use variations or sequels of it in spin off products. Pretty good deal for them, I'd say.

Though to be perfectly honest, if I were them, and they needed something like that, I'd hire Julian to write it. Or maybe ask him to write it for free after giving him a massive donation.
As much as I love going back and editing things, I think this is a good solution. On Reddit it's even a recurring game to challenge people to ask questions and then edit them to make the answer look bad.

I'm not convinced this argument holds for the time window limiting deletion of comments.