skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks for the detailed response. I'm actually all for progressive enhancement, and appreciate the philosophy you're getting at here. I still think, generally speaking, you're either designing for animation or not. With CSS, if something works with a transition it also works without. Once you start meddling with animation states in JS you've taken point on all that otherwise abstracted away state-based logic. What happens when an animation get interrupted, memory use, timing functions, etc. Sure, if you weren't animating a pill-box you might use flex. But if a transform works, why not use that for both animated and inanimate versions? It's certainly not any less correct or legible.
Yes, also a good example, although he seems more delusional than merely deranged.
Still not a sufficient explanation but I pretty much like the headline:

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.
> [...] I imagine it's understandable that a landlord would use a key and take it down.

Just to give context to perspectives people might have on this analogy, the above would be illegal in e.g. Germany.
Make it a couple of 1000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia#Agriculture

>Over time the southernmost parts of Sumerian Mesopotamia suffered from increased salinity of the soils, leading to a slow urban decline and a centring of power in Akkad, further north.
People are tattooing it on themselves though, that's something that isn't usually offered on etsy or redbubble as an online order?
Sure, but I don't see how that contradicts what is being said here. You're assuming that commentators are welcoming a violent uprising because they think it would benefit them, but they're not. They're warning that one is likely if this continues, and even though it would be justified it wouldn't be pleasant. Least of all to people in more privileged positions.

The social contract is out of whack, and just because a lot of people struggling might look at tech workers as part of the problem (and not be entirely wrong, given tech's role in automating away jobs), doesn't mean those of us in the industry ought to then side with billionaires and the ever more concentrated concentration of capital. It means we should be doing our best to make sure the system becomes more equitable.
One thing that annoys the living crap out of me is when live chat is the only way to get support and they have office hours! So now I can't send an email at 1 AM when I have some time to myself, but have to take time out of my day to chat with customer support.

I might as well use the bloody phone by then.
It _does not_ seem like a stretch for him to know this. I've done work for a small agency and got to know most people there. The owner, head of art, billing, and other coders. I built 1 large website for them. We had enough communication where I came to understand how the org worked, and became more than acquaintances with the people I didn't know prior.
Which, in my book, makes the decision even worse.
> Like most rights and freedoms, opt-in protects me legally better than opt-out but makes life more difficult

At that point are already dead, too late to protect you. Dead people's 'rights' is a strange legal concept, and they shouldn't not be valued above the living.

Your pontification about 'mah freedom' doesnt work, because your freedom is someone else's liability.

If you have the right to a fair trial by your peers, now I have to pay the salary of a judge, and I have to go on jury duty.

But maybe by freedom is more important? Why am I being forced to do work in a courtroom against my will for free, is this like slavery?

So you won't get a trial of your peers.
> I am just a flawed guy, not particularly together, who doesn't have next month's rent.

This comment by him.. seems to be honestly something that explains quite a bit as to where he's coming from.
Eh, the ending to Minecraft was very much an afterthought. A huge number of players have never even attempted it. And the poem at the end is... frequently skipped, even on the first go-around. It's nowhere near the level of the ending to Portal.
It rarely happens in for-profit situations but people are slowly wisening up to the cost of technical debt for longer term projects especially.
"The creator" and "one of the creators" are not mutually exclusive. Both can be true.

> Steve Jobs is the founder of Apple Inc., along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Anyway, I changed the comment to "one of the creators".
Overnight? We'd lose a lot of people during the transition war. If you took out natural gas overnight, half of Europe would start freezing to death. I don't think people appreciate how much the 20th century was the oil century.
Never before has the HN hive mind bubble been so clear to me as in this comment thread, and I find it kinda fascinating.

What I find really interesting, though, are parallels to complaints I've heard from artsy friends about Lensa (which is trending on social media for being a stable diffusion (variant?) model used for generating portraits of a person in various styles).

Essentially, the problem is that the model was trained on a bunch of copyrighted art scraped off the internet.

Essentially, the same problem with github's copilot being trained on open source copy left code.
1. Do cool things.

2. Tell people about them.

3. Stay away from any glowing screen unless I'm doing 1 or 2.
I don't disagree with any of what you've said here but then that means the problem is the system itself.

If teenagers aren't responsible enough to run companies, the law shouldn't allow them to run companies. Make the minimum age of running a company 25.

I imagine a lot of YCombinator founders would disagree with this, but I also imagine those same people would agree that they're responsible for their actions.

I also imagine the Carmacks/Zuckerbergs/Jobs/Gates of the world would take umbrage with such a ban.

What shouldn't happen is allowing someone leniency after fraudulently running a health company that has caused harm to innocent people.
I think you two might be talking about different groups of people? I read your comment as "current employees of three letter agencies act as spies by embedding themselves into tech companies" while the comment you're replying to seems to be talking about "people who used to work for these places should be able to get jobs as civilians".
Please don't be fooled. If you look at the table in the article, you'll see that there are several categories of data that are not end-to-end encrypted, like Contants, and the reason for that is probably because US government and courts want to have them, even for non-US citizens. Otherwise why not encrypt them too?

It would be fair if Apple gave a warning about US governments and courts before enabling sync to iCloud, but I guess they don't want users to know about it.

Also this is a closed source system, so we can't know whether Apple can remotely extract encryption keys or not.

Also as I understand, Apple now demands a phone number to sign up for Apple ID, so it means that now all users and their contacts are non-anonymous for Apple.
No idea, honestly. But it sounds about right?
Absolutely.

But in most cases I think it is both: FAQ isn't updated/relevant && people don't check it.
I'm super curious on this too. I imagine at least a couple community managers and a PR person. So much of game dev is your community. Maybe a branding artist. Web dev for the website/java applet integration. It sounds like they were pretty well structured capital wise so definitely someone in payroll/accounting. But that's _still_ not 25.
Buy a first property at pre-pandemic level prices, without mortgage.
What this shows is that a lot of people don't use bookmarks but simply search for things every time. Google probably tries to nudge people in this direction because it is better for the ad business.
How do you grow your system, or do you suggest that you build your system as a bunch of microservices running inside containers?
> artists want to be treated as artists (with emotion rather than rationality).

That doesn't make any sense. When you treat people with "emotions" ... this is the issue. Emotions are unclear, confusing and are different for everyone. Treating people based on emotions and feelings just results in inequality and confusion for everyone. This the perfect example where if treated it as a rational and business transaction, he would have come out on top. It's his emotions, and the fact that he created some sort of friendship for which he accepted "less" money is his fault. If he treated the issue rationally and sent it to this agent, he would be far happier today.
Launch three things. Haven’t decided what yet, but I feel I need to put more stuff out there.
I mean Turing proved it was not decidable on his machine.
And how is this a solution?
ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think
Meta won’t let staff discuss topics like abortion, gun control, vaccines at work
https://archive.ph/mSBs3
I'm programming in Julia today and really enjoying it.

Julia is the language that spares me from reaching for Python. I appreciate that.

It doesn't replace all the other languages in my quiver but nor does it have to.

(If I compare Julia with Lisp or R/tidyverse/ggplot2 then frustrations emerge but "doctor doctor it hurts when I do this.")
E ink displays for the win
I'll be finishing a very boring, but well paying contract at the end of this year. After that, I'll be taking time off (potentially forever, since I'm already FI) to focus on things I care about:

1. Try out Zig and go back into hobby graphics programming/gamedev.

2. Decrease dopamine chasing, increase focus. I hope to achieve it via treating my work as my fun - i.e. if I'm bored, I should just get back to the IDE or do some research, instead of mindlessly jumping on HN or other news sites. If I'm too tired to focus, I should either go outside or just lay down and rest - instead of my usual routine of using Internet content as a source of pleasure.

3. Lose weight that has crept on me in the past couple years of working full-time.
What's objectionable about this specific example of contract law? If the law didn't require contracts to have some consideration they would have offered $0. No real difference.
Even phone is annoying, am I expect to wait 30 minutes to 2 hours to wait and talk with someone to resolve an issue, when it could be an email?
That last quote is damning. The game works well without an ending poem -- or an ending, for that matter.

I don't play Minecraft but my kids do, and I don't think they know Minecraft has an ending? I certainly didn't. I always thought Minecraft was this unlimited platform where you build things with no specific purpose, for the pleasure of building, like an infinite Lego set.

That said, the rant, while much too long is interesting and explains well the misunderstanding between business people and artists. Some artists are good at business (Picasso) but most aren't because they speak a different language, and because, like this guy, they cultivate and probably enjoy ambiguity, or the protection and shadows it brings.
> Imagine if all the developers expected to both be paid to write code and still own the rights to the code.

Developers are accustomed to giving up all artistic agency and authorship, and those who can’t bring themselves to do so give up on being developers. (I’m partly in the latter category.)
Thankfully, that isn’t (yet?) as ubiquitous among writers.
* Live Chat
* Cookie Banners
* Newsletter-Offers
* Java-Script moving things around

What do they have in common? No benefit for the user.

Remove the entire EU-Regulation upon Cookie-Banners. I would be thankful. A service is allowed implicitly to store Cookies or any other mean of "remembering" when a login is used interactively by the user. If the user doesn't login itself you aren't allowed to store any data about the users.

And if they want do something for the environment, battery-runtime, reliability and user experience. Require that any public founded website must work without Java-Script.
There's nowhere else that has ecosystems. Making Mars habitable is orders of magnitude harder than keeping Earth habitable.
Expressing curiosity regarding your third point: the time zones of Latin America are very friendly to USA work. How does the violence fare in more expat (pricier) locations?

I’m sorry for you that you and your friends(/family) have to deal with an unsafe environment. I’m curious what you mean by violence. I got into a database of potential consultants for a Latin American software company, and I’m open to input regarding the viability of this work life balance as a single male.
I'd like to point out two things I _don't_ like about Julia that seem to be idiosyncratic but nevertheless matter to me:

1. Rather than use something like reStructuredText or Texinfo they used Markdown, and then of course had to define a bunch of custom additional stuff to make it work for documentation, plus a custom program to publish the documentation to a limited number of formats. Unlike the two documentation languages I mentioned, the Juila "customized Markdown" isn't publishable to Info, so it can't be used in Emacs: rather, it's basically just a bunch of web pages.

2. Julia is completely dependent on LLVM. Even Rust (which was initially like that) now has a GCC-based implementation.
I'm not familiar with how this works, and I can't edit my comment now, but I learned something new today.

I'm also really trying not to believe that this will be mitigated in some other way. (Is it possible she could serve some of her sentence at home if a judge rules that way, for example? This is a genuine question btw).
I see this just as repetition of the 32 bit vs 64 bit operating systems. Why would anyone want to use 64 bit operating system? Instructions are longer, it requires more cache, RAM, disk space and so on, making performance worse. Nobody actually wants 64 bit systems. Endless problems with drivers, programs, etc.
Tangent to your tangent, I had Adam Curtis' voice in my head while reading this post.

"... and Julian Gough found himself there, at the corner of the 21st century, thinking he had made a friend while his emotions were crushed by limitless capital growth"

Curtis, whose coverage of the cultural revolution is a work of art.
I've moved my 3 domains from GMail for Domains (whatever it's called now) to Migadu about a year ago, no complains so far.

I also self-host Postfix, Dovecot and OpenDKIM on my VPS, but that's mostly for sending automated emails (notifications etc) from the subdomains.
> I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

You already sold it in 2011.
Same here! I played many hours of Digger.

See also the Muppets' interpretation, "Pöpcørn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
Same for me, it will always be "the digger song". It was one of the three games I initially had, pirated, like everything except for that mouse driver disc that I dared not touch because it had a printed label (how can you trust a disk without a hand-written label, so confusing!). I wonder if I'd love the Hot Butter version even remotely as much as I do if I had never played digger?

Surprisingly, despite having been a bit of a synth nerd for a few years I never consciously heard that Gershon King version. Hearing it for the first time now it was a bit disappointing compared to the Hot Butter, quite a few weak parts that I feel tempted to call beginner mistakes in terms of arrangement/mix. But then they were all beginners at the time, adds an interesting "relatable" angle to the whole thing. And then in the finale, the perhaps (or seemingly!) naive "maximalism" just works, totally blown away!
I agree that the money should be given back if possible, but this isn't limited to EA, SBF spent much more money on both US parties for example, and was basically just throwing dollars at anyone with influence, prestige or a visible platform.
a) I'm not the author so can't comment on what they really expect. But since they released the work under CC I'd suggest nothing, other than recognition, and based on the post after they finally realised their true reason for being hurt, I think it was also about being treated correctly and with respect.

b) INAL, but in the UK: "you automatically get copyright protection when you create: original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, including illustration and photography original non-literary written work... ". Assuming it's similar around the world there's nothing dubious about their claim, they didn't sign it away.

Regardless of your opinion of the person or their motives it seems they are within their rights to do what they've done.
I feel like the Bayonetta voice actress has really brought this kind of behaviour to light recently. People who have minor contributions to large franchises and then think that their part was way more influential than it was.
Have it output a small essay, then ask it to critique the essay, then fix it based on the critiques. Do that a few times and it'll be fairly improved.
Me too! Although I am playing with Sublime merge lately - it is pretty handy for creating branches off of specific commits, looking at diffs across branches etc.
* Improve at digital art, and make more handmade illustrations for my website. Transition from drawing representative objects to drawing people doing things.

* Further move my focus away from income generation, and closer to building a public good.

* Cook more, better Indian food
Or just pragmatic?
I'm not saying that all poems in video games or all endings to video games are as little impact as Minecraft's. Portal would be a great example of an ending that was a significantly greater part of the whole.

I'm specifically referring to Minecraft, where the poem is largely disconnected from the rest of the game and doesn't pertain to any narrative or story (Minecraft doesn't have a story, it's a sandbox game). It's a cool poem, but it isn't part of the important bits that made Minecraft the colossal success that it is.
> It certainly doesn't seem like the ending provided disproportionate value to Mojang compared to the work of their staff.

Notch’s choice to make it hard to skip/speed up the text scrolling suggests that he thought it had disproportionate value.
It is probably because Gallium3D was designed specifically to implement higher level APIs like OpenGL and D3D, so they made sure that there was an efficient mapping.

Vulkan is growing extensions specifically for that though, so in the medium term it might catch up.
1 earn an income with my passion project https://QuietNearMe.com

2 play more, more humor, more laughs

3 expand social circle, make new friends
This is total anec-data, but I remember a friend telling me about it while they were doing a study. They didn’t report it in the study, just a pattern they noticed while interviewing people:

Middle class men generally tell their male children to find a job that makes them happy and pays the bills.

Women aren’t given this advice but generally will do whatever it takes to pay the bills.

Anecdotally, I’ve asked a few dozen men, women how they would choose a job (just out of curiosity) and I’ve not seen this pattern, so take it with a grain of salt….

BUT, if it is true, it might explain things…
- Help my family (new job, education)

- Learn more about software architecture

- Publish on my website the solution to a fantastic 20th-century literary puzzle (https://glthr.com/cj)
Just some vague ideas for now:

* Start updating all my published ebooks (will probably take more than a year)

* Create apps for interactive exercises

* Contribute to FOSS a lot more than I've been doing so far

* Start trekking regularly again, perhaps get into cycling too
Why would you sign a peace treaty if it doesn't turn a threat into something else?
1. What's to guarantee that the checksums are of child pornography?

2. What's going on with the "fuzzy comparison"?
> Why would you think it's socially acceptable to be a flawed person?

It isn't, but it should be, because everyone is a flawed person. The fact that we have all have to act like we don't makes our current society so incredibly toxic. It causes everyone to pretend to be something they're really not, because otherwise they become ostracized from their community. This is incredibly polarizing and causes (in US politics) the right to pretend they're Christian, even though they show no actual Christian values and the left to pretend they care about the environment by eating less meat, while at the same time flying everywhere and throwing out clothes after wearing them 6 times.

If we all just accept that everyone has flaws and we can express them, then we can take them into account and deal with them. Then we don't have to pretend every single day that we are something we are not. Then we don't have to fake a smile when we have a bad day. Then we don't have to marry a person because it makes our parents happy. Then we don't have people who are afraid to come out as gay or trans or anything else.
Very weird take. The author talks several times that “there are no baddies”. At one point they literally say about the conversation with the CEO:

”The misunderstanding was all mine.”
That’s cool. What terms of the service you managed to negotiate and how does the cost compare to the saved time?
I always hear this "fast matrix operations" argument from Matlab users, but don't they both use BLAS? The difference can only be marginal
The top comment clarifies:

* The purchase was for an events space, not HQ.

* Why they want to run a particular kind of event.

* Why this building is a good fit for the events they want to run.

* It was funded by a grant from a donor who specifically wanted to support this project.

These are all not things that you would get from the tweet, and are useful in understanding why they made their decision.

That doesn't mean you have to agree that this project meets the high standards EA claims to set for itself, but having the context of what they're doing and why they think it's worth doing helps a lot in targeting critiques (and there are a lot of off-target critiques below from people are missing this context).

I wasn't involved in this project (though when I visited friends in Oxford this April the author of that comment showed me around the building) and it's not how I would personally donate, but I think it's a reasonable choice for a donor who (a) is already intending to invest some of their portfolio in real estate and (b) thinks that progress on improving the world is mostly limited by figuring out what to do and not by the amount of funding for proven things.