skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’ve just described every photo upload service in America, although my understanding was Apple would use a list of hashes of known bad content, not an “AI” as google does.

Everyone scans for CSAM. I am not conjecturing on the ethics of scanning photos here, I am suggesting that moving from server- to client-side scanning had no effect on any of the things you are ranting about. Hence why I do not understand the outrage.

> Working for me means not having software designed to report me to the police for how I use my device.

Let me fix it: “how I use iCloud Photos, a hosted service on Apple’s servers”.
You're asking if Redhat, the creator and main proponent of systemd, uses it in its distribution.

Use FreeBSD, Devuan or Alpine if you want production-grade Unixes without systemd.
a) Did the author really expect that he would be getting royalties to all the Minecraft end text teatowels and fridge magnets as part of the deal? Clearly, the success of these products is largely correlated with the success of the game rather than the importance of what he wrote.

b) If I had wanted to make merch with this text on it last week but had been deterred by fear of M$ lawyers, I wouldn't really feel any different about it after the author 'releasing the poem under CC'. His claim to own the rights in the first place is totally dubious. He seems erratic and will probably go on to perform other stunts and legalistic trolling before he gets bored.
> The US produces a large surplus.

Which helps keep the price of basic foods low in other parts of the world, such as Africa. Take that out and you've got huge famines over large parts of the world, huge famine-induced migrations and guaranteed big wars.

There's no way for a country like Egypt to feed its population of 100 million (I just checked that value yesterday on wikipedia, I still can't believe it) all by itself, that's why it needs cheap food imports to be available.

Yes, the Western subsidies for their own agricultural products directly kill most of African agriculture in the bud, but, even so, and I repeat, I don't think a country like Egypt would have been able to feed itself. Maybe a country like Congo could (population ~100 million), but the soils over there are not suitable for farming grains and then you'd have to cut down the equatorial forests to make way for said farming land. One could transform nearby Zimbabwe in the bread-basket of Africa again, but then all the environmental damages we now inflict on the US MidWest prairies and big rivers would similarly negatively affect the African savannah and rivers like the Zambezi.
> a contract could be implied by conduct of the parties

There are other cases, though, where the courts have declined to imply transfer of copyright or license - even with a written contract - when it hasn't been explicitly specified.

cf https://www.albright-ip.co.uk/2013/04/implied-assignments/ for one example

> The idea that just because there isn't a written contract that he magically retains the rights is magical thinking

IANAL, obvs., but I think the situation would be "the implied contract would imply a license to use the poem but not transfer of copyright" - the key point would be whether that license was "perpetual, exclusive" to Mojang. If not perpetual, he could revoke it at any time and Microsoft will then have a copyright problem for any copy sold after that point. If exclusive, the license may not have transferred to Microsoft in which case they have an extremely large problem given the number of copies sold since the buyout.
Does not change at all my uniformed perception that others would not bother formalizing that wide variation of nuanced differences.
yeah it is annoying especially if it opens up automatically which I think in most live chats like Intercom it is by default and there is no easy way to turn this off. But I guess it depends on what site it is exactly.

Interesting thing I noticed for dev tools is chats is useless because users start to paste huge amount of code or configuration into the chat which makes it super hard for both sides so basically just use discord or slack for dev support :)
The fact that t-shirts and mugs are available on RedBubble does not prove that anyone wants to buy them. The business model of RedBubble means that merch can be created speculatively for no cost to anyone until it's actually bought.
Usually, tickets are created when a project is launched as a way to assign tasks.
But what if the team would own the whole project, take care of their own task management, and only create tickets for tasks discovered along the way?
This is what Ryan Singer proposes as part of the Shape Up Method.

What do you think techies?
Unfortunately, Telegram is blocked by GFW. To do so, the police office has to demonstrate how to get around it in front of me, which is pretty unlikely :)
For comparatively better privacy and lower cost, here are a few services to consider (they offer custom domain support and IMAP access):

Mailbox.org

Runbox.com

Mailfence.com

Migadu.com

If price is not a big concern but privacy is, consider the following:

ProtonMail (supports IMAP on paid plans)

Tutanota (no IMAP support)
Octave is almost the perfect tool for numerical computing. Only problem is that loops are slow. Some millionaire out here should pay a "stallion" to write a good JIT octave interpreter and the world would be such a better place!
They also agreed to give him and his other work "exposure to the Minecraft community", which didn't end up happening and was explicitly reneged on.
> Landline is even worse. Do they rent burner landlines?

You can try with VoIP, usually works as well.

The point is, some people seem to assume that "no-SIM" means "anonymous", but to many others "no-SIM" means just "without a need for a mobile phone/number". So it's just a question of interpretation. There are many uses for "without a mobile number" that don't have the "anonymous" requirement.
Shout out to supermetrics.com who have great live chat, and almost always resolve my issue within 5mins

And relatedly amazon who actually have a useful chatbot (i don't have much positive to say about amazon these days but 1 click purchase and chatbot implementation is still very strong)
In the UK I think you're probably right, but it's not the clearest situation. You may argue that all of the communication up to the point where he agreed with their offer is part of the contract.

> However, in some circumstances, for example when copyright is not dealt with in the contract to commission the work, courts may be willing to find that there is an implied licence allowing the commissioner to use the work for the purpose for which it was commissioned. This does not necessarily result in a transfer of ownership. Instead, the commissioner of the work may only get a limited non-exclusive licence. This situation demonstrates the importance of establishing who owns copyright through a contract.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ownership-of-copyright-works
It's possible this is true, but then the author needs to stop acting like they are totally blameless and everything is just where the universe took him. All of the author's problems here are self-inflicted.
Why doesn't NFTs use something like IPFS so that if the centralized entity goes down, the NFT does not?

Is it because these decentralized file systems are no where near as performant as something like AWS S3 and can't be used to quickly load NFTs?
I also wanted to avoid Google calendar and ended up with this setup: I have a little linux server home with Nextcloud running on it, where caldav and carddav can be used. In order to sync the outlook calendar at work with the home server, I installed a sync tool to work PC: https://caldavsynchronizer.org/.

With this setup, I can sync my calendars and contacts between personal devices and work pc. With iphone, one can use cal and carddav out of the box. I remember using https://www.davx5.com/ on my android phone last year. I am not sure if it would still be necessary though.
The key advantage of Python is that it's good enough at many things and that there is a giant infrastructure of libraries and a huge community (and thus tutorials, howtos, stackoverflow answers etc.).

You mention Julia/C++/R for ML. My counterargument would be that things like fast.ai exist, use Python and make the whole topic approachable. I also find it a bit hard to belive many people that don't come from a stats/other academic field background would readily pick R over Python for anything ML related. I personally never thought JS was very beginner friendly because setup was traditionally clunky. That has thankfully changed a lot.

You mention many things that are better in theory but in practice I need to get work done now. I'd probably rather write quick scripts in Python (or bash) than Deno for example.

It's probably also easier to hire for Python than Ruby at least I'm not convinced Ruby has a giant edge. Huge, stable community is also exactly what Python has.

Python also has mindshare in many niches for example in security many things are quickly scripted in Python (notoriously Python 2 in some cases). Go and Ruby are also used for a lot of tooling there.

At the end of the day, if someone from a non-programming background asks me what language to learn, I still recommend Python (because usually they either want to pivot into ML somehow or want to get some quick scripting done to automate something or want to scrape some data). If I were to teach my child, I'd probably pick what I consider the most fun and completely ignore employability (Elixir) and if I were to build a CS program from sratch I'd have to think long and hard. I might end on Rust or Go but JS would be in the running (depends if there's a big focus on embedded/osdev etc.).

At the end of the day, "pick whatever language gets the job done" is still the best recommendation in my opinion :)
Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?
Mine are to move abroad for work, pivot from SWD to SRE/Devops and get travel europe by train.
Writing Is Magic
> But I don't think it's clear whether he has the rights to the work or not.

He owns the copyright, hasn't transferred the copyright, he clearly owns the rights in the work.

> I don't think there's any doubt that Mojang / Microsoft are entitled to use his work.

I think you're right that there's an implied license for them to use it but the scope of that license was never specified and I'd guess a clever lawyer could make reasonable hay from the case that it's now much broader than he wanted.
The tractor is still driving on a pre-programmed GPS route.

To avoid a semantics debate, I'll agree for a brief moment the AI is "driving" the tractor to avoid an object and get back on the pre-programmed route.
Padding is always positive. That means every packet will always have its size increased, but never decreased. With a mixture of packet sizes, and flows, it's still only typically ~30 or so packets to identify a flow with this padding. That means a typical user might have anonymity for perhaps 1 additional second using this option...

Basically - this option doesn't serve it's intended purpose.
The first picture literally translate to "Please use the bathroom cleanly", where the translator pulled the word "urinate" from is anyones guess.

In the second picture, I believe that if you hanged "ha" to "ga" in Japanese, the translation would be correct. "ha/ga" are notoriously difficult for learners of Japanese (so it is with great fear I point towards differences in their meaning), but I wonder what mix-up caused the weird translation, since I doubt the translator had trouble understanding the Japanese text ....
Home routers often greatly simplify the interface.

BT, one of the largest ISP's in the UK, only allow the configuration of destination IP and external/internal ports[0].

I've never expected my NAT to do anything other than map ports. I can see why the ability to map source IPs to different ports would be useful but relying on that as a security feature feels like a foot-gun. I wouldn't feel comfortable exposing an application that doesn't have some form of authentication and/or blacklisting.

[0] https://portforward.com/bt/home-hub-6/Port%20Forwarding.jpg
Just lie to me a little bit. I wouldn't mind seeing quick cached approximations that assume that I have changed the disk between reboots, or recently just move huge files around (and the OS would know anyway)
I mean, i think we agree here. One post explaining your position is what i think is owed - if you gave zero explanation but still expected people to believe you (e.g. just yelled "bullshit" and walked away), i think that would be an unreasonable position.
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Hubbard's headquarters during most of the 1960s.
So, the distinction being made is between people who work on the artistic product itself (music, programming, graphics, game design, and, yes, the text at the end) and the people who work on things like marketing, business management, customer support, developing the web page and payment solution, etc. And in this view, he is indeed part of the group of people who helped "create the actual game", unlike many of the other employees.

Now I don't think it's right to dismiss the work done by all the supporting staff who didn't work on the actual game but whose work was nevertheless vital for the game and business to succeed. But your comment isn't right either.
Diffusion Models for Protein Design
An even better example is the Australian guy who was Bitcoin-adjacent in the early days, and has now convinced himself, apparently, that he created Bitcoin. He has spent years making both resentful accusations and meaningless grandiose gestures (for example, that he was going to give billions from his secret wallet 0 to pay for STEM education in Africa).
Depending on your criteria for success, minus 40 years[0] to plus infinity[1].

[0] 3D printing

[1] the Star Trek ones would need to aggressively cool what they materialise because of the heat released as the bonds form, to an extent that some claim isn't possible, but that isn't my field and I can't comment
Costs nothing to them, meant everything to him, but still in principal earned him respect.

I don’t know what to call this phenomenon, but it happens a lot in life. Trust with low consequences? Asymmetric trust? Flake balance?

They’re not out of pocket but if he didn’t show up he would have tanked his reputation and climbing out of that hole EVEN if he never missed a day starting from Day 3 would have taken a lot of effort. Meanwhile the construction crew just picks up the next plucky teenager and makes a low stakes bet on whether or not they come through.
> If Microsoft replace the poem, I'm not sure anyone would notice

I would give it one, maybe two months before the backlash forced them into a retreat.
Malloy – An Experimental Language for Data
reminds me recently of voice actors who think they are entitled for a bigger piece of the piece just because the game they worked on for a few hours had financial success. Hubris and pretentiousness at its best.
He certainly seems to struggle with talking about money. Like he said: he should have let his agent handle it. But he didn't, because he saw this as something other than what it was: a friendship instead of contract work.

It was an awkward relationship because both sides had a completely different view of what the relationship was, and didn't really communicate that with each other. It's great that he was finally able to write this down. It sucks that he struggled, and Mojang could easily have just given him $1 million to sign the contact, but his inability to talk about this, to talk about money, is probably the main reason for this as well as possibly many of his other financial troubles.
Alignment, not control and other Startup Mantras
It’s very true - if we assume words are meaningless we can then assume anything.
You see, I might be a little biased here, but as we don't have the email in front of us I'm going to have to take a guess.

I'm fairly confident that was was meant by that was exposure in the form of his poem getting put into Minecraft, not exposure in the form of a shout-out or other promotion.

Unless the author releases the email we'll never know the context, but I've been a spectator to these types of negotiations enough that I strongly believe the context would support my interpretation.
I'm fortunate enough to know a librarian that also knows me well.

If he says to me "I think you should read it" I pretty much know that I'm up for a really enjoyable read. His recommendation are spot on.
Fractal North – PC case with nordic design
In France, an ONG collect funds to run exit nodes: https://nos-oignons.net/
ChatGPT knows how to write but doesn't know how to edit.

Writing is an iterative process where the ability to detect and delete the weakest parts is crucial.
I read almost the whole thing but stopped before the End Poem, because I still haven't defeated the Ender Dragon. I admit I'm not really trying, but might still do so at some point.
One of my colleagues was using it for ~3 years now and is considering switching, as their anti spam is less and less useful. Some days he wakes up to 30-40 spam/scam emails not being blocked, while he also did miss important mails being filtered as spam. (There is no spam folder on posteo, they just don't deliver spam emails to your inbox. Keep that in mind).

When he tried to forward these mails to the email address they provide for reporting spam, he got an automated mail delivery system email, that he was blocked from sending mails to that address...
> I was one of the five people who had helped create this strangest of games
IANAL but AFAIK this is the case also in Sweden. (Researched it when I (otherwise an amateur) was asked to do paid photography for someone.)

In fact, though now my memory is hazy and so I speculate more wildly, not even most kinds of employment grants copyright to the employer. Exceptions being software developers and teachers, I think.
> It certainly doesn't seem like the ending provided disproportionate value to Mojang compared to the work of their staff.

I'm usually on the writer's side in these kinds of things, but I have to agree. I've played dozens of hours of that game and have never even considered that it might have an end
"It may be that in a more realistic situation, monkeys that were ripped off could just leave and find other social partners, but only further research would tell."
Angry stranded passengers block access towards terminal B of Brussels Airport
Great article. My wife and I are 29 year old parents (young by today's standards). She is part of some mother + baby groups and the stories she comes back with...my goodness. So many mothers and parents complain of problems that are OBVIOUSLY their own doing.

Other mother: Oh I'm tired we were up all night with our two year old who kept standing up in their cot.

Her: Yeah ours used to do that but we just let them cry until they settled down again.

Them: I've read that causes long term anxiety so we bring them into our own bed or just give them our phone for an hour.

Me: The Bible is right - people do choose to live in hell.

The article hits it on the head - your kids are NOT your friends.
Indeed it was, because I still got everything sorted in around the same time than I'd be on hold if I were to phone for example my broadband provider.
You should hang out with me glaciologists.
No Hello: A New Wave
Can children be told stories that are better than what Amazon does? Most likely. Can children be told things that are worse than what Amazon does? Absolutely.

Should we replace all parent-child-interaction with the child talking to Alexa? Probably not. Should we replace some parents with Alexa? Absolutely.
My first encounter with Popcorn was via the computer game named Digger. This game plays a variant of the Popcorn instrumental as the background music. Here is an audio/video capture of the game: https://susam.net/files/blog/dosbox-digger.mp4

The original PC booter version of the game can be played here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983

There used to be a website dedicated to this instrumental. That website is now gone but there is an archived copy of the website available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20001202102000/http://www.popcor...

And here is a direct link to an MP3 on that archived website: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcor...
>The first picture literally translate to "Please use the bathroom cleanly", where the translator pulled the word "urinate" from is anyones guess.

I like to imagine some burned out English teacher taking on these jobs for a laugh.
> Maybe don't write the poem on drugs...

Curious where you got that impression? I can't see anything in the bit where he's writing the poem that he mentions anything even vaguely pertaining to drugs.
I was being a bit sarcastic but I think longer, removable battery rather than thin + using a charging case could have an appeal.

(Same for an sd slot.)

Especially paired with a form factor like the 6s for those who don’t want a phablet.
Could gravitational forces between particles in a beam tighten a beam as it travels?
Sure, it's possible that's true, but I don't see how that reflects poorly on anyone but himself. He asked for their offer, Mojang offered $20k, and he took the money.

We can write justifications for why he did this, but that he seems to believe he was entitled to more money than the offer he accepted is entirely a problem of his own creation.

Expecting Mojang to deal with his communication and mental health issues is absurd.
Wouldn't it make sense for Alma & Rocky to now combine their efforts?
> Linux developers have created dependencies on Linux.

Sorry, ignoring the rest of the thread: this statement isn't true even marginally. There are linux distributions that can operate on other kernels than Linux. Debian was my favourite choice for this with their HURD (https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) and kFreeBSD (https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) implementation.

The GNU userland itself does not depend on Linux either.

You can run GNU utilities on MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
Live chat windows that pop-up automatically and hassle you once you've spent X seconds looking at a website are annoying, much like email subscription modals. But when I've been actually looking for support and made the choice to click on the chat button, I've generally had a great experience, so long as it's connected me to a human rather than a menu of chatbot options. It's asynchronous enough that I can keep doing something else while I wait/chat, saves me from having to spell things out or repeat alphanumeric codes over the phone, and is way quicker than email.
> This meant that we needed to respond immediately, which was a downside.

Isn’t the whole point of having chat on your site?
> All of his problems could have been solved if he just did the sensible normal thing any person would do and have a lawyer help him figure it out.

Did you mean:

All of his problems could have been solved if he just did the sensible normal thing any person would do and flat out assume all the other humans on the planet are complete assholes.
He is, undoubtedly, one of the people who worked on a part of the game, yes. That counts as "helping create the game". And claiming to have "helped create the game" is not the same as claiming to be "the creator" of the game.
Intel doesn't ship "native" DX9 drivers for Arc. It's either Microsofts D3D9On12 or DXVK.
> The claim is that IPv4 + NAT + bad firewall is better than IPv6 + bad firewall.

Even that is not true:

- It takes half-minute to scan an IPv4 public IP (NAT) for vulnerabilities.

- Good luck and have fun to scan a /64 for a potentially vulnerable machine. See you next century.

- And if it is not enough: most internet box support UPnP/NAT-PMP that allow any malware to get your NAT wild opened.