skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could you possibly read that into it? The only blame I see assigned in the text is self-blame.

Select snips:

> I just misunderstood what was going on.

> Now, Carl didn’t do anything wrong here. Carl is not the baddie either. He was a CEO, and major shareholder, behaving the way a CEO and major shareholder is supposed to behave. The misunderstanding was all mine.

> But that anger was of course misplaced. If I had trouble paying for my kid’s clothes and shoes, that was on me: my life, at that point, after all those years, was the direct result of all the decisions I had made over its course, and those decisions involved prioritising art and deprioritising money, again and again. (As Robert Louis Stevenson dryly put it, “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.")

> Again, I have to calm down and remind myself, and you, there are no bad guys in this story. Do not hassle Markus, or Carl (or even Microsoft) about this. I’m sure they didn’t even think of it as “tricking” me; that’s my perspective, not theirs.

> He was projecting his motivations onto me, in the same way I had been projecting my motivations onto him. Mutual misunderstanding.

> Most of the fault there is mine (I am a deeply flawed guy)

> But that anger was of course misplaced. If I had trouble paying for my kid’s clothes and shoes, that was on me: my life, at that point, after all those years, was the direct result of all the decisions I had made over its course, and those decisions involved prioritising art and deprioritising money, again and again. (As Robert Louis Stevenson dryly put it, “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.")
It is hilarious that he criticizes notch for being weird on twitter right before going on a bizzare telling of his mushroom fueled hallucinations. Like, let people be weird, if you're going to be so weird yourself.
"Do not dumb here, no dumb area"
That Cookie-Banners are so annoying is because companies want to anger customers against them. I have seen many websites that have easy cookie-banners or none at all as they only use functional cookies.

The legislation is fine, it literally is, if you want to track someone you must tell them.
It may be ridiculous, but I dislike it deeply and it's one of the reasons I don't want to switch.
What were those 25 staff doing though? It seemed like there was only actually 3 full time staff working on the game, or so the article mentions (Notch, Jeb, C418). I can't find any good sources about who was on the team at the time, but it seems like they were back office/customer support/community management/dev supporting roles?

Which is super interesting! The most successful game dev of all time was only 20% actual game devs. As if it's not about making the game but about everything else (comms, community engagement)
If this is the best the atlantic can write about GPT, we are truly doomed
This reminds me of schemes for isotope separation using tailored ultrashort laser pulses. Different isotopes respond slightly differently, and by arranging the pulses properly one isotope can be ionized at a much larger rate than another.
Better Rewards Yield Better Summaries (2019)
> People pick languages with many different motivations

thats definitely true, but my observation is that collective behaviors in the adoption of a communication channel have a network dynamic that can dominate rational factors. In previous eras people would learn German or French to get access to scientific/technical literature. At some point English simply became the de-facto language for sharing such knowledge irrespective of whether it might have been the most adapted for this. This does not mean that other languages go extinct, it just creates an allocation that does not seem to correspond to "objective" features.

> you can never fix the problem “additively” by extending the ecosystem instead of radically redesigning the language ground up.

thats an interesting view but there are important counterexamples :-). you can see, e.g., the rapid developments in the last few years in the C++ space. essentially what can happen in response to pressure (from other ecosystems) is the development of dialects and multi-paradigm languages (abandoning full backward compatibility and/or simplicity). similarly one would think that if python continues benefiting from lavish attention at some point there will be a python 4 etc. you might argue that this not really "fixing the problem" but in the context of delivering useful products here and now this becomes a bit academic
Neat idea! You should write it up.
1. Find a good contract and make some money before "software developer" stops being a thing.

2. Maybe finally, at 35, start studying for a BSc.

3. Get my programming language / desktop environment / editor project into a useful state.
Only one for now and it’s learn to draw
Not all that uncommon, especially in ifdef situations:

ifdef (something,something)
rule:
something specific recipe
else
rule:
common recipe
endif

It's also not just rules. Variable assignments are also separate from recipes, and can be indented with spaces.

ifdef (something)
CFLAGS=something
else
CFLAGS=otherthing
endif
Any way to change existing font in a pdf?
I've been searching in vain for a method that would allow me to change the font globally in a pdf that I've downloaded from the net.

I'm on android, and all I'm asking for is to change font x to font y in any pdf file globally.

Any ideas?
Well, this is a more literal interpretation of the metaphor than I intended, so allow me to clarify. I don't mean to police people's phrasing and the connection I was drawing was about unintended harm and not safety and danger. In my mind, adding your thoughts to a thread is completely different from editing someone else's comment. Telling someone they should've made a joke a certain way seems a bit much.

I tried reframing your question to, "how would you have made this joke, preserving the slight", but the joke isn't to my taste personally, which is only a problem if you ask me to rewrite it - I'm not expressing this as a criticism of the joke, I'm just the wrong person to ask, because when I try to imagine how I would've made the joke, the answer is I wouldn't because it isn't my sense of humor.

I don't really have a problem with the way events unfolded with joke being made & getting a footnote. That honestly seems fine to me, I don't think it requires tinkering.
Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...

An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh
You're assuming that commentators are welcoming a violent uprising because they think it would benefit them, but they're not.

I see a lot of people talking like they’re on the same side as labor while lamenting their equity only returned 50% and not 300% like last year.
Bun 0.3 will automatically install packages for you
Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Postman and Insomnia
In this release I have concentrated on user experience:

- Full support of shortcuts
- Reworked collections management
- Notifications
- Improved UX

gRPC clients I’ve worked with had drawbacks and didn’t fit my use-case in a way I was expecting, since I’ve started working with gRPC 3+ years ago.

Since then, I wanted a tool that fits any need in gRPC world. This is why I created ezy.

Compared to Insomnia and Postman, ezy offers better streams support, allows you to use Server-Side and Mutual TLS with custom TLS certificates, works with gRPC-Web and has a more slick UI/UX.

If you are looking for a gRPC/gRPC-Web client which fits your needs, give ezy a chance!

I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions regarding ezy.
i am actually not sure if amazon have live-human-chat behind the chatbot, as, in fairness, the chatbot usually sorts out our issue (often very quickly)

i presume they do, though, and i wouldn't be surprised if it's not so great!
- Get debt free (on track)

- Slowly transition in to a business I have been building through 2022

- Get around £1m in revenue (not unrealistic)

- Compete in the CrossFit open and place well
I'm not convinced that it would be agreed that the license was non-transferable as part of an aquisition.
I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector. Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. It could even be expanded to hide AI generated comments.
Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png
I used to really like Julia but over time have heavily moved to the view that my ideal general-purpose programming language would look a lot like Swift, perhaps with some bits of Julia, e.g. the REPL.

Julia doesn't have a good support for OOP. I don't think FP is the optimal way to solve all possible programming tasks. Usually a mix of both approaches leads to the most simple, maintainable and readable code.

And I'm really not sold on multiple dispatch. In Swift, I would simply implement the join function by adding an extension on `Array<String>`. And the + function would just be, for example, `static func + (left: Vector2D, right: Vector2D) -> Vector2D`. I've never come across a situation where I wished Swift would support multiple dispatch. On the other hand, the fact that Julia doesn't use the object.method() has 2 very clear drawbacks: lack of completion in an IDE and poor readability (example: `object.doSomething(a, b, c).doSomethingElse(a, b, c)` - imagine how would this look in Julia).
As long as there is a substantial financial transaction ($20k here) you're pretty much in a business relationship.

Julian wish he was above the rules of capitalism but he's not. If he was he would have no issues talking about money and dealing with contracts.
He would not be jealous that the late employees received money from the Microsoft deal.

But yeah, fortunately it was just an issue of blockage in the flow of love that could be solved with a few psilocybin mushrooms. His former family and his agent Charlie must be reassured now.
1. Resume seeing the world. I haven't taken a trip abroad since the tail end of 2019.

2. Cultivate a mutual and meaningful friendship with someone. A non-existent social circle and approaching my fourth decade doesn't make this any easier.
I could have sworn this meta level concept was discussed ages ago in one of those Klutz press science tween science books they’d sell at places like Natural Wonders in the 2000s.

(It’s still cool research just jogged my memory- iirc they had Mark Hamill telling you the benefits of closing the lid on the toilet before flushing.)
I will pay you $10 to give me $5.

I just increased my revenue by $10 but decreased my profitability by $5. Now pretend that $10 was spent on ineffective advertising and sales, so I actually gave it to Google and my sales guy Bob, and $5 is the price I charged you.
IANAL - but legally it probably hasn't been transferred if the Mojang company is still responsible for distribution.
> Nobody is the bad guy

> We just didn’t understand each other, because we were playing different language games.

The author collectively places the blame on poor communication from both sides. But the reality is that all of the poor communication was entirely from his side, and he knew in advance he struggled talking about money and had an agent for that very purpose.

There's also this whole weird subsection where he describes things the universe did to him as if he has no agency in his own actions and where he ended up in life.
That's a great article. Thanks, it captures the problem well. It seems in my most recently experienced case the decision to re-write has some validity. The client is taking software built externally in house, to unify with modern infrastructure and frameworks. The previous project is .NET Framework, which looks like it will be obsolete in the coming years (or at least hard to recruit for) and will not run on new infrastructure.
Yeah that filters out probably the 90% of trivial requests.
I’m a solopreneuer and I’ve been using it for everything from Upwork job ads to creating Bootstrap templates and React functions. It’s literally like an all-knowing assistant. I’ll happily pay good money for it.
That's a good one :D
related -
UK government has destroyed documents of thousands of immigrants who later became citizens, then it deported them for not having documents. This became known as windrush scandal.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-who-destro...
If flaws were fine things to be accepted, then they wouldn't be classified as flaws.

What is society if we just accept all problems as part of the person or else society will be toxic?

Also has there ever been a society where flaws are just accepted without any kind of judgement? I would suggest that in those societies they simply did not classify them as flaws.

> 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

We can and do accept that but again that doesn't fix the flaw or absolve the person of the responsibility of the flaw.

I personally think the toxicity of modern society actually arises from the fact that we don't feel comfortable openly judging people's flaws, rather than the opposite.
It puts every comment into that GPT output detector and colors and writes a short comment on the HN comment, like you see in the screenshot based on a threshold. >0.7 is probably AI, >0.9 is definitely AI. Lower than that is most likely human. Most comments still appear to be human.

It only becomes reliable after about 50 tokens (one token is around 4 characters) so I mark the comments that are too short with gray and make no assessment on those.

I've put it on https://github.com/chryzsh/GPTCommentDetector
Definitely not, one of the first things you learn when becoming a freelancer is that it's very important to specify in the contracts what the deliverables are exactly, specially regarding copyright, source files, photoshop file vs final product, etc.

The reason is because in most cases (this is ~1 decade old personal research/opinion) unless specified the client is paying for access and use to the final product you make, not necessarily for anything else. This is the sane thing though, but in business in many cases you might want to also receive the blueprints, source code, assets, copyright, etc. This might be "obvious" depending on the industry and case, but that means it's not obvious at all in a general sense.

For example here, the company (and that might be why Microsoft backed up) might be happy with just being able to use the work, even if they don't have an exclusive contract or are the copyright holders of that particular bit. I do agree that it seems Mojang had implicit permission at least to use it, but not exclusive/full copyright/etc.
The vast majority of workers in tech don't get equity, and certainly not at those scales, to be fair.

Most are labor, as properly defined. They may earn less, but it's the same business relationship.
I think the general public is more impacted by the problem. Especially with the "heresy" part, especially in public forums with lots of mildly interested but not-too-deep-into-it laypeople, like reddit, for example, outside maybe of heavily moderated places like /r/science or /r/AskHistorians.

There its more about reputation of a source than the actual facts, because few have the ability to evaluate the latter. Actually, if they spent even a little bit of time and thought they might actually be able to, it's just that almost nobody does. When the interest in "science" is to read publications for the general public, but never touch any of the by now quite numerous deeper equally easily available resources e.g. in the form of courses. For example, sooo many people interested in quantum physics articles - how many bother, even after years, to just go e.g. to edx (https://www.edx.org/learn/quantum-physics-mechanics -- or, archived, https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-for-everyone specifically) and just take a course?
If you don't want to deal with emotions then it's hard to hire artists, because it's what they do and what they are made of.
> You think lithium won't continue to be bought from Australia and Chile for use in Europe?

Globalization does -not- merely mean global trade. Globalization was the equivalent of centralized optimization applied to national economies. Far flung corners of the planet have been doing long distance trade for ages, long before globalization.

Physical movement of goods due to foreign trade is not the same thing as physical movement due to a distributed ("globalized") production chain.
I don't understand what the Julia language offers over for example OCaml, which has a solid type system yet also has a REPL as well as a scientific computing library:

https://ocaml.xyz/

https://ocaml.xyz/docs/
> petty little people on a power trip

Ah yes, I can connect to that, can't bear that Musk guy's antics any more, either
Good luck, it'll be a great experience!
I believe it’s any continuous function, and training has it’s own limitations.
We call ourselves the good guy squad. Everything we do is eventually good even if you don't see how it's good now. Any time we do something you think is bad like buying a $15 million mansion that who the heck knows what we're using it for now, it's due to someone making an honest mistake. You wouldn't criticize the good guy squad, because then you'd be part of the bad guy squad!
1. Start reading (Atleast 12 books in a year)
2. Start writing technical article (1 article a week)
3. Better work-life balance
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Not getting laid off. Keep saving money. Stay healthy.
Write down all the things I've learned about web dev over the last 25 years.

Not sure what I'll do on January 2nd yet.
As a human story, this is kind of tragic. I feel for the guy.

As a legal story, it’s fascinating, and I’d love to see it go to court, for no other reason than to

There’s some passages in there that could be understood as implied consent — them using the text after the author explicitly tells Carl that copyright assignment is off the table implies Mojang accepts that condition. The author’s failure to respond to the contract in a timely manner once it was sent probably also implies consent, but maybe not?

Then there’s the matter of jurisdiction, as you have a Swedish company dealing with an Irishman (probably irrelevant) living in Germany (definitely relevant). Probably a fair few more complications in there that I failed to notice.
Ask HN: How to collect quick user feedback for your product?
Why French employees don't care about stocks
How to integrate ZITADEL as SSO provider to a self-hosted Nextcloud service
That's one of the cool things about Julia. If it can prove the types of the arguments to a function, or at least reduce them to a small set. It can do the dispatch at compile time.

Well, Julia has better than semi decent support for generics, since every function is by definition a generic.
Between theses any one more suited for business (small/medium company)? Zoho?
Become a CTO.
I've had Minecraft since before the pre-alpha days. I think I had a pirated copy of Alpha late in 2010 and some time in 2011 or shortly thereafter I actually bought the game. I might have easily sunk 1000s of hours into this game.

I think I played the ending only once, in Creative Mode, to see what the fuss was about. I never cared for the ending, because to me Minecraft never had an ending. We had a Survival server in our university computer science lab and we mostly played on there, just hanging out and building cool stuff.

Reading TFA, I feel like the author is gaslighting me into feeling guilty because he did not manage to cash out big time like the rest? He amplifies his contribution making it sound like this big thing when it's not really a big thing. Other than the ending, I don't recall there being any other story in MC? What purpose does a poetic ending have if the journey up until that point has no real impact? The ending of Portal 1 is significantly more poetic in my eyes, and it's left a lasting impression on me that makes me sad when I realize that I can't share it with anyone else.

Going on and on about how much the game was sold for, how nice Notch's new house is, how Notch made so much money that he could just hand it out to his team, how the author thought they were all friends reads to me like someone who is very bitter and jealous. Writing more than 12k words to bring is point across does not help. Then claiming loudly that he's made peace with the universe and his lot after a magic mushroom trip in the middle of the forest just kind of puts the cherry on top for me. He comes across as an insufferable "artist" and maybe that's why he was pushed out/excluded like this.
Anger is an interesting term. They make it so huge that you want to get them out of the way and click "Accept"? I don't like the regulation for another reason. Cookie-Banners are a business model:

https://usercentrics.com/

Draws a dark shadow on the regulation. Smells like lobbying. They gather and store user data from other websites. The opposite of what should be done.
Neat project. For what it's worth I want to poke around at it to discover "what kind of places might you recommend near me" to find out if I'm interested but I don't want to sign up without any sense of its value so I just closed the page.
I doubt any lawyer would bring a suit against one of the biggest corporations on the planet on contingency. Its going to be a hell of a lot of work to win even a clear-cut case against an opponent with this much resources. See also: the cave-diver that sued Elon Musk for defamation. Or Miller UK vs Caterpillar Inc (they won, but it took 5 years)
Apple also has infinitely more eyes looking at it.

Nobody is going to get a huge PR boost by finding a major security flaw in Graphene OS. But if you find a remote zero day from iOS, you're going to be rich and/or famous instantly.
Never mind that on linux you can largely just run updates in the background and not notice them happening. The only real annoyance I run into with background updates is that it'll make firefox want to restart.

Still, much better than locking up your entire computer for a long ass time followed by a mandatory reboot.
I would remain skeptical about this claim. There are a lot of exploratory tests that can be done with a drop of blood and have a solid history behind, for more complicated tests we would fall again in a "Theranos magic" case.

I hope that the investors finally learn their lesson and accepted that if you want to produce good results you need to starting with good data. In science there is not sense in finding the minimum algorithm possible that vomits the desired results. Alive beings are complicated

So either the claim that somebody is building the nbext theranos machine or recycling theranos machines for doing what theranos couldn't... either is false, or is just old technology wrapped in glitter, or would send serious doubts in the confidence in the results. It depends on the details.
What happened with the Bayonetta voice actress?
Telling a story about your bizarre mushroom fuelled hallucinations is a cute kind of weird, tweeting in support of QAnon shit and other alt-right stuff is a not-cute kind of weird.