skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not taking any side here but I don't think your comparison holds.

Portal is as much a story-driven game as it is about the mechanics. I know very few people who played Portal after they finished it, except maybe replaying it.

Contrast to Minecraft, where at least my peer group (adults already as of 2011), just spent hours, days, months building stuff on a map, completely ignoring the "story". I actually heard about this poem for the first time when I read this piece.

I've never finished Minecraft, but I guess I spent a few hundred hours building stuff and in my opinion, "played" it more than other games. But that doesn't mean I'm in any way stating an opinion about compensation or who did something wrong or how important anything is.
The job title is Junior Software Engineer. It's a joke but also true - the effectiveness of a software engineer and many other types of worker hangs on their ability to google effectively, and it makes its way unacknowledged into their pay I'm sure.
> His claim to own the rights in the first place is totally dubious.

Whether you care for him as a human or not is entirely irrelevant to the rights to his work.

If there was no legal agreement, he retains the rights to it.

It’s not ambiguous.
You can reject it all you like, it'll still be there
Cost me god knows how much money...

This might have made some IaaS firms happy?
> It's more about shareable media... if you hang up an obscene image in your window of your apartment

Again, the parents Google is reporting to the police are not trying to share photos with anyone except their own doctor.

This isn't scanning information because you made it publicly available. This is scanning information on your device because it was automatically backed up by Android.
I've played both and it's apples to oranges, dry rotten oranges. In portal the story slowly builds up into the grand finale and the ending is indeed emotional knot to tie up the story with a bow.

In minecraft you have a a long preparing to do before frustrating boss fight followed by some scrolling text you likely won't be bothered to read and skip thinking "Well, that was a waste of time." (Not by a fault of the poem but by a fault of game design.) Minecraft is a great sandbox and world exploration game. I see why they wanted to add an "ending" (to make it clear it's out of beta, (releasing on time)) but the ending doesn't make much sense game-wise.
This is what does it for me. This was entirely of his own doing. He didn't want to negotiate, didn't want to get his agent involved for either no reason or a reason that he's not explaining, he managed to annoy the CEO of a three person company so much over email that Mojang's Carl lost his patience and told him to either take the deal or go away.

You're trying to ship a game. This writer keeps hitting your inbox with prose that I assume that is about as annoying to read as the original article. He's wasting your time and not getting to the point. You don't know what the guy's deal is and you stopped trying to figure out two emails ago. Compared to all the other things that you need to be doing to actually ship the game, this is incredibly minor and taking up your time daily. You finally tell him, "look, it's 20k or we go look elsewhere".

From that story, the only thing Mojang did wrong is that they didn't send him the contract straight away. We all know he would have signed whatever was on it back then, as he clearly didn't know what he wanted. Looks like someone regretted behaving completely irrationally when closing a deal, then regretted it some more than he never attempted to get more compensation even after the fact (he could have easily gotten something a couple of years later if he had tried, and once more the article completely omits as to why he didn't try to reach out through his agent or anyone that can behave as an adult after the launch) and is now screaming at the universe that he's not being showered with riches and glory when all of this was his own doing, even after he had multiple opportunities to come out winning.
> don't destroy your own industry and middle class".

> Really not that complicated.

whenever somebody makes that claim they usually ignore all the nuances that make it complicated.

The reality is that especially the US( and to a lesser degree the rest of the developed world as well) has had a disproportionate high quality of life for decades precisely because of doing this.

It was the best thing for the generation that made this decision, even if it's terrible for the people today.

And we continue to make decisions like that. it will be even more obvious just how careless we are today once the limited resources are depleted. Thankfully that's going to be an issue for a future generation, not mine.. but reading statements such as that kinda ticks me off a little
I've had tinnitus since such a young age (probably genetic), that I don't remember myself without it. Mine usually doesn't bother me, I guess I'm just used to it (and also that it's not as bad.

Like other people here mentioned, I found that the best way to deal with it, when it does bother me, is to have another background sound that stops you from focusing on it.

I'd recommend trying to "listen" to Sleep, an 8.5 hour album by Max Richter written to be played while you sleep, although I also sometimes play it in the background during the day since it helps me switch off and focus on what I'm working on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(album)
>Russian Forces have been hours from collapse ... for the last six months. Any day now.

That's a strawman, nobody has said Russian Forces are on the brink of collapse, at most its been said that if russia continues the way it does, they won't be able to win the attrition war which will make the army collapse.

>Eventually Ukraine will run out of Western goodwill and local manpower. If you are victorious until the last man and the last bullet, you still lose.

The west will fold, while having had 20 years of investment in a failed state like Afghanistan?
Types of posts for corporate engineering blogs
It sounds like very theoretical scenerio.

If somebody wants to murder somebody for his organs

Why he cannot uh... do it just fine regardless of his opt status and literally take his organs without going thru "official" way?

Im asking because opt in by default seems to save way, way more people than your very theoretocal, probably not happening scenerio would affect
That would create perverse incentives.

After a car crash, hospitals could opt for neglecting strangers for the much bigger emotional reward of saving transplant receptors that they have meet for months or years, and are much more emotionally involved with. The reward of a guaranteed transplant is not what overworked physicians should have in mind when should be focused into saving our lives. People would opt-out in mass to avoid that danger. Is as stupid as the "non-resuscitate" badge.

If is forced, it also destroys the image of "each donor is a hero", that can be a small drop of comfort for his family. Even worse, it opens a door to turning young people in minorities with a compatible body into a target. It is strictly forbidden to monetize it in many countries for solid reasons.
Having Fun with SAP CAP and ChatGPT
I have various objections to GPT and am annoyed about the various misunderstandings people have about it but this in particular is not a very good objection.

A lot of what people do in everything spanning from a paper pushing office job to art is regurgitation.
Or stop worrying about it unless you are shedding pathogens, in which case I suspect it's not really enough to achieve the objective of stopping cross contamination.
So you think a less free trade will reduce copyright length? I imagine in a protectionist and nationalist world the small, poor country will always get the short stick of the bargain. That or invasion.
hello fellow Ukrainian. we will get through this.
Ask HN: Resources on Being a Single Dad?
I'm getting a divorce and will share custody (50/50) of our 4 year old daughter.

Can you recommend any books, blogs, podcasts or other resources on being a divorced dad?
Another item may be simple sun exposure. Manual workers in any tropical country are much darker-skinned compared to white collar workers. Basically anywhere in subtropics its considered posh to look as white as possible, see massive business ie in India with skin whitening. You won't see many self-tanning creams in shops there but tons of whitening ones.
- read more books (hoping for ~50)

- study a lot more

- complete CS50x

- get my life in order
Worn over-ear headphones alot? May want to get "ear lavage" from a doctor, they blow buildup of earwax out of your ears with a gentle stream of water. Cleared this right up for me, especially when putting pressure on either cheek, as when laying down.
There is growing evidence that EMDR works. If you can't find any articles yourself and read the literature well then it is your loss.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0218...
By that logic, am I driving the car while following the route plotted and dictated to me by Google Maps? What if it's all over two-lane freeways, so all I have to do is stay on track, not crash into the vehicle in front of me, and follow Google's instructions? And what if I then turn on adaptive cruise control? Am I still driving the car?
I seriously have no clue whether you guys are being sarcastic, do you actually not close the lid before flushing? Also, public toilets with lids is the majority of cases in Sweden. And peeing on a metal sheet also releases particles, so who cares about the urinal.
The Egyptians in the article are closer in time to us, than they were to the building of the Great Pyramid.
I have had fairly severe tinnitus since I played in bands some 25 years ago without hearing protection. Some days are worse than others, but generally the less I focus on it the less I notice it. For you I hope that it'll unexpectedly go away some day like it arrived.
StarCraft II 5.0.11 PTR Patch Notes
How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control
> It seems (from what I gather) the venue was a decision from CEA, not the donor (he cites his reasoning behind the choice).

This is minor, but my read from the post is that the project was a decision from an EA (Owen) who lined up funding (the donor) and a host organization (CEA, since renamed to EAV).

> that's really expensive for a venue

Is it? This is a building with room to host 30-50 people, meeting space, and (I think) a commercial kitchen. Very roughly, it costs 10 times as much as my house for 10 times the space.

> if they had so much money, why not funnel it back to great causes that could really use the money?

As I wrote above, I think it's probably because they think that the most important work is not bottlenecked on funding but on figuring out what to do. I think bednet distribution is great (and just made my annual donation via GiveWell) but there isn't a clear consensus on how best to improve the world. I do think the donor would bite your bullet and say that they thought that the benefit to humans, over time, of the workshops this space will facilitate is larger than the benefit to humans today of using that money to prevent additional deaths from disease.

> My main concern would be the lack of transparency -- why wasn't this decision made publicly and transparently, why didn't they consult for example the effectivealtruism.org forums, or donors?

I would love it if they had publicly written up their plans at the stage of "we're thinking about buying a building to host residential workshops, here's about what we think it would cost, here's why we think it's worth doing", and I would strongly encourage others to do that. I also think that if you are soliciting donations from the public at large you should be clear about what you intend to spend the money on and why you think it's plausibly one of the most valuable things to do with that money. At the same time, I think a norm where effective altruists should prioritize transparency so highly that a group of them can't spend their own money without making the case publicly would go too far. For example, I know some people who hosted a workshop (elsewhere!) on figuring out what sort of safety studies would be valuable for evaluating UVC light as a disease transmission reducer. I don't believe they wrote anything up publicly justifying the cost of the workshop, instead the cost was between them and their funder, and that's ok! Public communication is a lot of work, and it trades off with other things you could be doing instead.
I think it's some kind of food that might be risky for weaker people, e.g. children and old people.
Most of that 47 came along after the game was created as discussed in this quote:

> I was one of the five people who had helped create this strangest of games. (Markus, and later Jens “Jeb” Bergensten, coded the original launch version; Daniel Rosenfeld, known as C418, wrote the music; the Swiss artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand did the in-game paintings ; I wrote the narrative ending. That’s it. That’s the team.)

You may not value his input compared to the coding, music and artwork, but he's part of a small select group that actually produced the original content.

The later team also contributed to later releases of the game I'm sure, as well as customer service, working in the canteen etc., but he's not making an unreasonable point about his contribution.
It's very, very surprising to me that that person has found a way to say that "everyone loses" with machine translation.

If they wanted to look at a foreign website 30 years ago, what did they do? Call up a human translator and get them to translate? No, we just didn't read foreign language websites.

For me, this is on par with arguing that English to foreign language dictionaries are bad, it's just ridiculous.

Sorry if this comes across as too aggressive, I just come across this backlash against technology and labour-saving devices somewhat often, and it really confuses me.
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Director of FP&A
Hi! Great, feel free to return back with any feedback!

> Does the TLS/mTLS settings allow you to override the host name of the server, so that I can connect to localhost even though the cert CN is example.com?

Yes, in TLS settings you can override SSL target name for this cases.

> Is it able to import protobuf files to define endpoints automatically, and to fill in generated data for the types?

When you importing the protobuf files ezy parse them and generate to you collection of all existing services and methods. I have plans to add auto-mocking feature, which will generate prefilled values for the request payload, stay tuned!
How exactly do these to OS, do things the "correct way"?
Tsk; when doing translations make sure to cover all your base.
I’m sorry but how is cogents shitty business model somehow the fault of ipv6? Peering disputes happen on ipv4 as well
Could we simply block it with an adblocker?
This type of shit is why I am always refusing to get a clearance. I wouldn’t be able to strut around proudly about how I’m destroying the country like this guy.
I am glad you feel the need to think for me.
How does a URL shortener work?
At a high level, the URL shortener executes the following operations:

1. the server generates a unique short URL for each long URL
2. the server encodes the short URL for readability
3. the server persists the short URL in the data store
4. the server redirects the client to the original long URL against the short URL
All the CRDTs I'm looking at here are doing the work in memory only. Adding a good persistence layer is a big missing piece here.

But some people are working on adding CRDTs to sqlite: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

It'd be really fun to see if this approach can be adapted to sqlite's b-tree. But it might not work as-is. The b-tree implementation I have is quite a bit different from most b-trees because I'm storing offsets rather than "keys", and because I'm storing compacted runs of items rather than individual rows.

I went into a lot more detail about what it might look like here: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite/issues/65#issuecomment-...
Makes fully sense indeed. Ironically enough, what is built nowadays around me is exactly the other way around: personal space buildings look at least half-way passable, and public/office buildings are all those gray square turds, with some glass. But yes this is Switzerland, birthplace of Le Corbusier...
> he'd have missed out on his subsequent personal growth

Maybe. Maybe not. People say these kind of things, but it is often a retcon aimed to help them deal with some emotion.

Maybe he would have asked his agent to agree on a deal. The agent would have got him a tiny percentage and he would have spent the money to bring something wonderfull to the world. During which process he would have attained even more personal growth.

Totally made up story, but so is the hint that if he would have had a contract he would have missed out on personal growth.
Wait, you can win Minecraft?!
> regurgitate existing works

The other night it regurgitated a humorous four-stanza poem for my D&D group, incorporating (and even rhyming) several of the player character names. Given that the names were made-up and unique, and have zero hits on google, which existing works would you say ChatGPT was regurgitating from?
My article on using Go and SQLite in the cloud (https://www.golang.dk/articles/go-and-sqlite-in-the-cloud) generated some great discussions yesterday, so I thought I'd post the followup article as well, for distributed SQLite in the cloud.

I hope you learn something! :) Or that I learn something. Or both.

Markus
N and ñ are entirely distinct letters with different sounds - that’s not a translation problem but a typo. As long as you’re talking about Spanish, it’s the same as confusing cajones and cagones.
I think it's fair to say that Carl, and Mojang in general, didn't understand him either. So the understanding was definitely mutual, even if the reason for that was almost entirely Julian's inability and unwillingness to talk about contracts and money, but also not wanting to hand that over to his agent.

But at the same time it's pretty clear he was jealous of all the money he didn't want to talk about, and that he saw himself as a partner rather than a contractor.
I remember a physicist saying that those folks do show up in classes and start the class talking about how excited they are to learn about QM, and they disappear after a few weeks and drop the course.
> i recently saw iPad that a friend bought and the app store, safari, apps are ad ridden shitfest like in pre-ublock days.

This sounds ridiculous.

The App Store complaint I can understand, you have the "Today" tab which is effectively advertisement.
And the search is terrible, starting with one (clearly labeled) ad at the top and then "Collections" every few results.

But the rest…

> i mean, internet surfing without ublock already feels like having unprotected sex and with everything else you can use adblocker but in apple, you are stuck.... yeah unless you use private DNS from some provider, they might help but not otherwise

I'm happy to inform you that one can in fact install ad blockers in Safari just fine [1] as well as set up system wide filters with locally running DNS.

Basically, if I dare make the comparison, like on Android (although you have more choice there).

One such example is Firefox Focus [2] which works quite well in my experience (note that it can integrate into Safari as a "Content Blocker"), but there are also payed options like AdGuard [3] (the "Pro" version is a one time purchase).

So I don't think it's Apple's fault that your friend didn't do that.
Unless one is of the opinion that they should be shipping one by default.

And regarding apps, there tends to always be the option of not using an app or getting/buying one without ads.
Again I don't think Apple is to blame for user choice as long as the ads aren't problematic themselves.
For example none of the apps I use have ads in them, but I also payed for quite a few.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/focus-firefox/Foc...

[3]: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios-pro/overview.html
There are many examples of Google's automated systems making egregious mistakes while scanning user data with no human in the loop to review the decision.

>Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.

Francis says the file in question was simply a collection of data on various tanks for a coming video on how military vehicles have evolved across historical conflicts. But Google’s automated systems deemed the file a terrorist threat, resulting in a complete lockdown of his YouTube, GMail, and Google Drive accounts.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8yj7/google-locks-historia...

Having a shitty algorithm kill your whole Google account with no way to reach a human to fix the problem is one thing.

Having a shitty algorithm report you to the police for taking pictures of your child's first bath is a bridge too far.
I use Windows instead of macOS precisely because I can run all of my software since they don't deprecate stuff that old applications use.
They can approximate any continuous map between finite dimensional vector spaces. Complex numbers are a finite dimensional vector space.
Thanks for this resource! I remember back before the "Summer of Snowden" enrolling in a PhD because if you were pro privacy (and thus anti invasive ad tracking ala GOOG, FB et al), there were very few roles.

(Even today, many a "privacy" role seems to be "help my bitcoin company avoid the Treasury Department)

Good luck with your project.
Find a new job. The market has been terrible for managerial level positions (VP Product etc).
There are cases where you might want to use Linux (for the hardware support, or for the userland) but without systemd: e.g. if you want to use musl libc, Lennard has said clearly he won't fix the incompatibility https://www.mail-archive.com/systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop... "we will rely on good APIs exposed in the generally accepted Linux API which is the one glibc exposes" (i.e. he won't integrate any required patch to make systemd work without glibc's nonstandard behaviors, and musl doesn't aim for a bug-for-bug compatibility with glibc).
This does seem to happen. The opposite may also be a problem. I know several families with concerned and involved parents who are constantly diving in and helping out with things, coming up with new activities, and planning schedules. Their kids have some input, but are never really left on their own to choose what to do or to finish what they decided on.

Now their children are getting older and have serious problems with executive function. Their attentions constantly wander. They don't know what to do and they never finish anything on their own. This is sometimes diagnosed as ADHD and results in medications, but based on my observations it is primarily a state acquired through conditioning. Helpful parents can be helpful, but too much of that leads to helpless children who eventually run in to problems trying to function without the helpful parents present.
> ...but all it does is regurgitate existing works.

Not so. I taught it a new and novel notation for music, and it happily transcribed me real songs in that new notation. There is no existing work to base it off of.
Chill there, Ayn Rand.
I'm sure they have been blocked, many times. Some online services simply fetch the tor exit node IP lists from the tor project and block them all pre-emptively.

The thing is that I rotate my tor nodes every other month, manually. No pipeline setup for this yet. So I destroy old VPS and create new ones with the same signing key and family in the node info.

I suspect you're talking about running an exit node at home, or on an IP-address that matters. That's a stupid thing to do.