skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not unusual for those passionate about their work and with limited business experience to just want to get on with doing what they're good at and not get bogged down in the contractual stuff.

I've had acquaintances who've wanted to do work for me try to skip that. Best thing you can do for them is be diligent (in a sense on their behalf) and make them go through the paperwork before commencing the project (certainly before getting too deep in).

There's a reason those conversations can be tough, as they surface details the parties diverge on. Dealing with them early keeps them from festering. Some people experience a great deal of anxiety when it comes to negotiation, and I often find everyone feels better once that stage is behind us and we've achieved a mutual understanding of the expectations, remuneration, etc.

I think part of the beef here was he felt he never agreed to what ensued (indeed in negotiations he was shy to express what he felt was fair - which must have drove Carl nuts). If they'd arrived at and signed a contract, even if in retrospect it turned out to be the steal of the century for the company and a huge ripoff for him, at least he'd have been able to say "well, I agreed to it" and gotten some closure from that.

All that said, I can't help but cheer the underdog here. The company was presumably more experienced and shared a responsibility to get their i's dotted and T's crossed. Yes, the guy was a pain in the ass. But just because a contract is so-called "standard" doesn't mean you should expect the other party is blindly willing to consent to it, or be angry at them for rejecting terms they find onerous.

I see that happening all too often today with heavy-handed ToS's websites are foisting on users who can't be bothered to read them. The lawyers are all copying verbiage off each other and it's a race to the bottom where one side has all the rights, the other has none whatsoever, and then regulators need to step in as referees thus deteriorating free markets.

If the IP really does remain his (which I'm not convinced is cut and dry), then good for him for standing his ground, fending his principles and gifting this beautiful work of art to the world.
Or it's a person who burned with envy, is introspective enough to recall that feeling and write from that perspective in order for his readers to learn from his own shortcomings.
> Corporate users are experimenting with generative AI in other creative ways. Mr Sanchez of John Deere says his firm is looking into AI-generated “synthetic” data, which would help train other AI models...

I see danger (but ok - they should know what they are doing).

> ...Since last month Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, has been able to invent stories to tell children

Double down n-times, facepalm.

Edit: express yourself in words, sniper. What is it, the too laconic remark on "invent[ing] stories to tell children"? Does one need to make it explicit that: children are sponge-like learners; children are delicate; children should be fed properly; stories are not innocuous time-wasters; a "story" is supposed to be an intelligent system of archetypes, lessons, projections, stimula for processing etc.: you do not leave that to an unintelligent entity!!!
Isn’t it one key feature of Whisper to transcribe in English?
This has also been posted to the Minecraft subreddit, where is has received a lot of positive attention from the community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/zf8ye0/i_wrote_t...
Nothing is as addictive as 'short-term' growth strategies and staying in power.
No answers though. "The Truth Is Out There" (X-Files theme music in the background)
Also you need to identify the monitor somehow for kernel to do what you propose. If your monitor setup is not static, say, you connect monitors in different order or through different ports each time, you won't be able to tell which edid should go for which monitor. (Unless you're willing to script some heuristics to guess that.)
I have a very basic question regarding SQLite. How does it work in different languages? Is the SQLite server code completely implemented in Go when we use go and completely implemented in php when we use php? Because there is no actual server and it is just a file, I'm wondering who does the ACID compliancy and query executions and all the other things needed for a db server and how it is done.
Live chat upped the conversion % like nothing ever did. It's massively useful, no matter how good your site is.
> I personally use amazon customer support chat myself very often.

For what?
≥ The site also lets you hire expert “prompt engineers”, some of whom charge a $50-200 per prompt. “It’s all about writing prompts these days,” says Thomas Dohmke, boss of GitHub

Someone please tell me this is hyperbole.
Also the guy was living in Germany at the time so German laws apply which are different in regards to copyright.
Rule #7: When people say it is "not about the money", than it is 100% about the money.

And a CEO is 100% liable for employee misconduct while on the job. =)
Really? The listing says it includes 25 acres of land. (~ 15 soccer fields or 400 tennis courts)
This is the part I'm thinking of

> Early next year, Markus earned a three-million-dollar dividend on his shares in Mojang. But, as the actual value of his company, which he mostly owned, had gone up by many tens of millions, he figured he didn’t really need another three million on top. So he divided it between the twenty-five staff at Mojang, as a late Christmas bonus. That’s $120,000 each. Five or six times what I got for writing the actual ending.

(Since the author seems to have spent about a month or so working on the game, you could reason that his compensation is about on par with the employees who worked for a full year. But he doesn't seem to see it that way, or he thinks he should be compensated better than them? I don't know.)
> I didn't say he was greedy

Yes, sorry, that was in other posts and it got blurred. I did not want to put words into your mouth.

> He doesn't want to do the legwork of determining the terms, instead he expects that someone else does

He explains why he did not involve his agent, and also that he does not expect anyone to do it. Otherwise he’d have plenty of opportunities to do it. He sounds entitled in that he has weird ideas about love and friendship but he just sounds like someone hurt that the world does not work as they thought.
https://i.imgur.com/FpZ167W.png
An empirical study of Namecoin and lessons for decentralized namespace design [pdf]
I never run anything that can't be flashed with OpenWrt!
I think for now, it behaves mostly like a Junior SE. While the code is decent -
1. it has errors sometimes, hence doesn't compile
2. it's not the most optimized code
3. it could have potential security vulnerabilities, since it doesn't have access to internet and hence isn't aware of the latest exploits particular to an industry or a programming language (guess the models used for training aren't the most up to date)

So, all in all, we are ok for now, as long as we keep levelling up ourselves, and evolve beyond script kiddies.

But hey, we never know what could happen in the next 10-20 years if it continues evolving at this pace.
I definitely agree, and on the basis of the information given that seems to be the crux of the issue. Yet I can easily believe and totally see that the author saw it as more - who's to say that they weren't closer to friends prior to the initial discussion about contracts?
I don't think there's any doubt that Mojang / Microsoft are entitled to use his work. But I don't think it's clear whether he has the rights to the work or not.
> I alias every single new account I make to know who sells my data.

I wonder if that's ever happened yet. I do the same with Firefox Relay, it's only $1/month to keep using my existing email. I have probably hundreds of accounts that haven't had their emails updated yet.
The EM Drive debacle I think exactly contradicts your point. It was an extremely weak effect that required extraordinary shielding to measure to any extent at all, there were numerous sources of potential error - and it would have contradicted some of the most basic laws of physics.

The onus should have been 100% on the EM drive team to prove this extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence, there was absolutely no reason to waste time and resources on investigating their claim until they had produced something akin to a modern Michelson-Morley experiment, especially in terms of care taken to isolate their system.
Not even at penis's length, maybe.
This is a bit of tangent, but I see this:

> Let a thousand flowers bloom.

This phrase is sorely misunderstood. This was a way to lure out opponents of Mao Zedong, by opening up for public criticism of his rule. Then, when he knew who opposed him, he could brutally suppress and/or execute them.

I don't think that is what the author of the this article wants to convey. Or maybe it is, and his next step will be to launch a massive legal campaign against Microsoft and all others involved?
Newsletter could be used as a way to lure users to bigger but subscription community. Or could have steppered approach where paid users get premium content or get it sooner or get a summary
AlmaLinux is highly compatible with Fedora and CentOS. You should be able to use the same solutions.
> Money doesn't buy happiness.

I didn't say it does, but the clear fact of the matter is that there is literally no evidence that being rich leads to being miserable.

People saying "money doesn't buy happiness" don't realise that money doesn't bring unhappiness either. You can't use that statement for asserting that some rich person must be unhappy.
Apple’s Craig Federighi Explains New iPhone Security Features
Moving to the US as a founder: which city to choose?
"Boris is a one-day small-group workshop for all key decisionmaking stakeholders in an organization. "

Devs: Oh god... they are workshopping again.. what overpaid consultant they brought this time? SaFE? Sigma Six? ... Boris? wtf is that? nvm, we'll need to build it just the same.
I don't see your point. OP suggested all orgs prioritise revenues & profit which isn't always true.
This was incredibly interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I recently had an excellent experience with live chat.

My logitech mouse1 button started doing that thing where it momentarily unclicks while dragging. If you're a heavy mouse user you've probably experienced it and how frustrating it is.

In this case, the mouse wasn't cheap and it was only 6 months or so old when this happened.

The automatic Amazon process told me to go to Logitech about it, so I did. The obviously automated chat bot was actually helpful (as long as you understood it was automatic), although it had a bug where it asked for a TOTP code but if you entered it into the chat box instead of pressing a "totp" button to enter it, it would say it doesn't understand and restart the whole long process.

Okay, so that's a frustratingly bad chat bot, but once I had realised what had happened I typed AGENT to get an agent and the live customer service agent was incredibly helpful. They understood my frustration with dealing with the automatic process and that it had gone wrong. They understood my complaint with the product. They were helpful in informing me that yes, the mouse was covered by warranty and that they could replace it if I could get a "notice to refuse service" from Amazon.

This gave then me what I needed to go back to the amazon process to get them to accept it as a return by saying I had spoken to Logitech and that Amazon needed to replace or refuse service.

Between the two chat boxes, the logitech one, despite being a more buggy experience, was far more helpful once I got to a person.

On the other hand, the amazon experience was miserable. They asked me if I wanted a QR code or a printed return label. I said, "Can I do both?" and they answered "Yes".

They then waited. A minute or so later I realised they were waiting for a prompt and said, "Okay, send me both please" and they said, "You have to pick one, QR code or printed label".

I don't know with Amazon if I was speaking to a human or not. This is very frustrating compared to the Logitech experience where I went from what was obviously an automatic process to obviously a human.

Overall, this was probably quicker and easier than had I tried to pick up a phone. Crucially though it still hinged on having a human in the loop who was very helpful.
That's back when firearms were overbuilt and used low chamber pressures because they didn't have finite element analysis simulation software and their materials weren't consistent enough to not blow up, or have to weigh 200 lbs. Dumping great energy into a mass is what matters.

You can heave a cannonball at an elephant with a potato gun, but it won't do much. .45-70 Government isn't a Big 5 cartridge despite being almost 12 mm across because of its antique origins and low chamber pressures.

A tiny FMJ high velocity round like a 5.7 wouldn't do much despite having the penetrating power of being essentially a supersonic "needle".

.338 Lapua requires a 5400+ J load to legally hunt B5 in parts of Africa. Otherwise, a 12.7x108 or .50 BMG would do the trick. Anti-matériel rifles are a lot easier to acquire than useless, antique elephant guns. Barrett.net

KE = 0.5 x m x v^2.
I like to start off hands-on, and I found this appendix [1] a quick way to dive into the language. It's not comprehensive, but a great pragmatic gateway into the language for the experienced and impatient programmer.

[1] https://algorithmsbook.com/files/appendix-g.pdf
If it were so cut and dry they wouldn't have chased his signature years later before the acquisition. A lawyer told them to do that.

I think it's more interesting of a legal case than you give it credit for. He isn't denying he was paid for his time but that the rights for the finished work are still ambiguous.
Try GoodRx to fill or get your prescriptions without insurance. It can be cheaper than a deductible. ADHD medication is showing up as $16.11 monthly after tax in my area. It’s very easy and cheap to get treated.
...or host your own server using your own domain. This is what I do, also using Gandi by the way (their API makes it easy to keep all the required DNS details up to date without manual intervention). As long as you make sure outgoing mail is handled by a smart host (question: does Gandi offer this service for those whose IAP does not offer smart host services?) and all the required DNS records are present and correct your mail should find its destination without more problems than when using one of the commercial providers. With Spamassassin and greylistd spam is no longer a problem as long as you take care not to drop your private mail address everywhere. Using your own mail server you can give every commercial/government organisation you communicate with a special address, e.g. firstname-companyname@example.org or companyname.your_initials@example.org:

irs.djt@example.org
johndoe-twitter@example.org
scammycompany-jrrt@example.org

That way you can block any address which is being abused while knowing who leaked it. Just make sure not to use your private address - which you use with friends and family - to untrusted entities.

Source: I've been doing this for about 26 years without major problems
Before signing up to a new service, I tend to contact their support first to assess how difficult it is to contact them.

If I have to wait for an hour to get support, or navigate through some maze to reach them, or find it difficult to attempt to terminate my contract, I'll go with someone else.

When I really need help or something is wrong, that's not when I want to find out that it is almost impossible to reach them.
John Deere saw this coming a long time ago; they've locked down the data their tractors generated with iron bars. Lots of previous HN discussions.

Now they make bank based on that data, they use their customers' millions of hours of driving tractors to train self-driving tractors. They can do it not because of fancy AI, but because they spent years raising abundant task-specific data. It's genius: the customers pay John Deere to create data for John Deere, which John Deere uses to get more money from other customers.
I think most of them didn't actually read it and instead skimmed a few paragraphs, saw "$20,000", and rushed back to comment.
Sounds far better than being popular among Twitter journos, to be honest.
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There's also a bug report (not fixed for a long time - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-... ) that the Tor Browser also phones some Mozilla / Firefox every time it starts and there is no option to disable it.
No one is arguing that child porn is not a heinous thing. The argument is that there are also many other crimes that are in the same ballpark of severity, so why only police this one?
With all its problems, it is still hard to beat Silicon Valley. Its on-the-edge mindset and its density of early startup knowledge are hard to replicate anywhere else. You are more likely to find your support network in the valley than other areas.
You get it by killing the Ender Dragon, which pretty much everyone does at some point? If you want to go exploring End Cities and get Elytra, you need to kill it to get back home
My biggest problem with the post is the massive ego the author seems to have about the impact and importance of their writing.

To be frank, the author made little to no meaningful contributions to Minecraft's success.

The author is so self-centered they belittle the contributions of other Mojang employees and seem to genuinely believe their contribution is on the same level as people like Jeb and C418. They literally describe the End Poem as a quote "Priceless Gift".
Or he's upset that he didn't even hear from Notch at all at this point? That at the success of the game he felt forgotten for his contribution and was using this as an example of other contributors being kept in mind?

I'm speculating, but having known "artists", some of them think very differently to the average HN crowd.
I am. The impression remains.
I looked at the research and don't see why it's "extremely dubious", as you say. Would you care to elaborate?
> cheap natural gas that formed the basis of its ... energy inputs

This makes it sound like gas plays a huge role in German energy production when in reality it has been hovering between 10% and 15% since the late 90's
I used fastmail. Zero complaints and love it. I don't use their web client though, I just rely on the Mac / iOS mail app
> I'm intrigued. Why isn't it possible with a contact form?

- E-mail always has a round-trip latency attached, even the best systems will have at least a minute, and you have to do insane amounts of work to keep up with "deliverability" as automated anti-spam systems can and will detect high frequency of incoming emails and downgrade your score, not to mention you have to deal with bullshit like contacting providers that downgraded or outright black-holed you.

- Uploading or sending attachments is a hit-and-miss, there still are providers limiting attachment size to 1MB (looking at you web.de) or with overzealous "security software".

- People will readily ignore the "do not reply below this line" and reply inline, which software like JIRA SD won't recognize or garble up.

- On mobile, people will have to switch between apps, which more often than not even on flagship devices leads to Android killing off the apps between switching for "memory efficiency" and 10+ seconds of load time after each switch.

On-site chat has none of these problems.
Paleontology was basically founded on this kind of rivalry, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars
> how hard they are to find and how unexpected they are.

Coming from C two of them were expected for me (products of Int8) and aliasing of arrays on sum! But I suppose that's debatable
A live chat that isn't a live chat but instead is just a fancy interface to a FAQ or search is the worse. I always immediately bail and get a very negative impression of that company. Any company that spends money/time on such a useless feature deserves to whither away.
It's mostly about the relationship about the understanding than the understanding itself. You can try to understand, but not believe you understand, the deceased will never be there to correct you if you're wrong.
Where does that narrative that he is sad and alone come from?
My interpretation of the legal status is that the author is entitled to accept the €20k as payment for his time but that amount doesn't constitute payment for the copyright of the work. Mojang subsequently wanted to purchase that copyright and hence why they sent the contract for £1 to be signed. Julian believed the copyright was worth more and so rejected the offer.

All that is to say that if my interpretation is correct then Julian is legally entitled to do what he wants with the work including selling it to someone else or in this case release it under a creative commons license.
I wonder how many people just try to be chatty. "Hello! I'm so glad to hear from you! How is the weather where you are? How is the employer? Are you happy there?" Etc
I assume you set the language flag correctly?
> "well-stocked FAQ"

Do you have examples?

When I think of FAQs, IIRC almost all the time it seems like they wrote it before release and never upgraded it with actual questions.
To me, it seems clear that he was not a friend. The people, who slaved away for months or years as employees to build the game may have been friends. That would explain the outsized compensation they all got.

However, he was just a contractor found via twitter who wrote a few pages of text for the ending credits.

They really did not think of him as a friend, and when he was done with work they never contacted him again except for legal reasons.
Sorry, am not really smarter about all of this after reading the blog post. Maybe I just don't know enough quantum physics? Maybe science communication itself has a problem? How can I check this information without investing 10 years of my life?
> That comes out to about 0.7% of NCMEC reports to the UK's NCA leading to prosecution

That doesn’t imply the rest was unactionable. Certainly, the reductions from 20,038 to 6,500 and from there to 750 aren’t due to this tech. The first could be because it produced multiple hits for one person, the second because of policies of the police (minors might have been warned rather than prosecuted, untraceable phone numbers ignored, and persons known to have died removed, for example)

NCMEC also would (rightfully, AFAIK) argue that they never claimed the code to be perfect, and that the earlier reductions are by design.

The real problems, IMO, are (from that pdf):

“the data do not support claims of large-scale growing harm that is initiated online and that is preventable by image scanning.”

and

“The first wave of prosecutions for illegal abuse images, Operation Ore, swept up many innocent men who were simply victims of credit card fraud, their cards having been used to pay for illegal material. A number were wrongly convicted, and at least one innocent man killed himself”
War has tamed Ukraine’s oligarchs, creating space for democratic change
> That form of “globalization” was for esoteric commodities usually consumed by the wealthy.

What a rich guy in another country bought, a poor guy in this country sold for profit. The beauty of capitalism, I guess:)

> You could only ship products that were a) small enough, and b) could survive a year long voyage.

International routes were used for grain and construction materials since the beginning of AD. They did not connect the entire planet since the tech was not there but they worked across countries around Mediterranean sea and Indian ocean. But now that tech is here and it is not going away
I’m my experience, if you turn on a VPN with a different region, you’ll start getting that type of content.
Wikipedia has a quite interesting article about non-carbon-based lifeforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...