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I find your comment fascinating and also I don’t understand it at all.

> You may like such a person because her voice puts you in mind of your mother’s, but that origin or association is usually not what is important—the fact that you like them is.

Are feelings a black box? That seems like a sensible way to see anxiety and depression, which are bad feelings that happen for no (good) reason. But then how should we analyze art, which is what TFA is about, IIUC? Should we stop analyzing art because our enjoyment of it is as inscrutable as depression? That doesn’t seem right (to me) either.

Maybe art can only be understood in the context of groups of people, whose cerebral machinery and personal experiences will vary, but whose cultural context won’t? Maybe your personal feelings about art can only say a tiny amount about the art, but can say a lot about you, to yourself. I guess, if nothing else, knowing that you like a particular kind of art is good in that it gives you a way to make yourself happier.

I’m very curious for your thoughts if you happen to come back to this thread! Thanks!!
This. Consider the market. Samsung also doesn't add its newly-engineered, top-of-the-line solutions to its lower-end new models.

Almost all the people on this forum are in the target market for the Pro. The standard iPhone is not built for us, nor will most of its users have a problem with 480Mbps-over-wire transfer speeds.
> I'm not sure feature withholding has traditionally worked out well in the developer space.

It’s worked well for GitHub, Slack, and pretty much every service that only offer SSO behind enterprise subscriptions.

The trick is to offer enough to make people productive but not so much that there isn’t a worthwhile upgrade path.
The EU wanted to force Apple to include micro USB. But you kind oh made my point, the regulators were going to force a substandard port on iPhone users
Managers who are well studied in management techniques are often unbearable to me.

They lack the acting ability to pass off something they read as their genuine response, so it feels artificial and further divides us. It's like being charismatic. Some people have it naturally, others can develop it over time with real experience, but it isn't something you can pick up in a course.
Gravel road classification based on loose gravel using transfer learning
I would pay for gorhill to maintain uMatrix. It adds that much value to my web browsing experience.
That's not the greatest advice. I saw my mom charging her phone with a fat, meter long, USB-C cable. I asked her why she was using such a short cable. She admitted it was annoying to use. She said it was $35, but it was fast charging! It was a 100W 10Gbps cable.
What's the best way to use LLama2-70b without existing infrastructure for orchestrating it?
I'm sure that's the case for a fair number of schools. And I also think that in many others, it doesn't happen. There's huge variation across schools and districts. But... I think parents can greatly augment those school activities if they have the skills that students are practicing, and when that's the case, and when students see adults making meaningful use of such skills, I suspect they learn faster!
Ask HN: Unreal or Epic Help?
I wanted to use UE5 for something, and to download it you need to be logged into the Epic Game store. My account won't let me log in without verifying my phone number through some Korean language portal that seems to require a Korean phone number. Anyone know how to reach Epic support? I can't find any help emails or phone numbers listed and opening a ticket requires being logged in.
Information provided by Unity says that they can merge numbers for multiple games if they decided that they are sufficiently similar. So clever tricks of making separate game will not work. It depends on how greedy they are whether Unity will apply this rule to demos.
I think a substantial amount at least. Kids and tweens seem to game a lot on mobile, and Fortnite is a GPU-intensive game that runs on mobile.
Critically, though, the games I want usually aren't on there.

The no-DRM thing is nice, though.
> I disagree. Nobody else caring is a strong indication the skill isn't that valuable. If nobody else cares and he can't see a reason to care himself then why would he decide it's a skill he wants to put time into improving?

Hmmm didn't think about it that way. Definitely a more practical approach.
There's two types of game developers: those who finish and publish games and those who write their own game engine.

Every minute spent on re-inventing the wheel for the umpteenth time is time lost on actually writing and polishing the actual game. Tools like Unity were a godsent for small teams and solo devs who just wanted to write and publish games.

While libraries like SDL can lighten the burden somewhat, they are still no replacement for solid asset pipelines, visual editors, performance analysing tools, and a mature pipeline for multi-platform packaging and publishing.
>Maybe Windows compat is a time-bomb, but eventually you gotta live your life.

I still need to use windows for professional work so it's not like I'd be dead in the water. But as someone who wants to strive to keep as much ownership over my software as possible, and wants to ensure users own their own software... WINE doesn't sit well with me.

Others may not care, and that's fine. But I have already made it a part of my professional career to care about little things like that.
Chart: Which Is 'The Best Country in the World'?
I've seen Musk do and say a lot of crazy-stupid things, but inexpertly moving racks between data centers is really up there.

You can sort of see the Musk logic and way of thinking where he tries to argue that moving heavy racks over the flooring is within spec because the weight is split over 4 feet (all of which can sit on the same load-bearing element).

Or the part where he goes under a rack and cuts a bunch of cables. Good luck getting those servers hooked up at the other end.
Ovens are one of the few appliances where I can see some sense in smartifying them, honestly. Turn it on to preheat before getting home (or if you're just too lazy to get up), have it send alerts to your phone when the timer goes off so you don't miss it due to being on the other side of the house or having your headphones on, check how long's left on the timer before deciding whether to start watching a new episode, stuff like that. There's a combination of long cycle time + necessity to respond urgently that creates an actual use case that isn't there for eg toasters or dishwashers.
True but not all academic essays are meaningless (a lot are).

College admissions essays for instance play a significant role in admissions at top schools.
Some of us are really just that cynical.
Anecdata: I have a friend who refuses to update from an original iPhone SE because he hates the larger form factors AND because it functions perfectly fine for his needs.

I know multiple people still using an iPhone X (2018), for whom cost is not an issue.

The main reason for the majority of the general population to upgrade is because the phone literally breaks (screen, stops charging, radio malfunctions, etc)
I forget where I saw it but well over half of all pirated software has some sort of malware on board. I'm no longer a poor college student. I cannot afford to risk my bank / brokerage accounts and credit cards for the sake of saving $60 on a game.
I thought because gravity gets smaller by squared distance, large planets would not have crushing gravity on the surface because you are far away from the center of mass. Is that true? If so, how large would a super earth have to be to have an equivalent earth gravity on its surface?
I personally find stereo/3d video basically no more immersive than regular video. I wouldn't bother putting a headset just for that.

It needs to be like VR 360 video where you can look around to be worth it.
Mine is 6 years old, my wife and son are both using 8-year-old iphones. They still get security updates.
If piracy was really that big a problem then the entire PC gaming industry wouldn't exist. The issue really was that microtransactions were too easy on mobile, and freemium/casino-like games were simply making too much money, so no developer had the incentive to make anything else.
Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political/national battle. That's not allowed here; regardless of who or what you're battling, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A great move by Unity. Sometimes I find myself missing features from Unity after moving to Godot; a general purpose, strongly typed programming language and live editor changes whilst the game is running are my biggest examples, but thanks to these changes I'll never look back longingly at Unity again. Good work team!

Funnily enough the changes have also made me look back into Unreal, I hear they have a proper Linux editor now and that their flavour of C++ is a bit nicer than I expected. I doubt I'll switch from Godot anytime soon, but worth a look.

EDIT: I see the point being made a lot that this won't affect many smaller devs as they'll never make enough money to meet the threshold, however it seems to me that if your choice of engine makes you hope your project isn't successful, then it might be time to choose a different engine. Unreal engine devs hope their game will make enough to qualify for the revenue share, not because the revenue share is a good thing for them, but because it means if they're making that kind of money it won't be a problem.
There will be more such events because temperatures that used to top out at 103 now top out at 110 F.

There is some silliness with the state government around renewable power, but it isn't like they've banned it. And if they did it would take #2 California a long time to catch up.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032023/inside-clean-ene...

The question then is really whether Texas has a better chance of expanding capacity fast enough to meet its needs than other states that are famously more restrictive around new construction and environmental impacts. I don't like the politics here and I still think the answer to that is clearly yes for this purpose.

Whoever mentioned water has a point though.
I bought a lightning-headphone adapter, and may have to get a USB-C to headphone one (assuming it works). Well worth the expense, and you can just leave it connected to the headphones/stereo.
The entire announcement is an exercise in masking that they're running out of ideas.

Excessive lectures on environmental footprint. Lots of cultural/humanitarian story telling, a pile of non-relatable tech info where they only briefly showed the embarrassing "up to 10% faster", dull/static presenters with their fake excitement.

Even the Pro model, typically the only model where they might add some actual features of any significance just to seduce you to pay more, is now nothing more than an "extra bling" model.

No fresh new demos of 3rd party developers either. All of this shows the maturity and advanced state of the platform.

Here's an idea that would actually impress all of us regarding environmentalism: user-replaceable batteries. As simple as it was 15 years ago. And no, I'm not interested in tech apologies about glue or there not being space. There's space. It's purely a matter of will.
> but these were all leaked in advance.

Does being leaked in advance have anything to do with their presentation? "Oh that was leaked, I guess we shouldn't bother mentioning it".
It’s the endless struggle. Make developer tool backed by a corporation. Charge nothing / very little. Venture capital stops flowing. Start charging. Get increasingly expensive. Milk giant companies with stable revenues who don’t think it’s worth switching. Repeat forever.

The solution is only use open source for dev tools, or pay one-time fees.
Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content
>Ever since steam started pulling games and locking out people's ability to play them at publishers' behest

Name the game that you mean. Activision pulled "Transformers Devastation" from steam some time ago. It is not in the store, it is not for sale, and in my library it doesn't even have the background image, because it was pulled before that functionality existed.

However, I bought it before it was pulled. It is still in my library, I can still download it, and can play it whenever I want.

So again, provide a link to this story or don't spread rumors.
A photo of some clover I took in the yard[1]

Otherwise, flat black

[1] https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/50131172608
USB-C did not even exist when the iPhone 6 came out in 2014. It was unveiled but not finalized until 2016, and Apple themselves were at the forefront of its adoption. You're saying steam trains in the 1800s would have produced less global warming if they had used diesel. When the gas engine did not yet exist. Apple probably chose to stick to Lighting specifically because they did not want to switch their connector so quickly.
it's simple and it works.. every time. /s
It did cause immediate chaos, and the chaos persisted.
In practice, each org has a top5 mailing list to which employees send weekly updates. Jensen samples from these mailing lists.
> In programming terms they're variables you add to the top of a note

If you have the dataview plugin installed, you can also define properties in the note itself, using the `property:: value` syntax.
If you had said log.critical(), I might (might) have agreed with you. But a log.error() is not necessarily an error on the Python level, and should not necessarily spam a backtrace into the log.
Indira Gandhi National Open University has over 4 million students, and in China about 40% of university students are in STEM. It's certainly not impossible that this is coming from a single institution.
> yes it absolutely is the engine.

As someone who has used Unity a lot, it really isn't the engine. You're only noticing this is the whole "no good toupees" thing. The thing is, the Unity Assetstore makes it very easy to hack together something that kind of works, but because nothing will quite fit together it'll be a janky mess.
The .NET ecosystem has recently added "NativeAOT" compilation as a first class feature, and Unity's gall-bladder relationship to Mono (instead of migrating to Dotnet Core, they continue to work off their own Mono fork) has opened up a space where anyone programming C# now has the once-hard-to-reach AOT holy grail for consoles now just behind an XML flag.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
Here's my take on Apple's leather goods from a purely practical, selfish point of view:

I've been using their leather cases for years. I think the newer versions are lower quality than the old ones. I wouldn't buy another one now even if they kept making them.

All of the good reasons you mentioned aside, if Apple's not going to make their leather goods top-quality, then it's better to drop the line altogether.
Do you think Rust and Escape From Tarkov are janky? (just off the top of my head)

https://rust.facepunch.com

https://www.escapefromtarkov.com
Luckily enough, Colorado River is not worldwide. And luckily enough the world is not USA, so you can stop projecting whatever practices USA has to be worldwide.
Their website is not a reliable source for performance numbers. We'll have to wait for third party benchmarks
Not a physicist but I thought the main problem is not getting high, but getting fast in the “horizontal” dimension to balance out high gravity and stay in orbit.
You like counterfeit foods?

This "cartel" does not care about others making same cheese even using the same recipe, they just care about protecting the name. For example Kraft sells their own version of parmesan in EU without any problems, they just call it "Pamesello"

In other words, it's not a patent, it's a trademark. Those are much more acceptable IMHO, and are often good.
I'm trying to imagine the kind of user that's both able to blindly install a random .deb downloaded from a website, while also being willing to do so. Linux geeks with no sense of danger on the internet?
> Apparently Australia is actually the only country with net immigration from the US.

The E3 visas help with that. Otherwise as a tech worker you're generally stuck with either a H1B (which is a lottery) as a new hire, or L1B (which requires working for the company for a year) as an existing employee.

Not all of the allocated E3 visa slots get used though, so IIRC, there's been continued discussions on Irish citizens being offered the remainder for the last few years, but nothing concrete yet.
Curious that they apparently sold ai.com to Musk's venture — it used to redirect to OpenAI.
I disagree fundamentally. You may as well ask me to imagine Earth as a disc, with multiple rotating spotlights shining down on it and a giant ice wall around the edges. I understand what the image is trying to convey, I simply do not agree that this is the shape of the thing I experience.
I did. Running with threads improves performance by 50%, but is still nowhere near C performance. My machine only has two cores so threading doesn't help much.
> fuck the waste they sell in the US such as wood pulp with cheese flavoring sold as Parmesan

The Parmesan they make in Wisconsin is closer to the cheese they made in Parma a hundred years ago than today’s Parmiggiano Reggiano [1].

Italy went through in a decade, after WWII, the wealth expansion Britain did over a century in its Industrial Revolution. A lot of “classic” Italian culture is carryover from America, e.g. carbonara, or modern mythology.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b...
consider contributing to filter lists with your free time :)
Not negligible, but also a small cost of the total cost of the iPhone system. call it 500 megawatts for 100m iPhones, which for moderately expensive generation capacity is ~ 2million per megawatt of capacity, works out to $10 per phone in electricity. A typical power plant has expected lifetimes of ~25-50 years, which if we assume a generous 5 year phone lifespan, and a 25 year plant life...

That works out to $2 per iPhone to build power plants to charge the iphone every day for it's an entire life. Not bad for a device that costs hundreds of dollars.
There is no living with it. None. There's no immunity. Only continued sickness and damage. Masking is a protection to help stop the spread and if you are not helping, you're in the way of us trying to live without it.
Edit oops didn’t see it which comment was being referred to at first.

the study says severity was controlled for when assessing the impact of vaccination.

That leads to an obvious problem as vaccines lead to lower severity.
I don’t take it to that extreme, there’s great Unity content (walkabout VR mini golf comes to mind), but recently when I really played an Unreal Engine game again for hours (Satisfactory), I was floored by just how much better optimized it was. A similar, arguably simpler, game in the genre (Oxygen Not Included) is Unity and famously terrible on performance. I had just sort of accepted that was how it had to be. It’s not.
> I'd go as far as saying

Citing is much preferred to saying.
greenhouse gas emissions are not the only thing that needs to be looked at regarding sustainability
Agreed. I’ve just eaten ragu following a recipe on YouTube that advised me to tuck the rind from the Parmesan into it before cooking the sauce for 3 hours. It completely broke down. Not fancying a chip in my pasta sauce.
ouch, yah without some alternate explanation it kind of reeks of a deliberate caste system being created in the Apple ecosystem. Only certain folks would get it.

I had my first taste of this with the macro support only showing up on the Pro model. It's such an old feature I was baffled the other device we bought didn't have that capability.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/453470/is-there-a-...
>first major monopoly case to make it to trial in decades

It's a decade late. At this pace, they should immediately start working on cases for Microsoft, MS Edge, Bing, OpenAI, etc.
They travel and store very well if shock frozen, which enables me to buy them all year in bags from 500g to 2000g. Spicing up my Müsli, Yoghurt, sometimes ice cream, and what not else.
Didn't I just read something about abusing the M1/M2 via serial?

It was this!

https://www.tindie.com/products/aaafnraa/serial-adapter-rebo...
Having played a lot of games isn't really much of a qualification, is it? I'm curious about your claim that Unity games "always feel janky". Which games gave you this impression?
>Once a game works on wine it will continue to work FOREVER

Sure, once a game works. I'm thinking about the future. And unfortuantely that future is bound by Microsoft's whims. Valve doesn't control window and that's what most games target.

>If I can't make a new game work on my steam deck, I won't buy it

that's fine, 97% of the market will. Valve isn't going to be hurting by this. They won't give a shit either, just default back to the status quo.
We use buildkite but if I was starting fresh now I would just use github with github actions.
Scrum is fine, your company culture is to blame
I like the idea of gog, but ever since steam started building in linux support with proton I can't justify it.
Writing a new DSL is doomed and OP started by that. You will have to bend the world to make devs using it. Give them something they want, and no one wants to learn a new DSL and rewrite everything.
I think it's helpful to have a more layered perspective here. Privacy tools never provide absolute protection in the real world, because the attacker could always have some capability the user doesn't know about.

Network layer privacy is even more layered in this way. A burner HN account is very anonymous for a wide range of threat models. But if you're a terrorist or spy, NSA and GCHQ will see to it that they break anything you use. Users can learn about the properties of different tools and make informed decisions. Nobody should do something they would not otherwise do just because they believe they are protected by Tor. That is a bad idea. But if someone needs to do something sensitive and wants to lower their risk profile, Tor will likely help and it's fairly low-cost to use it.

Another way to look at it is: any naively implemented p2p communication tool will reveal the IP address of all your conversation partners by default. Tor is a big improvement over that, and comes with other benefits, like NAT traversal and peer discovery.
>Your are right on that the Vision Pro will have a M3 not M2.

It's been publicly announced as using M2 but I assume they just plan to say "we made it even faster" and launch with M3 then?
what was so terrible about it? I thought it was fine when I read it
Yeah, the Pipelines are okay all things considered.
https://kagi.com/search?q=python+endswith checks out:

1: docs.python.org › 3 › library › stdtypes.html

2: pandas.pydata.org › pandas-docs › stable › reference › api

3: This discussion!

I've tried DDG and Brave for a few weeks each, and gone back to them once in a while when Google search has completely failed for things I know exist. They mostly have worse results than Google (purely in terms of relevance of the first page), and Google is trash now. I'll give Kagi a try for a few more days and see, but maybe the web has finally got to the point where paying for search is a useful strategy.
Haven't experienced a single issue playing BattleTech, which is Unity. Based on the sheer number of games built on Unity I'm sure you'll find plenty of games that are janky because they weren't made well. That's not the engine.