skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They hint that the install fee can be discounted if other Unity services (read: their ad network) are used by the game in question.

I think it's a play to force f2p games to use their ad mediator as the install fee will effectively raise the cost-per-install for anyone using competing ad networks.

Vampire squids doing vampire squid things. I'd expect them to get sued, and at least in the EU it seems likely to be difficult to defend.
> I just made those number up to give you an example, be it realistic or not hardly matters

That's pretty much the only thing that matters. there is a huge difference whether they make $0.5, $1 or $2 etc (and especially how much more do they make per user in a "rich" country since Unity seems to think that they are worth up to 10x more than everyone else.

> Plenty of games are profitable at scale with only a few pennies per user.

Beyond a certain point (over 1 mill users) it will only cost $0.01 per install. So this will affect 1-5 dev/worker studios with very low revenue per user. They could still probably just pay ~2k for Unity Pro per seat and stay under the 1 million revenue threshold.

To me it almost seems that the '$0.20 per install' is only there to encourage developers to upgrade to pro if they have more than a few hundred k. users.

> If it was instead a %

True, I'm not arguing that wouldn't be more fair. It would be quite expensive to enforce and close to impossible in certain cases. So I understand why Unity chose to do this instead.
Swappa
A consumer stereo camera in a significant portion of the populations pocket is a big deal imo. Going to make the volume of VR content much higher.
> there is barely any meaningful pricing difference between the cheapest iPhone 15 (950EUR) and iPhone 15 Pro (1200EUR).

Out of interest, I picked a random car to compare with. Based on the figures made available on the website, the base model was $39,347. The fully-loaded model was $49,243. That's the same ~25% difference Apple is using here.

Whether or not it is meaningful, it does seem to be in the realm of being typical.
macOS Sonoma to Launch on September 26
It also can improve DX and make for easier ports downstream. If the new Assassin's Creed uses some ray tracing on their console version, they use the same technique on the iPhone.
Not a heavy one but a decent discount. So not too upset. I am sure some people somewhere bought without discount.
A SWE team first-most needs leader. Most senior and competent members of the team to focus on the bigger picture, dive into most important details, making commitments, having a decisive say on technical details and taking responsibility for the overall technical results, but not doing the "HR stuff".

Then, in larger teams, there's some room for HR-like stuff - salary negotiation, personal conflicts, carrier growth opportunities, "how are you feeling" kind of stuff.

The managers should only do the later, but most of the time they completely take over the former, becoming clueless jira ticker shufflers, that multiply like rabbits, because they always think "we need more Managers, because I can't keep up with all the jira shuffling and meetings overheads I created".
I had heard somewhere that the first batch of a new electronics product (like the iPhone 15 if you pre-order right now) is more likely to have manufacturing defects and other subtle issues. So it is best to wait a few months to buy a new product.

Does anyone know if this is true? If so, how long is optimal to wait to have the highest probability of all the kinks being worked out? Like when should I buy the iPhone 15?
well autobots are at least 65 million years old!
I recently switched from android to the iphone ecosystem; I had a 3a and then a 4a, and recently updated to a 7a, but it never really clicked with me -- just too big.

Got a 13 mini; I kinda don't like a bunch of aspects of the iphone ecosystem, but the mini form factor is really perfect.

Very much too bad that it's now dead.
Q: How did you arrive at the $23k figure for classifying 2M examples using GPT-4?
hey, thanks for answering and url, discovering stitchfix

yeah, I understand this thing about buying similar clothes:) do the same thing with Uniqlo basics
Yea but those aren’t context switches.
Right. But you likely split the db for performance not just for decoupling data and code. Microservices is an option for scaling. My argument is more against it as a way to decouple and organize logic.
I would really love this. I currently use a 13" M2 Air but I would definitely prefer an 11" option.
I wonder if this will impact game.ci
I'm confused, does having a greater number of adipocytes have an impact on leptin production? I don't see the cause and effect between having more fat cells and problems maintaining a healthy weight.
Science of Yoga
> Static sites are really only appropriate for sites that rarely ever change. A blog may or may not change frequently enough to warrant a backend.

Any modern SSG can build and deploy in under a minute, usually in single digit seconds. This isn't really an issue in practice at all.

Static sites work fine even if you are updating many times an hour. This is a far cry from "rarely ever change".
Llama generally acheives much higher accuracy with very small amount of fine-tuning(on similar quality of dataset like this paper) on lot of tasks. So the model understanding is present in llama to get higher accuracy. e.g Hellaswag, ARC and MMLU for 7b model is 0.8, 0.57 and 0.52 respectively[0], while phi-1 is 0.48, 0.45 and 0.38.

I don't think finetuning phi-1 on good quality synthetic data will increase its accuracy as it is only trained on that.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/pankajmathur/orca_mini_v3_7b
Bumping into people you know is more likely in a small city than a large one.

> being able to walk over to their home easily

Unless your friend (or you) lives on the G or some other impossible to get to place in NY.
It's $799 on all three major carriers and $829 unlocked.
It's on the Apple website you can look this stuff up yourself
Phones are a finished product line and have been for a while.

Apart from incremental bumps there isn't anything you can add that will move the needle.

The next battle now moves onto AR/VR.
Curious what other devices people have that use USB-C? The only one I have is my Nintendo Switch. So for me, this is mostly an inconvenience having to get new cables for my phone. I'll miss Lightning.
Compute costs money.
I'm honestly pretty excited for the Apple world to learn how hard pocket lint is to get out of a USB-C port.
> We find that chemical rockets still allow for escape velocities on Super-Earths up to 10x Earth mass. Much heavier rocky worlds, if they exist, will require using up most of the planet as chemical fuel for the (one) launch, a rather risky undertaking.

From the abstract. I love papers with a sense of humor.
>Apple tried to counteract it with Apple Arcade, but that hasn't worked out.

I'm not really a gamer but I get Arcade as part of a bundle and it doesn't really wow me. I sometimes look at "Best of..." lists and try a few out on a plane flight and I'm mostly meh.
USB3 (on USBC) is actually asymmetric signaling so you need either a separate chip or digital logic to handle muxing the signals around which is extra cost Apple probably doesn't want to eat. The USB-2 pins on USBC are symmetrical so nothing extra required.
Honest question: haven't people developed something akin to mental-ad-masks when it comes to Programiz, G4G, TP, etc.?

Like I never ever ever click on a web ad, and can't even remember the brand it was about 3 seconds after leaving the page, whenever I see G4G, TP, etc., I never ever ever click them. At this point, I think this doesn't even reach my brain, but is handled by my spinal chord.
The 23:08 timestamp on the video is 3 minutes before the earthquake struck at 23:11 [1]. If we understood this phenomenon well enough to be predictive, it would be much longer than the few seconds that current early warnings [2] provide.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Marrakesh-Safi_earthquake

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japa...
They all have the same coach that tells them it looks energetic.

They also all have the same script writer, and they all *emphasize* *words* in the *same* *powerful* *exciting* *way*.

I'm old enough to remember that Apple presentations, while being clearly marketing exercises, used to be a lot more organic and flowing.
Boo.

Just like with some car manufacturers, if you want e.g. increased safety or radar cruise control, you also need $10k of leather seats and sunroofs; by removing previous Pro models, Apple basically adds a massive price premium to the zoom lens.

As this is honestly the only thing I would need from a new phone, my wife and I stay on our iPhone XR year after year. I just can't pay $1500CAD merely to get more optical zoom than my existing phone :-/
I understand why they did it.

But just my perspective on it, I will have to replace all my lightning cables with usb-c, and the usb-c ecosystem seems like a nightmare to me from what I have seen.

This would be my first usb-c device.
I think the omission of usb3 is because of the reuse the Apple silicon from last year which doesn’t have the builtin usb3 IP. Let’s wait for next year’s non-pro models to see if they are really cheapening out.
Are all the display options using PWM now? I’ve been staying with the XR because the XS caused headaches for me. Curious if they’ve gotten their frequency up to a bearable level.
I will remind you that most every parent and child both want this, albeit for totally different reasons.
AAA games are coming to iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the new A17 Pro chip
No, no they don’t. That commenter explicitly called out museums etc. You are not going to find that level of museum in a mid sized town.
Yeah. The drug probably works--but if it doesn't get to where it's supposed to be that doesn't matter. Some people pick it up better, it works for them. Most people don't absorb much at all.
Felt like I was watching a presentation made with AI actors. The long pauses, PR-driven language, it was all so sterile and politically correct. Very cringe.
> I'm not sure if KVM switching can be controlled over DDC but it's likely.

They do. Here's my shell function that helps me switch between DisplayPort-1 + USB uplink cable to the host AND USB-C cable with DisplayPort Alt Mode+Charging+uplink to display's USB hub.

# x0f: DisplayPort-1
# x1b: USB-C
DDC_SOURCES=("x0f" "x1b")

switchkvm() {
local vcp_input_src="x60"
local current next src
current=$(ddcutil -t getvcp ${vcp_input_src} | awk '{ print $4 }')
for src in "${DDC_SOURCES[@]}"; do
if [[ ${src} != "${current}" ]]; then
next=${src}
fi
done

if [[ -z ${next} ]]; then
echo "No eligible alternate input in \$DDC_SOURCES" >&2
echo "\$DDC_SOURCES=(${DDC_SOURCES[*]}); current=${current}"
return 1
fi

ddcutil setvcp "${vcp_input_src}" "${next}"
}
Android is notorious for aging out phones much faster than Apple. You could use 8+ year old phones with the latest security updates up until very recently.
Not to mention the Apple Watch takes a special rounded magnetic charger.
Spatial Video in this generation says everything. They want to win Spatial / VR with the ecosystem - it's truly the only way: AppleTV (Spatial Content Specific?), iPhone 15, M(x) Processors for creating / editing.

Apple is ready, but I still don't think people want to wear something on their face. That said, I've put myself in timeout over Apple Watch - still wrist naked, but it's inarguable that it's a successful product line.
Thanks—changed now. (Submitted title was 'Vulnerability found in Dutch voting software').

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I respect that, I have a go to brick (dark red) and legal-paper-yellow hex code I use for solid backgrounds. I'd have to pull out my thinkpad to check though. Solid backgrounds do seem a bit underrated, they do make me feel more focused.
I usually say things like “please be extremely succinct. Response should be one sentence at most”.

“Sure! I will try to be succinct.

[4 paragraphs]”
Not to mention the Apple Watch takes a special rounded magnetic charger. I don't think it would interface correctly otherwise.
Notice in general is a bit of a farce, my guess is well over >95% of cases companies don’t care if you don’t work your notice. In that they won’t go after you legally if you just plain quit, similar situations with NDAs. Unless you know extremely commercially sensitive information then most companies are just happy to see someone go when they choose to move on. Otherwise they’ll put you on gardening leave to see out your notice.
Ok, thanks, so in fact they have all had more than “2 or 3 years of support”.
Woolnut have leather cases
I thought this article would be about a pharmaceutical.
Proper cables, yes, but generally a proper cable works with improper stuff attached to it. You can charge your iPhone and the dubious ebay air freshener or whatever with a proper cable.

If you have two different connectors you invariably need at least two proper cables.
I looked briefly at Earthly a while ago for work because I have to write CI integrations for a whole bunch of CI platforms (GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and maybe GitHub Actions). I ended up going with a very similar product (i.e., another nice BuildKit frontend with integrations into a bunch of CI systems), Dagger, because the DSL it used for defining pipelines at the time seemed better to me. I ended up deeply regretting this decision, as the Dagger devs have de facto abandoned that language entirely in favor of churning out SDKs for the most popular programming languages— all imperative, all Turing-complete, and all, imo, bad fits for the space. So now I'm back in hell, integrating with all of these systems by hand, hesitant to trust this kind of tooling to a startup again.

To me this is still the most appealing use case of something like Earthly. Push-and-see-what-happens is still the norm on almost all CI systems, and it's an abominable workflow. If you are at a large organization and have to support teams that use a wide variety of CI/CD platforms, something like Earthly could potentially save quite a lot of pain. But the appeal is precisely in supporting existing CI platforms, rather than in adding another one.
recording your footage directly to external storage is kind of a dependent feature though. They are angling on the prosumer / low end commercial videography with that.

I suspect lots of people who would be happy to shoot on a phone have upgraded to blackmagic specifically because you can just swap the card and keep rolling.
Lol, no blog post. It was quite simple, various models were imported and parts on these models needed to be rotated over a number of frames, this constituted an animation which was then saved in GLTF format. There were 1000 animations with different rotation end points for a large number of models. The program was very simple to achieve the output and took me only a few hours to (a) understand how to do it in Godot and (b) write the code, which was remarkable to me. I'd tried for perhaps a day or two searching for solutions in ThreeJS - found bugs in the GLTF exporter, posted to the DRI, back and forth etc. Godot just worked.
I think there will always be a market for freemium games, because it's nice to try things without having to put money down. But I think the freemium market can co-exist with a premium game market. Like, the premium game market still exists and still is going strong, no reason it couldn't live on mobile devices also.
Harder than getting it out of a lightning port? Because that's not too easy either.
It's quite slow to even do a music sync, but I might be doing something wrong.
Using heat pumps for hot water also necessitates storage cylinders, vs modern gas boilers which heat on demand and don't need a cylinder. You can argue about the relative efficiency of this vs heating water on demand (depends a lot on how predictable your usage patterns are) but the space requirements, which may imply a need to remodel in an unsatisfactory way even if someone has the square feet to spare, are a real barrier.
I read that somewhere as well, but I can’t find any reputable sources.
This PR purports to answer a question I had since the beginning of the epidemic when it was clear that transmission was through-air.

"""“For example, if we assume the infectious dose for COVID is 300 copies, then a person who is exhaling 1,000 viral copies per minute would exhale an infectious dose in 20 seconds (highly risky in an elevator), whereas a person who is exhaling two viral copies per minute would exhale an infectious dose in about two hours (probably safe in an elevator),” Lane said. """
> but let's say you made 200k$ on the first 200k install, but only 20k$ on the next 200k installs (for whatever reason, different market, whale spending 10's of thousands $ skewing the data, etc.), you owe Unity 40k$ and

And that point you should just switch to Pro and ust pay ~2k per seat each year without install fees.

Of course I guess you need to think about that in advance, but unless there is a massive spike in popularity and your daily installs spike by 10000% or something in a day (which is not that unthinkable) you should be fine.
Which terms are you referring to? If you aren't familiar with "CI/CD", then this article really isn't for you, as you haven't run into the problems this startup is trying to solve.
Lightweight and durable. That’s why people love titanium. You wanna make a big rectangle that is super thin and costs thousands of dollars and you’re gonna have to concern yourself with frame flex. The original XL iPhones had a bending problem. Whatever structural member they eventually designed in to solve that, it’s going to be some amount of thinner, lighter, stronger when made with titanium.

As far as wasteful - sort of. Titanium metal isn’t particularly rare, it’s just bound up in ore that takes an extremely energy intensive process to convert to usable material. That’s the Kroll method, invented 80 years ago to refine titanium. There’s actually a new process called the Armstrong method which is way simpler and less capital and energy intensive. In a very real sense, Apple investing in titanium is exactly what we need to push down the cost of refining and fabricating with the metal.

Aluminum used to be more precious than gold, and then 150 years ago scientists figured out how to cheaply refine aluminum. Now we use aluminum for everything from cheap bottle openers and bike frames to disposable containers and Martian rover parts.

I learned about all of the above over the last 10 years as an engineering nerd. I’ve long been awaiting the day when the Armstrong process is the norm and titanium costs are super low. However that process creates powder, so this might also require low cost titanium 3D printers. All I know is investment can bring down these costs, and I’m glad to see apple doing it!

Bonus: these department of energy videos on the comically complex Kroll process[1] and the super simple Armstrong process[2]:

[1] https://youtu.be/oWyrzZh3We0?si=OdRTu6crob-PVkLJ

[2] https://youtu.be/73HLzYuIfx0?si=dRwfraPivcKyCA6U
Siri needs complete revamp. I almost never find her answers and capabilities useful :(
I loved lightning when it first came out.

And, perhaps a contrary opinion, but the I still think lightning is easier to insert than usb-C. The curved edges and smaller size mean you can begin inserting it at an odd angle and finish the insertion easily. Whereas you need to insert usb-C nearly straight on for it to get in.

Also because the lightning cable's male end is solid, there's no way for dust to collect in there, unlike USB-C where dust can collect inside both the cable end and the peripheral end.

Though overall I would trade that for 1 fewer cable/port that I need to manage in my life.
Oh, that's silly. If I had a charge cable with me I'd also have my computer or iPad, which I can use to charge.
yes, you are correct in that scenario. It would be nightmare. But the scenario seems like it would be rare. And it is $200k revenue in the previous 12 months, not lifetime. So the trailing 12 month revenue would start to drop, probably under the 200k threshold.

But there are definitely gotcha scenarios, and tracking installs is highly dubious.
Thanks for the reply. A few thoughts/niggles, though again this is not a huge deal, more of a "pour one out" moment.

>What I find annoying is that lighting cables are rent-seeking proprietary Apple tech

I don't think this is a fair description frankly. Lightning was developed years before USB-C, which itself was heavily influenced by Apple, and the USB situation before that sucked. They themselves came up with something useful, better than what came before or the other options at the time. Sure, ideally they would have standardized it voluntarily and made it open for all, but by the same token why couldn't the rest of the industry be bothered to do a decent non-directional plug connector years before hand instead of monstrosities like the USB-3 Micro Type B? I think using "rent seeking" to mean "anything proprietary anyone develops and sells" starts feeling a little too expansive?

>and not even universally used in their own product

It's been universally used across what it was developed for though, the handheld devices. And in terms of raw performance capability and flexibility it's obviously much, much worse than Thunderbolt/USB-C which came later. I don't see why things would be better if it was on Macs?

>Apple already on their own makes people have to re-buy peripherals when they change standards, so it's not like they have a high ground.

Lightning has been around though 11 years, and the 30-pin connector 9 years before that. And would likely have been around years more without this. I don't think you can reasonably say they haven't had pretty decent runs when it comes to handheld/ultra portable devices? Apple has definitely been far, far faster moving when it comes to Macs for better and for worse. But again, I think that's not an apples-to-apples comparison, because computers almost always are connecting to things via cables not anything form fitting, they have plenty of space to work with. Which in turn means adapters really can be an acceptable (if suboptimal and disliked) solution.

Reasonable minds can differ of course!

>I do actually hope that the USB-C form factor connector winds up being a permanent connector.

I really, really don't. It stinks so much having to use copper vs fiber.

>USB-C has proven to be tremendously scalable

I can use the same OS2 I got a decade ago for a 10gbps to run 200 Gbps now. Same cable. For a few bucks per meter. And can do it over anywhere from 1 meter to kilometers.

Much better designs are possible then USB-C, and stuff could use it.
Apple has bad color balance for quite a few years, it can also manifest like this. People not knowing much about actual photography see it as cool instagrameish tweak, and who generally doesnt like to imitate more successful people they follow (I guess successful happy balanced people who dont need to follow others).

I have physical 10x zoom lens on my samsung. Its a massive advantage in almost any situation barring almost total darkness. I take of pictures where subjects are clearly visible and take most of the frame, compared to everybody else with phone who has tiny figures who go to smears when digitally zoomed. If for nothing else, i am not changing the brand, good pics of my kids are simply too valuable to us.

If Samsung can do it, I am sure Apple can do it even better. No clue why they dont.
A comment that deserves to be framed.

Things look the same when you don't look for the differences. Brilliant.
You can run the smaller Llama variants on consumer grade hardware, but people typically rent GPUs from the cloud to run the larger variants. It is possible to run even larger variants on a beefy workstation or gaming rig, but the performance on consumer hardware usually makes this impractical.

So the comparison would be the cost of renting a cloud GPU to run Llama vs querying ChatGPT.