skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they give that specific process (imagent) that much privilege? Can nefarious motives be inferred from such a choice? It seems pretty damning to me that a glorified GIF processing helper is given root access to the entire system. It just doesn't add up that this is all accidental.

What are the odds that something like the NSO just happens to luck into being able to remotely initiate and sustain the building of an entire Turing-complete internal and unauthorized computer internally that also happens to be able to override all hardened protections to the contrary? It just seems so unlikely that there was not a hand in facillitating this internally at Apple. That's what happened with the GreyKey guy...
> we apparently do not talk about the damage cats do to wildlife.

To the contrary--I love the damage that cats do to rat/mouse/pigeon wildlife in my city (New York)! When I was visiting Athens on vacation, I noticed that there were thousands of wild cats that roamed the ruins; I wonder if, rather than seeing wild cats as an animal control problem, we should see them as a pest control measure?
They seem pretty good for getting to low orbit, and once you're there, lots of possibilities for propulsion open up.
Then why does there appear to be an entire block whose lights go out at about 10 seconds into the video (about in the center)?
> this is going to be really annoying to track and report on.

I imagine they could expand on their existing analytics platform, which I believe is already forced into any release from Unity Personal?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/com.unity.services.analytics...
Instead of supposing something, how about you take Google for a stroll and figure out the (very interesting) answer to this yourself. Spoiler: leather actually has a profoundly grave impact, and it’s not just a „free“ by-product of meat.
I recommend high output management by Andy Grove.

It's widely praised and cited on HN when comments such as yours (rightfully) come up.
The FAQ suggests that once you cross the install threshold, you keep paying. The thresholds are "lifetime"

>The Unity Runtime Fee will apply to this game, as it surpasses the $1M revenue and 1M lifetime install thresholds for Unity Pro. Let’s look at the game’s installs from the last month:
Prior month installs (Standard fee countries) - 200K
Prior month installs (Emerging market fee countries) - 100K

The fee for install activity is $23.5K USD, calculated as follows:
(100K x $0.15 (first tier for standard fee countries)) + (100K x $0.075 (second tier for standard fee countries)) + (100K x $0.01 (fee for emerging market countries)) = $23.5K USD
> Once you notify your bank or credit union about an unauthorized transaction (that is, a charge or withdrawal you didn’t make or allow), it generally has ten business days to investigate the issue. The bank or credit union must correct an error within one business day after determining that an error has occurred.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-get-my-mon....
cOvId is AiRbOrNe, isn't over, and never went away.

It doesn't matter how fast its spreading, it continues to spread, be highly contagious, with unknown long term effects. It makes all spaces unsafe and we need to work to live without it.

Take measures to stop the spread and protect yourself and others. Stop getting infected. 3.5+ years into this if you're not helping, you just choosing to prolong the pandemic.
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In yarn 4, they introduced an equivalent using pure JS

But I don't know if they still support prolog (or maybe as a plugin provided by them for the migration)
Dumb question I guess, what is a CI???
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble... but if you look at the source video you can see that a large neighborhood loses power. Looks like it is just power lines going down or transformers blowing.

https://twitter.com/Eyaaaad/status/1700621598456234148
The hardware is just fine. My old Nokia 6 from 2018 can still play Mario Kart just fine.

I hate to see that I am starting to sound like an activist, but I also hate to see how even the supposedly smarter-than-average people in tech lose all sense of perspective when they see shiny overpriced trinkets.

Why should we care if "the experience is not even close to comparable", if it is brought by a trillion dollar corporation who denies people even the most basic rights and fights as dirty as it can to keep its unfair advantages?

(And please notice that the above paragraph also applies to Google and Samsung, so please don't make it sound that I am arguing for team Android here)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486431.
“Dear Discord, how on Earth is ”GTK“ a bad word? GTK is a GUI toolkit ”
Prediction: There will soon be a lot more VR “content” available with the proliferation of VR-capable recording devices.

This could be a big push towards making the metaverse more compelling.
Haven’t played that one much. Thanks for the added color.
Source, GameBryo, LithTech, ...
What time on September 15th can you pre-order? I forgot what time I had to wake up early for my iPhone 14 Pro. I think it was 6am Eastern?
Minecraft's engine wasn't remotely revolutionary, it was basically a 1:1 riff on an XNA game called Infiniminer that predated it. And its engine wasn't especially good. Minecraft's success is almost entirely due to its accessibility and the fundamental strength of its design - both things that are possible in any game engine. These days a large % of Minecraft installs are a C++ version of the game and not the original Java version, because it's really not about the engine.
No, since you wouldn't appear to be counterfeit. :)
"Batches 24-30 have produced an uptick in hospital visits! Producer: prove that it came from us."
I have an iPhone 8 Plus with a cracked screen that is about to reach EOL with updates. I'm updating.
I think what you are doing is definitely better than some of the specific agriculture feedstocks for cows that increase the enteric emissions of cows to make them grow quickly. That said it isn't carbon neutral - the digestive systems of cows produce methane from food. Methane is between 24- 29 times more impactful then carbon for global warming.

Cows still have a signifiant impact on especially as a function of how large the industry has become.

And to your point - wasting hides is also not great. Would be great if we were less wasteful in general.
Iirc Apple iOS includes more features than Android in the core OS. Google Services still receive updates and only things like the UI and system settings stay the same. Most people I know don't care at all about updates.

But I agree, it's great how Apple supports devices for 6 years with major updates. It would also be possible for Android phones if SoC & phones manufacturer actually cared.
It's the existential issue of our time. It absolutely deserves primacy. If you have a significant secondary issue, you should mention.
Related ongoing threads:

Unity plan pricing and packaging updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344

The New Godot Development Fund - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481872
This is crazy. I vividly remember being a child during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (Los Angeles) and driving with my father (who had to pick me up from a friends) and seeing the sky more of a flashing fuschia color.
Gaming has a high cost of entry. Xbox posted its first profit in 2007, six years after the Xbox launch.

I would imagine that they don’t think they have much to bring to the table that would leaps and bounds get them over the current competition; their entry point would probably look like a premium Steam Deck or maybe the Vision Pro for AR gaming, but is that an Apple-sized market to sink their teeth into? Particularly when none of their other devices are traditional-gaming oriented.
> We already have beautiful mobile games, like Monument Valley. But that's not what the market is about. The very term "mobile game" reeks of low quality at this point.

What exactly is it that you are after? It seems like you are not content simply getting the games you want, such as Monument Valley. You also need everyone else to live their life a certain way?

Why not simply conclude that the market is big enough for everyone to coexist. And as long as there's games for you, you don't have to lament other people sitting around enjoying candy crush.
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But where would the marketing budget be deployed? I enjoy seeing how they produce the event but the content this year wasn't interesting enough to keep my attention
After seeing Divinity 2 come to iOS, fingers crossed on Baulders Gate 3…
I did not want to make the same point as others, but it has already been pointed out that 3-4 COP for heat pumps is the more common range for comparison than 2 COP. I have done the math in my area, which is very expensive for electricity, and it still pencils out without factoring in my reduced costs if I get solar (which yes, does finally pay for itself).
Unity is cheaper only in certain circumstances. UE5 is free and then you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenues over $1m. This avoids a lot of the issues faced by indie developers with the new pricing model (having to pay for copies you give away, having to pay a flat fee that eats the profit margin of 99p games, needing to pay for a subscription up front etc.)
>I know one such developer who is stuck, who's estimating this new scheme will cost them $100,000/month on a free to play game, where their revenue isn't guaranteed.

We can assume that this would mean running the game at a loss, because the author didn’t say that.
Some years ago I was at a vineyard in Burgundy harvesting grapes that were sent to Champagne to be turned into Champagne (the sparkling wine). It's interesting how the labeling law can be misused when it suites the champions of the specific label...
A 7b model will work for very specific cases, but it will have a hard time drawing parallels between synonims, so you'll need to be extremely careful in building your fine tuning samples.
It's not just the lack of ideas, but the direction they are taking their existing ideas in is just not interesting anymore.

One thing I'm kind of having a mini midlife-crisis over is that I'm slowly realizing that I am no longer the target market for tech products. I didn't see anything... anything today that resonated with me. Aren't marketing materials supposed to do that?

It's all about things I don't care about, like the camera. Oh boy, more megapixels. Yawn. I don't really even use my phone's camera that much. Dynamic Island notifications? I turn all notifications off to avoid distractions. Display brightness? I'm constantly turning it down because it blinds me at night. Gaming? I have an old Playstation 3 and a nice size TV for that. Carbon neutral? Unpopular opinion but that doesn't even rate as a top-10 driver of my purchasing. As you say, give me a replaceable battery!

The marketing all depicts people 20 years younger than me horsing around taking selfies, people who, I suppose, care about things I don't. I didn't even recognize any of the music. I'm a boring, frugal, old white guy, who uses his phone as a tool, not as a lifestyle, and my wallet is apparently not interesting to Apple. Sad to be left behind.
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Would be nice if systems offered more bifurcation. An NVMe SSD on pcie 4 could easily run off 2 lanes and be fine. 1 lane for 5.

You lose a bit of top end transfer that shows up in the benchmarks, but it's near impossible to tell.
True (for web apps and multiuser applications).

Earthly is a single binary CLI on top of Docker buildkit so it's a bit trickier for them.
I had one of these working for a while, but the thunderbolt drivers were spotty and we were constantly worried it would be all over after some update. The Thunderbolt drivers weren't even available until after boot so we had to unplug it and use onboard graphics and disable them again through the device manager after boot.

At some point it did just stop working.
I would be extremely surprised if Apple introduced a requirement for specially marked USB-C cables for the iPhone. The iPad already uses USB-C, and works with any USB-C cable.
you already have TVM for the cross platform stuff

see https://tvm.apache.org/docs/how_to/deploy/android.html

or https://octoml.ai/blog/using-swift-and-apache-tvm-to-develop...

or https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm
everyone in the org can read them. One can also subscribe to other org's mailing lists.
I'm on the same boat as you. I despised the very idea of Steam when it first launched, and was a firm believer in owning games outright without depending on a platform on which one had to log into (well, technically I still do believe in it, but I am resigned to reality). However, I have to say that Steam and its prophet St. Gabe Newell have truly stood the test of time and been a force for good in the PC games industry (all the more so as a Linux user).

In fact, Valve is a great representative of a conclusion I reached a while ago (not original by any means), which is that privately owned businesses whose owners give a shit about the value they create are of much greater social value than the paperclip-maximising entities that often result from publicly traded corporations. Another example, though defunct, was OKCupid when it was still owned privately by its founders before it was sold off to the Borg of Match.com.

When Adam Smith said that “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest” it was a description of reality, not a prescription to be maximised through layer upon layer of purely financial self-interest. Doing things for pure profit optimises the market and society benefits only as a side-effect. Doing things for profit, while actually caring for what you make, may not be market-optimal but can be much better for society.
FWIW, while there are unfortunately only very few attempts at formalizing CSS, there's at least an unofficial, unreviewed (?), partial formal semantics for (CSS 2-era) float layout based on z3 SMT and Racket you can take a look at to get a flavor, though it isn't receiving further development.

[1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

[2]: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/css-floats.html
iPhone 8. Most apps still work fine although it's getting a bit slow. I am going to get a 15, mostly for the better camera.
I wouldn't be surprised if the way they determine installs adds an extra layer of DRM that requires an internet connection too, killing all Unity games if the company ever goes under.
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Exactly this - I think leathergoods are worthwhile because they last (and quality leather should last a very long time - and in that time you'll have run through several plastic versions of the product, and shed a vast amount of microplastics into the environment in the process) but Apple's simply don't anymore.
Their leather loop watch bands were a key example - they laminated very thin layers of leather together with other materials, and the resulting product just fell apart after a year's use.
Having these as carve outs, though, gives me pause there. The claim seems to be that, on average, higher symptoms means more shedding. However, trying to control for any other variable results in no significant finding. This would imply that they did not find a correlation between vaccination and severity of symptoms in their testing.

I'm willing to chalk that up to them not having enough vaccinated people in their study. That fits the caveat they give regarding vaccinated people. It does not automatically support your read, though.
And then Epic goes "this week's free game" and now it's several million installs and the game studio's bankrupt. Because weaponizing this will happen if given the chance.
How much carbon did they burn to fly in the actresses and a movie production crew for “Mother Earth “ not to mention the marketing trips in organizing this fantasy production
They built Arcade+ in part to provide alternative to microtransaction games.
Great that they finally include USB-C. I am waiting for

- Any browser engine allowed
- 3rd party "app stores" allowed
- Allowed to simulate iPhone without owning or having to use a Mac

before switching from Android
On IOS 17 orion starts and nothing works. Been like this for some time.
What can they add now?

Blood pressure would probably be nice, but I imagine it's probably difficult to get accuracy in an apple watch style device.
I'm curious what Doug would think of this? I suppose his opinion might change depending on how you try to monetize, but if this is a way to audition for a gig at Cars and Bids it's not a bad idea :)
It's also catastrophic for services like Game Pass where the developer gets a flat fee regardless of how many people install the game. You can take a flat fee that seems reasonable based on an expectation of 100k installs, but then your game turns out to be a smash hit and it gets a million installs. Now you're on the hook for a massive amount of money to Unity but the money you got is barely enough to cover it, if it covers it at all.
I was wondering about those too. I know Google has multiple music rooms, but I seem to recall the instruments there were employees' private property. I wonder if Twitter had a policy where people can expense instruments, or if they were left behind by former employees?
Does your blog support comments?

Also, for a company blog, an SSG likely means a requirement to know Git, which could be inconvenient.
The crossover point in any grid that has significant gas presence - which is absolutely ANY "renewable" grid- is not a COP of 2. It is 3. That is, per this graph, 5 C. A temperature at which if you do things right, process heat (ovens, showers, humans) should be supplying enough of the required delta T that you really don't need to spend a lot with any energy source. And that's the marginal crossover point, not the "I need to remodel my home" crossover point.

Just... what happened to the meanest part of self-criticism that science bodies used to have? Do they think other people won't ask questions? Because I'm sorry, they do so a great deal more now than ever. Many of those "questions" are stupid. But some are not, and shouting them all down means people should distrust you.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485328. (There's nothing wrong with it - I'm just trying to prune the top-heavy thread)
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History does not repeat itself but it rhymes.

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In no universe is Unity responsible for 90% of the game. Their tech simply does not do that much for you.
You beat me to it. I don’t understand the licensing changes unless Roccitiello isn’t aware of both the existence of Godot AND its new C# support.

There will always be someone to say that an open source project can’t replace a mature, proprietary one since it doesn’t match all the features or ecosystem. Historically, this changes really fast once you make the licensing terms bad enough to make a large chunk of your customers and prospective customers leave and take a good risk with said open source project.

Roccitiello was also shortsighted when he was CEO of EA. It’s sad that history repeats itself.
> That's an exercise left to the reader for now, and is where your value/moat lies.

Hopefully more on-demand services enter the space. Currently where I am we don't have the resources for any type of self orchestration and our use case is so low/sporadic that we can't simply have a dedicated instance.

Last I saw the current services were rather expensive but I should recheck.
nope, the phones are very profitable.
That is pretty impressive, I'll admit. :)
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My usb C to hdmi Apple adapter has had a much higher number of ease of use issues with TVs during presentations compared to my older iPad’s HDMI to lightning.

(One I diagnosed and sent to Apple Engineers involved cables above a certain length failing to transmit to the TV with usbC but not with lightning).

I hope these are growing pains and not a step back.
Doug Demuro has bad taste. Sarah 'n Tuned and savagegeese have better taste.

And in this lies an idea: What if you had the scores of multiple experts?
There are also lower limits of revenue and installs your games have to break through before Unity starts charging you $$.
Galaxy watch 4 and later have it
Just like most systems reach an equilibrium between input and output, I believe we might've reached the optimization stage of the mobile device era. In my opinion, some (maybe all) of these things need to happen in order to spark change:

- some new tech leads to exciting new opportunities, either in durability, size, weight, battery, wireless tech etc;

- the market accepts and nurtures the new tech;

- the market sparks the need in the consumer.
Thats not how that works, just like the water cycle there is a carbon cycle.

You can’t produce “more” greenhouse gases in a closed system, the system will ebb and flow; until you dig up megatons of carbon that has been stored for a few hundred millennia and insert it into that system.

(same story with polar ice caps and the water cycle)
There’s nothing noteworthy here to upgrade to is there? Maybe save some carbon (god that woke video was cringeworthy) and wait for the iPhone 16?
Together AI has new aggressive pricing where 70b are on par with gpt35 and everything smaller is fairly cheaper. The catch is the only 32k context length model as of today is their llama 7b which is fairly limited.
Anytime a new version of iOS is released, usually within the first 6 months it is on 80%+ of the phones
Flexbox and grids are the modern saviors of CSS. If only we had started with them.
"We scanned them and all of them has your chips in their bellys."
Back in the 2010s there was a TED Talker/grifter who advocated a wider stance to project power and confidence. For a time that notion must have been picked up by political consultants, leading in the UK to the so-called Tory Power Stance:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/30/sajid-javid...

Of course, connoisseurs of the historical documentary series “Blackadder” know that this has a tradition going back to Regency times.
So to have an old phone that is still secure you have to know how to flash an OS onto a phone?
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Only if there's a contract between you and whatever other entity is doing this kind of per install behavior tracking.
I bought a 13 mini just a few weeks ago. Pretty sure the salespeople were rolling their eyes. Might have been the last one left at the store.
What was missing at Apple’s announcements this year?
I don’t quite get all the comments that are expressing disappointment- I think the camera and particularly the zoom is a great upgrade versus my 12 pro, and there’s a bunch of other nice to haves.

I’ll probably upgrade next year though not this one. Expecting major improvements and new features every year is odd to me.

These incremental gains add up over the 3-4 years that I feel is a reasonable minimum phone life.
I've never seen a high voltage line come down, but I did see a residential neighborhood distribution line start arcing.

The color and sound were unlike anything I've ever seen or heard.

From memory, something like a blue'd lightning bolt without thunder + the sound of 100 giant hornets shifted down in frequency.

If you've ever seen welding light in person, imagine that intensified a couple orders of magnitude.
online shopping seems to have had the opposite effect