skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if we assume the average consumer downloads the game 1.2 times, that's still only $20k more.

Charging the developer when a customer re-downloads a game they already bought sounds incredibly asinine to me, no matter how small the fee actually is. No download store charges for this privilege, and they're the ones actually footing the bill for the bandwidth and infrastructure to make that possible. Unity is adding accounting complexity and fees for something they do none of the legwork to provide.
I posted this update in a discord server and that was the first thing a friend of mine said. Said "Great, lets reinstall [game they don't like but I won't name here] over and over again!"

There is a real risk of this happening.
Methods for coming to understanding between parties acting in good faith really fascinates me. One thing I've noticed is the fundamental crux often lies with some assumption each party finds so fundamental that they wouldn't bother to state it, and don't even necessary realize they hold the view *.

As a gross example, my wife told me the other day of a buyer of some CraigsList item that called to say she couldn't find our address. They went back and forth each getting more and more flummoxed by the other's statement of what streets were where. Finally it was discovered that the caller was in Cambridge, Ontario, having misnavigated CraigsList, while we were in Cambridge, MA.

It is mistakes so fundamental as these that are hard to discover. One help I've often found is to bring in a fresh third party.

* Saying to "state your assumptions" seems futile to me. There are too many. The sun will rise, time will continue to tick by at the same rate, your friend didn't change his name yesterday, Coke still sells soft drinks.
Reddit did more to deter their users on their own than the boycott did.

I was a big supporter and regular user for reddit 10 years ago, but it slowly devolved from where discussions happened first to being fully reactionary/reposted content. I can't remember the last time I found out about something because of reddit. Mixed with them killing off reddit coins yesterday I say good riddance.

I'd rather be on hn
Good question. The sched_ext scheduler seems to be the core place where Meta & Google engineers have explored eBPF based scheduling. It's still being hacked on, ongoingly the initial proposal in November 2022.
https://lwn.net/Articles/922405/
https://github.com/sched-ext/sched_ext

Ideally we'd see that branch figure out how to incorporate some of these ideas. I haven't done an analysis to explore. The article mentions one sample eBPF scheduler that does some cgroup work, but I haven't looked deeper.
US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds
I believe Loom virtual threads will become pinned if they call native functions, so besides taking away place from more virtual threads, they won’t have to have much overhead.
Are there any reasonable conclusions and/or insights that we can draw from these graphs and their correlation? (Excluding anything cryptocurrency-related)
> Google can and should modify their algorithms until the site that users actually want is first.

Who, exactly? A professional Python programmer probably has their IDE/editor set up so it can shows a brief document for `str.endswith` already. Someone who is new to Python (probably not even a programmer yet) might actually prefer the hand-holding from those content farm pages.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37483100
Imagine non-super earth's alien civilizations are probably writing up articles about how planets like ours are hard to escape.

You dealt the hand you're given.
Those sites are plastered with Google ads so it makes Google more money to recommend them over a useful result.

Additionally Google guidelines for search ranking prioritize meaningless fluff and spam because they want to waste as much of your time as possible. More wasted time = more ad exposure.

The worlds largest search engine is owned by the worlds largest advertising company. I am surprised no one saw this coming lol
I was super excited for Garry Newman's project to bring C# to UE but never transpired: https://sbox.facepunch.com/news/dev-blog-2

Maybe ChatGPT6 can port the UE C++ codebase to C# and we can call it UE6
Laravel Sail add support for Bun
Easily reinstalled Stellaris 15-20 times, because otherwise I'll keep playing just a little bit more until the sun comes up.
Do they? My laptop charger can't fast charge my phone. And well, its sorta dumb in that regard and is something like the normal 5V 2A max of pre PD charging for nearly everything that can't negotiate the 15V (or is it 20) the laptop wants and the little charger it comes with provides.

The aftermarket chargers are much better at supporting a wide variety of voltages, and even QC/etc nonstandard charge modes. But even then, I have a charge dock on my desk which has different colored ports because only one can do 100W PD, two can do QC charging, and some others are 30W limited, etc. Its a crazy mismatch and probably more than half of the time, people are just getting 5V charging.
3 USB-C's walk into a bar. They all order different drinks of different sizes. The bartender forgets who ordered what. Its a mess.
Sources are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_considered...
Yeah, I think your approach could be applied. I simply read the 4 options as "leave" with three variations of "stay" based on how much additional effort is added. Once you leave, you are out of the system and cannot be active or passive. If you stay, you can complain/try to fix (more effort), stay the course (same effort), or do less or work against with neglect (less effort).
Ah, thanks very much! I hadn't realized that was a difference.
Among the most important initial questions for any business advice I take in is "who are you and why should I listen to you?"

Nothing provided in this person's internet footprint provides me with answers to those questions.
I would not categorize an ad platform as an app store. Plenty of streaming services and content licensing models charge per-stream/impression as well, but I feel that's a pretty separate category.

I'd be open to more clarification if there's something I'm missing, but I still don't think this is comparable to app store fees.
One supposes Borges was able to arrive at the final copy by alternately holding up the first and second drafts in any predefined pattern he wanted...
Very much agree...and furthermore:

> It doesn't necessarily follow from this that we should be optimistic about the fundamental correctness of our best theories in the physical sciences.

The disagreement was over the universe, so my first question is: does "the universe" include humans, or not (and: who decides the fact of the matter)? Because all one has to do is watch the news to realize we certainly don't have everything fully figured out....I often wonder if our (from my vantage point anyways) belief that we "pretty much"[1] do may exacerbate this.

[1] Colloquial language, figures of speech, etc are a fantastic and endless source of delusion, that typically cannot be realized.
True, and it was even more accurate a few years ago. Now Google moved towards understanding queries and giving context-specific answers rather than a strictly keyword based engine. You were considered a bad googler if you asked it a question, now it's the norm.
r/badeconomics has a recap on why this is just a freshman bad statistics take: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/i9ycy9/the_br...
>don't choose Unity

Sounds good to me!
> 3. Browsers also took issue with Google’s restrictive terms. For example, <blank> sought an alternative to Google and signed a contract with <blank> to encourage competition in search, welcoming the <blank> to <blank>. However, the trial testimony will show that to win the <blank> default from Google in 2014, <blank> needed to offer a <blank> million annual financial guarantee—roughly <blank> million more than Google was paying for the <blank> default. <blank>

That's an interesting thing to redact because... there's new articles from the time about some of these details. (This is almost certainly Mozilla switching the default search engine in Firefox, see https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/19/mozilla-partners-with-yaho...). The only thing that I'm not sure about is the precise monetary value was, or what the last <blank> (a full sentence, complete with a footnote attached).
Personally, it's because the docs aren't that good unless you're looking for something very specific. People are talking about the fact that there are no ads, but I would think it's because of the bounce rate. I could see there being a lot of people learning Python who go to the docs, see a large chunk of text with OK examples, and then bouncing to go to the other sites that have more examples. This is something that's happened to me a lot when I was doing Python development. Some of the stuff is very helpful on the docs (e.g. asyncio), but for other things the actual stuff that I want to do gets lost in the details of the docs. So while ads probably play a part, I think the bounce rate is a bigger factor, especially for people who aren't necessarily developers.
A lot of things are better off by being made digital. Voting/elections is not one of them. It lowers the bar for fraud and interference.
Tell me one car that can be driven looking always backwards.
I hope the simile is understood.
> He probably loved you because you left him alone.

Where in the post you’re replying to did you get enough information to make this assumption?

As a manager, it’s not my job to prescribe one universal management style for every employee. If I trust someone, they ask for autonomy, are proactive when they need help, and can execute, then a very solid baseline is to let ‘em cook.
Once you have hooks into source control for commit-based callbacks into CI, everything else need only be shell. Like, if you build a triggers-shell-scripts-off-source-repo-hooks web service, does putting the results in a pretty web server really matter for anyone besides executives who want dashboards dashboards dashboards? I'm already sending script output to text files and our chat system via curl to boring web service APIs.
Yeah, but it's better to be locked to paying a domain that you can migrate between providers for competition, than apple who's devices you may not use in the future or can change their pricing however they like.

It's better to own and not to rent in my opinion. Although, I appreciate the privacy arguments either way. Maybe use icloud hide my email for the things you want to keep the most private?
The problem with that logic is that all mobile devs will leave Unity -> even less money for Unity.

You cannot be onsided in business: both parties have to profit.

If one parties is screwing the other party one party will say "goodbye, we will take our money elsewhere".
What do you mean? I "have" access to my SMSes via my phone, and I "have" access to my email or my Authy also via my phone. If you get my phone, you can:

1. start password reset via email

2. confirm via SMS 2FA

So that makes this into 1FA not 2FA.

At least for TOTP secrets, I can store them securely, and attackers cannot convince a human support agent somewhere to hand them over.

If you want true 2FA, you need something like WebAuthn with hardware tokens where the private key is on the token, but then you need a recovery process, and that takes you right back to the lowest common denominator of SMS verification.
Google Pays $10B a Year to Maintain Monopoly, US Says
ChatGPT didn't learn how to write in that way due to its own efforts. It had to be trained on a mountain of blogspam, which is written in the exact same way.

All ChatGPT does better is produce blogspam with more consistent grammar, and over a wider range of topics than any single person could quickly understand.
Fans (no pun intended) of sucker cars are likely to be interested in the Goodwood record setting run by the McMurtry Speirling car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYp9eGC3Cc
Yeah, they don’t need a list of invitees either. Just ask some USB standards trivia at the door.
An Evaluation of Software Sketches
Your story leaves a number of open questions. Would your manager even know if you were not worthy of the trust given? Was your manager guiding you to work on problems that would best grow you to the future (this is a both where you want to go, and where your organization needs you to be - sometimes the two are in conflict!)? Was your manager taking care of the things his bosses needed to know about you?

Do not make this a person question about you, it is a generic question about everyone your manager is in charge of. The managers job isn't just to hire good people and stay out of the way.
Agreed, without working there, you're just speculating.

Given the possiblity for abuse, and the value from abusing it, I assume the worst: they are abusing it and probably worse than either of us can imagine.
I must have misread it
> you have your phone with the SIM card.

Yeah, or a fraudster that talked my provider in to SIM-swapping it or porting out my number (quite possible, since many phone providers don't have 2FA themselves!), or malware on my Android phone with access to incoming SMS, or (although much less likely) an SS7 attacker...

A SIM is indeed a smart card theoretically capable of acting as a true "possession" factor (e.g. using EAP-AKA/EAP-SIM, although almost nobody uses that) – but calling it a possession factor for SMS-OTP is at least as much as a stretch as calling an email inbox a knowledge-only factor: Accessing my inbox requires a FIDO authenticator and password.

> Note that NIST also recommends against email as a factor in 2FA

I guess bad decisions and/or lobbying aren't limited to European regulators/legislators then.
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You have: 100 km per hour / 0.956 sec
You want: gravity
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(Quiet founder here) We actually don't use any of that server-based IPFS infrastructure at all. Since Quiet is built on closed, private IPFS networks that are specific to each community we don't touch the global IPFS network.

I think it's fair to call Tor a peer-to-peer network, especially if you don't use the exit nodes, which we do not. Yes, it's a peer-to-peer network with some special roles and generous volunteers who run always-on nodes, often on professional infrastructure. But Tor's design is peer-to-peer and Tor has paid thorough attention to the job of limiting the power of each node to harm the network, spy on users, etc.

But yes, it's an excellent observation, and I totally agree with you that building real-world peer-to-peer networks with today's Internet and the world as it exists right now does require some compromises!

The trick is to make sure those compromises are worth it and don't harm the goals you are trying to achieve. For us we're pretty confident they don't. Right now, Quiet lets you download a client and have a shared community space on the Internet with others that does not depend on any one entity's infrastructure. And no one, including us, has any special kind of technical control over what you do or say there. And you don't have to bring your own server (or have a friend with a server) to benefit from this freedom and power.

These properties seem very significant to me, and that motivates me to keep chipping away on Quiet, despite the fact that things aren't always as pure as we might like them to be :)
We have the technology today for fully auditable and transparent, yet completely anonymous, voting. One of these days we should adopt it.
Game Maker 8 wasn't perfect but boy do I miss it.

nowadays I just do my own stuff but it's kind of interesting that nobody's really made an open-source Game Maker clone, to my knowledge.
Trashy magazines are also a mechanism for auctioning off your attention to advertisers.
I think the missing part from the person's post is not realizing there are variations of the watch. Some watches, like your, yea have cellular. I've got the 2nd gen Apple watch SE and I can't make calls off of it.

Although, interesting to know you had it on the series 4. I thought it was only on the newer series 8 and ultra, but I also just got my first apple watch about 4 months ago.
The article is just marketing. RF energy harvesting has been around for more than a decade.
A quick look at the documentation and I knew I'll bother using it. We have Jenkins, Drone, woodpecker, GitHub action. Targeting devs feels like it's the worst market to get in, specially after years of VC baked web3/GPT/ terminal/ ide / programming language 300000x faster than python with no tradeoffs offers.
Sure, but given the commenter you were replying to was in the UK, it's not an insane figure in the UK even if 45 is on the high-end.
I think all my local grocery stores sell it and so do at least some of the ice cream shops. None of them really advertise this; you just have to ask for it at the cashier.
The real question is, why are these content farm sites indexed at all? They are spam, and should be blocked, just like the way GMail blocks spam. They should never appear in any search result for anything ever, let alone be ranked first!

If someone simply took Google and just applied a huge blocklist so that garbage sites like those never got indexed, it would be the perfect search engine.
As an example, you'd write your entire API as a flask app, and then deploy that app to Lambda. Then send all requests to that one Lambda. As long as your startup time is quick (and your datastore is elsewhere, like in DynamoDB) then it will work great for quite a while. Lambda will basically run your app enough times to handle all the requests.

You have to be careful when you design it such that you don't rely on subsequent requests coming to the same machine, but you can also design it so that if they do come to the same machine it will work, using a tiered cache.
You're not wrong, but I think now the majority don't want an understanding, they just want answers.
Very cool, but also kind of impressive that a Tesla manages this in ~2.5 seconds while doing all the other stuff a production car does. What time would a Tesla get if you stripped out all the extra weight? (seats, glass, electronics, roof, etc. etc.)

Video here (900 MB download): https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/uKWFRcBjtl4foEy/download... (couldn't find it on their YouTube page yet: https://www.youtube.com/@AMZFormulaStudent/videos)
I am still convinced the author was trying to describe Make.
As hobbyist, if I would plan a serious project (with the goal of shipping, and a concrete idea), I'd use PhaserJS or ThreeJS, depending on 2D/3D. Mainly because JS/TS is my the language I am most productive in. And the result can be packaged to any target thanks to Electron and similar solutions. "Curious Expedition" and "Vampire Survivors" are two more popular games made with web-tech. (Although Vampire later moved to Unity)

For Desktop/Mobile I'd use Godot or MonoGame with C#.

For silly stuff or really short games and/or prototypes, Pico-8 is hard to beat.

And when the low-level itch starts, Raylib with C.
One of the most wonderful developments of the last decade is the "Command Palette" UX pattern. You can have a tool driven predominantly by keyboard and also make all the keyboard shortcuts discoverable (display them next to the command in the dropdown). Maybe just let the UX guys do whatever they want, just so long as I can press Ctrl-K and type the first letters of the command I want to do.
Lack of accountability is not the same as support.

It actually much closer to the opposite of what the author seems to mean, which is help improving.

I see what you’re saying and deeply feel where you’re coming from, but I think you’re identifying a different malignancy.
If one has a soul, how can one not surrender to the curiosity for how things worked back then?
Hot take here, but as someone that doesn't code daily, I prefer those sites over the actual docs in most cases.

If I need to get something done quick, those sites will give me a quick 5 second refresher with clear examples.

Actually, in the doc you described as "obviously the correct hit", all I see is

> str.endswith(suffix[, start[, end]])

> Return True if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise return False. suffix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for. With optional start, test beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing at that position.

Meanwhile, the first hit in Google for me is Programiz, which has actual real examples without any additional clicking around or trying to understand how the information is structured.

Besides, I know the docs exist, I don't need a google search for it. I'll click on the content farms every time because they've consistently been the fastest way for me to get what I need.
I've noticed that most of the time, economists will only say the positive thing about the change they want to make. I really appreciate the lectures by Mark Blyth because he explicitly talks about tradeoffs.

If you want to see something fun, watch game shows from the 70's and 80's and note the prices of things like toasters and cars. Adjust for inflation to today, and especially for cars, compare the features. It's pretty amazing.

Anyway if someone is trying to tell you that one thing or one decision changed everything, they're at best telling you a partial truth, and more likely just lying.
About 10 years ago I did a research/what-if project, involving energy-harvesting tracker tags .. essentially a smaller/lighter version of the AirTag.

It used energy-harvesting for the sensor packages, essentially charging caps if things got wet/moved/etc., but would boot up to do the sensor-data processing and communication (BLE/ANT) .. my lead on the project brought his dusty old home phone in, to give us all a stable power source, but we didn't really need it much - lots of 800mhz-900mhz in the city.

Was fun to realize, even back then, that we are literally surrounded by energy and don't really have an energy problem. We have an energy management problem, which we have yet to localize at the individual, and are instead spreading the problem across our society.

But, in between builds on this project, I would often daydream of a scenario where computing devices ran simply on background radiation, and there was no longer any need for cables, really, in order to compute.

Its fun to note we're getting closer and closer to that point. Okay, I could build a solar powered computer and also feel such satisfaction, but .. an all-in-one wafer that simply ran on cosmic noise?

Hell yeah, gimme that, sparkies!!!
Read a sci-fi book recently with that being a central plot point. Reasonably advanced species unable to escape the gravity of its home world. There is also a dearth of fissile material in the solar system that prevent a "nuclear option". Book was written as a bit of homage to "The Mote in God's Eye" with wanting to leave to planet being seen as a "Crazy Eddie" idea.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59554147-cold-eyes
The tooling is not entirely open or freely available.

If you, for e.g., want to debug you have to use MS tooling.[0] You also can't use VSCodium because only the MS built/distributed version of VSCode contains the proprietary binary blobs necessary to debug C# (which also means you're forced into the aggressive telemetry and other data collection built into the non-open source distribution of VSCode).

They've also taken steps to lock down the LSP support for C#, which once again requires that you use a MS sanctioned editor to write C#. [1]

I really enjoy writing C# and think dotnet is a great platform to develop for, but the barriers preventing me from building more projects on it is that I don't want to be forced to use VSCode or Visual Studio. I also don't want to get too invested into a particular piece of tooling that is going to be rug pulled down the road by some MS product manager who isn't aligned with the "MS <3 OSS" side of the company.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276