skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stop believing OSS is automatically clean and safe.

Not disagreeing but Free Download Manager stopped being OSS in version 3.9.7, that was 2017 and this article's infected package was released in 2020.
God damn, it’s amazing they get away selling those. They spend so much effort on their software ux but their components for humans to interact with it are dark age’s torture devices from an ergonomics perspective. From a QoL perspective few things are more important.
Just change your perspective to one of a scumbag C-level executive of a public facing company and you will quickly understand.

> I for one don't understand how sustainability and a yearly release schedule can go hand in hand

The sustainability report is more for green washing and a thinly veiled deceptive tactic to hide their lust for greed

> Why isn’t it a 2 or 3+ year release cycle?

again, adjust your perspective. The point is to push hardware sales and pump the quarterly numbers. Making the phones easily repairable means significant decrease in NEW phone sales which generate the $$$. Let’s be honest, Apple C-level execs don’t give a fuck about the environment, human rights, and any of that. It’s all a show.

> Yearly upgrades of consumer electronics is a pretty non-sustainable idea

Apple C-level execs know this. Apple marketing division knows this. Consumers know this. Yet people continue to buy their greenwashing campaign every year and consumers are convinced it’s okay. Oh it’s “carbon neutral” now. Oh Apple installs solar panels at their shitty office, “I am buying into a green company guyzzz!!! save the planet one iPhone at a time”

Support right to repair. Support government regulations. Do not expect these private companies to “do the right thing”
I dunno. Hardly anybody remembers it, but a "crisis" is supposed to be an event instead of a "situation that goes on and on". Getting evicted is certainly a crisis but it's usually the culmination of a long process, particularly in New York where your landlord is probably going to have to file a "notice to quit" and wait 90 days before beginning an eviction proceeding.
Anyone who has ever interacted with the US health care system knows that getting an accurate quote in advance is nearly impossible.
I think you might be missing the point. Power and data in the same cable is a huge advantage of USB-C (both Apple connectors had power and data in the same cable).

Third parties will make out-of-spec cables no matter what. Some of the ways that Apple has addressed this is the "Made for" program which goes back even to the iPod. And the devices themselves detecting and showing an "Accessory may not be supported" error message, again going back to the iPod.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, August 2023
> As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research

Children. Independent online “research.” Right.
One of the main benefits of Apple Arcade was to recognize this problem and carve out a space for games that do not suffer from these issues (while making services revenue at the same time). I think it worked pretty well. It doesn't have the AAA though.
I said S5 Neo, not S5 mini. Thr link you sent is completely unrelated.

I've had an S5 Neo for years and had iPhones as well. It was a completely fool proof design. The worst thing you could have done was break the back cover, which no one did, and that's a 5$ fix. It's a non issue, and no one would have complained if Apple did it.

And the S5 sold only 15% less than the iPhone.
Planet Money by NPR made an episode [0] on this a few years ago. I highly recommend listening to it if you're curious to know more.

>Vince Kosuga was an onion farmer back in the 1930s. A pretty successful one. But farming wasn't enough for him. He also liked to make bets on wheat and other crops. Then he had an idea: Why not try his luck with the crop he knew best?

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/epis...
Yes. It doesn't have the asset store quantity behind it yet however the actual development side of things is quick and relatively simple.
Since CarPlay has worked for years over Lightning cables, 2.0 speeds must be sufficient
Anyone else a bit skeptical of the “time to having a live product” timeline of many of these companies? Maybe I’m wrong, but e.g. there’s no way Gusto produced a working managed payroll product in a month. There must have been either been significant pieces of their product that were pre-existing or else they built an interface to someone else’s product.
I was going to disagree with that on the basis that almost anything is on par, but then I thought of sourdough starter/levain, which is surely the easiest, cheapest, most versatile, most useful (almost everyone eats at least one kind of at least slightly leavened bread) home fermentation project.

Once you get going it's very easy to always make your own bread, and it be lot better & cheaper (a sliding scale between them depending what you bought, but almost certainly both to some extent regardless) than what you bought before.

Beer is trickier than hot sauce for sure, but more differentiable, versatile, and satisfying (if you drink beer) perhaps to make up for it on an RoI basis? Certainly worth trying if you like this sort of thing anyway, I think.

Yoghurt is even easier than hot sauce, more versatile, though not really as interesting or variable. Such low investment though (milk, few chickpeas or chilli crowns) that if you use it at all it would be hard for it not to do very well on RoI basis.
One niche Godot (or any OSS game engine) can't fulfill is seamless console ports.
This is really nice. Interesting, they use a sprite for all the images in a collection, like it is used for a character in games.
No offense, but your solution reads like a typical idea that Sillicon Valley startup could come up with, i.e., throwing technology at a wrong problem, ignoring human factor and applying monetization where it doesn't belong. It reminds me of this founder who wanted to replace hiring processes with people putting money on the person staying in the firm long enough.

Not all science is based on experiments. Furthermore, science is not usually done in two simple steps: creating a theory and validating it. In practice, it's a cycle of refirenement that often requires dozens of iterations and involves discovering new phenomena.

In your model, who decides if the 3rd party has invalidated the claim or simply conducted the experiment incorrectly? Everyone involved has a financial motivation, so there's no independent side to resolve this issue.
Oh that is very interesting. Thanks for writing it up for all to learn off! The internet is made better because you put in the effort!
For the gpu: Really gonna need fps limiters. So many games run hot and are unplayable without them.

Low power mode helps but a cpu limiter like when jailbroken would be good.
Others have spoken to the technical merits but I can say straight up that the community would absolutely despise this idea, even if the generated code was excellent. LLM generated code would go over about as well as implementing a blockchain in the kernel.
Or the air's going very fast past you. Who can tell?
Why not Unreal? Godot seems like a much simpler engine compared to Unity and Unreal.
That is an interesting read indeed. I found the parts about not showing anger and not pretending to write like a lawyer to be particularly illuminating.
I sometimes use NVidia's GeForce Now streaming platform. I like it because it hooks into my Steam library. Sometimes when I launch a game, it goes through an installation process on Steam. It's almost instant (there's no actual download, so there's something special happening here), but it's definitely hooked into Steam's "install a game" mechanism. If I was a game developer, I'd be very worried about these game streaming platforms.
Getting fee isn't wrong maybe, but getting a fee by install is. They should instead ask for a percent of revenue. So if 1 billion people install my flappy bird clone but I only make $300k I don't owe them $15 million dollars.
From the article:

> What can be done about this?

> Many people have suggestions for obvious improvements here, which might rhyme with the Federal Trade Commission’s suggestions from 2010 or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s spate of rulemaking from 2021 through 2023 or the FDCPA from 1978.

I would humbly suggest looking at how different countries deal with the same issues, and seeing what works and what doesn't work. Many of the differences will be cultural, some will be differences in laws and regulations. Some will be systematic differences, some will be down to random chance.
Because their paper states it. That’s what is meant by “when accounting for etc” in:

“We found that vaccinated and unvaccinated participants exhaled similar numbers of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies (Fig 2C), when accounting for age, sex, presence of co-morbidities, days since symptom onset and symptom severity”
It depends what you want out of the conversation. Do you want to build the relationship, get an idea of how the company is doing, get advice for your career, etc. All of these require different questions. Also depends on how long you have.

But, my favorite generic question is "what keeps him or her up at night?"

Why?

* People generally love to talk about themselves, VPs included.

* It shows you are thinking about the big picture.

* It gives him or her the chance to talk strategically.

* It might give you some insight into current problems the VP thinks is or will be interesting/important to the org.
C# being the deciding factor an incredibly common refrain in game development "what engine do you/should I use?"

Whether or not it's justified is another manner. I haven't personally dealt with the modern Unreal Engine but natively supporting C# would, at the very least, make people a lot more likely to switch over.
You could go to the gaming mouse subreddit and find the latest cutting edge tech, but honestly pretty much any modern mouse will be an improvement from an ergo perspective. Finding one with a decent aesthetic is more of a challenge though.
Per sale would still be very problematic because they consider sale as part of a deeply discounted bundle/subscription a sale, unless it’s a charity bundle.

A fixed fee like that also effectively kills popular $1 games.
> My guess is it's not technology per se that's the problem but that it gets used primarily to make the teacher's life easier and substitute for them giving lessons and feedback

I think this is highly likely given what they are cutting back on is “independent online research.”
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-22
WebP2 is highly experimental, so don't count on it being safe.

libwebp is relatively simple and clean C code, and has been around for over a decade. There are definitely scarier codec implementations than this.
As a former faculty member who now directs science in industry. Agree.
Related cautionary advice for AI developers: be careful to design a business and revenue model that can survive the underlying licensing fees as they change (increase) over time. Cheers.
Recent and related:

The Death of Unity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486431 - Sept 2023 (153 comments)

Unity plan pricing and packaging updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344 - Sept 2023 (457 comments)
I like it. Tried something similar early on, but decided it wasn't worth it because the ChatGPT context window is only enough to run for 10-20 turns anyway. But with Claude's 100k token context window, this should work great. Thank you.

I'm sure there are ways around this if you use the API and connect it to a MySQL database to allow users to "save" their spot... I'm not technical so my understanding of what's involved is hazy, but curious if people have ideas of how to do this simply. But for my current use case, I'm working with dozens/hundreds of college students so I need to make sure the whole thing is free. I've applied for a grant that could fund use of the API though, fingers crossed.
My USBC mouse is Logitech. It's the sideways mouse that is supposed to help with carpal tunnel and it's been fantastic after I got used to it. I'm actually surprised that they have any current mice that are not USBC.

Is it an older model that is popular that they just aren't changing because people are still buying them? If you're willing to try something new you might be surprised by the improvements they have in their latest lines.
Samsung unveils monobloc heat pump for residential applications
There's not one 'the' waste.

Treating one part as the 'product' and other as 'waste' is merely a matter of perspective.

Eg in the early days of web search, think Yahoo and friends before Google showed up, someone might have shown you a banner ad, but most of what is now used as essential data to target the ads better was just 'data waste' that only showed up in server logs at most.
The spec requires negotiation between the devices to deliver any nontrivial amount of power. A data connection is necessary to enable charging.
Here in Tokyo, we have dozens of different transit system operators, and everything works like clockwork without all the problems you have over there. Many stations have multiple operators' train lines at the same station, even. Even better, you use the same stored-value fare card for all of them.
This'll create such insane scenarios I do not see a world where Unity doesn't walk this back.

Imagine Rimworld having to patch in ads or microtransactions because their large playerbase continues to buy new computers.

How do you put a game on sale for a dollar anymore? It's all but guaranteed that your players will cost you more over their lifetime.

We're going to see indie games go "limited edition" when their rev edges near targets.

https://vxtwitter.com/cultofthelamb/status/17017159716634258... more of this will happen.

Lamentable how 1 word is all it's taken to take to make their whole ecosystem too risky to consider.

I've been a unity developer for about a decade, in that time I have given Unity more money than I have any other software company. It's become imminently clear that I need to transition to another engine. Even if they go and change "per install" to "per sale", the canary that Unity would never add untenable risk to the businesses of every one of their customers is dead.
In a word, yes. The code execution CVEs, especially for iOS which is the subject here, all start with <=2014. There has been a huge amount of work since then (accelerated by the research device program).

It’s a favorite boogeyman of the “nation state actors are under your bed” crowd. Which is stupid because they all recommend avoiding public charging and would they be doing that if they were siting on high-quality exploits?

There’s a reason NSO doesn’t target USB, and it’s not because they enjoy creating VMs in the image decoder.
Better cameras, faster processors, capable GPU, titanium case, better OLED screen with higher max brightness, satellite emergency assistance. As far as the philosophy of incremental improvement goes that’s pretty good.
The second bill is from the chef. You thought the chef worked for the restaurant? No, that was a separately contracted service provider.
I think they wanted people to transfer at 14 and 42 because they only have adequate platform width for the people going to and from Penn.

It is a weird quirk built into the system but not too many situations where it slows anyone down since 42 is the next / previous station and you will almost always end up connecting to the same train you would have at Penn?

I guess there could be some situation where uptown local and express pull in to Penn at same time and you would be able to make a connection but then one is held and they don't connect at 42. But unusual and they run pretty frequently on 1-2-3?
I hope this fiasco gets people to realize that it’s better to write your own code. But probably not. After decades of platform jumping after enshittification, people continue to to do it to platforms that they have no control over
A Brief History of Cobblestones
This is exactly what I do. For the first month or so I recommend weekly 1:1s, just to make sure they are adapting well and getting the things they need. There are a lot of internal systems to navigate, tons of folks they should get to know, etc. But once they are a bit "settled" the frequency is really up to them with a minimum of once a quarter. I've been in companies before where managers only met with their employees for things like this once a year at review time! This often led to resentment and morale problems when performance reviews didn't align with employee expectations and by the time they find out it's too late to course correct. You must keep folks appraised of how well they are meeting expectations both good and bad. The "annual review" should contain no surprises for anyone.
Supposedly this is intentional!

> Those stops were built that way intentionally. [...] the designers wanted to coax passengers to switch between local and express trains at the Times Square — 42nd Street — Port Authority Bus Terminal complex, one stop to the north.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/nyregion/weird-subway-qui...
If they fix the bill, maybe it causes trouble for them with insurance companies? Whereas sliding some money back is a quiet way to deal with it.
I don't even know what Hot Ones is, bizarre thing to say, as if 'hot sauce' is in any way a new concept or even just newly commercialised. I loved Tabasco hot sauce and chilli peppers in general as a small child (and forever since).

Of course that doesn't mean it can't be or isn't a current craze, but it's hardly been a niche interest since.. idk, some time not too long after Portuguese colonialism brought chillies out of South America ca. 16th-18th C.s?
At nearly 7”, I’m convinced they’re secretly in the purse market.
Yeah it requires calibration using a "traditional" BP monitor before using which means it doesn't just work...
What was he suspended for? It doesn't make sense to suspend someone for correctly foretelling the future, so there must be something missing in this story.

Of all the things Elon accepts on that site, this one crosses the line?
Its crazy to think they just used to take a break for a summer but it honestly makes sense. They dont pass that many laws anyways and that was always part of the design. As time goes on I think the expectations on congress have increased quite a bit. The governments footprint has really only gotten bigger.

> Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi, a segregationist Democrat who served more than three decades on Capitol Hill, once told then-Sen. Joe Biden that A/C was the most significant change to occur during his career in Congress — and not for the better.

So Joe Biden was a Democrat when the Democrats had segregationists? I thought the parties switched? Its wild to realize 1) Joe Biden has been in politics that long and 2) he was in the same party as segregationists while he is currently trying to represent pretty much the opposite.
At what point is an electric vehicle just rolled-up railgun ;p
I'll provide an example...while heavily medicated after breaking both of my legs I signed something on an Ipad, once. I asked for a copy and they weren't able to provide me one. After more than a dozen phone calls I was finally able to get a copy. But that involved figuring out whether it was the company that rented me the wheelchair, the company that billed me, the company that billed my insurance, or the company that owned all of those companies. They provided me three documents I had signed with not the same signature on them. Then when I asked them to pickup the 'rental' that they never told me was a rental, it took five phone calls and over two weeks (during which time they billed me and my insurance for another month of renal). They finally came and picked it up within three hours when I had the news reporter who covered my accident get in touch with the CEO's office.

I reported all this, with call recordings, logs, notes, etc. to my insurance's fraud hotline and they closed the file without doing anything.

Much of health care in the US is wrapped in a blanket of outright fraud. You can't agree to be a victim of fraud. Until I get to charge them for the time I spend correcting their billing mistakes I am totally fine deciding what bill is appropriate and what bill is not on my own.
> Hell for all we know it was an ER visit and they had absolutely no say in the matter

This has been tried in case law, and failed. Even if you're documented unconscious, the EMTs are allowed to make a good faith assumption that you want reasonable efforts of resuscitation. Look up "implied consent" laws.
I had perfectly joined up handwriting by that same age. They should've let your son continue to use his perfectly legibly print but that doesn't mean that calligraphy is necessarily unreadable, just that your son was bad at it.
Ask HN: Has the GitHub Copilot quality dropped?
I'm starting to see very irrelevant suggestions. Has anybody else experienced this recently?
Something like that happened in the 1999 Le Mans to Mercedes[0]. It happened three times that race weekend before they decided to retire their last remaining car.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ
There are use cases that can benefit from this, and I built a saas door access control system based around some of these ideas over 10 years ago.

However, the vast majority of apps don’t need this. Please don’t do anything like this for your boring enterprise CRUD app (60 fps CRUD? What even?).

I know many of you will, so I guess I’ll just console myself with the likelihood I’ll have a ton of consulting work in the next 5-10 years.
Small compared to infinity, mostly. Or maybe compared to the observable universe, i.e. how much stuff exists that we cannot see versus how much we can?
Technical debt.

Once systems acquire sufficient technical debt, it's packaged up into maintenance contracts and sold to offshore development companies to support.
More like you went to your favorite restaurant and wanted the fish but there was no price on it, and when you asked how much it would cost they would ask if you had insurance or not because that would determine your price, so you say no insurance and they say okay well it could cost anywhere between $10 and $1500 and then you get the fish and enjoy it and they give you the bill after and it's actually $10,500.
SQL is 44 years old, and Python is 32. Both are old.

I mean, not Lisp/COBOL old, but old.
If this decision stands then I genuinely don't see how any developers will be motivated to use Unity long-term. I know that it's almost customary for companies to start pushing the limits hard as soon as they feel like they got too big to fail, but since the biggest Unity moneymakers are professionals and large companies, they'll probably have higher standards.

The only reasons why someone would possibly consider using Unity now would be if:

- They're already supporting or developing a Unity game

- They have a lot of staff that's only experienced with Unity

- They simply must use one of Unity's features and no other replacements are available

How is this going to be good for them in anywhere but the extreme short-term?
Any way you slice it, it's a stupid regressive way to charge for an engine by a company that already makes an unimaginable amount of money.

Their "fix" requires fingerprinting people's computers and phoning home, both of which should really be seen as privacy violations.

And all that said, at it's heart there no justifiable reason the developer should be charged for every device I install something on. The developers are not making more money, why should the engine makers get a larger cut.
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