skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stable, profit earning cash-cow

But it's not. Unity is extremely unprofitable as a company (-50% operating margin.. lol..).

They would be fine if they hadn't started burning money like there is no tomorrow after their IPO back in 2020. The company was still unprofitable but had decent growth and would've broken even in a year or two. Then they decided that they need to double their headcount (to almost 8000 people...) in two years and start buying random companies for exorbitant prices (I guess why not? Money is free after-all).

Now they don't have a choice and have to maximize their rev. growth or the company is f**d. IMHO the engine itself would probably be in a much better spot had MS (or even FB) bought them 5-10 years ago and they could've easily paid as much as their current valuation minus Weta, IronSource, whatever they bought before.

> company killing decision, unless there is something we are missing ?

Probably. I mean the pricing changes seem to be very complicated and most people are only looking at a single number ($0.2) which seems to be there only to force everyone above the 200k revenue/install threshold to upgrade to Pro tier. Seems like 80-90% of all users won't pay anything for installs and the average for those who do is probably to be somewhere between 2-5 cents which is not unreasonable financial (it still seems like a slightly bizarre price model in general).

The way they presented this seems to be a disaster marketing wise. But about on par given the general level of idiocy amongst their upper management (especially their "marketing department").
Rates are high. Offering any dollar account, you can just collect 5% p.a. and pass none of it on to the consumer.
It's quite amusing what this comment attracts so many up and downvotes, yet no one comments why.
It's not really a security measure in that sense. It's a "safety feature" that prevents accidentally running such a script. Anything can trivially disable the protection using a bat script (or anything else) to bootstrap.

E.g. `powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted`
Creating Diagrams – GitHub Docs
I am OK if somebody like ISP will add his ads on the HN, typically it happens this way. I would agree that limits of technology is a thing if someone does something more interesting like replacing all pro-Lisp topics with pro-Java ones. But even in latter situation at least I have an ability to change Wi-Fi/GSM connection while in no-HTTP world I just go south with no good reason.

Isn't HN's webserver (nginx/apache/whatever) has open HTTP by default? Isn't there a good reason for this?
This is more convenient than carrying a phone, is it? Gonna project your work on the wall of the subway on the way into the office?
I worked on Mozilla for 6 years before we shipped Firefox 1.0 which had solid product market fit.
Microsoft pretty much did nail the software side of it, but nobody really cared.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/continuum

This is pretty much exactly what you're looking for. A phone OS on the phone, plug it in, get a desktop OS on a desktop. It worked pretty well, even for the limited hardware at the time.

If a device supports Displayport Alternate Mode on USB-C, there are docks that work like how you're imagining. But I do agree, for a lot of devices the mobile OS just doesn't really have a great desktop experience.

https://plugable.com/products/uds-7in1
Too late. But maybe in 2038.
> If the users interest is available via the browser, that would enable smaller sites to do what larger sites do.

And how is that a good thing? The problem is the data collection itself. That larger sites don't directly sell or share the data they collect is better than if they did, but it certainly doesn't make everything OK. The tracking is still happening.
How can you hold the opinion that AI is both not useful and that it's to bring human extinction?

Anyways, incoherence of your argument aside, I'll gladly raise my hand as having a use case that LLMs immediately solved for and it's now a core product feature that performs well.
It's not profit earning. Unity lost almost a billion dollars last year. This is a move of desperation.
The H2 chip came out in the AirPods Pro 2 in 2022. All of the features they describe are available once your AirPods have firmware updated. Except USB-C.
> Stable profits are worthless

Unity never had those though or any profits for that matter (they have been burning cash for almost two decades..)

> All that matters is growth

Yeah, but in this case they have been more focused on growing their costs rather than revenue (which is not exactly ideal even from the "Wall Street" perspective).
Yeah it seems to be a big plot hole, I need a diagram of how this is supposed to work and which part of the stack has illicit funds to convert
If you bother to read more than the abstract, you’d realize this isn’t an attack. It’s a framework for possibly creating new attacks, which after extensive research yielded precisely zero code execution bugs. Gotta print something after wasting a whole semester I suppose.

When I say unsubstantiated rumor, this is what I’m talking about.
> In reality, larger software projects like nginx and apache have their own opinions and usually serve out of different places.

It might make sense if the software is serving a domain from something installed with a package. Nginx is often installed with a package and long-lived data goes into /var. So it makes sense to serve /var/www for their examples. Then people just build on those examples, sadly being unaware of or unwilling to change to values that were preinstalled for demonstrations.

But for multi-homing a server (or even a single site on that server), I still end up putting stuff under /srv/<domain>/<site>, so example might be /srv/systemd.software/www [0]. Then `/srv/<domain>` might have its own fstab entry -- for example, it might be a bind-mount to somewhere else, or it might be its own disk/encryption, or it might be a network mount.

Any admin can do what they want on their own servers. I just figure it's best to follow documented standards.

[0]: https://github.com/inetknght/systemd.software/blob/0bf207d6f...
Yikes! Sounds worse than Javascript!
Having well designed cities and transit isn’t just something that can be done for dense urban areas. Our car centric belief system is more of a cultural artifact than an indication that nothing else is possible.

https://youtu.be/ztpcWUqVpIg?si=DZ9p1cQgSUpvKWnl
I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however).

Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user.

[1] https://dbeaver.io/
Rhombus: A New Spin on Macros Without All the Parentheses [pdf]
Why Is It So Hard to Build Safe Software?
DBeaver is an amazing gui. It works with Postgres, MySQL and many more.

MySQL WorkBench was always crashing on my Windows machine. That was some years ago so it may have improved.
> I need to sit in a godforsaken carpark twiddling my thumbs for 15–20 minutes

You don't use the bathroom or buy coffees? With a family, that'll kill your entire 20 minutes. Food or sleep will kill even more time.

And why the heck would you sit in your car while waiting? If you're driving in your car all day, a 10 minute walk every 3 hours will do wonders for your sanity and health. There's a reason commercial drivers are required by law to take a 30 minute break every 4 hours.
Sequel Pro is the one I keep comparing all Postgres clients to.

Beekeper is nice but lacks some of the GUI Tools, there's no point in having a nice GUI but not any good amount of functionality.

At times I see folks new to Postgres using 2 or 3 different GUIs to do different things.
My understanding (perhaps in error) is that some private party has brought these to display before the Mexican Congress as part of their hearings on UFOs.

I read an allegation in an earlier story that the person who owns these and brought them to this show has been previously convicted of fraud involving faked mummies made from relatively fresh corpses of children. NFI on veracity of that either.
The thing is you are many layers away from these people, using your taxes for god knows what. At least local politicians will have to ingratiate themselves a little bit. Starting from the top, zero accountability.

Have you ever met someone who worked at UN, EU? The chasm between those and private industry is huge. People get a ton of benefits for little work. I personally know a few people who gave up their cushy EU job as it ate at their soul to make pretend work. Whoever stays is too dumb or just grifting.
The ESP32 chips have the ability to drive both Ethernet and Wifi. There is some onboard hardware accelerated encryption also. So in that case you could make the physical device easily enough. VPN can often do proxy-arp so that the NAT issue would not appear. Whether it would give you enough performance, unknown.
I've been checking the quality of my light sources for years using a CD (florescent vs LED vs incandescent). Didn't DIY'ers know this technique for years?
> AI is (still) eating the world.

Citation needed.

I work in this space so am fairly optimistic, but it's worth pointing out we're still mostly talking about AI hype. Nothing has really been eaten at all yet from what I've seen.

The article claims that there are tons of startups in this space, which is true, but that doesn't mean any of these startups have actually solved any major problems yet.

As a reminder, we still haven't "solved" autonomous driving quite yet and we were much further along that road 5 years ago.

Working on shipping LLM driven products everyday, I'm becoming increasingly concerned that there's no way the products proposed can possibly match the hype for them. Which is a bit of a bummer since these models have a lot of potential in the sub-hype space, but I fear backlash in the future will lead us to squander that potential.
If you live in California your credit score can’t be factored into hiring unless you directly deal with company finances in a specific way, namely in the roles of accounting or finance.

Even if you’re a software engineer working on financial software you’re exempt because you have no direct and common access to the company purse.

There’s a few other states that have laws like this I can’t recall them though l
What about the infamous [patriot missile failure](https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html) in which faulty floating point arithmetic caused a missile not to be intercepted, killing 28?
https://archive.ph/4JclX

subtitle: "Loan assumptions, which let a home buyer essentially take over a seller’s mortgage, are hard to find and hard to pull off"

'There are millions of outstanding mortgages with a 3% interest rate. A new startup says it can help today’s home buyers get their hands on them.

Mortgage rates are now above 7%, leaps and bounds above the 3% they grazed two years ago. Buyers and sellers alike are giving up, sucking demand and supply out of the housing market. And things are expected to stay that way, with the Federal Reserve signaling plans to keep rates high for the foreseeable future.

Roam, a real-estate company set to launch Wednesday, is betting that it can popularize an obscure workaround. “Assumable loans” allow sellers to transfer their own mortgage loans to the buyer alongside the house.

n theory, the idea sounds great, at least for discouraged house hunters who can inherit a lower-rate loan. Sellers, in turn, might fetch higher prices for their houses.

But Roam’s vision faces an uphill battle. Loan assumptions haven’t gained much traction recently, even though rates are up. Many lenders are cool to the idea because for them it would mean more work for less money.'
No idea about Austria but ~10y ago it was very uncommon in Germany and kinda common in Switzerland. For Germany I can only talk about developer and general "office" jobs, whereas in the social sector and in retail 32h/4d were more common. From what I heard in Switzerland it didn't really matter where you worked, if you wanted to go 4 days it was not a stretch of imagination (maybe still only white collar jobs). Have lost my connections so no idea how it is now, but going to 4 days has gotten some uptick in Germany.
I appreciate that, but you're not really talking about what would replace it or how the web would survive without it. Like, the reality is that ads are enabling non-ad content today, so I think it's fine to say "and it's bad for reasons XYZ" but can you not see the value?
> It takes away more information from everyone else. Widens the gap despite slightly denting what Google can see.

Good. It would be even better if it had a greater impact on Google as well, but I'll take whatever gains I can get.
Nango.dev (YC W23) is hiring a founding back end engineer (remote)
Yes, humans are unique.

> The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.[0]

Without this exception "natural" loses all meaning; nothing would be considered artificial because everything inevitably comes from the earth.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nature
I don't really think that any of those are as important as comments, though. Comments are indispensable for a self-documenting config file. Trailing commas and so forth are merely convenient.

JSON with comments wouldn't be perfect, but it would be unacceptable a lot less often.
I doesn't need to be millions of dollars per day to be happening, and worthwhile for the gangs.

Money laundering works best when you've got a lot of different streams of it, spread across many different economies. You want the dirty money dispersed to as many unrelated people as possible. Because it's easier for 100 people to each do something with $100 of dirty money than for 1 person to do something with $10,000 of dirty money.

And Spotify doesn't have any reason to try to stop it. They're not likely to lose customers of it, and it makes their numbers go up.
Choosing a Stream Processing System? This Article Has You Covered
Yes, while working on my AI Melodies Assistant project, it quickly became clear that generating a pleasant but boring music isn't too difficult. To create a catchy tune, an element of surprise is essential. In the end, I was able to use it as an assistant to compose 60 melodies that I'm happy with (https://www.melodies.ai/)
As soon as Office 2007 didn't use MSI the format was doomed.

I assume the Here in NIH refers to an individual team, not MS as a whole.

Teams is entirely NIH https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows for updates to the Electron app.

I would use winget, but MS made it weirdly hard to run as a script on multiple computers, it installs per user, because... who knows.

So still using chocolatey
My 15 years of web usage there was no time when I could turn JS off and everything would work fine.
China's 7nm Semiconductor Breakthrough – Asianometry [video]
I’ve never understood why they don’t provide the option to disable it, it’s not like Excel is a sleek, minimalist piece of software with strong opinions and limited configuration.

I also love how the support article describes a behavior of their own software as “very frustrating”.
CNN and Fox also publish proven lies or reframe things. Do we not believe anything they say as well?
It’s an interesting path for sure. I’d never wish it on anyone, but the experience has also been useful in its own way.

Email me if you ever want to chat about this stuff.
The same apply for cooking, buy the best ingredients and the chances of getting praised by your cooking skills are high.
unsolicited feedback you might care about or not: it doesn't run on my Pixel 6A :(

shame, i was very excited to try it!
Here's the 4 hour video footage (in Spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVl-bKVVlE
You also need to jailbreak your phone to use MVT.
Since the type of exploit pegasus has been using has been recently seen in the wild and Apple has had to release more than one security update to address this attack vector it leads me to believe that not just targetted individuals should enable "lock down mode" on their apple devices. Although apple doesn't recommend it, it could be useful if there is a major malware outbreak across the iPhone ecosystem.
I still consider OpenAI's JukeBox (now at least 2 years old!) far and away the most creative music AI. But the combination of coherence, sound quality and creativity of this model is (to my knowledge) easily best in class.
> No depositor has ever lost a penny of insured deposits since the FDIC was created in 1933.

https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/banking/facts/
> It’s not a problem of capitalism, it’s a problem of reality.

I'm really not sure about that.

> Of course it requires debt relief, things go _wrong_ all the time, that’s just life and how the world works.

Yet funnily enough the people on top of all these vast structures sail away from their sinking ships on parachutes of gold (if they're even sinking: a lot of times they just sit and collect vast sums of unearned wealth because they had a lot of wealth already).

If debt is such a bad business why are so many massive institutions in it, not discharging debt, and raking in the profits by the shovelful?

> Debt relief is also necessary for a peaceful society. If you can’t legally discharge debt in some manner we’d have companies hiring enforcers like a shark loan would.

This however we can agree on. As the amount of debts that can be accrued and not discharged (student loans being the biggest) goes up, the economy seems ever more unstable and unsustainable. As it turns out when you strip mine your consumers wallets from every angle, eventually they seem to be unable to buy things for some reason. Then demand craters and your economy stalls.

And just to head off this reply I always get in these discussions about useless degrees and STEM and etc. etc., I think to be frank, if indeed we're only interested in financing "worthwhile" educations, then that should be enforced by the financier, no? A bank wouldn't loan you $200,000 to buy a single-wide trailer on rented land, the asset is not now nor would it ever be worth that, so why is a student able to borrow six figures for a again in quotes, "worthless" literature degree, and be strapped to that one decision they made for life?
But what about remote/semi-remote/a lot of WFH? Do you miss out on your benefit and it's your own fault? Is it mostly to draw people back into the office?

I would have agreed 5-10 years ago, but now I find this kinda moot.
I really like the way the author writes.

The article is great, and so are a few other links. Particularly enjoyed this[0] on the same site - The Norway Problem, which discusses parsing challenges in YAML.

[0] https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
Apple's iPhone 12 sales banned by France's radiation watchdog
Are these concerns legitimate?
> Describing the process, he said the gangs would convert their dirty cash to bitcoin, then used the cryptocurrency to pay people who sold fake streams on Spotify, which is a Swedish company.

Could have swapped to Ether and sold a newly launched NFT collection to themselves

The dirty money holder purchases the collection across several addresses, the “artist” keeps the proceeds and cashes out

Faster, involves less people, plausible deniability with a little marketing campaign
BeeKeeper is good light alternative.
> Having symbols delimiting blocks and indentation violates the DRY principle.

This is a very interesting hot take if I have ever heard one. I don’t want to agree, I don’t like significant whitespace, but I might have to agree.

I think by the same line of reasoning, spaces for indentation rather than tabs violates DRY as well though? I could be wrong.
I read that if Pegasus is on your phone, even a factory reset will not get rid of it. Could someone explain why?
There is no self propagation code built into Pegasus.

It would be relatively trivial to write such - simply have it send the exploit via iMessage to all of a targets contacts, rinse and repeat.

This would be counterproductive though - the whole selling point of Pegasus is targeted surveillance, and such exploits are very costly - uncontrolled spreading would make it detected much faster, burning a valuable resource.

If such exploits were cheap, it’s plausible you could justify writing a variant that automatically attacks a targets entire address book to mine their social graph, but then you have the problem of analysing a shitload of probably worthless data…
Building a tailored earworm might actually be easier.
Yes, it is better than the dollars Paypal holds for customers and then invests in higher risk securities.
I think you are mixing up usb3 and usb4, here's a good explanation of thunderbolt 4 vs USB 4 (they are exactly the same for all practical purposes): https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/USB-C/thunderbolt4-vs-USB4...
But most of Apples customer base wouldn't care if they did/didn't. If there was market demand for a fully open iPhone Apple would open up the iPhone more.
Inflation is a kind of slow debt relief that may have largely replaced the need for jubilees.
I'm sure there are quite a few people who do, yes.
The first point is true i admit. There are very complex and good ways to identify stuff but those perform so bad they cannot be used in practice.

AV/EDR products do try to prevent a lot of stuff. They can 'generically' block things like injection etc. by 'hooking all the things' and injecting into everything (yes, yuck :D and still kind of heuristic based i admit!) to make certain sections read only or remove executable mappings etc. (got/plt/stack/...)

Linux or more specifically ELF files also have an easy vector to allow injection by having a dynamic table entry for debugging purposes which can be trivially overwritten for example. "ibc.so" :(). I'm not sure anyone uses that entry validly... especially since there's better/less awkward debugging interfaces than injecting a debugger DLL into something :') at least in x86/64 Linux land. (ELFShell sure was fun tho!)
Thanks for that. I was hoping that would would be possible. I think I now know what to ask Santa for xmas!
The script doesn't inject. But a lot of malware downloads a script and runs it, so you'd hit another rule.
Not actually open source. This is yet another instance of a project eager to reap the rewards of being associated with "open source" without committing to it (i.e. with a license that would make it so). Defold is source-available and some flavor of royalty-free with limitations.

It's actually worse than that, though, because it goes out of its way to obscure the license terms; in this instance, they're going for association with the cachet and warm fuzzies of the Apache license by throwing that name around, despite not actually being Apache licensed. This is not the result of oversight or ignorance. It's intentionally deceptive.

For anyone who thinks that I'm reading between the lines and overstating this, you can refer to the last time this came up. They received sufficient pushback about their messaging. They're not just aware of the discrepancy between the consensus definition and the way they're using it, they acknowledged it explicitly. In response, they said, "We are humbled [...] also sorry for misrepresenting the license" and that "We have updated the website to reflect this and we no longer use the term"[1]. In 2023, there's a big fat nav item at the top of the site that says "Open Source". You click it and read the fine print which gradually reveals the truth of the matter. The "open source" part refers (apparently?) to... their extension ecosystem?

Everything about this screams, "We know exactly what we're doing, but we're going about it in such a way that we can claim plausible deniability."

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235217>