skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often wonder what the average lifetime value of these marginal users is.

When services are dumbed down in ways that chase off power users, they're explicitly optimizing for users that churn rapidly. After all, today's new user is either a customer and tomorrow's power user, or they've stopped using the the product.

If you're trying to raise a round, and the VC blindly looks at user count, then I guess this makes sense, but I'd bet VC funds that use onboarding rates (to the exclusion of churn and sustainability of the offering) have lower average returns than ones that apply basic common sense when vetting their investments.
I like wearing my chainmail. Even if that means having to deal with some judgement.
Because we're wont to trust people's opinions and perceptions from the year 869 ha ha.

I hear there's a recorded incident of a dead man who got buried in a cave and then resurrected and walked out of the cave some time later.
Unity’s software is permanently in a WIP prerelease state (and then it usually gets obsoleted in favor of something even less stable). Good luck making a game with their multiplayer package. I have full confidence that better .NET game development stacks (plural!) will emerge. Maybe even ones not based on some ungodly mutated version of Mono from decades ago.
When people say "indie" devs, they mean devs that aren't with a big publisher. Not necessarily solo devs.

Any relatively successful game is going to hit those numbers. $200k in revenue is barely enough to cover 3-4 months of development for a small studio.
I use and love DuckDuckGo Android app! The browser part suits my workflow very well. The pinned favorites, the tabs not accumulating forever like in Chrome, it's just great all around!

But it's not as privacy-friendly as you'd think. For example all favorites and bookmarks favicons are routed through their server. Which would be nice as an option, but you can't opt out. They pinky-swear they don't log it, though.

https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527#issuecommen...
Roblox is an example of this, and Fortnite is following its lead: the game is the social network, the distribution platform, the development target, and the runtime for other games. There's an entire generation of kids for whom "Video Gaming" is synonymous with Roblox or Fortnite, rather than Steam, Xbox or Playstation.

Interestingly, it seems like Nintendo is still its stalwart and indefatigable self; unrelentingly unstoppable and irreplaceable.
V0 is a generative user interface system
Have you tried pg_repack?
Maybe I can ask HN out loud how I can start figuring out how to get this website on Google search results -

e.g. I want it to show up when I search relevant terms like "free stem separation" "free music separation" "free music isolation" "music stem separation" "music source separation"
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/347

Thank you for reminding me to read the original report again. However, I still don't see any evidence to support your claim that the designers assumed TLS connections to be symmetric in their establishment.

Maybe I'm reading the report differently from you, or maybe I'm misreading it or missing sth — though I did honestly try to read it from your perspective — but I just don't see anything in the report where session establishment or resumption ignores the role of a participant. A client is still a client that cannot receive new connections and a server is still a server that cannot initiate connections.

The report does support my reading of the issue though:

1. That Selfie would not be possible if a server checked the intended recipient of any handshake message it received; and

2. That Selfie would not be possible if the assumption that a PSK is a secret known only to one client and one server were not violated. How it is violated — whether by reusing the client and server host nodes and deploying the opposite roles on each (your symmetric case), or by setting up two extra, completely unrelated and independent host nodes (no symmetry here) — does not matter. They are both violations of secrecy of PSK and thus vulnerable to Selfie either way.

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> You believe no-one would make this type of mistake

I did not "believe no-one would". I "strongly doubted" (which is subtly, but importantly enough, different from belief) whether a proof writer who's intimately familiar with TLS handshake (again, not "no-one") "would".

> Alas some people will believe you, and they will assume that they too are infallible and the rest is inevitable.

I ... don't see where this is going. Or why.

> What did Dorothy Parker say about Horticulture ?

Okay, you've definitely lost me.

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Look, I'm not arguing that mathematical proofs are infallible to modeling inaccuracies, or that they should be trusted blindly. Or that people can be perfect if they have enough expertise. Absolutely not. I only disagreed on some nuances of the specific example you provided.

But you may not be interested in that. Especially given how you generalised my words above (and thus erased them of all nuance), I'm going to read the signs I see, write this whole thing off as basically an exercise in pedantry, and end this here.
This kind of makes me want to just remake OKCupid. I met my wife on there. It worked, really well, as the author describes. Surely there's money to be made there without just being another Tinder clone.
>The James Webb Space Telescope has measured the expansion rate of the Universe, and the results are not great news for the biggest crisis in cosmology.

The finding is in agreement with measurements made by the Hubble Space Telescope. This means that there's no error in the Hubble data, and we're still at an impasse
You're responding to a post that gave you examples.

The mechanics are work contracts with a grievance process, if you're curious.
What an excellent, well thought out piece of writing!! Wonderful. I’m glad I found it on hacker news, and will now repost it onto mastodon. The rest of the social world be damned.
Unity has a very long history of obsoleting features before the replacement is ready.

Now they're doing the trick to themselves: they obsoleted themselves as an engine for mobile casual games and indies, but not ready as an AAA engine. That's what I call consistency.
So... Did you get some answers? :)
Data scientist here who spent a couple of years working with Unreal (to produce high end data visualizations). Here are my thoughts

> Blueprints suck!
Not really. Think of Blueprints like python. Its good for routing and keeping track of things at a high level. Think of C++ as handling things at a lower level.

> I heard you need to start with blueprints.
Not really. After going through the basic tutorial that Unreal Sensei has on YouTube (https://youtu.be/gQmiqmxJMtA?si=TqBiiIe12M5hiCda) , it is better to do a mix of blueprints and C++ if you have any programming background.

> I don't know what to use for the IDE.
I used Rider for Unreal Engine and it has good integration into Unreal Engine.

> So when do you use C++?
When I was doing data vis of census data, I needed a way to load in 10,000 data points into memory. The "out of the box" tools for Unreal didn't support this, so custom C++ was the way to go.

> But really, if I just want to get started with Unreal and want official tutorials, where do I go?

After going through Unreal Sensei, I looked at at https://dev.epicgames.com/community/unreal-engine/getting-st..., there are a ton of tutorials there for game developers.

Also, a year ago I put together an online course that looked at how to ramp up on Unreal Engine. The course ("Data Visualization in the Metaverse") is ideal if you already have a programming background. I put the course out on YouTube for free (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKH3Xg62luIgPaB4fiFuT...) and happy to answer any questions about it.
It's called eventual consistency...
It's got me thinking we might have hit "peak content" too.
Is there is just enough high quality historical media and endless free cheap modern media to consume ?
A colleague and myself were just discussing similar issues with SSIS packages compared to just running the queries in a stored procedure on the server.
Unity Claims PS, Xbox and Nintendo Will Pay Its New Fee on Behalf of Devs
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500752
That's not what a logical fallacy is
Usually by using very cheap bearings which last just past the warranty period and cheaping out on reinforcement in critical areas. The AvE YouTube channel covers lots of this with his BOLTR teardowns.
The referenced study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01086-2 says "a mouse model" and "non-human primates":

"We show that pGal–antigen therapy induces antigen-specific tolerance in a mouse model...as well as the suppression of antigen-specific responses to vaccination against a DNA-based simian immunodeficiency virus in non-human primates"

The article also mentions that phase I trials have been carried out with humans:

"initial phase I safety trials have already been carried out in people with celiac disease...and phase I safety trials are underway in multiple sclerosis"
Can't these attacks could be detected with a personal deep packet inspector running at router level, or a simple packet capturer?, another simple solution could be a diy portable router with inbuilt dpi or network analyser
I generally agree. It depends how Internet famous you were, how hard a person looks, how common your name is, whether there's something specific you're looking for about a person. But, yeah, I'm willing to bet that a lot of random casual searches wouldn't turn up some Internet scandal/controversy around a non-famous person unless you really knew what to look for.
Meh. Half true.

Capitalism requires up-and-to-the-right progress on stock performance. The main ways to achieve this are through legitimate innovation and/or squeezing existing innovations.

Unity finds itself becoming an ad-tech company. There aren't a lot of technical innovations in that space, so they're left with squeezing their users. If their business model had stayed more focused on monetizing the sale of their tooling, rather than ads within, then they'd be rewarded more heavily for innovation.

I get the impression that this is exacerbated by us all having existed in a low interest rate world for a while. There wasn't a ton of pressure. You could take on debt for projects that made money, but not a ton of money, and that was still sufficient to appease investors.

Now that money is worth something again, thanks to high interest rates, and with some pressure from inflation - it's not such an easy world. Previous choices now have ramifications that become apparent. One of those is users getting squeezed by companies that don't have reasonable ways to sustainably innovate their way to higher returns. Companies which overplayed their hands will go under as users reject them outright. This makes space for newcomers.

The circle of life :)
Has there been any explanation, from Unity themselves or anyone else, as to why Unity thinks it deserves a cut based on install count? Do installs have to connect to Unity servers to download something? Anything like that?

Everything I've seen so far points to no baser an explanation than Unity realizing it had an avenue of attack and deciding to employ it--and an attack is exactly what it is, a raid on other people's business model.
Sounds like your POV doesn't contain many people!
It's not unheard of for Ad-supported mobile games to have per-install revenues measured in the single cents or fractions of a cent, and total revenues over $200k.
Wow, thats a mind blowing example.
Does the designer's CC subscription cover use by their clients?
Ruby 3.3.0-Preview2 Released
> Make profiles based on activities and swipe right or left on the activities you want to do.

Back in the early 2010s there was a dating site that was based around this premise. You would post a specific activity and see if someone wanted to join you for it. I didn't personally use it (as intended) but it was a great place to get fun date night activities with my partner. I think they realized that use case (date night planning) and eventually added this as a feature. I don't remember the name of the site unfortunately, someone else might. I would be surprised if it's still around.

edit: Found it! it was called HowAboutWe.com.

https://techcrunch.com/tag/howaboutwe/

https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/1...
AMD’s leaked Threadripper CPU has 96 cores, but don’t get too excited
This really does seem like suicide. I'm not a game dev though. Is there any reason everyone won't/can't just switch to Unreal Engine?

Is this a case where they overstepped or is it like reddit where the only leverage the user base has is illusory?
Nigeria hit by widespread blackout in 'total system collapse'
I believe (with no evidence) that infinite-scrolling social media sites have already consumed most available attention. To get a share of attention you now have to compete with them, instead of simply being an alternative to boredom.
> HOAs are just pure evil

> Care to elaborate why this gets downvoted?

There may be more people living in HOAs who don't have issues with their HOA than you anticipate. Such a person might well view the statement "HOAs are just pure evil" as incorrect, even if they are aware that HOAs can be a problem.

By way of example, I watched an HOA, as a community, successfully resolve a complex and potentially expensive legal matter involving multiple residents in a way that was beneficial to all parties. Part of this resolution involved the community as a whole, under the bylaws, amending the bylaws to address a situation the original drafters should have anticipated but did not. One side effect of the amendment was to reduce the demands the HOA itself could make of homeowners, lowering what were already quite reasonable limits.

"HOAs can be evil" and "HOAs can have over-reaching clauses" are different statements than "HOAs are just pure evil".
> Imagine the entitlement that this person thinks postage stamps are an issue worth whining about when foreclosing on a home and removing the occupants.

You've not run into many HOA sorts, then. They have this sliver of POWER and they are going to use it as much as they possibly can. And if you're in their way, well, you shouldn't have been in their way! They're the HOA parking enforcement agent and, golly, it sure looks to them like you haven't moved your car often enough (I solved this at one point by parking worse and no longer trying to keep my vehicle far enough forward on the street that someone else could park behind me in a section).

I mean, the people they're notifying are basically violating human rights by having damaged local property values, per the HOA way of thinking.

It's horrifying at all levels.
People finally realized we're in the danegeld era.
Depends a lot on the timeline and extinction event.

In the case of human caused global warming, human harvesting of forests and top soil, endocrine interfering plastics, or global thermonuclear extinction where there is a causal link, those specific events would not happen without human industrialization (and exponential reproduction).

The Sun will one day consume the earth, the possibility of an asteroid (that humans can't destroy) is still there, the magma/volcanic cycle of heating and cooling is there.

I'm curious what extinction events you're so sure humans are capable of preventing that haven't been directly caused by humans (whales, eagles, buffalo, cfcs). And I don't think bacteria or viruses we've experienced qualify to have been extinction level events.
Whilst winget looks like progress (presumably there'll be a non-CLI interface soon?) it seems like it's a tool for a limited set of applications that are allowed into a Microsoft list, not even applicable to .msi[x] in general and definitely not a way to uninstall (nor even just list) files installed by applications in general.
This vulnerability was found in Apple's ImageIO library as used in their iMessage application on iOS...

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...
As you said, you "imagine" it.
>, the history of HOAs and restrictive covenants on deeds. Everyone acts as if it is for the betterment of the neighborhood, consistent looks upkeep of property and so forth. When you dig into this you'll find out it is about keeping out undesirables from your area. Originally those undesirables were of different races. [...] are still deeds that have unenforceable restrictive covenants that deny property to certain races.

That retelling of HOA history rooted in racism is common but it's not a persuasive explanation for the new HOAs created today. In other words, there can be _2_ independent motivations and they both end up with an "HOA":

- motivation #1 : roundabout way to keep black people out --> leads to HOA

- motivation #2 : maintain baseline property values --> leads to HOA

You have to look for the counterfactuals that eliminate reason #1. E.g. Places up North like Anchorage Alaska and Calgary Canada didn't have a massive "white flight" and yet the suburbs up there also have HOAs.

Another counterfactual is this list of majority black wealthy neighborhoods:
https://spotcovery.com/the-best-affluent-black-neighborhoods...

Those neighborhoods also have HOAs. Maybe it's for reason #2 -- protecting property values.

The immoral HOA motivations in the 1950s don't necessarily dictate the same motivations for creating an HOA today. Sometimes there's really no threat of "other races" and instead, people really do want to collectively protect their property values.
Also the models these companies pull are so weird, tone-deaf and impenetrable that it boggles mind. But maybe that is point.

Like Unity pricing model. And then Hashicorp and what ever does competing product or offering mean...
Oh my god, you love to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.

The images that could prove either your “theory” or that Bolsonaro tried to, with Delgatti hacker know for the operation “Spoofing”, in some ways crack the voting machines are lost because of a technical decision done in Bolsonaro's government[0]. Bolsonaro's government is also known for using a law of National Security which a President can decree secrecy for one hundred years for his allies and info that could prove he lies to his followers[1].

Transparency is one of the values described in Brazil's Constitution[2], that the parent still deny btw.

Reference in Brazilian Portuguese, I'm sorry again HN audience:

0. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/governo-nao-tem-imagen...

1. https://www.poder360.com.br/governo/relembre-casos-em-que-o-...

2. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao/Constitui...
I won't down vote you but I would love to know how you came to that conclusion. And what is "rich" ?
True, but it does hurt the indie darlings that 'get noticed,' who showcase the Unity engine as a platform for small developers to make their game.

Examples of recent indie games like this:
Among Us, Valheim, Phasmophobia, Rimworld, Hollow Knight,...

Here's a whole list: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39750107-Games-Made-W...

Other than the 'extremely' popular games, you'd be surprised who surpasses those numbers. A small game studio by me was showing their financials at a talk (unheard of!), and the 'long tail' of their games definitely went past those numbers - and more costs coming in after a certain point just make the game less likely to be supported and discounted/sold.
https://archive.ph/EXnsZ
If you're making a product for the billions, your average user will inevitably have IQ of less than 100. And moreover, you can get much stickier users if you optimise for 80 IQ.
You don't have to give up citizenship to leave.
Pre built VM's mean an adversary probably has pre-built exploits...
great essay! saving people a click: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606224134/https://old.reddi...
Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, no knowledge of anything real world other than your job, are not qualities of "regular educated people".

They are modern qualities of the loud morality failed majority these days. Just because it's common for celebrities and kids of rich people to do drugs and screw around, doesn't mean that's what my parents expect from their doctors.
Imagine the iron face to say that a company asking to be paid for their work is unacceptable
Asking a lawyer if there's a risk is like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
Softbank is in a bit of financial trouble - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/softbank-vision-fund-loses...
> Unions are forced participation.

They quite literally are not, at least not in the US; half the states have right-to-work laws that prohibit this explicitly, and there are likely some protections even in the states that don't have a blanket protection.
I delete my comments on reddit because it's such a toxic place. Trolls will read through past comments and twist them to harass even more. I purge all my comments that have low upvotes and leave the ones other people find useful. But a lot of the time downvotes don't mean you are wrong or said something mean, it's the just stupidity of the masses or other people being mean. It's a love/hate relationship with that site.
And in specific, "not even wrong" is a total shutdown, not playful.
Yea. I don't blame OP for the sentiment but I don't think anyone doing something like that could be reasoned with in the first place.
The joke pic of the lamb making out with the angry birds bird?

Yeah of course everyone is okay with it, it’s two cartoon mascots kissing. Are you just being weird about furry stuff for some reason?
If rewriting the table is part of a regular workflow, then database configuration can play a significant role in its performance. However I still contend that rewriting tables regularly is an anti pattern.

Are you able to partition any of your tables so that you can VACUUM FULL the partitions individually?
So the descendents of someone who secured a deal based on a completely different socioeconomic context and then died over 100 years ago should be given priority over those who live today and those who live tomorrow? Sounds like theft to me.
I treat my web browser like this, and similarly have a docker container for all my development stuff. I like the idea of making the computer (almost) completely stateless.

How do you deal with stuff you want to store in /home? (Like source code checkouts, ssh keys, etc.)
> You'd need a mechanical engineer, who is also a programmer, who is also willing to learn OpenSCAD. That is expensive.

I disagree. I'd expect any engineer these days to have at least modest skills in programming.

And OpenSCAD is a rather modest programming, the script itself always finishes, so it's not even Turing complete. So having mechanical engineer to be comfortable with OpenSCAD looks like a quite reasonable thing.

With FreeCAD you have a lot of useful and convenient things, but you immediately lose the parametrization. Can't convert back to OpenSCAD if you'd like. So it's hard to move to FreeCAD from OpenSCAD if you got used to OpenSCAD capabilities.
Found to be part of a Pegasus spyware installation exploit. This is from the company that sells spyware to dictators so that they can arrest & murder people critical of them…
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/10972

This is the discussion regarding support for ARM, it's currently not supported.
Honestly though: how long something lasts shouldn't matter, companies should still be forced to provide support for things they sell, or else to provide their IP/schematics so that other people can support the trash that was sold.
That study was funded by Monotype, a company with an incentive to find the result they found. Is it any more credible than other corporate funded research?
It's weird the certainty with which people say "wayland is the future" when that's not how free software works; nobody knows what "the future" is because it depends largely on volunteer labor (even if some FDo devs are paid, the packagers aren't for the most part and that's who actually gets the software to users).