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> Is there any reason everyone won't/can't just switch to Unreal Engine?

Switching engines mean to rewrite most of your codebase. Actually if you're 1) not using an additional scripting layer or 2) not willing to lose performance, it means to rewrite about... 100% of your codebase.
There is, you will just have zero users because everybody uses the Match.com and Bumble duopoly
What brings to my attention in this article is the section named "Cold Start", where it generates questions based on a provided context.
I think it is a good way to cheaply generate an Q&A dataset that can later be used to finetune a model.
But the problem is that it generates some questions and answers of bad quality. All generated examples have issues:
- "What is the context discussing about?" - which context?
- "The context does not provide information on what Ray Tune is." - Not an answer
- "The context does not provide information on what external library integrations are." - same as before
I could only think of manual review to remove these noise questions. Any ideas on how to improve this QA generation? I've tried it before, but with paltry results.
> Taiwan's democratically elected government strongly rejects China's sovereignty claims

A bit of an understatement. The RoC claims to be the legitimate government of all China and parts of Mongolia, Russia and India.
It's literally the linked image
I Saw the Hollowness Inside Andrew Yang’s New Third Party
You can see a break-down of the core team and major contributors here, as well as their current company affiliation: https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

(and as noted in the other comment, whilst EDB certainly makes important contributions, they are one of many)
It's like a real life adaptation of the book, Goldfinch
Investors demand exits.
A Fox network executive was saying that if the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes aren't resolved by October 1, the US TV season is effectively cancelled[0], so we may be about to find out. Disney has already dipped their toes in airing things that were exclusive to Disney+ -- Ms. Marvel and Andor both got limited showings on ABC (Disney's broadcast network) as promos for other materials, but I could see more of that happening if the strikes force new work to be abandoned.

[0]: https://deadline.com/2023/09/fox-krapopolis-animation-strike...
US alleges Google got rich because people stick with search defaults
I think it depends. If the union is voluntary its not forced. But often membership isn’t voluntary. The relationship between you and your employer, however is. Many people choose not to work for defense companies for example.
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This is an extremely good list of the potential issues with most current node-based tools and Is be very keen to see a detailed reply.
> Perhaps they planned that all along?

This will turn off new development, though.
Even then it's often a choice you will regret down the line as you wish to evolve away but it becomes a huge ordeal.
If only GitHub (Microsoft) had a LLM product they could use when someone is writing an issue or pull request...
The Airforce Research Laboratory created a Tails like OS called TENS [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Portable_Security
A language framework for modeling social media account behavior
What Can Turmeric Do for Your Health?
Well duh, why would I want a shiny rock when I can instead have a $800 apple watch and $1700 cell phone, and a $100K Tesla? It's 2023 not -1000bc, there are better ways to display wealth to the opposite sex than shiny rocks.
>A new study concluded that it could be effective at alleviating stomach discomfort. But a lot is unknown.

The paper:

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/26/bmjebm-2022-112...
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-7.0

Repo

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/12/packages-mic... -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
But even under an isolated profile, wouldn’t Play Services still have access to your IMEI, phone number, location and sensor data? That would seem to completely deanonymize the user regardless, if not to the app developer than at least to Google.
Indie devs actually selling their game should be fine right? If it's just the devs of F2P / adware crap that will be sunk, then maybe Unity's new pricing policies will be the unexpected savior of gaming. Imagine a world in which we're not racing to the bottom with ad-ridden shovel-ware but instead people try to make the best possible product and sell it for what it's worth... radical. Or maybe I've misunderstood something and this will hurt developers who sell their games too.
It's already pretty easy to use SSH over TLS using stunnel or any other thing that can do TLS to TCP proxies (socat, haproxy).

On some external system you just setup stunnel/socat/haproxy to listen on port 443 with TLS and proxy to TCP port 22, then just use openssh with openssl s_client as the proxy command.
Then I guess I must be an ultra alpha macho male since I never post at all.
>Data scientist here who spent a couple of years working with Unreal (to produce high end data visualizations)
That sounds amazing, could you share some of your visualizations?
The best code is the one not being run.

- Set unbound with DNS over HTTP.

- Use Links+ with Tor/i2pd and enforcing all the connections to the proxy in the settings.
Avoid the web for news sites and use Gemini with offpunk and gemini://gemi.dev for news sources
Bookmark the news sites and sync. Then, reading the news offline it's easy. Offpunk has a command for that, 'offline', and then run 'list', it will show up your cached bookmarks.

- Use nncpgo and sneakernet (or any inet protocol on top) to share data between the machines you own.

- News are better being fetched and read online with sfeed and lynx. Ditto with email with mbsync/msmtp + Mutt. Also, Gopher and Gemini, to read all the nice sites offline. Fetch your news/posts offline and forget.

- Use keyboard locked (u)xterms with TMUX. Nsxiv and mpv for images/videos. Better if you run them under the framebuffer.

- Convert all the PDF's you have to DJVU with the highest settings, then use gzip or xz on it, with DJView as the viewer. The less code you run, the better.

- Avoid Brave, Chromium, or worse, Edge.
And Minecraft before those and call of duty before that, and wow/RuneScape before that. Call of Duty at least relied on Xbox Live, I guess but the others were their own ecosystems
Perhaps more appropriate for the code history, or perhaps RFCs (decision history)
And do they return the money in the case of divorce?
Sorry, not anymore. This was years ago and today I don't use any of the two products anymore...
While there are some perverse incentives, I think this is overstating it. Millions of people enter the dating market every year by aging into it or ending a previous relationship. That seems like plenty of space to make a profitable business. Of course there is the temptation to increase the churn rate, but it doesn't have to be exploitative.
> Informing people only helps if they have a choice whether or not to use the app/service.

People always have a choice. Blinded by comfort, convenience and
other "first world problems" they may not immediately recognise it as
a choice, but by historical standards they absolutely always have one.
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What does "intermediate knowledge" mean in this context?
they didn't box in the ambulance, it was able to leave after 30 second
I mean every time something like a dev tool starts charging, or there is some tax or regulation, someone arrives and says it's gonna hurt the small indie devs, but who cares? If they can't contribute to anything and require the whole society worse off, then its likely that they'd better do something else
I feel like we've all encountered this guy.
There are really good reasons to choose Unity over Godot, but C# isn't one of them. You have to learn a whole new API, framework, workflow, etc. Learning GDScript is the least of the issues.
That's just not the thought process. A vacuum with a cheap motor isn't going to have trouble hurting your fingers if you stick them in the brush at the right angle. But the bearings will wear out in 5 years.

Another is drills with cheap housings or gears. The drill will happily rip a glove off and de-skin you. But it'll still wear out faster than if it had metal gears or a tougher housing.

Usually safety is an expense. Extra sensors, very carefully engineered weak links that suddenly break under load.

Another counter example to your point is my automated litter box. It has a pinch sensor for safety reasons, which is made of two metal contacts. This sensor is directly above the pee/poop so it corrodes and I have to take out like 20 screws in a machine filled with poop to fix it, like every year. They could just have added a plastic cover and one screw to protect the contacts, but no.

Probably the only thing I can think of to support your argument is cars. The front end of a car is plastic and metal designed to absorb energy in an impact. But household stuff...
In alot of reddit you're can't post with a throwaway
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit

hard to find a good example that is funny while also not crass/political, but they generally go something like this: https://i.imgflip.com/5dh26p.jpg
There's also the issue of having a bunch of cash on hand to pay out. Plenty of companies do unlimited PTO or bar PTO roll-over, specifically to limit the liability of payouts.

Also, if the relationship is abusive and the abused spouse is beaten into a marriage, are they owed a refund upon divorce? Death? Incentivizing speedy marriages, as opposed to good matches, is unambiguously bad for individuals and society at large.

There's not really a way to do rent-seeking on matchmaking without breaking matchmaking, so maybe don't seek rent on the matching itself? Just let your revenue stream be advertising. It's fine.
That looks a bit low level. I would look at dask and polars. Dask scales to multiple processes on a single machine and to multiple machines and its dataframe looks pretty close pandas. Polars uses multiple cores on the same machine better than pandas (not sure about dask), but has a significantly different dataframe api than pandas. Polars, primarily through lazyframes enables much higher single core performance too.
Encrypted client hello, but not server hello, then. I suppose that makes sense. Thanks!
Also if you’re rolling your own, you’re way more likely to not keep updates perfectly and patch everything that comes up.
I don't see this really making people care about the Fediverse

anything I can read or watch about federated social media trends?
I never thought about how valuable the list of idiots willing to sub for basic functionality apps would be.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has charts and reports showing US system prices per installed watt for residential solar and utility scale solar with single axis sun tracking:

https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-in...

In 2010, the cost-per-watt was a little more than 2 dollars higher for residential solar than for utility scale solar ($8.70 vs $6.54). In 2022, residential was still a little more than 2 dollars higher ($3.16 vs $1.06), but since system costs have plummeted, that means the ratio now favors utility scale installations much more dramatically.

You can see in the charts that "Soft Costs - Other" remains persistently high for residential solar. That includes things like permitting and inspection. A 100 megawatt solar farm requires permitting and inspection too, but it's much less cost than the 10,000 permits and inspections required for equivalent capacity distributed across residential rooftops. The other big difference evident from 2010 to 2022 is that residential solar inverter costs are still significant whereas the inverter costs have become practically invisible in 2022 for large solar farms. More aggressive price competition and increasing unit capacity have proportionally lowered the inverter costs much more for large solar farms.

The cost per megawatt hour generated is actually even more imbalanced in favor of large solar farms than these cost-per-watt charts show. You can't use solar tracking on rooftops. Solar farms with single axis tracking to follow the sun's position generate more energy per year than equivalent wattage installed in fixed positions on rooftops. Average rooftop systems are also less frequently cleaned than ground level solar farms. Not only does rooftop solar cost 3 times as much per installed watt, it also generates maybe 30% less energy per installed watt per year.
Are they being exploited? Do you mean paid for their voluntary labor, which is ethical exploitation, or something else?

There's a strong push in the media for this, when that happens I get suspicious.

And again, I'm just generally opposed to unions. I don't like them, I don't think they are usually a positive development.
I don't think it could have been planned all along, the damage done seems irreversible. No one is going to propose Unity ever again for upcoming projects even if the fees are actually a much better deal than the competitions (like Unreal 5%).

The audacity of asking everyone who have built a game using their engine (completely disregarding the TOS at the time) to be potentially on the hook to receive monthly bills from their own black box that estimate the number of installs ensure that their reputation is effectively ruined, the future is that no one is going to trust them to use their engine because at any point they can come up with new ridiculous fees...
Not publishing source code demotivates the white hats and "good people" more than the bad actors, IMHO. There's a reason a lot of cryptography-related libraries have open/available source code

> But have you ever found an exploit and reported it?
Yes, actually. It was for a project I had already contributed to, so I was just reading source code and stumbled upon a somewhat critical bug. The main problem there was figuring out how to fix it without breaking API, really.
Or couple of years of solo developer time.

Not to forgot it is from revenue not profit. So give Steam/Google/Apple their cut and remove any external asset or work bought and 200k isn't that much for any non-low income country.
True, but either way the default font size would appear too large on 640x480 or too small on 2560x1440.
> Pre-Elon Twitter was arguably the last major social media site that actually supported some subset of the "open web" people like to reminisce about here.

Unless you disagreed with its politics. In which case you were suspended, or shadowbanned. This has been well covered by Michael Shellenberger and others.
I think Reddit is a bit different. They're not a company that is finding that optimizing metrics leads to targeting Marl (as per article). They're a company that decided that the optimal way forward is to intentionally push out their former users and replace them with as much Marl as possible.

And I think that makes sense. The original Reddit is full of technical people with ad blockers, weird hobbies, weird communities, and various undesirables. Keeping this herd of cats happy is extremely tricky, selling anything to them is extremely difficult, and there's all sorts of complex drama that needs managing.

So it seems that Reddit decided that to make the site more profitable, manageable and attractive to advertisers, all this weirdness needs to be pushed out over time. Drive out the technical users and weird unprofitable communities, and replace with as much mindless scrolling as possible.
Step 1. Download Visual Basic
> I've never once heard someone here in a America state that they sought out or preferred an HOA.

I have. When I lived in the Seattle area, I would ask people about why they preferred HOAs.

The conversations always went the same way, and mostly ended the same way. They brought up the unthinkable horrors of someone working on a car in their driveway ("What if the car was up on blocks for months?"), or leaving a trash can out too long, and their trump card, oddly enough, was asking the question about the Lovecraftian horror of suburban owners: "But what if your neighbor painted their house purple?" - as though this were self evidently the most awfully awful thing someone could ever do (I wouldn't paint my house purple, but I know of a number of them, and they don't bother me in the slightest). The conversations usually ended, after a few more questions, with some variant of "Really, HOAs are designed to inhibit people like you." Because I didn't see anything wrong with working on a car in your driveway, and I'm as likely as not to wander over with a couple beers and go BS about cars. I've done a lot of automotive maintenance in apartment parking lots that forbid it, because I had no better options.

There's this set of people who really value outside appearances on houses and properties, and react with horror to people who don't see the same problems they do. They tend to like HOAs.

I currently live somewhere that very much has no HOA. I'm sure they'd be utterly horrified by my old tractor and stuff that wanders the property, but that's why I don't have an HOA. :)
I've always had the same feeling about dentists. If they really fix your teeth, you wouldn't need their services anymore.

The logic goes for a lot of service type situations like auto-repair post-warranty period.
That's a first, the ol' HN switcharoo?
Thing written for posix-like OS runs on posix-like OS.
I think it says a lot about the terrible state of things that such mild and inadequate legislation as this can be characterized as "the strongest yet".

Don't get me wrong, any progress is good, but this is, at best, a very tiny baby step.
No, it's something newer; last year or so. They show "top comments", with a "view all" option, but that "view all" option will often say there's 49 comments and zero show up, even on an old post.

The Graph API has also fallen apart, with their solution being to close the bug submission tool for most issue types. The "replacement" is a discussion forum where no Facebook employees visit, most posts have zero responses, and no issue tracking whatsoever.
If Unity is the best by a mile it works.
It matters in understanding root causes
I should have used a different phrasing. :) I was reading an article about essential workers today, and that word popped up in my head when I wrote the comment.

It's good that you are using a VPN. I advocate for the usage of VPNs, and many VPN companies actually use our data to verify their server locations. In the VPN industry, VPN companies get their VPN servers from specialized hosting services that cater to dozens of VPN companies. You can check out the ASNs of the VPN IP addresses to find them.

- https://ipinfo.io/AS136787

- https://ipinfo.io/AS16247

VPN companies use our IP geolocation data to confirm the actual location of their servers. Let me tell you a fun story. One VPN company claimed to have a server in the Bahamas, but upon investigation, we discovered that the server was actually located in New York. It was a surprising find. Getting a server in the Bahamas is more challenging than getting one in NY. Just imagine users thinking their internet activity is immune to US jurisdiction because they are using a VPN service based in Bahamas but in fact it is actually located in NY. So, we might not be essential, but we are certainly very useful!

Thank you for the great conversation, dude. Appreciate it.
Porting is a relatively big issue. Core game systems often intertwine closely with how the engine operates, especially graphics systems like the renderer or particles/effects. It's totally possible though. One of the game projects I help with switched from SFML to Godot to an in-house engine.

There's also the 'skilling up' of a dev team. If a studio has developed on Unity for 10 years, switching to Unreal or Godot or similar will be... Challenging.
I've had my number with GV for years and get plenty of SMS delivered and sent, even with services where I never explicitly asked to use SMS as a 2FA or a method of contact. I guess my service providers don't care enough to block it.
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>just because formalized religions are weak right now.

Do you mean in average number of active participants? Because everywhere I look, there are headlines full of religious based government decisions being made. So while the number of sheep in the flock might be lower, the power being wielded by the religious leadership is not weak at all
I read the kubernetes API and I did not regret it.

Nonetheless for just getting to your goal and not becoming really good in something this is not necessary or can be done later
> Am I just wrong that Google isn't suffering from me hating them?

No, I think you're right that Google is suffering in the long term. It's a combination of measurement difficulty and agency problems - there's no way for the VP of the product to get a credible signal about whether a change was good or not other than by looking at something incontrovertible like DAUs. You might try to introduce a metric like "user happiness" but the design space of such metrics is so large that a misaligned product manager could always use it to shove a bad change through.

Kind of like we all know GDP is a bad metric for human flourishing, but everything else feels even worse.
This is a very naive, inexperienced view of politics. In politics, many people have acted in ways they did not believe were right. Many others have acted without a thought given to whether they were right. In some situations, wars have resulted from political actions, but in many other instances, political actions has prevented wars that may otherwise have taken place.

Not taking sides is a political action in itself. Not wanting to be involved doesn't mean you aren't involved.
Pragmatically, many people enjoy indie games as much (or more) than AAA games. AAA games are more oriented towards making money and mass market appeal, and if we don't provide a market for indie games then we lose out on the specialty and variety of them.
"Later [the putative current owner] offered to sell her the house back, [the putative former owner] said, for what he paid for it: around $25,000."

If the buyer paid $25K for a free-and-clear title (i.e., the bank took the auction proceeds in lieu of the loan balance), then the former owner should take that deal, because it means her mortgage is now gone!

(The article is unclear which kind of foreclosure this was -- did the buyer take title and assume outstanding debt? Or did the bank just wash its hands of the whole thing when it unloaded the property at auction? The low sales price suggests it's the former, rather than the latter. But stranger things have happened.)
Why does it seem like "death threats" are more common these days? Or are they just taken more seriously?

I ofc wouldn't be advocating to _not_ take them seriously but I don't understand if people are just getting crazier or people are taking them more seriously? Ironically, I feel like there used to be more back in the day but nobody treated them seriously.

If they're credible, by all means safety is at stake and close up shop.
ALL of these various "consumer protection" laws can be gamed by the biggest players, so they have to carefully vetted before they go live.

Basing them on the already-existing protections around the auto industry is probably a decent place to start.
The corporation can also be scum by virtue of being an unpleasant actor in society.
Somehow, I can't imagine how HN is any better. Reasonable comments are mass-downvoted when people disagree with you on seemingly hot button topics - blm, vaccines, musk, trump, immigration, lgbtq etc. I know many people who had to create new accounts because of this.