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> Online dating sites have gotten worse because the Match Group monopolizes them. There's hardly any competition.

I recently helped a group look at launching a dating app over a six month period. Here are a few take aways:

1. Nobody really likes the dating app experience. Most users have a few dating apps installed at any given time.

2. Therefore, it's relatively easy to break into the market. You start with a single geography and a single niche, and use marketing to gain a pre-launch group of a few thousand individuals.

3. The MRR is not great, and churn is around 2 months. Therefore, it's a hard market to scale into effectively without a lot of money.

4. Beyond the financials, the ethics are interesting. You're either selling your users to advertisers, or you're you're nickel-and-diming your users for low-value features.

Ultimately the group we were involved with decided to invest their money and time into other projects.

That all said: Match.com has a monopoly because most startups want a quick exit, and not actually solve the core problems. If someone like Facebook really wanted to enter the market and win, they could crush Match.com, IMHO. (Not saying that would be a good thing, just pointing out it's possible.)
To Play devils advocate, not everyone can make a lot of money. Someone will earn more than someone else, that is a fact of life. Today's employees don't accept that, and believe they regardless of their position, should earn as much as the CEO. That might be the arrogance.
Isn’t most of that from Fortnite and not the engine business?
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Can you provide examples where this has been used in then industry?

With the examples you listed doesn't it require an account to authenticate first before achieving this?

Furthermore, is this not easy enough to spoof? Without account based authentication (which as far as I know Unity does not use/require?) what stops me from spinning up VMs or emulators repeatedly to attempt to install bomb?
The legal system governing water rights in the western United States is utterly absurd. I think it was a stupid system in the beginning but is orders of magnitude more stupid today given the challenges facing the region.

It also happens to be a system that people will legitimately fight and kill others to preserve. The political challenge to change this system is enormous and I'd bet most people have no idea how fucked it is.
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>>At one point, someone asked where all his friends are today, and he said something like, “Everyone’s fine except for one who died of an overdose, but he got into the addictive drugs, you know.”

Under my breath, I said, “The addictive drugs?”

An older woman sitting next to me told me to speak up, so I did.

“I just feel like all drugs are addictive,” I said.

“Not weed,” he replied. He seemed pretty sure about this.

In my head, I was thinking, What?! But we were at a seder, and I didn’t want to be rude, so instead, I just said, “Gonna have to disagree with you there.”

And after that the old lady started applauding...
Stop using anonymous made up people to provide your talking points.
That's not what I mean when I say "indie" and I work in video games. I'm aware of some companies that employ 10+ people who still call themselves "indie" - I find that dishonest.

>>Any relatively successful game is going to hit those numbers.

Sure - and any relatively successful game should have no trouble paying those fees. The only real edge case that's going to be affected negatively by this change are f2p games that rely on having millions of installed copies to make miniscule amount of money from few paying people. Those games should consider switching away from Unity.
Copyright does not cover plot, it is perfectly legal to make a TV show about an aging school teacher that decides to become a drug kingpin to finance his cancer treatment.
Yet another reason to use NewPipe or SmartTube rather than the YouTube app or the browser.
Why is a perspective from a "soulless mba-style cretin"
discarded, if it is presented in a logical way? Unity is a for-profit business after all, and a public one.
Yeah, but valve is investing a lot of that into linux and FOSS while unity is investing a lot into ad-tech and user tracking.

Steam is taking a big cut, but they've never tried to fuck me over as a consumer.
what's the alternative to Tor?
They mean 'total electrical system collapse'. Incredibly irresponsible reporting from the BBC, as sadly we've come to expect.
How so? Aside from the name change X was exactly the same experience that Twitter had been giving for a decade or more.
SoftBank made a ton of stupid investments like WeWork and was bleeding money. They needed to cash out their ARM investment to recoup major losses.
OK, skipping meals isn't that unhealthy in my opinion. In fact, what you describe is a little bit like the Warrior Diet.
Just tried this and it seems to get stuck at the following step (for 20 mins so far)

[WASM/C++ 18:07:24] Getting waveforms from istft
[WASM/C++ 18:07:25] Copying waveforms
Are you sure? As far as I'm aware, I'm able to install a game I own on multiple machines for all of these platforms. I figured that the game is tied to my account, not some hardware ID. Why would they need to make sure I'm not charged twice based on installing the game to a machine rather than just seeing if my account owns it? I have never been charged more than once for a game I own that I have installed on both my desktop and my laptop, even after replacing those machines.
I believe that is what I was thinking of.
C#/.NET Core
I don’t read most articles. And most articles posted on HN have famously low read rates of probably sub 1%.

I read comments. Comments are the last bastion of pure ideas exchange, articles are just pretty conversation starters.
just be careful that is does not crash when using internet enabled mode. very common problem with tails given how much memory websites use . tails only has limited ram from the portable drive.
source code: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
I never said they were. I'm just pointing out that we already experience the same problem in the case of quotes without the world ending, and I don't think expanding the problem to all syntax errors will make it much worse.
Apparently the style is polarizing. I think it looks really cool and unique.

Edit: Except when looking straight on at the front. It’s definitely ugly from that perspective.
I'd say the reason for that is marketing, or branding, or positioning the product, which are, as you wrote, essentially Linux distributions.

I find that even combinations that are supposed to be very similar (Linux kernel, same DE, same repos) can behave differently, and I guess this is because of how the distro maintainers set up the different parts and integrations in the system. So in this way, my MX Linux box is different from my Debian+KDE box.
Do you suggest that we trust our ISP instead, and pretend that they aren't compromised by default?
You are correct. I had to decide to switch to Ultimate or not.
A good web-dev one I've seen has "use bootstrap" at the ends and "create standardized design system" in the middle.
You won't die without it.
It does store file hashes. It has a repair command that will use file hashes to find moved files. I don't know how well it works.
>Starting in 2024, if you have Chromebooks that were released from 2021 onwards, you’ll automatically get 10 years of updates.

Nice of them to cover a few from the last few years as well. From a school standpoint, this is a big win. I doubt many chromebooks in active use by students would even last 10 years.
Even 10 years ago, Apple internal privacy policies prevented itself from collecting precise lat/long. We had to use HTTP session telemetry to determine which endpoints were best for a given IP (or subnet, but not ASN), which informed our own pseudo-geoIP database so we knew which endpoint to connect to based on real world conditions.

Even still, it had to be as ephemeral as possible for the sake of privacy. We weren’t allowed to use or record results from Apple Maps’ reverse geo service outside of the context of a live user request (finding nearby restaurants, etc).
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Your comment makes it sound like Epic Store was demonized because they charge 12%. I bet that's the only thing they did not get demonized about.

Their shady practices such as forcing exclusivity to Epic Store and suing Apple is what brought them shit all over them.

Developers are free to submit their game to Steam and release their game in any other platform. Epic handcuffs the devs to the Epic Store for a while.

> when did you ever see something critical of Steam on HN or Reddit?

Jesus are we forgetting EVERYBODY hated Steam when it got released? You know what Valve did? They fucking fixed their platform. They listened to consumer's feedback.

Now it's the best PC game store out there. That might change at some point, but today it's the best one.
By breaches you mean these agencies own a ton of exit nodes?
You are right, there is much more to it than what I proposed.

We can all agree that if speed was truly of the essence, a luxury yacht wouldn't be the first choice. Speed requires sacrificing some comfort. Which, looking at interior pics, is definitely out of the question here.
Do you really want to spend your life adding dark patterns to a dating website?
Clearly one side is giving substantially more.
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how does he monetize the site ?
Serial killers are out. Subway pushers and mass shooters are in
In the worst case, you'll fail to scale due to technical shortcomings like Friendster and become forgotten while later entrants like Facebook eat your lunch.

There was a time when "being web scale" was a real concern. That's one reason companies like Google make such a big deal about it in their technical interviews. Now most of the hard work has been done and exposed as services so today even an untrained teenager can stand up a web-scale service.
He's been saying this stuff about Taiwan for a while I thought it was interesting how little flak he got for it earlier
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
This actually works. Da fuq??
Maybe the desktop site is terrible, I didn't check, but the mobile one is fine. Nothing to call home about, just a site like a million of other sites, describing a product and providing download links. They made an uncommon effort to secure themselves with long long long legal documents.
I have no idea. Maybe? Either we can't or nobody bothers to notify workers that they are happening.
Physical world. Lol
> re the Pro and Enterprise tier isn't too horrid.

Technically you couldn’t even use Personal or Plus if you made over 200k a year. It doesn’t really make much sense to stay on the personal tier now anyway, as long as you manage to make at least over $10k per developer in a year.
I don't mind content marketing with real value, but this is obvious "digital products" spam designed to get readers into a sales funnel for the workbook.
I don't know what addiction really is. But I know a lot of people that use extremely strong weed to numb out for most of the hours of the day. And I know I miss the people they were before they started using weed that way.

I also know I've smoked plenty of times and never wanted to take it that far.
I can see the reversal of previous terms of service getting challenged in court. But that's a lot of effort, of course. Maybe IGDA can take on the challenge.

Seems obvious, that if you did not agree to the ToS, you cannot be held accountable.
That hasn't been my experience. Most services that demand a phone number lock you out if you don't cough one up, and reject VoIP and temporary service numbers. Some of them even reject prepaid numbers now.

Microsoft recently extorted my cell number out of me so I could keep using my paid for minecraft account.
I work there, and I am supposed to know these things, but I don't exactly :/

It probably has something to do with important routers. What tags do we show when you visit the IP data page? The IP data page can be accessed by visiting ipinfo.io/<IP_address>.

We use the generic term "data experts," but it actually consists of about 2 dozen engineers, including data engineers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers, backend engineers, and a great technical CEO working on all that. All those folks have gone on a boating trip off the coast of Spain for a retreat.....except for me.

I will ask them and try to circle back with some answers.
But....there is a thriving market for indie games, even with this change. If you make a fantastic little indie game and release it for free = nothing changes, you pay nothing. If you make a little indie game and sell 100k copies = nothing changes, you still pay nothing. If you make a little indie game and sell 200k copies - you will now have to pay a small fee per install, but if you reached 200k sales you are way out of what I'd consider "small indie dev". I think dev tools should be provided for free or cheap to people experimenting or starting out, but there is a point where people are taking the piss if they sell 200k copies and they still think they should be able to use the tools for free(or nearly free).
> bidirectional logical replication

Just to make sure, this is what we used to call multi-master, right?

(This is not a "why did they change it" post. Do not make it into a "why did they change it" post.)
> I've always had the same feeling about dentists. If they really fix your teeth, you wouldn't need their services anymore.

Dental problems are two fold, genetic and habitual.

There are people who brush and floss 2x a day and have miserable teeth, their personal biome and genetics have screwed them.

Then there are people like me, I skipped the dentist for 2 years and when I went the dentist said my teeth looked perfect. (Though being on a keto diet for that time might have helped, one dentist I had said keto is the perfect diet for dental health! :) )
I have to interact with a platform called Mulesoft which has its own DSL for message transformation.

It's an API interconnection tool. It's for big organizations or governments and if anybody here on HN is considering it I cannot express how bad the DX is for engineers unfortunate enough to be saddled with this "enterprise solution"
Ask HN: What's the current best way to extract tables from PDFs?
I am have a set of pdf that are bank statements. The formats of these statements are different based on the bank but they are limited set (<15). What's the current best approach to extract tabular data from PDFs? I tried writing custom logic based on pdfplumber and such but they are very fragile and have lots of ad-hoc logic. The maintenance is pretty high. Are there small models that can run preferably on CPUs alone and that I can possibly fine tune for this task? Any guides or pointers for that? I see a lot of available models, but as someone with no ML background, it's difficult to navigate through.
With difficulty.
I like to think that there shouldn't be any project work that can't wait for tomorrow, and that's mostly the case.
Production issues, those are very tricky to check out from, you typically won't find peace until you're satisfied you've sorted things out...
Steam scares me. The 30% cut isn't the thing that scares me though. What scares me is that the lack of a monthly subscription fee on top of that is not because of any legal framework that says steam can't charge an exorbitant monthly access fee. The lack of the fee is due to Gabe Newell being more or less a benevolent dictator.

One day steam will be bought out by private capital that seeks to massively increase returns. The 'just buy it on steam so it's in your steam list' will inevitably one day be a curse not a blessing.
of course it doesnt work but they gotta try clutching pearls and applying whatever pressure they can think of on these fronts
> I don't know what to use for the IDE. I used Rider for Unreal Engine and it has good integration into Unreal Engine.

Don't forget Visual Assist! It's more flexible, is faster, uses less memory, works on uncompilable code, etc. (I work on it.)
>Had OKCupid stayed separate they might have had to tinderify anyways just to survive.

I never used them but I did read their blog and my sense is that they leaned a bit towards that demographic anyway.

As I wrote elsewhere, a lot of people jump to the conclusion that a company was ruined by a buyer or that a company let themselves stagnate. But I'd argue (agree?) it's often the case that the "marginal user" (or mainstream audience) have no real interest in what appealed to the early adopters.

And the early adopters may have moved on as well. I was pretty into eBay as an auction site at one point and I mostly lost interest.
If you engage with a flat earther you have already lost. Anyone who genuinely believes in a flat earth has closed off their mind to information that refutes their beliefs. If their mind were open, they wouldn’t believe in a flat earth.
They did not have to, they could have rejected broken HTML. Writing valid HTML is not really harder than writing invalid but still parsable HTML, it just requires some additional tedious work fixing all the mistakes. Would this have been bad for adoption? Maybe.
That's the thing. Just by participating in internet forums, all the way up until around 2010s(?), it wouldn't be uncommon to see comments like "I'm going to go over there and kill you" between two people trying to be edgier than the person they were arguing with. It always gave me an uneasy feeling but I never treated it too seriously.

I don't at all doubt there are people that stupid/crazy. Jw if there are more credible crazies these days or have we changed how we react to them.
I was contemplating buying this game despite the sophomoric humor, but seeing the developer openly mock other developers who might be financially devastated by the Unity policy makes me not want to buy anything from them ever.
> smartphones where you can't have too much UI complexity

this is a good hypothesis, except smartphone apps have much less UI feature complexity than is possible on a smartphone, i.e. it still seems to be a conscious choice to dumb down smart phone apps beyond what the UI and users can handle. A familiar example is banking apps, I have accounts at a number of large US banks, and in every case the phone apps leave out swaths of capabilities that their websites have, things like letting me see what Zelles I've sent to a particular person, "contact the bank" messaging, etc.

image editing apps are another example, 100's of them in the app stores, but they're less feature rich than Windows Paint from 30 years ago. when they do something fancy, it's frequently because they are an app for doing that one thing.
Yes but it's much harder calculus. What's the net of a very large tractor manufacturer existing or not existing? If they lobby in a way you don't like but they also cause cereals to be 15% cheaper, how can you calculate their "unpleasant"-ness?

A public official taking a contribution in return for carving out an exception in a law is quite an easy one.
Ha! I didn't say it was a new idea, only that it's the promise :)
Reddit did
It's not only games. Docker and Arm are two other companies with highly visible challenges, and many more will have them less visibly.

Life is so easy when you can throw money around. When you suddenly can't you end up learning what it means to make tough decisions about values.
> Interesting. Theoretical "(number of people) x 24h/day" is the max limit for attention economy. Has it already hit the ceiling?

Everyone is always paying attention to something or they are asleep. There's increasing competition for what people are paying attention to, but the amount of attention is directly tied to population.
Great point, Unity should add a free demo exception then.
You don't need precise lat/lon to make a good database. Even a 1km circle would be more than enough.

> but not ASN

Why wasn't ASN allowed? That's what Netflix used to make endpoint routing decisions and worked really well.
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That's not the tyranny of the Marginal User, that's a primitive mindset of growth at all costs, which doesn't realize growth is a phase of the existence of an entity, and just like teenagers stop growing eventually, so should companies, once they find their niche. Instead they keep overaddressing their audience, until entropy takes over and destroys the company altogether, to be replaced by another startup that has the same infinite growth one bit mentality.

Our understanding of how to create systems is primitive. Our understanding how to effectively maintain and refine them over time is broadly speaking non-existent. Collapse and destruction is not inevitable, it's plan B when the entity in question cannot maintain its own constitution. Our companies, products, cultures, nations, civilizations don't know how to do that. So they keep collapsing and get replaced.

It's massively wasteful, it causes endless pain and suffering, immense waste, it's the tragedy of our existence. And the hope is we'll learn eventually, before our entire species collapses. But so far I don't see it. We keep making the same mistakes over and over, but faster and faster, at higher and higher scale. That light at the end of the tunnel is not what you think it is.
Facebook Dating has been around for years, and I've only heard it spoken of in the wild once, with derision.
I am thinking of documentation sites and blogs in the same categories, because I use them similarly. I create blog posts (documents), they have titles, categories, and they link to each other.

I'm being a bit dramatic, but it's to stop people from using SSG. I don't like working on said applications because adding every little feature is a pain and adds to the build time. Running a simple service and DB is easy - I've been doing it for a decade. I ran blogs and sites with databases when I was in HS - surely big companies can do it and put cloudflare in front of it.
Gamepass is not the same in that people knew what they signed up for, whereas what Unity did was more of a bait-and-switch.

If Unity had said that the new policy would only apply to games released (as opposed to installed) after 2024, and also say that existing developer subscription pricing would be honored for some number of years, it would at least seem more fair. They will still lose developers, but maybe they will be less susceptible to lawsuits and death threats.
I'd guess it is a matter of priorities (do you want the safest, best-tested environment, or something less tested?).

However, assuming the source is easily bootstrappable, someone should try producing an unofficial port to Arm and Risc V. I'm sure it would reveal some security holes, even if it isn't appropriate (yet) for tails' target audience.
That is a good idea for places that need heat.
Microsoft will stop you from downloading the game if it's installed on too many devices - it will tell you to deauthorize it on another device or sign it out entirely.

>> I figured that the game is tied to my account, not some hardware ID

Because it is. These platforms still use hardware ID matching for account bans and other functionality.
I say "easy" in a relative sense, since we're talking about leveraging the use of automation here (and we know how that ends: https://xkcd.com/1319/). And I'm assuming you have a decent engineer assisting in moving the scripts. they can learn the differences in the game loop and port over a lot of the high level scripts with a bit of thought. But not in a way that is easily automated.

And to be honest, I don't know how easy asset migration is (hence the question mark). it's a surprising pain point when moving from Unity to Unreal even if you keep everything as the industry standard FBX. I don't know if it "just works" in Godot or can be its own undertaking. Histoically it does mess up a lot of texturing and animations, even if you manage to get the base model in intact.