skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't always phone home, that's the thing, a lot of people assume that's the case and that every games built using their engine since the beginning does it but that's not the case.

The way they calculate the installs is not base on that, well unless you enabled Unity Analytics of course, but that's not the case on every games and they are going for every games ever made by their engine.
Is this the source? https://github.com/baudaux/exa
Given that they're using a HSM (actually several), there's really not much that needs protection via FDE. The certs are obviously public and the domains are in the transparency log.

On the ZFS note: it's been rock solid for me with Ubuntu but a living nightmare with Arch. My Arch update would upgrade the kernel but then OpenZFS would semi-routinely incompatible resulting in an unbootable system.
Yep, it reads very easily like C# LINQ method & query syntax.
I should give this a try. Especially before migrating to the new App Router in Next.js.
Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner had similar sentiments. A very interesting interview along these lines:

https://jameswphillips.substack.com/p/s-and-t-a-conversation...
There are direct observations of the link between workplace soda availability and waist circumference. You can wave these away as "not long term" I guess, but it's the best evidence available.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31657840/
Front running
Sure, those are the reasons, but I don't believe in Austrian exceptionalism.

Really curious what's special about the market here that allows companies to exploit the people like this.
Something that struck this home for me was noticing the Freakonomics podcast, “teach me something I don’t know“. That taught me that scratching the itch to learn and novelty can just be pure entertainment, and not some grand purpose or value that’s intrinsically any better than other forms of entertainment. That realization made me more choosy about when or how I get sucked into learning.
That you can choose.
You would be surprised. Most casual gamblers will put <$1k on a weekend visit.

Even setting aside the high roller slots, the regular machines will allow $25/spin now and 5 seconds a spin means it’s easy to cruise through $1k in 5 minutes.

I’ve sat and watched one person so that (not in the high roller slots) and they left down about $4000 after a 20 minute sit. They didn’t even seem phased in the slightest and only left due to what seemed like the need to meet someone rather than running out of cash.
> IPC is still simpler and cheaper than network calls.

I specifically called out the extra complexity of network calls in microservices, not sure if you read the full comment.

> A monolith doesn't force a single process

I'm not convinced; if my small/specific code has it's own process, I would say it's a microservice. Sure, we can have replicas for redundancy, that doesn't mean I won't have reliability issues when my process is crashed.

> A monolith doesn't force a single database.

> A monolith doesn't force never having an external service for a specialized use case, or FFI

True, sadly it doesn't usually work this way. People take the path of least resistance.

Also once you add multiple DBs you start to get into eventual consistency; which is one of the harder parts of microservices.
> Luckily, capitalism punishes misallocation of capital fo incompetent people.

This is absolutely not what is happening, but perhaps this was irony? We are granting money to very competent people. They are true experts in their fields and have studied for years. And all this knowledge allows them to expertly optimize their trajectory in today's academic system much better than if they were simply innovative scientists. People who revolutionize science are not only 'competent' or the 'best experts'. First and foremost, they're inventive and quite often very lucky. Qualities we don't know how to select for.
I'm curious to see if this most recent Def Con will be the last one allowed in Vegas...
Could be that the manager's impression was wrong - or this is a case of "temporarily embarrassed middle-class": "yes, we're not rich but at least we're not so poor we have to take the bus..."
Isn't that how ad networks work too?
Okay, well that's a bad way to define those words if very vague relatedness is enough, with no other factors.

Work for hire should always be very clear.
> that prices comparison is going to need per gram pricing

Not entirely sure what you mean here, but we do have per gram pricing requirements (expressed in £/KG).

EDIT: oh you mean that shrinkflation is so bad that £/gram will make more sense. Hah yeah

The trouble is that grocers have figured out that if you fool the population in to using a 'loyalty' card, you can make everything a 'promotional price' and avoid the per-unit labelling requirements. They just show the £/KG price of the higher price. So now consumers can't easily compare. [0]

All of this can be avoided by just shopping at e.g. Aldi and Lidl, but I would not be surprised if even they succumb to the temptation of a loyalty-card-only pricing very soon. (Though they too have partaken in shrinkflation)

[0] An example https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/296117381 . "£3.00 / £10.71/kg", but clubcard price is £2.00
But water clean-up/discharge is private, isn't it?
Nowhere does the author say they were unsure whether it had happened:

> I, truthfully, wrote that we had never pen tested our software. ... They provided me with an answer to the pen testing question that essentially said "we did pen testing when we launched, but haven't done it since". I made sure they were aware that this wasn't true.

Three years into a job as the most senior technical employee, I'd expect him to know if there were any pen tests done before he joined. It sounds to me like this is a pretty garbage company, where the one developer with a clue feels like he has no agency. I believe him if he says they didn't do any pen testing before he was there.
The README includes are you looking for: https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi#usage
That blade makes me nervous if low wind speed and large waves is a combination that ever happens.

It would be interesting to watch one as wind speed increases, it’s a neat design.
My Google authenticator app on iOS once wiped itself without any warning and I was unable to recover the keys. I literally opened my Authenticator app one day and it was empty. It was probably one of the most enraging experiences. Switched to Microsoft Authenticator on that day and haven’t had any issues yet.
if we define 'software engineer' as someone whose job it is to make working software systems, then clearly anything less than the truth is counterproductive.

if you take a more modern view that the 'software engineer' is mostly about marketing and sales, even inside your company, then sure. its all spin and half truth. but that doesn't have anything to do with.. you know, building stuff
Human body physical responses for various emotional stimuli
What is “excessive booting” in this context? IIUC here in NYC, booting is usually a response to thousands of dollars in unpaid fines (unpaid fines are public record here, so you can even look them up.)

I realize it's always an unpopular opinion to be pro-parking-enforcement, but to be honest, I'm always glad to see a car booted. Some people think they have a god-given right to leave their car wherever is convenient to them, it's nice to see at least some of them face consequences.
For some items, this is true. But it would still be helpful to be able to compare from one store to the next (by checking the Safeway app while shopping at TJ’s).
> Regardless of what tools you use, an internal pen test isn't the same

It isn’t the same as an “official” pen test for a 10 person company with non-specialists, sure. But the document, to our knowledge, didn’t ask if they had some specific form of pen test.

> because I'm like a djinni who will twist your words against you if there's the slightest ambiguity.

They aren’t twisting anything. If a quick and informal pen test meets their definition then they should be more specific.
IPv6 won't get found by brute-force but there are a few projects which tries to gather IPv6 addresses using various means and scans them as they are found.

Shodan did (maybe still does) provided NTP servers to some ntp-pools and scanned anyone who sent incoming requests.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using...

So as with everything, layer the defences, don't rely on you IPv6 address being secret as the only defence.
Of course they're not an engineer. They're writing software, not feeding and managing a boiler hurtling down the tracks. Not sure you need a license to do that either.
If you already have a large model you can rank & filter the training data and retrain. If the model doesn't like the data, chances are it is low quality. That is how MS built Phi-1 and 1.5, by curating web data + generating with a large model. The second part (synthetic content) improves diversity by methodically covering concepts or tasks.
How much OS development/effort are you able to skip by building it on a browser/WASM instead of normal hardware? I don't know if you are effectively recreating a low-level machine on top of the browser's high-level APIs, or using the high-level APIs to skip substantial parts of the implementation.

How serializable is the state of the OS? Can you freeze and move the image? What resources can't be preserved? (E.g., open sockets... but then you don't really get raw sockets on a browser anyway; still WebSockets/etc can't be transferred.)
[PRQL dev here]

I agree with the sentiments, even if not the conclusion. SQL is omnipresent and is "fine" in a lot of cases.

TypeScript is indeed a great example of the case; Kotlin too. I'd also add that databases are already adding PRQL support — ClickHouse has native support, there's a DuckDB extension, and folks are working on a Postgres extension.

One thing I'll respectfully disagree with — "SQL is highly statically analyzable by nature":

As a really basic example: `SELECT <expr> FROM tbl` — can we tell what shape the result is? In SQL, shapes / types require a lot of context — the result could be a single row in the case of `SUM(foo)`, or it could be every row in the case of `foo, bar`. More in https://prql-lang.org/faq/...
In the US retaliation by an employer for an employee reporting inappropriate or unlawful conduct to a superior is unlawful. This is a protection granted at the federal level.
Not trying to claim any expertise in the matter, but couldn't you say the same for gold? Any of us would love to have a box of it, but you can't do squat with it at the grocery store or the gas station.
> Unity lit money on fire for decades to buy a market advantage that overrules the basic economic incentives that supposedly ensure free markets work best for customers. It was successful in doing that because it's very hard for a sustainable business to compete against one that is fine losing billions of dollars.

This right here is the most notable part of the article, and it is entirely correct - it has been for years. Venture capital is fine to use for actual ventures, to create new markets or hell, to break into a market with entrenched powers... but when it is used on a long time purely to undercut and destroy legitimate prior businesses (taxis/Uber, hotels/AirBnB, game engines/Unity), authorities should step in.

It's time to revive anti-trust, anti-dumping and other anti-predatory politics.
There’s some of that. I/O in node is done by a C library called libuv [1]. It’s portable and it’s used by other languages too.

Deno doesn’t use it, though. They use Rust ecosystem libraries like tokio. [2]

[1] http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/
[2] https://choubey.gitbook.io/internals-of-deno/architecture/to...
Work your network making it known you are available for hire. Don’t use platforms such a upwork, they are simply a race to the bottom.
> Rather than a hammer manufacturer, I think a more apt analogy would be a publishing house. A publishing company can and should decide for itself what it will or will not publish using whatever criteria it chooses.

The reason for that is that publishing company have their name permanently attached to what it publishes.

But that is not the case for ChatGPT, there is no signature attached to it and content can be used in way completely outside the control of the company.
The key part about Shamir is that having any number of shards short of the threshold doesn't reveal anything about the secret. Let's say you split your 256 bit encryption key into 4 64-bit pieces with each person getting 3 of the 4. Each person now knows 3/4 of the secret. Now any one person simply has to brute force the remaining 64 bits of the key in order to decrypt.
Warcraft Rumble has globally opened pre-registration on both the App Store and the Play Store, offering rewards for those who play at launch.
Arm IPO delivers $84M fees bonanza for its advisers
On code generation in a Pascal compiler (1976)
I hope so, I hate going to the hottest spot in the US every year. This year Toxic BBQ was acceptable in terms of heat but other years has been miserable. I would love a more outdoor friendly hacker conference. I’m so tired of Vegas. I know Toor Camp exists but we need so much more.
>Austria's real problem is that it's a bad business environment with high taxes and tons of regulation.

I feel that Canada has a similar problem.
Christopher Alexander "Nature of Order", "Pattern Language", "Notes on the Synthesis of Form"

It's impossible to summarize his work (the above are his most famous books, in reverse chronological order) but the essence of his idea is that space itself is the "luminous ground of being" and our architecture can conduce or block the essential selfness...

I'm doing a terrible job of describing it... sorry.
If I'm at a puja for a local devta, Kalyug stuff doesn't come up. When you're praying to Baba Balak Nath, Jwala Ji, or Digu Wazir, stuff like that doesn't come up. It's a newish cultural import.
The big mistake here was editing an engineering statement to say something false.

If you're an honest person, assume that your job under that director (and probably at the company entirely) was over as soon as they asked you to make a fraudulent engineering statement. Even if they backpedaled when you resisted, you're not a team player with them, and you're a threat to someone very dishonest.

At that point, options:

* just leave;

* consult a labor attorney (you can get a free initial consultation); or

* go above the director's head, probably (in a small company) to the owner/CEO, whatever attorney is on staff or they retain, or HR (though, you're still probably over at the company, even though they'll diplomatically pretend that you're not, because you are in 100% corporate butt-covering territory now, in a place that puts someone very dishonest as a director).
The Wikipedia article has citations, which one can follow up on. I would say what is lazy is posting a link to “The Yucatan Times”, not exactly a reputable source on Indian archaeology, without even noticing that that article was sourced from a now-defunct article at New India Express, again not a reputable source on Indian archaeology. That source article, to judge from what was saved at Wayback Machine, does not cite a single scholar’s name or publication in making its claims. Moreover, even if the dating of human presence at the site does date back to the claimed date, your article says nothing about Krishna except the aforementioned legend.
You are conveniently leaving out the fact that religion is just a bunch of made up shit.
Smaller countries (by economy or by population) tend to have protectionist rules, otherwise they simply get absorbed by their (bigger) neighbouring countries. Historically, those protections weren't that much of an issue, but as bigger countries continue optimizing their systems at huge scale, smaller countries can't keep up (offer the same price/quality).

For example in the US, when TikTok became too popular, politicians quickly reacted to avoid having a major social network that was backed by a foreign country. Legitimately in the name of consumer protection, of course, but clearly also other interests. Funny how the US very selectively protects its consumers.

It's not great for the consumer (less competition/freedom), but ultimately it's about protecting local expertise to avoid being fully dependant on another region (obviously, sometimes this gets abused). Losing local expertise increases the brain-drain, since any skilled person will know that they won't get many good job options locally.

I live in Quebec/Canada, which has many rules in the name of consumer protection, but usually it's really about protecting local businesses without going against free trade agreements. I'm not a fan of isolationism, but winner-take-all types of scenarios, where no one can compete against foreign semi-monopolies hurt us in the long term. It's hard to find a good balance. An interesting take, in Quebec and in the EU, is seeing many laws that only apply above a certain scale.
Shows how much bang for buck you can get when hosting your own hardware.
Open source is indeed unlikely, but there's a very good chance they'd make it free or inexpensive relative to competitors. Plenty of precedent for that in the video editing tools they've bought and turned first-party.

They might not kill off cross-platform support this time, though. Today's Apple maintains true native (not just "port half of the Mac/iOS userland" native) Android and Windows apps.
For UK readers, and perhaps others, they mean car clamps, not cars that have somewhere to put your shopping.
It is unreasonable to infer what the original author has said he has not implied.
How is number of digits in their margin of any relevance? They post record profits with these tiny margins: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/carrefour-p...
Mostly because you have no choice.
If it's illegal then companies will still pay ransoms, just quietly and the feds don't get any chances to investigate it.
Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected
They should write something like "25% less fat in this package!".
I created and sold a software system to a company and joined them. I stayed there for 6 years continuing to work on it and building a big team. During this time, I quietly spun off a small rogue effort to build a newer client app for the system in Rust. This quickly became our most popular product.

The company is now winding down the project overall, but decided to keep and adapt this Rust client to its own backends. It is the only part which survived and it was the only thing I wasn’t given orders to build.
I had the same issue. I went from Ubuntu -> Arch -> NixOS looking for a distro with well-supported ZFS. Finally found one (the last one).

This is the magic line from my declarative configuration that ensures I never get a kernel update that is incompatible with my ZFS-on-root config:

kernelPackages = config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages;

Been running it for 2 years now; quite happy with it, and this is probably my "final distro hop". Once you go declarative (and climb the learning curve), you are done with everything else I guess.

Put it this way, I can switch to an entirely different window manager by changing 1 configuration line. And it works every time. I've tried that on other Linux distros, and it always borks something or other. I can also change my GRUB theme and boot animation via Plymouth, something I would have NEVER risked on ANY other Linux distro due to the risk of modifying boot configuration... but since it's declarative (and validated) on NixOS, I've had no issues (just tweaking). If I manage to bork something, which is rare, I just reboot into a previous update of my OS and fix it and then try again.
Absolutely.

Never understood why people are so infatuated with "cloud" options. Yes, it is convinient, but you are absolutely paying at least order of magnitude more for the same amount of compute/storage.
I think this has been listed at the head of the README, and includes a example video, take a look at it :)
https://www.potter-search.com/?search=Horcrux

> “Seven! Isn’t it bad enough to think of killing one person? And in any case . . . bad enough to divide the soul . . . but to rip it into seven pieces ...”

> Lord Voldemort has seemed to grow less human with the passing years, and the transformation he has undergone seemed to me to be only explicable if his soul was mutilated beyond the realms of what we might call ‘usual evil’
But it's pure ROI. Radio Over Internet.
I watched a sketch show on youtube and after a couple of episodes I noticed that it has been mirrored horizontally. Perhaps to avoid copyright detection mechanisms.
It would seem easy to catch them. A policeman messages to get a car unclamped and whoever turns up gets fined.
Do not lie to the government, even if you are following orders. In the US, federal and state law differ, but most have some variant of the federal false claims statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/287

> Whoever makes or presents to any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, or to any department or agency thereof, any claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, shall be imprisoned not more than five years and shall be subject to a fine in the amount provided in this title.

This has been interpreted very broadly to encompass pretty much anything you submit to the government in support of the government paying you or your company money.

Probably nobody will notice, and you probably won’t get prosecuted. But this stuff comes to light all the time if something goes sideways, or if the government is investigating something else.
at some point "independent game development" became more of a fashion than a craft taken seriously
This is the third person on this thread you’ve attacked personally when you got frustrated that they didn’t agree with you. You may be right about the futility of debating UAPs on HN, in which case, you should probably stop.

In this case, you might say you were provoked. But the preceding comment is itself reacting to personal arguments you made earlier. It’s just a mess, and it’s not working out for you.
I would love to come across a free box of gold, or a private key holding a large sum in bitcoin, or anything similar. HOWEVER, that is not because I would like to keep holding onto it -- just to convert it to cash and then convert that cash proportionally to cash/short term/long term investments.
Uh but you can vote.

My understanding of socialism is that, in practice, it is merely the assertion that some choices about how labor is allocated should come from democratic decisions instead of the market.
Microsoft is honestly a better fit given Unity's C# roots and Visual Studio integration. But I find it hard to imagine Microsoft being all that interested in Unity these days. They're already attracting intense antitrust scrutiny vis-a-vis their attempted Activision-Blizzard acquisition.
I have found the only way I can reliably get any notifications on iOS is to set them as “persistent” (ie-they remain on the screen until manually dismissed). Otherwise, they vanish into a pull-down screen that I have never become accustomed to routinely checking and is trivially easy to ignore as there are no status bar nags like on Android.
I'm a software dev with an MBA, and yes, my classmates were very much "our job as managers is to make the minions work harder" [0] so I'm equally OK with the MBA slur.

I struggle trying to educate people that the best way of measuring developer productivity is measuring outcomes, and that a developer going for a walk in the park is a great thing for them to do.

[0] In Australia, where management is generally still locked into 1950's-style authoritarianism. YMMV.
Yes, and it's an open secret that they're crooked as a dog's hind leg.