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> Over the last week, Godot had 32 authors pushing 52 commits. Over the last month it had 135 authors. This is not "one or two guys".

Yeah, right now (and I hope it keeps increasing thanks to the Unity news).

I got burnt once (and almost twice) from this in the past. cocos2d-iPhone used to be huge, and Zynga even contributed to it. I released two games using it, and started another one. And then it stopped getting updated (and Apple keeps breaking things like Apple likes to do), so it died on the vine and I had to port to something else.

Currently making a game in Monogame, and while it did get a significant update a little over a year ago, it's had very little activity on it since then and no other releases besides a hotfix shortly after, and zero communication about what's going on with any of their official channels at least. Not great especially since there seems to be spotty support for .Net 6 outside of Windows still, and I keep running into various issues with its 3D support (which it is mainly supposed to be a 2D game, but it does support 3D to a certain extent).

Also while it claims to support platforms like PS4 and Switch, I see almost no documentation on it, and very little documentation on getting Steamworks working with it (I have some basic things working, but I'm having to figure things for Unity first and then porting that knowledge over). Also most of its multiplayer libraries seem outdated, at least the ones I looked up. And the forums/Discord still have some activity on them, but not a ton. Also I'd love to make a game that supported VR (almost switched to Unity just for that alone).

I actually compared its Github activity to Godot a week ago, and Godot looks SO much better supported than Monogame at this point, that I was already considering either porting or making my next game in Godot before this Unity news was announced. But maybe that's just me hopping onto another platform that will have the same problem in 5 years after I've gotten pretty invested into it.

I also know Unity (worked on a game professionally years back) and considered switching to that for my game too, but that mostly got killed by this announcement.

Personally I prefer code-based development (I don't like using an editor too much), so if Monogame was better supported and had much better 3D support I'd probably just stick with it. I thought I was going to when I first started using it seriously three years ago. But I hesitate to keep dumping time into it if they don't maintain it.

Also I made a small game with Phaser.js and was going to do more with that, but even that creator is pretty much the only one maintaining it and they got sidelined by life for about six months (which is fine, but get someone to help keep it going if you can! I know that's hard though). Phaser at least is already close to what I want from it, and doesn't seem to need much else for the foreseeable future.
It's great to have the PIO in a smaller/cheaper device, but if that is the kind of thing that you really like, I do want to mention the BeagleBone SPUs and the Parallax Propeller / Propeller2 are similar/more powerful implementations of this concept.
I was part of a layoff this year. I was the highest performing member of the team — and awarded as such — but my skip level VP didn’t like me. So I’m gone. It was similar across the board.. lots of my coworkers, many of whom were good at their jobs, were selected-out not based on performance either.

So yeah, sometimes you can cut the chaff this way, and sometimes it’s just a way for those in power to consolidate their crews. And sure… this is technically a management right, but some who were retained were kept because they were abusable more than they were useful.
A ton of kids did not understand that Disney's "D" was a "D" and the brand seems to have done okay in spite of that.
Takahama No. 2 nuclear reactor restarted after 12-year halt
Have you asked indie bands? Cause... I'm skeptical they're going to be happy with your proposals given that they're already hanging by a pretty thin thread.

Playing songs live != repackaging recordings. Not even in the same ballpark. Venues of size pay licenses to ASCAP, etc. for the rights to let cover bands do this -- but it's also a usage that requires a lot more factors than just copying the song. At least in the U.S. these uses are pretty much automated vs. negotiating rights to reproduce a full album or even a single.

(Tribute bands are another animal entirely - I'm not sure how or if the various Pink Floyd tribute bands, for instance, negotiate deals with the original bands since they're not just covering the songs - they also get into likeness rights and trademark, etc.)
More discussion yesterday over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37516544
In Canada, they call it a “Party Size” or a “Family Size” box.
Supply constraints typically lead to higher prices and higher margins. The fact that the margins have gone up does not somehow imply that the higher prices are something other than inflation.
The logic that Epic and Unreal Engine will do something similar as Unity doesn't track for me.

The argument hinges on the premise that Epic, who operates their own game store and is courting developers aggressively with generous revenue split, is willing to burn their bridge with developers for questionable increase in profit; in addition it presumes that the plain old revenue share model that Unreal Engine utiltizes makes less money than this so-called runtime fee.

I beg to differ, I think the only reason Unity went this route is because they don't want to be seen to publicly break the promise of no revenue share/royalty pledge they had earlier, and ironically came up with an even worse monetization scheme.

In my opinion, the only reason this whole fiasco happened is because Unity the company has too many headcounts and has too much expense, and the reason for that is they grew too big, and the reason they grew too big is because they took the company public and in that sphere success is measured in growth, even if the company is much healthier if it had stayed smaller.

Epic is privately held, Valve is too, Unity is not and we ended up here. I think that says a lot.
A small minority of the UK can still be hundreds of thousands, even millions of people. Don't underestimate volume just because the % is low.
Just as an example, google has recently enshittified chrome to include gross invasions of privacy. How much has this moved the needle on chrome's browser share?

If it was as simple as people just ceasing continued use of the product, one would expect a large dip. If there are other effects in play besides "use that which is better, switch anytime" (e.g. anticompetitive behaviors), one would expect there not to be.

So, what reality do the numbers reveal?

p.s. the same exercise can be done regarding google's enshittification of search, and seeing how many people change the default search in chrome as a result
This sounds like a nightmare. One that I've lived through.
This has been harmonized across the EU for, I think, 25 years.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
> I'm not even sure who administered the city which was crushed by the flood in 2023 considering the free-for-all in Lybia ever since.

Derna is in Eastern Libya, so it's under control of the Libyan National Army regime, the one run out of Benghazi. Pretty easy to look up actually.
>> The focus towards acquiring more mobile users meant stripping down and simplifying a product that previously demanded hundreds of words of essay writing, and answering hundreds of questions. The essay prompts became simpler, multiple choice asymmetric questions got deprioritized over reciprocal yes / no questions.

A voice interface might help. By default in the app of course, not a phone feature the user has to use to TTS into the app.
I live with bipolar as well and have avoided cannabis use because when I did smoke it, I was severely depressed afterwards. Recently I had some dental work that did not go well and I was on one of the Oxy formulations for a few days to deal with pain. I had a bad reaction to the Oxy and I found that 5 mg pot gummy's in conjunction with Tylenol provided better pain relief. When the pain faded enough that I just needed Tylenol, I didn't experience the usual post use depression.

I experiment with the gummy's afterwards and found that the depression post usage effect was still present. Something about using them as pain relief changed how my mind responded to THC.
> But he was killed by Libyans, who were angry about the Libyans that Gaddafi himself had killed.

Sorry, I suggest you dig deeper. He was killed by Misrata fighters who were directly NATO sponsored and equipped. There were lots of articles on how NATO supported Misrata at the time.
Are you implying that one needs a crystal ball to predict which companies will screw you over with ToS changes in the future, and using that crystal ball in the present time, we can then skip reading ToS for all those other companies, which will not screw you over, and only read the ToS for the one company that will screw you over?
Such ”incompetence, not malice” errors can be trivially solved by defaulting to the consumer receiving a discount on the item in the event of variations in how the items on the shelves are labeled. Boom, you now have an army of validation specialists going around checking the consistency of your labeling. A very low-cost solution if your errors are truly good-faith and infrequent, you are paying pennies per person-hour!

Some states offer a “scanner bounty” when items transitioned from sticker labeling to scanner pricing with only shelf tags, because vendors would often not update the shelf tags or item tags appropriately when they changed the scanner database. Find an error and receive 10x the difference up to $5.

https://www.michigan.gov/ag/consumer-protection/consumer-ale...

You will rapidly find stores becoming less incompetent overnight once they have an incentive to be. It’s not that they’re not capable of being competent, there just isn’t a legal requirement or a market incentive to be competent. A law without a penalty for (knowing or un-knowing) noncompliance is just a polite request.

They are profiting and thriving off the tendency for good-natured people to adopt the “incompetence, not malice” mindset and then accept that as a normal standard of behavior. After all, what can be done? Sho ga nai.
Like a barcode? Effectively every product in grocery stores has a UPC on it already.

So you wouldn't need store buy-in, because the challenge here isn't the QR code, it's the place where all that data is maintained. An app could scan the barcode, or you could manually enter the UPC into a website. If you think this is worthwhile, you could build this.
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Any suggestions to alternative to webhooks? I feel a ‘pull’ based model with cursors and long polling would be simpler and more reliable than webhooks.
I agree with the feeling everything still seeming to be unsettled, but the interest rate environment is actually closer to "normal" today than the recent past. The extreme low-rate environment was the outlier, not today. The change itself though is certainly a cause of market shock.
How does this look like Apple? Google is far worse about obsolescence than Apple, and, afaik, always has been.
https://www.unileverusa.com/brands/smartlabel/

(I am sure that, since this is controlled by manufacturers, they will use this to remove as much information as possible from the actual product labels.)
No. I would have been much better off learning proper typing than cursive.
Every time that I pair with someone, they always get confused about it, after months you get adjusted, might be caused by the syntax when coding.
Unity is saying they can send developers a bill for whatever they want, and if it's not paid their game can't be installed.

Unity has published what "whatever they want" currently is. It doesn't matter if people get the details wrong on that because Unity can change its mind.

That being said, you're still more wrong than the author on the details. The change is retroactive in that it applies to existing applications. The author was very clear what they meant by "retroactive":

> this change will be done retroactively on existing applications as well.

This is true.
Ah, the "sicilian haircut" ?
To actually answer your question without snark, it’s still miles behind. I give the competition a shot once every year or two to see what’s up. It’s never even close for someone that prioritises the things that I prioritise. Every Plex competitor I’ve used makes me feel like I’m using a Linux media player in 2008. Some people get off to that. I don’t.
Someone will quickly monetize the idiots with a simple ad-ridden subscription based app that "Unlocks the Alternet!"
This isn't basic sans serif at all, I quite like it. It's distinctive while also feeling trustworthy.

I agree there are a lot of generic sans serif logos out there but this isn't one of them. The old logo had gotten incredibly dated -- it looked like your great-grandparents' brand. (Which it was.)
We must bring back the Assize of Bread and Ale.
I meant OpenMotif as pjmlp mentioned. These days it seems to mainly receive patches to keep it working but it maintained API (and ABI where possible) compatibility even when it was more actively developed as it was a design choice, not a byproduct of not receiving updates. AFAIK it is how Lesstif managed to be a (mostly) drop-in binary compatible alternative to Motif before the latter became open source.
I've thought about doing a kickstarter to charter a boat to try this (kind of a Bizzaro world version of the Rainbow Warrior.) but was told by some experts (took their class) not to do this.

The #1 concern is that this is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, that is you end up depleting nutrients other than iron so that there is less production somewhere else.

A #2 issue is that it's not as simple as it sounds, you can't just dump iron off the size of a barge and expect it to work, you really need to be monitoring the process and need a whole flotilla to do that.
Blender is nonprofit and funded by donations and grants. The closest analog to this in the game engine space is Godot.
If this[1] is correct, one part stands out to me:

"2.1 million people in the UK lived in household which had used a food bank in the previous 12 months, a rate of 3%. This includes 6% of children, 3% of working-age adults, and around 0% of pensioners."

6% of children feels not great, though other stats say the US is much worse, with 6+% of all households, not just children...and I've seen higher estimates.

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
The 4C there is not really a temperature, though. It's a difference in temperature.

I guess that's a limitation of dimensional analysis, since they both have the same units and dimensions.
FullControl GCODE Designer: an open source Python tool for modeling 3D extrusion
This was first released as an Excel spreadsheet, but has since been completely re-written in Python --- allows modeling how an extruder will extrude mathematically, making possible designs and efficient production which traditional CAD and slicers cannot match.
The whole purpose of shrinkflation is to prevent yourself from getting into a game of prisoners dilemma with your competitors. You can cut the product size, and therefore costs, and maintain a "competitive price".
> why would people between 13 and 18 be prohibited from streaming?

The parasocial relationship with an audience, especially a large one, does weird things even to adults.
Sort of - but completely normal for a developer's desktop circa 2013, even without paying the Xeon tax.

Of course, a high school at that time might have purchased poverty-spec chromebooks with 4GB of RAM for understandable reasons of price.

So when samtheprogram talks about "devices from early to mid 2010's" that could mean a great many things.
Required viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRMcZhqlVpE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grc_pFJG8T0
I'm very shocked that these were only discovered so recently (Well. If you consider the early 2000's to be "recent". I'd have assumed that we'd have found these out earlier)

I suppose that's why they were all the rage in childrens' books and museums around that time.
I'm new to this and would like to build a service like this one day. What exactly did you use Laravel, alpinejs, tailwind, and vite for? Was it necessary to have 4 different resources?
Great idea but there’s a slippery slope problem. Report on shrinkflation packaging and companies will switch to other less transparent means (ie changing ingredients) and so this adds a bit of perverse incentive. I suppose companies already do the cost cutting, adding filler, etc… I’m a fan of just mandating price per ounce labels on everything. Stores could show current price per ounce and last year’s, no calling out specific brands, just make that data available to consumers on each price tag.
Vite can be used for MPA for eg: Astro uses it.

While you may not need it, everyone else may have different needs
> Who cares what the motivation is if it gives real benefits to devs.

Motivations matter, because they will decide in which direction a project moves over time, or if situations change. Epic is the "good guy" now, but only because they are an underdog. If they become the dominator, they might become the predator which Unity tries to be at the moment.

But if we are honest, such uncertain possibilities don't matter if they are so far in the future. This might be a problem for future games, 10, 20 years down the river..
My apartment in Manhattan houses as many people as a square mile does in Colorado using 1/10,000th the space. At a certain point we have to acknowledge that the government would rather you just be poor.
The counterpart to this is of course https://youtu.be/nWMp_z7Jnxw
Early Internet was place for people with similar background, which were small part of all smart people.

IMHO, we need a bait. Something, that will bring in smart people, and only smart people. HN detracts regular people, because it looks boring and doesn't help to continue discussions. This is good for HN, but bad for discussions (and spamers).

I'm thinking about mix of a court and wikipedia. Something, where we can play our game (who is right? who is the smarter?) on steroids, something where we can layout our arguments, facts, ideas, and then discuss them (flame all night long), until someone else, an arbiter, will read all that and declare a winner. IMHO, a topic and number of win/lost/unfinished discussions will be a good indication of smartiness and expertise in a domain.
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Nope. Cursive today is archaic. And that's fine.

It's no different from not knowing how to use a slide rule.
No reference to fork anywhere?
NASA doesn't build or launch spacecraft. They pay companies such as SpaceX to do it for them.
to paraphrase a director: "any club that would let me be in it is a club that I probably shouldn't be in"
Researchers design ammonia-resistant nickel-based fuel cell catalyst
Wow if only the State could mandate how much something should cost, and then perhaps the Politburo could meet once every five years to discuss how much of everything should be manufactured, we could regulate our way out of this mess.

/s
That was precisely my thoughts before the launch, but I was surprised by the results. It is not a real thing to launch a startup, but super cool as another marketing tool.
Anecdotally, I've started to see this with furniture sold at places like Homegoods in the last couple of years. The furniture is smaller but the price is about the same.
> * The Headless UI version dedicates a lot of lines to types, where your Nue implementation is dynamically typed. This may be a feature for you, but in my mind those type declarations are doing important work.

Yeah this is actually a little scary:

https://nuejs.org/compare/faq.html

> No TypeScript: Nue embraces the dynamic typing in JavaScript

I for one have no desire to fight dynamic Javascript spaghetti any more. I personally think Typescript types aren't strong enough! (Too much `as Foo` around.)
See but with Godot you can share your updates and receive others updates. You aren't dependent on any single organization for the project to continue.
Most stores in the US do this, and have for decades. It is definitely intentional.

Presumably the people that write the integrations shop in grocery stores, and have noticed the issue.
Why does it cause such higher margins?
One thing to consider for SFDC, the layoffs took a while to percolate. It was many months before the international employee base was impacted, especially in the EU, do to local labor laws.
I've made a userscript for this! https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog...

Kroger doesn't publish unit prices on their websites, but they do publish quantities. They'll sometimes mix the units up (L, floz, see mapUnit() https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog...), but generally they're OK.

The script will normalize everything to a specific metric unit & present a unit price on the page.

Why stores have this horrible setup? Probably weaponized incompetence. Would be nice to have the FTC step in with some regulation.
Americans will basically put up with a lot, both as workers and as consumers. The French, not so much.
I grew up at a time when cursive was obviously fading away. In third grade we had to write cursive for all our work after half the year because we were going to use it all the time.

Haven't written cursive since (signatures aren't cursive, they're more of a logo than anything) maybe fourth grade. I type all day. I can read cursive but I swear cursive has so much variation in legibility that it's a nightmare sometimes.

Typing as a skill has replaced cursive and, while I think knowing to read cursive is good, I don't find it important.
> Corporate profits are high.

Inflation increases profits, too (but not in real dollars).

> This is one of the reasons why.

The reason why is inflation.
Ask HN: What method do you use to send a link from smartphone to laptop?
Am I the only one still relying on the age old method of sending an email to myself on the smartphone and then opening it up on the laptop?
It's interesting that post-New Deal US is much more redistributive between the states than the EU has yet managed to achieve. Probably due to not having any direct taxation power of its own either.

EU "fiscal discipline" combined with bank bailouts looks so harmful in retrospect.
Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking
Obviously I won't defend the Unity situation.

Ultimately though it is all about time efficiency, solo or small teams have little manpower and since they don't even know if their first, second, or fifth game will sell any at all it may not make strategic sense to spend months reproducing common engine features in order to save a hypothetical percentage of revenue that they may never ultimately make. You need to test the gameplay concept as cheaply as possible.

Creating a game engine from scratch is FUN, and if game development is a fun hobby then full steam ahead. If however it is a business that you plan to make money on, you're unlikely to recoup the time investment into a bespoke engine just to test the market for your games. If the game turned out to be successful you could always piecemeal replace the commercial engine with bespoke via updates (inc. using money to hire people from the success).
I don't understand how those two things are connected. Could you please explain?
It's not that, you would need to HOLD the oil fields and govern the region. Status quo is the only acceptable choice at the foreign policy level. Americans who consider themselves the best of the best work every day to service the kingdom.
That should be in your article.