skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, like with most things crypto related there are a lot of things to discuss, chief among them that I think that while NFTs are mainly a scam (they were the pump and dump schemes of the latest bubble, the same way ICOs were before that) their was a limited use-case for them: crowd-sourcing. The SEC pretty much sided with a penalty that lets users know that while there is a cost of doing business, it only equated to an 1/8th (12.5%) of the total NFT sell:

> SC2 agreed to a cease-and-desist order, but did not dispute the SEC's investigation. The company will pay a civil penalty of $1 million, which will be used to set up a "Fair Fund" to reimburse investors injured by the sale. The company must also destroy all Stoner Cats NFTs in its possession as part of the settlement.

This means they paid an effective 12.5% tax on the crowd sourcing effort, which is not unlike the take that and misc taxes from using traditional crowdsourcing platforms. What this means is that if this were to take place again, and it could, the best thing to do is just do it outside the US jurisdiction where you aren't subject to such penalties. Do it in El Salvador and you can do it entirely tax free if you cash out with Bitcoin and decide to sell some into USD.

If we learned anything from the Canadian Trucker's protest is that while these financial tools/instruments may seem stupid to the unsuspecting eye, what they are doing is slowly eroding at the monopoly Governments have had on money; they can go after individual users, or in the case of Canada exchanges, but once on-board you can conduct as you please.

People always ask where are there examples of the Free-Market, and if you have been paying attention this space long enough you will see this messy experiment is playing out. Ironically the US government, as well as other nation-states, are some of the largest holders of Bitcoin.

I'm not shocked they used their celebrity status to cash in on this, so many others pumped S**coins all day and got hit with small fines relative to their gains, what does surprise me is that they said they would need to destroy all of the NFTs in their possession, which just effectively gave them more scarcity and in these shallow, and manipulated markets probably saw a huge spike in price as well as interest as Kushner/Kunis have been in the media as of late.

It's total caveat emptor, and if those that purchased it got a series out of it I cannot see what the problem is here, and my negative biases of ETH aside, it seems like the SEC are clearly over-stepping their bounds here.
These things are just statistical language models, aren't they? To the extent that when people reason or plan and then verbalize those plans, they tend to leave certain trajectories through language space, a statistical model could presumably reproduce similar, plausible sounding narratives. Doesn't mean that any kind of agency ever actually thought about those plans though, in the way that a person would.
> effective tax rate for a doctor earning $400,000 in Quebec canada

> Based on the 2023 tax brackets you provided, the effective tax rate for a doctor earning $400,000 in Quebec would be approximately 45.03%. This assumes no other deductions, credits, or tax strategies are applied.

It makes me think that because that's what the ultimate end goal the progressives are planning here in the usa.

tbh if that ever ends up being my effective tax rate (ie total taxes paid divided by total income), i would literally stop working out of pure principle.
Europe fund foreign companies for their key infrastructure, the US should be more open and progressive

https://teslanorth.com/2023/09/13/tesla-148-million-eu-charg...
They've never actually gotten the agent simulation to work. Traffic doesn't even use all available lanes.
> They do if they want to deliver ads that are relevant.

They can insert car ads on thedrive.com, tech ads on arstechnica.com, or topic-relevant ads on subreddits.

This approach appeared to "work" on radio and TV.

> Nothing in your post actually substantiates why advertising is inherently bad

Nothing says "pollute the air" like a "Go Green!" Exxon Mobile ad. Or how about those "flushable" wipes that aren't flushable and cause damage to water treatment facilities, yet continue to be a legal product [in the US]? Ads directly encourage harming the environment.

Why does "hate ads" need some form of empirical reason to rid this scourge of humanity? We all have preferences which may or may not follow a logical path.

Capitalism doesn't need defending; evil is a feature, not a bug. ;-)
Yeah, when your competitor is one of the biggest companies in the world who's willing to light millions on fire to offer a COMPLETELY FREE competitor for the sake of "developer mindshare", it's pretty easy to see the end result.

I was really a skeptic for years, but Microsoft really threw money at this until it won.
Time to resurrect Keats?

Headstone: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

Alternate reaction:

The example should say "John Keats" instead of 'TUDa"
Pepperidge Farm remembers microSD cards.

"killer feature"... get off my lawn!
Coda Is Now Nova
I used to work for a company that supported a lot of exhibitors at trade shows and conferences and things.

In theory, basically all of these required an exhibitor pass to get in to. Sometimes I’d have one, sometimes it would be with someone already at the show who I was supposed to call to come out and let me in, etc.

I used to make a game out of getting in without using or having a pass.

One of the easiest strategies was just to have a slightly large or unwieldy looking box and find a well enough travelled side door. In the context of a trade show or something, somebody hauling stuff in through a side door was 100% expected. Nobody would blink an eye at holding the door for you. Often there’d be a security person inside but if you just walked confidently and like you knew where you were going they wouldn’t chase you down just to ask you to put down all your stuff and dig your pass out.

Same strategy has worked to drive right past vehicle barriers. They’ll tell you can’t drive in there. Tell them you’re there for <namedsponsor> and you’re not carrying all these boxes in the back seat from a mile away. Quick radio call and “drive slow through the crowd please, be really careful”. Wasn’t even there to deliver anything, that area just has shit all for parking.

After showing up in a group of ten people carrying <namedsponsor> swag and gear, wearing <namedsponsor> clothing, in a <namedsponsor> wrapped vehicle and having every staff member have to present a pass and submit to a glance through of everything they were bringing in… one of my main contacts was always shocked every time I’d do this.

Make way more money now doing way more interesting work, but that role definitely had some fun parts.
Pretty sure Dang has some nice scripts that generate this, and I expect he does a little manual pruning before posting it. He’s very precise in his choices, definitely applies some intuition/judgement. We can’t losslessly compress him — yet!
The Ori games have terrible performance for pre-rendered 2d graphics. That's the exact kind of jank I'm talking about. Tons of microstutters. It's like using a '90s Java GUI app.
Musk paid all that reputational price, and all it did was delay things a little bit.
If you had to pick one game to ever play, Descent is a great one.
I don't know where you live but I cannot buy a guy by just showing up. They take ID, they require a license and still run a check. The only exception is when you get your CCW which removes the license per handgun (not long gun/shotgun) but requires a background check.
Or writing on something with water, which is also solved.

https://buddhaboard.com/
>If you are concerned about environmental impact of your travels, then fewer long-distance flying would have a much much bigger effect than futzing with clothes packed or not.

Since most readers here are probably American, I wonder what the difference in CO2 is between 1) flying to Japan and spending 2-3 weeks there, and riding some trains while you're there, and 2) staying in the US and driving your 6000-lb SUV across the country to someplace for your vacation, or 3) staying at home, driving your SUV around town as usual, and keeping your 6000-square-foot house heated or cooled that whole time.

I'm not so sure flying intercontinentally is really that bad compared to even the regular daily CO2 output of most Americans.
Copying my comment from another article:

This time I used VSCode for nearly 2 months. Thought it's the end of an era, I'm not coming back to Sublime Text. I decided to push through and customize the configs just right for me, it was really becoming comfortable. Main reason why I wanted to switch is more active dev, more active extension community, and well integrated modern (some ML-backed) code writing and navigation tools.

I was wrong. After all the painstaking customization to bring it close to my ideal experience, while also getting used to things I didn't want to fight, I still had a bad time.

For one, the tab/cursor focus keeps going into weird places. I press a button, like ESC to switch to normal vim mode, and instead it does nothing, or something different, because turns out I'm not in the editor anymore. Keeps happening, maybe my own fault. The nifty AI tools integration is more of a nuisance — they jump in at bad times (with a delay), and their tab/enter functionality is weird, can never get it right. Most of my autocompletes have been unintentional. Maybe my own fault again, but felt super awkward. There is still no good vertical align plugin, despite such an active community (Sublime doesn't have one either, although they have one that gets me a bit closer). The language server stuff that worked badly in Sublime for my language also works badly in VSCode. The extensions, while numerous, are of questionable quality. I tried to stick to just a few well known ones.

After all the effort, I slowly came to realization that I'm back to not really using anything unique to VSCode, sacrificing more than I gained, being surrounded by lots of small moving details everywhere in the UI that make my experience more awkward than helpful, and occasionally getting my cursor stuck in weird parts of UI. I went back to Sublime.
I think the idea is that California has plenty of solar generation during the day (or is on track to have plenty); what it needs is storage for when the sun isn’t shining.

The new NEM (the Net Billing Tariff) shifts the incentives away from solar generation (which the utilities have a lot of) and towards energy storage. I am in the market for solar right now, and I’ve been running the numbers. Whereas I would have had the greatest ROI with a large solar panel array under the last NEM, I now get the largest ROI with a small solar array + a battery.

I can’t say that my ROI will be the same under NEM 3.0 as it was in the old NEM, but solar is not suddenly a bad investment, as some might claim. A small solar + battery setup will pay for itself in 5 years in my situation. A battery alone (no solar panels) pays for itself within a decade, since you can buy energy for “cheap” during super off peak and store it for use during peak hours, pinning your electricity costs to the lowest of the day.

This is all with existing rates. The upcoming shift to an Income Graduated Fixed Fee will likely come with reduced per-kilowatt-hour rates, which will reduce the ROI for home solar and batteries.
I recommend In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas if you want to understand McMurtry’s world view…or Texas view?

He wrote it in the 1960’s but it is consistent with his later work.

And it is a great insight into Texas.
I happily pay for Jetbrains Pycharm and Clion.

I'm a professional developer so the price is easily justifiable.
Gallows humor is a known healthy coping mechanism to process more absurd aspects of life.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/gallows-humor-philosophy/

Whether someone who is discretely filmed doing this should be punished is up to X mobs.
Yeah, okay. What's your point? Is sixty million Americans not a big enough market for an ISP?
Presumably the hacker chose the date on purpose.
> something about the text rendering just looks better to me

I speculate that this is due to Sublime Text using the native font rendering APIs of your platform, as opposed to chrome's font rendering.
LLMs can not plan. There is no LLM that can solve sudoku puzzles by executing the obvious constraint propagation algorithm with backtracking. Therefore, LLMs can neither reason nor plan. Software is not magic and the fact that a lot of people are starting to think that it is should be concerning for the folks training the next generation of software engineers.
I'm just not sure if what this actually means is that Apple is just kinda behind in the AI game?

I'm pretty sure voice isolation for calls and obviously computational photography have been done by Google for a long time now on their pixel line of phones. I mean, pretty much every android maker out there does computational photography.

These accesibility features of the iPhone are interesting, that's something Apple cares about better than most.

But really, my impression from what I have been getting from Apple lately in this field is that they're just beginning to focus on it. Obviously everything they do they spin positively and they're very good at that. But I would say, it's not that Apple doesn't want to get into generative AI... it's probably more that they just don't feel they have the capabilities of doing it at the quality they expect, yet. Siri is definitely in need of an overhaul.

Apple is a pretty particular company, they're slow movers in many regards but they ensure high quality features.
Are we asking for the mathmatical answer (which I cant provide) or the practical answer (which most of us may take a stab at).
I wouldn't even care if they switched to Epics model and asked for 15% of revenue after the first 1M - For games making use of Unity 2024 of course.
Sounds pretty good actually. Time vs money and all that.
Do we think it would be possible to replace the real Bryan Cantrill with this? Asking for several friends.
You say $1 million like it is a big number. It is not in this context.

The 1% have gained $42 trillion since 2020. If they were taxed at capital gains on that it would be $2.8 T per year.
You listed some good Discord channels so I feel obligated to post some Lemmy Communities...

- Game Development@programming.dev
- GameDev@lemmy.blahaj.zone
> Its not economical for quick profits/next generation pays the price. Maybe we should take in consideration the ‘long term

Maybe, but 50+ years later and we're still following the money. I don't expect humans to collectively change behavior for longer than either of our lifetimes.
It's a highly paid job, police are often the highest paid employees on a government's payroll. The officer in question in the OP makes $154k/yr according to open records, which is only $1k over the median salary for the SPD, and cops in the same department make over $250k with overtime and overtime fraud[1].

They can also retire with a full pension and benefits after only 20 years of working.

They have way more than their "bros". They also have multibillion dollar unions, governments and lobbyists on their side, as well.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/374-seatt...
I prefer email…
> the general American populace has no sympathy for them

71% of Americans support unions, the highest level of support in history. Support among under 30s is ~88%.

https://newrepublic.com/post/175274/gallup-poll-two-thirds-a... ("Poll: Majority of Americans Support Unions and Support Strikes")

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20... ("Most Americans support strikes by Hollywood writers and actors")
> The USA and Detroit had unions and the industry and city became gutted.

This narrative might be false, see the interview here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzz3VI32KBA
How long do they last, and how easily is a tolerance developed for steroids? I’m asking this as a chronically congested person who doesn’t like the side effects of extended release pseudoephedrine, but it works.
I paid for Textmate on macOS which now seems to be in perpetual beta and free.

I still prefer vi/vim for speed, and use Textmate only for restructuring code.

VSCode is great for reading other people’s code, IMHO, but gets in the way while writing new code.

Different tools for different tasks.
You can retire but choose not to.
Thanks, I must say once I got the mic working I also had fun testing the microphone to get the modulation graph to behave that way.
Audit the billionaires next.
> Hudson Rock said it recovered the log files created by a RedLine infection on the Turkish airline employee’s system, and found the employee likely infected their machine after downloading pirated and secretly backdoored software for Microsoft Windows.

You'd think that downloading pirated software on your work computer with important credentials on it maybe isn't such a good idea.
Worth noting people running Godot have mentioned the Asset store priority is climbing. I didn't save the tweet when I saw it but they are aware that is a huge area that would help people transition off of Unity.
This. I absolutely love Sublime and wish I could go back to it, but the plugin ecosystem isn't the same. It's all community supported and feels like it's held together with tape. It doesn't "just work" like VSCode does.

And although I appreciate that Sublime is supposed to be a simple editor, not an IDE, it wouldn't hurt to add more IDE-like features. It's just too basic for development in 2023. Sublime has a really clean, performant, cross platform UI, why not take that and build the foundations of something more viable?
The vast majority of the super wealthy do not work.

The median CEO wage is under $1 million.
But… isnt that the whole story? That it happened to be on the same day.
I agree with all those points... It certainly concerns me as a new-to-unity developer... but most articles (like this one) are not talking about fraudulent installs.. they jump to "we're bankrupt" and "abandon ship" without much details, context, or supporting statements... and that's what bothers me...

I'd love to hear WHY.. not knee-jerk reactions...

Someone else mentioned that some people use "Free" to also mean ad-supported or micro-transaction... That wouldn't be my definition, but I suppose that is a fair concern at-a-glance for an article that says a "free" game can bankrupt them... That's a lot better than most of the comments I've seen on this topic.
There is no such thing as "serverless", that's just a higher than normal level of vendor lying.
The authors write this in the conclusion of their paper:

> Thus, we anticipate that our results and conclusions are valid for a broad class of systems and may open routes to many future enterprises including the structuring of fluids, the visualization of chemical traces, the assembling of functional objects like actuators or drug carriers, information storage, and numerous artistical applications. Finally, our results could also be used to prepare desired initial states for future colloid experiments, e.g., on collective diffusion. Drawing fine lines, durable patterns, and individual letters into water was only the first step.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202303741
Excellent write-up, thank you.
I bought a license a while ago, but I found myself using it less and less.. why? I couldn't tweak something that was bothering me (file preview as you fuzzy search your file, causing ton of screen flickering, and is quite slow on my raspberry..)

I now mostly use vim..

I'm pretty sure they'll never do it, but I think Sublime should embrace open source, or perhaps open more components of the editor..
You may want to double-check your plan to ensure you're not on Business or Pro. If you are indeed on the Enterprise plan, information about your account manager and contact plans should have been in the onboarding PowerPoint they serve as part of the setup. If you don't have that, I'd follow the instructions in https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/ge...
I'd also consider opening a ticket asking about your account manager.
Perhaps apple should not have developed a proprietary standard for the purpose of forcing people to stay in a walled garden and proprietary ecosystem.

Also, trillion dollar company lol, arguably the most powerful R&D force on earth and in history. Also... they did pull it off so...
I don't use Sublime, but I have tried to get into the habit of donating "roughly how much I would pay at the store" for some of the open source software I use frequently, now that I make yuppie money. Stuff like ffmpeg or NeoVim or tmux are tools that I have become so dependent on, and they're all given away for free.

I have also tried to be in compliance with "free for personal use" licenses; I pay the fee for business use of Obsidian now, because I do use it a lot for work.
I think it’s virtual signalling designed to shame others into paying for it. With some cringeworthy attempts at humour.
> Meanwhile, a "website designer" who's never deployed a website, was never hired to create one and who suffered zero injury gets a ruling. This SCOTUS is invalid.

Where did you get the idea that she's never deployed a website? I've never heard anyone say that. (And at the very least, she has her own site, https://303creative.com/ )
This feels like blogspam trying to bring traffic to computerenhance.com.

Casey has never shipped a video game of his own. It's not just an "I haven't used off-the-shelf engines" situation, he hasn't developed a game start to finish with any engine.

AFAIK Handmade Hero is the furthest he's ever gone in shipping a game, which is a far cry from finished. He's not really qualified to speak to the matter of which engines are best for delivering and supporting polished, fun, finished video games.

Please correct me if I'm wrong; what titles has he put out there with his own engine?
Free can be the most expensive price of all.
All the planes involved in the attacks were Boeings, not Airbuses.
I’ll admit I always thought ‘Meduza’ was from the Russian /meduza/, meaning jellyfish, but they did indeed mean the Greek Medusa (1):

> Question - why Meduza in particular? That's a slippery, unpleasant creature

> Journalists are generally unpleasant and slippery and there are few who love them - such is the job. Also "Medusa" turns its subject to stone with a glance, which is true of journalists, too. But to be completely honest, we ended up with "Meduza" by chance. We thought the paper should be named after the ancient Greek monster that had its head cut off but came alive anyway. We chose "Meduza" and then remembered that it was a hydra, but it was too late.

1: https://meduza.io/cards/zaday-vopros-meduze, #75
I paid for Sublime Text version 2 and 3 but stop at 4 because VSCode is good enough for coding.
Yeah, but they could have worded it more clearly. "FBI Hacker Dropped Stolen Airbus Data on Sept 11th Anniversary" or something.
I like Docker. From a user perspective, although maybe a bit technical, it makes running certain applications a total breeze. I have a small laptop connected to my power that's running ubuntu and I use it as a host for many self-hosted applications... docker really shines here, it takes away a lot of complexity from having to maintain these applications.

I also have used Docker to develop and deploy my own web-applications, after learning how to use the tool I was really surprised at the simplicity behind it. Now, it's not perfect, volumes can be tricky to use sometimes... but overall, I'm really happy.
I find Sublime useful because it doesn't try to be as "helpful" as some other text editors. It also makes problems stemming from non-printing character apparent. It works well for those one-off times when you need to view or edit some text outside of your normal IDE.
It takes a lot, see

https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.1702-0-...

Here is some idea of what it takes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBsSTajfP0