skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could work if you base the format on something other than theaters: make it an experience similar to a karaoke room, escape room, or even Top Golf.

You'd have a private or semi-private space to share with a group of friends, get food and beverage service, and view/participate in the VR experience simultaneously as a group.

The price point would be higher than a typical movie, but would support the greater hardware, facility, and service costs.
The economics for in progress games means probably only a few particularly early in development or strong feeling dev teams are going to switch engines mid stream so I think in the worst case unity thinks they have buffer to climb down if needed.

I can't see future projects building on unity with this "we have changed the deal and can do it again" attitude on the other hand.

So I'd put the level of customer power here as more than Reddit users but less than Dungeons & Dragons users.
Outlook.com DNS is broken, try it yourself
I was debugging delivery issues from our freemail service to outlook.com, since a big chunk of outbound messages currently get hard bounce with status "530 5.7.57 Client not authenticated to send mail.."

=>

$host -t MX outlook.com
outlook.com mail is handled by 5 outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com.

Which is handled by name servers:

$host -t NS olc.protection.outlook.com
olc.protection.outlook.com name server ns2-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com.
olc.protection.outlook.com name server ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com.
And if you ask these directly to eliminate local caches you RANDOMLY get two sets of A servers:

First one is fine and accept messages:

$host -t A outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com. | head -n 20
Using domain server:
Name: ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com.
Address: 104.47.124.8#53
Aliases:

outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 104.47.18.161
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 104.47.22.161

The other one seems to contain relay servers requiring AUTH:

$host -t A outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com. | head -n 20
Using domain server:
Name: ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com.
Address: 104.47.124.8#53
Aliases:

outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.42.11
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.40.30
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.9.15
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.8.47
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.8.45
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.73.18
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.8.43
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.8.37
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.8.35
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.137.1
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.73.10
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.73.9
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.68.17
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.68.19
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 52.101.68.33

You can try it for yourself:

$while true; do host -t A outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com ns1-gtm.glbdns.o365filtering.com | grep 'has address' | wc -l; sleep 0.1; done
2
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^C%

It's not always DNS, but this time it is..

PS: Yes, I've already reported this through Mailop list.
As a user, I'd much prefer a concise tweet instead of a huge article with the same exact point. So, I guess Musk's Twitter actually improves my experience.
Right, Jira is great at planning, but requires a lot of gardening to keep it up to date with actuals like when things ship and where. Glue automations like this can be really helpful.
Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World
Now that you pointed it, the patent-hell around molten sodium batteries should have ended already. Yet, I haven't hear about anybody doing anything with them. Is there some action happening?
Congratulations to all PG community!
> collecting a half-million dollars from even ten blockbuster games per year

I don't think that's in the right ballpark. PUBG has generated about $15 billion in revenue over 6 years or $125 million per year in revenue for Epic.

Jedi: Fallen Order sold 10 million copies at full price in its first four months, netting Epic ~$20 million.

Even an indie game like Stray netted Epic ~$2 million in one month of Steam sales.

https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/PUBG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi:_Fallen_Order#S...

https://www.gamesensor.info/news/stray

* assuming all these devs have the standard 5% deal and chopping 30% off for marketplace fees where only sales*price data was available
"deserves"

Do entities (vendors, suppliers, employees) "deserve" to get paid for their costs? Or for the value they add?
I still don't think we're quite to the point that they can be called "all-purpose computing devices" quite yet. Sure, the web ecosystem has made big strides towards this but there is still quite a lot you can't do with these things that you can do with an actual computer.
Didn't Google have the majority share in search engines before they started paying to be the default (~early 2000s)?
A lofty ideal, but unpragmatic if you actually care about privacy. You have no control over how information disseminates once you publish it. You must assume it'll remain on the Internet forever. Even if you assume the existence of first-party deletion tools, third parties like Internet Archive or (in Reddit's case) PushShift can choose to preserve it.

If you want to retain your online anonymity, you have to be thoughtful about what you share online.
It means you get many more promotion points for creating a new framework and shipping it in a new product.

Also, generally internal tools are exceedingly poorly documented and supported so it seems easier to write your things from scratch.
Isn’t it poor people that constantly have to fear for their lives?

Certainly the life expectancy of millionaire CEO’s seems to be a lot higher.
Yes there is a massive rule of law problem in our times. Big Tech
literally laugh at governments and regulation.
Unity isn't.
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woah til there is release art (did openbsd start this trend?)
Install bombing is still a problem.

Unity, for all its "clarifications," keeps promising it won't be a problem and then refusing to be transparent about any of the ways it could possibly be less of a problem.

Either they backtrack on this whole lifetime install count scheme or this blows up even more spectacularly when January rolls around.
That sucks. I mean, going forward would anyone still start projects with Unity? Or is that ship sailing?
HN aggressively moderates hateful and harmful comments, so they’re often not seen before they get flagged or removed. I’ve personally reported enough comments this year that I’m confident saying that some number of people who use threats of violence to silence those they disagree with are both reading and participating on HN, and so by the lurker principle, many more are reading HN but not behaving in that manner here. Thankfully, those few that participate are not the majority — but their perceived absence is the result of both peer pressure (via flags) and moderators (via bans) silencing their speech, not due to ‘we’re better than that here’.
to wit: <gestures broadly around>
I think you missed the point of the article, which is that the professional game business has grown faster than the market and is likely to consolidate. The article is in gamesindutry.biz, not "indie developer" after all.

Indie devs have lots of choices for engines and Unity doesn't owe them a free engine. Lots of professional developers / publishers use Unity but in my experience that is because Unity is really easy to port across platforms and maintaining hardware compatibility across platforms is expensive work we are happy to outsource.
Not every middleware provider needs a continuous revenue stream from every single end customer use of a product. It's not scalable.
Thank you. It's an opinion I've refined over time via conversation with like-minded people here.

I don't change channels when watching TV, I mute it and pick up my phone until it ends.
Braking at Centauri: A Bound Orbit at Proxima?
How could you have a right to vote without the vote being able to impose the opinions of the majority onto the minority? Feels like a right to me.

Also I'm not trying to be dismissive even though I do disagree with you, apologies.
>eliminate water usage rights and charge everyone for water usage, based on the amount of water used.

Didn't the Nestle CEO say something like this and everyone crucified him?
It seems like they fell more inline with Semantic Versioning when that format came in vogue. Semantic Versioning is what most devs expect now; it makes sense to communicate the version in a format that has a broadly understood meaning for devs.
The biggest issue is no official asset store. The lead developer has mentioned is on the roadmap, but because the company is a non-profit, it's very complicated to start.
Amazon updates visual search, AR search and more in challenge to Google
One of the big problems in this use case is that a dump of wikipedia contains both knowledge and arbitrary noise. And lossless compression has to preserve every single bit of both. It's hard to tease out "good lossy compression" from the mess, because better and better lossy compression doesn't get you arbitrarily close to the original, it only gets you somewhat close.
How much does it hurts them? What's the cut?

I see this being repeated over and over, but I'm not really understanding, say an indie Dev makes 500k in revenue in one year, how much is it going to unity? If it is anything below 50k it seems to me like a sweet deal for all the things Unity offers to devs.

There's no shortage of free and good game engines out there, but I guess Unity does offer a lot that those free options don't.
Ask HN: How do you check out at the end of the working day?
I'm not sure how the average end of the working day looks like for you, but here is mine:

- I have unanswered Slack message
- I have new messages in my Inbox (despite practicing GTD)
- I have tons of action items in actionable email folders

It's 16:30, quick time reporting and I'm off to picking up the kids.

As I walk to school, my brain keeps thinking about all those pending emails and action items. I often end up not properly focusing on my kids

Work is not stressing me. I love my work! But there are too few hours in each day to both complete all pending tasks and spend quality time with my kids.

How do you check out from work? Any tips and tricks are appreciated.
For mac you can get dev tools by either launching slack with

export SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=true; open -a /Applications/Slack.app

to make this persistent you can use.

launchctl setenv SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU true

and then right click and inspect element and add the scripts
> t would be possible for Mastodon to learn from this so that they too can scale to 200 million users.

I mean possibly, if it was designed to be a centralised bohemoth with a staff of 600 to look after it.

Its decentralised by design, much like the web used to be.
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I kind of want the site to have my name and address so they know where to send my goods.

Of course, for digital purchases, your point is completely valid.
The internet is a big place and it's easy to leave anonymous comments. If you want to find a death threat against you, it's easy to find one or create one if none can be found. Why would you want to? So you can point to it and say that you're a victim and even suggest that all of your critics are somehow culpable for that threat (any heated criticism of you is "stochastic terrorism" that will inspire some nutjob to come after you!)
Note that most popular content on reddit is images, short video clips or plaintext; and the majority of that is hosted on their servers.
It is Europe, but not EU
Tails has a very specific use case, very few people need anti-forensics.

I suggest looking into Whonix[1] if you want something that you can truly use for privacy. It is also much more secure than Tails by design, and does not have any limitations like locking down the root user account.

Summary from GitHub:

"Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It's based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP."

[1]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/FAQ
Ads help in that by selling my attention to corporations. I think that's a violation of my boundaries and will resist it by any means possible.

> Through delivery apps, I come to know about new items / cuisines, restaurants, their reviews and buy them.

I use these store and delivery apps extremely often. I have issues with their tracking of my behavior but I don't consider them to be advertising at all.

I opened the app because I wanted to see the products and offers. That's not advertising, that's information which I specifically requested. Advertising is when the app gets in my face with nonsense I couldn't care less about while I'm trying to do something else.
Makes sense. Is there anything about Unity that would make the community grit it's teeth and take the terms? Or is it all just economics at this point?
100%. We spend more money working on cures for erectile dysfunction than ebola. We spend more money working on cures male pattern baldness than we do diseases that plague the third world. How many smart amazing engineers have worked for the auto industry over the last 100 years when their expertise could of been used in a civil manner to improve infrastructure and our overall existence? This is capitalism and whoever has the money can buy up the most talent. Whether that is a good use for that talent doesn't seem to matter.
Or you can wait for Source 2 which is rumored to be dropping on September 23rd with CS:2
I'm sure any studio with the resource has assigned some workforce to survey the alternatives.
"A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning that occurs when invalid arguments or irrelevant points are introduced without any evidence to support them."

invalid argument => x people doing y where x is "brilliant" and y is "serving Marl". Serving Marl is not brilliant. It doesn't count to work for a FAANG company to be considered brilliant, at least by my standards and view on how time is well spend.
Isn’t Mastodon written in Ruby?
It depends. Monocultures are also bad for computer security, since the failure mode is catastrophic.

Ideally, there would be a few tails-style projects competing with each other (there are; see sibling threads), and the internet would be more federated (for instance, if github is completely compromised right now, many people reading this will git pull malware in the next day or so).
I don't understand why this is a worry - they will do it the same way Valve/Microsoft/Epic/Blizzard identify how many machines you have their product installed on - with a unique hardware ID that will make sure you aren't charged twice for installing the game on the same machine. It's not rocket science, it's been used in the industry for ages.
> Are products becoming less sophisticated because users are getting dumber/lazier,

> or are users getting dumber/lazier because products are becoming less sophisticated?

or, in search of increased customer growth, is deeper product penetration into the bottom half of the sophistication bell-curve continually sieving ideas through fewer synaptic connections/simpler semantic nets
The social aspects are huge on Roblox, but so is the ease of just ... trying lots of stuff quickly.

When I watch my son play with his friends they hop from game to game a lot, often trying out new games, similar, or completely off the wall.

It's a wild ecosystem that offers a crazy amount of variety. That ease of access to the variety I think is a big reason for the success.
Pretty sure that unity is behind multi 100M+ $ projects like Genshin Impact.
Isn't the work in large projects often done by those paid by their employers on "company time"? For instance Bruce Momjian by EDB.
Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 ‘Planetary Boundaries’
MIPS didn't really open. They made a big deal about it, but it turned out to mean something to the effect of 'we'll open more of our build system to partners who pay for a traditional MIPS license. No third party MIPS cores. No general release of MIPS RTL.'
Kudos to the team for a very detailed notebook going into things like pipeline evaluation wrt performance and costs etc. Even if we ignore the framework specific bits, it is a great guide to follow when building RAG systems in production.

We have been building RAG systems in production for a few months and have been tinkering with different strategies to get the most performance out of these pipelines. As others have pointed out, vector database may not be the right strategy for every problem. Similarly there are things like lost in the middle problems (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172) that one may have to deal with. We put together our learnings building and optimizing these pipelines in a post at https://llmstack.ai/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation.

https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack is a low-code platform we open-sourced recently that ships these RAG pipelines out of the box with some app templates if anyone wants to try them out.
Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia
Unfortunately for them, it isn't.
Gamepass is offering a service; smorgasbord of games on one end, guaranteed paycheck and platform on the other.

Unity is trying to redefine their existing product as a service. This isn't exactly 'just' a price hike and I think its why people are so upset about it.

And I agree with your suspicion. It seems that finding a way to offer a service instead of a product is a license to print money, so I imagine many companies have people pushing for this regardless of how well it would be received or how much sense it makes.
Salt taste is surprisingly mysterious
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Humility is the foundation to a virtuous life
I've been enjoying Threads. What with Musk going all in blaming the ADL for his problems... that's just too much. The guy is unhinged. I used to think of him as quirky or eccentric and appreciate some of the good things he's been involved with, but he's gone off the rails.

Threads is still missing some features, and there's less traffic, but it's probably healthier for me to spend less time on social media anyway.
The way to use reddit is to use https://old.reddit.com AND unsubscribe from everything + subscribe to the specific subreddits you are interested in.
With the phrase 'throwing their toys out of the pram' I immediately knew there was a problem with this article. There might be overblown anxiety over uncertain outcomes related to fees or from developers that would never realistically be affected, but it's totally reasonable to be pissed that terms of service can change retroactively to include both products in development and existing games. Having a Unity based game available for download suddenly becomes an undefined liability that might bite out of nowhere based on it going viral, or even malicious intent.
I don't know to what extent this person goes to hide their legal name, but with public records, its fairly easy to find your residence if you own a home or some other property.
A semi-forgotten but viable and healthy business model (with roots in the Shareware tradition) for mobile games is the free-with-unlock. Not F2P where the IAPs are different quantities of “gems” or “coins,” but a single “unlock” IAP that gets you the rest of the game if you enjoyed the free content.

The per-install fee instantly makes this model unviable.
Meanwhile Steam takes 30% of indie devs' hard earned revenue and is a monopoly, but Valve seems immune from any criticism or even mention of it, with the pc gamer community reacting with downvotes(like with this comment) and angry replies if it's ever brought up. Think about it, when did you ever see anything critical of Steam on HN or Reddit?

Its competitor Epic store which charged only 12% IIRC was demonized and got much more that it's share of criticism and every shortcoming was highlighted relentlessly. I guess Unity does not have much fan armor.
I thought type 1 is a genetic defect that causes the pancreas to not function. How does a vaccine fix a broken body part that isn't inhibited by a virus or bacteria of some kind? What about people who are missing their pacrease? How does this cure type 1 in these patients?
Usually it's the local taxing authorities they have the power to kick you out, not Uncle Sam.
Ah, that is definitely true and I agree with your conclusion about it. I think these two replies were specifically in response to the "At 13.5:1, the contrast ratio on your site (#D8DAD7/#0F100F) is a bit much" portion though, it read as if 13.5:1 was too much contrast instead of just more than the minimum. Sorry for misinterpreting that bit!
If anything, the covid lockdowns just proved that human activity has that much of an affect on the climate. Some people already accepted that prior to lockdowns, some people became aware of it, others continue to deny it. Those that deny that human activity has an effect will never be convinced otherwise.
>I can't see future projects building on unity with this "we have changed the deal and can do it again" attitude on the other hand.

Yea, that almost seems the worst part. Seems like a huge risk for any future projects.

>So I'd put the level of customer power here as more than Reddit users but less than Dungeons & Dragons users.

That's good at least.
In the past you had to call the landline and risk getting *69ed, or use a payphone or something. Now, you can just sit at home in your underwear and tweet out a death threat.

I think they were probably taken as seriously before, it's just that the ease of making threats (empty or not) is different now.
This isn't always true. C# outperform GDScript. Even GDScript 2. GDScript is great for quickly programming certains events. But if you want to create complicated systems that using require thousands or millions of data points, you will notice the speed difference.
There are a lot of studios and devs now saying they won't use Unity for new projects. Some will be able to switch to new engines, others are just completely cancelling in-progress projects.
It's the same problem as with forum trolls and the like - the more people know you exist and can communicate with you, the more likely one of them is unhinged enough to threaten to kill you over some non-murder-worthy thing.
I'm with you on what you're saying. But that's different because this is a hands off system that doesn't really change anything to humans' experience, unlike one where you're asking someone to not cook after sunset or some such.

In the case of your freezer example, the freezer is a form of energy storage. Similarly a battery, or a phase change heat battery, are other forms of energy storage. Energy storage is important for the obvious reasons of being able to decouple time of production from time of consumption.

Modern humans built all of civilization on their ability to decouple time of production from consumption.
I hate my MacBook's “smart” charging
It learns when you often use your device so outside of those times, it intentionally makes it take so much longer to charge. But that sucks because sometimes I actually change the time I use my Macbook and I notice that despite being plugged in, it still won't charge.

Some other times, it doesn't even charge during work hours, despite being plugged in.