skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. those collars don't work. birds didn't evolve alongside cat w/ flashy collars, so it doesn't always trigger flee instinct

2. if your cat wants to go outdoors, you can leash them like any dog-owner is required to do. the whole "cats need to be in nature" argument is rooted in the assumption that you as the owner aren't involved in that nourishment. if you can't be a responsible cat owner (keeping it from roaming on it's own; keeping it stimulated) then don't get a pet. is the cat really a critical unit of your family if you skirt responsibility and are okay w/ it dying violently outside?

3. the US is very much a fragile ecosystem. source on it not being? we, like many other place, have had a huge and trending decline in biodiversity.

4. cats haven't adapted to the human environment; we've developed technology and laws that have protected cats in our human environment. i'm not sure how they've had to adapt as they can interact with humans safely.

5. you don't see everything your cat kills. you may be able to placate yourself that your cat isn't one of the "rampant killers", but that thought isn't based solely on fact.
Yeah, maybe depending on totalitarian untrustworthy communist states isn't a good idea after all...
Closest to 50 cents and 10 cents was at around 1'600'000 installs I think (some graphs at the bottom of this comment).

Let's see how I got there, let's take their Runtime Fee rates: https://unity.com/runtime-fee

For Personal tier you start paying after 200'000 installs (threshold), whereas with the Pro tier you start paying after 1'000'000 installs (threshold).

That gives us 1'400'000 installs that we need to pay for with the Personal tier and 600'000 installs that we need to pay for with the Pro tier, for which the runtime fee will be calculated and which are above the corresponding thresholds.

For the Personal tier, which has a fixed rate, the platform costs are then:

1'400'000 * 0.20 = 280'000 USD

For the Pro tier, with the volume discounts, the platform costs are then:

100'000 * 0.15 = 15'000 USD
400'000 * 0.075 = 30'000 USD
100'000 * 0.03 = 3'000 USD
TOTAL: 15'000 + 30'000 + 3'000 = 48'000 USD

(they're lower for emerging markets, but using the main prices here)

With 1'600'000 units sold, the overhead per a single unit then becomes:

Personal: 280'000 / 1'600'000 = 0.175 USD
Pro: 48'000 / 1'600'000 = 0.03 USD

If we assume that a publisher might take around 50% (just an example value in the spreadsheet I used; though in practice can be as low as 20%), then that figure becomes:

Personal: 1/(1-0.5) * 0.175 = 0.35 USD
Pro: 1/(1-0.5) * 0.03 = 0.06 USD

On top of that, there are also the platform fees (like Steam might take 30% of your revenue straight off the bat, other platforms might take less), so the figure then becomes:

Personal: 1/(1-0.3) * 0.35 = 0.5 USD
Pro: 1/(1-0.3) * 0.06 = 0.085 USD

Sanity check (doing the same in reverse):

Personal full cost (overhead): 0.5 USD
Personal after 30% platform cut: 0.5 - (0.3 * 0.5) = 0.5 - 0.15 = 0.35 USD
Personal after 50% publisher cut: 0.35 - (0.5 * 0.35) = 0.35 - 0.175 = 0.175 USD

Pro full cost (overhead): 0.085 USD
Pro after 30% platform cut: 0.085 - (0.3 * 0.085) = 0.085 - 0.0255 = 0.0595 USD
Pro after 50% publisher cut: 0.0595 - (0.5 * 0.0595) = 0.0595 - 0.02975 = 0.02975 USD (close enough to 0.03 USD)

While the exact percentages might change, Unity asking for say 0.20 USD per copy (or effectively 0.175 USD in the example, because the first 200'000 don't have the runtime fee) means that you'll need to make more gross revenue per copy than that, because your publisher and the platform will both take some of that for themselves.

Here's the graphs that I came up with, first how the total runtime fee changes based on the tier: https://blog.kronis.dev/images/1/4/-/u/n/14-unity-pricing-gr...

Also, approximately how the runtime fee overhead changes with publisher/platform fees included (with the example percentages above): https://blog.kronis.dev/images/1/6/-/f/e/16-fee-per-install-...
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I wonder if tax policy could be used to encourage placing content in the public domain. This could especially be useful for software, since there probably isn’t much money to be made in selling Windows 3.1 licenses, but a nominal tax credit could encourage Microsoft to put it in the public domain and let the public play around with it, inspire them, etc.
Story of all tech
Is the source code for this simulator available anywhere? The post's code itself is minimized/obfuscated: https://thomassimon.dev/assets/cashloss.1fca21f6.js

I couldn't find anything on the author's GitHub. I'm mostly just curious how it's built.
Meanwhile: "In November, Jay Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, said the labour force was 3.5mn workers shy of pre-pandemic forecasts. He said 2mn of the shortfall could be due to more people retiring early."

and

"Long-term demand for tech talent is not expected to abate. Based on its digital ambitions the EU alone wants 20mn technology specialists, which compares with the 9mn it had in 2021."[1]

Seems like the layoffs have been mostly a short-term reaction to the shock of the pandemic era coming to a close. Long-term, we'll soon be back to the steady drumbeat of tech worker shortages.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b1b710a1-6d12-43e5-8508-ae4584a72...
Under "other", there is a ChatGPT prompt without the NSFW filter. I've not played with it, but that seems like the most interesting part to me.
I think it is unlikely Epic or Valve will adopt something as overtly hostile to business users in their ecosystems as long as they are controlled by Tim Sweeney and Gabe Newell (respectively).

I think it’s anyone’s guess what will happen when that stops being true, but anyone under the age of 40 or so should recognize they will almost certainly outlive those individuals. Closed source means you are beholden to what their successor’s decide even if you (like me) are confident their current leadership will make good decisions.
It works now, thanks a lot (https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_BiDcF8_CN0/)
> Spring is just a framework, not an application server with isolated classloaders that the JaveEE application servers were based on.

But Spring Boot with its embedded HTTP server and internal infrastructure is certainly more than just a framework. It has its own class loade (launchedurlclassloader). See https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-classloader-and-class...

Piranha Cloud on the other hand runs Jakarta EE code without any class loader of its own. See https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/you-dont-always-n...
YoY price inflation (cpi) was 3.7% in August. The fed does not think price inflation is under control by any means.

Wage inflation will only peak if workers roll over and let employers take advantage of them.
This article is about screen replacement, which Apple charges quite a bit more for, more than the total cost of a Pixel Watch. Battery replacement does not require replacing the whole watch for Pixel Watch. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+Watch+Battery+Repl...
Fair point, it's hard to say what the reality is right now without testing it directly the moment you ask the question. The haphazard management and rapid changes (and rollbacks) means even help docs can be out of date.
It's also liability. If insurance determines frame damage, they're inclined to often total it and settle with you. You ain't getting that car unless you buy it back.
I know this since I've worked in insurance, they don't want to be liable if the car doesn't perform to manufacturers specifications while driving or another accident.
Initial repair/value cost is a determining factor yes, but doubly so future liability. Take it to their preferred shop, repair is inadequate, fails to perform while driving = they're liable for way more than initially.
> Your barely ain't my barely, that is for sure.

We may have at least one thing to agree on then.

In that same 70 year time period, the S&P 500 total return was 1234x against a USD inflation figure of 11.5x, for a real return of 107.3x or a real return CAGR of 6.9% versus the 2% CAGR that housing appreciated.

Surely, a UK investor can invest in the S&P 500 today. Go do the same math for the FSTE 100; I suspect it will also crush housing, just as the SP500 does in the US.

> There is an HN worldview distortion where buying a house is something really almost everyone here can hope for

In the US, ~2/3 of households own their homes, almost identical to the UK figures.
It’s literally propaganda.
https://p.codekk.com/
This is your regular reminder that the USB-C port design was published two years after devices with a Lightning port started shipping.
1. How do regulators expect Airlines to verify the real age of users (without further intrusions of privacy)?

2. How do the regulators expect Airline companies to verify the parents of child users?

3. Do regulators want airlines to collect every child's birth certificate?

See how silly this sounds when you compare to any other industry?

Oh but tech is different!
Redis is open core (that is, redis itself is Open Source, only extensions aren't), the others are outright not Open Source. That's a meaningful difference, depending on whether you're using the non-FOSS extensions.
How do you make something that isn't trivially turned to oppression without allowing users a trivial escape from the devices protection model?

Isn't installing your own OS on your general purpose computer a trivial out? Shall we likewise disable that ability on all general purpose computers?
The number of two-years-of-experience engineers with middling React skills who are demanding a six figure salary, plus additional comp, continues to astound me.

I stopped making reasonable offers to them. It was always a waste of time. We just move on now.
“I'm Your Huckleberry 'Say When' Doc Holiday Tombstone
Oyie is not open-source now. Contact me if you are interested. You can find my email in the site.
Other than fine-tuning and RAG, Guidance allows you to constrain the output of an LLM within a grammar, for example to guarantee JSON output 100% of the time.

Here's one library to do this
https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
I don't know how the folks just starting out are finding jobs. Seems like no one wants to hire juniors anymore unless it's for pennies and they can work you to the bone.
I just checked. There is no coyotes or raccoons in my city. Not even anyone in my country!
At least in Europe the companies have huge issues finding enough suitable junior engineers, because there are less and less young people. At some point more engineers will retire per year than young ones entering the job market. It looks like the traditionally low salaries for SW engineers in Europe are finally growing a bit.
Pacer physically hurts to use. They should have to pay us for having to use it.
What slowdown is this? First I’m hearing of it. Author might need to separate imagination from reality.
The cat would have a terribly boring life.
Including everything I could possibly ever want an Android device for, like my bank's 2FA program.

It's all been slowly cooking for a decade, yet people will still claim "but you can still do it with root, so it's as free as before!" (or some other ridiculously complicated workaround with lots of nasty side-effects)
tech workers deserve higher salaries.

companies just don't want to pay it. they want you to make as little as possible
Can you provide an example of where rust has better tooling than Go?
Yeah any routine that is not Turing complete is a FSM. Most things are FSM, so it’s not a useful distinction
"Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day.

My idea was to take this code and spruce it up for Uber’s use case."

"My first reaction was to publish the code on Github."

I’m very surprised by this, isn’t the code property of Box, or Uber? The author does not mention their authorisation before releasing it under MIT license.
You can, but that's not the system certificate store.

Android has two certificate stores (the user store and the system store). The user store can be altered through the method you linked. The system store used to be part of the system image (you could always disable certificates, of course) and will now be moved to an APEX location that Google can update (to prevent the Let's Encrypt issue in the future).

To alter the system store, you need root access. At the moment it's just a matter of dropping a file with the right name and encoding at /etc/system/cacerts (through Magisk style overlays, or by modifying the system image) but that will change soon.
The state cured my porn habit with this method.
Why accept something low now when it will obviously revert back soon
> I assume that the argument is that a break in secp256k1 has an especially straightforward monetization

Exactly. Considering the sheer effort put into Bitcoin, including volume manufacture of custom ICs, if this was possible, someone would have done it by now. It wouldn't even be illegal.
A lot of this is Macroeconomics- Microeconomics (what this focused on) is effectively a different discipline. You can't really model both of them within the same framework

Source: econ major
Missing any Game Design books so my picks:

Game Feel - Steve Swink - 2008

The Art of Game Design a Deck of Lenses - Jesse Schell - 2014

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick - 2007

Writing for Games: Theory & Practice - Hannah Nicklin - 2022

Procedural Generation in Game Design - Tanya Short/Tarn Adams - 2017

Procedural Storytelling in Game Design - Tanya Short/Tarn Adams - 2019

A Theory of Fun - Raph Koster - 2013
A team where I work recently rolled out a doc-answer LLM and context was an issue we ran into. Retrieved doc chunks didn't have nearly enough context to answer some of the broader questions well.

Another issue I've run into with doc-answer LLMs is that they don't handle synonyms well. If I don't know the terminology for the tool, say llama-index [0], I can't ask around the concept to see if something like what I'm describing exists.

A part of me thinks a lang-chain with the LLM in it might be useful.

Something like

1. User makes vague query "hey, llama-index, how do I create a moving chunk answer thing with llama-index?"

2. Initial context comes back to the LLM, and the LLM determines there is not straight forward answer to the question.

2a. The LLM might ask followup questions "when you say X, what do you mean?" to clarify terms it doesn't have ready answers for.

2b. The LLM says "hm, let me think about that. I'll email you when I have a good answer."

2c. The LLM reads the docs and relevant materials and attempts to solve the problem.

3. Email the user with a potential answer to the question.

4. Stashes the solution text in the docs if the user OKs the plan. Updates an embedding table to include words/terms used that the docs didn't contain.

This last step is the most important. Some kind of method to capture common questions and answers, synonyms, etc. would ensure that the model has access to (potentially) increasingly robust information.
I wouldn't describe Minecraft as being unusually unfriendly to open source. Compared to most games, the company treats the mod devs pretty well (nobody's getting sued, they released decompilation symbols to make life easier, the whole thing's in Java), and there's a healthy collaboration scene among the mod developers, most of whom release their mods as open source projects these days (with a couple of notable exceptions, coughAzanorcough).

So, sure, Minecrat's not open source. But they don't mistreat their mod devs, released an abundantly hackable game, and have the largest player community on Earth.
Marx's Das Kapital third volume is about the effect of credit and competition in a capitalist economy. Innovation and why it develops so much more in capitalist economies than in previous systems was something considered already in the first volume, like risk and return and how these are not the things that justify the capitalist profit. Marx also wrote very little about creating any system, only pointed general tendencies as part of his dialectics. Marx work is the culmination of classical economy, so much that is very hard to find a third option besides either abandon the core classical economy principles or becoming at least partially Marxist. While one could always disagree with the tenets of classical economy, and nowadays the great majority of economists are from other schools of thought, most attacks against Marx reverberated over the Internet are very unjust, originally formulated more based on political bias than on a real understanding; and then, they are inadvertently repeated by the dynamics of the Internet.
> It is mainly awareness that is the problem.

Awareness and the 30 hour drive to the closest hydrogen fuel station
If one is sedentary and obese, yes.
Good selection of older books.

I didn't see [1] Game Programming Patterns.

[1]: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Cost of living (and retirement) is very high. While assets like housing stay inflated, it's hard to take less, it's not greed.
Seem totally fine to me. As long as you can rollback if the download is truncated or the crc checksum doesn’t match.
>For example, in a comparison of three NPM modules, it claimed each of the packages was "fastest" in the three different "drafts" it produced.

That's an odd benchmark, no? LLMs aren't omniscient; you shouldn't expect it to be an expert on something so specific, especially if there is not widely available material on the internet that clearly indicates that one choice is correct. They can only repeat what they've been trained on and reason about that information.
Ask HN: Interesting blue sky accounts to follow?
I recently got my Blue Sky invite. I was wondering if you guys would recommend accounts to follow on Blue Sky that are compatable with the kind of content you may find on Hackers News.

i.e accounts that that may have some intellectual value to a "Hacker".
By never saying you are a junior.

Some people figure it out.

Contract, make an LLC for more contracting, call that LLC experience, interview as senior engineer.
> Surely, a UK investor can invest in the S&P 500 today. Go do the same math for the FSTE 100; I suspect it will crush housing.

Yeah of course, after they have paid for their endlessly rising rent (because they aren't buying a house in this comparison, are they). And all their bills, and their food, and their energy.

Sorry: average UK people aren't investors, and nor are average Americans. This is the bias I am talking about. You're just not thinking the same way I am thinking. You are in a box where people have money to make investments.

> In the US, ~2/3 of households own their homes, almost identical to the UK figures.

Wrong way to look at it though. In the UK, the vast majority of people under 40 do not have a mortgage.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/feb/10/home-ownership...

A majority of those people will never own a property. Even if their parents own a property, they are not particularly likely to inherit enough of a share of that money to secure a deposit on a house, because they are likely to have siblings and their parents are likely to have had to release equity to pay for their elderly care or pay bills.

Some but by no means most parents die with enough savings that an only child can inherit the house after all the taxes are paid; the average house price is very close to the IHT threshold.

The _average_ deposit in the UK is now 15%. That, combined with the fact that the average person in the UK is bearing down on 50 when they do inherit and will tend to need a higher deposit than a first time buyer...

4% above inflation is a dream.

I guess in the USA you still have little boxes being built on virgin hillsides. That is over in the UK; it's been over for 25 years. The limited supply of housing in the UK in the last 50 years will absolutely blow you away.
Maybe they want to be exposed to unlimited losses if the company underperforms?
Circa 90s and early 2000s.

I like how there's a whole book on quaternions. I've never understood them and I'm convinced every definition I've read was written by someone who also didn't understand them. I might try to find a copy if I ever dabble in 3d again

Edit: To clarify, I understand the need for quaternions (to avoid gimbal lock), just not how to use them manually. Euler angles are simple enough, I can change whichever axis by some degrees or radians. But with quaternions I never understood what was going on under the hood
How do you get your cat to wear that? Isn't wearing a collar for a cat some kind of torture? All the cats I ever had were extremely unhappy with collars and often found a way to get rid of it.
you can walk your cat on a leash. you can play with it to give it stimulation. letting your cat roam outside isn't a replacement for your laziness.
...is correct. Visual C++ has a visual resource editor, but this isn't what C++ Builder does. C++ Builder edits live objects, you declare a class with its properties (this needs extensions to the C++ language) and during design time the object is instantiated and edited visually through the property editor ("object inspector"). This works for both visual (buttons, controls, etc) and non-visual objects.

The difference between what VC++ does and what C++ Builder (and Delphi) does is massive and at a very fundamental level.
The water doesn't need to evaporate off the coil; the coils are designed for it to drip off to the drain pan and out to a hose or condensate pump.
It's not imagination, you're probably just insulated. Many people I know have been looking for entry-level positions for months (the city I/they live in is a tech hub) and are lucky to even hear a "no."
Ancidotal, but myself and many of my friends shop this way. I've found that sometimes the larger bottle isn't cheaper per unit
and they are expecting RTO in high cost of living areas!
I bought a google nest hub on my office desk specifically for having meetings with Google Meet. Yesterday it tells me I can no longer do that after Sep 28. WTF.
What is a lot? 50% of all videos? 10%? 1%? 0.001%? Compare the share of copyright violations on YouTube vs Plex and it will be apparent what each service is really used for.
The article summarizes this report: https://www.lorienglobal.com/-/media/lorien/lorien-salary-su...
>> What would a non-anemic STD look like?

More like the standard libraries found in C++, Ada, Go, or Python.

Why can't Rust do something like C++ does with Boost?

If everyone is using a given crate (for example, serde) why not "adopt" it into the standard library? Give the maintainer a plaque that looks cool and a small fee for initial adoption and a recurring stipend for continued maintenance.

The crate becomes official, gets guaranteed maintenance and there is less need to reinvent the wheel or worry that a good crate will go unmaintained or have issues.
Small nitpick: AIUI it is possible to sell binaries of a GPLv2 program, provided you keep providing source for free. (I think; IANAL, there's maybe some caveat about exactly when you have to give source and to who.) That can actually work if your users don't want to compile stuff themselves.
I'm not sure what they used for painting this, but a few years ago there was a project in the university where high school students came to work in simple projects for a while.

One of the projects was to make reproductions of the crayolas used for cave painting. They mixed fat of ñandú (rhea, a local bird similar to ostrich) and iron oxide. The project was to use a spectrometer to measure how different fat, impurities and treatments changed the spectrum, probably to try to discover the original recipe and locals variations. (I don't have more details. Someone told me about this in a hallway conversation.)
I love this comment. It made the video all the more entertaining to watch.
Where are cybersecurity professionals commanding that salary?

Not too long ago that was lesser than SWE? I know plenty of certificate chasing cybersecurity professionals that can barely keep $100,000
What’s the evidence saying pay will revert back? I doubt it personally.