skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unity is starting out gaining trust by saying that the TOS GitHub repo that was deleted by Unity was a “separate event” and “an unfortunate coincident.” The real reason it was removed was because the “views were low.” OKAY, sure. I’d love to learn more about what other repos are removed by Unity for low GitHub views, how often that conversation is had for each Unity repo, and more. Why? It feels like a BS gas light and there’s no way the Unity GitHub repo deletion wasn’t related to this new pricing update.

In the fireside chat the Unity rep said they estimated this monetization change was estimated to be around 2%-2.5% revenue so proposing this “either the install fee or a 2.5% revenue share whichever is lower” so is this really a concession?

The burden of counting installs has been pushed onto Unity game devs. How are we exactly going to do that? What if we’re wrong about install counts? Are game devs going to be living in a state of fear over being out of compliance if we aren’t tracking installs how Unity wants us to? It’s self report but some day Unity is going to call BS on someone. It might just be better to pay the 2.5% revenue to be safer. I mean, how are devs going to figure out if a game is a charity bundle, a pirated installation, or mass “install bombing.” These are still real problems with the install fee but the burden has been shifted to game devs.

Not to mention the per seat prices has gone up substantially. Most studios are going to be paying more per seat after the year is up.

It’s cheesy that the Unity is doing a press blitz to do damage control. I get it though. It comes off hollow reading this article knowing this is how businesses act during crisis like this. Feels fake once you’ve been a part of corporate America.

Unity is winning so much but pretending like they’re not. Maybe the original plan but most likely they’re just being good opportunists.

This sudden install fee and per seat license price increase implies that Unity is hurting for money. At ~7,700 employees (versus Epic’s ~2,200) they have a massive operating expense. Not sure Unity is going to have a “sustainable business model” if this is how they’re acting.

It’s not all bad.

I am happy they released a calculator for the install fee versus revenue. I’m happy there is a cap to the new fee. I’m happy the fee only applies to next LTS version. I’m impressed that the carrot to get people to install the next LTS is to be able to disable the Unity logo (kudos and props to the folks who thought up this carrot).
Because they grew up on Discord, and because it's easier. It's easier to make the discord server, keep it running, and get people to join it.

I'd also prefer that people used Matrix, but hey, at least it's better than Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn.
ill never eat PFAS again
I’d recommend you take a look at the book “Who Murdered Roger Ackroyd?” if you want a slightly different take on the book and its twist
I'm a developer, not a designer, but I also find your work very interesting!

Every time a new design tool came out I need to learn that shit, and my drawing was always uglier than real designers. If I could do this by describing, I'd love to do it.
The cynical side of me says that they do this to minimize what they have to pay the band for touring - some dodge where perhaps they only pay the band based on what the face value of the tickets are.
If the Fed Didn't Hike, Why Did Mortgage Rates Hit Long Term Highs?
I sincerely hope that most people are not dealing with functions of that length, such that error handling is lost at the bottom of hundreds of lines of code.

Whether you do return-early or nested if-else, there's little reason for having such lengthy functions. Dealing with THAT should be the priority, not the nesting vs return-early.
> If mortality age is a normal distribution, you would see someone 125+ years old every now and then even just naturally. And you don't.

Why would all-cause mortality be normally distributed? The causes of death at the low end and high end tend to be different, so I don't see why we would expect them to occur at similar rates.
> Asking for proof that "men need fathers" is so common sense and obvious that denying it suggests to me that there is no evidence that you would accept.

You think I'm denying your claim that "men need fathers". That's because you're spoiling for a fight instead of trying to have a reasonable conversation.

Before I can take you seriously, you need to start showing some awareness that there are potential alternative explanations for what you claim is too obvious to require evidence. The questions and criticisms your comments raise and the fallacies your comments perpetrate are obvious and plentiful enough that you should be able to anticipate at least some of them yourself, and preemptively respond to them as a way of strengthening your case and making your comments substantive. Instead, you're continuing to make low-effort comments and treating this forum like a playground for your trollish behavior.
It would seem that to some extent this ultimately does lead to Major Band getting paid by Ticketmaster though, albeit through indirect means. Let's say a show is going to generate $1M in profit for LiveNation/Ticketmaster because of the fees and the reselling but would only make $250K without, the promoter (who because of monopoly is also the ticket seller) is going to be much more willing and able to offer Major Band a larger payment to get them to perform in the former instance given that they stand to profit much more from the performance.
If it can be made fast, content addressed p2p distribution is a perfect replacement for e.g. imgur to offload bandwidth costs for the fediverse.
> But presumably that photo was taken after her car had been recovered, because the incident report describes it being piled nose-first into undergrowth not evident here.

Also, that doesn't appear to be a Morris Cowley. It's much too tall, and the grill is all wrong. That's likely a police vehicle.
Ash Framework
I was thinking about this recently, and came up with two possible reasons:

1. The enjoyment of attendees can be partly dependent on the enthusiasm of other attendees. Consider the extremes: an audience entirely comprised of people who hardly know the artist, but can afford it Vs an audience comprised of only die-hard fans, irrespective of their ability to afford a ticket. The first has a flat atmosphere, the second, a special one.

2. A simple desire by the artist to make their show available to a cross-section of society (this could be viewed as altruistic, since most other products/services don't usually offer the same thing at a lower price just to help those who can't afford it).

A possible solution to problem 1: If the goal is to ensure that only die-hard fans get the tickets, why not use their spotify/apple music/other histories to work out who's really a fan of that artist? It should be trivial to get a very high degree of accuracy, and would be costly for scalpers to imitate (they'd need a subscription and to listen to random music years in advance).
>Otherwise scalpers just buy them all as soon as they’re released

Scalpers would end up holding the bag if they did that. If no one is willing to pay $10k for a ticket, but then scalpers buy every ticket for $10k each they aren't going to me able to find anyone to resell the tickets to and will end up losing money.

Anyone can protect themselves from being scalped by just participating in the auction.
This reminds me that I made a way to create love2d fonts using pico8 files and ended up coming up with a 3x4 font that I absolutely love and hope to use in a homemade game one day.
filecoin has been trying to solve the problem of not wanting to be married to crypto?
GNUStep Desktop – a refreshed look at NeXT/OpenStep
»That’s where “GNUstep Desktop” comes it. It’s a single project that pulls everything together to give you a complete GNUstep enviroment, with desktop, development tools, a browser, some productivity tools and utilities.«
The classic economics lesson of perverse incentives.
Original link is blocked for me:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230924005317/https://www.villa...

Related: https://youtu.be/2Zqq7nv2FYU?si=Fcx9ryn1YsXlWQtT
Sounds reasonable to me. You don't want people bringing fake weapons onboard that they can use to threaten people onboard with to comply with their demands, regardless of whether they could actually cause damage or not.
This is fun! Since you asked for feedback:

- I couldn’t find a way to clear pixels after drawing them, short of using the trash can icon to clear the whole glyph. Especially since I’m on a phone, an “eraser” tool would have been handy for those couple of stray pixels in an otherwise happy tracing.

In Pentacom BitFontMaker (which, as a sister comment points out, Karektar seems to be based on), it looks like they avoided an explicit “eraser” tool by causing strokes to clear pixels whenever the stroke started on a filled pixel.

- My phone has a relatively small screen, and the fixed footer text covers the bottom row of controls such that I can’t use them.
Relevant blog by curl's author: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/08/10/ipfs-and-their-gatewa...

I wonder what changed?
Had content based urls been a thing 20 years ago, presumably there would have evolved technology for mobile ISPs to host border caches that end users could trust 100% without worry of nefarious manipulation.
I left by then, and I'm not aware of the details about MoneyControl.

We are entering the Climate Tech scene via MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) tools by leveraging super-resolution algorithms and Multi-Spectral analysis, aiming for cost-effective and detailed insights. By integrating RADAR/SAR with RGB/MS data, we ensure consistent data collection, even in cloudy conditions, fostering broader engagement in climate action.

We are selling to enterprises beginning with some of the ML tools that we wrote.
Just downloaded it because I do struggle a lot with this problem. When I was single, I was better at keeping in touch with a lot of my friends. After getting married though, I feel like I need to put in effort to still keep in touch because life gets in the way and priorities change.

Feedback on the app - I really like the design. Very intuitive. Had no problem getting through my core flow and i’m all set. I do wish you ask for permissions for contact a little later in the flow when i’m actually trying to add people to my list. It will make more sense and it will be more intuitive. I was a little taken back by the permissions dialog right after opening the app even before I got a chance to check out the app. That’s the only thing I would probably change if I was you.
Inflation: https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/inflation-housing-marke...

Try looking at gas and food prices for the past year or so, they have gone up. We are in an economic bubble.
Thanks, I had not seen this one.
Like I said, all successful alternatives to the capitalist systems were made with violent revolutions. And were then further met with violent actions from other states. Cuba is still to this day suffering from an embargo despite it being 65 years since their revolution. Any alternative system is going to have to be violent or suffer being reverted back to capitalism. This is no basis in which to weigh alternatives.

My observation about the future is merely historical, not a prediction. Forever is a long time, and there is 0 chance that capitalism will be the dominant system for the remainder of human history. There are many systems of governments which exist in the past which we today look on favorably. However there has been no world—or even regional—dominating economic system enforced with violence which has survived the scrutiny of history. They all suck, though some more then other.

It is arrogant to think that capitalism will be any different, especially as we are now facing a potentially societal collapsing climate crisis which our economic system is not handling well, and the political class is reluctant to act on fearing damage to this very system.

Even in the short history of capitalism, history still does not look kindly on earlier attempts at the same system. The Laissez Faire capitalism of the late 19th and early 20th century yielded a series of depressions, and treated workers horribly. Attempts to reform the system yielded the great depression. It was only through severe regulations of Keynesian economics where this system had some lasting success, but this success was not to last as deregulation of neoliberalism took over. History doesn’t even look kindly on Reaganomics which isn’t even a 50 year old system.

My prediction about the future is just about as plausible as someone looking at the Sun in the post Galilean heleocentric universe, and predicting that perhaps one day humanity will discover that the Sun isn’t at the center of the universe either.
The quick prototype in TFA is essentially a bunch of components connected together with long antennas, so literally any construction technique better than that will help...
So it seems you're not interested in evidence of the thing you claim to seek, because you're not willing to define what would convince you, so that I can use that to find materials that fit your criteria. Ok, have a nice day :)
they have definitely given everyone the impression they're now a scummy advertising company that happen to own a game development product.
Ah, sorry, I misread that part, then.

Why do genitals matter?
ESBuild will try to use variables so that they have better gzip compression, so it’s plausible the imports would receive minified names out of order.
Diet and exercise are near-universally accepted as reasonable health advice and is basically ubiquitous.
No, if it was merely a matter of incentives, the behavior of parents should have reverted when the fine was removed; i.e. when the situation was restored to its initial condition. But when the fine was instituted, a culture shift occured, which would then not revert when the fine was removed.
A fix for some venues: only sell tickets at the door.

Scalpers will have to work for it the old fashioned way then.

This, of course, obviates the need for Ticketmaster (which needs to die in a fire).

Realistically, Ticketmaster has a monopoly because they merged with the biggest artist management company, so if you want big artists you have to contract with them.

The situation will not improve until antitrust enforcement comes into vogue again.
I'm with you on this. The announcement is going to be about unicellular Mars life or unicellular life on one of those ice moons with subsurface oceans.

The announcement about observation of Bussard Ramjet exhaust plumes, or light sail launch lasers will happen after the unicellular life dust settles.

And that could be decades. A large fraction of the US population is young earth creationist. They're not going to take news of a 2nd abiogenesis easily.
I used to be a 10X programmer in Visual BASIC 6.0 but it is obsolete now and replaced with C#, something better came out and replaced it Dotnet.

I had to give up my Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga 1000 for a 386 PC clone to do DOS and Windows work.

I know COBOL and FORTRAN but they are old as well. So I am into retro computing stuff.
Yes, its listed in the Community AMIs section. It's more common to use this alongside Elastic Kubernetes or other similar AWS services though, where you can opt to use Bottlerocket at the host during configuration.

https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/faqs/#Using_Bottlerocket
I see after reading more that it has a modern concurrency and object database implementation. Really cool!

Websockets and utf8 as well. Lovely.
I understand that. It's still a funny read
> You have a great sense of enthusiasm for the story and you have clearly put a lot of effort into it

Any reasonably acute listener will hear this as condescension: “Oh, you worked so hard, bless your heart…”. I don’t think word-smithing the feedback to make it gentler really helps, because people (even bad writers) can see through bullshit. Better to treat the other person as deserving of honesty.
Not entirely. There were plans for international cooperation for the missions (with Russia IIRC). However, it didn't go through. Anyway, future collaborations are planned - probably with Japan first.
The AI revolution is rotten to the core [video]
yeah it's intentional

At first the title was "make something you want", it's true and correct. but I felt it can not express what I truly felt at all. Current version is more close, though it's technically not correct.

Like when I build things, I'll tell myself: It's okay to make something nobody wants.
Years ago, the biggest bottleneck with VTE was that it was storing the scrollback history on disk (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631685). Eventually support for an in-memory scrollback buffer was added, which improved the situation considerably.

Long dumps of output with VTE seems to be fast enough, at least with a barebones program that creates a VTE widget and doesn't do much else. But Gnome Terminal was noticeably slower than my naive program, last time I tried it. I don't know why.
It's not just wtallis, I also second the opinion that you're failing to provide any comments of substance here.

You could be making a case, instead you're just demanding others carry your water for you.
Have you ever heard of a company called Apple?
I'm no artist, so I will leave the art discussion to my betters.

But this sparks an interesting comparison with the tech world. Reimplementing products is pretty much how things work here, and multiple implementations are considered a good thing.

For example WebSQL isn't a standard because there's only one implementation (SQLite.)

Equally there are myriads of Open Source offerings that are positioned as "alternative to x" and which are clones, or started as clones. (Think Linux being a free Unix etc).

This ability to take an idea, to move it in a different direction, to tweak it in interesting ways, is fundamentally how the world of software works.

It will be fun to see how this is viewed 100 years from now - other industries (cars, planes etc) have consolidated and the initial explosion of ideas has become history.
I had a similar early experience. Amusingly, what broke me out of it was coming back to imperative languages after a good stint with Clojure. My initial instinct, coming back to an imperative language, was to try to return a single expression. You can do that, but it makes for rather unidiomatic code.

Hewing more towards the idiom while trying to force functions towards a single return resulted in… a lot of statements, producing a lot of intermediate state. And it all gets much harder to follow.

I’ve since embraced early edge cases and early returns, largely because it allows more idiomatic use of a functional style in an imperative context. And all of that makes the code a great deal easier to understand than it would be otherwise.
Examining this kind of (unintentionally) obfuscated code can be a learning opportunity as well.

Forgetting the intuitive meaning of symbols is often helpful in doing mathematical proofs (I think Weyl has a famous quote about that). Who knows, maybe the same is true of programming! I've been trying to train myself to to read code purely based on their form, replacing variables names by purely unsuggestive random letters and training myself to visually pattern match first elementary, then increasingly complicated patterns. Still too early to tell whether this will lead anywhere. But in some cases it definitely saved me time by removing the temptation to wonder what the original author's "thinking" was behind this or that choice of variable/function name.
If you think a tree can't be that bad, the story with Gympie Gympie goes some officer during WW2 did wipe his butt with a leaf, the pain was such that he killed himself.

What the parent doesn't mention in the water alongside the croc and box jelly is the irukandji which is extremely common and extremly dangerous as well while being as small as a fingernail.

With all those things around, Australia is an amazing place, the moral of the story is ask the locals before you do something you'll regret, they are the ones who knows and if you ask before you will be fine
What centralized US-dollar-denominated ledger does an Argentinian citizen have access to?
There are folks still working on it but at this point it pretty much only gets updates that VMware needs to continue delivering Cloud Foundry. It looks dead-er than it is because the team hasn't explained this, so there's a giant list of work that won't ever get done just kinda... hanging out... on the README and in the issues list.

I use it at work but it was already running when I got there. I also really like it but I'd be reluctant to stand it up somewhere new unless I was using it to run a Cloud Foundry. It has some operational issues and it is actually impossible to get an SLA if you're not also a VMware Cloud Foundry customer, and that costs a minimum of $50k per year.
How does one get a suspended Instagram account fixed? [video]
I am just a casual scroller but was moved by one of my favorite influencers to ask for help. Unlike many other people I have seen on Tiktok, her videos have always been clean, and I think same was the case on Instagram that I rarely visit.

She got locked out and is getting the runaround. Wonder what mechanisms exist to get help in such cases?

Apologies: I have read quite a few success stories here, but never tracked the best practices except being able to reach an insider.