skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems really focused on JR (the CEO) but I haven't heard much talk about Tomer Bar-Zeev who came to Unity via the ironSource merger (he was a founder), and is "President, Grow" of Unity, and also on the board.

I suspect this guy, considering ironSource's past and his current title, may have been more responsible for these changes than the CEO. I assume the CEO has to sign off but the whole strategy of value extraction and nebulous fees just stinks of ironSource.
I think this is a false dilemma. If your tests can be parallelized then adding more doesn't necessarily result in longer deployments.
A scientist follows the scientific method, i.e. they advance testable hypotheses and compare their predictions with the data. A philosopher writes deep-sounding but ultimately meaningless drivel like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
Pardon the ignorance, but why is it a subsidy ? Wouldn't it be the opposite?

Large business remits to the government the money that they subtracted forVAT, for all sales, including tiny opcos. They then get the subtraction for VAT.

Small player gets no subtraction.

Am i wrong ?
https://osschat.io/chat?project=Kafka
25k euros on September 12th
https://web.archive.org/web/20230912192257/https://fund.godo...
With translations built in, I have one less reason to use Chrome.

There are a few old open bugs, the oldest Firefox bug seemingly being 9 years old, and is about pdf.js not automatically rendering hyperlinks as clickable. There are a few UI/usability bugs in the list, but most old bugs seem to be meta bugs linking several blocking issues, or features being completed part by part.

Firefox may lack engineering power to keep up with Chrome (especially after firing all of those Rust devs), but in terms of bugs I don't think they're doing all that badly. It's not like fixing "Consider to process DOMLinkAdded event using animation frame callback + setTimeout(, 0)" is going to help them gain any market share.
my firefox do not propose reading mode because ... the page itself is pretty much in reading mode already with the line breaks to limit line length.

Nothing is broken as I see it.
One almost hopes it happens solely to shut up the crypto bros that still refuse to accept the primary use case for crypto is scams.

Sure it can be a distributed concencus/ledger system/smart contract system almost no one important needs or will use, or will reuse the idea internally themselves if it's useful.

Anything important won't be built on something they can't control or manage. Crypto by definition is that. So you have to really consider what this built on it and who's profiting from it.
Musk’s X Is Biggest Outlet of Russia Disinformation, EU Says
it’s all a balance. i’m obsessive, yeah, but i’m also trying to have a bit of balance for the bigger picture to each choice. if you look back a few commits you’ll see where i wasn’t even using maven, just GNU Make! But i was convinced over time that taking a more conventional route for that would yield better returns.
I just signed up for AT&T fiber in California and they've completely removed data caps for it.
I love the balance between simplicity and utility. Ability to download podcasts for later, queue them up into a playlist, cast to a device, easily search through thousands of existing podcasts but able to add the RSS if needed, timeline for recent podcast episodes, etc
Quantities are not fixed. 1 worker could take 2 jobs (either by working more or harder) if the pay was a sufficient motivator.
That's still a clear motivator, considering that "piracy" via bittorrent directly competes with the streaming services that pay for preferential bandwidth allocation.
This is good, but it's so obvious this was a super low priority thing for the Democrats. It's been almost three years since they took power, and they let the FCC sit in an Ajit Pai-inspired limbo for most of that time. They hit a roadblock and just stopped for years instead of adapting.
Apple sells their users' eyeballs for $10/year and Google is the one on trial.
Carbon filters typically do not last very long so it's good to monitor TVOCs.
Cost is quite a bit higher over $200 and the components can't be replaced. This is important as there's a limited lifespan of certain sensors which should be taken into account.
Google Podcasts will die in 2024
> you must build your own game engines and tooling.

From source perhaps
But we need the performance of hand-tuning memory to save the environment and provide accessibility to legacy devices! /s
Can we apply the same argument of time and precedence? Machine guns were legal for new purchase in the USA from their invention in 1892 to 1986. That's 94 years of precedent so, if a couple years of "no chemical reaction" is the gauge, I bet we could roll into and back on a lot of things, right?
WSJ is very invested in seeing Lina Khan fail, because pro-consumer policy is bad for monopoly is bad for shareholders of said monopoly.

So anything will be spun as a negative against Khan
How Linear Builds Product
I was not criticizing her or her art.
A lot of SO questions are equally low quality and get edited by the community into something more useful.
> I want to point out how odd it is that no one cares about international weapons exports

Why start your comment with an obvious falsehood?
I think a lot of those home 5G services are using the higher frequency 5G bands, which are often not great for portable devices.
Can this be fixed with a rooted Pixel with Lineage OS?

Looks like this is it [1] and it looks like LineageOS 17 is supported even back to Pixel 3a [2].

[1]: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android/+/366611

[2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lineageos-17-for-pixel-3a...
> ensure your assets are safe

It's been demonstrated time and time again this isn't practical. In crypto your choice is either worry about an exchange collapsing or worry about losing your keys, having your wallet cleaned out by some scammer, etc.

The chances of either are very, very high. "Not your keys, not your coins" just as easily (or even more so) becomes "you don't have your keys" or "some scammer has your coins".

Cue twitter and reddit posts from crypto enthusiasts saying "Oh you should have engraved your seed on steel plates and buried them under the birdbath in your backyard. Sorry you lost everything but hopefully you learned your lesson. Now buy more and try again!".
Sure, but without the ad and SEO spam, it's a totally different experience. It's really a testament to how much damage Google has done to its own product in the name of monetization.
Does no one else remember Reddit and Google running dial-up looking gifs of their logos to show how evil the ending of NN would be? Yea... we got a worse internet alright but it definitely wasn't because images load slowly.
One big caveat to this sort of test. With DBs you are very often trading throughput for latency.

Meaning, it's certainly possible to get "the absolute fastest inserts possible" but at the same time, you are impacting both other readers of that table AND writers across the db.

This also gets more messy when you are talking about multiple instances.
This depends a lot on the product. Some products, companies, markets, etc simply NEED capital to get off the ground. Hardware for example is fairly pricey on average. Tech's evolution has made starting software companies and products really cheap where it used to be fairly expensive. Perhaps the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction a bit. Perhaps its SO easy that in some spaces, you need the money to differentiate your offering from the hundreds of others trying to do the exact same thing in order to find that success.

But speaking as someone even lately who has produced new products in the last few years, the products don't need to be perfect. The PG (I think?) anecdote about PMF where your product should feel like selling water to someone who is lost in the desert and dying of thirst. You can DEFINITELY achieve that with a sub-optimal, still a little unpolished/buggy product. I have, myself, just in the last few months. You just need the right product and the right market.
- Ethereum has (last I checked) 9 different independent implementations of the client. No centralized development.

- Uniswap (one of the first decentralized exchanges running on the blockchain) has more transaction volume than Coinbase. All you need to use is an Ethereum wallet. No dependency on central exchanges.

As for scams: do you also blame Western Union for the billions of dollars they enabled?
I've seen pieces like this in the FT too. I think it's one of those things that is interesting to the people in the industry but irrelevant to everyone else. We know a thing or two about that here!
Hedge fund ad built on top of anti-FTC / Lina Khan prejudice clickbait.

FTC routinely scrutinizes large mergers and people bet on the outcomes of that uncertainty. Trying to wrap it in allusions to “sticking it to Lina Khan” is silly.
On this site, I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. Shockingly to me, someone else in this thread writes how this is a conservative site... Well that guy must have a wildly different perspective from me!
> Older people tend to hang on to the past

uh, 67 yes old and adhd. the past is so yesterday and frequently not remembered unless traumatic. Innovation and new learning are weekly events.

F.E. I now use chatgpt to generate most of my code then I tweek/debug it to usefulness. clock is ticking and I'm not done yet
> I’ve had people respond to my posts with “yeah well ChatGPT says …”.

One generation earlier, the argument was “yeah well Google/Wikipedia says …”. So this is nothing new.
Double that, because both ways. Add more, because many families require an XL Uber or a special one equipped with car seats for kids. And what if they aren't staying at a Universal hotel, a Disney hotel or something further away. You are minimizing the hassles and the issues and the cost, and the misery of being forced to adhere to shuttle schedules all day every day.
Seems like Unity are really going to get punished.

Plenty of companies renege on promises, or stiff their customers, and
we just suck it up and keep coming back. Take Sony, discussed earlier
as "deserving" of being hacked, but all the same we keep buying their
stuff no matter how despicable their behaviour.

Something is different about this.

There's a community that seems to have solidity. And they seem
hell-bent on rubbing Unity's nose in its own poop.

And Unity is small and dependent enough to be really hurt. I expect
they will survive, but as markets get more specialised I wonder if in
times to come coordinated action will totally take down companies.
> It was present on the CDs as its the way you very supposed to use the CDs.

I'm getting the impression that you don't understand how CDs worked. You're acting like it was perfectly normal and expected for music CDs to include an installer for a CD player app. But it wasn't; essentially any computer that had a CD-ROM drive had the ability to play music CDs with no software installation needed, the same as any computer with a floppy drive had the ability to load files from disk. Yes, some CDs shipped with branded player software anyway; this was all useless advertising shovelware even when it didn't also contain harmful rootkits.
There were no flat earther and anti-vaccine communities 40 years ago.
It does seem a little bit weird that Google is on trial for paying Apple to control what options the user has.
They should provide data on % of users who have changed the default search engine, and the ratio of searches via Google vs the others.

Plus, the option only applies to Safari - not Spotlight or Siri, which are presumably used more often.

It sounds to me like this revenue share agreement was invented specifically to make this equal-opportunity argument to save their Google revenue.
The article is a little too breathless in its amazement at the performance of the hedge fund - if mentions in passing that the annualized return rate is something like 11% which means, despite all these “massive wins” demonstrating “amazing predictive prowess” or whatever, there were (admittedly fewer) hedges that didn’t work out so well for them, too. It’s just business.
The problem with certificates is that a third-party issuer is monetarily incentivized by volume, not quality.

And a first-party issuer is essentially training you on specific software.

Probably the most/only aligned scenario is first-party certificates from widely-used technologies (e.g. AWS/Azure/GCP).
So how do I sign up to get my home media server added to be zero-rated?
Automated Quality Assurance for Object Detection Datasets
Ah, I wish it were that easy, but a number of my favorite games (KSP, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium off the top of my head) are made in Unity. If you play indie PC games you can’t boycott Unity without missing a ton of really good games.
> Should I think of articles like this as news or opinion?

As PR.
Stop! Or I will shout "Stop!" again
Would you deploy a self-driving car model that was trained on images for which data annotators accidentally forgot to highlight some pedestrians?

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We’ve open-sourced one line of code to find errors in any object detection dataset via Cleanlab Object Detection, which can utilize any existing object detection model you’ve trained.
Seconding this. YTMusic is absolute garbage. A disgrace to the services it "replaces."
Remote control to turn things on or off. Example: turn on new cool beta feature for 5% of users. Code ships with ‘if (new_cool.enabled)’ checks everywhere.
Here in sweden they just took advantage of the war to ask to join nato, abandon neutrality, swiftly change the constitution, cut funds to social programs, without a public uproar, just pushing the narrative that russia was going to invade any moment.
This is just an alternate EUV light source. I don't think the light source is the hard part of building systems for 2 nm lithography.
US tech firms roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls
The comment was in response to parent's stated complaint, namely having to wait for someone else to resolve issues with popular packages being broken after an update, which has been the experience of more than one user.
There's an internationally respected right to defend your nation

But it's just so hard to see cyberweapons as a legitimate weapon for border defense & maintaining social order. Cyberweapons are a scary way to break security, to circumvent protections designed for businesses and individuals.
The irony here being that you’ve apparently been victim to “in Google we trust” and failed to notice that Bing and DDG are highly competitive with Google these days.

I’ve used DDG for years at this point and the number of times I’ve needed to drop back to Google has fallen to zero for the past few of them.
to be fair, that article is about PRI, not NPR. They are not related.
AI’s $200B Question – Sequoia Capital
I never lock my door because burglars can break a window.
> But you're doing it right now?

Sorry, what exactly is the "it" that am I doing right now (or was doing right then)?

> everybody is a bit of a psychologist

Sure. So?

> The same with what you just said and philosophy in general

Sure. So? Everyone is a bit of an amateur everything. That doesn't mean that everything that people do can be meaningfully elevated to the level of a profession.

> "a philosopher" would be doing it full time and for money

Yes, exactly. Everyone is an amateur philosopher just as everyone is (say) an amateur thumb-sucker at some point in their lives. That doesn't mean that there ought to be an elite cadre of thumb suckers who get paid to do it.
We do Civil Engineering and I have stacks of notebooks of calculations and decided I wanted to try using an ipad and stylus. Using Goodnotes, I can organize by job and create a new notebook for each plan check by date. Really enjoying not using a notebook every year as the paperwork was just getting out of hand, plus much more organized. I still use an RPN calculator, but slowly switching to spreadsheets. In this case digital works a lot better for me.

For archiving, some cities still have pen drafted mylar that sits in vaults. If you want to revise plans, go to City, check out the mylar with your life, use a razor blade to edit, pen with permanent ink and send back into the vault. New plans are plotted, but still to mylar.

With kids I am curious if they will learn how to handwrite. Will schools even teach how to read handwriting? Some interesting stuff as more goes digital and type printed.

Pen, Pencil, paper still has very great uses.
Honest question here, how does it compare to clickhouse-local?
It's not gotten worse strictly because California passed a very strong net neutrality law and the telcos were hoping the legal system would kill that so they could do whatever they pleased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Internet_Consumer_P...

Not working out for them so far:

> Ninth Circuit ruled unanimously in January 2022 that California's net neutrality law may continue to be enforced and cannot be overridden by the FCC as, current as of the decision, Internet services were classified as information services
What's new since 2014? Have the patents expired recently?
I think this is probably a net positive at least in some regards.

Unity (and other company execs) saw that pricing per install will most likely generate a lot of outrage, so profit seeking must be kept to more moderate means.

Unity settled on terms that will still generate them some income (which is probably good, given how fast they're burning money), the revenue share is still lower than that of Unreal and if the fireside chat is to be believed, then these terms should hold for a while.

Unity won't be making every game/program phone home, at least if you don't use their analytics, the install figures will be self-reported and also the splash screen will be optional.

The people with years of Unity experience and purchased assets won't be forced to migrate to something else and will be able to use their good tech and tools (even if the editor can be annoying), and their businesses won't have to pay insane amounts of money for runtime fees.

In addition, engines like Godot get a nice boost in popularity and also some funding, which should secure them a better future. Probably not much is changing for the niche engines that I like, but it's still to nice see Godot succeeding in some ways!

That whole fiasco could have been avoided altogether, though - just consider the new policies for like half a year and run some numbers first, I'm not sure how they missed out on how their initial plans would affect mobile games!
If you must agree to a revenue share deal, in order to be considered an alternative search engine by Apple - I would consider that forceful.
This is not true. FCC net neutrality rules apply to mobile carriers.

So do the ones in California Europe India and Canada.

There is leewway for a reasonable ment, but those measures can only be used temporarily during times of congestion and have to be as application agnostic as possible
Oracle's going to kill off the naming scheme when they buy DuckDB in 2031, so we're safe.
You do understand that's not a practical solution here, do you?
And apps like Notion and Obsidian have to use web technologies because there are simply no alternatives.

Even those React rich text editors don't support React Native.

It's just way too hard to solve this problem for medium-sized teams.
A memory-safe language could have easily resulted in the same vulnerability.

In this context, “memory-safe” means it does bounds checking on an array when you try to access an element. But the webp code does bounds checks up-front so that array accesses can be non-checked, to help performance. (If they didn’t want this performance, they could have easily used a std::vector and used bounds-checked access.) The vulnerability happened because this up-front bounds checking logic was incorrect.

If we were to hypothesize a counterfactual world where webp was written in rust, presumably the devs would have wanted a similar optimization where they did the bounds checking up-front still, and they would have put the actual array access in an unsafe block to have the same perf optimization. The same bug would have thus happened.

The lesson here is that bounds checking on every element access is probably a worthwhile overhead, no matter what the language is. C++ has safe ways to do this (well, safe-ish… safe for the purposes of this bug at least) with std::vector, and maybe they should just switch to that and eat the performance overhead.
Not sure if it really helps but I wrote something about it:

https://louwrentius.com/ikea-50-vindstyrka-vs-290-dylos-air-...
as I understand it, they are allowed to get pretty creative with the odds on "reel" type video slot machines.

the odds of a given outcome have to match the published odds in the payout table, but the animated reels don't have to be an accurate physical simulation of reels -- they are allowed to make it look like there was a "near miss" of a jackpot for instance.
> Another perspective is, you shouldn't be doing this if you can't tell if something is fun without "testing" it.

Trust me, you have absolutely no way of knowing until you playtest, seriously. You could copy all the game mechanics of a popular game, down to the engine and the exact magic numbers and functions that made it, and it can still suck. Just look at most AAA open-world action RPGs released in the last 5 years.

> Without fail, all the people I know who are the best at this keep having one good idea after another. They absolutely do not run out of really good ideas that sound and play obviously fun.

I'm sure the people you know do have "really good ideas" but they are nothing more than lottery tickets until prototyped. You don't need money to pull together a shitty prototype to prove some aspect of your game works, and there are numerous meetups everywhere for indie devs to show off their games. I'm gonna make a wild assumption that these people you know haven't prototyped any of these "obviously fun" ideas.
Which phone would that be?
If you play games you can't play games without missing a ton of really good games. There are _a ton_ of really good games.
All of this complexity is one of the key reasons that Wasm does not have an addressable stack (it is fully virtualized in the execution semantics). That moves the management of stack-allocated data structures up a level, but guarantees that the machine has control flow integrity (CFI) built in.
Who Blew Up Nord Stream?
I highly recommend you to watch this video by Brian Goetz if you want to learn more about this JEP.

https://youtu.be/pcg-E_qyMOI
Will this enable lombok officially?
If you are in a jurisdiction without software patents you could always ignore those and sell your game only in jurisdictions without software patents.