Recent submissions

Comment · 6 months ago
I guess you may have alot of files, but to me object storage is so cheap I keep copies on Aws S3, wasabi, r2 and a 16 TB HDD on my hetzner server.

Admittedly 4 might be too many. But at some point I switched to r2 for the free public egress and deleting one of Aws or wasabi has never been a priority and I don't want to do it without putting in the time to quadruple check I'm not deleting anything important.

But at the very least id have 3. I'd hate to discover that my S3 was blown up in a war and then copying everything my HDD was the last straw that pushed an aging drive over the edge.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sort It Out SI | Unity Consultant | Remote | Short Term | $50 p/h

Dates: October 21st - November 18th.

We're looking for an expert in Unity who can help in one or more of the following areas: - Harmony / Melon Loader / IL Injection to hook into game code - Cheat Engine tools for modifying and exporting the games database - Replacing / exporting 3D meshes, textures and animations - Unpacking / repacking AssetBundles/Addressables

We make mods for the video game Football Manager which has just been rewritten in Unity after using a proprietary engine for the past 20 years.

We're looking for someone (or multiple people) to help explore the game upon release and identity new modding opportunities.

This is short term work and would be most suitable for students, hobbyists or temporarily unemployed looking to pick up a few extra hours work.

It is possible it could extend longer term if the right opportunity is identified however we are primarily a fansite for the game and do not have a history of making permanent hires.

The main duties would be answering basic Unity questions from web developers who have never touched Unity, free exploring the games code and writing very basic documentation and proof of concepts.

We are totally flexible on anything from 5-40 hours per week.

Please email: [email protected]

Comment · 1 year ago
I gave this a tough test, specifically generating a quiz about the video game football manager, and it failed quite badly.

It would either give 3 absurd/joke answers and one good correct one. Or give 3/4 correct answers and then insist that only one of them was correct and the others were wrong.

It's probably only accurate to specific topics and still requires alot of human validation and input. To me that makes it not that better than asking an AI for suggestions conversationally. Probably worse since you can make more progress and adjustments conversationally.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
REMOTE | UNITY | CONSULTANT/DEVELOPER | VIDEO GAME MODDING

Hiring a consultant Unity developer to initially advise on a new project in March/April with the long term work either just consultation, management or full time development afterwards.

We rely heavily on modding and extracting data from the video game Football Manager which is being rewritten in the Unity engine for its latest version slated for release in March or April 2025.

We are looking for a Unity expert to help assess the new game and identify possible modding capabilities as soon as it is released and then work together to make a long term plan to mod the game.

We are open to working with a long term solo developer or creating a team of individuals. Until the game is released we will not know the full requirements. However we would like to have someone available to get started on the day of release, hence the flexibility of being just consultancy initially.

100% remote and flexible on hours.

Please reach out to [email protected]

Comment · 1 year ago
Have past instances of 2.1 fertility also had increased lifespan and immigration?
Comment · 1 year ago
Is healthline spam? It's my go to whenever I have a medical question to add healthline to the search
Comment · 1 year ago
I haven't read deepness in the sky but it's interesting how wrong alot of scifi got this. Cameras are always considerably bigger than grains of sand
Comment · 2 years ago
Pretty sure iPod Classic did this.

But now I imagine most people don't mind looking at the app every 30-90 minutes to choose a new album.

Also just looking at my saved albums in Spotify there's loads of crap in there just because I've downloaded it offline once in the past 10 odd years. A shuffle of these albums would suck.

So they'd probably have to fix the saving/favouring of albums before allowing shuffling of them.

Comment · 2 years ago
The biggest thing for me with maps is the refusal to allow multiple tabs on phone.

If you're the passenger on a road trip and doing the navigation you're unable to use maps to make plans for tonight or tomorrow.

Okay the driver could be nav, but now they also need to be the music, and everytime you the passenger wants to use it to look for petrol on route or change music you have to ask their code or hold it up to their face. Plus now you see all their notifications.

Even without being on a road trip, on a desktop i'd be making plans in multiple tabs before making a decision. On a phone it's a nightmare when it could be so easy.

Comment · 2 years ago
Played into the hands? Didn't Assange personally hate the Clinton's, that seems less played into the hands of and more intentional?
Comment · 2 years ago
I just tried it on a query for video game mods ("Football Manager Graphics") and it was awful.

I did a couple of other searches and realised the website I expected to be indexed, sortitoutsi.net, was not.

Nonetheless, even without that specific website in the index the results were truly bad.

Comment · 2 years ago
Does anyone know how far off we are having logical AI?

Math seems like low hanging fruit in that regard.

But logic as it's used in philosophy feels like it might be a whole different and more difficult beast to tackle.

I wonder if LLM's will just get better to the point of being indistinguishable from logic rather than actually achieving logical reasoning.

Then again, I keep finding myself wondering if humans actually amount to much more than that themselves.

Comment · 2 years ago
This last sentence is the most important. You can describe your dB schema in words and get laravel migration, models, controllers and if you wanted policies, form requests etc all near perfect. You can get a V1 in 10-20 minutes then go about handling all the actual logic
Comment · 2 years ago
I think this would work better if it had 2 modes, one built by scraping/bots from public listings, sound cloud etc, which would let you discover and reach out on those platforms.

And one powered by "list yourself" where people would create their profiles to make themselves easier to discover.

This would avoid the issue of not having many users initially whilst also making it interesting to use.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton