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Show HN: Chipscribe: A platform for people to split the cost of subscriptions
Hi,

I know everyone on HN is an elite programmer making tons of money. However, in the current market idk anymore, but as a student money is short and I split the cost of basically all my subscriptions with my roommates from Netflix to Spotify. Over the summer I thought what if I make a platform that allows anyone to split the cost of subscriptions with random people anywhere in the country and save everyone a buck or two in the process, they wouldn't have to listen to the gurus about canceling all their favorite streaming subscriptions so I made chipscribe(my first website btw so its a bit rough especially the landing page. Most of my time was spent automating account creation and management on sites like Netflix) and I wanted to share it. although, there's not much atm.
This seems to have been announced a couple of weeks ago, so we don't need to just trust the tweet: https://www.macworld.com/article/1377200/apple-to-limit-aird...

Having it open to everyone for only a limited amount of time actually kind of seems like the right thing, but it's hard to come up with a legit explanation for why they rushed that change to China first.
> I am arguing against their appeal. Censorship, decentralization,
freedom to chose who you trust, etc. It’s the same appeal crypto
uses to deceive inexperienced people into believing that these
things are really relevant to their life. It’s manipulative.

I'm sorry if I misread this. I read it through carefully a few times
now.

Did you just actually say that people's "freedom to chose who you
trust" is irrelavent to their lives?!

That must win the prize for the all time most patronising semtiment
I've read on HN. Surely you're trolling at this point?
You have this backwards no? The virtual DOM is needed in order to support Reactive UI, in most cases (svelte comes to mind as an exception).
> Folks I've known in those agencies are often frustrated by the fact that they're not spending their time going after complex white-collar frauds that they're specifically equipped to handle.

Well, that would expose people who don't want to be exposed, and who conveniently (for themselves) also control the funding of these agencies.
Google is pretending that there's user choice in app stores on Android, but it's very clear that Google Play gets preferred treatment in various ways.

I just switched Android phones last week, and the system offered me to copy over everything through plugging a USB C cable into both phones.
To my surprise, Google/Android copied over all apps installed through Google Play, and just ignored all F-droid installed apps!
Not even a notice or message that not everything could be copied...
> We could rewild huge parts of the Earth

Probably not without radically changing how we grow plants for human consumption, assuming we still eat plants and don't move to an all-meat diet.

Looking over the data for the area I farm, according to government figures, 36% of the cropland is used for animal food. Most farmers here grow a rotation of soybeans, corn, edible beans, and wheat. The edible beans and wheat are intended for direct human consumption. I couldn't find an exact breakdown for soybean use, but on my farm ~60% of the soybeans are intended for direct human consumption and ~40% for animal consumption. I imagine that is not atypical. Corn is primarily intended for animal consumption.

A little back of the napkin math and you get somewhere around 35% of the output after a four year rotation on my farm being intended for animal consumption, which is effectively what the real world data also shows.

The rotation is important to maintaining soil health and keeping disease at bay. I don't see that going away, save further technical advancement, so you'd probably just see the corn shift to something like biofuels if animals weren't eating it to maintain the rotation to grow the human food.
I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics.

I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosystem fast enough.
This sounds like an interesting idea, and I could very likely benefit from such an arrangement, myself.

I'm Dossy#5309 on Discord, let's figure something out together.
I guess this is the kind of blind obedience to an authoritarian regime that 275 billion dollars gets you

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/07/apple-chi...

But never mind, they have rainbow hashtags and censor pepe memes so they are the good guys...
I, like other people, just pick up my Kindle and read a few pages until I fall back asleep.

I’ve noticed that I don’t wake up so much during the night anymore since I stopped drinking coffee regularly 3 months ago - I now drink a cup or two per week, down from 2 per day. For me it was life-altering stuff. I used to wake up drowsy regardless of how much I slept and it really didn’t work out right with my habit of going to the office at 6 in the morning. Now I can jump out of bed at 05:45 fully awake and be in the bus totally prepared at 05:59. I feel like a human being for the first time in my adult life.
How do you collect customer feedback?
Would love to understand your customer feedback workflows, specifically:
- how do you collect and analyze feedback
- do you pay for any tools to enable this collection? How often do you use them and how useful are they?

Thank you!
Why the taskbar groups same programs (you can still turn it off) but then does not allow you to have them ungrouped completely - and shown in the order you opened them.

They dont understand that someone can have few spreadsheets and few PDFs open?
I remember in Hong Kong that protesters used a bluetooth app (Bridgefy and maybe others) to communicate.
Sure for the percentage of people who do read all the way through and then rethink things. This is <1% in most communities
My understanding is that subsidies also drive down the cost of meat quite drastically.
If I need to crunch small amounts of data in a hurry, existing instructions are fine for that.

If I need to crunch large amounts of data in a hurry, I'll send it to a GPU. The CPU has no chance to compete with that.

I honestly don't understand who/what AVX512 is really for, other than artificial benchmarks that are intentionally engineered to depend on AVX512 far more often than any real-world application would.
Vast vs. Specific
I sell consumer software and you can get bad reviews from people not having SSSE3 (2008). So not ony I hardly need larger vectors (vs 128-bit) vs memory throughput, but it would take 10+ years before being able to use that.
The larger the SIMD vector, the more useless it is in a way that Linus describes.
These are Technicals.
They are mobile, fast, cheap and reliable, and you can put all kinds of things on them. If the other side doesn’t have heavy weapons you can do a lot with that and even if they are maybe then too. The Brits showed this really well starting with Land Rovers in North Africa and plenty of folks have borrowed, improvised and improved on the idea over time but the basic idea remains.
it already has in China. I don't know how much is known to the public but in order to do business in China, Apple has created a parallel Chinese app store/icloud/etc.[1][2] I imagine even the operating systems and possibly hardware differ from what they sell elsewhere.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
Probably because this article is about the menu bar, not the touch bar.
nice job dude, there should be more people like you
Apple is a deeply evil company.
Citing a likely dangerous thing that the FDA doesn't have any objections to is not a good counter.
Disclaimer: no unsolicited advice please.

I'm old(er) mid-40's, single, no kids, and never married. I don't have much family or close friends. Hookup culture is de rigueur but it doesn't interest me. Where I'm at, there isn't a context to meet people and most random people in public around keep to themselves and treat me like I'm invisible. I do volunteering but that also doesn't go anywhere.

If you have to constantly take the social initiative, then you're carrying the relationship. Sometimes absence is better. Instead of dwelling on loneliness or self-pity, keeping productively busy seems a better alternative.

I'd like to have a family and kids, but an inability to find and make friends precludes that. The thought of getting old alone, having no one to check-in on me, no one to bury me, no one to care that I'm gone, and no one at a funeral seems depressing. I don't see how I won't end up in a "potter's field" somewhere.
Ha, forgot about all this. The Chicago one seemed perfect for Boring Co. They already did the complicated expensive stuff - the stations were built and sit "ready". An electrical substation is there - unlimited power available on-site. All they need are the tunnels. And if Boring Co can't manage that, what can they do?
A lot of people repeat what they hear without giving things any thought. I say it's gibberish because it doesn't mean anything. Try to explain what characteristics set a decentralised actor apart from a centralised actor. Remember that you can't use the word decentralised/centralised, because that's the words we're trying to define.
Mis-clicks can be handled with an "undo" function. I like to have the "undo" option available until my turn ends. But imho the system should allow only available and permitted moves at each turn.
this is a good a good blog, although I wonder is there any good up-to-date free online resource to learn C for experienced programmer (I learned C many years ago, but never use it seriously and forgot much of it)? I searched around, the results are either for beginner, or seems out-dated
In my experience, most stand-alone software board games is rule enforcing. Not many versions of chess software will let you make illegal moves. Most card game software enforces the rules. Software that corresponds to a single specific board game frequently enforce its rules.

In plenty of cases this can make for a smother experience. Preventing players from accidentally moving out-of-turn, ensuring that easily forgotten triggered actions actually trigger, ensuring people don't accidentally play a card face up when it should be face down due to clunky or unfamiliar simulator controls, and automatically updating any form of counters (hit points, victory points, round marker, etc) generally just help the game flow smoothly.

This is not without some potential downsides. Being able to temporarily not enforce the rules can be very useful in teaching, or to allow fixing some dumb mistake by consensus. I don't see a problem with allowing rule enforcement to be disabled, and actions taken that would normally not be allowed.

But there is no need for allowing illegal actions to be the normal mode. Those situations are uncommon enough that toggling some setting to allow them to take place is not unreasonable. The main case where it would be fairly inconvenient is if one wants house rules, in which case having to mode switch every time the house rules diverge from normal ones. But in that case the better option might just be to edit the game definition anyway.

I will admit that for many stand alone software versions of games, one of the major reasons allowing for rule violation actions is uncommon is because it would be difficult to enable it. The game just wont have UI for such actions, and coding one up can potentially be a ton of work. At best you might get some form of limited state editing that is a slightly polished version of the developers debugging tools. But when running in TTS or similar, these concerns are much less of an issue.
I have extended family doing the same in South Brazil. But those cows require a bit of care, a fair chunk of land, and release a large amount of methane. Lab meat will beat it in the end one day when all costs are considered.
Yes, but if you write consumer software you need to optimize more for the low-spec machines. It is those users that need the speed.
> On your iPhone, why don't you try installing a browser that doesn't use the webkit engine?

What is the benefit to me (as a user) to install a non-webkit browser? Do most users know what webkit is? Do they care?
I think the context that this tweet was made in is somewhat relevant. Elon is claiming Apple is considering removing Twitter from the app store if they don't make moderation concessions.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597297717704728577
"only on apple devices" well no shit, they can't tell you what to do on Android devices. I suppose the point is that only apple asked them to do thos and not google, but it's a weird way to say it.

As another commenter mentioned, I'd be interested in the 20 terms that were banned. Surely they can post them on free speech bastion twitter for the world to judge?

Re: pepe, that is pretty pathetic on apple's part. I think moderating such indirect symbols of foolishness and trolling only gives it power.
Only slightly related to this: I am amazed by the creativity employed by people trying to play D&D in prison. Since gambling is disallowed, dice are considered contraband. So they do things like modify pencil stubs (2 dead ends).

D&D turns out to be a reasonably good exercise in delayed gratification, an essential life skill many people need in order to successfully rehabilitate.
NPC as in someone who is unremarkable, is basic and the same as everyone else, hence the name a non-playable character (moreso referring to a background characater).
> They're in the business since 2013

> If they are on a scam, it's a really long con: a decade and a half of a con?

How is 9 years "a decade and a half"?
> Once again we have a situation where the only person making that final claim is a known serial liar and shit poster.

No, it's not just Elon. It is common knowledge that Apple uses this abusive behavior to censor and restrict app makers.
Ahah thanks
Growing meat in an ultra-sterile environment using complex biologics, some of which the current source is to extract them from animals. I’d bet on fusion becoming mainstream first.
Well, it's not @Binding that's slow, it's the fact that it's not immutable like @State, so on each `body` call, the binding's `get()` function has to be called again.
Google U.S. Data Centers 2021 Annual Water Metrics [pdf]
Should Lawyers Fear AI?
I agree it's easy to forget about the extension, but being incorrect about what is an article turned out to be very annoying too.

Let's track this idea here: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/668
I feel that this is a feature, not a bug. While I don't use C++ extensively, I think the Industry needs at least one language, which does not constrain the developer in any way. I think such a language is currently C++. It has all kinds of guidelines now to stay in the "safe zone", but there are many developers who (1) need unfettered access to the hardware and/or (2) need all kinds of language capabilities to write an extreme performance code.
The ability to create a fork is nothing compared to the fact that you own your information.
If someone has 10% of their money on a cex they are either

1) Farming it for interest

2) Collateral for trading / other asset

3) Maybe some other corner case I can't think of here

-or-

4) Morons.

My guess above was (1) since it was both a large amount and the losses were unexpected. I do not think it would be 'yours' except in the 4th case which would be morons storing unvested deposits on cex for any purpose but short term exchange.
The research seems pretty thorough, though frankly none of it is surprising to me, nor do I think it should be.

Gambling by any other name is still gambling.

Though these game companies have managed to improve on the formula by being able to target children, and by selling in-game currency that don't have a 1:1 correspondence with real money.

That being said, given the recent pushes and introduction of even more legal online betting, I sceptical of the situation changing anytime soon.

This isn't limited to video games though, just look at Magic the Gathering. They're just as aware of the shakiness of the legal ground their on with respect to not being considered gambling. The manufacturer does not, and likely cannot, acknowledge the difference in value between the different cards. They pretend like the piece of cardboard worth 10,000$ is identical to the ones given away for free.
Twitter is already blocked in China
There aren't resources to practice it but IBM documentation is actually really really good it reminds me of MSDN in the 2000s. So if you can get access to an environment to practice the documentation is really solid. It surprises me that you complain about IBM website because you can get everything there, even detailed machine instruction reference for z/Architecture if you want.
I think we're still using "Biggest number profit, bigger than last-year number at all cost" thinking here.

Because from my understanding and using some of the language you're using - Costs are going up "Due to labor costs going up" but these same companies are showing record profits. So it seems to me that there's room for the cost of labor to go up without increasing prices, necessarily. But the idea that companies Profit a little less - and I will never let anyone forget that profit is excess - is unfathomable to some.
Yes, having the private sector fraudulently gobbling up those dollars is pretty sickening. Only working solution is to have government run healthcare top to bottom.
Look at the atrocious consumer abusive workflow to trap a person into signing up for a microsoft cloud-everything account in the new installation workflow for a brand new Windows 10 or 11 install. Or the out-of-box first user experience upon opening and using a new windows 11 laptop.

You literally cannot even complete a fresh windows 11 install without a live internet connection now, if you're an ordinary non technical end user. It demands to be connected to some form of wired network or wireless with internet access to report home to microsoft and make a cloud based account.

They clearly decided that getting people to sign up for a forever-recurring monthly paid cloud service plan in perpetuity was the best way to go for revenue. Or at least bait them into it by methods like "oh, here's your free 5GB onedrive account, you can totally back up your whole system and use onedrive for everything. What's that, you're out of storage space on your free account? Sign up now for this $12/month account for (some_large_number_of_GB)!"
I strongly disagree on point 1. Truth (or even mere evenhandedness) is very valuable to at least some people.
You know, I've always disliked d4s and the special way you have to "roll" them for a fair result. Too much technique. A successful roll you can see and even make rules about, as in craps (must hit the back edge of the rolling surface to be fair). I've never had luck finding what I want (which is just a d8 with two surfaces marked with each number 1-4).

I feel the same about some weird d3 shape too, because it doesn't really roll and would require a similar "toss" that's hard to judge. I'd rather have double-marked d6s, which do seem to be available.
That is hilarious on every level.
Probably not at the level that OP is asking about, but the IKEA Starkvind air purifier, aside from being a good-looking, cheap and effective home purifier, is a Zigbee device that exposes the raw PM2.5 sensor reading.

One Starkvind (or more if space and budget allow) and few temperature/humidity sensors (I have a few $10 ones from Sonoff), combined with a Raspberry or an HTPC running Home Assistant and any Zigbee gateway, can give you a better idea about what the air is like in your apartment than most people have.

I'm still looking for a non-DIY CO2 sensor solution I could add to my Zigbee based network, most of the stuff I've found is either totally DIY or industrial.
I call their products porn fruits and porn vegetables. Uniform in size and perfect in appearance and color. Not a trace of soil. Taste and smell like porn watched on the screen.
To be fair: (1) it seems like the update landed recently, and (2) the article you linked does cite the same reasoning as the Twitter posts. Even if was a little ahead of the more recent Zero Covid protests, it seems like AirDrop's been a known vector in China to share government criticism, which is why Apple's cracking down.
I was surprised to hear that he uses GitHub Copilot. I'd assumed that with his understanding of the language that it would be easier/faster to just type what he wanted, but he said that 1) he's not a very good typist and so it can safe him some time and 2) Copilot can help fill in code for concepts that he's learned but would need to look up as a refresher.
It looks like in zig all functions are `constexpr` ?

As for `constinit`, it looks like ziglang doesn't have an answer for the problem that constinit solves. That is, ziglang appears to have the same bugs here that C++ did before constinit was added.
That does not stop him from speaking out about it, thankfully. I hope to see him doing so soon. I don't expect that his work with Tesla will stop him, given his views on free speech.
Oh wow, I just tried this and it bring up the Save As.. dialog!
I have been so frustrated that MS Office apps don's have a Ctrl+Shift+S Save As.
Totally ignoring angular momentum.
Depends on the distro. Many distros don't integrate perfectly, some require additional configuration/setup around PackageKit, and there are a lot of customer complaints around various basic issues. One common example: the software centre showing "No Application Data Found". Another common issue: updates don't really work, the workaround is to use the underlying package manager to perform updates.

GNOME's software centre issues very clearly stem from the diversity of package managers and formats and environments it has to support because Linux actually has a decentralized application ecosystem. On Android, F-Droid likes to claim that the "technical skill" needed to install other packages is an artificial barrier which is just imposed by Google, yet it merely piggybacks off the usability & simplicity of Google's centrally developed package formats (.apk or .appbundle) and package manager (PackageManager). When the ecosystem is actually decentralized, GNOME software shows just how user unfriendly things become.
You're probably being sarcastic? I would say that's not likely to happen with how he's already bowed to China multiple times in order to get benefits for Tesla.

edit: I see you commented regarding Tesla below. I'm not confident that his respect for free speech is universal. He seems to care more about the free speech that he prefers at times, mostly related to what impacts him on a personal level. That being said, that's unfortunately normal for most people too.
Gizmo Girls: The Technology of Gilmore Girls
Would love to have a practice mode where I can play an unlimited number of times
And drug dealers
Great call! We did talk about this a little bit, but it didn't make the v1 schema. Definitely seems like a smart idea to support given that some widget.jsons might require a fair bit of work to assemble (and you don't want to build caching on the server) or maybe some are just more static than others.
Getting a fair coin toss from a weighted coin is a fun mental exercise. I wonder what protocol one might employ to get a fair toss from a three sided coin that is 'best effort', where the edge is either under or over represented in the outcome but happens 1/4 < p < 1/2