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> How does Apple's refunds work?

I don't know how monthly subscriptions work, but yearly subscription refunds are pro-rated.

> I'm surprised more people don't do one-time purchases to avoid these subscription refund stories I keep hearing

I'm not, at least not for apps like this that need consistent revenue to support regular maintenance and/or server costs in an era where customers balk when an app costs more than a few dollars. To achieve this you end up balancing whether or not to serve ads, hope you can just grow enough new users forever, charge for major updates, charge a subscription, or beg for tips. While there are some exceptions, you can probably tell that ads or subscriptions are generally winning this nowadays.

One-time purchases are a tricky thing, since you've realisitcally now precluded ever charging for a major update. This is great for them, and might be for you if you've gotten your math right, but if you haven't (or it changes) then you're stuck. And, for better or for worse, they tend to be the loudest users.

Marco Arment talks about this balance in general on an episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast a couple weeks ago when discussing how Casey (another host) should price an app he's writing. For context if folks aren't aware, Marco created Overcast, which is a popular 3rd party iOS podcast app. The discussion spans a couple episodes but I the post-show of [Episode 535](https://atp.fm/535) captures the gist.
The simple fact is that you need money to host a site, to have moderation, to develop and maintain features etc.

The problem apps are shutting down is because they don't want to loose money. If they make a new site, they will likely loose even more money. And they likely can't get profitable without resorting to same scummy behaviour as reddit.
Then we are at passwords again where I can happily exclude both. Convenience might be an advantage, but I don't see me using such an auth solution for my private accounts.
It might be both. An over-correction made more likely in part due to religious beliefs.
A Twitter client I used (Spring) had that, and it worked for months after Twitter killed off Tweetbot and all other clients.

However, it naturally stopped working when Twitter basically killed the free tier of their API.

It would likely still work on the "Basic" API tier, but I'm not paying $100 a month to use a Twitter app.
Wow, I thought for sure that would turn out to be an urban legend, but it's real and was medical:

> ...it was a general mainstream medical procedure used to, among many other things, resuscitate people who were otherwise presumed dead. In fact, it was such a commonly used resuscitation method for drowning victims particularly... Smoke was blown up the rectum by inserting a tube. This tube was connected to a fumigator and a bellows which when compressed forced smoke into the rectum. Sometimes a more direct route to the lungs was taken by forcing the smoke into the nose and mouth, but most physicians felt the rectal method was more effective. The nicotine in the tobacco was thought to stimulate the heart to beat stronger and faster, thus encouraging respiration... Artificial respiration was used if the tobacco enema did not successfully revive them. [1]

So it's not like it was for fun. But I can see how for fast delivery of nicotine, it made perfect sense.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/blowing-smoke-up-your-ass-used-to-be-lit...
> There's a lot of toxicity to the comments and opinions within the userbase of reddit.

I think there's something weird that goes on with having a sub be a part of a whole and subject to the norms of the whole to some degree. Subs can keep things good, but it takes effort. There's some subs I'm part of where it's just super toxic all around. Part of that is because of the nature of the sub (for a game where the users constantly feel ignored and a little put upon by the devs), but that only partially explains how bad it gets.
The API usage cost still exists, it doesn't just disappear if it's owned by Reddit instead of the dev
Software engineers should read
Hopefully this won't be needed soon and all cars and chargers will support Plug & Charge (ISO 15118)[0] after this annoying transition period.

> The user-convenient and secure Plug & Charge feature that envisioned with ISO 15118 enables an electric vehicle to automatically identify and authorize itself to a compatible charging station on behalf of the driver, to receive energy for recharging its battery. The only action required by the driver is to plug the charging cable into the EV and/or charging station, because the car and the charger identify themselves to each other by exchanging certificates which were provided beforehand via a certificate pool to facilitate payment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118
I listened and I'm still confused.

I would love to see someone state clearly:

1. What was Christian actually offering to do in exchange for $10M?

2. What did the Reddit person think that Christian was offering to do in exchange for $10M?

3. How are (1) and (2) different?
Those people should consider something like Fedora with KDE. Arch is never a good choice if you're not willing to get your hands dirty in the terminal
>Apollo team should have had the foresight to see this coming years ago.

Isn't this your fault for building a service reliant on someone else?

To a certain extent, yes. However, I was assured this year by Reddit not even that long ago that no changes were planned to be made to the API Apollo uses, and I've made decisions about how to monetize my business based on what Reddit has said.

January 26, 2023

Reddit: "So I would expect no change, certainly not in the short to medium term. And we're talking like order of years."

Another portion of the call:

January 26, 2023

Reddit: "There's not gonna be any change on it. There's no plans to, there's no plans to touch it right now in 2023.

Me: "Fair enough."

Reddit: "And if we do touch it, we're going to be improving it in some way."
It’d be nice if the Haskell subreddit found a new home. I don’t know why Reddit is so generally toxic, but it is.
It is accredited though. College credit?
> Wait until you hear about Bluetooth. Or HDMI.

You mean the organizations/standards that are run by non-profits where multiple competitors get together and hash things out so that no one company has a leg up on another?
The adapter isn’t big. I put it in my pocket sometimes. But it’s worth noting the Tesla plug that does both AC and Fast Dc charging is smaller than the J1772 plug that does AC alone.
And the J1772 to Tesla adapter is purely mechanical and conductive, no active components. So it’s cheap and you can buy 3Rd party ones.
Tesla is in the process of ratifying it as an open standard. Other manufacturers will be forthcoming, but Tesla is it at the moment.

It’s kind of the chicken and egg problem, but should work itself out since they seem adamant about making it a free, open standard.
That's gonna be fun to debug when it will hit inevitable false positive
Show HN: Promptrefine.com – Simple revision history for LLM prompts
Prompt Refine is an LLM prompt playground that shows you diffs between your prompts.

- compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Together, or Cohere models, or any local model through window.ai (windowai.io)

- prompt folders for better history organization

- side-by-side diffs

- export history to CSV
would you mind checking https://chatuml.com out to see if it fits your list?
The first statement is either wholehearted agreement with my remark or a rejection of Gödel numbering.

The second statement is similar but highlights the problematic distinction of the terms, since in such a framing they ascribe meaning solely and specifically to human intellectual processes, so one must also show either that we are alone in the universe, or (perhaps equally) that all cognitive entities share the same processes. This is of course merely dancing around questions of the universality of truth. Alas, only Wittgenstein knew the answer.
> thus had to select a distro for which the installation is painless, the learning curve is minimal, and which doesn’t have too many neckbeard quirks.

While obviously Manjaro has a nice and pleasant GUI installer, it is a pretty weird distro with many quirks and not having some familiarity with Arch is probably a bad thing.

In my personal oppinion I have trusted Arch enough to rely on it for my education, it is a remarkably solid and reliable distro, regardless of the jokes about it. But I wouldn't put the same trust into Manjaro, it is definitely a weirder distro with more points of failure.
Exactly, if Meta sticks with snapdragon+android, it's game over for them. If you've been following John Carmack, one constant theme in his posts while still working there was his dissatisfaction with the underlying stack (Os+Hw) and not pushing the envelope hard enough.

Apple has a huge advantage with its vertical integration and nearly complete control of the entire stack. Android being a janky/buggy/glitchy mess is the icing on the cake.
A computer can’t display more digits than the number of particles in the observable universe. This is a finite number. As such it is correct to say that computers struggle if the number of digits is too large. While for practical uses modern computers don’t struggle with finite integers one normally encounters they do struggle with precision in certain circumstances. For 3rd graders I think it’s OK to introduce them to the concept that computers, like all devices, have limitations.
Unfortunately it seems so. There's no reason for the Tesla to CCS adapters to be vendor-locked to Ford and GM otherwise.

If you want to use a Tesla charging station, and you own a vehicle from a company that hasn't paid up, you're SOL.
because Europe doesnt allow anyone else to compete
One possibility is to use a tool like MyST Markdown, which can export to many different LaTeX templates, or create a website.

https://myst-tools.org/docs/mystjs/creating-pdf-documents

Then the switching of templates actually is one line. There is also hope to get a bit further in the publishers system (which ultimately needs JATS XML), because MyST can also export to JATS (which is used for pubmed etc.).
Yeah: while declaring permissions sounds cool and tries to fit into the narrative of helping protect end users who don't know how to manage anything themselves, at the end of the day it first requires an extremely opinionated central entity in charge of listings which takes a role in attempting to mediate the incentive incompatibilities (something which should raise serious ethical red flags and begs the question of conflicts of interest with respect to that player and the market that they get to fully control) but then still not only doesn't work to prevent users from getting abused, it will never work: "this app has requested access to your birthday" might be easy for end users, but (if this must be an API; but like, to the extent to which birthday is a bad example, this generalizes to every other thing that people currently must grant as "permissions") the only actually-correct solution is to always provide a concrete random date to every app by default and then allow the user to go out of their way--and this must not, under any circumstance, be something the app is allowed to prompt for or have any visibility into: this must be something the user has to initiate through external UI--to say "I grant this app access to my real birthday" (which, to the app, would have to look like the user merely changed the setting on their birthday to some other random date, as opposed to "the user finally gave us permission to see the same date that they can share to every other app").
Well, first of all, security is not the same as privacy though they do of course somewhat align.

Second, the defaults on something like Debian are very security focused. Out of the box it installs hardly anything.

Also I have never heard of Manjaro trying to be a "security-focused" distro until now. Not in the sense of OpenBSD, Whonix, or Hardened Gentoo. I'm sure it's not bad at privacy and security but really for most Linux distros this is a given.
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"Let's fight tracking by embedding tracking in the core of the browser" yeah, great idea.

But I'm sure W3C will bend over as usual
The cup linings and soda dispenser hoses and miles of water supply lines to the store your house and everywhere typically are.
From ICS to JSON: surfacing anticipated albums
This is awesome and I will be following suit, I urge others to do the same, great advice!
Man, I need to think of any reason I can spec a 0.06% linearity potentiometer without having the BOM guy put a hit out on me.
Just a cautionary note: Steve Jobs made the same "we're working on a standard" promise for FaceTime when he announced the iPhone 4. We're up to the iPhone 14 and it hasn't happened.
> Untrue. Sure, you bought a phone that was locked to AT&T, but you didn't need a contract, and jailbreaking...

I bought the first iPhone as well.

Not sure why you mention carrier unlocking for international travel or jailbreaking — two things that are completely orthogonal to the subsidized contract terms.

I would encourage you to check your memory. Maybe you paid a higher price to not have a subsidized contract, or maybe you broke your contract, etc etc; in any case, the contract being 2 years is very well documented:

> The iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007 at the price of $499 for the 4 GB model and $599 for the 8 GB model, both requiring a 2-year contract.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)

https://www.macworld.com/article/183052/liveupdate-15.html

> The original iPhone reached the market on June 29, 2007. In the U.S. it was priced at $499 and $599, for 4GB and 8GB models, respectively, along with a two-year contract with AT&T.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/29/the-story-of-the-...

> iPhone requires a new two-year AT&T service plan.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/26Apple-and-AT-T-Anno...
because it's better to know, than to not know? Particularly for people considering whether to submit a link or story about Ashai Linux.
It's really not. Karpathy isn't just some rando on Twitter. He's a serious person in the ML/AI/LLM space.
In the post further down they discuss that. Reddit’s rationale is opportunity cost per user, not the price of serving the api.
For a moment I was confused why the text sounded so familiar, but then realized the author is Larry Bank and I read the post on his blog https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-case-of-mis... before.
> Tesla is in the process of ratifying it as an open standard.

You'll forgive me if I don't believe them, considering their last PR release pre-2021 about it being an "open standard" included the fine print of Tesla gaining permanent access to all of your IP if you used it.
It's because like four moderators control like most of the main subreddits.
Even if that were true (it’s not) how does that hurt the linked site?
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Yep, definitely. The API was only a small sample of the actual business logic inside the Reddit site as a whole.
Is this related to Mandingo or Mounjaro?
Part of the problem is that the tools we have are awful. Using a group chat on teams feels less like a casual chat with the people around you, and more like ringing a bell in the office to give a formal announcement.
The 3rd party apps don't have ads which is surely a gigantic part of why they're being banned. I would guess that most Apollo users literally provide zero revenue as they use adblock on desktop and most people never actually give reddit any money. The only argument for their value add is that they're contributing which makes other users likely to join but I suspect reddit has reason to believe they're too adducted to stop even when the app they use is banned,.
> But they're free to raise prices however they want. It's their API.

They may not be. According to Christian's post, they told him they will not do that in 2023. Were he inclined to sue them, he might be able to hold them to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Reliance-based_estopp...
You are right, but with DOCSIS, you're generally sharing an order-of-magnitude smaller bandwidth allocation with many more users. Around here, there's 4 upstream channels available (roughly 120 megabits) shared across at least 200 homes.

Downstream is better, but it's still around a gigabit shared (32 DOCSIS channels.) Then you need to consider the RF issues that constantly plague cable networks, like ingress. Based on my personal experience, it can take months to get this fixed, if they'll even believe it's a problem. They'll open ticket for "outside plant" and not fix anything. At one point, I saw my upstream drop below a megabit! (And no, it wasn't my wiring or equipment.)

I recently switched to fiber, and it's night-and-day.
Probably just because it's a boring comment that doesn't add to discussion? (r/the_donald was doing that in 2016)
Apple Vision will be good if Apple allows again remote working
How do you launch a lawsuit in your own country against a person that lives, works, and operates in and is a citizen of another country? That would be truly bizarre.
If you log in, the mobile site is perfectly usable. You might also have to set a preference as well (like the old.reddit preference). It has been so many years of using it this way I don't remember.
Ad networks are running realtime bidding for ad space already in case you didn't know.

At the very least Google and FB got punished for doing that already in the past
Manjaro isn't security oriented. Its a general purpose desktop distro that ships with a proprietary office suite by default. They also don't do anything to elaborate on the privacy claims in TFA. Disingenuous in my humble opinion, unless of course the privacy claim is in contrast to Windows. But then again the article doesn't elaborate
You’d be hard pressed to find social media that doesn’t trend towards toxicity, but Reddit in particular seems to have a culture of users that want to feel superior at any cost. They’re always looking to put down others and they’re often rewarded for doing so.
Ask HN: What are the dimensions of (work) experience?
I was trying to articulate this the other day to a direct report and wondered if HN had some thoughts

I think the dimensions are/could be defined as:

- Time/Years (the most objective, but least accurate imho),
- Density/Intensity (i.e 10 years in a fast paced company is different to 10 years at a slow company),
- Variety (how many different things you've done, just development with X framework, or multiple frameworks)
- Depth (how deep did you go, eg making features with simple APIs vs making contributions to the framework)

What do you think? Are there more dimensions? Fewer? Different? Thoughts very welcome!
I rode daily for a long time. Road hazards like diesel and ice were the biggest issues when I commuted, though you really have to anticipate what drivers are going to do. I've been down a few times, mostly from screwing around, once from worn tires, once from ice. You don't learn the limits unless you find them. I'm comfortable knowing exactly what I can and can't do if the need arises.
I think the users that will be leaving reddit are worth 100 normal reddit users in terms of content value. Drain them and the rest will swirl down quickly.
I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.
To be fair he died. Jobs was known for personally seeing things through sometimes but it required ultimately him to make sure it got done
The XP background “Bliss” was taken in Sonoma County
You're a nice person. Thanks for the post.
CachyOS is another great Arch distro worth checking out, being AVX2-optimized similar to Intel's Clear Linux or Gentoo, but otherwise basically being EndeavorOS.
EndeavourOS does the same and is miles better. I switched a while ago, never looked back.
Agree on the Greek yoghurt taste. I'd sweeten it with banana, as it can mix nice without much effort and is also packed with nutrients along with only a tiny bit lethal radiation. Calories I've no idea about though.
> Now, is it reasonable to expect children to be skeptical about everything the AI tutor is telling them? Probably not? Maybe?

That might be the single most important thing to teach children now.
Thanks for sharing these goldmines
There are some, but nothing of real importance (to me, YMMV). There are no electron-based applications that I use.
That may be a good idea, but I honestly haven't looked into it. My preference is for operating systems to just work, rather than me change all my motherboards to accommodate them
If that is the case, why will the Tesla to CCS adapter work only on Ford and GM vehicles? It's very clear from the press releases that other companies cars are left out until they pay up.
https://discourse.haskell.org could be that new home. However most new users would expect a programming subreddit language to exist.
Incredible for the industry would be requiring a standard connector for all brands so that Tesla would switch its charging stations to the standard connector. This has worked just fine in Europe.
I've used Manjaro on a couple of installs, and have been quite happy with it.

The only gotcha I have come across happens if I do not upgrade any packages for a while and then try to install a new package, which can break dependencies for existing packages. The solution has been to do a system upgrade with `pacman -Syu`.
I'm using Firefox. On my larger screen, the toast did appear, but it was outside of the scrolled-in view. On my smaller screen, the layout just broke and the toast is not visible.
i paid for sync moons ago and have used it exclusively to browse reddit, even going so far as to resign myself to android to use it (and also to use Materialistic) because of how much i favor the experience, configurability, and UX -- it is infinitely better than any app i have tried. admittedly i might be an outlier as i have no interest in browsing on desktop and very much prefer to reddit on mobile.

this is a sad day for me as it likely means my reddit usage will drop to almost zero.

R. I. fucking P.
I don't think you understand what conspiracy means. If I was to say that some people have conspired to make us wear masks with intent to damage our health, then that would be a conspiracy theory. All I said is that the masks are made of plastic. Many of us moisten these masks with our breath, crumple them up in our pockets, and expose them to sunlight when outside. Then we suck air through them. If you don't think that might put nanoplastics into your lungs, it is your choice to believe what you want.
I'm confused about the details, maybe someone can clarify.

The OP says Reddit claims they were being blackmailed (which clearly they weren't) but it's the talk around opportunity cost that I don't understand, especially as related alleged blackmail.

1) It would cost Apollo $20m to continue operating, and somehow Apollo, not able to afford it and offering to just kind of walk away from the app constitutes Blackmail?

2) The $20m opportunity cost claims. I don't get this. The new actual cost to Apollo would be $20m, that's not an opportunity cost for Reddit. The opportunity cost for reddit is really just the resources & attention it takes them to keep the API system running, which is presumable far, far, below the sticker price they will be charging 3rd parties per 1,000 API calls.

3) In general, I don't understand how any 3rd party has leverage to threaten or blackmail Reddit. Sure some people prefer to use 3rd party apps & services, but I'm assuming (is this a bad assumption?) that if those apps and services went away that a large majority of of their users would simply switch to native reddit options rather than stop consuming & interacting with content they enjoy.
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