skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be both. It seems highest likely that at some point addiction to AI “companions” or entertainers will be a huge societal problem.
It also will be available via Amazon after August 20, 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Compiler-Programming-Language...
Powerlaw. Popular things are popular.
Silence will fall when the question is asked
I would prefer to see them forced by legislation (like the Digital Markets Act) to allow some sort of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing on the App Store. Ideally they would be required to allow third-party marketplaces and self-signed app distribution, then marketplace competition could push their take rate towards 0%.

I understand that some things are hard to cancel and some companies are malicious about this. Back in the pre-app days, this came up with "free samples" and gym memberships. The general solution back then was to either (a) not get scammed or (b) use a unique credit card that you could easily cancel. With the advent of things like Privacy cards, you can pretty easily do this without an App Store intermediate.

That said, they could keep the benefit for users and the fee for Apple Pay, but then not require that apps exclusively use Apple Pay. They could even require that all apps call an API to issue some scary warning that the subscription will not be manageable in your Apple Pay dashboard, make sure you trust this app developer, are you sure you want to continue? etc etc

Plus there are plenty of other billing services that can do this. I already mentioned Privacy cards. If you sign up for PayPal recurring payments, they also have an authorizations dashboard that you can easily use to revoke payment permissions. Neither of these companies needs to charge a 30% fee to offer that. Both charge somewhere around the "standard" CC fee of 3%.
Isn't that curling?

You may have a point that because it is new to the Olympics, the competition at the local level vying to make into to the Olympics wasn't there. But if it sticks around, you won't be seeing the Rayguns of the world keep showing up time and time again. Those with favourable mutations are going to find a way to leverage what they got.
These tips are invaluable, thanks a lot!
Yeah but that 15% food revenue growth might have gotten someone a bonus internally that year...
I believe the poster means, it isn't allowed by Apple's guidelines, ergo your app will be rejected because of it. Nothing to do with the law itself.
Previously, Apple specifically prohibited charging more though AppStore for services that are available to be purchased elsewhere. I'm not in the mood to sift though current version of Apple's legalese, but I'd be surprised if they dropped this requirement, that'd be very uncharacteristic of them.
>Should Apple be entitled to 30% of these voluntary payments?

Apple believes so, because Apple is so arrogant as to think that the payment wouldn't have occurred had it not been for their hard work on the platform.

It's false, of course. It'd be like Bell Telephone asking for a cut of your profits because you negotiated a business deal over the phone. Or the cell phone carriers forcing you to pay them $7 for a 20-second ringtone.

We traded one villain for another.
Can an AI actually do this, without letting it loose on taxpayer data? If yes, the perhaps a better search feature on the website, or better explanations when filling out the forms could do the same?

Any company that want's to use an LLM to do "customer service" needs to give it full access to accounts and systems, otherwise I fail to see how it's actually doing to make ANY difference, other than pissing people off. Now I don't advise you to do this, because that's stupid and dangerous, but if you don't it's basically just a search engine with a better query interface. But it fails even at that, remember the Canadian airline where the chatbot just straight up lies?
I've done a lot evaluation of such frameworks, and I hope to publish more on it. It really depends on your requirements. I would look at Prefect, Flyte, Dagster, and Temporal ahead of Airflow, though.
One problem with markdown is it's technically a superset not a subset of HTML. You can put a canvas and video that's in it. It's not a great standalone format
Antimeme seems like Inhibitory neurons but in thought form.
Ah okay, that's fine then. I'll just keep using the per-creation model. I don't use Apple hardware so I won't even notice the change.
Same here. I came away wondering if I had fallen for click bait.

I try to stare hard at the thing I wish to put down for at least a count of two. That usually brings me "into the moment" and I put it where it belongs. I don't always remember to do it, but it works when I do.

The worst for me are my clip on sunglasses. I take them off when going inside and don't wish them in my pants pocket where they will get broken. Consequently, I tend to set them down "wherever" and lose track of them. Particularly when conditions change, e.g. dusk, when I go back out and they are no longer needed. Shirt pockets would resolve that issue, but I'm not going to change my my entire wardrobe to resolve this issue.
May I suggest some to start with?

Scp stories quality and style vary a lot and there are a lot of them. I would suggest:

- SCP-096

- SCP-3008

- SCP-294

- SCP-4666

To warm you up.
At best Apple is entitled to 30% of whatever Patreon makes on that Donation, not 30% of the donation itself that's ridiculous.
I know people hustled and tried for decades didn't get lucky. Many rich people mention luck in their source of success as well.
Apple Requiring Patreon to Use In-App Purchase and Pay 30% Fee for Memberships
The only way to put an end to this is if more people stop installing apps that are just website skins, and just use the open web instead.
Sebastian Marset built an empire as a kingpin and professional soccer player
> The semantics of the word "DONATION" are frankly irrelevant to the discussion.

I don't think the word DONATION is irrelevant at all.

Tim Sweeney is using the word "DONATION" deliberately to make Apple look like someone that steals even the "donations".

You know like someone stealing from the church lockbox.

I am not supporting Apple here at all, I am just pointing out the attempt to manipulate public opinion.
I totally get it, best of luck to you and yours.
Hey, thank you - already did that. Think 100 orders displayed on a page with each row having total, subtotals, discounts, tax owing, and gift card uses.

I also get to save a lot of money on server costs by doing this as DB is completely avoided.
We didn't have a home and the money I saved for a home went from being able to buy a nice house in the city to not even being able to buy a trailer in a wasteland after the COVID free interest fest. Now all those homes are locked up in rates no one will give up for less than a kings ransom.

I can assure you DIY a house was not even on my radar of life plans.

Ultimately only one option remained, buy land in a place without building codes and then build without a license. Took me awhile to find the loophole, but I executed it. I built a house for only $60k in a state where a burnt out trailer is now $150k.
Yay. More Enshittification and Chickenization due to monopsony power in a walled garden.

I hate it here.
These are all old games so I wouldn't be surprised either
The problem is that I'm using dimensional in two different senses. A vector with N elements, for example, is a one-dimensional array of numbers operating on N dimensional spaces, and so on for matrices and tensors.

If you're doing graphics programming you're operating in three and four dimensional spaces mostly (four dimensional being projective spaces), because that's the space you're trying to render in two dimensions. But you'll rarely need anything higher than a matrix (a two-dimensional data structure) for operations on that space.

If you're doing physics you're operating in three, four, and infinite dimensional spaces, mostly. And you'll routinely use higher data structures -- even things like moment of inertia for rigid bodies can't really be described without rank 3 tensors (a three-dimensional data structure).

In statistics and machine learning, you're operating in very high dimensional spaces, and will find yourself using non-square tensors especially (in the other areas everything will be square). The data structures will generally be high dimensional as well, but usually just a function of model complexity; so maybe 4 or 5 dimensional data structures.
macOS App Icons
Maybe I am missing something but Apple supports consumable purchases. Think any game with purchasable virtual currency.

Can't Patreon support a ton of different-priced SKUs and let creators use those SKUs for one-off purchases?
Break up Apple (and Google and Microsoft and Amazon). Heavily tax all trillion dollar corporations. Regulate their services as utilities.
I avoid subscription services like the plague because of this (and other reasons).

I can't know if they're going to do this kind of crap until it is to late. Even if some one reviewed services for this they could change at any time for the worse. So I just assume it will happen and try to limit getting into that bad arrangement as much as possible.
You only have about 70 years on this earth, out of which only about 50 are healthy and independent. Don't waste them being miserable. Don't waste your partner's time either.
Native apps are better than websites on mobile. I know you know this.
Yes, very possible. This is a multi-tenant application so I don't want to trigger a view refresh so frequently as most updates don't affect most people.
A device with 2-3 hours of battery life cannot provide the 4-8 hours of unsupervised entertainment that parents are most willing to pay dearly for.
> This is no surprise.

Well, maybe it's a bit of a surprise, given how many people in this thread claim that it's not actually true.
Oh cool, how would you compare this to DuckDB?
I know right?

Then you start wondering if you, or anybody, have forgotten anything so important that it would shatter your world.

And would you ever know? Is there any way to ever know?

What if the past changes as much as the future?

What if that's the Mandela effect?
> I expect a framework to fit nicely with existing biz logic.

I wouldn't, that's just describing a custom codebase. Airflow comes with bells and whistles that can be taken advantage of if you fit your execution in their DAG model, that's all. Those bells and whistles can be an excellent pattern to work with. You can go all in on operators, or you can just have an operator call out to an external task that does all the work and only rely on Airflow for its retry/alerting mechanism while keeping the external task in language of your choice.
But clearly Patreon is the market maker here. Apple should only get 30% of Patreon's 8%.
…him complaining about Amazon's reader app making it too easy to buy books without paying the (increasingly literal) Apple Tax.

Heh. Attempting to buy a book from the Kindle app was how I first became aware of these policies. Was fruitlessly searching for a buy button, but could not find anything. Did a web search to figure out why I was an idiot who could not spend my money. Only to discover that I was purposely getting a worse user experience because some mega corporations all wanted a taste of my transaction.
This, imo is a solid argument for "fine then, we're just gonna pull our app and use mobile web exclusively."
Shooting my shot here:

I developed a large-scale, 2D isometric tactical strategy game called Cantata:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/690370/Cantata/

It's sort of like a 4X version of a smaller tactics game like Advance Wars. Supply lines, region capture, unique units, etc.

It's isometric throughout, in part because I just love the aesthetics of pixel art isometric (having grown up on RTC, Age of Wonders, Simcity, Alpha Cen, Civ...).

This article was (and is) still the gold standard on describing isometric math:
https://clintbellanger.net/articles/isometric_math/

We built a custom renderer for the game as well to support doing lots of crazy tile-layering steps that mix and match Z-depths based on various factors like specific units, terrain type, terrain decoration type, etc. Things like:

If a human soldier is on grass, the grass should be rendered on top of them, but if its a tank the grass "makes sense" to be under the tank, etc.

Art assets were based around 64x64 size tiles, and as someone else pointed out we were technically dimetric instead of isometric (as were most isometric games, dimetric feels too uniform).
I don't see a reason why the ability to deal with stress declined.
See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224853
Why would Apple have to do consider what another company makes? What's that got to do with anything.

Not trolling - and I think Apple is greedy here. Still I need pointing out how your arguments is not logical.

This is like saying you can only sell your product for a % of someone else profit.

Apple should be allowed to charge whatever they want - as long as they don't have monopoly on the process. That is the crux of the problem here. Monopoly is the problem not the percentages.
Ok, point taken. Saying that individual sacrifice is a solution is not saying much. But can we agree that it is saying something? And that that something is better than handwaving at big corporations?

As for concrete proposals, I don‘t have any. I don’t think that there need to be universal prescriptions. if everybody takes a good look what he or she really needs for a fulfilled life and what in the end are luxuries. I honestly think that that is enough. But I think the responsibility to decide there is real even if it is in no way enforced. And it should not be easily dismissed.
If you're working in a restaurant that is understaffed, such that you're unable to service your customers, instead of putting said customers through hell, you have a choice. You can close the restaurant. If your management doesn't allow you to close the restaurant, they obviously don't care about either the employees, customers, or business. It's time to find a new job at that point.

If you ever find yourself in this situation, it's better to post a sign or note to customers so they are aware of the situation. People generally aren't upset at waiting, as long as they are told before hand. What gets people upset is being deprived of their choice, and now they are "locked in" to receive some late, poorly made food, and to top it off can't even be refunded after they've already been violated.

Obviously, the woman was wrong but the judge in this case has shown he doesn't understand either.
That might be fine for small teams, but any 100+ person company would already have their own abstractions and don't need to reinvent those wheels just for Airflow. But even if you're smaller I still think you're setting up for failure if all your biz logic is within Airflow unless you are careful about making it reusable/shareable for other contexts. Eg, what if you want to convert some scheduled pipeline to some event-driven architecture with other systems? That means needing to refactor everything out. It's not interoperable or modular and that's why it should be avoided.
My knee-jerk internet reaction was "YOU ARE CRAZY" but then I took a breath and looked at the photo and I can see your argument. There is no point in a runner learning with their left shoulder forward since it will be difficult to place the exact spot behind their heads.
Apple approves iDOS 3 following emulator rule change
Zero Copy CSV File Parser in Java
> Don’t forget that this is the same Epic Games guy who recently said that tracking thieves via Find My is creepy

How... ridiculous? And totally relevant to the subject at hand?
Can't you do all those things with a PWA?

What does the Patreon app do that a PWA can't?
now the drain was rusted and when I went to loosen the nut, the steel sink cracked and split, but it was an old sink so I couldn’t find a matching one to replace it with, so that meant the old vanity had to go too, but that left an odd footprint on the curled, old linoleum, so then the flooring had to go too, and, well, if you’re going that far, you might as well put in a new tub.

This is a lot like those cascades of technical debt that must be overcome to fix some otherwise minor thing.
Certainly! I'm sorry for the confusion.
Google Wings delivery drones and the fight for our skies
>but my risk tolerance regarding instability and data loss are mine to decide, not Google's and not some app developer's.

Then maybe iOS and Android phones are not for you. Maybe Linux phones fit you best.
Applied Science in the wild! Your videos look expensive, does per video patreons tend to cover them?
Even with Google, it's a difficult problem[1]. What if you have multiple items on the same tile? What if one of them is one pixel wide (e.g. a wall)? What if something in front of that tile is tall enough to block the view? What if you need pixel perfect collision?

My first solution (before the buildings in my game had multiple floors) was to take the ISO mouse position, grab a list of items within a cone spreading towards the screen, then:

1.) Loop through each item

2.) Create a sprite of the item (so I have direct access to RGBA info)

3.) Convert mouse coords to sprite coords

4.) Check if I'm hitting a pixel (i.e. alpha > 0)

5.) Keep track of this item

6.) Update if an item closer to the bottom of the screen (i.e. closer to camera) gets a hit

Once I added building height, this became impractical (too many items to loop through, sprite creation is CPU intensive).

New solution is to assign a 24 byte UUID to each item, convert that to RGB, draw it to the screen (invisible to the user), and then return a tiny texture every frame from the GPU at the mouse position. If the color in the texture is not black, then convert RGB back into the UUID.

PS: If you know how to draw so that alpha replaces existing alpha (instead of blending), please let me know so I can have 32 byte UUIDs!

[1] Source: I'm developing Metropolis 1998 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/
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Keep in mind that Tim Sweeney doesn't care about the public; he cares about Tim Sweeney. At the end of the day, the purpose of this controversy is to get Epic Games the money that Apple is collecting instead. Customers won't win, and are merely pawns in this battle. So, anything he says should be treated with the skepticism it deserves. He's no hero, and shouldn't be treated as one.
> Practically speaking everything in the comic is still correct. The fundamental problem is that apps aren't sandboxed from each other, so once a malicious program gets on the machine it's game over.

On Windows, perhaps. On Apple and some Linux configurations, it hasn’t been correct for years because they implement app level sandboxing. Windows Sandbox, App Containers, etc. show that the Windows team isn’t ignoring that even though their backwards compatibility problem is much harder.

> For instance even if you use VBS to protect a service that can encrypt/decrypt on behalf of apps, all of that's useless when the system can't be assured which app is asking to decrypt the secrets.

There’s no technical reason why it can’t verify the app - indeed Chrome just started to do this to prevent infostealers from grabbing cookies – but also note that it’s still an advantage if malware can’t get the private key because that’s protected by VBS. Things like what password managers have done for years to require a handshake or rate-limit help to shift from the attacker getting everything effortlessly to only getting some things they specifically request or the first n things they try.
Yes I don’t need to use these tools because I already have code generators. Wondering about config options I use documentation or a search engine. It’s cute to put them together in a single UI but it doesn’t make these tool inherently more intelligent. It just saves me a few alt+tabs.

An LLM is just taking prefabbed templates and swapping the possibilities in the answer for a statistically relevant solution. My code generator outputs a prefabbed template with a deterministic solution no statistical guessing required.
Yakuake is usually the first app I install on a fresh KDE system.
The mathematical definition is 99% equivalent to the physical one. I find that the physical one helps to motivate the mathematical one by illustrating the numerical difference between the basis-change transformation for (1,0)- and (0,1)-tensors. The mathematical one is then simpler and more conceptual once you've understood that motivation. The concept of a tensor really belongs to linear algebra, but occurs mostly in differential geometry.

There is still a "1% difference" in meaning though. This difference allows a physicist to say "the Christoffel symbols are not a tensor", while a mathematician would say this is a conflation of terms.

TensorFlow's terminology is based on the rule of thumb that a "vector" is really a 1D array (think column vector), a "matrix" is really a 2D array, and a "tensor" is then an nD array. That's it. This is offensive to physicists especially, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> when you donate, you are not the one who personally receives the benefit, right? if you donate a car, you are not also using that car every once in a while.

If you donate to a church, you often also enjoy the perks that that church offers, paid for by donations.

If you donate to a public radio station, you probably also enjoy listening to that radio station.
Depending on you definition of recent, because it's to recent to really make any significant impact.

If you're thinking recent as in the last few years, then because the performance and power issues with Intel aren't large enough to make any difference for regular desktop use. Most will be on a 3 - 5 year upgrade cycle, so your new office PC just needs to be better than a five year old one, which it will be.

What it might do it damage the used market. Prices on Intel based refurbished PCs needs to drop, by a lot, now that we know that many/most of those CPUs are damaged beyond repair and will continue to degrade.
FTA, the ship crossed the international date line on December 31, 1899 so briefly the front of the ship was on Jan 1, 1900 while the back of the ship was still in Dec 31, 1899.

Both of these dates are still in the 19th century, however, so "two centuries at once" is wrong. The 20th century did not begin until Jan 1, 1901.
I think the moment when vr/ar becomes really popular amongst regular people is when the size of the device is the same as a pair of sunglasses. Maybe just slightly more bulky. But till that time its not becoming a successful story. People feel akward wearing the thing. Its uncomfortable and a bit of a gimmick without a real purpose. When the thing could replace my raybands. It looks awesome and contains software that enhances the real world I see with information, it might become something.
Some already do.

https://press.stripe.com/
What would this potentially do to Z-Wave devices?
A shared dev database can be okay for application dev. Locally deployable database is better imo. By nature of migration scripts running for every dev locally, it helps to better ensure the stability of said scripts. This can/should be combined with snapshot runs that represent your production environments.

More critical still if you have more than one "production" environment, where in different customers/clients may be at different application and db versions from one-another. This is often the case for large business and govt work. With shared environments it's often too easy to have a poorly adapted set of migration scripts.