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> I’ve never heard of a single app where the off-app billing affected the inclusion of the app in the store.

most apps don't do payments like this to begin with.

>To be clear, I’m taking about the case where Patreon could decide to show no billing details or links at all in the App Store, just like eg Audible.

To be frank, I don't think Patreon has the same market force as Audible. Audible can definitely appeal to apple and make a deal that others don't get. Maybe Patreon did desire some of this, but I do put the blame on Apple. This is hardly the first time they arbiriarily played hardball.
> Having an app is not a distinguishing factor any more.

Having an app is "fuck you, i don't want to install another app" these days...
They would need to know beforehand the precise span between the first and last athletes.

I think they did a pretty good job, it's only slightly stretched for an event when there was only 0,12 seconds between the first and the last runners, which is unusual.
I'm waiting for the introduction of anal cavity checks. Someone could be smuggling a grenade in there!
Yesterday I went to buy an electric toothbrush and some were marketed as having "AI". This thing is reaching astronomical bandwagon proportions.
i get what you are tryig to say, but i guess what OP meant was if every company ties up AI in their product just because they are calling Chat GPT API in the backend, then every product is essentially the same.

i guess with time developers will also get to make and train inhouse AI models if in future it gets more affordable
Well, we aren't building new thermal plants. About 95% of new net energy coming online in the US is renewables, storage or nuclear.

This is the world changing, it's a crossover that happened only very recently.
I definitely don't recommend serotonin syndrome because it can become a medical emergency with risks of kidney, heart, and muscle damage. If you suck at hitting the gym like I do, it's probably a terrible way to go about motivating yourself to exercise through pharmacologically-induced restlessness and altered consciousness.
Your experience contradicts the data from the paper. Sonnet generated almost entirely novel concepts, GPT achieved ~4/5 novel ideas. Maybe it's specific to the area of research and the way of prompting, but "it will not have the ability to say" seems to be proven wrong already.
Python unfortunately still doesn't provide a lot of things like heredocs, qw, multiline lambdas, many other unixy things. Its regex capabilities are also not Perl standard.

Scripting is a lot about text, but its not only about text. You need to neatly integrate with many other OS things. More importantly the language needs to be designed such that such tasks can be done with ease.

Python is more like good a small application programming language. Not that great if you do heavy OS, text or command line interaction work. It feels like a less flexible Java in that regard.
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The main problem with Worm is it can make you a lot less receptive to other super heroes stories.

"Oh another universe where powers have a random source". "And again, powers appeared 50 years ago but society and countries in '24 are the same we have currently".
Not GitHub Actions but Azure Pipelines: The sheer endlessness of logs, even for the smallest tasks there are hundreds of lines of logs, and it's nearly impossible to find the line you need if something went wrong.
But isn't this a good thing? For the customers. It makes it easier for us to avoid hype based products and look for something that's actually useful to us...

By all means, please use "AI" everywhere.
"Right click > Inspect Element, all you need to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia"
The idea behind forcibly stopping someone from barging into your room is to slow down the interaction and gain control.

The goal is then to establish identity, purpose, and ultimately deescalate. And then if need-be call the police and/or chargeback your credit card later.

Until otherwise verified, this intruder is no different than a random burglar breaking-and-entering in the middle of the night.
Many, many years later.
The EC was created to protect slave states, not small states. It just so happened that those states had smaller populations because they only counted slaves as 3/5 of a person.

And furthermore, because the House is capped at 435, it throws everything off. If we kept following the original algorithm outlined in the constitution, which was very similar to the square root rule, the house would have 1600 members and the EC would still match the popular vote every time.

This is all broken because of the artificial cap on the house that makes each member represent far too many people.
As a technically minded person, I must say I don’t know how to protect myself from secretly malicious apps.

A weather app needs my location and network access. It doesn’t need to sell ongoing location tracking information associated with my device identifier and IP addresses to marketing companies.
I'm not convinced that's exactly what he thought, though corporates might have gone that way.
To be correct, he maybe didn't coin the term. At least I didn't find it on quick search in his book Cybernetics. Seems like the term ultrastable actually comes from Ashby [1].

[1] https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~ezequiel/AS/lectures/AdaptiveSys...
As someone who wrote more variants of button handling code than I have fingers (mostly for physical buttons): Buttons can be way more complex than people usually would suspect:

- Buttons need to be debounced so you don't trigger 10 presses because the contacts bounce 10 times up and down before they settle to the on state

- maybe you want different states and callbacks for single press, while pressed, double press, long press, very long press, release — all of which require to measure time and some thinking (e.g. how can you reach a long press when there is a short press before ?)

- how to properly implement key combinations? Does order matter? How would you handle a "both keys at the same time"-scenario if in reality they are many milliseconds apart?

And there are always tradeoffs, which is why I had to write more than once variant of the thing (that, and I got better at writing it).
Ask HN: Why are there no scriptable JavaScript debuggers?
When I do js I wish I could conditionally stop at exceptions using something like gdb scripting.

Also general scripting for getting to specific points in a session without manually clicking through caught exceptions and breakpoints.

Why has no one done this for JavaScript? I can't find one that does.
When I was a student, I once interned for a company of Windows developers, a Microsoft shop whose work was all in .NET. I remember that there were some tasks I was able to do, having to do with processing many, many little text files, that everyone was surprised I was able to do, or surprised I was able to do quickly. Every time, it was something that I put together in a few minutes with the usual Unix tools thanks to Cygwin.

It's probably true that game development is really different from, say, web development, when it comes to the relevance of Unix. But I think it's also true that often, when you don't know common Unix utils, you don't know what you're missing. I don't think any programmer could master them and regret it.
> But another reason why sponsor reads annoy me is that it breaks the youtube premium deal.

I totally get that, and I feel the same way when I see yet another read as a viewer and premium subscriber.

I don’t really have an answer (and if I did, I’d be doing it already), but I will say that my (subjective, based on my ad placement strategy and viewer profile) experience is that premium views are worth less than non-premium - although YouTube cleverly don’t actually give me enough data to _know_ that as a fact (and it would go against their stated position, which I guess they would never do).
Thanks a lot for your reply and constructive Feedback, we really appreciate it! Yeah, right now it has a hard time with complex charts and works better with simpler versions. There is a lot of improvements that could be done here. For now we wanted to see how useful the community finds it and what the most common use cases are before making further improvements. ChartAI was built in just a week and is very much a MVP to further improve. Regarding your question: Yes, we directly hand it to Gemini Flash, however, we have a multi step prompting logic in place. Basically, we first ask the model to extract the data in a certain JSON format that worked best during testing. Then the model is asked to convert this JSON to chartJS code, where we also provide the model with code context. Then some code cleanup is done outside the mode in JS. If you have any further thoughts or questions, please let us know
Doesn’t really connect the dots. For example suggest the Gothic disappers beween Victorianism and The Doors, completely missing the horror movies which was a major influence on the aesthetic.
Is DICloak Anti-Detect Browser Worth Using?
Hello everyone,
Recently, I came across a tool called DICloak that offers an antidetect browser (you can check it out at dicloak.com ). It's designed to help manage multiple accounts without getting flagged, which seems quite useful for my Amazon accounts and those who need to handle various profiles for work or other activities.
I'm truly curious if anyone else has tried similar tools and what your experiences have been. Do you find them effective? Do you use other methods or tools to secure your online activities?
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts and any tips you might have!
Cheers!
If you have uBlock Origin installed it should already protect you from this attack vector with "Block outsider intrusion into LAN" filter list, though.

And you also don't need this on Windows since 0.0.0.0 IP is blocked on a system level there.
As someone who has worked in the telco industry for over 30 years now, I like eSIMs as a _secondary_ method of using services but avoid them as much as possible for any of my critical numbers — simply because I want to be able to move my SIM to another phone in an emergency without needing to visit a store.

In an age where phone authentication is still absolutely critical (banking and all sorts of online services still rely on texting you six-digit codes instead of relying on TOTP air stronger non-phone-number-dependent methods), being without my phone number for a day or more when I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere is completely untenable.

Also, eSIM implementations range from ultra-smooth to hilariously bad. There are still providers (I’m looking at you, Vodafone Portugal) that absolutely require you to buy, unwrap and scan a physical piece of paper with a QR code printed on it, like an animal, _because they actually keep inventory_ of those printed pieces of paper.

Yes, it’s as if the Industrial Revolution was still getting started at telcos.

Anyway, the above is why I will always get devices with physical SIM slots for as long as I possibly can—-and when I can’t, I will likely incur the expense of getting a secondary phone where I can reactivate my critical numbers myself without visiting a store.

They’re great for IoT devices and Internet access, but a liability if you still require receiving texts at a given number for anything important as if your phone dies, you’re SOL—-and nobody in the industry cares about that, or about ensuring travelers can re-activate eSIMs in foreign countries where their provider simply doesn’t exist.
You said self hosting means you own the entire stack yourself.

What makes "the hardware and the physical location" anything but arbitrary in terms of that? Why is that "the whole stack"? Why is the hardware and location more important than how I, or anyone else in the world, actually accesses it, when basically all of us are relying on some external party for internet access? What justifies a line that prevents me from deriding anything as "not self hosting" if someone hasn't set up their own tier 1 network?

Why does putting a server in my house, but relying on an ISP, an external box for access, and a bunch of other stuff count as "self hosting" but sticking an old rack mount server at a friend's place because they have symmetric gigabit fibre and my acreage has 5/0.3 DSL not self hosting?

Why would purchasing a server and colocating it at a data centre with a fully encrypted drive be less "self hosting" than putting a raspberry pi in my utility room behind tailscale to bypass the CGNAT? How is putting a server in a data centre different than putting it in a rented apartment?

If I run a MUD on my laptop that's online whenever I check in to a hostel and have internet, am I self-hosting the MUD? If I'm not, who would you say is hosting it?

Circling back to my original comment--what is the actual benefit to "your own hardware on property you own"? Is it "taking control over your dependencies, data, and privacy"? Because then anything that accomplishes that should probably be included on a spectrum of self hosting. Somebody hosting a matrix server on an Digital Ocean VPS as a social network for their friends is still closer to that goal than somebody setting up a Discord server. Somebody hosting a Kubernetes cluster in their closet on a residental ISP is closer. Somebody racking a bunch of gear at a DC is closer.

There's no reason to tell any of these people "you're doing it wrong".

On a separate note: I feel I've got a fair point here, one that you've practically admitted in your own comment. Going on to strongly imply I'm arguing in bad faith really came across as a dick move.
As a private company how are you even getting those numbers? I'm certain they vary dramatically by specialty within SpaceX.
> killing political dissidents

That's a funny perspective. USSR just before that time mostly killed communist apparatus members¥ and with them innocent people. In such an environment, there naturally won't be too many dissidents, so I don't think they registered.

They did kill a lot of supposed sympathiers of pre-Soviet Russia, though.

¥ As they say, internal competition is the most fierce one.
Here I remember my first DEFCON (6) at the Plaza Hotel. Someone literally started a road flare on some higher floor, then sent the flare down to the casino level in the elevator, filling the floor with smoke.

I feel like the attendees these days are much less dangerous, but these searches seem ridiculous and over the top compared to any past year I can remember.
SpaceX is about to launch Starship for the fifth time in a few weeks. If they pull off a controlled landing and catch (which they are rumored to attempt), that's going to be the best ticket to the moon by far. They might actually manage to get there before the Chinese if they put their mind to it and get the resources and backing to do it.

Chinese peer pressure might achieve what years of lobbying hasn't managed to achieve: a sense of urgency. The Chinese establishing a moon base without US boots on the surface would be a major embarrassment. They've done a few unmanned landings now. So, they clearly have the capability to pull this off now.
Extra ironic that Costco HQ is in WA as well. Feels like we’re one step away from Costco University where distinguished Taco Bell professors would dole out their wisdom about AI.
Who does Twitter/X use for DDoS mitigation?
Akamai?
Cloudflare?
Anyone know?
Same. I hate it when software documentation websites automatically show me the text in French due to my location and browser settings. I never want to read documentation in French. Always in English. My brain seems to be wired to read documentation in English although English is not my native language.
GPL3 ones should provide some way to modify and run the code on the device
You running a Tier 1 Network from your house?
It turns from Idiocracy-flavored comedy-dystopian into bona fide dystopian rather quickly once you dig into what a multinational corporation does around and besides the product they're recognized for. "Taco Bell Distinguished Professor of hospitality business management" may sound funny, but if I ever heard about McDonald's Professor of Genetics, or Disney's Professor of Applied Robotics, I'd start getting worried.

(In other words, "Continuum" vibes. An underrated Canadian sci-fi show featuring "Corporate Congress" and a bunch of luxury brands of today turning into serious industrial/energy/medical players under 50 years from now.)
> Many more took huge risk in the past and lost everything.

sure, but when you have connections or your own finances in the millions, it's a lot harder to truly lose "everything" in the same way a missed rent check can actually cost some working class person their home. They will lose a lot but not be out on the streets per se.

Many of these people aren't dumb, they won't use their own money to finance this. It just better helps them get investor money to potentially mismanage.

>It strikes me as rather absurd to believe it was better in the past when capital was much harder to come by.

it was arguably better for people who had capital to begin with. Money begets money, that's always been true in every time and society.

for truly scrappy startups, it varies. You could truly innovate with 2-3 buddies out of your garage and make a multi-million dollar business, "self made". Fewer would be chosen, but the line would be lower as well.

There's more money flowing, but you also need so much more to get off the ground c. 2024. But you can reasonably chance it an self-publish. I don't think it's objectively better or worse, just different. I argue that if you do need money than it is in fact worse though.
i would love if someone could create the same for the ps3 emulator games which run on emulator on my pc.
99 years or 999 years. AKA a leasehold
I have a nice way of testing a language - I download a couple of projects written by beginner / mid-level developers and not having commercial dependencies and see how much effort it takes to get them running.

Python is one of the worst performers (and Java is shockingly bad too, although a lot of that is down to the way the JVM/language have been mismanaged). At least unless you're comparing it to very low-level languages (VDL, C).
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I can imagine the silk gowns being covered in brand logos.
That’s great, I’m glad that you’re supporting creators directly and getting value from it too. But unfortunately you’re in the minority in my experience, for every person who does this, there are hundreds who wouldn’t even consider it.

For creators making certain kinds of content the “uncensored” and “non-ad-friendly” topics are a great argument for direct sponsorship etc, I definitely agree.
The Apollo project was the most ambitious engineering effort since the Manhattan project. What was next though? We didn't establish a moon base and instead opted for the Space Shuttle program which was considerably less ambitious than Apollo/Saturn V.
1000 years of English aristocracy disagrees: nobility = landowners
It's about friction. you could give users a PO box address and ask users to get out an envelope and write a check, and say if users really wanted to pay they'd do that. But we all know you're gonna lose out on a ton of money if you make it that hard for people to give you money. So it's about how much friction there is, and for some, an app is preferable to some website where I have to wade through a bunch of crap. Depending on what it is, if it bounces me to Safari, I might just get distracted and "just do it later" aka never.
Simulating the Page-Turning of a Physical Book in an E-Book
For example, when flipping through a 500-page physical book to directly reach page 100, there are generally a few common methods:

You can estimate the thickness of the book and flip through roughly one-fifth of it, then adjust by turning pages one by one until you reach the desired page.
Hold the book with your left hand and use your right thumb to flip the pages. By placing your thumb at the edge of the pages and adjusting the pressure, you can control whether to flip one page or multiple pages at a time.
An e-book does not offer this tactile experience, but you can simulate the actions of reading a physical book through certain features:

For example, by controlling the pressure applied to the screen, you can define flipping through a corresponding proportion of pages in the book.
The thumb can be used to quickly flip through the entire book, and swiping the screen can achieve a similar effect.
Simulate the effect of folding pages in a physical book. For important pages, simulate a dog-ear effect, making it easier to return to those pages when flipping through the book again.
The e-book could also remember where the reader spent more time, allowing for easier access to those pages during subsequent flips, simulating the experience of a well-read physical book.
Summary: By touching or swiping the e-book screen, the page-turning experience of a physical book can be fully simulated.
Let's play buzzword bingo, shall we?: Organic AI blockchain VR triple-play agile sticky growth-hacking methodology with an addressable market.

Ubiquitous design and UX is better than throwing around nebulous technical cant 99.999% of people don't understand and are partially terrified of taking their jobs. While automating the navigation of ambiguous requests and delivering more open results with less exhaustive and tedious coding is cool, these features delivered to users have to provide useful advantages to be essential or they're just going to come off as "me too" bandwagon jumping.

"Self-hosted", "open architecture", "cloud optional" are terms I like to see but only because I'm weirdo who tinkers with things sometimes but don't necessarily want to spend all of my time fixing or supporting fragile hacks.
Would you admit - just for the sake of more balanced arguments - that there's another possible reason for the exclusion of the majority of studies? Like visible bias towards "alcohol in reasonable amounts {is | may be} {good | not making harm} for health" opinion?
"better" is very subjective and doing a lot of heavy lifting, my apologies. The easy snarky response is "move from US to EU". But it can be a personal choice to simply get out of the metropolitan areas in favor of a quieter area, or one with better transportation or less crime or friendlier communities.
ha ha, i laughed at that one too, the "procrastinate on work until the last day" example.

csplit stand for context split, iirc.

there is also the split command. it splits on the basis of number of lines, which can be specified in various ways.

didn't know about the '--filter' flag earlier. it allows you to filter each output file through some other command. useful.

https://blog.robertelder.org/intro-to-split-command/

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html
The actual diff in question [1] does show that there have been multiple cases where such "magic" numbers did appear in rustc, so that the lint is meant to catch any such known cases to reduce possibly resulting complaints in advance, no matter you like them or not. (This is also why the list is not as exhaustive, as it needn't to be.)

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/92469/files
I like how they take 15 years to work these issues through the courts, meanwhile untold thousands of people have their rights violated.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

"The earliest published JIT compiler is generally attributed to work on LISP by John McCarthy in 1960"

I can naturally also go hunthing for those papers from my digital cellar.
FL Studio has had free updates for +23 years and is a company with profit.

It does not look like a problem for them.

Do you have an example of a company that saturated the market with free upgrades and went down because of it?