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by lapcat 11mo ago
> That sentence smells like AI writing, so who knows what the author actually thinks. The author has been a professional writer since long before LLMs were invented: https://hey.paris/books-and-events/books/ LL
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by lapcat 11mo ago
The operating system does not. The App Store does, and unfortunately on iOS the App Store is the only way to download apps not included with the OS.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> While I agree that entering a dark alley shouldn't result in ill effects, if ill effects happen in said dark alley it is still worth the discussion to remind people to stay out of dark alleys in today's day and age (or until
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Forcing developers to go through Apple's arbitrary, capricious, slow review process is absolutely not in the best interest of developers.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> The App Store was built on iTunes and used the same backend. The refund process hasn’t changed since then. I'm not talking about the technical process. Like I already said, "There's of course a form to request a refund
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I have never had Apple to refuse a refund Good for you, but you're only one user out of more than a billion. > I’ve had an iTunes account since 2003 I'm not sure how that's relevant, because the App Store opened in 20
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by lapcat 11mo ago
A service to whom? Protecting users is a service to users, not to developers. This is a selling point of iPhone, and thus Apple receives money from users when they pay for the iPhone. Think about it this way: totally free apps with no IAP g
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> - Force prominent disclosure of refund policies. Epic Games doesn't allow them for IAP. Apple does. Apple has no official App Store refund policy, either for IAP or for upfront paid apps. I've already looked for one. There&#x
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I would think making sure outside payment links aren’t scams will be more expensive than that because checking that once isn’t sufficient. According to the ruling on page 42, "(c) Apple should receive no commission for the securit
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> language can produce effects at a level that operates independently of (and sometimes in opposition to) conscious evaluation I don't think this is a particularly interesting claim if "conscious evaluation" is understood
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I think you're creating a false dichotomy between meta-thinking and mere reflex, when in fact most conscious thinking is neither of those. My understanding is that a hypnotized person is very focused on the hypnotist and suggestible bu
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> LLMs might be decent models of Level 1 I don't think so. Fast speakers and hyponotized people are still clearly conscious and "at home" inside, vastly more "human" than any LLM. Deliberation and evaluation impl
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I think this quote may speak to the question: > The brain’s general object-recognition machinery is at the same level of abstractness as the language network. It’s not so different from some higher-level visual areas such as the inferote
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I wouldn't read too much into the LLM analogy. The interview is disappointingly short, filled with a bunch of unnecessarily tall photgraphs, and the interviewer, the one who brought up LLMs and ChatGPT and has a history of writing AI a
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Does anyone else think that HN engages in far too much navel-gazing? Nothing gets upvotes faster than a HN submission about HN.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I'm not sure if you're asking as a parent or an observer of parents. But it's not such a clear option given how entrenched we've made devices into children's lives. It doesn't have to be a 24 hour a day ba
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It sucks as a parent because you get this from both ends: “parent better! (Putting in tons of work that our parents didn’t have to)” and also “lol what are you doing restricting kids on computers is impossible, give up you idiot”. I di
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by lapcat 11mo ago
There are some alternative policies, for example, banning smartphones in schools. This doesn't completely solve the problem, of course, but at least it limits social media use while the children are under direct supervision of the gove
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> iPhones have excellent parental controls If those work, sure, although kids tend to be pretty clever about getting around parental controls and are sometimes quite a bit more technically sophisticated than their parents.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
The question is how the laws are enforced. The driving, smoking, and drinking laws are enforced outside the home. Everyone has to prove their age at the DMV to get a license and at commercial establishments to buy cigarettes and alcohol. Th
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Why not just take away their phone?
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by lapcat 11mo ago
The article is about macOS apps, but you're talking about iOS apps. Apple revokes macOS Developer ID code signing certificates all the time, mostly for malware, but occasionally for goodware, e.g., Charlie Monroe and HP printer drivers
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> you can learn from the things you experienced during that time Of course you can learn from your experience, and the author did learn from his experience, which is the entire point of the tweet, so the author doesn't need to be
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> everyone should have chance at redeeming themselves even if they did harm. You're changing the subject. Nobody is arguing that the author is irredeemable. On the contrary, the author seems to have recognized his own mistake and ch
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Indeed, working hard towards a goal is never a waste, it can often be a learning experience regardless of the end result. What if the end result is harmful to society?
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Isn't social awkwardness sort of inherently impairing in social relationships? Yes, but I think the distinction is explained in the article: "show significant improvement with practice and maturity" and "generally a
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by lapcat 11mo ago
You're completely missing the point. From the blog post: if rule_result.action == "execute" then rule_result.execute.results = ruleset_results[tonumber(rule_result.execute.results_index)] end "This code expe
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by lapcat 11mo ago
With all due respect, it sounds like you have never heard of unit tests. Cloudflare states that the compiler would prevent the bug in certain programming languages. So it seems ridiculous to suggest that the bug can't be detected out
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Large scale infrastructure changes are often by nature completely untestable. You're changing the subject here and shifting focus from the specific to the vague. The two postmortems after the recent major Cloudflare outages both l
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> This is a straightforward error in the code, which had existed undetected for many years. This type of code error is prevented by languages with strong type systems. In our replacement for this code in our new FL2 proxy, which is writt

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