realharo
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I have just one app I published way back in 2014 or so, and I think there were only 2 updates (only counting changes that required uploading new builds) since then that were like
"do this or we're taking the app down".
One of them was requiring a privacy policy, even for a fully offline game that doesn't even have the internet permission. The other one was having to update the target platform version if I remember correctly.
China is facing many of the same problems that the rest of the world is, with demographic decline, slowing growth, etc.
I don't just mean software engineers, more like entire companies.
Their demos are getting awfully close to the point where all the things just run themselves. It's only by choice that they didn't demo it that way.
I wonder at what point they'll have to answer the inevitable question: "why does the agent even need me anymore"?
Tapo C125 has a built-in physical shutter. Also, every PTZ camera can just turn to face the wall, that would maybe defeat this too (not sure).
For the typical indoor WiFi cameras without battery backup, a simple way to detect them could be to turn all breakers off and on, and listen for their motors rotating on startup. Or make the room dark and listen for the click of the IR cut filter switching to night mode or back.
Flashy features often seem more targeted at tech reviewers and impressive demos than actual day-to-day use. Like movies having some scenes purely because they look good in a trailer.
On the other hand, it's also much less effort to do at least some rudimentary review.
Or make a fork with only the minimim set of parts that your agent cherry picks.
Maybe that's because back then it just didn't affect enough people at the same time.
They weren't too big to fail.
With regards to b), what is the evidence that they actually deliver on this promise?
Yeah, that's just a copium answer from people who simply want to hand wave away the issue instead of admitting they have no good answers.
Like a politician who's asked about this in a town hall, but thinks that "our plan is to do absolutely nothing" doesn't sound very appealing.
If that's how you feel, maybe the applications you're making are too simple to need any of your unique contribution.
The answer could be to just push further, and try solving harder problems.
This depends entirely on your local laws and the kinds of loans banks offer.
In most places, you can only get recourse mortgages. You will be liable for the rest of the mortgage, if the value of the house drops so much that selling it doesn't cover the remaining debt.
House values dropping a lot is something that happens fairly rarely, but it tends to happen exactly during the times when you are most likely to be unable to pay your mortgage (recessions, industry downturns, etc.)
>working bid/ask spread when factories buy or sell on the market to make pricing dynamic and realisticDoes it deliver on the "realistic" part? My experience with most models is they make something that technically fulfills the ask, but often in a way that doesn't really capture my intent (this is with regular Claude Code though).
>The point of Bitcoin is to avoid exactly that sort of trust relationship, otherwise use the banking system.Most participants don't care about this. For almost everyone, the point of Bitcoin is to go up. As long as they can find enough buyers that also believe it will go up, the rest is optional. Especially if it's temporary, for a one-time migration.
Ah, then yeah, in that case, it'd be basically over.
Maybe large exchanges would try to step in to make a fresh chain based on their combined account data, and just drop the people relying on self-custody. But I doubt the market would go for it - the uncertainty would crash it hard enough that it would never recover.
In practice, what you really need is consensus. As long as enough of the important participants agree, that's how it will be.
And since there are millions of identical copies of the entire pre-attack ledger out there, this should not be that difficult.
Potential future buyers might reevaluate whether this whole thing has any monetary value, but that's a separate concern. Bitcoin's market value was never about the technical details.
Yeah, it makes it sound like your attention is given as an act of charity. A lot of online discourse tends to be very "creator-first" framed, rather than "audience-first".
This has to be intentional, right?
And yet almost all of the most popular sports leagues in the US have a salary cap rule.
"Local history" is a
very popular feature in the JetBrains IDEs (just search HN comments), and I remember similar tools appearing on HN several times in the past (for example
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784238), so clearly there is demand for such functionality (or at least was in the past, when almost all code edits were manual).
Yeah, but that's not the same, as most readers will just skip over that. What I said is more similar to HN's monthly "who's hiring" threads or "what are you working on" threads. Like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696. I find those much more interesting.
I think the problem with such places is, they just become a dump for self-promotion by people who otherwise don't participate at all. The opposite of an actual community. That's why even reddit used to have a 10-to-1 rule of thumb about posts like that (which would be very easily gamed today).
Usually online communities have dedicated days for such things. Like a "side project Sunday" or such, with one large thread.
Even if you trust the intentions of whoever you're giving your data to, you may not trust their ability to keep it safe from data breaches. Those happen all the time.
It's always good to have viable alternatives, if only to prevent vendor lock-in in case they make some drastic changes in policy or pricing.
Make it port Firefox's engine to iOS, that's something people would actually use (in countries where Apple is forced to allow other browser engines).
Copilot plan limits are however "per prompt", and prompts that ask the agent to do a lot of stuff with a large context are obviously going to be more expensive to run than prompts that don't.
Well they are doing the same to website owners who rely on human visitors for their revenue streams.
Both scraping and on-demand agent-driven interactions erode that. So you could look at people doing the same to them as a sort of poetic justice, from a purely moral standpoint at least.
Without breaking legitimate clients?
At some point it becomes easier to just reevaluate the business model. Or just make a superior product.
The endgame is a small background agent that runs Claude Code every once in a while, inspects its traffic, and adjusts on the fly.