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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

news.ycombinator.com Arthur O Dwyer 2025-08-07 03:04:45

On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like making a phone call — we ask a question and get an answer from outside ourselves. The true answer seems to be the middle one — “calling” as in “calling up, summoning” — but indi

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-07 20:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-08 19:22:51

With decades of online life behind us, many people are using years-old email addresses. Those inboxes are probably packed with subscriptions you've picked up over the years, and you probably don't need all of them. Gmail is going to make it easier to manage them with a new feature rolling out on mobile and web. Google's existing unsubscribe prompts are evolving into a one-stop shop for all your subscription management needs, a feature that has been in the works for a weirdly long time. The pitc

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Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-08 23:41:00

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new Gmail feature that is designed to help users easily manage their subscriptions and declutter their inboxes. The new “Manage subscriptions” tool is rolling out on the web, Android, and iOS in select countries. With the new feature, users can view and manage their subscription emails in one place and quickly unsubscribe from the ones they no longer want to receive. Users can view their active subscriptions, organized by the most frequent send

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T-Mobile is giving away DashPass subscriptions starting today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 15:27:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile subscribers can now claim a free year of DoorDash DashPass (usually $120) through the T-Life app as part of a limited-time offer. DashPass gives you free or discounted delivery fees, extra promos, and Lyft perks, but this free promo doesn’t include the Max streaming benefit. Most T-Mobile users are eligible, and you have until August 4 to redeem; current DashPass subscribers will get a refund for unused time. In mid-June, T-Mobile celebrated

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Last call: Fortnite players only have two days left to claim their settlement payout

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-10 15:16:36

Gary Sims / Android Authority TL;DR Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted purchases can submit a claim to receive compensation stemming from the FTC’s settlement with Epic Games. Eligible claimants only have until July 9 to apply. Refunds are expected to arrive in 2026 after the agency has reviewed and validated all claims. If you’re a Fortnite player, you might be entitled to some money. But you’ll have to act quickly, as those who are eligible only have two days left to submit a c

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Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-15 02:57:48

At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles. Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated th

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Whoop MG review: a big whoop for a small crowd

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-08-16 03:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The tragedy of a niche product is if it sees any success, two things will happen. First, rivals big and small will copy its ideas. Then, to combat that existential threat and appease investors, there’ll be an appeal to the larger mass market. A handful of niche products survive the transition to the mainstream. Most don’t. (See: Nest,

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12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-08-16 19:31:00

FAQ What Kinds of Coffee Subscriptions Are There? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are two kinds of coffee subscription providers: roasters and retailers. Roasters are cafés, and small-batch producers who buy raw beans from farmers all over the world and roast them to perfection. By buying from a roaster, you're directly supporting the people who make your favorite coffees; there's no middleman between you and your coffee. The downside is you usually won't have as broad a selecti

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Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it increases video push

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-08-17 11:09:47

Over the past year, Substack has considerably expanded its video tools for creators, evolving from a platform primarily dedicated to newsletters. On Wednesday, Substack announced new features aimed at helping publishers grow and promote their livestreams. The recent update enables creators to share clips of their live videos on Notes, and Substack will notify them in real time about the performance. This way, publishers can determine which clips they should upload to other platforms, such as Yo

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Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-17 15:20:56

Crunchyroll, the massively popular anime streaming service and distributor, just got caught using obvious AI slop in its subtitles. The slipup was made in the premiere episode of a new series called "Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show" — and trust us, there's no guesswork involved in sniffing out the AI here. Around the 19:12 mark, the show's German subtitles feature a big fat "ChatGPT said:" jammed into the dialog. A classic, lazy error. (We double checked, and it's still there as of this

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Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-17 15:17:15

You can add Perplexity to the growing list of AI companies offering $200+ per month subscription plans to users who want unlimited access to their most advanced products and tools. As of today, Perplexity Max is available on iOS and the web. The subscription comes with unlimited monthly usage of Labs, the agentic creation tool Perplexity released this past May. People can use Labs to generate spreadsheets, presentations, web applications and more. Perplexity is also promising early access to ne

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Crunchyroll's lazy AI subtitles have anime fans furious

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-18 11:56:21

At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles. Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated th

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Spotify Celebrates 10 Years of Discover Weekly With a Fresh New Look

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 11:32:31

Spotify — a CNET Editors' Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. And on Monday, the company celebrated 10 years of its Discover Weekly playlist by giving it a new look and giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will see in the playlist. Read more: Best Music Streaming Services of 2025 I didn't mind the color-gradient Discover Weekly album

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Sliding Window Technique Visualizer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 07:11:40

A fixed-size sliding window maintains a constant size as it moves through the data structure. This is useful for problems like finding the maximum sum of a subarray of size k, or calculating moving averages. Variable Size Window A variable-size sliding window can expand or contract based on certain conditions. This technique is often used when you need to find the optimal subarray that satisfies specific criteria. Common Applications:

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I unsubscribed from 20 lists in seconds with Gmail's new tool. Here's how to use it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-20 11:33:00

Screenshot by ZDNET A few months ago, Google rolled out a new feature for Gmail on Android that made it easier to clean out your inbox by showing a single list of all your subscriptions and providing a simple way to unsubscribe from these lists. That feature is expanding, as "Manage Subscriptions" is now showing up on Gmail for desktop. Google hasn't made an official announcement, but users have started noticing the new button over the past few days. Also: Run out of Gmail storage? How I got

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You Can Play Diablo 4 for Free This Month With PlayStation Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 12:30:03

Diablo 4 is Blizzard's latest entry in the dark-fantasy RPG series. And all PlayStation Plus subscribers can fight cultists and demons, loot and collect powerful weapons and explore an expansive mythical world in the popular game now. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, which each have their own unique perks and benefits. The plans start

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Meta, TikTok can’t toss wrongful death suit from mom of “subway surfing” teen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-22 09:53:53

Section 230 has so far failed to shield Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance from a lawsuit raised by a mother who alleged that her son's wrongful death followed a flood of "subway surfing" videos platforms intentionally targeted to teens in New York. In a decision Monday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Paul Goetz largely denied social media companies' motions to dismiss claims they argued should be barred under Section 230 and the First Amendment. Goetz said that the mother, Norma Nazario, had

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Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-23 07:41:20

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better … Discover Weekly is an algorithmic playlists that looks at your existing favorite artists, finds other subscribers with the same tastes, and shows you what else they are listening to. It’s been a highly–succes

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-08-23 08:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Xbox Brought These Call of Duty and Warcraft Games to Game Pass in June

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-23 20:00:05

The Call of Duty franchise got its start as a first-person shooter set during World War II. Game Pass subscribers can now return to that war and take part in historical battles in Call of Duty: WWII. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One and PC or mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription gives you access to a large library of games, with new titles, including Doom: The Dark Ages, adde

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-08-23 13:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 14:45:36

Python dataclasses are a really nice feature for constructing classes that primarily hold or work with data. They can be a good alternative to using dictionaries, since they allow you to add methods, dynamic properties, and subclasses. They can also be a good alternative to building your own class by hand, since they don’t need a custom __init__() that reassigns attributes and provide methods like __eq__() out of the box. One small tip to keeping dataclasses maintainable is to always construct

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Gmail is making it easier to manage your newsletters and mailing lists on the web

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 11:30:28

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is rolling out a new “Manage subscriptions” page on its web client to help users easily declutter their inboxes. This page lists all your mailing lists, shows their email frequency, and provides a simple one-click unsubscribe button for each sender. The feature is gradually becoming available on the web and has been rolling out on the Android app since late April. Signing up for newsletters and mailing lists is a great way to stay up to date on

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Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

news.ycombinator.com Mohamed Akram 2025-08-23 11:23:48

JSON is not a friendly format to the Unix shell — it’s hierarchical, and cannot be reasonably split on any character (other than the newline, which is not very useful) as that character might be included in a string. There are well-known tools such as jq that let you correctly parse JSON documents in the shell, but all require an additional dependency. Another option is to use Python, which is ubiquitous enough that it can be expected to be installed on virtually every machine, and for new proje

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Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 18:49:43

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Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-08-24 11:29:37

Before June 8, the skilled and respected ABC News television journalist Terry Moran was neither a household name nor political lightning rod. That changed abruptly when Moran posted on X that Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was “a world-class hater,” followed by an addendum that the president was a hater as well. (The post was later taken down.) While the statements were certainly defendable, they apparently violated ABC policy, and Moran was suspended, then dismissed. Moran,

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Best Meat Delivery Services for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 15:00:00

We did the math and some services can save you money versus the supermarket. Some services send frozen meat while others serve it up fresh. Online butchers in 2024 sell far more than just steak. Prefer to pick your meats each month or be surprised? CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Can’t find great meat at your local grocery store? You’re not alone. Premium c

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Proton Mail is rolling out a tool to help you get rid of those unwanted subscriptions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 15:06:46

TL;DR Proton Mail is rolling out a feature called “Newsletters view.” Newsletters view is a focused space that organizes all of your subscriptions in one place to help you declutter your inbox. It features two separate tabs for quick access to active subscriptions and mail lists from which you’ve unsubscribed. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of email sitting in your inbox. Things like promos, job alerts, store updates, and more can often make up the bulk of the messages waiting for

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You Can Play Diablo 4 for Free in July With PlayStation Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-29 02:20:11

Diablo 4 is Blizzard's latest entry in the dark-fantasy RPG series. And on July 1, all PlayStation Plus subscribers can fight cultists and demons, loot and collect powerful weapons and explore an expansive mythical world in this popular game. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, which each have their own unique perks and benefits. The pla

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Latest Tech News

Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox

T-Mobile is giving away DashPass subscriptions starting today

Last call: Fortnite players only have two days left to claim their settlement payout

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess

Whoop MG review: a big whoop for a small crowd

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Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it increases video push

Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

Crunchyroll's lazy AI subtitles have anime fans furious

Spotify Celebrates 10 Years of Discover Weekly With a Fresh New Look

Sliding Window Technique Visualizer

I unsubscribed from 20 lists in seconds with Gmail's new tool. Here's how to use it

You Can Play Diablo 4 for Free This Month With PlayStation Plus

Meta, TikTok can’t toss wrongful death suit from mom of “subway surfing” teen

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

Xbox Brought These Call of Duty and Warcraft Games to Game Pass in June

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses

Gmail is making it easier to manage your newsletters and mailing lists on the web

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Best Meat Delivery Services for 2025

Proton Mail is rolling out a tool to help you get rid of those unwanted subscriptions

You Can Play Diablo 4 for Free in July With PlayStation Plus

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