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> the stdlib API is completely outdated and full of bad design

It is also completely unnecessary on Linux. I switched to freestanding C and discovered it was a much better language. Made programming fun again. All I needed was one system call function and some entry point code.

It's gotten to the point that it bothers me that gcc could potentially generate calls to mem* functions even in freestanding mode.
Ask HN: What are your tricks/tools for working with a technology adverse partner
I'm not the most plugged in person ever. But I do rely on technology a lot to manage my life. Any.do, Google Calendars, Obsidian.md, Bitwarden, a NAS for device syncing, plex, photo backup, etc. Someday I want to build out a Home Assistant to help integrate some of my IoT devices. This, especially for someone in my field, seems like a low-key, yet reasonable level of tech usage.

My partner on the other hand is almost completely analog. She prefers taking notes by hand, using a planner for her schedule, and lists for keeping track of anything else. She has a computer that she'll use if she has to, but otherwise uses her phone as her primary computing device. And if I install something on her phone (like any of the apps I use so that we can sync up or coordinate things), odds are she'll use it for a day and then revert back to just texting me anything from information to questions to requests for to remind her about something later. That's assuming she even lets me install anything in the first place.

So for those of you out there with similarly technologically adverse partners, have you found any systems to help bridge the gap in lifestyles? I'm not necessarily looking for ways to change her mind, but rather tools that could, for example, somehow sync my note taking system with hers. Stuff that I could invisibly put in place to mitigate the incompatibilities without introducing road bumps for her.
Have you ever considered that your practise might be harming real people based on what sounds like pretty much inferences? Like you might just be messing up a perfectly good relationship someone has, or anything like that?

I got fired from a job one time because the woman running it decided I was the reason that the business was "cursed". I got yelled at in French, a language I don't understand, and only understood after the other person I was working with found me in a nearby park confused as to why I had just been yelled at and fired. Turns out boss had hired this guy to come in and do a tarot reading, and because of my star sign and the reading he said I was the reason things weren't working (It was literally because she had purchased a grill from wal-mart which had lied about how hot it could get instead of investing in something commercial). Even better was how she shut the whole business down right after this, all based on the word of one man with a deck of medieval divination cards which she seemed to put all of her belief in.

As a result I fucking lie about my birthday to strangers to say I'm an aquarius and I find people like me a lot more. I honestly do my best to avoid those people though, don't want the experience of someone making up insane bullshit and blaming me arbitrarily again. That was horrible.
You could think of it as using React Native Web (RNW), but better. Tamagui is using a trimmed down version of it called react-native-web-lite which is trimmed for bundle size and perfomance: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-web-lite

RNW was independent of styled components, but you could use them together.
Right, but unless it's documented how do you know that the DNS entry won't change? They could change infra so it's DNS load-balanced instead of anycast and still at time.cloudflare.com

It wasn't clear but I provided the IP so others could validate it's the same for them and (in the future) that it hasn't changed.
> if it were then reliably delivered

This is the limiting factor there. The best plan is going to vary depending on data patterns and (if variables are involved) input parameters. You would have to spend a potentially infinite amount of time testing for different patterns and store which plan is best for each, or do the analysis for every possible parameter each time the referenced data changes.

> plans have a tiny budget devoted to their optimisation

The reason planners get minimal time for planning is that in the general you quickly hit the point of diminishing returns. Their job is to find something good enough and find it quickly. They are helped by pre-computed hints like index stats, so you could perhaps spend more time building other helpful pre-computed data but you would need to reassess this data regularly (as index stats are reconsidered under certain conditions) and again you hit a point of diminishing returns in terms of the amount of time you spend on this as data it modified compared to the potential benefits from better plans.

> For something like a view

Databases do not create query plans for views when the view is created. They create query plans for overall statements that use the views when those statements are executed (or chose a cached one if the statement is sufficiently similar to a previous one for which there is a cached plan).
The same people that grew up pre-ordering video games that sometimes never released.
Backup software Macrium Reflect Free is being retired
It’s not just about the 4080 though (though, you are right). AMDs new cards are much better value for gamers, but they are in this list too.

I think this is less about consumer GPUs and more about cost cutting in big corps slowing expansions, and the reduction in crypto demand.

Think about every tech company that says “oops we overbuilt for covid, whelp let’s lay everyone off” well they could be buying fewer servers if they over-anticipated their needs in that department too.
Yet you keep repeating it.
My point is that the watermark is deterministic. It is taken whole-cloth from an input, and reproduced as-is on an output. Thus, it is able to be attributed.

Stable diffusion is more like a paintshop artist who grabs bits and pieces of other art and melds them together, and less like a painter who creates from their imagination.
Can science solve the mystery of the concrete book?
This quote seems to fundamentally misunderstand what transformers are doing at all. Technically I suppose you could save all gradient updates from every input token, and do some weighted averaging to show what inputs affected the particular output the most, but saving all those gradient updates would be unimaginably space consuming. "Feasible" is doing a lot of work there.

It's very hard for people to get away from the idea that GPT is "copying" something, but that's not what it's doing. The reality is, to get the exact artifact which produced the code in question, you need "Call me Ishmael" from Moby Dick just as much as the Linux kernel source.
Definitely. I have been using them for years and I still can't understand how they can offer such a good service at their prices, considering how much the competition charges.
> I guess „work“ depends on generating GDP for many people

Exactly. If a city council hire a gardener, buy his tools and pay him 40k/yr, the nominal GDP will be 40k (+ the tool's prices for the first year and their maintenance costs).

If the city council pay a company 80k/yr to take care of the same, they will hire a gardener 40k, buy tools, and the GDP will be 120k/yr (+ tools prices etc). Even though the production was the same.

If you wife worked and you had to pay a nanny, the GDP of your country would rise more than if the nanny was formed to take on your wife job.
Ton ? Long ton or short ton ?
That's funny because for me, Brave Search is a better version of Google. Way more useful and relevant results than DDG ever gave me. It's also a lot cleaner too with more features.

If you search the comments here, you'll see a lot of people share the same opinion as me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967767

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678326
One thing that irks me about dealing with big businesses, that the post touches on, is payment terms. If I buy an item, I pay for it immediately (or if it’s large enough, a creditor pays for me). Big companies pay with IOUs that say they’ll give you cash later, say 30-90 days from now or after criterion X is fulfilled. They do not care if you’re a small company with poor liquidity. I think it’s absolutely abusive behavior
Not exactly though, since it's presumably harder to make sure you got assigned the ride that you requested in Uber than in a system with more openness/choice.
Agreed, this is only an example (but as you grow you can have someone look at your email - this is part of why it's a good idea to offer support contracts)
> In a word scale. Scale matters

> to shrug while others lose their livelihood and have their self expression systematically duplicated and commodified.

The same exact arguments were made when the camera was invented.

In order to be consistent, you would have to argue that the camera should have been banned to protect painters.

> That you can't empathise or find it 'naive'

Oh we understand. We just know that it is the exact same argument, that ludites make every single time a new technology is invented, that increases efficiency.

It is always the same argument repeated over and over again. And if those arguments weren't good in the past, we aren't going to listen to defeated arguments now.
Having worked on both sides of the divide, I can say it's sadly common for back-end devs to underestimate the complexity of front-end development and discount the advice and opinions of their front-end colleagues. I've even seen scenarios where back-end devs were allowed to dictate standards to their front-end peers just because they had more seniority in the company.
I don't have much use for this one in particular, but poked around and found another of his apps called Pure Paste. I've been looking for something like it for a long time.

It clears formatting from copy, so you can paste in clear text. Shift+cmd+v doesn't work everywhere, and the countless apps and scripts I've tried are flaky, but this seems to work!
I agree, I should have used anonymous function specifically instead of a closure (for example, Ruby/Smalltalk closures are blocks, not functions.) Thanks for the correction.
scroll down to see the components :)

the entire site is also made with Tamagui, so the landing page uses a lot of it, and you can see visuals and code of all the components in the docs.
Their Flights Canceled, Southwest Travelers Were Threatened With Arrest
I avoid needing to rely on my human memory (recall) when possible - if my phone is around, I make voice notes on it that are automatically synced to desktop which are then transcribed using Whisper[1].

When I do need to recall, I just use the strategy of "hold the items in my head as intently as possible, for as little time as possible until I'm able to get to my phone or some paper".

On the rare occasions when neither my phone or paper are immediately available, I try to visualize the ideas, projecting them onto a mental canvas, and try to use connections between them or mnemonics to remember them as best as I can.

I avoid the problem of "I sit down in front of my computer in order to write down or do a thing" by building the discipline necessary to prevent myself from getting distracted in that manner.

[1] https://github.com/openai/whisper
I think it's an example of what the GP observed:

> Whenever I ask anything unaligned with mainstream progressive US culture, I can get an answer, but I can't get one without a disclaimer.

To reply to your point, however, ChatGPT is perfectly capable of coming up with arguments on both sides. That's not the issue - the issue is that it won't just say what's good about fossil fuels, and stop there, but it then makes sure it's aligned with "mainstream progressive US culture" and plugs renewables.

> I think it is just a factual reality that finding arguments to pretend that fossil fuels are superior to renewable is just more difficult, simply because fossil fuels are indeed problematic.

I don't think that's true. They are better for some reasons, but it seems like fossil fuels still have a lot of pragmatic benefits over renewables. These are the (summarized) benefits it mentioned about fossil fuels.

- abundant

- relatively cheap to extract and use

- high energy density

- more reliable

- easy to use
The simplicity is a blessing and curse. I enjoy writing C and sticking to a hard discipline of writing unit tests for all functions where possible. Abusing `assert/1` in debug mode. But concurrency is a hard thing to build. Identifying critical sections, making sure they have mutex locks where necessary. I want to love Rust but it's hard for me to get used to the syntax. I've started using it and failed multiple times because it's terse. Inevitably I will try again and hope it pans out.
It’s anywhere from 2-10x faster than a “universal” aka shared-code app that today would use React Native + React Native Web. It’s about 2x better render time over something like emotion or styled components as well when it does flattening, which is a good amount of the time, plus faster at startup etc.

Basically it’s hard to be fully precise, but if anything 2x rounds down in the big picture.
I think it’s silly to pretend that human programmers are emitting a lot of code with a high degree of originality either. We’re all remixing some long-forgotten influential code laying deep in latent memory just like the models.
Why? They’re both basic functions. I’d argue that if pg had left comments and constants, I’d have replicated those too.

Perhaps my example isn’t as impressive as the model’s capability, but operationally it’s the same.
Yes, and yes... But of course, if they went too far the rest of the year was fit for regrets!
The Nasa Space Flight live streams go into a lot of nerdy detail on selected missions and tests. They seem to refer to spreadsheets that they have built up based on timing vents and lots of telescopic viewing.
Just an observation, I'm a parent of two toddlers and try to limit screen time as much as possible. But if we ever go to my in laws or relatives places they always have a TV blaring in the background. I try not to make a fuss about limiting TV or screen time when we're visiting but they do know my views on screen time.

They are completely fine giving iPads and allowing kids to watch YouTube for hours. I have no idea what it's effects are long term but their kids seem to be doing ok in school so far.
Sorry but terms of service don't give you a blanket license to re-purpose someone else's copyrighted work at your pleasure. By that same token any hosting provider could make a small change to their terms of service and suddenly all of the data of all of the customers would be theirs. Copyright does not work that way, you need to actively sign away your rights.
"screen time" limits, as if all screens were exactly the same, is such a bogus concept. Screens are not inherently bad, or good, or anything anymore than a window is bad or good. Or any rectangular slice of field of view...

It's mass hysteria behavior much like prior generation's freak-outs over printed newspapers, radio, or television. If you want to have limits for time spent on youtube do that. The screen isn't the problem.
>mostly flight-worthy condition.

Can you expand on this? I've looked for information on how much rework they require but have never come up with a good explanation. I'm curious because spaceflight requirements are typically very stringent and refurbishing back to those requirements isn't a trivial task. A lot of the cost for Shuttle was refurbishing to meet the quality requirements.
It started with the 68020 which came out with 68851 support in an Apple product in 1987.

Despite that Mac continued with only partial process protection up until the release of OSX in the early 2000s.

My point is their problem wasn't hardware support, but software compatibility.
Wow, that's not awkward at all.
Seems completely normal. Don't parents do this generally?
It would look like a dispatch-only app.

Drivers don't subscribe/join, companies do. You don't take a cut of every ride, you take fees monthly/quarterly/yearly. For the driver, everything looks mostly the same, and they can still operate on a hail basis. But they can also claim dispatched rides.

Now, as the app, you don't have to give five shits about taxi regulations. About driver safety, passenger safety, driver pay, etc. That's all handled at the local level, where it should be.

You exist to provide a common payment interface and location-based routing of requests to nearby companies. And that's essentially it.
Completely different animals. I know that when TSMC has looked at acquiring used fabs before and in at least one case because the fab was DRAM it was more costly and time consuming to convert it to Logic fab than just building a whole new fab.
I like regex, the syntax is succinct, powerful, and easy to learn. I learned regex before I learned any proper programming language, because you could use it in a text editor. I remember feeling like a wizard at the time.

I do admit it can be a write once hopefully never need to read again thing, but I still love it.
It doesn’t mean that. However feminism allows for that as a choice. I think the OP doesn’t classify as feminist because they want to deny that choice in general.
> It's not principled attribution, just locating the most similar
example in the training set.

This is a profoundly important distinction.

Back-tracing data to contributory training examples is a genuine
"influenced by" relation. Picking the nearest neighbour to a given
result (even if its an exact copy!) cannot say anything useful with
respect to origins. And given that there will always be some
proximate neighbour, it's really a "misattribution machine".

This is bit like how our broken patent system grants or denies
ownership of a design based on similarity to extant art but regardless
of actual originality.
The answer depends a lot on what you decide "Uber" means (the article talks about "User Needs", which is a good lens to make this decision through).

For riders, not having to locate and setup the service is going to matter at least some of the time, and is not well addressed by local systems.

I don't think blockchain is likely to be the answer either. It adds enough complexity that things anyway end up "centralized" in the primary implementation of the system, so you might as well directly implement something that isn't all turned inside out to enable blockchain storage.
It's far worse than that: to attribute a particular output to an input you don't just need the input data, you need the gradient updates that data caused in the training run. A couple hundred gigabytes input tokens times 175 billion parameters equals... impossibility.
The only solution I've found for regex which is 100% compatible with the full capabilities, and is also portable to any language so you can learn just one syntax, is regex.
The argument is not about what can and can’t be done in C. C is Turing complete and low level. You can do anything in C. The debate is not even about if it’s good idea (I don’t think it is but that’s separate).

The question is about C semantics. Given the reply I get it’s pretty obvious that some here don’t understand what language semantics are. It’s about the amount of concepts you can express in the language. Haskell - a language I personally despise - is semantically very rich. So is modern C++ for what it’s worth. C simply isn’t.

It’s even deceiving sometimes because it has the apparence of having some semantic elements (arrays for exemple) which are not there in reality and are really only syntactic sugar on top of other semantic constructions(pointers).
I wonder, will "protip" can be used by "pro" users who for sure don't have `systemd` on their uniq and so special needs setup? ;)
For those interested: https://docs.raku.org/language/grammar_tutorial
> Then, 3 weeks into the process, with the orders still coming, Marcus pointedly asked him about why they were ordering so much more than the 6,000 bags they had originally predicted. The food broker laughed and said “I wondered why you’ve been so upset and concerned. When they said ‘units’, that was cases. They’re right on target so far.” You can imagine how we felt in that moment, realizing that the person we hired to make this a smooth transition and to guide us and to tell us the things we don’t know failed to ever ask us if we were ready for a 36,000 bag order. This is equivalent to a year and a half’s worth of coffee for us. We would NEVER have agreed to this had we known. It was more than we could physically or financially handle. We immediately severed our relationship with this food broker figuring at this point we were better off figuring this out without him.

> “I wondered why you’ve been so upset and concerned. When they said ‘units’, that was cases.

Ouch.

I get a lot of flak at work and at home when I get irritated that people don't use the right words and terms and this story won't change my attitude.

Eg:

- "we want a new tab on the website" -> they want a new subdomain with a whole new CMS and a link in menus of every site

- "we want a new site to highlight this thing" -> they want a single page with a photo and a paragraph but want to be able to change it themselves at will
Ask HN: Does sweet sensitivity go down with age?
A childhood candy isn’t as sweet as I remember it.

Or are we exposed to sweeter sweets and more often these days and so I perceive the sweetness lesser. You know where I’m going with this haha - too much sensory overload.

Or is it just bad memory as usual :D
It doesn't matter who redacted it.

The tweet claims "Amazon admits no basis for damages..."

The only possible source for this is a court filing by Amazon's attorney where Amazon admits there is no basis for damages.

The tweet appears to be a redacted filing by the Twitter user's attorney.

It doesn't support the headline at all. If you think it does, someone has sold you something.
Yeah, but if you want ground-engaging tools then that weight is helpful because it improves traction and increases inertia.

There's a reason that tractors are heavy.
> I'd posit that the one in 455 people who would die without a colonoscopy would disagree that colonoscopy isn't worth "all the money, time, effort and pain we spend on it."

Your post is a fantastic illustration of how and why we can't rely on "consensus" to determine fact. People routinely fall in love with narratives based on what they "know", and refuse to accept new data that challenges their narratives.

For literally anything we do, some people will die afterward. You could set up a study where you punch people in the shoulder at random, and follow them to see if getting punched implies a survival benefit. Eventually, everyone in both groups will die -- we'd expect about the same number in each group at any given time, because punching people in the shoulder probably doesn't affect lifespan. But still, people will die after getting punched!

Here we have a large, randomized study where approximately the same number of people died with colon cancer after getting colonoscopy as did without the screening. The screening had ~no effect on outcome.

Also, you've misunderstood: the 455 people is not the number of people who would die with colon cancer -- it's the number of perfectly healthy people you'd need to screen to prevent one case.

> I would suggest that you ask my uncle about it, as he didn't have a colonoscopy and was eventually diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer.

While I'm sorry for your loss, the data from this RCT suggests that colonoscopy on perfectly healthy people confers little to no survival benefit, and trumps any anecdote.
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