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One of the things I find interesting about SIMD is that a lot of behavior that is “undefined” for scalar types in C-derived languages is explicitly fully defined when you use SIMD intrinsics with the same integral types. UB exists to hide the fact that major CPU architectures give different results for basic ALU operations in some cases. SIMD makes no such pretense of abstraction. If I am using AVX-512 I explicitly get the full Intel architecture experience, the implementation details are not hidden behind UB. Same with ARM, etc.

For example, shift overflows are masked on x86, zero-filled on ARM, and undefined in C/C++. In SIMD-land, none of this is hidden and so you design your code to leverage the reality that those instructions behave differently, whereas in C/C++ only the behavior they have in common is “defined”.

The vector ISAs are sufficiently different from each other (and normal CPUs) that it is like trying to build a compiler that can automagically produce optimized code for both CPUs and GPUs from the same source tree. I am not optimistic that this will happen anytime soon. AVX-512 essentially started life as a GPU ISA, which probably explains the interesting fact that a modern x86 CPU core has more AVX-512 registers than x86 registers.
> This is a very low level embedded GUI library when you have a screen where you just set pixel colors or can draw some primitives like lines.

There are a few of those like Dear ImGui that are pretty mature and time-tested
We do the same with Nix, the shebang line looks like this:

#! nix-shell -i python3 -p "python312.withPackages (pkgs: [ pkgs.boto3 pkgs.click ])"

With this, the only requirement is Nix on the system, you don't even need Python to be installed!
> I'm proud of the core principles that America was based upon

I think there's never much to gain in being proud of things you have nothing to do with or control over. If you like some principles you would be proud when you uphold them personally. It is when we start feeling proud in the abstract that we start having issues.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499625
> It's worth acknowledging that there are some legitimate reasons for an app to check which other apps are installed on your phone. For example, an app might check which UPI apps are installed to show relevant payment options.

Nope! Nope, nope, nope. If you're wondering how we got into this situation.. well, it's exactly stuff like this. Weird to see someone who's digging into it at all also making excuses for it.

No one ever said "I want to avoid a single extra click once every other month, so I guess I better irrevocably open my data/phone/life up completely to megacorp forever". And they certainly did not say this about tinycorp. People just absolutely suck at adversarial thinking, and good guys need to do it for them before bad guys can. Do you want organized crime blackmailing your politicians about dating apps and infidelity? Do you want to make it easy to do large scale targeting of ${vulnerable_people} the next time the cultural or political climate shifts?

Come on. Anyway shouldn't the phone OS itself handle this rather than apps launching apps?? If not.. just let people pick a payment option, and then throw an error if the option is not available.
Well, it depends on what the definition of engineering is, whether we’re surprised to see animals do it, right?

“They document some interesting tool-making behavior, that the chimpanzees are somewhat picky about the material properties of the sticks they use to catch ants.”
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485649
> been buoyed by government contracts, subsidies, and borderline crony-capitalism

The government pays spacex to complete contracts. They pay tens of thousands of companies the same way - defence, bridges, trains, roads, etc. in fact, every government does this.
It’s also worth pointing out spacex have completed those contracts much cheaper than competitors who have not delivered (ie star liner). As far as the gov giving out contracts for space stuff, spacex are literally the best option, and directly save taxpayers money.

Tesla gets subsided because the government wants to encourage EVs. Oil extraction and refining, corn, education, healthcare, defence and literally thousands of other sectors are also heavily subsidized. Again, every government in the world does this for sectors they want to encourage.

You are so hell bent on your “Musk bad” line you didn’t realize it has nothing to do with him or his companies. You are angry at how governments around the world pay for and subsidizes sectors every single day.
A comment regarding ‘American Isolationism’.

The USA is threatening to annex its (former) allies. This is not isolationism.

Additionally, we do have trade with the Asian countries mentioned. My factory produces heavy machinery, and we’ve installed it on sites in Taiwan. Europe has very good relationships with those countries.
https://archive.is/3LNqx

Graphics missing, but the body of the article is there. Useful until someone posts a better link.
Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts. And how many actually need your contacts to function.

That is, again, not require but ask for on iphone. I have zero non-functioning apps on my iphone due to denied access to contacts. Even a chinese bluetooth light controller doesn't dare (while refusing to work on android for the same reason).

You can hate apple/iphone ecosystem all you want, but let's not sneak false claims into how they actually work.
How could I possibly know? That's my whole point!
Assyrian here, I wouldn't blame the author too much, the journalism on this is certainly lacking.

As our land and people got colonized by turk/Arab/kurdish. Their voice dominates ours a million to one. So you will see them referring to us as Turk/Arab/Kurd Christians in their books and media. Which will lead journalists to such thing is true simply because it's so prevelant

It was only in 2004 Assyrians were recognized in Iraq, before we were Arab or Kurdish Christians.

They still refer to us as Arab or Kurdish Christians, but more commonly, they just simply call us Kuffars
Paper and glass.
I had an idea somewhat related to this where we use the solar winds as a sort of road and the earth's magnetic field as a sort of rotor to convert kinetic energy from the sun into electricity.
Do you mean something like https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VideoCutTool ?
> Why was the initial trust so easily given?

Because this architecture predates the existence of the current privacy nightmare.

In fact it predates the general availability of the internet. How could a program you would install from a floppy/compact disk bought on a store behave maliciously if you didn’t or barely had access to the internet ?

And then it stayed like this because Windows is heavily marketed as being retro compatible.
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Everybody is commenting on possible implementations or how similar solutions already exist.
I would like to focus on an overlooked but very important fact: most of the important software in the Linux ecosystem is opensource. Yeah, the ELF binary from 20 or 25 years ago might not run anymore out of the box but you have the source code, access to the whole history of source code of needed libraries. It will for sure not be a 0-effort adventure and it will not work with proprietary and closed source software, but it's doable for most of Linux old abandoned software.
> they're going to make the same mistakes [...] no (e)SATA.

> I wish they got back to routing.

I feel like you are contradicting yourself.
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Probably nothing. "Expose the database to the pointy-haired boss directly, as a service" is an idea as old a computing itself. Even SQL itself was originally an iteration of that idea. Every BI system (including PowerBI and Tableau) were supposed to be that.

It doesn't work because the PHB doesn't have the domain knowledge and doesn't know which questions to ask. (No, it's never as simple as group-by and top-5.)
The Microsoft antitrust case also gave them a couple of years to grow without that threat.
I'm not a big fan of patriotism in general, but something I noticed about the US patriotism is the tendency to call the US "the best country in the world". This crosses all political differences, e.g. I recall being surprised how Michael Moore was saying it in an interview or movie (when justifying criticising policy, he said he does it because he knows that America is the best country in the world). Even the most patriotic friends I have in other countries would typically not say this.
GP used hyperbole but was not all wrong. The issue is that most native apps could very well have been web apps. I appreciate that on iOS adding a web app to homescreen is possible, albeit obscure and not many use that feature. I hate that Firefox never really supported PWA for some unfathomable reason.
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That is what the fingerprinting is for.
Not saying its a non-sequitur, but both arguments seem to follow a false premise.
I feel like we are so privileged in the US that there’s little to no personal consequences for being so wrong about a topic. Eventually there’s needs to be a correction, whether it’s because we regain our senses or we stray so far that the majority of people start to be majorly affected. I’m fearing it’s the latter.
I had a very varied career - great jobs in many fields, lots of overall success from the group efforts across four distinct companies and govt institutions. Honestly, while I was successful, I always felt I was punching upward in every role except my last. I was respected but always exhausted. I was doing things just outside my wheelhouse. So I grew a lot but dumped much time into my career.
My last job was a 18 month contract data science / data engineer position. Part of the previous punching up did prepare me for the final job, as well as a late career MS Operation Research degree.
So the final job was the best. The youngsters I worked with were impressive, respectful to me, the contract role had little baggage, the technology fairly state of the art (not FANG), overhead was light. I was able to own an effort from start to finish.
I do think I may have worked a little too hard on my career, but it was one with reward.
It is. But even with unix sockets, the client should never blindly trust the bytes received and parse them defensively.
I wonder if there is a discrepency between the numbers for "travel" and "flights". The US and Canada share a large land border. I would imagine that people who cross at a land border would be more stable in their patterns. Land travelers are much more restricted in where they can go, and more likely to have regular destinations they make habits out of.
That's what I was thinking too - this is a huge opportunity to all non-US holiday spots in North America.

What's quite funny about all this, is that the damage Trump has already done, will not disappear quickly. He insulted pretty much every ally country on earth and the disrespect he and his administration show is mind blowing. It's only been 2 months and there are already millions of people in the West who stop buying American and will not go there.

US is about to find out why their stock market was recently valued more as a % of the whole world economy, and not only the US economy.
US citizens may not want to travel internationally because they don't trust US customs and border agents upon their return.

About 20 years ago a customs agent asked me, "are you thanking the lord Jesus Christ that you have returned safely to America". You just tell them what they wanted to hear and you were fine. Now if I am not mistaken, they can demand you unlock your phone which might show you were at a Tesla Takedown rally, or purchased a movie ticket to No Other Land, or whatever else is deemed verboten. I am unclear how long a citizen can be detained/delayed by a customs agent without cause.
Gotta stay clean on OPSEC
I don't see a problem with the LLM answer. The field near an FM station can reach 100mV or more. The maximum safe exposure levels for general public at 100MHz is 30V/m according to standards.
At least in Germany, tap water is subject to higher standards than bottled water.
I mean something like CapCut that has access to the phone camera for capturing video.
Even if we accept the premise that Greenland is vital to national and international (read as western) security, the west abandoned naked colonialism decades ago because they could maintain military and economic access to a country without resorting to it.
> The contrast between positive freedom, the freedom to do something, and negative freedom, the freedom from interference in your life, is the core political argument in America right now.

Interesing take but I don't buy this part at all. The core political argument in the US is epistemological. What's real and what counts as true? There are some axiological differences but I think they are minor in comparison to not being able to agree on how the world is in the first place.
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https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation

HN Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260
The commenter says about most apps. The use case you mentioned requires computing resources.
You can do the whole thing on browser too but it is not efficient way .
But in the case of delivery apps, finance apps, you don't need much compute as can work exclusively with APIs .
Switching to UDP won't magically improve your network connectivity. The overhead of WebRTC over UDP isn't too high as well.
Are there many such lines? People are gripping about boilerplate like they're writing XML by hand or Java with Notepad, but the few actual boilerplate I've seen are easily solved by snippets and code generators. Other things that look like boilerplate are in fact specific code that only fits the current context. And more often you only need to write it once, then either abstract it away or copy-paste it and edit it.
Being from there only means they can't deport you or deny entry indefinitely, right?
In Germany having salt with added fluoride is very common. There is salt without it if you don’t want it though.
That was 2008, which was an extraordinary event - many say it was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. People are claiming bank bailouts are regular events - are there recent ones?
There is nothing inherently evil about an app, or inherently good about a website - it's only because historically we have allowed crappy app permissions structures and allowing apps to ask for things they don't need.

Apps are faster, are more predictable (no auto-reloading or rendering issues) and generally perform better IMO.

On the other hand, in reality, you're correct. I think the NYTimes app will collect more data from me than the NYTimes website.
NYC tap water has spoiled all other tap water for me
Perhaps, vitamins, micro doses of aspirin, and other low level medical treatments should also be added to water, for the benefit of the silent poor and sick.
Now try VSCode in chrome and compare it with apple notes. I use both and VSCode wins hands down in long lines and files.
Perhaps you're wrong, perhaps you're right, but it's the "Apple makes rare stumble" journo trope/narrative I was questioning tbf, not Apple themselves.
If an individual spends 10% of their SNAP benefits on soda, they’ve spent about ~$30 over a month on it, which is ten 20fl oz drinks. People drinking a bit more than a gallon of soda per month only supports the notion that they can subsist on that without any water if you believe that they categorically have some sort of exceptional unhuman biology.
Exactly. But GP deliberately said all, not most or many.

GPs comment is something that people in politics would called sensational. Extreme rhetoric is great for upvotes because it stirs emotions but it’s not rational.
I can’t tell if this is a parody account or you’re just completely mismatched between confidence and skill.

Your comment history seems to just be filled with you talking about topics that you clearly have zero conceptual understanding of with full confidence while you argue with people who try to explain to people how you are wrong.

Today it’s thinking flutter is a language or that it only does mobile or that nobody uses it. Like all three of those points are objectively wrong.

Yesterday it’s somehow managing to get confused between gRPC and MCP then the idea of stateless and stateful protocols and a bunch of other things.

Maybe you should spend a lot more time reading and less time confidently telling people they are wrong on topics you don’t actually understand.
Im sorry, but I think it’s ridiculous that thinking something that knows off an IQ point or two isn’t a big deal.

For one, we’re literally making everyone slightly less intelligent. While it’s a very small factor, I sure as hell wouldn’t want that for my daughters.

For two, IQ is easy to measure. Through that, we know it’s affecting the brain during development. How else is it affecting it? We don’t know.

Weighed against potentially higher risk of cavities pretty much only during childhood and the math seems incredibly clear to me. I feel like the only reason we haven’t banned adding it to water supplies is because people have a knee jerk reaction to anything that sounds even vaguely anti-vax nowadays.

The fact that until 10 years ago the US allowed significantly higher levels should be a really big deal to people.

I’m on reverse osmosis well water so it doesn’t matter to me personally, for what it’s worth.
I see. Communication is tricky.
No GPs says there are no apps, which is not most.
Popular in 2023 (116 points, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148495
What’s the comparison?
I'm not that knowledgeable, but I rememember Computrace auto-install on a system that didn't even have UEFI.
Why does this admin feel like it's run by frat boys
Like the vitamins and minerals added to cereals/milk or the iodine added to salt?
Fingerprinting is just for identifying user, not getting user data. You can potentially resell things like app usage to credit rating company.
Performance is likely not a reason anymore - and if it is, then it is the platform that imposes it (rust was runs fairly fast in a browser).
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came#Text
Are they silent, or just not being represented by the American press?
Alternatively, we could speed up the Earth! Let's get rid of those pesky leap seconds!
I get your point partially. All these apps that companies put out in order to collect and manage shopping tokens or to contact their customer service would have been much better as a website.

However I still do like to have apps on my devices that just work offline, without distributing my data across services I do not control. And I also do not want to depend on a internet connection, when I am anywhere.

I like my offline Osmand/Organic Maps app to show me the trails when I am somewhere in the woods or mountains. I like my apps that instead on using some third party server, connect directly to my other local devices to share data.

IMO all (where possible) apps should be developed offline first, and only require internet when necessary, and those apps that cannot work without internet should be web apps, they do not need to be on my devices.
It’s far more than a few, and the level does not need to be that high:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
A friend of mine also wants the answer to that question. :-/
"freedom from government interference, is being promoted by those seeking to weaken the government enough to supplant it"

That is a very big generalisation. There are many legitimate reasons for reducing government interference and reducing the size of government.
Is it really?

This seems a pretty obvious outcome of foreign allies constantly negging us for supporting their defense and international organizations taking advantage of the US while citizens are undermined at home.

Progressive managerialism failed to regulate its excesses — and this is what it looks like when that machinery breaks.
Hey guys, while some of the criticism in the comments is pretty sound, keep in mind that genuine authors (and PG too) write first of all to entertain themselves, as a way to have a more clear reflection on their thinking. And they publish to learn from readers' responses.
Or the iron that I wish they wouldn't add as it means I can't eat them due to my medical condition.
Fluoride in toothpaste already covers most people today. So, if there are legitimate concerns about adding it to the water supply due to fluorosis, even if those concerns are small, removing it seems reasonable to me. Are the number of people who don't brush their teeth really high enough to justify it?
> Musk has made no attempt to suppress speech on Bluesky, Facebook, Reddit, Tiktok, etc.

Actually it just came out yesterday he did try to suppress free speech on Reddit.
People who want to remove fluoride from the water should visit countries where fluoride is not added and look at people's teeth.

I live in France and it's just so obvious that people grew up without fluoride — even celebrities try to talk without showing their teeth when they're on TV!

I'm all for getting consent in most cases, but sometimes you'd have to be an idiot not to take the obvious win.

It's like we were delivering flakes of gold with the mail and people complained — that's not what mailboxes are for!
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What would be the latest usable office version recommended for this?
There are hundreds of text-to-SQL companies and integrations already. What's different about this that makes you react like that?
Im sorry. I really just can’t understand or relate to this at all. Mobile web still feels like such a terrible experience, and apps generally don’t. When’s the last time you tried booking a flight on mobile web? And how do you deal with all of the real estate the browser steals? Having to log in every time when the app can just cache my authentication and FaceID me?
No. I said the view. The comment itself is just neutral on that point[1] because the point it is making is about the views of people. Not historical facts.

[1] Since I don’t care to get into a whole other topic than the OP (it’s got nothing to do with Incas, or Aztecs) on a comment that I see is now on the top of this thread.
Permissions and performances.

But we could argue that if webapps were more used on mobiles, new APIs would have been opened to facilitate cross-app integrations.
Broken security boundaries are actively harmful. If you offer something that looks like a security boundary, then people will design their systems on the assumption that it does what it looks like it does. Doubly so if it is actually documented as a security feature. They will then _not_ look into alternative mechanisms to achieve their security goals, even when those alternatives exist and are less susceptible to holes.

Yes, the kernel should be fixed. But until the kernel is fixed, distributions should not be enabling broken features by default.