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For me, QML, while expressive, had a lot of rough edges.

If most of your logic is inside the C++ backend, its JS engine is just useless overhead. If you do something like lite data wrangling in QML, or worse, try to adapt existing JS libraries for it, it quickly becomes a nightmare of standard JS weirdness, non-compliance with normal JS, and just outright ridiculous and difficult to diagnose issues like data getting passed by reference from the previous page and that page getting popped off the stack, resulting in error.

And besides that, QML tooling is virtually non-existent. Major code editors don't even ship basic syntax highlighting for it out-of-the-box, the linter doesn't catch anything useful forcing you back into manual testing, and recently added language-server is at best a little useless and at worst impossible to get working correctly because your components live inside the build container and cannot be installed on the host without risk to system stability (Ubuntu Touch Clickable and Lomiri.Components).

If something like that was possible for Qt, I'd probably switch in a heartbeat. If our modern programing languages are finally expressive enough to write sane reactive UI and statically verify parts of your logic, why keep relying on the unverifiable and slow DSL?
The standards of what's "acceptable parenting" shot up greatly in the past decades. In the 60s, you were a great father if you passed out drunk only sometimes, didn't beat your kids too much and brought enough income to feed/house the family.

My childhood was all about spending the whole day outside roaming the streets with very little involvement from my parents. I didn't have any after-school (organized) activities, and I don't remember a single time that my father would drive me anywhere just because I needed it. That was all just normal, but today might get social services called on you.
>Isn't it good that now there is an alternative to C?

Rust has had endorsed language bindings for GTK for a long time: https://www.gtk.org/docs/language-bindings/rust

Some official Gnome applications are written in Rust.

Swift only supports a small number of linux systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux) which makes unsuitable for general linux application development.
Reading the documentation, "this is a clone of MS-DOS" turns out to be quite a misleading summary of what this is.

The documentation claims things (which I have not verified personally) such as forking, signals, and pipes. Instead of a SUBST command there is a MOUNT command. And there's a convoluted piece of hooplah that stands in place of what MS-DOS could do with the SHELL= line in CONFIG.SYS .
True; a while ago I sent someone a script written in my idiolect and he replied that I really ought to know where Common Lisp was, if I wanted it.

Transpiling to comprehensions is, however, a great way to get access to arbitrary python libraries from experimental languages.
Transmit LoRa Frames Without a Radio
Apple M3 Ultra chip will be redesigned as its own standalone chip
I don't think that's what mimetic desire refers to. It's not the imitation of the practices, it's the imitation of the goals. Not so much the goal "to succeed in business" as "to look like a person who is succeeding in business", though, and that's in large part why so many people seem so mediocre at it.
> In the ML reasearch, it has become very clear that compute is everything and architectures are actually not that important.

Hate to say "no, you're wrong", but… this is just not true. The latest LLM stuff only came after the invention of the transformer architecture. After the development of a new architecture, we always have a "hey, if you throw a supercomputer at it, it works EVEN BETTER!" phase: think Deep Blue, which was just alpha-beta search with a fitted evaluation function on a really powerful machine.

I see no reason to believe that transformers doing text prediction are a generally-applicable AI architecture. I suspect they're even incapable of many things, no matter how big they get: GPT-4 remains incapable of the things I claimed GPT models were incapable of back in the GPT-2 days.
Hell, $400000 would pay off my entire mortgage outright and then some. It's literally over 10x what I earn and I consider myself to have a pretty comfortable income. Do people really earn that much and think they aren't rich?
There are severe crimes reported weekly this year - you can simply just check the news for that along with regular assaults and hundreds of harassment cases. I am not sure I would quantify the rate as "extremely uncommon".
Windows needs at least the boot block device driver to be installed before conversion (else it cannot find the boot disk), and there are many other changes you need to make. Virt-v2v does all this stuff during conversion, and it's hard to get right.
FTX's victims may get their money back. Judge sentencing SBF might not care
a. It's the author using something which is GPL
b. GPL is allowed as long as complied.
c. GPL mostly limits ability for use within iOS / AppStore.
Wouldn't dealing with an outside consultancy firm be considered a low-value, mundane task?
When you have a large group it's cheaper to take a vehicle in.
I'd say at least some of the goals of businesses are pretty universally shared anyway.
I think you want "intelligent" to mean "ethical". Those politicians are definitely intelligent, they've devised a successful strategy to gain power. You could argue a successful sprinter doesn't need high intelligence, but politics is all about it.
> "this doesn't fit my experience. For example, Home Depot doesn't accept apple pay but their chip readers work with other cards."

It must be different in the US, then. In Europe, Canada, and elsewhere, any terminal that accepts standard contactless cards (ie: pretty much 100% of them now days) will accept Apple Pay/Google Pay.

When Apple Pay first launched, there was an issue where some older terminals would apply the unauthenticated contactless payment transaction limit (£50 or whatever), instead of recognising that device-authenticated payments should have no limit. But that's long since been fixed.
One is really hard-pressed to argue these little loadable executables are ELF files. They do not conform to the ELF standard. They're simply tiny loadable Linux executables because they exploit the Linux kernel loader's slackness in interpreting ELF binaries.
Lots of comments about "I’m no lawyer" and "But is this illegal? Once again, I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know," which makes the conclusion a bit, um, weird:

"A lot of this feels yucky, and none of the things mentioned in the case should be a surprise to anyone who has been following the Apple space for years. That said, it’s one thing for me to blog that Apple should change something, it’s another thing when the DOJ says it’s illegal. I think the DOJ has an uphill battle in winning this case..."
You could put it behind a Wireguard VPN.
That way you aren't exposing SSH or the like directly on the internet.
Properly-configured SSH with public key authentication is not something I worry about though.
Also possibly sanitation: You can probably throw the pneumatic tube headphones into boiling water without worrying about breaking any electronics.
I find it interesting that the single-board computer market seems to be coalescing around the Raspberry Pi B models as the standard form factor. This device in particular has almost all of the same IO connectors as the Raspberry Pi 5 (one microHDMI port is missing) in all the same places, so it should be compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 cases. I wonder whether the pinout on the 40-pin header is the same as that on the Pi?

I think most of us here are familiar with the fact that amd64 machines are made entirely from commodity parts: ATX cases, ATX power supplies, and so on. I wonder whether there's a similar commodification in the offing for the Pi form factor?
And it's not honest work either. LPDDR4 is now more expensive per GB and in smaller packages than LPDDR4X, plus it uses twice as much power. It's a lose-lose-lose situation not to use it.
Sure, lets be the guinea pig and sacrifice one's life for the sake of some hypothetical improvement that will happen by one's death. Since other folks have died on the NY subway and nothing has changed, I doubt one's sacrifice will do anything.

Maybe the leadership of the city should daily take the NY subway - without their personal security. And then write a bond of guarantee for the public.
OpenAI has turned for profit and stopped releasing any tehcnical details regarding architectures or training. So how do you know that nothing has happened? Because they didn't release it? Do you see the issue here?
Learning other people's perspectives helps broaden your own, and if you don't agree then formulating a counter-argument helps consolidate and crystalize your position.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll fix that.

Qt Quick (The Qt Company's library that is exposed in QML) is very advanced today. I'm able to do things that would be considered very difficult with Qt Widgets. For example: true drag and drop between items in a virtualized list: https://twitter.com/plumenotes/status/1772599295243440137

Also, they started to work well on native widgets (at least on macOS), for example they support native dialogs, context menus, etc. Very helpful.

I'll probably write a blog post about the development and architecture (some said they'd be interested).
> Competent people are a source of pain to higher levels of management, because they don't just say "yes boss"

Fits the MacLeod/Gervais pyramid of losers / clueless / sociopaths.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
If it's not already known it opens an intriguing avenue for research.
An LLM gets things wrong. It's no different than interacting with a person. You will get a confident answer. The difference is you can easily get a second opinion of an LLM without offending it. Hallucinations are unlikely to occur twice in a row. So just ask twice.
While PWAs offer advantages like offline capabilities and cross-platform compatibility, integrating P2P features for messaging apps like WhatsApp and social platforms like Instagram may present challenges due to their reliance on centralized servers for data storage and communication.

However, with advancements in web technologies and decentralized protocols, it's conceivable that future iterations of PWAs could incorporate P2P functionalities, allowing users to communicate directly without relying on central servers. This could enhance privacy, security, and possibly even enable offline messaging capabilities.

As for the inclusion of the Metaverse in a PWA, it's an intriguing concept. The Metaverse, a collective virtual shared space, is currently evolving with various platforms and technologies. Integrating Metaverse experiences into a PWA could democratize access to immersive virtual environments, potentially fostering greater inclusivity and accessibility.

Regarding relevance, if you're interested in exploring innovative web-based technologies and their potential applications, you may find this article on "The Future of Web Development" insightful. It discusses emerging trends and technologies shaping the web landscape, including PWAs and the Metaverse.

The Future of Web Development

Remember, while these ideas hold promise, their implementation may vary based on technological advancements and industry developments.
> ...making even older tools like Google Translate far more accurate.

My experience is that Google Translate has become far more polished, but often less accurate. Crucially, I am especially annoyed when it negates the sense of a sentence.

> understanding that context brought me much closer to the true meaning

Could this effect be part of global acceptance[0] of US pop culture? Certain pockets[1] aside, much of it is self-contained, more Hemingway-like, rather than making heavy use of references beyond the work, Joyce-like; thin characterisations obviously translate far more directly.

[0] seeing russian music videos containing basketball, latin-lettered yellow Simpsons-style school buses, and cheerleaders is ... disconcerting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BbrxJMBZw

(but maybe less disconcerting than swedes making a video for their slow with a US-civil-war theme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwmM93jgUo

maybe one of these days I'll see a US video set during the Stormaktstiden?)

[1] Rogers: "I understood that reference"; Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.
Turns out millions of years of evolution make us really efficient manual laborers. We use so little energy to do all that we do, it's pretty amazing.

But yes; I remember Ruby and the Galactic Gumshoe, the Andorrians were a race of artists who insisted that automation-induced unemployment was not a disease, it was the cure. When I think of the most secure jobs of the future, these days I think, toilet plumber and janitor.
Remember the famouse Tannenbaum quote:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

It's only a question of scale and not of any principles.
Perks of Being a Female Boss
So I just want to say how amazing this community was last time I posted.

You all rock.

Today I wanted to share why I believe it is helpful to empower female leadership in the YC community.

As a female artist, CEO of multiple successful startups, I’ve created my top reasons why it is great to stand out as a female “boss”.

1. Empathy based approach towards profits
2. Inspirational brand narratives
3. Promoting equity abroad and at home (within your local community where you likely employ other females)
4. Creating new ideas that have been historically overlooked.
5. Reaching new markets that previous bosses might miss. This may be due to having different life experiences - which is fine.

As a non binary black woman who is often asked how to promote LBGTQIA+, female, black, and non-traditionally represented voices, I have way more I could go into.

Just wanted to share a positive vibe since I’m at my desk and had a minute.

Feel free to add to this list!

All peace and .

Have a wonderful day

-Dakota
People have been calling slightly complicated software "AI" since forever.

Actually people did this before software is even a thing.
this. if you can afford m3 level of money, a6000 is definitely worth it and provides you long-term access to a level of compute even hard to find in the cloud (for the price and waiting period).

it is only dwarfed by other options if your workload can use multi-gpu, which is not a granted for most cases.
Sorry to nitpick this, but there is a subtle flaw in this thinking. The main argument of the article is that our experiences in the world (e.g. having a good teacher, getting bullied, parenting, etc) don't account for much difference in our personalities and genetically determined proclivities in the long term. Although the article says only half of personality / psych traits are genetically determined, which is still substantial imo, so the argument isn't strong enough to say "parents don't matter" even by the arguments in the article.

>> Research shows that inherited DNA differences account for about half of the differences for all psychological traits — including personality.

>> The notion that parents have much to do with how kids turn out is a myth

This is a much broader claim that the evidence does not support. Nourishment, physical activity, mental development, emotional support, getting a good education, avoiding the wrong paths, these are things that parents facilitate that absolutely affect "how a kid turns out". Sure, you can't force your kid to be enthusiastic about sports if they aren't, but having good parents that foster interests and development is a huge difference in "how a kid turns out".

Are you asserting low-income and neglected children have equal outcomes to those with stable households, access to resources, and good parenting? I would say your statement is a broad generalization unsupported by the flimsy article you reference, and contradicted by all available evidence. Just one small one:

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html
Hmm, that’s a great summary of what I meant when I recently told my coworker I couldn’t help him because I’d recently burned through all my political capital.
How about the radical idea of train service on both sides of the river if we don’t want people to drive. There are a massive amount of commuters, rent is outrageously expensive and park and rides are far away and have all the fun unpredictability of regular old driving. And as the parent poster says it is already expensive to go into the city, $18 to cross the GWB, if anyone wants to do the quick math on how many people cross that a day and then come back and tell me why we can’t have better infrastructure.
Hume – Meet our empathic AI voice
If you look at the original transformer paper, it was not a revolution. It was yet another few % improvement over state of the art. The reason it is still around is because it was actually a step back from recurrent networks and re-allowed scaling once more. Recurrent models used to be the big hope towards AGI for a long time (and some people still cling to them), but they simply turned out to be too limited when you want to scale up. And in the end, it's all about scaling compute. No matter which way you look at it. This is the true constant over the past 60 years.

>GPT-4 remains incapable of the things I claimed GPT models were incapable of back in the GPT-2 days.

Which are...? Anything we have seen so far from scaling LLMs is that capability is purely an issue of training/fine-tuning. It's not a question of the architecture.
The idea that real “wealth” can’t be built on the back of the iPhone is out of line with the facts.

Uber has a market cap of $160B. A not-insignificant fraction of Meta’s $1.2T value is derived from Instagram (which was notoriously iPhone-only when it took off like a rocket).

Apple has chosen to toll the specific market of digital goods delivered outside the open web. Even there, much wealth has been built: Before they decided it wasn’t worth the “broker fee”, Netflix was far and away the highest grossing app in the store for years on end.
This comparison to Windows and MSFT is really interesting. And it is really crazy how much we’ve accepted from Apple regarding lock-in. I’m impressed that the Apple Watch made it in the lawsuit exactly because it feels like a niche product because of the plethora of other smartwatches. But the anti-competitive behaviors in so many little decisions stifle innovation in the space and prevent basic consumer choices. And the trend over the last 20 years has only been getting worse. The Apple Watch is more locked down than iPhones which are much more locked down than PCs. Just been a bad trend in computing that 80s Apple benefitted from in a way that today’s Apple doesn’t allow.
The US _is_ intervening militarily to defend Israel, mainly in Iraq, Yemen and Syria (as well as nearby oceans). Moving those air strikes to iranian territory would in practice be easy, if the political conditions allow it, which Iran knows.

The US might not be able to stop anti-ship missiles, but that's not the strategy either. The strategy is to keep starving Yemen and showing off military equipment, reminding every nearby state, including Pakistan, how the US conducts diplomacy in hostile situations.

An existential threat to Israel needs to invade, which means military bases in a neighbouring area where the US doesn't already have thousands of soldiers and a lot of equipment. Nasrallah doesn't have the people or equipment needed, Iran wouldn't be allowed to use saudi or jordanian territory.

Sure, it's not about goodness, it's more about not having to arm their own populations and trade in blood commodities from Africa. It's also about the US and Israel being a relatively reliable enemy, that isn't going to perform surprise missile strikes on your territory for obscure reasons like Iran did a while ago. They'll do air strikes, but they'll also tell you why in advance. It might be a lie, but they'll look a bit mad rather than devious and mainly attack civilian or paramilitary targets.

Israel's strategic problem is the same now as it has been for almost a century. How to get away with ethnic cleansing, and if that doesn't work because no other country wants to participate, how to get away with genocide? US protection has been the answer for most of that time, and is likely to continue, with Europe using Ukraine as a domestically communicated reason to produce more weapons which will then be transfered mostly to Israel. I might be wrong and Iran more reckless than I expect, we'll see over the coming decade or so.
Same, I used Apple Pay in Germany before it was officially launched there and people were very surprised that I could just pay with my Watch. Contactless payment was already becoming more prevalent, so it worked in a lot of places.
There is nothing about the parts functions that actually requires pairing, or the bogus "calibration" ceremonies, and so they can not show or explain how they are functionally necessary, and so the law does block that.

But I'm sure they will just move some things around to produce the same ultimate effect while no longer technically doing serial number pairing or bogus "calibration" ceremonies that somehow didn't need to be done for the entire history of electronics before now, and somehow can't be done automatically or by the end user or by any other technician.

The law is a step in the right direction by trying to talk about the ends at least a little vs the means, but only barely.

The driver of Apple's behavior has not changed, so telling Apple they can't do specifically X is like trying to contain water with a pole. You stopped the water in one spot, and the water went right around it in infinite other spots.

But the law at least a little bit tries to say the user must be able to do things instead of only saying specific things Apple can't do.

And then it goes and allows mist of the actual offenders to keep on offending to the point that Apple is almost the only ones actually affected!

Maybe they figure it's a neccessary start? Where they know the exceptions make no sense, but at least they are exceptions, and so after some time with this version to become normal, after some years they can shine a light on the exceptions and get some public support by asking "why don't these guys have to obey the same law as everyone else?"

or maybe another angle is after some years they will be able to show how other industries changed for the better, so it's harder to argue that these still have any defensible right to any exception.

In any event, plan or no plan, they probably simply would not have been able to pass the good complete version of the law. So like always the choice is this ratty moth-eaten rag version or nothing at all.
> many more incompetent people who, due to Dunning-Kruger, don't recognize their own incompetence

You are right of course, I am myself a living proof of that, and I would not wish it on my worst enemy organization to give me a promotion. That said, this doesn't really explain why so many incompetent people end up being promoted, which Peter (I believe correctly) documented. His theory is admittedly a bit more elaborate than mine, but it obviously builds on an endearing naïveté regarding the nature of organizations, especially large and mature such.
It has been studied, and (surprisingly) restricting resident work hours to "only" 80 hours did not improve patient care / outcomes. One of the reasons is suspected to be increased number / frequency of "hand-offs," a high-risk time for information to be lost. Plenty has been written on the topic.
A molecular mechanism for hippocampal memory
Interesting potential applications in senescence and memory "preservation"
and those thousands of apps bug because they exist in a reality where few CSVs from certain sources can have different formats, not in the fantasy world where intention to work with certain files becomes a binding specification