skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Available, yes. Good, no. Nobody had enough memory space on PC-class machines to do a good compiler.

(AutoCAD for the original MacOS was compiled on Sun machines, because the Apple compilers were so bad.)
That’s one of the fundamental axioms you just have to assume to be true because otherwise, you can’t really make decisions about anything.
Is this true? I thought it was purely the rendering.
Did it happen with Android yet?
Oh what I’d give for a real Firefox browser on iOS. I see lots of value in preventing chrome based browser from running through as they already dominate and shape the web too much as it is.
> The MOC is just a code generation tool, it's about as objectionable as bison.

I think you've missed the whole point. No one cares about implementation details. The critical aspect is that Qt imposes the use of a superset of C++ which includes keywords such as signals and slots. Technically it's not even C++, but a language which has its own unique keywords, concurrency model, object ownership and life cycle, etc.
The Future of Humanity Institute closed this week
If you really mean that then maybe keeping Chinese influence out is a good thing?
NB: Title changed from the likely overly provocative "Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher", and is wordsmithed from the article text "The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to long-termism and effective altruism, closed this week", per HN guidelines on clarity, linkbait, and length:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
This will conflict with european RGPD Law.

Basically, the US senate legalize spying on foreign users of US company, even if europe (and other countries) forbid these companies to transmit their data on US server...

Unless Europe (and other countries) legalize access by 3 letters American agencies to european servers, american software and social media companies will face an irreconcilable dilemna.
What does AIA stand for? Is that short for "AI Assisted Chip Design" or something else?
> it’s no surprise that there’s demand among Thunderbird users to support Exchange.

Uh, I'm surprised. How many people actually love thunderbird? And to the extend it justified the development.
Primary sources:

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(24)00182-X.pdf

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38603509/

There's also a press release from LBL:

[3] https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/17/scientists-discover-fi...

[1] is open access.
I see no legal definition supporting the claim "Proactive, in this case, means “before they are legally required to.”"

E.g. https://thelawdictionary.org/proactive/

A behaviour that focuses on results and actions rather than acting when something happens. This type of behaviours aims to identify and take advantage of opportunities and also to prevent potential threats or problems. On the contrary, reactive behaviour works by retaliating when an event or problem has already occured.
What are you talking about, fam? Exchange support for Thunderbird is the entire second half of the article.
Paywall: <https://archive.is/5BvtE>
But iOS is WebKit, not chromium. Am I misunderstanding your concern?
That's actually a great point. After the Snowden revelations, politicians justified some of the surveillance programs by claiming they were only looking at the metadata, not the content, as if that made any difference. So that's one of the excuses they use to create the appearance of legality.

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/21/193578367/calling-it-metadata...
Surely it would be nice to be able to specify using the repr mechanism that you explicitly want so-and-such ABI, in the same way that you can for the C ABI.

I haven't looked at the crates you're describing, but presumably they're providing a proc macro or something instead, which is not really the right layer to do this stuff.
Sad, but true. Unfortunately, Safari still has some ways to go in terms of feature support.
https://ios404.com/ has a great list of stuff that's still missing.
Hey, sorry for the slow reply, didn't get any notifications from this site.

Sustainable - Perhaps, we have daily signups but people are not converting to paid users. I plan to change are pricing strategy to credit based usage, and I'll see if that will improve things.

We are also going into e-commerce direction with a spin off product, so hopefully that will go a bit better.

Do you mind sharing what is the tool that you build?
> Qt Creator makes working with Qt a heck of a lot easier in a way that working with Visual Studio or vim does not.

That's only true if you intentionally ignore all the aspects where Qt Creator falls way short of what "visual studio or vim" are leaps and bounds ahead.
Trying to convince my boss to let me run Linux because Defender sucks up 90% of my CPU monitoring my compiler. My builds go from ~5 minutes to ~30 seconds by running the build inside a basic Linux VM on the same hardware.

I've exempted every compiler process, all the files, the directories, everything. And yet I still see 90% "system" CPU usage while GCC gets whatever idle time is left.

It's the literal worst.
It depends on your goals, but this is David’s core point. If your goal is an independent income stream or building a business, at many (most?) life stages, shooting for the moon is not practical - too risky to put all your eggs in one basket. Too many ways to fail and waste years. You’re better off diversifying your bets, not dissimilar to VCs themselves. Try small ideas and scale them up if they work/seem promising.

And of course if your goal is just building wealth and having security, maybe working for a BigCorp is indeed the better choice of time/effort. You can make a lot of money in FAANG and get a dynamite family healthcare plan + retirement contributions to boot.
It’s not so much the ‘std’ thing, it’s the double colon that is an abomination. I never understood why they couldn’t simply use a single dot like some other languages have done.
Ah, yes the demo is blocked by uOrigin
> For one, this isn't an ontological argument, this is a version of the cosmological argument.

Potato, potahto.

> Have we not already started doing philosophy?

No. Establishing the meanings of words is part of science. You should read chapter 7 of David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" and pay particular attention to the part where he says, "Languages are theories."
Depending on what you mean by "quality alternatives", GNU/Linux phones exist. Sent from my Librem 5.
Yes that’s correct. What I’m saying is I don’t think chrome based browsers should come to iOS (brave, chrome)
You can talk about free will without talking about morality in the same way that you can talk about ICBMs without talking about nuclear war. Sure you can do it, but complaining when other people discuss both things together is silly.
Downsize to 2000 sqft.. Ffs…
The most probable scenario for inorganic matter to be arranged and organised into a living, homeostatic self replicating machine, is for a number feature complete systems (including hardware and software) to appear all at the same time.

If you don't start with all of them in place, the organism dies, and fails to benefit from both time and natural selection.

Even in this model there are many chicken / egg scenarios. e.g. Every cell needs a membrane to survive, but how does a membrane benefit a cell if it has no ports built in to let waste out and food in? So the wall and the access control systems must appear simultaneously, or the cell dies and does not benefit from natural selection.

Another one is DNA, it's information storage, but it's inert, it doesn't do anything except be acted upon by other systems, but DNA holds the information to create those systems. So how were the systems consistently replicated before information storage systems like DNA?

You probably don't care about this because you seem to be answering something he didn't suggest... But he's not saying that every cell in our bodies is being actively managed by another being, he's saying that cells have been designed to self-coordinate.

Anyway, just food for thought for other readers who may also have these questions, you're not alone, and it is worth investigating because the current paradigm is in crisis and it's not worth basing your life decisions on their ideas anymore.
Tea.xyz causes open source spam problems, again
Not everyone thinks like that.
Maybe an attempt at improving the public image of scientists by humanism can help accomplish that.
Darn. For me at least, half the point is to be more anonymous from Apple.
The title/community post are wrong - it's WebKit, not Safari itself. But the intended meaning is true, all browsers on iOS are "skins" on the WebKit engine, no Gecko, Blink, etc.

This still ignores all the differentiation between the browsers on iOS, even if they're all on WebKit. And even as Orion proves, browsers on iOS can support Firefox/Chrome extensions! So WebKit isn't something that prevents that...
And yet it's exactly the situation I'm in. I use evolution on Ubuntu through a horizon virtual desktop, purely for better exchange support. I switched from thunderbird on windows to outlook on windows when I started having a lot more meetings to coordinate, and then evolution when a virtual desktop solution was rolled out and Linux was an option for desktops at work again. Quite a few other people in my department that just use thunderbird on Linux because they can't stand outlook or using the web version would happily have better outlook support.

Perhaps there is an audience here and it just doesn't match your own experiences.
You'd get that same benefit, and reduce numerous, non-obvious wastes of fossil fuels with a carbon tax.
This statement does seem a little ironic coming from a browser which is Chrome with a different design.
If you want to be even more cynical you could say they are all limited versions of Safari. There are valid security concerns for why Apple does this but I would love more choices as a developer.
Fine, I'll just pick some random books: Feyerabend's Against Method, Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Nietzsche's The Antichrist, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Descartes's Meditations, Spinoza's Ethics, Plato's dialogues, I could go on and on. Maybe you don't like all of these, but there are plenty of people who read these for fun, and all of them are taken seriously by philosophers.
How A Hater Accelerated [Mentava]'s Timeline by a Year, Overnight
https://www.greenlightning.ag/

"$.04 per lb of N.
$.70 per lb N is about standard currently for uan32" according to a random redditor (lost link, pulling from second-hand Signal chat history)

Appears to use this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland%E2%80%93Eyde_process

Highly inefficient chemically, and produces salt nitrate, but energy is cheap enough it seems to beat out offsite transport

```

~250kg/ salt nitrate per ha
ha farm feeds comfortably 10 ppl year round.
25kg salt per person/yr
12.5kg nitrate/person per year

60 g per kWh
1kWh/.06kg*12.5kg
208kWh/person/yr (less than 1 300W solar panel pp)
estimate $0.1/kWh
$20 e- per year per person best case

```

All I've got on it. Needs Potassium and Phosphorus supplements for ideal fertilizer still. Very neat though, and seemingly a sizable step economically - especially where fertilizer costs are the farming bottleneck. Can almost make self-contained plant + solar + water collection + harvesting bot + green lightning units that grow indefinitely without any inputs but air, rain and sun.
And most browsers on other platforms are just Chrome with different design.
Owner came right out on launch and publicly told disabled people they had to go to the back of the line because basic accessibility for disabled people wasn't as important as polish for existing able bodied users.
I recently tried Thunderbird instead of Outlook. It had the same issue as FF did before the quantum update: It's too damn slow. Switching between different folders with hundreds or thousands of mails has noticable delays, while in Outlook it's essentially instant.
Does it can be used as marching cubes alternative?
Do you have a use case you'd prefer they put their resources into implementing?
I don’t think you understand what philosophy is.
you check in the uncompressed audio, and then fmod, wwise or whatever other middleware you're using will compress to a different format and compression ratios on a per-platform basis during the build process (i.e. vorbis on PC, AT9 on PS4, FADPCM on mobile, etc.)
Why does this guy keep getting so much attention on Hacker News? Isn’t this the same guy that tried to shame MKBHD (an actual small business owner/founder)? He’s clearly just engagement farming, probably for his “course”.
That is the other thing. They are often not really downsizing that much. They want a few fewer bedrooms and no stairs.
Helpful comment

> People selling you courses and community are mostly grifters

"Mostly". It could be argued that that is the purpose of HN

I do not know, but I am glad of it

And I'm not buying

(Absolutely not complaining)
This comment in the thread is in disagreement with your point:

> As a former employer for a YC funded company that was shut down against the founder's wishes, forced to via the investor board; I can say that this article does not universally wrongly characterize the YC experience.

I have heard of YC doing pivots, so "dig a hole in the same spot until you reach the boiling magma" doesn't characterize it either. However, that doesn't make YC look good from the perspective of a founder wanting to be in control. What I remember hearing from YC is of cases where a partner tells you to pivot, not where they let the founders decide to pivot themselves.

Edit: I realized the main comment linked to jibes with what I was saying:

> The overwhelming feeling is: be humble in the face of reality, try something and try to try it in a way that you can assess whether it’s working — quickly/cheaply — then try something new.

...try something new that's recommended by the YC partner(s)

I am more positive than negative on YC though. There is no perfect balance between being too hands-on or too hands-off for a startup accelerator.
Respectfully I think we just disagree.

I do think we must have pretty different sensory experiences then, because my awareness of sensory data is entirely of processed data and nothing at all like the raw output of my retina (which I personally don't have accesss to although we can access it in animals if we cut their heads open). My ears have a high pitched ring constantly, and although it's indistinguishable from a sensory perspective from hearing a high pitched noise out in the world, my brain has somehow never attributed it to an outside object. Similarly with occular migraines.

I think a reasonable test would be whether you could build a useful embedded device out of only a sensor and no logic to interpret the output of that sensor.

The thing that lets us even talk meaningfully about computable functions is that they have a logical description. We wouldn't be able to say anything meaningful about the entire class of such functions if we were restricted to those we have experience of. It's not even clear what it would mean to universally quantify over a class of logical structures in a purely empirical world. We don't even need to get as fancy as computable functions. We couldn't even meaningfully talk about the class of natural numbers.

And the thing that lets us translate little dots on some quantum mechanical detector is that we have a mathematical theory that predicts that dots will look one way if such and such is the case. And they will look another way if such and such is the case. If sense data are all you need, then you have to give an account of why a trained experimental physicist can see different things in those dots than a toddler does.
Hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
To be clear, I reviewed applications _on behalf of Stripe Atlas customers applying to YC_, not on behalf of YC. (I have never chatted with anyone in YC, besides presumably on Hacker News.)
One of the worst medical scandals of modern times
I just attempted this myself by creating an issue, commenting a file, copying the link and not submitting the issue.

It seems to work initially, but then 5m later the file gets deleted and the link leads to a dead s3 asset page.

So I believe this is fixed. Though the solutions suggested below are crafty, trying to reproduce myself shows me this has been addressed by the GH team
Sounds like you're going to be in the business of fielding unpopular opinions for quite some time. I'm shocked that someone would shake their fist at the person developing code that you can go download right now[0] and not the business that prevents your phone from using it. If this is your sincere opinion, you either misunderstand the situation or expect to have your cake and eat it too.

[0] https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta
Are you suggesting that no development is justified? I think we can expect that for any email client, there will be demand for one of the most popular email servers, and one that is required for most corporate use.
Tankie opinions are completely irrelevant to the functioning of the market.
It's kind of funny hearing this from Brave which is Chrome with a different design. I'm guessing Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, Opera GX, Orion, Sigma OS, Arc all consider themselves to have differentiated themselves from Chrome despite being Chrome under the hood.

If Webkit === Safari then is Blink === Chrome? Do people actually want alternative browser engines or do folks just want all iOS browsers to be backed by Chromium?
Measuring software team performance is hard.

If DORA is hated by some, what metrics would those teams prefer instead?
There were some developments using LLMs in the timeseries domain which caught my attention.

I toyed with the Chronos forecasting toolkit [1], and the results were predictably off by wild margins [2]

What really caught my eye though was the "feel" of the predicted timeseries -- this is the first time I've seen synthetic timeseries that look like the real thing. Stock charts have a certain quality to them, once you've been looking at them long enough, you can tell more often than not whether some unlabeled data is a stock price timeseries or not. It seems the chronos LLM was able to pick up on that "nature" of the price movement, and replicate it in its forecasts. Impressive!

1: https://github.com/amazon-science/chronos-forecasting

2: https://imgur.com/a/hTRQ38d
YC adds almost no value. They capture all of the startups that would have been founded anyway (and many that wouldn't, because they are idiotic ideas) and tax them. Then, inevitably, some of those hit it big and YC takes the credit. Does the doctor that delivered Steve Jobs at the hospital get to claim credit for Apple? They don't. But YC does. They're a doctor that has talked their way into delivering all the babies in the city, and taking a tax on their future income as adults.

The average wealth of the entrepreneur is actually maximized by having them go into a career in FAANG and not launching a startup at all--or launching a startup from a stronger position with a real VC that values their company at more than $7M. A $7M valuation in today's tech world is an absolute joke. It's scandalous the exploitation that's going on here.
He started by getting the deadline date wrong so not off to a strong start

Actual: Apr 22 at 8pm PT

Him: The deadline for YC S24 is tomorrow (tweet from 11:25 AM PT Apr 20, 2024)

Probably because this is just a repost as mentioned in sibling comments.
I saw a video of a girl with pushed up boobs, and then a video celebrating april 28 1924, the birth of the communist party. About what I'd expect, they certainly have lots of control by the communist party since I doubt such a video would be popular naturally, the push up girl is more what you expect from organic content so there is a mix.
I'm refuting the notion that your only choices are college degrees or bootcamps.
Yep. I know some personally. These applicants’ resumes lists their local address but they put a US address into the location fields of the application form and our ATS is none the wiser.
The TV industry is notorious for the telemetry generated by "smart" TVs.

Commercial "dumb" TV screens are available but are harder to find, and as I said, it's only recently that large computer LCDs (not TVs) have become available. But these are still not as large as recent gigantic smart TVs.

So when most people want a bigger screen, they see little choice but to accept telemetry. The more privacy-aware people take measures against it.
Good. Let’s keep it that way, please.
Suppose the price of Amazon stock is going to be 20% higher tomorrow than it is today. If everyone knew this, the price would already be 20% higher, because the existing owners wouldn't sell at the lower price. If some people know this but not everyone, they'll keep buying Amazon stock until the price increases by 20%, which again causes the price to immediately increase by 20% instead of waiting until tomorrow.

The arbitrage opportunity is available to anyone who knows the information, at the expense of anyone trading the stock who doesn't. If everybody knows then there is no arbitrage opportunity because the gap is already closed.
Some people equate blink and webkit because of their shared heritage. I think it has definitely diverged enough to be considered separate engines (like how webkit is considered separate from khtml), but some disagree.
Not exactly, these meshes are cubes, while marching cubes generates non cube meshes.
> every megacorp's

It's not just one of every megacorp, it's by far the most commonly used email in business, Microsoft's Exchange and especially Exchange online.
Really? Good to know! Because I don't know anything about Rust yet. Only C++ and Python. But I think that if you know a programming language sufficiently, everything looks like magic, or is that not the case with you?
In my opinion it is very fortunate that most of these APIs are not supported. I don’t want a webpage to make my phone vibrate for instance. Nor do I want to be able to give the permission for a webpage to do it by the way.
The F in FISA stands for foreign.
> And the latest batches have many AI startups which I suspect will have an ever greater unicorn success rate.

I am resolutely of the opposite opinion

In two decades AI will be incredible business

It will be clusterfucks and graveyards in the meantime

I am very moved by the dot com comparison

One or two huge successes, and bleached bones and "WTF were you thinking" spread thickly
off by a line - 75% according to apilevels.com / statcounter. But true, apilevel pace is relentless
This is no longer necessarily true in the EU as of last month - https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi... - though I don't know if any browsers have in fact changed their rendering engine from Webkit yet.
Although, I would assume of those that can run what they want and do care they are already aware of and possibly use Thunderbird.

Not every initiative has to just be about new users. Sometimes it's important to retain the ones you have. Making Thunderbird more useful and viable for those that use it already isn't a bad thing.
This elides an important detail: outside of iOS a browser implementer can choose the code to compile and link against. Even if they build on Chrome, they can patch it to their heart's content or even fork and carry on. On iOS the browser runtime is set by fiat.

Also worth observing that most web browsers in the history of the web (including Chrome and Safari) started out as a fork of some other browser.