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I've used Kite, it simply wasn't as good as Copilot. I'm not sure why they say that Copilot still doesn't work well, it works well enough for me and I presume everyone else who pays for it.

That being said, glad to see a lack of Our Incredible Journey type language here and more of a true postmortem of their business and technical decisions. It is rare to see a company go into so much detail when shutting down.
So rebut.
No, in-doors vertical farming is, where you can create the optimal conditions for each crop and plant, and allow them to grow 365 days per year.
Death is not a valid concept for a computer program.
Andes Technology claimed 3B RISC-V shipments for 2021.

There are at least a 16 RISC-V devices in my home right now in the form of ESP32-C3s powering smart bulbs, outlets, and light switches. The geek hype train is all about RISC-V taking on general-purpose computing but they've been quietly displacing Cortex-M0, Xtensa LX, etc in devices with fairly low computational needs.
Yes. Most houses in SA have electrically heated water stored in a tank called a geyser. There are other options - some apartment complexes have central heat pump hot water, some houses have on demand heating via gas - but the most common is something like a 100/150/200 litre insulated steel tank in the roof that stores hot water and regulates it to 60 degrees C via thermostat.
I've never really understood why Amazon doesn't want people hacking with their devices. If I were them, making a Really Hacker Friendly Device would boost sales hugely, as people would start making 'cool things' with it. All of their devices are incredibly tied down, however, despite the promise of relatively cheap computing (I don't own any of them, out of privacy concerns).
I would 100% be interested.
SoftBank Group loses all Vision Fund gains in tech downturn Asia
I like the suggestion to convert a TODO comment into a JIRA action, or supplement the former with the latter. This permits paying attention only to the TODOs, and to discuss them and to prioritize them without first having to run a monster grep job.
Elon has practically admitted that he put the Hyperloop proposal forward to delay California HSR.

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
I will fix it later. My colleagues probably won't.

This is a common failure mode I've seen of development teams. There is no time to fix it later.
Something I recently observed is that cutting edge, current generation gaming-marketed x86-64 motherboards for single socket CPUs, both Intel and AMD, still come with a single PS/2 mouse port on the rear I/O plate.

I read something about this being intended for use with high end wired gaming mice, where the end to end latency between mouse and cursor movement is theoretically lower if the signal doesn't go through the USB bus on the motherboard, but rather through whatever legacy PS/2 interface is talking to the equivalent-of-northbridge chipset.
While this is true, China exporting these is not outside of the question (theres even been talking of exporting the J-31), and I don't forsee China being the only country to do this - I'd imagine in the medium term India to develop similar technology to counter China and to try to resell it.

Another thing about satellites is that you could plausibly sell them as a service, much like US AWACS and semi-commercial satellite imagery in Ukraine.

At the same time, the F-35 itself is still not a finished product, it's still missing many of its core features such as full sensor networking and it's unlikely to ever be fully integrated at this pace (which the article doesn't mention - the software side of the F-35 program is still a disaster that doesn't seem to be improving as much as promised. Recently there's been chit chat about dependency hell and spaghetti code and the inability to even integrate new weapons platforms without breaking other subsystems)

Beyond this, it's not clear that the F-35 represents that much of a leap against non-peer opponents.

I'd say technically the program is still an overall success, but it's not really clear that it provides anything like a decisive advantage in any plausible situation.
I don't know why anyone bothers with in car nav. Who doesn't have a smart phone with up to the second maps on their person? (Hint the type of person who can't program the in car navigation). Sure I could get my car updated, but it isn't worth it, the maps are obsolete before the programming is done.
how is he most reputable? because he paid a lot for ads?
Technology Connections has a whole series of videos on film and analog cameras.
Love seeing folks create new native macOS apps. Thanks for this!
Thrown together LANs were the best! I remember one we had at an old (cleaned up) barn, it was during the winter, pretty cold, so someone had the bright idea of using an industrial direct fired gas heater/blower thing in there, we sure got cooking :D luckily, place was also so drafty that we didn't suffocate :D
Personally, I wouldn't care at all. If it works it isn't embarrassing.

If you're worried about it reflecting poorly on you, make a new github account (asylum-open-source or whatever) and publish under that?
Tesla told everybody their advanced battery tech on battery day. It's coming, and it's impressive, but so is the new stuff from CATL et al. Not a massive advantage they have in their back pocket, and it's not secret.

What Tesla does have is a massive margin. If/when they are ever threatened, they have lots of room to cut prices. AFAICT, given the choice Elon would rather cut prices than margin.
"Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools."

I think this is probably true. If you need a tool for your day job, your company ought to be paying for it. Some companies have slush funds for small purchases like books, but subscription costs for services would normally need to be approved. If you're a solo consultant then perhaps you'd pay for tools that make you more productive. But for personal projects the value-add would have to be pretty high to be paying another O($10-20) a month on top of other subscriptions.

The big group of "hobbyist" coders are students, and they get copilot for free via Github's very generous edu package (and so does anyone with an edu email address I think). The bigger problem is that this is a very expensive project. It's better suited to a big company with money to burn and deep pockets to give it away to junior devs who will evanglise for it at their new companies (e.g. students) for nothing. See Matlab.
Short term, Bitcoin may plummet, but it changes long term prospects very little.

1929 didn’t end the stock market. It wiped out a lot of value, and changed nothing long term except timelines.

It’s possible we see 3-digit BTCUSD in the future, and later 7-digit.
Mixing up these two concerns is a bad idea. Your product manager now has to convince engineers to implement the metrics they want. Data that is irrelevant to engineers now needs dragging along to places inside the system so that events are useful to both engineers who car about data and latency and product managers who care about individual user behaviour.

So while there is indeed overlap, the two types of metrics involve different people, different teams, different concerns, different data, different privacy concerns, and different reliability/uptime concerns.
Have you ever gotten in trouble for not working on "ticket" items. There are some places that managers will jerk your leash for working "whatever you want".
Nature used up the best ore billions of years ago. We did get radiation-resistant microbes in exchange.
If nothing else this article appears to explain to me why the control point is called the "base": in the original point-contact transistors the emitter and collector poked into the top; the control was on the bottom -- the base -- of the germanium slab.

This is weird when you see the canonical transistor schematic symbol, but if you rotate it 90º anticlockwise the base will be at the base of the symbol and make sense.

Perhaps everybody else knows this already, but it was aha! to me.
> It reminds me of when everyone was talking about “brogrammers” a while ago, and it had a pretty clear connotation of “programmer who loves keg stands, hitting the gym, and making misogynistic comments”. I think “crypto bro” and “tech bro” don’t have that connotation at all, or at least that’s never how I perceived SBF.

I’d say they have related connotations. Less about explicit invocations of masculinity like beer and the gym, more about being egotistical or solipsistic or “highly confident in oneself while actually being wrong”. Not quite the same thing as the traits you mentioned, but associated with them, for better or worse.
Most importantly, coding is the fun part of the job. This seems like trying to sell a DALL-E-esq product to a visual artist promising 18% faster deliverables. Even if it is true, who is going to be in a rush to give way in that aspect of the job and sell their manager on it to spend more time doing the less fun things?

On the other hand, create an AI that can stand in during pointless meetings and the blank checks will shower down.
For instance, the Diablo CD, it could be installed either as "full" or "multiplayer", if you had the multiplayer install, you could only join games, but not start a single or multiplayer yourself. It was very cool.
EA has become quite a broad church. At one end, it's still just nerds doing spreadsheets to find which is the best charity, but at the other end, it's the state religion of the capital-R Rationalist cult. I don't know to what extent SBF really cared about helping people, and to what extent he just needed to demonstrate his righteousness to people in his social sphere.
I use a Blink Camera in an semi active zone (backyard) and it lasted 1.5 years without battery change. Blew my mind since it offered almost the same functionality with better performance thank top of the market competitors.
I remember Starcraft had installation mode that was basically meant for LAN parties so you didn't even needed to share the code.
Although I sorta-kinda agree with the sentiment, I disagree with the pessimistic conclusion (for a change!). I don't believe the alternatives are "fix it now or never". And we can structure our workflow to deal with this better.

In my current team whenever this comes up, if the hack really needs to be shipped now and fixed later, we create a ticket describing the task in our queue. Periodically we timebox periods of time to go through the backlog and fix these little annoyances.

It's not perfect, but it brings the "never" to a more realistic timeline - at least for the most important fixes.
The 'typical user click' doesn't have to be the first page load...

Depending on the application, many clicks might be from page to page in the web-app. And it's very possible for the majority of clicks to involve no server roundtrip at all.
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that note itself is not correct. The "reverse" is not true and it is confusing. The "reverse" claim would be that other websites drive a massive number of clicks to twitter.

but it seems this feature could be a headache for twitter if they have to check so many context notes.
Yeah it really bugs me how inconsiderate weed and vaping smokers can be. I’ve had weed smokers casually walk by my family blowing smoke everywhere without care, like this was the 1950’s. In a sense this is even worse as not only did I not agree to me or my kids breathing in this cancerous cloud of smoke, but it is psychoactive too.
With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees need their jobs.

So does this mean Twitter will fall apart? Can a company survive 90% of their employees leaving?
Yup, remember you :-)
I'm not sure Silver is right about the Mastodon thing (so far I'm enjoying Mastodon hugely; it's a bit like Titter was 15 years ago when I joined; that is, far better than modern Twitter), but he, _many, many times_, raised the possibility of a polling error in favour of the Republicans on the 538 podcast, and did also specifically address the weird behaviour of the partisan polls.
Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
Younger me wanted to do things like learn 10 languages, go to grad school, get really good at judo, etc.

Older me knows that languages aren't something you 'learn' as they are something you join, that 'grad school' is pointless and that your advisor is everything, that 'judo' is one of many paths to a better mind and friendships, etc.

I know that sounds trite and Iroh-y, but it ends up being true. It's not the 'accomplishment' but the people that matter, including yourself. Focusing on the brass ring get you the ring, and not much else. Focusing on others get you a filled life.

I know people that are enormously successful, yet are empty holes. I know of one that has both. It's not a pastiche or a fable, it's very true. I've seen a lot of people die and leave us. And I've been able to reflect on their lives. The best way, to my eyes thus far, is focusing on others. Lifting up other people, getting in with groups of good people, and helping out as you are able, those people seemed to me to have had the best lives.

"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
Voice control isn't my thing. Touchscreen is not accepable as a substitute, I need buttons where I can feel that i'm hitting the right one without taking my eyes off the road.
This is extremely cool. Surprised how good it sounds in the example video. Wish I knew enough about hardware to build one (OK, i also wish i knew how to play sax). Shame there's nobody shipping all the parts for assembly at home. In any case this is awesome, and one of the cooler things I've seen on HN recently!
Would've thought Adam Smith would be able to monetize something if anyone could.
That's not really true. Have you considered stealth vs stealth engagements and BVR kinematics?

As an aside missiles have always been evaded through kinematics. The F-35 doesn't have great kinematics. Those include the ability to maneuver, to do so while maintaining kinetic energy, and the ability to accelerate as well as maintain high altitudes and high velocities. None of which the F-35 is especially great at.
I consider the array pointer stuff a bit of a foot-gun in C. I've seen too many examples of people mixing up uint8_t[][] and uint8_t**.

The "compound literals are lvalues" pattern I've seen many times for inline initializing a struct that's only going to be around as a parameter to a single function call.
Many people saw it as a positive that FTX had a "built-in" market maker. People also thought that Alameda were geniuses.

It's considered a cost of doing business that all offshore crypto exchanges are trading against their own customers.
Is there anything in Tesla's history that would lead you to believe they'd be sitting on some technology and not making announcements every few months about their amazing progress on it and imminent production of it?

Tesla is much more likely to announce a great new battery before they've even started working on it than after it's almost ready.
> I think all the people who use IRC daily would disagree with you on that.

What people? I've used IRC for the past 15 years. It is dead. I was the generation to make it alive. You have stale, and chaos. It's old, musky and old.

I have no issue with IRC its a robust, reliable protocol. But it's just stale. Its old. "We will invent this" where is it?

Who recently has made an attempt at a half-good browser?
If you want a striking example of this, look at the interview Ben Shapiro gave to the BBC a few years back. Whatever you think of Shapiro, he has a masterful understanding of how American media works (I believe his Daily Wire is among the top shared sites on Facebook for instance), but he is clearly off-balance in a British interview. The interviewer repeatedly asks questions and doesn't allow Shapiro to dodge them which eventually results in Shapiro becoming too agitated to finish. It was really illuminating on a few levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
I miss smoking (well, not really; I'm not a smoker). But all the rituals around it were very important for modulating the cadence and even nature of conversation, offering shared rituals, give-and-take, and, by convention, forced but acceptable pauses.
Thanks for the honest feeback. Also shortened my comment considerably to keep it to my thoughts and not the ones expressed in by the author of this article.
Pair with a coral (if you can find one) and you get decent home network AI detection as well.
Blue Iris, Frigate etc for a home NVR setup.
Other way to keep your username but nuke all your content:

- register a new account with a different username

- change the username on your existing account to something else, thereby freeing up that username

- rename your new account's username to the username you want to keep

- delete your previous account

Result: completely empty account with the username you want, no script needed
Any specific recommendations?

For instance, Tim Urban‘s Wait But Why blog and the Lex Friedman podcast go into the direction
I am looking for.

I wonder if there is any „hub“, social network or community similar to HN that one should be aware of.
I just bought a SaaS a few months ago which was initially built as a MVP.

It was full of these "I should fix that later" kind of comments - they are in nearly every file...

I now add new features and rewrite parts of the code from time to time but to be honest, some parts of the product should have been built in a completely different way from the beginning.

This makes me wonder, how many Startups build equally ugly MVPs...
Unfortunately not, too many websites switched and won't switch back until their next redesign.
> (2) Ukraine, on the other hand, is at Russian doorstep. Both are Slavs, most of them are Christian-Orthodox and many have family ties with each other.

So you’re telling me it’s okay to commit war crimes, genocide and forcibly invade a country as long as they are your neighbour?.

And NATO is expanding towards Russia even thou Western politicians have promised to not expand it "an inch towards East".

This never happened and even if it did it doesn’t give Russia the right to invade Ukraine, rape its people and commit genocide and war crimes with impunity.
So cool to finally read about this.. I remember wondering about this when I was a kid, starting games..
Things I've payed for that I'm still using today:

- Sublime

- GitHub.com

- ACM Digital Library

(The latter two are subscriptions.)

Things I've payed for in the past that I no longer use:

- MS Visual C++

- Omicron Pascal

- Application Systems Modula-2

- Atari ST GFA BASIC 2.0

- Berkeley YACC and FLEX port to TOS/GEM

- ...

Overall, many dev tools are free nowadays, which creates an expectation, perhaps, that it should all be free (I disagree in principle, but of course it is nice to see this trend progressing).

I appreciate that Kite is posting a post mortem for others to learn, and I wish they had been able to find a niche where people pay for their work. I love software tools as a work product, but have been told by many experienced people it's not a good area for making money.
Who could have imagined that taking something to the extreme isn't compatible with a regular human lifestyle.

As someone outside the landed gentry, I see having an appropriately sized (small) home as my entry point. Most of my extended family have these monstrosity homes that serve mostly as storage space for dusty boxes and extra rooms that are utilised poorly, and took on significant debt to have it. Seems insane to me. This, however, is the polar opposite and just as insane.
On the contrary, I find Github Copilot extremely helpful and saving me heaps of time. Yes, it's not writing the logic instead of me, but it acts like the best companion I could have in most of the cases.
I do something similar by sharing ideas I think would be good for startups/SaaS in a newsletter called Unvalidated Ideas (link in bio).

I've had people be so interested that they went off and tried to build some of the ideas (usually market validation first is the goal), so it’s been nice to see that.
The Tesla one is better than using your phone - which is a high bar (and kind of the point I'm trying to make).

The display is big, the maps are google maps, it has traffic routing, it can route you via super chargers, etc.
Hey, author of the library here, thanks for your comment! Disclaimer: It's been more than a year since I've written this, so I might've forgotten things.

This actually teaches me that one thing I should make it clear is this was essentially a weekend experiment from someone who has never used, let alone written a Lisp before.

There's no way it's a production grade software, there are places where the evaluator just borks for valid expressions.

I learned a lot when writing it, so I can probably do a large-ish refactor that would simplify many things and fix the inconsistencies.

> this uses lazy evaluation, because most Lisps use strict evaluation.

The evaluation semantics are pretty weird. It's lazy-ish mostly, but when evaluating there are a lot of places where I unnecessarily force evaluation of things. So I should make the semantics clearer and document them.

> The behaviour of the top-level forms changes when they are wrapped in `begin`

This is a bug, you are right .

> Since this dialect is pure (no side effects)

It's mostly pure. There are a couple of constructs like `assert` and `log` that perform side effects. And also as you mentioned the expressions in a begin can be macros that end up modifying the environment.

> The way `if` handles values other than true/false is backwards compared to most Lisps

You are likely correct and this is a bug!

---

Thanks again of your comments, I'll try to find some time to either rewrite the project, or at least document it better.
His bathroom doesn't have a basin so he goes to the loo and washes his hands in the kitchen sink over his dishes... that's disgusting.
This is just excuse making for journalists.

They promoted him because they're as unscrupulous and devoid of ethics as he is, by and large. He didn't win them over with some con man charm, he won them over with money, or the allure of money, or even probably some politicking.
Are you making an equivalency between discriminating between various ethnic groups and discriminating between species ? I don't know where your society is going but I sure don't want to go with it.
“Alexa set timer for 8 minutes”
“Done. By the way did you know that ….”

Jesus I just want to set a timer not be enlightened about some crappy skill that a pushy PM that’s going up for promo is trying for force engagement with.
>Btw If you try to learn emacs in iphone or ipad...

...you're going to have a bad time.

Emacs is not the hammer that wants to hit a touchscreen interface nail.
Yes, my bad - I just meant the screen, whatever you want to call that.