skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The video begins with the following message: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He
is not driving anything. The car is driving itself.” In reality, Tesla employees made the video would
later reveal that the car in the video had significant assistance from commercial mapping software not
available to Tesla customers, and that the car still performed poorly and even ran into a fence during
filming. With the assistance of a large team of Tesla engineers, the car had to run the same route over
and over again before Tesla got acceptable video that appeared to show a car capable of driving itself

Ok, I revise my take. That looks like fraud.
That’s absolutely fascinating…

We are truly at an inflection point.
Low-code tools are typically oriented toward technology rather than information. As such they are analogous to automating buggy-whips instead of improving transportation. Below is an example of what focusing on information can do.

IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32749633
V8 does JIT compile WASM[1].

I would also expect GC to be an advantage for WASM here, since it originated from a language without a GC. Having to run a GC is slower than not having to run a GC, and the WASM code from the article doesn't need garbage collection.

Sandboxing is a plausible explaination. I can't imagine seccomp filters hurt performance that bad, but who knows how V8 does its sandboxing.

[1] https://v8.dev/docs/wasm-compilation-pipeline
Yes, but the ergonomics of working with nullable data in Java are generally bad, and you have to do it everywhere
It really doesn’t though. Limited by zero upper body flexibility, all arm motions displayed here are not in any way organic and don’t surpass the capabilities of say, an orchestrion
Reminds me of the out of coffee scene from Airplane 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbv5B71KmkA
Bhagavad Gita a great book.
> 130,000+ people were killed in the breakup of Yugoslavia, I believe those bombings were an attempt to put a stop to that killing and not commercial interests, "blood for oil", or some attempt to kneecap the Russian Federation the way many Russians seem to believe.

More killings to stop killings? The same could be said about the US attempts when dropping the 2 nuclear bombs on Japan with Japan being already defeated, but not surrendered. Again, if you can justify that you can justify everything. And they sure did. My point is that the reasons presented are hardly honest or factual when in the moment. The first victim of any war is the truth.

> I'd find it hard to believe people in South Vietnam were broadly supportive of the US involvement there but there were certainly individuals who either benefited commercially from that presence or who hated the North worse. (They were not nice folks, if they couldn't fool the US into assassinating the village elders they would do it themselves.)

I had a hard time believing the level of damages inflicted upon Vietnam when reading Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky.

> I think people in Kuwait were glad to see the Iraqis evicted in 1991.

I agree with you on this, but Iraq was partly able to invade Kuwait also with the support/arms they previously got from the US when they were friends in the Irak-Iran conflict from just a few years earlier. Even the WMD's they supposedly still had in 2005 were from that earlier period from their then allies and not locally manufactured.

> (There was a great photo of General Petraeus being served a Naan by a boy at a street food stand in Afghanistan who had a very ambiguous look on his face like he wasn't sure it was safe being caught in that photo...)

Afghanistan was in such a poor state before the US invasion, that things could have only improved during the 20 years occupation. I'm now reading a history book on Afghanistan that goes from the WW2 up right before the US invasion and it's not a pretty reading.

> I think some Ukrainians wouldn't have minded being part of the Russian Federation if it had happened peacefully or relatively bloodlessly like the 2014 invasion of Crimea.

I beg to differ. I think Ukrainians most certainly wouldn't have liked to be part of the Russian Federation. Even the Donbass wanted its independence, and not annexation, after the 2014 coup. With that not possible, they went for the second best thing from their point of view.

Oh, and I'm not Russian. Funny how, whenever someones diverges even a little bit from the official narrative, they get stamped as "russian".
There's a simple example of using React server-side rendering here: https://github.com/fermyon/spin-js-sdk/tree/main/examples/ja.... We haven't tried anything more advanced than that, yet, but a full-blown isomorphic app should work fine in theory.

The main limitation at the moment is that we only support a handful of Web APIs (e.g. `fetch`, `URL`, etc.) and NodeJS APIs (e.g. `readFile`), as well as QuickJS's built-in ES2020 APIs, so if you try to run an existing app you may find it needs a Web API we don't yet support. If so, please feel free to open an issue on the `spin-js-sdk` repo.
Zero-values and pointers-as-options is not even half as good as Option<T>. At best, it was easy to implement, and convenient to use, until you actually had to run the program.
At a hospital or clinic, it is common to be repeatedly asked your name and birthdate, even by the same nurse. It's not because they don't remember your birthdate. It's a procedural security measure in a busy, complicated environment to minimize how often they mistakenly hand you a bottle of someone else's pills.

I imagine this might be similar.
You can see various visualizations of chess ratings here: https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/visualizing-fi...

It is a textbook power law. There are only 2 humans better than 2800, and one is pushing near 2900. Then there are only 37 humans from 2700-2799, 168 from 2600-2699 and so on with an increasingly exponential gain in brackets near the median. And each bracket tends to be exceptionally dominant of brackets just one below, let alone more.

A finite sample means any distribution will have a min and a max. If the odds of a Magnus are 1 in 10 billion, then we can expect to see one person of a roughly proportional skill every generation or two. But if the odds of the next tier of exponentially dominating outlier out are 1 in 500 billion then any given generation of humanity would be unlikely to see one, at least not until we start dramatically increasing our population sizes.
There is really no technical reason anymore to use Java for anything. It was the OG cross platform language, so its understandable that it gained wide adoption over alternatives, but it is horribly designed, and there are better alternatives these days.
The Hacker News comment fills in a missing piece for me: why did Carl lose his shit on him? That part was just a one sided story so there were gaps for me.

Seeing how he speaks to a new community made it all crystal clear. I’ve encountered that type of demeanor quite often, which is burying nonetheless-obvious and heaping contempt under “it was particularly enjoyable” smarm and a fake smile. Even if unintended, wow, what a way to undermine the intended emotional payload of the story by demonstrating unreliable narration and self-awareness, as well as some far less favorable aspects of personality and empathy.

I feel for the guy, that situation is tough, but it’s making more sense now that I’m waking up to act 2 (particularly Mojang’s willingness to let it lie, another question I had).

Julian, if you read this, I don’t know that your words are having the effect you’re hoping for, and obviously pushing for. I think you’re unconsciously making the case that distance from you was probably healthy for all involved. I see a lot of discussion about whether HN is emotionally intelligent, and it might be true that folks here tend to focus on legalisms (it is, after all, primarily engineers), but take it from an outsider here: HN is on the mark in this case and I’d be more suspicious of Reddit’s take if I were you.
Working on it. It's complicated ...

However, as with all things here, you can just email and discuss with a real person and we'll set you up the way you need to be set up wrt billing and pricing, etc.
"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."
>"No, people think that if self-custody your private keys carefully, nobody can steal your coins."

Yeah, people think that. But what does that have to do with FTX. Yeah, if you never sent money to FTX, they couldn't take it. What insight!
CEO of Gitpod here - we just announced a $25m Series A last month (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes), so not looking to get acquired anytime soon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the market landscape: the whole market around CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde) is in its infancy. Our largest competition is local development. We believe that unlike for other creative workflows the convenience threshold for development in the cloud has not (yet) been crossed. We are moving away from self hosted to execute faster on what we always wanted: from history-dependent cobbled local development environments to consistently reproducible, instant, ephemeral Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). You can think of CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde) as our product north star.

Other links:

- How Redmonk looks at the market https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/12/01/the-year-of-the-clo...
- Kent Beck https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/cloud-development-environm... (full disclosure: Kent invested in the meantime into the company)
Congratulations on the launch! Looking forward to more middleware to enable the app ecosystem to develop more rapidly.

"We build and run our own servers. In datacenters."

Is this a selling point today? Suddenly their background in on-prem architecture, operations, security, and network management becomes very important.
Does anybody think that the Java collection api needs to be re-written to catch up with Kotlin's or Scala's? And String should not be String but a collection of characters? And arrays should not be arrays but a collection? And records are not the only thing that can be decomposed but arrays, lists, EntryMap (tuple2) ... should be decomposable as well?
Apply the Willie Sutton principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton)?

"Because that's where the money is" frequently works, even if the quote is apocryphal.
Thanks for the correction, a dipole has more of a doughnut radiation pattern vs the perfect sphere of an isotropic giving directionality perpendicular to the antenna.

A theoretical perfect dipole has 2.15 dBi gain over the perfect theoretical isotropic, but again only in certain directions.

Perhaps the article would have been even more impressive titled 1.6 MW transmitter then just listing EIRP down in the article instead of ERP.

Either way its actually only a 330KW transmitter.
I actually registered a bet regarding his eventual conviction: https://longbets.org/922/

I was bothered by the level of rhetoric from high-profile people in technology predicting that the US justice system would never pursue SBF, because these claims seem to smuggle in the conspiracy that the US government is controlled by some cabal or hidden element. While of course the US government has many problems, these insinuations don't represent a serious take on the issue, and this FTX debacle seems to be simply a convenient opportunity for "network state" or techno-libertarian proponents to promulgate some more damaging untruths into an already poisoned information environment.

Nobody has yet taken me up on the bet.
If you allow LLMs (Large Language Models) to directly call out to APIs, like POSIX, Vulkan, Win32, X11, etc. then it may become possible to program things using a "Socratic" method that involves producing no code at all. You simply channel inputs to the LLM, collect API calls from the LLM, and execute the API calls it makes. This will create a feedback loop that'll eliminate the need to produce code at all. Code can then be produced selectively as an optimisation, like what we call "compilation" today.

Of course, it's currently unreliable and slow, but the trend is a fast one.

Additionally, it might be given a memory store it could read from and write to -- and a StackOverflow-like network to curate advice from other AIs like itself.

A half-way version of this might soon start to exist.
Non engineers know nothing about big o notation or tight coupling. Every time I've seen no-code solutions created by non-engineers it's been O(n^4) monstrosity or worse that's so tightly coupled with it's dependencies that it's a fragile nightmare to keep running.

No-code doesn't mean no code, it just means your code is hidden. Engineering is a skill set and it doesn't start and end with writing code.
Space stations aren't deep space it's like 200 miles away from where I'm sitting. Geostationary is something like 100 times that and even out there orbital decay is on the scale of like, a human lifetime or two.

This general concept is definitely something for us to consider but this isn't a specific case we need to worry about, I think.
Seriously, I’d challenge people to name a legal case this high profile in recent memory where there wasn’t a prosecution.

It’s become cool to be cynical about everything in American politics, but the fact it’s that it’s just cover for blatant ignorance and laziness.
This is a great article about the difference between Madoff and SBF, and also why the wheels of justice turn very slowly on financial crimes. Worth a read, for sure.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/why-hasnt-sam-bankma...

To your point. Madoff gave himself up. He confessed to his crimes and didn't even want an out. He more or less gave up defending himself in a meaningful way.
>likely require proving criminal intent

Yes, and there's plenty of that, have you read his Twitter timeline? Have you seen his interviews, etc? The guy's indicting himself, lol.
I had enough "Something went wrong, try reloading" errors in a row two days ago that I gave up trying to see replies.
Was Theranos' goal to do all these blood test with just a few drops of blood just and a failed realization of an aspirational goal?

I don't think so and I would claim that FSD is as impossible as doing what Theranos claimed they could do.
Hmm. We find that GH/MSFT customers come to us (especially Microsoft Azure DevOps customers which have been abandoned) and GH is categorically providing non-answers of "we are investigating offering on-prem" but they have done that for a long time now - ie. a classic sales tactic to keep MSFT aligned people hopeful vs saying no.

Microsoft has been retiring on-prem products as a business strategy for over 12 years now. Why would GitHub be the snowflake exception? Somewhere, in some CVP's mind GitHub ES is already EOL (look at GitHub.com/enterprise they are already muddling the meaning of "enterprise")

If you look at /.codespaces/bin or /workspaces/.codespaces/shared on GitHub Codespaces you'll understand how tightly coupled GitHub Codespaces is to Microsoft Azure thus on-prem isn't going to happen. The likely path they could do it would be like JetBrains Spaces does it "configure in our IAM/ARM key and we will provision Azure/AWS virtual machines" via GitHub Enterprise Server.

$ ghuntley /workspaces/.codespaces/shared $ grep sku *
environment-variables.json: "skuName": "Standard_F2s_v2",

If you want further information check out https://coder.com/blog/github-codespaces-coder-and-enterpris...
Definitely agree on the weed. I tried a high THC tincture about two years ago and my tinnitus was practically screaming for a few hours. No fun. Not sure about CBD, not interested in finding out.
You don't have to presume. It's in the article.

> As far as the nation’s and the state’s need for livestock feed, the 2.2 million tons of alfalfa Utah produced in 2021 amounted to 1.8% of the nation’s total output.

Link: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
I see. Thank you for sharing. My condolences for your family.
> The Rust docs are amazing and you can see they bring up indexing in the "UTF-8" section, but it requires me reading a section of the doc which I may not have realized was the reason for my frustration with a compiler error regarding indexing.

I would say this is a bug on the compiler error: it should be making it clear not only that you can't index on the string, but also why. If the explanation is too long, it should be linking to the right section of the book.
> that Android users need to replace their phones less often

That is not true. In fact the opposite is true. The average iPhone will last longer than the average Android phone.

https://valorvortech.com/how-long-can-a-smartphone-last/

You are also saying on one hand that most iPhones are purchased by older non tech-savvy people while at the same time claiming that those same people buy a new phone every generation. That is hard to believe.
I think this is one of my favourite pieces of tech in the past five years tbh.

I still use bash for short <5 line scripts but everything else is bb (though I’ve started looking into nbb because you can use node libs like ink which seems pretty cool)

And repl integration with neovim and conjure is great!
In principle the right to speedy trial applies to all federal defendants, and DC is under federal jurisdiction. But a speedy trial, while a good right to have, is a difficult one to exercise. IIUC, and IANAl, you have to exercise it in early proceedings, but in early proceedings the defendant is at a disadvantage because prosecutors have had ample time to prepare and they knew they were going to indict while the defendant did not, so the defendant has 71 days to prepare a defense while the prosecutors had no time limit in preparing their case. I suspect few defendants ever demand a speedy trial.

The right to a speedy trial may well have been incorporated against the States, but I don't know. In any case, a speedy trial mostly seems to mean that there must be a statutory limit to how much time can pass between indictment and the start of the trial, and between the start of a trial and closing arguments. Different States have different limits, and the variation in those limits surely must be constitutionally allowed, provided that in general they are a) statutory, b) not very long. I suspect a State could get away with 90 days from indictment.

EDIT: Defendants don't actually get to waive the right to a speedy trial, but if they don't assert that right, then they don't get to ask for dismissal of charges due to violations of the right to a speedy trial.
"but the hardware has almost no internal upgrade-ability"

Sure. But this is also true of most modern, lightweight, thin laptops. And I'm pretty sure it's true of any phone worth using.

My experience is that a certain sort of FOSS person prefers theoretical freedom to actual usability.
Google Chrome for Mac Gains New Memory Saver and Energy Saver Modes
A relevant story from 2013:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-mys...
The 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons GraphQL API
That list actually seems genuinely pretty minimal. Reading your comment I was expecting a long major list of changes, but it's only 3 things, most of which seem relatively unlikely to impact most programs, with the possible exception of dictionary sort order.
I mean yes php.ini allows you to disable any function you want, and if you do that then this function doesn't work like expected, I can hardly blame php for that.
This reminds me of the scene in Bojack Horseman, where Bojack attempts to apologize to his former friend Herb, who he screwed over by not supporting when Herb was fired. Herb basically says that he didn't care about the job or the money, he did alright in the end. What he needed was a friend, and Bojack wasn't there. The point of this is not the money or the legal issues. The point was that Notch treated this guy as a friend right up to when it became about business. And it makes me a little sad to see people act as if the author is at fault for feeling hurt.
I would like to see a general acceptance from people that the thing they think they need can really just be described in a more generic and less "we have unique needs" way, which is often a good chunk of the missing 20%.

But that's a lost cause until there's a meteoric shift in our industry towards standards and modularity, which either will never happen or won't happen in the lifetimes of the current generations.
SBF would be wise to follow some very simple advise: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Everything you do to cover up a crime ends up being a crime, too.
Does it simplify the build/ship process compared with React Native? The latter has a good coding experience (and real native UIs), but the housekeeping is a lot to keep up with. But at least some of that is intrinsic to the mobile platforms themselves
What libraries do you use? I do most of my scraping in Python using beautifulsoup.
> The tech department has better working conditions that most other departments.

How many departments are asked to check in every single day with what you did yesterday and what you plan on doing today?
20k does indeed seem fair - for the value of Minecraft at that moment in time.

And that's the kicker - his agent could have negotiated 100k, which would have been more than fair for that moment in time. But still be wayyy underpaid for eventually what the game would sell for.

But of course, it's not about money. I understand his point - and I wish I could find it now, but I can't, so I'll just describe it.

I saw some meme a while back with a kid sitting next to and hugging a giant frog. The text read, "Beware, the people you love don't always love you back". The second panel showed the frog swallowing the child. I've certainly had these sort of one-sided friendships, and periodically reflect on them. It sucks. It's probably worse if you're a very emotionally deep person (which writers and other artists frequently are), but I still understood well what he was talking about.
EU court: Google must delete inaccurate search info if asked
An extreme example going in the opposite direction would be Martin Shkreli. Finding a completely impartial jury was very difficult[1], as even if someone hadn't followed the particulars of the case, they had probably seen headlines or heard opinions from friends and family during small talk, creating a negative overall sentiment that reaches jurors. Finding jurors who can have their perspective not colored at all when many other jurors are dismissed for hating the guy is a tall order.

[1]https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/
Show HN: A Python package to get help from ChatGPT when an exception is thrown
You are thinking too narrowly.

If you asked me, a human, “tell me something new” without any additional context, I would reply with the human equivalent of “error, request is overly vague” as well.
Would it be possible to run this entire model sequentially, dumping intermediate results to SSD?
And we will be able to blame production melting down on "AI" misinterpreting what someone said.

"I told it to delete users from my contact list, not just delete them from system!"
How much space is added to each app to include the needed parts of app-level libc?
Tesla Semi: Delivers Failure