skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think so, yes, and given the circumstantial evidence, your feeling is a perfectly excusable mistake to make.

Disclaimer: I worked with Chris at Apple and have the utmost respect for him both as a person and for his abilities as both an engineer and manager.

And he wasn't the Apple engineering manager in charge of Objective-C who started a discussion we were going to have with the words: "Objective-C is a statically typesafe language and this is unarguable". Now one half of that sentence is true. The other is laughably wrong. I have a hard time thinking of a language that is less statically typesafe than Objective-C. We didn't have the discussion, because continuing the conversation after that tiny bombshell is pretty pointless.

A lot of people at Apple did not understand Objective-C, many thought of Objective-C as at best a maladjusted Java. And it is. That is, if you make the wrong assumption that it is trying to be some sort of Java in the first place, or you misuse it that way. But it's not. It's a 1984 solution to the two-language problem. The component language being C and the composition language being Smalltalk. Jam them into one language and you've solved most of the boundary problems.

Now you've obviously also created a bunch of problems, but you solved that one.

When Swift came out, everything about it reeked of "we don't understand Objective-C", including the ridiculously wrong tag-line "Objective-C without the C". It's a better C++ that basically ignores the Smalltalk part in the hope that the larger-scale composition problems that the composition language tries to solve will just go away.

And of course Smalltalk also wasn't really a good enough composition language either, because it's still essentially procedural. We need more flexibility in our composition languages [1]. And the composition language being so close to the component language probably led people to make those mistakes of treating them as a a maladjusted unitary language, using the composition part for component programming etc.

Anyway, coming back to the understanding part: I've followed the Swift creators wherever they've talked or written about the language, the design rationales etc. And over time, what was only a sneaking suspicion became a grim certainty: they did not understand Objective-C, and did not even believe that understanding it was necessary.

This did come as a bit of a shock to me, because despite that sneaking suspicion, it just didn't seem possible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35318258 (linking to HN discussion, my domain is currently in transition)
Not in comparison to the R&D costs.

The market for people willing to spend 200+ million on an aircraft is tiny. Assuming a crazy profit margin you would still need to sell something like 1,000 of them to potentially break even on R&D costs which isn’t going to happen.

The market for 50 million dollar business jets is healthier, but even if you assuming half the purchase price was going to R&D you simply aren’t going to sell enough to pay the 10’s of billions needed let alone the risk premium associated with such an extreme solution.
I'm in the BI space. I'll answer anecdotally since I pay attention to the job boards in the US quite a bit. I've got no hard data for my assertion full disclosure. For the last 3 months entry level work has dried up. I'm seeing very few postings for underling positions. Mid level 4-7 years jobs have markedly declined as I'm seeing fewer postings across this same time span month over month. 7+ years experience seems to be flat, but not down as the other tranches of work. You asked for a sense. That's my sense.
What ecological damage?
Phew thank gif they open sourced a compression library it was worth the privacy of 500_000_000 children being monetized.

And where would we be without React? Chaos, chaos everywhere…
They are only usually 12 years away all the time.
Honestly, except maybe for the phasing out of Ivy, updating angular tend to be a non-issue.

(And yes, also the shitstorm that was AngularJS to Angular (4+), but that was a long time ago now.)
Yeah it would be/should be impossible.

What's the point of having a law/ethics code that says "you can't give a gift to government employee X" but also a standard that "you can give unlimited gifts to their children, spouses, cousins, friends, etc"?
I really hated growing up with Transformers and He-Man and all of the other TV shows that were animated versions of toys I played with. Wait. I didn't hate that at all.
I had experience with Shopify a few years back - around the start of the pandemic in 2020, not quite so disastrous as it didn't go that far but basically after an initial recruiter phone screen I had a technical interview with one of their Data Scientists, the questions were very easy and I got the impression I was significantly more experienced than their interviewer.

After that I had a second phone screen with the same recruiter - which I suppose was some sort of behavioral interview? I failed because I got the rejection after that with no feedback. Looking back, I got the impression they already had someone in mind but needed to tick some boxes or something - like show they interviewed multiple people for the role.

Knowing a few people that do work at Shopify I get the impression they are very particular about their cultural fit so maybe that was it.
IMO the eighth ur-language is Erlang (with cousin Elixir), which brings the ultra-scaling actor model, an abstract operating system designed for high reliability and low latency, and a bunch of nice rare features like builtin binary structuring/destructuring and pattern matching. While it had its origins in prolog, it's now sufficiently far away from prolog's inner machinery that it only has syntactical similarity.

Learning erlang made me definitely at least 10% smarter as a programmer. Highly recommend, even if you never use it in anger.
Never understood the Vietnam 1-to-1 comparison. In Vietnam they were fighting a landwar against a legitimate army backed by Soviet weaponry. Of course there was 100x less dead, Vietnam fielded 800k soldiers at first before growing to 1.5 million at peak. There was no way an airforce/drone war/long distance attacks/etc alone could fight that sort of numbers with their tangible fighting capabilities.

How many organized people were they fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan? With what sort of equipment/regimentality/strategic coordination/etc.
> So.. what, you have to enter a license number or a picture of a license to let people into a porn website? How does that prove anything other than someone has access to a license number/picture?

This is such a common argument for any new type of law. Yes, it turns out, you can try and commit fraud and break the law, and then you will be held accountable for it.

Banks also have to verify who you are before doing business with you. People are free to try and misrepresent who they are in order to gain access to financial services illegally.
That's really good to know - thanks for clarifying, and for the research you're sharing.
I work in the vuln finding/remediation industry and we have tooling that finds holes and tells the users to fix them, and the users don't. Maybe giving AI access to the code to scan, exploit, develop a fix for, push to dev, run QA tests on, then push to production might help, but that is a much bigger, more energy intensive, more expensive, and easier to break chain than an AI just just finds exploits and dumps out exploit code.
Reading between the lines, this is commercial cover for a DoD project. It would be pretty incredible to get stable fuel going that speed, and that kind of engine seems pretty critical to future bomber / fighter fleets.
I wish the FTC would also look at Roblox more carefully. So many parents blindly let their children play Roblox allowing them to get sucked into pay 2 win schemes, NFC trading and advergames.
Its lower on my list of complaints of the legal system, but I also don't like the jury selection process itself. Juries are meant to be a random sampling of peers in the community, jury selection gamifies that process and muddied the water.
CSAM is some pretty bad stuff but case numbers are often wildly misleading. A big share (in my country some 40+ %) are minors and teens sharing images of themselves or receiving images from their bf/gf.[1] Another chunk is parents or teachers trying to report it and invariably finding themselves in possession of CSAM (e.g. teacher sees pupil has image of a naked 13yo on their phone, takes phone from them => teacher intentionally gained possession of CSAM => will be a felon shortly). Traditionally such cases would be dropped, but around here it was recently updooted to felony status, which means cases cannot be dropped.

[1] Jurisdictions vary wildly in how they prosecute this but many seem to have funny age combinations where e.g. a 13yo sending an explicit image to a 14yo means the 13yo can't be charged for producing CSAM but the 14yo committed a felony by possessing it. Some jurisdictions have charged people for sex trafficking themselves in these situations. It's all pretty insane if you ask me.

Edit: Worth pointing out that the organizations that push hardest for legislation like this (mostly christian fundamentalists) also care the least about these side-effects, because sex before marriage is a sin and ought to be illegal anyway. A conspiracy theorist would hypothesize that these side-effects are actually the intended main effect for those groups.
With this exciting new engine tech, I recommend they pray before getting on the plane (as well as after).
Right, all you have to do is totally opt out of any modern society - no email, no phones, no internet, no media, no healthcare. It's easy!
The ZIRP discourse is a bit facile, but there’s a lot of truth to it, and a lot of tech companies have been kept afloat solely by historically-low WACC and a frothy IPO market; due to their inability or unwillingness to impose financial discipline commensurate with their revenue we have a bunch of companies that are, functionally, unprofitable at any scale. Rough times for good folks, unfortunately.
People have been talking about this for decades, and there seems to be a story with the same discussion on HN every couple months.

This is principally a question of just doing it. It's going to take an Elon Musk type to push forward with execution, which in turn is going to take enough demand for it to be interesting. It would be very cool to see it happen, but I doubt it's going to get to the top of anyone's priorities enough to really push for ot any time soon.
Perhaps it makes sense to pay extra to be able to put extra strain on something (laptop, car, xyz) while it's covered under a manufacturer warranty, however after such a warranty period ends any such feature should be unlocked.
The variable-size int, unfortunately, made a lot of sense in the early days of C. On processors like the x86 and 68000, it made sense for int to be 16-bit, so you don't pay for the bits you don't need. On newer systems, it makes sense for int to be 32-bit, so you don't pay to throw away bits.
In the Federal government, things like gifts to children/family members are soecifically called out in anti-corruption/bribery training within executive branch agencies. It would fall under quid pro quo.

No idea what the judiciary gets up to.
Remote worldwide or US, CA-only?
doom and gloom? all major indexes are still trading at lofty values

"safety" stocks like AAPL are at or near all-time highs

real estate has budged slightly, but a rounding error off of the gains made in the last few years

even employment...tech hiring is getting hit but lots of other employers in retail, food & beverage are reporting record hiring and even wage increases

if there is a "crash", it hasn't happened yet

you may just end up with a sucky decade of stagflation...you are poorer every day, but just not dramatically so
PR can express emotion via press releases and interviews on behalf of the company. I would say it's just a way to say the board of directors is furious. Not that the company is sentient, and I don't think anyone thinks companies are sentient.
Tenants are breaching contracts with landlords, sub-leasing and renting out their property to others without the consent of the owner-landlord. The lease is a contract that always specifies who is permitted to use the property. It is the right of the owner-landlord to hold the tenant accountable for breaching contract. Facial recognition access control systems are the same as a human being posted at the door permitting the same. However, the latter is far more costly and unnecessary.
I hope so. Regardless, I won’t pass up an opportunity to shit on the tech bros who lick boot.
> Why do the blessed vendors get to do that but not 3rd parties?

That's exactly what we're all asking :)

I feel like you're possibly arguing that the tech itself doesn't require platform lock-in, and I absolutely agree with that. This is a policy issue, not a tech issue (well, attestation, but that's a different conversation). But it's policy issue that's shared by all of the major companies involved in the FIDO alliance and they're very suspiciously against offering any policy solutions or requirements in the passkey specification itself.

There's no technical reason at all why Apple couldn't support syncing passkeys to a local backup that can be imported by other authenticators. From that perspective you're completely right.

They just don't.
Good call on the site. Articles are almost onion level "we drove 8 lambos in one day, here's what we figured out".
Shopify is trash. Don't use it. It's like they sledgehammered the customers and then robbed them.....
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If you read my argument... I'm not against polynomials. I'm against using "real" numbers for programming-related examples.

Floating point numbers with arbitrary precision are not the same thing as "real" numbers. They are still rational numbers. See, even you made this mistake, not surprisingly, this will confuse (or even worse, will give a false sense of understanding) to programmers reading such examples.

Arbitrary precision floating point numbers exist and are quite tangible, while, perhaps, not very common, and that is the concept that's easy to grasp. These behave like almost any other number you know: you can add them, multiply, take a natural logarithm of etc.

You cannot do any of those operations on "real" numbers in computers because of the way arithmetic operations work, you'd have to start with the least significant digit (to know if there's a carry), but there's no way to find out what the least significant digit is going to be.
But its clear the german company? Division? Seems to take security much more seriously
Interesting statement. It is not argument. It is an attempt at labeling me as something instead of presenting an argument.

It is not going to work. If you want a decent conversation with me, you want to present a valid counter instead of bunching me with "oh, you are one of those people".

<< "head in the sand"

And after that preface, you are wrong about it too. I am openly stating leave internet alone from your hand-wringing. Long term, it is not even helping anyone; including the children.
Indeed, the difference I can see is that the second article mentions Hoffman and the first doesn't reference any HN related people.
>fine motor skills
Hardly. Most tasks we want robots to do involve using hands rather than legs. Robots are still very bad at picking stuff up and moving it around.
>Teleoperation
has been tried. Redwood robotics tried it, but couldn't make it work. It is still very challenging to control robots remotely and get manipulation as good as humans get. Haptics and force feedback is VERY sensitive to latency too. The current state of the art of teleoperation used in the avatar prize required complicated haptics setups. Essentially the operator needs to have a robot to get force feedback.

It's not manufacturing costs, it's that robots aren't very good.
Just move to Bluesky
This was also discussed with the original Discord blog post as link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35805987
Technology will not solve CSAM. It is a social problem, you don't see policy makers going after the Catholic Church and other organizations that have systematic pedophilia as heavily as they are pursuing banning people's freedoms. This is an attempt by the state security establishment to restrict civil liberties using scare tactics around CSAM. This issue just highlights to the need to remove the power to restrict civil liberties from the State and the need for issues like CSAM to be addressed in a manner led by Psychologists as opposed to government officials without specialized knowledge and conflicts of interest intent.
Headlines are often determined by SEO/engagement folks rather than the actual writers, unfortunately.
Wrong. World bank data shows Haiti's GDP per capita has more than doubled since 2000. [0]

You anti-capitalists have already caused a century of misery and wont--can't you just admit defeat? Haiti is the perfect example of the extraordinary benefits of our system. 40% can't read. 60% lack access to electricity. Yet even they can't escape the bounty of global capitalist system!

It's over. Capitalism won, for the benefit of all of humanity.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti
By not censoring state media accounts that proves he's not a free speech absolutist?
I can assume you’d want these type a planes for organ transplants and other time sensitive manners. You better believe these would be booked all the time by diplomats, high net worth individuals, etc

They could probably charge $500k-1m a seat for a person
> There's no way to exclude certain subdomains

I think Google should fix this. The alternative is endless domain sprawl, for all time.
Hangman over QUIC
Pale Fire, by Nabokov
> we need clear evidence that the model has knowledge of the data subject conditioned on the prompts

We have a system that may have information about you and may even distort information about you. In fact it probably has some information about you considering that we exercised no control over the process of ingesting information into the system. Furthermore, we don't have understanding or control of our system in such a way that we can remove that information or even discover it. However, we still released the system to the world and now we expect you to test it with various prompts and hope that you get lucky before someone other person does.
It could be for be contractual reasons: for example, employees might have proprietary licensed third-party data or source code checked out in a local cache somewhere, and IT needs the laptop back to verifiably scrub the hard drive.
This was partially driven by this[0]:

"Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies
MSG Entertainment, the owner of the arena and Radio City Music Hall, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events."

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-g...
“We will also keep Slack and internal email open today for everyone so we can share farewells.”

That’s drastically different. Most orgs that’ve run layoffs over the last few years have terminated access immediately, or even before informing those losing jobs.

This feels more human, and I hope it goes well for them.
Pretty excellent summary, this is roughly the taxonomy I have in my head.

I would maybe add SQL as an ur-language as well. It's not quite general purpose like most of these, but it should have a place in this list, I think. It has some kinship with Prolog and the declarative style, but it's really it's own thing.

You could also maybe argue for something like LabView. Many programmers look down on purely graphical programming languages, but with Houdini, Unreal's Blueprints and the various node-based shader/material systems in gamedev, I think it probably deserves it's own little branch of this family tree.
I will assume sarcasm.

For sake of not letting a bogus argument go unanswered: Google and Microsoft offer generic tools that have very broad social benefit outside the monetization of user data.

That said, I would prefer it if the FTC would address data monetization practices at all tech companies--it is a fine business model, but it is troublesome as a necessary addition to my spreadsheet or the operating system for my desktop/laptop/phone-sized computer.
I’d note each of what you mentioned cost $0 at zero scale and nominal $ at small scale. But you’re right, engineers new to aws try to flex all the kit together for not much benefit. For a semi static website all you need is s3+cloud front+api gateway+lambda+dynomdb for state. This would cost you basically $0 for small scale, and there would be nothing to monitor. It either works or aws is down.
Show HN: Light Saber Cursor – May the Fourth Be with You
I built Light Saber Cursor as a fun way to say "May the Fourth be with you".

It’s a simple game, with a cool saber-style cursor, and awesome sound effects. You can battle with other users from around the world in 4 different maps with different light saber colors. It’s still a work in progress, but I’d love to hear any feedback and suggestions you have. Have fun!
IMHO C should remain a language that is easy to write a compiler for (and there have been many examples of individuals doing it, some of which have appeared on HN in the past), i.e. one should be able to "bootstrap" from it.
>Logistics was clearly a worthwhile side quest for us, and started to create the conditions for our main quest to succeed. From the beginning, we worked with lots of partners on all aspects of this same problem: warehouses, robotics, transportation, crossdock, freight. We iteratively built a solution, step by step, through software, leases, and M&A deals, that could be an independent company one day. Shopify was the perfect place to bootstrap this effort from 0 to 1 and we have done this. The next step is to take what we have and take it from 1 to N as a main quest.

I don't understand the point of a statement like this. Why not just admit logistics turned out to be a sunk cost and you're abandoning it, rather than say "We actually killed it!"
You have a good point. I really meant deliberately manipulating with the intent of making them want to buy things, and especially manipulating their emotions to make them think their lives will be so much better if only they had the product being advertised, which is exactly what advertising aimed at kids tries to do
What a small world - let's!
Here's the thing, local news produces cookie cutter stories and just swaps out the basic facts and injects a little of the mainstream narrative into everything. There really isn't any value in it, which is why they are dying in the first place.
Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model
Local models can access anything on your filesystem without sending it over the network. Easy to imagine certain tasks that would have better performance.
One thing I missed from Frank Herbert's work in watching Villeneuve's adaptation was the intimate connection to the characters you get from reading all the dialogue. I suppose a film version is going to cut some things, but Villeneuve takes the other extreme, being so minimal with dialogue, that I felt it unnecessarily suffered here.
What is the problem here? The contract was "I agree to pay you later for the system you provide and maintain now for millions of users. You will be paid through money spent on lotteries and other financial activity in the system."

This is as agreed upon between the US Government and the recreation.gov providers.
Storing it without availability is the same as it not existing.
Seems like your criticisms are due to your misunderstanding. In the movies replicants aren’t robots. They human constricts but biological. They are closer to lab grown individuals than to mechanical robots with ports and data caches to dump.