skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java (like mentioned in the article) does the same though

IIRC Inferno OS is like Java in this regard.

How will WASM change what Java has already done?

Why would I compile Rust to WASM when I can compile Rust natively to any number of platforms? And use FFI?

I think WASM, while nice, doesn't bring much new to the table. It's been hyped for years, and I still only see it used here and there very sparingly.
there has been an uptick of Australian job market news on hn recently
I can't compile my code until a downstream library compiles their code. They can't compile their code until a downstream library, they depend on, compiles their code. It all has to happen before any of it can happen. It eventually will, but we'll have to be patient, as is always the case with global changes.
I think a month and a half is way too early to tell how this plays out. Elon keeps mismanaging Twitter, and threads is missing a lot of features to make it even able to compete with Twitter. It's still early days, it really just depends where the most celebrities go. People want to feel like they have the chance of being seen or heard by someone important.
I cofounded a robotics startup a decade ago and one point we needed cash to keep going. We received 2 offers:

1. VC offer of a couple million dollars for significant share and crazy expectations about growth and scaling up and short timelines etc.

2. Half a million from a private investor for a reasonable share ask who insisted we just kept doing what we were doing.

We opted for 2 and have been running the company successfully ever since. Slow manageable growth. Moderately profitable-nothing a VC would be happy with but it’s enough for us and our 25 employees. I’m not a multi-millionaire but I’m making decent living and have a great work-life balance.

Looking back this is probably the only way we could’ve made this company work. Attaching an industrial air compressor up to it would’ve blasted it to smithereens.

To each their own, YMMV, different types of companies have different financial needs, etc etc but if I ever did a startup again this is the way I’d choose again! It’s manageable, sane, low pressure, etc.
It's not that they don't find the empirical evidence persuasive but they can't resolve it with their personal emotional and political alignments.

Until you can repackage climate change as some slaphappy singsongy jesus thing or some hayekian libertarian delusion, a large percentage of the population will never get on board.

That's because the evidence they're looking for is biblical verses or rational choice theory argument - there's nothing materialist about their epistemology which is why that approach simply does not work.
I think this is a trap a lot of people fall into: assuming that in ChatGPT solutions that have business value, ChatGPT output is delivered directly to a customer. While that may be true in some cases (e.g. companies that produce cheap blog marketing content should be running scared), it ignores the iceberg of use cases where a ChatGPT tool can simply be one in a set of tools, like Excel is.

Like think of a technical B2B product's technical support engineer who now has a personal assistant trained on the company's full catalog of technical documentation, who can provide instant answers to customer questions that the rep can validate before passing along to the customer on the phone.

Or an overworked public defender who now has an instant paralegal to proof documents or search for and summarize relevant case law that the human lawyer then reviews.

And so on.
No "affirmative, express consent allowing the requested CPNI usage, disclosure, or access" was obtained by the carrier after "the customer is provided appropriate notification of the carrier's request consistent with the requirements set forth in this subpart", so opt-in approval is not present. I don't see a way to parse this that equates notification to express consent.
That's a clever one, I had not seen that yet, thank you.

The hint for me is that the models compress so well, that suggests the information content is much lower than the size of the uncompressed model indicates which is a good reason to investigate which parts of the model are so compressible and why. I haven't looked at the raw data of these models but maybe I'll give it a shot. Sometimes you can learn a lot about the structure (built in or emergent) of data just by staring at the dumps.
These types of devices are increasingly leveraging mesh networks to connect to the internet even if they're aren't explicitly connected by the owner. Simply not connecting your device to the internet isn't as reliable as it once was.
there is really no reason to keep doing things manually, when automation can do that.

Imagine horse carriage drivers refusing to learn how to drive a car - this is them.

sysadmins refusing to automate are dying breed that will be replaced by smarter newgrads who are willing to grind and learn.

free market mechanisms and competition doing its work.
Ever use django in like I dont know 2005. Ya it generates all that boring front end stuff for ya. Still get recruiters reaching out to me for django jobs though. Guess all those mba's still couldn't figure it out.
The test does not include any specification of what must be an investment contract, though. Things like fields of orange trees have failed to pass the Howey test.
Yes, their corporate structure is unprecedented. Very weird and unintuitive.
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The answer to your question is in the first sentence of the article.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, can you please not use HN primarily for ideological battle? It looks like you've been doing this as well and that's another line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what they're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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The declining phase of all capitalist markets is arbitrary, random rent-seeking, when the technological innovation value has waned.
> An example of a constant would be a literal, such as "Hello, World!" or 4 or false

Not quite, those are literals values.

As mentioned in the C++ standards, const-ness is a quality of variables... Not of values.
Just don’t connect the TV to the internet. Problem solved.
Dogs obviously know nothing about human warfare. At least not enough to consciously pick a side.
You do not need Xcode for signing or notarizing, period. I’ve set this up for open source projects that sign and notarize via CI and it literally doesn’t break. The flow is like reading reviews of an apartment complex - complaints will rise to the top but it’s not like people are going to write glowing reviews otherwise. ;P

Furthermore QT on macOS literally links to and renders the same controls as AppKit under the hood, so while you can definitely use it if you want (e.g for cross platform benefits) your claim that it “nails” platform specific UI is just incorrect. They are fundamentally the same thing in this case.

You appear to have this irrational idea(and hatred…?) about how macOS/iOS developers work but don’t appear to truly understand what you’re talking about.
I'm also frustrated by the state of modern TVs. Not sure what to do about it.

I bought an Nvidia Shield in the hopes that it would alleviate some of my annoyances but honestly I have grown to hate the thing.
This is kind of like if a fisherman walking down the street looked up at a steel sky scraper and proclaimed:

"Gee, how can they be making entire buildings out of that?! Why my plastic dinghy could be out at sea for a year and not pick up a lick of rust, meanwhile my steel fishing hooks are rusty if I leave them out on a rainy night!"
Sorry to hear that. Next time you’re looking for a new TV, look for “digital signage” instead. Though the price isn’t subsidized with adware, it should be what you’re looking for. It’s a shame it’s come this far.
I keep hearing this but haven’t seen proof of this happening. Curious to see if this is reality yet.
Agreed, this seems a likely explanation to me. I run a small hobby electronics business in my free time and although I ship some items to the EU I explicitly don't ship to Germany due to the additional complexity there; it's simply not worth my time for maybe 3 additional orders a year.

I'm sure the regulation is well-intentioned (and could even be great in aggregate effect too!), but a side-effect is that it biases the market in favor of larger companies who can afford to hire compliance specialists.
> You can achieve the same effect by not connecting the television to wifi or Ethernet

You can hope that you're achieving the same effect, unless the manufacturer has shipped the device with software that will scan for open wireless networks and send its collected data out once it finds a network that allows it Internet access. The TV I got was an Amazon Fire TV, so for all I know the thing is going to some day silently connect to some kind of mesh network built out of the Ring doorbells my neighbors have. Physically removing the networking hardware gives me much better peace of mind, and prevents some well-meaning future house sitter from briefly plugging in an ethernet cable and allowing the device to upload years of collected data or something.

> Sadly that means you’re also buying the device to plug it into

I don't see what's sad about that. I'd much rather have that functionality be provided by a separate device that I can replace or upgrade without trashing the whole TV. I see other people with smart TVs that are a few years old and half their "apps" no longer work because the technologies used by the services backing them have changed and the TV doesn't support them.
does expanding the context window of LLMs still make them dumber? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172.pdf
The examples are too short IMO. They should have printed complex path and lengths more like 50-100x the diameter, to show how far and how evenly the light met internal reflectance down the length.

The best light pipes I ever saw were on the streamlined Canadienne viewing car, Montreal to Vancouver in 1987. Fantastic night time Staircase rails up to the dome car.
Links? This has often been described as the obvious next step for consumer-unfriendly TVs, but I don't know which brands and models to avoid.
The only one that looks weird is your first story with your ISP. Never heard of that. I have comcast, so talk about scumbags, and the one time my connection was degraded they sent a guy for free to replace some cable or I don't know what.

Everything else looks "standard". Security services are a scam by design so of course they make it hard to cancel. Banks do weird stuff like that, could be regulation, could be old systems. As for your phone, looks normal to me for the provider to tie promo and deals to a minimum contract duration.
I appreciate what you are saying about Internet fanboyism.

Personally, I can recognize Elon Musk for perhaps being the right person at the right time to advance Tesla while also disagreeing with many of his actions and detesting the example he sets.

It is interesting to think about how hype works and the role of devoted fans. Hype has been around longer than mass media; clearly there are deep roots in human psychology.

Fanaticism (i.e. around one's preferred sports team) has pretty primal roots. (Aside: I wonder if the popularity of sports decreased during WW2. Seems to me in the face of real war, a simulation is less compelling.)

> It's beyond my understanding...

Perhaps. But what if you find one such person, ask questions, and put yourself in their shoes? There is a story there; probably one that doesn't follow your logic. Two common drivers are identity and group membership. By e.g. becoming a public fan of some product, a person can identify with a narrative of something they care about and belong to a group. It often gives people a sense of being ahead of the curve, or creative, or intelligent, or whatever it is they value.

Even if your particular reasoning is sound (i.e. the billionaires don't need the fanboys, so why bother?), why do you think your logic would be the key driver? In other words, if your reasoning was already top-of-mind for such fanatics, they wouldn't be fanatics at all.

I'd guess you already know much of this. Perhaps what you mean is you dislike the consequences of fanboyism. But I doubt that is what really bothers you. Here's my guess. It is much deeper: you don't like that people are illogical and therefore self-defeating. It doesn't help that they also things worse for the rest of us.
Why did they glorify a traitor? Nowadays we'll throw anyone a bone if they can garner clicks.
I use a projector instead of a TV. Home theater projectors are still mostly sane devices that just display their inputs without any bloated software in the middle.

And with a retractable screen you have a (giant) TV when you want one, and it's gone when you're not using it.

This won't work for everyone (you need a proper space for it, generally involves some degree of installation that your landlord will not appreciate, and doesn't look great during the day) but if you can make it work it's great.
I do a version of this approach. I have a 2018 model TCL TV that I do not give access to the internet (this one works without any issue, but I don't know if that is true of newer models). My TV is right next to my desktop computer, but in order to reduce noise and power, I bought a cheap Beelink mini PC and set it up with Fedora-GNOME and Kodi. Works very well for simple purposes and can easily handle light games. There are plenty of other (possibly better) solutions to this effect such as SBCs, spare laptops, or more capable mini PCs to handle some newer games. I would prefer using a computer instead of the Smart TV OS even without all of the concerns listed in the original post.
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It looks like your account has been using HN primarily (in fact exclusively) for promotion for quite some time. I'm not sure how we didn't notice this before but someone finally complained, and they're right: you can't use HN this way. Note this, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Normally we ban accounts that do nothing but promote their own links, but as you've been an HN member for years, I'm not going to ban you, but please do stop doing this! We want people to use HN to read and post things that they personally find intellectually interesting—not just to promote something.

If I go back far enough (a couple hundred comments are so), it's clear that you used to use HN in the intended spirit, so this should be fairly easy to fix.
If a TV has built-in wi-fi, it can scan for open networks and connect automatically as a failsafe. It doesn't have to tell you that it's doing it, either.
He's a legendary Canadian pilot. Known as "hokey" because he pronounces his last name like "Hawk."

Now read the name again.
I just avoid all that by defaulting my smart tv to the input my appletv is on and happily giving all my data to apple.

they have it all anyway.
This. I do something similar, but instead got a laser projector. Similar price to a TV. I can either plug in my laptop or otherwise remotely cast to a plugged in stick. It just works. I get the added benefit from the projector where the screen needs to be pulled down - it's not in the view and I have to actively decide to start watching something.
I've enjoyed either a PS4 or AppleTV with HDMI-CEC controlling power and volume... i never have to use my tv remote/built-in apps and don't suffer advertising
Ah, now THAT's an interesting aspect I wish someone would have brought up over the years I've seen WASM.

I guess WASM as a target and embeddable VM really helps with security in those cases. Couldn't we also do the same though with any number of arch/vm pairings?

I guess what WASM brings to the table is a compile target friendly enough for things like C and C++, i.e. low level code, and a reasonable VM implementation. It just has to be accepted by everything (both as an output format, and virtual machine impl in the language choice) to work, I think...

Edit: Like why arent we using https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4221605/compiling-c-for-...
My guess is that GP may have been curious if the TV would react poorly to not having being able to phone home via any method, including ethernet.
I agree. I'm from way outside California where the salaries are far lower. I've always thought the over inflated salaries of the valley were kinda toxic. Friends who I graduated with who were C students were making double what I make. One time I asked a web dev friend of mine what he thought of Kubernetes and he didn't even know what it was. This was just a couple years ago. I was shocked at little he knew and how much he got paid. He also had saved very little money, as it was all going to taking Uber to and from work and eating out every meal. Just seemed like a broken culture. Meanwhile I ride a bike to and from work and spend a ton of time cooking and cleaning, ya know, normal stuff. His life was exciting but there just seems to be a void in there when your making so much money and spending it all on having people serve you. Like in your mind, you must think you deserve it. But in my mind, you don't.

I know it's controversial and all, but that's my honest belief. Silicon Valley is amazing and there are truly great people there. But does a C student web dev who kinda doesn't give a shit really deserve 150$k/year? I assure you, he does not. Not while there are far more qualified people all over the globe who will do that job for half. Sure, remote work is hard, and having the team located locally is valuable, but the wealth is simply too centralized in this one location. It's causing a morphed self image to the people there. An over inflated ego. A condescension to outsiders. A constant need to justify their position. The culture needs a humbling. The wealth needs to spread.
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Until they add a cellular chip or make a deal to get their TVs on the “Comcast sharing your cable with other Comcast users” networks all over the place, assuming they having already done it
I grew up what you’d call “lower middle class.” Your suspicions are incorrect. I’ve switched industries twice in my life to the tune of nearly a third a million in student loan debt. I know how difficult it is and how expensive it is, but the actual strength of some people’s personal convictions matches the strength of the convictions you pretend to have online. Just like you, the companies I worked at (and owned a portion of) changed or the industries I worked in changed, but unlike you I left (and forced them to cash out my PTO because, contrary to what you think, you do have an enforceable employment contract even if it’s in the form of a benefits package, an employee handbook, or even just “that’s what the company normally does” at that point in time) after realizing that the change was permanent rather than taking to the internet to complain while continuing to pull an easy paycheck.

It’s strange that the people who tell you how difficult something is are almost always people who haven’t done it and the people who tell you how privileged you are almost always are even more so themselves. Tell me, when’s the last time you swung a hammer or pulled unemployment benefits?
This is a textbook for the introductory programming course, the first programming experience for many students. Maybe it would be better titled, "How to solve the programming exercises in an introductory course"

I see a lot of value in this. It gives a step-by-step method that students can follow, which often works. The prevailing alternative seems to be, "Look at a lot of examples, pick one that looks similar to the exercise, and change it around by trial and error until it kind of works." This does not generalize to professional level programming either.

At this initial stage, the goal is to build the students' confidence that if they work systematically, they can solve problems. As their education and experience continue, they can take on more realistic problems and methods.
Sure, but how many software engineers (per project size unit) will it really take in the end?

If an average software engineer spends 10-20% of their day doing creative work and 80% wrestling various build tools, writing semi-repetitive code etc., it’s not hard to imagine a world in which aggregate demand for these services still goes down.
What we need are measured carbon credits that are past-looking... i.e. this device or plant captured x tons of carbon
https://github.com/lucavallin/barco
You’d think that, but the worse TVs will still splat advertisements on top of the Apple TV content

Additional fun fact, no matter whether you're watching streaming or cable, your TV can identify what you're watching and report it back to advertisers. Automatic Content Recognition, the future of TV advertising!

https://advertising.roku.com/resources/blog/insights-analysi...

> Roughly twice per second, a Roku TV captures video “snapshots” in 4K resolution. These snapshots are scanned through a database of content and ads, which allows the exposure to be matched to what is airing. For example, if a streamer is watching an NFL football game and sees an ad for a hard seltzer, Roku’s ACR will know that the ad has appeared on the TV being watched at that time. In this way, the content on screen is automatically recognized, as the technology’s name indicates. The data then is paired with user profile data to link the account watching with the content they’re watching. We should note, however, that this data becomes aggregated, removing personally identifiable information before it is received by advertisers.

But surely that data tracked on your user profile is totally secure and no one could ever misuse it for anything (beyond the aggregated tracking, which is already creepy). Just trust them, it's fine!
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Don't connect your TV to the internet and you won't have a problem.

Most TVs have a setting to go to the last used input or a specific input on startup, so set that to whatever box you use to watch stuff and you won't have to look at the menu.