Samuel Hapák

CEO of Wincent

[cephalopodshop @macrocephalopod]

a "buck" to mean $1 came about because a buckskin (a deerhide) was a useful medium of exchange in 18th c american frontier, and that carried over when paper currency was standardized

a "buck" to mean a million dollars came about on currency and bond desks where the minimum tradable size was a million, so it's convenient to scale everything by a factor of a million

[htmx.org / Jim Cramer of Crypto (same thing) @htmx_org]

it's an honor to have you respond brendan

hyperscript is a passion project trying to bring the magic of hypertalk to the web

on thing that might be interesting to you is the async transparency of the language:

https://t.co/LKM3161DAw

obviously never going to challenge js, but it's a testament to js that a whole langauge, tokenizer, parser, eval, can be written in it and it performs well enough for actual production work

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

@cmuratori I'm sorry but the CEO of the company is not a reliable source according to Wikipedia's own rules. I am not even joking—it's that crazy.

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

Perfect microcosm of Wikipedia: I tell Jimmy Wales that JangaFX was written in Odin. He asks for a source. A JangaFX founder replies to him and confirms that it was. Jimmy ignores his (and my) response, while replying to later posts in the thread:

[The Macho Maniac @Mr_RobotKe]

Respectfully, I think this reads better than it argues.
On the bitter lesson: Sutton’s point was stop encoding human priors, let scale do the work. He never said minimize sensors. LIDAR is more data for the network to learn from, not hand-engineering. Every serious multimodal transformer in 2026 fuses heterogeneous inputs end-to-end. That’s literally what scale looks like now.
On Waymo being “stuck”: they’re running actual driverless robotaxis at commercial scale in SF, LA, Phoenix, Austin, and Miami. Tesla FSD still needs a human hand on the wheel. Geofenced but driverless beats “works everywhere, supervised.” That’s Level 4 versus Level 2. The framing in the tweet has this exactly backwards.
The biology argument cuts the other way too. Bats evolved echolocation, sharks have electroreception, pit vipers do IR sensing. Evolution uses every modality a carbon body can grow. It just can’t grow lasers. And “two eyes, one brain” humans kill around 40,000 people a year on US roads, so that’s probably not the benchmark you want.
Also, Sébastien Loeb drives with a co-driver reading pre-recorded pace notes from stage recon. That’s pre-mapped external data fused with his vision in real time. The example actually proves the opposite point.
I build AI in a safety-critical domain (clinical decision support for African hospitals), and the one thing you learn fast is that redundancy is not technical debt, it’s how you buy back the last 9s of reliability. Commercial aircraft carry pitot tubes and GPS and inertial and radar altimeters. Not because Airbus lacks conviction. Because physics doesn’t care about your aesthetic preferences. Vision fails in fog, heavy rain, direct sun glare, and weird lighting. LIDAR doesn’t. When lives are the loss function, you take the redundancy.
Sensor fusion also stopped being “handcrafted” years ago. End-to-end multimodal nets fuse LIDAR and vision the same way they fuse text and images. This critique would have landed in 2019.
Cost angle is settled too. Solid-state LIDAR is under $500. XPeng, Nio, Li Auto, Huawei-powered cars, BYD’s premium lines, they all ship with it. The industry picked a side and it wasn’t vision-only.
The Marxism analogy is the tell for me. It’s a vibes argument, not an engineering one. Using richer inputs isn’t central planning, it’s just physics. Calling redundancy “Soviet” is rhetoric doing the work that evidence should be doing.
“Never bet against Elon.” Robotaxis have been “next year” since 2016. Waymo shipped. That bet already settled.
Vision-only might get there eventually. I’d genuinely love it to. But betting human lives on one modality when cheap redundancy exists isn’t Occam’s razor, it’s an aesthetic preference dressed up as one.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@kane Maybe she meant that literally. Not that she doesn't know why, but that you're not allowed to say why.

[Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan]

Also: Relaxing government limits on supply is NOT a "subsidy" in any normal sense of the word.

The whole idea of a subsidy is that it's a tax-funded payment to push quantity higher than it would be in a free market.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@JustaTh92541558 @JimKendall42173 @esrtweet Yes, US imports more. That means US gets more stuff. And what does US give in exchange? Green pieces of paper that it just prints.

And you call this a bad deal?

Now, re tarrifs, they harm equally the importer and exporter, but still, EU has 0 tarrifs on most of us products!

[Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt]

This keeps coming up all the time. The only useful use case for unit tests is for atomic things like math libraries.

For applications only functional tests are useful, you want to test from start to finish, you don't want to test isolated elements, you don't want to mock code.

Many times I've seen ppl that are so proud of their unit tests and test A, B and C in isolation and then it all just falls apart in production when they need to interact.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@DerringerInBelt @esrtweet Yes, and everything was more expensive and the jobs paid less.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@AgustinLebron3 The whole Newcomb's problem is an underspecified nonsense.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@DerringerInBelt @esrtweet It helped you buying cheap stuff from abroad. It’s called trade deficit: you get more than you give.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@Dagny1066 @esrtweet Money printing causes inflation. Money exporting causes trade deficits.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

Anyone thinking that trading surplus is good, I have an offer for you:

Give me your stuff and I will give you nothing in exchange!

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@JimKendall42173 @esrtweet Trade deficit=USA takes in more goods than exports. Ergo, US gets stuf for free.

Trade deficit is a good thing to have!

Which is exactly my point! USA is printing green pieces of paper and exchanging it for the actual valuable things from the rest of the world!

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@E_Vargas_MP @esrtweet Man, I live in Slovakia. I can assure you I am not forming my opinion of Poland by reading Elon Musk's or any other American's tweets.

Few facts about Poland though:
1. Smart people in STEM (https://t.co/WQmH6fHQ8D)

2. Entrepreneurship mindset

3. Strong GDP growth.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@SgtJulier1776 @esrtweet How many Arab no-go zones are in Poland?

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@UselesPoliszguy @esrtweet Yep. Poland.
https://t.co/nIkLoVnOam

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@Hyperguyver02 @esrtweet Do you want USD to lose its reserve currency status?

Do you understand that it's not US subsidising anyone, but actually US taxing the whole world by exporting green pieces of paper?

Again, Europe is retarded. But so far, US was profiting from it.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@esrtweet My main worry isn’t that Europe will finally wake up and become independent. That would be great!

My main worry is that US deciding it doesn’t want to be an empire anymore will lead to China taking over as a worldwide empire.

And I don’t think you will appreciate that.

[Samuel Hapák @samuha]

@esrtweet I am not trying to persuade median American voter, I am replying to You, assuming that You can appreciate the argument I am making.

And Europe, yes, is weak, poor, silly these days. My main hope is Poland these days. They seem to be the most sensible European country.