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> needs of the community

The constant question of big tech OSS is who is it for/why does it exist? Did they make this because they think it's a useful tool internally, or are they trying to build a platform for external developers? If they built it because it's internally useful, then it's probably open-sourced for cultural reasons (the people working on it are used to being in open source communities and want to share what they're working on).

Unless something is specifically being made as a platform for external developers (Android and Firebase come to mind), the level of support you'll get is at the whims of the team's current product leadership and budget. Both of those things change over time - a product manager can always say "let's focus on internal developers" and put the external community in maintenance mode. Based on the article's mention of desktop support being deprioritized, this might have happened on Flutter.

Big tech funds things that would be really hard to pull off with just volunteers, but big tech projects can also be victims to the capriciousness of corporate politics and budgeting.
It's going to be a standard within Tesla, so in that way it's a standard. It sounds like they anticipate benefitting from cost reduction themselves even if nobody else uses it.
First one that comes to mind is Kobo Abe
Well yeah, legal things aren't cool. I'm sure they'll find something else that's still illegal to use/abuse/do instead
Does it store also the webpage and other info about the email?
> What he definitely does think is that there have been several in-depth critiques of Langer's work

And one of those in-depth critiques, which is linked to in the post, is by the author of the article himself.

> The critiques are not of the form "Langer is wrong". They are of the form "the experimental design, sample size and statistical analysis do not support the claims Langer is making".

This seems like a distinction that's not really worth making. The author of the post is a statistician, and he's published a detailed critique (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974050 ) that says that Langer did the stats wrong. So sure, he is saying "the experimental design, sample size and statistical analysis do not support the claims Langer is making", which seems equivalent to "she is wrong" when you're a statistician.
1 developer supporting 1 developer, better ratio than Google
I am converting all the short farm stories I wrote into little audio stories using AI voiceovers. It’s not perfect and has kinks.. but I am enjoying it.. 5 done, 15 more to go!

https://youtube.com/@mushroomsonmars

My next project is one about lunar habitat and food production systems but as a podcast ..entirely with AI voices. Because I can’t find anyone from NASA or SpaceX to speak with me..hah!
There are places in the """U$A""" where outdoor advertising is heavily regulated. A handful of states have banned billboards and many more towns have too. The Supreme Court has repeatedly reaffirmed that such bans are constitutional. Advertising companies may piss and shit themselves but pretty much everybody else likes it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Austin_v._Reagan_Natio...

> Austin is one of 350 cities and towns in Texas that enacted bans related to digital billboards along the sides of highways, generally as a long-term effect of the Highway Beautification Act as well as to avoid distractions for drivers along these highways.

Basically, your defeatism isn't supported by the facts.
In various industries, colors are used to differentiate between various voltages so it's obvious whether you're working with high voltage, low voltage, etc. so you can determine the necessary precautions for whatever you're dealing with (and some will also make the connectors incompatible so you can't accidentally join high and low voltage sets of wiring). I'm not super familiar with the automotive side, but I believe they use orange for high voltage and light blue for 48v.
Show HN: HexSeq – A physics-based ambient music sequencer
HexSeq is a web-based recreation of Teenage Engineering's Tombola sequencer from their OP-1 synthesizer. It uses React Three Fibre and Rapier physics to create generative music through bouncing balls inside a rotating hexagon.

Drop chords in with your keyboard, control the hexagon's rotation speed, adjust its shape, and experiment with different physics parameters to create unique musical "patterns". The lack of structure probably makes it best suited for generating some interesting ambient sounds. It can be quite mesmerising to play with.

Made using React Three Fibre (three.js) for 3D rendering with the rapier physics engine, and Tone.js for audio.

The mobile experience isn't great as I think triggering too many sounds causes crackling and audio clipping, at least on android/chrome.
Hopefully this will turn into an EGCS-like situation.
You forget exactly who is complaining that AI is always bad, with no nuance. It's a bit like observing that in every book and movie writers have a very strong tendency to be rich superheroes with incredible morals and 50 admirers on every finger.
I'm going to have to read that one. Thanks for the link!
I'm going to repost a comment of mine from a while ago, because I still believe the main cause is simple: Weed just isn't cool anymore.

>[Marijuana] revenues have actually declined on a per-state level for three years now in some states despite inflation. General sales tax receipts are up by 27% since 2020 [0] and meanwhile California's weed sales are down. Even better, until recently they were rising at a rapid pace, having rose 2.82x from Q1 2018 to Q2 2020. [1]

>The reason why is obvious to anyone who's attended a party in the last few years: weed isn't cool anymore. Partly by being illegal, it used to be cool, but now it's accessible to anyone. A lot of people had that realization when they heard "oh, I'm into weed now" from their uncool middle-aged uncle whose previous hobbies had included LARPing and painting miniatures. It's not even just about the legality though: smoking a joint is a hell of a lot cooler than sucking on a USB stick that smells like candy grapes, and vapes, being far more convenient, have now been tied to weed's image. Something being cool is far better marketing than any ad ever designed.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QTAXT09QTAXCAT1USYES

[1] https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/charts.htm?url=CannabisT...
"Not necessarily" can apply to almost any use of language, but I feel like this kind of thing can commonly be interpreted as non-affiliated. In an analogous case, if you work for an organization that performs public elections, at least in my country, you can't be affiliated with a party, but your personal business (voting for them) isn't included. Being publicly connected with or being compensated by another entity would seem to me to present an arguable affiliation
Is it my understanding that the reward model is also similar to an LLM (with the difference being it predicts a score instead of the next token)?
Agreed its just the linkedin feed with fancier css
If you want to be pedantic,

What is a "standard" then? Does it need to have an ISO seal?
20 years ago, CGI covered this use case pretty well. I wonder if anyone has tried to make a modern equivalent.

Maybe something along the line of a Cloudflare Worker (but using the open source stack) or possibly something minimal and flexible based on WASM or JS that could be invoked from different servers could work.
For Scala (of which this is probably the main target) Maven builds are especially slow. I would not be surprised if that was his early focus.
This pretty much means that there were only 3 large collisions in the asteroid belt in the past 40M years... Which is astonishing considering how busy the belt is...
The fork is called "flock" and it's part of "flutter foundation"? It appears they forked Google's confusing branding strategy as well.
> shall make available to a consumer, upon request

Do those requests have to be submitted via a Google Android or Apple iOS app with remote attestation, or can we use a web browser?
This is not very concrete, but I've been thinking about the parallels between software development and Factorio and how to tie the two together to be (personally) beneficial. This includes finding ways to make software development as enjoyable as the game* and also pondering ways to make programming more visual. It would be cool to "see" a software project functioning similar to the moving parts of a factory.

* setting small, clear objectives

* spending enough time on refactoring

* giving myself a small reward for completing objectives

* automating more of my repetitive tasks
I used to be all Drupal, and then the big rewrite broke so many upgrade paths, with some critical modules left abandoned. I waited for a whole year for that, and even invested time to see if I could do some work, but it’s just too much, and Drupals documenting is (was?) poor. It’s internal stack is or was also really opaque.

You really need a team for that. I switched to Wordpress for just that reason, it’s a lot easier to tinker with.

I love to hear that has changed.
True, but Inter-vehicle could be cool for several things. First is the EV equivalent of jump-start-and-bring-a-can-of-gasoline, an in-the-field recharge for cars that run out before the recharging station or home charger. It would also be useful as a plug for a range-extending spare battery pack on a small trailer. Seems like other potential uses too.

(But no, I'm not liking that Tesla is taking the typical entitled-ass attitude of avoiding all the standards bodies, doing whatever they want, and expecting others to ratify their standard. If it is that good, it should be readily agreed to by the relevant standards bodies.)
I think they meant "across manufacturers".
In some cases, yea probably. But many things I'm asked to rate, the baseline expectation is that the product or service just works like it's supposed to. For the EV charger, my car is either charged or it isn't. If it is, you have delivered your service as advertised. If it isn't, sure I can indicate your charger is broken or on fire or whatever, but you probably already know because of telemetry. If I'm at a restaurant, sure my opinion can be more nuanced.

The incessant rating prompts just come off as... needy and insecure I guess. And annoying.
Isn't most science in the "wow isn't that surprising" genre? I feel like my whole life science has pretty much been "hmm... wouldn't have guessed that". Basic facts like fire burning oxygen -- I remember literally as a kid thinking -- of all the things it consumes what we also breathe? Or gravity being a function of mass -- that one still trips me a little bit.

I think what these authors do is apply science to human interactions -- a tilt toward social science -- but science to me is usually surprising. (Or I'm just really bad at science).
I think we are use passive income to mean different things. One of the meanings I tend to use it is capital preservation. I have worked and created savings for $x. What can do so that I do not lose that money and make it work for me? Index funds, 4% withdrawal rate, becoming a landlord are all some kind of answer to that question.

Another meaning is something like "get rich quick" schemes. There is a overlap between the previous one and this, but here the focus is on outsized return and not preservation.

A third one that people tend to associate with the term is about going from almost nothing to a large something - either by "working" the system, people etc or through generous social net. The difference is your starting point between this and the previous one. The second kind of thing targets people with money while this targets a much younger crowd.

After reading through the article, it seems like the author mixes up 1 and 2..
There absolutely is such a law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, specifically Title II. If you provide public accommodations you may not discriminate based on religion. You can't stick a "No Muslims allowed" sign on your restaurant because it's open to the public.

Reddit is publicly available even if they require registration, and neither Reddit nor subreddit mods may legally discriminate based on anything covered under the CRA.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/title-ii-civil-rights-act-public...
Inter-vehicle power would be pretty weird.

Sounds like jumper cables.
Gelman leaves the door reasonably ajar on the possibility that Langer is right about effects in the world, but firmly closes it on the possibility that the statistical analysis Langer presents supports this belief.
If you have an Android phone, get FlutterShark and check which of your installed apps use Flutter. It's a surprising amount actually. For example, I just recently discovered that Supercell uses Flutter for their Supercell-ID flow.
Huh I noticed this section in the linked NACS post:

> As NACS is now recognized in a SAE recommended practice (RP) under SAE J3400, we have removed the technical specifications and CAD from our website.

So something that was previously freely available now requires a $300 payment to access.

I'm sad to see that.
Failing Upward
Show HN: Saasdoor – Glassdoor for Enterprise SaaS price parity
iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard might not be too far off for the tiny laptop one. Though those are 11” and 13”, and you’re on iOS instead of macOS.
maybe it's just me that always has that "under penalty of perjury" sarcastically running in my inner voice whenever I see these types of ridiculous EULA type of things.

Somebody should really force the issue to "have standing" to fight the ridiculousness. I'm shocked WP Engine hasn't already
> Inter-vehicle power would be pretty weird.

That's entirely possible at present. Many electric vehicles can send power out to power appliances. It's called "Vehicle to Load" or "V2L".

And electric vehicles can slow-charge off a wall power socket, so they could get that from V2L. It won't be a common use, but it would work in a pinch to get you enough juice to get to a better charger?
I also updated the phrasing in the blog post to be clearer haha
Good to know that other companies are supplying 5K displays, but neither is significantly cheaper than the Apple. In fact, Samsung's MSRP is identical to Apple's.

So much for being an "idiot" product…
> Seems like a small thing but it's really not: I appreciate your use of "alcohol and other drugs"; the phrase you'll hear 99% of the time is "drugs and alcohol", where alcohol tries to avoid being lotted in with people using drugs they don't like.

"drugs" often means illegal drugs in colloquial use while alcohol is legal in most places, so the distinction has a use.

> I want to draw attention to how Singapore in particular somehow gets a pass for literal state-sponsored murder for smoking a joint instead of drinking a beer.

I wonder what's your motivation for such an extreme exaggeration. The article you linked quite clearly states that the "punishment" for consuming is a 6 months rehibilation which, while quite harsh, is very far from your claim of death penalty. You need to possess 500 grams of Marijuana to get the death penalty which is like a 1000 or more joints.
I wish they would do this. But my experience is that building efficient software is hard, and is very very hard the larger the team gets or the longer the product exsits.

Even zoom, used to be very efficient, but has gradually got worse over time :-(
I was a coin phone phreaker in the late 1980s as a teen. I had a notebook with phone numbers for hundreds of coin phones and was particularly a fan of COCOTs because most of them were poorly designed and you could make free calls using tactics like: hit the switchhook quickly ten times and complete a call by talking to the operator. (I practiced and was good at that)
Or, you know, you're a specialist who worked their way into a career at anything that produces hardware. Philips, Samsung, heaven forbid you work for a larger corporation, how many of those people can there possibly be, right?
Good. Im glad the NSA is doing it's job. I don't want terrorists to feel safe while using our systems.
> I’ve watched people pour their lives into giving back only to have it all tossed out because their important work isn’t what Matt wanted people to focus on.

It's sentiments like this that really undercut Mullenweg's arguments. "WP Engine didn't contribute to core" when Core was just the preapproved feature list that was important to Automattic. Even if WP Engine wanted to contribute, their work would have just lined Automattic's pockets (hence why he just asked for money in the shakedown).
You are right, thank you for the citation.

edit: there's another comment chain you might be interested in about whether the federal civil rights act is applicable.
You’re thinking about this from the perspective of good faith. I think the people who are worried are looking at it from the perspective of no longer being comfortable saying something is too absurd to happen.

For example, say your company ends up on Matt’s legal radar and he trawls the logs looking for accesses from your IPs and says you violated CFAA – even if you’re totally comfortable that you’d prevail in court, that could be an expensive process and discovery might turn up things you’d prefer not to be public. In situations like that it’s easier simply not to risk dealing with him since people who are focused on vengeance will often waste resources on pointless activity just to prove a point.
From personal experience, the complexity comes from how ‘not obvious’, unexpected, or (outwith WordPress) unconventional much of WordPress is.

It is a fascinating code base that is a result of it evolving through end user needs, over years, rather than being a grand software architecture with developer ergonomics at the core. Last time I touched it, changing domain names and sync dbs all required plugins. Yet in page editing works like magic.

I assume no-one building Wordpress today would build it like it is build.
Bitrate and max devices for CAN are limited.
Does nvm not use npm internally?
Agree, if it pans out this way in reality of course. That'd be splendid!

NodeJS went through something similar. It was tightly controlled by a single company (Joyent) who were juggling too many balls, and progress went slowly. Community people did a fork (io.js) which shipped improvements faster, but they did so in a careful non-shitty way. This made lots of people switch to io.js, so that eventually NodeJS merged with io.js (iirc they just renamed the latest io.js "NodeJS").

I don't know of any other instances of community forks of company-controlled OSS that did something similar though. If this is just one guy who made a blog post, like a sibling comment suggests it might be, then it might not pan out this way.
CAN is slow. At best it's around 1Mbit, but you get into electrical limitations. So you have to run multiple CAN buses in parallel and carefully manage bandwidth limitations.

My Chevy Volt had 4 different CAN buses and one additional LIN bus.

This can all be replaced with just two Ethernet buses: for safety-critical and non-critical uses. And the gigabit speed provides plenty of bandwidth for any reasonable sensor traffic, even including camera feeds.

The current architecture was justified in 90-s when LIN PHYs were an order of magnitude cheaper than even CAN PHYs. Now Gigabit Ethernet PHYs cost less than a dollar.
The Frakonomics brand leans more into the info side of infotainment. Having listened to the show, they also lean into their academic backgrounds, so yes. This isn't WTF with Marc Maron, but even he famously excused himself to do some research when he found out he was interviewing the "other" Kevin McDonald.
Is this really a thing or just repeating their laments? Gen Z are also a very whiny generation that don't seem to tolerate the 'suck it up we all went through the same shit' message.

I mean young engineers in my company get paid nicely in comparison to their older peers. Noone can really complain about not finding a flat and live correctly. Moreover they are definitely not into having kids, as they prefer to keep money for leisure, so I really don't buy their whining.
And so it slowly starts what everyone was expecting from Google projects that don't bring millions back home.
> What I don't understand, is why the upstream audio doesn't just buffer while the downstream thing processing it is blocked. Why should that result in audible artifacts, can't it just catch up with the rest of the buffer later?

So you make your buffer larger. But the thing consuming the data is still slower than the thing producing the data, so that buffer will eventually overrun, too. The graceful way to fail is not to block, but to quickly drop the excess data. However, you're now losing data, and doing so very unexpectedly overall, because apparently this transcription service was supposed to be well able to keep up with the audio stream. (If I understood this whole thing right, it's a bit vague.)

So really, unless the root cause is taken care of, you either block or lose data, without good reason in this case.

> Buffer overruns feels very 1996-cd-burner-ish.

That was a buffer underrun, the opposite. The CD burner, moving at a fixed speed, ran out of data because the producer (the rest of the PC, effectively) was not able to replenish the buffer quickly enough. The fix, besides faster PCs, was to have very large buffers, that were able to pick up the slack for longer than the duration of a "dropout" on the PC side. But between those "dropouts", the PC was probably well able to produce the data to the CD burner at a higher rate than necessary, so the large buffer stayed filled on average.

Both buffer overruns and underruns are still very much a concern. They exist anywhere where producers and consumers operate at a mismatched rate for more than just a short time, in a real-time setting.
The world is 3D and instances of pyramid schemes exist in the world, making them 3D.
C# and Java are languages with very different performance ceilings and techniques available for memory management.
Yes! The architecture is almost identical. The only difference is in the final layer. In an LLM used for text generation, the final layer has a separate output for every potential token the model could produce, and we decide which token to generate by choosing the one with the highest likelihood at each generation step (at least that's what the simplest sampling methods do). In an LLM used as a reward model, we only have one output in the final layer, and we interpret its value as the predicted reward.

Everything else in the model before that final layer is exactly identical, architecture-wise.
Please keep up the great work on this! I love this split flap project. It's gotten me into electronics. I haven't had the chance to build it out yet, but I want to put together a sign as a project.
The point is that we don’t know, and this means the data may be wrong. For an experiment to prove something, you need to control for these variables.
Note that I know nothing of the Flutter team/culture and am only answering generally:

>why not be a labor organizing entity and work with the flutter team?

Depends on the maintainers/team. I've definitely seen many a bureaucracy that slows down FOSS to a crawl of bug fixes and feature progression. If you make enough PRs that are ignored for weeks or months, you'll realize this isn't really a team ready for nor interested in a proper FOSS environment and it's instead mostly "that teams code that happens to be readable".

Their official answer seems to suggest as much:

>But, sadly, trying to work with the Flutter team delivers a different reality. While some developers have had success working with the Flutter team, many other developers have found it frustrating, if not unworkable.

I guess we'll see. I'm way more of the mentality of "actions speak louder" so I'm not really one to announce my plans until I get something worthwhile off the ground (in this case, a few stale PR's that feel like game changers to the customers). But that's not a mentality modern social media rewards.