skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the community is very open and friendly

Yes, it is - you'll see I said precisely that in another comment here. :)

However, I will not yield in that it's tiny. Emacs sub on Reddit has 63k users, half of whom are Emacs Lisp programmers (by necessity). That's 20x more community members than Raku, and we're talking about a) a Lisp; and b) one bundled as an extension language for a text editor...

Raku currently has a community comparable to Smalltalk, Racket, or Haxe - enough to keep the lights on, but not much more than that. Similarly to them, Raku doesn't have any strategy for breaking into the mainstream. In effect, these communities don't grow over time. There's an "old guard" - a few dozen people - who are passionate about (and invested in) the project, but the retention of other users rarely exceeds a year or two.

I like Raku as a language, but the lack of hands shows. Imagine my surprise when a partially applied sub (`.assuming`) turned out to be 1000x (really) slower than an equivalent block. It's a known issue, just nobody had the time to work on optimizing it. RakuAST work is still ongoing 5 years later. There are other rough edges and unimplemented features, all still there because there is not enough contributors.

In any case: Raku is great, and its community is warm and friendly. At the same time, the community is tiny and Raku adoption most likely won't shoot up anytime soon. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, but you should be aware of the situation so that you can decide if it offers a suitable trade-off for you.
I hope it attracts more developers and I look forward to seeing it evolve!
Which apps had you supposed no one is using? I can't say the summaries in Mail, Messages, and random notifications on my Mac have been super useful yet, although I just started using those features. The summaries I have looked at due to the novelty of the feature have been satisfactorily accurate.

I welcome the writing tools. I'd been using Grammarly as a glorified text and grammar checker. While I have zero interest in using it or any other AI tool to write text, it's nice for finding minor mistakes like using the the same word twice in a sentence. And now I have something free and built-in that's as good as Grammarly at the things I want to use it for.
The language is intentionally vague, and leaves the determination on the person who has to check the box.

I have a competing product and shouldn't get too far in the weeds on what I truly think here, but the predominant feeling across people that have to interact with this is that it's done on purpose.

It's not so much that people don't understand what the word "affiliation" means, it's that you'd have to be completely certain that a lawyer, hired from what is clearly a litigious org, would have the same understanding.
They broke things that used to work. They had other reasons for doing it, but they also didn't really care to fix the problems it created. Their ecosystem is somewhat isolated from regular PCs and caters to a different clientele so I'm sure it made business sense to prioritize that way. Hence, there's at least some intent involved, just not outright malice.
I keep repeating this on X:

He needs us. We don't need him.

Unfortunately, anecdotally, there's a lot of group thinking in WordPress. It's one of the reasons "The WordPress way" is able to run counter to industry best practices. Most people don't know any better, and the handful who do don't speak up. It's a textbook case of toxic kindness.

Given the collective actions / behaviors / culture, I've been saying this for close to 10 years:

It's not a community. It's a cult.
Investigation of the constituents of commercially available toothpastes
Maybe this is just a Band-Aid, but Medium has a "boost" mechanism.

I'm not sure of the exact machinations, but the times that my posts have been boosted, it's always been by a publication on Medium where a human editor has read my content and 1) asked that I submit to their publication and 2) submitted to Medium for boosting.

Seems like this type of filter -- as long as they actually keep humans in the loop -- can potentially work to keep high quality content more visible.
> Even if they could, where are those berries gonna come from?

By that logic, the "true cost" of boiling a cup of water for my tea somehow involves the Big Bang and rest of the formation of the observable universe up until now.

It's kinda-true, but not in a useful way.
I think that highlights the issue I'm poking at. "Good communication" doesn't just mean a firehose of information at your fingertips. It means getting the right amount of information at the right time. Developing systems like the latter is much harder than the former, but they both get the same sales pitch.
Please don't landfill it. Recycle it responsibibly once it's lifetime is over by recycling it to Apple or taking it to a local electronics recycler like Best Buy.
Assuming there are 20 million software engineers in the world writing code professionally, 1 million Flutter developers seems massively optimistic.
Yeah, people like to count their "downloads" and call that their "users", but it's at least an order of magnitude difference in my experience. Sometimes a 100x difference.
I think a major difference is that Jitsu depends on you having a data warehouse whereas Trench can be spun up as a standalone system. The nature of Trench's data is also to enable real-time querying a high scale which will be much slower when depending on ETL'ed data in a data warehouse.
> Flutter is truly a piece of great tech with remarkable quality and value.

How does it compare to React Native from user and developer experience perspectives? Are there other competitors?
Drupal is seriously worth another look if you haven't used it in a while. It's really a mature CMS that was completely rewritten a number of years ago. There's also currently an initiative underway to make a new "distro" of Drupal that is more user friendly and less developer focused, which could be great for people coming from WordPress.

Drupal does have a learning curve, it doesn't have the robust marketplace of off the shelf themes that WP has, but I love it.
> In California in particular, courts have ruled online businesses that are public accommodations cannot discriminate.

Yes.

But there is a legal distinction between a business website that offers goods/services to the public (like an online store), and a social media platform's moderation decisions or user-created communities.

Prager University v. Google LLC (2022)[1] - the court specifically held that YouTube's content moderation decisions didn't violate the Unruh Act. There's a clear distinction between access to services (where public accommodation laws may apply), and content moderation/curation decisions (protected by Section 230).

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2022...
I know what the words means to me, I don't know what it means to Matt, and his opinion seems to be the relevant one.
Former webdev, so don’t really understand the industry too well, but my sense is that Wordpress is the lowest hanging fruit if you need customer facing CMS, or e-commerce, or any number of other plug and play features.

Hugo might be easier as long as there’s no customer facing CMS, but as soon as you introduce that back into the mix it’s significantly worse. I heard if one shop using CraftCMS successfully but they weren’t really super content forward.

Thus, to cover the spectrum of needs, it just makes sense to have a Wordpress stack - one team of developers, on team of technologies.

Hugo is great, but I haven’t used it a ton. For a lone wolf dev maintaining a personal site, probably the way to go. I built some sites with Gatsby and having to do Node updates was actually way worse than Wordpress updates, and required a much higher skill level to accomplish.
do you have the iOS app published?
> LVCS...is available in industry-standard light blue

Is this tongue-in-cheek, or is there a reason manufacturers care about the color?
Remember all those chapters of legal mumbo jumbo
you had to click-thru just get on with your day?

You may not consider yourself an affiliate
but if the lawyers decide you are a teapot
then you are either a teapot or were very rich.
Order club soda with a lime slice. It looks like a gin and tonic but you won't get drunk.
I'm not very well-up on IF, but I thought "For a change" was absolutely amazing when I discovered it: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=t61i5akczyblx2zd

I think that with the current state of the art I'd be wary of using gen AI for the output ... but for making the input more accommodating of actual human vocabulary and grammar (instead of the usual limitations) I do think that LLMs could be amazing.
As someone reliant on Flutter, it is likely better to rip off the band-aid now than wait for a slow, prolonged decline. That being said, whilst I am at least somewhat comforted that the person taking charge is someone who was involved with the Flutter team at Google in the past, rather than a random, overenthusiastic person, I have a few crucial criticisms on this post that make me skeptical.

For one, I'd recommend adding a newsletter field to the website/blog, simply so those who may not want to test or participate right away can stay in the loop. More importantly though, the two links asking for reviewers and leads just link to a private Eggs account, which, even before someone decided it was a good idea to just make content appear in an unsorted manner (random post from 2023, then 2021, then 2024, then 2020, ...), has never been an ideal approach for such projects in my opinion. I honestly thought I had clicked on the wrong links when two eggs profiles appeared in new tabs.

Forcing potential devs to create a third-party account on a social media site, then send in DMs is likely not the best way to get such a major project of the ground and having public repos or at least a contact form set up would go a long way, especially since that also makes it easier to enforce some ruleset for applications.

Additionally, consider listing what changes have been implemented in Flock at this stage. As it stands, it appears impossible to easily tell what one can expect without diving into the changes [0] one-by-one.

Still, wishing you the best as Flutters development and approach to both what goes into which branch, as well as keeping up-to-date with UI elements in target OSs has been leaving a lot to be desired to say the least. I still feel that, despite all shortcomings, for certain applications and workflows, Flutter/Dart remains the best, and it would be a shame to see it unmaintained.

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/compare/master...Flutter-...
I'm not sure what you think is so complex. I started doing plugins and themes for it at 15 years old and I'm no genius.
I'm a paying member of Medium although, due to time constraints, I only really read the articles in the Weekly Digest emails at the weekend.

I have noticed a lot of these articles that just make no sense at all starting to appear in my weekly email to the point that I probably won't renew next year if it stays this way, so it isn't just "nobody reading them".
"My use case" of ...*squints*... not throwing amazing and still functional monitors in the trash because the computer part in them is obsolete/dead and keep reusing them instead? How rude of me to reject Apple's marketing NPC programming and use common sense instead.

How about Apple just puts the 2 cent connector & PHY, and let the users who paid for the device decide how they want to use the product. Gaslighting people with the "you're holding/using it wrong" argument today is just .. I can't even express anymore without breaking HN rules.
The world is mad. After a decade of this, I give up. The cycles never end.
I'm not a native speaker even, but this is mostly readable.
Aren’t these already concerns now? A store could raise the price before you arrive and you’d be stuck with that price or need to go to another store.
Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders
It's not guaranteed that you get more money back from an index fund (unless you've found an arbitrage, but that's a corner case). Even the bigger and stabler indexes like the S&P500 have their ups and downs, both on a daily level but also over longer time spans. The long-term trend has been positive for these types of indexes, but remember that past performance doesn't guarantee future profits :)
I’m not saying that Java or even V8 shouldn’t be able to beat Python but rather that in many cases the optimizations needed to beat it are to a first approximation saying “stop using Spring/NextJS/etc.” and never happen. The gap between potential and actual speed has been quite frustrating to see expanding over the years.
I've appreciated the novelty of seeing a whole wall of text shrunk down to "can you give me a ride to the airport?"
If I was a parent of a teen I would just be glad they are socializing and fucking instead of being depressed in their room alone and doom scrolling.
One of the revelations over the course of this saga was that WordPress.org != WordPress Foundation. It's under the personal control of Matt Mullenweg.
For anyone whose brain is still in their head and/or doesn't have 7T data, there is also FreeSurfer[1] to play with.

I only really know about the physics of MRI, so I admit I don't fully understand what the advantage of this project is against other work; I assume it would have a lot to do with the fact that the data is so much higher resolution and can identify finer structure within the brain.

[1] https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/
Apple hasn't provided any documentation about how it works, beyond that there may be a waiting list.
> That's 50 people serving the needs of 1,000,000. Doing a little bit of division, that means that every single member of the Flutter team is responsible for the needs of 20,000 Flutter developers! That ratio is clearly unworkable for any semblance of customer support.

If "only" 50 people working on a project used by one million people was unworkably low then every single successful project out there would be doomed. I've certainly worked on things with much worse ratios than that.

> one has to critically assess why a team that loves external contributions has only managed to merge contributions from 1,500 developers over a span of nearly a decade.

External contributions from 1500 developers over a decade is a lot. That is an unusually high number, not a low one, and backs up Flutter's claim to love external contributions.

The fact that this person thinks that they can just magically conjure up dozens of volunteer PR reviewers is wild. Everything about this post makes it pretty clear that they don't have the slightest clue of the scope of what they're trying to do. This feels like one of the standard examples of an ex-bigco person setting off on their own with no understanding how just how much the bigco did in the background to facilitate their job.
“Extremely minor server-side functionality thing” is where SSGs fail miserably. All of a sudden you’re using SaaS forms or whatever else, or your self hosting some other tremendously inferior CMS and your margins go out the window.

Wordpress killer that accomplishes these things you mentioned would interest me. Statamic looks interesting in this context but it wasn’t super well formed 4 years ago when I dug deep into this ecosystem
Apologize that you need a subscription. Tried running this through archive.is but didn't get a readable version.

I met a guy this weekend at the laundromat who was a programmer who retired at fifty. He's telling me how he used LM Studio to get Facebooks LLM running on his laptop and that I've got to try it. I saw this link and thought I will open the tab and try the tutorial this evening. Then impulsively I posted it on here. I cannot think of a time I've ever posted on HN without having read the article first.

Here is the link to the home of LM Studio https://lmstudio.ai/
The XKCD doesn't really apply here, since intra-vehicle 48v is kind of unexplored, so there aren't multiple competing standards for that in particular. I do agree that this isn't a real open and free standard however.

edit: Inter to Intra.
If the App is delivered outside of the Mac App Store, then you could just verify the signature, then resign / replace it with a local one (using the "codesign" tool). Dealing with OTA updates after you've done this might take a bit more effort.

Resigning will appease Gatekeeper. As a result there will be no X.509 compliant OCSP checks made for the developer certificate - because it won't be there any more.

The Tor browser folks could do this as a privacy and security feature for you.
Yeah this is all very dystopian. I don't see a 'pay to publish' scheme working, neither do I see 'pay to read'. Maybe I could see 'pay to prove humanity' working, but the Voight-Kampff test is expensive, inaccurate and can be gamed, and accounts which passed it will be sold.

We're between a rock and a hard place with the internet's collective signal to noise ratio plummeting and no easy way to fix it.
If that theory were true then, what about every website on the internet pre-2010? What about 4chan?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

We're just built like that.

Regarding text platforms suffering more than non-text platforms, I think it's because of the lack of social cues that are otherwise there. You can infer a lot from the way someone talks, or from their body language. You can't infer much from text, which is partly why Poe's law exists -- sarcasm doesn't translate well.
You cannot do Fibonacci in O(1). You can reasonably do it in O(log n), though. Recursive Fibonacci is not O(n^2) either, it’s exponential.
Am I the only one who want to have photos that represent my experience, regardless of the amount of tourists ir traffic or road/building work done at the scene?

The photo of one of my family in law whatsapp group which we also framed in our corridor is a photo of me with my partner and her sister in a scenic historical street with a dog peeing at a light pole on the right corner. Another almost identical picture was taken without the dog but we just decided the "imperfect" one was better.

If I wanted a picture of a momument without tourists, I could just buy the damn postcard or download it somewhere.
There's 200k weekly downloads of node on npm. A million flutter devs means that there's a comparable amount of node devs to flutter. I'm not sure how else to estimate it, but there's 170k github stars of flutter compared to 100k node, and a roughly equal amount of forks.

The 2024 SO dev survey https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology/ has flutter at 10% and nodejs at 40%. Github language stats has JS about 10-15x the popularity of dart, but seeing as JS is more than just node it might pan out. https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

So I guess looking at the stats 1M flutter devs is not an implausible number on its face.
The phrase "drugs and alcohol" (used 100-eps% of the time) in common speech implies a separation of alcohol from "drugs", the latter being a worse category.

This "distinction" is like saying "meat and beef", i.e. no distinction at all. I'm mostly preaching to the formal system choir on HN, I just don't think I'm being out there saying the phrase "drugs and alcohol" is no accident in trying to distance alcohol from general drug use. The name Marijuana itself was deliberately made up to have negative connotations [0]:

> The use of "marihuana" in American English increased dramatically in the 1930s, when it was preferred as a "foreign-sounding name" to stigmatize it during debates on the drug's use.[12] [13] The word was codified into law and became part of common American English with the passing of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word)
Your backseat moderation is unnecessary.
broadly, thinking about up-leveling careers for tech people who are very talented but not natural self-promoters.

https://www.hedgy.works

Currently going through the predictable chicken/egg motions of bootstrapping what is essentially a talent marketplace (need supply, more demand, more supply, etc).
That's exactly what they are doing
Equity distribution is a big topic for early-stage startups, and it’s great that you’re thinking about it upfront! Here are a few things to consider as you start building out your plan.

Equity Split

Take a look at what each co-founder and early employee brings to the table. A lot of startups allocate more equity to those taking on bigger responsibilities or risks, so it’s fair and everyone feels aligned with the company’s future. Having these conversations early can go a long way in setting up a strong foundation.

Vesting Schedules

One of the most common setups is a four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff. This means each person “earns” their equity gradually over four years rather than receiving it all upfront, with no equity vesting until they hit that one-year mark. It’s a great way to make sure everyone stays committed to the company long-term, and it also gives a bit of a buffer if someone decides to leave early on.

Thinking About Dilution

Dilution is just a natural part of startup growth—especially when you start bringing in outside investors. To manage this, many startups set aside a small percentage (like 10-20%) of equity as an “option pool” for future hires. It’s also helpful to keep the team in the loop about how dilution might affect them down the road as new funding comes in so there are no surprises.

Get the Legal Side Right

Lastly, make sure everything is documented! Having clear founder agreements and shareholder agreements in place helps everyone understand their role, their equity, and how dilution will work. Partnering with a good legal advisor early on can save a lot of headaches as you grow.

I represent early-stage startup companies all the time, so feel free to reach out if I can be of more specific help!

www.hinmanlegal.com
We've had legal marijuana since 2018 up here in Canada, and from the statistics it looks like the market has almost caught up. The closest comparison I can think of is piracy and beginning of streaming wars (like Spotify and Netflix). Sure piracy is free, but a significant chunk of people started subbing for the services because of the convenience. If you'll only save about $5 per purchase, but have to get cash, arrange everything and etc., that might be just enough friction for you to just go to one of the billion stores nearby.
A relatively generous interpretation is that they want to keep down the price of the entry model. They make their own silicon now, only three different sizes so it's not viable to differentiate on compute power. The easy way out is to put too little storage and memory in the base model and make customers pay through the nose for more storage and memory.
MacBook 12" was super sweet though.

I bought 2 for professional engineering work. They were my main computers despite Intel CPUs being absyammal in term of performance.
I find that the best stories get posted by folks in EU time zones as well as the weekend (more of hacker ethos). The flame bait startup drama is M-F Pacific.
Usenet was much worse, the way I remember it.
The article began, "It’s true that I had largely been moving away from the WordPress project since at least 2017." Also, the author didn't say that he regretted contributing to WordPress.

Things change, and you move on. If someone got divorced, would you say that's a good lesson to never get married?
> Maybe the youth just have better mental health than in yesteryear.

Hiiiiiighly doubt this.
Band-limited expansion and approximation – sinc expansion
> Mostly because most spam isn't going to be reported. Traditional anti-spam works because once you have a handful of reports, you can probably generalize it to an entire class of spammy pages generated using a particular technique, and get rid of everything.

Tell that to Elon Musk. He seems to unable or unwilling to stop a certain type of fake female bot spam on X that has extremely simple to spot and unique patterns.