skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The east has fibre everywhere, but the west is still a developing country(side). Shipping code on a truck would be faster, if you are not on some academic fibre net
The main problem in projects like flutter is to always focus on the "new". If you focus on the new without stabilizing the existing basic features, you will accumulate thousands of problems. If the same path is followed in this new project, I think the result will be the same. There is still no clear update on issues opened years ago. and most are pretty basic needs.
As a JS/React dev, I had to do some WP work a few years back and the whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth. I found WP itself to be nice to work with but the ecosystem around it is just jarring.

In the JS ecosystem if you have an issue then you usually go look it up and someone either recommends a fix or a NPM package to get around the issue you are having. With WP when you tried to figure out an issue it was always endless blogspam with an upsell to a plugin or consulting services in the end.

I remember reading so many articles on really basic topics where the author would dance around the solution before finally going "well if you want the real answer, please hire my WP consulting firm and we can take a look".

And with plugins I found it very hard to find anything open source or free. Every plugin, no matter how small, always seemed to have it's core features locked behind a "premium" version. Now I get it, plugins take time to develop and people want to be paid for their work but it was just really jarring to go from a community where folks contribute to developing the best solution for something together versus everyone hacking it on their own because they wanted to sell a plugin.
> "Affiliation" (usually) means something like a formal association, partnership, or close connection, not that you're just a customer

In securities, yes. In general use, not necessarily.
At some point, safety.

A short/failure at 100V is much more dangerous than at 50V. Both from a fire-safety perspective as well as an electrocution risk perspective.
Flutter founder here.

When I led the Google team we had pretty good analytics. `flutter` was for a long time opt-out with analytics and would phone home to Google and report usage. We filtered out docker containers and things that looked like CI and saw usage near 1M monthly actives when I left Google a couple years ago. I'm sure it's up since then.

There are 10s of millions of web developers in the world. Doesn't shock me that Flutter could be over 1M monthly (and probably several million annually).

There are just a lot of apps and app devs out there.
You can also upgrade and just ... not enable it. In order to use the feature, not only do you have to join a waitlist, but you then have to also explicitly opt-in after getting it. Even after opting-in, you can opt out.

Or, you can use some features and not others. You can disable summaries, for instance.

Blanket, knee-jerk reactions like this are silly, and this is coming from someone who, after playing with it a bit, is underwhelmed.
>> Over on the internet, content is posted mostly anonymously and there is nobody to take responsibility.

I sometimes suggest that the internet should start from strongly verifiable identity. You can strip identity in cases where it makes sense, but trying to establish identity is very hard. When people can be identified it make it possible to track them down and hold them accountable if they violate laws. People will generally behave better when they are not anonymous.
Thanks for posting this. I'm building https://api-fiddle.com and need to have this on the map as a potential default format for the editor.
The main point the author is making is that algorithms represent the opinion of the corporation/website/app maker and opinions are free speech. That is, deciding what to prioritize/hide in your feed is but a mere manifestation of the business's opinion. Algorithms == Opinions.

This is a fine argument. The part where I think they get it wrong is the assumption/argument that a person or corporation can't be held accountable for their opinions. They most certainly can!

In Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund the Supreme Court found that a company cannot be held liable for its opinion as long as that opinion was was "honestly believed". Though:

the Court also held, however, that liability may result if the company omitted material facts about the company's inquiry into, or knowledge concerning, the statement of opinion, and those facts conflict with what a reasonable investor would understand as the basis of the statement when reading it.

(from: https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2015/03/supreme-court-c...)

That is, a company can be held liable if it intentionally mislead its client (presumably also a customer or user). For that standard to be met the claimant would have to prove that the company was aware of the facts that proved their opinion wrong and decided to mislead the client anyway.

In the case of a site like Facebook--if Meta was aware that certain information was dangerous/misleading/illegal--it very well could be held liable for what its algorithm recommends. It may seem like a high bar but probably isn't because Meta is made aware of all sorts of dangerous/misleading information every day but only ever removes/de-prioritizes individual posts and doesn't bother (as far as I'm aware) with applying the same standard to re-posts of the same information. It must be manually reported and review again, every time (though maybe not? Someone with more inside info might know more).

I'd also like to point out that if a court sets a precedent that algorithms == opinions it should spell the end of all software patents. Since all software is 100% algorithms (aside from comments, I guess) that would mean all software is simply speech and speech isn't patentable subject matter (though the SCOTUS should've long since come to that conclusion :anger:)
The thing is that websites often need to be accessible to more than developers. If your company has to get a developer involved every time whey want to change a word on the site (don’t expect the person who wants to change the website to know HTML or Markdown templates), progress gets slowed down quite a bit.
You might want to choose a different name and branding. [Helm](https://helm.sh/) is already a package manager for Kubernetes with pretty similar branding.
Regardless, its kind of like asking someone to declare they aren't a communist or other bullshit political tests. I would refuse out of principle.
Below 50v is considered "low voltage". Higher voltage would require different safety considerations.
The same thing Amazon would have to do to detract fake listings: Add friction.

Of course, even mentioning the f-word is forbidden, so...
Dang this sucks, I had all the files from my brain MRI when I got Dengue Fever but my laptop recently got stolen out of my car and the CD they gave it to me on was in it. This would have been fun to mess with. The MRI facility is in another country so not sure how easy it would be to get them to send me the data again (although they should I gave them 3k dollars).
If you're unable to acknowledge basic information like "battery is low" and respond accordingly within several days nor able to wait a few seconds to get enough charge to last through your super critical meeting/whatever, I guess Apples mouse just isn't for you.

That's fine. It's why we have choices.

Now if you'll excuse me I must get back to complaining ad nauseam to strangers about how much I hate a mouse I don't use. Oh wait no I don't.
Do regular users use more than 250GB or so of local storage? Large media collections are likely stored on a NAS or external HDDs and the local disk is more for the OS, apps, and scratch space. Nowadays many files are on the cloud as well. Developers, video editors, and other people who actually handle large amounts of data locally will likely purchase an upgrade.

While they're Linux systems pretty much all my desktops and laptops only use 50-100GB of disk space, and I still issue 128GB SSDs with no complaints as everything's stored on the network. Considering how expensive storage is on Apple devices I don't want to be paying the premium for 1TB of NVME which I won't use.
I went from a 2560x1600 27” 2012 iMac to a 5K 2015 iMac. The 2015 model was the first not to offer target display mode, so it’s even worse than you say. For a while I ran the 2012 as a second display for the 2015.

The 2012 iMac is long gone, passed to a friend, but I still daily drive the 2015 5K. I’m interested in the new iMac but the 24” screen feels like a downgrade. The 27” studio display seems like a nice option but for similar money I get an extra computer in a smaller screen.

Naturally I could buy a cheap monitor but I don’t want to.
I like it more than alcohol, but as a teenager it was definitely just to be cool.
I must be living under the rock. I thought Flutter is prosperous? I only dabbed into Android development as a learning experience so I probably missed something important.

If everything the article says is true, should I switch to Kotlin?
There's a checkbox at Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri to turn it on.
My point was it's not AGI, I don't even know what you're talking about or who you're replying to anymore.
They were threatened with legal action from Matt so have essentially shut down and replaced it with that, from the sounds of it Matt tried to go directly to the domain registrar and isp to identify its owner (apparrently githubs still too hard for him to figure out).
This is an utter cop-out that is a hair's length away from "this interviewer was combative and biased". In fact, it is entirely possible to thread the needle of being engaging without also being a total rube.
Sounds like it needs to be fixed to FNV1a
>>but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotnet or java

Java is open with competing implementations from Oracle, Redhat,AWS and of course OpenJDK and several other providers.
Out of curiosity, can we see the chat history that you went through to get to this output?
That is a horrible story. I would have been as livid as you.
Key statement: "As Flock ships important bug fixes and features, the Flutter team can then choose to add those to Flutter, on their schedule. "

I see a lot of negative comments but I think this will be a net positive over time to the Flutter community and to the technology itself. I think it will also give Google a reality check on the needs of the community.
Thanks for that great clarification. I had seen all those words before, but just not in that particular order. haha.

Maybe our only hope of doing LLM training runs in a tiny amount of time will be from Quantum Computing or even Photonic (wave-based) Computing.
FWIW to anyone reading this: I got in off the waitlist in ~2 hours.
It's not that they actively do bad things, it's that they only dedicate real resources in the direction of self-interest. Tim Cook likes to point to their solar investments and accessibility as examples of "doing good" when in reality the former is a good long term financial bet and the latter is generally under-resourced (or "cheap" to them).

They'd use M.2 SSDs in their Macs instead of soldering flash chips to the board to allow for upgradeability, but that would seriously hurt the average profit margin on their devices and (maybe) take more time to engineer.

The areas where their self-interest and the environment overlap are truly awesome, like shipping iPhones without chargers (increased margins) and in smaller paper boxes (more efficient shipping), but I don't wear rose-colored glasses about it.

They'll also never let the iPad run macOS, because if people could own one device instead of two, that would be bad for their profits. They'll keep them cleanly differentiated for as long as they can.

(I also worked in engineering at Apple!)
Yep, it's built in now.
It depends, of course, on what you're doing. Re-using the toy web API in the article, I expect Python would be significantly faster. The QR code library you'd end up using in Python is probably written in C, and the web-serving portion should have comparable performance characteristics as you'd get with nodejs.

My guess is that if you were to rewrite this same app in straight Python (no Rust at all), it would probably already give you "Tier 3" performance.

But sure, I bet there are a bunch of use cases where nodejs would be faster than Python.
Are there any statistics on how much of it is used in production?
It's possible that they also count students and amateurs such as me, who only used it in a small project never published. There could be a million I guess, but professional developers are probably a lot less.
Thanks. The text I quoted referred to the second one.
Based on the article's premise getting that merged is the problem, not fixing code.
I wonder if hour of day would benefit from being combined with HN's visitors location data to be truly relevant? I think the location is embedded in the time somehow if the visitors' origins are stable over time. If 9am PT is a popular time and most of the visitors are on the PT timezone then even if this 9am PT is encoded as UTC the model will pick it up (I think). Now, if over time visitors get more diverse and a big chunk is now coming from Europe, this original 9am will make less sense to the model. Adding visitors origin stats at time of the post would probably even help surface region trends. But I guess this historical data isn't public.
I live by "don't recurse, iterate". Don't get me wrong, recursion seems really clever, if you live in a universe with an infinite stack.
Well you're gonna want CMS anyways right? Why not go full WordPress and give your non-technical users even more agency. It's pretty hard for them to cause harm in this scenario.
Your intuition is, I think, pretty close to accurate. See this paper from earlier this year:

> While Transformers have been the main architecture behind deep learning's success in language modeling, state-space models (SSMs) such as Mamba have recently been shown to match or outperform Transformers at small to medium scale. We show that these families of models are actually quite closely related, and develop a rich framework of theoretical connections between SSMs and variants of attention, connected through various decompositions of a well-studied class of structured semiseparable matrices. Our state space duality (SSD) framework allows us to design a new architecture (Mamba-2) whose core layer is an a refinement of Mamba's selective SSM that is 2-8X faster, while continuing to be competitive with Transformers on language modeling.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.21060
On the contrary, it's why contracts use boilerplate.

Boilerplate words have all been litigated. Boilerplate clauses are well understood.

Affiliate, affiliated, affiliation, words like these are boilerplate, unless you go to the trouble of locally redefining.
It’s not necessarily hard. But it’s cumbersome and just one of the worst codebases I ever had the pleasure of working with. Basically everything about it is legacy, bad design choices, hacks, workarounds and compatibility fixes. That’s what makes it complex. It needs a rewrite 10 years ago. But due to the deep integration of thousands of plugins that will never be possible.
For that matter: who's going to be manufacturing and supplying these connectors? Tesla? I don't think so.
Yeah, it's illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, but if you hook up the fire-alarm to a web-api, the responsibility for the ensuing chaos disappears.
Only a maximum of 32GB shared RAM?! Surely that must be the minimum now?
I remember the way we built wasp/hornet traps in the french countryside. Take a plastic bottle of water, cut it in two (top vs bottom), invert the top so the bottle opening is pointing toward the bottom, and fill the bottom of the bottle with wine.

Wasps and hornets are attracted by the wine, get in easily, then get drunk and apparently can't find their way out through the narrow bottle opening and die drowning in the wine.

Well I guess not those ones.
Sounds like it’s not for you. And that’s ok.

I’m a long time MM user and have one at every computer I use (work and multiple personal). My first one was one with the AA batteries. Never had a problem with this.

If you have a car, you have to fill it up with gas (or charge the battery) too and you can’t use it while doing that. Similar deal.
Tesla really deserves some kudos for pushing the 48V architecture and the Ethernet-based communication. It drastically simplifies the wiring mess that is in a typical car.

And it's not even close. Just watch the teardown of Cybertruck and compare its wiring to something like F150.
My parents actually used this as a strategy when my sister and I were teens 20+ years ago.

They casually offered that, as children of the '70s, there really weren't any drugs they hadn't tried, so if I was interested in any, I could just let them know and they'd get them and we could do them together.

Made it seem as uncool as humanly possible, so I never tried.

By the time our youngest brother was a teen, they'd gotten overconfident in their success and never made the offer to him. He eventually quit using, but it took 12 steps and a lot of time and effort my sister and I were spared!
Nitpick: intra-vehicle. Inter-vehicle power would be pretty weird.
With the appropriate grain of salt due to the source, standardizing those power connections would probably be a good thing.

Also, speeding up the adoption of 48V, the industry has been talking about it for so long!
The failure here, is that ONR and Scripps, and maybe they did, but this is not only a historic scientific instrument, but one that is still valuable. They should have shopped it around to see who else could use it before letting it sit idle and then scraping it.

At the same time, I have seen working electron microscopes, oscilloscopes, etc just get "surplussed" but in the process of surplussing them, they are rendered inoperable. When we have a resource of such a magnitude, it is our duty to ensure that someone else uses it for its designed purpose, science.
Sightly different comparing a cms to an entire programming language. A more apt comparison would be your career being entirely focused on Umbraco or OpenCMS rather than dotnet or java.
Crime and theft is why.

Japan has a whole host of nice things we can’t have in the US because we let bad actors run wild.
I'm planning to go through this recent thread of WordPress alternatives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fsie1i/top_word...

Any others that people recommend? Will be looking for a basic website platform, blog is secondary, no e-commerce, minimal use of plugins, open source and hostable, where everything can be done in a Web UI with exception maybe of site templates. API would be nice to help with conversion from WordPress.
I don't think I'm fighting anything. You just choose another product. In particular for design professionals, you're better off buying monitors with panels from Samsung or LG, who are also Apple's suppliers.

Edit: The real point is you've been conditioned into thinking you need a 5k or even a 6k display. As someone who has done professional media work, no you do not.

Apple's monitors are products sold to people who don't know seemingly don't know anything about monitors, color accuracy, who don't calibrate, or have to test against multiple devices to ensure readability or clarity of picture.

They're really nice toys for people with a lot of money, not unlike Teenage Engineering products, except Apple markets them in earnest to "pros" not "professionals." People who know better use different products.
Definitely.

Would it affect apples bottom line if they couldn't prevent people from reusing their displays? You bet.
My fault for omitting the context of a heading that said "AMD Linux drivers" immediately before the part I quoted then, sorry for the miscommunication.
Don't humblebrag.
Idk about user-friendly. This is a very subjective benchmark.
> 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.

Back when I worked on .net we had fewer than 50 people maintaining a product that shipped to over a billion machines. If you opened an issue on github we'd usually reply that day.

It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but I feel like 'the mythical man month' should still be required reading for software devs. More devs != better.
going out on a limb here to say no. this probably shouldn't be publicly accessible.
That was troubling me too, so: from what I understand (someone feel free to correct me if you know better), Mister Wordpress hired people to take care of his ill mother who seems to also have serious mental issues (ref. all the crazy sex talk and racism). One of the caregivers got fed up of the abusive behavior (which wasn't part of the contract) and complained multiple times to Mister Wordpress about it, who then told his mom she should stop making up crazy shit about him and just be a nice person to the people who are trying to help her. Which seems to have made it worse because she's just stark raving mad. Whether there are actual Asian women involved at all remains to be seen (ah) and is beside the point.
Without paywall, since it's a Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-iphone-16-sales-blo...
It struck me that they estimate that the number of qualified contributors is 1000, but the number _so far_ is 1500.

They're slightly different things (as the post notes, the bigger number includes copy editors), but still…
Is it particularly worse if it is AI slop? Slop has been flooding a lot of platforms before AI, AI slop makes it harder to detect if it is artificially generated but some of it is better than human slop.
It is insanely easy to self host, migrate and author stuff on it. And its frickin free.
Indonesia blocks Apple iPhone 16 sales over lack of investment
Faster and better in almost every respect we've looked at vs React Native or Electron. We're super happy with this choice we made quite some time ago.

I'm not qualified to give an in depth review/comparison, however.

Edit: we use flutter to build an app which runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux -- the same code base with pretty minor adaptations to desktop vs mobile and different screen sizes.

The experience has so far been fantastic. It's fast, it's relatively light weight, it's performant, it's a pleasure and we couldn't imagine doing it any other way.
Whoa, neat. That makes sense from a product engineering/support angle - less work. The cable is just for charging and nothing else. I think that Windows doesn't really support the auto-pairing via USB cable that Apple does anyhow with its mice and keyboards.
I admit I would have liked it if English language Ph.D candidates had some basic working understanding of Ancient Greek, Latin and Old English to serve as a cornerstone for their studies, but that ship has sailed more than a century ago. If you know Greek, onomatopoeia is not that confusing anymore, and you'd know that if you want to be super-pedantic, the plural of octopus would be octopodes, but never octopi.

Then again, if you knew some Old English, you would know correcting everyone and forcing them to use the "original form" is a silly goose chase. You'd know better than to remind everyone that children is a pesky double plural, and childer (from the old English cildru, and like the German Kinder) is more than enough? Or to remind everyone that's it's not "a newt tail" but rather "an EWT tail" and please mind your ewts and a good day to you to sir.

Or maybe there will be some people who would still keep doing that, who am I fooling...