skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for creating my favorite app framework.

That said, I literally only use Flutter as a hobbyist.

I made a basic web game for a friend, and a small web app that helps me manage my music lyric videos. I ultimately picked Flutter because I find it easier than actually building websites.

Dart is amazing.

But I'm not deploying to millions of users. At most 10 people have seen my Flutter apps.

It's VERY good for creating quick crud apps with Firebase.

Just counting the number of us who have it installed and might of spun up hello world says nothing about it's actual market share.

To be clear, I absolutely love Flutter, but it's still not something I really see job listings for.

Dart is great too BTW.
I was really hoping they'd have announced a MacBook Pro based on M4. I had been waiting all year for it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/11/apple-reportedly-develo...

However, reading Nanoreview it looks like the performance of the M3 Max still actually beats the M4 for graphics and multicore performance.

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m4-vs-apple-m3-m...
A thing I dont see alot of people talking about here is the increase in strength over time. For first time users who experience a more 'modern' weed strain that will mess you up if you dont have a tolerance, I dont think they would try it again soon.
Even if the buffer is large enough, at some point (i.e. a long enough meeting in this case), it will fill up.

> (Now, why does it produce a pop as opposed to silence/hiccup/stretched sound? probably because it was easiest to code)

Sudden "silence" pretty much is a pop, and so is the silence suddenly ending. The sharp transition at least theoretically contains energy in all frequencies (or rather the full bandwidth of this bandwidth-limited signal), which we perceive as a pop.

Bang a steel bar against a hard table, and you get a whole range of frequencies as well, also very pop-like. Do the same with a tuning fork, and after the initial bang you get a nice, clean, single tone, because the tuning fork effectively filters out all the other frequencies through its impulse response.
It's better in most ways, for example, just recently LG decided to rewrite its TV apps from RN to Flutter

https://webostv.developer.lge.com/news/2024-07-15-new-and-su...

> Most of our apps use React. When we first adopted React, we were pleased with the development productivity it provided, but sadly its initial performance was subpar in terms of start-up time, memory consumption, and responsiveness. After significant and complicated optimizations we reached performance benchmarks that were good enough, and yet we desired a new technology that was both fast and simple.

> To our delight, our very first prototype with Flutter easily exceeded our target benchmarks! Without any optimization whatsoever, our Flutter rewrite launched twice as fast as our original app, consumed less runtime memory, and felt more responsive and playful to use
>“We kill people based on metadata”

>“metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.”

Your response to the above quotes is so short-sighted that I don't even know where to begin.

As long as it's the people you don't like dying, I guess it's cool.

Good thing the NSA is the only group in the world that has access to metadata at scale.
>Does nvm not use npm internally?

No. It downloads binaries from nodejs.org. There is no "official" canonical means of managing Node versions. It's just a grab bag of community tools like NVM.
You know what? You're right. That's literally jumper cables.

But no, I don't think Tesla is doing those.
Well, we'll just have to reasonably disagree with the final interpretation, then. I will say that from reading this closing section of Gelman's paper, it's about as harsh a condemnation as I've ever seen in an academic paper - he essentially says it's not science that's masquerading as science. Written from one academic to another, that's basically the equivalent of "you're full of shit":

> 4.4. Statistical and conceptual problems go together

> We have focused our inquiry on the Aungle and Langer (2023) paper, which, despite the evident care that went into it, has many problems that we have often seen elsewhere in the human sciences: weak theory, noisy data, a data structure necessitating a complicated statistical analysis that was done wrong, uncontrolled researcher degrees of freedom, lack of preregistration or replication, and
an uncritical reliance on a literature that also has all these problems.

> Any one or two of these problems would raise a concern, but we argue that it is no coincidence that they all have happened together in one paper, and, as we noted earlier, this was by no means the only example we could have chosen to illustrate these issues. Weak theory often goes with noisy data: it is hard to know to collect relevant data to test a theory that is not well specified. Such studies often have a scattershot flavor with many different predictors and outcomes being
measured in the hope that something will come up, thus yielding difficult data structures requiring complicated analyses with many researcher degrees of freedom. When underlying effects are small and highly variable, direct replications are often unsuccessful, leading to literatures that are full of unreplicated studies that continue to get cited without qualification. This seems to be a particular
problem with claims about the potentially beneficial effects of emotional states on physical health outcomes; indeed, one of us found enough material for an entire Ph.D. dissertation on this topic (N. J. L. Brown, 2019).

> Finally, all of this occurs in the context of what we believe is a sincere and highly motivated research program. The work being done in this literature can feel like science: a continual refinement of hypotheses in light of data, theory, and previous knowledge. It is through a combination of statistics (recognizing the biases and uncertainty in estimates in the context of variation and selection effects) and reality checks (including direct replications) that we have learned that this work, which looks and feels so much like science, can be missing some crucial components. This is why we believe there is general value in the effort taken in the present article to look carefully at the details of what went wrong in this one study and in the literature on which it is based.
People's Tickets Are Vanishing from Their Ticketmaster Accounts
What more do you need?

That's still plenty of people if you got a few thousand people at AWS/Azure or in this case Meta's in-house cloud making sure your service is running and scaling as it should.
There are a ton of older iMacs on the used market, and if you have one, it's a fair complaint that you can no longer re-purpose it for whatever else you like. Ideally if I got a mac mini I'd just hook it up to the screen I already have, rather than spending another $2k on the only other option the brand sells.

Additionally, not having that option lets the manufacturer have control over how much value a product retains after it's useful life. Apple already does this in a number of different ways, and it's disgraceful. iPad too old to get new updates? Recycle, it's not like your backup included the versions that did work for your OS version, can't do much with the hardware. Battery dead? Recycle! Already have a 5k iMac but want Mac Studio for more performance? Well you better like spending a whole lot more for exactly no new value.
"Also, religious structures and religion veer towards the dark and ominous."

I think that is mainly a christian thing.
Buddhist and Hindu temples for example are rather colorful. And I have not been in a Mosque yet, but I do think they are also rather bright and oval instead of spiky and dark.
> 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.

I appreciate you posting this (even if it is terminology nitpick). The social connotations associated w/ verbally separating alcohol from other drugs hadn't occurred to me. I'm going to try to use this phrasing in the future.
I would find this more compelling if we were not discussing a trillion dollar company that employs tens of thousands of programmers. The One Drive performance is so bad I cannot imagine anyone has put any effort into prioritizing efficiency. Naive, first effort attempt was packaged up and never revisited.
> The only laws on the books regarding religious discrimination are for employers who could potentially discriminate against their employees (or in hiring) based on their religion.

You've overlooked prohibitions on religious discrimination in public accommodations [1].

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a
Weird, I'd never heard of Flutter (or at least it never registered), but then I'm an infra engineer, so why would I have? But particularly strange is that if you go to flutter.dev, you'll notice you can't find anything about who Flutter is. There's no about page with links to the people behind it, or any indication of what company sponsors it.

Then this flutterfoundation.dev site... weirdly also doesn't say who's behind it. Presumably some outside folks? Maybe just the one person who wrote this blog post? But if it's called "Flutter Foundation" I would expect it to be more officially sanctioned?

Were I in the market for a UI framework, none of this would make me feel very confident.
> Imagine that you're the engineering director, or CTO of a company whose next release is blocked by some Flutter bug. What do you do if the team won't work on that bug for 2 years?

Then you fix the bug? If your team can't then pay a consultant who can? Isn't it open source? What did I miss?
Documentation is the unsung hero of productivity—it's critical for smooth onboarding, effective cross-team communication, and sustaining ownership, yet it's often neglected or mismanaged. Good documentation should be intuitive and engaging, especially in asynchronous, remote setups where colleagues may not overlap in time zones. Companies struggle to assign responsibility for documentation—should it be engineers, managers, or dedicated technical writers? Ultimately, it’s a collaborative effort, with engineers documenting technical details, managers filling in gaps, and product managers providing broader context. Various approaches, like Documentation-Driven Development, community contributions, and tools like Notion or Git, ease this burden. Metrics on ease-of-use, accuracy, and upkeep frequency can offer a pulse on documentation health, highlighting gaps and ensuring information is accessible, relevant, and up-to-date.
If you aren't seeing them, it is more likely to how you handle ads in your everyday experience. They have a very active ad campaign that I've see on several TV channels and streaming services (mainly Prime ads)

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/apple-intelligence-de...
The ins and outs of how the mega-rich wall themselves off from government's eyes
Tinybench Release 3.0.0
My bet is on malls, provided any of the structures survive.
I'm not sure I like the daemon approach. But the cache extension provided me fantastic gains: https://github.com/apache/maven-build-cache-extension
But a typical LLM has a feedback loop: it looks at the last token it generated and then decides, given the N tokens before that, which token to output next.

In the case of a reward model, are you streaming in the list of tokens; if so, what is the output after each token? Or are you feeding in all of the tokens in one shot, with the predicted reward as the output?
They are supposedly launching Macs all week, so you will probably get your M4 Pro and Max MBPs. M4 Max vs. M3 Max will be the apples-to-apples comparison to make.
No, it transitioned it to others after signaling it would for well over a year, so i don't think you could call it sudden:

"In 2011 with the introduction of the Dart programming language, Google stated that GWT would continue to be supported for the foreseeable future while also hinting at a possible rapprochement between the two Google approaches to structured web programming. However, they also mentioned that several of the engineers previously working on GWT are now working on Dart.[6]

In 2012 at their annual I/O conference, Google announced that GWT would be transformed from a Google project to a fully open-sourced project.[7]

In July 2013, Google posted on its GWT blog that the transformation to an open-source project was completed.[8]"

Google funded/helped for some number of years after that.

It still is going, afaik, with gwt 2.11 being released in january, 2024.

https://www.gwtproject.org/
more recently than your experience I took a similar trip. The staff was great, the food was great and we experienced no hitches. However, at the other end of the train they had a sewage flood of some sort, puddles in the passageway, I felt very lucky.

one interesting thing I didn't expect, there were a large number of Mennonites/Brethren riding the train (they did not ride in sleepers), all sexes and ages, including very cute little toddlers wearing full "formalwear".
I would dare to say that average person who works with Node does not use nvm.
Lucid supports this directly too: https://lucidmotors.com/stories/introducing-rangexchange

<10kw, so not super fast, but I bet most people are really close to the charging station when they run out.
complete satire

really fun to build though
I'd like to know this too. Their website claims "cost" but doesn't actually list the costs of the new connectors compared to existing ones.

At least give us some comparisons!
> There is only one way in which gravity curves spacetime, and also one set of effects it has when seen from the lens of flat spacetime.

Is there though? Isn't that the holy grail of science - expressing all of physics, particularly all of "fundamental constants", in a formula where there is one clearly preferred answer? One function with a single global minimum in the parameter space, that defines our universe?

Perhaps let me put my heuristic differently: when there exists multiple (especially infinitely many) solutions, you still need to explain why a particular solution would be the solution, and not any of the other ones. A single solution is naturally privileged, because there is only one and there can be no other.
It would hurt Bezos even more if the US Govt found a way to cancel the massive use of AWS cloud services because his media arm endorsed the non-winning candidate. Given the business AWS does with the US govt, the size of his remaining stake, I can't make a good case for endorsing a candidate either.

Microsoft is always lurking around ready to push their Azure solution so not like AWS can sit back and rest easy here.
Improving Xwayland window resizing
That ethos runs through everything the WA team does. I learned a bit about it when I was at fb and I was beyond impressed by how few servers WA used for its core infrastructure. It's a really well engineered product.
The user who made the bonkers content is liable.
TIL. I'll admit, I'm not avid reader of TechDirt, follower of Mike Masnick or care that much about Bluesky since I don't interact a ton with social media.

However, my initial feelings are correct. NYT article is bemoaning about Section 230, Mike seems to ignore why those feelings are coming up and burying there might be conflict of interest in caring since I guess BlueSky has algorithms it runs to help users? Again, admitting I know nothing about BlueSky. In any case, I don't think consistent PoV should bypass disclosure of that.

His arguments about why Section 230 should be left intact are solid and I agree with some of them. I also think he misses the point that letting algorithms go insane with 100% Section 230 protection may not be best idea. Whether or not Section can be reformed without destroying the internet or if First Amendment gets involved here, I personally don't know.
Legal weed sales being down doesn’t necessarily mean people are no longer using it. It just means people aren’t buying it legally and paying taxes.
Suits, money laundering, and linear programming
Songs are copyrighted over the equivalent of a mere few bytes.

I shall write a book titled "The wizdom of BKW", and it will contain merely a single sentence plucked from many other famous and deeply insightful authors. Not a discussion or examination of them, and not even credited to any of them. The book will look like you asked me for advice and insights into human nature and philosophy, and all these gems of insight are my direct answer.

No single quote will be more than a sentence or two. A teeny tiny fraction of the 400-page books they came from.

I don't care if any law currently recognizes that as wrong, it is wrong.
> I think it's crazy to be sentenced to death for having 500 grams of cannabis.

I think it's a bad law, but surely not as bad as you originally tried to mislead people into believing.

> Is there really a way to overstate the insanity of state-sponsored killing people for this?

Apparently yes, by intentionally making a false claim that you get executed for smoking a joint.

> Please let's not stray too far from the subject of, what justification for killing this drug user are you looking for?

They won't get executed for being a drug user, but for trafficking drugs. Given that 500 grams is a huge amount, I think it's reasonable to consider the offenders to be drug traffickers (even if I don't agree with the punishment).
I also thought that the commenter spoke "centered" and the speech recognition model output "censored".
I mean, yeah. This but unironically.
None of this has to do with the First Amendment including the legal review you linked to.

The Unruh Civil Rights Act that is discussed does not extend the First Amendment as the First Amendment does not restrict the actions of businesses. The Unruh Civil Rights Act does not extend the First Amendment as it does not restrict the actions of Congress or other legislatures.

Freedom of Speech in the Amendment also has specific meaning and does not fully extend to businesses.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/freedom-of-speec...
The phantom power at 48 volts used with XLR connectors only have a current at about 10 milliampere. Enough to supply power to a little microphone.

The connector is bulky and of metal, and designed to be used inside. It's also expensive compared to other connectors.
There are a lot of cheaper, more suitable connectors, designed to carry power.
Passive income for all is post scarcity, luxury space communism, ala Star Trek.
It is a rather interesting question if organized crime got into the payphone business. Not that I know of, and something that I didn't get into (because it's kind of a tangled patchwork and not really that relevant) is that states do generally regulate PSPs, although that regulatory scheme is often very lax. Still, it might deter organized crime that in most cases they would have to register with the state as a PSP and file reports.

Of course, I know that some places imposed similar regulatory regimes around vending machines and other coin-op businesses, in part because of issues with fraud and crime.
Yeah, that's the motte-and-bailey argument about 230 that makes me more scrutinous of tech companies by the day

motte: "we curate content based on user preferences, and are hands off. We can't be responsible for every piece of (legal) content that is posted on your platform .

bailey: "our algorithm is ad-friendly, and we curate content or punish it based on how happy or mad it makes out adverts, the real customers for our service. So if adverts don't like hearing the word "suicide" we'll make creators who want to be paid self-censor".

if you want to take hands on what content is allowed on that granular a level, I don't see why 230 should protect you.

>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.

I'm sure they'd word it very carefully to prevent that, or limit it only to software defined as "social media".
Yup, that mouse isn't for me. It's also not for a number of people who end up buying it. That's how reviews work: people who had negative experience talk about it so others like that (you know who you are) will not buy that mouse. We also talk about software/hardware design here. Acknowledging that wider accessibility means designing for people behaving in different ways and it saves you from years of repeated complaints - that's also important.
I've seen this type of language being used to passive-aggressively dismiss criticism.

Like, someone will say "I'm having trouble with X and believe it would work better for me and others if it was changed to be more like Y", and then someone will respond "it's okay to not like things".
These looked keyed to me. Aside from the bulge on the top of the connector where the lock attaches to it's mate there is a middle vane that extends 2/3 way down with a little bit of a J hook on it.
"Section 230 protects you from the consequences of publishing someone else's speech."

Right.

"Where we are right now is deciding if the algorithm is pumping out your speech or it is pumping out someone else's speech."

????????????????????????????? Read what you wrote. It's the user who created it.
Singularities mean that the math stops working, so we don’t know what’s really happening there, the mathematical model is failing. We’d like to have a working model.
Back when I worked on GWT, we had trouble accepting outside contributions because the team had a mandate to support Googlers. That is, much like other libraries and tools at Google, changes could not break google3. This means testing patches against google3 and either changing the patch, or fixing whatever code used it, and these are tasks that no outsider can do.

Shepherding these patches is no fun when you have your own changes to work on that are more important to the team.

We did something similar, by creating an external fork where changes could be tried out by the community, without necessarily being accepted into the internal version.

I think a fork could work if there was enough external momentum, but even 20 people working full time would actually be pretty good for an open source project. How many developers will this fork attract? The fork would need to attract other businesses who can put people on it.

One downside is that the code isn't tested against google3. Sometimes you find actual bugs that way.

Edit: reading more closely, the complaint doesn't seem to be that patches weren't reviewed, but rather that bug reports weren't investigated. That's definitely something outside developers could do more of, and seems a lot easier than forking?
As a theoretical physicist I would not say Sabine is very trustworthy. During some journal clubs we analyzed some papers of hers and they were really low quality. This does not invalidate everything she says though...
I personally take the opposite approach. Tail recursion fixes the stack problem and just about any problem that can be solved recursively can be reworked to be made tail recursive.

Using tail recursion instead of loops forces you to name the procedure, which is helpful documentation. Also, unlike a loop, you have to explicitly call back into it. For me, the edge cases are usually clearer with tail recursion and I find it harder to write infinite loops using tail recursion.

Regular non tail recursion can be fine in many cases so long as the recursion depth is limited. I have tested code that made at least 50000 recursive calls before blowing the stack. In many cases, you can just assume that won't happen or you can rewrite the function in a tail recursive way by adding additional parameters to the function with a slight loss of elegance to the code.