skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there needs to be a positive bias for minorities who were historically disenfranchised

>I absolutely think we need affirmative action to relieve historic deficits, but at the same time this affirmative support is in itself discriminatory and can have negative effects. What to do?

Quit affirmative action at anything above the high school level and poor resources into fixing the issues before high school. Personally I reject the framing that we need it and fully agree with you about the negative effects. The long term effects of people "being given" jobs or school placement I think are more negative than positive and you are seeing that. The Irish, Italian, Jews, Chinese, and Koreans were all able to get to parity or better without affirmative action.
We don't pull any resources from Google (or any of the other companies who contribute to Flutter, like Microsoft, Cannonical, Nevercode, etc) at runtime.

During development time we pull binaries from Google servers (for lack of a better place to put them mostly) and source from GitHub, and as Tim said there's some analytics (there's a big message saying how to opt of analytics when you first start the flutter command line tool).

I know the web site says Flutter is "made by Google" but that's really underselling how much Flutter is a group effort by lots of contributors, a (very active) minority of which happen to work for Google.

The whole project is open source, there's no closed-source component, and lots of people build their own binaries, for what it's worth. So you don't have to trust me on any of this. :-)
Flutter team member here. Yes you can! In fact, Flutter's design is layered in order to allow developers to customize it at whatever layer works for them. So in addition to being able to use Cupertino widgets out of the box (as referenced in another reply), you can also design your own widget look-and-feel if needed by extending the "widgets" library.
> I recall the story about Microsoft buying all the available software out there and testing it one by one on the new version of windows and creating workarounds for specific versions of specific software. On the linux side of the things this never happened.

Considering 90% of Linux contributors are paid by Red Hat/IBM/Intel/Linaro/SUSE/Samsung and some I'm forgetting, not that surprising that the focus isn't particularly on the Linux desktop. As for the desktop, AFAIK the only desktop environment with any sort corporate backing is GNOME, so I don't even know how "Linux" could even buy all software and test it out.

> Rossman

Well of course he has his own agenda - which he quite literally spells out pretty clearly every time he has a chance to do so, IMHO. We all have an agenda, what's important is interest and disclosure.
Thanks.

And now having looked at the pitch deck, I don't see what the fuss is about, but perhaps I'm overlooking something.
Which is why this whole exercise is a bunch of snake oil. You can't have better than TLS security when TLS is the weakest link.
I'm impressed by this minimal blogging platform. No author name, no link to the main page with other blog-posts. Just the post. Reminds me of telegra.ph. I like it.
The UK has ISA's which are tax efficient savings vehicles and manage just fine. You only file a tax return if you earn over £100k

That's partly because banks send all of their information to HMRC.
Another demo app is here: https://www.flutterfolio.com/

You can read more about it here: https://flutter.gskinner.com/

THE BRIEF: Showcase Flutter's capabilities to create apps that feel at home on every platform and device: iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, Windows, and the Web.

OUTCOME: For Google’s Flutter Engage event we launched Flutter Folio, a scrapbooking app that purposefully considers the capabilities, user expectations, input devices and idioms for each platform. Impressively, over 95% of the code base was shared between platforms.
Exactly. We could end up like cable television where we pay for the service and STILL get shown ads and in the Internet's case, tracked.
I don't believe that the idea is fundamentally flawed. Having bespoke widgets rather than stock OS ones is pretty standard.

If you can render swipes, fades, blurs and transforms you can create premium experiences without being native.
Yup. I would also like to open links in new tabs, view images, copy links, search on page, use browser extensions...

I can see it being useful for games and similar where there isn't really any UI but even then I would want dialogs and similar to use regular text that I can copy.

I am definitely not looking forward to flutter on the web. I foresee a lot of websites that I will need to avoid.
How often is the electricity use considered a constraint in algorithm design for AI models?

Moore's law isn't the only way to gain efficiency, and even if the available compute goes up, doesn't mean the total power usage will go down
This appears to be untrue, based on a cursory google search.
Shaming women for not breastfeeding is really shitty.
It is interesting. I will need to check sources (Samir Zeki's vision book is amazing), but color detection happens way sooner in the v2/v3 region than symbol interpretation which is a higher level function. This is why stop signs are red, traffic lights are not icons (even if distance wasn't a concern, icon based traffic lights would take too long for human vision system to process). Evolutionarily, certain colors such as red indicate threat, injury, decay or food (blood) and we're hardwired to detect it effortlessly and within 100 ms or so. Before the interpretation (v4/v5/limbic system) happens. Baring color blindness concerns, monochrome iconography is objectively worse in every way except for the reasons I'll discuss below.

If you study mission critical systems, even a fork lift, colors are everywhere. EMO button is red. CNC control panels have lots of colors.

The reason why we use flat symbols (recylcing symbol on a milk jug, hazard labels on chemicals, bathroom symbols and airport signs, and road signs) is a practical consideration about printability and ease of application (single printing ink, stencils ), color fastness in the sun, etc. It's not for the reasons you're alluding to, although some of those concerns are orthogonally valid - layout should be logical and flow should be intuitive. Color icons are far superior, if someone can publish a scientific study, I would bet on it with real money. They might be ugly, not against brand/identity/etc. but I am strictly speaking of their utility.
Well they made libreoffice run in canvas IIRC, which is quite somewhere :D

But yeah it's not grabbing market share that's for sure.
https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

> Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit.
The stock market is inflated by an abundance of capital which very much represents the underlying economic reality. It’s not representative of the broader economy simply because many industries like higher education is massively underrepresented.

However, once you accept those exceptions I think it’s surprisingly accurate.
Never expected the retained vs immediate mode debate to pop up in this way, but neat.
I suppose that's a pretty level-headed way of looking at it. My frustrations with MacOS mostly come down to death by a thousand papercuts. Perhaps my biggest mistake was assuming that Homebrew could replace a package manager like apt or pacman, which I've quickly come to realize is not the case. After that, I realized that my mistake was trying to make my Mac as Linux-esque as possible.
Yep, I’ve been really impressed with react native on the web so far. Our current code base deploys across Android, iOS, web and windows with minimal effort.
I think if there was a basic extensible system, that could grow into a full product. Start with 1040EZ in year 1, then grow with your customers' needs as they age and need more.

TT has a large moat but behind it must be a ton of technical debt.

Would an open source solution work here?
Those links seem completely useless since they appear to only track Federal candidates.

I searched for the top members of the Arizona House and came up empty (or maybe Apple just doesn't contribute to them).

Where in those links is the part that wasn't surprising to you?
Its a read-only search box. What exactly do you think the trouble will be?
If you need to publish this you have a product management problem. Arguably, some of these things are features not products, and should not be branded.

The level of complexity is overwhelming, especially for the decreasing marginal returns to effort for most companies for most of these services, I suggest that G and AWS need to take a new approach here.
There is a much greater depth of detail that I provide to my tax preparer than I'd be willing to share with the IRS. I tell my tax preparer everything and have perfect confidence that my taxes will be prepared correctly and in accordance with the tax code and that nothing which is not required to be disclosed will be disclosed. Much of what I provide to my preparer is irrelevant to my tax obligations and anything that's irrelevant I would prefer not be disclosed.

I'm mostly a W-2 schmo without any particularly complex business arrangements and with a spouse who employs themself in a consulting capacity, puts the statutory maximum into tax-deferred accounts every year, and we have minor kids who are required to file returns due to kiddie tax laws.

I can imagine many people would rather pay a high three or low four-figure per year bill for tax prep and representation rather than give the IRS full access to their financial lives.

I do support (and strongly so) the idea that the IRS could provide simple, default tax prep based on the information they receive. Where I break is what escalation path should exist; I think there must remain an effective and private escalation path for more complex scenarios. (In many ways, that makes it even easier to implement. Make the simple case automated-by-default. Punt all the complex cases to the current system.)
One who would take that comparison as a personal attack should grow a thicker skin.
I'm not sure, but I think that you have to use Dart language to use Flutter.

Incidentally, I was pretty sure that Dart was dead. Turns out it's alive. I'm not sure what it is currently, now that it's statically typed, null safe and all. What are Dart's killer features?
I think this particular demo might also just be a badly designed demo.
There are many reasons - medical, personal and otherwise, that families rely on formula.
That sounds more reasonable, thank you.

Your final point applies here too (Sweden), where you're in a position of maximal welfare, where taking a job would disqualify you. Most people end up taking the job to get out of the hellhole that is welfare, but you find the occasional individual that settles and feeds off of the system despite ability and opportunity to work.
this just isn't true; if you skim some abstracts of papers in the field, you will see that in fact there is a lot of technical content.

a lot of the big famous names in AI ethics (e.g. Moritz Hardt, Cynthia Dwork) also have very strong contributions outside this field.
Perhaps you're correct that I don't need it in the sense that I only very occasionally find myself with a dataset or something that doesn't fit in memory, and could just run a high memory cloud instance for a bit to process it.

Even still, my experience of desktop Linux under memory pressure has been frustrating, even with fast SSDs, and overspeccing the memory is an inexpensive guarantee that my system will never start thrashing during an important screenshare demo or something, so it's an obvious choice if I'm shopping for a new computer.

When I built this computer last year the cost difference between 16 and 32GB was like $40...easy to justify a 2-3% premium on the overall cost of the machine to never have to give a second thought to conserving memory. That said, Apple charges $400 for the same upgrade (in their machines that support 32GB), so the calculus there is a bit different.
Mainly my reason for not pirating is legal, but I think it’s actually cheaper to pay $2-$4 to rent something than spend the money on hard drive space and a faster internet connection.
That's marketing bullshit. Private.sh has no more garuntees than ddg
> Well you definitely have the wrong idea. About 20% of Americans do live in extreme economic precarity.

I think they do have the right idea. Many of their points stands for even the bottom 80%. We've simply grown to accept that "this just is the way things are".

22% of the population between 18-65 owe student loans, which might not sound like much until you realize that only 40% of the population has a college degree. So over 50% of college-educated adults still have student loan debt. That number is also heavily weighted towards those 40 and younger due to rapidly ballooning costs, and will likely increase to 75%+ of college-educated adults within the next twenty years.

0.35% of adults file for medical bankruptcy alone every year. I couldn't find direct statistics on the total number of bankruptcies, but naïvely this implies that somewhere around 5–10% of the adult population will file for medical bankruptcy at some point in their lifetime. The majority of these bankruptcies were for people with health insurance.

Maternal leave is by law unpaid, and few companies offer paid leave and paternal leave is virtually unheard of outside of extremely progressive companies.

59% of the workforce is hourly and thus generally does not get paid leave of any kind.
Why can't y'all just fix Android development instead of this flutter stuff that will be deprecated and killed off in 2 years because nobody uses it?
Unsure why you are getting downvoted. You've provided the factual answer to the parent who was asking, "Didn't he say some bad stuff?"
From what i have read, with my limited understanding of chipmaking, it seems that UO2(Uranium dioxide) makes a great heat and radiation resistant semiconductor with better properties than silicon or germanium[1]. So how come we arent using that or exploring other materials for pushing the limits of computational power?

[1]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.52...
[Flutter Eng. Dir. here]

Still relatively early days for Flutter Web, so I would not be shocked if it's not buttery everywhere. However, we would certainly love to learn more. fluter.dev/support has links as to how to file an issue if you're interested.

https://flutterplasma.dev/ is one demo to try. We expect to be updating flutter.dev/web and flutter.dev/showcase to update more over time.
They are not. They are normal. Would-be opinion-forming bullshit articles are supporting the bad guys, by delivering easy to refute narratives which ultimately support immigrant haters. I'm so sick of this good/bad scheme predisposed to paint immigrants bad.

Edit: from my perspective a new strategy of far-right idiots is to propagate "positive immigrant narratives" which then prove wrong, just because they have been exaggerated from the start. Cheap psychological trick, still effective.
I know this doesn’t apply to most, but as a gay person, I think apps are probably the easiest way to find someone since you can’t just hang around places and try to meet people.
:( its become clear to me you're not having this conversation in good faith. I apologize that I wasted your time.

FWIW, I do not own any BTC or other crypto coins.

P.S. I highly recommend you research MMT. I think you'll find that no-one (including the most experienced economists) understands the details of how the emergent property works, they only understand that it works.
Not sure how they actually work but I can imagine that it's not that bad in OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, etc. You can just fill a preallocated buffer with a certain capacity with the right data on the fly and send it to the GPU in one swoop. Should be fine for a couple of thousand of elements, as long as you don't invoke OpenGL commands for each individual elements, but only for the buffer containing all elements.

For html, it's probably much tougher since the DOM is statefull and fares badly with frame-wise changes to it. That might require caching elements to avoid layout invalidation and rebuilding the dom.
The only machines I've compared were my old gaming rig (with various parts bought or upgraded anywhere between 2009 to 2012-13) and my 2017 laptop. Not sure where that 3 years come from, maybe I'm misunderstanding.
I have never looked this up, but anytime I'm checking out at a brick and mortar store, I'm asked, casually, "Phone number?" Or "Zip code?" As if thats information that is necessary to check out. My response is always, politely, "you don't need that information." It annoys my wife because she thinks I'm being rude, but frankly the question I'm being asked is uncouth. Would you ask a stranger how many children they have or what time they get off work? Not unless you had some intention to use that information!
This looks awesome, definitely going to give this a try!
Users are hype by another name. They lacked revenue.
Is there a financial benefit to doing this? What does the spammer gain?

Each transaction takes a small PoW value. I wonder what the total cost is to the spammer (in terms of how much they could have made with this hashrate mining a different coin)
What a mess - just make Android better please. Nobody uses this or wants to learn a new way of building apps. Swift and Kotlin are 100x better.
Since when has Docker on Intel Mac been crappy? The couples times I have tried to run Docker on Windows I have always stopped before I actually managed to get anywhere out of frustration.

The experience compared to linux is nearly identical (maybe slightly better thanks too a couple shortcuts in the docker for Mac app that are nice for development).

As far as the "laundry list" is concerned... 12 apps were listed. 5 were emulated, 4 were native and only one having a minor issue that was easily fixed. Only one of the apps needed a preview version and that was docker. VSCode worked fine emulated but there was a native version being tested.

I am very confused where you are coming up with there being a ton of hoops or beta software needed for this.

That being said, we are talking about a platform that is 4 or 5 months old at this point. The industry was already experimenting with ARM. Apple has also shown time and time again that they can make a change and it pushes the industry to follow.
It is very janky, and worse, totally unaccessible, rendering it useless (or frustrating at best) for huge numbers of the population. And why? It's just yet another shiny web framework. We've known how to build websites for decades now.
You don't explain how you calculated that number but it seems absurd (presented with absurd over precision). For example, I would be astonished if there aren't individuals, probably 10s or 100s or even 1000s of individuals who followed an "all in on Tesla" strategy that would generate these types of returns. That suggests an absolute lower bound around 1e-8 (very conservatively) before doing any serious analysis.
> Our goal is to fundamentally shift how developers

I'm tired.
Which mostly died from JVM startup time (Think 30 + seconds). There was other issues as well (security and UI issues mostly) but if you knew what you were doing, Java applets were not bad for the time IF the JVM as already loaded.
How Pandora Won Its Royalty Battle but Lost the War to Spotify
> I can't use my OS of choice on it, I can't use my software of choice on it, I can't upgrade or fix anything on it, and I can't trust the swap to not shred the SSD.

If your OS of choice is (Windows/Linux), Apple doesn't have a strong incentive to support it.

If your software of choice is x86 Docker, Apple doesn't have a strong incentive to support it.

As a company that makes money from hardware sales and prioritizes thin, light laptops, and has moved to SoC design for better battery life on said laptops, Apple de-prioritizes upgradability and fixability.

However, shredding the built-in SSD is a bug that I'd expect them to fix. I'd also expect them to replace the SSD if it fails.

> My assumption was that Apple would have these issues ironed out, especially on a product they were comfortable calling "Pro".

Apple's definition of "Pro" is probably different from yours. For Apple, "Pro" seems to mean "runs Apple's Pro apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Xcode." And even though the M1 Macbook and M1 Mac mini aren't called "Pro", they are still excellent machines for FCP, Logic, and Xcode.

Overall, it sounds like Macs and macOS may not be a good fit for you.
Almost all screenings are strictly no talking, but they also have "Alamo for Everyone" screenings and sometimes "Rowdy" screenings, and some special quote along, sing along, and movie party screenings.
If it's running on canvas, normally you would see "unpkg.com/canvaskit-wasm" - and even then it may not be the latest (supposedly more optimized) version. For example, my simple Super Tic Tac Toe app - uses it - https://malkia.github.io/tictactoe/#/ - but the gallery was compiled to use HTML, instead of canvas - which would be slower (IMHO). I think there is even mixed mode - where it can choose one or another ("fat" binary on the web ;)).

Please look at the Source (in chrome) to compare.
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You can use the private.sh extension [1][2] to ensure that private.sh isn't doing anything fishy. The public key of Gigablast is hardcoded in and the assets are served by a third party.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privatesh-private-...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-sh-pr...
Doesn’t seem to work at all for me on an iPad
The unrealistic assumption remains that fast charging would be the default when all the cars on the road are electric simply because the status quo with ICE is "fast charging" (once a week or fortnight; people also tend to forget that not all cars "fast charge" at once with ICE either). Slow/trickle charging is a real paradigm shift versus the status quo. More and more evidence continues to mount that fast charging is by far a small exception in BEV ownership over steady usage patterns of trickle charging.
Makes me think of (with much bitterness):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._Phelps
I think Dart's new way of declaring variables as null safe by default is very interesting. If you want a variable to be able to hold a null, you have to explicitly say so. It seems a less heavy-handed version of how Golang handles nil, and much better than the standard way of declaring variables in most any other language.

Maybe this is some common language thing I haven't seen before, but it seems an "obvious in retrospect" sort of idea.
I'm in Austin and it's been years since I've seen anybody get warned for talking or having their phone light up.

Even if people weren't talking to each other, there's a lot of low volume conversations happening with the waiters and people use their phone to illuminate menus and to see what they are eating.
Seven Ways to Say “Inequality”: a short study in the rhetoric of policy