skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar to what I said in GP, the metaverse is not a competitor to Zoom but to the physical world where you are using the laptop.

In the physical world, you have to buy that laptop and maintain it. You need to keep it close to you in order to access Zoom. It takes up space, has weight, and has one screen of fixed size which may crack or degrade. The layout of the keyboard can't be changed if you decide you want to try DVORAK instead of QWERTY, or if you decide you would type faster with a numpad. Any of the keys may stop working. Fashions may change so that the laptop looks ugly or retro, or simply looks bad to you, and your only recourse if you want to change that is to buy a new one. If you are using the laptop and someone is standing behind you, he can see your Zoom call and hear what you say regardless of whether you want him to. Earbuds give some privacy but come with a lot of the same issues as the laptop.

Eventually, there will be none of these physical limitations in the metaverse. There will be limitations on the headset, or whatever hardware you're using to access the metaverse, but that's only one item instead of every aspect of your life.

We're living in a prison of physical constraints, but we see them as so inevitable that we don't even bother to complain.
First time I heard of that, thanks.

Doesn't make the point itself invalid though - just look at punishment disparities between crack cocaine and ordinary cocaine (https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-fed...).
That's a producers choice.

Producers are like managers; Sound "guys" are like developers - reluctantly doing things managers prescribe
There is no finish. Get something easy working, then add commits. Making sure to work on the most important tasks.
> I had 60+ important tabs open and now they're gone!!

This just doesn't seem a reasonable expectation that these are preserved - they would also be lost if the computer crashed wouldn't they?

If it's important then save it.
It's funny that 15-20 years ago when real HTML forms were the norm for stuff like this, this wouldn't be a problem. It's only one created by the reliance (or default?) to client-side JS for everything.
I am very interested in how blind developers work. I have been pondering how to make computers and development more accessible. If you don't mind:

Do you have preference between CLI, TUI, or GUI dev tools?

Is highly symbolic code harder to understand using a screen reader than plain language code? By symbolic, I specifically mean any characters that are not alphanumeric.
Content controls would apply equally to "traditional" media.
Here CERN usage of Python during those early 2000s.

https://lhcb-comp.web.cern.ch/support/CMT/cmt.htm

https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/lhc-computing-grid...

https://cds.cern.ch/record/840543/files/lhcc-2005-024.pdf
Just a small correction. 1/3 of those who would have gotten covid when not vaccinated will get covid.
Oh brother. It's like wrestling a pig in the mud.

If you don't trust it, don't run it... but I don't know how anyone in software development would be unable to function if they've never been able to trust someone else's config file suggestion.
Presumably it targets the Homebrew Channel, not Nintendo's official methods.
"Social growth" is a sufficiently fuzzy term that I'm sure that people can easily come up with definitions where isolationism is beneficial to social growth.
>this current tech is based off reading nerve data meant to be movement data - the user needs to mentally trace each letter.

I just thought about tracing out a letter as to how I might write it and it took me a second or so per letter, around the speed I actually write I'd guesstimate, and I can't write anywhere near 90 characters in in minute, probably because my brain has adapted to sync with my hand speed. I'm curious whats actually meant by "tracing" for movement signals because I'm either slow at this or it means something a bit different. I can easily type 90 characters a min but in a lot of cases its rote memorized patterns for words I'm thinking of in sequence (I'm not really thinking of individual letters in words, just words as a known pattern of keystrokes), at least I think that's how I think.
"A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury" typically can still talk.

If not, there's blinking/mouth controls like Stephen Hawking.
The very concept of student loans is mind-boggling for them.

I only know how it works in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but students loans are super common there. Even though tuition is free you still have food, rent, books and other living expenses that all have to be paid for. How do most German students pay those costs?
Almost all cross-platform apps that are available on linux these days are electron, so that makes it tough to do what you say. I tried it myself - I can't stand apps taking up resources in the background disproportionate to what they're worth - and had to go back on it pretty quick. It's either cross platform electron apps or linux-first native apps.
I don't think it's consumer hostile. It's consumer positive. I don't want multiple app stores. I want Apple's heavy-handed approach. I want Apple to make developers who are trying to screw over people fess up to their anti-consumer activities. If Apple changes as you want it, then now I'm unhappy with Apple's policies. It's a big deal for me to change ecosystems as a heavy mobile user. I might have to get new accessories or learn new apps, or lose several other benefits of being in the Apple ecosystem.

> developer-hostile

It's the developers who are mostly hostile TBH. That's why they're railing against things like Apple enforcing data permissions or making developers at least nominally fess up to how they are fucking you and stealing your data. Developers aren't some magical good "guy/gal" to be put on a pedestal.
You can't actually paste that into the omnibar in chrome. It will eat the first part.
Sure, some directions of "growing socially" are strictly prohibited in China and perhaps also for those who ever want to go (back) to China. But does some directions mean all directions in practise? I don't know.
> Is there a company (with more than a few people) without excessive drinking and drugs?

Yes, every company I have ever worked at or had as a client. I don't have any friends at companies like this, either.
Hi HN,

Author of the post here! Didn't expect this to be posted here and making the rounds, so I will try to give some more context.

First, you can check a short presentation of the app's features in a previous post: https://blog.whidev.com/shortcut-keeper-app .

Then, I wrote on why I chose Flutter for this instead of native or Electron, and how it helped me ship an app on both stores in one month, here: https://blog.whidev.com/building-a-flutter-desktop-app-in-on...

My main background is web development (JS, jQuery, Vue, WordPress, etc.) and I have been using Flutter for the past year or so for another mobile app (iOS and Android).

If you want to keep one thing from this, is that Flutter enabled me, a developer with no prior desktop dev experience, to:

- Build on my own a desktop app for macOS and Windows (Linux is also possible, and I will try it).

- Solve my own problem (that's where the idea of the app came from), and the problem of a few hundred users in the past two months. Also bear in mind that it's a paid app.

- Get it accepted and published on both platform stores in a short timeframe.

- Make it look native on both platforms by using two community packages and some conditional logic. Of course, I could use the default UI design (Material) or adapt my own design system, but, as I explain in the post, I consider it a huge advantage to feature an adaptive app design.

- Do this from a single codebase, with the same business logic: database calls, models, controllers, settings, etc. are all shared between the two versions.

Happy to answer any questions!

Minas

*edited formatting
...nobody remembers numbers anymore.
"What's red that we could name a CPU after?"

"Blood?"

"Too gross, and not enough variations."

"Rubies?"

"People would find a way to confuse the CPUs with the programming language, and besides, if Twitter digs up those tech demos of ours we're totally gonna get cancelled."

"Romans?"

"Sure, Romans are cool, and they conquer things, like we're going to conquer Intel. I like it."

"How about emperors?"

"Fine in principle, but they each did at least a few scandalous things... besides, we probably don't want the "history class" vibe, or the energy of the weird uncle who always wants to talk about Roman battle tactics at dinner."

"Yeah, fair enough. Cities, then? I visited Milan the other year..."

(30 minutes later)

"Cities it is!"
Personal anecdote: I've fallen in love with Deno as a scripting solution for my desktop machine. It is way more powerful than shell scripting while also being way more portable and clean than a Python or Node script (assuming you end up using at least one dependency, a very common situation in Node).

I know someone's going to ask about permissions making the invocation process a pain, so here's my advice for that: embed the permissions flags in the shebang line!
> I like flutter and would definitely pick it if I had to make a mobile app, but if you have to write a conditional at every step to pick the right component for each platform

Looking at the examples given, perhaps it would be relatively trivial to wrap both these libraries into a single one where the library does the if statements for you.
very pedantic here. not sure what you mean by fake either, the author has commented quite a bit in this thread
> The difference is that hiding those arcane input parameters takes work,

I'm reminded of the first time I tried to get wifi going from a CLI-only NetBSD install. wpa_supplicant something something.. I eventually got it working but it was sort of a nightmare compared to how you connect wifi in an OS UI.
How many more survived without traffic accidents?
Thanks for clarifying.

I enjoyed your post, and the other issues mentioned were easier to follow and understand what you mean.

I'm sorry that this happened.
Your water heater quite probably is an electrical storage device, it's been a fairly standard tech for decades in many countries, often using cheap coal or nuclear power at night since they aren't economic to ramp down.

I'd be very surprised if France didn't do things like this. edit: googled it:

https://thegoodlifefrance.com/french-hot-water-tanks-tarrifs...

So, one of the "unacceptable" solutions to fighting climate change, is something that countries with the highest nuclear mix have been doing for ages.
This. Flutter is fine, but Dart rankles me. I wish they'd used Kotlin for it instead - a much nicer language with cleaner aesthetics.
You're thinking of the TDK opening scene, where the fulton system is used.

The TDKR opening scene involves a in-air "capturing" of an airplane flying at low altitude by another plane, with the help of some daring abseiling between the planes.
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After-work culture is not work culture unless it hurts someone's career to skip the drinking and drugs.

WeWork had drinking and drugs at work (they had unlimited beer at many office locations for a long time).
From the research that I recall from a decade ago when I was much more into BCI, I'm not sure there's a significant difference. And just like with a swipe-keyboard, accuracy will be hit or miss but be partially dependent on trained feedback mechanisms to hone towards a set of patterns.

Those that train on a BCI from an early age will "type" significantly faster and more naturally (as if at the speed of thought) than those that do not. There's a natural limit to idea-formation => symbol-formation => symbol-expression. Those that have trained on keyboards are able for this to fly from their fingers with only a slight delay; those that speak at something like "auction-speed" are mostly executing verbal macros: ie, it's just a single thought/action, highly trained so that it can manifest at high speed.

I can retype the entirety of the text above with just a few actions: cmd-A, cmd-C, ->, cmd-P. Performing a novel action, however, moves at a different speed entirely.
I have no particular expectation that if we were to break up Google, some kind of grand federated system would take its place.

Competitors had decades to get a federated solution together and simply didn't. Attempts got mired in squabbling over data ownership, bickering about costs and fees, failure to agree upon an open protocol, and all manner of other nonsense that Google was able to solve by being a single player and coordinating all the moving parts internally.
> If you’re finding yourself surrounded by rampant drug use and alcohol consumption in a work context then you are in a very abnormal place

I think one has to differentiate between established companies and startups.

Startups are constantly on the verge of death. Every organism which is constantly on the verge of death would engage in extreme behavior to avoid having to face the grim reality.

This is true for humans and also true fo abstract human entities such as companies.

I am not excusing the behavior , but trying to dig and find the reasons.
I'm not going to pay for the article, but note there's a big difference between sticking this device on a guy and him having to learn how to use it deliberately, versus sticking something on your head and reading your internal monologue. This is almost certainly something the man had to do with great deliberation and effort, not something that was magically reading his mind.

I'm not convinced a device to read your internal monologue from the outside is even possible, or if it is, it may be very, very large. A device that sees you're conducting one, perhaps, but reading out the contents externally? I'm not sure it could gather enough information and training data to ever decode it. (That is, my point is more information theoretic than technological.)
Man those Apple IIc's were just amazing little computers. I remember seeing them and they just looked so different and sexy (to this 10 year old nerd anyways). The whiteness, the molded keys, the weird case, everything about it was just so cool at the time and I still think so today. Sadly I do not have $500K to offer you...
The comment you're replying to is, I think, sarcastic. The point being that the Amazon employees aren't that stupid and can think for themselves. Maybe they're just not interested in joining a union that Amazon could easily allow to walk out and hire a different set of unskilled workers.

Your sibling comment is the patronizing one.
Wow. I’ve struggled with and babied my left ankle for decades now ever since breaking it three time in three years.

Gonna give that a try as there isn’t anything that shows up on scans etc
Nice! Basic description: Parasail kite with a small bladed turbine hanging off it. 100 Watts, 4.5 kg, no tools to assemble. €900 is not cheap, but the price should come down eventually.
Give me a break. Centrism and this false left-right equivalency is dangerous. One side believes people should have equal rights and protection, equal opportunities, and healthcare. They value fairness and egalitarianism.

The other side wants to deregulate anything they can as long as it means “value” for shareholders and extracts maximum profitability, religious fanatics, and/or don’t believe in objective reality or facts, and they derive morality based on in-group loyalty and respect for authority.

Wokeness, really? Is it WRONG to believe people should be treated with dignity and respect? Yeah, we have the internet now and it allows us to share and spread shit that’s been going on for decades. For example, cops are STILL hurting or even killing people, going as far as turning off MANDATED bodycams though they must know it’s damning and incriminating. Go on YouTube and how many videos can you immediately find of cops doing shady shit or hurting people, even when they KNOW they are on camera.

Now imagine these same assholes 50 years in the making with the benefit of the public not being able to record and document, to share and communicate. The cop in Minnesota kneeling on a dudes neck who is saying he can’t breathe, for 10 minutes! To watch that video and not become furious one would need to be a sociopath.

This article has some prescience and self awareness, when not busy pandering or muddying the waters, since they mention two deaths, Brown and Garner, that caused public outrage in 2014. It’s just bad faith and disingenuous to discount left “wokeness” as some petty bullshit or conceit of young white kids on social media with too much time on their hands.

There is no culture war. There’s people that live and act like people are human beings and go on about their lives, with small groups of vocal activists combating the reactionaries that foam at the mouth about the war on Christmas and euphemisms about demographics changing in America and white replacement theory or losing their shit over which bathroom someone’s taking a crap in.
It's hard to repeat libertarian ideals -- businesses should pay for the things businesses need -- and the government should only be focused on protecting the liberty of the people when that ship has, for all practical purposes, sailed so long ago. But I'll meet you half way: how about identifying things that qualify as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and creating a GSE (government sponsored entity, like the Post Office) to oversee that thing. One example could be the electrical transmission grid which is both critical infrastructure and easily argued to be within the domain of interstate commerce. For things to be categorized as CNI they would need to be nominated by The Executive and approved by a vote of Congress (simple majority for temporary -- up to 10 years -- CNI status or 2/3 majority of both houses to get permanent CNI status).

It's far from perfect but we do need to put rules around what we fund or we're going to be into hyperinflation faster than we know it. Re-read the history of 1920s Germany for more info.
I don’t understand the maths behind your last paragraph, can you clear it up please?
That's amazing! It looks like only the two in front have the dual "Twiggy" drives that distinguish the original Lisa. Then sixteen later models?! This guy must be the top collector; he even named his daughter Lisa.
I've been told this by various MLM salesmen multiple times. Seems NFT "investors" aren't hiding it anymore.
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Trans-oceanic flights go far beyond the VHF radio horizon to land so routinely use HF radio. It's not a backup, it's the norm.

Example: https://www.iaa.ie/air-traffic-management/north-atlantic-com...

"Huge" is probably not that big vs VLF. Maybe on the order of ~50m width (~3MHz / ~100m wavelength for ~50m half-wave antennas). VLF is more like wires across entire valleys - kilometres.
Yes, if an error is detected there’s an automatic retry. I just want to remind others that checksums or any scheme has undetected errors, in which case a retry doesn’t happen. The human in the loop will say, that was garbled, could you repeat?

Again this design may be totally fine for this application. I am bringing this up for other engineers because people tend to hand-wave this away.
I bet it's a DRM-on-chip again. Better stock up on older blade racks.
It would also be easy enough to make him memorize some text and attempt to replicate it, would it not?
In case anyone is curious, here is Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:

"1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.

2. No one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.

3. Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.

4. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions."
Flutter has massive battery drain issues on macOS and Google appears to be saying that it's unfixable. That kills it for me unfortunately.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/59327

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/59327#issuecomment...
US inflation jumps to 31-year high amid global supply chain crisis
I think when it comes to organising work / papers / notes, etc., over time you converge to more and more minimal tools, that do some particular thing really well and really fast, rather than continuing to use a more locked-in GUI version that hides limitations behind ease-of-use. Evernote is great - you just might find that you'll outgrow it at some point and look for something with a bit more fine-grained control.

I'm speaking from the point of view of having looked at using all the different flashy to-do lists, all the different 'revolutionary' note taking tools (including Evernote quite extensively), and now using Obsidian, which is basically an IDE for markdown with ability to link files to one another.

The simpler tools force you to come up with systems of organisation / linking if you want to do something more complex, but that's the great thing - you get to build your own system incrementally to a point where it's something that actually works really well for you. It's also Electron, so you can write your own plugins!
Please say more.

> True, but I wonder if you might be missing the participatory aspect of Social Media.

My mental model for social media is feedback loops.

Much as I hated prior corporate media (a la Chomsky, Ad Busters, others), I acknowledge that the editorial filter squelched virality (runaway positive feedback loops). Of course, we humans have always had fads, trends, groupthink.

Social medias changed the filters (using Chomsky's term). Gone are the Advertiser and Publisher filters. Replaced with algorithms which boost engagement. To a degree prior medias couldn't even dream of.

Like Stalin said, quantity has its own quality.

What I still don't understand is how the social medias transmuted from connecting peers within my monkey sphere (family, friends, acquaintances, people with shared interests, and so on) to coordinating mass action and inciting mobs.

> ... purposeful characterization something via slander, comedy, insult, quip etc

I'm very interested in the repercussions of the Sandy Hook parent's defamation case against Alex Jones.

Rights comes with responsibilities. Meaning speech has consequences.

Perhaps if the courts allow individuals harmed by Freedom Speeches™, we won't need draconian hate speech laws and such.

That'd be progress.
Massive amounts of cheap money in public and private markets. Companies like Doordash have infinite money to buy non-US startups.
Yes, that's certainly possible. It is also done for iOS and Android (Cupertino and Material) by another package: https://github.com/stryder-dev/flutter_platform_widgets

It indeed can be extended to do a similar job for macOS and Windows (or Linux).
No, it doesn't. I can't tell from their comment whether their city/town has good cycling infrastructure or not. Even if it does, the app would still incentivize using it (and roads and sidewalks) incorrectly and dangerously.
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Does this do anything to address the rapes and sexual assaults that occur inside of an Airbnb? I remember those being swept under the rug with NDAs to receive compensation.
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