skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've extensively used Flutter for a messenging app. It's awesome in so many ways, but it's clearly not production ready! For example:

- Text Fields are almost unusable for iOS users that don't have predictive keyboard enabled. Reported in 2017: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/12920

- Emoji rendering is broken on iOS. Reported in 2019: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/28894

This is due to the fact that everything, including the OS controls, are re-implemented in Flutter.
>Why do you keep comparing it to another genre?

because pre-release the developers made the GTA comparison, every video game media outlet made the comparison, and every press piece regarding the game pre-release focused on the 'open-world' elements, while promising post-release multiplayer.

let's not pretend this was billed as a single-player RPG fantasy; it wasn't. It was toted as a GTA competitor in nearly every single way.

The post release narrative shift of "well it's a story-driven game from a well known story-driven 'RPG studio', it was YOUR expectations that were wrong! " was totally drawn hastily after release to try to assuage angry and disappointed fans during a rocky release.

aside : "rpg studio" is a thing now?
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It brings its own widget implementation, with themes that approach, but do not perfectly match the native toolkit.

The downside is, that it doesn't implement the platform look&feel perfectly. If you want fully custom look and feel, it might be not a bad thing, but those who aim at native experience, they will never reliably get it.

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On the other side of the debate, React Native, it is not all roses either. While it uses native widgets, it also runs JavaScript. And not just any JavaScript engine, or your preferred JS engine, but JSC. With JSC, RN team took their sweet time to support 64-bit Android properly, with issues rearing as late as 2020.
This lead me to search source code, interesting results -

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?help_ke...
I hear what you're saying but maybe we shouldn't be fostering an economy where giant hands scrape every last cent off the table, potentially damage the table and the prospects of others who'd just like to sit there a moment.
That is not remotely pulling the plug. This is "thinking about it" again. They already stopped accreditation a few weeks ago, otherwise it would already transport gas as the pipeline is already filled. They just say that they have officially stopped the process which they more or less already did. I think in a year it might come online again if the news cycle is on another topic.

Overall it will be much more expensive for Europe than for Russia. Who do you think will profit the most if gas prices hike?
I'm in the same boat. I've worked at a big silicon company for the past year and a bit. Make a hell of lot more, work from home, and have hated every minute when I know, if it weren't for WFH, I'd love it.

I was in the military in my younger years and the people I worked with there are still my closest now. I worked in finance for a few after that and the nights spent working on difficult problems till the early hours of the morning were some of the most fulfilling one's I've had. Perhaps it's different in software land where everyone seems a bit more unsociable but as an EE I loved going into the lab and seeing what everyone is up to for the day. Even when we were just working at our computer desks, we were able to ask each other for help, advice, or just shoot the breeze. The office was never this political battleground where everyone turned up to work miserable that I've heard so much about. It was a place of camaraderie over joint hardships.

Now all I've got are these 4 walls to keep me company, while I try my hardest to keep attention for a mere 20 minutes of productivity before disappearing off to make a tea for the 12th time that day, or glaze over after the 5th teams meeting of the morning. I read these other HN posts and constantly think maybe I'm much more socially charged than I think, or everyone else is much less so than they think. All WFH has done is made me think I'm either depressed, suffering from ADHD, or both - when I felt like a normal, happy member of society before.
Err, no, it's because people don't like the aesthetics and/or don't want or can't pay for it. Have you ever considered having a mosaic installed in your house?
Instead of being coy and smug maybe you can just actually write out your argument?
> Should I tell Daniel about the colleague I’d spoken with just a few weeks earlier, who’d told me, with much frustration and a touch of anger in his voice, that he was getting out of academia because he’d concluded that it is now virtually impossible for a white male to get a tenure-track position in his field? This young man had finished his PhD and published a book. He had applied for scores of tenure-track jobs, but had finally concluded he was not likely to get one. “Picking me,” he explained, “won’t do anyone any good. It won’t help the institution show that it is combatting racism, and it won’t allow any of the members of the hiring committee to assuage their white liberal guilt.” Shortly thereafter, this colleague took a non-academic job as a computer programmer.

There are several things that I notice in this paragraph. The first is that the underlying claims deserve to be analysed with the same rigor that Daniel applied in creating his spreadsheet. If, for example, the chances of a Black male getting a tenure-track position are even lower than that of a White male getting one, then however low the absolute values, one could make a coherent argument for affirmative action. Without the data I can't judge the situation any better than just forming a personal opinion.

The claim that it's virtually impossible for a White male to get a tenure-track position is undoubtedly true (for a not completely unreasonable definition of "virtually"), that is by design and has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with academia's business model in extracting maximum surplus from grad students and non-tenured faculty. For example, ACOUP (that some HN readers will be familiar with) talks about how terrible the grad student experience is in the humanities [1], and others have likened academia to a drugs gang [2], which I think was also posted on HN when it came out. Tenured positions are in very short supply by design, and subscribers to ACOUP's newsletter can read the author's regular updates on his attempts to get a tenured position (so far with no luck). Some of these are public in his "Fireside Friday" threads.

Also, the bar for a tenured position (or even tenure-track position) is much higher than "had finished his PhD and published a book". Generally in STEM, being able to obtain grant income and produce a steady stream of not-too-terrible publications are the table stakes.

One of the problems why, as the article mentions, "I’d seen plenty of searches in which members of the hiring committee went out of their way to try to hire persons of color" but many of these searches still fail, is that there might be structural problems in the pipeline before you come to the tenure-track decisions, that means PoC are much less likely to get a PhD in the subject in the first place. If this could be shown with the same rigour as Daniel did to demonstrate affirmative action later on in the pipeline, then there are many other motives than "white liberal guilt" for affirmative action later on.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-...
[2] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/ho...
The rest of Scandinavia love to point it out. From Norway: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
Not sure the scope of your app, however I have built several sizable apps using xamarin forms over the past 3 years, and over the past 2 years the forms apps have improved to have pretty much identical performance for me. My apps are mostly data collection forms with offline data sync and report viewing with charts & graphs.

Also try looking into xamarin's successor "Maui" which I have been playing with and am impressed with the speed and code organization, even though it is still in beta/preview.
Game devs: We’re sorry our game only provided an entire months’ entertainment of daily 3-4 hour play sessions, we’ll try harder next time
The omega6 contents of seed oils are ridiculously high in a way not found in nature.

Omega6s are inflammatory.

It'll go down in history, eventually, that seed oils are more responsible for cancer, heart disease and even autoimmune issues in a way that exceed sugar could only hope to aspire to.

But in combination with our 200-400g of carb a day diets? It's no wonder America is so sick
Yea, I agree with don't be afraid to fall.

When I say fall, I mean: falling sideways.
Plus the fact that both feet are connected to the same piece of equipment via non-release bindings eliminates a whole class of injuries.

In theory if the ski turns into a lever rotating your knee the bindings are supposed to release. That doesn't always happen.

I don't know if skiing is easier to learn, but the learning phase is certainly more enjoyable. Less time sitting on your butt, and poles take less effort than clicking out one foot and skating.
Exact same thing happened to me and I decided not to snowboard again, the risk just isn't worth it to me.

Also I was wearing a helmet but I don't believe they will prevent concussions?
If you keep spelling things out then you're not very convincing or you're not understanding the opposite perspective.
The poster is hurt I called out his false argument, tells me I'm wrong and then I call him out on it? What's the problem? Also, are you the police?
I agree that "Daniel" doesn't sound like the sort of person who could easily "come out as nonbinary" but there are people with more "flamboyant" personalities who would rather relish an excuse for drawing attention to themselves and winding people up in that way. There are a few people like that on every university campus, I think: the sort of people who are not trans or any kind of queer but cross-dress just for a laugh. So the trolly suggestion might work for a few people.
The home button wasn’t removed until iPhone X, prior to that your only option was to replace the phone with another or subsequent model with the same button.

I assume the whole reason Apple removed the button was because the economics of replacing the main board over a two cent button didn’t work out - even when the people bought warranties. (Applecare)

It was successful, I’ve not had a unit failed because I kept pressing on the same part of the screen all day for years. Knock on wood.
It's both of their fault; including the entire Android system design and Google knows it.

It's evident that Google and many developers have had enough of it from the runtime, Java, JDKs and the whole system. Otherwise, why on earth are they planning to move away from it all in the first place?

Once again, from the perspective of the user or the app developer, they don't care, Android still just doesn't cut it against iOS. No wonder Android is always second place.
I have yet to meet a happy principal engineer within two FANG companies I've worked, so maybe this depends on the field.
Most sites will require you to confirm your account before being able to do anything which involves receiving an email and clicking a link which is the same workflow as a passwordless system. I don't really see a magic link system as being worse in this regard, especially if you use cookies to persist the login. The user experience is the same except for cases where you want them to login again without a cookie, I'd make a case that using a passwordless system here is better because each time you login you are verifying that you still own the email address -- this isn't bad if it only needs to be done a few times per year. For a lot of sites it's reasonable to keep a user logged in for months at a time or even permanently.
Snowboarding helps develop several very important traits that come handy when you do geek-stuff:

* increase focus (otherwise you fall)
* learn to be aware of body and mind
* do not stay too long down when u happen to fall (because u freeze, but the message is the same on abstract level)
* falling/being down is part of the get-going (in snowboard more than other winter sports, in engineering this is to try again and to accept failures as part of the process)
* be in the moment, be in the flow
* never look back when you move forward (do not regret, do not ruminate)

I can tell this, because I've been doing snowboarding - both free-ride and some freestyle (park) since 2004 and it never ceased to amaze how beautiful this sport and everything about it is.

my degree is in computer science, but I also took some three years in the sports academy, for the love of it. one thing that sports teach you in general, that most engineering academic institutions do not, is team-play (even though ski/snowboard is solo sport). for the record - I also do skis, and appreciate them a lot, but snowboarding have always been much more fun tbh.
Mixpanel, their UI is amazing and they make it really easy to setup graphs that are actually useful.

I'd recommend only sending server side events so you get really accurate stats and no privacy invasion.

I tried to limit the number of events tracked as well, and made sure I knew why I was tracking something, and not just "because I can", I found that it made it easier to focus on what matters.
I don't think the author did the right thing, though I empathise with their position.

As for Daniel, if it were me, I would have resorted to changing my identity (although I'm not sure this would work in practical terms in this given instance). Superficially, this seems petty, but I think at this point it's the only way to effect change in so called progressive societies.
>Dear Google, we will choose your framework if we want to learn your language before

This is why I left dart ecosystem last year, thanks Google. At the beginning or 2020 Googlers promised full support of AngularDart, saying that they have a lot of internal websites developed in it and adwords is in AngularDart, they were fully committed to making it a competitor to angular and typescript. I discussed it on one meetup and met a technical startup founder that decided to go this way, one language for web, android and iOS. A year later AngularDart was soooo outdated that it was impossible to use cross platform. AngularDart team didn't even bother with a proper announcement or giving us notice. They updated wiki on github saying that it won't be supported. I have no trust in Google giving us anything good.
We're at least 30 years away from neurodiversity being considered a protected class.
Also, that single dashed line at a t-junction turning from a major into a minor road has the same meaning as on a dual carriage way or motorway where it delineates lanes - if there's something next to you, you have to give way/priority to whatever is the other side of that line, else you'll hit it, i.e. another vehicle. In this case, that's a pedestrian.
An amazing blog in this context written by the Zerodha (a stockbroker in India) tech team: https://zerodha.tech/blog/from-native-to-react-native-to-flu...
Then the mistake is not in their statement, but in your interpretation.
The character building in the story and the themes are really good, and I also enjoyed V and Johnny Rotten and their relationship tremendously. However, the way the game is structured and the story combined with the open-world game are atrocious.

The intense time pressure that the storyline badgers you with at every beat becomes absurdist comedy when the story missions finish and you start doing side quests. This is especially bizarre in the tone difference between the main story quests and the companion quests which have a huge influence on the story itself, but usually make little to no reference to the extreme time pressure.
How long does that take? Count that in hours, times a fair wage for an artisan (or multiple depending on size), plus material cost; do you want to / can you pay that? I mean an imprecise calculation puts it in an order of magnitude of thousands, not even counting whether you want an original design.

That said, there are methods of mass producing mosaics in factories for cheap. Then it becomes a matter of taste more so than money and artisanship.
So the solution is to omit other groups instead? Who decides which groups get omitted?
I hope I'm not ignoring, but it is possible. I don't know how to capture the instability in either region by some sort of a metric to make them comparable. However, the examples you give seem almost insignificant in comparison to events at the same time in Europe.

For example, in 1900s Soviet Union alone forcefully displaced more than 20 million people. In the 1700s and 1800s Europe saw several wars, which claimed millions of casualties each and were largely fought in areas where people in peaceful times would be producing and consuming nails. I think the US westward expansion and conflicts (with the exception of the Civil War) happened largely in the new areas and possibly had relatively little effect on the more established regions in the East.

I could go on with more examples, but that would not increase my understanding. How could I better understand the instability in the US?

As a hopefully illuminating example on the other side, some of the European instability is implicitly captured by the Wikipedia list of conflicts[1], keeping in mind that casualties are hundreds of thousands or even over a million deaths in many cases even though not listed. Are there similar (or more in-depth) resources that would indicate my ignorance and help me learn more about how the US expansion, conflicts and migration caused instability?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#18...
That’s interesting to me as to your motivation for doing this.

Do you just hate seeing the caps lock key?

Wouldn’t it be easier just not to use it? If your problem is accidentally tapping it, wouldn’t that still happen with the key pried off?
You just don't frequent the same 'socioculutal strata' ;)
There were patches in the 90s, and certainly in 2000s. Perhaps not on consoles, but certainly on PC. What I meant was certain notorious PC RPG games, which became cult classic despite their bugginess (Gothic, Elder Scrolls, etc.)
I don't know about you but I for sure don't want do be a top performer in a job. I disrespect the societal applause you get as a good cog in an enterprise.
Build my own stuff and be my own boss makes me happier but then reality hits in and all the cracks in our society begin to show.
Seriously. I WANT to be happy. But how can one be happy in a world like this?

EDIT: Maybe I'm not in a good mood today but right now I find it really hard to stay positive.
So is this the dedicated PS5 release or not?
They probably would have gotten away with it longer had they put some kind of sound-proofing and “airlock” type entrance. From the video I note it’s a standard door and wall. Anyone walking by would have heard voices inside.
> 1 - Why some people might claim Russia is part of Ukraine:

All the arguments you presented would also support the claim that it's actually Russia that is part of Ukraine.
Seems like there have been advances, just not in pixel density beyond 160 PPI.

The bigger issue than low margins is the "4k" marketing and lack of large buyers other than Apple for 5k displays. I think early on in the 4k hype train, there was a bandwidth issue with Display port that required MST for 5k.
Agreed. I meant more in the sense of a stable and full-blown workstation with a proper screen, keyboard etc. Of course you can also do it with a laptop, if you wanted to (minus being able to upgrade the hardware as much).
I thought it had been concluded that lack of exposure to bright outside light causes the eyes to elongate in puberty, as some kind of adaptation to low light.

As little as an hour a day of bright daylight (or presumably bright-enough artificial light) triggers production of the required hormone to achieve 'normal' development.

Certainly my kids get a daily hour of 'outside time', rain or shine.

I'll try to dig up the links.
The first time someone points to something that is wrong, unjust etc, they are going to be laughed at, retaliated etc. Maybe the second, third, fourth time too. But they plant the seed, people hear about it and think about it, even if they don’t come out and say/support it openly. This doesn’t mean the first person’s actions are useless, even if nothing happens immediately.

The question then becomes who has the balls to be the first, most likely ruining their own career in the process?
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sink on mounting Russia-Ukraine tensions
<<Erst kommt das Gas, dann kommt die Moral>>
> The thing with skiing is you feel like you have great control, but when you hit a slope that’s a little too steep, or a little too icy and you start to rocket down the hill with no way to turn out of it

I'd always fall sideways, like you mentioned later in your comment. Like I said, I practiced it beforehand. Other than that, this quote rings really true to me.

Interesting comparison, I've never snowboarded, good to know it's not as crazy as skiing. From a beginner perspective that is.
I think you have to consider that many of us where born in a time where “not seeing color” was touted as “the solution” to racism. And while there are points for “correcting” based on skin color the ting is presented and perused rather badly by many rather well meaning people. AND during a time where skin color is becoming less and less of an indicator for who needs help.

> What's the solution? I don't know. But it's clear from this wording that the author is unwilling to accept relatively small concessions to fix enormous historical oppression.

The confession you want the teacher to just accept is bullshit. Why should anybody accept a relatively huge advantage for some of an ethnic group (while the rest of that group gets nothing) as an acceptable form of restitution? Worse still, the advantage goes to people in that group that are already advantaged!

I honestly see this as a problem, the problem that you need to be important enough in you “group” to get those advantages to get ahead while the rest need to go without. Can you imagine how it feels to be on the wrong side of that line? These types of practices aren’t giving people who need a leg up a leg up. They are pulling more lines where more people landing on the wrong side of.

I know that the type of solution I prefer is many, many small solutions rather than a few big ones. If I land on the right side of some and the wrong side of others I still have something that boosts my self worth and supports me in some small way.

P.S.: The “equality vs equity” argument makes more sense too if you leave skin color out of it. When I think about equity I think about water fountains and entryway that are accessible for people in a wheelchair, not about skin color.
I'm just a little worried about everyone having all their passwords in a single basket like 1password.

It just doesn't seem a smart thing to do. There are certainly dozens of ways to hack 1password that they don't know yet. What happens when someone decides to exploit one of these?
Either way, the author is protected by pseudonymity. Yay!
It's normal that Flutter is growing faster than React Native.

It's newer, has a less-known language, learning React Native is very easy for existing React developers so less searches for how-tos.

It still doesn't reflect reality.
I've seen it happen on various subreddits too, but preventing that is not done by blanket banning Twitter. It's by moderating the content so that the easy to consume stuff doesn't overwhelm the thoughtful content. And I do believe moderation is the only way to ensure the issue doesn't arise where quality content gets drowned out because the quick and easy to consume content will gather upvotes far faster.