skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a nice collection of strawmans.

>1. He claims that the entire "outdoor" movement was created by Oil and Gas [...]

No, he says that outdoor experiences are made possible in big part thanks to Oil and Gas, because pretty much every product you bring with you comes from Oil and Gas. I agree with this.

>2. [...] there is just currently no better substitute performance wise for petroleum based products

He states this in the video, this is pretty much the basis of the argument he's presenting.

>3. The original founder of the TNF (now deceased) bought tons and tons of land throughout Chile

No one is talking about Douglas Tompkins ... I fail to see what's the point you're trying to make. TNF was sold on 2000, that was twenty two years ago. How are you trying to link this with "the original founder" of TNF? And how does that change anything? Please explain otherwise this is just weird.

>and is just a hit piece specifically on TNF

Yes, it's literally on the URL of the website and the video.

>Who is paying for this advertisement and what is their motivation?

Oil and Gas companies?

I actually enjoyed the video as I think it balances out things and sets the record straight on how all of these "green" brands actually have a HUGE environmental footprint that they kind of push under the rug whenever they can.
I always found population trumps all else. So if you have modifiers like subterranean (higher max pop per planet) plus maybe a pop growth increase, you’re likely to win.

Another one I always went with was to pick Repulsive (no diplomacy) since you’ll end up at war with everyone anyway.
I said, in proper techie-libertarian fashion, that I didn't want to get involved in the politics of race. I said that to the black woman I was dating at the time. She pointed out to me that I was fortunate to be able to ignore such things. She couldn't, since she went out every morning being black.

She was very kind when she said this. It wasn't an accusation, or as sarcastic as I've made it sound here. She was merely pointing out the obvious. It bothers me to this day that I didn't see it myself.

That doesn't mean I have to throw myself at this problem. The world is full of problems, and I have to pick and choose which ones I'll spend my time on. There's a Jewish saying, "It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either." That's something I believe in and want to live up to.

In this case, it means making myself aware that "staying out of it" isn't something everybody can do. Being aware of it is the very least I can do, and saying "It's not my problem therefore it isn't a problem" is, in my view, morally wrong.
Economics doesn’t have to mean trading/crypto
For me it was moving to the rural South and buying a farm. Animals die if I don't feed or water them. It gives me a daily reset. That and I took a job that I feel ethically pushed to do for my 8-5. Just what worked for me. I hope you find your "place".
Immigration is what is propping this country's economy up. It is a tremendous gift, not a punishment- unless you are alluding to some wierd racial monoculture thing.

The idea is to not look at a gift horse in the mouth. And stop punishing the most productive people in your economy. You don't want brexit thinking if you want to have an economy.
rather than playing all these games later trying to catch and track it, i can't help but wonder if it could be better halted by training kids early on when and how to get help to stop it before it's produced.

otherwise it seems it will just be this technological cat and mouse game that destroys privacy rights and empowers bad actors to plant it maliciously (swatting 2.0).
Excluding skin color and gender is being blind to prejudice, not fighting it.
We need self landing planes
Is your runtime data “secret”?

I think some people will have a hard time with this concept, but the idea of data being “private” or “secret”, by default, is disappearing. And it won’t be coming back if the world continues to digitize.

If you want those attributes for your data, you’ll have to take measures. That means reading user agreements, verifying open source, using encryption intentionally.

Vacuuming up data is not spying. Especially if you essentially agree to it when you accept the Windows terms of service (ethical issues of this aside).
This is what makes me feel underpaid. I see how much value I’m adding. I get a tiny, tiny fraction.

I didn’t become a Marxist until I hit six figures, but dang it I want the wealth produced by my labor!
> "There are people who evaluate these people's contributions differently than I do"

That would presume we're talking about people with approximately equivalent knowledge that simply come to different, but reasonable, conclusions.

But this is not the case. What I see in this meme is people betraying their ignorance and motivated reasoning at every turn. There's nothing knowledgeable or reasonable about their assertions. It's always highly vitriolic and dismissive toxicity. It's not that they're simply mistaken about certain facts, and can be corrected, it's that they're transparently ignorant and/or acting in bad faith.

For example, it's extremely uncommon, maybe even unheard of, for someone with a deep knowledge of technology history to agree with these kinds of dismissals of Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. I've never seen someone able to discuss the topic at a high level that won't readily acknowledge their contributions, even if they can be very critical of them in certain ways. As one example among many: historian and professor Walter Isaacson wrote well respected books about Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs. He is currently writing one about Elon Musk.
This person had to plan vacations with 4 month contingencies for two decades of their life, so you clearly didn’t go through the same system they did.
react also survivED just fine, but they will die eventually, and because of the nature of front end development, it will happen faster than typical software project. It doesn't help that most veteran web devs hate react (vs the platform).
SF musicians are turning to video games to make ends meet
I have loved this word since I first heard it. I assumed it evolved out of the common expressions: "get your head out of your ass" or "he's got his head up his ass".

To me, this evokes an image of wearing one's ass as a hat. I love the ridiculousness of picturing that.
I wish housemoving was more common.
"We've got a story, now, about a mid air scare that _none_ of us would _ever_ want to face"

My joke was going to be "Half the lurkers on r/flightsim enter the chat...". I lurk on that sub, and I feel like half the people fantasize of being able to "save the day!" when something goes wrong on the plane. Not fanticizing that something goes wrong... but if it did... the flight would be fortunate enough to have them there to save the day.

Though, thinking of having the tower talk someone down always reminds me of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" ~ "What could possible happen to an Old Fashioned?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWoCLqMq8qM

[Edit] Formatting.
Ah summer lake leaches. Stuff of nightmares. My understanding was as long as you didn’t touch the mucky bottom you were in the clear? I swam in New England lakes for 20 years and never had one myself but saw several.

Probably why I did the mile swim several times, treading water to keep leach free builds endurance.
Are there declarative and performant ways to synchronize a canvas with a DOM tree? Maybe the answer here is obvious but this seems like quite a bit of overhead, both for developers and the browser.
Despite many maturity issues in practice Flutter is the only realistic option for true cross platform UIs that run everywhere. Apart from Qt , but the licensing issue is a hindrance. And yes, the web backend isn't ideal, but it will improve over time.

I just wish Google had built Flutter on a low level core that isn't tied to Dart, so it would be usable from other languages.

Dart isn't horrible and is getting better, but it is still a somewhat awkward mish mash of Java and JavaScript, and I don't really enjoy using it.

The only reason to use Dart is Flutter, which really hurts ecosystem health / library availability and prevents code sharing with the backend.
That’s not how language design works. You can’t just postpone such an elementary feature with a TODO, it will interact with every other feature of the language, and if you haven’t left a place for the interactions you have to introduce breaking changes, which will shook the whole ecosystem.

There is zero point in postponing a feature so that you can build a community, which you will burn down later. It’s not a startup that has to be ready in X months or it will fail.
> The module was a proprietary binary. Since a kernel module requires interfacing with the kernel API, it could be considered a derivative work and a breach of the GPL license.

I never quite understood this logic: the same (?) binary blob is used for the FreeBSD and Solaris drivers.

* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

So how can it be a 'derivative' of the GPL Linux if it it also used on non-GPL systems?
> OK I challenge you to try to engage and bring constructive evidence then

What kind of evidence would convince you? Wikipedia has summaries. Of course, they necessarily lack the context required to deeply understand the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Innovations_and_des...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Business_career

> Apple has an almost negligible ratio in that regard. Musk has achieved even less.

I challenge you to give evidence for these assertions. I would be convinced if you explained how you came to this conclusion and explained how you calculated the terms of this ratio.
Silicon Valley: Turn on the Lights
You believe that’s a reason to think it can’t be done?
Exactly. If it didn't fill some communicative function, the vocative case would have fallen out of use a long time ago.

For my part, I prefer "amigos" in all but the most formal contexts, except ... that's arguably not gender neutral either.
I could support kids learning boxing if it was limited to body blows. With what we are learning about concussion, it seems to be more and more understood that blows to the head are never OK. Maybe you still need to teach defense against head blows, but they should probably not be allowed in competition. Getting battered in the head until you cannot stand up or respond should be right out.
There's an excellent blog post by the product manager I believe that explains the history of the CMD command, how terminal emulation works in Windows, and the work they were doing.

The way I understand this project is essentially "an interface" to the new ConPTY they developed (which IIRC is closed source, naturally).

That doesn't make it any lesser. I've used it since a build was available, 4 years ago or something. I love it.

EDIT: Found it ! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...
Just so you’re aware. That is actually illegal and those teens sending pictures to other teens can (and are) prosecuted.
Other than automatic handling of network exceptions, safe failiures and the shitton of other features Erlang runtimes have?
Well I think all of these widgets are available on pub.dev. For example, I'm using the charts_flutter plugin: https://google.github.io/charts/flutter/gallery.html
> I don't see any reason why we could not

Because of pollution from the city getting into the food and also as importantly the pollution from farming back into the environment.
yeah reading GP it's wild to me that being burnt-out there might be a real reason to stay in the place that caused it. 0_o
Almost all the comments so far are negative! So let me change that: I'm excited that something I'm working on, Typesense, was mentioned by name and logo during the developer key note!

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1524483471988727809?s=...
Scientists identify neurons that skew our perception of time
It seems the modules bridge the kernel with the driver [1], so it is this part that is GPL/MIT, the driver itself is still a binary blob.
AMD probably does the same? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/tree/main/...
A personal anecdote: as soon as companies starting paying these salaries to remote workers, I found myself a company willing to pay me for my experience. Now I get to reap the benefits of lower cost of living, higher quality of life, and higher pay. I don't know how long this gravy train will last, but I suggest anyone with the experience to hop on get their ticket immediately.
Sizing Up the Shadows of Two Supermassive Colliding Black Holes
Useless issues started to get open immediately.
Google Flutter Team: You launched Flutter Desktop and got your promotions. Now can you please go back and finish Flutter Mobile? Specifically, please add:

- Integration testing [0, 1]

- Location [2]

- iOS dark mode [3, 4]

- iOS keyboard dismiss decoration [5]

- iOS keyboard scroll-to-dismiss mode [6]

- iOS NavigationLink widget [7]

- iOS checkbox widget [7]

- Android camera that doesn't randomly crash (unfixed for 3 years) [8]

- Android date-time picker (Requested in email to Flutter Team. They refused.)

- Usable documentation for Navigator 2.0 [9, 10]

- Debugger visibility into Dart async tasks

- Stop HTTP requests on timeout [11]

- Testing on physical devices for apps that use flavors [12]

- UI inspection tools that don't randomly stop working

EDIT: Added bug links.

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/88549

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+comme...

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31453

[3] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/48438

[4] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/80860

[5] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/45076

[6] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/57609

[7] https://docs.flutter.dev/development/ui/widgets/cupertino

[8] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/70751

[9] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/69315

[10] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/81610

[11] https://github.com/dart-lang/http/issues/424

[12] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/99607
> DHCPv6 forces no such thing it just allows for it.

I wrote "would allow to force", not that it forces.

> LTE w/ PDN still uses DHCPv6 PD or SLAAC (or both).

Unless you are turning Android device into router, you won't need PD support there. What else you need prefix delegation for?
Do they want to be in Africa? I doubt it. Slavery is bad, but that doesn’t mean it is tragic that the descendants of those slaves are living in America.
I’ve been looking for a mouse like this for a while. Plastic is an awful material to test your hand on for long periods of time, and I’m sick of throwing them away before the electronics failed just because the plastic started to get gross and discolored.
A replaceable leather outer wrap would also be an awesome solution for this.
Hope it becomes a reality. I would probably kickstart it.
That's an interesting cognitive dissonance that I've always been fascinated by. I've heard people criticize developers who release proprietary drivers for the linux kernel, but never those who release something dual licensed as GPL2/MIT, or those who distribute a dual licensed GPL2/MIT module as if it were solely under the MIT license; surely that would violate the Linux kernel's GPL (in being a derivative work) as much a proprietary module would?
I think we're mixing two points.

"Medium scale/growth/etc startups should be feasible.

And

"Middle class startups should be feasible for people of all time/energy/financial constraints"

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My point is that medium sized businesses (including startups) have always been feasible. Yeah it takes more effort then coasting on huge financing but thats the price you pay.
Depolymerization was only an incidental side effect in The Andromeda Strain. I'd say Pedler & Davis's near-contemporary publication Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters would be the seminal work in the field.
It was published, comments and all. Copyright.
Broke: I want to enter my son into a child fighting ring.

Woke: My boys earning his arms merit badge in the boy scouts.
memes are great. it's cool how memes create their own symbols and shift language and communication. i'm no linguist and know nothing about the field, but it's like memes create their own symbols to explain things/are derivative of other memes, and you've gotta be able to speak the language to understand it. it's like watching evolution in real time.
Yes, you are missing the sillier "Late 2014", "Early 2019" naming of MacBook Pros and others :)
I'd love to see a "Back to the Future" desktop UI toolkit that has roughly the capabilities of AppKit circa 2003 but in a modern language, clean unified API, cross-platform, with seamless native UI integration, and of course not carrying hundreds of megabytes of Chromium gunk in each app like Electron does.
I'd be interested to know too. The hackers purportedly demanded release of the Nvidia drivers as open source:

> The LAPSUS$ hacking group, which has taken credit for the breach, had an unusually populist demand: it stated that it wants Nvidia to open source its GPU drivers forever and remove its Ethereum cryptocurrency mining nerf from all Nvidia 30-series GPUs (such as newer models of the RTX 3080) rather than directly asking for cash. [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22962217/nvidia-hack-lapsu...
Just out of curiosity, how easy would it to have been to decompile and reverse-engineer the original closed-source modules and then write an open sourced version of them? Would that have been legal?
Sony phones (at least the ones I looked at and then stopped looking at once I saw their prices) seem to still have audio jacks. And amazing cameras.

They seem to be great phones, the price tag is just crazy to me (as with all other flagships tbf).
It depends. I've met a few engineers who coast by on their experience and seniority, likely putting in less than 10 hours per week of actual work. They don't make top dollar, but are still paid handsomely by most measures. Of course, they had to prove themselves first to earn the privilege.

I don't want to generalize (anecdata and all that), but it seems like this would be pretty easy to do at many big (non-FAANG) companies.
I'm not sure about the details, but to write a linux kernel module you must include some .h files under the GPL license. You really have to include it because linux ABI is intentionally not stable exactly to prevent proprietary abuse. So, AFAIK, every functional linux kernel driver must be released under the GPL.
canoe merit badge here
> The other class of interviewers are those that want you to succeed. They will answer questions, and help clarify things. Even if you are unqualified for the role, and they know it, they still want to help you along so they can see your best work.

That's how I go about it. Even unprepared candidates can return someday with more experience/knowledge, or apply to a different position where they can succeed - or letting their friends/acquaintances know about the role.

Also, as we can see in this post, a bad interview experience can really taint a company's image, which can to some degree prevent people from applying
Probably all their "enterprise" feature lockouts(vgpu etc..) are in the gigantic firmware that's loaded into GSP. But things that matter to desktop users probably aren't going to be locked out this way.
WordPress’ market share is shrinking
How shameful for one of the more "progressive states in America.
Sorry for being so late to answer.

That's still an office paid by your company, with all the benefits that go to the company.

The company I work for before opening a new office for their employer has to provide:

- security

- daily cleanings

- insurances for all the people working there

- reception

- authentication and authorization (badge readers etc.)

- secure connectivity and storage

- water, beverages, sometimes a cantine if the office is big enough.

That's by contract (at least my contract).

If they are really going through the route of paying for your coworking they should sign a contract, which means a lot of bureaucracy and most of all it would force the employer to always use the same space for at least a few years.

So the better way is to ask for a pay rise to pay it by yourself.

If you can pull it out.
Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on the wrong syllable while filming Office Space.

He was meant to call Michael Bolton a "no-talent-ass clown", but delivered the line as "no-talent ass-clown".

Or something like that. And now assclown is a thing.
I don't use a password manager, so I'm a bit at a disadvantage but, from what little I remember from others, the password manager basically lets you look up a password, put the username and password into a buffer so that you can cut and paste it. Not to mention that different password managers have different interfaces and interactions.

It's "easy" for me too, in the sense that I can just lookup the credentials I need to fill it in. The wallet extension allows for a more 'integrated' approach, where the website communicates to the web extension via some standardized interface (or some semblance thereof) to authenticate and authorize.

The point I'm making is that it's not about feasibility, it's about friction. These wallets allow for an experience with much less friction.

I notice a pattern when new technology like this comes around. There's a contingent of people who are used to the old system and they say "works for me" without understanding how much a barrier to entry the system they're using is.

As an experiment, try opening up an 'incognito' window and signing up for GMail, Twitter, Facebook or any of the other services (even trying to establish an account here on HN) without using your bank, your phone number or another email address. Now install a wallet extension (Temple, say) and try and log into one of the websites mentioned (fxhash.xyz, versum.xyz, objkt.com). This is a bit of an apples-to-oranges test as those services are for a different market, but hopefully you should get a sense for just how much easier it is to use those services, how much more integrated it is and what they're trying to accomplish.

Put another way, 'web3' wallets are doing what OAuth promised but couldn't fulfill. If we used one monolithic centralized service, like PayPal or GMail, then maybe these integration issues would disappear but since we have a variety of platforms, in my opinion, the only way to get "persistent" identity across platforms is to have something like a decentralized network and/or monetary system.