skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are correct but I'm afraid this is not an excuse to drive at speed 2cm from the rear bumper of the car in front of you.

I anticipated this response, hence I tried to pre empt it by making my first qualifier that I am not talking about tailgating 2cm from the car in front.

> If people drove such that they had enough stopping distance to come to a full stop on highway at 65+mph,

This qualifying statement was supposed to convey that the theoretical safest distance to travel behind someone at 65mph, 75mph, or more is so big that I would not expect it to be followed anytime other than the dead of night.
// Oops, I misunderstood the context of this discussion. Disregard this :p
This is beside the point somewhat, but he never lost to her in classical chess. But what he did was worse than lose. He once played a losing move against her but realized it was losing...and changed the move to one that didn't lose. i.e. cheated. He did a similar thing with Nakamura a few years ago, which was ridiculous to watch. His opponents didn't protest, for whatever reasons. I don't know if it registers in his mind that he cheats. Sadly, that's the character of the greatest chess player of all time. Hopefully Magnus keeps playing a while longer and takes that title.

The Polgar vs Kasparov incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r#Kasparov_tou...

The Nakamura incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wcvtqVZndE

p.s. His name is spelt Garry not Gary.
The U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February
Or a device in their lan is compromised.
For those of you who say "we can't provoke Russia" and "we can't risk a nuclear war", I'd like to ask, how far are you willing to go to prevent a nuclear war? I assume you are OK with losing Ukraine. How about Poland? Baltics? Finland? Western Europe? Alaska? And yes, there was calls in Russia to "get Alaska back". What's that? You say "it can't happen"? The same thing was said about Ukraine before, and yet here we are. Imagine this situation: Putin overruns one of the Baltic countries, a NATO member. Then he says, if anyone intervenes, there will be a nuclear war. What then? Avoid the war at all costs? It didn't work that great in history, it wouldn't work now.
> On my last phone, I had a few apps that were power hogs, but I'd say that's more poor design by their programmers.

The two misbehaving apps I use at the moment are Google Fit / Google Earth. Even after I finish my workout it drains the battery, as indicated in Settings -> Battery. I have to force stop them manually. If Google can't write a behaving app, after all this time, isn't that indication of some fundamental flaw in the OS ?
Technical unions are a good way for people who are better at politics to make a living off of people who are better at programming. Personally I'd rather keep my money for myself.
Ukraine negotiated a bad deal in the 90's, giving up its own nuclear deterrent for vague, ineffectual security guarantees from the West. That said, Kasparov's perspective on what is referred to as "extended deterrence" is at risk.

Also, spillover is on the menu:

The SCMP reports: State Department counselor Derek Chollet warned Beijing -

If China tries to help Russia evade sanctions in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, it will face countermeasures, a senior US State Department official said on Thursday, without providing details.

State Department counsellor Derek Chollet said the allied nations that have joined in sanctioning Russia represent a combined 50 per cent of the global economy; China accounts for around 15 per cent.

"China, if it were to seek to evade the sanctions, or somehow dividing the sanctions, they would be vulnerable," he said. "Any country that tries to evade these sanctions will also face the consequences of its actions. I don’t want to speculate with that would be."
I agree. I have over 50 US patents, and the multitude of patent lawyers I have worked with all use docs with change tracking enabled.

EDIT: parents -> patents
That's the point of MAD. It's a Mexican Standoff, if anyone pulls the nuclear trigger then everyone does and everyone dies. That doesn't mean you can win by other means, any action that threatens the other party will be met with the nuclear option. The only players allowed to move or be moved upon are those outside of the game. Treaties like NATO can bring non-nuclear powers into the fold which serves to "protect" them but also signs them up for the suicide pact.
I didn't even realize I had tinnitus until I used noise-canceling headphones.
> occupied by deserts, ice floe

Usually nuclear power plants are located close to cities and populated areas and not in the middle of the desert or uninhabited ice fields.

> That's already worse than the consequences of a nuclear meltdown.

In the short term yes, but on a time scale that's longer than a few years I think you'll quickly realize that a meltdown is worse. Will the same war go on in 50 years? Probably not, but the radiation will be...for thousands of years.
I don't know if Kasparov is right, but I disagree that he is not a careful thinker. He has been thinking about and writing about the dangerous of Putinism for years. He published "Winter Is Coming" nearly 7 years ago now. He wrote then (p. 9): "Giving a dictator what he wants never stops him from wanting more; it convinces him you aren't strong enough to stop him from taking what he wants." You may disagree with his thinking, but it is certainly thought-through and consistent.
Imagine having to install a different OS to run something, what year is this?
Why is there a .min version? Did the author confuse it with JavaScript?
Not an alike license.
As far as I understand: NATO is drafted as a defensive (not offensive) alliance. So if Russia attacks a member state, other member states are obliged to go to war. If a member state attacks Russian troops (at least arguably an offensive move) and that escalates into a war between that member state and Russia, than NATO member states would have a very good excuse not to come to that members aid (as it would not technically be a treaty violation).
Yeah, bump that to 8 and it's more reasonable. And if it's already required to be randomly chosen, why not 10?
This is all great feedback!

I'm sure most users know this by now, but generally for performance the fewer calls you make to the canvas and the context, the beter.

This is almost entirely due to the javascript engine. We're working on ways to improve it.

roundRect is great. Though you don't need 4 arcTo in order to make a rounded rect, you can use bezier instead (we do).

Yeah, the example was a little bit humorous, I kinda brute forced it.

Their example is also 1% amusing because they set the `fillStyle` but then call `stroke` (and not `fill`).

You caught what 100 rounds of edits did not.
First of all, why is there male and female to begin with? Why dont we just have non-discriminatory competitions? If the answer is that no women can compete against the top male competitors. There is a biological difference between the sexes.

There's 2 good videos on this subject.

Joe Rogan on Fallon Fox. This is his domain of expertise and he clearly argues that there are sports in which trans shouldn't be able to compete against women.

Neil Degrasse Tyson interviewed Joanna Harper on the subject of trans people competing against women in sports.

It certainly seems like society needs to discuss this issue and make some hard decisions.
What's the most useful thing that can be done for support if you're just some rando on the other side of the world with money?
I've spent 10 years in the classifieds (including jobs) market as a software engineer...

As employee and/or employer I would go for more local/vertical websites/newsletters.
There's no community such as StackOverflow outside of it, so you have to narrow down your scope somehow. Posting on LinkedIn is a mess. I've talked with many people looking for devs and they pay a lot of money for a lot of low-quality applications, it's even worse for remote companies: If they specifically state they look for people in EU timezones they'll receive anyway 100+ CVs from India or other countries.

So, LinkedIn is a mess, general job posting websites miss all the stuff a developer/company hiring developers needs, I love HN jobs but it's too much of a niche, remoteok or similar are too broad in scope.

There's space to build stuff and make some money if you play well your game.

Shameless plug: I recently launched one newsletter for remote-friendly companies hiring Italian developers that already reached ~900 subscribers and I already received requests for sponsorships. So there's interest in these kind of stuff.

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info @ fullremote . it if you want to reach out. :)
Well, the next would have to deescalate or face the same consequence, right?
>"Biden & others insist NATO would retaliate should Putin attack Baltic members. Watching Ukraine, I am not sure of that at all, and Putin won't be either. "

Of course Gary. We'll just start WW3 right now so that you can be sure. I did not know playing chess melts one's brain to such degree. If you are so brave what are you doing sitting in NY? Go buy a ticket to Kyiv and join the fight. You can still post from there.
We use meetup for our local group, ValpoHacks, in Northwest Indiana. I would say that we average ~1 new meetup person per month that finds our group via Meetup.com. One of the more successful ways to find new interested people.
Although I agree that post crypto incentives have changed. It's a bit much to say that it's "completely changed the digital universe" this group is targeting the primary developer of GPU mining.

In terms of the ask, I think they are being much cleverer than dumb money as unlocking the GPU mining further could create new areas of economic power, i.e ebay old gpus or push NVIDIA to design a specific crypto gpu?

Either way capitalism is what's driving the team.
Just consider that until last week people in Europe were wondering if whether or not we needed NATO, while Putin had months of drills our politicians/intelligence were sleeping the best dreams
Never discount the use of older technology.

Shortwave is good for the distances involved.
The overwhelming majority of mayhem on the roads is caused by the long tail of bad decisions made by humans who would be able to pass whatever dumb requirements you concoct.

Kicking the elderly off the road, throwing the book at the one guy who gets caught doing NYC-DC and back in a day and onerous regulations on equipment is fundamentally a waste of resources chasing a long tail and is going to do nearly nothing to actually affect things relative to the expense. Most of the problems are caused by people doing things they knew were risky and stupid at the time and did them anyway, breaking rules in an irresponsible manner, distractions, intoxication, etc.

Being applicable to a broad cross section of the actual problem is why low hanging fruit type stuff like AEB has such a big impact.
Building a quality USB-C microphone [video]
I am in the camp of requiring people to have strong passwords, and not requiring them to be changed - ever.

When you ask people to remember too many passwords, they start writing them down and/or forgetting them, which leads to other problems.

My oldest online account - btw it is a brokerage account at one of the big brokerage houses, where a great deal of my cash and investments sit - has not asked me to change the password in close to 25 years, which I find quite funny.
That's a great example, especially as South Africa had nuclear weapons at that time.
Perhaps you are not aware, but Kasparov was a major figure in Russian politics since 1990s.
I couldn't find any explicit call for the use of nuclear weapons but I found the following he wrote on the War On Terror in 2002 [1]:

> If the war on terror is to be won swiftly, Mr. Bush must not lose sight of the war's twin imperatives: a decisive counterattack and a total unwillingness to appease our enemies.

> Baghdad remains the next stop but not the last. We must also have plans for Tehran and Damascus, not to mention Riyadh. The tactics will vary, but the goal -- total defeat of terrorism -- is clear. Once American ground troops are in Iraq, the message must go out to all terrorist sponsors that this game is up.

> Those who instigated the current war must remember that Coventry and Pearl Harbor backfired on Dresden and Hiroshima. There will be no peace in Gaza, no freedom from fear in Jerusalem, until we have prosecuted the war on terror in Baghdad, Tehran, Damascus and elsewhere. U.S. leadership saved Europe from fascism and communism. It is again the last hope.

With a funny quote:

> In another striking resemblance to World War II, Russia could once again be America's valuable ally. Despite Vladimir Putin's record in Chechnya and on human rights, he is way ahead of "Uncle Joe" -- the hero of the Western liberal press from 1941-45.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1028501135694580560
I think the colder areas don't use salt, right? Like some areas of Alaska are too cold for salt to work.
Not so long ago relations were not as bad as it's today.

Everything has changed during the last 20 years.
If war broke out in my country I’d be glad I could take my money across the border by memorizing some words rather than dragging silver or possibly now worthless currency.
That’s the 0BSD. I called it the Free Public License when submitting to OSI, but we changed it to 0BSD because Landley had apparently come up with the same license a few years before me.
> Road salt is our big problem here, but that's true for everyone who has winter.

Not if your municipality uses grit instead of salt.
He's exactly right — Putin and Lukashenko don't care about the fineprint. They don't care about following the rules. They are breaking all the rules, and continuing to lie about it while doing it. The pacifism of the Western powers is directly fuelling Putin's brutality.

And when Russia comes to the West? What does the West do? Oh, we take photos, apparently.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/03/sweden-summons-russian-o...

NATO: No Action; Talk Only.
This is so timely -- Arlington is on our short list of cities to move to within Boston and we've heard the exact same thing about the schools.
Did I Miss Something?
Would be nice if the EU sped up the accession of whatever is left of Ukraine after this war, if only to protect it from further Russian imperialism.

That said, I sadly doubt Ukraine will survive this ordeal.
> But what really rubs me the wrong way is when people who have chosen to steal start moralizing their position like they're standing up for some vague rights or principles

I feel like these are the same people that haven't learned how to shut up in highschool
With a ratelimit of 60 attempts per minute (which is significantly higher than any user would legitimately ever need) you're looking at thousands of years to bruteforce a random 6 character alphanumeric password.
> Kaspaarov's good at chess. Cool.

he's better know for Russian political commentary these days, for the last decade or two. If you didn't know that, why say anything?

https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/384172818063056896 (2013)

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/garry-kasparov/win... (2015)

He is described here as "Russian human rights activist Garry Kasparov"

https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/1499587940250308610
Both of your examples (cryptocurrency and paid linking) are indeed plagues on quality content, but I disagree that they’ve replaced quality content.

They’re mostly examples of new business models that people have tried to use to generate new types of content and monetization in a crowded space. Sites like HN and commenters here aren’t trading links for money, we’re just sharing interesting content. The obvious paid advertisements (going from 0 votes to +20 votes in minutes despite obvious content marketing) get flagged away quickly for the most part.

Crypto and “web3” especially has become a catch-all for people who want to catch a gold rush or have otherwise run out of ideas for traditional business success. The problem they’re discovering is that the average consumer has almost no interest in crypto unless it’s as a speculative investment to flip to someone else, which means the entire space is basically crypto people flipping things to each other and trying to convince new people to join in so they have more downstream people to flip their tokens too.

But despite the constant efforts to flood our news feeds with crypto stories, most of us navigate the internet without cryptocurrencies or NFTs because they’re entirely unnecessary and you have to go out of your way to do anything with them. Since they bring no actual benefit, we just ignore it. And it’s fine.
Unrelated topic: what is to be done about these terrible "wiki" sites that dominate search results about games?
The Russian space program isn't even in Russia. Baikonur Cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan. So you can see these countries hold a very high strategic value to Russia. The ghosts of the Soviet Union are still haunting us to this day.
Well, there's also the most likely scenario. It's the same one that arguably ended the Soviet union:

The war goes on for decades or more, with growing desperation on both sides. The Russian economy bleeds through any loose change under the couch cushions to build more tanks & artillery. Ukrainian resistance sustains a long term insurgency against the occupiers, using essentially the same tactics as the Mujahideen or modern Taliban. The West slowly stops caring as other "breaking news" pushes this down the front page. Years of war bankrupt the central government, and regime change deposes Putin. American and British companies come in and privatize anything left. The country is left in poverty and austerity. And then the same thing more or less happens 30-50 years later...
Its important to note that Putin has support of his own people. There are polls, anecdata and articles [1] like this to grasp his own people view. It seems that vast majority of working class support him [2].

Data might be wrong so I am open for different perspectives.

[1] - Ukraine war: 'My city's being shelled, but mum won’t believe me' - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60600487

[2] - Putin's approval rating rises https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra...
> I’m sorry to say, but there is really nothing that could happen in Ukraine that would be bad enough for us to accept the risk of nuclear annihilation.

Would that hold up if you insert "anywhere" instead of "in Ukraine"? I am not so sure that e.g. the Baltics would be protected by NATO if Putin invades.
Yeah, the capitol coup guys weren't well trained and failed, fortunately. Everybody has a lot of luck

...this time.
Yep that's a great one. 24h on-call is garbage and unions could absolutely pressure businesses to have more reasonable policies.
Be aware that Facebook Messenger blocks URLs with duckdns.org as unsafe links. The workaround is probably to find a cheap domain (not free, these are blocked as well) and attach it using CNAME.
Yeah, tailgating the person in front of me because the person behind me is tailgating has always felt like a: "well, now I have two problems" kind of situation.
Advice on accessing BBC News (using Tor)
Go ahead and suggest an alternative
Average temperature in Oslo is colder than 90% of the planet - but average winter temperature in Oslo is a fairly normal winter temperature for nearly half the planet, especially for the more affluent parts of it. The hottest large city on Earth - Ahvaz, Iran - with a record high of 54C, still recorded a record low of -7C
You are probably not very old but anyway . Let's say you die in accident. Nobody will be able to use your code until either copyright is repealed (the boomers half life has kicked in long enough such that they are irrelevant and we can change copyright) or you are 70 years dead.

I understand you wanting to keep your options as long as possible. I see three options for you:

- leave it without license and hope you will be able to license it as you want. Take no contributions. Have total freedom. Never accept contributors.

- pick any non public domain equivalent license and require all contributions to allow you to relicense their contributions in the future. When you change the license in the future the all previous version released under that license stay that way.

- pick a public domain equivalent license 0BSD preferably. All contributions under that license means you and their code and be relicensed by anybody including you. If you later decide to relicense you can do so without needing the contributors ok. Old versions stay in the public domain. Newer code (after relicensing doesn't).
Erthos rakes in $17M to install solar panels directly on the ground
Is it just my impression that the Ukrainian government is seemingly very competent?
Yup, we're aware and we're all ashamed
This seems reasonable.
How often do you change you passwords?
Feels like it would get extremely tedious if you have more then a few accounts though, no?
>It's long been understood that extending NATO up to Russia's borders would trigger a response

There's already a bunch of NATO countries bordering Russia in Europe. Maybe not to such a large extent that Finland would be, but there definitely is.
I saw it taking off and climbing out of Houston on my way to go sailing with a friend so I was headed to clear lake. It was just all wrong, it was clearly an airplane headed away from me but it didn't move! It just hung in the sky as if suspended by strings. For what seemed like many minutes it just hovered there. Eventually it started a turn and it started to make a little more sense.
Ask HN: Do you now agree that nuclear power plants are a bad idea?
Given the events of the past 24 hours I couldn't resist, but to recall the large support on multiple stories here on HN in favor of creating nuclear power plants. The largest nuclear plant almost got destroyed in fighting between the two sides in Ukraine. We are lucky only the administrative building got hit and not the actual radioactive material. It would be no less disastrous than Chernobyl if that did happen. Having more nuclear plants means more likelihood of an irreversible damage to a part of earth.

In effect, we're saying in event of a regional conflict we're ok with having large of parts of earth becoming inhabitable for centuries.

Why are we supporting the creation of nuclear power plants?
No offence taken.

We do have a fairly regular group of core users that are usually there. Of course this core group will change with time given life commitments and other things that come up. Not uncommon for regulars to disappear for a while and show up later when life permits.

Something we have discussed about our longevity is early on we decided against using webcam meetups. All our meetups are voice only. I had a lot of feedback from people early on they preferred the voice only meetup. Now almost 2 years later, we question if this decision allowed us to avoid the webcam fatigue that most other groups seemed to suffer. It probably doesn't hurt we are in Canada's biggest and hottest tech hub.
Your objection interests me, because these are both cases that I figured out myself with much contemplation and was quite content with many years ago and have never subsequently looked up in any reference (and I doubt your alternatives ever occurred to me). But after a spot of investigation now, I don’t believe you’re right on either count and stick to what I have written, at least for now.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=let+tennis+hinder: the consensus among the first few results, which are reputable-looking sources, seems to be that the hinder sense is probably correct, though some suggest as an alternative the French filet meaning net.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=etymology+of+let+and+hindrance: not much obviously canonical, but https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/without-let-or-hindrance... at least sounds reasonable, and agrees with me, including a citation in the last paragraph from 1799 which is unequivocally being used in the sense I nominated.