skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Docs remembers this pageless layout across all of my documents. Would be cool if it did so with the zoom.

I always use 125% because things are too small otherwise and it always switches back to 100%.
It took 20 years for both Vietnam and Afghanistan (in the American case) to finally convince foreign occupiers to leave. Putin is very unlikely to still be alive in 20 years, so it's more a matter of convincing whoever or whatever follows that the prospect of even more decades of occupation is not worth it. It's unfortunate it takes that long for regime change to finally get over the sunk cost fallacy of the original invaders, but some sort of change will eventually come. When it happens, we'll get to find out how much Putin's cronies really agree with him versus just being afraid of publicly disagreeing as long as he is still in charge.
Ask HN: What is your advice to make the most of HN?
So I'm a pretty new HN user and I enjoy the content and conversation one can have here.

But I feel like it's a struggle to find the right content for you (reloading 'new' 20 times a day is a no-go). Even following your own conversations and threads is not super user-friendly - I discovered hnnotify to be alerted by email for each answer, which is working great.

Is there any way to ease the HN experience that are widely spread in the community? (automatic filtering of new posts by topics, mobile experience, ...)
I can't imagine having a Tesla with the drive-assist software in its current state. It's like having a mentally ill spouse at home, you always wonder what irrational thing is going to come next, you have no peace any second of the day. Now try that during something safety-critical, like driving. The constant hypervigilance is exhausting, and when you aren't looking, the Tesla drives itself into a traffic bollard. Why is such crap road-legal?
I'm sure people at all levels except executive got the short end during the collapse of Blockbuster. A union would have represented employee interests every time the C-suite issued an execution order down the chain. They could very well have stopped the decline if there had been anyone to protect the retail employees who used to be able to recommend movies. That could have held the line against Netflix and its algorithm the way it has for electronics stores that have survived.

Every story I heard about a closing store, from Sears to Best Buy, began with "first, they fired everyone who knew anything and hired a bunch of people who were completely out of their depth to save money." Best Buy in particular saved itself by remembering the value of competence. Their stock is at record highs.

Now imagine if there'd been a union to bring that to the people in charge before the business penny pinched itself to near death. Unions also help with getting people into new jobs when the company really can't keep them.
While I hate unreliable drivers as much as the next guy this is not just an Nvidia problem. Several Linux kernel developers love to break API just to mess with closed source GPU driver e.g. replace an API for no reason other than hiding a few indispensable functions behind a GPL only macro. This causes nothing but avoidable grieve to users and the driver maintainers.

It’s really interesting to see the difference between Linux and FreeBSD (which doesn’t break kernel APIs for shit and giggles). The damn Nvidia kernel module is still a bloated closed source blob, but not once in >10 years did it break. The largest problems I had with this driver under FreeBSD was after the adoption of KMS because Linux locked away the new memory management API required for efficient tearing free frame swapping behind GPL only macros resulting in massive tearing (there were workarounds like using a vsync enabled compositor adding latency and wasting enough power to cost me 30-60 min battery runtime).
> engineers mainly want to be left alone to do their jobs

Sounds like a happy path but what happens when things go wrong?

If all engineers needed to do their jobs was for someone to leave them alone and let them do what they wanted there wouldn't really be a need for managers.
Hypothetically speaking, they could release everything and it still wouldn't damage Nvidia much other than PR and marketing.

The drivers code cant be used in open source, as it will be IP theft. Their competitors could see how they are doing things, but it isn't copy and paste, those techniques would still requires years of understanding and implementation on their own hardware. Assuming they are applicable. Even if you have the blueprint of their GPU, you cant bring it to TSMC, Samsung or Intel to build it. Their competitors could see it but again the magic isn't really in the GPU itself. And again just like software, even if AMD and Intel did spot a few moves to copy it will be 3-4 years before it appears on market.

I dont know if those code include CUDA, which to me seems to be the most important bit for Nvidia.

I also think there are lots of upside for Nvidia to be playing as the victim and just their strategy. From IP licensing to drivers. It will be interesting to see how this play out.
Are tech interviews broken – or is the cruelty the point?
I for one kinda liked MS FrontPage.
Interslavic Language [Duplicate]
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Video Speed Controller - great for skimming stuff fast.

LastPass - Everyone needs a password manager

ScreenBud - quick and easy page capture/edit

BrainTool - Bookmark manager with notes, search, keyboard controls and plain text data access. Its mine, give it a shot and LMK what you think:

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Can you point to an official document, such as voting by UN members, to put RF into security council of UN? I cannot find any. RF is not a founder of UN, so it puzzling for me, how they are able to sit permanently in Security Council. Is there an exception for RF in UN statute written somewhere?
Byung-Chul Han seems to share your opinion about capistalism

there's a quote along the lines of "capitalism is not a political question it is a force of nature which must be tamed" [1]

[1] https://apposition.substack.com/p/the-burnout-society

I think that when a cooperative relationship is reduced market-trade (money in exchange for goods by well defined contract laws) it's at its minimum. for example, one may trade with a rival or somebody whom one deeply dislikes, hence you just give them the money and they give you your goods or services and that is it. no pleasantries no nothing, bare minimum.

The point is that this is a degraded form of cooperative relation. If things degrade even more that ceases to be cooperative and becomes enmity.
This isn't just reported by CBS news. Bill Gates lied about his relationship with Epstein multiple times. Would it really surprise anyone that the billionaire philanthropist under heat for conducting illegal medical trials on vulnerable groups in India and other countries was involved in other nefarious and grotesque activities involving children?
IF you're not gaming, I really like the Logitech MX keys. Its super low profile, you can attach 3 devices to it (Computer, tablet, phone for me). And its wireless. Some people hate the low profile keys, so try one out if you can. Pair it with your favorite wireless mouse-. Also, I use it on Linux, important for me.
Your experience is not universal. In my case the combination of me+software is certainly safer than me alone, and also less taxing for me.
Its fascinating that for a profession that likes to think its all about understanding complex systems, we have so many that oppose unionization.
If a Model 3 decides to emergency brake without warning, can the driver still steer it to the shoulder of the highway, or are steering commands from the driver ignored?

I'm guessing the first car crashed into the rear of the Model 3, causing the Model 3 to spin out into another lane. Then a second car crashed into the Model 3 (probably side impact?) as it was now very dangerously exposed to oncoming traffic in the other lane. If the driver could have steered the vehicle during the emergency braking to the shoulder of the highway they'd likely still be alive. Unfortunately if the highway was heavily congested and this driver was sandwiched between vehicles on either side, there is probably nothing additional the driver could have done to improve the situation.

From the linked Facebook post there is the following comment:

My husband unfortunately was one of the drivers that struck the Tesla. He said the car in front of him almost hit the car so they swerved barely missing him and then there was the Tesla right there . He absolutely could not of stopped in time. It's a very traumatic situation. My husband is now dealing with survivors guilt and is taking it extremely hard. We are so very sorry this happened....I have no doubt that the gentleman that lost his life was loved by many and God help us all to find some strength to deal with the grief.
Hasn't he said as much?

- The collapse of the CCCP and Warsaw Pact was a catastrophe

- Peter The Great was great, and Russia should be extended to its old imperial borders

I'm not aware that he's expressed the desire to go to war with NATO. But I do believe that subjugating Ukraine is a prerequisite to occupying the Baltic states. In particular Kaliningrad, Russia's only ice-free Baltic naval base, is connected to Russia by a long, narrow landbridge, which is very vulnerable, being protected largely by treaty commitments.

Defending that landbridge with purely military force would imply aggression against Lithuania or Poland (or both), and both countries are in NATO.
> Donetsk and Luhansk become fully annexed by Russia.

It's always possible, but Russia started the war by recognizing their independence from Ukraine. This is the kind of thing that would happen after the war concluded ("we held a referendum and they decided to rejoin Russia"); it'd be kind of strange during a war the purpose of which is to grant them independence.
I'll add some of my thoughts about this article's take on latest Canvas2D developments.

1. ctx.roundRect() - is a nice addition to the 2D stable of shapes, fitting alongside other recent additions like ctx.ellipse(). I was a little disappointed that the example of how to achieve this using existing functionality relied on a set of .moveTo, .lineTo and .arcTo instructions; the article misses a trick by not mentioning that we can also use an SVG path.d string to define a Path2D object and use that to fill/stroke the shape. Note: I can't find mention of .roundRect() in the MDN documentation.

2. Canvas Conic gradients have been supported in both Firefox and Safari for a while now. Good to see it arriving in Chrome. To complete the set of gradients, it would also be nice to see support for ports of the CSS repeating-linear-gradient() and repeating-radial-gradient() into the Canvas API.

3. Text modifiers - text has always been an over-simplistic mess in the Canvas2D API. In theory a user should be able to use ctx.font to load a valid CSS font string (including all the supported font size lengths, etc) and have the text rendered as expected; sadly the implementations between various browsers are all over the place. In my dreams I hope that one day we will be able to set a width/justification and have the text string broken into lines while respecting those requirements. Browsers do it already for DOM/CSS layout and rendering - I wonder how difficult it would be to tap into that functionality rather than having to reinvent it for 2D canvases?

4. context.reset() - nice!

5. Filters - SVG filters are massively powerful, yet also difficult to master. We can already build some really complex filters in SVG and reference them in the Canvas2D context; I also like the way we can add CSS filter strings to the context (eg for a nice, easy-to-understand and performant blur effect). The article mentions a `ctx.filter = new CanvasFilter([])` construction, but I can't find CanvasFilter in the MDN documentation.
Ask HN: Is the war in Ukraine the end of freedom for cryptocurrencies?
The Western democracies seem fairly serious about imposing serious economic sanctions on Russia. The Russian government is responding with the equivalent of capital controls, to prop up its currency and limit the possibility of panic and bank runs. It seems likely that Russians will, for awhile, try to circumvent some of those sanctions by using cryptocurrencies. For instance, a Russian citizen, if they think the ruble will lose more value than it already has, might try to trade rubles for a cryptocurrency, right now. How would the Western democracies respond to that? Will we see greater efforts to regulate cryptocurrencies?
Because our current form of government can't keep pace with the rate of new things.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.

I had a lot of your symptoms. Did you have the overwhelming urge to pee?

The cramps were hell. Completely random also. Did you also have trouble balancing?

I looked into chelation because I grew up next to a big lead mine. But the doctor talked me out of it, because this topic is mostly covered by pseudoscience. Do you have any recommendations how to not fall in the hypochondriac trap?
One of Alex's most impressive feats was doing the triple crown in a day, in which he soloed El Cap, Half-dome, and Washington spire (the 3 tallest faces in Yosemite) in a single 18 hour push.

Physically the feat is comparable to running an ultra marathon, but to maintain the necessary mental focus for the entire push is beyond my comprehension.
This was the single biggest "driver" to me moving to Mac from Linux. I had a really nice system that I built and used for work. I was working on a project with a 24 hour requirement, it was only an hour of work. I needed to update for a particular dependency, but decided to update everything and low and behold, my video output broke after the update. I made the deadline, but spent literally all day and night trying to get everything working and done. The next day after a long nap, I shelved what should have been a perfectly good piece of hardware and bought a Mac after using Linux for well over a decade.
Maybe the lawmakers, are asleep at the wheel?
404 here too (UK), but from the details I believe it's "The Alpinist"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11790780/
Nope. Tons of climbers climb as hard, and scary things as he does, in fact much harder he wouldn't be able to climb, probably ever.

He doesn't behave the same, where normal climbers would freak out and do a fatal mistake he repeatedly remains calm as on sunday tea party. You can train some resistance to fear of death and indeed all climbers do (myself included), but almost everybody hits some wall within their current skills. His wall is way further than almost any other climber. Not that he is the only soloist, far from it.
Don't think of it as a resource to be utilised or something that you need to extract value from.
I one of the organizers of a meetup called Coffee and Code in Toronto, Canada. We used to be a bi-weekly meetup in cafes pre-pandemic. After the pandemic started we moved online to a weekly Discord. We still posted the meetups on Meetup and now attract an international audience. 2 years later we are still going.

Now that restrictions are lifted in Ontario we will be going back to in-person meetups and probably by the end of the month we will be posting them on Meetup. I am optimistic that we will be able to bring people back.
He "donates" large amounts of money to various media organizations every year.

Have you seen this creepy leading to gangster interview?

"We'll, he's dead now so ... be careful."

[1] https://youtu.be/LNAwUxZ5nfw
I think we're seeing the same phenomenon we've seen with computer memory: Hardware has become larger and faster by orders of magnitude as compared to the early 1990s - yet actual user-facing programs have not become faster, I actually know people who prefer Word 6.0 to modern Word if given the choice.

More power does not translate to faster experience, it translates to less efficient software. More battery life translates to doing more wasteful things in the app, optimisation is not considered "worth it" anymore.

Related, even if not directly referencing battery life or Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442529
I’m not convinced Googles smart knowledge engine would work in that environment, it probably relies on lots of people doing lots of searches and clicking links etc

Compared to only the searches being done by a single business and no links in documents
> Can you point to official documents, such as voting by UN members to put RF into security council of UN?

No idea, I haven't seen any. Another thing Russia inherited from USSR war nukes as well as debt.
> Russian just is not a great example of a Slavic language.

i am not sure what you mean but russian is by far the biggest slavic language in terms of number of speakers. i also think it is the biggest in terms of number of litterary and academic works
I've been a Math teacher for forty years now. If you think this title is pumping out the clicks, making big bucks for the ad networks, then I must say that your experience and mine are very, very different. :-)
Any energy source that people actually use. And most of them have near-zero energy input during active use.
Insurance against what? If you (a tech knowledge worker) is unionized, does it mean that the company must not remove the tech that you use, so that you get job security? Would unions have a say in such decisions?

I don't see unions as being useful, unless there's some pre-existing guarantees that the union can provide (like insurance - you pay a premium and get a known quantity of payout).
I don't think so. Purely anecdotally but being from Poland when I hear pan-slavic I imagine a North-south belt starting with Baltic states all the way to Croatia that somehow borders Russia which is a separate entity.
I think this is a claim about emergent effects of the interaction between education and the wider economic system rather than the intent of a particular group of people. In practice I don't think it makes much difference if a system is accidentally having a particular effect or having the same effect with some particular group of people's intent. It's similar to how I don't think it's too misleading to talk about evolution creating species, there is an underlying level it helps to keep in mind, but talking without the abstraction would make things too verbose
Fine. Then use those sourses. But axe to grind ex-wife on softball CBS news is shite.

If there's better then that's the standard. But this pseudo TMZ stuff doesn't belong here regardless of how many hatreds love the storyline.
I totally understand this vision, google docs, google sites, google drive must be really down in Google's priority list. Heck, Google Meet was down there up until two years ago.

The problem I think is that, little by little, users start stepping outside the Google bubble and they start to realize that there's clear benefits.
I used to be a 100% google person, then we started using dropbox paper for documents, notion for company wiki (and personal notes too), tandem for video calls.

In 2022, our company is using Google only for email, calendar, and sheets. Two years ago we'd be crazy to even think about that. We're up to the point were it wouldn't seem crazy to go with the Microsoft suite, to be honest.
iirc, Dutch got rid of the case system in the 40s, thus making it easier than German. You're right about Scandinavian langauges. I took a few Duolingo courses in Swedish and Norwegian and my several months of Dutch helped me.
Shame there was no mention of enhanced fingerprinting protection. But a nice set of Chrome improvements regardless, even if some of it is catchup.
What’s Tesla’s exposure here - do they disclaim liability for a failure like this?

Edit: Assuming this was software diver assist issue
We can do it for both. Why not?

Perun is a "pseudo" God, as much as Zeus was a pseudo God.

And if they are pseudo gods, then Jesus Christ is a pseudo God, too.

Gods exist as long as people believe in them.
But people still enjoy playing multiplayer for the added challenge.
Creating Native Web Components
Nvidia license taints kernel.
XML is a document. A relational database is a relational database. Both can be used to create a tree structure. Notion does it wit a "block" table, each block having a parent block id, and a list of child block ids, allowing tree traversal in both directions.
The comment he/she was replying to said;

>Engineers are difficult people to manage.

This is an atrocious blanket judgement if i ever saw one. And was quite rightly called out for it. I too have argued elsewhere that most Managers are only too eager to blame the Engineers when they themselves are clueless/incompetent.

All the negative tropes like a) Engineers are socially inept b) Engineers are difficult c) Engineers do not understand Business etc. etc. need to die. For too long has "Management" ascribed to themselves all the virtues/wisdom of Business and treated "Engineering" as "Simple Workers" who need to be "Managed".
Kind of the opposite, it shows that having a non-private non-government money network can be useful sometimes.
Talk to me about reducing energy from nuclear after you've done something to reduce energy from russian oil and gas. until then - go fuck yourself.
Yet again monkey news is proven true. Just waiting for proof of the chimp that stole a car and drove to spain

(I know this'll be downvoted, I cant imagine the HN crowd are particularly big monkey news fans, but I had to)
>Bill had been breaking that promise.

Does that implies Melinda knew what Epstein was up to?
All 10 comments on HN so far had a plug for your website. That's too much and distracts from the discussion. I see 3 got flagged already.
Can you explain how you come to the conclusion that it is safer?
The case for green strategic autonomy
I wouldn't frame unions as a "fight against the destructive force of profit seeking itself." Unions have every bit as much incentive to maximize profits as shareholders. It's about the distribution of profits between capital and labor.
Hacktivists Stoke Pandemonium Amid Russia’s War in Ukraine
BBC News 'dark web' Tor-mirror in Ukrainian and Russian
Yet another reason for me to avoid private transportation like the plague. As if humans driving 1 ton death machines wasn't bad enough, we've decided to add experimental technology into the mix.

Nope. I'm sticking to trains whenever possible, thank you very much.