skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really struggle to respond here. If you're seeking some kind of... economically efficient? - output from improved go play, it's true you won't find it. I don't know how to argue the value of deepening skill in a game to someone who doesn't see that as inherently valuable, and I'm shocked to see this attitude from someone who makes games/art. Each game is a piece of art, and a game between two players of high skill level should have a place among humankind's great classical artistic outputs.

It's a bit cliche of a recommendation at this point but maybe Hesse's The Glass Bead Game can help explain it. The fictional Glasperlenspiel makes explicit the level of discussion skilled players see in even the most abstract of real games. A novice player sees "raw" joseki, tsumego, etc; a more advanced player can read that as patterns of offense, defense, and zones of control; but the top players are reading the board in terms of ideas, experiments, challenges, proposals, negotiations, arguments, and jokes.
Thyroid issues often correlate with mental health issues.
I guess all I can say is one man's thrash is another man's treasure. I personally don't have much a reason to care about mamory safety of my programs, so I would hate to have restrictions on what and how I can do things, it would be literally just wasting my time as a programmer, and wasting performance too.
Terry Virts, ex-NASA astronaut and ex-commander of ISS, on life in space
Myth feeds the mental energy required to fight for your life.

E.g. Russian soldiers are fighting for the myth that they are protecting some great country.
is this /s, in reference to latex/knuth and the precursor to yak shaving?
Wars have been fought with this at least since the beginning of the 20th century..

Speaking of myths, here’s one: there’s more fake news and conspiracies today than in the past.
Could you link the app directly? Googling Valve's CS: GO makes googling for "CS Pro Go" borderline impossible.
I was not connected to work via tor. My ip was listed on the tor network as a bridge. IT simply got all the tor IPs and cross checked it against IPs connected to their VPN and I came up.
On another note a coworker downloaded a bollywood movie on BitTorrent and forgot to stop sharing and connected to the work VPN and IT got a dmca notice. They then went on a huge investigation about BitTorrent. Some people got nasty emails their IP was listed on public trackers. Their kids were using BitTorrent and they were getting nasty emails about it. That was a bit big brother for me even though I didn’t get sucked up into that thankfully.
> I think you may have an incorrect understanding of the meaning of "so-called".

Read my original comment as, "don't exist as a category."

> Beyond that, "Bantu" is a colonial term, coined by German colonist Wilhelm Bleek.

Per wikipedia, he came up with the name Bantu from a hypothetical reconstruction of the word "people" in the proto-Bantu language. So regardless of his politics or ideology, the term itself seems rather innocuous in origin.

Having said that, if it has picked up racist connotations, feel free to suggest an alternative term. The "so-called Bantu language family" seems rather unwieldy.
I did a code assignment for a potential JavaScript heavy job in 2014, for some reason I think isNaN was part of the language then because I have a memory deciding not to use it (but could be misremembering), at any rate I did Number(x) !== Number(x) at some point.

In the meeting when they went over the code the guy who did it said we were wondering why you did this? So I had to explain NaN to him. He really did not know it existed. At any rate I thought this is a weird thing not to know anything at all about.
> It's a waste of effort.

Agreed.

Nothing personal but if I need to explain in detail all the benefits of increased oil production on North American soil I have already lost. I don't have the energy to discuss USA consumption of 700,000+ barrels per day of Russian oil. I don't want to dig up references to OPEC denying Bidens requests to increase production. I don't want to defend the disgust of our president banning a US pipeline while simultaneously approving a Russian one. The thought of searching for old articles about how Russia used environmental activist groups to sabotage and delay the pipeline until it's eventual cancellation would be exhausting.

Mostly I'm sad of Fifth-generation warfare and the collateral damage it causes to everyone on the battle field who don't even realize they're on a battlefield.

Keystone XL was good for America. Full stop.

If we can't agree on that there is no point of further discourse.
One interpretation is that this is a proxy war against the West by Russia (because its president was not “chosen” by Putin and he hates democracy/the “West” as an ideal).
2FA is "something you have" + "something you know". A password manager vault can be "something you have" and the password to the vault can be "something you know".
That's because you are comfy in your couch when some km away from you people are being bombed.
“ This is a very strange historic rewriting that's popped up everywhere in the last weeks. Did the Cold War not exist?”

It’s simply pointing to the per-world-capita death rate due to war after ww2 where it dropped precipitously.
WebAuthN is designed to let the site limit what kind of tokens you're allowed to use. It doesn't matter that clonable tokens exist if every site only allows unclonable ones. We're currently in the same boat with rooted Android devices - we have the freedom, but if we want to use anything from bank apps to scooter rentals, we aren't allowed to exercise that freedom.
The lab theory was always considered possible but less likely. It's just thanks to the insane politicization of the issue in the US that some internet "experts" think otherwise and obtain "evidence" from various blogs and fringe scientists.
Is there any proof that most others store their certificates on hardware?
Something tells me that if Russia would not have been so assertive and nostalgic about the soviet times we would get alone with them just fine.
But they are still in denial...Putin and a big part of russians would very much like the Soviet Union back. Just look at Putin's ratings after he annexed Crimea.
We are cooperating because we're terrified we have a madman at our doorstep.

Are you saying Europe and US and NATO aren't scared shitless of what's going on in Ukraine? I am. Still, what's happening is the definition of proxy war, and I don't see the point of discussing semantics.
It makes more sense in their case, as they have a couple more magnitudes more orbital infrastructure. So much more stuff to hit and much much more mass to cause trouble.
Easy to attach a fancy term for it. However, is it any better than the forced conscription on the other side. Both sides are forcing their young to fight a war instead of having the right to choose.
> What would be an example of an "appropriate" use of this technology?

Applying it to the statements of dictators so you know when to replace them?
Correct, i don't fancy the idea of being glassed by a madman.

Funny how self preservation works isn't it?
That is not example that would prove you are unable to discuss "western aggression" as a topic.

It is not even example of you trying to discuss it in context other then Ukraine.
> Why not ePUB

ePUB is notoriously bad at displaying mathematics. It also takes away the author's control of the page layout. To me there is nothing more satisfying than a well-crafted PDF.
Sure, it's easy. But it's hard the other way around.

It's similar to publishing a binary program with or without source code.
Ok, it was a Biden's mistake that he didn't help more. It seems that the US had intel that is now fully corroborated that Putin planned to attack.

Nevertheless, Europe helped even less. One month ago Germany prohibited other countries to sell weapons to Ukraine, now they have changed the tune but where were they a month ago?

Even Zelensky objected to those warnings although I suspect that he knew that the war is inevitable and was preparing for it. He only didn't know the precise date and wanted to avoid the panic.
None. I think - I don't know what they are exactly.
No exercises it seems, which imo are just as valuable as the contents of the book
I've tried for a couple of years to get this sorted, but I can't find an optometrist who can understand what I'm trying to say. I got so animated trying to explain it, I got told to "calm down" by the last one, who also gave me another useless prescription, which I spent hundreds of dollars having made into glasses, only to be disappointed. Again. Maybe someone here can help.

One of my experiments was to get a pair of actual "computer glasses." If I sit at the perfect distance from the screen, they're fantastic. However, at that distance, even the top and bottom of the screen is enough of a difference that they are fuzzy. Apparently, the so-called "working distance" of the prescription is so narrow that even a couple of inches either way will ruin it. I don't want a laser-focused prescription that only works within an inch. Am I saying that right? Is "working distance" the distance at which the prescription works, or the distance between the near and far usable distance?

I want my single-distance prescription _tweaked_ to work _closer_. My current prescription does pretty well from about 2 feet to near infinity. I want the "center" of this workable range brought closer. I want the usable range of the prescription to be "in the room," say, 20 feet at the far end to whatever it works out to at the close end. I expect this will bring my screen into sharp focus, at the expense of, say, driving, where I could use a different pair. I just don't want to have to change glasses when I get up and get a cup of coffee. How can I explain this to an optometrist? Because I've failed about 3 times now, and have $1000 of worthless glasses to show for it.
Stephen cohen also mentioned the military doctrine of Russia and how irresponsible and provocative obamas comments were when the whole Ukraine conflict kicked off.

Someone posted the following leaked cable here a while back from 2008

> Comment
> 12. (C) Russia's opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine
and Georgia is both emotional and based on perceived strategic concerns about the impact on Russia's interests in
the region. It is also politically popular to paint the U.S.
and NATO as Russia's adversaries and to use NATO's outreach to Ukraine and Georgia as a means of generating support from
Russian nationalists. While Russian opposition to the first
round of NATO enlargement in the mid-1990's was strong,
Russia now feels itself able to respond more forcefully to
what it perceives as actions contrary to its national
interests.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
The only "viewpoint" espoused by Putin since 2008 is that of imperialistic belligerent expansion into other countries, in a bid to recapture the former "glory" of the Russian empire, not USSR, empire.

What do you mean learning from history? The historic parallels to another leader are so overwhelming that I'm not even going to point them out to you.

Their "viewpoint" is that other, free, people should be forced with violence to bow to his will.
No matter what NATO does or doesn't do, if Putin needs a pretext for further aggression, he will find it.
WW3 will be our civilization's last war. Advocating for it is advocating for the end of the world. This is the wrong strategy.
But the pro-vax people are talking about Ukraine too, so not exactly compelling evidence.
You're thinking of this with a modern viewpoint, which holds that tech is inherently useful and a socially-worthy pursuit. This is a very recent cultural ideal: Even when I was growing up (in the 90s), it was way more the 'weird passion project' territory unless you were an academic.

My grandfather was born in 1919, and the parts of TVs he liked weren't the entertaining or cool parts. Furthermore, his obsession was actually detrimental to fulfilling his social role: My father says that his father wasn't good with money in part because he spent too much of it on things to tinker with, and he was socially not the most ept guy.

It was this way for other classes too:

My class background is complicated because my mother is from a decently well-off family but cut off contact and bailed at 15. One example from her childhood/family, however, is that one of her relatives was a tenured academic who helped found the academic study of pop culture. On the other hand, this was something he did after winning a Pulitzer and getting tenure for more serious work.

It's easy to forget, but 2-3 generations ago a tech interest was seen as a potentially useful eccentricity at best outside of a very few select sectors.
De-escalation was abandoned because it appeared fruitless. The Kremlin must be willing to be diplomatic for diplomacy to work.
You're free to run tor nodes. You just have to accept the consequences of others not liking that. That's not impacting on your freedom, and it's also part of their freedom to not like you for running a node.
I mean the way China handles this is still a problem, even if it was a market and not a laboratory, there cover ups are costly to society as a whole and there actions are a grave disservice for humanity and ultimately extremely selfish.

This is a great opportunity for the world to learn and help eliminate possible future outbreaks that could hurt China and the rest of the world hard, but they would rather fight a propaganda battle and try to save face, which is silly because it’s a lose-lose situation, it just makes them look worse and fuels conspiracy theories and we have no chance to gain valuable data.
With Vitamin D specifically I think the answer is yes.
The West is not escalating anything, they have done everything to prevent this war. The diplomatic efforts to prevent this attack were unprecedented in history.

Russia only needs to stop the war and withdraw their troops, and sanctions will go away in no time.

There is no way Ukraine will become pro-Russian any time in the future, though, but that's obviously on Putin. It's hard to win the hearts and minds of people by bombing them and occupying their country. Maybe Putin should have asked the US about their experiences with that before ordering the invasion of Ukraine.
>have been ringing alarm bells for decades on NATO expansion eastward

Do these historians have an answer that what should those countries in east Europe do? Just accept the fate that you will always be a vassal of Russia because you are at the wrong geographical place?

- Option 1: NATO

- Option 2: Vassal of Russia

- Option 3: "buffer state" which means you are free to be destroyed by both the NATO and Russia, see Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia

There is a reason people wants to have a life like "the west" and not like Russia.
> key components are now sanctioned

Since you are so specific, can you at least hint what exactly are these key components that are now being sanctioned? Not engines.

And sure, why not Comac, too, but that's a different story. Doesn't quite look like Cessna, does it?
You can apply the same argument for letting the west boots on the ground.

All loss of live in this conflict is tragic, no way to deny that. But a no-fly zone is not an option here.
cowardice, you mean? Yep, that's how it works. Europe show it since 2013 in the Ukraine.
> Every side commits war crimes pretty much every war. The losers go to Hague for ritual humiliation, the winners don't see any consequences because there is no mechanism to compel them to submit to a trial

Somewhat agreed.

Russia wouldn't even have a casus belli for the invasion, if this mechanism was working at all.
The fact that a brand new account account is feverishly trying to frame Tor as enabling abusers gives me confidence in the fact that Tor is actually really useful for circumventing censorship right now.
So that they can imperialize those nations too. Doesn't seem like a reasonable demand given their imperial behavior the past decade.
They are sticking out like a sore thumb.
This is lunacy. If a YouTube video contains a clip of an elected official (or former) making a false claim (which they almost all do to varying degree), that is simply highlighting an event that occurred. The politician said X, and here is the video documentation of that event.

The state of our world is comically broken, and it’s getting worse by the year. I cannot fathom any viable solution to turning things around. Roger Waters album “Amused to Death” was astonishingly prescient.
Yes!

And maybe someone can write some Machine Learning tool to "unformat" the PDF into ePUB.
You'd also be enabling the journalists who expose real world pedophiles and m/billionaire criminals, who ruin thousands of lives; and helping anyone who needs to fight against overwhelming power and has need for an internet, which is so many people in so many ways. It only takes 1% of traffic of this kind, to overshadow the horrible effects of even 80% (which is already a dubious number as pointed out), in terms of positive impact on the world.
This is a good analysis.

There is an interview from today from Durão Barroso that was President of the European Commission for two terms. He says in 2014 Putin told him: "I could take Kiev in 2 weeks if I wanted to"

https://www.portugalresident.com/durao-barroso-warns-we-cant...

https://expresso.pt/internacional/entrevista-durao-barroso-l...
On the other hand, what's the option? By not pushing eastward, meaning allowing Russia to install puppet head at those countries?
It's not really only about Ukraine. It's about the whole Eastern Europe. If you listen to Putin's speech a good way to "reset" the relations would be redrawing the NATO borders to 1990 so I would say that at this point any options de-escalating the current conflict only postpones such a conflict which would be a bad move (i.e. Russia would better prepare before the next invasion).
The games have already begun, more countries want now in NATO and EU because they know they are next on Russian's plate.
It's not just nostalgic reminiscence; it's people both younger and older than the game itself actually playing it and liking the experience for what it is, not a deteriorating memory of it.

I am sure that players will fondly remember Fortnite 30 years from now, but I doubt there will be as much of an active community around actually playing or modding it as there is now for Doom. If nothing else, because games like it (with centralized multiplayer only and with much of their appeal coming from active support by the developers) live and die with their commercial success.
I love this book, partly because of the entertainingly condescending tone:

---

I know that there are many who spend morning to evening every day in go clubs, playing tens of games a day, but
make no progress. No matter how ardent their will to
learn was at the beginning, let this condition continue
for two or three months, not to mention one or two
years, and hope is abandoned. The player comes to recognize himself as ‘a permanent 6 kyu’ and everyone else
does too.

This condition is unbearable, yet how many go players
find themselves in it? Almost all? If so, it would be a
crime just to let them go on as they are, and that is why I
am writing this book - to explain in detail what is needed
to break through the barriers
Propaganda measures are facts. This is one of the greatest propaganda bits in a very long time. Decades perhaps.
I considered myself one of the worst players who loved the game of go. That's because I had no ability whatsoever to visualize in my head how the next few steps would go. Without this, you really can't play. It's way worse than in chess because in Go this is more obvious to the visually-handicapped player that this ability is needed to really play the game. I played chess in my youth and didn't really understand that most others (most definitely the good) players would visualize everything in their head wheras I would say in my head "I do this and then this.. hmm, maybe something else", basically more than 3 steps weren't really possible for me. So this is a longwinded explanation but what I'm saying is that these types of games require a different type of thinking (that is visually) than almost everything we usually do (even most math) and many people can't really do it (well; and I couldn't do it at all). That's why it is basically always a niche game.

If you can learn to think visually, you notice the intricacies of the game much more. So why did I love it, even though I couldn't do it? Because I saw some puzzles (tsumegos) where the result was often like: Wow, that's awesome. I never had this epiphany with chess puzzles.

And how did I learn to visualize it (at least a bit^^)? I had to silence my inclination to always "talk" through what I want to do. But that's just one aspect, it's different for everyone I think. Also, I've come to the conclusion that the more you are in a dream state the better you can visualize things. Even so far that when you're tired you might play better. Anyway, it's a most fascinating game with its simplicity but also its complexity and its entanglement of tactics and strategy but also of weird moves that change the whole game. Most fascinating and I will always love it even though I was for the longest time the weakest player who loved it :)
I feel like enforcing a specific text style is the wrong approach.

In my opinion, different people have different formatting preferences and forcing someone to use the "wrong" one will lead to slower reading speed and the risk of overlooking errors.

That's why I believe we should treat it like font or color choices. The IDE should display source code in the viewer's preferred style, so that each person sees what they expect. And then the actual source code formatting becomes irrelevant.

Go already goes a good step into this direction by making a language AST tree part of their core libraries. And opening Go source code in JetBrain's GoLand will show you additional annotations, spacing, etc. based on the parsed source code tree (and not based on the source code's text).
Preaching to the choir here I suspect, but if other lone developers are reading this:

Git's features shine just as brightly, IMO, if you work for yourself.

Granted a good number of them are often not very relevant to a lone developer, but if you work for or by yourself on any projects over the long term, you should build git (or some other distributed source control, but probably git) into the way you work.

Not to excess, by any means. I use a very small subset of git's features and in practice many of my simpler projects don't even use branches, because it's not in the nature of the changes I am making to those projects or the time management I do.

But for example you should consider git an essential step between dev and live -- using it to deploy -- and you should look at how you could use it to facilitate staging and testing.

Combined with a changelog and relentless use of comments and notes, git helps "structured forgetting", which as a freelancer is pretty crucial; sometimes you work frantically on a thing for a month, get paid and then it comes back to you years later.

> And git != code formatter.

No, obviously, but the needs of the former are supported by the benefits of the latter.

That said, I use one for golang but not, in general, for PHP. I should find a code-formatter I can bend to my will for PHP, but after 17 years of increasingly complex lone PHP development, I know what I need from my own formatting requirements in order to manage projects.
Russia is shelling all major Ukraine cities right now trying to take over a country that does not want it. I am from the UK and if my government were doing this I would gladly welcome sanctions and be outside daily protesting regardless of the consequences, because I know that whatever I would go through it scarcely compares to what civilians of Ukraine would be feeling right now. That's where my humanity would lie personally...