skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in the Providence Place Mall as a retail employee when the secret apartment was discovered in the parking garage. The mall has an interesting network of back hallways. The facades of the public area ended when you entered one, replaced with concrete and exposed iron beams, with odd nooks and crannies.

When the apartment was discovered the police considered it a legitimate public safety threat, but in the following days Michael Townsend's statements around his intentions transformed the narrative. People were fascinated with the secret apartment, and Townsend spared no detail to quench their curiosity. He faced serious criminal trespassing charges, but I think his apologetic transparency, and the artsy culture of Providence, were influential in the lenient consequences he ultimately received.

Townsend is still an active artist in Providence[1], with his secret apartment now Providence folklore. He is still banned from entering the mall to this day.

99% Invisible did a great episode on it[2].

[1] https://tapeart.com/
[2] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
Showing you some love... Keep fighting the good fight =]
They mentioned they were happier having enough money to get out, but not actually getting out. Maybe that’s the difference? Just knowing it’s an option?
This is speculation as to whether it explains the effects described in the article.
Yeah, lets destroy the planet together. Frecking is green now
You can say "this is probably wrong" before you start experimenting, but it's not scientific at all. There's a reason practitioners are blinded in a double blind trial. Also, there is an art to deciding what to "aim" your science at, and as much as some might hate to admit it, it is simply based on logic and intuition.

In this case, it is entirely logical to me that breathing can modify circulatory patterns pumping more blood to your joints, thereby promoting healing for arthritis. I'd personally be surprised if there was zero benefit, but I respect your right to a different intuition from mine.

I'm less confident about any similar benefits to something like MS although perhaps circulation to the brain could be similarly helpful. I'd recommend withholding judgment until we have more science, but again, that's my intuition. If you don't want to improve your breathing, you certainly don't have to.
You're not the baddie.

The baddie is preconceived notions based on genetic markers.

and anyway it's possible to have a +3 respect marker and still be under respected by being black, female, wearing ill-fitting/unfashionable clothes or displaying poor hygiene.
It goes deeper though -- sharing happiness with others is one of the most crucial parts of sustaining happiness. It literally will make you happier and also surrounded by happier people, creating a virtuous cycle of happiness.
> I don't think this is right.

You can think what you want, the entire thing started from marcan (re)discovering that fsync() on macos only flushes from FS to disk but does not require any guarantee of the disk.

> There are a lot of things that can happen after the "disk" acknowledged the write that are a lot more common than a power failure

Like what, putting a bullet through the SSD?

> especially in a machine with batteries!

Not every machine has a battery. Not every SSD is internal and hooked onto that battery.

> a system that gets its reliability from fsync() cannot in practice offer any more data persistence guarantees than one that doesn't.

So your point of view is what, reliability nihilism where data does not exist and death comes to us all?
This surprised me, so I've just looked it up. I'm now surprised for a different reason.

"Webster's New International Dictionary" contains "more than 600,000 entries" and it's a single volume, albeit a hefty one.

"Oxford English Dictionary" on the other hand, has "301,100 main entries" and yet the last paper version was 20 volumes. Presumably because OED contains more details per word.

Of course, for anything but a spelling bee it's pretty absurd to compare dictionaries by number of entries. Beyond a certain point: you're just buying more chaff like family names and alternative spellings.
i decided to learn to build my own house.

its going well.

bonus points: i can expand my house as i need to, ie start a family, have more children etc.
>Why would you expect that in this day and age?

Because that's what happened the last time the US declared war. (December 8, 1941)

I've been told that we're on the brink of real, actual war. I've been lead to believe that almost all of Russia's army is ready to storm the entire country of Ukraine.

For me, as an old fart... WWIII includes seeing a flash outside my window, and ceasing to be about 10 seconds later as it becomes 5000+ degrees. People further away from the heart of the nation's industrial capacity would eventually see thousands of mushroom clouds.

I expect the deaths of hundreds of millions, if not Billions, if WWIII kicks off.

---

That's what I've been told to expect, but that's not what I actually expect. I expect this to be a lot of noise, a much smaller number of deaths. Still unnecessary, and tragic deaths, and deprivations.

I expect life in the US and everywhere not immediately in the area to continue as normal. I expect a wave of refugees. I expect backlash to build, as it is certainly building for the USA as we deliberately starve those in Afghanistan at the moment. (Really, the last time we did it, we got Bin Laden as part of the backlash, can't we learn?)

I know that nobody but an idiot, or someone with a profit to gain from it, wants war.

sorry about the rant, but that's my honest answer to your question

PS: If the other stupid possible outcome of this happens, and "cyber weapons" start to be used, the world could end up with large chunks of our infrastructure disabled for widely ranging periods of time. The knock-on effects of that could be anywhere from as bad as the effects of Covid19 to civilization ending.
It's an investment tracking app [1]. Flutter did a lot to fight jank on iOS in the past months/years and is still improving there. So far I've heard no complains from my users.

[1] https://stockevents.app
In a world that contains non-fungible tokens, it is ironic that a human being itself is, well, fungible.
Nuclear plants are not a real replacement to gas. First of all, a lot of gas gets used for heating - nuclear isn't useful there. Then it is used for providing flexible power, to ramp up and down as quickly as possible to follow the production of renewables. Only a small fraction of the gas goes into "base load" usage. So the government might look into the nuclear power plants to dampen the price level for electricity a bit, but that is about it.

For the last days, there was a lot of wind in Germany, causing the German wind energy production to sometimes even exceed French nuclear (up to 48GW of wind power). Germany most of all now has to correct the mistakes by the previous government and very quickly has to push for building up more wind and solar capacity.
Not just survivorship bias imo. You had to ship a stable game because you couldn't patch it later. And the scope of games was much smaller, in complexity and game length, so it was easier to QA. End result is that on average games were much more stable than modern games are at 1.0.
> I want to spend my days being a gentleman scientist and a student of the arts. I want my best work to follow my morning tea in the garden, and I want to join a Society of Likeminded Nerds to talk about it.

Atop a healthy and happy family, this is all I want from life. I would be honored to apply for membership at your Society if and when you ever start it.
It would be much better to use less gas.
FYI, Nord Stream 1 is still operational
Unfortunately that "assumption" is pretty well founded:

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/AirPods ... 0/10 is a statement.

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/apples-repair-policies-are-...
I'm definitely a fan of the Squatting. The current cyberactivist is due to a lot of Hackalabs in a squatter houses.
It was about invading Ukraine and especially Kiev. The Ukrainian government had lost the control about the region Russia now openly operates in. They already did so before though.
It is established. People tasked with doing a difficult mental task burn a lot more calories. But I don't think it's known if it's the thinking per se, or the stress associated with it.
Serial type versus identity columns in PostgreSQL and TypeORM
"Today, unlike 30 years ago, all patients are strangers and, as my catchment area now extends into different London boroughs, even the places I go are unfamiliar."

Well, health (or 'disease control') is a business unfortunately. Doctors are just a small cog in that machine - they are effectively big pharma sales people.
My custom made earplugs block less noise than the ones stuffed into the ears. And my understanding is that is to be expected.

I plan to have another pair of customs made and possibly see if I can get some custom ones for AirPod Pro tips. Running in the third world can be a kind of hell with the honking, construction, and fireworks.

By custom I mean lab made.
An interesting approach would be to standardize a way to program the controllers in flash disks, maybe something similar to OpenFirmware. Mainframes farm out all sort of IO to secondary processors and it was relatively common to overwrite the firmware in Commodore 1541 drives, replacing the basic IO routines with faster ones (or with copy protection shenanigans). I'm not sure anyone ever did that, but it should be possible to process data stored in files without tying up the host computer.
Personally, I find surveys don't work. In tech, you want to be building products that are 10x better. e.g. half the price, 10x faster, but at half the quality. But a thing like this is just never going to be understandable in a survey.

Like if Uber wanted to launch, what kind of survey would they even put up? Hail a taxi, but it's someone's car and they'll treat you better than a professional? Also it'll be safer than a licensed, regulated taxi.

Gmail: Would you like 1 GB of email storage vs Microsoft's 5 MB? (and it's free, filters spam better, and has a better UI)

Steam: Would you like to buy games for an average 4 times cheaper, and download them fast, legally when you feel like it? The CDs won't scratch and you can own the games on any PC with internet access.

Instagram: Would you like a shareable photo album that is infinitely cheaper than Photobucket with unlimited storage? Oh, it makes you prettier too.

If you can ask questions in a survey, that don't make people suspicious, maybe you're not aiming high enough.
Ha, that's interesting. In what way did you alter your heartbeat?
I wonder what contingencies the Germany navy is planned for and capable of handling, if they couldn't even get their heads around this being a possibility?
I don't think China benefited per se (let alone profited) by being the only one with economic ties to North Korea. As I understand it it's a pretty parasitic relationship. China's reason to help North Korea is more so political and territorial than economic.
Have you followed the value of the ruble and the cost on Russian personal income and GDP since the sanctions after the Crimean invasion? They've been highly effective by almost all measures, the Russian economy is dependent on European LNG and oil purchasing, and the initial 2022 sanctions have sent the Russian markets spiraling further.

Here's a paper on their effectiveness if you don't believe me, Europe has more than just gas to power its economy - unlike Russia: https://www.jois.eu/files/2_481_Tyll%20et%20al.pdf
Why then build the pipeline in the first place?
"Is Russia really interested in having a tiny strip of Ukraine’s soil? No. Or to integrate it in the country? No, this is nonsense."

That's exactly what is happening.
Putting it that way makes it sound pretty trivial. I don't see a single pound of extra weight being something onerous and I consider myself to be more sentient than these animals.
> half of my time went to actually solving the problem I wanted to solve (knowing if a site is down, and alerting folks when that happens). The other half went to building a SaaS platform around that problem.

You’d think in today’s software landscape there would be tools to simplify or automate the part or building a SaaS business that everyone needs to do.

He mentions Stripe for payments of course, but isn’t there anything broader to get set up more quickly? Like a shopify for SaaS businesses?
But once you know what you’re doing, nothing in Tahoe comes close to Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley.
Are you okay? Feels like you are wound tight and this really set you off....your post says more about you than it does about me or my friend tbh...what happened to you!?

Secondly I was making an observation and was not trying to justify any of the views...you misunderstood this and went off on a rant. Honestly I feel like you are prejudice and lack the capability to have a conversation on a topic like this which speaks to you being closed minded.
I remember reading (but can’t find references) that watching soap operas burns less calories than watching paint dry because your mind wanders more when you have nothing to engage it, and separately that high-end chess players burned a lot of calories despite sitting almost motionless during their games.

The urban legend of “you only use 10% of your brain” isn’t true, but the thing it was based on was closer to the caveat “while relaxing”.
Yah, absolutely. We generally take a full court press approach here, using a mixture of voice calls, physical fliers when a farmer picks up, and sms nudges.
Might be worth rewording that, I guess you mean 'she was all over me'?. 'Came all over me' makes it sound like she ejaculated all over you.
I will be honest. I was focusing on getting to production fast and never really bothered with the look and feel of specific inputs, so I can't really tell. And my users don't seem to care as well, since I never heard any complains from them in that category. They're just happy there is an app providing them value in this specific space.
This will very likely increase gas prices around the world and they have enough consumers. They don't even have to fear closure of NS2 as a state, the company and investors might, but they will get compensated pretty extensively by mostly European tax payers. If that sound like strategy for you, it is a pretty stupid one.
Some hardware raid controllers do that with their battery backed cache - they return written before it’s flushed to disk because they have a battery in case of power interruption.
The ego of thinking nothing is true until Western science has proven it as such. This reeks of Columbus discovering America.
Germany needs gas today, not after n years, so making a nuclear plant today is not a good solution. We should be investing in small nuclear plants that China is making for future needs. Restarting old nuclear plants is not solving the problem because it is expensive. And I highly doubt the government would cut taxes. And, buying oil from other countries is expensive.

This probably explains why Germany is not supporting Ukraine with fists. If they make Russia angry, the Germans will be enemies of Germany due to social unrest. This is a decision of morality vs economics, and the government will choose economics. I think for now, just like China, Germany is just stopping to appease the mass. But after a month they will take Russian gas.
I've been syncing all notifications to my watch and then tucking the phone away. My watch will vibrate on important things like a call or when the spaghetti is done.

But everything else is silenced because otherwise my watch will be vibrating all the time. Once an app loses that trust, it's hard to get back.
Who says that device isn't fixed and sold as refurbished? Or used for parts for other repairs? Or simply recycled?

> It fixes your problem, but I wouldn't exactly call that fixing the phone.

What kind of copium is this? Devices break. Even the most reliable devices just break less. What matters to the customer is how that is resolved. The customer wants a working device. Period.

Would this be somehow better if Apple sent the device off for fixing and I'd get it back in 3 weeks (maybe)?
Have you never heard the tale of that guy, lost at sea, who slowly stopped eating the normal parts of fish as he started to crave the eyes and other unusual parts? Wish I could remember his name. He blamed the change in cravings on a nutrient deficiency.
Vim can run Ruby scripts, so it also provides this feature.
Stripe pretty much is that. There's only so much abstraction you can do on payment processing.
Well, right. As soon as governments around the world manage to pull their heads out of their collective asses (which some are already doing) and genuinely try to understand cryptocurrencies, they start regulating them like any other asset.

The "Wild West" of crypto is a historical aberration that will absolutely not last.
Frida: Cross-platform “Greasemonkey for native apps”
The Witcher 3 took me 150 hours with all the DLC, I enjoyed every minute of it and didn't want it to end. I don't understand "I don't have time for a 100 hour story", if you enjoy the game why do you want it to be short?
Anywhere is good for beginners. Just look for the most affordable half-day tickets.
Todays date (22/02/2022) is both a palindrome and an ambigram as per british date format.
Your claim that he is just a hack is false, I suggest you (re)read Win Hof's wiki article and review references. He is not a first nor the last human being who is able to endure extreme conditions that are/where perceive impossible in some cases.
They could repurpose the evil bit! ;)
>This leads to the conclusion that Gazprom is supplying the volumes... under its long-term contracts - but it is not providing additional volumes beyond those contracts," says Jack Sharples, of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Question is, was gas ordered? I doubt anyone delivers without order.
According to Gazprom the orders came only february 2nd.
This is literally the opposite of what the minister has said: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Meldung/20220101-eu-taxonom...

Please don't spread misinformation.
The SPD has always been on the moderate side when it comes to Russia. His Green coalition partners are NATO hawks though.
I don’t think imposing a complicated tax structure is very compromising or intimidating towards Russia.
Trade of scarce virtual water in the global food network
My house doesn't have a gas connection anymore. Let the sanctions come.
That you can find bad eating habits doesn't disprove the notion that taste has something to do with nutrient content. Our senses are not distinct from our psyches. Why we might choose to eat in ways that are not good for us is not determined by the tongue alone, and even the capacity to taste can vary. (Of course, more than taste is engaged in determining what to eat. We select foods based on a variety of signs. We can be fooled, but just because a sign may be misinterpreted doesn't mean signs are irrelevant. It's not either/or.)

I've met people who dislike anything except chicken fingers. They dislike anything but a very restricted number of foods, often of mediocre quality. Why? I don't know. Maybe they were raised on mediocre diets. Maybe they suffer from rigidity. That doesn't mean I can't look at a two tomatoes and generally tell which one is likely more nutritious by tasting it.
Great work, I downloaded and played around, it's a useful app and am glad it's working out for you. I may be picky as I work as an iOS developer but I definitely see the places where it doesn't look or feel native to me and unfortunately list scrolling and view transitions still stutter - I understand this is a known issue the Flutter team is working on and is out of your control. Overall probably expected and reasonable trade-offs for a cross-platform framework.
> Why would OS vendors spend time implementing this on their side if the drives don't support it?

In the case of Microsoft, forcing the adoption of a de-facto standard (and refusing to support competing ones OOTB) they create is immensely beneficial in terms of licensing fees.
His website does have this claim:

> The Wim Hof Method is also linked to reducing symptoms of diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, asthma, sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and several autoimmune diseases.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-exercises

No references cited, curious to know what it's based on. "Linked to" is quite a vague phrase.
I've passed out doing this kind of thing during systema training. I wouldn't like to try it tramping through the snow.
Meta facing order from Irish regulator to suspend data transfers to US
I did the WHM for 1000 days a few years ago. I can definitely say my cold tolerance has increased, even after stopping the breathing, cold showers, etc...

I look at it like how a boxer reprograms themselves not to flinch when a punch is thrown at their face through repeated conditioning. Instead of instantly regretting the cold, you learn to accept it and not pre-program your reactions to it. Since most people live in 70 degree temps all the time, walking out into sub-freezing weather with minimal clothes is an instant shock to them.

I am just some weirdo that walks around in the cold barefooted and in shorts all year around, and no expert in reprogramming their parasympathetic nervous system or commanding my white blood cells to attack things. The WHM method just allows me to do it longer and in colder weather. YMMV and all that.
Russia can't "shut down the gas supply", that's their only source of income
Funny how these things work sometimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
The study claims that high measures of X resulted in more rewards statistically validated against a long enough timespan and large enough sample size, where X is whatever they chose to measure. In this case the measure is happiness as defined by prior research which they describe in moderate details under the heading: "What Do We Know About Happiness?"
I had a doppelganger of sorts when I was in high school. We were in the same classes, etc., looked a lot alike, except that he had blond hair and habitually wore a tan trench coat, while I had black hair and habitually wore a black trench coat. It was generally considered that I was the evil twin.
Apple cables really are terrible. I've had teh cladding come off multiple Lightning cables to the point I never use the Apple cable anymore. I just buy Anker cables without thinking about it.

I honestly don't know how Apple cables can be this bad. More to the point, I don't understand how Apple leadership can tolerate this from a PR perspective.
In the glove box
There are multiple alternative options, land based, as well. NS2 doesn't really change the pricing.
That's what he's saying: help other countries instead of raking in more money.
That's pretty cool. I actually would like to see K-12 math education use more computation and data, with less of a focus on algebra (expression manipulation). This would be more reflective of how regular people, including STEM people, use math outside of school.
> marginally more confident goes a long way

...not sure. My own piece of anecdata here is that healthy self confidence is not really correlated with better career opportunities at all in our industry. If anything, maybe even the opposite is true. In my mind, companies promote people who have internalized the pre-existing power structure and perpetuate it [1]. These tend to be of the "insecure overachiever" [2] type, rather than independent thinkers with healthy self-confidence.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Profession...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Professionals-Power-Politics-...
> First of all, a lot of gas gets used for heating - nuclear isn't useful there

All electricity basically turns to heat at some point. So why not?