skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to find all regions an AWS Service is available
The first couple of days snowboarding are really really rough. While you can learn how to ski down easy tracks without falling once, the first couple of days snowboarding you'll be tumbling down the mountain more often than not so expect lots of bruising. However once you learn how to brake and leaf down, which happens at day 2 or 3 you're suddenly able to go down every single track, including reds and blacks safely. The whole mountain opens up and you'll have enough control to be able to fall back to breaking in most situations so stuff stops being scary. Plus at that time you still don't have enough control to be able to carve so you won't be able to get up to scary speeds yet.

Other than the first couple of days, the mechanics of snowboarding do make for a pretty good learning environment.
That's even more confusing!
The 360 had some rather insane releases towards the end of it's life, GTA 5 was just one of them.

Watch Dogs and Risen 3 were very capable open-worlders, that shouldn't run on such low-end hardware and I'm still not sure how Bioware managed to pull off Dragon Age: Inquisition or how Konami made MGSV run as well as it did.

From what I've heard, ther was some similar wizardry going on with the PS4.
>It should have been pushed for several more years.

My speculation is that they wanted to hit a 2020 release because the name of the Cyberpunk 2020 edition of the original RPG, and the fact that Cyberpunk 2020 celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020.
…or clicking the On-Click Transitions in Microsoft® PowerPoint™…
> restart/keep open the nuclear power plants

Never going to happen. I would expect looking for alternative suppliers of gas, and developing renewables further.
How is this any more of a problem than the conventional password reset email?
It's not about being webscale it's about being professional.
Russia modernized its military with money they got from selling gas and oil to Europe. Finally Germany admitted it and at least will not increase its dependence on Russian gas.

I suspect if Germany would continued to develop its nuclear power rather than shutting it down, Russia would not have money for the new war. But then perhaps Germany was still grateful that Moscow allowed German reunification in 1990 and felt obliged to get gas from Russia.

Note also that Ukraine even after 8 years after loosing Crimea continued to transport Russian gas perfectly aware what Russia spent the money on.
The Russian-Ukrainian War and the Stock Market
Carbon Based Lifeforms announces Hyperspace, a play-and-earn sci-fi MMO
No. Chauvinism is when somebody declares that his/her language is superior to other languages, e.g. because it used by a broad audience. Russian and English speakers are often doing that from my own experience.
It might be chasing what you don't have.

You grew up in the Alps and "had always access to right away" in a rough sense.

I grew up away and it was a planned event to schedule a vacation/trip to the Alps abroad, making it relatively more valuable (regardless of the financial aspects).
> China will simply buy those valuable gas

With what pipeline ?
One could also say:

Pranayama is a thousands of years old religious practice laden down with ritual and unscientific concepts such as "vital life force".

Wim Hof has, by trial and error, distilled the essential parts of it into a modern practice free of religious baggage.
My skiing tip is that your natural reflex to lean back if you feel unsafe is the most dangerous habit beginners have. Your skis are more stable and easier controlled with your weight forward 100% of the time, and it is less work too.
I used to sleep really bad, in part this was because I thought I was sleeping really bad. In a way I convinced myself that I (always) had awful sleep and it became a self fulfilling prophecy. Waking up in the middle of the night would cause severe stress about bad sleep which would then lead to bad sleep.

What helped me snap out of it was having a sleep dairy. Everyday for a month or so I would write down the qualitative experience of my sleep and soon realized that sometimes I might not sleep that good but most of the times I did. So now when I wake up in the middle of the night I just enjoy lying in bed awake resting knowing that it is not all bad.

Also, taking 100mg of 5HTP before going to bed transforms my (now) good sleep into pretty damn good sleep.
In previous pandemics in Japan and Hong Kong, people were explicitly making the argument that even if they do nothing practical to reduce spread, mask wearing has a beneficial effect of raising social consciousness. To follow literature on this, you could start with Burgess(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22443378/).
The device weighs 0.0022 pounds.

Humans carry orders of magnitude more weight in fat on their body. I doubt people Would notice 400 grams after 10 minutes.
It is actually legally questionable that the government can influence that project in the first place. It is accepted in a way but perhaps government will have to pay billions for that choice.

If the greens try to sell shale gas against natural gas as something "green", I think they will get a huge invoice from the economy and from voters. Not even the most naive green voters will take that argument and they do take a lot.
There is no limit to the agreements that humans can make so the idea of limiting them by decree is absurd.

No one is limiting the number of cryptocurrencies. If you and your friends want to make your own "CryptoNickel" currency, go for it. No one is stopping you.

No one is stopping others from doing the same too --- and therein lies the problem --- the exercise is self defeating outside your unique circle of friends. Just a wild guess but you probably won't be using "CryptoNickel" to pay rent or buy groceries. Why is this?

Because as I noted above, "CryptoNickel" is missing essential elements of a truly functional currency --- trust and consensus --- not just among your friends but society at large. And a distributed electronic accounting system is no substitute for these missing elements.
"dumb" AAA cells are safe to use.
Do you mean Chomsky hierarchy by Chomsky regex?
This is really interesting, I had never heard of this type of meditation until now and I have been using those techniques since I was a child waiting for the bus in the early morning with what I felt was success at the time.

I similarly remember willfully altering my heart beat at the doctor's office on several occasions as a practical joke. I wonder if the two situations are linked in a significant way?
Are you guys still using voice calls to educate farmers? That is one of the neatest things I have ever seen.
They've been shooting there for 8 years and no one cared and you think that now it has to be payed for somehow? thats absurd
> It works if you don't have many responsibilities.

Yep. Single person with minimal responsibilities has more freedom/flexibility than someone with a family (for example) - kids/spouse mean your time is not just your own, and your decisions have direct (often immediate) impacts on those around you.
Terminalvideoplayer
The important difference between “ancients knew a true thing” and “science” is that ancients also believed a lot of things that were not true and didn’t even have a way to find out which was which.

Sometimes, and non-scientists everywhere do this, the truth is intermixed with the false so deeply that the truth is even used as evidence for the false.
Nothing beat personal experience, right? If you're in tune with your body, you can warm yourself and others by projecting heat.
Daniel is also a smart kid who can make his way through university without getting a leg up anywhere along the way and come out to be successful afterwards.

Just calling affirmative action racist isn’t helping. Things are a bit more nuanced than that and should be treated as such so that useful conversations can happen instead of two sides just calling each other names. Besides, “affirmative action is racist” doesn’t fallow from “Daniel was shafted by racism” and is attackable based only on that point.

If you want to argue against affirmative action here you could say:

1) The action is taken towards a group that is already privileged (well performing university students) and is superfluous
2) That the action is more likely to build up bad feelings towards the recipients by deserving individuals that get ignored
3) That the recipients of this action can never be as secure in their achievement and will suffer doubt from outside and inside because of it

Argue your point, don’t just assert it. What be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
No I haven't. I said Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction.
Geometry on the Sphere: Google's S2 Library (2017)
If everyone used Hololens2 for this now and then the smart phone came about tomorrow it would be seen as a huge upgrade with not having to wear the headset.
Putin has placed his bet on the flop, and Biden and NATO have now called it and re-raised. (This wasn't done by Germany in a vacuum.)

Now we get to see if Putin will double down.
Germany doesn't care about Ukraine. They have to look like they do. Once the Ukrainian issue settles down again like it did after 2014 and everyone in the west moves on to other things, Germany will simply push the start button and gas will flow.
It's not professionalism to increase the cost of your service regardless of your needs. Maybe 99.99% is good enough for the OP's price point, and if I want five nines I'll pay for Zendesk.
I think it's both the effect and the cause. Even personally I'd rather use a program that looks nice as compared to one that does a little bit more but is ugly. So better looking ones will have larger audiences, and thus to get a large audience you need to invest in looks.

In terms of simplicity a lot has to do with the capabilities of the hardware. The computers were much more limited, so the ceiling was lower as compared to today.

Example would be something like making a game. When I started coding, having just text on screen was far from being the best, but it was not totally out of place. These days 3D or nice looking pixel art is basically the baseline.
Thanks for this post. I was this close to purchasing the same model. I'll stick with my bulletproof S10e.
How noble. What about poor European countries, will you pay for their gas too? Or they will pay for your opportunity of being "noble"?
> But maybe they do perform well.

More likely it's "well enough", and that matches the needs of most organizations just fine.
> The "social security net" we have in Europe isn't perfect, though.

You're comparing the imperfect reality of an actual situation (unemployment benefits) against the utopian fantasy of an imagined best case scenario (UBI) – of course the imagined scenario will come out on top. The real result of a UBI will almost certainly look less rosy than the picture you paint, just like every other plan once it gets implemented. For example, this:

> noone would be jealous that you are freeloading because everyone gets UBI

would likely be wrong, because people would instead be jealous because you're "freeloading" by not working and therefore not paying taxes. Other ways a UBI could conceivably be bad or even worse than the current status quo:

* Prices rise due to increased consumer spending capability, to the point where you have to work again to get above the poverty line.

* Any realistic UBI is too low for people with special needs (like disabilities), so you'll again need a bureaucracy to deal with those cases.

* If the UBI is independent of local cost-of-living, it'll most likely be too low to survive on it in high COL areas, like most large cities. If it's dependent on COL, the exact implementation won't please everyone.
Here's some quick numbers I just googled to understand the big picture.

This pipeline has an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. It's the same capacity as the Nord Stream 1, which is already in operation. If Germany was truly meaning business, they'd stop Nord Stream 1 the moment Russian boots enter Ukrainian territory. But let's leave that aside.

55 billion cubic meters translate to about 0.6 billion MWh. The price today for natural gas Dutch TTF futures is EUR 78/MWh [1] , so that translates in about 40 billion EUR per year. It has been as low as EUR 13 and as high as EUR 165 over the last 2 years. It's quite likely that Russia would make a profit even at the lower range, so the 40 billion EUR/year is pretty much pure profit for them.

[1] https://www.theice.com/products/27996665/Dutch-TTF-Gas-Futur...
‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’
If China is not dumb (it isn't) they will pay that gas a fraction of what Europe is paying it, "or keep it underground." Unless they want to subsidize Russia against the USA. Europe doesn't matter. Every crisis shows that's only a geographical expression (I'm European.)
Just because there is a downside doesn't mean the benefits aren't still unquestionable.
Hurray for more e-waste!
Facial recognition Clearview AI will identify 'almost everyone in the world'
Last year I was looking at using Flutter for something that needed extensive use of a WebView, I very quickly came to the conclusion that they are having massive difficulty to get it working well due to the Flutter architecture. It looks like the situation has improved but just look at the web_view issues, there are a lot of them:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...

A lot of apps end up using at least one if not a lot of web views, I probably wouldn't use Flutter because of it.
Crypto, there are axes to grind.
Ah, yes, Romania and Chad aka total lottery in Anki in this regard.

As for Indonesia, I learned to distinguish the shade. Still would prefer not to have to do that, of course.
Not against shale gas which is worse than natural gas. They opposed it because of environmental concerns of fossil fuels. It would be much better to just get gas from Russia, which we did for several decades.
Some choice quotes:
"14 photos for each of the 7 billion people on the entire planet, scraped from social media and other sources - would extensively bolster the company's extensive surveillance system"

"The firm's technology has already been used by myriad law enforcement and government agencies around the world, helping police make thousands of arrests by aiding in various criminal investigations."

"At the time of the presentation, its data collection system was ingesting 1.5 billion images a month, the company said."

"European nations - including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece and Austria - have all expressed disapproval of Clearview's method of extracting information from public websites, saying it comes in violation of European privacy policies."
Naughty! But carry on...

"Clearview insisted the app had 'built-in safeguards to ensure these trained professionals only use it for its intended purpose'."
Phew!
That's dumb. What they should do instead is tax the gas that will flow through North Stream 2 to be as expensive as the one going through other routes and transfer this tax directly to Ukraine budget as aid let's say for the next 30 years, irrevocably.

And possibly partially to Poland because it has very similar concerns but to a lesser degree than Ukraine.
I was unaware it was dead. I was under the impression that despite the brewing trouble with Russia, Germany was planning to use this pipe to buy more Russian gas. It's possible that Scholtz has different ideas about that than Merkel, I suppose.
I see that even among Norwegian greens there is growing understanding that drilling for more gas is perhaps lesser evil, as it reduce dependence on Russian gas in Europe.
«Caps Lock» key should be renamed to just «Lock». Lock+Shift will behave as Caps Lock, Lock+Tab may behave as Enable Automatic Autocompletion, Lock+Alt may behave as switch to alternate alphabet, etc.
Yes, basically Dart/Flutter now embraces being a full fledged standalone cross-platform client development tool. Lately, desktop platforms are embraced as well. In order to lure C++/Qt/wxWidgets, C#/WPF, Delphi, etc... devs, native multi-threading support is vital I believe. Otherwise, Flutter will keep the reputation of "a sandboxed tool for cute weather apps development" among such devs.
This is a government initiative, is it not?
Datasette and the various companion tools have all been a pleasure to work with. I've recently been using it to build my personal info archive as well as building a data analysis and visualization dashboard with Datasette and Vega lite. I've been impressed with the architecture and philosophy, as well as the code quality and ease of use in simonw's projects.

Just want to say thanks for sharing these valuable projects and keep up the great work!

I hope to be able to contribute something back to Datasette in the future. (code is at https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/ddd/ but probably not anything that could be merged back into the core, it's just custom extension code on top of datasette)
I first thought he didn't say "wanted to invade Ukraine was nonsense", but that Krym will not be returned to Ukraine and the world will have to come to terms with it.
But you are right, he said "Russia wanting a tiny strip of Ukraine was nonsense" and that is indeed what just happened:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/1/23/german-navy-chi...
This honestly just isn't that significant. Germany's navy, and indeed, German military forces generally, are not relevant to this crisis and will play basically zero part in it.

So all of this analysis and blame-gaming you're trying to do just are not of much import.
My personal opinion:

All this Ukraine stuff is also supported by China. I bet they are ready to buy Russian oil and gas to compensate even if this costs them more than getting them from the open market.

Why? Because this is a wonderful test drive to check how the West (sorry for the approximation) is reacting to a country theoretically supported by the West being invaded by another one.

For me, the next one on the line is Taiwan.
A related report from the BBC (published a few days ago):

Europe gas prices: How far is Russia responsible? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58888451

Some key points in the BBC article:

- Russia supplies about 40% of the EU’s natural gas imports. Most of the rest comes from Norway and Algeria.

- Russia sends gas to Europe through several main pipelines - such as the Nord Stream, the Yamal-Europe and the Brotherhood (see the map in the article).

- Overall, Russian gas exports to Europe have been decreasing over the last couple of years - down 32% in February this year compared to February 2020. One factor - during the pandemic - has been falling demand as economic activity shrank. Stocks of gas across Europe have been depleted, which in turn is driving up prices.

- Gazprom, Russia's majority state-owned energy company, supplies gas to Europe under two different arrangements: 1. Long-term contracts often lasting from 10 to 25 years. 2. "Spot" deals or one-off purchases for a fixed amount of gas.

- It is understood that Gazprom met its obligations to European buyers last year under these contracts.

- "Spot" sales don't appear to be happening in any significant quantity, going by data from Gazprom's own electronic sales platform.

- The International Energy Agency's executive director, Fatih Birol, has accused Russia of reducing gas supplies to Europe for political purposes.

- Gas storage across Europe is well below the 10-year average, with levels currently at about 75% of storage capacity, according to Gas Infrastructure Europe data.
Thanks for the compliment! I use a simple sparkline package: https://pub.dev/packages/chart_sparkline
It seems Notepad++'s "search + replace all" feature replaces text in place inside a search context rather than buffering the changes and applying them outside a search context after the search is complete. This makes search recursive.

When combined with enhanced regexes (backreferences and lookahead), you have the ingredients for Turing completeness.
Now we're dealing with Elizabeth Holmes et al, who just cargo cult off Jobs' legend

Frauds have always been with us - charismatic frauds, even. That's generally how they defraud. How many times have people sold things like the Eiffel tower or various bridges around the world? How else did we get to Ponzi schemes and the MLMs that are the fallout (and technically totally not pyramid schemes)?
The "Green" energy minister that lobbied Europe to have natural gas recognized as a "green" source of energy, while doing their utmost to block any other country from moving on with nuclear ?

Super green.
But...the community provides the content, too. It's not like submissions of Twitter posts just materialize out of the aether. They're made by HN users.

So if you want different content, answer the question: What are you providing?
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Only 14% of the gas imported to Germany is used for electricity generation [1]. A few nuclear power plants would not make a big difference.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37985/umfrage...
No, they look like any normal flash drive actually. Traditionally, for any hard drive you can buy at the store, the storage controller exists on the literal NVMe drive next to the flash chips, mounted on the PCB, and the controller handles all the "meaty stuff", as that's what the OS talks to. The reason for this is obvious: because you can just plug it into an arbitrary computer, and the controller abstracts the differences from the vendors, so any NVMe drive works anywhere. The key takeaway is the storage controller exists "between" the two.

Apple still has a flash storage controller that exists entirely separately from the host CPU, and the host software stack, just like all existing flash drives do today. The difference? The controller just doesn't exist on the literal, physical drive next to the flash chips. Because it doesn't exist; they just solder flash directly on the board without a mount like an M.2 drive. Again, no variability here, so it can all be "hard coded." And the storage controller instead exists by the CPU in the "T2 security chip", which also handles things like in-line encryption on the path from the host to the flash (which is instead normally handled by host software, before being put on the bus). It also does some other stuff.

So it's not a matter of "architecture", really. The architecture of all T2 Macs which feature this design is very close, at a high level, to any existing flash drive. It's just that Apple is able to put the NVMe controller in a different spot, and their "NVMe controller" actually does more than that; it doesn't have to be located on a separate PCB next to the flash chips at all because it's not a general 3rd party drive. It just has to exist "on the path" between the flash chips and the host CPU.
You don’t need to have much to see how terrible an idea this is. Do you have a car?

Do you really want some communal, self-driving taxi with no personality taking you around? Who and how often are these going to be cleaned? Imagine you are on your way to a nice date and ride pulls up and there some gross McDonald’s bags on the floor, or a dirty diaper, or used condom. People are fucking gross and there is a large group of them that won’t or can’t have common decency to clean up after themselves. When “everyone” owns something then nobody owns it, and nobody takes proper care of it (sure there might be some company tasked with maintenance but they will only do just enough to keep it barely acceptable).

I mean you lose so much just by giving up vehicle ownership alone. What about the sense of pride you get when change the oil, wash, vacuum, and then put the windows down cruise around and turn up your favorite song? You aren’t ever getting any of that ever again.

No thanks, hard pass.