skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All my life I've had a fear of heights. When I went skiing with my parents as a teenager I was more or less forced to ride the lifts and felt my fear of heights decreased a bit after that. I always had this experience in the back of my mind. I can "unlearned" this fear.

About 2 years ago I decided to try climbing with the explicit goal of tackling my fear of heights. I started with indoor bouldering because it was readily available. Initially, I was too scared to even climb up the moderately hight stuff or "top out". Anything above 3m was a huge mental struggle. Typically bouldering will max out around 5m, where you can still safely fall onto a mat since your feet are about 3-3,5m above ground. Now I feel quite confident topping out and going to the highest points in the gym. Height is still a factor but not nearly as much as it used to be. Two month ago, I even started top roping with friends and I'm climbing 12m high routes relatively calmly now. A feat that seemed impossible two years ago. I can't wait to try higher ones (18m) and eventually climb on actual rock.

Climbing has helped me overcome my fear of height and more importantly I absolutely love it and think about it constantly. It's the only solo-able sport that has kept me motivated, too. Mostly because you always have micro challenges to tackle (finish this new route, get further on that old route) and also bigger goals (get to grade X). I absolutely love it, during lockout I have even built my own home wall and I'm currently working on building my own holds, too.

Highly recommended for anyone looking for a sport to try. I think bouldering works really well for analytical minds and puzzle solvers like myself because it's essentially puzzle solving with your body. The community is also very friendly and nice and open, another big plus. And yes, your general body shape doesn't matter, don't be afraid, just try it some day.

Time: You can go to a climbing gym once a week for 1.5-2h. I go 2-3 times per week now and occasionally climb on my home wall and do some finger boarding and other exercises. I'd say 6-8h/week with travel time.
Because multi-threaded programs are largely unnecessary for solving many problems (as the popularity of python has aptly demonstrated).
I never said it's only the job of the teachers. Raising kids is realistically the job of everyone, but more importantly trusted adults in the life of the kid.

Especially because in a lot of abusive cases, kids need another trusted adult in case they need to report what's going on and get guidance from them.
I've been learning about general contracting and how to build houses just because it's interesting. Also looking into getting a cinema camera to start making fancy videos because I love cinematography.
No quite baseless, more like speculation with established precedent, motive and opportunity.
Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
Sabine Hossenfelder on free will and “superdeterminism” of quantum mechanics
> Configuring a server for high traffic, networking, various safety measures against fire/power, backups, connectivity to your external DBs, etc. etc.

All which you have to do on a cloud provider. Fire/Power are normally handled by the DC. You have to have someone with knowledge in the first place to operate that in the cloud and taking an application such as HAProxy is on the same skill level. Especially with vast fields of blogs you can find on the topic.

The cloud brings the instant "power-up" methodology and I would compromise, you could be right. If you want a perfective optimum cloud platform you would need a dedicated "cloud" engineer if you want to ensure security, connectivity etc. etc. But if your going to do that then again you might as well move in-house and hire a system admin, you've still got to operate your companies infrastructure. It's a moot point.

> The value to our customers for using cloud providers is the time saved on building infrastructure is instead spent on delivering value to the customer in the form of features/bug fixes.

I suppose this is a mixed area and what customers value varies. For me I value a service that uses it's own hardware rather than cloud. On the basis that they are willing to put the skill in to operate their own infrastructure rather than.

> I think you're vastly oversimplifying the task.

I don't think so. People seem to think that setting up what you can in the cloud is impossible on bare metal when really it isn't. What did devOp's do before the cloud providers? Amazon,Azure,X have only lassoed FOSS software, constructed a webGUI-admin panel and throw it as a service.

This is not to say Cloud doesn't has a purpose, otherwise it wouldn't exist today.

> it's something you're pretty familiar with so it makes sense that it's easy to you

While true, I won't disagree, I've been working in the SysAdmin field since 2009. But disagree as I started with very little knowledge and gained it through setting up such infrastructures. I've educated a few and those with very little knowledge of servers could setup an infrastructure that companies run in AWS.
Your outrage seems misplaced. People are excited to have an open platform to play with, that is not trapped in some form of digital garden.

Many people contribute to mainline and to distros because they believe in those projects, no-one expects that these projects co-finance their hardware.

People will spend a lot more money than 400$ in other things, this is how they choose to spend both their money and time.
A couple months ago this interesting writeup on the development of this game was posted to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28958140

I wanted to read it, but I figured I'd read the short story first, and I also wanted to see what the game had to offer too, since the article is a tad spoiler-y. I sat with that article open in a tab for the past 2 months until I finally made the time to read through the short story a couple days ago, and yesterday I watched a full playthrough of the game. This morning I finally read the article, read the HN discussion, and not a few minutes later I get a notification on my phone from a "free game alerts" Twitter account that the game was free on GOG. Strange!

Even if you're not interested in playing the game, the short story can be read online for free, and it's pretty fantastic. Give it a look, if you haven't!
Because that's not what UN is. UN is not a world government.

UN for all it's glory, is just a permanent place for countries to to talk to each other.

Think of it as an expo/trade conference for governments that is always running.

The issue here is that Russia doesn't seem to want to talk to anyone (except their demand for 1on1 with USA), and can veto anything on the security council, so UN has little role to play.

> If it's not possible to even discuss the behavior of the 5 permanent Security Council members (5 of the most powerful countries in the world)

Sure you can discuss it, but to what gain ? Just to further piss some of them off ?

> then screw it! Let's just get rid of the UN entirely.

UN is a tool, but unlike a hammer can't always be used. That doesn't mean its useless.

> 5 of the most powerful countries in the world

This is a fantasy people live in that world is a fair place. It's not and it has never been. In private life we have come far, and you could say that at least in most developed countries rule of law works to a degree (it's not perfect, but its better than at any point in the past.)

But on the international stage it's still pretty much that countries with the biggest sticks get their way. Most of the big countries regularly bully smaller ones, and there is little small countries can do, except to maybe appeal to big countries population in hopes they will restrain their own government.

Unless we get some kind of global government that has it's own teeth (army/police) this wont change.

But UN is still useful.
Seems like very rich women enjoy fashion a lot.
The same way gun ownership laws have curbed the illegal gun ownership/use problem? Or, do we just keep stacking laws endlessly hoping one of them actually works?

There are legit arguments to be had about personal freedom here, but it’s plainly untrue regulation intrinsically can’t work. It works for many, many things - and works for gun ownership in basically every other developed nation in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHogxYNkzp8 - He actually presented about that at the svfig meeting a few days ago!
Nope, never. And I have open DMs too. It just hasn't been a problem for me.

But in any case, blocking someone for harassment and spam is different than blocking a peer over their views on a topic like Web 3.
how are people performing intrusion detection on home iot devices?
Even if you were correct — and the Wikipedia page shows the pejorative uses becoming common are a fairly recent step of the euphemism treadmill — that doesn’t help resolve @pjc50’s request’s the term be defined in a way that allows someone to pattern match against Intel’s behaviour.

The comment @pjc50 replied to has been flagged, so I can’t be certain exactly what this is about, but the article is literally about a company responding to legal regulation which is itself ostensibly about a genocidal concentration camp.

None of that is either (1) pretension, (2) deluded or fake, (3), about specifically black people.
That's true, there are 2 main approaches, but they both have real costs, and neither is obviously better than the other. In the face of a severe economic shock, such as the global financial crisis of 2008 or the pandemic of 2020, you would expect to see unemployment increase. The two approaches to reduce that unemployment are:

1. Keynesian stimulus. The government could stimulate demand, either by increasing the purchases where it is the final consumer (military, education spending) or it could give money to citizens so they can spend more. It's important that the increase in spending is not initially offset by tax increases, so this means the government has to take on debt.

2. Devalue the currency so as to help exports. This way you avoid taking on debt, instead you rely on increased money from exports to stimulate the economy. But here, instead of debt, you pay for the stimulus via inflation, as imported goods are now more expensive.

Keep in mind "increase exports" is relative to what your main trading partners are able to consume. The EU is the main trading partner for Poland. When the EU is in a deep recession, Poland's exports can be expected to fall, so "increasing exports" might only keep them at their previous rate (the rate that existed before the crisis).

Whatever you do, there is some cost. Either you take on debt or you take on inflation. There is no way out of the crisis that is completely free.
The source is available in a zip file on the download page. I didn't see any links to a VCS repo (but I also didn't look very carefully.)
It's been a while, but I think it had 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB SSD (this was one of the Linux-friendly Chromebook models, hence the small storage). In any case, reports seem to vary considerably on how this behavior varies with swap size or presence in practice.
I switched after my instance stock because of a failed migration - this was my fault cause I aborted the upgrade - and I couldn't get it to upgrade anymore.
Iam very happy with vaultwarden ever since
Nice work. I picked up photography a decade ago. It's an expensive hobby but it's totally worth it. Because I mainly shoot landscapes it also acts as a motivation to travel more and hike/walk more than I used to.
Excavation, forest management, and the associated heavy equipment maintenance activities.
> Ironically, using these services without paying or submitting to trackings or ads and these companies not paying taxes both violate the principal of “not paying your share”

That is my point, yes; we are already past that point of paying one's fair share as a legitimate concern. I don't owe such a consideration for fairness to an entity that doesn't honour the same to me.
You're changing the criteria?

>We discuss that. That was viewed as a western media propaganda. I.e., no hard proof from any reputable organizations (UN for example).

In response to that comment, I linked reports from the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Those are 3 of the most reputable organizations in the world in the field of human rights (the links also point out that it's impossible to investigate thoroughly because the Chinese Government won't allow access).

I'm supposed to believe some random Youtuber over them? That's what you're telling me? That's especially hilarious because the very article we're discussing is about manipulating social media, including creating videos specifically for youtube.

Or are you nitpicking the 1M number? If it's 10,000 or 1 million it's still a gross violation of human rights.
For Users with Disabilities, Paid Apps Lag Behind Free Ones in Accessibility
Wooden Puzzles

My (at the time 4 year old) daughter likes to do puzzles and she always wanted me to do them together. I got bored of doing the same easy puzzle over and over. I discovered wooden puzzles and they are amazing. Completely different experience than cardboard puzzles. Many have intricate piece shapes that you can put together based mostly off shape.

Coolest Puzzle Piece Shape (and my favorite):
Artifact Puzzles: https://www.artifactpuzzles.com

Best Quality:
Liberty puzzles: https://www.libertypuzzles.com

Huge selection:
Wentworth: https://www.wentworthpuzzles.com/us/
What makes you say that? What safety or correctness features do you think a garbage collector in Rust eschews? On the contrary, gc should make the language safer since it obviates the need for the "unsafe" escape hatch.
Another one here! I always wanted to, but this year I expanded beyond one plum tree, a few tomato plants and wild raspberry to plant spaghetti squash, strawberries, lots of tomatoes from various breeds, two chili pepper plants an apple tree and a some boxwood plants (I bought the small ones where I get 4-6 for about $10 and have planted them in rows waiting for them to get larger :-)

I've also been busy propagating plants and have received one or two and shared good number.
Sub 4.2 earthquakes feel like a truck rumbling by your house (if you have an old house/apartment). I used to live on a busy street in SF and whenever there was an earthquake it was always ... was that a large truck or an earthquake. Only when it keep rattling did it really differentiate.
https://archive.ph/xAq4T
> it basically doesn't matter, because the risk of low-doses is effectively zero regardless

this is exactly what i said in my original comment.

I looked up competing LNT models. TIL about radiation hormesis. theoretically, near-zero but >0 levels of radiation activate dormant repair mechanisms that not only repair radiation damage, but also non-radiation damage; this results in a healthier host. interesting.

having thought about this for all of 30 seconds, i wonder if both models arent simultaneously correct. if most radiation damage is repairable, activating dormant repair mechanisms with tiny amounts of radiation would be a net benefit. however, if there exists any possible irrepairable damage in any cell anywhere on your body regardless of otherwise functioning repair processes - which i dont know to be true but seems likely - then LNT could also be true concurrently with radiation hormesis.
Either that, or that one of their own products is vulnerable because of the Log4J vulnerability.
I’m honestly surprised no one has mentioned log4j in this thread yet. What if this change was part of an outside attack?
Maybe it’s time companies stop hoarding and reselling users’ personal data.

These built-in templates for cookie popups are a joke, IMO.
> That wasn't theoretical installed base, it was actual power produced

That's not what I'm saying. On a windy day, then doubling your number of wind turbines will (roughly) double your power output. But if there's no wind, your output drops to zero. Contrast that with nuclear power, where doubling capacity doubles output always.

So with nuclear power you could say that based on what current output we have, if we build X more capacity we could retire all polluting energy sources.

With wind (say) you can't say that.
I also tried BJJ for a few months but I got frustrated because I'm used to learning theory but all the instructor wanted to teach was rote sequences of drills. I'm not talking like 3 step sequences I'm talking like 8 steps with highly technical parts.
It’s more like everything is shaking. The fact that the source is the ground is not obvious in the moment.
The entire concept of listening to lectures at all is under fire. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-lecturing-me...
A thing I've done a few times with TV shows is go read the Wikipedia summaries of the remaining episodes. Much faster than watching them. (In one case I then decided the rest was worth watching; in several others, I didn't.)
My new hobby is Linux, and all that that entails. I've learned basic command line operations and have experimented with all the popular distros out there, usually in Virtual machines. My daily driver is Ubuntu, and I have Virtualbox installed to try out different distros. I typically run the 'live-cd' / ISO to try out the distro before making a commitment to it. Other distros I use heavily are Fedora, Trisquel, Mint, and TailsOS.

I try not to install too much software on them as I like a simple working environment, typically with nothing but a text editor like Sublimetext running, and a browser with the LiveReload extension for doing web development. No npm or NodeJS crap. Just oldskool development.

The 'ROI' if you will of learning Linux is that I have peace of mind that I'm not being spied upon or potentially getting ambushed by various malware, and also: knowing that I am standing on the shoulders of giants. I am super thankful for how far Linux has come along. I remember in the early days having to write scripts just to get my Wifi adapter working, and hours upon hours trying to debug simple shit like printer compatibility errors, etc

Frankly I didn't have the time to focus on Linux in my twenties, and lately in my thirties I have more free time, so I can go down rabbit-holes all day and it doesn't bother me as much.

My Linux installs are very much 'set and forget', as in, you configure them to your liking, and then never have to do that again for a very long time.
The tinyssh server only uses DJB cipher suites; the curve25519-sha256@libssh.org implementation has been in place for quite some time without any major issues.

https://www.libssh.org/2013/11/03/openssh-introduces-curve25...

"This algorithm does not rely on NIST-based curves and gives us more security confidence against a possible backdoor in nistp-256 curve. Today is a big day for us because OpenSSH team approved my patch and made curve25519-sha256@libssh.org the default key exchange!"

Also, the original RSA keys used in SSH have a sha-1 problem, and have been deprecated.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssh-to-deprecate-sha-1-log...

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

This release disables RSA signatures using the SHA-1 hash algorithm
by default. This change has been made as the SHA-1 hash algorithm is
cryptographically broken, and it is possible to create chosen-prefix
hash collisions for <USD$50K [1]

For most users, this change should be invisible and there is
no need to replace ssh-rsa keys. OpenSSH has supported RFC8332
RSA/SHA-256/512 signatures since release 7.2 and existing ssh-rsa keys
will automatically use the stronger algorithm where possible.

Incompatibility is more likely when connecting to older SSH
implementations that have not been upgraded or have not closely tracked
improvements in the SSH protocol.
Why do we need to make everything easier to beginners? Are the beginners supposed to stay as beginners forever?
Me too. 20 years, actually. Mine was called todo.txt. It got unwieldy. I am now on todo2.txt.
Garg isn't "out". He's taking a vacation until this blows over.
Stop Lecturing Me
I recently blogged about this at https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/12/02/bspwm-zoom-float/ but that's a fair shout that it could also go into the wiki
Just wondering what's the sync algorithm being used by FFS, is it similar to vanilla rsync algorithm, Microsoft's RDC or Syncpal [1],[2],[3]?

[1]https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/c...

[2]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[3]https://hal.inria.fr/IFIP-LNCS-11534/hal-02319573
Professional artists are really interesting to listen to when they talk about their productivity routines. Since many of them work alone, they are more prone to not accomplishing anything.

The successful ones have a repeatable process for balancing creativity with the time required to produce a work of art. They tend to have a daily practice of challenging / improving their skills. They setup a dedicated studio, and work at reducing disruptions and so on.
> Perhaps it would then also be helpful to use toxic misandry instead of toxic masculinity

Toxic masculinity isn't misandry, so, no, it wouldn't be helpful. Both toxic masculinity and internalized misogyny are aspects of partriarchal socialization; they aren't symmetrical with regard to sex or gender.
I have spent the last two years learning about galls on plants as well as botany (mainly Oaks). I even built a website for helping ID and catalog the various gall forming species that occur across the US and Canada. https://www.gallformers.org

My main techniques for learning have been internet resources, https://www.inaturalist.org, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ , and sci-hub being indispensable. I also have built up a decent library of related books, though there are very few relating to galls mostly they are botany related.

This hobby has led me to become a much better photographer (this is one of my recent favorites https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96982552) and gets me outside wandering around in nature at every opportunity that I have. My own yard, the neighborhood park, county/state/national parks, all of them offer nearly limitless exploration opportunity.

I have been at it for about 18 months and I feel like I am competent but am acutely aware of just how much more there is to learn, which is for me one of the main appeals.
She is a good "simplifier", taking complex phenomena and making it digestible for brainlet (like me).
Alexa is nagging you more because Amazon knows you don’t care about new features
Why are the Rust proponents so triggered by what seems to be an honest question about the popularity of Rust? I don't know the first thing about Elixir or Erlang but I realize there are some powerful properties of BEAM and if there seemed to be a trend to rewrite apps into BEAM apps I would want to know what am I missing out on that, if clued-in, I would join the rush as well. I think that's what OP is saying here (perhaps clumsily) but why vote the question down so aggressively? Makes you look like a thin-skinned lot who don't like to explain yourselves which would be a reason to avoid the "Rustacean" community.
That said their browser implementation is even worse than the app. I mean I can't even change to a gallery view when using the browser. I'm really amazed how zoom became the quasi default for meeting software. While I'm not a big fan of teams, it works much better for this use case. Jitsi had some issues with firefox and safari at the beginning, which I think caused many people to dismiss it.
It really can't be overstated how important the DVD drive was for the PS2's success. When the first Fast and the Furious movie came out it almost seemed realistic that a criminal gang would risk their lives while attempting to steal DVD players from a truck. That movie's premiere was 8 months after the PS2 was released in the US. A DVD player AND a next gen video game console for $299 was an incredible deal in 2000.