skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super useful, thanks for posting. I hate AWS complexity-as-a-service, just give me a damn baremetal machine and let me run and tune my own services. I love having full visibility into raw disk/cpu performance and even benching my hardware.

So many useful comparisons here, Bunny.net vs. CloudFlare, and the fact that you got this far without even using fail2ban!

Questions (not necessarily for OP, but for anyone)

- Give us an idea of the maximum load this server is doing in terms of requests per second?

- Anyone choosing AMD Epyc over Intel to avoid spectre/meltdown mitigation slowdowns?

- Any use of postfix or other SMTP forwarding via Postmark or another email provider?

- What is your Postgres configuration like for your heaviest loads? max_connections? Just wondering how Postgres scales across cores.
Look at Exposure Notifications. They basically make all the data available that they can, even though it’s unintelligible to average users. The experience only gets crummy when they open a web view to the relevant state-level health authority.
TFA:

Polar researchers in remote Antarctica have fallen victim to coronavirus, despite taking strict health precautions, being fully vaccinated and miles from civilization.

Two thirds of the 25 staff based in Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught Covid, the Le Soir newspaper reported, proving there is no escape from the global pandemic.

The Omicron outbreak happened despite all staff passing multiple PCR tests, quarantining and living in one of the most remote places in the world.

The situation has echoes of the plot of John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic The Thing, which was advertised with the slogan “man is the warmest place to hide”.

An alien life form infects workers on an Antarctic station in the cult Sci fi chiller, which starred Kurt Russell. Unlike the film, none of the infected Belgians have exhibited any severe symptoms - let alone been transformed into bloodthirsty beasts that can only be killed by incineration.

All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot. Before leaving for the station, they underwent a PCR test in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa.
In South Africa, they quarantined for ten days and took another PCR test. A further test was needed when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and a final one five days after that.

One person tested positive seven days after arriving at the station on December 14. The person was isolated but tests revealed two others had caught the virus. The three were evacuated on December 23 but the virus has continued to spread.

It is thought to be the Omicron variant because that is responsible for 99 per cent of infections in South Africa.
There are two emergency doctors at the station, which will not allow any new arrivals until the virus dissipates.

Belgium’s Polar Secretariat has decided the research season will be shortened and that staff shall stay there until at least until January 12, when new expeditions will arrive.
Technically yes, you are breaking and entering under what I can find as the legal definition of breaking and entering in the US (IANAL and don't live in the US even):

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/breaking_and_entering

Breaking and entering is the entering of a building through force without authorization. The slightest force including pushing open a door is all that is necessary. Breaking also includes entering a building through fraud, threats, or collusion. To constitute entering, it is sufficient if any part of the accused’s body is introduced within a building. It is not considered breaking and entering if the premises are at the time open to the public or the person is licensed or privileged to enter.

So the fact that you wanted to do a good deed is not relevant for it being considered breaking and entering. If only the door was already open and you shoved the package inside without actually ever even having an atom of your fingertip enter the house itself, then it would not have been "breaking and entering".

I completely agree though that nobody in their right mind should want to prosecute you for this. This is the differences between the actual letter of the law as it would be applied by a computer algorithm automatically and a good judge / jury that interprets the law and the facts.
> play2earn gaming

Where does the real economic benefit come from in this? "Paying people to play games" cannot possibly scale beyond the existing gold-farming niche. It's also something that historically games have tended to ban.
The Wizards of the Coast are quite a big company too.
I am currently going through a drawn out stressful chapter of my life, seems like it keeps getting dragged on and on.

Not sure which of these are a good idea but I did all of these, and though the stressful chapter is not over yet, I think I am in a better place than when it all started.

- I felt like moving on is not a thing you do, but more like what happens when other (hopefully better) things fill up your life and the past haunts you less and less.

- Get busy, I joined a book club, hiking club, local sports league, many local meetups, used messaging apps to create groups and stay in touch constantly with old friends. Talk to your close friends candidly about how you feel. Meet more people, create more chances for things to happen - new friends, new experiences etc.

- I didn't want to fall into the trap of alcohol or smoking excessively, I used to indulge in both before but I consciously reduced both and started swimming and setup goals to improve my swimming etc. (very happy I did this)

- Pick up fun personal/hobby projects to keep you buys, as much as I say you should do this, I personally didn't do much of it until I started feeling better a lot later.

- Many have mentioned it here, but give it time, it will not happen overnight.

- Embrace change, I think I even changed the orientation of all furniture in the house too, eventually changed the house as well (easier for me since I was renting)

- Find people/friends who have gone through similar stuff, its always good to talk to them. I made it a point to hang out a bit with such people.

I remember it was very stressful initially, but eventually it gets better. I am in a much better place than I was then, though my ordeal is still getting drawn out and doesn't seem to end, hopefully soon. As someone else said it here, all these experiences now make you who you really are.
I used to be someone that really put pressure on myself to focus and understand what it is a piece's author was trying to convey.

Now I've stopped caring so much, after reading beyond plenty of material from all over the spectrum (including the PIAAC's "Level 5," where the only difference between it and lower levels is that "Level 5" stuff is mostly the authors flexing their mastery over extraneous vocabulary, at the cost of "getting to the point," and succinctly presenting the "meaty core" of whatever it is they're trying to get across).

Long words and sentences do not make for better writing. Sometimes they are warranted, but many times I simply skim over them, because it's clear what the author is trying to say, but he still wishes to self-fellate on how "nuanced" his views are (see: most geopolitical works).

I have yet to come across a work where painstaking precision is warranted. That's not to say precision is unwarranted, but simply that the author hasn't taken any time to distill only the most important parts, and formulate a sufficiently brisk sentence to encapsulate the core of his thoughts (and let the reader's intuition fill in the gaps).

Too much liberty is taken in rambling down winding paths, only to come back the other way, and leave me thinking: "what was the fucking point?"

Most long works written today can be distilled into a pamphlet. And almost anyone who thinks his views are sufficiently nuanced, that they require long and tedious expositions is simply deluding themselves of their own self-importance (e.g. Malcolm Gladwell, is an apt example).

Ideas are overrated. If they're self-evident enough that the intuition readily grasps hold of it, it doesn't need 300 pages to convince itself so. It's as if all that cruft is there only to distract you of how shallow the ideas are, and to trick you into thinking "wow, this is long and I'm having a difficult time really wrapping my head around it... surely this knowledge must be so advanced that it's worth the effort!"

Even our classical thinkers suffer from this. Clauswitz's On War could be summarized into a single page; the rest is simply Clauswitz overestimating how much his ideas matter.
That’s true, but you can have a qualified inspector mark bolts with goo with a paint line that straddles to the fastening surface. Then you can just inspect the paint line for movement, which gets you most of the same functionality at significantly lower cost.

Of course, that requires a trustworthy inspector, which is one application where smartbolts become useful, if you don’t have a trustworthy inspector available at install time. But many projects that have importantly torqued fasteners (bridges, buildings, rollercoasters) have certified inspectors anyway… which is why smartbolts are a niche product I think.

Speaking to the trust problem - if you trust the operator of the torquing install device, you don’t need fancy torque indication at all, just mark the paint line at install. That is the most cost effective.
Sorry to hear this and hope others can also learn from your advice.
The fact that we believe this is probably part of the problem with game development today.
I do chuckle whenever I read about sound quality in wireless headsets and earbuds. So many millions are spent on the connection between phone and earbud, millions just to avoid the inconvenience of a wire. But go to any recording studio or radio station, anywhere that quality actually matters and you won't see anyone debating Bluetooth's bandwidth limitations. If you care about quality your equipment is wired.

Want real quality in wireless an earbud? Look for something called an In Ear Monitor (IEM). The abandon data links rely on oldschool radio frequencies. A decent rig will start at about 1000$.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-ear_monitor
Ever read an entire page in a book and then realize it went in one eye and out the other and completely skipped comprehension because you were thinking about (enter mundane thing)?
IIRC only a couple percent (I believe 2-3%, but certainly <10%) of USA medical expenses are related to emergency medicine. So something that does not change anything to situations "in an accident and bleeding out" and affects only planned procedures definitely has the potential to "solve a lot of the problems", specifically, 90%+ of the problems.
I recently read an interesting thing about memory. Which is that remembering something - that is, bringing it to mind and playing it out - refreshes the memory, makes it new again.

And if you don't do that, you will forget.

So now when I have a bad memory, I try focusing on the feelings it creates in my body, and not naming them, or blaming anyone.

As painful as that can be in the moment, my attention moves on pretty quickly - and I've avoided perseverating at least that one time.
There are mean people on the internet? Who would have expected this?

Just block them and move on with your life.
We occasionally use a package called Lindo depending on what the problem is (typically unique transport optimisation problems), but try to formulate problems/solutions so they don't require a MILP solver wherever possible (it's better to remove any black boxes if you can).

One advantage of Lindo is that it has a version that lets us integrate the solver into an excel spreadsheet, which helps us share the model with clients and makes it easier to explain to them (and let's them see the workings, as it's built in a tool that the client already knows how to use).
It would be quite the news story if a carrier announced a WAP browser today.
Yes, WAP and WML, but most (all?) of them also supported HTML and some subset of CSS. No JS, obviously.[1]

[1] https://friends.grishka.me/posts/49380
>But when faced with a text where the precise meaning of words and their order actually matters, these people struggle a lot.

Why is that? Is it because they try to speedrun through the test, causing them to miss the important details and doing horribly on the comprehension questions? Or are they not able to decipher the "the precise meaning of words and their order" regardless of time?
Can’t à shared signed key algo be used ?
Ala Shamir Shared secret algorithm?

If 2 out of the 5 keys ( or whatever value ) are present you can log in.
I think the individuality and branding of "this is the artist's site, they sell their work complete and finished" may be worth the effort. Depends on how much they want to sell and how much effort they want to devote to it.

Artists, especially those working in the more traditional forms, have a real problem with online (and offline!) marketing. They want to do their art, not marketing, which leads to predatory service providers doing the lowest effort services for the highest prices they can charge. The markets get filled with lowest effort / broadest appeal stuff and tho there's great things there they're hard to find and hard for the sellers to achieve success.

Im told that the online art market is optimized around "prints" and the new trend is customized layers added to them. I can see the appeal but agree with my source that little of the work being offered that way has the expressiveness and completeness of her preferred, traditional styles and media.

there's always Etsy, which has not been a winning proposition so far as I have seen secondhand. Its better than nothing but in my (uninvolved and ignorant) opinion not a lot better.
I have been doing this for a long time, and FreeDB's metadata is way, way worse than MusicBrainz's, and has less coverage too.

If you find any issues in MusicBrainz metadata you can submit a correction, which will be reviewed and voted on by community members. I've done this maybe 4-5 times for my collection of about 2000 releases and in each case, my correction was quickly accepted.
Any specific first step in mind ?
I had this feeling when I first started with AWS years ago. It was hard to find a good overview and all of the Amazon doc on individual services seemed to start in the middle. So, a lot of my initial understanding came through intuition, and trial and error.

For many scenarios, you can completely ignore IAM, but it's definitely not advisable.

On the VPC side, it's actually fairly straightforward, but you may need to come up to speed a bit on some networking concepts if (like me) that's not your background. Nothing too onerous though, especially if you have some technical background.

There are also some gotchas that allow you to too easily do things like create security groups or other resources outside the correct VPC. If you overlook that, you're in for some brick wall head-banging 'til you figure it out.
Share it with your closest friends, family.

Real friends and family that loves you > "professionals"
There are multisig social recovery wallets where one party or a group of parties is trusted to help you get regain access to the account with a new signing key. Gnosis lets you do this with arbitrary friends of your choosing. Or if you're like most crypto folks and have no friends, something like Argent can handle this for you with email/phone number authentication after a delay (a few days).
> an experimental vaccine

The technology for this vaccine is over 20 years old. Just because it's the first authorized one of its kind doesn't make it "experimental"

> with no long term studies

There are also no long term studies on the effects of COVID. There are no modern vaccines that have ever had and significant long term effects that didn't manifest within the first month or so after vaccination. (Dr. Offit goes over this in an episode of Oh No! With Ross and Carrie: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/oh-no-ross-and-carrie/ross-a...).

> questionable efficacy

In fact, we know the efficacy to be quite high. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't make it worthless. It's still the best way to prevent infection.

> A lower mortality than the flu

We're talking about a difference in mortality for children of around .01%. Even if true, it's an irrelevant fact. The main personal argument is to protect others in the family, including possible immunocompromised individuals. I've personally lost a mother and two grandparents during this pandemic. You really think, if given the choice between killing their grandparents (with a high likelihood) and a 1/80,000 chance of serious side effects (and no reported deaths) from a vaccine, that most people should opt not to get the vaccine? You fucking psychopath.
Although apparently it never actually operated as a trading card exchange… that’s just what the domain was originally “intended” for.
I've seen a lot of posts lately about people being low balled by Google, Meta, etc lately.
The honest answer here is because valuable assets are attached to that account. Money makes a big difference in what a company is incentivized to integrate and what they are not.

OpenId is awesome, and is awesome FOR USERS. It's just not awesome for companies. They have zero incentive to integrate it.
> What does "common core" have to do with school problems?.

It's a set of educational standards, and every such set newer than the 1800s is right-wing boogeyman that is attacked for things that are completely unrelated to it's actual content.

(Often for doing the exact same thing they accused the last one of doing, where they hope you forget that the collapse of civilization they are predicting from it is the same thing, for the same supposed reason, they predicted from the status quo it is replacing.)
A law signed by Ronald Reagan prevents denial of treatment based on ability to pay.

However, it doesn't specify what treatment will be provided, so more likely, hospitals would use that sort of information to limit treatment to ER-level interventions and then recommend a wait-n-see approach as followup.
1. Write your feelings
2. Travel Alone
3. See the life around people where you travel
4. Do things you loved to do but could not do
5. Eat less, Sleep on time, Travel to get new positive vibes
6. Be kind to others, Give smiles and kindness wherever possible
7. Volunteer for service and connect with people
Yes! Finally, HN removed the rule to strip thew word "How" from the title.
I'm sorry, it's not a matter of "Audiophiling", the base-model Airpods are genuinely an unenjoyable listening experience relative to closed-tip, $20 Chinese earbuds. Their bass response is missing so badly that many songs just have their basslines cut completely off. The mids are scooped too for whatever reason, which makes your sound even tinnier and more fake. Maybe you like the convenience of wireless headphones (which I definitely sympathize with), but Airpods just don't sound good. Only the Airpods Pros have ever made me do a double-take, and only because they don't cut off any bass extension and sound, well, like regular earbuds. $250 for "actual earbuds" is a ripoff, period.

Go on with your high-and-mighty "I've got better things to argue about" shtick, but don't say things and then just expect people to leave you alone because you don't happen to care about it. Some people want to get their money's worth out of a pair of headphones, and Airpods are just not it.
Looks cool! What hardware platform are you targeting?
most cliche answer by far...but, love and romance. I feel really lonely without my girlfriend, like...just nothing else fills that gap.
Nah. Public transportation might work in a city.

For the people (and there are a lot of them) who live in suburbs and beyond, public transportation is a non-starter.
Minor correction: ADHD may be largely attributable to genetics (it had a heritability of 74%!)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0/
Honest question: can that happen without users having to purchase ETH (or whatever the underlying token is)? My very limited understanding is that web3 is inherently tied to cryptocurrency and the miners have to be paid somehow.
No, they’re good ear buds on their own. The integration actually is minor. I use mine with my Windows devices too.
Smartbolts seem to be useful in applications where there is an expectation the bolts will loosen over time/the maintenance lifetime, reducing/easing inspection time.

Similar to the tell-tales used on truck lug nuts: https://www.dealsonwheels.co.nz/trucks/features/1302/new-tyr...
> are immensely successful

How do you know / what does it mean? Are they happy? Or just rich? Are they destroying what's left of the world by building stupid penis-shaped rockets to pretend they're astronauts when they're really not and never will be?

The modern world is way past the point of stupid. And we dare call it "civilization". It's the opposite of civilization. It's active destruction by accelerated accumulation of useless wealth.

I think it's better to not be part of that machine at all.
This has been proposed as decentralized identifiers before actually: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
Does Discord have a native (not Electron) desktop app?
> People want easy / seamless access to the services they use.

Free. People want it for free. Not free as in speech, but free as in beer.

History has shown that the vast majority of people will trade their entire personal data set if they can get fake internet points for free.
The Super_FX seems to be a coprocessor. More companies created silicon ( Commodore? ), but not CPUs AFAIK.
The History Behind The New Year's Eve ball drop ceremony
I also had problems with Powerbeats pro, but after upgrading to beats fit pro, no more problems!!

I think Powerbeats had connectivity problems with the case where sometime the pins didn’t quite touch.
That’s basically what Postgraphql is.
Indeed, I've noticed that people who are self disciplined tend to have self disciplined children.

I made the mistake of reading a number of parenting books, and they pretty much all start out with some form of: "You must be self disciplined or this method won't work."
The mental model of windows having a consistent spatial location is deeply ingrained into MacOS because it's been done that way for decades. There are still old Mac users who complain that the Finder switched from a spatial model to a browser model.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/14/#b6

That's an old article, but Siracusa is still complaining about the "new" non-spatial finder to this day.
What's to be done now, after a childhood spent under heavy-handed parents with a singular goal of sucking away fun to optimize for college admissions, violent and emotionally abusive punishments, leaving me in a life of executive dysfunction and depression?

Most of the article resonated with me. But I'm not sure I agree with the "ADHD medication is drugging children" part, since I've heard that ADHD medication can (in many cases) help adults who haven't been treated as children put their lives back together. (Sadly I was recently prescribed stimulants, tried them for a bit, and often got anxiety/panic attacks from the pills and caffeine.)
At the end it is very inspiring to learn that Andre chose tennis on his own to become the number one on his own terms. But somehow it feels very ironic that he chose what he was already good at! Perhaps his father saved him a lot of time by choosing for him and using that time to make him skilled at tennis. It just feels like a perspective change. He could have simply said now I understood what my father was trying to do. Because no one really knows what Andre would have chosen and done by himself.