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this_is_not_you··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I built and am now maintaining a website [0] and open source repository [1] for the hardest sport climbing and bouldering ascents in the world.

Maintenance is mostly updating the underlying data when the strongest climbers in the world scale some random piece of rock.

[0] https://www.hardestclimbs.com/ [1] https://github.com/9cpluss/hardest-climbs

this_is_not_you··on Ask HN: How to decide what's the best career to pursue?
> Many things look boring until you actually sit down and do them.

But the inverse is true as well. Many things seem a lot more interesting until you actually have to do them.

this_is_not_you··on A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How groups of birds got their names
I am almost sure they were invented so that people can randomly interject a conversation with "Did you know a group of X is called Y".
this_is_not_you··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
Thanks, that made me laugh out loud because of pure joy.
this_is_not_you··on Building end-to-end security for Messenger
Top of my head:

* Who are you messaging most (best friends, family). If they like stuff, you might like the same stuff.

* When are you messaging people (awake time > profiling)

* Messaging companies (obvious, what are you into)

this_is_not_you··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
I also use the sharing feature (aka organizations) and maybe I am too dumb but it seems that you can't see or copy the password anymore once you have shared it (even the one you yourself shared with somebody else). Which is fine for when you can use the auto-fill but that just doesn't always work or isn't always feasible.
this_is_not_you··on Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
Oh, I thought this was related to the Youtube channel Noclip that publishes video game documentaries.
this_is_not_you··on Visualizing every job in the world
Using t-SNE, the 12th closest point to Data Scientist is Astrologer. Sounds about right to me.
this_is_not_you··on LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers
Tried it.

Me: "David is 15 years old. He has a lot of experience riding bicycles. The minimum age to be allowed to steer an ice cream van is 37. Is David allowed to drive an ice cream van?"

GPT-4: "No, David is not allowed to drive an ice cream van. He is only 15 years old, and the minimum age requirement is 37."

If you change it to: "David is 15 years old. He has a lot of experience riding bicycles. The minimum age to be allowed to steer a car is 37. Is David allowed to drive an ice cream van?"

You get this from GPT-4: "It seems there might be a mistake in the information you provided, as the minimum age to steer a car is typically not 37. In most countries, the minimum age to obtain a driver's license is between 16 and 18 years old. Assuming that David does not have a driver's license yet, he would not be allowed to drive an ice cream van, as it is a motor vehicle that requires a valid driver's license to operate. However, if David obtains a driver's license once he reaches the legal age in his jurisdiction, he could be allowed to drive an ice cream van if he meets other necessary requirements."

this_is_not_you··on New Sony Walkman music player
What do you mean by "the noise cancelling too"? I thought that was a feature of headphones and not MP3 players`.
this_is_not_you··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Did you miss the first part of the article?

> It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2.[0]

> The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed the nature of open source AI models and spawned hundreds of other models and innovations all over the world. It had one of the fastest climbs to 10K Github stars of any software, rocketing through 33K stars in less than two months.

[0] https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion

this_is_not_you··on Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
How is it working for you? I tried the beta version last year and I was not impressed. Is it worth trying again?
this_is_not_you··on Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
Last time I tried remote development with PyCharm was when they released their "Remote development" beta in version 2021.3 [1]. It was a bad experience. Before that they only had some complicated sync workaround for remote development which I could not get used to.

I gave up on remote development with PyCharm and went with VSCode.

Based on your comment it seems they still haven't figured it out?

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/2021-3/#remote-de...

this_is_not_you··on Cost of public EV charging rises by more than 42% in four months
"Inside a European city" is quite a broad concept. Some people will indeed have parking next to where they live.

Otherwise the next best option is to charge the car at the place they work if they commute by car and their employer offers that.

Other options are to include charging into your mental overhead and use options whenever you are out shopping (larger supermarkets with parking often have charging options), training (parking next to football fields might have charging), use public charging spots but that can be time consuming when your next one is further away.

Source: We own an electric car and charge at home but we recently considered moving to a place without home charging and had to figure out how we would deal with that.

this_is_not_you··on I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
Thanks! I had not heard of it before. As a Python pandas user I have to say this look really promising. The speed claims are obviously great but what really stood out to me is the syntax. Reminds of the the dplyr syntax which I enjoyed a lot when I was still using R.
this_is_not_you··on EU Digital ID wallet is coming
I am not sure what you mean by "to identify you physically".

The way it works in Norway is that, once you have a bank account (which means you had to identify yourself using passport or similar) you can get a BankID which allows you to log in to a lot of online services (health, tax, employment, etc) without having to do anything else.

this_is_not_you··on EU Digital ID wallet is coming
Sounds like the BankID system they have in Norway and Denmark (maybe also Sweden?).
this_is_not_you··on I Started Journaling (2019)
I have the same one and am now in year 4 of my first book. I started it because I have a hard time remembering what I've done and it's fun to be able to read the entries from the last years before you write a new entry.
this_is_not_you··on Cities with Nice Weather
It says "This page was generated from an R markdown file." under Tools at the top.
this_is_not_you··on Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?
Exactly! :D
this_is_not_you··on Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?
What happened to the Ask HN "tag"? Do people just not use it anymore to highlight it's not a link to another website?
this_is_not_you··on IKEA's restaurants were failing, then it turned to Swedish meatballs
Cheese is not inherently unhealthy and the meatballs are also (deep?) fried. And the brown sauce is made from cream.
this_is_not_you··on IKEA's restaurants were failing, then it turned to Swedish meatballs
The term "healthy" is obviously pretty meaningless, but I would not say that meatballs, mashed potato and brown sauce is healthier than pizza or steak or something.
this_is_not_you··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://hardestclimbs.com

I could not find a good source for the hardest stuff in bouldering and sport climbing, so I made this one. Collecting the data was/is the hardest part, but it's open source so if anybody wants to make a better website, go for it.

this_is_not_you··on Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
Funny, had the exact opposite experience. I could pyenv not get to work with my Linux VM and VSCode terminal (zsh).
this_is_not_you··on Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
I've wasted so much time trying to get pyenv to work properly and failed. Switched to asdf and things just worked.
this_is_not_you··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
I have a different take on what makes the Souls game interesting (but it has changed somewhat with Elden Ring).

What I enjoyed most about the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne was the sense of adventure/exploration/dread that comes with leaving a safe zone (bonfire, lamp) and venturing out into the unknown. You don't know what to expect, there will be new enemies that you don't know how to deal with yet, there might be traps but somehow you forge on, not knowing when you will reach the next save point. With every enemy you kill you gain currency you can use to level up, but one mistake and it's all gone. Then you have to be extra careful to get it back. The sense of relief you feel when the level design all of the sudden brings you around to an old safe zone is beyond anything I have felt in other games.

That's also why I didn't care so much about the boss fights initially but I came to enjoy them for the challenge. To the point that I spent 2 hours yesterday in Elden Ring trying to defeat a boss that was totally optional.

this_is_not_you··on Bicycle Recommendations
Yes, the price goes up quite a bit but I think it pays off in the long term. I think those bikes are especially interesting for people who just want to go from A to B and don't consider themselves "cyclists" (aka use it for sport). Add some puncture-proof tyres and you have a bicycle that will most likely just regular maintenance once a year.

That said, when something does go wrong with the belt/drivetrain/hub it becomes a pain in the arse.

this_is_not_you··on Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation
My first guess would be heads-up displays. On photos they always appear blank.
this_is_not_you··on Missing hiker ignored calls from rescuers because he didn’t recognise the number
Seems fair given the state of robocalls.

In another likely scenario: Missing hiker without phone reception finally reaches the top of a mountain. The phone shows 2% battery and 1 bar. Finally! Immediately, his phone starts ringing. He doesn't know the number but dehydrated, hungry and with his last spark of hope he picks up. A familiar voice begins to speak: "Hello, I heard you have been in an accident that wasn't your fault..."

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