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by hollerith | 2025-05-22 00:54:52+00:00
I agree you do not have CFS.

>I still haven't figured out source of the fatigue (potentially MCAS?).

MCAS is easy to self-diagnose or at least it was in my case. Mast-cell symptoms are triggered by exercise, sun exposure, orgasms and having the connective tissue in your abdomen jiggled (e.g., by riding in a bus with bad suspension along a road with many potholes). For me it is always the same symptoms (fatigue, maybe irritability, maybe a feeling of heat on the skin) regardless of the trigger. Sometimes exposure to one of these things is not enough to trigger symptoms, but then a second exposure before the body has had time to recover from the first exposure will trigger symptoms.

Also (after you remove yourself from any triggers) if the symptoms ameliorate slowly but surely over a period of 2 to 4 hours, that is a pretty strong sign that that the symptoms were caused by mast-cell "granulation" (activation) or at least it is a strong sign in my personal case: I have other chronic conditions that can cause similar symptoms, but if one of the other conditions causes a bout of fatigue or inability to stay productive, the severity of the symptoms will increase and decrease in chaotic or unpredictable ways.
by fidotron | 2025-05-22 00:54:56+00:00
I think Andreas Kling behind Serenity OS, and now the Ladybird Browser, has broadly the right ideas, and Serenity OS is actually named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer .

You might be burned out, especially if you're experimenting with substances to try and maintain previous momentum. Some people can seemingly do that for years, but for most people it's going to end in a crash at some point.
by copperx | 2025-05-22 00:55:41+00:00
I have to confess that my early experiences with RedHat as a teenager and dealing with the nightmareish RPM dependencies soured me from the distribution. I went to Debian and then its many descendants and never looked back; APT seemed magical in comparison.

I assume they have a package manager that resolves dependencies well now? Is that what an RPM wrangler is?
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-22 00:57:36+00:00
I work(ed) in EMS. I have clearly expressed wishes on a POLST form (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, essentially DNR 2.0, with a lot more nuance, like tube feeding, pain management, supplemental oxygen. Actual DNRs are largely extinct).

I entirely agree with your parents about the level of effort, not to mention the unpleasantness, pain and suffering associated with fighting off a natural death.

But in the context of this article, we are specifically talking about the patients themselves, having coherently expressed a wish to be resuscitated were being pressured into signing DNR paperwork.

That's not the same thing as your situation, and I say that as someone who has had to coach hundreds of family members through end of life events, both expected and unexpected. I have done things like ordering continuing CPR on a patient who had no survival outcome expected, just because he was still minimally responsive and his spouse was almost there to say goodbye (he was bleeding internally and could not be stabilized for surgery). She got to squeeze his hand, and feel him squeeze hers back before we discontinued resuscitation and allowed him to pass. And I have done things like brought the "head of the family" into the resuscitation bay because he and the family were adamant in the face of all reality that "God was going to pull their father through" the cardiac arrest he was in. Though painful, it took him but a few minutes to grasp the reality, that all stops had been pulled out, but that we were at the end of the road. Following that, he was able to understand, ask us to discontinue, and be able to go back to the family and explain.
by monkeyfun | 2025-05-22 00:58:04+00:00
You're overall correct, but made me notice that there is actually an unusually coherent argument (by their standards) being presented by the reactionaries pushing for the things you mention. It goes roughly like:

>The reason these jobs are terrible is because immigrants are doing it for wages that would be intolerably low to anyone else.

>This is also why it's hard to find a decent job in general, our competition is basically cheating!

>But if we remove the immigrants, the employers will surely have to increase wages like they were supposed to

>Now americans will have high paying factory jobs, and if some goods increase in price that's ok, their wages will let them afford it.

>we got to have our cake and eat it too!

Obviously they're missing some key steps and consciousness here in the reasoning, but I feel it's interesting to reflect on in context of how it's almost right -- and surprisingly close to a marxist view of things until it starts assuming things like that individuals have more bargaining power than their employers or that economic agents will always try to set the lowest price they can afford for goods rather than the highest.

So for example they'd believe prices would only go up a little and manufacturing companies would just live with stagnant or reduced profits since they'd have no other choice.

Notice how they have a habit of assuming totally Good behavior from Companies but totally Bad behavior from Immigrants!

I think in context of all that, it becomes more visible both how we could actually resolve this problem other than by just accepting the loss of domestic industry, and what in specific the people falling for this narrative are being hooked on.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-22 00:58:38+00:00
> Tomcat ... OK you can have one from 1863. There is a really good security back port effort but why on earth start off with a kernel that is using a walking stick.

Because old software is battle-tested and reliable. Moreover, upgrading software is ever a pain so it's best to minimize how often you have to do it. With a support policy of 10 years, you just can't beat RHEL (and derivatives) for stability.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-22 00:59:32+00:00
> Carmack has said that for VR/AR to get any traction, the headgear needs to come down to swim goggle size, and to go mainstream, it has to come down to eyeglass size. He's probably right. Ive would be the kind of guy to push in that direction.

I agree with the first 2 sentences, but not the last. Everyone and their grandmother knows size and bulkiness are big blockers to VR/AR adoption. But the reason we don't have an Apple Vision Pro in an eyeglasses form factor isn't an issue of design, it's an issue of physics.

Meta seems to have decent success with their Ray Bans, which can basically do all the "ask AI" use cases, but true VR/AR fundamentally require much bulkier devices, most of all for battery life.
by HocusLocus | 2025-05-22 00:59:38+00:00
" On this bridge, Lorca warns, 'life is not a dream. Beware. And beware. And beware.' And so many think because Then happened, Now isn't. But didn't I mention the ongoing "wow" is happening right now? We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance where even our inabilities are having a roast. We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel, starring clowns. This entire thing we're involved with called the world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be.

Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments, flabbergasted to be in each other's presence. The world is an exam to see if we can rise into direct experience. Our eyesight is here as a test to see if we can see beyond it. Matter is here as a test for our curiosity. Doubt is here as an exam for our vitality. Thomas Mann wrote that he would rather participate in life than write 100 stories.

Giacometti was once run down by a car, and he recalled falling into a lucid faint, a sudden exhilaration, as he realized that at last something was happening to him. An assumption develops that you cannot understand life and live life simultaneously. I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree. I would say that life understood is life lived. But the paradoxes bug me, and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me. And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

Before you drift off, don't forget. Which is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Lorca, in that same poem said that the iguanas will bite those who do not dream. And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream, that is self awareness... " ~Timothy Levitch in “Waking Life”

++upvoted to null the dofus who thinks expressing opinions about the metric system is a crime against humanity
by mmaunder | 2025-05-22 00:59:51+00:00
Models are getting smaller, faster, cheaper to make, reflecting on their own output, adding modes and running in more places. But they’re not getting much smarter because they can only be as smart as us and each other, because that’s where their training comes from. OpenAI is strongest in a world where models cost billions to train. A world filled with cheap open source models is their worst nightmare. This is what’s happening. So they have to pivot into being a product company and away from being a model company.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-22 01:00:29+00:00
Well, I'm not sure exactly what's under the hood, but I write Apple software, and I use a lot of the same NSXXX calls that have been in it since the dawn of OSX.

NextStep was a shell over FreeBSD. MacOS X was an evolution of NextStep.

Some time ago, I wrote a network driver for iOS, and used BSD sockets, accessed via standard C. I remember using the BSD manual, to figure out how to use them.

The NS calls behave the same now, as they did, back when OSX was new, and, at that time, MacOS was definitely UINX. iOS is a direct descendant of MacOS.
by mushufasa | 2025-05-22 01:01:00+00:00
Userbase and customer relationships are valuable. If someone else creates GPT5, but doesn't have a large user base, then OpenAI the company could buy that invention. Or, as we saw with deepseek in January, fast-follow with a comparable model within a reasonable amount of time.

Brands have value. If someone has logged into ChatGPT for two years daily, they have built a habit. That habit certainly can be disrupted, but there's a level of inertia and barrier -- something else has to be 10x better and not just 2x better.

When DeepSeek came out, I tried it out but didn't fundamentally switch my habit. OpenAI + Claude + Gemini instead caught up.
by bitwize | 2025-05-22 01:01:11+00:00
Retrocomputing and retrogaming are going to get a boost from a hybrid approach: using uC boards like the Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate each individual component. You get timing accuracy that's close to FPGA, but at $5 a pop, the components are cheaper than an FPGA board would cost.

The Connomore 64 is an example of a complete system built this way. I'm sure Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST clones will be incoming. https://github.com/c1570/Connomore64
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-22 01:01:12+00:00
Remember the C-I-A triad of security.

I consider the integrity of messages to-and-from the web to be very important.

Many of us lived through days when ISPs or some other greedy middleman injected ads into unsecured web pages. They played DNS tricks too.

Imagine if you had an app download that could be maliciously modified in-flight.

Furthermore, a certificate can guarantee you’re not connected to an imposter. What if the TFA link was redirected to “abevigoda.com”? Catastrophe!
by eqvinox | 2025-05-22 01:01:55+00:00
> Residential: Your TP Link […] is probably already blocking icmp for you.

If it does, it generally won't pass telco CPE certification, i.e. Comcast and the likes won't be selling it to you in any bundle. Blocking ICMP Fragmentation Needed / ICMPv6 Packet Too Big is a hard fail on all of those, other message types can vary.

(Source: I work in this area.)

[Ed.: to be clear, there is no single "telco CPE certification"; each telco decides this on their own. A bunch of them form groups/"alliances" though, and a lot of the certification requirements are the same everywhere.]
by protocolture | 2025-05-22 01:02:15+00:00
You are absolutely correct, but also, I am already having to clamp MTU for most business customers anyway, for a hundred reasons.

The issue is that sysadmins make this the ISP's issue anyway. They wont do any kind of investigation but simply yell at the telco. Telcos are ready willing and able to clamp. Its as natural as breathing at this point.

The only thing that gets me is when the some small business refuses to enable ICMP for troubleshooting when they raise a complaint. You have to come to the table at least that far.
by andromaton | 2025-05-22 01:02:15+00:00
Lengthy and somewhat low in density. Favorite quotes:

Plenty of that knowledge is, though, quite siloed in different areas. But sometimes there are “grand analogies” to make—say pulling an idea from relativity theory and applying it to biological evolution. In a sense such analogies reveal new abstractions—but to make them requires knowledge that spans many different areas. And that’s a place where bigger brains—or AIs—can potentially do something that’s in a fundamental way “beyond us”.

But, OK, will it always take an “expanding brain” to keep up with the “expanding knowledge” we have? Computational irreducibility guarantees that there’ll always in principle be “new knowledge” to be had—separated from what’s come before by irreducible amounts of computation.
by zahlman | 2025-05-22 01:03:56+00:00
> use Raspberry Pis as their primary computers

It honestly wouldn't have occurred to me that this is feasible - my mental model of a "Raspberry Pi" is basically what the first-gen models were. But apparently it's been a while now, and their newest models use an ARM Cortex-A76 CPU, which is actually pretty respectable - only a bit behind my 2014 desktop, from the numbers I can find. Absolutely capable of running a web browser on modern Linux.
by smj-edison | 2025-05-22 01:04:19+00:00
Really hard to say from just that, what do you define as abnormal exercise?

Couple of thoughts:

1. PEM is triggered by things that would be fine for a normal person (walking to car, standing in a line, etc). Over exercising is definitely a thing, but it's not the same as PEM

2. Does the following fatigue cause significant impairment, and does it last for a few days?

There's some other criteria, but those are the first cut.
by agentkilo | 2025-05-22 01:04:38+00:00
> An offset would be nice, though I'm sure it's not easy to define a heuristic that works in all places.

I agree. I considered dynamic offsets, in an effort to declutter the labels, but found it even more confusing. Maybe I should do more experiments on this.

> but where the labels were laid out it just looked like an inviting right-aligned label on the clickable tabs themselves

The labels are left-aligned by default (except in `frame-hinter`). I think you can try some combinations of the `:anchor` and `:show-highlights` options[1] to see if they work better for you.

[1]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/ref/built-in-modules/jwno-...

Edit: Wrong link
by jhanschoo | 2025-05-22 01:05:14+00:00
Most large numbers are divisible by some large prime; so suppose that a number is divisible by some large number 11. Then what appears on your screen is some pattern repeated at least 11 times arranged into a circle, because the "largest" pattern is that of the largest prime in the factorization. The numbers that can be factored into primes at most, say, 5 are comparatively very rare.
by baby_souffle | 2025-05-22 01:05:40+00:00
> The explanation I've seen before is that it doesn't really matter for websites that don't _want_ anything from you. No credentials, no login forms, no text entry fields.

Still worth creating a bit of a shield between you and the site to make it just hat much harder for anybody in the middle to inject anything / change anything.

Back before Lets Encrypt made it inexcusable to not have https, it was a common-ish prank to MITM all the HTTP traffic you could see and do something harmless like rotate images 180 degrees.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-05-22 01:05:57+00:00
- Check how and what Path.com was - to begin with you can just copy it

- Then check why it failed - can you avoid that? Or will money will not be a concern?

- To offset cost, see if you can do things like letting users share links of media, rather than you hosting it. Etc.

- Do not offer it for free (not beyond beta/alpha). That’s a sure shot way to become what you are trying not to become. And think about the geography/country before setting the price — purchasing powers are different that way. Or if not then target an income/social bracket, who will pay for it, and stick to it.

- Also, accept that — it will be a niche product - from the beginning. The masses don’t want they don’t already have and even if they’d want something else - it will be some Frankenstein or the other.

tl;dr: Making something “nice” will not be your problem. It will be how to stay financially afloat as it WILL NOT be a mass thing.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-22 01:06:12+00:00
It's really not.

You don't just pick up a POLST form at the grocery store. You have to get one from your doctor and go through it together. https://doh.wa.gov/public-health-provider-resources/emergenc... is the one in my state and it is very clear about exactly the things you mention. Full treatment is described as:

"Primary goal is prolonging life by ALL medically effective means. Use of intubation, advanced airway interventions, mechanical ventilation, and cardioversion as indicated. Includes care described below. Transfer to hospital if indicated. Includes intensive care."

The care described below includes "IV medication access", "invasive airway management". It even includes "assisted nutrition", i.e. feeding tubes or ports.

It also requires a demonstration of comprehension of these choices by the patient, not just the HCP.

> someone just collapsed your rib-cage giving you chest compressions.

Frankly, while not pleasant, most people who walk out of a hospital post-arrest have recovered from this in days, and it is generally not particularly painful (because contrary to popular belief, you almost certainly haven't broken ribs, just separated some of the sternal cartilage around the xiphoid process - the little notch midline at your lowest non-floating ribs). There are far more important concerns.
by ivape | 2025-05-22 01:07:04+00:00
There is a space to make a suite of products that synergize entirely. Glasses, watches, buttons, clothes (yes, clothes), and home devices/computers/tvs. The reason they are in a spearhead position is because unlike like Google and Apple, they don't need to maintain a legacy paradigm. They don't have to introduce new tech and make it work with old tech, while also maintaining usability familiarity (e.g You can't just change iOS and Android).

They take zero risk while attacking user fatigue (people just get bored of stuff). The current leaders take all the risk following OpenAI because everyone will complain about the changes no matter what they do, and just come up with a reason to switch. This is a human phenomenon that is truly fucked up, the same as when a partner in a relationship is ready to move on no matter what you do.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-22 01:09:17+00:00
> This process costed many hundreds of dollars

"Cost"

I'm a native English speaker and nobody told me this (and I didn't manage to pick it up) until I was nearly 40. "Cost"'s past tense is also "cost."

There's another, newer, largely fatuous, verbed "cost" that means "to calculate the cost of something." That's the one that gets used in the past tense ("the projects have all been costed.")

"I've costed a keyboard replacement for my computer, and the total is more than the computer cost in the first place."
by bmink | 2025-05-22 01:10:12+00:00
I love the Apollo 11 computer stories but by today’s standards it was more of an MCU than a computer. And sure, in the embedded space it is true that in a lot of cases error recovery doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and it makes more sense to reset quickly.

But there are many systems today that take a long time to restart so you can’t just abort if you have a chance to recover.
by godelski | 2025-05-22 01:10:30+00:00
Still, sorry to hear the experience. I'd have been frustrated too.

For the brightness, hard to say what's wrong without more details. But I hope someone pointed you towards xrandr, which would allow you to manually set the brightness and help determine if it was just a bad setting (edit to /sys/). But could be a kernel issue too. Which sounds a lot scarier than it actually is.

I'll admit, fractional scaling sucks every time I've used it. There are some settings that can help, like letting applications control their setting instead of system. But I don't have enough experience with this, but can confirm it can be frustrating. (xrandr can help here too btw)

The booting is super weird. But that's also something I would have definitely been able to help with. It can seem like black magic at first but it eventually makes sense. Just most people don't bother learning because it usually isn't an issue (my friend and I had a dumb competition to get the fastest boot... We each got under 3s cold and under 2s warm. It was silly, but learned a lot)

Re Steam: I haven't had to do this in a while, but sometimes changing the proton version can make a world of difference. I haven't tried those games though so I can't speak from direct experience.

I will say, I'm not a fan of Mint. I do think Pop and Endeavour are better entry ways. So if you ever try it again, I'd recommend one of those. I'll also say that laptops tend to be a bit more finicky than desktops, especially around display issues. Things are worlds better than they used to be but it is definitely an uphill battle. Lots of variance and not enough resources dedicated to tackling the problems. Hopefully the continued momentum makes this completely a thing of the past. (Battery issues are also a common issue with laptops. In particular putting mobile GPUs into their hibernate state. NVIDIA hasn't been the kindest here...)
by smj-edison | 2025-05-22 01:11:42+00:00
Hmm, that doesn't line up with what I've read... Dr. Afrin talks about how MCAS is a lifelong issue that only gets worse later on. Things like a history of bloody noses, strange allergic reactions (random hives or asthma), ear infections as a child, etc.

According to him, there should also be at least a couple of active symptoms, such as alternating diarrhea/constipation, edema, skin rashes or hives, foods that are high in histamine, pain while urinating, a constant feeling of being cold, hot flashes, and some others. He also encourages exercise as it helps regulate the immune system.

I certainly don't mean to invalidate your own experience—I know how hard it can be to not be understood—but perhaps there's something else that would explain it better? I'm happy to be corrected :)
by cubefox | 2025-05-22 01:13:13+00:00
This arguably means that we could translate any unknown alien message if it is sufficiently long and not encrypted: 1) Create embeddings from the Alienese message. 2) Convert them to English.

Could we also use this to read the Voynich manuscript, by converting Voynichese into embeddings and embeddings into English text? Perhaps, though I worry the manuscript is too short for that.