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by diskzero | 2025-10-07 01:19:20+00:00
Steve lived on for quite some time in an undocumented key command you could use in the Finder. I forget the exact sequence; ctl-alt-cmd-shift space or something. It has become more broken over releases and may be gone now. We added it to make all animations go very slow. We would invoke it at Steve’s request in demo to him and he would open and close windows, show and hide sidebars, enter and exit TimeMachine and more. This shipped in numerous version of OSX.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 01:19:38+00:00
> Right, but it's not the serum levels that matter: it's the agonistic effect on various receptors. (Most) hormones don't have direct chemical effects on the body. According to Wikipedia:

>> Relative to testosterone, DHT is considerably more potent as an agonist of the androgen receptor (AR).

Judging from this and your other comments in the thread, I'm assuming you're not an endocrinologist.

You're pulling quotes from tertiary sources that at first glance seem to support the argument you're making, but you're missing the broader context, which is that pharmacokinetics and our endocrine systems are way more complicated than you're giving them credit for. It's not as simple as "drug A makes X go down, and X does Y, so A decreases Y".

It would make a lot of people's jobs much easier if that were the case, but the clinical reality is actually much more complicated.
by vanc_cefepime | 2025-10-07 01:19:40+00:00
Same. But at home, I have a desktop (Linux Mint), a NUC server (Proxmox w various VMs/containers) and a MacBook Air M2/iPad that wife/kids use. I am starting to see them use the Linux Mint desktop more and more (main web browsing, word processing, etc) since I dropped Windows about 4 years ago. I did maintain a separate Win10 install for games but SteamDeck (and Win10 becoming EOL) made that obsolete but I am starting to get my feet wet in Linux gaming with my nvidia GPU but haven't really tried all the distros to pick one yet.

Is this the year of the Linux desktop? Unlikely, but I've started to donate more regularly to the Linux Mint team and same with any OSS that helps me maintain our privacy which I suspect is driving more and more to look into options instead of accepting the status quo.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-10-07 01:20:41+00:00
TL;DR: you shouldn't assume your data or activity is in any way anonymous when using these services. These VPNs are useful for changing your region for streaming and not much else. Otherwise, the traffic being routed through these VPNs is basically much more likely to involve "questionable" activity than ordinary traffic - and when you send your traffic through it, you are basically highlighting it as such - and all of this is well-known and of extreme interest to anyone interested in snooping on or analyzing such "questionable" activity.
by airstrike | 2025-10-07 01:20:48+00:00
I appreciate the reply. My short response would be that Rust is trying to solve multiple problems, not just one. Memory safety is the best known, but it's not specifically The One Reason to Rule Them All.

I'm a big fan of the type system and how expressive I feel with Rust. The compiler is incredibly helpful too. rust-analyzer is a superpower. Just yesterday I embarked on a pretty big refactor and all it took was changing a couple of types—and then fixing the 500 problems vscode was pointing out.

Being able to jump in at the deep end like this in a ~90kloc codebase is only feasible (to me) because I know the tooling has my back.

It's not the perfect tool for every project. But it's a really great choice for a really large number of projects. I encourage to try it a little more on a variety of domains to see if it clicks
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-07 01:21:46+00:00
> Not sure Microsoft realizes the damage they're doing to the Windows brand.

Microsoft realized after Windows 8 and Windows 10 that literally nobody, outside of niche tech circles, has positive associations with the Windows brand, or views "Windows" as a selling point beyond "runs my old software." As such, it doesn't matter to them anymore.

It's like being the PR department at your local electricity provider or oil refinery. Keep the politicians happy, but people on the ground is a pointless endeavor.
by pwg | 2025-10-07 01:22:20+00:00
> It blocks the system with a demanded action

Yes, in almost every case, the default "popup" GUI library call is also a modal dialog. You cannot access anything else, anywhere else, in the entire program (even if the program had multiple separate windows open). All you can do is read the dialog's text, and hit the "ok" button to dismiss it (or pick from one of a set of "buttons" that are shown on the popup to dismiss it).

The worst ones also do a global grab, with the result that you can't even switch away to another unrelated application on the system without first "interacting" with and dismissing the popup.

To see the version that is built into Javascript in the browser, put the following into the URL field of a new bookmark, and save the new bookmark.

javascript:(function(){alert("hello");})();

Then, while here on HN (or anywhere else), click that new bookmark you just made, which will pop up the default built in Javascript alert box, and try to interact with the rest of the page it pops up in front of.
by mcdeltat | 2025-10-07 01:22:41+00:00
> no preparation for things to go wrong besides saving money and hoping you can buy your way out

I always wondered about the cost effectiveness of these alternate living arrangements. Like the probability of having to rely on huge amounts of savings seems high versus having a stable setup. And having a stable setup is already so expensive. I can't imagine eating out for every meal. I can cook food for a week for the price of 1 or 2 premade meals. And then you can't carry much so what are you constantly rebuying things? Idk seems like a lifestyle for the rich / lucky / people who have a great life safety net.
by mindslight | 2025-10-07 01:23:51+00:00
I know there are more direct sources. But for the amount of mental energy I want to invest into Windows, discovery through torrents is far easier. My workflow consists of creating a VM, installing / updating everything, taking a snapshot, then removing network access before it gets access to Samba shares with any private information.

I suppose I might still be worried about targeted offline-acting malware if I were using Windows to control some enrichment centrifuges or something. But apart from that, I'm fine with whatever inhabitants it may have frolicking in their isolated jungle.
by GolDDranks | 2025-10-07 01:24:09+00:00
It gets even worse, when the original mangaka typoes the name, and people follow a single typo like a religion. This happened with Kaoru Mori's "Emma", where a common English surname "Jones" was accidentally spelled "Jounse" by the author, and used in translations without questioning it too much, only later found to be written correctly "Jones" in a later chapter by the author herself.
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-07 01:25:14+00:00
> Linux gaming isn't quite there yet too.

The game industry uses the same argument that other industries use as well; tiny user base and the distribution is a mess.

I understand those arguments; they are valid, to a point... but if Autodesk uses mostly NodeJS and Python and OpenGL for Fusion360, why can't they ship a linux version, too?!?
by SirSavary | 2025-10-07 01:25:17+00:00
That website isn't the official registry. The .coop TLD has been operated since 2002, with the official registry at https://identity.coop.

Neither the current authorized registrar list (https://identity.coop/register) nor the archived 2013 list (https://web.archive.org/web/20131019082806/http://www.nic.co...) includes register.coop. Where did you find this site?
by ecshafer | 2025-10-07 01:26:06+00:00
When you start contributing to an open source project, you should start with tackling an open issue, or opening an issue and contributing per their process. Jumping in, opening random pull requests, forks, tagging, and trying to alter the build process is not a good way to do so. Changing the build process, which affects every single person that touches the code, and can also interact with CICD platforms you don't have access to, is possibly the worst place to jump into, especially when they don't show any interest in this.
by starkparker | 2025-10-07 01:26:57+00:00
This is stated as the likely result in the article, complete with the quote.

The article notes that the ER, at that stage of the visit, is not tasked with a diagnosis but deciding whether to admit to the hospital or discharge.

The complaint is that, sepsis or not, horse or zebra, the symptoms presented were severe enough to warrant further tests (such as a chest x-ray, if for no reason other than to rule something out) as part of a hospital admission. Those tests might also have been inconclusive, and the patient might still have died, but it would have at least reflected the severity of what was presented.

Instead, in a chaos of paperwork and a supervising physician who overruled every warning flag in favor of discharging the patient, the kid got sent back to die alone in his dorm room.
by tropdrop | 2025-10-07 01:27:17+00:00
The same experience happened to me, but it was even better – I was told I had a "little paronychia" and lanced without anesthetic. Her scalpel rubbing against two nerves in the nailbed of my thumb, the ER doctor lanced and scraped without so much as lidocaine (or even tylenol!)

The next day I almost lost my thumb, because this sadist that enjoyed cutting me open without any painkillers didn't bother to check whether the infection spread to my bone. I was also misdiagnosed by her, and would have lost it had my PC not found a hand surgeon in the nick of time.

Meanwhile, to curtains on either side of me at this hospital were people who were clearly homeless and had come in with some fentanyl withdrawal symptomps, but mostly so that they could sleep on a bed. When my partner tried to intervene and say that he's never seen me in this much pain, the doctor looked at me like I was a junkie, telling me that "it wouldn't hurt if I wasn't acting up."

I understand the "next, next" that happens from burnout, but this was next level sadism. No empathy; she actually seemed to enjoy my pain. No legal action was possible since this was an "emergency room environment" and she was only there "part time."

This was UCSF Saint Francis/ Dignity Health in Nob Hill. Please avoid this hospital if you're in San Francisco.
by brudgers | 2025-10-07 01:27:50+00:00
My comment expresses my opinion about the specific risks for graduate students considering the likelihood of economic viability of the idea.

The risk is a catastrophic event that might derail an academic career beyond recovery.

The economic viability assessment is based on the normal costs of doing all the things a company needs to do to stay in business relative to the unit economics, the size of the market, and the availability of alternatives with established track records.

If this was a product targeted at freshman students my take would be different. The stakes are much much lower for users; the market is much much bigger; and the norms of academic practice are far more fluid.

Grad school is not simply an extended undergrad…at least when theses and dissertations are required. People expect undergraduates to screw up. Part of graduate school is the expectation of maturity.
by fragmede | 2025-10-07 01:28:12+00:00
Not remotely. It's fair to point out that it exists, especially given the bailout, but China's sponsorship of their local manufacturing is a whole other level. We're talking direct subsidies and grants to OEMs, consumers getting trade in subsidies, huge tax rebates and exemptions, financing, infrastructure support, and long term industrial planning. Similar things exist in the US, but the biggest thing though is that it's stable and not capricious, unlike the current US administration. China's support is enormous, like $230 billion over 15 years, and it's ongoing, not some random one-offs, like cash for clunkers.
by hamandcheese | 2025-10-07 01:29:03+00:00
I think perhaps you are conflating user-friendly and user-focused.

Linux, and open source in general, is infinitely more user-focused than anything from Microsoft, since open source is often built for users and by users.

But if you don't have great computer skills already, Linux can be extremely un-friendly the moment you step off the beaten path.
by throw10920 | 2025-10-07 01:29:11+00:00
> There are plenty of experts in our industry willing to help the government pen regulations. I'd gladly volunteer.

And there's no way, in general, to differentiate you (who I'm assuming to be a good-intentioned actual-expert) from someone who is either (a) not an expert or (b) not good-intentioned (i.e. a lobbyist) - so this offer is effectively useless, and the more general point of "there are experts that can help" is invalid.

I've been thinking about this problem a lot, because it is one that needs to be solved. But it's more complicated than just saying that "experts from the community can offer to help draft regulations" because the problem of how lawmakers can trust those offering help is very difficult.

...and that's assuming that the lawmakers are operating in good faith and accurately representing their constitutents' interests, which there is scientific research[1] that indicates is not true.

[1] https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/testin...
by da_chicken | 2025-10-07 01:29:27+00:00
> But the IT people balk: how will windows defender work in Linux?

They don't think that at all. They probably know more about Linux than you do because I guarantee half the systems they manage are already running it.

What they think about are the applications that the people who actually make the decisions at your companies refuse to migrate away from. They know the cost of hiring Linux sysadmins vs Windows sysadmins. They think about everyone in every other company and how much harder they are to hire when suddenly none of them know how to use their office computer when they're hired. They think about the half dozen or so business critical applications which genuinely don't have Linux equivalents. None of the executives, nobody in HR, nobody in accounting or business. Nobody in sales. Let alone... nobody in the actual non-tech industry that most businesses operate in.

And it's not the college graduates they're worried about. It's the people with 5, 10, or 15 years experience who will just not want to work at a company where they have to compromise and use non-standard software.

It's still not economically viable for any corporation outside of exactly a small tech industry start-up to switch away from Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with the cost of operating system licenses or support.
by tyre | 2025-10-07 01:30:05+00:00
It's not really a similar situation. His pay package was invalidated because of how much control Elon had over the board and the shareholders not being fully informed of the likelihood that the necessary goals would be hit.

Whatever the merits of the lawsuit, it wasn't about the pay package being too diluting.

If OpenAI fails, it will be acquired and/or the shares will be sold in bulk. They're not going to log in to etrade and sell 160m shares on the open market.
by mcdeltat | 2025-10-07 01:31:02+00:00
Legit question, how do you work stably enough to have a good income to support this? Personally I find living a "regular" life and maintaining a 9-5 job is hard enough in terms of time management and logistics. And that's with the ease of not having to think about where my next accommodation, next meal, next shower will be.

Do you find yourself more time pressured? More stressed? Spending more on conveniences to make life easier?
by pjerem | 2025-10-07 01:31:39+00:00
> Emulation overhead is also an issue for Proton on Linux

Nope because Proton is based on WINE, which stands for Wine Is Not An Emulator. Windows executables on Linux are running natively at full speed like any other Linux program.

Wine implements the Windows ABI and is just here to answer the system calls those executables are making.

In fact, most Windows games are running faster under Linux.
by upboundspiral | 2025-10-07 01:33:26+00:00
For myself personally the moment I stopped tweaking linux endlessly was when I installed the universalblue images (bazzite/aurora/bluefin). They made upgrading / using software so painless by providing sane defaults that I no longer feel the need to time my upgrades after the bugs have been patched out, or look up random commands to fix something. They are reliable enough that I feel comfortable recommending / installing them for family members, something which I would not have done before.
by more_corn | 2025-10-07 01:34:45+00:00
When I was a boy I learned about this cool new technology of storing energy in chemical reactions. Fascinating stuff. Super convenient for balancing the power demand curve. Cheap too. (See economics examples from southern Australia) You could even deploy it at the edge by simply splitting the cost with residents. Imagine if everyone drew power during the demand trough and then replayed it during the demand peak. Now grid balancing is way easier for providers, green power can produce as much as it wants whenever it wants.

Although every country should invest in home-grown battery technology just in case China bites off Taiwan and we gotta cut them out of the global economy too.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-07 01:34:53+00:00
Obese individuals & smokers actually cost the system less money overall vs slim & healthy people because they die so much earlier - think of the 30+ years of savings!

Dutch researchers compared three cohorts (healthy-living nonsmokers, smokers, and people with obesity) from age 20 to death. They found annual costs were higher for obesity through midlife, but lifetime spending was highest for healthy-living people, lowest for smokers, and intermediate for people with obesity, due to shorter life expectancy in the latter two groups.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2F...

Another study found total lifetime costs were ~14% lower for the obesity cohort and ~26% lower for smokers versus healthy living peers, again because longer life spans among the healthy group accrue more late life costs.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5596865_Lifetime_Me...
by bsder | 2025-10-07 01:35:11+00:00
1) Software can be remote

Consequently, industrial employers don't have a local monopoly on jobs like they used to. Any industrial employer is competing against any remote position willing to pay above them. That generally isn't hard given how little the industrial employer is willing to pay.

2) Industrial locations generally suck and you have to be there in person

Manufacturing generally needs space, and real estate prices are ridiculous. Consequently, manufacturing tends to be located in undesirable areas. That means long commutes or locating in sub-tier cities.

3) No penalty for outsourcing to foreign countries.

This is what tariffs are supposed to be for. You slowly ratchet up tariffs until you get the result you need.

The problem is that tariffs get politically captured by the oligarchs who use them to completely protect their stupidity (see: the big automakers in the US in the 1970s) until they get totally obliterated.
by john01dav | 2025-10-07 01:36:30+00:00
These so-called security features have wildly different threat models than other security features.

Secure Boot and TPM are ways to attest that what is running is what Microsoft signed. This is only useful if I think that non-nation-state attackers will have physical access to my hardware. Nation-state attackers can probably get something signed with the public secure boot keys. TPM is just more of the same — it lets the software running on a computer verify that it has not been changed from what Microsoft signed. If I controlled the signing key (perhaps every manufactured device has its own key that is sold with the device, which I can then sign whatever OS I want with), then I could gain some security without this control loss, and that would be useful.

Regarding bitlocker, I can encrypt my drive just fine with no TPM as long as I do not expect my OS to be tampered with (which requires physical access or running something untrusted as root). I can simply use a long password with many hash cycles, so if someone stole my drive they could not decrypt it without the password. But, if the key were in the TPM, then nation-state actors could probably get it back out, depending on exact implementation (for example for biometric unlock). So, in this way, using a TPM is less secure.

We should also do away with TPMs in most cases, since all that they serve to do is attest that the corporation with the keys to the TPM decided what was running and that no one interfered with that. It's DRM, plain and simple.

There are other security updates that I may want, however, even if I am not concerned about giving an attacker root of physical access. For example, Windows has had vulnerabilities which can be exploited over a network.
by ainar-g | 2025-10-07 01:36:34+00:00
There's always ReactOS[1], a project for a bug-for-bug compatible Windows clone. It used to mostly aim at Windows 9x compatibility the last time I'd checked, though, but that could probably change. And if anyone wants to create a Win7 clone, at least some of the groundwork has already been made.

[1]: https://reactos.org/
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-07 01:36:50+00:00
This kind of attestation doesn’t realistically add any value. It just lets downstream users assert that the build happened on a host managed by Microsoft. That doesn’t reflect anything with regards to the package content itself — although it may allow ticking some compliance checkbox somewhere.

Reproducible builds are a lot more valuable. They let downstream consumers verify that the package was actually generated with the documented sources and inputs.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-07 01:37:19+00:00
Does the (stainless steel?) vacuum bottle, used in their demo, not have significant mass?

https://www.coopoly.ca/p-545851-bouteille-noire-thermos-510m...

Note also the extra weight attached by the researchers to its bottom

(This is not yet taking into account the data-based scaling formulae presented in the paper)
by stackskipton | 2025-10-07 01:37:35+00:00
I wouldn't say it's Office365 as much as "What are my other options?"

MacOS is good option BUT cheapest laptop option is 1000 bucks. Dell has 16 inch with 16GB of RAM for 600.

There is Linux but Linux Desktop still is not ready and mass management of it is very painful.

So you default to Windows. It works-ish, won't break the bank and just about every piece of software you need works with it.
by c0balt | 2025-10-07 01:37:36+00:00
In hindsight, making the default listening address for port forwards in docker(-compose) 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 was/is such a pain point for me. Every time I work with it for servers as almost always it should not be directly exposed (usually services are behind a host-side NGINX rev proxy).

It also likely has yielded far too many (unintentionally) open services, especially considering dockers known firewall woes with bypassing of existing rules.
by zhoujing204 | 2025-10-07 01:38:02+00:00
More recent papers: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32389(2015-2016 Germany), https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2024003/artic... Canada), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S017626802... USA). Overall, recent economic evidence suggests that immigrant workers, on average, enhance the opportunities and incomes of native workers.
by hamandcheese | 2025-10-07 01:38:19+00:00
> IMO the two biggest pains with MacOS is (1) brew is not as good as any other package manager in my experience (mostly in bugs that need manual fixing)

I've been happily not using brew for a couple years now. Nix can function as a brew replacement without much fuss. However it lacks a simple alternative to brew services (for that you have to enter the rabbit hole which is home-manager).