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by Aurornis | 2025-11-15 17:27:39+00:00
I have seen some people turn themselves around with ACT-style therapy like this article introduces. Some can build up response patterns that turn minor daily annoyances into bigger problems that disrupt their mood for hours or even the rest of the day.

These behaviors of blowing things out of proportion or letting them get under your skin can be both learned and unlearned, in addition to developing organically. Therapy techniques like this are an intentional way to practice unlearning bad habits and replacing with undeniably better habits that you want to practice.

Raising and teaching young children is a learning experience for how some of these habits can develop and how to teach better responses to life's frustrations. Kids can get frustrated easily and their emotions run strong. Learning how to teach kids to control their emotions and respond appropriately to life is one of the core parenting challenges. I feel like I learned a lot about myself in the process of trying to figure out how to teach it to my kids and set a good example for them.

On this topic, I've also observed a few cases in teens and adults who seemingly learn bad habits about becoming overly annoyed by small things, primarily from social media influencers. There is an entire universe of social media influencers dedicated to grievance-based entertainment, where they produce content about things that make you angry or feel like the victim. I think it's supposed to be cathartic or helpful, but in the process of producing content they reach further and further for topics to turn into grievances.

The early trend of "emotional labor" being an invisible burden was the first time I saw this. The social media influencer version of emotional labor actually diverged from the literature definition and became an umbrella term meaning that your emotions were unpaid labor. If anyone did something that made you feel those emotions or you had to deal with someone else's emotions, you were supposed to feel burdened and victimized. There have been other trends like "mental load" that are variations of this idea that you have been made into the victim via other people or the world triggering your own emotional responses, which may have become exaggerated via these social influencers constantly bringing them front and center.
by DANmode | 2025-11-15 17:28:00+00:00
Antibacterial herbs,

with gobs of research, and even a study or two, supporting their efficacy for the targeted microbes,

are pseudoscience?

I’m heavily implying nothing.

My recommendation to address Lyme and coinfections like Bab and Bart in this way

(in addition to antibiotics, if you choose)

is from research and then personal experience.

Respectfully: do better, if you want to try and tell people what belongs where.
by gf000 | 2025-11-15 17:28:09+00:00
> Only a small percentage of humanity are/were capable of doing any of these. And they tend to be the best of the best in their respective fields.

A definite, absolute and unquestionable no, and a small, but real chance is absolutely different categories.

You may wait for a bunch of rocks to sprout forever, but I would put my money on a bunch of random seeds, even if I don't know how they were kept.
by defanor | 2025-11-15 17:28:46+00:00
> In my experience, Dell and Lenovo have excellent Linux hardware support.

I have tried just one cheap Dell laptop, Vostro 3515, which works mostly fine with Linux (it came with Ubuntu, I have installed Debian), but the touchpad becomes unreponsive sometimes (probably after a sleep), and at some point it refused to charge, which required an UEFI firmware update to fix, which in turn required Windows (I had to use Windows PE) to install, as the direct update (from the UEFI itself) was failing, and there is no Linux option.

Could have been worse, but now considering a Lenovo ThinkPad as a future replacement.
by solatic | 2025-11-15 17:28:52+00:00
There were other problems with VictoriaMetrics - a failed migration attempt by previous engineers made it politically difficult to raise as a possibility, lack of a promise of full PromQL compatibility (too many PromQL dashboards built by too many teams), seeing features locked behind the Enterprise version (Mimir Enterprise had features added on top, not features locked away).

> HDD

You're right, I'm misremembering here, that particular complaint about a lack of Kafka was a Thanos issue, not VM.

That said, HDD is a hard sell to management. Seen as "not cloud native". People with old trauma from 100% full disks not expanded in time. Organizational perception that object storage does not need to be backed up (because redundancy is built into the object storage system) but HDD does (and automated backups are a VM Enterprise feature, and even more important if storing long-term metrics in VM).

> In cluster mode VM is a distributed set of services that scale out independently and buffer at different levels

So are Thanos and Mimir, which suffer from ingest floods causing DoS, at least until Kafka was added. vminsert is billed as stateless, same as Thanos Receiver, same as Mimir Distributor. Not convinced.
by mattferderer | 2025-11-15 17:29:53+00:00
Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways.

I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally getting layers, window management & more.

At the same time, I'm still not sure why we needed Windows 11 as the only good updates seem like they could have been done without it. All the visual changes have seemed to cause bugs & performance issues on relatively high powered PCs (64GB+ memory, m2 ssd drives, latest gen mid level GPU & CPU)

It seems the Windows ME, Vista, etc experiment continues to live on.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-15 17:30:41+00:00
My experience is the complete opposite.

Granted I haven't tried O365 in about a year since it was so unusable in Firefox.

As far as teams goes, I use it in the same version chromium on the same OS on two different computers; one works fine most of the time (main issue is it sometimes switches the audio back to the first item listed by Linux, which is not my USB headset). The other computer is terrible. Somewhere between 4-48 hours it pops up a tiny (maybe 40px) banner at the top saying "you need to sign in again" meanwhile there are no notifications and any messages I send are silently queued with no obvious indication that they haven't been delivered. Before I figured this out, I was just randomly out of communication with my coworkers, with both sides thinking we were sending the other person messages that they were ignoring. Clicking the "sign in" button on the banner just seems to reload teams and doesn't even ask me to sign in.
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-15 17:31:09+00:00
Interesting article, but the headline is misleading. They did not "reverse" any damage to the kidneys. They say they "reversed the pathology." What they did was to prevent kidney damage from ceramides.

I've had CKD (3A) for about seven years. I've got zero risk factors, so I don't know what caused it. My levels have been flat for the whole time, so it was probably caused by AKI that I wasn't aware of.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-15 17:31:18+00:00
Gee, I don't know. How would you do at a math competition if you weren't trained with math books? Sample problems and solutions are not sufficient unless you can genuinely apply human-level inductive and deductive reasoning to them. If you don't understand that and agree with it, I don't see a way forward here.

A more interesting question is, how would you do at a math competition if you were taught to read, then left alone in your room with a bunch of math books? You wouldn't get very far at a competition like IMO, calculator or no calculator, unless you happen to be some kind of prodigy at the level of von Neumann or Ramanujan.
by steve-atx-7600 | 2025-11-15 17:32:12+00:00
I’ve gotten a lot out of the writings of Albert Ellis whose work in the 50s and 60s became cognitive behavioral therapy. He would have said that it is irrational to demand that everyday inconveniences not exist, and by changing your thinking to accept and expect that unavoidable inconveniences happen, you will be less likely to allow these things to cause emotional distress.

He credits the ancient stoics and other philosophers for influencing his methods.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/rational-em... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5836900/
by Bender | 2025-11-15 17:32:13+00:00
This will be an unpopular take, but... ban all the VPN's. Do it now.

Every time such a thing happens new technology is created out of necessity. The more totalitarian a regime is the more people are pushed under ground. This only hurts big companies and governments that benefit from having all the juicy delicious data flowing through cooperating CDN's and big centralized platforms where they can see it real time and with real identities.

Motivate developers to make easy-peazy tools to push the normies to Tor, SSH tunnels, hybrid open source VPN's, DNS tunneling, HTTPS piggy-backing, Obfuscated HTTPS websockets, Domain Fronting, Lora Relays, Laser Relays, open source user-space mesh VPN's like Tinc and watch the arms race unfold.

My super secret ulterior motive is that I despise the big platforms including all the big VPN platforms that have money trails or claim BTC is anonymous and claim to not log anything or have real time lawful intercept API's thus allowing them to claim no logs.

I octo-dog dare governments to ban VPN's.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-15 17:32:45+00:00
> who are they selling windows to

Big companies that are still all-in on Microsoft, or basically all Microsoft 365 customers (which is 89% market share).

They already have, and will continue, to make Office features exclusive to Windows, leaving the macOS version of the desktop apps behind, especially as more and more functionality starts to get locked behind Copilot.

They were OS agnostic for a while before the AI craze, and now it seems they want to roll back some of that agnosticism and make sure that M365 shops remain Windows shops instead of M365+macOS shops.
by hashim | 2025-11-15 17:32:53+00:00
You're right, that historical event of WWII involving at most 20,000 Arabs absolutely gave Europeans the right to occupy a land they have no link to and conduct a genocide killing hundreds of thousands and ethnically cleansing millions more. Wait, were the Irgun and Haganah time travellers who predicted this historical event? Is that why they started moving towards their goals of Zionist occupation, colonialism and terrorism in the 19th century?

What about this, does this make the Zionists anti-semitic too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement It's almost like Zionists are closer in ideology to the Nazis than they want to admit.
by dunham | 2025-11-15 17:32:55+00:00
You're in good company. The original C++ compiler translated to C. Haskell translates to C--.

That sounds like a good approach, concentrate on the things you want to do/learn and let the C compiler pick up the rest. You can then be finished, add to your front end, or start replacing the backend.

My language compiles to Javascript. I wanted to concentrate on the frontend tasks like type checking and elaboration, and I wanted a web playground (the language is now self-hosted). Javascript got me a runtime with closures and garbage collection for free.
by fragmede | 2025-11-15 17:32:55+00:00
US courts let you sue objects under "in rem" jurisdiction.

In rem = the thing is the defendant. You're not suing a person, and you're asking the court to decide who owns or controls a specific property.

The quintessential case is United States v. $124,700

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...
by vintermann | 2025-11-15 17:34:11+00:00
It's very likely that it's someone trying to take down evidence, and since they have CSAM to upload, they would be in deep legal trouble themselves if they were identified.

It is however not at all clear the evidence they want scrubbed from the internet is CSAM-related. It's just the go-to tool for giving a site trouble for some attackers.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-15 17:34:15+00:00
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World observes that even in relentlessly noncommercialized societies, robust markets existed in two commodities: iron and salt. They were traded on the market within villages that otherwise had little use for markets, and they would make their way by international trade routes to even the most isolated cultures.

For iron, that trade would have mostly been in tools. For salt the only reason is that salt is a vital nutrient and if you can't get enough of it, you die. (Though I think it's worth observing that iron is a vital nutrient too.)
by TZubiri | 2025-11-15 17:34:29+00:00
How does changing post titles work? I think it's more accurate that:

"Lawmakers want to ban VPN users from accessing porn websites."

or

"Lawmakers wants porn websites to ban VPN users"

It's an important distinction that has caused a lot of confusion in the last thread about this article.

I know that the author is arguing a slippery slope for political reasons, but it's not factual and it causes confusion.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-15 17:34:40+00:00
This is a nice start to develop a language to discuss wealth.

99 vs 1%, normal vs millionaires vs billionaires, lower vs upper vs middle class, investor vs working class are some of the language I’ve seen used.

All of them are extremely inadequate and allow the |^7-11 folks to get away with a lot that they shouldn’t by scaring the folks at |^4-6 that it would apply to them.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-15 17:35:28+00:00
Do you know what the oled screen resolution is on your device? One of my family members has what I believe is the same laptop, and while I appreciate the build quality, the OLED clearly isn't RGB (in its subpixel arrangement - or some other such major aspect), because the 1080p screen looks so bad for text I initially thought it was broken.
by roflyear | 2025-11-15 17:36:20+00:00
I don't think many look at wealth inequality in isolation, it's usually accompanied by how people are starving. E.g. "over 20 people die from malnutrition in the US but we have over 900 billionaire's" - e.g. each billionaire would probably only have to give $300k each (equiv to what the average tax payer gives to the defense budget each year) to prevent most deaths in the US due to lack of food - etc.
by estebank | 2025-11-15 17:36:29+00:00
The people writing C++ either don't need much convincing to switch because they see the value or are unlikely to give it up anytime soon because they don't see anything Rust does as being useful to them, very little middle ground. People from higher level languages on the other hand see in Rust a way to break into a space that they would otherwise not attempt because it would take too long a time to reach proficiency. The hard part of Rust is trying to simultaneously have hard to misuse APIs and no additional performance penalty (however small). If you relax either of those goals (is it really a problem if you call that method through a v-table?), then Rust becomes much easier to write. I think GC Rust would already be a nice language to use that I'd love, like a less convoluted Scala, it just wouldn't have fit in a free square that ensured a niche for it to exist and grow, and would likely have died in the vine.
by maxbond | 2025-11-15 17:36:54+00:00
I think the problem with these examples is that they conflate instrumental goals with terminal goals.

People speed to get to a destination faster or to relieve their frustration on the road (street racers notwithstanding). If the cost of speeding increases they'll speed much less, because they're more interested in their terminal goal. There's a lot of elasticity here.

Attacking a plane is a terminal goal for terrorists. If it gets harder, they'll do it somewhat less or pursue softer targets. But there's much less elasticity here. So it's less clear that more security measures will result in fewer deaths.

That doesn't imply the TSA is useless but I think it might be clarifying to the discussion.
by killme2008 | 2025-11-15 17:37:30+00:00
Hi there, I’m from the GreptimeDB team.

Thank you for giving GreptimeDB a shout-out—it means a lot to us. We created GreptimeDB to simplify the observability data stack with an all-in-one database, and we’re glad to hear it’s been helpful.

OpenTelemetry-native is a requirement, not an option, for the new observability data stack. I believe otel-arrow (https://github.com/open-telemetry/otel-arrow) has strong future potential, and we are committed to supporting and improving it.

FYI: I think SQL is great for building everything—dashboards, alerting rules, and complex analytics—but PromQL still has unique value in the Prometheus ecosystem. To be transparent, GreptimeDB still has some performance issues with PromQL, which we’ll address before the 1.0 GA.
by Krssst | 2025-11-15 17:38:02+00:00
Disabling animations makes everything better no matter the OS.

When executing a sequence of actions, not having to wait 100-300ms for the device to show some random animation before inputing the next action is a time saver and a removes the "why is my computer/phone wasting my time" feeling.

Human reaction time is around 200ms but in a sequence of actions, we don't need visual feedback to move to the next action; it's just muscle memory and we can reach pretty low delay between inputs if the OS and apps do not impede us.

Back to Windows, I'm quite sad that 24H2 removed support for the legacy app switcher (alt-tab). It was very low latency and operated well in many high-load situations. The new one works okay but is not as snappy and can take a bit of time to show up under load. Plus I prefer the old style (smaller box, no need for eye movement to check its content).
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-15 17:38:15+00:00
Thank you, but I seem terribly out of my depth for that level of discussion.

If Claude helped me understand correctly, the error is on me for taking determinism as a base assumption and rejecting the assumption of "randomness" at a universal level? Is this something I would need to buff up on the quantum stuff to come around on?

All I have in my head is Laplace's demon, all I've ever observed is deterministic events: If you flip the coin the same way everytime, it'll come up the same way everytime?
by ngriffiths | 2025-11-15 17:39:16+00:00
Fair enough. It was something that impressed me when I first read about it. You hear about disputes between Apple and the FBI over unlocking phones and meanwhile banks are like "and over here are whole floors of analysts tracking suspicious stuff." I definitely agree there are downsides and not everyone is happy about the floors of analysts, but I do think they are very far away from the Overton window.
by jodrellblank | 2025-11-15 17:39:45+00:00
You call it the dumbest thing you have ever read, and say that I know nothing - but you agree that it is a correct statement ("Prolog does a specific type of formalized reasoning").

> "What does this even mean?"

For someone who is so eager to call comments dumb, you sure have a lot of not-understanding going on.

1. Someone said "Prolog is good at reasoning problems"

2. I said it isn't any better than other languages.

3. Prolog people jumped on me because Ackchually Technickally everything Prolog does is 'reasoning' hah gotcha!

4. I say that is entirely unrelated to the 'reasoning' in "Prolog is good at reasoning problems". I demonstrate this by reductio ad absurdum - if executing "?- 1=1." is "reasoning" then it's absurd for the person to be saying that definition is a compelling reason to use Prolog, therefore they were not saying that, therefore this whole tangent about whether some formalism is or isn't reasoning by some academic definition is irrelevant to the claim and counter claim.

> "are merely arguing for argument's sake."

Presumably you are arguing for some superior purpose?

The easiest way for you to change my mind is to demonstrate literally anything that is better for an LLM to emit in Prolog than Python - given the condition that LLMs don't have to care about conciseness or expressivity or readability in the same way humans do. For one example I say it would no better for an LLM to solve an Einstein Puzzle one way or the other. The fact that you can't or won't do this, and prefer insults, is not changing my mind nor is it educating me in anything.
by n0um3n4 | 2025-11-15 17:39:54+00:00
I’m working on a MUD server. I want text-based adventures.

Also... would it be crazy if services and social media were text-based applications too?

Not necessarily through telnet, but with some kind of standard so that instead of the web/browser, we use a CLI(s).

I dunno, maybe I’m just bored.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-15 17:40:42+00:00
I don’t understand this attack, are these reports anonymous or something?

In order to pull off this attack the attacker would have to have a collection of CSAM to upload. What if the site being attacked logged the uploader’s IP and went above-and-beyond complying with authorities and provided the source of the upload.

Well, I guess some people doing this sort of thing would try to hide their identity while doing the upload. Honestly, in that case… it might be reasonable for sites to not accept uploads via things like TOR, right? (Or however else these people hide their tracks).
by verdverm | 2025-11-15 17:40:44+00:00
Another post hit HN yesterday which claims that

1. No part of the attack required an LLM or agent, it used open source malware anyone can run

2. A more probable explanation is that claude provided a remote execution environment that is less likely to be blocked because the originating source is a US ip instead of typical malware ips

What are your thoughts on this (paraphrased) analysis?

(edit) apparently Anthropic has corrected the scale of the attack

> Corrected an error about the speed of the attack: not "thousands of requests per second" but "thousands of requests, often multiple per second"
by Cyphus | 2025-11-15 17:40:58+00:00
I 100% agree. It’s not so much the yaml as it is the templating. I originally wanted to say “since the invention of yaml/jinja” in the parent comment because that’s what I’ve gotten most of my gray hairs from (saltstack templating). Go templates are not jinja but fundamentally the same thing - they have no syntax awareness and effectively are just string formatters.

I took out the part about templating because I thought it made my comment too wordy, but ended up oversimplifying.
by pa7ch | 2025-11-15 17:41:06+00:00
I feel like people always take the designed for juniors thing the wrong way by implying that beneficial (to general software engineering) features or ideas were left out as a trade off to make the language easier to learn at the cost of what the language could be to a senior. I don't think the go designers see these as opposing trade offs.

Whats good for the junior can be good for the senior. I think PL values have leaned a little too hard towards valuing complexity and abstract 'purity' while go was a break away from that that has proved successful but controversial.