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It's been 10+ years since I tried CPAP, but I could never get to a place where I'd sleep through the night with it on. I'd always take the mask off in my sleep. I tried more than a half dozen different masks and I could never get one comfortable enough to sleep with. It always felt like it made the situation worse.

Over the years I think I've been to 4 different doctors for sleep apnea. Had 3 in lab sleep studies and a few take home ones. I always came away somewhat skeptical of any data obtained from the sleep studies, especially the in lab ones. The situation was just so different from how I'd normally sleep.

I only have mild sleep apnea and I'm not overweight. So I ended up going in for surgery twice, with different doctors. Got a turbinate reduction, so I could breath through my nose better and they somewhat straightened a deviated septum. Had the pillar procedure, and got a mouth guard made.

The mouth guard has changed my bite, but overall it does improve my subjective sleep quality, and objectively, the stake home sleep study showed substantially improved numbers. Though I'm told I'll still stop breathing and gasp for air in my sleep. So It's improved on the issue but not eliminated it.
Aside from the debate of WFH / work at the office, culture, water cooler etc.

Environmentalist should up in arms about return to the office. 2 hour commutes are terrible for the environment. 2 hours of an idling car not moving at it's true potential. (I understand that when the car is idling or stuck in slow traffic it is burning the most fossil fuels.) I'm not saying that WFH is going to solve our environmental problems, but taking a few cars off the morning commute surely can't hurt.

It also takes money away from big oil and our criminal frenemy, MBS in.
> People with issues need help, not bullying

Then it's their responsibility to seek it out. If you're privileged enough to lead the life described in the article, you can also afford to visit a therapist on a weekly basis. Otherwise, you can't suddenly expect the general public to treat you with sympathy, particularly if you're among the hyper-rich or otherwise elite.
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Can (s)he work in office and get all the perks, while you with remotely and receive none of those perks, at the same company?
Sure. This "hybrid" model has been working for a lot of companies, small and large, pre-covid.
Agreed! That overscroll bounce is huge for MacOS users. I know there was an open bug forever on that - super glad they implemented it. Makes it feel way more native.

I've been using Firefox full-time since Quantum again - mainly for speed - but it's amazing how nice it is starting to feel too.
I would recommend https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/ which handles everything in a nice GUI, lets you export settings for use on new machines, etc.
All of this +:

I can just start calling people, no need to find a room with my laptop where I only have the screen of that laptop, just to not disturb the others in the open office.

I have breakfast with the kids, am home for package/groceries deliveries.

I have much better relations with colleagues in other countries because cam on is the default and we are not with a group of locals and 2 people on cam. It's a big equalizer.

I like it like this and would be annoyed as well if this was taken from me.
I am curious to see where Java are C# are making progress towards optional GC.

This specific article talks about using No GC aka "betterC".

D has GC by default; the use of GC is convenient and mainstream as most popular languages show - Java/C#/Python etc. What D gives is the unique ability to do No GC programming for the cases where GC is not desirable. Very few languages offer this capability.

Zig is interesting in this arena, but it approaches the problem from the other angle. It is manual memory management by default, but you can explicitly choose which memory management technique you want to use - at compile time.
Or my talk therapist girlfriend, for whom working from home still means having phone or video appointments starting and ending every hour. Though at least she can take a short break if someone no-shows (most of that time is for doing notes).

I suspect most people working from home have some opportunity to take breaks here and there, though. I'm aware of certain professions with invasive monitoring (I've seen nurses that work for pharmaceutical companies report this), but it doesn't seem to be particularly widespread. I'm not familiar with anyone in my personal life who have an expectation of immediate response to superiors (though on the rare case the CEO contacts you, you should make sure to get on that pretty quickly ... but that's why I get email on my phone/watch).
Both the pro and con of Foundry is that it's a lot more 'development oriented' than other virtual tabletop solutions. This means it's more customizable, but has a higher barrier to entry.
Most leaders feel like they have more control when everyone is in person.
Facebook talking about respecting human rights and privacy... If you want to make a truly secure messaging platform release the client and server side source code or gtfo.
The offer begins, doesn’t end the conversation. Your friend will need to an express an opinion at some point. Lay out what you’re telling us to him, see how he reacts. Say there’s no hurt feelings either way, but this is what you’re prepared to offer. Maybe he’ll have a reasonable counter proposal, or maybe you’re both completely misaligned on expectations.

After all the only “fair” answer is based on how badly you need him and what he’ll accept based on a fair market value for his work.
> Some people prefer to work from an office (like me) just because you get to spend time with people (I live alone).

And/or (like me) you like work being somewhere different to home, and don't have room for a dedicated home office. In fact even if I have the room I'd prefer for work to not be in the house. Being able to work from home is useful to me on occasion, for both work and personal reasons, but I did not like it nor feel myself to be productive when I was there all the time. If I had no choice but to work remotely I'd probably rent an office space and have to factor that into my costs and benefits analysis of the job.

Then again I currently work a 15 minute slow-ish walk from home (or less than a 10 minute run back) if I take the most direct route, and can get home to entertain the cat at lunch many days, so the commute isn't a significant factor like it will be for many.
How many funerals did you go to in one month? Did you hesitate and worry about giving your own mother a hug afterwards? Are there newborn family members, that you've never even met, that are now walking and talking?

If you think this year was simply "adult responsibilities" getting to people, you may be the one with empathy issues (if not a bucketload more).
To play devil's advocate for a moment, is it possible people are becoming spoiled or too coddled by work?

I've always been of the presumption that market forces will align workers with jobs, but it's clear in places where there is little to no choice (i.e. the small towns Amazon puts their warehouses) theory doesn't exactly work out in reality.

That's led me to change my thinking a bit, but I'm having trouble getting over the notion that it's a job, and if you want a job, you work, if you don't want to work at a particular place, you go work somewhere else. I bristle at the notion that employees should, could, or can bend a company to their preference.

It just seems we've gone from free lunch and massages to employees dictating business decisions. I'm not sure if that shift in power is wise.
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Like the spaghetti monster, it's certainly not impossible they don't exist. It's also not impossible that they're indeed here, unfailingly remaining just beyond our ability to confirm their presence, and they look exactly as they appear in the popular imagination -- except with bowler hats.
SmartScreen exists solely to warn you about executables you already trust and be annoying.

Fortunately you can just disable it from the settings though.
It's very uncommon in the US. It less uncommon in Silicon Valley...which is disproportionately represented on HN.

To be fair it's also a problem in some cities outside SV though (Austin, Atlanta, Seattle) but the overwhelming majority of Americans don't face this issue. Even Americans working in tech.

Again, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't face this issue to the degree being discussed here (1+ hour commutes)

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/tr...
And for those who haven't given their credit card number, as a protection against abuse or "accidental" purchases (in-app, in-game, premium content, etc.), this looks like a suspiciously-convenient-to-Google mechanism for acquiring CC data.

We were previously told that it was advisable to use YouTube under an alias, and that other personal information such as phone numbers would be used only for account verification.

Those policies were rescinded or proved to be lies.

Google have no credibility here.
Invidious can still get around the nanny gate...for now.
Wild guess, but probably about as accurate as a telescope and timex watch. I imagine it’s like measuring speed using an hourglass and a camera.
UIs can be function first just like clothing, which is how I like it, just like clothing.
Fashion is nothing but an obstacle for people with practical concerns. Pardon me for hating fashion, but I do.
The TTSA disclosures of videos were snuck out without going through proper channels, if not exactly fully unofficial. And they did get groused at for that.

But there was a point, I think in late 2019, when they made a very unforced admission that the videos were real. it would have been much more normal and typical of their previous behaviour to just stick to "we can neither confirm nor deny".

And that, in itself, is interesting.
If you're not having to drive then commutes can be easily optimised. You can read a book, chat to your commuter buddies on the train/boat/coach (in some instances over a beer so it's little different than being down the pub). I've even used my commuter time to catch up of pending PRs on open source projects I maintain.

This obviously depends on your city / county / state having good public transport infrastructure but if the option is there and its practical then I'd take the train over driving to work any day of the week.
This can't be understated, at least for some of us. I'm in the Midwest and in the last 6 months about 20% of my company's engineering team has left and taken positions at new companies. Virtually none of them had anything bad to say about the company, its just that for a developer in the Midwest, the number of jobs that have opened up to them that were unavailable to them a year ago is unbelievable.

And on the flip side, it hasn't been too rough for my company to replace them because there are now a huge number of devs in places like the West Coast that wouldn't have been interested in working for us prior moving to remote work who now are.

I suspect some of this will all calm down a bit as the new order of things settles in, but for now, remote work is shaking things up in terms of opportunities for workers in a big way.
For application development, a memory corruption bug or a race condition is a safety issue that causes data corruption, and when the same corruption can be used to compromise the system, it's a security issue, as you said, often there's no point to distinguish them. In the embedded world, this distinction can be important. If a vendor says its microcontrollers have safety features, it means an elaborate system of watchdog timers, glitch-filtered inputs, and checksums. On the other hand, "a microcontroller with security features" means a crypto engine and secure key storage memory.
Logical fallacy. The average competence of an engineer in a pool does not imply that the number of the talented devs in that pool is small. The global pool of talented devs will probably be several times the size of the US pool simply because of the world population (would be good if someone has actual numbers on this though).
Oh, it didn't end perfectly. His wife was the office manager, and grew to resent me immensely for being perceived as inspiring her husband's change in behavior. Less smoking, more walking, dietary changes, etc. Unlike him, she had less than zero interest in any of those lifestyle changes and it created strife, which palpably transfered to me all the way up until I eventually quit.
Does privacy.com still require a debit card? That was what put me off the last time I investigated their service.
summary of comments so far: different people prefer different work arrangements

How surprising!
Our space is pretty small. Main room has seating for.. perhaps 8, and a separate conference room and a separate smaller 'single desk' space. There's usually only 2-3 people in at any one time - 5 is a big day, and for most people, it's a "part time" thing to get them out of the house.

It's not 100% the same thing as 100% total privacy, but it's generally not very noisy, and there's enough quiet to concentrate and focus when needed. There are some larger spaces in the area I've been to that are nice looking, and conducive to group work/meetings/collaboration, but don't work well for "I need solo time to think/work".
>It’s about time that as society we open up about mental health and how to deal with our issues, instead of blaming the people with the issues and calling them weak or snowflakes

I imagine the parent poster you're responding to would agree with me that the problem here is centering your identity on weaknesses instead of focusing on what you can improve.

I've had my share of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts, but as with anything else in life it really doesn't matter much what other people say about you and those things but how you alone deal with them. Obviously other people can play a part in this but at its core, success is exclusively individually based.
I mean, why and how?

Why is simple. If they're monitoring us they probably wouldn't want to affect the result of their observations. That's exactly why people studying nature on Earth try not to have an impact on what they're observing. It affects the outcome and it results in bad science. Or maybe they're shy.

As for how ... we're talking about hypothetical aliens who have crossed galaxies to watch us. Speculating about how they might hide from us when they get here in an HN post is beyond futile. How the heck would anyone know?
Sure - there are people in society who gain status by being a victim of some injustice or event. It means others will tend to give them social sympathy points, cater to their needs, and pay attention to them.

In the case of masks - some will wear a mask for no scientific reason, just that they can become a victim. "Sorry I can't attend that event because it's not mask friendly." "Sorry do you think you could wear a mask when we're in a meeting together?" "Sorry I don't go to happy hours b/c of my mask" etc.

It's going to be a whole subculture. There will be blogs, lifestyle magazines, you name it. "How to live your best life when others aren't masking up" - "top 10 skin friendly masks to wear" whatever.

-edit-

And just to make it clear I always wear a mask and follow state and CDC guidelines. I don't care about wearing one. Whatever the gov't says is what I'm going to follow. These are just personal observations.
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Office work never acknowledged how much labor was being done at home by unpaid workers — usually moms.

Now we’ve had a couple generations of women in the workforce en masse, partners who have stepped up household responsibilities, longer commutes, and more being asked of all workers.

The only time to get household crap done has been late after hours and the weekend, aka “leisure time.”

It hasn’t been tenable for a while and now the pandemic showed us another way. This is an improvement.

Offices mostly facilitate interruption, but also collaboration on a good day. So much of that can be done virtually.

Half-day whiteboard sessions are great IRL, no reason why they can’t be scheduled a day in advance, or later in the day and give people time to get to a common area to do so.

The office had its issues and the pandemic is forcing a reckoning of them. Great!
Well for UFOs (I.E. something that is flying that is hard to identifying, not exactly ALIENS!), I think it's two things.

1. Phone and security cameras are good for objects in close distance. The farther the object, the worse the quality. Best example I have is that I live close to a flight path of a local airport. I've tried to take photos (with an iPhone 11) of interesting airplanes to send to my friends who work in aviation, but the pictures are usually crap. I don't have an exact metric, but I would say its something like every 1 or 2 pictures out of 10 is good enough to identify the plane.

2. There actually are a lot of modern UFO videos on Youtube and the rest of the web that you can spend hours watching. It's just that they are mostly taken with phone cameras, so your video categories will basically be: "that's clearly someone practicing their CGI skills", "that looks like trash/that's clearly a drone", "That's neat and I can't really explain it". I dug through a few popular subreddits and youtube channels last month as we saw an influx of UFO stories in the media and this was basically my experience. It's a fun way to kill some time, but yeah you aren't going to get the high quality videos you want.
Agreed, to me it seems that the "therapy culture" is missing a key element of actual therapy, working to address the root causes and cultivating a sense of agency and ability to change one's situation in life. Acknowledging one's own mental illness or troublesome state of mind is an excellent first step but it needs to progress past that.

What I'm seeing is a sort of "pop-therapy" where people self diagnose and then wallow in it looking for sympathy while not making sincere efforts to overcome what they have to deal with.
At least in the US, this is very regional. As an example, I don’t use a car at all for commuting or short local trips because I live in a dense urban area. When I do need a car it is almost invariably for those cases where range and recharging are a material limitation, so I have an ICE.

In the agricultural regions of the US where I’ve lived in the past, distances are intrinsically long even in the small cities and infrastructure sparse. Real shopping may be 70+ miles away (but road speed is 80-85 mph so not that long). In other non-coastal city I’ve lived it was normal for people to do a 300 mile (each way) drive twice a month between cities. While more niche, a lot of working trucks in the agricultural and mining regions of the West are modified to increase their range — almost twice the range of the F-150 Lightning on a single charge. There is little charging infrastructure at all, and what exists is clearly positioned to target tourists from the coast, not the driving patterns of people that live there. There may be charging stations in these towns one day but I suspect it won’t be for a long time and range will still be a very real issue for a significant percentage of people.

There is a chicken-and-egg problem with the lack of range and lack of charging stations that make them unusable in many parts of the US. If no one buys EVs then no one will build charging stations, and the lack of range in regions that really need range means they aren’t a practical vehicle absent ubiquitous charging stations in places that probably won’t pay for the investment.
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How Will the Pandemic End?
Thanks. At least for now, this staves off the existential panic and need to use a different browser.
I don't think most of the people who feel this way are neurotic. I think most of the people who feel this way are treated very poorly and are forced to work more than 40 hours a week and don't get paid a living wage. We don't hear from them because they don't write for The Atlantic.

I don't hear people on HN who want to continue working remotely being accused of being neurotic or being molly-coddled, and they get get paid well and have very good work conditions.

I agree that the author is courting some kind of depression or neuroticism. But the subtext I heard in the article is that a lot of the things that people have not had to deal with during the pandemic are things we have known are bullshit for a long time. And now that we have seen proof that they aren't necessary, people are reluctant to go back to accepting those bullshit conditions. Especially when we saw how poorly healthcare workers and service workers who did work during the pandemic were treated. And again, those people don't write for the Atlantic but I have a feeling they were well represented by this article.
This and the successful testing of land based interception for icbms might well make carriers viable again soon...
I looked at the Tic Tac explanation in that article (section 2.4.3); I assert it's ... weak.

The object is tracking left with respect to the aircraft, as seen by the increasing left azimuth reported from the sensor. However, that azimuth is reported in units of whole degrees, with the sensor field-of-view being 0.7 degrees at 1x zoom or 0.35 degrees at 2x zoom.

The rate of azimuth change is about 0.3 degrees per second based on some simple stopwatch measurements.

In other words, if the sensor loses lock and ceases to track the target, you would expect the object to appear to accelerate left out of frame. At the 2x zoom, the angular distance across half the field-of-view (i.e. from the middle to the left edge) is 0.175 degrees; so you'd absolutely it to disappear in ~0.5 seconds.

You can see some "bobbling" of the lock as the operator switches between zoom levels in the video, and indeed the apparent sudden movement of the object occurs immediately after one increase in zoom level.

The data presented is equally consistent with this theory, but the article doesn't address that possibility at all - instead assuming that the explanation can only be due to kinematics of the object.

So, yeah, weak.
The problem isn't that Google is going to do something bad with your credit card, it's that because it's Google, they are training people to be okay with it everywhere else. Like when my bank sends me an email with a link to an external domain because I have a "secure" message.
Ask HN: How to Improve English Pronunciation?
Is there any cool site you can recommend that help you improve pronunciation/articulation/voice?

I know that there are tons of different accents. But I really want to sound less Russian and more American (love the US accent).

Since I'm going to record podcasts, this is a bit of a problem :)
The danger in this article is that less people might be willing to get a proper sleeep study after reading it and having a false sense that CPAP is terrible.

For sleep apnea CPAP WORKS and everything else is a hack.

We need more articles encouraging people to try CPAP instead of: here, take this nose clip on Ali Express it might work; or here put this ointment or use this mouthguard.

If you snore loud or people say your breath stops at night or you feel continuously tired or have headaches in the morning:
- talk to your doctor and demand a sleep study
- try CPAP for several weeks/months and try to get used to it
- once in a while you can test your blood oxygen / heartbeat overnight with a pulsoxymeter that has memory; also this can be helpful for people who can't convince e.g. a family member to do a sleep study
- please don't believe that a nose clip or mouthguard is a full solution; your life quality will suffer greatly