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> If you can find a job you love, certainly do that, but don't hold the expectation that if you can't find a job that you love, something is wrong with your life

Thanks for clarifying, that's indeed what I didn't get from your original message
“Hyper-threaded” - this is Intel terminology, probably should state SMT?
Came here to post this. I once heard a scientist say that humans were his favorite species because only we will run into a burning building to save others, especially others who are not kin. The thing is, it's just not true. We're only beginning to understand the inner lives of animals.
Picture a tree. At every instant, every branch tip in the tree makes a decision: keep growing linearly, spawn a new branch, or stop growing altogether. How the tip makes the decision is unknown, but in the end the tree is perfectly balanced. Had excessively many tips decided to branch (“all my ancestor tips branched, if I don’t then all their work was for nothing”), the tree would be far too tangled and nutrients would be wasted developing far too many branches which all must compete against each other to secure more nutrients. On the contrary, if too many tips decide not to develop (“this dismal nitch is is devoid of all nourishment, progressing further would be a waste of resources, I should just end it now”), the tree has no chance of persisting through a thick undercoat to reach the riches above.

Point is, every individual entity “goes with their gut” and the final product is beauty. Too many try to meta-analyze it, maximize their own gains, etc, and the final product cripples.

Idk, maybe I’m just stoned at the nail salon. :)
Not only that but some of them actually think there's a moral problem with blocking ads.

Perhaps if the advertising industry didn't already prove for 20+ years that they are entirely made up of scum, I would agree. People use ads to make money. I feel bad that they aren't making money passively that way.

But I grew up with ad networks, including Google themselves, turning a blind eye to deceptive ads, bait and switch, fake window popups, and outright scams. The online advertising industry has done everything they could to fuck us over and big tech companies were complicit in the crime.

So that's why I don't care about running an ad blocker. Maybe the advertising industry will have a code of ethics after I'm dead, but until then I'll keep using uBlock Origin and NoScript (and other extensions) to screw with the ad business as much as possible.

Putting aside the ethics, advertising turns the internet into a race to the bottom. Ad blocking is good for the internet because it means that your ads had better be good, minimally intrusive, and also be integrated with the content you are providing. In other words, do things like preroll and midroll sponsorships and referrals rather than slap a bunch of banners on your site that peddle crap du juor.
I wonder if these people scoffed at or participating in planking and owling.
One Year of Applied Divinity Studies
I've been thinking for a while this is really a form of speciation. Conservatives and progressives literally have different brain structures [1] as well as different world views and different psychological triggers.

When those differences lead to extreme aversion, they're going to be enhanced by evolution.

I'm not sure I want to speculate what the long-term result is likely to be.

[1]https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.neu...
Also, how do people get power for their irons? Do they backpack an inverter and huge lithium battery? Or are there chemically powered irons that they use?
No matter what anyone plans, having children is
enough of a reset.
I've seen some of that research. MMA for example looks worse b/c of the potential for cuts and blood, but a single good punch typically ends a fight (and if a fighter does get to a position to really tee off, the ref stops the fight). Whereas in boxing, the boxer takes repeated punches over many rounds, and that doesn't count the training they do.
What are some of the more interesting projects you are working on? I work at a Legal Tech startup, with a strong focus on eDiscovery and now Evidence Management - "Improve outcomes with products Legal loves." - https://www.csdisco.com/
Peering is a one-to-one relationship, not "Internet access" like you're thinking. If you peered with Comcast, for example, you'd only be able to reach Comcast customers over that connection. A more "Internet access" type of connection would be transit, which is definitely not free.
Seconded. I was ranting to a friend about how I was fed up of finding shoes I liked only for them to be discontinued next time I need them and he showed me his Allbirds (which conveniently looked very similar to the Nikes I was trying to replace) and I was instantly sold - very pleased with the comfort and they feel like they should be very durable. Seems like a nice company in terms of thinking about environmental impact etc too.

I’ve now become the person who tells other people about my shoes lol - they had better not change the design!
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Show HN: Schedulo - An appointment scheduler
Hi, I've built an appointment scheduling web application (https://schedulo.hsen.tech/). The application has features to automatically create appointment time slots when the slot length and duration of a slot are provided. It also allows manual slot creation. I'm hoping to add more features down the line. This is currently in beta, so any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

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Hey, I had a few problems with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2x6IALMAYc

- First, there was some type of error so it doesn't load properly (a little toast message popped up after clicking "edit it").

- Then this video already has good Korean subtitles. Any way to edit those instead of using the auto sub titles?

- Finally, my use case is slightly different: I'm interested in translating the subtitles.
Even as a technical user the mixture of the settings app, control panel, and other misc administrative tools in Windows 10 are a bit confusing at first. A non technical user will struggle with any advanced system configuration no matter what operating system they use.

My mom has been using the latest LTS Ubuntu for a while now and it once unattended upgrades and automatic backups were configured (the latter was done with a built-in gui program that even allows you to restore a previous version of a file by left clicking on it and clicking a button) there have been zero issues about things not working or being hard to find. The software center is similar to the app stores in smartphones and more intuitive that going online to download an .exe installer file from hopefully the official website of the software creator. I have seen many PCs of people that ended up downloading software from Softonic and having the installer sideload "PC Optimizer Pro <current year> edition".
Ask HN: Need advice on best Linux compatible laptop under 2K
My Mac Air is close to giving up the ghost and I'm currently evaluating an M1 (16GB, 1TB) but somehow Apple's recent moves is causing disquiet and am considering returning it (even though it's actually not a bad machine).

So I need your advice on a developer's laptop capable of running some flavor of Linux for under 2k. Back in the day the choice would have been simple: ThinkPad but there are all sorts of negative reviews regarding quality of Lenovo and I've been buying Macs for decades so I'm fairly clueless regarding alternatives. Many thanks.
I don’t want my grandma using WhatsApp. The corporation that owns it behaves pathologically as a matter of policy and I have no idea what they’d try to do to her.

So yes. That’s a perfect example of how this would be an improvement.
That's not a logic bomb, that's a program's feature. The author discourages use on Windows, and the message clearly states so. An actual logic bomb would make it malware.
Mine, too.
Not for passengers. You still need conductors, if for no other reason to be the equivalent of flight attendants (there for extremely rare safety incidents -- deaths per passenger mile are higher for trains than planes -- to manage unruly passengers, etc.)
Show HN: Docker Compose compatible dev env manager
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Well, maybe that’s a reason to not have Teams integrated directly into the Operating System. Or to make Teams not take up so much memory—we had IM apps 15 years ago which ran just fine on a fraction as much memory, what happened?

It’s not really a problem today when people have the option of staying on Windows 10, but what happens in 2025? Seems like a lot of e-waste—and, well, a lot of expense, for people who have a lot less money than I do.

Do we really want all our schools and libraries to replace all of their technology so that Microsoft can push their bloated chat client? What does that do to overall technology access in our society?
I hope someday they make women’s shoes in sizes greater than 41, so that I can recommend them to my trans friends that have 42+ feet. It’s not really very profitable to market size 42 to women, and shoe retailers just don’t bother to make them at all, rather than charging more! so I always have a superbly difficult time finding good fashion recommendations in the shoe space. Disappointed to see them IPOing without considering a wider size range, but maybe the IPO will make them more inclusive. (In the meantime, Rothy’s is a classy alternative available up to 44, iirc.)

ps. Yes, I know this is HN, but it’s such an absurdly difficult space that if I can help a single trans woman reading this comment, then it was worth the risk of being attacked for caring. Fashion is often high tech these days too. With custom-to-order clothing and fast fashion normality, there’s no excuses for retailers who don’t extend their size range anymore. It’s just that lots of techy hackers aren’t aware of the market bias. I’ve been studying fashion for a couple decades and there are insanely great innovations that I don’t post to HN because we’re not mature enough yet. Hooray for Allbirds’ offering an opportunity to talk about one of my tech interests safely :)
The Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimism
> So it's unlikely they're auditing the entire distro.

No, you are oversimplifying the complexity of tenths-of-million-dollar contracts by far.

You can go from a simple and cheap indemnification https://ubuntu.com/legal/ubuntu-advantage-assurance to guaranteeing long term backports for a small set of packages https://www.cip-project.org/ to much bigger efforts.

Some commercial distros and various internal-only distros have a legal team to do license review. That's just the first step.

You can easily find jobspecs for security analysts in tech companies, or system engineers hired to handle the software lifecycle.

I opened the bug reports you are mentioning myself, and security advisories. I cannot name companies and colleagues, obviously, otherwise I would have done it already. The companies I work[ed] for rebuild entire ecosystems of packages, do legal review but don't do security audit on things like games.
> Yes, when compared against a license that bans funding your project. I'm not here to argue that the current state of funding in FOSS is great, I'm here to argue that banning funding is not going to help it.

Banning funding that doesn’t exist for most projects isn’t harmful. 50% less than $0 is still $0. Most open source projects get nothing from companies, and count on the free labor of the founder and those “buy me a coffee” buttons (which would still be fine for a non-commercial project).

In fact, it’s extremely common to have open source library writers complain that their product is used by unicorns and Fortune 500 companies, yet they’re forced to support development of a product that helps others profit. This is part of why we see such public burnout and ragequits here from time to time.

It’s fine to say “well banning commercial funding won’t help”, but let’s be honest; for profit companies aren’t going to give anything back without being forced to do so. We’re covering huge chunks of their labor cost for free, without some mechanism to force them to pay, they never will.

> Blender can't use an NC licensed asset in the program, because their software is a commercial product that they are making money off of. What an NC licensed commons does is it guarantees that anyone building on top of the commons can not do so in a sustainable way.

Blender is in extremely rarified territory for a FOSS program; it gets direct cash subsidies from for profit companies who see benefit in its development. While it’s obviously true that Blender going NC would ruin them, looking at such outliers to judge the median is like looking at a lottery winner when planning out your finances; you’re going to get a skewed sense of reality.

Also, Blender isn’t getting funded by Epic out of the goodness of their hearts or a concern for the commons. Epic sees profit in making it easier for other people to make video games for their platform. Very, very few open source projects will ever end up in this position.
Correct, that's a bit of an odd guess. You are definitely working closely with your foundry on something like this, but unless you are building some truly exotic device, I don't think their vendor is getting involved.

Like Melkman says, Broadcom is a good guess. Not only for past rumors, but iirc they also did work with google's TPU (could never figure out if that was actually confirmed?).
Interconnect IP like that is definitely in their wheelhouse.
models are heavy though. imagine sketchfab with models instead of images, is that so useful?

Isn't model loading/viewing supported by webXR? currently it seems webXR requires a lot of boilerplate to get it to work, it would be nice to have a simpler way to setup a 3d scene , and html tags should follow.

Also , limiting the functionality to 3d models seems odd, how about 360 panoramas, and what about animation?
You kidding? That's incredibly cool. What are the refresh rates like?
How Will Rural Chileans Use SpaceX Starlink?
You're mischaracterizing typical NIMBY motivations. When I talk to those people they are mostly long term residents who are more concerned with quality of life issues like noise and traffic. They don't care as much about property values because they aren't planning to sell; they expect to die in their current homes. And they oppose new development even in cases where it would increase their own property values.
I appreciate the clarification. It's not an indication of my desire to work at a FAANG or not. My own experience is from publically trading companies, whom offered options with (typically) 3-5 year vesting periods.

However..

> Public companies such as FB pay in liquid stock, that *vests over some period of time*.

And

> immediately sellable

Are a contradiction, no?
I've had weeks were i worked 60 hours of crunch, but most weeks, even if i was at the office i work barely more than 25 hours. Between reading tech news, gossip, researching a bit on this totally new tech that seems nice, trying to justify a POC to my n+1/n+2 and preparing slides on "why leaving Jenkins totally make sense", i did so much false work that honestly would annoy me if i was a manager. Now i'm leaving my computer for 30 minute pauses, it is far healthier for me, i'm more effective at my job and i stopped wasting my time and the time of my collegues on meaningless presentations. I still do somes on "clean code" or "how to rework your commits to prepare efficient code reviews", but it is for the benefit of the team, while the one i did pre-covid were for my entertainment.
I’ve put off buying a sleeping bag from REI because of DWR. I like to sleep outside as much as I can, and when temps are freezing a well-insulated bag is great. I’ve switched to wool blankets for now. I’m also more and more okay with going without various comforts; the cost of having whatever I want is too high.
It is easy to say, very eloquently, "There is a problem." In fact, mostly, everyone agrees there is a problem.

It is rather more difficult to say, "Here is a solution that will suck less."

In fact, it is hard to say, "Here is what a solution would look like." Government planning? (In the most generous terms; "government" is the mechanism that large groups of people use to make large decisions. I find myself somewhat dubious, particularly if your take is, "psychopaths really do rule the roost.") Eliminate economic growth, somehow? (But people want cures for Alzheimer's and cancer, and all those people currently living in huts and squalor may not want to continue doing that forever.)

(Given the history of such things, I'm personally beginning to suspect that saying, "there is a problem," without also saying, "and here's what I want to do about it," is akin to yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.)
Time to switch to Linux. Apparently these days even gaming works pretty well.
Just running off of an idea of transplanting land-based technology into underwater.

One could deploy low-power laser scanning as an anti-collision mechanism when venturing into narrow channels, no?
> But by trying to say all childless adults are “childfree”

I didn't try to say that at all

You did though, which is interesting

The point about talking about your source is the your entire response seemed haphazard and creating contexts that neither I or the report said, contexts that didn't fit at all while pretending to be consensus on terms. Which it isn't.

In any case, you did find my main point, where the language and adjectives used in the childless context assumes an affliction. It assumes there is a problem, such as the infertility that you care about and are sensitive to.

I think it is equally inconsiderate to not acknowledge people that just don't want children, as opposed to an explanation. Simply writing Childfree apparently illuminates that so well. So, its a two-way street, where everyone feels invalidated. Glad we could make that obvious.
In which case the terminal can use the tmux session to carry out its evil deeds.

Keep in mind that the terminal app is what reads keyboard events and passes them on to what it runs, and the terminal app reads the output back from the attached application (or tmux session) to render them to the screen. It has full control to monitor what you do, and to inject additional commands (and hide the responses) to whatever you connect it to.

Anything you can do in the terminal, the terminal can also do without your permission unless you do far more complicated filtering.

EDIT: I think what might not be clear here is how a terminal operates. It'll differ by operating system and winding system, but on Linux what you have is this:

X server ----[keyboard events]----------> terminal ------[pty w/keyboard events]----> [app/shell/tmux session]
<---[rendering instructions]----/ <----[pty w/output]------------------/

The terminal is always a middleman, and can send whatever it wants to the app/shell/tmux session or whatever else you connect to it. It could "just" send your keypresses, or it can do macro expansions, or it could just randomly take over the endpoint on the other side.

You could conceivably still lock this down, but it would involve writing something that either replicates the keyboard event pipeline of the terminal to verify that what is sent over the pty matches the inbound keyboard events, or applying heuristics to what is sent to block things that seems odd, so it's potentially possible to do "something" useful here. E.g. something that blocks and pops up a warning if the pty "keyboard events" suddently contains the string "curl" when that string hasn't been seen in the keyboard events from the X server for example could be useful, but bubblewrap certainly can't do anything like that.

It'd be quite interesting to write a tool that wraps an app and allows you to script monitoring and/or munging of what goes over its sockets, though...
The "pragmatism" mainly, although I'd also be interested in how Rust specifically doesn't cause learned helplessness.
The reasonable person is widely acknowledged to be a legal fiction.
That is an offensive, inaccurate and entirely unproductive comment.

We are proposing a wide range of changes that would break or weaken the hold of the two party system in America. Our political system of pure winner takes all regional representation in partisanly gerrymandered districts strongly encourages negative partisanship and decreases the actual voice that voters have in how their country is run.
I strongly believe that it is possible.

Basically, there's an arms race between any democratic system and the people who live within it. We haven't updated ours in ages, and it shows.

I'd like to see more people talking about "liquid democracy." It too would be just another tit-for-tat in the arms race of corruption, but so it goes.

The beast we're trying to cage is us, every bit as clever. So we must be every bit as clever in how it is caged.
Divorce rates in America indicate that many people don’t consider this. Let’s say you don’t like interacting with certain people that often, then having a kid is kind of a reckless decision. You’ll need the help of your parents, your spouse’s parents, siblings, neighbors, etc to give the kid the optimal upbringing. Some people literally go ‘well I don’t like my partner anymore, so fuck this nuclear family shit’. If you have that in you, stay clear of parenthood.
Linux. Specifically Pop! OS on a System76 laptop, and usually Fedora or CentOS on VPS's.
Because the desktop experience is bad and I can get everything I need from the CLI in WSL on Windows or from the terminal in MacOS. And I try not to be a martyr for politics in my choice of tools. If all else was roughly equal, I would prefer FOSS, but it's not and the sooner the FOSS community realizes a license isn't a feature the sooner we will have that world.
> Show a pop-up that says "this will send the abuse information to Discord staff" to clarify.

Always assume that customers do not read everything, even the most important messages. (Because they don't.)

> Or, add true reporting functionality for mods themselves.

Yes, this could be a solution.
Just a tip: Dwservice is a great tool for remote control, and it can run as a service or as a one-off!
>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows.

A varying level of support for Windows 10(21H2) extending up to five years has been pledged before sunset; slash and burn is a well known phenomenon in the tech world.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/07/15/intro...
I thought the locking mechanism of the trap was clever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUVdzi-HqY
> if I do not have children, I will be the end of a direct line that stretches back four billion years

You could do this kind of analysis for any mammal (and most animals) to be honest. Yet we still wage war, eat meat and destroy ecosystems.
Because rice will still stick to the cast iron and enamel pans?

People don't just choose PTFE because they are lazy. I tried a carbon steel, cast iron, and "oiled enamel" and rice stuck to all of them.
Have you been able to piece together a definition for the word? I've yet to be able to tell from context what it means (it's a portmanteau of "monopoly" and "FAANG" I think? But is it supposed to mean all of those companies, individually, are operating as monopolies and should be broken up, or that those companies collectively form a cartel and should be banned from operating as such, or some third meaning I have yet to identify?)
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The amount of memory used by many modern websites is also atrocious!
This would be true if we didn't account for the extreme inequality of the system.

For instance the richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity [1].

We can have prosperity without growth, and we cannot have infinite growth in a finite planet.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...