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Shimmer is NOT clinical and we do NOT provide licensed medical services. We are most definitely not trying to substitute a real doctor. Full stop. We hope that is clear in all of our communications and website, and do NOT try to obscure that.

However, we do a lot of work to work with the right experts (which include clinicians, psychiatrists, etc.) to ensure what we do it safe, follows best practice, is science-backed, and is effective. And we definitely want to highlight this work that has been done and the importance of it.

We will update the language to better reflect this immediately.
It depends on what you're optimizing for: the feelings of individual commenters, or the overall quality of the thread.
I absolutely did consider that. Did you consider that I might actually have looked into this reasonably seriously at one point? Like, say, when I was on my way to being a father?

The link that I provided explains the characteristics of the umbilical cord that have been evolved to minimize the probability of problems. It really isn't a problem. Even in childbirths where people don't worry about the umbilical cord.

This shouldn't come as a surprise. Evolution has selected for safe natural childbirth. Unfortunately in homo sapiens there is a conflict between our recent evolutionary pressure for large heads, the needs of walking, and for safety during childbirth. And so childbirth is much more dangerous for us than for other mammals.

Modern humans also have the problem of mothers in poor health. Reasons vary from drug use, to age, to sedentary lifestyles. Of these, drug use is the most dangerous. Despite most mothers not using drugs, drug use is a factor in something like half of childbirth deaths.

Then there is the list of usual complications. Breech birth, infection, blood type incompatibility, diabetes, heart attack and so on. It is a long list. It interacts with the previous lists - for example breech birth is made more dangerous because of our large heads. Complications from knotting of the umbilical cord is very far down the list of things that go wrong.
Impossible to cancel AWS – must pay them forever for zombie services?
I had a business that used AWS which shutdown over two years ago. I am NOT a developer. I've tried repeatedly to shutdown services on AWS and stop the bleeding. I've contacted support and they give me the run-around. One of the key issues is that there is a sub-organization linked to my account which has some invalid user email addresses linked to it. However, AWS policy is that I must migrate these accounts and provide a valid credit card for them! This is impossible because they aren't real addresses. AWS under no circumstances will shut down my account on my behalf, but it is impossible to satisfy the conditions of cancelability... I asked the support rep then if I must pay monthly charges forever and got the standard BS response. This seems like a criminal racket... Anyway, I canceled my credit card and am wiping my hands of it. The monthly bill is down to $30 or so. Will they come after me for this? Somebody should start a class-action lawsuit to end this crazy practice. They literally make it impossible to cancel an account under some circumstances.
Ask HN: HN App for iOS
What is HN choice for an iOS HN app? I have been using Hacki app, however recently, opening it for less than a few minutes and it overheats my phone (iPhone 14 Pro for reference, it doesn’t overheat even if I’m recording 4K or editing them) and not sure is it just a bad optimization or something else (miner?) is running, either way, looking for suggestions, quick look into the app store, there are primarily those that allow posting and other features: HACK, Octal, I did use the later one briefly before, open for recommendations.
In a bad place in what way? It's been up, useful and profitable.
You are not allowed to draw children in sexual acts in many places in the world. In some countries, you cant even draw god. These artistic limits have existed for a long time, but normally people don't rub up against them.
Yep. Meta is spending $22 B on CapEx over 2 years without any plan of how to use it, with about half of it tied to buying shit tons of H100 to go in custom servers.
Global news websites are, apparently, heavily downweighted. But they too often produce genuinely interesting stories to block entirely.
Chippewa Flowage Floating Bog Moved by Boats
A bit of a COBLUD-05 denialist are we?
I always assumed they were undercutting other lenders by burning Softbank/Middle East money.
Notice the choice of words: "Most of our OSS and free usage cost". Who knows what's omitted from that. Also assuming they have zero money left in the bank from the prev round (they def didn't) they're losing/burning $2mm a month
Epic own-goal.
That seems like a pretty big leap. This doesn't require language understanding, just a translation between muscle movements and sounds. Lie detection is way more complicated.
It requires the attacker to bypass the login, extract the key from memory from the system, or potentially with a physical TPM this style of attack. This is probably a lot more sophisticated of an attack than a random thief trying to make a quick buck stealing an expensive computer. Chances are they'll just end up wiping the drive and try to sell it rather than actually try a cold boot attack, but it all depends on your threat profile.

Personally I mostly use FDE on personal machines so I don't have to care much about physical destruction when I need to get rid of storage devices. If a hard drive fails I don't need to actually tear it apart to make sure my data is gone. My device is usually in sleep mode when I'm out and about so if they were going to do a cold boot attack they could do it anyways.
I like gecko / chromium source codes. My knowledge of javascript and browser APIs helps understand browser source code even if there is no documentation.
Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire Audeze
Ask HN: Anyone Feel Reddit Style Forums Are Soulless?
This is a weird thought I know, especially given Hacker News uses the same sort of format.

But I feel like the format of forums like that really dehumanise the folks posting there, and feel almost nothing like a community due to their design.

I suspect part of it is because the lack of identifiers for accounts make it hard to tell anyone apart, and the strict separation of 'communities' about a particular topic mean you never really get to know anyone in particular, they're just names that occasionally crop up when you're reading threads about something or another.

It feels like a system designed to treat members like interchangable content producers, where no one would notice if any one user left or was kicked out.

Anyone else feel this way?
I have seen a lot of coaches and websites everywhere, leading to the question How does your ADHD Coaching differ from those who offer individually?
The guidelines don't actually say humor should be avoided. Hacker News is just weirdly priggish because it associates humor with Reddit and Reddit with everything it fears, hates and stands against. So unless it's particularly smart and clever humor (which negates its "Redditness") it'll get stamped out like a cockroach.
It's because in a 10 years someone is going to notice that "somehow" the current governor of Hawaii became a billionaire, along with 10 project developers. Probably this will happen when one of the buildings collapses taking 100 children directly to ~2 meters below the surface ...
Really? Do you have any examples to share? I'd be surprised to see that in action.
I find it immensely hard to believe that going through character saves and removing the disease or disabling the effect altogether was not an option. I do have a feeling that there was an incentive to not do that and milk the attention the outbreak generated and to profit from the collective equipment damage, leading to more gameplay and in-game currency purchase.
It definitely depends a lot on metabolic adaption which already varies significantly person to person but I think for beginners just moving from a sedentary lifestyle it's a good estimate for a while (six months to a year is the number I've heard, depending on training intensity).

The last few months I've gone from a sedentary lifestyle to calorie counting and using an Apple Watch to track exercise with an intense 7-10 mile walk/run/hike 5-7x a week. With the weightloss I've experienced it seems relatively accurate (within 20%) but that's with 2-3 hours of exercise (not including weight lifting) per session.
I don't think it'll get better by NOT talking about it.
Thanks for the explainer. I’m on mobile so I’ll look up the exact language later. But since you seem knowledgeable about this, why are those granted asylum and refugee status included as “US persons” in the context of this employment classification? I can venture a guess, but my guess is really that it’s kind of a hanger-on from the Operation Paperclip and Cold War days, where we’d obviously want to bring in certain human capital from hostile regimes for our benefit. Basically I’m looking to understand more about the history of those regulations.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. Can you please not? We ban that sort of account, regardless of ideology - see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for why.
I thought it was a great example of unintended effects in a large complex system... and the CDC asking Blizzard "if they could use data from what they perceived as a planned disease simulation to inform their disease modeling research" was an interesting twist.
Cutting off visual and audio distractions is very 101 for what goal though? We aren't doing homework or taxes. In one situation it may be "distraction", in another it may be "stimuli" and enjoyable. ADHD people like to stim. In this situation I think the visual stimuli were good.
I think we should be careful when advising young or inexperienced people hacking for the joy of it, lest they make mistakes that are hard to recover. Time is precious -- better to choose wisely than learn from experience.

> Reverse engineering is fine...from a legal [perspective] in a lot of jurisdictions

Sorry, what jurisdiction permits one to violate a contract against reverse-engineering?

This is a pretty big problem that can't be hand-waved away. Companies everywhere have mere copyright on some materials that they make available if you agree e.g., not to reverse-engineer the interface or distribute the materials, essentially hoisting copyright to contract. This is how Java has worked for decades.

> Reverse engineering is fine. It certainly is from a moral point of view

In this case, the server is how Obsidian funds their work, offering free and paid parts. They're clear about it up front; they don't entice you and switch terms after you're committed. So how is it morally justifiable in this case?

> most have unenforceable clauses

The "enforcement" is not that they win their case, but the threat that they can take you to court and force you to pay a lot of money to escape the contract, especially in cases where you have significant investments or income. Unless you're dedicated to being so irrelevantly small that no one cares, why waste time building IP you can't benefit from, or telling the world that you don't care?

For people starting out, I would recommend picking viable projects, i.e., relevant to others, not illegal, not on dying technologies. They can exemplify not only your skills but also your judgment, and introduce you to the whole lifecycle of OS development if they have any legs.

And it may be best to find an unoccupied niche; in this case, there are alternatives already (better to invent than re-invent). (Unless you aspire to being a giant-killer :)

That's in part why the standard young-entrepreneur pattern is to pick new applications of emerging technologies, particularly those that irreversibly disrupt old industries or build new markets.

In this case there are many note-taking applications with syncing server. The unique project today e.g., might be to update an existing sync alternative to maintain a semantic model and then publish semantic cross-references, or publish a results of AI queries over the evolving set of highly-trafficked semantic topics.
Sadly, this is a case of mistaken identity.

I downloaded a Hubble Legacy Atlas mosaic image of the Sombrero Galaxy, and found his galaxy ("Iris"), right where he said it was. From the appearance (and the color figures in his paper), it's a nice strongly barred spiral (something I study a lot). Given the very small angular size (roughly 4 arc seconds in diameter), it's probably hundreds of megaparsecs (well over a billion light years) or more away, and so not associated with the Sombrero Galaxy (which is at a distance of only 9 or 10 megaparsecs).

The object is not in the NASA Extragalactic Database (not surprising for something so mall and distant). If you search near its position in Simbad, you do indeed get "PSO J190.0301-11.6124" (listed as "globular cluster candidate"), just as he found -- but it's crucial to note that the latter object's position differs by about nine arc seconds from the position of the "Iris" galaxy. If you look at the Hubble image, you can see a compact, slightly elliptical object at the position of PSO J190.0301-11.6124; its appearance is consistent with being a "globular cluster candidate" associated with the halo of the Sombrero Galaxy. But all the deductions about possible distances, spectral energy distributions, etc., are vitiated by the misidentification.

So while this is a galaxy, it's way, way beyond the Sombrero Galaxy, and I doubt the claimed X-ray source association, so it's probably not an active galaxy. (Well, it could be, but we probably don't have any evidence for that.)
We have something similar running today. Which acts as a bot for both Discord and an IRC channel.

Not sure tho if this code is shareable at the moment tho.

But if I'm not mistaken (can double check later on) it's based on Sopel

Ref: https://sopel.chat/
> Burning 1,000 calories is a lot of physical movement.

Divide that by 7 days per week and it’s only 142 calories per day.

The average person can burn that many calories walking a mile or mile and half. If you take your phone and answer emails while walking you’ll get there.

Some of the estimates in this thread claiming 10 mile runs are necessary are way, way off the mark.
s/widely than/widely used than/

How the heck did I just leave an entire word out? sigh
That's very interesting. I found his code to be unreadable
well that's just like your opinion man
I know this is kind of silly, but it annoys me a bit to see this portrayed as some creative innovation of the Japanese on top of some ancient Chinese system, when it's really just a simplification of the Confucian text Yue Ling: https://ctext.org/liji/yue-ling

The Yue Ling is a beautiful text, and it speaks to an aspect of Confucianism which I find fascinating, which is the idea that the ideal scholar-official should have a deep understanding of both climate and ecology. It's also fascinating how Japan imported and creatively re-interpreted this text, but it's originally of Chinese creation.
A lot of stuff also gets posted which is behind a paywall. I've learned to tune these out for the most part just from the domain name but I still don't see the point.
I'm sure there was some of that, and maybe it was my location/mortgage situation (maybe they excelled at jumbo loans?) but when I did a full comparison they were "just normal" (some things had moved around on the fees which can make it harder to compare, mind you). Maybe I came a bit after they were tightening (this was just before covid IIRC).

After all, they just resell the loans same as anyone, not sure what there really is to optimize away.
> spend tons of money to dodge taxes

and also

> Y'all literally think following the law is controversial.

There's a lot of tension between those two statements. How is your "dodge taxes" any different from "follow government incentives"?

A few years back I got a pile of tax credits for replacing my home windows and garage door, and as a result paid a lot less in income tax that year. Am I a tax dodger? Or was I doing exactly what the policy makers wanted me to?

When corporations shuffle around their finances such that the tax codes extracts less money from them, are they being evil? If you think that this outcome is bad, I think your beef is more with the legislators and tax bureaucrats than it is with the corporations.
I see the buggy 'preview' updates offered on all my Windows 10 and 11 machines, and none of them are signed up for Insider
Earlier investors = VCs funding a bunk company.

Later investors = SPAC pawns putting up money for a bad investment that doesn't require the normal regulatory scrutiny that an IPO requires.

If not Ponzi, seems very Ponzi-like.
Why not both? I own a handful of Mac machines, have a server rack in my basement loaded with R720s, and a 13900k beast Debian workstation on my desk. I'll occassionally rotate to my couch or a coffee shop and thanks to the wonders of SSH and wireguard I can access the rack and my workstation from anywhere while still having incredible all-day battery life (M2 Macbook Air). vscode+remote-ssh+tailscale is a killer combo.
I think it's important to note these approaches aren't one size fits all.

What you're saying rings true for me: it's easier to work for 2 hours vs. 1, and the pomodoro method absolutely has not worked for me the few times I've tried.

I have friends and coworkers who are the opposite though. Their barrier to the "flow state" is much lower than mine but they seem to fizzle out faster.

IMO it's all about experimenting with different approaches and finding blend one is to your taste.
> If people are distributing for malicious reasons, they aren't going to follow rules.

Yes... and by making laws around the distribution or labeling of this content they can be sued. The argument that criminals don't follow the law, so there should be no law is really weak. I dont really see a problem with requiring AI porn of non consensual 3rd parties to be labeled as such at a MINIMUM. Some amount of regulation could be required and shouldn't be dismissed outright given the societal harm that could be caused.
Chat generally being a nice way to interact with the model is one thing, but if anything this proves my point: there are now dozens of little web UIs on GitHub that are as good as the official one or better. You put in an API key and you have fully recreated their UI. I even wrote a CLI[0] in 130 lines of Deno that I prefer over the web UI. People are trying to charge for them but I don't think any will succeed.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/david-crespo/d9dbefe5a50c0f0da9ac3de...
> Because the whole point of client, side rendering is to not have session management on the server side so that it uses less bandwidth on the server provider

No, the whole point of client-side rendering is to apply parasitic computing and offload the server by having the client perform work it can thus saving the bandwith and compute power.

Next benefit is application that's "snappy" and works well, which is what almost never happens sadly.

> that’s why you have JWTs and stuff like that.

No, you don't have JWT and "stuff like that" because of this. JWT is for offloading databases so you don't have to talk to a DB on every request since you can verify the token via signature check and thus implement distributed services that don't have to talk to central authority to authorize a request.

> where state is able to be maintained per user usually up by the same thread on the same physical server

And now you're trying to sound smart by adding servers and "threads". I've a feeling you're pulling my leg right now so I'll excuse myself since you started spouting absolute nonsense.
Oh I see what you're saying now. Took advantage sounds a little strong to me but I mostly agree. I don't think either party had a choice and were just maintaining their constituencies as they have been for 70+ years. It's not like all the republicans recently moved to rural areas from non-rural ones and ONLY THEN the politicians started pandering to their respective demos.

I think the knowledge of this strategy's existence grew, but the strategy itself has been the same for a long time.
I use Starling.[1]

[1] https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/starling-for-hn/id1386611974)
(Obsidian CEO here)

Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term.

There are already a handful of tools that allow you to sync your notes for free, including Git, Syncthing, and some other options more specialized for Obsidian (see community plugins).

Obsidian is a small company, we're not VC backed (100% user-supported), so the Sync pricing helps us stay in business and keep the lights on. We also have a 40% educational discount on all our services[1] so you could be paying $4.80 instead of $8 :)

Reverse engineering things is a fun technical challenge, and also helps us find potential holes in our system. The main problems I see with your solution: 1. it could easily break in a future update to the app, 2. "Obsidian Sync" is a trademark, so you should consider renaming the repo otherwise it can be confused for an official tool — that would be my only request

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Education+and+...
This has already been studied. Negative citations are vanishingly rare. So virtually all of them will be either neutral or positive.
Maybe you should have a big switch at the top for "Stimulus mode" and "Distraction-free reader". And maybe another one that shoots fireworks.
Did ideogram release a checkpoint?
Yeah, the fact it’s an 8 million year old fossil really makes the tie to homo sapiens’ origins ludicrous. The earliest evidence for Australopithecus (where humans started to diverge from other apes like Chimps) was 4 million years old.

And there are already 12.5 million year old Ponginae (Orangutan relatives) fossils from India. Since all Ponginae are Asian but none are in human ancestry, that’d imply even earlier radiation of early African apes - which have just as much a claim to possibly being early human ancestors if they were pre-Ponginae - into Asia than this would.
These things aren't mutually exclusive and the commenters who want to get better (and/or develop more resilience to mild online criticism) do so just fine without the noise cost. There are lots of other ways one could try to dampen the unpleasantness that don't involve the extraordinary burden of receipts for downvotes.

I guess that's probably the best way to summarize this argument - the extraordinary burden demands extraordinary benefit and not even the people who are really into this idea often argue the benefit would be commensurate with the burden.
I think it's fascinating that this issue persisted for over a week with the developers seemingly unable to fix it – or not wanting to use "really hacky code" (quote from the article). Even with distributed systems, I would (naively) think you could just add a bit of code to the server that resets the database field containing the "infection"?

In the end they seemingly saw no other way than to roll back the whole game to the state before the "outbreak". This must have been an immense annoyance for players, to lose one week of progress.
There's no way an "enterprise grade" cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (for ECS, Lambda etc) from different customers within a single VM - it's the reason Firecracker exists.