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Haiku's "raison d'être" is to be a fully-fledged desktop operating system for general use. So, if there aren't native applications to fulfill daily tasks, then Linux ones tend to get ported.

Anyway, as for the question "why Haiku, if it's just ported Linux apps?" well, because Haiku is a much more cohesive system than any Linux distro. Even if every app you are running on it is from Linux (besides Tracker and Deskbar), the entire system underneath those applications remains tightly integrated.
If this may offer any comfort, even people with all those skills aren't getting many interviews right now.
There was a debate on another thread whether Gaza can correctly be categorized as occupied territory, and I’ve seen multiple denials of that fact elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985147).

> Your claim that Hamas should be able to attack Israel with impunity and kill Israelis at will and Israel has no right to self defense

I never claimed that. It is just that any action Israel takes as a result is not war, but rather counter terrorism or counter insurgency. The British army also had to deal with terrorist groups from their occupied territory during the troubles, when they responded by firing live ammo into unarmed demonstrator, there were consequences. Ultimately the British failed to land a military victory over the terrorists, and finally ended their occupation over Northern Ireland with an agreement.

Israel’s conduct here is as if the British army would have doubled down after Bloody Sunday, say by imposing a blockade, conducting bombing campaigns, and as the IRA’s terror would respond in kind, invade the territory with mass civilian casualties.

What I’m saying is that Israel cannot act as if it has no control over what goes on in Gaza. Their conduct has to match their possibilities. And ending the occupation is one option which they have, but aren’t exploring.
FWIW I just tried that exact search and every item I see listed at above $200 also has a "more buying options" listed on the search page with a price less than $200, so while it's annoying I guess I get the logic.

All those options (the ones I see anyway) are used, so when I limit the search to "Condition - New" they all go away.
How about air poppers for popcorn? I have cycled through literally a dozen and all modern incarnations are totally shit, with improper designs that lead to way too many unpopped kernels. This is a market that could use the Dyson touch…
> One company's I looked at asked me "what is the most impressive thing you've worked on?"

I get this one a good bit and I despise it because the answer is always something I did outside of work.
They could probably try and make some sort of filter so fake products cant be autouploaded via chatgpt too:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-a...
Lima is what I use as well. It's quick and easy to just fire up a VM with default settings, but also very easy to configure with different file sharing options, port forwarding, different linux distributions, etc. (their examples are also pretty good IMO [1]).

In particular I use it to run an amd64 VM, which I need to run a stubborn service for work that doesn't run on arm CPUs.

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples
I ended up prediabetic and switched over to eating what basically amounts to a strict paleo diet, or something like whole30, and 0 sugar (other than the occasional piece of fruit). Something switched in my head, as I had other issues going on and thought I was going to die. In 3 days some of the really worrying issues went away. 3 months later my blood sugar levels had come down considerably, and a few months after that they were well within the health range. I didn’t count calories or carbs or anything like that. I just ate stuff with 1 ingredient… and hot sauce or whatever, that had real ingredients and no sugar (or fake sugar). It’s kind of crazy, after a while, carrots start to taste sweet.

My dad ended up with Type2, I mentioned the no sugar thing. He said it sounded too hard and he had done Atkins before. He read all the recommended books and tried all the recommended diets, even went vegan for a while. After about 6 years he found some doctor that put him on an extreme elimination diet as part of a medical study, basically nothing but protein shakes (with some added nutrients). He didn’t eat solid food for months. Then had to slowly add real food back over several months after that. It ended up working for him, but it seemed far more difficult and unmaintainable than what I suggested to him 6 years earlier.

My mom also ran into it. She called me, did what I mentioned and was good to go a few months later. Of course that doesn’t mean she could go back to eating how she did before, but still has some treats and things she enjoys. She found some balance once out of the danger zone.

My dad’s experience made me pretty cynical of the industry around type 2 diabetes. They have no incentive to cure a person, when they can keep them sick and have a lifelong customer buying all that medication. The diet may have been extreme, but for me, I’d rather be extreme for a few months than have it drag on for years like my dad. And actually, I didn’t feel like I was being that extreme. I ate until I was full (giant plates full of vegetables), I felt great, and didn’t feel deprived. Every Saturday I’d cook myself a big ribeye with a sweet potato; it was great. It was only other people saying it was extreme or too hard that got to me. I started questioning myself. My doctor told me I was doing awesome and not to listen to them.

Best of luck on your next A1C check. Hopefully the road you’re on work for you. If things aren’t working, I’d question the motivations of those providing the information, or the systems which educated them. A doctor telling someone with type 2 diabetes to eat white flour and sugar doesn’t sound like a doctor who understands what type 2 diabetes is.
I also like buying things made locally, restricting the aperture of a product's origin to its absolute smallest possible in relation to my residence. I've even found tools made in my state!

Whether or not you should try is up to you.

But it is possible. Companies CAN compete with low-wage low-regulation areas but usually only on the high end.

You can buy toasters from Ritter that are made in Germany and they retail for around $200.

After a very cursory search I found a 1939 Sears catalog that listed an old-fashioned (a heating element surrounded by A-frame to hold the toast) toaster for $0.89 and a "Deluxe Automatic Toaster" for $8.95. A "Deluxe Automatic Toaster" is the kind that everyone buys today with adjustable toasting and automatic pop-up.

$8.95 in 1939 is... $200.

So you might want to start by doing some research into what people might want in a product once the price trends towards the high end of the market. My gut tells me, just based my desires and products that are still successfully being manufactured in the US that simplicity, robustness, and repairability are all extremely high, and wifi-enabled smartshit is very, VERY low on the "want" scale.

Products like Vornado air circulators (dumb), Bunn coffee makers (dumb), and Red Wing boots (dumb) are all made domestically and have all been on the market for decades and cheap imports haven't killed them off yet-- and they are all simple, robust, and repairable.

So DO NOT TRY TO MAKE THE JUICERO OF TOASTERS.

Make a residential version of the Waring commercial toasters, something with good industrial design, simplicity, and repairability, made domestically (Waring moved production of their 4-slice toasters overseas long ago).

Someone who spends $350 on Red Wing boots is willing to spend that much because they WILL get them resoled.

Someone willing to spend $200 on a toaster probably attempts to estimate how long it will last, and is smart enough to know that a wifi chip or microcontroller is an unnecessary complication.

I work in a field that makes physical things, but not mass-produced things. One pitfall I have observed with software folks moving in to manufacturing, such as programmers getting an MBA and PMP and moving into management is that the amount of time and money it takes to actually make a real physical object is almost incomprehensible to them.

Also incomprehensible are the very real and very important quality control and safety components to manufacturing.

Of course, if you worked on software in a safety-critical field this is old news.
Yeah, that's kind of janky. Because in Bsky, there is a user setting to ~"ask clients to respect login required."

However, there are things like firesky.tv which access AT Protocol directly and I believe don't respect that setting. You can make a user RSS feed from firesky by using Filter and setting a user handle.

At least I think I am responding to your issue...
^F Solar

No matches (yet) ??!!

This is your niche, a bespoke toasting fork and a foldaway reflective parabolic trench, all stamped with a discreet Americab flag.

* nuclear will take too long.

* HVDS (High Vis Direct Sunlight) reflective tubes can pipe in sunlight from Australia during winter.

* Rapid Early Scale Up Marketing - essential to get the volume before the bubble bursts.

( DM me for VC terms and assorted quotes from The Tibetian Book of the Dead )
Or, you could just put them on the roofs of existing buildings. I mean, that's where you need the power right?

All you need then is a grid so you can off load excess power (you're going to have a lot of excess power, if you cover even one in ten roofs in a city) to some kind of storage method and draw back from that when the sun isn't shining.

I would think the environmental difference between a ceramic tile or metal roof and a solar panel roof is pretty minimal.
Personally I would agree. Of all these services Bluesky is the only one I have an account on and actually use directly (I "use" Twitter indicrectly via Nitter). I was actually excited to get an invite.

It just feels... cleaner somehow. The slow trickle has, I think, kept it from being overrun by low effort posters and bots.
I'm interpreting this as incredibly pedantic.

Just because Beeper is delegating the ToS violation to a bunch of random people doesn't mean they aren't complicit. It appears they are acting in even worse faith than Apple here by suggesting their new mechanism is safe and has no side effects when it actually does.

If the cost for me to enjoy a relatively spam-free and stable iMessage experience is to simply not do dumb things, then I will voluntarily not do dumb things (at least not with an account/machine I care about).

Don't sacrifice your devices for another company's attempt at 15 minutes of fame.
Well, some people are more random than others!

For example I dated this girl who was always stopped for a random search in an airport.
Sounds like the next Juicero potential. Maybe they can sell more if they make it "smart" so it can post a tweet about all of your toasting adventures. Then they'd be on HN. Oh, of course it'd have to be written in Rust
One regression that really annoys me: in recent KDE themes, the default "active window" and "background window" titlebar colors are indistinguishable. So you have no clue where all your input events are going to go.

And if you actually set them to reasonable colors, certain applications do weird epileptic things (looking at you, Firefox!)
Substack has this working.

I have some paid substack blogs in my RSS feed. Some give you part of the post in the feed and then you have to click on the post to see the rest (in you’re a subscriber, else not). Others just say “click here to read” and again, if you are a subscriber (I am) you see the post.
In relatively recent versions of Anki, you can create nested Cloze deletions: "{{c3::{{c1::foo}}{{c2::bar}}}}" will show you cards "[...]bar", "foo[...]", and "[...]", in that order, all with answers "foobar".

As for multiple choice and q&a---my practice is to make both Cloze and basic cards for, well, most things---Cloze are good for the early steps and for seeing how different pieces fit together, but basic cards are more demanding, and without them I don't quite feel like I've learned a thing.

(FWIW my primary use is physics & the mathematics behind it, not language learning.)
Guess I should return my dog eared copy of “quantum physics for complete and total nincompoops” then.
Create a machine learning competition for your org, friends or the world
I've looked into it from the technical side, and it's not that straightforward.

I mean, yes, it's on the scope of a toy project, but it's definitely not on the scope of a weekend project.

My software development estimation looks like at least 2-3 months with at least 3 hours daily on the IDE (on the Subscription Management side, ignoring the payment gateway, that as you mentioned: it's on Telegram already).
That's obviously a different scenario?
Or wake up in the morning to find out the nightly OTA firmware update was bad and bricked your toaster.
Ahhh, that is actually consistent to the rest of the diagram. I was so very confused because I couldn't figure out what that percentage could possibly be that made sense in context.

Juicing isn't recommended much any more now that we understand the importance of fiber and fiber-bound nutrients. As long as it's greens and not fruits, and only offsets a part of the cruciferous veggie intake, it could still be a healthful part of a WFPB diet. I have heard some of the nutrition intervention type retreats do that, as their guests may need the extra boost.
I asked for that... I should have specified 'meaningful'.

The first sentence of your link:

"First opened in 1933, the White Sea-Baltic Canal was built on the backs of gulag prisoners. By the time it was done, more than 25,000 laborers had lost their lives."

What a triumph!
I can't figure out if they're legal or not
As a user, when I set a price range, I want the search function to return results within that range. I don't want fuzz. I don't want you to second guess me. I want the results I asked for.

This is the natural, simple, user-friendly design I want.

Don't give me some bullshit instead.
Show HN: GitHub doesn't support fast-forward commits. This fixes it
Wow 450 hours! I bet you learned a ton about all the different layers that went into this project, good for you on the undertaking.

You’re probably on the right track here, the execution may need a few more iterations. Ultimately if you average out a bunch of resume descriptions, the average may not end up being what anyone wants. It’s like the idea of an “average height or size” for humans, where the clothes are mostly made for one size, but the reality is that everyone is all over the place.

Bad analogy aside, I would find usefulness in having a program that has an input of a resume and a job description and then outputs a new resume that has a base from the input but that is tailored to the job description, using AI or whatever.
I married into toaster moguls. When they sold out in '97, domestic toasters had been infeasible for years already. And this was for a company where all the knowledge, equipment, and facilities had beed paid for many decades before. (They invented the electric pop-up toaster for certain definitions of electric pop-up toaster.)

Toasters are refined brilliance, if done right. The concept of "done" is computed using an analog computer programmed by human experts. (Ok, its usually a bimetal strip but it is placed so that the cooling of the moist bread keeps it from going off and your lighter-darker input is biasing when it considers the toast done.)

Tear apart some toasters. There won't be anything in a modern cheap toaster that isn't absolutely required. Ask yourself why everything is the way it is.

Research the UL requirements. I have the corporate 2 pound copper ball that had to be dropped on things from prescribed heights and not cause malfunction. Make sure you can hit this targets with what you think you can build. Also check the CE, they might have more modern rules.

Be ready for litigation. Toasters catch fire. The toaster moguls were horrified whenever they saw someone's toaster under a cabinet. Decades after selling the business they were still being sued by mesothelioma suits for things like a repairman that got lung cancer and repaired home appliances, so he probably might have worked on one of their 1920's models with asbestos insulation. Don't let it stop you, but put the backup insurance into the expenses.
I'd be careful with any modernization that impacts ATS software's ability to parse it.

Recruiters work through ATS systems and will rarely read a resume unless it shows up at the top of some filter.

Use something like jobscan.com to validate how the resume parses and avoid any cool graphics and stuff.
TTS is already used for placeholder dialogue in games, yeah. That has been the case for a long time. There's not really a precedent for using fake versions of an actor's voice, but placeholder TTS dialogue has accidentally slipped into large releases before, and a few notable games have come out using AI instead of voice actors (The Finals, one of Cyan's games, etc)
If you really want to get something very clean then add 1/4 cup of Borax and use Extra Hot if your washer supports it. Source - me - I wash household blankets the kids make super dirty sometimes. If the material can handle the heat (no shrinking or delicate materials issue) then the Borax really does super charge the detergent effects somehow.

I don’t doubt there might be something environmentally problematic with Borax but I just am not aware myself.
About a month ago, I bought a toaster for Christmas, and, while walking in the alley and checking prices offline and online, I was mesmerized by the price strategies. With quantities that toasters operate in, their production cost is around a few dollars, and I bought one for $50 without any digital features.

If you are planning to build one in the USA, you will probably need to tell yourself what "build in the USA" means. Is it PCB printing, PCB assembly, plastic production, mold production, cool design features, coil design, final assembly, or some combination of the above? You will be surprised to find some of the requirements to put "made in the X country."

I do product development professionally, so take the comment as my bias, but it is a light project to start with as there are minimum components, you can build the entire thing in the garage, and it is something that everyone around you can give feedback on. Almost like an art project.

Anyway, I would love to share any info you may find useful to start. Email in the profile, if you are interested.
Recognize names of well-known brands in search queries and filter (or at least prioritize) items by the associated seller? It's not exactly black magic.
Yeah, playing with the wording for the claim is always fun :)

How the huge mining companies get away with claiming so much is beyond me. But they do.
Jobscan really killed any spark left in me when it dinged my resume for not having useless vague phrases copy/pasted from job descriptions like “business solutions”.
Then either jump jobs or get promoted. This is the nature of tech. High risk, high reward. Work for the public sector e.g. US Digital Service if you just want something boring and stable.
That was just a couple of days ago. Wonder why HN didn’t catch it automatically.
Full tuition scholarship is amazing, go to the US, ace school, get work experience in the summer. You will do fine.
FAA, NSA, and Navy vs. the Furby
That's not empowering a guitarist to play guitar in some new or better or more efficient way.

Drum machines and VSTs are tools for any composer to synthesize a composition. They solve a different problem for a different set of people that can include but is not limited to guitarists. And as you pointed out they predate AI.

How do drum machines and VSTs make you better at playing guitar, or allow you to do that more efficiently or for higher pay? How will AI do that?
Seems like the code books would be useful for phone texting. (Note that they're actual words, not acronyms like lmao.)
Or... drop an anchor, pull the floating barge against the tide towards the anchor when the sun/wind are optimal. Let the tide pull the barge away from the anchor (with a generator on the winch cable) when you want power while the sun/wind aren't providing power.

Tides have massive potential for power generation. The best part is how predictable they are.

Your idea of weights being raised and lowered makes more sense for land based energy storage (and it is being trialed right now, with promising results).
In private life, we probably do more "dumb things" than we used to. The number of people dying in car accidents or due to drug overdoses is absolutely staggering and is a fairly recent phenomenon. The gains from banning lawn darts and no longer using fire grenades are inconsequential in comparison.

To be fair, workplace safety has improved quite a bit - some of it thanks to regulation, some due to economic shifts (less mining, more office work). This improved the life expectancy of lower-class men.

But that aside, a lot of the gains in life expectancy have to do with very basic things - like flush toilets, along with generally improved standards of living.
Meanwhile…someday our great great grandchildren will find a MacBook from “the early 20’s” and when they open it they will see a file opened to VSCode with cryptic symbols on it.

“Iran?” they’ll wonder, “perhaps it was code for the ongoing conflict with Iran.”

But in fact it will just be someone who literally died trying to get Webpack to work on a website for pirated Tarantino films.
And for Android users the stock photo app on Samsung does the same?

And we had https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshotgo-ca...
I'd say give it a virtual try :)

Fusion 360 is a horrible cloud lock-in, but it's also cheap and feature complete. Custom injection parts are expensive, but thin sheet metal you can cut at your local hackerspace. And now just try if you can design the mechanical functionality using only off-the-shelf screws and sheet metal parts with easy bend sequence.

The control stuff is easy and cheap. KiCad is your friend.

Once you have a prototype showing the rudimentary mechanical parts, you'll have a much better idea of the work and costs involved. Plan for about 8x mark-up from production costs to end-user price.

And last but not least, many projects die because they cannot access the relevant market cheaply enough. I used to sell bikinis online, which was fun and profitable in the beginning. But once all those other boutique fashion brands started spamming Instagram, acquiring customers became too expensive so the entire operation wasn't profitable anymore. So try to estimate how much it'll cost you to advertise to prospective customers.
As I said in another forum earlier this week,

"A lot of the hate centered around how it wasn’t a systems programming language, when it wasn’t supposed to be one. It’s like complaining your driving instructor’s car can’t be used to dig a trench without extensive modification."

After BASIC, I learned on Pascal (Apple and IBM). It was invaluable to clarify in my mind how programming structures work, as opposed to the (fun) chaos of early BASICs. I really didn't need much more than the I/O available in standard Pascal at the time. And it hid details like endianness that I was not yet ready to handle.

Were there problems? Of course. Among others, the vendors should have done a lot more to standardize extensions, the P1 parameterized array bounds should have been in the initial spec, and while the P-machines had many virtues, performance was not one of them. Far too many of the early implementations just ran the P-code in an interpreter.
Agreed.

So many modern UX issues are from people presuming what users want, rather than just giving them well-designed tools and getting out of the way.
Yep, you're right. Agree with the other post - the randomly generated MACs have no manufacturer info.
Your comment was hilarious and I tried to vouch for it.