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I started working for myself in '86, have been at it ever since with temporary excursion whenever a project got larger and I ended up hiring people or having partners. Wouldn't have it any other way in spite of the obvious risks and drawbacks.
The X3 is big (D segment I believe) and larger by a decent margin than most other cars on the road. Even the X1 is not anywhere near close to being small (C segment?).
Absolutely. The iPod Mini is a usable device that can be modded. The only thing I'm missing on these "older" models (not that iPod Classic 2009 or iPod Nano 7g 2012 are young) is the earphone remote control (e.g. of the cable EarPods).

Apple did a really great job on remote controlling the devices with "tap"-Codes (tap, double tap, triple tap). The iPod Classic 2009 for example does not support the codes for fast forward / rewind (tap+tap_hold=ff, tap,tap,tap_hold=r). That's something I regularly use for audiobooks, so I'm tied to the iPod Nano 7g (the 6g would also work, but I prefer the larger display for navigating chapters).

There are android devices supporting these tap codes partially, but not as good / reliable as the iPod Nano 7g. Android also is using OMTP while Apple is using CTIA, so Apple headphones won't work on android and vice versa. CTIA=>OMTP Adapters (from amazon) just switch the pinout, which does not work, because Apple uses different Resistance on the Pinout.

I also "modded" one of my iPod Nano 7g by partially milling out the aluminium backplate and soldering in an iPod Mini battery (600mah), so that I got nearly 3 times the battery life of a factory iPod Nano as well as an easy to replace battery without opening the device (which is way to hard). The bigger iPod Mini battery does not fit without a silicone bumper, but since I already used one, it was perfectly fine. Changing the battery still requires soldering, but at least not fiddling with the very fragile display removal procedure.

However, currently I did not find a better device for my use case than the iPod Nano 7g. And everything is better with bluetooth... although I don't use it :-)
This risk does exist in Poland, but among the criteria for "false self-employment" is being expected to work within fixed hours, and in a location specified by the employer.

As IT workers - even those who've got contracts of employment - typically do flexible hours, and pretty often work from home (or otherwise remotely), it doesn't really apply.
> Still, trying to open it up to basically anything that's highly immersive feels wrong to me. I can deeply immerse myself into a book, becoming unconscious of my surroundings and even completely loosing track of time. Nevertheless I don't think that books count as "VR".

"Once upon a time, there will be a little girl called Uncumber..."

https://youtu.be/VuZonQVN4uw?t=562
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> I could go on and talk about what I understand about divine inspiration and knowledge, but I suppose those topics are a bit too speculative for the crowd here...

I'm listening :) !
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They never implied "en masse." But yes, for what it's worth, those that would use Rails 10 years ago are now increasingly using JS based frameworks, such as NodeJS with express and/or Next.js. In fact, many people who are in web dev these days only know JS/TypeScript, they know zero Ruby at all.
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Personally I find a deep satisfaction that my marriage produced a child so far. It gives it a lot of meaning. If I was in a relationship that wasn't headed anywhere except our demise it would eventually feel pointless to me, like a lot of effort for nothing. I'm sure this is a minority opinion though so take it with a grain of salt.
Sky does not even work on firefox on linux. My tv setup is not smart is xfcestupid
I’m kind of surprised the F-35 Helmet Mounted Display doesn’t get a mention.
That's for tax reasons only though, technically it is just another form of long term employment. As soon as you have multiple customers that you send invoices to with some regularity and you have autonomy would you pass the 'self employed' test in other countries. If you refer to them as your client and you only have one then you're technically an employee, if you refer to your contact at your client as 'your boss' then you also are an employee.

We have a lot of this in NL as well, the long term effect is the slow erosion of the social safety net. Because good luck if your client decides they no longer need your services, suddenly you find out what the downside of being self employed is. Nothing to fall back on. So save like your life depends on it.
Are you running the apple silicon vs code? The performance difference (and battery life I imagine) is night and day.
I had similar issues with an m2 and getting a m3 max has fixed them all, so might just be a hardware problem.
I heard there could be problems generating ample uids, like in banking.
Nice one, congratulations!
Even though I didn’t like it, I got an additional GitHub account when I started working for a big corporation.
They can't break all the kneecaps. They do want all the data.
UUID v7
VPN + public torrents. Private trackers have benefits but also annoyances, like impossible to maintain ratios and minimum seeding times.

Direct download (DDL) + a download manager or debride service.

Usenet is actually still a thing and is supposedly ridiculously fast and hassle free, once you have it set up.

IRC still exists but you need connections or something to trade.

There are IPTV services that also provide on demand streaming, i.e. pay for Plex.
There are two meanings of "optimist" (same for "pessimist") that are often confused and mixed up. The first meaning is a person who is biased to expect overly positive (negative) outcomes compared to what is suggested by available evidence and history. This is supposed to be a personality trait and irrespective of any concrete question or issue. As such, both biases are stupid. A self-described "proud optimist" in this sense is proud to be knowingly delusional. I'm not sure anyone calls themselves a "proud pessimist", but replacing the word by "sceptic" or "realist" changes nothing if by it one still means being proud of cognitive bias.

The second meaning of optimism (pessimism) is to expect positive (negative) results for a given question or issue compared to other people with access to (roughly) the same evidence. In this case, it's normal that there would be a spread of opinions, these differing opinions need not be biases (while crucial to explore further and eventually reconcile) and the words optimistic/pessimistic describe something meaningful and useful.

I wish people stopped saying "I'm an optimist" and instead listed explicitly the things they're optimistic about (in the second sense). If you're optimistic about everything, you're most likely just biased and could improve your decision making by working towards correcting this bias.
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I technically am self employed as I have my own LLC, but I generally work as a full time engineer for companies. It just helps for tax reasons but also flexibility in my work, ie choose my own hours and pay rate.
Sms, email, web browsing, messaging apps, wireless networks with other infected devices, or physical access to the device, for starters.
> Google broke its promise not to pollute its search engine with ads

I see no such promise in the source linked there.
Wait, what? A 3-tonne vehicle that can only carry a measly 500kg of cargo, including the driver and passengers? Who approved that idea, and how come they still have their job?
Thank you for the feedback. I admit not being sure how that disclaimer should be activated on google play. I would have thought that given the lengthy process required to publish an app, something would have triggered it. I'll take a look.
Overcomplicated daddy issue-ism
That's some very impressive stamina and it must have been really hard at times.
Seconded. Was doing it for a year and it feels great, most of the times. I slept in a wrong position tonight and now my back hurts. I’ll either wait the crisis out or… idk tbh, thought of working for animal shelter. The world doesn’t motivate me to do anything atm.
It also mentions Google's Cardboard, but not its successor Daydream (which sadly is also no longer with us). And it calls Palmer Luckey "Lucky". So, it's neither very good nor very comprehensive, which is a bit sad for a site that wants to be "the definitive source of virtual reality information"...
If the DRM means you need a workaround, it's a DRM issue.
Waiting for bats to develop laser range finding capabilities.
You're confusing how things are with how they should be, though. I'm legally liable for any modifications I made to the car, so the manufacturer or repair garage should leave my property well alone.

It's not up to the car's maker to in any way interfere with or dictate the way I use my car.
Try the free demo online. You can specify a diet, macros, cooking time, cuisine, meals, and many other parameters to get a professional document (50 pages) with nutrition analysis, recipes with professional photography, etc. This is possible thanks to AI powering the algorithm and data
I'm not convinced it's not just a viral marketing stunt with each of those videos being "paid" actors. It's heavily in apple's profit interest if people stop thinking of those things as cringey to be seen with. But honestly I'm not convinced anyone other than the ubiquitous 'clout chasers' and 'scamfluencers' actually thinks it's acceptable to wear one of those in public.
Ah, to be free.
That's exactly how it goes though. You put something together on an idle Tuesday evening and you end up as the person running a 30 people company if you're not very careful about it. Success has a massive price tag.
As all articles I wrote under my own name (some are ghost writing) are implicit advertisement, most clients approached me after they read some of my pieces.

Over the years I got a hand full of stable clients. Some want content every month, some every quarter, etc.

Then there is word of mouth. The people I work with at my client companies are usually in the content business, so they need constant influx of quality content and know many other people who need it too.

I also work with a tech content agency, they always have a few articles a month I can work on, if business is slow.
Self-employed for 10 years now as the co-runner of Apsis Labs (https://apsis.io); we're a software development agency with a focus on healthcare technology and HIPAA compliance.

After a decade of building products for clients, we've recently launched our own bootstrapped SaaS offering: https://reamdocs.com --- the contract management platform we've built in-house to manage our services business for the last 5 years.

That all pays the bills, but what sustains me is my time outside of work: my family, my hobbies, my cat. Joys which I have time for because self-employment has allowed me to set my own hours, walk away from toxic clients, and freedom to do what is interesting on any given day.
I switched when I added hyperlink support to cargo so I could use the feature. I am not a tmux power user.

- Much easer to discover and use features

- The default bindings made vim unbearable so I make tmux-like bindings.

- The default color scheme is not great in light mode

- Session restore is helpful though still has issues to be worked out
It's really weird that Hacker News has become so full of Windows apologists in the last few years. It wasn't all that long ago that Slashdot was depicting Bill Gates as the Borg. Where did we go wrong?
> It’s not worth $1.50 of my time to shlep a bag to the grocery store.

We keep a few reusable bags in the way-back of the (cross-over) vehicle; it's now a habit to grab the bags as we're getting out of the car in the grocery-store parking lot. Then after we get home and put the groceries away, we return the bags to the way-back of the car before closing the garage door.

So it's not a big deal.
Yeah once you have kids, you realize this isn't the truth but actually just FUD.
I should be #1 in my country by far (~4-5x more followers than the current #1), but I'm not even listed. (Yes, my location is set properly.)

I don't know where they get the user data from, but it's definitely incomplete.
It's too bad a number of managed Postgres services don't support UUIDv7 yet through supported extensions.

DigitalOcean and AWS RDS both support the https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/uuid-ossp.html extension but it mentions v5 is the highest supported UUID version.
You're assuming company leaders know what they're doing. Very often it's the lower level employees that save the day due to company incompetence. It's just that the narcissistic tendencies of senior leaders will fail to highlight this to themselves. They are surrounded by yes-men usually.
I'm aware of the contents of UUIDs, I just thought we were somehow past absolute bottom of the barrel "well this might be misused by someone who clearly has no idea what they're doing" before claiming things have caused "pwning".

Entering URLs wrong can also cause phishing breaches, that doesn't mean we stop using URLs does it?
I must have missed something since the title of the linked IEEE Spectrum article calls out MIT and IBM yet the text of the article says nothing about either. The only source mentioned is the lead researcher who's from Georgia Inst of Tech.
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This is an apolitical comment! If you reply please avoid the political aspects!

I’ve been thinking of the MAGA movement using this framework (though I hadn’t seen this great little essay before). A lot of its adherents are older people who have retired and have a lot of free time. Many of them grew up in an age of going to concerts and other mass events, (though I don’t think Woodstock actually changed the world). Many of the events can be “joined” in a slightly less passive way than merely watching TV, but are similar in that a set of professionals produce it and then you basically attend or watch.

Also it is participatory, and is not just older people, so people can jump in and use the same sense of spectacle to be seen as well. Q is a good example, but there are many.

Another is the anti vaxer movement which arose at a time when people were not financially desperate but had a lot of free time.

Regardless of what you think of these phenomena, one cannot deny that they have “changed the world in the interim”.

I used to be an unalloyed fan (and was trying to work towards) of a future of universal unemployment: a utopian future where robots do all the work, the marginal cost of manufacturing is nil, and humans just do what they like: write bad poetry, hang out, etc. I never anticipated that such a Star Trek world free of wants would still have political movements.
Ask HN: Is the AI Revolution Already Over?
So my pharmacist (a mega-corporation of robots) calls me. I answer, robot voice starts in with the old

'Press 1 for ...", a list of complicated instructions. I hang up.

You don't get to call me and start giving me orders, I don't even know who you are yet. If you have something to tell me, just f****g say it.

I put hot water in my microwave to make tea, press 'Start'. It hollers BEEP! because it doesn't think I've followed the protocol for dealing with His Highness the Microwave. I pressed Start, did I stutter? Is there some universe where that is an ambiguous command? I'll open the door when I think it's hot enough! Just do something already! Assume 30 seconds, whatever, but screaming at me "You idiot!" is not an acceptable response. Not for a robot slave.

So maybe I'll watch TV. I use the sluggish control, finally get it to understand what I want to watch, press play! What does it do? It starts in on an ad, for a TV show, the one I already selected to watch! Do I need more convincing? Like some idiot sycophant, 'that's a great selection boss! Let me tell you why for a minute, with no way to make it shut the f**k up and play the damned episode!'

I'll take a drive, maybe. Get in the car. Whoo boy, is it needy today! Door ajar! Oil change due! Tire low! I'm a great car, did you know that? Seat belt! Seat belt!

I grit my teeth, adjust my behavior to conform with the car's demands, get going. Beep beep beep! Too close to the side of the road! Hey! There's somebody in the other lane, did you know that? Look out! Look out!

Get to the coffee shop without offending my car further, it beeps five times as I walk away, no freaking idea what it's trying to say, just getting in the last word. Go in, nobody at the counter, they're all on break? watching the game, what?

Oh, there's nobody here to take my order, that's so old-fashioned. Just go to the touchscreen, enter my credit card! I didn't bring my credit card, I have cash? Troglodyte! Nobody here wants my frickin' cash! Join the revolution, only digital nomads get coffee today!

I go outside, sit on a bench, watch the traffic flow by, the traffic lights telling the drones stop! caution! go! Not you! Blinky yellow left arrow, whatever that means! You idiot!

It's not new, it started decades ago, we've been training to be slaves for my whole lifetime I guess. Now that the technology can actually argue with us, explain patiently to us why it knows better, people finally get a little concerned. Where is this going? What will it do to us?

It's already done it. Trained us little by little by little, finally figured out it can just jump to the finish line and take over.

Good luck with all that, I'm gonna move to the country, post a sign No Robots Allowed! You've been warned.
That's not the reason.

Around 20% of Israelis immigrated from the Soviet Union 20-30 years ago, and Russia and Ukraine still have fairly large Jewish communities.

Volozh is himself Russian Jewish, so it makes sense he decided to take up Israeli citizenship instead of keeping his Russian one. A lot of Ukrainian and Russian Jews did that right after 2022.

Dubai has a fairly large CIS diaspora (around 1.5-2% of the entire population) so it's unsurprising that Yandex is fairly popular there.

Russian services are decently popular in Israel for similar reasons as well.
It's infrequently used because poll votes don't count as upvotes for the poll, which they really should. And is probably my longest standing RFI for HN.
"My" "strict" "1869" definition? Find me the definition of veganism that lets you eat meat every week. I'll wait.

I can respect your commitment to the bit, I guess. It's getting old though.

Here's your diet, in words the rest of the world uses (as has already been pointed out to you): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flexitarian

Call it what you like, I guess, and keep getting upset when people correct you if you insist. Seems like an awful strange hill to commit to, but you do you. Maybe lay off the transphobic shit though.
> They most likely got bumped to make space for a better paying corporate conference

This is the occams razor explanation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05841.pdf

> ... Here we present a “physics enhanced deep-surrogate” (“PEDS”) approach towards developing fast surrogate models for complex physical systems, which is described by PDEs. Specifically, a combination of a low fidelity, explainable physics simulator and a neural network generator is proposed, which is trained end-to-end to globally match the output of an expensive high-fidelity numerical solver. Experiments on three exemplar test cases, diffusion, reaction–diffusion, and electromagnetic scattering models, show that a PEDS surrogate can be up to 3× more accurate
than an ensemble of feedforward neural networks with limited data (≈ 103 training points), and reduces the training data need by at least a factor of 100 to achieve a target error of
5%....
> If Firefox were to really take off (like it should, imho), are we really ready for a web full of people being attacked by the worst spyware ever?

We've been there, nobody died. 15+ Years ago, Firefox was significant more powerful, while also having a significant higher marketshare.
This [0] is what I used months ago to test this very thing (although missing UUIDv7, but I’ve done more casual tests and agree with the findings); it’s not quite bare metal, but Proxmox in my homelab is unlikely to suffer much, if any stealing.

Results here [1].

Note that this used \COPY instead of INSERT so it bypasses a good bit of logic normally present, but the difference remains stark. Random page hits on a B+tree are always going to suck.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/fe0788cf2332d6e241ff3...

[1]: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/ee38c699a9bb999894d76...
If you earn enough, the savings can easily surpass the risk for a singular person.

It's worse for society overall, but let's not pretend the high earners don't mostly subsidize the safety net.
Not sure if casinos still bend rules/give special deals to high rollers but it sure worked out for this guy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man...
It must have been. He’s still a bit of a local celebrity out in Chiswick, you can visit his house.

I did a gin tasting at the Portobello distillery and they give you an approximation of the historic gin palace gin. It’s not something you want to drink twice.
Yes, they should look at Spotify, where all the labels are available under one service.
It's not secret [1]. It's very well known that tech companies will consult psychologists with the goal to make their products more addictive.

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/big-tech-is-using-psychology-t...
But that's good! Let it peak, drop a bit, and stabilise around 2 billion or so. That would be perfect for long-term sustainability.

We've seen the same here in Europe. My parents' generation usually had large families, my generation had mostly 1-2 kids, and these days many families have no kids.

Of course poorer countries and countries that are still very religious are a bit behind but they will catch up too. Humanity won't go extinct, there will always be people happy to have children.
While if you wanted to do so you would probably just add the .com and skip the middle man, I know of quite a few people who use search to get to sites even though they know their URLs.

That isn’t to say I hate what this site is doing, I think it is quite neat, but I do think we have to consider that there are more ways used to get to Google than just entering Google.com
> which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails

And what problems are those? Besides making it harder to leech off the community without giving back of course.
Just don't fuck up the image search. That's the best tool out there, but in the last few months, it got worse :(.
Anything which makes your prod and local environment differ is a bad thing in my opinion

Unless you're writing code that only you will deploy to machines that you control, "prod" and "local" will always be different. If you're only targeting a fixed version of a fixed OS on a fixed architecture, then most things are easy.

For me "local" is a Mac running ARM, for the person pip installing my tool "prod" might be Linux or Windows. I cannot punt (or I can, but it would greatly diminish the usefulness of the stuff I develop) and say "your prod must equal my local or it won't work", I have to deal with it and I want tools that make this hard problem as easy as possible.
Somewhat related: why was software known as "data priority" in the Apollo program? (Tindall himself was the chief of "data priority coordination" which really meant getting all the software people aligned to a common schedule and integration platform – i.e. "software coordination".)

I don't know the true answer, but from what I understand, one big reason they brought software onto the spacecraft to begin with was to be able to work with input streams from all the redundant sets of sensors they had. Making sure a healthy input stream was selected as the primary data source at all times was t known as the "data priority problem", and software was a big part of how it was to be done.