It's almost irrelevant now since Reddit is basically just a gigantic bot farm, but I was always annoyed that Reddit would aggressively remove self promotion in most subs while clearly running major PR campaigns under the guise of organic content.
Hacker News is the opposite and the better for it. If you're openly promoting your work, awesome! If you're doing anything to attempt to manipulate the platform for PR reasons, you can bet you will be punished for it.
I never understood why Reddit, which always tried to give off the "for the little guy" vibes was so rabidly against anyone promoting their own work.
> I never understood why Reddit, which always tried to give off the "for the little guy" vibes was so rabidly against anyone promoting their own work.
Reddit hasn't been 'for the little guy' for a decade, that's why they have to try so hard to give off those vibes.
> Reddit would aggressively remove self promotion in most subs while clearly running major PR campaigns under the guise of organic content.
Yep, this is why they do this. They're removing competition (in the form of ads they weren't paid for) to boost their product (ads they were paid for).
Seriously. It's often taken to absurd levels there. There have been several times when I went to Reddit answer a question about my own project that someone was asking, and my comment got downvoted or moderated away for self-promotion even though I was just answering the question. Ironically, omitting a disclaimer about it being my project will typically let the comments slide by, but that seems like the opposite of what you want. I prefer people to declare their biases up front so that I can evaluate their statement based on That context and on its merits. I personally love it when someone comments on something that they do.
I think hn handles this perfectly. In my opinion. If the comment is a shameless plug that adds no value, it will get downvoted quite quickly. If it's adding value to the conversation, and (usually) as long as the commenter isn't was pretending not to be integrated, it stands.
I’m interested in this: how’s the CPAP noise perceived by the partners?
I don’t snore and usually wake up quickly when doing the "apnea noise", stopping before waking her up. In the meantime I read that CPAP produce a a constant sound + an inconstant sound from the air coming in and out. She needs quietness to sleep and disturbing her sleep refrained me to try it out. Non trivial price is also a factor through, otherwise I would have tried it since a long time.
A new Resmed machine is inaudible to my ears. But after 1-2 years, all 3 of mine has developed some kind of noise.
I recently found an online service that repaired one of mine, and it's quiet now.
There is also mask noise. If my nostril mask slips out a bit, there will be noise. Not too big a deal.
One fix that I think would work for most people is a white noise machine. It's briefly annoying, but after a while (a few nights at most is my personal guess) you stop noticing it, and it drowns out other noise.
> A new Resmed machine is inaudible to my ears. But after 1-2 years, all 3 of mine has developed some kind of noise.
This is my experience, I've tried swapping out tubes, the water container, but the noise is just unbearable and I can't even fall asleep while wearing it.
Different ones have different sound profiles. Even the quietest isn’t my favorite so I use a https://getsnooz.com which are pricey but easily the best white noise machines I’ve used. The noise machine even on very quiet is enough to mask the inconsistent breathing sound. That’d be my best advice on it.
I have one of these, I believe I got the first batch from Kickstarter when they first came out. It's still working flawlessly on my nightstand. It's not just a digital white noise maker, that's why I really like it. Authentic sound.
Unless there’s a leak (and there shouldn’t be) CPAPs are much quieter than you think they are. The only time I even notice mine (Resmed with P10 nasal pillows) is when using it from a battery during a power outage when everything is dead quiet. If you have any kind of background noise (fan hum, AC, air purifier, living near a freeway) you probably won’t even notice it.
Lest's say you are serious and it's only a lack of imagination [edit: or taste obviously but as the article author points out: it's only on you to choose what you like]:
- learn music instruments, perhaps join a local band or share samples on the net with enthusiasts
- draw, paint, sculpt, all of which has many options of techniques and cheap materials. As with music, the only limit is yourself and the the expense of your instrument but you don't need to use expensive techniques to enjoy
- make a year-round vegetable garden, thats' often time consuming and you won't need much terrain
- read tons of books, learn philosophie, math, history, whatever makes you find interesting. And in 2025 there's the option to read blogs for those that feels like it. watch movies, listen podcasts.
- cook whatever you eat, get creative and share the food with your neighbor or the receipt with the internet users
- do more sport. 1.5h/day practice of yoga, tai chi, swim or whatever will influence the rest of your day
- participate in local NGO or crate the one you want to, from homeless shelter to business and startups free guidance, animals caring and astronomy enthusiasts.
- to support your cheap live, learn to like the chores: hand wash your dishes and clothes. Sounds super boring, but how boring is an Amazon warehouse job ? I'd choose the dishwashing+podcast.
- use the bus or walk or bike to the wilderness, you got time. You don't need to get to the super-far-and-wild spot to enjoy the nature anyway.
- in the wilderness you can: walk, run, off-road exploration, climb trees (yes, that's still a hobby), listen and learn to recognize birds, mushrooms (beware), plants, insects, draw (that you can do anywhere), get aromates for cooking or leaves for tea, sleep in a tent, collect fossils and minerals. Become a local guide.
- get a cheap computer and play (not that) old games. Bonus if you live somewhere where internet is cheap, try some MMORPG (ok not too long to stay sane). Here in France unlimited 1Gb connection is 25€/month.
- learn to knit, wave, sew. Some people find those fun, and make extra money on local handmade shops.
You pretty much listed all the things that “simple life” people in the Yukon and Alaska get up to in their spare time - which is ample.
My first time up there I met a lady in her 40s who had just worked 12 weeks at a mining camp. She was bummed because that was the most she’d ever worked in her life. Had 10 acres, three kids, monster log home. Great life.
Dude at least 80% of these activities you listed cost a significant amount of money.
Musical instruments are the opposite of cheap, knitting materials and art materials (even the cheap stuff) costs money, you can’t legally form a NPO for free and you won’t be able to volunteer very well if you can only physically travel to the center of town on rural public transit or bicycle your way around a wide rural area.
The kind of biking and hiking at the amount of distance and time we are talking about isn’t free either, a decent bicycle that can do heavy mileage will cost money to buy and maintain. Plus all these sports will cause you to burn more calories necessitating more expenditures.
(Also have fun riding a bicycle everywhere on country roads with two narrow lanes and 55mph speed limits)
Cooking creatively for a group isn’t really a part of a $300 survival meal planning budget, and it’ll get pretty boring without some of the kitchen equipment that helps with that hobby.
In addition to that a lot of stuff that is cheap was not actually budgeted by the author of the article. In his example there’s no home internet or water budget, so even washing clothes or playing a game online isn’t in the budget.
You can get a OK used guitar for $300 that will last for years. That’s a few extra shifts at the gas station.
> Cooking creatively for a group isn’t really a part of a $300 survival meal planning budget, and it’ll get pretty boring without some of the kitchen equipment that helps with that hobby.
If you have your own garden, you can do a lot of creative cooking cheaply.
You don’t need a ton of kitchen equipment to enjoy cooking, and if you spend time searching for deals at thrift stores, yard sales, or on Facebook marketplace, you can get pretty much anything you need for almost nothing.
>no home internet or ware budget
Just add $1000 a year to the budget and make it $6k a year instead of 5. Adding in a few extra conveniences doesn’t materially change the author’s thesis.
Assuming your vehicle got around 25mpg you spent about $8000 CAD on gasoline over those 50,000km of driving. Where did that money come from?
How much did your legally required car insurance cost? The median rate seems to be around $200 a month from a quick google.
Just adding in the most modest vehicle completely destroys the author’s budget.
I believe your reality, but I don’t believe in the amount you are romanticizing it. If it is so amazing why are you not doing it anymore? Because you just told me there’s no need for internet out there because it’s so jaw-dropping amazing, you wouldn’t spend any time on the internet arguing with a loser like me?
> Assuming your vehicle got around 25mpg you spent about $8000 CAD on gasoline over those 50,000km of driving. Where did that money come from?
Vehicle got 32-35 mpg. 1.8ltr 4 cyl with selectable 4x4. I had a job.
> How much did your legally required car insurance cost? The median rate seems to be around $200 a month from a quick google.
$550 a year.
> Just adding in the most modest vehicle completely destroys the author’s budget.
Double the authors budget and you live a wicked life and don’t have to work much. I’m talking about living in the most jaw dropping landscapes many people see in their entire lives.
> I believe your reality, but I don’t believe in the amount you are romanticizing it. If it is so amazing why are you not doing it anymore?
I didn’t say it was perfect, but a heck of an adventure and totally doable.
I left to drive around Africa for three years. Bigger adventure.
> Because you just told me there’s no need for internet out there because it’s so jaw-dropping amazing, you wouldn’t spend any time on the internet arguing with a loser like me?
I’m not arguing, and you’re not a loser. I’m adding information from my own first hand experience, rather than assumptions and guesswork.
Most traditional constructions in Asia (and to be frank anywhere else in the world) has been with wood, stone and dirt. Steel is only possible since we extract enough iron and burn in with coal, something we're not sure to be able to do at the same price (=rate =quantity) as we did for the last 100years. Still, here's some contemporary "skyscraper":
That’s a great project and kudos to the team, meanwhile :
> After the turbine’s thirty year life, what happens to that carbon?
Those curved boards are probably mixed with epoxy or another polymer, making it a bad candidate for recycling in other wood application (paper, osb boards…), compared to first hand row trees. We’ll probably "valorize" it in incinerators.
I think they plan to cut down the tower and saw it into joists basically. The tower wall should be thick enough to allow for that.
You will loose some material ofcourse but most of it should be possible to use in construction.
Probably doesn't matter all that much, especially for interior material that wasn't exposed to the elements. Worst case you're probably talking strength on th order of chip board which is still useful.
I would still assume it could be sawed up and turned into building material, highly unlikely anything but the outside has any appreciable deterioration
1. Classical (Microbiological) Fermentation:
This is the most common definition, especially in biology and food science:
Fermentation is the metabolic process by which microorganisms (like bacteria or yeast) convert organic compounds—typically sugars—into other substances such as alcohol, acids, or gases.
Examples:
Yeast turning sugar into alcohol in beer or wine.
Lactic acid bacteria fermenting lactose in yogurt.
2. Enzymatic (Non-Microbial) Fermentation:
In certain fields, especially tea processing, cigar aging, or cocoa fermentation, the term fermentation is also used more broadly to describe biochemical changes driven by enzymes—either from the plant itself or from microorganisms.
Examples:
Tea (e.g., black tea): The so-called "fermentation" is actually oxidation catalyzed by enzymes in the tea leaves themselves (like polyphenol oxidase), with little to no microbial activity.
Cigars (tobacco leaves): Enzymes within the tobacco leaf, often activated by warmth and moisture, cause internal biochemical transformations (not always microbial).
Cocoa beans: Initially microbial fermentation, but internal enzymes in the bean also break down compounds, affecting flavor.
That’s true, however I think that story is interesting because is not mimicking real assistants behavior - most probably wouldn’t tell about the blackmail on the internet - but it’s more likely mimicking how such assistant would behave from someone else imagination, often intentionally biased to get one’s interest : books, movies, tv shows or forum commenter.
As a society risk to be lured twice:
- with our own subjectivity
- by an LLM that we think "so objective because it only mimic" confirming our own subjectivity.
Got me thinking about why this is true, I started with "the AI is more brave than the real assistant" and then went into there, landed on: The human assistant is likely just able to better internalize a wide ranging fall out from an action, the LLM has no such fallout, and we are unaware of how widely it considered the consequences of it's actions? Does that seem right somehow?
If they stopped learning (=including) at march 31 and something popup on the internet on march 30 (lib update, new Nobel, whatever) there’s many chances it got scrapped because they probably don’t scrap everything in one day (do they ?).
That isn’t mutually exclusive with your answer I guess.
Kind of but not in the same way: the MCP option will increase the discussion context, the training option does not. Armchair expert so confirmation would be appreciated.
Same, I'm curious what it looks like to incrementally or micro train against, if at all possible, frequently changing data sources (repos, Wikipedia/news/current events, etc).
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