<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thebiss</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thebiss</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:40:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thebiss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That chemical may be alpha-pinene <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Pinene#Properties_and_usage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Pinene#Properties_and_u...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:24:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830785</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's well supported by the architecture.  You may be interested in:<p>- Lima - wsl2-like access to a virtual machine 
<a href="https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/README.md</a><p>- vfkit - CLI creation and management of applehv VMs
<a href="https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit</a><p>- podman machine - easily run x86 containers in CoreOs, via the podman CLI
<a href="https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-machine.1.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-machine.1.h...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:41:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654485</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>zfs can run with a single disk stripe.  pfsense gladly runs this way.  See <a href="https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-zfs.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-z...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:16:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050896</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Spending too much time at airports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have worked for similar consulting companies, though not AWS.  We had to always book an initial ticket that was policy compliant (economy, or higher only if it was similarly priced), and then optionally upgrade the seat. That causes the upgrade to come through as a separate charge.<p>Later, when submitting expenses, the upgrade had to be marked as a personal expense, to be netted against per diem or paid back directly.<p>Early in my career managers did a very poor job of explaining that this was allowed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:46:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004648</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Building my own solar power system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your recovery plan in the event of a hurricane?<p>I'm not fond of high electric rates, but in addition to generation those rates amortize and distribute the cost of storm recovery.  A home or business with grid-tied solar pays interconnect fees for the option to get paid back a little for excess generation, and the option to decide to switch back to 100% grid power if a storm damages the on-site panels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 14:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051590</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watch the Integza video (linked above): The lab interviewed starts the process using a very small pulse detonation engine, which injects a new explosion into the ring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 19:57:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023926</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> [...] how we can restructure our approach to education so that students would actually feel encouraged to participate and ignore their smartphones.<p>Is there any precedent for this that we can model / reproduce? Any country or region where students are considered academically successful, while having unrestricted access to the internet in their pocket?<p>If it exists, it would be very worthwhile to understand what gives those students such strong self control. Do they do it on their own?  Are they somehow admonished/shunned publicly for that behavior?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848066</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803512</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do teachers and parents now actively encourage students to read aloud? I'd love to see a study showing this helps.<p>When I did this in middle school I was repeated told to stop, and that doing so or talking myself through math problems were "signs of mental illness," and I needed to keep it in my head.<p>I hated that it made it easier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:36:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320477</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There have been recent studies on the impact of fasting during pregnancy. Here's two:<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377932/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377932/</a>
> A total of 215 women were included in the study, 123 women fasted, and 92 women did not fast. Only 2.8% of women knew that fasting is forbidden in pregnancy. Sixty five percent of women reported weakness as the main reason for not fasting. The rate of gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension and preterm delivery was higher among women who fasted (17% vs 14%, 7% vs 2%, 9% vs 9%) respectively, compared to non-fasting women, but were not found statistically significant. There was no difference in anthropometric measurements of newborn, among both groups.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931121/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931121/</a>
> Fasting during pregnancy was associated with reduced birthweight, in particular for fasting during the first trimester (-352ˑ92g, 95% CI: -537ˑ38; -168ˑ46). Neither dietary composition nor altered sleep were directly associated with birthweight. However, dietary composition during Ramadan outside of fasting hours seems to moderate the fasting-birthweight association, which disappeared for women switching to high-fat diets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:43:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830917</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>rclone strongly recommends users create their own individual API key:<p>> It is strongly recommended to use your own client ID as the default rclone ID is heavily used. If you have multiple services running, it is recommended to use an API key for each service. The default Google quota is 10 transactions per second so it is recommended to stay under that number as if you use more than that, it will cause rclone to rate limit and make things slower.<p><a href="https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id" rel="nofollow">https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:15:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830705</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You may be interested in this tread regarding whisper.cpp on an Rpi4:<p><a href="https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/166">https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/166</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:32:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700430</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lmstudio prohibits commercial use [1]:<p>> Subject to the Agreement, Company grants you a limited license to reproduce portions of Company Properties for the sole purpose of using the Services for your personal, non-commercial purposes.<p>[1] <a href="https://lmstudio.ai/terms" rel="nofollow">https://lmstudio.ai/terms</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629951</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just look at the r/solar for similar quotes.<p>Here’s a $51k quote for 12kW with 5kW battery: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/s/Fema45FkDx" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/s/Fema45FkDx</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:28:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399396</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Dynamic Pricing at Major Grocery Chain Can Vary Prices Depending on Your Income"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So many questions...<p>- What happens when shopping is done by a delivery service? Does everything bought by a door-dasher get priced higher (because they might spend $5000/week at a store doing grocery runs) or lower (because their W-2 is lower?)<p>- What happens if I'm buy groceries for my grandmother? She's aged, has poor mobility, and on a fixed income.  Are you going to charge me, and therefore her, more?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:54:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250908</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Empathy for the user having sex with your software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a difference between being stable (robust once connected), and connecting aggressively.<p>We have two cars from the same manufacturer, each paired with two iPhones.  Start either car or drive by, and the car will take over an existing Bluetooth connection from one of the iPhones.  And by take over, I mean: disconnect an active connection streaming to Airpods/Beats/Airplay soundbars, and grab that stream of music/video/conference call into the car.<p>The driver in the car then has to pause playback or hang up on someone else's call, because there's no way to pass it back.</p>
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<p>Those interested in this might also like MagicMirror <a href="https://magicmirror.builders/" rel="nofollow">https://magicmirror.builders/</a> .  It has many plugins, an active community, and renders in an Electron UI or in your browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 21:26:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372565</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thebiss in "Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would the license allow a hobby group to raise funds then create and sell a raspberry pi "hat" that supports thread in a licensed way?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347495</link><dc:creator>thebiss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-software-embraces-change-a-strategic-migration-to-the-linux-kernel">https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-software-embraces-change-a-strategic-migration-to-the-linux-kernel</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932696">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932696</a></p>
<p>Points: 35</p>
<p># Comments: 30</p>
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<p>Interesting.  Does the rclone versioning not work as described? I fortunately have never had a reason to test it.<p>> When rclone uploads a new version of a file it creates a new version of it. Likewise when you delete a file, the old version will be marked hidden and still be available. Conversely, you may opt in to a "hard delete" of files with the --b2-hard-delete flag which would permanently remove the file instead of hiding it.<p><a href="https://rclone.org/b2/#versions" rel="nofollow">https://rclone.org/b2/#versions</a></p>
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