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lighttoweron Ask HN: Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now?

I'm in a similar situation, where I chose to leave my home country and came to the US and was then immediately hit by health issues. I'm happy to chat with you by phone -- I've done many years of therapy and have helped several through difficulties in past. If you like let me know how I can reach you.

lighttoweron All praise to the lunch ladies

This is a well written piece about how government regulations driven by budgets and less lobbies have enshitified school lunches.

lighttoweron Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

TikTok is still allowed? Isn't it the most damaging?

lighttoweron Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to Google Maps Timeline?

Yes. I used to love knowing when I was last at a restaurant. But the UI is so slow now that it's a great deterrent to checking

lighttoweron Pixel Watch 3

My pixel watch 2 can't sync the Google workspace calendar.

lighttoweron Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

Our company, biotech, doesn't want arbitrary extensions grabbing email out of our servers. BCC the CRM is the only way.

Big companies have different departments. You could have a deal with department X at TargetCo and department Y. Generally those are different people (and emails) at each of those departments. So you associate email to the deal based on what email it's copied to.

Just use emails to link to deals. Forget about company.

Company association is useful. But it needs to be a historical association. Example Jonny works at MSFT now. But used to work at FB. Jonny could help you win a deal with FB even if he doesn't work there now.

lighttoweron Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

what I need is a way for any arbitrary team member (not just the sales people that have a PipeDrive account) to be able to BCC PipeDrive/Okapi and get that email linked to the deal. think of some engineering questions being answered directly by hardcore scientists that don't normally have anything to do with sales. I want them to simply BCC and internal address at our domain which forwards to Okapi or PipeDrive. then the person in charge of PipeDrive can attribute those emails to the right deals if the system can't figure it out automatically from previous correspondence)

lighttoweron Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

we use PipeDrive to track deals (customers and investors) and keep team aligned. most important features for us are getting the team to BCC PipeDrive and automatic attribution of emails to the correct deal.

lighttoweron PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

qoppa PDF studio. we're happy paying customers 7 years. biggest obstacle to using it widely is that people are used to Adobe Suite.

lighttoweron Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)

Thanks for this.

I can reason that what I'm saying is wrong, but it's how I feel. Some other comments have recommended getting therapy... I have, since I was 18. That's the only reason I'm able to say these things and see myself comically on the treadmill. I'm voicing these things aloud because I figured others might felt lack of permission to indulge in a few hours of physics lectures because of a sense of duty to getting things done

Ps. My kids are 8 and 5.

lighttoweron Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)

I know what I'm about to say is not true. but it's a kernel in the right direction. I live in a city where no matter how hard I work I will never own property... and I have this irrational belief that just harder work will allow us to be happy.

lighttoweron Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)

there is a little boy inside me who wants to watch all six lectures right away. but now with two kids and constant demand from work, I have gotten used to consuming education as 2 minute physics shorts on YouTube.

the issue is much deeper than the format of media. it's a sense inside me that I'm "wasting time" not "productive" (related but not the same as not remunerated). I feel I* don't have permission* to just enjoy it ... I can give some reasons, like if I go for a bike ride with the kids it gets me and them exercise and my wife some respite, but sit and listen is just passive consumption that will never be productive... I wish I was free of this sense of guilt

lighttoweron Real life indirection is the root of all evil, and AI agents can fix it

One area where AI agents can help, is in going to the supermarket! many times what look like competing brands, are all owned by the same people, like Kellogg's or Procter & Gamble. they just create different packaging to appeal to different people. branding is just obfuscation. it'd be great to have the veil taken off, and every time you look at a product it shows you how the marketing team who made it, placed it in the market, should be cheaper than this other product but more expensive than something else, and so they created a new image in order for it to find a place in the market. market. But underneath the colorful ink, it's all the same crap

lighttoweron Fuck being productive

https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk

are we the rats?

lighttoweron Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive

I'm reading this thread intently after a friend who was in a clinical trial for psilocybin went for a ketamine treatment only a few days later. She has that floaters and brain fog. She recently started on an epilepsy drug that seems to be helping

lighttoweron Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years

every single pharmaceutical has impurities. some grow over time (chemistry does not stop) and those are the ones to worry about.

lighttoweron Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment

who makes the pangolin? I heard they were getting HP to make them some machines

lighttoweron Japanese explained to programmers

did you misspell "ha" instead of "wa"¿

lighttoweron System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns

I was referring to the StarBook, the 14" version https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

lighttoweron System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns

why don't they get rid of DC charging? two USB-C ports is what I want!

lighttoweron System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns

I wish they'd get rid of the DC charging jack. I'd rather have 2 USB C ports

lighttoweron BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

I've been using it with Rsync.net also very happy.

lighttoweron Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

I use VentuSky. I pay for the premium layers. Happy customer

lighttoweron I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

The dedicated keyboard menu key stopped working in Gmail about 6 months ago. Has anyone figured out how to get it to work again?

lighttoweron Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

I built a bunk bed where the bottom bunk lifts out of the way revealing a play area for kids

lighttoweron “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels

Can you point us to a source for the accepted real physiological effects of ADs that you shared above?

lighttoweron Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

The guy in the YouTube video is terrible. It's like he's trying to be a politician and not answer the question, but he's incredibly bad at it

lighttoweron Bolt announces layoffs

Boom supersonic?

lighttoweron The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

Will it be possible to get a keyboard like the Thinkpad. FULL SIZE arrow keys. Menu button next to Right ALT. And PGUP PGDN adjacent to the arrows ?

Trackpoint is a bonus

lighttoweron Psychedelics and mental illness

The author says > Quite a few psychedelic drugs are naturally-occurring, and have been used for hundreds of years (this doesn’t include synthetic ones like LSD, obviously).

LSD occurs naturally in the Ergot mushroom: > The ergot fungus contains a number of highly poisonous and psychoactive alkaloids, including lysergic acid (LSD), which was synthesized from the ergot fungus in 1938 by chemist, Albert Hoffmann [1]

What the author means is that it's synthetically made these days. Psilocybin can also be synthetically made these days.

psychedelics are the best hope humanity treating refractory mental illness. I know at least 5 people personally that have embarked on psychedelic voyages to treat their demons. Some of them are renowned psychiatrists.

[1] https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spiri....