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thuruv commented on Ask HN: How to be alone? · Posted by u/sillysaurusx

arcxi · 4 days ago

I'm all for trying to be the best version of yourself, but I think it's discouraging to tie it with the person's worth as a friend. Replying with "find interesting hobby" to the poster who explicitly wrote he finds it hard to find a hobby in particular reads like condemnation, as if until you don't lock in and check those boxes don't even try to socialize. Imagine you meet an interesting person, learn they don't really have any hobbies, and break off a friendship because of it - I'd find that psychopathic. Why should we foster this attitude towards ourselves?

thuruv · 4 days ago

True. I realise my reply reflected a little of " don't even try to socialize untill you've checked all these boxes and the best version" which is wrong.. I merely pointed out / defended the realism od the comment I replied to. The definition is not and never should be the "hobbies". It's just something you find interesting which brings the parity to you and the other person. not necessarily a hobby and could be of anything.. Hobby is just a common way suggested to find people and then, only then, you get a change to know whether they are interesting.

thuruv commented on Ask HN: How to be alone? · Posted by u/sillysaurusx

arcxi · 4 days ago

I don't know if this list motivates anyone, it just makes me feel like I'm not worth being friends with and I will be forever alone, even though I do have friends.

Seriously, do you only befriend perfect people?

thuruv · 4 days ago

disagree. I've felt the same after reading the same but I believe op tries just to point out that when you're the best version of yourselves, by removing the common denominator of bad versions, you'll be noticed more and that presents an interesting way for people to present a chance themselves to hear/see you. From there you get to go and may be, may be you find yourselves with a good friend. More importantly,Ithe confidence you'll get out of this is immense and you'll feel peace spending time for yourselves instead of feeling bad about having all the time and don't have anyone to spend with.. I cant say this advice helped me 100% but atleast it helped reduce the biased stress you put on yourselves.

thuruv commented on Our approach to age prediction openai.com/index/our-appr... · Posted by u/pretext

nubg · 2 months ago

They're trying to make ChatGPT more attractive to advertisers.

thuruv · 2 months ago

> We’re learning from the initial rollout and continuing to improve the accuracy of age prediction over time

> While this is an important milestone, our work to support teen safety is ongoing.

agreed, I guess we'll be seeing some pushbacks similar to Apple's CSAM but overall it's about getting a better demographics on their consumers for better advertising especially when you have a one-click actions combined with it. We'll be seeing handful of middleware plugins (like Honey) popping up, which I think the intended usecase for something like chat based apps

thuruv commented on FSF announces Librephone project fsf.org/news/librephone-p... · Posted by u/g-b-r

bigstrat2003 · 5 months ago

Ultimately, I don't think the most important challenge is in binary firmware blobs, but the software which people depend upon to run their lives. What does it matter if you can run a completely free software stack on your phone, if your bank software (or your required government ID, as is looking depressingly likely) requires you to run a Big Tech approved phone OS? Perhaps the FSF can't do much about that, but that is where I feel they could truly make the biggest difference for freedom for the average user.

thuruv · 5 months ago

seconding this. more compatible with day-to-day life/apps means more adoption which I believe is a snowball effect.,

thuruv commented on Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/voxadam

JumpCrisscross · 5 months ago

Paper: https://iris.cnr.it/retrieve/3c9394c7-a04f-431a-976d-cdc65af...

> China launched 21 of the 26 hazardous new rocket bodies over the last 21 months, each averaging more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds). Two more came from US launchers, one from Russia, one from India, and one from Iran

What are the American ones?

> most of the rockets used for Guowang and Thousand Sails launches have left their upper stages in orbit

Are they in the same orbit as the satellites? If so, China is effectively mining their own constellations.

(Side note: Ars is usually much better at citing its sources. This is terribly written by their standards.)

thuruv · 5 months ago

agreed on the side note. The headline itself must be miles away from their own old-standards.

thuruv commented on Linux phones are more important now than ever feddit.org/post/18353777... · Posted by u/wicket

redbell · 6 months ago

Unrelated question: What is this feddit.org site? It seems like reddit but I have never heard about it! I checked and it appears this is the very first post ever posted here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=feddit.org

thuruv · 6 months ago

born as the federated edition of reddit, gained traction over the mass exodus.

thuruv commented on Enough AI Copilots We Need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/ingve

thuruv · 7 months ago

succeeding discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705445

thuruv commented on I started a little math club in Bangalore teachyourselfmath.app/clu... · Posted by u/viveknathani_

thuruv · 9 months ago

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..

thuruv commented on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? · Posted by u/gooob

thuruv · a year ago

This thread has an utmost importance among other few HN threads and I couldn't grasp why this hasn't gained much traction yet. Our focus should be developing tools that supports the sharing/communication of the people/repositories of information spread across multiple places and accessible (the very meaning of internet, since www days). Totally worth noting the internet is "Too big to fail" yet the purpose should not be diverging on how to not only restore but to connect when/if it fails to.

thuruv commented on Move Fast and Abandon Things engineersneedart.com/blog... · Posted by u/JKCalhoun

Fellshard · a year ago

That is a misreading of the article. It's more about discovery through quick, iterative prototyping, which can include rapid discovery of fatal flaws early.

thuruv · a year ago

+1 I am reading this is exactly pointing to the same concept as the todo management, but not addressing the todo paralysis. Everyone's mileage may vary. I accept that. Yet misreading something is far more dangerous than ignorance.