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Hey HN community!

I don't know how many people can relate, but for years, I have been taking 30+ minute showers (sometimes over an hour). It used to always annoy my parents, and there were times my dad would shut off the water to force me out (sometimes mid-soap).

I decided a few years ago to change my ways and reduce my shower time, but whatever I tried didn't work or didn't stick (cold showers only lasted a month, setting a regular timer didn't force me enough). In 2020, I decided to build an app using a certain method I had thought up - a timer that rang for each step of my shower routine! I failed, as my lack of experience as a dev halted development. I always told myself I'd build it for sure one day since it meant so much to me.

Earlier this month, I finished development, and it worked pretty well for me! My shower times are now down to 5 minutes. If you have the same problem I did (or have kids that do), try it out! Even if you don't have that problem, I would be really grateful for any feedback or criticisms of the app.

Thank you for reading!
The best is the borderline-predatory journal called "Journal of Nature and Science".

"My track record includes numerous publications in Nature and Science."
Consequences Create Complexity
Pigs have a lot of physiological similarity to us (thus why fetal pig dissections are often done in high school/undergrad biology). Plus there are fewer ethical concerns around using an animal we already use for food.

I imagine there's also a consideration for ease of raising. These pigs had to be kept separate from others and tested frequently for disease because of having some aspects of their immune system weakened to reduce rejection risk. This would probably be easier to do ethically for pigs compared to primates.
Societies that feel collectively threatened trend authoritarian.

Both have a traumatic history of being invaded by empire builders and both have stark geographical vulnerabilities that left multigenerational scars.
This wasn't just some random prisoner.

This was a highly educated pioneer who studied in the West and was recruited in the West but chose to go help his country and was initially rewarded with a very prestigious and secure job and also deserved --to then get caught up in the hong weibing purges. This is the lesson of ideology -it goes astray fast. Lukily for him, he didn't end up beaten to a pulp and dead in a semi anonymous lynching[1] in a no-name square.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/mao-little-gen...
This is tangential, but it could similarly be used to describe many support teams which staffed by non-technical folks, or are cut off from engineering for cultural, political, etc. reasons. It's a complete waste of energy, but for various reasons people get put in these situations and experiment instead of talking to an authority in another department, or getting an expert on their team. It can be sustained for a surprisingly long amount of time as well before someone gets called out on inaccuracies.
> An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013

That's not at all what I imagined Warsaw looking like.
But how is the state of communication infrastructure of NK? I had impression that they have not transitioned to the model that every individuals can be addressed by a personal phone number.
Soulbound
That's another subtlety. They've already been funded to make the mRNA vaccine, so maybe that has been milked dry and it's time to move on to the next profitable cow. Obviously I'm just speculating that it's possible.
Multi-purpose bricks with tiny holes provide shelter for solitary bees
Sort of off topic but I have an X220 but I’m having issues getting the trackpad to work. Seems to only recognize the track point. Anyone else have similar issues?
Why, exactly, is this what you react strongly to, rather than the rise in bigotry against immigrants?

Why is it the people trying address the problem that anger you rather than the problem?
I was wondering the same thing.

PCBs are pretty cheap at this size, and the components wouldn't be THAT much more expensive to grab in smaller quantities.

If someone would get a group buy started just for the components and 3d case files I'd hapilly sign up and 3d print the thing.
> Most of the value was provided by the primer itself.

That's not what I took away from it. Of the three girls initially tutored by the Primer, for one the reading was done by many different actresses while for the other it was done by her father in a dreamlike mid-coital state. Neither of these two turned out the queen of all they surveyed the way Nell did. My take away was that what mattered was the human connection, that there had to be an adult who cared what happened even if she didn't have much ability to help, that gave the protagonist the strength to do what she did in the end.
They are still a startup. If they can get the users/money, eventually depending on Google will be a risk/too expensive, and they'll start crawling themselves.
Phones being used to track people: duh, both corps and govts are doing it.

Vaccines contain 5G chips being used to track people: conspiracy theory.

I think it's important to distinguish these two groups.
Heh if you think that's bad check out FL
How I switched to Ubuntu after using Windows for 20 years (the 2022 guide)
Yeah I'm not seeing it either. It's even weirder that the code itself is distributed with an MIT license, which suggests you're free to download and modify the code to disable the revenue sharing. This conflicts with some of their other statements though. In the readme they do outline the option to use it with a open source license (without any support), but they seem to contradict this in the following sentence in their readme:

>If use in commercial project, please get a license, or, you have monetized more than $1000 using this plugin, you are also required to either get a commercial license ($20). As a commercial customer, you will be supported with high priority, via private email or even Skype chat.

Which is nigh illegible.

Does anyone know what happens when someone publishes conflicting licenses?
Depending on "which" miners are shut down there is some potential for problems - if it is/was possible to shutdown a large percentage of the hashing power of the network then the difficulty to could be too high for the remaining miners to continue the chain (without it being so slow that it's unusable until enough blocks are mined to reduce the difficulty).

There's also the issue that, if governments are seizing the mining hardware, if they gather enough of it they could perform 51% attacks against the chain to effectively prevent it from working.
Ordering and enjoying a slightly larger cheeseburger isn't the same as buying up an entire country's meat supply and dumping it in the ocean because it makes imaginary number go up.
Mental Models for Business Owners to Stay in Business
>Private companies are already scrutinizing your purchase patterns to determine that you are pregnant and then potentially getting in hot water for notifying relatives you haven’t actually informed.

>Given that baseline reality, compromising the usefulness of Census data for the sake of minimal privacy gains seems really bad.

The difference is that you can opt out of various companies collecting data. Can you opt out of the census? With this sort of argument, you can basically justify any sort of government privacy intrusion because private companies are already doing it, so "compromising the usefulness of NSA surveillance data for the sake of minimal privacy gains seems really bad". You do want to stop terrorists and pedophiles, don't you?
Let me know when the USA PATRIOT act finally expires (without pieces being made into permanent laws).
If you want to explore the concept further, I suggest you watch the movie "Never Let Me Go" (2010). The premise is very similar, apart from the fact there's no secret or conspiracy about it, children are just grown to become sacrificial organ donors, and since it's socially accepted, there's no way out of it.

Fair warning: it's pretty depressing.
Mr. Snowden is trying very hard to stay relevant. I guess posting family pictures didn't have the desired effect, so he's going for doomporn now.
This looks simply amazing - I've been looking for an all-in-one way to create beautiful app mockups and noticed how tedious the whole process is so I will definitely be looking into this.
> Junade Ali, a cybersecurity researcher in Britain who monitors a range of different North Korean web and email servers

How would a researcher keep tabs on NK infrastructure like this? Would it be pinging known IPs for uptime?
I'd be curious on the media using this from a fear angle. In everything you have to ask yourself "where's the incentive". For decades, the Media (big-M) have relied on fear for viewership, because it sells. Sounds like they could pretty easily sell government surveillance as fear if they chose to. There's a lot of information to be had in why they're not currently doing this, be it their own fear of US government, China, etc.
This is nice. This is a simple, straightforward design, and a reasonably convenient form factor.

Two biggest limitations are RAM and wireless interfaces, or rather lack thereof. This thing has less RAM than my router (admittedly a $70 box), and has neither WiFi nor BT. It does not seem to have many GPIO pins, too.

With the amount of RAM installed, it's mostly a handheld terminal, and maybe a handheld console with emulators for old games.

While this is admirable as a proof of concept, I suspect that moving the price point up to, say, $30 could give a much more useful and hacker-friendly device.

I greatly appreciate the split keyboard and the replaceable NiMH batteries, though.
> not be subjugated to whatever happens to feed the anxieties and neuroses of society.

That’s awfully vague. Are specters doing this to you?

Seems that some power analysis is in order.
What Is a Stack?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Similar name. And much older. Just imagine there's a '-' after the Windows.
I don't see a real difference between drones and guided missiles, even artillery allows you to kill from a distance.
So I've actually mentioned nothing about cryptocurrency, not sure how you got a marketing pitch from that, I'm pointing out the flaws of central banking and fiat currency.

The inflation you're seeing is largely and principally caused by the reactionary measures of central banking.

https://fedguy.com/2-trillion-pandemic-savings/

"During the pandemic many special programs were rolled out to support household incomes: $1.1t in forgivable business loans to maintain payroll, $800b in direct stimulus checks, and $700b in extra unemployment benefits. While the pandemic programs of other countries prevented incomes from falling too much, the U.S. programs actually significantly boosted incomes. Overall wages did not fall, and total income rose above trend due to transfer payments (stimulus checks and unemployment benefits)."

But you say, "These measures were necessary. We were in a pandemic unlike any other. People needed to survive during lockdowns." Fair enough, but all actions have equal and opposite reactions.

The creation of new money is the devaluation of old money. The government does not have trillions of dollars in a savings account, ready and available to be spent.

Stepping back, we look at the federal debt and see that it is $29 trillion USD presently. How did it get that high, and will it ever be paid off? Which political party will be popular enough to tax enough wealth, long enough, that this debt gets paid down? Some theorists believe US debt doesn't matter; it can always be paid off, because the US controls the reserve currency and the magic money printer.

To me, it is clear what the next 100 years of this thinking will result in.
Specifics needed on (a) please.
Out of curiosity would you be in favor of someone living an unproductive lifestyle? If not, why?
So finally I have a name for the utter madness that hit Google a decade ago?

Vector search is that the thing that makes it ignore my search query and search for something else?

Also, is this the problem Bing has?

And is it much much cheaper since they choose to use only use something so utterly ridiculously broken?

Edit: I'm obviously exaggerating heavily here but this has cost me so much time and frustration.

I agree with others: if pages exist that contains the exact matches why don't return them first?
MEE specifically owns the rights to adaptations. Just using a name would not be related as far as I understand it.

If there is a "trademark" issue, I would think they'd need to work directly with the Tolkien Estate, who still own the original works. (Didn't original D&D use "hobbits" and have to change it to "halflings" because of the Estate?)

(IANAIPL)
Why is the opinion of a Pfizer board member relevant to legal policy? In other news, McDonald's board members are quite fond of wafer-thin beef patties.
I used to run with AirPods multiple times a week, and used them while walking around and on public transit. I've done the same with AirPods pro borrowed from my S.O.

Did they ever fall out? Only a small portion of the time. Half the time I noticed it and caught them.

Was the idea of them falling out stressful? Hell yeah. Nothing like a $50+ bud to stress the hell out of you when you're trying to get a run in and it just will. not. sit. in. your. ear. correctly. Add sweat to the equation and things get messy quick. And the fact that in some places, like public transit, you have a good chance of losing the bud forever if it falls out.

I am much happier with the IEMs I've been using for a half a year or so now. They hook over my ears optionally, so they're never really in danger of falling out and I never have to mess with them. And they're wired to me anyway even if they do fall.
Correction, higher education is dirt cheap, not free. My English degree cost me about $600 in tuition, CS is about double that. Of course international students pay more, but it's still cheap by Western standards. Healthcare is free, at least in theory. In practice you may need to grease some palms to get decent treatment. There is a thriving private system, not too expensive either. American-style health insurance is a standard perk for tech companies. Hopefully it won't end up driving prices to the roof.
Unlikely... these bugs are all logic bugs. They won't be mitigated by using formal methods, because most of these bugs adhere to pre-defined specs. The problem with browses is that these specs are often in conflict with each other for new and/or obscure features.
Its not that they have necessarily gotten more expensive, its just that there is a global rate of inflation and a local one, which results in higher cost/standard of living countries being crushed because their local inflation rate will exceed the global one until the country is pulled to the average. So its just as valid to say that the global products continue to get cheaper.

And that was entirely predictable, when a country allows the free flow of capital, and goods but not people then it becomes a race to the bottom in sectors which can move to lower cost areas. There is a certain amount of price suppression for some local goods and the demand dries up, but for things which aren't optional the price will continue to inflate until the system breaks. Infant child care is in this position, the workers competing internationally can't afford to pay for the care of their infants because its local labor intensive.

Basically its broken economic policy and its just a matter of time before it explodes. And its probably not fixable because if the cost of labor ever gets equal, then capital is just going to move to the country that say has the smallest carbon tax/whatever.

Basically a prereq for free trade should be a common government, and free movement of people.
> every single individual believes they are entitled to some special rights and privileges because of entitlement

That is a strange way to describe the US Constitution.
> I recently switched to a pair of Sony Bluetooth headphones as I don't like the too-neutral AirPods Pro EQ curve, and while they sound excellent, the UX really leaves a bit to be desired.

I, personally, don't understand this. I'm a bit of a stickler for making sure my audio quality is good. I validate the products I'm using sound good using local device recording as well as HD echo test numbers before I use them during real life meetings. I'm on the phone at least a couple hours a day and it's baffling how many people assume that their AirPods sound good. The TL;DR of it is - they don't.

But with respect to the "UX" side of the house, I'm curious what you really need? I own a number of Jabra and Sony products that I can - pull out of their cases on any day at any point in time and they will work with no input from me. Do people fiddle with EQ and other settings often? The only thing I really do once I get the audio setup is make sure the firmware is up to date from time to time.
This looks stunning! Some thoughts:

* I cannot buy on mobile ("made for desktop" message). I'll check back on Desktop but not everybody will do.

* It's not clear to me if the launch sale fixes the price "forever" or just for the first year.
I guess I get why he persisted while imprisoned -- anything to do to keep the mind busy. But why would he continue to work afterwards, and benefit the regime that betrayed him? I'd want to watch it burn and then sink, be left as far behind as possible, not enable them to keep up with technological advancements.
> Europe will be left holding the bag

If your hopes for an anti-authoritarian future rest in Europe, you're in for a major disappointment. As had as it's gotten here in America, we're still doing better than the rest of the world - at least for now.
Not an expert, but I have a gut feeling NK doesn't lean too heavily into an internet-dependent infrastructure.
Sound quality via wired audio is also much better, unless your particular phone doesn't have decent DAC/analogue circuitry. I can't bring myself to listen to music on wireless. I don't even know that Apple takes advantage of their walled garden to do better than the usual Bluetooth protocols.

> From https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/30/apple-airpods-bluetooth-limit...

> One of the most notable comments in the interview came from Geaves when asked whether Bluetooth could be “holding back” the AirPods hardware and “stifling sound quality. In his response, Geaves danced around criticizing Bluetooth directly, but acknowledged that Apple would really like a wireless standard that allows for more bandwidth.
People like having more money instead of less money. What a surprise.
I could maybe buy that if the code was very old. When it’s a couple months old I find it hard to swallow.
> in the west buying stuff usually requires no human interaction at all

And then you step foot in a car dealership, and you might as well be in a souk
The only legitimate problem with Bitcoin is the environmental impact of POW. These folks are clearly threatened by something that could supplant them.
> And pigs are so close to humans anyway -- which is why I have the theory of why humans love bacon so much.

Are you claiming (most/many) humans are closet cannibals? I don’t agree with that.

Also, pigs aren’t particularly close to humans, genetically. In biological classification they even are in a different order (even-hoofed ungulates) than humans, who are primates.

⇒ I don’t think that theory makes sense.
Excuse me, but in what world the clean UI and extensibility of foobar2k can be compared to Amarok? (Not to mention that Amarok has been left behind by the KDE community a long time ago for a new kid on the block called Elisa). Not even in its prime (which personally I consider to be in the Amarok 2.X days) did it have half the niceties foobar had.

Concerning having a library, I still need one because I buy a lot of sound tracks with my Steam games. Spotify does not have, as an example, the awesome British Sea Power OST for Disco Elysium. (It can be found on bandcamp though: https://britishseapower.bandcamp.com/album/disco-elysium)
Of course, if people start using another currency then they lose a lot of power. Being able to print your own money is a huge power states have. You won’t be able to print your way out if a crypto takes over, that’s why crypto will never be a thing; unless the state makes a bastardized/spy coin.
You're right in that international law isn't real in the same way that national laws are. But countries do consider international law in determining whether to give effect to another country's actions. If EU member states started seizing assets of businesses that it applied the GDPR to in violation of international laws, other countries would take that as a hostile action and possibly stop recognizing EU member state judgments, for example, as presumptively valid. And they can take retaliatory actions against European companies.

Customary international law is best thought of as widely accepted norms of fairness between sovereign states. There is no international police to come get you when you don't play nice, but staying within the dictates of international law generally protects you from accusations of unfair play and the consequences that can bring.

And yeah, the US maybe does violate international law in the specifics of its sanctions policies, though they are usually carefully crafted to only apply to people who somehow participate in the US financial/payments system. It's very possible that one day the US will pay the price for this overreach/maximalism when countries eagerly jump ship to an alternative international financial system, should a viable one emerge. But for now, the US is the only real game in town. The strong take what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Detecting non-local exits in Common Lisp
Bugs of this nature exist in all major browsers, not just Safari.
This article was a vague gesture towards a projected future. A numbers magic trick.

Capitalism leads to unequal development at all scales. Be it between nations or inside their borders.

That can be justified with vague meritocracy or hard racism/classism. Whatever floats your boat. But it has nothing to do with individuals, the reality lies within the capitalist mode of production in itself which is fundamentally based on the inequality between social classes. Those who have no means of subsistence sell their work. Those who have the means buy their work. Profit is the product of the exploitation of this social relationship.

Poverty is not only an income measure, it is also relative to your society. You cannot solve this gap without addressing how this mode of production functions.
I've always thought Palantir's name was particularly good.

The seeing stone lets you see things, but is easy to misinterpret if you're not careful. It is itself neutral, but can be corrupted for evil. Lots of power, but hard to wield. It's a tool and important for those who use it to understand the risks and account for them - to try to wield its power for good.
Do you interact more frequently with Slack or Discord communities?
I'm looking to create an online community for startuppers and I've seen that:
- Circle is cool but a few people remind to open it
- Fb groups are almost dead since much younger people don't use it
- Slack is often used for work
- Discord is often used for web3 communities or similar.

And you? What do you use more frequently (job workspaces excluded)