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Ask HN: Why do we still use apps?
Apps are skeuomorphic. They typically represent real-world objects or concepts.

For example, these are all the apps pre-installed on iOS:

- App Store: Software retailer

- Books: Book

- Calculator: Calculator

- Calendar: Calendar

- Camera: Camera

- Clock: Clock

- Compass: Compass

- Contacts: Rolodex

- FaceTime: Face-to-face interaction

- Files: Filing cabinet

- Find My: ?

- Fitness: Workout log

- Flashlight: Flashlight

- Health: Health record

- Home: Home

- iTunes Store: Music retailer

- Mail: Mail

- Maps: Maps

- Measure: Tape measure

- Messages: SMS

- Music: Music player

- News: Newspaper

- Notes: Notebook

- Phone: Telephone

- Photos: Picture

- Podcasts: Radio

- Reminders: To-do list

- Safari: ?

- Settings: Buttons, switches, sliders, knobs

- Shortcuts: ?

- Stocks: Newspaper

- Tips: User guide

- Translate: Bilingual dictionary

- TV: Television

- Voice Memos: Tape recorder

- Wallet: Wallet

Although the one-to-one equivalence between real-world concepts and apps may seem intuitive to those who have experienced the former (older generations), they appear completely arbitrary to those who haven't (newer generations). Keep in mind that most kids have no idea that the save symbol represents a floppy disk.

Unfortunately, such short-sighted design decisions often remain unchallenged. For instance, most people never asked themselves why we ended up with the arguably inferior QWERTY keyboard layout. Likewise, most of us have accepted the arbitrary boundaries we set between apps.

What if this skeuomorphic way of thinking had wider implications than simply facilitating the transition from the analog to the digital world? What if the very idea of apps was the single biggest mistake in the field of software design? How powerful would software be if we directly interacted with data in a general purpose way, rather than being constrained by the limitations of real-world objects in a domain specific way?
And I never cut myself or get razor burn with an electric razor. I also don't have to worry about running out of shaving cream or whether my shaving cream is too big to pack on an airplane.

I switched to electric years ago and will never go back.
I'm old enough to have used modems and never heard the long name before.
"Clear challenges" is somewhat synonymous with "problems". So, yes.
No no no, don’t say that. Your water, roads, sewage, and electricity have not been universally solved. It has nothing to do with better opportunities. It’s a shithole you guys are not committing to fixing.
Plenty of space, just get bigger stairs.

Having said that, the total amount of space taken up by the server rack is about 80x110x170cm, half of which is used as a produce drying rack which uses the heat and air flow from the fan in the bottom of the rack to dry fruit/mushrooms/herbs and more of such. This is what it looks like:

https://rimgo.esmailelbob.xyz/a/M4Lbf1K

By now the D-Link switch has been replaced with a HP, a NetApp DS4243 with a varying number of drives in it sits two slots under the server and the remaining empty slots are covered with blanks to improve air flow. Total power consumption lies around 250-300W depending on load, about 170W of which is taken by the server which idles at 150W. Power use is of no issue given the 15KW solar installation on the roof of the new barn I built a few years ago, the residual heat also helps to warm the 2nd floor - which, being well-insulated, does not need any extra heating even in the Swedish winter.
Yes. Japan is a country. It’s a socially constructed set of boundaries and rules. It can be whatever they want it to be.

You’re tiptoeing dangerously near some very questionable ethnic/racial arguments.
Anecdote, but for some people, the question is the opposite, why are people having children? I understand that humans have biological desire to reproduce or some people may have a sense of community that may create the desire to generate nest generations. But for people who don't feel these feelings, making babies sound like extraordinary amount of work for questionable gains. I personally can't ever see myself having children.

Just my personal thoughts, this comment is not meant to include any judgement opinion.
Essentially a PR fluff piece for his consultancy BraveCore without any concrete details.
Modern 'razors' are a scam. You don't need 2 blades, 3 or even 4. One blade will do the job better than any combination of gillette rubbish and for a much lower cost.

I would recommend investing in a decent safety razor - which will last forever if well cared for. ($40-80 range). Then your razors run about $0.20 each for good ones purchased in bulk.

edit: I now see that safety razors are the point of the article.. great minds?
Youch.

I have paid apps and free apps (staticman comment processing, and very simple apps I create while following learning tutorials). This project sounds bad! I’ve been slowly exploring alternatives, and was about to abandon my search due to demands on my time. Guess I need to keep exploring.
Well facebook is firing - not just freezing hiring but firing people so there's that.
I made the mistake of doing something like that, but you can totally use foam in a can which lasts a long time and is much more convinient and, for me, better and use that in a combination with a safety razor.
Brazil has a large population of Japanese origin, so Japan did a program of taking immigrants from here at the 90's. And well, today our institutions refuse to collaborate with any other such program.

Their society is very closed, allowing immigrants to take only very low paid low value works. Immigrants have almost no possibility of growth, and very a very bad set of labor rights (apparently everybody has this later problem, even though the set of rights for Japanese and immigrants is different, one does not seem to be strictly worse than the other).

The result of the immigration at the 90's was that people came back worse-off than they gone.
The idea that the planet is wounded due to too many people and needs to be "healed" is complete nonsense. We aren't close to carrying capacity. You're taking various complaints ("immigration policy," "no support for women," "people work too much") and connecting them to a totally unrelated phenomenon (declining population). People are not deciding against children for rational reasons.

I think it mostly has to do with social atomization. Cultures have always supported marriage and childcare. That's less true around the world. As a result people are getting married less often and having fewer children, often against their own desires.
Get someone rich to give you a bunch of money.
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No, it isn't just London. One of the students is in Leeds, which is in the North. Definitely improved a lot over the last ten years but is still a fairly typical deprived West Yorkshire town. The problem is a lack of housing (London hasn't become significantly more expensive over the last five years or so, prices in cities outside London have).

And the issue with these kind of things is that your money is fixed. I don't think anyone could have predicted their rent going up or down. Inflation is 7% that impacts things.

If you are referring to the UK career development loan scheme, you can't fund undergrads and you can't take one out in the middle of a course (I believe, it was the case when I took one)

I agree that the picture given in these articles is not very helpful (unf, this is the way the news is going to be for a while, these times are a gold rush for journalists, easy clicks, easy bonuses) but, generally, this kind of thing is an issue. Medical students are the least impacted because they get money (however, they are the most politically organized).
The battle is fought over performance and size, I think that's exactly what the user wants.
Yes, it's still the same country. And nobody's being replaced if the Japanese are reproducing at lower than replacement rate.
It’s a right-wing talking point that Sweden is some progressive dystopia ruined by immigration.
A culture so rich, nobody feels like having children.

Or maybe you meant "rigid"?
It is worth spending the whole day to optimize even a 1 second task if you do it 50 times per day https://xkcd.com/1205/
(over 5 years)
Ask HN: Where to buy old 8-bit computers?
I became interested in the old 8-bit computers like Commodore 64, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, etc. And also on 16/32 bit machines like the Amiga line. There are some offers for such machines on eBay but I'm not sure in what condition they will arrive if I purchase from there. Do you know some place online specialized in reselling such old machines and accessories for them where I can be sure that what I purchase will be in a good working condition?
I don’t think Teflon leaches into food at normal cooking temperatures (it’s a very stable chemical), but even if it did, it’s totally fine, as Teflon is biologically inert. It is used in medicine for implants, catheter linings etc.
@akmittal japan is a pretty small country but the third largest economy in the world. Have you considered japan does not need that many people? Just because a nation's population is declining does not mean it should start importing foreign nationals.
The better analogy if your driver’s license/ID it passport.
If you leave these, you likely can’t travel or be admitted into specific establishments, etc.
> I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil).

We fry our eggs every morning on a cast iron skillet with a tiny amount of oil (<1 teaspoon for 6 eggs). The only time I have problems with stuff sticking is if I get impatient and don't wait for the pan to preheat.

This is one of the biggest contributors to teflon's mythology: you can't preheat a teflon pan safely (it ruins the coating), so people learn to not preheat. They then get frustrated when using other pans that things stick that wouldn't have on their teflon.

(Edit: the skillet is a cheap, unaltered Lodge, nothing antique or sanded.)
>1. The manufacturing process results in those precursor chemicals entering urban water supplies where they are nearly impossible to filter out (only RO is effective and it's not even 100% effective), and once in the bloodstream of people are powerful endrocrine disruptors which circulate and are filtered slowly by the kidneys... and when peed out go right back into the water supply due to not being able to be removed during treatment. These "forever chemicals" are some of the most health damaging pollutants in the West.

That's why I said it was "a little misleading" rather that outright false. "poisonous" sort of implies that the object itself is poisonous or is bad for you. I'm sure manufacturing a smartphone causes a bunch of environmental damage, but you wouldn't call it poisonous (outside of putting in in your mouth).

>2. Teflon is extremely hazardous when consumed and it flakes off of the pans over time (which is why they must be replaced often) or when incorrect utensils are used (common among unsophisticated users).

source? This is contradicted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safety

>3. Teflon can overheat on a standard consumer stove using standard cooking techniques. You actually need different techniques to prevent overheating a Teflon pan.

Like I said in my initial comment, teflon has its uses. I'm not saying it's the best tool for every job. Given that, I highly doubt this applies if I'm just cooking my eggs.

>4. Cast Iron is effectively non-stick after enough use, and you can absolutely fry an egg in it without sticking if you have a smooth-bottom pan (either a vintage cast iron, new vintage-style, or a new style that you've sanded down and seasoned yourself).

Sounds like a lot of work to me. In other words, the teflon pan is actually more convenient.
People are worked to death and the country has been in stagnation for 30 years. Time that could be spent dating is spent working and future prospects seem bleak.
The sheer amount of xenophobia and ethnic-nationalism/racism on HN that’s upvoted never surprises. I almost came to this thread expecting a flurry of xenophobic comments, and yup, I found it.
Immigration is quite open in Italy and I personally know a very large amount of people who got citizenship. They are all working elsewhere in the EU, though.
In that case, Japan would be even worse, because the Tokio metropolitan area is a human anthill.
The alt right poisoning of discourse by repeating these strange tropes like “another Sweden” or “London is full of murder” or “France is basically Islamic”, is really curious. Because after a while these strange untrue and often deeply weird theories / ideas become common and for some people accepted reality.

They do it by cherry picking horror stories and repeat them over and over, eg “a refugee murdered a woman in sweden” over and over and over. Or “knife crime” in London, usually implying the knife murdered is black or brown. Of course in reality sweden is very safe, advanced, high living standard country. London has a murder rate per 100,000 that would make it statistically the safest large city in America and significantly safer than supposedly “low crime” cities like San Diego which have a murder rate much higher than London. The entire uk police forces have only shot dead 50 people approx, since 1980! American police shoot dead several thousand per year, plus 10k pets and dogs. But many Americans for example now believe that “London is over run with 3rd world refugees and therefore crime and murder”. Build the wall!

It’s curious how it sticks so well.
Why will the Japanese get replaced? Immigrants will just blend in and build a future Japan.

Just like Japan of 2020 is not the same as Samurai Japan of medieval times. Times change, societies change, demographics change. That is just the way things are. It's better to harness it than to reject it to the detriment of progress. See: The story of America becoming a superpower.
The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture and Startups: 1Q22
Who is “they”? Cf. ship of Theseus.
It would be great if it happened like that, but all the museum has produced in terms of provenance is that it sat in their inventory at one point in the 1800s. No mention of the circumstances of how it came to be in the collection, unlike the legitimate purchaser who bought it and has a receipt.
Sounds like a human to me.
It shaves deeper so you can have a better shave or shave less frequently. It's also a lot quicker than using a Mach3.
I find that the amount of knowledge and effort to "care" for a cast iron pan is overestimated.

I treat mine no differently than any other pan and do all of the things that I do to any other frying pan. I wash it with soap and the scratchy side of the sponge, I store it with no oil, I cook acidic sauces, I let it soak in the sink, etc...

The seasoning is fine, once I accidentally left it on the burner and it burnt off the seasoning (something that would have destroyed any teflon pan). I just used a little extra oil the next few times.

I haven't used it extensively with an induction burner, but I don't have any complaints....
The raw number doesn't say anything about the actual experience or why those people are there.
It’s the reverse. The majority of the couples live in Japan.

The most common origin of the foreign spouse is from China (where naturalization is much more difficult if not impossible), followed by Korea and the Philippines (where there are fewer job opportunities).
If someone has only one Japanese parent are they Gaijin?
All the sibling posts here have made their point. But just anecdatally, as a lifelong resident, lawns make zero water-economic sense.
When you try to actually apply, you get an error message about your start date having to be in the past.
Well I think it’s less about preserving culture in some static form, and more about having everyone on the same page, and working towards the same goals. That doesn’t seem reasonable?
I just wax my face. Unconventional but it gets the job done
I guess that the consumer home TV panels aren't meant for extended hours of usage. Their overall lifespan would be a lot lesser than commercial display panels and monitors.
It makes your kids unhappy to not have unsupervised access to the internet? Guess we should just let them do what they like? They'll be super happy then.
There's quite a few dogwhistlers here for sure but I'd say it's availability bias - people comment more on threads about things they care about. Id say the community skews libertarian, not far right.
Sorry I didn’t mean it like a logical conclusion. Here’s a study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17593716/
I do live in the shit hole called San Francisco. I wouldn't say water, roads, sewage, electricity are a problem here.
This wouldn’t be possible with a Secure Core branded machine. TCB launch prevents unsigned BIOSes
Right, but the browser is code you control on a machine you control. If the serve says "please store a cookie" and the browser is configured to drop all cookies when the session ends then the cookies are going to be dropped, and there's nothing short of a CVE that's going to allow the webmaster to change that behavior.
A Bridge Between Some Daikin HVAC Units and MQTT – Rewritten in Ada
I just released https://github.com/SMerrony/daikin2mqtt which has been entirely rewritten in Ada. It provides a way of using some Daikin HVAC units in home automation software that doesn't have an explicit 'integration' for such devices, or directly with a dashboard like Node-Red.
IIRC the majority of foreigners in Japan are from other Asian countries and experience varying degrees of discrimination despite many of them being able to at least outwardly pass as Japanese. According to the latest info in Wikipedia, the top countries are China, Vietnam, Korea, Phillippines, and Brazil.

Brazil is an interesting one, because a significant number of "Brazilians" in Japan are supposedly descendants of Japanese who had immigrated to Brazil, but then came back. But even they experience degrees of discrimination despite being ethnically Japanese.

Anecdote, but my Japanese American friend (ethnically 100% Japanese but born and raised in the US, and pretty much culturally 90%+ American) went back to Japan. He too experienced discrimination.
How often do you use which stone?

Like 1200 before every shave? 800 once a week? Etc...? Do you ever need to go back to a coarser one?

Do you ever re-flatten your stones, or buy new ones? How often?
For this question to be answered, it would help to know your area(s) of expertise.
"Obviously" goes way too far here, even if you are including greenhouse gasses in the tally, which aren't pollution by traditional standards. My apartment's electricity and the public transportation I use to get around are powered by renewable energy sources that don't create pollution. In the average week (or month) 95% of the plastic waste I create is from inefficiently packaged foods, which definitely counts as "kitchen" plastic waste. Probably 99% of the plastic I've purchased in the last 2 years is for kitchen items.

I don't think my situation is particularly unusual.
Marginalia works pretty good for finding smaller blogs.
The problem with Indian states are that the majority of those applicants come specifically from upper caste families. The US has already run into this issue. In my opinion it would be a bad idea to further caste outside of India and into other countries as well. On the reasoning for the Punjab state, how would you verify that the person was from a specific region do you know anything about them or their culture? I'm sure you must know some of it but things like this can very easily be faked especially with a corrupt system of governance as India. I don't like to be judge jury and executioner but is there really any way of creating a system that limits it solely to a specific region? Especially more so with the information I've just given you?
I found Italian people very friendly, and most of them would try to help me, a foreigner. Most did struggle financially. Most were unhappy with the tax man. Imagine making around the US minimum wage and constantly getting harassed by the IRS.
The theory is simple:

1. find a profitable niche

2. solve a problem for that niche

3. do marketing in that niche to get people to pay for what you've done

In practice, making a passive income is tough and it's way easier and faster to be working for someone else. If 0.1% of my users would be customer I would be doing much better than my day job, until then I'm in the marathon of bootstrapping my business. Good luck!
As a fish user myself, I’ll admit there is something to be said for standardization. It’s easy to poke fun at somebody for being afraid to learn something new - but with the explosion of different tools it’s becoming impossible to stay abreast of all the changes and feel proficient in anything anymore.
There are plenty of European politicians not demanding action against climate change, how are you so sure the ones on this plane are the ones demanding action against climate change?
Dataplane is more user friendly with additional features:

* Environments to create route to live and different domains for a data mesh
* Per second scheduling with multi time zone support
* Built in online Python IDE and PIP package management - must faster to get your data team up and running
* Written in Golang which uses far less resources and faster
* Real-time logs with secrets redaction to allow your team to use secrets without being able to print secrets out
* Easier to build DAGs with a drag and drop editor
Apparently you buy a lot more stuff than I do. I am painfully aware of the amount of perfectly good bottles and plastic containers I throw in the "recycle" bins every other week. Couple of half full reusable bags. Still less than what many people I know contribute in a day but who's judging.

Electricity is a big one, though. And water, too.
To add to your list I just found this project https://github.com/ChrisHixon/chpeg it has good performance and it's relatively simple compared to others.
That's funny - that's all the leftists can do is ddos. None of them can hack themselves. Bunch of skript kiddies.
For a short time, yes.

But even India is heading for TFR under 2.0.

Subsaharan Africa can, on the other hand, reach up to 4 billion people before the end of the century; almost half of entire humanity.
And it's worth noting that a blade razor usually removes a bit of the top layer of skin, causing irritation, ingrown hairs (on top of avoiding injury from cuts).

There are some really fantastic electric razors that are cheap and get close enough that it makes no visual difference, except they don't cut the hairs under the skin so I haven't had an ingrown hair in years and years.
I agree with the sentiment, but it’s not small in the sense of population. It has twice as many people as France or UK.
I stopped shaving year ago and I couldn't be more happy.

I don't have to worry about shaving almost every other day, replacing razors, shaving creams, aftershave lotions and on top of that I actually look better with a beard.
A 4k monitor of 32" and a 4k tv of 32" have same pixel density. But their price difference can be several fold. Pixel density is not the differentiator.
https://youtu.be/8SRubjZezSE
Oh wow, what a treasure trove! Which title would you recommend a LISP newbie should start with? Is there a sequence for the first few titles you would recommend?
These posts get downvoted because anti-humanism is a repulsive sentiment.

I don't see any solid evidence that the planet is "strained" or, if it is, that it has anything to do with population. People have been talking about overpopulation since before I was born. I think people who go for that stuff have a dim view of humanity and that's where their beliefs come from, not from any kind of serious empirical analysis.