skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> native apps are almost always more fun to use.

But then do user care for apps they don't enjoy to use on a fundamental level ?

My local garbage collection company has an app, and I only need it show me what garbage will be collected today and this week. I use it almost everyday, but couldn't care less if the buttons feel native, or if the UI paradigm is generic.

Having all the resources downloaded on the phone still makes the app faster to open than the web site, and I'd have been 100% happy with a PWA.

If we look at phones as tools, there are hundreds of tasks for which "there's an app for that" but an app built specifically for every platform is just overkill and a waste of resource.
I don't know what the author is referring to, but in NDE research, you can find plenty of claimed witnesses to incidents where someone awoke and promptly made a claim about reality that proved to be correct and which they had no clear way to have observed naturally.

The most common one is probably knowing someone else has recently died, due to encountering the newly-dead in the apparent afterlife part of their NDE.

Could that still suffer from the same selection bias problem? Sure.

Do we have rigorous proof that this really happens as such? No, just various eyewitness testimonies saying that it did, and eyewitness testimony is famously unreliable.

Still - if people really do come back from near-death and spontaneously report other deaths accurately without first checking for whether their perception was correct... that's kind of weird.

Bruce Greyson apparently published a paper about the phenomenon, IIRC saying that they didn't find any instances of someone reporting a death incorrectly out of hundreds of reports of NDE-inspired death-knowledge claims. I've been meaning to dig that one up and look more closely at it, because that's at the very least pretty remarkable selection bias. Not sure I'm remembering the details right, though.
It's literally negative. You are removing things.

It may add value, so may be figuratively a very positive change. But not literally.
When I migrated a few years ago there wasn't, I was only able to find some python script in Github and it still required tonnes of manual process to filter out noise
I bet that robots will take over the world and wipe out all forms of life before consciousness is ever figured out.
Why legislate any of it? Just charge all 300+ million of US with tax evasion and allow everyone to enter a plea of no contest. The fine for this treachery can be to pay the exact amount of taxes I owe. No need for any laws to be changed anywhere. We can enter our plea via zoom call.
Notably iPhone7 uses A10 that is last gen using PowerVR GPU
If the war is over next year (I'm not optimistic, but fingers crossed) and Ukraine prevails, which seems to be a certainty, then the US and EU will plough money into Ukraine's recovery. They'll want an institutionally stronger country there regardless of the diplomatic solutions found to the war/borders etc. That will be a shot in the arm to the eastern EU economy and probably quite positive to the world as a whole.

Yeah I agree that the future looks bleak for Russia, actually regardless of how well they fight. They lost, long term, when they didn't take Ukraine in 3 days. They showed a weak hand and I suspect even their ally China will treat them as a second partner and with some contempt. Perhaps the best outcome would be the Russian government falling again and this time western powers actually helping out, but I doubt they'll collapse in a way that lets that happen, or that society there will accept help, or that western countries would be interested in helping anyway.

China will decline, they're not in a great place demographically. And this is my personal opinion: China had the opportunity to become great, with just a little more freedom they could have leveraged their hi-tech manufacturing base and encouraged innovation. But instead the leadership got scared that they were losing power and sent thing in the wrong direction. It's not that they aren't innovative, it's just that has been tempered enough that they won't take the lead and all the other issues - demographic, geographic etc will take them downhill. Which is a shame because instead of a (slightly) freer world we get nationalism and unpredictability; who knows now what they'll do if they can't deliver on better living standards and an ever improving economy? Invading Taiwan would be stupid from many perspectives, but as a way to drum up and hold support of the population maybe it works?
webapps haven’t been done well yet. mostly they try to mimic native apps, and obviously that’s not the way.

for webapps to succeed they need ux that fits their platform: a browser.

the best thing about webapps is they seamlessly move between devices. all you need is a browser and your password.
Government is getting too much heat for over-incarcerating Black people on flimsy justification, so switching to women.
Although F1 & IndyCar both ban performance-enhancing technologies that every single road-going car is required to have, specifically ABS & traction control. They are a weird mix of extremely cutting edge & expensive and also intentionally outdated & bad technology.

And before someone jumps in about how those technologies are actually somehow bad for the track or race car drivers don't benefit from them, F1 actually had to give up their 1994 ban because every team was doing it anyway and the FIA couldn't adequately police it until the ECU itself was made standard in 2008: https://racingnews365.com/traction-control-in-f1-a-short-his...
Calm app's Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt. She's a great teacher.

Overall, it's learned through practice. My style is something I like to call, Calm Zen.

I start with a daily calm session (~10min) and follow it with 20min zazen, which is a pretty basic sitting meditation style. I count breaths mentally on the exhale to 10, then start back at 1.

I find tangible results from practicing daily for at least 20min per day. Some have measured results from less, but it doesn't seem to be the case for me.
Free : https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-tests-tech-that-could-beam...

Please excuse my mirth, but the Image of a huge magnifying glass and ants comes to mind!
You still need to create an account, because reasons. Interacting with any such service is a pain either way for the first time.
"Myth #11: Instead of merging / into /usr it would make a lot more sense to merge /usr into /.

Fact: This would make the separation between vendor-supplied OS resources and machine-specific even worse, thus making OS snapshots and network/container sharing of it much harder and non-atomic, and clutter the root file system with a multitude of new directories."
> The primary commercial Unix implementation is nowadays Oracle Solaris.

Surely it's macOS? The total install base of Solaris must be a rounding error compared to the number of Macbooks sold daily.
cool! it really helps
This is a pleasant story. It's nice to know there can still be mystery around us, even near urban areas.

Thank you for sharing!
I lost my original Airpods about a month before the AirPods Pro came out. It took about a month to get my AirPods Pro. During that 2 month period I used wired headphones and hated every single minute of it. The cord was always in the way. Once, on a crowded bus, the cord got caught and the headphones were pulled out and ended up dragging on the bus floor. I tossed them and bought a cheap pair of Bluetooth headphones for the final 2 weeks. They were crap but at least there was no cord dangling about.
Every few months is "frequently"?

That's just app hoarding.
How many apps do you use right now that could be web apps do the developers actually accept payments through the App Store?

It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of App Store revenue comes from games and in app purchases.
You can iterate the argument one step further and say that affordable nuclear is too far into the future, and that we should instead focus on more immediately realizable options such as wind, solar, geothermal etc.

This is where much of the energy debate in Europe is at now. It is exactly the same argument being used against fission.

Pick any technology that has come to fruition in the last decade. Video streaming as a substitute for cable and terrestrial TV. Mass adoption of Smart Phones. EVs becoming a viable option for broad populations of car owners. A space startup that came from nowhere and rapidly out-competed the incumbents. All of them.

Remember the Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon shitting on private space companies on C-SPAN not that many years ago?

Look at the time span between people dismissing these technologies as off in the distant future and when they arrived. People have a tendency to assume that tomorrow will be the same as today.

Affordable nuclear is still some years away. I think the events in Europe actually shortened that distance into the future by a significant amount just in the last 6 months. But fission power is still "too slow". Fusion is even more years away into the future. If/When it comes to fruition people are going to be surprised, and none more so than the experts.

Because the experts are almost always wrong for a good while after disruptive breakthroughs have already happened.

It means we have to think ahead and make sufficient bets on technologies that exist at all time scales. And the more potential they have for delivering stable base load, the higher the payoff.

Yes we have to invest in both fission and fusion. And we have to invest a lot more than we already do.
The old iphone can transfer the sim to another iphone using local radios and a 2PC involving the UI on the two phones (like airdrop, but for simcards).
You mean when the code is too long, and you summarize regions of it for easy location?

Making the comment large is good enough for that. But a really different tag may help here.
Rebranded to Stellantis now.
Verizon's travel pass works pretty well in Mexico, so there's that at least
That rabbit hole leads to a line of thinking. From the article: "Federico Faggin starts with the assumption that reality emerges from the free-will communications of a vast number of conscious entities". If we're living in a simulation, either it's insanely inefficient, uselessly simulating subatomic activity for hundreds of light years around. Or only stuff being looked at by some active entity is being simulated. Lots of games work that way. Most of the world is turned off most of the time.

When two active entities previously running in unsynchronized simulations get close enough that their simulations have to sync, there can be artifacts as they sync up. Those should be noticeable. Some of the larger virtual world systems actually have that problem.

But this is all probably bogus. There's a lot of wishful "consciousness must be special so that humans are important" in this line of thinking.

As I point out occasionally, the place where AI does badly is not around "consciousness", whatever that is. It's around common sense and manipulation in unstructured situations. Or, as I like to put it, not screwing up in the next 30 seconds. Recently someone commented on here that octopi have those abilities. They're good at figuring out their environment, learn from others of their own kind, and are good at escaping. They're at least at dog level. Octopi are interesting because they are a separate evolution from mammals, with a much more distributed brain and a completely different vision system. This tells us there's more than one way to do it.
You can’t “ad block” with the most popular websites either that have “native ads” like FB.
If you have to ask, you probably are in the 1% by a large margin: Most people do not fly regularly. Some people have never flown at all. You would probably be surprised how often someone's flight with an airline is either their first or, in fact, only ever time they will do business with said airline.
It's not clear to me why the reference points need to be a couple hundred years ago, and a couple decades ago. Was the intent to point out that the dollars are a one-off, where the kWh's keep on coming as long as the equipment works?

Even in my relatively wet and grey corner of the world, I'm confident that if I spent $X on PV vs hydro, the PV would produce more electricity and require less maintenance.
> I got the feeling it's one of those products designed for regular people who like to roleplay as explorers

This seems like an overly cynical take to me.

I agree that the marketing was a bit over the top, and most people who buy one will not be doing things like running ultra marathons in the Sahara. And for people who do those things, there are probably better watches out there from Garmin, etc.

But you don't need to be an explorer (or roleplay as one) to benefit from the longer battery life, larger and brighter display, improved GPS accuracy, improved audio and microphone quality, etc.
I think you mean a googler. He isn't Google.
For ladies or just those with smaller wrists?

Plenty of ladies have larger risks than me (a man)
And if it's really important, have one person doing what it says in the checklist, and another reading what's to be done next, making sure the first person did it, and _then_ ticking it off. And finally storing the dated checklist in a paper file somewhere

The number of times I've missed a step on a paper checklist because I was on autopilot is ... non-zero
If you literally mean K&R C, hard to imagine.

If you mean K&R C as a shorthand for “plain old C” then there’s a lot of it going on everywhere. Embedded and industry especially.
Or "Stable Diffusion"
https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/esim
Q: "Why haven't PWAs killed native apps yet"
A: "Because PWAs are not performant and are harder to police from a platform perspective"
If I do something once then it's slightly annoying downloading the app from the app store, but I can live with it. It's not worse than opening browser and going to some URL.
As who hate auto rotate feature on smartphone/tablet, I'm waiting for Apple copy this https://www.droid-life.com/2018/04/12/android-ps-new-navigat...
That's really contrary to my experience on iOS. My apps are frequently forgetting they were logged in. In fact, I just checked AirBnB specifically and it has forgotten me.
Th difference was that Google didn't optimize search to sell ads, which is the opposite of your original comment.
The article seems to be from 2012, it makes more sense in that context.
All four authors are listed as being part of the "Institute of Noetic Sciences", which researches topic such as paranormal phenomena, psychic abilities, telekinesis, and other pseudoscientific topics in the realm of alternative medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences
This only works if you live somewhere with a mild climate. Most places of the world it seems won't fall into this category. Summer and winter are hard. With cars where you get to set a temperature before going out, it's not just convenient, it can well be vital for seniors. Not to mention when there's rain, snow or wind. I'm all for cars. They just need to be more efficient. And it's achievable.
+1 airalo; esimdb.com is a great comparison engine for eSim vendors

be weary of the cheaper eSim providers, as they may not be using the best networks in a given country. Many do not disclose country specific network carriers, and others are hidden deep in documentation. Airalo is among the most transparent and has different vendors for their Global, EU, and country specific plans, with country specific packages usually having the best national carrier support.

I've spent a bit of time researching this in this past as Airalo wasn't usually the cheapest.

https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/ is the best resource I have discovered to compare country specific network coverage
Congressional members commonly have no idea what is in the legislation they propose. Nancy Pelosi is on the record saying as much:

https://posey.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=...
Facebook was one of the first apps available on the App Store in 2008.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/10/facebook-apple-app-store-mos...
Yeah, exactly right! I mean we all adjust people, places, things all the time. There is nothing special about programing languages that it has to be perfect fit for each feature one desires.
I've worked at several big corps and the managers are the ones who take all the stress. I would never ask one of my team (or one of my colleagues) to work to the point where they cried - this is a negative signal.
Conda environments are the most isolated from the host os, outside of using docker or a vm. They’re also the most heavyweight. As a package manager, you can install a lot of non-python stuff. It’s more similar to apt or yum than pip. You can even do things like run bash on windows with m2, which I usually find preferable to wsl.
Well said. I write, rewrite, and edit most of my comments. They frequently take 5+, even 10+ minutes from the moment I begin to when I hit "reply".

I try to upvote and downvote comments based on whether or not they contribute that same level of thought. I suppose enough community members feel the same that we generally keep the comments high quality enough to justify refreshing the page multiple times a day, every day.

By the way, your English is quite good for a non-native speaker. Just putting this much conscious effort into writing puts your prose a level above most native English speakers!
With TDD you can work without a REPL :) If you really want a REPL, use something like TypeScript.

Lisp and Smalltalk look neat in screencasts and have been hyped to the stars for decades, but for getting things done in the modern world, nothing beats a good, statically typed, object-oriented language in an IDE like Jetbrains or Visual Studio (Code). In addition to the benefits of static type checking, in an IDE you can type a variable name and a dot, and get a list of valid methods, exploring what's possible with a given object much faster than even a Lisp machine or Smalltalk environment would avail you. And in a modern IDE, running any test you've written is just a click away.

Lisp and Smalltalk were groundbreaking in their day, but modern languages and environments build on what they provided.
What's your thought on finding passion?
People always say, "Do something you love or feel enthusiastic about." I'm 20 years old and personally I don't feel anything like that. How does this "passion" work? How do you figure it out? Many people are working on what they love or feel genuine about. I feel envious towards them. For a while, I started feeling extreme depression, anxiety, and identity crisis. I don't know how to figure this out. I'm at a loss here and I feel extremely pathetic about this fact.
Can anybody find their passion? Is it possible that I'm not capable of figuring this out?
If you search "pixel crash", it completes with detection.

Again, just because Google doesn't open their presentation with a dramatized video of people sending them fan letters about how their product saved their life doesn't mean their product aren't useful or not saving lives.

Another thing Google has had for some time is early Earthquake warning, which also has saved lives, maybe that's another feature you'll see show up on iPhones in a few years, and people like you will claim Apple invented it and praise Apple for it.
>It's fun to think about how to potentially automate this kind of tracking

I download my entire history regularly and use https://yacy.net/ to index at all. It's essentially like a local search engine. Also works on the local file system and across machines.
pyarrow for example, if you don't have a wheel then good luck building one without using conda. It's not impossible but the developers don't really support it.

Official dependency and build tooling is not properly geared for C extensions. You'll be looking at compiler errors to figure out what dependencies you are missing.
Anecdata: Copilot has been net-negative for me when writing Python, but the Rust completions are fantastic.
You do not have to go in Setting. In Safari, tap the “aA” on the left in address bar, and then select top or bottom address bar.
My syntax highlighting scheme is very minimal. White on black, with only string literals slightly grey, and comments slightly greyer. To me that provides enough of a distinction that I can distinguish the three types of content. The rest is a distraction to me.

Although now that I think about it I could make number literals coloured the same as the string literals, but I don’t really have any trouble distinguishing numbers from code (whereas sometimes strings can look like code).
Yes but thinking more long term.
I’ve met the dude, he /is/ a nice guy. Not a fan of the whole villain angle.
> Mimicry and copying and modifying various styles from different artists is an integral part of the arts.

And depending on how mimicing, already covered by copyright law as a "derrivitave work".
What was the name?
If Apple and especially Google really wanted to support PWAs, they'd add first-class support for them on their app stores, but they don't really want to do that, as it would weaken the walls around their garden.
OK, so basically if you have a 650-64 Palo Alto number, you'd block half the VCs in the world. If you have a lower Manhattan 212 number, you'd block a quarter of all finance recruiters? (granted, the latter has moved to Linked In)
Well, the usability can be really great.

You should try doing some frontend with the modern DOM (not the frameworks), it's very flexible. It also performs quite well.

Electron has a lot of other problems, that become worse on mobile. But UX restrictions is not one of them.
Off-road maps are something I'm OK with using a third-party app for, but there's one thing I can't stand with the current mapping features - line of sight or "as the crow flies" distance and directions off-road. I use FindMy with other people in outdoor and off-road situations quite a bit. I can see where other people are on the map, but I can't be told the straight line distance to any of them. You also can't ask for directions to another person if that person isn't next to a road. It seems like such a huge oversight that you can't tap on another person in FindMy and ask for directions and then be told something like "Head 700m at a bearing of 187 degrees to [other user's] location." Freeform walking directions are such a basic thing that I can't believe this is overlooked.
I use twitter web on my phone instead of the app, for privacy reasons.

Its noticeably more janky, the browser crashes now and then, and the animations aren't as smooth or simply don't exist, also things take longer time to load for some reason.

I think it depends on how the website is designed, but it might also be a general experience of PWAs.

Tech details: Brave browser, Android 12, Pixel 4XL with CalyxOS.
Android at least has the ability to "install" a PWA as an app on your home screen. They just need to allow devs to list them on their app store, and then it really wouldn't be any more inconvenient than a native app.
I have some oneplus ones that cost me 1/4 as much and are just as good as my set that died (airpods) the initial (no) setup (needed) was the only advantage for apple's product. People give apple a bit too much credit for this stuff.
That's why there's lots of Android phones with double sim slots. I'm just adding a new one on arrival rather than swapping. And no need to give anyone a temporary number.

For lots of people $100 is a significant amount compared to a $5 prepaid sim they can get locally.