skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I was talking more about apps that you use regularly. Reddit clients are a good example; Apollo for iOS offers a way, way better UX than the official client which is essentially a wrapper around the mobile site with a few native flourishes.

For stuff like buying plane tickets or booking hotels, I much prefer to just use the website itself. I see no benefit to these things being made into PWAs or occupying any kind of permanent space on my device.
Despite some important criticism, I think this article misses an important factor.

The benefit with the MBTI is showing employees that people think differently from them.

Yes, we all know that, but we still need prompting and practice on it.

It's best as an exercise to highlight "I need to consider this person's perspective and take that into account". Flexing that muscle is incredibly useful, even if it's a somewhat arbitrary exercise in itself.

However, I think approaches such as "User Manuals" do that better.
Couple of comments from someone who trained with professional cyclists for some years, and even won a few (amateur) bike races:

> When you're leading a peloton, never go aero (when you lower your upper body so you're "cutting the wind"). Always keep your eyes on the road ahead, looking for potholes.

You can do both, with flexibility and core strength. If I'm on the front in a road race, I'll be in the drops. My breakaway performance improved dramatically when I started including yoga & pilates in training regime.

However, for time-trial or triathlon bikes, i.e. those with specialist aero bars that help us become more narrow to the wind, you'll hear general advice to never get down on the aero bars in a group. That certainly is a good safety guideline to follow, with the exception of training for/racing a team time trial. Not so much due to visibility as it is the altered handling characteristics and lack of brake levers.

> For maximum efficiency and safety, your front wheel should a wheel's distance from the rear wheel of the bike in front of you.

That's a lot. In a competitive event we're often down to a few centimeters gap between wheels. In such circumstances the proper safety protocol is to be slightly laterally displaced from the wheel you're following, enough that any unanticipated change in speed means your front wheel slides past their rear wheel rather than making tyre contact. The choice of left or right generally depends on wind direction, and on very windy days this coordinates with echelon formation.
People answer phone numbers that their phone doesn’t tell them who it is?

Huh.
I’ve always been an ENFP. I also find MB to be nearly useless in life.

In fact all personality systems have seemed of limited use, until I was shown the Enneagram. It has helped me think not about my strengths, but my weaknesses. It has been useful for understanding how I relate to others as well; and have better sympathy for their struggles
It is actually true. The wealthy will die without liquidating most their stocks, then the basis gets reset when their heirs inherit it. In practice, they don't pay tax. But the reform to fix that is to eliminate the basis resetting rule.
Five-year-olds perceive slimmer people to be happier than overweight people
On the contrary, I'm going to call out every phone that doesn't ship with OLEDs. Who doesn't want infinite contrast ratios and great battery life?
This is all zero effort. The app updates itself and consumes a minuscule amount of storage while most people have 100+gb of free space otherwise unused
System V and BSD are both considered "UNIX", in that they descend directly from the original AT&T UNIX (v6).

In some senses macOS is more of a UNIX than Solaris is, as it is certified by The Open Group and Solaris is currently not: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Accessing SQLZOO using HTTP displays “Andrew was here” on a blank page
The garmin gps you can pay only the months you need it.
You're not considering the exchange for space versus time. A short program may be able to compute the digits of pi to the accuracy you want but you're discounting the runtime and subsequent resources it uses to compute those digits.

Readers could be left with the feeling that somehow you can get information for free, which is not the case. I can't start a program that prints all strings and claim I've achieved ideal compression because the desired output is among one of the strings printed.

It's not just incomputability but the resources involved.

I'm only barely familiar with Kolmogorov complexity and, as you point out, it looks like this is what Algorithmic Information theory is designed for but even in those scenarios, there's clearly a push and pull between run time and memory. As a heuristic, I tend to think of there being a sort of conservation law at work where sacrificing space will increase run-time and vice-versa.
That's not the point.

The fundamental appeal of these carbon schemes is that they can permit a theoretical decrease in greenhouse gases while keeping the current economic model alive and well. But despite being greatly amenable to the way things currently are, with few extra efforts or changes needed in comparison to other types of plans for the climate, they were not widely adopted at all.

The system these schemes were designed to save was unable to pick even the lowest-hanging fruit that could have potentially saved it.

So yes, it might work with unlimited clean energy, but if we have that we are already in a different arena altogether with entirely new problems and solutions and where carbon credits are unnecessary anyway.

The fact that the cost-structure doesn't work now is the indictment. Cost structures is how we got into all this mess to begin with. Saying carbon credits work is like saying a healthy lifestyle can prevent obesity. It's of course true on its own, but also fairly useless since the problem is that people are very resistant to adopting such a lifestyle.
> There's always a choice

Given that you are in a developed country this may seem so of course...for most people they are just trying to survive

https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
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Look into the water cycle. Water doesn't just disappear. With sufficient means of energy generation the lack of _fresh_ water can be solved.
Well if I'm going to throw money at a pointless endeavour, I could think of quite a few worse than this.
And that’s the way it is in FreeBSD… /bin/sh exists, but it isn’t bash. Instead, bash must be installed by the user, and is thus installed in /usr/bin.
VS code has shown that. I couldn’t tell you if an app I’m using is “native” or just a very good electron app.
https://youtu.be/5wmGp2pKF60 - echelon explained.

Personally i average 25-27kmh. With a friend or two 32-37, in a bunch 40+kmh, easy.

* It's just such a shame that a group >3 of cyclists turn into such a selfish bunch of self-entitled twats, i avoid them like the vermin they are. I average 100-350km+ a week or ride before anyone gets too upset at that uncalled-for statement :-)

Oh, and i can recommend the website intervals.icu - amazing cycling-analytic tech on display.
Reading that thread left a bad taste in my mouth. OP sounds very toxic. Stuff like that is why I stay away from open source “communities” and stick to fixing issues that personally affect me.
A standard website is also sufficient for this
Thinking that it has to be located somewhere in space might just be an artifact of a classical mechanics model of the universe, with atoms bumping into each other like billiard balls in a long causal chain all the way back to the Big Bang. But reality doesn’t appear to actually work that way, at least according to modern physics.

Not all things seem to necessarily have a location in space. For example, where is the color red, or where is “red-ness”? I’m not talking about light waves radiating at a certain frequency but rather the experience of red we have in our minds. Plato gets at this concept with his ideal forms, which transcend space and time, yet can be “materialized” within space and time as matter and observed by consciousness. In other words, there is no difference between “red-ness” and the experience of “red-ness” we have in our minds, rather they are one in the same. Yes, there may be interference with our perception of the ideal form e.g. color blindness, or other impairments analogous to a radio with a damaged antenna. However it’s still plausible that there is a transcendent form that exists independent of space and time, yet which is accessible within space time via the organs of consciousness we experience as matter.

Anyway, just some musings, but I have found that ancient metaphysics are not incompatible with modern physics. It gets interesting because if you accept the metaphysics about “red-ness”, then you can extend this line of thought more broadly to concepts like “good-ness”, and what is the good, and how we could possibly know this.
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Shit, the poison pill and CVE SOC2/SOX/PCI issues are super insightful. I hadn't thought of that . Great comment.
The previous commenter was being silly, in response to mc32 being silly, then mc32 switched to making a serious claim in response.

> If anything, this is the commenter that is being more careful not to entertain familiar science fiction presumptions and is exhibiting the discipline that you're asking for.

I really don't understand why you think this.
This is a bad take. The operation is not slow as in "takes longer", but as in "effectively never finishes". (that's what taking minutes on a single request means) That makes it trivial to DoS a service if you know it's running on a standard python runtime. And availability related to untrusted input is very much a vulnerability in a traditional sense.

As traditional as it gets really: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/opdos-1/denial...

It also has a financial impact definitely something security people are interested in.
I'm on mobile but almost every point you made is either a lie or a massive exaggeration.

Transitioning requires a massive amount of support and steps and children are NOT being rushed into irreversible medical procedures. This is a scare mongering tactic of the alt-right and has no bearing on reality.
Started doing this with Raindrop recently. My 180+ open tabs in Firefox started giving me anxiety. After purging some and adding some to Raindrop, I'm now down to 120
Walking for 15-20 min in -30C is just fine with the right clothes.
Completely agree, Blind has the same mentality

https://www.teamblind.com/post/UyGsEdyC?cid=24327137
You act as if Windows Electron apps are any better.
It’s a bit different from insurance, in that the benefit to the user of contacting police/rescue could be nearly infinite, while the marginal cost to Apple is small. So as long as the after-the-fact charge is high enough, Apple can amortize their costs. The main issue is it’s terrible PR for Apple to be sending $1000 bills to people who’ve been mauled by bears or gotten lost in the mountains, many of whom wouldn’t be able to pay anyway.
It's sort of funny, AFAIK the usual way to effect the merger is to place a symlink from /bin to /usr/bin. This is how e.g. Arch Linux does it. So ironically, the archaic #!/bin/bash continues to work normally on /usr merged systems.
I have a 10-30 seconds fix with like 10m accuracy with my watch (fenix 6 pro) only.
> Always-on “Hey Siri”

i've been turning off Siri because the inaccuracies really bother me... any one use them on a daily basis other than for setting kitchen timers?
Well, there are also app store apps that effectively just wrap a PWA, and also apps that are some shade of gray inbetween.
Bitcoin trading volumes were 95% less than what was reported: Report
You don’t have to have a passion. It may be more helpful to understand “do what you love” to mean “don’t spend your time doing something you hate or living for other people”.
Why Zig When There is Already C++, D, and Rust? [1].

Also, safety is not the only consideration when writing software right? Otherwise, all software would have to be written using formal methods [2] ... clearly overkill for many (most?) applications.

Maybe it is a bit obvious, but I think someone would pick Zig because they like the set of features that the language provides, allowing this person to write reasonably bug free code in (hopefully) shorter time than using a different language or methodology.

I think most ppl choose the language because they like the tools/ecosystem/libs available, because it aligns with previous experience/s, because of how popular it is for the kind of app they are writing, and because they agree with the authors philosophy (as opposed to choosing it based on any particular language features).

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1: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods
Some folks still use uMatrix and wish uBlock had an advanced advanced mode to replace it :)
>pseudoscientific

It's difficult for me to view Edgar Mitchell as some lucky pseudoscientific vagabond who by luck happened to hitch a ride to the moon and return with a buch of dumb ideas.

A minor adjustment to your chosen terminology could exalt at least one of the listed pseudo topics into an actual scientific one by replacing "psychic abilities" with PSI. From my experience, those with the most hostile sentiment for that particular subject have the least awareness of it beyond the standard James Randy, ie spoon bender stuff. Admittedly, telekinesis is tempting to berate, but not so much with telepathy.

It's a stretch, perhaps trite to say, but hand-washing was not long ago considered alternative medicine.
The reasons people choose to develop PWA or native have greater impacts on the user experience than the differences between the two.

For example, many predict PWA development will be cheaper for them in the short-term. They are first optimizing product development for short-term cost. That focus impacts the released product more than PWA’s strengths and weaknesses. Others choose PWA hoping for a way to rapidly release and iterate MVPs of experimental business ideas. Again, the rationale has a greater impact on the user experience than the tech. Some expect native stacks will let them more deeply tune and polish the user experience than PWA. Or access richer or more performant device capabilities that PWAs cannot. And, this focus on experience over cost impacts the users’ experiences more than the capabilities of native.

In short, many PWAs feel poorer because of product development goals and constraints that precede PWA. These products were always going to give a poorer experience, regardless of the choice of PWA or native.
I do all kinds of adblock in native executables, but mostly blocking places that host ads in my firewall.
Sure your body could put itself into a coma and conserve all possible energy, and it would still be physically impossible for it to store energy you did not consume.

Your body will never go under such heavy energy conservation that you cannot lose weight, and it doesn't have enough control to do that anyway. At best your body can attempt to slow down your physical activity and slow down digestion for efficiency. Yes as you diet your metabolic rate will decrease, and even if it were to decrease an impossible amount like 50+% you would still be able lose weight by comsuming less energy.
Haters will continue to push the overton window back towards freedom. Your welcome.
The fix is to clean the stems with alcohol. That will get rid of the corrosion building on the contacts.

Also, as a preventative measure, before putting them in the case, make absolutely sure they are dry.

As a runner, mine tend to get sweaty and if I put them in the case with even just a hint of salty sweat on them, the current flowing through the connector will corrode it very quickly, necessitating the cleaning next time.
> Gas also has a problem of leaking, and methane is a potent GHG, so it's not just emissions due to burning it.

If we only use 10% of the current gas, we'll only have 10% of the current methane emissions. Once solar and wind ramp up you will not need more than 10% of the current nat gas plants. There are days when the sun is not shining and the wind not blowing, but they are not that frequent.
I’d suspect the problem is a stripped down container where the profile isn’t setup how you’re expecting. The interactive shell (bash, I assume), will setup the profile/env properly. I’m not sure your entrypoint cmd will setup the environment, as IIRC, the inir process would normally take care of this setup. But an entrypoint in a container has different rules.

Perhaps if you started your entrypoint with “/bin/bash cmd”??
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Their HTTPS url works, but their HTTP url was hacked.
"install" is kind of a misnomer, it's more like "put a shortcut on the desktop" which has been around forever, even for links to websites with their own icon
All right I have a question, why are there all these purple and blue street lights? You can barely see anything with them and they produce a ton of glare
I would take a 10% pay cut for vastly better health, yes.

And for food i disagree. 10% less is actually not that much less. It's more like remembering to eat less than it is to stop eating while still hungry.
> noise cancelling degrades over time

Glad to know that I’m not the only one with this issue. I’m already on my third replacement pair, but the problem keeps coming back. In my case when it fails the noise cancelling amplifies low frequency noise.

> My guess is just wax and gunk getting to the external microphone mesh

I’ve came to the same hypothesis and wiped my second replacement pair down with alcohol every other day, the problem STILL eventually manifests.
>instant updates that require no approval

Not even from the user
What bugs will we get this time?
California first to make electric cars mandatory. Now ask owners not to charge
i've always wondered if you can just export firefox's history db...i'd then take a periodic dump of it and add it into another dedicated db for searching. god knows I spend way too much time looking up for things I had once read....
Which is what makes it a "misinformation" campaign.

Folks on this site have a childishly simple view on information and propaganda. I've heard many people say if it's true it can't have an agenda. But what you say is just as important as what you DON'T say.

When the Russians hacked both the DNC and the RNC and leaked only the DNC emails to WikiLeaks who gladly posted them (because to be fair Clinton and Obama wanted Assange's head), and used the RNC info to blackmail Republicans, that's a misinformation campaign.

Doesn't matter if all the emails were true.
I concur with this. I really thought Android's Instant apps would be a major boon because of this. If you're not aware, Instant apps are Android apps that download, and temporarily install, the most commonly used app components first so you could use them right away. This gives you the best of both worlds; the ability to use an app, without installing it, while also having a native experience. For some reason it never took off.
Anyone who wants to be able to compile a program with a different or newer compiler than the author last tested it on.
My cynic take is: you’ve never met my family.

And

When you’re a burden to your own I wonder if they feel like “nothing is better than being with family”
They do need a showcase, but I believe there are several. bubblewrap is an official framework for publishing them but I don't know if you consider that wrapped in an app or not.
A lot of sales jobs are sink or swim, commission-based.

Just call the next salesman.
It can be both. They can be intentionally and powerfully addictive... and finding a way to develop a resistance to it can still be the most practical/effective option.

Regardless, it's in your best interest to work towards a resistance. These kinds of businesses aren't going to change things until they're forced to, and no matter what that'll take time, and they'll probably just come back in new and exciting ways eventually.
minor nit: /usr/local/bin as it comes from ports
Amazing work!

I loved Rockbox on my iPod nano, Then Apple recalled the device due to a battery issue and gave me a 6th gen nano whose signed bootloader meant no more Rockbox.

So if I have to sync songs now on Linux, I need to spin a VM; Sigh.
And wind is just a steam engine with less steam.
This really is the laziest take on attention erosion you could possibly make. Why even write it.
It's one of those things of life.

"Land of the free" doesn't mean the land is free of dickheads or immoral people who endanger others in their attempts to "get ahead".

And so laws are born...

Whether there are too many is totally a question though.
Please may i continue to use Brave?
I briefly worked at a company that created online slot machine games for online casinos. We didn't handle any money directly, just licensed out the slots to casinos who would buy them. Every game was fundamentally the same, it was just different skins on top along with slightly different mathematical models for each one. Occasionally a game would have a "minigame" on certain rolls but those never changed the outcome of a spin.

I always felt sort of bittersweet when the company would announce metrics about how high performing our games were. Since every slot game is essentially the same the only reason a game might perform higher was because the art, sound or minigames were more attention grabbing and addictive. There was also an autospin feature where you could spin at high bet amounts (The largest I remember was $200) over 100 times. Every time metrics would be celebrated I always thought about the potential person playing those game's wasting a whole bunch of money on "Just one more spin" (Although the article suggests that's not the primary motivation behind the addiction).

A coworker told me a story of how some of the slots went down over a long weekend, and they were inundated with angry emails asking for a fix. There were a lot of nice and talented people at that company, but It definitely wore on me the feeling that the work I was doing was making other's lives worse.
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You aren't wrong in a technical sense but the amount of effort to make it work is really overstated here. It shouldn't take more than a few hours tops for everything you are describing, not including the time spent choosing the phone of course.

You have to compare it to the time lost with iOS as well, whether it's from missing apps/features or salary hours spent on the Apple ecosystem because of the lock-in.
If you bought them before October 2020, they qualify for the recall program and should be replaced for free. If you complain loudly enough maybe they will replace them for free anyway even if not covered (did so for mine).
In my personal experience, companies turn to these tools when there are organizational problems because it places the burden on the individuals instead of the system. Who has a large influence on the system, those at the top.
I really miss seeing numbers like that. I'm in something like my 5th week of a Dropbox support ticket where they seem to think it reasonable that the headless client uses an extra 100MB of RAM every hour, eventually using 20-30GB of RAM, at which point I restart it and watch it start climbing again.
It took me some time to parse this as (Prevent) (DoS by large int-str conversions) and not (Prevent DoS) by (large int-str conversions).
Yep! Here’s a video of their robot for deconstruction btw https://youtu.be/MC81peMLEfo
> It being plentiful and cheap is a pretty damn important and redeeming quality.

If you want to talk about "redeeming" then you need to include externalities, and those are pretty bad for coal.

> the human cost of just shutting off power completely if it’s not clean like people seem to want to do.

Nobody wants to do that, stop being weird.