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Ask HN: Is is possible to cut down on OCD phone use?
I suffer from OCD and, after using my iPhone, will end up going through a time-consuming process of opening up every app and clearing all notifications, saved history as well as deleting old emails, chats, messages etc.

With 60 apps this will take me about 10 minutes (and I will end up doing this ~15 times per day).

Is it possible to automate this process in some way?

To give you an example of what I end up doing with Twitter: open app > check DMs > delete > open notifications > clear > open settings > clear media and web storage. And I do something similar with Gmail/MS Teams/WhatsApp/Apple Podcasts…

I realise this is deeply unusual but was wondering if there might just be a technological fix.
Ever since browsers made the URL bar a search bar, it really messes with "naked TLD's" like https://ai
>> It’s already obvious that a quantum theory of gravity is needed because we need a way to talk about superpositions of spacetime curvatures.

Is that because of things like the double slit experiment they mention? A particles could be monitored via its gravitational effect on spacetime to determine which slit it went through. What if the particles mass behaves as a mass distribution in such an experiment? Does that save classical gravity?
Yes, given the author says this:

> A basic argument for marriage is that it offers a logical division of labor. Imagine how much more complicated and inconvenient life would be if men had to do their own cooking and sewing, and women—all women—had to compete with men for a livelihood!

Of course, since '46 capitalism has demanded women enter the workforce to compete with men and drive down wages.
If you're seriously concerned with the morons who don't read:

"To delete your account enter the exact name of your account in the first field and enter the normal color of the daytime sky in the second field."

If you don't read you won't be able to answer the second field and the button won't go hot. Use many different options for the second field so people can't become habituated to filling it in. Note that the answer to the verification does not appear in the text, you can't skim for the answer but have to actually read the whole thing.
It’s more expensive but not THAT expensive. I don’t use adopt Dash/Uber Eats often but I live in the suburbs and my wife doesn’t drive so these are examples of when we use it:

I’m still sleeping and my wife wants to get donuts or breakfast burritos for the kids on a Saturday.

I am out at a basketball game and the wife wants food for the family that isn’t pizza.

We’ve been hanging out in the pool drinking all afternoon and we want an easy dinner that isn’t pizza.
Why is there a pipeline at all? Give me a framebuffer, a place to upload some CUDA or equivalent, and some dumb data pipe between the host program and GPU program.
We like Firecracker. People should use whatever makes sense for them.
Neither should be a random third party defrauding a bank, but banks are masters at outsourcing work and responsibility onto their customers, and that's why it's called "identity theft" and suddenly I am at fault somehow.
I know what you mean about discussing TV shows or music with friends.

At school, me and my bestie at the time would quiz each other on the previous night's episode of Star Trek. How lame we were :]
if i have a crackpot theory and i’d like a real physicist to look it over and am willing to pay for their time where would i find one? asking for a friend
>The policies that cause 'publish or perish' to flourish are also heavily to blame here.

Ugh.

There's plenty of honest researchers in the field.

You don't have to be corrupt to build a nice career and, now that I think of it, only people who are equally corrupt seem to embrace/justify/tolerate these practices.
I think like, a big part of this was Solaris has near zero chance of gaining headshare among people who need Unix. Solaris has value for customers with vendor lock in, and its a declining revenue source which can be ridden out for a decade or two, and then discontinued.
Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/ksm.ht...

zero-copy is harder as one system upgrade on one of them will trash it, but KSM is overall pretty effective at saving some memory on similar VMs
Much more likely to mentally skip over an extant negation than introduce a phantom one.

My personal favorite: Driving through backroads with some friends, sign says "Impassible Road: No Tow Service Available". Friend turns down it, drives half a mile, gets stuck. "No worries, we'll just call the tow service. Anyone remember their number?". Queue a half hour of us on our knees digging mud around.
I'm a fan of squats, I did 340lbs last week, heaviest 385lbs.

I got injured doing a 225lb warmup on squats. If I had to diagnose what actually happened, I'm overly tight and the synovial fluid caused some injury.

But that injury lasted 1-2 months, I just didn't squat. I've been neglecting stretching for to long.
Agreed. Those who confuse “astronomy” and “astrology” are confused.
Demo Video https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1678226947560579072
> I didn't want to go into all the technical details

HN is here for the technical details ;)
It's going to shift to 87% don't even start due to connectivity requirements to servers that are not running anymore.
You are getting cause and effect backwards.

> 286 protected mode wasn't the issue...

Yes, it was. I evaluated OS/2 1.0 professionally, when it was new; did you?

The 286 protected mode was an issue, because it meant that OS/2 could not multitask dos applications — exactly as Concurrent DOS could not on the shipping 286 hardware.

> Windows 3.0 was also largely built around 286 protected mode

Not really, no.

1. Windows 2 had an edition built around 286 protected mode. This was nothing new for Windows 3.0. The problem is that the 286's protected mode didn't deliver anything that was very useful for dos applications, and in the 1980s, DOS applications were the sole driving factor behind the PC industry.

In fact, Windows/286 actually delivered one main benefit: you got an extra 64 kB of RAM. That was it. It wasn't really worth having.

Windows 2 also had a 386 edition, generally known as Windows/386. That delivered the core functionality that was the useful thing in the 386 in the 1980s: hardware assisted multitasking of DOS applications.

2. You cite Windows 3.0, but that's not relevant to a discussion of OS/2 1.X, because Windows 3.0 is what happened as a result of OS/2 1.X.

OS/2 1.x was a 1980s product. Windows 3.0 came out in 1990, a few months after OS/2 1.2. Windows 3.0 happened in response to the failure of OS/2 1.X, and OS/2 1.X failed because it ran on the 286 processor, when it should've run on the 386 processor — as Microsoft wanted.

Windows 2 was able to multitask dos applications, in software, but the problem with doing it that way is that they all had to fit into 640 kB of RAM. And by the late 1980s, a single DOS application barely fit into 640 kB!

Windows 3.x was able to multitask DOS applications as well, and it could do it on 8086, on 286, and on 386. The difference is that on a 386, each DOS application got it own 640 kB. So if you had 4 MB of RAM, you could multitask a whole bunch of them.

And it sold because the single same edition ran on all three processors, so you didn't have to choose which one you needed in advance, and buy the right product. The one product did it all. And if you upgraded the hardware, you got the additional facilities, with that same copy of the software. (Remember, no product activation in those days!)
I'm ashamed that I didn't even check if this is an opinion piece -- I did just now, and it's not!?
I bundled both composition & orchestration under the same header.

It so happens that pods have multiple containers, which is another example of Kubernetes having a specialized specific composition or orchestration implementation. One that started as composition, and here iterates towards orchestration.
Threads reached 100M sign ups over the weekend
Compiling PHP to WebAssembly
Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.
Only if the employment agreement upholds your privacy if you use your own device. I've seen employment agreements that claim the right to access your personal device at any time if you use it for work.
And how much do the Python libraries make use of that as opposed to defining their own classes for you to use?
it's not really possible in hypervisor as it doesn't know what guest will be putting in its memory beforehand
And if it is your customer (which they are), they’ll answer that they will stop being your customer.

You can answer that you don’t care about morons customers leaving but your boss might not agree with you.
I only meant that specifically in regards to this topic, “finding a mate”. The era was fairly repressive on the topic and so many euphemisms and religious over tones to everything. This was refreshingly straight forward.
This is a good point. But there’s a nuance in that OS/2 1.x used 286 protected mode the way Intel had intended it, by booting into it and never returning to real mode (which was supposed to be impossible).

Whereas Windows 3.0 was a so-called DOS extender: it switched to protected mode for an application but could also come back. That kind of execution model wasn’t envisaged in 1985 when the OS/2 project started.

Steven Sinofsky writes about it in his personal Microsoft history:

’DanN shared with me what he was most excited about—one of the key “secrets” of Windows 3, which was how the product enabled protected mode but could also remain compatible with old MS-DOS programs. David Weise (DavidW) and Murray Sargent (MurrayS) had invented some novel uses of the Intel chipset that even Intel did not anticipate, which enabled these efforts. One programming trick called PrestoChangeoSelector was a key “hack” they developed and later became an absurd symbol of “secret” application programmable interfaces (APIs) in Windows (absurd, because it was supposedly secret, when in fact it was right there to see). Dan told this story with great Microsoft pride, as the development of Windows 3 and these techniques represented much of what Microsoft did so well in those days. Hack.’

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/003-klunde...
I find that the “LinkedIn experience” has a direct, causal relationship to the people you connect to and follow. Turns out, when you connect to the kind of people who post Facebook memes, you’ll end up seeing a lot of Facebook memes. When you connect to, and follow, nothing but recruiters, you end up with a lot of bad recruiter-spam.

When you do neither, and when you actually meet and connect with thoughtful people, you can find thoughtful content.
No, not really. There's a difference between persistence and stalking. Sometimes a very fine line, depending on the personalities involved. The reality is that some people enjoy being pursued, but often their signals can be subtle or misunderstood.

If it's been suggested or hinted at that you should stop (or outright told, "quit bugging me"), then continuing is stalking. You'd think everyone would understand that but evidently that's not the case.
>>copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written

Copyright is ALSO the reason that many books can be written in the first place.

Obviously, Copyright is abused and the continual extensions of copyright into near-perpetuity by corporations is basically absurd. And they are abused by music publishers etc. to rip-off artists.

But to claim that it should not exist, when it is utterly trivially simple for anyone to copy stuff to the web is to argue that no one should create or release any creative works, or to argue for drastic DRM measures.

Perhaps you DGAF about your written or artistic works because you do not or can not make a living off them, but I guarantee that for those creatives and artists who can and/or do make a living off of it, they do care, and rightly so.
But GitHub does require you to type the org and repo name. The linked blog post includes a screenshot of it:

https://httpie.io/_next/image?url=%2FBlog%2Fstardust%2Fconfi...

The developer was on automatic because he had just been working with another repo and the two repo names were similar, so the type to confirm didn't prevent the mistake. The blog post suggests other changes GitHub could make.
> Something about typing that makes people’s brains fully activate, I think.

Part of it might be that, but I think it’s also about the previous experiences that people have with programs.
How much a person thinks about something is inversely proportional to how much they see it. Typing is just something not many companies have added, so seeing it is off-putting and makes people think.

If you had to type “Permanently Delete This” all day to delete random entries in a database, you wouldn’t think twice before you accidentally deleted all of production.

This is why having the same warning for two different severities is a big problem. People encounter the first and realize it isn’t a big deal, and then glaze through the second because of their previous experience.
Deleting an empty folder is fine, but deleting your home directory might not be, even if both are just “deleting a folder”.
This sounds like a problem with your app rather than the people using it. If this is a high issue, change the app to reduce this. This is product management 101.
I think because of the abuse of "many worlds" in science fiction media (especially as of late) as a convenient plot device, people develop this idea that it's an unserious proposal wrt the foundations of physics. As far as I have read, it strikes me as perhaps the most parsimonious interpretation of QM out there.

Genuinely curious, what do you mean by "but you didn't say it couldn't be this, nanananana...?" The Everett interpretation isn't some fantastical notion spun up by a scifi writer...it is simply the consequence of removing collapse of the wavefunction as an objective event from the picture. And if it turns out our observations wouldn't be changed by removing this feature, then perhaps it was an extraneous feature in the first place!
It is an interesting study lights/siren on vs. off stats but there are probably a lot of confounding factors such as city size, density, road layout, traffic light and strobe sensor configuration and more. I believe each city would have to run it's own stats and determine which factors can be changed by the city and which can not easily be changed.

I think the biggest improvements would actually come from getting the ambulance off the ground. I believe they should be an early adopter of EVTOL and cut down the time it takes to retrieve a patient, accepting that EVTOL would have to be designed to keep inertia low for the paramedics and EMT's so they can stabilize the patient safely. Being able to get from A to B back to A as a crow flies, potentially at a couple hundred mph could save lives and avoid ground accidents. Maybe it is too soon to suggest this but I have seen some companies making good progress on the tech. Could this perhaps become a DARPA challenge, developed, evolved and tested in the battle-field first?
Not sure what this is getting at
For the same reason lots of people don't move and change jobs at the drop of a hat: responsibilities outside work. Kids in school, a mortgage, debts, friends, community participation. Once your lifestyle has lined up with a certain pay scale, cutting back is difficult. Upending the lives of your family to go for a more meaningful job that pays ways less? It happens. It's not pretty.
if I predicted that phones the size of a coin are the future

My phone is on my wrist currently (Apple watch), I left my iphone at home. To me your prediction would have been correct (for now).

If you insist on basing your predictions on existing experiences, think of your sunglasses: light, comfortable, stylish. I predict that 10-20 years from now your sunglasses will offer great AR/VR experience, most likely through improvements in retinal projection technology. It will take nothing away from your experience using sunglasses and will add a whole lot more. Similar to traditional wrist watch —> Apple watch transition.
I think these are good guiding principles.

> And if a word has a positive affirmation as a substring of the negative affirmation, then avoid using it

I think this also means “Your account will be (irrevocably) deleted” is off the table ;)
You can purchase elemental mineral drops and add that back in to RO water. Given the importance of water and minerals, I find it to be worth it but that's definitely an individual choice, as well as a privileged one (meaning I can afford RO water and minerals to add).
This is a weird way to frame women working.
books hardly make money, so book sales is not the top incentive for most writers. i would be willing to bet that most books pay less than minimum wage, when considering the labor hours it takes to write the book and how much a writer is ultimately paid out. if not less than minimum wage, then certainly less than the expert's typical hourly rate.
Interesting question! I think I’d agree with your ranking. Maybe important < key < [crucial or vital]

But this strikes me more as a question of author’s emphasis rather than a ranking of the actual factors in reality?
> possibly even without creating a particle accelerator the size of the solar system.

Sure, you just need to entangle two objects big enough to exert a noticeable amount of gravity on one another but somehow do not interact gravitationally with the rest of the set up.

Anyway, let's try a cat sized object first, then we'll finally know if Schroedinger had a point.
Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series.
Full episode of last essay and more:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4141...

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981
Mobile used to have this too until they ruined it. And now they won't add it back with no valid justification.
The database backing this, Supabase, describes itself as "stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases".

I suppose that means this tool is "stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases", which means I can't use it despite wanting to.
Looks great and will test it out, but for enterprises definitely needs support for Azure/Office 365 integration to index Word, Excel, etc. Lots of docs are stored in Onedrive, Teams channels, and SharePoint. I'm going to test these use cases, but would be nice if it supports it OOB like Google Docs. Also, any thought of OOB connectors to ServiceNow or other ticketing/KB platforms?
What's the definition of a classic video game?
1. Vital, Crucial
2. Key, Important
Yes, Oracle is evil overall, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I'm totally on their side on this issue, just like even though Amazon is evil overall, I'm totally on their side with OpenSearch.
Glad to see quite a few people from my university's library (and surrounding services) on the supporter's list
They’re all roughly interchangeable. Reusing adjectives in English writing is generally avoided. This may be why we have so many redundant ones!
The Streisand effect.
For one thing, I wasn't aware of the Profiles feature (and couldn't figure out how pt create another one even after reading it exists, though I'm sure I just wasn't careful enough reading the settings in-app).

Still, the comment above used both profile and account to refer to the same thing ("create a new profile", "your hobby account") so I'm not even sure which they were suggesting.
I got poached from a job once to a) punish a manager in a different department, and to b) serve as a check on someone else who the new manager didn't trust. People can just use you and discard you. Our industry is awful right now.

I'm glad you got out and started your own company. Good for you.
I think it would be funny if we discover that refraction is caused by the slowing of light in close proximity to mass. That is, one of the most common and observable phenomena in physics is a quantum gravity phenonema! (The usual explanation for refraction is that light as an EM wave causes sympathetic vibration in the electrons (and the protons, a little) which slows it down. But what if light's proximity to protons were caused a multitude of miniature Shapiro delays [0]?)

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_time_delay
Yes, "important" is slightly lesser than "key," "vital," and "crucial," but not by a large enough margin that I would confidently infer intent beyond cycling through synonyms to keep the prose interesting.
What was the Oxide process like? What did they have you write? What was the role? Thanks!
> which, for a general-purpose workload, is nearly impossible

That depends on the workload and the maximum memory allocated to the guest OS.

A lot of workloads rely on the OS cache/buffers to manage IO so unless RAM is quite restricted you can call in to release that pretty easily prior to having the balloon driver do its thing. In fact I'd not be surprised to be told the balloon process does this automatically itself.

If the workload does its own IO management and memory allocation (something like SQL Server which will eat what RAM it can and does its own IO cacheing) or the VM's memory allocation is too small for OS caching to be a significant use after the rest of the workload (you might pair memory down to the bare minimum like this for a “fairly static content” server that doesn't see much variation in memory needs and can be allowed to swap a little if things grow temporarily), then I'd believe is it more difficult. That is hardly the use case for firecracker though so if that is the sort of workload being run perhaps reassessing the tool used for the job was the right call.

Having said that my use of VMs is generally such that I can give them a good static amount of RAM for their needs and don't need to worry about dynamic allocation, so I'm far from a subject expert here.

And, isn't firecraker more geared towards short-lived VMs, quick to spin up, do a job, spin down immediately (or after only a short idle timeout if the VM might answer another request if one comes in immediately or is already queued), so you are better off cycling VMs, which is probably happening anyway, than messing around with memory balloons? Again, I'm not talking from a position of personal experience here so corrections/details welcome!
Welcome to modern economy. This applies to B2C, and as we can see it, B2B too. Getting a new customer is all the shitty vendors care about. Keeping existing customers is apparently just cost.
Where do you look? Inside my friend circle there's nobody (all married or in a relationship), Tinder is a bust (I don't even remember when my last match was). I used to attend some Linux clubs but even if they are available they are so defensive about a man coming over to chat that the best thing I can muster is saying how good the cola is... Nobody at workplace either...
What percentage would run even if they were? A lot of the cracking isn't just about bypassing some DRM, but solving compatibility issues.