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Show HN: Unwind – A Mindful Breathing App for Relaxation and Better Sleep
Hi HN!

I’m excited to share Unwind with you, an app designed to help people reduce stress, ease anxiety, and sleep better through deep breathing exercises. It includes features like ambient sounds, progress tracking, mood journaling, and a variety of breathing techniques.

I built Unwind to offer a quick way to pause, reset, and calm the mind in under 5 minutes. I’m especially focused on a calming, delightful, and beautiful UI to make the experience as seamless as possible.

One of the key features Unwind has is that the watchOS app shows the change in heart rate after you finish a breathing exercise. It's a great way to validate the efficacy of breathing exercises. For me, the sleep breathing exercise typically brings my heart rate down to 60 from 70-80.

Would love any feedback, questions, or suggestions you may have. Thanks for checking it out!
Wasn't this a result of removing sulfur from Ocean going vessel fuels?
It's a guy with an idea that he doesn't know how to build, asking you to spend hours filling out a form then three days building something to see if you know how to build stuff. And you need to be unemployed and love the idea.

That should have taken unbounded time to find someone, not a mere 9 months.
Is the NAS exposed to the whole internet? Or did you find a clever way to get CloudFlare in front of it despite it just being local?
Can you list some real temporary automation needs you've fulfilled? The demo shows asking for facts about space. Lower param models seem to be not great as raw chat models, so I'm interested in what they are doing well for you in this context
Had Biden done anything remotely similar it would be the top story everywhere.

When Trump does it the news makes a small mention and labels it an "odd detour".

How compromised are the news organizations?
> Far more problematic are the effects on farming of a degree rise.

Temperature and co2 increases are beneficial to plant growth. What is the problematic aspect you are referring to?
> nuclear often has to shut down in the summer either because rivers don't carry enough water or are so hot that feeding warm cooling water back into them endangers fish).

I don't believe this has much impact on Germany's export patterns: in fact, summer is usually the time scheduled maintenance is planned in France, because electricity usage is much lower during summer than during winter. So there's still a lot of wiggle room before France ends up being forced to import in the summer because of that phenomenon.

The main driver for import/export patterns are different consumer patterns (not all countries have the same daily load curve - for instance, France and Spain both benefit a lot from trading because France's peak use time is an hour ahead of Spain's) and renewables availability.
Strolls with stops use more energy than continuous walking
American exceptionalism is strong in this one.

No, most of us would not like to live and work in the USA.

As always, you guys think too high of yourselves.
Of course. The only thing LLMs are good for is...

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Governments still don't take it seriously though.

Here in Spain, we still plan to shut down our nuclear reactors (while many other countries are restarting their nuclear programmes) and at the same time the EU has placed crippling tariffs on Chinese EVs so the transition to electric vehicles remains unaffordable for most people.

When appeasing an ideological voter base or German shareholders remains more important than lowering emissions, we don't have much hope of making further progress.
Only on 3 sides I think though? You still need an edge connector on one side (i think)
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Not only the climate is warmer than models anticipated, we're doing worse to prevent it than pessimistic expectations.
Seems like a page from the Tesla playbook. Musk kept promising customers that if they buy a Tesla _now_, they will have full self driving and can make money having it go to work as a robotaxi Next Year (TM). Without these promises, a Tesla would just be another car.

Not quite the same Ponzi scheme, but they promise a device "built for AI", so that when those features are ready, you'll get them. Without these promises, the thing would just be another tablet.

Do they have to necessarily keep that promise? Musk seems to be doing fine without. What's the alternative, holding firm against the hype? Not sure that'd do wonders for their stock price. Maybe Jobs' Apple would have done that. But I suppose the current Apple doesn't see much choice around riding hype cycles.
Northwestern Europe usually gets a storm at hurricane level 2 every one or two years and several at level 1 per season. There's a reason the name for these storms – Orkan – is derived from hurricane.

For comparison, that's similar or slightly higher in strength than hurricane Sandy when it hit the northeast of the US.

That's why if you have fixed awnings in this region of europe, they're usually removed as soon as fall hits (which compromises on the fixed part) or made of metal (which compromises on the "awning" part IMO).
Which communist china are you talking about? That thing has stopped existing decades ago.
he is using the 3b one, since it's the default when downloading it from ollama:
https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2
It would be great to have a feature where my closed eyes are replaced with open eyes looking at the camera - then I could sleep through boring meetings.
Rectify11: A Windows 11 modification which makes it more consistent
LLMs are notoriously bad at improvising device drivers in no-std Rust.
Using your argument, Rust can't be fully trusted as long as its compilation model and runtime depends on having C++ somewhere.

In fact, that has broken Rust compilation semantics quite a few times already.
Yup, most countries in Europe are better to live in than USA. Americans just don't want to be told they're not special.
Yeah, but even on the "thicker" side they're stil way thinner than the current iPad Minis.
What the hell is that website? Literally half the screen is filled with ads and when I scroll down far enough I get to see a different version of the same article?
> We also paid to make the Nature Aging paper open access.

Why not just use a preprint server like Medrxiv?

Arxiv is now the default place to publish papers in physics -- and, with that established, it seems to me that it would be for the best if more institutions, researchers, and organizations in biology, medicine, chemistry, and other areas also use preprint servers.
I spotted that too, I got a laugh out of it. Committed non-commitment.
Tesla Cybertruck becomes third best-selling EV in US, overtaking Ford, GM
I considered ironic that the user used a positive expression "humanity coming together" for what was one of the most destructive invasions in human history. I suggest you ask any native to America what they think about that term?

"humanity coming together" is definitely a positive expression. The cambridge dictionary says "to help people or groups to become friendly or to do something together, especially when they would not usually do this".

And if you look at the user's text the act of "bringing people together" is framed as something morally good/worthy. In this context, our explorer faced many challenges but achieved something good (i.e. bringing people together).

Imagine if we used that term for other horrifying events in history where a group of people unalived a country's worth of another group of people
There used to be a number of vendors selling boxes to connect mass market printers to IBM mid-range and mainframe systems. Axis was the one I worked with but there were many others.

I think they had all moved on or disappeared by 2013 though.
The "models are wrong" climate change deniers basically mean that the prior likelihood of someone on the internet being genuinely interested in understanding and improving the models is below 1%.
its not even 4x4
I'd gladly run whatever model you want at home, rent it out so you can pay for both heating, the GPU and the power consumed :-)
No.

Nor the water vapor producing volcanic eruption either.

Both are addressed in the article along with other possibilities.
which countries? china, the west?

more importantly, we should stop pointing fingers and act within our reach!
The price of $7 license is only available at a 25 site minimum
that makes the minimum cost $175 per month around $2100 yer year.

For a pro license it's $275 upfront with 1 year of updates per site.

That is damn exception from my point of view.

You can use Pods for free on WordPress which is now a better choice than ACF
in my opinion. But ACF has a huge marketshare and is better supported.

I mean not sure about JetStream, it seems to be Laravel scaffolding
and open source.

Do you mean JetPack?
If so I have not used that in a very long time.
It had become very bloated.

There are a lot of other choices ut there
som that cost less.
Just ask an AI to riir linux drivers. Anybody tried it?
You can use CloudFlare Tunnel (https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/) to connect a system to your cloudflare gateway, without exposing it to the Internet.
How would you then pay 30% Apple tax?! What a ridiculous idea!
Most plants have a range of acceptable temperatures. Drought is also an issue, which is downstream both literally and metaphorically of rainfall and its interaction with climate.
Atleast in india, we have good subsidies on residential solar, and need to bring as much capacity (blue,green,black, whatever) online for a country whose electricity demand is growing rapidly (most villages now have access to electricity)
Does that imply you aren’t thinking whilst you work ;)
> this is probably the first Linux phone that people can actually use

I'm actually using GNU/Linux phones since 2008. Never relied on Halium.
They're not getting 5m, that's the point. They're inheriting an asset which may be valued at 5m.
Like a farm, or a house, or a painting or whatever.

Forcing the sale of family property or assets does not serve any good in the long term.
> What is your point in stating that public housing uses them? (aka the government buys them).

Who said anything about the government buying them? The renters in public housing usually buy and install them by themselves. That's why usually every balcony has a different type of awning, in a different state of disrepair.

While I'm nowadays in IT, when I was a child our family lived in this type of public housing, and we had a retractable awning of exactly that kind that my parents had installed themselves.
Do they cause it in excess of normal weight loss in the same time period? I'm asking because regular weight loss that's quick will have both of these effects too.
> the EU has placed crippling tariffs on Chinese EVs

That was my "OK, so you're completely unserious about this" moment. Governments have been subsidizing EVs, now they're cheap enough to not require subsidy, and you're cutting them off to appease the VW liars?
The flip side of this is that doctors aren't infallible, and will often struggle with rare diseases that they don't deal with on a daily basis, or in some cases were never even taught about in medical school (such as recent discoveries).

It's true that doctors have to deal with a constant flurry of "I did my own research and think this bruise I got yesterday might be liver cancer", but sometimes people with legitimately debilitating illneses slip through the cracks and have to aggressively advocate for themselves to get any real testing done, particularly if they have a very "let's wait a few months and see what happens" type doctor who never seems to make any progress on their own.
I used to like having nice strings to go with my asserts and would often do something like: assert(condition && "explanation of assert"). Now I think that the whole point of an assert is that it is for errors that require a code change (i.e. it is not recoverable at runtime) and so the very first thing that will happen in the investigation will be looking at the code with the assert - so a comment will do just fine if things aren't obvious. We also know that the programmer is going to need to understand the code that they are changing, and we also know that whoever wrote the code must have had a wrong assumption, so while their documentation is a good clue, it is also to be treated with some level of suspicion. As a result, I go for a simple assert, occasionally with a comment that explains why the assert should never fail.

Being able to use the value asserted is nice sugar though. I will take that :)
Extreme rain, extreme drought. And that degree rise is on average it's going to be much worse in some place.

Just look at the production if coffee recently, its a catastrophe.
One of the best things when you are rich, you can buy when everyone wants to sell, and sell when everyone wants to buy.

At one level of money you are not impacted by a market downturn or crisis.

Many very rich people in Germany became very rich during or after WW2 - but they already were rich. Normal people just get poor in a crisis or market downturn.
Recently experienced this. Business users were reporting an issue in a system and were demanding an bug-fix. After reviewing their observations and stepping through the issue together, turns out the root cause was something completely unexpected that was in the background.

Saved the tech team time chasing from a wild goose.
Any possibility of adding (first seen, last seen) time stamps? There is basically no good way to reconstruct the state of e.g. SPF at a point in time from existing DNS data sets
It's an investment in the future, just like the coal power plants and grid received for as long as electricity has been a thing.
I think Rust is a good fit for webdev, if you have programmers who already know or actively want to learn Rust, and if you don't need libraries not available for Rust. Admittedly those are some big caveats, but better latency and throughput are never bad things. The lack of GC is not actually a problem once you have internalized the rules of the borrow checker.

The only big problem I see with Rust that makes it a bad fit for webdev is the young ecosystem. The compile times are not great, but I don't think that's a significant issue when writing APIs.
> the most reasonable way to
> share this is that we get an
> equal share. For far to long
> certain countries have taken
> up much more of their share.

As someone from a country where people commonly lived in mud huts well into the 20th century, and which wasn't considered developed until 1975:

Yes, we sure got the raw end of that deal by having more developed countries spearhead technological development.

I'd much rather be doing sustainance farming today, rather than taking my chances with the IPCC's estimate of climate change depressing world GDP by 2-10% in 2100.

Yes, developed countries should be leading the way to becoming carbon neutral or negative, e.g. with nuclear, solar, etc.

But let's not make this into some mischaracterization of early industrialized countries taking something away from the rest of us. That's bullshit.
You might be misunderstanding something.

Even a working family, if they're earning very little, may be living in subsidized public housing.

Renters have lots of rights over here, allowing them to customize a lot about the apartment. Awnings are usually owned and installed by the renters themselves.

So a family that has so little income that they need to live in subsidized public housing may still have enough income to buy a retractable awning.
...that is not how any of that works, to the point that it's literally a coal-mining company talking point I remember from like, the 2000s (from a video made in the 90s).

Which should be trivially resolved by examining whether a temperate region undergoing a drought is "benefiting from increased temperatures".
I worked 8 hour days in tech support but that doesn’t involve much thinking.

I’m extremely sceptical of people who say they can code for that amount of time.
Connected to a gear that needs oil, a chain that needs oil and can rust, or a rope that withers. Being overly dismissive of failure modes isn’t a good look. I don’t claim that fixed awnings are God’s gift to humanity, just that they don’t have some of the drawbacks associated with moving parts. The amount of emotional reaction I’ve received to that completely factual statement is frankly ridiculous.
https://climatecooperation.cn/climate/china-issues-action-pl...
> when it comes down to the uncommon cancer your mom has, she will have a much higher chance of survival in the US.

A few years back my Mum in Australia was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, given 12 months to live.

For just shy of 3 years she had radiation, chemo, trial drugs worth nearly a million a pop all in a brand new cancer Center. Because she lived a couple of hours away she got free transport to and from and free hotel. Not pay and claim it back, fully free.

She was on an enormous cocktail of drugs that dad would get at the pharmacy that raised a lot of eyebrows for the strength of the opiates among other things.

For three years they never paid a cent. They never paid a cent of health insurance, never had private cover, never had a deductible. That would all be the same if they had never worked or took a decade off to pursue some hobby.

Trust me when I say it was stressful and emotional enough without adding money or paperwork or insurance into the equation

The comparison to my friends in the US who couldn’t get a separated shoulder fixed because it was “out of network” or had to move hospitals the day after a C section because the insurance didn’t want to pay anymore is downright disgusting.

For real people living their lives the two systems are vastly different.
Energy and Humanity
I think it’s important to point out that German car manufacturers and the German government opposed import tariffs on Chinese cars.
Because children can begin puberty super early [1]
Because puberty begin on average at 10-12 [2]

The fact that some countries/cultures are okay with child marriage doesn't mean that it's not absolutely disgusting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty
Not only that, we're approaching a massive tipping point in just a couple of weeks. Some of the "poser pontificators" claim to be concerned about the climate, yet they're not even sure they will vote.

If you have relatives in college in MI, WI, PA, NC, GA, NV or AZ who are concerned about the climate, get them to shake off the stupor.
All these things are likely. It is also often the case that Joe's friend who's "good with computers" will install Chrome for him. Chrome is massively popular and overall a very functional browser.

As another commenter mentioned, too, Edge is Chromium-derived. The manifest v2 will soon (2025) be deprecated in Chromium, which is not that different from the Chrome deprecation. In Chrome, v2 is still technically supported until further notice, even in the newest Canary builds. It's just that plugins using v2 will require manual installation. All in all, it looks to me like 2025 is when v2 will be properly dropped on Chrome and Chromium.
Not really. Chinese SOEs comprise around 60% of market capitalization and around 23% of GDP, far higher than USA or other developed economies.

While they do have a competitive market, the government very much does pick and choose winners and loosers here like Huawei, resulting in consolidation into a few large conglomerates like every other country. Their (software) tech scene certainly dosen't like more particularly "capitalist" than Big Tech, nor is the Fed pumping subsidies to Tesla like BYD, if anything they're sidelining Elon Musk.
Nah I'm getting the same error on Chrome and Firefox (both on Windows). It seems a little intermittant in that I got one good generation but most of the time I just get this error.
CFDs are a "collar trade". They pay the difference between the market price and a "strike price". If the market price is above the strike price, the CFD is a refund. So the CFDs have been returning money to the taxpayer lately.

https://www.current-news.co.uk/cfds-set-to-pay-back-10-5bn-a...

Unlike natural gas, which has been made much more expensive by the war.
Lifetime tracking and ownership are very difficult. That's why languages like C and C++ don't do it. It's also why those languages needs tons of extra validation steps and analysis tools to prevent bugs.

Arc is nothing more than reference counting. C++ can do that too, and I'm sure there are C libraries for it. That's not an admission of anything, it's actually solving the problem rather than ignoring it and hoping it doesn't crash your program in fun and unexpected ways.

Using Arc also comes with a performance hit because validation needs to be done at runtime. You can go back to the faster C/C++ style data exchange by wrapping your code in unsafe {} blocks, though, but the risks of memory corruption, concurrent access, and using deallocated memory are on you if you do it, and those are generally the whole reason people pick Rust over C++ in the first place.
Hmm it's Bandai-Namco. Haven't heard about them sending black helicopters to authors of pac man implementations so maybe it's safe.

Did they add anything from Atari to Unicode? Wikipedia says the focus of the current name owner is "licensing and blockchain".
But hey they're doing their part, right? This is the flaw in European and international agreements, they're still done on a per-country basis instead of EU or a continental basis.
VW is against import tariffs on Chinese cars as they fear repercussions (and China is an important export market to them). There are other car manufacturers in the EU which depend much more on domestic sales.
everyone is sick when old
I know the German Sovereign Tech Fund is funding some FreeBSD development.

I know Schleswig-Holstein is moving to LibreOffice and believe some of that includes funding.

That I don't know of more is besides the point, which is have they tried?
- Switch to Firefox with uBlock Origin.

- Change your default search engines.

- Uncheck the Firefox ads and remove commercial stuff.

- We all convince Mozilla to refrain from enshittifying Firefox or abandoning it, somehow, because ads are the main reason people hate browsing the internet, so if Firefox becomes a safe haven, Google will stop giving it money to stay alive.
Yeah, unlike e.g. European countries or US states, Australia is an island and they can't import / export electricity or connect grids easily.