skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer desktop apps in almost every scenario. I like being able to map specific applications to keyboard shortcuts so that I can bring it up in an instant with just a few keys. This doesn't work with browsers, as I would have to either use a browser for one thing only, or having multiple apps running long term in one browser. The latter requires me to either have multiple windows or multiple tabs open at once, increasing the amount of time + keystrokes I need to get to the thing I'm looking for. I also like to show and hide windows pretty frequently, as well as move applications around a lot both within and across monitors, so this 1:1 mapping of "application" to "window" is very important to my workflow.

For example, I keep a Brave window open at all times that has a bunch of pinned tabs for my favorite myNoise[1] generators, as well as a dedicated window for Oryx Live Training (when it works) that helps me remember my custom keyboard layout [2]. Even if I pin all of them so I can't close them out by accident, I have to use my Brave shortcut and then tab through the open tabs and windows to find what I'm looking for, which can be annoying at times.

This specific usage pattern is why I like nativefier[3] so much. I've used to turn ProtonMail and ProtonCalendar into their own "native" Electron apps, so I can treat them as "regular" desktop applications and can control them as such. However, it doesn't work super well with multiple tabs (or at least last time I tried it didn't), so I haven't adopted it for things like GitHub and YouTube where I like to open most things in new tabs so I can switch back and forth as needed.

You alluded to this as well, but in every case I can think of, the desktop version of the app is also more fully featured and has more options, and I'd rather have easy access to those features (even if I don't need them often) than just use the web app and be constrained by its offerings.

That being said, if anyone has workflows for easily working with browser tabs and windows that are intended to be long-running, I would love to hear about them. Being able to have dedicated windows for myNoise, GitHub, Reddit, HN, etc would be awesome.

[1]: https://mynoise.net/
[2]: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/DZWqE/la...
[3]: https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier
Honestly it's less the weather and more the lack of sunlight in certain places in the midwest over the winter. After the two-three week autumn, it's just grey and brown and mud and salt for nearly half the year. Then sporadic snowstorms that your employer and school district makes you drive through.
I think you should include the github link on the homepage too.
Hmm, you got a lot of snark, but I'm going to attempt to actually answer this!

I've seen "better designed" open source pages, but they tend to send the wrong message. When you see a mostly-well-designed open source page, your brain just feels like you're being tricked. You feel like someone's trying to charge you for something, or it just feels wrong.

Design is contextual, and what we think of as "well-designed" tends to be from a SaaS perspective, and that sends the wrong message. You see it and think "oh, this is a SaaS product," and your brain just feels weird.

This is true for all design. In markets, generic brands use a worse design to signal they're "cheaper," cereals for kids use cartoons, etc. The vibe needs to match the product, or else your brain sets off alarm bells.

Open Source projects use design to project what they value. Org mode for Emacs should feel like... a site for emacs. Simple, clear, no frills. Whereas a site like Prettier looks nicer, because that's the whole point.

(Also, separate "design" from "usability"... this site isn't pretty, but I can find everything I need super easily!)
I wonder how many customers actually do the networking on their end to make sure they aren't the bottleneck (10g ports/proper cabling and switches) versus people who just think "it's a bigger number and I have the cash... Sure"
Nothing preventing you from coming up with a good problem on Friday afternoon instead :)
We shouldn’t call women ‘menstruators’
This is somewhat common throughout east Asia. Setting a phone or purse down to reserve a table is something I've in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even Vietnam. There's less of an idea that criminals will be deterred from crime because of surveillance, but that nobody is crazy enough to want to steal a phone or just walk into someone's house. A lot of people here just can't imagine the thought process behind committing crimes like that.
lol who calls them that? honestly, my wife would beat the shit out of me.
There are certainly legitimate uses for tools like y-dl. Those using online services for marketing purposes -which include copyrighted material- must be required to reach an agreement with those services to flag the status of those materials in a way that's transparent to software.

If I stream a file for an hour, I tie up a bunch of network resources for an hour. If I can legitimately DL that in 2 minutes, I'm using less net resources for a shorter time. Why in the hell should that be denied because some material is not in the public domain? Completely illogical result.

I watch a lot of long-playing material (I think is non-copyright but WTF do I know?) that I DL to timeshift and watch offline in chunks as time allows. Is that music concert from Poland that's up on Youtube copyrighted? That amateur history/science/education channel that asks for Patreon help? Screw RIAA (again)
Search: trump condemns white supremacists 20 times. It’s a video showing a lot of them and not even all.
parsing html with regex is bad but parsing html converted to text by regex is actually quite reliable
So basically there is no good solution at the moment, and a good solution would probably involve enhancing the underlying filesystem - this was the same conclusion I came to
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The old site looked liked it's exported from org-mode files. New site looks less like that. Probably still done by exporting the same org files in emacs.

The workflow to build that site is completely different from what most web designers are accustomed.
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So there's a couple of things that are encouraging and a couple of things that are worrying in terms of interoperability. The government is putting its thumb on the scale with (meaningful use/promoting interoperability program) so that facilities adopt systems that can interoperate. So now everything is moving/moved to HL7 and theoretically clinics can transfer your records to one another.

You are never going to get your "full" medical record. The law only gives you access to the "Designated Record Set" as defined in § 45 CFR 164.501. There are also shenanigans going on at the big boys where they are giving patients summary visits, instead of the full note.

I'm not sure if anyone will crack the nut of having your health records in one place. I'm highly doubtful of big tech
solving these problems, since they are not revenue producing and take time to get right. They are also dealing in an area that is highly regulated and not their main line of business. If someone does accomplish it, they will be an EMR or your insurance company.

I also doubt that this is the right target to aim for. The value proposition is that you can understand what is going on with you and easily transfer information to your physician. It's unlikely that you will be able to fully understand what is going on in your medical records. Most records need to be interpreted by a physician due to the information asymmetry in medicine. Lab readouts, x-rays, ekgs, are useless in the hands of a layperson. The speed of getting the information could be useful, but it's generally not practical. Most information can wait 3-7 days (and boy does it take that long) before it gets transferred. If you knew you had someone's complete medical record, you may be able to save on testing, or catch an error before it got serious. However, data sources get forgotten along the way, patients are unreliable with their own medical history, and medicine is shockingly unstandardized.

Reading someone else's medical records can be like stepping into a new codebase for the first time. You will see weird and different patterns people do, and you will often question what the other person was thinking.

I would rather focus on efficiency, there's a lot more low hanging fruit there.

(I founded an EMR company and we work on a lot of these problems)
15k is a free down payment on a home out there, basically. Not a bad offer to be fair.
Request for HN submission: in-depth Remarkable 2 review after months of daily use. Have they got a good data format & transfer story? Does the tech work?

Context: every time Remarkable hits Hacker News I'm intrigued, but I couldn't pull the trigger on a pre-order. I love the idea they're selling.
That is really insightful and kind of brilliant. I agree what would be a great way for these programs to differentiate themselves.
"urban centers with mass transit" is moving the goalposts a little, isn't it?
Would this be rental apartments that people can use for short stays while traveling along a bike path? Targeting remote workers?

I ask because something like that actually sounds kinda interesting.
> My so-called "bubble" includes dozens of uniquely massive metros that represent hundreds of millions of people.

This can also describe the entirety of hard-left twitter, which yes, definitely is a filter bubble and an echo chamber, which has nothing to do with geographic distribution, but everything to do with groupthink, high internal conformity, and not being receptive to foreign ideas.

> Can you name a couple historic movements that had the goal of expanding rights or ending oppression that you, today, would oppose?

Are you implying there would be a shortage of those? In the US:

- Gun rights as they are

- Antivax

- Pro-life movement

- Unrestricted freedom of speech

- Certain special religious rights (regarding exemptions from various taxes / rules / etc.)

- "Free markets" in specific fields like healthcare

- Largely unrestricted rights to political donations

- etc.

Each of those has many, many millions of passionate defenders. These are legitimate civil rights issues / movements, even if you disagree with them.

Something being a "civil rights movement" does not automatically make it right, even if historically that was more often the case than not.

Even communism could be described as a civil rights movement, if it won and discredited capitalism. It is described that way in countries where it won.

Both pro-life and pro-choice can be correctly described as civil rights movements – rights of the mother vs rights of the fetus. I'm not pro-life, but I am able to engage with other people's opinions without labeling them racists / bigots / etc. and excluding them from my life, because I can be wrong, and I wouldn't see it otherwise.
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Yeah. It’s a vicious cycle, particularly in predominantly-Republican/Southern states. There’s very, very, very little support for public education at a state level — or even nationally; I mean, our goddamn Secretary of Education is Betsy DeVos, who advocates for charter schools to a degree that is frankly sickening when the reality is that they are, on average, shit for the success of a community.

It’s gross, and has very recent racist roots. I went to high school with kids whose parents founded “white flight” private schools in my city.

It’s not that GP is racist, or something — but to deny the connection between race and public education in the US would be silly at best and malicious at worst (see, for example, Fox News/aforementioned DeVos)
What do you mean by "technical issues"? Google already has a streaming video player supporting multiple bitrates and formats. They could just do whatever youtube-dl does to pack it into a file or even more optimally, grab it from their video database directly should there be something like that.
Few SAAS companies like Whatfix has grown tons as well.
> this "pandemic", which by definition is not a pandemic

> any thinking human being knows that masks are, at best, largely ineffective at preventing transmission, as is "social distancing"

> it becomes very questionable whether there even is a "novel" corona virus or whether it's the flu

You know, I live in Adelaide, where we haven't had a single locally-acquired case in several months. I've been wondering how almost every other city on the planet has been screwing things up so badly when we've not really done all that much apart from having a quick reaction and social distancing appropriately.

My question is now answered: those cities have people like you, willing to spout even the most blatantly abject conspiratorial nonsense for the sake of advertising your own website.

Please show some responsibility for the lives of those around you.
Something I've been wondering about... if youtube-dl is found to be illegal due to "circumventing a technological measure", what does that mean for adblockers? I imagine ones that simply block certain requests would be relatively safe, but many sites will refuse to work unless the adblocker takes additional steps to hide itself.

That feels more like "circumventing a technological measure" than youtube-dl. Are they in danger?
'an' is used when the sound of the next letter is the sound of a vowel, so in the case of eN-E-S, 'an' is correct.

In english multiple vowels in a row cause you to take a pause, which is why the -n is added

Worth noting, the other posters are correct in saying that 'a snezz' or 'a ness' is also correct.
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I believe it can be inferred that it's not conscious, because if women were actually being hired intentionally at a 2 to 1 ratio, that would be an obvious violation of law against gender discrimination.
Yikes. I've had a lot of hassles with Twitter locking my new accounts because I don't have a phone number to give them. Fortunately support has always been able to help me out so far. It probably helps that I have a long history of responsible behavior with various accounts.

As my educational presence has grown online, I've had several ideas for things I'd like to teach or build that involve Twitter's API, but I can't join their dev program without a number and they don't accept the one I have. Given you lost your whole account over it, maybe I'm lucky I haven't been able to link a number.

The entire idea of requiring a legacy phone number to use online apps is both a huge step backwards and exclusionary towards anyone who doesn't have a stable number due to frequent travel or other reasons.
You want some facts regarding SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19/nCOV19?
what the mainstream media and governments around the world are feeding us is verifiable bullshit

one question everyone should be asking is why politicians are being allowed to insert themselves between you and healthcare professionals - that alone should raise a serious red flag

read: Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) news and resources – index – 12Bytes.org
https://12bytes.org/articles/health/covid-19-coronavirus-information-resources/
Doubly so if you've been an accountable executive among a bunch of unaccountable executives; it really puts a finger on all the things you wish your colleagues did, but... you know... don't.
I am looking for something that integrates with the communication tools I actually use when so get in touch with them, and for me that is not email and calendars ... for me that is chat (WhatsApp)
The servers seems to be not found. Look forward to your puzzles!
Edit: Works now. Perhaps was my own issues
why don't they block screen capturing softwares ? its simply possible to capture any kind of copyrighted media online? for instance one can capture screen with ms windows screen capture feature. therefore they must ban windows!
> You probably know health insurance companies are totally corrupt and the cause of this, but it's also doctors, hospitals (the biggest enemy)

How are health insurance companies the cause of this when I can’t get any healthcare provider (aka doctors) to spit out how much they will charge me?

No one is stopping doctors from telling me they will charge me $100 per 15 min, or give me the codes they are going to charge. Yet when I call various doctors offices to schedule a routine procedure such as an ultrasound or a physical or X-ray, they all tell me to sign a blank check.

I can figure out how much I need to charge to develop real estate, but a doctor can’t tell me how much (or what codes they are going to bill) for a physical? And if you so happen to start talking about something, you might be charged a different charge code that costs you hundreds extra?
Make it part of the Premium subscription then (which is ad-free). If people or companies have a legitimate use for downloading videos, paying $10/mo (or however much it is) isn't going to break the bank.
What's wrong with miami? Looks overall cheaper than anything on the west coast to me. Loved it all the times I've been, but the only things putting me off are the rising water table and hurricanes. My buddy living down there has had some serious flood damage to his home a few years back. I guess you could build on the second story with parking underneath like they do here in the west and buy another century of rising sea levels or so, but I didn't see any homes that looked like that so I guess zoning is probably some nonsense.
I coexist with my wife (and 3 year old) but we came to the conclusion that we are utterly incompatible and cooled off the romantic part completely. I hoped things would turn around but the pandemic and wfh exacerbated the problem. I only play with my child (+ the daily hug) but other than that I haven't touched anybody in more than a year and am somewhat somewhat fine with it. I am aware that I am not replacing the need for a partner with the affection for the child but simply accept the situation for now.
When I was a kid, I used to take the train from Detroit to Ann Arbor all the time. My parents would drop me at the station in Detroit, and my friend's mom would pick me up in A2 and I'd spend the weekend at their house. It wasn't exactly a long journey, but it saved everyone a bunch of windshield time, and it was a cool independent thing for a nine-year-old to be able to do solo.

I had no idea that train didn't run anymore. I wonder what happened to it!

Seconding the natural beauty, though. I finally had the sense to spend a good chunk of last summer up north, too.
Look, sir, friend, random person on the internet --

I'm likely not going to change your mind, and I'm not going to revisit this thread again after I click away, so take this just as one person to another giving some advice as if we were strangers talking to each other honestly with no consequences.

Check yourself once in a while that you don't go falling the hole of deceiving yourself that you're right, using any cobbled together argument you can find. Because you sound like you're ready to trade off people's lives using whatever traits you think are equivalent, in the name of diversity or some symbolic goal you wish to achieve.

When someone lives in a certain state and applies to university, they have the opportunity to show their worth and skills by their achievements. When Harvard seeks to broaden their search for those people to new geographies, all to the better.

When Harvard says that no matter how good you are, because you're Asian, your achievements will be weighed a little less because we have enough of them, I cannot believe that you are unable to see how that's different.

And your principles of how you judge whether there are "enough" Asians, well, sir, they could equally be used by someone to say there are "enough" black students or Hispanic students, or any minority, by someone less well-intentioned.

I would rather have the approach where no one is deciding that there's "enough" of some group based on their favored characteristic of the day.
Apparently there is a name for her. TERF.

[..] If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who’s vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they’re allowing any man who says they identify as a woman into the women’s changing rooms. Ironically, radical feminists aren’t even trans-exclusionary – they include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women.[..]

From: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

As a biological woman, I feel this surprising sense of..loss. Like a loss of identity. I don’t know what to feel. I am gobsmacked.
There was there Stranger Danger panic which of course was not based on anything substantial, but left lasting scars on society.

I strongly recommend the episode of the same name on the You're Wrong About podcast.
And the use of both vaccine and masks may also be sufficient to lower the average covid vector just enough to tamp it down.
While i find the topic really interesting, I'm don't enjoy or learn very well from video lectures.

Is there some comprehensive textbook on the topic?
The innovation is that it is not actually a credit card as previously known. It can't be used manually, it is a way to get retailers to move to Chip and Contactless, which is a way to get them and their merchant acquirers to move to Apple Pay.
There is also a Paradox of Tolerance, as from Wiki:

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I think Vultr does?
Want things to change?

Stop having reviewers point out that extra couple mm as being a "glaring design flaw" or comment on "how extra chunky" the phone is.

FWIW rugged, durable, battery replaceable devices have repeatedly failed on the market. Notably, Motorola tried, and failed. Everyone bought Samsungs.