skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe someday the apps that implement open protocols and decentralization are user friendly enough

That is everyone's dream. The problem is every startup/project with $$$$ is investing into reinventing the entire client/server wheel (Signal, Wire, matrix, threema, etc..) instead of investing their $$$$ into making a user-friendly client for an established/reliable protocol.

In this sense, and despite all my criticisms of email/XMPP ecosystems, i'm a big fan of delta.chat and conversations.im. They took a well-established federation, and applied lots of UX/security on top, so that people don't have to choose between freedom and security, and can enjoy modern features in backwards-compatible, federated way.

> Signal isn't perfect but it seems to offer better privacy

Compared to SMS yes. Signal evolved from smssecure/textsecure which was an encrypted SMS app/protocol (which continues to this day as silence.im though barely maintained by a single exhausted volunteer).

But Signal is a central actor that has power over all users at the same time (compared to a federated network like email/matrix/XMPP) so it's less healthy. And in particular, Signal uses servers from big internet giants which thanks to signal using Google's push notifications server on Android (the reason why the libresignal/f-droid vs signal "controversy" started) can give them a really good overview of who's talking to who.

I trust that Signal employs some really clever cryptographers and very competent UX designers. I just don't trust anyone (including myself) to hold the privacy of the entire planet, even less so when their plan to protect metadata relies on shady tech (intel SGX) and shady actors (amazon/google) not proper systems architecture, and they have openly/strongly opposed decentralization and standardization/interoperability (see "The ecosystem is moving" and/or the libresignal drama).
So it seems that Turkey wants to ignore Greek EEZ, which seems to be acknowleged by other neighbours including Egypt. From the limited maps showing it seems this pipeline never gets nearer to Turkey or even Northern Cyprus than to Cyprus or Greece, thus remains in their EEZ under the UN Convention on the Law of The Sea

It seems Turkey's view is that countries like Malta, Cyprus, Cuba, New Zealand etc can't have EEZs, let alone islands that are part of a country, like Shetland, Hawaii, the Aleutian islands, etc.

Now sure they can claim whatever they want, but with EU, US and UN against them it's rather moot.
I can imagine that your way of doing things becomes very complicated once you want to do edits and now have two types of files to keep in sync all the time (md and office).

The point of OP is that you keep one type of file. Also doing mass edits or source control with office must be a nightmare.

I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to get details right as well. As horrible as latex is, it still gives you much more control.
Show HN: Tuti – Create beautiful online presentations and flashcards
Good article, and rather very similar to what I had written a while ago about the “save changes” dialogue boxes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920422
Most people have very limited use cases with devices and very unspecific requirements. So the majority wins. Makes sense, I think.
> [Sundar Pichai] has emphasized that Google is an “AI-first” company

Maybe I need to lighten up here, but I find this "AI-first" branding to be really off-putting. What I fear it means is "We're going to add the world's biases and a bit more unpredictability into every single one of our features."

And in some ways it's like like a carpenter deciding to become a "wrench-first" operation. Shouldn't the first priority be the people affected by the things that you do, rather than a particular tool that you inflict upon them? And, great as it can be, is it really the right tool for every job? Maybe some of the problems the AI fairness team has exposed (or tried to) will push Google to realize that it need not be present in everything, let alone first.
Tennants are leaving, better buy up the property for a record price?
Google meet is the worst designed app of all time. Here are the 10 issues top of my mind.

1. It is slow. It heats my laptop and phone.

2. UI elements appear/disappear, slide-in/slide-out based on mouse hover.

3. There is no native app.

4. It is horribly feature deficient. Look at what use-cases Zoom supports. Meet probably supports less features than Zoom's initial PoC.

5. The videos are tied to the presentation.

6. There is no overlay mode.

7. There is no remote control mode.

8. There is no handover between mobile and PC.

9. There is no way to call somebody.

10. There is no way to share a tablet or phone screen, while you are connecting using a PC.

It just infuriates me to no end being forced to use this piece of trash software at work. I genuinely wonder what the Google Meet dev team uses for video conferencing? Do they not know that it is so crappy? Are they using Zoom to collaborate??
there are different deals you can have through Amazon, so you can have a deal where you sell exclusively through Amazon or one where you don't

https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2018/05/selling-out-going-wi...
I couldn’t help but be reminded of the privacy/data/ethics issues surrounding big tech by your second paragraph! Perhaps that’s tomorrow’s equivalent.
Conic.css – nice, simple conic gradients
I can somewhat relate to you, but in different aspect. I own iPhone and I'm thinking about some home automation. I can program iPhones, I tried to find out some way to put my code onto my phone without restrictions and I did not find any. I can use web app, but it's restricted and I might need some API that's not available for web. I can install my development build, but it'll expire in a few days and I don't want to reinstall it over and over again. That's an absurd situation when I'm as a programmer can't put my own program onto my own device.

I love iOS in almost every way except sideloading restriction.

If I missed some way to implement what I want, I'd love to hear how can I do that. I don't need much, but I need push notifications from server and I need push notifications when I'm close to some particular location (like open a door when I'm near it). I might need NFC push notification, I'm not sure.

I don't agree that Android suck, I have second phone for testing and while I love iOS more as it feels more polished, I probably will switch to Android in the future, just because I want to run my code on my device.
Let's protest by switching to YYYY-DD-MM.
> Owning my computer is still relatively possible. I can build a computer from parts which I can choose, and have a choice in which operating system to install on them.

Where can I find, how can I build a computer---that isn't 13 years old---with open firmware of which one doesn't reasonably suspect that the NSA put a backdoor into it?
This might very well be true as a general statement. However, I don’t see where it applies to reseting the contents of a form.
Having actions on the right is more natural - this is reinforced by the UX of mobile devices we all use every day. Tap and we flow forward, to go backwards, we go left.

Like spoken languages, the language of design changes over time, and what used to be normal can be quickly outdated (like the reset button on forms).
It appears the Beeper service by default runs on the beeper servers, with a subscription fee, yet I see there is a solution one can run locally https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Does anyone have experience running the open version on their machine? (self-hosted)
Latex allows you to control pretty much everything about how things look, yet it also mostly focus on content first by default.
Yes and no. Companies don't exclusively decide what they design based on the expected manifacturing cost. The decide based on the return of investment.
Yeah I think “recreates masterpieces” would be a more appropriate headline than “creates”
Ask HN: Career Advice – What Next?
I was technical cofounder, but product failed, did some freelancing, then joined in an another small startup, but that one failed. Took a sabbatical, covid happened, Now I want to get back to a day job. I can code, can manage product, manage people, but not good with algorithms. What kind of job will be suitable for me?
> also forces a current account deficit.

which i haven't understood to have any real negative side effects so far. Why is it a bad thing?
It’s just extremely complicated and the ecosystem has badly aged (yeah you need makefile and docker if you want to do it right, and nobody uses docker)
soft hyphens can be put in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen to allow the client to hyphenate as appropriate.
Like safe systems languages, first one 1961.
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How to easily replace a decade-old log parser using AWS Glue
If you wonder why you might not be able to access this, keep in mind that archive.is and Cloudflare DNS do not play nicely with each other [0]. It might also bite you if you are using Firefox because of the DNS over HTTPS service from Cloudflare that Firefox uses [1].

Loading the article directly into Firefox's reader mode by prepending about:reader?url= to the URL works fine though.

[0] https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
Hello HN

Happy to show you guys Tuti.study, a project I've been working on for the past one month.

It's still not 100% ready, so don't be too harsh on me. But I'm looking for you guys to try it out and give me some feedback on it.

Currently it can crate annotations and flashcards, flashcards support markdown editing.

Anyone can create an annotation, link external content for further reading.

It's like a virtual sticky note.

The flashcards are just as the name suggests, online flashcards.

Currently I'm looking for a suitable pricing, so for early adopters it's going to be totally free and you will keep what you create even after the pricing is on place.

Looking for your feedback
Congrats on self-publishing your books and thanks for the details on the book generation. If you didn't already know, I would also suggest to check out Gumroad/Leanpub for selling ebook versions.

>No comments about my sed magic please

The commands are fine. Had a doubt if you are using GNU sed or some other flavor since you mention MacOS a few paras earlier. If you are not using GNU implementation, `-i -e` will likely create backup files with `-e` as extension. See [0] for details.

For the Perl command, `-0` option will use ASCII NUL as the record separator. To slurp entire file, pass a value 400 or greater, `-0777` is idiomatically used. If your input doesn't have NUL characters, which is likely the case here, this distinction doesn't play a role.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5694228/sed-in-place-fla...
> Control-shift-T will instantly undo the close-tab action.

Not if that tab was a google meet meeting.
News related to this is getting buried and flagged on HN yesterday and today.

Flagged thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383977

Another:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383160

Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26374822

So many insensitive comments.

Google already had sexual harassment issues stemming from some top leaders in the past. They didn't get punished.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

https://qz.com/work/1326942/sergey-brin-started-google-with-...
Explicit, for me, means that I determine in the model the `published_at` is a DateTime. Not merely in the DB, and never magically derived from the name (_at=datetime, _on=date). But explicitely defined. E.g. `attribute(:published_at, DateTime, default: ->{DateTime.now})`

Rails does not do this entirely "magic", though: it derives it from the database.

And true: you can follow the logic along: the magic can be researched easily. But still: I really prefer a system in which I write all that boilerplace (my IDE/vim can do this for me really well) instead of relying on convention, heuristics and magic.
Windows Phone UI just looks way too lifeless. There are good reasons why iOS' UI appeals to way more people. For example hard edges and 90° angles are something we associate with man-made "things" while rounded corners feel more natural if done right. Just watch how apple reasons about their UI, compared to this the Windows UI seems way more "random" and less thought through.
See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/

However, our world is not a fable, so there is no reason, a priori, to expect life extension to be a problem that is beyond the asymptotic limit. A more critical issue is that fluid intelligence declines with age. It is for this reason that transhumanists sometimes say that no human has yet reached the boundary of human competence. Once we can accumulate knowledge for a century with no degradation in mental flexibility, we will start to see the true capability of the human neural architecture.

Of course, by that time it's also likely that AI will vastly outpace us...
Lol this stuff is cool
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That’s not how it works. You can control these things when you want to produce a pdf or a document for print, but you can’t control them for formats like epub (as font size, screen size can be changed)
Interesting name :)
TIL. Thanks. But this would require soft hyphens in every multi-syllabic word of the epub, right?
First of all, Musk literally never said he would develop a Hyperloop. He literally said, here is an idea, I'm not gone do it, somebody else might want to try. Why don't people understand this?

Tesla had a battery swapping but realized it was a terrible idea and instead built the largest global chairing network in the world instead. Are you seriously gone shit on somebody because they changed strategy with more information and build something that is actually more impressive?

Yes, he was wrong about Robotaxi, or at least its delayed. Nobody bats 100%.

But if you are actually honest with yourself and start in 2000 and look what he said, compared to what he did. Literally nobody else on the planet predictions are closer to what actually happened in terms of large scale problems.
That only works if you start with unbounded money.
1. You seem to be over-reacting...if you got stock at a discount, at most you would pay tax on the attributed income from the difference between what you paid and FMV.

2. Employee Stock Purchase Plans where you buy company stock at a discount (tax free) are a thing https://www.plancorp.com/blog/the-untold-advantages-of-your-...
I think most people can agree with that. The debate is about how far from that we are now and what the appropriate methods to close the gap are.
Sure! caveat: I am not a lawyer and this is not professional legal advice. I looked up your ig and it looks like you are based in Spain? If so you can use the EU small claims process just as I did. The claim will be capped at EUR 5,000 (not including expenses, you should include expenses such as your time to make the claim, this can be over the 5,000) So it's a small amount but may get their attention.

You should write a 'Letter Before Claim' to Facebook Ireland (IG terms The Instagram Service is one of the Facebook Products, provided to you by Facebook Ireland Limited. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited.) This letter should outline your claim and include all evidence you have to support your claim. You can find out more here: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-syste...

If they fail to respond in 14 days you will need to file your claim with the small claims court in Ireland, they are quite helpful and answer the phone and emails. You can find out more here: https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_small_claims-42-en.do
Some user request marked cachable when it should not have been...
Fear of Injury: Reconnecting Body and Mind
How to Measure Anything is a fantastic book. Here are the most significant insights you learn in the book

- how to measure anything; Hubbard actually comes through on the promise of the title - after finishing the book you will truly feel that the scope of what you can measure is massive. He does this by a change in the definition of what it means to measure something, but you realize his definition is more correct than the everyday intuitive one.

- value of information; Hubbard gives a good introduction to the VOI concept in economics, which basically lets you put a price on any measurement or information and prioritize what to measure

- motivation for 'back of the napkin' calcs; through his broad experience he has seen how a lot of the most important things that affect a business go unmeasured, and how his approach to 'measuring anything' can empower people to really measure what matters.

Reading this book provided one half of what I have been searching for for a long time - a framework for thinking about data science activities which is not based on hype, fundamentally correct and still intuitive and practical.
The pre-3d era (SNES etc.) was perfect. Meanwhile on PC you were fighting IRQ conflicts and HIMEM.SYS etc.
Still disappears for me. And when it appears it makes sure to obscure the video/content/subtitles so that I am frantically trying to make it go away.
Hence, my comment. The author published to epub.
This is why most linux distros have interfaces that are missing minor features and can be frustrating for users who don't have command line experience. For example, why can't I easily make a shortcut in ubuntu? Or how about the fact that you can't get full file paths shown in the default file manager, I often know what directory I want to get to but have to figure out what maze of folders I have to go through to get there.
What happens in the refining process that turns a good carb into a bad carb? Why would cassava be good for you while cassava flour not be? Why would brown rice be good for you but not white rice?

Personally, I find it hard to cut down on carbs because it's expensive to do so. Refined carbs are the cheapest source of energy.
Yes, and each one will tell you something different ;) I much prefer open discussion where the best ideas stay afloat and bad advice can be publicly shamed.
> desktop Linux user like me, open hardware is already a reality

Power or RISC-V ISA hardware are in low stock, have very few, specialised vendors and are not affordable. I have great sympathy for people who refuse to pay the outrageous difference to off-the-shelf hardware that can be bought anywhere just to gain a level of privacy that they should have in the first place.

AMD and Intel have rootkits in their hardware which are designed to be exceedingly difficult to remove. If the customer is a spy agency, they will ship with the rootkit disabled. If the customer is just a normal person like the one writing the article, one will not be able to have one for money or good words.
What if I am not attracted to the faces generated by the GAN? Say what if I prefer a different style, or even a drawing instead of an imitation of a real person? Can I hallucinate my own waifu with this?
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Nice piano
The dotted border is kind of the problem. It represents an active connection between the current spreadsheet and what was copied, and that connection shouldn’t exist.

When implemented normally, ‘copy’ puts a copy of the selection on the clipboard; ‘paste’ takes whatever was on the clipboard and puts it at the current location.

Once you copy, it shouldn’t matter what you do on the spreadsheet, because you’re pasting from the clipboard.

Normal behaviour can be emulated by copy+pasting into a blank spreadsheet when you want to copy, and then copy+pasting from there when you want to paste.

But then you’ve just turned that spreadsheet into what the clipboard is supposed to be.
Oh that's so cool!
Didn't know that publishing on Amazon was so straight forward!

I've done a similar thing wrote about it here:
https://pascalprecht.github.io/posts/writing-an-ebook

Instead of using Latex, I went with markdown as the source to generate PDFs, Mobi and Epub from that.

Thanks for sharing your experience!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7HoPJ3jiAtl9sOU3ffISk1?si=Hbi...
It's getting harder and harder to have free phones then.

They're slowly tightening SafetyNet which makes it harder to use free custom android ROMs as well.
There's only a few areas where Google really was a threat to early-stage startups.

The things they're great at by simply being such a behemoth with a ton of infrastructure willing to give away a lot for free or where their AI expertise comes in handy.

Search, obviously. The ads network. Competitors for Gmail are way smaller but they exist, since you don't need network effect, thankfully. Google Photos – I knew a startup that was developing a similar product for a year and then Photos launches and they decided to give up, because they couldn't match the free tier or provide enough justification for a paid product. Of course you need to be giant to take a shot at something like Stadia.

But you can compete with almost everything else. Notion, Airtable and Coda are fine, even though it'd be smart for Google to finally add a new, more modern product to Workplace. Google Tasks hasn't killed a single task manager. Google+ killed neither Facebook nor Snapchat.

Just read some stories from the founder of Waze: https://marker.medium.com/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-star...
How about Cizero? /s
I kind of hope this is a satirical account. If not, please consider reaching out for a help! I am sure you can do much better than you might currently think ♥
When people talk about things as constructs, they aren't saying that they are completely artificial or fake. They are saying that our understanding of gender is a construction, built on top of human bodies which are incredibly complex and different from each other.

Like if I had to pick a metaphor, as I understand things, for HN, think of it an imperfect binary classification for assigned gender at birth API, a leaky abstraction on top of society understandings that are themselves constructed the messy analog physicality of people's "biological sex" which is not as simple as two options male and female, not even just in terms of chromosomal sex. Add in hormones levels, hormone sensitivity, genetic differences, brain structures, body hair etc, and even what people think of as basic "biological sex" is actually multifaceted and variable.

So in talking about gender as a construct, rather than something innate and natural and binary, it becomes possible to talk about how the API was developed, and maybe say, hey this API is a little simplistic.
Nicely done. Perhaps also add a pushstate so that someone will be able to link directly to a country?
I create VR-based animated illustrations. The end result is an animation but I use VR to paint them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOoGfIgr1Y

To help with this I wrote a program that converts various assets like point clouds or color palettes into VR paintings. I wrote about the process here:

http://joancharmant.com/blog/more-vr-painting-experiments/

I recently open sourced the library that read and write the Oculus Quill files:

https://github.com/JoanCharmant/SharpQuill
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