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Show HN: Akia allows businesses to build and send apps that don't need download
Hi HN!

We're Evan and Yinshi from Akia (https://akia.com). We've built a customer engagement platform that specializes in the building and distribution of Mini Apps-- apps (if you will) that don't require download or login.

You can send one yourself (this is a relatively naive example):
https://sys.akia.com/demo/textme

We're looking to solve a problem local service businesses face around the fact that consumers are not very likely to discover and download a native app.

We initially built Akia to solve workflows using text-messaging and NLP, but quickly discovered that the last mile on NLP is very hard and consumers are happier using a mobile-optimized interface. We did a small pivot and have found a lot of success mitigating the challenges that businesses were initially looking at solving with native solutions.

By developing app-like experiences in the browser to be sent over text, Akia is building and distribution in one package.

We're running up against our $1M milestone and are now expanding into other verticals. Would love thoughts and feedback, especially on use-cases that you think we've missed, or might be particularly interesting for this tech.
The really smart cops get the tips using “less than legal” means, then walk back and reconstruct using legal evidence.
Mate, the whole article is 11 sentences, including the bit that explains what a gif is, and 2 of those 11 sentences answer your question
It's the other way around. Literally all of the advantages of using 2FA are not present when you store both factors together.
It boggles the mind that somehow the ozone layer story isn't a positive one for countries cooperating to stop and reverse a problem mapped out by satellites?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Antarctic_ozon...
Absolutely. Slack channel URL crossed with IPs that pulled the GIF then profile via user agents and other fingerprinting that tied it to known Facebook accounts.

They’ll know exactly who is in every single slack channel together, discord server, subreddit, etc etc.
Oh YES [1] . I got the two mixed up. I should have doubled checked. So it is V1.

The V1 design is available in both 7nm and 5nm.

Oh well I guess if AWS had it in 5nm they would have at least marketed it as such. So may be it is the same 7nm.

[1] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16640/Neoverse_Intro_3.png
Could it be that the amyloid-beta plaques are just a by-product of the same thing that is causing the damage in the first place?
The way it was stated in the article was correct.
That's true, though more often the case with products that have a lot of overlap, versus really being competitors in the same market. Perhaps Trello is a good example. It overlaps with Jira, but it doesn't really compete for the exact same customers in an either/or decision.

It's hard to find a good example where a merger of two products with very similar markets where both products thrived after the merger.
Not using fancy made-up words around you ever again.
Cant edit it now, It should be V1, not N2.
The government has become pay to play for journalists. Piss the government off and your not allowed into press briefings anymore.

Some dedicated investigative journalism group could do it, but any larger media company cannot.

I could see folks on YouTube doing a good job of it?
There is some selection bias as well - if they didn't invest heavily in military then the wars would not qualify as major barring other major imbalances highly unlikely to occur, such as "Conquistador Scenarios".

If both were big and deterred no major war.

If one was overwhelming then they either were the 800 pound gorilla sitting where it wants or the war was short by definition. Even if impactful it is the occupation which would gain focus of history.

If both were limited in military strength they would find there was too much "friction" to do more than shift borders a bit even after handfuls died in skirmishes - they would be unable to hold big gains.
I, too, switched to OS/2. And then back. :)
All: there are several pages of comments in this thread - to read them you need to click the "X comments more..." links at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264&p=3

We sometimes prune top-heavy comments to balance the subthreads out, but not in cases like this, for obvious reasons. There are some pretty interesting comments on the later pages too though.
Ether, antiradio, listen to the electromagnetic landscape around you
Bad news for the Keto dieters.
I think wood is considerably worse in the local area, probably enough-worse that it's better not to do it at all unless you're quite remote.

Honestly, this business about people in suburban environments burning wood for heat is news to me— are there like actual high efficiency wood burning furnaces [1] people are using for this? Or is it single-room solutions like a Franklin stove or open fireplace? The only time I've encountered an open indoor fire has been at Christmas at Grandma's house, and that was always for ambience more than heat— most of the heat was going straight up the chimney, and that was despite it making the room smell like smoke for the next two days.

[1]: For example: https://www.drolet.ca/en/products/furnaces/heat-commander-wo...
I remember when I first moved to Japan that my friends and I got off of our bikes and moved to the side of the road to let a car pass (it was a very small road). The driver honked as they went by, and the other American and I thought they were being rude. Honking in the US usually means, "get outta the way!" Our Japanese friend corrected us, telling us that two quick honks meant "thank you." I was blown away that such a thing existed!
> the standard definition is abstract enough

It seems like you’re making the case that the term “vector processor” should be interpreted as something general, and not something specific? Since the Cray vector processor predates RISC-V by ~35 years, isn’t the suggestion above to use it the way Cray did fairly reasonable? It doesn’t seem like it’s really adding much confusion to include GPUs under this already existing umbrella term...

> With a classical vector processor […] it is not possible for a portion of the vector to be 5 instructions ahead

Just curious here, the WP article talks about how one difference between “vector” processing and SIMD is that vector computers are about variable length vectors by design, where SIMD vectors are usually fixed length. How does that square up with what you’re saying about not having any divergence?

This feels like it’s comparing apples to oranges a little… a SIMT machine has different units ahead of others because they’re basically mini independent co-processors. If you have a true vector processor according to your definition, but simply put several of them together, then you would end up with one being ahead of the others. That’s all a modern GPU SIMT machine is: multiple vector processors on one chip, right? It seems like time and scale and Moore’s Law would inevitably have turned vector processors into a machine that can handle divergent and/or independent blocks of execution.

BTW, not sure if it was just auto-correct, but you mean “warp” and not “wrap”, right?
This isn’t the case anymore with WhatsApp. Backups to iCloud and google drive are optionally fully encrypted. You have the choice of storing the decryption artifacts on facebooks servers (which are held on a Secure Enclave) or to backup the 64 character decryption code yourself.
Left WA and moved to FL last month. It feels like I went from North Korea to South Korea. Never realized how much greener it could be on the other side. What’s most surprising is how much better the small business environment is and how much more productive people are in general. The mosquitoes though are a nuisance.
Am I the only one who thinks the actual essence of the article is not the technical detail of using GIFs on hover, but the fact that you see a quick visual demo of yhe thing you are paying for on a pricing page?

On that matter, great idea sir! Will have it in mind
I'm chuckling at this because, every time I've launched a broadside against onHover, a crafty developer replies with an accordion.

You sly dogs.
I have that t-shirt, because I was at that COMDEX! (I'd say that such an admission dates me, but admitting to having ever attended a COMDEX is going to date you.)

It is disappointing about the booth personnel's lack of interest, but you did at least milk a blimp out of them, right? IIRC, we had about as much engagement when we talked to them, but at least we got swag (granted, the "R" in "R/C" stood for "wired remote", not "radio"). Stopped at McDonald's on the way home to Indianapolis to fill it with helium. Played with it for a month, then lost interest, like most swag. Still, probably the best swag we've received.

I used DESQview for years, but the /X was doomed to fall under the wheels of the Windows 95 marketing machine, or just the MS marketing machine in general. Even I didn't use it all that much, having moved on to OS/2 Warp when it came out.
I did not say it was easy to run. I was implying it's the only way to avoid doing marketing and sales, finances and accounting, operations, etc. by yourself since those jobs are never going away.

Also, as astonishing as this may seem to a lot of HNers, most modern economies are built upon SMEs. There are good, normal people working in small businesses all over the world. You could run an operation with half a dozen people and focus on technical delivery and strategic sales (I don't think you can ever delegate high-level sales). This poses its own set of challenges but it really is a middle ground between having to do everything as a sole trader and living stressed out of your tits trying to build a unicorn.
While i agree with you that this is an unlikely future, trump is launching a mastadon instance for himself and his followers, so it is totally a thing that people are doing - slowly.

In fact, the domain of your account could actually be a huge social symbol. Maybe celebrities use @verified.social while everyone else gets @twitter.com or @trump.social or whatever.
I was worried this would be a silly visualisation where you draw an elliptic curve and talk about tangents, which maybe describes an elliptic curve group, but not the right one, and it doesn’t really give any intuition about what ECC is.

But this article is not that at all, and I like that.
> “Certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy,” he added. “We’re going to have to do things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”

> “We’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump continued. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”

That's all he said to the interviewer. The interviewer was asking the hypothetical and suggested the special identification! He wouldn't take the bait, so since he didn't answer the hypothetical they said "he wouldn't deny it" and wrote the campaign of hit piece articles anyway. Whatever response they got they would have wrote that same piece. If he would have answered one way they would have quoted out of context. Since he responded generically it's obviously drummed up. The fact check is hilarious. "Mixed", lol.

Never answer a hypothetical, it's always a trap.
Ah ok then. Picks up a shovel and goes to mine ore.
Damn sorry about that. Editing on mobile obscures so much and the title length limit hit me too. Anyways, enjoy the article it’s still fun.
Show HN: The Hacker Zephyr – Open source 3,502 mile long hackathon on a train
Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?

A: Zorn's lemon!
that is in principle possible (essentially replace twitter by RSS aggregator clients) but is not exactly equivalent: for example some entities could microblog on "next-gen twitter" without having a website and there is also the question of reactions from readers to posts (whether those are seen centrally by all users)

that centralization and processing of responses is by-and-large part of the social media problem (both generating the twitterstorm dynamic and having spawned the shadowy "sentiment" industry) but I suspect a lot of addicted users are quite keen to keep it going
I meant wealth inequality rather than income inequality.
Yep, and it's been great!
It also may be a way how Irish do business. Had many interaction with CEOs from there, very poor experience I must say.
Omicron Crypto Is a Bet on Attention
Is there anything to indicate that computer science and computer engineering will avoid their own reproducibility fiasco?
Also nicotine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1670208/
I'm just glad you're here to stick up for your friends without any corroboration or linking story. It's just a good thing to do.
>They didn't have a different morality, just different economic incentives (i.e. they thought they could get away with it).

Exactly, slavery was a significant economic factor in the world back then. It is no longer a significant economic factor in the world today. Also, don't think that preachers speak their message without understanding the nature of their congregation. The preacher chooses a message they feel the congregation should hear. Rare is the sermon which chastises the economic means of that church body's membership.

>The land was Native American land and this was only achieved via genocidal means.

Native American tribes were weakened by disease, defeated by technology, and subdued by law (the title of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" captures this point nicely, though I don't agree with all of Diamond's arguments). Would you judge one Native American tribe similarly should they commit genocide upon another tribe and take their lands? Based on your comments here, I suspect no, and I also suspect such is still considered morally wrong but less morally wrong than Western expansion through kinetic force.

Racist laws are morally wrong and must be eschewed. There is no doubt that Native Americans were eventually subdued by such laws, but it took decades of fighting for Native Americans to reach their low point. So, I submit to you a serious question to ponder: if two warring entities are technological equals, is their fighting "better" in some sense?
I think the reason Google Docs has been able to challenge the MS Office hegemony is that they solved the sharing problem by putting the doc online and the ui in the browser.
Note, I'm not an attorney, but you should talk to better attorney than the ones you've been talking to, because they're flatly wrong.

Here's the right to work laws by state: https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/right-to-...

Here's a (pdf warning) list of noncompete laws by state: https://faircompetitionlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/No...

Note that only 3 states (California, Oklahoma, and North Dakota) ban non-competes (and I'd quibble with this, California and ND afaik ban noncompetes about poaching customers/clients, while Oklahoma allows you ban employees from poaching client, so CA and ND have the strongest noncompete protection, and one is right to work and one isn't). Of these, North and South Dakota are Right-to-Work, and California is not. It's also hard to draw particular conclusions about trends among (I think the only real one I see is that non-right to work states have salary minimums before you can be subject to a noncompete, but so much of the specifics comes down to how courts have interpreted things). What is pretty clear is that there isn't a strong correlation between right to work laws and noncompete laws.

And further, if you look at the right to work statues (for example Alabama's constitutional amendment: https://ballotpedia.org/Alabama_Right_to_Work,_Amendment_8_(..., or Oklahoma's : https://www.findlaw.com/state/oklahoma-law/oklahoma-right-to... as examples), you'll find that they're tailored specifically to prohibit requirements about union dues. They have nothing to do with noncompetes.

So the text of the statutes are unrelated, and its not even clear that there's a general trend of states with right to work laws having more noncompete protection.

I sort of expect you or your lawyer is extrapolating from one state (probably North Dakota, if I had to guess).
If there's one thing I'd associate with the hedonic treadmill, it wouldn't be remembering the difference between hedonic and hedonistic.
Sound like a move to avoid losses.

TL;DR: Nadella sold the shares “for personal financial planning and diversification reasons,” the Redmond-based company said in a statement Monday afternoon. “He is committed to the continued success of the company and his holdings significantly exceed the holding requirements set by the Microsoft Board of Directors.”
DESQView was how most of us BBS SysOps ran multiple nodes. Being able to multitask DOS programs was amazing at that time.
I don't doubt that was your personal experience, but I strongly doubt that everyone would behave like that all the time with everyone else.
So I just tried it out and it's noticeably more irritating than magit on first brush:

doesn't work well with vim plugins... need to go to insert mode to actually interact with it (might be configurable and fixable)

stuff that takes one keystroke on magit is clunkier in gitsavvy. tab in magit expands short diffs from the main status page where you can stage or unstage selections or get an overview of the changes. l to "inline diff" opens a diff in a new file whereas tab just opens and closes sections on the main dashboard. ctrl-jk move from chunk to chunk. enter opens the file to edit or more generally does an action like view the commit under the cursor if you are in a the log graph and q will "quit" out and pop the interaction back to the log graph.

it's hard to overstate just how well everything flows in magit and i've never heard anyone say anything bad about it other than something like I wish it wasn't tied to emacs. simply the best and most well thought out piece of software i've used.

edit: i'm just scratching the surface on what magit can do... literally everything is possible through the interface even one off git commands but almost everything is very easy and interactive from any point in the interface
Think you are better than the Mexicans? That isn't very nice.

No one wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood, but if you ever are homeless you will appreciate it.
Twitter Bans Sharing of Private People’s Photos, Videos Without Consent
Twitter is the first place every piece of information has been posted on the internet for a decade. Seeing it asap might not matter for you, but it does for many people.
> They can't sell at a higher price because the manufacturer directs the retail price.

Maybe this is the case in the US but definitely not in the EU.
Fulltime lazygit user here. Honestly, this program is the best of both worlds, a fast keyboard friendly gui, with the ability to interact with git as if it were you typing the commands by hand.

Protip: alias lg="lazygit"
In France they managed to make the country pay for the hunt against P2P.

There was a governmental agency (Hadopi) that costed millions of euros and due to the stupid law managed to won I think one case for 2000€.

They got merged into another useless agency and was forgotten. I am not sure whether they still exist, nobody really cares.

This is how pay of our tax money is spent in France, on subsidized sandboxes for politicians.
To me, this reads as "the telcos wanted the spectrum for themselves, and muscled out the satellite providers with the help of their inside man".

If you consider the spectrum's value to be fairly represented by what telcos paid, and that the societal value of the spectrum is best realized by those who can pay the most, then sure, this represents the optimal outcome. I don't necessarily believe either of those two points - but that's why I'm asking here, because I don't really have a good grounding in the facts.
345 also doesn't work if you pick 435 as the shuffle, for example.
Signal has some coin

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
Parler popped up pretty quickly. I would be very surprised if everyone didn't immediately migrate if twitter announced this.
I asked because I was considering porting to a DSP that has multiple threads, but it wouldn't make sense unless it had a scheduler that would work.
I do apologise, my comment wasn’t really directed at you at all. I was simply lampooning the idea, apparently held by some here, that working for others is an inherently abusive relationship. That employers are exploiters.
None of those issues (with the possible exception of roads, depending on which roads you mean) are state-level problems. I live in a smaller locale in Washington and these Seattle-area laments are not problems here.
Xen-on-Nitro: AWS Nitro for Legacy Instances
Why not give these people mental health help instead of entrapping them?

Help these people, help society, and save us taxpayers us a fortune on mass incarceration.
the same goes for CA as well.
This has been my experience as well. A perfect example is podcasters - Anna [1]
hosts a relatively popular and occasionally politically inconvenient podcast called Red Scare. No check. Alexandra [2], the host of Call Me Daddy, also a popular comedy podcast, naturally has a check. This is pretty openly discussed by e-celebs of middling fame. Until one reaches a critical mass of popularity, you won't get a check if you don't correctly toe the culture line.

[1] https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan
[2] https://twitter.com/alexandracooper
> I never imagined that forum moderation would include helping brand management for forum users

Me neither. That sounds like hell!
yeah, collective bargaining never does any good /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining

Last week tonight on union busting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8dUXRpoy8

When a union does not work or is corrupt, we fix the union, we don't give away the collective power to the opposing side of the negotiation: oh no, my lawyer is not doing my best interest he's only trying to rake up the fees! you know what? I'll let my opponent's lawyer represent me in court instead!
No country is perfect, but French society is pretty notoriously sexist and racist.
> it's just those that do manage to buy them will tend to get them earlier at a cheaper price

That's the problem. It means they go to people who may not have been willing to pay what they were actually worth, while others who were willing to pay are unable to buy them because there aren't any left to sell.
Finally realized what was missing:

n n
φ - (1/φ)
F(n) = -----------
√5

There's a missing 5 in your presentation of the equation.
Which isn't what anyone is looking for with twitter. That strategy leads to the CEO being fired.
Current U.S. "due process" includes national security letters and other secret legal requests and secret courts to approve those requests. So there are still some checks and balances but it's less clear that they are working well enough or as intended.

Just look at the transparency reports of major Internet companies; they can report numbers of (certain types of) requests and that's about it. Mass surveillance under seal is not a great trend.

When political parties start advocating for jailing political opponents and treating the supreme court as political office for nominations, I find it harder to trust the current due process.
It is widely known and confirmed by Telegram themselves that your messages are encrypted at rest by keys they possess.

This is a similar process to what Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, and Facebook Messenger do. Your files with cloud services aren’t stored unencrypted on a hard drive - they’re encrypted, with the keys kept somewhere else by the cloud provider. This way somebody can’t walk out with a rack and access user data.