skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey all, I’ve been scrapping and building a lot of ideas for the meaningful product as a solo developer.
Finally launched an iPad app called Limeboard.

To deepen and organize thoughts and ideas, I put the spotlight on handwriting (limelight: synonym for spotlight is our etymology). In the information age, handwriting is treated as an archaic habit and is shut out of the software industry. Just look at computers designed around keyboard and mouse interactions. However, research on the brain and handwriting [1] suggests that the use of pen and paper is important for memory and encoding new information, providing the brain with optimal conditions for learning.

[1]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.0181...

The result is Limeboard, a computer designed around stylus and gesture interactions.
It enhances your creativity with a visual experience that blends traditional handwriting activities with digital content.

“Board in Board” is the most important feature.
By adding a hierarchical structure to the board, you can now create a visual and spatial representation that is different from the note-taking or whiteboard apps. You can visualize the thoughts in your mind directly on your iPad. The intuitive interface provides the value of networked thought as an alternative to file trees.

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3tXXCZKKs (I love handmade, so I do all the filming myself!)

Limeboard’s business model has a philosophy. [2]
1. No Advertising Model
- Because this app is focused on thoughts and ideas, users are very careful about protecting their personal data.
2. No Monthly Subscriptions
- Don’t offer unfair contracts in favor of companies.
- No one wants to pay $1 per month if stationery becomes a subscription.

[2]: https://help.limeboard.io/en/articles/5375459-how-limeboard-...

This is so sweet and a loving product that I’ve been passionate about for 3 years. Would love to hear your thoughts and happy to answer questions.
Why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing
Generally email lists these days only accept submissions from those on the list. So general spam is not a problem as the spammers don't know who is on the list so that they can spoof them. Spammers could do bogus signups for open lists but they can do that for any type of forum.

The technology is not the problem here. It rarely is.
Just noticed that they use different wording on the readme:

"Any damage you do will not be covered by your warranty – but more importantly, you might break your Steam Deck, or even get hurt!"
Like WALL-E except the hover chairs weigh 3000lb and can go 80 mph.
Why Does the US make it so hard to be a doctor?
I would be happy that they valued me enough to add to their automation, and I would probably set up some automation to remind me to talk to them, and we would be automation buddies. Sounds a lot more fun than the likely alternative, that we never talk to each other again.
Everyone is exposed to it if they trade in the major currencies. The government will reduce the purchasing power of the currency to ensure the nominal returns to meet the defined benefit obligations are met. This, in turn, will boost the price of equities such as land and stocks, and eventually trickle down as inflation for food and fuel.

You will get your defined benefit pension, but how much you can buy with it is variable. And it is going to be less than you think. That is the only way the equation balances with lower economic growth (especially due to lower population growth) and increased competition for resources from the other 7B people in the world.
Unfortunately at 4k nothing over 22" is 200+ dpi. It's definitely better than the run of the mill 90-100 dpi monitors but not enough to fully eliminate the need for AA. You need to push around a great amount of pixels to have crisp text with no AA. Presently 5k desktop monitors go for $2.5k+, 8k for $4.5k, which honestly is not terrible but still quite expensive. Even those are at 32"+ which defeats the purpose (stil below 200 dpi). It seems like the desktop display industry is not interested in pursuing this, going instead for faster refresh rates, as such it's unlikely that we will see 250+ dpi displays on anything other than sub-15" laptops and phones.
noplacetohide.uk redirects to a page giving an alternate perspective.
To be fair I think the problem isn't just the people but how the roads and infrastructure is designed in the US. It's very anti-pedestrian.
Its just where you live. Welcome to large cities. You can move to more hospitable parts of the country where people still have basic respect for people. The politics in the South sure have annoyed me, but dealing with the public (i.e. people who you don't know) in everyday life is miles different compared to living in NY, CA, FL, TX etc.
Ages ago, I remember some corporate mail server (Corel?) blocking some emails which were discussing Microsoft Exchange. They were blocking "sexchange" and "msexchange" matched.
I’m in Ireland and there is a signposted pedestrian crossing that cars routinely ignore in a park near my house. A good technique, I’ve found, is point your phone at them as you prepare to cross. It seems to scare them into stopping.

Normalisation of dangerous driving is a global phenomenon where car culture reigns.
Every couple of days I scroll through my text history to the bottom and see if there's anyone there I'd like to talk to.

I call it "The Poor Man's CRM"
I find it very odd that someone categorizes people / friends into buckets and have a schedule to communicate with them. If o knew someone is writing me because of a schedule it would put me off immediately.
If I got a message like that, I would wonder which kind of sausage app or Like-Facebook-for-X development project, you wanted to peddle on me this time.
They are not against all encryption though.
I wonder, would E2E rotc13 count as illegal? What about the old method of both users having the same copy of a book and sending lookups of particular letter and words. Where do you draw the line on banned algorithms?

Where do you draw the geographical line? Would people in the UK no longer be allowed to communicated with someone in the US if that other person would only use E2EE?
Ask HN: Have you ever sold a domain-name? How was your experience selling it?
Hi,

I'd like to know about your experience selling out your domain-name(s) if you have any.

Was it difficult? Was it time-taking? Did you face any difficulties?

Would really appreciate your responses.

Thanks!
The subreddits i use you can't. For example /r/programming
It starts with child abuse, then it's about harassment, then it's about bullying, then it's about hate speech, then it's about medical misinformation, then it's about political dissent, then it's about...
Amazing Nanoparticles from Maize: Potent and Economical Anti-Cancer Therapeutic
>And you think our police will have the resources do do anything for those 99%?

I wish they did. As more data aggregators become available to LE I hope it can make more people responsible for their actions. Technology will allow LE to scale to actually handle enforcing the law over large regions using fewer actual humans.
I'm working on the wording of this that I intend to use in any such discussion of fake attempts at "think of the children":

Whenever a politician invokes "think of the children", ask them about their funding of Child Protection Services.

Any political action that's said to be under the umbrella of "think of the children" that doesn't provide massive amounts of additional funding into Child Protection Services (boots on the ground, education programs, etc), is hiding something, and actively working against helping children because it's distracting from the actual efforts that Child Protection Services are providing as well as spending money on entirely "something else".
I have an extremely similar system hacked together myself. It has definitely been a game changer for my relationships. I created it because I decided about a year ago I wanted to be a better friend, and the best friends I had were extremely intentional. I wasn't going to just get more intentional naturally, so this system helped me get there. Being able to reflect on what we talked about last time and get reminded to reach out after on a predefined interval is extremely helpful!
Their investment in Tesla alone would be more than enough evidence, if they got in near their IPO.

Throw in an investment in Apple when everyone started switching to Mac circa 2006 (I told everyone who would listen to buy it, but I was a college freshman, so no one listened, but it was so obvious), and you got a stew going.

It didn’t take anything fancy to crush the market if you started 20 years ago and were dialed into tech.
Something about the way git works suggests to me that Google did not in fact just change the timestamp on the first commit in their repository.
> During undergrad, I found I rarely reviewed my class notes, and when I did they weren’t very helpful.

That's interesting, because I almost wanted to make the exact opposite point. I'm actually right now in the process of revisiting my notes, and I think it helps me a lot. Not because they are super useful in and of itself (After 1-3 months have passed now, I understand the stuff deeper now, obviously) but because they help me piece the stuff together.

Anyways, the reason why they then get useful is because I have an extrinsic motivation to read them! (Exams are coming up)

That does in no way make it easier to read them, but it helps in actually reading them.

Then, reading notes and really understanding something will always be hard. I think there is also quite some research ouf there that finds just this: If you really want to understand stuff, you need to put in the effort. It kinda needs to hurt...

This is why I don't think these personal wikis / note -taking tools help too much, especially if one is, like me (and probably most people), more a person who in their downtime maybe likes to read something new and interesting, but better keep that on the light side - it's supposed to be downtime anyways, no?

That leads me then back to the extrinsic motivation: If for example you're a researcher and use Roam (or whatever) exclusively for that (that means restraining also from putting notes in there that have little to do with your actual research), I think the benefits would be much more clear. To be honest, though, that is just a guess. I'm not a researcher myself and I have n't been using note-taking systems for a while now, because of the points explained above.
Breathing, Balance, and Posture with Mary Bond
People need terms to refer to things.

Math uses words I associate with different things in real life. When I read "ring" or "magma" I have something different in mind than a mathematician.

ALB+ECS+RDS work vastly different from APIG+Lambda+DDB.

Serverless is just a word that tries to capture that difference.

Don't get too hang up on technicalities.
> They ended up telling the courts they were certain enough about the system to jail people based on it?

Is that actually something people from Fujitsu testified to in open court? I could not find that in the original article, so I presume you have a different source? I would be interested in that source!

Edit: lower down I found this article that might be your source? https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escape...
I think someone has been drinking too much of the YC coolaid / propaganda.
A recipe no is not copyrightable unless it's accompanied by "substantial literary expression".

Also to get more page length from Google and to avoid duplicate content issues.
In the age of Peloton and other indoors-only fitness trends, being fat is no requirement at all for hostility towards any means of outdoors transportation that isn't a Very Large Wheelchair.
I think more are for it, than you believe.

Someone in such an agency believes they act for the greater good. To watch, aides in protecting society from bomber, insurrection, threat.

They see themselves as noble, and likely most are.

The problem here is misuse, and the scope of information. While the majority behave acceptably, agency culture, and political leanings become a trap.

And so the noble use, becomes corrupted. And because the person believes themselves to be good, who they work for is surely good, and so the work done must be good.

Just look at all the devs working at facebook Do they see themselves as evil? Causing civil wars, breakdown of societal cohesion for profit, destruction for stock price?

No.

They see themselves as non-evil. They see what they do as non-evil, because of <reasons>.
My personal experience was that public companies treat their employees like fungible assets. This made me avoid working at one ever again.

I admit that this could have nothing to do with public listing, maybe it's really just large corporations, and the overlap there is significant.
Well, gold mines basically turn diesel into gold - diesel is the primary recurrent input once you have the reserve.

Crypto, with mining, allows conversion of other energy sources, eg hydro or unwanted flare gas, into currency.

Not saying it's good or bad, just making an observation.
Wonder what impact this will have on GDPR adequacy for the UK.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...
I use one monitor in portrait mode, one in landscape.

Something relatively common for devs.
Ideally you'd want some distilled and organized subset of "good" (informative) discussions, comments etc to persisted as a separate hierarchy that is subject focused and not timeline oriented. A subjective wikipedia of sorts (less encyclopedic, less moderated) that is composed on the fly.
Can Authentik be run without being in a container?
I believe so too. It's not that currently, with no encryption in place on Facebook Messenger, child abusers refrain from grooming children. Yes, it will be slightly more difficult to prosecute them in some cases, but in both cases it will come after the fact. There simply isn't enough capacity to police the messages of billions of users.

Government is pushing for a complete segregation online between children and adults, where you need to have a government issued ID to post online and where you will be prevented from contacting children below the age of 16.
If it wasn’t for F# I’d see little reason to use .NET honestly.
Apple, in absolute terms, has been his best investment (iirc). But yeah. The law of large numbers has gotten him. When you have to invest hundreds of billions, it’s impossible to keep compounding at high rates. I’d put a lot of money on Buffett beating the market if he was managing $50M.
I think no one will try to persuade you that the terms are not incorrect. But I think they are good enough for explaining the problem they are trying to solve.

I wouldn’t say that they are ”intentionally misleading”, more like trying to be a good name for the market while intentionally disregarding any technical accuracy.
The first time I saw opposite direction traffic stop to show respect to a funeral procession (common in the South), I was very confused.
Not the person you replied to but here is me: Divorced parents (father secretly had another family), abusive, alcoholic stepfather. Rape and murder in immediate family. Poverty. I suffered mental illness and depression for years. Therapy and medication.

Now I am happy. Have been for ten years. I have a small house. Nothing fancy but it's tidy and looked after. Wife and kids. Kids get a whole other childhood than I had. It's like a restoration. Rebuilding of what I never had. Deeply meaningful. I think feeling a purpose and meaning are key

Faith is also an important component in my life.
Yes? What is not feasible about that?

Amazon's behavior doesn't even make sense from a hard-headed business perspective. There's a good chance that this person could have continued working effectively if they'd just let him take a months' paid leave without piling the pressure on.

Instead, Amazon faffed around for months with their sadistic extended firing process, which probably ended up costing way more than it would have cost to just give this person the time they needed to recuperate from their family crises.
Ah, I see. You’re saying the threat of someone successfully breaching a child’s data and appropriate keys from a service is more significant than the threat of just internet weirdos relying on E2E to transact child pornography with impunity.
that would say much more about your friends than the message, though.
There is a popular subreddit for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/
There is a large array of organisations listed in the page's footer which support this initiative.

I don't know who they are, but I'd think researching who those organisations are and what their political angle is could shed a little more light on whether this is genuinely motivated by online safety or just a scare tactic for more surveillance.

How the page is worded, it sounds as if they'd also be OK with "only" mandatory client-side scanning a la Apple. (Not that this would be much less dystopic, but it would permit E2EE)
My company had a change of heart a couple of years ago and decided that they "care about people" and wanted to invest in them and such and everyone was valuable..if they sucked at their current position we just had to find them another one. What's happe ned is that productivity has been decpopled from pay. There is a minority of people that do nothing and get paid and it has become the bane of my existence. They wont move because they are comfortable and we can't get rid of them, so I have to Jedi mind tick micro manage them into doing shit. People suck one way or the other =\.
I find the UK government ministers (and others governments I suppose) completely thick and are generally ex-arts-students who (mostly) graduated in "non-degrees" and have precisely zero understanding of science and technology.

There's a saying 'those who can do, and those who can't teach'. I'd add "and those that can't teach go into politics".
I've worked in government influence campaigns myself. I really believe
in positive influence as a social good. Amazing campaigns that we've
had in the UK are the famous 70's "Stop Look. Listen." road safety
campaign with Darth Vader actor D.Prowse, and other great Saatchi ones
with the NHS on heart health and anti-smoking. These all undoubtedly
saved millions of lives without fearmongering, or being overbearing
nanny-state performances.

There is however, a rather sinister subculture within British
influence of smug down-talking, classist, oh-so-superior "we know
best" messaging. The BBC's TV licence ads were comical, with overt
menacing of the poor and old. The late 1980's AIDS/HIV campaigns felt
disgracefully out of touch.

Although they look like internal projects coming through outfits like
NHS, 77 Bgd. or the H.O. it's really spun out to contractors and the
messaging quickly gets out of control. In this case I believe its
Saatchi again.

Unfortunately they've really rather fucked this one. I'd call it
malinfluence and stright up propaganda in the bad old sense. Indeed,
it's a disgraceful example of what happens you you mix technology with
people who are intellectually out of their depth.

Knowing a abit about how this stuff works though, I'd say it really
isn't necessarily the position of the government. It's a cheap "think
of the children" shot against Big Tech (so of course I applaud that)
and also a smokescreen for all the other general mischief and twattery
going on these days.

It's terrifying that people of such incompetence and ignorance can get
their hands on powerful channels - precisely what we're trying to curb
when Facebook do it.
There are tons of people that I see only once per year, and I always have a blast with them. We're both fine it's on a very low backburner. Tons of people are like this.

And like I said in a previous post, I don't manage my friendships in a rational way. This just happens. So I can definitely see it being a category if I'd manage my friendships in a more formal/rational way.
You clearly didn't read the HN guidelines, judging by this and your other comments.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, but the other end is a centralized website under govt supervision. They are against normal end users directly talking to each other in an encrypted way.
Is this specific to Pixel 6, or will this be available on all Pixel phones?

And an aside: since Apple's SoCs are now much better understood thanks to the M1 and Asahi Linux project, how long until someone manages to virtualize iOS on an Android device? (though I'd rather have Android running on an iPhone tbh)
I agree.

Was pretty bummed when I looked up what's actually behind those terms.
The right to have a private conversation is one of those fundamental rights that society exists to protect. Undermining that in the name of law enforcement is putting the cart before the horse.

I'm sure the police would also have a much easier time solving crimes if they had a CCTV in every living room. They might even pinky swear that that they'd only look at it with a court order. And promise to keep the recording extra, super safe so no bad guys can ever look at it. Just think of how much child abuse takes place inside houses - the very notion of houses that the police can't look into is an abomination that must be banned immediately!

The pushback if they proposed something like that would be enormous. But the only reason they think they can get away with the same thing, just regarding chat systems, is that they want to take advantage of the fact that most people are tech-illiterate enough not to understand how encryption works, while they do roughly understand how CCTV works.

Some things are just too dangerous to exist. A backdoor into every communication channel on the planet is one of those things.
Didn't you get the memo? In the UK all the laws and rules only apply to the working class, not the ruling class.

See BoJo's Christmas Parties and weekly "work meetings" for details.
One aspect of buying securities and currency is the stability. People like stability, they will pay extra for secure cash flows, consistent courts, and rule of law that is predictable. In which case, because of its practical distance from Russia I would be optimistic about the US’s relative position, even if nominal equity values decline, they will maintain their relative value assuming the US does remains relatively more stable than other countries.
Build it yourself by the looks of things. BOM seems to be ~$200 at retail prices. All those little AdaFruit PCBs add up!
Wtf is a “blockchain-based VPN”?
Some problems could be fixed by autoformatting, some others could not because they involved a decision.

For example:

- StyleCop validated variable names beyond just casing, and forced you to decide how to comply.

- StyleCop validated the number of arguments in methods, the length of a method and the length of statements.

- StyleCop would identify situations when a variable should be created for a expression.

Every large mess starts as a smaller mess, and that smaller mess is usually low quality code.
Using a taxi lets people say "I don't have a car", even when they use several cars a day. I think it's pretty clear that "no code" means you're not writing code.

I think "serverless" is more borderline. It encourages people to stop thinking about the server environment even though there are still operational risks that should be considered.
I've used something like this for Lisp-family languages privately for decades.

[1] I like having a bar | open a parenthesis that closes automatically when the line or group ends.

[2] There are many Lisp/Scheme constructions that jump two deep without an intervening symbol. Rather that having to count out indents, it's very helpful and readable to have a dummy symbol as skeleton to reify the parenthesis structure. I like $ from Haskell.