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Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes [$35–>free]
Hello HN community,

in 2017 I started a project that would become MonsterWriter. First envisioned as a semi-structured wiki it became a writing application specialized for scientific content. It is a perfect tool if you write your thesis. While it is focused on technical content, you can still see the knowledge management spirit in it.

One or two years ago, my wife joined me in my efforts and redesigned the whole project and we recently released it as MonsterWriter2.

To celebrate this milestone we are giving away free lifetime licenses for the Desktop version (till Apr 28). Just use the promo code "gu0ho4q" for a 100% discount. You can find detailed instructions here: https://www.monsterwriter.app/promotion.html

You can also find a short introduction video to the app on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8i-EY_UBk

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback!
The Oberon version in Wirth's book doesn't have a zooming interface.
But the variant of Oberon called 'Bluebottle' does.
The Minsk agreements began as an effort to address the conflict between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, though. Do we have a disagreement here? I crystal clearly remember when pro-Russian Ukrainians were fighting against their own Ukrainian government.

As for the rest: the failure to uphold the commitments made in the Budapest Memorandum contributed to the deterioration of relations between Ukraine and Russia, leading to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The Minsk agreements were then pursued as a diplomatic effort to address and resolve the resulting crisis.

Regardless of any of that, it was between pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine vs. the Ukrainian government. The conflict in eastern Ukraine involved clashes between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatist groups. These groups, often referred to as "separatists" or "rebels" declared independence in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and established self-proclaimed republics. Amidst the conflict, efforts were made to negotiate ceasefires and peace agreements. The Minsk agreements, as mentioned earlier, were one such attempt to bring about a cessation of hostilities and a political resolution to the conflict. However, the ceasefire has been repeatedly violated, and the conflict remains unresolved. Might I add that the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine has been repeatedly violated by both Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatist groups. Both sides have been accused of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreements outlined in the Minsk accords. You can read more about it.

For the record, Donbass is often used as a term to refer to the eastern regions of Ukraine, particularly Donetsk and Luhansk, where the conflict between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatist groups has been ongoing since 2014. Those regions are where pro-Russian sentiment is significant.
And yet alcohol is easy to get Europe …
What you're describing aren't AI at all, there's no intelligence there.
I was speaking in general terms. I suppose you could consider it one. I just don't see what all the hysteria is about.
The hypocrisy in the west is overwhelming sometimes. Why can we not just call a spade a shovel - its not really about this app it is about "China".

Toxic and Addictive, collecting data, brainwashing people, propaganda etc is all fine when we do it.

Go for it and ban it - but there is no need to treat everyone like an idiot with the stupid excuses.
I could not disagree more. To me this is a type of "slippery slope fallacy fallacy", a fallacy, where you call every "slippery slope" type of argument a fallacy.

Just because we have been mistaken in the past doesn't mean that every instance of "hysteria" is irrational. There is a wealth of research demonstrating the bad and detrimental effects of social media.
Article by Mary Henry.

I was shocked to see how much more the extended support (per hour) cost is for Kubernetes on AWS.

Haven't had that situation myself on AWS yet, but ran into it a few times on Azure

I can't remember to have paid extra on Azure though, but maybe we did. Certainly not 6x the price though
Bring back Blue Steel on Enlightenment!

https://i.redd.it/2ua33higrtic1.png
Yeah and I don't like it. Someone should do something about that.
If the game is deliberately made to be addictive, leads to emotional distress and is overall harmful then curbs should be put in place. Game developers should not be adolescent behavioralists; the regulators should be.
> One report describes the crew as "infuriated" that Mission Control Center seemed unconcerned. When Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die"; he and others did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry. Gibson advised the crew to relax because "No use dying all tensed-up", he said, but if instruments indicated that the shuttle was disintegrating, Gibson planned to "tell mission control what I thought of their analysis" in the remaining seconds before his death.

> Mullane recalled that while filming the reentry through the upper deck's overhead windows, "I had visions of molten aluminum being smeared backwards, like rain on a windshield". Although the shuttle landed safely, "The damage was much worse than any of us had expected", he wrote. Upon landing, the magnitude of the damage to the shuttle astonished NASA; over 700 damaged tiles were noted, and one tile was missing altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage
I don’t get it: I know some of the fruitcakes who believe this stuff and they say ‘at least in the Middle East they don’t lie to their people’ and ‘they are doing the same and worse here in the eu’. I don’t know who says it happens no-where; I mean if we are talking cloud seeding. The ‘chemicals to keep us stupid, make us ill and suppress our non Christian urges’ happens no-where, but some type of spraying from planes does and is well known. All the other cases are simply nonsense and no evidence will ever be found for it as it doesn’t happen.
Ad blockers prevent generating revenue from ads and someone needs to pay somehow. Gdpr makes it more difficult to collect and sell information about you. Dame with 3rd party cookies.

I'm not saying that I want ads or to be tracked. I dont.
Video games already have to prove their suitability to receive an age rating.
> Requiring every company to price why something us suitable for their market also means the government has absolute control

they dont require every company. Just the largest in this segment.
That's my point. Just ban tiktok because it's Chinese government spyware already. All this think about the children stuff is just beating around the bush.
Layout tables were never a serious problem for screen readers, this has always been overblown. Screen readers adopted working heuristics to distinguish between layout and data tables early on, because tables were used for layout almost from the beginning (as soon as it was possible to remove the visible borders).

See for example WebAIM https://webaim.org/techniques/tables/: “It is sometimes suggested, even by some accessibility advocates, that layout tables are bad for accessibility. In reality, layout tables do not pose inherent accessibility issues.”
What impact would it have on their development, relationships and prospects if they were not exposed to all the same things as their peers?
> having thumbnailsupport is going to be an improvement

What is this referring to?
I was working with a product designer as a UI/UX test subject a few years back before the first release of Cosmic. What a long way it has came since then! I am a huge fun of the effort put in to PopOS to make Linux interesting to the average desktop user.
I could see that affecting the trapezius muscle or nerve endings somehow. That seems to play a large role in many of my migraines. It probably does for others as it’s part of where the botox for migraine shots go.

Ie when the pain shoots up through/along the side of the traps, along the backside of the ear, to the forehead and back of the eye.

Reminds me of pinching the ear lobes during a migraine. That seemed to sort of help but not terribly.

Nowadays nurtec/the cgrp protein inhibitors work wonders. But I’ll consider the piercings too.
But that's a thing adults like, so it's ok, but what the teenagers like is confusing and different
When considering that things in the past turned out "just fine", we should remember the concept of the Shifting Baseline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline
Yes, they had a contract for furnishing the detention centers.
You aren't entitled to what other people produce. If you don't like working you can live in the woods and not work a single day of your life again, but bear the consequences. No one owes you anything.
What's the SDK story for Cosmic? Do they provide an alternative to GTK/Glib/GIO?
It's kind of crazy that Gnome only went "full flat" in september of 2022, with Gnome 43. Such a stupid move, in addition to making it harder to actually change the theme.

Even though Cosmic has a similar flat look, I'm still looking forward to it since theming does seem to be something they're open to.
> I don't think this proof invalidates any of the excellent work that has been put into Meson. If anything, this shows that build configuration is a hard enough problem that requires a turing-complete language. Most features have gone into Meson because somebody actually needed them. And for this reason, Meson serves as an estimate of the required complexity.

I think it's true given the goal to support a specific set of requirements of modern build systems.

The problem is that there is no separate dependency management protocol to target, and there is no separate projects description configuration format. That means build systems end up trying to interoperate with, or even implement large portions of, those kinds of subsystems.
This article borders on climate change denial, it's kinda ridiculous. The problem we face is not that the sun is getting hotter, but rather the greenhouse effect due to CO2 emissions.
I think the point of that reply was that There was no “one moment” alcohol and drunkenness was discovered. It’s been there since fermentation and cognition evolved-before any intent was possible.
It's also worth considering whether the concerns of previous generations were really as exaggerated as we think. We might believe that things "turned out just fine" simply because this is the world we're used to. However, it's possible that we're actually heading in the wrong direction, and many of those worries were - in fact - valid.
Chrysene is already the name of a known hydrocarbon having polycyclic aromatic structure, 4 fused rings in a particular pattern.

Interestingly, it is a 2-dimensional (planar) compound itself.
Maybe it enabled modern MBA mode for that question ;)
I wrote that page after reading every one of those sources. In full. Including all cited supreme court cases. I actually initially felt that mandatory arbitration was fine and somewhat pro consumer. I changed my mind as a direct result of the research.

To the extent possible id like to strongman arbitration but need to find sources.
> That's an extremely heavy burden that we've never forced on consumer products before.

That's a heavy burden that we enforce on many other consumer products. That's why we have certification processes in place, quality testing and compliance testing. From airplanes, to cars, to bikes, to helmets, to food, to medication, to toys, to appliances, to paints and chemicals, etc.
Show HN: Wrote a Distributed Cache Service
My first time ever working on distributed system, any feedback appreciated.
Ancient Greece wasn't known for its great chemical industry.
I remapped it to Super in Gnome, makes more sense. But I do consider this to be an essential feature
I would challenge your challenge mainly because I don't think that rats have superior immune systems because of eating whatever, but rather they eat whatever due to their superior immune system.

"We assume that many wild animals are resource limited, and so expect that immune responses may be submaximal. However, in truth, high levels of immune responsiveness are, in general, seen in wild rodents."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694458/

It's part of why they are successful scavengers.
Boeing whistleblower said the company threatened him and other engineers
Of course it’s better when we do it to ourselves than when an outsider does it. It’s rational for a country to prevent its main adversary from collecting massive amounts of data on its people and to prevent its adversary from getting people addicted to an app that has negative social consequences. After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing.
> That's an extremely heavy burden that we've never forced on consumer products before.

Isn't it what the CE marking means on physical products though? It means the manufacturer claims the product is conform to regulation, which presumably includes "not harmful to the intended users".

While CE marking can be a self-declaration depending on the type of product (some products require third-party control) at any moment each EU state can check it, and in any case a control process has to be documented.

The parent comment just wishes to apply the same to non-physical products, which doesn't strike me as extremely heavy or unreasonable.
>> This really is starting to sound like all the hysteria from the 80s, 90s

Exactly, same with the hysteria about teenage sex, smoking, drinking, bullying, or recreational use of opiates. The kids are alright.
Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai.

> Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.
I Used AI to Plan My Wedding
Tiktok has stated that they would not divest, but rather pull out of the market. Since they are facing the option of divest or get banned, they are effectively being banned
FIDO2 Security keys should be considered good "hardware tokens" now , more phishing-resistant than TOTP
I'm more curious why you (apparently) don't want to.
The culprit for the slowdown is this section, reformatted to be readable:

LEFT OUTER JOIN (
boundary
INNER JOIN threshold ON (threshold.id = boundary.threshold_id)
INNER JOIN model ON (model.id = boundary.model_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN alert ON (alert.boundary_id = boundary.id)
) ON (boundary.metric_id = metric.id)

From what I can gather, it does a full scan on "boundary" table so it can do the inner joins before doing the left outer join against "metric".

The author then introduces the "metric_boundary" view which does the left outer join between "metric" and "boundary". However the SQL using the "metric_boundary" view is not shown, and from the query planner results I can't see that the new SQL is equivalent?

That is, without the "metric_boundary" view, one immediate thought on how to optimize the original query is to avoid doing the "threshold" and "model" inner joins, instead flattening the query:

LEFT OUTER JOIN boundary ON (boundary.metric_id = metric.id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN threshold ON (threshold.id = boundary.threshold_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN model ON (model.id = boundary.model_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN alert ON (alert.boundary_id = boundary.id)

This should allow the database to just search on the primary keys, similar to the final result in the article. However, this is not equivalent. It will include values from "boundary" even if there are no matches for "threshold" and "model", unlike the original query. In the original, "boundary" rows will not be returned unless there's also linked rows in "threshold" and "model".

However, from the query planner results after introducing the "metric_boundary" view, from what I can see the author has in effect done just the same kind of flattening?

|--SEARCH boundary USING INDEX sqlite_autoindex_boundary_2 (metric_id=?) LEFT-JOIN
|--SEARCH threshold USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?) LEFT-JOIN
|--SEARCH model USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?) LEFT-JOIN

Am I missing something here? Did the author not really need to reject "boundary" table rows which didn't have any corresponding rows in "threshold" and "model" table, ie didn't really need the inner joins, and didn't realize this?
What Happens When You Trade in an iPhone at the Apple Store
https://archive.ph/fuT9L
I don't know about anyone else but in my mind the best UIs of the 90s were all pretty much created by or heavily influenced by Kai Krause.[0][1] The interfaces for Kai's Power Tools[2] and and Bryce[3] are pure 90s nostalgia for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause

[1] http://kai.sub.blue/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%27s_Power_Tools

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_(software)
I don’t see any signs in those photos that are explicitly pro Hamas. Which sign are you referring to?
Too many cubicles, too few homes spur incentives to convert offices to housing
My linguist friends went wild when Praat appeared onscreen briefly in the movie Arrival.
It’s a brutal reality of laying off displaced workers to free up cash to invest in tech: bank tellers for ATMs; DBAs for RDS; factory workers for robots.

This fails when the hype doesn’t meet reality - shift back to cashiers from self-service checkouts as an example.

I think we’ll see something similar in AI where many companies will have over rotated and will end up rehiring sales, marketing and other roles that we thought AI could replace.
delusional every professional uses PuTTY /s
For the youngsters out there: Enlightenment was released at a time when Unix desktop environments were mired with twm and Motif, or OpenLook if you were adventurous. These were very sparse (twm), or trying to ape the Windows 3 look and feel (in the case of Motif). This was a time where many display drivers only supported 256 colors, and your entire X desktop would shift colors when hovering over windows that had different palettes.

Enlightenment was one of the first window managers that used bitmapped assets for window decorations. IMO, it was one of the first UI things that distinguished Linux and its community from that of the older corporate UNIXes.
...to age restricted consumers, and in many European countries, with health warnings about over-consumption of alcohol
I think you mean

"explain this non-fun, stress-inducing addiction generator"

"well, we wanted to make a lot of money with incredibly low effort, so we just found out how to best psychologically manipulate users into being unable to leave and stress them into giving us money while they're there in various ways."

"wait why was this not already illegal"

The difference to a game is that a game is first and foremost designed to be entertaining and the user starts playing and stick around with it because they like the entertainment. An addiction to a non-malicious game could be considered like an addiction to good food. Not great, but you're addicted to what you like. Some games (and foods) are more addictive than others, and some games are particularly malicious and are occasionally struck down against or hung out for their methods, but it's overall seen as okay.

These apps are not meant to be entertaining. They use stress, FOMO or outright manipulation to make you return. This addiction is more like being addicted to cigarettes. One can argue whether even self-harm should be up to the individual, but no sane individual would argue that cigarettes are good or that tobacco companies are anything other than evil. If the cigarette was invented now, would we have allowed them to proliferate?

Drawing the line is hard, and I don't like others making decisions for me, but I also don't like society forcing you to join an abusive platform as you'd otherwise miss out on whatever basic societal functions people put there, so enforcing that platforms play nice seems fair.
> government has absolute control over what is and isn't acceptable for any citizen to have access to

It's so dystopian that people can't access weapons or poison from their local shop, with no limitations.
Transforming Monthlong Searches for Clinical Trials to Instant Matches
Note: The synthetic rubber feet on that Wii will have turned to goop that stains everything it touches by now. I would get some isopropyl alcohol or turpentine and remove them entirely.
>The pandemic proved that organizations can continue to function even if the workforce is distributed globally, plus visa processing in the US has basically ground to a halt due to systemic issues internally at USCIS.

They realized this with the big offshoring boom in the late 1990s.

>This is the pandora's box that was opened by WFH and systemic incompetence in USCIS.

It is not. Companies have been offshoring as much labor as they feasibly can, and often more, for at least 3 decades.
What does this have to do with the “West” ?

This is specifically the opinion of one person from the EU who has issues with a lot of what is going on in tech. Regardless of who owns the app.
How is it better than Bruno, or Postman? Who knows.

I've got the feeling that some people fetishize terminal application.
Pointing out hypocrisy is legitimate.
It has become fashionable for hypocrites to seek refuge behind: “oh that’s whataboutism , does not count.”
Sit-in protests have been long established as a legitimate expression of political speech for decades. "harassment/annoyance/intimidation" have also always been considered legitimate (up to the point of violence, usually) and no political action has ever had any effect in which the protestors kept their place and politely made certain never to upset the status quo.

Read MLK's letter from the Birmingham Jail[0], and his opinions on white moderates telling black protestors where and when and how they should conduct themselves. You're backing the wrong side, here. It may be correct in a purely legal sense that American companies can fire anyone for any reason, but it isn't necessarily just when they do so to punish nonviolent political protest.

[0]https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/16/martin-luther-king-leg...
It's the false dichotomy that makes for histeria. TikTok is either on or off. the alternative, handing control of the algorithm over to the Department of Education, has never been discussed.
Well the play was obvious in the US TikTok case wasn't it? They weren't REALLY about banning it, they just want to force sale of a massively profitable apps to western owners (selected ones, obviously).
Pumped up bitcoin “market cap” doesn't mean much if you compare it to the prophecy of the crypto enthusiasts (blockchain ubiquitous for payment => nope, blockchain used for distributed computation => nope, blockchain used to replace lots of legacy tech => nope, blockchain used to guarantee integrity of real world stuff => nope).

So the only thing that actually works is the Ponzi thing, which, thanks to Tether is still running well.
What about income tax? My government collects it from me and not from people who live in other countries. The hypocrites!
https://archive.ph/0PkKG
Show HN: Picoceph – Single Container Ceph Based S3 Server
Ceph despite being widely used can be hard to get started with. Picoceph is my attempt to make getting started with Ceph a breeze.
Plus SMS, which was used instead of a pager, is not guaranteed to be delivered while this is not the case with beepers.
One thing I'm not sure of is how much of a larger bit of text should go into an embedding? I assume it's a trade off of context and recall, with one word not meaning much semantically, and the whole document being too much to represent with just numbers. Is there a sweet spot (e.g. split by sentence) or am I missing something here?
Plenty of household chemicals are poisonous, they just aren't marketed for that use.
The problem with your brain and your eyes are that they aren't available after the user picks their preferred font or for user-generated content or probably not after the text had been translated.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075061

Thoughts?