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Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
Hey HN,

As a Software Engineer, I frequently copy and paste content. The fact that macOS clipboard buffer can keep only one item is very frustrating. It’s very annoying to copy → switch app → paste → switch app → copy → switch app → paste, and so on. Losing items I copied hours ago and having to find and copy them again is a waste of time.

I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred, Raycast, Paste, Maccy, etc. While great, they didn't fully meet my needs.

As a developer, my requirements are:

1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard.

2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor.

3. Full content preview for each clipboard item.

4. Quick search functionality.

So, I created ClipBook for my own use. After months of development, daily use, and positive feedback from my colleagues, I decided to share it publicly. It’s free. All data is securely stored on your computer. I’m planning to make it open source as well.

If you try it out, please let me know if you found it useful, if you have anything you’d like me to add, or if you have any other feedback.

Happy to answer any questions. Much appreciated.
> The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines.

Unless a train derails. Once. Or twice. Or, out of a sudden, it become too warm in May. Then some minor mines start to close. (Just telling it as it is, lol. Who knows what happens next)
With AI, there can be more content, produced faster and probably more cheaply, that is tailored to individual users.
I'm all for evolving our knowledge of substances and their effects, but as other accounts are saying, we have more questions than answers

And here's my problem with it: ok we figure out substance X has problems and we go and replace it with Y (which has less research on it than X). Are we sure this is a better replacement?

We're talking about food packaging, what happens if we replace substances and end up with a lower product shelf life (which might be acceptable or not)? Or with other issues?
It's all trade-offs. No one likes breaking software. In this case, it's a security issue, so that can justify a breaking change.
I used to laugh at right wing media for calling leftist government fascist.

But this is out right scary.
Never heard about chewing fried coffee beans before. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing the recipe also...will perhaps try making it on a weekend.
You skipped over the one that is perfect for LLMs, determining the purpose of intent in the message.
This was a great team. Sad to see they had to shut down.
I have seen it play out over and over with low code tools. The difference between a sensible default and a footgun is just a matter of perspective.
We’ll have AI tools to take our bullet-points and expand them into prose (crappy now, eventually beautiful prose). Then we’ll use AI tools to summarize that prose into bullet points.

Eventually we’ll realize we can just send the bullet points and generate the prose on the receiving side. This will be great because most of the time the AI’s will be able to say “let’s just be a nop.”
"So of course I opened the big bad search engine and typed Nordic nRF9160 bare-metal example. I quickly learned that, while bare-metal programming Nordic boards is possible"

Google, of course, is very big, angry and bad, but there is no need to search for what is on the manufacturer’s website:
Modern devs are not familiar with OLAP and cubes, therefore the argument is valid until time swings again.
But it's just Cortex-M33...
Calendar and Mail
Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend
Original title "Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a troubling trend" condensed down due to title limits.
Do the hardened InfoSec folks here on HN have an opinion on how the new Apple/iCloud Passwords setup will make one vulnerable to a SIM swapping attack, per this anecdote [1]:

> apple sherlocked 1Password today, so i'd like to remind you that your Apple ID is only as secure as your carrier. if you have 2FA on and get SIM swapped, attackers can lock you out of it PERMANENTLY. last month it happened to me. make sure it doesn't happen to you

[1] https://x.com/blader/status/1800263787746066646
Firefox and Mozilla are basically dead living only off of Google's charity. It's a welfare case.

If I didn't personally know some Mozilla employees then I would honestly be surprised that anyone actually worked there.
In what sense was it not self defence under international law?
> We did but these people aren't interested in the privacy aspect, just scanning

And some "activists", like Ashton Kutcher, are interested in making money out of this, via his startup, Thorn.

EDIT: And, to absolutely nobody's surprise, the CEO of this group is a former VP of Ashton Kutcher's Thorn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-gardner-aba90013/
Not every charge/discharge wears on the battery the same. Staying at 0% or 100% is worse than staying around the middle. Charging and discharging extremely quickly wears more than slow charges/discharges. And high temperatures are bad for battery health in general.

Electric car batteries are tuned much more conservatively than phone batteries and are massively over-provisioned because US consumers are nervous about exactly the thing you're talking about. That's not too surprising because to a large degree the car IS the battery, but battery wear is generally very well mitigated (with the exception of the Nissan Leaf).
Marketing is literally customer/product (market) identification and all the activity required to produce and deliver the product to customers. Business. Did you mean advertising?
There's a big difference between advocating a crime, and perpetrating a crime. Do you really want to live in a world where something you say on your favorite social platform can be used as reasonable grounds for your imprisonment?
In cases of higher national interest, what locals think is irrelevant.
I feel that you're really offended about the marketing aspect of it, and want to reward brands that try harder to held a cohesive "Premium" image that helps their customer feel cajoled.

Apple sure plays that game better than Microsoft. Google I don't know. Microsoft also probably don't see home customers as premium in the first place, and will keep the clean image for corporate entities only (and oh god do their corporate offering cost an arm and a leg)

I personally don't care that much about the marketing aspect, at the end of the day Apple made broader moves to shut down right to repair, or went full malicious compliance when faced with the EU for instance. Not saying Microsoft has any high ground, they're all at the end of some antitrust trial.

That's where I'll take something that'd dirty but actually works for me, vs being wined and dined in a golden prison cell.
Yes, it's simpler, but there's a few key differences:

1. You also have complete control over what the LLM can do / access thru the semantic layer (e.g. you can remove tables that the LLM shouldn't consider for analytical questions).

2. One of the biggest choke points for text-to-sql is constructing joins. All the joins are already built into the semantic layer.

3. Calculating metrics / measures is handled in the semantic layer instead of on the fly with SQL (e.g. if you ask something like "how much revenue did we generate from product X", you wouldn't want the LLM to come up with a calculation for revenue on the fly. Instead, revenue is clearly defined in the semantic layer).

4. The query format for our semantic layer (we use cube.dev) is JSON, which is much easier to control then free form SQL.

The semantic layer gives the LLM a well defined and constrained space to operate within whereas there are hundreds of ways for it to fail writing raw SQL.
Isn't most carpet made of synthetic fibers? i'm not sure how staying with carpet is any better.

And I can't imagine that polyurethane finish on hardwood floors is good either.
Anecdotally I am hearing more people shifting back to just calling it Twitter.
Thank you. It's a progressive web app (PWA), not a native app. I've been using it myself on an old iphone for a long time now and it's lean and quick.

To install it, in safari go to share -> add to home screen. That's all!
I think the OP was just confusing a feature used by someone with a Tesla from a Tesla specific feature.

They might be using one of these: https://www.chargedfuture.com/240v-outlet-smart-splitter/

There’s also smart breaker boxes that again have nothing to do with Tesla specifically. The breaker box will preferentially shed EV charging first when someone would otherwise trip their whole homes’s connection to the grid. It’s not a perfect solution, but sometimes your local utility doesn’t want to upgrade your connection to the grid because their substation is fully provisioned or whatnot.
Safari already disallows mixed content, so not really new. And it's been an error for a long time, no one should really be surprised that their broken code is broken causing their website to break. It's more surprising that you are demanding we keep allowing affirmatively wrong code.
Funny but i have to agree. Hope they dont rename it as Vertex Pay
You say that like norway can't and didn't sell a lot of these resources
> Who pays for the costs of private cloud compute, is it free of charge for the iPhone owner (at least until they turn it into a subscription)?

My guess is that this is similar to how iOS upgrades are “free”, how Apple Maps is free, how iMessage is free, how iCloud Mail is free, etc. To a good extent, it’s all paid for by the price paid by the customer for the hardware.

I’d also wager that there will be a paid service/subscription that will get baked into iCloud+ at some point in time (maybe a year from now). This will offer a lot more and Apple will try to attract more customers into its paid services net.
No, I didn't pay for my email. It is Google, so I was using it as main email account for 15+ years, and have used GDrive for some documents.

I have learned my lesson. I guess for free iCloud account, I am paying by using Apple products.
Understanding the Idiom: "Balls of Steel"
I think it's about the clones on aliexpress, which are about $2.50, vs $5 for the pico.
Of course, it's seeking it's low energy state.
Technical Notes on Math and Software
I don't think when someone is talking about a "closed device" they usually mean "closed source". I at least took it to refer to whether you can run whatever software you want on that device+OS, and how easy it is to do so.

I think Windows is up there with the open source OSs (Linux, BSDs, etc) on regular PCs are at the same end of "run anything you want from wherever you want it", iOS devices are at the other extreme of "only run things approved by Apple", Android devices are pretty closer to iOS because they make you jump through hoops and potentially lose access to various functionalities to install certain things or gain root access. Modern macOS, as far as I understand, is somewhere in the middle: you have to jump through quite a few hoops to install certain kinds of software, and a few aren't permitted at all I think (unsigned kernel modules?).
Dude take me back to BuzzFeed listicles. Some millenials being cringe >> AI slop
So this is more of a 3d printer head rather than a proper 3d printer? It would still need external moving parts to handle the resin and such.
If I was able to use my EV as an external battery for my home, I could potentially save ~$100 per month on my power bill, and that would represent <1/2 additional charge cycle per day. I'm pretty sure that would be worth it. This is going to depend on the power rates in ones particular area though.
You can have VOC testing done to determine if yours are off-gassing. That's the real test, not the FDA. Generally speaking Luxury Vinyl Planks are the way to go if you don't want to risk off-gassing.
I am exhausted switching services. please can we pick one and be done with it?

How about adversarial integration? Why can't I send money from cashapp to venmo? Is the technology not there yet?

I wish the post office was a bank and they hosted their own pay apps.
Wasn't this an old school insult back from CS 1.6 days (probably even before), or was it only used among my friends?
Not the story I thought it was going to be. They turned off the chargers, releasing enough capacity for the grid to stabilise. Big woop. This is basic grid planning. Non critical circuits should cut out to stabilise the grid by design.

With this sort of praise, I thought they'd returned power to the grid when it slumped.
Played with this and it did a great job of creating the initial framework for my most-recent react app based on a few paragraphs of text. Would recommend trying it out
Proposed law to control AI models will destroy California's nascent industry
There are several automotive standards for electronic components. GP was probably asking about e.g. AEC-Q100, AEC-Q101, and/or AEC-Q200. These establish that the device is going to work in automotive environments (temperature, humidity, vibration & shock) by verifying functionality while subjecting them to those conditions. A component may work without these tests, but you are merely hoping that that is the case if they haven't been tested. Hope is not a viable strategy for product design.
Isn't that what banks are for? (except in the US)
>But a human gets paid for it. The local economy benefits from that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Paying people to dig holes only to fill it back again also results in humans getting paid and the local economy "benefiting". That doesn't mean we should be mandating that companies do that, or get the government to enact such programs.
There's a bit of blaming a victim going on here. Especially early on in the days of SEO, Google incentivized slop the same way a bank vault incentivized armed robbery: by having something of value in it.

Google incentives don't matter much for honest website operators. They're only relevant when you want to abuse the system to promote your worthless bullshit[0] at the expense of the commons.

I really wish society started to treat marketing hustlers with the same disdain it has for robbers.

--

[0] - If it was worth anything, you wouldn't be worried about SEO all that much, especially back before it all turned into a race to the bottom.
It was always a bet. You make something and hope that people like it enough to pay for it. Just like any business. Why should businesses be entitled to my money if their offerings have no value to me?
The problem is, reliably catching programs misbehaving is non-trivial even for the technically capable, let alone everybody else which easily results in a lot of damage having been done by the time they’re caught, if they’re caught.

I don’t think there’s a practical way forward for desktop OSes that don’t embrace sandboxing and tight permission controls, at least for the masses. Even for myself, I’d be more comfortable using an OS like that — if trust of the corporations making the OSes becomes an issue, the solution that’s apparent to me is to run a Linux distribution with deeply integrated permissions and sandboxing, not to run without either.
Someone could still call the libre implementation of Forsp Lithp so not all is lost.
Lynn Conway has died
Yes, it's worthy of a ban, because you kept perpetuating a religious flamewar after I'd just asked you to stop doing that.

The other user was also at fault, and I've asked them not to do that in the future.

The reason I've banned you while merely warning the other user is not that I'm taking their side. Rather, it's that we'd warned you multiple times, including recently. That is not the case with the other account. Also, your account has a longstanding pattern of doing this over and over again. HN is not the place for this sort of generic flamewar, whether about diet, religion, or anything.
Raspberry Pi is now a public company
Reasonable individuals would think of the food I've described as pig feed, if not worse, of course with some hyperbole added. The reality is that most people are not knowledgeable enough to even tell "AI slop" apart from regular slop, or even human-made content. In that regard, people are eating pig feed, scraps no reasonable people would want to touch. Best example is AI generated Facebook posts with comments and likes from elderly folk or the the lower end of the bell curve.
You might be surprised how much this varies. I don’t know anyone who uses Venmo and never needed it. I do use Zelle in a few cases when a credit card doesn’t work.

It beats checks but is still rather annoying because sometimes Zelle says “no” for mysterious reasons.
I've experienced this a couple of times: Feeling like I've been lying awake for at least half of the night, twisting and turning, when my sleep tracker really only shows movement for maybe 2-3 stretches of 5 minutes each.

That realization has helped me stress out a lot less about "not getting enough sleep" when there's an important even the next day (which makes it easier to find sleep in turn).
Last time i looked at intel scatter/gather I got the impression it only works for a very narrow use case, and getting it to perform wasn’t easy. Did I miss something?
Needs (2023) in the title. This is a nearly-one-year-old response to a petition for the FDA to reconsider its now-two-years-old denial of a previous petition.
Why worry about man-made nuclear weapons when we've always had the sun?
Yes... in your other reply you said it was a humanitarian intervention to stop a genocide in Kosovo.

Exactly like a Putin supporter would say about Ukraine.

Except there was no genocide in Kosovo (Kosovo is not Bosnia) and there is no genocide in Ukraine.

There is one in Gaza though and it is backed by NATO, the same people you called humanitarians.

A Putin supporter also wouldnt be bothered about the murderous hypocrisy, but Chomsky was. Thats what set him apart.
We absolutely do laugh at both already.
Just a nitpick. The term "modern" is thrown around as equivalent to evolutionary progression to best practices. The term that could used to refer to the developers in you are describing could be "contemporary".
> If you let them scan for one illegal thing, that opens the doors for them to scan for anything they want.

Which is exactly what this protest is for, all the “think of the children” is a charade to fight encryption. The protest was organized by Heat Initiative, which is a group funded by private billionaire money, with unknown agenda.

More info here: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-...
I mean, organization priorities change all the time. Unless Elon is a moron, he should have known that there was always a risk that they'd eventually add a for-profit entity; it's entirely possible that they had no plans for it when he was there and then they later changed priorities. That's really not weird, and I really don't think Elon should be "unhappy" about it.

That said, I do think that the name "OpenAI" does kind of imply non-profit, so I guess you could argue that there's some dishonesty there.
Because plastics are not natural and are a relatively recent invention in human history. A bonus is that there has been a exponential increase in usage in the last 30 years.

We do not have a long history of its effects, and what we do have doesn't look good. So showering plastic particles everywhere seems like an ill-advised idea.

As a society we have very few options to collectively decide to do something "better". Our government and oversight agencies are supposed to be one of those options. This is a disappointing development.
Huge gap for building self service tools/dashboards for execs, just no sense of the schema and data to make them sql writers which you don't want. When metabase showed a version last year with AI, you could see right away without some knowledge of the data model your just grasping at writing the correct prompt.
True, let's get even more cynical actually, companies will serve ads to paying customers too, even those paying for "ad-free" versions of the product.
this is victim blaming IMO. people get drunk. people go out at night. people cross streets. if the physical environment doesn't take the above into account, to the point where there are countless needless and preventable deaths, the correct thing to do is to fix the environment, not say people should have been more careful.
As someone who leads a Data Engineering and Data Science team and has for 15+ years, this is exactly the problem. Too many folks with access to data who do not understand the data, its relationships, and what the outputs their individual efforts create mean.

Decentralized/embedded Engineers/Scientists; self-service dashboards; low-code BI/data tooling; and, now, LLM-driven text to SQL/viz lipstick on a pig have been floated as some of the solves to the problems seen in the analytics space over the 25 years I've worked in the space. Unfortunately, to date, nothing has actually solved the root issue: lack of data understanding and, its end result, trust in the deliverables.

But, to your specific point, SQL isn't the solve here, either. Too many folks know enough SQL to pull data and use it as they see fit, but too few folks understand the data, its structure/schemas, and valid use of those data. THAT requires time, energy, knowledge, and experience in the space. NO TOOLING, other than experience, solves for this--today (note: will LLMs get to a place where they can? Maybe; but, let's be honest--probably not).

Dashboards are great at giving quick hit information of KPIs and the ability to drill down into them; but, the most important thing to solve are always:

1. Data Management practices

2. Understanding of data, its relationships, and proper use of those data/metrics in deriving insight to drive the business forward.

I am excited to see what the future holds, but my grey beard doesn't allow me to ever, Ever, EVER trust any next-gen tooling being it hasn't held true to date.
Wrong Map of Europe
While people are aware of the chemical element lead, are people aware there’s also a hundred or so other chemical elements?
Ira Glasser (led the ACLU during some very interesting times in the US):

"Democracy means a system of government where people vote for representatives and majority prevails. But liberty means that the majority doesn’t prevail about everything. And the Bill of Rights defines – it’s basically a list of limits on majoritarian rule. If you look at the way the Bill of Rights is written, it’s all phrased negatively."

[1] https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/so-speak-podcast-tran...
Balloon Offensive
Super excited about this launch, happy to answer any questions (or jump into our Discord for more)

The pgvectorscale repo is at: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale
The flippydrive is such a nice, clean install on a gamecube that it leaves me wondering if the rp2040 could make better ODE's for every other console (psx, saturn in particular)
Dream states are definitely not equivalent to normal/awake consciousness. Try doing math in a dream!
How can there not be an app? Don't you need a place to manage your cards?
Leslie Lamport: programming ≠ coding [video]
Do they sell chip-like modules with camera connectors and battery controllers, though? I don't deny that ESP32 modules look like and are soldered as though they were chips, but to me it's clear that GP was mixing up chips (and chip-like modules) with boards.
I suspect (without hard evidence) the sticking point is regulatory.

Being in the business of allowing private individuals to move money around opens a company to massive scrutiny. Scrutiny Google probably doesn't want, especially if it gives the government an excuse to snoop around in Google's related enterprises.

At the revenue point of the service, let somebody else be Uncle Sam's punching bag.