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ildon··on OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
I use the Oura ring [1] for sleep tracking, it's by far the best I know of for sleep. The fact that it's a ring is convenient for comfort, and very precise as it adheres well to the finger even during night movements.

[1] https://ouraring.com/raf/34be98b1fd?utm_medium=iac

ildon··on Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign
Lawyer here as well, but from Europe. Here the same is true, unless the government is involved.

Documents from/to any agency, including anything that has any tax relevance, - generally speaking (there are many caveats) - shall be signed with services compliant with the e-signature standards provided by Regulation 2014/910/EU (in short: PADES, CADES, XADES).

Out of curiosity: is there a similar requirement in terms of e-signature in the US when documents need to be sent to some agency, such as the IRS?

ildon··on Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
I also live in Europe and also in my experience healthy salads are often an available choice. However, "salads" are often tricky, because the calorie count can go up very fast (eggs, cheese, side bread, crumbles, etc.), while thinking of eating "only a salad"
ildon··on Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
For me, it solves the "problem" of getting nutrients fast and effortlessly. When I don't feel like cooking, it allows me to get the energy I need, while avoiding fattening or, generally speaking, poorly nutrient food.
ildon··on CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab
Reminds me of I am Legend
ildon··on Unit Tests Are Overrated: Rethinking Testing Strategies
Sounds a lot like chatgpt
ildon··on When NASA gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs, 1995
> All the drugs tested reduced web regularity except for small doses (0.1–0.3 µg) of LSD, which increased web regularity.

I would like to know more. Could we expect similar results on humans?

ildon··on Safer: A better alternative to SAFEs for startup financing?
No
ildon··on Show HN: The Population Project
Found it, thanks for the directions.

> Ours is that we perform a task in the public interest.

You really really want to change this. It will never hold. You need a legal basis for this condition (lett. e of art. 6). Not legal advice: a legitimate interest (lett. f, art. 6) looks more defendable

> We will erase any individual’s personal data at their request within 30 days, according to GDPR’s article 17.

30 days is a very long time

Also: I'm getting an internal server error, data collected: 0

ildon··on Show HN: The Population Project
Have you considered restrictions on personal data collection due to regulations such as the GDPR? I'm curious how you are dealing with those, especially having to track all countries of the world.

Sorry if this is mentioned on the website, I've had a brief look and I might have missed it

ildon··on FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
> now you are physical/spiritually/ and emotionally bond to a new human life who is 100 percent dependent on you for its survival and well being.

Not to mention that this is the best case scenario. Unfortunately deliveries of non-alive babies carry the same postpartum problems, without the joy of life

ildon··on FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
> Postpartum Depression holistic patient view versus commercial pharmaceutical treatment.The shear emotional, physical and life changes involved in having a baby is in many ways similar to PTSD. In just a few weeks your body has been physically exhausted, your mentally and emotionally drained and now you are physical/spiritually/ and emotionally bond to a new human life who is 100 percent dependent on you for its survival and well being.Now imagine this leads to a period of depression in the patient. Is this really a pharmaceutical issue or a societal structure and support issue. Perhaps even more than just that.It is depressing to me to see things like this get pushed out … just take this pill and it will help move you up a few points on our 17 point scale and cope.Instead of wow, let’s really look at what’s happening with the birthing process on how we prepare mothers and support them emotionally, physically and maybe even spiritually.Nope just take this drug and in 6 weeks you will be back to work and we can get that new kid in daycare :/#rantover
ildon··on Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript
This article lost me at the first paragraph.

Its starting argument is based on an asserted ignorance of some devs on what TypeScript actually is. From there, it outlines all the limitations of the language it can think of.

Obviously TS is not a good-for-all solution, never intended to be, and never claimed to be.

So going around saying TS is not something it was never meant to be, just because some people misunderstood what TS is, sounds, to say the least, redundant

ildon··on 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
I love the concept and I'd be willing to pay for the high price no questions asked if the device included all the backend needed to display images. Given the high price I'd expect this to be self sufficient. I truly hope a soon to come interaction of the product will include such a feature, so that setting the target URL by connecting to the device (via localhost or similar) will make this work.

My best scenario would be: - plug it the first time, a new wifi network is made available - connect to the wifi and visit the locally hosted config page, which includes the wifi network to connect to and the URL to fetch - the screen restarts and connects to the wifi and, if internet works, fetches the URL - at any time, the screen can be configured if connected to the same wifi network (might require an app) - a physical button resets the screen to the factory config

ildon··on Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators
Also, based on the combination of the fact that data was made public, article 6, paragraph 1, letter f), and their business, I would argue that their use of personal data scraped on the web for training purposes is legitimate
ildon··on Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators
At least for what Italy is concerned, the issues raised do not seem to be correlated to the training phase, but rather to the actual usage of chatGPT.
ildon··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
I can't wait for them to challenge the decision in court. The only rather strong point made by the authority is that they don't do anything to actually check that minors of age 13 can't use the service.

Apart from that, they would have a very good argument against most of the claims of the authority based on freedom of speech and information. They're essentially in the business of providing information

ildon··on I tried an alternative way to date – and it worked
The story with my wife and partner for > 9 yrs started with a simple hi, in person.

All that can I say about this is that the selection criteria works both ways.

If a person is not willing to give a chance to another person simply based on the first word that comes out of their mouth/keyboard, perhaps it's them that don't deserve a chance

ildon··on Show HN: I made a simple, open source, chromatic tuner mobile app
Tried again now, but it still says it's not available in my country :-(
ildon··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
An additional pro of university is that it can teach you things that you might never learn working, and it let's you "test" your interests without having to work in a specific field.

This is invaluable as time will start slipping in front of you faster and faster, and soon you won't have time anymore to experiment and try new things.

As a general advice, I'd tell you to give college a try, and apply to something that is only tangentially close to coding. Keep working on your startup and keep improving your CS skills as you have been doing, and in College try new things. Whether you want to be a coder or an entrepreneur, you'll require many different skills. A diverse study plan that includes a bit of different subjects (economics, law and alikes) can be very useful.

Think of what you have achieved in only 17 years, and then try to picture where you'll be in another 20. And what the world will look like in 20 years. Your most valuable asset is and will be your brain, so the most you can develop it, the better.

Disclaimer: I'm a University professor

ildon··on Show HN: I made a simple, open source, chromatic tuner mobile app
This looks super cool! I tried to download it for Android but the store says it's not available in my country (Italy), any chance you can open it to more markets?
ildon··on What ChatGPT can't do
> ChatGPT offers the structure of an explanation, but falls into tautologies and truisms

Proofreading Text for English

Can you proofread the following text?

Sure, here is your text with some suggested edits and comments:

"The cat sat on the mat. It was a warm day, and the sun was shining through the window. The cat closed it's eyes and basked in the warm rays. It was so relaxed that it fell asleep, dreaming of chasing mice and lounging in the sun.

"It's" should be "its" (possessive form of "it")

Consider using a comma after "warm day" for clarity

Consider using a comma after "sun" for clarity

Consider using a comma after "eyes" for clarity

"basked" is past tense, so "was so relaxed" should also be past tense (e.g. "it was so relaxed")

Consider using a comma after "sun" for clarity

"dreaming of chasing mice and lounging in the sun" is a present participle phrase that describes the cat's state while it was asleep, so it should be set off with commas (e.g. "it fell asleep, dreaming of chasing mice and lounging in the sun.")

Here is the revised text with the suggested changes applied:

The cat sat on the mat. It was a warm day, and the sun was shining through the window. The cat closed its eyes and basked in the warm rays. It was so relaxed that it fell asleep, dreaming of chasing mice and lounging in the sun."

Proofread the following text: As a University professor, having reviewed thousands of exams over more than a decade, in my experience this same exact criticism could be applied to many human students. A non negligible percentage of students provide answers that are tautological, or at best answers that merely restate what someone else has written, without really grasping the meaning of it. The way I see it is that we know not enough about how we, humans, process information in our brains to make logical thoughts, to rule out that the current state of the art AI is capable of the same. It seems to me that the current state of the art AI models are getting closer to humans, sometimes mimicking the smarter ones, some others the less smart ones.

Here is your text with some suggested edits and comments:

"As a university professor who has reviewed thousands of exams over more than a decade, I have found in my experience that this same criticism could be applied to many human students.

A non-negligible percentage of students provide tautological answers, or at best, answers that merely restate what someone else has written without really grasping the meaning.

From my perspective, we do not yet know enough about how our brains process information and form logical thoughts to rule out the possibility that current state-of-the-art AI is capable of doing the same.

It seems to me that current state-of-the-art AI models are getting closer to humans, sometimes mimicking the smarter ones and other times the less intelligent ones.

ildon··on Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe
No court has decided over this. It's the decision of a regulator, so Meta will most likely appeal to a court, and then we will know what the law allows or not.
ildon··on Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (1999)
This aged well
ildon··on Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
Try akiflow.com, it has excellent offline support.
ildon··on Remote work changed their lives. They’re not going back to the office
More regulation, especially when through taxation, is a very dangerous path. The actual outcome is unpredictable, and it's likely that those who can will take advantage of any benefit
ildon··on Hyperlinks in Handwriting
Alternative idea: convert the file imported from remarkable to vector images (SVG) and enclose the hyperlinks in <a> tags
ildon··on Dating Other Task Managers
Try Akiflow.com, it's great for merging all tasks in a single palce and then planning and scheduling.

Disclaimer: I work @Akiflow :-)

ildon··on Musico: AI Generated Music
Well jukedeck has been bought by TikTok, so their product was indeed valuable for someone. I guess the point with such AI systems is not to replace existing creators, but rather fill in new market needs
ildon··on WordPress WASM
A very very interesting addition would be to add the ability to fetch data from a remote WP website's APIs.

In this way the server could serve a cached page on first request, then the wasm file would be downloaded. From then the whole rendering could be client side, while still fetching data from the remote DB. This could significantly speed up things for users.

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