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by notrealyme123 | 2025-09-23 07:12:36+00:00
I was waiting for a linux client for such a long time. Or a way for api access where i do not need to poll for changes.

But instead more ai slop.

And thats not the worst. Every time when a company adds ai features, i know they want to train on my data sooner or later.

So hard pass for that one.

edit: seems like webhooks are here now. Will give them a try, but knowing notion, expect wild limitations
by wiether | 2025-09-23 07:12:52+00:00
Laptop sleeve are nice, I used to use them... but they need to be the _perfect_ size for your laptop.

Otherwise they are hard to open/close if they are just a bit too small, or they are floppy if they are too big.

I currently have three laptops, they all have their own dimensions. So I would need three sleeves to carry anyone of them at any given time. For work, I switched between three sizes in the last two years.

Meanwhile, my 5yo hiking backpack with a water pouch dedicated space is able to carry any of those laptops safely.
by laborcontract | 2025-09-23 07:13:03+00:00
Forgive me for living in a cave, but is there any reason to use Notion if you don’t need the collaboration features? My experience with Notion on an M2 MacBook Air (8 GB RAM) is that it brings the machine to its knees.

It strikes me that if Notion is a nice wrapper for a database, and the agent is being tasked with interfacing with that wrapper, why not skip the wrapper entirely? If they’re trying to offload most of your interaction with the application to an LLM agent, it seems like it doesn’t matter where the data lives. So why not use a Claude Code agent to do the same things for you locally?
by vintermann | 2025-09-23 07:13:17+00:00
A revolution also isn't easy when you know that the revolutions you could have, would be the ones supported by foreign groups that absolutely don't want your country well. USA on no account will tolerate an Iran which is both free and democratic and at all economically developed, because they don't trust a democratic public to support pro-American policies in the middle east - especially related to Israel and oil. Just like they don't trust that in any of the Arab states.

If you want a democratic Iran, both the current government of Iran and its most powerful enemies will do everything they can to stop you.
by tgma | 2025-09-23 07:13:45+00:00
This is an extremely important, often overlooked, point. I also know of many "educated Iranians" living in the US who voice their opinion as GP suggests, and are self-proclaimed to be anti-regime. However, they travel to Iran to visit family and friends twice a year and take an iPhone or two on their way to gift them, directly benefiting the Mullah's system. I don't think a jew would have gone back to Nazi Germany to visit family, so I would take "hate the government" with a grain of salt when everything you do benefits the same establishment.

Some even line up to vote for sham Presidential elections of the Mullah regime, whose turnout legitimizes the regime, while inside the United States! Being Stanford educated does not prevent this seemingly cognitive dissonance or perhaps deception; it actually makes that more likely.
by chithanh | 2025-09-23 07:14:53+00:00
The GPU solder joint issue was NVidia's fault. I remember also Dell and others were affected, and I think MacBooks used only AMD dGPUs afterwards.

But otherwise, between the Butterfly keyboard, Flexgate, and placing the backlight driver voltage pin next to a data pin on the display connector (Louis Rossmann complained a lot about that one, as debris or moisture could easily cause a short and fry your CPU), indeed Apple does have their fair share of design issues.
by jleahy | 2025-09-23 07:16:03+00:00
(disclaimer: CTO of XTX)

It was a long long time ago that we were only using NFS, it ran on top of a Solaris machine running ZFS. It did its job at the very beginning, but you don't build up hundreds of petabytes of data on an NFS server.

We did try various solutions in between NFS and developing TernFS, both open source and properietary. However we didn't name these specifically in the blog post because there's little point in bad mouthing what didn't work out for us.
by stared | 2025-09-23 07:16:09+00:00
For me, this simple tools is the single best command line changer! Instead of a lot of commands to traverse the folder tree, I jump where and when I want.

Other nice tools I use: Fish for shell (https://fishshell.com/), Starship for prompt (https://starship.rs/), bat "a cat with wings" for file preview (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat).
by bigtones | 2025-09-23 07:16:21+00:00
Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.

Notion seems have a lot of hype lately, and Microsoft tries to be king of the hill when it comes to productivity apps, buying tools encroaching upon their turf of Outlook and Excel (6 Wunderkinder, Yammer, Ally.io) or competing vigorously if they cant buy them (Teams). Seems like this Notion v3 could tip it over the edge into full blown productivity powerhouse.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-23 07:16:37+00:00
People here make it easy on themselves by blaming everything on "the government," but you should never underestimate the level of brainwashing. According to independent polls, it's more like 50% of Iranians still support their government. And it used to be closer to 80% a few years ago. I was lucky enough to be born into one of the wealthier nations, and our trust levels are much lower, despite our government doing not nearly as much crazy obviously evil stuff. I'd say the problem is not support of the government, it is education. The better educated people are, the less likely they are to blindly trust authority. And Iran lost most of its educated people already in the islamic revolution.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-23 07:17:07+00:00
Irrationality abounds.

Meanwhile the other partisans are insisting that the paracetamol claim is junk science. The whole episode is ridiculous. I get the sense that if RFK linked lung cancer to smoking, the same appeals to tradition would be used by the opposition.

I remember hearing the claim that paracetamol wouldn't be approved under current standards decades ago. Wasn't sure about that, but I generally avoid tablets of all kinds. It wasn't especially relevant for me then or now.

https://www.fda.gov/media/188843/download?attachment

>Notice to Physicians on the Use of Acetaminophen During Pregnancy

> The association is an ongoing area of scientific debate and clinicians should be aware of the issue in their clinical decision-making, especially given that most short-term fevers in pregnant women and young children do not require medication.

>In the spirit of patient safety and prudent medicine, clinicians should consider minimizing the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy for routine low-grade fevers. This consideration should also be balanced with the fact that acetaminophen is the safest over-the-counter alternative in pregnancy among all analgesics and antipyretics; aspirin and ibuprofen have well-documented adverse impacts on the fetus
by smartmic | 2025-09-23 07:17:24+00:00
Is it just me, or is it actually a new trend that the first thing on the README page is an advertisement? Could this perhaps even be related to the AI glut?

In any case, aberrations such as the excessive use of emojis and exaggeration are becoming increasingly common, which is yet another reason for me to distance myself from GitHub. For me, a README that more closely follows the conventions and minimalism of a classic man page is a sign of quality, and it could perhaps even be rendered in plain text to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio.
by avidiax | 2025-09-23 07:18:40+00:00
> Likewise, the mixing of blending of food with a defect at or above the current defect action level with another lot of the same or another food is not permitted. That practice renders the final food unlawful regardless of the defect level of the finished food.

At least the obvious workaround to too much foreign matter in a foodstuff is illegal.
by altacc | 2025-09-23 07:19:38+00:00
> with Notion AI Agents at the center.

Oh dear, more AI slop that's going to try to force itself on you, like a creepy uncle at a party. This "agents" thing seems to be a meaningless buzzword that every product must now use. I'd rather they focused on polishing the product or left it as it is, not contaminating it with trash that just gets in the way.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-23 07:20:08+00:00
This is what I mostly want. I want to keep track of things and when I have half done the work I want to note that and split the to-do and things like that. I want to say things to notes and have it write it down like me. I use Reminders app with my wife and use LLM to manage it. This would make me end up using Notion for personal life perhaps, but it has to be good. Problem with first-party agent is that I'm stuck with garbage agent because either:

* they have decided to "have our own model" (always garbage model)

* they have decided to "collaborate with X" (and this model rapidly gets outdated)
by atbvu | 2025-09-23 07:20:37+00:00
This kind of laptop bag is understated and practical, and it's fine if you're only carrying a laptop. But once you add things like a charger, cables, or a mouse, the lack of compartments becomes a real issue. Everything gets jumbled together, which not only makes it messy but also risks scratching your laptop. The practicality takes a hit.
by yekanchi | 2025-09-23 07:20:44+00:00
the people are not fundamentally far from their government. this is true for U.S where they elected Donald Trump or Israel that elected Netanyahu.

for Iranians it's the same. and it's ground truth.

the sanctions actually are designed to push the people of Iran to change their mind and overthrow their gov. it's easier than starting a full-blown war against Iranian that will cause damage or kill U.S soldiers' lives. the sanctions are deliberately implemented to target the people and force them to follow the will of the whom established them.
by teekert | 2025-09-23 07:20:58+00:00
It's a shame indeed. I've been a long, long time Linux user and just trained myself to always power off (although I feel that in the old days this was less of an issue? Can that be? Just install ACPI-tools or something?), feels more tidy anyway. But yeah that's what it does to you to always grab a laptop that either has 0 battery or is cooking, from a backpack.

On the other hand, yesterday my sons Windows Laptop (we keep an open mind in this family + school requires it) was also cooking in his backpack so there is that...

How are System76 laptops in this regards? You'd think somehow because of the hardware control they should have this down? At least when sticking to Po#@Po!s!.

Ah well, you can see that the money is on the server part when it comes to Linux ;)
by raincole | 2025-09-23 07:21:21+00:00
> is there any reason to use Notion if you don't need the collaboration features

I assume the alternative here is Obsidian.

It does have features that Obsidian doesn't have (like better URL preview). But it's mostly UI stuff. If you literally just want to manage some .md notes I'd say there isn't a reason to use Notion.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-23 07:22:46+00:00
Fyi capacity announced is very far from the real capacity when dealing with renewables. It's like saying that you bought a Ferrari so now you can drive at 300km/h on the road all of the time.

In mid latitudes, 1 GW of solar power produces around 5.5 GWh/day. So the "real" equivalent is a 0.23 GW gas or nuclear plant (even lower when accounting for storage losses).

But "China installed 63 GW-equivalent" of solar power is a bit less interesting, so we go for the fake figures ;-)
by IshKebab | 2025-09-23 07:23:07+00:00
> the active administration is chosen by like a third of the voting population

Not really. The number of people who might change their minds and thus swing the result either way is indeed small. But it isn't accurate to say they are the ones that choose.

The people in guaranteed states/counties still choose; it's just that almost always choose the same answer.

But even that doesn't mean they can be ignored. They can be ignored at voting time, but before that political parties have to take them into account. They basically determine where the centre is. For example they are the reason the American centre is so much further right than the UK centre.

If you took American parties and held an election of them in the UK you would find that all those reliably conservative counties who you would say don't have any effect on the result are suddenly not so supportive of the right-wing option.

FPTP is still dumb and frustrating though.
by izacus | 2025-09-23 07:23:18+00:00
I wish it would be this simple.

In most cases your kernel will tell you it's "locked down" and refuse to hibernate. In my case - on a cutting edge kernel no less with Fedora - it refused to believe that the default disk encryption setup with Swap on encrypted LVM actually is encrypted and locked me out.

Linux security bros followed Apple and others here and refused to add any ability for us to configure or tell kernel that it's wrong about that and to fscking allow resume.

This stuff just works out of the box on both macOS and even the mess that is Windows.
by matthewsinclair | 2025-09-23 07:24:09+00:00
As an infrequent user of iMovie (and a past user of Xcode), I think that iMovie really gives Xcode a run for its money in bad UX. How that app got out of the lab like that is profoundly beyond my understanding. It’s not just bugs as such, but actively user-hostile as though a team of people really worked hard with the goal to make the most infuriatingly inconsistent and unintuitive app imaginable.
by indrora | 2025-09-23 07:26:21+00:00
The kinds of folks I've worked with who have served time vary from place to place, but I'll give you a good rundown of some of the flavors I worked with when I did daylabor work in college and high school...

* People charged with something stupid (e.g. shoplifting) that turned into a larger problem (e.g. crossing state lines) which became an even larger problem (e.g. nonviolent, passive drug charges). One guy I worked with had lived on one side of the river in St. Lois but worked on the other side. Walmart decided that he'd "shoplifted" a $2 bottle of soda, legally he fled the state by going home, and his kid had hid a gram of weed in the shoebox by the door that nobody opened except of course the cops that flooded the house. He served 10 years after a plea deal that sunk his kid into juvie for 5 years.

* People who "did a crime" to prevent a crime. Another person I worked with shot his son 5 times in the chest after his son attempted to murder the wife. Because the only testimony they had was an asian woman who didn't speak great english and the court denied an interpreter for her native language (laoatian) because she "speaks good enough english", her description of the events was murky (having been asleep) and so he landed murder charges and a stint in prison.

* People who got racism'd into prison: Same work as the previous, the older latino guy in this group was framed for the death of a woman he spent the evening with; he had left after they hooked up and she ended up falling off the balcony of her apartment later on, but because time of death is like, +/- a few hours when it snows on top of you, he was the last one to see her. He spent 4 years in prison before he was released on a mistrial.

* Drug users of the nonviolent variety. Nose candy, heroin, weed, usually white collar or upper blue collar. Several folks like this, all who just wanted their past to be shoveled behind them.

* People who legitimately did a crime, did the time, and now they're out: Plenty of situations where legit crimes happened... Theft, assault, even a case of money laundering on occasion. They went in, did their time, and came out, and day labor was the one thing that didn't ask too many questions and paid regularly.

A fair number had degrees -- from associates and bachelor's degrees to even a PhD who was nailed for what the state called a "gambling ring" (some informal betting around the office that ended up snowballing into a massive pot). many of them could do remote work of some kind, be it customer support roles or tech work. The MBA that did nose candy? He stayed on the board of directors for a local nonprofit _while serving_ and would relay his comments through his lawyer, being entirely upfront as to why he was incarcerated, then ended up doing accounting for the day labor company after a while.

All this to say: our system is fucked up and needs rehabilitation systems for the murky area between those two extremes.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-23 07:27:38+00:00
The week before Black Monday in 1987 I was not too confident any more, and by Friday I knew we were screwed.

I didn't really get that feeling from stock market data, mainly general perception of everything else.

I wasn't even keeping up with the price of my stocks very often, I knew they were doing fine.

The most pessimistic bears thought the worst was coming as always, if it failed to make a new high and began a retreat it was thought that could be as bad as a 5% to 10% drop over a few months. Finding a bottom about like it was when nobody was worried at all. But I was not one of them. There weren't that many bearish with strong convictions either and overall sentiment was still way positive.

I decided to sell everything anyway, but it was too late. By Monday morning first thing, it could not be executed because I was only an individual account, not a high-roller, and those had highest priority. It just got too crowded too fast and dropped over 20% before the day was over.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-23 07:28:35+00:00
Obviously, this is very personal and YMMV, but:

They're some of the most engrossing games I've ever played.

Factorio is the only game I ever started a session with a friend at 9pm on a work night saying "just a couple of hours" and ended up playing until 5am.

They have this kind of bad side that they almost feel productive, too, where you redesign/rebuild something and fix a problem you had and suddenly the hours spent feel like you did something worthwhile.

I find them very fun and not at all boring. I almost entire solo them but playing multiplayer with good friends who want to play productively, they're even better.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-23 07:28:51+00:00
> debt has been repaid

I know people say this, but I think this framing likely generates anti-prison arguments because it basically doesn’t make any sense. How does being in a cage for X years repay society? It doesn’t. It does keep the harmful person away from society though, which is a very different and useful thing (in many cases, obviously imprisonment for some crimes is dumb).
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-23 07:28:56+00:00
> You have to write everything in a header file and then in an implementation file.

No you don't. You write your guaranteed to the public interface into the header file. When you start to put code in there it stops being a header file.

> because your headers will #include some library that is immense and then every header that includes that header will have transitive header dependencies

Your approach is what leads to this problem. Your header files should be tiny and only composed of, well, headers. Also almost all header files should have include guards, so including more then once should be a no-op.[1] Nothing stops you from including implementation files.

[1] When you say that your or compiler doesn't have that optimization: When it has the complexity to support precompiled header files, it can also implement this optimization.
by bakugo | 2025-09-23 07:30:14+00:00
> I still need to find a person who managed to change their political stance after seeing something similar.

The intent was never to change your political stance. It's just plain old hate. Armchair political activists are always looking for "morally correct" excuses to be racist and xenophobic, and "your government did a mean thing so you as a citizen are responsible" is one of their favorites.
by thomascountz | 2025-09-23 07:31:31+00:00
I find this comment quite ironic and can't tell if it's a commentary on the themes from the piece.

If it's not, once you've read the summary, take a moment to decide whether you think the original might be worth reading for yourself.

I, for one, liked the narrative style and found the story enjoyable. I did not read it only for the information.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-23 07:32:06+00:00
> I think a big part of it, historically, is that this control scheme provides negative feedback

> Think about the inertia of the pilot and their limbs inside the plane, acting on the controls. A sudden acceleration/jerk in the direction of the control signal will bias the operator's body to input the opposite control signal unless they are tensed up and prepared to maintain it in spite of the forces they experience.

That is completely backwards, sorry.

If the nose pitches up suddenly, the pilot tends to fall backwards, downhill. If the pilot holds the yoke like a handle, he commands further pitch up, which causes him to fall backwards more... The opposite is also true: a sudden pitch down causes an unrestrained pilot to fall forward onto the controls, commanding further pitch down, and so on.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-23 07:32:07+00:00
> Understand that C++ compilers by default have no idea where most things are

C, C++ compilers by default expect libraries to be installed in the correct place, which would mean that you don't need to specify flags at all.

Also nothing stops you from writing:

#include </home/john/../../opt/my/stupid/path/last-project/final/finalv2/work/symlink-somewhere-else/foo/quick-test/school/c-tutorial/v9/1-introduction/header-file.h>
by omnimus | 2025-09-23 07:32:25+00:00
It is fascinating how quickly US got on the Putin path. Trump seems to run the same Putin playbook. For example Russia also had max terms in a row - so this was removed in 2020 before elections (this will happen if Trump is still alive). Yes Russia still has elections but the fanaticized public + vote faking resulted in Puting having 88%.
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-23 07:33:41+00:00
> A good question is why an app that worked fine over a decade ago apparently still costs $800k per year to support

This is what I would like to know. Granted, Google makes it hard to be an app developer these days with constant requirements to update things just to stay compatible and compliant with all their requirements. But still - $800k a year is like 4 full time well paid staff. And that was their loss, so add all the revenue to that.

The real answer of course, is they aren't just maintaining the app as is, they are trying to push all sorts of new features into it and this is what's costing them. But why should previous users be paying for that?
by schiffern | 2025-09-23 07:33:44+00:00
OP uses a laptop sleeve[0] so scratching isn't a worry.

Some people are "pocket for everything" organizers and some just aren't. I throw it all together anyway, and at least this has a modicum of stealth and misdirection. Nice to have extra space to chuck in a few things, too.

For a hacker community (original definition) many seem to dislike actual hacks...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45338980
by mcv | 2025-09-23 07:34:50+00:00
Funny thing is that the article gives an example where "last write wins" is quite clearly a bad solution.

Balance = 100 A: balance = 120 B: balance = 80

Clearly, these are transactions, and it doesn't matter in which order they're applied, but it does matter that they're both executed. End balance should be 100, not 80 or 120.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-23 07:34:54+00:00
It doesn't have to, that is an implementation detail or OS specific feature.

Two scenarios where the definition of a function in C changes, are dynamic libraries on OSes that allow reloading the same library multiple times, or self-rewriting code.

Here you stay within the realms of a compiled language implementation, where what happens, is only expecified by compiler specific features, or OS capabilities handling executables and dynamic libraries.