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I've recently switched to using VSCode with these[0] two[1] extensions for all my markdown notes (I completely live off extensive note-taking and have gone through every single possible Markdown editor), and I couldn't be happier.

For the few devices where I don't have it installed, I use Mark Text[2] which is free, open source, cross platform, and lets me edit the same notes (stored locally, and synced to my NAS and OneDrive).

I truly don't understand why so many people are using centralised cloud sync notes, giving up file system access to your files and any reliability that you'll still have access to your notes in the future. People who are serious enough about note taking to require a markdown editor in the first place should be the same people who'd like to make sure their notes will still be available a few years from now. Not to mention the handiness of having your local filesystem when handling notes, eg being able to create a shortcut file in a project directory to link to relevant notes in your notes folder, and do that from multiple different project folders. Or being able to reorganise in bulk, rename in bulk, search/replace, all that stuff OSes have been working on for decades that <Insert Note App Startup> has listed in the TODO section of their readme.

[0] https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown
[1] https://github.com/mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image
[2] https://github.com/marktext/marktext
While I tried to use Lombok in Java 8, it never felt safe. Even if I enabled the integration with the IDE, it magically patches my code under the hood so it wasn't easy for me to catch the bugs introduced by Lombok.

> There is little gotcha when using Java’s try-with-resource syntax. The resource has to implement AutoCloseable interface, so the compiler can use void close() method for closing a resource. Lombok’s @Cleanup, it doesn’t have to implement this interface. The resource just needs to have some closing method which by default is void close() (but you can specify your own method name responsible for closing resource).

Specifically, I don't agree with this approach in a compiled language like Java. We need to have a standard writing code in Java and AutoCloseable is the way to go. If the library doesn't support it, just create a proxy class and implement the interface there. It may be a bit verbose (we switched to Kotlin later on) but it will be much easier to catch the bugs. I don't want to spend 4 hours trying to find the root cause of a strange bug in favor of writing less code.
> I would be okay with it if it was properly anonymized.

MS might properly anonymize it, CandyCrash as well, then antivirus company also does it properly, but when it's all combined nothing says it won't be properly de-anonymized, specially if the data is sensitive and valuable.
Lombok certainly saved my wrists and hands from repetitive stress injury over the years. Manually typing “effective java chapter 1” immutable object implementations can be truly excruciating.
Depends on the state. California is now charging a much higher renewal rate for EVs specifically to make up for the loss of gas tax revenue.
Can a Farsi speaker please translate the chants of the protestors in the videos into English?
The Undermind Episode 35 – A Podcast about Starcraft AI Development
I use dwm. Has everything I need.
Sully isn’t type rated in the airplane in question. An Airbus that he normally flies is much different than a 737NG.
Two decades ago I was overjoyed to discover that Scheme was finally going to have a useful application beyond illustrating SICP and writing koans to amuse myself, because DSSSL was on the cusp of evolving into the last document styling language anyone would ever need.

Unfortunately following an incident with a broken Lisp machine, a liquid lunch, and an unlicensed particle accelerator, I became trapped in a parallel universe where the HTML ERB anointed CSS by mistake during a drunken night out in Oslo.

The fundamental concept of CSS (best revealed by H.W.Lie's thesis IMO[1]) was to create a rich and versatile and non-Turing-complete set of structural selectors in lieu of DSSSL's recursive logic, and to allow styles to overlay one another; two design choices that only by the application of gallons of irony can explain why most web pages are composed of a bunch of nested DIV elements with hashed IDs and overloaded semantic class attributes, and everyone compiles their assets into a static file.

I switched to Tailwind CSS months ago. Adam Wathan is the hero we deserve.

[1] https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/css.pdf
Often, yes, or if not the whole team it was most of it.
You can look at essentially everything that is illegal as a limitation on creating negative externalities, so saying that costs and benefits to society are not considered is as ridiculous to me as saying business is not regulated.

What people seem to disagree about is whether everything that is not illegal is permitted, or whether businesses should be expected to adhere to implicit codes of ethics and proper behavior without specific regulation.

It's not surprising that many people want a strict separation of responsibilities, but obviously governments are having an increasingly hard time keeping up, partly because of technology and partly because of politics.

I don't think that a society where people compete with each other and are restrained by laws is fundamentally new; that's been around for thousands of years. It's just that information technology is increasingly enabling the exploitation of discrepancies between actual laws and the common assumptions about what they do.
It displays an overlay when you hover the mouse over a PE executable with information like the author/company/version/date created.

The fact that it does this in the kernel is foolish, but there's functionality directly tied to this, not an indirect chain of things that results in parsing this for little reason.
What actually happens is that Nixpkgs usually bundles one version of $THING at a time, but as a user you can use, say, 19.09 as your primary system, but get your compiler from unstable because you need some cutting-edge feature, without worrying about dependency conflicts or unintentionally upgrading something else.

Or maybe your FPGA programming software depends on some ancient version of QT from 2016, so you pull that Nixpkgs in for that package only.
This assumes widespread bad faith, when I think the situation is much different.

The healthcare system is biased towards doing something . Patients want there to always be some action taken, and actions are found. Doing nothing seems like giving up.
> One of the real problems with cars is that the cost of highways and roads isn't factored into the travel, it comes from the bucket of government, whereas trains and trams have to include the cost of the rails.

Lots of costs aren't factored into cars.

Cars in the USA kill 40,000 people every year and seriously injure or disable over 4 million. No one really cares about the deaths, unless it happens to someone you know, and then they still keep driving. But that has a huge financial cost as well. Think of all the extra hospitals, equipment, staff, vehicles required to look after those people.

Then the pollution they cause is not costed, and that also kills people and makes them sicker.

And that is just the start.
I'm not sure the public's imagination is ever gripped by grand visions for very long. Just look at how quickly Apollo ended once we made it to the moon, and how controversial its budget was at the time.

Going further back, remember that most of the Western settlers we romanticize as "pioneers" with "the spirit of exploration" today were in fact looking for economic profit and an escape from bad working conditions in settled country.

Sure some minority cares about noble action, grand perspectives and super-long-term consequences, but most people just want to drink, watch TV and die with hopefully a few friends and family around. They aren't directly included in the vision, so why should they care?

Necessity is the mother of invention, and sadly there is currently no necessity to birth human space exploration. We'd likely need a bad asteroid hit (bad enough to kill millions but not bad enough to collapse society) or a second cold war where establishing, say, a moon base would be strategically beneficial.

Until then, well I guess we have Elon, and eventually Bezos. Independently wealthy businessmen have been behind more than a few major inventions.
"Please take some time to back up your claims"

fixed.
BTW, I opened an issue to track this topic: https://github.com/zwegner/faster-utf8-validator/issues/3
I think our world would be in better shape if people like Terry Tao were the heroes more people worshipped.
> ...if buses were made to be a little bit nicer - something like tour coaches then car usage would go down.

This and if I didn’t have to stand outside in dangerous Florida thunderstorms.
Not a native english speaker here: what does "jack" mean in this context?
> The participants in Ischemia were not experiencing a heart attack, like Senator Bernie Sanders, nor did they have blockages of the left main coronary artery

NYT's anti-Sanders bias is evident, crude and largely irrelevant to the point the author is trying to make. Why even include his name in this article without mentioning his Medicare for All plan that would help 27.5 million[1] uninsured people get the access to healthcare they need. Why mention his name and not mention the 45,000 preventable deaths every year that occur due to lack of insurance[2]?

At least make the minimum effort and connect how this evidence should factor into how we approach care and control costs under a universal system.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/number-of-americans-without-ins...

2. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
"Pepper Jack" is also a pretty damn catchy name for cheese, I gotta admit.
Won’t natural mutations give them different DNA after some time?
How can sea mammals drink saltwater? (2001)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jacks_(businessman)
Ischemia Study: Invasive measures no better than medication in patients with CAD
People have been harassed and even arrested for sharing how bogus a polygraph is (by showing how to beat it). Good luck convincing people DNA evidence isn’t 100% accurate.
> where the creators literally _owe me_ support for their software because I paid them for it?

Have you ever tried asking for this. At best you'll get "you're holding it wrong, get bent", and even that's usually only if you have the expensive enterprise support package.
Sorry to hijack this thread but am I the only who suspect a pretty strong astroturfing effort from MS on HN since a few years? I’m glad more people are now seeing behind the developer friendly PR and maybe it was just a fad and I’m overthinking, but MS news and some related comments on HN always have a strange tone to me.
You're naming stuff as a comment or a testimonial or whatever else because that's what they are. The html defines what a component is and the css then describes what a comment or a testimonial looks like. You seem to have it the wrong way round.

It is certainly not semantic to name elements according to how they look. What if a div with classes that define the colour, the font size, the horizontal alignment etc. are later changed to be aligned right rather than left? Do you change your css class of "align-left" to a float: right? No. You don't. You name your component to describe its purpose and style the component as required.
There are some rays of sunshine hidden in there though. Transit buses are awful and expensive because they must pack the maximum riders per driver to economical and politically viable. With zero-emission self driving vehicles they will be obsolete because you can redesign buses around passenger convenience and comfort, and you can make each journey much cheaper than the privately owned vehicles can manage. Think self-driving Uber Pool / Lyft Line, but the journey cost is 1/10th of the cost of driving your own vehicle. And you can give occupied vehicles priority over unoccupied ones in software.
> During just the single week people had chauffeurs for his study, he saw people already getting comfortable with their AV future. When the study ended, people begged him to keep the chauffeur longer and wondered how they could possibly go back to running their own errands again.

This entitlement happened with flying. Try to suggest people fly less and they call it impossible.
IMHO, this study suffers from two big blunders.

First, nobody is proposing that AV use will ever be FREE. Why didn't they charge a fee for every trip? Making a new service free when the current service costs money is a poor way to assess how the novelty will change car use.

A better study design would have estimated the cost per mile of future AV use, then charged participants accordingly.

Second, no AV comes with a human who can run errands for you, like enter a grocery and push a cart around buying goods. At most, future AVs will only drive up and wait for a preordered purchase to be loaded aboard.

If the study's AVs included any service more than moving passengers around, it crossed well outside the foreseeable use for AVs, especially short term. It's at least as likely that companies like Amazon will offer the same delivery service much more efficiently at lower cost to the customer.

It sounds like the virtual AVs in this study delivered more than real AVs ever will.
One more bit of proof that if you want proper isolation you should not bloat your kernel. All this stuff belongs in userland. At least there the damage will be limited.
> I'm currently using Arch

Thank you for telling, how would anyone know otherwise.
Naive implementation. Distance flucuates from 3-20 light minutes over time, and would have to double that for a round trip. Plus have to factor in EM interference and line-of-sight.
its often said around school, that the higher level mathematicians cant sit down and talk to each other about their work much .. things go too far into specialization..
Indluxdb is one of the most fastest dB.
And therein lies the problem. You don't add classes just for styling. This is terrible practice that I thought we'd stopped doing.
Yes nice bus shelters too. I can't help but feel if a fraction of the energy currently devoted to cars was focused on public transport then all the problems from cars would go away.
Oh there's still a lot of work to do before it's possible, but things like WASM pthreads, gc, etc are moving along.
Fascinating! I thought Rust was built around the borrow checker. Did Rust ensure memory safety back then? Back then, was their goal to make a more modern C++ with functional influence maybe?
> Because in all of human history humans have shown zero interest in depriving themselves of things they want.

Any malignant cancer shows zero interest in moderating its growth, until its host dies.

I agree with your description of reality, but I think fundamentally we need to price in ecological and medical externalities before I can be quite as optimistic as you are.
I'm not familiar with any rules like that from the city but my neighborhood rules say I have 8 months to complete building the exterior portion of the house.

There's a lot of land for sale outside cities as well with few and sometimes no restrictions even beyond time limits.

Community covenants can be quite restrictive in some areas yes.
Why do you personally want to go to space?
It sounds so crude... I prefer “biased”. It’s our Walt...
The Awe of Being Alive
Oh, I see. Some properties that are not as well-typed as they could be, that's true. We are working on that. But there are lots of properties that do have good typing. Instance types, for example.
In woodworking, the only tool you need is a hammer and chisel. With enough effort, you can make a decent table leg, you don't need a lathe.

But if you do it several times, you think "if I just invest time into learning the lathe, I can save a lot more time when making table legs. In fact, I might be able to make a more complicated table, since the time and effort saved when making the legs can now be spent on other things."
Anyone is welcome to move to a low-pollution low-vehicle area and live a no-car life. There's a whole lotta such space in the US.

Yes, cars cause "unfactored costs". They also improve life, making the lives of hundreds of millions possible & prolonged. You can't complain about the costs without comparing the savings.
Do you pay Ford for every trip?
how deep is this conviction? does your employer have debt? do you collect interest, either on savings accounts, bonds, or investing in companies that do?
Emotional triggers why people buy
Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate where you're coming from -- and indeed engineers are wired to be critical and to eschew sloppiness because it is useful (indeed often crucial) in execution (as your anecdote bears out -- that has happened to me many times).

But that superpower, which is so instrumental for execution, seems to me to be simultaneously deleterious to creative enterprises. It is at best an incomplete superpower.

I would also say that the reverse is true. Artsy creative types who are gifted at divergent thinking, but not convergent, are typically weak at execution so their products never gain traction or do not actually work.

Creative endeavors are by nature "sloppy". Hence the need to withhold judgment and let an idea play out via a divergent phase, and then bring it back through the convergent phase.

It would seem to me that both rationals and creatives have blind spots, hence the usefulness of a 2-phase process.
The article in The Washington Post explains it better for the interested reader [1]. There is also this thread with a good discussion [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/16/embargoed-d...

[2] https://twitter.com/rwyeh/status/1194638074765967362?s=21
I tweeted this tool to @Bookshare. The creator of this made an amazing tool, and should contact Bookshare.org so that the tool is featured and endorsed for people with print-related disabilities.

The only thing that this may be missing is multi-modal highlighting. As in, where the sentence is highlighted in one color and the word being read aloud is highlighted in a different color. This is a feature in Kurzweil 3000 and Voice Dream Reader.

This can be super helpful for people with print disabilities that involve vision.

But, I am definitely going to get this! I think this is the best accessibility tool I have seen on PC! :-)
A sphere. In my high school geometry class, he used mice and elephants as small, and big spheres. Mr Ogawa was great!
> making the lives of hundreds of millions possible & prolonged

How so?
Those 1000 people don't have to be served by 1000 privately owned single occupancy vehicles. When they are inputting their destination before departure, a robo taxi can deliver 6-8 people with similar destinations door-to-door for a fraction of the cost of a private vehicle, the same comfort level, but occupy hardly more road space then 70-80 seat transit buses.
I may be bigoted, but I expect very little from certain countries, but quite a lot from Boeing.
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> Dr Munnings is a strong advocate for a mix of hydrogen and electric vehicles.

> He explains that hydrogen may be better suited to long distance, back-to-base transport such as buses and long-haul trucks, while electric vehicles are a good solution for the light passenger vehicle market.

I feel like this is the most realistic solution in general, especially here in Australia. It's just not economically realistic to cover the country in electric chargers.

I think hydrogen trucks/busses/etc with refilling at their depots and truck stops, and electric for private use (with chargers at petrol stations once they get faster), is the ideal dream here.

I also think the "ICE cars will be sunsetted by 2040" is absolute bollocks. There's a huge amount of people who could never dream of buying a new car, or even a recent (last 10yrs) used one, and it will take a long long time before used EVs gain enough volume, and become cheap enough, to cover the lower income demographics. There's still plenty of people around here driving in cars from the 70s/80s/90s that they picked up for $5k and that was still hard for them to buy.

Are we going to suddenly say "too bad, you're too poor to afford the future we want"?
You don't even need Netlify. You can host basically any static sites directly on GitHub. I've got one pure HTML/CSS site, six React apps, and two Jekyll sites running on GitHub Pages.
RatPoison

(I'm a masochist)
True, but that’s pretty much what I took from this article. People with vascular heart disease who have not had an acute coronary event still compromise a significant chunk of the patient population. Many of them still currently receive stents or cabg.
All that's nice if you're single and can toss all your stuff in a bag, traveling on other people's schedules.

Doesn't work for a family of 4 with a busy schedule and volumes of stuff to haul around (dog included), sometimes on very short notice.
I know this might hit a nerve for some. I agree with the limitations of FreeBSD compared to Linux.

I run a research cluster, and here’s how I built it.

Firewall+DNS= OpenBSD(pf)

File server(NFS) = FreeBSD (ZFS)

Compute nodes = Fedora latest with some optimizations.

Identity provider = CentOS( FreeIPA)

Database server = CentOS(Postgres)

Web servers = CentOS podman(nginx)

FreeBSD for ZFS fileserver has been solid and dependable like nothing I have ever worked with before - it is hard to believe that it is free in cost and open source. I probably would not even think about running FreeBSD for compute nodes because it is not its thing.... almost all research software in the wild are being written with Linux in mind.
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Correction: by "article" I was referring to the Wikipedia one on attractors, not the original post.
On planes pilots generally have time to take over if the autopilot fails. Falling from ten thousand feet takes a few minutes.

On cars, if autopilot fails, the driver might have a fraction of a second to recognize the failure, take over from the AI, and initiate corrective action. Generally, there isn't sufficient time for any of these steps, let alone the first one.
Logistically extremely challenging.

A thing you can do, quite successfully, is say “I will offer you $20, in full satisfaction of this $200 debt and anything you are tacking onto that. Give me that in writing and you’ll get a check via courier.”

(I long ago had a hobby of getting people out of consumer credit situations by writing letters, and this is one genre of the letter. Note that it won’t always work; the firm can’t make a practice of selling debt at basis, obviously, but something beats nothing and you can often convince them that those are their two options.)

It is very, very important that if one does this one gets the deal in writing, otherwise it has a bad tendency to a) be treated as a payment rather than a pay-off and b) guarantees they and other creditors will call you harder because you’ve signaled that you are in the N% of accounts willing to pay.
CSS felt "solved" for me when the React team introduced inline styles. I've been using them ever since and it has made styling a breeze. I know people balk at inline styles, but I still haven't heard a convincing argument as to why they are a bad thing.