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Ask HN: Developers, how do you automate your email workflows?
I am working on a project that involves me sending emails to check-in with the users to make sure they have everything they need. This is in addition to sending engagement emails few times a year. To make life a little bit easier, I have been researching email automation tools like Drip, Mailchimp etc. While these tools are great, they are fairly expensive for my usage and have way too many features.

For now, I was able to solve my problem by writing a custom solution that sends bulk emails using AWS SES. However, this got me wondering what a productized email automation tool for developers would look like?

So, if you are a developer working on small projects, what are your email automation needs? How do you solve them today?
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Yep, it looks like GPT-3 might not be too far from achieving artificial schizophrenia.
Don't do this. The suckers are removed with a couple swings of a machete...
My guess is that, if not for something else, Amazon and others are left with no choice other than to prepare for the worst now (or yesterday, actually), since there seems to be no progress on the rules for not-so-future EU/UK trade.
In the US there is a good, quick test to determine if a gun range is 'up to snuff'. Such tests are very important, as you don't want to be shooting with wackos or idiots. It tests the range master and their discipline and attentiveness to range users too. It's also important that it's a quick test, so you know to get out of there fast. If the test is failed, you leave and never come back. The test is as such:

Go up to the firing line, turn around, and look for any bullet holes/marks.

I've found all but two ranges of 15 near me that pass this test.
> not what the “no downsides, only considerable upsides” crowd expected.

Oh no, most of them expected this sort of thing. They just stated otherwise to persuade the rubes.
If it matters to you: athens research is an open source alternative

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Maybe I have a weird sense of humour, but all the answers to the nonsensical questions are a lot like something I would answer if I got asked those ( I'm not a bot btw ;))
what we need psychologically to survive is not the same as what is really there. Qualia is a bullshit word like trying to say there is a difference between the numeral '1' and the word 'one'. I do not dispute the fact that we are better people when we recognize that there are intelligences/forces greater than us. Presuming that our current science is 'good enough' reminds me of the time when a prominent physicist said that 'all that remains is to add decimal points of precision to our measurements'.
I actually use GIMP for taking notes and save as both an xcf and pdf. GIMP is basically a simplified and free Photoshop. I can doodle concepts that can't be explained clearly with text alone unless I do a bunch of formatting and ASCII art.
>CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS.

Truly ahead of it's time.
Out of curiosity how old are you?
I am Black. I'm not ignoring the other Black people posting, I'm just letting the audience know they don't speak for all of us. We are not a monolith.

I don't particularly care about blacklist/whitelist (as there's a clearer connection to light) but a lot of the defenses against even considering that change sound racist as fuck to me -- there's lots of people who explicitly argue the status quo is OK and that it couldn't be worth any changes here.

Master/slave, however, does bother me. It's led to one too many conversations where people need to, or so, say things like "the slave isn't keeping up with the master" or "the master should detect that and kill the slave" or "we should add more slaves" and those words are grating to me. I don't want to say them, and if a coworker is saying them sometimes I'm not sure if they're enjoying getting to use those words a little too much.

I also want to add, none of this is as important to me as meaningful reparations for slavery and institutionalized racism. But the fact that other things are more important doesn't mean this isn't important. If I meet someone who is in a position to significantly advance reparations or rename these tech terms, I'll be talking with them about the former, not the latter. But most people are not in a position to move the needle on both of these issues.
To be honest, personally I had no idea it was generated until the author said so at the end.

Makes me worry about my own reading comprehension, but I think what happened was that since it was posted on HN and got upvoted a lot, I simply assumed that anything that I didn't understand was not the writer's fault, but mine.

For instance, it was unclear from the post what the bitcoinforum experiment was about, but I just dismissed it as me not being attentive enough while reading.

At one point GPT-3 writes: "The forum also has many people I don’t like. I expect them to be disproportionately excited by the possibility of having a new poster that appears to be intelligent and relevant." Why would people he doesn't like be paricularly excited about a new intelligent poster? Again I just assumed that I missed the author's point, not that it was nonsensical.

Twice it refers to tables or screenshots that are not included, but it seemed like an innocent mistake. "When I post to the forum as myself, people frequently mention that they think I must be a bot to be able to post so quickly" seemed like another simple mistake, meaning to say that when he posted as GPT-3, people thought he was being too quick.

This is like a written Rorschach test, when I'm convinced that what I'm reading must make sense, then I'll guess at the author's intent and force it to make sense, forgiving a lot of mistakes or inconsistencies.
Ian Murdock( his name ) & his wife name debra ...debian. (wkipedia)

docker Inc ....Not sure if its coincidence...he was working for Docker Inc. (Ian Murdock...last four letters "dock" docker inc.)... However very sad ending..another gem lost de excessive poiice harassment....like aaron.
I've been using Google Keep for temporary things, e.g. grocery lists or ideas I'll need to expand upon later; and I use notebooks to brainstorm/document my ideas as I actually go in depth. This is what works for me for software engineering and my general life.
Coming from an academic background where I need to reference theorems and equations frequently, I've found pandoc and madoko closest to usable. But plain LaTeX (with the help of macros) turns out to be more convenient.
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Simplenote for the win.
Used it for 4 years, absolutely no fuzz.

https://simplenote.com/
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I agree with your analysis, and that of the original article, but I don't see it as a problem to be fixed. Companies have an incentive to provide a predictable cash flow to share holders, genuine innovation is often too risky for that. But that's fine, that's why we have start-ups with a different risk profile to do that instead.

Most attempts I've seen about fixing that by creating a "startup culture" inside a company have not really added more value compared to simply investing that money in a start up.
Amazon warns users of overheating risks with Alexa powered Echo Buds
Let me take a look, I was not kidding. I recall some mainstream media coverage in the last decade.

edit: Can't seem to find it which is a shame. I think it may have been included in a TED talk.
I think this post almost touches on an interesting point - note taking apps & software are also competing against pen and paper, which are many ways stronger.

As a product for example, Moleskine (arguably the brand leader) most recently reports nearly EUR 175M in sales - nearly double that of Evernote, and you have many good alternatives in any stationer for just a few dollars.
You can use GNUs and Emacs to easily automate your emailing solutions without needing to write much at all.
Affirmative, use the best tools for your context, especially when those tools were used to destroy the natural system that used to be there. (My land was filled with stone and gravel with 4-6 inches of soil ontop using machines...)

Use any means nessasary to move the current system into one that will self-renew and self replicate.

That's permaculture. Set into motion a permanent self-renewing system!
The idea of a Turing test as being a conversation is too restrictive. A real turing test would be if a machine could manipulate someone. Getting a person to do something.

That is what defines a human, the ability to make tools out of other things and even other people.
I used both.

If I'm learning I will write notes with a pencil and paper (pencil over pen every time). This means I have to think more about what I'm writing and for me is more flexible. I use an A4 squared pad with an index at the front, each page is split similar to the Cornell note taking system which is good for summarising and adding tags for quickly finding information. My notes are scribbled and messy. I will then transcribe these onto a computer using text files and folders for structure. You can't beat text files. As a front end for this I use Zim Desktop Wiki. Cross platform, portable, and easy to use with a simple markup syntax. It offers many excellent features, including a journal, tasks, diagrams, spell checking, interlinking, back links, searching, tags, images, tables, version control, and many others. Drop the notes into Dropbox and you have syncing.

If the worse comes and Zim disappears it's all just text files and folders. Pandoc can convert Zim to markdown or whatever you like.

For other quick notes I use a reporters jotter. I will transcribe them onto the computer if they are important. But generally these notes are throw away.
I just tried Notable the other day, realized how slow and jittery the app and animations were and quickly moved on. I really wish electron would die already, it’s ruining good apps imo.
He knows it's sarcastic, he said it's a cartoonish portrayal of brexit voters
Radical!
The point of these protests is that you do not need to do any crime in order to be murdered or go to jail. Not to mention that certain crimes are victimless (just look at turing).
As a liberal/progressive/democrat in today's society, you're pro-labor, therefore pro-union, right? When do you make an exception?

I see a parallel with our healthcare system. Undoubtedly, though things are bad and getting worse, capitalism kinda' works. But in the U.S., healthcare is a failed market and that's not going to change. Time to start over. Same with police unions.
I agree with y'all there is magic when writing on paper. When you're actually writing. That's why Sony's DPT-RP1 (DPT-S1, DPT-CP1) feel like magic and future for note taking the only downside is the price and the availability of replacements pen tips. While there is, of course, a lot that could be improved, I was moved by the core idea itself, virtually infinite notebook. Imagine how much different your experience through schools and life would be of all of your notes from elementary school until now we're always in one place, always available to you. So much potential...
Makes me quite excited for the future.
(There are of course other 'digital paper' devices (remarkable, ...), but DPT-S1 was my first love, although we never got to meet, I did, for a week, own DPT-RP1 before I returned it to Amazon, because at the time I couldn't afford a ~700-900€ device)
It’s not everyone. It’s those whom the economy had rendered unnecessary for its continued growth and functioning.

Keynes’ argument is that it would be better for the economy, in aggregate, to put these people to some end using government spending, ideally a productive one (his example, building homes for people) then remove them from the loop.
Are any of the well-known grandmasters computer programmers?
There are other options, trying joining an IRC channel for your favorite progamming languages. There will be lots of discussion to be had.
That sounds like what we would call glucose syrup which is readily available in Europe. I was thinking of high-fructose corn syrup.
I get that these aren't for everyone, but I'd rather have too many choices than not enough. Finding the precise tool that does exactly what one needs is a challenge even with the number of note-taking apps out there.

In my case, I've recently switched to using Trilium Notes which ALMOST meets my needs, but I still need OneNote as well for sketch-based notes for the time being.
In the 70s the US went off of the gold standard after Charles Degaulle started to repatriate his gold back to France, thinking the US did not have the gold reserves to back all their obligations. It was not clear at the time if truly floating the dollar would work at all and severe inflation was a huge systemic risk.

In general this is not what I would consider a refusal to print money:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1REAL
The city of Morgan Hill, CA is actually named after the rancher in the area, not the hill that’s in the city limits. That’s called El Toro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Hill%2C_California
I haven’t commented on that either way, mainly because I have no idea what you’re talking about.
What a beautiful thing is your website. I haven't felt this joy opening a page in ages.
Apple dictation works offline - at least with the latest models. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208343
Interesting stuff could be found in 'The Best of 2600'.

Knuth's books are considered classic. They are pricey though.

Maybe as a variation on this, you can find a Raspberry Pi project to try every week and discuss what variations/improvements each person did to the process.
Ha yes fair point! I mainly wanted to indicate that it's used more than people think. It's the backbone of telecom
If you would’ve read the whole NPR article, you would’ve realized that the “snowshoe-netter” is relatively new theory and does not suddenly remove the racist connotations the word itself used to have.
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Does it have e2e encryption? This is more or less a requirement nowadays for me.
Would miniature spurs and reins work on a beetle?
Notes on iOS/OSX/iPad is the only one I use. Plenty of formatting and media features, search (and from spotlight) sync between devices, sharing/collab, and on iPad I can hand-write and it will transcribe and index my handwriting.

Nothing else has come close for me and it’s free.
> As a European I hope UK will want to rejoin the EU.

As a European living in the UK, no mate, you really don't want these folks to rejoin. Their class system is pathological and their mass-media are fundamentally corrupt. I say this against my best interests, but England in particular should never be allowed back in. They made their bed and they should lie in it.
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That might be technically correct, but that's not how I've ever used the terms. I've always considered calves to be baby cows, with the term cow broadly applying to all cattle, not just adult cattle.
I guess having 'kit' cars is also a no go. Here in the US, you can buy a chassis and body and all the parts to make a car as part of a kit. Putting it together is below the ability of most Americans but not all. I imagine uzbekis are the same, where there are some really proficient people who happen to be farmers or something else.
The decomposition of the federation into appropriately sized cantons, which are decomposed into appropriately sized municipalities seems key here. At some point, the community level must be reached for all parties to feel they are being treated fairly. The Jurassic example shows this.

Implementing popular and legislative referendums at the federal level of the United States is a pipe dream. The powers that be have too tight a grip to relax it any. What is feasible in America today, especially in the more progressive cities like New York, is for the local city council to modify the constitution of the city and cede some its power to the people through the referendum mechanism. This would be popular and politically feasible.
The primary disadvantage of handwriting notes for me is a total lack of search functionality.
This idea of turning a program into a database and using prolog/dalalog on it is not new.

The most successful example is Semmle (bought by Github), which has been doing it for years now, with a SQL-like syntax for requests (named ".QL").
>Qualia is a bullshit word like trying to say there is a difference between the numeral '1' and the word 'one'

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. Are you saying that sense data is the same as the subjective experience of it?
“every identifier should have been strictly nouns or verbs and nothing else”

Totally agree. TBH I don’t think the authors’ enthusiasm, while admirable, is quite matched by their knowledge and experience. A bit more up-front learning could probably save them disappearing down some obviously wrong paths.

As you say, they should focus on verbs and nouns, and getting those to machine-translate precisely. Nailing that would be a big deal just in itself. If they later want to experiment with adding prepositions to make code read “more naturally”, make the system add those on a per-language basis according to per-language rules laid down by native-language speakers.

Thus in English the method signature might present as `animate(from: source, to: target)`, because that’s what English readers expect and like. But that doesn’t mean that `from` and `to` should be translated to every other language, because that’s just an exercise in cutesy-clever nonsense, burying what is significant under what is not, and software already suffers from more than enough of that.
Bridgestone.
The use of “quoted words” is strong evidence of GPT. It’s very fond of that rhetorical technique.
Only if you define intelligence tautologically as "this one innate attribute that makes you smart".
I used to use Simplenote, but after I lost some changes due to a glitch in their system, I decided to switch to something safer. Now I'm just using a Google Doc.
Mikhail Botvinnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik
Did you try v1.8.4 or one of the alphas of v1.9? (https://github.com/notable/notable-experimental/releases)

In either case can you provide some steps that would help me reproduce the slowness you experienced?

And you should blame that entirely on me, Electron doesn't really have much to do with this.
Ohio State University gives all incoming freshman an iPad and Apple Pencil [1]. I can say with confidence it works amazingly well for taking notes in a classroom setting and for doing homework. Copy-paste comes in handy for things like large math problems of course.

However, I don't like using it for work/personal projects. Still trying to figure out why.

[1] https://digitalflagship.osu.edu/students/technology
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This article is inane to me. Someone decided to write a lengthy blog post on the deliberate and obvious misinterpretation of a meme.

DevOps and Observability are well described disciplines. I don't know anyone who has uttered the meme "I don't always test, but when I do, I test in production" who meant that monitoring, observing and reviewing prod behavior is bad. They invariably meant that they were rushed to release things in prod before it was adequately verified to ensure your customers don't have crappy experiences.
Given the stance of the UK government, customs procedures likely will take longer and/or get more expensive next year.

It’s unlikely none of that cost will end up at consumers.
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Be wary of anything that claims a 100% sensitivity and specificity. It usually indicates the wrong gold standard or poor methods.
This is exactly how they were able to figure out the NSA’s Reality Winner leaked sensitive data.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/how-a...
It'd be more noticeable if Chinese imports were curbed
It’s on iCloud.
I am not sure that's the same.

Children answer nonsensically to normal questions, but if you ask a nonsensical question they are more likely to go "uh?" than to answer with logically built follow-up nonsense.
CEO of deepmind, was one of the best in UK for his age. He played when he was very young
ClosureBox: Send a message to anyone, vent with no consequence
I don’t get any value out of whatever weird victory you’re claiming I’m aiming for. I posed the analogy because I’m curious how people here view different kinds of tracking, and at this point I’m not happy, I’m sad that this thread became a weird attack on my intentions rather than an actual discussion.
Nearly $12 million dollars in compute based on public cloud GPU/TPU cost models (200x the price of GPT-2)"

Oh! So only about $1 million on bare metal.
This is a tool I made for myself to vent out, you basically write out a message to anybody. it doesn't go to them and the site doesn't store any of your data, and its helpful if you're somebody who had a ton to say and didn't say it all.
I do some frontend web dev and all my tech notes from >2 years ago is heavily outdated.
Another way to ask this: how does hugelkultur logs/material compare with a similar volume/mass/cost of other material e.g. traditional soil.

My guess is it does pretty well: traditional soil struggles to retain water, which can be scarce and even when it's plentiful water is difficult to optimize for high density gardens, especially urban gardens.

If I understand the hugelkultur design, the sod/straw layer keeps the berm from eroding.
> I'm not a bot btw

Prove it
Ask HN: What are some side hustles for Software Developers?
I'm soon to start a family with my fiance and been thinking a lot about my income. I work in NYC where rent is high. I'm making 70k a year as a Software Developer. I'm grateful to have a job during this economic downturn.

But I wonder what are some side hustles I can do to make some money on the side? I was thinking about doing Instacart, but I have software engineer skills why not use those?

Are there any side hustles you recommend on doing?
I took a different approach than the author.

I just found a notes app that worked and stuck with it and stopped worrying about the options. I still get all the advantages of digital notes.
The problem with that is, judging by our own behavior, an unknown ancient structure makes humans investigate it, try to dig it up, etc. Placing a marker isn't the problem, the hard part is communicating "nothing interesting, only death here, do not enter" in a way that someone in 10.000 years will heed the warning.
I don't know anything about it other than what is in those two links.
Tesla is plowing all their profits into R&D, and is well on the way to eliminating conventional car companies, dealership networks, power generation and transmission networks, the entire roofing industry, and will not stop there. Assuming they acquire spacex, they’re likely to own a big chunk of telecommunications, and mining operations moving forward. There’s also the Boring Company, which could take a big chunk of tunnel construction.

They’re also doing more to help the environment than any other corporation (and probably government) on earth.

But, yeah, their quarterly profits kind of suck.
I've heard you can use local voice recognition by long-pressing the dictation button.
Which would have the knock-on effect of making EU food competitive in the UK but UK food non-competitive in the EU. Basically, making UK food industries less competitive.
Unfortunately, that sounds like the kind of place that would immediately show up in the Lonely Planet, and tourists would flock to the place to "experience the unique intellectual atmosphere and charm of this quaint one-of-a-kind science cafe." It wouldn't be long before the intellectuals start to prefer the Starbucks across the street.
Thanks!!! for sharing this. My proper plants also love their pots but I didn't realize soil could be risky for them.