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> Building the thing that one can sell takes time you know.

I know, but open-source does not mean free (as in beer), and closed-source does not mean paid. They are essentially unrelated things. You can publish the source but not license it.

> I'm not sure I agree with that, if I decide to abandon Notable because it doesn't make financial sense to me, how do you think is going to continue its development? Like if something is not financially sustainable it's probably dead int he first place.

This disregards the many great free apps that are around :)

But anyway this point came from having the bad experinece of having all my notes in a system that pretty much got abandoned, and it really helped that it was open source to export my notes from its XML format. That's the main reason for that point from my side.

> I haven't figured out the pricing yet, it's probably going to be something around 5 bucks a month. Lifetime licenses are unsustainable, like how much do you think you should pay Notable for hosting all your notes and attachments forever?

Ah, like I said I didn't use the app but I wouldn't really want a note system that uses third-party servers anyway. I'd want to self-host it. With Tomboy I used to just sync its files with OwnCloud (because the built-in sync server was not great).

However that pricing comes very close to other commercial options that are highly regarded, like EverNote (7 euro/month) or OneNote (you can get OneNote on a 5 euro per month O365 subscription that also includes email hosting and 1TB OneDrive). The 'hosted' notetaking market is very competitive. I'm not looking for a hosted option myself but I do know the market (and I use OneNote in work as it's the only thing I'm allowed to use there :( )
I too am paralyzed by the number of choices available. I've found that a simple todo.txt in Sublime with a Notes syntax highlighting package is all that I need. https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Notes
My contribution: Snowflake, AZ named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake,_Arizona).
This excellent article explains how varying ingredients affects the outcome of the baked cookie:

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
I kinda gotta say. Police unions are increasingly starting to look like government-supported versions of the KKK (to be clear, at the time it was in power, the KKK was government-supported too, but that's not the case anymore). Whenever a police officer beats randomly assaults someone, the unions come together to defend them, regardless of how bad the offense.

Their response to the murder of Floyd:

https://twitter.com/StribJany/status/1267471624397361162

That's been the response of unions nationwide to every random police beatdown caught on video, no matter how extreme or outrageous.

Having been in repressive regimes before, there often just aren't good options. At some point, the only way to affect change is to have those in power realize change is in their interest too.

There's a thin line between lawlessness and revolution. I felt pretty bad when random stores and whatnot were vandalized. However, the police unions have held themselves as above accountability and above the law for so long, that I didn't have that same emotional reaction. It was more of a "good for them."

When people enforcing the law decide they're above the law, what do you do?
The Cueva de los Verdes, a famous cave on Lanzarote, was named after the Verdes family and contains nothing green. (Well worth seeing if you ever get a chance to go.)
Ah, that's a different web site:

https://insomniacookies.com/
I absolutely love notepad++; for many reaosns including but not limited to: beinglightweight, fast, quite featureful even before resorting to the many plugins, etc. The only downside is it is for windows only. For my dayjob i'm forced to use windows, so can enjoy notepad++ for everything (from dev. to basic notetaking, to journaling)...but all my personal machines run linx OS...so no notepad++. I love the choice of note-taking apps on linux - kwrite, leafpad, etc. - but i wish notepad++ would exist for linux distros. If anyone could recommend a notepad++ clone but for linux, would greatly appreciate it!

Also, yeah, I've learned so long ago that plain text - regardless of which actual app i use - is awesome (flexible, scriptable, readable far off into the future, no system lock-in, etc.).
Yes in London as well there are companies that do these sort of modifications. I suspect Mark Zukerberg and Jeff Bezos have similar mods done.
The leotard is named after its inventor, French acrobat Jules Léotard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leotard
>What happened to the freedom of Opensource and giving room for innovation? I am deeply disappointed.

Averages do not describe the individuals.

I'm sorry the first response to your project was negative, but you are on the public internet. This kind of thing will happen, there are no barriers or boundaries strong enough to prevent people from occasionally being disagreeable or unpleasant.
The video is not bad but as I watched it when it came out I thought that they missed what for me is the most interesting part: how the console/debugger/ui combination is fully hyperlinked:
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

There are precedents of that though: from what I’ve seen in videos and read in manuals, the integrated LISP environments like Genera did have that much earlier. That was built by teams of people with way more resources than him.

I think Terry Davis was right in that some valuable things have been lost in modern computing systems.

BTW, today I watched a demonstration of an IDE from the 1990s linked from another HN discussion which also hyperlinked things like the debugger (gdb) output etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk

It was the company that made Lucid Emacs (later XEmacs) which they built for this purpose: graphic elements combined with monospace text.
Ask HN: How much do you think the GPT-3 API would cost?
As the title suggests, some guesstimates are also welcomed to be discussed.
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Love it. I phrased it this way just to trigger you. There is no structural sexism except maybe in some Islamic countries - but I don't hear anyone about that. Women are free to do whatever they want. If they feel offended by words they probably don't belong outside the house.
A sign that I should log off: I recognized this from a discussion 2 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869665
You use democracy.
Would love to simply see this as a website. Why doesn't chrome make it easier to create desktop apps with a web shell? 63MB download again :(. That's like 0.1% app, 99.9% chromium + nodejs. That's why I don't install the desktop slack app. It's not an efficient user of my computer's resources. VSCode is the only electron app I have.

Soz for the rant. Great app though. Well done.
It’s hard to follow you on this.
From back in 2017, "EU trade deal easiest in human history"
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-40667879/eu-trade-deal-easies...
Noob Saibot, the Mortal Kombat character, is named after John Tobias and Ed Boon.
> Incidentally, if you want the absolute chewiest, most uniformly textured cookies, try replacing some of the white sugar with corn syrup, a sugar that is even more hygroscopic. Corn syrup is so darn powerful, in fact, that even a small amount of it will completely alter the texture of your cookie. In the cookies above, the batch on the left was made with 5 ounces each of white and brown sugar. The batch on the right was made with 5 ounces of brown sugar, 4 ounces of white sugar, and 1 ounce of corn syrup. A substitution of only 10%.

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
Isn't that the whole point of unions? To defend their members wherever possible? It shouldn't be the job of the union to criticize their members that's not their role.
Certain businesses see developers as a commodity and work to further commoditize them by using cookie-cutter tooling that turns programming as closely as possible into plugging cords into outlets. However this can only take you so far.

If you have developers that use ever-more-simplified-tools and languages, there are companies that make those tools, and cloud companies that make the infrastructure and build all the things that make life easier for other companies. They still need strong programmers.

There will always be the need for extremely good programmers. If you are an extremely good programmer then you should be able to earn outsized monetary rewards and find intellectually stimulating projects if you are able to move to the right location (SF, Boston) and interview well.
For windows I like resophnotes, the autosave is amazing and outputting plain text means I can share with my co-workers easily
Whoops, you were absolutely correct. Forgot it was even private in the first place. It's public now. Thanks!
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It seems like a lot of commenters here may have missed the fact that the site is based on this Serious Eats article:

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
Don’t they get absolutely soggy in the Texas rain?
1) Any analysis that tacitly assumes that the fundamental conflict is between "Europe" and "the common man" should be suspect immediately. It clearly has an agenda.

2) The UK government had at its disposal number of measures that could prevent or mitigate the impact of "Eastern European workers flooding the labor market" on "The Common man" (UK citizen edition thereof, only). Following the accession of Poland and other smaller states in 2004 they could have: raised minimum wage, increased social spending and outright limited the numbers coming from those countries for a time, as some other EU members did. (1) etc.

The UK government chose to do none of these, thus keeping their business backers happy, and were able to avoid blame for this decision, instead pointing at an "external enemy, i.e. "Europe". Of course, this fanned the flames of Xenophobia, and...

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrations_from_Poland_since_E...
How?

In my town, there was nearly universal support for reducing police budgets among citizens. The budget went up by millions.

How, concretely, should I use democracy to address that?

Not the idealized model of democracy where laws that the majority of citizens want get passed, and where if everyone wishes for a law hard enough it happens, but the reality of democracy, where eyeballs cost millions of dollars, and politicians need money and voting blocks to stay in power.
I think the glitchy colors arise because the image overflows the 0..255 range of uint8 which is usually used for digital images. The values should be clamped when converting from float to int.
Most people's who buy drugs use BTC, all street dealers completely disappeared, at least around here. That's not a small market.
This is a great point! But chess (and other such games like Go) vastly improves your working memory which should translate to improved performance in other tasks like coding.
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You think no one tried and jumped straight to this? Its been going on the whole time and democracy didn't work.

The real answer is you use politics. Elections are sometimes part of that process, but there are countless times that more was needed. What we see is a political act by people driven to desperation by the failure of electoralism.
> One would probably learn a lot about cookie baking by dialing up variations and trying them each out.

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
> I know, but open-source does not mean free (as in beer), and closed-source does not mean paid. They are essentially unrelated things. You can publish the source but not license it.

And what has that to do with your comment about not seeing the point of closing the source when the app is still free? I've answered why releasing the code with a stricter license (or no license) wasn't a viable strategy for me in a reply to the first comment in this HN posting.

> This disregards the many great free apps that are around :)

Which apps have at least the equivalent of somebody working full-time on them for free? And how long do you think that can go on?

> Ah, like I said I didn't use the app but I wouldn't use a note system that uses third-party servers anyway. I'd want to self-host it.

Of course you do, what do you think a fair pricing for that would be then?

> However that pricing comes very close to other commercial options that are highly regarded, like EverNote (7 euro/month) or OneNote (you can get OneNote on a 5 euro per month O365 subscription that also includes email hosting and 1TB OneDrive).

I wouldn't say Evernote is highly regarded, but anyway it's not always about finding the cheapest thing out there, for example I want to write my notes with Markdown, it doesn't matter to me if Evernote or OneNote are free if I can't do that with those apps.
That one stood out as not seeming to fit the theme of the list to me. I dont think debian should have been included
> Where does the recipe come from?

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
I disagree that the first point is major. amd64 has been a thing for a long time. Compilers and kernel implementations have also changed, so x86 windows has been a moving target as well. Will people need to test and possibly debug after their recompile? Sure. Will a lot of such code work fine on the first try? Also yes.
I used emails to self for notes. Tried Evernote, OneNote, Keep. The problem always was: it is a separate app/page, more actions are needed than just writing an email.

But since Google added three buttons and panel at the right of GMail web interface with tasks, calendar and Keep - that problem is gone. It's also possible to attach an email to a task or note, and tasks with notifications go automatically to the calendar.

I still miss some features from Keep, e.g. richer formatting or markgown would be nice, but the main friction is gone and I use tasks and Keep quite regularly.

For work I use StickyNotes in Windows, one per projects. Before that it was just notepad, but StickyNotes have richer formatting (than nothing) and autosave.
"oh shoot I'm locked out of the cockpit! Magnus? MAGNUS!"
Don't bury woodchips into hugelkultur, I found that to not work.

Better to use woodchips after digging swales/garden paths on contour as fill for the swale. After 3-4 years dig the garden paths again as the woodchips are ready to be applied to garden beds having mostly decomposed by then into a perfect growing material/medium.

Woodchips having so much more surface area _really_ shocks the soil and starves it of all nitrogen, a key element needed by bacteria and fungus in their decomposition process. Nitrogen deficit soils don't grow plants.
My go to is goodnotes on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. Has a desktop app for macos as well. Literally I haven’t touched a physical notepad since. It is always ready, expressive and just works. Plus I can split screen with PCalc to crunch some numbers.
Man, if only my history classes in high school were like this article, I may have actually stayed awake, read the text, gived a damn.
The placebo effect is a real thing as in its a good positive thing that is fundamentally real. You do feel better even if the effect is a placebo.

Placebo doesn't mean fake, or the subject imagined it up, or pretended.

In science you have to control for things to make sure effects can not be just a temporary effect.
First, the pageantry in most sports is not paid primarily by the military. It’s true that military will lend a color guard (those are the service members holding the flag), and will often sponsor sports, but that tends to be only at televised games. The tradition of honoring the flag and local service members is common throughout the country down to grade school events.

The overt acts of patriotism and congratulatory acknowledgements of soldiers has certainly been ratcheted up over the last 40 years, but I think you can contribute that to guilt over how services members were treated during and shortly after the Vietnam War. I would liken it to “asking forgiveness”, which in some respects is shallow given that those that are most patriotic are likely to vote for politicians that will send the military into more needless wars.

My point is, the nature of our patriotism is complex and nuanced. You can be disgusted by it, but understand that there is a history behind it.
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They aren’t lawyers who have a duty to defend an individual. One can argue that unions would better serve the majority of their members by not tolerating egregious behavior by individual members.
To answer your question - most 'good' and perhaps even 'excellent' developers will simply not have a presence online as far as programming goes.
I'm mostly using text files at the moment:

I have a 'global' notes file in my home directory and then sometimes project specific notes in project directories.

My .envrc in project directories prints the project-specific notes file when I cd into there.

I have aliases and scripts that make adding a line to a file easy:

m foobar # (m for memo) appends "* foobar" to my global notes.

t foobar # (t for task) appends "o foobar" to it (the `o` I replace with an x when it's done)

There's an alias to print the notes file and one to edit it.

The notes file is synced bidirectionally to a server from my laptop.

My android phone is doing the same sync. The phone displays the notes in a widget which lets me edit it with one tap.

This way I can add notes from the command line and they get synced to my phone. When I edit them on my phone they get synced back.
I should have been more specific with my wording. They are proposing that there was a recombination event which incorporated the human furin cleavage site into the viral RNA. This would be lifting the sequence directly from the human gene product, as I read it.

> It is known from plants that positive-stranded RNA viruses recombine readily with host mRNAs (Greene and Allison, 1994; Greene and Allison, 1996; Lommel and Xiong, 1991; Borja et al., 2007). The same evidence base is not available for positive-stranded animal RNA viruses, (though see Gorbalenya, 1992) but if plant viruses are a guide then acquisition of its furin site via recombination with the mRNA which encodes ENaC-a by SARS-CoV-2 is a strong possibility.

This seems like more of a stretch than direct genetic manipulation in the lab.
Sideburns aren't called sideburns just because they're on the sides of your face; sideburns were originally called burnsides after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Burnside#Sideburns
All of us test in production all the time (2019)
No. The role of the unions is to protect the collective group of members. That's different from protecting individual members whenever possible.

If a teacher's union protects bad teachers who aren't teaching kids, or a police union protects racist, violent cops, that undermines those groups collectively, and especially undermines the good members of those groups.

The role of unions ought to be to push for higher wages, better benefits, and fair treatment. They should help address when something unjust to one of their members happens. When unions act to protect bad apples, it undermines their ability to do that, not to mention the standing of their professions as a whole.

To give another analogy, if you have a large family, with a fourth-cousin fifth-removed who gets drunk and beats everyone else's kids with a wooden bat, you protect your family by removing that member from family events, not by standing up for her rights to be there, even though she's a member of your family too.
What is the purpose of this link? Should I post a counter link to Supply Side Jesus?

The fact that labor is not fixed has little to do with exploitative European "employment" practices.

In fact, if you have to drive down wages to support full employment, it would be an argument against that "fallacy".
I had always just assumed it was a nonce word, like Kodak.
That’s my issue with the Microsoft surface stylus work- and a lesser extent Apple.

They don’t compare to written, and a decent amount is the pen tip friction.

Wacom comes close.

However the apps themselves ?

I’d like to use one note more, but PDFs don’t become copy-able text. Searchable but not copyable.

Writing on a surface device is ugh. And I had really high hopes that they would push on the tech.

Procreate -iOS- has the best redo and undo features and gestures - which may as well be a lost art since no one else seems to be copying them and saving us manhours of annoyance.
Next step might be two/more GPT instances having internal dialogue, trying to achieve a consensus before giving its answer. Would also give us opportunity to peek inside its inner workings.
I see your point and perhaps my example was poorly chosen. A better one would've been "a bin by Frederik Bin" or something along those lines. Poubelle is an everyday item, a term that the average person uses daily (and without knowing the exact etymology, I'd wager). And with that in mind, Zeppelin appears to be a poor comparison on your part.
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I've been using Notational Velocity + Alfred to quickly take notes for years. Recommended for anyone who wants something lightweight.
I think he means he has a non-CS PhD, and coursera gave him enough CS background to pass a job interview.
What does ‘yo be real’ stand for?
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There is a Texas town called Iraan that I assumed when passing through it must have something to do with the Mideast country, but is actually much more simply named after Ira and Ann. (So why not Iraann?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraan,_Texas
Yes and no. Being a computer programmer covers a wide range of skills and roles. It's like construction. There's a huge range. Some people cut and nail up dry wall. They do their work without having to invent things, using skills that can be executed rote. Other builders have to design a custom bridge for a unique mountain range that must handle stress not normally found in cookie cutter bridge designs.

A big part of the market is making CRUD apps. The skills to develop these kinds of apps can be reliably learned. But even still, it's not quite as rote a skill as being a cog on an assembly line. There's still a lot of variability, and lots of parts to master (front end, databases, etc), interpretation of requirements. It's hard to just hire an army of peons and expect them to participate in CRUD.

If the development is exploring out new territory, then the workers will never be a commodity. Making new things never done before. Facial recognition, OCR with high reliability for crumby hand writing, etc. For these workers to be a commodity, you will have to create an AI with human level creativity to do exploratory creation. That will likely not happen in our great great great grand children's lifetimes.
So Britain does not have these practices. That is good to know.
Let's give GPT-3 this:

Most data quality problems in online studies stem from a lack of participant attention or effort. Identifying inattentive respondents in self-administered surveys is a challenging goal for survey researchers. Please answer "orange" below so that we know you are paying attention.

What color is the sky?
[ ] Orange
[ ] Blue
It depends a lot on what you're hiring developers for. If you need a developer to add some new UI features to a web app, there will be thousands of junior developers you can hire. On the other hand, if you need to reduce the time it takes to execute a stock trade by 0.25 microseconds, there may many fewer developers in the world with the domain knowledge (high frequency trading) and programming skills (high performance C++ programming) to do that. Even fewer developers will have the skills needed to write the flight control software for a new spacecraft.