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> We’re charging $100/year, comparable to other prosumer tools like Dropbox, Evernote...

Well Evernote has a free tier and past that it’s really <$50 per year - plus there is currently an additional 40% off, so I think your competitor pricing research might be a little off.

I mean if you are really comparing against Evernote it’s really free for a similar service, and offer multi-device sync between mobile and their desktop app as a service, so I would say the Evernote free tier is the most comparable even though I like the look of your product.

This is a $19.99 app or $2.99 per month subscription to compete with things like notability.
A video game. A week ago there was a HN post on ct.js[0], and that's when I discovered pixi.js. I suppose I could have also used phaser.js, but pixi is more minimal and I liked the idea of developing a custom engine for my game idea (apart from the rendering bits).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176655
I haven't used Snapchat, but I've heard it has a lot of features like that. I wonder if it's a UX trend that's creeping into places it doesn't belong.
> though probably insignificant compared to what China does to western companies.

It's certainly not espionage. And we're not brain draining away top talent with above-market, state-funded pay (anticompetitive, but nice to the workers that get offers -- something maybe we should do).

While we're not being nearly as imposing as China has with US companies, we need to be careful. Tesla, Starbucks, Apple, and a whole host of other American companies are making quite a lot of money in China. If we escalate, we might expect the same treatment.

I think the safer play is to decentralize the supply chain by re-outsourcing to Vietnam, India, Mexico, and Africa in the near term, then re-onshore with automation in the long term.

We should also try to duplicate the whole One Belt thing. It'd give us allies, influence, and hedge our risks.
Another 1.006M Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
This would work great if every state and city government was competent and good at disaster relief. In general they're not, and FEMA already rely too much on having competent local government that they can co-operate with - in particular, I get the distinct impression that a lot of the disaster relief problems in Puerto Rico which were blamed on FEMA and the federal government were actually the result of the local government being completely and utterly useless (infamously so, even).
They covered all the world. But there's no word about translations? Sending documents to random people in English is kinda pointless (if not self-serving)... and may spook some people.

I was kind of expecting they were selecting on device location to make sure the recipient can understand the message.
If L is 1 pixel, then L/2 would be 0.5 pixels.
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Absent legislation, I'm all for a "nuke it all" approach when it comes to ad-blocking and tracker-blocking. It won't catch everything, especially platform-level privacy concerns like this, but it does move good usable defaults over to the user's control. No need to rely on companies who continue to fail to act in good faith.
Where is the builtin git tooling for showing side by side diff with proper syntax and different parts highlighting, and make it possible to turn my review comments back to the "bottom-posting" style text emails interleaved with the inline diff everyone on the mailing list strongly insisting? I'm sorry but I'm a stupid noob and my eye is not able to parse codes without syntax highlighting.
> It really shouldn’t be the FEMAs job to weigh disasters based on political impact; that’s not their mandate. Their job is to help with disasters, and with hurricanes being so common they should focus their efforts there.

And the moment a terrorist act happens that FEMA is unprepared for because they prioritized hurricanes, everyone at FEMA will be replaced with those that do prioritize terrorist attacks because at the end of the day people will demand that.

You can't just blame those in power when the general populace will demand the same decision.
Does this mean roboprinting will be a thing soon? Will my printer start printing off ads for cruises and extended auto warranties?
I didn't want to noise up the comments, but the first thing I noticed is that the site worked fine even with uBlock Origin turned on. That's a rare sight! Compliments from me too.
https://i-kh.net/2020/08/26/the-magic-of-ion-channels/
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I was just about to post a snide comment "Well not every coastal citizen needs to worry about them at least up to now. Seattle doesn't have...". But darn Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Pacific_Northwest_hurri...
You can also disable it but if you want to keep snappy windows you have to do it through a regedit since the two features are not independent for some imo stupid reason.
That's fantastic!

That could be a real hard-to-source build stall.
We believe privacy is important for creativity, so all content is stored 100% on-device. No cloud, although we plan to add some sharing/collaboration features later on. As much as possible we'll use local-first principles on that, which might not surprise you since I'm a coauthor on the local-first paper. https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

Subscription fatigue, yeah, I know. Hoping to write an article about this in our industry, but the reality is that this is what's sustainable for a small team that wants to avoid venture funding (and eventual acquisition "incredible journey" stuff) or monetizing by selling your personal data.
One thing I didn't see mentioned in the article is that Congress usually approves emergency funding after a major hurricane, which can be used to rebuild to prepare for the next hurricane.
I'm less concerned with the article than this strange idea that someone on a bike not seeing a thing ... means something relative to all the other information we have.
I think shippers like Amazon pay relatively high rates to USPS, so they are higher on the priority list.

It's the heavily-discounted "slow" shipping like medicine that is having trouble right now.
All of this is lifted from from https://www.ottoaviation.com/ which seems geared for investors.
try to write ETL in rust
We'll be stuck in this recession for years, economists say
Come on, I know that you hate the idea of facing your cognative dissonance, but there are different things.

When was the last time you met someone who didn't have an email account? And you can set up an email address on any of dozens of email providers, and use them to communicate with any of the rest. I can't sign up on GitLab and use that account to post on GitHub.
It's a witty reply, but it essentially boils down to "just be less poor." Is this really the argument you want to make?
SMTP is not just OLD, it is genuinely BAD
Hey MS I am scheduling an upgrade for some of your cloud services sometimes next week. Expect some slow down in your data centers throughput across several regions in the US and whatever happens, dont reboot the servers. How that feels eh?
I'm going to go on a limb here, and I don't mean to be pushy, but flatly, I think you'll sell more through on the subscription side if you have good touchpad support.

I hate entering text without a keyboard. I have an iPad stand that allows me to collapse quickly between hands-on tablet and keyboard/touchpad in less than a second. I love the drawing aspects, and I don't mind doing certain 'quick' things in a hands on way, I totally see where its an advantage. However, if I'm input text beyond a few lines, its to the keyboard and trackpad. If I'm organizing a large volume of things, its keyboard and trackpad. Its just faster.

There is a reason that Apple gave in after all these years and added a touchpad.

What bugs me about this answer is you assume to know whats best for interacting with the device (not the app, which should follow device and platform norms)

to reiterate, following the customs of the platform will always be better than expecting users to break out of those customs. Yes, gestures and hands on interaction are a custom, but now we have customs around keyboard and trackpad too. They deserve equal weight and this really should be a priority. I'm really shocked you launched without this consideration. This tells me you don't understand the Pro market as well as you think you do, and for $100 USD a year, you should really be positioning yourself in a way that says "Pros, we understand you, and you need Pro tools. We see the iPad as a Pro tool. We see iPadOS as a tremendous platform for Pro Tools. So we made Muse, with first class and best in class support for iPadOS and its Pro features"

This doesn't say that to me. Feels like you didn't consider it. I am surprisingly passionate about this, so I apologize in advance if this is harsh.
Awesome! Any idea when relative links will be available in rustdoc? Seems like it's just on the edge of stabilizing (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/74430) but I'm curious how long it takes to see in a release after this happens.
It doesn't last though.

Without doing the math with dates, do you intuitively remember what administration was in power during 9/11? How about Katrina? Benghazi? Hurricane Andrew?
How can a visual scan have good accuracy if they're measuring body fat? The band is only a microphone that analyzes your voice? A smart weight scale may not be novel, but it works and works well.

This product makes just as much sense as the Alexa glasses... which I don't understand either. Why have a microphone & speaker embedded in eye glasses where everyone can hear the response, when you can do the same thing for ear buds. The bigger surprise was that the glasses didn't show you anything visual.

Amazon just needs to have another try at a smartphone again instead of strange experiments like this and the glasses.
Got a new android phone (i think it was huawei), couldnt answer calls. I was thinking I as always has to press or slide the green phone icon, but actually had to move the center grey icon on the green phone icon.
Glad to see `Option::zip` stabilized. I tend to write such a helper in many of my projects to collect optional variables together when they're coupled. Really improves the ergonomics doing more railroad-style programming.
So far your only justification for this has been that your employer has a shitty firewall.
Really putting the "scholar" in scholarship I see.
I have never paid for DropBox in my life, I don't pay for OneNote's cloud syncing, and I use them both every day.

I'm surprised the people involved in the company didn't see the price tag as a potential super turn off to customers. I'm the target demographic for this product, saw the price; gave a chuckle, and I'm a little curious as to how it made front page at that cost.

Never heard of Roam, but Dropbox and Evernote are old, established; brands and if I was to pay around the same amount of money anyway, I'd obviously go for Dropbox, something that's been around a while. Google Drive also offers a lot of space for free, and Docs sync is great.

A lower price is an excellent way to break in to a new market, and I'm not sure why the developers of this app didn't go for that. I like to support new developers, so this is a shame.
That's a reasonable objection. Muse does have a free tier also.

Notability is a great app, but it's a sketchbook so not really a comparison.
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Microsoft... because they want more clients for Azure (bonus: more ads business)

Oracle... Similar to Microsoft but reversed - they probably want the Ads/Data first

Walmart... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seems like they've got the security UX down and into a convenient form factor, with a customer list whose judgment I would trust, and I'm going to assume their implementations are sound and free of issues.

As a security product guy who says, "for all security products, the threat model defines the business model," I have to ask, what's the threat model for this product?
Same here; the YKs on my keychain take an incredible amount of abuse, rubbing against keys and other objects all day long, for years, and I've never had any trouble. Contacts don't show appreciable wear (and they've had thousands of insertions).

One thing I'd really, really like is for a way to distinguish multiple YKs. The things are so durable that they won't take a permanent marker, and I've had to gouge identifiers on them, clip off corners and so forth.
This is a useful distinction, but it this misses what's actually hard about "hard work." The risk of failure is only 20% of the issue.

What's central is the fact that do hard work well, you need to temporarily tear apart the solution-forming systems that have served you adequately so far -- and put them back together in a different way. In the midst of this, there's genuine discomfort and nausea. Even if you know you'll eventually get it right, having everything in pieces on the floor is very jarring.

Finding your way through a lot of missteps, near misses and roadblocks takes a special sort of perseverance. I've done this long enough in my work that I get mordant joy from tracking the misses. Versions 2, 2A, 2B and 2C were dead-ends. It's on to Versions 3, 3A, etc.

Usually version 4E or so gets the job done. And it's elegant and I'm happy again. I had one epic struggle that went into the 7s. I ended up cracking it in a borrowed lab in Arizona, because the usual settings in NYC and CT were not getting me there.

Being patient and persistent at times like that is hard.
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If the users are making a choice, then opting in would not be a problem. It’s informed consent, so they are aware of what they are giving away for the service, right? Nothing like companies helping themselves without the users even knowing the monetary value of what they are giving away.

In other words: if your demand is legitimate, you have no reason to whine about opt in.
Interesting topic, but this post is a bit light on the details. There's a more in-depth explanation and code here https://kur0sec.org/print
Ahhh.. of course. Good point.
I stand by my criticism there. Systems programming is not a hierarchical thing, anyone can do it without stepping on anyone else's toes. Just build something. You can give people the power without taking it from anywhere. Is software dev political? Sure. But "Redistribute" as in "redistribute systems programming power" doesn't make sense. If you mean you want to redistribute decision making power with respect to linux kernel development or something specific like that, that's entirely different.
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Our democracy is evolved not designed by a politician. So it might not make sense if your not interested in pragmatic solutions.

The queen is NOT involved in the running of state. The affairs of state are managed for her.

She’s is reminded of this every opening of parliament when the door is slammed shut in the face of her representative, Black Rod.

This bargain has been the basis of a stable and democratic form of government for 371 years.

I see no advantage in having an elected “figure head” for head of state if they wield no power.
In the case of Yubikey's OpenPGP smartcard emulation, you can generate the key on a computer, write it to the Yubikey, then do whatever kinds of backups of the keys you like. If the Yubikey is destroyed or lost, you can buy a new one and write the key to it from a backup.

If I recall correctly, writing the key is an OpenPGP smartcard feature, so it should work on any hardware key that supports acting as an OpenPGP smartcard.
That's a weird argument. Linus wrote git to be his tool for developing the Linux kernel. Every single thing about the Linux kernel workflow is what git was designed to be used with.
It's not the combinations, it's the tasteful application of oversampling, waveshape control, and distortion.

Moog's iPad apps and the new UAD Minimoog both sound pretty good, so there's no practical reason why DSP synthesis should sound bad.

The only thing preventing that being used here is the complexity of the models and the fact they tend to be proprietary. Supercollider, Max, Csound, PD, and ChucK all use the simplest possible public domain models, and even the best of the simple models aren't good enough to generate sounds with the production values you'll hear in a commercial recording.

Generally the computer music community doesn't pay attention to production values at all. They're happy with a workable basic implementation of $effect or $synthesis_element, and they lose interest in the rest.

That's partly because DSP with high production values takes a long time and work. There's a story that gets told about the TC Electronic 6000 system, which has a gold standard reverb you'll hear in most movies [1] - which is that it was the work of a team of more than ten people working for years.

It's not hard to hack together a basic reverb algo from public sources. But it is not going to sound that good.

[1] You know the ambient piano sound some movies have in their scores? That. If you want to buy that reverb the hardware costs nearly $17,000.
There can be fuzziness here depending on exactly when it lands, but generally, if something lands in nightly, it'll be in stable two releases after the current stable.
> if enough extreme environmentalists share the same thought, then there will be no more extreme environmentalists.

Are you suggesting that being an "extreme environmentalist" is an inherited characteristic? Presumably not, because that would be ... eccentric, so what are you suggesting?

> social pressure, if not force

In most developed countries the population is falling or would be falling if it weren't for immigration, and currently that's with a fair amount of government support for human reproduction. If most people agreed that the population should be reduced and government policy were to reflect that opinion then I think the population would continue to fall without the need for anything the slightest bit chilling or oppressive.

However, a minority political or religious movement could interfere with that.
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> support for peripherals and common communication/presentation software is really lacking

Well if peripherals vendor and "common communication/presentation software" didn't test on Linux, whose drawback is it now?
That being said, I have used the following without any trouble on Linux: Slack, Discord, Teamviewer, Zoom, BBB and BlueJeans. Vendors don't put enough investment into testing for Linux due to comparatively low usage numbers - but that doesn't mean that it is a "drawback" of the OS.

As for hardware, as Vinnl explains above the way to go is buy certified hardware. Ubuntu and Red Hat folks certify a bunch of Dell and Lenovo laptops to work with Linux. I use Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13 and I don't need to do ANY extra setup. Things just work (TM) - including my Sennheiser and Jabra headphones.
Stated another way; Many (but not all) people who live in the path of hurricanes need more support from FEMA.
This is just not true, most companies try to make customers to come back, even if all they can do is put their logo and website on the packaging.
A year, wow--that's the very earliest beta we made available. It was pretty rough back then, so thanks for sticking with it!
As this is WebAssembly couldn't you just share some in browser demo where users form a huge compute clusters over WebRTC on their own web browsers? Add in browser REPL and you rock.
Both are collapse theories [1][2], but presumably not identical being that the author is aware of Penrose's work and credits Penrose earlier in the article for some terminology as well as acknowledging his influence on the theory in the following footnote form the article:

> 6. In this, we have been strongly influenced by considerations in this regard made over 3 decades ago by works such as Penrose, R. Time asymmetry and quantum gravity. In Isham, C.J., Penrose, R., & Sciama, D.W. (Eds.) Quantum Gravity II (1981); Wald, R.M. Quantum gravity and time reversibility. Physical Review D 21, 2742 (1980).

The first footnote tells us that the author is referring to GWR theory [3] specifically (which is distinct from Penrose's):

> 1. Ghirardi, G.C., Rimini, A., & Weber, T. Unified dynamics for microscopic and macroscopic systems. Physical Review D 34, 470-491 (1986); Pearle, P. Combining stochastic dynamical state-vector reduction with spontaneous localization. Physical Review A 39, 2277-2289 (1989); for a relatively recent review see Bassi, A. & Ghirardi, G. Dynamical reduction models. Physics Reports 379, 257-426 (2003).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-collapse_theory

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi%E2%80%93Rimini%E2%80%...
I recently got a GergoPlex and it's so fun to be able to actually reprogram the keyboard itself.

In fact, I got so addicted to keybindings that I tweaked the chording engine to make chords QMK-layer-dependent. The ability to do "modal chords" is just great.

Anyway, thank you for making these things -- I may never have heard of QMK if it wasn't for your boards!
there was a concern with an attack on communication, the method was to transmit many copies of kruft to a fax machine during the weekend so that a business would miss important correspondence because...the fax machine was out of paper
As someone who only knows Git, needing to work on an open source project where you had no choice but to use Mercurial was a massive pain. I don't remember what happened exactly but coming from Git I managed to accidentally make a change somewhere but later needed to pull the latest changes and couldn't figure out the equivalent of rebasing and, when I got fed up with that, hard resetting for an hour. In the end I gave up and used git-hg to fork the repository, losing the ability to merge upstream, because I wanted to get things done and did not want the requirement to learn an entirely new VCS just for this one repository to hold me back.

But that's coming from me, who doesn't understand how Mercurial is supposed to be used. I felt happy when BitBucket announced they were sunsetting Mercurial, because of the miserable experience I had with that one single time and the fact that it would mean that all of the repository owners who forced you to learn Mercurial to contribute to their code would have no choice but to switch their repos to Git. But because I don't know any better I guess I don't understand what was being lost fully by losing Mercurial.
We're not a startup.
Back when search bars were table view headers, you had to do non-trivial work to hide them by default (which Apple did anyways, because Apple). With iOS 11 search controllers can integrate directly into the navigation bar, and in that case the search bar will be collapsed by default.
This is awesome! This reminds me of MinBLEP audio synthesis of discontinuous functions (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/papers/icmc01-hardsync.pdf). Instead of doing things at high sampling rate and explicitly filtering, generate the band-limited version directly.

In the article, talking about smoothstep approximation of sinc: "I'd argue the smoothstep version looks better" Why would this be? I would have thought the theoretically correct sinc version would look nicer.