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What stack should I use to build a notes app that syncs across devices
What stack should I use to build a notes app that syncs across devices

What databases do note applications use to keep their users notes synced across devices? The only option I keep bumping into is Pouchdb/couchdb but that takes me out of the AWS stack and introduces other issues and more costs

With so many note taking apps out there I thought there must be a solution or a template stack. Most resources are either for a chat app with websockets or for toy apps without cross device sync.
Opinion: Believe it or not, Bitcoin has become a good long-term investment
In general Java it's still messy because although you can make the value of a variable immutable, the innards of the object it's holding are still mutable. Such as appending to a list.

You have to go as far as Clojure does and create a whole new suite of truly immutable data containers, for full safety. I dunno if Kotlin goes this far. But yeah, it's the right way.
That's what Show HN is for and this item could easily be made into such.
It has also been an attribute of “left” politics since forever, by which I mean that one one might call “left” an “right” both had some very noticeable politicians that championed it.

But it is always effective sport to compare the moderate, reasonable parts of one's own “camp” with the fundamentalists and extremists of the other.

It's really quite simple: you see, masculinists are reasonable people who wish to simply discuss some of the hardships males face, but feminists are all gender Nazis that are utterly unreasonable, for look at these examples I drummed up! just so vice versā, of course.
Hi, I have to mention the latency will be if you use slow wifi, slow or old devices. Cheers
Another IMO slightly more promising alternative is COI, the Chat Over IMAP protocol. It aims to extend IMAP servers while staying compatible with normal ones.
https://github.com/coi-dev/ox-coi
Unfortunately, the development is on hold (?). I really like how they seem to plan on integrating normal email client functionality into it, something Delta Chat is also missing.
I have tried both and would not recommend either to non-technical users at all, but I think that is not the primary audience yet anyway.

The IM landscape is indeed in a bad shape currently. I hope Matrix will take the lead eventually. But not even Signal will help in that regard https://community.signalusers.org/t/make-signal-use-matrix-p...
And they don’t make real money, compared to the Apples, Facebooks and Googles of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding says they had about 10 billion in revenues, 2½ billion in net income for about 18 billion in assets, for about 14% return on investment.

That looks good, but they’re in a highly cyclical market; every recession, their sales more or less completely dry up, and those figures are for a good year.

That’s why I can understand why investors aren’t lining up to invest in that kind of company.
The amount of misinformation and lack of research in this article is very obvious from one example. The article mentions the below:

> Even as recently as 2015, El Faro, a cargo ship with 33 on board vanished in the area.

First of all, the word "vanished" makes it seem like there was no reason or cause to its "dissappearance". A quick Google search leads you to the Wikipedia article for the vessel[1].

It is quite obvious as to why the vessel "disappeared".

> She was lost at sea with all hands on October 1, 2015, after steaming into the center of Hurricane Joaquin.

Who could have thought that a ship steaming into the center of a hurricane might result in said ship not returning. More so, the US Coast Guard along with the US Navy conducted an extensive search They recovered debris and a damaged lifeboat, and spotted an unidentifiable body.

Former crew members also said that El Faro suffered from drainage issues and that leaking was common in the galley (kitchen) compartment. They said that the ship was covered in rust and her decks filled with holes as recently as August.

The US Navy also identified wreckage on October 31 consistent with the [El Faro] cargo ship in an upright position and in one piece. The Navy also announced a submersible had returned images that identified the wreck as El Faro.

So, we have a ship, that one, never "vanished", and two, was sunk for very obvious verifiable reasons, and three, was very much in a horrible shape prior to the voyage and took an un-necessary risk to sail in such conditions.

To the rest of the article, Bermuda Triangle has been shown repeatedly to be utterly un-extraordinary area with no specific interesting features that may cause an extraordinary number of crashes or sinkings. There is nothing special about it.

The fact that such articles are written that either are horribly researched i.e. can't even look up a Wikipedia page, or are lying on purpose shows you why the public's trust in media has eroded.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_El_Faro
Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera
> Many Fediverse users claim to be the “better and open-minded alternative to Twitter.” We think that this doesn’t reflect reality, as explained below.

I also had my problems with Mastodon and Pleroma users. Unfortunately, there are idiots everywhere and, while federation helps to some degree, separating left/right extremists, trans people and transphobic people, you can still be in an instance focused on anime, and get attacked because you use Mac/Windows instead of linux.
Yeah it's a fantastic example of technological developments far outpacing legislation
Utterly unsurprising. The idea that the military will accept having less freedom of action than a private company is absurd and was never going to last.

Honestly, I'm not sure why people care so much about the US government having access to this data while simultaneously not caring that any entity with a sufficiently large bank account can get it.

Maybe it's because so many of the people here work at the businesses that generate this data?
> What managers think

You're telling me that isn't satire?
That's TFR. More comprehensive definition available here: https://populationeducation.org/what-total-fertility-rate/

Replacement rate for TFR (so, the one that would result in stable population) is considered to be 2.1 by the UN.
> $1.5mil, assuming a 10 year life,

You don't perform a reconstruction after 10 years.

You need a reconstruction when you have done zero maintenance for 30 years. Or else if there are 1000 loaded lorries roaming on your street everyday :-)

Otherwise you can do with some (partial or full) resurfacing after 5/10 years. That's much much cheaper.
A letter writing campaign or endorsement from a powerful lobbying civil society group is more likely to get attention.
A very confused sexism.
Yeah, I guess if you like ethnic/religious division and a country full of chaos.
Its a great Q. As the leader of the group you would be the visionary and have outlined your aspiration to have your team on a unified code base. I would suggest you involve the team in a brain storming session(s) to discuss the stacks and what the pros/cons of each base are for each of them and as a collective, continue to probe each individual and then propose your opinion that 'sound like we would be a lot more productive/efficient working on a single code base' and lead that conversation into the one that majority agree on. But this may take a couple of sessions depending on how irritated some individuals get by the idea of 'letting go' of their preferred base. Goodluck.
Seems to me like you should be paid for the job you’re now doing, rather than the one you’re not doing.
I didn't know about that. It seems like there is much less public attention on what these companies are doing compared to tech companies.
That's not a constitution-level change you want to be making. Those are called laws.
Unfortunately, some people seem to have missed this point and fail to see the humour behind the article.
The argument doesn't even make sence - which part of a house lasts forever? A roof lasts 15 years, you can buy solar panels with 50 year warranty.

Don't bet or estimate, we have mountains of data on this:
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf
The fact that many semiconductor different companies brought ARM based products to market, each with their own set of peripherals, hardware reference designs and SDKs targeting different verticals (in different ways). This huge variety of available off-the-shelf designs makes it possible to make cost-effective products with low investments and fast time-to-market. A CPU core alone is not enough, one needs the ecosystem and ARM understood that from very early on.
Doesn’t surprise me when you could double your salary simply moving to the west coast.
There will always be single issue voters and reactionaries who amplify agendas no deeper than a one line slogan.
Yeah, me too. They don't disclose it coz their whole business is running on this small ad-hoc hack :)
Also note that it doesn’t run on bare metal: “To date all users run x86 OpenVMS as a Virtual Box or KVM guest. VSI provides an appliance file (.OVA) which the customer downloads”
> but they also didn't tell you that the SpaceX flight

We know it is a SpaceX flight. I have never seen any news story call it an "American flight". Have always seen news stories attribute to the organization: NASA/SpaceX/Virgin Galactic etc. I would have ignored the slight had the story at least mentioned ISRO. And this is a report by the "Science Correspondent". This would be a bare minimum expectation.

> I vouched you comment back up because I think it's worth linking, but no need to ascribe some sort of malicious motive to the BBC here.

Thanks for vouching. Well BBC has held an anti-India stance for quite a long time[1]. Even positive stories are spun around to paint India in a negative light. And it is not just the BBC. A huge section of the Western media indulges in this behavior. So felt like calling them out. Even if I am the lone voice here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Indian_sentiment#BBC
My mother is an anti-lock down, anti-vax, anti-covid-er, she's also in her 70s and she goes out of her way to snub the regulations. My sister (who is a doctor) is being vaccinated in secret because my mum is so staunch about it being "no big deal" and "If I die, I die!". Well sorry mum, but you'll die alone- I can't fly to see you.
I’m not entirely sure you quite get the phrase, unless you feel that the definition of a “static site” is too permissive.
> those chips aren't running on leading-edge nodes like TSMC 5nm or Intel 10nm (there's no reason for them to). If I were the CEO of a global automaker, I'd be buying legacy (22nm and older) foundry equipment

You can, but you would be few years late to the party. There are already dozens of n-th tier fab wannabes riding the trend.

Really ancient fab tools are flying off the shelf like hot cookies. People even scoop eighties era equipment off Ebay, and such.
Greed doesn't require capitalism to make it so everyone loses.

Most especially the greediest of them all lose the most compared to what they could have had instead.

With so much pride in getting ahead of the pack, much more sigificant gains always lie in a different sometimes opposite direction that can not be visualized at all by such a mind.

Edit: not my downvote
From what I know (I used to be software engineer in the hardware design team) Alpha designers used to use domino logic [1]. It allowed for some quite beefy circuits expressed in smaller space, because domino logic dominantly used nFET transistors which are usually smaller than pFET.

Typical k-input Logical AND-NOT uses k pFET and k nFET transistors, the domino logic uses one pFET and k nFET for similar purposes.

The paper about domino logic synthesis [2] hints at what Apple uses for their CPU cores.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_logic

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260714833_1-of-N_Do...
Hi thanks! It can be anything that has LAN or wifi and runs a web browser that supports WebRTC
Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
For the curious, the SCOTUS opinion on Carpenter v United States is here (PDF warning):

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
Unrelated observation: "just do the opposite of what Michael Scott would do" is actually pretty decent management advice, and probably better training than 80% of what new managers are taught (which is usually nothing more than "here is what you need to do to not get us sued").
I think I'm not secure, when people in the military or police etc can get my exact location that easily.

I could get arrested too easily, by law enforcement who skipped some steps in the process and got the wrong person? Maybe LEOs more eagerly do SWAT raids when they know the person's exact location? (I'm guessing)

So, could it be a partial violation of "secure"?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses"
Until they figure out how to make semiconductors only available as a service most of the market value will be captured by software.
Why would the military get a warrant? They're not law enforcement.
It means the person is a suspect. It means we might have to ask them a few questions. Doesn't mean they did anything.
That's interesting, I do 4-7-8 box breathing when I can't sleep due to anxiety. And its pretty much impossible for me to fall asleep when there is any kind of audio/visual stimulus in my environment. I need darkness and silence. Heck I can't even fall asleep if my S.O. or even my pet is touching me.
"Your wireless device can determine its (and your) physical, geographical location (“Location Based Services” or LBS) and can associate your device’s physical location with other data. You have the ability to enable or disable access to such services. By enabling location settings on your device, you are permitting applications on your device to use LBS through software, widgets or peripheral components you choose to download, add or attach to your wireless device or through web access, messaging capabilities or other means, and you are authorizing Verizon Wireless to collect, use and disclose your Location Information as appropriate to provide you with any location services that you enabled. To limit potential unauthorized access to your Location Information, Verizon Wireless offers various mechanisms and settings to manage access to location data. You should review each application’s settings to determine whether you want to enable LBS for that application." [1]

From 2018. The wording says "as appropriate" to provide you with services. I'm not seeing anything here about collecting your location to resell. Does anyone have an explicit wording in a contract they can refer me to?

[1] https://www.verizonwireless.com/dam/support/pdf/collateral/C...
This was 20 years ago. The computer revolution isn’t even being worked on.
Thats a good point, but what do you recon is the 'added value' currently?
Good observations and for those who want to dig deeper look up the works of Nobel + Turing award winner Herbert Simon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon
The fourth amendment applies to the state, not just law enforcement.
Hi. It's open source so expectations can be lower than for commercial projects. It's made on pure enthusiasm. And we are figuring out a way of how to hack the OSes to get rid from dummy display plugs. (just look at repo README.md) So stay tuned, in future releases wi will be updating on that. Cheers
Bonsoir RANDOMWARE: Any option other than paying them? Does paying them work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_culture "Just culture is a concept related to systems thinking which emphasizes that mistakes are generally a product of faulty organizational cultures, rather than solely brought about by the person or persons directly involved. In a just culture, after an incident, the question asked is, “What went wrong?” rather than “Who caused the problem?”. A just culture is the opposite of a blame culture."

Also "Just Culture: Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization" by Sidney Dekker
Sorry, I was trying to characterize the sort of argument given: "Just don't use it" only works if the people you want to interact with are available some other way in a nearly equivalent fashion: if one's friend group is mostly on Facebook, you sort of have to pick between using FB and missing out on a certain set of social interactions.
Atlassian's UI Components
This. And much of the content is a constant advocacy for avoiding the type of infrastructure investments that become very expensive to maintain for rural towns/counties (where a paved road may cost an order of magnitude more for upkeep than a gravel road).
If only we lived in a world without parrallel construction where military intelligence organazitions didn't spy on citizens for law enforcement
What does the Vietnamese grid pay in feed in tariff per kWh?
StreamSets vs. Composable
exactly. PG isnt a god nor a role model; You should seek within for your own sense of inspiration.
> The fourth amendment applies to the state, not just law enforcement

In principle, yes.

In practice, due to the absence of meaningful remedies other than the exclusionary rule, not so much.

Rules are only as strong as the consequences for breaking them.

(But this doesn't seem to be a violation, anyway; data in a custody of a third party that is legally permitted to sell it publicly is neither being searched nor seized when it is purchased in a mutually-voluntary exchange by the state.)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/04/07/vietnam-finally-unvei...

"The new purchase price for electricity generated by ground-mounted PV plants is $0.0709/kWh over a period of 20 years, and $0.0838/kWh for rooftop PV arrays. The government will also offer a FIT rate of $0.0769/kWh for floating solar projects, according to Decision 13/2020/QD-TTg, which was issued by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday.

PV developers will only qualify for the new rates if they put their projects into commercial operation by Dec. 31, 2020. All other projects will be subject to price determination through a competitive bidding process, state-run utility EVN said in an online statement."
Then nuclear is the cheapest, and most reliable, by far.
I've been pretty happy with Elixir's Ecto. I wouldn't call it easy, though. There is a LOT of ceremony, but it's designed to be declarative and it sure puts me at ease.

For database ingress, I use schemas, and put in aggressive validations in the changesets. For jsonb values, I use embedded_schemas (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/embedding-elixir-structs-in-ecto...), and cast their creation as a normal part of filling in the database object. For egress to a third party that accepts JSON, I use naked embedded_schemas (even better if they can be shared with the database) and use a protocol to build an custom encoder that can for example send the 3rd party a deeply structured JSON from a flat struct. Due to the way protocols work in elixir, when I send it to Oauth, Oauth will (indirectly) call my protocol code.
Giving Up Optionality: Updating 2020
Beans were just one example to emphasize the cost point, though given the rates of obesity in south east asia I'd point out that even if they can make you fat that it's more a matter of not eating too much than the items actually being unhealthy. Speaking to cost again though, at a latino market I can get pork for a bit over $2 a pound for example and chicken is only a few cents more where I am. Beans are by no means the only way to get cheap protein and fats. And if I get tired of rice I can go go to an asian market and get fresh noodles to keep in the fridge for not much more than rice.

I'll give you that lunch is more of a struggle if you're short on time and don't want to meal prep but you could still just buy a value menu taco or burger from a fast food joint and be fine (the ultra calorie monster items are not in the value menu). Sure, it'll come with transfats and some of the other non-christian food ingredients but one Breakfast Jack, Value Cheeseburger, Potato Taco, etc. per day aren't going to be what makes you fat. Which winds back around to my point that the issue isn't really one of access for most Americans, it's one of preference and excess.
Hi, I'm from Australia, where we actually use IRV and STV. I dislike IRV's lack of monotonicity too, but for STV, which is the top-of-chain proposal, your objection

> Unpopular first vote candidates will be eliminated, even if they're extremely popular second vote candidates.

doesn't seem to be a major problem. Groups do well on second and subsequent choices from a combination of being popular in their own right and more-popular groups saying "put us first and then them second".

Our federal electoral commission publishes every ballot ordering for our Senate elections now. A guy named David Bahry has a "preference explorer" which lets you get a high-level overview for yourself: https://pappubahry.com/pseph/aus_2019/
> In the real world

Do we just live in the different real worlds? Because in my real world, deadlines are almost always arbitrary and fungible so long as the right kind of communication is made -- the only times I've seen that not be the case for me/folks in my network is 1) when they're working on something that's actually time critical (rare but does happen) and 2) when they're working in a dysfunctional, top-down environment (far more common).

I can't help but raise an eyebrow at the idea that you might lose a client by missing a deadline by 2-3 weeks (rather than not selling them well enough). Is this a hypothetical situation you're talking about? Sometimes, 2-3 weeks is as fast as they'll get back to you with a single hop of communication. The other example of engineers get down-evaluated for ending up jumping on the grenade of a task that gets significantly longer (sometimes by months)
-- I do see that happen from time to time but whether the manager down-evaluates is often inversely correlated with that manager/management chain's capability. The good managers understand that scope creep and an unforeseen gotchas happen; they don't want to take those instances as failures but rather .

> When I made the final push for my PhD thesis corrections, I stayed up 4 days straight right before the deadline dotting my 'i's and crossing my 't's. 6 years into the "real world", I often look back on that time as the good ole days.

Why? That sounds like unproductive, unhealthy self-martyrship. It's the complete opposite of how a competent professional works through things. Do you simply like to suffer? There's a reason people don't work like that in the "real world" and it's because there are actual real dollars on the line and competent organizations understand that such behavior purely results in expensive unforced errors.
The middle class are just workers, who are paid more. The preformative aspects come from competition with their peers.

It's why white collar workers are so bent on doing public speaking things, TED Talks etc.. It's hard to be a VP you have to somehow get everyone else to think you're 'that much better' than the workers.

Watch the news: almost every contributor is making a performance.

Trump's the 'Apprentice' is a giant bit of performance, nothing to do with reality.

The elite use leverage. Think of them as VCs. They don't 'work' like we do, they negotiate hard deals with workers and try to grab all the surpluses.

It's really just a basic take on working/middle class + capital class.