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I used to use TextExpander, but their app started to feel unpolished and was a bit expensive for my tastes. I've been using Espanso now for the most of the last year and I've been enjoying it. I even made a video about it [0].

My favorite "feature" is the fact that it works so easily cross-platform.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjXohQcuZyk
> I'm shooting for 3 books this year, and that's a 200% increase over last year!

I mean... there's probably no point forcing yourself if you don't want to. People who read a lot of books, myself included, don't do it because we're diligent, we do it because we enjoy it.

There's nothing special about books. You might as well say "I am going to finish 3 video games this year" or "I am going to go fishing three times this year".

If the achieving of goals itself is what brings you enjoyment, then by all means, go for it.

I suppose there's also a case to be made for people who tend to not take enough time off and who need to set themselves goals for leisure time for that reason.

Anyways: Don't torture yourself.
It's also illegal to storm the Capitol
Yep.

This all sounds nice, but developers/designers rarely want to do PM work. The PM position is as much a creation of developers who don't want to interact as it is management.

Even developers that do don't want to spend all day in meetings. A PM can help there.
No, I used an image from a Medrxiv preprint from a world-famous immunology institution. The attribution is listed in the image. There's no easy way to embed images in HN, and that one was available.

Go ahead, keep deflecting. It's obvious you don't have a leg to stand on.
> Blockchain has earned a bad name because of sales people trying to sell it for something it can't do.

Sales people in this case meaning the entire community. Bitcoin’s design meant that anyone who buys in later will be making money for early adopters, and that gave everyone a strong conflict of interest clouding their technical judgement. Subsequent blockchains might not have copied the exact deflationary model but the get-rich-quick-without-contributing-anything mentality has become universal.
Corporate blockchain - as in a way IBM pitched it - yes of course. Most of the people from open blockchains were saying that for years now.

As for open blockchains, like Ethereum, there is really no financial system like it, and the amount of innovation there is crazy. In theory you could replace it with a centralised system, but that’s like saying that you could replace Internet with AWS and just keep everything there.
Another way to look at it is that Google has a batteries-included opinionated way to deploy internal services, it would be an incredibly tough sell to off that more directly to other users. "First rewrite your app in one of these 4 languages" doesn't fly. People want to buy a VM, or maybe a Kubernetes cluster.

(Plus external services need stronger tenant isolation which Google internal services don't deliver)
It's the c2 code
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
The question wasn't "What is the ideal data structure?"
They called him the Black Sparrow
So what happens when a transaction doesn't validate?
> I'm not going to force anyone to debate with me, but if your economic theory says that Amazon's prices should have dropped this year, and they didn't, then your economic theory is wrong and/or incomplete. That seems like a pretty straightforward test.

Right, except that’s not what I said. So when you insist on a gross misreading of my theory, that happens to also not coincide with some fact you refer to, I question your sincerity in discourse.

> Sometimes companies make more money and they don't lower prices, pass those increases onto workers, or expand. This is something that is observable just by looking at price/wage trends in different industries/companies and comparing them with the associated profit increases.

It is for this reason that theoretical predictions in economics are considered ceteris paribus

> We know that "profits go up, prices go down" is too simplistic and/or flawed of a model to talk about the real world because it's not accurately predicting what companies do in the real world.

Yeah we do.
Why doesn't GO have a try-catch blocks? Every file I see have dozens similar lines:

if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

In C# I can just log error on one place and transaction will be automatically rolled back. Much less code.
A product manager is like a category manager in supply chain. It's not a people management position.
Wish he was relentless on doing something about all the fake 4.5 star reviews. It really sours my ability to buy efficiently. And it must affect their bottom line because I return every single bad item. At least they have the incredible return system, which I assume he had some hand in.
>I demured on the fact that British society could put a psycho executive in restraint while my country, a supposed enlightened democracy (the US), can not.

To be clear, this is a partisan political opinion that borders on authoritarianism. You may not like Trump, but he was democratically elected. So prey tell, what would "restraining" a democratically elected 'executive' look like? Remember, any rule you define has to be measured against past presidents and apply to future presidents.
if you feel that badly being disagreed with, perhaps you should go back to a safe content/context bubble on reddit, where your views can be constantly reinforced, and any challengers to your domain can be proudly assailed and repulsed by your impeccable logic and unassailable wit.
I don’t think it’s so much a materials challenge as a manufacturing one. Putting a multitouch digitizer uniformly over the surface of a sphere is AFAIK a unique challenge.

I’m not sure how you could make the ball slightly squeezable yet hard and acceptably round to make for a nice trackball experience. As the OP points out, it’s easy to notice when things aren’t perfectly round. I think the best thing to do would be to just use the touch sensors, but I’m not super deep in the sensors world, maybe their is some sort of internal stress sensor that you could use to see if it is getting squeezed.

I think you’d have to switch the fixed magnet into the trackball, as I can’t see electromagnets of sufficient strength working on power beamed inside a ball. You need a “magic” algorithm and some fancy electormagnets in the base to try and attempt to create an “increased resistance” mode as you descri e. Alone this is a very interesting, and I suspect difficult problem that may have some prior art. I’m not an EE, but I feel like this is something that one might be able to do some back of the envelope calculations on to see if the adequate force is realistic given space and power constraints. One thought I had is that you might be able to use the resistance between emf fields and conductors, but without some sort of exotic metamaterial I don’t think you could get adequate resistance.

Anyway, I can only think of one company that could take this on, Apple. And if Apple got on it, one thing that would be neat is if the ball had xyz linear actuators so that it would click.
GameStop appoints Chief Technology Officer and two additional executive hires
Although they do seem to be reverting to the mean as time goes by, regardless of how much people love to hate them there's a cultural reason why Amazon have done so well - even from people who dislike him I always read that Jeff Bezos sets the standard throughout Amazon of a ruthless focus on the customer.
>Because Apple is a monopolist
There's little about Apple's place in the market that makes them a monopoly. Using this word to describe companies that engage in anti-consumer behavior is reductive and unhelpful.
YES! This 1000 times! I keep LibreOffice installed on my Windows install solely because of that. In general, Calc has got to be the best in the suite and perhaps the only one that actually has any advantage over MS (besides Draw's PDF editing, but that has no direct MS counterpart).
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How about a transparent government solution? https://www.registers.service.gov.uk/
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> [...] research [...] the QUT team describes a design

Yeah ok cool, join the giant pile of revolutionary battery designs and remind me when it's a physical product, tested, verified and ready for mass production.
Its normal for the authorities on a subject like this to balance informing the public vs discovering all that can be known about something.

Things change as they learn more. That's how this works. Saying they "lie" to you is stupid. They're telling you what they know, as they learn it.

They are STILL learning new things and will be for years, which will change how we address and deal with this.

For them to lie would mean they magically know everything about it and specifically choose not to tell you.
Slight remark:

it's easy to forget, but even for document edition.. legacy can strike hard. My last bout at a court room they were using WordPerfect 12, due to coupling with its template system with the legal doc generator.
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You wouldn't need the massive amount of compute going into bitcoin for this hypothetical database. Something a few orders of magnitude cheaper on a separate blockchain or on top of a blockchain can be viable for that use case even if bitcoin specifically isn't.
I'm trying to build a language for UI designers. The goal is to give them a very easy language that allows them to describe visual behavior using grammar and concepts that are familiar to them.

Entirely declarative, low-tech, almost like pseudo-code.
Yes, all the time. I'm constantly worried, and I have a lot of difficulty managing it. I think mine originates from a couple of bad employment interactions I had a decade-ish ago, but I could be wrong.
This is very well done. Didn't realize Yahoo APIs were still live. I made one using IEX.

https://stockdaddy.io/samples/dashboard/

They offer an excellent API for a very reasonable price and offer it free to people if you're interested in a more comprehensive solution for free. Also, take a look at IEX if you're interested in getting into financial APIs.
Someone added it today, which sucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangui_magnetic_a...

Added in the 12:39 edit and removed in the 14:41 (current, newest) edit
Did you click that site? I can't read the damn article because of all the ads.
Doesn’t matter what happened, it’s exactly the definition of market manipulation the SEC looks for. Again, he’s not you or me, he’s a licensed broker with specific restrictions and responsibilities.

“ “Firms must have the ability to supervise the business-related content associated persons are communicating on these sites, including possible suitability determinations if recommendations are made. A registered principal must review prior to use any social media site that an associated person intends to use for business. The principal may only approve a social media site if the principal has determined the associated person can and will comply with applicable rules…”

We find it highly unlikely that MassMutual would have approved Gill to post on Reddit’s WallStreetBets, whose users appeared to pride themselves on how frequently they could pack the words f** and b**s into a sentence, frequently with representative artwork.

The largest brokerage firms on Wall Street would never allow a Registered Rep to use multiple anonymous user names and promote a $5 stock to a mass public audience because there would be no way to know if it was a suitable investment for the level of risk the individual person could afford to take. The bulk of lawsuits that are brought, and won, against brokerage firms are for “failure to supervise.”

Gill’s YouTube videos did offer a scrolling statement at the end to the effect that this was not meant to be personal investment advice. But if it wasn’t, why was he putting it out on a mass medium like YouTube.

Gill has another potential problem. According to media reports, Gill was posting copies of his brokerage statements at E-Trade showing his GameStop position making millions of dollars in a short span of time while he was employed at MassMutual. Under FINRA Rule 3210, a licensed broker must first get permission from the broker-dealer where they are employed to open a trading account at another firm. (This is common knowledge among 99 percent of brokers on Wall Street.) If the employing firm grants that permission, the other brokerage firm must send duplicate copies of the broker’s statement to the compliance officer of his current employer. This is to prevent the firm’s name from getting dragged through the mud (as is happening currently to MassMutual) because their broker may have engaged in some form of stock manipulation. It is also to fulfill the broker-dealer’s obligation to supervise their brokers and protect the public.”
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Having built a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform inside a fintech startup over the last three years I am completely unsurprised by this announcement.

From the start the HLF platform appeared to be extremely optimized for demos and quick start tutorials but fell flat for any production use. The operational complexity of the Hyperledger Fabric spirals uncontrollably with the tight ‘enterprise style’ control layered on top (the extensive use of certificate authorities—an external chain of trust at conflict with the blockchain) resulted in extensive administration overhead.

Early on we would joke occasionally that the platform seemed to be designed around an idea that customers should be overwhelmed and just choose to have IBM host the network instead. I absolutely do not regret our decision to move off of the platform in the slightest.
ActivityPub / Mastadon maybe or just a good old RSS feed.
At least you had a back-catalog. The amount of games you can play on Stadia is just what you see.

I bought a PS5 last year and have not bought a PS5 game. Mostly played PS4 games and some of what came in PSPlus.
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This seems like a much more polished product, but it seems more targeted as a PaaS for professional content creators. The minimum requirements[0] are pretty high for somebody who just wants to self-host a blog for friends and family:

- Ubuntu server with NodeJS / Ngninx installed

- 1 GB RAM minimum required

- MySQL running somewhere

The PaaS "Everything just works" offering is probably more attractive to the "facebook, but private" market, but for $36 / month I don't get any guaranteed SLA[1] which is worrying.

[0] https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/
[1] https://ghost.org/pricing/
Funny only recently I noticed the ads in the Stocks app and thought it was very un-apple
What is Band‘s business model?
When I was employed at one particular place for six months, I woke up in the middle of the night with a nightmare most Sunday through Thursday nights.

It didn't take a lot of analysis to figure out the implications of that pattern. Everyone is different, but sometimes it may be fair to say that the root cause is work.
I was wondering if GameStop would use their once in a lifetime overpriced valuation to raise money to invest in a game streaming platform (ie Netflix for games).
The Empire State Building and its related buildings are now powered by wind
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Probably an age thing I was a teen in the 90s and the internet was the first and only place any porn legislation/business was made aware to me.
Maybe for a value of "has applications" that doesn't necessarily include anyone actually applying it.

As a generalisation, I don't think anyone by people into category theory actually cares about or applies category theory.
Your [1] literally is showing that Sweden's numbers are double European's over the course of the whole of summer.
I would look into https://iexcloud.io/ as well. I used their excellent set of APIs to build https://stockdaddy.io/
Is anyone really using any of these stock trackers (including those built in in OSX etc? I think the whole idea is broken. This is why:

If you are interested enough to regularly check the price of certain stocks and indices you know that the most important thing is that the shown price is CORRECT. And you know that the most trustworthy way to get a correct price is to go directly to the largest brokers and the largest and most trusted portals like Investing.com and Marketwatch.

On the other hand if you don't care that much. Why the hell would you like to have a special application for checking when you could as well go to any of the above?
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Why try to optimize for every cases possible ? Use the right tool for the right job.
I also still use RSS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Seems like OP is focused on building a steady traffic source to sell his product. Combination of a good product + marketing focus.

I have a popular Spark blog where I sell Spark books: https://leanpub.com/u/MrPowers. Customers like the product and I have a steady traffic source. It's possible to build side hustles with SEO - don't need to hit the HN jackpot.
No big surprise that one of the new executives is coming from Chewy, given Ryan Cohen.
This is actually a problem I have a hard time to understand. In Germany, these records are kept by a government maintained registry. Every patch of land has a number and a record, and an owner. Changes need certification by a Notary. Records go back to, what feels, eternity. I never heard of any problems with the records themselves, problems usually arise regarding the agreements between parties to change said documents. No idea how blockchain would beat simple, court maintained paper.
Not everyone is a techie and can self host. You'd also need to self-host at home (even more of a pain). And anyhow, even if you are hosting at home, an internet connected server is much more of a target than a usually-behind-NAT phone.
Band is free?

How is that possible? Sorry I'm just suspicious of anything that smells like a social network and there's no cost.

[Edit] I just went to the Apple App store page and there's a cost for a variety of features.
There are details about blockchains that are often missed. That is, not only is trust distributed, but software execution is distributed. Smart contracts in bitcoin and eth are an interesting concept. Think AWS lambda but distributed.

So user centric programming abstractions where users can execute queries and directly put data in the database is interesting concept. Of course you can also do this without a blockchain too if you can deal with a trusted party.
> maybe don't do that

A partial log of property rights is no longer a property rights register. It's reference material. Annotations.
> These kinds of arguments are only ever applied to workers.

Nonsense, people insisted that it was foolish to require bundling of routine insurance with catastrophic insurance, people advocate for the severability of hardward and operating systems, people oppose forced bundling of insurance and all kinds of other goods.

> Nobody argues that a company having a single legal team that represents all of its managers and sets org-wide hiring policies is anti-efficiency.

They would however observe that that single legal team only protects the company, and that each employee should have their own, individual legal representation for their own personal liability.

> If you negotiate with a publicly traded company, you are engaging in collective bargaining, because public companies are collectives that represent the multiple interests of multiple stakeholders during negotiations.

This doesn’t offer a counterpoint to my point.

> Nobody argues that companies are anti-value because they restrict my freedom to negotiate a separate contract with every single member of the company's board. But suddenly it's different if the workers do the same thing.

I think the comparison here has been twisted so far beyond the breaking point that there is no need of a rebuttal.
Could TinyRSS or whatever it's called help there?
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Privacy is getting more and more important, so me and my friends created a keyboard to help keep some privacy from large companies while sending messages.
This works on all the popular applications, including social media apps. Only the encoded message will exist on the internet and your friend with the app will be able to read it on their phone. Complete privacy ;)
We've just launched the initial version and I would really appreciate some honest feedback on functionally and any bugs ( this is the first app we've ever made).
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Then you are not an investor, you are a trader. And if you are a trader, you shouldn’t be distracting yourself by writing code during market hours.
Not sure if I agree, although I'm sure it varies per person. I've been investing for > 20 years, and I enjoy watching the daily movement as it helps me keep a mental model of trends and performance. I seldom sell, but do buy regularly, and I think having this information frequently refreshed in my brain has helped my performance (of course, no way for me to do an A/B comparison there, so I can't assert it as fact).
As a turbo for cars to enable focusing on super high wH/kg storage class batteries this is interesting.

But as power delivery for drones and rail guns these could be game changing.
Yeah, Impress is a mess. I use OnlyOffice for ppt files since I don't really care about performance in a slide editor.

As for Writer, one more problem is that it is sometimes simply unbearably ugly. Just scrolling through a pretty small document creates rendering artifacts everywhere and the font rendering tends to randomly switch between passable and horrendous. If you're lucky though and that doesn't happen for you, it's actually pretty usable (ignoring format compatibility, of course, but that's also MS's fault).
This article is long and I missed the bottom half on my first read.

The top section is awful without the bottom section.

If you're going to do anything to make money you should make sure you charge by the hour.

If instead you enjoy doing your side project and it may be monetizable you'll be golden.

Because no project is guaranteed to make money, if you consider it fun then you should be able to just enjoy it.

Then when it starts requiring the things you may not love to scale you can decide if the money is worth the marketing, patenting, managing, etc that comes with turning a project to a business
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See my parent comment. One of the agreements we arrived at was not to have non-product-facing teams.

The teams also decided on how and who would be allocated to the tasks that could be placed as similar to what you describe.
Isn't current market already saturated and kind of underperforming commercially ?
What are vols and building curves? The factors that effect extrinsic values? Volitilty and time?
The friendly people from Windows Technical Department keep calling me at various times of the day and night to tell me about the malware I supposedly have on my computer. I now ignore all calls unless I know the number or am expecting a call from a doctor or similar.
Absolutely agree, it feels like I'm reading about revolutionary battery tech on a weekly basis, with no actual products in sight.
You can very much trust it. Mostly, that is. The issues usually occur when data flows and physical flows get disconnected. No way blockchain will solve that.
Funny, I write terminal codes directly, because where I learned to program (PC DOS), there was no terminfo, only ANSI.SYS. I don't ever plan to port anything to DOS ever again, but old habits do die hard.