skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evernote was very sticky for me since 2009, but started quickly looking for alternatives once the new app was Electron-based. I tried Bear a few years ago but didn't like it. Also tried Obsidian and a few others but they were too finicky for me. Finally tried DevonThink but it was overkill for my purpose, formatting was weird and different with all the note type variations, and their pricing model killed it for me (max two devices).

I basically needed something with great search, easy formatting, and inline image support. And I found it with Ulysses. I thought it was only for people writing long-form works, but it works fantastically for my use case. It ended up being the thing that replaced Evernote for me after 12 years.
Assuming you're running something like uBlock, turn on one or more "annoyance" filters in the settings. They block exactly what you're describing.
https://archive.is/BNocG
Motion doesn't work for screenshots or printed paper.
Came here to post this, but as a former Square employee I can tell you they designed the "puck" reader from scratch years ago and contracted directly with the manufacturers. Stripe clearly copied the industrial design but I'd imagine the internals are different. It will be interesting to see how Stripe fares with this - in person payments are a very different ball game than online. PayPal and Amazon have tried with what seems to be limited success.
I think Apple is clearly overplaying the role that their app store policies like the "nutrition label", reviews and app tracking transparency have in the iOS security model. To me, the security features that matter are from the operating system, its implementation of encryption and the sandboxing model that's enforced by it.

The app store reviews are done by booting up the app for a few seconds and most of the rest is self-reported by the developers which almost qualifies as security theater. They probably also run a static analyzer on the apps but nothing would prevent Apple from offering that on-demand to users opening side-loaded software and letting them choose to run or not after seeing the result.
Have a look at opensea, it's been done a million times.
So because there are pedophiles, we should build backdoors in all cloud image hosting services?

Should we build backdoors in AES because there are terrorists in the world?
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I want rich text editing and easy sharing with individuals or groups, like Dropbox paper, but local, fast, and encrypted sync.

Not found everything in a single app yet, please enlighten me if possible to something that fits that I've missed.
When I'm explaining logarithms, I find it helps to relate it to the number of digits. This code is a good example of the concept: you don't need log, just convert the int to a string and check its length. A string with 1-3 digits is bytes, 4-6 is kb, etc.
idk though, I'm going to take the anarchist approach here and say we shouldn't need regulation to make this ethical. The fact that some of us benefit off of manipulation and nondisclosure feels like a result of an unjust power structure, specifically corporations over the individual (the anarchist interpretation), and more largely the economy over humanity (the communist interpretation). I think the only way to not have ethical problems with advertisement is to make advertisements unnecessary, and to start valuing the effects of people over the effects of products. Regulation here is good, but its necessity is a symptom of a problem solved only at the individual level.
I think they might be one of those 'free-market' types, with a whiff of Ayn Rand. I read a number of their other comments.

I am not answering for them, merely observing a trend.

I'm definitely on the side that favors heavy market regulation. History shows us that it works better with heavy regulations - that is that it works better for more people rather than better for a small group of people. In the US, something like 52% (the last time I read some numbers) have invested in the stock market. I'd rather they be treated fairly, with a more equal playing field.

Hmm... It looks like it's now 53%:

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-percentage-of-americans-o...
Yes totally. I wasn't contradicting GP. The pattern where part of the character indicates the sound is so common that it helps me a great deal when reading Chinese. My speaking/hearing is better than my reading. I might not know how to write a particular character but, if I can guess the sound, then that plus the surrounding context are enough for me to know what the word is.
Isn't this even more creepy?
Damn -- 4 products in the last week.
I think out of order processing is considered different than speculative execution, but I could be remembering my architecture class wrong
I've done exactly this and the process remains available for e.g. Green tape /LTCC material. The accuracy of the components tends to be quite poor and capacitors are historically crap compared to discretes. But trimming is an option, and a well designed circuit can take advantage of the non idealities of the implementation.

In that Era the state of the art was multiple layers of ceramic substrate. Modern techniques like Volterra have allow you to print the ink and insulation. No reason it can't also print resistors. You can have a ten layer single sided board, printed in your lab in an afternoon. My only issue with it is the relatively poor conductivity of the conductive ink. But that will be solved eventually.
The one thing I need that Apple’s notes doesn’t have, but thankfully bear does, is the ability to link to a note from outside the app. I like to be able to drop links to my notes in other documents of mine, and Apple notes makes this nearly impossible.
Apple has direct-from-bootloader control over all of their hardware, unless you boot Linux on a Mac (in which case you don't get iCloud).

So a 'malicious client' doesn't need to be part of the threat model here. And also, if you really stretch your argument, that's like saying we need to outlaw Linux and open source software because malicious actors can modify the code.

The whole idea that society demands content providers compromise ETE just because of child pornography isn't something I've heard of being 'accepted as common truth' outside of this post.

Some politicians demand it, but I thought at least amongst tech, there's the recognization that strong, *unbreakable* encryption is important.

There's an implicit obligation to build services and technology that is resistant to abuse, but that isn't an argument to not implement ETE.
Fantastic to see the UK leads the world in something
You can't not comply with the government of a country unless you are a country. And the citizens of Russia and China would not appreciate that, because they actually like their governments, and don't care what you think.
I think it's far too complex to attribute these results to a particular cause. Almost all of our food packaging and cookware contain new and known bad chemicals which we do not understand the implications of. Social media has gone from nothing to everywhere which has nothing to do with caution and lack of freedom. Cars have become more essential and people are spaced further apart than before.

As well as a better understanding of what depression and anxiety are. I suspect its much more likely a child today would be able to express what they are feeling and have it reported in a statistic instead of being told they need to stop being a girl and have a spoon full of cement.
Interestingly Square basically created this category (the merchant aggregator) by somewhat secretly running all their early clients' payments through a single merchant account.
That's called education. Sadly, education is unpopular.
Condé Nast Agrees to Contract with Union at Ars Technica, New Yorker, Pitchfork
Doesn't work where the humidity is high either.
I think craft can store your notes on-device? Not sure. The one big difference between it and Notion is the databases — craft doesn’t have them. If not for that, I’d switch to craft in a heartbeat
I think, like with the square, the question is: "What are the characteristics that make the set of actions which should be prevented by regulation narrower than the set of all undesirable actions."

We know there are a huge number of undesirable actions which we don't think should be regulated. Some of them are minor things, like petty insults or inconsequential dishonesty. Others are major, but are protected by other ideals. For example, choosing to spend a million dollars on gold to bury in a private crypt. Those are some examples that come to mind when I hear that the purpose of regulation is not simply to prevent undesirable actions. It's not that regulation does things other than that. It's that it must have some other attributes in addition to that. Determining those attributes is what makes it not simple.
First of all I want to point out that most of these so called "pacts" are nothing but performative action by corporations to give the illusion of change without having to commit to any real change.

The economy isn't going to change because businesses suddenly grow a heart; corporations are for profit and they're going to do anything they can to maximize this. The only way a corporation would be different is if it wasn't a corporation to begin with.

And here comes my next point: the production model will only change from legislation. We won't have a "donut economy", "green capitalism", "circular economy", whatever green-washed meme capitalism if our politics remain the same as they are. As Machiavelli pointed out hundreds of years ago, we shouldn't waste our efforts tearing down the existing structures but instead we should focus on introducing new actors that will change the dynamic of the existing ones. Just think of the way the world changed when corporations became a participating actor in our politics.

These debates on the limits of one or another proposed model are fine, but the reality is that we can't even have what we want. It doesn't matter if the perfect socio-economic system is developed because with our current politics we would never be able to transition into it.

The true limits of the "sustainable" economy come into play when corporation's profits are threatened and under this lens we see that any change, minor whatsoever, that would benefit the environment will clash with the existing profit-driven systems. Don't be fooled by "green energy" most of it is being pioneered and controlled by the same giants that put us where we are right now.

What we need is for the people to take control back of the political sphere, for communities to self-govern, for workers to exercise their rights. We need democracy more than ever.
Apple (and every large company in the world) already ship different features to different regions.
40% of police officer families experience domestic violence: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
It would be awesome if every meeting had a scoreboard that displayed a running total of the cost of the meeting based on the salaries of the participants.
Not sure where that pricing comes from. I believe Square's payments API is priced the same as Stripe (I'm sure that's not an accident):

https://squareup.com/us/en/townsquare/payment-api

> Square’s payment APIs are free to integrate into your software. For online sales, the only cost is 2.9% + 30¢ per payment transaction. Sales made with Square’s POS app are charged at our standard fees: 2.6% + 10¢ per swipe, chip card dip, or NFC payment. Manually entered transactions are charged at 3.5% + 15¢.
Absolutely every large company hosts an incredible amount of child pornography and abuse material.

Facebook is the largest platform for child trafficking, and Google is the world's largest resource for finding out how to commit criminal acts.

Crime always exist. We shouldn't build a techno-totalitarian surveillance state just because crime exists.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".

Chinese Communists employed similar but opposite reasoning during the uprisings in Jiangxi, China in the 1930s: "Better to kill a hundred innocent people than let one truly guilty person go free".
The R2: An Autonomous Car Designed to Carry Things, Not People
Uber's a strange one. The thing is that the US taxi industry before Uber was also pretty corrupt, abusive and inefficient. A few drivers do well knowing the system, companies existed based on connections to the city, most drivers were very marginal with high turn-over, fares were high and companies were slow to take advantage of the web.

So Uber replaced abusive inefficiency with abusive efficiency and provided many more jobs of a similar quality to what taxi driving was before.

Source; once drove a taxi, had friends driving both Uber and taxi. The general response was "not better or worse, just different". Maybe Uber has gotten worse but so have many things...
1. I said "authorized", not "approved".

2. Nope. The theater is not a covered entity under HIPAA. Covered entities are healthcare providers, plans, clearinghouses, and business associates of those.

See [1] for more information on HIPAA and vaccinations.

[1] https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-it-a-hipaa-violation-to-ask-...
This is gorgeous. Thanks for the post.

Brings back memories of watching NFBC films on reel to reel that my Dad checked out from the library. The cat came back ....
The trouble with notes is that it's a huge territory and people are talking about their tools without further context. Talking about preferences between a Land Rover and a Corolla isn't productive until you start breaking down your specific needs.

I like Tiago Forte's approach for his PARA system. The system stands alone and may be adapted to any of your tools. This includes note taking, project management, calendar, etc.

The tools for note taking are basically view layers for me.
1. Telephone.

Dial-type or better. Proven exponential growth tool first personally revalidated 50 full years ago.

2. Briefcase. Halliburton or better.

Only if No. 1 alone is insufficient.

3. Portable computer, Compaq original issue "luggable" DOS or better.

Haven't needed this yet.
But as a software developer, it’s always fun to think about edge cases, and squeezing almost 5KB into a 280-“character” tweet is fun

This makes me wonder if anyone has created a version of base64 that uses the vast, sprawling space of unicode to take advantage of these glyph-count-based restrictions.

If they have, I hope they called it uuuniencode.
It gets a lot of comparisons to Notion, but I don’t think that’s really accurate. It feels much more focused on writing and note taking for me than Notion - it doesn’t do all the fancy page types, etc. But yes, it is Mac native.

The default storage location is their web service, but you do have the option of storing all files locally. You do lose some collaboration features if you do that.
Real Time Bidding Evidence
A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation
I learned pdp-11 assembler (in octal) and I think it is one of the most consistent/orthogonal instruction sets I've ever used. Maybe they cleaned up pdp-10?

I'm not familiar with 6800, but I've heard people rave about 6809. I did do some 68000, and it was pretty good too.

Oh, and IBM 370 type assembly is pretty interesting too, and very high level. for example, I think they could pretty much 1:1 map fortran statements to assembly statements. I also vividly recall the 4-register block move with pad - src addr, src len, dest addr, dest len, and pad was a high-order byte in one of them.
Because he censored the word god, which is peak HN
The discussion is on a separate page - https://wethescreamers.com/essay-discussion/ - so (1944) is accurate for the submitted URL.

But at the end of the day it’s just not big enough of a deal to belabor the point. It’s simply this site’s norm, hence my comment.
I did something similar, but more rudimentary, around 1991 in Informix Wingz and Hyperscript on an AS400. An interesting exercise. It generated vector wall shapes like the stuff in the old Mac game Temple of Ra. Amazing what you can code when you're bored out of your mind. ha
"Co-evolution, overlapping resource extraction, and of course the tension between the health of a group and the health of the individuals within it are just three basic ways that complicate your strong-takes/weak-taken description."

Why would that possibly complicate anything? You think a cheetah making the gazelle faster over time is some sort of gotcha that changes the fact that cheetahs eat gazelles?

I can throw out some terms and claim they'll contradict you too. Dominance hierarchy, infanticide, territoriality, and reproductive fitness are just 4 basic ways that uncomplicate my strong-takes/weak-taken description.
This was visually much more informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCbJmgeHmA
I am just dreaming - any big boys - Apple/Google/Amazon talking to them to acquire?
The problem with self-hosting your own instance that you are only using is that Google can still make a profile for you based on your search history.
I don't mind the verbosity at all, but PowerShell in my experience is painfully slow for interactive use, if you want the kind of niceness you can get with Fish, Zsh, or Elvish (fuzzy filtering, smart-case completion, any-order/substring completion, etc.).

The module system is also not great for distributing little configure snippets like Oh My Zsh or something, it's clunky and over-complicated for that.
CureVac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Disappoints in Clinical Trial
Looks like Blue Monday from New Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GxjzHm5us
I'm not against using for loops when what you need is an actual loop.
The thing is most of the times, previously, for loops where actually doing something for which there are concepts that express exactly what was being done - though not in all languages.

For instance, map - I know that it will return a new collection of exactly the same number of items the iterable being iterated has. When used correctly it shouldn't produce any side-effects outside the mapping of each element.

In some languages now you have for x in y which in my opinion is quite ok as well, but still to change the collection it has to mutate it, and it's not immediate what it will do.

If I see a reduce I know it will iterate again a definite number of times, and that it will return something else than the original iterable (usually), reducing a given collection into something else.

On the other hand forEach should tell me that we're only interested in side-effects.

When these things are used with their semantic context in mind, it becomes slightly easier to grasp immediately what is the scope of what they're doing.

On the other hand, with a for (especially the common, old school one) loop you really never know.

I also don't understand what is complex about the functional counterparts -
for (initialise_var, condition, post/pre action) can only be simpler in my mind due to familiarity as it can have a lot of small nuances that impact how the iteration goes - although to be honest, most of the times it isn't complex either - but does seem slightly more complex and with less contextual information about the intent behind the code.
I have. I’ve just rarely seen it executed so poorly.
It sounds like they attempted to make their own schedule, but then acquiesced when faced with an inconsiderate ask.
These are software engineers, average base is $183K (https://www.levels.fyi/company/Stripe/salaries/Software-Engi...), so you agree to $18.3K reduction, get a 20K bonus and save (183-50) * .09 = 12K? in taxes.

Average rent in SF is $4K? vs Austin is $2K? ... seems you'd come out ahead by ~24K + 12K - 18.3K = $17.7K / year.
You can’t say 40% more work was done from their conclusions.
It's really an Extended Grapheme Cluster. In our codebase (Darklang) we abbreviate it to EGC.
I think it is a slight swipe at how complicated the Materialize OSS projects make everything in this space sound
After Evernote went Electron and stripped the context-feature, DevonThink won me over. I use it for its flexibility in indexing, file-like-organization, OCR, encryption and flexible synchronization. Also the devs are very respondant and I like not having to pay for a subscription.
The best thing about Stripe was they made payment processors move. By showing them what good looks like, by showing them there's value in creating an easier, modern platform - their competitors are missing out on a massive market of SMB's that won't care enough for the 1.5% difference in costs.

Which is admittedly crazy, but there's a lot of people out there making purchasing and implementation decisions that don't really care about the bottom line.
You didn't happen to see the news about the Amazon turnover rate https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-wo...
And their ml competencies. They were the first to market with high quality inside out tracking. That was the game changer for low friction vr. Even now they're a distant first place there.
ba doom cha! God, as a musician and fan of Ericsson's actual work, that one drives me bloody bananas. Ericsson's own book "Peak" is worth reading. One must assume the motivation to write some for lay people was at least partly out of frustration at hearing his academic work mis-quoted so damn much because of Outliers. It would make me CRAZY.
Possible to receive messages using SSE (server-sent events)? I implemented it with a Postgres backend for a project once, but it was not a general solution.

SSE provides many niceties for a queue like this.
> With windows, if something is bad it is microsofts fault, with linux it's a user error.

Is this your own statement? I will use it frequently from this day forward, but want to attribute correctly.
Basically you take source code that works in situation A and make it work in situation B. Nothing more specific can be said without knowing more about what you want to do.
Tyler Cowen always has an opinion and the author is an econ undergrad, so it just makes sense.
It's raw power, isn't it? (we can make or break your retirement)

What I found interesting is that there are lots of game politicians play that are actually decent moves.

A friend of mine knew a politician who used lobbyists quite adeptly. If for example he needed help on the school textbook problem, he might call up an unrelated, say oil lobbyist and ask for help. In a short time, the oil lobbyist would deliver a thoroughly researched paper on the textbooks, usually written by a prominent professor. This was in the hopes that the oil lobbyist would be remembered in the future.
The top comment here was by someone who committed credit card fraud, lol.

On the other hand, I'm sure an insurance company got paid.
No. A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick. There is no bone, there is no skin, there is no cartilage, there is no connective tissue.

Would it not make sense to re-use the circulatory, filtration, energy production, digestive, and excretory systems that evolved over millions of years to locomote chicken flesh, rather than try to re-engineer these systems? Just ditch the brain. If there’s no sentience, what is the ethical difference between this and vat-grown synflesh?
https://archive.is/fDjnU
Sure let me try.