skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For disorganized types, corded headphones are easier to keep track of and needn’t be charged.

This is why I've never bought wireless headphones. You don't need to be disorganized to appreciate the convenience of not having to charge yet another device you want to use on the fly.

Why would I pay more for something that takes more mental bandwidth to use?
You raise some pertinent questions, I'll try to answer them.

> It seems simple in words but consider how many steps, tools, plugins, devices, human intervention are required to achieve it. Is it reliable? Nope. Is it better? Nope.

I had to create this setup because 'I had the need', Browser bookmarks alone just didn't cut it, I have at least a decade of bookmarks, For old bookmarks I have to check every page with a particular tag before I can get some value out of them.

In spite of trying numerous browser bookmark-organizing tools[1], My need wasn't addressed completely.

> You still have to remember those keywords you added so you haven't gotten rid of the memory problem.

Knowledge management suites specifically address this with 'knowledge-graphs'. All I have to do this put some thought into naming the tags when saving(highlighting in my case), link to relevant notes as and when I write them .

Although I wish I could address the memory problem itself[2], I can now also use spaced-repetition for the content I'd like to remember(Even Kindle apps have built-in flash cards feature).

> The problem with "knowledge assimilation" aka note taking is that after a certain point, you have more "knowledge" than you even want. The extra becomes noise.

I don't think I'll ever have more knowledge than I ever need, Intellectual curiosity is what makes life less painful to me; literally and metaphorically.

> I do, however, commend the ingenuity of the OP in making such a system.

Thanks, I like to reiterate that 'I don't claim my-setup to be the best setup for the task', It's evident from this thread that many others use what fits them and 'HN -> Kindle -> Obsidian' happens to be mine.

> I wonder how long it took to set this all up.

As a developer,

HN to Kindle: ~14 hours for the first release, Further development/bug fixes took few minutes to an hour every now and then(Check change log). Not counting the go based web framework I re-use for web application (or) using existing ML models for classification of HN stories.

Kindle to Obsidian: Couple of minutes to find the plugin, Few more minutes to find what I need from Nunjucks template, A week to work with the developer to fix the feature parity with Nunjucks on the plugin(Effort here completely is from the developer).

Obisidan: Since I already use Markdown/ YAML for all my writing, There's was not much of a learning curve here.

I carry on incremental development as I have finite time(due to health reasons) to work on something each day. Someone with lesser constraints could do all the above development within a day.

As for an user, This complete stack could be setup in 10-15 minutes.

Disclosure: The links below are from my problem validation platform, I've linked them to show that I've explored some of the problems stated by the parent.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/57-i-forget-my-web-bookmarks-qu...

[2] https://needgap.com/problems/41-human-memory-lack-of-thereof...
It's the same guys. They're an indie vfx/short-film production house.
The FBI’s email system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings
This is an interesting Post article on that very topic. I used one of my monthly free shares, so you'll be able to read the job even if you don't subscribe.
https://wapo.st/30nLgUm
Jacobson vs. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
An absolutely fantastic series, so much so that they're getting attention from industry professionals, who are coming on the show.
For most basic features, like tiling, Yabai doesn’t need SIP disabled. However, for transparency, borders, and other more complex features, SIP does need to be disabled for Yabai to inject features into the dock.
Solar still relies on fossil fuels (coal!) and other rare earth metals that will be not be sustainable for many years (if ever). Solar prices are dropping, but I don't see how we ever fully divest from fossil fuels.
Yeah I'm reminded of Jason Padgett, who turned into a "math genius" after an accident involving head trauma[0]. Judging from that I rather think that us "normal" people have abilities that are hidden from us, filtered out by our normalcy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6doOmS-eM
I believe the long con is thus:

Meta may be seemingly laughable currently - but assuming the consumerism lifestyle can continue without collapse, grooming ~20% of the global population as they grow, into artificially desiring a more immersive experience during the critical growth years where the effects socio-psychological dopamine pathways are formed, ideally with these formative interactions happening in more-and-more virtual 'metas'...

But I don't think it will win. It would have won had the global stability in almost every pillar of our civilization appears to be de-materializing in front of us.
Jesus Christ, for the last time, upzoning isn't about taking away anyone's home away from them. It's about allowing homes that are currently illegal, not forcing anything.

Some people want what you want, others are fine with less space if it means less money. Upzoning means they get to choose what to do with what property they own.
It’s wild that manhattans population was ~2.5 million in 1910 and is now only ~1.6 million.
I worked at a FAANG (not anymore), and my spouse and many of my friends still do.

There are two ways to do FAANG (very generally). You can care about promotion, or you can not. If you do care, then it's competitive and stressful because perf reviews (and often politics) will determine your fate. If you just want to cruise and have a cushy job, you can do that too, but just accept that you either won't get promoted (or will get promoted very slowly). You may have to transfer to a team where that's easier to do to get away with it, but it's very doable.

(There are some exceptions. If you go in at a very high level, the level expectations will be high and you still have to meet them. That might be what happened with the parent commentor, given the expectation to have broad impact)
There's a lot of people who pay more for something than it's worth.

Good luck to your property values.
What does everyone think of prototext format.
Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
Ha, yikes! I’ll have to try reproducing that, since that sounds like a bug that could happen even under normal circumstances.
Yours is the first one I ever saw that allowed for that kind of movement of the workspace, and I really liked it. I would be willing to use a modifier key to allow for both drag-select and panning of workspace. But I'm just some random on the interweb.
Yes, that is exactly what is happening in Ballard (Seattle area) right now. Those cheap 100 year old low income housing complexes (one or two stories) are being raised for a bunch fo three story townhomes, smart developers can sell each of those town homes for $1 million each, and they could get much less if they kept it as a hotel-like complex. I just bought one of those town homes, so I'm not going to complain too much, but I'm self aware about what is going on here.

So poor people are still getting screwed. My daily walk to the grocery store passes by a few places that are pretty shabby (so low income) and right across the street they are building a bunch of luxury town homes. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen to those shabby places in a year or so.
Densifying actually helps quite a bit. Not sure why you're suggesting otherwise.

Sure, you need to fix other things too, it's not a panacea, but what is?
How would it be very easy to make the battery user replaceable? I don't even know where they stuck the battery.
I wear three pairs of headphones.

1. Sennheiser earbuds that are on a Lightning adapter. I keep them in my desk at work, and use them for phone calls a few times a week.

2. Sony 1000MX or whatever they are called. Bluetooth, noise-cancelling, full size. The battery lasts like 20 hours so they go with me on the airplane and some car rides, but don't use them too much otherwise. They also can be used with a cord which is great when you need that.

3. Aukey Bluetooth earbuds, they are only $18 and "good enough", fit in my laptop sleeve. These get used the most out of any of them.
China enacted population controls for most of 40 years that frequently attract sharp criticism.

India has made family planning widely available, through far less harsh measures.

Globally, population growth peaked in 1969, and has fallen fairly consistently since.

The largest population growth presently is in Africa, not Asia. Mostly in countries which are desperately poor and which have low past and present carbon emissions.

And, as noted, India and China's populations have historically been high. As have their relative shares of global GDP prior to the industrialised era (as calculated in reconstructions, largely by Angus Maddison at the University of Gronigen).

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#pastfuture

https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/?lang...
Believing people are stupid for owning their homes is a rather interesting opinion, especially with the implication that putting the same money in the stock market instead is smarter. It certainly seems higher risk and potentially more lucrative as a result, but you can't live in an ETF. As someone with both a mortgage and ETFs, I've been pleased with the return on both over the years.
It does the latter and unfortunately it doesn't compare to i3/sway for that reason. It feels way too sluggish and clunky, with windows often not conforming to the right size.
I'm working with hex grids in Python right now: https://github.com/RedFT/Hexy is really helpful.
If you want to build trust with your early supporters, I’d recommend putting your team on display. It looks like you’ve invested into a good looking marketing site, but what I’d show off instead are videos and photos of prototypes in the lab and progress that you’re making on the product, with actual team members talking about the problem you’re solving and their inspiration.
> Nobody likes paying taxes. It's literally never a pleasurable or enjoyable experience.

Not disagreeing with your points, but one major reason that it's "never a pleasurable experience" to pay tax in America is that ideologues deliberately designed the process to be as painful as possible, to give taxation a bad name. Sadly, it's working.
Just as an aside, "NASA, but for your climate" is the coolest idea for a government agency. Big climate moonshots, stuff to inspire people. I love it! I wish it could be so.
I think it really just comes down to the skill of the film makers, as it always has.

I think a really good example of this is this comparison between the old and new Dune movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHPkdMGI6D4

The new Dune is masterfully crafted, and I was never once bothered by the CG, even though there was clearly a ton of it. The old Dune, on the other hand...I don't think it's aged particularly gracefully. Then again, I've never been a huge Lynch fan.
illiterate in finance is ignorance, not stupidity.
there are nurses pulling in $200/hr locally (travel nurses usually). Due to shortages, some hospitals are allowing 6 days of work (typically 12 hr shifts) and nurses are making ridiculous amount of money, if they can manage it mentally and physically.
Pandemic is still not over, wireless earbuds are much more convenient with a mask.
> The economy keeps humming along but young people, including myself, are permanently priced out of home ownership and many other things.

I’m going to start calling this “generational red-lining”.
AirPods kinda solved this problem with the wireless charging case. I almost never use them long enough to drain the battery in the headphones before they get put back in the case. At night I put the case on my wireless charging thingy and I don't really ever "think" about charging my AirPods.

My wireless headphones I do occasionally have to think about charging, but they are USB-C and mostly I'm using them on my computer, so whenever they need charging I just unplug my USB-C computer, plug in my headphones for an hour, and then we're back. Not really an operation I think about much either. If I really want to I can then plug in the wired cable and still listen to them while they're charging, but usually I don't bother.
I try to avoid things with irreplaceable batteries as much as possible.
Also, latency. I can't get over it.
I put mine on a wireless charging pad when they are not in my pocket. It takes no extra mental bandwidth.

I have used wired headphones for years, and I prefer headphones to earbuds for both comfort and sound, but it just isn’t true that they are more convenient.
And as much as I'll criticize the way we run farm subsidy programs, I have to say I'm glad that my food isn't stuck on a ship off the coast of California right now.
More accurately: Undefined Behaviour does.

Windows only writes to the location because the program gave it that pointer. It's the program's fault that they gave a pointer to an async API when they didn't first guarantee that said pointer would be valid in the future. Really there should be tooling for catching this kind of thing (there is on Linux but less so on Windows).
I value the thought I have to put into figuring out what to click more than I do the actual effort of clicking.

Also, those numbers aren't as great if you count typing a url in your tap count.
Similar to solar roadways, I would expect there are many reasons to separate the solar panels and the farm.

For example, maybe the solar panels restrict the types of tractors you can use. Maybe the fields sometimes create too much condensation and harm the solar panels. Maybe pesticides damage the solar panels. Maybe the solar panels sometimes block too much sun from reaching the plants. And so on...
I like JSON5 for similar reasons. I specifically like the addition of comments, trailing commas, and keys without quotes.
NYC housing has pushed outwards into Queens and the Bronx, manhattan is less populated these days because it lacks full time residents (the apartments are still sold, but their owners list upstate/Connecticut/long island properties as their permanent addresses, and they have many less occupants in them even when full, not like the turn of the century when more than a few people were crammed into small apartments).

> A lot of NIMBY's tend to go, "well, there's still some areas where it's possible to build more, so there's no real issue there". This is approximately like restricting car manufacturing to one state, and then when car prices go through the roof, saying "well, there's still more land to build car factories there, so I don't see the problem, it couldn't possibly be this rule".

My only point was that making cities more dense seems to make them more desirable, causing more people to want to live there. Yes density is a great thing! But it doesn't solve affordability problems on its own. Can you imagine if San Francisco (6.2k/sqm) had NYC-level density (27k/sqm), would it be more or less affordable? I'm going to go with the less.

What is really holding us back are the American libertarians who are afraid of a public housing system like the one in Singapore.
Probably because your story sounds dubious. Name and shame or forever hold your peace. You're posting from a throwaway account anyway.
I think you're underestimating a few things here re React:

1. Before the React/Vue era, there was so much JS churn and many devs who went through that are not looking to change anytime soon.

2. Even if React goes into keep the lights on mode, what is going to compel someone to not choose React at this point? The uniformity of it in the JS world, the stability, and the flexibility make it a great fit for most use cases. What value proposition is it failing that would make it lose its place as the dominant front end framework?

It would take a massive, worthwhile new paradigm shift to occur in the JS world to unseat React IMO, and I don't see that happening anytime in the next few years simply because there is no need. React works TM which is big.
Anecdotally, I live in the bay area and bought a house 4 years ago in a very desirable location, and my mortgage + property tax is cheaper than the equivalent rent would be.
I have nesting up to three levels deep. I use inline tables^ for the many innermost (or other few-element) tables. It's never seemed excessively verbose.

^https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#inline-table
Does the Kotlin support in Gradle solve your problem? https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html
Your whole tactic during this debate is to just throw lot of technical jargons to try and confuse the reader and to evade the actual fact - all the hardware changes Apple has made has also been done to create a closed system to support the software services.

All the techno-babble spouted by you, to make yourself appear more knowledgeable, and the cheap potshot on me (also an engineer), desperately tries to hide the fact that high performing modular RAM architecture already exist without all the modifications Apple has made to their hardware with the aim to deliberately create an un-repairable and closed system.

I have clearly pointed out how Apple has been converting the macOS into a closed system, on both the hardware and software front, over the years. This is an undisputable fact as the only thing that now distinguishes the M1 Macs and the iPhone / iPad platform is the bootloader.

And looking at Apple's business model, it is only logical that Apple will soon be locking the bootloader of the Macs too, once it reaches a critical level of acceptance (and we are far off from that, for now).

The M1 is undoubtedly a great piece of hardware - but it has been deliberately designed with built-in planned obsolescence. That's good for Apple's profit margin. But not for us consumers.
I do not think communities shouldn't change - they do change and grow all the time. Have you ever been to a town meeting?

>>Would you be willing to pay an uncapped land-value tax on your nicer area?
Of course —WE ALREADY DO—, as pointed out above, everyone already pays much higher taxes - based on land and building value, uncapped - to maintain the environment. (Please do try to keep up and have a clue what you are talking about.)

Those changes are fine and should be decided by those affected, not some set of interlopers who just want to basically steal the value that has been created and maintained over decades or centuries.

The externality here is yours - if you want to come in and destroy the value that has been created and maintained, are you willing to pay the costs of that - both the costs of decreasing the value in place, and the excess costs paid to maintain the value- i.e., pay the delta in taxes as if the town had had the higher population the whole time?
Facebook is going to struggle to get the FTC to clear any acquisition in this political climate
All great points, thanks for the feedback! :)

The smudge tool radius idea was especially interesting and something I’ll need to think about further. Very curious how it would affect the UX for beginners vs power users. Could be a great improvement for touchscreen devices as well.
Yes, it certainly is orchestrated but not necessarily consciously.

Any business looks for results. Media companies will do whatever brings in results. What brings in results? Sowing discord and division because that’s what keeps people coming back. How do we sow division? By making strawmen of anything we don’t understand. When a millennial says “boomer” and when a boomer hears “boomer”, they are talking about completely different things. But the word “boomer” gives us the illusion that we’re all talking about the same thing and that the other person truly is out to “get us”.

These are unfortunate tricks of the mind that are being used to serve our short term ego-gratifying needs. If any progress is to be made, we need to rise above these petty squabbles by focusing on what’s important and not what someone else tells us is important.
Is this going to be true or another marketing-push that ultimately is IBM-lies? I'm thinking of Watson, the AI game changer that was thrown into the dust bin...
SF doesn't rely on groundwater. SF water is piped in from the mountains. And it isn't actually at risk of running out. City water needs are tiny compared to what the farms in California use.
I really don't know if this is correct or not, but one thing I've heard is that low rates disincentivize lending by banks because loans are less profitable. Higher rates will actually encourage lending. Much of the money in circulation comes from the banks because of fractional lending and not from the fed's printing presses. I'm curious if anyone has a take on that.

Also, I think rates need to be looked at in comparison to GDP growth. High rates are fine when GDP growth is greater. If rates shoot higher because the fed is trying to stop runaway supply-side driven inflation while GDP growth is low it could easily kick off a depression.
>Obviously demand is not infinite, but there is no reason to suppose that currently desirable places can be made affordable.

That's a fair point. But no one (at least not in the comments I've read so far) has discussed the converse: making less desirable places (which are affordable) more desirable.

There are many places which have experienced huge population decreases over the past 50 years or so.

And many of those places are in pretty difficult economic circumstances too.

While many of the most lucrative jobs are in or near urban centers (driving up the price of housing in and around those areas), it's clear that many of those same jobs can be done remotely.

And so what's stopping folks from moving from, say, the New York City area to small towns New York, Pennsylvania or Ohio?

The reasons are several and are self-reinforcing:

1. Large urban areas have lots of economic activity, generally leading to improvements in infrastructure and facilities;

2. Small towns have less economic activity, generally leading to fewer improvements in infrastructure and facilities;

3. Young people flock to densely populated areas because that's where other young people are and where opportunities for economic and career advancement exist.

These (and other) issues lead to the high price of housing in densely populated areas and the slow death of small towns.

So what does this have to do with expensive housing in densely populated areas? A lot.

Improving the infrastructure in small towns (municipal (mult-)gigabit fiber to the premise, fast and reliable rail links to population centers, rezoning to allow more rentals -- both houses and apartments, incentives for small businesses, etc., etc., etc.) could make them much more desirable places to live.

Those, combined with the ability to work remotely, could remedy a significant portion of the housing price issues we face.

If a small town could support remote knowledge workers, other people and businesses would move in to support them.

Over the long term (50+ years), this could significantly redistribute population (and housing) in ways that would be a huge benefit to the economy.

Unfortunately, most people and corporations are only concerned about the next quarter or, at most, the next fiscal year.

There are valid, sustainable ways to deal with these issues, but unless we focus on the medium to long term (10-50 years), it will never happen.

More's the pity.
I’d argue it’s more irresponsible to not lever up given current fed policy.
Screenshots wouldn't help explain what it is, it would just tell everyone what this window manager would look like? Why wouldn't you have screenshots, it's a window manager, who would download without first seeing what it looks like?
Not really. Almost every major distro comes with all those tools prepackaged.