skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Evernote. I have 18k notes and growing. I really want to like these markdown apps (a long time ago I used org-mode) but at the end of the day, there is always something missing that Evernote has:

In Evernote,

- sharing folders with other people is easy.

- I can easily publish notes to send to other people that don't use the app.

- I can forward e-mails to my note-taking system.

- I can use IFTTT to automatically import stuff.

- I can manage tasks (since the very nice new Tasks feature).

- I can easily put files in the notes, just drag and drop.

Yes, it is slow, but it is getting faster (progress is noticeable) and it works well, despite all the problems.

The only thing I would really like to have that Evernote is missing is backlinks and an interface to make linking easier, such as the Ctrl-K feature in Google Docs, which allows searching the document titles to find the one you want to link to.

By the way, in his last blog post, the CEO said that their revenue is increasing, so I guess people are voting with their wallets.

https://evernote.com/blog/ceo-update-january-2022/
Everyone can give their opinion on UX choices, this is something higher up can discuss at lenght. It is much more involving to discuss engineering topics and the time scale is different. Overhall it is easier for designers to develop accointance with top management (as compared with engineers). Engineers would love to do what designers do: propose massive changes every years. They don't for engineering reasons.

Is there such a thing as design continuity? or granular design change?
No playgrounds have been closed due to covid since the very early days of the pandemic when noone had any idea how infectious or deadly the disease was.

At that point, since you didn't know any more about the epidemiology of covid than the experts, I should hope you had another reason to stay away not just arbitrary rule following or social pressure.
People here probably don't want to hear this, but if there's going to be any social evolution to the next level, it will probably be 50+ years from now, when future generations will recognize that consumption/excessive consumption of the following substances should be banned:

* tobacco (completely banned, I don't think there's any reasonable amount of tobacco its users could use where its positive aspects outweigh the negative)

* alcohol

* sugar (this is a super complicated thing and it would have to include controlling how much added sugar each food has, what kinds of food are even allowed to have sugar in them - sauerkraut isn't supposed to have any sugar, US! - plus probably some active measures both positive and punitive against morbid obesity)

* all recreational and non-recreational drugs

* coffee/caffeine and all associated beverages

* probably vaping

Yes, this will probably take all fun in (current) life, we'll need to find new ways to have fun without these substances. We're quite smart, I'm sure we'll find a way. We'll just need to re-architect our societies, ergo "social evolution"/"50+ years from now").

But otherwise I don't think it's feasible to live 120+ years and to have everyone fully functional. It would probably also help those fallen on hard times (this would also require that everyone becomes much better at exercising their empathy, which is probably the <<really>> hard problem here).

Again, just because this doesn't sound like a fun world or a world you'd want to live in, it doesn't mean it couldn't be. Just like with everything about the future, it could just be a failure of imagination: <<you>> can't see how that could be, but people in the future might be able to make it work in new and interesting ways.

I imagine that 200 years from now we might look back at using all these substances as something as dumb as drawing blood with leeches for a migraine or something.
I didn't notice that ad blocker blocker on Firefox + uBlock Origin.
I think that's for a lot of people. Only 13 days ago we had a fairly big thread that was Apple ID related [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850665
It's entirely possible to build a 'dumbphone' with a nano sized linux SBC(like a Pi zero) and a 4G add-on board.

You'd really have to want to do this though, but it would be a good learning project.
> I don't really see the problem with ads that discriminate based on profession or income.

For me it's always been about control.

If the surveillance companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) used opt-in or honoured the Do Not Track header all this could be avoided.

Those that want tracked and targeted ads could request them and those that don't would be left alone.

Instead, by refusing to not honour, Do Not Track or using Dark UX Patterns to make it hard to opt out[1] they're affectively saying, "tough luck, we're going to do whatever we want regardless".

It's a race to the bottom to see which company can get away with being the most obnoxious.

We're left with legal means as the only curbs their behaviour.

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1. Why do so many web sites get away with an "Allow All" but no reliable[2] "Reject All"?

2. Why is there a second set of things to opt out of as "Legitimate Purpose"? Why doesn't the "Reject All", when present, not cover these too?
This is a compatibility layer for the older mount APIs, for file system drivers hat don't utilize the newer API yet.

The newer mount API is called `fs_context`, and you can read the LWN article about it here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/780267/ ["VFS: Introduce filesystem context"]
Does it support voip? Calling family regularly abroad.
In fact, they're wrong because of a much more subtle and little-known example. The village of Luzaide/Valcarlos (Basque/Castilian names) in Navarre is actually on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees by a tiny bit:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzaide/Valcarlos

- https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/343733
Vaporization of cannabis without tobacco makes lungs a moot point though.
No, the old Java Application Servers rebranded for Java haters.
My sister has a typical android smartphone and says the screen is too small for youtube and web browsing and prefers a notebook for those tasks.
Most recreational and non-recreational drugs are banned, alcohol was also banned. How well has this gone?
Show HN: Mini tool to check the copy of your website
Hi HN,

I spend last weekend improving the copy of my landing page. In that process, I came across a bunch of articles prescribing which words to use and which ones not to use.

I found it tedious to check for for the words manually so I created a tiny app to do it for me. Right now it checks for the use of hedge, weasel and filler words. I also went through a lot of marketing websites to check words they recommend and suggest not to use.

It's very bare bone but I am curious to get some opinions about how to improve it.
> not quite as bad as Windows having two oddly named Program Files directories, but still

At least three, if you inclde "Roaming\Appdata" (or is it "Appdata\Roaming"?), which is also a program files directory nowadays.

As for Linux, yeah... Either stick with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or -- if it's time to revolutionise the directory structure -- maybe something like what GoboLinux (et al?) are doing.
Nobody is going to do that are they, it's insane for tax jurisdictions to want to do this they are just doing themselves out of 10% rather than winning 55%.
Let's invent new laws of physics and hope the universe adopts them.
You'd be lucky to live to 80 if you ban all that, let alone 120+..
More and more it appears that k8s is designed to extract maximum value from the tenants of the cloud companies.

You need to connect your cluster to public Internet? No problem that's $x for each load balancer (whether its needed or not).

Ohh you are feeling the whole thing feels like a blackbox and difficult to debug or observe? No problem that is $x for data dog.

Gcp is the worst when it comes to setting up k8s with preemptive nodes. Thought you could get away with preemptive nodes? Not so fast, we restart all the nodes together at end of 24 hours period so that your multi node cluster will have zero availability for 5 minutes everyday. Or jump through hoops to killing your own nodes periodically to keep them all restarting at the same time.
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Plain old denialism.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but substack would seem to be an example of quite a bit of success for writers.
How does this compare to postal secrecy laws? Post has a special place in law, right? Opening someone's post without a warrant is potentially a serious crime, right?

I'd be happy with something equivalent for encryption: private and protected by default, court warrant can force user to disclose. If it's gone, well...

Clearly, this isn't what's proposed here.
>We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020)

Hmmm
Not well, because the social structure isn't in place.

People need to come to a general consensus that alcohol is bad and it needs to go on its own. And you need to come up with alternative supporting measures. For example people use alcohol to work around social pressures, so we would need to find a way to diminish those.

This is not something you let extremists enforce.

I am aware that I'm asking for something close to impossible in the current climate.
What do you mean?

a) You bring two sets of high quality hams from Spain, one cured and the other raw

b) You cross the border in and out with the raw hams, and tell the customs clerk "I'll come back the processed product"

c) You cross the border again with the cured hams "that was quick, eh?"

d) You dispose of the raw hams selling them at a high discount on a roadside stand

I guess you can do it even more efficiently changing slightly the first two steps:

a) You bring a thousand cured hams and a single raw ham

b) You cross the border in and out a thousand times with the (only) raw ham you have

That improves the economics of the scheme, but makes it look even more fishy.
So, if we get consumerism accepted as a religion, does that make all ads for products one can buy banned?

Who wanna join? :D
Sounds like it.

There was a food truck at Cornell when I was there, Hot Truck, an institution on West Campus for late night food. They had a bunch of French bread pizzas, referred to in initial code. PMP (poor mans pizza), WGC(white garlic and cheese) and the always interesting WTF (chefs choice).

I feel that if it plausibly goes with bread and cheese, or if it’s street food, then it will probably work on a pizza.
How does Textual compares to Urwid? And Rich to Blessed?

I'm currently using my own implementation for style/colors and tables in my main CLI tool, including highlighting with Pygments, and I'm wondering if it would make sense to move to Rich (it would a least bring Windows and Mac support).

Regarding progress bars, Python Prompt Toolkit already implements them, thus I have the feeling that Rich is quite redundant. Any feedback from experienced user?
Ouch.

UK comparison: my mother spent the last few months of her life in an Alzheimer’s care home 3 miles from the family home, and that was “only” £1,000/week.

Owing to the pandemic, I wasn’t able to see the place in person, but it looked pleasant enough on video call.
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Have you considered Jriver cloudplay: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Cloudplay
It's not free but Jriver is a pretty good media player for local files.
The one downside of Jriver is their android/apple apps are a bit crap, but there are 3rd party alternatives.
Bessel died in 1846, long before the big Krakatoa eruption.
And that's a failure of our current society.

A general failure of imagination and empathy, that we need to lean on these abuses to remain functional.
Most small-medium businesses have chaotic data structures - if any. I've seen this first-hand at the data science consultancy I work at. Spreadsheets are spread by email, nothing’s up to date, reports take weeks to compile, etc.

We've launched an automated data management tool, Insights, to combat this issue.

Insights provides you with business-ready data, from multiple sources, in a single location (a Snowflake data warehouse which we set up for you).

It connects to your various data sources - like Salesforce, Hubspot, and Quickbooks - and delivers the data to a cloud-based data warehouse automatically, every day.

It's kinda like Matillion or Mitto's ETL+ tools, but even simpler to use and far more affordable. Not a single line of code required.

Would love to hear any feedback on the product or the landscape we're headed into, or to pick up a few early users!
Everyone who has ever crashed in a car first entered a car.
My mother tongue is Catalan, which is as Spanish as Castilian itself.

The problem is that both Catalan and Spanish nationalists like the idea to identify Castilian with Spanish. The Catalan separatists like that because it is the proof they are not Spaniards, since Catalan is not from Spain, and the Spanish nationalists like it because it puts the other Spanish language in a second level, something they love.
Yay the kind of « monstrosity » that all apps are moving to because that’s objectively what 90% of users prefer.
This reminds me of puzzles (as in physical 1000 piece things) in the 90s. It was cheaper to manufacture them somewhere, import them, export them to Spain, import them again than sell them straight from the country of origin which I think was Finland. All the while the stuff never moved and it was all on paper afaik. The lettering had to be in Spanish though but it's a puzzle, you know how it works.
>You are arguing that it is not. That some contexts don’t deserve encryption.

Personally I believe that it is worth considering as a society whether adding a mechanism for a message to also be decrypted by law enforcement if they have a warrant would be beneficial or not.

I am not saying that encryption should be removed. I am suggesting we use more cryptography to replicate what we had before, but with extra benefits like removing third parties from being able to easily see or tamper with your messages.
As a continuous overthinker, I switched from admonishing myself for losing my train of thought to feeling relief for a brief moment of thoughtlessness.

In terms of evolutionary biology, all forms of life develop memory first. Only once sufficiently resilient, an organism can begin to learn to forget things. Forgetting is an incredibly valuable tool. Don't diss it. Embrace the train of thought going off the rails every now and then.

If it was important, it'll come back. If not, congratulations, you've just made space in your brain for new memories!
WASM being the “new k8s” is only one small fragment of where it is going to go. I think there is a good chance it’s going to become the defacto deployment target for a lot of software, so in addition to browser and server:

- Plugins for desktop/mobile apps, wasm provides a nicely sandboxed environment for them.

- Gaming, the combination of WASM and WebGPU will be the perfect platform for cross platform game development. I could see Steam, for example, creating their own runtime.

- Embedded electronics, simplifying the development and deployment of IoT devices.

When it comes to wasm on the server, it’s often talked about as targeting the “edge”. I believe this the next area of massive growth, however the part that I don’t think is fully solved yet is on the database side. If your server app is making multiple database calls from the edge to a central db there is a good chance that it will slower than a traditional (single location) deployment.

What’s needed is a edge first database, we need at least read replicas to be at the edge with your app. Fly.io have something like this with their Postgres’s product. The alternative is to use an eventually consistent db such as CouchBD, but that causes other problems. I’m interested to see if CloudFlare do anything in this area as it’s the part of their stack that’s missing.
> But my main point is that HideousKojima's "statically-typed" solution would result in a runtime type error if it was given unexpected input, just like a dynamically typed solution.

I don't think HideousKojima ever called it a "statically-typed solution". Their point was that statically-typed languages still let you write unchecked code when you want to - and yes, of course such unchecked code can fail at runtime - but give you the option of having checking in the cases where you want it.
It will never disappear and chemically altering your mind is IMO an unalienable right as a human being in possession of their own body. Plenty of experiences have downsides at scale, no reason to shut them off.
It is Friday morning and I'm dead tired. Before Covid-19 I was dead tired on Friday afternoon. :'(
Shipping self contained modules, this whole things sounds like reinventing what the jvm is.
The vast majority of sexual violence is from people they know, mostly in situations where you wouldn’t call the police on the spot.

Victims of street crimes are usually men.

So which is it- is whiteness the problem because white women are also very susceptible to sexual assault, or is maleness the problem because men are the primary victims?

You don’t have a monopoly on victimization.
Being fair about memory safety and performance
lmao legend, thanks a lot
Are alcohol and light drugs really helping or just covering the problem?

Keep in mind that a psychiatric hospital is working on actual psychiatric disorders, i.e. super serious medical problems (where your brain is rewired in "interesting" new ways, possibly forever). We're not discussing about a psychologist here, who's working on what are comparatively mild conditions.
Have you ever tried 1Password ? I think most people who tried both will tell you that the experience is night and day. Cross-device, cross-app integrations, password sharing, etc. Like most old-school open source software, Keepass was built without UX in mind at all.
TLDs like .co and .net are not new.
Did that behavior change at some point? I'm on Big Sur and clicking on an unfocused window will focus it and trigger whatever button your mouse landed on.

Edit: it seems to depend on the kind of button(?)
most tech stocks still much better than they were 1 year ago... it is just a very very small correction, nothing really crashed and there is nothing to panic at all.

to avoid recency bias, take a look at history and I mean from 1910-2010, at this perspective, few weeks are barely visible.
They installed ElevenClock and forgot about it.
It isn't physically addictive but it is mentally addictive and in this regard it will affect different people differently. I personally found it quite difficult to stop, it took over 5 years. Regardless I support its legalisation.
effective for long term employees who would benefit from physical close-proximity (the water-cooler style propagation of ideas for example)

You can still have those when you work remotely. There just needs to be a mechanism set up to actively share things - where I work at the moment we have a weekly "web engineers" huddle to share ideas, tools, and articles we've found. We have Slack and stuff as well obviously, and we talk to each other, but there needs to be something slightly more formal when you're remote.

FWIW I've also worked in companies that had no "water-cooler chat" despite being physically present. You have to consciously want to talk to people, and some companies are full of people who just don't.
I get a Heroku application error, but very curious!
Can you scale each region based on usage i.e. have a huge server in US or Europe and a tiny one in a market you don't have many users in? fly.io is really an incredible piece of work, I'll probably just default to it as I am a massive Elixir fanboy :-)

As others have said $50 seems a very low starting point but if you can make it cheaper why not, just means you've helped more people onto your service and they will grow with you.
Vaporization technology exists. Zero smoke is produced.
above now :). I can do it again. Zeus allows you to generate client library from schema - not from queries. Then you can write queries in TS, you will receive:
- typed args
- typed response

It also offers selectors from which you can create typings for your response objects if you are persisting those somewhere in state, so yeah it is a game changer not only for GraphQL, but for communication with backend and Frontend developer experience.

To be honest it has also some cons, for example:
- variables are custom implementation and don't have typings as for now
- some edge cases are not supported yet

Here are full docs:
https://zeus.graphqleditor.com/
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IRBs implement the law. Here in the Netherlands the law specifically has exceptions for releasing data if it's in the interest of public health. It's weighed against other concerns of course but it's not impossible
Not for "home network": https://ibb.co/59yFDT5
Think of it this way: what if to become a next level civilization, to live forever and travel to space and teleport and whatever, there's a general consensus that we need to stop using them.

I think people would do it.
A Brief Analysis of the Apollo Guidance Computer [pdf]
The form of this advertisement annoys me, it starts out sounding like an actual article and when you reach down a bit, the sentiment behind the argument becomes glaringly obvious "you probably don't need A because you can get B from us instead".

That said, I also disagree, both with the "you don't need" part and the "knowledge garden" idea in general.. A website, with some articles, is super useful because you're writing it for "someone who does not know what you do" and that person.. is future you = best notes ever.
It was a direct fucking quote from the movie.
I grew up with SM my whole life. I discovered that in a way became my safe space. Meaning that when i want to procrastinate because i fear doing something ( fear failure. Like right now that i want to study for my exams) i turn to that. When i close the tabs i feel a sense of what i will do now and i major FOMO. Maybe i built up an behavioral addiction. I don't question browsing on fb, twitter, hn but i question why i want to read this book and if it's pointless.
Neither did I using Brave.
NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS
Definitely had a unique voice and style. I discovered him through Rocky Horror and always appreciated how he seemed to make exactly the kind of music he wanted and didn’t care what anyone thought or what was popular at the time.
> You think huge factories producing alcohol and all the issues associated with it are justified?

Humans also don't "naturally" need to be writing fictions, or draw pictures or make movies. And conversely, murder is pretty natural - take a look at how often it happens in nature!

Whether something is "natural" or not is a bit irrelevant - the big question is whether the action should be acceptable for humans to do. Drinking alcohol affects the person drinking it, but it gives them some comfort, or happiness. As long as they don't drink so much that it harms another person, i say they can do what they wish!

Same with pot and other recreational drugs.
Moniac: A water-based analogue computer used to model the UK economy
Apple and Google have too much power via the app stores to ever allow pure web apps to become significantly viable competitors to native apps.
You gotta fuck shit up every now and again to take the easy victories when you unfuck what you previously fucked.
Life is plenty worth living without this stuff. But I guess we can't really come to an agreement since you've just defined people like me as "pigs in cages".