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I’m interested in emacs / org-mode / org-roam. My goal is to have a local notes solution (replacing Obsidian, Apple Notes), and have the notes automatically published on the web as a crosslinked personal knowledge base. I have somewhat achieved this with Obsidian/markdown files + git + Hugo + Render. I write stuff. Check it into git. Push, and it deploys as a website. Feel pretty good about cobbling that together. But Obsidian/markdown is tough to replicate the cross-link nature & ease or use of a wiki, and it still doesn’t help out with Task, calendar, etc.

I’ve taken a couple swings at setting up Emacs… oof, but as a newbie to the ecosystem, but frankly its just been tough to plow through. Each guide/tutorial seems to have a whole different set of packages, settings, etc; then we get into Doom emacs, etc. I’ve got keyboard shortcuts printed out - but I still end up in weird jams where Emacs has opened up 3+ panes (buffers), and I can’t figure how to even close/quit them.

Truly, it reminds me of when I jumped head first in the Java ecosystem, trying to figure out (1) java, (2) intelliJ, (3) Spring boot. Too many simultaneous brain battles…

What I’m hoping to find is a “Zero to Functioning personal information system (notes, todo, contacts, calendar, kb)” guide. I suppose, written for a willing & motivated newb?

From reddit, online tutorials, walkthru videos - it SEEMS the pieces are out there. But I’m hoping to find the guy who figured this all out a year ago, documented a functional-but-opinionated stack / workflow, and I could follow that for awhile (as training wheels).

Can anyone suggest something like this? I’d be even be willing to pair up with someone and document/publish this, if it doesn’t exist.

I mentioned it on another Emacs HN thread: I’m convinced of the power of this stack, but I’m hoping someone does the “Unix —> NeXT -> MacOS”, and puts together the Easy Button of this.

For example, my brother is writing a book - he’s not super technical but can get around. I can tell that he would benefit from this system - but I can’t fairly recommend it, because hell - I haven’t been able to coherently get it to work, and doubting he would want to be modifying init files and all that.

Hoping this plea for Emacs help reaches a previously frustrated newbie who figured it out, who can help me out (and others). Thanks!
And yet doesn't history also show us that it gets sorted out eventually? Even, sadly, though that may mean generations of rebellion, war, strife, hardship....
How many GW of coal plants are being built brand new in Asia right now? It's very high. These will operate for decades.

What are we to do? Tell them to stop? Tried that unsuccessfully. I would ignore us if I were them. USA and Europe still emits tons of CO2. Has been emitting worse then them for many many decades. This carbon emitting elevated much of the wealth of the country. We are basically telling them to not become wealthy like us. They wonder why we haven't done much to reduce emissions.

We were too late, it's happening now. What do we need to do. Ignore carbon taxes that do nothing.

Instead, build renewables, build batteries, build solar panels. The remaining amount of fossil fuels is a hard limit. Staying on them is idiotic to say the least.

It's not just transportation and centralized energy production. Plastics, lubricants, wax, sulphur, ashphalt are other products of oil. What are the non-petroleum options?

We also need non-carbon emitting things like concrete.

Why do we just go to it? No regulations, no taxes, maybe even funding for any corporations who work on doing these things?

Wait nobody is doing this? The government is restricting and slowing this effort?

Actions speak louder than words, why are the world's nations saying they'll do something while their actions say they have no intention to do anything?

Is there an unspoken denial of climate change by the world?
Not exactly. All the ideas put forth in these demos are really arbitrary, with nothing whatsoever to say. Generating crap art becomes more and more effortless: we've seen this in music as well.

Jumping out of the conceptual box to generate novel PURPOSE is not the domain of a Dall-E 2. You've still gotta ask it for things. It's a paintbrush. Without a coherent story, it's an increasingly impressive stunt (or a form of very sophisticated 'retouching brush').

If you can imagine better than the next guy, Dall-E 2 is your new tool for expression. But what is 'better'?
Large chunks, yes, but all that means is that engineers will move up the abstraction stack and become more efficient, not that engineers will be replaced.

Bytecode -> Assembly -> C -> higher level languages -> AI-assisted higher-level languages
...how about focusing instead on how to live through this climate "disaster"?!

Let's be honest about it, most developed countries are making geo-strategic decisions in the context of +7 C in <= 100 years... we're just not being f honest about it! (Avoiding it is off the table, just as well as "zero covid" was off the table since month three of the f pandemic and we should've just accepted that it's gonna become endemic and most measures are waste of resources.)

Let's accept that "massive" climate change will happen, and that our goal is how to slow things down and how to avoid it being an actual disaster for HUMANITY!

(It will be a disaster for many other species that we'll go extinct as we'll probably massively increase use of herbicides and fertilizers and GMOs in order to satisfy humanity's material needs against a backdrop of populations displacements and fertile lands distribution shifts. But it doesn't have to be a disaster for humanity... ugly as it may be, it's a live-and-let-die universe and irreversible biodiversity loss will happen, but humans are quite capable of not only maintaining but also accelerating, as it's our duty to, technological and scientific progress, as long as we don't stupidly turn against each-other! We have and entire universe to infect and conquer ffs, let's just not kill each other in the next century!)
Vulcan anarchism.

My point was only that it's a form of religious faith to think that our current form of international corporatism is the only way to generate wealth in the future. I don't even think it's doing a particularly good job of that now.
im not even making a value judgement. just pointing out that is the trajectory we are on.

me personally? i saw all of this coming, bought farmland. started a market garden and cows+chickens on rotational grazing.

no oil required to produce food.

a lower standard of living for everyone is fine with me.
Germany is going to need nuclear weapons soon as well. The U.S. is not a long term stable partner, the UK is out of the EU so now they can only depend on France for deterrent. That’s probably not enough with a hostile neighbor in the east.
My friends and I call this the "complexity hump". Some people never get over it.
I find Gessen's characterization of Russia as totalitarian confusing. Totalitarianism in particular in the historical sense that Gessen uses when they draw parallels to the 20th century requires complete popular mobilization. The people are united in society, society is united by rulers, the rulers all culminate in the singular dictator, and so forth.

However Gessen correctly points out that loneliness and atomization is everywhere in Russia. It may be repressive, but there's hardly a level of energy, ideology or unification in Russia that could render it totalitarian. The same is true almost anywhere in the modern world. Nowhere are there going to be millions of brownshirts patrolling the streets for the party.

I mean, even today you can argue with Russians on the internet, the country is still as weird as it may seem more liberal right now than it was during any point in the 20th century. There's state television and crazy commentators of course but the reason the war can continue if anything seems to be more indifference than zealous support.

Russia today is a society that runs on fumes, and the grandiose predictions by Gessen like 'nuclear strikes on Poland', or breakups rest on comparisons to the high energy, combustive situation in 20th century Europe. Even characterizing the war as 'big and imperial' seems sketchy when it is downplayed as a special military operation, hidden from the people and being fought by a professional army and private military contractors in a fundamentally 21st century almost hybrid way.
I agree with the sentiment that people should evaluate whether or not they need an external service to run their builds.

That said, there are a number of reasons to not use the Jenkins server in the office:

1) Someone on staff needs to maintain it.

2) A single hardware failure can cause significant downtime.

3) Your office internet service may have limited bandwidth and be a bottleneck for your build or artifact deployment

4) Having your server on-site may be considered a security risk.

I'm not saying that a server in the office is a bad idea, I'm just saying that each business needs to consider the advantages and disadvantages. I'm sure there are those who could get by just fine with a server in the office.
To be fair, DMARC quarantining is actually a pain in the ass and will likely break things for people outside of engineering or IT. In a growing or big company, there are always more and more legitimate emails from third-party senders added all the time.

I agree that reviewing is the first step, but not everyone needs to take further steps. And I highly doubt CircleCI is unique here. I think it's a massive leap to conclude "lack of confidence in taking their infrastructure seriously" from not knowing the reason why they haven't flipped the switch from none to reject or quarantine.

Technically sophisticated users know that email spoofing is already rampant and to watch for signs of it in their email client. I'm not saying it's not a good idea, but that flipping the switch is not that simple and comes with significant downsides in a company with many services and users.

IMO I think going to the next level with DMARC is usually more of a prioritization or cost-benefit analysis type decision than a competence once.
American, Canada, Australia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, are a short list of countries who emit a ridiculously disproportionate amount of carbon per capita. [0]

The assumption that reduction of carbon emissions is a reduction of standard of living is flawed. A long list of developed countries have a tiny footprint per capita. Standard of living and living wastefully are not the same thing.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
i sort of disagree.

people want to copy google because 1) they like smart, complex things 2) they want to work on complex things.

nobody got an award and praise for choosing the simplest thing that could work, doing that and building a service that is so reliable that nobody knows it actually exists (ie no problems or incidents).

also, the tragedy of software development is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease and that pyromaniacs are working as firefighters. and are rewarded and promoted based on their firefighting skills.
in contrast a well build house, with proper fire retardant materials, sprinkler systems and proper ventilation is meh and not exciting.
It is not pretty plausible. It is fact. The claims are strictly about cache. It barely even mentions the architecture except when relevant.
This reminds me of the holodeck in Star Trek. Someone could walk into the Holodeck and say “make a table in the center of the room. Make it look old.” It seemed amazing to me that the computer could make anything and customize it with voice. We are pretty close to star trek technology now in computer ability (ship’s computer, not Commander Data). I guess to really be like the holodeck it needs to be able to do 3d and be in real time but that seems a lot closer now. It will be cool when this could be in VR and we can say make an astronaut riding a horse, then we can jump on the back of the horse and ride to a secret moon base.
Scala 3 has put in some specific replacements for the main use cases of implicits, which IMO is a worse approach and a step backwards but I guess you might prefer that. The syntax has been pushed to be a bit more Python-like, but again I don't know if that'll be a plus or minus for you. But on the last point Scala has had "Opaque types" for 3+ years now, and IMO that's a better alternative to what Project Valhalla is trying to do for the cases that it covers.
Welcome to greener pastures :)

Been on BK for about 6mo now and still loving it.
This is not true - prior art is still a test for striking down a patent in court, it is just not taken into account when two entities are competing to file the same patent at the same time.
> and have only changed the price once ($10 more)

Good thing that you only refreshed your browser once while using it.
Which is great when everyone likes each other. Which traditionally is a dubious bet to place in Europe when losing it results in serious things like ‘will all the old people freeze to death tomorrow because we don’t have enough electrical capacity’.
This place wouldn’t happen to be in Pasadena would it?
With regard to countries... it was a short few decades ago when the left used to clamor and demand self-determination of countries and anti-imperialism.

But today we see exactly the opposite. That countries do not have a right for self determination and that unelected bodies can dictate form afar what countries should do whether or not they are signatories to an agreement or not. That imposition of extra national law is imperialism --not by a country but by elite leadership. If we were to vote democratically from one global pool of voters, would we agree to what the masses from those countries vote for?
I think a person deserves to get elderly care when needed...I was moreso talking about the fact that no one in the world will literally care about the childless person, because no one younger will be in their life. I think people who decide not to have kids often privilege their well being in their 30s-50s without thinking about how poor and lonely the last 30 years of their lives might be. It's just another angle to consider in this complex decision.
Americans adore the idea that just because it wasnt written down, it somehow holds no value to the parties involved. History remembers a broken promise differently...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

Not once, but three times, Baker tried out the “not one inch eastward” formula with Gorbachev in the February 9, 1990, meeting. He agreed with Gorbachev’s statement in response to the assurances that “NATO expansion is unacceptable.” Baker assured Gorbachev that “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place,” and that the Americans understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.”
I'd wager that employers/corporates are precisely their target market with this sort of pricing.
And yet the Obama's just built a mutli-million dollar mansion in Martha's Vineyard - at sea level.

Obama is a climate denier?
> Emeralds from a mine in Zambia, a country that had similar apartheid laws stemming from the fact that they were ruled by the same Britain that ruled South Africa, isn't exactly lying. The OP's details were just a bit fuzzy.

Zambia wasn't apartheid.
Yes, but who cares whose responsible? Are you telling me you're going to find the guy who photoshopped the picture and jail him? Legally that's possible, realistically it's a fiction.

They did this to stop bad PR, because some people are convinced that an AI making pictures is in some way dangerous to society. It is not. We have deepfakes already. We've had photoshop for so long. There is no danger. Even if there was, the cat's out of the bag already.

Reasonable people already know to distrust photographic evidence nowadays that is not corroborated. The ones who don't would believe it without the photo regardless.
Definitely a bit off topic from me, apologies!

I think I was mainly writing in agreement with the article’s closing:

> What we’re all imploring you to do is to think! And to actually understand the problem you are trying to solve.
I meant “services”, not “devices”… My autocorrect is a bit too zealous…
Improving the Performance of an Antlr Parser
What I do think is true:

In UK / Germany, a PhD can carry more of an apprenticeship feel with higher pay, compared to a US PhD where you are working for very little money compared to what you might make using your undergrad degree in industry.

But I share your disagreement that US PhD is intended to only lead to academia - it seems like it as often leads to:

- Paying ones way through grad school (you get a masters / course work out of it too). Dirty secret: you can bale on your PhD with a masters

- Corporate research (pays as well as anything)

- Corporate engineering job in environment where deep expertise is valuable

There's a pay bonus to having a PhD (at least in robotics) but the opportunity cost vs working in industry indicates to me that getting a PhD just for the credential / higher pay is not a good idea. Do it because you love to have more time to learn deeply and to conduct research. And know you have a lot of options should you want to go into industry - at any time - during your PhD if you drop out, or after.

(I say all this as someone without a PhD who's been working in research labs and among PhDs at companies for a while).
The main point of this article wasn't that these things are never needed or don't solve a real problem, but rather that a lot of people use them "because hype" without a good understanding of their problems, the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, etc.

UNPHAT is a good approach. Any webshop essentially has Amazon's "a failed add to cart will lose us money"-problem and there are a lot of webshops out there, so it's even a common problem! Cassandra may be a good choice even for a smaller webshop (I'm not familiar with it myself, and may be a poor trade-off with respect of ROI, but that's another thing), but it's definitely not a good fit for a lot of other things like batch jobs.

At my current $dayjob we run a low-volume high-profit B2B business; we have a few hundred customers, and it'll never be more than a few thousand – several ten thousand at the most if we end up wildly successful. It's a whole forest of microservices and will scale to the moon, but it's also pretty complex and difficult to work with. All that for a fairly small customer base using a fairly basic web UI they rarely log in to. We do actually have high-availability requirements in the core business, but that's separate from the management UI. It's a good example of not having understood the actual problems and just using something "because I read about it on Hacker News".
If you can’t identify the interlocutors who aren’t sincere, the necessary discussion won’t go anywhere useful. And many of those discussing climate change are absolutely insincere. You see it here in these comments with “it’s the West’s fault” and “capitalism is the problem”.
It's kind of funny (or sad?) that they're censoring it like this, and then saying that the product can "create art"

It makes me wonder what they're planning to do with this? If they're deliberately restricting the training data, it means their goal isn't to make the best AI they possibly can. They probably have some commercial applications in mind where violent/hateful/adult content wouldn't be beneficial. Children's books? Stock photos? Mainstream entertainment is definitely out. I could see a tool like this being useful during pre-production of films and games, but an AI that can't generate violent/adult content wouldn't be all that useful in those industries.
I can one can even say for those in these larger companies that you are also not the part of the elite core products. You are not on Google search, or AWS cloud, and so on. You are on that crappy Analytics dashboard that’s slow and confusing.
Growth. Every government on Earth is based around growth. To question growth is taboo, in the religious sense of the word. In most modern societies, in fact, it is more acceptable to question religion than it is to question growth.

Growth is the goal of every central bank, every parliament, every authoritarian, every economic or political entity with any legitimacy.

And this religious belief in growth is looking like it is going to kill us.
A lot of employers do as well. I can’t think of a cheaper continuing education type of service that a company can provide.

If they don’t, your manager could probably get it approved with little effort.
I’d stomach the holier than thou attitude more if we didn’t just experience the SoftBank WeWork era of “real” companies being just as fraudulent and pumped by hype as dogecoin.
>We can stop using fossil fuels. Electric and renewable can work to replace all our needs, and we can modify our lifestyles otherwise. It isn't great but it is the best alternative.

That's such a ridiculous statement in face of recent events - Europe can't even replace fossil fuels imported from Russia in years from now with the insane political will behind such a move - and this is some of the richest countries in the world with very left leaning/pro green energy governments. This isn't replacing fossil fuels - it's replacing one source of fuels used with another.
Consider Ronald Raegan's 1987 speech to the UN, famous for its mention of an alien threat. I'm convinced the UN really took it to heart that they need to invent a common enemy to unite the world toward countering an existential threat rather than fighting each other.

> “Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity,”

> “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond,"

> “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”

Personally I don't think the anxiety and mental breaks I've seen in my millenial and gen-z peers from the whole "11 years left to do something" is really worth it, what good is world peace if our lives are defined by guilt and hopelessness.
I call it Resume Driven Development!
These diagrams could practically describe any processor, they are not even x86 specific. The fact that the layout of the figures is similar is kind of suspicious but I would guess they just come from the same decades-old book (or patent).
They do reuse these type of quasi-standard figures quite often in order to churn out patents faster and faster. You'll find the actual new content (probably minuscule) somewhere in the claims. The patent system is just that ridiculous.
> What can't be done this way is dictated by my manager. I have to implement it as specified in JIRA. There's very little room for creativity.

This isn't really an open source thing... if you replace it with $TEAM_IN_CHEAP_REGION it's nothing new.

Psychopathic managers just see FOSS as the new team in India, team in China except it costs $0.

One way might be to negotiate some time to contribute to the projects to get features mentioned in the Jira. Then you could code again, get public recogonition and help others.
Can someone rephrase the question so as to make it easier to understand? I don't understand it.