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Show HN: Org-mode reader, setup for a collaborationtool
My hatred for Confluence, Notion et al. has motivated me to explore prototyping a seedling for a collaboration tool that is plaintext-friendly, built on top of Org and is still friendly for non-techies who are familiar with Notion, Google Docs and the likes in terms of usability.

The page currently just renders https://gitlab.com/formation.tools/eng/engineering/-/raw/mai... which is effectively the file we use to align on work internally, so we're dogfooding this. Eventually, I would like to be able to just show any git repo and offer collaborative editing that effects a git commit at the end. For the WYSIWYG bit, I'll be meeting with the author of ProseMirror and CodeMirror over coffee next week (hopefully) to spar on good ways to implement this.

Roast away, good folks! I can use the feedback especially since I don't know if I'm the only idiot who wants to collab just in plaintext (without forcing my colleagues to Emacs).
> people can allocate money better than governments

Maybe for quotidian expenses. But absolutely not for many long term expenses and risks.

My New Zealand government is pretty good at allocating money for common infrastructure and for people’s long-term costs (retirement, healthcare, benefit of education). Most infrastructure wouldn’t happen if we could avoid paying for it as individuals - fairly provable by comparing between countries that have good and poor infrastructure. We all see how much taxation costs us, but too many people deny/unsee the value of the massive benefits we all accrue.

The other aspect that governments can do is to manage risk and insurance, for rare events, which in my experience most people are extremely poor at planning for. When my city Christchurch was hit in 2010 by a devastating earthquake, everyone has the opportunity to see the value of the infrastructure that they lost (destroyed/damaged), and the opportunity to see the value of belonging to a society that fixes our infrastructure.

Also taxation shares the costs between the financial winners and the losers. We tax those that have benefited financially from belonging to a healthy society (people don’t “make” money, their society provides them with their opportunity and the safety to enjoy their gains), and we pay those that screw up (poorly paid job) or have bad luck (lose the genetic lottery, illness etcetera). This is easy to see: take someone who is well off (made themselves) and move them with nothing to a shitty country and see if they rebound: most people would not do well. Cue foreigners with degrees driving taxis.
Apparently, they also banned https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz (someone commented about it before but somehow the comment was deleted....) https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://twitter....
Why would you be keeping an 5S "still going" when you can buy an 8, SE, or an X/Xs/Xr, for a song and get vastly better performance, battery life, wifi and cellular?

The A7 is dogshit slow - I have an iPad with the A7 (or maybe it's the A9) and it's unusably slow for even simple things like apps from newspapers and library e-reader apps; you can watch the page assemble. Even waking the iPad with the home button is slow. On my A11-powered phone these apps run smooth as butter.

A 5S supports 11 of the LTE bands versus 24 bands of the 8. That alone is worth the upgrade, for the greater chance of being able to make or receive an important call.

How much time are you wasting on silly work-arounds just to be a retro-tech hipster pretending it's cool to use a completely outdated and inferior-in-every-way piece of hardware for absolutely no reason?
This is one of those times the reporter thinks they are saying something deep and profound when they aren't. I don't see the irony or the humor. "Energy workers push an energy consuming car." ok.
The iPhone 13 mini was £679 and the iPhone 13 was £779 and today it's £649 and £749. They've discounted it by £30. That might seem small, but the pound has lost 17% of its value over the past year (relative to the dollar). Last year you would have paid (in dollars) $937 or $1,075 for the iPhone 13 mini or iPhone 13. Today, you're paying $746 or $861 so they've discounted it by $191 or $214 (including the change in value of the pound) which is a pretty substantial discount.

You can see this in the new pricing too. The iPhone 13 was £779, but the iPhone 14 is £849. That's an increase of £70 (9%) in pounds, but a drop of $99 (9%) in dollars. Presumably, Apple is willing to eat a bit of exchange-rate fluctuations. Likewise, the iPhone 13 Pro was £949, but the iPhone 14 Pro is £1,099 - an increase of £150 (16%), but a decrease of $46 (3%) in dollars.

Before someone says "Apple is always overcharging UK customers - $1075 for an iPhone 13 compared to $800 in the US," it's important to note that different countries have very different regulations, fees, import tariffs, and taxes. I believe VAT in the UK is 20%.

Yes, they have dropped the price. It doesn't seem like much of a drop because most of the price decrease is in the fact that the pound has lost so much value. It's £100 cheaper than the iPhone 14 (which is what you were expecting), but it's only £30 cheaper than the iPhone 13 was a day ago (presumably in large part due to the fact that the pound is worth so much less now than a year ago).
This looks really neat, but it feels like Apple isn't very keen on biking? I don't think I could replace my Garmin with this until they get better support on that front.
Amazingly, I'd never seen the whole movie, and Al Pacino shouting "Attica! Attica!" was the only thing I knew about it. So I watched it last week.

Pretty good movie. It holds up well after 50 years. It was interesting that John Cazale was in this after the Godfather I and II.
As I said above, I wasn't aware of this.

You might also consider improving your tone.
Yeah. Well, mandating wheels and getting rid of setup.py at least avoids having to run scripts, and indeed enables the next step which would be indexing all the metadata and exposing it through an API. I just thought it wouldn't necessarily be obvious to all readers of your comment.
Now you see the Apple Watch Series N wherever you go, which is ~$400, not the Ultra. It will be interesting to see how common the ultra is over the next few years. My guess is it won't be super common, as it's large, fairly unattractive (IMO), and much more expensive for features that don't even match the competition that much of this Garmin/Ultra/etc type of demographic cares about.
> there's no incentive to report anything not listed.

Maybe. That also implies that the entire population wants to cheat the government. I don't think that is necessarily true.
"Globalstar said it is allocating 85% of its current and future network capacity to support the services and has agreed to prioritize the services on its network."

https://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2022/09/07/apple-to-d...
> but in my experience airpods work at least as well with non-apple devices as any other Bluetooth headphones.

Ding ding ding... Of course they do - and that's my point.

They're moderately nice on apple if you're entirely on that ecosystem, and utterly the same on everything else (frankly - I think they're actually much worse than some of the nicer headphones you can get, but that's not bluetooth related at all).

Good to know we agree.
That's why you need to look at the deeds first and take justifications into account only optionally.
Use blank icons to fill in the rows. Kludgy? Sure, but it gets the job done:

https://david-smith.org/blank.html
I plan to switch to Firefox if this happens. Some like me are just too lazy to do it before we need to!
because the population is 8 billion and because people build homes/cities in geographically vulnerable areas subject to flooding or drought.

Ask yourself, why would people build a city on known geological fault lines, or at the base of still active volcanoes, or along river flood plains ... which flood every few years, or in harsh arid areas bereft of water? Yes, stupidity is one reason ... maybe the only reason.

where is Thanos when you need him???
Open a ticket. Could be a bug on their end or an issue on yours.
If wood-based housing can be considered "zero carbon", I must be confused about the definition of "zero carbon".
How much do you have to earn before you can live below your means? This is all that is necessary really, spend less than you make so that you can continually build savings in order to build up fuck-you money so quitting your job and taking a few months to find a new one isn't scary.

I know waitresses who do it and have sizable amounts in savings.

There's always someone who has a similar life situation and makes less money than you. Just live life like you make 10% less or whatever. There are definitely people who live paycheck to paycheck on that much less than you earn, you can spend that much money and keep the 10% for when it is really needed.

People get mad when you suggest this and have a list of "but I have to X..." which isn't valid because there's always someone who earns less than you who also has X. You don't earn the absolute minimum amount of money for someone in your situation, that's just silly to think like that.

There are people who have serious issues like disabilities or whatever were it is quite hard, to be fair. But it isn't just the "lucky few" who don't.
> I view dependencies outside of the standard library as a kind of technical debt

That's an interesting position. So are you suggesting that very specialised packages such as graph plotting, ML-packages, file formats, and image processing should be part of the standard library? What about very OS/hardware-specific packages, such as libraries for microcontrollers?

There are many areas that don't have a common agreed-upon set of idioms or functionality and that are way too specialised to be useful for most users. I really don't think putting those into the standard library would be a good idea.
This survey is the literal definition of leading question. Found about 2 boxes I could tick, before being forced to order a list of the designer's preferences according to how much I agree with them. The only data that can be generated from a survey like this is the data you wanted to find (see also Boston Consulting Group article earlier today). I cannot honestly respond to it

The only question I have is, what grant application(s) is the survey data being used to support?
Will Python's relentless campaign to break backwards compatibility never end? (80% sarcastic.)
Nope - that's the reason I bought when I did. I was aware that it was very likely that the 14 would be announced this week, I was only expressing my amusement.

I upgraded through AT&T, who gave me a $700 trade-in on my iPhone X. I also snagged an additional discount on my new iPhone 13 Pro Max because I was OK with an unpopular color ("bamboo"), so my total cost ended up being around $200.
As a lover of the original SE and a a Mini 13 owner the HUGE increase in thickness is what really bothers me with the size change. Their official thickness spec only measures the main body of the phone which is virtually a zero change in size but the camera bump makes it's thickest point about 50% thicker.
Most flat tax schemes I've heard of don't require businesses to pay the tax, for exactly that reason--it just ends up being passed on to the consumer, anyway.

The Fair Tax is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
Probably because their leadership radicalizes and sponsors people who put bombs on planes, in theatres, kill journalists who draw mocking cartoons of their prophet and drive trucks into crowds. You see, the world likes a good laugh but they don't like being blown up while enjoying a concert.

I know regular Iranians can be quite nice. We have an Iranian acquaintance. Aside from some cultural oddities he's okay. But their leadership and the Revolutionary Guards aren't anything like that.
If you went into Best Buy and asked 100 people this question do you think they are wanting that?

Your use case scenario is very much available from every major computer systems manufacturer, it's just list available under the "Professional" "Workstation" category, not the "consumer/prosumer/a computer is a computer".

If you're saying you don't want to spend the money I get that, but between assuming your use case is the majority.

SAS is not consumer. Multi HDMI capture is not consumer. But all these solutions are available in a different market, which are also much high quality.

EDIT: you also mention U2 drives... If you're expecting to use that in a consumer PC you might want to check your expectations. Maybe 15 years from now they will be the standard but they're firmly in the enterprise market.
Yes. It's long (I think since the early days in the 80s) been a tenet in mobile phone industry that emergency calls always need to be free. You route them best to your technical ability - anything else is unethical.

With any cellular phone it's possible to dial the local emergency number.

Doesn't matter if your current operator has coverage, the phone will find the network that has the best coverage. There's still explicit validation of this capability for new phone devices.

You don't even need a SIM card.

But now Apple has ended the practice.
Again, you're confusing principle with quantitative absolute; the difference here is providing you with an exact list of things you should and shouldn't eat, versus saying "Don't eat poison, it'll hurt you." You can infer that chugging rat poison is probably not in the interest of a long, healthy and fulfilling existence. As such, Objectivism deductively and inductively proves that certain actions are an objective good for the soul as a condition of being human. Soul-tending, satisfying your values, being productive, etc.

No honest philosophy claims to supplant the special sciences, only serve as a foundation, nor will it tell you exactly what you must do to apply those principles to your life. If rigid dogma is what you expect or seek, I suggest investigating religion instead.
Nah, everyone should pay as little taxes as possible and do something more constructive with it.
And even if the parent is asking about Fly.io, I don't see how that's relevant to a blog post about SQLite.
Unless I’m missing something, the only offering from Beats is the Flex. The rest are either over-ear “studio” headphones or true wireless. The Flex might be ok, but it doesn’t use the same chipset as the AirPods, so I don’t know if it pairs as seamlessly between 3+ devices or if they’ll work as well for teleconferencing.
Despicable? This is a huge investment for Apple (look at Globalstar’s SEC filing for details), it’s free for 2 years, and we don’t even know what (if anything) it will cost after that. But you’re confident it’s “despicable”.

That smacks of some serious entitlement man…
They would have to be pretty stealth and smooth to pull this off because that kind of behavior would attract even more scrutiny from regulators. They don't operate in a vacuum.
> Am I missing something?

Clearly Apple is going to save billions of dollars because they don't have to include those little metal sim tray openers in the box anymore.

Jokes aside, I doubt people swap sims very often and when they do it is because they are doing a first setup. International travel is obviously an instance where people do swap sims but I expect it will become easier to use esim for this now that you have to.

I welcome the move to esim-only and have been using it since the Pixel 2. Having to stick a little 256KB card into the side of my state of the art, thousand dollar phone just so it can connect to a cellular network and having to get a new card if I want to swap networks is ridiculous.
> I'd say the opposite. A suggestion to "keep it calm" is inappropriate, because it carries the implication that someone is not calm.

Perhaps a suggestion to "keep it calm" wouldn't be the best. English isn't my first language and my verbal expression isn't always the greatest. But referring to a code of conduct does also carry the implication that someone isn't minding that code, and I don't see how that would necessarily be better.

In my view, suggesting that someone isn't calm is less of a reprimand than suggesting they might be in breach of a code of conduct which, among other things, includes rules against outright harassment and other clearly reprehensible behaviour. It's normal to not be calm at times; it's another thing if someone needs to be reminded of the rules of a community. Perhaps it's a cultural thing but to me the latter is stronger judgement.

There may well be reasons for not saying to keep it calm (it sometimes simply doesn't work), but I can equally well see how people might see a reference to a CoC as strong-armed.

> If somebody thought that closing the issue shut out dissenting opinions, then that person has forgotten how GitHub issues work or how bug trackers work in general. Closing an issue just means that someone thinks that the work on it is done; it does not stop discussion on the issue.

That's fair enough. Perhaps the intention is clear enough within the community that it would indeed be deemed as simply closing that rather specific GitHub issue without implying that the matter is closed.

Human communication isn't always quite that simple, though. People get impressions from the way things are expressed. "This is fixed." makes it feel that there is nothing to be discussed about that particular change and that it is final.

I don't know the particular community well enough to know how it would be interpreted, though.

> Which is why there is a comment at the bottom,

>> Please redirect further discussion to discuss.python.org.

That's after the comment that closed the issue. Had it been in the issue-closing comment, that would have left a different taste to the closing.
> Do you work for fly.io? Horrible way to represent the company like this!

Wha!?!?? The top post is very specifically about sqlite3, not fly.io (whatever that is). Your comment about it was taken entirely within the context of sqlite, not fly.io (whatever that is).

> Why would I be on sqlite forums?

Because this whole thread is about sqlite and your post said "the forums," implying sqlite's forums, not fly.io's (whatever that is).

Edit: is see now that the article is hosted on fly.io (whatever that is), but the article is still entirely about sqlite, not fly.io (whatever that is).
That’s never been the case for satellite service - ever.
I'm a tightwad, so for me to pay a recurring fee, the software must continually improve or provide immense value to my life.

To that end, here's what I pay for ordered most favorite to least:

Cronometer - https://cronometer.com/

BitWarden - https://bitwarden.com/

FastMail - https://www.fastmail.com/

Grammarly - https://grammarly.com/

Raindrop - https://raindrop.io/

Adobe Photoshop, but not for photoshop, but for image hosting.

If I decide to trim my budget, Photoshop is going first. But raindrop is a close second. It's really expensive for what it does, but it is so far the best way I've found to keep bookmarks sorted between multiple Linux, iOS, and Windows machines.
Apple prefers to keep away from the downsides of actual ownership while having the upsides of being an only customer
Nah. My net cost is only $200, and I'll probably keep it for 3-5 years like I did my X. I really only wanted the larger, brighter screen and much better battery life.
iPhone has shown that people don't want dedicated devices. iPhone has replaced: watch, compass, digital camera, calculator, ebook reader, portable DVD player, flashlight, Garmin GPS, etc. etc. etc.
You can get some without a subscription but they are not as fancy as they just broadcast your location in an emergency. I've got these 2:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V6CWS26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C6RCRIW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
I meant specifically about moving the author's needle, trying to explain her willingness to give it away, and how it isn't a great exemplar for UBI since she is not an average person. I wasn't talking about those she provided grants to - definitely, to some, $10k can be a life changing amount. There are people who never earn $10k over the course of their lives.

From the author's bio and article, it appears she is involved in venture capital, angel investing, and gets surprise tax bills which amount to more than the average English person earns in a year. That's probably the kind of person who can part with $10k without much hand wringing. Having said that, I do think the author is commendable in giving it away, because for a ton of people just like her, I believe they would just take the money and do something much more selfish with it.
I recommend PDM over poetry!
He does remind me of a late 20th century WWF wrestling villain. He's a good player, even if its pretty clear at this point some of his scores are dodgy.

Though he did some "in person"
https://www.classicarcademuseum.org/billy-mitchell-achieves-...

In the King Of Kong extras he brings someone a frogger machine to practice on, which was pretty nice. In that segment he comes across a pretty nice actually.

If you like arcade games and are in the NH area the American Classic Game Museum (Fun Spot?) has a lot of the old machines.

https://www.classicarcademuseum.org
By only offering you it as a longer-term subscription, they can likely capture that recurring revenue from more people as a "just to be safe" type offering, perhaps off the back of something existing like another level of iCloud+.

They'll then not cancel it, and they've successfully raised their annual/monthly recurring revenue for a fair % of their users.
If you’re in the middle of nowhere and have an emergency where seconds count, you’re dead anyway. This is the difference between rescue in 2 hours and 2 days (or even 2 weeks). Spending 5 minutes finding the transmitter isn’t a problem if you’re stuck with a broken leg. If you’re struggling to control critical bleeding or are doing CPR and are on your own (thus you can’t spend the 5 minutes finding a signal) then you’re screwed anyway.
After 2 years: I hope they offer a "pay later" option (does not mean it has to be cheap). You never know when you are in emergency situations and you maybe need this kind of new technology.

Imagine people could be saved in theory (and die) but not in practice because they did not paid their emergency subscription.

And even worse: Imagine you could pay later but you don't use that option because you want to save money oO

A lot of ethical problems in my opinion.
> This is a contradictory statement. Either it is no cost to you, or you paid up-front.

Perhaps I wasn't quite explicit enough: no additional cost to us, after a condition is diagnosed...

I'm sure there are people who are happy to pay as they go. This is fine, right up until the moment when you roll the dice and discover it isn't.
I haven’t used an around-the-ear bud in many years. Do you think the Powerbeats Pro would work well under a bicycle helmet (where the straps typically pass just in front and just behind the ear)? I wonder if they have them open at the Apple shop - I could always swing by with a helmet and try.

Have you tested how well the Flex pairs with multiple devices? That’s one nice feature of the AirPods, at least within the Apple device ecosystem. At that price, they might be my best option, but I haven’t heard much about the chip they use (vs the H1 in the AirPods and up-market Beats).
The light only indicates the case is charging, you can take out both airpods (or have them not contacting properly) and the light will still come on.
very unfortunately the direct burden of python2 is placed on the packagers.. users of Python 2 like their libs (me) and have no horse in this demonization campaign
Do you have such insurance? Any company you've had good experiences with? I had a close call or two hiking in the Cascades and wasn't aware this was a thing so I'd appreciate any tips.
I think they have a patent on it