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> The app experience is totally ruined now. It's insanity for me to see 1Password 7 to 8 transition level of nonsense again.

I really, really don't think this kind of catastrophizing is appropriate. A lot of your complaints are incredibly minor things, and are resolved through configuration.

> Most extensions don't care and don't render properly. Fckn great, man.

This absolutely has not been my experience and the level of vitriol is completely inappropriate. Extensions are developed by third-parties in their own time, and provided for free. Have you made sure all your 'broken' extensions are up to date? Have you verified they are compatible? Have you checked to see there are issues opened in the extension's git repo? Have you submitted PRs to fix the issues you've come across?

I've been using Obsidian for about a year, and about six months ago, I paid for Catalyst to have access to insider builds and to support development. In that time, Obsidian has gotten significantly better.
I sync my journal directory using syncthing and it works reasonably well.
fyi social links at the bottom of https://www.graplsecurity.com/ map to the wrong things (linkedin to discord, github to linkedin)
FYI - GitGuardian is free for individuals and teams smaller than 25
is it CS programs or is it the bootcamps?

I've seen the bootcamp crowd more often than not in these situations coming through, not many with actual 4 year CS degrees, though I've seen many of those too, but not nearly as much, by an order of magnitude.

EDIT: could be a difference in what part of the industry we work in too. I do more frontend / "design engineer" work.
Read this:

https://xeiaso.net/blog/gemini-web-fear-missing-out-2020-08-...

Then go here:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/
Out of curiosity, can you share more on your pricing strategy? What is actually paying for your development? It looks like you give away a lot for free, do you do that cause the server costs are nil without e.g. sync?

Can you share the rough number of users in each tier/service?
Thanks, yes. I'll add those to my profile.
That does seem to be the case.
There may be a fuse you can remove.
I suppose the real question is how far the current supreme court is willing to go then?
Well, I did it. I wrote an extended dialogue explaining the replace function as a blog post: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2022-10-13-little-typer-ch9/

I'd found your review a week or so ago which was nice since it reassured me I wasn't the only person having trouble with it.
Spoiler alert: it's a humor piece. There's sex in Atlas Shrugged, maybe it just doesn't fall into your category of "hard core", but again I will point out that it could have been described as such for humorous effect.
A lot of social media these days does resemble a travelling circus. And a lot of influencers give off a P. T. Barnum vibe.
What we really need is a MUD that is fed through StableDiffusion -> NeRF and outputs a 3D map for you to play in

https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion
> Publisher of Nature (journal) - Nature Research (subsidiary of Springer Nature)

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> Springer Nature - Owners: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (53%), BC Partners (47%)

> In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles on Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite.

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> Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately held German company based in Stuttgart which owns publishing companies worldwide. ..The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial. ..In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media.

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> BC Partners is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America.
Yes! I love that. Thank you for sharing.

This is the mindset that got me to do so many projects where a younger me thought, “someone smarter has already done a better job at that…”

I now write software for me. Sometimes I publish it.
My company is not hiring developers at the moment, but there sure are some people who should be let go.
There is a natural drive for conquest and dominance in men, you can basically boil it down to testosterone. As a father of 3 young boys, I am often thinking about how to channel this energy into positive avenues.

But it's also really clear when taking a more observational role that there is this hardwired drive for them to ride that energy and let it out in pure physical form. It's beautiful to see the absolute joy one gets from riding his bike faster than everybody else, but sometimes scary to see the more negative manifestations: the tendency for excitement to boil over into "BREAK THINGS!".

I can't count how many times we've been roleplaying with stuffed animals and a strong emotion, even (and especially) a joyous one, results in them wanting to bash their animals into mine, or knock down some part of the set we've been playing with. The physicality is so hard wired.

I think the issue today is not that men don't want to be "virile", I think it's that we've seen the damage that treating masculinity as the highest possible virtue can do, both to individuals and to societies. Just look at one of the foremost symbols of masculinity: the bull. In today's world, he is the apex of the masculine, and yet trapped in a system that subjugates him to one of two roles: an inseminator, or a victim himself of a larger masculine power structure: to be ridden or killed in an arena.

I think many men today can see pretty clearly that having a stable society relies on men relinquishing the role of conquistador, but many also realize that it is impossible to give up our virility without losing an essential part of ourselves. It's why men say they are more confident when they lift weights, and when they fight in structured ways like martial arts or well-regulated capitalism.

So it's not like we don't want to be virile. We just don't want to be the cartoon image of virility that men like Donald Trump embody.
Ask HN: To MacBook or Not to MacBook?
I was reading up on becoming a hacker from Eric S. Raymond's HOWTO and it stated NOT to run MacOS since it is proprietary (which makes it difficult to learn how to hack) but I also remember reading Paul Graham's essay 'Return of the Mac' which highlighted the reasons why hackers (in 2005 anyway) started using Macs again (the OS and great hardware design).

My question is, in 2022, should a person learning to hack get and use a MacBook? I see the two sides and I'm conflicted.

If you suggest running a Linux VM through UTM on the M1 Macs, I will counter by stating that you can only run ARM ISOs and I imagine there may be problems with software not compiled for ARM which could hinder the learning process but what do you think?
I've wanted to do this for years and I've tried doing it a few times in some weird ways. I'm finally doing it in a hacky but more straightforward way and it's going well.
If I don’t have stuff I make stuff up that I wanna do and it’s usually something the business needs but I usually have a decent backlog.
Installing the `libreoffice-kde` package instead gives me proper theming
I'd agree that the pattern is typical.

That said, substantiating Substack's actual total income would be helpful to the argument.

But generally, see total corporate earnings or market cap vs. size, or book sales (recent discussion, some dispute over numbers: <https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32794673>)
That's interesting, coming from the Lean language the analogous function - rw, or rewrite - is a real workhorse. It's often very useful to manipulate expressions when proving things. Why do you think it's a code smell?
> only useful to a niche audience of obsessive note-takers who in many cases seem to care more about playing with their notes than actually using or sharing them.

This describes me perfectly. I use obsidian to 'feel productive' but not actually do any work.
Is the US in any way special that makes this process of regulating weapons so difficult? Do other countries not have 2A-like legislation?
Socialist health care systems aren't "free". They come at a great cost, in the form of high taxation, government debt, inflexibility, and inefficiency.

In Canada, for example, patients who have the financial means to do so will often seek treatment at private clinics in the US or other nations, rather than enduring the "free" socialist health care system in their province.

To make matters even worse, despite paying high tax rates, many Canadians still rely on private health insurance to pay for the many routine vision, dental, and pharmaceutical costs that aren't covered by the socialist health care systems.
The description sounds interesting! Can anyone comment on how this compares to or integrates with Anki? I've found SRS to be really powerful, but I'd like to integrate it more with note-taking.
I mean, if you're going to stick to the two-consecutive quarters definition, then you would be saying that we were in a recession, and are now out of one. Third quarter GDP estimates stand at 1.9% growth.
As told earlier, we have thousands of repos. And our teams are thousands of users on GH.
It also helps to work on your basics. Good sleep and nutrition is 80% of all motivation issues. Also examining what motivates you at the job in the first place. Deadlines? Not letting others down? The social role that work gives you? Fear of unemployment? The joy of laboring? Escaping a difficult family life? A sense of flow? The answer will help you pinpoint why your motivation is flagging and how to resolve it
Ok, let's play your game. How much of the first quarter decline was due to the ports clearing and imports rising?

Here, I'll give you a hint (More than 100%): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=UOxC

Do you think that's a real recession indicator?

EDIT: Said differently, if our imports were at 4Q:21 levels, we'd have 0 quarters of decline. So is this the first import-driven recession? Because no other recessions have been like this.
It would probably be helpful had you previously read Atlas Shrugged. I am by no means recommending the book (in fact, I'd advise avoiding such poor writing and childish naivety), but having been one of the unfortunate folks who wasted hours on that book, I knew what the author was going for from the first paragraph. And I found it quite humorous.
Gitleaks also offers a nice pre-commit hook: https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks#pre-commit
That seems to match what I've seen. Especially the last line. It's just so weird the dynamic between "pretending to care" and "actually caring." I've worked at or consulted on small teams that were very "lax" about security but everyone seemed to take it seriously so it "worked."

At larger orgs, I notice they take it "seriously" but that results in people finding creative loopholes... like pasting in all the important production keys/passwords into a google doc and sharing the google doc because they "can't send secrets over slack" ... lol
Sure, but posessing some of the materials needed for producing such a weapon is indeed illegal due to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Here is an article about some tangentially related recent events that mentions it (and explains as well)[0].

Owning a personal nuclear weapon might not be technically illegal. However, producing it and transferring it is illegal. Which, seems to be almost functionally equivalent to being illegal to possess.

This is just purely my thoughts on how that hypothetical could play out, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't stupid curious about it myself.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/03/19/w...
You're the receptionist at a high-security facility. Lots of people work there. Your job is to make sure the people get in and out quickly.

The building has multiple methods of access at different stages. During the course of doing your job, you don't follow the proper protocols a few times. You closed a door without re-entering a lock code. You didn't check someone's badge and ID at the third floor access gate. You forgot to make sure someone swiped out on exit.

Nobody actually trained you on any of those protocols; they just made you watch a "security is everyone's responsibility" video and then expected you to know all the protocols. Maybe once or twice you were lazy, but it's equally likely you just didn't know what to do. And once you make that mistake, somebody can exploit it as long as you don't follow the protocol.

In facilities where security is important, there are safeguards. Doors left open sound an alarm, automatically lock when closed, and sensors detect if more than one person walks through without badging in. These safeguards exist because people are fallible and need help to enforce security. Companies without security safeguards either don't care, or are ignorant.
How much of the current sensor technology being used was created by self-driving car companies? AI and computer vision systems are already being researched/developed in other industries, what else are these companies producing that hasn't been done before or isn't being done elsewhere?
This article is not useful for a typical entrepreneur. Most work for many years with little chance of raising capital. This guy makes it sound like all you need is some experience and a good idea. And now he’s writing a “all I learned” article about his past 3 months. Give me a break.
(And no offence OP but I do feel it sounds out of touch)
Forth solves this.
Caveat: 'Available to paid subscribers'. I'm on their free tier.
Reading through your past comments, it's clear that you have a strong dislike of Google[0] and a history of reactionary comments lacking both substance and clarification when challenged[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. If you're not going to post anything worthwhile, perhaps it's best for you to skip over posts about Google since it's clear you have an axe to grind and nothing more.

>HN used to be a place for interesting discussions. Now it's a grievance forum for entitled freeloaders.[8]

Be the change you seek.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120431
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183900
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158451
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102921
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102794
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102761
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937987
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32868992
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657508
Unemployment is at a historic low, which is not typical of a recession.
I'm seeing a massive uptick in recruiting for contract roles compared to a year ago though.

A year ago (and even, 3-4 months ago) it was all full time positions nearly exclusively, now it's all heavily weighted toward contract

Lots of "18+ month" or "long term" contract verbiage, but contract none the less.

Definitely a shift.

Seeing more contract to hire too
I think the truthfulness of media reporting is best evaluated based not on literal factual accuracy, but on what it causes people to believe. Factual accuracy is not sufficient without other information needed to put those facts into context.

Either the media doesn't adequately explain or the average person doesn't adequately understand the YoY numbers. Either way, media is responsible for causing the average person to believe something that is not true (that prices are going up faster each month than they actually are).

It's true that YoY numbers can be more meaningful to the normal every day person, but only if they understand them. It might be better if people understood that prices, relative to a year ago, are not increasing in recent months at an 8.9% annualized rate.
I wonder if they're still in the justice system (prison/probation/etc.)
This is a bit of straw man because the author is specifically dismissing certain genres of fiction like romance and thrillers, rather than fiction as a whole.

It's hard to argue that books like The Da Vinci Code, as much I enjoy them, deliver the same sort of commentary on the human condition as something like 1984.
Awesome, thanks for the heads-up! We will definitely look forward to it, either to replace or enhance our current in-house solution.
The software used in Bitcoin mining is getting first big makeover in a decade
That we should be treating climate crisis with the urgency and severity that it warrants and taking immediate action.

Create a flat carbon tax to make all products and transportation reflect their true cost rather than letting people profit by poisoning the commons. Remove the artificial barriers to nuclear that make it cost prohibitive to start a new plant. Allocate more resources to re-training fossil fuel industry laborers into new careers. Allocate more resources into finding technology to make lower carbon cement, steel and fertilizer.

We don't need to radically alter the existing economy or society. We need to make some minor tweaks so align economic incentives, stop letting people freeload off of polluting activities and allocate tax dollars to programs that are more beneficial.
your technique is probably less insidious than mine (forcing packet loss)

but yeah, controlling your kid's gaming habit is hard. I went off the rails and it probably cost me about half a million dollars in opportunity cost. Those games should be illegal/controlled, they use literal gambling mechanisms to hook kids

god speed
> back to the 70s

The sixties actually; that's how memory was managed in Fortran from its inception until the eighties.
I am a bit concerned by how it is going to effect Netflix context, and also whether they will start FB like shenanigans wrt mobile tracking
CosmosDB is not the same as the internal Cosmos system.
US gov uses a non-partisan third party think tank to officially declare recessions.
Right now the "Alte Elbtunnel" is undergoing maintenance in one of the two tunnels. Since as long as I've lived here, it hasn't been open to cars, but the large elevators previously used for cars are still serving bicyclists and pedestrians during the daytime. They get quite full during rush hour.

I use the tunnel 3-4 times per week!
> I think society settled on a response of "yeah, but we shouldn't actively do anything about it as a group."

I hope there comes a day when humanity is responsible enough to handle precise gene-tailoring of humans without it devolving into a cliche Sci-Fi dystopia. Until then, I'm glad that humanity has settled on "Eugenics could theoretically work but we know we're not responsible enough to do it right, so let's not". It feels like a very enlightened stance: better than pretending selective breeding would literally not work, and certainly better than doing it badly. Why could we come to such a sensible consensus on this topic but fail to do so on so many others?

All that being said, I still want to see what would happen if Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky had a child together. You know. For science.
I'm a HUGE fan of Minimal Theme, and I really appreciate not only all the work you've put in to improve Obsidian, but also your thoughtfulness and skill. Minimal not only looks wonderful, but it has a really great array of options/settings, both through Minimal Theme Settings and Style Settings. I've tried dozens of Obsidian themes, and frankly, nothing else comes close. It's no surprise you were tapped to improve the default theme for 1.0 :).
And are you also thinking that content creators should not be allowed to distribute their own content? (which is what streaming services are these days... the direct-to-customer channel by a studio).
There’s an infinite amount of work to do especially at a tech company.

I’ve been in your shoes before and when I was more immature I would just browse the Internet and not do much.

However, as I became a more experienced engineer (and currently CTO of my startup), if I ran out of things to do I would think “how can I make this product better?” and just start working on stuff. Or if you can’t figure out what to do on your own, you can always ask your manager or product owners.

From a management and personal growth perspective, you should try to become as autonomous as possible where you provide value even if nobody directly commands you to. This will also grow your skillsets. People don’t like micromanaging other people - ideally you would just be a useful employee without anyone continually asking or assigning you things.

Also just imagine - what if you owned the company? Surely there is something to do that makes it more appealing to the end-users, makes the product better, makes the code quality better, or so forth?

If your issue is you don’t feel incentivized, or are just bored, then maybe look for a new job. If you are just staring into space at work then there are better things you could be doing with your time.
>> What are the bastions of curiosity today?

Advertisers. They are intensely curious about how the human brain really works.
Great that they finally do that. I accidentally checked one into a public GitHub repo a long time ago and about 2 years later someone found it. The infinite spam wasn't even the worst part about this, bajillion emojis in every message just caused the Discord client to crash instantly upon opening, so I couldn't even figure out what's happening at first.
I’ve always seen a lot of those, i think the SNR just favors them for now with general slow down in direct hires.
This isn't eugenics. People are allowed to choose their mates for their phenotypes, and we don't sterilize (except in very rare, extreme circumstances, with legal approvals) people who don't have specific phenotypes.

It's a gedanken experiment, but I would expect that people who measure low on IQ tests but are raised immersed in an technical or artistic environment have as much potential to become masters as people with higher IQ, or very nearly so. Further, I think that by increasing the quality of the education system in a country, you can massively increase the intellectual output. There are probably enormous amounts of untapped potential never matched to an equivalent supply of knowledge and skill.
> which makes it difficult to learn how to hack

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s true that you can’t rebuild the kernel or os services, or modify the system very much at all so if that is the kind of hacking you want to learn, then you shouldn’t use a Mac.

However, if by ‘learn to hack’ you mean ‘learn to code applications and services’, then Macs are great. You can learn both Apple’s proprietary stuff and all of the significant open source tooling and languages.
I'd be surprised if rust was within two orders of magnitude for either.
+1 for Geany; I don't think it gets as much attention as it deserves.
> I wish I could easily create a note in whatever folder I am in currently.

That's easy. Go to:

Settings > Files & Links >
Default location for new notes: Same folder as current file

Note that the file explorer is a plugin like any other, so you can also create your own file explorer plugin that works the way you want it to :)
This website is the epitome of "do one thing and do it well"

Bravo
Understandable (who wouldn't like anything they're shopping for to be cheaper...) I actually tend to prefer refurbs because they've been gone over by the real A Team, unlike units rolling off the line (that may depend a little on who we're talking about, Apple has worked out for me at least). Not in the market for another laptop right now, but the Frameworks are high on my list.