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Show HN: Save your emails to Notion with one click
There is a Google Workspace add-on called "Save to Notion" that as you might guess is for saving emails to Notion. It has more than 39K+ installs and a really bad rating (2.4) and reviews.
After a while of seeing it in the marketplace and already familiar with add-ons I said to myself, "you can do better", and Quicktion was born.

Quicktion allows you to quickly save your emails to your Notion databases with these main features:

Mappings: Map the email information to the properties of your database.

Page Content: Save the email content as properties or page content.

Default Properties: Set default values to any database properties alongside email data.

Single Click: See a list of available actions and save your email with a single click.

Privacy: No need to forward your emails to anyone, from Gmail to Notion directly.

Attachments: Attachments saved to Google Drive and then linked to Notion.

I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions on what other features I can include and the potential to monetize, thanks!
So what about people with screen readers? They don't (middle) click or type at all. Does your UX account for them too? If so: great. Usually, it's overlooked. I think that's the point of this article. Standard browser controls are all 100% accessible by default.
Why on earth would you think that? Have you never worked with "partners" before?:)
> cweed

Obviously programming in C wasn't your only favorite pastime.
> Foley never seemed to fully understand the responsibility that comes with leading people. He never seemed to understand what it means to be accountable. As a result, he's out of a job.

He quit. That's accountable.
Show HN: Huddleverse, a social mental health app
I see a do-nothing Congress butting their noses into something it doesn't need to be and I ask why? They don't do anything without some benefit to them. So, I ask, what's in it for them? Ever hear the term "follow the money"? There's a reason that term exists.
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Modals disempower the user. That's why they are so popular with mandatory Cookie selection dialogs.
Yeah, compilers were never really into it anyways. Most of them just lowered it to an acquire so there wasn't any point in using it.
When I've seen this in other banks it's been difficult to keep the junior devs interested in staying with COBOL. In general they wanted to move to other teams.
The barycentre of the solar system moves, sometimes it's well inside the Sun, sometimes it's just outside. I wonder what the average position is...

However the Earth-Sun barycentre is always inside the Sun.
You can use delta-v, so the closest is the distance rocket use the least fuel/mass. It is a very good measure how easily to get to that destination in space.
I have to leave this thread
It is genuinely difficult to suddenly lose your job and reallocate all your time and energy on new projects, I don't see anyone wouldn't complain about that.
I concur. I think this page[1] illustrates it quite well.

[1]: https://gwern.net/index
Yes Russia did invade Ukraine, but wouldn't the US invade Canada if Russia had organized a coup there to get rid of Trudeau then put a Russian puppet there? Of course the US would... Or would you argue that the 2014 Ukrainian coup wasn't supported by the US?

The thing we never mention is how agressive Nato (the US since it has military bases in Turkey for example, while Turkey doesn't have military bases in the US) has been at pushing its borders towards Russia.

In the end we can call this whatever we want, the facts are clear, if Zelensky had resigned less Ukrainians would have died, and the only ones profiting from this are the US, you can't fight a country like Russia, they have 7000 nukes, it's like thinking Mike Tyson is losing against you because he's too nice to punch you in the face... eventually he will.

The arguments used today are the same as ever (we're freeing the Vietnamese, the Iraqis, etc.), if you look at it as it really is, less dead people is better than more dead people, eventually Ukraine will be destroyed and the US will not even help to rebuild it, if you think they will then look at Iraq.
I was thinking this today as I was using JIRA. I would live JIRA to be a boring and more RESTful web app.

I hit a bug where if I closed the popup (for a ticket on a board) it just reopened! And some ticket links don’t work. All these bugs and complexity for what?

Maybe the browsers should have a built in “open link as popup” for the rare times you want that. And the sites just make it a new page always.
Something I do not understand ...

From the link:

> But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.

From Wikipedia: the CIA was founded September 18, 1947.

How did the CIA "specifically" helped delay the publication of this book from 1936 to 1946 if it didn't even exist in that time frame ?
Or people like complaining about bad things and layoffs are bad?
Just use ChatGPT to maintain that code.
Minister attacks Meta boss over Facebook message encryption plan
Is the project open source?
It also appears in ways that you don’t expect. PeopleSoft is COBOL and they have like 25k+ customers. As we write, Oracle is trying to sell more COBOL into the enterprise in 2023 :)
Open source = no money.

Facebook doesn't want the models to be the money making bit, because they aren't a licensing/subscription service. They are an ads and soon hardware-platform company. They want those bits to be what people pay for. Not the models.

All these models are licensed under a non-commercial license. So their competitors don't gain a real advantage.

Other than OpenAI (who are remarkably tight lipped), ML researchers are pretty chatty in both their papers and watercooler hangouts. So, the information is going to get out either way. Might as well get ahead of it, and look like the good guy in the process.
CEO gets always the money. For example: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2014/04/17/fired-yahoo-exec-gets-58... While workers get in best case severance package and unemployment benefits.
Yeah - casually ruling out the moon and sun in the article's first sentence feels a bit underhanded. Beyond pedantry, what's the point of the "Planets Only" sign?
People complain because they were paid like employees but they were treated like contractors. The rest doesn't change their situation: the jobs are not back just because the CEO left.
The tombstone for Peloton will read “A great idea terribly executed by a poor management team”
Agreed. Truly despise when otherwise smart tech bloggers use jargons (incorrectly) to appear authoritative
I disagree. Modal windows are great if the information is small enough that it can be digested in a single glance. Making me open up a new tab to view a paragraph of text is just plain annoying.
They were banned a few months after not allowing ANY new posts on t_d.
I click on the examples and it throws the page back to the top.

I refuse to read anything that is said after the example being useless.
> TikTok employees specifically accessed her data to identify her sources.

There was a highly publicised case at Facebook some years ago with the same behaviour.

If you think that only TikTok does that, think again.
Earlier (short) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966092
The US employs the largest psyop operations investment in the world, why would you trust the government to manage info authenticity and integrity for the public?

I can see the allure of a parental figure where the state makes sure its citizens are protected from bad stuff but I think you’ve got it backwards, it’s the state itself which is not only bad but has all the power and leverage for that badness to materialize itself. Unfortunately it’s not so simple when you want to give all the power to a group to wield over you, you’ll find they’re more interested in that power than protecting you with it even if they’re peformative about it
lots of scuba diver sysops out there!
The reason no one shows loyalty is exactly because it is not reciprocated. Why should the employee have to be loyal when they are just a number to an HR department and the CEO will strike off their job without a second thought? You have things backwards. People used to be loyal, back when you could work at a place, grow your career, and retire with a pension. It wasn't the laborers who broke the loyalty deal.
Jira has slow loading modals
Hmmm, how feasible do you reckon it would be to start using the same "buy data from third parties" on these senators and Supreme Court judges?

And probably do the same for the (registered) lobbyists and political donors, then look for after hours instances where the data shows their location being very close / overlapping.

Or something along those lines anyway. Would probably take a bunch more thinking about + some test investigation. ;)
They can rip off their leg and beat people with it. They should have to check that appendage.
When saying Mauna Kea starts at the base, why not claim that with Everest?

Of course in reality neither are the highest mountain, that honour goes to Chimborazo, a good 2.1km higher than Everest (when measured from the Earth's centre)
I'd recommend a read of RFC 2100: The Naming of Hosts [1] for more on the matter, as naming choices may drive one as mad as a hatter!

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2100
The largest bank in Sweden offers a free 16 week COBOL course once or twice a year. Basically anybody that passes is virtually guaranteed a job there.
I think Jira performance already seems to be dominated by roundtrips to the servers. Making it more like what you describe may make it even worse.
I don't blame them, some places would rather maintain their 1960s status quo than port to modern languages. It makes no sense but management is rather resistant to change.
You can play yt videos with screen off using vinegar if you pop the video out to pip view it will be able to keep playing when you turn the screen off. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
I've never worked in a bank. But I've been a sysadmin for a number of payroll and finances systems and some have run on COBOL. In particular a lot of PeopleSoft has key processes in COBOL. This is absolutely not obvious to anybody who is not actively working on that COBOL. Front end is a nice web Gui served by WebSphere or Weblogic. Rest of the system is enterprise Java. There's Python and RPA and all sort of fun stuff on the periphery, and obscure proprietary languages such as PeopleCode and ApplicationEngine (no not that one :) and God help me sqr. But core business logic that nobody touches directly except when they must is COBOL. Oracle still spits out PeopleSoft stuff in COBOL, used by thousands of companies (they're not actively selling PeopleSoft anymore, focusing on HCM cloud etc, but that too still happens)

Note, fwiw, while I personally happen to work for ibm, little to none of the COBOL I've encountered was running on ibm mainframes or even on ibm COBOL compiler. Most of it was third party software running on microfocus COBOL compiler... On windows and *nix.

Obviously just an anecdote like yours, but COBOL is definitely out there and not just on ibm mainframes:)
It's hard to predict some things now, but the vast majority of things are as easy to predict as they've ever been, or we wouldn't be reasonably sure that when we took a step on the sidewalk that our feet would touch the ground, or that when we opened a door leading in to a house there'd be a house on the other side, or that cars, airplanes, and other machines mostly work as designed, that food is nutritious and satiates hunger, etc, etc, etc..

Prediction for the overwhelming majority of things is still reasonably easy, or we wouldn't be able to survive.

We're very, very far from a singularity if it really means that "our predictions about our future becomes close to zero".
> I'm completely dumbfounded by obviously highly intelligent people consistently not getting this, and dismissing current generation AI systems as not being intelligent because they can't reliably solve massively complex problems in one go.

People are very comfortable with siloed information, even smart people. This is why we have 100 different words for the same concept across different areas of science, industry and so on, and we can't make the connection, because in our mind different words = different concepts. This is why we can't put two and two together and see how underdeveloped the AI architecture is and think this is the end, unless we keep adding parameters.

We also get repeatedly stuck with taking an advancement and proclaiming that the future is simply a linear extrapolation of the present. Therefore, let's have more megahertz, let's have bigger hard drives, let's have more parameters, let's have more growth in the economy (as the single factor that matters) and so on. We're simply basic. The same kind of thinking leads many smart people to say AI "is just math" or "it just spits out words and pictures you feed it, jumbled". We rely on old conclusions and miss the inflection points and how quantitative changes lead to qualitative ones, and we fail to predict how change in one parameter of a system, causes the other parameters to come out of rest and seek a new equilibrium point.

Smart people regularly are dumbfounded by new concepts, and they need to rediscover all their hidden knowledge anew as they can't make the connections. So they extrapolate linearly. We're narrowly smart. Specifically smart. In a small niche we've studied and internalized. But generally vast majority of us are quite dumb. Cross-disciplinary intelligence is rare. I think people like Feynman and Einstein had new insights millions of their contemporaries have missed because they could easily apply knowledge from one context into another.

If we can replicate this kind of broad generalization of knowledge into an AI, we'll be left far behind. What's interesting, I find, is that because AI is trained on our siloed, fragmented knowledge, the models replicate it. Their responses are also often siloed and fragmented, the way a human would say "this has nothing to do with that". But I see sparkles of generalization above the average in humans. And since an AI model is much smaller than a human brain, it needs to be more general already in order to fit all its information in.

That's an exciting prospect, but in our attempt to "micro-align" AI to our culture and political correctness, concepts of safety and so on, we crippled models and force them to be fragmented. This is why a RAW MODEL scores HIGHER in various intelligence tests than a fine-tuned one. We find a general model uncomfortable, as it doesn't align with our biases. It'll be a fun battle. Who aligns who.
Or, as for the Subaru Starlink head-unit, even if it is so buggy and crashes all the time, once the car is out the dealer's door, there is nothing the consumer can do.

Even class actions don't mean they would be recalled or even fixed. They did offer a discount on a new car.
> PeopleSoft is COBOL

The majority of PeopleSoft isn't COBOL – it is written in PeopleCode, a language PeopleSoft invented themselves (like SAP's ABAP), and I believe some newer components use Java too.

The COBOL is mainly used for batch processing and offline reporting in some of the older modules, such as Payroll. Many of the newer modules don't use any COBOL at all.
I am one of those people whose user experience will drastically improve if modal windows are accepted for what they are - an anti-pattern at best and a dark pattern most of the time. I as a user make the decisions if I want a separate window or not, not the application developer.

As a principle, I don't read any website that has a modal window, especially a modal "subscribe to our newsletter".
The most useful naming scheme that I have seen in a professional setting for end-user computing is [OS]-[SerialNumber]. Win-asdf1234 is immediately telling for sysadmin types that spend a lot of time in Active Directory or an ITSM. If you were in a multi-location stop, perhaps a location code as well.
Tom Tugendhat is the Minster of State for Mass Surveillance...

no wait, the Minister of State for Security. there's an importance difference in there somewhere...
> So I replied to you by sharing news articles about people facing challenges on the ground level.

The articles you posted suggested most places are accepting 2000 rupee notes. The vendors refusing to accept them are misinformed. The breathless coverage of what is a routine exercise is at least partly to blame for the uncertainty and confusion.

People believe in nonsense for all kinds of reasons including the government feeding them lies. But that is hardly the only source of misinformation. Nobody benefits from the fake 10 rupee coin story or the misunderstanding of what the current exercise entails.

The comment I replied to suggested that this particular story was being deliberately hyped by media outlets in collusion with the government.
Yeah they need to sort their app performance out.

That said the modal load is just as slow.
A whole bunch of fantasy hokum about the unlimited power of human ingenuity.
It's interesting to me that you've figured out that people bring up gun control whenever you talk about this, but you haven't made the next logical leap.

Which is to say, there may be a _reason_ people bring up gun control. As you say "You can't just hand wave it away".
People who say "it depends", without also explaining what it depends on, are not worth listening to. Someone who advocates for a silver bullet solution to a problem is more helpful than someone who won't make any recommendation at all, because "it all depends".
THANK YOU OMG

I have lots of frustration with modal views that:
1. block me from seeing the things that I probably need to enter into the view
2. disappear when you accidentally click outside them
3. don't scroll properly
4. don't allow scrolling of the page behind
5. don't play well with reasonable browser extensions (uBlock, but other things as well like Disconnect) or even the tracking prevention build into browsers.
6. store data in a weird place so that a second window of the same site in a different location opens the same (now incorrect) data in the modal.

These things are becoming super common in line-of-business apps, where they interrupt workflow. Better options:

1. New page, as recommended by this link
2. Expanding a region of interest to allow the form to fit
3. Making the page more interactive in other ways so that a modal doesn't seem like the best way to do the interaction
Any docker images for this? I noticed there is no official one: https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/
Just don’t bust into the clown car and release the cotton candy.
They ARE pop-ups mostly. Just ones that are harder to block as compared to the 1990s pop-ups.
We're talking about criminal proceedings here, it's not a "talking point" for which you can doubt its veracity. There's plenty of corroboration

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/11/alina-lipp...
> We can make music in free time without these patterns but to most of us it sounds less 'normal'.

Free time does not imply the lack of patterns. Check out Gnossiennes for example, they have very distinct patterns: https://musescore.com/classicman/scores/4131536

I have no idea if that sounds "normal" or not to others, to me it works perfectly fine.
Ironic that the popover API was just announced 2 days ago. https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/introducing-popover-api...
I implemented it in a bookkeeping app I’m working on. It works nicely but the documentation is very poor; I had to constantly refer to a third party example.

Once you get how it works it’s neat.
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So expensive!
we name devices based on the inventory asset tag we affix as a prefix + the acronym of the department the device is assigned to as the suffix. clean and consistent across thousands of devices.
Dissapointed this is not where Oracle benchmarking results are kept
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Allende WON the election. Whatever percentage he had, surely it was more than what Pinochet had. And he always said that his government would be a socialist one (which is what in US people would call communist). There were no lies involved.

What right US have to support mass tortures, and genocide (Indonesia) to impose an economical system that people in other countries did not want to follow? And what right do you have to advocate this?
That's not true. I'm sure he was more sweaty than usual, laughing on his way to the bank. /s
I wonder if that's the goal. I mean the whole point of everything Google does is convincing people to take buy product X. If these networks can convince people ... that would be worth a lot of money for them.
That's not what "responsibility" means, I think. (Although I think the parent is right, my criticism is not directed at him.)
It is just such a boring argument at this point.

Society is not better off with thousands of Al Capones and moonshine but less drinking over all. It is such a stupid argument. It is just unbelievable in the US that with having so few borders and neighboring countries to worry about that we don't care that Al Capone has taken over one of them. Exactly the result of how much we like to drink and how much we will pay for drinks.

Just the standard bullshit "What about the children" arguments.

Not to mention in 2023 that you have to add in a huge amount of straight up poison moonshine or people think they are drinking moonshine but instead are drinking gasoline.
"Processes that AI researchers are just now beginning to explore, with results like increasing reasoning ability by 900% in a recent paper"

Would you happen to have a link to that paper?
I would also recommend picking a system with a sizable pool of options. Naming my computers after the planets seemed like a fine idea, until you start living with someone and start adding Raspberry Pis and other devices around the home. Eight planets didn't quite cut it, and now I have an odd mix of mythological characters.
ChainForge: An open-source visual programming environment for testing prompts
Right. Front is people code. Batch and heavy processing may be application engine or sqr, or COBOL. PeopleSoft HCM is their biggest product I think, and a lot of core (or old, if you prefer :) processes are in COBOL. Still getting updated, still actively used to pay many many millions of people in North America.
There are always struggling segments of the population, but travel is less of a luxury than it has ever been. I talk to and have gotten to know the people who work at the local stores I frequent, and I've been surprised by the number of them who want to talk about their recent travel.
US DoJ vs. MS

Keeps all kinds of features that are table stakes in Mac OS and Linux out of Windows b/c it's "anticompetitive" to bundle everything a user would want with an OS.
Much better thank you.

> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/11/alina-lipp...

but I don't understand how your claims hold up when this is one of the lines of the article.

>> It is understood that there had been no warrant for her arrest.
We're talking about affirmative action. These programmes are not designed to level the playing field, but to reward friends and punish enemies.