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Ask HN: Do you use a smart notebook? How is your experience?
I have been looking at various smart notebooks off and on for over a year.

I am stuck in 'analysis paralysis', as they call it. It will be a bigger purchase for me at this point in my life so I am worried about grabbing the wrong one for me.

I have mostly been looking back and forth at the Remarkable 2 and Rocketbook Pro or Multi Subject Notebook. But then there is also Moleskine and now the Amazon Kindle Scribe.

Currently, with regular pen and paper, I like to keep one notebook (composition notebook usually) that is just a running todo and information notebook.

I just add things in and mark things out as I go. I will have pages where I may jot down some important information that pertains to something in the running todo list as well. It isn't the most organized but typically I can find what I need relatively quickly.

I will also go through now and then and rewrite the running todo list and remove the prior unneeded pages to condense and make it more manageable. I know this probably sounds like a nightmare to many but with my severe ADHD it is sort of the best I've found for myself.

I also would love to start journaling and love the idea of being able to just wipe away what I write after I write it and just have it popped up into the cloud where I can store it securely.

I would also love to be able to keep up more with other notebooks that would contain information on various topics I want to learn about or am learning about currently.

I don't really need notebooks professionally, at least not now. I work outside.

Oh also, things like a notebook to track my house plants and vegetable garden and that sort of thing.

I feel like these notebooks do all differ a bit in certain areas so one of these probably makes more sense for me.

I would like to be able to then go back through my various notebooks on my smart notebook if I wanted...

So I don't think the Moleskine or Rocketbook would be for me for that reason because they use an actual 'paper' that you can wipe away.

BUT I love the idea of being able to feel like I am writing on paper. It sounds like Remarkable 2 provides that to some extent. But then the Remarkable 2 is lacking quite a lot, it seems.

No OCR Search.
It's cloud-syncing capabilities are pretty limited.
People seem to think it's ability to convert handwriting to text is pretty unimpressive and leaves a lot to be desired.
No backlight.
No screen temperature adjustment.

I'm ready to make a purchase as I have set aside funds but I just am struggling to really dial in which one makes the most sense.

Just curious of anyone with experience with these, especially if you have tried more than one and can compare/contrast??

I really, REALLY appreciate any thoughts or guidance!

Thank you!
And glibc is bad until it can be used reliably for static builds.
You're not wrong... I used it for some small business things before I started programming. But why does MS have to treat so disrespectfully? Like they didn't even have time to give the SQL editor a monospace font, wtf?
And yet, I’ve never seen a handgun or heard a single gunshot [+] after almost 15 years in Canada.

[+] except at the range, or while hunting when I or my buddies pulled the trigger.
Readwise Reader is a poor PDF reader, unfortunately. Where it shines is making readable text documents out of PDFs, so it depends on the type that you’re reading.
And lots of people who can provide support. And lots of youtube tutorials.
We use GPT 4V to reason about the screen and decide what to do next. It does make mistakes. Here's a video of it thinking a page in the shop app is an ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKyO-U7j4Hs).

The upside is that we do prompt hacking on our end to break out of loops and heal after it's made a mistake. Having said that, we're working on improving this!

On costs, it's cheaper than you think. The entire playground demo cost us less than $10. More expensive than running a script but we believe the cost of intelligence will go down in time.

On speed, yes it is slow. We minimize this by parallelizing tests across devices on our device farm. We can normally turn results around in 2.5-4 hours depending on the number of tests.

Thanks for the questions!
> Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable.

Looking forward to see how true this is. The communities I used to frequent, have maybe 20% of the activity they used to, before the API fiasco, even though they're "back online". I also stopped using reddit on the phone after my chosen reddit client was closed down (which I'm grateful for, thanks reddit).

My reddit activity probably dropped way below half compared to before, as the communities I used to be in are now shells of their former glory.
Where do you account for lobbying from the oil industry and corruption?
I run rke2 for a while too and using cilium from the beginning.

I'm happy with rke2, but rancher the ui is my 'issue'.

It works well for rke1 but it took ages until it even started talking rke2
I wonder how much larger that is than, say, classic Unix distributions like 4.3BSD.
"Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax? Difftastic shows the actual line numbers from your files, both before and after."

Preach!

Just dropped it in and did a git diff.. works like a charm!
Actually Java brought back the green threads model that it had before Go came to be.

The difference is that now red and green threads are exposed at the API level, and not an implementation detail.

Hardly copying Go.
I take my laptop outside for a 1-2 hour stint quite regularly. Helps if I want to disconnect and focus on a particular thing. If you're comfortable working from a laptop, I recommend just giving it a go.
There's also a lot of paved road where you will absolutely not see a bicycle.
Well this looks like something useful. Can't imaging how much work is needed to first understand css and then to build a layout engine around it.
Translated: "Buy this garbage stock so I can finally make some money from this damn company" – Paul Graham
Hey everyone I’m the creator of hyperscript (and htmx). I know the syntax for hyperscript is a bit jarring but it is designed to embed well directly in HTML for light scripting needs, as a complement to htmx. It isn’t designed to be a language for building a ton of logic in.

It is easier to read rather than to write by design and is inspired by HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard. I don’t expect or recommend it to be a general replacement for JavaScript, but it can be nice for light scripting for the web.

As far as features go, besides the xtalk based syntax it has things like CSS literals and relative positional expressions that make scripting the DOM easier:

on click toggle .active on the next <div/>

probably the most interesting feature to most HN is that the runtime automatically resolves promises so script writers don’t have to:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async

this, coupled with event-based control flow can make for some interesting scripting patterns.

Anyway, not for everyone but it is a passion project of mine and is being used in production. I’m hoping to get it to 1.0 this summer after htmx 2 stabilizes. Happy to answer questions.
After reading this and all the comments on this thread I think I will pick up some of his books.

Too much science fiction nowadays is dystopian, cynical and pessimistic. I don’t have a problem with any individuals writing stuff like that if they really want to. People should have the freedom to write whatever they want. I just personally feel like there is too much of the cynical pessimistic stuff being written nowadays.

So seeing that Vernor Vinge wrote stores that portray science and humanity in positive hopeful and optimistic ways makes me very interested in reading his work.
That is, of course, on the roadmap. I use a Mac as my daily driver so this one's personal :)
DOJ to make imminent live Apple anti-trust announcement
And yet... https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2024001/article...
Glad someone got the reference!
Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks
So the more identical the committee members are, the smarter the committee?
Often management knows all about it and does nothing for one reason or another.

I had two cases of having a toxic coworker and only being able to get them fired after leaving myself. (Step 1 is “oh shit, we lost an important team member”, Step 2 is “aha! we haven’t been able to replace that team member in six months because of the behavior of the toxic employee”). Next thing I see the person is on LinkedIn looking for a new job.
Please mirror, because more people should have a copy of this: https://3e.org/vvannot

This is Vinge's annotated copy of A Fire Upon the Deep. It has all his comments and discussion with editors and early readers. It provides an absolutely fascinating insight into his writing process and shows the depth of effort he put into making sure everything made sense.
And coal. So much coal. Lots of the coal mined is for exporting I guess, but still, a lot goes into their power plants.
I was introduced to the idea of even single cells can exhibit "learning" and "culture" via John Bonner excellent book The Evolution of Culture in Animals.

Instead of thinking in terms of a discontinuity between animals or putting humans categorically different, Bonner builds this idea of a continuum instead for both culture and learning. Of course there are differences,

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691023731/th...

This post of course goes deep in the rabbit hole so to speak.
"like intelligence, but it could be simulated by an analog computer with a good handful of of discrete components"

dude, I am an analog computer with a good handful of discrete components and I'm definitely intelligent
Reddit has completely destroyed their mobile website to drive users to their (bad) app. They also destroyed most of their app competitors with the whole API fiasco.
We could also acknowledge two problems simultaneously, without downplaying or minimizing either. That way, neither you nor your imaginary rhetorical opponent is "clutching their pearls".
I remember Digg being more popular than Reddit more than a decade ago. What happened that caused Reddit to succeed where Digg failed?
I just considered weasyprint and couldn't figure out where to put my credit card or where to go to get started or to see some docs, so that was a very short-lived consideration.
We'll just start saying the "G" is for "General"
Technically we haven't paid for new spending in tax dollars since Clinton was in the White House, its hard to say taxes pay for something when its paid for with debt.

That said, my point was that the tax payer isn't really paying for it when the tax payer has no say in what is being paid for. If the taxes are collected either under false pretense, or no pretense at all, for what the money will be spent on then the citizen is only responsible for paying the tax bill. The money is the government's at that point, and responsibility for how it is spent at that point stops at their desks.

If the tax payer were truly the one paying for this, we would at minimum have a voice in the program. At best, the government would propose the plan and leave it up to the tax payers to fund it in almost a kick starter type of approach. A simple vote would make more sense IMO, but if we are to pay for it with tax dollars and the government refuses to run a surplus, tax payers (should) have to kick in more money to pay for it.
Funny how that money wouldn't have been there when someone suggested doing it right in the first place.

Of course the MBAs see this as a win as their names aren't on anything except the profits at the time. Parasites.
By which metrics are you evaluating those companies' license changes? Both are significantly more profitable than before they changed licenses, MongoDB especially. I'm not sure there's a causal relationship, but it doesn't seem to have significantly harmed them.
quite impressive, there must have been an insane amount of work that went into this

the forecasting market should capitalize on if someone dies who is it or who dies first? this guy or the neuralink patient
There is one raw ingredient in Skyrim which will kill the player. But it can't be found in the wild. It's given to you for a Dark Brotherhood quest. But you don't have to use it in the quest. Can keep it for later use.
The point is that it wasn't developed by VC money. It was bought with VC money after the fact.

It wasn't a "demo" for a paid product funded by corporate dollars or VC funding, it was just a thing that someone created, and released as an open source project.

It's hilarious that you think the companies dropping open source licenses for the products they bought are going to stop the industry using open source. As I said originally, it's going to have the opposite affect: it's going to make the industry embrace the very nature of open source and create forks of projects, the moment there's a sniff of a corporate buy out, specifically because of this type of activity.
So if a monkeys bangs on keys forever it will eventually produce Shakespeare? I'm quite skeptical
Hiding behind "it's complicated" is an over-used excuse to avoid a more critical look at a problem.

A one year point is a crude approximation, but it does illustrate the order of magnitude mismatch between what they could pay their employees vs what they actually pay them, which was the short point being made.

More broadly, TSMC had no problem shelling out $9.9 billion to shareholders that same year (or $123,000+ per employee). So the argument of saving every penny because of the "capital intensive" nature of their business is also out the door.

And complaining about a single year estimate in the case of TSMC is barking up the wrong tree. They've had net incomes in the billions at least since the beginning of the 2000s.

So no, in the case of TSMC, they have no reason to pay wages below what is considered a "living wage" in Phoenix, Arizona.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/38060
> his name was number 1 of 49 listed in an email from upper management titled “Quality Managers to get rid of”

Sounds like a healthy corporate culture when it comes to safety!
Emergency use case is not the same. The tug uses diesel for extended range tasks. The chairlift uses it during a power failure.

"Generators for long transit 2 x 300 kW"

"Fuel 9800 gal @95%"

https://www.crowley.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/07/2...
If this is true, there need to be repercussions for the perpetrators. If this is true, it's going to be hard to turn this company around. It means the management is rotten and needs to be replaced top-to-bottom, else it'll slowly devolve into a has been company and we'll be left with AirBus and who knows who else, a mix of Chinese, Russian and maybe Brazilian or Japanese alternatives, if they can ramp up over 15 to 20 years.
1) Modula-2, Active Oberon, Erlang

2) .NET, Java, Smalltalk, Common Lisp

3) Any compiled language until the mid-1990's.

4) Amsterdam Compilers Toolkit, 1980

5) Until the repo changes, forbids distribution of binary libraries

6) Standard ML, Caml Light, OCaml, Haskell,...

7) Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MS-DOS computers running at 7 MHz, with 640KB.
For anyone struggling with flexbox, you can use this tool to streamline the process of creating

responsive layouts, removing the need to focus on multiple properties: https://flexboxcss.com
Remind me of this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4

> Improving the efficiency of algorithms for fundamental computations can have a widespread impact, as it can affect the overall speed of a large amount of computations. Matrix multiplication is one such primitive task, occurring in many systems—from neural networks to scientific computing routines. [...] We further showcase the flexibility of AlphaTensor through different use-cases: algorithms with state-of-the-art complexity for structured matrix multiplication and improved practical efficiency by optimizing matrix multiplication for runtime on specific hardware. Our results highlight AlphaTensor’s ability to accelerate the process of algorithmic discovery on a range of problems, and to optimize for different criteria.

And I'll emphasis this sentence, as it seems to be the main goal/critics of the author in this post:

> improved practical efficiency by optimizing matrix multiplication for runtime on specific hardware.
True Names, particularly because it is short.
Can we remove entirely or allocate an equal amount of subsidies to each state in order to compare each experiment on equal grounds? (looking at Alabama and similar states that get more federal funding than they contribute)
>they can live on ramen and work 16 hours a day.

And the fact that most people don't see a problem with a statement like this a _big_ problem.
HN is a social media platform. I think the kind of marketing going on in HN is decently acceptable. This post was still very interesting to me, which fits the spirit of HN.
There's also Facebook's Yoga: https://github.com/facebook/yoga
> Once I started serving images along with the text and using the app over a 2Mbps link it seemed to me the aiohttp server was getting a little unreliable.

Does that imply that it was due to images being heavier, and thus if you were to stream something like video from aiohttp it would not go so well?
Yep, I think we've got the same position.

Even though I don't agree with the dynamic camp, I like advocating for it because I think there are scenarios where there is something there.

However, the position that the static camp is somehow against freedom and morally wrong is pretty weird to me.
Hyperscript is designed to be easy to read when embedded within html. The xtalk[1] syntax is more verbose and stands out. This is intentional and is made up for, to an extent, by more expressive features like relative position expressions, CSS literals and so on:

on click toggle .active on the next <div/>

Certainly not for everyone but it is being used in production in multiple applications.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk
A very close experience yes. It works just fine with zero head movement and you can move and adjust your windows to only be directly in front of you. And they are by default
Nice. Yes the pattern I describe in the article supports any callable too. I should point out that this is not a specific library, just a very bare-bones pattern.
Something that only lasts 30 days is going to partially start breaking down on day 1, I don't think people want that touching their meat.
Yea, i stopped using it from mobile entirely when that happened. I expect them to kill `old.reddit` soon any that'll be the end of that for me. ATProto is far more interesting to me, if/when someone makes a link aggregator for them rather than the Twitter style UI of Bluesky. ActivityPub will do in a pinch, if needed. (i already tested this idea, for ~60 days with zero Reddit)
There was a Nintendo DS port of Stone Soup that I really loved. Had some great times provoking monsters into fighting each other while I hid in the shadows.
Dreamers will be dreamers.

The ongoing uptake in open core, shows where it goes.
I love fucking bicycles! In the Netherlands, they make the roads safer, they make the neighbourhoods saver, they make people more healthy, they reduce crime, they make people drive more careful.

Just by having a lot of people on bicycles instead in closed cars, it creates a whole different society then if everyone would be in cars and I love it.
Posts about the reddits on orange reddit :)
You can also build whatever you want with SSPL, as long as absolutely everything you use to run a service that supports it is also licensed as SSPL. It's not that different from the AGPL in spirit.
Why would it need anything for emergency use? Presumably there are other tugboats around.
Oh, one other interesting thing about hyperscript is that it is a pluggable parser so you can add new language features to it if you want. Kinda neat.
I have a hard time conceiving of a platform one could currently make that would not become closer to a marketing platform the more user engagement it receives.

Maybe niche BBs or a platform with enough distasteful content that no company wants their brand associated with it. (Ex. 4chan)
U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly
pdf-tools [1] + org-ref [2] in Emacs.

[1] https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools

[2] https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
Yes. It was a bug in bash -- the Bourne again shell -- that permitted the execution of arbitrary code by embedding a function definition into environment variables. It was a Big Deal because it was remotely exploitable in systems that set environment variables according to user input before executing the shell -- the most severe was probably the Apache HTTP Server's CGI handler, which sets environment variables from HTTP header data.

I had the same initial reaction, though. "Kubernetes? Shellshock? Oh noes!"
VV is up there with Stephenson and Gibson as the top 3. I don't put Asimov, etc in there since Asimov was hard sci-fi to the max and couldn't write a character to save his life, much like later Stephenson.

I wish I could find something else like VV's work that's sort of under-the-radar. I do have to mention that things like The Three Body Problem get hype, but are several tiers below VVs work.
Yeah. I distinctly remember Google using it itself a big motivator to go with AngularJS and then Angular in side projects, so I was not wrong...
Digg was more self-immolation than failure. Reddit succeeded by being the place people fled to from Digg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4

Reddit is on the same path, but it's more of a slow burn.
Fwiw, the YouTube music android app is pretty bad too. I generally need to force stop it a couple of times pr listening session because it freezes up getting the next track.

Also find it curious that there's apparently no Bluetooth hot key to "like" the current song, only single click for play/pause and double for skip. Bit maybe that's a Bluetooth headphone protocol thing?
I unfortunately have the exact kit of ram you mentioned to avoid, it came with the Microcenter bundle.

I live ~2.5 hours from Microcenter, so I took a gamble-- reviews were very mixed but the price was insane. If I had bought this setup from my local BestBuy or online, I'd have returned it.

What's your plan if you can get that 256GB RAM config? Run some full-fat LLM's on your iGPU?
It's a bad book, nowhere close to the first two in any regard.
DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly
I’m anti-spam myself, but I wouldn’t draw that conclusion from this post. It’s a post that links to a blog post on the YC primary domain site (that is, their company site), and we are on a YC forum hosted on a subdomain of the parent YC domain.

I wouldn’t visit Reddit’s blog and interpret talk about their successes there as indicating that the entire forum(s?) exist for marketing the parent.

And although, the HN forum itself definitely is great marketing, I mean to say that not all the content is marketing for YC.

I also wouldn’t draw that conclusion if someone who worked at Reddit submitted the blog post to a subreddit and it got upvoted there.

Unless it was boosted here, it’s only on the front page because of others voting it up. It’s more likely that it’s the PG effect!
Thanks for the thorough reply!

I confess I wasn't thinking about a particular build tool. My recent experience has been with Vite, where I took a similar approach to what you describe, but haven't had to dig deep into bundle performance because that's not a bottleneck for our application. The last time I did deeper work on the subject was years ago with Webpack.

I thought Webpack at least did dead-code elimination before splitting things into chunks. If I'm reading this random GitHub issue[1] right (and the asker is also right), Webpack does partially behave as I expected, but the pre-chunking optimization pass occurs before things like constant expression evaluation.

[1] https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/16672
'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers facing ageism in job market