skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should Apple be obligated to support these machines indefinitely? I think a 7 year lifespan for a computer is actually pretty decent from the original manufacturer. Much better than the most of the competition.

Additionally these machines do not cease to work once Apple declares them obsolete and there is nothing stopping someone from installing Linux on them and continuing to use them with a supported operating system that way.
> Mostly it’s just people trying to get around

That's not good enough. It needs to be 99%. Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it.

Moreover, you come across as someone driven by ideology rather than honesty. You jumped straight into a cliched talking point about how the man is maliciously trying to keep poor people down.
100? How about 150?

https://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNPointerCats.htm

http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Henry-Pointer's-cats-124601...

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/104XHB

Complete with meme captions.
lol you reminded me when i very first onboarded to notion i kept trying to write something and the magic paragraph thing kept popping up and im like WTF can i just… i'm trying to… wtf… and i wanted to try to use it, so i looked up the magic and i kept trying to magic and it just went zero to a million i guess in my understanding. no idea how to get collapsible sections.

I felt very dumb. Like i just want to write this thing and it wants me to be more magical about what i'm trying to write and fuck it's just text, get the fuck out of my way.

i think it's just there are notion users and then there's everyone else. I recovered in my self love again. I use txt files in my ancient sublime editor :)
I’ve got an i9 10th gen Mac with 128GB of RAM and a 1TD SSD and I’ve got an m2 pro MacBook with 32GB of RAM

The m2 absolutely destroys the performance of the i9
Medical Sleuthing Identified the Dangers of Thalidomide
That's sort of the draw. I don't need the best bug tracker, I need a bug tracker that I can get pretty much whatever I need to do done in. I don't need the best wiki, I just need to be able to write reasonably formatted docs with syntax highlighting and links. Notion explicitly isn't the best at any of these things, it's maybe an 8/10 on the best of days. But it's priced at an 8/10 and the search works across the whole damn thing, and nothing that it does is really all that bad.

On the other hand, Confluence does really just one thing. But it doesn't do it especially well, and there's lots of things that it can do that are bolted on haphazardly. Go ahead, try to embed that Loom video. I double dog dare you to try to configure it to show Git commits from GitHub. IMO something that isn't good that's purpose built is actively worse than something that does everything pretty okay.
HP cartridges attach the thermal print head to the ink tanks. The calibration is likely for controlling those heads. Each one has tiny heating elements that need to vaporize the ink at a precise temperature. Thermal heads eventually need to be replaced.

Compare to Epson printers that use piezoelectric heads. Those mechanically push droplets through. This is more complicated, but makes smaller dots.
You say that, but there are tons of features in Notes. They're just successfully kept out of your way until you go looking for them, so when you just want a note that's what you get. This is progressive disclosure, a longtime tenet of Apple GUI design.

A relevant and somewhat meta example: This year they added disclosable sections, which were previously a differentiator for Notion. That's in addition to handwriting selection and editing, voice memos, collaborative editing… Not to mention it's still a regular app and you can have as many note windows as you want.
notion was the beneficiary of the mass exodus of users who felt betrayed by evernote's weird pricing change many years ago. they had a great evernote importer which made it easy to migrate and then grew way beyond the elegant simple product they once were.

a new notion is lurking somewhere waiting to ride in the wake of a growing disgruntled pile of notion users
Ours was even faster. Submitted our naturalization application March 31. Had passport in hand by mid May. Interview and ceremony was between those dates.
Agreed. There's a great deal of improvement I'd like to see in text editors and IDEs.

Collapsible images as inline comments can be FAR more effective at embedding relevant information in certain sections of code.

As far as "related coloration" - Jetbrains IDEs let you setup regex around comments that will color them differently which I use in collaborative environments so devs can quickly collate their TODOs, etc.

There's also an extension called Rainbow Braces that helps to highlight opening/closing pairs with different colors.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/how-to-build-a-better-ide
What obligations does Apple have after designing, manufacturing, distributing, and wildly profiting from what they are now arbitrarily classifying as e-waste?

Currently Apple is reaping all the financial rewards and taking responsibility for very few of the externalities. Does this mean it's what's best? It might seem like a stretch today, but in the medium to long-term, true sustainability is important.

Apple could at least (1) not cripple the devices software and (2) coordinate with a generic manufacturer or supplier to provide replacement parts and competent service and/or updates.

Apple could surely dig around the couch for some spare change and locate the resources to make this happen.
CMapTools (the software made by ihmc.us) is one of the best tools for creating concept maps. Nice to see cmaps explained well.

If you're interested in seeing some examples, you can check out the following cmaps from my books:

High School math (a.k.a. precaluclus):
https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...

HS math, MECH and CALC:
https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

LINEAR ALGEBRA:
https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...
Assistant-UI: A set of React components for AI chat
> cats refuse to be boxed in

Cats sometimes refuse to be boxed in; other times an empty box is a cat's favorite plaything and habitat. Other times, the boxed-in cat is simultaneously alive and dead until the opening of the box. That's the beauty of cats: you just never know.
Yeah, something people forget is routine things happen. But people like to think of events as singular unexpected grand things even if they’re just part of an older expected thing. Take D-day for instance. We make movies about the landings and how dramatic it was, but the truth: a regular troop rotation into territory, something routine for the armed forces.
I realize Apple makes its money from hardware sales and that testing new software on old hardware is expensive, but I would love to see Apple commit to ten years of security updates for every Mac, to bring the software lifespan more in line with the hardware.
shouldn't that be Clion?
(I work at Notion but not on AI)

We maintain a list of data su processors here: https://www.notion.so/notion/Notion-s-List-of-Subprocessors-...

It’s not as specific as citing the actual model version in use from each vendor, though.
Having access to chips independently has deep economic effects as well, and that was the trigger in most countries.

Defense though can be a much more easier talking point from a political and budgeting perspective, especially when trying to unlock an ungodly amount of money towards a potential risk.
I would find markdown tables easier to use if they were just CSV and some delimiters for start/header/end. Imagine being able to write

+------------------------------+
Product,Cost per seat,Importance
+------------------------------+
GSuite,$7.20,Critical
Notion,$10,High
"Something, ""with"", commas and double-quotes",$5,Low
+------------------------------+
Totally agree. Use it for everything. Even replaced my handwritten notebooks since I got new iPad Pro w pencil.
I'd just call it the next ferry. If there was an extra boat sent before the next ferry was due, that could be a rescue mission (or just a replacement boat).
Recently President Biden broadcast a campaign ad where he begins with "Let's cut the malarkey", and I recognized that as a possibly Irish-adjacent neologism, so I looked it up, and apparently it was this guy: the great grand-daddy of all turn-of-the-century memes and coinages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Dorgan
Nation who keeps trialing successful thing asks, why does nothing work?
Sure, whatever.

The one major company backing a project lays off a number of the team working on the project.

That is not exactly the signal of a bright future.
From the same Jargon file: https://jargon-i18n.com/en/F/foobar.html#foobar

“It has been plausibly suggested that “foobar” spread among early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly because “foo bar” parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal; […]”
> No it does not. Does an assistant have to be as qualified as their boss?

The delusion that LLMs or so-called "AI" must be equals to their human overseers is laughable. If these tools are to transcend their current role as mere comic relief, it's crucial to recognize that in any functional hierarchy, the "supervisors" are the true senior figures. This nonsense about management being a separate entity might apply in the tech bubble, but in the real economy, it's a fantasy—one that any serious adult left the cradle believing.

> This is completely irrelevant. The LLM can understand your instructions and it can type 30,000 times faster than you.

I suppose this sounds like some sort of achievement—though why anyone would be impressed is beyond me. It reveals an ignorance so profound that it fails even to reach the bar of a lackluster undergraduate's grasp of what non-deterministic polynomial time entails.
The best selling new SUVs in the country - the Toyota Rav4 and Honda CRV - have CVTs, so your assertion they're "not very common" isn't true.
No, you should regulate driving so those 5% stop colliding with things all the time and the gambling 5% gamble a bit less.
Keep in mind

1) The US economy has no choice, it needs immigrants to keep the population from declining. This is why the southern border is what it is. We've trade an economic problem for an immigration problem.

2) In some - many? - cases these immigrants are a brain drain from their home country. That is, when "the best" come here instead of staying home to improve their on country, is that a net positive? We pat ourselves on the back but no one talks about how this hurts the from countries.
Ask HN: Why don't calendars show "x days to event y"?
My uncle works for Nintendo. He says Bird Flu is going to start getting real bad in two weeks, like REAL BAD.
why do you think a subassembly cannot cost $250 if you picked up the device for $300? just go buy another device then? what is your point? you want to buy a porsche for 20k and then you are surprised that a new gearbox is 30k???
The party bemoaning illegal immigration when in power tried to entirely kill off immigration and naturalization - which are totally unrelated to such a complaint.

Not to mention birthright citizenship.

I could spell it out more plainly if you like, but if you are at all familiar with the parties, you should know by now which which one tried these things.
The Case for Failure-Tolerant Leaders
I strongly disagree for these reasons:

- note data stored in a proprietary format

- no way to access note data from other apps/api

- no way to export in bulk, or in any other format than PDF (a terrible format for notes)

- iCloud sync is a mildly terrifying thing to entrust important data to

I use Apple Notes for the occasional quick grocery list but that's about it.
If my car breaks down while I'm at my fully-loaded villa on day 2 of my 30 day vacation, my friend coming to pick me up isn't a rescue mission.

I don't think being in a leaky space station for eight months, where you suffer the effects of accelerated aging due to zero gravity, is equivalent to a being in a fully loaded villa for a month.

I'm using the "distress" part of "danger or distress". The average person would view the situation as distressing for the astronauts, for the average person "rescue" is appropriate term. Jeesh.
These are very straightforward and do in fact serve as an elegant solution.
I assume both displays in use, but have failover to one only if a display goes “dead”and then the single display can still display the most critical information/controls to the pilot; to me that seems like the only logical implementation. Giving 1 of the 2 screens failing. It should be fairly easy to set up a redundancy failover process, I’ve done that many times in embedded coding where we failed over to a backup system.
I see this claim a lot and I honestly don't understand why people refuse to see this for the disaster it is (for Boeing).

An 8 day mission turned into a months-long mission unexepctedly and SpaceX ultimately had to bump 2 trained astronauts to return them to Earth. That's the very definition of a rescue and just a wildly massive PR disaster to boot.

Beyond this, we still have no idea of what it will take to return Starliner to flightworthiness and give NASA the confidence that it can carry out an entire mission. It may be completely or just practically doomed at this point.
As someone who went through conscription in Germany, the last year to do so (I think), it's a huge relief to me. Almost three decades of neglect and naivete have made the world less safe, not more. Deterrence works.
Don't quote me but I swear I remember hearing somewhere the Obama actually deported more immigrants than Trump. Or maybe it wasn't Trump? The gist was that Obama wasn't as pro-immigrants as most thought he was.
It’s a newer development, GPS proper doesn’t support signing. Galileo is a different satellite.
Its like asking how long a car can last.
Apple makes it difficult to continue using them
What is the check that we need to do for aspiring citizens that wouldn’t interest a lender?

Also, making sure the house is sufficient collateral for the loan is a whole bunch of additional overhead.
Not that I expect them to fix it at this point since it seems to be a known issue, but just in case anyone from Notion is watching please fix the macOS app’s CPU usage. On a brand new M3 MacBook Pro each tab takes about 10% of one core _non-stop_ even in the background. I have to constantly cull tabs or my machine becomes noticeably less responsive.
thanks for taking time here. good call out on the landing page. just changed it.

On the difference between Mailchimp it is all about the editing + sharing experience. Do you feel the template editing is good enough in mailchimp for you? how often do you edit / manage email templates today if you don't mind me asking?

do you have multiple forms of content across push and sms that you manage? do you see value in one place to store all your content and manage it from there?
Imho calendar apps shpuld have a way to visualise “how many days to events”.

Currently, I need to calculate myself. I’m lazy I know, but why do I need to subtract event’s day - today rather than having countdowns ready on calendar apps/websites?
I don't think this would work. Trademarks would be shifted to holding companies and licensed to operating entities so as to avoid legal exposure.
Other observers said the same thing so apparently I didn’t look as carefully as I thought I did!

> If you’ve spent years living on the beach, blah blah blah

I wish I gave a flying fuck about your not very subtle accusation. Feel free to believe what you want. I’m retired and I still don’t have as much free time as you do. You are not very good at mind reading, but I’m glad you’re giving the old college dropout try.
Well hmm. NASA decided Starliner wasn't safe enough to use for the return journey, so the astronauts stayed on the ISS until the next ride became available.

Originally the astronauts were supposed to go back on Starliner. Now they're taking another ride back. Is that considered a rescue? Well, it depends.

If you get left behind on an island because your ride wasn't safe and another boat picks you up, is that a rescue? Now what if you're 420 kilometers up and another boat has to come get you. Is that a rescue?

If there wasn't another ride from the ISS available, would the astronauts be stranded? Yes.

In that case, if a ride suddenly became available would it be considered a rescue? Probably, yes.
The only reason we dont have policies that give people money directly is because it doesn’t allow for the people who have money, to control what the people who get it, do with the money

Why, cause what people typically do with money like in UBI situations, is get out from under the control of people with money.

As the system exists, all the money resides with people who don’t want other people to get it. It’s overwhelmingly clear the majority of people with more than living wage amount of money, want to spend it exclusively on their own consumptive pleasure with no positive externalities.

So they’re not going to support or implement policies (via the government they’ve captured) to make it easier for people to be less dependent on existing power structures

Where is any of this confusing at this point? It’s all very specifically explicitly understood to work like this. What’s baffling?
Down voted? Why? At least stand up and counter. HN ain't what it used to be. Sad really.
Honestly I think that Microsoft has such a stranglehold on the business (and therefore home because we're already familiar with it at work) market that they think they can do literally anything they want.

Are the millions of businesses that really on Ms products going to change systems? No.

Not sure what I'm getting at with this. Maybe just trying to logic my way through this decision?
Social Security benefits will reduce _despite_ immigrants, not _because_ of them.

Americans voted in extremely good terms on SS (always good COLA adjustments, the age of SS retirement never adjusting for longer lifetimes or easier labor). It was never sustainable without consistent massive economic growth.
Google Dawn
Agree on all the above except that iCloud sync seems to have been rock-solid for years now.
Startup and Co-Founder Spouse
Our company is doing great. We’ve grown. We have customers. Our value keeps increasing.

When we started, I went full time with no pay first for about 6 months building. My cofounder then joined at about 9 months and worked as much as they could. It went well and I never had any feelings of animosity. We each have our roles to play in our mission.

Recently, their spouse has been more involved. Generally in a positive way. Early on, their spouse contributed some to marketing (paid as a contractor). Now the spouse wants more of a role in the company. Now employees are confused about the spouse’s role. Now, the cofounders spouse wants equity.

To me, this is a risky thing for us to be considering. How it is perceived by board and employees. Am I wrong on this? They were paid. They have contributed. But, where were they before the money started showing up?
Reduction in brightness?
I can’t tell if you’re joking? D-Day being ‘a regular troop rotation’ is an amazing description.
I am currently pondering the idea of building a modern electronics "replica" one of these, with 3d printed sphere halves containing stepper motors, magnetic rotary encoders, and a 6dof compass/gyro imu. If you put an Arduino or ESP32 inside to drive those, you could have simple slip rings that only needed to supply power through the roll and pitch axes.

(Only pondering though, I have had the same idle thoughts about making my own Russian Soyuz mechanical navigation instrument too from this other writeup of Ken's https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-... but somehow the idea of making replica soviet vintage tech isn't as appealing as it was a few years back...)
The world where nothing ever happens
US Citizenship is worth a lot more than a house....
rainbow parentheses are mentioned in the paper
Apple Notes is pretty close to perfect for me - it's just missing Markdown support and backlinks.
I did just figure out how to link notes together with the '>>' shortcut, which is a game-changer. I've tried a bunch of other apps, but I always come back to Notes.
Very well-written article. I'm happy for them that part of the solution was switching from Cassandra to drop-in replacement Scylla, rather than having to deal with something entirely different.
This is useful! Love the Go & HTMX combination and use it often. Good documentation too for an alpha release. Nice work.
Repo h1: Dawn, a WebGPU implementation since it's a mirror, perhaps the original repo (https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn) should be the URL
Isn't it not how market works, by paying good price and allowing fabs to compete for it?
Because 83/84 was golden era of personal computers. Even when 8-bits was very limited, but they was affordable.

Imagine, sales of commodores and consoles achieved millions annually.

What also important, fortunately, 8-bits was good enough and (mostly) enough fun for tech level of that time (VHS, AM radio).

Previous computers was extremely expensive, so limited to military/science or business. Later computers become boring commodity.
Also bear in mind that they're now doing the same with just 72 nodes.
Oh, I get the flow. Only what I'd seen previously is the cups-browsed PPDs only last as long as the source is around (which again, is what I'd seen previously, but I haven't verified the code to see when the cleanup happens, so I'm 100% ready to be wrong). Hence the objection to the "2 years later" comment.

The original article seems to spend more time being vague about the actual issue (it's notable that the PoC video makes it really hard to see the steps), and if this vagueness was in the original security reports, I'm not surprised it wasn't well received (c.f. the vague bug reports curl gets).
Great, thank you! Next would be dark mode, I guess.
They're still going? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_fairs

Next one opens in Osaka in April 2025.
Math Proves the Fastest, Most Efficient Way to Board a Plane (2020)
That's not true. It has GitHub integration, etc.
When my friend's car broke down on the mountain 15 minutes from both of our homes and I brought them a jacket and McDonalds while they wait for a tow, that was a rescue.

Like it's not much, but come on.
people also use email as a support ticket system. Sprint planning system. Kanban system. I’ve seen it set up so that it can track work across kanban teams and scrum teams.

Email has deep integration with bitbucket, confluence, and GitHub.

Email can manage your CI pipelines as well.

Email is an anything app with a bend towards project management. Setting up email workflows is a whole career.

Source: I worked at Google for years and they use email as the backbone for _everything_. It all flows into email
We're not talking about cars, we're talking about computers. What computer manufacturer provides Apple's level of support for 7 year old hardware?

Apple just has the decency to communicate what hardware it considers to be officially obsolete.
Eh, I wish somebody noticed when I was a kid.

Lucky I got heavy into programming, which scratched somewhat a similar itch (and it's well paid).

What about rpgmaker? That's the one I found when I was 12
It’s just too bad Notion AI can’t see data stored in databases, which is arguably Notions biggest value add and differentiator. So given that it can’t use that data with AI queries really limits the usefulness of it.