maebert

Obligatory shout-out to jrnl (https://jrnl.sh) for all of your command-line note-taking needs!

Pro tip: memorize the “stop words” (ie closed word classes: prepositions, pronouns, determiner, function words, modal verbs) of romance languages and you’ll be able to comprehend almost all simple text in all of them.

“Trust me, I’m European”.

^ this reply should be right on top because it really captures the point. 3 1/2-USB drives existed “historically” because both technologies coexisted at the same time, just like you’ll find PS2-USB adapters, but good luck finding a PS2 to USB-C adapter.

You solved the case again, Mulder.

What if... it could use 100% of your computers brain power?

Because I don't want your to-do list to look like the Starbucks signature pad that makes everyone's signature look like they're a 3 year old kinetically challenged imbecile. You're welcome!

Implies a distinct and independent existence. We could be the Borg.

Exactly, assuming "feel OK about not flossing" and "Check off a task you don't feel like doing today" are common day tasks.

That’s making sure bold assumptions. Beep boop.

In the making! I'll just let the iOS users find all the bugs first ;)

As with my previous undeniable smash hit The Most Dangerous Writing App, I think that while the app is preposterously antithetical, there's a real value in it.

In short, I believe we care about too. much. stuff. all. the. time. Ironically, giving less fucks makes us happier if we know how to distribute them well. This app is trying to do exactly that.

Absolutely! I'll just let the iOS users find all the bugs first ;)

Absolutely wonderful puzzle. Back when I taught Prolog in college, I created a number of Sudokus for my students to solve, that and a few other prolog puzzles are here for those enjoying a lazy afternoon of logic programming: https://github.com/maebert/prolog_puzzles#sudoku

A few years ago I wrote The Most Dangerous Writing App. It's been acquired since, but the open-source version still has a "hardcore mode" very similar to this, where you only see the last letter you typed: https://maebert.github.io/themostdangerouswritingapp/

Soooo... Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole point of taking notes on your easily searchable computer that you _don’t_ have to remember them?

I can’t help but to feel delightfully nostalgic whenever I read about Prolog, thanks for writing this up. If you’re interested, I’ve created a set of Prolog exercises about 10 years ago when I was teaching this in college, including one for “advanced Sudoku”:

https://github.com/maebert/prolog_puzzles/blob/master/readme...

Former neuroscientist working on similar stuff here.

While the flashy part is the “speech synthesis”, the science breakthrough is actually better frames as an machine learning problem.

Imagine you record someone moving their hand across a canvas. The hand movement becomes the input, the drawing the output. The ML problem they solved is to reconstruct the output (or at least something that resembles it) from the input. In the study’s case, that’s efferent motor signals.

There is a long history of mapping these kind of signals in the sensorimotor homunculus to the respective muscles they control downstream (and some really cool stuff like prosthetic limbs can already be controlled with it), but speaking is a notoriously hard motor task and requires a lot of muscles to work in unison in very precise ways. When you implant these multi-electrode arrays, you get a few hundred more or less random single neurons, astrocytes, and local field potentials from the nether in between. Nonsense, noisy data. Being able to map this back to the result they produce in the body is technically as complex as astonishing!

Interesting to see this; wonder whether they can beat Amazon in the b2b race. I heard they're giving out Echos to Boutique hotels for free.

Author here. I know Flowstate, which itself was a copy of "Write or Die". I did not know they used the tagline "The Most Dangerous App" though, and now feel shitty - I don't want to steal their tagline! Need to come up with something different. I wrote this for a friend who doesn't have a Mac but loved the concept.

Evil. I like it.

Yay! Congrats, glad to make something useful (and yet silly)!

Author of the app here. I use this daily, mostly for journalling. I like to think of it as a way to shut up the inner editor, and separate writing and editing into two different steps (as they should be) - and it works amazingly well for that.

Here's how to make this news interesting to the mainstream:

"Chinese hackers cost US economy $100,000 / h"

Well, replace random accusations and numbers by facts of course, but that's a valid question: How many employees can currently not to any meaningful work because they don't have access to what they're supposed to work on? This times salaries spent on them anyway is a good lower bound for the damage done to the economy (actual damage should be higher since employees should of course add more value to the economy than their salary).

TL;DR:

Christoph Koch says that 1) Make a really complex system. We can even measure how complex systems are! 2) ??? 3) Consciousness!

By the way, that's not panpsychism, that's emergentism, and for much better accounts of that read CD Broad or Jaekwon Kim.

In my defence, I wrote that before Snowden (the events, not the person). In fact I absolutely agree that encryption is probably ineffective if you're trying to hide stuff from a government.

However the main use for encryption is to store your journal on an insecure medium such as Dropbox, and I believe encryption is still the best way to keep your data from companies you don't trust.

(Then again, after Condoleezza Rice got on the board of Dropbox, I'm not so sure anymore.)

Encryption currently only works for plain text based journals; DayOne journals can't be encrypted (since DayOne can't deal with encrypted journals either). I hope they'll change that though, as they promised loooong time ago.

You're absolutely right, and honestly I have no idea why I used SHA256, I should know better. Will fix.

Thanks a lot!!

The author does see. In fact there some other fantastic HN person already saw this and submitted a pull request (https://github.com/maebert/jrnl/pull/175)

Thanks :) In fact, jrnl started as exactly that: some bash functions over a text file. But then I wanted encryption. And I wanted fuzzy date parsing. There we go...

I agree that the * is not perfect. Turns out there aren't so many characters that are accessible on most keyboards (also non-US layouts) that are NOT already special characters on most shells. Suggestions welcome!