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Re: Not bombing Kyoto, apart from Stimson's personal reasons, I thought this was also an interesting one:

>Postwar political considerations did affect the choice of targets for the atomic bombs. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered that the historically and culturally significant city of Kyoto be stricken from the target list. (Stimson was personally familiar with Kyoto; he and his wife had spent part of their honeymoon there.) Truman agreed, according to Stimson, on the grounds that “the bitterness which would be caused by such a wanton act might make it impossible during the long postwar period to reconcile the Japanese to us in that area rather than to the Russians.”[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...

I bought a new MacBook Pro a couple of months ago, just before the ARM announcement even though it was rumoured. Like others have mentioned, I’m not too keen on buying the first gen of the ARM laptops. If they or the second gem are that appealing, the resale value of the one I bought should still be ok.

The only worry is, if you plan to keep it for a long time, how long will macOS support the Intel line. I know Apple said they would, but iirc the PPC —> Intel change caused the PPC macs to stop being supported after 2 years.

I wonder, do any non-tech centric employers look here? I’m interested in research positions and have a PhD in informatics and do mainly metadata, knowledge organization, linked data work. I do have some programming abilities but are most of the hirings aimed at full stack engineers at al. or are there any more esoteric opportunities?

I think they are. It's a popular collection of 'fighting game backgrounds with nice pixel art' that get posted around pretty often.

Not sure about the Android version, but the cheapest subscription option for Carrot on iOS enables selectable data sources. Accuracy will vary for your area but there may be a good replacement.

Any examples of those mining lenders you mentioned?

It's 2020 not 'Its 2020'.

Since this story came out a few days ago, does anyone know if Amazon has commented on whether or not they plan to launch these 'themselves' / with Blue Origin?

There isn't a great single resource I can point to, but try the twitter account Yusha Kobo[0], which is a keyboard shop in Tokyo. Not just their posts, but if you look at the feeds or likes of people they retweet, you should be able to find a bunch of examples.

[0] https://twitter.com/yushakobo

If anyone is interested in building their own split ergo:

https://blog.splitkb.com/blog/introducing-the-kyria

Split keyboards are really popular amongst the Japanese mechanical keyboard scene for some reason. Tons of people making and selling DIY split / ortholinear split kits.

Not sure if this will fit the bill exactly, but have been looking for something like this to accompany knowledge base note tools like Roam, Obsidian, etc., since those don't work that well with web content IMO. Using Zotero at the moment, which is fine for something not web-based. are.na is maybe another similar service aimed at content beyond bookmarks. klobie looks good though!

A couple of suggestions: I like the 'card view' of the board pages, but assuming one has a lot of tags, and many bookmarks per tag (or even many bookmarks for a single tag), I feel the 'overview' you get with the board page kind of vanishes and the individual tags take over. Something like a fixed height option for the cards that becomes scrollable would be nice. Alternatively, each tag becomes a separate page, with the bookmarks being listed once you enter the tag page instead of the board page, but not sure if you want that kind of hierarchical structure. Oh, and maybe a tighter column view might be nice!

Most of my academic and current research career involves RDF and SPARQL and I wish it were a bit more used outside of academia or esoteric library / information science related fields. Currently taking a bunch of heterogenous data from different providers, most of which is in some kind of relational database, then transforming it into RDF and letting it be queryable using sparql. The creation of aggregated entities based on related resources from different providers, plus the possibility to do some advanced querying using sparql, is the main benefit here, though I don't know enough about relational databases to say whether or not it's just as doable there.

I'll say one disadvantage of RDF is the lack of any well implemented reification of triples.

>if you want to share a stable/growing bookmarks collection, or even cooperate with others sharing their own, there's nowhere to do it.

There's http://are.na

I've been looking for these for a while now. I remember seeing early prints on Twitter some time ago but couldn't find them again. They are pretty interesting IMO - maybe comment about the RAM being used to make the art just in case people only view the thumbnails and think they are a collection of emulator screenshots or something!

>The operating thesis of a significant segment of the leadership in these states is that America is a racist nation, governed by a horde of white male supremacists who use the pretense of equality to maintain their superior position. When asked for evidence to support the claim of white supremacy,” the only response I have been given is, “Look all around.” They hold this untruth to be self-evident.

I'm sure some are able to offer specific evidence beyond 'look all around' to support their claim.

I've been writing a bit about content discovery sans algorithms and I think there is at least some number of people would be interested in it. Social curation is appealing, though I'm not sure how popular a dedicated site for curated link sharing would be. While things like Reddit, Twitter, etc. are not 1 to 1 replacements, I think it serves a similar purpose for a lot of people.

I won’t say it’s objectively better in all cases but Deepl provides better translations from what I’ve seen than Google Translate.

Yeah not sure what triggered the change but it was extremely noticeable.

Devonthink looks cool, but can you explain why it's functionally better? Or is it just a better layout?

I keep trying to use Roam and Obsidian (rather than a more simple note taking app like Notable,) but I find that my more complex thoughts on topics, i.e the ones I would want to use this kind of software to record, is more often than not about external content such as PDFs or webpages. I know you can simply link files or urls inside markdown, but the integration seems a bit simplistic. I suppose some people will just copy and paste highlights, or extract notations, but something like Zotero seems hard to beat for my usage.

Considering the constant hype I encounter for this online, not so surprising. Perhaps the clear lead from the plethora[0] of similar software? Though Obsidian seems to be getting more popular.

I recall reading about some privacy policies issues a while back [1], I wonder if anything has changed.

[0] https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849239

I don't think there's a single app that I'd say is THAT critical, but things I use very often:

Homewbrew

iTerm

Maccy

Itsycal

Alfred

Notable

Using a thought bubble emoji to indicate comments is really good.

Maybe the pendulum could swing back the other way slightly and we could have room for an older Yahoo-style indexed search engine. This wouldn't be something that would be browsed instead of search, but if you had a general categories list indexed, say 'finance' or 'graphic design', users could enter those sections and search sites categorised accordingly. Perhaps some ranking could be done based on search terms used within a category and what site a user ends up visiting (e.g. many users end up visiting a certain stackexchange link when searching for 'parsing json in python' within the 'computer programming' category, and so its rank increases). Heck instead of ads, maybe each category page could have a list of 'popular / trending sites on this topic' section at the topic that pages could pay to be placed in.

Not sure if this solves any user problem to be honest, and the idea is only appealing to me because I think some amount of domain expertise and human curation could go into categorising pages. While this sounds (and no doubt would be) labour intensive, if we consider the number of domains that users actually visit when conducting a search (i.e. ignoring anything past page 1 of google) then perhaps it's not so extreme.

N-O-D-E is a great channel.

I’ve not tried it, but check out https://stoopinbox.com

If you have time to blow, here's a giant list https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6... (though not sure how many of these work well with images)

I suspect a lot of people will say Roam. I've tried some of those on the list like Obsidian, Relanote, Supernotes, but I realized I don't care that much for the visual aspect of linking ideas. An ability to store different types of information and create sets based on topic is all I wanted, and I'd leave any 'mind mapping' to my mind. So I just use Zotero and https://www.are.na .

Not totally sure why, but I've been enjoying newsletters (though none of the paid via Substack) a lot more lately. The constant flow of news via HN, Twitter, etc. results in a kind of information overload and it's quite easy to just scroll on to the next item. While newsletters are essentially just 'more information', perhaps there's something about a curated set of information that (presumably) has some more thought put into it than the click of a retweet button that makes it more appealing to more completely ingest and engage with.

NYT story posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23931960