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Will our preferred notes system last the sands of time?

Yes... My note system will last.

Could you see yourself using your note-taking app you use today in 30 years?

No, I do not trust apps to last. Therefore I use a simple file system hierarchy to categorize everything. Then I use the best avaliable browser and editor.

My setup is Markor on mobile for browse and edit. Syncthing-fork to get it all into my big system where I run customized Neovim and can make scripts to interact with the data as well as syncing any generated output to the phone.

Having been a Obsedian fan, with similar plug-in fascination, I also experienced the negatives the article mention, and I finally settled with a simple file hierarchy and resorting to as few and basic tools as possible. Obsidian is great, but I didn't need all the features. I need a way to categorize, to quickly find, to edit, and to easily sync and my current setup satisfies that and I'm productive with it. (of course it does not reflect Obsidian's second brain feature, but personally I found that concept to require more work than reward and it wasn't intuitive for me to get accustomed to, but I guess the second brain thing is more like a lifestyle).

Interesting! While it is about accidental art caused by bugs, it had me think of what bugs significantly defined part of my user experience throughout life. I know I have experienced a lot of bugs, but can't come to think of any particular one—only bugs of generic company software forcing employees to invent counteractive routines that then become habit. The habits can be seen as a kind of performance art, on part of the bug, similarly to how bugs create the accidental art the article highlights... Accidental performance art with unwilling humans as performers, where the very same humans are also subjected to the art.

You are right and my answer is yes. (I elaborated my thought in another reply under my parent comment; the essence being that tattoos with the function of fashion likely lead to regret, while other tattoos don't.)

I tried to not make an all inclusive statement, thus formulating it as "Tattoos as fashion", as I do recognize there are people happy with their tattoos, thus not subject to regret.

What I tried to get at, but wasn't clear about, is that tattoos serve a functional purpose (in your case it seems to partly be an identifier).

Then, specifically, tattoos with the function of fashion, is what likely leads to regret by the general laws of fashion. To quote "Project Runaway": "one day you're in, the next day you're out."

Tattoos as fashion: The height of youthful confidence; when one's 20-year-old self presumes to know what one's 40-year-old self will desire.

I don't know about Unix users, but perhaps, instead, it is they are able to not use IDEs.

I recently rewatched an episode of a popular show from my childhood, from he '80s,for nostalgia. In it, an interviewer asks a group of teenagers a series of questions regarding some sensational issue. The level of steady attentiveness and calmness they exhibited was astonishing, like literally focusing with eyes and body language on the interviewer for the entire discussion without flinching or turning awa, contrary to what today seem to be the "passive-hysterical" undercurrent of young people.

Not seen any mention of KeyDB... Maybe I miss something obvious, but it solved my small use case that would stretch to the other side of Redis pay wall. I'm very happy with KeyDB.

When I first heard of CSS in a brief discussion, background-repeat and background-position felt like liberation and magic, but also as a strange thing intruding into HTML, as techniques specific to HTML had become tradition, like layout using tables and the 1-pixel gif method to create borders.

Then, later, CSS Zen Garden was very impressive to me, given my limited understanding of CSS.

It sounds more advanced than it is.

It's a function wrapping the functionality of its host environment. Then provides the caller with its own byte code language to execute instructions. The virtual machine translates those instructions to the corresponding real functionality of the host environment (Javascript) upon execution.

This particular case is sophisticated but the idea is simple.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not knowledgeable in this. This is my current understanding of it.

It's an excellent strategy for the reasons you mention. And a kind of "security by principle of least privilege".

The expectation of mine is that there should be a "technical" perspective to general topics. What I mean is there need to be more critical thinking and intelligent analysis, just as is the case with all technical topics. Just consider the other post about decensoring pixelated videos with Ai. If the same kind analysis and style of thinking about the topic is brought to political discussions... that's what I mean. For example, intelligent sociological analytical perspective of the political thing at hand. An unconditional exercise of critical thinking...

However, political discussions seem to not even devolve from a higher standard, but remain at the most infantile level of emotional outbursts. Oppiniated without interest in analysis. Well... likely exaggerating, but anyway. (perhaps my bias)

And... Try having a stool, like a one-step folding stool under the feet while sitting. Drastically changes the experience for the better while sitting. There was a post on HN long time ago on it with research on it. It aligns more with how the body is designed to preform the other need for elimination, and my suspicion is it applies to the first category of elimination too.

The town square is the mainstream's niche.

While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same.

The term "rollout" implies a ready-made and well thought-through implementation, but isn't AI itself too new of a technology for that? A rollout indicates to me possible wrong assumptions about the thing. "Successive evaluation and adoption" would be a better strategy. Perhaps the framing of the relationship with AI as "rollout" reflects how decision-makers think of "AI"—through a vague imagination of efficiency that seems self-evident, but actually is not.

I agree, and think I see the problem you point at. We don't have to include more groups because, if we do for the sake of including, we have to include all endless variations because there's always a new invented category feeling excluded, and they use it as a power game to ruin the fun for others (seriously). And then what about the argument every obscene category should be included, which by the way would proves the existence of common sense of opposing that....

But, this inquiry of mine had me sympathize more with the recent political trends, that I otherwise think go too far in certain ways. It sucks to not be made visible---or perhaps purposefully made invisible---in the society you live in.

In this case, hypothetically, if one of the men is openly of another orientation, would he be included in the deck? Would society accept that? No, his orientation should not be mentioned in the card, as his orientation has nothing to do with his occupation which is the focal point of the card, but would society even allow him to be featured to begin with, given he is of another orientation? (These are just suggested questions, I don't ask for answer to them).

Imagine boys and girls could have their own gender being represented and they would compete with each other in that card game, or if it's not like "Magic: the gathering", at least interact around arguing who is better. But here, girls are completely excluded from any such interaction, like: "Nope, you don't exist." Girls, who should they look up to? Having both, it allows both genders to choose whom to admire.

I actually do not see the obvious reason. Maybe I missed something. My take is Japan has what some would call a gender stereotypical view. What is surprising to me is how a whole gender is excluded from something that creates much fun interaction and play. It feels surprising especially also when the project is supposed to represent a community. I almost feel bad pointing it out, because the project is so wholesome, but it's simply what I see.

I have a European lense, and I am sure I am not aware of many things of their culture. But, I am struggling to see how it's not a blunt confirmation of typical western feminist critique. Of course, Japanese society may have another cultural framework to rationalize it, where any such critique wouldn't even be recognized to be rational. That, in itself, reflects a possible large discrepancy in cultural views.

(edit: I don't think the creator did any wrong, I think they acted within their frame. Maybe the product wouldn't be as successfully otherwise. My inquiry is at the level of culture and it's undercurrent of values dictating what's successfully and to what degree an artifact is based in cultural values and re-affirm those, well transcending mere artistic choice and artistic appreciation which should be free.)

(edit 2, psychoanalysis: the artist framing males within cards... Males being looked up to... The artist psychologically in perhaps a Lacanian sense, is "looking up" to expressions of the mighty, assertive phallocentric values constituting society. The artist mediating societal core views by making this artifact, enacts those values by admiration, and mediates those values to the right population, boys, who by their mere gender, are both the protectors and the representations of society's core view. I suspect Japan is a phallocentric society more so than not.)

Why only men? Women don't exist in any important role in their society?

Reception of propaganda is contrary to the essence of democracy, relying on a rational citizen able to critically weight different viewpoints and cut trough the worst of bias where propaganda thrives.

In a democracy, propaganda works, because of weak democratic implementation. If democracy is an ideal able to be realized, it would protect against that.

The burden is on the shoulders of the citizens, culture and state. Without education in the sense of critical thinking, intelligence isn't developed enough to establish democratic structures.

While the reading list as a thing in itself seem to be criticized, I agree with the point of developing stamina and to become more capable of critical thinking. If the story element comes easier to some people, its a great approach. The point being to push the reader outside simplistic but comfortable thinking and build qualities able to confront the evident but often subtle complexities.

Isn't this article advertisement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?

(edit: I have actually been thinking in similar terms as the article, but I do think the article is optimistic and utopian, as if a good intuition would be enough to prevent the very same forces from exploring the reform

Filtering visitors by fingerprint of the browser (cloud flare and palemoon) won't stop bots, but creates a market for more sophisticated bots)

Seems like the poetic ability of culture to comment on itself while simultaneously lacking self-awareness.

(the article is what it cricisizes. It tells how the author uses it (or not), it is talking about it like everyone else, it is vilifying it like everyone else, etc...)

(it's thus a clever critique by itself being the subject of criticism. The reader senses there is a higher level criticism, but can't really be sure. The reader must even suspect AI wrote it. The reader can sense something... But it's all potentially hollow, like nothing there, just appearance)

I keep thinking of Visual Basic... It was scoffed at as not real programming... It was the drag and drop thing in the Visual Basic IDE that made it worse. Suddenly "anyone" could do it without really knowing programming. This new trend (if it is a trend) is sort of like drag and drop.

Not in position to judge the product, but had me thinking...

Perhaps this is 1998 again, when you could earn big money on creating a visitor-counter service, or a guest book service.

Perhaps, now is the time for a lot of smaller projects with AI, that will, in a few years, all be blasted off the market by big corporations and change in trends.

Perhaps it would be of interest to people into social media marketing or people trying to build social media presence. Keywords mean a lot to them. I'm sure you've thought of it. Perhaps that is where market potential exists for it.

<rant> I really dislike that term.

It’s antithetical to everything programming means to me. I don’t even like the word "coding"... Programming is an art of intellectual precision, and I prefer the language used to talk about it to reflect that.

How do you know you’re a top “vibe coder”? You really dislike what I wrote here. You can feel it in your gut. The "vibe" just isn’t right. </rant>

... but it's still probably an understatement if you look at what has been happening.

That's exactly what I would question. Does the author look just as hard in the other direction and, with intellectual honesty, defend those cases? (should he? why? why not?...) My general sense is the "other side" may have experienced similar treatment that is now being complained about. No, I don't mean it is therefore necessarily justified. I really mean that—I do not think it is therefore necessarily justified.

If I side with any of them, either side may decide I'm no longer in the in-group. Rather than either side being right, both have the same potential for corruption, and that's the real enemy.

This is not a specific answer to the effort you offered in explaining the situation. I would have to look deeper into it.

As a new HN user, I find it is saturated with political interests, and it is distracting... Well ignore it then... Yes, that's why I avoid Reddit etc. I try to ignore not just political discussions, but the atmosphere that inevitably seem to form in such a space.

Doesn't matter what side,... An echo chamber is bad regardless. If I want one, I would go elsewhere. Perhaps there's an idea in this community that "we are better than the rest, and can carry out political discussions, because, after all, we are right in our opinions, and we only do it when 'necessary'".

Aren't there a solution, like create HN/pol... Or create a separate TLD for it.

If you are going to have political content, can't there be a way to filter it out?

I limit myself to analyze the political stuff for the sport of pointing out bad rethorics and such, not because I care about either side or any side, but for the sake of analysis.

How about this quote:

Perhaps that’s because most of British academia still can’t get its head around the idea that the US is now an enemy, not an ally, and that the “special relationship” is yesterday’s story.

That's a bold statement. John is using language in a manipulative way. By moving the word "enemy" into a context where it is not justified (is it really war, rather than typical negotiations?), he aims to create a dramatic perspective on a thing that is not obviously dramatic. Drama is the basis of the argument. The cases he bring up do not seem to justify the conclusive dramatic language.

In a way, "vibe coding" is like what infants do when they give "error messages" of "hungry" to query mom for food.

Newcomers may be tempted to maintain the uttermost ignorance of what they are creating, as I imagine "vibe coding" implies, where the height of problem-solving is creating quicker pipes between errors and re-submission to AI to fix those errors.

I'm really glad I learned programming a long time ago, before AI. I use AI more like a tool for getting information (much like browsing manuals, forums, Stack Overflow), but it is, of course, magnitudes better. I still do the conceptual outlining and problem solving, and that is what programming is to me. If there's something I don't understand from the AI, I always query to know how it works. It's even easier now to understand how things work thanks to AI.