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Ask HN: How to get started with Spaced Repetition Systems (e.g. Anki)
I want to start including SRS practice into my daily routine.

What is:
* the best way to start?
* the best way to _keep up with it_?

Should I care about existing decks or focus more on deck creation UX of tools?

How much time should I allocate to practice and card creation to do well months or years from now?

Note: I've kept this question intentionally vague for broad applicability.
Assuming Apple is going to let go the $12B+ that Google pays to remain as the default search.
Banks can and will close your account for any reason under the Sun. How do you write a check or receive one without a bank account? I'm not familiar enough with money orders, but I assume the same applies.

Then, on top of all of that, you can't run a business through a personal account. So you still require a business type bank account, and the above options are terrible for any eCommerce site, which is pretty much the only kind of business that will be discussed here on HN.
Can confirm. Have an okay sized mailing list and writing is the fun part. Getting new readers is a slog that I hate doing.
> It's hard to make a definitive argument one way or the other because the guarantees Rust makes come at a cost of compilation speed

I don't think this is actually true. The compiler is slow but not due to memory safety; the 'cargo check' command is rather quick and the compiler itself doesn't seem to spend a lot of time in the frontend, most of the time in spent in the backend, past the borrow checking phrase.
Stop playing word games. I'll continue to advocate for specific police reforms that are plainly described and that I have some hope of understanding what is being proposed.

I won't advocate via the mantra of "defund the police" because, as I pointed out, no one agrees on what that means. This distortion of language makes it very difficult to have rational discussion. Witness all the problems caused by not understanding that "protesting" and "rioting" are actually different activities and that "mostly peaceful" is not a valid synonym for "frequently violent".

The vocabulary of critical social justice theory is another minefield of words used in novel ways. Lots of people don't understand this (including myself until I started researching this recently) so you get very divisive interactions going on because people are talking past each other.

Madness.
I don't know if it's been explicitly tested, but the concept of the canary was developed specifically because there's strong case law that the government can in rare cases compel your silence, but pretty much can never command you to speak specific language (can't put words in your mouth).
That's arguing semantics - whether you call it rights or powers makes little difference.

When people elect a government, that government passes a law, and some above-government institution overrules that law, you don't think that affects the rights of people? You could argue that the people agreed to that when their state joined some union, but if that union exceeds the authorization that was initially agreed to, it violates states rights, and by proxy people's rights.
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
Not so much a "$1M payment" as the appearance of a future payment in exchange for installing malware:

>that could allow the hackers to occupy the Tesla information security team. ... extract corporate and network data, which would be held ransom.... For his participation in the ploy, the Gigafactory Nevada employee would receive $500,000, later raised to $1 million, to be paid in cash or bitcoin.

...

>The hacker agreed to pay an advance of $11,000 to the Giga Nevada worker. Two days later, on August 21, the Tesla employee was contacted by the hacker once more, who stated that the project was being “delayed” and all payments relating to the plan would not be transferred until a later date.
Or they could just say they'll use Bing instead. That's cheaper, provides a better experience for their users than their own search engine, and is a stronger threat to Google if they want Google to increase payment by encouraging more ad dollars chasing big spenders to go to Bing.
You just now saved me $530.

Thank you.
> with the phony-sounding reason of 'we have to review all the games' when they don't review movies from streaming apps

How many headlines have you seen about parents getting a huge credit card bill from their kids going wild in a video streaming app?

The games market is predatory enough on iOS with reviews without being able to push down whatever unreviewed pay-to-win, lootbox, "hit the lever!" garbage people like Epic, EA, and Ubisoft churn out. I shudder to think what it'd be like with the floodgates opened.
It's pretty much guaranteed there can't be anything posted about Go without that predictable comment on how bad it is. It's very repetitive, and hence annoying and not adding value.
It would instantly tank a lot of huge apps/industries. Especially ones with razor thin margins already.

Consider stock trading apps/fees, for one random example at the top of my head.
Because it sounds like rape
It seems like society has a number of folks who aren't hardened criminals but also aren't quite suited for a free society. I often wonder if we need something between jail and freedom("halfway house"?) that lets folks live a somewhat free life where they are prevented from harming others and their property.

On the one hand it is creepy and somewhat Orwellian to suggest something like that. Once it exists, it would surely be used to house more and more classes of society. On the other hand, there are a number of problems caused by folks who chose to reject societies rules but not so severely that they are jailed(or the threshold for jailing them has changed due to overcrowding?).

Certainly the economic divide does not help, along with an economy that has less and less use for people of lesser skills. A UBI would be one way of addressing this I guess.
This is the most upsetting part about it, IMHO. The reason Microsoft pays a salary to this person is precisely to get GitHub mentioned into these sorts of conversations -- even though it's widely known that GitHub doesn't support such usecases.

But, of course, there's never any time to mention such facts; but here's an example if anyone's curious: https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kerne....

Yet when a one-person team tries to provide relevant examples on the issues of dealing with Microsoft, pitching a potential solution, and offering their take on it -- fully open-sourced -- they get discounted as advertisement -- even though their service is free and open source.
ePaper does not refresh fast enough to do the falling notes thing you are thinking of. An ipad works infinitely better, costs less second hand (I got an ipad air 2 dirt cheap and its still getting updates) and it does more.

Also my experience with using those things is that you would be better off spending the time to learn sheet music because once you get past twinkle twinkle little star, the falling note style videos don't work. You can't keep up with them live and paused they only show you the very short term future.
Just fire their ass, and walk them to the door. Simple. Of course, lock their internal accounts first.
Interesting. I knew most of that more or less but didn't know the mechanism by which the myelin sheath speed up the propagation of action potentials but it makes sense.
.NET is not a language. Are you using C#, VB.NET or F#?
.: MyShraidar
Maaaayyybe at a big western oriented hotel in Shanghai.

I personally stayed at plenty of places without giving them my ID.
> people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''

Along the same vein Paul Allen and Bill Gates started off doing business as “Micro-Soft”. [1]

[1]: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995... "Fortune, 2 Oct 1995"
As the creator of the upstart search engine on that list (Runnaroo), I do try to differentiate it from the the search providers, but there is a risk of being too different from what people expect.

Take a look at the below search [0], it is distinctly different from the SERPs of the other search engines for the same query, but you are correct that we still focus on just listing information vs. visualizing it. Maybe something for us to explore.

From a search visualization perspective, check out Carrot2 [1] for something more innovative. Swisscows [2] also has some nice visualization elements.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=full+text+search+php

[1] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=carrot2

[2] https://swisscows.com/
Sanctuary cities are also a case of states rights. They're not called such, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a local authority telling the federal authority to get lost.
Drawing and marking up PDFs works really well, I do this with math textbooks frequently, but you're correct that the highlighting is nothing more than a "drawing" You can't go to the pages you've highlighted, or even extract text you've highlighted.

It's almost equivalent to being able to write directly on a textbook, however you can export your marked up document as a PDF.
> Ads as a whole probably gets bucketed into goods and services outside the app (because it doesn't improve your app experience).

Kinda funny because these companies run around claiming ads are good for your user experience (via 1. funding the free experience, 2. platitudes like "connecting you with high quality offers")
Why GitHub can't host the Linux Kernel Community (2017)
Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith
What plugin for Synapse do you use?
Unsure if this works for the RM2
The "store owner" in this case is Apple.
French people love their language a lot (to a point where they expect you to speak french when they go on vacation in Spain/Portugal )

Not saying it's a bad thing per se (although I find it a little rude) but that might explain why they don't see the very poorly made choice.
Exactly. They do things that make money. This removes a big source of money, adds a big cost, and worsens user experience.

I'd love it if they made Apple Music and Apple TV free too.
Oh wow, you have to enter your email address to even try out the app. That’s a way bigger barrier to entry than a $100 price point.

Until they change that, there’s no way I’m using or recommending their app.

Is this now considered acceptable for productivity apps?

Edit: and how does that work with GDPR?
Purchase a scan converter. There is a popular OpenSource project and many manufacturers are making them. Several support RGB, S-Video, RF, VGA and SCART and can upscale to something a 1080p HDMI TV/monitor can use. Supremely useful for all of those retro consoles and computers in our modern day. Kaicco is the more popular brand for the project, though I don't think that one supports S-Video.

Edit: You can connect a BBC Micro (and many other 8-bit micros) to the standard OSCC. It simply doesn't have the plug on the board, you will need an adapter cable.
> Demanding that Apple undo (or make exceptions in) this design, which provides runtime security across the OS, would be coerced development.

At this point you're arguing that prohibiting them from doing something is coercing them to do something merely because they've already done it.

Consider the case where they have an absolute monopoly on phones. There are only iPhones, nothing else. Would you still object to a requirement to allow other app stores because it's "coercing development"?

What if they used the app store monopoly to monopolize the market for online payment processing, and from there the entire retail market? Can you imagine how that would harm the customer?

> Re: switching costs: In what consumer relationship does the buyer not assume some risk in their decision?

This is actually true for the large majority of consumer products. If you go to the grocery store and buy a carton of eggs, you don't have to buy the same company's sugar or flour or chocolate chips, and when you've bought those things and have them in your kitchen, you don't have to throw them out if you switch to another brand of eggs.

Moreover, the issue with switching costs isn't that they exist -- for many complex products, they will -- it's that they create a barrier which thwarts the competitive pressure on the company that would otherwise prevent it from abusing its market position, so then you need something else to do that, e.g. antitrust. Having a monopoly isn't, in itself, illegal; abusing it is.
I'm a little worried that home power conditioning is going to set up a much bigger class divide than in-home water purification does.

If all the upper-middle-class people have Power Walls, local officials are going to care a lot less about brownouts.
Interesting anecdote.

Some of us may try to claim the moral high ground, but we aren't fully in control - not until much later in life.

If you are a teen and all your friends do this, you'd be a sucker for paying the "full" (read: non-stolen) price. Because they don't fully realize what's involved in getting these 'goods' to them.

From the article:

> “When I was running the service, I didn’t really care because I didn’t know my customers and I didn’t know much about what they were doing with it,” Ngo said. “But during my case, the federal court received like 13,000 letters from victims who complained they lost their houses, jobs, or could no longer afford to buy a home or maintain their financial life because of me. That made me feel really bad, and I realized I’d been a terrible person.”

He may be a psychopath and faking it. But probably not. When harm happens that far away from you, it's easy to brush aside.

I'm from one of the countries in your list - won't specify which so as not to invite flames. Suffice to say that there's a baseline level of corruption that's tolerated, if not encouraged. Tax evasion, pirated software, contraband, you name it. The population is really abused by the government (very high taxes, lots of bureaucracy, terrible public services, corrupt officials) so I guess that's how some people survive. And then it creeps into other areas in their lives via network effects. That's one of the reasons I left.
Some other words we could stop using for the same reason:

Rope, rap, rapper, crepe, paper, wrapper, rapid...
"I threw away all of the custom JS approaches that try to mimic Apple's solution because none were perfect and, in every case, introduced new problems that disqualified them entirely."
I mean... for any sort of shade to work they must be doing some sort of station keeping to keep it between the satellite and the sun. Moreover they need stationkeeping on their final orbit to point their antenna in the right direction. So I'm not sure I see your point?
Eh, kleenex, scotties, brand name recognition is a trite point.

And when it comes to EV batteries, Tesla is leading the field. 21700 batteries are a smart improvement over 18650 cells.

And I'll happily give the engineers at Tesla credit. However, realistically speaking they should be branching out and applying the same technology elsewhere. Especially in regard to hybrid vehicles.

It's not an either/or situation. We can eat our cake and drive it halfway too.
Hidden features extends to many things.

On NTFS you can hide an arbitrarily large file in the "Alternate datastream" of any file. Explorer doesn't show you alternate datastreams and certainly doesn't show you they are possible.

You can use VLC to play a bluray from what appears to be a 1kb text file in Explorer.

If you have that on a USB stick, the properties of the USB stick will reflect the capacity loss of the bluray image. But Explorer won't show you why or which file has it...

https://blog.foldersecurityviewer.com/ntfs-alternate-data-st...
Yeah, I pre-ordered one because a friend has an rM1 and used a bunch of hacks and that was what made me interested. At the time (~18 months ago), I was uninterested in paying the money for one, but when the rM2 came out at pre-order for the lower price (the reMarkable 1 is now $100 less than the rM2) and with better battery/faster processor/USB-C, I pre-ordered.

I'm in the second batch and because of delays, I won't get it until early October (they claim) but it's the hackability that sold me on it, rather than anything else. I have an 11" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil and a 2018 Kindle Oasis (second-gen is I guess the parlance), so I don't actually need something like this, but I want it.

That said, I don't think they are marketing it wrong at all -- they might just not be marketing it to all potential audiences. This is definitely an enthusiast device with a niche audience -- people that want really a really good drawing/writing experience that is as similar to paper as possible. There are a number or e-Ink devices similar to this and most run Android, which has the advantage of opening it up to more consumer apps (Kindle, Kobo Reader, etc) but also tends to lead to a less ideal writing/drawing experience.

Some of the people who really want that pen on paper experience are like you and I and are really intrigued by the open nature/hackability of the device but the vast majority really want something simple and task focused. If you look at the Reddit for the reMarkable and the community around YouTube/Facebook/etc, although there are plenty of people who are hacking on it, that's not the core audience at all. In fact, the original reMarkable was criticized a bit for not being intuitive enough, even though the ink performance was always excellent. Even now, the biggest complaints are about the lack of features (primarily an e-reader), even though this is very much a uni-task device.

Small companies like this have limited marketing budgets so I don't think going after hacker enthusiast types at first is the right move -- especially when the people willing to spend $500 on an e-Ink notebook in the age of the iPad is fairly small. That said, I hope that the marketing can expand to the DIY/hacker crowd more after the rM2 is released because I do think that could attract some additional users and also help contribute to the ecosystem.
This was my exact rant. Even more galling was that Wells Fargo was virtue signaling about something that... had no optics to them. Literally no one knows who our payment processor was, but if you even got as far as "Stripe," a _vanishingly small_ number of people know that Wells Fargo is their banking partner for US transactions.

This isn't to suggest that WF should run their merchant processing business with no one watching for fraudulent or wantonly scam transactions, but to step in out of nowhere because the volume of actual real charges for real customers for real products was too high and you were busy clutching your pearls over what was being sold is just insane. As if it could somehow splash back on to Wells Fargo and, what, further sully their reputation?

"Sure they may ruin people's lives and spawn fake accounts to hit numbers and silence anyone who speaks up and evict people incorrectly but at least they don't process transactions for flesh colored fantasy sex toys. That, sir, would be a bridge too far."
The First Gene-Edited Squid in History Is a Biological Breakthrough
ITER. Tritium breeding reactors by feeding it recycled lithium.
Fine until you're elsewhere.
When I thought about it I just compared it to the price of a notebook and pen which costs virtually nothing. The RM isn't 500x more useful than a real pen. It also hardly stacks up against an ipad with the pen accessory.
I'm baffled by people put off by the name.

Is 'rapier' not a word used in US English? It's a type of sword. It's nothing to do with 'rape' if that's what you're thinking. It's neither spelt nor pronounced anything like 'rape'. I can't see any possible confusion or connection at all but several people are making it in this thread.
Suddenly the fog lifts. Now I understand the fascist shenanigans targeting the manufacturer of my crappy mobile phone. Trump administration does Cook's bidding just as it does Zuck's...
I don't play much lately, but I do have a Keyz Iridium. It was the cheapest mechanic keyboard I found, at least what feels more similar to mechanic. Don't get me wrong, the trippy colours are nice too. And... it has a combo to disable Windows keys!!

Thank you very much :)
> The real difficult part is ranking and understanding web pages themselves.

This is what I was referring to.
> they are too dependent on renewables and basically ran out of power generating capability as the sun was setting

Actually it's more complicated than that:

"Several gas plants that were supposed to provide power failed to operate or tripped off, the CAISO said in a press conference last Wednesday. ... The CAISO also confirmed that demand was no greater than on previous very hot days."[0]

You could equally make the case that the state was too dependent on unreliable gas plants.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/why-renew...
newer models have erasing, still similar price
That's correct. It's a very big difference if you think about it. Under the normal arrangement, a customer has to retain for 12 months before the 15% rate kicks in.

Depending on the product, you could be losing a significant portion of your customer base before then. For example Netflix, known for insanely good retention, loses nearly 40% of customers by month 12. [1]

[1] https://secondmeasure.com/datapoints/netflix-disney-plus-app...
I have literally no idea what this is
Isn't rapier a french word, and pronounced as such?
The problem with this kind of slippery-slope way into self-censorhip, is that similarities are (n) an almost infinite possibility in most languages. more so having in mind you're going from french to english.

Same way of thinking got GitHub to try and replace master, for something else like mercurial's main.
Having master in the context nothing to do with slavery.

I get someone might be sensible to some words, but I don't see why someone else should keep a list of possible -not good- works declared and updated by the mob mafia of twitter and social media.
Options for Copper Beyond 112 Gbps
I switched to Apple Maps a few months ago and haven't run into any issues using it in various cities in Germany.

The main missing feature for me used to be public transit routing, but they added that a few updates ago and it generates pretty much identical itineraries to Google Maps.
We've sometimes discussed it in the context of whether we can "scale up" Distill. But I think at this point I expect us to just stay niche and volunteer focused.
Why should you?

Because some things are scrollable and it’s usually fairly obvious if there’s going to be more content.

If it’s not clear to you, I totally get why you think that.

But I don’t suffer the same issue.

Why should I have to have scrolbars plastered all over the show to tell me that something is scrollable when I can check it myself in less than a second?

I understand why people disagree - why is it so hard for you to understand that I disagree?

Generally it feels like the pro scroll bar opinion is actually quite aggressive, needlessly so.
The problem isn't the code, it's the workflow. Every git fetch gets up-to-date code history. What I can't easily replace is the CI/CD pipeline attached to pushing to the repo or the review process before merging.
Renewable energy production in Germany doesn't really ever exceed the demand. The big problem is, that nuclear and coal power plants are very slow to change their output, so there are often situations, where they are producing electricity that is not needed. As in the last year, both nuclear and coal production has been reduced (a nuclear powerplant was shut down for good, coal got more expensive due carbon certificates) the amount of overproduction was reduced.