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What the hell is a prompt?

I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in.

I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition.

I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition.

I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt"

I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki.

What the hell is a prompt? Is it the question on the flashcard? Does Anki show you pop-ups periodically? There's no onboarding ramp for someone who doesn't know what spaced repetition is to read this article about 'prompts'
Go lookup currency deflation and what happens at the end. The transaction rate is to low and the energy use is to high to be useful. We are near the end stage when people and institutions start hoarding it.

The current problem in fiat money is what the new money is funding. This is a society/government policy choice and isn't an inherent flaw in fiat money. In the west the money is primary used to boost asset prices instead of used for production.
> No longer can I travel [...]

Yes you can. (Well, at least after covid-19 is over.)
yep! and i wouldnt get a different job since this one pays very well :D
Sounds like you'd rather we just all live in tribes in the wild.

I, for one, appreciate not having to worry about going hungry, dying of thirst, freezing to death, or being chased down by a pack of wolves. You need a society to facilitate that. Society doesn't work without social norms. And you wouldn't be on Hacker News speculating about this if not for society.
The reserve requirement is 0%, increasing a bank's reserves doesn't allow them to lend more. There are mechanisms that allow an increase in bank reserves to be spent in the economy without loans [0].

[0] https://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/advanced/how-quant...
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I want to live in a world where I can trust developers when they say that the web is for everyone and that equal access is important, and I want to trust them to make educated decisions about what is and isn't possible to make accessible for each project. But if we can't even get people to use buttons instead of divs, if even that turns into some kind of controversy... I don't know, maybe developers shouldn't get to make that choice, maybe the web should force you to use buttons.

Most developers only get to make that choice as long as visibility over their work is shitty enough that any time spent on accessibility is lost in the noise.

The button stuff is one of the few things that could (and should) just be done by default, because it doesn't take any extra effort like a lot of accessibility work. But then again, most devs are working in environments where whatever they would just make a plain old button gets loved to death by some design genius with nothing better to do that week and "signed off on" by 15 people before the dev even hears about it. Then they're making a quick decision between throwing accessibility under the bus (and suffering absolutely zero consequences for it) or pissing off literally everyone that has anything to do with their next round of performance reviews.
This is a good interview. Maybe misleading title; the interview doesn't focus that much on any one thing. Personally I found the questions relating to being a good leader to be excellent (acknowledging the vulnerability inherent in creative work; using the leadership role to provide a positive grand vision to enable the team to work under, while still being able to be critical of important detail work; an awareness of the vulnerability anyone is facing when bringing an idea to the forefront and taking care to greet the idea with openness.)
I mean... "can't" is a pretty strong word. Sure, they probably can't break SHA256 or elliptic cryptography, but you really think a government couldn't sanction every single [random crypto coin] developer, seize every obtainable asset, and generally strong-arm them into changing the rules? I think people are not being imaginative enough with the tools state entities have at their disposal to coerce whatever result they want.
It's probably closer to 40% and 75% respectively. VW is probably not being totally honest with their numbers. This gap will shrink in the future.

The Mirai is overbuilt for what it is. The Hyundai Nexo is 1814-1873 kg despite being an SUV. For reference, the Model Y is 2003 kg.
Bitcoin doesn't store anything, you can only get real wealth back for it if someone decides to trade. Then they are in the position of holding a worthless token that they have to dump on somebody else, ideally higher - and people only buy if they expect that to happen. Theoretically pumps and dumps could continue indefinitely, but in reality people are going to get bored of it and move to newer and more shiny ponzis.

Real wealth has value regardless of what other people think about it and has it by itself. A profitable company is a form of wealth even if nobody wants to buy it - because it generates profits. Same for farmland. Things with direct utility have value in that utility. Utility is ultimately defined by physical needs, which makes it an objective metric of value that can only be estimated better or worse by humans. Value isn't subjective - people and societies that are too wrong about valuations for too long wither and die (possibly conquered). The West as a whole is definitely on that path.

Gold was a store of value when governments forced people to pay taxes in it - selling what they had for gold - for thousands of years. It's not a store of value as that ended. Some people just didn't get the memo yet, but new generations are visibly unenthusiastic about gold, so it's only cultural inertia.
It has some utility in itself, so it's better than bitcoin, but its price based on that demand alone would be much lower.
Metal Gear Solid 3 taught me never to kill anything if it can at all be avoided.
The rule establishes regular reviews to adjust minimum fares accounting for utilization rates, so Uber will have to try and keep utilization high. (They're expected to impose driver caps the same as what they have in NYC.)
But they don't, it's more just "here's the math, it's all about wave interference". It's quantum mechanics. You will fail if you try to explain it "physically" as I did above haha.
How does exporting dirty industry and dangerous jobs to a place where they are less regulated serve humanity?

Let me change your analogy because it is completely unrepresentative of the externalities involved in manufacturing.
Say you own a business that happens to produce a bunch of toxic waste that requires dangerous handling, and special payment to dispose of. You don’t want your employees to do it because it’s requires a specially trained employee and having them around increases you workers comp insurance significantly, and they also want hazard pay as a result of their training. Buuut you can go down the street and hire Jo from the corner to take it off your hands for $50. He doesn’t care how dangerous it is, he just needs money for heroin. You can just report that you didn’t produce the waste he’s taking and nobody will be the wiser.

Should you hire Jo to take care of it, or handle it yourself? You understand the danger, know how to handle the material, and have the means to dispose of it in an equitable way to everyone. Would hiring Jo be right, simply because he’d be $50 poorer if I didn’t hire him?
I’m not convinced. They describe it as the result of having a “preference for risk” but maybe they’re just seeking novel experiences? If they’re trying new things simply because they’re new, then their behavior offers no predictive power. There’s very little risk associated with buying a different flavor of soda :V
That was far better than I could have hoped for. Thank you.

I’m trying to understand what benighted people are not fond of pork pies and pastries. Let’s have a moment of silence for them and move on.
The reality in the US is that the GDP keeps going up, while the majority of Americans are getting poorer. In other words, wealth is moving from the majority (middle class) to the rich. This will continue until America becomes the equivalent of a feudal society.
Are you new to spaced repetition or Anki? I would recommend reading http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html.
Sounds like the dna printing to rna translation could be done, but not the “secret sauce” of the lipid bubble delivery?
I swear there needs to be a reality TV series about the adventures of a celebrity safecracker.
Rewriting it in C++ to magically solve problems. Good job, engineer.
You're going to love this

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/09/30/1843232/windows-xp-...
If the software freezes because of a bad Internet connection, and it can't detect and report the Internet problem, it's still a bug in the software.

e.g. "Slack has lost connection... We'll try to reconnect in 30 seconds"
I wouldn’t say humans are unique, My Labrador didn’t understand the concept of a handshake until she realised treats were available :)
I’ve been noticing this sort of comment a lot in discussions of cryptocurrencies.

Take for instance the following response to the Ray Dillinger’s email:

Internet also became a disaster.
We're very far from original ideas: Uncensored, decentralized ideals are forgotten.

I remember, in the beginning, governments were really afraid of people's reactions, even to make small regulations. Today, we don't even discuss before accepting any regulation about Internet. Infrastructure is almost completely controlled/owned by governments or cartels. [1]

That is so far beyond reality that it’s hard to believe this person was there “at the beginning”. The Internet, after all, started as a DARPA project...

1. https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-Decembe...
> it cannot be comprehended by the human mind

> ancient civilizations have figured out

How did ancient civilizations figure it out, if the human mind cannot comprehend it?
Downvotes are completely unjustified IMHO. Poster did not even express an opinion.
Mm Food and Doomsday, all time greatest hip hop albums. He's the most brilliant rappers to exist. Not even an exaggeration. From concept, to title, to lyrics, to album as a whole cohesive piece of work... you'll have a hard time finding anything that comes close (maybe Quas or Jay Electronica... maybe)
It’s a weird quote because a lot of nintendo games are endless tutorials or interactive menu that take away from actual play time. I remember this being especially annoying in wii fit as I would just wait a lot between exercises.
Many thanks to the community that continue making the world a better place, no matter if it's a tutorial, the next billion dollar company or the next great open source project, this is by far the best place for us technologists to learn and make us feel humble about our work everyday. Feliz Año nuevo familia hacker
Sure, you just need to trust people.
That bastion of great economic management and economic growth...
I didn’t. I never left windows, but am slowly entering Linux land.
Thanks to the author for this. My amateur-hour electronics dream is to level up from simple Arduino/control voltage hacking to an actual, workable polyphonic synthesizer.
It is probably written by some marketing team that hasn't actually used Jira. Who really cares about those bullet points they present.

The main issue is lag and clonkyness and forcing ppl into the cloud according to me. Not missing more custom workflow ...
We ran the VST synths through the same signal path as the Juno (as a test - with good DACs)... but yeah, I've long-since given up on hardware synths: they're fun, but just take up too much space. I miss combining the sounds though - most of our tracks would be 90% VSTs, 10% analogue. I think you're right though: my mission now is to try and "recreate" that 10% with plugins.
We know. Hell, Bitcoin Core developers have known for years, that's why they never endorsed a base block increase. That's why they've put all their energy into adding upper layers with transactions secured by flimsy game theory rather than flimsy hashcash. That's why they pushed for SegWit, purely because it would make the complicated transactions necessary to run those upper layers not more expensive than direct transfers. That's why they added a bunch of ways to tack on fees to unconfirmed transactions, and talked a bunch about a "fee market" (even though that's not how Bitcoin transactions work) because it was obvious someone had to pay for all this stolen electricity.

I'd also argue that Bitcoin hasn't just failed to meet it's goals, but that it's goals aren't something the average person should want. The explicit goal of Bitcoin was untraceable payments you can't cancel. In practice this means fraudulent payments cannot be reversed, and stealing Bitcoin is so cheap and easy to do we've literally caught Ruby packages designed to slip into developers' computers and steal Bitcoin. Cryptominers have also plagued the web to the point where browser vendors have to actively restrict what you can do in JavaScript.

(I'd also ALSO argue that anonymous payments are bad for society, and that financial privacy shouldn't be a thing.)
I've heard this the other way round: religions that perpetuate reproduction (by discouraging contraceptives, encouraging child bearing, encouraging raising your children with the same beliefs, etc) have an evolutionary advantage over other religions, so religions are likely to have these traits after a few centuries.
>Astronomical radio images are naturally overwhelmingly sharper than optical images, because radio telescopes today can have much larger apertures than optical telescopes.

They can be higher resolution with very long baseline interferometry but I wouldn't say they are naturally higher. If I'm reading the article correctly these were collected by the ASKAP telescope array in Australia which has a resolution of 30 arcseconds at 1.4GHz [1], which is only about twice as good as the human eye.

[1] https://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/config.html#:~:text....

To your point, though, when VLBI is used they can get ridiculous levels of resolution. M87 was imaged at tens of microarcseconds of resolution, which is 4-5 orders of magnitude better than any optical telescope in operation today.
Portland is supposed to be one of the most bike-friendly cities in the United States. What the city has done is paint bike outlines on streets that are supposed to be mostly for bikes.

It's supposed to be about every 10 blocks north-south and much further apart east-west. Downtown for most of the city is west. Every few streets there might be something that blocks cars (signage or physical barriers) or is supposed to slow them down (bumps, planters in the center of an intersection).

One problem is that they're not dedicated to bikes. So you're sharing the street with other cars. And it's gotten worse because the city is cutting 4-lane feeder streets down to 2 lanes. They call it "traffic calming", which is not what most people would call it. So frustrated drivers are moving over to residential streets and zooming down them as fast as they can.

It really seems like a lost opportunity to take the extra lanes and make them dedicated bike lanes. Have bollards in them that prevent cars from using them.
How do accomplish all the tasks that Unix tools enable with minimal effort?
If you have evidence of improper accounting or reporting, short the stock and publish the evidence. Otherwise, all US-based companies operate under the same laws and can take advantage of the same rules.
I'm not sure why every user needs to run a full node. Satoshi himself said that SPV clients would be enough for most users:

"Simplified Payment Verification is for lightweight client-only users who only do transactions and don't generate and don't participate in the node network. They wouldn't need to download blocks, just the hash chain, which is currently about 2MB and very quick to verify (less than a second to verify the whole chain)."[0]

It's not clear what benefit the user or the currency gains from having 90% of users running full nodes instead of, say, 50% or 10% doing so. In any case, when people in poor nations have phones that can manage uninterrupted 24/7 connections to the bitcoin network, they'll probably also be able to afford 2 TB of storage (currently costing about $50) which would be enough to store 10 years of 4 MB blocks.

[0] https://blockchain.news/wiki/satoshi-quote-on-trust
I think that this is a reasonable response and I think the responses in this thread exaggerate the consequences of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.

But you perhaps may find it interesting to consider what could be meant when someone says "there are true statements that are not provable" in a way that doesn't exaggerate the results of the Incompleteness Theorems. I don't actually support this line of thinking, but I find it interesting to engage with.

So here goes:

Whatever you might say about more abstract mathematical structures, there seems to be something indelibly real about the natural numbers. I can verify simple facts about them by physically counting things. While definitionally perhaps it might make sense to create a formal system that says 5 + 6 = 8, I can go and count apples and realize that nope actually 5 + 6 = 11.

Now luckily statements of this form, that don't use any quantification (i.e. the words "for all," "there exists," or their equivalents such as "always," or "eventually"), are entirely decided by our usual axioms about the natural numbers.

But it seems like, while perhaps a tad less concrete than statements such as 1 + 1 = 2, there are other statements involving quantification that still have some "one-sided" concrete aspect to them. For example if I claim there exists a natural number with some arithmetical property and there indeed is such a number, simply by physically counting up I will eventually come across such a number. However, if I'm wrong, then I will never know (this is what is meant by one-sided). Likewise if I claim a property is true of every natural number, I will eventually have experimental proof if I'm wrong, but I will never know for certain if I'm right (at least by physically counting things).

Godel's Incompleteness Theorem says there will always be such quantified statements that any given formal system cannot decide. Yet they seem to have definite truth values in our physical universe! Either my physical act of counting will come to an end or it won't. This seems like a very real consequence.

So sure you can claim that these statements are different than theorems because either themselves or their negation can be added to our pre-existing axioms about the natural numbers without any conflict and that might be true in theory, but we would like to preserve the property that our axioms about the natural numbers correctly reflect how natural numbers act in our universe, and it seems, at least at a first glance, that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem disallows that, or at the very least that the act of trying to find these axioms requires extra-mathematical justification.
What happens to animals caught by a glue trap?
I'm grateful to be a part of this wonderful community. Wishing you all and your loved ones a very healthy and happy New Year! Cheers!
The vast majority of dollars in circulation exist only in accounting records and do not exist as actual physical tokens. Printed money uses no energy because we do not print money anymore, we write it in a SQL database (or, god forbid, an Excel spreadsheet).
Not to downplay the shitty situation that Venezuela is in right now, it says something when that's the only situation a quasi-currency is good in. It's almost like for all of Bitcoin's problems, Venezuela has more.
The name resolution is just part of it (though the most visible part); there's also a new message exchange protocol, over the national inter-bank network, which does the instant transfers (before this new protocol, inter-bank transfers were only instant during banking hours, not on nights/weekends/holidays).
Cannot upvote this enough. The portability is one thing. Another is reliability. I love Roland and Korg, but I purchased the last two Korg flagships and they both stopped functioning right after the warranty period. They are essentially custom computer hardware with none of the service options or reliability available in the PC/Mac world. Also Korg somehow gets their distinct sounds near flawlessly in software, even though their iPhone apps are a tiny fraction of the price of the hardware in real life.
Ha! Been there. It’s surprisingly tricky (I know lots of software, not so much hardware). It was as great fun to work on though.
Long time MF DOOM fan. Saw him live 3 times. One time was almost certainly an impersonator which people got angry about. I personally felt it was an innovative and funny move which played into the whole persona. He brought a lot of innovation to the genre.
The SegWit project quadrupled the max block size in 2016. Since then there’s never been significant backlogs.

Even with record high prices, one hour transactions are less than a dollar. Maybe even a $0.10 fee will clear in that time.

I don’t know why this claim it never happened persists, except certain people who wanted to tule over bitcoin have spent millions employing an army if bots to spread the lie.
Mario Run was great, I personally bought my family a copy each :)
I had the game genie too and by far the most fun thing was to slightly edit the codes they provided you. You could get some weird memory hacks that would give you a broken power or some other way it broke the game world and then shortly crash afterwards
Happy new year thunderbong
Important point to note here is that the Internet is not same as social media much less one specific website.
Agreed, I personally don't think this interview had anything to do with trying to put out that fire. Not even really convinced Nintendo cares all that much about the leak, tbh, pretty much nobody I know outside of the HN crowd even heard about it.
Happy New Year, Mr. Bong!
Just started playing Hades and Dead Cells tonight and not overwhelmingly impressed so far TBH. Hades feels just like Bastion or Transistor, and not at all rogue-like. It’s an arcade game.
This basically makes Teams so slow it’s unusable...
A good friend use to say, "ask yourself, what has posterity ever done for you?"

Shame is an inferior strategy, and seeing how it drives people to truly insane actions, the best response to shaming tactics is to revolt and respond directly. However, there is an in-group version of shaming, and an out-group version. It's a really deep subject.
Serious question, do you actually use Windows 10? I use it daily and I've never had it force an update on me in the middle of the day. I turn it off every night and it applies the updates then, as it should.
This loops back to one of the few things cryptocurrencies do well: they're extrajudicial, so they're often used for illegal transactions (drugs, ransom, bypassing sanctions). Bitcoin just happens to be really bad for this since the blockchain is forever.
Not when there are whole galaxies in the center. That dot in the middle of the ORC in the picture is an entire galaxy.

You also wouldn't be able to see through a Dyson sphere.
Cue still more ugly tech company litigation in 10... 9... 8...

Almost no matter what is going on in the background, actually. Either Facebook sues them for copyright infringement or they have a deal and DOJ/the states work it into the antitrust fight.
Indeed however Bitcoin is positioned as a way of fighting back against these administrations. However it helps literally nobody in North Korea because they just shut down their internet.
Op probably meant apps on mobile phones, not special purpose gaming handhelds (which have been defined by simple mechanics usable in touchscreens, and the most profitable / popular of which use loot crate mechanics to exploit whales). There's an argument that the distinction isn't meaningful, sure, but I definitely think it is.