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Launch HN: Zorbi.Cards – Create spaced-repetition flashcards from Chrome
Hi everyone,

Sukhans here from Zorbi - https://zorbi.cards/

During university, I realised how great spaced-repetition was, and also how very few people adopted it into their daily routines. That led to my honours research which focused on "increasing the adoption of spaced-repetition tools", and the result of those learnings is Zorbi.

Now we're a small team building the world's best knowledge-retention tool, and we'd like you to help us achieve this goal.

We're starting by fixing some of the more obvious problems with existing tools:

1. The need to create content yourself (we're building a high-quality and curated deck ecosystem)

2. Creating flashcards is hard (we're making it easy to create cards from your webpages, pdfs, and straight from your note-taking tool)

3. Making it less painful. You shouldn't feel guilty if you miss some reviews. We're working on ways around this through daily goals, timed reviews, and streaks.

4. Collaboration on flashcard decks (coming next update)

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5. Tell us any other issues you've experienced with spaced-repetition and we'll try and solve them.
They can't be used for long. The Raptor was test fired with the vacuum nozzle at sea level. Not perfect, but beats hitting the ground.
I don't know why London was so bad for compliance. I've seen videos from before Christmas that looked like normal, bustling restaurants, etc.

In my area (near Oxford) I haven't seen a maskless person in a supermarket since masks became compulsory.
Two points to you for nerd-sniping a physicist with the "assassin problem" episode that auto-ran when I followed the link. Have a nice day!
> It’s not easy to replace a low performing worker with scarce skills or domain specific knowledge.

I’m defining “high performance” to include those sorts of persons.

> Developers are paid way more than an equitable share of the salary share in organisations like Amazon because their skills are currently scarce.

It is equitable precisely because those skills are scarce.
SpaceMouse has a Z-axis (lifting the knob up), which is really useful to zoom in and out of a 3d model. That can't be captured with just IMUs.
Imagine if you asked what makes Steven Spielberg dictatorial power over all our screens! Not even paying him money gives you a veto on his casting choices. What you are experiencing is the expectation of continuing to receive a benefit, useful software, interpreting no longer receiving the same quality software as a loss, and intuiting that you have a rights to avoid that loss. You don't because the benefit was unearned in the first place.

This doesn't mean you don't have a right to discuss or critique and discuss and if appropriately fork or write you own.
> No, you want your net profit to rise.

Which is determined by a combination of, among other things, your profit margin and your volume.

> They don’t care about the margin, they care about the total yield (growth + dividend).

And again, how is that determined? Does profit margin and net profit often play a role in dividend policies by any chance?

> Glad you agree that companies are optimizing for their place in the market and not naively optimizing for a large profit margin.

Are you trying to argue that Amazon is in an underdog position and has to fight for market dominance in online retail right now? Are you trying to argue that there's some fundamental rule that says that if a company has a way to increase profit margins, they should always ignore it and lower costs instead?

Do you think that Amazon right now is purposefully pushing it's profit margins to the bare minimum that is possible for them to stay alive because they're so devoted to growth? Do you think there's some kind of fundamental rule that means if they had more profit they would be forced to invest it into growth or change their position in the market -- that profit can only ever be reinvested? Are you aware that Apple exists?

I mean think through what you're saying right now. Amazon did see record profits this year. Did they lower the price of Amazon Prime? Did they lower the threshold of free shipping from $25 to $20? They didn't, because getting record profits doesn't change their positioning strategy in the market. Even ignoring the basic theory, what you're saying is observably not true, because we can look at Amazon's profits increasing right now, and the shipping prices aren't going down and they're not paying their workers more.

> This is true and still misses the point that an increase in the cost of inputs results in an increase in costs, resulting in an increase in price.

No, it doesn't miss the point, the point you're making is wrong. The cost of a product's inputs do not determine what it is worth. Only the market determines what a product is worth. The moment you tie it to cost of material/labor, you are no longer talking about Capitalism.

> I think its well understood among people who are familiar with unions that increasing labor costs results in acceleration of an automation process that is already in progress.

And? Accelerating automation is good. It's going to happen anyway, and it's a waste of time for us to make factories miserable trying to delay it. And again, even if you don't like automation, no one who opposes automation is arguing that the solution is to make jobs awful.
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I don’t assume that my experience is representative of every other person, true.
I started a Silicon Valley FANG job about two years ago. I now wake up early most mornings with anxiety. I’m close to 40 years old, and this is the first time in my life I’ve experienced this.

I’ve wondered if the pandemic and quarantining has exacerbated this. I don’t have much going on in my life right now besides work, and get little human contact beyond Zoom calls with my coworkers.
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Bugs and typos in GTK 4 code
Odd. Used it for years and it's never let me down. It's way more stable than Arch which will definitely break if you're not careful as everything is bleeding edge.
Damn, am I the only one who does adequate research before I dive into things? I mean, buying patents for a dog alarm before knowing your customer? Really?

Losing money on trading i understand because it's a very seductive venture and it's mostly just gambling that you can hedge slightly with some smart info. Otherwise, yeah, some of these things can only happen when you already have too much money to play with. Someone who understands what it's like to have virtually no money will never casually toss it at random ventures, they probably don't have the time to anyway.
I never realized those stories were told by the same person.
Microsoft backs Australian plan to make Google pay for news
Maybe someone can hack it to a uncatchable dog toy.
A QLC with 40+ TB will still be quite snappy without cache.

While cacheless TLC gets parity with MLC at around 8 TB.

So, yes QLC flash needs really big drives to get enough of aggregate write performance.

Below that, there is not much rationale to use it evlconomically vs TLC.
I don't actually see a productivity measure in all this, though.

If there are more blockers, is the team doing better (because they're covering ground faster and finding new blockers faster). Or worse (because they're being blocked more)?

If I have to report to the CEO on the Dev team productivity, do I tell them how many blockers we removed?
Ha! Thanks for saying two. While I'm not a surfer, that looks like a lovely visualization.
I understand that, but the comment I replied to said he uses 95% AUR.
You assumed the extreme opposite.
I believe Bezos was a huge fan of Shackleton’s Endurance expedition; so it could have been homage to that.
They are just trying to get on the side of the mob, with this.
If the product is something engineers and UX use, then they'll probably _want_ to be a PM. If it's something they don't, you might need a PM.

Having worked in both situations, many times, I'm pretty sure this is the most underrated factor in success. Companies where the staff doesn't use the product are facing a huge uphill battle. Oftentimes, this is inevitable and I think the only solution is a huge salary premium - but more often than not, these are the companies on the lowest end of the pay spectrum (double whammy spells near certain failure).
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Do you work on memory devices?
Getting better at "Linux"
Yes, I disagree on #10 as well. Because:
createNewMessagesResponse(null)
'You have null new messages'

Of course, TypeScript will say that 'null' can't be passed to createNewMessagesResponse directly. However, data gets pushed around a code base a lot and might go through third party packages or come in from an API response and could very well be 'null'. I proactively don't check for 'undefined', because I can't really trust this to be 'undefined'. Furthermore, in the example OP provided, 'null' and 'undefined' should have the same result (no message is shown, because no number was passed to the function).
Related: https://austenallred.com/reading
The engines were tested at sea level with the vacuum nozzle. Not being gimballed is bad, but they are throttleable, at least.

All these crazy failure modes will have to be tested before Starship is human rated.
We will all lose out if there are only two suppliers in the market.
> I would much rather live in a world of more flat compensation, where I don’t have to worry about negotiating a salary, where there are more rigid worker protections, etc.

Thats fine and all but I don’t share your preference and so I’d appreciate it if you’d understand that I’m free to negotiate and don’t attempt to take that from me.

> I don’t see myself as better or more deserving than my coworkers,

I do think its better to earn your own wage rather than an average of all wages. After all I contribute my own productivity, I don’t contribute some average negotiated productivity.

> I see us all as on the same team, with the same basic interests.

Do you share a bank account with them? Why not?
The greatness of Dante is not even scratched by that conviction.
He was a politician, he knew how hard politics can hit people, as seen during the Pazzi conspiracy events (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazzi_conspiracy).
He knew, nonetheless he went on with his political beliefs.

So I think that all those actions are just a form of marketing. They will succeed.
None would keep on saying Dante was really a corruption man, provided that anyone ever did after 14th century.
None will ease his struggling once banished away from his beloved Florence.
None can scrap messer Durante de li Alighieri greatness, as he, himslef, "built a(nother) monument lasting longer than any bronze will".

This year Florence is going to celebrate Dante, as well as Ravenna. It's 7 centuries that Florence is claiming back Dante's remains. But nothing has been done against that conviction. Nothing in 700 years.

Let Dante rest in peace and bring back his masterpieces of literature and politics back in schools. The world will be a little better.
I think what he’s saying is not that there is no semantic difference between the two, but that in practice programmers use the two so interchangeably that not checking for both is likely to cause more trouble than it’s worth.
A top notch machine is only like 50% faster for 2-3 times the price. You don't need it. You can just get a console or a budget PC for $600. If you are crazy you can spend $300 on a PC and only play dota 2 and 2D games like Terraria, Don't Starve Together or Rimworld.

Also, what makes you think that 5/6 of the world has fast internet? I have good internet but if you asked me 3 years ago I would have said no.
Yeah, that quote is management hyperbole at its best. I wouldn't even call what Amazon does "invention", maybe "innovation" - but Ok, you have to call it "invention" if you want to patent it, like the (in)famous "one-click patent".
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Why would you need more than one mouse button? /s
I do not understand what you mean with 'in reverse'. I am aware that there is no solid scientific evidence for a positive effect of vitamin D supplementation with respect to COVID-19, but I understand that the article does not exclude it. Yes, it does mention that treating people with high doses of vitamin D who are already seriously ill, has no significant effect. but that does not exclude the possibility that not having a vitamin D deficiency could prevent you from becoming seriously ill with certain types of infections.

I understand that there are some mechanism where vitamin D is linked to the immune system, as described in, for example: https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/183/5/EJE-2...
You have to distinguish between SETI (listening in for communications by intelligent civilizations) and more general searches for signs of life in the universe.

SETI doesn't get much funding, because Congress blocked it in the 1990s. Career-wise, this is also an incredibly risky subject to pursue as a researcher, because the most likely result is nothing.

On the other hand, other research into life in the universe is booming. The search for "biosignatures" in exoplanet atmospheres is a major subject in astronomy. One of the main goals is NASA's Mars rovers is to look for evidence of past habitability.

It would be great if SETI got more funding, but it's not as if there's no research into extraterrestrial life. There's a huge amount of research that isn't as flashy as SETI: atmospheric chemistry of exoplanets, the geology of Mars, etc.
For an idea about telecom monopolies, read Tim Wu's book The Master Switch.
It is a distro of enigma2, see https://git.opendreambox.org/
Written in python.
> a major design goal of Wayland is to move as much logic as possible from the server to the client.

I wonder how long it'll take to have a Wayland server running on the AT&T Blit...
How to automatically debug and test CI/CD pipeline?
Also reacted on that. "What's better than 3D? 4D!" :)

Reminds me of the alleged story about Xbox naming schemes. IIRC, Xbox was introduced when Playstation 2 was in stores. Then came the Playstation 3, but you can't sell an Xbox 2, since 2 is lower than 3 and thus must be worse, right? And Xbox 3 or 4 wouldn't make sense since there wasn't an Xbox 2.

So they named it Xbox 360 to bypass that problem.

But then what, Xbox 720? Xbox 361? Of course a new naming scheme had to be devised -> Xbox One. Then Xbox One X, and now Xbox Series X (and S).

Kinda funny how that seemingly small thing escalated to what seems like a series (ha) of workarounds to that initial problem.
Do you suppose that the union will raise the funds to aquire 25% or that the workers would take a pay cut to offset this? Or should a business owner give up a quarter of their company just so that the employees do the jobs they are compensated for?

And ownership can easily present a conflict of interest even when spread out.

So now 25% compensation is based on this buy in, if a business unit is doing poorly and has brought down that compensation, the company wants to shit can the business unit and its employees, the members of the union would not be directly working against their own interest fight to keep them. (this is always the case really, but now it is directly felt by the members)
Mathematics does calculations, not decisions.
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> no one tells you in middle school the point you're making here: a metric ton of that fancy six-figure salary is going to go to making up for the absence of benefits and services that could be provided in many cases much more efficiently and cheaply in a less reactionary developed country.

I disagree with the factual assertion and the framing here. The money that you make is not “intended to ma[ke] up for” benefits and services that could be provided in some hypothetical. The money that you’re saving is to provide for yourself in retirement because you’re the one who doesn’t want to die of exposure or become a burden on someone else when you stop working.
> 1-click was hardly an "invention" IMO

Well, it is according to the US Patent Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent), and unfortunately that's the only opinion that counts in this case (at least as far as the US is concerned)
Yeah, vertical volume bar, that's why.
NextCloud uses the protocol/you can sync your NextCloud account with it.
I can't imagine how that would work at my current company. It's an IoT startup, and the hardware, firmware, software, and operations timelines all have to be coordinated to deliver on a tight release timeline. I can't imagine developers also having to take on the requirement and dependency management on top of building the actual product.

I've also worked at places where the P*M level seemed to mostly get in the way and just serve as a middle-man and information degradation layer between design and engineering.
Switerland didn't bother with a second lockdown and coped fine. Hospitals got full (like most winters) but nothing more.
I also used Wolt... Can I Check it myself?
>The nice thing about options is that there isn’t just one way to lose money. No, you can lose money in many different ways – far more than I can write on this page.

This is the most important lesson of options. It's never just a coin flip. You have an unimaginably huge number of factors riding against your success. It's not even remotely close to a 50/50 win/lose scenario. There are a million ways to lose, and just a few narrow ways to win. You literally have better odds going to the roulette table and placing a bet on red.
This, also search engines used to give a lot of weight to workds in domains so if you searched for "book", the search engine was likely to give you books.com as first result.
Makes me wonder if it would make sense to have rotary encoders for precision work -- something that would work like in an Etch A Sketch. The pointer could be positionned with great accuracy and wouldn't move by accident.

It may not be too hard to make a prototype with an Arduino. Or maybe somebody already tried it?
Thanks, I tried the syntax intro and love the experience so far. Do you use skulpt for the in-browser code runner?
you're right, but this list is an attempt to meet midway and at least engage those that have some basics, hoping to make them expand those basics.

Developing interest and knowledge about new fields it's clearly something that cannot be done with just a reading list.
Dont think he is since he has a Full Time Job Working in Anandtech.
Perpetuated to extract and accumulate wealth under the guise of letting the average Joe access the free market.
Idea looks interesting but if we have templates where this app is very useful or solves some problem, can be better.
Place like restaurants, clubs, etc are the places I can imagine right now.
Are you being purposefully silly in comparing the UK and NZ? You must realise there is a huge population difference, difference in number of elderly, excellent infrastructure both intra- and inter-city that allows spreading quickly, and between Heathrow + Gatwick, some of the busiest airports in the world that act as a hub between the West and the East.

What the UK has gone through is unique to the UK and it is hard to easily compare it to other countries. It's bad, don't get wrong, and I wish that travel lockdowns would have happened sooner, but let's not ignore a huge amount of relevant data so you can have a dig.
Where did I assume anything?
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You are right.

SJ quotes Alan Kay https://youtu.be/XAfTXYa36f4

This was some 15 years back and it seems it was always Apple
long term vision to be where they are today with M1. It would be completely fascinating to see how such vision was realised across two CEOs and multiple C level changes combined with a secretive culture.

Any ex-Appleites here to throw some light?
No. From the link I posted: "Infection fatality rates (IFRs) were higher in countries with older populations, such as Japan (1.09%, 95% Credible Interval [CrI] 0.94%-1.26%) and Italy (0.94%, 95% CrI 0.80%-1.08%), compared with countries with younger populations, such as Kenya (0.09%, 95% CrI 0.08%-0.10%), and Pakistan (0.16%, 95% CrI 0.14% – 0.19%) (Figure)."

That's 0.1-1.1%, not 0.1-0.5%. And the initial context was the USA, whose age distribution is more like (though noticeably different) Italy's than it's like Kenya's.
> That being said, rest assured that your experience says absolutely nothing about the wider Rust community. It's one of the most helpful ones I've engaged with.

It's very common to see people with toxic attitudes in and around the Rust community, even in their internal communication about how to use Rust (`actix-web`, anyone?). I don't think it's helpful to lie to yourself about the Rust community like this.

The only thing Rust users who don't want to have these conversations can do is to openly recognize and talk about the extreme fanaticism Rust users commonly display and the toxic pattern of communication that sometimes is bundled or separate, when it comes to priorities in software dev.
I agree the history is biased towards the more mainstream home systems, as opposed to the sized-down business systems, which is what the S-100 computers amounted to.

In fact, the distinction between "home" system (a mostly non-extensible computer in a plastic case with a ROM BASIC as an OS and a focus on graphical games and edutainment) and "business" system (an extensible, if not a kit, system in a metal case with CP/M or MP/M as an OS and a focus on business software) is lost, even in the histories.
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This is an outdated take.

These attacks are being done algorithmically, automatically now.
Let's not forget it's also essentially been "given" to India so it can be mass-produced cheaply for those countries that can't afford it full cost.

The UK has many issues, and it's gone through a horrible few years but, in the case of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine specifically, I am incredible proud of what they have done.
NextCloud doesn't support the EteSync protocol, so you can't sync your EteSync account with it. NextCloud is not encrypted.