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Ask HN: How do you get started with business illustrations?
I am trying to improve my communication skills and I realized one great way to do that is through custom illustrations.

But I have not drawn since I was in kindergarten. But I want to start illustrating ideas.

Have any done something like that? How did you get started? I looked around and a lot of videos are targeted at artists. Those courses seem like over kill.

Anyone know how to get started just visualizing ideas for a non designer without having to spend years learning how to draw?
The us government already could fund universal health care and chooses not too. People in the US are wary about taxation because we already have a comparable tax rate to other developed nations, with more prosperity, and yet we get comparatively far fewer public goods in return. It's a raw deal. Where's our high speed rail, our public transit, our health care, our public bathrooms? Why is that money going to Raytheon instead?
And yet, we know that work stealing functions both in parallel computing and Kanban or other LWIP systems.
Doesn't need to be DocuSign, but seems really helpful for it to be run by a third party:

Imagine showing up to court and trying to argue that a record in your company's database was proof that the defendant signed a legally binding contract with you. What if they deny having ever signed it? Is a judge or jury really going to take you at your word?
That’s funny because my SO’s parents have 1.5Mbps DSL by contract. For only $100/mo they can jump up to 12Mbps. USA and 1 hour from me where I have gigabit docsis 3.1.

If they had 1Mbps because of a fault that would be more unfortunate than unfair.
I like where you're going with this but you could take it a lot further with little expense. Amazon and MicroCenter have a huge stock of refurbished HP mini PCs with i5s, 16gb of ram and an M2 slot for about $350. Throw in a small m2 ssd in each (~$50) and keep your UPS, that's about $1700 you have a decent cluster for an efficient stack like phoenix.
from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eSig...

> An electronic signature (either simple, advanced or qualified) shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements for qualified electronic signatures.

more specifically:

> Regarding qualified electronic signatures, they explicitly have the equivalent legal effect of handwritten signatures across all EU Member States.

fire your lawyer i guess
And it will go to zero if SalesForce ever decides to get into this market (think of all the realtors that use SalesForce and also use DocuSign).
Anyone knows how to get the public IP and geolocation with `dig`? Is there a free service that works with DNS resolvers via `dig`?
Your logic is faulty.
Stockfish also uses a neural network for evaluation.
This is nonsense.

Adobe offers a handy review of the Dutch law on this subject https://helpx.adobe.com/sign/using/legality-netherlands.html
you trust you just need 20$/one hour, and at outside of USA, it will be cheaper
economies of scale taper off because other effects (like coordination problems) tend to overwhelm it with scale. also, capital becomes less efficient at scale due to opportunity costs and the innovator’s dilemma, for instance. there are many more reasons why economies of scale aren’t the be all and end all of market economics.
Patience, grasshopper. We're still learning. It's early times yet, and we're not dealing with HTML and CSS simplissimus. It's mostly money right now. Money hardens everything.

I think a killer app in voting will materialze soon enough. What do you mean my vote didn't count? I can show you it counted. It's right here on the blockchain. If you can't manipulate my vote, you can't manipulate my democracy, and my democracy is being a seriously manipulated.
Embedding a Lua (or similar) interpreter is a somewhat common method in the games world. This allows modders and develipers to easily add scripts which can use APIs exposed to Lua.
I think that their reasoning is solid though. Omicron is the majority of SA cases now. It is early days and it is great to get any information like this out into the world, even if it is imperfect.
> At the time of publishing, the last decisive game in the World Championship was game 10 of the World Championships 2016 — 1835 days ago, or 5 years and 9 days. Is the singularity being reached, with man and machine minds melding towards inevitable monochromatic matches?

Very very unfortunate timing but still a valid question.
> And here we go, Germany doing Hitler again.

Flamebait like that is egregiously against the site guidelines and will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

We'd appreciate it if you'd please stop posting flamewar comments and ideological battle comments to HN in general. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. I'm not going to ban you, because you've also been posting some good comments, but please stick to those in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This will be super weird, but since it's a request for an illustration of synesthesia on a thread about a mystifying codex, here goes:

The way I write short stories is to "tell it like you remember it," which triggers a kind of stochastic stream of consciousness on the theme, and it maintains its internal logic because one event flows from the next, within a boundary or limit, not unlike a random walk. This makes them seem more real because the honesty isn't in the events as described, but the feeling and plausible logic that generates them. There's a state that with some practice you can kind of summon, and it's a bit musical.

The same goes for music that has shapes, the best way I can describe that is imagine the notes as you hear them are the chaotic edge of an advancing wave but you can get above it and see upstream of them. You're sort of exploring adjacent leaf nodes in a tree made of scales. Key changes and other more complex techniques transfer to branches, etc. For me the colouring is produced by harmonic content of the instrument, where a pure sine wave above a certain frequency would be blue/white and harmonics and distorions and reds begin appear as you add them. The colours are more of an artifact of modulation than frequency.

This made me really interested in fractals because the self similarity resembles that upstream generation of the notes, and I'm playing with the idea now to see if I can validate it. Synthesis removes the barrier of refined playing ability from being able to reason about the shape of music, and treating it as very real shapes but ones you can't see. This is the link to maths, as like music, maths is also the specification of shapes you can't see.

We can say "patterns," but I find that word is too loaded with other meanings and doesn't express the edges and boundaries of the abstractions I (and others) think about, so we can cease to understand "patterns" that are more sophisticated than those that are just objects laid out in 3d space, whereas a shape automatically implies a bounded concept, with "sides" that you know are still a part of it but not visible, and isomorphisms you can relate to it. That intuition allows you to navigate the sense or idea. The shape can also morph or move, which adds additional dimensions to the variables you're thinking about it in terms of.

We're well into the territory of a bit loopy, but if you've read this and get it, I'd wonder if in a few weeks we might find synesthesia is transmissable via writing?
I hate this trend of some people in power pretending to have remorse and be considered as victims or powerless when in fact all of this results of their decisions.

Nothing would have prevented to do that in a better way, with individual or little group meetings. Maybe not firing them "effective immediately" but respecting them not as throwable useless resources...

But probably it is easier for the CEO and it's managing team to do it like that than spending days and hours in individual meetings... But just remember that these 900 persons were not hired in a mass zoom call!

So, I wish that everyone be smart enough to refuse being hired to work in one company that this guy is leading.
Moreover, Asian American immigrants encompass groups as diverse as Vietnamese and Hmong and Cambodian immigrants fleeing war and persecution, Chinese graduate students coming to study astrophysics and staying, and Filipino immigrants coming to work in healthcare. The educational outcomes of these groups are quite diverse; in fact if you are one of eight children living in poverty with illiterate parents you don't just magically do well in school because of your Asian heritage. If you want some vivid illustrations of divergent Asian American trajectories in the US, check out tensions around the Siskiyou fire...
> What if I were to tell you that the average worker who works for wages for 40 years will lose 40%

I'd point out that this was true only of workers who stored all their earnings over those 40 years in cash, and approximately 0% of workers do this. The actual average worker spends a portion of their income pretty quickly on goods and sticks savings into some combination of pension, savings accounts and a house.

> Why is it bad for workers to have another option for storing their savings?

Because "workers" aren't the people with vast reserves of wealth, they're the people who are paid by people with vast reserves of wealth. Make the vast reserves of wealth a zero or negative sum game, and they'll store that wealth in deflationary currency instead of businesses that generate less revenue each year, and the workers will find that their ability to get paid goes down every year.
Congratulations, you've just discovered the point of unions.

Employers won't give you what you want if you just ask for it. But it's not deluded to think you can get it anyways. Through industrial action and worker solidarity you can force their hand, get what you want and change society for the better.
I would rather be told in the privacy of my house then in a office and have to walk by all the other folks in the other meeting.
The trouble with that stuff is you are much more likely to end up an invalid rather than kill yourself. You are then even more of a burden on people around you and less able to control the final outcome.
What you described with Lambda Layers sounds like a thin layer over Lambda container images[0]. What are the benefits to using traditional lambda + lambda layers vs lambda container images?

0. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.h...
haah I've done the same for our test system. to make it fun for myself, our test menu consists entirely of foreign names for foods no normal person would elect to eat. casa marzua and kiviak are among the items.
Does it need any proprietary blob? Not needing it means freedom from obsolescence, which is important if you want to use for a few years anything that is not in the list of the most popular architectures.
FAANG is dead. Long live MANAMA! (Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon)

Silly, I know but I’ve always wondered why Microsoft was left out of the original 5
It really depends on the context. For plenty purposes, pretty much anything that indicates mutual agreement can be legally binding. E.g. if you call a company to order something, you enter a contract without anything written down at all, and it comes down to "but can you make a convincing case this actually happened as you say it did". Business deals can be made over email. etc. In any such cases, the digital signing services like DocuSign just add another way of documenting agreement. (and presumably people think it's clearer proof or more convenient or ... - it's an interesting question what a court would make out of whatever DocuSign records about a signature)

For other things, there are stricter legal standards of what kind of form of agreement is required, and only then they don't work. I've mentioned this example here a few times, but recently a German grocery delivery startup fell into the trap of using DocuSign for their work contracts. You can enter work contracts just fine with it, but specific clauses in work contracts require paper signature (or a strong cryptographic digital signature), so suddenly the contracts they had intended to be temp contracts were permanent contracts.

(I believe DocuSign also offers the "proper" qualified cryptographic signatures, but that's not the usual flows people think of when DocuSign is mentioned)
Having eaten in countries with no safety regulations for food, I doubt those regulations are beneficial for anyone and only hurt poor entrepreneurs. I’ve also eaten plenty of illegal elote with no regulations in the US, I’m still alive.

OSHA regulation is like the EU, some of it is ridiculous and nobody follows it. An example of both is Casu martzu, politics destroying culture.
doesn't private key signature guarantee authenticity even if you control the db where signed documents are stored? you know the public key and can check if document was signed with private key of signer.
True. Although I’d argue most companies are small enough that AWS itself represents more overhead than is optimal. They’d be better of on Heroku, or even just a single VM.
It's obviously not. Persistent growth requirements for corporations will always lead to concentration. You need systematic change, not performative censures on popular companies to actually make an impact.

Microsoft was broken up and it's still "big".
Have you found a scalable solution to manage layers with infrastructure as code? As soon as I introduced them to my team, they started demanding exploitations of the process and it became a mess. Would love to know the best practices! Also beware of EFS, our applications did some heavy lifting with EFS and we found a bug that broke our stack. Not sure it's completely production ready. Took Amazon well over a year to find it and reimburse :)
Cyber security as a service:

$ echo “It was the Rooskies!!”;
How does one "debase" a fiat currency, considering that a fiat currency is simply an abstract unit of account not a physical quantity of anything?
I see your point now, sorry I misunderstood.

There is a fundamental difference though. Canada and Mexico are sovereign nations with their own national assemblies recognized fully by the USA. The same can not be said about Israel’s recognition of Palestine.

But USA is not fault free here either, as it does not grant federal representation to a portion of its citizens living in certain districts and territories (including DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.) This is a pretty serious gap in its democracy as has been pointed out by these citizens and others.

Israel is actually infinitely worse here though, not only do Palestinians lack the rights to vote, but they also lack many other rights you would expect in a democracy. Such as the rights to a fair trial, the rights to your possessions, the rights to live without a threat of violence from the state, etc. So if it can be argued that the USA has lax democracy, then it is easy to argue that Israels democracy is seriously flawed.
Mister 101: A classic gaming device to rule them all
I can't speak the original commenter, but what would have prompted my concern is this sentence:

> The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive management style.

"Blunt" and "aggressive" are very often used as euphemisms for "rude and offensive, but in a way the author finds socially acceptable".
This thread is a good reminder to be very thankful for my £20/month unmetered 1gbit central London FTTH.
These patient portals are required by law now, for all medical offices large and small. Part of it is also just shifting work into the portal one is required to have anyways

Source: have worked in a medical office
Good to know. I knew Parag (the CEO) a bit from college (we both graduated the same year) and he was a very nice, humble and ridiculously sharp guy. Not at all surprised to see him rise to CEO and honestly, it feels like a much much better pick than your traditional MBA old-boys-club career CEO. Time will tell but I found it refreshing to see someone immensely technical (Parag won Gold in the international Physics Olympiad as a high schooler) being promoted from within and making it all the way to the top.
Yanis Varoufakis has read Debt, he talks about it often and he and Graeber spoke together many times.

https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/13015406941594869...
Interesting! Just tested and saw the same. I had no idea it did that, and to be honest, also have no idea why it does. Thanks for the update.
"If I don't like to be exploited, shouldn't others still be able to?"

No. No, they shouldn't. Some working conditions are straight up bad and exploitative and nobody should be forced to put up with them.
I'd recommend the same but go for S9, I have both and the S7 is getting really outdated. S9 is still good.
I prefer to minimize the amount of lines of shellcode I write.
Preferably to zero.

I know it's hard. I get it. bash is convenient, and because it is, I have written more bash deployment pipelines, buildtools, utils, watchdogs, crons, etc. than I care to count.

But also, bash _is not a programming language_ outside of the technical definition. It is a command interpreter, and the reason why large shellscripts suck, is because they are written using a command-interpreter as a general purpose PL.

Have something larger than 40 LOC bash? rewrite it using an actual programming language.
NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images
What Makes You a Good Candidate?
Can this couple MB static binary run without JRE?
Because FAANG was a stock market term for "hot tech stocks", and Microsoft was old and not-hot at the time.
Huberman is the real deal.
Man, that’s not antiwork. That’s anti-exploitation.
I fully expect our next cycle to be one of de-platforming, with this quote in support.

Decentralized technology is rife with fraud and noise, but ENS is an exemplary preview of a Web3 future. Like SSO without a middleman. It's a far superior user experience (no password requirements, email verification, data leaks), and allows developers to bypass account management altogether when building a webapp. To me, it's glaringly obvious this is one of the most significant milestones in our transition to a better web.
Perhaps karma does exist.
I found out by experiment that wildcards work, e.g. -site:pinterest.*
It's true that over time the best reproduction strategy for a virus is to becoming incredibly transmissible but invisible to hosts, but the virus evolves via random walk and the local maximum could be more transmissible but lethal after a long delay.

There's no guarantees with randomness, though on a decade-long scale we can probably be sure it will fade into the background.
For posts that wouldn't be hard as firebase has the data[0].

However for comments that's difficult as neither firebase[1], nor hackernews public[2] has scores. The data is only available when you are logged in directly on news.ycombinator.com. So, you could scrape it yourself.

To get your post karma over time just download your submissions[3] and plug it into excel.

[0] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...

[1] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9224.json?print=p...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evandwight

[3] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/evandwight.json?p...
I could equally well claim that capitalism is evil and destroying lives (and the planet). But such a view would be just as one-sided as yours. The Nordic model, especially Finland, gives a good example of how socialist ideas can work. Socialism is about collective ownership, not authoritarian regimes.
Corruption is absolutely legal. For example, the revolving door between regulatory agencies and large businesses, insider trading by Congress members, large government contracts (especially in the military) being awarded not to the best companies bidding but the ones that will employ people in a given politicians district, and so on. All corruption, all legal and normalized. Many are just trained not to see it as corruption.
That seems like a complex problem. People don’t play that many chess games in their life to get a dataset on the scale required for neural networks. You would need to train a general chess engine and then to tweak it using few-shot learning. But I doubt it could capture high level ideas behind player styles unless someone comes up with a smart architecture for that.
The FBI coins were auctioned off, Tim Draper took the first batch of 30,000

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bitcoin-idUSKBN0F7199...
how will they prove they didn't forge mine by making a fake account/e-mail address?
Yes, and the tight timelines of VC and high burn rate of startup funds motivates hype and self-delusion. Longevity research requires a 20–30 year time line even if you are using mice.

But is there good news? Yes: the NIA Interventions Testing Program is an awesome, systematic, flexible, and rigorous effort to evaluate the impact of dietary supplements on lifespan.

And the 10 year studies we have just completed on the genetics of lifespan and longevity in a highly diverse family of mice (the BXD family) provide very strong evidence of gene variants that modulate longevity well after reproductive senescence and under different environments. It is NOT a matter of selection for or against lifespan: it is just a result of high levels of genetic variation affecting all biochemical processes and disease risks. Genetic variants and gene-by-environmental interactions definitely are “in play”. These types of variants are actually inevitable.

Want some references for the smoke-free and half-full part of the glass?

1. Hook et al PMC6066442: Genetic cartography of longevity in humans and mice: Current landscape and horizons.

2. Roy et al 2021 in Nature Metabolism: Gene-by-environment modulation of lifespan and weight gain in the murine BXD family; doi.org/10.1101/776559

3. Williams et al in Cell Systems 2021: Multiomic profiling of the liver across diets and ages in a diverse mouse population; doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.20.222968v2

All of the data from the last two paper is available as FAIR data at www.genenetwork.org.
You are welcome to map the longevity loci yourself. Some of these loci operate only late in life—some even after two years of age—roughly equivalent to 60 years and older in humans.

After your trauma at the meeting, read the papers above to know that solid verifiable progress is being made. And smell the ITP roses at

www.nia.nih.gov/dab/interventions-testing-program-itp

Rapamycin and acarbose definitely extend lifespan in highly diverse mice (a robust result) and so do several other dietary additives—at least five others at this point. Resveratrol, as you say, is a failure, and this is confirmed by well powered studies by the ITP.
> That's... not deflation?

Isn't inflation/deflation about purchasing power? I.e. how much housing you can buy for a month's salary (for example), how much computing power, how much food you can buy? If you hoard money you can buy more computing power down the line. Isn't that "deflationary"? While if you hoard money and buy food down the line you'd get less of it. So food would be "inflationary".
> On the scale of obstacles, this one is pretty minor, just requiring enough (political) willpower to achieve.

Copper wiring to deliver that power is expensive. It's also a really good theft target.

Everyone adding a mere window air conditioner is enough to cause new electric lines to be needed. Electric car charging is way worse than that.
How much money would your company save by hosting on some old laptops instead of in the cloud?
It's part of the continuum sure.