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Show HN: Bezier Curve Generator from Letters
Hello,

This is a web app that lets you generate some bezier curves that you can then paste into your vector editor and practise tracing.

It is a MVP.

Feedback welcome, thanks,

Enzo
She recanted her statement, and she's right, the question was a trap. It is sad to say so, but the consequent deaths were incidental, not intentional. Place the responsibility where it belongs: the Ba'athists caused those deaths, not the sanctions. Do you think if the Ba'athists had treated the Iraqi people like human beings and asked for food because people were starving, Albright would have been against such aide even while Iraq was under sanction? Honestly, your argument sounds like the abusive partner that asks, "why did you make me hit you?" But here, it is "Look what you did, Albright, you heartlessly starved Iraqi children!" Absurd.
> Math is absract, but it can have implications that are testable in the real world

The complaint is that there are possibly infinite mathematically-valid solutions to the problem. Without more data we can’t weigh them against each other. The work is interesting. But it should be pitched as a series of thought experiments or philosophical entreaties, not a solution.
WRT those phones, if they can connect to your own system at home you can run a tunnel - Wireguard, OpenVPN or anything similar - to it and escape to the outside that way. This is more or less the same method as used to safely use public Wifi networks.
> Isn't the fraud risk still generally born by credit card companies at the end of the day?

No – for online/e-commerce payments, the liability is generally with the merchant, not the card issuing bank.

If it was about risk/fraud, debit cards would be an economic non-starter, as their interchange is capped to 0.05% + 0.24$ for almost all issuers.

EU issuers also get by (probably not too comfortably so, but still) with the recently introduced interchange cap of 0.3%/0.2%.
I never thought Russia would invade, I kept hearing the US warnings and thought it was BS. I was proved wrong, so I had to reassess my model of the world. I went to first principles... geography, history, demographics, psychology, and tried to understand it from the Russian perspective. I'm not Russian, I haven't talked to any Russian, it is pure speculation on my part.

I think a lot has been made of comments about the far-right elements in Ukraine, but it is coming from my analysis that politics is becoming bifurcated and extreme on both ends of the political divide. You quite rightly point out that there are far right movements in more places than Ukraine, and I completely agree. I worry a lot about the rise of nationalism and I think any politician is a fool to ignore it... sadly many of them have exploited division and nationalism for their own ends. Indeed, Putin can be exploiting it as an excuse for the war, but we should acknowledge that there is a modicum of truth to it, which makes the propaganda effective.

As for Putin's holding on to his power and authoritarianism, I think there is an element of that, but there are all the people under him that have vested interests in continuing the regime. In the West we think that democracy is the best system, and I think we don't question that. If you do question it, you'll see that it's actually quite fragile and relies on belief in the legitimacy of the elections, and a stable society where wealth inequality doesn't get out of hand. Increasingly the West is doubting elections Brexit/Trump/Biden, society is unstable with protests and riots, and wealth inequality is growing to historical extremes. Indeed, the Russian, Chinese revolutions and Hitler's rise to power came out of a similar situation.

Lastly, I haven't mentioned speculation that Ukraine could be sitting on vast offshore oil and gas reserves in the Black Sea. If this is correct, Ukraine would be of prime interest to the EU and probably fast track EU and, or NATO membership. Obviously, this would threaten Russian interests.

I hope that helps explain my thinking. I'm not an expert. I just tried to refactor my thinking and I just tried to start from first principles. I hope all the death and destruction stops.
> ISAs align incentives between teaching institutions and students, they're strictly better than the tuition model.

Well, there's two ways you could operate an ISA:

1. You invest $20k in each student, carefully selecting only the applicants who are most likely to succeed, and giving them the most impactful, high-ROI courses you can, so that they almost all repay at least $20k

2. You invest $500 in each student using prerecorded video classes and assignments graded by unpaid 'mentors', take on far more students, and every time you luck into a student who repays $30k that's pure profit, baby.
"Power to the people" in reference to crypto does not mean a redistribution of pre-existing wealth. How would that even work? Crypto sells your house?

The humanitarian aspects of crypto are "banking the unbanked", protection against seizures/extreme inflation of the local currency in specific countries (Libya, Turkey, etc, the ability for refugees to cross borders with their wealth, and the ability of immigrants to send money back to their families back home.
Is it an actual credit check, or used as a proxy for an identification check?
> lactose intolerance depends on gut microbes which doesn't require evolution to change.

I was responding to a comment that expressly said we evolved to consume milk after domesticating cows.
Maybe not drunk driving, but road design can reduce distracted driving crashes:

https://news.cision.com/property-casualty-insurers-associati...
> American G.I.'s were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board

Yes, but you must be believed in that you may use your military. The current problem in Ukraine is that Putin believes (and seems to be correct) that NATO will not use its assets.
San Diego is definitely not affordable. Housing is catching up with Bay Area.
For home hosting the trick is KISS.

I used to backup to external drives. Now I use bare ones since finding big externals got difficult.

I use (and probably abuse) docker compose. K8s is great but compose is easier.

I use a single makefile. Kinda ugly but it's fine.

Bunch of friends and family use my "services". They usually chip in for hard drives and stuff.

I have a few central points of failure but it keeps things easy. My uptime still beats most big clouds - though I have it easier.

I accidentally took down my server for a few days from a botched hardware install. It's a bit funny because now we realize how critical the home server has become to us.. on the other hand, already got the spouses blessing to build a backup standby server.
> Isn't the fraud risk still generally born by credit card companies at the end of the day?

Absolutely not, the bank initiates a chargeback, which the payment processing network directs back to the one who handled the payments. They generally are then tasked with "proving" the purchase is authorized. Enough chargebacks, even fraudulent ones, and the payment provider cuts ties with you (although, at Google scale, I don't see this happening) as you're too great a risk.

> App review is a joke, the rating systems on both platforms as absolute trash and often gamed by publishers (remember Uber's in app prompt about how many stars you'd give them that forwarded you to the app-store if you gave them 5 and otherwise just offered you an internal complaint form if you gave them anything else? Everyone does that).

The implementation being a joke doesn't mean it's not a service with COGS that need to be accounted for.
CNET has some data [1]. It seems to be in roughly the middle of the price range. It does offer better bandwidth and no data caps, but I don't have one so I can't say whether those bandwidth numbers are achievable or not.

1. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/best-satellite-internet/
Let’s say that the US congress decided that Nintendo games needed to be shipped on mini DVDs. No game carts or usb drives or other form factors would do. So they passed a law saying that Nintendo must switch all their consoles to use mini DVDs.

Is such a law constitutional?
"Extractions and Ire" on YouTube has been having a go at synthesizing a cubane, while the creator does "meme" a lot, it is good chemistry. And a really weird molecule.
The best way that I've found to introduce new things in in new areas. Any new project, even if it works in an existing repo has the opportunity to make their own rules to a certain extent. If you can have your new ways for the new project parts that co-exists with the existing codebase, then we use and wait. Eventually people will want to use the new way in older parts too after experiencing the benefits.

I think the most common one is people using TypeScript with Vue or React. If there's another popular framework that has the use of TypeScript as the default, that would also have a good chance of adoption.
Philip K. Dick’s Final Interview
I wouldn't assume that "wants to buy drugs" is an insignificant component of the market.
Nope. All fraud and chargebacks go back to the merchant/seller. The processor will immediately hold those funds in question pending a dispute or resolution around the fraud or chargeback.

On top of that there's a hefty fee for any fraud or chargeback that's not refundable even if it's resolved in your favor. Usually in the range of $40 per instance.
Fun bug, searching for the letter e crashes the site

http://teclis.com/search?q=e
Adoption is not always a viable option.
GDP(PPP) simply isn't an accurate measure of real economic productivity, of producing real things that satisfy various human needs.

Despite being the #1 GDP, America has an unbelievably huge trade deficit, unlike Germany and China which have substantial surpluses. This is because American GDP is massively inflated by unproductive/destructive sectors like FIRE and military. For example, how does "imputed rent" have anything to do with economic productivity?
I am sure this is the way to convince people to adopt lInUx.
No disrespect taken, thanks for your comment. I hadn't really even considered the area prior to the above commenters suggestion. I suppose it's certainly possible that my subconscious guided me to the self-selection, but it wasn't intentional.

Looking in Tacoma I'm seeing quite a few 1 bedroom apartments for <$1.5k a month which seems decent to me, and I imagine Tacoma is more expensive than some of the smaller surrounding towns. This doesn't line up with your comment so my question is, what am I missing?
> services that aren't lending ... such as ... telephone service

I'm in Canada, not the UK, but the last time I had a post-paid plan with a cellular ISP (~2015), they actually structured it in the contract as some type of revolving credit instrument, where your "credit limit" is the maximum outstanding invoice amount you can have before they cut your service off. Like any credit card, this actually involves the cellular company — as underwriter of the loan — locking up some of their own assets for each customer account, commensurate to said credit limit. That small amount of extra revolving credit showed up on my credit report!

My understanding is that they do this because, much like a credit card, cellular accounts can actually generate non-predictable-to-the-underwriter charges. Long-distance (esp. 900) peerage fees, instantaneous charges from SMS short-codes, and purchases through SIM Toolkit "apps", can all bill a cellular account directly; with the latter two classes of fees not being settled after the fact, but rather settled immediately (so the relevant merchant can receive their cut), with the cellular ISP temporarily footing the bill for them until you pay.
Stating the timeline of her positions hasn't clarified anything for me. To me, your point is now even less clear.
I'll take moral guidance from... checks notes... anyone other than Orson Scott Card, thank you.
Buddha the him-self is probably different from what I think of as "buddhism" with a small 'b'. Culturally-understood, outside-in, or maybe bookstore-quotes-buddhism, as opposed to the deeper, subjective, experiential, you-don't-know-enough-buddhism--which does harbor many, many contradictions on top of all the great lessons in there too. Like any belief system, religious or not.

I definitely don't remember the sectarian buddhists spending much time telling me to enjoy small pleasures! I think the closest analog to that in substance of belief would be more like "attend to your sensory interface to life." Ah? Much different in important ways. One of those approaches worked fine without buddhism in the picture. The other didn't, or so I was told. Funny memories.
This isn't true since her legacy spans more than just Eastern Europe. She is generally derided in the Middle East (save for Israel) and it is hard not to see why.
> On the other had, she has ended up going from $30K/year to about $50k/year and is paying $5000 per year towards her ISA. So her income went up by $20K and she's keeping $15k of it. That's a pretty big win - so six months of school, increase in net income of 50%. Not bad.

That's 50% increase in gross income, not net income.
Ask HN: Will we ever be able to recover BitTorrent files from the piece hashes?
sha1 hashes are not secure, and collisions can be practically produced by attackers.

I'm wondering if these attack strategies could one day be used to find collisions for the pieces in a bittorrent archive to effectively "recover" the data that was originally used to create the bittorrent archive.

Let's say the piece size is 4 KiB, that means there are 2^(8x4x1024) possible combinations of bytes for each piece. That is a number with almost 10 thousand digits. Could these sha1 collision attack strategies be used to cut down on the number of combinations we'd have to comb through to find the matching 4 KiB of binary that original produced the hash?

Either way, I'm interested to learn more about how this works. Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest#Simple_interest
I’ve found instagram to be a good format for comics, and in theory following some good comics would be similar to reading the regular comics page. And yet, I haven’t followed any regular comics. Is it lack of discoverability? Maybe there’s no money in making an insta comic?
I don't agree with you, only for the fact that right now, in this age computers are everywhere, everything is digital, it is not luxury to learn how things work, it's survival, it's not expendable time, it's professional time
Your response to this post is a bit oblivious to motivations other than profit and metaphors other than markets.

Additionally, re: (1), static sites are more secure with no maintanence than using a browser with Javascript enabled. (2) HTML and files lasts forever. There is nothing to update. (3) You keep assuming the needs and complexity of a for-profit business and the risks associated with that. But human persons don't have those complex needs or the associated risk of complex, dynamic setups that enable entire teams of people to work on something and constantly move it around.
East of the Cascades is all high desert - really hot summers, really cold winters. As I mentioned more snow. West of the Cascades you don't even get snow every winter - so in Portland and Seattle some winters you get a little snow, some winters you dont get any.

In Spokane, Bend, Boise you get a bit of snow, about 10 inch of rain per year (about the same amount of rain as San Diego actually).

And yes Olympia will be what youre likely imagining the PNW to be - damn near constantly gray, always wet, lots of evergreens, etc.
Show HN: Record a video and send to your future self. What would you say?
So true! I even picked Binance in my example because their relatively "low" fees, I should have noted Coinbase as an even more egregious example
All that says is that bin laden himself was proud of his legacy. I'm sure his followers are too. But of all the people in the world, his followers are a fraction of a sliver of a hair - and there is no country that is ruled by his followers.

L. Ron Hubbard had thousands of followers, but to conflate an internal Scientology paper obituary with "any obituary published where it matter to his family and close friends" would be a mistake.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220323205111/https://www.nytime...
The West is writing all the history books, and with the US having a monopoly in printing the worlds reserve currency and being the backbone of the West’s military might, history is obfuscated. An indictment of a former US Secretary of State is an indictment of America itself, and by proxy, its ally nations.

I’ve worked in big tech companies with some of the most intelligent and capable people I’ve met in my entire life. And while they have very strong views on American politics — labeling Presidents, Senators, and other politicians corrupt, nefarious, incompetent, or some combination of all three - their views on Americas role on the world stage are more like America in a Hollywood film.

The other countries are corrupt, “shitty”, “evil”, etc and only America has the capability, will, and sort of a divine “right” to interfere and fix things, and fixing things means doing whatever we believe is right.

No one in the West batted an eye when children would be murdered in drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal region. When America and Russia fought proxy battles in Syria, there was no solidarity with the Syrian people. When our “ally” Saudi Arabia bombed the hell out of people in Yemen, again - there was no one asking questions. “We’re not targeting civilians” they’ll all say. I mean, America gave a new classification to all the “collateral damage”, simply labeling anyone they thought might be 18 years or older as being a militant, even if they’re just civilian bystanders.
this is my exact point: they hired the former head of GH infrastructure - literally the person directly responsible for all this at github for years - and made him their ceo

github should have sharded years ago, every other large mysql user did so much earlier in their growth trajectory
Huh, one guy on HN did say it was the DB that was the problem earlier on. Neat!
>I don't expect shortages in the sense of starvation risk, more like - they won't have the brands or types of food we're used to. The stores are mainly protection for if goes worse than I expect.

That's probably true for where you and I live, but the higher prices for us is something we can afford, for others it's being priced out of the market. A certain amount of that may happen in our local communities or country, but there are places in the world that import a lot of food that will potentially face starvation on a bigger scale. My worry about that is bigger conflicts erupting either begins to disrupt shipping to the point where it spills over into hardships closer to home, and/or such disruptions break fundamental weak links in the global trade system i.e rubber supply from Thailand or phosphate rock supply from Morocco etc.

I'm not worried about a nuclear exchange at all. I don't think there's much point even being worried about it. That's one that if it happens it happens and oh well. I don't think it's likely, but I did make a bet with my friends several weeks before Putin invaded that given there was no way he would be able to accomplish his strategic objectives otherwise that his only option to ensure a win was to commit mass atrocity to force capitulation of the Ukrainian people, and my bet specifically was that he would drop a tactical nuke on Ukraine in order to try and do that. I think where the conflict stands now is in the recent few days we've hit another shift in strategy / tone from Moscow that we've hit a point where things are about to get ugly.
Federal loans have maximum repayment periods of 10-30 years, but that does not mean the loan is forgiven at the end of this period. If you fail to make regular and complete payments, the loan can persist for the entirety of your life.

By runaway interest, I mean compounding debt, not change of interest rate. If payment on a federal loan is low or non-existent, the debt will increase exponentially over time.

Take for example a student who takes ~50K in debt, but fails to graduate or secure income to pay the annual interest.

With a federal loan, payments may be deferred or reduced, but the debt will continue to increase with time. If not payed off, this will last for the student's life.

With some ISAs, there may be no payments required, and the entirety of the debt disappears after X years.
Hi, former GitHubber here and CEO of PlanetScale. I came to PlanetScale after seeing the incredible impact that Vitess had at GitHub. The team we have hired here successfully sharded part's of GitHub's very large platform. We continue to shard very large customers at PlanetScale.

Platform migrations take a very long time and it's very complicated especially with decade old codesbases. I will say the current team at GitHub are nothing but outstanding people and engineers with a difficult task of managing a very large deployment.
Neat! Please do let me know if you stumble across it.
> When the HTTP response is done, we get these bytes: []byte{48, 13, 10, 13, 10, 23}. I don’t know what this is supposed to mean exactly but it seems to signal the end of the connection.

HTTP headers include Content-Length, so you should know when you get a truncated response, but TLS is supposed to be more general purpose, so it includes its own crypto secure end of connection indicator.
You’ve misread. When sending $16, I am charged a fee of $0.40 or less.
We'll have plenty of time to develop hyperscience before we can watch any known black hole start shrinking.
Doesn't Wise charge ~3-5% for currency conversions or cross-border payroll?
You made race a part of the subject when discussing Albright. You were likely called out for disingenuous "race-baiting" since you don't provide any evidence for her animus against "brown people", a questionable claim because even if true it's not clear that Iraqis identify as "brown people" or Madeleine thinks in those terms.

Moreover, you ignore the the actual war she was more famous for and had a bigger role in, "Madeleine's War" (https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/05/10/albright...). This involved her advocating (successfully) to bomb Serbia, a nation of nominally white Christian people she argued were committing genocide against a Muslim (also white) population. This was also against the UN charter due to Russian and Chinese veto. This war, more so than the Iraq war, has much more relevance in discussing her legacy today given the invasion of Ukraine but you appear to ignore it intentionally or are perhaps unaware of it entirely.

I'm not arguing that racism isn't important in understanding the Iraq war (or other wars), but it is one factor among many. Some of the most brutal wars are actually between groups of people that to outsiders appear to be be very similar (Ukraine/Russia, Serb/Croat, various civil wars, etc...)
Doesn't the lack of a central authority increase the odds that coins, once seized, will be extremely difficult to recover? On par with trying to recover physical cash seized under civil asset forfeiture statutes, at least.

I don't have any direct experience here, but my understanding is that bank and credit accounts are typically frozen, not seized, so the process is easier to reverse.
You have yet to explain how racially unfair outcomes in the criminal justice system are the intended result of actions by the political right.

I point out those on the political left have been involved in all aspects of the crafting and enforcement of these laws.

You have made no other argument than to point out that disparate outcomes in the criminal justice system exist.
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