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Ask HN: Why are there no good digital freehand drawing tools?
When trying to draw on a digital medium (be it by mouse on desktop or by browser) I have yet to find an program where freehand drawing feels as precise or dexterous as it does in physical media such as pen and paper?

What are the constraints on emulating free-hand drawing in Digital media?
Garry's Mod working on removing all 20 years of Nintendo related content
Perhaps because we’re on hacker news and not software architect news?
Abbott claws back from the population all the time but will never touch businesses. I don't know they received monetary compensation to move here, but they did tear down affordable housing and a few apartment complexes to build their campus here so that sucks.
Earmarks are back. They were against the House's rules for 10 years, but the 117th Congress started allowing them again in 2021.
Agreed but if you look at winning submissions which i did stop doing, a lot of them do very good feature engineering which is not a model related thing.
> The rule making process takes time!

It really didn't have to in this case. It would have been perfectly acceptable to crib California's NN law, ctrl-r "California" "United States of America" and call it a day.
While the large sample size and many controlled variables are good, and make the results statistically significant, the effect sizes are awfully small. Only two of the emulsifiers, tripotassium phosphate and guar gum, increased the hazard of an individual developing diabetes by more than 10% (11% and 15% respectively, with very large error bars in the latter case). These are much smaller effects than previously known Type 2 diabetes risk factors.

For instance, the HR for family history of diabetes is 4.46 (vs 1.03-1.15 here, where 1.0 is no change in hazard).
I believe they are only restoring it to enact “security” aka more spying. I would like to see what the actual text of these policies are. The administration has its tentacles into too many tech companies already.
In practice the south is more "racially diverse" than the Bay Area, because minorities can actually afford to live near white people. Coming from Atlanta it was shocking to me how homogenous the Bay Area was.
Perhaps it's getting worse, but it has always been this way to a degree. What few people seem to realize, is that while democracy and the separating of powers seem good in principle, they also have innately dysfunctional qualities to them. The more divided or opposed things are, the more dysfunction there is.
The only away for US citizens to prove that they are such would be for them to also submit their IDs. So it affects everyone.

Basically, it forces providers of a very wide variety of tech related services to collect identifying info on anyone who uses their services, and then store that info to either eventually be exposed in a breach, subpoenaed by the government, or sold to the highest bidder (might as well monetize it if you're forced to collect it )
because nobody wants single subject bills, it would semi make them accountable.. remind me, who in congress is for single subject bills, who is against? (and its very few individuals FOR, so not super hard)
Good. It’s not 1999.

There are so many malicious actors putting human life at risk in some
scenarios it should be possible to figure out who owns what.

Now, I would start with corporate ownership and focus on anonymous entities controlling things like Delaware and Nevada corporations. But that’s me.
Governments dont have authority outside of their borders. They cannot force foreign ISP to give over the same information. Therefore they could only mirror nodes on IP addresses issued to companies in their country.
What would be nice would be a bare-bones CUDA implementation for one these open-core processors.

What size run would be needed for TSMC or some other fab to produce such a processor economically?
I don't. I was just trying to think of anything an iterable might offer over the other methods.
currently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajes_Field#United_States_Air_...
It seems to me that liquidity in a semi futures marketplace would be much better if you traded on a lowest common denominator - cents per square millimeter of a finished wafer. Same units of value regardless of underlying technology. Am I wrong?
> the expectation you can immediately and synchronously interrupt any person and demand their full attention

I agree, and the fact that there are so many other things demanding my attention is crazy making.

If I had to guess, a few generations ago this was probably a complaint about the advent of telephones, even without robocallers and telemarketers. Now that spam has reduced the signal to noise ratio, it’s amusing to see this pop back up.
Defend your democracy with a broader view

Do not fall into the trap blaming a demagogue, where did they come from? Why?

Not much to do with politics, much to do with culture
I learned very quickly as a university student that engaging in the political process is heavily punished by the exact people you thought you were trying to help. I have never donated or campaigned again and it took 10 years to get off of all the spam lists.
For posterity, this is due to a Clang bug.

See [1] for more information.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156196
More transistors switching I thought? It isn't about raw transistors e.g. memory isn't as power hungry as GPU?
Hell, Portugal and the UK ceded control over their colonies in China (Macau and Hong Kong respectively) in the late 90s.
I was expecting to see https://github.com/dimitri/pgcopydb when clicking this. How is this different?
The quote "markets can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent" comes to mind.

Governments can stay irrational longer than you can stay vigilant.

It's frustrating that a decision can be made at great effort in support of net neutrality, only for a new bill to easily be introduced that undermines it yet again.

I guess that's a feature of democracy, not a bug. But I can imagine these battles gets harder and harder to win as time progresses.
There is some relationship but some scarcity is natural- where is trust in that?
Author here - this has been a useful mindset for us internally but I'm curious if it resonates externally. I'd love your feedback!
So in every case they strip-mined Main Street.
Or does it come from the competent, careful people who do all the work?
All of which you can do with the other methods.
...and proportional representation
> ~~It’s a business. It~~ will by default...

They're humans. They will by default...
What features of Rust let you write faster code than C/C++/Fortran?
Short answer, yes[1] but it's pretty inefficient[2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/rkxlz1/cl...

[2] https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
I would love diversifying, but it does not do that. It does "revert to mainstream" trying to push you toward the most generic thing accestible by association from what you like.
It's always DNS – – – except when it's not: A deep dive through gRPC, Ku (2022)
Unfortunately Google brain researchers have not yet discovered my brilliance, but if you read my argument it's about the data being much more important than the model. Granted transformers are a great model, but that doesn't refute my point.

Also arguments from authority are boring.
One has to wonder whether we can reach a "permanently" stable equilibrium (universe permitting), where we can have our cake and eat it too, or whether we're doomed to eternal oscillation. I won't have children that might see it, but I'm cheering it on regardless.
Related:

Oracle founder Larry Ellison announces plans to move world HQ to Nashville

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148604
Almost 100% of scam calls are run out of India. There is no political will to hold India responsible because they are economically and geopolitically important to the USA.
Siphoning compute from safety-critical systems while driving?

or battery life from someone else's vehicle they might need to get home?

or additional power from someone else's line?
This is irrelevant to the point in the parent comment
> present ourselves externally as a single, more powerful organism

Except in 1989 Germany got the keys to Europe and jumped in bed with Russia screwing over Europe in the process. Because once you get away with murder, you don't fear doing it again.
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Isn’t it self-modifying in a way? To my understanding code is injected by unpacking the binary test files and injecting right before build?
Before Trump: America is over if Trump gets elected

After Trump: America is over if Trump gets re-elected, for realsies this time

He was a bad and incompetent president and a loose enough screw to make anything happen, but the liberal imagination has a tendency to be hyperbolic.
Whatever problems you will have, you aren’t alone. It’s fine to not prefer this. I do.
How is the JWT token getting refreshed?
Sapir-Whorf[0] but for computers?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
What does a zero cost / zero IP / cooperative model of a Google killer look like?

It can't have ads, and it can't hide any knowledge that exists which could help the user.. even if the knowledge is proprietary.

It must repeal copyright laws by force. It must drain all silos and know all things. And it must utilize the entirety of the library Genesis.
There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.

Infact majority of people that smoke don't get Cancer (only about 30% in a group of smokers get lung cancer)

Edit: I don't mean it's comforting I prefer to have it at 0/10

I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.
> to dismantle democracy

For hard numbers on how quickly that happened in 1933: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305877
I think the anger comes from the rug pull, not that they chose to be source available, right?

If they chose to be source available from day 1, then no harm done?
In a monarchy at least there's a chance of getting a good ruler by the genetic lottery. In a political system almost inevitably the people who get to the top are the best liars and manipulators, not good people.
ISPs don't exist in a vacuum. Why would Comcast spend millions of dollars implementing some anti-NN consumer ratfuckery when they'd have to revert it once the next administration came into power? If Comcast knew that it wasn't going to get overturned, then they would take advantage.
The linked article says, in reference to Oracle relocating its HQ to Austin:

> Oracle, which was founded in Santa Clara, Calif., in 1977, later had its headquarters in Redwood City. The software giant, at the time of its move to Texas, said that relocation was to allow a more flexible approach to its workforce

> The company had neither asked for nor received economic incentives from Austin to relocate, said city officials. Nashville pledged $175 million in incentives and the state of Tennessee $65 million to help build the Oracle campus in 2021
There’s no evidence that can be provided to change that mindset
Nim smells like a modern Pascal sometimes, and it has this feature as well.
I don't have a post about it, but the equation is pretty simple: good cross-platform software + good documentation + responsive development = good product. The trick is to write good software -- the license doesn't matter so much. But, making it free/libre is competitively advantageous, all else considered. Some customers have told me they would not have considered paying for a proprietary option.

My project is called reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU), and it makes about $2.1k MRR, selling ~200 copies/month. Some months are worse, some are better.

I've never purchased any advertisement. Its users advocate for it through online forums. That genuine attestation, to its quality and also to me as a person/programmer, helps it sell. That its users, too, are free to share their copy with friends helps people encounter the program who otherwise would not have purchased forthright.

I sell it from my personal website with links to PayPal and Stripe. The return URL is its download page. No JavaScript anywhere. I provide the entire Git history of the project, as well as binaries for all major distros of GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS. I also provide two mailing lists -- one for all customers to be informed of updates, and another for customers to talk with each other, see my latest code patches, and talk about its general development and the reMarkable tablet.

http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Lower latency so the sales team can send out demands for license upgrades faster?
I think the results are mixed and the lessons aren’t clear to me.

Perhaps earmarks were the result of an electorate that wanted more purity in decision-making (at the cost of stability). In other words, earmarks didn’t break cooperation. Corrupted cooperation led to the end of earmarks.

Earmarks probably do grease the wheels, but it’s important to remember a step existed before the compromise: a member of the congress could hold out until they received something, often unrelated to the matter at hand. That is wasteful and, to some, dishonest.

Now, did a removal earmarking result in more financial efficiency? Surely not. The budget deficit continued to grow, mostly because of Obamacare, Covid, wars, tax cuts.

So what of compromise? One might think compromise is dead, and yet we live in a world where Ukraine aid is tied to social media ownership.

Shruggy dude.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27539165 (June 17, 2021 — 607 points, 153 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726906 (August 17, 2019 — 635 points, 95 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160394 (January 16, 2018 — 938 points, 193 comments)
Controlled relocation and flooding of towns for dams I think although I don’t have a good source
Disagree. It's all part of iterations or being part of destructive path to something great at the end.
Oh God, of course they do.
Would it be at all feasible to build a physical NAND-to-tetris computer? Or is it purely a virtual exercise?
To me, it is remarkable how many things we think utterly unthinkable today are actually quite recent, very much in living history.

Western Europe had an officially fascist government 50 years (+1 day) ago. ~60 years ago Black people in the US were officially discriminated, enshrined in law. Franco-Algerian wars also finished 62 years ago, and saw atrocities worthy of the worst ethnic cleansing of WWII. Balkan wars are still more recent and depressingly deadly too. Alan Turing committed suicide 70 years ago, being pursued after the "crime" of homosexuality. Not to mention some of the stuff going on today...

We take so much for granted, the world really is a nicer place than it used to be.
And Discord.

It is not the same experience, but Discord servers often act as community hubs in the same way private forums did before. I seems to be eating Facebook too.
Depends on the chain.

Bitcoin, which is unfortunately many people's first introduction to crypto, takes on average 10 minutes per block. Typically services then wait for finality which is 6 blocks, so about an hour.

On Ethereum, each block is 12 seconds and 64 blocks for finality, so 12.8 minutes. If Stripe were smart, they'd be using an L2 like Base where block times are ~2s.

On Solana, each block .45s and 20-40s for finality. But Solana makes a lot of sacrifices and tradeoffs to achieve this and thus isn't on the same level as Ethereum.

Edit: From another article is appears they'll be using custody funds though, at least to start. So in that case transactions should be instant due to a centralized layer as you mention.
I don't want to give ChatGPT access to my accounts, and my wife would feel even more strongly about this. For people who feel this way, allowing them to upload a CSV file of positions (no account numbers) could be an alternative way for them to use your program.
Seymour Cray would have loved this. Some of his computers were all NAND gates.
>Some are that way I suppose but as I was learning, many far more experienced, late-career gurus went out of their way to teach me. It does require asking good questions and showing some genuine interest and engagement in learning though.

IME, reminding them of themselves is far more important than any curiosity, aptitude, or drive you may bring to the table (other than in that it reflects their self-image). That similarity often creates a pseudo-familial affinity which serves as the unconscious backbone of the relationship. This is the reason why cross-ethnic and cross-gender (and cross-class, cross-sexuality, etc.) mentorship seems to happen less often than when the mentor and prospective mentee are of the same gender and ethnic identity.

You got lucky and/or are a straight white dude in a field largely occupied by straight white dudes. What happens for the rest of us is usually one of two outcomes:

a) The mentor makes an effort to support the mentee, but holds them to unreasonably high standards per unconscious bias, generally causing the relationship to disintigrate over time.

or

b) The mentor is threatened by the prospective mentee's aptitude appearing in an individual that they can't bring themselves to relate to; they will withhold support, if not actively impede their growth.
As another layperson who always dreamed of making dovetail joints for strength, I was quite surprised at various explorations of joint strength on Youtube that tend to find that mitered box joints with dowels or splines beat most other joints by a wide margin. This is great because they are even easier to make, and can be made to look quite nice if you use a contrasting wood for the dowel/spline.
I'm glad Jeff pointed out the RMS article on Free software

> For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.

> “Free software.” “Open source.” If it's the same software (or nearly so), does it matter which name you use? Yes, because different words convey different ideas. While a free program by any other name would give you the same freedom today, establishing freedom in a lasting way depends above all on teaching people to value freedom. If you want to help do this, it is essential to speak of “free software.”

> We in the free software movement don't think of the open source camp as an enemy; the enemy is proprietary (nonfree) software. But we want people to know we stand for freedom, so we do not accept being mislabeled as open source supporters. What we advocate is not “open source,” and what we oppose is not “closed source.” To make this clear, we avoid using those terms.

People in the FOSS world has been beating this drum since the very beginning. Free software was always an ideology. I get that that turns people off, just like projects wrapped up in religion and politics do, but it's the only way to ensure that stuff like this doesn't happen.

I concede that the people who champion FOSS are not always the kindest people to be around, see the response from people about Guix when I mentioned it as an alternative to Nix.

But when I was in Boston I was a card carrying member of the FSF. I went to a few libre planets, and I met some real nice people in real life who also cared about FOSS very deeply, so I know not everyone in the community is a jerk.
>> There are something like ≈100 billion transistors per IC for something like a high-end GPU, and a single failed transistor can destroy that fancy GPU.

No, it can't thanks to this fancy marketing strategy where you sell faulty GPUs at lower price, as lower-tier model.
Actually Nashville’s real estate market is very expensive. Belle Meade a Nashville suburb has the honor of being the richest town in America
See his bio
http://www.davisr.me/

I'm actually a paying customer of his RCU software (for managing reMarkable tablet firmware, backups, etc).
how will US customers prove that they're not foreign customers?
People not deep into music have hard time verbalize difference between metal and rock or hiphop and rap. Despite differences being super obvious when listening.
Jammer hunting drones already exist. In fact that was the idea behind the Shaheed predecessors in the first place. Set a course, then home in on strong em devices.
> People can do things altruistically - there doesn't always need to be a bitcoin-style monetary incentive.

For a few years Oniontip [1] allowed tipping Tor relay operators with Bitcoin. In my opinion that was a quite nice combination of technologies, as it allowed to anonymously tip operators of a service providing anonymity on the internet.

[1]: https://github.com/DonnchaC/oniontip
This was on the home page a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031365

It's this great PR piece about a woman running a Walmart location.

PR.

Walmart is the bigger retail business (amazon - AWS is 30 percent smaller). This article, from the very start makes Walmart look like NOT the villain. It's a pure PR piece.

Are you saying that we should be talking about amazons market manipulation and NOT Walmarts? Why are we talking about the number 2 when the number one is still running around scott free?
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I am quite taken back by Stripes decision here but dissing PG's golden boy will get me banned so I suggest everybody to read @bitfinexed on X on why USDC/Tether is extremely shady.

but I don't know which payment processor like Stripe can do the following:

- marketplace onboarding for buyers and sellers

- crowdfunding

- mass payouts/intermediary payouts

- doesn't hide fees for dashboard
Search for Wacom tablets.

Pen, tablet, lots of controls.
I like this and would pay for such a system. It doesn’t need to use blockchain though, a normal escrow system would work. Everyone who signs up puts a dollar in escrow. If you send an email to your contact it’s free. If you send outside your contacts it costs a penny, but the recipient can return the penny to you if they want.

This makes it prohibitively expensive to send low value email, free to send high value email, and slightly expensive to send “probably valuable” email.
I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.
Congress created the FCC. Congress passed many laws governing agencies. Departments are not out of the hands of executive power.
Wasn't there something about some seed oil fumes being toxic? Maybe it's related to some cooking practices. Highly speculative but the cooking oil toxicity is well-known.

[edit] found this with a quick search, seems relevant: Exposure to Cooking Oil Fumes and Oxidative Damages: A Longitudinal Study in Chinese Military Cooks https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029104/

[edit 2] and indeed the article mentions it, although just in passing, still my hunch would go towards this as it seems a more specific factor than the others that are mentioned
There's a considerable difference between the amount that hits the atmosphere and the amount that hits the surface of the Earth. My number includes average cloud cover. It's this order of magnitude, and a higher number only strengthens my point.
There's an old joke however ...

"How do you collect a small fortune with an ISP?"

"Start with a large fortune"
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My vague recollection is that that concern was that the etcd store (specifically the keys pertaining to the Vault pod spec) could be modified in some way that would compromise the security of the encrypted Vault store when a Vault pod was restarted. It's been a long time since I remember that being a live concern though, so I've mostly recycled those neurons...
I came here to say this exact thing