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Show HN: I've spent hours building a Knowledge Management System
Getting started with Personal Knowledge Management is not the hardest thing in the world, but it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out how to structure and organize your knowledge base. Yet, many people waste a ton of time trying to create the "perfect" system, while procrastinating on actual value-adding work.

I've been there too, and spent months refining my Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system.

I wanted to help others skip the boring part, and build upon a proven system instead. The result is the Obsidian Starter Kit, a system built on top of Obsidian which is a 1:1 copy of the one I use for myself.

I've been passionate about information, Knowledge Management, and PKM for more than 20 years. As an author, blogger, entrepreneur and Knowledge Worker, I needed solutions to store and organize a large quantity of information. Over the years, I've explored, used, and advocated many tools but have settled on Obsidian. With the Obsidian Starter Kit, I offer the result of my own research and experimentation.

The Obsidian Starter Kit includes a robust structure, automation, templates, plugins, and a comprehensive user guide full of best practices. . It's already used and enjoyed by hundreds of people (750+), see [0].

I'd love to get feedback about this product and the landing page

I'm now preparing the launch on Product Hunt (planned for the 10th of August at noon), hoping to increase its visibility: [1]

[0]: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-kit

[1]: https://www.producthunt.com/products/obsidian-starter-kit
I guess you don't have children.
In america at least, the mainstream/establishment left and right seem to be unflinchingly united on this topic.
Thanks, H/T to Tackhead then!
after eyechatting with 5 people:

* all people had brown eyes

* all went for funny looks immediately

* 3 of them were shocked and left
I regularly discover things that Apple tries to obfuscate.
I generally do not impute malice to it, but it is in many cases the lazy option out.
I don't need fact checkers to know it's bad when white nationalism and Alex Jones are involved.
> the remaining ungrouped users, by process of elimination..."

This being hacker news, I can't help but appreciate the pure evil genius of this. It reminds me of some other cases cunning corporate ingenuity:

- Monsanto and their "terminator" seeds that prevents farmers from planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to purchase new seeds for every planting.[1]

- Volkswagen and how they programmed diesel engines to activate emissions controls only during laboratory emissions testing.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#%22Terminator%22_seed...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
But they already have those tools. That's why they think that way. They have their current account, savings account etc. The point of these tools is to be better than those tools.
Materialistic people are so consumed by the fear of death that they yearn for immortality, craving endless time to create and acquire more distractions—little toys to appease their restless minds. It's ironic that in their quest to escape mortality, they lose touch with the essence of life itself. Humanity, as a collective, has driven us to this point, where the pursuit of material wealt overshadows the potential for deeper connections and meaningful experiences.

Our struggle against it reveals this deeper disconnection which is evident from the our so many attempts to "enhance" life - to extend it further all the way to infinity. We became so preoccupied with that task that we often fail to fully embrace the current truth: finite life. In this quest to conquer the inevitable, we miss the opportunity to find meaning and peace within the natural flow of our existence.
But e.g. getting children hooked on instagram will pay off later.
A program like

function add(a,b) {
return 4
}

Passes the test
It's so wild to me that people tolerate this. I just close the tab or 'reader' whenever I see that type of thing, but I know very few others who do the same.
Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework
AlphaGo is an optimization over a closed problem. Theoretically, computers could have always beat human in such problems. It's just that, without proper optimization, humans will die before the computer finishes its computation. Here, AlphaGo cuts down the computation time by smartly choosing the branches with the highest likelihood.

Unlike the above, open problems can't be solve by computing (in combinatorial senses). Even humans can only try, and LLMs do spew out something that would most likely work, not something inherently correct.
Is it to create a utopia of peace and harmony for those who live on this planet?

No? I didn't think so either.
(Well done for quoting the word "nuclear" but choosing to ignore it.)

To be clear, the "two African countries" are both military dictatorships that depend on Russian military support. Which is the reason Ukraine might be involved in a proxy war there. Not out of love for al-Quaeda but because they have a common enemy.
When did America stop?
Hello HN,

After a long time working on this project, I'm finally ready to share the first public version of Orbit. Although there's still much to be done, I believe this project is ready to move beyond internal testing.

Orbit is a CSS framework that lets you create simple or complex radial designs and UIs, from pie charts to radial menus, and even fully radial pages.

Orbit is designed to be simple, extensible and compatible with other tools and frameworks, using space-related concepts.

To see Orbit in action, check out the landing page, which is built with Orbit. You can also find additional examples here https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/examples/.

I hope you like it and I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Thanks!
Martin
All Java talks of 2024 so far grouped by conference and ordered by view count
Funny enough, fireship had a good take on it just the other day. "As a tech company you either go bankrupt as a hero or live long enough to become an illegal monoply"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2dDV2eWBM
Can you point to other ways this is used or is intended to be used?
BBC's world service, at its height, provided content not just in cuneiform but also other internationally used scripts, including translations/transliterations of their most popular programme, the gardening show "Paradise in a 𒊬: big joy from small holdings".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_...
I'm a seasoned web development expert with over 10 years of experience helping companies take their products from concept to market delivery.
Over the past four years, I have been exclusively working remotely. Before that, I worked onsite in San Francisco and Berlin, collaborating with highly successful companies (one recently acquired for $7.1b).

My strengths are in front-end, UX, product development, but I also know my way around a back-end codebase. I have led multiple front-end teams and have also independently developed many products from scratch.

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Email: sinisa@codewell.studio

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I'm certainly not part of the elite even in the current deathful world :)

And yes, of course there will be issues, difficult ones. But life is, was and will always be filled with difficulty, obstacles, struggles and failures. Mine certainly is.

However, I believe in progress and overcoming obstacles and I believe that if we ever manage to extend life, we will figure out ways to make it work.

There is a lot of talk how finding jobs is more difficult these days if you are young and do not have experience. That real-estate is so expensive that nobody is able to afford it.

And I'm sure it's true.

But I also see a lot of young people succeeding and thriving in ways that I could not even have thought of. Therefore, I think there is reason to believe that the next generation will be able to find a way to make it work. As has every generation before.

When I was younger I used to think that situations in the world are now radically different from what the previous generation had to deal with. And on the first level of abstraction, they are! Computers did not exist for the generation before me. So of course it was new.

However, that is just the first level of abstraction. Take the second level of abstraction and you can look back and identify things that are completely new for each new generation. I mean, how different was the concept of going to work in a factory with a loom from the previous generation where machines did not exist at all!
Why would you ever want to make it impossible to verify that your vote really went for a particular party, you should just trust it blindly or what? It should be completely opposite of that in my opinion. It is impossible to prevent people from showing confirmation of voting for another party, since they are alone in the booth and they can write any confirmation code they want on a ballot and take a photo proof. Paying 1000$ for voting is a problem for tax institution not the election. There will always be a way to reimburse anyone for voting, but it comes with a risk since it is unlawful. In a true direct democracy system all votes are public, and looking at the wealth and wellbeing of countries which adopted such a system – I firmly believe it is a better one.
> There have been a lot of comments on many Internet forums

Still, the non-improvement in default setting surprised people, e.g. see the embarrasing confession by PCWorld, they did not believe the performance increase is so minuscule and asked AMD if that is for real.

> it certainly is 13%-18% over the corresponding model of the same clock frequency from AMD's previous generation.

More like 10%. And you have to overclock for that. Overclocking has become a fool's errand, you can expect it to cause problems, crashes, etc. Granted, if crashes are rare, gamers may go for it.
They do - e.g. before its closure, there was a lot of German (and Swiss) opposition to the Fessenheim NPP, located just across the Rhine from Germany (the English Wikipedia article only mentions it briefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant..., but the German one has more details, including a long list of somewhat significant incidents https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Fessenheim#Betri...)
Does anyone have any clue whether the new e3 and e1 form factors will ever make it to the consumer sector?
History has shown that German automotive industry has huge power, so things like nuclear ban, shady emission restrictions, etc. seem like just the tip of the iceberg.
Yes, and that was bad for their long term health.
Great to hear this! Gives me a lot of confidence that it is worth continuing to work on this. The AI integration Idea is interesting, could be a good starting help for everyone who is just starting out. Thanks man!
Do you really mean average age or do you mean life expectancy?
SEEKING WORK | Zagreb, Croatia (Europe) | Remote (any time zone)

I'm a seasoned web development expert with over 10 years of experience helping companies take their products from concept to market delivery.

Over the past four years, I have been exclusively working remotely. Before that, I worked onsite in San Francisco and Berlin, collaborating with highly successful companies (one recently acquired for $7.1b).

My strengths are in front-end, UX, product development, but I also know my way around a back-end codebase. I have led multiple front-end teams and have also independently developed many products from scratch.

—————

Location: Zagreb, Croatia (Europe)

Remote: Yes (US or EU time zone)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript (React, Redux, Apollo/GraphQL, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Webpack/Vite), Ruby/Rails, REST, Docker, web3

Website: https://smikulic.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinisamikulic

Email: sinisa@codewell.studio

—————

Sample project I co-founded — https://movieo.me/
Cool. Wasn’t aware of CHERI, but was thinking about a “CHERI light” that would use the regular x86/arm MMU to enforce some compartmentalization within programs the other day. Anybody know if there is such a project?
Apparently counter examples are very unappreciated. I also gave a counter example for each of their claims, but my comment got flagged immediately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187549
This is extremely useful and the idea of using some video RAM for the stack is genius and I'm annoyed that I didn't think of it.
> A hyperscaler is adopting it to replace hundreds of thousands of VPNs as well as build a multi-cloud zero trust offering for server to server workloads.

This one is the most compelling to me! A while back I was building a small cloud provider and this was the use case I was looking really closely at OpenZiti for.

Thanks for sharing!

>You raise an interesting point. We provide flexibility for ingress/egress... do not like proxies/sidecars, go in either opposite direction, (1) ZTAA, Zero Trust App access with SDK app embedded via SDLC, (2) ZTNA, Zero Trust Network Access via appliance deployments in DMZ/VP/VNET etc (the one you mention is ZTHA, Host Access). Each of ZTNA/HA/AA have different pros and cons based on your requirements and use case.

Ah so this would work if:

1) all the apps were my own

2) I was sitting on top of a major cloud/managed colo (I'm just sitting on top of infra providers like hetzner)

The project I was working on is not so active right now but it's still chugging along (I use it)... I was looking at things like OpenZiti as a k8s CNI provider, or used along with something like Cilium/Calico (but then they'd both promise network security in-between workloads and overlap)
Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?
Hi HN.

I have been using JetBrains AI and GitHub Copilot over the last few months, as well as some lesser known ones like GitLab Duo and Tabnine.

In my testing I found:

* GitHub Copilot: most stable, highest quality code completions; however, the completions seem to have gotten worse over the months (using since many months now)
* Intellij AI: Interesting IDE integrations, however the code completion often simply does not work
* GitLab Duo: Only quickly checked out the code completion 2 months ago, quality was way worse than GitHub Copilot
* Tabnine: Interesting features (& control), however quality of the generated code also is not on the level of GitHub Copilot

What are your experiences so far? Do you have any recommendations? Especially interesting would be solutions that work on large codebases, offer fine tuning or knowledge base integrations (e.g. confluence)
They're a trivial inference problem, not a trivial problem to solve as such.

As in, if i need to infer the radius of a circle from N points sampled from that cirlce.. yes, I'm sure there's a textbook of algorithms/etc. with a lot of work spent on them.

But in the sense of statistical inference, you're only learning a property of a distribution given that distribution.. there isn't any inferential gap. As N->inf, you recover the entire circle itself.

compare with say, learning the 3d structure of an object from 2d photographs. At any rotation of that object, you have a new pixel distribution. So in pixel-space a 3d object is an infinite number of distributions; and the inference goal in pixel-space is to choose between sets of these infinities.

That's actually impossible without bridging information (ie., some theory). And in practice, it isn't solved in pixel space... you suppose some 3d geometry and use data to refine it. So you solve it in 3d-object-property-space.

With AI techniques, you have ones which work on abstracta (eg., circles) being used on measurement data. So you're solving the 3d/2d problem in pixel space, expecting this to work because "objects are made out of pixels, arent they?" NO.

So there's a huge inferential gap that you cannot bridge here. And the young AI fantatics in research keep milling out papers showing that it does work, so long as its a cirlce, chess, or some abstract game.
Reading the source code of Zig [video]
I think this is exactly the opposite of how it should be. Teach children to engage in trade and sensible use of money and currency early, but shield them from the immense leverage that corporate advertising has on the developing mind. I want well rounded children who are good independent critical thinkers, not brain-hijacked and inept with money.
That's on Eric Koston though although Tony Hawk did participate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0dI05Xz8s

Koston did not invent the thing but has been a major popularity contributor to it.

https://www.surfertoday.com/skateboarding/why-do-skateboarde...
... And by "age of consent" I meant "minimum legal age recognized to make decisions pertaining to topic X". Is there a proper term for that, so I don't sound so stupid in future?
I really like the idea. Having a bird's eye view of money flow is central to building and maintaining a strategy. I have been looking for this kind of tool for years, and currently am using a spreadsheet for this, as nothing worked for me. This simple diagram is so much clearer.
But you need to refine the UX, which is barely usable at the moment: it took me a few minutes to understand how to change the numbers. I am still not sure how to add pockets. The name pocket itself is not very descriptive to me, but I am not sure how I would call them. Maybe just « entity », and have a few variations of them (income, accounts, etc).
I would need pockets that take a percentage of another one, such as tax withholding.
This feedback is not structured, but I really like this idea and hope it will help
They also wrapped their avionics cables in flammable tape and had to redo everything. The original, approved tape was still available, not a supply issue. I think that is pretty telling.
The Finn's are terrifying, held off the Russian invasions multiple times with a much smaller population, and were able to stay independent despite a 1000+ km border.
This map makes me think of the New Inquiry's White Collar Crime map [1]. That project creates a strong image which for me disrupts the stereotype of what crime looks like and where we can find it.

I realize it has a very different aim than safemap, but I frequently use it as an example of how the selection of data sources and its visualization is crucial in communicating a particular story. This communication already starts with the name: calling a map of reported crime a 'safemap' implicitly suggests that red colored places are 'unsafe' and should be avoided. (The about popover literally states: "Learn which parts of San Francisco are safest and which parts are best to avoid.") Which, as the discussion here suggests might be more complicated than that.

[1]: https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/
Digital Tools I Wish Existed (2019)
It's clear from many of these discussions that there is an unbridgeable discursive gap between the "why on earth would you ever want to die" and the "life would become an intolerable nightmare" groups. Realistically if we do find ways to extend life then people will take advantage of them and all kinds of weird consequences will follow, and the two groups will argue about just how long life should be while trying not to die. Cosmically speaking all that will happen is that human development will slow down: after all if it requires a generation of human scientists to die so that new ideas can be accepted then [1]...

My personal preference is pro-death. I enjoy life but it's important to my enjoyment that there is a terminus. The fact that it's not under my control also makes me feel calmer - it's out of my hands.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
No, it’s not similar at all.

The modern technological world has a certain approach to the individual Self and its experience of the world - it ought to be focused on almost to the exclusion of anything else. Nothing else ultimately matters, as long as your personal life experience continues - is what this philosophy ultimates boils down to.

Other people, in other places, value different things. Merely existing as long as possible is not their primary goal. And in fact, the lack of such ways to “use” one’s life and death in a meaningful way other than simply existing is one major cause of the modern malaise affecting many developed nations. To live and die for a purpose other than extending your own personal experience is something many people hunger for in current times.
Imec, ASML show logic and DRAM built with High NA EUV lithography
On support for Israel, yes. Plenty of mainstream Americans think it's weird to volunteer to be an IDF prison guard as an American though.
Maybe click the link and watch the video? The Director of Public Prosecutions actually said that. "If you retweet that, you're republishing that, and then potentially you're committing that offense".
A short, geeky blog post about the limitations of IMUs connected with I2C.
If they are <35, they are too young to realize how fast goes by; and if they are >40, they are selfish to still be alive while preaching for a shorter lifespan for others?
That isn't the information I have from our offshoring partners.
Hi, I wanted to clarify here that I don’t have „puritanical views“ on human sexuality, but I am aware of my bias and wanted people to give me further information. I could already „smell“ that I was wrong with my perception, hence the comment.
I didn’t want to cause any hurt with my questions, please assume naïveté and not malice.
> This is just another two.

These two control around half of the online ad industry, though
Still, it flopped.
Yes. And as parent one must fight against multiple multibillion dollar industries. Starting with food ending with toys, games, influencers and everything in between.

I was neutral when I started working in cellphone industry and kids were small. Now when I see how teens siting in the corner watching worthless stupid YouTube videos on the phone for hours I don’t feel well. Luckily I quit that industry and think it’s a cousin of big tobacco at the end despite advertisements telling some other things.
But in that case, finding the solution is hard and you generally don't try. Instead, you try to get fairly close, and it's more difficult to verify that you've done so.
Earthquake strikes off Japan's coast and triggers tsunami warning
Hi,

I have created a maths puzzle game were you have to guess the next number in the sequence. It has 4 difficulty level and each level contains 10 sequences. Try it out and we would love to hear your feedback.

Download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zippybits.g...
Sorry I don't provide any sources, but in ancient Rome the engineer that built a stone arc sometimes stood right below it when they removed the scaffolding supporting it. If he did a good job - he lives.
"engineers who could not live with the possiblity of making a mistake" is not the same as "engineers that care most about safety"
You could use OpenZiti together with Cilium/Calico, there are some distros, eg., https://kubezt.com/ which do that (though in truth, KubeZT has moved to Istio for E-W, uses OpenZiti for N-S. OpenZiti does a lot of things that service mesh technologies do not, for example, extending outside of the cluster (incl. to non-K8S workloads), allowing closing of inbound FW ports, providing a private DNS outside of cluster, removing the need for VPNs, L4 loadbalancers, MPLS, SDWAN, public DNS etc.

Yes, OpenZiti very much focus on private apps, whether COTS or inhouse developed.

Oh, I should note too, while we have a bunch of ways to deploy OpenZiti on K8S today, we are in the process of building/releasing an admission controller and an ingress controller for OpenZiti.

Whats the project you work on?
Stop Killing Games Initiative Sucks