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A lot of people are comparing AWS identities to G Suite or Apple ID.

A better, more apples-to-apples comparison would be Azure Active Directory.

A single AAD account enables access to: Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365 collaboration apps, remote desktop logins to servers, virtual desktops, and a bunch of other stuff.

It certainly is very convenient, but the downside is that a global outage of AAD takes down a lot of things all at once.

For example, AAD system-managed identities are used as a type of "service account" in Azure. This means that web apps can lose access to their HTTPS certificates stored in Key Vault because AAD is down, causing massive outages.

In theory, AAD has a "read-only delayed replica" as a fallback, but in practice this hasn't worked.

This is actually one of the core "philosophical" differences between AWS and Azure. The former values completely distinct services with no (or minimal) interdependencies, the latter values integrated, cohesive architectures.

In my experience Azure's approach is more convenient but more fragile. Conversely, AWS is more robust but can be super irritating for end-users.
I have irrital bowel syndrome and I got a not from my doctor. I also missed days because I was in a hospital.

The law firm I worked for lost the notes from my doctor and fired me.
I can't speak for NZ, but in AU domestic tourism has more than picked up the slack - domestic tourists have spent more money than international tourists
A one-hour trip to urgent care, or even an email or phone call to the doctor's office likely would've handled this.
Impressive “Simpsons: Hit and Run” Remake Was Made by Fan Using Unreal Engine
"They aren't sold like that, but aftermarket lift kits are extremely common;"

The parent was talking about the design of new trucks. Aftermarket modifications would be a different topic.
Cincom VisualWorks Smalltalk doing something useful
That’s a lot of reduced privacy no matter how you look at it.
On the other hand, you have to consider people who were single and dating. They had a way worse last 18 months than those in a committed, cohabitating relationship.
That was not my position. Let me try again, with more careful use of pronouns:

When some "authority" (some random internet commenter, or the CDC, or Facebook, or whoever) politicizes science, and people detect that they're doing so, then those people tend to "flip the bozo bit" on that authority. That is, they tend to discount any further science-based claims from that authority, because the authority has destroyed its own credibility.

What you're describing also happens, along two paths. Sometimes it happens as a result of what I described - if you've burned your credibility, and now you're claiming "science says X", people may say that you're politicizing the science without actually checking, because you politicized it last time. It also happens because some people just don't like what you're saying and don't want to believe it, and "you're politicizing the science" gives them a convenient excuse for ignoring you.

But my point was going the other direction: When you[1] politicize the science, you set your credibility on fire, and I[2] will no longer believe you when you say "the science says".

[1] "You" meaning not the parent, but anyone claiming to speak authoritatively.

[2] "I" meaning not I, AnimalMuppet, but people in general listening to authoritative statements.
You misunderstand me, that's on me I should've been more clear. It is racist for sure - I would never deny that. But it isn't what I'd describe as an _episode_ of racism.
Measured auto inflation is low because of hedonic adjustments. The sticker prices have gone up a lot, but their quality/value (according to folks measuring inflation) has gone up more. For a somewhat tendentious account, with graphs: https://wolfstreet.com/2020/11/11/my-pickup-truck-car-price-...

Not sure what to think of it. Obviously reversing cameras, working A/C and better fuel economy are important and real improvements worth real money.
Frankly, it’s odd we are discussing this story..

I haven’t seen anything about the New York vaccine mandate that will force a large percentage of businesses to fire their employees for lacking a vaccine (even due to a medical issue).

> Starting this week, customers and staff must prove that they've had at least one dose of a vaccine to enter indoor venues such as restaurants, gyms and theatres.

https://news.yahoo.com/york-vaccine-mandate-could-destroy-14...
Maybe it's an Aussie thing, but most air conditioners I've seen are based in the living room.
Most modern living rooms also don't have doors, meaning that these air conditioners are cooling 3-4x the volume of air that the owner actually wants them to.

At best, this wastes power. At worst, this wastes power and means the one room you actually want to cool doesn't get cooled properly.

I've lived in a unit with a door in the same room as a split system and it was amazing. The room would become completely cool in around 5 minutes, then the compressor would shut off and run for maybe 2 minutes every 15 minutes or so to maintain this cool temperature.
As in I would rather ride a motorcycle on the road than a bike. On bike trails, a regular bicycle is great. Where there are very few cars or very good bike lanes, electric assist bicycles make sense to me. But when you have bicycles going at car speeds mixed with cars, but without good brakes, without turn signals, etc. I would be very nervous to get on one. They aren’t built for that speed and roads aren’t designed to handle them. Moreover, most drivers don’t expect them. I can be on a 900 lb motorcycle and still be invisible to some drivers. Now imagine what I look like on a tiny bicycle that’s zooming at 3x the speed most expect from it.
You're right, a sudden eviction ban is a gross market intervention that helped tenants and harmed landlords, and on the net caused market failure. My only point is that the status quo of privatized claims to unearned land value increments is a gross market failure in the other direction.
There's something odd about communicating feelings without the thoughts that gave rise to those feelings. It seems like the assumption is that the "observations" directly give rise to the "feelings", which I don't think is accurate. It's just leaving steps out, which is kind of not as candid and forthcoming as a difficult conversation should be IMO.

I think you should explain how the observation clashes with your expectations, so the person you're talking to isn't having to guess at that link between observation and feeling.
ARM sells... "intellectual property" that I might try to come up with a distinguishing definition from the IP of "one clever idea I want a monopoly on for a while".

A lot of IP boils down to an idea that you could describe in an elevator and a few good engineers could turn into a product in a few hours to a year.

ARM sells things that represent... thousands? hundreds of thousands? of engineer-years. You can't just whip that up in a short time, it totally makes sense to pay someone else for their trouble to make something... but if you wanted to and had a billion dollars to spare, sure you could do it yourself.

The problem with "I thought of it first" IP protections is the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery. A whole lot of ideas just have their time come, and tend to have multiple people working on them and coming to similar results in short periods. Making this a race and letting the winner sell out to groups that either want to extract rent out of the idea or to hide it in a safe to prevent competition for 30 years is not conducive to progress.
You can use this question to show your strength, you can say if its a one off situation you will go the distance but if its happening regularly then you will try to raise questions like why are projects always going into crunch mode, are we not estimating the tasks properly etc.

This shows that you are a team player but also willing to push back.
How does this work for you if you’re on a mobile device?
Going to urgent care to get a routine doctor's note for a non-urgent situation wouldn't be covered by insurance, would it?
2021 Was the Year of Italy
Musical successes with Eurovision, unesco has included other Italian sites in the world heritage, the Italian national team has won the European football championship. Olympics: Marcel Jacobs gold medal in the 100 meters, the Italians still win in the relay
Standard Notes looks nice but I need it to work with Emacs and org mode. My plan for that is encrypted in Dropbox. Maybe there’s a better solution but idk yet
The Miata is an outlier. Mazda went to great lengths to keep the car's weight down since being light weight is a big part of the car's appeal. The extra development cost and tradeoffs wouldn't make sense for the typical sedan, let alone larger vehicles.
Okay, so new trucks don’t exclusively have a hood height of 5’9”+.

I still think the broader point of “it’s really hard to see people, even adults, right in front of you” is 1) demonstrably true 2) extremely scary.
Somehow, even with these and other guides, it's still a pita to set this up and never seems to work the first few times.
Thank you for pointing that out: 10x. An order of magnitude difference in deaths.

Plus, it just makes common-sense that if people cannot meet other people, that prevents the spread of the disease. No?

That makes common sense, and then we see 10x difference in deaths. The Occam's razor explanation for the reason of 10x bigger death rate then is .. lack of lockdown!

Anybody arguing otherwise seems suspect of political calculus, in my view.
"Electrified" on PR != BEV
I'd happily trade a 10x higher death rate (to a high of 0.014%, mostly among people who weren't far off from dying anyways) in exchange for everyone having 2 years of having a non-miserable life.

I know it's incredibly taboo to say something like this; but people are completely overvaluing the impact of the few absolute numbers of deaths, vs. the much harder to quantify widespread misery caused by these overreactions to the situation.
For those surprised by this (as I was when I first heard about it), this is talking about Section 179, which allows someone to fully deduct the purchase price of heavyweight vehicles (e.g. a Ford F-150) if it’s used for business. These vehicles are also not subject to the pedestrian safety requirements that 3-box vehicles (sedans, etc) are in the US.
A story from the US:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/28/suspect-who-wont...
> Problem is you’re fighting path loss which is exponential with distance, whereas the power of your emitter is scaling linearly.

No, EM radiation power decays quadratic with the distance, not exponentially.
All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic
That's really helpful. It predicts 534 Watts to get me (110kg, 0.4 CdA) to the 45kph limit for Class 3 California bikes.

The Grin Technologies motor simulator https://ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html predicts (the "Load Line") 837 Watts for "MTB upright", 648W for "MTB, Tuck" and 570W for "Road, Tuck".

I do find that in an upright position it takes 100-200W of human power in addition to 750W power measured at the input to the motor controller. The controller's pretty efficient, but the motor (GMAC) is only 85% max, so there's maybe 570W at the axle. The US CPSC and California laws aren't clear whether the 750W/1 horsepower limit is power in or power out, but power in is what shows on the display, so I limit it to that. Also, even a mild grade will cause the motor to approach the 70 deg C limit I chose after 1 minute. I live in the flattish Santa Clara County, but I'd definitely want a mid-drive if I lived in a hilly area. A 250 or 350W Riese & Müller Delite https://www.r-m.de/en-us/bikes/delite/ I test rode needed a lot of human power to hit the 45 kph max, but it climbed hills in Larkspur like a goat.

750W will have no problem getting a recumbent bike to 30MPH, but don't count on it for an upright.
Have you ever seen videos of how invisible you look despite all the high viz stuff? In some cases it becomes urban camo. Take a look at this video, especially at 2:30 or so. It’ll show you just how little visibility you’ll have:

https://youtu.be/eqQBubilSXU

Your best bet is to have all your clothing match your bike, Power Rangers style, to increase your chances. And lots and lots of very bright lights. One little handlebar mounted light is going to look like a reflection or a flashlight.
FYI this is an advert. Not just in resemblance to an infomercial but the youtube presenter is reaching out and quoting CTO of the company as responses to youtuber questions in comments.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I had tried it. It probably works for Windows, but not for Linux. You can't get to the provisioning screen in the BIOS. I think already provisioned tpm continues to work.
I wondered about that. ... science is political, always was and always will be. As we humans are biased and driven by politics and beliefs so is the science we do. In most debates I see here on hacker news both sides believe the science is in their camp (masks, nuclear power etc.) We should acknowledge that. Science is a process and never right. .. all models are wrong, yet some are useful.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03067-w
Here’s a great YouTube video about the technology ASML is building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI.
I'd agree, if they weren't so damned prevalent. Their dominating presence on the road absolutely factors into the real and perceived safety that is driving the race towards ever larger cars
And at the same or greater risk of being rear ended as a car or motorcycle while wearing a foam hat and spandex underwear…
In my country, software developers can't call themselves engineers unless they have an engineering degree.

>But some anarchistic belief in self-policing is totally unrealistic.

Engineers in my country are held to ethical standards with legal backing.

https://www.peo.on.ca/public-protection/complaints-and-illeg...
What is this insane person doing when you can just

if (value < 0) return -value;
else if (value > 0) return value;
else return +0.0
There's been a bit of miscommunication here, and I think it's partially my fault. It looks like there was a vulnerability in the rate limiter, and Facebook has admitted that and says they're trying to fix it (I don't know whether they have fixed it):

>In a statement, Facebook said: "It appears that we erroneously closed out this bug bounty report before routing to the appropriate team. We appreciate the researcher sharing the information and are taking initial actions to mitigate this issue while we follow up to better understand their findings."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/tool-links-email-add...

I'm not sure whether you're just concerned with this apparent rate limit bypass vuln or with the entire concept of lookup by email.

>Ask yourself why Facebook doesn't just make available a spreadsheet of all names associated with which emails on the platform. It's because it's private information.

That would be Facebook telling you the email of every account. The behavior we're discussing is not doing that. Facebook allows you to find a person's profile given a person's email (assuming the person didn't disable that lookup it in privacy settings, and also considering rate limits which might be bypassable by a vulnerability). Facebook doesn't allow you do to the reverse unless the person sets email visibility to public.

>Why doesn't Facebook's security team do anything? Either they're incompetent, or they're being muzzled by product.

What do you think they should do?

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them incompetent.

>Additionally, Facebook's privacy policy explicitly says that they don't share your private information that you have chosen to set private. That's an egregious lie.

What private information is being shared? Your profile URL? Your first and last name?

Facebook has an option to disable this lookup. Are you saying people are disabling the lookup and Facebook is disobeying that?

>Who can look you up using the email address you provided?

https://i.imgur.com/D8qQjq0.png
Here in Japan, it's considered that it's good timing to replace car before 100,000km, 200,000km is too much, and 300,000km is really overkill. Maybe the BEV advantage isn't much attractive since such lower mileage and people run reliable Japanese car.
But that parking is usually legal. Nothing to tow over, unless the intersection specifically has markings ("daylighting") prohibiting parking.
Mobile carrier location data is near GPS level detail according to the SCOTUS case on it.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
You can of course have some idea how floating point numbers work, but still not know how to bit twiddle abs().

I don't know what to take from the fact that Java stdlib didn't use it until Java 18? It does seem like it wasn't obvious to at least someone who knew something.

> If a similar article were written about how shifting an integer to the right by one bit is equivalent to dividing it by two, I highly suspect it would attract no attention on this site,

Nah, it would be full of comments of people saying "well of course I knew that! doesn't everyone who's anyone? I can't believe how many newbies don't though!" :)
Just keep getting bigger. My first truck was an 88 ranger. That thing is smaller than most new sedans today.

I have a newish 'midsize' truck that is as large as or larger than fullsizes of the 90s.
> PS: Also scroll compressors are substantially more energy efficient than rotary and various means of staging is even more efficient yet.

PPS: Also the efficiency of a heat exchanger cycle has very little to do with the individual losses of the compressor components. Engine losses matter at the compression ratios you see in a combustion piston, but at the scale coolants run at (especially ones like in an AC that involve a phase change) it's almost noise when compared with the fundamental thermodynamic limitations. You can do a little better for sure; 33% lower friction losses seems reasonable.

But you can't do much better: the linked article is surely not talking about 33% better overall cooling efficiency, that sounds insane to me.
Yup. That's my point. Those kinds of payloads are for manned aircraft or Reaper/Predator drones, not something you can just order off a website.
Six times doesn't seem like a lot. I bet I go 3 or 4 times a day at work, though maybe half those times are bowel related.
Annecdotal but my rent didnt go up in 2021... my ex's did though... both Georgia.
It goes through cycles. In the 90s, it was called 4GLs ("fourth generation programming language"). Then RAD tools. (Or maybe RAD then 4GL? I don't remember.) The latest evolution of this cycle seems to be low-code/no-code.
Inefficiency and tax avoidance.
Oh, and to see what 700W from a human looks like, an Olympic track cyclist toasts a piece of bread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
Sure, but nobody can pre-emptively mandate you use facial recognition on your personal communications device, and then put sensitive information in there. I can see a situation in a repressive country where if you buy a phone they set it up with facial recognition in the store and make you activate it, but then you know not to store stuff there. You could just physically damage the camera at a later date and claim you weren't able to make use of that any more.
SEC vs. Ripple: Bombshells in deposition pave the way for win on Fair Notice
Exactly, get a removable battery and bring that in your carry-on and it should be fine.
Thanks for the summary of problems with JSON. For ease of use, it will not likely become a de facto interchange format in the UNIX context. However not all JSON is the same. Simple JSON is easy to parse and one does not need jq or libraries, for example JSON DoH responses. People have even tried to standardise simpler JSON, e.g., jsonl, as another reply mentions. But, as I said, the design of JSON allows for and encourages complexity. If that's what you like, go for it. An HN commenter recently identified the "complexity fetish" that many programmers have.

Not everyone suffers from that fetish, fortunately. With excessively complex JSON, I prefer to extract the specific data I want. The speed of json_reformat demonstrates how slow reformatting is when done "correctly".

Every user's needs are different. jq fails to meet mine.
Ah, right you are. For some reason I mistakenly read that as him saying he had been actually hit almost ten times.
You're the one asserting they're not comparable here, so please trot out some factors where Sweden is measurably different from its neighbors then.
Not to detract from your overall point - because it's a great question - but I feel that calling this system "forgery proof" only tells half the story.

Presumably public-key cryptography is how these certificates are signed and verified, which is essential for sure. But, a human is still required to verify that the information in the certificate matches some other ID, which could be easily forged. Drivers licenses and student ID cards are well known examples of such.

I think it's great that the system was designed to be privacy respecting. However with a bit of skepticism I raise the question - will this system stop anyone besides the most unmotivated of forgers? Perhaps it's still a win, but I think it's a question that deserves pondering.

> Besides the person’s first and last names, date of birth and a certificate number, the COVID certificate contains details of their COVID-19 vaccination, recovery, or negative PCR or rapid antigen test.

> Thanks to the electronic signature of the Swiss Confederation, this makes the COVID certificate forgery-proof and guarantees that it is genuine.

> the COVID Certificate Check app shows the person doing the check the name and date of birth of the certificate holder and whether the COVID certificate is valid.

> The person doing the check must then compare the name and date of birth with an ID document (e.g. passport, ID card, driving licence, residence permit, student ID card or SwissPass) to make sure that the certificate was issued for this person.
Since no one in this thread has any data - I’m pulling it from my ass
Lot's of discussion about other apps but none cover the main selling point for me. FSNotes was created initially as an open source Notational Velocity / NVAlt replacement when NVAlt broke on one of the MacOS version upgrades. It can be configured to replicate the amazing modal search / create interface from those apps.

There is also NVUltra [0] from Brett Terpstra, his successor to NVAlt. It is still in beta after quite a while. From memory it seemed more powerful and a bit slicker overall, but right now I don't need to do anything too complicated and prefer the cleaner native look of FSNotes.

FSNotes has no dropbox integration for the iOS app, but you can still use dropbox as a store and use any other plain text / markdown iOS note app. I use 1Writer.

[0] https://nvultra.com

[1] https://1writerapp.com
If there was going to be a regulatory move in this space, it's proximity & awareness systems and better visibility that seem to make more sense, than a tax of some kind. These will actually contribute to safety, while a tax would at best be a very minor and indirect influence on market forces.
I was until I did some device driver development. Imagine it like trying to write a HTTP client for an undocumented SMTP-as-a-service HTTP server.

* you know how to make HTTP requests (you know how to use I2C or PCI or ...)

* you know roughly what an SMTP-as-a-service should do (you know roughly what a display driver should do)

* you don't know the URLs (you don't know the addresses)

It's a fun exercise in collaborative reverse engineering.

Also there's survivorship bias. The reverse engineering that's most likely to succeed (and thus be written about) are the most approachable ones.

Bravo to all those doing this stuff!
Wow, looks like closer to 30% in the US. Interesting that suicides went down and overdoses went up, I wonder how you would go about disentangling those numbers.