skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fido auth may be ok but please, stop the "magic link" or SMS authentication.

Even with very fast delivery, having to switch email or SMS still take time and interrupt the signin process. We all know how costly it is to switch context.
> it could be argued that it's a 1st amendment violation, if the law can be shown to be in retaliation* to speech

I think that quote from my original post is pretty damning in that regard. He's openly declaring this as an attack on their bottom line because of clearly protected speech that he finds odious.

> But it's an interesting question if to consider what the legal case would be if the law was a general reduction of copyright to ~50 years, for everyone.

See, that's something I'd get behind!
Everyone on platforms now has a different experience because of configuration and account maturity. Invalidating another user's experience because of yours is not helpful to meaningful discussion. I did not downvote you though.
As a Supabase user this statement from OP resonates with me:

> When I implemented this, I avoided using PG roles b/c I was unsure how this play safely with future changes to the hosted DB.

I don't know if they meant this exactly, but the way I interpret that is that there's a "fear" of sorts that by using PG features like roles there's a chance we might be doing things that are in conflict with things Supabase needs to do to effectively manage the database. The auth schema for example is effectively managed by Supabase and we shouldn't mess with it – but it's not necessarily clear where other boundaries are.

I've not come across a situation yet where we've done something in the database that conflicts with Supabase management, but it'd be nice to have some more clarity on what to avoid.

Maybe prefixing the Supabase managed schemas is a good place to start, but I'd also like to see some rules about settings we shouldn't mess with, features that should be avoided/used with care etc.
If you don't know of anyone in California who has died of thirst because of water cost, please don't assume that absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
That's the thing though, uBlock rules can also inject scripts and addons can intercept and replace contents of network calls through the injected code.

I think mitm proxies should be used for whatever people find them suitable. I don't have a problem with this use case, especially as this is clearly something you will only get working with a moderate understanding of the underlying concepts.

Tools like Privoxy have existed for years and I don't know why you wouldn't trust a proxy over an addon. Just don't set it up for other people who can't make the risk/reward judgement (though the same goes for adblockers and other extensions).
Weirdest quote the TC article was "In the meantime, Tiger Global, which prides itself on its due diligence"

They are notorious for outsourcing their due diligence and often not even paying attention to it. They pride themselves on moving fast, not diligence.

I liked the investment thesis of "get founders money and get out of their way" and hopefully other VCs learned something from it, but they certainly lacked a lot of control in how they operated.
Qbserve for time tracking. (https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/)
Where I live, overnight charging at home cost $0.01 per kwh. During peak hours, the cost is $0.20 per kwh. That 20X difference should be enough to get most users to schedule most of their charging overnight, or at least during mid-peak, which is $0.07 per kwh.
I don't have an account and I don't see a paywall on mobile or on desktop.
I was late to the FIDO announcement discussion from yesterday so I'll post this here - this is my anecdotal experiences but apparently a lot has issues recalling their own user ID and password for a domain. Note it's a set of three String, and it's one too many.

Passcode to "open a phone" is fine, E-mail to identify yourself is sort of okay, E-mail and password to unlock(?) the website, barely, but E-mail and password and website URL as a single set makes their head explode. Password managers are a bit too clunky at current stage. And hence an overarching web service operators goes for alternative methods such as magic link, device IDs, migration codes and other login-free login methods. I guess this is one such case.
Yes it is. It is on the front page of Scorpion Capital, "activist short selling focused on publicly traded frauds and promotes".

You can download 188 pages report here. Decide for yourself. https://scorpioncapital.com/
SoftBank-backed car-sharing startup Getaround nears SPAC merger: sources
So does a lot of companies selling on Aliexpress/Alibaba, but this doesn't help with my infrastructure problem - I would still need to buy and copy manually MP3 files onto the player.
Basically they say The Founders wrote the whole amendment in the Bill of Rights to express the right of US to have an army (that's the only way I can make sense of the term of "collective right" with regard to keeping and bearing arms). That's kind of weird - first of all, the Army is already mentioned in the Constitution, why mention it again? Second of all, who would really argue the US government can't have an army - what case would such amendment serve, what argument it would resolve? Amendments usually address some important questions or establish some important principles - e.g. protection of freedom of speech, or personal freedoms, or freedom of religion, etc. - and limiting the power of state to infringe on those. Seeing "also, US Government can have an army" among these is kinda odd, at least it does look odd to me. I can't shake the feeling that is is not a serious interpretation but more of a legalistic trick - we pre-decided we don't want to give people access to the guns, and now we have a task of reconciling the text of the Constitution which seemingly contradicts that with this conclusion, so we invent this concept of "collective right". Which AFAIK doesn't exist for any other right, does it? You don't call 1st, or 4th, or 5th, or 6th amendment rights "collective". Even for rights "found" later - be it privacy, or access to certain medical procedures - nobody I know argues it's a "collective" right which can not be accessed by individuals but only through the intermediacy of the state functionaries. It seems to be the only one that this argument appears in. That is certainly something one would consider "odd".
Show HN: Solver.News
A open newsletter aimed at people, teams, companies utilizing or considering mathematical optimization.
I worked at Google for a few years.
I have the best Google food memories from "The Root". I remember the day they served the most delicious duck I've ever had, and the day all the food was Klingon themed. The food was a nice perk, but I really miss the gym. A few coworkers and I had a standing appointment with a trainer. A coworker also ran a weekly yoga session. It was also easy to bike to work. It all worked because of the on-site showers.

I left to give a smaller startup a shot. I've been there 6 years, and the project continues to keep me engaged and fulfilled. They wrote meals into my employment contract, which I thought was pretty funny. They've followed through with it, although it's not as nice as having dozens of themed cafeterias. I've struggled to consistently hit the gym the last few years because of the relative inconvenience. It's my own lack of self-discipline, though, rather than any pressure from work.
In the future renewables will produce next to all power and they work better during the day, some only during the day.
Oh my god this is incredible! And it has the full pinout so you can use debug accessory mode!

Game changing!
Plus isn't it still true that changing lithium slower extends battery life?

Not just because it keeps temperatures down but something else chemically.
Just do what many stations already do. Use a battery to spread the load. LFP is super cheap and perfect for this.

I just don’t think this will be any harder than the advent of air conditioners was. We used to double electricity demand every decade. In a way, it helps the grid by providing a lot more revenue (demand has been largely stagnant, which has really caused the grid to struggle).
I am a fan of "simple additional wrinkle to consider when setting up a system" style articles. For almost no cost, you get benefits that won't be apparent until later.
Most cars are parked >20 hours and driven less than 100km a day. Fast charging will likely become something you only do rarely. All we need is a kW or two available at almost every parking spot. Eventually we'll want cars to communicate with the grid to preferentially charge when it's particularly windy or sunny.
It was flippant (and damned near off-topic), but it stems from my dismissive notion of the very idea of wilful infringement.

What other legitimate form of infringement could there be?

Accidental plagarism certainly exists, but I'd imagine that a fairer punishment there would be either an injunction of sale and distribution, or a fair and reasonable licensing fee.

Not being sued into oblivion for something that at most caused minimal damage.

But beyond that - I imagine rare case - the vast majority of non wilful infringements are the result of the independent derivation of ideas.

And I simply don't see how a patent system can justify prohibiting someone from using their own ideas - regardless of whether or not someone else had them first.
Is this a better Notion?
With regards to authorization – have y'all looked any at Open Policy Agent[1]? I think it could potentially be a good fit for the Supabase stack to implement policies not just in the database but also the gateway and potentially other components as well.

It'd be super cool to be able to implement custom policies in rego code that could be re-used in several parts of the stack, and tested/verified/evolved independently from the stack.

[1]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/
But he still apologized, and the project was reinstated. The issue is resolved. You can continue to be mad about it, or you can forgive and forget. If it were me, I would want to move on and not carry around a little package of resentment. I've got enough to carry as is...
Completely agree -- https://leoeditor.com/ is impressive
The gnu m4 manual is the go-to documentation.

One way to think about m4 is as form-substitution, eg. the ssh-config customization via sed.

Another is as text generator, eg. the classic sendmail config generator, where one writes m4 succinctly which in turn generates complex files.

From a 10,000 meter perspective, all the managed servers' config files are a projection from the central config repository. If that config is already an m4 file, then all that's left is finding the variant configs and handling them.

`make` is another nicety, as it handles the dependencies, eg. scp'ing the config and then HUP'ing the daemon only when that config changes.
Ask HN: How to determine first killer app for new platform?
Suppose you are starting a new platform. It could be anything: a gaming platform, a hosting provider, a communications tool.

How do you go about identifying the first must-have application to build for and offer to users to entice additional usage?

If you think I'm asking the wrong question (i.e. this is too reductive), is there a better question I should be asking instead?
> this whole blog post reads like someone trying to replace an increasingly disappointing personal life with excessive workaholism.

Agree. Some rationalizations in this post reminded me of a recent "Mourning loss as a remote team"[1] entry.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30811187
It was invented so people could learn econometrics or for professors to use to assign econometric homework?
I wonder how much this abusive behaviour can explain the lack of women in certain fields?

For example a girl joining a male-dominated chess club could face some of these remarks, leading to fewer girls joining the chess club.

Then we see an end result of some activities completely dominated by men at the elite levels, creating ammo for misogynists to spew distorted “facts” about how men are better than women.
As a maintainer, I feel obligated to mention Hurl [1], a tool for testing HTTP with plain text and curl. It’s a wrapper around libcurl, in a single binary, with syntactic sugar for asserts. You can use it also like curl to give you an HTTP output.

[1] https://hurl.dev
Yeah, I mean if they are burning whole lot of dumb money, it can be good in a way.
I worked there with an intern who happened to be in his 40's. He was previously a professional athlete, and decided to get into engineering. He owned a gorgeous ranch in Montana, with his own baseball diamond, outdoor bed, and enough land that the neighboring farmer leased it for planting.

He was living in a crappy studio apartment in the bay area. He decided to try and save money by buying an RV and live in one of the known Google shanty towns in an unused office parking lot. We all teased him that he would never find a girlfriend without real plumbing. He lived there for about 6 months, until security politely asked him to leave because the company wanted to start using the parking lot.
A Management Maturity Model for Performance
Brilliant! I am inspired to build my own machine scientists.
I found it curious that one of the implementations of symbolic regression (the "machine scientist" referenced in the article) is a Python wrapper on Julia: https://github.com/MilesCranmer/PySR

I don't think I've seen a Python wrapper on Julia code before.
Very curious about how much difference that 15m takes, and presumably there are at least some studies. A 15m charge to use the restroom, check Instagram, buy a coffee feels very doable in a way that 30m feels like a drag, and more than twice the effort.
The Tragedy of Dogecoin
> I kind of feel like you're trying to say X or Y battery patent is not fair or justified.

Actually no - I'm more concerned about who owns the patents to the pre-existing technologies that the batteries depend on.

'Commercially Viable' to me means that the technology can be mass produced within acceptable bounds of fault tolerance at a price that will allow the final product to sell at profitable margins.

What it does not say is that the company isn't going to get sued by some patent hoarding snake in the grass.
It looks like this works well from mobile until you try to edit and the keyboard covers the code.

Sliding the animation off screen to make room if a soft keyboard is detected might allow this to be used on phones.
Is the physics on the double pendulum accurate. I understand with the conservation of angular momentum and shrinking the moment of inertia it could look like that intellectually, but my instinctive self is unsure.
Unless your baseline is "Nordic countries" or similar, the US is pretty far to the left.

This is true regardless of whether you look at the size of the government, relative to the economy or where it sits on the spectrum between ethno-nationalist vs self-criticism/openness to outsiders. The US has a much larger than average sized government spending vs the size of its economy and it takes in three times more immigrants per year than any other country.

By comparison, China, Japan, India and other major world powers are considerably further to the right. Even influential small countries such as Israel and Singapore are also a bit more conservative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
The xD-Picture Card Abomination (2009)
So we can now replicate the iPod-wheel UI design in iOS apps. Right?
I remember Apple's App Store review team would reject those apps earlier
The first six months of a new job is the honey moon phase, give it time.
Yeah but they are also claiming double the energy density. Very impressive if true.
Nice work and great use of React Flow.

What level of sophisticated queries can be created with it? For example, can it do "Top N and Other"? Which BTW, was recently added for SQL Frames ( https://sqlframes.com/docs/data_sets/top_n_other_sets )

Most of these visual SQL builders I have seen only tackle the basic level of SQL. I am interested in an advanced SQL builder myself to plug as a no-code SQL builder to front the SQL Frames API.
How much further can we fall?
> whites have been a minority among births since 2016
> enforcing even existing immigration law
> for Blacks

oh sweet, an open white supremacist.
Whew, how big is your codebase and what kind of code is it? The biggest C++ project I worked on took about thirty minutes to compile from scratch on a 12 core Macbook. If you didn't need to recompile dependencies the build only took ten minutes or so, a good chunk of which is linking time.
What is an integer mixer?
Intriguing. But I think it will turn out to be naturally occurring.
The Copyright Clause Restoration Act [pdf]
I’ve found lights data on Apple map to be fairly accurate. Rarely does it miss one or think a 4 way light is a 4 way stop sign intersection.
Ask HN: Should I sacrifice one product for another?
I'm building two products and one of them is an alternative for Zapier (https://github.com/dotenx/dotenx). I've invested more in the other product but this one is just outperforming it massively.
I was looking for early users here and on Reddit and in one day I got a long list of interested people and it doesn't even have a landing page!
Now it's time to go 110% in with one of the two products, what should I do?
*I'm so attached to other product that I'm not even that happy with the success of this one tbh.
Yes, but why would you say that it was a lifestyle business? I mean, it's not about size or being family-funded, I'd argue that this hedge fund was something entirely different from a lifestyle business since day 1.
Note that it is extremely carefully worded. It retains 80% capacity after 800 cycles, but those cycles are not 15 minutes cycles! I am not making this up, QuantumScape themselves say this. If you check their presentation, 80% capacity after 800 cycles was measured at 1 hour cycles. Of course they don't highlight it, but it's there. Inquiring minds want to know what happens after 800 cycles of 15 minutes.
It seems extremely difficult for the electorate to make educated decisions about who to vote for due to the lack of consequences for completely misleading or false statements. Is a politician's lie protected by free speech?
Yes, that's the plan. Probably not this year, more likely next year at the current rate
lyrebird/descript/overdub does have an api: https://docs.descriptapi.com/
NeRF-Editing: Geometry Editing of Neural Radiance Fields
Sorry but can you explain why people cite the modern day political organization strongly preferred by current neo-nazis and white nationalists as being the same party as the one that ~175 years ended slavery like evolution and change does not exist? It’s bizarre honesty.
Considering the majority of the female population in Japan has been using chemical sunscreen for a generation now, I figure it can't be THAT bad..
I enjoyed using https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs on a few side projects.
KeypointNeRF: Generalizing Image-Based Volumetric Avatars
> makes usb a packet switched transport

Guess that means the next logical step is to evolve USB into ethernet.
I am not sure whether those pranks are really necessary but those scams are real. Looks like police are already taking action against them.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/7-fake-call...
If they can't do that, then it's not an initial funding problem (which the parent post tries to solve) but that their business just should not get started.
It was an experiment to see if we could relocate the family out west. It truly was a dream job, i got to work with some true phenoms and trailblazers in my industry and had many options to grow despite being much older than the average Googler.

Family circumstances just changed and it wasn’t going to work out. It was a heartbreaker but i was glad to have done it.

For that role i think i did ten interviews. The previous attempt was 14 and i didn’t get an offer. Its a bit shorter loop for xooglers and in the past six years I’ve had two other offers but there was always a confounding factor. One was comp, I’m not SWE and in every case i did or would have taken a pay cut.
Hi, sure will DM you in a few days.
Haha yep, it's those edge cases, to quote one of the many web pages documenting it:

Channels exhibit the following properties:

* send to a nil channel blocks forever
* receive from a nil channel blocks forever
* send to a closed channel panics
* receive from a closed channel returns the zero value immediately

I have this bookmarked because I don't write Go enough to remember it by heart.
Zombocom.xyz
Scams are indeed real.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/7-fake-call...
I wonder how much auto-correct is going to cause relatively rare words with a small edit distance from common words to slowly leave the English language.
Prodigy and CompuServe were such weird and unique walled gardens early on. Totally different visions of “the internet” and sadly all that stuff is lost forever.

Later CompuServe became a reskinned AOL (seriously) and Prodigy devolved into a generic dialup service.
This isn't really a relevant metric though; current EVs have sufficient energy density, its the price and shortages that are causing issues.
Old Ford Maverick V8 Has Carburetor from a Lawn Mower, Gets 41 MPG
let me indicate that most scientists work on these animals are working in zoo -- only they know how to cure, take care and saving wildlife in this world.
Are you implying that most Germans/European are just plain anti-semitic
Are you sure? I was always under the impression that the democratic party is alt-right and the republican party is neo Nazi.
Someone else linked another version of the story in another comment, which answers it: https://www.panam.org/pan-am-inspirations/634-saga-of-the-pa...

A banker in Australia advanced them $500 USD, which was enough to finance the rest of the journey.

I believe that would be about $9k USD adjusting for inflation, which feels oddly low given the length of the flight, but I suppose they wouldn't have needed to pay for fuel or supplies at PanAm stations.