skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most Congressional districts, only the primary votes matter, and most people don't vote in primaries.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/17/newly-drawn-...

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/fairvote/pages/2412/at...

https://www.uniteamerica.org/sections/partisan-primaries-dis...
We tried cognito (bizarrely hard to use), Auth0 (mildly hard to use), and Userfront (easy to use) for authentication + rbac + multi-tenancy. We also looked at Warrant and Oso, and my takeaway was that they shine for more complex use cases, which wasn't our particular need.
Some People Can Tickle Themselves
Honestly that sounds more like a problem with your code base rather than any exceptional skill.
Your dream sounds very nice.
Louis Brandeis on the right to privacy:

https://louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-l...
That's true for all ideas.

A lot of people, especially smart people, like going "everyone says X, I'm going to try to appear smart by arguing not-X".

And that's how you end up with people in the west going "Russia is the victim of the war in Ukraine! Nato encroachment!", or "they haven't tested the vaccines!"
Conspiracy theories aside, Worebey's Science paper is not unanimously well received by the scientific community, and the data analysis was shown to be partly flawed.

Here's a discussion on inference pointing to references and sources that argue against the results of the paper:
https://inference-review.com/article/thunder-out-of-china

It also raises eyebrows the fact that no animal has ever been found to be positive for COVID, in contrast to all of the previous SARS pandemics.

EDIT: thanks everyone for correcting my assertion. No source animal was found.
Was never your data to begin with
A flare gun is common emergency equipment for a boat and could easily be repurposed if the occasion called for it
Very valid concern. We built the edge agent(https://github.com/warrant-dev/edge-agent) specifically for perf and reliability concerns. It's designed to run in customer infra with built-in storage (currently in-mem/redis) and can respond to all access checks even in the event that the Warrant cloud service is down. Writes would currently still be impacted if Warrant is down so this is definitely an area we're continuing to improve and expand.

Additionally, customers have also requested their own private Warrant service deployments/on-prem so that's something we may offer more broadly in the future.
They still don't have anything. Streetlight effect at its finest.

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

However, we do not have access to the precise latitude and longitude coordinates of all these cases. Should such data exist, they may be accompanied by additional metadata, some of which we have reconstructed, but some of which, including the date of onset of each case, would be valuable for ongoing studies. We also lack direct evidence of an intermediate animal infected with a SARS-CoV-2 progenitor virus either at the Huanan market or at a location connected to its supply chain, like a farm.

Previously:

What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31866601

[flagged] More evidence that Covid-19 started in a market, not a laboratory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30566956

Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29764537

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125145
I liked supervisor but I disliked how slow it was. Systemd is doing the same job for me now at lightning speed.
Help him understand better
Also the humble rotary (Dremel style) tool. I was doing some work with mine yesterday and - in a moment of complacency - actually had the tool bit make contact with the surface I was working on for a second or two before I realized "shit, I'm not wearing safety glasses." I shut it down and grabbed my safety glasses pronto. I'm not exactly a "safety nazi" on this stuff, but some things just make too much sense to not do. And even a rotary tool can send shards slamming into your eyes or something that could cost you your vision. :-(
It should never be possible for a cloud provider to decrypt data from your devices. It should be encrypted by a public key you load on the device and only decrypted by your private key. The cloud prouder should be a dumb provider of the service and not get in the way. As soon as the cloud provider gives your decrypted data away to random people then that is a massive security hole.
I don't think those guys are taking single people in small boats. They want $5M insurance payouts from corporations, not killing random people for their clothes.
Yeah, like I said, you give up some of your rights in order for a prosperous society to exist.

I'm not denying the right exists, I'm saying we give up our other rights all the time for the benefit of society, why is privacy any different?

Further, it's a spectrum. You're not putting a camera up for police to peruse at their leisure, it's only in specific situations.
I found it difficult when my best friend came to the same conclusion as yourself as we have journeyed together for nearly 40 years. I am still a magical thinker as you put it.

It helped me the day the penny dropped and I realised he had become a Humanist. He has not discovered anything new. He has chosen to believe something different. My views on religion are as robust as your not-views on religion. We all make a choice.

He is a little more subdued about his change of direction these days which means that we argue less. He is less "know it all" about how the world works and I talk less about things that are important to me which are not relevant to him. We will be friends until we die, I am sure.
I would happily pay more for a company that will refuse to do this. This will be a strong market opportunity, at least for this buyer.
I have one and it’s both a middle finger to the cable company and supporting the development of Starship.

Even without Starlink, you could have convinced me to donate $100 a month . The fact that my donation comes with a pretty amazing piece of tech is a bonus.
It's hilarious. Freedom/privacy-loving Americans voluntarily give it up for minor gains in comfort.
Pathologically Boring Men (and Girlbosses)
My brother won some kind of contest from Mattel in the 70's and got a GIANT 8' stocking full of Mattel products. It contained the Spinwelder, which was incredible.

It also included the Vertibird helicopter (mentioned in another thread), Big Jim Ski Jump and also the Big Jim sky commander play set, SSP smash up derby, a couple of barbie things that went to my sister and a bunch of other stuff I forget.

It was the most awesome Christmas imaginable for an 8 year old and a 10 year old.
The pictures are pretty but surely a bunch of metallic squiggles doesn't make a sensor....... right?
endeavor to create somthing beyond your mortality, something that persists in peoples minds and exists in reality, something that proves you were more than just a story.
Ask HN: Do you work multiple jobs remotely?
On and off, I've been working multiple remote full-time jobs, both as a contract and "hired" employee, for several years.

I saw some TikTok where the guy said he takes two-hour lunches and does his eight hours of work in 30 minutes. This makes me feel as though this is more common than I thought.

What says HN? Ethical? Unethical?
It's a reference to HHGTG (the radio show, specifically) when they found the true ruler of the universe.
I tried Joplin but the Android client was so bad to put me off using it to take notes at all.

And I mean, Obsidian on Andorid is basically the desktop app taken out of electron and put into the web view as is, so I don't have high requirements here.

But Obsidian crossed the threshold and Joplin did not.
Nice try, tax man
Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
I agree in regards to people abusing selectors, but I see that kind of code even without nesting. People don't understand (and IMO don't bother to learn) CSS specificity. Then they wonder why their CSS falls over.
> The demand for 6 core over 8 core is simply because the 6 core costs less than the 8 core. If the 8 core cost the same as the 6 core, you'd buy the 8.

I don't really understand your comment in the context of our discussion-- we're talking about price discrimination. The whole point is that you have different prices for different segments to match demand. So, yes, of course.

Initially, you set the 6 core price and 8 core prices to match actual production yields.

Later, as your yields improve, you use the different SKUs for price discrimination, which captures some of consumer surplus (ewww) and eliminates deadweight losses (yay).
The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
Redlettermedia perfectly demonstrated how politics in modern media is often done so poorly in their Picard reviews. Compared to old Star Trek, which frequently explored current-day political themes that were subtle and cleverly told through stories where you learn they are bad via their actions and consequences (aka allegories).

https://youtu.be/aQ2TQ_GRO4g?t=1528

But whenever they came up in Picard it's always pointing at something and saying this BAD. Or that GOOD.

It no longer assumes the reader/viewer is smart enough to make connections and draw their own conculsions. It has to be explicit to the point of bashing it over your head.
Only residences really have rent control. Noisebridge has been forced out multiple times and had to move. But usually they end up moving to a better/larger space.
I knew very little about him sadly, the wikipedia page is fascinating.
Phones without a SIM can also always call 911. Funnily enough Google Maps and Waze works without Google Play services. Just click past the modal that shows up very rarely complaining about it.
Maybe was not an issue but a requirements. Many DSLR have live video preview and recording functionality limited in time because of EUROPE duty classification.
If the DSLR can do video without time limitations is considered a Camcorder, and so an higher import tax can be applied.
Spotify stops making Car Thing 5 months after general launch
Many Islamic countries do in fact use the Gregorian calendar for Civic purposes, at the very least Egypt does which I can confirm by virtue of living here.
> "move stuff around and complexity will magically go away" fallacy

This is a great description of microservices
>If you

I am a physicist with a 2009 Prius and a shitty apartment in an old house in Providence. I've been advocating for better policy for more than a decade. You've got the wrong guy.

The problem is that you don't understand that politics is mostly about the choices of people who are not like you, and your puffed-up bourgeois elitism doesn't help anyone.
There's no way it's 5%, but Gmail addresses are a pretty poor indicator to use. Hosting your own email is one of the most difficult sysadmin tasks out there because keeping your server off the blocklists is not trivial; it's becoming more and more common for blocklists to just block entire CIDR ranges if a single IP in it gets blocked. I don't fault anyone for not going down that rabbit hole.

Granted, they could be using Proton or some other alternative. But you still have the same inherent problem that someone else hosts/owns your email data.
And it gets stranger. I looked into it more and found design goals stating that Matrix was originally designed as a way to link existing messaging systems like XMPP and Slack together. Yet, people remember it as its own thing, and that thing is a subset of what XMPP already offers.

When I looked into what it would take do commercial home servers, I found immature implementations that fall over while ejabberd has been battle tested on 2 million concurrent users on a single instance.

Best I can tell is that Matrix has better marketing. While Google is scaling back in XMPP for gtalk because of spam and lack of participation from other companies, Matrix is seizing mindshare as being newer and “better” and shinier. (And if they get big enough, it will also suffer from spam …)
Specifically, because firearms are one of the highest value-for-portability, easy to move items burglars can steal, and America's gun culture is such that gun owners tend to have multiple guns, not take them all with them when they leave the home, and very often not have them effectively secured.
I've been using a library to knit Rmarkdown files to OneNote API compatible HTML (https://github.com/CopenhagenCenterForGlycomics/knoter), which lets me output PDF figures (that I can download to go into Illustrator for the publication process), Excel files (which are great for validation and supplemental tables especially with wet lab scientists), and ad-hoc annotation on the document in one package (highlight text, scribble notes etc).

It would be awesome if there was a little bit more support for adding collapsible sections, and code blocks into OneNote pages so that I can look at everything in one spot.
I second your recommendation for The Book book, it’s a beautifully produced hardback, extremely well written and researched.
Need to panic? No. Can choose to panic? Of course.

We choose to ignore risks all the time. We also choose to panic about stuff all the time. You're in control of what goes into what pile.
Do Amazon and Google sell data to 3rd parties? I always figured they wouldn't because it's literally the core of their value.
It reminds me of a story that made the news[0] some years ago.

The local police received complaints that a dog was being mistreated, chained on the same spot for days.

Arriving at the scene they found out that an elderly couple were using a Rottweiler statue for keeping burglars away from their house.

OP's fake dog is a great improvement over that one!

[0] https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2019/05/09/pm-e...
That wasn't the argument that was being made. Do you have commentary on the content of the article, or just that you don't like that he had a non-party line opinion?
You don't medium dot com either.
There are crazier theories out there.

> There is only one reality per person. It is set up by the soul specifically to obtain experiences from. We do not share our reality with anyone. It only looks that way.

> To facilitate educational growth, Souls create “Realities”. Realities are a classroom that Souls can grow through a surrogate “human”

> Soul places an “interface” within the constructed “reality”. This is known as “consciousness”.

> The universal template consists of every single human, and every possible action that they were involved in, from the earliest dates to the end of humanity. The soul selects individual realities out of this universal template.

> Once the experiences, and the lessons, are finished the consciousness leaves the physical reality. It returns home to soul.

> There are a (near) infinite number of world-lines that a consciousness (person) can experience.

> Consciousness can migrate from one reality to another reality. This is commonly known as world-line travel. As such, these changes help to bring about desired experiences and lessons

... and so on

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-...
I wonder if the same writer responsible for "who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?" lyric in the Stonecutters song came up with that too, given the Wikipedia article mentioning Guttenberg was in a "no soap radio" sketch show in the early 80s. Probably a coincidence though.
As others have mentioned, solutions like Cognito and Auth0 are primarily focused on providing authentication (authn) and stop at basic RBAC when it comes to authorization (authz). Many companies quickly outgrow RBAC or need more powerful authz models (fine grained, attribute based, etc.) to serve their business needs.

Warrant focuses on the authz piece, supporting RBAC (like Cognito & Auth0), but more importantly, allowing companies to define & enforce their own authz model.
I've been doing something very similar, but based on extendible hashing algorithms and LSM trees. I've come to the conclusion that a DAG of constraints, triggers and validations on a flat KV + entity model is probably the ideal data structure for 99% of projects I've worked on. You can get the benefits of the Datomic-like history by... skipping compaction and including a TX instant next to all record/assertions. I've found SQLite, Postgres, the LSM papers, Bitcask, and many other papers to be very helpful in terms of inspiration.

Edit: I'm prototyping in Python and implementing in Rust with intent to create a C API and embedding a Scheme runtime for "server"-side query and constraint parsing.
Did we know that 70 years ago? I’m talking about history, not today.
My favorite Far Side cartoon depicting a small (but smart) dachsund:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/66/1b/67661bbc78344ddcbd32...

or

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=far+side+cartoon+usual+barking+fre...
I've always viewed "purpose" as a very personal thing that I get to determine. My purpose has changed throughout my life and probably at quarter centuries (and not just mid-life).

I think the point of this exercise is to reevaluate your purpose to make sure you're investing your time, energy and resources into something that's still important to you. It's very easy to get caught up in an outdated purpose or, worse, someone else's purpose for your life.
The World’s First Undersea Roundabout
A close family member works in law enforcement, I have seen the form. Though for facebook not google. They could have changed it or google's could be different but I have no particular reason to think it's materially different. It's up to the cop to decide what constitutes an emergency and there is no verification or consequences beyond that. It's literally a checkbox.
The point I think that death is just like losing conciseness completely and being just totally gone, and you just had that experience. The only difference is that with death you never come back.
>Camera software is an area that is frustratingly closed off, and where manufacturers regularly differentiate new/more expensive cameras with firmware differences:[...]

Why is this frustrating? How is this different than anything else tech related that's in the business of making money?

Every company trims the features they give their customers access to depending on the amount they're willing to pay.

Camera companies aren't charities, they need to make money for their shareholders. All that sunk R&D has to be recouped.
Thank you! Now I want one.
I concluded that, with high probability, there is life after death. Simple:

1. Current life is clearly possible (cogito ergo sum etc).

2. When this one ends, statistically it's inevitable there will be another one. See e.g. Boltzmann brain [1].

The pickle is that the timespan between 1 and 2 could be very long. But since you're not aware of it that doesn't matter. Also, the other pickle is you won't remember it, and that one really burns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Microservices are very much not a fad, and they aren't even that new of a concept. They have just gotten more attention recently, and have probably been over-adopted a little bit.

In the right circumstances, a microservices architecture can absolutely boost developer velocity. You can reduce development/mental model complexity, reduce blocking internal dependencies, increase performance of tooling and deployment, and allow more consistent and less risky deployments. There are certainly costs: infrastructural complexity, a new network boundary between services, increased risk of techincal/product drift.

For orgs where the benefits outweigh the costs, due to scale/org structure/perf concerns/etc it can be an enormous win for velocity. For other orgs it can be a huge velocity killer. It just depends.
My experience has been that it's the big crufty old school enterprise companies that insist on specialists. They obsess over your resume having certain keywords or "N years of X". The Silicon Valley tech companies mostly don't seem to care about this.

Actually, the SV tech companies do want a particular kind of specialist - Leetcode Masters.

As long as you can regurgitate algorithms while putting on a show as if you discovered the solution serendipitously at the whiteboard, you're golden regardless of whether you have 20 years of experience in Rust or whether your previous job was serving tables as a waiter.

In fact, going along with the theme of this original article, some tech companies have a pipeline for "nontraditional applicants", so I feel in some sense, it can actually be advantageous to be a former waiter whose spent time mastering leetcode vs. an industry veteran with many years of experience at the "wrong companies".
SQLite is not good at OLTP workloads. If that is what you are doing then SQLite runs out of steam pretty quickly.
None of the fines were for data falsification. Now we know not to trust albatross13.
Really? I'm not aware of any except exports of the browser stack like Electron.
How are near-death experiences proof of anything else than brain activity when in a critical state but not yet dead?

IMO it's like saying "exception handlers are proof that Unix processes can't be terminated."
My understanding is under US law, any data you allow a 3rd party to "see" (aka "host") is considered public and they don't need a warrant

Police don't need a warrant to get into your gmail or icloud or whatever else you host with 3rd parties
"Animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been documented around the world. Most of these animals became infected after contact with people with COVID-19, including owners, caretakers, or others who were in close contact. We don’t yet know all of the animals that can get infected. Animals reported infected worldwide include ..."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_can_get_S... - long list of refs
> The use of "these days" here makes me think that you consider comic books with a political message (or Message, as you spell it) are a new phenomenon. That's deeply ahistorical; the first superheroes - among them Superman, Wonder Woman, and Captain America - were created in the 1930s with pretty clear political agendas.

I think what might be different "these days" is the level of polarization, or at least how gaping and in-the-open it is. Perhaps back then the agenda wasn't as grating because it better reflected some consensus?
1984 and Brave New World weren't exclusive. We can have both at the same time.
Whether you care what I think is your problem, not mine.
2) Plenty of other boats, why bother killing a dog and make lots of noise?

Exactly. A lot of people seem to forget that a gun discharging is even louder than a dog, so a would-be amateur pirate would be solving a small problem by creating a much bigger one.
> The real question is--how did the virus get to the live market?

The chances are we'll never know, it may have spread through here (despite no real action to stop this form of trading from any of the wonderlfully eclectic groups still engaged in it).

> While there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events,

Also, we're not brave enough to say read the evidence it came from here. We're only brave enough to say it's the 'epicenter' of an early outbreak to keep from annoying those who don't co-operate anyway.
Beards of similar length and greyness to mine might remember this was
a project, probably from the brow of R. A Penfold posted in a monthly
electronics magazine. Damnit, I can still recall a schematic: ORP12
and LED + lens broken beam detector, 555 timer as clock, 74590 binary
counter, an EEPROM, 8 bit DAC and push-pull power amplifier based on
TIP30/31 transistors. IIRC the crazy part was you needed to build an
EEPROM programmer as step one, and hand program the sound sample using
a BBC micro parallel port. Digitised dog barks were available by
floppy disk in the mail.
I would categorize such a situation as a lab leak, too. Either way, we will never be able to confirm the truth.
Exactly. Nothing makes being pretentious look bad, like being wrong.