skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the congrats and the good question.
First of all building on your own, is a valid option- each application is a snowflake you should find what's best for you.
That said, just like with cryptography, and authentication, it can be risky to roll your own.
If you decide to roll on your own with OPA - I'd also recommend sticking to best practices [Gitops is just one] (checkout this talk I gave on OWASP- https://youtu.be/1_Iz0tRQCH4) , and also finding a solution for managing the authorization layer (e.g. https://opal.ac)

To this point specifically- "Do you offer a way of auditing and tracking who made changes to permissions" - Yes, check out Permit's audit-log interface

In general on top of the interfaces you get with OSS like OPA and OPAL, there are a lot more interfaces to build (e.g. audit logs, user mgmt, policy editing, approval flows, etc.) and none of them are unique to any application.
I'm still skeptical that it is The Next Big Thing.

I wonder if Zuckerberg suspects it might not be as well but, hey, Hail Mary!
Look how well the US government handled the small business loans during covid. It wasn't the small businesses really getting them.
My wife took his organic chemistry course at Princeton 20 years ago, and says he was an excellent teacher. Obviously many things can change in two decades, so take from that what you will.
I did this once, was pretty easy. The backlight color had turned completely blue. The strips can be bought as spare parts and swapped easily without any soldering. The hard part is finding out the parts number of the LED strip for the particular TV.
Are most development environments high performance / high computer utilization environments?

I was under the impression they were not.

I couldn't tell you if I was on a laptop or desktop when I'm docked ...
This sounds so much like a GPT-3 response....
It was "mandatory", but still had only an 85% compliance rate. I would bet that almost none of the most academically inclined students were in that 15%.
Gitlab and github are built around merge-requests and gerrit around rebasing/amending. I strongly prefer gitlab/github workflows.
It could all be dual use. There is no need for any of it not to be.

If you have some ground you are not using for anything else, and is convenient to a grid tie-in, it is harmless to just put solar on that. I can't see that as using up land.
Not a lawyer or involved in the legal system, but is this a situation where you can respond with your rates for providing this expert witness service? If so, this may be a situation where you can charge them $500/hr plus costs (eg atty) for the service of extracting, redacting and summarizing some of the information they've requested.

Edit: your attorney may have a better idea of what rates for this might be, but I'd suggest looking into what it costs to have a known and respected third party physician do chart review and testify in court in malpractice cases, then consider what they'd charge if they were also expected to anonymize and show information from their own practice and patient charts.
Ultimately though resource scarcity and more importantly scarcity mentality is still here.
What part of it do you think is intrinsically expensive? The steel? The concrete? The magnets?
I'd imagine "Autonomous Bus that runs the same limited route every day" is a far lower bar to clear than "Fully Self-Autonomous Car" and would make a huge amount of public transit feasible in areas where it currently isn't.
I wrote a new page describing how to write quines recently[1], but the quine-relay is really above and beyond

1: https://github.com/kirjavascript/quine-howto
So, the only person in the world this will piss off, is Richard Stallman. Got it.
The question is whether it's biological (I doubt it) or cultural.
> Open a map, and count how many countries with US military base

Having a military base in a country isn’t annexing it. Countries hosting US military bases continue to run their own external and internal affairs.

Had the US annexed Saudi Arabia rather than merely having bases there, they wouldn’t be acting with Russia against US interests on oil.
> score, is very much a reflection of your parents' willingness to push you academically.

Test prep has diminishing marginal returns.

On the flip side that means just 1 hour of prep makes a big impact.

This is what research has found and why a lot of focus is on getting kids to do any studying for anything at all.

Many kids do zero homework and zero studying. Getting them to 1 is the hardest part.

This is the biggest actionable problem for these exams. It doesn’t require race or culture or whatever at all. The research says it requires specialized instruction during school - something to achieve focused studying, as opposed to merely watching the clock go down. Difficult for the hardest students but on average, in aggregates, performs well.

My point is that there are a lot of Asian students at Harvard who did 10 hours of test prep for the SAT. They didn’t go to cram school. There are also students who DID go to cram school. I myself studied about 10 hours for the SAT.

You don’t need cram school to improve test scores. You need some studying instead of none at all.
I think I'm mostly surprised to see how many of the "White" scores are so low, and so far behind "Asians," after years of hearing that the test is biased towards white / Anglo / native-English speakers raised in Western culture.

I'm also reminded that I (like probably most people commenting on Hacker News) exist in a really small bubble in which everyone I closely associate with was in the top two bands (after going off to college, being recruited from those colleges for careers, and ending up in the same neighborhoods...).
Not sure about this case in particular, but I have a firm belief that a class should be in a certain aspect fair. Although that is subjective, I mean the class shouldn't be unreasonable.

To give an example, I had an engineering class on electrical machinery. On one test, not a single person made an A. In fact, the highest grade was a "C" obtained by the class genius. I studied hard for the exam, attended all lectures, did all homework assignments, and got a ~45 on the exam out of 100 points. At that point, you have nothing like a bell curve. The teacher has failed to either teach or formulate a test that meets reasonable expectations. Something is broken. I don't think everyone should've gotten an "A", but failing an entire class of students that are not even remotely lazy (nearly all over achievers) is stupid.
Vaccine cards aren't authenticated or secured in any way. They are literally just little cards with text ...
I have a background in formal methods and PLs, and never used it. I understand the supposed benefits but IME they never got used.

Clearly you have used it, so I'll take time looking over your stuff (though I don't know lean).

I appreciate you taking the time to write a comprehensive answer, as I said, I'll try to do it justice!
In 1990 I did something similar with a Commodore 64. Mine wasn't as slick and well done as this one, but it had a C-64, two floppy drives, internal modem, RAM expansion, and three cartridge ports selectable via push button, in a case intended for an IBM clone. I was never able to find a good case for the keyboard, so I ended up putting it in a cardboard cookie box until I could find something better.

After that experience, I got into the world of build-your-own IBM clones, and I don't remember what ever happened to the 64. Kinda sad.
Nuclear waste storage is solved. And for the last generation (4th) of nuclear power plants, the waste gets back to natural level of radioactivity in only 1,000 years. We have in France bridges that are older than that.

Running a nuclear power plant is very cheap. Building it is expensive and requires lots of capital upfront. The cost of nuclear is mostly interest. That is why it is a bit more expensive in UK (private capital) vs France (state capital).

How "the overall calculation is far more in favor of renewable forms of energy." ? In order to build enough solar or wind, plus batteries to replace all the nuclear production, we will have to extract a lot of resources (rare earth, lithium, etc.) pour a lot of concrete (for wind) which creates a lot of CO2, make lots of iron (energy hungry and producing lots of CO2). And all the waste involved, and they also have a lifespan, and needs to be replaced over time.

Not saying that we should not use solar/wind. But I am not convinced that it is the silver bullet and we can replace all the current and growing energy production with solely solar+ wind. It seems to me more reasonable to have a base line with nuclear, esp. if CO2 reduction and preparing for oil/gaz/coal peak are the goal.
I've heard a number of stories in the UK, U.S. and Australia where the University employs the professor for research and not teaching. The Professor hates teaching and treats it like an inconvenience. Then students are screwed over.
I think the subpoena is mostly for existing records and novel records of existing plans. IANAL, but I think if you were to create novel documents that were most certainly less than honest for the purpose of swaying the case, there could be legal consequences for you.

Courts aren't stupid - if it becomes apparent that you are attempting to maliciously comply, they can still get you based on your apparent intent.
YouTube really likes to show you things from your apparent recent interests. Look up a video about fixing a kitchen sink and they assume your new life passion is plumbing. If you ignore it for a while and watch what you want, the algorithm will figure it out. I don't know how much those manual indicators weigh in on the algorithm - I suspect click through and watch time are their main indicators.
The way to get better behavior is to point out bad behavior wherever you see it, not shrug and treat it like a broken stair.
I see, I didn't realize the graph of progressive / regressive changed as your scrolled the page.

Actually, looking at the data further, you can't really draw a conclusion about whether or not the funding is regressive or progressive. The local funding is definitely regressive, but you'd need to know how state and federal funds were distributed across schools to know if the end result was progressive or regressive. For instance, if federal funding was evenly distributed to every school, that would still be regressive.
They increase speed, which buys you time to work on harder problems. I bet a nonzero number of 2nd tier students could get a 1st tier score if given an extra 10 mins on each section.
> Your comment is ageist, nothing else.

False, this is your opinion, they were careful not to state what is, but what might be the case.
They are amazingly durable, but they can't handle a (now dead) chipmunk :(
This seems a bit wild and super anti-competitive, of course it's hard to say with only hearing from simulaVR's perspective.

The content of information they're required to handover also seems incredibly sensitive, wouldn't that basically give Meta more 'Market Research' simply by reviewing these documents ?

It does seem a little bit like the corporate version of a 'Slap suite' also given how financially restricted Simula seem.
I agree it isn't "race." However, there are groups of people who have similar characteristics where it might be beneficial to look at the group as a whole not just individuals. For example, it may be that a certain group of people, with a common background and in a particular geography have specific notions about whether they trust that education will work or that health care will be honest. It might help to look at those communities and have discussions about what can be done for them at large. I think it would be very difficult to only look at individuals. Obviously, we then get the problem of group labels and stereotypes being used for malicious purposes...
One would think they had that kind of stuff figured out much before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969323
There is no need for the executives at Meta to see these documents themselves to derive value from them. A lawyer seeing them and providing a verbal summary is more than good enough when deciding on strategy.
The article points to an idea I had not considered:

That the reason we see so many ancient pieces of gear and vehicles in Ukraine is not entirely due to shortages and the kleptocracy.

Rather that the various elements (Prigozhin, Kadyrov, army officers, etc) are intentionally holding back the good stuff for the eventual knife-fight for power after Vlad.

If true, then the collapse of the Russian Federation is much further along than I had realized. I would have thought that these consolidation moves would occur in the spring after the last gasp of Russian offensive power had been exhausted. That they may have been occurring this whole summer points that Vlad's doom may occur before the end of the year.
This data is certainly stark, but I don’t see how it follows from test scores in Michigan that China is going to do something or other regarding STEM. I guess the core assumption here is that Asian students in America are a proxy for Chinese students in China? As someone who works exclusively with Chinese high schoolers as a college application coach, I find this hard to believe. The thing that Asians very definitely do differently than other groups is parenting. Chinese parents in particular take their kids’ phones away at night. They helicopter over their homework until it’s done. Dating, parties, and many enrichment activities that are part of a “normal” high school experience are usually (not always—nothing is absolute!) off the table. This isn’t genetic, it’s cultural. And it becomes especially obvious once you separate out recent Asian immigrants from longer-term Asian Americans.

To zoom out a bit, I don’t think this post even asks the right question. Why does quantity of STEM major matter, as opposed to quality? The USA is home to the vast majority of leading universities, and no amount of PISA score dominance by Chinese children can change that. If anything, China should be worried about the continuous brain drain of their best, brightest, and most of all wealthiest to Canada and the USA. Not to take anything away from the hard work and ambition of those Chinese people who wish to stay in China, but I just don’t agree that this difference in test scores taken by public high school students is any sort of leading indicator of shifting geopolitical trends.
They don't distinguish between managed environments/multilingual platforms (JVM, .NET, wasm) and single pony shows. Which makes it harder to see how related Scala/Kotlin/Java are and how much they overlap ecosystem-wise.
He dismisses the fact that most cameras have flash storage inside and don’t need a network connection. Others can use Ethernet. He mentions wifi-enabled when it is wifi-required.
Yes there is a way, you put kids in test prep and see if they do better. They generally do not improve much.

The SAT is an IQ test, and IQ is mostly inherited from your parents.
There's also Gravwell (https://www.gravwell.io) that competes head-on with Splunk and doesn't punish you for storing/ indexing more data. I'm on their board and knew the founders before I joined so I'm a bit biased but it's basically what if you wrote Splunk from scratch using modern tech.
Hey, ploum, merci pour ces annees de plume et code francophone.

On my side, I definitly kept ubuntu because that was the only distro that ran on my hardware on first try.

I should not have implied that ubuntu would not have been launched, but rather that the story would have went very differently IMO.
Most of the video conferencing apps of choice have a version where they run something on the thin client to reduce latency (going from the thin client to Zoom or Teams or WebEx directly instead of through the VDI). They have support for the mics and stuff too.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sections/4404192199053-Virt...
Exactly. I've made this point before in this forum, but there's no reason at all to believe that the distribution of interests, values, and strengths between different ethnic and cultural groups should be identical. The classical liberal idea that "all men are created equal" is a beautiful one, and should not be perverted to mean that everyone is literally equal to each other in every respect.
Isn't that what they already did with this statement? Quoting last paragraph subtitle "We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta" is exactly that. Therefore the FTC can take that and prove FB is a monopoly, or whatever FTC end-game is.
Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its robots
> you’re also not being honest, if you conflate absentee with mail voting, where the stark difference is that one is requested in the other one is disseminated en mass.

Nothing about mail in voting is inherently unsolicited. I requested my mail in ballot.
People are really (really) misinterpreting this. The OP isn't being sued, they aren't being attacked as a competitor to Meta. (In fact the obvious guess here was that they're being asked to testify in this antitrust case to the fact that their product is successful!)

A subpoena is just a demand for testimony. The court wants to "know what you know" so it can make a better decision. Testimony before courts of law is part of your civic duty as an inhabitant of a nation under the rule of law. Yes, it has costs. You have to bear them for the same reason you need to pay your taxes, because a civilization without courts isn't one we want to live in.
This is true in some countries. You have to be a teacher in order to get/keep your job but you would rather be a researcher.
The climate economy is about to explode because politicians will be printing more money to give to unworthy corps? In essence also causing more inflation the opposite of what they are supposed to be doing?

>Late last month, analysts at the investment bank Credit Suisse published a research note about America’s new climate law that went nearly unnoticed.

The same credit suisse who is in collapse? https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-fall-...

The same credit suisse whose own stocks are >50% lower than 1 year ago. >80% lower than 5 years ago.

And you're taking advice from them?
I'll put on my elite conservative hat to answer your question.

Is concern for the consequences worth it to suppress the truth - being that some races are simply less intelligent than others (on average). If that is true, then there is no need to make any changes - each race has already assumed their proper place in our meritocratic society.

And taking off that hat, I agree with your thoughts and concerns. I will say that it's uncontroversial that there are IQ differences in race, but it's far from proven that those differences are purely genetic and can't be attributed to societal differences.
I saw a similar effect teaching at a coding school for adults: one of our strongest predictors for success was whether or not the student had someone close to them who was in tech. Having someone outside the system to practice lingo, talk about culture, or give an opinion on what topics matter makes a huge difference. I see no reason why grade school math would be different - I know my parents made a huge difference for me, not by "pushing", but by just being there to talk.
Every PR we have in GitHub is merged with a squash, so I'm kinda missing the value proposition here. Is it really crucial for each commit to be a nice clean unit of work?
GitHub uses it internally (using their Codespaces product, which also just lets you SSH directly into the VM it creates): https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move...
Well, I restarted my career in 2008 after staying at my second job for 9 years and becoming an “expert beginner” - I was doing VB6 (discontinued in 2001) and C++/MFC (Windows). After the struggle I had finding another job when I was ready to leave, I said never again. I completely concentrated on technologies that were marketable.

By 2016, I knew I didn’t want to be “just a developer”. I enjoyed working with customers, leading projects, mentoring and teaching. But I still wanted to stay hands on

I belatedly discovered “the cloud” and realized I wanted to specialize in true “Devops” bringing developers and operations together and working with companies to show their developers how to be “cloud native” (application modernization)

When $BigTech came calling about a pure software engineer position, I really wasn’t interested. I kept talking to the recruiter and she told me about a cloud consulting position where I would be able to be involved in the full life cycle from pre-sales, to delivering a finished product including infrastructure. I jumped at the chance.
Why would they disable paste-into? I can understand not allowing data egress but ingress? I don't understand the use case they're preventing against.
Jim Webb who was a Marine officer in Vietnam, a journalist, a novelist, and then a Democratic senator from Virginia saw standardized tests as his route to social mobility from a poor background in the rural south.
"Can I use Timescale to provide a SaaS service that collects application traces, and I provide a DSL to query the database that is not exposing the DB directly?"

Yes you can. (Timescale co-founder here)

The vast majority of people using TimescaleDB use our community/open-source software (rather than managed Cloud), and vast vast majority of those use the TSL (Community) edition, including many as part of their SaaS service.

It's a three-part test for asking "is this a value added service?" [0] Given the way your have described your service, sounds like a clear "Yes".

- Is your SaaS service primarily different than a database product/service? Yes.

- Is the main value of your SaaS service different than that of a time-series database, and you aren't primarily offering your SaaS service as a time-series database? Yes.

- Are users prevented from directly defining internal table structures through the database DDL? Presumably yes.

[0] https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses#section-3-10-value-...
> The SAT is an IQ test

In that case I weep for the future, because I’ve met plenty of dumbass people who managed to get a high enough SAT score to get in school.
It's disheartening and infuriating to see even after the last president is gone the racism against LatinX people still exists. Not just at the border. This is probably a good time to abolish racist standardized system.
> Rebase has become so integral to my workflow, it's hard to imagine living without it.

Same. I use it to reorganise branches before submitting change requests or merging:

- Combing or splitting commits so that each commit contains a small unit of a logical change

- Reordering commits to related changes are near each other

- Reordering commits so changes that are depended on by later commits occur earlier.

- Rewording commit descriptions to have a lengthy explanation, if needed

- Removing small commits that fix minor typos

It's a great way to turn the commit history of a project into one of logical changes, rather than a simple temporal log of every change.

(I had a colleague who was so used to CVS and couldn't get his head around not using version control as a time tracking device.)
Depending on the workflow and collaboration in branches in teams, amending may not be ideal. Amending changes to an existing commit will generate a new sha checksum, thus resulting in a diverging history if the branch is often pushed to the remote Git server. That's one of the rare cases where "git push --force" makes sense but also requires awareness for other collaborators on the branch - they need to run "git fetch && git reset --hard origin/branchname" every time, and best "git stash" to temporarily remove any local changes, with running "git stash pop" afterwards.

One reason to regularly push commits can be to trigger CI/CD, security scanning and dev/staging deployments or review apps.

GitLab team member here - before joining GitLab in 2020, I was a Git/GitLab trainer. https://www.netways.de/en/blog/2018/05/24/releasing-our-git-...