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Show HN: A No-Code UI for Managing Google-Zanzibar Style ReBAC
Hello HN !

There’s been a lot of discussions [1,2] on how to build ReBAC [3] with Zanzibar and policy-as-code engines, but we (Permit) also think it’s important to talk about the interfaces on top of these implementations. We just launched a No-Code ReBAC interface - would love to know what you think. besides marrying the benefits of Policy as Code and Policy as Graph, the idea here is to create simple enough interfaces that everyone can use, so developers can set the stage and delegate the rest to others. We used Role-derivation as a concept to simplify a lot of the mechanics what should we simplify next (ownership? Groups?)
Check out the main page for ReBAC [0] our docs and this healthcare demo-app [4] as well

[0] - https://www.permit.io/rebac
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37165713
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36504609
[3] - https://www.permit.io/blog/what-is-rebac
[4] - https://github.com/permitio/Galactic-Health-Corporation
can't you just install the enterprise version or whatever it's called. The real 'Pro'
Micromanagement, it's the only way to safely scale agile and ensure you're getting maximum resource utilization.
Of course. This is all common sense and I'd wager that most people feel this way.

That's why I'm surprised that the government provides subsidized insurance for folks in extremely flood-prone areas.
The other way to phrase it is that we need to make the price of a good or service more accurately reflect the negative externalities.
You could tax electricity at vehicle charging points, and require separate metering for home chargers.
+1 and it's very hard for Grandma's iPad to accrue malware, which is a welcome change.
> It does in this case. If you do not follow McDonald's instructions and/or contract, they will terminate your franchise.

Contracts cannot remove all rights. For example, they can't force you to place yourself in harms way, or to harm others.
> people should decide for themselves what they need.

People's choices affect others. Heavy vehicles wears more on tires and road surfaces, adding particles to the environment which cause thousands of deaths each year.
Researching a bit more, it seems that Lutris can download and perhaps run these games, but it doesn't offer other integrations. It's not clear to me whether it downloads updates automatically for them, but it certainly doesn't handle things like cloud saves (I game from multiple systems) or achievements.
Meh, I'm still not convinced.

I mean, I suppose I get possibly being creeped out that Google knows you prefer Pepsi over Coke and that you recently purchased an adult toy or whatever, but...meh? So they'll use that data to sell me targeted ads that I'm just going to block anyways.

I just don't see how it's actually harmful beyond the government access issue that's just dropped in as a single sentence at the end of one paragraph.

> A relatively recent example is PayPal blocking individuals from transacting or fining them for having the wrong politics.

Any time someone cries about being cancelled for having the wrong politics, I always think of this famous tweet:

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones
In most countries, cars are required to get an annual inspection which includes the odometer readings. It would be quite easy to also tax based on that, but it would have to be retrospective.

Taxing by mass seems much simpler.
Or speed laws based on mass.
To add to this, the Missouri yearly tax is already higher than gas taxes for most vehicles, and it's legislated to go up 20% a year every year until 2026. Taxes high enough that the economic gains for electric are basically zero.
ut yoir rail is not electric, even thoigh its the first mode of transport we electrofied over 100 years ago
On the contrary, look at Stuxnet: Infected well upwards of 200,000 computers, but only had any real adverse affect on 1: a Siemens Industrial controller controlling Iran's nuclear centrifuges. That's the kind of precision strike that would historically required covert operatives at immense risk.
I thought of making an exact app like this so I was kind of excited and then I noticed there was no Android support, typical.
> This is done for commercial, not legal reasons; if the companies didn't want to advertise their games, they wouldn't have to abide by USK guidelines.

That's a ban by any reasonable standard. That's like saying that a requirement that churches be built on the moon wasn't banning churches, or a requirement that Jews who own businesses pay a 95% tax isn't a ban on Jews owning businesses. In some technical sense it's not a complete ban, but if the government says that if you do X, you face so many restrictions that you'd go broke, that's defacto a ban. It's an excuse made by people who like to pretend that they're not getting their hands dirty by literally banning something, while banning it in practice.
Lol. That was also me. Check the username.

I think Kavanaugh's argument is pretty clear but that doesn't mean I am 100% bought in on it.
Rail isn't practical for some routes because the highways are maintained by the government but the tracks are maintained by the rail carriers.
It's not because of pump issues but more glucagon stability and secondarily whether bihormonal is clinically advantageous.

Tandem is working on a dual chambered pump.

https://diatribe.org/jdrf-and-tandem-diabetes-care-announce-...
Here you go, hope US government is reliable enough for you

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
You don't have to use the whole MoE model, for each token only 1/N of the model is used, where N is the number of experts. So it's compute utilisation scales slower than memory usage.
It took 5mins between people starting switching to EVs in somewhat-significant numbers and the attacks on EVs beginning.

"Zero engine emissions?... but muh brake dust! they're too heavy! battery fires! cobalt mines! fuck cars, even EVs!"

Yeah, it'd be nice to see more smaller lighter EVs particularly in urban areas, including bikes+scooters, maybe mini-cars like a modernized Sinclair C5 even. But the reality is that we need large vans and trucks to deliver goods and services, and great big heavy vehicles will always be a major hazard to small light ones, and it's near-impossible to segregate them in existing towns+cities due to lack of space.
I don't think enough people were aware of Microsoft pre-1981 for there to have been any kind of strong opinion. From the point in time where Microsoft was well known, I don't recall any period of time where "beloved" would be even remotely accurate.
And it's not clear if or how McD Corp profits from the exclusivity partnership.
I was able to select waterway and canals and, in California, I was able to see prominent ones like the California aqueduct that runs from Tracy to LA and smaller ones like the south Folsom canal that runs from Lake Natoma to the former nuclear power plant Rancho Seco.
If only that was true, but it's been regressing for 15 years:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+United+States+rail...
>even the lightest SUV here is doing something like 3.5x the damage compared to a Honda Civic

this is crazy to consider when you know that parents with three children in car seats cannot find a sedan that can hold three car seats, and wagons disappeared to be replaced by SUVs because of... EPA emissions standards.

So it could be argued that the emission standards are the cause of this extra wear, which is additionally ironic when you consider asphalt is an oil product
"Decoupling" refers specifically to economic disengagement with China, not Asia in general or the developing world.
Public transportation consumes taxes, it does not pay them.
Its done all the time, for all kinds of purposes, including car-first and bigger-is-better mentality. It didn't come out of blue.
Agreed. I honestly contemplated the Fairphone when my Samsung s7 finally died in April, but I ended up just getting the newest Samsung because it was smaller and most familiar to me. But oh how I miss the SD card slot.
Surely you must admit that parking space depends on factors other than the physical size of the vehicle? For example, consider a BMW...
Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
Something the article doesn't mention is that your data is not only used to target you with ads. It's also used to target you with propaganda or any political or social agenda a person, organization or state is willing to pay for. Adtech is the perfect weapon of information warfare, and it's been successfuly used to influence public opinion, and corrupt democratic processes (e.g. Cambridge Analytica).

Both ads and propaganda have the same objective, psychological manipulation, and the difference is that one wants to manipulate you into buying a product, and the other wants to manipulate you into buying into an idea. These are insidious objectives on both a personal, and societal level.

One more thing: once adtech has your personal data, it is sold in perpetuity on shady data broker markets, and any company with access to it can exploit it and get rich from it. As with anything on the internet, once it's out there, it exists forever, except you'll have no control over who it's sold to, under what terms, and, of course, you'll never see a cent of profit.

All adtech companies should be paying users to use their services. "Free" is not only not free, but it's extremely profitable for the company you give your data to.

The fact that most people either don't understand any of this, or don't care, is deeply troubling for the future of our civilization.
The software shipped this quarter affects the results next year, and potentially for the rest of the life of the software.

The middle managers definitely win more if they ship more.
It's obviously not required, but I do find it nice, especially for newer games that still receive regular patches. And of course, achievements are sometimes fun to have as well.
STM32 Blue Pill as an Hid USB Keyboard
I remember when working with Oracle 20 years ago the DBA liked to make sidecar tables to hold the big columns, so they were out of the way of most queries. It was awkward but I guess it was worth it. One time after starting to use Postgres I almost did the same thing, but then I realized the database was already doing it for me. TOAST really is the greatest thing since sliced bread!

If you made it to the end of the article, you saw the author recommends to consider making these sidecar tables by hand if you have medium-size texts. I think I would try very hard to tune TOAST before going that far. Also note that changing the table storage parameters doesn't automatically re-write the existing data. You need to re-store the data to make that happen. I believe `UPDATE t SET foo = foo` would do it, but I haven't tested.

The 8kB page size also matters when you use Postgres as a vector database, e.g. with pgvector. Jonathan Katz gave a great lightning talk about this a few months ago at PGCon. Vectors these days can have a lot of parameters, so they are big. But since the whole point is to query against the vector, you don't really want it TOASTed. I believe he has been working on some tricks to solve that problem.
Unfortunately independent trucking companies are already stretched pretty thin, while we all benefit from these transportation infrastructures. perhaps a flat tax is just a way to distribute the burden. Ff course this is not the case for large logistic companies with massive distribution networks who regularly commit gas tax fraud.
In the EU the excise tax on petrol is minimum €0.36 per liter!

That gives 200 USD -> 183 € -> 508 liter -> 134 gallon.

My fairly outdated small but somewhat sporty car with high consumption (9l/100km rounded up) would go 5600 kms from that. Here EVs have to pay no excise and no parking fees and no yearly engine-power based taxes for their cars, while ICEs must, based on age, environmental category and engine power...

Compared to that you still pay some taxes, still that amount is negligible to the taxes some pay for ordinary ICE cars.
Yeah, I was being a bit hyperbolic (and metric) and the a PHEV is only about 15% difference in curb-weight between comparable full-EVs, but that's not nothing.
There isn't a single comment I've seen you make in this thread which even vaguely qualifies as being in good faith.
Notably, you've chosen 3 luxury ICE models, and luxury cars are another heavier-than-average group.
Yep. J-walking laws were completely promoted by car manufacturers since pedestrians got in the way of drivers. Basically pushing everything that was not a car off of the roads.
While the post doesn't address it, ask yourself: What if you do have something to hide? What if your government was like China's or Russia's? If you let privacy vanish now, you'll be helpless when you need it. Data is power:

How pre-teens using metadata found a whistleblower in two hours - https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-team-of-pre...

Trust your instincts, you have them for a reason. If it was private investigators and spies following you around to gather what Google/credit cards/mobile networks know about you, you would immediately recognize it as malicious and dangerous. That it has now been automated doesn't change that.
I kind of get it. It's very much "I need to make a word limit" jargon, but they are basically talking about how social media has become a primary news source for many of the youth. This generation doesn't read Reuters/AP or watch any mainstream news network, they get updates from their facebook wall or they see the news on Reddit. If they are curious about some news piece they will search within the website about posts made, not a general google taking you to professional media.

I didn't know Tiktok could do this, but I guess life finds a way.
Can we get more of this please?

It’s like people will not be satisfied until we eliminate cars and all other modern inventions.
USAF KC-135 crew records St Elmo’s fire during hurricane evacuation
It's out of this world, one might say.
As an aside, can you explain to me why Cloud9 has never worked correctly in Safari? The cursor positioning in text has been messed up for as long as I can remember. AWS has never fixed it, despite having owned it for over a decade.

I worked at AWS from 2010 to 2014 after also getting acqui-hired (AWS SDK for PHP, fka CloudFusion).
My assumption is that the DIY Pancreas community is well-informed, technically capable, and highly motivated.

My guess is it hasn't done what you suggest for practical reasons related to supply chain, intended user base, and practical engineering considerations appropriate for high reliability mechanical design for medical use.

For example, the insulin delivery system has many points of failure. Any fault or failure is likely to have severe health impacts on the user. To a first approximation, doubling the number of pumps doubles the points of failure.

But I could be wrong.
At that point you might as well have the car just tally how many miles it drove in each state and submit it every year with your registration renewal.
This feels a bit like giving your name as "Prawo Jazdy":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....
“AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”
> It is very well optimized and efficient, but you're not going to order something with standard UPS or Fedex style shipping and see it delivered by rail

My package from China has arrived by rail, it took about 3 whleeks, and Aliexpress tracking showed it going through kazahstan and Russia
It's not 10x but GraalPy can speed up unmodified Python by 3.4x on average:

https://www.graalvm.org/python/

And they've not been going at it that long. A few years at most.
“Maintained road system” is a joke in California, yet we pay some of the highest taxes in the world.
That’s exactly it. It’s not that hard to store files on x number of cloud services.

It’s very hard to convince the money people that we should double our cloud storage bills in case all of AWS goes down.
Heavier vehicles use more fuel. A semi truck gets single-digit MPG.
OpenAI Passes $1B Revenue Pace
I feel like there are two Microsofts. There are parts that make some honestly good software. And then there are parts touched by Bing and MSN, and they're some of the most hideous, dark patterny piles of user hostile garbage. Win11 search, widgets. Edge. Now Skype. They just ruin things that might otherwise even be great. Edge has a bunch of good ideas going on the UI but it hates user choice so much it just feels bad to use.
I much prefer Kanban. No unnecessary time spent coming up with story points that will be inaccurate anyways and don't even provide much benefit.
Ofir Press is the creator of AliBi attention and Self-Ask prompting. Here are the papers that are discussed in the podcast:
AliBi Attention: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409
Self-Ask Prompting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03350
In the last paragraph: "One last thing I might consider doing at some point would be to try to overwrite the EDID on the monitor itself."
I don't do any AI work, and I just got an Intel GPU. It just worked. I have not installed anything extra, nor have I had to configure anything. It has worked flawlessly.
Switzerland has it too, each canton sets its own rules but those I lived & driven in had equation for car tax that would take into account horse power and weight of car. It would cut to 50% if CO2 emissions were below certain threshold. Seems fair.
Carbon tax is THE solution when you have a great job and disposable income. It's easy, doesn't require you to change, and most importantly it gives the government more money to spend.

I don't believe most people appreciate the changes we (99.999%[1]) need to be committing to, indefinitely, to actually do something to reverse our impact on the planet.

Carbon tax isn't a solution. Feel free to come up to Canada and see how well it's working.

Our iceberg lettuce is up to 7$/ea except for the 10% we get from California. The other ~90% is from predominantly Ontario green houses, all of which are being hammered by the Federal carbon taxes(Provincial are already carved out).

[1] made up

On the topic of vehicle weight based taxes, I strongly agree. Family size to passenger count(sum of all family owned vehicles of all kinds) being another good one to target.
There is a very bright-line difference in the case of the civil rights-related curbs on private property privilege: Those actually were effective in solving the problem! Because the solution to the problem was very clear: everybody should be able to ride the bus, eat in a restaurant, etc.

The contrast with regulating the media companies couldn't be greater. What, exactly, should these regulations be? I haven't heard anything but the most vague notions--which are so undercooked that they do not rise to the level of any kind of concrete proposal.

In point of fact, no matter what regulations are adopted, there will be media winners and media losers, and the losers will always feel the system is against them. Our media will become even more hyper-politicized than it is now, because its fate would be determined by politicians who can't even agree that it's probably a good idea to pay our debt.
One CTO's quest to never type “the” again
It doesn't really have much to do with the mining. The embodied carbon of the battery comes mostly from the fact that it has to be baked to dehydrate the materials. Carbon, because there is not enough renewable energy in the places where these batteries are made. As time goes on the carbon embodiment will decrease.

The overwhelming problem with giant electric SUVs is the opportunity cost. Given limited capacity for battery making, and considering that we are using the last bit of our emissions budget to make them, it is obviously better to make them as small as possible. Slapping a 180kWh battery pack in a Rivian is ridiculous. With the same materials you could make 500 electric bicycles.
This is a blog post by one Clojure company, interviewing another Clojure company, with a tech stack focus. It’s not unusual within any language stack to have these kinds of blog posts - they’re obviously by and for people who find the technology interesting.

I don’t get your point. Is this somehow not appropriate behavior amongst civilized society?

Your remark comes across as not a little bit ignorant. Maybe you should just learn that if you “don’t give a shit”, you also don’t have to engage, and let the author write whatever they want.
Easier sell than a relatively useless mobile-first HMD with so many tradeoffs between power, computing, and form factor it's not even funny. Much easier sell to wear glasses at a desk than a bulky headset into the world. With a tethered solution, power and computing does not have to be strapped to your head, mostly just optics.

Companies are so busy trying to turn AR into the next smartphone that they forget the display came first.
> a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most of the failings we see in representative democracy

Currently I would suggest that most of the failings in, e.g., US democracy are coming from the Republican party and I'm pretty sure most of them will have passed a test of basic civics, etc., yet are demonstrably bad at governance.
I feel like a lot of the issue is because the new operating systems are a lot more power intensive and Google play services is always doing so much in the background, you need a super heavy battery just to get an all day battery life whereas older phones could get the same battery life with a lighter/smaller battery and less OS bloat.
I have the same setup and experience, but there's still two things that annoy me.

The setting up your device prompts where you have to skip their attempts to upsell an office 365 subscription, change the default browser, link your phone, etc, which run before you can login after every biannual feature update.

That bing/store search results appear before more relevant installed programs or files when searching the start menu. I like having them sometimes, just not the way they're ranked, and the lag which causes me to select them when it gets inserted before what I was just about to click.
Correct; next up, I imagine the compiler and linker working together with annotated code, where you don't deprecate old versions of functions until no more of the your clients are in that callstack.

I believe Erlang has some tricks like this?

In my head, I call them Versioned Method Tables. A function signature, and a table of pointers that implement that function, as of different versions of your compiled code...
Show HN: Restate – Build reliable back ends using state machines
Yeah she's being diplomatic for sure. Dexcom plays ball and is also the most successful of the CGMs, so you would think that others would follow their lead and write their data to apple health. Most companies keep their data thinking its going lead to some unspecified profits down the line but then never really do anything with it.
Population.io
Sure, in the sense that O(n) is the same as O(n^4)
> The United States was told last year that Saudi security forces were shooting, shelling and abusing groups of migrants, but it chose not to raise the issue publicly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-ki...
> They should pay the most tax that goes to road maintenance.

They already do.
Equally, you could try not being offensive.
I've yet to read the technical explanation but how is not adding a salt or nonce to the hash a good idea? It doesn't seem very hard to iterate through all possible credit hard numbers and hash them all. I'm sure I'm missing something.
I'm surprised Mullvad works in China. Do you have to use obfuscation software (shadowsocks, etc)? The GFW blocks WireGuard, right?