skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm (not) looking forward to the future data breach notifications / post-mortems that include something like "... our developers used a tool to copy the production database to a dev database on their laptop ..."

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised by the lack of comments advocating against doing this.
I wish this were made evident to the hoteliers with bar fridges kept in sealed cupboards...
Wayland fixed one problem, but there's no shortage of local privilege escalation bugs with which the calculator can still read the sudo password.
But regularly updating them also gives you the edge over established publishers who DON'T update them.

and its not too difficult to update books, as compared to updating videos.
Thank you very much! I'm nearly done with a backend rewrite, which I'm super excited about.

Just bookmarked your site for inspiration, I love how smooth it is to switch languages.
Many (Most?) ebooks on amazon require steady advertising to not drop into oblivion.

This makes it decidedly less passive.

Source: my authors group
You missed the 18F Github org [1], also from the GSA.

I wonder if there's a directory of government Github orgs somewhere?

[1] https://github.com/18F
>How can you be so emotional about tech?

For the same reason people get emotional whenever they see something they like being captured by hucksters. If you like woodworking would you not be mad if the workshop next door gets replaced by a Pachinko parlor?

"Maybe there's a middle ground" is the same kind of statement as "NFTs are awful, but the blockchain itself is brilliant!". Yet the crazy financial schemes keep proliferating and you still don't see blockchains anywhere else.
One of them is not your choice.
I write in GitHub flavored markdown (so that is readable on GitHub and I can reuse parts for my blog, etc). I use pandoc to generate pdf/epub versions [0] and mdbook to generate web version [1]

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
Is the lack of KYC a feature?
As long as it’s October, you’re in the clear.
And should be easily caught in code reviews and CI jobs?
Anyone that thinks renting houses is passive income has never done it.

Repairs, collections, advertising, evictions, etc.
It is not, but I didn't think ABET accreditation was a big thing for CS and was more common in engineering? CMU and Stanford, for example, do not have ABET-accredited CS programs, although MIT does.
Why is that useful to do?
So you want browser based, easy to use, a bunch of features, a modern UI, etc. etc. and it all has to be under $100 but preferably free, and every suggestion you answer has a minor niggle. It’s possible your expectations may be a little out of line with the largess of the developers whose products you are criticizing.

I dare say the Goldilocks approach may fail you here.
Governments are overthrown and reformed at scale "all the time". Perhaps about as often as often as corporations relative to their number and sizes.
Render.com is pretty great and they recently introduced free plans for Hobby usage.

Supports web services, static sites and Postgres/Redis.
> The web is only 30 years old, and it's moving so fast no one can tell what it'll be like more than a few years ahead.

I've been using the web for 20 of those years. The browsing experience is, structurally, mostly the same. We did online payments back then, there was chat, there was multimedia consumption, from back when it was a buzzword.

You're making a substantial confusion between new modes of consumption and uses cases versus the individual technologies that support them. Flash, VRML, Applets and other technologies we just the mediums there were back then, but fundamentally they're all just a method to consume rich content and to bypass feature limitations of browsers, many of which have been lifted by now.

Crypto can have a limitless number of various underlying technological substrates, but the fundamental idea is still about a decentralized financial instrument.

Regardless of the implementation details of said technology, it will always face the same issues the current financial system faces: regulatory controls, KYC, requirements for taxation, legal limitations in its uses for money laundering and hiding crimes, and a long list of etceteras. That has little to do with technology, and a lot to do with international legal frameworks, politics, lobbying, and a long list of etceteras where the dynamics are not really different from that of other industries.

None of those issue will, generally speaking, be solved by technology, because they are related to the way that human institutions work. And the products built upon that technological substrate are still limited by our known principles in how people consume digital tools.

The things about web3 is that none of the supporters fundamentally address the latter areas. I don't see compelling products where the technological substrate really "changes everything". I don't see the proponents address the very real institutional and social issues around it.

For the most part, I see the same misguided idealism I saw in the web of the past, where various proponents of libertarian ideological strains waxed poetic about how the freedoms brought by new technology will dramatically alter social dynamics. How we believed that immediate access to the world's knowledge would makes us wiser and help us progress towards peace and unity.

If anything, a deep study of the exponential advance of technological developments of the last century should shows that human nature is pretty impervious to change.
That explains why the entire market for depth content at a higher price has basically collapsed… what a shitty deal. Want to charge more than $10… that’s a pretty nice book you have there… shame if something happened to your royalties…”
> that a human body could theoretically spontaneously form out of particles given a long enough time span.

To be fair, isn't this precisely what happened?
> completely objective.

The really sad thing is that people have discovered that "completely objective" doesn't sell very well.

Taking an extreme view sells much better, but provides much less useful information.
A plugin for Adobe XD that generates tables from CSV files or dummy data
> It merely had a slightly lower maximum nose-up because of the increased engine thrust or something like that.

It wasn't the engine thrust. There were a bunch of subtle design changes because newer, fuel efficient engines are much larger than the style of engine when the 737 was first designed. Unlike the competing A320, the 737 didn't have the necessary clearance under the wing to fit the new engines.

They had to make a bunch of tweaks like moving the engine higher up, further forward, tweak the wings etc. to make it fit with the necessary ground clearance. These subtle differences added up so they added MCAS to make it handle closer to the original design.
Might be simple to add, but apparently a complete nightmare to actually support.

https://www.pcgamer.com/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-w...
Surely you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwML2PagbY
Thanks for the clarification! So they changed it 3 years ago. I will definitely consider it in future projects.

> But the code has always been open source, and you could always build from source for free for commercial use.

Back in the days there were some workaround projects that build for you.
Well caddy was relatively new then so I abandoned it for my projects.
Here's another head-spinning application of the concept of entropy, in quantum information theory:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/quantum-information...

> "The first fundamental measure that we introduce is the von Neumman entropy. It is the quantum analog of the Shannon entropy, but it captures both classical and quantum uncertainty in a quantum state. The von Neumann entropy gives meaning to a notion of the information qubit. This notion is different from that of the physical qubit, which is the description of a quantum state in an electron or a photon. The information qubit is the fundamental quantum informational unit of measure, determining how much quantum information is in a quantum system."

Incidentally chem.libretexts.org, a collection of open-source chemistry textbooks, has a good overview of the physical-chemical applications. The site is kind of a mess but you'd want chapter 18.3:

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Ma...
I didn't do anything this month.
So far royalties > $2,000. And I am thankful for it :)
What if there's 100 projects and 20 are scams, and I'm saying lets chill in the middle where there aren't any?
Wouldn't it be in Microsoft's interest to develop a much better app than Teams just for internal use?
Yes they are built different: one person has no struggles writing and actively loves it, cannot stop doing it; the other finds it effortful and painful. Those two people will have vastly different experiences writing the book. The former will gain energy and feel great, the latter will feel pressured and depressed. We are not all the same, we are all built different, don’t ignore this reality
Interesting how it was dying until NFT's came along ... and possibly the Crypto Exchange IPO's.
Just because at one time the majority of users are federated, a market/threat force can enter any time that would drive users to centralised solutions.
You've never said "Hey, I know you're wrong, let's bet on it!" on the internet but never been able to go much further? I know I have! Plus I've definitely wanted to play 1v1 games for a bit of money (video games that is). And many others have, as people solving this issue are raising millions and have thousands of users already :)

You may not personally find it useful but it's much harder to solve on the "Web2 stack" than the "Web3 stack" if such descriptions exist.
Not to poke holes in your nostalgia, but how do you know he had a great explanation if you don’t remember it after further study?
Ironically, the NSA is probably one of the better US Gov agencies when it comes to open sourcing their software: https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency
You seem to be putting words in my mouth. Maybe you think I said that a 50% margin is unjustifiable? Well I'm not sure what to say other than please read my post again and note that I did not.
If you leave out "spontaneously"!
the reason gmail allows users to reply to google docs comments inline vs outlook/apple mail dont is that google owns the identity cookie and the api key and the front end.

if there was a way to do so, outlook would do it too. but google won’t let them.

to me —- blockchains fundamentally open up two things - an open api (think lambdas) and an open database (think kv pair). you pay per use for compute and you pay per byte to store. and the payment comes in dollars, just that you need to push it through a translation layer (“tokens”).

the rest of the crypto ponzi schemes are just that. it’ll take some time for that noise to clear before this usecase becomes more well known.
In terms of small international betting it is, you try find a site that lets you bet between the US and the UK.
Railway looks really cool but what is the procedure if you want more than one of the same data store in my case one redis for cache and a second redis for aggregating usage metrics?

Edit: I found a small bug, I can't link my discord and railway.app accounts because my github is < 180 days old, it says that I must enter billing information but I did that a couple hours ago. There's no way to post this message in discord since private messages to your team members get rejected and public messages require that linkage.
Personal criticism of Railway: every time I emailed Railway to request to be unsubbed from the newsletter and my account fully deleted without a trace no one ever replied (the unsubscribe link in the newsletter was broken). It left a really sour taste in my mouth.
> Hospitals barely make money as it is

They aren't supposed to.
I would want to add one more thing to it i.e. clicking speed. There are online tools (https://cpstest.pro) that can check mouse click speed. Gamers focus on clicks per second as much they do on DPI and sensitivity.
She's being rewarded for being a team player and towing the party line.
How did you do that? By picking an airline with a pure Airbus fleet?
In Germany there are, for examples, rules regarding comparative advertising. Way stronger than anything the US has. Therefore we are not used to competitors trash talking other brands in ads.

So I am in the same boat when it comes to SEO/content marketing like this. It is advertising, nothing more.

And personally, when evaluating products, I agree with OP. I also like the people behind a product to be a bit more humble when comparing themselves to competitors.
Very few human social outcomes are truly improved by adding the ability to gamble.
Yeah - that second part is neat, but existential problems arise with 'smart contracts' long, long before we get to nuances of perverted expenses with respect to saving costs on contract length.

Smart 'contracts' are not really 'contracts' - they're kind of bits of code. They're going to effectively be governed more broadly by 'real' contracts in in the regular sense whereupon the Blockchain contracts are merely terms of a specific exchange i.e. something like placing a 'buy/sell' order on an exchange.
It’s hard to tell but these things have been rolled out quick with a broad approach of; don’t give any hospital any reason not to admit a sick patient during the pandemic. Normally a patient in outlier territory would have a hard time finding a long term acute care location if they were likely to lose the LTAC money. So they quickly instituted various add on and kicker “bonuses” such that nearly no patient would loss the LTAC money.

LTAC companies, in capitalism, would simply not accept patients if they thought they were too sick to make money on. Accepting parients put them out of business. The government wants hospitals to admit as many patients as they can in a health crisis. So , I feel this was more of a case where they acted quick and broad and didn’t actual think much about whether the drug was valid. If doctors want to prescribe it, it shouldn’t bankrupt the hospital where they work. The clinical value is up to the medical professions to figure out.
As far as I can tell, the only useful application for the blockchain seems to be gambling with sanctioned Russian oligarchs without the annoying trip to Russia that you'd need to do without the blockchain.

Doesn't really sound that appealing since I don't think gambling is an useful application of anything, blockchain or not.
I always wanted to understand how hospitals get away with treating their employees like that. In any other industry, people would not accept it. This is the industry where (arguably) I'd want people to be _most_ relaxed and _least_ overworked because human lives and wellbeing is on the line. Why don't airlines do that to their pilots? Should there be similar regulation in nursing?
That does surprise me. :-) Thank you.
It's pretty cool actually that this is possible and I also can't help but think that this is a solution to a problem that need not exist in the first place. Systemd has this problem and the solution is to use a feature in systemd, right?

IMHO systemd has amassed too many features, both documented and undocumented. Having worked with GNU+Linux for over 2 decades, I still find Devuan and Void easier to manage than Fedora and Ubuntu. The latter is fine for basic desktop needs though.
Silk road, an illegal enterprise, basically ran on trust and reputation (and USPS) and that part of it actually had nothing to do with crypto or blockchains.
Your pricing page is confusing and I can't find enough details about the offerings.

1. What happens if i exceed the outbound bandwidth quota?
2. In Team, what is "seat" ? Also pricing number of team members is a bit of a turn off. I don't expect that kind of pricing from an infrastructure company.
3. What if I need more than 100GB disk in developer plan?
4. The postgresql offering - Does it offer failover, replicas, PITR etc?
5. How are logs handled?
I'd send you $10 by paypal if I win, and expect you to do the same if you lose. If you don't, I'd call you out on these forums. If you wanted to bet more money, I'd use an escrow service. But also, why would I want to bet on sports against a random stranger?
Parents point is that there must be slack in a system in order to have a stable queue size.

But slack can also be perceived as waste, which can be cut.

And if your budget is cut, you are likely to see that slack as "first thing on the copping block" with the consequence that the queue begins to expand. But most systems have natural buffers which delay catastrophic failure. By that point there have been elections, you have retired, etc. and someone else is left holding the bag.

At that point you can blame the organisation for being "slow", or "inefficient", and then you can cut it's funding further, or destroy it outright or maybe outsource it to the private sector.

Then the private sector can drive profits by asset stripping and cutting safety or vital maintenance work, then when the whole system collapses, you can hold the taxpayer hostage by demanding a bailout of the, presumably vital, service (or you can renationalise it), and the whole cycle starts again.

Welcome to our planet, enjoy your stay, it's likely to be a brief one :)
passive income requires ownership of some revenue producing assets, whether its land or digital content. If you just work for someone else, your trading time for money, no passive income.
I see similar sentiments whenever SSOTax is mentioned. If providing it is a support burden, why not provide an unsupported standard self service SAML 2 integration that is validated against the top 2-3 identity providers, and make clear if the customer needs assistance with the integration or something custom it's $X hourly rate?

Why must everyone suffer the outrageous 'tax' if most are just using the same top 2-3 providers anyway.
Is it even possible to write a completely objective book about history?
So speculation and gambling?

Add crime too I guess.
Don't forget "historic". It seems every day there are approximately 713 new historic events happening, that are totally and completely unlike any other event, evar!
There are services (startups) for betting on games. The solution is essentially an escrow or third party to mediate the transaction.
This project needs a giant heading box in the README stating 3 things;

- staging databases that hold data generated from production databases should be considered production data, with the same level of consideration for security and access as production.

- staging databases that hold production data are a GDPR violation waiting to happen. Make sure your data controller / lawyers knows exactly what you're doing with production data.

- ask yourself why you need production data in staging in the first place. What are you gaining over a script that generates data? If you want data at scale you can generate it randomly. If you want data that covers all edge cases you can generate it non-randomly. If you want "real-looking" data then maybe this tool is useful.

People copying data from production to staging and then failing to look after it properly is a nightmare. It shouldn't be encouraged except in very unusual circumstances. In my experience of dev, your development and staging data should be covering the weird edge cases that you need to handle far more than the nice "happy path" data you get in production.
The limit is approximately what you would be capable of paying. Putting value on life is a common practice, particularly in single-payer healthcare, mostly relevant to certain drugs.

There are, of course, problems with a system like this. "I would pay literally everything to not die, but can't find treatment" is just not one (assuming certain values of everything), because people will take your money. Problems are things like rich people getting better treatment (happens just about no matter what, but we'd rather pretend otherwise), and evaluating treatment performance as a customer/patient (a reason for most supply restrictions.)
genuinely curious - this is the first time im hearing of crunchydata in a "versus RDS" context.
is there a pricing and feature comparison for RDS vs Crunchydata ? a honest tradeoff comparison.
While many apps (social ones) are not safe for kids yet (funny enough it's usually unsafe because of other kids - teenagers), there are still many apps that work really well for kids. The Guardian article is quite sensationalized (primarily about VRChat and maybe RecRoom, but the Oculus has more).
Neither did the MAX debacle render the plane incapable of flight.

Both flights gave flight crews unexpected tests on unexpected situations-- something that seemed like runaway trim for the MAX, and simultaneous overspeed (better nose up) and stall (better nose down) indications for AF447.
> As far as I can tell, the only useful application for the blockchain seems to be gambling with sanctioned Russian oligarchs without the annoying trip to Russia that you'd need to do without the blockchain.

Come on man, don't strawman discussions or why would I bother continuing to talk to you? If you have decided that you dislike a tech for whatever reason fine, but do something more productive with your time than just chatting crap on the internet.
NOT for a long time after, because you're writing about frameworks that may be out of date in 12 months!
No, but one can try to avoid overt irritating biases.
correct. RDS does not even let you do a true, vanilla postgres backup to s3. the lock-in is complete
I had some contact with Airbus engineers, and none of them complained about their managment, which might be an i dicator. But the sample size is small..
As to frameworks, I know nothing. As to Javascript libraries and their order of appearance it was: YUI in Feb-2006; then JQuery in Aug-2006; and finally Mootools in Mar-2007. Not a developer but my recollection is the same as yours with regard to JQuery -- it roared to dominance seemingly overnight.
if i don't see a pdf, i don't buy it
> What distinguishes a defense startup apart from just some nerds "blowing things up in the desert"?

Connections formed over the years of being part of the military industrial complex. Colonel or general rotates out of a job from the Pentagon to a big defense contractor, to a think tank, to a CIA gig, to a major media talking head job, back to a defense contractor, and so on.

It is almost unheard of that startups of the kind you seem to be imagining make any inroads in government procurement. It is deeply corrupt and does not resemble what you would imagine to be an open market.
I think this more about the arrow than the entropy.

Considering the ‘arrow of time’ a function on each microstate lends itself better to ”can” questions.

I think both the author and you are assuming your definition for the arrow is correct.

It is still unknown if the arrow allows any arbitrary state to become another, or if there is a strict genealogy for the change of the state that can be seeded from an existing state that ensures it will evolve into a specific other under some time scale, or whether either of those permit Boltzmann brains, or even if there is some control the state has over itself (free will?).
The Eagle has landed
How are you publishing and printing these?