skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IAM, like all things AWS, has it's own API and rich CLI. So, we pulled this problem outside of IAM entirely.

We created a policy system that allows us to define these individual minimized policies based upon specific services that we've created. We have a tool that can then combine these small bite sized policies into a larger policy while combining compatible actions and resources giving you a resultant policy that is equivalent but often much smaller than the logical combination of all the individual policies.

You can use this the resulting policy in a variety of ways. It's very easy to just make a custom role, set this as an inline policy, and then use some custom tools to keep the policy updated.

In some cases, we went with a "policy.d" directory in a project source tree that contains symlinks to all the small specific policies it's using, and some deployment commands that use these symlinks to create a resultant policy document. If you want to add or remove a policy to a project, it's as easy as adding or removing a symlink. Likewise, it makes it much easier to audit which policies are actually attached to the project.
Twitter Popcorn
Southeast US has hit the roof of CDC’s respiratory illness level scale
I mean the guy has the mentality of a 15 year old meme edgelord that thinks he's smarter than everyone on earth. he got into a fight with some diver that rescued children from a cave and called him a pedophile because they didn't want to use his impractical submarine that wasn't ever going to work. what do we really expect from him?
That's when relocation to countries without extradition treaties with the US comes in handy.
My experience:

"Wow, neat. I wonder how they did this."

tries to right click (no context menu appears)

hit F12 for developer tools

"Oh, it's just a solid 173KB of javascript. No big deal."

notices the window resize affected the simulation

"There's now a big blob of bubbles coalescing at the top of my screen. Wow!"
CZ is much smarter than SBF [1].

I'm actually confident that he's running a real business there, because that's the smart thing to do.

1: CZ literally destroyed FTX with a tweet.
I think you’re over thinking it. The .com crash didn’t affect the internet being around. But it decimated the eco-system of that era.
If you’re developing long term in node.js and js/ts, why would you use python?

You already have shared code, utils, infrastructure to deploy.

Personally I like to have all projects in the same language.
> other major cities manage to keep their subway stops and surrounding areas clean & pleasant to use

I wouldn't say so, the homeless crisis is very much a US issue
Holly cow.

Old Version
Written in ActionScript 3.0
Supports spheres and boxes as collision shapes
Supports various joints (ball and socket, distance, hinge, prismatic, etc...)
Fast and stable collision solver
> knowledge that muggings typically happen around that area

I witnessed one in a bus near tartine in the mission. Safety is really this thing that only becomes an issue after you witness it or become victim of it.
Is your buddy Phil Leotardo that you’re so sure he’s not going to tell on you when fbi charges him with 20 years worth of felonies?
I’m trying to hire a senior engineer (with a lot of Rust experience). We just hired a new junior last week. It’s not all bad.
CDK 'compiles' CloudFormation templates basically making it much easier to write using TypeScript/Python/Java/C# instead of JSON/YAML.

The real thing is does though is give you higher-level object-oriented constructs with best practices baked in. It has much more sensible defaults baked in and, almost ironically, the fewer parameters you pass to these classes the more opinionated CloudFormation comes out.

The example that blew my mind is if you don't specify a password for RDS it provisions an AWS SecretsManager Secret, generates a random password and puts it in there and then tells the RDS to use that Secret. If you do specify a password it doesn't do that stuff. Lots of stuff like that - it turns encryption on by default and creates the keys if you don't specify, it creates private subnets and a NAT gateway for VPCs if you don't specify.

It was basically "its too hard to fix the service APIs or their CloudFormation so we'll fix the problem outside of / on top of them with a tool users run on their laptops or in their pipelines to deal with generating the thousands of lines of CF boilerplate that are required to really do the right thing these days.

Of course you can be very explicit in most of these constructs and the more explicit you are about what you want the less of its opinions happen.
The semantics of the checkmark has changed… it no longer implies that the account’s identity has been verified.

The mistake was not changing the checkmark visual to something else. And clearly some brand verification is necessary as a secondary measure.

A second paid tier for actual identity verification makes sense
Even if you can keep eating what you’re eating already + bugs and algae? If your answer is no you’re definitely missing out on life experiences.
In certain markets/jurisdictions it's standard/common to have multiple PEs stamp multiple different parts of the plans. For single family homes. Probably the lowest hanging fruit is energy calcs. For instance getting a PE to do title 24 calcs and stamp a plan is a couple hundred bucks. For $200 you open up a LOT of flexibility in design, materials, etc. Everything from window/door sizes, styles and locations to HVAC duct type.
That's pretty much me. I tried public transport when I moved to SF (came from Europe, didn't even have a driver license) and ended up being like "nope". Got my driver license and use uber mostly. I'm not putting myself in danger, fuck it, I'll just spend my money on a car + uber.
CHAdeMO / GB/T were harmonized into a new connector ( CHAdeMO 3.0 aka ChaoJi )
The thing it's trendy to hate on is probably just like other things it's been trendy to hate on, and claiming otherwise looks pretty silly. Unless flavored vapes are also a potential filter event, that is.
Coinbase censured over business structure by German watchdog BaFin
Show HN: Written Numbers – A website/library to convert massive numbers to words
The naming system comes from Conway (yes, the Game of Life one) and Guy's The Book of Numbers, and it's infinitely extended past 999 using "illi".

ones tens hundreds
1 un (n)deci (nx)centi
2 duo (ms)viginti (n)ducenti
3 tre( s) (ns)trigint(ai) (ns)trecenti
4 quattuor (ns)quadragint(ai) (ns)quadringenti
5 quinqua (ns)quinquagint(ai) (ns)quingenti
6 se(sx) (n)sexagint(ai) (n)sescenti
7 septe( n) (n)septuagint(ai) (n)septingenti
8 octo (mx)octogint(ai) (mx)octingenti
9 nove( n) nonagint(ai) nongenti

The (letters) at the end of the parts in the ones column get added depending on the (letters) at the beginning of the column it combines with.

undecillion

tredecillion
treSvigintillion
treStrecentillion

septeNquingentillion
septenongentillion

novenonagintillion

The (letters) at the ends of the tens column parts are different.

If there is a hundreds part afterwards an "a" will be used, if there isn't then an "i" will be used. "deci" and "viginti" are the exceptions to this and always use "i".

decIcentillion

trigintIllion
trigintAcentillion

Website Source: https://github.com/Kyza/written-numbers-website

Library Source: https://github.com/Kyza/written-numbers

No documentation or options yet.

It also supports JS expressions with a warning before running them.

<https://numbers.kyza.net/?number=10n**100n>

<https://numbers.kyza.net/?number=(()%20%3D%3E%20%7Blet%20sum...>

As a bonus I generated a 500MB file of the number names in order separated by line breaks.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/824921608560181261/10...
I don’t think you have a choice to accept a deposit or not, do you? You can’t stop people sending you coins. And sending them back costs you money so you wouldn’t do that.
Maybe his anal beads are on the fritz
> Worst part was the smell of formalin.

You should eat Serrano ham sandwich afterwards, that just about cures it /s
They're like the main stations that everyone use :D
Not sure why any company is allowed to estimate value of crypto currency.
This sounds too rational.

I think we should blame Elon Musk.
The "out of government reach" part applies equally to TOR, VPNs etc, I believe. Yes, it's a vanishingly small number of people profiting from that while doing things most of us agree with, but for some, that's worth it.

Banks controlling who gets to participate in sending and receiving payments is obviously bad in my opinion. Being able to participate in the economy is fundamentally important. The government cannot outlaw a legal business, but banks and payment providers can do it for them. That doesn't bother anyone that buys a pop album off Amazon, but that's a different issue if you want to sell porn or drugs or whatever US morals have issues with and just get cut off from payments, so that your willing customers cannot pay you. When that happens, people get out the old "it's a private company, you have no right to their platform"-spiel and crypto-currencies solve that.

Crypto-currencies are to finance what the fediverse is to social media. They have shortcomings, in a perfect world we wouldn't have any need for them, but they fill a niche in the real world we inhabit.
Hello, fellow member of the rhythm section! Same is true on the drums. We make a fine team (drums & bass).
Not my experience at all. The quality and experience of the team is IMHO the best predictor of code quality.
I use this to search mail sometimes, it is way better than Thunderbird‘s search.
I was just out of high school then. I seriously thought we'd have great VR in 20 years.

Maybe 15 years later I checkout out Second Life. Kind of basic, but still seemed like the plan was on track.

Over a decade later VR games seemed to imply a near-future result we had all be hoping for.

But now it seems that the idea can't robustly scale till the internet is something stronger. Like, we can't yet have Fortnite that's 3000 players.

Could we create a system that intelligently applies one stylistic theme to all resolutions. To not aim for one visual experience, but ensure the scope. You could be in any size of space with any number of users, but the complexity of textures would depend on local storage and bandwidth. So it looks low-res on a mobile connection, but super 4k with all the files local and a super fast connection. Every resolution has a managed outcome. Like Minecraft view.

Just fantasizing. Not an engineer.
I'm existence proof to the contrary.
Doom has a surprisingly rich history of being used to manage things stupidly. The one that most comes to mind is the old mod for local process management. Killing a process does what you'd expect: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
According to the supreme court, it's not that simple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
4d chess from a marketing genius. Will only be offered seasonally, like the McRib.
This is how the elites continue to win - via our apathy.
There is also https://oulipo.social/, where you can use any letter except 'e'.
This is satite., if it wasn't clear enough
Is your collection for sale? I can pay in FTT.
This one is impressive too: https://oimo.io/works/sandvox/
This tweet thread by head of R&D at Coin metrics has a good hypothesis:

https://mobile.twitter.com/LucasNuzzi/status/159012259020682...

In summary:

1. Alameda essentially needed a bailout in the spring.

2. Alameda, though, also had a large chunk of FTT coming due in the fall that was basically part of the vesting schedule of the original FTT ICO.

3. So, FTX lent Alameda customer funds in the spring.

4. In the fall, when the vested FTT paid out to Alameda, they immediately paid it back to FTX.

5. The thing that looks highly suspicious and fraudulent is that SBF tweeted out that the big FTT move that day was just normal "rotation".

Also, particularly interesting to me, the FTX-US president, Brett Harrison, resigned the day before that transaction at the end of September. He also just liked an interview on LinkedIn where Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO) was being interviewed, saying "not all crypto companies are like FTX, where it appears they fraudulently misappropriated customer funds".

The above is speculation, but it's based on on-chain data.
https://octodon.social/@fasterthanlime

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron (mastodon founder)
There is also https://oulipo.social/ where you can use any letter except 'e'.
Of course it is also notable that the whole DNS hierarchy was managed by Network Solutions, with even less oversight, before ICANN was established.
I was thinking today that there's something wrong about thinking too much in types and type relations.

Rule 5 of Rob Pike[1] says:

> Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

which makes a lot of sense to me. You see this concept being used all over the place in Golang/Rust.

But functional languages make you think in very different ways, which makes your program organized in much different ways as well. Although I can't quite put my finger on what exactly is so different.

[1]: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
In reality, the vast majority of email users don’t pick a server, they pick a service/brand.

Gmail, Outlook, iCloud… nobody picked a server.

And certainly there was no concern that if I pick the “wrong” one, I may not be able to receive email from one of the other big providers.

Oh, there certainly was no concern I might end on a email server with an ideology I don’t agree with.
It’s very popular here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=constructionphysics.s...
No way, it is a crime,

When everything was going down he tweeted something on the line that everything was fine, he later deleted that but for sure there's an archive somewhere (and I'm sure Elon would be GLAD to provide that data). That's fraud, and I'm sure there's a lot more like that once the DOJ/SEC start looking around.

I like SBF, honestly, I like his personality, I don't believe he's a bad person, I could even believe (with a truckload of salt) that all of this happened without him being fully aware of what was going on. But, real is real, and I'm quite sure he will do jail time.
"Inspiration is for amateurs" - Steven Pressfield in "The War of Art"

I think he mentions something about honing your craft so you're prepared for when inspiration strikes.

I imagine it's not that different for musicians or programmers.
UST wasn't a true stablecoin (it isn't like any dollars disappeared from the ecosystem), so I'd put it in the same category as the hundreds of billions in "vanished" market value that was a simple consequence of the declining value of crypto in general. Whether or not Alameda was holding a bunch of UST or Luna, is another question. SBF seemed to be pretty all in on fringe shitcoins, so I would not be surprised if they had significant exposure.
In many parts of Northern Europe, at least, February is often the absolute coldest month (most likely for snowfall in UK, for example). So for heating worries, we’re definitely not out of the woods come February.
<3 I wish I was the one making bank off human stupidity.

Hint: Ensure your "friend" does not reside in the USA or an otherwise extradition-friendly country. The credit system is global, especially for $8.

C'mon, you only live once! Best make it interesting and worthwhile.
no, what happened is they had a product that was better than waiting 45 minutes for a cab you had no idea was on the way or not; and other companies came up with similarly good products like Lyft and Didi and are very much competing with Uber
I love tether
Healthcare stocks tend to be a “risk off” trade, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the sell off was primarily driven by fund managers rotating risk off to risk on (given the hopes driven by CPI yesterday)

But I was also struck by how insanely overvalued Eli Lilly has become. PE of 53, and the PE multiple has expanded 3x over the last two years, while the underlying business has been mostly flat
Could it have been this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32985927
Also curious if it happens instantaneously or somehow drags on.
This is such a meaningless statement. What exactly does Reuters define as "tech"? Is that Software Engineers? PMS? Hardware Engineers? Product Marketing? Data Science?
I had overheard some dentists joking recently, that was so discussing than even proctologists couldn't say such jokes.
Does this show all trades or only ones which they made money and were related to legislation? If the latter then the statistics aren't complete
You're describing post-1971 USD. It's getting difficult to tell which currency is the bigger scam at this point.
It was ages ago at a call center in CT. His name was Sergio and he was my boss...but he was awesome. I know that word is overused...but I hope he went on to be a massive success somewhere. He definitely deserved it; he treated people like they were actually people. It matters and it's a rare trait for middle management.
> I'm very curious if we could mass manufacture something like algae and then pyrolize it to get fuel and solid carbon to sequester.

For a while I was interested in algae biofuels. IIRC, the problem is other life tends to get in and eat the algae you want while blocking the pumps and filters you need to maximise growth.

(But I've been out of that loop for a while now, so for all I know some random YouTuber has found a solution).
This reminds me of an idea I had for a button years ago. Reddit eventually kind of did it:

A website with a button and a countdown. If the timer hits zero, a large sum is donated to a charity. The button resets the timer. Anyone can push the button.

I would call it “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”

All I need is to figure out a free way to maintain a tiny api that provides state.
> [Even] in [our] darkest days, Tether has never once failed to honor a redemption request from any of [our] verified customers.

Bold statement by tether given that they, if I recall correctly had a very extended period in their past (months) where they were not allowing withdrawals. Wether they openly stated that or not is irrelevant, plenty of people could not get money out.
Guess I'm plugging Migadu again! (https://www.migadu.com/) (not related to them, just a satisfied user)

From a previous comment of mine:

> Migadu is another awesome email solution. For my family and myself, we're on the "Micro" plan which works out to be 1.5 USD per month (but paid yearly). For smaller organizations and projects, we're on the "Mini" plan which is 9 USD per month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545326

Also another cool thing about Migadu:

> They also have a page about their pros/cons: https://www.migadu.com/procon/ [...] one of the more honest pieces of company writing out there

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546076
The people who block single-user Pleroma instances on sight are too mentally stunted to be worth communicating with in the first place.
> We know from observing reality that even buggy software is better than no software – a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception. So I guess it has to be "sub-linear", otherwise software wouldn't have economies of scale.

I'm not sure about this, our e-health system had millions spent on it and eventually still was discarded, after "sort of" working for months and slowing down all of the doctors and pharmacy workers who had to deal with it, as opposed to just using paper slips for prescription medicine, or even individual hospital data management systems: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/...

In addition to instability, even in my country, Latvia, there have also been large enterprise systems that have had serious performance issues, like the government e-system platform latvija.lv went down when the COVID vaccination signups became available, which was problematic, given how many other systems depend on it as a login provider. We've also occasionally have had the national tax system go down in the dates when people can start submitting their tax reports.

In regards to security, you occasionally see all sorts of problems even in large enterprise codebases, a recent case was the Krete education system source code (not in my country, just a relevant example), where for some reason code like this was running in production: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/yqp2o6/our... here's an article about it https://hungary.postsen.com/trends/86603/The-CRETE-study-sys... (though it got hacked in a phishing attack)

Also, there have been cases of problematic deployments bringing down entire orgs, Roblox had their core business be halted for a while a year ago because of problems with their Nomad cluster, which resulted in a 3 day long outage: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/2021_Roblox_outage

The Knight Capital Group also lost more than 400 million USD in less than an hour and went bankrupt because of a bad deployment: https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-caution...

I've personally seen systems that have gotten so complex that they're a liability - if there is no full test coverage (as close to 100% as you can get) then you're usually under the risk of wrong calculations or behavior in the system, which may or may not be possible to roll back, depending on the nature of the system. Sometimes it might not even be easy to detect, but the implications can be pretty great, especially if you're dealing with finances. Or having people depend on the systems and not having a business continuity plan were they to go down, due to how integrated things are in our current society.

There is plenty of software out there and everything around that software (other code that determines how it will run, how it will scale, how it will be secured) that has plenty of potential for creating lots of negative value, all the way up to making organizations evaporate, or causing lots of suffering for numerous people. One doesn't even have to consider something like the software inside of planes or software that controls train routing or power distribution networks.
restoring free speech to Twitter

for a brief but memorable moment in history, Mario got his say!
I think plan is (1) decrease censorship in favor of left, (2) PE style cuts to drop expenses.
KRAS does this. Doesn’t necessarily invalidate your point, but it is interesting.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155608642...
I believe it, I've had my eardrums go pfffzzzt from diving into much lighter waves
More lies, this one on US jurisdiction, uh-oh.
Taking a look at that contract (I am not a professional), I note that the "culvert" is specified as a huge aluminum box culvert (19'5" span by 6'11" height) with concrete headwalls. It also includes the removal of an existing concrete structure with asbestos abatement. That plan also has a 36" diversion pipe 120 feet long.

I'd also add that any sort of stream crossing will have pretty stringent restrictions for working in the wet - you're limited to time of year, weather events, need to maintain safe overflow at all times, fish passage, etc - all of these add cost, and limit how many people will bid on the project (they need to dedicate schedule time to the work - can't push it off a month because of delays on another project, or it'll take them out of work period).

I couldn't tell if it also requires the maintenance of road traffic at all times - if it does, even maintaining one lane at a time (with automated signals) would easily add $100k to the price (culvert needs to be removed and installed in sections, then extra work to join them together, much smaller paving operations, etc etc)

It looks like the kind of project that might work better cost wise if you could lump say 10+ replacements together and have a 3-4 year long project.
I can't even trash the fan with my pokey stick.