skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you had the time and resources, wouldn't you try to affect change in government?

Not for my own benefit, no. Just like I don't base my votes in elections particularly on my own benefit, and never have.
Some kinds of meditation stimulate it. I've tried those.

Where did you hope to get?
https://saasbook.info
(Which I haven't finished lol).
The probability of guessing all eight correctly is 0.5^8 (or roughly 0.39%). The chances of such a thing happening by mere fluke are quite slim. Now personally, I would have preferred a few more glasses to be even more certain, but hey, for all practical purposes those results do seem fairly credible.
Apparently milk before tea is lower class because poor people would want to avoid cracking low quality porcelain with hot tea. Fascinating!
> We tend to have zillions of passwords in IT jobs right?

Yes, but they should be unique to your account. I.e. via SSO.

> What are the recommended ways to store and give access to passwords?

Whenever possible, don't. Otherwise, it depends on the scale and security you need. A password manager is one possible solution. Another solution is something like Hashicorp's Vault or OpenBao.

> How can a new hire be given access to all required passwords day 1?

They should access it through their SSO account, and not need a billion passwords across systems.

> And when such new hire gets promoted, how can we give access to the additional passwords they will need?

Again, whenever possible, tie access to their SSO account.

> And if someone leaves the company, how can we change only the sensible passwords they had access to and preferably notify everyone with access to it that it was changed?

Well if you did all of the above this wouldn't be an issue, you just close the 1 account.

> Any best practices? Any 80/20 suggestions? Low hanging fruits? Any warnings about what not to do?

Another thing you can do is give people 2 accounts, a normal account and an Admin level account, this is useful for things where the employee needs a regular day to day account as well. i.e. for the employee self portal for instance.
Why wouldn’t the same thing happen when the milk first hits the tea?

Id anything I would think there should be more caramelization in the TBM case because there should be more heat in the larger volume of tea and so the milk should get hotter at the point of initial contact.
Wish there was something like magit outside of emacs that I could recommend to people.
I never watch embedded YouTube videos so this is definitely NOT blogspam for people of my ilk.
This doesn't seem to take into account that professional athletes and musicians work very few hours in a year. Imagine if programmers were like NFL players, working for four 15-minute sessions, seventeen times a year.
Pedantically, literally everyone can be a founder.

At this moment, you can decide that you are starting a company. You are now a founder.

(This is why Founder is historically an unprestigious job that smells a lot like Unemployed, though the startup hype cycle of the last 15 years changed that.)
Bigger cars need more fuel -> bigger fuel trucks
They use more materials to make, require bigger places to store/maintain them and go through bigger consumables ie tires -> bigger lorries.

It's not like they're the sum of all evil, they have a small impact on the size of these things, but bringing the sizes down will help on the pathway to lowering the size of everything.
You're describing reusing, but calling it recycling. None of your examples are recycling - reusing a milk crate as decor is reuse.

For an example of recycling, try evaluating the cost of making a milk crate out of plastic bags vs. virgin plastic.
We uses
D the same approach for a while. Pass/gopass will do that for you. However, the downside here is that it quickly gets unwieldy as you’ll end up with a relatively large vaults. And you can’t really remove people, they can always keep and decrypt old versions of the vault, that means that you do have to rotate all of the secrets in that vault manually if someone leaves. And then, there’s also the support cost for non-tech people. GPG on windows is a particular pain.

You’ll have a similar effect in all password storage solutions, but since adding/removing people from vaults is much simpler, you end up with smaller, more fine-grained vaults and less secrets to rotate. Also, SSO, SCIM, tying the password management into a proper group/authentication system will help.
You know what? You’re right! That’s confusing. I’ll try and make it better.

Really good feedback and I’m being serious. Wish I saw that earlier.
Honestly, I don't think the weight of the car matters too much in an accident with a bicycle or pedestrian. I was hit a few times by cars at low speed (10-20 km/h) while riding my motorcycle and the weight of the car did not matter, when I was rear ended if the car was 20% (300 kg) lighter it would still be 4 times the mass of (me + bike), so the impact would be similar. A car versus a pedestrian is almost identical if the car is 1000 kg or 2000 kg.
When I first read about the reset (step-up) in basis after death, I couldn't believe this was the law.

Why should inheriting a property reset the basis?

What a ridiculous notion. Someone's already getting an asset for free (inheriting it), and we're further subsidizing the tax liability on it. Taxes that were due to the government are wiped out.
I have always wanted to get a radio and just tune to 145.800 MHz FM to hear all the conversation between ground station and ISS.
We have seen how lies and baseless conspiracy theories corrupt government and cause catastrophic damage. The authors of such sick drivel must be held accountable for the damage they do, and so must any platform that permits it.
Never bind critical services to the account of one employee. When that one employee gets hit by a bus you loose access to critical infrastructure.
I like this strategy. Nix can be tricky to explain, so sometimes showing is much easier than telling.
https://archive.today/Yx3Lg
The thing that is valuable to Apple as a company is to have these people, their networks and their decades of knowledge accessible. Even if someone is in retirement age and already practically living in Costa Rica sipping Pina Coladas all day - the fact that you can call up the guy and ask him some weird question is invaluable.

Many jokes have a kernel of truth, and that's the kernel behind this classic engineer joke [1].

[1] https://www.et.byu.edu/~tom/jokes/Consultant_Engineer.html
That's fair. However, if my car is twice heavier and larger than yours, even if your car is well engineered and has great safety features and rating, you're likely to end up worse than me in an accident. Even if my chances of rollover are higher than yours.
The reality is that no matter how much you decide to push authority down, at some point there will be conflicting decisions and you need to resolve that. Most organizations lean escalation upwards eventually to the CEO to resolve disputes.

If tech is trying to make changes that impact another major business area, and chaos needs to be avoided, then if you want to avoid executives being involved then members of that org need to be empowered to agree on those changes. However if you do that without structure it’s easy to just end up with organizational chaos as you wind up massively multiplying the communication channels that need to be pushed lower in the org. Someone needs to limit and direct the people responsible for those decisions if they’re not going to make them themselves.
The GitHub repo README gives a better sense of the capabilities of the pgstream system: https://github.com/xataio/pgstream?tab=readme-ov-file#archit...

For deployments at a more serious scale, it seems they support buffering WAL events into Kafka, similar to Debezium (the current leader for change data capture), to de-couple the replication slot reader on the Postgres side throughput from the event handlers you deliver the events to.

Pgstream seems more batteries-included compared to using Debezium to consume the PG log; Kafka is optional with pgstream and things like webhook delivery and OpenSearch indexing are packaged in, rather than being a “choose your own adventure” game with Kafka Streams middleware ecosystem jungle. If their offerings constraints work for your use-case, why not prefer it over Debezium since it seems easier? I’d rather write Go than Java/JVM-language if I need to plug into the pipeline.

However at any sort of serious scale you’ll need the Kafka in there, and then I’m less sure you’d make use of the other plug and play stuff like the OpenSearch indexer or webhooks at all. Certainly as volume grows webhooks start to feel like a bad fit for CDC events at the level of a single row change; at least in my brief Debezium CDC experience, my consumer pulls batches of 1000+ changes at once from Kafka.

The other thing I don’t see is transaction metadata, maybe I shouldn’t worry much about it (not many people seem to be concerned) but I’d like my downstream consumer to have delayed consistency with my Postgres upstream, which means I need to consume record changes with the same transactional grouping as in Postgres, otherwise I’ll probably never be consistent in practice: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consiste...
In the UK, production of electricity is not controlled by National Grid. They are basing their claim that everything will be fine on forecasts and targets, e.g. targets for offshore wind which were set by the government. Delivery is down to private companies in auctions. I don't know what the current situation is but the September 2023 auction notoriously attracted no bid.

There is zero guarantee that any targets will be met as things stand.
Anyone know why PG still insists on having his posts be in a format where readability seems to be the least important thing? I am sure there's a solid/sound reason, and I am genuinely curious to understand it.
I've found the ACM more interesting than IEEE for some time now.
Yeah I’ll admit, that isn’t clear. I used DOT to test it a while back and opened that up for folks who also wanted to mess with DOT, but that isn’t the value prop today.

You can create and render as many graphs as you like with the package offline - only the real-time sync is limited.
We've been hit by this.

When I talked to them four years ago, they agreed we were good to use it for free, no problem.

The dollar figure they're asking for would make it the single most expensive software product we would be licensing in our enterprise, by a lot. The deadline is absurdly soon for such a big deal. And they opened discussion in an incredibly hostile manner and have made no attempt to work with us.

So, I'm helping lead the effort to completely purge them from our ecosystem. On the one hand, I'm sad because their stuff is pretty good. On the other hand, their behavior is bad and the product isn't better by the amount they're asking for.

Good riddance.
Fossil: Fossil Is Not Relational
> why does burning trash means you don’t have to recycle plastic?

By burning the plastic you eliminate the problem that it causes. You also gain some energy back from it. If you can recycle plastic easily like PET then that is a good alternative but most plastics are difficult to sort and recycle.
true, ask chatgpt to reword this post to be appropriate for stackexchange first. i cant think of a way to ask this and chatgpt failed also. maybe there is a link to a duplicate answered q there
E-bikes fix most of those problems. A 10 mile trip, out and back, at 20mph, with no concern for loss of momentum at stop signs and lights is easily do-able by anyone who doesn't need mobility aids.
You also need a CDN. NetFlix deploys boxes all over the place to cache the content.

I agree there's nothing in there that's not understood from an engineering/technology perspective. It's not fusion or curing cancer. But scale and complexity compound simple engineering problems. There monitoring, there's billing, there's machine learning, there's software lifecycle, multitude of different devices types and networks, all of that at extreme scales that need to work pretty reliably.
fly.io Network Outage
A quick google didn’t reveal much about pgstream’s delivery semantics. Do these webhooks get called at most once, or at least once? I hope the latter, but in absence of information I’d guess it is the former.
> Why does "privately funded" make a difference?

Because is not subject to political time of four years intervals. Politicians lie often about where the funds will arrive, or change their minds after a while. I you can afford it, is much safer this way.
reminds me of instructions for using curl|bash.

do people really want to do things they don't understand at all?
I think OP means the blog does not add value compared to the original video everyone can watch on YT directly.
Notoriously, people get to desire their own goals, and there’s little that we can do about it. Plenty of people desire to learn and use Python without the terminal. That’s 100% possible in a professional environment today, never mind a classroom.

Most people learn computers because they want to get better at a task, like programming. The point of this post is to help people get unstuck so they can begin learning at all. Adding more gates in front isn’t going to help.
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding your definition of work. Even if you meant perform- most athletes have to perform continuously outside out of games in order to earn minutes in game. And touring musicians are performing way more hours than you cite.

Imagine if programmers were like NFL players, constantly measured on their performance against their peers.
Jeremiah Denton
So you've never been a pedestrian before ever? What do you want driving down the street when your kid chases a ball into the road?

Or do you not allow your kids outside either, because you bought a big house with a small yard because that is optimally safe?
> That we haven't yet seen the successor is why I'm suspicious we're leveling out.

Not clear if we're leveling out on what's possible, but price/performance may be increasing with model size. There's an economic limit. If the main way to fix hallucinations is to run the same query many times and look for consensus, that's going to be expensive.
there is no way to word this question to be appropriate for stack exchange. it fundamentally does not belong on stack exchange
"It looks like you're telling a transhumanist parable. Would you like help?"

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html#-game
Ordering gives you a leader or lock holder, first claimant in the agreed ordering wins.

If you're saying "what if everything's down and we never get responses to our leadership bids", then yeah, the data center could burn down or we could lose electricity, too.
Thanks for these stats, it changes how I think about aluminum packaging/cans.
I can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic or not.
dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413174
No they don't. If they really put safety first they'd say "flying to space is super dangerous no matter what we do, so we're not going to".

Clearly they put getting to space first. Safety is second at best.
A fly outage? This almost never happens..

My SaaS is down and I'm pretty upset, not for the first time. It's time to migrate.
I’m cool with having that link swapped in.
Unluckily this inability of seeing with each others' eyes - and the unwilling to do so: 'it is easy!' kind of never asked for flow of oppinions, ... daaaa, it is always easy AFTER you know that -, this inability makes the software products that damn shitshow for the user.

Beyond the attention seeking 'tips of the day' kind of popups in random places and stages that derails you all the time (I mean: ALL the time) but at least so tiny little fragments of wisdom that you reamin the same clueless, well inside the error of measurement in cluelesness. Only good for putting The Product into the focus (Am I nice, eh? What a cool feature I have, eh?! Brilliant am I, eh?!) instead of the need of the users.
They also tend to need objectively measured skills more than knowledge workers. We know what a good batting looks like but we still can’t say what good code is in any reasonably objective way.
But this doesn't apply to miniconda if you use the channel conda-forge, so I'm not sure there's much need for a fuss here.

source: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/is-conda-free
If your commute is only 9 km each way then every EV now sold will do a a whole week or perhaps two of commuting plus shopping, etc., on a single charge.

The 16 kmiles/year quoted by the Frontier Group is not really all that much. It's an average of only 70 km per day. I know several people personally who commute daily further than that here in Norway and I see plenty of people doing it in EVs.

Again most current EVs can do at least four days of that on a single charge. Certainly my ancient 2015 Tesla S70D can and most newer cars have more range.

The mean distance probably obscures a distribution which includes a minority that drives far more than the average, it would be interesting to know the median distance too.

I've just returned to Norway from France in my Tesla. It was 2 700 km (almost 1 700 miles) and charging was not a problem.
Isn't it already more expensive to extract oil than it was, say, 30 years ago?

Obviously this is not a perfect proxy, but I remember in the late 90s, gas at this specific gas station near my high school was 92¢/gal. Inflation should bring that up to under $2/gal today, but the average gas price in the US is considerably higher.

(I guess back then the US wasn't exporting oil as we are now, which could account for the difference.)
I like to explain it all as graph paper where the squares get bigger or smaller depending on what’s near them.
It's not irrelevant to me, which why I'm asking. I'm asking if you would have preferred Musk to be consistent and ban those accounts instead. And if so, why? Do you agree with censorship if and only if it's legal (whatever that means in a particular jurisdiction)? Or is there some other reason?
After calculating fuel vs. electricity costs and analyzing my driving patterns I got pure BEV. I have real 200 miles highway winter range and it’s ok for my trips. It’s very important to do some basic research and don’t trust 400 miles WLTP range advertising. I would call this advertising basically a scam. A road trip with one charging stop is no big deal.
Pythons and anacondas are snakes which catch and kill their prey by strangling them and inducing cardiac arrest. It’s a pun.
So you think most people are incapable of walking or cycling? And you're saying I'm out of touch?!

As for cold, dark, raining. Boo fucking hoo. If you had to go somewhere you'd deal with it. Cars have made people into weak, incapable little creatures. It's honestly pathetic.

I cycle with food and supplies in my panniers all the time. What exactly are you buying every week that can't be transported back without fossil fuel assistance?

You don't think children can walk or bike? Are you crazy? A healthy child doesn't want to sit still. They're capable of locomotion from about age 3.

Old people can get around too. Sure there are some who can't but it's not a majority. Again, cars have taught us this helplessness.

I just wish I could take car people outside of their reality for just a week or so. Once you see it from the outside it's so apparent. But I guess some people aren't ready to leave the Matrix. And some will fight to protect it.
KeePassX file in a repo with long password is a reasonably good solution. Not perfect, but open source and you can segregate by user/team. Also in a team there can be 1 person who has write/update duties and updates the passwords if there a shared ones (not the best approach).

BTW, not related to the passwords is to put everything non-public serving behind a firewall and access it only via individual VPN keys.
Thanks for the perspective. I don't own an EV, but I have taken road trips in a friend's Tesla. My impression was that the supercharger network (at least in the Northeast US) is dense and reliable enough and the route planning software good enough that road trips basically anywhere in the region are reasonably practical, though you'll be spending much more time at superchargers than you would at gas stations in an ICE car and have less ability to choose any route you like. Interesting to know that that's actually the highest level of EV practicality and many other models are substantially worse.
You keep speaking of "it". I have had experience with "it". Sometimes it turns out that "It" is this very scary clown show that percolates down into the rest of the organization in a "cover your ass" mentality that is simply based on nothing but personal incentives to not be fired. "It" can indeed be percolated by clowns in the organization in this case.
Ah. Can... but prefer not to in my case. See, for example:

https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf
Not that Scientific American doesn't deserve to be funded, but I'm not sure how I feel about this article being paywalled while the scientific paper it's summarizing is free:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl0030
I know one of the people involved in this: https://sargasso-reclamation.com/

If it's possible for Kenya to do this with the incidental bycatch of local fishermen, I would hope an industrialised nation could manage it with pre-sorted domestic and industrial waste.
They work for simple online radio streams etc.
Me mum[0] was a geologist (Columbia-trained, too. Not too shabby).

Vacationing with her was really cool.

[0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm
And energy savings might be the secondary benefit -- the primary benefit IMO is not having to dig the ore from the ground.
What is the underlying technology for notes.andymatuschak.org? Seems like a nice note-taking application.
Hoo yep:

https://z80kits.com/product-category/basekits/

https://smallcomputercentral.com/

https://j4f.info/start

http://www.searle.wales/

To name a few.

Steve's book is fascinating and a good intro to the architecture, but some of the chips used are quite obsolete (even more so that the mainstream obsolete ones!) and so building a computer from that book would be very challenging.
What an odd thing to say. How is practice and training not work?
The numbers are all out there, behind 1 minutes of searching.

My wife's side of the family is entirely Russian, so I have some basic knowledge on the subject.
They did a test run of PLA bricks resembling plants back in 2018

#40320 Plants from Plants

https://brickarchitect.com/2018/40320-plants-made-from-plant...

Trouble with anything biodegradable is it biodegrades while you're using it, you'd essentially have to keep it in a cool, dry place away from sunlight
While learning to write compilers, I would memorize small, but critical, programs like converting a char range, like [a-zA-Z_], in string format into a table or reporting an error if the range was invalid. At my peak, I could implement the function that did this in about 60 lines of Lua in about 3 minutes.

I haven't done exercises like that recently, but I found it helpful at the time.
then they need to stop what they are doing, and learn how to use the system they are running first. there's no value in skipping ahead of basic "power user" learning for your preferred os. if you can't run basic commands, you dont' need to be writing python programs. if your educational institution is not providing you basic knowledge on how to use windows, macos, or linux, they are unfortunately failing you.
>The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection

if it does, then the vagus nerve orchestrates the brain-body connection.

the mind-body problem, or if you prefer the mind-brain problem, remains unsolved. and apparently, mind-brain confusion persists as well.
Beautiful video and history of an abandoned Italian town