I always think as an individual I would like this. But at scale I worry it would incentivize each department to advertise themselves to the public, which seems to me like a waste of funds. I already dislike the reelection cycle (politicians incentivized to always be fundraising) and would hate to see that happen per department.

It would probably be wasteful initially but I doubt it would be more wasteful than bad policy that doesn't actually prioritize what the electorate wants.

Whatever hypothetical law allowed individual citizens to allocate funds could also ban departments from advertising or misrepresenting what they do.

Thank gosh we didn't just have a huge scandal where DHS secretary Kristi Noem spent 220 million on advertising.

Well since it’s a hypothetical, we can also stipulate that laws are enforced.

The police do something similar when a mayoral candidate promises to rein in police spending, it's called the blue flu and it's basically a strike.

I find it odd that the people with the kind of mindset that is driven to become police are even willing to entertain the idea of joining a union.

Well theirs is good, of course, because it protects them from soft-on-crime liberals who want open borders and communism and want to keep them from doing their jobs with ridiculous "ethical standards" and "laws governing acceptable use of force" and "civil rights" and other stupid pro-criminal shit like that.

Does PBS still do telethons like in days of old?

(1) playing with godot and building a Polynesian sailing rpg where you navigate waters by reading waves

(2) setting up MCP servers for Spotify and Substack that can pull what I’ve recently read / listened to. I want to try pulling transcripts and guest information to build myself a recommendation/follow system

(3) raising the sweetest little 5mo old

Interesting, where would you suggest someone starts if they’ve never seen that side of the sport?

Direct Air Capture is slow, but I think is a better solution than the "don't cut down trees" offset that we've historically seen. I hope that continued investment in DAC leads to new solutions to make it more effective.

I thought the StarWars telnet went offline? :/

If you want a replacement you can use `telnet telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{ sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c telehack.com 23'`.

I had to do similar things while in Canada. Trying to get HBO was impossible for someone living in a dorm.

Facebook and Twitter do not have the violent posts solved by any measure. But at the very least they make the gestures and put money towards trying to fix it.

Parler has been vocal that they have no plans solving it. If they had at least showed some vague plan to resolve it, they would have earned some sympathy.

(In US) I agree that business owners should never refuse people based on political opinions. I would be firmly against AWS/Google not willing to work with a company because it has conservative views.

In Parler's case, the issue isn't that they are conservative. The issue is that they refuse to take any responsibility for the hate and violence on their platform. John Matze had every opportunity to take responsibility for the content, but he was vocal that he would not do anything about it.

If I were running a cloud provider company, I wouldn't want anything to do with this behavior either. Who cares whether the users lean right or left - hate and violence are unacceptable.

And yet, there's plenty of hate and violence on Twitter, but they're not getting 24h notices before being deplatformed from the Apple app store. Take some key phrases from the Parler screenshots and paste them into a Twitter search.. it's pretty eye-opening.

Sounds interesting, but could you explain to me why I should use this over something like Azure KeyVault?

They say they worked at Uber and small startups, they mention a ton of alternatives to their product, but never once mentioned Azure KV. And your comment is also the only comment mentioning it. Im not sure what Hacker News has against Microsoft and the Azure offerings, but AKV is one of the best secret managers on the market today. It does 90% of the features Doppler advertises, and the developer experience is awesome, even the deployment experience is great, especially when hosting in App Services (not required!).

There are two immediate reasons. The first is so that you can manage your secrets and env vars in the same way in development as you do in production. Engineers focus a lot on doing this for code, but this hasn't hit the env var space yet. The second is so that all your secrets live in one place. Doppler is your source of truth for secrets in the same way that GitHub is your source of truth for your code. Your developers pull from GitHub, Azure pulls from GitHub during a deployment, etc. This centralization allows for really smooth access controls and auditing.

But the [Secret Manger](https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager) from google is also easy to use and specially firebase environment config is exactly like the demo. Best wishes ...

We don't think of Secret Manager as a competitor, but more of a destination for your secrets. We have integrations with both AWS and GCP Secrets Manager so you can write directly to them from Doppler.

We also can write to AWS Parameter Store.

Hi this is Ruud, founding engineer at Doppler. You can see us as a single source of truth where it is easy to manage your different projects and environments all in 1 place. GCP Secret Manager is great for production, but becomes harder to manage when you want to use it multiple environments with larger teams and in different projects/micro services.

Ick, talk about different products fimoreth! Look at the 4min video. Keyvault could theoretically be a good datastore for the secrets, though.

Those are very small sample sizes to make any assumptions from. 11 clicks for their test, and only 256 clicks for the larger referenced test. The larger test then makes a huge assumption in user behavior:

"So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing"

Uh, no. Just because the ad brought them to your site, doesn't mean the user wants to interact with your video. You got them there, you have to work to keep them.