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You actually don’t need (long-lived / hard-coded) secrets in this scenario if you use OIDC:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/secure-your-work/...


Technically yes. It depends on whether you consider the account ID to be a secret or not (AWS say "sensitive but not secret" which doesn't help much). But also it can make sense to treat all environment variables as secrets by default just so you don't accidentally end up putting something somewhere that turns out to have been Wrong.


GP is saying that GHA would need zero information about AWS if CodeBuild used a Github token and listened for GHA runs.


That may be true, but it's not what the link describes.


Fair!


And even better can scope assuming an AWS IAM role to a specific branch name & workflow filename so only code/workflows that have been through review have access to CD secrets/prod infra.

IE no prod access by editing the workflow definition and pushing it to a branch.


I wonder if this works more reliably than airdropping between my iPhone and MacBook… which seems to be 50% success rate at best.


I was never able to make it work, for some reason.


Until recently, the geographical locations where geothermal is feasible and economic was very limited. Ironically it is tech from fracking/shale gas that is starting to open up a far wider range of possible sites at lower cost.


which is why dispatchable power is required - not coal?


Nothing to do with the blackout in Spain - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-... - voltage surge and various thermal power generators failing to provide the voltage correction services they were being paid for

But yes, grid following alone does not provided the required stability - synthetic inertia etc needed


True DC grids avoid this stability issue by not having a phase and allowing power flow to pretty much just self-balance through voltage gradients and clipping of connections/devices to whatever current they can handle.

With enough voltage range that wouldn't even need the tricky loops of voltage regulation common in incandescent-targeted legacy AC grids.


Baseload is traditionally about generation, not consumption. And baseload generation only makes sense when it is the cheapest option.

When solar and wind produce at near-zero marginal cost, running inflexible baseload beside them just forces cheaper generation to switch off, driving up system costs.

What the grid needs is dispatchable capacity - batteries, hydro, gas peakers (if we must) and demand shifting - that can plug the gaps when cheaper forms of generation cannot.


It sounds great in theory but doesn’t work in practice.

Just compare Germany to France.


This is such a tired trope. The differences between the two countries present day energy situation doesn’t tell you anything about how the world should proceed tomorrow.

Unless you have a time machine that you can use to get every country to build state subsided nuclear 50 years ago.


Not even France can replicate their nuclear construction of decades ago.


I had a similar experience and backed away from using it - non-spam emails were getting spam filtered without visibility or notification.


Assuming those don’t become illegal - Australian authorities are looking to ban face masks at protests- https://www.hrlc.org.au/explainers/human-rights-briefing-vic...


Yeah, Australia's conservative side of politics (arguably both sides are conservative in this regard) have, at various times, tried to make protesting itself illegal.

I like the irony of it, and doubt that "real" protesters give much of a fuck what kinds of boundaries the protested try to put around protesting.

These kinds of things are just another data point documenting "the general decline".


The investigation has shown it was in fact nothing to do with renewable energy sources despite the noise made at the time - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-...


It wasn't nothing to do with them, but it was mostly not to do with their intrinsic characteristics, and a lot to do with how they were managed on the grid, and how some of them were not actually acting as they should (which was also true of some non-renewable sources). Saying 'nothing to do with renewable energy sources' when the report spends half its time talking about renewable energy plants and how they contributed to the problem is really not helpful (as unhelpful, IMO, as going on about how it proved renewables intrinsically make a grind unstable, because it gives credence to that argument).


you also appear to get efficiency gains as vertical panels don’t get as hot - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/10/researchers-shed-ligh...


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