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Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository (www.theregister.com)
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The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

so, uh... can you ELI5 this for those of us that don't know anything?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The type of database they are using is called "postgres", which is also it's password.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.

    Edit: the DB_PASS=“postgres” is the default password when setting up a Postgres database.

    Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.

    I’m sure others can give more detailed responses, I’m typing this out in a rush.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.

    Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example.

    I was in a rush! Honestly it was the quickest thing I could come up with on the spot, plus database tools are something I lack a lot of knowledge about so I really couldn’t go in depth even if I wanted to.

    Appreciate the history behind Reddit’s database!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The person you replied to doesn't know what they're talking about. It's just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.

    You can see this in the readme: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api

    See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.

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