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Ask HN: MacBook Alternative for Developers?
For a developer with a wish for good design MacBook used to be a good laptop but this keyboard and the noisy keys have made it not a preferred choice anymore. So would love to hear any other alternatives
So I've got a site on S3 Cloudfront. I have an API gateway origin. I need to call an external API. The auth works by constructing a JWT, POSTing it to a token endpoint, and including that access token in requests to the API. I need a way to cache the access token.

1. Call API with Lambda proxy with the access token stored as a global variable outside the handler. Would be reused but like article mentions not guaranteed and can miss often.
2. Store access token client side (cookie). This would require one call per client even if the access token already generated.
3. Store access token externally (S3 or secrets manager?). Latency would increase, but could be combined with #1.

Any other way to do this?
>>Systems need to account for irresponsibility, especially those like the transportation system. The thought process of the distracted driver is not that the penalty can be disregarded. People develop a false sense of confidence in that an accident hasn't happened to them, so they can drive faster or look at their phone.

Brilliant synopsis of the argument discussed here, so many commenters seem to be talking _past_ this point.
Well, the roads still could be built to support the load of an occasional heavy truck, whatever the traffic limitations on that road are. And in most places, there are existing roads which carry the necessary loads. The repurposing would at most affect the topmost layer.
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They had to really look hard to find a part of downtown that looks like that. If you zoom out a bit you can see how all that parking came to be - the nearby stadiums / conference centers.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forsyth+St+%26+Trinity+Ave...

Atlanta's pretty run down in parts, but downtown really isn't that bad.
Do NOT try to get weed there.
Has anyone calculated how fast you could go from downtown to uptown with a bicycle and no traffic? Maybe the best way to galvanize public opinion is with hope: show them things can be much better, and they will want it.

You could plan a day to shut down some street for 100 blocks and do a series of stunts. Mock up bus and bike lanes, and do trial runs all day of bikes and buses moving up and down the corridor. Then run the results in the paper with the title "the future is here".
I've been on Digital Ocean for a few years, pretty happy with them and have no plans to move on. I was on Hetzner before them, but moved away because the pricing was essentially the same yet Hetzner's control panel (at least back then - I'm talking before 2015) was a bit of a pain, and DO's is all shiny, and I find what I'm looking for quickly, most of the time. Hetzner's admin panel might have come a long way since then though?
it will. i'm still fiddling with the final api design to make sure it can accomodate the planned features in a logical manner without hacks.
Wow. Another HN post for nerds to self-diagnose their inability to function normally in everyday life. I remember this site used to be about entrepreneurship and founders helping each other bootstrap their startups. The Eternal September continues.
2014 macbooks have issues with monitor speckling as the film gets old. 2015 had battery issues. Recent models have keyboard and heating problems. I'm not convinced these are durable devices.
> such as biofuels

Those have been tried and found competing with food production and forest land (which we also need to keep CO2 locked up). Currently they're not a viable strategy as things stand. Perhaps this might change in the future, but the path is not clear. For EVs on the other hand the path is more well defined.
Apologies for the attack, couldn’t resist. However, what you wrote is common sense and you should assume that anyone lurking around on HN knows that stuff. I mean you actually described the page rank algorithm which was the foundation of Google but there are many more signals nowadays. So your post felt like a (small) attack too.

FYI, Google runs quite a large spam team which flags scammy sites manually. Sites with such a modal are usually rather on the spammy side of life and gets flagged by the team. If you get too many flags you get severe penalties slowly eating your traffic in a way that it’s not clearly obvious and it can take years to recover.

But since it’s Medium such UI seems to be tolerated.

If I ran that team I would have killed Medium's, Quora's and Pinterest's search traffic. And soon maybe StackOverflows as well.
The LastPass standalone program on Windows was unusably slow as well last I tested it (left LastPass some moons ago.)
You say that like electric wheelchairs and scooters don't exist. People too disabled to even use those already require assistance anyway, so they're no worse off requiring assistance in a (nearly) car-free environment.
Too many trees attract pests and their roots break water pipes, I think we should cut them all down.
>"In these developing countries, great swathes of users are accessing the internet behind carrier-grade NAT."

Do you have any citations that CGN is any more prevalent in developing counties than in say Western Europe or the US? The last report from RIPE that I read indicates CGN usage in substantial in both the RIPE and APNIC regions.[1] How would IPv4 resource exhaustion be an economic issue?

>"In my experience, I’ve never had to solve more than one CAPTCHA per domain, and frankly clicking a checkbox isn’t that hard"

I imagine if you are personally "responsible for maintaining a relatively aggressive set of Cloudflare WAF rules" as you stated, you've probably become quite proficient at solving CAPTCHAs. I think people that don't mind jumping through hoops are a minority. Also just even if something isn't hard does not mean its any less annoying and degrading of the user experience. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

[1] https://ripe73.ripe.net/presentations/21-ripe73_cgn_richter....
> Paris has now public piss boxes on every major cross-roads to avoid people pissing in small streets

Do you have any example on this ? I often go to Paris on a lot of different places and I've never seen anything like this. There are public toilets but I think they are pretty similary to what you can find in every big cities in the world and definitely not open.
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Supplemental updates are shipped outside of the minor version bumps for quick(er) security fixes. Those do not change the build number and don't take the heavyweight update path.
Vultr: 1 vCPU / 512MB RAM / 500 GB bandwidth for $2.5 a month [0]. I ran a VPN with them, once.

https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/

For webpages, I have been using https://1mb.site (free custom domain and TLS) and https://netlify.com
Also check to see what free stuff you can get through your school!
Totally agree - I was more saying that the roads themselves do nothing to control speeds. Or, in a modern car it is easy to speed without realizing it.
Very true! You don't need a datum unless you're measuring angles on the surface and elevations.

My point was more that the standard mapping tools allow non-Earth bodies just fine. E.g. here's a UTM-like projection for Mars using a simple ellipsoid in proj4: "+proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=0 +k=0.9996 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=3396190 +b=3376200 +units=m +no_defs" You can happily define a simple sphere of the right general size and have things work correctly.

It's not overcomplicating the math to use existing libraries, it's avoiding rewriting a lot of fairly complex operations that are easy to get wrong.

You can use gdal, proj, org, et al quite well on other planets. It's a hell of a lot easier than writing everything from scratch. They're set up to do things like this.
But why? What’s the reason this has been solved differently in the US and in the EU, when pretty much everyone agrees that the EU solution a) works and b) is probably cheaper? Or asked differently, why does something like the EU system not work in the US?
Linode. Cheap but not too cheap, still reliable.
Gitlab does that for free, with free storage. Just fork any of the existing example projects:
https://gitlab.com/pages
TL;DR? "The size and range penalty (going from segment A to F) of the EVs was a 1.7 increase in lifecycle CCP impact".
When I was using 1Password a few years ago it was much worse than this LastPass problem: The Windows version of 1Password resulted in a stuttering mouse cursor and completely lagging UI of the whole Windows system every time the CPU was used 100%. Uninstalling 1Password immediately fixed the problem and I could reproduce it on 2 different systems. I never looked at 1Password again.
People upvote what they find interesting. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
I'm so torn between this and the upcoming Surface Laptop 3.

On the one hand, I trust the SL3's build quality and support to be A+ (though I understand the Matebook is also well built). But the catch: I doubt the SL3 is going to be Linux-friendly.
I semi-annually try most of the popular password managers (Dashlane, 1Password, Lastpass, Enpass, Bitwarden) and I always end up staying with 1Password. Both their desktop and mobile apps are very well thought out and there's all sort of small UX and UI finesses that make them a cut above the competition.

Having said that, you'll have to deal with a high subscription cost and proprietary (but audited) code. They are also unwilling to make a full blown Linux app.
Yup texting isn't helping. I don't think that's the whole story. I would guess that the automation of cars, even automatic transmission is making drivers less engaged in driving and less alert because they don't have to be. The extreme version of this is Tesla drivers sleeping in there cars while it drives. One thing I noticed about 5 years ago also was pedestrians not defensively walking across the roads, it's probably nothing new but I noticed there's a lot of people that see the green walk light and then just start walking.

Changes probably need to be made the to whole traffic system.
Keep in mind that the best selling passenger vehicles are not called "car" in the US statistics, but "light trucks". The number of light trucks sold in September 2019 is almost three times the number of "passenger cars".

https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/salesfig...
I completely agree. I walk an hour a day on busy streets. The shit I've seen. Whew. I assume every driver will try to kill me. I've walked, by my estimate, 25,000 miles since 1995. I've jumped out of the way of cars maybe twice. Many times, I saw they weren't looking and just wouldn't step off the curb.

The other rule I have: if I need to use my phone, I move to the side of the sidewalk and stop. I won't walk and use it. 99% of the time, it's in my pocket.
The GP is obviously wrong about EVs emitting no fine dust, see my sibling comment, but we're talking about fine dust, i.e. PM10 dust.

The study my comment links to notes that only 0.1-10% (depending on conditions) of tire wear meets that criteria, the rest are all more coarse particles.
Doesn't several services like this exist already? Siteleaf should somewhat fit the bill. Webhook, now defunct, also did something similar.
Yep. I use DO and it’s been just fine for low traffic websites. They’ve been great to work with and very easy to use. But I only host personal projects and internal tooling projects with them. Can’t speak to scaling but my experience has been positive.
What is her beef with infrastructure as code, and what is her suggested alternative?
The controversial claim is that he succeeded.

To spell it out, the alternative theory is that maybe cars won fair and square.

There is always lobbying in all directions. That doesn't mean it's always the decisive factor when something that was lobbied for won.
You realize the roads are controlled by the government too?
I believe these calculations are not as relevant for policy because practically you care that people keep dying from being hit by cars. Say, 10 people dead are 10 people dead.

They are not less important when they account for 1% vs. 0.0001% of walking people, per mile/km or whatever, are they?
Hong Kong is an ugly, overcrowded city that works in a part of the world where the personal space is up to your skin, but Paris is a nice city that has a lot of visitors (and tourism $) because of that. Make Paris look like Hong Kong and you kill it.
I see this all the time where I live, and it drives me insane. Truck culture is a waste of resources. What causes someone to pay $$$$ to decrease the efficiency of their vehicle? And don’t even get me started on soft rubber mud tires that only see pavement...

Obligatory MMM article:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-wor...
And great unmetered bandwidth
Can you represent “strong beliefs loosely held” using Bayesian representation?
A simple example or thought experiment represented in Bayesian notation should suffice. I'm not looking for a proof, just a stab at making this concept a little clearer in an objective way, and distinguishing how it differs from, say, "loose beliefs loosely held".
http://www.matrixenergetics.com/

Relatively benign non-physical "aliens" that have teamed up with this guy to ... I don't know what. They're fun and they help people learn to heal themselves and others and they don't seem to be trying to start a cult or anything crummy like that.

I attended one of his seminars and it was worthwhile IMO but it was a mixture of profound stuff and total bullshit (again, IMO.) One way to describe it would be "New Age faith healing" but that's not quite right.

FWIW, I did see them (or at least hallucinate them) and they do look like purple dolphins. In re: telepathy, everything is telepathic (including you, you are pretending not to know it for the sake of the show.)
Unless they can pinpoint some underlying structural deficit in the brain, the title seems to pathologize something rather trivial. I have very low autobiographical memory because I mostly consider it a silly made up story in my head and don't pay much attention to it.
Yes!! There is no one-size-fits-all transportation method.

And some people - notably, those with disabilities - are at a disadvantage with most options. It shouldn't be a requirement, for example, to spend multiple hours on buses just to run one errand because it's the only accessible solution.

Cars are designed for high speed, multi-use, multi-environment, safety-critical use cases, that are a byproduct of the environment cars have to drive in, and how they are operated. Take out most of those requirements and we'd have lightweight, cheap, tiny contraptions that fit cities better. You can even build cars that fit in bike lanes!
Same here - my mac air 11” from 2012 is more than sufficient to run my terminal windows into aws. I should get a new one but at this point, I feel like Kramer in that episode where he tried to see how far he could test drive a car after the empty light came on.
Interesting, might you or anyone else have any links or literature on the the the Windows kernel and its VMS likeness?
Double the cores, but my 13" 2013 MBP had 16GB of RAM and I'm pretty sure I couldn't choose more than that for my 13" 2019 model.

The 2013 didn't have touchbar, had a higher resolution display, a keyboard I didn't worry about and I ended up going down from the 1TB SSD the 2013 had because prices didn't seem to justify it for me vs. using more external storage.

I totally get struggling to justify an upgrade. I pretty much did it just because clients were commenting on the age of it as if I was making bad choices. If I wasn't tied into using Apple for my main client I'd have put Linux on something else.
ZOMG - a brain neuron from decades ago woke up - worked on some weird stuff in reversible computing in the '80s (think of assignment always preserving functional state at assignment) - my boss used to talk about his gates, usually referring to them by a more profane name . :-)
If we expand "tech" to mean "technical" rather than "technology", those statements become much more likely to be true. People who have skills in some sort of technical background seem much more likely to have interesting insights than people who do not. HN loves to post Slate Star Codex, for example, and I doubt most here have the skills in psych to effectively evaluate his writings as correct.
Because images on Medium wouldn’t load without JS.
My choice too. Been pretty reliable and perform well. Easy to find a $20 credit for new customers on podcasts and other ads.
It sounds like what you want is https://writefreely.org/ ? they have both a hosted option and a self-hostable open source version. The missing part is the discoverability that Medium had and that Able and dev.to are working towards, so I don't think it's totally comparable. Actually, saying that now, I'd love it if it even went one way--so I could choose to post my article on my write freely blog, but also syndicate it out to Able. (even if I didn't use the Able editor to publish out to ActivityPub and Able to host all the APIs for that) Might be simpler.
In France: OVH. Their kimsufi lineup is hard to beat.
I have family in the Paris suburbs: they never have to water the lawn, there is enough rain for that. Trey also don't have a lot of asphalt, there are some narrow streets connecting village to village and even smaller streets in the villages. There are lots of trees everywhere, it's as green as you can get.
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Are you looking for a job? In my experience that may be the number one differentiator among employees, how much random crap they keep in their notes and are able to reference again later.
Macbook Pros are standard at my work, like a lot of companies, but I'm going to push to get the first non-Macbooks. Almost entirely for Linux support.

The Archlinux wiki for Macbooks hasn't been updated since 2015 (AFAIK) and even back then it was a bit rocky.

From experience it's a necessity to have a laptop with Linux in mind instead of tacking it on. It shouldn't require any sort of hacking to get working.
I mean, sure, they can argue that, but legally they’re wrong. Legally, tax evasion is a crime, and the money they’ve stolen by not paying their taxes isn’t their money.
Could your Linux needs be fulfilled by WSL2?
I agree. I'm developing something, and while a subscription is attractive to me, I feel it's not correctly aligned to what users deserve.

I'm burned out by all of these subscriptions and trying to go back to my "roots".
Just a suggestion, use Slack from a web browser instead. I usually pin frequently used websites like Gmail, Slack, etc. and turn on desktop notifications. So, there is no overhead of running a separate electron instance.
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Heroku is free if you don't need constant uptime (it shuts down your server when it's idle for a while and starts it back up when a request comes in). Then the cheapest paid tier is $7.

It's also really pleasant because you deploy by just pushing your code; no SSHing or cron jobs. You do code an entire server process; you just don't manage it. So it's like halfway-serverless.

The downside, other than being $7 instead of $5, is that that's only for a single process; you can't run multiple low-compute servers within that $7. The file system also gets wiped whenever you deploy, so it's not appropriate for a database.
Minor nit: I'm not sure how one would double-blind an echolocation study.

I think one useful distinction we can draw from your point is that there's a difference between (1) establishing that human echolocation exists and (2) establishing that human echolocation is a useful skill for persons with visual impairment in their daily lives.

Regarding (1): Skimming the literature, human echolocation seems like a very robust lab phenomenon. I think it's safe to say we've established beyond a reasonable doubt the laboratory-fact of human echolocation in the general population using traditional psychometric research techniques. (I am not an expert, but the research linked from the target article has a pretty robust citation network in very good journals using a broad spectrum of lab techniques, google scholar turns up some review articles on the phenomenon in respected journals, etc.).

Regarding (2): After a very cursory search I don't see much out there. It's both messy and expensive to establish the success of coaching/skill acquisition (like training in echolocation) in the long-term wellness of individuals. There must be a robust literature on evaluating outcomes for learned skills (it's relevant to everything from evaluating skills for managing memory impairment to evaluating training programs for anger management skills to such pure horseshit as empathy training for corporate execs).

What criteria would you suggest for a successful experiment in (2)? Is there something you'd like to lean on as a precedent?

Also note that the target research article isn't interested in either (1) or (2). It takes (1) for granted and uses it to suggest a model of neural modularity that is task-oriented rather than modality oriented, but we're far enough down the comment thread that whatever.
> I don't think I want one guy to decide what it is.

She didn’t decide. She said what she wanted to do and then the city elected her. The city decided.
I wrote elsewhere that even if you don't do ActivityPub publishing, being able to import from the ActivityPub 'article' type would be a nice feature. I don't know if people have played with that kind of one-way AP integration much, but it'd be neat.
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I built a Vue.js component for a Rails form that had tons of hidden fields and we couldn't figure out why it was grinding to a halt and lagging only on my bosses machine.

Turns out it was Lastpass and using their lp-ignore flag didn't do anything since it was loaded after the fact.

We ultimately decided to just have an advisory to tell people to disable Lastpass if it came up. Which involves going to the Account settings page and adding a 'Never URL' https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/disable-lastpas...