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Ask HN: What is the best programming language and eco system for backend?
I've been programming in nodejs, js is fine but eco system has become toxic. Highly unstable, incohesive, probably insecure, and just painful.

You're lost orchestrating a dozen of libraries with conflicting dependcies and configuration that's in flux.

I'm done with webpack, typescript, loser react eco system where you drag 10 libraries through your code as soon you learn them only for them to become obsolete in 5 months, done with docker/image, done with Babel and its plugins, done with graph ql, redux... Just random bs stuck together aphazardly

I plan to leave js and thus front end development altogether. So my question is what is a good choice for backend language, ecosystem and all. Where things come , if not batteries included, then at minimum designed intelligently to work together.

I used to care about performance, but I'm open to compromise now. Car's speed doesn't matter if it breaks down every other mile.

I'm leaning towards python, Ruby, and go
The dude came back out and sat on the bench for the third period. You could tell he wanted to get back on the ice, too.
This wouldn't be too uncommon in branded ecommerce. If you are selling well known brands it is going to be very hard to get decent organic search rankings for them in the short term.
https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/605739
I don't doubt there's a lot of FUD around the perils of nuclear power but as someone that had to take iodine pills in 1986 I have to ask if you accounted for the large number of people that were forcibly moved out of their home as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl power plant?

Have you normalized all those costs with the number of power plants of various types?

It may be that in absolute numbers nuclear power has been safer than anything else but it may also be that as a result of Chernobyl and other accidents they fell out of favor and didn't see as much use as other power generating methods which in absolute numbers have had a higher number of victims.
An “OS thread” is the most basic part of the program that can actually do things. When it is blocked, it can’t do anything.

OS threads can be expensive, so libraries try to only create a few OS threads.

A “hot loop” (usually, I think, called a “tight loop”) is a loop that does a lot of work for a relatively large amount of time all at once. Things like “looping through a list of every building an Manhattan and getting the average price over two decades.”

With some code like networking, you end up having to wait on other parts of the computer besides the CPU often, for things like uploads and downloads.

“Asynchronous programming” tried to make it easy to keep the CPU busy doing helpful things, even while some of it’s jobs are stuck waiting on uploads/downloads/whatever. This keeps the program efficient, because it can do a little bit of many tasks at once instead of having to complete each task entirely before moving on to the next.

The problem comes when you have a tight loop in a thread that is mostly expecting to be doing asynchronous work around I/O or networking. It is basically trying to juggle with one hand. The program can’t multitask as well, and you end up having to wait longer before it can start each piece of work you want.
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I finally forced myself to spend a solid six weeks using nothing but Linux after decades of using almost exclusively Macs. It's been much easier than I expected. Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell XPS runs great. It has some rough edges but it feels like my computer, rather than one I'm just borrowing from Apple.

Unless Apple makes a serious commitment to quality and stops prioritizing form over function, I'm done with them.
Probably because it's about "holograms" of dead performers performing "live" (as it were) and the ethics of the business of virtualizing those personas.
Same with iphone. Accessibility settings -> Guided access. Can turn on a setting so that when you triple click the home button it locks use to that app until you unlock.
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Does Rust offer composable futures ? Something like Javas CompletableFuture or Clojure's https://github.com/leonardoborges/imminent ?
Are you going to get into a transport airplane that can’t go around? I’m not going to. I’ve been in two low level go arounds on commercial flights in VFR conditions (good weather) and one missed approach (bad weather) in the last two decades. Is that three times that I would have crashed? Maybe not; Delta probably could have stuck the downwind landing in Vegas and USAir probably could have stopped before the airplane that was slow in clearing at BWI. Delta into AMS in the snow and fog probably would have been a crash if they couldn’t execute the missed.

Sailplanes are probably not the right model to go flying IFR to minimums, something that airlines do regularly.
More murders are committed by males. Does that make the simple verb “murder” inherently gendered? Is that your claim? because that’s the only possible relevance your odd personal testimony seems to be implying.
It makes for a dramatic YouTube video, many add impressions will be sold with breathless headlines, but look at how much force he needs to apply and ask how often you do that to your phone? These flaps will lead to someone at that company making sure it’s harder to repeat but it won’t make a difference for almost anyone in normal life.

(“Antenna gate” was similar: lots of heated prose while affecting many orders of magnitude fewer people than AT&T skimping on their network provisioning but the “look at those tech company engineers thinking they’re so smart” angle distorts things)
This kid makes "roughly the same compensation" as someone making $360K/yr.

I mean, that's feekin rad for them.

But as for what that has to do with people I know, or my life?
We don't know what they'll cost per unit of energy production or otherwise until they actually exist. And using the cost of research reactors built by hand by research physicists in order to test theories is obviously not a good indication of what they would cost in mass production.
How about JavaScript using NodeJS without NPM? Modern JS is a good language, and you can easily opt out of the ecosystem.
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On $50,000/yr? Lots and lots of households are doing exactly that, yes, especially if we're calling that after-tax income. But no, not by spending only 15% of their income per month. More like 100%. It'd take 15% of $50k just to rent a barely-livable old, rotting single-wide and a lot way outside the city to keep it on, before any other expenses like utilities or food or transportation, and this is a pretty low-cost area.

In my friend group at least three families (two with kids) are making under $50k pre-tax income, as households. A couple others are a little over it but not by much. There are three with household incomes way over that and... go figure, each has one tech-sector worker in it. Age ranges of something like 25-36, none in college.
I can't make a star wars movie.

If you have ever seen the prequels, neither can George Lucas....
I can't agree more. They're a draconian company eating megacorp, but they fixed star wars. Rogue one is probably my favorite after RotJ. 1-3 are dead to me. Don't exist.

Jon Favreau's a pretty decent director, so I'm excited to see how the Mandalorian turns out. Honestly I feel I need to launch a side project w/ passive income so I can retire and have enough for everything I want to stream off disney+... lol -- I'm 40 this month, and have two kids (2 and 10 months) and they're obviously going to love d+... I think D+, Hulu, Prime, and Netflix are really all you need for streaming... maybe HBO, though I don't know if I'll have time for all that content. I think network TV might die soon, w/ the streaming options nobody's going to need cable or even Over-the-air tv anymore. Nobody's going to be watching NBC, ABC, etc unless they're direct-to-netflix/hulu etc...
If HN is to retain credibility, we need to ban posts linking to insidious and deceptive domains.
> are the coaches broadly incompetent

I think it might be that they're competent with respect to achieving specific athletic goals but incompetent with respect to recognizing (ab)normal development in young women. I'm not an expert by any means, but I get the rather strong impression that elite athletic coaches for young women overwhelmingly either are male or are former elite female athletes themselves. Add that to selection bias for their clients and they might very well have little to no experience working with a normally developing female body.
Well, they turnover a hell of a lot more for one...
A woman’s stalker used an app that allowed him to stop, start and track her car
The death count is per terawatt hour of electricity generated, and nuclear currently provides 6% of all the power generation capacity in the world. Relocations were not accounted for, however if we're talking scale, slightly more people were relocated (300,000) around Chernobyl as died in Bangqiao.
In soft/firm/hard real-time, we can't use mutexes at all. Lock/wait-free is our bread and butter.
Members of violent white supremacist website exposed in 1GB data dump
I'm sorry, what did I say? You may have confused me with someone else.
Care to back that up with an argument or should we all just accept that your preferred culture is the "correct" one?
I think that’s thats brilliant. Many people fly far more than necessary. A carbon tax is important, but this could simply punish the frivolity of most air travel.
Duties and responsibilities in the Swiss health care system are divided among the federal, cantonal, and municipal levels of government. The system can be considered highly decentralized, as the cantons play a critical role. Each of the 26 cantons (including six half-cantons) has its own constitution and is responsible for licensing providers, coordinating hospital services, and subsidizing institutions and individual premiums. The federal government plays an important role in regulating the financing of the system, which is effected through mandatory health insurance (MHI) and other social insurance; ensuring the quality and safety of pharmaceuticals and medical devices; overseeing public health initiatives; and promoting research and training. The municipalities, in turn, are responsible mainly for long-term care (nursing homes and home care services) and other social support services for vulnerable groups.
This is a very US-centric view. In a lot of countries the content wasn't available, or was delayed significantly making torrent the only real option for seeing a show as it comes out. When social media is covered in spoilers waiting more than a day or two isn't particularly appealing.
Along with the sibling comment: my hometown of 5,000 people had a Sears mailorder pickup/warranty location only close within the last 10 years or so.

My family had the catalogue come to our house well into the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
Someone from Google, please do the same.
Ask HN: Do You Email Yourself?
I often do this, since it can be a hassle to retrieve a given piece of information when I am using many different systems during the day. Mostly, my content is solely in the subject line, and is often just a reminder, or personal note to myself.

This got me wondering: Is there a product here, or could email providers do something special when they notice you doing this?
Energy density per unit of mass is about 3x in favor of hydrogen. Energy density per unit of volume is about 4x in favor of Jet-A.
I like the ESV API, hadn't seen that before.

Thanks, author.
looks like it... embrace extend extinguish
This is a fixed-pie fallacy.

Someone of mediocre intelligence is not harmed by being in a society of people much smarter than him. On the contrary - he benefits greatly because smarter societies are safer, fairer, and take care of citizens (including the dumb ones).

This is revealed by real-life preferences: People from low IQ countries consistently try very hard to migrate to societies of smarter people. People from low IQ regions try to get into neighborhoods and schools of higher IQ people.

It's like complaining that Einstein existed because my grandpa didn't get to invent relativity. Well, my grandpa was never going to invent relativity. The fact that Einstein existed just means that the rest of us now get to enjoy the positive externalities created by his ability.

It's true that if everyone else is smarter, your relative social status would be lower. But this isn't an argument that scales up, since relative social status is in fixed total supply anyway.
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> - Pre-K programs

> - Kindergarten enrollment

> Every single factor listed above is demonstrably correlated with lifetime intelligence

I thought that pre-k and kindergarten programs (along with essentially all education) were not correlated with IQ when measured later in life? Part of how most "shared environment" influences decrease as people age. (The two remaining factors would be "nonshared environment" and "genetics", each at ~50%)

There is a correlation between "years spent in school" and IQ, but that's typically thought to go the other way. (Higher IQ causing more years in college - grad school, PHD programs, etc)

EDIT: I should add that there are still correlations that go the other way - more intelligent, wealthier parents are more likely to enroll their kids in pre-k programs and/or kindergarten, and are also more likely to have more intelligent, wealthier children. But intervention tests - where entire regions are enrolled in preschool, for instance - don't show the improvement you'd expect.
so the only solution is to keep increasing the population ?
I should have bought one when they were making them!
Now the Sith May have done some unethical things, but I think we should study what they did that worked and use it to help the rebels become the new empire.
Apart from "No eternal leaders", I don't think these are specifically attributable to representative democracy.
> I don't have time to trawl through all the details of the story you linked

Having done so myself out of morbid curiosity (and a sense of "there must be another side of the story that we're not getting"[0]) I would not suggest it. It's a rabbit hole that, as far as I can tell, leads back to the post I linked as the most accurate summary of the situation.

[0]: If there is, I have yet to find it after hours and hours of time wasted.
This is the guy you want to watch: https://www.youtube.com/user/FreshOutSeries
Not generating long-lived "nuclear waste" is a strong political advantage. The waste problem for fission reactors is overstated, but as long as it continues to be overstated, not having it at all is an advantage.
I wish I did, but I don't have much to add. He operated the business from about 1940 to 1980, so he was retired for all of my life. I imagine that my mother has some photos.
Organized religion doesn't scale fast. Growth is measured over centuries.

The impact of radio was huge. For the first time, entire populations of large areas could hear their leaders. For better or worse.
> This logic is repeated in both view controllers. Should be DRY.

It may well be a good idea not to be DRY.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395901
If the reference still works at that company, typically the HR will restrict information to confirming period of employment and the title. They don't want to deal with the legal risks. However if the reference is no longer at that company I guess they could be very open.
On the other hand many are of the mind that the progress in fusion was quite fast paced, due to competition, until many nations decided to join forces and invest in ITER. After which it pretty much stalled. ITER was supposed to be the Manhattan Project of fusion ( * ). So there's that.

Here's Robert Zubrin in "The Case for Space": "The national fusion programs progressed well during the Cold War because of fierce international competition. They have stopped moving forward since the late 1980s because the decision to consolidate them into a single global project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), removed all stimulus for action. Indeed, it took nearly a quarter century for the bureaucrats in charge of ITER to manage to reach consensus in 2010 on where to put it, and it will take another quarter century before the machine even attempts to reach thermonuclear ignition in 2035."

( * ) Cost comparison: Manhattan Project $23BN in 2018 dollars [1]. ITER cost, construction only: $22BN as per their own estimate, $65BN as per the US Department of Energy estimate [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

[2] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2018041...
im somewhat surprised this wasn't about AfterPrisonShow [0], that's quite a wonderful channel and it is great to see someone who managed to turn their life around and also turn a negative part of their life into a positive and to help educate and assist others.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSonmKTLAPC2bTCF4JHQ1lg
This blog post originated at Google, but it is not some kind of Code of Conduct everyone at Google has to follow. This was an episode of Testing on the Toilet, as the name implies it is a newsletter, which is posted in the bathrooms.
Yeah, I thought of that, I was just thinking that surely someone able to create sufficient karma to do something like that would necessarily also be unlikely to be petty enough to bother.

Maybe I am too charitable.
Businesses have a wide latitude to spend on aviation because business travel done right is incredibly lucrative.

The wrinkle I see with escalation of taxes per person per year is while my company would happily pick up the tab for work travel, I’d be upset if my Christmas trip home cost me thousands more because I’d done a handful of business trips.
People who have this stance typically understand something called voluntary exchange. The whole point of this stance is that you don't have a choice not to pay taxes and not use government services.

I don't have a dog in this debate, but it seems like people would gain from at least having a cursory understanding of the basic arguments and counter-arguments so they don't repeat the same fallacies over and over.

This is a decent source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...
We should a) build renewable; and b) build nuclear reactors with the idea that you will insert rods, to decrease power output when the winds are blowing strong, and restore power when the winds have dampened. Outcome, lowered nuclear waste from the plant, fewer expensive battery storage (or pumped hydro).
> it puts an extra burden on the climate control system

The Louvre doesn't have climate control throughout the compound. There's some sections that have it. But during August one should expect their visit to be fairly sweltering.
There is probably well over $250m in inventory alone even if assessed at liquidation value. So it's probably a safe investment and the terms of the loan probably have liquidation preference.
Not without his first wife (Marcia Lucas, also known for editing Taxi Driver) — I increasingly suspect most of these Great Man narratives are simply omitting the rest of the team.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/the-secret-we...
>and you can easily opt out of the ecosystem

You really can't. There is no JS ecosystem left to speak of beyond Node and NPM.
Recent versions of Windows 10 have the Sandbox feature which gives you quick and easy access to a temporary VM that would let you safely open the attachment as described in this article. Obviously not as secure as Kali Linux, but more usable to most people than spinning up a Kali VM.
I see a header with a search box and the rest of the page is blank. Chrome 78.0.3904.70

Console:
(index):247 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
at search ((index):247)
search @ (index):247
async function (async)
search @ (index):245
(anonymous) @ (index):130
>what am I missing?

Unreasonable optimism about battery technology/cost.
Yea the ESV API is really cool. Thanks for the share
Ask HN: Pair Programming Discovery Services?
Hey folks,

Something I've wished for more and more as I work on solo projects and learning new technologies is a pairing partner.

I've found that when pairing at $dayjob, I'm able to more quickly and efficiently break down tasks and accomplish a lot.

That got me thinking: what if I had a pair outside of work to work with on learning new stuff? I did a little searching with little luck. Is there any such service I'm not aware of? Say I want to hack on X in Go or maybe an ecto adapter for Oracle or something...where can I find folks up for it?

Any pointers? Thanks!
Apparently the SECAM version just had a board to convert the signal to SECAM installed.
I remember when I first started dating my wife, I encountered a number of people she knew from the same immigrant community (South Korean) who were driving expensive cars and living in nice houses despite working fairly low-end jobs. I asked her about it and she explained that basically these folks were either:

a) up to their eyeballs in debt with no savings of any kind

b) involved in some kind of "scam"

c) were being floated by rich relatives or friends somewhere else, but the story there was complicated

My wife has always been very frugal so I found this curious, but she explained that having a "rich" appearance was very important in the tight night social community that most South Koreans found themselves in. These three versions of what was happening were often occurring at the same time. An example true story:

A person she knew, despite working two jobs as a cashier at a grocery and a dry cleaners, owned an expensive house and drove around in a luxury SUV. This person took payment, in part or in full as cash and often simply didn't pay taxes. At church, they'd chat up friends looking for business opportunities. When one was finally spotted (an investment opportunity), it was realized they didn't have any cash to participate. They then convinced a close friend to loan them basically their life savings upon which the investment was made with "a few percent" skimmed off the top as a finders fee to purchase a few luxury goods to keep the game going. There were multiple investors, and eventually somebody ended up stealing somebody else's identity, drained their bank account and fled the country. The investment ended up buying a large inventory of very poorly made products that were unsalable and it failed. The person she knew ended up with no serious money lost and just moved on to the next strike-it-rich plan.

The house was mortgaged under somebody else's identity who had good credit and income as a "favor". The main floor was furnished elegantly for parties and after church activities, the rest of the house was entirely devoid of furniture. The SUV was a car they bought from a mechanic friend after it had been totaled by the previous owner and had new bodywork and some engine work done at extreme discount -- it barely ran day-to-day.

This wasn't a rare story. It seemed to pervade a large portion of the community and everybody was inexplicably blind to it, and fell for the same money-lending, identity theft scams over and over again.

When the Russell Crowe movie "Cinderella Man" came out, there's a scene where his manager, played by Paul Giamatti, is confronted by the main character's wife at his apartment. It's revealed that the apartment, and fancy lifestyle are all a display to give him credibility. https://youtu.be/e4fb7N_ICj0

It was then that I really understood what the success signaling and veblen goods in my wife's immigrant community was all about.
The catalog was like the phone book. They still had a significant e-commerce operation. My dad ordered a lawn tractor from them in the late 90s.

It was a big deal because they used LTL freight and many of the areas where they were located didn’t have good UPS or Fedex coverage.
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