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You're usually not the one deciding which stack to use and evem when you are, if you don't use the latest shiny framework and put it on your CV, you're not getting your next job.

A big problem is also support by libraries. Back in the day, you could find dozens of libraries to do what you wanted and they worked regardless of your stack because it was all JS anyways (the exception were jQuery plugins, but jQuery is pretty good about not fighting native APIs, so you could still integrate those even if you weren't using jQuery elsewhere). These days, it's pretty hard to find modern libraries that just give you a CDN URL and an init function - most don't even build shippable sources because they expect you to use webpack or whatever, not to mention, that you can find the exact same component ported to Vue, React, Angular etc. but very rarely also to "native DOM", for lack of a better term.
Saved me a click, thanks. The BBC has a real problem with clickbait headlines.

It's still kind of interesting that they even sued him, I suppose. And by looking at their Trustpilot page now, it doesn't seem to be working out well for them.
Reminds me of the late 90s when some websites were hand crafted.

A great site for news of pixel perfect sites was k10k.

http://www.cubancouncil.com/work/project/kaliber-10000
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I gave myself the month of January to complete this project. I launched it last week and it's made ~$10K in sales so far: https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1359067774056816641

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Would that mean they can sue for more than 25k damages, if the damages are actually more widespread, is the original reviewer at fault for this?
My guess is that > 90% of people using Kubernetes will never need to scale elastically. My company uses it, cost a ton of developer time. It gives us high availability which is nice, but we have no need for the scaling in the foreseeable future, and that was what was used to sell Kubernetes to our founders.
In hindsight, probably would’ve been way better to ship a `cryptography2` package and deprecate the old package.

That way you get the benefits of using rust without the anger about the sudden breakage of a transitive dependency.

In terms of floating versioning, I honestly think it’s not reasonable to ask packages to do this, because then you get into dependency hell with unfixable dependency conflicts.
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Hi! Couple of (probably) years ago I read an article about backend development. Someone was complaining that it is not that easy these days. It was written like a conversation: "you are still using sql? You should use nosql!", or "you are still using virtual machines? you should use containers / docker". And it went through lot of technologies. Very similar article was also about frontend. It was really funny and I would like to read it again :)

Of course, other funny blogs / articles are also welcome.
£25,000 — an expensive review. Totally the chaps fault for defaulting though, should have just shown up.
I was just about to link to code parade! He's done suck amazing things with real time rendering and perspective, it's great
Slightly off topic, but can someone explain to me what factors play into reddit being valuet at $6B while Snapchat is valued >10x that at $100b?
Here's a pretty dashboard that we use as marketing.

When there's a thermonuclear strike, we'll mark down the services we think are dead as yellow.
This is a very elegant approach. I have a project where I'm basically reconstructing mathematics from many different sets of first principles in an attempt to give the computer "intuition" about mathematics (intuition à la expert systems, not machine learning), and this has opened my eyes to a lot of elegant, useful sources of intuition (and not just about geometry).
Protip for anyone facing similar negative reviews on TrustPilot: Seek out positive reviews to counteract negative ones.

You will (hopefully) find that most people have a positive experience. If you don’t find that, perhaps a negative review is the least of your worries.

Once you have a stream of new positive reviews you can generally let negative ones slide much easier. People are acutely aware that not EVERYONE has a positive experience, they just want to see that the negative reviews are people being irrational or for something that won’t apply to them.
Well, to protect from that you need to pay more than $1 of hosting or put up a free CDN in front of it.
a fair amount of critical thinking does go on at WSB. a good number of people there are actually investors who just role play as a "memelord". how else do you think the gamestop shorts were found in the first place?
> Well that's really the only bar we have for offensive language, isn't it?

We can construct any bar we'd like.

You seem to completely dismiss concern for the bar being too low, why is that? Lots of people might feel sort of offended by women showing their hair -- should we accept that bar?
What do you think about topics in AI other than ML/DL?
I recently got accepted for PhD studies where I will be working on computational Social Science, algorithmic game theory, Fairness and Explainability in AI (NON ML/DL). I am really interested in these topics(NON ML/DL) but I am also deeply interested in DL research. Also I have done my Master in DL. Since my dream is to work at Google, IBM etc after PhD but looking at the vacancies at these companies they usually want applicants who have done research on ML/DL or closely related topics.

Is there any future with computational Social Science, and algorithmic game theory if I want to work at those research companies?
When applying for my first post-university job I started with writing cover letters on a per application basis. Very quickly I found that this seemed to be a waste of time and switched to a more shotgun approach where I'd format my CV to be more general for the kind of work I was looking for, leaving out the cover letter entirely, and applied to as many places as possible, eventually leading to a job.

I'm curious if anyone actually found cover letters to be useful in applying for jobs/reviewing applicants or is it just another pointless jumping through hoops that's unlikely to improve one's outcome of getting hired?
> I'm not convinced that the second use actually exists.

Look at the following message from this thread. Arrow quote marker is already there, so it there'd be no reason for the [sic] in my mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26074970
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How is the performance compared with simdjson (https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson)?
Here is why he claims he didn't show up:

> I didn't lie in my review of Sommerfield Browne and them suing their own client for gain shows everyone what they are.

> Their friends and family will back them up, as will the other lawyers.

> I submitted my case based on written law and the judge said it did not apply to me and ordered me to omit the law from my submission, before the trial hearing.

> The fact is the judge put £6,000 costs on me before the case was even heard - I was literally priced out of justice. I could not attend or I would be accepting these costs. I cannot fight a rich solicitor in front of a biased judge. Seeing there was no justice here I decided not to give the court legitimacy by attending.
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I’m saying that the word carries intent. In part because there is a well known alternative that can be used in almost any situation if intent is not intended.

There are a few exceptional situations, but none have been noted here.
Brilliant! Tom Lehrer would approve I reckon.
I kind of sympathize with the author, but when again it is bad requirements that make things complicated. I like to follow the concept of Boring Technology

I built a CRUD dashboard with some data scraping and parsing capabilities for a friend recently, and because I could define what I used, i kept it simple and relatively boring

The stack AppEngine (NodeJS), Google Cloud Tasks, BigQuery, Postgres and FireStore as a redis equivalent for session cookies. The front end has Zero JS, the app does not need anything fancy. I am using Nunjucks for templating and Tailwind for CSS.

The stack seems large, but I have zero devops work, and the DB is the only thing that keeps running all the time.
I think a tell-tale feature of manipulative games is Farmville-style time-gating. They structure their progress around meaningless actions like clicking upgrade buttons, but you can only press that button every couple hours. So playing optimally isn't so much about strategy or skill, but more about incorporating the game into your daily routine.

The intent is of course to form a habit, so that players habitually play the game no matter if it is still fun. Combine that with a good reward system that gives you positive reinforcement at random intervals, and you get something that is designed to addict you to the game.
I think we can all agree with the sentiment but it's sad to see a case such as this that proves it to be true.

Reviews in support of the defendent already coming in thick and fast, https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.summerfieldbrowne.com
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If we're talking about the ransomware attack specifically, nothing has really changed. We're just shy of 18 years from the Half-Life 2 source code leak.

But in other ways, yes, the gaming zeitgeist does seem more toxic than what I had remembered being engrossed in it as a teen (or I could just looking at it with rose-tinted glasses).
They absolutely support their practices by doing business with them. Not only did they list their game for sale on their store, they took their money (earned via those business practices) to give them the exclusive right to sell the game on their store for a period of time. This has the goal of driving even more customers to Epic. They don’t do these deals out of benevolence.
The most pressing issue of a time is seriously undermining reddit as place of free discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/ldz09x/...

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> First, no company should ask me for documents defining my identity

If by 'defining' you mean 'proving' then I'm afraid this is completely disconnected from reality, be it online or in the physical world.

Even leaving legal requirements aside, individuals and companies routinely enter into onerous contracts and it is perfectly reasonable to assert the identity of the other party beforehand, if only to be able to take legal action against them if needed.

The prime example for most people is obtaining a mortgage or any sort of loan. Would banks be willing to lend hundreds of thousands of pounds to "John Mclure" just because that's the name the applicant filled in? I don't think so.
The mobile industry tries to make addictive "games" but I've a friend who asked Valve to remove Civilization VI from his account. Thats an addicitve game -- just like Scorcese dismisses the avengers as "Theme Parks or Rollercoasters" and not cinema. I'd dismiss many mobile games as "games" and more like digital slot machines.

It doesn't help that the gambling industry chooses to use the euphemeism "gaming" as in "gaming laws".
> As for diversity, I attended a public school with 25% blacks, 20% latinx, 25% Asians, and whites were less than 30%, so thanks for the snarkiness. There is not fundamentally any problem with this diversity.

This is the great lie gated-community white progressives repeat. There's "no problem with diversity"..

Diversity is noble but it's not problem free. It is difficult. Daily interactions with different people, classes, cultures creates friction and paper cuts that wouldn't be there otherwise. The more diverse, especially with large population sizes, the harder it is.
Sure, the journalist's tweet was incorrect, but in Glenn's own words "that she got it all wrong is arguably the least humiliating and pathetic aspect of all of this".. His entire schtick is that "tattletale" hanging out in forums naming and shaming of people for comments they made is bad, and he does so in an article consisting entirely of naming and shaming people, ending by saying that people should feel obligation to scorn them

A freelancer tweets a banal point that Substack's level of direct support for its writers means that - unlike Patreon - at some stage they're going to have to consider perceived editorial slant if they end up promoting a lot of high profile contratrians, and receives a whole 17 likes for doing so. Several months later Greenwald accuses him of the thoughtcrime of "shaming Substack" and includes him on his list of people to heap scorn on. And Glenn wants you to believe it's other journalists that have developed an unhealthy obsession with hanging out on social media looking for targets...
They easily could if they wanted to, which is the point.

If at any point in the future, someone wanted to say, "Well, so-and-so may not really have been the one who posted it," or, on the other hand, one of the signers later wanted to renege and say they didn't really sign it, it's going to be a lot harder for anyone to buy that the account credentials and PGP privkey were stolen and used than just that someone somehow spoofed a post from an account.

It's like the difference between posting a +1 retweet and having a signed document notarized. One of those is a lot harder to claim was faked/unauthorized later.
Thanks for the suggestion. RSS is a bit limiting but sounds quite promising.
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Sounds like the customers' data itself is still available?

> All customers should immediately download backups of their websites and databases through cPanel.
Why not the fourth way: lower prices? Or the fifth way: give it to me...
Yeah agreed on all counts. React apps are a real joy to create. The UI just works like magic with reactive updates. Modern js tooling gives me a fun and effortless way to produce user interfaces.
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When it comes to Factorio, I've seen some backslash/hate from gamers for dev's decision on never putting Factorio on sale.
The reddit community loudly and confidently accused an innocent person of being the Boston marathon bomber, which directly led to the deaths of several people and a campaign of harassment against the accused's family.

That didn't shut them down. I shudder to think of what drama would be big enough to pull it off.
I guess someone was not so smart :-)
> I’m saying that the word carries intent.

No, you're saying that you know the intent.
I built a static site served by S3 & cheap Lightsail boxes that serves a $5B/yr business.

That was 4 years ago and beyond basic patching they've barely touched their infrastructure and it runs around $100/mo.
> rather than resolving the issue productively

Unfortunately it's not possible to productively resolve issues with the Signal team, something you can find documented again and again.

(My own experience: I had to justify the the user impact of 30+sec freezes on every sent message, confirmed by multiple people. Bug was closed wontfix.)

This is a known thing with Moxie and the culture he's created at Signal and it's unfortunate that he's still starting drama with everyone instead of doing any self-reflection.
What does the CLI wrappers you built actually do?
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In short, you need to be careful how you package and distribute software (including updates) for a couple reasons related to security. Many distributors doesn't do it properly, but thankfully companies such as Apple and Microsoft are starting to be more strict about what you can run on their operating systems, requiring the developer to notarize the application, or have to ask the user to by-pass the safety mechanism.

I wrote an article telling how you can do that for Mac, Windows, and Linux almost a year ago:
https://henvic.dev/posts/cs-security/
Assuming learning is not a big problem, which area would be pleasurable experience? There's not a whole lot there except Back end, front end, embedded, mobile application, ML? Any substantial fields I missed?
One major reason for the push back against Signal promotion is that it does not represent any sort of federated protocol. It is a complete silo. So if it did become popular it would eventually be a serious problem and would need to be fought against.
Reminds me of this satire (the original also linked in it):

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
I append "-site:reddit.com" to my programming queries, if it's coming up in results, because it takes multiple clicks in their slow, user-hostile web application to expand the conversation, and there's NEVER an answer there.
Stock market investment services should be treated same way as gambling. Warren Buffet's long bet with hedge funds proves it is nothing more than that.
This is the article about backend! https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/
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Same for US bombers - the B52 also first flew in 1952 and is expected to serve into the 2050s. Bomb trucks don't need ultramodern stealth, supercruise, vectored thrust etc - they need air superiority provided by other aircraft, a big jet engine, and reliability.
Yes, though the GP made no reference to Kubes at all and was talking more generally about AWS.

AWS has an absolute tonne of great and not so great services but you can easily use the basic stuff to get quite simple and cost effective solutions. You can YOLO it on the console and not even worry about cloudformation if you want, and if you have no customers it will likely be free tier to boot.
The DNS provider is not analogous to the CA. Remember that the CA only certifies that Cloudflare is in fact the Cloudflare, and not Joe's All-Night CDN and Lotto Ticket Dealer. The CA does not vouch for the ethics of Cloudflare, just like the CA does not vouch for the ethics of Google. So that's point 1.

Point 2 is that if I for some reason don't trust Cloudflare to protect my users' privacy or provide speedy service or hey, maybe I just don't like the fact that they carry traffic from a bunch of seditionists -- whatever -- then I have no easy way to say to Firefox: Don't Use Cloudflare, use my provider who I do trust.

I don't care what sites my users are visiting, so inspecting their DNS traffic is not something I need to do (although perhaps it is for certain enterprises). The central point is that I no longer get to easily choose which DNS provider to trust; Mozilla has made that choice for me. That breaks the internet in a way analogous to the way AMP breaks it, and that's wrong.

I can in fact change that choice but doing so introduces a new protocol and a new set of labor-intensive tasks for the sysadmin that did not exist before, and for every app that adopts the Mozilla model, that labor increases yet more.
It seems to me you're confusing HN's lack of some common forum features with the way that those features would be implemented; I would imagine that if HN did get, say, notifications, they would largely work without javascript, or some big complicated frontend build process.

old.reddit.com is another good example. Not everything needs to be an SPA.
Are there any confounding factors that need to be controlled for?

Yes, definitely. Are they likely to knock the UK from "almost worst in the whole world" to "did a good job"? Nae chance.
Divorce is common a thing, perhaps we'd move to something more like family pacts that last a decade or two... raise some kids then re-evaluate.

Maybe have a crypto-contract for that at 20 years you need to each pay a token to remain married else it's automatically disolved.

It's kind of cold, but so is living 1000 years I'd imagine. Though, I'd signup first thing just to see tech evolve.
Is there a better word to use than "addictive" to describe the brainy one over the unethical one?
"At the bottom you don't have to pretend that the circumstances will improve"

Well, sorry, but I would also say, you don't know what you are talking about.

First of all, there is no bottom at the bottom - you can always fall deeper, until there is no more escape than suicide. I know people who did.

What you maybe mean, are people who don't care abobut materialism and live with little to no money by their choice. I lived with those people for quite some time and it was fun.

When you are young and healthy and on your own, you don't really have to worry about a lot of things. I worried about my backpack with my laptop and that was it. I slept in a tent or under the stars or wherever. When the money was gone, there were always places or ways to get food. Work a little, travel a little. Easygoing.

But now I have a family. Now I cannot not have money.
I used to manage a fleet of cPanel servers years back, they were a pain to manage as users would regularly get infected on their local machines and have HTML infected with malicious javascript. We used a bunch of tools like clamav/configserver etc to keep on top of it but it was definitely whack-a-mole. Even with inotify style job triggers to check the newly uploaded content.
>But the main, core "Reddit experience" as algorithmically produced by r/Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It's the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about "internet culture". There's no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.

Just jumped onto the front page and found most of the posts to be politically charged, including posts from ostensibly apolitical subs like /r/science. Of course there's a market there, but they're certainly not going to grow when they're immediately alienating such a wide potential user base.

Reddit generally works for these small subs, but even those will eventually become cancerous. I don't know if it's something reddit can fix, outside of adult hobby-oriented subs, nearly every community went from something of quality to worthless after a few years.
Game development! You can choose whatever tech you are most familiar with and you get to be creative, work on probably the most interdisciplinary area of technology possible.
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You can't both be amazing and have sold out to Epic. It is one or the other.
Unfortunately that would require tons of work on the UI and a big rethinking of the dumpster fire known as web.