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Ask HN: Which stack for prototyping?
As a Devops engineer, I have seen a multitude of stacks used in the projects I helped deploying.

As a former developer, I have had countless of project ideas and choosing the tech it's going to be written in has always been a [unnecessary?] long topic, often leading to procrastinating and giving up on the idea.

I often hear (and claim) the argument that "one should use the stack they [the team] are the most comfortable with". While I strongly agree, I find my personal [developer] stack to be slightly outdated (as a system engineer, lots of Python, some Node with Express, and some irrelevant languages - C, scripting, ...).

Focusing only on the development side, what would be YOUR goto stack for very quick prototyping/MVP, say for a webapp/saas service?

Long term code support doesn't matter much here, the goal being able to bring ideas to life very quickly. Let's say 10k users max (or much less).

Some recommendations I've had:

- Node: Nest + Next.js - modern and popular stack with quick prototyping possibilities

- Elixir/Phoenix - attractive ecosystem, developer oriented

- PHP: Laravel + Livewire/Blade - very quick prototyping and social features

- Python: Django - because I'm already very comfortable with Python
> You can't take away phones from them else they feel peer pressure.

I don't think that this is sufficient justification for abdicating parental responsibility to moderate and limit phone usage.
I have given up on 13" laptops for performance demanding work, you just can't stuff cooling into that package.
Nice try but giving me completely unrelated information out of the blue is not what is under discussion here. If you had corrected me grammar or something, I would have been thankful.

The biggest problem here is people treating others how they would be treated. That's right, the problem is people following the golden rule. People explain things because they themselves appreciate explanations. Maybe other people need to be more empathetic and understand that these explanations are coming from a good place.
This is good advice for many but it's not nearly as universal as it's implied.

There are people who don't live up to the mark in terms of quality and that's that, and in those scenarios it would have little to do with trust.
It would be very useful to the main characters of Blow (2001 film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSYcDdjIXsY
Yes they do. I've tried addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and they seem to work to me.
I wonder what are the use cases for this kind of hardware?
I agree it doesn't make any sense, and I would prefer to live in a world where ads were served as you described.
Maybe but this is rarely the option we pick in the world. Thousands of children could be saved yearly by lowering the speed limits on roads but we don’t do it.

Thousands of non functional products can ruin the company while this event could be explained with “Don’t allow children around running and dangerous equipment.” You wouldn’t allow small children around a running lawn mower or car and a treadmill requires the same level of respect.
To be fair there probably isn’t a meat grinder under there - it will just be a belt that runs to the front.

The deaths will probably have been from crushing.
And also being famous hurts. "Kid dies getting sucked under some random treadmill" is not as newsworthy as saying it's a peleton treadmill.
I've been wondering about possible subtle benefits hashrate dominance could bring other than double spending. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to benefit nicely from being able to load the dice of which transactions are committed and which have to wait for some minority miner to win the race? Certainly nothing on the scale that it would pay for the hashrate by itself, but that's already covered by regular fees and reward.
> They usually just want us to build whatever they say.

a bad manager would.

But also, an engineer capable of this is basically CxO material - which threatens said manager's career progress!
To a large extent I agree. It'll come down to the type of strat they're running. If it's a very short holding period, performance is more correlated with skill, and the bonus should therefore be more correlated with individual performance.
I like Rails on the back-end (or simpler Ruby-based frameworks like Sinatra) and Vue or Nuxt on the front-end. I have stuff in production with these and they progressed very well from prototype to production.
Are there credit card companies which do not sell transaction data?
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It’s all about opportunity cost and what your role would be. CFA is generally only applicable to investment management anyone who thinks otherwise is uninformed.
What's in it for Ireland and Bermuda?
It is due to the decomposing vegetation under the water. However, it depends on what is under the water. Some hydro reservoirs actually are carbon sinks while others are worse than coal plants. You also have to take time of operation into account. Hydro becomes cleaner as time passes. A 50 year old hydro plant will have had a lot of the vegetation decomposed already vs a 5 year old one.
I used to joke with my wife that if someone ever needed someone to talk to at 3.30 AM on a Sunday, they should call a real estate agent. Those people seem to never get time off.
> I know my devices are (probably) not listening

Not thinking this is happening either. But just to speculate on a fictitious scenario..

Given a shady company, maybe even outright involved in illegal practices, where employees employ any surveillance tech they can lay their hands on. All in order to collect as much personal information as possible, from as many people as possible. As such, they won't shy away from breaking & listening in and do subsequent speech-to-text information gathering (e.g. via some Ad-obtained Windows malware, or a malicious mobile app).

They trade the collected info on the data markets, selling to anyone who'd pay. Wouldn't it be likely that this data then indirectly ends up at Google, so they can indeed target - in this case Voltaren - ads to you?

Also: If any illegally obtained information enters the data markets.. won't it be 'whitewashed' automatically as it is trading hands?
Ok. Then what you’re saying doesn’t make sense.
You do, but relying fully on whatever information the agent chooses to give you, regarding the bidder and other interested parties.
Yes, functional currency would be crypto for a crypto first company.

If we take example of a SAP or XERO like software, a conventional company uses integrations/receipts from banks, sales platforms, physical receipts etc. In a crypto first company e.g. a crypto game dev company - the sales are in crypto, the funding via tokens is via crypto, the platform fees (defi apps) is in crypto - so a SAP/XERO like software is not build for purpose - hence my question that is a crypto first accounting/expense/reporting software needed.

Volatility will still remain if you use current mechanisms depending on how you book these assets on your balance sheet. Which more depends on how the taxman classifies them going forward.
Not that I can see it’s a pretty good idea to bring it there, could be onto something.
Well, why don't you consult them? First set aside the amount of money you were thinking of paying. Now think of some options, e.g.:

* Paying the bonus.

* Improving office amenities.

* Buying each employee an expensive present.

* Funding a family vacation for each employee.

* Making a sizable donation to a worthy cause (collectively or for each employee).

* etc.

Then have a meeting with them, and ask them which they would prefer. Try to reach a consensus they all say they can live with.
> the juiciest target for a nation state to hack

Not even just for a nation state, it's the perfect target for anybody looking to gain reputation/large scale access to very interesting systems.

Hacking the keys to the kingdom from the people who are supposed to protect the kingdom from hacks.

In terms of "pwnage level" it can't get much "better" than that.
maybe try contacting Fiverr support on Twitter?

Otherwise, if you're in the US, I'd try small claims court if it's under the $ threshold
The buyer does not pay for the costs of using real estate agents in upfront money. They pay the cost of using agents by paying a higher price for the property, all other things being equal, if no agents are used.
Sure, but with so many potential buyers, even without the people who'd be renting it out, wouldn't it still be perfectly possible to build houses profitably?
The problem to solve is a crypto first replacement for a SAP/XERO platform that aggregates receipts/proof of sales/bank integrations/expenses+fees for a crypto first company like a crypto game dev company or a crypto exchange etc that will have revenue, most expenses, funding, debt etc in crypto rather than fiat.
Allegro Poland – Facebook
Typeup – a markup language that gets out of your way
In fairness, making things "stick" includes things like marketing, sales, and distribution. Most publishers these days do the latter two but not so much the marketing and promotion part. For example, they're not setting up book tours or sending out review copies for the most part these days.
It was this one: https://www.amiunique.org/fp

It goes into more detail than the EFF link where it breaks down your uniqueness per each metric (and how much entropy each metric adds) as well as giving you an overall uniqueness.

It's a fantastic but also scary resource :)
Did you self-publish or use an established publisher?
Agreed, it resonates here too. There's probably a little of the "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" mindset[1] in here, somehow.

Engineers, product managers, executives, and consumers alike probably all _tend_ to have a slight bias towards seeing new features as a good thing, for whatever reason.

And even the second-order perception of that bias ("we should probably consider adding this feature, because I think my manager would prefer that we add more features") probably compounds into this problem.

Prioritizing staying up-to-date, simple, bug-free, and in-line with user requirements might lead to better results; achieving and managing that in practice is a whole separate story.

[1] Footnote: not making any claim about the accuracy of this quote :) But it could illustrate the point somewhat, if the prevalance of the quote has, over the years, led to more sales for IBM.
Support a pirate party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
Yeah thats what I am trying to test - if there is enough market for this. Unlikely a SAP/XERO/others will be fast enough to pivot (lol). I am assuming an ideal company is one that funds itself in crypto, makes revenue in crypto, has most expenses in crypto, debt in crypto might find it useful - at least thats my conjecture.
3d tours are amazing, but unfortunately, at least in Iowa, they're almost never used by real estate agents. There is a for sale by owner company (FSBOHomes) who charges a flat fee for marketing your house, and includes it as part of their base fee.

I ended up buying and selling a house through that platform. It saved me tons of time on the buy side since it provides a great virtual walk through as well as a floor plan with dimensions. Floor plans were never available if a real estate agent posted the house.
UK to NL.
During a gold rush, sell shovels.
> privacy advocates still go for "I have this hidden treasure trove of analytics about my site that you cannot access"

That's .. private? Why is it surprising that privacy advocates would say that this is private?
If you

- don't sell this as AI (because it isn't)

- leave out the decentralized ledger crap

- don't go global; start locally, focus on a small set of problems first and build a track record of actually providing good solutions

then it would look like a great idea.
Trying Out Cosign
Which telco is that? Is it UK based by any chance? Article says things are different in the UK.
Sure, but I don't think they're listening from a technical standpoint, because the battery consumption is much less than an active network adapter would consume.
I was just using the terminology of the person I replied too but your comment made me look into this topic further and I agree country would be a better word.
Same in france
Ask HN: Were you able to have a work-life balance doing a coding job?
I was suspicious from the title itself, but there is this gem: "34,166,633 cases were reported and 1,018,876 have died with virus diagnosis. Interestingly, 99% of the detected cases (I assume the 34.1M reported cases) with SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic or have mild condition".

So, 99% of detected cases (33.7M) are mild or asymptomatic making only 1% severe (0.34M), yet there are 1M deaths.

It may be an honest mistake (perhaps they were looking for the word "estimated" instead of "detected cases"), but it's hard to keep any trust in the authors doing their math correctly on more important points.
Your comment makes me wonder what the largest elapsed time duration has been so far between the previous release of a popular software project and a confirmed, accepted bugfix.

(naturally it'd be easier to determine that for free/open source projects, although only a subset of the overall space)

Edit: add the word 'popular', to potentially make the answer more widely-accessible by filtering out tiny/niche projects
Vertical scaling, I assume. For some services that may even be a sensible option, given the development cost and flakiness of many horizontally scaled systems.

But as usual, what AWS charges (1x hardware cost per month) seems a bit excessive.
It's possible but VERY expensive and severely limited.[1]
What is possible and usually acceptable though is shared storage. So another host will spin up the machine for you and you'll have encountered an "unexpected reboot".
More often than not monitoring will tell you something is wonky with the server in advance, so you can live migrate to another host and lose nothing "nothing", fix or retire the machine and problem solved.

1: https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/fault-tolerance.html
> An FTP site is what you use to transfer files over the Internet.

Afaik that was the updatesever and the password originally came from a public Github repo where is was stored in plaintext since at least June 2018 [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/16/solarwinds_github_pas...
> Hey... I want to automatically compress the script file

The trick is to write so little JS that its bandwidth usage does not even register. I'm recently going as far as to include licensing headers and extensive comments in my website JS, see e.g. <https://xyrillian.de/res/chapter-marks.js>.
Analytics of what? Analytics of your own stuff is not spying.

Entertainingly https://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/ uses Google Analytics, while http://english.www.gov.cn/ (yes, no https) uses Alexa metrics. You can't even access the Chinese Communist party website without being "spied on" by US-based metrics companies. I don't think this proves anything but it's amusing to contemplate.
Sorry, my bad. They already started rewriting core components in Rust.

Here you go:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
> The logical decision is to always accept the money, because a small amount is still better than nothing

This is a moral decision for me, not a logical one. Someone trying to make you accept an unequal portion is 100% trying to take advantage of you.

The only situation I would accept an unequal share is if the portion was significant enough for the fact that it's unequal to not matter.
Equity is just another way to not give you money in most cases. Unless you are at the founding level, wasting years of your life for just a few extra thousand dollars? Imagine if you were getting paid $150K instead of $100K + options. In three years, do you think your options would yield $150,000 in case of a liquidity event, in the BEST case scenario?
You could become employed at the company, or break in or compromise one of the employees, to get access to the messages from valuable targets
One of our [0] customers does something like that. He has developed a .NET framework [1] to send clicks to our API and monitor how his apps are used from our dashboard.

[0] https://pirsch.io/

[1] https://github.com/Brouilles/pirsch-dotnet-sdk
How to compare the performance of different HashiCorp Vault back ends
The use case is different. For the price of a cloud instance, on top of the instance itself, you are paying for:

* availability. On AWS, you can start a couple dozens or hundreds of instances on demand, for a limited time. You are paying for that spare capacity. VPS/Dedicated servers generally have much lower spare capacity, and you're booking things by the month, not by the minute.

* reliability. Most real cloud instances live on networked drives, and your risk of losing data is very low. On root servers, you have to handle data reliability yourself earlier.
(you should do backups either way, but you're likely going to use your backups more often on VPS/Dedicated offerings than in the cloud)

* surroundings services. Private networking, security features, etc.

You pay a premium for all that, so for the same raw compute performance, cloud prices will be at least 2-3x the price of a basic root or dedicated server. On the other hand, vps/dedicated servers typically include bandwidth in the price. The best choice depends on your requirements, but most people will blindly go towards cloud servers..
I see there's only one review for your book, couldn't you have encouraged your friends and family to buy and review the book (honestly)?
Self-reply: perhaps an easier way to express this question would be:

"What is the most reliable popular software product in use today, determined by the absence of reported bugs?"
> You don't get this kind of attack because you had an exposed FTP server.

Leaking the extremely weak login credentials to your updateserver, trough a public Github repo, is not exactly a glowing endorsement of how serious security seems to have been taken at Solwarwinds.

With stuff like that being a thing, who knows where else they cut corners/got lazy.

> this makes SolarWinds a prime target, one that is worth the efforts taken in this case.

A prime target, yet apparently could still not be bothered to put in some minimum effort to protect themselves.
Mystery of disappearing drone swarms in the US Midwest
Pity that you don't know
They could have written a new post with an apples to apples comparison, but they prefer to moan about the lack of inclusiveness - hilarious...
As a former/retired chef, who mainly got into food for the sheer glutinous delight that only slightly justifies enduring the backbreaking Industry, this is truly a cruel fate but may have been for the best if she had to deal with eating disorders and mental health issues.

Untreated mental illness is the norm in that Industry, as is substance abuse and suicide.

So given the abuse (physical and mental) in addition to her eating disorder and mental health problems chances are she probably wouldn't have made her first year working line without severe consequences. Culinary school often depicts a false-reality of the Industry, and rarely do most of its graduates fare better than a seasoned cook who made his way up from the dish pit/prep cook in my experience, because doing that at least vets people who actually can still show up after what is a romanticized view of an abusive, low paying, high stress work environment.

I'm glad she was able to identify her illness and despite this affliction she was able to persevere and live her Life as best she can but their are likely no words to adequately describe the ordeal this would do to a cook despite this journalist's best attempts.

I normally dismiss Social Media as a viable means for non-vanity based, shallow, vapid forms of communication and will often refer to it as the cesspool that it is, but I'm glad this was there to help her recover. Especially since COVID killed most people's social life.
That's true but what can you do about it? It's a direct consequence of building large/complex products. To me it seems that you're just advocating for only building small/simple products.

Typically you have a chief engineering team that is in charge to strike that balance, and drive the compromises with all the specialists.
>It's just that artists are somehow not able to get together and force fair terms on whatever it is in the upstream

That's nonsense with respect to books. If you self-publish on the most popular distribution channel (Amazon), you keep quite a large percentage of your revenue. The issue isn't the middleman, it's that there's a huge number of other books out there and unless you already have an audience or put the work into creating one somehow, not many people are going to find your work and buy it. If lots of people actually do buy it, you get a pretty good cut. But it's hard to get to that point.
Probably just one example:
Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10274245
To be fair, a lot of science is named after and even inspired from sci-fi works. The Alcubierre drive comes to mind, which was inspired by Star Trek.

But yeah, Andy Weir is far from a classic in that regard.
Using Telepresence 2 for Kubernetes debugging and local development
So I do agree with you from a certain point of view, but from another point of view, 3% seems too low.

Consider that this is a very large transaction for an asset that changes in price over time, and no two homes are the same. Even buying cars usually involves a lot of negotiation. I got 15% off after negotiating my car price and a house is 10 to 20x what I paid for the car. The idea of ensuring you get your best price is worth introducing an expert. Sure, ML might solve home pricing eventually, but you still have to communicate, justify and sell it at that price, which is going to be something you want an expert to do. All of this doesn't even touch on the game theory aspect of auctions and bidding. It's a big mess.
> What is the legal mechanism for a unilateral world ban on use of a technology

Might makes right, aka USA foreign policy since its inception. US sanctions are applied for everyone - e.g. if the US sanctions Iran, a French company does business in Iran, the US fines them heavily. And considering the US market is more lucrative than the Iranian one, most companies would prefer to have the US one. For a recent-ish example, check BNP Paribas. The US has no legal right to forbid a French company with a US branch to not do business with another country from another branch besides when they say so. The same way they say so for crimes against humanity, or invading other countries.

So the US can absolutely ban cryptocurrencies on a global-ish scale.
Bucket nonportable may be of interest to you, if you aren't already aware.
I find the fact that MS is promoting Rust in itself much more interesting than the content.

Also, I would still really like to learn Rust properly, but I don't have any use for it currently either at my day job nor for my side projects.