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Happy that it failed. The critique against Microsoft of the 90s back then was in many ways correct, however I’m not convinced that net delivered applications with Netscape would be an improvement, even if it was executed by old school Unix people.

And if we look how the web has evolved it is nothing but a nightmare. Java applets would probably be an even larger attack vector. Not really encouraging that we in the end got the better solution of the "net delivered applications", but here we are.
Nothing particularly against managers, but that idea hits me a bad way. Managers have a tendency to want more and more in their management pool. Either people or products, if they can't get clients. So... I don't see that being a good path.

Granted, developers often do this, too. If you can find a way to align incentives with users, I'm all for it.
The illusion that we did "tech" ourselves out of anything and so can keep on "sustainably growing", aka. the Rifkinian trap, is pervasive though.
The fact we used a cheap windfall of
fusion energy stored through photosynthesis and sloooow underground cooking to fancy ourselves masters of the universe is lost on most, having a car that dissipates more of this very precious energy is still considered a sign of social status in many parts.
Most of the cameras in the store are for (a) customer service or (b) organized crime tracking.

For (a), if a customer comes in with an odd return scenario / complaint, a fair number boil down to "what actually happened when they were originally here?" Camera provides documentation of that, and asset protection can review, and the make things right. E.g. the "bought thing, but didn't make it into my bag" scenario.

For (b), it's post-hoc identification & ad-hoc warning. Organized theft rings typically hit multiple stores in an area. Retail has gotten very good at sharing snapshots of individuals very quickly in those scenarios. And it's worth it, because a single organized theft incident will be a couple orders of magnitude larger than all your common theft for a month. E.g. $10,000 worth of product vs $100.
If you are doing concrete work, you don't need a mixer. Just trowel the highway by hand.
So Pegasus is a non-story right, since she's been reporting on that for years now?
The easiest way would be to implement the smart gun tech for tools. Keep the paired bracelet at the counter, then the user can wear it when using it. If the bracelet isn't in range, then the tool won't work.

I'm guessing people wouldn't be very happy with this user experience though. Cost for biometric implementation would likely be cost prohibitive.
Yeah the process always struck me as just as much a barrier to exit as a barrier to entry (maybe even more so).
Essential Java features to help modernize your code
VPP (http://fd.io) NAT plugins are used in various production deployments.

Various NAT-related perf tests:
https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/...

Disclaimer: I am involved with the project
I've been building Blocktimize, which is a no-code solution for smart contract integrations on Ethereum. https://www.blocktimize.io/

Using Blocktimize, you can receive webhooks for smart contract events instead of having to connect a node/scan blocks, connect smart contracts to analytics engines like Amplitude, and finally I'm working on adding daily and weekly reports for smart contracts.
A language with significant white space seems suboptimal for a device with a small screen .

I remember fondly my wall of text no indentation TI basic programs
GP:

> > Israel is written about, almost always negatively, on a daily basis on all major newspapers

You could say that about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) as well or the dictators in Saudi Arabia. Sometimes there's a well founded reason for criticizing the state in a country.

That does not mean the ones who criticize the Israeli state or the CCP, would think that everyone in Israel or China are bad people.

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> same observations as you

There's a cognitive bias to notice negative sounding things written about one's own "soccer team", but not notice positive or neutral things so much.

Let's say there's 1 article about settlers taking land, 1 about the Israeli state selling suicide bomber drones to Azerbaijan, and 15 articles about vaccination, tech companies, the Pride Parade, other things -- maybe you wouldn't remember the 15 latter, only keep the 1 + 1 former in mind.

(This is as expected b.t.w. thinking about evolution and hunter gatherer tribes long ago)
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SBCL is fast. People seem to lump together dynamically typed languages, but the reality is that python and ruby forgot all the things learned during the 80s and early 90s.

My experience is that small programs like this are usually at least an order of magnitude faster in SBCL compared to python. At least if the python code spends some time in actual python instead of offloading to C.
This is not so much a Tesla hardware issue as it is a lithium ion issue. Tesla's packs are not more or less dangerous than other lithium ion battery packs.
Common Lisp has always had pretty good support for compiling to fast machine code. Most people underestimate it, for at least two reasons. One is that it doesn’t have good standing in popular benchmarks relative to C, even with speedy implementations like SBCL, and the common takeaway from such benchmarks is that a language is either as fast as C or infinitely slow. The second reason is that the process of building standalone executables is less accessible than in other languages; even to people familiar with Lisp’s strengths, it’s kind of arcane, giving off the impression that deploying CL code in production is an unsolved problem. Also, Lisp is an old language family, and the quirks of Common Lisp in particular are weird and unfamiliar when coming from any modern language, even Clojure.
These stories reinforce my decision to go into consulting so long ago. People hire me because they can't get stuff done, and they need it done now. We're not getting married, and I'll be gone as soon as the project/mission is accomplished. And, no BS coding tests.
> I honestly don’t know why you’d want to not use it

It’s big and it’s slow when compared to other frameworks and particularly when compared to no framework at all.

I think the important takeaway is that there is no single answer here: different sites have different needs. If you’re making a highly interactive site people will sit on for a long time (say, Gmail) then React’s downsides will matter very little. But if you’re making a “one and done” single page, or a site where the vast majority of the page is static content (e.g. a blog) React is wasteful: a wasteful addition to the page download size and a wasteful process of serialising prop data and hydrating a bunch of components that never see their content change once. It doesn’t matter a whole lot on a desktop machine but try profiling on a low powered Android device, the Chrome performance burndown chart is sobering reading. Even on the server, too… I’ve run into issues before now running React SSR on high traffic web sites.

When making a highly interactive web app a framework like Svelte is smaller, performs better and is a joy to use (a matter of opinion of course). At the very least I’d ask “why not Preact?” when starting a project: it does 90% of what React does at a tiny fraction of the size. That Facebook hasn’t made any meaningful progress in shrinking React shows that it isn’t really a priority for them.
Downlevel Driver Enabler – solving the Windows 7/8.1 driver update apocalypse
I've mentioned before but at my previous FAANG gig everyone only looked at the resumes they were assigned to interview like 15 minutes before the interview time was scheduled down the hall / building somewhere.

No one knew who they were interviewing or what was on the resume until they glanced at it while walking to the interview room. I suspect all interviews and the process are just made up as folks go along, and half the time you get a gig or not mostly based on if one of the people you talk to is in a good mood or not.
First You Make the Map
I didn't read this as "slamming" missionaries so much as asking people to reconsider the framing of language-related actions under the frame of power. That is -- many people do see what Christian missionaries did as a uncomplicated social good, for reasons you laid out, but we should also consider outcomes like the decline of a language, and most importantly the role of power/consent. I thought the missionary example made for compelling comparison w/ modern day NLP work.
Exactly. And I'm so surprised by how many people on HN (smart people who understand psychology) don't seem to understand that people don't use rational arguments (security, specs, price, etc) when making purchase decisions.

Even if alternative smartphone exist, the iPhone is still all about status signaling. It's about implicitly communicating that you are part of the successful tribe. And Apple watches are now another such symbol.
You can however use React to build (static) websites, and it works really well for two reasons:

* You now have a uniform way of generating HTML, whether your project is highly interactive or not.

* In very basic terms it is a highly productive template system that is easily and gradually extendable with interaction and UI state if needed.

The author suggests that you typically just need HTML and CSS and a bit of JS to generate simple/static websites. This is just not true. If someone is paying you to create a website, you certainly need some way of decomposing a design (-system) into reusable parts that are fed with data from somewhere. So you end up with a template engine + the above things. React solves this problem right off the bat. It is really easy to use it that way and the only leap from a more traditional template engine is syntax and composability.

There are a lot of good alternatives worth considering. Just don't compare it to "just" HTML/CSS/JS because on that front it is simply superior in almost every way imaginable.
There is a significant caveat here: you mention "building rich web applications", but that is different than building a simple website.
many people including myself believe that availability of legal services is broadly lacking in the US. not necessarily a shortage of attorneys, but a shortage of attorneys that can do work for anything but top-quintile clients. artificially restricting who is and isn't allowed to perform certain jobs often has that sort of effect.
In my opinion, the alarms at the doors are there to dissuade non experienced thiefs.
To be an Olympian itself is a long time social reward for an individual. That will never lapse.
Sure, you don't need React, but it makes the process much easier. Take a framework like NextJS or Gatsby, these frameworks are tailored for landing pages and "websites". While yes you could do the same thing with regular HTML, CSS and JS, the tooling and other features that you in React make it a much better framework IMO to move quickly on a website.
Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist moral panic?
>The good news is, it's a very open network.

I'll accept the statement. But I will say that hiring from a network is at least a very different thing from hiring through a grueling set of often artificial interview hoops. It requires a potential candidate to have genuinely interacted at a higher than superficial level with a lot of people in a professional capacity. Which may not be harder than "leet code" but is certainly very different.

And yes, all the big companies have referral programs but that's mostly just a very rough first pass as a lot of referrals are basically I'm connected with this candidate on linked in. Referral bonus please.
For our company website we use React but just as a server-side rendering engine (similar to express-react-views, so not even next.js because we don't need or want client-side react)
Yes, Windows 10 is very I/O dependent, it will not be a pleasant experience with a mechanical drive. Not sure if Windows 8 was too, I didn't use Windows 8 much (we all know why).

If you can't afford a SSD drive, I recommend buy an older used one. Just as my machine is ancient, my SSD's are ancient too. My main drive is a Intel 530 180GB that started production in late of 2013.
MLOps Capabilities, Outcomes and Opportunities for Enterprise AI
Honestly if they do enough volume to spin custom silicon, which gets cheaper and more accessible every year, it would become impractical to bypass the security. You essentially would get an electric motor and would need to rig up your own controller. And likely also figure out how to get the DRM battery to work with it.
Ironically, the introduction of battery storage makes nuclear more price competitive with coal and gas since it can run at a steady state and the battery can smooth out the demand fluctuations. This is why a lot of pumped hydro is built in conjunction with nuclear.

But since solar and wind get cheaper from the same effect, it doesn't really help nuclear much.
I can strongly recommend to learn React & NextJS. The two make you highly productive. Plain HTML + CSS + JS is just a waste of time.
You don't need React for web apps, either. There are plenty of alternatives out there for that, too.
> more books to study

Curious if you happen to remember what any of those books were.
What science can tell us about C and C++'s security (2020)
I know you did, but it does not make the accusation less, uh, irritating to a Taiwanese, lacking a better expression (I don’t feel that strong, but do feel uncomfortable). The point is not how the threat can be addressed in what way, but you are greatly underestimating the possibility. Which is quite reasonable tbh, I don’t feel anything about wars in Africa and the Middle East and would likely underestimate how unstable things are when depending on entities in those areas, but it does not make the actual threat less worth considering.
The author of this seems to be talking about simple static sites and has issues learning React, however I think his rant could be extended to a bunch of "web apps" (that aren't actually apps)

I took a mixed approach for our SaaS that needed rebuilt (it was previously in Adobe Flex) to keep things simple and fast with Laravel.

Most of the site is just basic html/crud, so that portion is just simple templates/forms. It went up super fast and remains simple/easy enough for someone just starting out to modify.

There are some bits that could do without a page refresh however. For that Livewire is sprinkled in as needed. I think someone like the author could even handle that.

Finally, there is an actual creating/editing canvas application portion of the product where you can outline, draw, drag/drop, resize and a whole bunch real interactivity. This simply could not be done without a full on javascript app, so you will need to be experienced developer to get in and build this portion.

It has been a real joy to not only build but also maintain since it's launch. I certainly don't miss 1 giant build to update some label in the old Flex app.

All things in moderation and KISS :)
Just a rejection letter is something, and in a reasonable amount of time. Many times I would just hear nothing. No response at all. Just a simple 'no thank you' is better than what many get from most companies. It is amazing how many companies do not do this one thing. They just leave people hanging. I had one dude who thought to finally send a 'no' letter. It was 2 years later. That should have been closed out ages ago.

Thank you for doing that sort of thing. It really helps.
To be fair, an incoming request is, almost by definition, dynamic. It makes sense to have that as a map, since the main sensible thing to do on receipt is validation/inspection.

Granted, you may have a framework do a fair bit of that. Depends how much you want between receipt of the request and code you directly control.
I honestly think this is a product of large corporations being essentially incapable of firing bad resources. Companies are terrified of litigation and bad PR so the only control mechanism is the interview process.
Hard to take the analysis seriously when it (a) take UNIX as an example and (b) pretends Linux doesn't exist.

The Linux kernel looks to be a successful Bazaar project with a single person (Linus) having nominal responsibly.

I recently return to UNIX after a 20 year break. Linux in 2020 is much better than Solaris in 1998. However, Windows made giant leaps as well. Both still have massive amounts of deadwood but Windows does a better job of hiding it.
Absolutely!

The state of the art is to have a container, fill it with water, and put the car in. You then wait a week or two.

For installations like this one which just burned down the answer is mostly: Don't let it catch fire! And if it does catch fire, make sure that you built it with large enough gaps between each unit that the fire can't spread, because you're not putting it out.
Not really. React gives you the ability to create "rich web applications", but it can be used just as well for the most basic of landing pages. Couple that with SSR and you get basically the old "HTML,CSS,JS" setup with much better tooling,.
I was satisfied to see him acknowledge the same pressures in other high-stakes jobs. During the 3/4 year period when I was completely committed to my startup I felt the most kinship with actors, directors, athletes and not other engineers/makers.

Likewise, the same bereavement affected me when I got off the merry-go-round a few years ago, maybe more than I realised at the time. It's very hard not to have that one mission as the answer to who you are. Can anyone share good resources for dealing with the emotional wind down that comes after a long period of single-minded dedication?
Looking at more of the authors site, it seems they're primarily a wordpress developer.

If they had focused down on "you don't need react for static sites", it would have been a more valid complaint. But as written, it seems that the author just doesn't have experience with larger web apps.
Your argument is basically what everyone said in the introduction of the article and in fact what was generally said even before the iPhone came out. It's not even a new situation for Apple to be in. 20 years ago it was companies willfully not wanting to support apple for their game or software or whatever. I think companies have come a long way on that.
> is it even possible to fix enough to stop dedicate states as big as CCP or Russia?

Can we make employees use Wireguard instead of a buggy Cisco implementation of OpenVPN?

Can we NOT put vital shit behind a webserver, and expect it to be A-OK?
My local Costco has finally added self-checkout registers. I noticed that the receipt is a different color than the ones you would normally get if you went to a cashier. I assume the exit people who check your receipt look more closely when it's a self-checkout one.
> For blind people, TTS settings are very personal.

Is there a whitepaper that articulates concrete solutions to reconcile the myriad flavors of screen reader configurations with Browser Isolation technology?
In some of my encounter with alarm systems at door, there was a gap in which a person can just walk through and not trigger any alarm.
I’m surprised this made the front page.

> I don’t get it. Why would I need to use React if I am supposed to work on building websites?

Haven’t we established already that you need a client-side JS frameworks for managing complex interfaces? There’s a point where you website becomes so interaction-heavy you end up writing your own “React”. Until then - feel free to go with plain JS.
The author went to some length to explain he is not talking about building web applications - but websites.
That’s true if we assume that ability does not change with time. But if you have a spectrum of experience in the team, it might be unrealistic to expect rookies to match the median.
A seriously large amount of the goods on Offerup are stolen. It's insane.
>But this has none of the conveniences of pumped hydro - nature already built the holding tank and you only need a pump and generator.

Only if you're in an area with favourable geography, of course...
> One thing to note is that Indian historical records from that period are extremely rare making it all the more difficult. It's a pity that Indians of that didn't write as much as Romans did.

Indians did write at that time. There is literature on all sorts of things from that era. Unfortunately we lost the languages that they were written in. And some of it was destroyed or stolen by invading armies.
Models predicted this? Link, please.

From this article:

> “Something strange is happening in Britain,” the Washington Post declared this week. “COVID cases are plummeting instead of soaring.” A few weeks ago, when the country’s new daily-case total was around 60,000, the prominent British epidemiologist and government adviser Neil Ferguson declared that a rise to 100,000 a day was inevitable, and that 200,000 a day was possible. The country is now at 27,000 and falling.
Nothing has changed in 5 years, has it?
> You don't even need a damn framework.

thats a very classic problem.
some people like frameworks some dont.
some poeple like ORMs some dont.

at this point im done fighting these battles - whatever job market requires im just gonna use.
You don't need a framework. You don't even need JS. You don't really need CSS. You can fire plain HTML 1.1 code at people and it'll work fine.

I'll stick with React (or another framework) though. I can build faster with it, which solves my users problems faster. They seem to like that.
I think the downvotes are unjust. For those missing the point: When large quantities of drugs are seized, often times the 'street value' of the drug is reported. But large quantities can only be found some steps removed from the end customer in the supply chain. Given the risks in distribution, the difference in retail and wholesale price can be significant.
Senate unveils $1T infrastructure bill
This hit me so hard - and I appreciate the honesty in this chapter. Life is choices, and I certainly wouldn't have made the choice he made, but I'm glad he doesn't gloss over the impact of the choices he made. Very well written
Not sure if there are any communities. My general advice is to invest as much as possible in a good logging solution, traceability, and just general things to make debugging easier. Come up with a way to replay events easily. You'll thank yourself everyday a bug or issue pops up.
Sounds like geologists are rediscovering Atlantis, calling it Icelandia this time. They should also get suspicious about the Rapa Nui island, make a wild guess about the connection between the two islands and then make an even wilder guess about what the rapa nui monuments really are.
My counterpoint is: I don't want to make any website today without React. But hear me out.

With NextJS, you develop everything with React. Then on a page by page basis, decide how static/dynamic that page is, and you can completely remove runtime React entirely if you want.

You get the best of all worlds: a nice dev experience, a consistent dev experience (as in your fully static pages are still built in the exact same way as your dynamic ones), compliant HTML, a wide variety of libraries to use if needed, etc.

I have entire websites developed with React that don't use React at runtime for many, even most, of their pages.

You can also accomlish this with Gatsby, but I've since switched completely to Next as I feel it now outshines Gatsby.
Sysinternals’ process explorer gives you a crosshairs to select a window’s process — that crossbones pointer has more style though.
Actually, callable structs are a common pattern in Julia, and are not in opposition to multiple dispatch.

You are probably thinking of dot-method syntax, like this

object.action()