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Ask HN: What's your go-to web stack for a productivity – performance balance?
There are so many web frameworks / stacks these days. Honestly, when I look at many of them, they don't appear to have a good list of libraries and ecosystem / maturity.

I am not very familar with modern nodejs / SPA type of web development. I am looking for one of reasonably modern "batteries included" web stacks which strike balance between productivity (reasonably fast to prototype, not leading to unmaintainable magic code) and performance (not very resource hungry, reasonably good at vertical scaling, which I suppose rules out many python/ruby based stacks).

My preferences:
* Good component libraries.

* reasonably good on front end performance.

* Preferably in typed language.

* On back-end side, easy libraries or built in facilities for common tasks such as authentication.

I have looked at a few. On front end, svelte seems very good in concept, but I'm afraid ecosystem is small and still developing. Angular is not apparently preferred much. On backend, I have read about some Java (Play, spring) and nodejs based frameworks. But before diving into one, I'd like to ask a few experienced people here, as the shortcomings don't become apparent until you've worked in it.
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1. Free software doesn't imply virality.
2. Open source is defined to mean exactly what free software means, but without using the word free. The difference in the definitions is due to the perspective used: freedoms of the user vs restrictions the license imposes.
That is the problem with publicly traded companies. They exist a fiscal year at a time. No past on January 1, no future December 31st.

The underlying cause of this in western society is well explained in ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ by John Ralston Saul. Good reading to understand our collective problem with some ideas on what to do about it. The answer isn’t clear.

I am not remotely religious, but it is a powerful force. Islam is the fastest growing religion, and while that alarms some people, it has a wonderful innovation that I think is key to our survival. Maybe it is from playing too many hours of Civ, but if I was playing with a pending climate catastrophe, I would double down on this:

‘Caring for the environment is an important teaching of Islam. The Qurʾān describes mankind as being stewards of the earth and therefore Muslims must care for the earth. It is our responsibility to care for the earth and environment. The reality of climate change requires us to rethink our lifestyles and actions and we must reflect on how our actions impact our environment. The Qurʾān highlights this point: Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of that which men’s hands have done (Q. 30: 41).‘
> The private set intersection is an alternative to sending you a list of bad-image hashes which uses significantly more bandwidth than simply sending you the list.

How can the image hashes take up more space than the images themselves? Are you sure about this?
All living creatures who want the planet to still be habitable in 20 years celebrate 'wonderful' new bill that will lower incentives for people to burn coal to collect imaginary tokens.
Probably because what's the point of predicting about something that may not exist as we know of it and experience it today.
Based on my reading, the first system is interesting in that the threshold is also cryptographically determined. Each possible hit forms part of a key, and until a complete key is made none of the images can be reviewed.

Should also be noted the second system sends no images to Apple or is reviewed by Apple employees in any way. It's just using the same on device ML that finds dog pics for example.

I think Apple PR screwed up here announcing all these features at once on one page, and not having the foresight they would be conflated. It also didn't help that a security researcher leaked it the night before without many of the details (iCloud only for example).

Context should also be included. CSAM has been happening for years on most (all?) photo hosts, and is probably one of the blockers to full E2E encryption for iCloud photos (I so hope that's coming now!).

Finally, nothing has really changed. Either iOS users trust Apple will use the system only as they have said or they won't. Apple controls the OS, and all the 'what if' scenarios existed before and after this new feature. As described, it is the most privacy preserving implementation of CSAM to date.
The second one is outdated - not only did the prosecutors drop the case against him for insufficient evidence, his situation led Germany to subsequently repeal the law against insulting foreign leaders. He received plenty of support, both from the public and from the public broadcaster on which he recited the controversial poem.
Models show what you want them to show.
If you carefully read the email you linked you'll see the context is different and open source (and definitely not open source software) is not used as a term on its own.
I recently had to move from my ultrawide and 4k screen back to 2 19” HD screens. I felt like I’d gone a decade back in time.
I can't do it either. The image in the article shows a man doing it though. His arms are extended in the forward direction, perhaps for counterbalance. Maybe holding some weights could provide more counterbalance. A different way might be to hold someone else's arms who is doing the same exercise in front of you.
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Dear clickbait title editor, can you be more specific in distinguishing between cryptocurrency and crypto communities?
I have 3 27" 4K monitors.

Left one is vertically/portrait aligned, so 2160x3840. Middle main one is standard landscape, as is the rightmost one.

Lefty is great for documentation and tall command line windows.
Erm, yes. Their complain was about aesthetics, and GNU Emacs has been much more aesthetic than XEmacs since forever.
These are the "higher-level pattern-recognition skills" that I was talking about. You use them to read words; I can also use them for something like (in BQN) -⟜» (subtract previous from current) or +`⊸⊔ (split using start markers). There's an opportunity cost.

To be clear, you do think there's an advantage to using symbols for very common operations? APL doesn't have all that many primitives (~60 symbols), and most would fit this requirement. Here's Alan Perlis[0]: "The large number of primitive functions, at first mind-numbing in their capabilities, quickly turn out to be easily mastered, soon almost all are used naturally in every program — the primitive functions form a harmonious and useful set."

[0] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
Especially because trees have a pretty slow start on the carbon capture curve over their lifetime, the amount of CO2 they can fixate is (roughly) proportional with the total surface of the leaves assuming sufficient water is present.
I bought a 27" UHD Monitor and was very happy with it. I got the same monitor for my workplace but now I'm back to the previous 24" one (only HD unfortunately). Not sure why but it was too big in that office / for the tasks that I do.

There can be such a thing as too much physical interaction. If I have to turn my head constantly, and more importantly find everything again with the eye, it's straining and it gets unproductive.

Even at home where I'm happy with the monitor, I often have these huuuuge blank areas on the screen (that emit a lot of light), for example while typing this comment. But other elements (such as the browser's tablist) extend uncomfortably to the right, and typically I'm switching between the rightmost tabs.
I think it makes sense to take a step back and ask yourself if Apple, or any sensible Western company, would set up a system that could falsely flag millions of people, or even a hundred. Even without going into implementation details, it seems clear that they would not have a system that would flag standard family photos.
Yes the term didn't have exactly the same meaning, but that's sort of the point. The term Open Source, as a term related to software code access, predated the OSI and Peterson. They took an existing term which other people were already using, claimed it for their own, and started trying to tell people how to use it. They even tried to trademark it!
You know it’s still only photos being uploaded to iCloud that are scanned right? Or are you just totally unfamiliar with the actual issue? If you are familiar, can you explain the practical difference between these approaches that makes one worse?
So why do companies continue to buy electricity made from coal if solar is cheaper?
Of course there is. Just get rid of parking and/or put up bollards.
Fancyzone tiling is awesome, you can override win + arrow to each zone and save the position, You can even expand the zone if you drop the window in the middle of zone which makes another layer of combination easily. It has pretty extensive fine tuning options.

I'm using it with 3 monitors with different size and dpi/scaling and can't really imagine go back to the days without it.
Bamboo is interesting, both for strength-to-weight ratio and speed of growth. Is there a side-by-side comparison on how well it performs in this respect relative to other tree species?
And that's why the Saudis built a shiny golden city on top of the decaying corpses of dinosaurs? I'm sorry, but this can motivate individual action at best, and we really need the opposite.
How does the old joke go -- "Now if Emacs only had a decent text editor, it would be a pretty decent OS."
To illustrate the point even more, if it's an average sized bar they'd still be billionaires on average.
Which tipping point? We’ve passed so many tipping points by now that it’s just so much noise when someone announces we’re going to pass one 10 years earlier.
I only see a 28.3” monitor from Huawei listed for now: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/monitors/mateview/specs/. Not available in the U.S.
I think the biggest challenge is a lack of consumer choice. Part of this is the complete failure of the FTC and the SEC in the 21st century. Maybe Pinephone will be compelling some day in the future but it isn't now. I don't want to be on tech support for my entire family trying to get some toy phone to work. We've built phones that are generally simple enough for a random grandma to do the couple things they need to do but the problem is to them FB, etc. IS the internet. That is where they see the pictures of their grandkids, they don't care about anything else.

I think there is a #4 that could be on the list. People within Apple could try to push back and protest and walk-out or any other means to try to make this fight go viral. However, the media and population write large will push back "... for the children." I've always thought that these problems are more solvable with Whistleblower Awards plus Witness Protection packages for the major enablers. There are lots of people in these rings or with someone who is but they are dependent on those same bad people for their necessities. Also, some of these rings are crime group adjacent and witnesses would need protection.

From what I'm reading, it seems like turning off iCloud (maybe just for photos?) will turn off this scanning. It is unclear to me what server side scanning Apple was/wasn't doing on photos uploaded to iCloud previously/currently. The one thing that occurred to me is that this is almost seems like this is a cya, Section 230 protection in disguise. There has been more discussions about Big Tech and 230, and this is one way to say "Look, we are compliant on our platform. Don't remove our protections or break us up, we are your friend!"
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For some of the systems I have to support at work, they are so old and have no budget for upgrades. It kinda helps having a crappy (not that crap) setup that really matches the vibe so I don't get too down on them. :P
Why does it matter where the scanning is done, if the scans are done to the same content under the same circumstances?
Now that I think about it, is there any good, viable alternative for Windows 10 on a new ThinkPad? One that ideally is able to run MS Office (or at least Excel...)? Any recommendations regarding decent, and ideally user friendly, Linux versions?
Country will die if you penalize FDI;
WASI IPC Module – Issue 49 – WebAssembly/WASI
RMS never included copyleft in the requirements of the free software definition. <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html> lists many non-copyleft licenses as legitimate free-software licenses.
27 inch here and even that’s too big and I only use the middle of it. I might go back to a 22 and virtual desktops. It worked better for me.
I had an idea this morning for a referral mechanism to help with building an audience- what if you gave subscribers the ability to share a specific show with a friend for free? The friend would have access to that whole show (or maybe just a season) beyond the 7 day free trial and would presumably be coming back repeatedly to the site to watch it, giving them the opportunity to see other content they're interested in and subscribe.

As a subscriber it's easier and more fun to tell people about the site because you can get your friends watching the same fun show with you without the barrier of them having to subscribe up front.

I guess it would be hard to stop people from using a feature like this to watch whatever they want without having to subscribe - but maybe a subscriber would only get a limited number of 'shares' that refresh when the sharee converts. That way someone who's sharing multiple shows with the same friend would have a limit but someone whose shares are bringing in new subscribers would be equipped to invite more and more people.
> It is baffling how lawmakers who have so little understanding of the technology write these things into law.

And this happens constantly, on all types of things, not just technology.
Make 3:2 or hell 1:1 4k 32" not-too-expensive display, it definitely has a market. I'd buy three if it's a thing.
European cities are overrun by electric scooters. It's not a big step. heh
I believe it's inaccurate to lump the iMessage and iCloud scanning together. The iMessage scanning tries to classify images as sexually explicit. The iCloud scanning tries to identify images that exist in the CSAM database, accounting for recompression and cropping.
I think your post highlights perfectly why I think we should talk about the roles of C and not C itself. The C you talk about seems to be a very different beast compared to the C people write and use when building shared libraries that are used across a wide variety of platforms. For example, the people writing OpenSSL would have very different concerns from the people you talk about.
The more I read of the article the less clear cut this looked. Someone has already mentioned the cartoon, but he had deregistered with the university, on the proviso that support from his phd mentor would allow him to return. When his mentor did not want to mentor him anymore he was actually registered at Wuhan rather than St Gallen, so I can see why this would make it complicated for him to continue there.

Having done a PhD recently and knowing several who have, around the three year mark can be a difficult time for the student-mentor relationship. There is mention that his mentor claims the student had lost their temper with them prior to this happening, so I wouldn't be surprised if things were strained.

Another aspect is the natonality of his mentor. The mentor may have family in China or need to continue strong links with China to continue their career in the field. Regardless of actual Chinese influence, the mentor may simply have been concerned of the impact the student's tweets would have on their career. Obviously still not ideal, but reflects more a 'chilling effect' that comes with heavy handed censorship.
“There are two ways to conquer/enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt” --John G. Adams (b. 1826)
Elon Musk comes to mind, not so much in doing anything about climate change but offering mitigations for those that can afford it. You can find doomsday preparations all across Tesla and SpaceX. From Bioharzard Mode to escaping to Mars.

And I guess the fund for the magic technology bullet that fixes everything exists too. Not that we have existing technology that would be carbon neutral.

Hey, we need to handle our existing nuclear waste anyway, might as well keep using it.
UPchieve (YC W21) is hiring a mobile engineer to democratize free tutoring
Whereas Americans buy cars so that cities are not needed ! :-)
I would guess it's because your insurance pays someone's medical bills if you hit them in the US, which can be >>> the cost of replacing a car even if it's a relatively minor injury.
Not the person you asked, but I use an Acer XB273K GP 27" 4K as my middle/main screen. It does 120Hz just fine, is gsync too.

I also have 2 LG 27UD68-W 27" 4K screens, one on the left in portrait mode, the other to the right in landscape. These were cheap, work fine at 60Hz, but have an incredibly annoying bright standby light that flashes every 2 seconds. There's no way to switch it off, the light comes through the menu joystick on the bottom of the monitor so you can't cover it with electrical tape. And the whole back of the monitor is white plastic, so it glows/reflects some of the LED light. Do not recommend!!
Yeah that's fair enough - the electric XC40 is a stupidly expensive car. I still think it's not exactly a fair comparison, as the cheapest XC40 is a 100bhp 3 cylinder petrol, while the electric XC40 is a 400bhp all wheel drive car. That alone would command a large premium even in an ICE car, no?

But yeah, I'm thinking more about the cars like the MG ZS EV, which I actually put a deposit down on last year(and cancelled due to coronavirus and working from home, but I test drove it and was 100% willing to buy it) - at £25k it was very affordable for a full EV, with loads of space inside.

And then remember that all manufacturers always start with the most expensive models first because that's where the money is, but more and more cars are arriving form various manufacturers. ID.3 from Volkswagen is already approaching affordable prices in lower specs, but there is the ID.2 coming. And if I were to buy a second car as a runaround now, I'd happily buy a £12k second hand e-Up, it's more than enough for driving around and will cost nearly nothing to use.
Somehow having it all laid out on 3 physical screens significantly reduces the mental overhead. Maybe it's some silly psychological thing, knowing that they're there in my peripheral vision.
In many countries (including the US) there are circumstances where defamation law can create civil or criminal liability for such a claim, but yeah, usually not merely for stating it without certain other things also being true about the situation.

Conversely, there are cases in Germany where calling someone a Nazi would not lead to a fine. One very clear example:

Person A: [Unambiguously asserts a sincere adherence to Nazi ideology]

Person B: Did you hear that, everyone? Person A is a Nazi.
While this suggests that people want more space in their homes, it doesn’t imply that they prefer car-dependent neighborhoods. That would only follow if > 2,000 sq ft precluded walkability.

I paid a large premium to own a home in one of the east coast’s walkable areas. Lot sizes here average about 0.15 acres, which is over 6,500 (single-story) square feet. Homes have front yards, back yards, off-street parking, gardens, trees, and still easily fit > 2,000 square feet of living space.

The dichotomy of “walkable vs comfortable” is a false one. There’s a middle ground between tiny high-rise apartments and sprawling McMansions.
I don’t know the answer, but I will offer that complete anonymity on the Internet will result in the purest form of evil that we have yet to see. In a public space, it’s best if people (and organizations) know that they are accountable for their actions; otherwise, the anonymous act purely in their own best interest. You can already see this happening in both the physical and virtual worlds. It’s very dangerous and a threat to civilization.
I dont't think the slowest c++ app I ever used was slower than the fastest java app I ever used
This is a reality you have to accept. It is a simple matter to get away with owning this kind of material, dragnet method or not.

There is no point in trying to eradicate all such material and bring the number to absolute zero. It's impossible. The only way to semi-ensure this would be absolute slavery of the citizenry, which I hope is a non-goal.
I agree this is incredibly annoying, and usually leads me to just close the tab rather than try to get past it. Their loss. Obviously you can't do this for food stamps, so when it is necessary to get past one I keep a burner Firefox profile in my .bashrc:

alias firefox-throwaway="firefox -no-remote -profile $(mktemp -d)"

This creates a command `firefox-throwaway` that starts Firefox with a new profile located in /tmp. Since it's not got any about:config customisations it usually works with reCAPTCHA (as far as Firefox works at all with reCAPTCHA...).
"vote with your fit" is as ineffective as taking less showers. It is a non-solution (what helps is growing less food in a desert, aligning government with the needs of most people)
I haven't opened the article but I'm guessing it's all about cryptocurrency
It's important not to conflate the new features. CSAM uses hashes of known photos and is only run on photos going to iCloud (turning off iCloud turns off CSAM). Photos sent to iCloud have been checked against CSAM for years on the server. The change here is moving it from server to client (which I hope is to make iCloud photos E2E encrypted).

Completely agree with your second point. All the 'what ifs' have existed forever. Either iOS users trust Apple will only do what stated or they don't. Nothing has changed.
If I didn't need it to get to work I wouldn't own a car. I hate them.
I wouldn't over-/underestimate the support capabilities of a big corp like Apple.

I remember the Twitter account takeover hack a year ago, which was possible only because customer support had some 2FA-bypass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking

To prevent false-positives, who knows if they have a "review" team that takes a tiny little peek at my naked son. Do you know for sure that no such system is in place or ever will be in place? What if they do get hundreds of thousands of false positives in the future? How would they improve their system if not by reviewing the existing system with real data?
But we've already established there is no public oversight over the contents of the NCMEC database and that there cannot ever be, by design. Furthermore, it's known to contain hashes of non-CSAE images simply because they were found in a CSAE-related context.

So how can this system guarantee civil freedom? How can it be guaranteed that it won't be exploited by the small number of people in power to actually inspect it and manipulate it?
I understand that a lot of folks here are crypto skeptical. But regardless of your overall view, one thing to to understand about the Portman-Warner amendment is that it exempts proof-of-work (PoW) miners but not proof-of-stake (PoS).

When you hear about the environmental consequences of crypto, the massive amounts of electricity, the GPU shortages, that’s all PoW. PoS is designed to eliminate that and make crypto no more resource intensive than any other p2p network like BitTorrent.

Regardless of your view on crypto, there’s no defensible justification for the Portman-Warner amendment. It’d be like passing a bill banning electric vehicles but not gasoline, or shutting down solar plants but not coal plants.