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Ask HN: What web stack would you use for your own personal website today?
So I'm looking to boost my presence online and part of that plan includes making a personal site with a simple blog, list of personal projects, and maybe a resume. I haven't needed to do web development in a number of years, back in the day I'd just do wordpress, but that seems a bit heavy for my simple needs. Not to mention I'd Also like to try something outside the php world. So I thought I'd ask:

It's the year 2021, what framework/web-stack would you pick if you had to make a personal website for yourself today?
Didn't read the article, but I have been using Gnome and MacOS - M1 MacBook Air for the last 11 months intensively.

My verdict is Gnome > MacOs.
Reasoning in no particular order :

1. Named and Sorted Virtual Workspaces
2. Activities sorted and scrollable by Workspace
3. Searchable Apps that only search Apps
4. A more mature color scheme -> In contrast MacOS feels like a plastic toy 'Made in China'.
5. Paste with the middle mouse button.
Couldn't disagree more. To me, an apology signals that a mistake was made, noticed, embraced, (hopefully) corrected, and learned from. There's no shame or opprobrium attached to an honest apology, and plenty of potential for improvement. There's quite the opposite attached to a person who blithely handwaves away their own mistakes without any acknowledgement.
I don’t see any particular reason to believe the premise: that Apple is letting its software slip.

Anecdotes are fine as a place to start or to tell the story, but don’t tell us anything about the general state of Apple software.

I can see why they do it, though. Apple Doom always gets a lot of clicks.
Would airline stocks be finally profitable? Asking as a bag holder.
> It's whether something legitimately represents power.

> Viewed this way, taste is the expression of what you percieve to be power based on your experience

What about displays of disposable wealth, which demonstrate power in a way that is nonetheless gaudy?

I don't think anyone could seriously argue that a wealthy person is less powerful than a poorer person, and yet displaying that wealth (e.g. having a solid 18k gold toilet) is clearly tasteless in the extreme. I almost wonder if you meant to say the exact opposite of what these quoted parts of your message say.
I want to make a joke about the spyware not installing itself, but it was hitting too close to home, and besides that's probably too obvious, so instead, I will leave you this anecdote about how packages make it from east to west:

A package from abroad often changes hands through various regional carriers, and is sometimes bumped or combined or divided by many criteria depending on where it is and what it is. I found this out by ordering electronics that also had single items that required special shipping that arrived far far later (the trigger for me, is batteries, which always take more time)
Weird, I just want feature parity with Firefox.
Seems more applicable to ETH and DeFi, where hacks can yield millions.

Amazingly, quite literally the biggest immediate bounty on the internet.
Did you remove your post on

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233852

Or were you removed? I think you are onto something, low key. But it maybe suggesting foul play is grounds for removal on this site now.
It took them until the middle of 2020 to support WebP.
I've waited for an iOS version of Briar for years already.
They meant against debris, not missiles. Still easier said than done though. If nothing else, armor would add a lot of weight, which is a major factor when you're launching things into orbit.
Why would that be weird? It's probably the most efficient money-wise (and emissions wise as a result). Taking a route on vessels that have spare capacity. Probably a form of algorithmic 'hitchhiking'. Did you pay for a premium posting service, or just regular?
Ads seem like kind of a generic and misleading term for it. It's less about showing you a flashy clip for an advertised product in the classic sense, and more about building complex personality and interest profiles on users based around their engagement patterns across sites and services. That's the real resource which organizations pay money for, especially once it gets aggregated into constantly growing targeted data collections on individual users and the increasingly monopolized share of their digital fingerprints and track records.
The French revolution wasn't the poor against the rich. It was the rich vs the politicians and royalty.
Why would DRAM on the CPU be better then DRAM off the CPU?

(Ignoring the major drawback of not being able to replace/upgrade the RAM and CPU independently.)
I ride a motorcycle and regularly visit my mum.

I’ll vary the route at random because riding the same route every time is a recipe for complacency.

If there wasn’t a tractor on that bend the first 49 times doesn’t mean their won’t be the 50th time.

The second I find myself zoning out I’ll pull over and stretch my legs, have a drink.
Why the fuck?

The Russians are fully aware of why these kinds of tests are a really really bad thing to do. I truly don't understand why they'd do this. They care about the long term viability of human space travel as much as the US. Do they really think testing out their satellite missiles is worth the result? It's not like there aren't a million other ways to test it without actually blowing anything up.
Is it incredible features, or is it more compiler magic that infects codebases and requires a literal language glossary to navigate?
Humans are pretty mind blowing animals too.

About the closest thing I can think of are the Polynesian canoeists who first crossed the vast distances of the Pacific to reach isolated island chains and they must have done that more than once too.

Those guys were some very special people if you ask me.
Foreign state interference is the story the media has decided to go with. It shields corporate powers and provides a scapegoat. Having an external entity seen as causing this threat plays into our fears.

The truth is corporate interests have over taken and reshaped the news and media properties they vertically own.

Does it worry you that your news promotes a culture filtered through corporate interests? Do you remember the last news story on corporate interests altering the news? You won't get that news story.. because no one wants you to think that is an issue.

They want you to be scared of foreign entities but ignore the killer sitting beside you.
Nobody's mentioning what I think should be obvious - a table saw, an impact drill with kilograms of sorted bits, whatever stuff you need for welding.

Soldering equipment + as many schematics of the PCB based stuff I own with enough spare parts to drown in. Kilograms of copper wire.

If there's no weight and space limit on this question, I'd get a car lift too. I really doubt that anyone would be in dire need of my sick ability to manually inject a DLL into the memory of a process if they were eating each other.
Disregard those comments. There will always be critics wondering why you don't just use floppies taped to a carrier pigeon instead of email. We are nerds.
His reasoning is circular because artists create art to suit the tastes of their audience.
Sad to say, ad-tech is one of the more accessible spaces if you enjoy creating systems that have to dynamically scale, provide high throughput and/or near real-time streaming data solutions, while also ensuring data correctness (for a given value of correct).

Maybe fintech could offer similar challenges in some areas? I'm thinking HFT etc.

I greatly enjoyed the challenge of building data pipelines in my role at $LAST_COMPANY, an SSP, that delivered valid transactional + related entity data to a near realtime reporting system - and scaled up and down as needed to maintain data timeliness while minimising costs (as ad traffic (well internet traffic as a whole) has high seasonality throughout the day).

But I didn't enjoy working for a company in the ad-tech market though - far too many deals that, while legal, felt sleazy - and (from my limited experience) often seemed to begin with handshakes made by sales reps on booze / cocaine fueled nights in red light districts.

If I could solve similar business problems without being in a market that makes me want to have a long shower, I'd be keen.
Very well stated! I wish I had read this before posting my reply to the parent comment. I had the same thoughts about 7), but I wasn't certain of the 'ramp-up/down' time for nuclear plants.
Not sure. I suppose I could add a style or coding convention guide somewhere in the repo to code that may seem confusing initially.

Basic rules are: return values on the left side of params, and functions generally return a boolean for success or failure.

The function you mention is parsing a fixed-point integer string (from a json string) and returning an int64_t. It will return 0 if it's not a syntactically valid integer, or if there is some kind of overflow, etc.
I will take the verbosity of XML any day over YAML wrestling (complex YAML configs of course). There is simply too many "implicit rules" for YAML. it's why I prefer python over ruby and perl. Generally though TOML has been good enough for me to do lots of fairly large config files that are easy for humans and machines to parse.
Humans are the only animals we know to be capable of reasoning, which is a necessary component for human intelligence. They're also the only animals we know to be capable of language. I don't believe that to be a coincidence.

> Feral children are also a real fringe case not comparable to a pre "full language" humanity as they by neccessity would still have models of learning via observation at very least.

Sure, if your definition of intelligence is broad enough, feral children might fall into it, as might many animals. Yet I suspect that this is not what wahern's "human intelligence" was about.
Hmmm....I was just cursing out Amazon Music for the same podcast flaws. These people.
Albums I know really well. I’ll occasionally pick up a beat or a fill, but mostly it’s a comfortable and predictable journey that allows me to zone it out.
Thanks for your story, I try not to use "generations" anymore. People are too complicated for that chaotically broken system created by media companies. I never fit any generational trope and I really don't know anyone who has.

I don't think we lost, I think some people have cognative bias and feminism has been hijacked in recent years by "Social Marxists" and mutated the original cause. When a person build's their cognition on a false premise a dysfunctional cognitive bias is formed. The individual will need to grow out of it themself, but it's hard to do because it requires breaking a bit of ones ego and facing ones shadow.

If you want to talk more hit me up, links in profile.
It was a lot of work for no real benefit. Nobody cared to parse that stuff or display it in a popular, customizable way, unlike RSS or Atom, both of which also died.

Eventually Google's natural language-esque search just got big enough that no other interface to the web really mattered anymore, and their speciality was in parsing unstructured text & messy HTML into simple phrases. Better semantics might've helped other spiders, but by that point nobody cared about other spiders anymore.

For things like social sharing, OpenGraph had the commercial support of Facebook and Twitter and was far simpler to implement. And other communities, like MediaWiki, used RDF only for the low-hanging fruit (Wikidata) while the most valuable info was still locked behind freeform blobs of text (Wikipedia).

The semantic web took more effort to implement than the crap it usually describes. Most humans just don't really want to waste time classifying stuff. The communities that do (science, pirate communities, libraries, etc.) already have their own classification schemes. There was just no need for another web-only classification scheme, no popular desire for it, no sufficient commercial interest behind it, no end-user advantage of using it over HTML... is it surprising that it failed? It tried to solve a problem nobody really had, using a solution that was quickly eclipsed by machine learning. And for the few actors (search engines, social networks) who actually wanted effective classifications, their own algorithms were both more effective and more private, not relying on/enabling their competitors. Open classification excites librarians and archivists, maybe, and nobody else.
The fact that that there is only enough sunlight in tropical areas.

And that heavy rain (monsoon, etc) will wipe out all your work.
What do you expect? It's not possible to write an algorithm that will not have misfires at the scale of YouTube, if it's not an intentional effort then I fail to see what the big deal is.
How many non-founder employees are there and what do they do?

If there are two founders and there are already a few SW engineers this seems reasonable. If they're the first technical employee who isn't a founder it seems pretty low.
The difference being you don’t need to ask existing Bitcoin miners for permission to begin mining Bitcoin yourself. Conversely, staking is inherently impossible without first obtaining “stake” — and how can you obtain stake without the approval of existing stakers?
My guess is that bunker fuel is (way) worse for other pollutants - sulphur compounds etc, but overall much higher efficiency when used to drive a giant container ship, so much lower CO2 per unit of freight overall.
Anchorage is because they found out that they can fill their planes with more inventory and less gas if they stop in Anchorage instead of doing the full pacific route.

Good article here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-your-ipad-comes-via-anchor...
Naw I removed it. Just idle speculation. I'll put it in my about if you want to repost.
Employers are dropping quality standards for employees so fast that entire businesses have to shut down, because their employees leave and no one will work at a wage that makes the business profitable
Jen Psaki said in a press conference that the executive branch is working with Facebook to take down posts containing "COVID misinformation".
>The authenticity of "primitive" art as being a reaction to the skill and western artifice remains controversial, as if the art does not express the skill of the artist, what does it represent? Not everything has to represent something, but art is purely representation, so if it's not representing skill, there isn't a lot left.

Art is, at it's core, communication. More precisely, it's the name we've given to the wide variety of traditions that we've developed for communicating in manners distinct from plain everyday communication. Thus, art necessarily represents something, but each individual piece of art represents something different from the next. The message conveyed by a piece of art can indeed be to direct the recipient's attention to the technical skill of the artist, but in most cases skill is secondary, and only matters insofar as it aids the artist in communicating their actual intent.

As such, art which only exists to showcase the artist's skill is essentially devoid of meaning outside of vanity, such pieces of art representing something directly comparable to the significance of a sentence like "Don't you just love my accent?" - a self-referential display of conceit.
Nice thing is the iPad has thumb recognition on the home button, so I just placing thumb turns it on and notability is already on screen.

It’s really close to the utility of paper with few of the downsides, the one thing I miss is resistance when using the pencil, I keep thinking about a remarkable 2 because they apparently have a closer to paper feeling but they cost as much as a new iPad does and the iPad is a more capable device generally.
The major Desktop Environments have their own software suites that you'd reasonably call bloat (especially KDE Plasma), and then distributions frequently by default come installed with even more bloat.
Same reckless behavior that caused this terribly sad event?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
It can also happen because there is significant extra cost to packing and unpacking boxes.

If your parcel is in a box of other parcels with other destinations, it makes sense to send the whole lot to one place to split it up and reorg packages, even if the end result is more airmiles, because there are fewer unpack-sort-pack events.
It sounds like it makes you unhappy. Why is that?
I'd say "learn your history?" This all came about because of Richard Stallman et al, who absolutely were not "here's some code, do what you want with it."

They were "We have a good thing with this Unix deal and how we do it, we share freely, backwards AND FORWARD. How might we continue this in a wider fashion; knowing that some might be inclined to take and not give back?"

And thus, the GPL was born. MIT-style licenses are fine in some cases, but you're working of the back of Linux, and that's GPL territory.
That's been the standard route for Apple products for many years now. Probably more than a decade.
Probably just vanilla html, css and js.
I think GP is pointing it out because of how patently ridiculous it is, not as an example of how they abide free speech.

That situation is the obama-gives-obama-a-medal meme.
An ASAT weapon isnt going to hit much harder than debris. For circular orbits of the same altitude, just a few degrees off on the orbital planes and the velocity difference is in the km/s.
If you want Python, ML and SQL to be easily usable together on the same data nothing can touch Databricks.
Yeah, maybe ambivalence is a better description. I was alluding specifically to the fact that the Chinese space station is being constructed at an orbital inclination that Russia can't easily launch to:

https://www.space.com/russia-cosmonauts-may-visit-china-spac...

Or perhaps it does represent China telling Russia that they will control them in space rather than partner with them.

https://twitter.com/russianspaceweb/status/13877439152777912...
There does seem to be something uniquely perverse and wicked about US society (at least among the developed nations), and I say that as someone who nevertheless broadly admires the US. So incredibly religious and prone to moralising and yet so utterly, utterly indifferent (at best) towards each other. Baffling.
When it's occasionally useful return (type, err), but generally the two results are distinct so there's no need to return two results in the general case when one suffices

Indeed, I recently updated some code to return a relevant value in the error case: https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1143/files#diff-d896e5d5...
where true means the error is rooted in a corrupted page, & false means that the error isn't due to a corrupted page. It does feel a little dirty & a comment is probably necessary to make this case clear

Still, Result can work here. For example, Rust's binary_search https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.bin...
which returns Ok(idx) when that's the location of the element, or Err(idx) when that's the location the element would be if it were there (this can be a bit annoying when you just want to insert, since you end up writing `let idx = match result { Ok(idx) => idx, Err(idx) => idx }`)
Perhaps people should look into disability insurance for longer issues. It would still cover other medical issues too. I'm guessing the person in your example needed more than 3 months off, otherwise they would have been protected. If they were protected, there are lawyers who will take a strong case on a contingency basis.

Where do we draw the line for when a person can be fired - 3 months, 6 months, 12 months? If one is out for 6+ months, their replacement would likely be up to speed and would have to be laid off (assuming same capacity). At some point it makes more sense for the person who is out to seek a new job and allow the current worker to continue.

I don't have RSUs, and I make a lot less than most on this site. I am lucky that my employer provides 10 days of paid family leave in a rolling 12 months. I also have disability insurance. The insurance is attainable for most people (depends on income level but could be as low as $10-15 per month). I think many people don't even think about it. It would be great if our schools taught useful stuff like this.
It doesn’t mean Russians will shoot anything, same as China openly testing weapons on 1:1 replicas of US carriers[1]: the point is to deter involvement of the West into Russia’s/China’s internal matters (taking over Taiwan/Ukraine) by showing seriousness of consequences.

[1] - https://news.usni.org/2021/11/07/china-builds-missile-target...
Honestly I'm surprised how closely the scenes here match typical movie trials, though I understand that it's unusual for the jury to be removed from the courtroom during closing arguments because the state's attorney makes a mistake. And then get removed again literally 10 seconds later because the state's attorney does the same thing again.
Most consultancies operate this way, not just ones organized as a partnership. My boss and his boss weren't partners. I think it had to go up two more levels to finally hit a partner, though there were always other partners involved in the projects (that's part of the grift of partnerships, load up as many high-hourly rate partners as possible).
Well, hub and spoke can be more efficient than point to point. Louisville KY is a major cargo hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_International_Airpo... for UPS and it's cheaper to maintain one major hub than multiple (say, a west-coast based one).

That explains the last two steps.

For the rest of them, no idea; but I can speculate: it looks like zhenzhou is a major shipping hub and occasionally there are long delays: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/stuck-in-zhenzhou-for-5... (note that sometimes my packages say they are in china but are actually landed in the US already).

South Korea and Anchorage: maybe it's cheaper to take more short-hop flights? Haha, I had to look it up (TLDR: yes) Well:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-your-ipad-comes-via-anchor...
(note in that case it went to memphis before the final US destination, memphis is the Fedex hub).

Some things look inefficient from a distance, especially if you look at just a few random samples, but then turn out to be efficient when you compute overall measures like "package throughput divided by shipping costs". Never underestimate both the efficiency and ineffiency of modern transport systems.
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It won't be quick. Seems that average de-orbital time from the 400km altitude of the ISS is about a year [1]

Considering they already had to shelter less than 24 hours after the debris cloud was created, and the debris cloud will only spread out, I'm wondering if real question is how soon it becomes unsafe to inhabit. Send up a lot of fuel and boost it into another orbit?

I don't see how this isn't incredibly bad.

[1] https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm
> Maybe a simple set of questions would help: You don’t feel some art is better or special? Or you don’t feel a person can discern between art that is better or worse, even in the most extreme cases? Or is it something else?

Yes, but that is the point I think, subjectivity. You also feel that way for different reasons, and who's to judge which of us is objectively right?