skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...Yes? For one thing, PHP code runs inside the process of rendering HTML, but JS SSR runs under the process of a React JS app, running in Node. That alone is an absolutely massive difference. Not just on a technical level; React JSX also doesn't have nearly as much hazards surrounding HTML sanitization, for example, because JSX is a DSL that protects inputs with proper sanitization by default, among other practical differences. Another difference is that SSR is more flexible than for runtime environment; it is very often used as a static compilation technique, where it is run as a compilation step for a static site, but either way, it is not married to any specific runtime model, whereas PHP pretty much is (for now.)

A closer analogue to what React does would be comparing XHP[1] to JSX, but even that misses the isomorphic aspect of a SPA with SSR, which is almost the entire value proposition, because it allows you to only need to write your component code once while reusing the same render cycle at browser runtime.

It should be pretty evident that PHP-style CGI scripting is not ideal given that even early on many PHP apps moved to using template systems like Smarty and never actually embedding HTML directly into PHP code.

[1]: https://github.com/phplang/xhp
>It sounds like you're saying something like: "advertisers have their own desires that are different than ours, and so it's more likely that they'll get us to desire things that are bad for us"

It is a rare but very satisfying experience to see yourself quoted and feel like you're being interpreted correctly. Yes, you are right, I'm saying that, more or less.

>I think you're right of course that primal needs like Maslow's cannot really compare to needs or desires we create with advertising [...] But I don't think that's what we're really talking about.

I take something like Maslow to be comprehensive, and so always implicated. I think your dominos example serves to suggest that there are cases that are mundane, harmless, or where nothing is at stake.

I think so far as something like that is concerned, I think that's true and those things happen. However, I think (1) even seemingly benign examples really do have important issues at stake. I think American consumers have trouble budgeting and a huge input into that is innocent-seeming habit of ordering out, which, over time, ads up in significant ways. Also (2) while we can contemplate one-off examples, I think the primary frame of reference should be a big picture, systematic look at the incentives. The system writ large serves interests of advertisers, not consumers, and the legitimacy of that lives or dies with systematic arguments about the incentives.

>I don't think I'm making an argument for moral relativism here at all?

I think the idea that our preferences are transient, that none are really more right than any other, and that therefore there's nothing really at stake in letting your interests be swapped out for different interests, is what I regard as moral relativism. You have to believe there's some underlying truth at stake and real interests being defended to make a case against ads.
Excellent write up! Glad you were well compensated.
Honestly, at this point I don't think there is hope for RCS.

And even if there was: I really don't like the idea of an (at least somewhat) carrier-controlled messaging service. Especially the lack of multi-device messaging/not being able to access my account without my phone is really frustrating.

We had all of that with instant messengers in the early 2000s (proprietary or open/federated) – RCS seems like a big step back in that regard.
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I guess Switzerland. Pretty much every other country offers you citizenship after a time.
Yes, but if you then copy the result of that onto your Android phone, you still end up with the issue I described above.

> Not sure about Firefox

It does that, too.
Unfortunately, that didn't exist for us back in 2016, and our product is no longer in development.
> While their relations with other humans aren't always great, African bushmen populations haven't really experienced any genocidal decline.

They are confined to a few small areas in South Africa and a few small areas much, much further north than that. The obvious implication is that they used to cover the area in between, too.

This doesn't make for a very compelling example of non-genocide.
I think one of the best things about school is the timetable. You don't need to be there too much of each day, and there are generous periods of holiday. What this means is that you have lots of time on your own to go deep and explore the thing you are most interested in, whilst having enough broad knowledge of the stuff you should know via the school curriculum. School kind of offers you a taste of so many things, so you get a chance to see what your inclinations are.

People seem to think teachers can just deliver into you excellence, but excellence comes from within, and hopefully you are in an environment which permits you to grow and develop under your own personal efforts and dedication (i.e. stable home environment, warmth, food, etc.).
I think your understanding of US intelligence and forcing companies into compliance needs updating.

First, it is exaggerated, which is not surprising in today's media and outrage climate. Second, things have changed since Snowden and the congressional oversight had been rolled out. Third, GA is not that valuable compared to other sources.

Your chief complaining would be better spent about how Google uses the data rather than intelligence agencies.

Also note that Google fights against overly broad intelligence / police requests and publishes data on how many they get and comply with.
> I have never encountered a more hostile website

I think Instagram and/or Pintrest often require you to log in before letting you see even the first picture you click on.
ProxyJump is slightly preferred in modern SSH. Does what you're doing, but with simpler syntax. Take a look.
> The second is the evidence we have from the ancient world, which was a mere 2,000 years ago. We have written records going back another 3,000-4,000 years before that. I find this period fascinating for many reasons but a big one is how alien we would find the ethics and how societies worked

Can you elaborate some more on these differences? I’d love to learn more.
Everyone is quick to talk bad about the "ultra rich". Ultra rich have means, they are intelligent, they have advisors, and they know how to adapt. If economy turned towards deflation those ultra-rich would liquidize their assets, store money, and benefit from that instead. When two opposing processes can benefit the rich I would say it's not in the process but in how you react to the undergoing changes and how you adapt.
WGU is an online, fully accredited college that does exactly that. You pay for 6 months at a time and can do as many classes as you're able to complete within that time frame.

I just started at the beginning of February and have already knocked out an entire course in the past 10 days, it's honestly the best experience I've ever had with schooling. I like to work at my own pace because my motivation to get things done comes in bits and spurts, so I like to take advance of the upswings of my motivation levels and will manically get as much done as I can it fades and then take a week off to just chill, which did not work very well when I was enrolled at a more traditional university.
This seems one major downside of cars: lots of decision makers vs mass transportation with significantly less.
You can befriend corvids. Teaching them symbolic language is tricky, but they can trade and socialise and solve puzzles (if you manage to explain the puzzle).
Trump is part of the elite just not the elite Twitter is part of.

You think the elite all think the same? No they have their political differences.
But you don't have to cry for him the GOP has its own media empire.
I tried the beta around August last year. I struggled grokking it mostly because I had had very minimal experience with SQL - which it kind of assumed you already know the drawbacks of. However, I did like the idea very much.

Looking forward to giving it another try soon!
This is relying on the assumption that it's unethical to distort the market, which I don't think is a given. Unless you're an anarco-capitalist, and I'm pretty sure they're cool with advertising.
Range Rover is a type of Land Rover.
No, try again.
Almost nobody in Europe uses SMS anymore (for person-to-person messaging, at least; it's still quite common for B2C, especially for two factor authentication). MMS was never popular in the first place.
> Current administration created gazillions of dollars out of thin air, far more than previous ones. They deserve the credit.

You mean the previous admin? Biden did not do much in response to covid.
If you're nostalgic about your old engineering RPN calculator, or would just like to use your Ti-84+CE more efficiently, check out https://git.io/ti84rpn - it let's you quickly switch in and out of reverse polish notation mode.
If your FB newsfeed is toxic, it’s because you have toxic friends.
The whole “natural” thing is maybe a good source of ideas to try, but that’s it.

A list of things that are totally unnatural: brushing teeth, antibiotics, painkillers, surgery, hip replacements, antidepressants, infant mortality below 10%, not dying of an ear infection, clean chlorinated water...
I’ve always wished for MongoDB to have a “deepFind”, so that when I fetch a document, it will fetch the nested relations also instead of doing an aggression to do the lookup. Feel like if their objectID only included a collection name reference then somehow it should be possible. Perhaps a depth parameter would use be useful for more relational data.
Congrats on the milestone! Will definitively have a look at edgeDB.
EdgeDB is built on top of Postgres. The performance critical bits are either Python compiled to C with Cython or Rust, so there's almost no Python overhead.

We perform quite favorably in benchmarks, see our old blog post with some: https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-2#results

> Is 1.0 your MVP?

EdgeDB is ready for production and is light years ahead of its first technical preview MVP release published a few years ago.
Outside of work, the only project ideas I have are weird convoluted ones just like this, where I spend 40 hours getting a proof of concept working, then never touch it again.
> in theory companies like Facebook are worth hundreds of billions despite making many people miserable and actually lowering productivity by wasting time

They are "worth" that amount not because they are creating that much wealth, but because they have developed a system that allows them to transfer that much wealth from others to themselves in a zero sum game.

> Customers and markets aren't rational if the people are driven by addiction

In the sense that people can be manipulated, sure. But "addiction" is by no means the only way to do that. Advertising in general (which is how Facebook makes much of its money) attempts to do the same thing.

> in which case it would make sense for the government to intervene.

But, as your example shows, we know what it takes for government intervention of this sort: it takes being China, i.e., having a government with virtually absolute power. And that is not a viable long term solution, because a government with such power, even if it uses it to do some good things, will use it to do many more very damaging things, and everyone ends up worse off on net.
> wiping out debt

Do poor people have access to severe amounts of debt?

The #1 source of debt in the USA seems to be the home mortgage, and #2 is probably the car-loan after that.

Poor people don't have access to home mortgages because they can't afford it: they're in the renter class. So all inflation does is increase the price of rents to them.

Car loans are also somewhat difficult for people with low credit scores.

EDIT: Ah right: student loan debt. Which is once again, largely a rich person thing in the aggregate. Poor people aren't going to college. The middle class who can go to college may get significant amounts of student debt, but its nothing compared to the student loans the upper-class get for Lawyer / Medical Doctor schools.

> spurning wage inflation

While average wages have inflated, have they increased by 7.5% over the past year? I don't think so.

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You need to be relatively well off to have a home-mortgage that benefits from inflation. (+Home value while decreasing the value to the loan). In fact, it is the richest among us who have the access to the most amounts of debt instruments (ex: a home speculator / house-flipper may own 10 homes and 10 different mortgages, but they needed a high amount of capital to find themselves in that situation).
I think that consensus is very fractured, but setting that aside -- has the "it's transitory" consensus made any concrete predictions? Have they been holding up so far?

I just look at housing prices as the input to a low pass filter with a 10-year pole, whose output is shelter costs, and I see the input is up tens of percent and the output is up 4ish percent, and that is enough to tell me we'll have a major inflation driver for ten years. Larry Summers says the same thing, so I'm pretty confident in my own predictions.
If Apple or Walmart want to use “associate” internally as a euphemism for “employee,” because they think it sounds nicer or something, obviously they can.

But the database field we’re taking about is Job Title. And Apple knows what it is; they populate that field with actual job titles for current employees, and they use such databases themselves to check their own applicants.

If your point is that “associate” is an overloaded term, acknowledged. But don’t expect me to believe Apple doesn’t know that. They use it in junior titles themselves.

If they don’t want to provide it for former employees they could blank the field or supply a value like “Not Provided” which would have been even more clear about what is going on.
On a rooted phone, AdAway works fine.
https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway
In a totally perfect market, the park charges runners a few cents to go for a run, and spends some of that revenue on advertising the park to runners, and then they would outcompete treadmill ads (for some users).

The reason you don't see this is because free parks are themselves a market distortion.
The main issue with LN is even more fundamental than that. Their argument against other scaling solutions was basically "if we scale on chain the hardware requirements will be hard for regular people to keep up and decentralization will suffer". So instead they went about and created a system where only the wealthy have the capital to commit to open enough channels and route payments. LN is almost totally antithetical to crypto in that it enables the creation of the very thing crypto sought to destroy; gatekeeping payment processors. Bitcoin was co-opted by Blockstream and co. who wanted to become Visa/Mastercard-like rent seeking middlemen.

Opinion part: Monero is technically superior to Bitcoin in basically every way.
Well, any company worth their salt has a website these days. Not to show ads, but to be visible out there. They obviously gain from having a website, even without ads. They can pay for that.

For other websites, they can ask their community for support. Then maybe we will learn, that we need to pay for good services, or they disappear. That would be better in my opinion than unconsensually becoming the product as the user of the service, because of companies siphoning off personal data and selling to the highest bidder.

Somewhere along the way, we might also realize, that democracies have an interest in having some kind of good news coverage and information pages online. Countries can pay for that. There can be a general tax for maintenance of websites, which are important for the public. I guess this already exists indirectly, because people pay taxes and that money is used to pay people, who work for cities, states and so on and for paying for servers.

I have been running a server for a year or two. Paying for that myself. I get a wage every month from the job, so I can pay for a server. Theoretically I could run lots of services on that server and still only pay the same amount every month. For dedicated people in IT sector wages are often good and they can afford to run a few things out of their own pocket. My guess is many people would do that. Not every website needs to be "financing itself". It is not always about the money. Some people simply want to make a nice thing and are OK with paying for it.

So there are many ways, in which websites can exist without the incessant ads spam and bloat, that we see today.

Besides all of that, ad business is often make-believe by the big players, giving wrong impression of how much an ad actually helps your business and improper conclusion drawing from statistics by marketing departments, instead of data analysts. Funny ones are things like "conversion rate", which doesn't work for a huge percentage of people visiting the website with standard ad blocking solutions. They are not even aware of all those people, because their frontend JS-based tracker wasn't even loaded. In one of my own projects, I saw a block rate of close to 60%. Granted, the targetted audience was quite technical in nature, so they were more likely to have ad blocking solutions in place. But this can show you how far off you can be by just looking at some analytics stats. How many marketing departments are capable of running a proper A-B-test? How many of them have the necessary statistics background to run any study properly and then draw correct conclusions?
I'd ask, because I've spent many hours over the last ~6-7 years trying to find a way to save on housing costs (and, ideally, get closer to any sort of natural environment that's inviting rather than dull and off-putting—I'd actually accept a lateral move, price wise, to gain that) without school quality suffering and without one of us having to home-school, but I doubt you want to publicize it :-)

I fear we're already at about the optimal cost/school-quality point. We're already in a boring-ass place way away from the coasts, but even here housing prices are inflating faster than younger folks can save the money to buy them. It's crazy. For them the only way to buy a house will be to move somewhere with really bad schools, which was what I meant in my original post—I've got an OK situation, but younger folks won't have even this option.
Rich people are more likely have debt like fixed rate mortgages that inflation can wipe out. Poor people are more likely to have interest indexed debt like credit cards or variable rate loans that will crush them when inflation rises. Inflation is terrible for the poor. We can already see wages lagging behind inflation.
It's also probably fine if you do not have large amounts of cash savings.

Lots of people have debt. I think most or almost everyone has debt.
If I understand GP correctly, the goal is to SSH into an RPi on a home network. Since they mention DDNS, it's implied that they're connecting directly to their home router. What I'm saying is why not port forward directly to the RPi?
Along with the bounty for this one: https://gerhard-wagner.medium.com/double-spending-bug-in-pol... (also $2M [1])

[1] https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/polygon-pays-out-record-2...
It's not an overloaded term. It means "employee".
The title is confusing. The article discusses the possibility of the very existence of alien large-scale quantum computers being the reason for what we think of as dark energy.
Not true. Likely with high inflation the real return on your debt is positive. My mortgage returned +4.5% last year. That is a great investment!
I learned OpenSCAD over the course of a few afternoons, and I'm good enough to get designs for most of the stuff I need. It's really straightforward to get started, so it's definitely worth checking out. The only complaint I've had is that there's not built-in bezier curves, so sometimes you need to spoof things with a bunch of lines or truncating circles.

I personally like the code based system, even when it's "harder" simply because it's easy to plop this into version control.
Volume != neurons. In any case, 75 is awful and is usually considered borderline retarded. (If you're tempted to respond with other cases of higher IQ, note that they are often retracted or unconfirmed and likely fraudulent in some way; see https://www.gwern.net/Hydrocephalus .)
Dual-Stack Networking in Kubernetes
Why would you expect that, when a tiny insect can do pretty intelligent things? What "unexpected" things humans can do are probably all in the >75 IQ range.
Thank you! Working EdgeDB requires 0 SQL knowledge, you are not going to ever use it again.

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We also have a book, it's called Easy EdgeDB, check it out here: [2]

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> 7% is higher than we would like, but if the alternative is to have shrinking GDP and massive unemployment, I would rather have some inflation.

The alternative is to have typical 2-3% of inflation and correspondingly the typical 2-3% of GDP growth with healthy labor market. The 7% inflation does get you that 7% GDP growth we're seeing and red hot labor market, yet it is just a temporary effect, like a shot of stimulant, which will soon produce a very heavy hangover.
Congrats! Can I get the ebook as pdf somewhere?
Yes, this is an important refinement of my position. And the next refinement would be to quantifiably measure the value of different stuff and prioritize and allocate resources among the products, taking into account their changing value over time and with respect to how much we already have. I'm sure we could keep going with this...

But really if we could just start thinking in terms of stuff rather than money I think we'd be doing well :-)
Thanks for this feedback!

I have now changed this to include only logos of companies with whom I am directly involved, who are actively using my service to monitor their SSL certificates, and who have agreed to have their logos appear on my landing page.
I don’t know much about the subject matter of the post, but it seems like the sort of blog that would notice that the earth and moon in the hero image rely on the sunlight coming from different directions.
Agreed, the effort you went into for explanations and interactive examples truly make it a high quality resource
Why no words about WebAssembly/WASM?
About the security content of iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1
Is Deno better than Node for new projects now?
I've worked on so many small teams where dealing with AWS/Azure etc was a huge part of their day, for very very simple products.

I still remember arguing about bloating a web app with a 1mb package from AWS so it could use their serverless authentication offering.

Common theme as using those lambda function - sometimes paying quite a lot of them - to serve requests that would be twice as fast on the proverbial $5 linux instance.

So yeah, looking from the sidelines it feels like a huge amount of added complexity for small teams, "just in case" they need to scale. Which given how fast modern hardware is way further off than they think.

(unless they use lambda functions for every API request. in which case they better learn to scale in a hurry)