skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mason was great, but it'd have needed to be accompanied with an easy-as-adding-a-different-document-extension scheme installed by default w/ mod_perl on commodity hosting in order to have saved Perl's popularity vs PHP.

The big thing for PHP was how easy it was to go from "I've got a static HTML document that looks like what I want!" to "I've just added a tiny bit of dynamic content by sprinkling in a special tag!" on the majority of unix-based hosts. Deployment was uploading via FTP, just like it was with HTML. There's just so little conceptual distance or friction between static HTML and dynamic document/app, the pit of success is right there to fall into (granted, the peak of further success has some rocky roads out of that pit, but by then you've got momentum!).

On commodity hosting, Perl got typecast as a CGI tool instead. Which had its own power (CGI is kinda the OG serverless)... but not as easy a jumping off spot for anybody who was doing HTML.
Naturalistic Decision Making Transformed My Approach to Training Employees
This is still in a lot of the PHP community builds essentially. PHP + A little bit of enhancement with JavaScript is in my opinion almost unbeatable in productivity and raw speed.
You care a lot about bytes and cycles especially when you’re going to spin up another 1000 instances. The larger the scale the more optimisations pay off.

It’s actually small to medium operations that don’t care so much about performance.
When it comes to writing code exploiting a database via SQL (and not needing/liking mappers) the trio Perl, DBI and Perl::Critic seems hard to beat.
people are overpaying

I'm showing you what people are paying. It's the truth, nothing more.

10MB Bitcoin blocks

That would be about 16KB/s

LN is the fastest growing cryptocurrency network by nodes. Lots of people are using it.

The difference is that I backed up what I said with real information.

I know it doesn’t fit the big block Bcasher story, but we stopped listening to those fools in 2017.

Every cryptocurrency has more throughput than bitcoin. There is no reason not to. You can throw around labels and propaganda nonsense, but there is no technical reason to restrict a cryptocurrency to the throughput of a 28.8 modem. It destroys all the reasons for a cryptocurrency to exist in the first place.

The real question is why someone would use an awkward second layer that completely fragments who you can send and receive from when every other cryptocurrency works without it because they aren't limited to 1 KB/s. An office laser printer can print characters on paper at a higher throughput than 1 KB/s.

It is a bizarre and absurd world where a currency that is supposed to work for everyone pragmatically allows everyone in the world a single transaction for their entire lifetime.
There is nothing could not be solved by adding another layer of abstraction, except for too many layers of abstraction.
What setup did you use when you were learning NixOS? Server in the cloud or a desktop rig?
I'm here. QA/Dev integrated systems.
Sometimes it's actually easier to do this kind of stuff by mail. It's archaic, but most of the inefficiency falls on the other end. Same goes for dealing with banks, IRS, anyone who doesn't have a choice to deal with you (or you with them).

Send them a letter and make them figure out what to do about it. No need to wait on the phone and be transferred around or search through hundreds of menus in a poorly designed app.
In my experience, Keycloak is best treated as a "pet" in the "pet v.s. cattle" spectrum. It takes a while to warm up, so you don't want to be constantly restarting it. I deployed it out-of-sync with the main application deployments.

As an open source option, it's quite powerful and full-featured. It's also quite configurable.

If I had one feature ask, it's that it doesn't play well with infrastructure-as-code ideas. While you can load a new realm from a JSON, it's harder to keep changes synced after that.
yeah read the story. " Its net cash used in operating expenses during the first half of 2014 was $13.5 million, which sounds much more reasonable."
It's crazy how hidden fees quickly blow up a $99 property to $328... $159 cleaning fee? $60 mysterious service charge? I just go with Hotels...much more consistent experience.
Their take, that WhatsApp has been ruined, is weird to me as a regular user of WhatsApp who has been using it for what must be a decade at this point. I don’t have a single complaint about it, and I’ve never heard a complaint about it outside of anti-Facebook sentiment in tech circles, and while we can certainly begrudge Facebook’s behaviour in a lot of ways, it seems absurd to suggest that Facebook have somehow ruined the user experience of WhatsApp — it’s one of the most consistent apps I’ve ever used, and continued growth surely demonstrates that.
>>I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward packets for people you don’t trust, but who know someone you do trust.

The network will coalesce around using a handful of hub nodes for the packet forwarding, and a malicious party need only to coopt that central cluster of nodes to unmask all web users.

The "blockchain bullshit" enables trusted decentralized interaction at scale.
The Irrational, Misguided Discourse Surrounding Supreme Court Controversies
Started by getting it working on my new work laptop (Thinkpad), then putting it on my personal laptop (Dell XPS) to figure out how to split config into multiple hosts, then finally onto an HP proliant server I've got hosted at home.
right. Many around the world paid that 1$.
Yeah, I think former head of business at Whatsapp, who you're replying to, knows that.
If you are asking "where?", you are asking the wrong question, and that is likely why you are having troubles. You need to ask "at what cost?" Suddenly, your issues will disappear and you'll have no trouble hiring (at the proper cost)

Generally, when you are unable to find X at cost Y, either settle for worse X, or raise your price-i-am-willing-to-pay (Y)
They're bogged down fixing millions of issues.
You pair program under time pressure similar to interview conditions? Really? I find that hard to believe.

As for giving talks that way, I would not say that qualifies as a high stakes environment. Your likely worst case scenario is that either your code or some bit of technology involved doesn't work right, so you laugh it off and explain what was supposed to happen.
This is fetishizing psychology expertise. Others are allowed to participate. I don't need a PhD in economics to participate in our economy.
Yo browsers already know & implement Signed Http Exchanges[1]. Just follow the spec we have. Once twitter or bluesky or whomever signs a message, it becomes in effect a cryptographically self identifying content addressable blob we can relay around as we please, is cryptographically signed.

Such a damned pity that so much zealous & righteous energy jn distributed & p2p is shunted into rejectionist, reactionary re-treading, that it rejects what is & expansion & enhancement & wanders off alone (into the far blue sky) to go try it's own hand at communing with god & finding a whole new approach. This is bluesky confirming that they too either dont see or dont care to work with the best most advanced prospects we have, that they d rather go back to 0 again. Disappointing, unsurprising, totslly in the mold of every hot taking reactionary would be do-it-all-over-again revolutionary, like like urbit.

I will try to see if there's anything here really novel & ennabling, but holy cow, http already does 92% of what's on the tin here, & we could turn it on for everything in months, with little challenge, if we cared to try.

[1] https://web.dev/signed-exchanges/
>"Oh and I bet the Canadian version of the game doesn't even have some of the greatest antagonists of the American edition: the people whose entire job is to wander around emergency rooms bugging very sick people about payment and insurance."

Most, if not all the provinces do actually charge people in certain groups (tourists & recent immigrants) for medical care.
> Any project that uses dependencies (in any language) has the same issue.

While that's absolutely true, the Node ecosystem (which I use, love, and make my money in) definitely takes the sheer dependencies of dependencies of dependencies problem to a rather fascinating extreme, compared to nearly any other language I use.
I reviewed an oreilly book.
The process was well run, and most of my suggestions were acted upon by the editors/authors. Everyone was quite professional.

Compensation was de minmus, plus a copy of the book.

I strongly suspect that tech books do not sell as well as they did 25 years ago, and most tech books make little if any profit. There's an advantage to the publisher in having a wide variety of titles for a subscription service (I loved having a safari subscription), but, at least for me, the days of buying a giant and expensive tech book for just a few relevant chapters are over.

So the addressible market is smaller, and compensation is generally lower, though there are still indirect rewards
Thank you for the books and the suggestions. I understand the warnings since I did not really provide any information on my project in the post. Essentially, I am writing a batteries included language to act as a replacement for LaTeX (or at the moment, a small subset of it). I cannot use any existing library since they do not work for my own PL and I do not want to go through PostScript -> PDF since the reason I started this project was because the time delay between saving a .tex file and seeing the output on my pdf reader was becoming very long.
> But unfortunately, some Perl devs in recent years keep thinking that what they need to do is break stuff to "modernize".

Isn't it the whole point of Raku (previously Perl 6)?
Are the pubs meant to train new operatives to avoid awkward situations like this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/inglourious-bast...
This ^
Exactly this.

I worked at Google for a while. I started there at 50% more than my previous compensation, but two steps down in terms of responsibility. After a couple of years of my manager saying that I'd be ready to apply for promo when the current project finished and watching projects fly by, I started shopping my resume around.
If this post is downvoted, what is a better question to ask in this case?
When I fasted I ended up gaining weight after a while. My assumption is that my body knew I wouldn’t eat for a while so it would absorb the food and not digest it as effectively so that I can have more fuel.

What I do now is I randomly fast on random days and random times . It’s been more effective for me
You can think of Perl as a super AWK. That's really the genesis of it's design philosophy, hence all the special automatic variables and modes to implement processing loops on the command line. From a scripting standpoint, the language is designed to be used with much less ceremony than Python and its ilk.
I think you missed the "time pressure" and "high stakes environment" points. I've done plenty of rubber ducking on the job and elsewhere, and not one time have I ever had to solve the problem in 45 minutes, or else lose out on a big opportunity, similar to how an interview would work.
This service will log in to your bank on your behalf to scrape the site, since not all banks have APIs. This means they will store your bank login and password somewhere. Store in a way that they can decrypt it so they ... you know ... can login on your behalf occasionally to scape the latest data. If they can decrypt it, so can whoever steals their database.
That's why I mentioned "doesn't make financial sense" too. If you can throw another $X/mth box at it, or have engineers spend weeks improving the system's performance for the same effect... there's a point where scaling out makes way more sense. Whether that leads to complexity issues is really case-by-case.
> All major SPA’s have had convergent evolution towards the same optimizations ... If one briefly had an advantage ... thats gone now.

There's quite some room for disagreement wrt. this claim, depending on what exactly counts as "major" at any given time.
I'd prefer not to share my personal git repo as it would reveal my identity, but I based it on these:

https://github.com/MatthewCroughan/nixcfg

https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles

https://github.com/georgewhewell/nixos-host

https://github.com/ipetkov/dotfiles

There's also the DevOS project, which is an attempt to create a base of boilerplate than anyone can use as a start to build a system:

https://devos.divnix.com/

Recommendations:

* Definitely use flakes

* Use Agenix to store secrets out in the open (encrypted with your SSH key)

* Use home-manager

* Keep config modular so you can selectively include it in various hosts and domains (e.g. desktop vs server).

Think of it as building software when you figure out how to organize your config. The bulletpoints above can all be a bit difficult to figure out so don't feel bad if you don't get them installed right away. Try to start with a machine that isn't your daily driver and blocking your workflow.
It's become an instant close of the website for me now. I can't stand it.
> Set the wrong incentives, get the wrong behaviors.

I don't mean this as a slight at your comment - rather at the shockingness of the reality that your comment (really) needed to be said - but isn't this blatantly implied by the meaning of the word 'incentive'?? I'm astonished that people keep not realising this. The whole culture of OKRs/KPIs at startups feels like it's tempting this problem - I don't see why any but a very small number of companies should need to optimise metrics which are non-obvious. Having an OKR/KPI which one needs to deliberately decide on feels like a very pungent 'bad smell' of an XY problem.
Honestly I'd love to switch to systems programming from web CRUD. I just don't know how to get into that field.
Discovery of mysterious drawings could change how scientists look at cave art
I’m curious why you say you care about file systems? I’ve never noticed any difference using exFAT or NTFS vs. ext3 or ext4 and so on?
>Gates says Elon Musk could make misinformation worse.

Gates knows about how to make the world a better place. Everyone should read his op-ed that he wrote for the Communist Party in the People’s Daily, Chinese state media. He talks about how China has liberated hundreds of millions of people and has "achieved miracles beyond the reach of any other country over the past several decades".
They’re both a function of general anti-market policies of their local government. The City government of San Francisco opposes free markets in both labor and housing. Therefore it has a gigantic housing shortage because developers are shackled from meeting demand. That same anti-market outlook also leads lawmakers to thinking workers are incapable of negotiating their own fair wages, and hence they set very high minimum wages.

Homeowners and landlords in Houston also use housing as an investment. However the cost is not nearly anywhere as high because the local government in Houston is much more friendly to free market policies towards property developers.
Most interesting. Did you feel confident you wouldn't mess up your work laptop too catastrophically?
Do you have evidence from the apk that phone numbers were being retrieved?
This rings especially true when you live and work in an ephemeral digital environment. I find mechanical devices of all kinds grounding. No batteries, no upgrades, no security vulnerabilities, no dependency hell.
Thanks very much I’ll work on compiling a list.
You as a developer have the power to say no.

So many engineers have no backbone - use your leverage. You are the one writing code, not some PM.

There are sane escape hatches today that will give your team productivity multipliers and allow you to blitz past these "resume driven development" companies.

Render.com, traditional server-side rendered frameworks, etc.

Advocate for yourself and your team. You will be surprised how much leverage and control you have.
Still... you don't need to be an SPA for that kind of problem. Half the static sites I see hit that number with just trackers from various ad networks.
Thank you. It was helpful!
I’ll take a look, thanks for sharing the link.
Haha, yup, that's what I was quoting in my comment ("just use curlftpfs!").
https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...
> Perl might fit that bill

may i submit https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach
The issue isn't structure but rather density. If you have N values ranging from -M to M, the "obvious" solution is O(N^2) and the convolution us O(M log M). So if you have lots of values within a narrow range the convolution wins.
This 1000x. Every nail looks like a React app. Most frameworks are overkill for most sites/apps. There are definitely ones that need that level of architecture, but that isn't most of the time.
If this is a thing you WANT to do, great, but even without wifi, smart switches still work just fine as normal switches. The statement that they're problematic without wifi is wrong. They work fine as normal switches, even if you never set up the smart features.
I think it is rather easy to say that the rapid buildout of more and more fabrication plants may be fruitless if the entire industry is still going to rely exclusively on ASML for EUV and even more so if there are no new ingot providers. Apparently, the fab companies know something we do not in those regards. Beyond that, while we are facing high demand now and low supply, a ton of new fabs will increase supply and… possibly crash the market. This is especially true as AMD and Intel now face greater competition not just from one another but also from RISC-V, ARM, Power, and Hygon. These competitive pressures will erode the margins and thereby also the incentives.
Thank you. I will look into Tikz source code.
I'm also on self-hosted Zimbra and looking to move away from it, but I just can't bring myself to go to google or microsoft for something like that.

I'll probably end up with Roundcube or something similar.
State machine is all you need.
Teleporting to Live Events with VR
Also interesting is the rule that allows (requires?) players to serve as referees.

> If, through misadventure or sickness, the Referees and Linesmen
appointed are prevented from appearing, the League will make every
attempt to find suitable replacement officials, otherwise, the Managers
or Coaches of the two Clubs shall agree on Referee(s) and
Linesman(men). If they are unable to agree, they shall appoint a
player from each side who shall act as Referee and Linesman; the
player of the home Club acting as Referee and the player of the
visiting Club as Linesman.
Printing to Many Filehandles Simultaneously (2003)
They make it sounds so magnanimous that they are using a different tactic to exploit users for profit. If the motive is profit, the motive is not healthy conversations. It may end up being less bad than Facebook by coincidence but it's not an exercise in civil discourse.
That could be a great area. Would love to know more, you can email me at emails44@icloud.com. I’ve used so many plugins over the years that are all modeled from real hardware that I also used.
I wouldn't argue the original point was about religious legislating. It's more about a fundamental principle of a just society is that it doesn't allow the rich and powerful to oppress others because they have money.

Turning this into some sort of weird partisan issue seems that you are more interested in scoring points for your side than any real effort to discover truth.
"If you have other ideas on how to avoid the slip into promo-culture, I’d love to hear your thoughts"

Proper bonuses (proper = multiple of base salary). If promotion is the only way to get comp then obviously it matters a great deal. However, if you can get good comp based on your performance (and not your rank), then promotion matter much less. At most investment banks/hedge funds the highest paid employee is NOT the CEO; it is somebody that made the the firm $248m last year and that got to keep a fraction of it as a bonus.
That’s fine, and I actually applaud avoiding complex dependencies like LaTeX/PostScript. Using a good PDF library might still make sense for your use case, as they generally provide enough low-level support. In particular for handling the COS object system, which you really don’t want to do by hand if you can avoid it. Or you can at least start with using a library to get familiar with the higher-level PDF peculiarities, and only switch to fully hand-written output later when and if you find that necessary.
Urbackup looks interesting for backup of my kids Windows laptops. Does it take an "opportunistic" approach rather than a rigid schedule? I.e.: If the laptop and backup server notice they're on the same network, and there hasn't been a backup for a while, then initiate an incremental backup?
I assumed they didn't outright lie in the title, so I kept their "most salvadorans". If that's not true, then I think even worse of them for that title.
> Serving HTML doesn't make sense.

Bold statement, how on Earth do you justify it?
You can embed flash in PDF?!?
>>I see everybody around me moving to cloud, without really good explanation why.

In that case you certainly aren't looking very hard for that explanation.

The rationale of moving to "the cloud" is crisp and very well-defined, to the point where even AWS makes it their point to explain in very clear terms in their Architecting With AWS courses.

Basically it's all about being able to scale without bothering with procurement, not having to manage everything down to power bills and rentals, turning big capex into small opex, and being able to deploy globally and reliably with a click of a button.

That, however, comes at a steep cost. The more serverless you get, the higher the price tag.

Also, beyond a certain scale you're better off going back to managing your own infrastructure.

> Only reasonable thing I can see as an pattern is that cloud experience on top of data things gets paid 30% more. It made me consider cloud a lot.

People with cloud experience are paid more because they can deliver more value. A random guy with, say, experience in EC2 and CloudFormation and CloudWatch, can single-handedly put together a robust fault-tolerant webservice that's deployed globally and automatically scales to meet any demand fluctuation.
I think a large part of the problem is we may never have big studies for this. It’s very difficult to do human trials, you can’t just lock people up and restrict their calories for years on end.
IMO mobx has better DX than redux, not sure why it's less popular. Probably because react community prefer FP over OOP?