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I generally agree and for one welcome our systems-language-based-backend overlords in the form of robust Rust and Crystal-based web frameworks (Go I dislike for other reasons, but its heart is in the right place).

That said, I've had to eat my words recently on this -- serverless compute is just so damn easy to use and scale, it almost doesn't matter how inefficient the language you're running on it is as long as there are good ways of optimizing around cold starts (i.e. pre-warming), etc.. General efficiency of the backend language mattered a lot more when we had long-running web servers where memory leaks and stability issues would rear their heads inevitably after the server has been running for a few days. With serverless, these things almost no longer matter, because every micro VM is so short lived, there is no opportunity for these types of issues to arise. When it comes to raw performance, scripting languages _are_ sufficient if all you're doing is CRUD, in which case the main bottleneck is going to be your database anyway, especially if you are using a robust ORM like ActiveRecord which heavily optimizes the server side portion of this.

At Arist (YC S20) we are using Ruby on Jets in production, and it's quite efficient. We have a ~0.996 Appdex score, pages load typically within ~80-150ms, and many of our pages are server side rendered. I also operate a personal project that uses a Rust-based web framework. If I run this project on a raw EBS cluster (instead of serverless), I can get pages to load from the server in as quick as 20-40ms, but my point is that the difference visually is usually imperceptible -- 110ms is fast enough 99% of the time. When you factor in the fact that scripting languages, and in particular, Ruby, has significantly higher productivity than some of the systems languages, it becomes pretty obvious why a lot of startups stick with scripting languages.

All of that said, bring on the good and robust Rust and crystal web frameworks!!!
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>> "Ideologies that see castrating yourself or you children as a moral good."

Can you expand on this? I've never heard of that one. I know some people confuse accepting and affirming trans people with this because they've been given twisted ideas about what acceptance means and what happens from media grifters, but I charitably assume that's not what you mean here.
This is not the future I want to live in. For all the talk about web3 and decentralization, this is the one thing I truly wish existed as a fully decentralized service. I would gladly pay.
I hope this cross device system will be cross platform, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could only choose between macOS/iOS, Chrome/Chrome, or Edge/Edge sync.

Funnily enough, a system for signing web authentication requests from a mobile device is far from new: I've been using https://krypt.co/ for years (though it's on the long road of sunsetting right now) and I hope that will last long enough for the new cross device standard to replace it.
I'm super curious how fast could such technology develop if it was opensourced.

Since it supposedly doesn't require large capital cost, can be done in small scale and doesn't require exotic materials (except for cheaper separation of fuel from water) it would be perfect technology for small time experimenters and small entrepreneurs in all corners of the world.
What the Salisbury Plain looked like before Stonehenge
And they reported that the credentials were leaked on 5/3. That took a long time.
This is why I never have conversations with philosophy majors at parties. You are crawling through that same morass of specific straw man arguments that drive me nuts.
Google so far been trying to do this for 6-7 years since they attempted to force push FIDO through Android.

W3C adoption stalled, and they shot them in the foot with de-facto 3 incompatible standards rolled out under the same name.

Smartcards are an alternative solution, been working for 20+ years, and they keep being sabotaged to make way for FIDO (signing/encryption/enrolment APIs being axed from browsers.)
Not just a phone, an Android Phone! The login popup thingy (Google Prompts) is not available for any other mobile OS but for Android :(
So their vision of the future is that to do anything online, one MUST have a phone (ahem, portable wiretap)? And they're going to be keeping my secrets for me, for my own good?

I'm not sure I'm down with any of that.
For others who haven't looked into the article: Cancelling is not the main point of that article. The point is that it's hard to subscribe.

I have an NYT subscription and I have done multiple sub-unsub cycles before so I'm so accustomed to go through this kind of BS, but yeah they can be better.
The problem with the university of life is it gives the test first and the curriculum afterwards.
> Kind of hilarious now, seeing how thunderbolt 1/2 ended up barely being adopted outside of Apple

Which is to a large degree the fault of Intel restricting the TB spec to hell and back.
Software has essentially zero marginal cost. There's nothing stopping you, or any of us here, from writing another social network site. Management is the really hard thing to get right, if you want to grow to market dominance.

At its core, only Google's search engine is something of a moat. You have to crawl a sufficiently large chunk of the Web to yield good results.

You correctly point out Semiconductor Manufacturing as having a large cost of entry, which is true of any business that deals in atoms instead of bits.

Heck, just to set up a shop in your garage to make gears would probably set you back $10,000. But you could write the code to control the CNC machine, etc.. on a $100 netbook.
My succinct explanation for this: “social media extends the school social environment into the home.”

Whilst I believe social media is bad for everyone’s health (the unethical manipulation of users by the social media companies), the reason it is so so terrible for teenagers is it removes any possibility of escape for the horrendous “Lord of the flies” that is high school.

If I hadn’t been able to escape that environment each evening, I very much doubt I would still be here. And I wasn’t suffering anywhere near as much as many people I knew.

High school is a terrible idea, and social media extends and amplifies the horrible behaviours it engenders.
What if you didn’t have to file a tax return?
This is just not the case for a vast majority of businesses. It doesnt matter if you are using Ruby or Go or ASM if you write N+1 SQL queries all over the place.

Similarly, caching is universal and is the answer to nearly all API issues. Raw compute is such a non-factor in a significant portion of use-cases.
>>try reselling your degree.

Why would you sell your degree?

>>The data says otherwise

No it doesn't - stop making stuff up

but it sounds like in your case, you are not well suited for college - you should buy a car instead. Uber is always looking for drivers.
Not only did the Amiga have a robust CLI, but Amiga fans often used an Emacs-like editor called Micro Emacs. The Amiga could do amazing graphics, but it had awesome support for technical tools that didn't need graphics so much as well. It was really a "workstation lite".
Direct link to our interactive demo of CheerpX: https://webvm.io/
You can put FIDO creds on a 20 dollar hardware token. It's just that not everyone has that, so you can use your phone too if you want.
he thought it would be good social signalling?
Show HN: Looking for review, input, etc. of First Android Android app
For the past couple years I've been trying to learn Android app development. I've been working as a 'software engineer' off and on for 10 years simply out of corporate need (didn't go to school for). I had an idea for a personal note taking app and now I'm considering the possibility of releasing it. In my search for testers, Hacker News came up many times and I thought this may be a good place to post and request some testing and evaluation. As the site rules indicate, I'm looking for honest, respectful, helpful input.

ABOUT THE APP

The app is called ResearchDB, a "documenting" form of note taking app - meaning it requires you to "document" your source and has a 1/2 dozen required fields. In other words, the purpose of this note taking app is not just noting something of interest, but "supportively documenting" the note and source. This is why I call it ResearchDB. We all have particular, beliefs, ideas, interests, and this note taking app is intended to be a way to document those beliefs, interests and ideas through the creation of multiple "subject-based" databases containing notes in a way that helps us remember and recall those things in a way that helps us remember them. And since it is a phone app, we can recall and pull up those supportive notes at any moment with our handy smartphone.

THE APK TARGET COMPATABITY

The Minimum SDK is 28 and the target is 30
It requires Internet and Storage (read/write) permissions so that you have the ability to document sources and can export or import notes and databases on topics of interests.

ABOUT THE LINKS

I have included a link to the Android APK for downloading and a YouTube link which demonstrates the intent and how to use the app in 9-10 minutes. The APK link takes you to "ufile.io" - a web storage source I use, but it is free to download, there is not a requirement to sign up, create an account or purchase, simply just choose the slower - free download option. The APK should be signed and I will assume a tester may know how to sideload it through developer options to their Android phone.

APK
https://ufile.io/kw5gonpc

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvpgviLECXA

BTW, the app also includes a PDF pictorial guide on how to do everything - besides the YouTube video.

I wasn't sure whether or not I should include one of these links above and which would be a more appropriate choice if so. Since it says "OR" between the URL field and posting field here, I didn't read that I couldn't add them here, but let me know whether I posted these links incorrectly.

Thanks for this opportunity and being willing to test and try this if you do.

- Scott
> had got older they had never actually left the society

That is actually nice, it's good to know association of people/friends that are long lasting (for non-political purposes).

I figure the society didn't get inherited from before your father's time, maybe you'll just need to find/found your own group/society.
Absolutely, parents joined the network and then kids had to flee to whatever was popular next, there's not much else to it.
Yes lets forget the 1940-1980 period. Let's forget Cultural revolution, Young guards, mass starvation and other advancements CPP
I think you're operating under a misunderstanding of how these interviews work.

The goal is not to see how many algorithms you know. Algorithms are easy to learn on the job.

The goal is to see how you think in a social setting. How you approach a vague, imperfectly stated problem. Do you ask questions to gather more requirements? State assumptions? Then, based on that, how you try to break it down into smaller pieces. Are there different ways to model the problem or lenses you can apply? Can you think of this as a graph? A tree? A database? Can you incorporate ideas from the interviewer on the fly?

The software engineering job is about taking vague problems and turning them into working code with a help of a team, and the interview process is trying emulate that as best as possible under the weird limitations of an interview.

You can pass an interview without getting any of the "answers" "right" and you can fail them even while blasting out perfect algorithms on the whiteboard.
fine with me. I usually just play the “scan the comments for unreasonably wise people to stalk” game.
Hey, everyone, ease up. I have: 1) dropped a production database because I thought it was the test database. 2) screwed up a print job costing $100,000 in today’s money and had to do it again 3) crashed all of Facebook with a C++ bug. 4) crashed Facebook photo uploads, with a JavaScript bug, in my first month. 5) literally killed a startup’s cash flow and caused them to lose their merchant account because I over focused on the wrong bugs.
NFT sales ‘have declined 92% since their peak’
Five ways to reduce variance in A/B testing
Docker + DronaHQ =
Probably means availability of Wi-Fi / Internet access, something that should be a given at any room rental. But as I've found out while searching, sometimes it isn't. That's why I always add "Wi-fi" in the filters.

I agree with OP though. If you change the available amenities after the booking has been made, you've deceived the customer and they should be eligible for an immediate refund.
"Death from above" gets you when there aren't buildings around that is, tanks today face the dual threats of urban warfare and weapons that attack from above.

T-80 derivatives were used in the Chechen wars and got a very bad reputation because those were destroyed in large numbers.

Other tanks avoided getting a bad reputation in the Chechen wars simply because they weren't used.

The T-90 has some real improvements over prior warpac armor but I don't think enough to make it survivable against Javelin and similar weapons. In particular they don't have an answer to the "whole tank explodes if the ammunition gets hit" problem.

NATO was intimidated by the T-72 tank in the 1970s, the decision to go with manual loading as opposed to autoloading in the M-1 was controversial but turned out to be the right move because the M-1 has done very well in combat whereas all the warpac T-72 derivatives (like the T-90) have done poorly.
I'm traumatized merely from reading the Wikipedia entry!
That seems like a very locale specific explanation. In Boston, rabbits are prolific, even with a very robust predator population. Our local rabbits also appear to have pretty good instincts and decent woodsy camouflage, not your bright white pet bunnies.
I completely agree with it being an education problem and like... I treat my YouTube watching or online media watching in a way where I would make fun of myself if I allowed myself to be controlled by the thing so I don't allow myself to put myself in situations where I would mock myself if that makes any remote sense. I think it's silly to not be in control of the things that I feed myself digitally or otherwise. It is a state to be mocked. I don't want to call myself "some dumb nerd" so I don't allow myself to be called that by acting dumb. It sounds really maybe abusive but it might be a way to get under the skin of your child if you don't warn them about these things in a soft kind manner but in a way like "you wanna look like a dork with no control? You know while your friends do this stuff but like they don't have control. Don't you want control? Isn't that why you are watching this stuff? Because you have anxiety and you don't have control over things? So , why don't you take control and not watch the things that all of these devices and services serve you and go do something a whole lot better with your time?"
Darker greens should be used sparingly with rabbits, because of the high calcium and oxalate content. Cilantro, parsley, basil, any lettuce except iceberg are all solid choices for keeping buns healthy, shiny and happy.
I work at a big public company that isn’t a tech company but is trying to do tech things. The Engineering Productivity metrics Gitlab publishes helped us build something similar and justified some pretty large and much needed actions due to the problems the metrics exposed. Really cool they publish stuff like this.
The worst plausible forecast is that climate change will impair global GDP by 25% relative to baseline by 2200 years.

Even assuming anemic 1% GDP per capita growth rates, the average world citizen will still nearly twice as wealthy as today even given worse case climate scenarios.
This has the benefit of creating incentive for capturing CO2 which is something we should be willing to pay for in coming decades.
Creativity breeds out of constraint and limitation. If you have all the resources in the world or all the smarts then there is no need to be creative.
Any links to help me understand what you mean about the K&R C FFI? (Not easy to google for)

Possibly related, building against foreign objects and manually setting up the FFI call: https://words.filippo.io/rustgo/.
I haven't found any so far. Each account gets a new public/private key pair so accounts can't be traced back to each other. Usernames are optional and might even become a thing or the past, making username reuse less of an issue for linking accounts.

It all depends on the sync method provided. If synchronisation isn't end-to-end protected, you're handing Apple/Google/Microsoft the keys to the kingdom which is pretty bad.
Many things don't appear in the Constitution. I'm sure they didn't magically find a hidden paragraph in 2015 regulating marriage equality. What happened there, and is happening with abortions, is that different ideological groups control the nomination to the Court and enshrine their ideology in law by proxy.

How do you account for the fact that the Court has not revised Roe v Wade in the last 50 years if it all rests on a correct interpretation of the Constitution, which has obviously not changed?
> Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source of the problem.

People whose livelihood depends on social media don't want the culpability of their company's work. C'est le monde.
Ah so I'm a shill for the fossil fuel industry, because I believe in the power of individual choices? Fantastic. FWIW I had made no mention of emissions - I was talking purely about destruction of the ecosystem (which was the phrase used in the parent comment). I believe that (in some cases, deliberately) ignoring those impacts of our consumer habits makes us in the West the greatest force for planetary destruction. It won't matter if the planet is a few degrees warmer in a few decades, if there are no trees left.

The embodied energy of a person's collection of tech absolutely does sit in the same ballpark as heating and transportation energy costs. Once you've added up your smartwatch, phone, laptop, tv, monitors, etc, I wouldn't be surprised if it was about the same energy as that required to heat your home for a year.

PS. Move. There are plenty of places.
A victim of its own success! Parents and grandparents joined because Facebook was easy to use and all their kids were on it.
> facebook? deadlier from 7 to 77, and nobody gives a shit, but tiktok? all of a sudden, it's the evil ;)

I don't think that's true at all. Facebook and tiktok are bad for you in their own ways and I'd be willing to bet that many of the people who rail against TikTok's detrimental effects railed and continue to rail against Facebook.
And maybe the candidate came in with a haircut that reminded the interviewer of an abusive ex partner. Let's not pretend that interviewers are somehow objective judges of character - each and every one of us has biases, and that's okay.

I very much doubt that the taxi driver in this story had hiring veto powers. But as a "does this person act as an asshole" test, with possible results of "yes" and "maybe" is still very valuable - you get to remove the (apparent) assholes from your selection pool, and focus on those that might have enough decency to not be assholes in public.

And often enough that's all you need. If you are always polite and respectful in public, but secretly get off on feeding baby chicks to your pet snake... that's weird, but not a dealbreaker for working together. As long as there's no spillover into your public life, I'm not here to judge.
> etc.

This "etc." includes the aids epidemic, North/South Korea-like country, and environmental topics like whaling and the seas being overfished, acid rain, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

Yeah the show was A Lot and I love it for that.
If all else is equal, I'd go for the one with the side projects. But all else is never equal, and you haven't listed all the possible differentiators:

* What if one spent a year doing the bare minimum at their job because their creative energies were wrapped up in their side projects, while the other took the lead on important tasks at work?

* What if one spent a long time working on side projects that use arcane technology, while the other worked at a job that uses the same tech stack I do?

* What if the one who worked on the side projects is distractible and never finishes anything while the one who didn't is focused and get stuff done?

* What if the one who works on side projects doesn't get along well with others, while the other one avoids side projects because they prefer to be on a team?

* What if one did side projects because their job bored them to tears, while the other was a key player on a small team and learned a ton from their job?

The point is, side projects are just one signal among many, and they're far from the most important signal. This is important to keep in mind when strategizing your career, because it means that there are other things that are valuable to focus on; it's not just side projects or bust.
The one who did better in the interview?
Then don't live in London if you are concerned about feeding your child.
> (Did you know that Cinderella's evil stepsisters had their toes and heels cut off so they could fit in the slippers? Or that the ravens pecked their eyes as punishment? Or that Maleficent ends up in a boiling cauldron full of vipers?)

That's the variant I got told in my childhood (1980s West Germany). It always amuses me that these simple facts seem to be cruel and horrific to Americans.

Also, "Hänsel and Gretel" is a tale about parental abandonment, stranger danger, cannibalism, and burning old women alive, then forgiving said parental abandonment (but only after the kids bring back treasure).

And "Red Riding Hood" is essentially about sexual child abuse.
Thanks! I didn't know of this service.
>Apr 26, 2016

This now is considered as part of climate change denialism. If there is any effect it's negligible or making climate change worse. We don't consider this factor as part of any climate change models.

Also see from a few months later.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2016/11/08/atmospheric-co2-pause/

>New findings suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth’s vegetation is grabbing more carbon from the air than in previous decades.

It is considered that this is climate change denialism. CO2 did not pause or plateau. These are complete fabrications by big oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

This wikipage will not mention these discoveries because they have been debunked.
Absolutely. Best we can do is try to gradually prepare them for the horrific (/s) things they will be exposed to. I constantly worry they are too isolated from danger these days to be honest (compared to my childhood).