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> They monopolize social media, e-commerce, games, telecommunication platforms. Billions of people go by assuming that Facebook is the internet.

how exactly web3 is supposed to fix that?

> or you already got so used to be manipulated by Big Tech

assuming without knowing is the worst form of arrogance.

but even if that was true, I don't believe that the guy in the small village here in Italy that makes olive oil and sell it on Amazon to markets he could never even imagine existed is going to go decentralized and trustless just because Amazon is virtually a monopoly.

FAANG provided opportunities that have much more value for people than idealism (that doesn't even work!)
This advice is just soul-crushing.
I think unpkg were affected by this too.
I propose we radically overhaul out diets by boosting the consumption of bees.

1. The consumption of bees has been suggested to be harmful to the pollination of plants. This is a fallacy. Not only will the consumption of bees increase the pollination of plants, but plants can be pollinated by hand.

2. The consumption of bees is not a threat to the existing honey industry. Skills in the production of honey can be applied in the harvesting of more bees.

3. Consumption of bees is superior to existing consumption of honey because bees contain a powerful combination of amino acids, the building blocks of life. Protein from bees relieves the traditionally polluting industries such as poultry and dairy. Honey is a natural preservative, ensuring the nutrition from bees is locked-in and can be stored for years, decades or longer. Bees can be produced on hillsides and other locations that traditionally have been resistant to intensive environmentally friendly farming. There is no threat to the maple syrup industry.

I will not fall to the anti-change propaganda, and nor should you. Come found the kick-starter for my ICO, details on my profile page.
You don't need to marry AWS, there's plenty alternatives out there. I think this is the best you can do because those companies with your help will grow.
> physical keyboards would always be superior.

And they still are. I hate virtual keyboards, it's just a terrible experience. It requires a lot of attention, has low accuracy and features like swipe are too unreliable that I find them useful in the long run.
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I have not found that to be the case. usually it’s easy to tell when documentation is outdated, and then i just use it as reference to figure out how it works now.
I'd love to use another company, but there's no one offering the same for the same price tag. Most of their services are free and they charge very little for the rest. Especially if you have a traffic heavy page with little revenue, Cloudflare is pretty much the only solution for CDN, WAF etc. All the others charge for traffic and cost a fortune.
Work begins with sirens. Developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 speak about war and game
During the Xbox Games Showcase Extended event, quite unexpectedly, the Ukrainian GSC Game World studio revealed some new details about the sequel to the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, as well as the video diary of the developers, who have been working on the game during the war.
Another reminder that centralized services like Cloudflare are a bad idea.
Commit messages and calling people out for breaking commit message history works to an extent. If you can keep someone from breaking commit history badly enough.

I still maintain we're awaiting another generation of version control where commentary on code is cumulative, instead of just set at the time of commit.
Yeah the NZ ones just came back online, https://veb.co.nz/ was returning a 500 nginx error which confused the shit out of me until I visited HN

Seems our DNS was working over time because a lot of the websites that were down for others were working OK for us.
It's time to start discussing a fail-open option for us CF users. Most of my sites are using CF for global performance rather than DDoS protection and security. I'd be fine with them changing DNS to point to the origin (or any other user defined IPs) in case of issues (even if it would take hours to return to normal).

This is also important for countries with limited connectivity to the Internet, if the PoP in that country looses it's connection back to CF it shuts everything down, so even if the origin is in the next rack over from the PoP, it's un-reachable.
It’s not about the decline in the quality of dental care. It’s about dishonesty. There’s no implication that things were better before and people used to be honest. Things weren’t better before. We just know they suck now.
And where will I host my box?
I'm my apartment?

My Internet goes down at least twice a year and my electricity goes down even more, specially in the winter. So no, this is not more reliable than cloudflare.
> almost all early-stage startups are part-employee-owned.

I've never seen seen a startup where more than about 10% of shares was in the hands of non-founder employees and even that was an outlier. Dilution during funding rounds can often reduce this number even further. When talking about employee-owned organisations, we usually talk about companies where > 50% of shares are in the hands of employees. I agree that the study linked does not target that group though.

The biggest problem with employee-owned companies is that there is (by definition) no single person who can push through risky initiatives, so while they are often more stable they also tend to stay medium sized as it becomes harder and harder to develop risky new business units as the company grows.
I think the line between making and influencing policy is blurrier than you are inferring. Furthermore, it's important to appreciate that reality on the ground isn't just defined by legislation, it's also defined by a desire by private entities to avoid visible, distracting clashes with entities like Greenpeace.
Sites are coming back up on my end (NL)
> The employees have dramatically less incentive than the owners and management to earn the owners an adequate return on their investment.

What has led you to this conclusion?

I’ve observed the opposite to be true: employees have more incentive than investors to seek the long-term success of a company. Building a career within a company and industry requires an investment of time and effort. Career changes are slow and become increasingly difficult. In contrast, investors can invest in anything so investments are more liquid than careers. In the case of a company failure, well managed investment portfolios are exposed to significantly less risk than the typical salaried career.
Odd. My client's aus-hosted, nz-customer site was hit by this.
Claiming that hard left politics isn't really politics at all, is a silly and transparent tactic which fools nobody.

Imagine if half your app icons suddenly changed to incorporate dollar signs in celebration of Capitalism Month. Every day a new CEO is celebrated for their job creation prowess and you can't avoid it because it's everywhere. Would you simply shrug and say, well, we live in a capitalist country so it's not political? Of course not. The craziness that would unleash would bea sight to behold.

Luckily for you, people elsewhere on the political spectrum don't share your need to constantly sealion every conversation and space.
I'm having '500 Internal Server Error' (nginx) on a regular tab, and everything working fine on an icognito tab. Go figure.
Out of interest, is there a reason you can’t switch to Maplibre, the open source fork?
I cannot access science.org, quora.com, substack.com at the moment. It shows 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't know why but now it is clear. I guess I just wait until it is fixed.
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> Their status page is a joke, likely crippled to reduce legal liability, but at this point it's just an outright misrepresentation.

It's just Atlassian Statuspage, which is a manually-updated incident response system. Unlike AWS, Cloudflare actually makes an effort to update it fairly quickly, but it can still be slow-to-update when something is immediately wrong.
I'm quite confused, the article is supposed to be an advocacy piece, but it is just being all defensive about where the use cases are.

With TCP/IP, or packet switching, they did have an idea that it will be useful, but noone could imagine how popular it's going to be. With crypto, it seems the opposite, I'm afraid.

Noone needs a use case for a Raspberry Pi, or a Raspberry Pi Pico (the latter, many would say, borders on being useless with other, cheaper and/or more complete platforms being available). But I can just buy one, and tinker with it and voila. I don't need a use case to run a Z80 retro emulator on a Pico, I can just do it on my own, without any "industry" deciding which type of emulators should the investors have.

Why "crypto" needs a use case is exactly because people insist it's money, and had to be acquired with money.

While it was all P2P, and you could get whole bitcoins for fun, it were different times. Nowadays, you can't mine any meaningful amount of it unless you invest in thousands, or you buy them with money or credit card. And it's starting to be either illegal in some countries or in a custodial wallet, going poof when the company goes bankrupt.
I host my apps in DigitalOcean and it seems the main domains are still resolving, (e.g., https://nono.ma or https://gettingsimple.com).

Subdomains aren't working though (e.g., https://sketch.nono.ma).

Update: It seems everything is resolving properly now.
In companies stuck in the 2000s it happens quite frequently that only a few people care in the first place and get a lot of reach with their notion of "hot newness", even if that newness was hot a decade ago.

I've heard some interesting takes in sister companies. Just a few months ago someone explained how continuous delivery is a pipedream and nobody does it because it's unfeasible, but they would like to not have every release (literally) signed off by management. I guess my work in the past 4 years was all a lie.
We’ve been on Hetzner for several years now. So far the only outages we had were from us moving servers (yeah, we don’t have high availability or load balancing, just a single beefy dedicated server). So, yes?
I'm sure they're all very animated about any instances of tracking that they're aware of.
The only use case for blockchain is money. Everything else is a scam. We only need one money, the one with the most dominant network effects. Right now, if it every happens, that money looks like it will be Bitcoin. This will take a while. How long it takes depends not so much on Bitcoin itself, but on how bad the competition undermines their use case as money.

In the meantime, people may find it surprising that there is indeed no other use case for the most inefficient database man has ever conceived, other than the on e it was explicitly designed for.
I guess that depends. Would you accept payment in rubles right now?
I used to live in Spain, and I remember being shocked when my doctor told me how common it was for people to have the wrong leg or kidney removed there. She was originally American, and implied there was a strong inverse correlation between the cap on malpractice damages and the number of incorrect organs/appendages detached. Honestly, although the American medical system is the pits, it gave me a better opinion of American tort law and made me believe that some of the seemingly superficial lawsuits in this country serve a better purpose of keeping the otherwise wild-west medical system in check.

[edit] just as a side note, I've noticed a strong trend here among people who also never "had a cavity" in another country until they were in the US
> We're a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor

So that doesn't really sell it. What's interesting about "fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size" ?
> This is no different than choosing a volunteer-based OSS solution

the big difference with a true volunteer based OSS solution, like for example, linux, is that there's many individuals involved. The decision making in that project then won't turn into what spolsky said. I wouldn't imagine the linux maintainers "rug pull", but i can imagine facebook doing a rug pull.
> a “non-speculative” project doesn’t “seem” like a major project when folks attempt to compare its market cap against speculative projects.

What is a non-speculative project? How can you deter speculation? By maintaining a high supply inflation for a long time?
Guy producing a lot of climate destructive code feels proud to fly 1.5 million miles. Something is seriously broken with our civilization and the humans it produces do behave like a very stupid software bug.

How can an understanding of fundamental values be so wrong?

We need to start educating our children not to be proud of destroying the planet.
A lot of my Australian colleagues were saying a lot of things were down, including all of our websites however me being in NZ, I was able to visit them.

So I do think Cloudflare actually is a bit more decentralised than we give them credit for really.

Just the fact that they messaged here in the HN thread about what was happening, what they knew, and how they were gonna fix it. That's just _awesome_

Kudos to them. I can't wait to see their after report.
Yeah, software turned into service. Especially when speaking of apps, they are much more like a service, as opposed to a traditional good that you can own.
Poops 404 File not found for me, at the moment
Aim to get on the same map as your friend and it gets easier. Sports, partying and games works well for this and put some blood into it (metaphorically speaking).

At the end of the day friends share common interests and do stuff together. More time doing the same stuff will strengthen the friendship if you dont get too salty or annoying.

Shyness unfolds like a piece of paper. All new prople reveal little bits to each other at a time. Just a little bit of investment is suitable.

Don't reveal everything about you at once and don't trust people who tell you their whole life story straight away. You'll be right.
I'm more concerned with the fact that code lies. Everyone knows comments lie. Only some people know that code lies, and the biggest liars don't seem to get what the big deal is. I understand the code, they'll say, and then give a several minute explanation about how everyone else could 'easily' understand it.

Nobody wants to memorize your code. And you shouldn't want to either. You can't memorize code that other people are contributing regularly to. So either you won't know it when you come back, or you're subtly pressuring everyone to move their changes outside of your code, and leaving your code alone. Even if it has a choke hold on data flow in the system.

But that almost misses the point, which is that yes, code that doesn't look like what it actually does can cause people to miss the real problem. But code that looks like it's a potential source of the problem being investigated steals attention from the real culprit. And no amount of memorization is going to completely solve that problem. I think people mistake the notion of 'code smells' as the act of an overly fastidious mind, but the neat freak is forever asking the slob "how do you find anything in this mess?" and that problem plays out in code, but amplified. Like if you were looking for your credit card and it wasn't a matter of whether you put your wallet where it 'belongs' or if it was in your bedside table, but instead you have 9 wallets scattered around your room full of customer loyalty cards.
> There is no big conspiracy

CloudFlare should be run by the CIA or something - asthonishing MITM opportunities. The only clear sign the CIA is not deeply involved is that CloudFlare is far too competent.
The author has a different perspective on that. From the article:

> In typical firmware, idle memory is much more important than peak memory, as I explained in my last post.

https://coder-mike.com/blog/2022/05/27/single-threading-is-m...
I almost thought my internet or dns has some problem until I opened HN
Developing software for 40+ years, I feel you.

"Lambdas written in Typescript [...] Files of YAML configuration, and Kubernetes and a lot of other things"

Building my next side project with https://www.radicalsimpli.city/
> History has shown that large unions are similarly prone to exploitation and corruption.

Mostly in the US, it seems. Unions in Europe are healthy and effective. The key difference IMO is the interest people show in democracy and holding delegates accountable.
Also ironic so many are blindly helping create "the great firewall of the USA" because it's easy and cheap.
GitHub was working fine for me in NZ. So was Twitter.

Very interesting outage.
Wouldn't this expose the origin IPs to attack?
This Climate Game by FT .. it feels a bit like promotion for carbon capture tech.
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Not really though. Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands were major colonial powers in 1800 and are bit players today compared with how they were back then.
If you are not capable of dealing with charisma, you shouldn't be doing the interviews at all.
I think this is because of the cost increase, rather than supply shortage. Both products require large amounts of input in terms of feed and energy.
Why does Uniswap need to replace all of our exchanges within a two year timespan in order to be seen as useful, novel, and interesting tech? When was the last time you applied this standard to the rest of our technology? HN can admit that Tor, Scuttlebutt, 3D printing, text-to-image GANs is interesting and useful tech, despite it not taking over average users daily lives.

The basic premises of crypto are to be decentralized and permissionless systems that support peer-to-peer forms of exchange and ownership, and they largely succeed in their defined goals. The goal of these protocols is to provide new tools, not to replace every corner of fiat and financial systems.
Mongodb still comes up a lot, if you hire a team in South Asia for instance it's very likely to be based on the mean stack. It works great when you're doing demos and beta testing small customer sets but it has a lot of trouble scaling. In fact, I've made a bit of a career catering to that exact situation. I just happen to have taken a dislike to SQL so I hopped on the nosql bandwagon early. Now, I'm an expert at creating complex indexes and helping people enforce schema and rationalize their operations. Often times, postgres is brought into the mix as a hybrid solution and over time dependency on mongodb can be reduced or eliminated.

Look, the alphabet soup of technologies that we read about here on Hacker News don't really represent the reality of what gets put into production and actually works. There are really only about four or five stacks that really matter, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out which ones they are.
Well that makes your company more responsible than my credit union.
I'm talking about this as an option for users like me, that don't have an attack surface, but need the global performance gains of CF.
I guess if you could show them all the same CAPTCHA with the same 1000 jokes... you could develop a very annoying neural network?
I've given you a factual basis for my claim that backdoor powers are FUD: section 317ZG puts clear limitations in place that forbid backdoors or any other kind of systemic weakness.

If you want to argue that backdoor powers are real and not FUD, please back up your statement with facts (e.g. a limitation on 317ZG or a case where it does not apply).
This is absolutely amazing. They say retail margins are about 50%, so for 40 bucks they're making a battery pack, charger, lcd monitor, keyboard, track pad, Intel processor computer and Microsoft windows. Incredible
Thankfully both of those issues indicate a company where nobody should work, because they're toxic.
Ok. As a fellow Java fan I think you need to stop painting everything new with such a broad brush, that is a recipe for depression.

Sure there is lots of rubbish out there.

You probably shouldn't touch Lambda with a 40-ft pole, Go is mostly just C v2, Node.js will make you question the life choices that led you to using a jank scripting language on a server. MongoDB don't even, just no.

However not everything in the last ~10 years is useless. AWS EC2 and S3 are awesome services. k8s is actually good, assuming you have competent administrators (otherwise stick to GKE, or EKS if don't have ability to go to GCP).

There is nothing wrong with building a modern Java app on k8s and PostgreSQL. You might even come to like the standard runtime environment that k8s provides. It integrates fairly nicely into the Spring way of doing things. You can also do containers in Java better than pretty much any other language, take a look at Google's jib tool.

I think k8s (or something like it) is here to stay because it transitions to the runtime to be declarative. i.e it's the SQL to the Mongo-like (not entirely true but close enough) in the infra world.

Cheer up mate. You will find places/people that respect your knowledge and aren't rushing to upend good solid boring tech for no reason.
I'd recommend Kotlin instead of Clojure because it's very useful for making mobile apps.
Software tends to get thrown away after a few years. Nothing I've written as a professional programmer has survived the test of time. No regrets, though. Why would I carry the burden of self importance to even be bothered about this? Do we really need to cast our work in stone? It's just work and you probably got paid a bunch. Nothing wrong with that.

My advice would be to find whatever motivates you in your life. What makes you happy? Challenge yourself and everything you've got.
It's back wooo!

And I'm saying this for the last time: no one type google into google!
You’d need to have TLS certs on origin ready to go for this scenario to work. Additionally, you’d need to make sure to test it and ensure that there’s nothing wrong in this event.

On top of that, depending on your scale, can you take all the traffic on origin that Cloudflare currently offloads?
Most (or at least many) colo facilities have multiple transit ISPs, some are big enough to have decent peering as well.

I'm assuming 98.84% uptime is a joke? Less than 4+ days of downtime is something I could manage from a home connection most years, if I had a static IP.
> Trades on exchanges are under 0.1%

Let's say I am the type of person who needs a cheap loan, and I decide to use Coinbase. My understanding is that money into Coinbase and money out of Coinbase is going to cost me 1.49% (at least) in each direction, and that's before the additional $1-$10 gas fees in each direction. So 3% + currency risks + whatever other fees + the risk of fat-fingering my crypto and losing it to the ether forever, and also trying to figure out if I have some kind of tax liability, BEFORE the actual interest rate itself.

Or I choose a well-regulated provider to do a money-transfer[0] to and pay a one-off fee of 3-4% for several thousand pounds for a year or longer loan, even if my credit isn't perfect, and I do that with the full protection of the legal system, including bankruptcy protection, easy resolution if I type the wrong account number in, etc. Those are the rates for if I need cash too, if the thing I need to pay for can be paid for by credit-card, the rate falls to closer to 2%...

[0] https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/money-transfe...
This. I used Cloudflare for 10 years as a free customer. Now I pay them at least $5k a month. Freemium works when the services are good.
98.84? that a real number? that's pretty low