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Ask HN: What are good invention in web dev between 2012-2022?
In my perception it's mostly bad, fad, have poor engineering metrics.

JS tech:

- React + a bunch of crazy state management (slow, bloat, complex)

- Typescript (unsound, ugly)

- GraphQL (turned out to be not replacing RPC-EST (I know it right))

- A bunch of experiment js frameworks (despite they do more on server side)

- A bunch of VC-backed javascript thingy companies

Tailwindcss .. I like it when pre-custom [ ] syntax. It's not so good for interops; cli+config heavy instead of a lib)

WebAssembly. I think this is great, though slow to deliver promise.

Rust is great but not gains popularity in web space I was hoping for. Wasm binary from Rust is not as small as from Zig.

Passed the peak of Rails and peak of Elixir/Phoenix (I think it's already passed)

Non-web but web benefits from:

git is good. It was created long before 2012, though I think it's peak around 2012-2015

docker, created before 2012 but in 2012 it's considered a very new thing (not really well-known), but then k8s madness, developers realized it's not a layer of their expertise.

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I've been a kind of chasing new shiny thing person in web dev. But my love to web dev has been all downhill since React. Why are these shiny things not really good fundamentally. I'm not sure what count as "good". I think Rails was definitely good (it helps create lots of solid business, not that fast but solid, great impact). I want to like new shiny things but at least please be actually good (not even great nor excellent).

Well, Elixir, WebAssembly, Git, Rust, are good to great.
Are they still using PowerVR's design? No.

Are they still using their Technology and IP [1]. Yes.

[1] https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/imagination-and-apple-s...
I'm surprised to see so much anti-Boglehead sentiment comments here actually. I personally think Greenspun is super entertaining and emailed him for some career advice years ago (which he replied to).

Through introspection I learned why the market premium exists for passive investors. In the early 2010s I was lucky to have started working and somehow invested in real estate at their all time lows. Did pretty ok (coulda done better but can't complain). Only recently did I get into index investing, and boy, it's psychologically difficult . As Cat Stevens says, "it's not easy to be calm when you've found something going on."

I kept noticing how I wanted to make moves based on news and data and charts and "intuition." But the market does not move intuitively. People will overvalue and undervalue securities, and I believe this plus behavioral mistakes is where the market premium comes from for the people who just sit tight.

For those who have a 401k and don't look at it much, it's easier than for people like me who never invested through tax-advantaged vehicles.
With a single-user instance and a relay, traffic is 99% inbound, and the biggest cost will be storage.

But once there are a few hundred users, Sidekiq jobs will use a lot of compute and egress data will add up. Might be better in this case to use a provider with generous free bandwidth.
That’s the fear, but I’m pretty sure it’s not true.

Almost all crimes likes this are committed by already known people.
Any statement would likely just contain polite lies. The concept of open access to things created with public money is not really a thing in Germany (I believe it is in the US?) and many agencies will fight it on pure principle.
Congratulations. I can relate with your journey - going from living in cockroach-infested apartments to bootstrapping a $70m ARR business. Random question, but do you think it's feasible to go public without institutional investors? My co-founder & I have been seeing a ton of businesses with seriously weaker financial metrics going through SPAC's (see GETR). But, we're wondering if this outcome is gated by first raising from VC or PE.
I wasn't talking about humanities, I was talking about the general value of PhD in response to the parent. Don't know what exactly they study in humanities, but I guess at least some of it has to be done with high rigor and precision.
AWS costs can destroy you, unless you’re using managed AWS services to replace bloated IT org full of support personnel not doing much productive work in first place.

If you really need scale, AWS can be cheaper than rolling your own infra and abstractions, granted you make it a mission to keep laser focus on AWS costs.

Primary ideal use case for AWS is internal Amazon usage. Charge internally but write off as expenses, for infra you had sitting idle anyway. Pretty sure AWS and rest of Amazon are separate legal entities to take advantage of tax laws.
I might be misunderstanding the context here, but are you starting from the assumption that investors are trying to get rich?

I think many investors are trying to preserve what wealth they've accumulated through saving/inheritance, and are very happy with modest returns, or even just preserving what they have.
If you can't change it and distribute your changes it's no longer open; pretty much by definition.

Maybe you're thinking of "looky loo" software or something? But if you can't change it and if you're not allowed to share your changes then it is NOT open.
It may have to do with a combination of location (like around great highway, for example) and age of the buildings, design and along with materials used in construction. Modern/ish buildings are likely unaffected.
> Hey, guys, my dog can sing!

Yeah, but it is singing off-key.
True, but verifying proofs is usually easier (or at least more mechanical) than generating proofs. Personally I think this is the best possible use of AI: to have it generate systems that have verifiable properties in some formalized language. That way we can just come up with the properties we want satisfied (which, granted, is not generally trivial) and use the formalized language to verify that the properties are satisfied in the AI-generated code.
> hashes (galois fields)

Huh? What do hashes like Sha256 have to do with Galois fields?
Another stat I read recently: Parents spend ~75% of their child’s life with them before the age of 12. Puts into perspective the good and bad influences long before they fly from the nest.
> Even mortgage interest deductions were gutted in the last 4 years.

Mortgage interest deduction is a regressive policy that primarily benefits the wealthy. I agree the government is far too wasteful, and cronyism has run rampant, but this the MID is a uniquely bad policy prescription.
BTW, all of Sanderson's ebooks published by Tor or self-published (Dragonsteel) are DRM-free.
The article states

> The Public Policy Institute of California reported that between 2015 and 2021, 413,000 adults cited housing as a primary reason they moved out of state; a majority of those leaving were middle- or low-income people. The institute’s state survey found that 64% of adults in California say housing affordability is “a big problem” where they live. The out-migration may be partly attributable to work-from-home policies instituted during the pandemic
no pressure, no diamonds!

jokes aside surely there are plenty of people who gambled and lost their entire accounts on 1 or 2 stocks. but there is a difference in buying biotech startup out of Springfield MO and buying Apple

my basic argument isn’t that you should blow your savings on some single stock of some rando company but that doing something like 45% Apple, 20% Amazon, and spred another 20% among 2-3 companies in energy etc… is much better option than buying index fund. and over last decade would
have 100x your money over VTSAX… and is just as “safe”
They are young, inexperienced and incompletely developed intellectually and
emotionally.

College is supposed to be the place where they can gain that experience and develop intellectually and emotionally by doing things, including things that result in negative consequences. Instead, what Stanford is doing is infantilizing its students in a manner that will make them incapable of displaying personal initiative and handling disputes like mature adults. God forbid that a Stanford student actually demonstrate that they've grown, in terms of social skills and emotional maturity, by doing something as adult as inviting a bunch of people over for a party.
At least some of those people will continue to rely exclusively on public transportation, the same as they do today. In our urban areas, public transportation + car sharing / rental services make a whole lot more sense than continuing to incentivize everyone to own a car (electric or otherwise)
I think it is good in a way. You're not going to convince them of anything in that ten minute bus stop conversation, not should you try. But it's good for them to have the experience of talking to someone who doesn't believe in their thing, and it's good for both of you to interact with someone you don't share a belief with but still experience them as a person. On the Internet we tend to protect ourselves from the other by replacing them with a caricature. Regardless of who's right and who's wrong that can become a pretty toxic habit.
Some would argue that teachers and firefighters are far more valuable than STEM workers, and should be paid accordingly.
No, they do. It's just that x86 processors are currently built by people who did a worse job overall.
University of California workers approve contract agreement
> Bayesian inference requires all unknowns to be represented by probability distributions, which awkwardly implies that the probability of an event for which we are completely ignorant must be assigned a particular numerical value
such as 1/2, as if it were known as precisely as the probability of a truly random event (e.g., a coin flip).

This reads as a complete non-sequitur to me. I thought we'd moved past these misunderstandings.

The coin flip is just as much a problem of ignorance as the boxing match. It's only easier if you give up on attempting to use any of your initial information about eg. the initial orientation of the coin, the method of launch, etc, and just assume you don't know anything.

The same is true with boxing vs wrestling. If I don't know anything about boxing vs wrestling or their players, it's an easy 50-50, because that best reflects my state of ignorance. It's only difficult if I attempt to improve my prediction by applying what I know about the sport. Then I need to make a real effort, which is hard.
"One great thing about having small children is that they make you spend time on things that matter: them. They grab your sleeve as you're staring at your phone and say "will you play with me?" And odds are that is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option."

This. He is right about this.
I think you are looking for a subreddit to pass your time debating politics, crime, etc.

Throwing out an incident that happened 8 years ago where a cop used an illegal chokehold while trying to subdue someone during an arrest is a troll.

I described what is supposed to happen, and what happens most of the time.
Ocean front property
Related:

Life Is Short (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313158 - Aug 2020 (164 comments)

Life is Short (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16729555 - April 2018 (184 comments)

Life is Short - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12845945 - Nov 2016 (11 comments)

Life is Short - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917446 - Jan 2016 (408 comments)
you can dry clothing by hanging it on a line outside in winter, the vapor pressure of ice is a positive number. So, yes, your dryer will work in the garage.
Came to say this. I think I see a lot of people default to AWS, maybe because their employer uses them and it's what they know. The downside is that AWS has all this expense for fancy stuff that can be done usually with a cheap instance, docker and nginx.

- Cloudflare for caching, DNS, domains.
- Hetzner, Linode or DO for a cheap instance

See what does/doesn't work. Storagebox on Hetzner is cheaper storage hosting and you can have redundant backups for cheap on backblaze as well or offshore cheap VPS doing encrypted backups with rclone/rsync.
If your only objection is company making it policy, I'd suggest malicious compliance, ranging from 'whe/whim' (if appropriate) on the harmless side, through strange unicode characters, to some equivalent of Little Bobby Tables on the harmful. This is your chance to see if they actually pay any attention to what they've asked you to enter?

cf https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t...

Yes, defo, to the shoes. (On the rare occasions I fly now I wear mocs specifically due to this, but lost a nice knife a decade ago because I'd forgotten I had it in my pocket) And you and I both know that booting the laptop proves nothing.

I spent my mental bandwidth on learning a new language (~2 years) and acclimating to the local culture (~5 years) in emigrating to a polity whose social and public policies more closely align with my notions of liberty (in particular, the state motto doesn't just go one way, like e pluribus unum, but also emphasises that the many conversely have their obligations towards the one) and good and openness.

Merry Christmas (or whatever you all celebrate) to you and our threadmate!
Last time I checked, the “mutual funds don’t beat the market” is kind of a myth perpetuated by S&P Dow Jones Indices to hype their own index products. First of all, what is the S&P 500 if not a handpicked collection of stocks? To say mutual funds don’t beat the S&P 500 is to say that S&P is the best stock picker out there. I find that unlikely. Second, something like 10% of mutual funds do beat the S&P 500 on long time horizons.
That is a good one. To offer another explanation, one that doesn't involve changing reference frames, note that the step moves down as your foot pushes down on it, which by definition means work is being done.
I haven’t read the textbook, but Egbert did a session at the HoTT 2019 summer school — which was excellent. [1]

This book looks to be based on those notes (which themselves came from a course a year earlier).

I’d definitely recommend this book on the strength of that experience.

[1] - https://hott.github.io/HoTT-2019/images/hott-intro-rijke.pdf
jfc I made a post an year ago looking for this blog. Glad it came back to top!!

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28339096]
I realize it's Christmas Eve, but this post tempts my inner curmudgeon.

I do not understand why homotopy type theory posts are so popular on this website. My view is that all the "philosophical" arguments in favor of it (vs. the standard set theory foundations) misunderstand the issues at play. Further, the "practical" arguments in terms of facilitating formalization are not so compelling given the HoTT people haven't actually (as far as I know) formalized much mathematics - whereas (seemingly) less ideological communities like users of Lean have made great progress.

To expand on the comment about the philosophical arguments: take for example the abstract of this article. It states:

> It is common in mathematical practice to consider equivalent objects to be the same, for example, to identify isomorphic groups. In set theory it is not possible to make this common practice formal. For example, there are as many distinct trivial groups in set theory as there are distinct singleton sets. Type theory, on the other hand, takes a more structural approach to the foundations of mathematics that accommodates the univalence axiom. This, however, requires us to rethink what it means for two objects to be equal.

It is sometimes quite useful in practice to recognize that two isomorphic objects are not literally the same. So I am skeptical of any approach that wants to blur those distinctions.

Also, more to the point: ZFC does everything we need a foundation to do extremely well, except serve as a basis for practical formalization of proofs.
Here's a short paper that I spent several hours grokking as my first intro to Homotopy Type Theory, and which eventually sent me down a journey learning algebra, topology, and logic in order to fully understand HoTT:

https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~ebelmont/hott.pdf
Everyone should. Not only the author of the post. Did you reach out?
Cryptography is not all based on primes.

You are making a lot of over-general assumptions in your posts.
The reason it makes sense is the common view of “administrators are useless” is backwards.

It’s the faculty that are replaceable. Students go to a university because they like the administration. It’s like a resort.

(The faculty may be adding value by being in academia at all, but it doesn’t matter for students which particular ones you meet. It could if you wanted to enter academia yourself, but you definitely don’t want to do that.)
In the end they were playing in a new, state of the art stadium. And this year, they're a much better team than the Rams.
You're focusing on the wrong thing. If you focus on your salary going up it fixes both problems.
fwiw, arxiv has posted book-length works since it started in the early ‘90s.
This is not applicable. What is your exact positions, and time frame (exactly)? Then we will see if you hit or miss.

That may be the only thing I "like" about WSB: "positions or ban". Otherwise everybody would pretend that they are a genius investor doing 50% yearly easily, etc.

Anyway, it's not impossible to beat the market, but I don't know a lot of people that beat it consistently over long periods of time. Really, a few names come to mind. That's all out of millions and millions of investors. That's hard data.
I think the most straightforward way is to have a separate usual mechanism for each ring, stacked vertically, passing the rotation from each ring through the inner ones without rotating them. But likely something nicer (more optimal) can be designed: either purely mechanical (to end up with just a single combined rotation on the output) or relying on more modern technologies (plenty of options on reading dial positions then).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110784.
My mental model is that if you give it real words, it uses approximately one token per word, and it may or may not know how many letters are in the word - it will have learned how many letters there are only if that information was in its training. Just like any other fact it learns about words. It is not counting the letters.

If you give it a gibberish word, it will represent it with one letter per token and be actually able to more or less count tokens in order to figure out how many letters there are.

So this ends up looking like it can count letters in most words, real and fake. Perhaps it would do poorly with real but uncommon words.
Seattle lost the supersonics because it didnt cave to this backwards farce. Unfortunately the city is worse for it
Local group:

Other athletes including basketball and boxing players. The NFL in particular tries to ensure that individuals don't become brands on their own

Aggregate: athletes as a whole
> Any of the existing packaging solutions work to a greater or lesser degree

The infantesimal chance that a collision could cause a few hours (at most!) of hassle seems to me to be a far better trade-off in terms of stability and ease of applying and undoing changes compared to pretty much any package managemer that I've used.
> > what hip to waist ratio is most attractive to american men

> a disgusting question about the ideal female body

ok
It isn't about the left or the right. Both sides have demented factions. Dominance of institutions by either side is bad for a society, any society, not just the US. History is full of examples of this. The history of Latin America, in particular, teaches us what can happen with repeating patterns through history. Patterns that we have now imported into the US with gusto. This, based on history, does not end well.

As for democrats, or the left, take your pick, it is indisputable that the ideology has dominance over social media, technology, conventional media and educational institutions. This dominance has led to the current status quo, and scenarios such as what is being uncovered at Twitter.

This isn't health for society. I have said this multiple times, the opposite (republican/right) would be just as bad. This does not lead to positive outcomes in the long run. And we have to fix it. Not sure how. If we don't, well, look at the history of Latin America to understand the kinds of things that can happen in the US (some of which already have).

Perhaps it is the fact that I was educated in multiple countries and cultures that I am able to see through some of the fog that people who have only lived in the US can't seem to be able to cut through. When I talk to people from other nations who live in the US they can't believe what this country has allowed politics to become.

Not to go too far, one of my neighbors is from Ukraine. She cannot believe just how far the US has allowed the left to impregnate so many institutions. I have friends from all over Latin America, the Middle East and even Soviet era USSR nations. Same opinion, without fail. Everyone thinks this is incredibly dangerous. Everyone except for Americans who do not know history and have no understanding of other cultures and what they have experienced.

I know I am not going to convince anyone here. So be it. Perhaps one day, when things go to shit, people are going to learn the lesson. The hard way, as they say. Sometimes that's the only way people learn.

Even worse, China is actively using this to help us destroy ourselves from the inside. It's a remarkable display of strategic stupidity on the part of the US. Brilliant.
What’s In It For Me.
Someday people are going to finally learn that Foone doesn't like when people link to their Twitter from HN.
> > Idling combustion vehicles is bad.

> Not really

Yes it is, it’s bad on the engine.
you cannot be serious?? have you ever met a healthy “salaried tech worker”?! I know a few but percentage-wise I’d say 98.48% are about as healthy as my 76-year old Mum. This has to be a joke, right?
I have a buddy that's a wealth advisor with a high net worth (100M+) wealth management firm. Wealth preservation -- and really diversification -- is all ultra-high net worth folks care about. They buy lots of index funds.

I'm not sure if this is some prosperity gospel silly-ness, but I think folks reading this deserve a disclaimer: Buffett's college mentor was Benjamin Graham -- the father of value investing, Gates mom was friends with Buffett and set up Bill's first contract with IBM, Zuckerburg's parents offered each of their children the opportunity to go to Harvard or open a McDonald's franchise. Six of the top 1000 richest people have the last name Walton. Failure -- as most of the world know's it -- never exists for most folks in the Forbes list. They were always going to be very very comfortable. Putting too much stock in their success is like watching Skii-Ball at Chuckie Cheese to learn bowling.
> it's just that they all just care about the benefit to themselves of rising home prices

Personally, I do not know a single person whose NIMBY is motivated by this.
That’s actually part of the appeal.

Passwords are per file. Grabbing a password by a Yubikey touch doesn’t expose other passwords. Per password sandboxing. With keepass, you open the vault most of the time to expose a less important password, and the entire vault is at risk.

Beyond Pass, you should be careful with the browser extensions (and browser in general ). There are a lot of them, never audited.
Just got back from the UK. The neighborhood I was in had charge sockets on every 3rd or 4th parking post. You wouldn't even know they were there if not for the tiny little LED.
Here's my anecdata from building one. The box fans are not good at running the hours that a commercial unit does. Eventually the bearings start failing and even smelling bad. And they are louder and often can't run at a comfortable noise level. So for longer term use you might want to find a type of fan that's better than a cheap box fan or find a decently priced commercial unit.