Yes, let me just arrest you over some text and hold you for a couple of days.
Surely no problem! But being serious if anything this is worse than no imprisonment. Why are they arresting so many people they don't have any grounds to jail longer term?
but then once charged you can be held for years on remand [0], there is no limit to how long the court can take to actually getting around to holding your trial. The law says now 8 months, but (as this site says) people are held for years.
Right - you can NOT tell me that a sufficiently simple application using React is easier to reason about than HTMX. I've had to deal with a simple React codebase and it is a nightmare.
Yeah… one of them addresses a market populated by hundreds of thousands of developers with extensive professional experience in the framework, and the other addresses a niche of Python developers who refused to learn JavaScript until somebody hid it from them and called it hypermedia.
100’s of thousands used to use php too :) most developers (roughly 97.56% are terrible/incompetent so going with the herd should tell you you are on the wrong train :)
Thousands of developers still use PHP… and even more users… Wordpress (43% of web), Facebook (billions of users), Wikipedia (billions of users)…. all PHP.
htmx is a a toy, mildly amusing to play with, built on an insecure foundation that bypasses basic browser security controls and hands a blob of JavaScript to a bunch of backend developers who can’t be bothered to learn it because they think they know better…
No serious project uses htmx and none ever will, because it becomes an unmaintainable mess by the third developer and second year of development.
“No serious project uses [insert any framework/language/…] and none ever will, because it becomes an unmaintainable mess by the third developer and second year of development” if team is incompetent
Yes there is some bureaucratic paper churn to deal with them, but it's a one time cost. I did it once probably more than 10 years ago. Since then, login to the website takes me <10s (with OTP) every couple of days and then finding what I'm looking for in the web UI or the API doc is usualy just 3 or 4 clicks away (their website is a bit messy).
Compare that with AWS, where login is slow and unreliable (anyone else got an error message after every login and has to refresh to get in?), the website is a giant mess collapsing under its own weight, and slow like it's still running websphere.
Over the last 10 years, I've certainly lost way more time working through aws paperless bureaucracy than complying with Hetzner paper bureaucracy. And I'm not even using aws for that long.
Can you elaborate on what the bureaucracy is you experienced? I'm a Hetzner customer since last month and so far I thoroughly enjoy it. Have not encountered any bureaucracy yet.
I think I was still being a bit too harsh even after throwing into my comment that other providers aren't perfect either.
But basically after the initial paperwork I had some issues with my account getting flagged even though I wasn't using it 99.999% of the time. It's not a huge deal for me because I wasn't trying them out for anything serious. I just questioned how often that might happen if I was actually using it seriously and what kind of headaches it could cause me while re-verifying everything with them.
From people I know if everything is going good then their service is great. Server performance is good, pricing is good, etc.
You’re renting an entire infrastructure, I think a bit of KYC is reasonable.
I had more trouble onboarding AWS SES, with a process that felt more like me begging. With which I said fuck it and went with self hosting ever since (on a bare metal server no less)
I was asked for a passport photo when I tried to open an account. They literally asked for a passport photo immediately after the signup form. Like WHAT? I couldn't believe my eyes. The most insane shit I've ever seen.
Quite commonly required by law in Europe; but often times not implemented very seriously by hosting providers, but Germany seems to be an exception.
I remember a time in France for instance, about 15years ago, it was mandatory to provide your ID when bying a mere prepaid sim card. No seller would actually check, and a coworker of mine who used to work for one of the largest french telcos at the time told me that once they ran some stats over the customer database and noticed that most names where from popular comics and TV show. They laughted and moved on. These days, the seller would at least ask for some ID.
It's weird seeing people on HN complain about this aspect regarding Hetzner because it's the complete opposite of my experience. Two years I've rented a dedicated server for around 40 euros monthly from Hetzner as a business customer and I had no issues whatsoever. They didn't ask for a business license or personal ID or anything really, I provided a VAT ID along with a business name and address but it wasn't anything extra compared to what I also provided Migadu or Porkbun for example.
I suppose they might have more KYC procedures for personal accounts based outside the EU otherwise I have no clue.
Same, Hetzner has always been very flexible with me when it comes to practically anything. It's always been humans answering my queries, with of course various quality but overall quite good especially for the price. I gave them some VAT number to get reduced prices at some point and that was it :shrug:
I'm based in the US and I tried twice to create an account for Hetzner (a personal account as well as a company / startup account). They rejected all my attempts. I don't quite understand their business model :)
I love their pricing and the simplicity, but they don't give the impression of being highly skilled. They have zero managed services, not even managed K8. Their s3 (very mature tech at this point) is utterly garbage even one year after their launch.
Then the bureaucracy you mention which is just a reflection how they work internally as well.
> I want a provider that leaves me alone and lets me just throw money at them to do so.
That’s been my experience with Hetzner.
A lot of people get butthurt that a business dares to verify who they’re dealing with as to filter out the worst of the worst (budget providers always attract those), but as long as you don’t mind the reasonable requirement to verify your ID/passport they’re hands-off beyond that.
That's fair and I don't have any major issues with that.
I guess my concern on the bureaucracy is if you are unlucky enough to get flagged as a false positive it can be an annoying experience. And I can't really blame them too hard for having to operate that way in an environment of bad actors.
You're definitely right that the budget providers do attract the types of people trying to do bad things/exploit them in some way.
highly depends on the wasm runtime we're running things on. I haven't seen any good recent benchmarks (as in the past few years). But, if I remember right wasmer is putting together some and trying to automate the results for them.
The "issue" is the comparison is much more complex than people may be led to believe. It's not a simple "adjust the dollars to be the same" calculation.
There are a lot of assumptions that go into making that calculation.
If I tell you that the value of a dollar you hold has gone down or up this year versus last year because of the price fluctuation of an item you never have or never will purchase, such as hermit crabs in New Zealand.
Would you believe your dollar is worth more or less? What if the price of a good you do spend your dollars on has an inverse relationship with the price of hermit crabs in New Zealand? Or what if the prices of the items you do buy haven't moved at all?
You're assuming my "concern" is that the OP is wrong. Which is why i specifically took the time to talk about value being up or down.
I get you're just pissed off for whatever reason, but I'll still try to explain more.
My point is not addressed when calculating the consumer price index because i'm saying that a single selection of prices and goods to produce a single price index does not tell a person what the value of their money is unless they just happen to be literally the median consumer.
Are you going to sit there with a straight face and tell me you buy every single item that is used in that consumer price index? In every city? You're just not being serious if that's the case.
You're confusing a price index that minimizes the error in measuring inflation when applied to a large varying amount of people with what i'm advocating which is a price index that's personalized to and minimizes the error in measuring inflation for an individual. Other people's buying habits and prices for things in places where they live don't need to go into a personalized price index.
It's tiring watching people with no idea what they're talking about repeat the same "what about ..." arguments when professionals in the field have spent decades developing and maintaining models that have been proven over that time to be helpful.
It's also not a coincidence that nearly 100% of the people trying to poke holes in those models are people who disagree with the results generated from them, and that nearly 100% of those people don't have a clue about the topic at hand.
Of course a broad based index that is designed to represent the behavior of hundreds of millions of people is less accurate for you (or me, or anyone) personally than a model based solely on an individual's behavior. I don't know anyone on earth who would argue otherwise.
As a reminder, you started off by making a very lazy statement broadly criticizing a post that included well cited economic data showing that the inflation-adjusted median household income has increased substantially since the 1960s, which was in response to yet another terminally online doomer incorrectly claiming that your average American is worse off today than they were then.
You're now claiming that your issue with the provided data showing that people are overall financially better off today than they were in the 1960s is that that data isn't tailored to you (or any other individual) personally? I think that just demonstrates the validity of my original comment, because that's an absurd criticism.
FYI, you don't need to "advocate" for a personal price index. Track your spending over time and calculate it. If you want get much use out of it, you're going to want to incorporate the CPI data for your metro area as well (which exists and is publicly available) so you can both compare your spending to the median and backfill missing data as needed (for example, historical childcare expenses when you become a new parent).
What could we do to produce educated techies in these low cost areas?
It seems like a USA specific problem because from my understanding low cost areas in much poorer countries produce many highly skilled educated techies. What are they doing differently from the US?
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