teleclimber
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Comment · 2 years ago
And the "lucky ten thousand" is a reference to https://xkcd.com/1053/
Comment · 2 years ago
Note there was a W3C community group that explored the "HTTPS on local networks" question. It's closed now but they wrote use cases and proposals:
https://www.w3.org/community/httpslocal/ https://httpslocal.github.io/proposals/ https://httpslocal.github.io/usecases/
I wish some of this work would continue as well.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would interested in hearing examples of software that is a breeze to self host and terrible to self host. And most importantly, why? What can software devs do to make something a breeze? And what should they avoid? Thanks.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was wondering as well so I looked it up real quick. Here are some relevant issues:
- https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/745 - https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-sensor/issues/22
Comment · 4 years ago
> I'm sure there are commercial (not even paid necessarily) apps that do all this, but this one is used only by us and it's built to perfectly interact with our lives
There is another factor you may not be aware of: shopping apps are juicy targets for acquisition by marketing/data mining company. I mean, there is no clearer indication of what you want to buy than what you put in your shopping list, so it's perfect source of data to mine.
Out of milk is such an example: it was a good app with 5 million users, then it got sold. Users became the subjects of data mining, or their account got deleted (if in Europe). Fun!
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inmarket-acquires-o...
https://twitter.com/JamesLiamCook/status/1407370148349198341
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm hoping PWAs continue to get better so that app stores aren't the only way of having an app-like experience. App stores just aren't designed for this kind of use case, and hurdles like "We're dropping your app bc you only have 4 users"* take the joy out of home-coding.
* fictional quote but it wouldn't shock me if it became real
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed. An read only API for my upvoted stories and comments would be great so I can preserve this data and use it outside of HN.
Comment · 4 years ago
> The isolation aspect was interesting in the days before Firecracker...
I don't think Firecracker's existence makes WASM's isolation uninteresting. First, I think you are looking at way more resources running a full VM (even a "micro" VM) compared to a WASM runtime. I think startup times are not comparable either, so if that matters you'll find WASM to be the way to go.
Second, WASM's capability-based security model is wonderful for giving the untrusted code the things it needs to work with. With a VM, you have to stitch together with shared directories, virtual eth bridges or, linux capabilities, maybe some cgroups, and who knows what else. (Granted you may need to do some of that with WASM too, but less so).
Comment · 4 years ago
Are you willing to talk a bit about how Deno Deploy works internally? I think you have an internal build of Deno that can run multiple isolates (unlike the CLI, which basically runs one). How do you limit the the blast radius in case of a vuln in Deno?
Kenton Varda did a pretty great writeup on CF worker security [0]. Would love to see Deno Deploy do something similar.
[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...
Comment · 4 years ago
Issue 3335. I know. I'm watching it. :))
Comment · 4 years ago
The "any language" advantage of WASM is theoretical. Each language is at a different level of support of WASM, libraries aren't all caught up and at the same point for all languages, etc...
I love the promise of WASM, but every time I look at it I get lost in a sea of acronyms, and my optimistic ideas of using language X with library Y on runtime Z are dashed because there is some missing piece somewhere.
If anything, the "any language" thing creates a giant matrix of potential pitfalls for the programmer.
In comparison, the combination of JS/TS, the browser API and a solid std lib looks pretty good for some problems.
Comment · 4 years ago
Edge functions are typically run intermittently, with their runtime stopped to free up resources between runs. Therefore a big factor is startup and shutdown speed. Containers are pretty bad there. Deno is better, and WASM is unbeatable, especially with things like Wizer[0].
Comment · 5 years ago
Bmw has had a bunch of them:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mysterious-bmw-fires-continue-call...
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not just technical and marketing, it's legal too. And this article references emails from tesla legal team. So legal is telling dmv that it's L2 so it doesn't have to get permits, but that doesn't mean the tech isn't destined to be L3 when it's fully developed and they are ready to submit themselves to regulatory scrutiny.
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