rayvy (u/rayvy) - Readit News

rayvy commented on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens? · Posted by u/CoffeeOnWrite

tus88 · 6 years ago

> In my experience, don't use JWT's for carrying application state.

Wasn't the question about using them for auth, not application state?

rayvy · 6 years ago

> Wasn't the question about using them for auth, not application state?

Whether a user is auth'd or not can indeed be a form of application state

rayvy commented on Ask HN: Is there a better employment route to high earnings than FAANG? · Posted by u/japanaway

throwlaplace · 6 years ago

It feels dreary because you feel you have nothing left to strive for because you're only measuring your progress by your salary. Find another way to feel accomplished. 350k total comp is enormous and I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable let alone more valuable to an enterprise (unless you're exceptional, in which case you would not be asking this question).

BTW I'm not judging you. I'm just saying I don't know why you would expect that that is not indeed your top earning potential given your skillset.

rayvy · 6 years ago

> It feels dreary because you feel you have nothing left to strive for because you're only measuring your progress by your salary

This.

In your post you mentioned nothing but salary. Sadly I think you might find the hard way that the whole FAANG salary rat-race isn't/wasn't the best choice

rayvy commented on How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016) eng.uber.com/go-geofence/... · Posted by u/godelmachine

rayvy · 6 years ago

I think this write up is very fair for a solid engineering team. Is it groundbreaking and eye opening? Absolutely not, I’d say the most “hmm I didn’t know that” part of the entire thing was the part about R-Trees and S2. Is that bad? Absolutely not. These guys did the work, logged their performance and are sharing their story.

However, and I believe this is where the animosity in the comments is coming from - given the elitist (for lack of a better term) attitude of these engineering types at these orgs (think of the poster children of the Valley), this is pretty...lacking. I mean, the part about using the Read/Write lock on the second attempt and instead trying to go with an installed package just screams Node.js, and honestly made me chuckle. I guess Leetcoding and Production Engineering really are different things. I genuinely expected more.

rayvy commented on Ask HN: Why don't streaming services make use of P2P? · Posted by u/KoftaBob

pizzaparty2 · 6 years ago

Why hard?

On server maintain list of ips. Serve ip to the client-peer. If the connection gets spotty replace it or use direct connection to your server. All State exists on your server. Caching may be an anti-pattern depending.

What's so hard?

rayvy · 6 years ago

That's cute ;)

rayvy commented on Ask HN: Why don't streaming services make use of P2P? · Posted by u/KoftaBob

rayvy · 6 years ago

P2P is for decentralization. Why would a centralized entity want to implement a decentralized service when they can create a centralized version of that same service faster, easier, and cheaper?

P2P is _hard_ with a capital H.

rayvy commented on How to Steal a Billion oversharing.substack.com/... · Posted by u/cjbest

rayiner · 6 years ago

> Most people out here are sweating medical bills in the low $10,000's, while the news is talking about billions being gained and lost in the span of a few weeks - so fast it makes you wonder if that amount of wealth really even existed in the first place.

If people lose confidence in the system because of that it’s because they can’t multiply. Billionaires are very rich compared to middle class people, but there are very few of them, and lots of middle class people. Elizabeth Warren’s new health plan will cost $50 trillion over ten years. Middle class Americans make $8 trillion a year, compared to about $130 billion for America’s too 400 taxpayers.[1] Confiscating the total wealth of every billionaire in America (about $3-3.5 trillion) would pay for Warren’s health plan for well under a year.[2]

We spend way too much time worrying about the wealth of a small group of people that, in the end, doesn’t add up to that large a fraction of total wealth or income. This is, in my view, the biggest reason why America can’t have nice things. Over on the other side of the pond, they don’t worry as much about figuring out how to tax billionaires. Because they know that, in the aggregate, it’s the middle class that has most of the money.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/returns-taxpayers.... Rough proxy for billionaires.

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/03/forbes-400-a.... Top 400 billionaire have $3 trillion. Another 220 billionaires not included, but due to the cut off they have at most another $600 billion.

rayvy · 6 years ago

Your comment is posted as a matter of fact, but includes no sources/citations

rayvy commented on Ask HN: Which stack will get my MVP API off the ground fastest? · Posted by u/fastbeef

rayvy · 6 years ago

This is kind’ve a bait question. I mean the “no duh” answer (as others have already mentioned) is “whichever you are most comfortable with”. I’m confused as to what other answer you could want

rayvy commented on Ask HN: Founders, if you had a time machine... · Posted by u/ahl

rayvy · 7 years ago

Seconded. Would also love to know these things.

Side note: Would definitely change the title as it comes across a bit...baity.