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> I challenge you to find a single journalist who isn't "lying by omission".

If we're issuing challenges, then I challenge you to prove that every single journalist IS lying by omission.

A lie by omission is intentionally leaving out facts to misrepresent the truth. Another way to describe it is that a lie by omission is the cherry-picking of facts.

This differs from providing a limited subset of the facts for other reasons. You may not have all the facts yourself, you may not be certain of every fact you have, you may be practically limited by the amount of information that you can convey to your audience (perhaps because the audience only wants to read a 1-page article instead of 10, or perhaps because you don't have the time to write 10 pages instead of 1). In none of these cases are you necessarily lying by omission, as long as you choose to present facts that are representative of the broader set of facts that you have instead of cherry-picking facts to match a given narrative. You may still have implicit bias; that does not mean you are lying by omission because you are not necessarily intending to be biased.

Do you believe that every single journalist is intentionally skewing the truth and cherry-picking their facts to match a hidden agenda? I don't.
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PHP isn't an application server. It's tightly coupled to the request/response cycle. There are things you can do to sorta get a longer running environment but for the most part you are loading and tearing down everything for every single request.

Contrast this to Python, Ruby, Node, Go, really any other platform where you tend to model applications with an application server that is long running. In a scenario like this, your application is running all the time and doesn't boot up on every request.
Parable: Company wants to move "into the cloud" and adopts AWS managed services or Kubernetes to recreate and re-platform existing and functional, though sketchy, on-prem services. "Agile coaches" and "Solution Architects" advise rewriting the old code because of its fundamental alien-ness in a cloud-only environment. So it's a rewrite. But of course, the re-write doesn't work, primarily because of fundamental misunderstandings about what properties allow software to scale across many machines, in many time zones, running processes 1000's of times per day. So it becomes necessary to either cut losses and re-write the re-write or decide to start iterating now on the crappy re-write to make it closer in terms of functionality to what already existed in the crappy on-prem systems - which begs the question of why you didn't just iterate on the original sketchy code in the first place.

There are times when rewriting does make sense - rare though they may be. I've only seen a few, and they always had to do with improving stability and reducing the potential for bugs. None of them required you to use the latest shiny to "completely reimagine what software could be doing for your business". I've helped to rewrite subscription-management systems that ended up noticeably reducing churn and cutting out spurious chargebacks from customers who couldn't navigate our bug-prone subscription service wasteland. But some refactors are so labor intensive that they amount to re-writes, even if you're using the same tools and languages. Some code is acutely awful and it needs to die for people to be able to go to sleep at night without having to drink a fifth of whiskey beforehand. Some atrocities don't need to exist.

But, again, if the reason for a refactor or rewrite is summed up as "we're bored and want to play with these new shinies" then you are in for it. If rewriting provides you with some sort of new business capability or fundamentally changes a business process drastically for the better, then go ahead. But in my experience, if a technology or paradigm is fundamentally "so much better than what we do now", then it should work so well with what we do now so well that it doesn't require fundamental rewrites of large software systems. So rewriting things in Python or C++ is great, or using Kubernetes instead of Lambdas or whatever is fine, but it's more important that these paradigm shifts can be incremental rather than a complete recreation of what already exists, that the gulf between refactoring and rewriting can be relatively small instead of two completely different processes.
Spanish flu was more 20% than 2%
A newer model with a 15% rebate when returning the defective one?
Theoretically, maybe, I have no idea. Realistically, not at all, considering that even flagship Android phones tend to receive updates with an insane delay (except Pixel ones), not even talking about non-flagships or any android phones that have been released 2+ years ago.

Last Android phone I have bought was Galaxy S8+, just a few months after the release. Had to wait about half a year (if not more) for the next major Android update after it had already dropped for Pixel devices.
To write "It was their own code. They could just read it." misses a great deal about code bases. The first and foremost is that the vast majority of working code bases do NOT have sufficient internal documentation to actually understand whys and wherefores of that code base.

The specific reasoning for doing something or using a specific technique or why the magic numbers, etc., are often not put into any form of accessible documentation. This is just a fact of life. Documenting such things can be very tedious and often thought of as not being needed because the code is "obvious". Yet to someone coming in to do work on it in six months let alone six years, it is vital missing information.

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It's heavily dependent on personal taste, but for example I make easily twice as many mistakes typing with the new keyboard than I did with the old keyboard, or any other keyboard I own, on other laptops or standalone.

I wouldn't call it "barely functional" either since I can clearly still type on that keyboard, but the combination of mechanical failure rate and personal accuracy issues means that I buy the MBP despite the keyboard.
That was what Bezos's camp has been saying from almost the very beginning. The news here isn't the suspected involvement of the Saudis, the news is that MBS is directly implicated.
This suggests otherwise:

“For example, entering the query "buy domain" into the search box on Google’s home page produces search results and an AdWords text advertisement that appears to the RIGHT of Google’s search results” [1]

It is from October, 2000. It is so ancient, it is even before Schmidt happened. I don’t believe anything preceded that, but to be sure we’ll have to wait for Larry to chime in and clarify.

[1] http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-self...
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yeah, I know, but PHP does not even need that. That's the point.
It's more characters than manual way. There should be just a built-in function.
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A single construct does the work, or most of the work, of generics, value generics, const fn, traits, attributes (although I expect some form of attributes might be added to Zig) and macros, and it does so without type-level programming or macro-level programming, both their own mini-languages. A kludge is in the eye of the beholder, but one is simpler than five or six.
Bonded warehouses exist for a reason. Internationally shipping alcohol or (tobacco) is genuinely complicated even within the eu. Cheese probably just a perishable pain to post far.
How does he come to the conclusion that it's an external controlling system rather than just cultural iconography and individual psychology?
Yes, seasonal flu in the US alone kills around 30,000 each year, and may have killed as many as 60,000 during the 17-18 flu season alone [1]. MERS and SARS have each killed less than 1,000 worldwide.

A few things that may interest you:

* The rate of transmission for a disease is estimated by its R0 or basic reproduction number. R0 estimates the number of new cases from the unaffected population that one infection will cause. A disease with R0 <1 will die out by itself. SARS has an estimated R0 of 3-5, while seasonal flus are between 1 and 2 [2]. So by this measure alone SARS is more "infectious" than the flu. Note that R0 is not a rate and is estimated from mathematical models [3].

* Seasonal flu predominantly kills the young, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Interestingly, some strains, such as the Spanish Flu, have very different mortality curves that kill healthy middle aged adults far more than average [4]. I would expect a dramatically different public health response compared to normal seasonal flu if a future pandemic had a similar mortality curve.

* In the US, the "tip of the spear" for disease response would be the CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine [5].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19545404
[3] https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#/media/File:W_curv...
[5] https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dgmq/quarantine-fact-sheet.html
black plague in England was on a 20 year cycle I hear.
They don't pay for peer review. I'm not sure you mean by "professionally managed" or "edited" exactly - or why that would cost over $100m.

(Disclaimer: I wrote the tweet. Although I didn't expect it to appear on HN...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151213182805/https://www.googl...

https://i.imgur.com/cPQmHB0.png
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Wayback Machine crawls files as well as pages.
You'll eventually need a package manager. The only question is whether the language ships with one, the OS does, or whether you're on the hook to provide all package management by hand. I agree that PHP lets you go a bit farther without one, however.
My gut response to this is "bullshit"

Not based on the Saudi's not buying zero-day-exploits, but on them using them from the crown prince's account directly against Jeff.
Don’t list that you worked for that company. It’s not your fault that the company is full of idiots.

Every company is full of self serving idiots that will throw you under the bus for their own personal gain. The trick is to avoid these useless idiots, and to defend yourself when you have to deal with them.

Also, the only way to climb the ladder and make more money is to jump ship. You will never earn a decent amount of money by sticking around, and accepting the company’s pathetic 2% COLA raise, if you even get that. Meanwhile, they just paid their executives $100+ millions in performance bonuses. And they claim there isn’t any money left over for you.
OOPs - I did the same thing before reading your post...
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Why sad?

The objective is to build a business, generate value and execute on a vision using a programming language, not win a popularity contest by proclaiming your use of anonymous classes, unicode codepoint escape syntax, and the spaceship operator.

I'm doing some really cool things in PHP, and some really ancient things as well. Who cares? The business is killing it, delivering some of the latest and great technologies to end users. That's all that matters.
AMP pages are preloaded, that's how your get the 0ms load time. If Google would instruct the browser to preload other search results the same way, those would also be available in 0ms when the user accesses them.
In modern times we have more problems with feral hogs. They will root up and destroy acres and acres of crops. They're also incredibly quick to multiply as they can breed year round and have about 2 litters a year at 5-6 piglets per litter. In many states it's legal to hunt hogs year round as a result.
It seems faster for me across devices but there’s usability issues, at least on some sites/pages. In my experience “find on the page” is spotty or impossible on mobile sometimes.
Will Bezos's divorce affect the Amazon empire in any way? Wondering if that personal move will somehow have corporate, technological infrastructural, and thus national security repercussions.
I have a love/hate relationship with PHP but it has undeniably gotten better than its reputation would imply. That said, I think that regardless of the language's continued improvements its reputation will continue to suffer simply because it IS so easy to write and deploy code. Any sufficiently popular and widely supported web language will be the most common entry point for new coders and entrepreneurs who learn just enough code to get that MVP out the door. They will blog about their successes and add to the the number of 'not serious' coders putting poor quality code out in the world. If Python or Go were this easy to deploy, we'd be see their reputations suffer as well.
It'll be on January 25th.
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> If someone hacked into your phone, and published it, it would be a crime. If they gave it to a journalist, not a crime?

It all depends on the contents of your phone. If you committed certain actions that are of public interest, and lied about and/or hide these actions (as is the case of the Brazilian group of judges and prosecutors), then it is imperative that journalists publish that content. Journalists are protected in their activity exactly because of this reason.
> If you want to use packages then you'll need to use a Package manager, you still need command line experience etc.

PHP has a package manager IF you want to use the vast offering of open source PHP libraries and frameworks.

https://getcomposer.org/download

To use it, create a composer.json and run:

php composer.phar install

On my systems, I like to alias it so that I just have to type:

composer install

Alternatively, if you use a Jetbrains IDE (i.e. PHPStorm), you can usually install dependencies with one click.

> And to be fair, as a naive non-PHP user, I have 0 clue how you would go about setting up long running scripts that don't necessarily correlate to a web request.

php /path/to/script.php

It can run as long as you'd like.

If you want to do it on demand (i.e. writing a webserver in PHP), that's difficult. But generally: Why would you want to do that? It becomes an X-Y Problem.
Seeing a variety of tools to interact with databases makes me happy.

I quit my job recently to work on a similar idea.

https://boomsql.com. Still working on a landing page and MVP
> ChromeOS is a joke if you are offline or need to do any local work.

I used to feel that way until I learned that recent Chromebooks can run Android apps and come with a Linux in a VM, and I am now a very happy Chromebook user. All the software I need is a browser, Emacs, git, SBCL, LaTeX and a few standard Unix tools: I use Chrome and run everything else in the Linux VM.

(And you're right that the file browser is very limited, fortunately I only need it ocasionally to move files between the Linux VM and the ChromeOS file system).
for system coding you have c, c++, rust, even java and go.

for scripting you have bash and python these days, no need for php.

for web frontend, js remains to be the king, the sole ruler.

for web backend where PHP used to shine, you have python(django,flask,etc)) and js(nodejs,etc)), plus go and java, very crowded area.

In short, PHP is only good at web backend, nothing more, but that place is getting really crowded these days, PHP no longer is the first choice.

While recent PHP added nice features and performance boost, I feel it might be too late. Its high time has passed.

I can learn Python do CLI/web-backend/AI/ML, I can learn JS for frontend/backend, I can learn C/C++/Rust for system programming, I use Java for enterprise,etc. I really do not need PHP anymore and there is only so much time left to master all the languages.
It wouldn't all be bad. So very many of the web development answers use jQuery. At least a clean start would mean a lot of those would go away.
> This post makes no sense. ArXiv is a site to which papers are posted. ACM and IEEE are technical societies with a range of publications professionally managed, peer reviewed, and edited

I have been a reviewer of many ACM, Elsevier etc. conferences. The reviewers, editors don't get any money for their service. Regardless, "professional management" is not a sufficient argument for 33x / 190x the price difference . IEEE annual spend $92M in people costs and I doubt a single $ of it goes to any of these peer reviews or editors.
I'm fairly language agnostic. What keeps me working in PHP is the Laravel framework, with all of the application plumbing and core functionality built-in and tested for me, so all I have to do is write the code specific to my application. Every once in a while I search for other frameworks but still haven't found anything that competes.
People have been writing this take (and it has been true) for something like 5–10 years. I doubt anyone who didn't believe it was just waiting for PHP to get type annotations to be convinced.
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imagine the impact on global warming, or real estate prices
You don't need lock-in to be anti-competitive. The requirement of extra work to implement AMP to get that higher search results page placement is the issue.
You are right; Apple isn't storing your private key, they simply have access to an unencrypted dump of your iPhone at the time of iCloud backup creation. My comment implies that once you take a backup, Apple would have the ability to read all your future messages as well.
Yep, exactly. I’ve been doing this now going on 30 years, and I felt like OP at my first job back in ’92, so I bailed on it. I found another quickly and immediately felt the same way. I bailed on that one, too, thinking I was just picking the wrong jobs. After four job changes in four years I realized this is just how professional software development feels - and that’s part of the reason it’s such a high-paying profession.
"sls" is select-string.

Get-Alias to see them all. "get-alias -Definition Select-String" to look for one for a specific command.
Worth mentioning iMazing by DigiDNA fixes a LOT of the issues around Apple's poor implementation of iOS <-> PC/Mac support. You can use it to schedule automatic wireless local backups, among other things.
By trying to stop someone else from making a hostile and nonproductive comment? Taking a comment, cranking what it says to 1000%, then applying it to itself as a 'gotcha' is not good discourse.

So what do you suggest I do instead?

And I am absolutely not fighting for any ideological position.
Having looked through more stats in the last hour, it appears I also dramatically underreported the lethality of the Spanish Flu. Some sources put it at 10-20%. It may have killed 3-6% of the world's population.
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There are some people that would consider agriculture a step backwards.

Hunter gatherers had better social relationships and significantly more leisure time than modern humans.
It's kind of interesting (or incredibly mundane) how the feature sets of popular web languages have converged. The examples could almost be typescript (and the only reason I don't say Javascript is because of the types.) My understanding is that new versions of Ruby and Python also will have (or already have, I don't follow either language very closely) optional type annotations. It seems like the real difference is on the operational/deployment side, which tends to be elided (or only addressed on the surface level) when we talk about languages on HN.
Wow, I had been under the impression that the Arba'een Pilgrimage[0] was the largest human annual migration but the Lunar New Year easily surpasses it. This article has some good info on the sizes of a few recurring migrations and their size: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/02/14/chines...

The infographic is absolutely crazy: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2018/02/...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arba%27een_Pilgrimage
The word accuracy for auto-generated captions is highly variable, sometimes it's good enough, sometimes it's not. In addition, proper captions should identify speaker changes, significant non-verbal sound (e.g. [car honking]), and include punctuation, all things that most auto-generated caption services don't even attempt to do.
Bezos is presumably savvy enough not to open a WhatsApp message from some random person, and given the Khashoggi situation (employed by the WaPo, which Bezos owns) it's not surprising he'd be on the Saudi's target list to compromise.
I've got almost 30 years of notes ... those notes have proven prior art for patents I didn't believe in and establish the date of invention for work I've created. There are good reasons for scientists and engineers to keep a notebook but the traditional paper version isn't nearly so searchable as something like the author is describing.

P.S. Sometimes it's funny to see a grocery list from 15 years ago and see how my tastes have/haven't changed.
It's not an actual advantage, and PHP's "throw the world away" execution model is so so dumb.
Funny I didn't even notice the change. I guess after switching to DuckDuckGo a couple months ago, I haven't felt a need to do a google search.
> I want my OS maker to get stack traces from stacks so that they can fix crashes. I want my OS maker to receive actionable data on highly-used features so that they can effectively prioritize what to improve and what can be culled.

Why do you think this is even needed? Every software package used by more users than nobody (by Joel Spolsky definition) has their bug report system full of bugs, and solving them would take years of doing nothing but butfixing. Your telemetry won't help prioritizing them, or even lead to solving them, but it will be mined for info that can be used to monetize your behavior.
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> it seems that it doesn't matter what language one chooses

"there is a successful website written in X" does not mean that it is deemed appropriate or acceptable to use whatever you like. Anybody who has started a new project from scratch as a professional at a company can tell you it absolutely does matter what language one chooses, and if you opt for something non-standard or for whatever other reason deemed unsuitable, you will be corrected.