skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trying to hire vanilla PHP devs or framework PHP devs?

In my previous company (based in Paris, FR) we had a very hard time getting skillful PHP devs, even if there were a lot of candidates.
Thanks for the share, pretty insightful. "Cold call your first 50" customers is pretty solid advice.
Oh, totally it's a good marketing move if your planes are half empty anyway. Just seems a weird mix of exploitative and tone deaf.
Stop spreading misinformation. There are studies in South Korea that reinfection does not occur.
> Out of six, the strongest effects emerged for goals that involved government-imposed social distancing rules. Conservatives oppose the government telling them when they can or cannot leave their homes; liberals support such policies. Because a threatening disease might validate government interventions that conservatives dislike, conservatives appear motivated to downplay the severity. Or conversely, because a threatening disease might validate government interventions that liberals do like, liberals seem motivated to magnify the threat.

Ugh I hate when people do this, it seems like lazy thinking. Decreased government intervention is a terminal goal for many individuals, but increased government intervention is not. Liberals are more willing to trade government intervention for lives saved.

> We found that the general effect of ideology on perceived COVID-19 threat significantly decreased at higher levels of experience with COVID-19. Conservatives view the disease as less threatening than liberals, but this difference shrinks among participants who have been more impacted by the disease.

Looks like the divide is not entirely different values, and that it's at least partially driven my misinformation.

* I know there are probably some liberals for who this is a terminal goal but it's a vanishingly small amount.
You may suspect whatever you like. The evidence of hard hit areas like Lombardia and NYC are enough evidence of the seriousness of this to me. But clearly your evidentiary standard differs.

Moreover I haven’t seen anything to suggest IFR isn’t in the .5% to 1% range, compared to <.1% for the average flu. Do you think the 1.3% fatality rate from the Diamond Princess was just bad luck for them?
Hi There - Front end stack : ReactJS, Firebase, TypeScript Back end stack : .NET, C#, Entity Framework
The City of Vienna has the Baumkataster [1] a database of all trees that are taken care of by the municipal gardening service (Wiener Stadtgärten). It even tells you when a tree was planted.

[1] https://www.wien.gv.at/umweltgut/public/grafik.aspx?ThemePag...
The title led me down this somewhat interesting rabbit trail of "why an?": https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/everything-you...
AI and Efficiency
This was said of Cobol not too long ago. Today's enthusiasts decide tomorrow's workhorses.
It would be interesting to see a ranking of programming languages by the rate at which they accrue ill-will with continued use :)

It's a very good point: the more widespread a language, the larger the proportion of users will be beginners, who will almost certainly confuse their own inexperience with language-driven frustration (again, c.f. JavaScript). My pet theory on the broad appeal of PHP is that it coincided with the easy availability of shared hosting accounts where PHP was the default scripting environment available. The barrier to entry for blogs, shopping carts, forums, everything was incredibly low, leading to an explosion of software, tutorials, walkthroughs, and community that was heavily slanted towards beginners, dilettants and "low end" programmers". I made a living as one for several years, doing PHP for $5-10k jobs, and there was endless small-business work in this segment.

If modpython had worked as well as modphp, the world might look very different today.
I believe Vit K deficiency is less common than Vit D deficiency
I should say: I have worked with lots of people who have a compatible philosophy, I would even say most of the people I've worked with do. But it really is the quickest and most severe way for me to become deflated by my work, when I come across someone who is constantly pushing against me to cut corners while I argue for them not to. I really think it makes us both miserable; they could usually have fixed whatever I'm asking them to fix in the time they spend debating me about it, but they don't want to, because it's the principle of it or something, and they think I'll go away. But then I don't, so we both waste tons of time without a very positive outcome.
Hustle CEO Sam Parr and SmartNews Co-Founder Rich Jaroslavsky on the Future Of
SCOTTeVEST is still around and has a small but loyal following. Personally, I find their jackets very handy but I never pretended to be anything other than a massive nerd.
The parent post complained about the quality not salary level of PHP programmers, though. The parent wants a quality PHP programmer, you want to keep salaries down - there is an acceptable tradeoff, somewhere.
Yep. K2 MK7 specifically. Cheese (most) and natto are good dietary sources of K2. The better D3 supps are formulated with an optimal D3 to K2 ratio.
You forgot the "X is considered harmful" article.
Other great reads:

The Match King

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bad Blood

Billion Dollar Whale

Also, famed short seller Jim Chanos teaches a class on frauds and recently posted this short list of recommendations: https://twitter.com/WallStCynic/status/1256962642499035137?s...
The home page is useless in describing the product. Please provide a demo gif or video in the home page showing how it works.
They are their workers AND all the other people who aspire to work for them.
You are welcome!

Yeah, I think every startup should go through one stage where they do cold-calling. You learn a LOT.
Similar anecdotes could be made for Linux or just about any technology under the sun. Have you seen some of the code for embedded Linux drivers? It can get downright nasty.
Laravel is the best REST api framework in existence for any language. Change my mind.
If old Surfaces had problems, the new ones don't. I've used a new MacBook and Surface daily for the last couple months, and the tracking performance and latency are indistinguishable. Haptic clicking is better on the Mac though.
Pareto – The Virtual Startup Assistant
In 5-10 years, I feel like every soldier will be a carrying around a lithium ion battery pack to power their HUDs, ARs, and their communication devices. Let’s hope those puncture proof lithium ion batteries increase their reliability.
Their marketing site is amazingly beautiful. Their actual application sites are barely customized bootstrap templates.

And I wouldn't have it any other way. Marketing websites should be flashy to draw people in. But, when the rubber hits the road, I want functionality, power, and performance.
You're going to evaluate my introvert/extrovert status based on two sentences? That's a delusional level of confidence you have in yourself. Also, you need to reevaluate your definitions of what introvert and extrovert mean, not all introverts are like you. Educate yourself before making widesweeping assumptions.
> the screen is so small that the difference is basically unnoticeable

At the same scaling, maybe. But I use the high resolution display on my work-provided MacBook at 125%, which means a massive virtual screen estate gain.
So you're saying Amazon is all my fault? :) [ employee #2 ]

Edit: to be a little less terse, in 1996 I quit working for Amazon. There were multiple reasons, some not connected with the company, but a number that were based on my perception of what sort of corporate culture it was going to be have. And yet ... here we are.

Is there anything I could have done in the 14 months I helped build the initial version of amazon to change how things turned out? Is there anything I could have done after that time if I had stayed? Employee #1 had similar misgivings but stayed for 5 years, and was arguably equally ineffective at altering the "nature of the beast".

So sometimes, even though it appears that we do have the power to either (a) withdraw our labor from an organization (b) remain and voice dissent, it ends up doing no good if the actual leadership is following a clearly defined (in their mind) path.

There will always be enablers for the sort of culture that a company like one of the FAANGs want to build.
Yeah it really adds up fast. I don't have a good source handy, but I recall reading once that at any given moment, perhaps a million people are in the air. That sounds nuts at first, but then again, the planet has billions of people.

20x per year does sound kinda nuts, though :). I imagine you get all the mileage perks. And hopefully upgrades!
The WoW rule: A formula for growth for SaaS Startups
This looks really promising. Are you using it as daily driver?

edit: Backblaze is basically using http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ on Linux. So no solution for Linux users IMO
Optimize pull requests for reviewer happiness
Church Numerals apply the function you give them, n-times. That's hardly nothing.
What do you do about a peer who blatantly and publicly violates company policies? For example, someone who uploads a secret company document on GitHub so that it's easier for them to work from home. And then they share that document with you and ask you questions about it. On the one hand, you can be a dick about it (i.e., do the right thing and confront them) and pay a personal price. Alternatively, you can let it slide, pretend that nothing happened, and risk an escalation of inappropriate behavior in the future.
Given how much developer-contempt there is for the new touchpads, its amazing to me that the opposite of this has not been tried by hardware hackers already (as far as I know).

That is, hacking in an old tactile (non-touchpad) keyboard into the top section of the latest Macbook Pros.
Google open-sources AI that searches tables to answer natural language questions
A cursory evaluation is enough to dispel this myth. People do all sorts of destructive things to their families all the time. Let alone taking a slight hit to wealth in order to respect your morals.

I personally wouldn’t do it without talking things over with mine but if I felt strongly about leaving a job on ethical grounds I’m pretty sure my family would support that decision. You are after all just another member of the family that also needs support.
https://whatpulse.org/ has been doing this sort of metrics gathering for years. Keyboard and network stuff too.
>>Therefore, the worse-is-better software first will gain acceptance, second will condition its users to expect less, and third will be improved to a point that is almost the right thing.

>Which is exactly the history of Python (and Unix)

I was thinking Python (and Windows) :v
yeah, except it's nonsense, Soviet Union was completely unprepared for collapse. It couldn't even survive Chernobyl.
Just post “wake up sheeple!” and move on. this you’re tricked by the media shtick has no place here.

Also “aha! You never made a big deal on hacker news about this other contagious disease which has been with humanity for millennia! You are a fraud!” Is not a good argument.
Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22
Interesting, but I think misses a major point: Many conservatives are not apathetic, nor do they feel less threat. Rather, they see a different balance of threats.

In particular, shutting down our medical system (ex COVID-19) means that large numbers of people will die of other diseases/conditions. Shutting down the economy means that large numbers of people will die of suicide and other syndromes associated with economic deprivation. This isn't just a guess--it's clear and well-documented.

For some reason, these factors seem to be being currently discounted by the Left. I cannot understand why.
For what it's worth, my experience closely mirrors oarsinsync's, as far as Dell vs. Apple consumer-level hardware support goes.

The Dell tech who came to my house (next day) had people skills as good as any Apple Genius, and better tech skills to boot. He was in and out in less than 45 minutes, and I think he finished less than 24 hours after I called Dell (though that isn't promised as part of the contract).

I'm still happily in the Apple camp, mostly because I do appreciate the integrated ecosystem. However, there's simply no comparison when it comes to after-sales hardware support--Apple has a lot to learn from Dell.

I don't doubt that you've had a better Apple Store experience than some of us, but:

1. I've had poor Apple service in several cities across the US, so I think good service is the exception rather than the rule

2. Many small/medium cities only have one Apple store (which is inconvenient) and rural places have none (which is worse). As far as I know, there are no geographical restrictions, within the lower 48, on where Dell will travel for next-day at-home service.

3. Dell at-home support costs about the same as AppleCare+.
I am. This worked for me since the GSM-era. Imagine slowly pointing it like a wand, sweeping up and down, left, right, going nearer...into, searching. Until it ZAPS. Doesn't need touching. Or less than an inch distance. About 3 to 2 inches it usually is, but i also had crashs/freezes at maybe 10 to 5 inches, just outside the case when it was open.

edit: By searching for networks i mean for the telcos, not wifi. Then it uses all bands it is capable of.
We are going to have nowhere near 1-2 million deaths from this. and the IFR range is around 0.2%, not 0.5 - 1%.

And of course we will get herd immunity soon, with the way exponentials work. We are re-opening the economy! We will reach herd immunity far quicker than we will get a vaccine.
Quality unemployment info for the hourly workforce
Had borg backup running for some time as CLI solution, but the restore part was just not good enough and it failed silently on me, so I did not backup for a month until I recognized that :/

The Vorta GUI looks really great!

Will definitely check it out again.
Why? The only overhead you have in Docker is on syscalls (due to permission checks, namespaces, ...), everything else runs at 100% native speed - unlike assisted virtualization (at least IOMMU overhead plus overhead for anything involving the filesystem) or emulated virtualization (obvious overheads here).
Hardware-wise, I'm extremely satisfied with Blade Stealth late 2019 one. However, (on popOS) there's a slight issue with palm rejection. I occasionally activate it with my palm. Is there a way to make rejection more aggressive?
Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site
Better UX. You can stream with webtorrent CLI tool and others btw
Nice read, will keep this bookmarked for future projects
Another reason why you shouldn’t make custom parsers, even if you are a multi-billion dollar company like Apple. Trust in the power of open source!
Must not have worked earlier. It works now :)
There's no issue with heavy curation as long as it's disclosed.
It sucks for me as a power user because I prefer Apple's corporate ethos, but their increasingly quirky UI and no recourse for things like alternative launchers make it an automatic no-go because I can't stand Apple's interfaces. It seems silly to most people but I get physical anxiety from interfaces which don't behave consistently or make me feel claustrophobic, and I've grown tired of relearning iOS every few years. To the point where I'm using hole-ridden Android devices with bags of telemetry by default, but with a consistent launcher I've used for many years and know how to navigate. No hidden UI tricks.

If Apple would allow people like me to control the devices we buy, I would finally have a home in the mobile market.
I'm no *SGI expert, but ASGI might be easier to bridge with the Golang-style concurrency-model than WSGI. Not sure if there are any libraries for go<->ASGI yet though.
> This article makes the common mistake of saying that a race condition is inherently a bug.

No, it defines race condition, for purposes of the article, as something which is a bug. The author is only concerned with cases in which non-deterministic behavior causes errors.

When you write your own article, you are free to define "race condition" to include non-deterministic behavior that does not cause errors. But I don't think you can claim that the author's usage is simply wrong.
I'm inclined to say that it will work on User Mode Linux, and it looks like QEMU does have record/replay functionality.
The Money Whisperer to the Super-Rich NBA
The standard res screen on the XPS isn't high DPI at all. It's clearly inferior to a retina display for text and image rendering.
The navbar, "new" badge, hero banner, and (slightly) rounded colorful buttons are all individually similar to how you often see those components used in Bootstrap.

But in general and in one word, I think it's padding. Most modern design systems spread things out a good bit, and we see that in the navbar items and in the space around the hero. In total they are showing 6 links, 3 sentences, and 2 buttons, and are taking up a full screen. That's not something you'd see on a 2010 website.
> The one thing that bugs me about a post like this is where does our complicity end?

Just draw any line, anywhere; and everyone can draw a different line for themselves. Acknowledging that there is evil is the first step to improvement, and that happens when you draw a line.

The real problematic attitude is to say there is no evil, or if there is evil it is not my responsibility and my decision framework will not include any ethical calculations. Sadly, there are far too many people with this attitude, probably the majority, who make it impossible for the rest to improve the world.
When you help a dubious firm progress, you further that dubious behaviour.

Techies, and everyone else, included.

Edit, re the enlightening discussion below:

You are complicit in your employer’s behaviour, more-so if you are reasonably able to find another job, but decide against it.
Stock market's electronic underpinnings held up during March volatility
I don't remember the difference between the non-unibody and unibody trackpads being that dramatic. They were better, sure, but it was a difference of degree, whereas PC trackpads, especially of the time, were borderline unusable after you'd used a pre-unibody Mac one.
Presumably the vast majority of people are not going to want to scale their 13-inch display so that everything is significantly harder to read for the sake of increased screen real estate. But I'm glad that the MacBook works well for your specific use case.

I currently work on a MacBook Pro 13 and I switched from a XPS 13 with a 4k display. They're largely comparable, and the only difference I notice or care about is the OS. It seems that is how it is for most people.
I assume they do it in-house now, but didn't they use Synaptics trackpads like everyone else, forever?
The high res screen is the reason I switched to macbooks after a lifetime of windows laptops in the first place. I still have and use my 2012 macbook pro retina which is about 6 more years of functional life than I've gotten out of any windows laptop, and it cost the same then as the base XPS 13 does now.

The prices between manufacturers aren't really all that different; but, if they happen to be important for you, Apple has a few features and components that others haven't been able to replicate at any price point, which is why paying the Apple tax is worth it to some.
Pretty far. Since we cram so many drives into each server, our total server count is actually relatively low for the amount of storage we have. I'm not sure exactly how many units you need to amortize the design costs across to make it worth it for a custom ODM design, but I suspect it's in the tens of thousands.
I felt they did.

I think we've only ever seen things work sustainably when every individual adopts a particular set of behaviours, but maybe this is mostly just semantics?
Awesome! Glad you found it useful.
When is the revolution happening?

How does the blockchain satellite project developers relate to the people that develop Bitcoin? Are they the same people? Are you saying that blockchain developers are smarter or more enlightened?

Are you done with your opinionating?
I was just arguing a distinction between physical and metaphysical truth. My “theology”, such that it exists, is merely that God is fundamentally beyond human understanding and that we can’t meaningfully use human motivations or morality to model God’s actions.
Ask HN: Have you ever felt guilty after a purchase?
Backstory:

I've always dreamed of a Gibson Les Paul (a legendary guitar made in the US)

Recently, i had a birthday and decided to fulfil that childhood dream

I purchased it

I've got a Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Custom - a higher-end Gibson Les Paul in black (ebony) finish and gold hardware

I felt thrilled of my dream becoming truth, given i can now afford it

But, suddenly i started feeling guilt, that i pamper myself with a pricy toy, while people from my home country are living near poverty

I'm ashamed to show off the guitar to my friends and relatives, because i'm afraid they'll find out what i paid for it and start to give me a lesson, what i could with the money otherwise

Sure, i could have purchased a much less expensive instrument and be happy about it, but i just felt, "if i'm getting it, it has to be the best"

I feel, that i can't accept this present, but in the same time, there is no reason for me to not

please share your advice. thanks
And yet you seem to be happy with "Public companies have a responsibility to their share holders to maximize profit." being nominally "codified in law".

(I say nominally because it's not actually clear that this is codified in law, just that there have been a number of lawsuits that have been decided as if it is).
> My guess is…

What a well reasoned rebuttal.
Here's some interesting facts about PHP I like to know and share. How many of them are now untrue?

"foo" == TRUE, and "foo" == 0, but TRUE != 0

NULL < -1, and NULL == 0

PHP sez:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM)
Ideology may set rough attractors and no-go areas, but it's naive to think that our current battle lines have been drawn by individuals independently pondering their own positions.

At a deep level, our experience of reality has become wholly moderated by mass media. Reds and Blues are watching different channels, and thereby experiencing different realities. It's as simple as that.

Nonconformance to a media narrative is punished by all, in a distributed fashion. If you express an independent point in a Blue flavor, you will be attacked by both the ever-present Reds as well fellow Blues for breaking rank (and vice-versa, obviously).

Even this comment itself would be better if I tied in some basic examples. But they would inherently reflect my own filter bubble, opening my point up to partisan scrutiny looking to reject self-reflection xor continue caricaturizing the others.
Without agreeing with many points, the main thesis is true but just for one point: XXI century economies are less resilient to isolation than in previous centuries.

We live in a more complex society and countries need each other more than before. Communication is cheap, transport is cheap so it makes sense to rely on other for your own need.

So, this lack of preparedness is true for USA, but also for many countries in Europe, and Asia. The more complex the society the more fragile it is to disruption.

Is it solvable? Yes. Local renewable energy is a good example of reduction on distribution complexity. There is more knowledge involved, but there is less countries participant in the complexity.

To stop believing in politics seems worse advice ever, thou. It seems more a receipt for collapse than a solution to be more resilient.

> "Took 10 years to recover"

Has Russia recovered? That also needs more probe. To be better that you were 10 years ago is not synonym of being recovered. Russia is just less chaotic, maybe.
jacobolus, you have missed the point. He did not glamorize rural living or poverty