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I don't understand as of 2020 the use case for PHP. It's verbose as Java without its speed.
Seriously, can anybody help here?

It made sense to use PHP EXACLTLY in the good bad old days because it was just leaner to bang out applications in PHP than with other languages.

Nowadays, I feel that PHP cake has been largely eaten by Python and Ruby.

Why using PHP with such a level of verbosity?
Neat design (especially the blades), but I have these issues:

1. It's only $30 of parts if you get most of the parts for free (especially if you consider the mounting hardware).

2. You're screwed if you can't get hold of those alu sheets from a printers shop - I have no idea where I would find them.

3. There's little info on how to turn the rotary motion into electrical power, and no info on expected power output.

4. The published design, with one bicycle wheel, does not look strong enough (a later video shows a new design with two wheels, but then you have alignment issues). There's a big bending moment on the axle, and those old-fashioned freewheel hubs are known to snap axles (I've snapped one myself).

5. None of the electrics are weatherproof, but that's par for the course for homebrew stuff!
It's only "intellectual property" until it's time to pay property taxes.
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> What proportion of startups are founded by women? Only with this statistic can we draw a fair conclusion

The conclusion is pretty clear and damning for Nordic countries: for WHATEVER reasons women don't get funding.
You can complain that the cause is not fully explained by these statistics. But the conclusion is pretty clear.

Btw, the article does try to explain the numbers more:

> All male teams made up 83% of the startups but they raised 93% of total funding, which means that they raised larger sums.

> For all-female teams, the opposite was true. On top of the female-founded startups finding it difficult to raise any money at all, the 6% of startups that did, only received 1.3% of the funding.

I only skimmed the article. I'm not sure if these numbers show how many women founders got NO funding. I think it's common sense that women founders are very rare. But I don't see how you can take consolation in this explanation.
This must be the reason with used Haswell mobos are cheaper than used Ivy Bridge ones.
Actually, I do. Not necessarily from the people doing synchronised swimming...

Just imagine, if you yourself actually would like to do synchronised swimming, what would happen? How would the people around you react? How would that make you feel about it?
Wow, do you have some links about that? It's the first time I hear something like this
> > She didn’t cut it and now is in a non-tenured position at a second rate institution.

Lee Smolin, who did "cut it" and who worked in several first rate institutions, wrote about the same thing in his 2006 book The Trouble With Physics. So Sabine Hossenfelder is not alone with these opinions.
By 'almost useless' you mean 'almost useless to someone expecting an open source clone of the leading proprietary software'.

We all too often look at open source software and think of it as a clone of an 'equivalent'. Journalists and others lead us to believe that the likes of the GIMP team are striving to create a clone of Photoshop, or that the Inkscape team are striving to create a version of Illustrator or that the OpenOffice team are playing catchup with Microsoft Office.

If you are a developer with basic image manipulation needs and some specific needs such as being able to save files to a specific colour depth in a specific format, then GIMP is what you want. Admittedly you are not going to be able to do the things a designer does in Photoshop but that is not the point.

Same with OpenOffice Calc, it is a spreadsheet program but not a clone of Excel. It has a different demographic of users, some of whom would consider Excel to be the wrong tool as it magically autocorrects and thinks it knows best, with an interface that obfuscates important (to the programmer) details file save options.

Inkscape - the alleged open source clone of Illustrator is not that at all. It is an editor for SVG files and is a better tool than Illustrator for that specific task of creating optimised SVG files. You can do some design with it too, but it has technical applications and a user base that prefer it because it caters to their needs.

Some people that are used to the market leading software come with preconceptions about what free and open source software is about and how the user interfaces should be improved. Meanwhile, long time users of the open source software, can be mightily relieved that their chosen software is different to what the majority thinks is better.
> The problem is, for some people it's the only option or the best option for their career.

Or the only option that lets them run away from real life for a few more years
The key to becoming a person who thinks PHP is great now is to primarily use features that have existed for more than 5 years. For me, PHP 7 was PHP 5 that was faster and had some nice little bits of new syntax. They started down the type system road but I avoided it then.

Now it seems like the basic type system is in place, great. This new stuff in the article I'll probably start using it when 8.4 drops.

5 years is an exaggeration, but staying a version or two behind really helps you stay sane.

By the way I found Hack/HHVM thoroughly disappointing. Tried running some fairly complex apps on it and it felt like they reimagined the legacy baggage. Seems like PHP itself borrowed a lot of ideas from it though.
> middle man role is visibly unnecessary

Yep. One way forward is to move "middle" to other leaf node tasks in organisation. I have restructured a bunch of organisations towards globally distributed remote work since early 2000s. Every time: Unless I have strong investors' support I _MUST_ find a way to get the "middle" excited to move away from traditional management and coordination tasks into other things. Often this is back tech or sales where they originated. If you do it right most are happy and you get great improvements in productivity, staff retention, decision making. Do it wrong and you get mired down or sabotaged.
It was edited, but the comment is still ad hominem and avoids talking about the specific criticism.
Why? Because you think women shouldn't get funding?
I think we need more clever people making more predictions (and especially from people quoted in the article like Gross, Witten, Rattazzi etc), and fewer blog articles like this designed to discourage them.

The last time a huge, costly, dedicated collider was built, it was in service of the Higgs prediction, and that worked out quite nicely.
Based on your feature request list, all but the form creation (iirc) is handled well by PDF-XChange by Tracker Software. It's a one time purchase + optional maintenance upgrade model.
And all female teams made up 1%.

"make an effort"
All of these could be circumvented though. For instance, you are given X and have to spend it by the end of the month. So you sell your X to someone who does want to spend money and they give you something in return (e.g. cryptocurrency) that you can save. Or you just buy some object such as gold jewellery that has a measurable value.

This kind of direct interference with money never works. People just find ways around it, and if they can't, then the money loses its value.
Looks like they forgot to include pictures from the sweatshops where the phones are produced [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-l...
>This is personal to me, some of my friends work at CERN

That is very clear. You didn't engage her argument at all.

Is is really too much to ask for scientific mega project to generate all that value, while at the same time same pursuing a central object that is scientifically viable?
This article reads like an ad.
Yeah, definitely for normal workloads/usage. I'm talking only constant full core load, synthetic tests like Prime95, rendering, or even gaming.
De Beauvoir is a controversial figure. She undoubtedly had a major influence on feminism but it is also firmly established that she abused her position as a teacher and a famous writer to groom some of her teenage students into sexual relationships with her before tossing them to her boyfriend.
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VATs are terribly inefficient. For very little money more you should probably build one of these:

https://www.otherpower.com/turbineplans.html

It will make a lot more power and will teach you far more about turbine and blade design than the one on display here. It is a fun project and as such you can't really go wrong as a starter project but if you intend to actually use it to make meaningful electrical power then please go with another design.
See the comment by TheHemric, it's a bit more informed than you seem to be.
200-500 requests per second? I'm sure it can do a ton more. Here's some benchmark numbers: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...

I don't believe the constraint would be the language itself, not with accellerators, opcode caches, JIT compilers, etc. I've always been told that PHP's performance is more down to the database than anything else.
Anyone tried ClojureScript ?
https://clojurescript.org/
> my point was php is slow and max throughput is 200-500 rps

Absolutely not, you could already go to 5k rps 10 years ago and PHP has massively improved since.
That's because the article comes directly from Apple.
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Still moving from country to country every month. If you are in a "high-risk" country, you can access the Schengen Zone via Croatia, UK or Ireland. Turkey, Serbia, Mexico and Colombia are also open, for example.
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This reminds me a lot of the Amazone warehouse scanner described in "On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane" by Emily Guendelsberger
Similar experience in the U.K. from me.

Senior faculty appeared to be a little out of touch when I finished the contract early in favour of a job in industry which utilised my skill set. No one else was surprised.
Be careful with Foxit software, though. They have a history of doing some very unsavoury things. Their Wikipedia page has some details for those interested.
Well yes. But if anyone followed news about Tesla, we should have Lv4 / 5 AV or RoboTaxi by now.

i.e Elon's Time Scale are not very reliable. Although I have come to the conclusion he does it on purpose to push the team to come up with the results.
Fuck. Are we already up to when everybody does 3-4 postdocs? What's next, the "ten-year'ed" postdoc?

Yeah, I 'member when postdocs were not a thing for math. I 'member internships for math majors weren't really a thing, either. I think internships were barely a thing, but, I'm not sure.
She addresses many of your rebuttals quite well here http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/nonsense-arguments-...
This kind of turbine is not very efficient. Its rated speed is approximately equal to its maximum speed because the blades will shade each other quite effectively and there is a very large amount of drag. They are reasonably safe to operate though because their RPM is limited due to the very large drag factor.
Larry Niven, a similar kind of a scifi writer, said that when a writer is so successful they quit their day job, they lose that source of inspiration.

Vinge retired from lecturing compsci in 2000. Deepness was 1999. Children was 2011, was competent, but lacked almost all the clever insights of the previous novels. I wish he'd go back.

Oh well, he gave us several very good novels and 2 great ones. He deserves a break!
Charlie Stross has an interesting story, Missile Gap where nuclear powered ekranoplans are used for long range exploration of "Earth":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Gap
The problem is what "open ended" means.

A typical experiment is to accelerate a lot protons and a lot of antiprotons (or other particle), make them collide, and see the "debris".

The "debris" can be a lot of things. So you must filter some of them. For example pick only the one that produce exactly two photons and two "jets" of mixed particles that are difficult to identify. Now you calculate the energy of the photons and make a nice graph, of number of collisions versus energy of the photons. Using the standard theory you expect a smooth curve, but if there is a new particle you will see a peak somewhere.

If you see something, you only see the peak. So good luck imagining what the particle can be and how it interact with the other particles.

Another team peek another filter, like the experiment that produce two photons and electron and a positron. They make a nice graphic and hope to see an unexpected peak.

Another team ...

If the current theory predicts a peak somewhere you should find it, but if you find an unexpected peak yuo may have founded a new particle.

The theoretical frameworks are useful to guess which filters may be interesting and give a chance to find a new particle. The problem is that there are just too many possible filters and you can't try all of them.
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I don't quite get your flippance - you weren't doing it before, and are now doing it. What's changed? Why are you working extra hours at home when in the office you wouldn't have?

What's the externalities here? Why has 2 hours downtime turned into 2 hours more work, rather than 2 hours of downtime at home?

I admit the OP was blunt, but it's not a ridiculous question - where has the time gone?
Even in that case, if your CPU cooler can deal with dissipating all the power (without throttling), consumed by the CPU in both cases (normal and undervolted), you'll still use less energy when undervolted.
What is the selling point for this vs say Dhall, which looks superficially similar (Haskell-ey config lang)?

The examples for Nickel currently look a lot more like programming than config. Why not just use a general purpose programming language that you already know and has many libraries and mature tooling?

Dhall advertises a lack of Turing-completeness as a feature. One of the Nickel examples shows an implementation of fibonacci function... (I have no idea if this implies Nickel is TC, nor why I would need such power in my config)

> Dhall features a powerful type system that is able to type a wide range of idioms. But it is complex, requiring some experience to become fluent in.

> Gradual types also lets us keep the type system simple: even in statically typed code if you want to write a component that the type checker doesn’t know how to verify, you don’t have to type-check that part.

> Complementary to the static type system, Nickel offers contracts. Contracts offer precise and accurate dynamic type error reporting, even in the presence of function types.

It's not clear to me that gradual typing as a mix of statically typed code + untyped code with "contracts" is necessarily simpler than just one or the other.

It's not clear to me that a specialised config language combining code + schemas is necessarily better than an existing general purpose language + some language-agnostic schema DSL.

I don't know, maybe this is all great, I feel the benefits need to be more clearly explained and demonstrated though.
>1) Why would you keep logs, when you could then be compelled to hand them over?

Yeah that's a good point. If you keep logs then your legal team will have to do more work. It actually costs more to keep logs and customers will leave you for a competitor, meanwhile there is no opportunity to earn extra money.
It’s suppose to. It’s a newsroom post on Apple’s site to advertise their new devices.
Wow, how diverse!!
Apart from the number games already commented on by others: I think the example of Theranos has shown that given the right subject, female founders have no issue collecting large sums of funding money.

Those "poor female founders" articles always fail to mention that many startups (or businesses) by women tend to be in specific industry sectors, like fashion or childcare. So unfair that they can't get a unicorn evaluation for their "exclusive handbags" idea.
Backward-compat and syntax doesn't have to be a problem. The `<?php ...>` processing instruction can stay as it is, only to be augmented with a new opt-in mechanism based on entity expansion (the fully context-aware templating mechanism built-in to SGML/XML). Eg roughly

<title>bla</>
<?php let x =
"<p>whatever</p>"?>
&x
<div class="debug">
<![ RCDATA [
&x
]]>
</div>

where x is bound to markup checked against permissible elements in the first context (eg rejecting <script>) and escaped into &lt;p>whatever&lt;p> in the second. Rejecting script elements in user or other dynamic content as well as escaping comes for free with regular SGML parsing.
Yep, use the gum instead, 99% of the benefits with 2% of the downsides
We use dbt and it works really well, but when it comes to complex logic using UDF or something other than sql makes more sense.
Despite the fact that these distributions had very similar
looking shapes, their products are entirely different. The
distributions are shifted so that the center of one is 8
standard deviations from the center of the other

Is this last part correct?

"the distributions" means the distributions of the resulting products, correct?

I might misunderstand, but the centers of all three distributions are identical, at zero, aren't they?
I can also recommend her book.
Do you know how much should female founders get, as a percent of VC funding for a given country?

If you do, then something is wrong already. Why should sex be the measure of how much some founder gets?

If you don't know, then you also don't know what is wrong with the statistic. Do you also think women should not get funding?

Take a step back and think of the real purpose of the article: outrage and appeal to feelings.
NB: not actually The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep”
Sure, but nobody is pretending that the likes of the Venezuelan Bolivar show no more volatility than any of the world's [other] fiat currencies as they breathlessly hype its potential as a global reserve currency.
See also, Windows and activation. Adding that to XP was where Microsoft began to boil the frog, and now they're slowly doing to Office what Adobe did to CS.
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Remote Intercom?
My spouse keeps their phone on vibrate and sometimes I need to get in touch with them when I'm not home. I currently have a raspberry pi with cheap speakers that I play a telephone ring wav after VPN'ing and then SSH'ing into. I would love a software idea that I could have two-way intercom like communication without them needing to do anything. So like an auto-answering speakerphone software idea. Can Discord or Mumble do that?
Entered Russia 3/15 right before they closed the borders, with my tourist stay expiring on 9/15 (and visa expiring on 10/31). On 4/18 a presidential decree auto extended everything, and another extension every 3 months. So with auto visa situation, and the weekly flights back home to JFK just incase, it's been a perfect situation..

The weworks in Moscow are amazing, and everyone is following health guidelines very well. Definitely not in a rush to head home, or at least keep riding it out here

- http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/45441
- https://gupkrd.ru/novosti/prodleno-dejstvie-norm-ukaza-prezi...
The traditional capitalist economy with gold and then dollar bills was adequate for a long time. Still ground to halt during great depression.

I argue that it is on it's limits now. Long-term prosperity now depends on central banks making right decisions every time there is a hiccup. This should not be like that.

It should be more automatic. Ubi or not, relief funds should be in place when they are truly needed.

Short-term projects should be funded without borrowing excess funds from future generations.

Ultra long term projects should be possible without some crazy political effort.

Central banks can do all of above, if they have better visibility and, yes, control of how money moves, what ownership structure is
As ever, this would be a more compelling argument if the state that granted copyright protections also provided meaningful enforcement. Setting copyright up in a way that often makes it prohibitively expensive to enforce through legal means and then objecting when the rights holders attempt to protect their investments through technological measures feels a little hypocritical.
I somewhat agree with the premise, but the real kicker is the opportunity cost: there is so much Europe could be doing with this money that would have actual, real-world impact. There is a critical need for independent European software infrastructure - for this kind of money, they could fund their own web browser or OS or social media platform, which would exist independently of US-controlled tech.

Would I trade a European-controlled alternative to Android and iOS for yet another particle collider in Geneva? Yes, absolutely.
I'm not Indian so "An Indian startup" says more to me than "WhiteHat Jr".

Titles have a length limit so both things probably don't fit.
From https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...

Douglas Hofstadter's test sentence:
In their house, everything comes in pairs. There’s his car and her car, his towels and her towels, and his library and hers.

DeepL translation:
Dans leur maison, tout vient par deux. Il y a sa voiture et la sienne, ses serviettes et les siennes, sa bibliothèque et la sienne.

DH translation:
Chez eux, ils ont tout en double. Il y a sa voiture à elle et sa voiture à lui, ses serviettes à elle et ses serviettes à lui, sa bibliothèque à elle et sa bibliothèque à lui.

As a French native, I can tell you that DH's translation is great. And DeepL's reply is still something you can recognize at automatic translation at first sight.

Don’t get me wrong, more often than not, current MT tools give good enough results to understand the treated topic. But that’s still hideous translations. I wouldn’t buy a book translated through them for example.
That was uncalled for, so I took it out.
I converted about two dozens Ruby and Python apps to PHP in the last 7-8 years.
> and would fight any attempts of getting the details they do have on you

That sounds like one of those things that original article says "can never be verified". Correct me if I'm wrong.
A much more technical description of the craft

http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Ekranoplan-WIG.html
What if you get in a bad car accident? Your kids have to go to university, right? Oh, and any decent public school comes with an equivalent tax burden. What about public transit? Also no access to cheap, fresh food... something that these "undeveloped" countries all have. The list goes on...

A middle class Dutchman is way better off than a middle class American. I am so glad I left the USA for the promised land.
Indeed. I use libraries such as MoviePy* that wrap ffmpeg and allow you to implement effects on each frame.

* https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/index.html
I'm staying put for now but I'm looking to travel thru Europe next year.

I'll enter thru Croatia or Slovenia which allows travelers from the US. I'm hoping I'll find my way to Western Europe crossing by land.
Because the alternatives is actually not good, it just a fallacy.

There will always be something negative regardless of what you pick, problem is to decide what your core values are when writing different types of software. If you don't, you are just comparing apples to oranges.

When it comes to PHP, core values are usually things that has to do with tooling, server architecture & deployment, not much the language (syntax, expressions, lambdas, classes etc) it self, except maybe it is easy to learn & use.

This means that developers who comes from a background of that the language itself is the most important part of a project will most of the time just get confused what PHP is about.
You're absolutely right, the inner sort example makes no sense. I hope I'll have to time to work on this again in the near future. I use CQL every day but there's still a lot I'd like to do with it.