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> PHP8 isn't a different language, they just added some stuff on top of PHP5.

there were some backwards-incompatible syntax changes between PHP 5 and 7 though. a client once switched on PHP 7 on his ancient WP website and it stopped working altogether because it used some weird no-longer-supported form of `new Foo`.
While I used drupal heavily then switched to wordpress for all sites I do, I'm now using golang instead.

PHP is good at what it does, but its usage is in decline over recent two decades, actually, if without wordpress's installation, its relevance might be very very limited if anything at all these days.
Whether man is machine can't be trivially answered using a few handwavy applications of Godel's theorem nor of observations about the structure of the reals. My paper does not make any attempt to weigh on that question, neither does it claim nor imply that humans have any supernatural powers of enumerating reals or ordinals, and you grossly misrepresent me by implying it does.

Rather, my paper is on the less ambitious question of whether the traditional RL model (with its real-valued rewards) accurately captures the full set of reward-giving environments an AGI should be capable of comprehending.
This depends on your experience level and the position. In my experience on the senior end it doesn't mean pay goes down, it means getting the job is much more competitive.

Some positions, such as junior dev, may have reduced pay since there are millions of international lower skilled devs.
Downvoted! Look: we here on hacker news are used to thinking about the world in a logical way. We test our ideas against reality and reject what doesn’t fit. We have rational enlightenment ideals about democracy and reason. Well some people don’t! They really don’t. They have a prescientific, premodern understanding of the world. I know this is hard to accept but it’s clearly true. And every time they turn on the tv and see gay people and atheists, they get furious and they want all those people to shut up and be silent, so the world can go back to being the comfortable, familiar place that they think it is without all the complexity and uncertainty that the real world contains. So if you don’t understand the world, and it’s scary, you’re going to latch on to some belief system that says that some cabal of devil worshippers is responsible for everything you don’t like. Logic has nothing to do with it.
I'm trying to imagine being a customer for this kind of service. When would I be satisfied with a pen testing service?

If I'm not familiar with pentesting methodologies, my only metric of satisfaction would be the pen tester's reputation i.e., if a well-reviewed pentester says my site is OK, then maybe my site is safe.
We're talking about CS4 here: Flash was basically THE way to build UI back then. I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the motivating factors for Adobe buying out Macromedia (aside from just quashing potential competition from Macromedia Studio).

Hell, a lot of high-budget video games around the same time used a little thing called Autodesk Scaleform. That's basically Autodesk's reimplementation of Flash Player (Adobe was too short-sighted to pursue this market) which game developers could quite easily license and embed into their games.
Alright, if that's the filter people need to pass before you listen to their arguments then I'll tell you the list of languages I am productive in:

Javascript, PHP, Haskell, Rust, C++ and LISP. I'm familiar with the benefits and drawbacks of all of them and I don't see how any of them replaces PHP
Weird name to go with in the first place.
Maybe a broken gas generator would be a good option too? I’d guess the ICE component normally fails well before the generator part.
> You have basically said that the republicans are simply bad in the state because they “campaign like it’s Kansas,” which is ridiculous because candidates are always local.

The state party officials (and party aligned interest groups) have a big impact on candidate grooming, funding, selection, and messaging, and the influence they exert results in campaigns that are ineffective in much of the state. And it wasn't always that way, and it didn't because of the jungle primary change (Schwarzenegger was an exception to it, but not because he was before the jungle primary, but because he came through a route entirely outside of the party system, despite being a party member; the effect had already set in, though it wasn't yet as deep as it is now.)

> That type of dismissiveness of an entire party is exactly the issue.

You are confusing cause and effect.
I changed jobs to join a remote team. Equipment was shipped to my home. I've never met any of my team in person and won't until COVID limitations are resolved and the home office goes back to bringing everybody in for team building. My wife was WFH before COVID and has been onboarding people too. It's new to a lot of people, but companies are working through the issues and adding people with zero human contact all the time.
Here's a changelog instead of this weird blog post:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CH...
Node.js 15 Was Released This Week What Does It Mean for You?
I don't understand why BTC as optional means of transaction is dystopic
Dave Cutler doesn't get nearly enough credit for turning Microsoft around.

I don't think it's a coincidence that he was at the helm for two of the most technologically advanced and successful product lines (NT 4.0 and azure).
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What they didn't test is whether higher cost services would find the vulnerabilities.
>> I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction

> It isn't a problem. Takes a little longer to build trust with people, that's about it.

It is a problem, because there's more to being on a team than getting a laptop and doing assigned work. Losing workplace human contact may be find for some people, but for me the loss has been palpable. The change is necessary given the circumstances, but that doesn't mean it's fine.

This gets at some of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/work-from-home-lo....
I have my reasons to _despise_ hosting PHP from an operational perspective. These mostly come from having to host ready-made PHP applications like Nextcloud, Wordpress, Dokuwiki, etc.

1) 'Language configuration' kept in a php.ini that is usually not shipped with any project. Instead, each project tells you what flags to flip so that it runs, but very often every distribution ships PHP with slightly different flags, effectively making it _very_ hard to have a 100% correct php.ini.

2) 'Deployment configuration' that is additionally present in your FPM/apache configuaration. Again, you have to be told by a project that that these given options (often related to timeouts and request size) have to be set. Many projects just assume you have some 'sane defaults' like things bumped up from the defaults. Again, very difficult to get reproducible deployments of an app, unless the developers are very insistent on documenting everything.

3) Extremely painful to debug. If 1) or 2) are broken and a connection terminates during an upload with some 400 error, the error can be in multiple places: nginx/apache, php-fpm, or the PHP code itself. Each one of them logs to a different place, or not at all. It's difficult to actually understand the _source_ of the error. Good luck. Bring strace.

4) Broken upload model. If I understand correctly, all file uploads in PHP must end up on the local filesystem, and they are impossible to directly stream onto something like S3. This means that my Nextcloud instance will first save a few gigs of data on /tmp, and then only punt it over to S3. Gross.

5) Annoying to host in containerized environments. Both Apache and nginx are the kind of applications that insist on doing a bunch of setuid()s, thereby breaking on hardened containerized environments. Not to mention having to host a nginx+fpm/apache combo per application just seems wasteful, but there's no other easy way to deploy PHP apps in a containerized way that I'm aware of.

6) Configuration woes with rewrites, static files, etc. This is related to 2), in which you have to spend a bunch of time configuring your HTTP server in order to split up requests between static file serving and PHP, set up rewrites, and hope you don't accidentally introduce a security vulnerability.

All in all, compares to something like 'here's a go binary, run it, push HTTP traffic to it, it will serve its own static files, too', PHP is an _extreme_ pain in the ass to host.
AB2257 added significantly more exemptions.
TastyIgniter – open-source restaurant management system
I was invited to interview for a position working on the Skype backend. I have no idea if it is a good idea.. since I personally can't take Skype seriously or believe that it is something good to work on.

Is that something people at huge companies have to think about often?

Good money vs working on a product you believe in.
I've found Azure support reasonable. It's still not an easy product to use overall compared to AWS but the support engineers have been very proactive and keen to jump on calls to fix stuff.
> Since there are 50% women in the population then they should account for 50% of founders, right?

Your intention is in the right place but that's just not how biology works.

Women will be underrepresented in these categories mainly because women (on average, as a population – not individually) don't want to do this type of work.

The real problem would be if the ones that do aren't being able to because they're women. This would then indeed be sexism.

You can find the mirrored argument when it comes to male kindergarten teachers, for example. Ideally every male that wants to become one should be able to, but there won't ever be 50% of the distribution because males (on average, as a population – not individually) don't want to do this type of work.

My wife is a STEM scientist / data-scientist with a background in economics. Much more of a numbers person than I am, better at calculation and numerical visualisation than I am. I'm a male who would much rather be a homemaker and take care of our kid and households. People like us exist, but we don't represent the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
FYI - This means they're able to image individual atoms, not that they're imagining WITHIN atoms as the title somewhat implies.

That is: atomic resolution, not sub-atomic resolution
I am by no means anything close to a physicist, but I would imagine it is because of the same principle as the inverse quare law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
The same kind of parents who send them to JEE coaching and it will fill IITs/NITs with super hard working but actually mediocre kids.

Expectable that it was the next stage of IIT rat race.
I have, but personally I feel more comfortable manipulating figures with code. YMMV.
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I think this line of thinking is absolutely correct when conspiracy theories are fringe or harmless. You don't believe we landed on the moon? Okay, buddy, have a nice day.

Occasionally, though, conspiracy theorists escape the harmless fringe and become actively harmful to society, which is what many of us believe is happening in the USA today. A racist conspiracy theory that posited, contrary to all evidence, that our previous president was born in another country, combined with some conspiracy theories popular among "the Tea Party movement" as they were known, propelled our current president into office, where the theories have snowballed and escalated into shots fired in a pizza parlor, protesters murdered by car, protestors murdered by gun, illegal voter intimidation, and a significant chunk of the population not quite ruling out the possibility that a huge chunk of elected officials and others are part of a cabal of devil-worshipping pederasts who drink the blood of children.

Faked moon landings this ain't. Crazy Uncle Roger this ain't.

I do live in the US, and I encounter the results of this weekly, sometimes more often. It doesn't take visiting 8kun to be affected by this here.

Update: There are people on this page, right here at HN, stating misleading nonsense tangentially related to QAnon. The spread of this stuff is pervasive already.
Yes, but localization is not just a matter of finding matching words. In this example, "in dem" (in the) already has a very common abbreviation/colloquialism - "im" - so is a much more natural to use that.
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"Kids" know what works for USG will work for them
It's also a Dutch thing. We don't beat around the bush.
Steve Ballmer was a guy who restlessly milked two Microsoft cash cows (Windows and Office) to accommodate investors quarter after quarter. He didn't have a vision or courage to push Microsoft in some other direction, and my impression was that all good things that started under his regime (Azure, more openness) was either reactionary or he simply didn't care (most of early open source push was from his lieutenants).

At the end of his regime MS lost top-tier tech place (when someone says "big tech" it's Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, not MS), he lost the main Microsoft advantage - an army of Windows programmers. MS under Ballmer lost couple of generations of programmers, to the point where MS needs to ship Linux kernel with Windows just to get cosy with programmers again.

Another example of such uninspired CEO that keeps making good quarters but tarnishes his company advantages is Tim Cook. I can't wait for him to be replaced.
From your source:

Boogaloo movement more likely, experts say

Cooter, who recently dug into this issue on Twitter, told us she’s seen "zero evidence that (the suspects) are antifa."

She speculated that some people are conflating anarchy and antifa to try to divert attention away from the suspects’ militia connections.
I had no doubt they'll eventually attempt to meter bandwidth.

Just yesterday I saw comments (Debian PeerTube news) claiming that residential bandwidth is free. Riiiight.
thank you for this insightful view of the importance of family and parental guidance. it adds a lot to the conversation.
Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take
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Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte. They're much more likely to think you're inconsiderate for voluntarily increasing their risk of catching covid. I follow Q for fun, and I barely think about it day to day. The average person probably thinks about Q less than once per week, when someone brings it up in the news.
Yeah, the effect scales with the inverse mass of the particle, so heavier things radiate less.

For this reason I've seen suggestions to do round electron-type accelerators but using the much heavier muons to get around the radiation problem.
I struggled with that too. Here's my mental model, which may or may not be relevant.

Imagine you're holding a penny directly in front of your eyes, between you and the sun. It can do a pretty good job of blocking the sun for you, because it's so close, but no one else is impacted.

Now move that penny a few hundred feet up. Now it's almost imperceptible, but far more people (technology permitting) are capable of spotting it.
Can WE detect life on Earth from far away?
It's safe to assume that any aliens who travel to our solar system will be so much more advanced than us that there's literally nothing we could do to repel them if they were aggressors. We can only hope they're friendly.
He was the ultimate "do it for somethings own sake" type of guy. He had a ton of curiosity, and just spent most of his life indulging it to the fullest. I mean, we in the modern world are so boxed in with our notions of right and wrong (most of which come from "authority"), newton wasn't like that, the man was equally comfortable studying about the bible, alchemy, as we was studying the natural world, building telescopes and as you said polishing his own lenses.
What is Microsoft doing with all that data? Google and Facebook optimize ads based on it, but what does Microsoft need it for?
I recently bought a iPhone SE and forced myself to use it as my primary phone. This "on Spotify" is really annoying and really summarizes the whole iOS experience. If you dont fully by into their walled garden you will have to deal with a lot of minor annoyances. I was thinking about switching over to Apple Music for a bit to see if I like the whole user experience a bit more even if apple music on its own is inferior.
I've been out-of-the-loop for a while, what's the state of the art in re: OpenAPI/Swagger?

What I mean is, are people using it in the wild? Are there mature (or at least pretty stable) code generators? Test generators? What's inter-operability like? (Is it easy/possible to generate clients and server stubs in different languages that will work together? Can I write a service, publish my API spec, and expect people to be able to use it to write clients?)
After you remove the VC funny money subsidy, prices will probably be right around what taxis are today. And we'll be right back where we started. At least there's a nice phone application now and I don't need to call someone to send me a taxi.
As someone who spent a decent amount of time on 8chan and boards like it in high school, this comment legitimately confuses me.

Can you expand please?
If you do a project others have not done, even if you don't explain it as well as someone else might, you are still giving a particular type of knowledge others did not, because the actual project DOES matter since it can lure people in who might not be by other tutorials.
omg its so annoying when you click on an image and the photo viewer hangs forever. I've installed 'One Photo Viewer' instead, nice and simple and works instantly https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PM6W4F0XW3H
I don’t like Microsoft Windows or any of its newer products

Windows 7 was the best version and Office before 365 was good too - now they just really milking everyone with subscription payments
Same, but on a new laptop. Ryzen 5 4500U. Maybe it'll degrade with time, but I remember how bad the Windows 10 start menu used to be on a fresh install. Nearly unusable. It's fine now for me.
Agreed. Windows 7's UI is blazing fast compared to Windows 10. Windows 7 inherited all the good things of Windows XP, while Windows 10 tried to look similar to both Windows 8 and Windows 7
You might want to look up the definition of "bigotry" then...
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Maybe for private companies, but public companies sole purpose is to generate profit. If they are not doing it to the best of their ability shareholders will replace the executive team.
You could add bans on smoking in all public spaces and plastic shopping bags as well
For anyone who is staggered by the amount of stuff here, it's worth noting that they apparently have 1,276 employees (which is a lot more than I thought they had). I'm not sure that really excuses having "an email signature marketing platform used to standardize brand consistency", but it does at least explain ADP, Salesforce, the pro LinkedIn stuff, and all the other things a little startup would never dream of spending money on.
100% truth
I can already see this in the Balkans. Countries which have stronger ties with the US (eg Romania, Kosovo) can easily see developer salaries be 5-20x local average salary. This has contributed to real estate prices getting out of whack for certain areas in the main cities.
She has specific proposals - climate science (the most pressing concern of our times, if organized human society is to survive the next century or so), and astronomical research.

I would also mention that things like the Voyager missions are still providing novel data ~50 years after their launch. Will the same be true of the LHC, or any other particle collider?
Also Europeans don't appreciate just how geographically spread out stuff in America is compared to Europe.
This is an unfair argument if you're not acknowledging how media is designed to be addictive. Even we technical folk are susceptible. It's a convenient fantasy that the downtrodden deserve their place for being lazy.
The Twitter thread explores some ideas why this may be the case. However, quickly skimming through it, they miss the most obvious one.

For the people who are busy working on something they find important, most often 'status' is not even a thing. So there's no 'willingness' really to it, it's just that status doesn't really exist. The way they see themselves and how they measure their success has literally nothing to do with what perceptions other people might have about them. And then, sure, eventually some of them end up being pretty successful also by other people's standards.
This is the history of all revolutionary technologies. At first it seems like a useless toy, then the establishment laughs at and denigrates it, then it's fought aggressively, then it takes over. I would say we are almost past the "fought aggressively" stage, at least for Bitcoin, and into the "taking over" stage as smart institutional money begins to get exposure.

It's very interesting that a large contingent of smart software people on HN heard about Bitcoin extremely early, said it was a useless failure, and then had to re-justify their position for a decade as Bitcoin marches on. It's impossible for anyone to claim Bitcoin has no value at this point, but on every blockchain post on HN there is a core of haters that will make the same tired arguments against it. Meanwhile, no one cares!
It’s interesting to see how they use so many duplicative tools.

From CDN, transactional mail, eSignature and more.

I wonder why they don’t standardize in tools more.
Thank you, good point. I did.
It's tough to argue with success. They obviously wanted someone who was going to go all-in on the cloud angle when they picked Nadella, and to give credit where it's due, the stock price chart for Microsoft says everything you need to say about the results he's delivered.

What's worrying in a broader sense is that our societies have come to depend heavily on Microsoft's previous flagship offering, Windows. As the article observes, the focus has shifted elsewhere under Nadella's term. And as many people can attest, Windows 10 is far from the Windows we used to rely on, particularly for those not in enterprise world or academia. Many millions of people are now fundamentally depending on a product that is no longer the goose laying golden eggs for its maker, and the maker's economic incentives are no longer aligned with the best interests of their users.
You're describing switching to a different language. There's plenty of that going around no matter what language you're using. But I don't recall once seeing anyone decide to rewrite something in the equivalent of a different C "framework". There's certainly a lot less of that outside of frontend development.
Yes, they do.

If nothing else the fact that you don’t seem to recognize the desire to build a huge wall as one big red authoritarian flag is concerning.

It’s like going on a date with someone who says he’s a nice guy but treats the waitress like shit.

And it’s not only Border Walls it’s Border Patrol / ICE. Which has literally been putting children in cages.

Plus as another poster said it’s not clear that the administration was building this wall in a legal fashion.
Depends on how far and exactly where we are in relation to the earth sun system.
I agree with you - yet there is also a philosophy that some organizations take which is to intentionally hire quite subpar 'certified' practitioners who themselves can be duped or walked past issues to provide 'clean reports' to upper management, even if false.
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