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Is there any way to get a larger font preference on HN ? Reading it on my iPad, and these tired old eyes (even with new glasses) are struggling to read the text when it’s scaled so that a whole line is visible across a page...
Without consciousness you experience a single unified reality: your reality.

You need consciousness to “step outside” into a 3rd person or 2nd person view.
Was it ever true? If so, why? If not, where did this start? What changed since then?
They agreed on the Snooper's Charter, and they agreed on CAJA 2008 which illegalized possession of pornographic drawings that 'appear' to depict fictional minors. Unsurprisingly, the issues they don't agree on are uninteresting in comparison.
Success rate of a determined, reasonably smart sole entrepreneur?
What would be the success rate of an individual, who lets say is smart but not a genius (maybe top 5% in SAT score, for example) that has a reasonable idea he came up with (that probably would not work out the way it is, but he doesn't know it yet) and has a successful entrepreneur advising him (perhaps a meeting once a month or so), and this individual would just not give up no matter what for, say, 5 years? As in, when he'll fail, he'll just try something else following his creativity and independent thinking, working hard and trying to move as fast as he can (although maintaining normal life to an extent, maybe weekly soccer and socializing a bit with friends and partner).

What are his chances of being a millionaire by the end of 5 year period? 50%? 90%? 20%? What do you think?
dont be fooled - these are mainly german hybrid cars which are in fact guzzlers. the new german carmaker scam is to slap a low quality electric engine on an otherwise highly polluting car, so buyers avoid paying taxes (there are many incentives for buying evs and hybrids, sadly exploited by such carmakers).
Interesting approach. Where do you get the calorie data from, is it user entered or some database?

Also, I'd recommend not putting the workout calories next to the junk calories as that might give impression that one needs to "balance the sheet" :)
Republican states tend to emphasize having a good labor market, and prioritize whatever gets employers to offer more jobs. This is a positive good for wage-earners. Democratic states tend to emphasize using government laws to require employers to do things like pay a higher wage. This is also a positive good for wage-earners. They both get lots of votes from wage-earners, and the ones voting for Republicans are not ignorant or blind. They are suspicious (rightly or wrongly) of the effectiveness of government regulations to help them, and know from experience that a tight labor market makes their boss suddenly see the importance of treating their workers better compared to when there was a line of people waiting to take their job if they didn't like it.

The difference between the two is mostly how they think it best to go about improving things for wage earners, who are the vast majority of their voters in both states. Not saying this makes them equal, but the difference is not what you assert.
I followed the link from the #indieweb IRC channel:
https://chat.indieweb.org/2020-11-26#t1606385718847500
It's an endless pit. The corruption and inefficiency is astounding.

The worst thing is most liberals in Brazil thinks he's pushing that agenda. It's not even that, it's just cronyism.
Maybe you should check out the Menhir parser generator instead.

Some links:

http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/manual.pdf

https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2015/11/error-handling-...

https://baturin.org/blog/declarative-parse-error-reporting-w...
This seems like a self-aggrandizing problem that only exists in the writers mind.
We don’t even really know what gravity is and 90% or more of all matter is missing from our cosmological models but physics is over.
It is called cargo cult culture [0]. The idea is to succeed by replicating what other successes have done. The problem is that from the outside, we only see how the successes got where they are in a superficial way.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Every language I think about is better than PHP (Javascript, Python, Ruby). Personally I will choose Javascript / Node JS platform to start with.
Three reasons:

- Quite slow relative to similarly priced Intel laptops.

- Quite expensive; started at $1500, so 1.5x the cost of the MacBook Air. And that $1500 didn't even get you a keyboard; if you wanted one of those it was an extra $150 or something.

- Very poor support for x86 software by Microsoft.

There was little convincing reason to buy one over an Intel equivalent. Realistic starting price was $1650 for something that was slower than Intel laptops for ARM software, was essentially unusable for x86 software, didn't have significant battery life advantages, and wasn't in a normal laptop form factor.

> Thus the real question is, though there are ARM laptops since mid-2010s why is Apple taking once again credit for making a "revolution"?

The usual. Apple took a thing that people had previously done, badly, and did it well. That is more or less Apple's thing; they rarely invent truly new markets, but they do take existing but irrelevant markets and make them relevant.
Look, 10 years ago I tried — really tried — to get the PHP team to adopt it. I am glad they finally came around:

https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg4587...

Excerpt of the proposal:

So why am I saying all of this? Well, PHP up until 4 had a reputation
for lots of bad coding style, spaghetti code, etc. With PHP 5 and
better OOP, this reputation has lessened, especially with the great
libraries out there (Zend Framework, Kohana, symfony, etc.) But there
is still a problem. We (or at least I) would want PHP 6's reputation
to be even better, and the reputation is largely based on how
maintainable and cost-effective the code is, which is written by
programmers actually using PHP. Blaming newbie programmers is one
thing, and may even have some truth to it (PHP is simple - thus
attracts newbies) but it's always good for a language to steer you in
the right direction by default, and make it easier to write
maintainable code.

PHP has a great opportunity to do this, by implementing a very simple
change, turning all current PHP 5 code, and all code that will be
written in the future, into maintainable code. Moreover, it won't
break any existing code, like some other additions to PHP 6 might do.
This one simple tweak will make PHP 6 code much more reusable and
maintainable, just like namespace support will potentially make future
PHP code more interoperable without having to write
Artificial_Namespace_Class, like ZF and PEAR do.
Yes, each request is handled by its own process. This might sound weird if you're used to other languages, but it's how every language used to work in the good ol' CGI days. PHP doesn't break backward compatibility easily, and I don't think it will ever break this one. Besides, once you get the hang of it, PHP's execution model is highly intuitive and beginner-friendly. You simply don't have to worry about a whole class of concurrency-related problems. Those problems are solved in C, not PHP.

Nowadays everyone uses PHP-FPM (again, written in C) which manages a pool of processes. Once a process is done serving a request, it is cleaned up and becomes available for serving another request. You can tweak the number of processes to control how much concurrency you want, or leave it to PHP-FPM to decide on its own. The process pool is much more efficient than the CGI method of setting up and tearing down a process every time, while preserving much of the conceptual simplicity.

PHP has had a built-in HTTP server since 5.4, but few people use it in production because PHP-FPM is so stable and performant.
I wonder what makes the Symfony Demo App not being faster with the JIT compiler (as shown on https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php and https://susi.dev/php8-benchmark-jit-symfony).

Maybe because Symfony already caches things very efficiently/cleverly with OPCache?
Yeah but it makes german carmakers looks good - in fact we are back to square one: guzzlers and high polluting engines.
That part could be useful [...]

Well, then by application of your name, it should be useful for any number of characters. They're not random -- they spell out a word you would like not to match.

I'm not sure what you mean with "predictable". Are you referring to readability of the expression? I totally give you that... which kinda was my whole argument to begin with.
All life on Earth today is the result of the uninterrupted division of maybe a single cell over 3+ billion years so there does not seem to be a limit to this process but perhaps the limit is that mutations occur and thus cell lines diverge, which ends up being a problem in an organism.
> FrontPage was a nightmare.

Wix is a nightmare.
Stunned that a Ring doorbell doesn't have a fallback mode that at least "Rings" the bell. I wonder if that's a deliberate design, or some oversight/side-effect that happened after V1.
and compared to others like AMD and NVIDIA, Google’s share of chips is negligible
I got spoiled by PHP as my first language. It was so easy to get going. I was surprised to learn that other languages didn't work the same way, when integrating into a web server. Also it has always been rock solid. A bug in my code brought down only that request for that user, totally did not affect or even slow down responses to other users.

People have attacked its syntax forever. I avoided the worst of it by learning PHP around version 4, when it was moving away from magic quotes and register globals --- and I also had the sense to see that those were unwanted anyway. But I think the main reason that PHP hasn't bothered me is that I try to use it as little as possible. Let me explain.

I consider PHP a glue language, between my database and the user's browser. When you use a lot of glue, things get messy. I try to push things out of the middle layer to the edges, if they will fit. So I try to do a lot of data preparation in the database, through fancy queries, so that the data is mostly ready for the HTML template by the time it is received by PHP. It helps that my database is Postgres. For authentication, I try to lean on Apache, so that PHP would just have to consult the CGI variable REMOTE_USER. So PHP acts sort of like an extension language to Apache (even when I'm using PHP-FPM instead of mod_php). It takes the data from the database and wraps it in HTML. It takes the form submission from the user and hands it to the database (and most server-side data validation is in the database).

The people attacking its syntax sound like they are writing an awful lot of PHP per app. And maybe for some things you have to, but not for CRUD apps, I think. I try to keep the middle layer as thin as possible, and I would do that whether it was PHP, Python, or Perl.
India import hurdles hit Apple iPhone, Xiaomi devices from China, say sources
That is not a problem with PHP itself, but the way that Apache/Nginx operates PHP. However, if you want to go full PHP, there is this extension that is pretty amazing (has a built-in server on it and more): https://www.swoole.co.uk/

ps: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src/issues/1401 some performances benchmark (they compare it even with golang)
Aside:

In the age of cell phones - is the old adage of 4am calls a dying thing?

Speaking for myself I can remember when that was a thing and now that you mention it, it’s no longer a thing because my phone is on silent all the time.

What’s counterintuitive is that in the age of instant access to everyone, always connected living, it’s significantly more difficult to get my attention at 4am than it used to be.

Same for everyone else?
>Perl will go about it the exact same way.

No, Perl is completely different and IMO it's the only mainstream dynamically typed language that has sane comparison operators.

Perl has two sets of operators, numeric (==, +, *, <, >, <=> etc.) and stringwise (eq, ., lt, gt, cmp etc.). You can think of them as explicit (but concise) casts. For example, Perl's $foo eq $bar is roughly equivalent to Python's str(foo) == str(bar).

It is true that "foobar" == 0 returns true in Perl but, as I showed above, it does that for a completely different reason.
Says it right here:

"A phalanx of retired generals and admirals stood behind Mr. Obama on the second day of his presidency, providing martial cover as he signed several executive orders to make good on campaign pledges. Brutal interrogation techniques were banned, he declared. And the prison at Guantánamo Bay would be closed.

What the new president did not say was that the orders contained a few subtle loopholes. "

And indeed, the loophole was, Obama changed the definition of enemy combatant to mean 'if its a military aged male in the drone crosshairs, its a combatant (EKIA) - until proven otherwise'. i.e. the exact opposite of 'innocent until proven guilty'.

I suggest you catch up by reading "The Drone Papers", in case you haven't already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_Papers

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

Pay particular attention to the definition of the term "EKIA".

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hind...

This happened under Obama's watch.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/opinion/2012-05-29/ana...
From whom?

Imagine how much better the world would be if we harvested your orgnans and gave them to a dozen people who would die without them. Yes it might be bad for you personally, like the author who starves, but think of the bigger picture.
One of the things that amuses me most is ex-FAANG engineers who are absolutely stymied when they don't have access to the tools and support systems available at their former employers. They've never had to deal with some of the very rough systems the rest of us deal with on a daily basis just to make the business run.

Hubris runs rampant in the ex-FAANG crowd, and businesses who aren't tech companies who hire these folks do so precisely because they don't understand that what worked at ex-FAANG won't necessarily translate to their business.
WordPress needs setup, maintenance, monthly fee.

Sites I used to make with FrontPage ended up being static, no maintenance, on a free - usually ISP - provider.

That is the big difference.
Then I agree of course!
Oh no you have to pay for it!

It’s free for lots of use cases including basic commercial use and is open source.
I think that's exactly what they did. The video is up on youtube from DConf 2017/8 IIRC.
This is pathetic. Honestly I’d be embarrassed if my company published this.
I never want to get within a mile of a wordpress website after reading this.
Would be nice if there was an axis on there for broadband speed. I pay $70/month for 1Gbps synchronous (Google Fiber); if you could get that for $20/month in another country that would be a fitting comparison but since "broadband" isn't defined the list is not as meaningful.
You really think that the difference between EV and gazoline is big enough that you could upgrade from an apartment to a house?

And let's not forget that a whole society living in single housing is a lot less eco-friendly than someone living in an apartment in a dense city and being able to do a lot of errands walking. Transportation emissions is not the only eco-impact, there's a lot that goes into housing and non efficient use of land.
Organisational structures to create autonomy: what I've learned from my daughter
Newsom Be Worried – Petition Recall Broken the Halfway Point at 750K Signatures
Can you share what server this was (here or in chat.zulip.org)? Essentially every bit of feedback we get on performance is that Zulip is much snappier than Slack.

Given that you mention a big public server, it's likely caused by an issue specifically related to that server's scale/usage patterns, and I'd like to make sure we investigate it.
>Are you referring to https://github.com/oriansj/stage0?

Yep, that's the one.

>More generally each language would need it’s own path from this basic assembler to a compiler implementing that language in C which doesn’t necessarily exist. While initial versions of the Rust compiler were written in C, more recent versions are self hosted and rely on the previous version. This goes for projects like LLVM too since it requires a c++14 compiler to start with.

Sure. This part has largely been done for many languages, including Rust: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

...and there's a bootstrap path for the bottom of that graph all the way from Guix's (fairly minimal but not quite stage0 yet) bootstrap binaries. LLVM too; since you mentioned it and I was curious, here's the dependency graph of LLVM 9.0.1 on my system, in GraphViz and PDF formats:

https://terracrypt.net/upload/llvm.pdf https://terracrypt.net/upload/llvm.dot

(That's from `guix graph -t bag-with-origins llvm@9.0.1` on my laptop.)

It's my understanding that being bootstrappable in this way is a requirement for being included in upstream Guix, so generally everything that's available in Guix can be bootstrapped like this.

Now, what's not done yet is the path from stage0 to building the bootstrap binaries, but that's the eventual goal. The rest of it? It's not futile, it's done. Not all software is in Guix, but enough of it is that I'm typing this from a laptop running almost exclusively software from Guix.
And if i may note, also a host of weird bugs and limitations that require you to own an apple device to debug and work around them.

Safari is the closest you'll get to IE6 for todays web designer. (although clearly not as bad, if you look over the hardware lock in)
> I would not expect a trip on the highway without traffic to be better at all with a hybrid car than with a gasoline car.

Hybrid systems allow the gas engine to (essentially) always run at its ideal speed if it is running at all, storing extra energy when less is needed and drawing power from the battery when more is needed. On an idealized highway drive, with cruising speed at exactly the pure gas car engine’s ideal speed, with no variations due to turns, hills, traffic, etc., this is no benefit, but real highway driving tends to differ from this ideal enough that hybrid cars have benefits even in freeway driving.
odds are that diesel x5 2l engine might pollute less than a 3l “hybrid”. the engines are usually larger on so called brids so they can carry all that dead weight.
This is a large part of the problem if you ask me.

I did some research a few years back into (somewhat unrelated) process management practices. What kinda stood out to me is that in the 50s-60s many businesses transformed their leadership. They went from having engineers that grow into their leadership positions to having dedicated managers. With business degrees.

Just speculation, but I feel this shift in management culture coincides with the loss of a lot of the technical production capabilities of the west. And is closely followed by the money-grab culture.
I second this. FrontPage was simple to used, produced ugly, but static and fast sites, everyone was happy. Wix is a monster to use, and it spits CPU eating offsprings.
> when you trade in an old car.

nitpick. there are two programs. "rabla plus", the 9300 euro one, applies regardless. you can receive an additional 1300 euros through the "rabla" program if you trade in a car (which will be discarded to the junk yard). this second subsidy applies to any new car purchase.
>parser (decidable! easily-analyzable memory bounds!),

Hahaha, you wish. Sure there are languages that are simple to parse, but they are that way by construction. Parsing arbitrary grammars is hard to impossible depending on how general your class of grammars is.
Did it php use to do that? Otherwise your point is invalid.
Why did the one researcher have access to the usernames and passwords of other people?
That aside from the lack of data annonymation etc...
I don't really like PHP, but it pays my bills. There are some big improvements in this release. Named arguments and actual attributes (instead of special tags in comments) are really nice.
He seems to be a thinker and philosopher who uses Emacs extensively to write and organize his thougts, and he is willing to share his learnings in excellently made videos. Btw: He seems to be an excellent Lisp hacker as well.
if you are poor and cannot afford anything then yes, you go bankrupt and good luck with getting a credit for an icecream.

But otherwise you use bankruptcy as a bargain card.
Because nither side wants to go there.
The point is more like "we better be sure of the scale of the issue before that is communicated publicly and low level dev's on individual teams do not have that 10000 foot view of the system".

You have all the power you need to make the company change its behavior. Vote with your dollar and move to a different platform. I'm sure you have recommendations to share.
I still love you PHP
This. So much this.

I've posted projects several times and they have gone unnoticed until I posted them the 2nd or 3rd (or even Nth via friends) time.

Forums like this for hackers really need to give some additional ranking weight to "I put hard work and hacked together this" vs. the piles and piles of just links to news articles.

Maybe Show HN should just be a separate section on the front page itself; few people click into the other tabs (I don't).
> does not infringe on the copyright of the original source streams

Unless you're getting the raw video stream from all the cameras, it'll be transformed through the producer and director's creative control and that, I suspect, would block you from doing this - it's not longer just "facts", it's a particular interpretation of those "facts" (cf bare recounting of historical events vs someone's book covering the same, I suppose.
Imagine comment on hacker news ngl
Your brain’s most important job isn’t thinking; it’s running the systems of your body to keep you alive and well.

I'll remind myself that from now on giving the fact I'm always feeling guilty for not doing too much thinking.
A usable, fast, resource efficient website output in the end.
Making impossible things impossible seems off. Type checking, by name, is just checking types. Akin to units checking.

That said, some things may be impossible at a piecemeal, but correct as whole. Easiest is really any system. The parts usually do not stand on their own. A gear without the bike is effectively impossible to use, but still correct, after all.
Oh, no question about Android being more secure from bad actors - there are most likely multiple parties that could be problematic (Google, device manufacturer, baseband manufacturer, network operator, etc.) while with Apple its just a single such entity.

What I meant is that on Android There is less being done to actively prevent their usage as a self hosting workstation (though some recent "security" changes communig from Google related to running code that does not come from an installed APK might be a reversal of that trend).
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Yes.

https://www.spacenews.com/u-k-to-revise-strategy-for-satelli...
The PHP doc advices you that the built-in server from PHP should be used only for development: https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.... But PHP-FPM is the most used nowadays, for sure.
What was it that substantially changed from the old air and the m1 air?

Seems to me that most workflows that work on the m1 air worked on the old air but at a bit lower performance. I don't get what work you did on the ipad pro that could not have worked on the old air unless they required the pencil or touchscreen which the m1 air does not have anyway, right?