skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you measure this improvement compared to Ruby? At least in Ruby/Rails case it's backed by Shopify, which isn't very far from being as big as Oracle (market cap wise). Shopify invests heavily into Rails and in Ruby. Other big companies are Stripe (Ruby only), Github etc. But Shopify is the big deal since it's becoming a FAANG stock as of late.
Now for sure PHP has a big following, good companies based on it (though Facebook kinda forked away from it afaik) and people contributing to it but I wouldn't be so quick to say it's improving better or faster.
They shouldn't have to, but there are several examples of where it's the software author who has take action in order to put a stop to it.

Not an Apple fanboy, but Safari is a great example of software which has changed its default behavior to prevent creepy things from happening.
Well yes, but it's not the only requirement. More important is that the market is competitive, i.e. that there is enough supply. And that is the dominating problem in most big cities, there are just not enough houses available.

Given a non properly functioning market due to lack of houses, it might be a good idea to introduce regulation to shift the consequences of the imbalance to those who can bear it the easiest.
Was there a large difference in the price of making a call from a mobile phone and the price of making a call from a land-line to a mobile phone?

How could the mobile phone radio station make money calling and playing music and ads to people who couldn't afford to make calls themselves?
You have linked to no scholarly papers, and the Wikipedia article seems to carefully avoid stating there is the consensus you claim.

Are you aware that there is no consensus in economics that rents are determined by the interaction between a determinate upwards-sloping supply curve, representing landlord's willingness to so many units at any given price, and a likewise downwards-sloping demand curve for renter's disposition? Many of the just-so stories about Econ 101 assume this is so.
> yet the only real job experience you list in your post is low level customer support

Devs are in the lucky position that you can obtain some aspects of 'real job experience' outside of a job. Create a project, or contribute to open source project in an area that interests you - it will hone your skills and give something concrete on your resume.

[edit] And make the projects very directed to the jobs you want to get, if security interests you try some hacker bounties - even documenting how you looked for exploits in a blog may be of use.
Note that DSLReports has a good web browser based speed test page at http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

I can tell you that AT&T uVerse definitely throttles this one. I get ~40mbps when I’m not on VPN, and when I am on VPN, I get 60-80mbps.

Same used to be true for fast.com and the corresponding web page, until Netflix recently decided they don’t like my VPN and so the Speedtest stopped running at all unless I was unprotected.

Seems to me like Netflix could run their own VPN or contract for VPN services through a carrier, so that we could still get to the same shows we’d watch anyway, while also being protected from an abusive carrier on our end.
Chromium, the engine google "stole" and branded their own is still fine.
That's more like the case with the Do Not Track header being defaulted to 1 in some browsers and many (most?) sites using that as an excuse to not honor it.
Lisp and the Web: Creating Web Apps Through Lisp and GCE
Outward in my mind is the best modern rpg in Elder Scolls style, and with that I mean a great focus on the atmosphere of the world that you walk around in and immerse yourself in. I played Morrowind as a teen with 5.1 sound and absolutely loved it, strong memory of going through that long valley into the northern desert area, immersive game.

Now Outward is a third person game made by an indie team, but the game has matured a bit now and they have released three DLCs. You got some factions, have to chose your build, cook food and sleep in the wilderness. And it has great outdoors areas that you are just gonna fall in love with, and really great music to go with the exploration. And the nature and creatures in the game actually reminds you of Morrowind. A real gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8fSxg7cEs&ab_channel=Play4...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0vqPnbQPc&ab_channel=PlayS...
Any stats on performance?
Ok, I agree that it is plausible that eventually more than 8 bits will be used. But in that case, the users will likely change their cohorts at a much higher rate, which will make them less useful for tracking.

> someone can belong to more than 1 cohort

I'm pretty sure you will only belong to one cohort at a time. Otherwise it would defeat the purpose of this change. It seems like k-anonymity is an express goal of FLoC.
That's spot on from the advice.

I'll add that OP — Your biggest issue seems to be extremely high intelligence, paired with a lack of empathy and social functioning, which created a self-expectation of massive grandiosity. But you keep failing to deliver on it because you can't get your highly powered brain on the streets, leading in self-pity and depression. Not good, but salvageable.

How do I know? My life story reads basically like yours into my late twenties — multiple college dropout, extremely high ambitions, always failed.

The only difference is that I started that low level support job in a company small enough that somebody saw my talent and got me on the path to second level tech support and then engineering as I continued automating my job away.

Had to chuckle as I pissed off quite a lot of people higher up in that job early on myself, but fortunately had a few people reflecting me instead of firing me, which made me understand how I made other people look and feel by my actions.

The good news: Empathy is a learneable skill. Aim far lower in a smaller, young and growing (!) company with good potential — but especially with a great boss. Then work hard, SHUT UP your smartass mouth for a year and work your way up while learning what's holding you back with the help of a good coach/therapist. When you apply with the company, read everything you can about what they do and make it about them.

Stop trying to impress. For that year, just focus on staying super humble and in the background, learning how value is created for that company and then go on creating that value even if nobody asked you to. Just for a year. Up your ante slowly and only when you feel you have established personal trust and leverage.

Empathy a skill where intelligence won't support you but be in your way because of your natural tendency of you showing it off. That makes people feel dumb, and nobody likes to feel like that. Also, some actions like you skipping line management will make them feel they can't rely on you on top. You'll keep failing if people keep hating working with you.

Your goal is to find a great manager first and make them look great. And then talk about that. Be the solution guy, not the problem guy. Be the one who goes the extra mile to bring a small win home, not the one who makes the snarkiest comment.

You'll never be a "normal" person, but that's ok. Having a sharp profile comes with its own set of (dis)advantages. You can be high functioning if you surround yourself with capable people who know how to work with your weaknesses in order to leverage your strenghts.

Your job is finding them, as you'll fail alone.
Why would it never be again? The ingredients to making good topsoil aren't a mystery. The topsoil can be fixed.
This is huge. Citi did this with Japan retail operations a few years back. But this scale is... large.
I guess I'm unusual - I check hashes of manually downloaded files if the domain I'm downloading from isn't the same as the domain with the download link. It only takes 5 seconds, and saves me from partial downloads too (you'd be amazed how many files kinda-almost work but have odd bugs if half downloaded)
This is the kind of comment that I come to hn for. Bravo.
I always thought that creating and maintaining a network was part of the hustle. And to a certain (unhealthy) extent, relationships.
Their own ad system which does not track users. An important difference.
How does that compare ? One situation is trying to present yourself to a potential employer the other is low effort anonymous forum board - if you're approaching them the same either you're spending too much effort on forums or too little on your CV :)
Author: I wanted to consolidate some of the steps I did to get the basic functionality for Common Lisp web applications (CRUD, User Authentication, Domains, etc.) as its a big pain to keep revisiting and troubleshooting which step I did wrong.

So I saved these notes in guide form, hopefully its useful for others. The trick is to extend a lot of this, all the hard parts are here - the rest is just basic Lisp, HTML, JavaScript, building upon this platform.

Highly recommend Lisp for Web Development, its *much, much better* than any of the other frameworks out there! So easy to use. Do learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript though. Esp. JavaScript as you would want to offload some of the computation to client-side to reduce your server costs.

Big Thanks to u/linnilbobo on Reddit for his code on user authentication in Hunchentoot - that was one of the missing pieces for me.
Good luck telling users apart from Chromium which is fine and Chrome which is a rip off and filled with shit
Maybe a Linux VM as the Docker host?
I spent almost 2hrs with snakedoctor this evening. He's a smart young man who just needs some pointers and advice as he doesn't really have anyone around him who has experience of landing and keeping a job in tech.
> While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful.

FLoC, AMP, ... With Chrome, Google is hijacking the web in a more cunning way than Microsoft and IE. The revolt against that needs to happen now. When Firefox is dead, it will be too late...
Why would Apache include the Permission-Policy header when they previously chose to ignore the "Do Not Track" header?
There is no way to always enable location without WiFi scanning or other secondary options also getting enabled in Android
I can.

And almost without exception, those were relevant ads, not targeted.

Relevant like getting a coupon code for digital ocean storage credits below an article on how to run your own IPFS host.

Or relevant like getting an offer for pizzafriday on the 'where to eat' information section of a campsite in some unfamiliar city.
If you cant have kids, and you have done research on that topic, You then get targeted with products for children.

Its a fucking horrible thing to do to someone, Even if you try to opt out of family and that type of topic you still get them.
Making money without using electricity? I suppose that’s not impossible, but it sounds unlikely at any appreciable scale.
I am a fan of ASP.NET MVC. But honestly if you've used one MVC framework you've kind of used them all.
Political tags are explicitly banned from the FLoC tagging data which identifies locally your 'secular', a-political preferences.

in contrast to that Facebook can identify you as LGBT+ today based off your likes and dislikes and shares.

https://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1036
The arguments for IP (and intangible personal property more generally) are the same as for property in general: giving those who take action which produces value exclusive rights in the value producing thing promotes development of value which benefits the community.

That’s not to say I don’t understand the arguments for generally more limited property rights, but I find right-libertarian, generally property-rights-maximalists, arguing against IP to be…well, not actually surprising given that that faction generally has a fairly arbitrary deontological [0] conception of property rights.

[0] That is, the specific parameters of property rights are fairly directly axiomatic rather than something rationally grounded in a simpler set of general principles.
It's not about ads.

It's all about some random company building a detailed file on your person.

If you have trouble understanding it's an issue, imagine all physical businesses - restaurants, shops, taxis, barber shops, hospitals, postal service - recording all your visits, mugshots and all, and forwarding them to Moms Friendly Robots company, which knows exactly what you eat, shit, like to fuck and generally predisposed to do. They also sell this info to others, but that's really secondary.

What you are missing is that FLoC is basically a different vaseline flavor and you preferring it over the original is the biggest issue of it all - that, shokingly, you are OK with the rape to begin with.
I never had ads on my Wordpress blog. It loads fast and does not track you (not even Jetpack is installed), only embedded YT videos probably do.

Instead of trying to make money on ads, I simply ask readers to contribute to an open account, or buy some books of mine.

It works well, does not annoy people and there is zero dependence on major ad providers that might drop you one day without explanation (because you published something that offended their sensibilities or for any other cryptic reason).
I see where you are going and OP's overly emotive language damaged the credibility of his point.

However not all technology/engineering is neutral even compared to other technology.

For example I made the decision years ago that there are some lines I won't cross for software development - one of them been gambling systems (even though they are quite lucrative) - (Note: I'm not saying they should be banned (that is not for me to say)) because morally I can't see an acceptable use that outweighs the bad.

Same with weapons systems (though of course one mans freedom fighter is anothers terrorist).
Laravel did release major versions every 6 months in the past. The changes have not been much and https://laravelshift.com is able to it automatically.
They‘ve now changed to yearly major releases because not everyone is able to upgrade every 6 months.
Steven Levitt, Walter Block, and The Economist magazine are hardly representative of the full diversity of opinions of professional economists. You have one economist who spends his time moonlighting dubiously in a variety of fields he has no expertise in, one famous anti-government ideologue who works at a corporate-funded think tank (example quotation: "there is a presumption that all government employees are indeed guilty of a crime against humanity. This presumption can of course be rebutted in any number of ways, but, given that the unjust government is an organized institutional machine of aggression and initiatory violence, there is no doubt that any serious libertarian analysis ought to start out with this presumption as its basic premise"), and one center-right pro-free-market magazine written with no bylines by overconfident 20-something Oxbridge grads with limited life experience and limited subject-matter expertise.
The reasonable person adapts to the world around them. The unreasonable person makes the world adapt to them.

Therefore all change is dependent upon the unreasonable person.

The world does not change for reasonable people.
Your examples refer to tools that are being misused, whereas weapons or tracking software is a negative for humanity precisely when they're working as intended
But the 100/month is 1200/year, and the 100K-170K is before taxes, right? How much is that after taxes? Is there sales tax on that 100/month? Internet access seems to be a significant part of that disposable income?
I think it is a good outcome too. If people really want relevant and targeted ads, they will opt-in to no-DNT and yes-FLoC. The fact that people don't, and that websites don't honor DNT, reveal their lies and hypocrisy.
Have you tried agency work? There are places where they just need hands on keyboards doing web front end for example, and the barrier to entry is not so high. Might not be glamorous, and can be a grind, but it's a decent entry point into the industry.

Open source might be another good avenue. I've hired for 8 technical roles over the past year, and one of the "requirements" we would have for going forward to the interview stage, would be that the candidate has 1) worked on software that people actually use, and 2) has done it in a team/collaborative setting. It sounds like you have done a lot of interesting projects, but doing something that just has to work for yourself has a very different set of constraints than building something in a team for someone else.

Since you've done linux admin, DevOps might be another good route. Getting AWS/GCP certification is not that difficult, and would add to your profile a bit of confidence that you have some experience and knowledge about industry standards.

It sounds like you've done a lot of interesting, creative projects, and there's one role we hired last year honestly you would have been a good candidate for as a lab support engineer. But the thing you have to understand is that hiring managers generally are not looking for "interesting" candidates. In a perfect world we would, but in a hiring process, you may be bombarded by dozens or hundreds of CVs, and you have to filter that down to a hand-full of candidates who you are going to interview. So the first round of filtering is just to weed out anyone who is potentially high risk of not working out. If you have to teach someone how to work in a professional environment for the first time, that carries risk, so at least you want to see some markers that this person understands how professional software development works and will fit into this environment.

Or, you can make friends with people in the industry, and get a referral.

Or, you can work on something interesting enough to get some widespread attention, and then hiring managers will call you.
Because users want to? I would like to think Apache httpd project listens to their users.
Take a look at https://cgsql.dev/. It's supposed to be a lightweight and strict type-checked data layer on top of sqlite.
Just like those things? That sounds like a stretch. As far as I can tell, we’re talking about the externalities of the energy usage of Bitcoin miners, which are the same per unit of energy (given some generation method) as any other usage of energy. That’s not even remotely comparable to activities that directly earn money by stealing or getting people addicted.
You can ask the same for any language, not only PHP:

- Why would anyone want to start something new with Ruby?

- Why would anyone want to start something new with Elixir?

You can choose any reason to pick a language, do you want a language with a lot of demand in the job market, learn Javascript, you will see a lot of frontend open positions, even more React open positions if you want to specialize in something.

Do you want a lively developer community, choose any language, I learned Java, PHP, Javascript and Ruby and all of them always had helpful people and a lot of courses to help me learn and try to code with good practices.

Answering the question seriously (assuming this is not trolling) here are some reasons to start something new with PHP in 2021:

1. Learning PHP 8 and a popular framework like Laravel will make easier to get a job on some small and medium companies. In the last job I had in a consulting firm, customers were asking for more Laravel developers to the point they accepted outsourcing because there was not enough talented Laravel developers in the US to cover the demand. There are thousands of bad PHP and Laravel developers, but there is not enough supply of good ones, so if you are talented and follow best practices, choosing PHP will make you shine between all those average developers.

2. I probably won't develop anything new with PHP 8 this year, but there are a lot of existing libraries and frameworks (Laravel and Symfony for example) that will benefit from implementing the new features of the language (reducing mess or making code more concise and readable). For the end user of those libraries and frameworks, very little will change since the interfaces don't change too much in order to allow backwards compatibility, so the existing ecosystem is a great reason to use PHP.
The growth in supply would not slow - in Bitcoin every two weeks you have a rebalancing of difficulty, so if miners have less hashing power the difficulty of producing each block gets lowered to keep the supply stable.
Hacks language is better, nobody will deny it. But outside of facebook there is barely no community, not many big open source projects. And as the language is now incompatible you even may not be able to use php libraries.
Smaller and better smartphone cameras are on the way
Not extensively; rather, I had to pay attention to the limitations that a particular context enforces.

It's definitely a fresh feature, iirc rolled out last winter.
https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/82

>During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page load ads or ads-related resources.

Who's to say how this evolves in the future?
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Excellent. We all know how well prohibition works.
I also like the paper by Marko Rodriguez that explains quantum random walks using the Gremlin graph database language:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06278 [pdf]

https://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/quantum-processes-in-gra...
If cohort profile is stored locally, why simply not spoof it ?
So, I’m curious — does anyone know of people (or even a single person) who has actually tested the masks from the shopmask.com site? Can they actually deliver anything? Do any of the masks actually work?
Microsoft Edge Canary for Android
Yes, before the shortage. They can double down.
> "you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is", which doesn't really prove anything.

Are you wanting proof for how it is harmful?

One possibility is that with a FLoC and a few other details, you can be fingerprinted as an individual not a cohort. So it's not effective at anonymizing the data advertisers are tracking from you.
People who I have seen hiring definitely read resume prior interview. They did not necessary asked about it directly.
Another meme covering an (at least slightly) overlapping set of guidelines/ideas is "humane technology". Not saying it's the same thing as what all of you mean, but we shouldn't forget that our tools impact non-users as well (i.e. people who never used Uber feel its impact still).

https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are