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People conspire all the time, so there's bound to be conspiracy theories that are true. I think it's telling that the author uses the moon landing as an example, which to me seems to be among the least likely (but somewhat popular) theories. All credible evidence points to the moon landing actually happening, making it a good candidate for this study. Simply labeling that "endorse conspiracy theories" is a bit thoughtless though.
this is anti-dating advice.
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I don't care about the negativity around PHP (often from JS developers, which has its own quirks and pitfalls).

PHP is a language that gets stuff done, and if you're a good PHP developer, you can put together some beautiful code with a language that many people consider ugly.

I'm sticking with PHP for the foreseeable future. As far as my use cases are concerned, it's a brilliant tool for the job.
You are right, but i suspect for many people it will be this line of thinking.
> And part of that is making sure that wealth is being distributed with the health of society in mind, rather than individual happiness at the top :)

Making sure it will happen will kill it. You have to have the right mechanisms in place to encourage it, and it may happen.
(OMG I somehow edited this sentence so many times I dropped a "not": I am not a fan of auto-formatting ;P.)
>I'm sure businesses get a discount

Not as large as some may expect once you factor in power delivery guarantee and redundancy. But basically yes. Every single HyperScaler has been pointing out electricity as one of their largest item on their TCO, 2nd only to hardware cost.
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So given all this research you've done, I have a couple of follow-up questions:

What is appropriate punishment for these transgressions, and how long should a person continue to be punished for them? Five years? Ten years? Twenty years? The rest of his life?

More importantly, what does it have to do with the paper, which, again, was not authored by Eich, nor mentions him?

I say this as someone who supports the right to marriage for everyone, and am still myself in one of the excluded groups as far as legal marriage is concerned.
On that note, the only reason I bought a plug-in prius prime, as opposed to the ordinary prius, is because incentives brought it down to a comparable price point.

As it happens, when I was purchasing I was a renter with no stable charging situation. I was buying a car so I could go to open houses and shop for a condo/house. I ended up buying a condo with a small driveway (for which I installed an EVSE), but most of the units in the city don't even have that possibility.

Hence, originally I had no intention of buying the plug-in model. I only got it because it was roughly the same price after incentives, and I'm thankful it worked out this way because now I charge it regularly and my day-to-day in-city trips are all electric.
liveview is great and Elixir is really nice lang.
I think he's almost flaunting it - but there's real value in the concept. One thing I have realized is that "was I stupid to do this" feeling has something to it. Like being laughed at by my colleagues because I was carrying a "Programming Python" book in ~2008, when Java was the rage. Like buying that odd exercise equipment on eBay, which felt really stupid, and then it's been my desk-side companion over the last 18 pandemic months. Stupid is sticking your neck out, stepping out of the herd and being alone. Like me leaving an established metro and buying a house online in a smaller town (never having seen in person) - and it turning into an amazing home, a cheaper, popular destination in the covid-migration, getting amazing neighbors - leaving some friends behind, and maybe paying covid-prices (those still feel a bit stupid).

Being in that 'good stupid' state makes you initially acutely uncomfortable (once the decision sinks in), but later on it proves to be not so stupid, in fact the best thing you could have done. 'Ignorance is bliss' may be related. Lots of 'stupid' simple minded people have come out well in life.

But often times stupid is real stupid and lands you in trouble - we all know that side of the equation - now maybe even that has a reward to it - in terms of the lesson learnt.
Split one apple into two halves and feed two horses with that.
Its not about more/less evil and ranking, its a simple question of would you refuse to work for X.

I've been approached by FB recruiters, or their bots probably, and simply ignore them. The way I determine a gut reaction answer to "would you work for X?" is how you would feel answering when someone asks what you do for a living. I'd feel queasy saying I worked for FB because I feel that they indirectly cause massive harm to society for profits.
I'd totally dig having a couple extra eyes giving me the vision of a mantis shrimp.
I haven’t read through this version of SICP, but if someone has, how does it cover things like macros (or, does it)? You can kind of get there with tools but it’s not built into the language (meta programming in general isn’t, except for newer things like Proxy and Reflect) so I’m curious how it covers this and related topics.
> To suggest that there's equally distributed chance, ability and responsibility is perverse; it flies in the face of reality.

I didn't suggest that. And if I did, it wouldn't be perverse.
Walter Benn Michaels' the Trouble with Diversity. (2006)
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Microsoft should just release a $149 Software upgrade for Xbox S/X that allows/requires full mouse+keyboard UI and access to Windows store apps (Windows store would probably need to be cleaned up and properly curated), Edge browser, plus printing support.

Then in a few years they could also release a portable version of the S, with a battery, 15.6" 1080p 75hz screen, and a few hours of battery life. If you reduce the size of the cooling system in the S (possible with 5nm), and have an external PSU, this is definitely possible.

Full Windows is basically overkill for the average consumer.
It's a perfectly fine question. A lot of nonfiction books contain their authors' pet theories, along with a bunch of anecdotes and handwaving to make them seem justifiable or even scientific. Some of them quote "scientific" research from fields like psychology - but that research itself is hardly scientific (hence recent replication crisis) and is also used out of context in the book.

As for the question if these books add value - they certainly provide entertainment for the reader, but they may also warp his view of the world (if the reader is not careful, they may become convinced that the book's thesis is true even if the evidence/ancedotes laid out are hardly conclusive).
As you once did the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes!
It seems reasonable to me; maybe I'm not modeling "most people" well, but it's hard to imagine someone going to dealerships multiple times for information; rather, they are shopping around for the dealerships to underbid each other so they can get a better price. That's a tip I read on the internet.
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Can't say that I'm enthusiastic about goto advice, but - for a second there, I thought the domain was bejeez.us :-P
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Makes me wonder what his reason was for wanting the computer that came in the smallest box.
I used an AI summarizer to summarize it for you... is this useful?!

Could they be the modern equivalent of ancient alchemists? And would it be such a bad thing if they turned our lives into gold-plated jumble? Yann LeCun is co-recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for his work on neural networks. He argues that AI research is just a necessary adolescent phase characterized by trial and error, confusion, overconfidence and a lack of overall understanding. We have nothing to fear and much to gain from embracing this approach.

Alchemy is considered to have been a useful precursor to modern chemistry, more proto-science than hocus-pocus. We could enter a golden age of modern-day alchemy, in the best sense of the word, but we should never forget cautionary lessons of history.
So you think testing distributed systems is easier than behavior among different web browsers? Are you up for hire? /s
That's more complicated than it might seem at first glance.

AIUI, the modification to the pig was "just" "let's remove the genes that result in this one sugar that lots of animals but not some apes and humans have" (which is also the thing that you develop an allergy to if you're bitten by the Lone Star tick, incidentally), not "let's stick a bunch of human genes in", so _these_ organs wouldn't have much tinge for cannibalism unless you ate them post-transplant. (This article doesn't, but another one mentions one of the original intended use cases for the GalSafe pigs _is_ for eating, including by people who have the Alpha-Gal allergy.)

They're _also_ working on pigs with one or more human genes spliced in for better compatibility, but that's not these.
In practice, what is happening here is that people in certain governments are trying to corner the intelligence/surveillance market. To get the capabilities you'll have to go through them, or at least their anointed vendors. So, just like F35 planes and MRAPs, you can get them if you interface with the right interests.
Or it is an unwillingness to be vulnerable to the entire internet. Why? Probably fear of being misinterpreted and pilloried by strangers.

It is a justifiable fear. For example, it is easy for people to interpret an imperfect amount of courage as "humble-bragging".
Quite a lot of languages use ! or ? as a letter. For example in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Indigenous_langu...
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After taking a break for a year or two, I returned to what I loved to do before: Writing software for myself to use and enjoy and to share with others, taking the time to think it through, do it right without cutting corners, and enjoy and rejoice in the gift of the process.
Why post this now? There’s enough contemporary divisive content about diversity to post to HN.

In the past 24 hours you've posted the following.

* Walter Benn Michaels' the Trouble with Diversity. (2006)

* Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter (wsj.com)

* Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job (2017) (thecut.com)

* [flagged] [dead] The Miseducation of America’s Elites (city-journal.org)

* Criticizing cancel culture as a ′woke′ author (dw.com)

All the divisive stories are making HN a worse place.
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> Everything you say is also true for Java or Kotlin

Uhh no. Getting a local dev environment set up for PHP is much much easier.

Writing your first line of code and seeing things run in a browser is much much easier.

Uploading a single standalone PHP file you wrote to your 5$ webhost via SFTP, with _no other work required_ and just seeing your code run on your website? Show me how to do that exact thing in almost any other web programming language. You can't.

No one said PHP was perfect, and I'm not here to defend all the problems, but to compare PHP's almost universal accessibility and ease of use (which is why it is so popular) to something like Java or C# is ridiculous.
>the server market was relatively slow to adopt Zen.

Is this finally an accepted truth now? I have been banging on about it for years that AMD are not doing good enough on Server. They will still gain a little more market share with Zen 4, but now Intel is coming back. The perfect opportunity windows is closing down.
See [1], figure 1 there is a fairly typical data center costs breakdown at the highest level for TCO. Total energy is by far the lowest, at around 10-15%. Site infrastructure, IT infrastructure, and staff are the real cost priorities.

There's a caveat to that in the planning phase of a data center: A lot of the site infrastructure costs are a function of the total power requirement. So if - when building out a data center - you can get more power efficiency, then that does translate to a significant cost savings.

Cooling tends to be somewhere between a 20 and 60% add on to the direct power consumption of a server.

1: https://www.missioncriticalmagazine.com/ext/resources/MC/Home/Files/PDFs/(TUI3011B)SimpleModelDetermingTrueTCO.pdf
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> In 2015, Uber founder Travis Kalanick gave a TED talk in which he vowed the new rideshare business model would get “more people into fewer cars,” dramatically reduce air pollution and, as he put it, “reclaim our cities today.”

At the risk of sounding too skeptical but these are the kind of quotes dreamed up by the marketing department. The kind of quotes that have no connection to the actual mission of a company. There is probably no KPI anywhere to be found within Uber that says: "Traffic reduced %".

Even worse these quotes are often all based on "gut feeling" and "well sounds logical" kind of emotions with no factual basis whatsoever. Which probably isn't a surprise since it's marketings task to handle emotion.
Are these seriously the quality of comments we are happy with on Hackernews these days?
That still doesn't justify the hostile interpretation of the original comment. You could've phrased it differently...

Anyway, even if it is that line of thinking, I can totally see how people would see some sort of boundary between "food" and "can be put into my body". I don't see it that way myself, but I understand why people might, and it's their prerogative to decline such a transplant. I wouldn't accept it as an argument against making it a legal procedure though.
Trump to launch social media platform to compete with Twitter and Facebook
For finance or something else?
...Cultured Meat?
> I don't think there's anything fundamentally evil with FB or Zuckerberg. It's just that social networks pose a lot of challenges.

Not necessarily evil but very, very morally objectionable. Inaction is also a decision, inaction on the face of mounting facts that your platform is damaging people is definitely borderline evil.

Not sure how you judge that, yeah, social networks pose a lot of challenges, a safe food supply is also a huge challenge (keeping quality from planting all the way to processing, storage and so on) and we don't accept food poisoning as "it's just a side-effect of posing a lot of challenges".
One thing that's massively changed, at least in my corner of the world (various bits of Europe) is that grandparents used to be much more involved in raising children. Nowadays, they are more commonly uninterested, living far away, or lack the past societal norm pressure. EDIT: Or are older, as they themselves had children later than past generations, and therefore less able to help.

Without that unpaid, keen, trustworthy workforce, raising children is much, much harder. You either have to rely on paid (very expensive), and variably-trustworthy professional childcare, or put something like 50-60 hours a week of childcare. I'm talking about everything other than normal working hours, where typically children are at school or nursery etc.

Soo... this extra pressure is enough I think to bust a marriage with children (it seems that parental separation rates are increasing, with or without marriage), or to put couples off having them in the first place - in which case the utility of a marriage in a secular world is much lower. In the UK for instance, next to none.
PHP has this "upload a file via ftp and run it via the browser" thing. If you are already familiar with HTML, the upgrade to PHP is an easy step.
I wonder how much of the difficulty was in performing the transplant itself, and how much was in justifying the procedure (i.e. working out the ethics).

There must be a lot of experimental procedures ruled out on ethical grounds because they are untested and therefore are too dangerous to be tested. How common is this type of Catch-22 situation, and how is the deadlock typically broken?
You can have standards of behavior. This site does. The problem is advertisers imposing their standards on everyone else on pain of demonetization.

It's not just certain websites anymore. The internet is no longer decentralized like it used to be. Independent communities are pretty much dead. Now everything is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, whatever. All of these are advertising companies and they regulate what you can and can't say there. Basically you can't say or do anything that offends these advertisers.

I'd rather have a free internet where I can witness the full spectrum of humanity, good and bad. Not what some company or even some government deems acceptable.
Eh, I wouldn't say that. They're similar in that they're low cost and were very early to embrace internet booking and such, but the quality of the product is quite good IME (whereas Ryanair is generally a considerably worse experience than legacy carriers, FlixBus is as good as or better than any legacy intercity bus networks I've used).

They also seem low on Ryanair arseholery; booking a Ryanair flight, you get the strong impression that Ryanair's business isn't actually flights, but selling extras and collecting fees when the traveler makes mistakes (someone who shows up for their 5 euro flight to London with a slightly oversized bag and having forgotten to print their boarding pass is likely to be paying an extra 50 euro or so, say).
The premise of insurance is that you pay more on average over time but remove very expensive tail events. Basically you pay the insurance company to reduce your risk.

If you are wealthy enough (and mentally prepared) to absorb tail events without much negative effect on your life, it can be perfectly rational to not insure damage to your car.
GitS did it first: it was mentioned in the manga (90s) and was adapted as part of season 1 of SAC (2002).

Also, it seems the overall idea isn’t new: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghost_in_the_Shell/comments/6msddc/...
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Conversely, with Java you quickly end up with e.g. enterprise application servers and you need dedicated people just to manage those.
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Better is highly subjective, especially in this case.

Also, why would you distinguish Java/Kotlin/C# as something different then PHP? Java/Kotlin/C#/PHP they all mean the same to me. They're programming languages..
Like any other tool in the arsenal of a programming language: when it best suits the task.
Is this a thing because we cannot grow human organs or because government prohibits that in developed countries? Perfect match is something grown from your own DNA. No risk of rejection, no need to drink immunosuppressants till end of life.
I don't know who this guy is but he certainly succeeded in looking stupid.
That is an assumption and it's not very productive to try and test it in this way.
Are you basing that on if they agree or disagree with forced vaccination? If disagreeing with forced vaccination is low intelligence, then I have Forest Gump level of intelligence.
> But, the more comfortable I got at being a beginner led to even faster learning. This attitude has spread through other parts of my life, even areas where I'm not a beginner, and has led to improvement across the board.

I think there's a ton of wisdom in this. You learn to learn by, surprise surprise, being a beginner at something. Exposing yourself to broad areas in which you're a total newb can teach patience (I've yet to learn basic carpentry because I am one of those people who hasn't got the patience to measure twice), too.

This is really insightful: being a beginner is going to teach you how to learn things, and that's a hugely transferable skill. (Besides, it's also really enjoyable.)
Since this article is about when to upgrade depending on your language, I'd like to know if there is a place with information about languages/ecosystems by "longevity", which could be time before you have to upgrade your language, time before you have to upgrade your packages, or something like that. Of course this would be a complex measure. For example, having to upgrade the language AND change code would be worse than having to upgrade the language and don't change code. Same thing for dependencies.

For example, Go has strong backwards compatibility guarantees, but the last supported versions is less than a year old (1.16.9). PHP's security support of 7.3 ends in a bit more than a month, for a total of 3 years of support. Node.js is a bit younger but will still have 3 years of support. Java 8 still has extended support until 2030 by Oracle. There are also things like, with PHP, you may just have to change the environment, but with Go, you would have to recompile the code.

Maybe this could be better expressed as a "maintenance cost" or "churn"? I often hear that "ecosystem X has a lot of churn", but often it's not really well justified. For example, frontend JS moves a lot, but backend JS seem to have been "stuck" on Express for quite some time, and Express itself seems stable, if a bit dated. Maybe that's because we only hear about people changing code, frameworks, best practices? I don't see a lot of articles like "my 5 years old codebase is pretty much the same as when I began", compared to "I switched from X to Y".
Ah, didn't expect the venerable Meletus to show up in the conversation today. How's the weather in Athens?

> sentenced to death because he was deliberately annoying people

I see you're still certain of Socrates' motives.

When you claimed he was 'corrupting the minds of the youth' and 'denying the gods of the city' you were simply repeating the charges laid at any philosopher who threatens the powers that be.

If anyone asks too many uncomfortable but honest questions these days, in some societies you will still be met with death, though here we have a milder but still harsh punishment known as 'deplatforming'.

But more to the point, if you are so certain of what you know, you could explain it and wouldn't find questions 'annoying'. Frustration justifies the case, because it means you really do know nothing but simply aren't honest enough to admit it.
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DC-3's burn leaded gasoline. Older piston aircraft like the DC-3 are why we can't simply ban leaded gasoline in aviation. There are just too many around in active use doing important things.
Yes, I personally think so. It's a difficult comparison because the effects of Facebook are not obvious physically, like e.g. tobacco is. That makes it even more dangerous because it seems safe. But the negative effects of mental health and misinformation (politics, health, etc) also indirectly kill people or make them miserable, it's just not a direct association that's easy to measure. These effects probably have a larger negative impact on the world overall than something simple with obvious effects like tobacco.
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> This. I haven't owned personal computer for 10 years now, always use laptop I get from work.

While a lot of folks do this, it’s such a terrible practice from your perspective (the company essentially owns your personal data) and the company’s (way higher risk). It’s not something I’d do, let alone brag about as if it’s a good thing, if I were you.
Now Trump is responsible for US abandoning Afghanistan?
He was certainly very annoying, but his crime was misleading the youth, making them distrust authority.
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"listing a bunch of great decisions you made that other people thought were stupid"
but then the act of depriving a being of a certain pattern of synapses that would make it immoral to harm is immoral in itself.
I'll admit I'm a little surprised to read that.

I'm not surprised that they don't give you the option to block multiple keywords at once.