skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ivermectin being cheap and widely available is really important here. Something like that- instead of a novel vaccine made with novel tech in very specific first world factories- is very attractive to cash strapped governments and public health systems.
Sure, if you had a magical fiat wand to make it happen, go for it.

The reality is, it won't happen, because average consumers don't care and the big producers and suppliers don't benefit from it at all- quite the opposite.

The apocryphal lessons of the betamax vs vhs wars seem to never be learned- no matter how elegant or technically superior something is, it is the "whole product" that matters.
Wow thanks for sharing this. Have always wanted to do this ever since I read the first blog on growing crystals [big time procrastination there]. Please share your experience and steps if any for other salts. I am super interested in the blue of Copper sulphate.
This is an interesting paper. There's a more "popular science" write up here:

https://theworld.org/stories/2019-01-31/european-colonizatio...

I wasn't a fan of the final line of the highlights:

> Humans contributed to Earth System changes before the Industrial Revolution

This feels like an attempt to wave a vaguely anthropogenic climate change denialist flag, not through actual denial, but "we've done stuff like this before".

What the paper calls "The Great Dying of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" represents the death of about 10% of the total human population on the planet at the time. I'm not sure this is what you want to be comparing things to if you have the goal of in any way downplaying what fossil fuel use has done over the last 100+ years.

Of course, that may not be their intent. Even so, "two notable earth system impacts come from the death of 10% of humans worldwide and the use of fossil fuels" doesn't strike me as in any way encouraging.
I’m going to try to offer a positive take from a non-PHP-fan perspective: yes it’s obvious both from vaguely checking in on the language’s progress and from the article’s presentation that PHP has made considerable strides. It’s impressive how much, over that time, it’s become less insular and much more readily adopted similar improvements to similar languages. The object over time, for example, more and more closely resembles TypeScript, and that’s a good thing.

I haven’t worked in PHP for I don’t know how many years, and I probably still have an unfair negative reaction to it. It has a strange cultural idiosyncrasy I find more limiting than anything about the language itself. But I’m happy to see it evolve and I’m happy to see it evolve alongside other technologies I work with more readily.
Hasura has this https://hasura.io/docs/latest/graphql/core/databases/postgre...
It would if both the TPM and the chip talking to it use keys signed by the manufacturer. Then they could both verify the public signatures.
Sure, a small minority of sites are partially written in python.
> Unfortunately, PGP and GnuPG implement different semantics, neither documents their semantics, and OpenPGP does not specify how a web of trust implementation should work.

Oof. So perhaps the lack of popularity of the WoT (for securing software supply chains, for example) is not solely due to the awkwardness of key-signing parties, or the user-unfriendliness of command-line tools.

> This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.

It's a pity it doesn't also comply with RFC 2223 Section 9, which requires that all RFCs contain a "Security Considerations" section[0]. In fact, the document only uses the word (pattern) "secur*" once.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2223#section-9
Gives me a "Page Not Found".
Never mind. You already have it. https://crystalverse.com/growing-copper-sulfate-crystals-ext... :)
> and will forever continue to be

Who needs freedom if the dictator is always benevolent?
What a crock. By his definitions succeeding is when everything goes perfectly right, 100% to plan, forever, according to every third party observer.

By his definition all of FAANG (or whatever) are total failures. You could poke minor semantic holes in their accomplishments!

CNBC lists bitcoin price next to the S&P. It's up infinity percent. There are regulated financial products. If asked at the time he would have unequivocally said those things would not have happened because bitcoin was going to fail because he was dead wrong.

It would have been much braver and more respectable to just say "yeah, I really was wrong on that one"
> Go watch his 1000s of videos

or you could link to just one video which explains his position. Not everyone has time to watch 1000 videos.
I don't really understand the reasons for using PHP outside of that people are already familiar with it and like working with it or want to find jobs in that area.

If someone is new to software development and in an area of the world where it's not mostly PHP shops, so bigger cities, I don't really understand the benefit.

PHP is often used to do certain things or it may be faster for you to whip something up in Laravel but if you had someone who was a complete blank slate and could chose any language and any framework in a town that doesn't have PHP jobs...why? What's the reason then?

I really think these articles come off really strange like they're trying to convince me as a "fact" but are really just nostalgia, like someone who goes off about how "cars were built so much better back in the day, there's still uses for older cars!" Maybe there is a grain of truth there and some real reasons behind it (repairability) but for 95% of use cases it's just that there's no contest, for a new driver, in an average situation there's no benefit towards going to an older car, and the guy going on about "older cars are the best", while they may have some weird reason that does actually apply to them (and as far as this analogy goes, I think Fortran is a better example than PHP in this case than PHP as for some maths applications it apparently still has an edge but that could have changed) honestly it's just nostalgia/trying to indoctrinate people...
Add 'hard truths' to that list too. Lifestyle & diet have a huge impact on health, but a portion of the population refuse to acknowledge this or want to hear about it from their doctor.
I think if low code should take of this is the tool for it, the biggest "low code" tool is excel whit hundreds more excel users than programmers, if not I think probably we over estimate how much people care about develop apps
not exactly, i have been printing FFF parts with a tolerance of 50 microns with a .25mm nozzle. it all has to do with part design and quality filament.
I think it's a bit more nuanced that that, since he's also talking about placement of points and descriptive sentences and how it turns into a type of table of contents, which is a bit of both content and presentation in my opinion, but I could see how you might differ on that point. To me, data presentation and making it palatable to those intended to consume it is important, and not easily teased apart from the data itself when viewed with respect to communication.

For what it's worth, if you look at the source of the page, you can see how he actually does seem to care about line length with respect to legibility for himself, it just doesn't seem to extend to something he cares about with respect to his readers.
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I know what I’m doing this weekend with my crystal-obsessed daughter and the bag of copper sulfate I forgot on top of the fridge.
Gameboys had backwards compatibility as well, at least for a while. Probably half the games I ever played on my gameboy color were released for the original gameboy. Playstations also had backwards compatibility at around the same time.
I've been so excited for Beeper since the beginning of the year but just like you, I'm on the waitlist and have been for almost 10 months now.

I'm dying to try it, and if it functions how they've described it only makes me want it more. A few weeks back I got an itch and started watching any videos online and came across a few from the founder and their main developer (the one developing all the matrix bridges that I believe even Element One is using? maybe?).

For someone in my situation, if it works its priceless and if they wanted 3x or 4x the monthly fee I'd still be more than okay with it. Hell, I'd pay extra just for early access. I've always struggled to keep up with my communication and a big one for me is iMessage. But aside from that everything else I use for family (WhatsApp,Telegram,FBMessenger), work (Skype,Slack), and friends (iMessage,Discord) is stressful for me everyday switching between all the apps when looking for something, remembering who I need to respond to, switching to phone (I don't use Mac, so iMessage only when I'm actually on my phone which is not often).
I haven’t used PHP in over a decade. I can never forgot how much PHP got wrong in terms of how application development on the internet would happen. The ergonomics of using it were just… bad compared to other frameworks that came on the market. I remember when rails came out and it was so mind blowing compared to PHP. The language was certainly useful for a time, and I’m sure the language has progressed since, but switching to PHP still feels like it would be a huge step backwards.
Octavian isn't just better than OpenBlas. It beats MKL by about a factor of 2 up to 100x100, and is roughly tied with MKL up to around 3000x3000 (OpenBlas is 2-3x slower up to around 500x500)
Basically correct.

You can't sell a drug unless it has at least one approval. Manufacturers can't advertise or say that it treats anything but the approved illness. Doctors can usually prescribe an approved drug for any other illness. Insurance may give people trouble for unapproved prescriptions.

Covid has further completed this, as pharmacies have started to refuse filling some prescriptions despite doctors orders.
> why do we need biometric level proofs for that?

There's generally two buckets of biometric auth:

1. Local biometric auth, with no metrics shared outside the local context, for convenience in authentication. This would be FaceID/TouchID/Windows Hello sorts of functions

2. Remote biometric auth to prevent certain types of 'friendly' impersonation, such as using a family member's identity for an age or background or credit check. This is say comparing a live camera capture against a previous photo.

You see #2 a lot in identity proofing, e.g. I presented an official document and it is legitimate, but how do they know it's actually the right person vs someone who did some lucky dumpster diving?

For digital identity credential systems which represent those documents, you have both cryptographic document verification and typically have a form of authentication by proof-of-possession of some key, but often people still feel the need for a remote biometric check. The reality is that they should be basing that on an actual need.
> Without surgery they are female with female parts but identify as male so dressing up as a male.

This isn't the case. You don't need to make any kind of surgery to be a trans person.
> Surely releasing a USB stick with the documents on it shouldn't take 50x the time to analyze and produce the documents in the first place.

Absolutely disagree.

If I have the following: "Joe blogs who is 89 and lives at 1400 West Rd, Los Angeles, CA 10921, today went to go obtain a vaccine and got the sniffles. His wife had eaten pizza, says Pfizer, and so precipitated a reaction via airborne cheese reactivity', it probably took you all of two seconds to read that. If you have to redact any of that, you first must confirm what to redact, whether talking about Joe's wife somehow constitutes a breach of personal information, etc.

Maybe the address information is fine to leave in, maybe its not. But now instead of just regurgitating a couple sentences, you have to sit and deconstruct the sentence, match it to various classifications, etc., all by hand.

Does that make FOIA requests somewhat useless? Perhaps, but we never mandated that the information going in had to be foia compliant. If you want it faster, sue for the public disclosure of all vaccine materials regardless of classification, and contact your senator, not your foia office. IMO the various vaccines should be public property anyways, not the property of any one corp, especially given we all are paying the price...
We just did a little 5 hour road trip this weekend to test the tesla charging. And it was awesome.

What I don't understand is how these small towns are not fighting for one of these chargers to be installed in there parking lots.

Every one of these chargers had people in the restaurants, or stores near these chargers.

If I lived in one of these towns I would setup taco trucks right next to one of these chargers.
(1) and (2) might empirically-speaking look similar over long enough timescales.

Also if (2) is correct then fundamental progress, arising from periodic breakthroughs, depends more upon who we are than what we do. Doing stuff would then lead to incremental improvements which are still important but which depend themselves on previous breakthroughs.
> contrarianism in search of evidence

But that is literally what this article is, and Scott admits as much! He says that he chose worms as the most "trollish" possible response, despite a lack of any strong evidence at all that worms are the answer.
As Zababa said, it is more about how easy it is to write another implementation, because config files need to be read in another language than (Typescript in this case).

The easier a config language (syntactically, but also in terms of capabilities), the easier it is to write a parser in Go, and Rust and Java etc. All of this particularly matters for libraries or in larger codebases that are multi-lingual.

Using starlark here because I'm most familiar with it.

Starlark's `load()` statement is "find the file at this exact literal path from the workspace root" (no relative paths allowed either). Typescript/Javascript's import is much more complicated. If you encounter an error in Starlark, you fail right there, no exception handling to implement.

Starlark doesn't allow recursion, has an extremely limited set of built-in types and functions, and that means it is very easy to reason about, and even a naive interpreter is pretty fast at evaluating it. I'm also reasonably certain about writing a simple interpreter for it in a week if I had to port it to a new language.

Of course, I view configuration languages on a continuum.

I'd definitely want a pomodoro timer to just use a .ini file.
TOML/YAML is great for where you are just going to have a bunch of plain type assignments. No JSON, because comments.

Once you want to write larger configurations, and you need to provide APIs to the user in the language, I'd pick Starlark/Pystachio because they are still intentionally restrictive and Python is one of the most popular languages out there.
At this point, you are probably trying to configure something like a large build system (Bazel) or some kind of deployment cluster (say Kubernetes) and you can start providing all sorts of utility libraries (either via bindings to your programming language, or as Starlark libraries). But due to their restricted nature you can still do all sorts of bounded analysis of the evaluation. You can remove things like random() because it's a bad idea.

Yes there are use cases where you want a full blown language to configure something, but those are extremely rare and at that point I think you are no longer "configuring" but just "programming". I very much prefer to keep these 2 things separate.
Not to mention Atlassian are moving bitbucket to be in the same cloud as their other services. They likely could have negotiated a cheaper per unit cost on their entire cloud workload, thus its possible this has generated a saving for Jira, confluence and all.
>Daily reminder

Indeed.
>the space between each pin is only 0.65 millimeters (for our metrically impaired readers, this is 0.4 millionths of a mile).

Lol, hilarious.
I simply misparsed "those treatments" in your comment, thinking that they referred to antibiotics, which this threat is about after all. I'm aware that Malaria is not a bacterial infection.
I’d be happy to pay $19 once, just as I’ve purchased my other apps. I’d even pay twice that, and I would also consider it fair to charge for upgrades.

But I believe in paying for value, and the value of the software should be covered by a one-time payment, as is the case with purchasing any other product. Continuing to demand payment without providing additional value—a service, computing resources—is not reasonable or appropriate, and I can’t support that business model.
Nature doesn't have likes. Yes, there are various sorts of equilibria that are stable and other conditions that are unstable. And some forms of moderation that might be ideal are inherently unstable. But people still work to maintain moderation, and they would have done so 20,000 years ago as well.

Most extremes are themselves unstable and do not persist over the long-term. Winning big in the short-term does not correlate to long-term thriving. Cultures and species that have been dominant but then went extinct are numerous. Meanwhile, a lot of non-dominant forms of life have survived the eons.

The entire nature of life is a battle against extremes. We moderate in how much we eat, sleep, drink… Homeostasis is not a condition of being truly static and unchanging, it's a constant struggle against entropy. We constantly put in effort toward maintaining our moderation that defines a thriving life, and eventually we all fail and return to dust. Those of us who fall into extremes tend to lose our homeostasis sooner and return to dust faster.

I'm not saying that maintaining moderation is trivial. But the way most people live is through maintaining moderation via all the effort it takes to do that, to resist the pitfalls of the extremes. That includes getting support from others (e.g. therapists). If there's one thing we can say confidently about humans across the ages, it's that we are social and live in supportive groups that help each other.

It's not a matter of somehow just passively finding moderation. It's an active process, and we also don't do it alone.
Or maybe wait and see if anyone that works on Uber also browse HN
I'm not sure what you mean by platform-oriented.
I use a hammer for nails and a screwdriver for screws.
We're fine with nuance in entertainment, in romance, in food, in professional team sports, in many things. I would dispute that the same level of comfort extends to "when elected (or not) leaders tell us what we should do."
Steampipe [1] is an open source CLI to query cloud APIs (e.g. AWS, GitHub, Kubernetes) with SQL. It uses an embedded Postgres instance internally and is built with Foreign Data Wrappers.

We install and leverage the Zonky Embedded Postgres Binaries [2] which are normally used for test suites. They have been great for us.

It's amazing how fast and light Postgres runs for these use cases!

1 - https://steampipe.io
2 - https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries
A quarter of US adults on Twitter account for 97% of the tweets
When will they open source something meaningful, like Windows, Office or Edge? Prob don't want you to see the telemetry and government spying source code.
How is any of it enforced? Are the daily operations of the organization encoded in contacts or something?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29260616
But what is, if not Visual Basic? Do you shoot for what has had longevity, or what's rising?

But what is, if not Motorola 68000 Assembly? Do you shoot for what has had longevity, or what's rising?

Pointing out that there is not absolute certainty about what is the top choice for a better idea does not make php, or visual basic, or 68000 worth spending your time on in 2021.
I have a few questions:

- Is the "your app gets initialized and torn down for every request" true for frameworks like Laravel and Symfony?

- Does this model uses OS threads? Does it uses green threads?

And then a few remarks about the language:

- I feel like the Go model is a way better model for server software than async. Since PHP is mostly used for server software, I feel like they shouldn't go with async. Python is currently going through the transition and it's painful and long.

- It feels a bit weird to see how full of objects PHP is. Modern languages (Go, Swift, Rust, TypeScript) tend to use less objects, and more plain imperative code or slightly functional code in my experience.
> Studies have been done. It has been found lacking.

TFA found that more reliable studies found it was helpful than not. You are the one who is anti-science.
> I disagree with that. FDA was able to produce and analyze the documents in roughly a years time. They scrutinized the data enough that they felt comfortable in approving a novel vaccine. Surely releasing a USB stick with the documents on it shouldn't take 50x the time to analyze and produce the documents in the first place.

Producing documents in response to a FOIA request isn't just a matter of simply copying them. If the documents contain anything that is not legal to release to the general public (such as personal information of patients) that has to be redacted first.
dammit simple
I figured this was some sort of screed about "Okay, you gave up being the third independent browser engine and now you're losing control over your own platform."

Nope, it's an actual integration with a buy-now-pay-later payments service.

I honestly don't know where this industry is going. It's not a product; it's a feature. Presenting it as a seperate payment flow, or routing things through a browser plugin is a clumsy mess. There's always going to be support difficulties, and now you have an extra party involved in every transaction.

The best endgame would be to just start offering a conventional card with the BN/PL payment model baked right in. This would be completely transparent to merchants, would work in places that a browser plugin will never (i. e. an in-person sale with a card reader), and force a competition on rates and terms, rather than providing an opportunity for exclusive contracts.
Folks bashing PHP like it's crap but praising any crappy thing if it's built with an esoteric lisp-based language. I mean, if you're starting out, chances are you're better off with js/py or even go but in the end you're paid for the types of problems you solve, not by the language you use... It just turns out that some problems are easier in this or that language, or even people who are good at solving this or that problem just happen to use an specific language (like the bioinformatics people using R when they could have used py).
> but "we've done stuff like this before".

But we have. Holocene extinction started thousands of years ago. That's not a controversial thing at all.
My non tech users are still catching up with Power Query.

I sort of gave up forwarding news related to low code from MS, as every week there's something changing or being deprecated.

Moreover, every time I tried to use anything related to the Power Platform (so I could teach to others) I ended up in a world of pain. Is anyone actually using Power Apps, etc... Successfully?
This is a good data point, and it does point to wanting to limit liability, at your rate you could process 5000 pages a month, bringing the time down to 7 years instead of 72...

Throw 6 people at it, throw in review processes, maybe you could get it done in a couple years. Say 5 to hedge.
Most of the functions I see in Excel are just old BASIC functions. Have they reinvented BASIC?
I definitely would have loved this in February when I had to upload 40 genomes to the NCBI, using the same format. Cheers and this looks awesome.
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It’s not that low code isn’t hard, it’s that it isn’t code. Which for the life of me I will never understand. But I’ve seen entire businesses run on linked spreadsheets with formulas that would melt your brain. All built by people terrified of “code”.