skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a mistake to conflate the success of the Wordpress ecosystem (and its plugins) with the success of PHP. Just because Wordpress is popular as a CMS does not mean that the developers of Wordpress plugins would choose PHP otherwise.

It's also not a contest? I'm not sure why people care about these numbers. PHP keeps getting bashed because it's a bad programming language full of footguns, then and now, regardless of whether or not other programming languages exist.
Well as long as his backup plan isn't the nuclear option, it's fine
There are a variety of GPT models with different numbers of parameters. I can run GPT-J locally right now, and as model architectures progress and the killer app for video cards goes from games/mining to AI, we will see a combination of increased card VRAM and memory optimized models that will make running this stuff locally feasible. Training is expensive, but inference is usually fairly cheap, you just need to be able to load the model in VRAM. Thankfully there are open source groups and communities working together to train and fine tune models of this sort so we won't be completely reliant on commercial entities.
Good. Law enforcement is supposed to be hard.
It’s used with Flutter, Google’s app development framework. I really enjoy Dart as a language, but it is fairly young and missing a few conveniences (such as data classes). It also can’t compile to dynamic libraries, only executables. Despite that, it is very pleasant if you enjoy managed languages.
Yep that's a great library, I'd like to see some of it in core. Same with this:
https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php which overlaps somewhat.

The no-brainers to me are the missing array_some()/array_any() array_every()/array_all() and an array_search() that takes a predicate and iterable. I do these now in userland but an optimized native version would be nice.
So, at the moment, you can't open a legit bank account.
I believe it is: I recently got rid of my music streaming service because I found myself constantly unsatisfied with my music listening. Don’t get me wrong I got to explore a lot but with that comes the “Tyranny of Freedom”. I then recalled the simple days when I had an iPod and how satisfied I was with my select FLAC albums.

Needless to say I installed VLC on my iPhone and imported my FLACs…
From the article

> There’s as much to learn about your field from other fields than there is within your field

You may be on to something
> I have thirty new calves on the ground right now.

I'm curious, how did you get into that? Are you a software person who became (forgive the term) a gentleman rancher? Was it a family business? Or do you have no professional connection to software to begin with?
Funny, I couldn't disagree more.

When I think of "people who feel important, who feel in control of their own circumstances and image" I think of people who choose understated cars, because they're confident in themselves and have nothing to prove or compensate for by feeling the need to show off flashy colors.

But when I think of people who are insecure and not getting enough emotional approval elsewhere in their lives -- isn't that the "stereotypical" flashy-car owner?

When you look at high-powered execs in Manhattan -- who feel very important and very in control -- they're not the ones in flashy-colored cars.
Call it what you want. If you spend all your time whinging about misfortune, you'll never grow.

As Marcus Aurelius wrote sometime around 170CE:

>It’s unfortunate that this has happened. No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it—not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. ...

>So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
The reasons for the absence are pretty self-explanatory. iOS itself is proprietary.

First, someone would need to initiate a project to create a free software clone of iOS, like ReactOS re Windows or even GNU re UNIX. That's a worthwhile project in and of itself.
> we had to obey rules against shipping "freeware"

I am in the USA but this is new to me.. can you say more or better, links? regarding science applications, specifically...
Your citation states continuity with additional ancestry mixing in from later migrations:

>The study stated that "our genetic time transect suggests genetic continuity between the Pre-Ptolemaic, Ptolemaic and Roman populations of Abusir el-Meleq, indicating that foreign rule impacted the [native] population only to a very limited degree at the genetic level."
>who said there was?

Fresh off the presses, courtesy of the paper of record:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opinion/xi-loosens-up-it-...

Some tidbits:

"The government’s response, though, does not, of course, address the larger yearning for an end to autocracy."

"Those brave protesters have changed China’s national policy, and their broader yearning for rights can no more be extinguished than a virus; someday the Chinese Communist leadership will have to respond to that very human aspiration."
http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
Or the agent goes and says "He's an artist who loves your game -- like it's a triumph of human expression -- he can see the heart of it, and he done something pretty special that's worthy to be a capstone for the player's experience. You understand true art is about more than money. What do you think about these couple changes I've marked up, to show he's valued in a way that's meaningful to him? In addition to the shout-out, I thought a few shares would help him feel his contribution was appreciated as a valuable part, but let me know if that's a problem."

(I'm sure a real agent could negotiate much better than I could; I'm only suggesting that an agent could straighten this out and maybe get better terms, without threatening the deal.)
The posts are very different. "I made my work public domain" sounds a lot more positive than whatever that screed was trying to convey.
The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (1998)
Yep, thanks for bringing that up. I should have mentioned that.

The forums should list some caveats for the device if they exist, but don't assume just because it shows up on the list that everything will work perfectly out of the box -- double check to see if there are any downsides.

Also, I should bring up that LineageOS comes in two variants: one without Google services and one with Google services. If you want to actually de-Google your phone, check to see that you are not going to run into problems with the apps you use.

Occasionally I see people who don't realize how deep Google services can go on Android, which in some ways gets back to your argument about how "open" Android really is. So it's just good to make sure that your stuff will all work afterwards if you're planning to go down that route.
> but PHP does these almost fundamental breaking changes so often

I have a private (non-internet) web-app that's still on PHP6.5; I like the new PHP features, but upgrading private code to conform to PHP 7 and 8 looks a lot like make-work. I wish it shipped with good upgrade tools.

[Edit] @darkwater (below) is correct; I meant PHP 5.6. PHP6 was some kind of abortion - I can't remember the story.
Hey! South Africa made it to hacker news! Nice!
I am a huge remote work fan and basically refuse to ever attempt to write code in an open plan office again…that said there definitely is some electricity missing in those very early stages when working remotely.

I’ve been involved with a few startups at the “handful of people in a room together” stages, and did feel that the setting made a difference. Working late in a shabby but cool office, gathered around the whiteboard, excitedly sharing ideas, stepping outside to the buzz of NYC at night. I’m romanticizing, but there’s an energy to it that I’ve missed in the past couple of years doing it remotely.
It's fascinating to me how often things get codified into law or standards[1], but the reasoning behind it becomes legend.

Apparently the u-shape is intended to allow women to wipe without touching the seat, and maybe also reduce male contact with the front. But you have to take a bunch of people's word (which I suspect to be guesses) for that.

[1] and I've been on standards committees where people are trying to imagine what the previous generation were trying to say, since standards usually only tell you what, and are short on the why.
The headline is misleading. They are saying that it seems to have failed due to some kind of mysterious fatigue failure at a wood to steel structural interface. The investigators are struggling to work out how because the timber was damaged when it hit bottom of the river and then damaged further when it was hauled out for inspection. The overloading in the headline seems to refer to the ‘load shedding’ to other structural members that will have occurred after the joint (or joints) failed. (I’m not a structural engineer, but my profession is closely related.)
> I think a lot of people have built up a habit of disparaging it without actually knowing much about it.

It's possible that PHP's ubiquity and the core language's poor architecture/design (for decades now) are the source, not the ignorance of those complaining. PHP was the very first programming language I learned, in 1997. If anything, I mostly stopped disparaging it because I simply moved on in my career enough to be able to choose languages that aren't constantly fighting me.

I'm a consultant so I get asked about unfucking PHP codebases every few years, and I check in on the ecosystem and language. It's better but (unsurprisingly) still not great. Meanwhile, languages a decade+ younger avoided PHP's mistakes.
You probably could, but the amount of engineering and cost required would be simpler to just replace the bridge with a stronger one.

Often these "car only" country bridges are just some large wooden beams over a creek; even a simple concrete culvert replacement would be truck-proof.

Some of them do things like this: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-small-car-suv-crossing-the...
A haïku to leave before seppuku.
No more coffee is indeed catastrophic.
Original comment author posted this around that time. I would be surprised that if being late by 1-2h makes post's success so much worse?

EDIT: On similar note - I wonder how HN's duplicate post detection works? If post does not reach some amount of upvotes, then it does not count in the duplicate index?
That's a false dichotomy.

The way you phrase it, you would gladly kill a million people to give your grandma
one extra day of life.
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I'm baffled how people are so amazed by easily-found existing ideas being presented by an arrogant chatbot.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...

TLDR: previously your exhalations would mostly affect people spending significant time in your immediate vicinity, but with this device's assistance you can cover the ENTIRE train carriage in your snot in seconds.
Ask HN: A better news source than Wikipedia's news portal
Hello All:

I have been subsisting on Wikipedia's news portal as a source of news that isn't entertainment. Has anyone come across something similar that has bulleted out headlines, chronologically delineated, and doesn't focus on sensationalism? I'm looking for something like the Wikipedia news portal, but with more coverage. To be clear, this has nothing to do with the recent criticism heaped on Wikimedia/pedia/etcdia.

Thank you.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
"Unfortunately that ecosystem doesn't exist yet so we're stuck with the duopoly of evil-doers..."

That is no longer the case. There are projects starting to come out which are open source and building on top of AOSP like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS and a few others but those two are solid options at the moment.

I am not sure why GrapheneOS doesn't get mentioned here on HN but it's seriously a wonderful project that includes privacy features not available even on iOS. They are this far ahead of the game when it comes to privacy and security. Highly recommend checking them out.

https://grapheneos.org
There are only two important points about CSAM scanning.

The first is that the business model of implementing dystopia is always rolled out as "to save the children". Rest assured once the infrastructure is in place the oppression will have nothing to do with "saving children" and everything to do with oppressing people for wrongthink or "the fifth amendment doesn't apply to IP / digital property" and so on.

The second is that the point of dystopia is to stabilize a society by enforcing classism, for better or worse. The point of this system is to make everyone understand perfectly that the purpose of the system is to ensure that, for example, if the president's son were caught he would be unpunished, in fact the story would be aggressively censored, but if a poor person were falsely accused by some kind of mistake they would go to prison because our legal system is entirely monetary based. Its a loud message of "everyone get on that hamster wheel and run faster because we say so and we need more concentration of money and power at the top". The powers that be think there's too much class mobility, too much social instability, too much equality, we need to lock down to preserve their position at the top, and if they just lock down harder and harder they'll never fall. Historically this strategy has always been implemented because it works in the short term yet usually fails in the long term.
Not OP but I'd personally recommend Laravel over Symfony if you're just getting back into it. Fundimentally they are very similar, but Laravel's less of a learning curve and these days has a significantly larger community.

There's resources like laracasts which take you through from the basics to highly complex concepts without it feeling like you're being lectured.

One benefit of Laravel is that under the hood it shares a lot of Symfonys core components so should you decide to switch at some point it's not too much of a learning curve.
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tl;dr

Over the last few years, what used to be a flood of high-profile releases slowed to a trickle, however, and by 2022 it was more like a slow drip.

Most people’s first answer would probably be the pandemic. But the truth is, the AAA landscape has been shrinking for years. Everything has gotten too big, too expensive. The math is simple: games take longer to make, and need more developers to make them, so we are getting fewer of them.
It's a relief to see the end of this anti-privacy wedge.

It's also a relief not having to listen to wailing paranoiacs whinge about how new Apple features, such as communication safety in messages, is a cynical, nefarious or reckless step down the road to a police state.

I still hope something can be done to address child abuse images being shared. I guess if anti-virus profiles can stop certain files being spread, and if we are prepared to accept the risk of that not being abused to cover up leaks or politically embarrassing information, then it could be used to stop known CP from being passed around. As for unknown material it looks like there may not be a way to prevent it that doesn't risk everyone's privacy.
What's the difference? The only significance of the pictures is that serves to prove that you were party to the rape/abuse, either directly or indirectly (i.e. gave reason for someone else to produce the content). The quantity of content makes little difference. The child wasn't doubly abused by someone behind the camera being shutter happy. Stashing away one physical photo or one phone with hundreds of pictures of the act doesn't really change anything.
Great line:

“The company keeps delivering bad news to investors, who are not mollified by Mark Zuckerberg's promise to rescue the company by convincing all of humanity to spend the rest of their lives as highly surveilled, legless, sexless, low-polygon cartoon characters.”
Did you really read my comment?

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-o...

> Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021

At this point everyone competing, including Samsung, are getting close to also-rans.

I felt otherwise a few years back, but Apple's marketshare is actually going up almost universally, as countries develop:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

Android is stagnating, if anything despite the free and Open Source operating system and the million models of phones.
The biggest issue is generally server support. Finding servers that support older versions or even package managers that still have the older unsupported versions can be miserable. Thankfully the Sury packages are still around as an alternative, but that's only valid if you're running a system you have full control over (ie a VPS).

A lot of cPanel or similar hosts are also retiring old versions as they hit EOL [1][2][3][4][5] (those all support 7.4 still but most have indicated that will be dropped next year as well). This has made hosting transfers more and more difficult if you don't want to go through the process of upgrading.

The process of upgrading Wordpress sites isn't so bad (generally there's no work, honestly). But not all CMSs are that simple and it can get more laborious when you want to upgrade a Laravel or Symfony site, especially if you've skipped a few versions.

Of course, at the end of the day, it's up to the client to provide budget for these things and if they don't/can't, you just have to push back on their other requests until they do.

1: https://in.godaddy.com/help/retiring-old-php-versions-41164
2: https://www.bluehost.com/hosting/help/php-version-selection-...
3: https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215082337-What-...
4: https://wpengine.com/support/php-guide/
5: https://getflywheel.com/wordpress-support/php-on-flywheel/#p...
> Why should phone makers not have ultimate control over their devices?

First part is, fundamentally these devices are sold. You could eschew the very notion of property and make it a pure rental, but it’s not the point we are now.

The second part is, as you point out, your idea is completely valid until your service becomes life critical, a huge portion of the country’s population relies on it day to day, you killed any competitor that had a significantly different value proposition and it would have catastrophic consequences if you were to screw it up badly. Basically you became part of the infra. Is it 100 million units ? It’s up to your regulators to decide.
Anyone understand this question:

"At least, I’m pretty sure how things happened, but Wikipedia is inconclusive. Does anyone know?"

What specifically about the linked Wikipedia article are they confused about and how is it inconclusive on that issue?
Yeah, even without the external factors, personal goals can get tiring year after year.
In my experience those corn bulbs aren't... amazing. Probably much better off getting a "regular" LED bulb, those get stupendously bright these days. 1000 lumen bulbs are easy enough to find, and a couple of those in a room gets it nice and bright.
vertical or not, if you are to get rid of so much ice (esp. Antarctica) then the other landmass also can't stay the same.
Absolutely agree. Don't give me a sales pop up when I look at your landing page, but if you have an Intercom chat on your support page, I'm all ears. Had to contact Stripe support a few weeks ago and they got to me pretty quick and were really good about it. I think the company I work for spams you on the landing page unfortunately...
I've managed to get my hands on a PS5. What I'm playing the most is a PS4 release. Thank the stars, that thing is backward compatible.
I have used those chats, talked to humans, and had my issues resolved - but I can't say it was a great experience.

I had to keep the relevant tab open and actively watch it because there is no sane method to get the notification if it's in background. Can't get distracted for too long, gotta actively watch that stupid chat for when someone comes in or replies after "I need a few minutes to do something for you, please hold on".

Also, I was nervous that any accidental navigation actions (like clicking on some page link) I take in my browser would lead to loss of that chat session. Basically, I was trying to not breathe in the direction of that chat and hope that it would work. I mean, it shouldn't, but I've seen it happen.

Honestly, I'd rather see a bunch of links to various messaging platforms. Or a phone number I can send a text to. Humans or machines, short or long response times - at least I know the underlying technologies are reliable.
> Is it worth trying DP with a DP to USB-C adapter?

No. I meant if you have a DP to USB type C cable, you may switch to see if issue resolved.

Try plugging it in and out a few times (yes, it worked for me when it went back to not recognizing).

I have the same mac but a different 4K monitor. Sadly, I don't know any other solution.

Macbook display and scaling handling on external monitors is one of the worst I have experienced by a long margin so know you are not alone.
Is it possible to give something like ChatGPT an understanding of what it's talking about? I feel like there's something fundamental missing for the model to be something more than just a neat way to remix language.
A really simple catch all, that isn't quite accurate for all cases would be to put a sign over the top of such a bridge,that limits the height of vehicles crossing, excluding trucks with the tall trailers. Would not work for loads that aren't tall though.
But they were never friends to begin with, which is one of the many flawed premises of this author thoughts.
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Some prompts I was giving it yesterday in regard to this:
https://imgur.com/a/OE6TrJM
Pretty happy with Paw (https://paw.cloud, macOs) also supports gRPC
The commenter is likely snarking about living with a female (or females). Some can be, er, particular about the toilet lid.

(Yes, the solution here is to put the lid back up when done, but then that ruins a bit of the GP's (I think) intended humor.)
For sure. You could also build front-ends with Clojure using htmx. It really simplifies building dynamic front-ends by allowing you to return to the hypermedia model with server-side rendering. It has been fantastic. No ClojureScript. Just a normal Java Clojure REPL.

https://htmx.org/
Anything before the fall of the western Roman empire (~500 AD) is widely considered to be "ancient".
> PHP 5->7 - my recollection, and that of most colleagues, is that this was pretty painless for most projects.

They replaced the MySQL plugin in version 7. All MySQL code was broken. I don't know, but I'd guess that most PHP sites were using MySQL as their database (the 'M' in 'LAMP' stands for MySQL).
Cynically, I'm sure it could be "justified" in all kinds of ways like "knowing more about the photos viewed most often with our Photos app helps us to determine what new features would best enhance the user experience. Only metadata is being collected, so no employee is ever able to view your pictures. We value your privacy blah blah blah"

Even more cynically, it just gives them more data about you and your interests (with viewing frequency/duration being a measure of interest) which lets them push more narrowly targeted ads at you, which gives them more money, which lets them invest more in improving Windows as a whole or whatever else they tell themselves so they can face their own reflections.
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