skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHP had the advantage of having built-in resource limits and little contention over locks and other shared resources that meant sloppy coding wouldn't crash your server. Providers could offer low cost hosting plans because you could put a lot of customers on the same server and have very little trouble. It was a big plus that it was open source and didn't have the crazy high license costs of early dynamic web hosting solutions such as ColdFusion, WiTango, Netscape's application server, etc.
To be fair, when you learn that South Korea has prosecuted and convicted most of it's ex-presidents (also one assassination and one suicide)... I'm not sure it makes South Korea look uncorrupt. It makes me figure some combination of routine corruption in the presidency and corrupt political retribution by successors.

https://apnews.com/article/f4de2c758f70450583bdf1539e3fa3bd
But that was on Truth social and not twitter?
But you don't really need to care about upstream security support. Linux distros offer long-term support for specific versions they decided to freeze on, and there are well-known third-party repositories (sury, remi, cloudlinux) that offer even older versions with backported security fixes.

GP's problem seems to be that they have to support WordPress plugins and themes that they either can't or don't want to patch by themselves. This is a different situation from people who build & maintain in-house apps. In that case, always using the previous Ubuntu LTS is a perfectly viable solution. Stay 2-3 years behind the edge, giving enough time for the plugins and themes to get updated, while still receiving security patches and comfortably within the recommended range for WordPress Core.
Haha, it's interesting to see that perspective

I think most HN readers reacted to that weird poem the same way the aliens in Blindsight reacted to attempts at communication
same. for my work project, 3.11 was performance-equivalent to pypy 3.9
> Translation: you are dumping blockchain data into traditional databases running on traditional servers and backed up by a traditional Elastic Search.

It's ironic that the solution to blockchain problems is so often re-centralization.
Nice reddit-tier comment - couldn't think of a pun too?
> The amount of comments in here who think that SBF is going to walk away scot free is unbelievable. I guess it goes to show how low trust is in the legal system.

I think it's history that shows this and builds this low trust. The 2008-2009 housing and economic crisis had effectively no prosecutions that came to fruition. Bury things in sufficient complexity, and it's easy to get away with it. The thing about Elizabeth Holmes is that she wasn't actually wealthy or powerful. That's why she's going to prison, which to be clear, I agree with but I also think a lot of financial criminals belong in prison. Sam Bankman-Fried is in that same boat, but he does seem to have some strange connections that are a little more engrained than the board members Holmes had. So we'll see. I think he'll be prosecuted and likely go to jail, but I also see it maybe just not happening. I just wish we'd see the same reckoning for other fraudsters who are bit better in hiding their malfeasances.
That was an incredible deal for Russia. The cost of that woman's mistake was pretty steep, she should be very grateful.
Even if they manage to keep the service online, the fact that employees are sleeping in the office is a sign that they are now grossly understaffed.
That’s pretty much standard in all western countries I’ve visited.
I stayed with a Japanese colleague for a few days once. Lovely people, and I'm very grateful they were willing to host a clueless foreigner when they already had two toddlers in the house.

The adults had both gone to college in Canada, so they had mostly great English, but every once in a while they'd say something completely insane. For example, when trying to express to me that his bathroom was carpeted and men should urinate sitting down, he wrote in an email, "Please don't be sitting in pee!"
I'm sorry, you are mistaken. You can set the FP rate arbitrarily low, but they will eventually happen. "Basically nil" is not the same as "actually nil".

I also suspect you are grossly exaggerating the d', and grossly understating the FP rate of Apple's solution, as I am unaware of any image processing system whose FP rate is "basically nil". Your assertion warrants hard numbers.
I mean on top of everything else, they were clearly annoyed with him and didn't think much of his contribution.
Is that as people or the state?
I would imagine it would be simplest to administer if you treat it as an installment sale.

The price and number of shares is fixed, the investor has a legal obligation to make future payments, the company has recourse if they don't.

Although, you have to expect any recourse to either be untimely or unsatisfying for the company. If the investor wants to stop making payments, they will, and going to court will take too long. So, your terms should be explicit about what happens when a payment is missed, and you should try to make that as wrapped up as possible.

Alternatively, maybe set it up as options expiring every 3 months. Cause that's more honestly what it is.
I went in with someone who was unfamiliar with the musical, and they walked out halfway deeply offended by the excessive and casual use of slurs throughout the movie directed at a specific racial group. If that had been a different group and the slur had started with a "k", nobody would think West Side Story is incredible.

And on a substantive note, the plot is fairly nonsensical.

Yes, the movie was technically well made but that's about it.
Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
I forget where but in one YouTube video at least where they were being interviewed they explained that they thought this too. They thought that their integrated graphics legacy would be able to be essentially transferred over to making desktop cards but it sadly wasn't the case. The things that they did for the drivers for the integrated chips and the way that they designed the integrated chips were not transferable knowledge. So they did have to start mostly from the ground floor to work on the Arc gpus.
I honestly would have expected something more eccentric, high tech and more practical from Elon. I envision the High Tech Mini-Hotels in Japan that are somewhat sound-proof, have dimable LED mood lighting, Bluetooth/Internet stations, Self-Serve mini bar with semi-healthy food snacks.

In the same size room one could put a 2 person king sized bed, there might be 10 to 20 Mini-Hotel sound-proof pods so people can get some deep sleep. Wake up refreshed and you have a multi-screen console with direct access to the network based on your employee access profile. No commute to your desk. Actually, get rid of the desk and especially get rid of bull-pens. Convert all C-Level offices into aerobic gyms.

Fridays, are casual Pajama days
That's the exact same issue you run into if you suddenly find out that you need to use a different type (because.. Yeah, that's exactly what it means). That doesn't mean you should default to writing all your code without types
> What would you say is different about this case, or what about the environment has changed, as compared to Madoff in 2008?

Madoff confessed to his sons and said he was imminently going to surrender to authorities, his sons called the FBI, the FBI interviewed him at home (no arrest, no warrant, no indictment), and he confessed to the scheme being a large scale fraud to the FBI.

And Madoff was physically within US jurisdiction.

And Madoff had much clearer records and much less complicated an organization that the FTX network of companies, which seems to have been highly optimized to conceal specific evidence of fraud and theft by, between, and by insiders against the companies in the network.
His behavior is so absurd it almost makes me suspect he's being forced to give these insane interviews.
> When I read the article, I gathered that there was a necessity for expert in A to make orals in B because their style of presentation. To achieve acceptance at B, there were non-relevant to A requirements.

But you did not say "knowledge in A is not relevant to B" (itself an arguable claim, as my sibling commenter mattkrause points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910025 )); you seemed to be dismissing the validity of "knowledge in A" entirely ("There is always a professor of distinguished, but long forgotten and superseded past-expertise on the orals"). If you meant only the milder claim you make here, then, not being a physicist, I do not think I am qualified to judge, and so withdraw my objection.
There is likely OPSEC issues with making that intellectual property public. The government and military use a lot of 747.
I have been impressed at how quickly ChatGPT has been adjusted to say I don’t know. You could previously trick it with extremely simple logic problems like:

> Jack is taller than Jim. Jack is taller than James. Is Jim taller than James?

Even if you asked it to explain, it would make up some bs.

Now if you ask it tells you it doesn’t have enough information to answer. More tricky problems have been resolved as well.
Also, "a study".
Can we change the title to say Python-like or something similar? Based on the comments so far, it seems that the detail that it compiles its own Python-inspired language, not actual Python, is lost on many.

EDIT: A list of differences here: https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/general/differences

The summary minimizes with "many Python programs will work with few if any modifications", but it actually looks like a substantially different language.
I’m curious why not implement websockets into Postgres natively instead of relying on a proxy server? Wouldn’t that be the way to minimize latency?
I think they'd agree that hydrodynamic effects on the concrete support columns should be considered.
You have your guts to thank for that.

Where's dang and his helpful links to recent relevant discussions when you need him? I'm happy to drop this in:

Why some feces float and others sink (phys.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691619

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-feces.html

There needs to be another "fart content" dimension to the Bristol Stool Scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSPI0xkTifI
That is the whole point of being remote! The parent poster is already all alone in a city, why not be all alone somewhere you can ski? Or surf/kitesurf/SUP/skate/paraglide/etc

There are so many activities out there that require specific geography. Normally you have to choose, a long commute to the office or a long commute to nature. But when you're remote, you can move somewhere near an activity you want to do!

Working remote and living in a city where you don't know anyone is almost definitely the wrong choice.
I love this comment and and am in total agreement.

I hope he can use this post as way to clear the air and let it go. I think the 20K was totally fair for the effort put in, but I do sympathize with being so close to a veritable fortune!! It must be so hard see it and not be jealous on some level. It's like having all but 1 of the winning lottery numbers (I realize that you would still get something nice in most lotteries for that). To be so close yet so far is a true test of letting go. Think Pete Best or Ronald Wayne. SO HARD.

The thing to realize, which, of course, sounds like sour grapes, is that having all that money is just picking a different set of problems and worries. No one gets to "have it all" in the sense of living in the world with no problems/fears/misery.
Ok, now network them.
I think you’re both right, just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Sure having office “friends” or social interactions at the office is a good thing but just make sure those aren’t your only social contacts.
and this is why I stopped reading partway through when the post started turning in that direction (and I saw how long it was)—what's the point in reading something so detached from reality?
> New companies pushing boundaries have almost never been focused on safety.

This is a big reason why I skipped buying a OneWheel. They look like so much fun and I live near the beach where it would be easy to ride them on the sand. That said, too many videos on YT about them just randomly stopping and people going flying. I'll wait for other companies give them some competition in order to drive out better products (and lower prices) in the long run.
Maybe I've missed the part in this document where it's referenced but: Automate. That's one part of the PR process that is crucial to performing code reviews like a Senior. In other words the PR process should start before engineers are even able to see the code. Nobody wants to talk about style, code smells, and code that might be broken. Linters. Formatters. Tests. That's what makes a code review a "senior" experience. So, as a senior, if the tooling isn't there to set up code reviews for success, then advocate for it.
I think what's not discussed is that most of this water ends up back into the ground and eventually back into a river. In some ways it even helps regulate river flow. Perhaps one improvement could not not allowing irrigation during from 8am to 4pm or something to reduce the amount of evaporation
Go figure, archive.ph / archive.today is not working for me as of 12/8/22. Is anyone else having issues accessing the site?
Show HN: Raysterizer – Transforming existing OpenGL applications to ray tracing
Blog with more examples and explains technical details

https://maknee.github.io/blog/2022/Raysterizer/
I liked the post as it revealed stuff I didn’t know. However I think the logic is flawed. Yes he’s one of the five people and Notch gave money to a bunch of staff, but what about people who worked on the JRE? Surely they contributed more to the game as a whole than someone who wrote the ending.
I used to be Jenkins user. Now I'm all in on GitLab and it's got some cool CI things.

Migrating was tedious, not difficult. We went slow, took a while and needed little scaffolding
> It means if a company

”company” is not a particularly well-defined term.
Dying Alone in Tokyo, an open data analysis
More newspapers consider pivot to postal delivery to cut costs
Tokyo Dying Alone is a visualization of data surrounding the lonely death problem in Tokyo, Japan.
It doesn't seem that it's the correct metrics, none of them makes much sense.

Something is definitely wrong with the "Queries per second", it doesn't look like something significant. My usual load for a single node is about 300 req/sec. That's just an average number. Sometimes I do up to 10K req/seq. That consumes some noticeable amount of CPU, but nothing special and the bottleneck seems to be not here.

And I think the main issue is the "Latency" chart. Because my average latency is about 3.5ms. It's like 10x faster. They cannot be so slow.

So I guess the real problem is that the author measures the network. Not the service. So a link to Alchemy happens to be slower than a link to his own server. And the network is the main bottleneck in both cases, because you can easily do 10x of those numbers with a good network.
I think PHP is getting better but... For any greenfield project, I'll not pick it.

Also, I'll not pick any of the interpreted languages for that matter and would want Golang/Crystal/Nim to get single binary to be packaged.

But of course - this isn't necessarily something everyone would do.

There are no right or wrong answers here I suppose.
CoffeZilla got a public statement from SBF that it was business-as-usual to comingle funds between customers using the margin trading product and the savings account product. That's a huge admission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_jPzBZSIo
Viral: The Origin of Covid 19 – Matt Ridley – #310
Seriously, Clear Your iPhone Cache
Would it ever be possible to run neon on a mobile phone, offline?
> You're pretending it's something new, novel, and hasn't ever existed before.

At no point I said that what makes Uniswap (or crypto in general) valuable is the speculation in itself. The value of crypto is in the ability of doing things permissionlessly.

The value of Uniswap is not to that it is "better" than Forex. The value of Uniswap is that it lets people exchange value permissionlessly.

The value of ENS is not that it is "better" than the ICANN. The value of ENS is that it lets people control a stable, unique, global identity permissionlessly.

The value of crypto payment networks is not that it is "better" than Visa. The value of crypto payment networks is that it lets people make transactions around the world permissionlessly.

The value of Storj

> my friends spent a lot of time on (Forex) in early 2000s.

After jumping through all the required hoops, putting together minimum deposit requirements, passing KYC to show their legal standing with who-knows how many financial authorities... but what about those people who wanted to do Forex, but failed to pass any type of requirement? What about, e.g, people in Argentina who are forced to buy and sell dollars at the totally artificial rate imposed by the government?

> Global market works easily, and at scale.

If it works for you, great! Plenty of people who don't have the same luck.

> For much longer and at much larger scale than anything crypto maximalists can even dream of.

Nice strawman you got here. Where in this conversation was there any type of "maximalist" proclamation?
Dramatically.
Thanks for your work! Minecraft is literally the game that inspired me to learn coding (through Redstone and stuff). I also dabble in making my own minecraft clones now and I've realized how the smallest details can have a significant performance impact: from saving space on disk to speeding up loading times etc. Anyways, it's cool that you had a hand in the early efforts of the game!
How did you establish that the customer would have contacted you if not for webchat?

In the parent's scenario, it seems likely that the buyer for that enterprise was simply browsing through the site, or perhaps looking at various options, when they found the parent's site, saw that there was a chat and saw the near immediate response, asked a few questions and eventually set up a meeting. To do that over email would have likely taken days.

Source: I've had something like this happen too.
Sure he could have, it just might have been spotted sooner. How many pump-and-dump shitcoins have there been to date?

If "Crypto" has proven anything over the last few years the only thing it mathematically prevents is reversing transactions, which is really useful when you want to steal money.
> who did not like our air war in the former Yugoslavia

You mean the 78 days straight of NATO bombing? Nobody likes war, who would have thought of that?

> I think people in Ukraine, however, appreciate what we are doing for them today

What percentage of the people in Ukraine appreciate what the US is doing? Is it possible that this number would go down or up in the future once the dust settles? Should the other part have any say in this?

Can you go back to any US war from the past 70 years and ask those populations if they appreciate what the US has been doing for them?
> I never let call centers get away with asking me for account numbers over and over again without commenting on it; Amdocs and other vendors have had great software for keeping track of customer interactions between multiple people you talk to at a call center for 10+ years now. Management will make the usual excuse ("we can't afford it") but you can turn that around and ask "how can you afford to pay people to ask the same questions over and over again?"

But presumably you are talking to customer-service agents, not representatives, and what are they supposed to do about it? I share your frustration, but this seems to be just a recipe for spreading that frustration, not for resolving it.

(Unless you meant something else, e.g., you are professionally involved in call-center design, in which case I applaud your being a voice of sense in that domain, and thank you for it!)
We have a simple chat window that only shows on exit on specific pages of our website (consulting firm). It's been a really efficient way to potential clients to start conversations with us and for us to get them quick and helpful answers. Saves both parties a lot of time and helps both qualify/disqualify each other a lot faster.
It hasn't even been a month since FTX collapsed. That's like milliseconds in legal time!
It can either feel paranoid or like common sense depending on place in the world in question.
I’m a crypto skeptic so I may be missing something. This sounds impossible. If users deposit to a wallet SBF has control of, he can fraud all he likes. It’s mathematically his money now. If users deposit but retain control of the wallet, it axiomatically isn’t a deposit.
Are you saying because "facts" are not sentient beings, they cannot be the subject for the verb "to show"?
> Perhaps one improvement could not not allowing irrigation during from 8am to 4pm or something to reduce the amount of evaporation

That’s genius. Is that implemented anywhere?
You can build a profitable business without code: How Lead Cookie makes 50K/m
Think it's a bit early to tell for sure, many predictions overplay the short term and underplay the long term or sometimes vice versa. Some of that bloat that's no longer there may have been what made Twitter stable without those employees now. What I think Twitter has lost is slack, for better or worse. Twitter may just be stuck in its current form for the most part for the remainder of its live (not that pre-Elon Musk Twitter was gearing up for a pivot or anything). If they do find a new lucrative pet project to put resources into or significant regulations to deal with on a technical level, maybe it will just be less over-engineered, or maybe it will be covered in band-aids.
Pretty surprising a research scientist doesn't know what falsifiability is.
At around 500 points, members will earn Stamps — that is, a coffee-themed NFT hosted on the Polygon blockchain. These Stamps also unlock special experiences. There will be three levels of benefits and experiences that can be unlocked. At the lower end, these could be online experiences, like a virtual class that teaches you how to make espresso martinis, or provides access to unique artist merchandise. As you earn more points and NFTs, you may then begin to gain access to real-world experiences, like special events hosted at Starbucks Reserve Roasteries or even a trip to the Starbucks Hacienda Alsacia coffee farm in Costa Rica.

Loyalty programs? So this is where we finally get to see the blockchain unleash its revolutionary, transformative potential?
Is this actually true? The article doesn't actually give any concrete details on how much faster things are after clearing the cache.
I don’t think he means friends in that literal sense. Someone you feel kinship and can make a gesture out of love for someone, even if you barely know them. Sometimes you’re right and the other person sígnals back that you’re indeed in the same frequency.

It’s a type of love close to a friendship than a romance, so it’s an apt metaphor.
I'm enjoying trying some of these out on ChatGPT.

The prediction for multiplying two 5-digit numbers is correct for ChatGPT - the middle digits are wrong (non-deterministically).

The example "Question: How many times does the word "all" occur in the following sentence: All the lice and all the mice were all very nice to all the mice and all the lice." results in answers of 5 or 6, about 50/50 split.
Wait. Isn't fastcgi essentially the same as mod_php? IPC with a long-running process rather than forking and capturing stdout?

What's the newer fastcgi php method that isn't mod_php?