skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHP8. You think it's a red flag when people don't believe that PHP8 finally got their shit together.

What's that George W Bush line, Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again. But we're not talking about getting fooled just once, or twice, we're talking about eight times.
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I suppose that's a deeper question of why do anything different at all if your current set of things results in your happiness?

Aside from practical limitations, health, economic prosperity, I'm of the opinion that there's value in staying compelling by exploring your curiosities instead of dismissing them in favour of protecting your current happiness. In order to have resilient connections with others, you need to find ways to stay attractive over time, and it's a consequence of doing new things from time to time, travel maybe being one of them.
What weird limits ? What ads ?
I'm sharing the yt premium with my whole family with no issues, and the only ads I see are the sponsoring from content creator directly in the video, but nothing from google
I committed to contact@firstnamelastname.com which looks the most professional to me.
> Which they later turned into a for-profit company after reaping all the goodwill

Did they have a lot of goodwill attached to their company? What did that give them?
Who said they do? They want to be respected members of their community and want to keep their country intact, leaving the moral character stuff to Immanuel Kant.
reminds me of http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
Well.. no? Because the state have other sources of money than the taxes: previous budget surplus, and loans being the most obvious ones.

Taxation is one thing, the budget is another.
I'd love to see a suit fixing his toilet
I was in a bad space. Couldn't navigated where what I was doing. I was living alone. Looking at porn, wanted sex. Rock bottom, I had been fired from my job.

Read up on a drug called 2c-e, overdosed by accident and which for six months entered psychosis. Crashed cars, chased aliens. Ended up in Jail for graffiti. Threw everything i owned.

During the trip I was smacked hard. Like "escaping Disney land". I recoiled as I many stuff I had seeked pleasure from replayed, presented to me like Would you like this if this was you?"

After seeing myself in the mirror, what I had become and who I was I've have been since working on changing myself. And for the past five years I've been challenging myself not look at porn. Sometimes I relapse and that's fine. I push hard snd try again, because I don't want to go back to where I was again.

I'm not religious but it feels like I've been given another chance.

I had unmonitored internet at 13, discovered porn at 15.. in the days of dialup. I've been passed around, groomed on the internet.

Im 34, many years later, have a new job. Have my own apartment but still have an addiction to porn and still figuring myself but change doesn't happen over night.

I fight it, but its hard and that I hope overtime it'll go away, but being on guard with especially how it is everywhere can be very triggering.
TN54TSXL01 is a Huawei OSN8800 40G Tributary Service Processing Board With 40G BASE-LR4-10km-CFP
Well, that's the problem with all PHP frameworks: they're written in PHP! Yes, PHP has gotten faster thanks to OPCache and other tricks, but still, the less time your application spends executing PHP code, the faster it will be. And frameworks like Laravel just pile on additional PHP code to execute like there's no tomorrow. I mean, just look at the callstack when an exception happens...
These kind of articles are always dumb and never make an apples to apples comparison.

It talks about Pan Am in the 1950s.

In May 1952 Pan Am tickets for New York - London roundtrip in economy class were $486. And that was the minimum legal price. Presumably you could find yourself paying more depending on demand.

That's equivalent to $5,584 today.

Google Flights tells me I can get a first class ticket on that route for $4,700 today.

So you're paying almost $1,000 more than a modern first class ticket and wondering why the food is pretty okay.
No point in reporting on inflation — it’s happened before.

No point in reporting on war — it’s happened before.

No point in reporting on a corrupt or lying politician — it’s happened before.
if on android u-block origin works well on firefox.

If ios you are probably stranded, Hopefully apple allows it's users to block some ads. That is if they don't become an advertising company.
Plato turned out right. I'm not extremely old and I still remember time before the Internet, when to know something, you had to look it up, which took ages, so you simply had to know it. Yourself.

We measured intelligence by the things you knew. We still have shows with questions based on this concept. This concept no longer makes sense in the modern world. But it used to.

Writing is a crutch, Internet even more so, and AI even more so. Eventually you can build the entire thinker out of those crutches and you need no humans anymore.
Probably the expectation is that the most marketable ones would receive special incentives including pay bumps and promotions. This makes a strong assumption that the company is able to accurately identify contributors worth the special incentives, which I have no faith in.
Nice update. Btw. UX-wise on mobile the upvote / downvote arrows are so close together that you have to pinch-zoom first to be able to select the right one with your finger. A real improvement would be to add some extra spacing between them.. somehow, without spoiling visual appearance.
At least we have Windows NT, the spiritual successor to VMS! (Only deep inside, of course.)
> It would be unequivocally good for the Internet if Google didn't have a monopoly on independent online video hosting.

So true. It should never have been permitted to get to this point.
That's interesting and relevant to know if you'd be doing this a few times. And it doesn't invalidate your point at all, but the time savings of having a machine tell you really fast how to do something simple is valuable.

I recently had to do a 'git pull' on 120 repositories, and of course we already had an in-house tool to do that. Of course I could google a script to do it. But it saved me 5 minutes to just have ChatGPT write it for me, and I saved the overhead of a more thorough context-switch.

Even the guy sitting next to me. "Hey, check this out, ChatGPT wrote this script for me and saved me 5 minutes". "Oh, but we already have a tool for that". "Yeah, I figured. Where is it?" "Ummmmm, I don't know, let me ask someone. Frank maybe?" And 5 minutes spent chasing Frank.
Thank you for Redis! We used it at the office at a startup I worked at. It never failed. Even when it was a single node. Whenever there was a problem with the app we never thought: “oh it must be redis” it was always something else.

It’s amazing and thank you to the author of the post for this history.

I’ll check out the English translation of your book. All the best!
Use AI to write anything and you become confined to whatever "moral code" the model has been taught to follow. Once a critical mass is reached, whoever controls these models, will control what is being said.
> TBH I don't think that's something to miss. I'd be pretty happy to not know that either. Unless you're writing a book about air travel security, that's probably not worth any attention

It's more of a personal revulsion I have against having pride in being ignorant, and then relying on ancient knowledge only to inform current and future decisions. "Flying is a hassle and expensive" just isn't true in many but not all cases. It's one thing to have a preference, it's another to have prejudice, and I think ignorance turns into prejudice if you go long enough without re-evaluating the criteria you once used.
- Ads crank up the volume to 11.

We were watching Eurovision singing contest the other day from YT and my gawd was that annoying. Adds in the middle of every song, volume being cranked up for the adds, and as a icing on the cake, probably due to bug somewhere, the playback went to pause after each ad (iPhone airplaying to AppleTV).
It’s not surprising that those opposed to this ideology have been most motivated to catalog its excesses.

BTW, to get crisp: she and similar others (I’m in this camp) support fair and equal treatment of minorities. What we oppose is the following (a common def of the form of wokeness they oppose). (1) assertion that any observed inequality is due to racism sexism etc (2) that we should fix this via racial or other quota systems.

We think (1) is obviously wrong and that (2) is highly unethical — Ie this particular ideology is rubbish and very harmful for our society.

Others disagree and they influence many of our institutions today. Maybe you think these axioms are cool, I don’t know. At any rate, There are people who do and in fact they are prevalent. Bari Weiss’s work (among other things now) catalogs examples of people who follow these principles and in this context argues why she and others find their principles wrong.
YouTube could pay me to watch ads, they are using the processing power of my computer and the electricity I pay to show them. It's not like TV where nothing actually changes and I can't disable them.

This move will hurt badly those content creators who appeal to a more knowledgeable user base, but I will not watch YouTube without an AD blocker.

I am probably in the vast minority, I understand it, both my father and my nephews don't know that there was a version of the internet without ads and that you could block them.

I guess YouTube made their calculations.
What nuance do I not get, buddy, you're literally quoting me saying it. Yes, if the stock doesn't go up, you get nothing. I said this myself. This is an incentive for employees to work for increasing the value of the company.

What is it you think I'm missing here at all? You're pissed employees get nothing if stock doesn't go up? You think I'm missing that? No, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF OPTIONS.
There was a time when I was living of AdSense, and I still use and encourage blockers.

If your business model only depends on ads you are putting yourself in a dangerous situation either way. For me ads always been a form of compensation, but nothing I was actively trying to milk most of it.

Today I run my own small niche ad platform. No tracking, no cookies, just jpeg or gif banners. In my opinion a completely ethical form of ads. And big surprise. That works too.
As they should. When big tech lays off staff and principal level engineers it’s at their loss. Let’s see what these new empowered startups can do!
Isn't that what metrics like DAU is meant to capture?

Making DAU & avg active time per day in addition to user reviews/ratings would be a pretty strong signal.
there is something to be said about the huge installed base of WP. one radical new plugin that is not deterred by the "blogging" typecasting can change the world.
Vanced has essentially been disabled recently, unable to play anything. I don't know if YouTube is going on a murdering spree of everything that threatens ads on the platform.
Of course I haven't as I made zero claim about mnemonics. We're talking about readability i.e. cognitive burden which by definition increases with amount of unknown words, or words with unexpected contextual meanings
It's just plain cost. Reworking things takes engineering time, an engineers need to be paid.

If I were to list impediments to the technical development of the Internet, local telco monopolies would be much higher in the list, but it's another kettle of fish.
Yes, retrieval from disk caching is not as fast as one would expect. Detailed article: https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/
Visual Studio UI Refresh
I get that it's difficult to educate the public about this, but the Bohr-Einstein debate is about as settled as Galileo's leaning tower of Pisa experiment.

It's kind of unfortunate that the public perception of quantum physics is very much a hundred years out of date, and is concerned with questions that have been largely settled and are a complete non-controversy in physics.
Chrome Will No Longer Function on 15 Year Old Processors
Sounds like a threat TBH
For what is worth, Benito Mussolini was a key figure of the Italian socialist party before founding the fascist party, which is the quintessential example of right wing party.
Plato gives multiple hints across his works about the esoteric, unwritten teachings [1]. We can only speculate about the content; for me, they were surely tied with the Eleusinian Mysteries [2]: early, myths-driven psychonautics based on ergot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_unwritten_doctrines

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
Iterm2 and Karabiner Elements don't have comparable equivalents.
Ah Thank you for the links! Do you know if this affect payments from within apps as well, like people can't go through with their purchases?
Only one device being able to hear music at once? Only 2 or so being able to watch movies at once? YouTube app and browser on the same device already being 2 devices. And yes with ads I mean sponsored ad blocks from the creators. Before I had these blocked I unsubbed more people than I subbed because of minute long VPN ads
the second sign is optional, the download button is on the right side of the screen
One of the proposed options, flooding the Qattara Depression was actually proposed by the CIA to President Dwight Eisenhower as a way to achieve peace in the Middle East.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression:

> The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits:

> - it is easier to extract oil from offshore platforms than in swamps,

> - the flow will turn the hydroelectric power station,

> - fishing, resorts, pearls,

> - it would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's "mind on other matters" because "he needed some way to get off the Soviet hook".
The impression I got from reading through some of the Windows Terminal[0] issues/release notes, is that

It's understandable that it's much slower and more challenging to make changes to functionality that's become part of Windows core.

If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
well put!

aand it's doing so for some time now (20y?)
This feature exists in Macbooks too, but it's useless to me - it never works because apparently my usage pattern doesn't convince the smart system to limit charging, and it gives me no manual control whatsoever. I think I'd have to always keep charging the laptop for it to kick in.

Just gimme a slider that lets me tell it to only charge to 80% and be done with it.
It's really cool to see DIY drum machines and synths both in hardware like this and in software with dedicated SoCs that people are programming. This is finally the future we were promised in the 1980s.
And I think if you lose the oral tradition, if you don’t speak your thoughts out loud and make them into a speech then you lose something too. It’s also the ability to think. I find my modes of communication in writing, and speech way different to the extent that I’ve taken to Verbally responding to things; recording that; transcribing that; and then putting that into writing, because I find like the process of writing maybe because it’s cross pollinate it too much with my work as a programmer uses a different part of myself and a lot of the time ends up going on like long tangents to explain everything in agonizingly stupid legalistic detail wheras in speech, I would just get straight to the fucking point. Obviously, your mileage may vary my insights here may only apply to myself, and certainly not gonna apply to everyone I think.

However, what I’m saying, reminds me of what Haruki Murakami talks about as his process for writing I think in his earliest novels anyway, he even mentioned trying to write it as if he was speaking it but certainly he writes his novels in English first and then translates them back in the Japanese, because he finds that’s how he expresses his authentic voice. Kind of hilarious to have such lauded post modern writer, write in a way where his pre-translated works are then translated back into English else. Reminds me too of fight club / chuck Palahniuk copy of a copy of a copy. Yet in Murakami‘s case it seems to create rather than erode quality.

Of course there’s always the issue of the very low quality transcription available in a by default in iPhone and android keyboards. The voice typing sucks and so you always get some weird homonyms inside probably there’s some in his comment to.
Ethernet cables and coax cables.
Is Gleam your next programming language
viewBox can be comma-separated, so you can loose the quotes but only for inline SVG
> Not that I'm a professional GPU programmer. But I'm pretty certain that GPU caches are non-coherent.

Yes, I was specifically referring to general purpose CPUs; I'm quite unfamiliar with GPUs, but I don't think anybody has ever accused them of being easy to program. Also I understand that GPUs (and CPU-GPU links) is an area where remote atomics already exist.

> So it sounds like your point is that the various sync() instructions are more about these queues?

for the most part yes, specifically fences enforce ordering on any operation that can execute out of order (even on in-order CPUs memory ops can be reordered), but only up to the coherence layer (i.e. L1). Ordering from the coherence layer on is enforced by the coherence protocol. You could of course have a model where fences are needed for for global coherence, but it would be too slow (having to flush the whole cache), too hard to use (as you would need to specify which lines need to be sync'd) or both.

You could see something like the store buffer as a non-coherent cache (as reads can be fulfilled form it), with fences restoring the coherence, but I don't think it is a terribly useful model.
The parallel code structure looks very different from the standard for loops in python.

So there is a lot of rewriting to get things to work on parallel in python compared to R.

In R you just replace lapply with mclapply.
Software engineers aren't working-class
I guess it depends on how it's communicated. If someone tells me he doesn't like PHP because of this and that reason, that's fine. Getting wound up about some specific programming language (feature) or any tech still raises a red flag for me. But then I might be terrible as well :)
I don't think so. Eventually maybe but €220 for 14TB is not in the realm of SSDs yet and it won't be by 2028.
1 - this is not a solution, it's a workaround. an adblocker solves the issue much better

2 - DO vpns are blocked (almost) everywhere
I propose the Willis law (are you allowed to name a law after yourself?):

The spread and reach of TCP/IP will accelerate at a pace faster than that of the transition to IPv6 indefinitely, therefore we are saddled with IPv4 until the end of time.
The problem is this page advertises Laravel, not PHP. Ruby on Rails has many similar "demo worthy" snippets that make complex tasks seem readable and intuitive to the layman. Laravel and Ruby on Rails have something else in common: due to the focus on these "natural" interfaces, they compromise in every other way. Architecture, performance, testability and so on and so on.

For those who know PHP, this code is full of singletons masquerading as static classes (which Laravel incorrectly calls "Facades") which mean no isolation and clear flow of dependencies in your code. In a nutshell, every line of code you write this way comes loaded with a pound of irreducible, unfixable tech debt. Enjoy.
It is fair to give more information about the information exposed on a website, especially when it comes to partnering with AI systems. There is an international effort which includes such information. It is done under the auspices of the W3C. See https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/. It has been developed to implement the Text & Data Mining + AI "opt-out" that is legal in Europe. It does not use robots.txt because this one is about indexing a website and should stay focus on it. The information about website managers is contained in the /.well-known directory, in a JSON-LD file, which is much more well structured than robots.txt.
Why not adhere to an international effort rather than creating N fragmented initiatives?
Whoa, this would be a dream come true, haha!
on a $6/month server. Are we also losing the ability to read now because of AI?
> Just ignore the fugly standard library inconsistencies of (old) PHP, every language has their toilet corner...

Personally, I do like the way the standard library is - almost all cases of where people whine about it being inconsistent, it is a consequence of the PHP standard library and many of its extensions being extremely thin wrappers around libc and C/C++ libraries in general.

That, in turn, makes it often possible to just take straight C library example code, copy it into a PHP file, add a $ in front of all variables, and have it magically work.

(IMHO, it's no surprise that the whiners tend to be younger programmers who have grown up with Java in their university education - us older "neckbeards" are so used to the C world that its conventions are second nature for us)
And now we will have the @Protocol vs ActivityPub war ;P
Well, actually, true silence (as in an anechoic chamber) can be maddening.
I just love how recurrent this argument gets. Obviously LLMs are not human brains, and we could be all day listing ways in which the two are different just for the pleasure of it.

But when we dig, and rip away all the layers of civilized dialog and cognitive philosophy, what we find at the bottom of the pit is our brains brilliantly doing what evolution wants them to do: to fight for our survival. The core of the argument is "Are LLMs better than us? Because if they are better than us, they deserve more than us, according to our cultural upbringing. And we don't want to be second class. So we must fight to death to convince the world they are inferior."

IMO, the folly is in the last sentence. Maybe we should just carve an exception in our culture, say that even if we create and exploit AIs which do a few things better than us, it is okay to smash any artilect that we make and that wants to supplant us. Humanity first.
I think more documentation teams need to know of the concept of Diataxis [1] so they can invest in the 4 different kinds of documentation developers turn to for help when picking up a new technology:

- tutorials;

- how-to guides;

- technical reference and;

- explanation.

1: https://diataxis.fr
this is only a short term solution as once enough people have YT premium they'll start adding ads in there too

just like cable tv
Personally i find startups better to work at. Instead of being a cog in a machine that takes years to “approve” what’s actually needed for the task at hand or having some inexperienced “cio” worker dictating what os or kit you can use you actually get to play with modern tech and do fun things. Even as a manager it’s more fun.
a) even if I grant you your timeline, that's still decades of delay and denial

b) they have still been championing people like Bjorn Lomborg within that timeframe.

c) they appear to have become more US culture war aligned recently as their readership changed which is obviously a step backwards on climate (and COVID)
American engineers are lucky to earn enough to be able to save up and do stuff like this, like on $200k you can save enough to really try a start-up for a year or two.

Whereas in Europe we're lucky to get $80k in the same jobs, and then the state steals half of that :/
It's also running on JavaScript and in a browser.