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I really don't understand all the PHP dismissal on HN. As a language it has continued to evolve in meaningful ways, especially with the latest releases. Companies like Facebook are built on PHP (yes, they extended with Hack, but most of the benefits are available in PHP 8 now without the downsides).

Coming from a C background, I found PHP easy to step into as many of of the underlying libraries and common functions are wrapped and available in PHP (with similar names).

PHP has a built in web server you can launch from the CLI and run the script. `php -S <address:port>`

It's interesting how the news cycle goes. Today on the HN homepage:

Netlify Raises $105M (netlify.com)

Netlify Acquires OneGraph (netlify.com)

Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack (cloudflare.com)

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out..

This Newsweek article has a pretty good breakdown:

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email system had reportedly suffered a hack on Saturday morning amid several reports of messages sent from the agency's email infrastructure purporting to be a warning from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about a cyberattack." [1]

"The Spamhaus Project, an international nonprofit organization based in Andorra and Switzerland that tracks spam, reported on Twitter that its analysis had shown the unusual emails are being sent from accounts "scraped" from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database." [1]

"Our telemetry indicates that there were two 'spam' waves, one shortly before 5 AM (UTC) [12.am. E.T.] and another one shortly after 7 AM (UTC) [2a.m. E.T.]. The FBI has been getting many calls about it. We are therefore refraining from further actions against the sending IP addresses." [1]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-email-system-reportedly-hacked-...

Here's the full article for anyone who wants to read it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211021121804id_/https://www.ec...

I've been hearing about this coming from my nephrologist for many years. I have stage 3 kidney disease and he isn't concerned about it because by the time I need a transplant, they will be growing kidneys from my cells in pigs. Exciting to see another step forward.

NIH from March:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8004187/

"Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035."

I'm no expert on Nuclear power but it seems to me were going in the wrong direction. At a time when we're investing so much money in other fuels, we could be investing that in better nuclear power, like Small Modular Reactors [1], Sodium Cooled Fission, Small Pellet reactors, etc. [2]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-small-modular-reactors-sm...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-rea...

Edit:

I see France is investing in Small Reactors, but only 1 billion.

"One billion euros is to be thrown into nuclear power: “We need to develop small, innovative nuclear reactors in France by 2030, with better waste management," Macron said."

[3] https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power...

Geez, and I was surprised to see 400Gbps QDR optics hitting the mainstream. Even if we double the data rate every few of years (as we have been, 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps, 400Gbps, 800Gbps, I expect it will continue), we are at least 10 full cycles off from realizing those kinds of speeds, or 30-40 years?

Edit: since they are multiplexing, it almost seems like this is DWDM, on 4 optics, and combined into a single datastream. That means is probably more attainable sooner. Seems similar to just adding more cores (or lanes like in current QDR optics).

The technology is neat but I can't help wondering who has a keyhole anymore that you could actually shine a laser through?

I don't think there is any conspiracy here. Lawn/Gardens have been popular for hundreds of years, at least, for the wealthy. For example, the Gardens of Versailles in France. [1] The United States has more space to person ratio than Europe too. Suburbia is just people spreading out, wanting more privacy, and being able to indulge in those garden like experiences, on a smaller scale.

So I guess my point is, gardens aren't new, and many US residents have the space and the disposable income.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Versailles

The sunk cost fallacy only applies when you can see the likely outcome is no longer beneficial and continue anyway.

“ Has the athlete who trained 7 years to get to elite status wasted her time, or is she on the brink of a series of pb’s that will rocket her into contention for gold, two months out from the olympics? It’s hard to tell.”

This is not a sunk cost fallacy. You need to make a follow through even though you know its a loosing proposition. The training is a sunk cost, but the fallacy is making a decision based on that sunk cost.

They provide several other articles for additional context, such as the Concorde.

"Nor are the police blameless. In the fourth quarter of last year, the “clearance” rate for robbery (which measures the share of reported crimes that result in an arrest) was half that of New York City. The police are notoriously unresponsive."

This. Not only do I RARELY see a police officer in SF, but when I do, they look "beat down" or ambivalent. I'm sure years of police being the political "whipping boy" has taken its tole.

Full article: https://web.archive.org/web/20210826152420id_/https://www.ec...

I had the exact opposite result. I've been using DDG for about 2 years and I rarely use Google now.

This was a fun read and a great story.

I'm sure this will get downvoted since its not PC (pun intended), but I feel like the title should read "Two Bored 1970's Housewives, and an engineer Husband, Helped Create the PC Industry." The wives had the time and desire, and the husband had the skill and idea[1], just not the time or risk tolerance. I don't see how these can be separated, considering he was the Chief Engineer and created most of the products too. [2]

[1] "Bob Harp’s memory board worked well, and he recognized that it could serve as a lucrative commercial product. Lacking the time and resources to commercialize it, he put it on the back burner for almost a year. But in 1976, when his wife and Ely were trying to hatch a business, he offered his Altair memory board as a potential product".

[2] "Losing the engineer who had designed almost all of its hardware products since 1976 was a huge blow for Vector."

Theres a good nat geo article on it too. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-gold...

Its funny and an interesting read. At the same time, this kind of frivolous litigation drives me nuts.

It was a compelling read up to the end, then It left me wanting. I think its because it reads like an article, which should make a point or conclusion but was infact more like a Quora entry.

The problem with these one-time URL's is that most people share them in places where the "one-time" is usually a cloud provider. If you share over IM, the IM service will check the URL to provide preview, or virus scan it. Same for many email providers. By the time you try to open it, it's already been burned.

You can whitelist those parties, but it somewhat defeats the purpose of a secure one-time link.

I wonder if those issues could be related to a poor network connection to the Skype servers, and maybe poor handling of lossy or high latency connections. I haven't seen any of these issues with Skype.

The population is growing over time, so housing and land appreciate because demand and scarcity increase.

From 180m in 1960 to 329m today. [1]

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=U...

“It's super obvious that this is structured as a compromise with business interests. Infuriating.”

I'm not sure why "business" is always the big bad wolf, I guess it’s an easy target. Businesses are a vehicle for people, like a commune with unified set of goals. YC itself is designed to start businesses. Business create jobs, wealth, improve our lifestyles, and grow our economy.

I think any plans moving forward to address global warming have to include business and economic interests. I think what you need more of is incentives to drive innovation in the areas where government wants to push businesses and taxes and/or more regulation in areas government is trying to avoid. Businesses will always follow the money.

What fond memories I have of playing and hosting a TW2002 (and BRE) BBS in the early 90's. I find though, trying to revisit those fond memories is a mistake, they never live up to the original experience because the world has evolved, and so have I.

Only for ~2 more years. I had a Motorola machine and when they switched to x86, it was useless pretty quickly, far before its time.

"what use is it to "feel frustruated" over something that was expected to come"

1) The details were all speculation. 2) There was no other option if you needed more horsepower. 3)_I'm happy with the current Mac Pro, but its going to be phased out of software support before its time, just like the Motorolla.

So it's more about the software support being phased out than new hardware coming out.

The old (2012) Mac Pro, and the newest Mac Pro are fairly modular and upgradable. The trash can was not.

As someone who just invested in a Mac Pro late last year, I'm a bit frustrated. I wanted years for a modular design that I could keep and upgrade over a longer time only to find out I'll be forcefully phased out within 2 years.

There is a good breakdown of the CPI on the US BLS Site:

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

Highlights that explain the overall 4.2% jump:

* Used cars and trucks 21.0%

* Gasoline (all types) 49.6%

* Airline fare 9.6%

There is more demand for homes and home improvements, but again, thats what's driving goods, like lumber, cement, etc. I would argue those are as much goods as services.

The “stimulous” checks increase demand for goods, not services, which, combined with supply chain issues drives inflation. When you get that “free” money, people are buying that new tv they have wanted and not thinking about a haircut. Credit card debt is also falling rapidly.