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Implementations as in .Net implementations? Or implementations as in other languages' implementations?

As far as .Net goes, I've not looked around. I feel like it would be somewhat of a fool's errand to develop an alternative async/await implementation because almost all of the core APIs use Task/Task<T>, so you'd either be using Task/Task<T> anyway or re-producing a lot of APIs.
Agreed. I also dive deeper into some of your points in these two blog posts, and mention new ones (remote work, "TikTok of VR", creating a movie in VR etc.):

https://shafyy.com/post/tiktok-in-vr/

https://shafyy.com/post/next-use-cases/
It is simple. You lower rates, and you borrow demand from the future. Well we lowered rates to zero, and started handing cash out to everyone...and now central bankers are talking about even more money...at some point, you have borrowed everything you can from the future.

I don't think the real effect will be significant, it will hit hardest in countries that didn't see much failure in GFC (the UK is the obvious one) because people need to switch jobs/businesses need to fail to increase productivity. But you can't postpone this forever.

Just generally too: financial markets aren't working very well. There is infinite capital for some borrowers, and no capital for borrowers that have fine credit but require some thought on the part of creditors. Infinite capital for WeWork. No capital for small business.

All this stuff is patently obvious btw. The issue people have is that they think tomorrow will never come.
The US as well, if I remember correctly. Can't find it on the State Dept. website at the moment.
Thank you very much for your kind words, and for your interest!

Yes, absolutely: In fact, Prolog was designed for natural language processing and convenient interfacing.

However, currently, all existing Prolog systems fall short for such use cases in that they do not optimally combine efficiency with convenience when processing lists of characters. Ideally, lists of characters are efficiently represented internally, i.e., as sequences as raw bytes, and at the same time made available to Prolog programmers as "completely normal" lists, like all other lists, so that they are amenable to DCGs etc.

So, to seriously advertise such use cases, there must first be a Prolog system that handles lists of characters in an efficient way.

Recently, Mark Thom has confirmed his interest in implementing such an efficient internal representation in Scryer Prolog, please see the relevant issue:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/issues/95

Rust programmers may be interested in helping with the implementation!
I agree, I think the days of someone like Yang polling 5% in some places, but getting left out of tons of media, pushed aside on the debate stage, etc will come to an end. The media generally pretends like Bernie Sanders doesn't exist, and they acted like Trump had zero vision or capability from day one. To sum is up that arrogance has to end for them to remain relevant. The antics need to end, too. Currently it looks like the DNC and media have systematically propped up candidates one by one (Buttigeg, Biden, Warren, Harris, Klobuchar) in order to split the vote and take it to super delegates the same way it was done in 2016 with Bernie. I don't agree with any of them, but for the DNC and media to stay relevant things need to change.
The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android phone runs well -- for a beta
Unfortunately this also applies to adults. My parents grew with little more than a radio and a handful of books yet today they're tied into their phones and tablets, constantly checking for FB updates or the latest (irrelevant) news.
For what it's worth, I recall reading that Bill Gates didn't allow his children to have smartphones until they were like 13. Not that he's a model of perfect parenting but just an interesting example given his relationship to technology. I'm not convinced that an 8 year old who is interested in web development will suffer from not having the device--there's a million other things they could be learning/doing. In fact I would hypothesize that the smartphone would actually cause a young brain to grow into the habit of having a miniscule attention span.
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Matrix' answer to Moxie: On privacy versus freedom
I’ve listened to every episode since they were recommended on Slate Culture Gabfest in 2014
I’ve always been skeptical of “screen time addiction”. In most cases I’ve seen someone addicted to screentime, there’s an underlying issue that’s the real cause. Like a messy divorce causing kids to lose themselves in World of Warcraft, or my own example of picking up coding to “hide” in my own world due to a traumatic childhood. Other cases, I’ll see more normal people binge games or screentime, but usually they pull themselves out and do fewer IRL screen activities after that binge. They don’t lose themselves like I did as a kid trying to escape something.
why do most US companies allow only US remote candidates?

You've a great (moral and technological) business btw, in a world polluted by over-consumerism and waste. Best continuation
The expansive reading of the Commerce Clause has allowed drug prohibition. See Wickard v. Filburn and Gonzales v. Raich.
To $35,000/mth profit? Revenue? Liabilities?
We recently got a roborock for christmas, which I love btw. From what I recall some of the features of the app still say they're in beta, and they made it very clear. I'm not saying it makes it okay, but I'm curious if this part of the issue.

What bugs me is having to add a new app integration to my Home every time someone buys us a smart device or light. A few cheaper brands I returned immediately after seeing how janky the app and setup were, and also because I wanted to minimize the number of integrations when possible.
Why is apache developing all those servers that are only useful to a handful of companies that are rich enough to build them themselves? How about building something that individuals can use, like, i dunno, apache server itself?
Adult Content Disguised as Kids Videos Is Flooding YouTube
Good thing we don't want to use much of libc functionality from Go, so nobody needs to reimplement all of it. It's not like people would be begging to call strcpy. All that's needed is the syscalls.
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This you must repeat. Next step is to automate the manual process. Like Tile, but no extra cost and using existing home network infra.

"$Home_Automation_Wake_Up_Command, where did I leave my $device", with $device friendly name associated with hardware address.

RF engineering is just so darn awesome, it can appear to be magic.
1. Always have a buffer and not land up on the street. Most likely it will be hard to find a cheaper place unless you are sharing anyway!

2. You could transfer the mortgage to a new roommate, and get out of the deal, you can liquidate your equity for the downpayment plus principal.

3. Rent it out to someone, opting for nominal cash loss while maintaining equity, assuming you found another spot more suitable to your married / new found environment.

4. While living, either your accomodation money goes into someone else's pocket, or 50% of it goes into theirs - that is the difference between renting vs. mortgage.
>It's also the case that the James Damore memo suggests the opposite problem the author complains about -- diversity policies which are too progressive. I'm not suggesting Damore is correct, and the author is incorrect, but instead that this line of argument is not a given.

Just because Google hires women and minorities doesn't mean they are treated well. In fact, you need women and minorities in close proximity to mistreat them. There is no conflict between the author and James Damore.
I see you visit HPB...one of my favorites.

Like a treasure hunt every time I enter.
Windows users may want to try the built-in Bluetooth proximity locking feature:

Lock your Windows 10 PC automatically when you step away from it https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028111/windows-loc...

While macOS doesn't include such a feature out of the box, apps like Near Lock https://nearlock.me exist.

EDIT: Just found Rohos Logon Key for Windows and macOS:

https://www.rohos.com/products/rohos-logon-key-for-mac/

It "converts any USB drive into a security token for your computer" and can "automatically lock your Mac screen when the key is unplugged".
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> I'd like to know what kinds of societal discourse is being held back when there are laws prohibiting disparagement or intimidation of people based on their membership in a group

This depends highly on what is being included under the umbrella of "disparagement of intimidation". Some claimed that James Damore's memo was disparagement, and others say that advocating against men who identity as women competing in women's sporting events is disparagement. Others try to put advocating for enforcement of existing immigration laws as disparagement and intimidation.

Once you define a forbidden category, people will try to abuse it to their advantage.
What's wrong with stereotypes if they don't lead to discrimination?
Instead of splitting the key into substrings or using Reed-Solomon codes I’d recommend something like Adi Shamir’s secret sharing scheme.

Using something like that allows you to say “split into seven shards but only require three to reconstitute”, and possessing less than the minimum number of shards yields no new information.
Actually some tech companies do call; at least Dell (well I guess you could argue it’s not a tech company) did cold call me to try to sell overpriced extended warranty on their shitty tower. Probably legit since apparently loads of people get this sort of calls, plus they don’t actually ask for service tag or personal info and you can pay on dell.com so rather pointless as a scam.
Ask HN: What are the mystery drones in Colorado up to?
Over the past couple weeks many drones have been spotted over the plains of eastern Colorado at dark until about 10 PM. No one knows who they belong to or what they are doing. I am wondering if the HN community has any ideas.

More info: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-creepy-unexplained-drones-are-swarming-by-night-over-colorado/ar-BBYwMD8
echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger

(read linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst before you try this)
he has to stop lending his mom stuff
Correct.

The machine here doesn’t even know that those are beetles (because nobody told it), it is “just” arranging pixels in a similar manner as the pixels from the source images. It does understand that each generated image must have “legs”, “eyes”, “shells”... and other features that it detected are common in the original images.
You can also use the websocket proxy: https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/next/client-libraries-webs...
That depends, is there are network of them such that you can go a few km without going outside, or is it across one road. The latter is worthless for all the reasons you mention. For dense areas (downtown) they are fairly common, office workers can go several buildings over to lunch without going outside, and things are heated in winter.
> Notice American tax revenue to GDP is only 27%, which is low compared to many developed nations.

Total government tax revenue is about 32% to 33% of GDP.

fy2020 Federal: $3.65t; State: $2.1t; Local: $1.4t

Out of an economy roughly $22.x trillion in size for fy2020.

Those all must be counted as they each provide useful, typically different, government services at various levels and are paid for via taxation.

Total government spending is equal to about 37% to 38% of GDP (throw an extra trillion x in spending on the Federal number). This figure in particular is much closer to being aligned with typical OECD developed nations.

The deficit spending up at 37-38% comes out of American pockets one way or another regardless of taxation, via future currency debasement, QE infinite.

A VAT is a horrific idea and is wildly regressive. The very, very obvious tax change the US needs to make is also very simple: raise taxes on the top ~25%. And particularly raise taxes by a lot on the top 10%. There's absolutely no need to introduce a VAT when the US system is already perfectly well set up to boost taxation by a lot through its existing levers and the US system has immense slack income taxation potential. In most of the US you have to make around $600,000 to $700,000 per year before your total tax rate hits 40%. You can go make $5m, $20m, $60m per year and stay around 45% (higher in CA, NYC, etc). That's obviously going to change in the next 10-15 years.
If "we" == "USA", then no you don't "heavily subsidise poverty". As for empirical evidence that "throwing more money" at it gives an improved outcome, you can look at basically any country in Western or Northern Europe.
These headlines need help. A laymen's term for "adiposity" could save me a google and it wouldn't hurt my nerd feelings.
Oh, I think it's worse than that. I think the company leadership legitimately wants to do right by minority staff and has no idea how, so that defer to third-party programs they lack the skill to evaluate.
If you did bother to read the linked page, you would have understood that it’s a yahoo project handed over to Apache for management like many of Apache’s projects.
The Agile you describe is neither the agile I practice nor the one advocated for by sophisticated software development organizations who understand productivity and effectiveness.

The things you describe as “software engineering” are part of any reasonable agile implementation.

Many orgs have done a poor job of implementing agile practices, but throwing the baby out with the bath water seems like a great way to continue repeating the mistakes of those that came before us.
I don't think the article suggested this is what parents have to do, but maybe I missed it.

I agree that this is a bit "extra", but you obviously haven't experienced what it's like for someone to have a crippling addiction to their smartphone.

This dad feeling like he had to do something extreme is probably not ill-founded. Sometimes people have to pull out all the stops to accomplish something, especially when dealing with an addict (that's what interventions are). Staying at home could have worked, but much harder when you have to trust and rely on the son using his phone responsibly. The dad just avoided all the pitfalls by doing something extreme. Agreed that it's extra, but I think you're dismissing this hastily.
Nice work. I was doing this on Fiverr several years ago, mostly for Filipino customers. It was a lot of fun but the revenue was obviously quite a bit less.
This should be in their home page ...
Nah don't walk away. Do it, and get the experience so you know what to expect next time. You've already scheduled it!

I would hate for my previous comment to have discouraged you from even trying. If it's a simple online coding challenge, it might be pretty straightforward. It's the in-person round of interviews that you really need some solid prep for.
Totally! Building a community has helped me to know what customers wanted.

How I did it:
- Started a small Facebook group, added friends
- Started connecting on FB with productized service entrepreneurs, added them to the group
- Mentioned the group in various places (Twitter/Indie Hackers/...)
Things were even worse before agile, or at least as bad. The alternative you describe doesn't exist at scale, nor can it, because the same corporate culture that made agile suck and waterfall suck will make every other process approach suck in much the same way. The most that is possible are sporadic individual exceptions.
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First off, I'd say that a good daily standup meeting shouldn't be more than 15 minutes. If it's longer than that, you are probably getting bogged down in details that don't belong there.

Let's be generous and call the "real" cost 30 minutes of productivity... 15 minutes for the actual meeting/call, and 15 minutes of context switching cost.

That is 6% of an 8-hour workday. You can still code up to 94% of the time, not bad. And I think it has been shown many times that most developers don't really pound out code for 8 hours per day. We might work 10+ hours per day but it's not necessarily 10+ hours of coding. So I feel the cost of these daily meetings is very small.

What are the benefits?

1. For one thing, it is good to know what the rest of your team is working on and what challenges they are facing. This jogs a lot of useful conversations in my experience, where Developer A turns out to have some experience in the area in which Developer B is stuck. You may be thinking, "good teams communicate and can do this literally any time... why schedule a daily meeting for it?"

Yes. If your team is operating and communicating flawlessly, sure, standups are redundant. However, I've been at this for 22 years and this is not typically the case, and the brief daily meetings are a real upgrade.

2. These meetings help prevent "drive-by shootings." That's what I call it when management randomly stops by your desk and wants to know what you're doing and if you're stuck and wants to see your work in progress. I hate hate hate hate these. I would rather just briefly chat with leadership on a predictable basis. And when I am leadership, I would prefer not to subject my team to these "drive-by shootings." A lot of teams are already paying this cost, which I feel is much greater than the cost of a brief morning standup. Again, if your team is already communicating at a super high level, maybe you don't need standups. I feel this is not the case for a majority of teams.

3. For remote teams, these give folks a chance for some regularly scheduled face time and chitchat. We kept our morning call to < 15 minutes today and talked about Star Wars. As a remote worker myself I truly cherish this. If you have a remote team I would call video chat standups more or less a requirement.
For one. bridge you are right. Put in dozens such that you can go several km without going back down though and things are different.
One thing that leads to those faulty promises, IME, is that we often conflate estimates with commitments.

When you work in a scrum team with a well-established workflow, and you have the experience that we usually finish around 20 story points per sprint, then shouldn't commit to finishing the next sprint with 20 story points.

You also know that that effort and technical challenges etc. vary greatly, so you can only do a commitment to, say, 8 story points per sprint with a straight face.

And now, try to tell somebody why you only commit to "so little" work being done by the end of the sprint when you tend to get much more work done... Mostly impossible, in my experience.
This sounds interesting, what exactly do you mean by 'endpoint' in this scenario? I looked into a few alternatives before settling for pulsar, and disregarded nats because it didn't seem to support message persistence. I didn't look into it too deeply though, maybe i should have. How do you guarantee no message is lost with NATS?
Not when you have money. It is mostly due to poorer charged persons accepting guilty plea deals.
This makes sense to me. My understanding is that consuming sugar has a much higher impact on obesity then consuming fat, and that low-fat milk usually has added sugar to make up for the flavour-loss from removing the fat. I am not exactly well studied in this area though.
This could be due to the vitamin additives required for reduced fat milk but not for whole milk in the US. Particularly Vitamin A palmitate, which is a controversial substance due to some cancer correlations in mice.
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If you want to really understand philosophy, start with Pythagoras, the man coined the term Philosophy and Cosmos -- and conducted the first attested scientific experiment in history.

His legacy, through Plato, was resurrected as a key element of the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

It makes modern philosophy look like a sad farce since this legacy of modern thought probably isn't taught in a single modern philosophy course (happy to be proven wrong).