skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are instances where direct cash aid has proven very effective vs traditional aid. Notably in food aid where giving people and farmers money instead of just distributing food lifts the whole community up. With traditional food aid where it's just given away it doesn't help local farmers because it's just satisfying some of the need for food keeping them from really advancing economically. When cash is given instead the ability to buy food goes up, farmers can invest in better equipment or more workers, and the money circulates through the community. Giving money greases the wheels and kickstarts a little economic boom.

It's not a perfect solution because it needs a certain level of stability and existing things to boost but it's a fairly robust way of helping people become less reliant on outside aid in the long run.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/we...
looking at the release notes and the source, it looks like the asyncio interface is still using the old drivers, like psycopg2 for postgresql, and using a threadpool.

we at SQLAlchemy came up with a way to interface asyncio frontend and backend (like asyncpg for the driver) while maintaining all the "in the middle" code as synchronous style. the dark secret is that for this approach you have to use greenlet to propagate the "await" operations. It's been in our release for 18 months now with 1M downloads a day and there have been no problems reported with it, so i continue to wonder why nobody else seems to want to look at this approach. one downside which nobody has complained about yet is that it makes profiling tools like cProfile harder to use, but seems not to have come up yet.

there's also another approach, which is that you rewrite all your "in the middle" code as pure asyncio, then create a dummy task to implement your synchronous API. dark secret for that one is you had to rewrite everything and I'm not sure if there's other performance implications for having awaits all throughout code that's running only one task per thread.
Looks like decision from a non tech guy, because it's cleaner :,D
This is what I would have expected as well so it was surprising to hear otherwise. I thought perhaps the OP had seen leaked documents or some other form of evidence that indicated TikTok targeted people with ADHD deliberately.
This would be the first recession ever featuring near-record-low unemployment.

if anyone has any insights on how we are having an economic contraction AND such low unemployment, I'd love to hear them.
I tend to think more along the lines of sequel rights. The copyrighted idea is not the exact same words, but the idea of the universe of Star Wars. I think we would live in a world of superior creativity if making money off derivative works made without permission was legal. (Probably those works should be required to say “unofficial” on them or something along those lines)
I agree with you on this. I hear this argument a lot and it seems like people only used parts of both sites or something. I've been using both for a while now, mainly the iOS apps, I have a paid diamond chess.com account. They both have strong and weak points in their UX.
then take my upvote, I agree 100%, I'm saying exactly this to many people and they just roll their eyes (to be fair I don't use PHP anymore but I certainly don't share the despect which others have)

fun thing I also wanted to add a point about documentation but you did it yourself, life is fun sometimes :)
If you paid with real money that went into a real bank account, the government knows if they paid their taxes. If you paid them with crypto because they shadily asked you to, don't be surprised if you get caught up in an investigation. Your payments are easily tracked.
Way ahead of you: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/pearsonplus.html

These publishing companies are the worst.
the Chinese actually call it "spiritual opium".

the CCP probably see it as some sort of poetic revenge for the real opium trade and the ensuing Sino-British war that they see as the start of the "century of humiliation"
Sure.
And this is true of all anonymity software like Tor, I2P, etc
I love playing on lichess. My kid is a fan of chess.com and I try to play with him occasionally, I just have a stronger preference towards the former.

It almost feels like the Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Britannica argument. Chess.com just feels like a company driven on profits whereas lichess has made adjustments to be reasonable about their own OpEx costs (specifically just the controls on game analysis and not wasting compute).

I really respect and appreciate the work lichess does.
Scott Hanselman had an interview with the Stack Overflow Director of Engineering just a few weeks ago. They cover some high-level details there [0]. As I understand it's an .NET Core monolith with a very-large (~1.5 TB RAM) SQL Server backend.

[0] https://hanselminutes.com/847/engineering-stack-overflow-wit...
It could be, but I also never felt like I really got to the point you're talking about in 2 years or so of moderate usage. I've been productive in it, and it's not like I'm hung up on control flow or something. I don't hate the language either. I still have to use it from time to time, but it just doesn't seem like it makes sense for a lot of green field work due to this.

It's mostly things like parameter order for certain built-ins that aren't intuitive and/or finding built-ins I've never used or heard of because there are so many obscure ones (there are nearly six thousand) that keep me coming back. For example, how do you disable errors in a DOMDocument? It ought to be as easy as DOMDocument->setAttribute("errors", "false"), but no it's a separate function call to libxml_use_internal_errors(true). There are like five other similar function calls for this too. PHP has abstraction leaks and little inconsistencies like this everywhere.

Granted, languages with small standard libraries, like JavaScript, by contrast get an easy cop out to blame the community of various package maintainers here. But at least in that case someone can always just write a better library.
The point is breaking the laws though
s/nonsense/even more vile/
> I hear this repeated so many times at my workplace, and it's so totally and completely uninformed.

> Customers who have invested millions of dollars into making their stack multi-region, multi-cloud, or multi-datacenter...

It sounds like the idea may be bad for your workplace, but that doesn't make it uninformed here. For the average B2C or business-to-small-business application, the customer doesn't even know what a region or datacenter is, all they know is that "the internet" isn't working and your service went down with it. These customers also don't have an SLA with guaranteed uptimes. The only thing they agreed to were the Terms and Conditions that explicitly say "no warranty, express or implied".

If you're selling to large enterprises, yeah, "AWS went down" won't cut it. But in most other cases it will.
The original term in the US was 14 years with one optional 14-year renewal. That sounds good to me.

The most popular thing I've written was 27 years ago, so the initial versions would just about be in the public domain now. But the newer versions would still be copyrighted.
I have reached Hacker news front page which is a lifetime achievement for me. I just hope someone from Zillow takes notice and has a constructive conversation with me.
I don't know. It's like releasing some endangered species into the wild and then their natural predators come in and have them for dinner. The wolverines or lions or wolves, etc., will do that they do. We cannot blame them for eating the protected species.

When media are indoctrinating people and not providing perspectives how do you blame people, even if they have agency and can be considered responsible --just like the wolverine is ultimately responsible but free of blame.
This is why I think California needs more high density urban housing, but not more single family home housing. Densify the urban core; don’t sprawl into the wild periphery.
>Let me guess - Next the book will become a subscription service.

Pearson is one step ahead of you. Pearson Plus offers "[t]he eTextbook and study tools you need... for only $9.99/mo" (per book, with a 4 month minimum, on up to two devices).
Given that these laptops are paid for by tax dollars, and the monitoring continues at home, outside school hours, doesn't that make it unconstitutional search? That it's part of mandatory education only makes it worse. Do only families that can afford a second laptop (for each child) deserve privacy? Is the 4th amendment only for those who can afford to pay (in dollars, in addition to the price in blood and lead that getting rights in the first place requires)?

If not, why? If the police required their own monitoring software on each school-issued laptop, that would be an obvious search. But schools have less authority than the police, not more! If a mere school can do this, that makes the infringement even more egregious!
Yep. Even worse: the housing market.

The pattern seems to be: if you create value, you get optimized away. If you buy, screw things up to create scarcity, and flip, you make bank.
> We need crawlers and scrapers to download EVERYTHING out of the SE platforms, and they need to do so on a daily basis. All content on SE must be mirrored across the world, and if they don't want to do it then we'll do the scraping for them.

I think that's already the case. Whenever I look up a technical issue, the first result is usually from SO; the next results are usually from websites that copied that first SO page
I was an intern at JPL 10 years ago. We used RTEMS + SPARC on the mission I worked on (GRACE FO - Earth science satellite). Unfortunately, I have no memory of how much it was used in other missions
Being swamped in a job as a dev (rather than a startup) is a signal that you're bad at saying no to adding things to a sprint, and unable to hand off work to other people. I'm very wary of working with people like that. It ends badly when things finally get too much.
> So you think publishers only deserve to get paid for the first copy, and then all of humanity should be free to replicate and distribute their work for no cost?

This was how copyright worked in Europe until quite recently. A composer was only entitled to the royalties of the first public performance of their work, and after that it was public domain.

You wonder why the likes of Bach, Vivaldi, etc. were such prolific composers: The system was designed that way.
No, it only needs to be ~250C
Strict-serializability, but at what cost, for what purpose?
I do a lot of nordic skiing and this issue is very salient to me. It is a topic that emerges one way or another in nordic skiing communities.

One thing that's not entirely appreciated all the time is that it's not just the average level or amount of snow that's important, but also the uncertainty around it. In some ways this has become as problematic for me in recent years, not knowing exactly what to expect. I don't want to spend the time preparing gear and traveling to ski trails to find out the condition is poorer than they have indicated, or possibly damage expensive skis. So even if the snow cover is actually fine, if it's become unreliable, it has almost as much effect on my ski behavior.

As another example: it tends to be the beginning and end of the seasons that are affected the most so far. Scheduling events becomes a bit tricky: do events get scheduled at a certain point at the end of the season when, if things are good, there's tons of snow, or is that risky because it could have all melted early?

There's a lot of things like this that seem to get lost when the discussion is focused on abstract quantities like average temperature (not critiquing the article, just explaining my experience).

I used to feel bad that this was someplace effecting our area in particular, that we weren't far enough north or something, almost a sort of "cold climate imposter syndrome". Then one year people in ski forums in a totally different area of the world, where there should be plenty of snow, were having a winter with essentially none.

It's a real problem.
> Likely because any consistent architecture is going to work fine.

This is also a worthwhile thing to keep in mind. Most decisions made right now are likely to not be an issue if they are consistent. That said, it is still nice to know where the scaling and operational issues may arise given these decisions. It is a fine line to walk between over-engineering and just having awareness of things to expect.
It's not the definition. If you have 2 quarters of negative growth, but everything else is good... what's the point of even calling it a recession? It loses it's value as a word.

2008 was clearly a recession, people felt it. Everybody seems to be doing fine right now as a collective. Very few people have lost jobs so far, as seen in the unemployment numbers. Just some overpaid tech
I'm not really sure I understand what distinction you're making.

> But people buy ebooks because they want to see the content

People buy ebooks because (piracy aside) they have to in order to see the content. I'm not really sure how that's relevant in any way though.

> and they do not want to pay royalties back to Pearson.

Why would people want to pay royalties to an artist, and not to an author? I would actually agree with you, but I think people don't want to pay royalties full stop.
Thanks for that. It also doesn't matter how rich a state is if all the wealth is concentrated in a small few while everyone else struggles. This is also compounded by the fact that the wealth in a state controls government spending to a large degree. The antebellum south is a good example of this historically.
Obviously this won't work at a small startup, but at our large tech company there are plenty of tech leadership roles to bring design questions to. Senior/lead engineers on my team, as well as a principal engineer in my group that encourages us to meet with them when we need help.

I guess my point is be sure to enable paths for those types of roles to exist in your company as it grows - technical leadership that isn't people leadership.
Thanks for sharing! I will take a look at this.
imagine cross platform apps that work just as well on phones, and built using this type of almost scripting like code. (check out pywebio too)
We had extremely good timing buying our new minivan last year, 100% due to pure luck with when our previous car crapped out. We used the Costco buying program, which basically let us go in knowing what we would pay with a pre negotiated price and not have to haggle, and shopped in early April. We were looking for some specific trim options and the dealer let us know that they were out of a few of them due to shortages of some chips, but they did have a whole bunch of a different trim level. We walked out happy with a new van just a few weeks before inventory levels tanked and prices started skyrocketing.
old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance
Vertex shaders do not process pixels. They take model vertices and their attributes as input. The vertex shader outputs transformed vertices which are eventually arranged into primitives (e.g., triangles). These primitives are later rasterized downstream and the resulting fragments (pixels and attributes) are passed to the fragment shader.
>> If so, that's certainly useful, but it may well turn out that the simplest working model of physics is incomprehensible.

I just re-read your comment and I notcied that.

I think by "the simplest working model of physics" you mean quantum mechanics? I hope I clarified how I mean "explainable" vs. "explanatory" but yeah, I think that's absolutely spot on. Quantum mechanics is predictive, but not explanatory. I do think it's "explainable" though in the sense I sort-of define it, because it's a bunch of formulae that anyone can plug in the numbers to, and see how they come up with results. I don't reckon there's many theories in the sciences that are not explainable. The lack of explainability only becomes an issue with black box models like neural nets.

Perhaps I should have used the word "comprehensible" or "interpretable" instead of "explainable" since it causes confusion by being too close to "explanatory". But those words have their own problems ("comprehensible"... by whom?)

As an aside, I'm on the camp that hopes that quantum mechanics is somehow fundamentally wrong and we'll figure it out in the next big paradigm shift. It bothers me deeply that we seem to have hit a wall where we can predict, but don't have a clue and can't understand why. I think every other big leap in scientific ... understanding (hint) has come from the ability to make explanatory theories, that tell us how things work and why.
Imagine a world where if you cite a paper on your thesis you have to provide the NFT transaction ID so it can be checked if you acquired the article via the official blockchain
How Builder.io got early traction
Thanks for sharing! I had not come across this channel yet.
Sorta by accident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJvQHVlkpPI

About 11 or 12 seconds in.
It sounds like an SCP I read
https://phptherightway.com
Why? Can't you just photocopy the exercise pages and work on them? Was there a holographic feature preventing it? This is common practice in my country.
There was a professor where I went to college who would do this too. He had his own freshman engineering "textbook" that he'd "update" every year and force his students to buy. It was legitimately the lowest quality textbook I had ever seen - it was as thick as a dictionary but only because the font was huge, the "covers" were just thicker paper, and it was full of spelling/grammatical errors as well as technical ones about the subject matter. His "updates" were always minor restructuring of text rather than any actual improvements too.

FYI for any current students or parents of students: check the library for textbooks before doing anything else. Even if they don't have it, most universities have a system to check out books from other libraries that are "in network". I learned about this after my freshman year and didn't pay a dime for textbooks the rest of my time in school.

bonus crypto complaint: it's really sad to imagine crypto/blockchain tech being used to force students (or anyone) to pay for library books.
I don't even think they can do that. You still need some authority to say "possession of this NFT actually means the person owns this thing". But if you need to have a trusted authority to say that why do you need the blockchain?
I'm against both. A sale is a sale. You don't need a cut of a transaction you took no part in. The farmer doesn't get a cut of every dish served.

However it appears especially evil here because it affects the unwilling participants of a market. Accessing books is a lot more important than owning art.
I don't know, but 'distilled' water is typically sold as the most chemically pure form of water. I do know it needs to be remineralized or something, as pure distilled water is bad for you.
This existing design perfectly fine for a DMX transmitter. Unlike receivers, DMX-512 transmitters are not isolated. The isolation required in receivers will protect the transmitter from the condition you described.

EIA-485 specifies the electrical properties of the signal, however the ESTA E1.11 (DMX-512) specification further constrains it in section 5 and 6 in regards to grounding and isolation.

Annex A of the specification does provide allowance for non-isolated transmitters where common-mode voltage is expected, but this is specifically not recommended:

https://tsp.esta.org/tsp/documents/docs/ANSI-ESTA_E1-11_2008...
This reminds me of an old quote that says: "A dog with two owners dies of hunger".
The difference here is that Lichess is free and open source, where as both of the golf organizations are for profit.
Thanks for this input. I do hope that we are able to build both a valuable product and a company that I would be excited to work for even if it were not my own.
Search title + .pdf
Thanks, hadn't properly checked.
"Why did two military thriller TV series succeed when two fantasy TV series (one of which isn't even out yet) did not?". Seems like a lot of competing factors here chief!
Hard a work trip to Nashville long ago. Did not expect to absolutely love that city.
Someone asked me how to get out from being constantly swamped. I highly recommend two books: Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and Deep work by Cal Newport. They haven't fixed all my woes but they gave me something to strive for.
Mostly because software was designed as a burnable ISO image tailored to Pi4 specs. I could also make a Pi3 version, but availability looks quite the same if not worse.
Or, to take it a step further, when you understand the financial implications.

I'm not saying the clinton foundation and an email server with SAPs was a clever way to sell state secrets while maintaining plausible deniability...but the clinton foundation and an email server with SAPs was a clever way to sell state secrets while maintaining plausible deniability.
California also has a massive homeless population and one of the worse police states in the country, and that's saying something. But hey, a small percentage are really rich!
Very shocking that encouraging employees' endless SJW crusades winds up being unproductive.
I hope people take this as an example of why, regardless of who technically owns the ledger, publicly, digitally tokenizing everything would in many ways make life hellish.
If the online exercises are tied to the ebook, then they can justify “trading” old versions of textbooks by revoking access for the former owner. This is a super shady practice and I hope this doesn’t become a reality.
Dad taught at a community college for 25 years. He got so sick of the book scam he wrote his own and had students buy it from the print shop at cost.
Per capita GDP is not income, especially in pre-industrial countries like Burundi where the bulk of economic activity wouldn't be captured by the metric.
>on balance, better

I think this is somewhat true. It's definitely more accessible, which makes it better in the sense that more people can use it because it is simpler.

It's not immediately obvious how to use a paper map. There's a lot of information in there that one has to either know or learn how to interpret. Sitting down with a stack of paper maps and planning out a route is more complicated than letting the googlemachine tell you what to do and how to get there. But, if you're a certain type of person, there is a definite thrill about making the plans, marking out your route, and doing this interactively with another person (who will be the navigator) that is a bit lost in the translation to digital.

While the googlemachine may tell you about all of the restaurants or interesting sites along the way (that it knows about, or that have paid for prominent placement), it won't give the sense of adventure that "we'll figure it out when we get there" does, even if "figuring it out" means asking the waitress at the un-googleable diner over pie.

Paper maps have a lot of advantages, but it takes work, and you have to be willing to accept that your seat-of-the-pants judgements about where to eat won't have the data-driven information of crowd-sourced reviews, so you might get a crappy meal or two.
Yeah, I fully believe OPs experience as I have heard horror stories but similarly my experience with an engineering PhD was that we were treated well. We had contracts, semi-reasonable pay, vacation, healthcare etc.
The dip looks larger than every recession since 1950 with the exception of 2008 and 2019