skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very likely Phoenix (Phoenix is “more” software than ASP.Net is; a better comparison might be to Erlang’s cowboy library); but also very likely that the author of that benchmark didn’t really tune BEAM. By default, BEAM has runtime tracing hooks enabled; native code compilation (HiPE) disabled; no core pinning; low enough process-heap-size upon spawn that an immediate grow is usually necessary; and a slew of other things.

There’s also the fact that Elixir and even Erlang don’t take full advantage of the possibilities of BEAM-bytecode whole-program optimization. For example, any list you walk using Erlang’s lists module or Elixir’s Enum module is going to generate a back-and-forth of remote (symbolic) calls, rather than resulting in the body of that function of lists/Enum being inlined and fused into the caller. Which in turn means, even if you use HiPE, you’ll be thunking in and out of native code so much that the overhead will eat any potential benefit; and each side will be opaque to the static analysis of the other, so even a wholesale native recompilation of the runtime won’t save you. (Same with gen_servers: remote callbacks through library code, rather than fused module-local receive statements; ergo, 10x optimization opportunity lost.)

You’ll see real optimization in code generated by e.g. Erlang’s lexer-generator library leex; or in specific parts of each language’s stdlib, like Elixir’s Unicode-handling functions. But such optimized code emission is thin-on-the-ground compared to “naive” coding in Erlang/Elixir. (And I don’t blame the language devs: the languages are fast enough for almost everything people try to do; and for the rest, you can ignore the language-as-framework and write entirely self-contained modules that only rely on BEAM primitives.)
Unless if ISP positions itself as rigid security service devoted to provide you security features and some famous people recommend using it in order to transfer sensitive documents.
Thanks. So a 60% improvement would be approximately 300K requests/sec vs. ASP.NET Core's seven million. Which still looks concerning.

> But once you are going through long requests (i.e. 1ms because you need to talk to a database or API, encode JSON, etc), these differences tend to matter less and the concurrency model starts to give you an upper hand.

If you look at the other tabs in the benchmark there are "heavier" loads that include database access and the most favourable one I can find is "Fortunes" which puts Phoenix at 17.8% of the relative performance of the best ASP.NET Core one.
The mutual fund isn't what I was referring to. Trump's lawyer has already been paid at least 1.2 million (likely much more) for pharma access to Trump.

Which they "never received" but still paid the full amount over time.

It's a childish attempt to be able to say, nuh uh we didn't do it. Turns out that's all you really need.
"Run any query on the client side" with no authorization, authentication or introspection is exactly what SPARQL public endpoints offer. It's a feature, not a bug.
For the performance and battery life, $1000 is a pretty good price.

I think it has a 4800H cpu (45W) and not the more expensive 4800HS cpu (35W). Apparently the S is short for slim, source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-hs-design-standard-gam...

Still, around 10 hours of battery life for casual use is great.
True, but that could be a single cherry-picked example just for the article. It does sound like the typical case might not be too far off that though, which is potentially very good news.
There are a lot of people who have pre existing conditions and have no idea, even in the military. There was a marine recruit who died during basic training because of a heart defect, it wasn't an issue his whole life and it didn't come up as a problem during the in depth physical you get before hand.
Ask HN: Where can I find a database of industries/markets by size/opportunity?
Something that I really wish I had was a database with all of the industries that exist, the markets within them, and the size of those markets and how much they are expected to grow. This is a tool that would really help me decide what to work on next. I don't know the first place to look to get data like this. Does anyone know of such a database?
If you think investors don't already back-channel amongst each other before making deals, well...
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
This is one of the most convincing arguments I've seen for GraphQL as a language for supporting UIs: that UIs map to trees, and trees aren't nearly as clean in SQL than they are in GraphQL.
It's more likely that cases/infections is skewed by age, because we test severe cases more than mild cases, than infections as a whole is skewed by age. Assuming infections are uniformly distributed, or rather have a similar distribution to the flu, seems entirely reasonable until we have good data suggesting otherwise.
Paycheck Protection Program has exhausted its $345B fund
Introspection and query building make client apis easy and quick to develop. In production deployments, you can limit introspection and persisted queries are used to ensure known query loads and characteristics. This lets you iterate a lot faster on getting the right set of apis vs trying to do this type of evolution with rest endpoints.

Part of the point is also to weave a cohesive tree of information from possibly diverse data sources, and it’s incredibly good for that.
Some percent of confirmed recovered cases never develop antibodies it seems.
I’m pretty sure we still have plants, though I admittedly haven’t been out of the house much.

A lot of carbon was also captured during the aptly-named Carboniferous Period 360-300 million years ago. Woody plants had just evolved, but microbes that could break them down had not. Thus, coal. An earlier drop in sea levels also caused carbonate (as in limestone, dolomite, and iron ores) to precipitate out. The combination of these effects pushed oxygen levels about 50% above present, allowing very large animals to evolve.
Not naming the company, but I know of a startup that's got a round of $10M (not much but enough) who just applied for relief because their burn rate is $200K+ a month.
Apples to oranges. Painting is a purely creative process with style being valued over correctness. While there is artistic decision during manual film development, there is definitely a wrong way to develop a print. If you rush the chemical process, it will end up bad. Film is more like baking in that regard while painting is stove top cooking.
The rich are hiring serfs to do their shopping and not needing online delivery. Coders like me are writing our own bots to get deliveries. The tall are reaching items on high shelves that others can't. Life isn't fair and you should expect people to avail themselves of any tools to help themselves that are not wantonly destructive to the society at large.
Zoom Hires Security Heavyweights to Fix Privacy Flaws
China Approves Nvidia Mellanox Deal, Could Help Fight AMD and Intel in Exascale
Really? My impression is that you have to scour the earth for people who know anything about those systems, and then pay them 5x what you would pay someone working on a modern system.
Resident Evil, or perhaps more on-topic, the series Utopia by Channel 4.
It's a connections game. I remember last year I was trying to get an internship in an industry where I literally knew no one.

So I sent 100-200 personalized emails throughout a 4 month period to every single person I could find in the space. Eventually I got one and made a ton of connections just with that alone.

Now I'm also doing a startup and am talking with some big corporations just with getting to the right people and climbing my way to the top to sell my product.

Tyler Bosemany did a great talk about how to sell, i'd reccomend you watch it.
MDLIVE, a company in the Telemedicine space.

https://www.mdlive.com

They started today and will continue tomorrow.
Any metric taken to the extreme is worthless.
No sane software editor should give its IP to any third party under the form of source code.

It's relatively safe if you don't sell the software but the associated data such as Google Chrome for example.

I am sorry to break your business but for any small company in the software industry trade secret is the ultimate IP protection.

Maybe you should think a bit more about your business model and what you should sell to your clients. ;-)
It's a LOAN of $1000 per employee, and you have to retain your employees for 180 days in order for the loan to be forgiven... do the math. I assume most employees make more than $2000 per year. The money is only "free" if you were going to stay open anyway.
Literally every health authority including the WHO is assuming immunity will be a thing...
I really hope you're planning some agility in PASETO otherwise it's de-facto s* protocol that will have to be thrown away within a few years upon the first cryptographic weakness, breaking all applications that dared to adopt it.

Fact is, ciphers and protocols evolve over time. In the real world of client-servers (often many clients and many servers), it's not possible to magically upgrade all systems at once to exclusively accept a single same cipher. There's got to be a way to phase-in ciphers gradually across systems and phase-off. Agility is simply a real world constraint to be able to operate software in the real world.
Yes live tests are useful for integration issues or as a final verification before going live. But I only do it once or twice with a 99% off coupon or similar so the cost is a matter of cents plus fees. Easy to ignore.
It's a modern disease to think the only reason people work is because of money and the fear of being homeless.

In WWII the US increased agricultural production in order to feed Britain and the Soviet Union. Despite very tight limits on non essential goods. Workers took their wages, paid off debts or them in the bank.
@pendingHN

@chris_trag from Stripe here. The React Native situation is very much top-of-mind and we're working on the right lasting solution for your business and the RN community.

When we had submitted the PRs to provide 3D Secure / SCA support, we had not anticipated the work would be left on an experimental branch for this amount of time.

This spring we've been able to connect with the previous maintainers and understand the business situation behind this community repo. With all things open source, we want to be mindful of projects that are run by the community while determining which key libraries not in active development/maintenance.

All this to say, peace of mind and clarity on how React Native devs can implement Stripe with ease is a priority and I apologize for the limbo you've been in.

Thank you so much for your patience as we pull the remediation together.

Happy to chat directly as well -> trag at stripe dot com
Looks good but pre-order only? How have you been using it?
Not all... I remember my 540c running without a battery.
It’s possible and desirable for a vaccine to stimulate antibody production where a “natural” infection would not, which is one of the things that will be tested during their development. An extreme example is infection with the tetanus-causing bacterium clostridium tetani, which doesn’t provide natural immunity at all.
Professional liability insurance plus a careful (lawyer-approved?) engagement letter. Unfortunately even helping for free costs money out of pocket if you want to mitigate risks.
So many people on here seem to be intent on micromanaging their device's battery. IMO the whole point is to let macOS handle it so you can focus on actual work.

I know Apple has screwed up in the past with throttling iPhone CPU's (bad). At this point they know not to go to those lengths again.
Advertising to businesses for a b2b startup is very different from advertising to consumers. Perhaps all it is is having targeted ads for company management, but its not a trivial difference.
Thanks. Looks like Windows only for now, but at least future Linux support is alluded to in their FAQ.

https://shadow.tech/usen/faq/operating-system/can-i-use-shad...
And if there's one thing China abhors, it's an authority vacuum - in particular, a vacuum of their authority.
I have a 4004 print as a rug for my son. It's very pretty. Not sure if he'll like it when he hits the age to have opinions about such things, but I'll probably cadge it at that point.
> Things look quite different to many small, non vc-funded, profitable businesses: there is so much vc money sloshing about that one is constantly fighting competitors who operate at a loss to try to build monopolies whereas in more typical industries such businesses face much more fair competition.

This story doesn’t add up.

1. VC funded company operates at a loss.

2. All incumbents are pushed out of market.

3. VC funded company has monopoly. They raise prices above the original “competitive-profitable price”.

4. New company enters market at original price.

5. VC funded company goes to the original price or goes bankrupt.

6. Anddd, we’re here again.
Profiting from the Folly of Others (dive into Facebook's Folly C++ library)
These things are why I stopped doing computer vision after my master thesis
Gilead itself is up 16%, which would be a 52 week high.
I would've thought there's a better way of approaching software design in 2020 than "This 50,000 employee company decided to open source one big bang grab bag of functions". Especially with a readme that doesn't include any explanation of what's in the library or why they're there.

>Folly (acronymed loosely after Facebook Open Source Library)

You literally broke your first promise. That literally translates ot FOSL. You could've used FOSL. That's a word. It makes sense. It's even a bit funny.

>is a library of C++14 components designed with practicality and efficiency in mind.

As opposed to all those components that are designed with impracticality and inefficiency in mind. I honestly don't think I can say I've ever designed anything without those two things in mind.

>Folly contains a variety of core library components used extensively at Facebook.

Which tells me literally nothing about what's in this library. How do I know what's used extensively at facbook? Last I saw it was mediocre PHP 4.
Agreed that they're the worst, and agreed that they are an unfortunate reality
The Use of ASCII Graphics in Roguelikes [pdf]
Wasn't expecting this to show up here!

I've been playing around with SQL as an API querying language for a couple of years now as part of my Datasette project: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I started out thinking that SQL for API queries was genuinely a terrible idea. Datasette supported it because it's designed as an ad-hoc querying tool (which happens to be able to export resuls as JSON), but obviously that was an awful idea for production applications.

Then I started building a few SQL-in-client-side-JavaScript applications, just as a rapid prototyping tool. And they worked amazingly well. Here's an article I wrote about that in January 2018: https://24ways.org/2018/fast-autocomplete-search-for-your-we... (really simple demo here: https://media.24ways.org/2018/willison/ )

I keep on waiting for the obvious downsides to show up, and they keep stubbornly refusing to appear. And meanwhile the rest of the software world is going all-in on GraphQL which seems MUCH harder to work with - and less performant.
I don’t think you can claim we’re all in this together while providing an unofficial tool that prioritizes people you know and HN readers.

A good solution is to spread the word as far and wide as possible so that everyone can use your tool, and that at least seems to be what you are doing so good for you.

Have you had a shot at getting national press coverage for this, or even (long shot) having the vendors link to your service?
These databases are typically set up as businesses with pay per report or subscription access.

I've used them in corporate strategy work in the past. IBIS is one example [1].

Frankly, you get a general overview of a market but it is usually underwhelming on the sort of details that would help you decide on specific areas of focus.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/
No.

At least, that was my knee-jerk thought, according to Betteridge's law of headlines. After reading through it, I do find it an intriguing hypothesis.
They definitely throttle based on battery status, mine gets noticably slower (laggy UI, etc) when it dips below 5%, and picks up immediately if I plug it in.
people have no self respect anymore.

device more than capable of running the real software, but they get excited because they can do a convoluted half-bad work around within the artificial limitations the app-store-based-OS
A known failure mode of vaccines is if the person who is being vaccinated lacks the right B cells for creating antibodies matching the antigens on the surface of a pathogen. If the B cells a person has lack the right B Cell receptors, they can't generate the correct antibody response to an antigen, because they can't bind with/identify an antigen in the first place. Additionally, they may lack a sufficient number of antigen naive T cells, which haven't yet become differentiated as T memory cells and effector T cells.

But that doesn't mean that it is impossible to create a vaccine: this problem exists already for successful vaccines. For example, the Hepatitis B vaccine has a relatively high failure rate, but is still provides immunity 90+% of the time. It just means that some smallish percentage of the people you vaccinate aren't actually contributing to population immunity.

See below for more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_cell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3760154/ --> this one is particularly good. A lot of good info in here on how vaccination and "memory" interact.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X0...

EDIT: this one covers the major routes of vaccination failure --> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962729/#!po=60...
Yes, the methane gun hypothesis. In modern times, there is an ever-growing risk of immense methane clathrates in the ESAS destabilizing and suddenly boiling off more than they already are. Methane has a GWP of ~1000x CO2 immediately, but it tends to dissipate within ~60 years with a half-life of roughly 7 years.

I would watch some videos on YouTube by Paul Beckwith and Natalia Shakhova about this topic. They are regular COP panel speakers. Natalia has been ringing scientific alarm-bells about methane hydrates since at least 2010, but not enough of the human family has listened yet.

https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=natalia+shakhov...
Egress is such a generic word in technology. Wonder if anyone can even trademark a generic word.
At least AWS Amplify/AppSync offers authorization schemes down to fields. I had the impression that was the norm, but good to know. I will pitch that in the future.
Got it. I always thought the 150k was meant for smallish teams as a "spend 3 months growing here and 3 months raising more money" kind of money, which is important for many companies.
The fact that they don't have a control group is not a good sign:

> Mullane, while encouraged by the University of Chicago data, made clear her own hesitancy about drawing too many conclusions. “It’s always hard,” she said, because the severe trial doesn’t include a placebo group for comparison.

Here is some historical perspective about using placebos while people are getting infected and dying:

* https://rootsofprogress.org/polio-and-the-controversy-over-r...

* https://rootsofprogress.org/more-on-polio-and-randomized-cli...
Or just tell them the truth
What I've found annoying with Amazon Fresh in particular is that they don't tell you there are no slots available until after you spend half an hour fighting with their search engine and populating the cart. And then, as you point out, they only show a few slots in the immediate future with large Xs across them.

Yeah, thanks, guys, that's really helpful. You've been screwing around with grocery delivery for what, 15+ years now, and still can't make it work?
This actually happens. Ask your flight attendant friends about “miracle cures” walking off their flights after using wheelchairs to board.
TLDR: Lepton mixing was proposed as a possible source of CP violation in the 60s but experimental evidence obtained only now. They only got 3-sigma statistics which is not quite the standard 5-sigma, but more experiments are upcoming. Potentially very important result and consistent with standard model, this is both good (no new physics) and bad (no new physics).
What nowcasts and unique data can tell tech about the economic shock
So how did this pan out? I've only seen them in the news for the layoffs there recently, but did this value proposition end up working out in the fourish years since the article was posted?
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened yet Oopsla 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)
One in San Diego (AI, robotics) and another in Palo Alto - self driving.
This is a total tangent but I can't resist:

"it's like blowing up a balloon -- as it gets bigger, there's more back-pressure so it gets harder to fill up the last bit."

That's not actually the case with a balloon. :)

If you think about it I'm sure you've noticed that you have to blow the hardest right when you start, and then it gets easier. The reason has to do with the curvature of the balloon and the fact that the same amount of air causes less and less stretching of the material as it fills up.
I live in Poland. I do (contactless) card payments every day, I rarely even have cash in my wallet. But I don't have a credit card and most of my peers / family doesn't have one either. Our debit cards will usually not work for on-line payments (the type that requires card number + cvv).
We do, however, have a widely adopted system called Blik[1], which is instant mobile payments (incl. POS payments, the terminals are adopted to process it, and many ATMs support cash withdrawals via Blik). I think it would be hard for any payments processor to get significant market share here without support for this, for many it's the default, then I think wire tranfer is the 2nd option, shopping elsewhere the third one, card payment maaaybe the 4th choice.

[1] https://polskistandardplatnosci.pl/en/
My current bet is younger healthy people are more likely to be asymptomatic. And older people much less so. Theodore Roosevelt with likely a young population, most are asymptomatic. Diamond Princess much older population most are symptomatic.
Intel is reportedly going back to their old ways and incentivizing nuc vendors to either delay or cancel AMD versions.

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719?s=...
I thought keeping a MacBook plugged in was advertised as OK (Even said to be BETTER) since the power is being drawn from the AC source rather than the battery. What’s the deal, is it better to leave it plugged in, or not?