skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a strange way of framing the fact that the WHO is explicitly siding with China in denying the very existence of Taiwan. Especially considering that Taiwan had data that would have saved lives, had the World Health Organization acknowledged their existence.
"If you don't have a badge and a gun, I'm not opening the door for any reason"
I probably ought to read this one. I got on a Weinberg reading kick after reading some recommendations here a few months before his death. The one I particularly liked was The Psychology of Computer Programming. While dated in many ways (like MMM), it has a lot of interesting ideas and discussion about the structure and behavior of people and teams (regardless of discipline, though he was writing about programmers). I actually have a quote that I've kept in my office IM for a while that is a paraphrasing of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem [0]:

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to
the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a
particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new
environments.

The theme of that quote kept coming up, I presume deliberately, in many of the later chapters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem...
Every time I get my height measured by a new doctor, they feel the need to tell me that my legs are short for my height.
It’s interesting to see “The Mythical Man-Month” in a list like this, since I’ve never once seen any team implement what it suggests. Is it meant only as a cautionary tale?
I think it's unfortunate that the population has become so stupid that we need to protect them from killing themselves by drinking household chemicals, based on tweets or whatever.

I can't see and end game that's not terrible.
Ask HN: What is the best certificates for Full-stack Developers in 2020?
got it. thank you for the explanation.
I am planning to add 'multiplayer' feature, where multiple participants needs to quickly exchange positional and surrounding attributes.

Currently system is in Java+JS front end. I feel that JSON serialization that I currently use, is not the right thing..

But at the same time, I care about 'size in kb' of the js front end.
Therefore have been learning the options.
So, how many deaths are you willing to be responsible for? make sure to scale it up to youtube size.
While I agree that it is a dead-end in terms of formalisation, I think there are many things worth noting from ANKS:

+ From small simple beeps and boops we can get orchestrated incomprehensibly large aesthetically pleasing pieces of generated glory.

+ We can learn about the fundamentals of a game by simply studying the input and the output, without really understanding how the in-between step works.

+ We can transform data from algorithmic to visual, and try and infer patterns this way.

Thus, Wolfram might be intimating that because we can go from the algorithmic to the visual (or sense-able), we can perhaps go backwards, our experience to some sort of algorithm thereof. To me it looks more like the study of the unfoldment of the universe/cosmos, and less about empiricism. Granted, it is based on repeated events, which is the fundamental assumption of Science.
Thanks for your observations. If, however, behavior in NYC is more or less the same as elsewhere, then what might account for the difference in the results between store-customer sampling in the city and elsewhere? The results may well be biased from sampling shoppers, but if the bias is assumed to be from shopping behavior, and that behavior is essentially the same everywhere, why does it not wash out?

One explanation might be that it got an earlier start in NYC, but both the hospitalizations and fatalities seem to have started showing up on about the same dates in the city and the surrounding suburbs.

There seems to be a significant ethnic variation, but ethnicity is such a correlate to other issues that it is not likely to be informative on its own.
I've said that the metaphor is somewhat misleading.
Well, there are antitrust laws, aren't there. So it's not that straight forward.
I thought FastAPI was the fastest python framework?

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/benchmarks/

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=7...

Japronto does rank number one in the json serialisation and plaintext benchmarks. But any real work use case is going to require more than that.
The 5.7 number comes from wuhan, during lunar new year, and before viral identification.
> Don't hide behind "well, IPsec supports all sorts of security knobs that can make it approximately as good as Wireguard,"

That's not really what I was getting at. I guess it would be something like "in situations where the priority is connectivity/reliability you will have better overall security with an IPSec deployment than a WireGuard one."

But otherwise I think your assessment is absolutely correct and we do employ pretty much all of those tricks.

Although the horror stories about TLS 1.1 is finding out just how many of your customers are running ancient clients that don't support TLS 1.2.
Strange thing that your comment reminded me of. I can't see the phrase Diet Pepsi without picturing Ray Charles. From the commercials from the late 80s and early 90s.
But if you donate a kidney, then you’ll now have a pre-existing condition. Which means you’ll be denied access to health insurance.
Yeah I hear you. It took me over a decade before I stopped bouncing off of Linux and going back to windows or Mac. It took more knowledge about working with Linux subsystems, as well as building a stable config that I checked into git. As mentioned, you really have to meet it half way, but once you get over that hump it is definitely more productive and simple than Mac and windows.
Your software probably isn't a multinational network of literally billions of pieces of hardware ranging in manufacturer and age by half a century, which isn't even owned and operated by a unified group of companies in a unified group of nations, which is used by all sorts of people in situations where its failure could cause people to literally die, so that changes have to be unequivocally backward compatible.

So there's that minor difference. If you decide to do a security upgrade and your software breaks, it probably doesn't mean that an 85-year-old woman dies because her only form of communication, a rotary phone, suddenly stops working and she can't get out of the house.

STIR/SHAKEN[1] is the solution to this problem, but the rollout is scheduled to be completed by June 2021 in the US, and September 2020 in Canada. It's slow, but this is something that you don't want to be rushed. Yes, I get it that Robocalls are terrible: I got 3 calls which I didn't pick up but I assume were robocalls today. But this upgrade is a difficult problem and the stakes are high.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
How much is an Apple motherboard design issue vs. a USB C issue?

W/ the new ARM news coming out, I kinda wonder if the Intel line is on life support and Mac engineering attention is all-in on the new ARM macs?
Or Claire from Outlander told them.
Yes, ignore all the overwhelmed hospitals and the sudden jump in mortality in Italy and Spain that made them decide to lock everything down after they already had a crisis on their hands. Rail more about a transnational organization with a long though often imperfect record of epidemiological expertise. Those bureaucrats in Geneva are personally ruining your life.
Additional varieties mean additional flavors. I don't know about you, but I buy six or eight different varieties at the store. Crunch, or sweet, or sour, or just pomme du jour...

We get so focused on 'the BEST', that's how we wind up with a monocrop of banana clones, or the inedible (but pretty) Washington Delicious, etc.
How does free speech lead to the collapse of society? I think you're making one heck of a leap there.
I don't see where the article says or implies at all that ventilators could be harmful.
Yeah, but it's already good enough for performance-critical microservices
I have been watching his channel nightly; it’s really good. How are his safety standards higher? I think the only think he expounds is wearing a mask.
I'm afraid this is another goalpost shift. Remember we started with

> recognize Taiwan as a sevreign nation

I'm then responding to your

> Taiwan emailed WHO in December warning about China lying about the human-to-human transmission

Very bold statements. If you're saying that the WHO should have changed their January 14 statement from "there are no clear evidence of human to human transmission" to "there are clear evidence of human to human transmission because Taiwan stated:

News resources today indicate that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, CHINA. Their health authorities replied to the media that the cases were believed not SARS; however the samples are still under examination, and cases have been isolated for treatment. I would greatly appreciate it if you have relevant information to share with us. Thank you very much in advance for your attention to this matter."

then I suppose there aren't really anything anyone can say that'll be of interest to you.
or we could just kill those people and keep our dollars and the change
My company does a lot of CMS work for clients. Everything from static site generators up to giant enterprise tools. One thing I've determined is that the giant enterprise tools are nearly worthless even for the enterprises they're designed to serve. They add giant layers of complexity to service features that look great in a demo and serve no business purpose. Then they become a technical ghetto full of proprietary plugin code that require product expertise and are inaccessible to the rest of the dev team. That and they cost $100K-$1MM and more for licenses. It's possible to implement them well, but only by applying the same kind of design principles you would to simpler systems. Even when I'm working with a client that doesn't blink at the price tag, I'm 100% onboard with headless or flat files.
> the core issue is it's over-engineered.

I wouldn't call it over-engineered. Ambitious? Maybe, but I don't see PowerShell lagging behind in any front it's designed for.
Definitely needs DeMarco and Lister's "Peopleware".
New Horizons is already close to more than Stardew in one month though.
This is a terrible take.

> WHO is a political organization with medical leanings just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics.

Yes, they have opinions. That doesn't make them as corrupt as Fox News.
What would be nice is if there was something like a standard test or demo set of HTML for all these to work against, which would enable a way to switch themes.
It looks like an overhead, but when needed, boy is it a bliss to use.
I would disagree with "very little use". Uncontrolled trials are done all the time. You basically collect "nature history" data and compare it to that.

In addition, the mechanism of vaccines is very well know. You can vaccinate and measure antibody formation.

You could still develop a vaccine without a control and have confidence that it works.
Will Quantum Computing Change the World? Facts and Myths
And what truth is that exactly?
If AWS used Intel SGX, then it would be possible for them to offer VMs that ran inside of a secure enclave that AWS could not peer into as long as Intel didn't give them a backdoor.

(Well, it seems like SGX is insecure right now with all of the CPU vulnerabilities, but in principle it may be fixed in a future generation and be well-suited for this.)

The fact that you wouldn't have to trust your host specifically could have a real decentralizing effect for cloud hosting: people would be able to run stuff on any cloud host without needing to trust them much. If you just wanted compute power and didn't care about strong uptime/connectivity, you could even safely rent cheap VMs on computers of random individuals.
> that software usually expects to be running on your CPU

It's implied that software would have to be rewritten to support this new device, like how all graphics software was rewritten to run on GPUs when they first appeared.
I don't think I've experienced this issue.
This is a valid Rust program:

fn main() {
return return return return return return return
}

You can do silly things in any language.
Ha! I thought I was the only one who hated those apples. Worst part is that it's got "delicious" in the name. World's falsest advertising!
Are you including defense and security in that spending count?
There are legitimate arguments that travel restrictions are counterproductive, so you should argue against those, not against some perceived double standard that doesn't actually exist.
GP said:

>> That's easy: HR. By all means start by being nice, but if people refuse to be careful then they can burn down someone else's prod.

If people refuse to be careful. If they make a mistake once, teach them. If they make a mistake again, that happens. But if they make a mistake regularly, warn them, then warn them sternly, then fire them.
By spreading misinformation about face masks and travel bans, they do actually put people's lives on the line, though. WHO's body count is greater than some cable news network with less viewership than a mid-sized YouTube channel.

Let's not forget WHO opposed travel bans on numerous occasions, said face masks were not effective, and repeated CCP propaganda verbatim while seeking to punish China's enemies (and hanging up on reporters when questioned about it).

Then the Director-General implied, without a shred of evidence, that he was the victim of racist smears from Taiwan's government after he sought to put them in direct danger by denying them access to critical data.

The WHO is worse than Fox News and it's not even in the same ballpark.
I've had issues with my 2017 MBP running really hot, but never connected that with kernel_task running at 150% CPU until now.

I found a tool called Mac Fan Control, which lets you change the thresholds at which the fans kick in. I've been using it for a good while now. Laptop runs louder, but cooler.

Today my machine slogged to a crawl, became basically unusable to the point of restart -- I don't remember which port the power was plugged into, but this definitely shed some light on the issue. Fan Control wasn't running, incidentally.
Not familiar with Wonkbook Ezra, but the book is very wonk-oriented.

The number of research and researchers referenced per-page is very high. At times the book feels like it exists to nicely knit together of a bunch of poli-sci, sociology, and psychology research.
If you know Go and don't know C++ then yes absolutely use Go. If you're trying to do a performance comparison though it doesn't seem unreasonable to have "basic" familiarity with the languages being compared?

None of the knowledge mentioned is "esoteric". We're not talking hyper optimized insane C++ optimizations here with custom allocators and specialized code generation with templates. We're talking "basic" memory management & standard library data structures.
Ah... I want to like Linux. I really do. But I regularly install software across MacOS, Windows, Debian, and CentOS, and the only time I have trouble installing is for .deb/.rpm/.snap.

Installing on Windows is run the installer and click through the guided wizard. Annoying, but it works and it’s foolproof so whatever.

Installing on MacOS is unzip and click and the application is already running. Drag over to ~/Applications if I want to. Easy as fuck.

Installing on Linux is trying to remember what apt-get/snap/dpkg/etc. I need, then on top of that what --dangerous or --classic or I don’t even know what all else I need, and cross my fingers and hope it works. It’s honestly aggravating.
The point is that we use genetically similar test subjects because it is helpful that they are genetically similar.

The point was not to demonstrate which exact subspecies of primate that is used.
Even bare ASGI app running on uvicorn would be a few times slower comparing to Japronto and also its memory footprint would be significantly higher. So I guess it depends on your use case. I'd say FastAPI is more for complicated, exposed APIs while Japronto is for small internal microservices when speed is the bottleneck.
Go as a Scripting Language
That sounds completely overkill for OPs question - without digging deeper it sounds like OP really just wants a cheap VPS perhaps with a lightweight management layer on top.

Granted, Elastic Beanstalk/Load Balancer will allow you to scale should you end up with a massive influx of traffic - but I think you'd be far faster to spin up a VPS and use where-ever your bought your domain name from to point your domain name to it's IP.

In fact - this is exactly what I do and it took well under an hour including choosing and buying a domain name and costs $5 a month.
A credit freeze might be in order:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
I don't agree. Adding braces all the time leads to a more cognitive association of what is the variable. IMHO, this leads to better script writing and ease, in my case, of transitioning to other languages. Not so much because of the braces, but of the context of a variable.

If that makes any sense at all.
> explicitly disallowed sources (states owned media organizations, politicians and intelligence agencies).

If the intelligence agencies are any good then they do not release information under their own name.
It could be a good thing for Amazon at this moment, due to the reasons you listed, or it could indicate unknown issues.

And from the descriptions of Bezos I've heard, he can be an obsessive micromanager type, flying down to make super low-level decisions for some random warehouse when he gets set off by some mistake. Having worked under a CEO like that, I can imagine Bezos suddenly steamrolling some important internal processes out of some mix of passion and narcissism, driving even more damage.
Well, the WHO probably reads what comes to it from Taiwan, but they don't publicly give lip service to it because that would piss of china, the very large country whose cooperation they needed given that the apparent origin of the pandemic there.

The existence of political factors (which are not the fault of the WHO) makes it less than perfect, but people using it as a cudgel against the organization are (not you necessarily) are insinuating that the WHO's failure to be perfect thus makes it scientifically useless. This is an obvious bad-faith argument deployed for rather obvious political ends.
> This is a similar level of trust that you give to banks not to seize your money, or to your bodyguard not to do you physical harm.

That's not true. I surely don't trust banks, but at least they're regulated to the point that they have to come up with some legal pretense for seizing my funds. A bodyguard is ostensibly a person who I've incentivized more than the competition to not harm me, and who I probably form a relationship with over time. None of these things are true of Amazon.

> Stealing data from a customer paying for hosting would be _very_ different, and much more scandalous, than identifying trends on a competitive marketplace and taking advantage of them by launching competing products.

What part of using data that you have on your competitors but they don't have on you, to sell competing products on a platform where you don't have to pay fees but they do, sounds like a competitive marketplace?
‘Esoteric’ is in the eye of the beholder. Even in Go you gain performance by avoiding boxing.

> If I can get the same work done in Go and I can learn Go in a week versus months for C++17 (which is far more complex), why would I pick C++17?

Because C++17 code if written well is likely to be much faster. If you don’t care about that, by all means stick with Go. But keep in mind that learning is a one-time cost, and you can keep applying the same knowledge to project after project.
Would definitely be looking at removing the homespun server aspect and going with a high-performance, low latency paas / serverless setup. Lets you focus on and deliver the outputs you need (i.e. user interface + data).

If I were in your shoes I'd be looking at either:

- Firebase (free tier). Probably just using their RTDB for storage. You could conceivably do away with your backend entirely here.

- Cloudflare workers + KV storage (~$5 per month?) .. this would give you killer performance and let you write your storage logic in python. You're paying a minimum fee per month here, but in reality that could cover a large number of seperate sites.

Both suggestions raise vendor lock-in considerations, but given the use-case it doesn't seem like a major concern. Of course if you're looking forward to the joys of managing a box ...
1. What part of that statement makes you think that they ignored data from Taiwan? It was quite obviously a dodge of a politically sensitive question.

2. Both Taiwan and China claim to be China, so that statement wasn't even factually wrong.
I think it is not well locked down because their death rates are close to Italy (per capita, not per infected which are also similar but depend on testing protocol).

If you investigate the graphs then you may notice that it is a general rule that when when number of daily infected tops, it takes some time for the number of daily deaths to top.

I have not run statistical analysis yet but from eying it I would say that it is about a week or more.

From this point on the number of deaths will double or grow even higher.

For Sweden it will mean that even when the growth of daily infected stops today, the number of daily deaths will top when it is the number of deaths is around 3000 from what follows that the total number of dead will be around 6000 (assuming that the growth of daily infected stops).

It is more per capita then in Italy.
Absolutely!

First off, its practically the national dish of Canada, the boxed Kraft version ("Kraft Dinner") is the is the most popular grocery item in Canada - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Dinner

Germans have pretty much the exact same thing in Kasespatzle (spätzle with cheese).

Depending how you want to define "mac and cheese," the original Italian preparation of fettuccine alfredo is pretty damn close, the only ingredients are pasta, butter, and cheese.
I was in the same situation with a thermometer. I even had to buy one on eBay, and it was junk.
I’m not endorsing this but I ended up getting one of these since it would be delivered in a few days https://ihealthlabs.com/product/PT3
On a related tangent, I think the Powershell project is the only place to get certain DotNet libraries that pertain to remote management. It's a bizarre situation.
He translated the new testament from Greek to German. That helped the poor more than anybody else.
I think the best majority of those heirloom apples were for cider.
Lockdowns Don’t Work
Actually, there is a (small) bit of hope: SHAKEN/STIR [0]!

> STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks.

> ...

> As of 2019, SHAKEN/STIR is a major ongoing effort in the United States, which is suffering an "epidemic" of robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission is requiring use of the protocols by June 2021.

---

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
This reads like a Blade Runner quote.
you dont think this idea is worth pursuing?
I can hear my coworker's i7 macbooks across the room, they are hardly quiet when under moderate load.
Aha! So perhaps we shouldn't have shut down the economy and financially ruined millions of people, not to mention the hundreds of millions of people on the brink of starvation in developing countries.

Perhaps we just like sharing images of coffins and feeling virtuous.
Why not view it as a medical organization with political constraints?
If yo like this, check out Tom Brown's website in the same vein:

https://www.applesearch.org/
How well did Internet stores deliver during them?