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Atleast frontend and backend needs to be decoupled in almost any development for the future. I work with several legacy apps where we use python requests just to collect data. It's a huge pain when https certificate expires, when they change something in validation header and when they deploy a new 'field'. Most CRUD applications do need a place when you can collect all the data after the backend process all the business logic without touching the frontend.

Almost the entire RPA industry revolves around the idea of supporting this legacy apps problem -- scrapping content and not worrying about them breaking.
The fact that the debt is deliniated in US controlled currency is what protects us. Now, our stability, partially due to our military allows that to happen. But it isn't necessary to avoid being collected on.
Impost3r – A Linux Password Thief
^ This. With every reasonable person that leaves Facebook and isn’t replaced, it becomes easier for them to misbehave. You shouldn’t risk your well-being, but it’s worth considering the amount of information you’d gain and potential positive influence you could have.
I'm older than you and I've lost alot of faith in 'experts' as well.

Today I read about several published studies that were retracted for unreliable data related to covid drugs.

I'm now just using all of these things as one data point to make a decision with. News, politicians, scientific publications, experts, data.

I've also lost faith in certain political parties which I was previously a member for their fanaticism and demonization of people who disagreed with their narrative and who still can't admit their thinking was flawed.
Having your community brutalized by the very organization that is supposed to provide protection is very different from having members of the community dying of disease. Both are extremely awful, but at least the disease doesn't seem to be trying to undermine civil society.
Here are some books that have stood out for me. They cover some of the technologies that I either have to work with, or am personally interested in.

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

Practical, actionable guidelines. The first edition was the best, the second was diluted somewhat by having to cover generics, in the third he admits that he doesn't really use Java much anymore... Despite that, it's well-written and still a good book.

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk

Covers some of the history of the Linux/Unix API, describes it in detail, has plenty of examples, compares different APIs that do similar things so you can make an informed choice (e.g. System V vs. POSIX message queues).

If any book in this list stands out for me, it's probably this one. It might be partly due to the surprise factor of how enjoyable and well-written a 1000+ page, near-reference book is.

Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton

An intro to the language and how to approach problem solving from a functional P.O.V. Not as comprehensive as some other intros to Haskell, but Hutton is a good writer and educator, making it a good read.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Provides an overview of a number of topics related to databases, distributed systems, consensus, etc. Lots of references (many of them online) if you like that in a book. Enjoyable to read.

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell by Simon Marlow

Probably a must-read if you're into Haskell; probably too esoteric if you're not... Well written.

Type-Driven Development with Idris by Edwin Brady

Describes a programming language similar to Haskell, but strict by default and with dependent types designed-in from the start. Also describes techniques for leveraging the type system to construct functions (the type-driven part of the title). Well written.

Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren

Low-level bit twiddling. 'Nuff said.
> So, I think the number of workers actually hurt by that is relatively small.

Guarantee you it is a huge number in Canada, and probably the U.S. as well. Tax fraud in food service, bars, and kitchens is the norm here in Ontario.
> But self-modifying to feel pain more easily would usually incur reputational costs. We have terms like “crybaby,” “whiner,” and “drama queen” precisely because we recognize that some people may be incentivized to express an excessive amount of pain. However, those with high social status or social value may be particularly likely to over-express pain, as they are less likely to be mocked or ostracized for doing it. This is the “cry-bully” phenomenon: those with little fear of social ostracism or judgment may express excessive pain or offense against those less powerful (e.g. the outgroup), and get away with it without reputational costs.

This describes a lot of what happens on social media. Most of the people with high reputation on Twitter (whether through number of followers or verified accounts) would qualify as "cry-bullies".
>What can they say other than "your account has been frozen"

"Our system is absolute rubbish, we have absolutely no clue when it will be deborked?"

It's accurate. It doesn't leak information about the subject being under investigation, either directly, or by the lack of a normal excuse. It cleverly straddles the border between a technology problem and a regulatory one. And it provides plenty of opportunity to string along the account holder as long as necessary so they don't panic and move to cover their asses.
I second this book too, it's a great introduction to Mesoamerican civilization. The author, Michael D. Coe, also has another excellent book "Breaking the Maya Code" on the decipherment of the Maya glyphs The fundamentals were done in 1950-60's by Knorozov and Proskouriakoff, but the decipherment was only widely accepted until as recently as the 1970's[1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script#Decipherment
Yeah, that is a really broad definition. That results in everything becoming everything. For example, everything has some kind of economic impact, so everything becomes economics. Or, everything can have some affect on the arts, so everything becomes arts. This kind of failure to make distinctions makes the scope of every field to encompass everything, which eliminates the very notion of separate fields of study.

Probably a more sensible approach is to say the medical field concerns itself with the operation of the human body, and how to correct malfunctioning operations.
Why did you assume that my comments about the violent mob was in reference to peaceful protestors? I was clearly talking about the looters and vandals that have used the legitimate protests to shield their activities. Is it that hard to discern the meaning of "violent mob"?

Your willingness to jump yet again to the conclusion that I was attempting to dismiss legitimate grievances is frustrating and again an example of the behavior I was trying to call out.
You could always just set `telemetry.enableTelemetry` to false and continue to use the official builds.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

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I agree. When comparing graviton with an intel CPU, you're going to have an intel premium.

The jaggedness of the cascade-lake graph concerns me. The article provides no explanation for it. Is it another process interfering with some runs and how many test runs did they do to get these charts?
Around a decade ago I worked for a place that packaged and shipped python applications to windows desktops using a similar bundling tool, py2exe. It worked pretty fine. Pretty much just unzips into a directory: there's your self contained python app hiding inside an exe and some associated data files/dlls in the directory.

We still used wheel archives etc for managing some python dependencies during our dev and build process, but it was never a complete solution: some python packages depend upon non python shared libraries so you need to install them using an operating system level package manager. Then when shipping the software to users you cannot assume the user has a working version of python, or even if they do you don't want to increase your support burden by having your application running inside some arbitrary python environment.
I think your assertion that inflation (money printing) is necessary for inflation is wrong and certainly not obvious. Investment necessarily comes from savings. One must not eat some of this year’s corn so as to have next year’s seed. Whether state-forced savings through inflationary bank loans is better than voluntary private savings should be answerable by studying history. Was there better investment historically in countries where the state devalued money in favor of banks, or in countries where money was not devalued?
Except you absolutely can. The black civil rights protests were planned months in advance, and almost always when schools where out.
See? If you owned a Knob, you could have used it as a scroll wheel, and you wouldn't have had to connect your mouse! ;)
Your last several comments have broken the HN guidelines. I actually banned you for this, but decided to unban you because your earlier comment history seems fine.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
It’s my understanding — which seems to be congruent with the pages you linked? — that facial hair is an impediment to medical-grade respirators that require a tight seal to be effective. With cloth/paper masks that aren’t intended to be PPE for medical workers, though, that’s not actually what we’re going for, though, right? What we’re trying to do is curtail the spread of droplets. Beards and mustaches really won’t materially affect the effectiveness in that case.

In your specific example of volunteer health assessments and triage at a homeless shelter, you probably need real honest-to-goodness PPE, and the organization’s advice was wrong. When I’m going down to the grocery store, though, a cloth mask should be sufficient — and my (admittedly short) beard is not going to keep my mask from blocking droplets from my mouth and nose, assuming it completely covers both of them.
Drop it in a user script with Greasemonkey or similar, and add a keypress event listener.

The bones of it:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Personal jmapui tweaks
// @version 1
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

addEventListener("keypress", event => {
if (event.target …) { return; }
if (event.key == 'x' && event.ctrlKey && !event.metaKey …) {
window.eval('…');
}
});

You’ll want to do things like skip events targeted at form elements or within a contenteditable, perhaps unless you use a suitable modifier.

It may be helpful to flatten the modifiers and key into a single string, like "Ctrl-Meta-Shift-S", and match on that.

The security interactions between your user script code and document code are fiddly and troublesome, and debugging is distressingly limited. I find using window.eval(`…`) to be a good technique for executing arbitrary code in the security context of the page itself.
Gun control is an extremely polarized topic here. “Right to bear arms” is part of the second amendment in constitution. As long as that stays there, we’ll have far more gun related deaths than any other western nation per capita. The NRA is well funded and lobbies (bribes) republicans to vote against anything gun control related. There is just so much money to be made from guns that we’re happy to sacrifice human lives as a trade off.

This is unlikely to change unless all President, Congress and Senate overwhelmingly agree it’s a problem and need to be changed. I don’t think it will happen unless there is a real massive shootout. Like millions of deaths.

May be 2100, we’ll get our shit together and realize what a horrible idea it was to let it linger so long.
I would do more of this if I had a simpler way of pulling documentation from the GitHub Wiki repo.

I’m sorry the experience was poor, and I’ll consider this feedback as I make improvements to our documentation and marketing collateral to make it nicer to use. My apologies. I work hard to win over developers, many times one at a time, and so your feedback isn’t lost on me.
Pablo Servigne “A future without oil” (English subtitles)
How the Black Death changed art
Tensorflow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript
It looks like this is the script that generates it.

https://github.com/makelinux/linux_kernel_map/blob/master/sr...
The math could work out, but if that was true then that means if NYC got 5 times as many infections the number of fatalities would barely change.

I would find that hard to believe and I also doubt they would have enough data to validate that type of hypothesis. We're still guessing at the number of people infected, not to mention how old are they, what pre-existing conditions did they have, how do those pre-existing condition affect Covid-19 mortality in different age groups, what viral load did they receive, etc..
Sounds like the services shouldn't be split up into 10 if there's that much dependency going on.

Like, services are an abstraction. If one service has to call all other 9 services, and the same occurs for the other 9 services -- then that's a monolith acting over the network.
As I understand it, conda has more sophisticated handling of native components, and is largely seen in scientific environments where Python is just the frontend to libraries that are actually in C++ and Fortran.
Thank you for saying so! I will be available if you need anything at all.
I'd forgotten about that stuff, but it seems like the bad idea was the prize itself.

I mean, the winner did just enough to get the prize, and stopped, and nothing further ever came of it, right?

Just because of how SpaceX overshadows everything in retrospect.
Yes. But the Feds won’t allow government funded research into gun violence. For black moms the issue is wrapped up in obstetrics in the US which basically has refused to use checklists, crash carts etc... I am not sure if this has changed but there was no national standard protocol in the US. It varied by state! This has been widely reported on if you do a few google searches. Lastly there’s also a lack of access to prenatal care.
I spent my 20s trying to get rich enough to become a professional student. My 30s too. Its looking like this is also how I'll spend my 50s, which are approaching like a steam train. Bring on the MIT Golden Years Home for the Intellectually Dissatisfied.
Very inspiring to highlight education and learning is lifelong. Ph.D. even though symbolism (not really needed if only aim is knowledge assimilation and creation through learning), will serve as a big boost in confidence for middle age workers, who think there aren’t enough opportunities for them.

Also Ph.D. gives chances to work with younger people keeping middle and older generations more active and alive.

I hope to continue learning in my middle and old age like the post, not sure of Ph.D. though. But may consider if it opens a way for me to work alongside young researchers can learn new things from them and feel alive.
Ironic that Node is one of the boring choices nowadays.
Does population size really matter? We are talking about interactions at most of a few people to a few people. Whether it be Auckland with a population of circa a million or NY with their population - I don't think it matters when you are talking about the interactions of a few people.

I am a kiwi, but have lived in Japan for two decades as well. You could just about swap out my mentions of NZ for Japan as a second example, but I can see some comparison there not being considered fair either

I think it is fair to look for comparisons in other countries - my main point is that racial profiling happens in other countries too - but the acceptable professional standards for police engagement with the community are vastly different to what seems to be the norm in the States.

For where most of my life experience lies, whether it be Japan, Australia or New Zealand, people are not afraid or nervous of interacting with the police.

Some root cause analysis to shine the light on where the issues are would be helpful I think. I think racial issues are a partial-cause - but there are racial issues in NZ, Japan and Australia where you don't have anything like the same aggressive nature of police interaction.

It just feels like the U.S. discourse on the subject is on the side effects versus the root cause. I could be wrong - but would love to see it discussed.
> The ability to act with coordination across a group of drones that the article mentions will be hard to beat

Very easy to beat via even somewhat advanced radioelectronic warfare. Can't coordinate if you can't communicate. This is the Achilles heel of all these "advanced weapons systems" that look so great in the powerpoint slides but are only useful against enemies which don't have any weaponry built after mid-80s.
when the son has kids on his own, grandpa will helpfully suggest to do this for the grandkids, and only then it will dawn on him :-)
Looks like it only support files right now, could io_uring work for network FDs? If so, can it reach performance close to kernel bypass (eg. DPDK) ?
Yeah, I don't really understand the hate containers get for this. If the people who run your software aren't updating it you're screwed anyway. I promise you'll be way more disappointed if you assume that the system libs in the wild will be patched and up to date.

Like if building a pet app is your company/team's job then containers more than fine. If you're a distro maintainer that has thousands on thousands of packages then sharing libs starts to make a lot more sense.
but reality doesn't care. when people start falling sick, and the curve steepens while the cries of "why weren't we warned!" become loud and clear what's going to be these "experts" answer then? Surely they've thought that far ahead. right?

Or maybe the lockdowns were a massive over reaction and this is a subtle acknowledgment.
Good points!

However, public health continues to actively distinguish itself from medicine (they're different degrees and different departments in universities, for example, and you can get both an MD and a DPH), so I don't think your proposed definition for medicine will satisfy public health experts as a definition of their field. Although county health departments are often led by someone who has both a medical and public health degree, many of the people working in them will have public health training but not medical training.

Even looking at classic public health activities like sanitation/environmental health and epidemiology, sanitation and epidemiology aren't really about the functioning of the human body! They're more about conditions under which the human body is more likely to experience some particular kinds of morbidity...

Even your definition of medicine might be unsatisfactory to some people in the medical field, for example because they think mental health is medicine, or because (to pick an amusing example from my health insurer's claim form) pregnancy is not a disorder or malfunction of the body, but it requires a lot of medical expertise to manage its outcomes well. Other examples could be pain management and anaesthesia (pain, for example during surgery, is not necessarily a malfunction of the body—typically you would like the body to make you aware when it's being cut!) and elective surgeries.
Thanks so much for the info. I just finished getting my EMT certification, it's just gonna be really hard to get the hours of experience done without leaving my regular job. My job isn't lucrative (mid-$50k), but I'm not sure if I can afford to live on minimum wage + no health insurance as a full-time EMT. Plus I have no idea how I'll pay to get a post-bac. It seems like you need a certain amount of financial security to do this.
Regardless of whether it's a good idea, it cannot be done.

I believe the last number I saw said there were about 300 million guns in the US - one for each person.

There's no way to just make those disappear into government hands.
I'm curious what will come about with different sizes. I'll bet a lot of people think of this in the context of quadcopters up to predator drones. I'm in the middle of The Diamond Age and all I can think of is the drones so small you can't see them.

Imagine a jet flying through a cloud of drones. Maybe most are destroyed. But some work their way into the internal systems, or perhaps into the cockpit itself, and do who knows what.
There's no reason whatever binary packaging format you use can't store metadata on all of its internal dependencies. "Tracking down" vulnerable dependencies is almost trivial in this case.
Start with a monolith for your core business logic. Rely on external services for things outside your value prop, be it persistent storage or email or something else. Keep on building and growing until the monolith is causing teams to regularly step on each other's toes. By that I mean, continue well past teams needing to coordinate or needing dedicated headcount to handle coordination to the point where coordination is impossible. When that point approaches, allow new functionality to be built in microservices and gradually break off pieces of the monolith when necessary.
You don't need to remove branding to disable tracking for corporates like Amazon. For example, They might have some firewall in the network which blocks tracking API.
No avoid all calcium if you’re taking high doses of D on a daily basis.
This looks amazing, off to read about it now! Thank you!!!
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. Religious flamewar is unwelcome here, and we already had to warn you about nationalistic flamewar already.

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Should public health officials weigh in on all issues? Yes. In my home state, every bill before the legislature has a financial assessment tied t it, because most laws cost money. The same should be true for health: we should figure out if an issue is positive, negative, mixed or neutral on public health. It should be part of the deliberation process.

Take your gun example: people should know that if they support the status quo gun laws how many people will die, or what the impact of a new lw is. That doesn’t mean the CDC regulates guns, but it does mean they should have a voice in the conversation.
Those are examples of individual racism. You cannot make a law that erases individual racism. You can make one that erases structural. If a department of cops are individually racist and therefore have the effect of profiling people regularly, there is simply no law that can prevent that.
The prevalence is too low for the antibody tests to be reliable. Every public health expert has reported that but people refuse to listen. Sweden has admitted their strategy is not working.
Don't forget worshiping the confederate flag which is to disown everything America stands for.
Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke
We indeed live in an era where all things are binary.

But what is a thinking person supposed to think when the Surgeon General is saying don’t wear masks in a pandemic caused by airborne viri?

In urban (educated) zones likely to be hotbeds for outbreaks, could the state not do a little nuance and say “hospitals need the N95s and you need a bandana”

Everybody has got a bandana, but if I were to start walking into stores with one before sanctioned, someone would be calling 911. In the meantime, how many weeks go by at R 3...
The Mayans did in fact make roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacbe