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While "zero" obviously isn't the answer long term, I do think it's a reasonable one in the short term: The re-infection rate is clearly less than 1% given we only have a few anecdotal edge-cases there, so "being infected" clearly establishes solid protection. The first peak of the pandemic was 9 months ago, and we're still not seeing re-infections rise, so there's no reason to think this infection-based immunity is short-lived.

Obviously there might be long-term benefits to still vaccinating such people, but right now we're dealing with a very limited resource. Giving the vaccine to someone who hasn't been infected is a huge gain (say, 0% to 60% protection), while the second shot is a smaller gain (say, 60% to 90%), and someone who already has natural immunity is probably even smaller yet (say, 90% to 99%)

(Numbers are off-the-top-of-my-head and meant to indicate magnitude not an exact value)
> FAANG companies have smarter people than average and these smart people mentor their new emoloyees.

You clearly put FAANG on a higher pedestal than they should be...

There's this thing called "politics" that exist almost everywhere.

The mentoring that they get pertains to their job (e.g.: "Company-X" Python Code best practice, "Company-Y" Deployment checklists).

They don't get mentored how to run your own startup, find product/market fit, etc. FAANG companies are "huge". They hire specialists: "developer" not "developer, marketing, biz-dev, QA, ops, rolled under one hat".
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Red meat intake associated with risk of coronary heart disease in US men
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This is a Python framework claiming Node/Go-comparable perf.

Here's what it looks like:

from typing import Optional

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

class Item(BaseModel):
name: str
price: float
is_offer: Optional[bool] = None

@app.get("/")
def read_root():
return {"Hello": "World"}

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
def read_item(item_id: int, q: Optional[str] = None):
return {"item_id": item_id, "q": q}

@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
return {"item_name": item.name, "item_id": item_id}

That can get you an autogenerated openapi spec and docs, which IMO is pretty awesome.

Can anyone comment on how it compares to Django Rest Framework? (Other than presumably being faster)
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FWIW, I was able to play with a preview and found it straightforward to set up and it kinda just did what I expected. I'm happy to see them taking next steps here. Good luck opstrace!
Yea I agree with you. I heavily disagree with the commenter's opinion but I will never down vote on this site, simply because it suppresses a person's comment and that's not what I want.

Although the app that I use (Harmonic) shows all comments the same, which is nice :)
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Thanks. I assumed that option would be a major footgun (since accidental copies can be very expensive) but if it works for Swift, it can't be that bad.
Sure. But computers spotting foreign words in context similarly to how humans do is a lot more likely than getting most foreign words appropriately semantically tagged.
I believe that more kids of rich parents burn their money than making more with it.

I don't believe that money isn't a major reason that people are successful.
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I would agree that resolution is usually considered a linear unit (eg X cm/pixel). The improvement still looks great, but I also find the 9x a bit misleading.
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Backend/system mostly. 8+ years of experience, 3 years in adtech.
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That’s against Apple’s guidelines, violations of which will get your app kicked off the only distribution channel on iOS. We’ll have to see how this shakes out in reality, but as a deterrent it’s pretty strong.
Depends if it's piss-water or a quality stout or IPA.
I think there’s a group of people that will view Oregon as a promising hospital and a another group that will view it as Disneyland. These reforms will welcome both.
All the time, in the OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD ecosystems.

In fact, being anti-GPL has become kind of fashionable, so there you have it.
Itanium: Mark Architecture as Orphaned
Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
I'm not sure what you're saying here. For a start you're conflating drug use, open drug use and drug addiction. Homelessness obviously has some correlation with some types of drug use but there's a lot of non-homeless, non-addicted drug users. And you haven't touched on hard vs soft, addictive vs non-addictive drug use.

I'm not disagreeing because I'm genuinely not sure what point you're making?
Risk management in that they don't want to be left holding the bag when the investors go bankrupt.
Is it not right that 2019 was the highest spend ever for TV advertising?

And a 5% drop would be less than the drop in broader TV production, via coronavirus?

Major events that are associated with large advertising budgets haven't happened: the Olympics didn't happen. The Eurovision Song Contest didn't happen.
One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum
> “Why JS sucks”, “Never use PHP”, “Java is enterprise only”, “Ruby only works on hobby projects”

All of these have at least a little bit of truth to them, and you should know about the downsides of technologies, even if you decide to use them anyways.
At least someone in this thread gets it. Ad tracking really is about attribution, personalized ads are secondary nice-to-have.

This is how small businesses figure out their advertising budget. Where are our customers coming from, or more importantly, where are they not coming from, so we know where to spend or not spend our limited resources?

But I’m not surprised this isn’t pointed out more often. The hardcore privacy zealots really blow up when you try to explain that it’s mostly innocuous.
because 'the foreigner' controls the media. it's a race condition.
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That part I entirely agree with you on. I just wanted to point out that the practice of selling flow to companies who do really good execution is commonplace and sort of expected. I’d bet 10,000 robinhood could never build trade execution as good as citadel or any number of electronic trading firms.

But to your latter point, it seems almost criminal. At the least, I hope the class action against robinhood is won by the clients.
I love FastAPI. It's one of the best documented project I have seen. We're running several latency-critical production workloads in cloud with absolutely no issues. Great work Tiangolo!
Why not?

Vaccines don't actually protect you against the virus, they just activate your immune system (your body's natural protection). Guess what else also activates the immune system? The actual virus!

At the beginning of the pandemic, there was some talk that anti-bodies might not last longer than 3 months, but that was obviously just FUD (there was literally no data). I had antibodies 6 months after being infected. Two additional things I heard (but don't have the source), your body can restart production of antibodies (B-cells remember), and people had SARS(-CoV-1) antibodies years after infection.

Finally, this: https://www.ft.com/content/929ef3cd-8611-49b2-9f23-918dc3470... Covid infection shown to provide as much immunity as vaccines - I haven't checked the source but FT isn't really known for fake news.

Are there any credible studies that say that infection doesn't confer immunity?
Ok, so besides the technical faults of Mongo within the context of its category, what is the ideal use-case of a document oriented store?

If you use metadata documents to model your relations you might get away with the most dangerous foot guns, but then why not jump straight into graph databases?
irl identities are attack surfaces
Same here. When I want to get a new project of the ground, I use Django.

This partially due to the batteries included, partially because I am very familiar with it.

On more mature projects, at the stage where I really start splitting services into their own hosts, I switch to something else. Django's batteries are no longer useful at this stage, since e.g. auth is it's own service now.
I have no doubt that much higher levels of consumption are possible.

I don't really have a position on what "binge" should mean, but that doesn't exactly sound like it's not. Could just be my perspective. I probably drink most days. Usually one beer. Rarely, I might have two in a day. I can't remember that last time I had more than that.
Me. Did a masters in IP law while working as a developer then qualified and moved over. Then sortof moved back. Long story.
Germany isn't going to fight Russia alone, it's going to fight Russia with the entire EU per article 42 section 7 of the TEU.

France has 530 MBTs, Spain 550, and Italy 480. This compares favourably with the 2600 Russian tanks, and with proper logistical backbone, advanced air support, infantry support, and competent missile defence systems, is way more than necessary to stall a Russian offensive.

Of course, once the Russian offensive is stalled, Germany alone can vastly outproduce Russia, and that's the worst case scenario.

The US is not necessary for Germany to defend against Russia.
Yes, that in case they are given at least 1 proper tank battalion each.

That will be pretty much the second Iraqi Freedom, maybe less.
Would ad companies like Google make less money? Not really. Overall advertising budgets are not dominated by the effectiveness of advertising, but by adversarial spending by their competitors

This premise seems wrong to me. It assumes that advertising is always a net positive, regardless of how targeted it is.

As someone who runs a company that built apps and have spent ZERO on advertising and PR, I can tell you that is usually not the case.

In fact, the biggest component of user acquisition cost is the untargeted advertising. Much better to reduce that cost to zero by increasing the viral k-factor and user retention. Those two metrics matter way more than advertising. If you can reduce the ad spend per user, or per customer, you are BETTER off, not worse.

For example, Google adwords nor any other advert network offers NO WAY of targeting MacOS, only iOS and Android, so we couldn’t make any money advertising our Calendars for Mac app.

And trust me we experimented with all kinds of monetization in that app:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-43386918

Original article was im ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/there...

https://www.google.com/search?q=qbix+mining&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-...
Obviously, it depends, but assuming you do have an NLP use case already, there are certain things that you will almost certainly have to do in your preprocessing regardless of your task. For example, sentence parsing. Writing your own basic sentence parser is fairly easy. Writing your own _good_ sentence parser is a nightmare akin to trying to parse HTML with regex. SpaCy provides a very good one for you. Down the line it will help you train a model on various tasks in a compute efficient manner as well. This is just a small example.
Is this a good choice for realtime websocket projects with many open connections? I found only one simple example in the docs and was not sure, if it will eat too much memory with many clients?
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“1-2 drinks/hr” is not a well defined metric. It’s better to use units of alcohol:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alc...

And more than 1 5% beer is outside of almost all people’s ability to “process” in an hour.

I would wager the majority of people based on size/weight can’t process a single 5% beer in an hour.
It would probably be helpful to define abuse of drugs as not being able to function in society as a result of use. The clinical definition of using more than the prescribed dose isn't very helpful. Depending on the drug a higher dose can be desirable for different reasons.

If somebody wants to check out of society I don't want to stop them. That is their choice. But if they are trying to participate in society and struggling with drug abuse we should try to help them.
Even if there was consistency in the actual fonts their rendering depends on the platform/engine or even just the device settings. If you want precise display metrics you should use an image (SVG counts). If I've got large text enabled on my phone we could have the same exact device and my display metrics won't match yours.
I don't build drivers from source.

If it is a configuration error, Canonical has been making the error since it decided to replace fxgl drivers.
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Thanks!
Super excited to see improvement in NER accuracy in SpaCy 3.0.
> Why is it so unreasonable to suggest that professors might create their own problem sets and tests?

Because creating a problem set or test that 1) is pedagogically useful and 2) solvable in a defined amount of time is a very difficult problem and certainly takes up a lot of time.

My solution to Chegg is to make assignments and tests that you don't need to answer every question for and put a couple REALLY difficult problems on things--technically solvable by the class by effectively not due to complexity/time. In a CS class, it's really easy to create simple looking problems that spiral out of control. I've occasionally done it even when I didn't mean to. :(

Anyone submitting a correct answer to it gets my detailed attention for cheating.

In addition, in a technical track, I do point out that not learning my class, which is a prerequisite, will absolutely kill you in the next class.

Between the fact that the universities that I have worked with will and have expelled people for cheating and the fact that my course is a prerequisite, I seem to have dissuaded the cheaters to take other professors. :)

Alternatively, they're just that good at cheating. Fortunately, the students who need to cheat are generally not smart enough to cheat well, either.
Do you have any data to back up that simply lowering a satellite can achieve a 9X increase in image resolution? Or are you merely speculating?
Load testing is a part of the upcoming feature of zuQA. For this I compared a lot of load testing tools and finally decided to use vegeta.

Also would you like a demo of my product https://zuqa.io , can we connect on LinkedIn or somewhere?