skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Please don't talk about risk with so much at stake. Just push that code you wrote this morning to our mission-critical production system."

"We can do proper code review, unit testing, integration testing and full test cycle later on, when the pressure fades away."

We engineers all understand the risk of pushing untested code to production, but when it comes to medicine and other fields, we forget everything and rush it out. We basically act based on fear and hope.
A lot of the attempts at teaching Common Core math that I looked at were far superior to my experience in the 80s/90s. I was taught math wrongly. Like the GP, I didn't grow to appreciate it like I do today until years after the fact... and I got a math minor!

But really what I'd like to see is math taught in a far more granular way. Weekly chunks that were pass/no-pass. If you didn't get it, repeat the week. If you got it, progress to the next week.

If you have _n_ weeks of math done, great, you get a HS diploma. If you have _m_, you have a minor, etc.

And I'm saying "math", but that could be broken down into subspecialities. You don't qualify for precalc week 1 until you've reached Trig Week 12 and Geometry Week 8, or whatever.

Weeks could be "challenged", as well, if you were able to skip ahead.

And there'd be no need for a gifted program. (Such programs--I was in one--always sat the wrong way with me. Like it was an artifact of bad structural design of the education system.)

Anyway, that's what I'd do if I were king. In fact, I'd change every subject to use this model. (HT Kahn Academy and their flipped-classroom work.)
Programming is <<shudder>> _applied_ mathematics.
This user hostile and convoluted approach to making a page look readable must the the approach TeMPOraL mentioned above, lol.
The error(?) in this benchmark is putting the DB on the same machine as the server.

Async solves the problem of not wanting to block other requests while you go out to expensive external resources. If you benchmark stuff while it's all on the same machine, it masks that cost.

I couldn't find the size of the DB. Is it 100GB of data? or more like 10MB? Doing one point query on 10MB might not touch even disk a whole lot.

If you were using srcreigh's hosted DB service and queries took 1s to run, the sync servers throughput would suffer greatly, meanwhile async servers would still perform pretty good.
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I'm not generalizing, I'm specifically speaking about those companies that I have experience with that have a person at the helm that hails from one of the military branches.
This isn't meant to be a jab or insinuation about you in particular, but: what about an Adenovirus vaccine? You can still (AFAIK) get the J&J vaccine in the US, and the AZ vaccine in most of the rest of the world.

I'd argue that mRNA vaccine development represents the most rigorous that the field of vaccinology has ever been, but those (Adenovirus) vaccines use a well tested, not-previously-experimental delivery technology. Do you have an objection to them?
That may be true, but it doesn't automatically mean that 42% of Americans are high risk. This is reflected in the aggregate statistics. Mild obesity is probably not a significant risk factor, whereas severe obesity is a big problem.

The BMI-based definition of "obesity" is a crude qualifier, and the vast majority of the affected will be in the smaller group that is both elderly and obese (esp. considering that age is, by far, the more important factor for serious outcomes.)
"Everything I've seen says that isn't the case, that by about 50,000 miles you are in the black compared to an ICE."

Yes, perhaps, but that is comparing a new EV to a new ICE. I am talking about keeping your old ICE running vs buying a new EV. That is where the major problem is, and it is a big problem because EVs, and Tesla particularly are marketed as the new must-have gadget.

Edit: And people are upgrading earlier than they normally would, due to the hyped and unsubstantiated green credentials of EVs.
It's a textbook created by one of our math teachers intended for internal use. The textbook password is adbe674eec46, please don't make an account.
A deadly parasite that burrows in through bare feet could be multiplying in US
From a "reducing my risk of dying" perspective, you'd have to balance the risk of dying from taking the vaccine vs the risk of dying from COVID with zero treatments, one treatment, or both treatments.

The numbers could lean either way and would be very sensitive to variations in the probabilities involved - I'm sure it would be very hard to reach any form of consensus on "probability of dying from taking the vaccine". It's also worth addressing wasn't even making the point of which (so-called) experimental treatment has a better likely outcome but rather addressing criticism at (so-called) experimental treatments in general.

From an "unknown risk" perspective, you'd also have to consider that COVID itself could have yet-unknown long-term risks.
More High-Paying Jobs Require a Covid-19 Vaccine
sounds like the dream tbh. cities are overrated
Go visit the Völkerschlachtdenkmal at the outskirts of Leipzig to get a visceral understanding of the dark undercurrent of Teutonic culture that led to militarism. This is a war memorial that celebrates war and military sacrifice, no pacifist message there at all. It was inaugurated less than a year prior to the outbreak of the Great War.

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

The feeling you get inside under the unyielding gaze of the granite "Watchers of the Dead" is absolutely creepy.
Thank you! I appreciated this info!
tl;dr: Async (1) is not faster, (2) does not scale, and (3) is not stable under load.

Yes and no matter how many times its said people will still opt for the async option even though its slower in the general case. I went so far as to benchmark this myself in 2019 using EC2, digital ocean, and my local machine. I nearly published a blog post but I don't appreciate the attention that brings.

Gunicorn is not stable under heavy load. uWSGI delivers better throughput. If we talk about cloud environments exclusively, uWSGI is better full stop.

If you have endpoints with long awaits consider a strategy other than holding open the connection. If you need to run a socket server then run it separately from your api server.
Current AI practices could be enabling a new generation of copyright trolls
You keep alluding to the "instability" of Signal's security, but your argument for that is a non sequitur. Repeating it doesn't make it more compelling.
That's a less accurate analogy in my view, because Canada was never a part of the United States while Taiwan was a part of China.
It's more like the losing side in a war within the USA, militarily taking over florida and declaring itself the government of the USA only to later drop that pretension and declare Florida an independent country instead. Would you be happy for China to meddle and arm the Floridians in that situation?
Why would they be driving?
Right, but even in schedule a job - 1 fast request, there's still some waiting for the server to ack that it got the message. That's the request that became slow. I don't see how there's any getting around that, async API or not.
The sub is tomahawk-capable and those tomahawks are nuclear warhead-capable.

It's just one of the ways we're playing with (nuclear) fire.

Previous incidents with nuclear-powered and/or nuclear-armed subs have come close to ending the world previously.
At an instant messaging company we did this in 2010 with greenlet. In current_year, everything assumes you will use async, so you should probably use async.
I did almost the exact same thing (minus scrabble score!), and am convinced there's at least a few interesting blog posts or even research papers left that can come from these records.

Maybe because it was all too contrived, it fell by the wayside when my wife came across something she really liked in a poem, and we basically used the closest name that embodied the phrase.

For the next child I'll probably just try asking a transformer model.
Actually if you read the document and remove the phrase "white supremacy" I tend to agree with some of the conclusions. For example the section about procedural knowledge vs. conceptual is spot on. You don't need to be a human calculator to be good at math. Schools emphasize surface level understandings and almost never allow you to go deep on a topic.
Here in Europe disruption to board the train is enough to get police called on you and have them fine you, the fine grows with every minute of disruption. Not a crime, but definitely not legal. Stopping a moving train without necessary cause is criminal.

Very often the conductor will let you board a train late by signalling you with hand or speaking... But disobeying the conductor's signal whistle is where you step into potential illegality, because the train might (and sometimes really will) start moving that same moment.

All of this doesn't apply to city public transport - trams, metro etc. But it does apply to trains passing through the city.
This is illegible with that background (in portrait mode on an ipad pro).
My understanding is that other antivirals are much less effective after the first week or so of infection.
I've always thought Vancouver, BC would be a nice spot but, it's quite expensive.
I agree, not allowing to save would be pretty asinine. But having collaboration or limiting the number of documents or the complexity of documents is totally acceptable.
Just use "body { font-family: sans-serif; }" and call it a day. Is it really that hard? Who do web fonts benefit, anyway?
That is indeed what I said
You're right of course, it's the lazy lower class that is causing the supply chain issues. If only the truck driver would make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM so that he can work 14 hours (because, as we've seen in the past week, the trucking industry isn't bursting with employees) and then be home by 7PM.

Should he cook his own lunch too? Maybe he can wake up at 3:30AM for that.

What about his dinner? Maybe he can wake up at 3AM.

Can he read his kids bedtime stories? Maybe he can wake up at 2:30AM so that he has time at the end of the day. After all, he has been deemed essential.
>Less than two years from lab to clinic is highly unusual.

I assume like most other COVID vaccines/treatments, the timeline is shrunk by going straight to more expensive phases of the trial instead of having preliminary ones of escalating cost and confidence. Or at least prepping for them.

For instance, all the vaccines started setting up commercial production around the same time they started trials, because it's not worth the months delay of setting up a production line to determine if it worked first.
So what’s illicit about it, compared to the usual ad business?
Higher temps means it will age faster though. I'm not sure of the factor, it's going to be hardware-dependent, so I'm not sure how big of a deal it is.
Hi, as a scientist who worked at UCSF during the HIV crises and saw the direct impact of HIV/AIDS, I can tell you that your understanding of HIV science aand transmission is very limited. It's not completely and totally incorrect, but it looks like you're trying to push a personal agenda on top of some shaky beliefs.
1. Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries

It's a bit dated (covers DAGISel rather than GlobalISel) but it gives a thorough introduction.

2. LLVM Developer Meeting tutorials

These are really good although you'll have to put them in order yourself. They will be out of date, a little. LLVM is a moving target. Also, you don't have to go through every tutorial. For example, MLIR is not for me.

3. LLVM documentation

I spent less time reading this than going through the Developer Meeting tutorials. I generally use it as a reference.

4. Discord, LLVM email list, git blame, LLVM Weekly

... because you will have questions.

5. MyFirstTypoFix (in the docs)

... when it comes time to submit a patch.

6. Mips backend

If you're doing a backend, you will need a place to start. The LLVM documentation points you to the horribly out of date SPARC backend. Don't even touch that. AArch64 and x86 are very full featured and thus very complex (100 kloc+). Don't use those either. RISC-V is ok but concerns itself mostly with supporting new RISC-V features rather than keeping up to date with LLVM compiler services. Don't use that either although definitely work through Alex Bradbury's RISC-V backend tutorials. Read the Mips backend. It is actively maintained. It has good GlobalISel support almost on par with the flagship AArch64 and x86 backends.

BTW, Chris Lattner is a super nice guy.
>read CSV file from another third-party
Generally, if you're getting a CSV file from a client that indicates to me that theres a good chance they're exporting info from their systems and sending you the CSV.

Have you considered developing a client facing API that can be used to send and digest data?
Night vision and artificial intelligence reveal secrets of spider webs
Watch out, it's becoming increasingly illegal to talk about Pfizer even just in a slightly negative way. Their covid-19 vaccine product is the gold standard of safety, it's spectacularly effective, and breakthrough cases are so extremely rare it's basically fake news to claim otherwise. If it's not fake news, it's perhaps just anti-vax, white-supremacy, or russia.
Related, Alan Kay's views on this subject: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Alan-Kay-think-about-compute...
What concept has been proven?

Have they achieved fusion? Or the concept of generating electricity from heat, proven long ago?
The even better news is that by the time they're older, they'll probably have substantial immunity to it anyway.
Bottom left and bottom right (the control keys on both sides are useful) are fine positions for a lot of non-laptop keyboards, namely those keyboards where you can comfortably use the palm of your hand to hit control (learnt that from Xah Lee). It is problematic for laptop keyboards, however.
I thought GPUs were involved in all sorts of calcuations like matrix calculations that had nothing to do with graphics.
Sam is probably one of the most well connected VCs around. I'm willing to bet his due diligence is decent.
Is the M1 MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Slower?
They could also stand with their decision, to stick it to all the user apps, that track you to oblivion ;)
Not sure about Python's async story, but in Node.js it is essential if your program's performance is I/O bound. There's no reason to let a thread stay idle while waiting for a database operation to finish.
Related, FDA's War on Dr. Burzynski, after Burzynski won his court cases, the FDA gave away Burzynski patents to their FDA pharma buddies. The FDA stole it after they couldn't win lawsuits against Burzynski in multiple court cases.

Found a recap via google @ https://www.jpands.org/hacienda/blevins1.html

Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7LZ8GLerI
I'm actually very happy with the basic app. I had gotten my own treadmill at the beginning of the year but really hadn't found any programs I enjoyed. The partnership with my insurance was announced a week before my free trial of the app was set to expire and I was fully prepared to begin paying for it.

I just struggle with their pricing model structure and the justification behind it. If I shell out 2000-3000 dollar and I'm all in on their product, I'm rewarded by having to pay more and I don't really see any gain. 40 a month for my stats, that are already tracked through my watch and treadmill, to be on screen seems pointless. When I did CrossFit, which was the healthiest I'd ever been, the classes were expensive but they provided me with all the equipment.

Unlike what the other poster implied, I'm not penny pinching and was actually researching their treadmill to buy until I looked into the pricing model. It really seems like the unconnected app should be 40 a month, which would make sense for the live classes and music licenses that make the product worth it. If you get their bike it's reduced to 13.

I see some justification if it's a family and everyone is using it for their multiple memberships, but all the other reasons I've heard just seem like sunk cost reasoning, albeit with people having gotten healthier.
Django 1.10 appears in Vibora's benchmark which is merely cited at the end of the article.
The benchmark of the author does not test Django.
A major difference is going to be resources. If this is intended as a personal site, shared hosting is going to be a better deal for you. You'll get a better deal on hosting and if you're not getting a lot of visitors, your website will be fine.

A VPS, by contrast, is going to give you more computing power. If a large number of visitors is a concern, a VPS will be better.

Either way, you can get a VPS with low resources from Digital Ocean or linode for very cheap, so price shouldn't be a huge issue.

Personally, I'd go for a VPS. It's fun to set up a web server and control the entire process. If that's not what interests you about making a website, shared hosting is absolutely a fine option.
China Evergrande sold off private Jets to make bond interest payments
Shameless plug for my caregiver support app Baby Buddy[0]. Previously a Show HN[1] as well. The app turned four years old not long ago (as did our first child!) and I'm still enjoying hacking away on it.

Give it a try if you are in to self-hosting and over-engineering (your child?).

[0] https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558057
Education in the Soviet Union – emphasis on science (1958)
Thanks! I've found that the vast majority of software I get hired to write boils down to just a frontend to a database / spreadsheet, and the rest is just window dressing.
A death rate of 4-5 per 200 workers is highly unlikely. According to CDC data the infection fatality rate in a mostly unvaccinated population was 0.06% for the 18-49 age group and 0.6% for the 50-64 age group. The majority of deaths have been among older age groups, who are mostly not working at companies.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Fortunately vaccination provides good protection against death.
I don’t think it helps their families. You know what does though, vaccines and this new anti-viral.

So can I live my life and worry about own family and not someone’s I don’t know?
I understand this concern, but what can I as an average citizen do about this ?

- Should we choose the moderna vaccine instead ?

- Should we avoid the oral vaccine, and opt for the injection instead ?

- Should we merely be skeptical and wait ?
So 6 out of how many other studies and drugs they've released without scandal?

If we're applying the COVID standard to Pfizer, would their failure rate be greater than or less than COVID's death rate?

If we use the 2% number I've seen around here for COVID's death rate, that means if Pfizer has over 300 drugs, these six scandals are a non-issue because they happen so rarely.
> async/await at the language level is a total scam

This view will magically become mainstream as soon as "having worked with async" stops being a resume inflating selling point. I'm very glad Java is doing the right thing and hiding everything under the same "Thread" abstraction.
Yes that is fair enough but that is an issue to be sorted between the people of Taiwan and China. It's no concern of anyone else. It is a divided China and one side is not content to leave it divided juat as the USA was not content to allow the confederacy to leave the USA.
CDK(and infra as code in general) is amazing, especially for use cases like this where one would be responsible for deploying and creating resources around 10s of lambdas for one 'service'.
There is. Because kids (basically) don’t die from COVID. The side effect risk, while small, is material in a risk calculation for them, since their entire risk from the disease is small. At a minimum, mandating it for kids (as is openly stated to be the plan in CA) is unethical.
The same with scything meadows. Apparently if you let a meadow uncut, the plant/biodiversity rapidly declines.

Anecdotally I've found this to be true, my grandparents had mountain meadows that they didn't harvest for tens of years and indeed, the hay there seems to be almost "monocrop" compared to the ones that are harvested.
Judging from the discussion in the Emacs lists, they are not going to go anywhere.

This needs a few people that (a) want to do it, (b) have a specific vision of what to do (as in, they don't fish for random suggestions), (c) have the power to do it (even if others disagree).

This is totally feasible in, e.g. VS Code. In Emacs? Not so much...

Instead, there's endless bikeshedding and "change by commitee" with momentum-killing vetoes...
If you do ever damage it, you can send it to DJI and they’ll give you an itemised repair bill, which will be much cheaper than a new drone.

This isn’t the usual throwaway consumer hardware. The drone is designed to be repaired.
Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (2009)
That analogy would be apt if there was some sort of "at-will" home return law. You can fire people who don't work out with very little friction up to 90 days I believe. You can contract them first for years really. I think companies spend way to much money on the interview process to not spend money on a bad hire. Take the example above, hours and hours of dev time over countless candidates. That's just asinine.
> Presumably that means you’ll have that risk, plus additional unknown risk.

That's a bad argument. This makes COVID less severe, which in turn makes the long-term affects less severe. Things in medicine are rarely binary.
First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
Could be many things,

• Better techology (that still needs to be R&Ded) makes it more efficient and net positive in the future.

• Prototype v1 is a required step towards v2(-v3...vn?) that actually accomplishes the goal. An example of this is SpaceX's Starhopper -> Starship.

• Some economy of scale makes it work at some point. Example, put a single box in a big ship from Shanghai to LA, cost of shipping = millions of $; vs. put a million boxes in the same ship, cost of shipping = a few $.
And every time this comes up I need to clarify that if it worked out of the box I'd need to switch it off because I hate that behaviour, I only want it to sleep when I give an explicit command. And I've heard that from more people, but I guess we are the minority.
> In the US you're legally beholden to fly according to the guidelines of a "community-based organization"

Only when flying recreationally under USC 44809. Part 107 is free from CBO requirements (but, of course, has others). There’s also a reckless operation catch-all in 107 too.
Most code seems to take sides: it’s either synchronous or not (which I suppose in itself isn’t great). For many good standard libraries/packages, there is now an async variant.

I used asyncio for the first time seriously recently and was pleasantly surprised. But, crucially, I didn’t want throughput, I wanted a low-cpu use app with easy-to-write concurrency.

I really hope GIL goes away and we can just use threads.
My advice would be to avoid conspiracy theories on the internet and just live your life.
That's way easier said than done at this particular point in history.
My First JavaScript REST API: Dog Facts Deployed to Heroku
More like: pcwalton leaves a comment and the OP never replies to his comment
Oh, those naughty people online!
I'm skeptical and I wait. I'll be the last one in line to take the shot. I'm a software engineer and I know that if you deploy a system to production RIGHT AWAY, something is gonna fail.