timhigins

As a side note I didn't write the original article

Hey all, I've been seeing confusion in the comments, so I'll link to official FoundationDB docs that do a better job of explaining these concepts.

To get a high level overview and see what you can do: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/features.html https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/design-recipes.html

Then to dive in a bit: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/data-modeling.html https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/developer-guide.html (Subspaces, Directories, and Transactions)

Also, the section on Anti-Features is interesting: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/anti-features.html

A half-hour to learn Rust Jan 27, 2020 · 51 minute read · rust

maybe the site's reading time estimator is broken? sarcasm intended.

But seriously, it is good to have people writing things like this.

Just want link to Whalebrew, which achieves a lot of what this article mentions but IMO is more user-friendly. https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew

Just want to mention there are legitimate reasons for non-prod environments (#8), especially system-level tests, e.g. Chaos Engineering.

But I agree that most "staging" environments are an unnecessary extra step that will only rarely catch something legit.

Hey, looks really interesting. Would love to see benchmarks that are open source so we all can check it out in more detail.

Seems like a lot of questions on here are just: how much better is the performance and why?, so maybe showing is better than telling.

Best of luck!

I keep thinking when these types of interventions are proposed how homomorphic encryption can solve a lot of the described issues in a more secure and ethical way.

Website is quite slow. I'm sure you're under load RN, but if possible I'd recommend setting the site behind a CDN (there's a free tier of Cloudflare). Best of luck!

Whenever I see something like this or other "mental model" tools, I just think: soon this will be obsolete, as the human who used to make decisions in a given job is replaced by AI.

He was hugely popular when he came into office and made some significant improvements the cash subsidy for farming program. Nevertheless, there sure are power-consolidation moves evident.

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/approval-tracker-mexicos-pre... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/amlo-is-me...

You'd make a lot of AI/ML developers happy by open sourcing as much as possible from your product.

Leave a legacy, maybe the community will keep it going!

Sure, govts. should tax the FAANGs of the world more, but having a "stake" in them means govt. interests suddenly align with corporate interests, meaning regulation for the public good gets sidelined. Net neutrality anyone?

Look up the ELISA method. And Immunoassay for COVID.

The truth is that these current tests (rt RT-PCR) are not completely accurate and may only have a true positive rate of 60-70%. See Discussion section of: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200642

Additionally, people who are asymptomatic can test negative on all of their tests and only be diagnosed via other means. See Figure 1 here: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11427-020-166...

"Clinical characteristics of 24 asymptomatic infections with COVID-19 screened among close contacts in Nanjing, China." - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11427-020-166....

It seems asymptomatic patients can test negative multiple times on RT-PCR assays but be diagnosed other ways.

I've read somewhere that at least in China, the specificity of the PCR tests is only 60-70%, leaving ~30% undetected.

From the Discussion section of this paper: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200642:

"According to current diagnostic criterion, viral nucleic acid test by RT-PCR assay plays a vital role in determining hospitalization and isolation for individual patients. However, its lack of sensitivity, insufficient stability, and relatively long processing time were detrimental to the control of the disease epidemic. In our study, the positive rate of RT-PCR assay for throat swab samples was 59% (95%CI, 56%-62%) which was consistent with previous report (30 - 60%) (6). In addition, a number of any external factors may affect RT-PCR testing results including sampling operations, specimens source (upper or lower respiratory tract), sampling timing (different period of the disease development) (6), and performance of detection kits. As such, the results of RT-PCR tests must be cautiously interpreted."

This is ridiculous. It sucks that the IDP didn't have anyone on staff to be able to legitimately evaluate if this was feasible of not, or even if Shadow Inc. was selling bullshit.

We need to educate the government + parties about tech!

I can't tell if this is a side project or a business. How are you planning on spreading your message?

Worked for me in Chrome 60.0.3112.101

Same question here. Seems like the main advantage of yarn is their caching mechanism and flat dependency system. npm 5 appears to use some sort of caching (projects now include package-lock.json), and is supposedly much faster than before. I wonder if yarn still has advantages over npm?