Pardon my own ignorance, but isn't it also bad to have all of this trash on land? I would love for it to get removed from the ocean, but what's the terminal state plan? I'm sure there's a plan, I'm just wondering what it is.
1. The conda recommendation is in the JS App Walkthrough documentation page:
> A Python package manager: we recommend conda or pip
2. Makes sense! Something like sqlalchemy/alembic would be cool for PostgreSQL support.
3. Ah, this is interesting. Will read up on the different ASGI implementations. I had just assumed that having LLM workloads, async or not, on your main web server would be a problem (memory and/or i/o), but maybe not. To do date I’ve been moving LLM i/o workloads to background jobs on different machines with Celery, but it’s a bit more work and also makes streaming impossible. I recently did a Qwik + Celery stack for heavy LLM use, but have wanted a pure Python solution.
Nice work! I think the Python community definitely needs something like this. The thought never occurred to me to use HTMX w/Python for both server rendered HTML and dynamic behavior in the browser.
I have a few questions for you.
1. Why do you recommend conda or pip and not uv? Is this because the plug and play deployment platforms are configured to use pip?
2. Do you plan to make this “batteries included” like Django? E.g. it looks like currently you have to manage database schema and migrations outside of FastHTML.
3. Perhaps not in scope for this, but it seems to me making LLM API requests in the FastHTML backend could cause some scaling problems since these i/o operations can take a really long time and tie up the same threads required to render web pages. Any thoughts on that?
There seems to be a libertarian slant to a lot of the comments on this. It reads as if most people believe they have an inalienable right to extend Apple’s products. In other words, it doesn’t matter what I do, what I say, or how I treat Apple, I have an inalienable right to extend their platform. A pretty bold take in my opinion.
> I started offering my experience as a database consultant to help teams them fix their performance problems.
How much of this did you do and for how long? I’d love to self publish a book, but from your post it sounds like a full time gig. Essentially take off a long time without pay, focus full-time on the book, then pray you make some good money.
Just make sure that when talking about cultural differences (specifically in regards to race) you don’t imply that “some cultures” (you know which ones) don’t value prosperity/wealth. It comes off as … you know what.
Yes, probably a misunderstanding then. The line you quoted says disproportionate. It’s not saying “difference in outcomes” it’s saying “disproportionate outcomes.” And it’s not any outcomes. It’s outcomes that specifically control what is deemed as valuable in the society, in this case education, which is widely understood to be a gateway to success/wealth/improvement/empowerment/power/etc.
I understand that there are differences between cultures. But saying that a culture difference is the reason that a culture disproportionately lacks access to the things deemed of value in the society is blaming the disadvantaged for their disadvantage. That is literally racism. “You do not have the same access to education that white people do because your black culture prevents you from having it.” That is obviously preposterous. What prevents none-white races from having proportional access to education (or anything of value in the society) is the racist system. People do not inflict racism onto themselves. It is inflicted onto them by the race in power.
I did not claim "any variance in numeric results" is racism. I said the specific "variant" of numeric results that show non-white races disproportionately lacking access to opportunity and wealth is racism.
The amazing amount of cultural diversity in the world is not the reason non-white racial groups disproportionately lack access to opportunity and wealth and you know it.
The point you’re making is that some cultures devalue educational achievement and success? So much so that we should expect to see members of those cultures disproportionately lacking access to opportunity because they “don’t want it?”
Racism tells us that the white race is superior to all other races. If you reject that, you expect to see that white people (or “model minorities” like Asian race) are not disproportionately receiving access to opportunity or disproportionately controlling the wealth. In the USA, it’s the opposite.
You can invent whatever system you want, like the one you proposed here, but if the outcome is disproportionate then it is, by definition, a racist system.
Why? Because race is a construct. It’s fake. Factually speaking, the only differences between these constructed racial groups are things like hair texture and skin pigmentation. Anyone saying otherwise is lying to preserve the construct.
If your values include a rejection of racism, you need to create a system that achieves the outcome of proportionate access to opportunity and proportionate control of wealth. Affirmative Action is the system that got the USA closest to achieving that outcome.