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In the last release I added a module `rapidfuzz.levenshtein` which allows calculating a normal levenshtein distance and a weighted version where substitutions have a weight of 2 (this one is actually used by FuzzyWuzzy for ratio calculations).
But when there is interest in other weighting options I can add a version that allows to pass in custom costs for insertions, deletions, and substitutions
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Did you contact AWS and let them know it was a mistake?

They have a good track record of cancelling huge bills the first time they happen
Local and state governments do simulations for the resources in their jurisdictions. I have seen some posted for NJ but can’t find them now and they would be out of date by now.
I think that's the point. It's a set of simple services. A microservice is as simple as it gets. I imagine that orchestration can become hellish at a certain point, but every team works on a few simple microservices, rather than one complex system.
The readme of this says: "Thanks to the power of python"...

But why use python for this at all? Even with the edge case features like the `--change` flag, it's shorter to write this in Shell, and you have no requirement for python (which is admittedly fairly ubiquitous) or the "click" module (which is not).

I get that people write in the language(s) they're familiar with, but this is a bit ridiculous, no?
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It's complicated by the fact that ICMP packets do not necessarily arrive in order.
If you had old human life that was explicitly not degraded human life (so not at higher risk of death, not having fewer remaining years, and not having issues thinking or learning), I would have assumed old to be more valuable better than young due to accumulated knowledge and experience.
From the same newspaper 6 months ago. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/06/monzo_pins_reset/

"[480k] ... of its [Monzo] customers to pick a new PIN – after it discovered it was storing their codes effectively as plain-text in log files."
Because you're making a point of singling out every single reply in this thread that you disagree with, and making your objection about the user posting the comment rather than the comment yourself. Or broadly asserting that the parent comment never claimed points that were plainly written, and insisting on textual support. Your actual contrarianism is rather distracting.
That makes sense.

But what about prioritising partial nationalisation of these companies by injecting cash in exchange for shares? That way it would have no impact on the net public debt, as the gouvernement assets increase at the same rate as the debt.
> Unless somebody coughs right in your face, a surgical mask will do nothing to protect you - but even then your eyes are still exposed

You may want to fact-check that statement more. Here is a list of mask research that could help: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...
There's a lot of back office tech you need to build/buy if you're working in consumer, or financial tech. Monzo is both. Most people in working at a bank aren't finance workers. There are entire domains that will never be touched in the course of a transaction.
> We have an RPC filter that can detect you are trying to send a request to a downstream that isn't currently running, it can compile it, start it, and then send the request to it.

How does that work? dns not available == service not running & non-prod -> contact deployment operator?

And what if those services need DBs? Or is the single cassandra/etcd instance enough due to standardization?

And how those automatic metrics work is interesting too. Probably a prometheus http handler auto-starting with tie-ins into rpc/DB access code? How automated can it get.
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really not hoping for a world war to boot.
I think I’d you were to compare countries of the world, you would find Western Europe to be unusual in its lack of prudishness.

In Europe you are free to do things and not be judged outside your microcosm communities standard. In the US, everyone eventually gets judged by mainstream standards. I would guess that Europe’s history of sectarian violence and war, has lead to this pervasive non judge mental attitude with regards subcultures.
Also in many Asian cities masks are worn due to air pollution.
Do you think that cockroachdb, squid, seamonkey, wine, f-spot (talk about jokes...) are better names?

do you know that mist means manure and angel means fishing rod in German, in Swedish kiss means pee, slut means end, final, fart means speed and in Polish fart is good luck.

And I'll let you lookup what smocking, flipper or scotch mean in Italian.

I mean, have you ever considered that many things you say over there could have a complete different meaning here but that didn't stop you anyway?

Why should we stop using GIMP then?
Nobody's going to starve, most US citizens could go weeks if not months without food and still be fine anyway.

We're talking about strawberries, raspberries, cherries, peppers and things like that.
They would still take away money from companies who needs it more. A company who is able to pay dividend or buy back shares has enough money to run without state support.
This seems quite common. I have heard several stories to this effect. Faulty firewall settings or keys committed to the repo seem to be the common two.
Prediction: that won't be a precondition in the USA, and if it was, most companies would decline the aid.

You see, buybacks are "that one weird trick" where you can steal from the market, by inflating the EPS and hence your employee stock options, and not go to jail.
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Imagine if, in January before Covid-19 had spread outside China, I brought up all the stocks of N95 masks at US DIY retailers and sold them to hospitals in China.

Heartwarming international solidarity and the power of the market in action? Or capitalists selling the rope that will hang them?
Oh, cool! In my defence, I can only say that I believe my answer predates this.
That really does sum up all the gaps between the promises of "too cheap to meter" and the practical expensive reality. Doubly so for things that haven't made it out of the lab at all, such as thorium reactors. There's always people willing to give the "academic reactor" sales pitch for nuclear on here, especially as a reason not to proceed with some scheme using a renewable, proven but intermittent technology like wind or solar.
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Masks can protect other people primarily.
If you're sick and don't know (asymtomatic), developing symptoms only now, if you're sick and don't have any option but to go out etc.

And your point on masks not protecting incoming droplets is wrong. When people sneeze, droplets can go more than 5 feet. Masks reduce exposure to such droplets.

https://medium.com/@Cancerwarrior/covid-19-why-we-should-all...

Research is on going on how immunity responds to decreased exposure to viral loads.

And masks can remind people to not touch faces and remind others that we're in a pandemic.
I'm generally quite against shared libs across services for this very reason. Share patterns, sure. But code? You end up coupling services in ugly ways, because Team X has to think about how Team Y will be impacted if they need to make a change to the shared library. API clients (whatever protocol they may be using to communicate), aren't generally the hardest part of building a service. Trying to build shared ones (in my experience) is more trouble than it's worth.
It seems to me like this is a different problem than the one the OP was discussing.

I believe we need to make sure food production is not impacted by the current pandemic in the short term (next few months/years). The tools we have are tests, quarantines, and maybe a pay hike to insentivize people to keep at it.

In the longer term I believe that you are right. We should probably automate more, to ensure efficiency, and decentralize more to ensure sustainability and redundancy. However it would probably be incredibly difficult to do this during a pandemic. Though, i guess decentralization could be achieved in a way by people replacing their lawns with food producing gardens.
I think that points more to how fragile the world economy is. You have a personal choice where you can do everything to increase your chances of survival, or go with common/generic advice that’s provided to society as a whole. I guess it depends on what your goals are.
I'm not from France, but is it controversial at all? If company wants state support, money needs to stay at the company, that's what it is about, right? Do companies in France could abuse this rule in other way?
You need some kind of compatibility. For example if you're using REST, you can add new parameter with default value and old clients will keep working. If you're using RPC, you need to research how it handles versioning, but generally you should be able to add new parameter with default value or add new method while keeping old clients working. You need a global update if you're changing existing method in an incompatible way, but that should be rare situation.
and even in clean areas some people still wear them because they help keep your face warm when it's cold.
You might mean well, but what you did is spreading of misinformation and make the world a little worse. I would urge you to take down your website, but like e.g. anti-vaxers who by and large are well meaning as well, I doubt you will.
The upside would be that you can specifically control when to pass values between the underlying C++ and the v8 runtime.

But anyway, this implementation is quite nice. I tried to recreate a more meaningful benchmark between a few of the libraries you compared with but on a real file system structure rrdir and node-walk just noped out by exceeding the maximum call stack size. Increasing that yielded pretty much the same results as your library for rrfind in the sync setting with the overhead likely being down to that one returning an object (mean difference between 50-100ms higher on ~1.1 million files).
Korea is also a large outlier. It would be even more of an outlier if not for megachurches which don't exist in Japan.
I have only ever answered one question on SO, and this was it. I used to be pretty active on some of the other sites (cstheory and the old theoretical physics stack exchange) but this answer got enough attention that I immediately vowed not to post to SO again, since it could only damage my track record there.
If you hit shift+run stop at the end of the command it'd load and run.
Seriously? I have read them in exactly that order.
In comparison with Speaker for the Dead, the Ender's Game seems little childish...
Some opinions on stock buybacks worth reading:

https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/ban-stock-buyback...
If you're testing people without symptoms, you need to be testing large numbers otherwise you'll be ignoring 99% of houses.

Globally there have been fewer than 5 million tests performed since the start of January.
There are so many. Just a few.

- Flatland - An old book, but opened up the other dimension idea for me a lot.
- The Mote in Gods Eye - The idea that you can't always count on your preconceptions to be true, and some people will always look out for themselves first.
- Dune - For all the reasons others have mentioned.
Good point. Only Superman can affect that.
My goal is not to be an asshole, and to survive too, by listening to people who actually know their shit instead of using their "common sense" to guess. If we relied on common sense, the earth would still be flat, and we'd still prohibit women on their period from pickling food.
550 isn’t a lot. My elementary school had more than that many children in it. And we were a Catholic school, and thus all attended the same church with our parents boosting the numbers way higher than that.

To put it lightly there are McDonalds restaurants with a higher capacity than 550.
I was recently on a flight where a person on my row had difficulties taking her seatbelt off. After what seemed like two minutes the flight attendant assisted her. I'll even admit that it sometimes takes me a second to do it correctly when I try to only take it off with one hand. Despite this we still recommend that people use their seatbelts. In addition to this we play videos that instruct people on the usage of seatbelts. Imagine if we argued against recommending seatbelts because of the lack of education on using them despite never having attempted to explain how to use them.
Maybe the services are simple but their interaction definitely isn't.
they are still producing though?
By this reasoning, if tomorrow we found out that the violent video games we've been playing controlled robots somewhere killing real people, that would make everyone who played those games ruthless killers who should at the very least be imprisoned for life, if not executed.
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Nice! I think adding upvoting HN-style would help with the sorting.

Edit: And HN-style comments might make it easier to discuss the papers.
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To play devil's advocate here, how is that any different from increasing your dividends?
Thank you! I will add join and group_by examples shortly
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Neither is wearing a funny hat and picking up a certificate, but the physicality of boot camp is a lot closer to the traditional meaning of the phrase.
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next, booking your grocery pickup as a service /s
I don't use syntax highlighting. Italicized comments help my eyes skip them, especially when using a font whose italics characters are notably different (e.g. Operator Mono).
A lot of the cheap Hetzner boxes are using consumer hardware. The EX line starting at 40€/month are using 6th generation i7 CPUs. The AX line is using 3rd gen Ryzen CPUs.
If you want actual server-grade hardware, you'll end up with around 90€/month, other hosters are more expensive. I'd assume this would explain some of the price difference
> I suspect that it doesn’t very much matter what one reads in the early years once one has acquired the essential ability to read for pleasure alone.

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I've had a Stokke Duo for 23 years. Varier is a new name for the company and the Duo is a milder version of Varier Gravity Balans [1]. It's been so good that I just recently had it reupholstered. I've tried Gravity and find it excellent as well. With a nudge you can change between four different positions. The positions are quite stable, it's not like a rocking chair.

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I got your point, but I am not at all convinced that sending in people who have nothing but good intentions and 30 days of training, at a scale, and over a long period of time, will result in less harm (including among those with good intentions) than not bringing in extra personnel. Especially in ICU, which as far as I can tell is the RF engineering of medicine.

It takes an inordinate amount of time just to teach people what they can and can't touch and when and how, how to wash their hands properly, how to put on and take off their masks/gloves, and where to stand so as not to be in the way of people. All this in the context of a pretty contagious disease. I am pretty sure that, within 20 days, most of the volunteers would be infected themselves, and end up putting even more strain on the system.

I've been in an OR as part of my job, and I'd definitely think twice before enrolling in a program like this one (and definitely not just for my own safety, although yeah, that would be a big factor, too).
You can replace 'microservice' with 'class, but completely asynchronous and any interaction with it can fail without caller knowing if it succeed or failed at all'.
Thanks for that link. I adjust my position on the amount of energy it saves, but I'd like to see an analysis that also includes transportation and cleaning.
It is a great setup, but most of the projects you'll hear of are in the hobbyist world where cost reigns supreme.

Raspberry Pi is much more popular and costs far less. The PRUs can be replaced by a couple of Arduino Nanos for a buck or two each. Won't run at 200MHZ, but there are very few control tasks that need to run that fast.
My guess would be that it directly increases the value of stock options and unvested equity, which dividends don't. Dividends are good for people who currently hold shares, but not for people who have shares promised to them in the future.
Hi guys,

A message from one of the founders of PM4Py.
Cool that we are mentioned here, quite an honor actually.

Since we are an academic project, we have limited resources to generate more elaborate 'getting started'-type of documentation, etc.
However, it is on our todo list.
If you have any requests or ideas, let us know, it helps us to prioritize what is most useful.

W.r.t. the java project. The first lines of code are written by someone with a few years of primarily Java experience, I guess that explains.
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So US companies will take government money intended to rescue jobs and businesses, and instead use them for some quick profit for their shareholders and executives.

I think those French conditions are entirely reasonable and sensible.
Depending on what you're scraping you might run into a fair few JS-Only websites that are a pain to scrape. On top of all the things mentioned here you will need to run pages through a headless browser like puppeteer. For these sites you maybe be able to reverse engineer their APIs and attempt to scrape those rather than the pages themselves.
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Also, Poland has a huge share of bottles that are not returnable, which is very different from Germany or the Nordics where all the bottles have deposit on them, even plastic ones.

(Whether you are able to return them is a different question, because the Danish system allows vendors to reject bottles that they aren't selling themselves, which is something Germany was quick to outlaw)
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For everyone thinking of the 2008 financial crysis: My layman point-of-view is that the market for mortgage backed securities in the US is nearly 20 times smaller compared to 2006

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275746/rmbs-issuance-in-...
I picked up this habit because of widespread pollution in New Delhi
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An article[1] from 2018 mentions 70 engineers. Let's assume 50% growth yoy which puts them at 157 engineers now. Making another assumption that only 20% of these engineers are productive which gives us 31 engineers. That's 1600 microservices for 31 engineers.

That sounds large but if you have 1600 microservices you are _most likely_ writing a single service where you'd normally write a class. Does 50 classes per engineer sound like a lot? Sure does but they didn't create this infrastructure out of thin air - this is an accumulation of many years. For sake of the arguments let's say 2 years. Across 24 months that's only 2 microservices per developer per month.

Not unthinkable, and this is assuming only 20% of their engineering force is actually productive.

[1]https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/27/engineering-management-at-...
A grocery store aisle is about 4 feet wide.

Given the minimum 6 feet of social distancing, then there is no room for maneuvering around people here.

And all it takes is for one idiot to cough in your face without covering themselves, while you are walking past them, to get sick.

And now, you have a 14 day incubation window, to wait to see if you indeed got sick from this person.

The point of masks is that everyone must wear it, while in public. No exceptions are allowed.

This is a team effort. And all it takes is one person, to screw it up for everyone.
It could happen if there was a political will to have a framework for it to happen. There is not any in many countries, so that's that. Well, we will rethink these frameworks in the coming months, I am sure of that.
It's only controversial with short-term investors and executives who care more about using free money for some quick profit than about saving jobs.
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I am trying to use current social isolation time to learn to touch type. I have been typing using 4 fingers at best for the last 15 years, so I have lots of bad habits. Unfortunately, my home office mode requires me to write a lot. I cannot simply stop everything and focus on slowly getting proficient with touch typing.

Do you have any hints on how to learn touch typing while having to produce large quantities of written content? At the moment I can invest about 1h a day for practicing.
Saying, “Chinese eat rhino horn,” would be similar to saying Americans believe vaccines cause autism.

Sure, there is a smalll minority of uneducated people that believe that. Most do not.
You pay taxes on dividends.
A lot of returned items are simply destroyed. Or in the best case resold. So instead of returning you could Resell them, but that's basically the same as Reuse.
That's a false statement, Le Maire said that he ask shareholders not to. Companies and shareholders can do what the hell they want.
Perhaps a better approach would be to require these companies to maintain capital ratios like we do for banks. They could be forced to raise more equity if their debt becomes too large. After all the point should be to prevent them from needing future bailouts.

I mean there are other ways to extract money from a company than paying dividends or doing share buy backs.

Are they also going to cap salaries for employees? Are they also going to stop companies paying out large fees to related companies? What about investing in expensive but highly speculative projects?
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There are several forms. Some of the most popular ones:
- Blocks. From a technical perspective, these are perfectly usable as structural wall material in most use cases. Excellent insulation, breathable, moisture resistant. It is more expensive compared to traditional brick though. That's a big reason its use is usually confined to lower layers in touch with moisture.
- Aggregate. Used as a structural, insulative anti-capillary layer below concrete slabs, wooden floors or wooden (!) foundations. Moisture barrier and insulation around some moisture sensitive houses also. Very popular in some areas as excellent breathable insulation for renovation of historical buildings. Used below roads in Scandinavia too to prevent frost heave.
- Granulate. Mixed into concrete or plasters to improve their insulation qualities.
- Custom shaped inert insulation for pipes, ...
> Regulators have recommended a best practices guideline to collect margin on any variation above $250,000.

Can someone explain this statement?
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It's ironic that the economy / stock market hasn't become more resilient since 2008, despite more measures being taken. I mean sure, it's more difficult to get a mortgage you can't pay now (speaking for myself), but there's so much more fragile stuff that has been added in the past ten years; for example, a lot more amateurs have jumped into the stock market because one, savings interest rates have plummeted to effectively zero, and two, the attraction of getting rich quick thanks to bitcoin and overvalued hip stocks like TSLA.