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> Vatican City won’t be beat on popes per km², either (it has just over two)

Just over 4 actually. There are 2 popes in 0.49 km^2 so 4.1.
I mainly use google as a reddit search engine these days. "tiki cocktail pineapple juice reddit" gives me way more than google algorithm, and plus it's kind of like human powered SEO where genuinely useful links will likely have some discussion.
From what I understand, Erlang only preempts at function entry or exit, or at marked points in NIFs (C code).

Because functional programming requires loops to be written as recursive function calls, you can't do too much without calling/leaving a function, so a process can't avoid premption.
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Oxford Vaccine doesn't induce sterilizing immunity
There absolutely is essential work, and at this time, until we know more, until we have both some predictive power and some reliable treatments at the individual level, this work is hazardous, barely indistinguishable from war. Those doing that work should have all of the support and benefits that come from choosing that sacrifice, putting themselves in harm's way. That we are not treating those roles that way is barbaric.
I think often the goals of contact tracing apps are misunderstood. The goal isn't to replace "name and phone number" human contact tracing, but rather to augment it. Iceland's location based approach seems to emphasise this, albeit at expense of privacy.

Where contact tracing apps help is for contact events where people are in relative proximity for sustained periods of time. It seems that prolonged contact is a major factor in spreading the virus. If you're on a train with someone for half an hour, you'd not be able to identify them through regular contact tracing, and they wouldn't be able to be altered. On an aircraft this can usually be done as the airline cooperates with public health authorities to identify those sitting near a given individual on the plane etc.

The impersonal but sustained contact situations are the ones apps can really help with, by raising the number of people able to be alerted to their risk of exposure. Traditional tracing handles people you know. App-based tracing, if it gets adopted, can help with the people you don't know but are sitting near, or otherwise around for a prolonged period.
Depending on complexity and specialisation of your use that's what may work for unit testing:

1) Abstract real library with tech-agnostic interface to remove as much tech details as possible and focus on behaviour.

2) Create simplest in-memory dummy implementation for that interface, basically a mock.

3) Write a test spec for that interface behaviour (does xxx on yyy, returns zzz otherwise) and run it agains both real wrapped interface & mock to be sure they're consistent.

4) Make code to load mock in local testing env

5) Use real kafka when running it on a testing pipeline

Same way you could abstract various things - e.g. once I just abstracted proprietary services and locally flushed everything into local Postgres. You can emulate multiple services there - e.g. database, somewhat-usable queue, etc. And get some extra control nice for tests (e.g. make it to throw errors on your wish or add timeout to simulate net delays). That saved a lot of time for local development for me, without dropping quality.
If you have a bunch of services reaching into the same data store though, you've effectively built a distributed monolith. Which if that works for you, more power to you, but you lose most of the Conway's law advantages of services with that approach imo.
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MongoDB is still pretty much broken. I really hope your bank is not using MongoDB.
Yeah, you can think of the Napoleon Wars as "World War Zero", and Napoleon as the Hitler of his time.

As you can maybe tell, the aspect of modernity where mass wars with millions of dead sweep the world because some dictator wants it, is not my favorite one.

Still, you're not wrong!
Well, I'm not sure exactly what everyone uses OF for. I'm making the assumption that there is "something more" than just the pictures and videos, because I can search big boob on Google right now and get 2 billion hits.

The "something more" is the interaction -- recognition that you exist from the person you're tipping when you tip. Being a "follower" of an onlyfans girl to me seems much more about intimacy than about pornography.

I do think that in general close relationships, especially core intimate relationships like those with parents and spouses, are the most important things in human life. I guess that's my opinion but I find it hard to believe that anyone would disagree.

My argument really isn't about sexuality at all, because I don't think OF is about sexuality, really. Sex is a part of it but not the core of the platform. And it's not morality. I don't think it's morally wrong to do this, I do think it's depressing. That we feel so disconnected from one another that we are willing to forgo the "real thing" for a simulation.

I'm sure that for all of history there is some baseline level of the population that, for one reason or another, finds it so difficult to connect that they're not willing to enter a "real" relationship at all. What I worry about is if this portion of the population is growing, because there's a profit motive, or a psychological short circuit, or some disconnect caused by modern life.

It's hard to articulate exactly what, here. I just feel that there's something broken about OF or the world we've created that enables it to be so successful.
At least where I live it's done to ward off ticks that can carry Lyme's disease and Encephalitis.
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These new records are likely to be unbeatable once traffic returns to normal. I wonder whether that'll cause the demise of the Cannonball Run?

That said, in computer speed runs, it's generally said that once someone says a run is unbeatable, it'll be beaten...
Inline records are available since BS 6 :-)
I feel like this just argues that ZooKeeper should be a library that can be embedded in the servers of other projects (even if it is conceptually a separate server in the same memory space listening on its own ports; but like, it is otherwise entirely hidden inside of the other program and is entirely managed and configured by it also).
Are you saying GCP pubsub have bad reliability? I never used it but would be surprised if it was down for several hours each weak or would just drop your data.

I would love to know your experience
> The video per se won't loop if I save it in my computer or phone

it does for me with VLC (it is dependent on your player if you save it to your computer)

But yeah, I can't right click on a video to save it. Got to use youtube-dl for that...

> THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOUR, EVERYWHERE.

no sound?
As someone who frequently works from a hotspot, where 1GB of data costs $5 - $10 per GB (depending if I load up when it is on sale), smaller file size saves me money, and pages load faster.
I believe this statement only requires the axiom of choice if the number of sets is infinite.
It so good to read a story written by the human being.

Compare that to what you can get from a corporate drone doing a content marketing cult: clip-art, annoyingly polished illustrations, artificially smiling people.
I have some blogs that played the long game, and I must say the years thing is a fantasy for most that will likely not be realized.
Sure it's fine to do like art that could get popular after you die, or you could be found as an unknown amazing author on day..

However things with the publishing and PR industry are such that I think it would be best to get some eyeballs and feedback before you spend years writing hoping to get discovered, much like launching a product or service too late after spending too much time in pre-production.

Sadly I think it's multiple changes in google that killed blogs over the years and I don't see blogs coming back into the top search results (or blog link rolls not being penalties that scare people into never using them) and changing things.

I love blogs, and blogging - but I must admit that more success is found by tweeting or even making a meme that is shared. If you can't hope for google to give you results and never know if fbook is going to block your blog, then I don't suggest people put eggs in that basket - unless there is another side reason for doing so, like your posts are auto-added to instagram or something somehow.
> instead of letting them grown removes one of the last remaining habitats for animals living close to humans

Clearly you've never owned a home with pest problems nor dealt with animals chewing the wiring harness on your vehicle or inhabiting its air intake circuit.

I'm all for conservation and limiting human population size but there's no sense in encouraging pests to live in/around your house and possessions.
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That would surprise me. It's unlikely a dozen apps would be able to coordinate like that. The thing about cartels is the first defector can cut prices and capture marketshare, which is what we're supposed to believe evil VC funded cutthroat startups are inclined to do. Raising prices to increase profit but reduce revenue growth is the exact opposite of that.

The other hypothesis is that delivery is simply expensive. The driver has to drive to the pickup place, find parking, stand in line potentially for awhile, drive to the delivery, park again, walk to the delivery location to drop off the item. Most of those things an ordinary uber fare would not have to deal with.
Yup, so this is really for my use case - but essentially unpoly was great, but after a while I started having a lot of custom compilers for specific things.. And again, that's fine - but I was really trying to have less custom JS code off in seperate files. Turbolinks gave me the super simple ajax page-refresh concept, and Alpine allowed me to move my JS functionality inline.. which I actually like (for now!). I actually use Alpine with Laravel Livewire for some more server-side functionality that seems like magic (similar to Phoenix LiveView) https://laravel-livewire.com/docs/quickstart
Vite is a brand new, extremely fast development setup for Vue
Perhaps 'transpiler' would be clearer? As many consider an HTML page to be an 'executable' (which is run by a browser) converting a text file into an executable would meet the CS definition. Pedantically the process of "compiling" markdown is more akin to "typesetting" but using the phrase 'markdown typesetter' would be even more obscure.

If there a word for the action of converting the description of a ritual to the actual practice of that ritual, that would provide a suitable root word form here. That said, using the closest example I can think of, music, the root word there is 'performing' when the music is performed and recorded when the music is performed into a storage medium, and transposed when the music is converted from one description to another description while maintaining the overall musical relationship between the timbres.

It is that latter version, transposition, which suggests the word 'transpile'.
Still not a one step solution and its a bit different cross browser. Its not a one step solution because you have to either modify an identifier in the page to support another additional template or completely throw the default colors away so that the new colors replace the default colors.

The little one line JavaScript code is literally copy/paste which allows for moving between pages and page refreshes and pressing up arrow then enter on the keyboard to reapply the theme change without manually reapplying a new stylesheet and/or modifying the DOM each time.
A journey through the MongoDB Internals
It also seems likely that that idea is also not novel, so that the previous poster wouldn't want to blog publicly about it.
Registry of Notable Universes
There is only one post on the blog and it is front page of hacker news? That is some achievement! Are there more writings from this author?
My hope is type theory will be the future adopted foundational system as it allows easier computer-checked proofs and a marriage of mathematics and computation. Category theory can then be formalized within type theory.
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Oh so there is a paywall? That sucks
When will this be actually released and available for use?

I'd love to ditch Zookeeper (the weak part that falls over more regularly) in our current Kafka cluster.
For visual schema building the best I’ve found is pgmodeler. It is buggy and isn’t really a client but it is great at modeling, viewing schemas in a model, and overall making sense of how complex data connects.

Edit: For day-to-day I use Postico but am playing with beekeeper as soon as JSON and JSONB support are figured out.
You fail to see the distinction but on a meta level they are the same thing. Labeling something as a "moral thing" and saying you don't like is a judgment. Value? Moral? Esthetic. . We are semantic hair splitting here.
Contrary to what Tesla told Alameda County, the Tesla factory is (illegally) in full production, producing cars sitting on Pier 80 for export to Europe and China. https://tslaq.org/letter-from-the-saf-to-alameda-county-offi...

That’s not an essential activity; it’s just greedily risking California lives to serve luxury car consumers abroad. I’m not surprised that California is none too happy with Elon.
> “In my opinion, given the recent threats of the CEO to leave the state of California, and everything else we’ve discussed today, this proposal does not rise to the level for me to feel secure in supporting it,” said Gretchen Newsom, a panel member and the political director of an IBEW electrical workers union local.

> Though a small amount of money, the funding was opposed by organized labor groups. Tesla and SpaceX are both nonunion shops.

California is absolutely within their right to withhold these funds. Musk is well within his right to relocate his businesses to Texas (SpaceX engine facility in McGregor is a ~90 minute drive from Austin, ~2 hrs from Dallas) or another favorable state when the next Gigafactory is sited. Let rational actors go through their motions.
Yes. Just dilute it in the correct ratio to bring it to the required concentration. The purity of the water is not particularly important. (If it's drinkable, it's perfectly OK to use. Go ahead and use tap water if you want.)

The formula is simple: 'Concentration Required' divided by 'Concentration Supplied' multiplied by 'Final quantity Required'. That will give you the amount of 91% isopropyl alcohol you need to measure out, then dilute to the 'Final quantity required' with your tap water. (Or better still, use Distilled Water or De-Ionized Water.)

So: You want 500 mls of isopropyl alcohol 70% and you have isopropyl alcohol 91% on hand -

Concentration required = 70%

Concentration Supplied = 91%

Final quantity required = 500 mls

Amount of isopropyl alcohol 91% needed = 70 / 91 x 500 = 384.6 mls

Dilute that 384.6 mls to 500 mls with water and there's your 500 mls of isopropyl alcohol 70%.

Of course, you don't need to be quite so finicky when it comes to biological measurements. You'd round off the 384.6 mls to 385 mls (or even 380 mls or 390 mls) without any appreciable loss of effectiveness.
Wow, that's awesome. I'd also forgotten how nice the interface was of xp.
They're around 250 metres from each other.

The Thousand Islands seems a completely ludicrous place that feels like a fantasy novel. Or Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Boldt+Castle+%26+Boldt+Yacht...
Not sure why he put this at the end:

> One final note: according to Wilhite, GIF is pronounced with a soft “G,” like “jif.” That settles the never-ending debate for me.

Now all he's done is make 1/2 of the population immediately discount everything else he said, regardless of its merit.
About 5 years ago a Russian waitress at a restaurant in Queens revealed to me a vast non-English network of home cooks in the NYC area selling their wares on Facebook.

I’m pretty sure that channel got shut down but am pleased to think they have found others that still work.

If and when it becomes legal it’s a really interesting market.
Holy hell. How do you have a life-threatening disease that puts at you risk of germ infection, costs $250,000 a year to treat AND manage to survive homelessness? Tragic. I'm sorry you don't live in a country with real health care.

Holy hell why did I get flagged? She wrote a huge blog post about needing help and isn't getting it?
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Meat is too cheap for our own good. It's not just built on suffering but an immense carbon footprint.

>...These innovations have made meat, which for most of human history has been a luxury, a cheap commodity available to just about all Americans; we now eat, on average, more than nine ounces of meat per person per day, many of us at every meal.

Corn and soybean subsidies are killing America. Why is this extra thumb on the scale allowed in a Capitalist society?
If the browser has a memory per-site it doesn't break youtube. It could easily be made to work.
I once worked on a source-to-source translator from C++ to C. In that era, that was the common term for that kind of software. I think that's more clear than "transpiler".

However, what we're talking about here is closer to TeX than cfront-to-c or even TypeScript-to-Javascript.
> "...Nassim Taleb. His style is very brash and arrogant..."

i bought black swan way back when, because it was popular and a couple people i knew recommended it. boy was that a mistake. i can overlook arrogance if it comes with insight, but that book was all incoherence and convolution, no meat. couldn't even finish, it was so bad. his fund backed by that strategy has underperformed. so appealing to taleb's authority is not a winning argument.

> "The appropriate reaction to a highly unpredictable event with potential widespread impact will look like overreaction to a naive rationalist post hoc."

the appropriate reaction to an unpredictable event is no reaction at all, since by definition, you can't predict what it is, much less when it will happen.

> "Your lizard brain knows a lot more than you give it credit for..."

your lizard brain is designed to handle futures on the order of seconds and minutes, not months and years, and certainly not decades and centuries. it's really good at predicting (and avoiding) the path of a bird for example, but not so good at predicting (and avoiding) drought.

edit: also, fat-tailed typically means a tiny bit fatter than a guassian tail, not some wavy, unknownably fat "tail". otherwise, we'd have enough known events from which to draw reasonable predictions, making it not extreme and unpredictable, nor even a tail at all.
Except you are not correct.

Right now, criticizing any of the “default mods” will get you banned, making any post like the one I referenced will be deleted, Reddit is engaging in censorship like they never have before.

Take a look at r/WatchRedditDie/ and tell me how it’s nothing.
> we advocate for govt entities to provide the liquidity to keep safely running the various life sustaining machines that our interdependent world depends on.

There is a very real risk that won't work. If it worked, why would we only do it in emergencies? Government may as well provide funding for essential services all the time.

The government would simply be handing out money to the people working in essential services who are doing real (and quite risky, apparently) work while. You would be receiving the benefits without doing anything. That is almost the 'paid in exposure' meme that artists have to put up with.

The economic system is crafty, it will figure out that there is dead weight somewhere and start to optimise around it. This might be unprecedented so the failure modes are beyond me - but it won't be pretty if it goes on like that. Gluts would probably not be the end of the world but severe shortages are possible.

In Australia we had an official government inquiry into why the price of milk was so persistently low. No other problems. Just low milk prices. That is what happens when a free markets run the food delivery system. That won't happen if the government steps in and starts making decisions about what is fair and who needs which items.
Yes, sometimes we feel overwhelmed by what is happing in our life. But I can tell you that it's just temporary.

I've decided that there so much to be thankful about that it overpowers those things that I can't control and stress me. So every time I feel down I start to think about the countless items that people do to help me every day. They're just so many. And it makes me realize how thankful I am and how lucky I am.

You might want to talk to someone that can give you some better advice.

I put this here just in case. Take care!

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You should concentrate on the current pleasurables - you enjoy what you're eating, drinking, lurking on HN, etc... so why not continue doing these while you can?

Take a look at some volume of air near you - would you rather be that particular emptiness? (not quite empty, but you get the point - and you can also pick some block of vacuum...).
So basically the choice is - continue living or become a block of vacuum.
Couldn’t they just make the stored data bitemporal?
Drastic makeover looms for S&P 500
I don't have a direct source at hand, but I think .in doesn't allow WhoisGuard-type services, so it'll be hard to find a reputable registrar offering it.
Connected, but at what cost?
So are we going to ban all cars now? Average automobile deaths are ~30k per year. They're non essential. Let's all stop driving. "do whatever it takes to save lives"
Is it greedy for a worker to want to feed their family? Serious question.
Just flip it around
> That’s not an essential activity; it’s just greedily risking California lives to serve luxury car consumers abroad.

A truly professional pearl clutcher.
Not just smaller file size. Drastically smaller file size. I've never been on a network so fast that I couldn't appreciate a 97% savings in bandwidth usage.

A sufficiently large quantitative change becomes a qualitative one. This is one of those times.