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> The whole point of america is that a pennyless immigrant can land in some backwater of the USA, work hard and become a millionaire. But that can't happen now(if it ever could is another matter).

No, the point of America was that a pennyless immigrant can land in the US, work hard, find a better life and give their children a chance at much more. And that happens regularly. I grew up overseas and I can't tell you how many people from the places I grew up in have done exactly that. Similarly every day I work with people who have moved to the US for work. And many of these people never leave, which must say something about America.
If you think long and hard about the core reason a PET scan works then it's inescapable that Coca Cola causes cancer, depending on your definition of "cause".

In fact, we've know about this, the Warburg hypothesis, for a long time.
Photosynthesis is a very inefficient process. It's efficiency is in the single-digit range. It is only worthwhile because the energy source is free and very abundant. And reforestation is only worthwhile because there are benefits to it besides carbon capture.
He was probably the first weaboo ever.
GPL would protect more user freedoms and potentially avoid big SaaS providers making profit off of your product, but it won't help you earn money just like that.
It's about being liked. A 40 year veteran technology sales exec repeats to me all the time, "People do business with people they like." Trust is a big part of liking someone, and trust is key to doing business, especially for Warren. There is no way he'd do business with someone he distrusted. That trust is earned, and this chit-chat is part of building trust. In persuasion, it's called 'pacing': showing that you have something in common, even unrelated to the business at hand, before trying to convince someone to take an action.
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Having switched from 80% Java (20% about 5 other languages) to probably 75% Kotlin over the last year, one of my absolute favorite things named arguments.

When you name your arguments, simply supplying them will use the default if one has been specified. If one hasn’t been specified then you must provide it when calling and your compiler/IDE will definitely let you know.

I used to go out of my way with method overloads, JavaDocs, argument @annotations, and Builder classes in order to get this same level conciseness and cleanliness in my Java code. It is extra work (even with Lombok) but I personally can’t stand when I don’t keep it clean like that. Understandably a lot of other developers on my teams don’t always go to the same lengths.

I honestly haven’t ready the details on PHP’s plan for this, but with Kotlin’s names arguments I’ve found almost no need of method overloading anymore- most of those input variations are now covered (except for when you’ve got different types coming in, which usually can be handled with a common interface or base class).
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Maybe we can separate our social lives from our work lives finally?

I want to work with my friends from somewhere while we all work for different companies.
I just spent this weekend setting this up to learn a bit of AWS for a toy project. I thought I would "just" quickly drop a Rust API server image in an ECS cluster.

By the end of the weekend, I had the architecture you describe.

- Route53 alias A record -> ALB DNS name

- LetsEncrypt cert in IAM

- ALB listener doing SSL termination using the cert -> forwarding to target group

- ALB listener doing 80->443 redirect

- Security group on ALB listener allowing only approved IP ranges in (not ready for this thing to be public yet)

- Security group on ECS service only allowing ALB to connect

- ECS cluster using Fargate

- RDS instance only allowing ECS service to connect

- CloudWatch log group for the container logs

- Subnets

- Secrets Manager for pulling Docker images from private GitHub Packages repo

Did it all in Terraform, and then added GitHub Actions to the Terraform repository to do terraform validate on PR and terraform plan && terraform apply -auto-approve on merge.

Then, yesterday, hooked up GitHub Actions on the Rust API server repository build a version tagged image and publish it to GitHub packages, create a PR in the Terraform repository to update the ECS task definition for the new image, and if it passes the PR checks, automatically merge it (which triggers the Terraform plan/apply run).

It did seem complex the first time I did it, but looking back over both the AWS and GitHub Actions configuration, I wouldn't change too much. I feel fairly confident this is secure, and I understand most of the configuration options and why they are there. Something that "simplified" it for me would just become a straightjacket as I get more proficient with AWS.

IaC 101 I guess, but I was chuffed when the Rube Goldberg machine whirred away after making a code commit to the Rust repo, and two minutes later my new code was running on ECS :)

Considering writing up a blog post about it just to firm up my own understanding as well...
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Hedonistic adaptation: anything new and pleasurable will become stale and normal. This leads to lifestyle creep, as one wants increasingly more expensive and luxuriant varieties of commodity and experience.

This can be counteracted through philosophy like stoicism or contemplative practices like meditation. If we analyze our wants and needs, if we learn to love basic goods, we can achieve happiness with what we already have right now.
This is not true for much of society. Many, many people receive important documents in the mail: voter IDs, driver’s licenses, voting forms, Medicare and Social Security forms, utility bills, mortgage statements, IRS docs, unemployment benefits, and more. These all seem pretty meaningful, no?
That was my first thought too: at least by using solar power the opium farmers are not polluting the environment and generating CO2, but that benefit is tiny compared to the damage done by depleting the groundwater. And that in turn pales in comparison to the corruption and political instability caused by the drug industry and what that means for the country.
I find it ironic that you complain about applications being stuck in the 90s and then use 127.0.0.1 instead of ::1 or just localhost.
I set up a personal mail server (SMTP+IMAP, no webmail) a couple months ago for personal/family use —- no sense in paying about $60 per user per year for GSuite or 365.

(Microsoft actually offer a custom domain email solution for families that doesn’t charge per user provided you host your domain with GoDaddy, but it has some limitations, eg with respect to aliases, so that wasn’t quite right for me.)

I did so with some trepidation, having been told by multiple people that I shouldn’t. Maybe I got lucky and had an IP with good reputation, but I was able to send mail to Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and specific email lists after a few rounds of configuration.

The only problem I had was with Apple’s iCloud email, but engaging with ProofPoint soon fixed that.

Overall it wasn’t too bad an experience. I’d class myself as beginner level in that I’ve done this for myself ages ago (but never in a professional capacity).

Just leaving this anecdote out here as a small counterpoint to all the horror stories out there. If you’ve got an IP address with a poor reputation I can imagine it’d be a much more difficult exercise.
> Hmm, yeah, the swiping UX seems to be pretty tricky to get right.

In case you're interested, I created a quite long time ago a small example of a library doing this.

https://github.com/dgellow/react-tinderable/blob/master/src/...

The code is really old and out of date, and was just a quick experiment, but that may give you some direction if at some point you want to try out that kind of user experience.

Unfortunately the demo link doesn't work anymore, but it should be quite easy to run locally.
The parent asked a reasonable question and you ranted about identity politics and called them willfully blind.
Why not also have s-corporations? It's the best of LLC and C-Corp with only a few downsides (like required salary draw for owners)
You could have >55G when you stay in your room and bump your head against the wall
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Yes, that's part of the ,,shipping price'' problem as well.
>I think it's quite telling the author had to go back to the 15th century to find a historical precedent for his claim.

To me, it is just a period with an anecdote the author was familiar with. The War of the Roses, while an important event in British history, isn't the type of nation destabilising event you're looking for either. It is yet another succession crisis that happened in monarchies time-to-time that was militarised. The argument being that the militarisation is the result of failed foreign military campaigns.

>Why not take an example from the end of the British Empire, the French Empire or the Japanese Empire

All fell more or less as a protracted result of the Second World War followed by the Cold War. I don't think that is comparable. The Vietnam War and the cultural effect it had on the US probably more apt. That is probably where this first began, and then continued with Afghanistan and Iraq.

>Spain, Portugal and Netherlands

The history of both Portugal and the Netherlands are quite intertwined with Spain and its (ie. the Hasburgs') imperial ambitions. Take the War of Spanish Succession for example, the Spanish ceded what was left of the Spanish Netherlands (after the Dutch revolt) to Austria, and arguably had much more impact than the War of the Roses.

It's a widely accepted view that the imperial activities of these powers in foreign lands (both in Europe and beyond) aggravated the conflicts in Europe over several centuries, culminating in the World Wars.
I don't think that listing some example tools is a problem. Especially for the audience of a primer like this, a categorized vocabulary list like this can be indispensable for giving people a quick lay of the land and a preview of some names they'll encounter.

My complaint would be that, "Tools listed/shown here are for illustration only: no endorsement implied," should have been inline instead of buried in a footnote.
Coca-cola had been around for about 100 years at the point he made that comment. My read is that he was illustrating how solid Coca-cola revenue prospects were for the long term. He was certainly not saying there was a question about cancer as a possibility. No possibility in his mind, and therefore, his certainty that Coca-cola revenue was a sure bet.
If you can't make a monolith work, then you will fail even harder trying to make a Microservice Architecture work.
Yeah, for anyone interested there is a technology called MIPS in newer helmets that is intended to handle this better. There are some explanations and diagrams on the site https://mipsprotection.com/
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Right, but this is a problem of not knowing how (or not wanting) to manage returning vets, nothing specific to imperial bellicose ventures overseas.

Most ancient societies had strict purification rituals for returning warriors, so that they could cleanse themselves spiritually and socially of the violence committed on the battlefield. Modernity and rationality have gotten rid of these religious rituals but not of their psychological necessity.
You could do all of that, or you could take note that USPS halted overtime during one of the busiest periods of business in recent history.

UPS is renting UHauls in my area to replenish delivery trucks in the field. Drivers are working OT as late as 9PM.

USPS isn’t backfilling positions or using OT hours!
While there’s a grain of truth to this, you’re neglecting the simultaneous experience of self consciousness of this at the same time. I believe there’s a David Foster Wallace short story about this somewhere in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
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How about dual licensing of the core software itself? That is, release the source under a copyleft license, and sell licenses to companies who won't accept the copyleft terms. For libraries and tools targeted at software developers, I think the Parity Public License [1] is a particularly good choice.

Taking it further, we should be willing to challenge the strict parameters of the Open Source Definition, the Debian Free Software Guidelines, etc. These aren't sacred texts, and for many applications, it doesn't matter if they can never be packaged in the main section of Debian or other distros that hold tightly to these rules. In particular, for applications that aren't targeted at software developers, releasing the source under a license that allows non-commercial use, then selling commercial licenses, is a completely sensible approach. For example, check out the Prosperity License [2]. Edit: To be clear, licenses like this one shouldn't be called open source; a common term is "source available".

[1]: https://paritylicense.com/

[2]: https://prosperitylicense.com/
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Break Amazon up. Its a monopoly.
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Amazon is more of a threat to the ‘American way of life’ than Communism ever was.
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>If a database can be deleted, it is not secure

True, but a deleted database is secure again ;)
Then don't do it?

If I were you I would propose a counter-offer: "Sorry, I can't allocate time to a take home assignment, but here are links to an mvc application I've built in <language>: <github link> I think it demonstrates my expertise and I'd be happy to discuss the source code and how I implemented it!" If they take you up on the offer, awesome! If they don't, you'd probably not want to work there anyway. Especially if it's some bullshit like "We expect all applicants to complete this test." Fuck that.

I've been burnt many times by take home assignments. I.e I've aced them and still not gotten an offer. So I don't do them out of principle.
If your reputation is good enough or if you manually whitelisted nagios/munin/etc. messages, your don't get any problems. Its mainly a problem for new mail server setups (new domain). Bye the way "whitelisting" in Outlook takes some time. But after that, you should not have any problems with Outlook.
If it weren't for Duck Duck Go, I would absolutely consider paying a small monthly fee to Neeva for ad-free (and hopefully tracking-free) search service. I might anyway.

Interesting that both Neeva and DDG build on Microsoft's Bing service. I also use Bing search for small personal projects. Search APIs are useful for many automated information extraction use cases.

There are paid for Google services that I really like (GCP, Play Music, Play Books, Play Movies), but I now avoid search and gmail.
The United States welcomes more immigrants than any other country in the world with fewer restrictions on who can immigrate than any other country in the world. What more can America do?
> If you think long and hard about the core reason a PET scan works then it's inescapable that Coca Cola causes cancer

Could you expand on this point? My background is in physics, and I think I've got a fair understanding of how PET scans work, but I think I'm missing the connection.
I'd bet a case of beer that OP did operations analysis in his MBA course... The term to google for is "Duane Power Law" or similar. Duane was the first statistical process improvement researcher in the 60s to graph MTBF stats and discover breakdowns follow a power law. There's a lot to see if you google for that.

Of course humans aren't machines... or are we? Pretty weird how wildly different factory floor industrial machinery all follow the same power law. I would be surprised if humans did NOT follow some kind of power law of injuries based on total cumulative energy dissipation in tissue over time or something like that. Humans can heal better than a milling machine or EDM cutter. On the other hand humans take terrible repetitive strain damage, so maybe Duane is right after all.
Amazon is a monopoly. Antitrust law to be invoked
Data isn't locked away. Only apps are.
Same for me. You are not alone in thinking the UX is horrible.
Indeed.

"If it's as I hypothesise and they can't afford a loaf of bread, I think their stance is reasonable from the perspective that this could be used to starve them to death"

You can always tell if something is reasonable by changing it from a company screwing an individual into an individual screwing a company. If an individual hurts a company to survive, we normally see that is illegal quite quickly. It's only when a company hurts an individual in order to make a profit that we struggle.
Why doesn't Windows have an “expert mode”? (2003)
Common Lisp had it earlier.
I suppose that's because, even though it's smaller, it's actually yours. Congratz ;-)
I love the outsized importance applied to Twitter by journalists and news junkies who lazily rely on it.

The vast, overwhelming, majority of human beings would not notice if Twitter had disappeared last night if it weren't for lazy journalists and news junkies reporting on its disappearance.

Journalists writing about twitter remind me of novels about quirky authors, songs about musicians on the road, and movies about Hollywood: self-important inside baseball.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/810/
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Yes but I will get downvoted as the HN mafia is deep funded by Amazon
A static (serverless) website hosted on something like github pages or S3 paired with some API calls to an nodejs application running on a single core vm instance, both behind cloudflare, is also extremely cheap and should be able to easily beat php in terms of performance/costs ratio.
Yes, he explicitly said 'adjusted' stock price.

But, don't know if he accounted for dividends, which may have added another 1% annually.
Fine with me. I pay Amazon $129 per year for Prime service and if this is one of the ways they arrange it, great. What else comes by mail? Junk, or bills that are due in 3-4 weeks, or statements. First class mail was always kind of variable in delivery speed anyway.
> That said, it's obviously a model that really requires them to select the best of the best labs as you mention...

It seems like it's also a model that makes labs better. What labs will be the "best of the best labs" is not independent from the way their funding sources provide pressure/rewards/punishments to do work in certain ways or do certain kinds of work.
You can draw a direct line between:

(1) Israel's status as a member of the US empire and its interests in the middle east

(2) Testing & development of weapons & tactics against the Palestinian population by Israel

(3) Training provided by Israel to American police forces, plus export of equipment to same

(4) Use of those weapons & tactics by American police forces on the domestic populace

This is probably the most pure & distilled example of what TFA is talking about. Bringing it up is in no way anti-Semitic or apropos of nothing.
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Should be"one consultant doesn't know how to identify a material."
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The thing about skiing (and snowboarding) is that improving measurable performance almost always requires taking more risks - harder trails or higher speed. Contrast with running, for example, where increasing speed involves no risk at all. Most people want to improve at what they do, so the ski resorts are filled with people at the edge of their ability, all in proximity to one another. That plus the sheer speed practically guarantees a high injury rate.

Personally, while I do challenge myself in those ways some of the time, I'm just as happy seeing how many turns I can make on a run I've already mastered, or trying to make each turn absolutely perfect. Slight increase in risk, but much less than the human cannonballs I see around me.
Seems like you didn't read the article. The issue, according to the article, is that USPS management is intentionally delaying regular mail in favor of Amazon deliveries.
So what about Formula 1 drivers ???.

Typically they experience about 5g when braking and 6g whilst cornering on a circuit completing a distance of about 305km.
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"""(It's regardless, Caroline, not irregardless," Lorena said gently. Caroline huffily replied that regardless was a footless, weak word and got you nowhere, that on the other hand you threw in the word irregardless and won any argument hands down."""

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It didn’t add up economically for my wife’s car.
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EBS volumes appear local to the machine.

[ec2-user@ip-1-1-1-1 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0D7E094F-1C63-43F2-AC82-3316E992075B

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/xvda1 4096 16777182 16773087 8G Linux filesystem
/dev/xvda128 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot

Partition table entries are not in disk order.
That's not true any more.

The US is now actively hostile to immigrants - travel bans (prior to covid19), border walls, detention camps, separating young children from parents, denying visas for students with online courses (the government wanted this, the courts stopped it). That may change, but the current US administration is very hostile to immigration.
The parent asked an example about cancellations and the article mentions one.

And when I rant, I use at least 250% more vulgar language, but I would want the insinuation of being dishonest to stay.
Tardigrades can survive in a vacuum, these things can photosynthesise light through thick rock. But I wonder if life could survive with little water of atmosphere. Maybe somewhere like Europa (moon of Jupiter) where there is water and an atmosphere, but heavy surface radiation?
Again, Georgia is one of the most racist places in the US, and any external cultural influence on its police force is basically irrelevant, no matter how desperate you are to make it about the Jews^WZionists.
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There is no silver bullet.

I am lucky to have both options at my disposal - I live in the city, commute to work (~45 minutes by tram, more if I walk, which I do). On the other hand, my parents live in the suburbs, backyard and stuff.

Both options have advantages.

During the lockdown, apartment was fine, but claustrophobic a little bit. Not many things to do. In the house, you don't even notice it. Especially now, during the summer, garden, fruits, vegetables, swimming pool.

On the other hand, living in the city offers more options, like socialising, finding things to do, people with similar interests, training, learning classes for whatever, etc.

Both options offer experiences. They talk about an experience of commuting ruining everything. But what about an experience of enjoying personal swimming pool? Eating stuff from your own garden? Kids running around happy, having a tree house versus being limited to the apartment?

As I said at the beginning - there's no silver bullet. It's about finding out what you like, what works for you, and then act accordingly (if possible).