skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two books that describe what it's like to be somewhere else, living a different kind of life. I love these books that really transport you there, like having a really good friend explain things to you casually.

First of these is "Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road". What it's like to grow up while having family in a labor camp. What it's like to have your entire business or house confiscated. How hard it is to be a student. Also just plenty of interesting little tidbits on day-to-day life.

Second one is "The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery". It's about a foreigner who leaves his life behind and joins a zen monastery in Japan. It covers in detail the day-to-day experience of it, such as collapsing on temple grounds from lack of sleep during particularly demanding meditation sessions. But monks are human too, and on some occasions sneak over the temple walls for some fun outside.

Both of these transfer to you the "feel" of these places.
It's about respecting the rules. The age limit that they've set is 16. If they are so nonchalant about hiring 14 or 15 year olds, what prevents then from hiring 12 year olds?

Also, such lax regulation can also mean that they may have them work for extended periods of time.
It's so cool that we can send things into space like this, I loved the sense of wonder and excitement getting my rockets in KSP to launch into orbit, but thinking about real life space stuff is about a thousand thousand times cooler! Even taking a photo like this and seeing a huge building flying around us at thousands of knots is amazing to me.
I am a tech “bro” myself, but my move to SF predates the recent tech boom. I was also annoyed at the local government for not fixing quality of life issues. But off late, I am increasingly disillusioned by the tech industry and the loudmouth tech execs and VCs on Twitter. They complaint all day about SF. They are constantly looking for validation and affirmation of their self importance from local leaders. They probably believe that everyone owes them something. And I started to realize that people forget why they moved to SF to begin with. It was because it wasn’t a wasteland of mono culture of office parks and white collar workers. And now every day they decry what they moved into.
Can't we just do this in sandboxed regular assembly running inside a virtual machine?!

/s
Apple will build prisons for Uyghurs before it's all over . . . . anything to keep their hands in the money pockets of the CCP
Is it shame or guilt that's behind people giving reasons for you not to travel?
mods, please fix url to https://temporarypresidentoftheearth.tumblr.com/post/6390433...

also available there
https://www.reddit.com/user/temppresidentofearth/comments/kn...
> Could you imagine if it was said that men only really like to watch documentaries if they watch TV or movies at all?

I couldn't find any research on this, but it would not surprise me if viewership skewed towards men for documentary.
Slightly edited text from a meme:

"I thought 2020 would be the year I got everything I wanted. Now I know 2020 is the year I appreciated everything I had."

Happy New Year! Hope things look up a lot more for the billions of people who have had a tough year in 2020.
Also:

- set up full disk encryption

- set a boot up (BIOS) password

- for ssh: disable root ssh access, and disable ssh with a password

- lock screen when away from computer, auto-lock when away
That's a US$500 camera, if I was going to spend that much money on a camera I would purchase one that comes with vendor software that turns it into a webcam, I think Fujifilm and Canon do have this.
Or maybe you just had an expensive camera lying around, haha.
In the universe of message queues, an email-per-sale queue is not going to be your problem.

Think of the queue-as-message-bus pattern -- very common. You don't want to have a service with millions of pending messages to process, it forces you into painful, slow recovery, or making the tough choice of dropping everything.

Anyway, great write up, and happy new year!
Might add a note, but I don't want to muddy the waters. Technically, neither is the Redis Streams implementation. But they both quack like a queue, and are meant to be used like a queue, so will probably talk about implementation details in a deep dive of some sort.

EventBridge isn't a queue either, actually.
While true, let's not pretend the membership criteria were ever objectively evaluated in Turkey's case. It was always entangled with domestic politics of member countries.

And one would wonder if member states like Poland and Hungary would meet such criteria right now.
The one thing that annoys me is that even after all these years of JIRA they still haven't fixed their shitty WYSIWYG editor. I can't count the number of times I've written something and then end up with random asterisks all over the place because it failed to figure out what is bold or what's in a list or whatever.
If the decision comes down to "I can't get the exact shade of cornflower blue I want on this button unless I make it a div, but that will hurt accessibility" and you chose the exact shade of cornflower blue, your priorities are wrong. And not just because you hurt accessibility, but because you probably made more work for yourself.

We went through this 15 years ago with custom scroll bars that didn't look like scroll bars, didn't operate like scroll bars and didn't interact like scroll bars, all because it could happen. An Ian Malcom quote comes to mind.
Pushing limits and demonstrating that you can get away with things is a way to signal social standing. It's like poker. If you seem confident, people will infer you are so secure because you have lots of resources and can afford not to care. And this becomes self fulfilling and after some time you will really have social capital and allies and can afford to be even more upfront given that protection.

I think the key thing is to live and breathe the rhythm of social situations. When are high tides and when the lows. You mentioned humor. That's also very much connected to this. It matter when and how you say your upfront things. We all know the stereotype of the matter of fact but socially out of touch blunt weirdo who blurts out his opinions at wrong times with the wrong tone. You have to keep your finger on the pulse of the community.

In a sense it requires great knowledge of the general sentiment to be able to ignore that sentiment.

If you want high status you want people to say of you: "He's not afraid to show who he is, he stands up for what he believes, he is no-nonsense. Maybe he says controversial things but his heart is in the right place."
Atheist turk here, this youtube channel is the largest social media channel of gulen religious sect/terror group, which tried to topple erdogan in 2016.

Despite hating Erdogan to my guts, i can assure you that this gulenist movement/terror group is a bigger threat to secularism and democracy in turkey and world alike.
before you run out and use this fact to justify buying a new camera, do some quick research. some cameras will overheat in video mode after a while.
I've thought about this a few times now.

Would you describe this as a noticeable risk compared to driving around in a car, in urban traffic, with gasoline? Or are you comparing it rather to an alternative that more or less avoids transport of LNG?
Angband (http://rephial.org/) is my drug.
Patton definitely got it: "Patton urged his soldiers to do their duty regardless of personal fear" [0]

There are other quotes from US authors that show they understood this concept as well. Though how ingrained it was in general American society, I don't know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to...
Well, but the point was that human performance on any task has a lot of variability. Therefore - 'worst' - as a label, does not strictly apply in the qualitative sense. Maybe a probabilistic risk model would be more appropriate. What complicates things is that you cannot compare a human to an AV algorithm apples-apples. For even the worst human driver is extremely unlikely to confuse a human on the road with a paper bag - something that a ML classifier algorithm can (if there was a bug).

> As I was leaving the supermarket I watched her struggle to open her car door before slowly getting into her car. I sat in my car for a few minutes watching as she struggled mightily to simply back her car out of her parking spot.

That is your cue to stay away from such drivers for your own safety. Just like if you see an idiot swerving on the freeway. Or if you hear loud honking and cars braking there is probably something going on. An AV would likely miss such cues unless it was specifically programmed to do so.
What a game RoR 2 is. Only truly beaten when you have become a god on the hardest difficulty and every level of enemies and boss explode within a second.
> And I've also never worked anywhere that had a better option than JIRA.

Agree with most of what you say aside from this bit. I find most similar systems are in the same ballpark in terms of being able to track what I care about.

Mainly:

- Is the ticket ready for me to work on? (Do I have the designs I need to work it?)

- Who is working on a given ticket right now?

- Am I done with a ticket?

- Is the ticket ready for QA?

- Did QA reject the ticket and I need to fix something on the ticket?

Pivotal does these things fairly well. There is also the obligatory pointing system, but the above is the bulk of what I care about. Pivotal also lets me create queries so I can zero in on the work which I'm doing as opposed to the entire project.
When I was in elementary and middle school (early 2010s) his books were very popular. I remember reading Percy Jackson & the Olympians and later The Kane Chronicles and The Heroes of Olympus.

From personal experience, Rick Riordan's series had similar interest levels between girls and boys but later series (Hunger Games, House of Night, Fault in Our Stars) did skew towards girls. My reading also fell off as I got older so I'm sure I wasn't as in touch with what my peers were reading.
I think this is a very good idea but it may depend on what you are doing. For example, if you are using Nim to talk to some C library, I believe you won't be able to compile the C part into JS for debugging (even if you are not debugging the C part of course).
The idea that a task can and should be "hashed out months or years ago by different people" is part of the JIRA mentality. And it is absurd.
Futureland is where I'm spending a majority of my time online these days. It's one of those special, quiet, safe places on the internet where it feels like a true community / family is growing together. In a way it's hard to describe, and it's an open enough format where we all seem to be using the tool in our own unique way. I've been hanging out there since this past spring. Having this space to store my process has had numerous types of impact on the design, business, and personal projects I'm working on. <3
Guilty as charged.

So you think australia and indonesia have a common heritage because they are neighbors, but the US and australia don't because we live an ocean away?

It's so funny, I was genuinely interested in this topic as my understanding of greece and turkey was one of conqueror and conquered, not "common heritage". I thought maybe there was history/ties/etc I was missing, but apparently it's just some politically driven people spewing nonsense.

Perhaps foreigners just don't know what "common heritage" means.

Spot the foreigner.

Edit: As I noted in my other comment, to say greeks and turks share the same heritage is like saying americans and native americans share the same heritage. American heritage stems from britain, but no sane person would claim that native american heritage comes from britain. I don't think any sane person would associate the ottoman empire with greeks. They would associate it with the turks because it was a turkish empire. I bet most greeks see their heritage as ancient greece.
Austin’s vibe is probably dead due to the reliance on live music. Houston still has tons of museums and food. If you can handle humidity, that’s a good option.

Having said that, Austin will still have cheap housing way south, which means it will still have good weird stuff happening. It will just take a few years for it all to come back.
SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
Lifespan: Why we age and why we don't have to [0]

It made me realize we probably can stop aging and age related deceases, which changed my view on life.

0. https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/150...
Well to be clear, i didn't say anything about hyper analyzing yourself. Rather i was saying that for the people in our life whose first action in the safe of frustration is to lash out we should take note of that. And not let their toxicity drag you down.

Putting up with toxic people because it's not your fault is not healthy, imo. One bad day does not a toxic person make.

edit: Another way to word it is simply: don't underestimate the affect toxic people can have on your life. And fight to not be one (a toxic person) yourself.
Yup, we're in violent agreement :)
You can bypass a paywall by paying.

That’s how I interpreted the post.
I never thought about Sun to be so fluffy. Moon is cold and rigid, it is well known fact. But I never wanted to lick Sun before.
A customer I am currently working with has a JIRA instance which literally, looking at the firefox network inspector right now, takes 13.04 seconds before it's done loading. It takes at least 10 seconds before the page will even let me scroll. I can't even comprehend how they have managed to get this poor of performance.
even the rust-analyzer plugin for plugin for VSCode installs and runs without any fuss, definite improvement from when I last saw it in 2019.

Re: apt install - I never trust the OS packages for anything like developer tools, I'd rather have everything run out of my home directory. Then again, I'm not a C/C++ developer where the OS, libraries, build tools are all intertwined.
JIRA is just fine. Can't really go bad with it. If you have limited needs, you can try GitHub or GitLab Issues. But for a team which may end up growing, JIRA will work. It has good integration with GitHub/GitLab, and with Smart Commits enabled, most of workflows can be baked into it. It's slow, but judging by this thread, I suspect Atlassian customers are complaining about it too, so hopefully it'll be heard.
> There really is a lot more to Nim than just this

I've actually just been skimming some tutorials and docs, and wow, you're not wrong! I'm impressed - Nim seems to be rammed with features, but also easy to get started with (as long as you ignore some of the more advanced stuff).

I've recently been trying to find time and motivation to start learning Rust, but I have to say that (even with horrible indentation syntax :p ) Nim looks really compelling too...
You also should be chipped when we have the technology so that you don't get the wrong thoughts... What you are suggesting is absolutely insane. Most things in this world can be used for unlawful things. By your suggestion we should also lock down computers, remove vpn or encryption etc.
Haha yeah, because telnet never suffered overflows during telnet options processing.
See bonestamp2’s top-level comment for why I think 3 years is pretty reasonable. It’s not like firing one shitty worker at McDonald’s, supply chains are complex.
If you inspect the article and its author, you can easily see that its author Yasin Kesen is a member of FETO ( Fetullah Gulen's Terrorist Organization ) and he is run off from Turkey to Germany just before than 15 July coup attempt ( in this attempt, FETO is killed more than 300 innocent civil person in streets, bridges and homes. They misilled bombs from airplanes, they attacked also TBMM (Grand National Assembly of Turkey). People are mashed by tanks pallets in streets. He is a terrorist organization member and writing disparagement posts. They tried to get the governance, but failed. Their commanders give command to their pilots and tank drivers: "Kill everybody that moves. No pity. Just kill". And their friend in a foreign country writes something to calumniate the legally voted governence.
I learnt a ton form this talk by Tim Bray about how Amazon does event driven architecture. The talk isn't directly about queues, but they play a massive part in the narrative, including notes about idempotency, duplication, FIFO (or lack of it), and message design. The article adapts a lot of these ideas from a pure queue point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46IquqjF3E
It could very well be that women have had the potential to outperform men in academic tasks since Socrates, but never had the chance until widespread and egalitarian schooling.
> non competes just evolved to no-poach agreements

There is a huge difference between noncompetes and no-poach agreements between companies. Right now, I work at a tech company and I can go to another tech company using the skills I picked up at my current employer if I wish. With noncompetes, I can't do that at all. With no-poach agreements between companies, I won't be recruited from one specific company to another specific company but if the other company puts up the help wanted sign, I could go over to the other company on my own accord. Even with no-poach agreements, I can freely move between companies.

Yes, no-poaching agreements are terrible but they are nothing like noncompete clauses.
Interesting thought experiment. However, you have to realize that Sun wasn’t a charity. At the time, platform vendors were were hoping to target intranet applications for the enterprise. Microsoft had a similar concept for trusted applications with IE’s “Active Scripting”, with very similar results in terms of (non)security.
Indeed: https://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/projects/going-blind...
the car warranty companies are careful to ensure that they use enough third parties to cover their track. The warranty company isn't doing anything wrong, it is the resellers that are selling.
I'm American as well; those things don't count as a duty, they're just things you legally have to do. Duty is beyond the things you have to do without being thrown in jail.

Many military people do feel a sense of duty, and that's why they serve or served. In a civilian sense, duty would be things like acknowledging that a park is a shared space. If you walk past a piece of garbage and don't pick it up, you have failed in your duty to maintain the shared space even if you aren't the one that dropped it. A contemporary one would be cutting down on CO2 emissions. It's everyone's duty to cut back on that; someone who bought a Hummer would be shamed, as would people who keep their thermostats super high or low. Gossip spreads that you're a clod who's damaging the environment we all share, and you get shamed.

People used to patch potholes in public roads near their house because they felt a duty to keep the neighborhood nice.

These things don't happen anymore. I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing, since there were certainly downsides to duty. I don't even know if it's legal to patch potholes in public roads anymore.
The Congress cancelling a deal to sell a 100 F-35s along with some of their parts being produced in Turkey hardly sounds like a weak sanction.
It starts immediately, while any embedded java applet took forever and looked really ugly. We've also done this with flash apps
Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML
It's hard to believe the process is still going on. I remember on the first day of a class in 2004, the instructor had everyone introduce ourselves. One of the students started with, "Hi, I'm from Turkey. You have probably heard about my country from our lame attempts to join the EU..."
Spice is only produced in a single place in the entire universe.
What exactly does 'emergent concepts' mean, in this context?
It can work. I wrote a script in Python to build stable zip files. The main thing is to ensure any timestamps are reset to zero and the files are added in a fixed order. It also filters out any unwanted files and directories to minimise the size of the bundle. I have a wrapper around it that generates the hash and uses pip3 (as I use Python for my lambdas) to download the dependencies and build the directory hierarchy for the lambda/layer, runs the stable zip script, and returns the path of the bundle and the hash.

This didn't take long to write, and reduced the amount of churn we had with our deploys. We had massive problems with one particular set of lambdas due to the sheer amount of code (mostly unavoidable dependencies, but shared, so they could go in a layer), and our deployment times plummeted to practically nothing after I knocked this together.

I'm not sure I can share the code as it's something I wrote for work, but it ought to be simple to recreate from the description above.
It's hilarious that you're voted down probably due to talking bad about Trump, but then you're actually from a place where a man like Trump was in charge for 2 decades, so maybe people here should listen to you about his ilk and what they do to a country and stop supporting him.
You can complete JIRA tickets just by using a commit title format, and I don’t buy that there is a better system for QA to report the bugs or feedback themselves...
Oh yes they are. You can check "prefer not to say" but that's an answer in and of itself.
Expanding on being able to get away with things... Charisma is kind of paradoxical because you'd need to change so many things at the same time. Changing them one by one leaves you often worse and even less charismatic. Something that boosts the charisma of the charismatic guy may actively work against the non-charismatic one.

Charisma is kind of like the anti-fragility concept of Taleb. It's when things that would normally harm people will paradoxically strengthen you.
Pixel Dungeon is the most played, and best game on my phone. Wouldn't say that I like it, but if it was a pleasant experience, it wouldn't be a roguelike.
Not to worry - I'm just now getting into them, which alone guarantees they're no longer cool.
> I'd like to read a guide on hardening systemd.

Here is a great guide detailing some of the security features available to systemd units from earlier this year (2020):

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/systemd-service-hardening.html
Snowflake's Law:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Trump or Orangeman approaches 1."

Prime example of TDS. Rent free.
I think you might be missing another dimension, in that it depends on the size and type of bug. "See a problem fix a problem" is a common mantra in physical work type environments I've been in. You don't wait for a manager to tell you to pick up a debris that's fallen in a forklift path. You clean it up. This doesn't quite translate as well to software, you certainly don't just want to make production code changes without some kind of review, but there are things like cleaning up some annoyance around a dev VM image that doesn't require ticketing. A smart dev will likely tell people they fixed it (especially so teammates can update their VM), and a smart manager might document that fix with a ticket for their metrics, but my experience, is that organizations that laud autonomy in these kinds of improvements tend to have significantly greater actual velocity than ones that don't. I've lived through an org that reprimanded any change that wasn't documented (or really dictated) and it creates an atmosphere of apathy and distrust. The same org over time finally had enough personalities who lauded initiative that it was transformative, and the apathy evaporated.
Not sure why you got downvoted, it’s very concerning. Before the coup attempt I was hopeful in democracy for Turkey. I believe it was then when most opposition was routed :/
Typically only when in recording mode. If the video is pass through you should be fine. You will however likely need a dummy battery you can plug in.