skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real issue (IMHO) is highlighted in the article:

>All the helicopters were produced without the necessary permits and documents of origin for the parts and equipment used.

In aerospace it's common to speak of certificates of conformance, which is a legal attestation from the manufacturer that the part is of genuine origin and complies with the specification from the aircraft's type design. The manufacturer is periodically audited/assessed for their quality control practices and parts are routinely tested to ensure they are airworthy.

The issue here, as per the above quote, is that they were probably using bootleg parts from random Chinese suppliers, which might be no big deal but might also have not been heat treated properly, for example, in order to save manufacturing cost.

If parts aren't compliant with the spec you can have structural failures in flight which is of course no bueno.

So yes, these are probably "real" Kamovs in the sense that they're probably built from real Kamov blueprints, but what many people outside the industry don't realize is that aerospace design and manufacturing encompasses much more than the blueprint. The whole program from the drawing board to the assembly line to the in-service maintenance work has to be a cohesive whole in order to produce an airworthy product.
Or if you stay less than a year! Since you usually have to pay back concessions ON TOP of any early termination penalty, if you want to break your lease.
Amen. Learning how to read the news is a skill just like everything else. The direct links of the internet make it harder, but one still needs to try and understand the context of the publication and how the article is presented. A-heads are entertainment.
I did not point to him being a senior engineer at FAANG, I pointed to him mentioning that he's a senior engineer at FAANG, as evidence that the book is marketed towards people who also want to become senior engineers at FAANG.

As mentioned in my original comment, I fully realize that plenty of people couldn't care less about becoming senior engineers at FAANG, and am not making any claims about the intelligence or qualifications of the author or the quality of the book.
There is some disagreement about whether this is actually the case. It takes a lot of resources to build a new car. Meanwhile the average passenger cars has been above 30MPG for 15 years now and the newer ones aren't dramatically better than that. So you only come out ahead with a new car if you put a lot of miles on it. But then that's still conflating "new" and "efficient" -- a 2004 Prius still gets better mileage than the new car average.

This doesn't apply to electric cars, which do use dramatically less petroleum (i.e. none), but they're mostly already made in the US, so making petrol cars cost more may actually be an environmental advantage because more people will buy electric.
The chips in MFI program were pretty much DRM.
In my kit I also have six basic towels. The kind you get at the gym. I’ll give about one away per year for assorted things. I know this is a meme but honestly, bring a towel.
It's not hard to sell. There are so many buyers out there right now. In Chicago houses are on the market 3 days tops. Hearing similar from other cities.
That sub was more than 10 years ago... they probably built many since then
It's a reasonable facsimile to the west coast urban cultural environment and is cheaper than the big three metro areas. I don't know that there's much more to say about it than that. Portland is en vogue for many of the same reasons.
> Or perhaps more specifically, can you present an example of cancelling that was done "specifically [...] for reasons of anger, revenge or control", and not due to other reasons, and that includes embarassment and humiliation, economic control like ruining the credit score, harassing family and friends or employers, or scare tactics to instill fear?

Uh? Seriously? Just about any case of cancel culture.

Anger? Check. Revenge? Check. Embarrassment and humiliation? Check. Harassing employers? Check. Scare tactics? Check.

Just the James Damore case fits all these points, and it's just the first that comes to mind (but I think they all apply to almost all known cases).
Interestingly this study shows the opposite. “In their recent working paper ‘Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams,’ Greenberg and Mollick show that ‘companies started by solo founders survive longer than those started by teams.’”
It's called "a wild overstatement of generally accepted mechanisms".

As but one rebuttal: The European Central Bank has acted mostly in concert with the FED since 2008, "printing" about as much money via quantitative easing and similar mechanisms.

The Euro is nowhere close to the US$ as a reserve currency, and even less as a trade currency.

And yet inflation in Europe has been just as non-existent as it has in the US.
In the US, this argument is even easier to debunk, especially when it comes from middle-class adults who've been working for a while.

"I have nothing to hide"

"What's your salary and your spouse's salary?"

The huge amount of secrecy around salaries in the US is proof that a lot of people have perfectly innocuous secrets that they very much like to hide.
Actually it does albeit indirectly, because you are not running a single application on a modern computer. When they all start starving for memory they get slower.
I'm sure that it predates Fox News Channel by a lot, after all, news business are business first and news second, but it would be misguided to ignore the fact that FNC has completely dominated viewership numbers in the US almost since its inception by doing exactly what you're complaining about. Opinion is a format that engages large numbers of people and therefore makes money extremely well.
Very weak argument for why they do it. Using a service to retrieve a favicon? Surely there's a way to implement the same logic locally.
Also increasing conversion rates via the sunk-cost fallacy. If I see up front that the air conditioner I'm ordering costs $30 to ship, I'll check another site. But if I already decided on this one and I just did all the work to go find my credit card, enter my billing info - maybe I'll just say "ehhh. Fine." and purchase it anyways.
A few single people I work with in the Bay Area moved back in with their parents and terminated or did not renew their lease, some even left the US temporarily to return when things are back to normal.
More impressive are the people who'd ride in one of these.
You move to the burbs because it's cheaper and kids are expensive.
> Employees that want to know can already figure out what their employer pays for.

That's not how humans work. The fact that information is available on the internet doesn't mean that people are actively going to go out and look it up. But if you send them a huge bill for something every month, they're going to look at it and ask WTF.
To give you some context about how migration can impact salary: I made this spreadsheet during 2018 when I was trying to make a case for a raise that never happened.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18D1aAM0bTx4vLSDonpImtIfYR4T...

In 2019 I resigned from my previous employer (an American company growing fast and short of 1000 employees nowadays). I moved to the Netherlands to work on a startup (that pays average for the Netherlands).

If you check my website (https://henvic.dev/) you can see it's not like I was inexperienced.

I was told the major reason why my request for a raise was denied was that my salary was great for where I lived in Brazil (northeast, which is poorer than São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro).

I considered the work I was doing worth way more. I started looking for new opportunities and asked to quit. This is not uncommon at all. Most of my colleagues in the tech field that are average or better have eventually moved abroad for money or started working remotely for a company overseas. Working for a company in a poor country where it has a local presence is almost always a sentence to getting paid less than you're capable of elsewhere or doing remote work.
"[Casey] Newton’s professional arc, from enthusiastic tech beat reporter to skeptical industry investigator, matches the trajectories of a number of journalists in recent years."

This is the natural progression. And the bigger story.

I'm barely interested in Facebook or their antics. Maybe because I had already lived this story a few times.

Like most geeks in my cohort, I started as a technophile, which is Neal Postman's pejorative, steeped in libertarian and transhumanism ideology. Then I started to notice the ledgers kept not adding up, promised advances failed to materialize, people of poor constitution repeatedly gobbled up all the resources.

At some point I read Technopoly and Design of Everyday Things. Those and many other skeptics gave voice to my misgivings. Then I learned about prior technological waves causing mass social upheaval and what kind of people ended up on top. (The French have a cliche for this...)

The hero worship and suspension of disbelief was the problem. People are still just people. I'm glad the Teflon coatings are starting to wear off. So we can resume talking about this stuff like adults.
Bringing modern process management to the desktop
Side note: I wish that feature could be turned off. Sucks to turn your phone off for the night, plug it in to charge, and it boots back up (it's not the semi-on battery display either, it does a full boot to iOS).
Holy fuck, $174k?!? How well do these hold value and much does it cost to maintain? If it's $30k in the first year, that's approximately the cost of an Airbnb every single night.
This is a dream that we've been hearing for decades and has never materialized. We have consistently seen cities like Boston and San Francisco survive and thrive despite their central industries fading or collapsing. New industries just take their place. Why? Well one very reasonable explanation is the quality of the workforce [1]. These areas are highly educated and there has always been a large amount of skilled workers, probably due to the density of high quality education. I see no reason to believe that this will be the time that the 'Silicon Valley is dying' people will finally be right.

[1] National Bureau of Economic Research paper on Boston between 1640 and 2003 https://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/chalmersk/econ251fa12/glaeserbo...
I don't buy it. We all do things that although not wrong we still wouldn't like to share with anyone. i.e. No person wants to be seen picking their nose, although everybody does it.
So now exploiting the rest of the world is viewed by some as an "economic service"? It is funny how low people will craw to protect their privileges.
Because flash was a plugin, not locked to that one little game. Once you install it, every website could use it. A lot was done, by browsers, over the years to try and give more control to the end-user, but Adobe didn't have too much interest. They were the dominate player, what other option was there!? Countless security vulnerabilities (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...), siphoning personal data back to Adobe, etc. Looking today at what some companies are doing to harvest data, one could say they were just ahead of their time...
You're not wrong about your information, but interestingly your criticism parallels that commonly levelled against Apple itself - that Apple's innovation was "was already [achieved] by others". However, it wasn't yet presented in a nice, easy to consume package all in one place - which is sometimes just as significant as the raw engineering itself.

It's testament to the noteworthiness of both Apple and this article that here we are talking about it all - about efforts cobbled together from other parts.
Like trying to save money on a motorcycle helmet.
"Humans are more than the dollars they "produce", in my opinion."

You can believe this with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, but it will not change the inescapable law of economics that hiring someone at a wage which is higher than the value they produce is called charity. This is, of course, unsustainable for the sector from which nearly all demand for labour is derived (business) and therefore it would be an axiomatic truth that this situation will not result in net benefits for those with skills that do not justify a wage equal or higher than a legal minimum wage.
I don't understand why some HNer is expected to have an answer for this because no part of US society does.

We've underfunded career counseling in public schools for generations. We don't have any healthy career retraining system like other OECD countries do. Unemployment systems in the USA are nearly useless when it comes to retraining employees -- they really just act as job boards. Most states don't seem capable of attracting different industries, so when a batch of jobs leave a region, those employees struggle to find a near replacement. We have massive mental health and addiction problems so companies spend a lot of effort to avoid hiring anyone who might raise these costs for the company.

US society doesn't actually care about employees who don't take care of themselves. It's time we stop pretending like we do and call a spade a spade.
This is concerning because it indicates a lack of care in terms of privacy and understanding that the best privacy is achieved by knowing the least. Does this approach permeate their backend as well?
Is that payroll tax and stuff like that? Or something else?
I'd be really interested to know if this can be computed directly any other way?
And here I am, trying everything from diet to exercise so that I can get back on coffee asap.
Does this only occur in DuckDuckGo’s Android browser?
Are the robots cheaper or more expensive than human workers?

There is some broken thinking that high wages will increase consumer cost but replacing humans with cheaper robots won't, cherry-picking armchair cause-and-effect thinking to fit a "this is bad" narrative.

Reducing trade frictions forces economic equality, especially when that reduction is tied towards some equality metric, like wages.

Products being cheap because of economic disparity in trading partners isn't something to celebrate or bemoan the loss of. What is good for our neighbors is good for us. So many people are arguing from both sides at the same time.
Your train of thought seems to have fallen into a black hole.
The point is that there is no margins. On my screen the lines are 275 characters long! This is 2-4x more standard formats. You don't need to break the lines up, you need to wrap them sooner with styling.
Link to your CBDM stuff?
I'm relieved I'm not the only one who thought AS3 was decent. It had the structure of Java without the absurdities of Java (first-class functions always come to mind immediately).
It’s funny because some of the “hot” breweries in Florida are known for making big sweet 15% barrel aged stouts year round.
I think that's an opinion, not a fact. There is no objective standard for what a "living wage" is.
> Not to mention the skyrocketing costs of college, increasing rent in a lot of major cities where jobs are, and the constantly increasing cost of healthcare.

I hear you but you are looking at it from a very skewed perspective.

Look at college - you don’t need it to gain a high level of education anymore. It’s still very useful to get into better jobs - but those jobs are paying way more than $10/hr.

Likewise where I’m from rents have been fairly stable for the past decade. The major cities with ever increasing rent have average jobs paying a lot higher than $10/hr.

On healthcare - it’s already been covered better by others here but it’s not a big concern.
Buy a Mac?
As someone who now has a cushy tech job but grew up struggling, it’s infuriating to read a post as out of touch as yours.

My main question is, as you yourself have admittedly never experienced it, why even bother commenting on it? All your comment provides is ammunition for those looking to dismiss the such wages as livable, when (if you experienced them yourself) they’re clearly not.
After we integrated meeting support into https://team.video we made this to allow us to instantly go to the right meeting we're supposed to be in. For example, if I have a zoom meeting happening right now all I have to do is go to https://now.me and I get redirected to the right place.
You can’t use it for anything and the only value is in hoping they randomly decide to contact you and ask to buy it (you can’t approach them because that is extortion of trademarked property) rather than going through the courts.
Sure, work is good, but it’s hardly a decent measure of economic health. The idea of someone not “participating” in society is ridiculous. Paid labor is only one of many ways to participate in society.
It's more or less the same thing. PGP was used as an example of why the Clipper chip was pointless and futile. PGP is an example of why the Earn IT act is pointless and futile.

The Earn IT act is just another instance of the sort of incomplete thinking that produced the Clipper chip.
Yeah, that's really true. If I'm going to have more than one beer, I'll typically switch to something lighter and cleaner for my 2nd.

For me it fills the place where a lot of people would put a stout or a Belgian - a really good one-and-done sort of beer.
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> The competitive advantage for clothing, toys, and furniture factories there eventually diminishes.

Perhaps, but Mexico has a ton of advantages that lots of other countries don't. They have cheap labor and can source parts quickly and cheaply from the USA.

Mexico has low-friction trade agreements with something like 40 other countries. In an age where America's government is demanding to renegotiate trade deals and do them all outside the WTO and rejecting all 3+ lateral deals, Mexico's trade policy stability is still an advantage over the current US policies, even if they lose some wage benefits.
Essentially a way to collect where people are visiting. I believe them that it’s anonymous, this valuable info wouldn’t need to be identifiable to be of value.

They should probably change the behavior to how it’s suggested in the thread, but I’m still going to use DDG over alternatives for the bang feature.
I don't really trust DuckDuckGo, but I use their search service because I trust Google less... I still trust Firefox more for a browser although it won't take much at this point to make me switch.
Capella Space Goes All-In on AWS
The closest to a “Toyota of RVs” is probably the Erwin Hymer Group, which is expected to finally - after 5+ years of false starts - bring some products to the US in the next 2-3 years: https://newatlas.com/automotive/hymer-usa-european-designed-...

(Many in the US have never heard of Hymer even though they’re huge in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymer. They’re now owned by Thor, which owns Airstream, Jayco, and many other RV companies: https://www.thorindustries.com/brands)
Why is it heartbreaking? Think positive. Probably just a domain used for a wedding registry and RSVPs leading up to the event and then no longer needed after the big day.
> try to find cheap places in the US where you can have a reasonable life without a car

Pretty much any small/medium town or city that's not a tourist destination or near an ocean will fit that bill.
Do we need so many databases?
> You’re right about the deductible. But can you afford 3 weeks pay for that deductible, and then your car breaks down because you can’t afford to maintain it?

What percentage of people suffer both an adverse health event in their 20s or 30s and a car maintenance event in the same year? I don't understand these types of arguments: you can't establish whether something is a "living wage" or not by reference to worst case scenarios achieved by piling on conjecture upon conjecture. Again, in France the minimum wage works out to $10/hour, and they have 20-30% co-insurance if someone has an adverse health event, and outside Paris most people have cars. It still works out fine for almost everyone.

> The USDA has it around $210 as the absolute minimum per person. Your money wizard person lives in the cheapest area of the country.

The USDA food budget is used as the basis for SNAP benefits, so it has to accommodate costs in high-COL areas. It is, in fact, designed to allow a healthy, balanced diet that most people can follow and is not an "absolute minimum" number. The person I linked to is not some wizard: https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/how-save-money-grocerie.... Regardless, the point is that $250 is not a rice-and-beans diet, like you claimed. This guy is eating lean meats, fruits and vegetables within the sub-$200 USDA Thrifty budget.

> While Trader Joe's stocks no shortage of reasonably priced pre-packaged indulgences, I stuck to my health-conscious diet of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and lean meats. For $39.68 I bought more than enough for the week.
I read about this in the blurb Ford sent us (we own an F250 for towing a trailer) and felt it was a pretty smart move. When we go camping we will take a generator to cover loads larger than the onboard batteries can deal with. If this becomes an option in the F250 I could see us getting it on the next truck.

One of the benefits that is sort of mentioned is running lawn tools from it. This could be a real benefit for small gardening shops that replace their tools with battery/electric tools. Not are they lower maintenance but they are quieter as well so the neighbors are not as annoyed.
That would make sense _except_ apple sells their cables on their website. They have already chosen to make selling cables part of their business.

What's more likely is that the quality doesn't matter. Lots of people only care about the official apple brand, so apple can get away with selling an interior product for more money.
You aren't reading carefully. I said and not due to other reasons. There are legitimate reasons to complain to someone's employer about their behavior.

Damore's employer for example wasn't really targeted. I know, I worked there during the event. I commented on his doc before it was leaked to the press. Coworkers complained to Google leadership because Damore's document made them feel unwelcome. Ultimately it was for that reason that Damore was fired.

Anger? No. Revenge? No. Harassing employers? Not really. Scare tactics? I can't recall anyone threatening Damore inside Google. It might have happened externally, but wasn't widespread.

The issue that I keep trying to point out is that you're taking people's legitimate airing of concerns and claiming that it is done illegitimately. Ultimately you can't see other people's intentions. Framing all grievances you disagree with as illegitimate and made with only ill intent is a questionable practice.

You can make the argument that everyone lied: that no one really felt unwelcome due to Damore's document, and that Google leadership agrees with you that he did nothing wrong but felt pressured to fire him anyway and that... But at that point you're taking your own preconceptions and applying them to everyone else, and assuming that only your view of the world is valid and that everyone who doesn't take the same meaning away from something that you do is acting in bad faith. That's not solid ground for claiming that someone is a criminal (you can apply the same reasoning and get "everyone who disagrees with me is a criminal", which I hope you'd agree isn't just).