skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author pulls a switcharoo. He starts off arguing that the world believes in meritocracy and then proves this belief is false by demonstrating the world is not perfectly meritocratic. But I imagine very few of the people he refers to who believe in a meritocratic world believe it is perfectly meritocratic.

He then makes a weak argument based on some psychology 301 research that a belief in meritocracy can be harmful. I'm somewhat convinced. But the problem is meritocratic structures are very useful, and if we dismantle meritocratic belief I doubt meritocratic structures would be far behind. And I'd rather live in a world where we at least strive for a meritocracy and fail then one where we give up.
I think it's a good lesson to learn, in general, that intuition and popular choices are often wrong or at least sub optimal. But I suspect that the popular sub-optimal path is taken for pragmatic reasons. More specifically to teaching, I have recently being putting together lesson plans for coding/robotics workshops and I suspect part of the reason for a less experimental experience is that it is easier to plan than a less on-rails teaching experience. This makes me think that at least part of popular wisdom is simply that the sub-optimal popular choice might be good enough given insufficient resources to implement the truly optimal choice.
Does the 'X' mean that those cities have clinched the division title?
In Amazon big incidents are investigated.

Any "I told you so" should be followed up: if people warned about a risk it's very useful to investigate why they were not listened.

If nobody warned - that's a bad sign for the whole team - and people will start asking why that happened.
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Have you considered that perhaps you could have unconscious racial biases? It sounds like you do if you're making people mad about it.
Chinua Achebe, the Art of Fiction No. 139 (1994)
The same tactic as with 10nm. What they say doesn't mean much. They will admit just as much as the lawyers advise them to. They will probably release some 7nm devices in homeopathic doses just to show the shareholders "see, we are delivering, you can't sue us".

At some point they probably will be ready to produce in quantities but we have no indication when that date is.
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I'd forgotten about that. The same applies to the new 1040 though, and the older 1040 wasn't that much more complex. If you qualified for the 1040EZ, there would simply be some sections that didn't apply to you.
It's probably more about weight, size, and convenience. SSDs don't weigh much. Neither do blankets and that one probably fits in the SSD box without any hassle.
Really sad how many racists like you are on HN.
how do I use this
You are a racist who is projecting.
If you're not vegan and you eat at least one serving of meat a day, (or if you're taking a multivitamin) you're probably already getting all the B12 your body can use, and supplementation is unlikely to have much effect.
But you don’t sum up all the other things for opportunity cost, you take the single max value. In other words, the opportunity cost doesn’t care about how many other people were waiting, it cares only about how much useful results the best alternative proposal would have gotten with the same amount of hours.
> Giving and order to censor would hurt them.

That’s not certain. I don’t think anyone would have predicted the events that followed.

> This was most likely a PR stunt

The context and behavior of people close to the matter suggest that this wasn’t a PR stunt. There were leavings, layoffs and statements from multiple sides. As far as I’m aware even the government didn’t imply that this was a PR stunt.
I loved this, the iMac that was all colorful, and the sunflower one. Every time I see them I look into how to use it as a chassis

Speaking of...should look into making one of them into some RaspberryPI thing
Independent content is great, but part of me wonders if this will create even more siloing now that everyone only pays for the voices of one or two people?
Lol "nobody good wants to work with you". Keep telling yourself that. Done engaging here.
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So you’re saying buy one on eBay and install 10.4...
Same thing happened to me with RAM. Security blanket instead of the RAM. The package had a similar graphic but was a completely different size.

It was the single most frustrating customer service experience of my life. The return was a nightmare but it wasn’t because of the counterfeit. Some weird glitch with the return label and a terrible call center employee.
> But, how many consumers check the inflation numbers before buying a pizza?

Wrong question. The real issue is: how many consumers check the unemployment numbers before buying a pizza? Answer: a whole hell of a lot.
Well, for customers I'd say that's a worse solution as they will now depend on a potentially less-reliable 3rd party for something so simple. But who knows, maybe for the sheer ease of installation some people will prefer that. Wouldn't be surprised. You could probably add some more features on top of this to make for a stronger value proposition.

As for the Chrome Extension I don't get what it's supposed to do.
The common problem with "I told you so" is that you ignore all the other times where you told something that was wrong. So, if we went back in time and magically implemented everything you ever suggested, we'd probably end up worse off.

So, maybe we want something like, everyone keeps track of every suggestion and every idea they make, then once we have determined we have enough information to fully judge the quality of a past suggestion, go back and evaluate why it was wrong/right and why it got accepted/missed. Then, you adjust your processes to increase the rate of rejecting bad ideas while increasing the rate of accepting good ideas. But that sounds like it'd be hard to implement, and it's much more enjoyable to just get to act smug and superior.
Another plug - https://datagridxl.com
It's a fully HTML SpreadSheet, no downsides that come with canvas. The Grid works even without any frameworks.

You can see a demo here of One Million Cells - https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells.

Granted, it does not have as many features as the React grid, but it's super fast & super reliable and comes with decent touch support.
Pick an idea that is highly demanded and poorly executed. For example I have just stumbled on how to perform complete user experience test automation in the browser without plugins or dependencies and may spin this off into a side project.
At Amazon you had "disagree and commit" and (used to have) "vocally self critical".

The commit part is actually very important - once the TEAM makes a DECISION everyone is on board with it and runs with it. You don't half ass it or sabotage it.

But if it does go wrong, the decision maker should have the strength of character to acknowledge "you were right"

These two factors held in tension and taken at face value (rather than virtuous politik doublethink) can lead to good team dynamics on a team full of mature people IMO
>The difference between traceable and ordinary measurement equipment is a couple of extra $.

This idea again. I don't know why people are saying this. It's not true. Aviation you're allowed to use any tool you want unless the workshop manual says to use a specific tool.

OEM calibration certs are useless to an aviation company because it's someone else promising accuracy that could see you thrown in jail if it's wrong. Before tooling is used the first time it will be calibrated. Then calibrated again at set intervals.

>hex torque drivers with cal stickers

It's most likely the part had stickers so it was in their system for visual inspection for good condition.
I have a pair of lockwire pliers that were pulled from the shop floor due to them being indicated worn during a visual inspection. I still have them 7 years later and they're still the sharpest pliers I own.

As for the traceability from birth, this applies to parts that go on the aircraft not tooling. Tooling traceability you need to know what tool was used if it's required to be calibrated. ie torque wrenches.
I remember a (Raymond Chen?) blog post about network adapters that passed QA testing but would immediately crash when faced with the horrors of the real world network traffic from Microsoft's corporate LAN. :)
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That's only true if people don't want better stuff over time, only larger quantities of exactly the same stuff
I don't, I'm just intrigued at the fact that someone in their 20s is bothered by this. Will this define who you are ? You probably would have worked at a FAANG post Duke as well. I think you wanted some "recognition" from your family ? Is that it ?
I do not condone police escalation and I agree that we have seen examples of indefensible police behavior. But the fact that the "CHAZ security force" -- ostensibly the good guys who hate police violence -- shot two unarmed black boys within a month of being formed makes me skeptical that protestors actually know how to make policing less violent.
Better link with more details: https://www.zdnet.com/article/garmin-services-and-production...

A couple important excerpts (there's a lot more detail in the article):

> ... flyGarmin has also been down today. This is Garmin's web service that supports the company's line of aviation navigational equipment.

Other HN commenters have already elaborated on the implications of that.

> ... while we confirmed that this is a ransomware attack, we could not 100% verify claims that this was caused by WastedLocker.

Garmin hasn't officially commented on the cause, but they did tweet that their call centers are down (https://twitter.com/Garmin/status/1286278816302850048):

> This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for this inconvenience. (2/2)
I think it's important to make it clear when you were against a plan that ended up failing exactly how you said it would. Because otherwise you can end up taking the blame. No one is going to try to pin it back an you as not arguing well enough. If you're not a jerk about being right, it could even benefit you since it will be on peoples' minds to not tune your objections out next time and to listen to your alternatives.
Actually, the button even worked at a distance of a couple of millimeters. I think, the original one was even more sensitive, which was the flaw, as it became too sensitive with time. Think ghostly turning off, while working. The replacement one had none of this issues.

As it happens, the monitors had USB connection and an on/off button on the front bezel, which was much more practical than the one on the main unit. Because of this, I (and probably most of the owners) used the one on top of the Cube rarely. This was more a design gack. But yes, it was definitely a button, while an unusual one.

> It was pretty expensive at the beginning, but IIRC it came down pretty soon.

That might be correct. I didn't buy mine in the very first month.

Another slight flaw: the material of the transparent cables which came with the Cube is subject to chemical decay and turned a bit sticky. Interestingly, the process stopped and even reversed somewhat. Ah, polymers, always worth a surprise…
Exactly! This isn’t WFH. This is “attempt to work as a global pandemic rages.”
> If your past warnings were ignored and you do not feel that there are any politics / biases / prejudices in active play...

Well that just about covers it, dunnit? This should be at the top, not the bottom, of the article. Not all of us are going to suffer bias and prejudice, but boy howdy, if leadership's feelings (aka politics) isn't the primary driver for engineers who say "toldjaso."

But let's talk about that prejudice! As a woman in tech, most often my "toldja" isn't about not making my case. I know this because there are men who will speak up, and repeat my case, and get listened to when I wasn't. And they get the credit! The good ones deflect that credit to me, so I'm allowed to cherish a moment of quiet smugness. Most often, though, it's up to me to kick somebody in the proverbial ankles to remind them that I'm still here, providing value in this specific way.

And to respond to another commenter. If politics is why you aren't getting listened to, leaving is a fine option. If bias and prejudice is the reason, the problem is industry-wide and "just leave" is tantamount to "you people don't belong here." I am not having that.
Not sure about this: a lot of interesting work is just hidden because of NDAs, commercial IP, military, etc. You will never see anything made public until necessary and just the minimum amount required.
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This is precisely my favorite part of SQLite. The constraints (aka lack of features) is what makes it so compelling. We experienced some serious revelations going down this path. The biggest thing from a devops perspective is that you can push very consolidated releases. There is no need to install anything for SQLite to function.

For instance, we use .NET Core Self-Contained Deployments combined with SQLite. As a result, we ship a zip file containing the dotnet build artifacts to a blank windows or linux host and have a working application node within a matter of seconds. The databases will be created and migrated automatically by our application logic, and the host is automatically configured using OS interop mechanisms.

So, when you really look at it, the constraints imposed upon us by SQLite encouraged us to completely sidestep the containerization game. Our "container" is just a single platform-specific binary path that has all of its dependencies & data contained within.

Without SQLite, we would have to have some additional process for every environment that we stand up. This is where the container game starts to come in, and I feel like its a bandaid to a problem that could have been avoided so much further down in the stack (aka SQLite vs MySQL/SQLServer/Postgres). Sure, there are applications where you absolutely must use a hosted solution for one reason or another, but for many (most) others where you do not, it's really the only thing stopping you from having a single process/binary application distribution that is absolutely trivial to install and troubleshoot. You literally just zip up prod bin path and load it on a developer workstation to review damages. 100% of the information you need will be there every time. No trying to log into a SQL server or losing track of which trace folder is for what issue # and sql dump. It keeps things very well organized at all levels. We can just launch the production app with --console to see its exact state at the time of the copy operation and then attach debuggers, etc.
It's difficult to "commit" to something that is clearly and utterly wrong.
That's fair, I didn't make my case very well there.
Agreed, shared, written feedback on a design provides a public record, meaning there is never any need for expressing "I told you so" because the record is there. If you were right about something and your feedback was ignored, it stands there as testament.
Are you in the aviation industry? I am not. So know that what I'm saying is based on low-grade near-zero prior knowledge. Would love to know the certainty on your knowledge.
The objects are shrinking because of the Big Chill. Makes sense.
I wouldn't call it over-engineered, but it certainly is an operational disaster. It's slow, memory hungry, and full of catastrophic bugs.

We are currently replacing it with PostgreSQL to improve performance and scalability.
The Fenix 6 and 945 only support MTP, not mass storage. For those you need a third-party MTP client on macOS such as Android File Transfer.

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> 1. It isn't clear that the (real) cost of essentials like food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education is actually going down significantly.

It is if you think about it. In the 1970s a baby born premature at 28 weeks would have been unlikely to survive. Healthcare quality has increased enormously. If you could get 1980-level healthcare it would cost less of your wage than it did in 1980.

Food, clothing, transport, and heating have unambiguously fallen as a proportion of wages.

Education is perhaps an outlier here. The spiralling cost is usually explained as a zero-sum social signalling mechanism that is super important for life outcomes, and its rising price as being enabled by the falling cost of everything else.
After 25 years of doing this crap, I really think the issue is that no one wants to hear “I told you so” because it undermines the hierarchy of fragile egos hiding all the shit that is on fire.

Say it in your head. When you run out of fingers to count them on, walk out the door.
For those wondering, I just accessed and parsed a .FIT file.

I plugged my watch's charging cable into a USB port on my Linux rig (works the same for windows). Navigated to GARMIN. And immediately saw .FIT files.

To get to your activities, navigate to GARMIN->ACTIVITY. You should be able to see when the files were created, so you can figure out which one you want to view. Each is it's own activity.

Next you need a FIT file parser. I'm a NodeJS guy, so I did an NPM search and found "fit-file-parser". I made a quick project, and wrote out the code necessary.

In all of five minutes I had a JSON object with my run.

Maybe I should engineer a simple, single page HTML app to open, parse, and render the statistics? I feel like when I get done Connect will be back online and this will be an afterthought :P.
Yes, it’s just a variation of don’t confuse the map for the territory, or the more general, don’t confuse the model for reality.
Ahh thanks for clarifying!
This is just an ignorant post. Educate yourself.
> How much these features are worth is subjective

Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes here; when talking about ROI, the numerator and denominator are usually both in dollars.

If I'm pitching Lilium to some VCs, I'd model out the cost of researching, developing, and building the fleet ("I"), and the revenue I hope to generate in a given timeframe ("R"). After adjusting for the risk of failure, if that ROI is higher than what you can get with other investments, the ROI is, in the relative sense "good". If it's worse than putting your dollars into treasury bonds, it's "bad".

Paraphrasing, your arguments earlier in this thread were that investing in aviation is brave, because the ROI on those investments is bad, because it's expensive to certify new inventions. I certainly agree that it's expensive to build a plane, or even add features to a plane, and even more expensive to build and certify a new plane. But that doesn't mean it's bad ROI. The return generated by building expensive things can be astronomical; see military and aerospace contractors taking in multi-billion dollar contracts with very healthy profits, for example. There should be clear numbers behind this; how many aviation startups succeeded in the last N years? How many folded? That would be the objective analysis I'm looking for when talking about ROI on investments in aviation companies.

Maybe that's not the point you were intending to make; perhaps you're just talking about the ROI for an individual buying a plane, rather than a business operating a fleet (like Lilium in the OP)? But if that's what you mean by ROI, then I don't think that is particularly relevant to investors; they are interested in ROI in the sense I outlined above.
Could you please elaborate on that thought. Because I haven't understood this idea entirely i think. It has always been, maybe because of chemistry, or because of equations, or because of the idea of equivalent exchange, that if it is a finite resource, then the allocation between to independent parties is zero sum. Unless they collaborate together, in which case, it's still zero sum, but rather of a dynamic nature where the possession of the finite resource sways between the two parties over time and no one is in actual abundance of the resource.

I will really appreciate if you could provide more insight on your understanding.
Thanks! I will definitely have to research this.
> Apple is not paying VAT, the consumer are paying for it.

This has nothing to do with what kind of tax it is.

If the company lacks competition then the price they can charge is the total value of the product to the customer. In that case any kind of tax is going to get paid by the company, because the customer won't pay any more than they already do or it's not worth buying the product anymore.

If the company is in a competitive market then they have thin margins and any tax is going to be paid by the customer because the company has no choice but to pass it on or go out of business.

If the company has some competition but not very rigorous (i.e. like Apple) then some of the tax is paid by the company and some by the customer, but it still doesn't matter what kind of tax it is.

> VAT is VAT, it is different. Apple needs to paid revenue tax.

This is just inaccurate. VAT and "revenue tax" are effectively equivalent. They may differ in some implementation details but not in anything fundamental.
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I subscribe to some of aspects of classical liberalism, and the Economist was a must read for me during years.

It explains good ideas, but I would notice a strange formulaic structure they often used. Many poor-quality articles were subtitled "A [paradigm/company/event] brings [boon], but [caveat]".
They might use a Windows PC as their client, but they can easily develop & deploy on something else. VirtualBox is free, as are Ubuntu & Fedora. Deploying Rails apps to systems like Heroku is worlds easier than a typical Windows deploy.

I don't think Linux throws off many people. For many people that is the future. I've written batch scripts & worked around Windows nonsense, and Linux is generally a better experience. Middle schoolers don't seem have problems using Raspberry Pis running Linux.
I actually had no idea that existed. Can you pause a game on your PC and resume it on your phone? Or what mobile hardware does it use?
Having worked on some SLAM algorithms, it's important to make a prediction, then perform an action, then measure the results against the expected results.

This process provides data and feedback about the accuracy of your model. If you ignore past predictions, you gain little insight and repeat the same erroneous process.
Police violence has (probably) been increasing for years

From what I've gathered, police violence has likely decreased at least compared to 50 years ago. I would argue fewer incidents, but much more publicity around them.

It wasn't unusual in the least for cops to rough up a suspect. Disrespect the police, well, you'll get a good beating because you're a criminal and no one will believe you.

This video about "Whistling Smith", a Vancouver cop in the 70's was really eye opening for me.[1]. Look at his interactions, you think that would fly today?

Same thing with this quote from a cop investigating biker gangs in Quebec in the 90's.

"Don't forget this before the Charter of Rights. You saw a guy walking up the street in his colors, you kicked the shit out of him, and that was it".[110] Bouchard argued that the "old school" methods of beating up outlaw bikers were far preferable to modern policing methods as outlaw bikers only respect violence.[2]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5oYz6uufU
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Boucher