skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But really I don't see why you need either system. Why not a system where nobody has these unfair special privileges?

I guess I tend to think that a reconstructed meritocracy would be precisely such a system -- genuine equality of opportunity, as an ideal constantly striven for and with far more pressure applied to actually have it realized, even if it never purely is -- and that there would be no real alternative means of realizing this in practice. (Reconstructed meritocracy would in my view require remediation of unfair special privileges for coherence.)

I completely agree re: the problems of the current meritocracy and its deployment in illegitimate self-justification, and accentuation thereof -- having been a grad student / instructor at a "fancy" school, for instance, I've seen the awarding of an A- as the mean and mode grade (the modern incarnation of the "gentleman's C", at least outside of STEM subjects, i.e. an average performance earns the second-highest possible grade) defended on the logic that it's "really, really hard to get in" to this school, so any undergrad student who meets the bare minimum requirements of the course must be deserving of an A-. It's heinous and unfair. But without meritocracy, it would be worse, as this would be a scenario in which there's not even a need to defend the unearned grade; rather, it would simply be "the way things are" -- hence the use of the term "gentleman" (i.e. someone from the "correct" socioeconomic background/family/etc.) in the original phrase. (And yes, maybe grade inflation wouldn't happen without the sinister side of our present "meritocracy," but "gentleman's C"s didn't stand in the way of many elites who got them and went on to wield considerable power and authority.)

It's a complicated issue, to be sure, and much depends on how one defines one's terms, but I guess the bottom-line for me is, without meritocracy there's no need to "show your work": it's simply accepted that some people have access to power and others don't. In the early 20th century, if you told someone you went to a fancy school, they'd probably say "You must be rich" rather than "You must be smart." Today they'd say the latter, even though the former is often true, and the latter often not. But before the advent of even this flawed meritocracy, the person who went to the fancy school would still have unquestioned access to power in a way that even smart poor people wouldn't, even if everyone knew it was unearned.
It wouldn't have to be every day; it'd save 1hr+ over driving or train; many people in the Bay Area market for this have an effective rate of compensation over $100/hour.

With sufficiently-enlightened regulation (for which I wouldn't hold my breath), these could run, for example, from the rooftops of Google buildings in Mountain View to the rooftops of their Embarcadero-SF building. Or downtown Palo Alto to a downtown SF pier. Etc.

If physically possible, safe, & available for the prices they're claiming, this would have a big market. And, competitors, like the Larry Page-backed 'Kitty Hawk': https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/06/04/larry-pa...
It would be incredibly expensive to do anything ambitious with machines. Right now we have a multi billion dollar rover attempting to dig a tiny hole on Mars, and it’s been failing for two years.

By comparison sending hundreds of tons of supplies and dozens of astronauts using three Starships will likely cost less than that single rover did.
You should check out projects made for Deno[1]. It's a new promising. It's like Node, but it runs TypeScript natively. One thing that will dictate the success of this project is if the community can migrate Node's ecosystem into Deno. There's plenty of projects being built for Deno.

[1]: https://deno.land/
Ok. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the author. Let's take those quotes in context from the conclusion of the article:

"There are numerous factors that overstate and understate the actual number of unemployed, and we’re not able to pin them all down. I mentioned seasonal adjustments as one of those factors.

But there are also fraudulent claims that overstate claims data. And then there are claims that have been denied for various reasons, often due to mismatched information from the employer that take weeks or months to sort out. And they would understate unemployment. Then there are states that still don’t process all federal claims. And even states that do process them, do so inconsistently. Then there are people who don’t qualify for unemployment insurance, and when they lose their work, they don’t count here at all.

But give or take maybe 1 million people, the total number of unemployed still hovers around 32 million. That’s the number to go by, not the fallen-off-the-cliff nonsense produced these days by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its now ludicrously distorted survey-based jobs report."

I take "there are also fraudulent claims that overstate claims data" to mean that some non-zero number of "fraudulent claims" presumably are counted in the set of all unemployment claims, and that this is one of several subtleties in the data that might contribute to marginally both under- and over-reporting.

It seems to me that BLS is just one of the reporting entities, and that the survey results they provide are regarded by the author as incomplete an unreliable self-report, but not that all of the various sources are providing unreliable data (although it’s not clear exactly how it is all collated). Is that incorrect?
I'm tired of this argument that any order given by law enforcement should be assumed to be a legal order and one should just comply or face consequences. That would have such a chilling effect on the exercise of rights. Cops don't like what you're saying? Even if they have no legal reason to prevent you saying it? Just demand you disperse and now they can beat you, arrest you, ruin your life with impunity.

Oh, they happened to be wrong? Well, that's for the courts to decide later. Meanwhile, you've already been beaten, arrested, possibly lost your job, missed important events with your family, etc.

The whole idea that people should just comply with LEO commands and let the courts figure out later if the LEO were wrong completely misses the fact that the consequences for the LEO being wrong in their issued commands are trivial compared to the consequences for most people in complying with those commands.
Yes, some locales pin the crime specifically on _distribution_ of copyrighted material. Downloading or possessing aren't restricted in the same fashion.
> I have seen very wealthy people lose it all due to laziness and worldliness and I have seen very poor people become successful despite many roadblocks

Everyone knows about anecdotes like this. The real question is: how many rich people lose everything (especially the ones born into wealth)? How many extremely poor people move up a lot? You'll see that these are exceptions rather than a common event.
The article mentions that big corporate tech departments are just moving their operations to Indie - like Walmart has Walmart Labs in India, despite having no retail business there.
I Hate the Giving Tree
I've read many of his essays on inequality and generally he over simplifies the economics and social issues involved so much it's almost impossible to critcise it. His style is so vague on these matters I'm not surprised he gets so much backlash. It's not good writing to be purposefully ambiguous.
I learned many years ago that auto theft is almost 100% committed by a very tiny fraction of the overall population.

Probably same phenomenon here. Small # of people doing this. I'm hopeful Amazon does not go easy on these people. The numbers are likely in their favor even if they decided to take every single one of those cases to court.
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> Of course, NIST compliance is a circus.

The problem is when customers start demanding it. Then you don't really have much of a choice. Especially when your competitors are offering it – what is the more successful sales strategy – try to convince the customer they don't really need what they think they need, or just give them what they want? You'll win more deals with the second approach than the first.

That doesn't mean you can't use NIST-unapproved algorithms that are technically superior to the NIST-approved ones. You can just have some "NIST mode" (or "FIPS mode" to use the older terminology) that you can turn on for those customers that ask for it, and then only NIST-approved algorithms get used for those customers. (It is more than just the choice of algorithms, you also need to have a certified implementation – in Java, one can replace BouncyCastle with BouncyCastle FIPS, and then have a flag to turn on approved mode for the instance; once in approved mode, use of non-certified algorithms is blocked.)
Will people like your game if it's ugly?
You have a fantastic engine.

When I was young, it was guaranteed that a lifter would let loose just before you picked up your date on Saturday night if you had not “run the valves” in the past month.

Clack-clack-clack-clack-...

Date: Why does your car sound like it’s broken?

Me: <mutter>
I had assumed this was common knowledge that this occurred. We used to experience returns like this all of the time that Amazon would accept up-front before acceptance by our warehouse. >$200 chargers returned in original boxes containing $10 chargers. There have been other stories of iphone boxes full of playdough or just anything that would weight roughly the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are other 3rd party fulfillment providers that rather than dealing with having had this pushed on them by Amazon, they just put that return back on the shelf and they get shipped out to other customers.
For the company in India? Definitely.
He is arguably a minor celebrity because of the number of followers he has and level of influence.

Come on - if the New York Times is writing about your blog then you're obviously, anonymous or not, a "public figure", though perhaps a minor one.

Also until we know what the article is - it's actual contents - how can we know if the name is relevant or not?
This is really big deal IMO, but perhaps for a reason not directly mentioned in the article and for which you have to realize something about India. Progress in India is usually quite slow (and far slower if you compare to places like US or China). But once there is one shining example, then (partly because of the competition, partly because of the numbers of people) the momentum is strong and only gets larger.

This is potentially one of those events and has the potential to catalyze high end devices manufacturing in India leading to other second order effects of expertise in other hardware manufacturing. Looking forward to the innovation and confidence this unlocks.
I think one component is 5 years ago there was little reason to doubt the official BLS numbers or even most reports from the federal government like FBI crime statistics. The official/headlining unemployment rates have always been based on data points that were not ideal or have evolved and need review. For example, the debate between U-2 and U-6 rates as the goto number in a post 2008 crisis economy to better count under-employment or those working 2-3 jobs or gig roles. Maybe we do need to overhaul reporting and weight given to certain unemployment types to align with these changes. Any updates need to be reviewed, tracked, and rolled out slowly as the monthly reports carry a huge impact.

The recent big change change is, of course, an administration that will replace career non partisan officials with yes men loyalists or simply comment on and politicise things that were left apolitical. You can see this most egregiously early on with how FBI crime data was withheld to (maybe) further political goals. Instead of letting the experts create and send out reports on the same data points as the last decade for easy comparison, or working on changes based on their expert decisions and long term studies, we have departments driven by optics and value or loyalty to the president above all else.

Has this impacted BLS and BLS data? I'm not sure. Has this corroded trust and reliability of BLS and other government reports? I'd say yes, absolutely. It took lawsuits by media to reveal who got PPP loans, trillions of taxpayer dollars, with millions going to administration friends and even cabinet members. It took lawsuits to get the same FBI crime data we got under Obama. Who is to say we don't need to sue BLS for the underlying data they report on to confirm it lines up?

As far as I know from my studies in economics and rabid news reading over the last decade, the BLS has never been a political department or had their reports used as more than statistics by the president. It has not had numbers criticized or called wrong by the president. It has been a wonderfully data oriented group left independent like the Fed. Trump has been unprecedented in his attacks against his own government. He also pulled a 180 after the election, railing on Obama for jobs numbers that were, of course, perfect once Trump was sworn in or vice versa.

U-3 vs U-6 unemployment: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-...

Trump and the BLS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/trump-mov...

Changes to FBI reporting: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-first-fbi-crime-rep...

PPP data lawsuits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/sba-foia-...
Exactly. Power is power, whether it’s wielded by a government or a company. Money buys governments and elites give favourable conditions to their friends’ companies. This problem is not exactly new either, it was already the case e.g. with the East India Company and its equivalents (not to single out the English).
The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams
Hi Adnan. Unfortunately I'm only familiar with the situation in the U.S. Pakistan may have different agricultural practices and a different funding landscape. Here are a few links about the motivation and current state of the art if you want to read more.

[0]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5967/818

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pce.12107

[2]: https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/66/18/5429/482901

[3]: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S13601385110020...

[4]: http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.114.243519

There is a ton of software-oriented work involved, from robotics and embedded devices in the field, to data engineering (containerizing and automating pipelines in grid, cloud, and HPC environments), to web development (creating research portals), to simulation of growth processes and modeling yield as a function of genetic/physiological/environmental factors, etc. Python is very widely used for all of the above. Go not as much, but Singularity (Docker for HPC, basically) is written in Go iirc.

If you want to discuss more let me know and I'll contact you directly.
I am not sure the manned/unmanned distinction is applicable to life evolved on other planets… especially since it must be much more advanced than us.
Spain's government is socialist + communist.
This doesn't disprove anything of what I said. Effort is a component, but it is a small component compared to other external reasons.
>all the stations in Antarctic are on the ice actually

Many of the ones on the peninsula are built on land with some open to visitors!

[0]http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica-2/living-and-wor...
Agree 100%.

No argument that RISC-V is both interesting and has a lot of value. Just not that enthused by the "a new golden age" and "will eventually supplant x86 and ARM" commentary being presented (primarily) on the basis of ISA customisation without a broader discussion of the pros and cons and wider market issues.
It shouldn't be that bad. How much RAM in the machine? Is virtual memory enabled? What OS version? What disk is it booting from? With what disk driver? Which two apps? (Some, like Photoshop, have their own Scratch Disk settings). Is enough RAM allocated to each of them (in 'Get Info'), etc etc. This is a pretty deep rabbit hole.

It's an environment that takes a while to know the ins-and-outs of, but it's also very fun and incredible hackable in ways no OS could be these days. The Wallstreet is a fantastic computer, one of the best Powerbooks ever made. Try it with Mac OS 8.6, at least 64MB RAM (128MB even better), RAMDoubler 8 or 9 with compression disabled (it has a better VM system than built-in), on a mSATA SSD in a JM20330 ATA/mSATA adapter, with the boot partition under 8GB (ATA-5 limitation) using either Apple's Disk Utility driver or Lacie Silverlining 6 if you're feeling adventurous :)

edit: Unless your MIL was unfortunate enough to own the first (non-"PDQ") 233mhz model with no L2 cache, in which case yes it really is that bad lol https://lowendmac.com/1999/cacheless-mainstreet-powerbook-g3...
Thanks! Did not see it earlier; you can find the code on GitHub: https://github.com/Pseudomanifold/hugo-purus

Feel free to reach out with any questions you might have!
Really, the company doesn't need to do anything since US immigration doesn't apply. What's the job and what's your educational background?
This is what PEOs exist to support. Here's an example: [1]

[1] https://peoworldwide.com
> Of course it still had the factory inspected seal though bc amazon drones dgaf.

Given the purported working conditions in their warehouses, is it that much of a surprise?
When developing nations that are primarily known for their cheap products start creating competitive high quality products what happens is that they start charging just as much as every other developed nation. That same dynamic plays out with Indian software developers.

If they can deliver X amount of value they can also charge X for their service. This means if you hire an Indian for $10 an hour you're going to get value equivalent to $10.

Since productivity per member drops as you increase team size you can't just hire a bigger team to get yourself out of this problem. The true number of developers that your project needs is probably constant and quite low.

If you hire cheaper but less experienced developers then it might simply take 6 times longer to finish the project than if you had hired an Indian developer that charges $60 per hour. This is usually where the project fails. Managers expect the project to be done in 6 months but this estimate is based on competent developers with 3 years of experience, not beginners who are working on their first project and first need to gather 3 years of experience to adequately finish the project.

Really the only way you can get a real bargain is by hiring someone, letting them gain experience without giving them a raise. The difference between market rate and actual developer salary is where you save the most money. The tricky part is creating a environment in which people want to stay.
As an Aussie, this hilariously augments a phrase used commonly here: "Bob's your uncle"

(meaning roughly: "and there it is" / "and there you have it")

Even more hilariously, I have an uncle Bob.
Why do you have to be so rude? You didn't mention anything about PARTIAL GCH1 deficiency, and the ref you give is a from a single patient. The condition discussed in the article (DRD) affects one in a million people according to the NIH.
They selectively allow domains depending on how closely the newsletter aligns to their particular vision of publishing.
Reuters dropped their RSS feed a few weeks ago. Felt like a milestone.
Flying a single person or two, with VTOL? That's an incredibly high expenditure of energy per person-meter traveled. Much higher than regular aviation, which itself requires a lot of energy.

Considering the prospects for decreasing availability of fossil fuel, and questions of climate impact, it seems to me that this is not sustainable on a mass scale, at all. I would guess this initiative will either become an alternative for the very-rich to using helicopters, or not get off the ground.

(... ok, that pun was a little underhanded, I admit.)
I would argue the friends spin is probably more reliable, depending on the friend of course, as at least they would not be motivated by ratings or money and probably are not intentionally trying to cultivate any certain biased viewpoint in you.
I was staggered by how much adjustment was required when watching CuriousMarc's excellent Model 19 restoration series, seems incredibly finicky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NuvwndwYSY&list=PL-_93BVApb...
I think your question is simply explained by the fact that the universe initially expanded much faster than the speed of light. Then it slowed down. The light has had time (12 billion years) to catch up.
Structural racism often means there is no one person to blame - there's not going to be a person we can hold up and say, "Here's the racist!" This was a racist outcome because the students, staff and parents in the minority school weren't in-the-know. Why weren't they in-the-know? Probably for racist reasons going back decades.
It’s not years, it’s “cycles” take-off/landing with pressurized passenger compartment in-between.

And it’s not often the wings fall off, but the tail does, or sometimes a huge hole opens in the “skin” of the airframe.

Example: Aloha Airlines Flight 243
And you know the checklist for forced off-airport landings at night?

1. Airspeed - SET

2. Fuel Valve - OFF

3. At 100 ft: Landing Lights - ON

4. If you don't like what you see: Landing Lights - OFF
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How do they do refactors and dependency upgrades safely? Just a really strong unit testing culture, specialized tooling or <something else>?
Questions a founder should ask a VC from a former YC founder turned investor
Me too. In fact i think we regressed, and we 'll look back to our oversaturated social media decade with disbelief. UXLRBAT will be nothing like it.

Side note, i think this total centralization business has a LOT to do with the dominance of mobile. There is an uptick of PC sales which is being accelerated by COVID, and people are already talking about going back to running their own services/blogs/whatever. I'll be glad to see the battery-dependent cloud overlords stepping back a little.
France outlawed slavery in 1315 (later leaders undid this, but it was illegal for a time). Spain did as well in the 1500s. The Catholic Church condemned the slave trade in the 1600s.

So by the time the "non-conformists" were openly discussing whether or not slavery should be banned, the Conformists (the catholic church) had already stated it was bad.

> The fact that these countries are undemocratic unenlightened Arabs is also not a coincidence (Arabs seem to have an extra cultural level of racist arrogance, over and above the intolerance of other Muslims in non-Arab countries, such as, say, Iran or Indonesia).

Yiiiiiiiiiikes.
Keep in mind that the book that is from, Humankind, while a hope filled book (I enjoyed it thoroughly), makes the point that when we get together, the bonds between people can lead them to do horrendous things to others. Our power to cooperate is our superpower and our kryptonite.
Not at all - grep piped to jq works like a charm - I have made reports using that in the CLI wrapped in a Makefile that were exec friendly. And there are other tools like gron for example.

And if you are building something serious and with some sort of scale then you will need to have something like ELK stack anyway to aggregate and display data - there is no getting away from that.

Working with unstructured logs however is a mess. Perl / Awk helps of course but it is a lot of extra effort. And in the end, at scale you will just be writing those scripts to turn that mess into structured data to feed into that same ELK stack anyway.