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Oh, you mention that Amazon's prices are not low, and they are the same everywhere. I missed that part.

I don't buy on amazon very much, and I'm in Canada. But I don't see prices lower than Amazon frequently. Usually on other huge companies like best-buy or walmart. But they usually offer the same return policy and I'm pretty sure they face the same kind of scams.

But hey, that's my experience. You might have experienced something very different.
This looks really impressive, do you have any writeup on how you coded all of it?
Frankly speaking, each country gets what it deserves. I'm sure there are some Hungarians who are opposed to the current government but majority seem to be just fine with ' It's all Soros' fault' or 'Screw the EU'. Back at home,a few years ago, people decided that it's a good idea to give majority to the party that mainly consists of millionaire farmers, who barely pay minimum wages. And people were stupid enough to say things like: ' they'll increase income for everyone and etc.'. It's like we are walking into some high end spaceship and some guys are concerned where they've left their pitchforks... People also seem to be happy buying some 3rd class newspapers writing crap instead of trying to read at least a bit of investigative journalism. Maybe this is the time where it all goes down to shit for 20-30 years and then it will get better again. Europe especially can't seem to have normal life for too long.
Because if you believe in it gives you the comfort of not having to care about long term sustainability on earth. It's one of the many facets of the "tech will fix everything" people.

What life do you want to live, the "we're slowly fucking up the only hospitable place humanity will ever step foot on" or the "we'll be sipping UBI financed mojitos with Musk on Mars by 2050" ?
Not totally sure why, but I've been enjoying newsletters (though none of the paid via Substack) a lot more lately. The constant flow of news via HN, Twitter, etc. results in a kind of information overload and it's quite easy to just scroll on to the next item. While newsletters are essentially just 'more information', perhaps there's something about a curated set of information that (presumably) has some more thought put into it than the click of a retweet button that makes it more appealing to more completely ingest and engage with.
Agree, but it still has another side: when me and a number of co-workers choose to be mostly in the office, you get some form of discrimination. The people in the room get my full, almost undivided attention, while all remote people get a time share.

How long before this discrimination will be considered unacceptable and all "offline" communications will be frowned upon, so to speak?
Thanks.

“Common knowledge” of history (ancient and recent) differs vastly from country to country. In Norway, we basically just learn of USA that it’s the country that turns the tide of war whenever it enters; for which we learn of two occasions: 1st and 2nd WW; not much else.

Pardon my english.
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By successful scientist he means someone who changes a scientific paradigm, creates a new field, or really pushes the field forwards. Incremental discoveries are not under this umbrella
No, it hasn't. Because that's a made up narrative.

Please show me video of police purposefully brutalizing non-violent protesters who behave sensibly (maybe you can learn how to spell protester while you're at it).

I've watched pretty much all of them and the cases of protesters being hurt always involves in some way being a part of the violent protest group, being intermixed with the violent protesters, or refusing to follow police orders during the clearing of unlawful gatherings (which only happens after violent rioting).

Even that older man who got his head cracked open from falling, decided to ignore orders to vacate and instead got into the face of a riot cop and reached for the cops belt.

I have seen zero videos of cops just randomly going off on groups of protesters walking down the street peacefully. Although CNN/MSNBC/etc will ALWAYS edit the video to begin with the police jumping on some person, when you look at the full video, it ALWAYS starts with the person doing something violent, illegal, or stupid.

BTW I'm also sure that SOMETIMES police do do unacceptable things (Floyd) and the criminal court system is absolute garbage, but your BS narrative that PEACEFUL protesters are just getting smashed as a matter of course is pure fiction.
Yes, the membership fee is a bit annoying but I paid because my girlfriend and I were planning on volunteering abroad - then the pandemic hit.

So I haven't actually done one of these workaways.

> it seems they do not handle payments between users

Most of the offerings you will find on there will only provide you with housing, maybe food, in exchange for labour. Some do pay, but I strongly suspect that it is in cash.
I've seen this a lot with clothing/footwear. Things like logos that used to be stiched on are now printed, material type will change, etc. Some of these don't really matter (like logos) but are easily noticed and indicative of design changes you don't see.
Many would just need, at least me, a decent salary for sustaining comfortably (in my case that would be fine in just 50% of my CTC or even less) but a stellar medical insurance (yeah, I want that covered!) and work-life balance which also includes being treated and respected as a human being.
>But this happening in an EU country, in a democracy.

Not anymore. Freedom House classifies Hungary as a "Transitional or Hybrid Regime".
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No real movement on this as far as I am aware. But what has been proposed would completely transform the U.S. immigration system.
That's the problem with trying to dig into a tweet. It's not that deep. It can't be. It's just a virtual bumper sticker.
TLDR of the article is American / European companies creating in-house Indian offices and moving away from "consultancies".

I whole heartedly agree to the huge advantages you get doing this. You have better control over hiring quality talent, more focused developers who develop institutional knowledge over time, much easier to scale up/down than the contracts with these consultancies and so on.....

Outside IT, I can confirm the same tree has been happening from my industry of Oil & Gas consultancy. Many American / European oil & gas consultancies now have Indian engineering centres employing chemical / mechanical / civil / electrical / instrumentation engineers.

It is easy to setup this over here. Everyone is welcome.
Humans will be long extinct in 500 million years. That's not really something we need be planning for.
What I struggle with when it comes to claims of {whatever group} bias as a cause (the correlation is easy, but I stress "cause") for why any given industry or sector of the economy doesn't represent a desired mix of group attributes is this: There are millions or even tens of millions of actors involved in these economic models and if group attribute bias is driving these hiring or promotion or pay decisions then that means, by definition, that the motivation of bias is overriding the motivation to optimize for value (whether it be NOI for a mature business or speed of market capture for a new one).

So what I don't get is, if everything else is equal between two candidates except for a) their contribution to value and b) their group attribute, how is it that so many actors choose b and leave a on the table thus knowingly performing poorer for shareholders and risking failure at the hands of competition purely because of a group attribute bias?

I get that there would be some actors that would choose bias over value. But how is that no one break ranks. Wouldn't there have to be a massive amount of collusion and coordination to make sure that every founder and manager from every entity all agrees to do this? Because anyone that breaks from the mold would end up benefiting financially.

I get that this perspective undermines the popular narrative, so go ahead and down vote if you think my intention is to do that. But that's not my intention. What I'm looking for is a rational description of how the economic mechanics work with a popular narrative about bias against what is also a popular narrative that humans are greedy?
Yes, seeing the keys at the bottom make me want so badly for them to be clickable and play notes. Maybe even bind them to

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> I believe that is a video of an informant extraction.

It could very well be but it isn't an isolated thing (as far as I can tell) and it's in line with everything that happened in the last weeks/months in the US.

In absence of any proofs I wouldn't side with the law enforcement by default, but you're right to question it.
I don't believe in the idea of a true meritocracy because not only does every system have different things to merit and because often we can't define what those merits should be. Though as someone stated in another comment this isn't all or nothing anyway and the concept of merit can and has been useful at various levels.

That said I do believe that making things more equal inherently requires you to re-evaluate how you value people and makes you lean towards things of substance from a person (though what is of substance is still abstract and varied) and less the superficial ques we very very heavily rely on now such as wealth status, school, profession etc etc.

Edit: Cleaned up the first paragraph I had rolled two separate thoughts into one run on.
Well, I'm guessing this whole conversation them hinges on what we mean by "informed."

I'm doubting that a person could be well-informed by what's going on recently with the Trump adminstration, or BLM protests, or recent Covid news, from reading books alone.

I'm guessing that people who don't read the news might respond that the latest scandal from the government isn't important, and why they stopped reading the news.

At which point, "informed" might simply mean "the things I know about, because I think they're important."
2 sentence Summary:

1) “Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.“

2) “Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false.”

Wait, what? The first “the world should be run” is one hell of a thing. But how did the author get to the rest? So, not only should the world be run, but it can be run and in such a controlled manner that and all luck is squeezed out of it and most people believe this.

Reminds me of my teanage self thinking about the world after a progressive teacher introduced the subject in class - the reasoning is so simplistic and pedantic. But here it is, published in the Princeton press!?!
Great idea though.
Seems like a long winded and sanctimonious way of saying that models are simpler than the reality that they mimic.

Bears in woods and catholic popes come to mind.
>The impression I have is that their business model is geared towards building one thing, learning one technology, and then exploiting it for as long as possible with minimal evolution. This is fine if you don't need the software to evolve, but most business applications do need to evolve even if slower than at a start-up or FAANG.

This, I think, is why companies like Wipro and TCS dominate in traditional financial companies like big banks where stability and security are emphasized more than innovation and feature development. I've seen Java apps running on RHEL5 as recently as 2 years ago.
I doubt a high percentage includes outright bigots and morons. The way I see it, it's opinions such as disagreement with ACAB movement, viewing looters as fundamentally doing more harm then good, and other sensitive topics such as affirmative action damaging the "out of fashion" minorities such as Asian Americans. People are careful not to speak loudly about these opinions due to the fear that they're in the minority and will be branded as the enemy of the modern day "progressives".
Kind of like the Twentieth Anniversary Mac before it in terms of having more style than substance.
As someone else here asked:
What happens when you're building an improved version of something that already exist?

I am currently building an android app that already a lot of competition.

Some of these competitors have in-app purchases and some have a separate paid app version .

so the product idea itself is essentially validated - a nice chunk of people are willing to pay for it.
The pictures are pretty cool. It looks like the cabin of the kharkov II is significantly less insulated than the crew space? The hatch between the two looks as thick as the "external" doors (actual door and transmission hatch). I was also surprised to hear the windows are only double-paned in kharkov, and it doesn't look like model II is any better.

Understandable but a bit sad to see how decayed they got, especially if they're still in somewhat active use.
> "This dynamic requires a fifth state in Graham's admirably simple 2x2 grid. We need to recognize people that can be defiant non-conformists when the moment presents itself..."

to be aggressively non-conformist, that's the critical mistake pg makes: we're dynamic, complicated creatures embedded in an infinitely complex system. who we are in a given moment is not who we are at another moment. to define ourselves as "being" one type or the other is a gross error of static categorization. we're each of them at different moments in our lives, frittering among them, and beyond them, constantly.

put succinctly: fuck labels.

that's not to say the conceptual framework isn't useful, but his static application of it is in error.
Pardon my rudeness, but this seems like a sloppy question, coming from a programmer (which is not a good sign): is the work you're being given less critical? Calls for more or less care? Is or isn't more difficult, or requires more background knowledge?
If you're being given tasks reducing difficult tech debt that may mean you're more highly valued even if the spotlight isn't on you, for example.
But don't worry about other's opinions, get precise, disambiguate your speech and your code, write precise solid code and let 'em discover your merits.
Is this open source as well? I was thinking about self hosting it when you mentioned it last time in some other threads.
Curious - people have long drawn parallels between Apple and Nintendo's aesthetics for hardware and strategy, but I never realized how close the G4 Cube (July 2000) was to the Nintendo GameCube (September 2001). I still think the GameCube is the most aesthetically pleasing console.
That's the eventual fate of the oil that's most costly to extract, like the Canadian tar sands.

But as long as you can extract it at a profit, people will do just that.
A corollary is that if you do have to write a long email, try to start it off with a short, 1-2 sentence intro paragraph that piques interest and pulls people in to the rest of the text.

Even better, try to keep all the paragraphs as short as possible. Each paragraph has two jobs: to convey some information, and to convince the reader to keep going to the next paragraph.

Done right, you can get someone to read a long text without it feeling like they read a lot, because you kept them curious about what comes next the whole way through.

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of this technique. The vast majority his paragraphs are very short. It's almost like prose poetry. You (semi-consciously) keep thinking "I'll just read a few more lines" until you look up after 4 hours and realize you're just a few pages from the end of a 300 page novel.

So it goes.
I switched from 1Password to Bitwarden and could not be happier.
Absolutely! I didn't intend to give the impression they weren't providing a service for that fee, but meant it in relation to skybrian's comment about "what else you need to set up and how much they charge".

The type of service offered by the $50/month GMB fee is designed to engender consumer confidence. As that Google Guaranteed status starts to propagate, companies showing up without it will start to be at a distinct disadvantage from the ones that do show it in their listings.

Scaling up the enhanced/paid GMB profiles at the same time as announcing the open and commission-free product listings is likely not a coincidence. The product listing change will result an accelerating need to adopt that paid GMB service as a baseline requirement in order to remain competitive.
Thanks, that was insightful and encouraging.
Pretty much what everyone in the tech industry has been doing for years. Better to have your own overseas office where you can control the hiring bar and talent vs making consultancies rich. The big consultancies are more concerned with draining value from clients and treating them like cash cows instead of delivering value.

That being said, probably the real solution is SAAS.
Not yet, but that's something I can put together!

There are a lot of short cuts I wish I'd known at the outset, mostly in terms of curating training data and monitoring the learning, but I also learned a few new systems-y things from the overall engineering project.
My experience is that customers/executives will accept latency but not inaccuracy. In practice this may be the same thing, it just depends how you position it. “Reports are accurate but may be up to 5 minutes out of date” is a very easy sell to a corporate worker who logs in to check a dashboard once a month.

Primary/replica is probably the correct way to solve this. In some places, I have also shunted writes through SQS queues, which in practice protects us from a locking operation in one place impacting other operations in a customer-facing way. I don’t think this is strictly necessary but it is a nice technical guard against the sociological problem of a contractor merging code like that. They don’t feel the pain of locks gone bad because they (per contract) can’t be on call.
Ask HN: What personal knowledge base software do you use?
I work in a heavily regulated industry with obscure, seemingly arbitrary rule sets. This translates into an incredibly complex domain model that is too big to fit into a single brain (mine at least).

I'm looking for some type of knowledge base that can help me map out and document my discoveries. Here's a short list of features I'm after:

- fast search
- visual linking of topics
- ability to add images via paste
- links update if a topic is renamed/moved
- change tracking/revisions
- non-proprietary or at least a data export
- bonus points if open source

Is anyone using a knowledge base like I described?
To add to this DACA could have been repealed in the recent SCOTUS ruling but due to improper legal proceedure it wasnt cancelled. I don't know if anything else would threaten DACA.
The USCIS furlough has been postponed to August 31.

https://www.wcax.com/2020/07/24/leahy-uscis-furloughs-postpo...
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>Except the reforms were not reasonable.

So the optimal option would've been to leave Greece to its own devices?
Q1) Yes. Q2) No different from the sponsorship requirements for someone in another status. The issues are around the timing of the filing and international travel after the filing.
This is why I still own most of the vehicles I've purchased over the last 30 years. It is much cheaper to replace worn parts, ideally before they fail, than it is to replace the entire vehicle. I have the skillsets needed to maintain my own equipment and the tools so I just monitor the operating condition of each and replace or repair things as needed.

These planes have regular maintenance checks and diagnostics to help identify issues before they become catastrophic failures. This whole thing is likely a normal maintenance issue, maybe unexpected due to the unusual nature of the scenario they face with so many idle jets, but not something that would have escaped their servicing routines. The system flagged a problem and now they can address it. If for some reason their diagnostics were not set up to detect this sort of issue then you have a problem.
Let me sharpen the dilemma: Are some people better than others, or not?
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One of the reason is because we like “new” things. Human tend to be attracted towards new vs old. I notice myself often less wanting to click on a news in HN that is not new.
that's a weird in-between two more popular ways of doing it.

The non-precise way you've already heard about, sheet of paper, check for dragging.

The better (more precise) way, is using a magnetic base micrometer attached to your extruder head. You can then watch the bed run-out in real time; if your 3d printer supports many configurable sections across the bed ( I know Prusa style cartesian units mostly all support quadrants) you can record the run out everywhere across the plane without any more physical work than watching the gauge and recording the results.

P.S. be careful using both the micrometer and the feeler gauges on a 3d printer bed. Most work plates now-a-days are using PEI coatings that'll scrape off easily with metal-on-metal contact.
Ah interesting. This makes me wonder if now is the optimal time to try this given that going back to Canada is less appealing.

It's also interesting that your friend managed to stay in the country despite his i-94 running out. I didn't think that could be done.

This gives me a lot to think about, thanks!
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I think what a lot of people are missing in the comments when they say "I bought <product> from <brand> not a third party..." is that for new products the 'seller name' you're buying from does not correspond to which box you get off the shelf. It's called co-mingled inventory--Amazon doesn't track which box you (as seller) sent them, they just throw it on the shelf with all the other "new" same product boxes.

Obvious fraud is at least somewhat Amazon's problem since it gets returned, but the huge problem for the name-brand vendors is all the support requests / bad reviews they get when people get counterfeit crap, thinking they bought from <brand> directly.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's true that it doesn't make it any less immoral, but at the end of the day companies will seek to lower their costs, after all it is their mission, hence this (major) problem is political and shouldn't depend on corporations good will.
Well, if they have, they would probably have bombed their civilizations into extinction already.