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> certain people always get money whenever someone else does work

The people who did work were paid by the investors for almost 7 years now (Lyft was founded in June 2012 and is unprofitable to this day), along with some equity.

If Lyft were to fail this year rather than IPO, the employees would walk away with 7 years of great salary and 7 years less of their working life. The investors would walk away with their money gone and wasted.
Pretty straightforward for me, there's no evidence that they don't feel pain and it's a pretty hotly debated topic. There likely won't be a way to tell if they do feel pain or if it's just stimuli response.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130208-seaf...

A secondary reason is that it's really easy to confuse people who do choose to eat meat about specific dietary concerns, especially when traveling globally. The Japanese for instance put fish into nearly everything and genuinely have a hard time understanding the difference between a vegetarian/vegan/etc there's also been some confusion between daishi and fish. Add to that the number of people who claim to be vegan/vegetarian but don't adhere to it at all and it can make a lot of people see it as a fad diet versus a diet adhered to rather strictly in other people. Another issue is religions that say fish is not meat. This isn't even getting into products people don't realize comes from meat. By just saying I don't eat anything that can feel pain it makes it significantly less likely someone will accidentally feed me meat. My wife on the other hand eats fish/shellfish. Our daughter chooses her own diet and has so far chosen to be vegetarian after deciding she no longer wanted to eat fish. To each their own, everyone has to be comfortable with their own choices.
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I like how cultural panic over people and especially youngsters being too causal with sex and having too much of it flopped directly to cultural panic over people and especially youngsters not having enough sex.
> Is it far fetched to think that plastic is one of the most damaging inventions of the 20th century?

Well, given the vast range of utility and the fact that plastics have been in use for over 3000 years, probably (both the word “plastics” as a label for them and fully synthetic plastics are early 20th century inventions, though.)
I'd envision "kamikaze" drones being the most feasible
thing to be effective first. Basically much smarter
missiles. A vision of a swarm of something..

Reminds me of this foreboding demonstration of micro drone kamikaze assassinations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
The same way you have it on macOS or Windows - you choose a directory or a file your music/video app has access to and then it works just fine.
I'm looking at some folders right now. Physical manila folders, three of them in fact. I have one labeled "Bank Statements", another one "Health Care" and a third one "Car file". When I receive a bank statement, I stuff it into the back of the "Bank Statements" folder---I don't "name" the statement, it just exists with enough information on it (dates, "page 1 of 3", etc) to find what I'm looking for. Same for the other two, although for the car, it contains not only insurance receipts but maintenance receipts, tire receipts, etc., roughly in chronological order. The order of the folders themselves changes---whatever was last used is usually in/on top. And they're placed spatially---just to the right of my computer.

I do have other physical folders, just stored in three plastic bins in the closet. The bins are unlabeled, but I know what each one contains just by glancing at the contents and from there, knowing that my old computer science articles I want to keep folder is in the middle of this particular bin. Again, most of the folders are unlabeled/mislabeled but that doesn't matter to me because I know.

A filesystem can't quite replicate this spatial or looks feature of physical folders. There are also restrictions on what you can name a folder or file. For instance, I might want to name a file "Foo Inc. Invoice, Project: Snafu 3/19" but I can't---on Unix and Windows, the '/' is forbidden, on Classic Mac OS, the ':' is forbidden. Yes, I could place it in the "invoice" folder, or maybe the "projects" folder, or maybe the "foo" folder (or all three with hard/soft links) but now there's some cognitive overhead of just remembering where (unless I use links, but that's a weird thing with no real world counterpart, a physical folder can't exist in three different locations).

The spatial thing is important (but it could be just important for me). I've been using a virtual desktop on Linux for nearly 20 years now, in the same 3x3 configuration. The upper left corner is email; the middle right is the browser. Bottom left is a realtime view into system logs. The middle left and middle middle is where I do most of my development. The remaining spots are for overflow or temporary areas. When I got my Mac at work, I set it up with a similar spatial setup [1]. It helps to keep me oriented with what I'm doing.

And yes, I do know and understand the hierarchical file system, but that I still lose track of files from time to time ("I know I did this at one point---where did I put those files?"). I have 1.3 million files in nearly 200,000 folders in my home directory. It's amazing I can find anything at all [2][3].

[1] It's a linear series of 9 screens, but I still treat it as a 3x3 matrix of screens.

[2] A few weeks ago, I wanted to find the original image I used to make the favicon for my website about twenty years ago. I failed, and started a search with Google Image to see if I could find it (since I originally found it on the Internet). No go. A few days ago I found a folder I forgot about and lo', there was the original image.

[3] I also have 3,000 symlinks, three sockets, one named pipe, and 6 "others" (whatever those are).
"Everything I’ve personally heard... about the AirPower delay has been related to tough engineering problems related to the laws of physics."

I had to LOL at that. Not in a cruel way, but the statement makes it sound like they're working with insane complicated stuff at the frontiers of particles and quarks and whatnot, whereas the "laws of physics" they're talking about really just revolve around the fact that a piece of copper is always going to be something like 20 orders of magnitude more electrically-conductive than air. It would be cool if they could get something like this to work without frying all our brains, but right now I guess it's basically still science fiction.

Edit: No, huh? 3 people disagree and think inductance can transmit power just as efficiently as a wire? OK granted maybe my mentioning the conductivity of air wasn't that relevant (although FYI it is indeed a difference of about 20 orders of magnitude - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_con...), but don't ignore the obvious: all it says is that copper is very good at conducting. And that's actual electrons mind you, not electrons moved around and converted to something else and back again, which is part of where the inefficiency (a.k.a. "heat") comes from. Another source of inefficiency is the fact that the field isn't contained very well... you are somewhat "broadcasting" that energy, unlike a wire which leads exactly to where you want it to go. Yes, you can transfer power that way, but because of the inefficiencies, you have to run it at a level that generates an amount of heat that they are saying is excessive.
The DVR is critical. And hardware DVRs I've used are horrible. Maybe I haven't tried the right one, but the ones I've tried are less than worthless and I've finally given up on them. I also despise the network specific apps for my devices. Some are great, but most are garbage and constantly require me to authenticate over and over again.

And the cost is not a major driver for me.
Search things like “operational testing and evaluation f35” and similar

Quiet the opposite. I would not be surprised if discrediting the f35 is a US physiological warfare
If you choose a file from SD/USB via SAF dialog, the app will get permanent permission to access it.
> and skilled pilots are a very limited resource.

This gets under-appreciated. One of the big reasons the Battle of Midway was such a turning point, wasn't mainly the destruction of ships, but the loss of so many well-trained Japanese carrier pilots. Over time, the American advantage in trained carrier pilots paid very huge dividends:

1) Because of better pilots, the American carriers were at an advantage over Japanese carriers.

2) Because there were already a large cadre of trained carrier pilots already, the US pilot schools could afford to spend more time training the student pilots before they ever got into combat. In Japan, the carrier pilots were rushed out as as fast as possible to meet the demand.
The sweet spot for clojure is data oriented/data processing backend services (data engineering), where you can leverage stuff like kafka, spark, etc. You are going to get frustrated if you use it for common CRUD websites where the node.js/ruby/python ecosystem actually has quality libraries for all the common parts. In most cases I wouldn't trade node.js for clojure when writing front-end servers.
Ask HN: Transitioning from agency work to scalable product work?
I have worked for digital agencies in three instances in my career. I think they are a nice easy way to get your foot in the door and learn how to be self-sufficient because you're required to. I have been exposed to different languages- JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and C#. But I cannot recommend it for any software engineer that wants to improve their skills in the long run and head into more complex projects.

Digital agencies feel nebulous to me. On the surface they make websites and apps, except that they don't really act like most software companies? Yet their revenue model mostly relies on clients paying them to build apps and websites...

Simply put: Writing clean code and preventing technical debt doesn't create a lot of value in agencies- meeting the client's deadlines and getting things done the fastest way does.

This is my anecdote but I myself spent about 5 years total working for agencies, and I've largely been repeating that first year. The end was almost indistinguishable from the beginning. Agencies require you to build particular kinds of websites- but nothing more. I have since worked for a smaller startup where I had more freedom to dictate how their SaaS product would be designed- but they were in an early stage, far from needing high scalability.

I later moved on to do freelance work, getting a few clients here and there. Now I'm looking to settle into a company that lets me grow more as a developer, working with larger groups of people on larger products.

I do not know how to prepare for interviews in typical software tech companies. It is all actually alien to me and didn't properly bridge the gap between agency work and going into scalable software.

I'm interested to know if there are any guidelines that you recommend for doing that, because agency work is rife. Turnover rates are high in digital agencies, so I'm guessing so many people out there with agency experience like myself that also want to take on more substantial technical work.
> Inequality benefits society overall.

The data suggests this is not the case. Particularly, when you look at the correlation between the gini coefficient and just about any measure of societal well-being available (life expectancy, child mortality, maternal mortality, suicide rates, many, many morbidities, WVS for happiness and life satisfaction, etc etc), it's quite clear that high level of inequality is inversely correlated with societal well-being[0].

Your argument about Microsoft is an argument about the benefits of capitalism, which I agree is very beneficial to society when channeled properly. However, capitalism is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.

0. Yes, correlation isn't causation, but even if you assume that high inequality isn't the cause of poor societal outcomes, it's at the very least an indicator that something is going wrong and has a fairly high predicative value.
> If one person controls all the money in the world, would you consider that to be harmful to society?

Probably not since the money would be worthless: why would anyone want to use this money?
You do realise this comment is hilariously contradictory. Complains that Apple doesn't release Mac Pros but then also complains that Apple doesn't keep announce new products until they are perfect. What exactly do you want from Apple ?

Also Apple never added any value to the WiFi routing space. It's almost like complaining that Apple doesn't make printers or digital cameras again.
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My bed stand alarm clock. Just drop the phone on it (it sits vertical, at a slight angle). No need for rapid charging overnight, and if I need to fumble for my phone in a sleepy haze at 3am I don't risk breaking the connector, pulling and yanking at things awkwardly.
I tried it with music and the results were spooky. Very ethereal and ghostly. It was only with some classical music though, I might have to do a pop song next and share the results!
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> A lot of dependencies tend to stop being maintained after a while. [...] The newer shinier ones lack in features while the more featureful ones are from 3 years ago and have not seen a single update since.

A lot of libraries are not updated because they do not need any updates. This is surprising to people coming from other languages, but is fairly common in the Clojure world. I use many libraries which haven't been touched in 3-5 years and it is fine: they don't need updates.

> Auth systems etc. are half-baked with 10 different implementations on GitHub

Here I would agree — authentication is a problematic area. I use buddy, which I had to integrate into my ring+sente app manually with quite a bit of pain. Friend has the wrong abstractions, IMHO, and does not get the job done.
Seems like a pretty obvious symptom of increasing loneliness and isolation.
I must have been been outgrown by everything I've ever worked with, from the get-go: I've never been to a conference.
I've always felt it was unnecessary too. A company I worked for a few years ago spent thousands to install wireless charging pads directly into the tables in every meeting room (4 floors worth of rooms). This was before any iphones had wireless charging though, so they also had these wireless charging adapters that plugged into iphones so that they could use them. That means that to charge your phone, you had to plug it in, but then leave it in a specific place in the table, making it so you can't really use it. It was the absolute worst of both worlds. They could have saved a ton of money by just having some cables attached to the table, but instead they wanted to use the hip cool technology before it was practical.
They could have cancelled the AP2 too, or at least announced this cancellation before that launch.
No, the symmetry necessarily holds in general. It is not dependent on anyone's belief.

Now, it is true that some company's secrets will be more valuable than others, and it's also true that most companies think that their secrets are more valuable than their competitors. But because of the symmetry, most companies are simply and necessarily wrong about that.

It is also true that some companies will lose money as a results of losing secrets. But society in general will be better off. Which of those is preferable is a matter of taste, of course. Some people are perfectly fine with a legal regime that enriches them (or that they think enriches them) at the expense of everyone else. But if people are making rational decisions, most people should prefer enriching society at the expense of the wealthy rather than the other way around.
It seems Elon Musk companies such as Space X is what Apple would've evolved if it had a visionary leading it.

I'm not sure how much time Cook can keep his position. He's great at supply chain and operation but product quality and innovation has been degraded for many years now.
SF budget is 11 bill. That quora answer is from 2011.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-budget-soar....

Even if you cut it inhalf for the general funds, it gives out 1400U$S per month.
Agreed here, the two should never be conflated.

You could make a totally open-source, libre-licensed DRM enforcement framework -- any user willing to dig through it could probably modify and defuse it, but out of the box, it would be an example of free software which aims to defeat freedom.
Not sure if it was implied.

Sixel has lots of overhead compared to ascii/Unicode braille art.
Using sixel to transmit decent images over ssh is very data-demanding
well that's no fun xP
Everyone's trying to get away from their niches, and into anything involving MRR or ad revenue with software & services. It's a sad state of affairs.
use ripgrep it's faster https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep and appropriately named
Except the people that have lots of money already will always outearn you on average.
> There is user access, but app access is becoming scarce.

But without an app to access it, how will the user get to the files?
I think it may very well be a natural outcome of inverse kinematics and PID loops in a noisy (uneven floor, uneven loads, etc, etc) environment
My parent comment had said that conspiracy to recruit people to commit crimes is not an unreasonable basis for making it illegal to distribute recruitment videos for ISIS, because they are a criminal organization due to their violence, not their speech. That implies that that should also not be an unreasonable basis for making it illegal to distribute recruitment videos for violent white nationalist organizations.

Does that answer your question?
How many people are very few people?

There's 35,000 signatures on a petition to recall the keyboards. There's two class-action lawsuits. There's how many different online writings about the issue?
Sure - start your own company and generate some wealth then. The article is pure ragebait.
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Qi is the standard AirPods and iPhones support to charge themselves wirelessly - it's like asking what's the downside of a lightning port :)
If only someone took the rss feeds from youtube channels and made your own front end. Ditch their portal.

Turn youtube into a type of podcast db, its just a media storage site. Then you could create your own portal, parse the views/ratings and provide real statistics.

I don't watch youtube for youtube, I watch youtube for user-created content. And some of that content has already moved off onto 3rd party sites. Floatplane anyone? Patreon anyone? list goes on.

I just wish finding video content was as easy as searching for podcasts. Youtube provides RSS links, I use them to add to my podcast player.
Except consumers are buying these services. Apple isn't stupid you know. They wouldn't double down on this space if there wasn't money to be made.

And given their huge success with Apple Music it's not unreasonable to assume they can do well in other areas.
Property taxes are not absolutely economically incident on rent, raising property taxes will affect renters in ambiguous ways. But sales taxes definitely punish workers (and lower the income the worse), while low property taxes favor landlords.
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California makes it very expensive to stick around since you pay a lot of income tax if you sell. Of course some will stay but a low 7 figure windfall pre-tax will not get you much house, especially if you need a bigger house to start a family, and many will be tempted to not pay a state income tax by moving out of state.
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I also remember reading about this thing the "kids" are doing these days where they just spin up a dummy private instagram account and give a bunch of friends the password. The instagram account winds up becoming a sort of ersatz web forum that they use to plan social outings and share pictures. Inviting new people is as easy as giving them an invite to follow. Granting write/mod access is as easy as giving them account username/pass. It's a pretty clever hack to turn Instagram into a micro-forum.

And it winds up being a better implementation of circles. The "circle" is object of interest. It's not a categorization that you put people in, it's an entity in its own right.
I disagree — I am refactoring a large project (60k LOC, that's a lot in the Clojure world!) continuously and find that a type system would just get in the way. On the other hand, clojure.spec together with :pre/:post conditions works great and helps me a lot by checking things that no type system would verify (such as validity constraints on entire data structures).

Error messages stopped being a problem with Clojure 1.10.
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>I don't think the entire company needs to be rendered no more

If foreign airlines all cancel their orders for 737MAX planes, they could very well be forced into bankruptcy.
It makes me wonder whether an income threshold makes more sense as a dividing line than hourly vs. salaried. Higher salary equals more specialized knowledge equals higher risk to employers when those employees move to a competitor with trade secrets in their head (or equals higher value of those trade secrets).

Hourly vs. salaried is often correlated to pay scale, but imperfectly, and it does seem like specialization / economic value of knowledge is really what they're trying to get at with the split in this bill.
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The vast majority of people doing things do not have a lot of money.
> "A whopping 128MB of RAM (in 1997, this unimaginable in a laptop)" [sic]

Really? The PowerBook in 1997 supported up to 160 MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#Models

I don't think this was particularly unusual. HP's laptop of the day supported up to 160 MB, as well: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/37569/HP-OmniBook-570...
Metro UI started to look good once they allowed fully transparent tiles without those horrible predefined solid-color boxes, i.e. you could select a background image and it was then tiled to launchers:

https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Windows-Phone-Ap...

If they had that from the day one, it could have ended up with a lot less resistance (just the ugliness of the default palette was unbearable; they must have hired an expert for achieving the most negative impression with those original tiles/colors).
Yeah, I agree that would be fine. It's not quite as elegant, but I think consumers would have been ok with it. There are also similar solutions already out there. Example: https://www.amazon.com/Bestand-H05-Grey-Aluminum-Charging-Qi...
Fast chargers should charge faster than the default 5 watt wired charger.
If most people in an area have owned their homes since back when they were cheap, and say only 1 house out of 1,000 comes up for sale per year with a high asking price, it's possible for "nobody" (99% of people) to be unable to afford to buy a home at current asking prices and yet for prices to sell high and for lots of people to be living in an area.

This is why comparing home prices to average income of the entire population is a fallacy. Not every home comes up for sale at any given time.

What matters is the sale price of recently sold houses to the incomes of those actively searching to purchase a new home as well as how many such people there are in the market.

Older established residents in an area can be earning $80k/yr and be fine since they purchased the house cheaply and have paid it off. That doesn't mean you can afford to buy their house on an $80k income.
Yet another Western hypocritical "oh no, Chinese want to consume almost as much as we do, think of the consequences!".