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The primary goal seems to be a clear warning to its employee rather than the lawsuit itself. It's pretty well known that Apple's chip department has been losing tons of talents to a bunch of start-up and other big techs. I don't know why, but given all ML hypes and new opportunities in hardware businesses this could be just a natural trend.

In this case, it seems many other talents already have joined Nuvia (including John Bruno and Manu Gulati in a leadership group, who already left Apple a long time ago) My guess is that Gerard was the irreplaceable key person to Apple's processor strategy as an engineer and a talent hub. Apple may expect his leave to accelerate its predicament with hardware talents and this lawsuit might be a desperate attempt to stop this flow. Not sure if it will work though.
This is how I feel about most "science" writing. I thought I was the only one.

May I recommend:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Modern-Science-Writing-Landm...

Each chapter is basically that 5% "of original relevant content" on a different subject. So the whole book is "all killer no filler"!
So never buy a high end computer, build it yourself.
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If you have colleagues that have children, would advancing paternity leave also represent the interests of the group?

If you have colleagues that are diabetic, would advancing policies for cheaper insulin not represent the interests of the group?

Maybe the answer is no, but for those colleagues who are have more complicated needs the answer might be yes.

Lastly, if a union doesn't at least represent a re-balance of power then it is ineffectual.
Here's contact info for 20 water rights lawyers serving my hometown of Las Vegas, NV [1]. To be blunt, you are underestimating the complexities of water rights law.

[1]: https://attorneys.lawinfo.com/water-rights/nevada/las-vegas/
HN is not innocent in the propagation of the idea that modest growth is unacceptable. Just look at the number of people "validating" their ideas with landing pages versus just building something that solves their own problems (or problems within their circles) and growing organically from there.
It's weird that $500 feel like really small potatoes compared to the other options. Or that it's only half of the screen stand price.
How about newborns?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222673203_Sex_Diffe...
> how 'hard' it is to get a good return when you have a massive amount of money

The real problem with scale close to whole countries is that if your money isn't contributing to the growth of the entire economy, you can't really get a return at all.

You can't extract value out of an economy that is stagnant, if the money you are pumping in is merely recirculating in zero-sum mode.

At the small scale this can work, because there are enough small-time losers who lost money when you got it without hurting the balance of the economy, but at the large scale this cannot since there aren't enough losers to lose money to pay you off (or alternatively, there is a war going and/or the government is buying).

So any investment portfolio big enough which doesn't move the economy to be more productive is bounded by the entire economy and in general do worse, because the market might be reacting to the fund & preying on it.

Also "more productive" is a very weird term - giving people public transportation, fast internet or cheap child-care can make a society more productive. Underemployment of intelligent people into subsistence levels of productivity is basically a crime perpetuated by well intentioned folks from the pre-automation era.
They already do free 1-2 hour delivery for $500 iPhones.
This backdooring of communication is a joke. Everyone wanting to hide something can pgp/gpg encrypt a message and paste it into whatever channel, from fb to irc, from email to counterstrike chat. This whole thing about protecting "children" (or whatever the latest excuse is) is the ultimate nonsense. This wont stop terrorists with enough money to organize something like 9/11, it will only enable spying on own and foreign normal cityzens who dont encrypt what they say. Everyone else who really has "something to hide" wont be affected.
One instance this occurs is when your website is open source, in which case people are upgrading from arbitrarily old versions.

I suppose it happens when you ship any kind of application with db included (probably more common/useful would be sqlite support)
I agree with your point, but make solves the problem rather poorly. Besides the poor UX, it only knows the thing it built most recently, as opposed to maintaining a cache of things it has _ever_ built. And since it doesn't have a cache, it definitely doesn't have a distributed cache, although you could conceivably try to shoehorn NFS or something similar. Lastly, it's not reproducible. It's not going to fail a build if you accidentally let it depend on a file that isn't a formally specified dependency. These are all important concerns, especially for a CI environment.

Something like Bazel theoretically solves this problem, but it's poorly documented and non-trivial to use or operate. Other Bazel/Blaze derivatives are worse with respect to usage/operation/correctness. Nix improves on correctness but is even harder to use/operate. There's a lot of room for improvement in this space.
Not to blow my own horn but my background is very intimately in Web-GIS (Bachelor's and Master's in geography), my career for 7 years has been in robotics and building web-UIs for real-time robotics GIS, so I think I'm probably an expert here.

I've used Leaflet for a few years and now OpenLayers for about 5 years to author UIs for monitoring robot fleets in real-time as well as build Web-GIS applications for mapping and configuring, autogenerating, validating the spatial datasets (fiducials, SLAM data, navigable positions, "zones", "pathways", etc.)

Leaflet is what I'd say will fit most people's needs when it comes to your standard web-map use cases. It's a beautifully designed library with a good level of modularity and lots of plugins. The API is great.

OpenLayers shines when you get into a lot more complex stuff. The symbology engine is phenomenally powerful and I found that the API plugs into more complex Redux-style state management in a more easy way than Leaflet.

I also found performance when doing high-volume, high-frequency data updates and interactions to be faster with OpenLayers.

That being said, I haven't dug deeply into Leaflet in about a year and things can change quite quickly!

I suspect the overwhelming majority of developers aren't doing anything all that novel or complicated. They're not making Web-GIS applications and probably will do just fine with either.
Your human sounding colloquialisms don't fool us btw.
+1 Clean Code is a fantastic resource.

Uncle Bob also has a video series that provides a good introduction to a bunch of design issues in an understandable format (but it's not cheap at $14/video): https://cleancoders.com/ . I've seen these videos transform the way teams code.

My other suggestion is to start paying attention to how your code "feels". If something is painful/boring/fiddly it's often the case that the design isn't a good fit for what you're trying to do. TDD is excellent for this because it will move the pain front and center where you can't ignore it.

Clean code and other resources will give you tools to use when the design isn't a good fit (I could use this technique here etc...), but recognizing when you need to step back and change the design will be up to you.
Just make it so that images don't appear by default. I only open images if I want to. Opening an email... I can't possibly understand why anyone would allow images to open by default. Based on the people I communicate with, less than 5% block image opening.

Also, I don't get why I'm being downvoted.
All completely correct but I'm unclear who the shareholders are here (other than the CEO/douchebro). Certainly not the people who are out $700. Not fraud, just "My bad. Screwed you. Maybe next time.".
Is this Sipura/Linksys story? Or there are more cases?
I think he's being sarcastic?
Did you actually spend $40k? Why?
You can run into issues with BSD Make being provided, but needing GNU Make though. Not hard to work through, though.
endangering ??

Two planes crashed and the higher-ups knew about the problems and were actively showing it under rug hoping somehow they can fix it without backlash.
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Consumer here checking in who does use tracking pixels. Yes, I'm a consultant, but all my emails go out with tracking, it's how I have it set up.
Clearly you haven't heard about the R&D spending that Apple has been putting into computer case wheels. They are the only computer case wheels to have a rating of 200 miles or 3 years and come with an additional hazard warranty.
Ask HN: How to handle database migrations with multiple applications?
We have a system of around 18 services that all need access to our database. We'd really like to use migrations to handle schema changes, but I can't figure out how to do this cleanly. How do you?
I would not describe a world comprised of 20 somethings straight out of college, 30 somethings with kids, 40 somethings with teenagers, 50 somethings with college-age kids, and 60 somethings with grandkids, nor people at any of these ages without kids as possessing anywhere near the level of homogeneity as you see in a K through 12 classroom.
Nice way to validate the concept there. Good stuff.
Did any of these production problems relate to the MCAS malfunction though?

Also, this is buried further down in the article than it should be.

> Mr. Pierson and his lawyers declined to answer whether he was seeking whistle-blower protection or filing a federal whistle-blower case. He has hired a prominent whistle-blower lawyer, Eric Havian, and could stand to gain monetarily if he pursued such a case.
Once you hit $25K or more you should get a complimentary keyboard and mouse.
You get a nice hard drive enclosure around it, though.
When someone tries to describe unions but defines capitalism instead.
Another Apple product with hilariously-poor specs for 3x what anyone else charges. But hey, that case sure is, uh, made of metal. Yeah.
Disk.

Though btrees are friendly to cpu caches too, but really it's about minimising disk accesses.
> [Nuvia] also allege [in their counter suit] that Apple's evidence in its complaint, notably text messages he exchanged with another Apple engineer and conversations with his eventual Nuvia co-founders, were collected illegally by the highly paranoid iPhone maker.
Plastic/fake leather is easier to clean. Cloth seats will smell, will stain, and can even hold lice. I'd rather have the plastic material I can give a quick wipe down on before resting my head against it. The in-flight entertainment is nice but I could do with just a USB port to keep my phone or tablet going. Half the time the headphone jacks for the TVs are on the armrest in such a way that you risk breaking your cable because it sticks into your sitting area rather out the end of the armrest. Airlines are doing the thing now where there are no TVs and all of the movies are accessed via WiFi.
Indeed. Sadly, stupid isn't (usually) criminal.
This probably depends on what people are looking for. I agree with you that developing the habit of thinking critically is important (this is ostensibly the goal a liberal arts education and was once highly valued). However, I think many on seeing the title "Books on Critical Thinking" will expect resources for learning about and improving formal reasoning. For this, there's no substitute for the study of mathematical logic and math more generally.
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But they were cheap. Which is a really great thing when you are broke but still want to go to college.
I suppose it might be true that the sort of person who buys 50 sets of office chair casters first buys one set to try out, and if they're happy with that, comes back for more in a week. The chance that I might be that person is relatively high reward (a ~$1000 sale), and Amazon doesn't have a better idea of what I'm going to buy.
People who use trucks regularly do the same thing. I know when I worked in the oil industry everyone was hoping they wouldn't get stuck with the ford truck.

Just because Apple's got the most expensive tools, doesn't make them the best.
Sure, housing regulations are hyper local, so there will be exceptions. The fact that some many localities have converged on banning the same stuff is still remarkable, and evidence that it's being driven by the same forces rather than being a tailored response to details of a particular community.
Criminals, almost by definition, are good at doing things without law enforcement catching on. It's possible to try to crack down on this stuff, but like anything else they'll only catch the less competent people.
If you're doing something professionally that actually requires a $50k computer, your hourly rate is so insanely high that there's no way it makes financial sense to build and repair a computer like that on your own.
Not the parent poster, but prior objections I've seen are that people don't do a good job at picking random words and four words is too few.
You should probably stop thinking about your velocity for a while and instead focus on quality.

For your design phases, think thoroughly about all possible solutions and detail the pros/cons of each, then get it reviewed by your colleagues and iterate on that. The design phase might be slow, and it is OK. At least when you will end up implementing something it is likely to be of much better quality.

After a while this will become natural and your velocity will naturally go up.
Goes the other way too. Why do Mac fans descend on Linux threads and comment on the lack of fit and finish and that time they tried Linux in 2003 where it did not work for them?
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Interestingly, in the rural area I grew up in strong opinions about automobile brand choice were common.

Maybe there’s something more universal and fundamental about product choice and brand loyalty at work.
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I agree 100%. Consumerism has reached such a strange state that people get genuinely offended when a company releases a product that doesn't perfectly fit their needs and price point, even if said company has a different product that does! It's utterly absurd.

I think it's because people are realizing they have sold their entire lives to their jobs and they get emotionally overwrought when they realize a company they have some products from also sells products they will never be able to afford. I think it's the pain involved in realizing they didn't get enough money for the life they sold.
> and I'm guessing they make enough money using them that they can afford to have the best tools.

Or they just have lots of money and like Apple products. As long as Apple isn't bleeding cash to the point of going bankrupt making it... who cares? It's no different than Honda making the NSX or Ford making the GT. It's definitely not moving the needle for their revenue but it sets a statement for the company as a whole.
It's all performative. No one is actually angry, but people think that being mad at Apple online makes you look "smarter than the iSheep" or whatever.
The unreasonable effectiveness of algorithms in boosting team happines
Serious question: what do people use these for?
I am certainly not angry about Apple products - I am a large user of them. However I am angry when Apple does not update the previous Mac Pro for 6 years, a machine which already was inferior to its predecessor, the original "cheese grater". And when the update finally arrives, closer to its forefarthers, they double the price of an already expensive machine.
My Intel based equivalent no longer powers on but I keep it because it's so nice to look at. Especially inside.
I'd appreciate that this possibly could make airline economy flights better, if I believed that airlines had nonzero interest in improving the experiences they offer their economy passengers.

Airlines are interested in three things: more paid passengers in the same cabin volume, less weight per seat, and less turnaround cost on the ground. I'm not sure how the new seat design serves any of those factors.
Yes, but what about the Pro Displays??
> I'm sorry, but when I go home at night and choose to spend my remaining hours awake on my own project, that's 100% mine.

The problem comes in when you blur the lines between your personal project and what you are paid by Apple to do. At what point are you working on your thing versus Apple's and who is paying you to do it?

The big question is what he was doing while purportedly on the clock. Was he using Apple provided hardware, software, and time to further his own personal ends?

> This makes it sound like you can't have professional relationships or friends at work.

Ethics are hard, lines are blurry. It's best to avoid the blurry bits and keep to the places where you are clearly in the right.

Maintaining relationships while working is fine. Recruiting for a side business on the other hand is a clear conflict of interest and crosses an ethical threshold IMO.

Calling your existing friends up after you quit and offering them jobs is fine.

I have no idea what this guy did, but it sounds like he was definitely in the grey areas of ethics and from the sounds of it the law.
They also made it much easier to move to a new city to try out the job market there.

It's no surprise that worker mobility is at historic lows given how hard it is to even put a roof over your head in another place, especially if you don't have good credit or income.
Correct.

Surveillance has historically had three chief purposes.

- taxation, the expropriation of property or surplus value

- manpower, conscription

- maintaining order and control, eliminating threats, etc.

You can go all the way back to the dawn of agriculture and the rise of the first grain-based proto-states. The fundamentals remain much the same.
Barrow (Utqiagvik now) has daily jet service. Try Selawik or Angoon if you want to see if free shipping applies to remote villages.
Feature flags and version named types in code.

You conceptually need code paths to handle the different DB states asynchronously.
I don't think I'd go that far. The US legal system has been pretty consistent with respecting Case Law when making new decisions, and it's rare when a landmark decision is made without any precedent.

Interpretation of the constitution generally means building on previous interpretations, which means you'll always get some "drift" away from the original intention (case in point the second amendment, which has drifted very far from the original "well-regulated militia" framing towards inalienable, unquestionable gun rights.) But the drift should typically be incremental in nature, and we've seen few examples of purely "novel" interpretations by the courts.
> #2 Bunkhouses/Roominghouses/SROs, which have multiple people sharing a room, or individuals getting small rooms, with shared kitchen and bathroom spaces, for short to medium term living.

Aren't there a few startups doing this and marketing them as communal living for young techies?
Amazon has some of the worst working conditions and highest injury rates in the country for domestic workers that aren't engineers.

https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-amazons-own-numbers-reveal-sta... (independent)

https://www.revealnews.org/article/behind-the-smiles/ (joint article with The Atlantic)

I'm not stating that Apple is good (just look at Foxconn suicide rates as proof that it's an evil company), but it's generally speaking the lesser of three evils here.
Because they've gone from being a company where "It just works" to pretty blatantly just disrespecting their customers. They used to be able to defend their profit margin because it did just work. Now they trying to be trusted and relevant again but still charge you $1000 for a monitor stand.
This is a myth.

Enormous chunks of land surrounding the three airports have actual zoning.

The rest has de facto zoning. It just isn't called zoning. This is why Houston looks pretty much like any other city with zoning.

A lot of what can and can't be built is covered by deed restrictions, which are enforced by the city. (i.e., a developer may put a restriction in the deed stating that only residences can be built, and no commercial activities.)

In addition, there are gazillions of 'land-use' ordinances that control the height of buildings, lot size, parking, etc.

While it would be kinda neat -- as an experiment -- to see how a city would develop without zoning, Houston sure as heck isn't that example.

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...

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+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.
Agreed, preferably one with a union to match your preference.
Yes and you paid like 4000 dollars for a London New York return ticket economy class. You can still fly relatively comfortable for that price. But they call it first class now.
When has this happened? I have not seen this at all in recent years. Happy to stand corrected.
The axiom on programming languages is useful here:

> there are two kinds of things: things people complain about and things they don’t use”[1]

The short answer is that people complain about macs because they use them.

1. https://dev.to/jonasbn/comment/4fmc
For those coming here interested in learning about formal/mathematical logic, see "Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide" (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757972)
Double the price of what machine? Its price is comparable to the old Mac Pro, isn’t it?
It looks like Apple's marking up the upgrades by a little over 100%. For example the 28-core CPU adds $7k and costs about $3200 retail. The 128GB memory adds $25k and costs about $12k retail.
"Companies don't have the infrastructure in place to track former employees and see what they are doing just for the purpose of filling law suits."

Couldn't Apple could get into your cloud and see all your data if you use their products?
Congrats, you’re either not flying economy or you’re flying with small neighbors and you are small too.

In economy, a 6ft person will have their knees touching the seat in front of them. Getting out without them standing up will require straddling them like a mile-high stripper. Additionally, if you’re big (6ft 240lbs), getting between the economy seats when they’re empty is inconvenient and it requires weird bending over when the seats in front are reclined.
That's a bit like retrieving source code by pretty-printing a minimised form. It's not terrible, but it's not going to be as pleasant as the original source.

If you maintain your schema like source code, you can use comments, organise it into files in a way that makes sense to you, maybe do a bit of light templating, and so on.
Not gonna lie, I thought this was a cheese grater at first glance on mobile.
If the AoA vanes were installed incorrectly, perhaps so?

"Mr. Pierson believes that the production problems may have played a role in the crashes. In both accidents, MCAS was triggered when a vane installed on the plane’s fuselage malfunctioned."

"Workers were completing jobs out of sequence, leading to additional mistakes."
Rowhouses are de facto banned almost everywhere in US? It’s relatively popular way of living in Finland. It’s something between a highrise apartment and your own house.

I’ve always wondered why US seems to lack those and that neatly explains it.
I believe they are made in America too.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to...
I know you're joking, but there's a good reason.

If they only sell 10% as many rack versions as tower versions, but they still have to spread out the cost of separate design, parts, a particularly a whole separate assembly process, separate inventory, etc., that cost will be spread among less units.

Anything that is manufactured in smaller quantities will be more expensive, all else being equal.