skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You contradict yourself. You literally just said that everyone has equal political power, but rich people have more political power. Rich people aren't influential because they have a lot of friends. Rich people are influential because they have a lot of money.
To provide some context Ted Hodges, the author of the article, was employed as an Apple Expert (1).

An Apple Expert is a ~$20/hr retail job - https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/114438150/us-expert

The "boss" he mentions was probably an Apple Store Manager or Assistant Manager.

I understand the frustration from Ted but this feels a lot more like a conflict between a mid-level retail manager wielding Apple's general HR guidelines to terminate a retail employee vs. a broader story about Apple hammer smashing a little guy.

(1) https://www.facebook.com/ted.hodges.338
> If you took the density scale to something really absurd...

> Of course there are a lot of other things to legitimagely object to about said arrangement...

The sad reality is that the density scale at pig factory farms is already well past morally objectionable territory if you are concerned at all about animal welfare. I’ve linked resources on this before and can do so again if desired, it’s horrible stuff.

Pigs are about the same as dogs in their sentience and even suitability as a pet. I don’t see how one can justify caring for a dog as a pet and also buying factory-farmed pork once they learn about it. Small farms with better living conditions are arguably more justifiable. I don’t eat animals any more, stopped for different reasons, but being aware plays a role in keeping me from going back.
Ultimately the network will be storing blobs of some kind. You can build whatever encryption structure you want to, on top of that layer.
I'm not sure how you would implement this, since there's no way to provide a proof of deletion. Proof of storage is possible since you can do some operation on the stored data and then provide the result.

However, I assume when a file is "unpinned" in IPFS you stop earning Filecoin for storing it? I'm not sure but I can't imagine why it would be any other way.
Take-Two plans to acquire mobile developer Playdots for $192M
Which is something you should've communicated to the user. How many people needlessly bought a new device because they didn't realize why their phone was slow?
> I think that point can support working for either a big company or a small company depending on what type of impact you are looking for.

For a lot of people, "I want to have an impact where I work" is more about their own ego and sense of importance than about impact on other people's lives. This is not a value judgment, by the way - wanting to feel like more than just another faceless disposable drone is a valid desire.
Can't you postpone the tax to be paid to when actual tradable equity will be delivered?
Assuming that this story is at all accurate.
Marx wrote something almost to that effect in the Communist Manifesto. About half the first chapter is intense praise for the advances brought by capitalism.
I mean, making a lot of money in salary is a very valid reason if they actually pay you a lot of money in salary (it does happen).
> After returning from a visit with her in Budapest, Dirac wrote, “I felt very sad leaving you and still feel that I miss you very much. I do not understand why this should be, as I do not usually miss people when I leave them.”

This line is like something out of a movie.
We could've opened up months ago, but we're still waiting on that "if."
> Surprising to me that year-round veggies is so hard even with modern methods/greenhouses.

You are correct: it is not so hard with modern methods, but none of the small communities I know of (15-50 people) have invested in a greenhouse of sufficient size. And even the local farms here don't have greenhouses, not that I am aware of. That seems odd to me, perhaps I am missing something because that seems unlikely now that I think about it...
Ya their satirizing is so effective you have to go back 10 years for an article about it but their social credit system would have downgraded you for reading that article.

I think the level of naivete on your part shows someone who doesn't worry about getting called for tea.
I don't understand why someone should be punished for being successful... It's scary how willing some are to give a government even more of their money. Governments aren't infallible, nine times out of ten they're corrupt and waste hundreds of billions each year. Why would any logical human being advocate giving them more money? We should be reducing the amount of money governments get from us.
There is something very wrong with that page : its source code contains links to porn website in <div> elements with `display: none` styles.

I suppose the page was cracked, or that the domain was bought by black hat SEO. HN should probably not gives it credit by linking it.
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You're on the verge of an epiphany about how full-time SWEs are treated versus retail employees, but it'll require grappling with the fact its unlikely he made up 100% of the story
> Organic for the most part is a myth

This is not really true, I think the problem is every country has a different definition and standards, sometimes multiple.
> The US was founded with an extreme class system -- slavery, and aristocratic-only male-only voting.

The US is the story of a country that is constantly struggling to live up to its founding ideology. Slavery was widespread globally at that time, and ended up fighting its most deadly war to end it. Over time its flaws were sought out and eradicated to give way to the most prosperous and free country in human history, all within a couple hundred years.

The founders were not perfect (no one is), but did realize the evils of slavery and some did end up releasing their slaves.
I should clarify that my perspective is coming from a strictly American point of view, where only 15% of crop ground is irrigated, and the percentage of owner-operated land is around 60%.

To be honest I don't even know how to begin sourcing the claims you are asking about. Do I need a source to tell you that over-applying fertilizer and pesticides is expensive? So much so that it is a very real risk to find yourself in a situation where the sum costs of your inputs can easily overshadow the yield of a field on a bad year? Do I need a source to say that farmers want to avoid that situation, and that those with the means invest heavily to do exactly that?

The other point, around sustainability of soil quality is one of the most common misconceptions I see on sites like this. There seems to be this idea that there's some boogeyman hiding on the 20 year horizon that we are headed towards because of our extraction from the soil. The truth is that you don't have to wait that long at all. Everyone knows a neighbor or friend of a friend that got sloppy with crop rotations, or waterway maintenance or nutrient deficiencies. Its not some unpaid externality. You don't get away with it for long – it costs you dearly when it's your own land and it only takes a few years.
The excuse that Google shit stinks more so you should enjoy Apple shit.

Apple won't sell you a screen,keyboard or chip to fix your hardware, I am waiting to explain to me how this is very green
That seems like another strawman; e.g. I said it could be warrants for this reason.

There's lots of examples of financial ownership without the holder of the return running the business. Whether it's a state or an ex-spouse.
South Park, as often, was on point of that with HumancentiPad episode. It's funny, how 9 years later the problems are not only still there, but at much bigger scale.
I hope it never IPO's, it is too important to be public for now. Worst case scenario is that it IPO and McKinsey comes in to "streamline" the company ...
They are going to do that anyway as Firefox keeps loosing market share the search revenues is going to diminish .

They have been unable to find alternative revenue streams.

TBH it is hard to make a recurring revenue of $ 400M even from scratch , Mozilla has an existing culture that is not simply geared towards this kind of product building . I would be skeptical of even competent board and management doing this .
If they want that, why wouldn't they put it in the law? And if they want it but it's not in the law, then why do we care?
Then their definition of "support" certainly doesn't matches mine, macOS has a lot of bugs that never get fixed of which I have written before: https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/615979862803562496/15-flaws-o...
Your local nerds warned you. The internet warned you. People need to take responsibility for choosing Apple.
Memory modules soldered to the motherboard - this is now common in most laptops, it's almost harder to find one without this then it is with this.

Limiting speed based on battery life - most laptops do this?

Opposing 3rd party repair shops - most large companies want you to send it back to them or take it to their repair company. Many large companies even have a "Samsung certified repair person" you need to call.

Apple is a large company and is not doing mysterious nefarious acts. They do what most other companies do.
>there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland or startups being created in Switzerland

Got a peer-reviewed citation that there is zero evidence? Or is that your opinion?

Here's some evidence on Swiss rich mobility [1]: ".. tax records of two cantons with quasi-randomly assigned differential tax reforms suggest that 24% of the effect arise from taxpayer mobility .." [4]

Taxpayer mobility.... means rich people moving for tax reasons, correct?

Many countries had a wealth tax; almost all of them dropped it because it did cause capital flight and didn't generate much revenue compared to the costs. Switzerland was late to that party, and will likely drop theirs for the same reasons.

Here's but one paper on the actual effects of the Switzerland wealth tax:

[1] "We estimate that a 0.1 percentage-point rise in wealth
taxation lowers reported wealth by 3.5% in aggregate. Expressed relative to taxable capital income flows, this implies a net-of-tax elasticity of roughly 1.2, which is large compared to the elasticities typically estimated in the income literature. The elasticity of tax revenues with respect to tax rates is only -0.2"

So you see it's already pushing wealth out of the tax base.

As to where wealthy people settle, look for the papers on wealthy moving between Swiss cantons to get the best tax advantage (the tax rates are by canton). So there is absolutely evidence of rich moving to take better tax advantage.

>Wealth taxes and their effect have been studied quite a bit in economics literature, and there are various peer-reviewed papers that attempt to measure the effects, but the Silicon Valley crowd is strangely avoidant of examining evidence or explaining their opposition with real-world data

Yes, there is ample economic evidence. It's odd that those pushing for one in the US ignore the past case evidence.

For example, [2] shows that a wealth tax does lower entrepreneurship, in [3] Stiglitz shows that a wealth tax does have a negative effect on investment and increased risk-aversion.....

Google scholar has lots of papers on what happened to countries that implemented such taxes, and why those taxes got dropped.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22376

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/097135570801700...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012780...

[4] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3471248
I believed he got fired. And I believe he thinks he got fired for helping an elderly relative.

Do I think that's the whole truth? No.
I think its unlikely SpaceX will have an IPO. Elon likely wants to maintain as much control as possible until he gets to Mars.
Spinning of Starlink makes sense once its up and running.
Apple is fully responsible for the behavior of their managers acting in accordance with company policy. What is a company if not the sum of its people?
>Also, not surprising, Firefox security leaves a lot to be desired.

Huh? Blocking google analytics tracking is a positive, not a negative regarding security.
Pixelbook Go has a mute media key. I believe my Lenovo does too, though I'd have to dig that one out of the boxes to double check
People have built passable translation systems with transformers using a single high end GPU.
I've used Pandas recently, not sure if this will ever help you, but dictionaries are much faster if you continually add rows.

pandas.concat and similar functions for appending to a Pandas dataframe can be quite slow. Just mentioning this in case you ever encounter this issue; maybe you don't need to. In my case I changed to dictionaries for important parts and 2 mins changed to 5 seconds execution time.

However, in my case, I have to change logical row structure and not just read in rows as is.
The vast majority of low-density housing in the US is owner occupied, and the majority of investor owned properties are already multi-unit dwellings. There is already plenty of incentive for self-interested investors to increase housing supply, the it seems implied that you’re in favour of a policy that changes the tax situation for owner-occupied homes.
Great explanation — although only a week or so ago I wouldn't have understood a lot of it. Knowing how transistors work helps a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvAlwMAxiA
This sounds a lot more like a vindictive or petty boss with an axe to grind than evil corporate policy gone awry. Corporate policies are like federal laws, there are multiple mutually exclusive ways to violate them, but you only get held to account if you are subject to some attention.
There's no substantive difference between those two descriptions - the manager and employee both work for Apple
This is my hardest thing to do. My gaming setup is the same as my work desk. This usually results in me gaming less during the week, but some days I have literally spent 12+ hours at my desk.
What about famous people? Beautiful people? Charismatic people? People with the right family name? Bush, Clinton, Kennedy?

What about the power newspapers have over shaping the national dialogue? what about tv stations? What about unions? What about film makers, authors?

How do we limit their power? or is it only money that we're concerned about?
Agreed. Nothing here adds up at all. Sounds to me like the author was let go for different reasons entirely (and this was just an easy excuse for management), or that something else is missing here.

The number of mentions about Apple providing the service "for free" makes it sound like the author perhaps actually charged their elderly friend, and honestly that would be a huge violation. I don't know exactly what the author's job was (can't find it on the site), but if their job is servicing Macs, it's very normal for their employment contract to forbid making money servicing Macs outside their job -- it's literally having your own employees compete with you.

But if the author didn't charge... then there's got to be a separate "real reason" they were fired.
Why? The government compels you to do all sorts of stuff.
If you reside (183 days per year is the rule of thumb) somewhere they’ll usually want to tax you. That may be an issue even within a country. Swiss cantons and US states often go to court regarding where some particular person should pay taxes.
It seems plausible that Apple has a policy against free-lance tech support and they over-applied the rule in this case when he was just helping out a friend - perhaps using work resources in some way (e.g. a work phone was involved).
Well, yes, but the topic here was data. And if at some time you thought it was forgettable and you scheduled it for deletion, once the law changes you should make damn sure all code involved in that deletion was checked or the data will be gone - against the new law. A big opportunity for human error here.
Self-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways next year
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Nothing compared to the likes of Raytheon or Northrop Grumman. Everyone likes to bash the big ones, but they are far from unique, they are simply well known.
Yeah, it seems to me like the classic artist-vs-the-art debate. Let's be honest, the guy IS rather brilliant in multiple fields and he's built large, effective organizations whose output is head and shoulders above everyone else. He's can also be an obnoxious ass with a juvenile sense of humour. If he were to turn out to be <insert vile thing here> tomorrow, the rockets will still land the Model3s will still be safer and more efficient than their competition.

FWIW, I fall on the "art" side of this debate. I didn't think highly of Jobs, but I still got the OG iPhone, MBPs, etc. I often wish Musk would STFU, but I still love driving my Model 3 and I'm saving up to buy a ticket on Starship.
What’s the main draw on your book vs others?
I have no doubt that he earned some of what he has. But I have doubt that his work added enough value to the world that he should be so extraordinarily wealthy. The scientists who discovered, and started producing Insulin probably added more net value - yet I don't think any of them became a billionaire as a result.
"everything stinks" may be true but isn't useful.
>they don't vote for Amazon the Jeff Bezos Political Agenda.

Plenty of companies take a hit on their wallet when the CEO has political agendas the customers don't like.
Doesn't seem like a feature if they had to pay 500 million dollars in a lawsuit thanks to doing this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/apple-to-pay-up-to-500-milli...
From what I have heard I know FB, Google to be pretty vocal internally and with tough questions on policies, products and decisions. Amazon and Microsoft fall into the category where most employees don't bother with this behaviour. Is Apple even more restrictive than Microsoft or do employees don't even bother?
The irony of a human seeing Ryan Gosling in a random face is pretty good.
Blink, Gecko and which is the third one?
The dark side of Asia’s pop music industry (2016)
This didn’t happen to new devices.

The throttling was only activated after the battery failed to supply enough power and the phone shut off unintentionally; an event that only occurred after years of use.
> Take a computer-nonliterate but otherwise functionally competent adult with very limited vision (macular degeneration, glaucoma, etc.), onset of cognitive disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, TIAs, ...) but compelled to use computers for some functions (utility payments, banking, government services, remote comms, socialisation, hobbies & interests).

How far do you want to take this? At the end of the day you need to understand what's going on - otherwise you're going to visit a site presenting a self-signed cert and just click the "let me bypass this warning" button before handing over your creds.

It's no different to being phoned up by a scammer and being asked to transfer money for a "tax refund". What can we do about that technically? We try. We add warnings when customers initiate a bank transfer but at the end of the day it's their money and they must be free to send it where they please. So there has to be a focus on education, _as well as_ technological methods to try and protect the user.

> The world contains numerous people who are not tech-savvy, capable, digital natives. And even a large fraction of that population would fall prey to attacks of this nature.

There's a difference between being "tech-savvy, digital natives" and understanding the basics of how things like your email client work - and what it displays when it's going to send attachments.

I'm tired of this attitude that people are helpless and that understanding some basic aspects of the technology they use on a daily basis is completely forever out of their reach. It's patronising, and it leads to us "dumbing down" software (see Chrome and the address bar).

> Please show more awareness and compassion.

I've acknowledged that a warning may go some ways to improving this situation, but I absolutely stand by:

- The functionality had some genuine usage in the form of desktop software that opened up the mail client with e.g. crash logs attached.
- Removing the functionality entirely rather than exploring how to do it in a safer (read: not safe) way was an over-reaction and we've lost something potentially useful as a result.

> Perhaps beginning with your handle.

Perhaps you could focus on the points being made _in the body of_ the next comment you reply to?
I mean, I was trained alongside retail employees and went through the same NDA processes and secrecy training. I doubt he made up the story — I fully believe he was fired for this reason, but it seems a lot more likely to me that someone was looking for an excuse to do the firing and this was it, rather than actively hunting down and terminating employees helping the elderly in their spare time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
100 Grams of shrimp has a carbon footprint of 198kg(436lb)

https://phys.org/news/2012-02-tiny-shrimp-giant-carbon-footp...
I have no insight into this specific situation and you may be right that something is being omitted by the author. However I don't agree with your reasoning for coming to that conclusion. Just because Apple treats one employee that way doesn't mean Apple treats all employees that way or that all Apple employees act in a way counter to how this employee acts.
> famously Gerard Depardieu

This sounds like a funny inside joke, but I don't get it. We are talking about the French actor, right?
It's not quite so black-and-white; wealth taxes change the incentive structure, so that the returns to creating increasingly valuable companies is non-linear. Wealth taxes (especially those with 'floors') discourage risky, high potential ventures, thereby skewing entrepreneurship towards smaller, less risky projects.

I personally think there are too few of the big, risky ventures these days, and too many low value-at-risk software-only startups (aiming to be bought up by a FAANG), but that is just an opinion.
First human case of plague in California since 2015 diagnosed
I love how everyone is forgetting about the employee that got fired for showing Woz the ipad early.

https://www.cultofmac.com/39931/woz-accidentally-gets-apple-....
Well oracle employee or not they are making some interesting points. I would appreciate more discussion on the content of their post rather than just disqualifying it outright based on their employment.
It depends? Personally I like such large spaces, at least where I walked them in weather which allowed for that. Also E-bikes and rollers do exist now, not to forget old-fashioned bicycles.

Maybe "zone" them in ways which allows for many tiny oasis in the deserts of asphalt, concrete, steel and glass?
"If Chinese citizens are told by their government that covid is no longer a risk to the general population and that western media outlets are fear mongering to damage China, they will believe it regardless of the truth. The CCP is the truth in China."

Chinese people are incapable of thinking for themselves and anything you personally hear from one should be disregarded as brainwashing.

With an attitude like this, I see no hope for meaningful future cooperation. Everybody on board the cold war train.
obviously TOS written by companies wielding monopoly power are bullshit. We've just defined monopoly too narrowly in the law. Is it possible for me to obtain an equivalent product from a competing company? If the answer is no, then you are a monopoly. If your product is not interoperable with other products that you are claiming equivalence with, then your claims at equivalence are invalid.