skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes me angry is that people won't learn anything from this. The next time something like this happens, people will defend it to the end and call people who warn about it "paranoid" or "cynical".

Corporations are not your friends. Unless it is set in legal writing you can't take their promises at heart value. Even if they set it in legal writing it might mean nothing since they always find a way to worm around it. Their ultimate goal is to fuck you over. Their pricing and profit margin are "take as much as possible without them complaining". Games will get more expensive and it has nothing to do with development costs, it has everything to do "because they can so why wouldn't they".

Corporations are not idiots and they know how to do something subversively and over a long period of time so people don't notice the changes. Look at how microtransactions in games became almost a norm nowadays and future generations won't even see anything wrong with it. Look at how using FOMO and other psychological tricks are actually a "good retention method" now instead of being unethical, people don't even complain against it any more, they complain if it is badly implemented and they don't get enough of it. Companies selling your data are getting less and less backlash over it with people using arguments as "oh well they know everything already, I don't care".

I really hate all of this.
to track what games you bought and downloaded so you can download them again if your device breaks?
My friends are definitely not wealthy, many of them are struggling, but I guess my city is cheaper and people have more living space, most (not all) people I know have enough room to put a chair and small desk/table big enough for laptop use in the corner of a bedroom or living room. (I do not live in NYC. It's also true that most of my friends don't have children, which may be relevant to available space. I don't know about OP, or you).

I don't know about "two desks", nobody I know uses a home desk for anything BUT work. If you have one desk, you could designate it for work, and not do other things there. Don't do work on the couch or where you eat your meals (if that's somewhere other than a couch), only do it at the desk, and don't do other things there (pay your bills or whatever on the couch or whatever). Is what I was suggesting.

I see now that many other comments on this thread also suggest finding a way to have a dedicated workspace, so it's not just me.

If you do have room for a desk, but can't avoid using it for things other than work too, perhaps it would be helpful to keep all non-work things off the desk when you are working, and all work things off the desk when you are not, to help separate it.

But I'm sorry my ideas were inapplicable to your situation and thus offensive to you.
What I'm saying is that politics distorts everything about a person, and makes them appear as something they are not.
>Makes me wonder how the distribution on other filesharing/torrent networks looks like.

I think the key difference is in filesharing networks, there are tens/hundreds/thousands copies of data, and each peer can jettison the data at any time without penalty. In contrast, storage networks (I'm using sia as an example here) only have three copies (by default), require upfront commitment (6 months by default), and you stand to lose your collateral in the event you delete the data prematurely. The latter two properties exist to counteract the unreliability associated with only having 3 copies if peers can randomly drop out at will.

>will the same apply to high-capacity harddisks, due to people trying to run mini-datacemters for profit?

Theoretically no. Presumably because every gigabyte of storage that's being bought for the storage network, is every gigabyte that someone doesn't have to buy to store their data.
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS
I don't think we have "good" theories about how life started here. In particular, the complexity gap from abiotic chemicals to the smallest known organism capable of independent reproduction (about 4 billion atoms!) is extremely large, and no theory has done more than handwave about how that gap is to be crossed.
Been at 2 series A/B startups for the past ~3.5 years. It was a really fun 3-6 months followed by 3 very not fun years.

My N is low, they were both non-Bay (NYC) startups, maybe some startups are fun, maybe I'm really bad at picking startups, but I think a startup's culture is often as much or more of a crapshoot than the startup's business.

Was at Google before, and it was fun for only a bit as well, but definitely not as actively non-fun as my last 3 years has been.
The first part I’d say is even less likely than a big payout. That is only going to be true if it’s at a very well known consumer brand or just within a very specific niche
Prediction markets are not legal in the U.S.

(There are some with low limits, like $1000 per position or $5k per person---I don't remember exactly---but I do not consider those to be "real" prediction markets.)
What are we looking for from CEOs? I feel like, if a CEO had made such flatly incorrect promises about something with direct financial implications (sales, costs, the industry in general) they would be seen as failing at their job. Luckey seems comfortable simply pointing out that he didn't make the mistake people have accused him of. It's enough to say he made another (perhaps lesser) mistake. There's nothing in the statement that reckons with his previous understanding of FB or Occulus and what else he might have gotten wrong. It feels disappointing to me.
How will they support security updates for 6 years when Google isn’t supporting that? Google usually deprecates support after 2-3 years. Also some security fixes require new kernels so there’s that.

For Samsung to do that they’ll essentially will have to fork Android.
> Calling this oppression is absurd.

I never used the word “oppression”. You did.

> To oppose a wealth tax on majoritarian grounds you need to demonstrate that the wealthy are oppressed in some way.

There are multiple ways in which this is wrong.

Firstly, the term “oppression” is overly charged here. I prefer a more general term, so I’ll use “injustice”.

Secondly, you are making a circular argument. In my opinion, confiscating people’s wealth on the basis that they have too much of it is unjust. You are pointing out that the wealthy aren’t, as a whole, subjected to any kind of injustice as it stands; but you’re doing that in the context of proposing to commit injustice against them.

The point that you’re missing is that the primary human motivation for injustice is to perceive a successful group of people as fortunate and privileged, and to resent them for it. So your test for majoritarianism actually fails almost every time that it is tested because, in the perceptions of most majoritarians themselves, they would pass your test.
What bothers me about every space movie made is that all those planets have life on them (or, worse, intelligent life). Fermi says hi.
The claim that CMake is the least worst C++ build system that we have is pure BS.

In my last 3 professional C++ projects I’ve actually used Rust’s cargo tool as my build tool for C++ code. Infinitely better than CMake, plus you use Rust as your scripting language for your build system, which has great libraries for it like the cc crate, and pretty much a crate for whatever it is you want to build (eg ispc? no problem).
Not sure about the exact name. But kotlin also has "function with receiver" that together with this makes it very easy to write almost a custom domain language on top of kotlin.
you're at the bottom of the list currently my dude
VAT pass through can be quite high (see for instance [0]) : VAT does not tax businesses as much as consumers.

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Est...
I accept your challenge, here's why my comments are relevant:

- This post is front paged on HN, grabbing your attention, mine, and a demographic that skews largely to Apple's core corporate HR need and customer base.

- It is important that the HN community can rely on the comments section to gain insight or nuance that they would not otherwise have from the source material.

- The author works to harm Apple's reputation as an employer and company suggesting one stops buying their products and opt out of their ecosystem etc.

- This central argument, that Apple is an unfair and malicious employer, is in conflict with Apple's objectively industry leading employee retention numbers that I share above.

- The author never discloses that he is/was a retail employee vs. a corporate employee which I think anybody with an understanding of retail employment in general would appreciate to have as a filter to assess his pov.

- Without taking a position of this termination being right or wrong, the evidence above suggests this is an edge-case and is probably not deserving of my or my fellow HN users taking into deep consideration in our opinion of Apple.

- Instead it feels like a well timed piece of negative content that fits into a narrative that several very large and powerful corporations are working hard to try in the court of public opinion. (1)

- - -

And then back to your comment - what lesson or theme are you drawing from a single retail employees one-sided negative experience working within the Apple employee ecosystem? What am I missing? Why is this relevant?

(1) https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372480/apple-epic-threa...
I don't believe him at all. If it is true, then that's surprisingly dumb of him. I'd respect him more if he just admitted he sold out for a life-changing amount of money. Heck, I probably would have done it too.
Leaving Apple’s Walled Garden
The S&P500 is not an index of the entire economy. It's heavily weighted towards the tech sector.

The hardest hit businesses (retail, restaurants, service) were small parts of the S&P500 because they usually don't have the economies of scale that tech has, and therefore don't produce the mega-caps that dominate the S&P500.
One failure does not disprove a hypothesis.
Another is the assumption most founders are in their 20's. versus 40,50,60s where compounding over 5,10 20 yrs isn't nearly as big of an impact.
Indeed. On most balance sheets it's "cash and cash equivalents". Apple owns treasuries and other "highly liquid assets" that are regarded as cash equivalents.

Apple had $12B in true cash at the end of Q3'19.[1] But the "cost of revenue" was $163B. So they had ~7% of expenses available as cash, which makes sense since you don't want to be selling short-term investments to make payroll. You'd need to keep cash on hand to pay expenses.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/financials?p=AAPL
Is he the one to blame? No.

Does he deserve the blowback? Probably not.

Was it an extremely naive promise to make given historical experience and the company that acquired you? Absolutely.
Is that the person you desire to be?
i think in the end it's going to come down to what you really consider "life" to be.

there is an implicit part of our definition that includes timescales and size, and this puts some limits on the type of chemistry that can be involved in order to qualify.

if you open up the definition to be things that work on totally different timescales and sizes than we consider, then i think its fair to say that the chemistry doesn't need to be similar at all.

but for things that form blobs of life on the rough range of scales found on earth, and that "do stuff" in the range of timescales that we see on earth, there are not too many choices. silicon often gets touted as an alternative because of its ability to form branched structures. do you know of any other ideas?
What if you had a large static asset, like land a parent left you? or the family farm?
Many people dream of doing things.... not being rich.

Bill Gates dreams of eradicating polio. Is $100M enough? No

Elon Musk dreams of colonizing Mars. Is $100M enough? Absolutely not.
The trend changed partly due to the 80s cult of shareholder value worship enthused by Milton Friedman / Reagan that permanently altered the social contract of corporations. If the only responsibility of corporations is shareholders, then long-term growth and investment is difficult to justify given market tendencies to be so short-term focused over time.
This implies that safe languages are not fast; this is not necessarily so, and in the case of Rust, manifestly not so.

Maybe "loose languages steal".
Been tracking them for a long time. They've been at "pilot" stage since at least 2011.

Personally I don't think that any form of alternative energy storage has much chance against Li-ion, which has experienced unbelievable declines in cost (driven mostly by cell phones and electric cars).

A bunch of extremely well funded compressed air storage companies have already run aground against this problem: Lightsail (Thiel & Gates backed), SustainX, etc.

I'd be skeptical unless they can somehow actually prove economics against Li-ion, but these media pieces always seem to skirt that question.
I tried with Chrome and it worked.
How to Build Community in a Crisis
Back in the 90s, I had a serial cable under the carpet from my computer to my couch. My computer would access the internet over PPP and my laptop would PPP over to my computer. Then I would launch netscape and browse the web from the comfort of my couch.

I have had a couple other use cases over the years like virt-manager at work, and a graphical management tool that I made for my son's minecraft server.

Sure there were other solutions but X11 over the wire worked well.
>Just dress the same in the morning as you would if you would go into the office, and at the end of the day, take off the work clothes and dress as you would normally at home

Tech bro problems: These are the exact same things for me
Apple's new Mac repair program is a sham
I would love to use makefiles and git submodules instead of this msbuild/nuget contraption. That would be way less sophisticated, but I would welcome it. msbuild seems like a good example of microsofts tendency to overengineer simple things. But sometimes its suprisingly simple. different build configuration are just strings stiched together like "x64|Debug", and then are are conditionals to that value. Msbuild it's kind of a CLR language, but you can't debug it. The xml sytax and the syntax you use in the attributes feels arkward but sometimes limited for no good reason. Is <Message Text="Backup files: @(Compile->'%(filename).bak')" /> what i would want, if I'm used to linq? No, not me. @ and % are not intuitive for me. I usually have to try out what works. Accessing members of objects is odd. Calling System.String.Format feels like I'm supposed to do it. Anything interesting has to be done with custom task, and these are hard to debug aswell. For example studio would unload the .dlls, so you have to close it every time. That thing feels like a classic turing tarpit. A very complicated turing tarpit.

Then again, if your build should output a .nupkg, the whole infrastructure seems to be lacking. You are left alone doing things that seem like they should be part of a package manager. e.g. handling of the version number. The whole build system knows the build output, but you have to specify it by hand again, in a different file.
The Disney company (under Eisner) did create a planned community called Celebration, but it didn't really follow Walt Disney's EPCOT plan. It still exists, but has since been sold off to a private developer, so has no real connection to Disney.
That's untrue and not really relevant to the point anyway. Spending changes are small relative to the total spending, and have been increasing, for the most part.

NIH budget for example increased from $32 billion in 2016[1] to $41.68 billion in 2020. Trump has proposed a 6% cut for the 2021 NIH budget but that is not finalized yet.[2]

NSF budget increased 2.5% from 2019 to 2020, to $8.3 billion. [3]

NOAA +4%. [4]

DoD Science and Tech: +1%. [5]

[1] https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/fiscal...

[2] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/trump-proposes-si...

[3] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-natio...

[4] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-natio...

[5] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-dod-s...
I call b.s. on that. Edge does actively check and scrape data from other browsers so it knows it isn't the last or default browser. You don't need a browser to use a windows workstation with pre-installed productivity apps. You might find edge itself is undesirable on your systems because people try to use it to access sites and you din't to support edge operationally or vulnerability management.

I thought the 90s anti-trust lawsuit against MS was exactly about this?
It depends on your lifestyle. If you ask the early retirement / FIRE forums, they'll tell you you're good to go.

If you have 2 million, you can conservatively (meaning a low 3% - 4% withdrawal rate) take out 60k to 80k a year in perpetuity. Can you live on 60k - 80k a year? Consider you'll be paying a lot less in taxes since it's all capital gains. If your normal salary was 100k ish, you probably can.
Both. Right now I'm going through learning sound design on new hardware, but I also use Logic to try my hand at some compositions (mostly instrumental intros right now).
> I suspect that what you really mean is Guevara fought for what you think is just. But that's a weaker statement.

You might have mistaken me as a supporter of communism. I don't support communism. Osama Bin Laden exploited the religion for his personal gain. His goal is to become the caliph which is roughly equivalent to being the single military leader for entier Islam as said in the quoran. He did not bother about the people or had any ideology of his own.

Che did not exploit religion. He is an atheist, was supporter of women rights, he understood the value of education and setup schools for his young troops even during the guerrilla warfare. He knew he will not be the leader of cuba and Fidel Castro would be the leader of the country and yet he fought for what he thought would make the society just.

Che thought deeply, was highly intelligent and had the balls to sacrifice his life for what he thought would make the society better.

Gangsters are one who have balls to do violent things but do not care about society.
Tax money leaving the country and have a foreign entity tax.
I'm pretty sure Paul Graham is not mathematically stupid. the alternative is that he is being extremely disingenuous here.

He himself mentioned in the article a threshold of wealth at which the wealth tax kicks in.

However his calculations then completely ignore that threshold. no wealth tax is going to take away 95% of anybody's startup company unless their startup company is infinitely valuable.
Alright, then I’ll be selling this Rift S and getting an Index after all. Fuck Facebook.
Coverage on Forbes.[1] "Even if Epic anticipated the Fortnite ban, and were ready with a cute parody video and a sixty page injunction, they do not seem to have anticipated Apple coming after Unreal itself. "

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/08/18/does-apple...
You can deduce that cash on hand harms nobody by doing a thought experiment.

If there were a company sitting on $100 trillion in cash - enough to make everyone else's money just a small fraction of the total - how would that hurt anybody?

It wouldn't. Idle cash harms no one. You could make the argument that the cash has the potential to be spent in large influential harmful ways, like on elections or something, but that's a very different topic.

Taking this money and spending it on things doesn't increase anybody's quality of life. It just moves resources from the natural flowing economy to the people who take the money and spend it first (like newly printed money/inflation).

Taking $100 trillion and spending it doesn't create $100 trillion worth of goods if the physical mechanics of the economy are not established to create those goods. It just makes the existing physical capital 100x more expensive in dollar terms, and shifts their distribution to where the politicians want it.

You can't increase quality of life by wider availability of goods through the economy by playing money games. Money isn't anything, it's just a matter of accounting.

The only thing that actually creates more is the removal of barriers from creating more.
>As a CEO of a company that is being sold you can not make any binding statements about the future of the company you will no longer own.

Agreed, but that's no different that ANY corporate statement on anything. Things change. A policy or statement may be true this year, but may not be true next year.

GitHub made many nice statements post-Microsoft acquisition, and you know what, Microsoft execs may even believe all of them today. In 5 years though - who knows.

>Of course he and FB had a pretty strong incentive to ensure that there wouldn't be an immediate break-off risk to the acquisition, and of course there was plenty of evidence from other acquisitions that this is how the world works.

That could be part of it. It could also be the case that FB just didn't make any decisions pertaining to this aspect of Oculus at that point in time. It could also be the case that FB had many different factions within its org that pushed for different things - one faction wanted to use FB login, another did not and the former faction won after a while.

This is less nefarious than people are making it out to be.
@dang, fix typo in headline? Faceboook.
Data transfer to a new Mac is straight Migration Assistant territory. Nothing special, internal, or proprietary about it.
There's already property tax.
Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4
Canonical Is Boosting MS’s Proprietary Software with Extensive Surveillance
Basically people use B-Corps and similar concepts to make other people that are uncomfortable and skeptical of general capitalism feel comfortable by pretending there are safeguards built into the corporate structure preventing whatever they are uncomfortable with.

Charters can easily change, anything can be reincorporated at whim anywhere.

Also its typically just Shariah-Compliant investing rebranded for an Islamaphobic audience. S&P has a shariah index right across the border in Toronto Stock Exchanfe since forever while similar enterprisers push B-Corps and Public Benefit Corporations domestically as if they’ve “figured out” the code to sustainable for profit ventures through charter. Shariah in this context is very compatible with what these kind of investors and consumers are looking for, but they don't know it as they probably conflate it with human rights abuses.

People are just gullible, hope I unpacked that enough.
How to spot and analyse malicious emails
Overall, it doesn't feel great we delegated these statues to 3d printing.
Sometimes I wish Facebook should at-least try to prove us wrong. These are trying times with everyone being paranoid about how their data is mishandled, shared, used and for good reason. What is so difficult in giving users the option to connect their Facebook accounts if they wish because lets be honest so users might just want to but making it mandatory is only going to hurt the gaming community.
Berlin winters ... mild?
Saw that coming. As a user of the original Oculus Rift headset, I will definitely be upgrading to a non-Oculus headset within the next 2 years (before Facebook accounts become mandatory).
Software is soft