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SpaceX feels like the next "big thing"... question is when does it IPO. Even if the Mars stuff never pans out they can be a very successful business in telecommunication infra.
How do you feel about the current PrePear related debacles? Is there more to that story too? Why can't Apple be an evil company?
Can you please expand on how you learnt that from NLP? Did you do a degree? If yes, then in what and where from?

Also, would be great and I'd highly appreciate if you could share some resources to them, I'll also Google meanwhile. That stuff has also excited me!
Effective approaches to dealing with tracking time spent on content and webpages
Nurses and restaurant workers never do a 2 hour shift, whenever they feel like it, deciding at the last minute. Nor has surge pricing ever been used in nursing or restaurants.
AFAIK, this only really covers gross negligence or outright sabotage. I don't recon anyone trying to pin bad business decisions on their devs are likely to succeed in court.
Leopards ate my face.

Apple has had a planned obsolence policy for a while now.

Memory modules soldered to the motherboard, limiting speed based on battery life, opposing 3rd party repair shops, and many other issues...
Obvious disclaimer: I'm not a tax specialist. You should not rely on tax advice found in an internet comment. I probably got some stuff wrong below.

When you exercise an ISO, it is not considered regular taxable income. It is as if you legitimately purchased the stock on the market for that price. No tax is due until you sell. If you sell immediately then you pay regular income tax on the gain. But if you hold it for at least a year, then you pay long-term capital gains rate, which maxes out at 20% (vs. 37% for regular income tax).

When you exercise an NSO, the gain is considered income and is immediately taxable at regular income tax rates, whether you sell it or not. If the company is not public, then you can't sell share to pay the taxes, so if you're going to exercise NSOs, you'd better do it either before the valuation has gone up much (in which case you end up paying mostly long-term capital gains tax), or wait until after IPO (and pay regular income tax). Since investing in startups is very very risky, exercising early probably isn't the right choice for most regular people.

Extra complication: The US has two tax codes that exist in a sort of quantum superposition. Each taxpayer must pay whichever tax bill is larger of the two. The above describes the regular tax code, but there is also Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Under AMT, ISOs are not special; they are treated like NSOs. But, the maximum tax rate under AMT is 28% rather than 37%, and doesn't kick in until higher income levels. So if you exercise ISOs before the company has gone public, but after the valuation has raised significantly over the exercise price, you might again have trouble paying the taxes. But if you manage to pay them, and you manage to hold for a year, your overall gain will probably be 10%-20% more than what you would have gotten with NSOs.

Extra extra complication: Let's say you exercise your ISOs before IPO and you manage to pay the AMT. Years later, you sell the stock. Is your capital gains computed based on the ISO exercise price, or the valuation at exercise? BOTH! Under regular income tax, you owe capital gains on everything since the exercise price, but under AMT you already paid for the gains between the exercise price and the valuation at exercise. If you don't want to get double-taxed you have to learn what it means to take a credit for a timing-based AMT adjustment. This is well beyond the point where Turbo Tax gets pretty unhelpful and you probably need to get a CPA, but in the Bay Area there are so many rich clients that a decent CPA will charge thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of dollars to do your taxes. Have fun!

All that said, if your plan is to exercise-and-sell in one action sometime after IPO, then I think ISO vs. NSO doesn't make much difference.
You have far more faith than I do. If Trump wins a second term, they'll make a big show of negotiating a trade deal with Britain and the EU after Brexit is realized.

If those negotiations break down they may use economic sanctions to show they mean business.
I think that's a really shallow way to look at it. For a professional photographer it's the final version of the file that is actually sold, not the RAW or film negative. These final files are often not some 300x200 web preview. These are full sized images. You can argue the final edit has more value and is the one to preserve. Ansel Adams broke the process down into 3 parts with the initial capture being but the first. So losing the final edits is losing 66% of the total work.

I'm only a hobbyist photog and the bday parties and weddings I've shot result in thousands of images. I can't imagine having to shoot multiple events every week for years. For a pro, the edits represent thousands of hours of work. That the work can be redone theoretically might mean very little to a working photographer.
It's a little bit more nuanced than that, since vaccines are mandatory in the US. The US government can't force kids to be vaccinated, but it can require that children attending public school be vaccinated. Which seems reasonable - if you want to use public resources, you have to be part of society, which includes protecting other people in the society with you. Most places with a society operate the same way, to different degree, and the only choice is either to opt out and live out in the wilderness, or find individuals who share your stance on, eg, vaccines.
IBM Brings an Architecture Gun to a Chip Knife Fight
I think we can call this authoritarian silver lining. I wonder what is actually happening in North Korea.
>I was an Apple employee for nearly 13 years, and I loved helping people get the most out of their Apple products. All of that ended about 6 months ago when Apple showed me its true colors. [...] I told him that yes I had in fact helped a friend with a data transfer (something Apple does for free) and that I had helped him on my own time. He told me that I had just admitted to a major conflict on interest, and that an official investigation in to my actions would now start, two days later I was suspended.

Maybe I'm missing some context but it seems like something huge has to be omitted from author's narrative.

There's just no way Apple Inc's ~137000 employees are all saying to friends & family, "nope, sorry, I can't help you with your iPhone/iPad/iMac because it's a conflict of interest and I'd get fired."
It'd be extremely unusual for such changes to be retrospective. For example, if you are currently required to keep certain kinds of financial records for 3 years, and you delete records older than that, you won't be held at fault when that law gets updated to say 5 years, and you then fail to produce a 4-year-old document; it has not yet been a year since the new law took effect.

This extends to criminal law too, for example with statutes of limitation. If, 20 years and 1 day ago, there was a 20-year statute of limitations for murder charges, you cannot be charged for committing a murder on that day (barring extraneous circumstances, such as tolling); even if a law was passed the day after said murder removing this limitation.
The UK is much better in this regard as the HMRC has rules for approved option schemes - I have EMI shares in my current employer
I can't speak for this person, but my life totally flipped around when I had the opportunity to participate in a kid's life. I had been always interested in helping to raise a kid, but never really worked towards it seriously. I started a relationship with someone 2 months after they had given birth. I tried to adopt as much responsibility as was appropriate while I was available, but with a young relationship and some logistical concerns there were reasonable limits to that participation. What I can say is that there were no bad part. Things got hard, but there is something powerful in needing to rise to such an occasion. What I have recognized is that I am bad with kids, but good with individuals. As soon as I changed my perspective that this person was an individual not a kid, there's a lot more capacity to our shared environment. I had to make this realization very quickly. I had the opportunity to participate for 2 years. I would Never give up that time
Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations
What does everyone on here use for their keyboards? I'm looking to get something more ergonomic and am slowly getting sucked down the mechanical keyboards rabbithole.
For one, the numpy versions use method calls with human readable names.

I prefer ergonomics and having my colleagues grok what a line does: eg. 'reshape' calls will change the shape of your array.

Bless you if you're in an environment where you can always pick the tools that work for you. But I'm never going to convince my (java, scala, python, R) adept colleagues that they need J in their life.

Here lie my gripes with the linked article, it's just not such a good sales pitch.
Calculating 10% ain't that hard killer -- just move the decimal point over. 36.22 becomes 3.6. Multiply that by 2, round up/down as you feel is warranted, and go with it. Plenty of the card readers even offer pre-calculated options when paying with debit/credit (usually 15%, 18%, and 20%).

If that's too difficult, horrendous, and annoying to do then chances are you shouldn't be eating out in the first place.
Turns out the article was written by a GPT-3 bot optimized for clicks. Welcome to the future.
Yes. Well said. It's understood that Rust has been in matured state for a long time. The current gesture is more of rhetoric signal than the actual stage of maturing.
Putin Ordered 2016 Democratic Hack
What jobs can get you remote work in 2 years if yore from a 3rd-world country?
In other words...what's in demand?

From what i've read so far, devops or backend development seem to be the jobs i should focus on. but i'm not sure

FYI, i'm a CS undergrad from Egypt. i wanna be able to work remotely and i'm down to learn anything to speed up that process.
Then how are they allowed to handle this data?
Astrology, Tarot, and Fortune Telling are all pseudoscience, but a good practitioner is going to be very good at Cold Reading.

http://skepdic.com/coldread.html

It works as long as the "mark" is naive. As James Randi explained many times.

Which is why intelligence communities want to suppress information about polygraphs that would make people less naive.

Makes perfect sense.
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> Billionaires are accountable to no one at all, yet have enormous power over all of us.

it's not an enormous power, it's economical power to create new things. It's a productive force, unless there's a bad incentive to influence politics. No billionare is capable of dictating you how you should live your life. Politicians are. Separate government from economics and make lobbying and interference into economics illegal and punishable, and you will never see these two groups of people seeking favours from each other.
as somebody who has written a lot of java and kotlin, often I prefer the most explicit option.

Code will be mostly read, not written, so if something will make a junior (or in some cases even seasoned) dev scratch their head to be understood, it is best avoided.

EG Often I prefer writing an "if != null else" instead of chaining takeIf{}s.
Yeah, I hate to reflexively take the side of a huge corporation here. I don't doubt that Apple has abusive employer relations, but it really does feel like there's something missing from this story.
If government is responsible for running common infrastructure, just by their choice of which infra to grow or let decay, they are affecting economy.
If government is responsible for social welfare (for the poor), they are affecting economy.
If government is collecting taxes, by their choice of what to tax how much etc, they are affecting economy.
If you take economic affections away from the government, what remains with the government?
So I'm guessing he was like a Genius bar worker or something? I suppose I could see that can be an issue for Apple. If something went wrong and say he deleted all of this persons stuff, and they call Apple and complain about their employee working on his computer, even on his off time, it could be a problem. Seems pretty harsh though.
The answer is fewer people. I can't see any reason to encourage a rising population, even while I see one has to be careful about encouraging a decreasing population. Nonetheless, engineering for population growth--even if it works--doesn't lead to the best possible world.
Additionally, tenants are often unaware of their rights and don't exert them for that reason. Others are aware of their rights but don't have the resources to fight if their landlord violates those rights.
https://volument.com might be a good pick since it focuses strictly on conversion optimization. It attempts to measure the more general conversion flow, known as the AIDA funnel (awareness, interest, desire, and action).
I never even think about options. They're a non-factor when deciding to work at a startup or any company. I don't even know why they bother to give them out. As an alternative to tiny options they could opt to give people a bonus on acquisition or IPO or find some other incentive to keep talent. I'm honestly more interested in 401k contributions.
> Bon Appétit

Easy tiger, I believe they've been cancelled, in the pejorative meme sense of the term. Perhaps warranted (or not), but controversial nonetheless.
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> Nothing will happen to these people.

Not true. They may end up putting out a press release explaining how "Here at Company X, we take security very seriously. Securing data is very important, and we will investigate ourselves to understand if we did anything wrong." So yea, consequences!
How many people do you think have died from covid in China? America has 200x deaths per capita according to official numbers.
I make money online as a teenager
CAD and Simulation Apps were written in those specific ways.

You are right.

Where that was done, performance was excellent.
Engineering/marketing trade-offs != planned obsolescence

Apple supports their devices longer than many of their competitors.
> We have control over reliability as our systems are designed to deal with drive failure.

That surely assumes an upper limit of the likelihood of a drive failure. There was a perception that the quality of 3.5" floppy disks declined drastically in the early 21st century. Must we not fear something similar for spinning-rust hard drives once most everyone uses SSDs?
This doesn’t seem to be the whole story.

Also, unless you’re the founder, a corporation should never be such a big part of your identity.
Glad to hear apple is protecting the iPhone users from malware like this.
At least in Austria there is a game season (hunting is quite big) and game meat is in abundance.
In the end, fitting. Anyone that put companies, people on a pedestal and think they're perfect are in for a rude awaking.
I ended up doing this, more or less for the same reason. I've found it kind of useful though, as I'm terrible at remembering names and faces, so if someone calls out to me the name they use gives me a clue where I know them from.
Historically, blockchain services have suffered from the situation that their price is pumped up to levels that cannot be justified by any level of adoption. So the resulting incentives are just for speculation and further pump-and-dump cycles instead of actual usage.
Throttling down speed because the battery was so old that it couldn’t supply the power needed to run at full speed.
Democratic support of a vocal minority and remember her power is predicated on violence, where bezos's power is based on voluntary interaction -- a big difference.
You might like 8/10 things about a country, there is nothing wrong in asking changes on the remaining 2 things. Moving to Germany might not give the remaining 8 things easily.
I disagree - it’s just way harder to come by any meaning in the corporate world than it is in startup. Startups have to assign meaningful work to everyone they hired or they die. Not so for big (or even medium) corp so they have to play the “work life balance” card so you don’t blow your brains out from boredom. Ofc that also means big cos are more welcoming to people who didn’t want anything to do with their work in the first place and just in it for the paycheck (nothing wrong with that) and it’s always a spectrum.
I've served on a non-profit board (the Apache Software Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3)), and I don't believe that counting on the composition of the board to maintain independence would be reliable. Board members come and go. If you care about independence, it should be baked into the corporate structure.

It is true that it is more difficult to get funds for a 501(c)(3) than a 501(c)(6). That forces the organization to operate lean and constrains possible initiatives (e.g. funding development), but also serves as a buffer against influence.

Paradoxically, a maximally independent organization may serve the interests of the long tail of potential corporate donors, because they don't have to worry that the biggest player in their space will capture it via pay-to-play.

(For those not up on the acronym, BOD stands for Board Of Directors in this context.)
A Butt Load of Work
Where do I wire the money?
I always keep my work and leisure devices separate. In The Before this discipline meant no work email or comms once I was out of the office for the day. These days I shut down the work laptop at 6 o’clock on the dot and I’m immediately in leisure mode.

In my spare time I will discuss my career with friends, or get advice on some trickier aspects of my job, but aside from that it’s not worth giving away my precious leisure time outside of working hours. It helps that I have a multitude of hobbies I enjoy doing just as much or more than work.
As someone who has previously (recently) worked for Apple as a software engineer, I have a feeling there's something more to this story that we don't know about. There's nothing that would indicate to me any sort of conflict of interest in what this person did, and the most I can construe things is that _maybe_ they were a Genius Bar employee, and _maybe_ this would count as a conflict of interest _if_ their manager was really looking for a reason to fire them, but I have a hard time imagining that anyone would go out of their way to investigate this otherwise.

Working there, there have been plenty of no-no's that we had to be careful about, and periodic training about conflicts of interest and similar, but helping out family, friends, and acquaintances was certainly not it.
yup. we went through a down round at a previous company. if i were to exercise my options, I'd be immediately down 50%. some "incentive."
This is what irks me about the “well they agreed to Apple’s TOS so they knew the risks” argument we’ve been seeing regarding their legal dispute with Epic.

TOS are written in a way to give their authors the maximum amount of power and leverage over the person or entity they’re working with, regardless of whether or not the terms exceed the spirit of general defensive legal strategy.

This guy lost a job because helped someone with some basic computer work, something many of us do with our relatives because they see us as “magicians” or whatever and we enjoy tinkering.

It’s hard to imagine what additional context needs to be present in order for Apple to be justified in doing this.

Just curious: does Apple maintain the right to disable my account if I talk bad about them online? It wouldn’t surprise me, but I guess I should read the TOS.
> Where else is that money going to go?

Other countries, for one. Capital is global.

> It might even create a whole new financial instrument or class of investments.

Absolutely. There will be a layer of, essentially, financial parasites taking value away from value creators to make this 'work'. Not sure what's great about that.
Are you going to bemoan the job loss of pyramid builders if/when some rich schmuck decides to spend half his net worth on building a pyramid too? (A yacht is a modern pyramid)

Job loss is a net positive in many cases.
Introduction to Calculus of Variations
Problems like the isoperimetric problem have held my fascination since the days I learned regular calculus. Submitting this brief note with apologies to the Mathematicians in the group.
Late reply, but I looked at that linked and tried it out. The calendar is only for a personal calendar. It doesn't allow you to send out invites.
Site seems to be down, WBM link here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200818181006/https://lowendmac....
This is Apple we're talking about though. One of the most strict companies out there.
I think this is what he's talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck

Even if it isn't - this is a must watch video!
You’re forgetting inflation and income taxes! If I had a $1b I would have to earn 5% + 2-3% a year just to break even - but if some portion of that 7-8% was income/capital gains than I would have to earn even more... and that’s before I put fuel in my jet or feed my thoroughbreds...
Have you considered using them for RAID?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
It is nice that Rust is getting an independent foundation but I hope it will not be too independent.

My idea of programming languages is that they are better when they are designed with their use case. And in the case of Rust, it is to make a web browser engine. I don't know what the current situation is with Servo but I think that it would be a good thing to keep a privileged relationship between the Servo team (or what is left of it) and the Rust foundation.

Rust is not for every project, in fact it is terrible for many projects, but if your project has the same needs as for a web browser engine, then it is great. By making the foundation too independent, we may end up with a monster (no need for another C++), a useless "jack of all trades, master of none", or simply lacking features that are essential for making a good web browser because it is not good enough for some committee.
You get emails. Imho it's not a big risk.
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Same thought I had. There must be more to it.
"REPL-Driven Development
The most graceful way to code."
I think this is a fair point, but are there perhaps compromises where quality of life doesn't have to go down? Solar panels on homes with government subsidies where fossil fuels are still heavily used for electricity. Investments (BIG ones) in public/metro transportation.

I agree with human psychology being a limiting factor here, but I think there are also ways we can work with it, by saying that life quality doesn't have to go down or can even improve, rather than the current all or nothing approach.
If the story doesn't make sense, that usually means we haven't heard the whole story.
> Take it where? Lots of Europe has wealth taxes already.

All European countries either don't have wealth taxes anymore, or they're fractions of a percent, not 2-3%. The German supreme court even ruled the wealth tax unconstitutional.

> Commonwealth countries like AUS and CAN are likely to follow suit with a wealth tax -- capital flight to the US would be a big factor for them implementing it now but an American wealth tax opens the door.

Of course not, they would prefer the inflow of capital over the meager revenue from a wealth tax.

> And never mind that you're also asking people to give up their US citizenship to dodge these taxes -- the risk of which is probably as lot higher than just paying.

If you have a lot of money to lose, it's probably riskier to entrust a lifetime of tax obligations to a bankrupt state than to give up its citizenship. Rich people tend to be welcome abroad everywhere.
Then stop over taxing us.