skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine an expanded story, based purely on speculation. Old guy comes into the store and buys a new iMac. This guy recognizes him as a neighbour or friend-of-friend and comes over to say hi while another Apple sales associate is checking him out. He overhears the sales associate mention Apple's free program to transfer data. The old guy says "nah, I don't want to leave my computer here" and the friendly guy says "hey, no problem, I'll just pop by your place later and do it for you at your house". The original sales associate might have thought that was a conflict of interest so he reports it to a manager.

Now the manager is in a tough spot. This is some kind of official internal complaint and it is literally his job and his duty to investigate. He talks to the employee and the employee confirms the report. It's now out of his hands, has to go up a chain to a regional manager. It gets passed around a bit until someone unfamiliar with the employee looks at the policies and facts of the matter and they make a by-the-book call.

I can totally understand the frustration. It reminds me of some kind of Kafkaesque nightmare where justice is run through an algorithm. At some point we'd all hope a compassionate judge would look over the human's involved in the situation and apply some magnanimity.

Each person in a chain had an option to use their judgement to break the chain but nobody did. This isn't an indictment of Apple as some may want to see it. It seems more likely it is a pretty standard outcome of people following a bureaucratic process.
Moonlighting clauses are common. I am not sure what doesn't make sense here. Businesses add them because they:

1. don't want to potentially lose revenue

2. don't want to dilute their brand

3. don't want any liability associated with an employee doing work outside of their officially sanctioned capacity

4. don't want to culturally set an acceptable level of noncompliance with procedure even if the above violations aren't egregious.
And I bet some nice fat clause in the contract that prevents him from creating a new (and even better) VR headset?
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Try to say that about Google
Quoting the original article, "If you’re taking a $X pay cut to join a startup, you’re really investing $X in them. Far be it from me to tell you how to spend your money, but make sure you’re happy with what you’re getting in return."

The appropriate consideration when working for most startups is not that you're getting a cash dividend, quite the opposite - it's equivalent to the startup withholding a significant amount from each paycheck, and "buying" options/stock/whatever with that withheld money - you honestly earned that money, but you're not getting cash but something else instead. Is that something else a good value for that money?
Why the need for an exercise price(you can always keep it at a nominal amount like 1 cent) and short windows of redemption once you leave then? From most terms of options I have seen or heard of they have been quite restrictive compared to how flexible RSUs are.
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I got it wrong too. It's Slide to Type. But we both knew what each other meant, that's the main thing.
I mean, the internet is here if you'd like to learn the actual science. This is a topic we understand and have ample empirical evidence on. I'd start by considering that most species were also quite different during the high CO2 era.

And while I'm glad you had fun in Mexico and what you saw there looked healthy, that doesn't somehow erase the bleaching we see on reefs globally. That the coral is dying, rapidly, is not under contention. It's a clearly known fact.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of taxes. They are not designed to kill people.
What a laughably incomplete model. I don't care whose post this is. It's the epitome of short-sighted.

So the government just takes the money and that's the end of it? Not by a long shot. Every major proponent of a wealth tax in the US has proposed it as a means to fund public programs. Whether that means Medicare for All, Green New Deal style initiatives, tackling affordable housing, support services for the homeless, better child care, and/or increasing the accessibility of higher education, founders and their employees are sure to benefit a great deal. A model that doesn't even attempt to account for those benefits is not useful, and merely serves to shut down the conversation before it can even begin in earnest.

And let's get the government efficiency (i.e. lack thereof) argument out of the way too. Sure, a good portion of these funds will be "wasted" on bureaucracy and plain old corruption. If that's your main argument, try voting and participating in local government instead of being a NIMBY toward progressive ideas. And if you think for a second that these taxed funds would go farther if they remain in the hands of the wealthy, well, look around you and notice all of the socioeconomic issues that go unaddressed every single day.

Of course, the short-term thinking isn't surprising. Today's leaders heavily prioritize short-term benefit over long-term prosperity. It's why our stock market is so disconnected from the actual economy. It's why the nation can't figure out how to escape this pandemic of stupidity. It's why we can't get any real commitment to address climate change which has already reached a level that threatens our very existence as a species.

As a nation, and perhaps a planet, we need to start thinking beyond just the next office term or the next fiscal year, and more toward the scale of the next generation.
Otherwise, we aren't going to have one.
Power corrupts even the best of the minds, and ultimate power corrupts... ultimately. Those kings would be in danger of ending up as another North Korea - evil dynasties ruling forever.

One big problem is, if you are on top, life can be relatively great even in utter catastrophe, at least when looked through optic of usual sociopath/psychopath that usually end up on top. It can actually help if your goals are perverted enough. No real motivation to fight for the environment.

On other hand, wishing for corruption to be magically removed 'because it would be great and we really need it now' is so naive its painful. We're steadily heading in opposite direction, there is regulatory capture, US foreign policies are run by war equipment manufacturers, and current president is a topic on its own.

To sum it up, we're fucked, our kids are fucked so much more - this hurts pretty badly. Enlightened AI might be solution, but I would expect it wouldn't be done neutral, and anyway that's a pipe dream currently.
These promises are made from acquirers to acquirees so that they can save face, and tell everyone that they received these promises so that they have a rebuttal to accusations of being a "sell-out."

They aren't done with a wink and a nudge, but everyone knows that they're bullshit, it lets the entrepreneur maintain his public image while letting the carnivore devour its meal in due course.
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How did Backblaze compare to iDrive or other cloud backups that support NAS?

I found that for my size (~10TB external), Backblaze went from very cheap personal to very expensive business pricing :-/
I just changed my mind about getting an Oculus.
It's additionally ridiculous that New Zealand is being hailed as a paragon of responsibility when all they have to do (as a comparatively small population island) is the courageous, genius act of stopping the planes /s
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Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Also, please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. That's very much against the rules also.
Is this confirmed? I made a second account at one point with a new email and have had zero issues with both. Although I rarely log into the first one, maybe once a month or so.
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To be fair, he looks quite different as each character with all the makeup/prosthetics/etc.
They are launching satellites on their own dime. Needs lots of initial capitol.
Wouldn’t a custom subtitle track just for people with Prosopagnosia help? Like every time a character appears, show her/his name for 5 seconds. If there isn’t already a subculture that creates fan-made subtitle tracks, we should create one.
Yes, kind of - what you're thinking of is known as an 83b election. But you still owe tax in the year you are granted the stock, at the current fair market value. If your startup is pre-funding, that's fine, it will be 10s of dollars. If your startup is funded, it will be 10s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I already had to tie it to a Facebook account in order to record video on Quest, unfortunately.

Quest is a great device, but I don't think my next VR headset will be an Oculus.
WebKit, presumably.
Korvet Deni̇zalti Donanma Projeleri̇
Korvet Denizaltı Donanma Projeleri ! Akıncı Akdeniz'de Hepsini Vuracak! Elektronik Harp Sistemleri - Videomuz Özkan Meydan - Sevdanın Böylesi adlı klip gibi trende olmayacak ama! Türkiye'nin devam eden donanma projeleri göz doldurmaya devam edecek!

4 adet i-sınıfı firkateyn,
4 adet Ada sınıfı korvet
7 adet hava savunma destroyeri (TF-2000),
6 Adet Reis sınıfı Denizaltı,
2 Adet uçak gemisi (LHD havuzlu çıkarma gemisi)
1000+ km menzil, gemilerden ateşlenebilen Gezgin seyir füzesi,
2025'e kadar 2 denizaltı hariç yukarıdaki projeler bitmiş olacak.

Tamamlanan Projeler;
Yerli gemisavar füzesi Atmaca (250 km menzil)
Haberleşme ve kontrol sistemlerinin yerlileştirilmesi
Elektronik harp sistemleri..

Bu projelerin arasında padişah çıkarma gemisi değil Hava Savunma Destroyeri...
7 adet hava savunma destroyerinin her biri 64 adet MK-41 dikey atış sistemine sahip olacak. Tek bir kutunun füze cinsine göre 1-4 füze bulundurduğu düşünüldüğünde her destroyer 256'ya kadar füze taşıyabilecek.

Çafrad adı verilen Aselsan radarı en az 500 km tahminen 800 km yarıçapında alanı tarayacak. Muhtemelen Hisar-U'nun donanma versiyonu 120 km'den füzeleri imha edecek. (Zamanla Hisar-U'nun menzili de gittikçe artacak)

Destroyer deniz altı savunması da yapacak, elektronik harp kabiliyeti olacak ve iki adet helikopter bulunduracak.

Yerli uçak gemisi, Türkiye'nin iha/siha teknolojisi ve elektronik harp teknolojisi ile bu destroyer'lar kombo yapıldığı zaman korkunç bir donanma gücüne kavuşacağız. Şuan çok güçlüyüz, bir kaç sene içinde ibre tavana vuracak.
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To the sibling commenters, even if 100% of billionaires did not come from family wealth, that doesn't mean they should exist.

A tiny rotating ruling class is no different from a hereditary one from the point of view of everyone else in society.
> You could, for example, use some of the money from a "billionaire tax" to fund NASA.

Alternatively, you could allow billionaires to donate some of their billions, untaxed, into non-profits which they control and which have humanity-benefiting goals like space colonisation or clean energy or medical programs.

There could be problems, however, with these non-profits hoarding vast amounts of resources long after the billionaire dies, at which point a wealth tax on the non-profit's unused assets might make sense.
918+ here.
The last two drives I put in were 16TBs, and as you say it takes time. It wasn’t helped by me messing the process first round (you need to add the smallest drives first with SHR), so it took over a week.
You're looking at those memories wearing rose-tinted glasses. The amount of battery degradation was not clear (to this day AFAIK apple has not admitted by how much it typically decayed), but it was enough to be noticeable quickly - in some cases reports of less than half capacity in less than a year.

In any case; ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate - the problem had been swirling online for some time before apple finally responded in December 2016, talking about battery defects in models manufactured in September and October 2015 - i.e. the problem had been bad enough on a large scale to become noticeable for long enough for apple to respond within a little more than a year. Maybe some devices were usable for a full year, but this certainly didn't take years of usage as you suggest.

This is not normal, reasonably-designed Li-ion degradation. Likely apple's battery usage patterns were at fault, because heavy load (or charge) under high temperatures causes very quick degradation, and likely the batteries had issues too. Apple's batteries still seem to degrade more quickly than those of other Li-ion devices, so I suspect they're still overusing the battery in circumstances they shouldn't, but it's nothing near as bad as it used to be. Or maybe apple is charging them to a too-high voltage. Who knows? In any case: these issues are not equally strong in any old Li-ion system; design choices matter, and apple's were not only terrible, they also mislead their customers about the issue initially.
The weirdest "utility" I've ever heard of is centralized liquid soap pumping for the rest rooms in an office building.

[1] https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/von-panzermotor-bis-kegelbahn-di... <- Nr. 1: Zentrale Seifenspenderanlage

Deepl: "In a high-rise building of this size there are many toilets and accordingly many soap dispensers that would have to be refilled. Not so with Euler-Hermes: a central dispenser in the basement is filled with 200 litres of liquid soap, and a pump "shoots" the cleaning agent with nine bar pressure into the 200 dispensers on 22 floors. Practical!"

It is this building [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Euler_Hermes_bui... which is currently prepared for being torn down.
Secondary citizenship is not the same thing as denouncing your citizenship and fleeing taxes. US citizens are taxed worldwide, irrespective of location or other citizenship status. Your point is taken, it's just not relevant.
Maybe. So what? No one is an individual. “He” is also a product of his parents’ DNA mixing to produce an intellectually healthy and superior brain. His parents also stuffed copious amounts of useful information into that brain. As did people around him growing up. And his parents used savings, likely derived from many generations of people passing on their wealth/culture/knowledge, to aid in the continuation of their DNA’s importance to humanity.
It's not impossible. It's unfeasible.

Paying 3 hours of very expensive flight training to obtain 30min of actual flight instruction should be unfeasible at plain sight, but fair enough - the next level of detail is "makes it unaffordable, impractical, and is a strong deterrent for vast majority of interested parties".
i just got to say... i love reading the view source code of websites and finding SO references :) What would we do without SO?

//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634748/how-can-i-delete...
I have Razer Synapse installed right now, I am not logged into the service but I am still able to make configurations. Don't know what issue you're having. I would feel the same way if this was an issue though
Are they still storing your mouse settings online?

I got rid of my Razer mouse as my custom key settings wouldn't kick in for about 5 minutes after each reboot
Then you'd be surprised to hear about the income tax return scam back in the day where even lay people were able to achieve just that, for 2 million bucks specifically ^.^

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/nation...
Homeless people in Britain to receive free phones in connectivity drive
Hardware is difficult and expensive to make, and consumers are very price-sensitive.

In a world where everyone has a service subscription or a data hose to subsidize their hardware (see: most phones, game consoles, kitchen appliances, "smart assistants"), it's very difficult to be competitive just making hardware.

Given that the Oculus Quest is effectively a flagship phone with a strap attached to it at ~1/10 the sales volume of a flagship phone (rough figures: [0] [1]), it would be very difficult to even pay engineering expenses without a secondary income stream enabled by a) real-identity advertisement targeting/data sucking and b) ecosystem lock-in.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Galaxy-S20-series-sales-number...
[1] https://arinsider.co/2020/05/25/data-dive-has-oculus-sold-80...
I think he was 17 (or close to that) when starting the original kickstarter.

Carmack also wanted to sell because he had built businesses before and wanted to focus on the technology without having to deal with survival.

It wouldn't surprise me if Luckey believed that would be the outcome. I think Zuck's strategy as CEO was also less clear then. Today it would be obvious, back then though, I'm not so sure.
Apple’s response to Epic threatens the future of VR, AR, TV, and films
probably because a giant tech behemoth buying up a small company and giving it the good old Borg treatment is a tale as old as time.

Let's be real, the reason he was wilfully naive is because they send him a big fat check, just like they did to the Whatsapp founders, in the same year I think.

I just wish they would at least be honest and say it instead of this whole "I thought our dreams would come true" talk.
I do not write Haskell, but this is a neat site.
I just bought a new gaming PC powerful to be usable with an Oculus. I have some cash handy from a stock sale as well. I was really considering one.

That's never going to happen now.
I'm sure this just changes which pipe usage data goes down, but this means Facebook directly gets to use your VR usage/purchases to market to you, and they will follow you around the web, because they know. I think that's the main reason folks generally dislike FB connect in the first place, but I don't want to speak for everyone :)
I think one common criticism of wealth taxes is that assessing these asset values can be gamed. When I'm donating my yacht to charity it's worth way more than when the government is assessing it for taxes

But there's other stupid crap you can waste money on that doesn't count as assets. Spaceship rides, political donations... Maybe you can sell your yacht to some yacht company and lease it back from them?
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I think performing mental gymnastics to avoid bad intent is silly. Many people have actual bad intentions. “The divide between good and evil cuts through the heart of every man”
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You are assuming that you know $a. You don’t know $a for shares of stock in a pre-IPO company.

That’s why FMV and 409A matter here. They allow us find $a in a way that’s acceptable to the IRS. We are talking about taxes, after all.
How can you “catch a terrorist” without proving that they have done something wrong?
When will Carmack jump ships and go to join Valve?
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For those in the comments who are confused about how various equity compensation schemes work, the best guide I'm aware of is https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/about. It covers all the common types - RSUs, NSOs, ISOs, 83b elections, and more.
I don't know about Razer recently, but I have a 13 button Logitech mouse (G700s) and it would be essentially useless without the Logitech software to configure it. I assume Razer mice are the same, you could technically use them without Synapse, but if you're doing that you may as well have bought a Microsoft Intellimouse instead.

And Synapse did require a login for several years. Looks like it doesn't anymore, thankfully: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/razer-synapse-3-removes-lo...

Personal mouse experience, I had two Razers that died right outside warranty, while my Logitech is at >6 years. Those were before their driver shenanigans, but the drivers aren't even the main reason I wouldn't switch back.
Is there more information about Steve Jobs actively being replaceable parts for business reasons? My impression is that it's one of the first things to compromise on for cleanliness, but there is not directly a design culture against it. The Powermac G4 seems like it was easy to service.

Of course it's very easy to imagine that bad serviceability is encouraged by some managers.
Indeed. Now imagine how much more of that we could get if he didn’t also obsess about escaping to Mars. His money and attention is a constant sum, anything foolish is going to be replacing something wise.
The reason minmaxing works in RPGs is because of the limitations of the simulation, which real-life doesn't have.

A mage with 1 STR and 18 INT may work when trying to beat a game, but in real life he or she would live a miserable existence: https://www.dmingwithcharisma.com/2011/10/dd-stats-in-simple...

(Good dungeon masters keep the above rubric in mind when running their games, btw, so as to discourage "gaming" the system.)
Not entirely true. If you've logged in at all, and didn't purge your cookies and local storage, they might still be tracking you everywhere you visit.
This was the reason I bought an HTC Vive instead of a Rift; I never trusted that this would hold. I recently considered buying a Quest. I won't ever consider that again.

Don't support Facebook ever, they don't deserve it.

Incidentally here is a comment I made recently about the bullshit they pulled on my wife and I relating to creating a business listing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959088
Talking of login. I’ve just tried to login to EBay app using Google authentication. I have 2 step verification turned on. It now specifically requires gmail app to access the verification code. It no longer supports Apple mail app. Is this a sick joke?

The only way around it was to send the verification code via tex. I'm so concerned now that Google will only send verification codes to Android device in the future.
Except that some of the big companies like e.g. Apple do all kinds of thinks to try to make Apple not just your job but part of your live.

Furthermore I have meet with people not employed by Apple which where big Apple fanatics, Apple for them was part of their identity to a non negligible degree.

So yes this is totally possible in my experience.

Sure a founder is probably even more invested, but then the level of (emotional) investment he show is totally realistic.
For clarity, so you’d recommend web server logs over client side analytics?

If so, what open source web server analytics tools do you believe is best? E.g. https://goaccess.io
>> but you only get held to account if you are subject to some attention.

I agree 100%.

I was sales for a long time before getting out and going the developer route.

As a sales person, you're constantly pushing the line and boundaries, but once you get one someone's radar (whatever level of management that is) then you get back on the straight and narrow pretty fast or you're on your way out.

To me, it sounds an awful lot like he got on someone's radar and instead of jumping back on the straight narrow, continued to push the line and finally got caught and they axed him.

It's so hard to fire someone from a corporate gig these days. You never have just once chance and they "investigate" and then you're let go. There are multiple warnings, write-ups, PIP's until HR has enough documentation to fire you if you continue to screw up.

Clearly, this wasn't his first run in with the Apple HR team.
Capital consumption just refers to capital depreciation. Reduced capital investment, and more specifically reduced efficient in capital investment doesn't necessarily follow from increased consumer demand. Just stating that it does isn't an argument.