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Hrmm. I was interested enough to try to compile this, but it doesn't build using the given `cargo` invocation. Has anyone any real world experience with this tool?
“So you might own 1% of a $10m company before the dilution and 0.5% of a $20m company after the dilution but the value of your holding didn't change.”

Nope. If you are topped up (which means you still have political standing) then you start a new vesting schedule. So all those shares you worked for and vested — you can work for again!! Yay! Until another 4 years you are diluted. Yay! But likely there will be another round while you wait to vest the shares you already had!! Hahahaha!
Yes, even mainstream media covers that every now and then (e.g. "Apple just bought an entire company making X to make even better macbooks/iPhones/..."), but as the parent poster complained 3D printing is getting more attention.

Whereas "within the industry" is exactly the thing I'm talking about: the threshold for getting into more mainstream media is not necessarily related to actual importance and different from what field-specific or even just enthusiast perception focuses on. E.g. the bits and pieces I know about injection molding mostly come from "maker-type" publications that, while of course also talking about 3D printing a lot, also cover entry-level discussions of what happens if you try taking something to larger-scale production - and "forget about your product looking like an Apple product" is high on that list ;)
Optimizing Data Warehouse Storage
If you own the end device, end-to-end encryption is moot. Unless the key is not stored, but who cares about privacy enough to enter a 32-character password to unlock their chat?
Once again anti-trust arguements are used because another business is impacted, ignoring user preferences or impact.

Heads up - some users WANT to have more transparency into how their data is exploited, and to be able to turn it off easily.

I know folks are saying this is apple abusing its position to hurt facebook or "small businesses". Who cares? I as a user like this approach apple is taking.

The same issue comes up with google and some of their behavior around spammers / scammers and others. I wish more of the anti-trust / abusing their position things kept a focus on user benefit and impact. Letting match.com and ancestry.com do their own billing and subscription renewals on iOS sounds like a nightmare from hell (having dealt with ancestry billing before!)

I just had to submit for a refund for an annual subscription that was misleading on the app store (10 minutes after I purchased). The process could not be simpler and MUCH preferable to sitting on hold for hours (as I have with others).
New Release of the Terraform Provider for OpenNebula
True, but couldn’t Facebook make money other ways?

Eg build new products that work with Facebook and sell them.

An ethical Facebook may find it could enter new markets.
That’s like saying one can harden pickle by specifying magic options and trying to limit the supported classes to a very large list instead of an effectively infinite list. Sure, you can make the the blatantly insecure mechanism harder to exploit, but it’s still a horrible design.

I think Apple could address this for real is one of two ways. They could replace the protocol entirely, or they could treat the existing baroque protocol like any other network protocol and write a grammar and parser for it.

As an analogy, suppose you had a wire format like XML, and you had the clever idea to process it in a dynamic language like Python or ObjC by looking up each tag in a list of all known types and trying to instantiate it. Sure, it would work, and you would be exploited all the time. NSSecureCoding limits the available types to a large and apparently still open ended list instead of literally every type that the deserializer can make sense of.
How? These agents have nothing to fear. It might now be publicly kown that they are responsible but the people in charge are the ones who ordered it.

It doesn't help one bit that privacy is gone.
because there's a limited supply of jobs
I don't think 3d TVs sole issue was lack of content. my belief is that the 3d viewing experience becomes very tiresome and many people were in fact perfectly happy with regular HD tv.
Unfair ratings cost some Instacart shoppers hundreds a week
Lego Omelet Rice – Stop Motion Cooking [video]
It's within their negotiating power, and Apple appears to have negotiated such terms, since they say they're investigating potential violations of their supplier agreement. What the original commenter wanted, and what I don't think we should be encouraging companies to do, was intrusive audits to prevent the violations from happening in the first place.
> Is the goal of Ruby right now to claw back all the people who moved to Elixir by adding Erlang features to Ruby?

One has to wonder.

I don't think I'll go back. I found that I was coding almost exclusively in a functional style, in Ruby (because it was easier code to test and it seemed to produce less bugs/fewer mental-model problems), then realized I was still missing out on the guarantees that Elixir gives you, then I thought, what's the point in staying when I could get guarantees that eliminated entire classes of bugs for free?

Having done Elixir for a few years now, I RARELY have to go into "debugging mode", I've never even had to fire up Elixir's version of "pry", and my tests have caught all but a few bugs. All my logic lives in sensible locations. It's pretty nice! At least for web dev.
Isn't Nikon still a pretty big player in semiconductor (and OLED/LCD) lithography equipment? I don't know what percentage of the business that is though compared to cameras.
Nikon also has a well respected sports-optics division (binoculars, spotting scopes), although they are also seeing a ton of competition in that marketplace as well.
There's no pressure from the board or shareholders on the CEO, he holds the majority voting rights
Thanks! I have a list of similar projects, I will add these!
https://github.com/makuto/cakelisp/blob/master/doc/VsOtherLa...
"For years it has been painfully clear that facebook has been a net negative for society."

This is just hyperbolic and probably not true.

Why do we, ostensibly smart people, so susceptible to such dramatic thinking?

Zillions of people use FB every day to read about stuff, connect, organize things.

Some of it is a little heated, some of it misinformation, it's a problem.

But these bandwagon statements are just too much.
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Weird how the journalists come out of the walls over there for a a Russia story.
Almost certainly they are interested in using it for their augmented reality technology ARKit, in order for your phone/device to be able to not just get a depth map of the room (which it does now) but understand what is a chair, what is a table, what is a wall, etc.
Whenever there's a market that's "zero-sum"--one company's market gain is a loss for someone else--then you see efforts to shut down the competition through regulation and mis-information campaigns.
Lots of companies already audit their production chains, precisely in response of public pressure on the subject. Nike and football manufacturers are the most famous examples; also coffee, chocolate, and banana producers. This sort of thing, while not perfect, brought massive improvements in working condition in poor countries over the last 30 years.
If I’m not mistaken Canon, Nikon, etc. only ever sold camera’s, not film. And photographers changed camera’s a lot less often in the analogue days. With digital the customers suddenly got on an upgrade schedule similar to that of computers. So from a commercial standpoint the move to digital must have been pretty attractive for the manufacturers.
These loans have destroyed any chance that a generation of underprivileged students will achieve financial prosperity.

If they go away, the federally subsidized loan programs will likely be phased out over ~5 years or so. The private sector will replace them for students who are good bets, probably with income-share agreements or something similar and MUCH less predatory than the current federal loan programs.
Bravo!!! Apt analogy :)
Make student loans no longer exempt from bankruptcy. The rationale for making student loans persist through bankruptcy is that students could just declare bankruptcy after graduation, since they probably have no assets. Maybe make the exemption only last 10-15 years. The permanence of student loans means lenders have no qualms against writing loans for people who will likely not be able to pay them off for decades, or ever. Reducing ability to default makes the loans more accessible, yes, but in effect it's shifting the burden to students - students who are often young people not well equipped to make long term financial decisions.

Yes, this will mean lenders will be much more reluctant to issue student loans. It will likely prompt lenders to offer loans contingent on certain majors. This is a big, big reason why universities are heavily opposed to student loan reforms. The uncomfortable reality is that many universities are funded through what essentially amounts to predatory loans, and halting the practice will cut into university funding.
something like a Quantum Co-processor for accelerating quantum algorithms would likely be the next step, instead of standalone 'quantum-centric' processors with their specific code and protocols.
Enrollment has been falling steadily since 2011 (or before). The number of US high school graduates will peak in 2025. I think the "college bubble" is starting to deflate.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/925831720/losing-a-generation...
Inside the chaos of brand safety technology
The confusing part is that salary and stock get mixed up, but in a public company the stocks effectively cash and can basically be considered salary, unlike illiquid equity.

I don’t know where you’re from, but in SF amongst my circles, senior engineer market rate is about 300-500k but most startups will only pay 150-225k salary so that’s a huge pay cut. However, the base salaries are same, but you can pay your rent, mortgage, or student loans with the public company RSUs.

That’s why it’s bullshit when employees get told they get common shares while investors get preferred because employees take salary and therefore less risk. If you’re walking away from 200k per year of public stock that you could instantly sell on the public market and buy real estate with, you are in fact taking a huge risk and a pay cut. Trying to pretend like you’re not and that the startup is paying a “competitive salary” is a sleight of hand used in 2020 to fool naive engineers.
> settled != colonized

So we're playing the semantics game now? Let me guess, you didn't make a racist comment. Instead you made a comment about ethnic pride? If we're playing this game, let's be clear on the definitions:

settle - to establish in residence

colonize - come to settle among and establish political control over the indigenous people of an area.

> They are the same people.

According to the Californios article you referenced, they are not the same people as the Native Americans who first settled in CA.

"Californios included the descendants of agricultural settlers and retired escort soldiers deployed from what is modern-day Mexico. Most were of mixed ethnicities, usually Mestizo (Spanish and Native American) or mixed African and Amerindian backgrounds."

Otherwise, (using your own language), the Californios wouldn't have colonized California

> And for what it's worth the massive anglo/white immigration into California has been tantamount to ethnic replacement - not just in California but all over this continent.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions of your comments being racist and no, I am not white yet I do find it ironic for one descendant of colonizers to complain about the descendants of other colonizers. I wouldn't be surprised if you considered Asians and Pacific Islanders as "invaders" as well. Also you're proving your ignorance yet again. Since you've mentioned your imagined "ethnic replacement" of Hispanics in CA (which the majority of I'm pretty sure are not as prejudiced as you - and let's not confuse ethnic cleansing with population changes from immigration & migration), let's go over CA's current or near current ethnicity statistics ordered by the largest:

* Hispanic 39.29% (This has increased from 36.6%)

* White, non-Hispanic 36.64%

* Asian 14.525

* Black 5.51%

* Pacific Islander 0.36%

* Native American 0.35% (they are not Californios, and they are still here)

* Other

> So excuse me if I don't cry a river over fewer transplants.

I'm not going to excuse and condone what I feel are posts from a racist reminiscing about ethnic purity in California. You do NOT post this type of garbage on HN.
Something is going to have to be done at some point. Even as much money as most of us make, HC will become too expensive for us in the next decade or so, especially for any of us with a family.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

What’s your take on the state of “run your own service, beat out the cloud providers”? Is there something particular you’d taken away from Chef “vs” AWS’s OpsWorks?

The article waves this away a little too much for me:

> Could someone take that upstream and create a competitive downstream competitor? Of course. But no one should be able to out-Yugabyte on their home turf.

> Or take Redis Labs. The company has fiddled with licensing over the last few years...
You're naive to think that the stated methods are the actual methods.

Remember we live in a world where Parallel Construction is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Given the eyebrow-raising information Bellingcat claims they have "uncovered" in many politically sensitive stories involving enemies of NATO, Occam's Razor dictates that rather than being expert open-source (what does that even mean in this context?, come on people) investigative journalists they actually have links to and/or are Western intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Nikon was mom&dad operation compared to Kodak in its prime DJIA-listed days.
Reasonable is subjective to the amount being earned and the extent of how hands off the service needs to be.

This is very much achievable around $700 - $1.5k/month, does not include the cost of food itself and supplies.

This is reasonable spending for a household making +$225k if this is the bulk of their "f you" spend kind of budget.
I just fundamentally disagree with this conception of power. The fact that you could in principle force someone to do what you'd like doesn't mean that you should.
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This bold comment is receiving some downvotes, but Tsar Russia, USSR and modern Russia do have a horrible track record. The bloodletting of the Russian revolution was in large part motivated by just how badly the working class was abused, industrialization for them was a hell. Genocides in the baltic states middle of 20th century. Holodomor. All the recent Russian neighbour wars like Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine. List of examples is long and it's slowly getting lost in the popular history. If you're from Russia or a neighbouring country, it's very likely that you have experienced serious ramifications of its policy or politics.
Toilet paper shortages this year occurred in capitalist economies.
Improved Quantum Circuits via Intermediate Qutrits
The last time I used Linux on a laptop, I had to edit a config file to get it to suspend or hibernate when I close the lid. Even then, sometimes it kept running, and I would run out of battery. To me that seems like such a basic feature, and it's always worked fine on Windows. After waiting a decade and a half for someone smart to solve this problem, I eventually just started running Windows and Cygwin on all my laptops. Problem solved.
> I don’t know if Chris Espinosa still works for Apple but I think he might have been around a couple of years before Gassé. He started as a teenager.

He's still at Apple, and was actually employee #8, making him its longest-serving employee according to his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Espinosa
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Send them a $4000 bill for your time!
How much risk is the average employee taking on, compared with the investors who are supplying capital so the business can operate and scale? This idea that it's only the employees who create value is simply bunk. By all means go and start your own company if you think labor is the only part of the equation, and scale it without taking on investment or paying out to investors.
I've never lost my excitement, but the majority of programming/tech are off creating worthless nonsense I do not care diddly squat about. When the community was learning AWS, I was created my own data centers for exponential savings; when the community went docker, I learned how to create my own VM and chose to discard the technology for bare metal programming. When the community embraced data science, I'd already had 7 semesters of graduate statistics and was happy as a clam. When ML came into vogue, I accessed working on ML models was above me, so I jointed a team lead by a ML pioneer that needed a super competent support scientist. Don't follow the herd, they're swayed by corporate marketing far too easily. Use critical analysis to earn your own trust, and then follow your analysis.
Slightly different issue, but in the US if you hire a contractor to renovate your house and they are not insured and following workman's comp rules, you will very likely be sued if one of their employees hurts him/herself on your property. Some people hire cheap contractors without realizing this. Any time you hire a contractor make sure they are licensed, bonded, and insured before they set foot on your property.

https://www.angieslist.com/articles/hiring-contractor-whats-...
Some people wear a tag with their blood group on it.

Perhaps we should be wearing tags with the amount of money we're willing to spend on a hospital visit.
Real shit is rarely interesting and typically won’t challenge your skills as a coder. Generally they just test your ability to wire together APIs, learn mundane domain specific concepts, and tolerance of boredom. Getting low level can be really fun and helps refresh those skills you may not flex much since university. For me personally this is the kind of thing that made me passionate about coding. If you already live a day job where you are coding ray tracers, emulators, and databases then I envy you but this article isn’t really for you.
Who I think CentOS Stream is and isn't for
The intent here is to prevent people from gaming the system by buying insurance only right after a serious diagnosis.

There are several qualifying events to be able to enroll outside the eligibility window if you’ve had a job change for example.
I think there's a difference between your philosophical ideal and the way you would set a society up and the approach you believe would best address the problems and situations we currently face.
>I struggle to think what kind of news would result in the public demanding accountability.

Something where the public understood the connection between the policy and their well-being. Insider trading doesn't take money out of anyone's bank. BLM was stood for "black lives matter," not "implement these specific police forms." "Stop the war in Vietnam" was the most recent run of protests that I can remember that had a clear message, although maybe someone who knows more history can correct me.
They are pretty fundamentally slow because of the constraints from the melt pool. Because you are trying to locally melt the material (lots of energy) and then immediately solidify it, you pretty much have to use a melt pool under a certain size and go under a certain speed to avoid making a total mess of the part.

Also a significant amount of energy goes to waste as it gets dissipated by the material, and the powder feedstock is extremely expensive as it needs to be a certain size of round powder which is hard to manufacture.
...do image segmentation on indoor scenes?
I had to provide a urine sample to get my ADHD medication. It was sold to me under the auspices of drug testing, even though ADHD meds are out of your system in 48h. A month later I received an explanation of benefits from my insurance company that said they received a 14k bill and had paid 4k of it, so I was on the hook for the other 10k. Furious I went to my psych. They casually said “we’ve taken care of it, you shouldn’t receive an actual bill”. Uh, that’s not the point? The point is why was it necessary to send my urine for 14k in testing in the first place? You cannot convince me they weren’t getting kickbacks from this program. Finding a new psych is difficult, so the next time they asked me to pee in a cup I asked if they’d charge my insurance the same way again. I haven’t been asked for a urine sample since, which is odd considering they have signs clearly posted saying drug tests are mandatory. I guess not _that_ mandatory, huh?

It’s wild that individuals are forced to navigate this system, much less fight it when they’re being fucked. The idea that there are people who’s sole purpose is designing beurocratic gears to grind money out of sick people makes me sick. And they employ an army of low wage call center folks to do their bidding, work that I can’t imagine is super rewarding. How much better would the world be if we tore down these machines and paid all of those people to do literally anything else?
> I don't buy this explanation. Very few employees are paid in any financially complex way.

I don't think the point has anything to do with the complexity of the wages, but how workers are generally hired and paid, and how work is now structured, compared to the 70s, e.g. nowadays there are more contractors than ever, taking a good chunk of the wages as they act as intermediaries between customers and the workers who, otherwise, would have to be hired directly by the customers themselves.

I'm curious though about why would you think that illegal immigration is driving wages down. Undocumented immigrants make barely for 3% of the total US population [1], and that does not account for those who cannot work (elderly, children, disabled, etc.) Same goes for women, as the general issue is that household income is in decline, in relative terms to the economy [2].

Automation should also be making consumer products cheaper and more available, but prices are not going down at the same speed as wages need to go up.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-many-und...

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Featured%20Insight...
> For anyone who wants to put their money where their mouth is

Hahaha, no, this is just an opportunity to bash Apple, no need to actually do something about it.

Anyway.

This looks very interesting, thanks for linking.

Can you tell me on the spot (if you have to look it up, I'll do it myself…), if there is an easy way to run Org-mode and sync my Org-mode files from a Mac?