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The recent HN article on meritocracy comes to mind.

I had never considered it this way in the past, but in the 70’s, productivity started decoupling massively from productivity gains.

I.e. the best people at finance (meritocracy) figured out how to capture all the new earnings relative to the workers (who didn’t know this game was going on).

This has snowballed into a situation where the financial meritocracy is competing with itself and could now never imagine a situation where non-finance people are being paid more in proportion with their value relative to baseline productivity gains.

This article would fit that narrative as a symptom of one-upmanship gone amuck.

How do we exit this brutal cycle? It requires a generation of new blood that is actually concerned about societal stability and recognizes the connection between instability and leaving 99% of folks behind as games are fought in ‘the ivory cloud’.

Will this be dealt with sans revolution? Who knows...
and Twitch and Youtube generally making the hobby more inviting by providing a way to participate casually. Plus a lot of other streamers dip into chess occasionally
> when a TRILLION dollar private company screws people over

It's an Apple supplier, not Apple. Besides, what does it matter that it's a trillion dollar company? It implies that if say 1 million small companies worth 1 million, would fare better in forcing a large supplier like Windsor or a large number of smaller suppliers, to respect India's local labour laws vis-a-vis their employees. That's a ridiculous assumption I think. If anything I trust that Apple's market power will force Wistron to pay out its workers according to the terms they agreed, much quicker than if Apple was, say, a small-time no-name company.

It's entirely right to be outraged about this, don't get me wrong. But I don't see the cause being related to Apple being a trillion dollar company. Nor do I see Apple screwing people over.

Tons of small and large companies in India screw with local labour laws all the time. If anything I'd expect that Apple suppliers would do so less on a per-worker basis. That's an assumption I'd like to see tested. The current system (courts or trial-by-media) will likely work for Apple holding its suppliers accountable. For a small company? Not so much.
Actual IDEs, for one.
In this case political tension has very little to do with China and very much with India. India is one of the largest markets Apple has yet to penetrate, primarily due to excessive import tax as the Indian government (much like the Chinese) requires manufacturing within the country.

Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking China is not a reliable partner, or that Apple cares much about worker rights here (see wage fixing between FAANG as one example that likely affects many here at HN) or abroad. This was purely about expanding into a new market.
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How does something like this mesh with selling common stock but the company having right of first refusal?

Say I want to sell common stock that I own, to someone who meets the SEC accredited investor definition. It seems that right of first refusal means that the company could buy the stock instead, but it would have to be at the price that I set with the external investor. In that case, don't I as an employee get liquidity either way, since it's being bought at the agreed upon price?
These days, it seems like everyone is "Just sayin'" some sort of nonsense conspiracy theory with no evidence. I wish people would stop sayin'.
Y'all are skipping the step where Apple doesn't approve of this 3rd-party manufacturer. You can't transitive that to Apple's shareholders.

Shareholders -> Apple -/-> Wistron -> underpaid labor.

(Edit: Wistron's shareholders? Sure. I didn't realize it was a public company or that parent comment was talking about it.)
Are you at one of the 4Catalyzer companies?
The X100 series is a cool camera. I had one since the first version of X100. But I found it more convenient to pull my phone out instead of carrying that camera. I do have a X-T2 if I want to take more "serious" photos.
GP said nothing about Twitter.
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Telling someone to always accept and be thankful for injustice and exploitation because someone somewhere else is experiencing worse injustice and exploitation is not as noble as you may think.
So many articles on Lisps on the front page. Did I miss something? It is Lispmas?
I work with high-profile editorial and art staff. They need those quotes! They're often great at knowing how to insert them themselves, but others need that short cut. As it is, the quotes are hidden at `Opt + [` and `Opt + Shift + [` on my machine (Canadian English layout). [Oh, the war stories I have trying to sanitize text for moving from platform to platform...]

We're not the only ones using keyboards anymore, and we're in the minority of those who do!
It's definitely more than 1-2 dollars, but not so high that subscriptions would be too expensive for users.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/03/facebooks-average-revenue-pe...
Preventing stagnation and maintaining backwards compatibility aren’t the same thing. Go has a very strong backwards compatibility guarantee, and since they made the guarantee the entire compiler has been rewritten and there have been plenty of additions to stdlib.
Sure, but then they should at least give me the choice of matching the "lost" ad money as a subscription. At Facebook scale we are talking about millions of users, who would probably choose that path instead.
Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home
What could be the future with internet?
I don't know why you expect it to be fair. The policy needs to be effective first and foremost. Schemes like furlough are there to support people who are most affected.
I feel bad(even though I shouldn't)for all the kids that will feel the dissapointment of playing this game on Xmas morning. I can't help but think of a younger Me trying to play ET on a 2600 almost 40 years ago.
I have seen tight functions compiled with SBCL matching and occasionally exceeding the speed of the C version. SBCL is a compiler which produces very good code. If you add enough type information so that SBCL can infer the types of all operations, you will get performance which compares very well to C.
Is there any data yet on the exact change in deadliness?
They are still Apple employees, just not on the books. This isn't any different from tax evasion through different shell companies across the world: these workers spend 100% of their labour producing things that Apple subsequently sells at gross markup, so for all intents and purposes -- they are Apple employees, just not according to the law.
Why would you expect a scholarly 500-year history of racist ideas to offer evidence of racism's existence today?
Thank you malinagalina for writing this and yannovitch for submitting it. These things are hard to hear about when you mostly follow a group's official channels.

In my mind this article lacks some detail to be 100% convincing (I can't really imagine that a discussion of pay would be penalized, especially in Germany, especially in such an org), but my donations are halted for now. Should this be true the least thing to expect would be Matthias Kirschner stepping down.

For the mean time: Which other Europe/Germany-centered FOSS organizations are there doing similar work one could support instead?
When 50% of my customers (in the US) have an iPhone, there's no choice for me, the developer, but to deal with Apple.

If I were marketing to youths, I'd have to deal with Apple's 90% market share among my customers!

In this particular case I don't care because FB is garbage IMO but the point stands - Apple has too much power in the US and we need to force them to allow third party app stores.
Thats the joke
AA works, but it likely works more because of the community than anything else. Drug addiction is often a symptom of isolation. Drugs often mimic the brain chemicals we get through positive social interaction, serving as a placebo.
> if faced with 2 phones of similar capabilities, 1 costs 500, 1 costs 200, which would you pick?

People love to hate on Apple, but the $200 phone in your example is definitely an Android and definitely has same-or-worse manufacturing practices as Apple.
I think your last paragraph concedes that Meego could only have gone for a small niche. Nokia had huge market share. There’s no way they would have limited themselves to being a phone for nerds. If they had done Android right, they could be up there in Samsung’s place.
First class social engineering.
Try nitter, it's a fast alternative to reading Twitter content on Twitter itself. I modified the link above for you:

https://nitter.net/jcbarret/status/1340716901610172416
It's not just that there is an increase in cases after the mutation appeared. It's that in the regions where this mutation is prevalent there are many more cases than in other parts of the same country (and in fact case numbers are growing in regions with this variant and falling elsewhere). The other hint is that the new mutation is becoming the prevalent strain in south-east England, which on it's own would already indicate that it has an evolutionary advantage over other strains that allows it to outcompete them. Combined with everything else we know it seems clear that this advantage is faster spread.
A very small percentage would actually buy one and it would be very good PR. It would almost be a marketing expense at that point.
Seems like exactly the wrong approach. New technology makes false things you write about someone easier to discover and more likely to be read in the future by, e.g. a company considering hiring you.

Defamation is more damaging to the average nobody than it ever could have been 50 years ago. If anything the laws should be strengthened.
just curious, do you think this would be a positive development? I have to assume a facebook OS would combine the worst parts of the iOS walled garden and android data mining. but still, I think it would be good overall to have a third major smartphone OS, if only to add a little pressure to the existing competition.
I think loading alternate DOS-compatible OS's was about the last mark of that era.
Just to clarify for those who might not get it, a new major-ish version of Ruby releases every Christmas.
I own Zojirushi NS-ZAH18 model; Sad thing this rice cooker parts are unavailable now;
That's not even an attempt at making an actual answer.

Emacs + Slime already has a REPL, compilation and/or loading of select forms or whole files, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, completions, debugger, inspector, stepping, cross-references, and most of the other fancy things that are usually associated with IDEs. What do Allegro and LispWorks have that Emacs + Slime don't? What are their selling points? What features make them unique?
Ok but then the author should not be claiming that.

The problem with V is that the author makes astounding claims and when people push back on that even slightly they get harassed. Even your comment nit-picks mine over technicalities while ignoring the obvious issues with the author's.

Given how many of the "features" of V are completely unimplemented or only work in the most narrow of edge cases, it's not clear to me why so much grace is extended to the author who's generally been unable to deliver his promises all while collecting a tidy sum on patreon.
Yeah, no, that's not the definition of slavery.
Hm. Why should they even know? If a person is doing a job, I'm paying for it. If a person wants more, I can either decide to raise wage, if the value I extract from work justifies a raise, or let this person go. It's only a matter of my individual agreement with the worker.

Also, this 'equality' approach _reeks_ socialism to me, and, coming from a country that suffered from socialism for 70 years, I have seen with my own eyes what disastrous economic effect this has on the workforce.

In theory, equal wages lead to more just distribution of wealth. In practice, they just destroy productivity. In the USSR, people had _extremely_ low productivity because life taught them that no matter how hard they work, they'll get paid exactly the same as the most lazy useless colleague who does absolutely nothing all day long.

Salary is a price that a person is willing to sell their work for, and if they are not happy with what they get, they can ask for a raise. If it is not given, it is likely because the work they are doing is not worth it. But they are free to look elsewhere for a bigger pay.
Seems like the general consensus is that PhD might not be a waste of time, but whatever path afterwards in Academia might be. Thanks for the feedback!
> The verdict was still out on social media. One user tweeted "Why do I keep getting these in the mail? Nonsense." Another argued "I quite like these coupons, they're a nice treat."
Russia’s space chief cannot seem to get “gentle” SpaceX out of his mind
With Apple's margins they could easily afford to do all payroll themselves in the US, if their partners are not trustworthy enough. They could also hire undercover agents to monitor the situation. Heck, they could even help organize and sponsor a union!
Somewhere in the late 90s to early 2000s, physical appearance was more important than actual talent for performing artists. The 70s and 80s had a fairly large amount of "ugly" artists.
Looks great! Well done jake, joey, jimmy
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Yes I realise that. But modern English is easier to read.

And of course, how could an American have anything valuable to say on the subject of yoga? /s

Ok champ you obviously know best. Good luck. Jeez...
Also in Marketing here, and I enjoyed the article as well for similar reasons. Plus it’s interesting to get insider honesty about the coupon’s brand awareness vs profits dilemma.
You can still use the inline type hinting from Sorbet.
Sorbet is compatible with RBS and you'll probably want to check types via Sorbet anyway.
I thought this was common knowledge?
What's with the bimodal distributions for German there?
Although the average revenue per user who would be willing to spend $7/quarter is probably much higher (these users are disproportionately likely to have disposable income which probably makes them more attractive to advertisers)
> UK-dwellers' sense of entitlement to 'freedoms'

Seriously?

We (the West, I'm not from the UK) are losing our freedom at an unimaginable speed even a few years ago and you think freedom is negotiable? I find this appalling how easy we ease into a dictatorship everywhere in Europe.
The problem is that data collection still wouldn't stop just cause you're paying.

The trackers they build into sites would still exist to track non-paying customers, and they'd have to track the paying customers enough to differentiate from non-paying.

And if you're saying that all of Facebook becomes a subscription, you still end up with the problem that Facebook has pointed out: small sites that earn income from Facebook by implementing their tracking widget would lose that source of income.

I think we should be more vocal about the extensions and products that help block FB (and other) web trackers, to force their model to change, but I think we're a long way away from anything truly effective.
But everyone hates facebook at this point. Seems very unlikely they would pay for it rather than jumping ship.
Good thing that's not what I said, then. I pointed you at an endemic, centuries-long pattern of widespread American racism. You reduced it to one landmark event and then dismissed it.

It is also true that people are skeptical of different foods period. But more than one thing can be be happening at once.
Anecdotally, since I got away from Ruby, working on software became way more productive and tolerable.

Maybe it was something with the corner of the Ruby world I fell into, but the syntax sugar options and “cleverness” that enabled was maddening to deal with, and permeated that crowd.

Code bases with mixed styles are a thing in any language, but the Ruby-ists around me found a way to make one project look like half a dozen languages were involved.

Insert Confused Jackie Chan meme.
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Thanks for elaborating here. Your original post was low on analysis or context and left readers to draw their own conclusions about what relationship was implied between this scenario and slavery, which is probably why GP responded the way they did.
If you haven't seen the full investigation released last week I'd strongly recommend you check it out, top notch investigative journalism. The video has English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I

Also here's the full phone call with the FSB agent, with english transcript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvA49ZXnf8
The issue isn't really whether that shop is essential. The issue is that the greeting card store next door is also open, because they've decided they're essential. And none of these stores (including the super market) is enforcing mask requirements because none of the others are and they don't want to be the only one.

In 1000 little steps you are suddenly miles away from a real lockdown. You're basically BAU, but the pub is shut ever other week (unless you buy a scotch egg in which case it is also essential).

I don't care if people are eating gourmet olives. But we need to realise that making excuses for doing nothing is still doing nothing.
How much did the devops guy bring? How much did the qa guy? The help text writer? The support person?

In most profitable software companies, it is indeed shared with through bonuses and RSUs, but it is not a well defined / easy to understand revenue share or profit share scheme.
Several YouTubers have channels with similar goals in mind.

Not exactly the same but the production value and cartoon visuals makes the complicated information easier to understand.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

Crash Course World History https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 (check out all the Crash Course playlists, there's more than history)

SciShow https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos

etc.
I hope Facebook dies a quick but agonizing death.
I concur.

The dynamic inheritance part of Ruby is still core even in a non-Rails ecosystem. That does make optimizing performance more difficult.

But on a much simpler level, a lot of Pythonic data code is just functions + values, without them being complected in an object. That makes a lot of stuff like wrapping numerical libraries in C very easy in Python. I think you'd still have a bit of a culture shock writing procedural, return-by-value code in Ruby. That's pretty normal in Python and I think one of the (many) reasons it got picked up by STEM disciplines in academia. Looks over shoulder at awful code in Numerical Recipes in Fortran book.

Different strokes for different folks and all that, I just think there are probably constraints (and cultural values) that Python has that make it more suited to data problems than Ruby.
Good question. Honestly, I don’t know.

Suppose play is necessary for survival. Abstractly, it would bring the reasoning full circle.

Do people eat to eat again? I guess you could say that. We survive to survive. We play to play.

People that don’t play or have leisure or relax do have worse health and psychological issues. So it would seem there is evolutionary pressure against lack of said play.

In the context of HN: ‘we post on HN to post on HN’ (i.e. leisure for leisure).
>For a country the size of India, though they definitely can demand that Apple pay a hefty fine or face even more tariffs. If they can't guarantee workers pay, they deserve to be treated exactly like TikTok was.

but why? If you hired a contractor to renovate your house, and it turned out that they were committing wage theft against their workers, should you be fined?
Congrats on entirely missing the point, which is that the workers created that wealth in the first place and should not have to “buy in” (read: purchase equity from capitalist owners) to receive the reward that is rightfully theirs
I understand the reasons, but I believe it is likely bad for the industry overall. Soon we'll have Apple, Microsoft and Google chips instead of AMD, Intel and Qualcomm chips; and they can leverage them to lock people even more into their walled garden ecosystems. That is a big worry to me, that feels like going backwards.
Wistron is the result of Acer spinning off a bunch of their brands in the late 90s. I remember slinging AOpen (Another Acer spinoff) motherboards and shortly after Acer spun off Wistron, AOpen started offering laptops from Wistron. Dell shortly thereafter offered same/similar models.

They weren't very good; while thankfully my laptop was not a victim of the capacitor plague, they had some really bad design around the power port; over time just normal insert cycles would cause the connector to get loose and short in various ways. At one point I would have to 'shim' the plug in with paper to make sure that the contacts were well connected. The problem surfaced after a year, and after a factory repair, I got another year before the problem came back.

Thankfully the real fix was to use a better 'plug', one that had a threaded base (i.e. a threaded hole goes through the plastic, a 'cap' holds it in place).
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I know this is now an old thread, but just seeing it I feel it's worth responding. It is absolutely possible to be earnest and sincere in communicating real feelings and conflict without resorting to this ridiculously aggressive communication style. The alternative does not have to be fake or polished over.
I'm kind of jarred by the enthusiasm expressed here. The end-product is not environmentally friendly in any way.
Also, few phones produce good raw files which are essential for archiving. I can get better results from 15-year-old raw images shot with an EOS 30D than I get out of my flagship smartphone.
Anecdata: I’ve been running both previews daily (when I could, some gems need updating), and they seemed quite stable to me already, moreso than some other previews or even RCs.
On this topic, do we know when this privacy opt-in feature will be officially added to iOS? I can't seem to find any specific date.
We need to just move past the college model. They’re just expensive certification programs at best, in terms of utility. The actual teaching/learning (which I feel they do a bad job of) and the testing/certifying can be separated from each other and democratized (opened up to competition, made more available). The current costs of college are ridiculous, and a minor 10% tuition cut from the $70K/year cost mentioned in this article isn’t going nearly far enough. I also feel there isn’t a good reason to limit the number of students who can be certified to a Harvard or MIT level, for example, and we can change that.

Moreover a lot of college seems like activities the public shouldn’t be subsidizing. A jobs program for overpaid administrators. A portfolio of majors that are not rigorous and seem more like hobbies. Pet research projects for tenured professors that often has low return on investment. Local college town economies. And so on.
I probabl would be down to paying that for Facebook, especially considering the product would be massively better than their current offering. No ads + optimising for platform utility instead of eyeball time would do wonders for Facebook.
My parents almost had to leave in the late 70s. They moved to San Jose to work in tech. Bought a house in 72 or so. Their home value tripled in around 6 years and so did their property taxes.
I wonder how much more of this we'll see going forward. As the article says, the number of high school graduates is going down simply due to demographics which means tough times for those schools who can't attract new students.