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There is genuine interest for perpetuating authoritarianism and more importantly corruption for their neighbours.
By your own statements isn't this an outlier? You're only in the position you're in because you own a business and have a pension where your employer is contributing 2/3 of the value. How much of that 500k EUR savings is from the business revenue?

Wouldn't it be a more appropriate comparison to look at someone with an "average" pension (whatever that may be for Scotland) and no business revenue?
Ads and IAP aren’t the same thing. The money doesn’t even come from the same places.
Packaged lifestyles: For a reasonable monthly fee I want a company to handle all the necessities like housing, food, clothing, laundry and other cleaning, vacations and so on. At some level there should be some choice, but my life could become like one big all expenses paid vacation or cruise. Insurance and accounting requirements would be open for my inspection and review but always be default handled up front by someone else who has a budget planned out with my priorities in mind.
He was using heavy sarcasm.
At this point i heavy doubt we dont. If this mutation took place after one year, what will come in two or three.
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I only sorta joke that the amount I use a camera is inversely proportional to how much the body and the system cost. I use my iPhone a bunch, my Fujifilm X series a fair bit when traveling, and my Canon 5Diii mostly only if I'm going on a particularly photography-oriented trip or some other specialized purpose. I'm honestly not sure if I'll ever upgrade my Canon body at this point.
I did see him mention on twitter the other day that he was going to be on a BBC segment talking about this, so there could be video archives on that front
Except that they changed the cable for the iPhone 12, so none of your existing chargers work.
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YC has historically had a big influence on improving financing terms for founders and reducing founder-hostile behavior by investors, by creating competition among investors for YC companies. Should YC maybe consider developing and enforcing a code of conduct addressing these issues, that might similarly improve the situation for start-up employees?

They could maintain a public list of YC companies that abide by the code of conduct in order to encourage good behavior, and to help communicate to potential employees that they would get a “fair” option deal (as early investors, they would clearly have access to the terms of any financing deal).

[EDIT: they could also maybe publish a list of investors who have committed to following the guidelines, and consider excluding VC firms from YC events if they won’t commit to those standards]

Depending on how serious YC was about making a difference here, going against the code of conduct might even be grounds for exclusion from the YC community? My understanding is that YC has always focused on what’s best for the founders, even when they were the outsiders in silicon valley and at their own financial expense. Maybe now that YC is such an important player in the silicon valley ecosystem, they could use that power to maintain the health of that ecosystem in a way that few others could?
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Because it is necessary for a functioning device. Because they made changes to their charger during that generation for improved performance. "Free" is a loaded term in this context. It should be included in the purchase.
> bake fresh baguettes at home that beats every bakery in the world.

No it doesn't, unless you have a bread oven and a lot of experience. A good recipe is not enough to make a great bread, let alone "beat every bakery in the world".
Anyone else see the irony in all of this hacker-bashing on this site called "Hacker News?"

Not just in this particular discussion, but overall a shift away from talking about individual, inspired and sometimes entrepreneurial creativity toward how to pass a FAANG-style interview or have better standups and corporate culture.
The time and votes don't explain this, and "more comments = bad" doesn't either. Because [1] has 27 points with 8 comments from 3 hours ago, whereas [2] has 28 points with 7 comments from 1 hour ago, and yet [1] is ranked #8 and [2] is ranked #13. I don't see how any of those explain this. AFAIK this story never went above ~#10 either, so it's not like it's been hanging around forever. It really looks like something/someone has been either artificially boosting other stories or artificially penalizing this one to prevent it from going near the top.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494109

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493495
In that case you should probably renounce your US citizenship. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
I think that a person who is 'dissatisfied' by honoring Stallman is a horrible human being and deserves to be fired on the spot. I certainly wouldn't want such people in my team.
HN moderators love to drank what they seem "controversial" topics, aka whatever doesn't align with their political views which are deemed the default/neutral view. Basically, you're allowed to discuss the latest iphone release but not how it's made.
>giving vitamin D supplements to mice during pregnancy completely prevented autism-like traits in their offspring.

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2017/03/vitamin-d-linked-autis...

Developmental vitamin D deficiency increases foetal exposure to testosterone [full paper]

https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
Is Netflix recommendation engine the best there is?
So, I just started using Netflix after a 2 years break (it did not have a good library available in my country). And I see that the recommendation engine is still a joke for anyone with sort of advanced taste of movies / tv series. Even the Spotify recommendations are light years better (yeah, it's not 100% the same for music and movies, but pretty similar). Here are some major problems that I've encountered:

1. It shows movies that I already saw as recommendations. I personally rarely rewatch movies, and definitely do not want them to be top recommendations. Pretty sure, that many people are the same. Why it does that, I don't know. Also, there is no way to indicate to the system that you watched the movie but did not particularly liked it or hated it.

2. One of the top movies that I should like, according to Netflix is Uncut Gems, which I really hated, because it has an extremely unpleasant protagonist and a boring, uneventful story. There were only three original things in the film: cinematography, music and random "bad luck" events that had profound impact on the protagonist. Netflix thought that I should like it because I like Dark Thrillers, which is true, but I like Dark Thrillers that come with a good story. So if I like Fargo, does not mean that I will like Uncut Gems.

3. This leads to probably the biggest issue, which is: not enough dimensions on which to make a judgement. I would love to watch all movies with a strong original plot, but it is not one of selection criteria. I love watching most movies of my favorite directors, so (say) Tarantino, Lynch, Cronenberg, Nolan, Boyle, Villeneuve, and many more would be a 100% match, and the algorithm should be able to perceive it. I love good foreign and sci-fi movies, but I do not see them in the list, most probably because my taste is a bit more esoteric than the tastes of the crowd.
Check the link from GP. You're correct a "spike" of knowledge is some topic that you specialize in.
>But many of us need Chromium/Chrome. It’s the IE of the 2020s, and sometimes Firefox doesn’t quite cut it

I'm aware that this is an unpopular stance in certain circles, but I wouldn't touch Firefox with a pipe wrench. Chromium/Chrome is not the IE of the 2020s, and this kind of delusional statement underlines the actual issue with the state of Chrome in Debian (and generally the linux world): a big share of the people still involved with the respective OS-development are completely out of touch with the actual state of things.

When Mozilla dropped the incident response team a couple of months ago, the backlog of incidents was already in an - from my perspective - inacceptable shape. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Firefox and the noble ideas it represents. It's just, to be frank, batshit crazy to claim that Chrome is the IE of the two. The opposite is the case, and the situation will worsen dramatically over the course of the next years, if the current trajectory is any indication.
Significant is $, not %. 10% of $1M beats 100% of $10k.

Why would you expect options to pay big for a non-unicorn? Unicorn means the startup investment succeeded in its goal. No one gets rich when their investment fails.
I would appreciate a little bit more detail here so that the article can be corrected. Could you point to which dangling parens need to be fixed?
4. Another dimension is how many stars the movie got, or in Netflix's case - number of thumbs up and thumbs down. Not sure how many people vote that way, but ideally it will be something like an IMDB score. I am quite prepared to give a try to what most people consider really good, but IMBD score is 0-10, while thumbs up is much more ambiguous and it probably works against movie buffs, who will thumb up only the best, but will be drowned in tastes of the average person. A movie that was voted higher than 8 on IMDB by a lot of people is highly likely a good movie that should be watched, regardless of genre, language, etc. The only problem IMDB has right now is a mass of Indian and Turkish voters (not sure if it's bots or just a flashmob crowd) that got quite a lot of their movies in the IMDB top. However, Netflix does not have this dimension at all. Movies that were highly rated by critics or curated lists also don't show up and so the judgement goes towards a common denominator, instead of receiving a bump from critics.

5. Finally, an issue that becomes apparent after some time, is just a really tiny library of movie content. If the info on the Internet is correct, there are no more than 5-10k movies in the Netflix library, this is nothing compared to how many movies are out there. Whole genres are not represented, where are the hardboiled Hong Kong action, foreign Sci-Fi, classic oldies, etc. It is not a direct problem of Netflix recommendation engine, but a limitation still. Again, if I compare Spotify and Netflix coverage, Spotify fares much better, with no more than 10% of artists that I listed to no listed. Of course, Netflix tries to switch everyone to watching just more of their own content which they can distribute without issues or additional cost worldwide. But if the market becomes fragmented, the movie discovery function diminishes in value.
The Bay Area is an outlier as one of the most expensive locals in the world to live in. The median developer salary in the US is somewhere around $100-110k, and the vast majority of those people live outside of SF/NYC and work for boring companies doing boring forms-over-data work.

You can save a shitload of money in Iowa making $95k/yr.
How about writing about how fathers are utterly discriminated in Germany with little to no rights at all for their children? How about you write how much a husband has to pay monthly to support a female which chooses not to work anymore after separation? How about writing about the suicides committed by fathers in Germany and stop this gender biased crap?
How about I tell you how German courts discriminate men, especially foreigners, convicting them without evidence and taking female's word to be of more weight than that of a man?
To be more specific, zsh was already included before, but the default shell for new accounts is now zsh instead of bash. Apple still ships /bin/bash version 3.2 with macOS.
That makes no sense, "Under German law you are not only allowed to talk about your salary with your colleagues" and
" it is expressly illegal for your employer to try and stop you from doing this", So its illegal to talk about it, but when you do its illegal for your employer to stop this?
The virus is already not deadly enough to kill itself as about 1/2 of the hosts have no symptoms.
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> I’m surprised a German boss would warn of “consequences” for doing that

It's only a statement from one side. This can be 100% false, because people lie, often.
I'm fairly certain the parent was being sarcastic. I completely agree, if it was about the planet and not just saving money on their BoM they could (should?) at a minimum have included a discount voucher for a USB-C charger.
I lived in University accomodation with a researcher who was working on transistors for optical computers, and predicted them taking over from silicon in "10 years, tops". That was in 1989.

The relationship between funding and hype is always weird. But it must be really hard having to decide which of several projects to fund, and "what people are talking about" is obviously one of the metrics.
Works until a big cloud vendor or someone with more funding clones it and takes all the revenue. This is why MongoDB uses an AGPL-like license and CockroachDB uses BSL. Forget what license Redis uses but it’s similar I think.

The software biz these days is a dark forest.
Only in the sense that you can't harvest losses by selling.
About as rigorous as the fear mongering in the media right now.
free market economy doesn't mean no rules.

Saying "leave if you don't like it here" is a poor argument. I am not sure you want to debate in good faith?
I didn't say "more comments = bad", I said comment traffic affects the ranking. Actually, a busy comment section improves the ranking of a story (again IIRC.) I think time is the most aggressive part of the formula - it would take a fantastic number of votes and very busy comments to keep a story on the front page for a full 24hrs.
2-3 stops is enormous. Speed of the lens is partially where the additional cost comes from, and professionals are willing to pay for that extra performance - especially sports photographers.

It's been a long time since I paid any attention to pro photographic equipment so I don't know if fast lenses are important with modern sensors performing so well in low light. But back in the analog/early digital days 2-3 stops was a huge advantage.

Also something to consider, the pro lenses also focus faster and more accurately. I was never sure if this was down to the software in the lens, which is proprietary and why 3rd party lenses are never as good as manufacturer. I could easily see Canon or Nikon tweaking the firmware on prosumer lenses to focus a fraction slower.
Bullshit. Every single company in the US buys stuff from companies from foreign countries who promise to deliver things under contract. This is not an Apple owned company, or an Apple problem, or a U.S. problem, but a problem at a company in India (I believe owned by someone in Taiwan). Do you know who made the shirt you are wearing, the product you just bought from Amazon, who picked the grapes you have in your kitchen and who is reading your prescriptions, or how your company's security software supplier builds their software? No? Then you are no different than Apple, who at least tries to keep up with 1000's of suppliers and their treatment of employees. And sometimes those companies are determined to screw their employees over and cover it up. It happens in farmer's fields, giant suppliers or government agencies. Having fake outrage over someone else's occasional failure but ignoring your own. Are you eating food picked by some exploited farmhand? Wearing a cheap shirt made by a prisoner in some labor camp? Ordering some cheap crap on Amazon stolen from a real business? But sure blame Apple for missing the boat.
you are misparsing the first quote. it is allowed to talk about it.
Your points about why this is bad are entirely correct.

But founders with shareholding may (do) work with later investors to their joint benefit, screwing over other early shareholders or investors.
With VC money holding shares already, that is not so likely to happen - unless it is the VC buying-in more equity.
However, smaller enterprises with startup beginnings are very likely to follow this pattern, as later investors (and perhaps greedy founders) do not care about those that came before.
> it is expressly illegal for your employer to try and stop you from doing this

Under which statute?

I'm only aware that those clauses in work contracts that forbade talking about your salary were consistently struck down by courts, when they didn't include reasonable limits to the prohibition, because they would restrict you from discussing your salary with your spouse or tax accountant.

Later courts ruled that even with such limitations, those clauses are void, because they run against the basic right of forming coalitions in the workplace (article 9, section 3 of the Basic Law).

But I'm not aware of any statute that bans those clauses expressis verbis. Is there a newish one?
Not the parent commenter, but it makes sense: you are allowed to talk about your salary, and your boss is not allowed to stop you from doing that.
I mean either way I still can't use that to explain this. Can you? Again, we have 8-hour-old stories with fewer votes and comments ranking higher right now.
So what is it about? Just the physical sensation of the friction of feeling the glans penis rubbing against the vagina? Nothing more, about validation, recognition, bonding, status, power etc?

Simply "sawing away" without emotion or "stakes", it loses value.

People don't just want to have sex, they want to have sex with some people, in some circumstances. Men are less picky (both out of necessity and due to lower consequences), but still somewhat selective, if for no other reasons then opportunity costs.

Nothing is simple about sex.
So damn well said.
FOSS is made up of humans. A large number (perhaps all - take this as a personal warning) are downright nasty to some other groups of humans.
No, because discrimination in hiring on the basis of race is illegal. It does mean the org should probably not focus its efforts on running a big public pr campaign about hiring ethnic minorities though.

That's all in the general case though, unfortunately it does sound like there was some bad practice in the fsfe specifically this time. There are two sides to every story though. I'd want to hear both before making judgement.
For those interested in looking at the raw data, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map is a useful visualisation of cases by region, over time.
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And there are places in the US where modest homes in good areas are $90-100k and will get you a similar payment even with less than 20% down. I'm not sure what your point is?
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Oh YOU like a free market economy, so it's okay to enslave people in third world countries. As long as YOU'RE happy.

How about we cut your pay to 70 cents per hour and see if you still like it?
This remark comes up in every chess thread

Then this gets pointed out: online chess was already seeing a spike due to the pandemic. But yes
The 1% options would be one percent of shareholdings at the time the option was offered.

With more shares created/sold later, the dilution means when the options mature, they will be less than 1% of the total company shareholding, or value.
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You can spread the word of this story, and make sure people know that this is who decides how donations to the fsfe will be used.

Perhaps a strong drop in donations will be the catalyst for change and self reflection.
IANAArcheologist-nor-Anthropologist...

The first city is generally considered to be Ur, which "dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

However, there's the Potbelly Hill "dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BCE" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

I've heard of stone cities in Southern Africa that are believed to be older than 100K years, but that's not part of the known archeological record.

Some would argue, and I'm inclined to agree, that civilization could be considered to date to the beginning of the Stone Age, which "lasted for roughly 3.4 million years" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age

Stone knives aren't primitive, they're sophisticated ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_reduction ), arguably the product of a human (as contrasted with animal) mind.
Do you really think these people would be working for an unlivable wage if they had the choice of a fair one?
I’m not even close to a serious photographer nor have a trained eye, but phone cameras have such terrible dynamic range and artifacting (the impressionistic watercolor look), they’re still not even close to a real camera. Maybe in very specific conditions and never viewed zoomed in or bigger than Instagram sized, they’ll do.

I sync my camera photos to my Photos library along side phone pictures and whenever I’m flipping through to share something with a friend, they always notice and comment, “You took those on your phone!?” The difference is still huge.
They could but why would they, its all about pricing.
I wonder if you had put your paragraphs in the other order, you might have had better luck. I was absolutely about to reply with some discussion on 3D printing, until I noticed the edit keyword and so read that first.

I know it should be on the reader to fully read a comment, but it's the internet, so I adjust my comments sometimes to make sure my point is across before people jump ship.
I had a couple companies interested in recruiting me to the Valley in the mid 90s or so. One of the reasons I decided not to pursue was cost of living relative to the not inexpensive Boston area. And the companies even acknowledged that was the case.
It used to be better years ago IMHO. Then they reduced your opinion possibilities to up/down and the recommendations seemed to get worse.
How does a Norwegian cash out their piece of the fund? Can you get a loan and use your fund allocation as collateral?

If not, it's not really their money.
> It is now possible to build a telephoto lens for your DSLR, that costs $2 to make, is short and flat, yet has better optics than your current kit.

Do you have any references you can share? I'm super interested.

edit: For anyone else interested, the key phrase that worked for me was "metasurface lenses".