skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question was more why employees should agree to it.
Metamaterial lenses seem to be the fusion power of photography. Just one breakthrough that might not happen before they're commercially viable.
The pros are summarised here:

https://gamelisp.rs/reference/introduction-for-rust-programm...

The main cons would be the lack of LuaJIT, the lack of C or C++ bindings, and the fact that Lua is spectacularly more mature and stable :)

(Full disclosure: I'm the project's developer)
As always, that depends on your threat model. I'm definitely not an expert on the matter, but in the last couple of months there were a number of vulnerabilities in electron apps, including Slack, Discord, and Microsoft teams. The Signal desktop app is also electron based, so I wouldn't be surprised if some vulnerability was published in the next couple of months.
Additionally, I have no idea how exactly the signal desktop app stores its data, and how easy it would be to extract it.

Personally, I'd stay away from the desktop app if I (or the source) were actively targeted by someone with enough resources to spend on either electron bugs, or other ways of accessing my computer. That includes spear phishing.
What, if any, interventions should government provide in a free market economy?
I had a second hand notebook, and one problem with it was yellow screen. Is it not a problem now?
You can’t use a paintbrush without paint but they still sell them separately.

If you need one, buy one.

I don’t see any practical, technical, ethical reason to include one. I see environmental and simplicity reasons to not include one.
Minneapolis is also gorgeous, and relatively cheap. There's a "greenway" for bikes and pedestrians that's a converted railway. It has a huge music and art scene. There are tons of local breweries and more than a handful of startups and big name companies with a presence there.
English is not my native language but in many germanic languages "not only" does not mean "not" but rather the opposite of "not".
Torvalds is interesting because of his recent attempts to be better. He took time off, got therapy, and wants to change.

Even if he's not as successful as we all hope, I can respect that he is trying.

Some folks just like being a jerk, and want to enjoy continuing to do so.
On dec 10 WHO released a statement on their website admitting that PCR tests are faulty, will detect anything we want them to detect and therefore medical staff need to look for symptoms which basically means you’re sick if you have symptoms.

https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-not...

As a scientist that information tells me that all cases have to be considered faulty since the foundation is faulty. The results cannot be trusted.
Needs a (2000) on the title
I don't disagree, but it would be really nice if we could classify lockdowns better. The original lockdown furloughed a LOT of workers, closed schools and closed virtually all shops. Today's "super tier 4+ lockdown" doesn't seem to apply to shops at all (my local shops were all open this morning, is wrapping paper really an "essential"?). Workers are mostly going in. Schools that have remained open unless they already closed and childcare is still running.

They've basically just shut restaurants. That's the only change I can see...

I've posted elsewhere that my cynical view of the UK gov approach is that they are talking tough and doing nothing. So maybe I'm biased?

Perhaps a move transmissible strain will force real action?
> Now, we have assumed we are talking about great developers.

I think you're the one making that assumption, not "we". I'm merely talking about the guys who are seen as pros, but might just be "good" or "above average". They gain the benefit of accumulating a lot of knowledge and experience, while someone with more talent might have made better use of it.

I also believe you're assuming a little much about organizations, especially in the direction "mediocre perceived as great". Often, it is also a great developer perceived as mediocre because they don't have the skills to sell themselves well. Considering many managers don't even have a technical background, let alone a developed one, and how many environments don't allow the great developer to shine without playing office politics, I highly question the idea of "organizations will find a way".

Given what you said, despite the difference in perspective, what we are saying doesn't differ a lot. I just don't believe a developer who avoids politics and tends to hang around to do the dirty work in a large enterprise app can get very far, or at least leaves a lot up to fate (despite maybe having a ton of talent). Nor do I believe "plays office politics well" should be a requirement for someone to be seen as a great developer.
I’m of a similar opinion, but with the note that QCTRL actually makes products that people want. The current state of the art in QC requires that pretty much everyone needs some kind of pulse shaping/noise reduction, which is (some of?) what QCTRL provides. Plus the quantum sensing space benefits greatly from such techniques as well. So even if quantum computing falls into a “quantum winter” it’s likely that quantum sensing will pull through and so QCTRL might survive.

Those other software companies are also competing with the IBMs, Googles, and Rigettis that are also building similar software for the the hardware they’re making.
Also, I am yet to log in to a Linux machine that does not have bash. Does that even exist?
We can change anything at anytime for any reason

In private companies, always remember: (1) control ≠ equity
(2) equity ≠ profit (3) equity ≠ information.

If this is new to you read Brad Feld's Venture Deals book and do the online course, it's time well invested.

Note this is simply the nature of private equity. Companies go public to drink at the capitalisation trough of public markets, but the cost is regulation and increased transparency. Companies that stay private are rarely bound by significant rules in terms of board or management decisions redefining structure, equity, terms and so forth. There are at least four key firewalls (exercise, issue, share class, transfer) between "options" as issued or promised and meaningful equity value extraction for an employee. Good lawyers can probably name five more, and definitely dream up or deploy tens more at any time without breaking laws.
What free market economy do you like best? I live in the US, and we have a minimum wage, safety regulations, mandatory breaks, etc. We’re generally considered wildly free market compared to most of the developed world, but we’re still a far cry from a totally free market because we acknowledge that people have certain rights, and the government is the guarantor that those rights aren’t trampled by sociopaths. We don’t do a perfect job at it— not even close— but I think things would be much worse for the average worker here without some of that regulation.
I don't think people should be happy to be fleeced by wealthy landowners, at least because if they were fleeced slightly less then they could give the difference to people living in poverty.
Biden has been staffing his administration with former corporate lobbyists and executives of all kinds, not just from tech. If anyone was hoping for a revolution, Biden isn't going to lead it.
If ads start bringing in less revenue, more developers will move to IAP (or other stream of revenues).
I completely agree but how many jobs are there in Iowa paying that much? I'm sure there are some but it's hard to fault people for going where the jobs are.
That phone looks exceptionally ugly. I'd rather get a Pine Phone.
For one, it's (2000). Second, the subject is misleading - the lined post is about Al Viro's hacky solution of another problem, unrelated to Debian (or, more precisely, OP's adventures with dselect).
I can only say these things are variables. I have no idea what the weights are. For all I know (I'm sure they tune the thing without publishing details) it now involves some kind of sentiment analysis. But rather that attempting to reverse engineer the process, I recommend getting in touch with HN and expressing your concern - if enough folks feel strongly about this story, it'll be buttressed a bit.
Doesn’t that just mean you work for an LLC?
>I think 16 is getting to the end of its usefulness in a laptop these days..

Seriously?

What are you people doing on your laptops to need so much RAM? I'm producing graphics and doing image manipulation on a 7 1/2 year old MacBook Air with 8GB RAM [I've even done the occasional bit of video editing] and I've never felt that it was struggling.
Apple is a labor exploitation company.
While I generally agree, I think MS has to copy Apple here, but not because they need to make the same products. The M1 chip was Apple planting the flag for consumer-level ARM performance, and every indication is that they'll be able to scale that performance up to more demanding use-cases. MS's fortunes are tied to Intel and Qualcomm for the time being, both of whom are falling behind on performance and performance/watt, so they need to do something to remain competitive.

What would throw the world for a loop would be if MS secured an x86 license from Intel and developed their own chip with the performance/watt of the M1.
This has got to be the most desensitized comment I've read on HN till now.
So if you have an iPhone 9, 10, or 11 charger that came with the phone, you can utilize fast charging for the 12?
Apple is certainly not paying by the hour. I would expect this to be a volume-based contract.
What is the audience for this article? No, I don't have BB&B coupons (or any coupons) clipped to my car visor. No my mother-in-law doesn't have a folder full of coupons. I have no coupons at all. Was this originally published in some coupon-clipper magazine?
I believe the author has legitimate grievances, but I found that article very hard to read and understand (except that it's clear the author and Matthias had very bad interactions). It reads as a confusing diary entry or a first rough draft, not an article for public consumption.
I can see simplicity reasons to sell the user guide and box separately, too. Why not just hand them $1k in cash and get an unboxed phone? Much simpler than packaging and credit cards.

The means by which people will bend over backwards to paint Apple in a good light is insane.
The battle is over attention. Users have a finite amount of time to spend looking at their phone per day. The more time they spend scrolling Facebook, the less time they spend on other apps. The less time spent on other apps, the less money they spend on IAPs.
I cannot disagree strongly enough.

We have lost sight of the idea that all organizations should use long term thinking and have the following priorities, in this order:

* Do nothing that harms our employees, customers, or our investors

* Accomplish our mission, whatever mission that is

* Create revenue for investors

If the OP's account is true (I have no reason to discount it) then the FSFE violated rule #1. I'd argue that the FSF mission is to promote free software and a healthy ecosystem of Open Source software and developers. If you accept that as the FSF mission, and the account is true, then they also violated rule #2.

We should not rely on the laws to prompt us to act for social good. The laws are there to isolate and protect us from those who do not act morally in the eyes of the state.
The focus motors are just flat out better in expensive lenses. By contrast, I have a $200 Panasonic pancake lens with a terrible focus motor in it. It's slow, noisy, and hunty.
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> I've posted elsewhere that my cynical view of the UK gov approach is that they are talking tough and doing nothing. So maybe I'm biased?

It's felt like this with all of the tiers to be honest.

They just don't go far enough and the populace is fed up with taking much heed of the rules too.

The November "lockdown" felt very, very different to March when the roads etc were quiet - and it actually felt like people were taking this seriously.
(defun main
()
(format t "Hello world")
)

Should be

(defun main ()
(format t "Hello world"))

The lisp community has very well established formatting conventions. You pretty much never see closing parens on their own line like this except when reading code written by beginners (or some special cases like package export lists for example, where one might want to leave the list "open" for adding new symbols, similar to a trailing comma in some other languages).
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Some folks think that morality and law are the same thing. That the very meaning of "ethics" is "things not on the list of illegal things". And if the law was not involved here or did not force anything to happen, then clearly everything was ethical.

We call those people sociopaths.
This attitude leads to mountains of e-waste. No thanks.

But yeah drop the user guide too and put it on a website, good idea. The box, not that because it protects the product leading to less wastage.
I bought $1000 of shares at a company when I left. $0.75. Their valuation at the time was like $18.

In retrospect I'm pretty sure all I did was buy myself a tax burden when they fold or pocket change when they exit.

The mistake I made was not realizing the parent comment: that I lack the information to make an informed decision or to be sure they don't just dilute to oblivion. The numbers I did have access to (above) communicated a very misleading story to me.
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Im working trying to use virtual reality (VR) in software engineering (in a master's context). Any feedback is (very very very) welcome
I don't understand this 'wages gap' issue. Any organization is interested in extracting maximum value from hired labour, ideally paying the lowest possible wage that a person agrees to work for. There is no some special incentive to pay women less than men: the only reason it is possible is that because women agree to work for less. So, it's on them, not on 'sexist' 'misogynist' entrepreneurs.

As a consequence, if a woman agrees to work for less for doing the same job with the same results, it would make her much more attractive for hiring. A no-brainer, really.
If I had to guess.... as a person who once did a fair amount of business in the middle east, but Egypt and not Israel...

I had a former customer there _go out of business_ when the Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm!) administration supportd an attempted putsch by (in my customer's words) "The Retarded F___ing Nazis who killed Sadat for making peace with the Jews."

Israel and the non-Brotherhood Arab countries face the burdensome situation that their most reliable "ally" is a country that depending on the politics is going to support the Brotherhood _and_ the large wannabe-hegemonic Russian satellite state trying to develop nuclear weapons. (Oh, and funded said state's reconquest of Syria in the process). Said schizophrenic state also has a massive surveillance system of its own.

My guess: they all don't look at this as a violation of civil rights or ethics, they look at this as a means for the little countries like them to get a leg up on some of the insane intelligence agencies of the large countries that are funding enemies both domestic and foreign.
Whilst the consensus seems to be that this variant is spreading faster than other variants - is there any information on exactly how it does so?
If Apple has any reason to believe they are benefiting from underpaid labour then they are responsible.

You don't just get to say "well technically the slaves work for that other company, sure we get the slaves to build our devices that we profit off of, but they're actually hired by someone else".

If they know about it and benefit from it it's their responsibility. If they have any reason to believe it might be true and don't do everything in their power to stop it, it's their responsibility.

Billionaire Apple shareholders simply chose increasing their wealth at the expense of poor people they took advantage of in developing countries. And this has to stop, and we have to stop saying it's acceptable.

Capitalism failed. It failed harder than any other experiment humans ever tried, and it and the wealth equality it creates has to be destroyed.
Dangling parens are the loose closing parens on separate lines. I.e. this:

(defun plus (x y)
(+ x y)
)

instead of this:

(defun plus (x y)
(+ x y))

It suggests the author tires to balance parens manually/visually rather than using a proper editor mode. An understandable and common mistake of a newbie, but looks bad when you are writing a tutorial.
But at what point does turning a bling eye become complicity? I could maybe understand if we were talking about a small US company that unknowingly contracted out to a sketchy overseas contractor but I have a hard time believing one of the most highly valued and profitable US tech companies like Apple doesn't have direct knowledge of it's own supply chain.
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Worker wages weren't the primary reason for Apple to set up iPhone manufacturing in India. It was more of a quid pro quo deal with the Indian government. In exchange for doing that and providing jobs, Apple gets to open their own single brand retail stores and gets a break on local sourcing tariffs for their other products.
Because Apple is worse, everything you do on the Apple platform has to be taxed, something like Italian mafia did in the past. Until things got heat in 2020, Apple wasn't even allowing payment competition in their iOS App Store. Think about that. Roman empire did the same with their provinces, wanna get romanised (civilised)? You got to pay the tax.

More so, Apple is #3 in the world in game revenue and guess what, Apple doesn’t even make games.

I can't buy an Apple device because of the ideology behind their products. Why expect Apple to put other storefronts on their platform? They have all the rights not to but this also implies that their ecosystem is less liberal, which is also fine. They made the OS and the device. If you hate the App Store, don’t use iOS. It's simple. They run 1984 ads but they are the core of 1984.

There is basically no reason for not providing an OS interface for others to build their own storefronts on your platform. Android showed that it's possible, there's no excuse. Period.
There also needs to be a meaningful distinction between the choices. If every employer is offering the same devil's bargain, and every one leaves the person at the edge of starvation, then the freedom to choose which devil to deal with doesn't mean much.
I don’t think “lack of funding” is something IBM has to worry about at the moment. As much as I might like it to be.
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Out of the topic - I love that movie too, but never heard about that book. I'll try to look for it. Thanks!
Parent's comment was vaguely worded so I think you mistook it as saying Apple wanting to pay higher wages.
Not relevant. Variants are detected using full sequencing.
> not because it’s gonna blast into the island like an asteroid

More like a really slow, flat comet!
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That's crazy haha. In an interview with sram engineers, they said the real limit with 1x drivetrains is the amount the chain has to bend when in the outermost positions. If be pretty cool if they could figure out how to deflect the chainring and align it correctly
Yuck, No !
I hated it.
Copying is in Microsoft's DNA. I can barely think of a successful product they have made that wasn't a knock off of something else (lotus 123, azure, .NET, etc)
According to this Wistron has been producing for Apple in India for 4 years.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-india-wistron-idUSK...

"Wistron has been making iPhones in India for nearly four years and its operation has been seen as a success story for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that is looking to boost manufacturing."
Yes, but they'll obviously check that your account has a license before sending messages.
The Svelte Discord channel is great, I had nice discussions and exchanges there.
true for the components, but not for all of the low-level integration work needed to bundle/assemble these, and all of the development/integration of the installers, etc.

there's a reason people use linux distros over building their own
> They have some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world, as well as a gigantic portfolio of patents. They aren't going away.

Those are exactly quickly going away. Engineers and scientists need to get paid and want job stability, while patents have a 20-year lifespan.

Nikon was on top of the world in 2008 with the D300 and the D90, but the technologies that made those possible were patented years prior. Right now, the curve is with mirrorless where Sony, Panasonic, and (now defunct) Olympus have a 10-year lead on patents. It's also with smartphones, and those technologies bubbling up. In the deep learning/ML battle, Nikon is bringing a knife to a gunfight.

On the other side, they're having massive layoffs right now. When companies have layoffs, usually they let go the bottom end of the workforce, while the top end leave voluntarily.

Nikon is continuing to patent new lens designs, but so is its competition. Nikon has excellent optics, but so does Olympus, Canon, Fuji, or Sony; they aren't exactly ahead of the pack here.

Sigma has really been pushing the edge on optics.
You don't have to take it personally.
Will the vaccines work for the new strains too ?
My alma mater treated CS more like "Applied Math", to the degree that I don't think that anyone in the department viewed Software Engineering as a major source of employment after the (Master's) degree.

Viewed from the lens of "CS is a researcher/PhD candidate mill", a lack of focus on ethics makes some sense to the cynic in me.
Which causes more trouble than it's worth and forum posters should stop.
I would like for my company to go public. Leadership has shared a timeline with us (as in “it will happen in the next x years”).

Do I like having illiquid equity? No, but the company has opportunities to access some liquidity. More importantly, working for about five years will have provided me more than many people earn in a career. I want many of the things described here to change like anyone else does, but it would be nuts to call it a bad deal.

I have a feeling people use this kind of junky thinking (“stock options are lottery tickets to be valued at $0”) to justify starting their own thing instead of being employed. But you should do whatever you’re going to do without needing to lie to yourself about how equity compensation actually works out for engineers.
What I'm saying is this is beyond a "weighting" thing. You don't need to know the precise algorithm, but you can make some reasonable inferences (e.g. more votes probably doesn't penalize). If you just watch this story on the front page, it's acting as if it's hard-capped at #10, and where it's happy to stay for a while (though occasionally going to #11 and then coming back). It really looks like someone has interfered with it rather than it being an algorithm thing, unless the algorithm imposes deliberate hard caps on some stories. And given that it seems to have had some manual interference, I'd rather they address this publicly; everyone is entitled to know.

(Update: And just as I finish writing this comment, it's at #13, whereas the following 3-hour-old story with 19 points and 1 comments is somehow at #9 now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493577)