skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edgy but this is a simple taxable situation and downright impossible to avoid taxes on it. California is going to make a nice little amount of money here as is the IRS.
In a capitalist society, wealth accumulation by the capitalist class has no relation whatsoever to number of hours worked or level of productivity. It is in fact the opposite, their wealth increases non-linearly to any input; ownership is all that matters. The worker class however, the Foxconn employees you’re talking about, have a linear relationship to their income, and yes, are generally taken advantage of by the capitalist class. It doesn’t matter that Tim Cook is a salaried employee, he is still part of the capitalist class because his income depends largely on Apple’s stock performance.
Zuckerberg is a socially obnoxious pathological crook, and deserves to be personally prosecuted for his crimes against humanity . . .
Definitely not true, I've encountered plenty of SQL users at work who never heard of injection attacks or parameterized queries. Some of them even built some ad-hoc query builders to replace some of their own repetitive queries. (Note that parameterized queries alone are not sufficient: often people would try to parameterize table or column names.)
Discussion of Reuters article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28322550
> So, London is a criminal enterprise that provides no real value, or is parasitic, or at least it's reasonable to compare it to one?

As a former Londoner, absolutely yes. London as a city is extremely parasitic, especially when it comes to time and standard of living. It does provide value when you're either so poor or find it so hard to get a job that working there provides you enough value, or you earn such "screw you" money that you can afford to live a comfortable life there. But for anyone outside of those groups, it's best avoided unless you're just visiting for the sights.
But he didn't lose massive amounts. He (well, he and his company) made massive amounts.
The mistake you keep making, despite it being pointed out to you multiple times, is to consider age groups as a homogeneous cohort, even though it has been well-established that the overwhelming majority of deaths across all ages happen in risk groups. At this point, this appears to be willfull ignorance. I'm afraid that even if I were to give you a "pledge of allegiance" regarding my vaccination status, further discussion would not lead anywhere.
Isn't this a form of tax evasion? By not hiring local people they avoid paying tax on their work. They also avoid any sensible employment regulations by outsourcing it to not so compatible with human rights China. In my opinion this kind of avoidance should be illegal. It does not benefit anybody except Communist Party of China and Apple.
Programmer in China working 996 is a prestige job with a chance of a big payout though.

Programmers have it much easier to switch jobs due to scarcity and high demand - this also applies to China.
Developing countries will probably have a larger undercount so estimates derived from the US may already be projecting a more conservative figure.
Well, good for you (work/pay) and good for them (security/efficiency), win win.
> Couldn’t they have ...

> Why didn't anybody think of doing such a simple thing?

Your second test at home is to take a photo of the stars. Bonus points if you can do it in one photo and with technology that existed in 1969.
> Our world is unfair only when the corruption interferes, that lets you receive more money than you are actually worth.

What is corruption?

A software engineer doing the same work gets paid way more in SF than in London. State policies prevent free movement of labor between London and SF. State policies do not prevent free movement of capital across nations, as clearly seen by the number of megacorporations actually owned by weird subsidiaries in strange locations for tax purposes.
As if the majority of China has the luxury of only working 72 hours a week.
Why? I think there's a definite argument to be made that a large part of the West's foundation of economic power is rooted in a history of colonialism and global oppression.
The hell we do. I don't need yet another tech company fighting free speech even harder.

If code is speech then
misinformation is speech.

Do what everyone throughout all time has done: provide valid truths to defeat invalid rumors.

Fuck your willingness to give up my rights for your perceived immediate safety.
People underestimate just how bad Britain was financially after WW2. The one thing that hit home for me was Britain still had a good ration system in place until the early 1950’s (obviously fewer and few items as time went by).
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Well if Academia doesn't want to be vocational training, then we probably need to cut the number of people going to college back to the 5-10% range.
Just note, that link only works for you; if you have a developer account, you'll have to substitute the ten-digit number for one from your apps.
That seems like a much different problem! Apple is mismanaging, but it has nothing to do with the commercial parasites theory that was mentioned as the idea in this thread(?)
Yes, sounds very much the the ever-harmful “butts-in-chairs” style of management, or self-management in this case.
> the collection was sold in 9 hours for 255,000 US$, that makes a whale sold for around 76 US$ apiece?

That's an interesting point. It would be interesting to trace those payments to hear back from these customers, or even check if they actually exist at all.
Who said anything about that? I wanted to clarify that the money Cook is receiving isn’t paid out of Apple’s cash reserves.

Although the question you raise is an interesting one in the sense that many buyers of Apple stock are indirectly depending on it to make a living after they’ve stopped working. For a blue chip giant like Apple, many of the buyers are index funds and pensions where the ultimate beneficiaries are retirees. They literally are buying Apple stock to survive, although through intermediaries.
Maybe he made $900 previously from ETH?

I don’t know. 12 is a bit young but I remember having a job at 14 and “limitless money” because I didn’t have any responsibilities. I could have easily justified $900 as “only two pay checks”.
> This is just once again a case of philanthropic green-washing of what should be actually simply heavily taxed.

Not being snarky but heavily taxed and then what? Expect the government to make the best decision on how to spend money?
I like to point out here that a lot of companies have been ruined by incompetent leadership. Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft made a ton of boneheaded decisions.. think about how poorly Vista was received, and how he didn’t lead the company towards an iPhone.

Satya Nadella takes over, steers the ship towards services and cloud, literally billions worth of better leadership.
> an antipattern

Not clear, could you explain?
Robert Nava, from an ex-criminal to 1000$ per day with Ecom
>>incorrect the teacher.

Did you just use incorrect as a verb?
This "despicable man" is the CEO who blasted a board member for suggesting that he should prioritise profitability over sustainability.

https://fortune.com/2014/03/01/apples-tim-cook-picks-a-fight...
> Of course nobody would seriosly want to use a modern PC to run that game.

It's a technology demonstrator. And people run all sorts of tools from USB drives. For example, I recently ran a memory tester from USB.
I guess the hyperdrive motivator had been damaged.
The same? No. Off by a factor of thousands or millions? Unlikely.

I am not insisting that people should all earn the same amount of money. CEOs can absolutely provide a unique and valuable role and have more direct influence on shareholder value than almost any other laborer.

I am insisting that attributing all of the change in a stock price to a CEO is not an accurate representation of their role or labor.
> sometimes it came from a Mafia sex slave operation or whatever, but those are minuscule edge cases on the scale of say the UK economy

A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, after a while the money laundering starts to add up: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/uk-losing-fight-money-l...

The UK economy offers a unique mix of commercial fairness and predictability, achieved by a comparatively incorruptible commercial court system, with disinterest in where the money actually comes from provided it isn't UK crime.

Whereas in China, for good and ill, billionaires are not above the state and can get clobbered when they become politically inconvenient. Such as Jack Ma.

(A question nobody is asking in this thread: what's the relative price of a taxi in, say, Lowestoft? What does that say about the regime there?)
I am on the same path but I don't see it as a problem.
I see it as a realistic mindset and mandatory skills for the future. Peer pressure must be ignored delicately.

Somehow I envision decentralized future in which people will use bootstrapped and FOSS software on small private networks. In my country, before big internet centralization there were small internet providers who offered all kinds of information services. When this time comes, some will be prepared to lead the way. And some will follow, as always.
People do spend millions of dollars to make themselves feel better, if they have the capability. That shouldn’t be surprising in the modern world.

Assuming it’s not illegal money and no coercion was involved, then by definition the customers must have believed that the cosmetic operations were worth it, at least at the point of purchase. Since cosmetic surgery is much less burdened by regulation, externalities, and so on, I would say the prices charged are reasonably close to the market clearing price.

The surgeons in Africa may or may not be subject to greater distortions depending on the local market.

Though I imagine cosmetic surgeons specifically in Africa are paid about the same relative to their skill level, staffing level, and facilities?
You say that like the finance world would never commit fraud or securities crime, even when given an unregulated market to work with.
> I really don't think Apple's valuation would change much if Tim Cook is replaced

Apple's current valuation is $2.49 trillion. A trillion is literally a million millions.

So that puts them at 2,490,000 millions. Due to meeting various goals, Tim Cook is getting 750 millions. That's ~0.03% of the company's valuation.

Apple's valuation wouldn't have to change very much before it would have been better to keep Cook in charge, even with higher compensation.
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Curious how this works, trying to do the maths in my head, but polar integration not my strong subject.
I don't think anyone other than Tim could have done just as well. If you look at competing tech corps - HP, IBM, Sun, MIPS, SGI, DEC, Nokia, even MS - their run isn't as long, they fail to adapt after a strong start, and the wheels often come off in spectacular ways.

And that's with competent management. (Let's not talk about the multiple management idiocies that happened at HP.)

Apple is now one of the longest lived tech corps. IBM is older but a shadow of its old self. MS is a year or so older, but the rest of FAANG are relatively new.

Cook has kept the plates spinning and turned Apple into a giant revenue machine with a strong R&D back-up. I don't think that's a small achievement, and even if he's helped by the board and senior execs - which of course he is - it's still easy to underestimate the skill that goes into that.

Having said that - he's also turned Apple into a somewhat boring company. The products are nice-looking and usually functional but not particularly thrilling. They feel overpriced. And I suspect some opportunities in home automation, user content creation, and health have been missed.

Cook's Apple is an all-American bureaucratic behemoth - a kind of modern General Electric which keeps churning out high levels of competence, but not much inspiration or excitement, and not a little frustration and irritation over nickel-and-diming of users and developers.

Someone else might not have made Apple as profitable, but personally I wouldn't have minded a friendlier and more inventive and adventurous company.
For it to produce the same machine code, a couple of things need to happen:

1. The move constructors need to be equivalent to a simple memcpy. This is often not the case. E.g. std::unique_ptr, which clears the source std::unique_ptr to null.

2. The compiler needs to either inline the move constructor to notice the optimization, or it needs to do inter-procedural optimization. Either way, it's unreliable. Sometimes it will happen, sometimes it won't. Sometimes it will happen in your current compiler version, but an update will come and it's not going to happen anymore. Generally, blindly relying on the compiler to optimize that is another case Sufficiently Smart Compiler[1]. Even if it happens, it's just not reliable. Chandler Carruth held a talk at CppCon once, where he showed how std::vector::push_back is optimized by Clang to a simple assignment and size increment, when it's preceded by an appropriate call to std::vector::reserve. The only problem was that when there were more than three calls to std::vector::push_back the optimization was turned off, so now not only did you pay the price of a function call (doesn't matter all that much), but also paid the price of increasing the number of branches that the CPU goes through (not that nice), because now on each std::vector::push_back, it needed to check whether it has enough capacity for the new size. Optimizations like that are very unstable.

And I'm sure this is going to receive mixed reactions among HN readers (not Rust again!), but Rust, although still suffers from The RAII Syndrome, when it comes to its standard library, it doesn't suffer from the problem with the move constructors, because it doesn't have move constructors. It's move-by-default, as opposed to copy-by-default in C++, and the moves are provided by the compiler, they are all the same; they can't be customized on a type-by-type basis. Which means that a Vec::push in Rust doesn't have the issue I described that std::vector::push_back has. It will always compile to some variant of memcpy.

[1]: <http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler>
Who was defrauded? “Journalists” and “journalism” websites want clickbait.

The whole purpose is to give the “journalist” just enough plausible deniability to write a clickbait headline, which benefits CNBC/BBC and the person selling within their family.

As far as I know, misleading “news” is not illegal.
My story:

I did exactly the opposite From Linux to MacOS. And this after more than a decade of using Linux for my work and my desktop. Everything began because I started to have battery and dock station issues with Fedora running on the Dell laptop that my previous employer provided me with. Then I asked IT and they suggested and somehow convinced me to try a Macbook pro and after debating with myself I finally did it. I struggled for a bit because of the brain muscle and all the habits in terms of configuration but I eventually adapted to it. At home, I happily continued using Linux. Even I bought a new Thinkpad not so long ago (p14s Gen1 with Ryzen 7 pro) and installed Linux right away as always. The performance was decent but I had many issues with my dock station (in my setup at home), suspend and some system crashes due to the GPU driver (Over Ubuntu and Fedora). I finally got tired and bought a MacBook pro for personal usage too.

I would like to summarize a few points that pushed me on my decision apart from the issue I mentioned:
- At this point of my life, I only want technical challenges on my work (DevOps Engineer), not in my personal computer. I got sick of upgrading the kernel and having to spent a couple of hours every now and then fixing something. I just want to turn on a button and type. That's it.

- Also tired of the elitism of the Linux community in general. That feeling of superiority I've detected in many forums from people that presumes of using that twisted distro or Windows Manager.

- Also tired of the huge amount of toxicity and fanaticism (systemd rants, Canonical/Ubuntu sucks, this and that).

- The quality of the laptop (material and display). Mac devices are expensive. I spent on mine 2800£ but I think it worths the investment comparing it with any of the numerous Dell/Acer/Thinkpads I've owned before.

- Lack of software. Apart from computers, I like to make music. Options like Cubase are not available for Linux.

- From a users perspective, the philosophy of 'everything has to be free' (free in terms of price).

Note: Any of the previous points are just *personal* appreciations and conclusions and just have changed things in terms of personal tooling. For infrastructure I managed, Linux forever. Maybe (and probably) I am not right or being unfair but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
>The risk of getting that wrong and accidentally destroying billions of dollars of shareholder value

Definitely happened for HP when they took on Leo
>I think he had a point, some OSS software is objectively just bad - UX, UI, bugs, overly complicated.

A lot of the closed-source software is also quite bad, but in a wholly different way: Sure, the UI is clean and the software is not complicated per se, but often your ability to simply retrieve information has been intentionally degraded in favor of an algorithmic discovery queue. The UI, while simple enough, changes for no good reason far too often. Often these UI changes are seemingly for the worse, so I can only guess that they improve "engagement." And of course, although the application may be simple to use, it's often built with "dark patterns," which are meant to shape your behavior. Yes, you can ignore or overcome these, but it's a hurdle which should never exist in the first place.

By contrast, I don't think anyone loves Rhythmbox, (the open source itunes clone) but I've been using it for a decade and the UI has not appreciably changed at all. The application is definitely not perfect, but I can at least work around its flaws because those flaws are consistent. And really, why would a file-based music player need to change its UI much at all? There are no dark patterns to speak of, it's not trying to addict me into consuming more content, or paying for some subscription service.
I don’t ones a ability to make money is even vaguely correlated with once ability to spend well for the benefit of society.

Hell the whole reason why democracy is thing is because monarchies of yesteryear have proven quite decisively that the ability to raise capital and spend well for society are not even remotely linked.

We need to consider very carefully as a society what the impact of the billionaire class has on how our society develops, and the outsized impacts they can have on democratic processes.

Personally I don’t think having such wealthy individuals is a good idea. Their wealth is so great it’s pretty much impossible for them not to get wealthier, and do it at a rate greater than than the vast majority of people. And their ability to deploy that capital to influence society is scary, effectively taking the role of government to provide social services, and placing it in the hands of a wealth few.

We’ve already seen what more extreme individuals are prepared to do with that power, just a Hobbylobby and David Green’s continued vendetta against abortions and safe contraceptives.
Thanx. Good news
I switched from IT to construction 20yrs ago and never look back. My question to Mark Zuckerberg regarding his 2007 comment would be if he would let a young lawyer out of college defend his company in the supreme court? If he would hire a startup to build his new fancy campus? Would he send a fresh graduate from the Mid West to DC to lobby for his agenda? If software fails they send an apology and a bug fix. If the engineer fails a condo building crumbles, a lawyer will not get a retrial and the lobbiest is not getting anywhere. Trial and error works in SW but almost nowhere else.
can u explain that in normal english? I feel like people using alot of fancy/vague terms dont really understand something and are just repeating what another person said before. Anyway, im certain its a prediction. A prediction is just saying what will happen in the future. That's it. Everyone saying otherwise is probably a wanna-be intellectual.
I agree they’re a bit strong on the sales pitch, but they’re not trying to come up with a new definition so much as bring the words usage back to its technical meaning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability
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The killer feature of YouTube-dl is that it has been actively maintained for years. Any competing tool will need to do the same, and it is highly unlikely that others will carry it on.
The trams in Croydon work this way. There's an induction loop on the tramway which detects an approaching tram, and tells the traffic lights to change to allow the tram to cross the road/junction.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tramlink_tram_priorit...
Plenty of places you can do with $1k/month really. Of course YMMV but if you just want to focus on your game, I would definitely recommend checking out nomadlist.com and see what inspires you.

If you can accept some underdeveloped [some parts may actually positively surprise you] countries, take a look at Georgia, it can be really affordable and give a fairly good quality of life.

"Eastern Europe" (i.e Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bulgaria) can be a little more expensive but plenty to do with $1k. Also, it is actually a lot more developed than you may think. Oh and it's really safe!

As a rule of thumbs if you keep your expenses low, if you can find a place on Airbnb for $500/month, you could easily go with the other $500 for monthly expenses. Even maybe save some money or have some fun!
For those of us who subscribe, these are called memes
London tech firms struggle to hire as Silicon Valley giants scale up in the city
Ask HN: Is Hubspot state of the art? Any better alternatives?
Hubspot seems ubiquitous as CRM and Marketing Automation tool for startups. But it feels so clunky sometimes, not API-first, and really slow.

I wonder they are any companies building the next Hubspot out there.
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My naive understanding is that there are so many tunable parameters in string theories that you can use them to model our universe but not to make predictions outside what our existing models already predict. So you can falsify a given set of parameters, but if you find a set of parameters that fits our universe there's no way to know if those are the right parameters or why these parameters here and not those parameters there that also fit.
They claim this was his second set of NFTs, and that he managed to make 3,350 unique artworks to sell this time:

> This time, he drew inspiration from a well known pixelated whale meme image and a popular digital-art style but used his own program to create the set of 3,350 emoji-type whales.

All while coding for "20 to 30 minutes per day".

Seems pretty clear that this is the dad (who works in software in finance) cashing in on the NFT trend and using his 12 year old son to generate the publicity.
To be fair, quite a lot of the London wealth more recently has been stolen by Russians, or is the rightful property of murderous feudal monarchs in the middle east. We're an equal opportunity laundry.
Strange definition of prediction. It sounds like you are using the word fact like it could somehow still be false.

There are no facts in science^. There are observations and falsifiable models. Also these models don't try to explain as much as they are useful to predict an observation. If it fails to predict accurately it is falsified.

^ unless you mean fact = observation. but then I don't see how it can be wrong
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