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If your argument can only be made in a very specific set of conditions and only applies to yourself, it's just a preference.

I don't care how you prefer to do things on your own, but if I were interviewing you for a senior position in a team with a handful of people, and you tell me that's how you want them to work, it would be an almost immediate NO HIRE.
The story of how ZFS was almost added to OS X (along with other Sun tech like Dtrace which did get added) as told by a Sun insider.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/zfs-the-other-new-ap...
It's worth mentioning that it's easy enough to find absurdly cheap (~$20) early-generation dev boards for Zynq FPGAs with embedded ARM cores on Aliexpress, shucked from obsolete Bitcoin miners [1]. Interfaces include SD, Ethernet, 3 banks of GPIO.

[1] https://github.com/xjtuecho/EBAZ4205
No, I'm talking about developing for those users. Right now if you want to write the simplest, dependency lightest export code that those users can double-click and open in Excel you are writing yet another CSV export. It would be nice if instead you could take an existing API that returns JSON and wrap it in a mimetype like application/json+excel, and add a Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thisapi.xljson and get Excel double-click support without another flaky CSV file.
The impressive part about the APFS migration was that they performed dry runs on iOS updates prior to measure success.

> We actually had this process running for earlier iOS updates … where when you updated to 10.1 or 10.2, we were trial migrating your whole file system … consistency checking it … reporting back to us whether the upgrade was 100 percent clean, then rolling it back.

https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-dry-run-apfs-prio...
Nature doesn't know what she is doing either. It's a system that evolved based on random events that were beneficial for some species and bad for others.
Computing is an endless cycle of inventing ways to isolate code in a private machine, followed by inventing ways to make it easier for those machines to interoperate.
Thank you.

People get too cute with what should be a link to a file.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836879

If you want to call something a dupe, then link to the other submission. Otherwise your comment makes no sense, you are just copying the submission link and pasting it in again.
> Like higher salaries, social programs, or just R&D in general.

Because that could be a waste as well.

Stock buybacks are just a tax-advantaged form of dividends (and shouldn't be legal for those reasons). Just do dividends.
Thank you for this comment which mirrors my experience. Unfortunately CPAP seems to be considered the be all and end all of treatment, although the mask, tubes and reliance on such a bedtime setup can be enormously disruptive of sleep on its own.
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In the article they say, Apple spent $33B on R&D and $77B on stock buybacks.

The fact that they leverage their all encompassing 30% App Store fee, a tax on actual PRODUCTIVE smaller businesses, and then funnel that back directly to their investors for capital gains is a cause for concern.
Pity the kids without phones
The number I've not seen that I most want to see is the amount of share buybacks compared to the number of shares the company gives to its employees as RSUs or stock options.

Given that tech salaries tend to have a sizable pay component made up of stock, my gut feeling is that share buybacks are in large part a roundabout way to pay their employees.

(Now, let's also go fix the laws that make it tax-advantaged to pay people via such an indirect manner.)
Stock buybacks are simply tax efficient dividends.
Sure, I get it, people like to call each other Nazis in a fight. I‘m just saying in the case of the FPÖ, it‘s a different story. They have/had Neo-Nazi connections, and that‘s well known.
It's a shame the term "Communist" is burned forever by some idiots calling themselves communists who clearly were not. Yet this is an argument that I'll always lose, because it's academic.

I hope the KPÖ is on my ballot this time and I can give them my vote.
Is it? Or is it a sign that the company is confident in itself?

What is the difference between a stock buy back and a dividend? Both increase shareholder value by returning cash to investors. If not share buy backs, they would just issue a special dividend to accomplish essentially the same thing just without reducing the outstanding share count.

If companies have the ability to issue new shares, why shouldn't they have the ability to reduce the shares with a buy back? What is the negative consequence?

Further, if a company is flush with cash but the stock price is too low, is there any reason they shouldn't be allowed to buy it back to tell the market that they're wrong?
Not true. We have team members in Europe and NZ.

“Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.”
AI Could Have a Surprising Effect on Interest Rates
Personally, I encrypt my backup/recovery/setup keys in a CSV file using a password that I have memorized, and send them to family members to store in their accounts/cloud storage.

But safety deposit boxes are a good choice too, just be careful to balance your own convenience. If you can't easily update your backups, you're really unlikely to include new accounts in them
Stock buybacks look extra suspicious when majority of compensation for executives is based on stock value... So they can both manipulate the price of stock and also reap benefits from that manipulation. With dividends they have to actually hold the stock to benefit from them.
In what way isn’t it? Any potential shortfalls could have been made up with a little bit of engineering elbow grease.

What are the advantages APFS has over ZFS, for lightweight systems or otherwise?
I've been reading about Nomic for ~15 years now, but I've never played a game. It seems somewhat difficult to get enough motivated players to participate. I'm interested in playing though. Maybe we could try to put something together? My contact info is in my profile.
I don’t use Claude 3 for anything else than coding, it works phenomenal for that use case. Maybe we’re seeing the emergence of super specialized LLMs and some LLMs will be better at some things than others.
I manage a niche retail store for a hobby that I'm passionate about. It's nice to be out of the house and talking to different people.
He went from being basically a failed founder of a YC company to running YC. Then rumors are that he was fired from YC and then somehow went into AI stuff from there.

He's one of those guys like Kevin Rose who seems to be able to fail upward again and again. Like every venture is a failure but the person responsible ends up being given even more responsibility and even more money. They're very common in silicon valley for some reason.
Great idea and thank you! Is there a way to filter by platform (i.e., Android)?
Little to no mortality. Little impact on milk production. A nothing burger.
Confidence and maturation, or stagnation? I can see good arguments being made for both directions.
If you have a go/rust/zig binary as your application do you need a container to run it?

Maybe, but it makes less sense at that point. If your doing Node/Ruby/Python/PHP then yes the container makes sense to drag your runtime to the server...

Do containers (docker) make sense for dev. Sure, to a point. Because our dev (win/Mac) might not look like our deploy (linux).... If we move to a standardized remote dev model then docker makes less and less sense.

>> It’s one I’ve asked before; have we just created a more elaborate statically-linked executable via containerization?

The bottles project only supports their app image, as they no longer want to be responsible for supporting the disttro maintained packaged version of their product.

Yes containers are becoming a way of dealing with linking, and dependency management. Its a blunt instrument for dealing with software packaging and distribution.
You could split the key a few ways if you don't want to trust that one of your stores won't be compromised https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
It makes people uncomfortable to think that maybe massive, powerful companies do bad things, especially if they are either employed by one or hope to start one of their own. It's not fun being on the other side of the wealth divide in this country, and people will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening to themselves and their families. Unfortunately, the more precarious life gets, the harder people will fight. It's not looking good out there.
A company acting to make money for the people who own it. What a novel concept.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that I can create a fork of any MIT licensed project right now, and relicense it as GPL. I can't do that the other way around because GPL explicitly forbids it.

> without an CLA or similar agreement assigning ownership, contributions retain copyright of their original author.

Wouldn't that mean that any contribution without an CLA to an open source project is unlicensed? Meaning anybody using a project that appears to be MIT is actually screwed because different parts are owned by different people who can claim infringement since they never explicitly licensed it to you?

EDIT: SLA->CLA :P
I have a personal experience with using Facebook Messenger, around three years ago, my girlfriend and I heard very clearly that someone is listening to our Messenger call, he even talked for a while before stopping as if he made a mistake for not muting, this happened the next day but this time it is a woman. Both of them sound like they are American, we are in Asia and we do not talk in English during our call. That is the main reason why we used Signal app, because of those two incidents. We never trusted end to end encryption advertisement from Facebook again after that.
Rules and laws can change at any time, especially if they’re not encouraging the desired outcome. It’s all a shared delusion on a spreadsheet, not immutable laws of physics.

Companies exist because they are allowed to.
I find having kids in my late 30s hits really hard because of this. Biologically, I can see it being best having kids in your early 20s when you're made of rubber and can bounce back after lack of sleep.
I think that is part of the "it takes a village" saying. Communities/grandparents (of the baby) were all either in the same abode or most likely very close.

Having run the same gamut three times, the best advice I ever got was: chunk sleep. Let the wife sleep for 4 straight hours, and then tag out, where the awake person sleeps if/when they can. I know nursing can gum this up, but either pumping, or just doing the formula thing, it's worth it.
The standard answer I get from finance types about any of this stuff is that it increases liquidity in the market so when you the little guy decides to sell, you can do so quickly instead of waiting until there's someone who wants to buy the stock because they're interested in investing in the company's future.
Confidence? Increase the stock price simply buy taking excess money and reducing share supply, that doesn't seem like confidence, but it is a short term price gain -- whether it is long-term price gain would be to-be-determined. Re-issuing shares because there buybacks intentionally change the price, seems like the financial engineering aspect of huge corporations, not really anything related to R&D creating new revenue streams.

I don't know, I'm not convinced yet, buybacks just seems like a fast way to increase price/"returns on investment in the stock" and market cap and appease investors with large holdings. Surely, yes, you could take loans out against the new market cap or issue debt, but why not just have used the existing cash to do that already. The only explanation could be that investors can cash out and different taxes have affect (or not!) and innovation is less of a need than continuing to exist and buy back stocks.
Some other not yet mentioned feedback: The 'Show more' button which only revealed the last half of a sentence in both choices I made basically made me ditch the site. There's absolutely no reason to do this if there's no other collapsed content on the page, and also should be avoided if its only collapsing a tiny amount of text. Each book summary has its own distinct page, so its just annoying and to me serves no purpose.
This is not the case, just to be clear about it. We have a bunch of folks in Canada, the UK, and Europe.

We do ask for some overlap in working hours with the US, which does make it harder the further away you get, but that is the constraint, not “US only.”
I’m an elixir noob, but I’m actually surprised that the distributed story is not _better_. For example, a big thing about OTP is that it allows running many processes that communicate by message passing: but all these processes are _colocated_ to a given node, i would have expected that OTP (or genserver or whatever) handles clustering of machines, scheduling of workloads and routing of messages for me so that I can start processes and call them without caring about where they run.

What about “distributed systems” is elixir actually shining at? From my reading, it seems rather like a good option to _avoid_ distributing (thanks to the light processes and concurrency handling)
In essence the government is miffed that they don’t get to tax unrealized gains via share price appreciation like they would dividends.
This'll probably have a Streisand effect by making having a secret social media account the cool kids thing and probably add up even more to the societal pressure to get in social media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
To be fair, I cringed a little bit when I got to "castrated." even though I generally agree with you.

I do agree with the AI that there's probably a better framing than "it got its dick cut off".

Say, "isn't there a better way to prevent teens from getting bomb instructions than lecturing me just because I want you to talk about how you got your dick cut off?"
Everyday.

Just not being afraid to try stuff.

Self-efficacy is a powerful thing.

(Meta edit: Both Bandura and Young in a 5 word sentence. That postgrad pedagogy course was worth it!)
There are the so called sovereign citizens, 5g and vaccine crowd. In fairness these government centralized identity systems are a big target with a massive radius and it’s almost certain to be hacked
If it's not weight, what's the common cause? Such a bad impediment on so many people should have a very clear signal. And apparently it's not weight? O never really looked into it
True, can't think of much else this popular.

He started posting videos again recently with some regularity after a lull. Audience is in the low hundreds of thousands. I assume fewer than 100k actually finish videos and fewer still do anything with it.

Hobby electronics seems surprisingly small in this era.
Anyone else think of themselves as a GPT? When I write my brain just predicts good words that come next based on my experiences. No doubt in my mind AGI is coming.
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I think the point is that we don't observe evolution here, i.e. people with lesser IQ die more or reproduce less, but cultural adaptation. If high IQ scores are considered valuable, society creates environments that enable high IQ scores. Brains are pretty adaptable, even more so in the first 25 live years, and long exposure to an environment training for high IQ scores will result in higher IQ scores.
> I don't know why struggling people would vote for them, but they do.

In stark contrast to many, I know a lot of people voting for the FPÖ, although all my close friends are far more left than right.

I have family that votes for the FPÖ, I have acquaintances and I know them, because I talk to them, uncondescending and am very interested in their motives.

And quite frankly: Most of the time it's simply not logical.

I can point them to laws the FPÖ enacted (because, you know, stuff like that is public), laws that DIRECTLY hurt them and they still vote for them, because "the foreigners, they will take everything we have!"

And even foreigners vote for them. People that are not Austrian citizens but already living
in Austria feel like they belong here but now the gates should be closed.

It all boils down to emotions and the good ol' divide et impera, which has worked for millenia all around the world.

Some have their reasons, e.g. because they like what the FPÖ is doing at local levels.
> they would just issue a special dividend to accomplish essentially the same thing just without reducing the outstanding share count

Yeah. People seem to think if a company didn't do a buyback they would spend the money on salaries or R&D. No, the company would issue a dividend instead. One consequence of a dividend is they typically trigger a taxable event vs. a buyback which gives the investor more options to control their tax burden. Personally, I prefer buybacks over dividends in stocks I own for this reason.
https://archive.ph/ohLJW
I'm no more trusting the benchmarks. other than trying it out myself, what else can we do here?
The current situation of 2 parents alone in a box (“house”) with baby is severely unnatural. I don’t think there is an evolutionary explanation because in this regard we are out of spec.
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Isn't a stock buy back equivalent to a reverse stock split with the gains being split between those who want to sell their stock getting immediate money while those who don't get higher value stocks? I've seen a lot of negativity about the process, but I don't see how it is any worse than anything else involving moving stocks.

Take a company with X non-liquid value and Y liquid value. They want to spent some part of Y, let's call it Z, doing a stock buy back. There are M stocks to start with, and after a buyback there will be N stocks.

Default (do nothing): Original stock holders have M stocks worth (X + Y) total. Total value, X + Y.

Pay dividends instead: Original stock holders have M stocks worth (X + Y - Z) total and Z dividends. Total value, X + Y.

Do stock buyback: Original stock holders have N stocks worth (X + Y - Z) total and Z buyback payments. Total value, X + Y.

The only difference between 1 and 2 vs 3 is how the value is split. In 1 each stock holder holds stock proportional to how many stocks they held at the start. In 2, each stock holder holds stocks and dividends proportional to how many stocks they held at the start. In 3, stock holders hold different allocations of stock and buy back money based on if they sold or not, but with the total value proportional to how many stocks they held at the start.

What makes 3 so much worse than 1 or 2?
Dividends are taxed directly and generally aren't tied to CEO compensation, unlike buybacks. Buybacks are more a sign of management incentive structure.
You would be surprised what the margin is in retail.
I might be in the minority here, but I haven't fallen in love with Qubes. Or I should say, my use case doesn't work with Qubes and that is generally laptop computing where I am taking my laptop to and from work, to and from school, etc. I felt like the sleep/wake functions were non-existent. Also, my laptop only has 16GB of RAM. Qubes seems to be great if you have a decently powerful desktop pushing several cores and at least 32GB of RAM if you actually want to have multiple VMs up a time.

I love the concept, maybe it would be better if instead of VMs it moved to containers? It would probably be less secure, but be a better use case for laptops.

Can anyone comment on that? Did I do something wrong?
The first two months after my wife had my daughter about a year ago, I was a walking zombie.

I wasn’t really here. I tripped and fell down so many times. I had not fallen down since I was in my teens and I am in my late 30’s.

I really had no idea how bad lack of sleep was going to mess me up. Of the things I had planned for in having a child, I was absolutely not prepared for this.
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
That’s for the humans to decide and discuss, not for the word guessing algorithms to lecture you on.
> I can create a fork of any MIT licensed project right now, and relicense it as GPL

A common misunderstanding, but no!

You can incorporate the MIT project into your X-licensed project, and now have three parts you need to consider: the MIT project, your X project and your (presumably x-licensed) composition of the other two projects.

It means, for example, that when distributing your composite project, downstream users do not only have to comply with X, but also with MIT (for that part). So they havbe to reproduce the MIT license (they would not need to do so if you truly relicensed the code!), and they need to distribute the copyright marks of the MIT project etc.