The majority of comments here seem to argue the ideal equity share for employees is zero, since it probably won't be worth anything. That seems like an even more founder friendly viewpoint, no? Mass inequality of ownership is how we end up normalizing the corrupt billionaire class. I agree with you we need an industry desire for better ownership terms, but instead I see people arguing employees should just take a salary, look the other way, and let owners hoard all the spoils.
This is useful and informative. But also, no I don't expect companies to keep track of everything that is illegal anywhere in the world, and then not offer it anywhere. Otherwise we'd have no alcohol or chewing gum or pet cats.
From a US State Dept study that I'm sure everyone is surprised is still up:
"recent studies have shown that a better predictor of antisemitism is not a right or left-wing perspective but a conspiratorial worldview and a penchant for authoritarian type of government"
I struggle to put my finger on who that reminds me of.
Steinbeck was the first name I searched for, so this was great to see even if his major works won't be available for some time. I do wonder how badly the Steinbeck or Faulkner estates are hurt by the sudden loss of royalties? Imagine working hard to write a book to make a living and then just under a hundred years it's taken away from you. Also, AI.
Imagine meeting co-workers on your first day: "This is parpfish, a rock star who is making twice what all of you make. He is one of those 10x engineers you all hear about. Just stay out of his way while he re-architects all our systems!" I think I should have taken the lower offer?
Layoffs are like closing factories that don't produce, cutting products that don't sell, closing deserted retail locations, and so on. Likely bad business decisions got you there in the first place. Maybe market conditions changed. Maybe your whole company is going to fail no matter what you do. But blanket statements about what does or doesn't "work" are not very instructive.
The average tenure of an employee at HP is 6.6 years (source: Google AI) to pick a company that may be outside your bubble. And the lifelong career holding older employee at a legacy enterprise tech company is the kind of worker who is most adversely affected by an unexpected return to the job seeking pool.
I was curious to learn why we "never allow the forest to burn", given that Cal Fire for example has a whole department of Prescribed Fire. Sounds like the problem is lawyers and property owners:
> One of the primary obstacles to increasing the pace and scale of beneficial fire use in California is the difficulty for practitioners to obtain adequate liability coverage, although the rates and losses from escapes are very low.
Uber is almost the canonical example of something that should be an app! I need to do a frequent task, I punch up the app, I'm always logged in with my location pinpointed, I get a little live-updating widget on my phone with my ride location, plus notifications and Apple Pay and so on. When my ride's over I'm done with the app. Much more useful than say the "Hilton Honors" or "Ann Arbor News" apps which are literally website wrappers that I use once a year.
A trip to Disneyland costs thousands of dollars per person, Taylor Swift tickets the same, but these attract record crowds. Cruises and hotels and restaurants are full. How would you define an economic boom?
The title of his column and book "Metamagical Themas" is an anagram of Martin Gardner's previous column "Mathematical Games". It's clever wordplay turtles all the way down.
Quite often I'm incorporating a new library into my source. Every new library involves a choice: do I just spend 15 minutes on the Quick Start guide (i.e. "copy-paste"), or a day reading detailed docs, or a week investigating the complete source code? All of those are tradeoffs between understanding and time to market. LLMs are another tool to help navigate that tradeoff, and for me they continue to improve as I get better at asking the right questions.
Main issue for me in bed is failure to identify face smooshed into pillow. Raise head and unlock fine, even in full dark. Still requires neck muscle actuation that wasn't required with touch id.
By the same logic, all gas cars should be taxed on a sliding scale, where the more fuel-efficient cars are taxed at a higher rate. It's important to society that we incentivise people to drive the most polluting and climate-destroying vehicles.
In Safari I pop open Reader, it gives me the full article with no noise. This is the solution for 50% of the complaints I see these days on HN (font too small, too light, ads, popups, paywalls, what's up with web design).
Unfortunately my "serious business" of $2B revenue dropped Zoom and Slack like a hot rock when they signed an enterprise Microsoft deal, because Teams is free, and usability, productivity and job satisfaction be damned, and your jobs are moving overseas anyway and nobody dares complain there.
I find it more entitled to expect that "property" is a concept that transcends society's needs. Personally I require that my private collection of Picassos is burned upon my death.
This question sort of answers itself, but why skirt the real concern, just add a "Chance of crashing" filter to the flight search? Bonus jobs for data scientists and takes the consumer out of the odds calculation.
> A Tesla owner who accused the electric vehicle maker of improperly accessing and sharing video recorded from his car must pursue his privacy claims in an individual arbitration rather than a proposed class action lawsuit, a judge in California has ruled.
I rely on the stilted style of Chinese product descriptions on Amazon to avoid cheap knockoffs. Why do these products use weird bullet lists of features like "will bring you into a magical world"? Once you LLM these into normal human speak it will be much harder to identify the imports. https://www.amazon.com/CFMOUR-Original-Smooth-Carbon-KB8888T
Apple is a massive company that swats away pesky threats all the time. It's like Exxon executives losing sleep over a guy with a hose siphoning gas from the corner station. From a PR standpoint they won't dignify it with a response of any kind, other than to quietly crush it to dust.
Wow, I've had much more positive experiences with Autopilot on multi-hour highway trips. No shutoffs, no phantom braking in the last year or two. Autopilot on the highway is so much better than any other car I've driven with adaptive cruise. Anyway, the parent is comparing city and highway self-driving and they are completely different.
Also pointless: "your session will expire in X minutes; click Continue to stay logged in" alerts. That just turns a short session into a long session? And provides a handy session.renew() call for the attacker?