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I largely agree, but we do not write all these papers "so tax payers can sleep". We write these papers because the administration incentivizes us to get the highest profile publications with the lowest effort possible. In relatively creative fields (i.e., much of computer science), this can even mean to make friends in the community and co-author papers with them without being the one who does any of the hard work. (In other sciences, it means being the one who pulls in the money, as far as I understand.)

A related problem I see is that we treat all papers the same: position (opinion) papers, reviews & surveys, and "hard" results (relevant proofs, strong empirical results, software artifacts that are deployed at scale in practice etc.). As the blog post somewhat suggests, the administration should primarily ask us to summarize these results when assessing whether we are worthy of funding and faculty positions; sure, it takes more effort, but I think it is possible.
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Yes, because "women can't do science" and "women produce less scientific output" are different. There first is casual. The second is observational. (I guess you could make a semantic argument that "can't do science" means like "are unable to due to environmental factors" and is thus also ultimately observational, but that's not particularly convincing in the context of scientific research).
I haven't seen this sort of outright abuse, but I've definitely experienced firsthand at multiple companies a situation where a newcomer needs a ton of tribal knowledge in order to do their job, but the newcomer's team members get miffed every time they're asked a question. So then the newcomer ends up having to do way too much work on his/her own the hard way, it makes everything way harder and less effective, and before too long they're branded a "low performer" and it all goes downhill from there.

It happened to me at Microsoft, and later it ALMOST happened to me at Apple. Fortunately, at Apple I knew what was going on that time and I just badgered my irate teammate and bullied him into giving me all the info I needed. (Or went around him when I could, since I was lucky that the rest of the team was a lot easier to work with in that respect) He was a nice guy, but he'd get visibly annoyed every time I asked him a question. Either the answer was patently obvious, or the question was unanswerably difficult.. Later on, that teammate left and a new one came onboard with a ludicrous number of really dumb questions, but I just swallowed my bad attitude and did my best to patiently and nicely answer them.. and sure enough, after a couple of months he was fully up to speed.

Also, even more fortunately, when things were going badly at Microsoft I had a decent savings account built up and a lot of self confidence/stubbornness, enough to say from a place of complete conviction "I'M not the problem; this whole org is a steaming pile of shit!" no matter who told me otherwise. I feel really bad for the author of TFA, because I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to have the type of screwed-up, mercenary attitude it would take to get through his experiences unscathed.
Oh come on, you use it as a drug to let the Mac stay awake. Whether or not the guideline makes sense, you are obviously violating it, just change the name.
Well, it's a play on Caffeine.app's name. I'll make an ever better Mac force-wake program called Crack Binge.app, anyone who dislikes this name is a puritan Apple sycophant.
"nearly everyone" is doing a lot of work there. I for one don't expect him to die in his term. I do expect him to decline running for a second term and set up Harris for a strong campaign in 2024, but four years is a long time.
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> Except for everyone in the West scrambling to replace Huawei with Ericsson tech.

That's entirely political and nothing to do with the tech. Huawei's tech is arguably better, cheaper (and available now).
I agree with the author: if Apple wants to tighten up rules around drugs, they should have a grandfather clause for popular apps with an established brand.
It's a successor of the (now-defunct) caffeine app which did mostly the same thing.

Given that most other coffee names were already taken, I can understand the logic of why they chose the name.

As you said though, it is now considered by many to be insensitive. So Apple it's probably in the right here.

I'm sure they would welcome suggestions on how to rebrand.
I seriously doubt your nerdsniping changes the point of the original poster. Which you could easily figure out if you weren't so eager to jump upon every single minute detail and consequently missed the forest for the trees.
Is that really the thing you took from this? The person is reporting a pretty serious harassment issue and your input is "mmm, make it more peppy"

Worse, at the time of writing this is the second highest response!

e: at least the comment got reshuffled while I wrote that, seriously though..
There is something about one person being in a beehive of drama, but at the same time confusing ordinary office politics with "nepotism" or constantly conflating Apple policies and national policies (the so-called "Muslim Ban" etc) or taking what might be honest advice "Quit before you're fired" as some sort of threat. In other words, when one person's short experience contains more complaining than I've made in my entire life--especially when that one person is dealing with a massively deep-pocketed and "woke" corporation--there's indeed something very off about it. This person is almost certainly going for the big bucks.
What's SV to you? Most people I know in the greater Bay Area don't have the huge options or rsu grants. I think you FAANG folks forget you're in the minority with those huge stock grants that are worth something. My current company is going public and I will get about 25k per year (~100k vested over 4 years) from my options once they vest and that's basically it.
Right, assuming shipworms could survive the extended period on land.
Something something China shouldn't be allowed to participate in free trade if they don't return the favor.
C++ has been my main programming language for the last 20+ years. (Dang this makes me feel old.)

For my paid work (at multiple jobs), I've never been allowed to use C++ newer than C++11. At first it was due to incomplete compiler support, and later on it was because various customers were using older versions of RHEL whose standard version of GCC was something like 4.8.

Anyone else experiencing this?
I read a good study that suggested that so much time and effort (and hence money) is wasted on writing proposals for non-funded grants we should just assign a sizable fraction of the money by lottery instead, without needing lengthy proposals. Everyone knows you use the money for other stuff not specific to the grant regardless. The opportunity cost of writing all the rejected proposals would be saved and could be spent on actual science, even if some of it isn't top notch that otherwise would have been funded (and thats assuming that the grant proposal system actually selects the stuff mostly likely to be ground breaking).
> Looks like you can get a hepa filter for £70 that will fix the issue for the most part.

True though that may be, I think the main issue is the spoiling of the commons: the air we breathe. I love my indoor air filters, but I sure do like fresh outdoor air as well.

With regards to the gas stoves: it's mostly an issue of indoor air pollution which is certainly valid (a lot of particulate matter is created when cooking anything with heat). Even a properly sealed / ventilated wood stove is creating a lot more pollution than an equivalent gas one.

Now if we could only heat our house by mining bitcoin we'd all be better off. /s
I"ll echo VC scarcity in NL as a main problem. Coming from Israel I really notice in NL bootstrapped Dutch companies of high quality that are quite happy serving the local market and maybe Belgium and that's about it. No expansion planned, or if one is planned it could take years and years. I read once its due to lack of ambition by Dutch entrepreneurs, but that isn't it. Without VC money its simply realistic to stay local; how are you gonna compete with U.S companies without money? Even the big names in NL like WeTransfer, Mollie, Bux, Bunq etc would have raised way more in Israel or the US. It's quite enough to raise a sizable 1st round in Israel, use connections + acquire traffic and customers to show growth, and then raise enormous subsequent rounds because you showed growth. I'm sure many Dutch entreprenuers could have done the same thing but it isn't possible for them without funding. So they "dream" small.
There are probably a lot of missed chances in NL. On the other hand if the tech VC market implodes again Dutch companies won't be hurt as bad.
> You're also assuming it's appropriate for some government beurocrat to make such a decision on the first place. "

China banned the country from getting pallets of plastic because once they factored in the public health costs, it wasn't profitable (and it was barely profitable before hand).

The government bans people from driving while drunk because they have a potential to hurt others. We have precedence for the government limiting various freedoms for the safety of others. For example, in most of the US you can't smoke when there are others nearby or when indoors.
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I believe Genghis Khan and Tamerlane also successfully conquered Afghanistan.
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The name was approved by Apple years ago. The developer built the brand on that name. What changed? Apple's policies (on their whims). If Apple has to come down hard, they should bear the cost of the re-branding at least to measurably communicating widely regarding the rename. It is sad that Apple exercises so much power callously.
I'm surprised it was worthwhile to build, since the whole thing has only 7TB of ram. I guess the total memory bandwidth is really good.
So they want to detain people in medical facilities who may be contagious rather than putting them in standard facilities.

Reading this while squinting, I could imagine this being manipulated by bad actors. On the surface though it seems benign?
Well, this is pretty silly. Surely this won't last. I've only tried apps like Caffeine and Amphetamine a few times, but I never associated it with a bad thing.

Also, why is Apple making a political statement that doctors should not prescribe Retalin or Adderall ?

It doesn't seem like Apple's place to be making judgements on what medicines are good or bad.

Would Apple ban an app called NyQuil that puts your computer to sleep when it gets hot?
This kind of crap has been around long before people started caring about how marginalized people feel. Look no further than obscenity laws which have been in place a lot longer than this wave of empathy.
But in this case, the (Chinese) government induced a company to annoy an employee. That actually is an assault on free-speech, because it was not the company itself that decided to do so.

If this is allowed, then what would prevent the US government from telling Apple to fire everyone who they do not like? If the gov commits a free speech prohibited action itself, or directs a company to do it for them, does not and must not make a difference. Else, the protection of a citizen would be worthless.

The difference here to my example is that is was the CCP instead of the USG that induced the action. But does that make it any better?
If you think giving out clearly incorrect legal advice that ignores the rules of at-will employment isn’t going to cost anyone who follows it dearly, go for it.
Wouldn’t this completely exclude anyone on a visa (since they need another visa to work for money) and also partially anyone with a lot of family obligations?
I don't necessarily agree that TV/Music/books need more moderation in terms of censorship (and they do have plenty of that), but more curation. Apple TV is a good example of that, it's highly curated.

Books are really bad though. Amazon is no better, neither have any modicum of curation or taste when it comes to their bestsellers lists. The New York Times doesn't put salacious romance novels at the top no matter how many copies sell, yet Amazon and Apple Books would lead you to believe there's nothing else being published.

The same goes for the App Store. It doesn't need moderation by way of censorship, it just needs tasteful, manual curation.
What are you talking about?

The fact they have factories in china?
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So they are insensitive to you. But this does not generalize because knowing many meth addicts does not generalize either.
“ Right now, anesthesia science is like physics before Einstein. ”

Not quite, the answer is due to quantum mechanical-electro-chemical dynamics. That we know, since cells are such constructs, including all derivative conglomerate entities.

A better way to put it:
“Right now, anesthesia science is like astronomy before the invention of space based telescopes.”
I was laughing until I read this reply.

So over the top! Calm down!
There's a clear difference between prohibiting drunk driving, and telling me I can't continue to use my wood stove inside my own home.
Would rebranding as Caffeine also be against terms of service?
This anonymous comment on how to be a better sandbagger, minimizing the work you do at your job so you can maximize your salary to time spent ratio.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25300272

The ethics are obviously debatable, but its an elaborate application of the hacker ethos to the problem of feeling like you're wasting away 9 to 5, Monday to Friday on a job that in the grand scheme of things no one really cares about or makes any real difference.
I wonder what's the rationale behind this policy. I can think of three reasons:

1) They are worried of bad PR from a headline being published that goes: "Apple encourages drug abuse with multiple apps such as Amphetamine".

2) They are worried of a lawsuit if it is found some app contributed to the sell of illegal drugs.

3) They are worried of parents complaints being concerned that they've found an app called Amphetamine on their kid's device.

And in some way, I can agree that as a Company, I'd rather not take my chances with any of them. Now, the policy being applied inconsistently is another issue. And ya, I wish the world wasn't so that a company needed to worry about these, but it isn't, so I'm not sure I can blame Apple that much for it. This also seems like a silly cause for them to champion.
So with the way Apple is going with this, is Amphetamine's cousin 'Caffeinated' [0] going to be next?

> A little taste of 'Caffeine'.

This will prove to be a complete waste of time for Apple.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/caffeinated-anti-sleep-app/id1...
The problem here is that there is a centralized app store that can gate your product.

On Windows, you could just host the msi or exe on your website.
Assuming you know how to work them, and are comfortable enough riding to reach down and fiddle with them.
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Apple's culture of silence works well enough that employees are self-censoring. You do hear a few stories now and then, but often constrained to IS&T or from non-engineering orgs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342994
If a company's value starts with a "B" (or... ugh... a "T"), they won't care about you. You should not give them anything of your life, because it's worth next to nothing to them. Mega-corps are life sucking leeches on employees, customers, and society as a whole. Everyone. How many horror stories is it going to take? Don't get duped by the glamour. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, none of them are going to be good for you. In the worst case, they're going to make you hurt other people.

It's an especially horrible idea if you're in a vulnerable position like being here on a visa. Many vulnerable people, including some of my close friends, are being taken advantage of by megacorps, and have very few options. Stay away! It is not your dream job.
Or even more reductionist there are only a finite amount of talented and smart people ever in history doing truely new and interesting stuff.

It’s just the nature of the game. You can’t just turn a dial and add more talent.

Although a bit off topic there are some authoritarian nation states who tried to do this by social engineering. Soviet Union made being an engineer a common place job title and China is trying to make tons of super smart kids at STEM. But we all know there is more to being smart than forcing kids to go down certain academic route and get top end scores (you know the whole creative side and capacity for original works to be created).

The democratic approach still seems to be the winner (not just due to brain). It’s as I mention always going to be a small minority who do great things. That doesn’t scale up artificially.
Yeah, but you know when you obtain the information - which would be reading it on their resume or talking through it with the candidate. Asking them to confirm what you've been told is my issue with this whole thing
Wikipedia? Are you going to take the word of a bunch of internet lunatics?

To be serious, the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne describes it as if their decades-long work was going at a snail's pace and Dr. Minor was crucial to making sufficient progress and avoiding the project being cancelled.
Ugh, and here I was really liking the idea of wood burning. I really liked how little of a climate impact it has... :(

Other forms of heating is just so expensive in cold places though.
Meth is amphetamine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Amphetamine is what our drug companies use to make medication for those suffering with ADHD. I think you have watched too much Breaking Bad.
Unfortunately I concur, if this is your main thing. If you can outsource it: let the lawyers duke it out. If this feels personal: follow mmaunder’s advice. There are no winners in that scenario so just take back control.
The #1 use case of self driving for me is long distance automation. It should also be the easiest for freeways.

Besides automating my current long highway drives, it will make the decision for any trip under 300 miles an automatic drive vs fly.

For 400-600 miles, 90% chance of driving if I'm paying or staying longer than a carry-on.

And I cannot wait for self driving ev RVs that will drive placed while I sleep in back, even if I am strapped in. I might sell my house and go full Chris farley
Right here, by me. Or perhaps I'm insane.

Using goto ensures that all of a particular state's logic is nearby in code. It also eliminates the need to check an exhaustive list of irrelevant switch cases at runtime.
This is my first encounter with the Petri nets, and at first I thought they were just like state machines, in that you're only concerned with flow of control... boy was I wrong. Its going to take a while to fully grok, but it seems impressively powerful in what it can do. Thanks!
I like “Up All Night” as a new name. Icon image could be people partying in their pajamas.

While taking amphetamines.
There's also a pretty strong similarity. We're all driving the same roads; we're all breathing the same air.
I interviewed for Blizzard many years ago. One of the first questions they asked is how many all-nighters I had done. Yeah, that was the end for me.
Surely there aren’t any songs or movies in Apple’s catalog that might be promoting drug use.
I downvoted you because you are complaining about downvoting.
Another day...
I mean the opposite—not that they should censor/moderate their other stores, but why are they hypocritical (edit: or inconsistent, if you prefer) in saying that certain content is harmful when consumed as an app, but not as a book or movie that they are happy to sell to you?
Yes SpiNNaker looks very cool, also of course the BBC Micro connection as you say. I do wonder what the network architecture is, so now I'm going to have to watch that video you posted :-)

Edit: It's a toroid, which seems an unusual choice (because 2D) for something that's meant to simulate a brain. I wonder if a simple 3D cubic connection network would have been possible by adding more links between physically adjacent boards.
Why does the UK need political union with the EU to achieve that?
From the outside, Apple's company culture looks horrendous (insane focus on lock-in, sickening anti-competitive behavior and so on). But when such kind of review comes from the inside, it just confirms their infamy.
Shockingly bad name.
I’m a huge fan of providing incentives for people to upgrade, but I would fight tooth and nail against seizing inefficient burners. Opening up the door for the government to randomly deprive citizens of their property is an awful door to open, and it will be abused eventually, no matter how just the cause feels today.
It's annoying, and unfair, but I'd take advantage of the "publicity" around this name change, and change it to "StimulusCheck" or something trendy, and move on with things.
Absolutely. Keep 100% of the smoke inside your own home, and it's nobody's business except yours and your home mortgage company's.
> EDIT: To the people who downvote me, seriously why ?

I can't speak for others but me personally it was because you dismissed the problem then started talking about what would happen in France.

Essentially the comment added nothing all said and done

Edit: To the downvoters of this, naw I'm kidding. Have at it.
I'd say less encourages.. And more easily enables.

You know the saying that money doesn't change people.. It reveals what already there...

Same ca be said to let people make the mess they already probably make.

A disciplined workflow in any technology takes effort and thought. I don't feel like I've ever stopped trying to improve it. Sometimes with jira, other times in spite of it.
which use case did you mean? treatment for narcolepsy? ADHD?
Apologies, where I come from this is not a common treatment for ADHD. I’m not a specialist but as a father of two lively boys I did my share of reading about diagnosing and treating ADHD in Europe.
When apple bans an app, it ceases to exist on ios, effectively. Books, Music, and TV can be accessed through non-Apple controlled channels.

What are some TV content that's similar to these banned apps?
I do not understand why someone w/ a green card needs to be afraid of being fired. Isn't the whole point of it to firm up your status as someone who is allowed to stay on indefinitely with very few conditions, one of them being % of year spent in the US, plus not committing certain serious offences (felonies?)
Oh, I’ve read all that. But I feel like there’s two agile methodologies - one that the authors intended, a lightweight adaptive attitude where you ground out your process based on what works with your team. And then there’s Agile: The Process as prescribed by agile consultants who go to agile seminars. This agile insists on daily standup, point based estimation, velocity tracking, jira (for some reason), etc. Otherwise you are Doing Agile Wrong, and you will be cast off the holy mountain.

I get the sense the authors of agile used words like “scrum” because they imagine software development like a full contact sport; where everyone is fully engaged with all their senses to truly be aware of what’s happening, what’s needed and what is the most important thing to work on. The cargo culting agile consultant approach always feels like an attempt to make software into a repeatable assembly line, and make software engineers into factory workers.