skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it totally believable that a Muslim would get harrassed given the current toxic political climate.
It is a thing of 220m diameter and 260m tall.

It is just sad, that nytimes is happy to convert meters into feets, football fields and Empire State Buildings, but doesn't want to show metric numbers in a footnote, so I wouldn't need to find a converter to make sense of those numbers.
You do this by leaving the platform. There are plenty of alternatives for Apple's products so those who get tired of the ever-increasing censorship inside the walled garden are better off outside of its walls. Eventually the Apple world will become something akin to Disneyland, nothing but "wholesome" infotainment without anything that could give offence.
As someone who depends on amphetamines to function daily, it’s disheartening to see their use further stigmatized. For many people like me, amphetamines help them live a normal life. The app isn’t called “meth” or “methamphetamine” and it’s not referring to a street drug.

I’m saddened to see so many equating amphetamines to illicit drugs, when that’s simply not the full story. This perception is exactly what stops people from taking their medication when they should and balking at the idea of a medication being able to help them.
That meeting in the abandoned part of the building was scheduled because the sr. director wanted sexual favors. The meeting was scheduled by her manager, but later the director shows up out of blue and the manager leaves and says that "it's something very important". Thev director is the spider here: he's a true sociopath, probably admiring the evil already, has plotted the entire thing to make sure nobody would ever believe the female employee, then got a manager to schedule a meeting without him being involved in paper and then showed up, expecting to get the coerced initiative from the employee. If it worked out, the director would later say that he's never been to that abandoned part of the building. The director even has a personal dog with criminal background that he unleashes on the prey.

The best they can do in this situation is a lawsuit from multiple victims, former employees, backed by paper trail (emails, etc.).

Edit. I'd add, that companies like Apple don't care about employee troubles, but they care about bad publicity. Call that director out, make Apple realise that he's a net negative for their PR, let Apple boot him out and destroy his reputation: with such track record and publicity, no company would want to hire him and deal with his reputation. Those who don't recognize the law, should be judged without the law.
Sunlight is a disinfectant. With transparency, even the largest most aloof company has to grapple to some degree with poor PR and public shaming. Amazon is well-known for having a toxic work culture even beyond its fulfillment centers, thanks to Amazon employees speaking out. And having a high-profile voice- a Tim Bray, a Susan Fowler, is also invaluable. As of yet, there isn't an equivalent to Apple, probably because its culture is so secretive that people readily self-censor themselves about what goes on in the company.
Things new engineers don't know, but should:

1. HR doesn't work for you; they work to minimize liability for the company. If HR thinks the best way to accomplish that is to destroy your life, that's exactly what they will do.

2. Many SV companies, as well as groups within large, respected SV companies, only survive through exploitation. They exploit their customers, their workforce, or both. Exploitation means obtaining something of value without paying a fair price for it. Exploitation is accomplished through a variety of coercive processes like gaslighting, manipulation, instilling fear, etc. Outright lying is probably the most common coercive tactic since it's easy and there's usually no penalty for it.

If you find yourself in an exploitive work environment, you need to leave as quickly as possible. The situation is not going to get better. It's only going to get worse, and your options are two: Leave with your mental health and reputation intact or leave after they have been destroyed. There is no option 3.
My last 3 remote gigs (2 of which were pre-covid) have all been at higher rates (over each other, and over prior on-site work). The 'you have to take less for remote' thing is by no means universal...
You'd have to go back into his very early childhood to find a time when he couldn't paint.
I also credit HN for my first job when I was switching from being a high school teacher to a full-time engineer.

Saw the job posting on a whoishiring thread and even though university was a long time ago for me I was able to speak intelligently about newer technologies thanks to reading HN over the years.
No. There’s significant evidence that sudden overnight market manipulation (e.g. setting exchange parity to the eastern and western Deutsche Mark destroyed all eastern consumer goods industries, which were bought for symbolic sums and then deliberately shuttered.) it’s obvious that any such fundamentalist and radically liberalist policy would have tore through any economy, but the point was to smother Carthage, and sow salt on its ruins
There’s nothing to do. Documenting wouldn’t help.

Criticizing them is the exact type of navel gazing commentary I hate about this place. You must think you’re oh so intelligent. You read a Reddit comment that said to make sure to document and email everything and now you’ll pompously make that comment under anything. You’re not actually helping.

“You see Oedipus, if you had only asked that man if he was Laius before killing them for attacking you, none of this would have ever happened.” Tragedy is about empathy and shared experience, not an instructional guide for how to live life.
This bugs are still open, so there’s no reason to talk about them in a release announcement. If they were fixed, and made it into a release, then there’d be more to talk about.
That's exactly what I have been done for years.

I have create a git repo specified for the question, with some code working in way, but buggy, such as logical bugs or race conditions...etc. with a lot of not business relevant assumptions. I usually told the candidate what this code supposed to do, and ask him to review the code first, then tell me what was his impression on the code base, and what were the problems, and how he can fix it. By doing this, I can judge the candidate if they are good at general coding, debugging and and comfortable to work on projects which they are new to, as well as their mindset on writing maintainable software.
A good candidate will not just fixing the obvious issue, but propose some architectural changes, then I will ask them what are the strategy to do so as the project has existing dependents, this can give me signal on how the candidate coordinate with other teams.
Then I will ask him some more questions related new features, and scaling..etc. to measure his design, communication skills and more.

It never failed me for senior level positions hiring, that either the candidates were hired and proven to be a great match, or they got a better offer elsewhere.
I have used this while using Macs before and it's a pretty good tool. The name also some what makes sense since it's a "stronger" variant of the past tool.

What's really sad is why this kind of feature even needs to be implemented through a third-party application when it should really be handled on the OS side...
Its extremely common in rural Finland.
I was going to say this exact same thing. Their executors are also more widely adopted and worth mentioning:
https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Exe...
"The name was approved by Apple years ago"

This isn't going to be popular, however getting away with something for a period of time is not the same as being approved/sanctioned/etc. In the petition the author claimed that the app "spontaneously began violating" one of the guidelines, when clearly it has violated it all along. Yet that disingenuous angle is used constantly when people get away with something for a while and suddenly aren't.

As an aside, it's interesting that anyone thinks that making a big noise about this will cause Apple to revert their stance (as app using a pill as their icon, naming it after a controlled substance, and using narrative like "the most awesome keep-awake"). That is improbable. It seems much more likely that Apple will be very certain this app is renamed, and the narrative changed.
I don't think there was a rationale for the fee. The FDA collects fees from OTC drug manufacturers (who operate under a standard "monograph" recipe that outlines their doses and formulations); those fees fund the FDA monograph programs. That makes economic sense! I don't think people anticipated distilleries becoming OTC drug manufacturers by dint of producing hand sanitizer.
This is a bit off-topic to papers, but perhaps there's an angle.

One answer to all these propositions is that the valuable stuff is still there, you just have an additional flood of mediocre boring predictable stuff.

I don't think this is true for most things with a mass market. I think products which have efficiencies of scale - or low marginal costs of reproduction - suck up more capital, which raises certain basic levels of standards and polish and marketing, but also greatly increases capital risk and thus reduces investor risk appetite for product novelty. These mass market products starve the mid-market of attention, which makes the mid-market less capital efficient, which means the mid-market needs to get cheaper and cheaper, lose polish, until it's less attractive to the mass market of consumers, and so on in a spiral until a certain spartan rawness becomes its own aesthetic - indie games, indie films, indie music.

I think there's a concrete example which demonstrates the actual absence of that long tail of interesting content, and not just that it's harder to find: blogs.

Blogs were great in the mid 2000s. The market did two things: it matured - the best blogs got more mindshare and turned into something closer to media organizations, much more capital intensive with full time paid writers, while and Facebook and Twitter sucked up the mass market of newsfeed consumers, both on the producer and consumer side, making it easier to produce low-value inanities and easier to consume tidbits from celebrities. This sucked the air of attention from blogs; being long-form, they were too hard to write and too long to read; and being unpaid, they didn't have slick editors or snazzy design. So a lot of them shrivelled up. There are still niche blogs, plenty of them, but a lot fewer - and we can track this loss, because we have (or had) them in our newsreaders.
Are they ‘doing something nefarious’?

At what point did they become aware that forced labor was being used, and what are they trying to do to change the situation?

If you don’t know the answer to these questions, it seems unclear that they are ‘doing something nefarious’.

I think doing business in China inevitably creates exposure to these problems.

I think people knew China had problems like this when they started investing there.

However I don’t think anyone anticipated China getting worse in this way.
You can also just use the built-in Terminal app and run the built-in executable named “caffeinate”, it’s free and provided by Apple: https://ss64.com/osx/caffeinate.html While the command has a few options, just typing the word at the terminal and hitting enter will stop your Mac from going to sleep, etc. A long time ago I worked for a company that had a terrible policy for inactivity screen lock that kept interfering with my ability to get work done, and the caffeinate command helped me prevent screen lock when I needed it to.
There are possible implementations where it could be done, e.g. they don't store your email address after registry or they only store the hash - which I hope they've done. There are also possible mitigations from the user's side, e.g. when registering send the verification email to an alias that is a list of people so that you are not uniquely identified by it.
I think the excerpt more about the artificial regimentation and the arbitrary authority than the shape of the building.
I was under the impression Shopify didn't promise anything about genuine goods to their customers, and were having to deal (haphazardly) with the same fake problems as their larger competitors. [0]

From reading back through their statements over the years it seemed to have shifted from (initial) 'we're a store platform, and take no responsibility for the content of the store' to (now) 'we have [unspecified] teams dedicated to IP infringement and fraudulent stores.'

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/24/i-feel-ch...
HN's moderation team is incredible.

I asked them in email to delete a comment of mine from 2019 which had personally identifying information.

They replied the same day (that too, on christmas week). Read the comment, and asked if they were fine with just removing the Personal info and keeping the the rest of the comment as they thought it added some value.

That's a degree of care towards yours content that I didn't think exists in 2020. HN is an oasis in desert that is the social media driven internet.
This bill is so vague and overreaching that it can be used to do just about anything. The wording below enables the state government to detain (or confine in some other way) anyone who refuses to get vaccinated for example, since they could be considered as a group that is “suspected” (whatever that means) to be carrying a disease:

> ... MAY ORDER THE REMOVAL AND/OR DETENTION OF SUCH A PERSON OR OF A GROUP OF SUCH PERSONS BY ISSUING A SINGLE ORDER, IDENTIFYING SUCH PERSONS EITHER BY NAME OR BY A REASONABLY SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUP BEING DETAINED. SUCH PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE DETAINED IN A MEDICAL FACILITY OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FACILITY OR PREMISES DESIGNATED BY THE GOVERNOR ...

Section 12 of the bill gets more explicit and notes that apart from detention, you may be ordered to undergo medical procedures like vaccination:

> ... THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER DELEGEE MAY, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, ISSUE AND SEEK ENFORCEMENT OF ANY OTHER ORDERS THAT HE OR SHE DETERMINES ARE NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE TO PREVENT DISSEMINATION OR TRANSMISSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OR OTHER ILLNESSES THAT MAY POSE A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH INCLUDING ... TO REQUIRE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO OR INFECTED BY A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE TO COMPLETE AN APPROPRIATE, PRESCRIBED COURSE OF TREATMENT, PREVENTIVE MEDICATION OR VACCINATION ...

Bodily autonomy matters. It is a fundamental right and must be upheld across the board. Safety is the responsibility of the individual. If you’re someone who is scared of viruses and disease, the correct path is for YOU to quarantine yourself indefinitely. It is not appropriate to require others to make changes to their body to suit your risk aversion.
You shouldn't be downvoted, this is correct
Should has nothing to do with it. Jobs that have non-monetary benefits, all other things held equal, have lower market clearing rates of pay. That could be job security, working with famous people, prestige, or in this case geographic flexibility.
It still acts as a token for debt, and the underlying force of that is violent retribution for default
From my experience, people say "Modern C++" to mean C++11 and newer. That was a real turning point and when I started to see that phrase used.
I'm not sure what you mean. If they're applying for paid developer positions, they would need a work visa anyway. I've only ever hired for remote freelancer positions, so I've never been involved with any of my contractors' visa details.

Why would this exclude people with family obligations? When I say "narrowly-acoped project," I mean 5-10 hours of work. I've never gotten an offer for a dev role where the application interview process took less than 5 hours, and those were unpaid hours.
Sure, but that also doesn't mean you should stop voicing your concerns publicly at injustice. Being angry at some injustice doesn't automatically make you unhappy too, if the anger is used constructively and positively. You can voice your concern and be practical too.

The article is actually quite well written and even highlights, with examples, how Apple applies such naming rules arbitrarily.

I've said this before - all developers who distribute their apps through the macOS / ios app store should feel like a JACKASS for not only giving Apple control over distribution, but also paying them for the same. YOU DEVELOPERS ARE THE ONE WHO CREATE MORE VALUE FOR THESE APPLE PLATFORMS - why in the hell do you think it is some kind of "privilege" to PAY them for it??

With its exclusive app store, Apple acts like a CORRUPT bureaucrat who unnecessarily imposes himself in the middle of you and your clients, demanding a bribe from both to connect you and them. Thus, increasing costs for your clients, and reducing your profits!

Especially on the macOS, which Apple is desperately trying to turn into a closed platform like ios, developers are being incredibly SHORT-SIGHTED by distributing apps on its app store and adding more value to something that will end up hurting them when everyone's choice is ultimately limited to it.
> I have a neighbor who burns wood every day, and I bought an air quality monitor to see what the impact is on our air.

How old is their unit? The new EPA BurnWise standard seems to really help things with efficiency and particulate.

As a rule of thumb: the exhaust gases should be clear. If it's not (i.e., black or grey smoke), then there's lots of material that hasn't been combusted which is wasteful and unhealthy.
If you're "top-tier" and you want another gig because you're not happy with your current one doing a 6 hour paid gig vs. doing a full day interview somewhere (which isn't paid) actually seems like it would be a lot better. It's not like you don't lose a day (or days) when interviewing. No reason it would have to be a weekend day.
A fun anecdote from my youth near a US seaboard was that our elementary and middle school buildings were designed by the same person who designed a few prisons around the area.

When I bounced around cities later in life, I was surprised at how many of my peers said the same thing as a conversation piece.

Maybe they used the same governmental bidding process. "Needed: a building. One food preparation and eating area. Hallways suitable for lining up and proceeding in rows with many small rooms. One yard with sporting facilities."
Society has a lot of tolerance for stupid people. In normal times their stupidity isn’t spreading an infectious disease that’s killing thousands of people every day in the US alone (3,764 people died in the US from Covid yesterday)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
In my mind maybe this is something like an HOA. Sure, your friends might love your house parties, but your neighbors have to deal with the consequences
One correction - the bill doesn’t just apply to individuals. It explicitly noted that it can apply to groups that can be described with a “reasonably specific” description. In other words, it can apply to classes of individuals.
Italy begins year of Dante anniversary events with virtual Uffizi exhibition
Seek legal advice BEFORE speaking to HR. Seriously. If you are at the "document everything" stage, it's not the time to speak to HR.
Guy Makes Mechanical Mirrors
I don't understand the allure of FAANG for residents besides the money. The thing is, for us H1B workers, we have very limited options. And these big companies have the best track record in processing GC for us. Unless these regulations got changed, and give smaller companies more chances. Given how powerful big companies are, I probably wouldn't be surprised if they also lobbied regulations against small companies hiring immigrants.
in his time copyright was not limiting the spread of knowledge an culture a the time, since distribution of printed books was capped by the logistics. it could easily take 50 years for your book to reach every reader on the planet
Not just clear and convincing cases, the threat must also be sufficiently dangerous. In regards of covid, the virus is far from dangerous. e.g someone with positive test case is not sufficiently harmfull.
What if it was "caffeine"?

A stimulant drug, just happens to be legal.

Or Coca? A plant that release a stimulant when chewed.

Now if the app was called "Sweet Meth", you'd have a better parallel with "fuck sleep", but it's not.
> Things like quantum teleportation, superdense coding and distributed quantum computing through a quantum internet will be revolutionary.

Why?

> quantum teleportation

What is the practical near term (next 10 years) applications? I can't think of any.

> superdense coding

Somewhat better compression is hardly a killer app, especially given the costs imvolved.

> distributed quantum computing

Need actual quantum computers before you can have that (definitely more than 10 years away imo). I'm also a bit unclear as to how applicable quantum algorithms are to parallelization in distributed machines.
I can see how theoretically the app name could cement the idea of amphetamines being a useful tool for promoting wakefulness if you were a young person.

Sensibilities about naming things do change over time - as various sports clubs have found.

I'm sorry for the developer, but I can see why the guidelines might have been triggered.
Could somebody explain how Internet based tracking, as Wing describes, might be implemented? How exactly would privacy be increased?

As far as I’m aware, RF based reduces power requirements which lowers barriers.
>Worse, the ferrous rocks make compass needles whirl erratically

ok, now that's a bit over the top, but that cape being impassible helps make sense of world history a bit
I have been using MathB.in for many years
I think we use a different definition of violence.
Amazing that someone who has English as a second language wouldn't write a perfectly legible blog post about a traumatic experience.
Whether the app name will be changed or not, I’m glad that this sort of thing doesn’t happen in silence or under NDA.
The other notable thing about “just like a startup but in a big company” (often for startups which have been acquired) is the frequent claim that the startup will be left alone by the rest of the company. Every single process and incentive is against that remaining true.

Maybe in some cases you can hope for the acquired startup to be the pet project of the acquirer’s founder/CEO?
I should maybe add that in my case, it's $9/year, so a lot cheaper than the case here.
When asking someone with 20 years experience to do junior level problems, you're likely measuring something that devalues the experience tremendously
Ah yes, neoclassical facades, the defining feature of brutalism.

https://res.cloudinary.com/schoolprison/7_pexlbe.jpg