skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even those are garbage measures though.

They can be gamed (albeit with a bit more effort), they vary a ton between fields and subfields, and citation rates often reflect the "prestige" of the lab/authors and the trendiness of the topic, rather than the intrinsic "merit" of a paper.

I don't think there's any good automatic proxy for research quality.
> This is no different from being arrested, is it?

This is very different. For example, you cannot be held for more than 48 hours without being charged.

This skips over the arrest, the fair trial, and the rule of law and goes directly to imprisonment for an arbitrary length of time.
Exactly. I use something identical called "caffeine". Just rebrand to Jolt and be done with it.
We have burned wood for thousand of years, and its considered a luxury to have an open fire in your house. And we make camp fires. Either its not that bad for us or we are really stupid.
There is a lot of caution in research funding. Some research is considered "safe", whereas others risky. IN a properly balanced portfolio, perhaps 80% of funding should go to safe work and the remaining 20% to more risky, but potentially high-reward studies. However this isn't how funding agencies usually operate.

At least in the context of the U.S. government, funding agencies are terrified of being seen as "wasting" funding, because that is a sure way to have funding cut by congress. The "Golden Fleece" awards, a congressman's attack on perceived frivolous spending, have routinely been targeted at specific research funded by the NSF and have helped make the agency afraid of being attacked by congress.
I don't think there exist enormous radio-reflecting objects in space, let alone ones that let through visible light perfectly. And there are many of these circles, so it seems unlikely that all of them could have their source obscured.
They’re a $2 trillion dollar company, unless you have an incredibly strong case (this isn’t one) then you will lose a war of attrition every time... even sometimes if you do have a strong case. Choose your battles wisely, live to fight another day, etc...

Pound for pound you’d likely be better off putting your energy into policy. The scale is still tilted there, but there is some traction behind fairer app marketplaces.
It's a pre-existing competing(?) product.

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24120/caffeine
“Free speech” is used by some people, more often alt-right people than others, to mean freedom from consequences. Even criticism is derided as attacks on the “right” to “free speech”. That’s presumably what the original post mentioning this meant.

There is no right to not face consequences from other private citizens for bad behavior.
That's insane! Thanks for sharing
Which air quality monitor did you purchase?
I feel guilty thinking it, but 2020 was good for me because it allowed me to work remotely.

I enjoy my job, but the office is open layout and very social especially with people that have been there awhile, unlike myself. So it's headphones on most of the time. Now with all communications online through slack it's been so much better. I now know what's going on in my larger team and we have a much better 'synergy'.

Unfortunately we will be going back and I'll be back to the 90 minute commute, open layout and my headphones on. I really think a hybrid is the what to go. They already own the buildings and they are tight on space. So it works for them and for us it let's us get together and plan things out and then go do the work remotely without the distractions.
I would suggest the opposite as well — give them a name, and ask what they expect the company/product would be from that and also what emotions it evokes.
I think that's mostly only superficially similar, but I'm not an expert in the field.
You're spot-on regarding the horrendous nav interface on the Mercedes. I found it dangerously unusable. When I posed that concern to the MB dealer I was rather snidely informed they had training available to teach people how to use it.

Yeah, hard no. Bought a Cayenne instead.
Despite the valid arguments on both sides, I fall on the side of this being stupid. Let them keep the name!
Reminds me of FB and Amazon
I know it’s controversial but you really have to name people to make things move forward.
Probable cause under the law is more strict than “the police think”. Even the significantly lower standard of reasonable suspicion is slightly more than “the police think” and yet is not enough to make an arrest.
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Why should your "personal objection" be a reason for someone else to change? You do you and choose an app based on naming if you want, but don't go pushing your puritan views on everyone else.
Good.. Instantly recognisable name for e-peen augmentation, enters lexicon of general public easily, media outlets can spam it easier, vendors hand forced to fix promptly.

This is hardly a bad thing.
Yeah, but if my marked up $15 thing you sell to someone else is crappy because of your handling, and now the customer associates my name with expensive, crappy product, my brand has been spoiled by you.
I thought I should look at the App Store and see what this app is doing in comparison to similar apps.

The logo is basically a big pill and the tagline "Powerful keep-awake utility" which is clearly alluding to the drug. https://imgur.com/a/RJXHaBa

This was consistent with the feedback the author received: "[the] app appears to promote inappropriate use of controlled substances. Specifically, your app name and icon include references to controlled substances, pills"

Almost all of the other top apps in the app store in the same category use some reference to caffeine either in the name or tagline or description (e.g. "Jolt of Caffeine" or "Owly" which has a logo of an owl in a cup of coffee) https://imgur.com/a/yySBqEL

There's one other, much less popular app called "Coca" which appears to reference cocaine, but doesn't also have a drug-referencing icon or tagline, and which only has 15 reviews. By comparison, Amphetamine seems to be the most popular result, at least for the search term "awake", with 1.37K reviews

The guideline in question doesn't seem to consider excessive use of caffeine as problematic to encourage. "1.4.3 Apps that encourage consumption of tobacco and vape products, illegal drugs, or excessive amounts of alcohol are not permitted on the App Store. Apps that encourage minors to consume any of these substances will be rejected. Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for licensed pharmacies) isn’t allowed."

Overall, Amphetamine did seem to be pushing the drug-use angle much harder than other apps in the category based on the logo, tagline and title, especially if you consider caffeine abuse not problematic.

Added: I don't have a strong opinion on this one either way, other than edgy naming has pros and cons. Word of mouth is easier, but sometimes a problem like this happens.
Ketamine for treatment resistant depression. We've got to kick the mind expansion folks out though. They are going to ruin everything like Timothy Leary ruined LSD.
> No; the first Buchla oscillator, the 158, did indeed have linear FM.

Could you point to an authoritative source on this? The Model 100 owner's manual says this about the 158: "The frequency modulation control require an external signal input, which determines the rate (speed) of the frequency modulation (vibrato)...". The fact that it says "vibrato" would imply exponential FM, wouldn't it?

https://archive.org/details/synthmanual-buchla-100-owners-ma...

Actually, after watching this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49qyPIX61rg) I'm less convinced that the 158 had linear FM. As he turns the FM knob, the pitch changes. This would be expected for exponential FM.
Frankly after how the current governor has acted with regards to the COVID19 event he is the last person that should have any power to isolate someone.

Health officials yes, governors or his political appointees no. This is an administration which forced nursing homes to take in sick people which resulted in hundreds if not thousands of deaths.[0]

This is a governor deciding how people can assemble with bias and not science based decision only giving in when a court slaps him down. While 6700 Bill's fans can assemble in a stadium the same does not hold true for other methods of assembly by his rule. He was recently struck down with his numbers game for churches and synagogues as similar restrictions were not in place on business types or other assemblies he favored[1 - PDF warning]

No, this law looks tailored made so he has further means in his arsenal to stand up in court. Fortunately the courts have been slapping his restrictions around with quick actions and he has not seen fit to try at the Supreme Court.

Yes, some restrictions are necessary. However there is little consistency between the types of groups it is applied to or by what measure. This new method really looks like it could easily be turned to opponents of his actions or any governor who follows.

I have zero issue with medical professionals operating under law can have a means to isolate dangerously infectious people. I have a serious problem when political offices and their appointees are granted the same authority under the guise there is any protection from the review process, a process they control

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/andrew-cuomo-nursing...
[1]https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/abc8dbc2-20...
Considering what it has to do and support, the EU has surprisingly little bureaucracy, although obviously it's huge in absolute terms.
Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

Michel Foucault
A company should, by policy, allow struggling employees the chance to try a different team and manager. Otherwise you never know if the employee is causing the problem or if the team is.

In this situation, maybe the managers were extremely harsh on the OP, or maybe the OP was misleading in their story to sound like a victim. It’s hard to say without knowing how they’d do on another team.

To force somebody out like this without taking every reasonable opportunity to help them improve, especially for a rich company like Apple who can afford to try, is deeply disgusting and is a failure of their HR policies.
Huh ok. I had a pretty hacky way of calculating average time, so I'll take a look. Thanks for flagging this.
And arguably more so the latter than the former.
I have. I don't know why you presume to know my work history. The fact that I can provide succinct actionable advise on the matter should be evidence in itself. You don't need to tell people you're documenting events. Do I need to spell that out for you?

Where I live, employment is "at-will," so it would be good to establish acting in good faith first--taking an issue to HR--before taking legal action.
They are the correct keywords because HN users are interested in these technologies. I don't see anything wrong with that.
On the contrary, I think China is a good example of how the government can have its cake and eat it, too.

When you say, "lots of people," how many are we talking about? The majority? If so, you'd think the government would just give up trying to have control, it wouldn't be worth the effort.

Remember, we're not talking about trying to have a technology that a few hobbyists can use. The goal is widespread usage, enough that it prevents governments from controlling currency.
I think they mean that you should document everything, then express your concerns to HR in a non-confrontational way, then quietly bring your documentation to a lawyer if nothing changes.

The documentation is your "plan B" which HR doesn't need to know about.
So... what about botox and curare?
Governments around the world start copying it like madmen!
> register with a company email

> you can post anonymously

These two don't square. Your anonymity clearly depends on the site not being hacked.
I can't help but but think a universal basic income, at least in societies that can afford it, would dramatically change the entrenched misalignment that causes this.

The signal/noise issue is real but as others have noted not the most concerning. The main structural problem IMO is that all the structures that support scientific research (academic evaluation, university admin, granting agencies, publishing industry, etc.) are all re-enforcing untenable illusions. A few benefit immensely from this, but there are many who have the incentive to change, yet they are cornered by their economic circumstances to play along.
More something like this I guess:

https://www.wickeditor.com
For now. The walls are getting higher on MacOS lately.
The secretive nature of their product development and the supposed "allure" of being an employee there seem like they would combine to enable particularly douchey forms of management.
Could easily make one of these for a lot of hospitals too.
Well I can certainly say one thing, thanks to EU regulation I don't have to eat chlorinated chicken, the air is clean and I have reasonable working hours and holiday protected by law. You seem to suggest that regulation is always bad, I think a lot of people would disagree.
68 of these bad boys produces the same power output as one modern BWR (100% optimal and constant wind power availability).
I would guess that the intention is for the readers to think about other similarities between schools and prisons, and the the outsides of the buildings are just a convenient way to inspire more comparisons.
You change it by going for the weakest point in a peaceful way under the radar.

I believe it's Bitcoin, which is a silent, non-violent libertarian protest against the whole central banking system that produces huge powers, but I know that I am in the minority.
>From queuing to Zoom to mask etiquette, we were faced with an unsettling societal learning curve.

The biggest nuisance with masks was forgetting to bring it with me when I go out. Now I just always keep one in my pocket.
I know the answer will be no, but is there any similar way to accomplish this on iPhone without jailbreak?
If this does not include suspected cases then it becomes useless because in many cases they obviously probably don't have an actual test result for the person but only a suspicion based on, e.g., symptoms.

Of course the important aspect here is to carry out a test as quickly as possible in order not to detain a suspected case for longer than necessary.
As someone I guess not in the loop with the latest in outrage culture... what exactly is offensive about the name?
A local (actual, not American) Chinese joint makes by far the best soup dumplings in town. During the pandemic they’ve understandably switched to takeout only, but now their reviews are filled with people that are disappointed by dumplings that aren’t steaming hot inside and have holes because they stick to the takeout containers. I feel really bad for the owners - they’re forced to choose between endangering the lives of their workers or offering a subpar product.
Try HyperCaffeine or smth. Oh wait,the name is not as breathtaking as amphetamine.
Developer probably has a private Github repo for source code and a public repo for things they want publicly accessible.

It's funny that much of the public only associates Github with Open Source even though all their paying customers use it for closed source development...
> amphetamines are not a class of controlled substances

My pharmacist would disagree with that statement.
First step would be to build better products and services.
> Fortunately, this work may go faster than anesthetic research in animals. There are fewer ethical issues surrounding plant research, so more studies can be done.

Are there fewer ethical issues in plants than animals? Or might we just know less about plant sentience than we think we do?
So what’s the personal consequence for your irresponsible exercise of autonomy?

Perhaps the state should sue and seize your property to pay for the healthcare needs of folks infected by you.
Sure but the bureaucracy was shocking
I stand by my previous statement. Computers should work for us. We shouldn't work for computers.

Dump .txt for .text.

Dump .jsn for .json.

Keep .html, .jpeg, etc because they are abbreviations for standards.

Sucks for Windows that it can't handle ".text" like other operating systems have since the 1980's.

Dumping three-letter extensions will also help avoid all the extension namespace collisions that happen all the time.
I think you might be misunderstanding the point of the article. They're talking about the hurdles you have to jump in order to reprint or adapt his writings, not just read them.
Amphetamine is very much a controlled substance in the US. You can receive it legally with a prescription of course but that does not mean it isn't controlled.

Of course it's just a name. There shouldn't be an argument that it's encouraging use
Of course it's a digital signal. It's a PCM array.

If what you mean is "the artifact isn't 'aliasing' until it finally goes through the DAC", my answer to you is: that's a useless and counterproductive distinction. I inadvertently introduced an artifact into my digital signal that I cannot easily remove. That this artifact magically gains a label only once it passes through the DAC is pedantic nonsense that helps no one.
I just found it fun. Like the "boobs or armpit" type of games on Newgrounds.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

From the guidelines linked at the bottom.
I agree with you on both points. One might reasonably wonder why the second point is not reflected in the bill explicitly.

It’s not like we had to break our brains for more than 2 minutes in this.
> It's not always the case that abusive behaviour under one VP... is extrapolate-able to other organizations

A company ought to be defined by the worst conditions it allows to persist, otherwise they have less incentive to clean up their organization.
COVID-19 is not Typhoid fever and correct me if I'm wrong but I don't recall any legislation around that case.
Caffeinate is now a default preinatalled command, just saying..
The Orange Pi looks good, but it's a shame they have non-standard POE which seems to require weird hacks to make it work (https://parglescouk.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/getting-the-ora...). Having a single wire to each board would be very compelling if it could be more standard.
Except when the food poisoning is due to toxins and not pathogens, e.g. scombroid poisoning.

Identifying the culprit is certainly easier when you have a whole group of victims.
> complain about taking a 10% salary cut with their 35% cost of living cut

Where do you draw the line? Do you think a 35% salary cut would be reasonable to complain about?

At some point, in moving from Seattle to Winnipeg, if your salary gets adjusted from being able to afford a small apartment in downtown Seattle to being able to afford a small apartment in downtown Winnipeg... At some point that becomes a bad deal, right?
The internal culture was influenced by Steve Jobs. He was widely known for being an asshole who also happened to be an excellent salesman with a really good design sense.

That's Apple.
In Part 3 the author explains attempts to schedule a meeting with HR:

> I was worried and I scheduled a meeting with HR and described what had happened.

It's easy to armchair quarterback these accounts from the internet, but let's not pretend it's as simple as walking over to HR and then calling up a lawyer who will take your case for free. These cases are much harder to win than the internet would suggest, especially when much of the claimed harassment (threatening to punch the author, joking about deportation threats) occurred verbally.
[Sorry, I'm a bit hyped up at the moment]

This is all ridiculous and I don't like where we're headed as a society.
Poem: Letter to 2050
Not bad. It’s only $500 per year, when you break it down.

Cable TV costs $80/month, or about $1000/year.

So if you didn’t pay for Cable TV, then I would say that you saved money here.
Banning books is widely considered to be a bad thing.
> people like the smell and aesthetic (note this article is in just about the most middle-class publication there is in the UK)

The problem here and described in the article is that people are not using direct vent stoves/fireplaces. What is being talking about are units that vent out a chimney/flue, but take the air for combustion from the house itself. This is not what you want for health or efficiency reasons.

What you want is to take air from the outside, have it combust the fuel, and then be vented outside:

* https://www.napoleon.com/en/ca/fireplaces/blog/how-direct-ve...

* https://www.northcountryfire.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-direct...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCwg8jwHd8

The only thing that should enter the living space is radiant heat.

Also: if the smoke exiting your fireplace/stove is dark (or even grey), then you have an inefficient unit. The exhaust air should be clear, as that means 'everything' has been burned. In the US, the now-mandated EPA BurnWise standard has stoves being between 60-80% efficient (depending on the design):

* https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/frequent-questions-about-wood-b...

You can find people saying that they use one-half or even one-third of the wood that they used to after upgrading.

Also a useful hint: if you're going to use one in a domicile where you live for long periods of time, it may be worth looking at soapstone designs, as they retain heat more (though warm up is longer). For shorter periods, e.g., in a cabin/cottage, then iron could be better as it heats/cools quicker, so that may be fine for a (long) weekend stay.

For best results, regardless of heating method, make sure you make your domicile more airtight to reduce drafts, and increase insulation.
Going to be honest though. School (at least mine) functioned very similarly to a prison, in fact, most prisons had better conditions than my secondary school.

There is a simple fact that schools can be glorified daycare so that workers can offload the burden of childcare. For this purpose, a prison makes sense. Despite not being the most humane considering the kids didn’t do any crime worthy of rehabilitation.
Or .firefox-extension instead of .xpi

That's an excellent suggestion. WTF does ".xpi" even mean to someone who just wants to install a browser extension?
"Paper count" is about as reliable a metric as "lines of code". Publish or die is a toxic mentality in academia and you are certainly not the first to have observed this, sadly.
It is fast and I find myself going between the two. But intellisense and the language plugins that Microsoft makes are just so much better than what Sublime Text offers.
> But actually seizing private property? Hell no.

Yeah like your car being seized due to not paying the yearly registration fee?
They explicitly wrote "illegal drugs" in the policy, so no.
I'm absolutely appaled at the level of support this is getting in the comments here.

Since when were hackers full on authoritarian fascist?

You all should be ashamed.
The pharmacological dynamics of those compounds are different than general anesthetics, theoretically the effect on cells will be different as well depending on what receptor proteins the plant cells express.
This is good advice. the hard part is finding the skills you can intersect
Again - to be clear - you're saying that people should be able to legally resist arrest because it would otherwise set a precedent for further government intrusions on liberty?