skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We both probably agree that parapsychology hasn't demonstrated that psychic phenomenon is real, and yet their various meta-analyses purport to show that it is. The experimental design of the underlying studies is quite good, so it must be publication bias. I couldn't think of a better demonstration as to why preregistration is a critical necessity, even if it is difficult to get going.

All of your questions are very good ones however, and I agree with your conclusion that it isn't going to be a silver bullet.

Who trawls the (now huge) database

Only the authors of the meta-analyses, as part of their lit review. It's simply a criteria for inclusion into meta-analysis.

How do you move from very spotty preregistration to compulsory preregistration?

Eventually, if meta-analyses only look at studies that are preregistered, this would boost citation count for preregistered studies and therefore incent scientists to preregister since their careers are tied to citation count. How to arrive at this end state is a bit of a chicken and egg problem and requires a cultural shift, so it'll be very difficult. But once the end state is arrived at it should be sticky without needing to be compulsory, since career incentives are aligned.

How do you handle work on the margins of registerability?

Preregistration is mostly helpful for research questions that are amenable to statistical meta-analysis, i.e. those questions where the hypotheses tested across papers are sufficiently similar so the quantitative results can be statistically combined and statistical significance & clinical significance can be evaluated. I think preregistration is mostly needed for these questions, although it's probably helpful elsewhere too.
Depends on the importance of the meeting and the status of the person who is responsible.

If you live in a corporate environment where status matters, your kids should better not detail a meeting where you are the person with a low status compared to the other participants. If status doesn't matter in your corporate culture you just have to be aware of the importance of the meeting. If you company is fighting for survival it is probably not funny to derail the discussion.

However, there are many unimportant meetings with people with the same status and I agree that if it doesn't become a pattern it can be a sweet/nice/funny distraction ;-)
The outside of prisons look nicer. Visitors entrances often look pretty so non-incarcerated people and local officials are presented with an inoffensive facade that's not dissimilar to a modern business or institutional reception area. Conditions in the rest of the building may be appalling, but generally nobody is allowed to take pictures of that.
If you're on a H1 (or some of its cousins here) and you lose your job, you have no option to even try to find another. Your legal status in the US is coupled to that job, not just any job.
Did you just not feel like arguing with the app store review team or was it a clear decision between changing it or leaving the app store? The author of amphetamine told that there was a similar problem but apparently he could settle this.

> Amphetamine updates have been rejected by Apple on numerous occasions. One time, Apple’s App Review Team did not like my “Preview” screen shots. Another time, Apple objected to the default behavior when clicking Amphetamine’s menu bar icon, saying it must open the menu by default and not start a session.
> “Going the other way, there's plenty of molecules from plants and fungi that affect the human nervous system.”

That is true. On the other hand it sounds like you are saying it is because “ Receptors and transmitters are highly conserved across the evolutionary hierarchy”. The most commonly used explanation for poisonous plants and fungi is that they make these chemicals as a defence mechanism. The mamal eats the thing, the mamal has a bad time and learns to avoid eating the thing. The thing thrives, which provides positive selection pressure for the fungi/plant which can make nasty chemicals. So it is not an accident that mamals react to the secreted chemicals, and it is not because “transmitters are conserved” or something like that.
As an FYI, most of the newspapers’ dream places/best places to work are bought and paid for by companies’ PR departments - it’s not a meritocratic competition and afaik, they rarely actually conduct polls or ask real employees. At best they’ll take a glance at Glassdoor rankings
...because of an unexpected, persistent, global threat to the lives of everyone, whose appearance led to economies worldwide shutting down, getting everyone glued to the news you mention, and putting a lot of people in precarious economical situation? Yeah, I wouldn't consider that boring. Tiring, for sure, but not boring.
I really like Drew Devault's work. I don't disagree with what he is saying here. The way I see it, corporations are much like countries. They are living entities run by people, and they have a goal to extend their reach and survive. They have their own challenges too (they need to pay bills and their army of employees). They see the law as some sort of constraint rather than a moral contract.

Corporations are not evil. They are a byproduct of this environment we live in. If I have an issue with the OP, is that he thinks his ideals as some sort of divine atheistic moral code we should follow. Morals are subjective and relative. It's dangerous to try shaming people because you think your ideas have some kind of "higher morality". That's basically what religion is, and it ended up killing (and still is) lots of people.
Yes it's very good. I'm interested in making the small mods to get it to work with NetBSD; but ultimately I'm trying to understand if a lispy environment for STM ARM Cortex-M0 (small) processors can be productively used for real-time embedded systems. I know, I know... I'm more or less thinking an Arduino-like set of standard syscalls for low-level IO, combined with the simple init() and loop() structure ('big loop') for now. Then, multi-threading. Then, the World! (Hello...)
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Some good thoughts there. Leadership skills can be valuable in a context where you have „hard“ authority, but the ultimate test of you as a leader is in groups where nobody is forced to follow you.
> See response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25608202

Sorry. It didn't address the concern.

> I know of people who suffered after they left, and a cursory internet search will turn up many more stories.

All outliers. How many people leave a company in frustration? And then how many does the company go after? A tiny fraction! Not even 0.1%, which would be huge. I don't think I can find even one case for the company I worked for. It's not a small company - definitely makes more net revenue than Amazon, and comparable to at least one other FAANG.

> There is no contradiction in what I said, if spending 100 units on a legal battle for a single employee would save them >100 units on the next employee (or as a consequence of an unfavorable legal outcome), then it would be worth the cost.

The conclusion follows the premise, but the premise is extremely rarely true.

> You were generating revenues which financed the project even if you didn't directly work on it.

I never understood the desire to compartmentalize and draw boundaries only where it is convenient for you. Just because it is within my company makes it no different from a medium sized company providing services to another company who is involved in evil, even if those services are not directly related. If you work for a payment processor and provide services to my company, then your own logic would make you as complicit as I am. Your service is helping my company in its business, which raises our revenue, which is funding evil. Why am I complicit just because I am an employee, and not you because your company is providing us a service? We're both providing services to my company. Why draw the boundary only to within the company?

And at the end of the day, this is a hypothetical. I do not know what that technology was being used for. Surveillance was merely something I could imagine it's used for. I chose not to get into the business, but the decision was the equivalent of "Do not go work for any company that makes video cameras, or components for video cameras." I would never suggest anyone follow such standards.

Regarding my 4 points, you missed the point of me listing them. I didn't say all medium companies follow those - I said they usually are some combination of those.

I'd happily work for a medium company that has the positive attributes you speak of. I just have trouble finding them, let alone getting hired by them. I'm not at all anti-medium size company or pro-megacorp. When I apply to companies, I generally get a higher response rate with megacorps than with medium sized companies.
The rare time I was seriously productive, the simple feeling of having done a duty with high time/return efficiency was enough.
I still have actual regular nightmares from my school-years, even though I've just reached 40 years of age. They started when I was 20-something, and they will probably never go away. What is more interesting is that during my school years I never looked at school as an institution as being repressive or "prison-like", looks like my unconscious/subconscious/whatever there is there inside was very good at repressing that obvious fact.
Dollarization of other countries is in the national interest of the US.
It's not transactional, and I made it sound that way. You're a lot better at this than I would be, and it's shitty for me to publicly second-guess.

I think the Beowulf thing just set me off. It came up a few months ago, and for some weird reason my "orange site" radar has been really keyed up on Beowulf ever since. It's weird and not your problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24300467
How is a public company worth $23B not a megacorp??
How is it a net downside? The entire purpose of the App Store being locked down is that it's reliable. There is no way any HR department will launch an investigation because you downloaded an app called Amphetamine. Worst case scenario they go look it up and realize there's nothing more to the situation.

I'd have to see a documented event of this happening rather than a hypothetical scenario to believe a downside actually exists.
California law wouldn't prohibit that.

The next step is "ghost kitchens".[1] These are commissary facilities that advertise as restaurants but only deliver. The ousted Uber CEO tried to get into that business, but not much seems to have come of "Cloud Kitchens".

Some of these seem to be new ways to get people to work for too little. The delivery service is just the landlord; they rent people who want to run a restaurant a kitchen space, sell them raw materials, and deliver the product. Doordash has one in Redwood City. They have Rooster and Rice, and Chick-Fil-A franchisees. That's near me, and it was sad to see gig drivers waiting for their specific order to be ready. If they were employees being paid for waiting time, the next driver would get the next order, to minimize paid waiting.

[1] https://www.fermag.com/articles/9618-7-Ghost-Kitchens-You-Ma...
I don't know anything about the work experiences at netflix, and the total number of employees there is a small fraction of what it is at Apple...
> cannot advocate for their far-left political views because it imperils their immigration status.

That sounds pretty bad. It sounds to me like laws that attack human rights and speech are often used to hurt many people on all different sides of an issue.

And it sounds like if we want to stop those bad things that you brought up from happening, that we need to ensure that our laws do a better job of protecting free speech.
>is it evident that Bigcorp will behave (on average/net) more unethically than Smallco?

Smallco is certainly capable of unethical behavior, and I would encourage you to critically examine your both prospects and the companies you end up working for. But, for most values of Bigcorp that anyone could name, there's clear evidence of ongoing unethical behavior.

>If you work for Bigcorp and act to help them behave more ethically, are you making more of a difference than you would elsewhere?

Definitely, and I would support anyone who is doing so. But this isn't easy, and the typical software engineer plugging away is almost certainly not doing this. It takes a lot of hubris to presume that you, an engineer worth .00075% of your employer's revenue, can exert the necessary influence to cause substantive changes in unethical behavior. Perhaps if megacorp tech workers collectivized, it would be more realistic.
That's not a new strategy.
Since Drew referenced it in this article, does anyone actually know what is going on in China with the Uygurs? I can’t seem to find an unbiased source.

Some of the stuff covered by the MSM sound horrific.

I also have chinese colleagues who brought up some interesting points- namely that Uygurs and certain communities had more privileges (especially wrt one child policy exceptions) that are simply being revoked now.

A lot of the “reports” in MSM also reference Adrian Zenz [1] who these colleagues claim has an anti-China agenda.

In this age of disinformation, I just don’t know who to trust.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz
That's not what I've seen.

Transferring to Mountain View requires to re-interview. Satellite offices like Waterloo being harder to be hired into while simultaneously paying a fraction of Mountain View sounds... a little far fetched.

There's probably more filtering happening at the satellite branch however.

Just with the North Acquisition, they hired exactly nobody and shipped the product back to Mountain View right away.
My heart breaks for this engineer. We can’t just file this under “it happens at all large companies” and call it a day. Large companies like Apple should be held to a higher standard.

With the rise of evaluating company stocks based on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) shareholders should start demanding that companies publish anonymized statistics on number of HR cases reported and how they were handled. Workplace abuse can happen everywhere but larger companies like Apple need to double-down and start showing that they are handling it.

This _might_ sound utopian. But shareholder value is about the only thing companies like Apple care about.

Apple held a modicum of respect in my book for stepping up to protect privacy. Reading a piece like this tears that away. I’m reminded that Apple is yet another gigantic tech company. The ends doesn’t justify the means. Great products doesn’t justify abuse.
Are you confused into thinking I downvoted you? I hardly have the karma to, nor would I, however misplaced your comment is.

I, on the other hand, have taken (thus far) about 15 downvotes. And I regret none of them given that I'm absolutely right, and this is yet another stupid torch mob about nonsense.

The guy is going to end up changing the name (and icon) of his project. Life moves on. Story at 11.
Such nonsense, balancing risk of litigation against the risk to the product isn't management's job. Companies have whole departments for this, called risk management with people specialized on the matter.

This is not done by some random manager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment has a useful summary of the 5 attempts made by the government to curb AT&T's market power.

With regards to it being illegal to connect to the phone system with your own device... this was a notion pushed by AT&T's legal, and operations teams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone has some useful context on the regulatory decisions which compelled AT&T to allow third party devices on "their" network.

Ultimately large monopolies contort the institutions, governments, and legal systems they are surrounded by. You wouldn't believe that a Trillion dollar corporation would argue for legislation that wasn't in their favor.
I've noticed authoritarians tend to care about maximizing volume to surface area over aesthetics, so I don't think those things are entirely unrelated.
Engineers discuss work they did mostly. Interviewers ask probing questions to catch bullshitters.
Yes we all turn our cameras on in meetings, I believe body language is important. Can’t imagine working in an office without seeing the people you work with in some cadence
LFP batteries were around for close to 15 years.

First BYD EVs came out almost at the same time as Tesla Roadster.
> This actually depends on the jurisdiction. In many of them not having an active registration/inspection is grounds to having your vehicle seized. Even if it's only used on private roads.

[Citation needed]

In all jurisdictions I've lived, you can put your vehicle into "planned non-operation" status, where it no longer requires registration.

> Where is the outrage of this happening right now? We've already crossed that line.

I find civil asset forfeiture outrageous. There you go. We've discussed it a lot here, and most of us hate it and see it as nothing more than legalized theft.

> And "punish" only works if you're not offered compensation. If the government says "hey as your representatives we're going to ban xyz for this health reason, and provide compensation for buying them back from you" then it's fine.

Compensation for a buy back is very different from compensation for seizure. From a policy perspective a buy back is probably a great idea, but let's not pretend that it's anywhere near the same legal ballpark as seizure, even with compensation.

> Again I'm not saying the government should waste resources going and finding wood burning systems and seizing them. However the government can ban the operation of it.

It's worth pointing out that banning ownership and banning operation are very different beasts. Leaded gasoline is illegal (well, for cars); if you have a car that for whatever reason needed leaded gasoline then operating it is illegal. But it's not illegal to own a car that requires leaded gasoline. The legal leap from "you can't run this because it will hurt people" to "you can't own a thing that was once legal and now isn't because you might use it and that would hurt people" is immense.

For the record, I'm fine in principle with banning inefficient fireplaces, although I think that such a ban would be effectively impossible to enforce. I think that optional buybacks for inefficient wood burners and incentives to upgrade to (increasingly tightly regulated) stoves is a good policy move. What I don't support is the leap from "this thing is bad, and therefore we should make it illegal for you to own". That is an immensely bad habit to get into, for the reasons I've mentioned above.
Like the 20-person startup, who expects you to work on Christmas Eve, and then hires your replacement behind your back cares about you. This article came off as very naive, give me the the blandest job, at the biggest mega Corp as long as my pay is nice.

The goal is to make so much money you can save it, and retire early. Or if you're doing the family thing put your kids into a fantastic college. I have no qualms about working on a product which is absolutely boring, and I have no real influence over.

If they tell me to stare at a wall for $400 an hour I'll be the best wall starer .
I mean, new was always trash, and porn has been on Reddit since practically it’s inception, but the content (that makes it out of new) and discussion quality has unequivocally declined significantly.
Absolutely. I had a shitty experience at Apple, manager/team lead treated me as a beginner despite me being in a senior engineer role and I was highly experienced from some other major companies. He thought time at Apple was the only metric.
He constantly questioned my code, despite it being actually much better than his, and more Apple style. Would give me no latitude to implement features independently that I could do in my sleep.

But I had “fuck you” money saved. It had been my dream to work at Apple, but after 6 months I called it quits, told that asshole where to stick his job.
Google was a very large company at $23B, but hardly a stand-out on the Fortune 500. The megacorps which are the focus of discussion - contemporary FAANG et al - are in an entirely different league, by orders of magnitude.
A good heuristic:

If it has a ton of windows, it aint a school
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This article mentions Windows 10 China Government Edition:

Windows 10 China Government Edition that is designed to meet the country's security and privacy standards
(Microsoft basically stripped out all of its spyware for this special version of Windows for the Chinese
government, and we don't have access to a copy).

Did anyone here heard more about it?
The Tim Cook era of Apple. This describes well Apple’s fanboy drones, but also the company engineering, product and design.
I knew that to work out exactly once, (not a company I was at).
Uh huh. And how many court cases about this supposedly fraudulent election have succeeded? You know, legal proceedings in which you must meet an actual standard of evidence.
$23bn I think is a corp and $1trillion+ is a megacorp? What is a gigacorp? $100trillion+?
Going from Hugo to Nuxt
I'd have no issue telling you to mind your own if you tried telling me how to manage my kids.
If one has ADHD, then an amphetamine, paradoxically, helps you calm down.

It’s a weird thing that a stimulant can help you chill; from this one could conjecture that an amphetamine to keep you awake isn’t being used to treat ADHD.

I am not a medical Doctor; I am not many things.

Although it would appear that A&E and GP Drs around here aren’t up on lis-Dex
There is an Apple office populated mostly by Scientology (ProData subcontractors) folks over in Malmoe in Sweden. Maybe their management methods are leaking to SV.
> In this case, I think the sufficient explanation for the phenomenon is that HOAs are good at protecting property values.

Uh yeah, that's their defined purpose that everybody knows about and agrees upon. I've lived in several properties under HOAs, haven't had any trouble, and don't know anyone personally who's had any trouble either.

IMO, HOA problems are of those things that's extremely rare in practice, but makes for outrage-inducing stories on the internet that get upvoted heavily and widely viewed. Since this is well known and plenty of people will do anything for internet upvotes, I'd bet a significant number of the stories are either made up entirely or are highly exaggerated and misleading.

If HOAs were really that bad, you'd see a market for homes advertising the lack of them. We don't though. The better analogy is internet free speech. In theory, everybody likes free speech. But if you create a new forum specifically for the purpose of not censoring anything, it tends to get filled with the worst assholes of the internet. Similarly, you can guess who'd be itching to move in if you advertised your housing development as not having a HOA.
In many European countries the presence of unions isn't optional, it's compulsory above a company size threshold for example. It doesn't mean employees have to be part of it, but it has to be present.
Thanks for the wikipedia link. Do you have any recommendations for books or papers to read? Not just for state machine and Petri nets, but also any other software models you would consider useful to learn and potentially implement.
That would be nice, the problem is that nobody has a good way of doing that. Like the analogy I gave elsewhere, it's sort of like a hash function: doable to compute in one direction but seemingly impossible to invert. If that's the case it's be very difficult to create such a tree to prune because there's no way to categorize the nodes. In other words, the depth of the tree would be 1 and the breadth would be ~10^500.