skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am reading through this and I bet my 200$ that this person’s manager/team was primarily white and therefore this person has faced severe racism and bullying as a result of their race:

> I had joined Apple on a student OPT visa

> I was constantly being excluded from work meetings and events. There were meetings that I would be the only one who was not invited

> my manager [...] started laughing and making fun of my last name

> My manager was giving indirect negative feedback through the iBuddy rather than speaking with me

> I would enter the meetings and they would stop talking and make really strange gestures. I was ignored, ridiculed and attacked in the team meetings

> “You escaped a war zone; it is obvious you have many mental problems.”

> “My husband worked for FBI and I can get you deported on a cargo boat if I want.”

Sounds like a bunch of bully high schoolers that never mentally graduated from high school.

I also would like to point out that this post is ranked way lower than it deserves on HN homepage, despite having higher points and shorter time than many of the posts above it. That’s quite unfair. It dropped from #1 to #7 within an hour.
Apple banned Fortnite.
HN is not a newspaper.
What's shocking is the level of effort the manager put in to being an asshole.

That is some serious psychological issue right there.

The victim also seems to be in a very bad emotional state wherein they may interpret things poorly as well, I wonder what the other side of the story was? There's enough there that I don't doubt bad behaviour, but there's also some odd points in there - if they asked her to 'resign' then that's actually a polite way of being fired. Why didn't they just fire her? Seems odd.

That would make a fun case to look into.

Finally: why do Senior Directors and VPs accept this? What kind of VP wants this kind of garbage going on under them? Why not dump the manager? Odd.
The hypocrisy is that Craig Federighi jokes about Marihuana all the time in Apple keynotes, but when a 3rd party developer does the same thing they ban it...
But it's up to the individual restaurants to agree to this. There's no automatic 30% commission. If a delivery company wants to burn their capital offering discounts, why stop them? The restaurant is under no obligation to sign a contract taking on the burden of kreping those discounts.
> The seeds were planted when DuPont researchers found that thicker membranes were actually proving to be more permeable. This came as a surprise because the conventional knowledge was that thickness reduces how much water could flow through the membranes.

It's amazing how often "how it works" is taken for granted. This reminds me of the trend of racing bicycle tires. It used to be "obvious" that you wanted to run a skinny narrow tire at high pressure, for better aerodynamic and rolling efficiency. Even when they started wind tunnel (for tires and wheels) and rolling resistance testing, it was done on steel rollers, not on actual road surfaces. It was assumed that rough roads caused efficiency losses primarily in tire flex (heat), so it made sense to keep pressures high.

In the past decade or so, there's been a radical shift towards wider tires and wheels. There are a lot of people riding/racing on 28-32mm wide tires where you would have been laughed at a decade ago, and told to go back to the "efficient" 23mm wide tires. 10-15 years ago, you'd want to be running 120psi on a 23mm wide tire and today you want to run your tire pressure as LOW as possible, and run a wider tire to compensate, to give more air volume to spread the load and bumps across. The rolling resistance is LOWER, because they've found that the energy losses from rough roads or from bumps is in the tremendous amount of energy expended to move the 150-200lbs of "unsuspended" rider and bicycle up and down rapidly. You're losing single-digit watts in rolling resistance on that lower pressure tire, but saving tens or hundreds of watts in energy that would be lost moving the rider's mass up and down.

I'm not kidding about the "laughed at" part, either. I'm looking up how wide a tire I can fit on my 12 year old road bike, and there are plenty of downright ABUSIVE forum posts from just 6 or 8 years ago, telling people to go buy a mountain bike if they want to run wider than 25mm tires on my particular bicycle, where I'm trying to fit a 28 and would really like to run a 32 if possible.

And a lot of these findings started off as "huh, that's weird" when testing newer wheel shapes in the real world.

https://cyclingtips.com/2016/08/cyclingtips-podcast-episode-...
Caffeinate is a default terminal command in Macos for a few years already, what's the purpose of caffeine and amphetamine? ..
I did quite well by measuring "overall area of ground level windows".
That makes me wonder why Russia would be interested in spreading Orwell's ideas.
In my state, if you are driving a car, display signs of alcohol intoxication and refuse to submit to a test, you will be taken into custody, have a blood test administered and driving privileges revoked.

Same story, tested in court 1000x.
“Modern C++” is a phrase to refer to newer C++ versions. In this case, it’s C++20.
Apple's morality is very hit and miss at times. However it really comes down to squeaky wheel advocates get a lot of traction and Apple responds by going after the targets. Its a worse form of moral enforcement because its a completely moving target.

People, especially tech oriented folks, always seem to decry the threat of religious persecution by politicians but failed to recognize that enforcement of morals by any group can have very dangerous side effects. We see statements to that effect here all the time, people judged for lifestyle choices that are not in favor by one group or another. Morals become weaponized as they can be undefinable immeasurable standard applied to those who are no longer in favor by action, deed, or thought.
WWJD
It’s an architectural style called “brutalism”, which has the predominant aesthetic of “a boot stamping on a human face forever”.
Sure but what will fix it is a tax payer funded, independent (like the courts), news organization. Almost every other liberal democracy has something like that. It's time for the US to get with the program.
I find this entirely believable.

Not because I think it’s common at Apple in particular, but because it’s common in companies of almost any size and in almost any industry.

It should be better at Apple. They do in fact lead in many areas of improving corporate behavior, but I have actually never heard of them leading in this area, and everyone I know who has worked there makes it sound little different other than the scale of what you work on and the pay, from any other corporation.

It’s one of the reasons I have never seriously thought of working for Apple myself.

I hope Tim Cook reads this and takes it seriously.
The post conflates methylphenidate-based stimulant medications (Concerta, Focalin, Ritalin, Metadate, Methylin) with true amphetamine-based medications (Adderall, Dexedrine).

Related, the former are not amphetamine derivatives, which is a common misnomer.
I don’t buy your claim that there’s a double standard here. “Beer bong” would be another bad name for this app that I wouldn’t blame Apple for restricting. This isn’t about the arguably mixed up public policies that treat certain drugs as more dangerous than other drugs.
This needs to be upvoted
I am mad at all of them for their labor practices. Even if I wasn't, one company doing something nefarious isn't vindicated because others are doing same.
Estate Planning in a Time of Covid
People are about tribalism. We’re wired to work this way :(
I mean, on this point I'm actually inclined to think Apple's general policy is reasonable, even if it sucks that Apple is only now adding or enforcing this rule.

It doesn't want apps that jokingly call themselves "Crack Cocaine", "Crystal Meth", or "Mango Vape". It doesn't have anything to do with them actually promoting drug use, but it helps normalize illegal drug use in a way, while Apple wants to keep a "family friendly" approach to its App Store.

Honestly, if I were the creator I'd just rebrand it.

I remember coming across the app years ago, it wasn't obvious from the name what it did, and when I finally understood it, it just seemed like the creator was trying a little too hard to be "edgy". And if you want the widest possible usage/distribution of your app, "edgy" is usually not the way to go.
Before VCs started trying to buy delivery market share and take a slice of restaurant profits, the restaurants that offered delivery were the ones that were well suited for it. Others would offer take-out, but there it was up to customers to solve the travel-time problem, so people generally got take-out from nearby restaurants.

Now, though, consumers are being offered the food they love delivered to their door, with no hint that it might be a bad idea. I'm not surprised at all that they are unhappy that the thing they were sold turned out to be disappointing. I agree that if one understands all the logistical, marketplace, and culinary factors, it doesn't make much sense to blame the restaurant. But one of the glories of capitalism is that purchasers don't have to understand a thing. They just have to have money and a desire.

I think the real bad actors here are the delivery companies here, not the consumers. The delivery companies are selling something they really can't deliver. It shouldn't be up to consumers to figure all this out on an order-by-order basis.
This stuff happens in companies that aren’t secretive though. I don’t see how secrecy enables this.
It may hurt future competitors but the law is still good because it protects the reputation of local businesses. This is like complaining that its illegal to pollute the local river. Or those arguments from backwards nations that they should be allowed to pollute like the western world did in the 1900s. Yes, that makes you money, but individual profits are rarely collectively beneficial.
It is an interesting setting that has been used successfully in other games as well, including Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, and just recently Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin.
If that is what you took from my post, you’re mistaken.

People should not be emotionally abusive. But they are. They attain positions of power.

Through reflection you may come to realize they are among people you consider friends or family.

You can’t “fix” them, but you can learn how to handle or avoid them.

Sometimes, if a person looks inward and into their past they will find a pattern of people who have taken advantage of them.

If that’s the case there may be work to do, like:

- confront these past abuses

- recognize those that are ongoing and how to navigate them

- build and practice skills in recognizing and dealing with new toxic people going forward

Life is hard and we get taught things unevenly.

It is not a wrong to be ignorant of an important life skill.

And even when you have read all of the evidence and logic needed to recognize and change your circumstances, some wait far too long, or never do.

I do not blame folks in these positions, my heart goes out to them. Because I have been there.

edit:

I did not expect this chain to get the attention it did. And I had to look up victim blaming, because it sounds awful and I needed to understand if I got this wrong. I make mistakes.

Here's the wikipedia article on Victim Blaming for those who want to learn more about what this phrase means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming

I'm not going to try and further explain myself. If folks do not like this feedback, they may leave it. I will accept that some of my advice may be problematic. I'm not a therapist and I crafted these posts in the same speed and style I comment on technology platforms.

This is honestly not a subject I want to go into greater detail about today. I hope the empathy behind my words shows through and wish anyone in any toxic situation at home or work the best.
Definitely felt like wishful thinking whenever I heard that security.txt was a thing.

From the blog post-

> Of the 666,771 most popular websites on the Alexa list, I found 2,884 security.txt files that were content-type “text/plain” and returned a HTTP 200 status code. Not all of these were valid security.txt files, but most were.

Seems I was right?
The problem with that is the quality of the test being used. Combined with legislation like the above, it has the potential to give you a free pass to "mark" someone, whether or not that's medically accurate.

https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-not...
Given the things Jeff actively works on, I have little doubt he could pass a technical interview loop.
Many novel funding approaches have been proposed in an attempt to free scientists from the endless grant-> public-> grant cycle.

One is to accept only mini grant proposals, say 10 pages at most, and screen these to meet some minimum threshold, say, aiming for the top 20th percentile. Then a random subset of these get funded. This helps diversify the funding somewhat, and hopefully catch more "risky, but interesting" projects.

Another approach has been universal funding. The most basic is "everyone gets X research dollars", and any additional funding would require submitting grants on top of that. More complex schemes propose "everyone gets 2X dollars, but they must donate X to other researchers", which allows some people to accumulate the funds necessary to conduct big, expensive work. But all of these proposals aim to minimize grant writing and review, and hopefully to diversify the kinds of work being done.

Longer windows of evaluation could also be useful. Big interesting ideas take time to develop and support, but the competitive academic environment demands quick evaluations, which make ot difficult to sustain long projects. Evaluating a research project after 5 years, instead of 1 or 2, could help alleviate some of the pressure on researchers so they can pursue longer agendas.

Every researcher can come up with their pet theory and solution. Ultimately, I think that all of these approaches, and many others, have merit. But we need to experiment with different policies to see what works.
By that logic the employee shouldn’t care about anything other than the market rate, which is less for remote.
There are a number of cases where the publicity helped to reverse a not favorable decision. I think this is the same strategy used here and they seemed to have made their homework before going public.

I don't know for how many cases this didn't work but it's clear that it works for _some_. They don't want to make a difference and don't want to change platforms.

For what is worth, I'm glad for this publicity for it's clear it's part of a continuing stream of issues that should steer away any newcomer with open eyes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25604064
Well, I can’t help questioning the “non-violent” part: it takes incredible amounts of energy to maintain that is quite literally taken away from other - possibly more helpful at social scale - purposes.
... can't you just run `$ caffeinate -d` in terminal?
Interesting thing about LA. I saw a table that showed how much energy was required to deliver water from each source. Some their sources of water require almost as much energy as desalination. Something like 30-50%.

I've wondered about using solar for desalination. Big issue though is desalination plants are capital intensive. So you really want to run them 24/7.
Took me a couple of goes to realize “in gold rooms” is a typo for “in cold rooms”, and wondering if gold rooms are a new audiophile thing.

That said, hot ears trapped in cold metal headphones seems like a recipe for condensation.

Do they not test outside of warm Cali temperatures at Apple?
It really helps the getting rich plan if you golf at your own resort, and charge the government to feed and house your entourage.
An alternative explanation is that US policy makers like Larry Summers and Bob Rubin are just incompetent, delusional, and greedy.
I am planning to learn how to write better. I am starting that by maintaining a stream of consciousness personal daily log. Also get more practice by commenting on Hacker News :)
> I'm not. If you aren't either, then I don't see how you would distinguish your positions if not through clear-headed discussion of documented acts of corruption.

I’m reminded a little bit about the NRA and their congressional supporters, who block every attempt to fund and study gun violence, and then in the same breath say “There’s no evidence of gun ownership affects violence”
The US never “needed” to ban it because consumer awareness of the downsides led to a de facto ban.
To add a little detail to what others said, amphetamine and its salts are explicitly a Schedule II controlled substance in the US.

https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1308/1308_12.ht...
Strategically I would say don't bother, personally. Just change the name.
Perhaps you can inform Apple that amphetamines are not necessarily illegal, and are in fact prescribed to treat many problems including narcolepsy.
"I'd advise people who experience toxic workplaces or think that they are in them to consider whether they themselves are lacking in the ability to assert their own boundaries and act on those assertions when they are broken repeatedly."

This is terrible advice.

It's not a matter of 'character' that people cannot act, it's a matter of power.

The entire situation is due to a messed up power dynamic.

If the staffer was not deathly afraid they may have been able to do all sorts of things otherwise not possible.
miro.com does a good job at this
Ironically, the main reason pizza works so well for delivery is because the drivers have specialized boxes that hold in heat, maintains the right humidity conditions, and is easy to handle.

The third party app drivers don't have this, so pizza delivered from them often arrives cold and soggy, and sometimes even smashed to one side of the box.
Volvo cars is now Chinese owned. Swedish Volvo only do HGVs.
The problem in that case was with a partners bank, not my own. The solution was to request payments in USD rather than EUR and have my bank do the conversion.
You're assuming that this is actually the reason. It smells to me like the real reason they kicked it off the platform has fuck all to do with the name, but feigning "wokeness" serves as a decent cover for a variety of evils.
That makes a lot of sense, but personally I wouldn't know. I refuse to use the delivery service apps. I despise them both for how they treat their workers and how they treat the restaurants. If a restaurant doesn't offer their own delivery (as e.g., pizza places used to), I'll pick it up myself.
No, I'm saying that the proposed legislation in its current form is dangerous. This isn't just some temporary mandate, they're looking to make this law.
I feel the same. Resuming flow state is a skill just like any other. I've seen my own ability to resume flow increase while working from home with two young children.

There's also something to be said for improving one's ability to do serious work in a non-flow state. All other things being equal, people who can improve both of these abilities have an advantage over those who can't.
Well, a company doesn't have to be big to be impactful. What's important in my experience is a productive environment which can foster the occasional side project.

This is actually something that I've struggled a bit with, because it feels like the most interesting and educational jobs are the ones that involve more than 40hrs/week.

Sometimes I wish that I could find a 20hr/week role with the potential to make big positive improvements in peoples' lives. But there are always other groups trying to do the same thing, and they're never happy to stop at part-time.
Yeah, I came here thinking the same. Looks like someone made use of that HN title A/B tester posted a few weeks back, maybe. https://www.hacker-ai.com/
I'm a little confused by your comment.

The link above is to legislation that hasn't passed yet. It cross links to similar legislation from previous sessions. The first section amends existing (passed) legislation. So there seems to be plenty of legislation.

Also, I don't think anyone said Covid is Typhoid. You are correct that it isn't. But they're both contagious and potentially deadly. We don't normally legislate on a per-pathogen basis if that's what you're asking?
It's so common of a misnomer, in fact, that I know what the app does!
I can empathize with your story. I once landed what I thought would be my dream job at my dream company. I quickly discovered that the position was open because all of the previous team had quit due to the extreme toxicity.

> The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard

Be careful about getting jaded and cynical. This is far from a universal truth in the tech industry. I've hired a few ex-FAANG who had burned out and become cynical on work altogether. We had to let them go because their negativity was dragging everyone down.

A similar thing can happen to people who go through difficult divorces. If they let themselves become cynical, they start believing that marriage is a doomed institution and that all members of their ex-spouse's gender are equally terrible people and such. It can become very counterproductive to moving on.
How is heroin even remotely relevant to a Facebook game?
Happy to respond to any suggestions anyone may have... :)
If companies need to exploit small businesses to compete, they shouldn't be in business in the first place. Boo hoo to all the stillborn future door dashes who wont be able to exploit local businesses.
This is a failure of management, as is your skype example.

Balancing the risk of litigation against risk to the product is management's job. In both of these cases the risk is somewhere between minimal and non-existent.

Big companies tend to have bad management. There are entire libraries of books analyzing why this is the case but the short story is "risk aversion." Employees are incentivized to save their own skin and avoid conflict at work over improving the product.

Sometimes public outcry can create a new risk and change the direction of management.
Just to play devil's advocate, while some statements are easier to judge how do we determine what is true? This can be a difficult problem to solve.
> What motives would they have to reverse it?

What part of "Orange Man Bad" did you not understand? Isn't it enough that Trump supported it?
this is because tall, rectangular buildings maximize volume to surface area, whether a hospital school or prison. It is not a form of social control or domination. it is more efficient this way. A one-story hospital would be prohibitively expensive to build in an urban area, and it is not like healthcare is not already too expensive.
Yeah, the real lesson here is stop giving Apple et al control. You play on their ground, they own you. It's getting really hard to do these days, sadly.

Rename it to "AppToKeepMacAwake" heh
Well you did specifically say 'assert their own boundaries'.

That's victim blaming to the extent there is nothing someone can do to assert themselves other than basically leaving.
I am sorry. Thanks for the reminder, I edited it.
Anything that could have offensive connotations could also be trivialized as "just a [noun]". That doesn't make it any more or less likely to be taken badly by the intended customer base
That would be the 'Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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