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My doctoral degree has required training in both Computer Science and Social Science, and regularly interact with both communities. Drawing on this, I feel that this comment is unnecessarily partisan and divisive.

> 2) Mentioning the replication crisis in social science gets a lot of the social science academics observably upset and defensive.

The replication crisis is widely discussed in social sciences. Nearly every major social science journal will have at least one, likely many, editorials and articles on the crisis tailored to their field. Maybe this is explicitely a Management Studies thing? The field is relatively small and insular, and so cannot be generalized to wider social science. And are your experiences drawon from the community as a whole, or the faculty in your department?

> 3) I have enjoyed my time spent with CS academics a lot more, luckily have some interaction even now - the ones I have spoken to seem to lack the ego-driven blind spots the social scientists exhibit. The CS group seems to have a lot more fun with their research.

Maybe this is just the local community of wherever you studied? I've met equal parts ego-driven and chill people in both CS and Social Science. A major concept in most social science fields is sampling—I'd urge you to consider how representative the people you are talking to actually are, and how your sample might be biased from the global population. My prior is that there would be little difference in personality, in aggregate, between the fields.

> I.e. I have observed that even when a manager or leader wants to hire developers, social science damaged managers and HR will actively sabotage these efforts because they are still, fundamentally, driven by Taylorist, control fetish concepts (which they refuse to accept)

I mean, that's one possibility. The other is that hiring people is difficult and expensive, and that credentials are a quick and useful, if flawed, method of sorting through the pile.

And are most HR people really trained in Management? I honestly don't know, but I doubt that the typical Psychology or Sociology major, for instance, is going to know of, remember, or consider using Taylorist management theory.

It definitely seems that you enjoyed your time in CS more than your time in Management. That's great! CS is an important field with lots of cool people. But generalizing this preference into a wider philosophy that privileges CS at the expense of (all?) social sciences is silly.
Sure. That is articulable probable cause, namely that you displayed signs X, Y, and Z of alcohol intoxication while driving. That's more than "a cops thinks", but rather that a cop can articulate specific evidence to suggest it's the case.
In 2020, after 30 years in IT / simulation, I started as a volunteer in a raptor conservancy. It’s an outdoor job: in rain or shine, hot or cold, the birds still need their aviaries cleaning, and the weeds in the grounds don’t stop growing. The experts on the bird team are perhaps 30 years younger than me, and I will never be as good as they are at handling prima-donna falcons and flying-psychopath eagles. This has been a superb exercise in learning humility and the need to earn respect based on getting menial jobs done rather than one’s past glories.

The pay off is the privilege of being able to help with the flying displays, and having these stunning birds fly to you over the heads of the excited audience when you correctly give the "I've got food" signal they've been trained to recognise.

> What are people from the community here going to start to learn for the first time this year

Continuing learning how to handle these magnificent animals and to work with them to create impressive experience for the visitors.
If your kids asked you that, I hope you'd give a reasonable answer about these being prescribed medications for narcolepsy and ADHD, that much improve the quality of life for people afflicted with these conditions. Rather than ignorant shit like "you don't ever need to take those pills".
Just change the name and move on. It is stupid to waste energy fighting it. How about Insomnia? Keepup? Stayup?
In theory, sure. In practice, the standard is "the police want to detain or arrest you".
This is one more example of a pattern of abuse by the app stores of apple, google, and maybe even microsoft.

Any app store vendor is the alpha and omega on its platform. Any app store has a monopoly on its walled garden. There are some good aspects like user protection against bad apps, but on the whole, is it worth the price.

Main question now is how society should deal with this. Some ideas from the top of my head

* One option is to simply break the monopoly. A platform could be obligated to implement a store API, and the default platform store should use that same API as any other.

* Another option is a separation of duties. Just like lawmaker, judge and police can't be the same entity in a democracy, they could be split up in the app stores.

* Maybe the safety of the user device can be guaranteed independently from the app store. If the OS enforced walls between apps are strong enough that malicious apps can always be removed and no data theft is possible, the damage done by bad app stores can be lowered?
Apple approved of the app. Hence the name was approved. Not sure what we mean by "getting away" here
> The distance makes it harder to have a grasp on what work is being done and how well/fast, and what impact.

I don't think this is true though. I can review code or a product just as effectively remotely as I can sitting in an office chair. What I can't do is walk the cubes and see who is sitting in front of their computer at the moment, and at least in my experience running IT for a moderately sized organization, this is what managers seem to have a problem with. Over the past several months I've had to fend off requests to pull reports on how many e-mails people have sent, setup mail forwards to their managers, line up VPN times to timecards, or find monitoring software for PCs, all in the name of making sure employees are "working enough".

Fortunately so far I've been able to fend these off by pointing out that none of these are real metrics for what's being actually being accomplished and that's what's really being exposed here is that the manager doesn't know how to tell if an employee is doing a good job and/or pulling their weight, and is trying to use butt-in-seat time as a proxy rather than figuring out what actually matters.

> You can't as easily come in and check-in when you need too, you need to formally setup meetings or reviews.

I can hit the call button on teams at any time. Sure it "feels" disruptive in a way walking into their cube didn't, but in actuality I think their about equally disruptive. Managers tend to underestimate the impact of "just swinging by".

> Also it's unpleasant to be on Zoom all day long, and since your job is just meetings all day, that's your new reality.

I suspect most people would agree with you on preferring in-person meetings to Zoom. If we'e doing cameras I agree with you too, but... just don't. I spent most of my meetings this summer out on my front lawn with a notepad watching the bees work the clover. Made them infinitely more tolerable than being stuck in a conference room.
I'm pro-crypto, but so long as Apple maintains absolute hegemony over their ecosystem (backed in part by an artificial state monopoly on ideas!), even the rosiest scenario for Bitcoin doesn't change the power dynamic. Apple could literally add support for buying apps with BTC tomorrow, yet still disallow sideloading or competing stores, while kicking out apps they don't like on a whim.
For someone from "land of the brave and the land of the free" or whatever the US anthem says, you're awfully defeatist :-)
I think this has a lot to do with it. I worked at Apple for four years, and the most successful (promoted) managers all tried to emulate the managerial attributes they believed Steve embodied: Hard nosed, demanding, callous, ridiculing failure, and they all thought they had his product sense too. They attempted to be Steve-clones all the way up the chain to Craig (who was actually a really decent guy, and didn't, at least to me, act like a Steve-clone himself). They were consistently rewarded for this behavior, so that kind of behavior became known as the way to go places at Apple. I remember having [careful] conversations with my manager where I essentially asked, "Do I have to be a raging asshole to get rewarded here? Because that's all I see--raging assholes get the promotions and equity refreshes."

There were other managers who were not toxic, and knew how to develop a team and reward/motivate them, but most of them stagnated and never went anywhere promotion-wise.

I also found the place very clique-y. There was definitely a small in-group, with the rest in the out-group, and it seemed to have nothing to do with tenure, seniority, or level. They would have their own private off-sites to do who knows what. I think they called it Top-100 or something while I was there. Everything was siloed and secret so you could never be sure.

EDIT: Reading the article, I see the cliques were specifically mentioned. I have no doubt the author is for real.
Go to www.reddit.com/r/all and sort by new. It's all trash. And porn.
> It seems kind of disengenuous to blame this on trump

Why? Trump's posts to Twitter are mostly lies. Have a look:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump

He's still lying about the results of the election. He claims repeatedly that it was a "rigged election", that the election was "the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history", and that really he "won big" "in a landslide". All of these claims are false.

Trump has demonstrated that he simply doesn't care what's true. It's banana republic stuff.
Just wanted to say that your Project 386 posts are fantastic! Thank you so much for writing them up! I really enjoyed reading them. I was so happy you got it running, and seriously impressed with your troubleshooting and analysis of all system components, and the eventual fix of the motherboard traces.
I believe it's that they're linked and both arrive out of the same logics of dominion, and authorizing use of dominion over a spaces and people.
Not every fight is a 2-trillion dollar fight. If you say decide to commit some fraudulent chargeback against an Apple purchase they are unlikely to pursue it, for example, even though they are a 2-trillion dollar company that could crush you. Spending $5000 of lawyer time to recover $50 may not be worth their time and they know it.
Caffeine would be an easy answer to the rebranding question
Like the original post says, they are in fact a useful tool to promote wakefulness, and if you have a problem with wakefulness or attentiveness, you can go to a doctor, get diagnosed, and be prescribed with amphetamines perfectly legally if you so wish.
in a lot of ways a lot of the billionaires are the robber barons of our times. having multiple billions in wealth doesn't seem to be compatible with a healthy society and seems to be a failure of that society. the sheer scale of even one single billion dollars compared to a million dollars is absurd. a million seconds of time is almost 12 days. a billion seconds is 32 years of time.
I do something like this when a comment provokes an emotional reaction the fits with current societal trends.

I literally ask myself "What if this comment is an echo of a troll?"

I don't impute bad faith to the individual, but that they too may have been seduced by the power of easy emotions.
I see. That's a really messed up power dynamic. I'm really ashamed of the US immigration policy, and of the exploitation of H1B's by US companies, especially in the tech sector. I'm sorry you have to endure that.
By comparison, in the army during initial training I had flashbacks of kindergarten. We weren't herded that much at school. Also the food was for some reason very similar.
Your comment reminded me of this web comic comparison https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/hu...
Learning not to be offended is a great skill to learn.

It applies to both sides here: Apple could continue to choose not to be offended after 6 years. The developer could choose not to be offended at Apple’s decision and rebrand.

Having said that, this is censorship any way you look at it. Whether it’s “valid” censorship depends on your point of view.
I can second this - I've always gotten the same benefits as on-site staff. Closest thing to a difference I've run across is usually not all of the insurance companies/plans are viable in AZ, as opposed to the say 5-6 options for CA (eg Kaiser)
I don’t think wind turbines are high enough (yet) to affect wind speeds at height much.
In a huge way, this person's post seems true - from what I've seen being a software engineer for twenty years, many tech companies (especially those in the Bay Area) are fast paced, demanding, and stressful, even for experienced developers. It's often an unforgiving environment where you either perform or are let go - personally have had my own equal share of victories and massive failures - And as for abuse, have had some true horror stories (a senior dev who would actively and openly attack my work at every chance they got during large meetings for months on end). But...

... At the same time, this is somewhat universal to most (not all) companies to some degree, especially tech. And the more important the work, the more stressful the environment often is.

Could be way off on this, but just my impression is that since they are a newly graduated PhD working at their first job, am wondering if the shock of that first position (which was also at Apple, who is known to be very demanding), was a bit too much to handle - and if you also have a bad lead, you're in for real trouble. Apologies to this person as I wasn't there and have no real idea on what happened, but the workplace is a tough environment more often than not.

Know this only an estimate, but in my humble opinion, Glassdoor is generally in the right ballpark when it comes to a company's actual culture (how it treats its people), and 4.2 for Apple is really good - did a contract job at Stubhub a few years back, which when I worked there was a 2.8 (it's now a 3.3). And yeah, it was really that bad. The politics and scapegoating were the most intense I've ever seen (got caught up on the wrong side of this majorly myself. Felt like I was in one of those targets at those Carnival games where people line up to take shots at you).

Yeah, and tech is ruthless but, as another person said, typically in the Bay Area it usually isn't abusive about it. In the socially aware Bay-Area, they often won't tell you directly that they have an issue with you like they do on the East Coast, but through silence and innuendo - you'll feel it before they actually tell you they're not happy.

And sorry to hear about this person's visa issues, the stress this has caused my foreign friends is immense. Hope they're okay!
I doubt that is how schools functions and that they were trying to make obedient citizens that follows regular hours or whatever nonsense people conjure up.

The reason schools operate that way is simple: sheer inertia combined with just being impervious to reform.
Not really, it's pretty confusing and when I worked at a medicinal chemist working on substituted phenethylamines, no one referred to molecules aside from amphetamine proper as "amphetamine".
From No-Code Nowhere to Building a Software Company
Yeah, 東京都立新宿高等学校 and Tóth Árpád Gimnázium were freebies.
This product/company, for example: https://rayzone.com/geomatrix-geolocation-system/
Ask HN: What technology/software should be free/open source but isn't
That's both inspiring and horrifying. I'm a little older than the demographic here and sometimes see myself on this somewhat stressful hamster wheel of "Okay I tired of x, now I should explore y." Then y becomes tiresome and I move on to z. Over and over. I wondered when that would end. I guess it never does. No one talks about what happens when your life becomes steady. You just get unsatisfied in other ways so then your hobbies take over. Worse, if you don't do anything like this and just become a TV/social media addict then you brain ages worse than being a productive forever learner. I think about the Buddhist idea of suffering and being forever unsatisfied here a lot and wonder if the meditation crowd has this better figured out.
I have to admit I cheated on that one by recognizing "HRP" as the UK-typical naming scheme for prisons.
What if their parents aren't very much alike?
Sounds like the kind of person who wouldn't last long in jail. "Hey you really shouldn't let him steal your peach cobbler. You need to push back." and gets his ass shived nine times.
Desalination can be done effectively with thermal cogeneration. It's still inefficient, but since it is using waste heat it's "free" energy so to speak. Saudi Arabia has built such plants. The Soviet Union also built a fast reactor that was cooled with salt water, which was condensed and used as a freshwater supply [1].

Since ~80% of the world population lives on the coast, using seawater as coolant and capturing the condensate could represent a substantial source of freshwater.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor
> As a developer (non game), work from home works well, you save yourself a commute but lose out on launch with your co-workers. The rest is pretty much the same.

This pretty much. I have a long commute as a programmer and working at home with a triple monitor standing desk is so much better... but "water cooler" chats and a meeting room pow-wow is something sorely missing. Some things communicate better face too face with white boards.

Everything else I think is true... face to face vs zoom to zoom has to be a hell of a change and, if I was in those shoes (Zero interest in management) I'd push for people back in the office.

Personally... I'd love a 3 home, 2 in office routine. Would really afford the best of both.
Apes shed pounds while doubling calories, researcher finds (2011)
Pretty common at parties and other social gatherings.
Using the restaurant's logo and name and in general masquerading as the restaurant's official website pretty clearly crosses the line.
If you go into the "Biden wins White House..." thread, there's actually quite a lot about COVID, seeing how political it became.
Do you really believe the app developers should close their doors and stop making the app rather than change their name, all as part of an ideological fight? I just want to make sure that is really your good faith argument.
That’s exactly the narrative that was used. I guess that’s why Yeltsin was such a good friend to the west and why he’s despised by many Russians.

I mean, sure, many factories were not competitive since they were highly subsidized and faced no competition on internal market. But USSR had an immense R&D potential and engineering education was top-notch.
Just to clear it up, the point of the hole isn't because holes are great or because they absorb sauce better or anything like that.

The point is just to get really thick spaghetti.

If you were to attempt this without a hole, when the outside was ready to eat, the inside would still be unpleasantly crunchy. Or, if you cooked further to get to the point where the inside was properly al dente, the outside would be an overcooked mess.

The only way to produce a thick, properly-cooked piece of spaghetti of consistent, uh, consistency is to remove the part in the center.
From the writeup:

> Argument #1: Amphetamine Does Not Promote the Use of Illegal Drugs or Facilitate the Sale of Controlled Substances

> Amphetamine does not promote the use of illegal drugs. Not only that, Amphetamine does not promote the recreational use of legal/prescribed drugs. In the United States, amphetamine is prescribed by doctors to adults for narcolepsy and to children for ADHD...

> ...Just like amphetamine (the organic compound) can be legally used to keep humans awake and attentive, Amphetamine (the app) can be legally used to keep your Mac awake."

While "amphetamine" isn't itself an "illegal" drug, promoting the use of amphetamines for anything other than the FDA-approved indications (e.g. narcolepsy and ADHD) is something that can approach illegality [0]. For example, Pfizer and many other companies have had to pay billions to settle charges of promoting drugs for non-approved indications [1].

The author doesn't help his case when he asserts, "amphetamine can be legally used to keep humans awake and attentive". Yes, that's an effect of the drug, but it's only official legal uses are for treating narcolepsy and diagnosed ADHD. Adderall's manufacturer would get in big trouble if it started a campaign to convince doctors (who can basically prescribe for any reason they judge necessary) to get patients on Adderall for general boosting of performance and productivity.

Of course, the author (I assume) isn't in the pocket of Big Pharma. it's also not a stretch to see how this falls afoul of Apple' policy against encouraging the illegal use of drugs, in that the application's very name creates an association between "Amphetamine" and "making your computer more productive". Alcohol isn't an illegal drug either, but as the author notes, Apple explicitly bans encouragement of "consumption of...excessive amounts of alcohol" – i.e. a harmful use of an otherwise legal drug.

To use a hypothetical example, if a developer created an app that reduced screen glare and excessive contrast in UI elements, and then called it Fentanyl, I'd imagine Apple would have the same complaints as it does against Amphetamine, even though Fentanyl is a drug legally prescribed for severe chronic pain.

[0] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20160719.05588...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...
Understanding the Essence of Product Management
Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring an experienced product designer
A good analogy might be the penalties for driving while intoxicated, which is even more likely to kill or seriously injure somebody than going to a public place while infected with SARS-CoV-2.

We as a society have tremendous tolerance for these people (at least in the US), who are less "stupid" and more some combination of "dangerously selfish" and "mentally ill". Many such people still have driver's licenses, and you only really get punished for a DWI when you actually do kill or injure somebody.

So if that is the standard society has, we should apply it to COVID-19 to be consistent. If someone dies of a Covid case that is traceable to your own negligence (e.g. going to work with symptoms and no mask), you should be held liable for manslaughter.
Should we still be worried about MSG?
One reason I strongly dislike forums with voting mechanisms is that they tend to reward and reinforce speculation presented with an air of authority.