skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also won't find many products being labeled with things like
"magic", except maybe for some of Apple's input devices, and
drugs called magic mushrooms.

Censoring language is a bad idea even for the richest
corporation, partially because there's practically no way to do
it without looking like a hypocrite or also doing massive
collateral damage. Like in this case, where Apple argues calling
an app "Amphetamine" is bad but calling one "Drug Mafia" or
"Drink extreme" is supposedly okay.
Three Unblinded Mice
You think putin is personally hosting that site? The insane lunacy when it comes to putin, xi, trump, erdogan or whichever boogeyman the media/propagandists decides to scaremonger with.
These languished on bike shop inventories for 10 years largely unsold. Other automatic bike shifting has been around for even longer than that and they haven't sold well either.

Shifting gears isn't what keeps people off bikes, the average 10 year old figures out shifting gears in about 20 minutes. What keeps people off bikes is the fact that most places in the US are unsafe for cycling.

More or less everywhere it's safe to ride bikes, bike ownership and use increases dramatically using existing shifting technologies.
Yes. While zoom sucks for conveying body-language, being able to see someone’s unhappy, confused, or confidently-agreeing face makes certain kinds of meetings much easier.
> Life is too short to move things in and out of protobufs for a living, I'd rather live in a garage like a broke college student and have some agency in a five person company and see an entire project through and do interesting work rather than fixing the pipes on some gigantic monolith.

This is really just dependent on whats important to you. If spending all your waking hours in front of a computer writing commercial software is how you want to spend your life than sure work at a small company that will become your identity. Or write plumbing, get paid well, and live a well balanced life, one thats not dominated by work.(I think the language to describe the scenario emphasizes the spin on the scenario)
I didn’t realise that there were arcade games with save game support.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_Legends

> Its unusual features for an arcade game included passwords and characters that could be saved, enabling players to play over the course of a long period.
I'm not sure if you're agreeing that students shouldn't have to ask permission. It does interrupt the lesson, after all, and does very little besides reinforcing in children an obedience to authority, even above their own basic biological needs.
> ...so get more negotiating power as they have more information.

Information is certainly part of it (thus why we have NDAs), but so are relationships/connections, particularly in B2B or the startup world where CEOs have to sell the company to investors.
One of the problems is people don’t stick around for their entire career. They know a lot of the work is unfulfilling. They stick around for long enough that their departure doesn’t look like they were fired and try to obscure it in something innocuous like, “I was looking for something more challenging” and the recruiter thinks,”wow, more challenging than Google?!? This candidate must be hot”. The amount of status these people enjoy in their careers after leaving is amazing. After that they’re captured. They’re never going to tell you the truth about what it’s like working for Google. They gain an enormous cache from having worked there.

The amount of respect I afford these people is inversely proportional to the amount of time it takes them to say where they worked or went to school. Went to MIT and don’t ever manage to bring it up in a conversation and I have to learn it from someone else? Massive respect, but they usually mention it in the first 30 seconds.
This is fun, but to the extent that it's trying to make a statement†, most of the difficulty comes from the angles used in the photos. They just look like generic buildings.

You could make the same game out of "school or doctor's office" or "prison and bank" and it wouldn't be any more obvious if the photos were shot this way.
It's not Apple that's hysterically puritanical, it's the market they operate in.

They don't give two f__ks about being politically correct, they're a corporation, their main concern is profit, and if you're not being hysterically PC in 2021, you're gonna loose money because of the radical minority that's ruining it for everyone.
I was thinking more along the lines of people who are not suited to do research in the first place. This will either be those who join the academic world out of inertia following their educational path or class/cultural pressure, or those who dislike the general labor market and want to enter the academic world due to its particularities.

On a speculative note: I believe it's yet another argument in favor of UBI
I'll watch both eventually, but the first note from that interview at 24 minutes is that the breakdown of the black family is a huge issue in the US. That kids are much more likely to grow up and commit crimes if there's no father figure in the house. And he's right, it is. But he skips the reasons behind them, and comes to the incorrect conclusion that that's not a "white cop's fault".

1. Those families often don't have dads because they were arrested on minor drug offenses, or killed by said cops.

2. America's social safety net is packed full of means testing. That includes means testing on welfare, which leads to broken families because there will be significantly less public assistance if there's a father in the picture than if there isn't.
Your pm doesn't tap you on the leg, scream in your ears like the world ended and start poking things on your desk... I hope.
I´m super excited by this dataset. The EleuterAI team is stellar and many great things are coming soon from them!
> Airbus is absolutely crushing Boeing in terms of quality. Granted, we are woefully behind on the 'space' part of aerospace

Such a hyperbole statement.

Airbus has the edge in the narrowbody aircraft market, especially A321, while Boeing is plagued by 737 MAX problem.

OTOH Airbus is well behind Boeing in the widebody segment. Boeing had 1,464 787 orders as of Aug 2019, 882 of those had been delivered. Airbus had only sold 913 A350. A380 has been discontinued while Boeing can still count on B748 freighter.

Of course 2020 threw a wrench to the airline industry and it remains to be seen how well it will recover post pandemic. Both Airbus and Boeing are affected deeply.
Sounds like an average standard Senior Engineer salary level.

If you don't sell your stock to live, wealth accelerates in a hurry.
The US. It's not a very dignified setup in prison with 4 people in a cell, but most prisons have a toilet and a sink in each cell.
They also might not grow! There is a wide range of outcomes, even for options when you appear to be headed for an IPO.
In my experience it depended on the class.

Business school classes were very much like high school, at least the ones I took (I was not a business major). Assigned seats, attendance taken, etc. Don't recall if bathroom trips needed permission as I always handled that before class started.

Math and science classes were generally much more informal. Class met at a specified time and place, and nobody paid much attention to who was there or not. I would occasionally sit in on other classes I was considering taking, to see if I liked the instructor.
That'd be great, but from what I'm seeing also an extremely unlikely turn of events.
Apple isn’t a singular entity, it is made up of lots of people. I’d find it unlikely the people approving apps are the same as those who pick the apps to showcase. And neither of those groups are likely involved with making up the rules.
To me the privacy decreases with internet tracking. I think Google has a lot of interest in use it because it will have more data to analyze and profile a drone owner.

And I think it would be implemented simply sending the drone data from your phone to Google, because they are already using Wi-Fi frequencies to communicate with your phone/receiver.
Would you rather have to overhaul a turbine every year or have no fish?
This does seem like a weird shift on Apples part. They even featured the app in “app stories” at one point in time.
I’m a user of this app and found it when I couldn’t find caffeine which I used on an older MacBook.

As an aside I’ve noticed that it’s Apples day to feature on the hn front page. Seems to be an unusual influx of bad apple press. I’m curious if it is coordinated? I’ve wondered the same about anti google/Facebook/Amazon as well. They all seem to come in waves.
From Classicism to Metamodernism – A Short History of Web Development
I actually don't get what's the problem here. I manage a team and one time I booked a vacation and then we hired a guy.

He quit (he was the only person to ever quit that was working under me, company is treating employees good) and said in the review that this was horrible from my side. Am I not suppose to take a vacation ever?
> I think at the core of the problem is that most companies are extremely risk adverse in their hiring and would gladly miss a Jeff Dean type of super-performer in order to reduce their number of bad hires.

This is absolutely why whiteboarding exists, and persists.

I have interviewed a lot of people at this point in my career, and it's just not possible to tell if candidates are good by looking at their credentials or job histories.

I've seen people with impressive credentials, or impressive job histories, end up being totally unable to produce working solutions to FizzBuzz-type questions. I'm not talking about Leetcode-style brain teasers; I'm talking about being unable to construct a working for loop and do basic array operations in a language of their choice.

I'm going to continue to do whiteboarding for candidates for this reason.
“He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong.”
You can't noise canceling your children. They know you're ignoring them and it's just unleashing the kraken.
I'm thinking higher-order too, but I subscribe to the idea at the start of https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/08/29/recession-and-...

> Question. In what ways can a recession be useful for forcing inefficient public-sector agencies to lay off redundant workers and reduce bloat?

> Answer. None.

And keep in mind that academia might as well be considered public sector, but the idea transcends to most large-scale/loosely-planned cost cutting for efficiency gain schemes.

Your starting point is a lot on individual virtue, and bad apples crowding out the good. I don't disagree that some researches are better and some are worse, but I think that any "cure" is going to be gamed and worse than the disease.

> but the largest will be that as funding becomes a scarce resource, a higher curation of both researchers and topics will come into effect

Do you have any evidence of this? I disagree in the strongest of terms. By my reckoning, curation, preventation, and other "forsight-drive" work is persistently undervalue by our society and economy. The nastiness that will accompany shrinking funding as research groups fight for short-term survival will only make that worse.

> but the largest decrease in research will be those that are bullshit

Why would those who are the best at gaming incentives now loose that skill?

> It's been happening for years, centuries, as a basic economic cycle, and looks something like this: _/T\_/T\_/T\

So after centuries of Byzantine decline, there is new group of lean and mean Greek Constantinopolitan bureaucrats?

After the Spain grew rich on New World bullion and then poor with a dearth of industrialization there is a new generation of hyper-efficient factories putting Germany to shame?

I dunno what history you are reading, but the good actors never outlive the broken system and get the last laugh in mine.
I'm sympathetic, but it's not a great argument.

Adderall®, Concerta®, Dexedrine®, Focalin®, Metadate®, Methylin®, Ritalin® are all “brand name” amphetamines.

Yup, and they're controlled substances that you can't buy without a prescription and which are only supplied in limited quantity. Your app branding is literally a kind of drug abuse - using a drug to stay awake rather than its medical use to just be normally functional.

This isn't to endorse Apple, which ought to apply its guidelines more consistently instead of ignoring or enforcing them in arbitrary manner, and which should be more transparent with communities of users rather than using its leverage against individual developers with no real process or recourse.

But when you get down to it, you are in violation of the ToS and there isn't a great moral crusade here. Rebrand and be happy.
Ahh yes the legendary support that is always touted as an advantage of Apple products.

All I have found with apple techs is they are better salesman at trying to gaslight you into thinking the problem is with you not their product.
This is from 2013! That should be added to the HN title
It seems strange to be so sure that it's weird when ether affects both plants and animals, while simultaneously not being sure how ether actually works.
Of course, there’s a way to do it that would be outrageous if you assume the worst. And perhaps the anxiety around this is really because they didn’t publish hard numbers.

But in a lot of cases, the average FAANG engineer who takes this route will be leaving their small apartment for somewhere they can buy a house.
The most egregious as someone who is in the left bubble but acknowledges nuance on many issues I would say are:

identity politics: economic problems are economic and fixating on identity is never going to solve them but further alienate people. What this sounds like is disrupting meritocracy "we <insert combo of minority identities> president or engineer... etc" but in reality is nothing but an extension of confessionalism, which never works. Look at where such politics ends (Lebanon's current crisis <-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact, Iraq's current crisis <-- https://www.mei.edu/publications/nation-or-religion-iraqs-hy...). Increase representation by fixing the pipeline problem not instating qoutas without sunset deadlines or criteria

scientism: the usage of phrases such as "believe science" when talking about social issues like abortion
where worth is assigned to lives and even ignoring it completely when talking about puberty blockers. Never mind how anti-scientific "believe science" is.

American exceptionalism: A lot more subtle than the right's "shithole country" comments but no less dangerous, look no further than how Poland is talked about, or Hungary... etc. Can't fathom how different societies look at issues from other perspectives. This is a form of cultural imperialism.

All of the above are subject to your definition of left and are points of debate within the left too.
Regarding your second paragraph, I don't think this is the case in the UK at least, where academics are judged according to the REF criteria.
> When I buy a game called "Surgeon Simulator" I don't expect to receive actual surgeon training

Fun fact: There are serious surgery training apps in the app stores. Surgeons, too, like to practice in a simulation rather than on real patients.
> My advice is to immediately rebrand as gracefully and effectively as possible and use all that activist energy to effect the transition.

They should be brave and rebrand it to Soma, nothing flies in the new world of apples and bananas.
Then you don’t see it. Middle East terrorism has been replaced as “the thing” and medical terrorism is what has replaced it. Global warming was too unconvincing, so it seems like TPTB picked this instead.

It’s not about the masks, it’s about being stuck with this for two decades as they try to frighten and terrorize everyone with medical diseases, which allows the government to do whatever they want unopposed. Non-compliance with the masks is usually people protesting this more than they are trying to be inconsiderate to other people. Also, if you think a crappy cloth mask is going to protect anyone else, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (For the record, I would have a different opinion if our government had mobilized producing actual medical grade masks and mandated that.)

This crisis may be even scarier than the Middle East terrorism thing though, because it encourages self righteous dingbats to rat on their neighbors and use the state against their neighbors. It’s all in our own backyard now. And people are doing exactly what the party wants, and it looks to me like like how the neighbors and kids behaved in 1984.

And there’s endless obscure diseases they can highlight that everyone mostly just glossed over before. COVID-19 headlines starts to run flat? Just highlight a new strain of it to whip the fervor up again... oh wait.

You’ll surely call me a conspiracy theorist, even though I’m simply applying that I learned from the Middle East terrorism situation on to this one, but I don’t care. I have already seen this for what it is, a real disease but being hijacked as a tool to manipulate and control people, and have moved on. Don’t be fooled, there’s to be no “back to normal.” Ever. The mask non-comply-ers are simply having a hard time of letting go of the life they knew.

You have to be either incredibly base or willfully ignorant to not understand and have empathy with your fellow citizens.
Hmm when I compare the two in terms of CPU / Memory usage and speed, Teams is one of the worst performing electron apps on my system, and VS Code one of the best. I don't think this is just network related (and I have a 600/600 connection anyway).

Either way, even if this was the reason it would prove that Electron is not a good fit for an app like this.
You're correct. The pulse-width of the saw wave is very dependent on the amplitude of the saw, so when there's a 1 volt deficit in the saw wave's amplitude you lose about 8% of the pulse width. It's really not that noticeable in practice, though, and if anything it adds to the sonic character of the juno.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, but the App store may constitute an essential facility for a desktop program developed specifically for Apple Computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_facilities_doctrine
Well. It is their store.

Come join the happy world off Linux if you want to avoid that sort of corporate control
This is one of those assertions that has the unusual property of being true if you believe it, and false if you don't. Like "I think this bank is going to fail!"

Apple doesn't "hold all the cards" unless we believe it is so. The longer that belief is popular we will lose the option to fight when the stakes get higher.
What does this actually feel like for a driver?

I imagine that spending hours letting the car drive itself while only making sure the car doesn't do something stupid might be less enjoyable than driving for hours.
> Apple comes off as a happy family friendly company, when in reality behind the scenes it’s a rule by fear culture.

Just like any other company.
I think it's worth noting that EleutherAI is a grassroots collection of researchers, which distinguishes it from academia/industry labs.

As part of their work on democratizing AI, they're now hoping to replicate GPT-3 and release it for free (unlike OpenAI's API).

I would encourage everyone interested to join their discord server (https://discord.gg/BK2v3EJ) -- they're extremely friendly and I think it's a project worth contributing to.
Feynman made some interesting observations in his 1973 Cargo Cult Science speech...
I have read things like this from time to time here about bad experiences:

> I had no interaction with my manager and she was refusing to have regular 1:1 meetings with me and was not responding to my emails.

Seriously, this is the most common red flag in these stories. Not having regular 1:1 meetings (when that's supposed to be a thing) and slow/no communication is an _immediate_ GTFO, do not look back, it is not going to get better.
I was not being sarcastic. It is how I reconciled the otherwise jarring societal changes where its not clear who exactly has the consensus on a new concept and who to listen to.

My conclusion is that what is asked is so low effort that it is inconsequential for cisgender people and improves the quality of life for people that felt marginalized and increases their productivity.
There was election fraud though. https://hereistheevidence.com/
The whole world is starting to cuddle everyone to death. It’s so disgusting to see the walled gardens censoring, boycotting, deciding what is truth, interfering with ones beliefs and trying to modify them. Also everyone feels offended by something thus entitled to tell what I can and cannot say. Grow the hell up! Sticks and stones may break my bones, but facts don’t care about your feelings. Pampering society will lead to a generation of incompetent crybabies just because they can’t handle another view/perspective
They don't (the claim is the app promotes drug use, which it doesn't)

It certainly references it. Definitions are fuzzy, and very much in the eye of the beholder.
I don't see that at all. What you said was true and I'm well aware that it's true. This whole thing is complicated—you've taken a ton of shit sticking up for HN in places where people rack up points despising it, often in mean ways, and I'm deeply grateful about that.
So who is going to be first to patent ear pads that are stuffed with silica gel instead of foam?
Ethereum has a proof of stake chain in production right now, in the sense that it is running with over a billion dollars worth of real ETH. But it won't run user transactions and contracts until the EVM migrates over, probably late 2021, and that's when PoW will go away.
I've been an adjunct professor and received that question too. My response is generally "You're the customer here. In my class, you can literally do anything you want if it doesn't interfere with other students learning or me teaching."
Hey, all I did was notice that Microsoft did that for X.509. h/t to Microsoft's cert parsing code team. :)
Wait, this is also my dream!

Mine is more about using FPGAs for the communication fabric and RISC-V for processing, but similar.
I am struck by how unrealistic many of these predictions are. My personal take, response.

* Accelerating inflation perhaps leading high single digits low double digits in the next several years.

* Stocks continue to rise as a function of inflation.

* Unemployment measured by workforce participation rate stays high or increases.

* Full self drivering cars are no closer.

* 50% chance of Bitcoin crash like in 2018, 50% chance of further price appreciation but I think $100,000 is absurd for a commodity that has close to zero intrinsic value...

* Major urban areas see falling rents as WFH continues.

* Silicon Valley loses some of its prominence as a function of WFH but I doubt a wholesale shift could happen in a year.

* 50 % chance of major social unrest in the USA as Trump diehards refuse to accept Biden.

* Tech advertising bubble begins to collapse. Tech bubble begins to collapse by year end. AI, self-driving vehicles discredited.

* Amazon reduces its own shipping service as a money loser increases use of UPS and USPS.

* Subscription web services (rather than ad funded) services begin to emerge.

* Reddit continues to decline in quality but no clear alternative emerges.

* Open source, distributed alternative to Facebook emerges, or linked-in subscription based competition.

* 25% chance major world leader dies

* 25% - 33% chance of major armed conflict, especially involving China.

* 20% chance of well attested "alien" contact.

* 20% chance of second novel pandemic in addition to Covid-19

* 20% chance of extra solar "asteroid" like Oumuamua

* >50% chance of Middle East Peace agreement between Arabs and Israel

* Large chance of abnormal oil price volatility.

* Brexit results in deep recession in UK, Boris Johnson is out.