skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this article paints an unrealistic picture, and that broadly speaking an induction stove is "superior". But I disagree with "in all aspects and ways, by large margins in every direction". Cooking meat on a wood fire gives a very distinct char and flavor which I don't believe you can replicate perfectly on an induction stove. I personally love that taste.
No, meth is an amphetamine. Meth is not amphetamine, amphetamine is a different molecule.
Makes me wonder what proportion of Apple employees use Amphetamines regularly... Adderall is quite popular especially among techies.
There is still an appeals process, change it after you exhaust that.
First I m just wondering why can't they change the name of their app... And eventually ask for help from Apple to reroute confused customers.
Second apple is not responsible for your brand identity. A lot of people associate their brand with drugs. And it always come with drawbacks.
Should the app store promote drugs? Would you want that on the mac of your children?
One of the examples was simply "using globals" ... gloabls aren't universally bad because they're globals, they're bad for most situations because of $(long list of common reasons).

When they're useful they're so useful as to be a vital feature of the language, that's needed even when it can lead to misuse or common footgun scars.

Good software design / good use of a language is one thing; getting things done sometimes requires the programming equivalent of a dirty limerick.
www.central-boiler.co.uk ?
And the entire market of 10-speeds figured it out before the new complex shifter systems became mainstream in th 90s. Fixees for the rest, I guess.
Sure, I completely agree. They shouldn't lie.

I was arguing that they're not "forcing" themselves in the middle of any transaction. They're a separate route for the transaction.
One issue: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/12/873/bitcoin-mini...

> "The new study by researchers at MIT and the Technical University of Munich suggests that Bitcoin mining was consuming 45.8 terawatt-hours of electricity per year as of November 2018.

That, in turn, produced estimated annual emissions of between 22 and 23 megatons of carbon dioxide, slotting the operations between the nations of Jordan and Sri Lanka in terms of greenhouse-gas pollution."

It creates more CO2 than entire nations. And that number most definitely has not decreased in the past two years. We may very well be up to or past 0.1% of all global CO2 emissions due solely to crypto mining, a number that will only increase as the value of bitcoin, etc increases.

What is the good that has been gained that offsets that?
I wouldn’t call it nerdsniping. I found OPs argument to be a strawman.
In most cases where a group-defining parameter is simple, it's best to avoid classifying them as "the enemy".
Are papers getting more boring or does the reader just find less novels things to read as they read more and more? Maybe the reader is bored of the field in general. The 500th time you do anything isn’t as exciting as the 5th time.

On another note, why does everything have to be exciting? Small incremental improvements over the years is what I aim for.
To quote Stephen Fry on what I think of your argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdpxKqEUAw
Thanks for the correction. I did write this thinking narrowly as a privileged resident and I remember now not everyone has that freedom unfortunately.
How you feel has no bearing on altering the fabric of chemistry or reality.

Amphetamine is not meth and no amount of crying will change that.

Nor does someone naming an app "amphetamine" cause an increase in drug usage.
Sort of? It's more like a derivative (has an extra methyl group) and it's far more potent. So it would not be correct to say it "is amphetamine".
I'm hoping that this will have gone on long enough that the useless managers will have been exposed...
Can we stop endlessly puting Apple's various authoritarians missteps under the spotlight? It's been literally decades now, we know they can and will do whatever they want in their walled garden. Stop giving them attention. Complaining clearly does not work, if you want to make a difference, change platforms. Nobody is forcing you to develop for Apple.
Developing Policies, Protocols and Procedures [pdf]
What's wrong with romance novels?
> Free speech is a matter for the government

No, it isn't. Free speech is a moral principle, and a matter for philosophers, liberals, and all thinking people generally. The first amendment is a specific codification of the moral principle. It's the first amendment that is a matter for government.

While I agree with you that employees aren't in a good position to advocate for free speech, consumers are - and we should all be holding Apple to the standard Trieu Pham tried to hold Apple to - not because of this or that law, but because free speech is the right thing to do.
Only if you believe that as a society we have solved all of the interesting problems. Since this obviously is not true, I would instead focus on the way we evaluate science to improve it.
Prohibiting drunk driving doesn’t involve depriving citizens of their property, especially property that was legal when they bought it.
I have experienced abuse at the hands of supervisors (generally disrespectful / belittling behavior). You have to have a special kind of privilege to have not experienced this sort of thing. I haven't ever experienced such a pervasive environment of targeted abuse as in the OP, but it certainly sounds believable. It's the reason why unions came into being. We didn't go from being a society of slaveowners to a society of saints in the past 150 years.

I have learned hard lessons though:

HR is not there to help you. I consulted HR and a senior director about my previous supervisor's toxic behavior; not only did they do nothing, but they said they had previous complaints about them! And of course, I knew this, because I had many friends in the org, and I had witnessed the disrespect this person displayed towards others.

Collect evidence and get a lawyer if you want to stay in the org. This is the only way to protect yourself - it becomes very difficult for them to fire you in retaliation. I haven't taken this route, but I've seen others do it.

My advice would be to make plans to leave. OP was in a tough spot due to citizenship. But you have to leave toxic environments. You will not fix them, and if you could, you'd be better off quitting and starting a consultancy to fix those places. Find someplace new and be more particular about joining them.
Amphetamine is a general term as well as a proper noun. Both are valid and widely accepted meanings.

Meth is amphetamine.
FYI, there is an open-source alternative with the less catchy but less controversial name, KeepingYouAwake. (Note that Amphetamine has more advanced features, if you need them.)

https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake
Yeah it's extremely weird. Nintendo will call lawyers on you if there is even a hint of a trade mark violation yet when restaurants are directly being defrauded there is no recourse.
Hi folks, Artichoke author here. I mostly post project updates on Twitter. Here's a selection of some cool things I've been working on recently:

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Yet another law to reduce competition in the delivery space and help existing monopolies. I'm sure GrubHub and DoorDash are cheering.

Indexing and aggregating data is already covered by numerous laws. If Google can aggregate restaurant listings without permission then why can't others? Linking is ok, showing a call button is ok, but delivering isn't?

The law around copyright is clear: you can't copy a restaurants menu without permission the same way you can't copy someone's blog post. This should be enough.

If I want to pay a service to drive, purchase and deliver something for me it should be a human right, the same way that anyone should be able to walk into a restaurant and order without being refused service.

Why don't restaurants want delivery companies doing this? The typical argument is bad Yelp reviews. Instead of blaming delivery companies why not blame Yelp for not authenticating their reviews? Same way that you shouldn't be able to leave an Amazon review without buying the product you shouldn't be able to leave a yelp review without booking a table at the restaurant. It's Yelp's fault for not authenticating reviews. Restaurants should be benefiting from delivery companies distributing their products, and there is nothing preventing them from offering direct to consumer deliveries themselves
The article title is misleading. There was an intervention in LA to avoid debris on the road (“suddenly revealed” after car moved out of the way) and another case where the car acted incorrectly but the driver chose not to intervene so they could have an intervention-free trip.

(This is according to the article body; I didn’t study the video.)
It looks like one of the authors referenced in the 2018 paper already have a follow up paper.

https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-abstract/125/1/173/5611...

https://www.botany.one/2020/01/anaesthetic-blocks-trap-closu...
Is the difference that the other one makes sense because it's been around for decades while this one is an emerging study?

If your wood burning is proven to increase the risk of cancer for your neighbours, what does that mean?
Surely at a certain point when their team isn't performing and they keep firing employees eventually the common denominator becomes the manager, no?
having changed profession completely 3 times in the last 10 years, I need to completely agree with the article
It sucks and Apple is really over protective with this stuff so just change the name.

If you’re feeling brave/stupid, try calling it something like Khat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat
My comment gave the reasons for why not, so I don't know what more you want.

And you didn't answer my questions: Where should a YEC get to publish their papers? If the paper isn't accepted (because it's contrary to all evidence and has no strong evidence to support it), do you call that decision "censorship"? In 100 years do you expect that we might discover the YECs are right?

Experience with YECs, flat-earthers, and the like show that it's far more than "a smidgen of an expert's time". As you yourself pointed out, it requires learning a different set of rhetorical skills than are needed for a scientific paper.

And that takes a lot of time. (And it seems you have no experience in dealing with crackpots to know this.)

A scientist who enters a "debate" with a creationist, but who is not trained in the specific rhetorical techniques (eg. "Gish gallop", as another commenter pointed out) is going to get trounced - because scientists aren't trained in dealing with charlatans, and rhetorical style can trump competence.

As a result, charlatans gain fame for being able to out-debate a scientist. I'll stress this point, the point of these crackpot publications and "debates" is NOT to advance science but to establish credentials as being a viable alternative.

So, will you answer my questions now?
Most gigantic blast furnaces, or hydraulic instruments on record if you correct for inflation? Though, most things like these made little sense economically even back in the days they were built.
Give global warming more time and see where the need for de-salination is at then. The droughts in SoCal are going to keep making these traditional fresh water sources you mention even more scarce. Less rain means lower lake water levels. Less snow in the winters means less snow pack in the mountains, so less water in the rivers and lakes below. All of this occurring while SoCal has an essentially endless supply of saltwater.

Texas is in a similar situation. The lack of natural lake resevoirs means their manmade lakes are also dependent on rainfall that is very prone to drought conditions as well. Texas also has easy access to saltwater. It's places like Las Vegas, Phoenix, etc that will have a hard time getting saltwater.

The poplulation of all of these areas are only increasing putting that much more strain on these limited fresh water supplies.
Alphabet unit Wing blasts new U.S. drone ID rule, citing privacy
Was this with very large files? I remember a similar HN comment a while back and couldn't see how this would happen with a static site.

If you store 1 GB of data in total in us-east-1 and serve 1 request per second with an average size of 100 KB, it would cost $1.28 per month[1] for S3 and $25.38 for CF without the free tier, $20.24 total with the free tier. That's much more than most static websites ever store and ever serve. I use S3 & CloudFront for multiple static websites (all low-traffic, < 50 pages with some images) and the cost per site for hosting is less than I pay to renew its domain each year.

I used to do these by hand and finally started using Hugo a few years ago, and love the solution. Everything is simple to set up, the SSL cert is free and auto-renewed, the performance is great and the costs are negligible. For the vast majority of small static websites and even up to thousands of page views a day I find this approach ideal. (obligatory: I am not affiliated with Amazon in any way, just a happy customer).

[1] on https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html — S3 page -> Standard, Storage: 1GB, GET: 2628000 requests, returned: 262.8 GB. CloudFront page -> Data transfer out: 262.8 GB, Average object size: 100 KB.
I think you’re very right. One offs don’t work well, and the smaller the org, the more you need to be “All In” otherwise things done get documented and people get left out.

The multigenerational thing looks like it will work well for all involved too.
Companies are people too.
Were you one of those German soldiers issued Meth during WW2 to help them fight longer and with less human emotion? Cause that’s all I think about when you talk about meth destroying lives.
Or perhaps to its widespread use as a stimulant for narcolepsy sufferers - which is clearly what the app's name is alluding to.

It's like banning an app called fertilizer because fertilizer can be used to make bombs.
A hook for handling large lists with Phoenix Live View
This is a Mac app, not iOS.

This would be analogous to Microsoft kicking them off the windows app store. You could still download it manually.
The iPhone X, also known as the iPhone XTC, iPhone Adam, iPhone E, iPhone Molly
Ask HN: Why is tech education so difficult?
A LOT of software educational content assumes I know about 10-20% more than I actually do. Here’s my theory on why that is, but what do you think?

Creating educational content in this space is difficult because the basics (I’m thinking of things like using the terminal, some understanding of how networks and computers work, an understanding of how to use an IDE, how to compile code, build a project, etc) are literally more than the majority of people will ever learn. So you either assume nothing of the reader and are always spending time teaching the basics before you get to the stuff you’re trying to teach, or you create a barrier to new people entering the space.
No, how will this ever fix a corrupt system if you play by their rules?

This is why it keeps getting worse and worse. People just comply!
Please tell me how not being able to publish YEC papers in the journal "Nature" can be considered censorship.
>The hard part is realizing when it’s time to become a beginner (because you’ve stopped growing) and try something new.

You know it's time when you look back at things you did years ago and find them still pretty stunning. The future within that discipline can only hold different variations of that feeling. The only way to change this is by branching out and come back with fresh perspectives.
It literally does though. Drunk driving removes the usability of their cars that they could've spent tens of thousands of dollars on this.
I suggest changing the name to "Speed Apple." That way you can take a slam at Apple, and use an icon of poop, because in some western states "speed apple" is slang for quadruped manure on the road.

See also: "Speed goat" which is another word for "antelope."

(Yes, I'm mostly joking. Just change the name.)
That doesn’t answer my question without prior knowledge. Luckily others did manage to provide an insightful answer.

> why aren’t these publicly accessible?

And you say: it’s sponsored by Dupont. So let me rephrase the question incorporating the new bit of information you provided:

Why would a paper be hidden behind a paywall if it’s sponsored by a commercial company?

It would make sense if it was completely off limits. But paying a few hundred dollars (?) means it is still semi public. It’s no secret, but it’s not public either. Why?
At 40, after having a kid with my wife a couple years ago, I've just started getting serious about learning to program, after a lifetime of lazily dabbling in various i.t. things. Am now enrolled in uni to finish my bach in CS, which is also where I work.

Have also began to learn about investing in 2020 and have had a lot of fun doing that. Highly recommend the Investing for Beginners podcast with Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern if you don't know anything (like me).

Not afraid to say I've been contributing time to a nonprofit arts organization in my area, and have gotten on its board of directors. I run their web site and we're doing a frontend overhaul/server swap/Cloudflare DNS setup this month. Admittedly a bit scared because I've done this on my own setups but not on a site that gets traffic. Onward to 2021!
Yeah sure, meth is an amphetamine.

Just like how the hydrocortisone I’m using for my eczema is a steroid, yet it would be unwise to confuse it with Winstrol or Dianabol.
Are we? Where do we find characters like Mustapha Mond? Instead we got the likes of Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg. No opinion about David Shaw and Jim Simons.
Agreed. I've found that there's a meta-skill in life: accepting that one can't right every injustice, and to not let that fact prevent you from being happy.
I have the impression that yes the papers are getting boring, and peer-review is one of problems, however i have it as side effect. The main problem, IMO, is Research as profession, where the researcher is just interested in finish his/her paper, to get it published, to be able to get a next grant and keep researching about a topic that he/she is not really passionate about. The comparison with Einstein is therefore unfair. For big part of the researchers, science is just a job.
There's a lot of slippery wording and room for malfeasance, specifically relating to how a person's behavior will influence the terms of their detainment.

Section 3, Article 9:

> A PERSON WHO IS DETAINED IN A MEDICAL FACILITY, OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FACILITY OR PREMISES, SHALL NOT CONDUCT HIMSELF OR HERSELF IN A DISORDERLY MANNER, AND SHALL NOT LEAVE OR ATTEMPT TO LEAVE SUCH FACILITY OR PREMISES UNTIL HE OR SHE IS DISCHARGED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.

That should terrify people. It's basically saying "we can detain you if we think you have a virus and you're not allowed to fight us or try to escape."

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There's also lack of clarity on where you will be kept if arrested:

Section 1, Article 2:

> SUCH PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE DETAINED IN A MEDICAL FACILITY OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FACILITY OR PREMISES DESIGNATED BY THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER DELEGEE AND COMPLYING WITH SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.

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Section 4, Article 12 is basically describing indefinite detainment and forced vaccination/medication.
Girl I am so sorry. I 100% believe you. I worked at a Fortune 500 company (you might know one of my former coworkers named “jake”), and experienced and saw similar abuse. I feel like this mentality is indicative of big organizations.
Yeah, I’m sure this rule is applied inconsistently but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your speeding ticket just because everyone speeds.

This app associates itself with the recreational use of amphetamines in much the same vein as candy cigarettes. Is the rule kinda stupid? Yep. Is it ultimately a cultural thing? Yep. But it’s Apple’s sandbox and you’re playing in it.

There’s always going to be issues of where to draw the line. “Columbine. A bulk process killer.” is obviously over it but amphetamines could go either way. Just rebrand to something else and get back to actually making useful stuff.
> Logically, it should be exactly, equally hard to be wrong all the time, but somehow more people achieve it.

Cipolla's first law of stupidity[1]:

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
People do still write it, for fun: https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet

Here's a more fluent reading, if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpKlEiahtI

Enjoy it, don't enjoy it, hop in your time machine and go back to the 9th century to enjoy it; whatever floats your boat. Personally, I enjoy it, "pretentious" or not.
I don’t think Apple has a strong argument, given the feature set of the app, but I also think the name is kind of tacky/in poor taste. I used an identical app for years called Caffeine. Yes, Apple should buzz off, but choose your battles.
>And if you need more than an hour to solve a couple of those simple problems (let's say, find duplicates between two lists), you'll definitely have a problem fitting in with the rest of the team

result = set(l1) - set(l2)

Time taken: 20 seconds. I take your point that you need people with at least a certain level of competence. I found I saved those who were hiring an awful lot of time by sending them example code or asking them to give me a challenging weekend project as a test, perhaps even something they needed doing for real. But I dread these exam-like online tests where I have to have a right answer in 20 minutes. I don't work like that. Few people over 40 do any more.
Back in the very early days of the App Store, I got contacted by Apple regarding the submission of my app “!@#?!% Allergies”, as they believed the name may lead users to think their iPhone Springboard app was buggy :(
https://nlpc.org/2020/12/30/report-uighur-slaves-forced-to-w...
There is obviously a range of names of drugs and chemicals from Aspirin to ZyclonB that could be considered harmful and/or offensive. But I personally would not use any of them as a name for a software product, if only to avoid confusion.
> Also can you please link me to a study that shows a causal link between names of apps, and an increase in usage in that drug the app is named after?

How about this one? Considering that the app also has a picture of a pill as a logo, I think it would be ill-advised for former addicts to have the app installed. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-004-1828-4

Also have this blog post from psychology today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-addiction/...
This is simply technically incorrect as many people are pointing out to you. There is a named molecule called "amphetamine" short for alpha-methylphenethylamine, it has a unique IUPAC name ((RS)-1-phenylpropan-2-amine).

Methamphetamine is a derivative in the class of amphetamines (amphetamines being the family that was originally established by amphetamine). I know that's confusing. But, it has its own chemical structure, N-methylamphetamine, which is chemically distinct (yet extremely similar).

If your point is 'meth is an amphetamine', that's fine but it doesn't strengthen your arguments.