skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think peer-review is an answer, perhaps not a great one, to how can we trust specialist science. In a world where the renaissance man role is no longer feasible, to move science forward we must narrow our focus on particular sub-fields and problems within that field. One issue of this is that it becomes much harder for the general science community to verify your results, which is where peer review attempts to help, by forcing you to get other experts in your sub-field to review your work before it can be stamped as trusted.

Does it work? Kind of. I've personally seen papers in reputable journals that while not fradulant, are pretty misleading. At the same time however I'm yet to see a workable alternative that fixes the trust issue.

The question of boringness I think is pretty field dependent. In the ML community I've often seen papers almost be rejected by the peer review system because they're NOT exciting enough, despite them being pretty influential (a great example is AdamW [1]).

Honestly my assesment of peer review is that not enough trainees (read: grad students/post docs) are doing reviewing. Trainees are often better acquainted with the details of methods, but also have a more open mind to accept a finding that could go a little against the grain. Additionally, they're often faster and do a better job since they have more time on their hands then senior researchers. There have been some efforts to fix this, but so far mostly isolated to specific fields.

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bkg6RiCqY7
There are gambling games in the app store marketed to children. You can sink 10s of thousands of dollars into gatcha games and they make every effort to make it easy and desirable to do so. If Apple wants to be a moral arbiter I'm not sure why it doesn't have a problem with those and even highlights them as "featured" apps from time to time.
isn't that you basically complaining about his complaining about his downvoting?
I couldn’t have guessed the purpose of the app from this name, and now that I know what it does, I would specifically avoid giving money to it due the name alone.

I’m glad someone made an alternative to Caffeine.app but “they’re both drugs” doesn’t weaken my personal objection to the choice of name. I am glad that Apple is compelling the name to be changed, and I hope the author complies. This is where “universal freedom” clashes directly with “common sense for a department store” for me, and while I understand others aren’t on my side, I prefer department stores to flea markets.
I think for most people the question is whether there are reasons to think Apple's internal environment fosters this kind of behaviour.

You can imagine a company of that size has a huge number of teams, some where everything is just dandy, some with terrible issues like yours and the author's.

But is there something corporate-wide about Apple that makes you think what you went through was common, or the opposite (ie that you were unlucky)?

You can ask the same about all the large techs.
This comment explaining that no, AlphaFold really is a breakthrough:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25306954

This comment on EUV fab processes sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea how much the state of the art has improved!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25131424

Another rabbit hole comment, this time on compact nuclear fusion and REBCO tape:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632653

This comment that reined in the hyperbole around GPT-3, while still leaving space for fun and exploration, struck a nice balance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346972
> The peer-reviewed research papers allows you to “measure” productivity. How many papers in top-tier venues did research X produce? And that is why it grew so strong.

If I were king, my rule would be to look at the number of citations per paper and years of citation, rather than total publication count. I think that would solve a number of issues, although I'm sure that it would eventually be gamed as well.

I should mention though: It turns out that people have been bitching about this for decades. For example: I was at Bell Labs in the 90s, and there was regular lunchtime discussion about the Least Publishable Increment (LPI). Everyone had some example about how the LPI had decreased to near zero, and then a few wags went on to show how the LPI had in fact gone negative in certain subfields, not least because reviewers were overloaded and couldn't keep up.

Hopefully, some of this will be self-correcting: Publications are no longer the money-making activity they used to be, so resources will begin to dry up. Eventually, pubs are going to start rejecting valid papers for being too incremental.
This is not true, several precision mechanics factories (or parts of factories) in Hungary were producing for Western export and yet they let them rot apart.
I would agree, but I can't because Apple is a monopoly. If monopolies are allowed to exist then they must be required to reflect the principles of the governments in which they operate.

If everyone could see this decision and easily move over their apps to 1 of 20 other iOS app markets then it might be reasonable for Apple to have self-determined restrictions in place.
Like the author pointed out, millions of Americans take legal amphetamines every year. I'd wager a bet that legal users of amphetamines outnumber the illegal users 10,000 to 1. Besides, amphetamine is just the name of the compound, it doesn't suggest anything. If you imply that simply knowing that amphetamines can keep you awake is dangerous, then I'd like to point you towards centuries of proof that not telling people about sex totally stops them from having it.
Do you similarly think that American newspapers should stop publishing articles about China's various authoritarian missteps?

You could just ignore articles that don't interest you, and you certainly don't need to go to the trouble of commenting on them, although I support your efforts to encourage people to change platform (and reduce their customer base by half).
What changed? Apple's policies

Companies change policies all the time. I get dozens of terms of service revision alerts in my e-mail each year.

Same goes for government policies, and even personal policies. You wouldn't make decisions today based solely on things you thought ten years ago.

Life changes. Policies change. Things change.
I think this is helping to make the case that they could be consistent in applying the guidelines to books/music/TV. "We're trying to be family-friendly, so we're not interested in selling any content that references drug use, but you're more than welcome to get it elsewhere." But they aren't; they only censor such content on the App Store.

Both Drone+ and Phone Story could have been done as web apps (which iOS supported before native apps), but of course there are many APIs that you cannot access from WebKit.
But the controversy is giving them media attention.
There is a clear and important distinction between restrictions on how property can be used, and the government literally seizing property. Trying to argue that those are one and the same is just silly.

A better parallel would be fining based on emissions, which I would be fine with. But actually seizing private property? Hell no.
Note that recording conversations without consent of all parties involved is a felony in quite a few jurisdictions.
Thanks! Didn't know that, I usually just use incognito.
Yeah, us peons don't pay any taxes and corporations don't evade them...

All those taxes are collected from companies, look at the nice graph that proves it:

https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/corporate-tax-ra...

I'm being ironic, the average corporate tax rate went from 40% in 1960 to 10% today.
It doesn't because you can always ask for permission.
'An electric induction cooker is superior to any kind of fire, in all aspects and ways, by large margins in every direction.' - except in running costs, I have no idea but assume they draw around 2000 watts for each plate.

Alternatively, I can collect enough firewood in a few days of my spare time, I would have spent in the woods anyway, that will heat my modestly sized house cozily and cook all my meals for at least 6 months of the years in temperatures that can drop to as low as -40 Celsius for days at a time. All it cost me was a bit of sweat and hard yakka in the autumn.
This is horrendous.

Thanks for sharing your story in such detail. I hope you'll be doing well.
I read the article and it is sound. I know nothing about the nature of the other articles this website publishes. This is nothing like Graham Hancock pseudo-science.
Of course the same is true on mac, as well. Both OSs have stores, but allow sideloading.
The times are ready for a new job title: software product namer, to make sure a name won't offend anyone or violate trademarks and store guidelines

This profession already exists, and has for at least a century. Where do you think the name "Exxon" came from?
By your logic nobody should be able to call their app "lemonade" since it's a drink and some people are alcoholics

What about all the people with ADHD, eating disorders, and other problems whose lives have been saved due to amphetamine?

Also I take it you'll be demanding the removal of WINE from all package managers due to the existence of alcoholics?
What motives would they have to reverse it? Don't they claim they're "for the people"?
My manager (who uses Windows as a daily driver) overheard me recommending a colleague to install Amphetamine and gave me a very puzzled look. Another time I had to explain secops people why do I have an executable called "riot" on my machine (part of Apache Jena if you are curious). So I can imagine Apple just got tired replying to complaints (semiautomated?) from IT sec departments that Amphetamine has nothing to do with drugs and decided to force Amphetamine to rebrand instead.

PS: I vote for Redeye as a new name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight, just as Amphetamine was used by pilots in the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...).
I don’t use this and don’t care. But I can imagine my kids asking, what are amphetamines, why is it named that way, did you ever try them, what is it like.

Just like you’d say to kids, you don’t ever need to take those pills, maybe you should use your energy to push Apple so that your app isn’t necessary? I certainly try to educate my kids such that they will not be in a position to need those meds.

We like to think we own our hardware and make decisions about how it works and Apple sucks cuz they take away ownership, but cmon like you got to choose sensible defaults for your brain? “What’s in your .brainrc?” Random lines from your parents and friends at school, that’s what
That's not hypocritical; it's surprising you can't see that.

An app is software that can be harmful to your device. Books and movies are not software and can't affect your device in any way.

Therefore, there is a very obvious justification for disallowing some apps; that doesn't apply for books or movies.

It's also not "hypocritical" for Apple to choose to have a curated App Store (which is feasible and realistic) but choose not to actively censor books (which isn't really feasible).
I assume, they meant the UK finally fully leaving the EU this year rather than the sale to Nvidia
Start learning to code in Python. This is why!
- The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

This has been my experience as well. Nowadays I work hard only while most of the following are true:
- I'm making top dollar (good salary + equity value is high)
- Work is interesting (something new to learn, or challenging, or both)
- My home life is not going great (there are ups and downs, and working hard during the downs is a pretty decent way of coping)

I absolutely do not work hard if any one of the following is true:
- Project Manager is applying pressure.
- People who do not deliver value have been promoted over me.
- Manager/Technical leadership has repeatedly ignored my advice and leanded the team in hot water (cutting corners to make arbitrary timelines, only to incur high support costs or maintenance costs later)
- Performance Management is not occurring at the company (underperformers are not thrown out, or, worse, promoted).
- Company is not doing well (equity value is down).
- Salary has not kept pace with market (i.e., nothing more than 3-4% raises per year).
- There is an over-reliance on junior people and they start calling the shots, thereby making my hard-won experience useless to the team.
Apple M1 as a Development Workstation
How are there so many papers if the papers are so long and complicated these days and acceptance rates so low? Econ papers for example have tons of data and stat analysis and are often 50+ pages and have multiple authors because there is so much data to crunch and so much stats involved. The era of the 5-10 page paper written by a single person that make an interesting observation or novel insight, is over.
>Amazon raised $10 billion in corporate debt markets Monday, including a $1 billion bond yielding just 0.4%.
>The Financial Times reported that this was the lowest interest rate for any bond in US corporate history.
There's a good analysis video about it by TechAltar:

How Europe lost its tech companies (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSU5MFPn6Zk
That advice is better for the individual, but these constant complaints that reach social platforms do eventually add up and cause change. The author doesn't have as much to lose here as if he were running a business. Choosing to die on this hill is respectable.
I really feel bad for this person. It seems like they are used to another workplace culture than the secretive and strict culture of Apple, and they might have committed some social faux pas which tainted their reputation, leading to sabotage from their teammates. Of course that doesn't excuse their behavior.

Additionally, I really hope that they now have learnt to separate themselves emotionally from their workplace. I know that it might've been a stressful (e.g. visa issues), but one should never let themselves get to a point where they cry about a workplace issue in their Christmas/NYE break. It's just a job, after all.
You can make a point like this without getting politics involved because it inevitably cheapens the discussion.
Coming from a tech background, I think some of the resistance I've seen is caused by a mismatch in roles. 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.

As a manager, director or exec though, where your role is to review the work of developers, and plan their next move, you feel an added challenge from work from home. The distance makes it harder to have a grasp on what work is being done and how well/fast, and what impact. You can't as easily come in and check-in when you need too, you need to formally setup meetings or reviews. And it's not as engaging or easy for you to understand and ask questions in those meetings either. 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.

This becomes truer and truer the higher up the chain. So a dev manager might still enjoy the freedom of work from home, less commute time, able to do home chors while they work and all. But a VP will feel less benefits, since they already have a lot of luxuries, maybe they have a Nani, a nice home closer to work, etc. And a CEO will feel even less, maybe they have a helicopter, a chef, and they already chose where the office was based on where they want to live.
Unrralistic violence to vegetation is generally considered less abrasive than realistic violence to animals.
Apple is under heightened antitrust scrutiny IIUC, so it's plausible that past and current discussions were/are actually helpful.

And fwiw, you're welcome to just ignore any threads or stories that you feel are getting repetitive. Many of us have a personal list of such topics, but our lists may not match.
> Can we stop endlessly puting Apple's various authoritarians missteps under the spotlight?

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you think the whole 'if you don't like something then shut-up and move' strategy is actually a logical solution.
The good papers are still out there but it's hard to slog through the mediocre or downright worthless stuff if you're not an expert in the field. That's a real problem, I think, even venturing into an adjacent field takes a lot of reading and sorting through the chaff unless you have someone to guide you. And number of citations is not a great metric to figure out what's worth reading.

By its nature, science and R&D is very incremental though. I have some sympathy for the PhD student wanting to get something published (or the prof wanting to get the PhD student to publish) and 5 or even 10 years is short for truly groundbreaking results.
I work at a startup right now and can count the number of times I've had to work overtime with a null-pointer - 0.

Well run startups can still compete by making smart, focused decisions.
To put some context on this, the underlying social problem is the overcriminalization of behavior and the alarming growth [1] in incarceration rates here in the U.S.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...
If those hospitals are relying on hidden prices to protect their profitability, they are not well run. Period.

It is time. There is no good reason for hiding the true costs. This is the beginning of a much-needed revival in the health-care industry.
Can we stop upvoting Apple stories on HN then? If not, then the best solution is to at least show us a balanced account of things.
Then you’ll be breaking the law, as I understand it. Not every statement is protected under free speech.

If a private pilot asks his friend if she wants to go on a trip and split costs, that’s legal. If he posts the offer in a public place, it’s illegal. There is a ton of precedent for this type of restriction of speech.
Vyvanse was approved in Europe ~5+ years ago and is a hugely successful and widely used product.
>Paper directly written by government employees (like national labs) are usually accessible for free

I'm pretty sure all of them are required to be in public domain
Not sure you understand what "authoritarian" actually means.
> They kind of have a point

How is just using the word or a charicature of it encouraging drug use? This puritanism is a mind disease.
> you'll know very quickly if that was a lie

Yes, and the way that I know this is by performing the tests you're arguing against. I've interviewed plenty of people that could converse fluently in buzzwords, but could not write code. In the actual job, it's necessary to be able to write code.
If the government "prints" money and immediately distributes it uniformly to the population, it benefits the poor most of all. Especially debtors.

This year was a great example. Mortgage refinancing bonanza. If inflation really takes hold, those debtors will be very happy.

> And that’s not a “rich get richer” kind of thing — the poverty rate fell. And it’s no surprise. Peter Ganong, Pacal Noel, and Joseph Vavra found that under the CARES superdole, “two-thirds of UI eligible workers can receive benefits which exceed lost earnings and one-fifth can receive benefits at least double lost earnings.”

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-cares-superdole-was-a-huge-...
the police power of the state regarding public health is really quite broad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
I don't agree with Apple here but I also don't feel too outraged either, I can see both sides and it's their store.

I actually think Windows/MacOS should build the most commonly used sleep-gating functionality into the OS. (On Windows there's Coffee and Milk, where Coffee helps you keep it awake and Milk helps you figure out why it doesn't sleep. Seems like basic modern OS stuff to me.)
Why should I care? What problem is this designed to solve, or is it another pet project which has grown legs?
The 'slug' was my first intro to linux on ARM too. 133 MHz unlockable to 266. Extra USB ports if you get your soldering iron out.

I used to run a mailserver off one and a media box off another.
This is exactly what I want my government doing.

The legitimate purpose of government, even in the minarchist view, is to protect citizens from threats to life, liberty, and property. If a thousand Redcoats showed up in New York and wanted to attack me or my home, the state should do all in its power to stop them. If the soldiers were being pressed into service and have no personal desire to attack, but they still attack, it makes no difference.

It's no different if someone has a communicable disease and has no personal desire to communicate it.
I think I share your concern -- it's a question of "is a top down order to develop some technology (with required investment to 'force' it to happen) the best way to achieve that?"

What often ends up happening is that because it's so "strategically important" and so much money has been directed towards it, you are obligated to have expensive ("experienced") people hired based on past reputation -- which may not be applicable to new technology, roadmaps get laid out which everyone has to say they're meeting successfully, and then at the end you find out somehow that it didn't produce what you wanted.

Versus, a more bottoms-up approach where you hopefully create the conditions that incentivize or make possible some technologies and technologists to succeed -- without knowing fully who exactly or what exactly.

I'm sure that both have some inefficiencies, but the 1st method is sure to pay the people who have already been successful. But then again, maybe for a relatively incremental advance in some technology, there are fewer unknowns and method #1 works ok.
Is there a timeline as to when artichoke will be stable enough to say... run a Rails app? Or is that not a goal of this project?
I never thought to post this here; it's true. And they will spam you with texts and phone calls trying to sell you that car or some other car.

I asked one nicely to stop spamming me and they responded with something obnoxious as if they were genuinely trying to help me. I reminded him his actions were against ebay policy and I would report them. I doubt it mattered.

I stopped bidding on cars now, screw ebay.

Edit: worth noting, you don't need to win the car. Simply the act of bidding discloses your phone number.
Most people do actually judge by citations rather than raw pubs. It's an open secret that you can shove out papers (acceptance to any venue, regardless of the quality of the work is probabilistic) with enough effort. Getting cites is harder (other than self-cites which is a seperate issue).

When I look up a researcher first thing I look at is their number of citations and H-10 index, then I look through their top papers (the ones that have been cited a lot). As far as I know hiring committees also care about these things.

Of course it isn't the only thing that matters, or the most important, but its much more useful than raw number of papers published.
Nearly every "exciting" paper I've encountered in my career (spanning multiple areas of biology and computer science) has turned out to be much less exciting when subjected to critical analysis by a team of grad students (journal club). I've found that many boring papers stand up better.
It's going to be AMAZING.
Lot's of very important breakthrough in moral philosophy and ethics are going to be developed.