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Renowned philosophers tend to be good in philosophy. They are not necessary great in history, sociology or how various organizations work. They have own biases and it is also pretty easy to take their claims out of context to sound like something much stronger.
[Caffeine's original developer here]

I removed Caffeine from the App Store when Apple started complaining that a click on a menu bar icon for an app without a dock icon must always show a menu (offering a Quit option). I wanted it to toggle the active state instead and show the menu on right-click/cmd-click.
The ghost of Steve Jobs is everywhere. That virus finds host in the dark corners of everyone's suffering and can only be expiated by sacrifice of others.
Yeah I got kicked out of class once in high school (affecting my attendance) because I couldn't hold it until the end of the class, the teacher said no, and my choice was between disobeying or whipping my dick out and peeing on the floor.

I of course chose disobeying, but I'm pretty sure that the teacher would be far less strict in the future if I went the other route.
The last few jobs I’ve had were glowing from the interviews and believe me I asked some very tough questions I hoped would be revealing enough without torpedoing my candidacy.

Every one of them: as soon as I started, the foundational person of the team quit, you know the guy or gal who burned themselves out building the process. Fixing all the cruft and actually trying to unfuck everything but leaving scant documentation because the mountain of technical debt rivaled the heights of K2?

As a result I had to “drink from the water hose” constantly. And this is something I am absolutely sick of doing, and no team should tolerate it.

It’s happened so often I’m beginning to wonder a) how I can assess if the team is bleeding talent (I’ve had companies straight up lie about things like attrition and retention) or b) if I just have some kind of gravitational pull for companies that are running people out the door.
Adding to what the other person said, I've leveraged interviews to get flights to cool places. A free day trip to Seattle, nyc, or sf is a nice perk, and in my experience companies are flexible on travel arrangements (eg. Can you put the return flight a few days later, I'll handle any extra hotel costs).

I can't get that from a take home assignment.
Amphetamine is and has always been free.

You can always just disable the screensaver on your Mac if you'd like. Amphetamine really helps when you have MDM installed or something that requires your computer to sleep every so often.
I'm planning on learning Unreal Engine this year. I had purchased some courses on Udemy including the Unreal Engine C++ Developer course. I've been wanting to pick this up for a while so my personal OKR is to finish this course in the next 3 months.
Oyo Hotel Chain Suffered Ailments Beyond Pandemic’s Travel Slowdown
> In prison you can pretty much poop or get a drink of water whenever you want. In school you need special permission [...]

Uhm. Where in the world do you live?! :O
Come on you know what I mean ...
You are doing something unethical. You are directly supporting an unethical business and generating at least as much revenue for them as the salary you take home. You have sold your soul, quite literally. You don't believe this because questioning it would call into question your own self-image as an upstanding person, it's a basic human bias that prevents you from confronting it.

I'm not saying you aren't an upstanding person in general. I am saying that you are doing something wrong, and bias prevents you from recognizing or admitting it, even to yourself. You can't just quit, because quitting would be admitting that you're wrong. And that's hard to do!
Now let's do the same for lawyers . . . .
The street on which I live is probably about 900 years old. The houses have been rebuild many times, but there is still wood in some houses here that's been dated to the 1530s. My own house only dates to c. 1870-80, though it's made of recycled stone and wood, presumably from the house known from records to have been on the same site in 1620. Apparently, there was considerable demolition and new builds/rebuilding in the town in the 1870s.
All the houses in the street have chimneys, and there's a ready supply of wood locally, either gathered from the countryside or purchased from one of the many suppliers. Unsurprisingly, fires/stoves are frequently used for heating, and there's usually a smell of smoke outside in winter.
My house originally had three flues; one for the kitchen range (now blocked off and the range replaced with a sink), one in the master bedroom (blocked off with the fireplace merely decorative) and one in the main living room (fitted with a modern stove).
I know this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, but this really was my experience with the faulty, extra-space-inserting butterfly keyboard on my 2019 MackBook Air. The repair tech actually said maybe it is the way I type. I explained that I have a 2007 MacBook that still types flawlessly and my typing style hasn't changed. It took six trips to the Apple store to get my keyboard replaced under warranty.

And yeah, my 2007 MacBook still types flawlessly. It and the 2013 MBP I had for work a while ago really sold me on Apple's hardware. Disappointing.
you're possibly right

diesel particulate emissions as a direct result of the EU legislation protecting EU industry cause about tens of thousands of deaths a year, mostly in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-e...

meanwhile chlorinated chicken has killed no-one
This, I think is perhaps the biggest item in the developer's favour. That Apple themselves found the name palatable enough to promote the app on the front page of their App Store with the existing name.
It's funny how people complain about "motivated reasoning" and demand an immense amount of rigour when someone says something they disagree with (say, whichever side people take on the "Google's ideological echo chamber" argument); but are very willing to buy very reductionist and broad statements when their gut tells them it's just right.

I suppose maybe there is some truth to it. But he's highly disingenuous with his implications. It's like a Twitter hot-take that's expanded into a book. Hard libertarians might argue that taxation is in some way equivalent to slavery, which is also technically true but a very biased presentation of the facts. Schools and hospitals are similar to prisons in the same way taxation is similar to slavery (you can find similarities, but ignoring the differences is just asinine).

Every right requires responsibilities. If students have a right to learn, then schools have a responsibility to teach them. If young adults have a right to be educated in a broad range of topics (many of which did not interest them as children) then children have a responsibility to learn. Control is all about forcing people to take responsibility, because otherwise rights will be unfulfilled.

The question isn't whether control exists (it can and should) but whether the intent and implementation is just and efficient. A communist dictator can claim the right to a huge portion of the country's wealth while its population starves, this would be unjust.

There are valid questions to ask about control. Is it better to control inputs or outputs? Is it better to have a rule of laws and systems, or a rule of individuals with authority - discretion means giving more power to individuals. Are the trade-offs our society makes currently fair and worthwhile? If a punishment keeps the majority of the population responsible (thus giving creating rights) but hurts the occasional person who is somehow resistant to control is it a bad thing? But simply assuming that control is bad is silly.
>It's an illusion to expect that every researcher can pump out multiple really interesting non-boring papers every year. So we pretend. We write, we cite, we present, overiflate, overpromise etc. It must look like there is steady hard noble work and toil. It's like a ritual. The scientists are writing all these papers so tax payers can sleep well that their money is paid for hard work.

The flip-side to this is that there is a glut of moderately motivated scientists and PhD candidates. As a result, the demand for conferences and citations is self-sustaining to meet the expectations of millions of people wanting to enter the academic world without a clear plan beyond joining the world itself.

It's as though the English-major-to-professor cycle has also become a reality in the hard sciences.
I'm an assistant professor and every year some student will indeed ask if they can go to the bathroom...
Another comment in this thread said the same thing, and someone replied saying "but I take meth to function (desoxyn)".
World Faces Covid-19 “Vaccine Apartheid”
So children shouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom at will because teachers are overburdened and underpaid?
A related point is that we could improve how good work is bubbled up. Another poster pointed out Allison’s work that led to the Nobel prize, and he claimed it was appreciated by just one group and that helped it get broader notice. How many great works go unnoticed now just because there is no famous author on the paper who has the bully pulpit to command attention?
Golden ticket: the lucky tourists sitting out coronavirus in New Zealand
The stress level and difficulty of teaching (while accurate statements) are not relevant to this issue. You can't excuse poor treatment of the biological needs of students simply because you have a very difficult job.

My comment was also not a reductive statement when I've been told "no" when I ask to go to the bathroom, or told "3 people have already gone to the bathroom, you'll have to wait until next period."

Both of these specific situations, and variations, happened to me. I watched a classmate pee their pants once when they were denied access to the bathroom.

Want to talk about job stress? Think about the stress an 8 year old goes through when every time they feel their bladder getting full they start worrying about whether they'll be allowed to pee, or have to wait until the next class or recess/lunch, learning nothing in the meantime and hoping they're not the next kid that has to have their parents bring a change of clothes.

I don't know what country you're in. I'm in the US, and quality of pay varies greatly from state to state. Workload (class size) often varies with the socioeconomic status of the people in that school district. What doesn't vary in any conversation I've had with people on this topic is that my experiences are very much not unique.
That depends on your interests. Being from the Netherlands, where racism and slavery are less of a hot topic compared to the US, I was interested, and I can offer you some things that I personally found interesting. For example this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqVNPwsLNo (esp @24:00).
And Thomas Sowell's book on the history of slavery, here's an interesting part of the audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAf8XL2xQI
Because when people's belief systems are threatened, they react as if they are being personally attacked.

Apple's cult following is treated as a religion by its fans. I see this with religions or cults that attack others who criticize them with similar tactics: denial, obfuscation, manipulation, deflection, shaming, name-calling, threats, etc.

Aside from technical criticisms - which the tech community in HN values and encourages, a different and recent example is that of long time labor abuses. The initial articles have not gathered enough attention, but once they did, you start to notice some user burying and flagging. They have just recently resurfaced due to more evidence being discovered.

Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570247

Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360432

Sometimes you have to punch your way into brainwashed people's minds to make them see the truth (ex: overwhelm them with evidence).
There is a Chinese saying that every saying is eventually attributed to the Chinese given enough time
JavaScript developers seek their Scala and Kotlin, I suppose. Trying to stop this is like trying to stop your young son/daughter from finding romance.

It’s gonna happen one way or another. I just want everyone to be happy and healthy.
I think the simplest explanation is that they don't have automated review processes for media like they do for software and Apple isn't a single person making decisions about what they sell on every app all the time.

That said, TV and movies are far more controlled than the App Store.
> something unpublished in the late 90s

Why should anyone care about this? I’m still confused.
It's quite ironic the kid is a fraud.
How Close Are We to Building a Quantum Computer
Could you change it to Modafinil?
> This is pretty much by definition true if the place you work at hits a certain size, you become an ant in an anthill, hyper-specialized with no meaningful holistic task.

This size is much smaller than a megacorp, though, at around 100 people you'll either have very little user-influencing work or you'll be working on such small features that they won't be very noticeable.
>why do people do this to themselves.

Lots of money.
The right take a toilet break anytime is a very basic human need and right. Why would anybody not extend this without question, to kids. Sure, kids at some point might take advantage, but the magic would wear off very quickly. Is like putting a button infront of someone and saying don't press it, they will really want to, and finally pressing it and being underwhelmed. Is lazy caretaking.
For some reason this reminds me of a scam (?) that ran in the classifieds in Popular Mechanics many decades ago. The entire ad was "Last Chance to Send One Dollar," and a post office box.

Urban legend was that the advertiser made money.

The lesson from this, and from the Amazon thing: No one said they couldn't do that.
> There should be an accredited-author-ornly "kernel wikipedia"

This is roughly what the Citizendium project was aiming for. Sadly it seems it's not doing well these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium

https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium
Trump rallies are sort of like a real-life depiction of Twitter
> That's the way warranties work

Not at this price. Usually the warranty is a percentage of the price of the goods. So for example, I expect a $1000 gadget to have extended warranty priced at $100 or so. I have never seen the warranty of a $1000 gadget to be priced at $3000 to $5000 dollars. And that is for stuff that break down more frequently, e.g. phones and laptops and cars. The odds of a furnace breaking down are even lower.
Agreed. This is really only interesting to journalists if they're building a story like the NYT/Amazon one a few years back.

> googling the author's name for quite a long time

Yup. Especially for someone with one year of experience and needing a visa, this isn't a good look.
Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time
I might have been one of those. It took me years to fully internalize that university classes, despite superficial similarity, aren't run by high school rules.
> If they can walk, they can learn social protocol.

Kids can generally walk aged one. I think that’s too young to learn social protocol.
All the law has to say is that the delivery service must note next to their restaurant advertisement that they are not affiliated with or an agent of that restaurant.

This would be a simple provable thing.
HOA for thee, not for me. That's my take.

If I want to practice drums in my garage the neighbors can go pound sand.

But when a neighbor decides to park their truck in their yard I'm all for HOAs.
China's attempts to censor the rest of the world have become a big deal.[1] Hollywood caved in some time back. The NBA caved. Now Apple.

There was an attempt in 2012 to pass the "Global Online Freedom Act of 2012", prohibiting US companies from assisting foreign censorship operations. Didn't pass.

Apple's history of censorship is strange and amusing. They have, at various times, caved in to both China and Russia. Sending the word "Taiwan" from an iPhone with a Chinese country code at one time crashed iPHones. [2]

[1] https://fair.org/home/chinese-censorship-of-us-media-new-spi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple
I think it might be a mistake to frame the issue as scientists not doing enough groundbreaking research. Those scientists do exist in greater numbers than before and have the right incentives guiding them. What is happening instead is that the superfluous group is expanding at an ever greater rate.

These are two parallel worlds being discussed as if they were one.

To answer your question, I believe we need to look outside of academia to relieve the pressures on most people so that fewer are tempted to add to the science glut. I'd venture to mention UBI but that's a whole can of worms
US will continue giving two doses of the current coronavirus vaccines
>but generally people go to those places because they want to, or because it offers them a favorable outcome that they're willing to temporarily trade some autonomy for.

I don't think this is why kids go to school. You go to school because you have to. There is no realistic option not to go. If you don't go, then you'll be forcefully put into a school for troubled kids. Even if you don't consider the above, there is still an enormous social pressure to go to school too.
It’s named after a drug that inhibits sleep, and it inhibits sleep. The connection is pretty clear...
That reasoning is weird to me. I could live with "there is no impact for users on this" but if it has impact for users (there of course is a difference between developing a library where a lot of things have impact from a GUI application where most things are invisible to the user) it should be documented, even if documentation takes three times the time. Good documentation is part of a quality product.
If (a) there is no definite speed limit, just an imprecise policy statement (like "don't drive too fast") and (b) a person drives by the same cops for years at the same speed and gets clocked and doesn't get ticketed, and then (c) is one day pulled over and told that they're driving imprudently, then they indeed have a basis for complaint. That is exactly how this works. The interplay between vague policies and regular practice is how people gain clarity in the absence of a bright line rule -- playing ball.
> Go to HR? Are you kidding me? First, HR is not your friend.

The purpose of going to HR is so that the employee's attorney can later show that the company (1) had actual knowledge of the abuse and (2) subsequently did nothing.
Ok, I can’t talk about the first two because, frankly, it’s been a while.

But AT&T - you kidding me?! It was illegal to even bring your own phone device to their network! It was a classical example of government protected monopoly.

A free market will break its own monopolies. A market corrupted by government regulation will need government intervention.
Yeah if you port it to functions and verify that you haven't broken anything, you could then easily port to Python functions that you could call from Excel with an add-on that everyone that opens the sheet needs to have installed; but everyone that opens a sheet that calls Python must have that same extension (and all python package dependencies) installed, too
Sind wir schon sicher? (Are we save yet, from Covid-19?)
Apple is so freaking random with their complaints. It makes it VERY hard to build a business around. 10 years ago I had a police scanner app called Scanner911. It sold well.. until a competitor innovated around me... by gaming the app store's review system. Complaining to Apple yielded nothing.

Not that I wanted to build a career around police scanner apps, but it was an independent income.

People here defending Apple are conformist fanboys.. the same people that were sitting staring at that video screen in the old 1984 ad.

Funny how the world repeats.
Applying Structured Concurrency patterns in GO with case-study of Gitlab-runner
I recommend Dyson's Maker of Patterns[0] autobiography told primarily through his letters to his family throughout his life. Includes great stories about Feynman, Oppenheimer, other heavy-hitters of mid-century physics. The format was surprisingly narrative, makes me wish I wrote as many personal longer-form letters with family and friends.

Also Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway, Genius at Play[1], told another great story. Low on math content but Conway's personality and the narrators attempts to corral it were quick fun.

Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.

[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...

[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway
I’m told the military has switched to modafinil. No amphetamines anymore.
I'm calling dibs on the dating app named chloroform, chloroform-e, and chloroforme.

Rohypnol is another possible name for a social app or something you use for late night shopping.
I've banned this account. I don't see how we can let this continue.

I originally decided not to, even though this personal attack was so awful, and so low. (I've left my earlier post intact below this one, for those who want the gory details.) But I changed my mind after doing something that I should have done in the first place: I looked at your account's recent history. I hadn't done that in a while, and much to my dismay, it had gotten considerably worse.

Obviously my efforts to persuade you have failed. That fucking sucks, because I have admired your technical comments; sympathy for APL/array languages is my Achilles' heel for one thing, and when you post substantively, your posts often contain information that doesn't otherwise appear here. But it seems the only way we can get that is with poison, and the poison levels have been going up not down. We simply can't have that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple tend to be hysterically puritanical about these things (and lately, hysterically PC) but it’s their store so why not just follow their rules?
I think that some of it is due to distaste towards women who are not start at home. There is extraordinary guilting going on here, I mean moms when they argue this particular point are guilting less.

For what it is worth, pandemic made me appreciate teachers more. Pandemic made my kids appreciate school more (and they explicitly stated multiple points where school is better then what went on at home).
> Being an early retail employee in the Bay Area, we had very close ties to Cupertino. I worked when Steve was still alive.

Steve Jobs actually interacted with retail underlings?!
Even when their AppStore is mandaded to all your hardware by DRM with you not having any choice of opting out? You want all your possible business speech, products and content you consume dictated by a corporate decree with no accountability?
The reason why I work for a mega corp is because of the salary and opportunities. I understand that they don't care about me, I don't want that they care about me, I care about the paycheck, stock options and bonus. Thanks to that i was able to buy my Model X, 1 house in Bay Area and 2 investment properties one in Austin and other in Financial District in Sao Paulo.
I will continue to work for the evil corp because it brings economic benefit to me and my family, I don't care if my product is popular or not. I'm happy that my family has all they need
I've never worked on a product where it ever made sense to be "on call." I'm an engineer, not a doctor.