skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence doesn't support as close a relationship between dreaming and REM sleep as the authors suggest. See:

Solms. 2000. Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2000) 23, 793–1121.

https://neuro.bstu.by/ai/To-dom/My_research/Papers-2.1-done/...

»It is generally accepted that NREM mentation that is indistiguishable from REM dreaming does indeed occur. Monroe et al.’s (1965) widely cited study suggests that approximately 10–30% of NREM dreams are indistinguishable from REM dreams (Recht-schaffen 1973). Even Hobson accepts that 5–10% of
NREM dream reports are “indistinguishable by any criterion from those obtained from post-REM awakenings”
(Hobson 1988b, p. 143). If we adjust this conservative fig-
ure to account for the fact that NREM sleep occupies ap-
proximately 75% of total sleep time, this implies that
roughly one quarter of all REM-like dreams occur outside
of REM sleep.«

A recent reference that discusses this is:

Nicholas and Ruby. 2020. Dreams, Sleep, and Psychotropic Drugs. Front Neurol. 2020; 11: 507495.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674595/

»Regarding the link between dreaming and neurophysiology, 60 years of debates has been necessary to get rid of the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep hypothesis of dreaming, and it is now acknowledged by a majority of dream researchers, be they neuroscientist or not, that REM sleep is neither necessary nor sufficient to get a dream report and that dream reports can be obtained at the awakening of any sleep stage (2, 7, 9–12). It is also now clear that the complexity and story-like characteristics of dream reports are related to sleep stages but also, and even more so, to circadian rhythms leading to more vivid and complex dreams in the morning than in the early night [e.g., (13–15)].«
it’s very sad, this is clearly someone that has suffered a lot of trauma and abuse and feels completely powerless. Imo, we’re seeing what the US immigration system does to folks, all labor protection laws are useless if you have one month to leave the country after losing your job.

My heart goes to you anon! Don’t think that your career is over! There’s many other places in the world you can start afresh and have great quality of living and better protections such as Europe and Canada.
There's a few here and there

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25606200
Explains why Pixar was such a good fit with Disney.
.json is roughly the same as .txt - an abbreviated version of "JavaScript Object Notation". We humans still have to do the translation to the final name.

And, I've never seen ".jsn". I've seen ".json" hundreds of thousands of times, but never ".jsn".
What level are you at in one of those companies to be able to afford all of that?
Their puritans. Remember when Janet Jackson showed her nipple during superbowl or something? The whole country went bananas.
I used to think like you too, but then I looked at the Best of HN for 2020 post https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609415804&dateRange=custom&... and I realized there was no Rust or Webassembly or even Ruby or artichokes mentioned there.
There are definitely days I work late, but that's almost always by choice. When I do work late, it means shorter days for me later in the week.
I was originally going to reply with, when I was younger I had a similar concern, but you went off the rails with buzzword bingo with exaggerated issues as if they plague large corporations. Hell you can experience much of the same in any size corporation and even have them within your own business inadvertently.

However I found that working for a Fortune 500 company to be both rewarding and comforting. I have been doing it for over two decades. I see the winds of change all the time but I also see incredible people I would have never met otherwise, new technologies that only were present because being so large we had teams for everything, and the opportunities expanded when working with large vendors who did not just ignore us or take us for granted.

Are there issues working in a company which probably lost more in a backroom than they pay you. Sure. The key is knowing how to manage yourself and know the boundaries of your environment so that you don't because replaceable cog.

You think megacorps are bad, well have you considered the gargantuan that is your Federal or State level government. Here are countless agencies and officials who supposedly are there to look out for you and all the others but no one actually holds them to that. You can try but you are not going to get far. Hiding behind Sovereign Immunity and even Qualified Immunity; which applies to all officials not just police; when they do something wrong or even illegal. Play side games with grant money to fund each other or writing contracts to hire friends and family for big money. No, corporations when they get large can be a threat to you if you work for them but government is a threat to everyone but who do you run to first and point fingers at someone else for them to act upon?
I don't have numbers but generally, compared to smaller turbines, a larger blade length means a faster blade tip to maintain the same rotational frequency (the end of the blade will be going faster around the turbines circumference). This creates more noise, and noise is a HUGE limiting factor, so they increase the turbine's torque to get more power from slower rotations. That means a larger, more complex, and more expensive generator in upfront and maintenance cost.
In 1916, J.J. Thomson (as in Thomson scattering; discoverer of the electron) said it perfectly [1]:

“If you pay a man a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible result being obtained, and the position of the paid worker would be very embarrassing and he would naturally take to work on a lower, or at any rate a different plane where he could be sure of getting year by year tangible results which would justify his salary. The position is this: You want one kind of research, but, if you pay a man to do it, it will drive him to research of a different kind. The only thing to do is to pay him for doing something else and give him enough leisure to do research for the love of it."

[1] https://archive.org/details/b29932208 - see pages 198-200, ref HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21388715
All of that is paid for in blood money. You are accountable to the business you work for. This comment reads like a drug lord bragging about their luxurious lifestyle.
Check out stardew valley. It has some extra depth but you can really play however you want.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardew-valley/id1406710800
Before clicking on this I thought it was going to be about Cuomo's order in this summer that all restaurants offering drinks had to be served with food. I went to at least a couple outside bars that were serving half a piece of white bread with a slice of American cheese on it for your "meal"
> the EU has very little leverage in its affairs with the US.

The final word has not been spoken. Construction of Nord Stream 2 has recently been restarted despite the US threatening with sanctions.
The question is, are people buying these products for that peace of mind, or are they buying it because they are not a savvy consumer?

Or worse, because they are over leveraged and unable to fund a replacement without an installment plan – so they have no better option?

I’m not sure. I can see a consumer protection argument to be made.
No, you have the right to hold and express any view you want.

You don't get to choose peoples reaction or the way they view you after you say something. That would be infringing on their right to hold or express opinions about your views.

What's complicated about that?
Not from 2020 but I discovered it this year: from oraguy on making a change in the oracle source code:

> - Submit the changes to a test farm consisting of about 100 to 200 servers that would compile the code, build a new Oracle DB, and run the millions of tests in a distributed fashion.

> - Go home. Come the next day and work on something else. The tests can take 20 hours to 30 hours to complete.

> - Go home. Come the next day and check your farm test results. On a good day, there would be about 100 failing tests. On a bad day, there would be about 1000 failing tests. Pick some of these tests randomly and try to understand what went wrong with your assumptions. Maybe there are some 10 more flags to consider to truly understand the nature of the bug.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
I always laugh when people remark that some dancer "makes it look easy". Because it is easy when you've trained enough. And the more you train at it, the funner it gets.
Ah, I remember this infamous Apple ad:

Here’s to the lazy ones, the mundane, the conformers, the rule-followers, the square pegs in the square holes… the ones who don't see things differently — they’re fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, you can also safely ignore them because they dare not change things… they keep the human race stagnant, and while some may see them as the lazy ones, we see order, because the ones who are lazy enough to know that they can't change the world, are the ones who won't try
I think the point isn't that the point of school isn't to learn, as you assume. It's main point is to control, learning is secondary.
New Microscopy Tech Helps See Inside Living Cells 7 Times Clearer
Looks like these templates exist for a variety of OS's now. It would be neat if websites automatically picked the one to apply based on your underlying machine.

Oh, wait, that would be native controls.
> styrofoam is one of the most easily recycled substances

Is that actually true? I've always heard to put styrofoam in trash rather than recycling.
This is a good move if implemented right.

A small danger is that the right-wing government may selfishly promote and finance low quality journals to further its own pseudo-scientific agendas:

- "Astrology is the biggest science. It is in fact above science. We should promote it." (a) https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/astrology-is-science-... (b) https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/education/article3...

- Government money spent on researching properties of cow dung and cow urine because according to the right-wing, cow-god-mother's excretions have "magical properties". (a) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/indian-scientists-de... (b) https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/mangoes-and-cow-du... (c) https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/iit-delhi-workshop...
What drug-use angle are they pushing? The pill logo is actually pretty typical of generic 15mg amphetamine/dexamphetamine salts, a common ADHD prescription, and nothing about the tagline strikes me as drug-adjacent. "Powerful keep-awake utility"? It does what it says on the tin.
Megacorps suck and are dumb. But snitching on other apps’ names is not cool either.
How do you pull it off?
> .. likely that the manager was a high caste Hindu?

Good point. I'd say with critical race or caste theory in fashion if atrocity happened perpetrator is either white male in US or upper caste hindu male in India. Any other case would be called deflection from 'real' issues.
Don't even need plants, anesthesia works on single-cell organisms too:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
I didn't work at Apple, but at Nest Labs, which was essentially an Apple startup, and this resonates very heavily with me from the abuse I received directly from Tony Fadell for a full year -- mostly essentially around protecting my team from systematic overwork.

I have had almost a half decade to put it behind me and have perspective on it, and it made a better manager.

But the other lesson from this is also that if this starts happening -- drop everything and find a new job -- it is not worth it no matter what.
I could believe the general thesis, but Elon Musk is just about the worst example that you could have picked.

One of his outstanding characteristics is that he is constantly learning subject knowledge. Yes, he hires subject experts, but then he effectively arranges for private tutoring until he knows what he needs of what they know.

Elon is a big believer that he should be able to do any job of anyone who he employs, and to a shocking extent it is actually true.
I’ve been on HN for many years and don’t notice this decline. Could it be that those who observe a decline in quality simply have gotten more sensitive to low quality posts with age?
Was lucky to see a few situations where it was the team that decided to use JIRA, as well as other situations where a team decided not to use JIRA - because they didn't like it and their process was achievable without
Apple needs to fire the person who made the choice to ban this App. They have no purpose in the company, bring no returns, and cost a pretty penny. They are a rent seeker (apple policy) on top of an otherwise great business.
I went out for a walk, came back, and decided that came out dumb. I'm sorry.
Also,

When is it better to have code in a notebook instead of in a module?

How to export notebook cells to a module with nbdev

How to write tests to assert the quality of the code and the model: @pytest.mark.parametrize, pytest-notebook, jupyter-pytest-2, pytest-jupyter

When is it appropriate to parametrized a notebook with e.g. papermill?

How to handle concurrency: dask.distributed + dask-labextension, ipyparallel
> A great way to justify not doing anything.

People are good at rationalizing. I'm sure my earlier comment, and many others, would be sufficient justification for someone inclined to do nothing.
This is brilliant. I can't wait until we see an actual Apple ad with this script. Maybe 2021 will deliver!
> Apple became the place that I lost feeling of physical and psychological safety and the terror that it inflicted on me has impacted me on such a core level that the painful memories and flashbacks have replaced my dreams and they will hunt me until I am alive.

I'm sure Apple is a political quagmire, but if you describe your experience working there the same way someone might describe their time at Auschwitz, it's probably you and not them.
I’ve hooked a dear friend of mine up with several build folks an mvp gigs. All the ones that actually could pay him properly later went on to have some pretty great exits or larger than expected fund raising rounds. Do wish he benefited more from their later success though.
i work in a megacorp, in developer tooling. so in some sense i'm fixing the pipes, and nothing i do is even remotely related to any of the company's core products. but on the other hand my primary project has a three-person team, we have tons of autonomy, and a pretty large impact on code quality and developer experience across the company. plus most of what i do is open-sourced, and there is a lot of engagement with the open source community at large. and this year i'm going to expand my role to spend some time contributing to the cpython interpreter, which my manager is very supportive of.

this pretty much is my dream job; everyone's dream doesn't have to include having visible user-facing impact or being part of product development. also the work-life balance is great; i get to put in my hours at work and actually be able to make plans that involve leaving at a reasonable time, which was not the case when i worked at a startup.
I had a 4MB machine and an extra 1MB stick. I didn’t know how to install it so I taped it the case out of spite against technology. Plus ca change...
Skills one might think have nothing in common can have surprising intersections.

For example, my training as a mechanical engineer and 3 years spent working on a gearbox design for the 757 have had a significant positive effect on my programming and the design of the D language.

It gives me a unique advantage.
I'd work for the devil himself for 500k/year, and just convince myself he was misunderstood.

"Blood on your hands" - oh boo-boo.

Blood washes out.
ClickOnce for Rust Apps
The US, I'd expect. It's very common here, you can generally expect kids to get a lecture, at minimum, if they leave the classroom for any reason without permission.
I sometimes browse jobs boards for no reason except to see if there's anything cool out there. Bluntly, 99% of jobs I see from any company look absolutely dreadful. The rare occasion I see a job that makes me think "damn that would be a cool thing to work on" tends to be at one of these megacorps. The one's that aren't tend be be gate kept by things I can't simply acquire. Admittedly, I'm in no state to pass a leetcode interview atm., but it seems a hell of a lot easier to grind that for a few months that anything else.
Ironically, if you're here illegally working in fields, it's probably easier to find an employer who treats you better.
An app named "amphetamine" (a controlled substance in most countries), using a pill as its icon, with narrative like the "most awesome keep-awake".

Yeah, there isn't a lot of ambiguity here. This was absolutely getting away with it.

A lot of noise and bluster in here, but I'd peg the probability that Apple stays firm at 100%.
Funny how that kind of problem doesn't even exist on Linux.

I really don't understand how people can willingly buy and use Apple products given the kind of paternalistic, I-know-what's-best for-you attitude this abomination of a company has.
Amphetamine sounds clinical to me, I used to take prescribed, 24 million people in the US, including me in the past, are prescribed amphetamines.

I generally dont like obnoxious marketing either, but unless it is inappropriate for the setting i dont think it should be banned, and this is far more tame than other apps on the app store
Direct is basically a euphemism for rude, in that it indicates lack of empathy. It might not intentionally be so, but usually shows that the speaker puts other priorities ahead of the emotional state of the recipient.
The vaccines came out early November, approved by the end of the November, select doctors/nurses at hospitals in December. EMTs in LA, riverside, OC are "planning" to get their first shots in January. The general population outside of the first 20 million are not getting their doses until well into the summer I presume.
I for one am tired of HN constantly upvoting vegetable related posts. Give it a rest folks.
Honestly, at Microsoft, I've never seen a situation like this, and I have worked in something like 15 roles now.

That might also be, for better and worse, why Microsoft folks have such long tenure at the company. Its honestly a great place to work compared to these shit shows.
Doesn't make it right. I shouldn't be shocked to find some contrarian/nihilist defending EULAs and corporate bullshit on HN, but here we are.
I do NOT believe that you can deliver "orders of magnitude better performance" general purpose multicore processors for low millions of dollars!

The salary for the verification engineers would already probably exceed low millions of dollars after 3 years. Not to mention licensing cost for EDA tools you need to tame billions of transistors.

I will give you low millions of dollars if you have a viable path to orders of magnitude better performance general purpose processors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

This is Hacker News. This is an appeal to hackers, software engineers, tech workers - not government workers.
This is really great point I hadn't considered. They're applying their rules selectively and inconsistently.
> I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices

What I learned people that spend all their time working don't have time for the social engineering needed to get ahead. Also a lot of people that focus heavily on social engineering make bank on passing dirt on their coworkers to upper management.
I don't mean to sound pedantic (though I certainly will), but Focalin, Ritalin, etc are formulations of methylphenidate which is absolutely not an amphetamine. It's a DARI, not a VMAT2 inhibitor. They work in very different ways and are not chemically related.

I only bring this up because if you're trying to educate folks on compounds in this sphere, being accurate is a nice thing to do.

I wish this project all the best. It's absolutely silly that the name of a commonly prescribed compound should be so maligned. What if I named an app "Metformin"? Would that be at risk of uh, encouraging type 2 diabetes?
What's the equivalent level of performance in terms of AMD/Intel CPUs? Sandy Bridge or thereabouts? Because for the past few years, PCs have basically been "fast enough" for most things, super-inefficient monstrosities like Electron excluded. In fact my "daily driver" is probably slower than this Chinese CPU.

Incidentally, there is an interesting and active market in Chinese motherboards with X79/X99 chipsets, which are from that era, along with used Xeons and such.

Obviously those who place performance above all else will not be buying these.
They mention they use i3.
Anecdotally, I disagree. I have never seen any parent successfully stop a 1-year-old child from doing something by any kind of face.

Not to mention if it's from a face on the computer screen.

Instead, just tell the parent to put the child in a different room.
A good use for a wind turbine far from the power grid is to power ammonia production at the base, which otherwise needs only air and water feedstocks.

If erected on a farm, it provides both fertilizer and fuel for the farm, and any surplus for neighboring farms. Since the requirements for both inputs are wholly predictable, the value proposition is ironclad.

A great advantage of this use is that it is extremely tolerant of intermittent supply; when wind is slack, you just leave off production; and produced ammonia is, exactly, storage, for as many barrels as you care to bother filling.

There have been several recent projects demonstrating practical small-scale catalytic production of ammonia. An amazing thing about ammonia as fertilizer is that saturated aqueous solution may be injected behind a plow disc and be taken up by soil bacteria so quickly that no odor can be detected, following behind the plow. Injecting ammonia while plowing probably produces much less runoff to waterways than the much more frequently seen surface spraying.
I've worked at a dozen companies from two-person dev shops, legacy enterprise companies, all the way up to a FAANG as it scaled from 5k to 30k people.

The FAANG "megacorp" was my absolute favourite job. I learned more, had more impact, made more money, and boosted my own career further than anywhere else I've worked.

Large corporations are not the Evil Co. from your Saturday morning cartoons. Yes, they have immense power, but from what I've seen unethical behaviour and treating employees like shit are more common in non-tech or smaller, dead end, companies.
If 50% of this is loans and 50% are grants, and if all of the grants are over 3 years, then that's 145/(2*3) = 24.17 billion Euros in grants per year, or $29.33 billion dollars per year. By contrast, in the US, US National Science Foundation (NSF) is the grant-giving agency for most basic science/math research in the US, except biology which is under a different agency (NIH) (also I think DOE funds some energy-related research)) total budget is $8.3 billion per year. So if these assumptions are correct, then this initiative alone is over 3.5x the total US NSF budget.

This is not completely an apples-to-apples comparison because this is obviously applied rather than basic research.