skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is whats done in science evaluation—the H-index for instance is built from a combination of publication and citation counts. Similarly, journal prestige is quantified using the Journal Impact Factor, which aggregates the average number of citation a paper in the journal receives.

As you speculate, these can also be gamed. Authors will cite themselves more to inflate their citations, or form citation carters with other authors to cite each other's work. Similarly, journals have been known to coerce authors to cite other works in the venue, in order to inflate their impact factor. Beyond these, there are issues with comparing citations across disciplines, article type, and other contexts.

> Eventually, pubs are going to start rejecting valid papers for being too incremental.

Many of hte most prestigious journals, such as Science, Nature, and Cell, already do this. However newer Mega-journals, like PLoS, have had explicitly the opposite policy, and state that they accept anything that is "sound science", no matter the size of its contribution; they have however become more selective over time.
If you're talking about python, I believe you - where you should have &.

And there are many developer position applicants that wouldn't be able to do it. If you actually solve it in 20 seconds, I presume you passed the test.
I have an outdoor wood furnace. It's great at cutting down smoke as it has a re-burner section that keeps the temperature high enough that their is almost no smoke once it gets up to temperature.

But there is a lot more maintenance with something like this. I have to have about 6 cords of wood to make it through winter (which mostly comes off my property) but that also means handling the fuel (bucking and then splitting the wood as well as having the space to let it season for a year to dry it). Filling up the furnace once or twice a day depending on the weather. Cleaning out the ash once a month. And now that it's getting older (8 years) I have to fix up some of the welds inside the main chamber.

I don't mind the extra work as it saves a lot of money in electricity bills and all that splitting of wood has been good exercise. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you have the time and energy to do the work.
Ah yes, that's right. The I sin Beta t is I sin(beta t), not I sin(Beta) t.
> Or even more reductionist there are only a finite amount of talented and smart people ever in history doing truely new and interesting stuff.
It’s just the nature of the game. You can’t just turn a dial and add more talent.

It’s true that we can’t turn a dial, but there must be a vast amount of human potential that goes unused every day, because people are born in impoverished countries, or suffer discrimination due to gender or race or something else, get sick with a preventable disease, or whatever other thing denies them the opportunity to make the most of themselves.

This is probably actually the norm in the world, not the exception.

So I think there’s rather a lot we could do as a species (or within individual countries) to give people opportunities and make sure potential for progress is realised
Err, I think you misunderstood. You have to pay to comment on issues about Phabricator. On their official bug tracker. Like, if you find a bug, or a solution for a known bug, you can't tell them without paying.

Doesn't have anything to do with cloud hosting our self-hosting.
They are both cases of individual behavior creating negative externalities for others. In the case of drunk driving, there is a risk of sudden death. In the case of wood burning stoves, there is a risk (more of a certainty, actually) that nearby people will have their health negatively impacted over a longer time horizon.

Drunk driving generates more obvious and immediate effects, but burning a wood stove or fireplace can still harm others.
I am talking about past prices.
Just missing blockchain (but in a negative light, these days).
It burns hotter which means it does a better job at combustion. I'd imagine the PM2.5 is much lower for a hotter fire.
I have the Turing Pi 1, 7 RPi CM3 nodes. And it's fine. But next I want to really move to a "huge" cluster, say 100+ nodes.

The reason is that with 7 nodes I find I'm still logging into each Raspberry Pi and configuring it by hand. It's a bad habit for sure. With 100 nodes, there's no way I could possibly do that, forcing me to write software to control the nodes automatically.
I love algorithms, but in all my years of coding I've never had to use DP on the job. IMO, it's not useless knowledge or never used, but it's not something I think most developers are going to use at their companies to accomplish their tasks so it feels like a weird thing to test and dismiss a candidate for.

I know developers who have written books on subjects related to development and are 100x the developer I am, but have no knowledge of DP beyond what was taught to them decades ago because they never used it when helping to build systems used by millions of customers.
It’s not that bad, to go to court would require a lawyer who would tell them if there’s any chance of success or not.
> Why don't restaurants want delivery companies doing this?

Why can't delivery services ask for permission before listing food from restaurants first? Why do they feel the need to impersonate restaurants, steal their menu, their trademark while never disclosing to the client that the restaurant has absolutely no part in that deal? Why can't delivery services behave in an ethical fashion that doesn't involve fraud?

When your business model is so rotten you need to lie on both ends to make money (restaurants and clients), well you shouldn't be in business at all.
You've clearly never had this happen to you. Go ahead, document everything, it's not going to matter. That's not how this works. If you do that they'll either say, "Ok, I see what you've got there. But that's not what we're here to discuss. We're here to discuss your negative attitude" or they can look at your documentation and say, "So what were you charging the time you were doing all this documentation to?", or, "So this is why you're not getting your work done. You're spending all this time on this paranoid documentation instead of doing your work".

Go to HR? Are you kidding me? First, HR is not your friend. They're there to protect the company. Perhaps sometimes your interests align with the company but that's just an accident. Second, there is no way these people are engaging in abusive behavior without HR having their backs so going to HR just risks exposing HR to accusations of abuse so now you've got an even bigger target on your back.
Good luck getting any top-tier candidate to agree to this.
Zoom notifies everyone when a recording starts.
Exactly, the big issue is that paper counts have become the dominant metric. And like with all structures dominated by a single metric, it's easy to game the system.

Most professors I have worked with in experimental sciences are completely disconnected from actual research. They just optimize for hiring hordes of people to churn out tons of mediocre papers, which they don't care about. I came from theoretical CS & math, so this was really shocking.

It's really depressing and it needs to change. Academia is now in a phase similar to that of an innovative startup which has been filled in with many middle managers, and has turned into a corporate monstrosity.
> They kind of have a point

They don't (the claim is the app promotes drug use, which it doesn't), and it's quite likely that it's a reviewer mistake that will be overturned once the stink on social media gets big enough to reach the right person.
> An app is software that can be harmful to your device.

I'm only discussing moderation for content, rather than moderation for security, privacy, stability, etc.

> actively censor books (which isn't really feasible)

I don't think it's infeasible. I just searched for a piece of literature today on Apple's Book Store and instead found a book with a pretty raunchy title. Could they not at least moderate that?

Keep in mind they make it seem "feasible and realistic" that they can analyze apps to determine if they "can be harmful to your device," but anyone familiar with static analysis would know there are serious limitations to how much you can deduce about the behavior of an arbitrary binary.

See, for instance: https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-security-idUSN1E7A71ZS...
Here's a fun bias exercise for you: read the piece replacing Apple with a company you hate, and see if it changes how you feel.
> The effects can be similarly sinister or even worse in some ways

You really think letting liars speak is worse than forbidding anybody except the ministry of truth from speaking?
This has been standard all the way back to Typhoid Mary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
I like the idea, but what's up with the name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorde...
It's part of the larger situation that the buildings created by large bureaucracies all look about the same.
Apple and many others:

"In all, ASPI’s research has identified 82 foreign and Chinese companies potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019: Abercrombie & Fitch, Acer, Adidas, Alstom, Amazon, Apple, ASUS, BAIC Motor, Bestway, BMW, Bombardier, Bosch, BYD, Calvin Klein, Candy, Carter’s, Cerruti 1881, Changan Automobile, Cisco, CRRC, Dell, Electrolux, Fila, Founder Group, GAC Group (automobiles), Gap, Geely Auto, General Motors, Google, Goertek, H&M, Haier, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hisense, Hitachi, HP, HTC, Huawei, iFlyTek, Jack & Jones, Jaguar, Japan Display Inc., L.L.Bean, Lacoste, Land Rover, Lenovo, LG, Li-Ning, Mayor, Meizu, Mercedes-Benz, MG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsumi, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, Oculus, Oppo, Panasonic, Polo Ralph Lauren, Puma, SAIC Motor, Samsung, SGMW, Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, Sony, TDK, Tommy Hilfiger, Toshiba, Tsinghua Tongfang, Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, Volkswagen, Xiaomi, Zara, Zegna, ZTE."

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
I disagree. We were a product team. Our primary responsibility to the company was to ship working code, not open and close jira tickets. Would management have forgiven poor reporting in the scramble leading up to an on time / on budget launch? Yes. Would management have preferred a delayed release in exchange for more tickets visible in jira? No. I’m sure my manager could pass it off and say he did his job (look at the velocity graph!). But we would be failing our responsibility to the company.
>The heuristic, "but will restaurant owners ask to be delisted because of this?" should be a powerful force for keeping overly aggressive product managers in check.

You can just build a second or third site and relist the restaurant thereby avoiding the opt out law. Finally you can build an aggregator that allows customers to search all of your sites at once. The room for loopholes is too big.
In the context of illegal/recreational usage, not really. Chemically they are similar, and affect the body in pretty much an identical way. Methamphetamine metabolizes to amphetamine. Methamphetamine has more potent effects for the same dose. And of course street meth is a crap-shoot.
I think I agree with a large chunk of this: there are inevitably triage/discovery problems as the number of things/options go up.

The cost of evaluating each remains fairly constant, and at some point production outstrips the ability of even extremely-interested/dedicated individuals to have a good handle on it all. Beyond this point, you either need organized collective effort (and trust) to efficiently distribute the work of keeping up (and synthesize the results) or the larger community will be wasting ever-increasing slices of potential energy to extract increasingly less knowledge of the scope of activity.

But there's a difference between simple volume growth for good reasons (i.e., people chasing incentives that are aligned at multiple levels of society), and volume growth caused by people chasing incentives that are misaligned at one or more points up the stack.

If the researchers are spending their time on things even they find boring because Goodhart's law, I think it is important to recognize it and try to undo the misaligned incentives. They're not only externalizing a cost on their entire field of knowledge--but we're also collectively suffering some ill-defined opportunity cost of whatever it was they would've spent their time on if they were following curiosity.
I had similar bad manager experience at $FAANG. Managers have so much control over information, narratives, and access to decision makers they control perception so most organizations are useless at properly evaluating their work.

I've seen managers ride out perpetually failing projects that haven't made meaningful progress in years, team 'decisions' that are reliably and demonstrably bad, services that cost a fortune to run and have a slew of problems and unhappy customers, and rock-bottom scores in anonymous surveys. None of this matters. Essentially your job as a manager is to take credit, dodge accountability, and expand your empire(headcount) as to maneuver yourself towards the better high-visibility projects. Just like politicians, unless they're overtly bad(and even then) it's difficult to separate them from the sprawling cybernetic organism so you just kind of shrug. Maybe a team's success is because of the manager, maybe it is in spite of them or vice versa - no way to know.
I agree with most (actually all) of your conclusions but...

They start with the premise of culpability of a name. Which _is_ the problem in the first place.

That culpability was not demonstrated but was simply declared by remote association. The same arbitrary judgement can be made for an innumerable list of other words without making that judgement neither correct nor just.
Good point.

If it’s a corporate zoom account then it can likely be included in the IT AUP however.

But I usually ask for it to be done.
If it were limited to “clear and convincing cases” of being an attacker, I agree with limited reluctance.

This bill includes “or suspected” which is inherently different and problematic in my view.
Also this massive thread from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278.

(Note that large threads are still paginated and you have to click More at the bottom of the page to see the rest.)
What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
States are making monopolies with their militaries. I don't need a state to buy the vaccine, actually I signed up for a private vaccination, and I would pay significantly more than the states, but states are given priority because of their power.
You might want to check out https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/2d67d8537c1340f1... which lays out the goals for the project.
When I saw the YC post about praising DoorDash and Airbnb, it was clear that YC endorses doing borderline illegal things in the name of growth. Same with Pg’s posts of how to create billionaires.

In a way he’s not wrong, about hacking taken to a whole new level of messing with entire cities and industries.

But as a greater society, without proper regulation, we’ll have a dystopia. The rich are insanely rich while the median has barely gone up. The pie is much larger compared to 10 years ago, but most of it is captured by a fair few.

It is not a great world to be in if it continues for the next 100 years, which it’ll likely be as technology divides us into haves and have -nots.
We can do more than one thing at a time, so the EU can be both useless and corrupt.
The normal "Who is hiring?" thread will likely be created on Monday. Due to lower front-page visibility, the hiring threads are typically not started on major US holidays.
Thanks vimy - I'll look into that error and change the README
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Apple is constantly being sued at all times. I recall a manager saying that they could not delete any work emails because of possible subpoena orders. Most cases likely get lost among it all, and get no outside publicity.
In Come the Waves (2005)
I think finding molecular differences of amphetamine is missing the point. There is a lot of knee jerk reactions I see here. This is primarily an image thing for Apple.

Personally, I think this is a bad name for an app of this sorts. Caffeine is good one, amphetamine is borderline.
Indonesia’s Nuclear Dream, Revived? (2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7807998

> Please follow the site guidelines and don't complain about downvotes—all it does is lower the signal/noise ratio. Everyone gets downvoted. It doesn't matter.
Since yesterday there's a stable release of KIO FUSE [0], which does functionally the same as GVFS.

[0]:https://feverfew.home.blog/2020/12/31/kio-fuse-5-0-0-release...
I can't say. The cases were settled long before we acquired them. They're running on autopilot until the awardees die.
I'm going to continue learning Japanese. Focusing more on reading instead of just flash cards.

I've also set a five-year goal to get a creative work published. The first two years will be dedicated to reading more good works and writing more (likely terrible) things. Not planning beyond the first two, because that'll likely change when I understand more about how one goes about getting published.

Even if I give up after a year, I'll have enjoyed the prep work.
My only argument is that it’s reasonable for the GP to say that meth is amphetamine, even if it’s grammatically more correct to say an amphetamine.

It’s basically bullshit to dismiss what they were saying on the basis of this pedantry.

Amphetamine is a structural class.

It’s also clearly true that people not versed in chemistry associate meth with amphetamine.

What’s ‘technically’ correct to a chemist really isn’t relevant to this debate.

We wouldn’t generally argue that it’s incorrect to say that champagne is wine, even though it’s more technically accurate to say that champagne is a wine.

In the case of amphetamine, we feel the need to make the distinction more strongly because the word has two meanings.

This is only true for those of use who are aware of the presence of both meanings.

Those who think of amphetamine as a class and don’t distinguish it from the substance are not wrong. They are just less precise.
Seriously man, do you just follow me around and flag my comments? It means a weedy little narrow minded woman with no life experience of violence is probably incapable of writing about it, cabish?

Edit add: image googling you after your flagging of the comment, well, just lol. Must be tough.
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That is true. The parent probably meant to say Visa not Green Card. I can definitely relate to the feeling of being "stuck" in a bad situation while on a Visa and/or while waiting for a green card to be processed. It's such a huge relief when you finally get that freedom to move around in the job market.
Granting your premise (which I don't personally think is accurate): currently every country in the world squanders a massive amount of talent by not providing opportunity, even starting at the most basic level of universal food security and healthcare. You may not be able to infinitely turn a dial and add more talent (or productive research/innovation), but that doesn't mean our many dials are anywhere near their maximum levels either.
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If you look at schools, especially elite ones, there's a strange desire for all the kids to become leaders. Nobody questions it, I don't know why. I guess the school thinks it's useful to be associated with some future leaders?

The thing is leadership ought to be like you say. Some kind of competence that allows you to help a group of people complete some kind of task.

But let's be honest. The kids want to be student council president because it's prestigious. They grow up and then they want to be CEO because it's prestigious and well paying. They pay lip service to the idea of helping a team, but really, we know they don't care all that much. It's ass backwards, people want to be leaders because {prize} and then they think about how to get there. Sometimes we get lucky and they conclude that they need to climb the ladder by being competent (this fails a lot due to pyramid structures and politics), but often they just figure out that to seem competent, you have to shout a lot about how competent you are.
Reminds me of, “war is not the answer.” It really depends on the question! “What is a three letter word for...”
> Apple [...] featured Amphetamine in a Mac App Store Story

Ouch

> Customize Your Mac’s Sleep Settings

> Amphetamine gives you granular control

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860
Yes, but only for small parts of the project, not the entire MVP. It's common to engage freelancers to fill in the gaps and accelerate schedules.

However, it's usually not a good idea to outsource your entire core technology development to freelancers. Building, launching, running, and maintaining a technology product is far more expensive than most non-tech people estimate. You would need very deep pockets to commit to outsourcing the entire development.

If you're trying to raise investment money, the process will likely grind to a halt when your investors realize you don't have any in-house technology people.
I don't want to comment on the content, but on the form.

In my opinion there are two reasons to write such an article:

a) To vent
b) To get a message around

This article is a great and powerful vent (which also makes sense in the context of "healing journey"), but it does a terrible job at getting a message across.

Bold messages lose their impact if there are more bold messages than normal text. Also the article is missing a clear red line - I felt myself skipping multiple paragraphs and not missing out on any content.

I would be very much interested if the writer could re-write their vent into a powerful message.

This might also be a chance (regarding the "healing journey") to re-work the happenings and bring the "this is what happened!!!" into a "THIS is what happened", in the same way an emergency-centre operator deals with emergency calls. Focus on the facts, not the feelings.
I've only come across it as part of Pratchetts work, in the book Interesting Times, and had just assumed it was another of his witticisms.
"I'd advise people who experience toxic workplaces or think that they are in them to consider whether they themselves are lacking in the ability to assert their own boundaries and act on those assertions when they are broken repeatedly."

That's it, blame the victim.