skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads like it was written in 1990. Two points:
1) their own graph shows manufacturing employment started going back up in about 2011, and has continued to do so, which seems like an odd thing not to comment about given that it is counter to the entire thesis of their article
2) it has been pretty well demonstrated in the last couple years that college degrees became required for a job in recent years because employers had the option of requiring it, not because it was actually necessary, and as the labor market has tightened the requirements have been relaxed. The supposed "skills gap" was at least partly (perhaps largely) about HR departments using college degree as a proxy for class, and also just a way to cut down the huge stack of resumes to a manageable number.

I think Blooomberg's audience is nervous that the recent resurgence in manufacturing, and the recent increase in the percentage of the population working, are undercutting their narrative of "it's automation, there's nothing we can do".
I don't think GP's distinction between cities providing capital and rural areas providing food is really the line drawn by the article, or typically when comparing regional inequality. For example, the article notes that CoL adjusted average income is greater in Beaumont, TX and Birmingham, AL than NYC and SF.

Automation probably is what has caused farm unemployment, but trade policy can absolutely be blamed more for manufacturing unemployment in areas that aren't "big cities". The Syracuse or the Altoona metro areas aren't exactly farmland, but they definitely aren't NYC or SF, either.
I think in a lot of those cases, they don't even know they're jerks and couldn't believe they are.

I'm reminded of Burroughs...

“Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one.”
The Peter principle is a very powerful force.
This is an article about MMT, isn't it? And no, not all economics is pseudo science. Maybe you're looking at economics too much from the political point of view and too little from a scientific perspective.
I'm pretty sure you can find the threads about any company with their search?
Yes, if there were a law requiring the consumer pay all fees for their specific card, this form of freeloading wouldn't exist.
Nobody should on Glassdoor to determine if they should work at a company. One should always rely on back channel contacts, preferably of people who no longer work at that company.

Can one of you smart people here at HN develop a Glass Door competitor that only allows FORMER employees to review a company?
If you've seen today's bug yesterday, or carefully looked at the previous CVEs, you would have seen that https would have significantly reduced the probability of exploitability.
> In fact, the vast majority of distributed systems outages could have been prevented by slightly-more-comprehensive testing. And that’s just more comprehensive unit testing,

Key takeaway for me as far as code verification goes.

Design verification reminded me of a few subjects I studied in college.
Since you opted to reveal the company's name (Snowbound software), I went ahead and read the reviews on GlassDoor.

Your review is very emotionally charged and with very few facts or examples, which makes it difficult to take seriously.

Since you were fired I can understand why you would write like this, but it is a bit ironic considering the article is about manipulating reviews.

Yours is scathing indeed, but not in an insightful way and just seems like an attempt to bash the company (1 star, all reds, only pros are low pressure environment and parking?). I can understand why the company would want to defend itself against this with actual facts (they state increased revenue, staff seniority, customer names).

Anyways take whatever you want from this comment, I'm just a neutral observer with limited information, but I don't think Snowbound's positive reviews show manipulation
"That being said, with AWS Certs going for between $75-$300 how long do colleges think they can survive?"

Colleges shouldn't be in the business of training people for jobs - that is what tech schools are for. If you just want to get a job, go to a tech school, don't go to college. College is (or should be) about expanding your mind, your horizons. It should be about exposing you to new ideas and thoughts you hadn't been exposed to before. There is a reason why University and Universe have the same root.
- Mandatory javascript.

- Spam and online ads (same thing really)

- Free platforms monetized by analytics.
That brings back bad memories of my first day at a new job. We had discussed in the interview that they were flexible with the time I got there. On the first day, one of the first questions I was asked:

New Boss: "So, what time will you be here every day?"
Me: "I thought we had discussed that being flexible as traffic can be unpredictable?"
New Boss: "We are flexible on the time, but you have to be here by that time every day."

I made it 6 weeks.
> a large number of negative reviews is a strong "stay away" signal. A small number...

Unfortunately that's unreliable, because negative reviews are removed, so numbers are fake.
I experienced this at a small cyber security business. They didn't pressure but they REALLY insisted that we review them on GlassDoor in order to get more people to apply for the jobs. In reality, their problem was they were paying ALL the staff compared to the market average.
And 5 years is not that much, I had to replace a washing machine of 8.5 years because LG doesn't supply a motherboard, so a perfectly good and revised machine could go to the trash (donated it to some blue collar folks that will fix the board or replace by a salvaged one, I don't have a backyard to tinker with this unfortunately)
That would break any existing comments that happened to be using markdown syntax as punctuation. Although I suppose you could have a flag day for the changeover and format differently based on comment creation time.

But I think the very limited formatting is just fine anyway. For the above comment as an example, I agree the code formatting looks awful, especially on mobile. But the version with >'s is ok, and I don't think proper bullet points or a quote bar would have improved it dramatically.
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Twitter is the prime place for hot takes like DHH's. And his making this post is only part making us aware of this issue, and more his further building his own brand as a tech influencer. All about personal incentives. Basically, the whole system's fucked.
Until the asker has been shown that their commandline requirements can be met — they will not be interested.
The practice of medicine always had and always will have an economic component.

Countries dont even match their flu-shot vaccination recommendations, let alone multi-million dollar treatments.
Especially if you have central heating.
Any good Pharo demos that you can recommend?
You get better recommendations when you add what your requirements are.
Filesystem performance is closer to windows than linux which can be a deal-killer. Probably not for games.
Same in Italy, actually. Every POS accepts Bancomat[1], which is the standard debit circuit over here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancomat_(debit_card)
Somebody give this guy a raise.
I feel like Chocolatey had some good moments early on, but I realized that I stopped using it because I started to feel like I needed to audit every PowerShell installation script it tries to run (and that's the majority of how it operates; the majority of "packages" are just PowerShell scripts that in turn download an MSI from a well known location, checksum it [maybe], and run it), because of all the poorly maintained packages and some increasingly worrisome PowerShell scripts in some of them. Particularly with things like Software Development tools, you could also never tell if a package was "just" a minimal install of the software or some particular developer's preferred kitchen sink, and the package dependency model alone wasn't enough to tell you because it might just be buried in the PowerShell installer directly rather than in the declarative dependencies.

As someone else notes, weirdly Chocolatey's packages seemed to get worse and grow staler after the Kickstarter than before. I guess in hindsight it's about where I stopped feeling an interest in volunteering to help packages, but I'm not sure if it was subconsciously about "what was the Kickstarter money for?" or not. I feel it was more the "kitchen sink" problem that hurt my interest in Chocolatey most directly, because those maintainers would happily sit on the most common name for an application (say, "python") with their kitchen sink, wouldn't take suggestions to better their packages and then you just ended up having to wade through search listings for "slim-python" or "real-python" or "just-python" or "brians-lite-python" or "python-dave13". It stopped feeling like a helpful community and more "every developer for themselves" at that point.
Algona, Iowa. Not something i'd thought i'd EVER see mentioned on HN. Hat tip
Oh, damn. You're exactly right.

OK, to save some of my face, this will work:

grep 'foo' <(input) | sed 's/baz/bar/g'

... at least in zsh and probably bash.
Not to over simplify, but when you say code complexity, are you referring to the code you read? Like, the dev UX?

If so, I'd argue that long term once async/await have landed properly, the code largely looks and behaves the same. With that said, I've not even used it yet, because I've got no clue when this is landing enough that I can reasonably use it.. and I'm on Nightly lol.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Good thing they charge me $0.94 a month for my B2 storage.

We thank you for your business! :-) The absolute beauty of Backblaze B2 (or Amazon S3 or Azure) is that we can build a storage system at scale, and sell off all the little pieces of that. You win because you get a fair price on a sliver, and we win because we add up 100,000 customers like you and make about $1 million per year.

The very best business is where the customer and provider are happy with the relationship.
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Yes. Technology and business environments change. Students will only succeed if they become self-motivated, life-long learners who can identify the key problems/technology that their employers need solved/developed and rapidly build upon their skill-set to solve those problems and implement the solutions. Ideas/technology are like Legos - the point is to know how to assemble the pieces you have to build what you need.

When I started my career as a scientist in a corporate analytical lab 36 years ago, corporate funding for travel and continuing education was plentiful. When budgets got tight, that was the first to go. Those of us who were self-directed learners survived the downsizing and cost-cutting much longer than those who didn't.
Only if you yell at them.
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But then... what would the Touchbar offer that the keys don't already?
Case against behavioral advertising is stacking up
You're right. My bad. I have added an edit to my comment.
It is a clever move to minimise engineering, whilst maximising profit at the expense of the consumer, whilst the consumer does not realise.

Apple is in a position of power here, due to the public. Fact is, however you cut it, slice it, or dice it, people (in the whole) are stupid and will keep buying Apple for the foreseeable future, despite Apple's efforts at reducing reliability to maximise profits.

They know people will just keep on buying, and I would favour a guess that anyone in their position would be doing exactly what they are.

They will "milk the teet until it stops giving", and then change.
It would be better overnight. But it would be even better if we had one NT like kernel and a new OS built from scratch with a browser (webkit) based ui.
Giving companies money that use DRM that drives you to pirate promotes the continued use of crippling DRM.

If you don't actually want a game in the form a distributor gives it to you at the price they ask then no, you aren't a lost sale pirating it.

At that, its not some moral black and white. I use IsThereAnyDeal to price track the games I want and only buy them at all time low prices. Mostly because I still have hundreds of titles to get around to but end up programming, drawing, or reading way too much HN all the time to get around to them.

It doesn't matter if I give a developer $1 or $0 if its still not enough to keep the lights on. The same thing happens with music and movies - you need either a sufficiently large or rich enough audience to keep your studio in the green.

Its probably way too deep for the bottom of a thread on Proton but I'm realizing that no matter how copyright is written in the post-Internet era it will always be an appeal for donation. Just because I haven't pirated a game in a decade doesn't make me "moral" or the pirate "immoral" - I only buy games now because its convenient on GOG and Steam to just have them in one place and not have to keep track of independent installers from torrents and to token support Linux developers. But I'm just an increment on a Linux sales column - I'm not actually making them anything close to reasonable revenue for the number of Linux gamers there are, and my marginal impact compared to someone who would have just grabbed it off PirateBay is completely negligible.

I'll keep buying Linux ports to... collect them? But I'm still not a valuable purchase. I'm waiting often years until its under $5 and even then I sometimes say "eh, I'll get it when its cheaper". But its not some moral high ground, and it barely impacts any bottom line - all game developers depend on first week sales at full price. Nothing else keeps the lights on, you will never see revenue volume close to that again. Buying it years later for $2 on sale is practically putting loose change in a beggars cup.
Yes, in 1880 people were crammed into tenements. Today we live roughly as densely as we did in 1960 (maybe slightly more densely due to more high rises), but housing is far, far more expensive.
I haven't bothered to leave reviews. The Dunning-Kruger effect would cause many to see it as the ramblings of a loser, anyway. Sucks that the average two year tenure looks like:

Year one: "You aren't doing everything you need to be doing for a promotion."
Year two: "You did everything we asked. Unfortunately, things are little tight right now."

A little reason annual reviews are still a thing...stringing people along.
Thin sells, and I think for good reasons. Laptops sued to be so thick, you'd carry them in a "laptop bag." Now, you can carry them in a sleeve or briefcase. I want a laptop thin enough that I can carry it around with a stack of papers. As long as it has reasonable battery life, there is quite a distance yet to go for thinner laptops.
Was this in the 70s or more recent? I can't imagine a shoe store that costs more than $5 million.
It absolutely is. Western economies have been growing at about 0-4% percent yearly over the last few decades. That means if somebody's wealth grows at a faster rate the money has to come from somebody else. If the US was suddenly full of people like Bezos or Gates I don't think the economy would grow much faster. They would just fight for the same piece of the pie.
Indeed, when one read the Wikipedia page on Uranus, lots of things are unknown. Also, apparently the ring system is on the equatorial plane... How is it even possible?
> Banks don't print money. Federal Banks print the money, which basically means it's the government printing the money.

You are confusing two things about money creation: which entity decides to create the money, and which one carries the book-keeping entry that creates it.

In the US system, it is member banks that decide to create a loan. The money that is loaned is some combination of their own deposits, and money lent them by the Federal Reserve. The details of how much money they need to keep on deposit, how much is "their own", and how much the Fed provides are governed by FR rules.

So, it is indeed banks that make the individual decision to create money by giving a loan. The FR is merely the book-keeper for that decision and the rule-maker for how the system at large works.

Oh, and last, it is the US Treasury that actually prints currency. But we're all talking about the more abstract concept "money".
I was going to say that it sounds a little like that Smalltalk IDE Squeak, and then it dawned upon me that this is actually a Smalltalk dialect too. :D

I'm going to throw this in here:

"Squeak or Pharo for the beginning Smalltalker?"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8426981/squeak-or-pharo-...

And a third option that is much leaner and maybe less overwhelming especially if you are interested in actually learning Smalltalk itself to begin with:

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
Fellow Pharo contributors: we should take this feedback seriously
You've got no real evidence to support the idea that higher prices specifically are how credit card companies pay for their perks...

All you can say for sure is that credit card companies have revenue, and some of that revenue is spent on marketing, such as signup bonuses, and that's pretty obvious.

"Company sets prices to account for marketing budget" is hardly a revelation.
Making donations through services that waive processing fees for the merchant is another good way to do this. For example, PayPal's Giving Fund or Facebook Payments.

(But only for donations you're making anyway, and only when fees really are waived.)
Not only that, but construction is usually once and done, besides maintenance or repairs. Unlike ship paths that are ongoing indefinitely.

And this discussion is disregarding the net benifits of why we’re building wind farms to begin with. It’s a weird dig at wind farms.
absurd. you spent a grand total of 1 week of your life there, and experienced normal city traffic for any major urban center. you also went to places within walking distance of the conference center.

and after that grand total of time (and how many long time residents did you have a meaningful conversation with?), it's definitely not for you.

I would never like to live there either, but not based on a 1 week myopic view. SF is definitely taking a turn for the worse, even of a short timeframe like that last decade. However your review is quite poor. I hope you don't come to snap judgements like that about technology you deploy.
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You can actually install OpenSSH natively now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
That's pretty much how it's like in most cities in Europe apart from the few large tech hubs. If you burn yourself with a couple of bad managers you might not have anywhere else to go without leaving your family behind and being accused of job hopping so employees just have to put up with it.

At my second to last job I put up with a manager that had severe anger management issues and would swear at employees and throw things at staff. I left over 2 years ago. Since then he's been promoted. The company had also won several "Best place to work" awards in the past.
Keep in mind the profit margin on first class seats is insane - their cost to provide a "$12k" trip was probably more like $1-2k. There's a reason you can get crazy amounts of miles via sign up bonuses, but you never see a cash back award much above $500 (and those are usually for business cards with high minimum spends).
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I just went over to glassdoor, curiously after signing up a dummy account they have a banner claiming:

"Your trust is our top concern, so companies can't alter or remove reviews."

But, I noticed from a past review that there is some kind of 'approval' required. So, yes it seems they can remove reviews by not approving. Sigh.
Don't forget that there are also folks writing bad reviews and often not just one. Sometimes they are toxic and got fired for a good reason. We know all these borderliners where everybody wonders how they passed the interviews.

So, there are always two sides of a story. And compared to an Amazon review it's much harder to tell if the product is wrong or its user.

People also tend to forget that they just help Glassdoor's sales. Every negative review they write is another reason for the reviewed company to subscribe for Glassdoor. It's not cheap but even early stage startups can easily afford this.
South Bend for me!

Pros:
* Lower cost of living (think 3 bedroom house for 100k)

* Low tax rate (Chicago tax adds up)

* I can literally drive in my car to any chain store within 7 minutes. Chicago I could get to most stuff, but it was 30, 45, 60 minute drives.

* Can commute anywhere within about 20 minutes, Chicago it's not hard to get 60-90 minute commutes

* Decent state level programs to help startups (I found some decent programs from the state of Indiana to help!)

Cons:
* Sometimes harder to find niche something. I.e. if you want to play board game X wit ha weekly meetup, I bet you can find 3 in Chicago. Here no one may play that thing. Or if you want to eat Vegan X... odds are it doesn't exist (but Chicago has 2+)

* Local community is still not ready to support startups. For example - The city claims to be tech friendly - but their programs are either for factories or farms. Not a factory or farm? City can't really help.

* Walkability sucks for most of the area. There are a few pockets, but not that many

* Smaller pool of applications for career motivated developer / other niche fields. I am sure I can get 1000 resumes for forklift driver, but I might only get 20 for Java developer.
I just read the crypto-reporter piece on Teamlyzer. My understanding is that you're just putting hashes of reviews on chain and not the full reviews (correct me if I misunderstand). I'm really glad you're doing this, it seems like a move in the right direction, but I have questions about the details. How do you intend to handle posts that need to be taken down for legal reasons? This could be libel or links to illegal content (copyrighted torrent files, child pornography). Do you intend to remove these from your stored review log, and replace them with a message explaining why? Do you prescreen reviews? Prescreening should work in most cases, but could fail when links point to content that changes, and libel laws are tricky (I assume hiring lawyers to review reviews would be prohibitively expensive). Prescreening also raises some of the same questions that redactions do, albeit without the retroactive element. If reviews do start getting redacted, leaving obvious unaccounted for hashes in your blockchain records, how are users supposed to know whether you're responding to legitimate legal problems or just playing the same game Glassdoor is? I'm really interested in your answers, because I like this direction but I don't see obvious answers to the problem of laws (besides hosting on the darknet).
This is not the late stage capitalist dystopia I was looking forward to.
Only the unibody Mac Minis. PowerPC and Intel non-unibody Mac Minis had an external brick.
Premise Data is the perfect example of this happening. Things got so bad that literally every engineer in SF (their headquarters) left. Lots of them left reviews, and lots of them were voted "helpful." Yet...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Premise-Data-Corporation-R...

Look at the last ~10 reviews. None of them are marked helpful, yet only 5 star reviews are at the top and marked as "featured." They don't even have 10 engineers left to make these good reviews, they're all left by the sales guys.

Those bad reviews aren't even all of them. 5 or 6 were just outright deleted, and none of us can figure out why. They didn't violate any rules, didn't call out people by name, they simply shed a negative light on the company.