skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, very crazy, but not for the reasons you think.

If Twitter was a Democratic Party institution they would have banned Trump in 2015. Instead, they bent over backwards and created a new policy specifically to justify not banning @POTUS when his rulebreaking[0] became apparent in 2017. The only reason why we even think of Twitter as (D) Media is because January 6th forced them to reverse course.

Your theory is inconsistent with Twitter's prior actions, too. While management initially geared up to take a poison pill, they never actually committed to it. Once Musk had actually lined up a purchase proposal, management actually agreed to it, and then Musk tried to bail out from that deal. If Twitter was actually (D) Media, they would have committed to the poison pill plan instead of backing down. Likewise, if Musk was buying Twitter with the intent of turning it into (R) Media he wouldn't be trying to back out[1], he would be following through.

A much easier explanation is that Twitter management was caught off-guard by Musk, and then later realized Musk was bullshitting in a way they could take advantage of. Conversely, Musk figured he could pretend to buy Twitter while unloading Tesla stock and then realized way too late that he was actually committed to buying Twitter.

[0] Which, interestingly enough, included ignoring DMCA 512 takedown notices

[1] Interestingly, Donald Trump has gone on a rampage on Pravda Social about how Musk is a bullshitter.
I get your point, but if I'm a headline writer, it's pretty natural to want readers to click though to find out what the new name is--even if they are subscribers.

There's definitely a balance between headlines that aren't too cryptic and those that still entice readers to read further.
>Glassdoor’s FAQ goes into a little more detail about how they will defend user anonymity. They know this is vital their success:

If glassdoor cares so much about anonymity, why didn't they engineer their site in such a way that prevents them from being able to deanonymize reviewers? For instance, not keeping identifying user details after they have been verified?
Cryptomining boom has people’s energy bills skyrocketing; feds mull new rules
I'm not sure why this is surprising. The structure of corporations as it stands is untenable for skilled workforce retention.
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In America, the business is run by "business" people, not by people who understands how to build the thing that the business claims to be building.

Layers and layers of management will not produce your next small arm powered microwave. So even if a company started off with success, eventually, it will be taken over by "business" people instead of a a committee of engineers+sales+product+marketing - all of whom work in sync.

You laugh at business majors? In America, they have more longevity than an engineer who specializes in a niche area.
All parties can agree on a design, and then its flaws become obvious only after it is in use for a while.
Glassdoors business model is selling the ability to take down bad reviews. Why would they out their customers?
Sushi isn't necessarily raw
AI is a technology for increasing managerial control
Can I just say I'm so envious of all of you who are able to write publicly without worries?

Writers aren't necessarily writing without worries. Some are merely more afraid of the consequences of not writing.
I would have bet $100 this was Integza before I clicked the link.
Intel has been quite serious about growing a foundry business. But there's no promise that continues, or that it is fair/reasonable/non-discriminatory. None the less I do give them quite a lot of credit as a company that seemingly very much wants to be making a wide variety of American chips.
Vancouver Island is the Canadian Hawaii.
I've had great success finding places that treat employees well that are neither employee owned or unionized. In my experience you just have to find relatively small places to work (less than 20 people) with the right leadership (which is often just one or two people). My experience with smaller places too is they are less likely to leetcode you and care much more about having a conversation with you about your work and making sure you're a good culture fit.

The downside is that these smaller places are going to pay a LOT less than more mainstream employers. But you'll still be making six figures as a dev.
Hi tremon. I work for the Azure Functions team. Sorry for the trouble. This should not happen. We should be giving you a proper response code when the deployment fails. It looks like you are using the sync version of the API but just double checking if you are using the sync or async version ? If you are using the async version then in that case we do return a 201 immediately and then you can use the status url to poll for the status. I would like to dig in and figure out what's happening here.

For the PowerShell Az issue as well - it would be good to know what command you were using/what you were trying to do. We dont support deployment of code using the Functions PowerShell Module (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.Functions/4.0....). Did you deploy using AZ CLI and then using the PowerShell Module ?

You can either share your Function App info here by using this method: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Sharing-Y...

or just email me at anirudhg at microsoft.com and I will look into this.

Thanks again for using Functions.
A decent outcome would be Glassdoor covering the users' legal fees.
An API is also the interface used by humans to create programs. When you use a library, you're using its API. This sense of the term API is often lost.
What the HELL, Nature?!
Yes, many, I have stories. Inspired me to take school seriously. But this isn't about me.

Obviously, people working retail jobs have limited options to make money. But that's also not the point.

The point is that gig work sounds good until you need worker's comp.
I haven't thought about this before, but I can't see how this would work. Instead, you'd convert to an adjacency matrix (with edge directions by only populating the upper rectangular region), then transpose the matrix, then convert back to a graph. The transpose should swap the i, j pair edge directions. Matrix inversion is super-expensive and I think it would produce somethign else entirely, probably not unlike matrix decomposition, which can extract centrality properties of the nodes. But it's super expensive.
Evolutionary algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm

Related techniques > Particle swarm optimization:

> Particle swarm optimization is based on the ideas of animal flocking behaviour.[7] Also primarily suited for numerical optimization problems

Symbolic EA will surpass all of human physics in the next 10 years.

To complete physics, which spacetime predictions can or must have zero error?
Would highly recommend IINA. macOS native video player that uses mpv as a backend. 100% free and open source. https://github.com/iina/iina
It's the pay stupid.

As a data engineer I could make a base salary of $300k quite easily.

As an electrical engineer I could hardly make $80k for a lot more work.

Guess which one I picked as my full time job?
Indeed. And the artist/creative who can guide DALL-E or GPT-3 will be as exciting as the composer who can make a room dance with music from a synthesizer...or the artist who can make compelling images with a camera.
Like most things in the modern world, it's built on bullshit and hopes that no one notices. In this case someone noticed and going to clean house.
Yeah, my wife and I are both members of various slack workspaces (work, volunteer groups, social/industry groups, etc) so it was beneficial to use the same tool (with a free, private workspace) for us to not only chat but also keep track of things in different channels (#wanderlust, #whatdowedo, #whatdoweeat, etc).

I was about to say that due to the new 90-day policy, we stand to lose pretty much allof the content in those channels but as it turns out, except for one message from July 2020, we already have. I suppose it doesn’t matter to me now if it’s 10k messages or 3 months of history but the former amounted to 24 months.
Depends on the role, in general they’re not going to blow Google out of the water.
I’d suggest a Foreign Legion, but there’s that immigrant thing.
Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) for Linux is simple but pretty great imho
That's actually a fantastic response.

- Reminds reviewers to avoid libel, since it may undergo legal review.

- Tells potential employees or customers that this is how the company responds to bad press/negativity (i.e. disproportionately).

- Doesn't subject Glassdoor to potential libel since the statement is objectively true (see court records).

Although I won't get too positive about Glassdoor as I've read negative reviews disappear[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8tfhxv/glassdoor_...
Snowflake and Databricks also hoover up a bunch of engineers, snowflake in particular extracted a large number of extremely senior folks. I assume they match base comp, offer equity, and then give people a lot more freedom than they would have at BigCo.
It's common for people to feel like there must be brigading when downvotes etc. show up quickly, but a much simpler explanation is that this stuff happens all the time on divisive topics, with no coordination required.

It's also perfectly common for downvoted posts to get upvoted back to positive, as other readers come in. It's actually to be expected for unfairly downvoted posts, since readers will give corrective upvotes regardless of whether they agree or disagree.

If you break the site guidelines, though—which unfortunately you did in this thread, repeatedly—you're going to get downvoted and flagged regardless of whether people agree/disagree or your underlying view is right/wrong.

Of course it's very frustrating to see lots of wrong views, or views you feel are wrong, getting expressed in threads like this. But the site guidelines require all commenters to metabolize that frustration and to remain thoughtful and respectful and substantive in their comments, regardless of how right they are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Zuru hasn't simply alleged that it suffered a loss; Zuru’s cofounders declared, under penalty of perjury, that because of the negative reviews, Zuru had to spend more money to recruit job candidates for a particular position.”

Does Zuru have proof it's because of negative reviews and not other causes?
Accidentally replied to myself somehow, please see the parent comment.
It's also not an absolute. We don't actually know how common life is in environments significantly different from ours, so the part about "wide range of chemical reactions" is just our conjecture.
To use man's ability to hunt a species to extinction for profit is genius.
It was definitely being done before 9/11. I know of one data broker who was under contract with a certain TLA in the 90's to perform hardware assisted rapid data scanning.
Netflix’s latest anti-password sharing test lets users ‘buy’ additional homes
For the next generation it'll be 'hey, let's pull this tv apart', 'oh the chassis intrusion sensor tripped and every single IC inside it packed a tantrum and will now refuse to work without the vendor's $10k/mo software subscription'.
Devil's advocate: Spam and abuse are ongoing problems, and are often the answer to "why we cannot have nice things?"
the world of arbitrage calls this arbitrage. there are other, more pure, arbitrages - but this is very mainstream one. you are buying the stock at the market price, while you think it will be worth the offer price - there's a risk that it blows up. risk arbitrage. (not to be confused with garbitrage)
The Goa'uld. Stargate was as much science as fiction.
Yeah, this line almost made me laugh out loud. "We promise that this happened and these evil reviewers are why! Believe us!"

Um... no? I don't. At all.
Thanks for the links.

I'm still confused though. Is the underlying assumption that the sun's energy being dumped on earth is essentially saturated? That is, "nature" has long since used all the available sun's energy and any energy we use from the sun is effectively taking away from nature?

Doing some back of the envelope calculations, we can estimate that the sun dumps around 700 peta watt hours per day whereas we use roughly on the order of 230 tera watt hours per day. Historically we've been increasing our energy consumption at about 2.5% per year which gives us a rough estimate of 250-350 years before we reach the limits of the available sunlight on earth. [0]

Daly's argument is that the 700 peta Wh/day minus the 230 tera Wh/day is maximally being used by "nature" and we would only be taking away that energy for our own use? If so, doesn't that seem a bit far fetched?

Also, natural resources might be limited on earth but are exist in abundance in space.

[0] https://mechaelephant.com/dev/Energy-Discussion.html
How many of these places could be explained by random noise?

And what steps did the study take to make sure the results aren't just random noise?
So I’ve had an idea for similar: make a app for chat that stores data in a multiple configurable social media/ postbin type accounts. Messages are embedded in images, videos, music, etc using steganography, and encrypted. It could be designed like RAID such that to communicate you need the key and access to 3 out of 5 (or more) of the providers. To chat with someone, the app facilitates passing the account list and a public key via a QR code or similar and posts encrypted/hidden text in normal-looking images/video/music/text etc

I’d call it horocrux.
I want the author of htmx to get together with the guy from pandastrike and rant about the misuse of REST for an hour a week. It would be my new favorite podcast.
Does Glassdoor actually have any business operations or webservers in NZ that would be subject to this order if it was issued from a court in NZ?

Since when does a NZ order apply to a non NZ company. For example, American media regularly publishes the names of persons charged with crimes in Canada where the name may be banned from publication by a Canadian court. It's a first amendment thing.

If US companies start obeying orders like this, how is it any different from getting a court order from a "totally neutral" court in Hong Kong, actually controlled by beijing, to de-anonymize the users of an american-based web service.

Looking at the details, it appears that they were sued in a us court in California, so the order does apply.
Same. I had a whole career in H/W design, then moved into S/W as a second career (I had always been a coder through personal projects and writing some device drivers and hardware test programs). Much higher pay, and if you screw up : ship a patch. In recent decades the rise of SaaS has degraded the relative experience a bit -- H/W engineers don't often get to be paged in the night.
It won't. Technology brings too much power with relative ease, governments and corporations are and will use it to their own advantage. Most people want convenience above all things and, even if they don't, are relatively powerless to do anything about it anyway.

New governments may rise and current ones fall. Ditto large corporations. Any progress made in the pursuit of privacy will be mostly smoke and mirrors. The incentives are just too misaligned.
It's a warning to turbulent priests everywhere.
Please do not perpetuate flamewars on Hacker News, no matter how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you own a microwave? I bet you do. I bet if it broke you'd buy another one, because you'll find it worth the money. Ditto for your other appliances, like your dishwasher, stove, oven, vacuum cleaner, toilet, shower, phone, etc.

Don't forget the computer you bought to access HackerNews with!
> Anyone who writes software is creating wealth.

this wealth is built on top of a foundation of mineral wealth. Merely ideas isn't useful if not implemented, and to implement an idea requires said mineral wealth.
Helium can definitely be used up if we keep putting it in balloons and allowing it to escape into space. Radioisotopes are also used up. Sure, we could transmute radioactive waste back into usable uranium or thorium but that would be a big energy sink, negating the primary use for those minerals. Fossil fuels have the same problem.
I've been IN this space for a while and I can tell you while we are trying, it's not a clear cut as you make it seem.

For the most part there is no more low hanging fruit like you would see in movies like 'War dogs' etc... simply because Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budgets are basically gone, and that's where a lot of the fast money was.

Now, you need to know what you're doing because you're competing with the companies that survived the last few decades and live off of these smaller SBIR/STTR/OTA funding lines

To be clear this is not what Palantir and Anduril do. Both groups have professional and skilled proposal writers and very deep technical policy expertise when it comes to winning (and defending and contesting) awards and doing it in a way that will ensure that their products can get an Authority to Operate and actually work
I read through all the reviews.
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297_P...

I don't see anything out of the ordinary, and there are definitely some common threads amongst negative reviews.

Wouldn't they have to prove the allegations are false?
The most you can get paid is the amount your company thinks it would cost to replace you. The difficulty of your job has absolutely nothing to do with how much you’re paid, other than maybe reducing labor supply a bit. But there are tons of smart people, if the opportunities exist people will come. Every business needs a bespoke website, so all the web developers have plenty of work. Their options mean that if a company doesn’t want to pay much they’ll work somewhere else.

Expert machinists using fancy equipment in a factory don’t really have the same ability to just go to a competitor, so they can’t negotiate a raise.
I was going to say the same thing. As an EE in the late 80s I got to use some kick-ass workstations and leading edge GUI frameworks (e.g. MentorGraphics). The company I worked for also wrote their own CAD system for VLSI design. I never touched DOS.
I'm sure there's lots more info available, but a quick and dirty reply:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite

See also:

Parasite in cat poop linked to higher likelihood of entrepreneurial behavior

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19452826
Or maybe like a nest of hornets declaring war on a person
How, I mean, eucalyptus is not native to California? Did they recently adapt?
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how right they are or how wrong other people are or you feel they are. Following the site guidelines is more important, because the survival of the entire forum depends on that. We've also had to warn you repeatedly about this in the past, so it doesn't have just to do with this topic.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> Does Glassdoor actually have any business operations or webservers in NZ that are subject to this order?

The court order itself is from a california court. They can't just tell that court to fuck off.
the alternative scenario is that an AGI will be in charge if a corporation like amazon and hundreds if millions of peoole will be subservient to it
Zuru's entity spans multiple regions, a Californian court can compel a US-based entity to hand over records for data held in another region. It's the reason why some organisations refuse to work with any organisations that can be compelled under the PATRIOT Act (about 98% of tech companies).

Also see: Kim DotCom. Broke no laws in New Zealand, will eventually be extradited for a civil matter. He's delayed it a long time though.
This is a great example of why I usually build my own tools. It is easy/fast to do because I only need to implement exactly what I need and nothing more. And bugs can be fixed right away, and features added, without having to wait for a company or open source developer to maybe eventually at some point perhaps fix the bug or add the feature. I have written tools for companies I worked for that has saved hundreds of thousands of development hours for myself and other developers.
Probably because doing so is hard. You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a reviewer account and a review, how do you do that?

I imagine there's some sort of zero-knowledge magic cryptographic thing you can do (or maybe something simpler, like a... Bloom filter?), but perhaps Glassdoor didn't want to go for the effort and expense to implement it.

Just goes to show you, unless you can prove anonymity client-side, never assume you're anonymous on the internet, anywhere.
Wow. That statement is the worst kind of review any potential employee could ever read.
I left embedded for web in 2014 and I doubled my salary overnight. My experience from embedded translated to an ability to troubleshoot problems that baffled others and has led to a lot of personal career growth that I suspect I wouldn't have otherwise seen. Wish it wasn't like this, because I quite miss what I was doing in that previous life, but it is what it is.
TMZ skews left? Didn't they explicitly catch-and-kill a bunch of stories just to help Trump win?

edit: see grandchild post, after looking for references they just used other pro-Trump behavior, not catch-and-kill that I could find quickly.
Why you should never leave Glassdoor reviews using;

- Your real name

- Your real email address

- Your real salary and job title

- Your normal vocabulary and idioms

- Any of your devices (as in, go to an internet cafe or something)

They can deanonymize as much as they like all they're going to find is that "dbcooper42069[at]hotmail", using non-region specific language, took a very dim view of company X's management style and pay rates.
that made me smile.
I’m in the same boat as you. Take them regularly and the payoff of spending 15 minutes on them with the increased energy/productivity the rest of the day is totally worth it.
It would be quite funny if he got Twitter into SEC trouble, just to become it's owner a bit later; especially given their history.

Anyway, this is just my unprofessional opinion, but for him to be able to prove intentional deceit is already going to be quite hard. Conditional on him managing that, he'd need to use a number he - by his own statements - hardly believed to clear the incredibly high bar of MAE in Delaware. I think it's very unlikely that he will be able to exit the deal this way.

To address your edit: I don't see how he'd manage to prove fraud without already providing enough evidence to send execs to jail. Also, the SEC would be the one prosecuting people anyway - he has nothing to bargain with. Lastly, this does not change the fact that the bot number, no matter how made up, will very likely not be sufficient to get out of this deal.
> Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of rape?

Even if you wake up in a bathtub of ice and learn that someone harvested one of your kidneys, you still aren't allowed to kill the recipient to take it back.
You can pay them to remove bad reviews?
Ah right, I remember when Echelon Watch[0] was launched, and made the rounds in chat rooms I frequented at the time... Of course most people dismissed it as conspiracy theory stuff :)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20001018103147/http://www.echelo...