skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... not one that benefits from investment, which is how rich people get paid for being rich.

riches or wealth, is merely stored up work that could be expended, instead of consumed.

They aren't being paid just for being rich - they are making decisions on how to expend that stored up work to produce _even more_ stored up work for the future. By making that decision wisely, they earn the rewards of the stored up work!
I don't know. Let's keep burning oil for energy and find out!
Agreed that this has been going on for years and Congress has done nothing to date. But ...

The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, sponsored by Senators Wyden and Paul, has a hearing tomorrow morning -- and may actually have decent chance to pass Congress this session.

If you're in the US, EFF's "Tell Congress: The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale" page has a web form to encourage your representatives to support the bill. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-the-fourth-amendmen...
It is a commonplace in surgery rooms that anesthetic is administered, and after it dissipates the patient continues speaking exactly where they left off, not noticing any gap.

That has to mean something about the physics and chemistry of consciousness as manifested in our meat brains.
In the past I've been tempted to leave reviews for bad employers I've had. I've always come to the conclusion that the risks of doing so totally outweigh the completely minimal rewards. The risk of being deanonymised, and receiving retaliation from the company is too high. My threat model didn't include the possibility of litigation compelling the company to hand over PII. I was more concerned that I'd inadvertently betray my identity in my review. Not to mention the issues related to Glassdoor as a company, and their lack of objectivity. Why do people use their service in the first place?
Hardware design work is hard, but you usually only have to do it once for any given component or any given product. Most of the parts I use were already well-established in their markets over 10 years ago. (Although whether they'll still be around 10 years from now -- or 1 year for that matter -- is a very different question.)

Conversely, a web developer's work is never done. There is always another web site to build. Failing that, someone always wants to do another gratuitous reskin of an existing site, just to keep their users from growing complacent.
I've seen variations of this chat, but never seen (what appears to be) the original source. From their methodology section[1]:

>Q: How does Ad Fontes Media generate the scores for each news source on the Media Bias Chart?

>A: We generate overall news source scores based on scores of individual articles (in the case of online news sources) or episodes (in the cases of podcasts, radio, TV, and video-based sources). Each individual article and episode is rated by at least three human analysts with balanced right, left, and center self-reported political viewpoints. That is, at least one person who has rated the article self-identifies as being right-leaning, one as center, and one as left-leaning. Articles and episodes are rated in three-person live panels conducted in shifts over Zoom. Analysts first read each article and rate them on their own, then immediately compare scores. If there are discrepancies in the scores, they discuss and adjust scores if necessary. The three analysts’ ratings are averaged to produce the overall article rating. Sometimes articles are rated by larger panels of analysts for various reasons–for example, if there are outlier scores, the article may be rated by more than three analysts.

This seems woefully inadequate for use in generating any kind of objective "view from nowhere" plot. I appreciate that they're being transparent about how they're doing this and do they go on to talk about how their own biases of course exist in their ratings. But the (rather convenient) bell curve right off the bat is highly suspect to me. Again, I appreciate that they're being transparent, but I wouldn't use this for anything but showing how much modern media sucks.

[1] https://adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sources/
> There is no evidence Hitler was at all involved with the holocaust either.

There's considerable evidence he was, actually.

> Funny how you're holding one responsible for the crimes of their regime and the other was a figurehead.

It's almost like a head of state and a combined executive head of government and head of state are different things.
dang, can Nick Mowbray and Anna Mowbray, the founders of ZURU, compel News.YC to hand over my information if I wrote a poor review of their company in a scathing Tell HN?
presumably you simoly wait for someone from the glassdoor sales team to contact you , the owner.

they will present is as a review optimization strategy.

this is how yelp did it back in the day.

i dont know if glassdor does or did it, just pointing out other review sites did do it and never posted it on their "pricing" or "services" page for employers...
this is a silly thing to over analyze. it's OK it you have a different definition /understanding. But I guess infinite pedantry is also part of the hacker aesthetic.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is lots of money to be made de-anonymizing Reddit users
Off-topic, but am I the only one who finds it incredibly grating to speak of Elon Musk with his first name? You don't do that with other people, other billionaires or tech people or whatever, you say Bezos, not Jeff, and Bill Gates, not Bill. What gives? I find this irrationally annoying.
Remember back in the amiga days?, “OS/2 - How good is half an operating system?” :)
What a strange world 2022 is, wherein former employees of MongoDB openly catfight on HN over who was most responsible for suckering some of the Fortune 500 into buying a truckload of technical debt. Arguing over that like it’s taking principal credit for achieving sustained cold fusion. Baffling.

We all contribute to poop. Our level of contribution to said poop does not diminish that, in fact, we all work on poop so we’re all in the same poop boat. Take it easy on each other, and reserve the bullshit calling for those who really earn it, like the folks who initially built the poop you’re claiming by cleverly offshoring their minimum maturity on the financial and sweat equity of every early adopter. Like, say, for example, for no particular reason, my team at the exact time you’re arguing about.

It’s fine, though, I get it, that’s valley capital, fake it until you make it, give us ops teams ulcers, we make goodish money. Just weird to see resentment over who can claim MongoDB success with that kind of perspective is all. Particularly since the success at the time was all lazy developer mindshare (no disrespect, I’m lazy too), and the technical weaknesses started a few ten-year roadmaps that are now in the market and obsolete MongoDB.
The notion that physics can ever be complete is...not even wrong.
Avocado ceases to be left if you're Hispanic. Then all bets are off. Also, tofu cooked in any way that people who consume tofu on a regular basis actually eat it is slathered in ground meat, so leftists have something of a conundrum: the desire for shallow "authenticity" is pitted against the desire for hippieish veganism. It's a tough choice.
> Also, I'm not sure about the supply and demand argument. The typical ask for a data scientist is much simpler than specialized ChemE knowledge; supply should have ramped up so quickly that comp would have fallen to typical engineering salaries long ago if that were the case.

I would question my assumptions before disputing the function of supply and demand curves.
I'm not familiar with the law here. Can Glassdoor appeal?
I'm starting to think that it's time to make an open source and open-data platform for this.

Similar in scope to OSM, but for all people.

The goal of the project would be to reveal to the average person how much data is being collected about them, and how easy it is - with the end goal being to influence legislation to curb these practices.

As long as it remains in the shadows, it doesn't really affect the average person, and the convenience of digital devices will outweigh the privacy concerns.
I just attempted to look at the reviews.

There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in.

Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth.

Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do.

Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?
If you want to see Chuck talk about these kinds of things "1x Forth" [1] is a great talk from him on these kinds of things.

[1] https://youtu.be/pSnNy7IpVMg
We belatedly changed the URL from https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein... to a copy of Orwell's text that doesn't shamelessly bowdlerize him. I mean, really—Orwell?

I'm referring to the omission of this passage: "I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity.

... that several commenters pointed out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32135108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32133675

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130897

All: in the future, if you run across something like this, could you please send us a heads up at hn@ycombinator.com? We can't read all the articles or comments, but we do read all the emails, usually within a few hours. We will be especially grateful if you point out a flaw as massive as this one.

Edit: I couldn't resist diffing the bowdlerized text with the gutenberg.net.au one and the eliding of that bit is the only difference between the two, other than punctuation.

Edit 2: it turns out that bookmarks.reviews is guilty only of blogspam. They got the thing from https://www.openculture.com/2014/08/george-orwell-reviews-me..., which links to https://carnegiecouncil-media.storage.googleapis.com/files/v... (via https://boingboing.net/2014/08/17/orwells-review-of-mein-kam...). That looks like a decades-old copy of the 1968 edition, edited by Orwell's widow. I doubt that it was she who dropped that sentence—I bet it was whoever reprinted the essay. Considering that Orwell specifically wrote "I should like to put it on record", that took some brass, or lack of it.

The degree to which Orwell practiced intellectual honesty is an endless marvel. If there's one thing we should learn from anybody, it's that from him.
Good point. The x86 OSX port was created and initially maintained by a single person, if the folklore is accurate.

A similar effort for Linux would usually benefit from related work by many people. For OSX or macOS it would need to be an explicit project, starting with fewer initial bits. But the internal Apple team would be exactly the right experts for the job, so it would be easier to organize at least.
Good journalism has always cost money. If your objection is that you're asked to pay to read, then journalism has always been dead.
Do you believe a microwave involves more pillaging than a gas oven?

Let's say a modern oven isn't available. Just a word burning one. Operating one is an all day amount of work (there's little that's romantic about it). They're dangerous, filthy, and the smoke damages your lungs. If people switched to wood ovens the rest of the world's forests would be pillaged (stripped) of all wood. A wood burning stove has a lot of iron in it, that requires an enormous amount of energy to smelt.

BTW, you should know that gas appliances are a major source of indoor air pollution. Microwaves aren't.

Also, I usually get 10 years out of a microwave. Not bad for an appliance. If you want to save the environment, they sell them in thrift stores for $10-20.
Glassdoor has systematically taken down negative reviews for companies for years. I can’t say I love any of the “board” sites who engage in this type of product, and that includes Yelp, Google Places, etc
There will be, but right now software is eating the world (and establishing entire new markets) faster than developer talent enters the market. So prices for developers go up. Eventually this will end, either by the demand curve slowing down, or developer supply meeting demand. Whether it happens within the next 5 or 10, or even 20 years, who knows.
Right, and I think an important distinction here is sheer strength from general physical fitness.

If someone is relatively weak with below average lean mass, lower than average markers of muscular strength, etc. it seems like the consensus is that they are statistically likely to die or get diseases earlier in life. On the other hand, being on the other side of that seems to yield diminishing returns. It’s great to be fit, but being abnormally strong on the other hand doesn’t appear to increase your lifespan proportionally to your strength.
Glassdoor makes no attempt to verify employment ever took place. In fact, they don't even allow making an account without an employer, so the unemployed have to lie if they want to read reviews.
You are not paid by the difficulty of your work. You are paid according to how much the hiring manager thinks he can replace you for.

Sometimes this creates falsely inflated salaries- like when a company insists on hiring Harvard MBAs. Often it creates lower than expected salaries. People forget just how many Asian EEs there are.
I own a microwave, well not really, the apartment im renting comes with one and in all the years I’ve been here I did not use it even once. If it broke I wouldn’t miss it, I’d probably use the space it occupies more efficiently.

Im inferring the point op was making was the price we pay for all these shortcuts and modern lifestyle should make us think well what is essential and do away with the rest.
It is just somebody else who knows your passwords, and can convince your bank and spouse that they are you.
This doesn’t ring true to me, especially for an ME which is one of the broadest disciplines. I know one who had a BS and has worked in construction on building automation and energy systems, automotive robotics, healthcare as a process engineer, aerospace software, and finally as a data scientist.
I started as an EE and gradually moved over to software out of a mix of interests and career options.

Strangely, the EE degree seemed to trigger certain hiring managers into downplaying my software experience and lowballing my offers. A lot of "He's an electrical engineer but he can write some code too" introductions. I heard a lot of "Wow, you're really good at software for an EE!" from various people. The stereotypes out there are baffling, given how multi-talented all of my EE colleagues are.

There are companies out there that value EE experience and pay appropriately, but you have to look around. If you get stuck at a place where management believes CS = high pay and EE = necessary evil, it's time to get out.
Semi-related scheisty Glassdoor anecdote: I worked at a company Foo which appeared as 2 separate companies on Glassdoor: Foo, and separately Foo Technology.

Foo Technology unambiguously did not exist as a separate company in any form.

Thing is, Foo was the unlikely company where the line workers were more satisfied than the Technology employees - the company overall was very decent but the technology org was toxic.

Accordingly, Foo Technology had lousy ratings and negative reviews, while Foo has largely positive reviews and a strong rating. The difference was on the order of Foo~=4.0 while Foo Technology~=2.0, both derived from a significant number of employees.

You can imagine the pitfall this could create as a prospective technology employee contemplating a stint at Foo.

As a disgruntled Foo “Technology” employee I contacted Glassdoor to notify them that a nonexistent company was distracting many genuine reviews away from a legitimate company.

Glassdoor notified me that they would not provide any corrective action unless the formal owner of the Glassdoor account for Foo agreed to it.

This told me that accuracy of reviews on Glassdoor comes in a few positions shy of their top priority.

Although in full disclosure, a year or two later the 2 separate “companies” did get merged on Glassdoor. I don’t know what the impetus finally was, but they certainly didn’t give a shit when I notified them of the snafu with their system.
No, that's not my argument.

I'm a starving writer. I don't know how to solve this, but I have a long history of commenting on it and trying to cast a little light on the connection between monetization issues, poor pay for writers and bad reporting.
If that were true, then it would seem their asking price is greater than the cost and risk of de-anonymizing and suing former employees.
Elon is a unique-enough identifier whereas Jeff and Bill aren’t
I see some high end custom jobs where they swapped some of the carbon fiber with some kind of coating on some kind of styrofoam. Its much more bulky to get usable strength but its not that heavy and it makes no noise.
Too dry is worse than too humid (to a point).

I’m not in this game anymore, but I remember Yahoo built a datacenter in NY off Lake Erie that wasn’t cooled. They aligned the building lengthwise on a ridge above the lake and just blew air through it with no AC. No idea how it operated though.
I saw a post a few months ago where an actual mobile security expert publicly said they did not have very high confidence in their own ability to cleanly buy and use a burner if the stakes were high eg government actively trying to build a case against them.

Since then I've been very skeptical of all claims of what you can "just" do to avoid being tracked. This problem can't be solved by individual action or paranoia it's too big and complex now.
Similarly helpful, pytago is a source to source transpiler for python to go

https://pytago.dev/
Using your stove is far more environmentally costly than the microwave.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Kraken-Dig...

https://www.kraken.com/ is doing it too.
That may not help former zuru’s employees but obviously is a clear message to prospective ones. A nice FU from Glassdoor.

More interestingly it’s a nice way to forestall future lawsuits as well.
I don't know that it's Orwellian except insofar as it's stupid, and since stupid conventionality was one of Orwell's great themes, it is Orwellian, so you're right.

We've belatedly changed the URL now. I wish I'd seen it sooner.
> I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler

Google isn't really a great example because they are one of the few places to get highly paid EE / hardware jobs.

That said, there are many more software jobs than hardware jobs at Google.
Fellow humans, there are alternatives to being tracked via cell phone! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:

Data service:

The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.

Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (e.g., privacy.com). It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are.

Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto.

All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.

OS:

CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.

GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can use the work profile thinger in Android to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them.

LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.

There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e

Hardware:

CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixel 3, 3a, 3XL, 4, 4a, 4XL, 5, 6, 6a. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run CalyxOS (if there is an app you need to use that needs Google services like Firebase Cloud Messaging...note that many that can use FCM will run fine without), otherwise run GrapheneOS.

You can also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.

Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Pretty dumb to talk crap about your employer on said employer's hardware and/or network, regardless of how true it is or not.
> rest went into refrigerated containers we turned into a kitchen grade dehydration space, prep room, coolroom and storage.

I need to do something like this (I'm in Fiji). Do you happen to have any pics or videos showing your dehydrator and prep room? I assume you used Reefer containers.

BTW what does dehydrating limes have to do with fruit fly control?
"If you will only be using this TV for a limited time, you can watch Netflix for up to 2 weeks at no extra charge as long your account has not been previously used in that location. After that time, the TV will be blocked unless you add the extra home."

Sigh. I stay at the same hotel for work travel... :-/
I'd say wisdom grants empathy, intelligence is different.
> this is how yelp did it back in the day.

Yelp no longer does this?
Why not? It's not obvious to detect until anyone found a minor free VPN app is malicious. (Though maybe almost all "free VPN" could be malicious in some way)
Nah that's a pretty obvious way to catch people and any sysadmin knows it. Browser history is a good spot to check too.

Be smart kids. Do your employer bashing at the public library.
Once again for those in the back, never use your employer's equipment or network for anything you don't want them to see!
You should do this
Alligator tail is pretty good tho.
Not to mention the problem of how to acquire the initial capital to buy/make those equipments?

If it is a contribution model, where each member pays (an equal amount, let's say), then each member is incentivized to over-utilize the equipment to maximize their initial investment. This basically leads to the tragedy of the commons.

Private ownership of capital and equipment aligns the owner and the use of that equipment in a way that community ownership doesn't.
Do you think it's due to some kind of network call? I think the licensing in general is extremely painful. I've definitely paid like $450 over the last 8 years for various microsoft stuff and I just don't like that. I wish you could easily get device-portable single use licenses that don't just evaporate after the licensing period ends. Word/Excel is decent but has become an immeasurably huge piece of shit over the last two or three years compared to previous eras
Or cool to give employees an understanding that employers aren't their friends and can and will go to extreme lengths to screw them over if it benefits the corporation. Also just general advice to avoid doing things on your company laptop if you don't want your employer to know about them.