skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you sign into a personal Google account on a new Chrome profile on a managed laptop, can they get access to your entire Google account (drive, emails, etc.) remotely? Can they use an auth token or something to automate the process of downloading all your data? If so, is this legal?
Actually, since Glassdoor's protection can obviously be compromized, anyone posting on their site should do so with Tor Browser, which anonymizes access by routing traffic through a minimum of three relays in the "dark web" of the Tor network. It might also be wise to do this on a public WiFi network (not your own ISP or mobile data provider).

Any email provided to Glassdoor should be a burner on a service that is not one of the majors (no gmail) also set up with Tor browser, specifically for Glassdoor (and used for no other purpose).

Finally, the text that is posted should be somewhat disguised if possible, with altered vocabulary, atypical slang, and distinctly different grammar and sentence structure. Any facts that can reveal identity should be removed.

Under no circumstances should a native Android/iOS app be used to post or access any such review.

It sounds like we will have examples soon of what happens without these precautions.

I imagine that many reviews will be coming off Glassdoor's site rather soon.
Certainly makes you wonder about their current stellar rating.
then you must hate edm bc that is technically like disco v4
I thought it was pretty well established at this point that homelessness isn’t a financial issue, but instead a mental health / drug abuse issue?
Health care industry should collect everything they can though? More information means doctors can make better decisions.
Actually, this subpoena is possible because of this US statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1782

Edit: there is even a Wiki page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_1782_Discovery
great rant, but then he submits code like

if (mpa && mpa->locale)
freelocale(mpa->locale);

which are known to cause bugs fairly easily (see gotofail [0])

[0]
https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2014/03/apples-gotofail-...
Actual title:

"Twitter argues against Elon Musk’s plea to schedule trial in 2023"
>metal gears

It is surprising how much you have to know to make gears to be used in mechanical power transmission. It's not magic, and definitely doable, but you can't just cut them out out of sheet stock on a CNC router and expect them to work for years.
Please don't buy into the propaganda, the rest of the world just really enjoys fetishizing us.
Netflix's idiocy here recently pushed me to setup my home server with Radarr/Sonarr and Plex. Super easy to use, my non-technical girlfriend has downloaded shows and movies she wanted to watch.

We still pay for Disney+ and Binge as they still make it easy to use and have the content we want.

I don't mind paying for stuff. I do mind them squeezing us for every drop they can. It's their prerogative as a company, of course, but if they make it harder than pirating their content, then pirating their content is how it will be for a lot of people.

Especially considering, at least for our household, Netflix does not provide enough value in terms of content we want to watch to be worth paying extra for.
The Secret to an Elephant’s Trunk Is Skin Deep
It's fascinating, watching them point the gun at their own foot and slowly pull the trigger.
Similarly, storage lockers. Might be simpler to set up, but probably less income.
Yeah, same here. It turns out that data-driven, 'viral-focused'[1] TV content is just not enough to justify a price increase over the media giants that have huge back catalogs to depend on. They are a content company trying to behave like a tech company.

[1] Drive to Survive is a good example of this - once a year bait to get people back. I imagine there are similar single-show subscribers in other genres that cancel immediately after.
At the level of contacts that these orgs sellers have with enterprises (CxO), I can see why that would be a factor. Microsoft is not in tbe habit of buying pharmacies, airlines and grocery chains. Amazon would make many execs nervous on that ground alone.
Here's what I don't get... there's more media than EVER in history (well, by definition there always will be). Netflix started out as a place I could get any movie. I remember my neighbor got "Kellys Heros" in the mail from Netflix and we ate Chinese Food. I felt bad but they offered it. In my family we had no TV and NEVER got takeout. To this day, it's one of my favorite flicks.

So many films, so cheaply to be had. Clint Eastwood did what, 500 films? Surely they can fill up a good catalog.

All this spending on Netflix's own studio is ludicrous cheap-money investment banking startup lunacy.

Just give me a big catalog of films, and give me all the stupid tv shows too. MASH, The Office, whatever. Pay HBO for sopranos and move on.

Or, just be a carrier. That's what Netflix is good at. Delivering reliable and easy to access, good quality streaming. Don't worry about the rest. I love my Roku because I can search and it'll tell me what service has the film or show I want to see. There's a good number of Cary Grant films I get for free consistently.

All that to say, Netflix seems to spend money on stupid stuff.
The labor costs aren't, however. I've helped maintain various maker spaces. Most 3D printers were nightmares that were constantly breaking down. The most reliable we've found have been the Prusas, and even they require regular work. We have 4 at the moment, and at any given time at least 1 is usually down for some reason or other.
The downside is they tend to grow much higher than the native flora blocking out the sunlight for them.
> While the actual capacity is classified for NATIONAL SECURITY REASONS, we can say this: The Utah Data Center was built with future expansion in mind and the ultimate capacity will definitely be "alottabytes"!

https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
First amendment rights are pretty sacred here. Generally, yes, you can say whatever you want without LEGAL consequences.

For a defamation case to succeed in the US, the accuser has to prove that a statement was made that a reasonable person would interpret as a statement of fact. That means that something like "zuru is the worst place to work in the world!" would not put the person at risk of losing a defamation case, because "worst place in the world" is subjective, and no reasonable person would think it is an objective fact.

If they said something like "zuru management ate my babies!".... well, that still wouldn't get them in trouble because it is so obviously not true that no reasonable person would think it was a statement of fact.

If they said, "zuru didn't pay me my last paycheck," well then you might be at risk for defamation if it turns out they did actually pay you (the truth is always an absolute defense in the US, so you can't get in trouble for saying something that is true)

Now, even if it wasn't true, the accuser still has to prove that the person either KNEW it wasn't true, or completely disregarded whether it was true or not when they made the statement.

It is hard to get someone in trouble for what they write or say in the US.
I see it rarely discussed, but self-hosting has a maintenance cost beyond server time: you need people with knowledge and competences to keep it alive. If the rest of your stack is not self-hosted the same way, you'll be keeping these people around just for your chat platform and some other perhaps non critical tools, which might not make business sense depending on your company...
The US court deciding under New Zealand law is bad, very bad:

"Here, then, the question under New Zealand law ..."

The day the courts here decide to pay attention to say the Russian or Saudi laws a lot of people would get in a lot of trouble.
Not a good look on the current employees either that their firm sues for bad feedback. Probably good idea to start looking to move on to firms with better practices.
They have 5000+ employees. I don't think their recruiting efforts have been hindered. The CEO's decision to pursue this has a larger negative effect than the comments on Glassdoor. I'm evidence as I had never heard of this company, do not peruse Glassdoor, but now I know this company's name and that the CEO is a tosser.
Some people struggle with reinvention. I tend to branch out every 4-5 years. I think this person thought he had the one true career and had difficulty with reality.

Our high school cohort was just old enough to see the end of the “dinosaur” tech company era. This guy was a few years older than me (his younger brother was my age), I think he thought he was retiring with a gold watch or whatever.

It seems quaint now, but it was a thing. My dad’s friend was a GE lifer, they moved around the world like they were in the army to the next posting.

Today, we’re all more paranoid and mercenary, even govenrment workers jump ship.
> What they did to catch the Unabomber

Have everyone's siblings read all the reviews and see if anyone recognized it?
> First we payed for screens, now we need to pay for homes, then what?

>What will they invent to take more money from us?

You never paid "for screens" (ie. unrestricted access except for number of screens).

>4.2. The Netflix service and any content viewed through our service are for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household. [...]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180613033307/https://help.netf...
I never understood this and still don’t.

The P in API is programmer’s. Specifically it is a programattic call.

REST says you get hyperlinks, which are effectively documentation in the response.

Which is nice.

But a program isn’t a person it doesn’t need docs in the response.

And URL links are not sufficient documentation to use the interface.

So I don’t get the REST use case outside of some university AI project where your program might try to “make sense”’of the API.

And therefore I have never tried to use REST and I have never seen anyone else either at anywhere I have worked.

It is a nonsense concept to me.

REST API is a contradiction in terms.
Little – A small, easily embedded language implemented in a single .c file
Thank you! I've got a lot out of your writing over the years, especially when I was very new to functional programming. (Though I still can't write Javascript to save my life :)
2 negative quarters is pretty widely accepted as a recession and much objective than NBER’s definition.
What’s the deal with high bypass turbofans vs turboprops?

Turbofans look a lot like the jet engine in this video but, as you point out, only the core is the turbine and most of what’s inside the cowling is a fan for pulling air past the engine, which pulls the plane forwards.

Turboprops do this but, to a lay person, in a different way. Four propeller blades instead of hundreds, and no cowling. Is it just cheaper to build a turboprop, and turbofans are the ultimate in terms of performance?
Stepping back a bit, assuming one can grow a social media platform to XX% of the population, what makes it any more or less valuable than the next fad/platform that grows to the same XX%? If you are selling eyeball-time via ads, the two platforms have similar value. Maybe it's a little bit different with better ad targeting. But any arguments based on "our audience consists of well educated 18-35 year olds with disposable income" lose merit once growth plateaus and you realize that your audience is just the same general population that cable reached 20 years ago.
EE spent so many years making sure everyone knew it's impossibly hard, the professors eat their young, etc. I've seen this in other professions where the incumbents desperately want to impose, in actuality, the uphill-both-ways life story they believe they endured. And then they are shocked when the young peace out. The military, and their insanely rigorous special warfare training. The medical profession in general.

Seriously, people, what did you expect was going to happen?
Mexican president's plea to Biden over Julian Assange as he renews asylum offer
Public keys count as encryption to me.
All the manufacturing is off-shored and so the EEs are too. It's that simple.
> Q: Why don't you use the term Open Source when talking about the source code?

> A: The definition of the term Open Source is heavily debated. The Open Source Initiative has created a definition of the term Open Source where it must be possible to commercialise the source code. The Defold Foundation has made the decision to prevent commercialisation of the game engine and editor (the Game Engine Product). We want Defold to always be free to use! (You can of course still sell your games and plugins and you can modify the engine as much as you like).

Depending where your moral compass lies this is either even better than open source or worse.
Last time I evaluated this, sixel & base64 image placement relative to re-positioned cursor had slightly different behaviors across different implementations. I think the only one with well-defined placement/dimensions behavior was the Kitty format--which is unfortunately Kitty-only.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

If the goal is to hot-patch graphics into existing TUIs, Kovid is probably on the right track with this. It needs to be something richer than what sixel or iTerm2 provide--with pixel placement, play/pause, scaling, etc. Though for a do-over of piping a UI over a (relatively) low-bandwidth wire, I think something like Sun NeWS would have been a simpler & more feature-complete approach.
When Google and apple came out during the pandemic and showed the anonymous data on every city… it was pretty obvious they were prepared for that way too quickly.

It’s safe to assume, you’re tracked 24/7 and everything’s recorded imo.
High rates of cancer in teenagers is not surprising? I’m not talking about 50+, I’m talking about tumors at 16-25 at a rate high enough that you can ask a Belarusian kid if they still talk to their high school friends and they’ll answer “many died already” which is not the normal answer you get from those questions. I don’t understand your correlation of people who are 90 without thyroids vs people in their 20s that had tumors and had to have them removed.
Your dads job is to see people with cancer, of course he sees a lot of them. It’s like a mechanic saying “I see lots of broken engines, therefore any engine that’s broken is normal, even if it’s at 20000km”
They sell frozen Orange Roughy at Costco. It sounds more appetizing than it actually is.
Giving a company your real identity and trusting them to keep you anonymous isn’t a good idea. Either keep yourself anonymous online using your own open source toolset, or consider yourself identified when doing anything.
> The UK government last month approved his extradition to the US, prompting an appeal.

Assange still has maybe a couple of levels of appeals left, but it's not clear he can delay the process until after the next presidential term starts, if that's his plan.
What if they went the other way, reduced the price and lowered restrictions to the point where, in a world with numerous alternatives, people keep their service simply because it's inexpensive?

Because what they're doing now isn't going to work (for me).
A site that promises anonymity without ensuring that compelling identifying data is technically impossible is unfortunate. They are one good breach away from ruining many lives.
Last time i heard some pretty smart people were pushing a Kg standard made of a very exact number of molecules of Si. So yes, by definition it should have a exact number.
The principle isn't even remotely the same. Most physicians won't hesitate to prescribe.
>They are a content company trying to behave like a tech company.

I'd say that it originally was reversed. With the advent of streaming, they saw the writing on the wall that all studios would prefer to have their content on their own platform. Like, duh! So in order to combat the loss of that back catalog content, they had to become a content company. They just can't compete as well now that everyone has their own platform that needs content.
The version that you got though would still be runnable? It didn't have DRM, have at it!
A US court deciding to go along with it is news, though.
> If so, is this legal?

If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game.

Laptops are cheap. There’s no reason to mix personal and corporate usage.
"...almost everything that I see about this dispute takes place in the alternate universe, the one where Twitter and Musk are going to court to determine once and for all how many bots there are. They just aren’t. In our actual universe, Twitter has made only extremely cautious and limited representations about how it counts bots. And Musk is mad that the bot-counters didn’t count bots the way he wanted them to. He met with Twitter’s management, and they explained how they count bots, and he was horrified. He came away from their meeting thinking that he could do a better job of fighting spam at Twitter, by sprinkling some machine learning on the spam or whatever. That’s great! That’s why he wanted to buy Twitter! And why he should have to!"

(Matt Levine's newsletter today)
152nd or so
2008 Fielding definitely wouldn't agree with me that HATEOAS is for humans.

That's a conclusion I came to after watching it never catch on in the JSON API space and then trying to come up with an explanation as to why. I'd love to hear what he thinks of the idea.

Thank you for the thoughtful comment!
They don't allow re-selling the engine or editor, that's why.

Technically it doesn't meet the open source definition because open source should allow people to commercialize the source code. Defold allows you to see the source, modify it, and make contributions, but even those modifications cannot be commercialized.

You are free to use it to make paid games, or make and sell plugins, etc.
Consider that the space shuttle was considered one of the most complex projects in history with around 1 million parts. 1 million loc projects are common, a large tech company like google likely has billions of loc.

Putting all of this together sensibly is hard.
Rocking the boat is probably a bad idea for Netflix. If they start sparking family discussions about usage, a lot of families will have moments where everyone says "I thought you were using it." And then they just cancel rather than absorb the multi-home price hike for a service they hardly use.
A test: if it was illegal by default, would there be a reason to make it legal?
Who pays the moderation fee? Who runs the servers? Who decides whether someone is allowed to act as a fact checker? None of that would be enforceable. It's just a stupid, impractical idea from start to finish.
https://twitter.com/htmx_org/status/1549224668942450690
I don't know what you can do in your garage, but in my two car garage I can do:

* Basic blacksmithing (small furnace & anvil)
* Woodwork using power tools & manual tools (table saw, miter saw, router table, band saw, planer, etc)
* Metal working
* Ceramics casting
* Jewelry making
* 3D printing (resin and reel)
* Laser cutting (48 x 24)
* Vacuum forming
* Robotics
* Paint spraying (just bought a five stage paint blower)
* CNC (small format, would like to add a 5-axis eventually)
* Shoot build videos
* Electronics design & diagnostics (just finished my new ESD workbench with component storage)
* Laundry
* Mini-CostCo with freezer section

Will be adding a 48x48 CNC in the coming weeks, once I finish some more cabinets

What I cannot do in my garage:

* Park a car
* Find enough time to do what I want

If you've got a 4x8 CNC and/or large format laser cutter, you pretty much have a small business at that point. It is then up to you how you monetize it.
My learning is that we should never trust any site that says a form is anonymous. Use TOR and a disposable email alias to create account. If they have anything that blocks using either, don't participate if you want to be anonymous.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton

A new name is needed for Classic REST. The use of HATEOAS is ugly because it has HATE in the name. Hypermedia Constraint REST is better. Stateless REST. Pure REST. Classic REST. Separation of Concerns REST. Rest 1.0. Hypermedia REST vs JSON REST
Bring back Katrina trailers.
I think specialist components for niche hobbies is a great niche generally - especially when the hobby has the potential to blow up into something bigger.

Bikepacking bags (and to some extent ultra-light hiking) are good examples that come to mind where people started things as hobby businesses in their garage and they quickly expanded because of demand.
upvoted for relevance, but really it's NZ law that fails to sufficiently protect free speech
Food for thought:

At the time of this comment almost all the top comments are about pay. No doubt pay is an important consideration, but it worries me when it’s the primary consideration. The best engineers I know like engineering because they have a natural curiosity to learn how things work, not because it’s the easiest route to riches. Any engineering position can lead to a comfortable life, but when everything is about the hustle to make the most money the quickest way possible, it’s worrisome.

It’s like when you look at how the career fields for elite schools tend to fall into a few select categories: law, finance, consulting. (Sometimes medicine but that can be for or against this point, and would be a digression.) It’s not bad per se, but it’s can smell an awful lot like status climbing. To paraphrase a professor of mine: “there are people who’s goal is to climb to the top of the world and those who’s whose goal is to build the world. Be careful not to confuse the two.”
With enough kids they’d stack corpses to climb out.
No, that's not theft it's exploitation by a large company against people who struggle to defend themselves against it.
Studios launched their own streaming services, and will not allow Netflix to carry their shows and movies. They want that money for themselves.
The level of effort to do that is insane lol

Then the first time you talk, your voice unmasks you.

I’d you have a phone near by or any microphone or camera you can theoretically be identified.
This is true. I went to school for EE, but was interested in Computer Science. There was a stigma to switching from EE to CS as taking an easier course because you couldn't hack it in EE. It was seen as a failure or a defeat. I toughed it out and graduated with an electrical engineering degree, but now I'm a programmer anyway. Wish I had just switched once I realized I liked CS more and saved a bunch of time.
SWE salaries are also very high because right now it's cheap as hell to run a software company leading to huge returns. Overheads are miniscule. The salaries can take a larger slice of the pie.

A lot of people in the comments are talking about how EE work is comparatively much harder. But that's irrelevant. SWEs simply make businesses more money.
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Yeah, I honestly thought The premium plan was kind of intended for sharing, which is why I pay for it. In fact, the only reason I still have Netflix is so that my folks can use it and so that my kids can watch Sing 2 on repeat. If I have to pay more to use the 4-screen plan on 2 screens that happen to not be colocated, then I’ll just buy the movie and mom will have to find the great british baking show elsewhere. Sorry mom.
Is it just a fancy Martingale then?
Something to note is that the standard for defamation is higher in the US if you're a public figure such as a politician and requires you to prove actual malice. So if someone truly believed that Hillary Clinton was part of a satanic pedophile ring and told others as such, it would be almost impossible to successfully sue them.
Check out AgentJayZ's videos on YouTube if you'd like to learn more about jet engines in general: https://www.youtube.com/user/agentjayz