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Ask HN: How much to believe Glassdoor and Blind reviews of a company?
I am interviewing with a small company and am growing concerned based on reviews of the company I have been reading.

The reviews of said company on Glassdoor and Blind all have a common theme that the company hires great people, but the executives and leadership in general are just not good at all. The reviews range from "all in all its pretty good, management could use some work though" to "the company and product are going to implode this is so bad" so I'm not sure how bad it is there.

I think it's impossible to know how true this until you work there, but I'm wondering how much stock I should put in these reviews and if I should just disengage from the interview process because of it or not.
My experience is that there were tons of cheaters in the middle, most populated ranks, and it cleared up at Global, or at least the cheats were subtle.

I am certain of this because I climbed to global a few times, and I was tracking VAC bans in my game history. In the top ranks, every other game eventually had a player get VAC ban days or weeks later. In the middle ranks it was one or more players every game.

However the cheaters bothered me less than having to play the team's therapist in every game the moment we lost one round!
You're being downvoted because people hate an idea that

cheating is not trivial problem that hasn't been solved despite decades of research and effort and

that not everything can be done server-side easily
I probably wouldn't get past level 1! Despite playing FPS for decades at this point I've never been able to develop super accurate aiming. I'm good enough for vs CPU games (usually) but against humans I end up with around 5-10% accuracy.

Oh well!
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His account's "about" is prefaced with a link to his Wikipedia article. What a flex.
The first part seems intentionally ambiguously worded to be interpreted as:

> (Stay connected with hands-free calls and messages) and (listen to your favourite tracks through built-in speakers)

vs:

> (Stay connected with hands-free calls and messages and listen to your favourite tracks) through built-in speakers

So it's not clear from that wording that there isn't a display, or that the messages are read aloud. An unambiguous wording would be:

> listen to your favourite tracks and stay connected with hands-free calls and messages through built-in speakers

As, well, the below statement is true whether there is a screen or not, and also doesn't specify that the messages are read aloud:

> No more stopping to answer your phone. Also, make calls and send messages on WhatsApp, Messenger and SMS, completely hands-free – simply by using your voice

That plus the image of the screen floating next to the glasses definitely make it seem like marketing is trying to trick people into thinking there's a display without explicitly claiming it
Not really, that requires an Apple proprietary adapter for connecting to Cameras.

If you plug one of those three models of iPads in to a computer they’ll transfer files at 480Mb/s.
What happens if the cops are called, rather than child services?

This is how I ended up in foster care over a false accusation against my parents (in the US). I'm told that if the accuser had called child services directly, they would have done their investigation first and only taken me if they determined I was in danger (which I was not).

But because the accuser called the cops instead, the cops took me without investigating first and handed me over to child services. Thus I spent the entire investigation period in foster care, until a judge ordered me to be sent back to my family. Even though they failed to produce any evidence of abuse, it still took many months.

It was an extremely traumatizing and harrowing experience (honestly even harder on me and my parents than when my brother got sick and died) and remains the worst thing I have ever experienced. But I find it hard to even talk about because people tend to assume that if a child is seized from a home, the parents must have been abusive. (My parents are extremely not abusive, not even in the mildest sense of the word.)

What's fucked is that I actually know two other families who went through this exact same experience: false accuser calls the cops, the cops give the kid to child services, child services puts the kid in foster care while investigating, the investigation turns up no evidence of abuse, the court forces child services to send the kid home, and the kid finally returns home with lifelong trauma.
if facebook were business smart, they'd sell these for less like the TV screen people...
Meta’s smart glasses can take calls, play music, and livestream from your face
...and I'm sure we are going to see more of this in the foreseeable future.
In my industry, mining, I can see this sort of integration into a miner's helmet working its way into sites as a sort of situation analysis tool pretty easily. It would make a lot of things so much easier for folks on the surface to be able to quickly see 3-D scans (lidar would be amazin) of broken rock, or new tunnel, or cracks, etc.

I am with others for the desire for more opennness. I would never hop on this loaded with proprietary restrictions. 100% data control for personal use would be a must.
Is this a reference to Look Around You? Are you Iron DeHaviland?
Only if you don't pay for it. if you pay for it, its average to normal.

(I pay for 1 and I get what I pay for. People respond when I ask for help)
Why is this flagged? Honest question.
I've been using LiveBook and doing my requests and such in there. If you're not an Elixir shop you could probably do something similar with jupyter
Oh, my.

Story mode is good, but some minor things:

flashlight slows the things down quite massively, previous version wasn't fast but this one lags;

it's a bit too dark, I wouldn't mind "turn on the lights" switch;

you can escape to the outbounds in the free look mode (eg at "Khepri accepts the offering..."), though this isn't a problem per se (and an opportunity to show where those Plutonians buried their shi
How to make reproducibility research more systematic
Violated and threatened, as they should
Bleak and creepy at the same time.

Fortunately, I feel that the vibe shift related to this bleakness has already got going, and people seen wearing these abominations will instantly get branded as not-cool and worse. Come to think of it, Ray-Ban was also on its way down well before this.
As a glass wearer I am slightly concerned about the weight: that can't be comfortqble for full day wearing, day in day out.

You probably would have a regular pair of glasses, or no glasses for most of the time, and only wear those when you specifically want the smart features, which makes the seamlessness only occasional. Would you optimize a workflow for something you only wear from times to times ?
Sounds awesome if I can get some additional features like calling and SMS, etc.
>It’s still a small niche

So what? Go play and enjoy.

>VR hasn’t felt necessary to the average gamer

Not even sure what that means. You come across as someone who likes to complain and never actually enjoy something. Good luck with that.
Although the Spectral Suite drama was a poor move from them.
Very impressive. I tested it with:

In Sioux City the Taoiseach parked his coupe by the quay overlooking a fjord. Nearby, a bugle played an octave, children savored sherbet and quinoa with acai, and an artisan sold bagels next to ancient-inspired rouge.

And it got most of the (irregularly spelt) words pronounced correctly except for 'quinoa' and 'acai'.

Just for fun, I also tested some tongue twisters. For some reason, I find it psychologically very difficult to listen to perfectly spoken tongue twisters — almost as if some sort of nail on chalkboard effect is going on!

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick

She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
For if she sells sea-shells by the sea-shore
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
If you want to secretly record people in the bathroom there are a hundred more discrete ways of doing so than these glasses. Someone's shirt button could be doing it right now.
Signs point to yes.
Its hilarious and kind of stupid that this empty rumour has so much traction.

I think it just demonstrates that there is a lot of excitement about the possibilities of AI and also of new gadgets.

It's like, imagine the most awesome gadget ever, now multiply times REAL AI. How can that _not_ be amazing? Whatever it is??

Heh.

But it's also such a fun and engaging exercise to think how AI could be embedded in a new device that you use every day.

It might be really good marketing, whether it was intended that way or not. People can just project whatever they are enthusiastic about onto it.

They may be disappointed at the end, but that might come after they have already bought it.
What happens when you ask about Tiananmen Square?

(Asking for redwood, who's comment was inexplicably flagged).
Do you realize how it sounds to compare the power of a private corporation that sells phones and computers to government agencies that wield the power of literal violence?
i carry this book and a piece of string with me and try to tie various knots. very satisfying while i sit around.

i find it very difficult to remember how to tie a knot when not practiced.

i like the glue that the author recommends in the book for applying on string ends to prevent them from fraying, it's called duco cement -- comes in a green tube.

some of the knots i've remember off the top of my head: bowline, constrictor knot, alpine knot, truckers hitch, midshipments hitch.

and i'll end it with a fun fact,

The Midshipman's Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumstance: you fall overboard and catch hold of the line which you have prudently left trailing astern and find yourself hanging on with difficulty.
There were at least a couple of Nazis there, so technically it's just an extension of the normal law
I just bought a Linux gaming rig as a refresh (buh-bye Windows)... There is a lot to learn.
It's funny and heartening to me that despite their larger population size, we still out-innovate them.
Art sales are obvious money laundering. The only way to compete on price would be to have a connection with someone trying to launder money.
https://hoppscotch.io/

https://recipeui.com/
I don't want to have to set up miniconda. I don't like Python, I am not part of the Python ecosystem, and I don't want to add a bunch of Python tools to my toolchain just to run a friggin' LLM project.

I'm not a C coder either, but I don't complain about those projects because they're almost always "config; make; make install". I basically want something like that, but for Python. The nerd-tapdancing required here is ridiculous.
All good answers, but I'll also add in 'failing upward'. Some people get promoted because of social dynamics, not skill level.
I got a dog and now find common ground with anyone else in my neighborhood walking their dogs. Like a parallel community of 20+ dog owners in my vicinity I would have never talked to (I live in a densely populated place)
Controllable Dynamic Appearance for Neural 3D Portraits
Yeah. I had an X220 (or X220i?) years ago running Debian/WindowMaker until the motherboard died.

I think a "tie" is fair. I'd say the MacBooks last a few years longer, though ThinkPads have more ports. ThinkPads were about as good 10+ years ago as MacBooks are now, so can we just call it a tie? I suppose.

Unfortunately, the keyboards on both have regressed to "fine".
Ha, no kidding! That was every crush I had in high school :P
I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is the good news.

The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/

Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be forced to give it up.
Then what else have we got left in order to confront those very rude people that film you without your consent? It's pretty clear that the law is not up to the task.
> “Early bird gets the worm.” First off, who even likes to eat worms?

Birds. Hence the saying.
The thing about metaphors is that they're not literal.
So... spy glasses?
> If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.

then i don't want it. what's the point of putting a led there anyway?
This is what Java did - JCP created, APIs invented to be implemented by Tomcat, JBoss, fill in your favorite here. Configure your actual instance - in the past this was done with beautiful UIs - total waste of time considering we're in the era of Yaml (FBFW?) configuration.
> But they got married we got married, jobs, moving to new houses, life happened. You focus shifts over time to work and family. It gets harder.

Life didn't "happen" here, you designed divergent paths. This is I know largely a semantic nitpick, but I think this kind of phrasing belies the most common sort of problem that keeps people from doing things like what the OP suggests. In a way it often feels like "life happens" to us, and certainly in some cases that's largely true (unforeseen health complications or accidents for instance), but marriages and jobs and houses and friends really shouldn't feel like that. And if they do, it probably bears a bit of introspection and deliberation to ensure you're not just hurtling through milestones that seem age appropriate and are instead deliberately moving towards the best life you can imagine designing.

Note none of this is commentary on your specifics, of course I know next to nothing about you. I'm only attempting to focus on the phrasing there, and how I think it is indicative of a very common trap we can fall into wherein we can tend to relinquish agency and thus without thinking slide away from the things we cherish (such as friends close enough to be a kind of soul mate).
7 tokens per sec on an i5-11400 CPU using llama.cpp - that's pretty real time for personal use I would think.
Refreshing to see comment like this.

Pro tip: ditch also Twitter/X, Insta, Facebook, TikTok and all that crap.
Bitwig was founded by people who were previously working for Ableton. Some longer, some less long.

But they were not the original team that made Live, that is a bit misleading.
not that it answers your question, but the monitor is 4k which displays a stitched image from 2 cameras[0]

my first thought was 'wow, must be fast.'.

addendum : this link[1] mentions the use of 4K cameras. here's a nice picture of the camera array [2]

p.s. the camera array looks as if it might be a non-planar FDM print, which is cool in its' own right.

[0]:https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-look-inside-the-x-59-qu...

[1]:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/testing-of-x-59-virtual...

[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lr...
> Do any open source product provide all the tools used to make software? I haven't seen the linux kernel included in any other open source product and that'd quite frankly be insane. As well as including vim/emacs, gcc, gdb, X11, etc.

BSD traditionally comes as a full set of source for the whole OS, it's hardly insane.

But the point is you don't need those things to work on Linux - you can use your own preferred editor, compiler, debugger, ... - and you can work on things that aren't Linux with those things. Calling something "open source" if you can only work on it with proprietary tools would be very dubious (admittedly some people do), and calling a project open source when the missing piece you need to work on it is not a general-purpose tool at all but a component that's only used for building this project is an outright falsehood.
Just mouse should be sufficient. Back in 2015 I managed to get up to DMG rank on Macbook with a decent Razer mouse.
Now you can get gaming mouse with a good sensor for ~20 eur.
Virtue of entrepreneurs constrained only by money has failed us, so let's rely on the virtue of government officials and bureaucrats instead, that never went south...

Privacy laws do make some sense at least
I think Half-Life Alyx would qualify
Billions of dollars in my bank accounts, the nerves of national infrastructure run through my hands, my face plastered across the infosphere, yet I am but a helpless pawn of the median consumer!
> This reminds me of a comment elsewhere I also replied to today

Right, looks like you made fun of / were condescendingly dismissive of my comment in another thread, I wouldn't have replied here if I'd realized you were the same person.
To clarify, when I said "Fortunately we have the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which does make this behavior illegal" I was referring to the act and the century plus of case law around the act that solidified what it meant. With laws in the US it's pretty easy to point at any individual law and say "it doesn't actually say that" if you ignore all the jurisprudence that goes along with that law. E.g. The 1st amendment literally only applies to laws the US Congress can make, but centuries of following case law means that it now applies to essentially all governmental bodies in the US.

I think the link you added is great in that it would seem trivial to rewrite that "Example: The Microsoft Case" and apply many of those exact same rationales to what Google has done. I am not saying the case is a total slam dunk, and I think it's fine to argue some of the finer points (e.g. I'm sure there will be a lot of debate along what is described in that "Market Power" section to determine if Google has sufficient market power in search, ads or browsers), but I do strongly push back against the statement I was replying to, "Google, like all companies, wants to maximize revenue. What about this is anti-competitive?" If you can't see how what Google was doing was anti-competitive (whether or not it meets the threshold of deserving of a severe governmental solution), I feel like that's just being willfully obtuse.
They managed to do the thing, but missed the point. The sample results feel straight out of Kinfolk[1] or Cereal[2]. They have that "over-curated" quality we associate with these publications.

1. https://www.kinfolk.com/

2. https://www.readcereal.com/
Honestly I found the post and her attitude kinda annoying.

She dismisses Home Assistant for silly reasons, but then fully acknowledges that the IKEA thing doesn't actually work properly with the Hue kit, and worries that IKEA is going to pull some garbage in the future anyway.

It's a shame that solutions like openHAB and Home Assistant aren't dead-simple for the average person to set up, and they have a bunch of usability issues. But if you're the kind of person who is sick of companies enshittifying the things you've already bought and were happy with, you have to actually own the experience, and openHAB or HA is the only way to do that.

I've been running openHAB for 3+ years now, and while it hasn't been perfect, it does what I want and need, and I never worry about some company updating things and breaking my experience. I update when I want to, and can roll it back it the update causes problems.
Ah yes the Ready Player One option. I suppose it's not entirely unlikely, part of the fun of being in charge is being able to boss around the peasants after all.

I doubt BCI will ever make sense, on a conceptual level it's still just copying and killing your biological self. AGI will likely solve aging way before that becomes viable.
The last thing I'd want to do is to throw cold water on this.

On the other hand, there are far more families than you think where two or more members are permanently estranged. "Overcoming your upbringing" is the pertinent struggle for lots more. And "spending more time with family" is a good way to destroy their mental health.

Not me, of course /s

But hey, if that works for you, then great.
>It feels like I'm living during the times of Xerox Parc, with design studies like the Alto showing off what's possible on bleeding edge, stupendously expensive one-off hardware.

Except with the added benefit that all of the complexity now lies in software, rather than hardware. We've achieved what they set out to do with AI beyond their wildest dreams, and you can run it locally on a tablet sized device. No crazy hardware required.
That’s too broad. The claim is specific, so the evidence needs to be specific.

I never claimed I “liked” China or equated China to the US at all, nor did I say suspicion of Chinese made electronics was without merit. What I said was the specific claim being made was unsupported by evidence that would be trivially collectable if the claim were true.

And no, my word choice was intentional. You seem to be arguing against the common criticisms of your position, but you are ignoring my actual issues. I recommend rereading what I wrote and trying again.
All these people are 100% welcome to use closed-source commercial operating systems if they would like
I increasingly think idea is much much less than 1%. For whatever crazy idea, there are at least 100 people who have thought the exact same idea and 10 people actually tried the one.
I don't use WhatsApp or Messenger, but the messaging apps I use are I'd guess at least 10% gif/photo/video content... some threads more...
Man, it's a hot one
And the cables/cords will all look like this[1] after a month of use because proper strain relief is for "traditional companies."

1: https://www.businessinsider.in/tips-for-fixing-an-iphone-or-...
Spider plants are great cover for a compost bucket with composting worms in case you are getting into composting.
This combination of features makes this platform quite interesting for embedded applications. If the window management API is any good, I think this system could make for quite a decent embedded control system.

I bet you could compile this into WASM and get quite a good web UI with it's fake windowing system.
LOL, imagine thinking that all of thinking can be boiled down to computation.

Of course, spectrum-leaning nerds would think that's a serious threat.

To those folks, I have but one question: Who's going to give it the will to care?
Yea and everyone is getting in shape from VR too...

These are bogus marketing lines that people puppet back to each other.

I know 20 some kids and not a single one has even the slightest interest in VR.

It is really shocking to me how these kids that can play games all the time have absolutely no interest in VR. It is not uncool or passe, it is just absolutely nothing to them.

It is a niche product that enthusiast oversell because the reality is that most people just don't care.
Ten Akhams of Programming maybe?
Brilliant metaphor there in the last 'graph.
Or not allow all apps to send messages to the objects that host those private APIs. Again, unless I don't understand how the message passing system works in objc/swift. (most of my knowledge of the internals comes from reading blogposts on nshipster.com years ago)
I fell in love with it immediately after I clicked the button that say its name.
> rouge threads

"The red threads are not the issue here, dude! ...Also, dude, that's not the preferred nomenclature. 'Native threads', please."