skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest value I got from my Flipper was when a security company was installing a security alarm in my business local, and made a claim that their tags were "unhackable" and "unclonable".

~20 seconds and one cloning later, the installer said something like "Wow, guess we need to update the employee handbook" and I no longer felt comfortable with the installation so asked them to leave after that.

I also once forgot the garage opener to the public garage I usually use, but had the signal saved on my Flipper, so that saved me like 5 minutes of not having to park, go home, go to the car and then park inside the garage.

Otherwise, it's mostly just for fun.
idk, ask your boss that.
Or it guarantees you’re in the next round of layoffs. You’re now a liability and they’ll be looking for a replacement with better loyalty signals.
Thank you, I deleted my account.
This reminds one of my favorite episodes of the IT Crowd, in which Roy gets a life expectancy of only days, hilarity ensues

https://youtu.be/X-lU1SeyWew
Reminds me of Standup Maths using colored spreadsheet cells to paint an image.
20th birthday of the Selenium project will be this year! (October-ish)
Of course people are people. The person I was responding to misunderstood the US constitution as a list of human rights, as well as the enforcing mechanism for the US constitution, and who it applies to.
Oh, a mini-cycle could be: at first, the companies that start manipulating the reviews tend to be the more connected and on-the-ball ones, so users don’t mind as much, since the companies that are trying to exploit the rankings them are also filtered for competence.
> If you can build me a tool ... I'd like to start a company with you and we can make a lot of money together.

If you can't tell how good a programmer is by his resume, then....why the hell does everybody use resumes to try to do it???

The kicker is you can't sort good programmers from bad programmers by keyword filtering. Asking for specific languages, or specific frameworks, is a particularly egregious sin. If one of the magic keywords is "nodejs", you'll filter out that guy who has been using javascript + PHP for Facebook for 10 years. That guy is not going to have any trouble picking up nodejs.

If "5 years experience" is a magic keyword, you'll filter out all geniuses who decided that 4 years at Amazon is enough for anybody and wants to make a move.

So, if you are a genius, and you are one of the 1,000 people who applied, what are you to do? If your resume is pre-filtered by keyword, there is a HUGE incentive to put those keywords in--at least their resume would have a chance to be seen by a person, and its not like he'll face any repercussions for it.

Its a classic vicious circle: companies are too picky on the requirements, which prompts applicants to fudge on their resume--which prompts companies to be EVEN MORE picky in their requirements, in desperate hope that if they just put enough keywords in, they will only get the resumes they want. The industry has got to break out of this cycle.

> wouldn't help you pass our assessment,

I hate to put it in such stark terms, but if your assessment is ruling out good programmers and letting through bad programmer(s), its worthless. You need replace it with something that actually works.
Thank you for doing this
I mean, this stuff does happen.

There is an old electric station near me that is used for various things sometimes. Some band was in there shooting a music video and bumped something and somehow the whole area started filling with water. Nobody could stop it.

The government, the water company, everyone was struggling to figure out what to do, and they decided to call the old guy that used to work there. He was in his 90s but he told them how to fix everything.
I don't think concentration of power is the root of corruption. Corruption is usually distributed across an entire system, and even if there is a boss at the top, they're reliant on a lot of other people to stay in power (see Tammany Hall). What corruption needs is mechanisms which can be exploited to ensure that a system designed for the public good can be used to enrich individuals.
I understand that it can't be done currently, I meant that it is a feature that could be offered by airbnb in the future since it has been done by others in the same industry.
Yep, it's so disappointing how many web projects provide solid value for many people, have a reasonable business model, but go to absolute shit and eventually fade to nothing chasing unsustainable returns. It's staggering how much better the web could be if the demand for exponential returns hadn't become so dominant on the business side.
And yet as conpared to a real source, all thst you've added
To your aegument is "this LLM is a summary of real sources (that are trustworthy) I've seen elesewhere, trust me bro".
I know people who belive confidently in many different conspiracy theories. If asked they would claim there are supporting studies, docters say so, etc..
Summarizing information online that's not from a verifiable source just isn't very useful.
> plausible scenario

I’m not sure what you are calibrating against but I feel like the last 20 odd years are full absolute batshit crazy stuff that doesn’t make sense and this seems rather tame.
Who needs glassdoor when you get red flags like that on your first day.
Shit, and I hate how all of these 'auto-login' prompts appear in Chrome, and if you accidentally click it, then boom, now your name is all over the place. Think this is how I ended up in GlassDoor to begin with.
What Mob Programming Is Bad At
I see a lot of falsehoods (like "nobody ever sold an emulator before," when Apple showcased commercial PlayStation emulation at a keynote event in 1999) going around and I assume the reason is people don't like the implications of this case and are substituting a more palatable version of events that didn't really happen.
Wenn die Leute auseinandergehen, da sagen sie “Auf Wiedersehen”
The issue is asexuality isn’t used as a precise word. Some definitions are self-limiting in that way but not all.

I completely lack sexual attraction. That doesn’t mean I can’t have and enjoy sex for other reasons.

Sexual attraction isn’t necessary to desire children. And lack of it is not a hinderance if you don’t mind the process. ;)
I wouldn't dismiss that scenario. It seems plausible that the documentation is so extensive that it takes time and effort to answer some questions. It might be easier to just ask the authors, if they're still around.
The legislation that would have restored current-expensing of 174 expenses has not yet passed in the Senate, so capitalizing is still the law.

(https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/03/12/business-owners-un...)
I feel like if managers are using third party tools to try and find employees changing their linkedin,, they have waaay too little to do
normally mobbing refers to workplace bullying?
> Can you just imagine that? You wrote software in your 30s, and then 50 years later your grandchildren have to come visit you in the old folks home to ask you...

Yes, I have nightmares like this all the time.
Yeah, and the problem is that if you try to start a bootstrapped company to compete with Glassdoor without ever taking funding, you’ll be outspent on marketing by the companies that did take funding and you’ll go under. There’s a reason so many of these sites are VC funded even when it feels like they shouldn’t be. And VCs are often willing to fund things with a 1% chance of success, so even if multiple VC-backed companies in a market have failed, it won’t dissuade them from investing.
I'm well aware there's nuance but it's still a problem.

A country club is extremely biased towards conservatism even if there isn't an all encompassing authoritarian mind control scheme for it.

Leftism is popular in Academia because of selection bias and not some huge conspiracy, I'm aware, but that is still a problem if it lets so much misbehaviour pass and keeps gaslighting critics.

>being left-wing does not mean a scientist will accept to reject the truth

I agree but it's been known to happen and it's been known to be brushed under the carpet.
Although there has been recent cases of literal socialist conspiracies in Ivy League universities.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-...
But the problems are not "just changing some text" they're renegotiating contracts and making technical modifications and...

My objection isn't to your opinion that we should make progress or change, it is to trivializing the complexity of that change.
But publish it where, though? It has to be:

- Publicly accessible.

- Timestamped.

- Immutable (or at least with edits marked as such).

- Widely trusted (or too big to be bribed in small cases, e.g., Google).

- And keep those features for many years.

Twitter was surprisingly good at that in the past, but no more. Blockchains, as mentioned in other comments, give excellent immutability; but the field is such a minefield that I'd struggle to find a trustworthy blockchain explorer.
Looks very promising. Will try
Same. Firefox says it's got a bad cert, and employer detects it as a malware site. Wonder why. Certainly it doesn't block all of github.io... why this guy's site?
My father died a few years ago at age 89. Timber logger, driving a cat at a work site, took a tumble down a hill.

Sad to lose him, of course, but it was inevitable that he would have worked until he died. Probably worked as a logger for nearly 75 years.

I remember when I was a kid, he came home with a broken leg, splinted by some coworkers. He insisted on having dinner with us before going to the emergency room and getting a cast.

I have a strong work ethic, but I still feel like an irresponsible juvenile when I compare myself to my dad.
I never thought of this before now, but tech from 1977 might not even be using ASCII.
Here's a fun thought, how many Starship launches would it take to put the equivalent mass of the ISS up in the same orbit?
The hard lesson that TikTok creators may have to learn
Out of curiosity, I had a look at my account on glassdoor and my name is "Rollo Tomasi". Seems about right :)
You will be on the next round of layoffs regardless of your loyalty. "You were updating linkedin" is the excuse. It could be anything else. But the reality is that they found someone cheaper.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

Edit: so many of those comments have to deal with the contents of this particular article (which does add more background) so I think we need to move them back. Let's keep the less baity title from the other post, though.
Oh thanks for reporting this just pushed a fix!
I mean what kind of websites are we talking about here? The kinds of websites where all the value can be extracted by via a LLM are just content farms.

And yeah, that sucks for content farms but putting up content and getting nothing in return is already how ad blockers work and it hasn't destroyed the them. I seriously doubt that AI traffic will even put a dent 1/1000th of the traffic loss of Google snippets.
See my top-level comment. I went through this process and the confirmation message seems to indicate it does perform a deletion vs. a deactivation.
And don't forget that brilliant "HR says we can't assign any fives, and only a handful of fours" thumb on the scale.
>Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them.

OMG please don't do this - it's more gamed/scammy than online reviews: people will routinely post sponsored content disguised as personal recommendations. The FTC occasionally cracks down on it (or sends warning labels) but it's still so ubiquitous.
The Expanding Diversity of Viruses from Extreme Environments
What objective measurements are good for engineering?

You can come up with superficial ones: lines of code written, tickets closed, hours seen in office, but I doubt those are strongly associated with effectiveness. Everyone in has probably had weeks where they “did nothing” because they were working on a tricky problem or doing work outside of what was quantified.
Avoidant attachment at its best.
Does it look better now? I just pushed a fix for larger screens! We just redesigned our blog so there's still some rough edges :)
Wikipedia is an amalgam of a large number of humans editing w/ some guardrails provided by the guidelines and tech (clean-up bots, edit alerts). If there's a human problem (corruption, bias), there's no tech solution that'll magically make all of it go away.

The reason to make a new wiki or wiki-style technology is to serve a different informational niche, guided by different rules. There's a reason each video game has its own Wiki. You could fork Wikipedia to be more inclusionist, or have people from one particular political viewpoint - if that's your goal.

But re-creating Wikipedia to do exactly what it's supposed to do - form a body of encyclopedic knowledge (subject to copyright laws, etc) - this doesn't make sense, and isn't a convincing argument for a new Wikipedia, even if its distributed.
The Balanced Scorecard: How to Use KPIs Effectively
I use Beeper on Android to have one app through which I send messages on WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc. I never cared for iMessage support.
Zero-ETL data integration platform
AI vs. Artists [video]
I agree that it should just refer to the southern area, and it's possible that as SF has hollowed out and doesn't have nearly as many tech workers it will return to that definition.

But it's not just tech firms — sometimes law firms and other types of companies will open an SF office and call it their "Silicon Valley" office.
I used to think similar to you, as an engineer I didn't see value in sales. Then I tried to sell something myself and I realized it is not easy. You hear no all day long it starts to get to you.

The best sales people I've seen are relationship builders. They understand their clients needs (Even if outside the core market) and try to find a solution for their needs. This looks like wining/dining on the outside but it's important.

I would suggestion anyone that wants to build something to try and sell first. Then you'll realize why they get paid and can be very valuable.
My experience is that the best devs should not be crushing tickets. Just like the best surgeons have some of the worst survival rates, because they get the hardest patients, the best engineers should be working on the hardest problems the team faces. They should be spending a lot more time doing research, de-risking and clearing the way so that the rest of the team can crush the tickets.
Oh, there's a Gwern page about that. That's perfect, thanks for the link.
Why's this bloke want to be named Satoshi so bad? He's just going to to get a massive tax bill and sent to jail if that's ever found to be the case.
Does anyone have a list of companies that do not do this?
I don't see this as a problem - getting a message just right does take significant time and effort. While you cannot spend 5 hours on every email for every support request, you can spend that much the first time you communicate a specific message.

Focus on categorizing the emails you have sent, noting which ones get a positive response and which do not, and using the positive prior emails as templates for future emails. You'll still spend the right effort on messaging, while re-using your prior work so you speed up over time.
Nah, it’s written. It’s an iOS app, and Apple requires a well-written policy.

Also, I have gotten used to doing things this way. I’ve been writing software for this particular demographic, for over 20 years.
"A republic, if you can keep it" -bf

america gets many things wrong, but to think it deserves to collapse or that it shouldn't take steps to protect itself is ignoring history.

tiktok is controlled by a country we're entering/entered a new cold war with. china is not your friend.
The project calculates if the meal plan is good value FOR YOU based on your eating habits.
Reaction I: Who exactly considers the NYT to be decently pro-labor (or Word-of-God infallible), to give a "no they are not" article a good journalistic reason to exist? (Vs. "clicks pay the bills, kid".)

Reaction II: Are other major retailers generally better in this regard, to make singling out Walmart a good journalistic decision? (Vs. another "clicks pay the bills, kid." answer.)
> Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

I can verify this was true at least a few years ago. My friend's company had some bad (but totally honest) reviews. They requested them to be removed. Denied. A few days later they received an email from Glassdoor, talking about some sort of premium plan. They signed up. The bad reviews disappeared a few days later.
Because you're looking for a very specific language or tool experience and not capabilities. This is a common mistake. Many developers might have loads of experience in the problem domain your company needs but not a specific language or framework. Like you do integrations for banking clients. You look for a Java developer and find someone who knows the framework you're using but they've only ever developed APIs for mobile apps. Instead look for the person who might have done some Java a lot of Cobol and has worked with mainframes and banking systems. That person might have even been a sysadmin and learned coding but they'll hit the ground running.
I have no need to do that as I'm actually involved in my teams and don't need arbitrary numbers to see that someone is contributing. I'm fortunate that I have been able to avoid (or actively dodge) metric perverts in my career.
1000 lb-ft available from a standing start. Even better than semis, which although get peak torque at low RPMs, still have to get to some rev range (combined with gearing down for those standing starts). I don't fully understand EVs, but afaik that's the only road-going tech today that provides instantly-available torque at any RPM (including near zero, the 'standing start').
I was able to login just now using an email address.
Since this is a topic that will surely be contentious, I’ll offer a change of mind perspective. For many years, I was a staunch advocate for gun rights—more specifically, for the principle that the state shouldn’t have a monopoly on violence or the tools thereof. My principles are largely unchanged, but my view on guns is very different now, because:

1. I allowed myself, through honest reflection, to be persuaded by clear evidence of harm reduction associated with limiting access to guns. Any theoretical objection I had to that evidence was motivated by bias, however rooted in principle.

2. On similar reflection, I accepted the fact that such principle has little practical impact in the face of a modern, highly organized functioning state. Even the most heavily armed populace stands no chance at out-gunning its governing state, no matter how unjust its governance, barring other failure modes of that state which would be just as applicable regardless of how well armed the populace is.

3. Observing that my supposed fellow advocates for gun rights, by and large, are far less principled on the matter… and far more likely to defend—up to and including their own armed violence—such state injustice. These gun rights in practice are effectively a tool of oppression, rather than a bulwark against it.
No, but I did find myself in the mid 90s as an intern trying to figure out code from the early 80s. It was really tricky code to get ECG processing working on some very small memory footprint or something. The name of the woman that wrote it was at the top of the file, and I looked her up in the HP company directory and she still worked there. As a hail-mary, I emailed her and asked a question about it. And she immediately got back to me with the answer. So, there are some engineers out there that do remember this sort of thing.
May be I am old. But it disgusts me that OnlyFans exists and some men are so morally deprived.
Don't build your applications on a single LLM call
Generating synthetic traffic to monitor system health
It's bad PR because Apple is going to keep breaking it and then people go on social media and talk about how it doesn't work.
I would use my old person privilege to berate you for using "AI" to "understand" the code rather than getting your soft hands dirty.
Meta had better rollout their WhatsApp bridge thing soon
So, to make sure I understand, you’re saying that there are no rights, and no one should have any rights. So if a government declares that it can imprison anyone indefinitely for any reason at any time, that’s a good thing. There is no right protecting people’s freedom. Governments can and should be able to do anything they want. Is that it?
> old commodore PET wasn’t rendering ray-traced 4K UHD graphics at 60hz…

Nor is my phone, yet newer apps are now struggling to render basic GUIs at 60hz.
I know for sure that Glassdoor has no problem with companies flooding their page with fake positive reviews. I worked for a shady company that did exactly that in the most blatant way possible. They consistenly posted short vapid 5 star reviews on a regular weekly schedule from the same IP. I tried reporting it to Glassdoor two different times and they could not have cared less.
Decoding trunked protocols frequently involves simultaneously listening to the control channel and data channels. If you only have access to low-bandwidth receivers, you'll need multiple, which gets into time sync problems.
Can you guys add huggingface transformers as one of the public demo repos?
I have some very specific use cases where I've seen ChatGPT with GPT4 totally fall on its face Dunning-Kruger style.

I'd like to see if your tech solves those issues.
I haven't logged in in years and I don't think I did much back then. Given everything I've read here, I think it might be safer just to let my account lie.
> You're clearly taking this personally, this is internet commenting, take a deep breath and stop fixating on winning internet points.

And then you have the audacity to claim I'm "taking that personally" while engaging into personal attacks against me yourself? Look at you in the mirror, the hypocrisy.

I linked to an article explaining how stupid these google engineers were in their attempt at manipulating Gemini's results for partisan reasons, while you provided no source yourself.
The ISS weighs ~420 metric tons. That is 2-3 expendable launches or 3-4 reusable ones.
> gently prompt the FDS

do you suppose their system prompt ensures it responds more favorably to gentle commands? ;)
but if I can't scale then the VC that gave my startup a huge check over a huge pile of blow at a party in Sunnyvale will harvest my organs
As soon as possible, because you don't know you'll last that long. You do need to use resources wisely though.