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> The irony was that I was probably the most productive person in that office (in my humble opinion).

It's a cognitive bias. I'm pretty sure I came across such example in Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
CIRA (the .ca registration authority) has been having a bit of a scope creep problem. This is a good example of that. If you want a Canadian domain suffix you pretty much ending up subsidizing the interests of the current bunch who have taken over the board for the organization.
Disagree. Good chairs are one of the best investments you can make in a tech co (Want people at their desks working? Give them nice desks...it’s peanuts in the grand scheme) And beer, Red Bull, etc are rounding errors. A good engineer costs $150+ and another $50+ in overhead. Let’s presume perks like beer and red bull costs at the super high end $1k/year/FTE. You’re increasing costs by 0.5% or less but building an atmosphere people want to work in.
Honest question: what are the issues that a company like meetup faces that would require a large team or significant funding?
Indeed. In my experience of vases, which comes entirely from the BBC's "Antiques Roadshow", they famously come in pairs.
For a time at an old employer I had a desk with a glass wall directly behind me.

On the other side of the glass wall was the pause room, with the coffee machine and everybody gathering. That felt really awkward.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. In so many use cases, shutting off everything except storage would do a good job. And the cloud provider doesn't have to decide anything. It's a simple matter of setting a spending limit with specified semantics. A magic "do what I want" spending limit is not necessary.
> "the same fumes"

But, they're not the same. I had to dig around a bit to verify, but melting lead creates lead fumes: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/exposure.html

You do not have to bring lead to boiling create lead fumes (aka vapor).

Here's the OSHA documentation on lead: https://www.osha.gov/chemicaldata/chemResult.html?recNo=500

They have specifications for testing lead (and other metal) content in the air from soldering operations: https://www.osha.gov/dts/sltc/methods/inorganic/id206/id206....
Is it? The parent poster was specifically trying to say there is signal -- vs just noise -- in purchases like aeron chairs.
They're opening Seattle offices this year. Or at least that's the plan? It might be affected by the epidemic.
The best and most effective way I've found to do this is to have a door that you can lock and a partner who can reassure the kids that dad/mom still cares but is just busy when the door is locked.

Of course, people who were not already setup for working remotely may not have a door they can lock and partner who can reassure.
This paper? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269636462_Implement...

Amazing, thank you! Having a lot of time in my hands I could try to implement it in some other environment.
Depends on whether you want to exist on ads revenue.

You could run Meetup with 5 people in a basement if you had simple subscription revenue, but effectively maximizing an advertising opportunity requires at least ~1000 people.
Star Trek TNG crew wishes Marina Sirtis happy birthday via Zoom
Why? This is just like selling high-quality prints of the paintings, which is already done and nobody complains about.
I have no idea where you get the idea that this is an "American" thing. All the people listed on the project page are outside America. This seems to be the key point your entire argument rests on, and it's just not valid.

edit: I didn't read your essay because, on a skim, it seems like more irrelevant soapboxing about Americans.
I find it both easier to read and to understand.
Yes, but the goal of any movement is once the demands are met, it should be a net positive to you. Can you give an example of a movement, where if the goals are met, it will be a net negative to you?
Then you should indicate as such and let the browser advertise it for websites to pick it up via prefers-color-scheme.
Awesome, thank you. I am not sure how I missed that previously.
Yeah, a "Related Work" section would (potentially) be very reassuring.

What would be really cool is if this could serve as a front-end to e.g. SPIN model checker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promela )
Looks like someone could start making cargo containers that secure into BFE, once the seats are removed...
I was worried about where you were going with that.

But yes, the magic eraser do clean walls very well.
I've worked lots of these jobs in my time. Here is what I would feel better about:

1.) Everyone gets fever checked at the door starting shift. Fever people go home.

2.) Scheduling is devised to segregate employees into non-overlapping groups. We're a work family and we work together in some area. Whatever has to be done to the schedule or even the job details itself to effect this, as far as possible, is done. The goal is to make each family unit as small and physically localized as possible.

3.) Obviously, everyone gets a mask when they become available. If you happen to have access to a mask, then bring it and use it- you're protecting yourself and everyone else around you (from you). (Woodworkers, potters, construction and cement workers etc. normally had a ready supply of N95 and N100 masks on hand in the beforetime).

4.) Hourly hand washing-sanitizing or whatever your skin can bear.

5.) Social distancing rules apply to customers and employees both (thinking of grocery stores here) communicated through signage, flyers and serious verbal intervention if needed.

4.) Employees are authorized and ordered to do what they have to do to keep their personal distance from obtuse / heedless / intruding public without respecting usual rules of "courtesy" and without fear of management discipline. So also between employees.

5.) Delivery people live outside, w/ exception of bathroom breaks, which can also be taken at delivery people's residences, where practical.

6.) Deliveries are assembled and placed outside by inside people.

7.) Inside people do not get close to outside people.

8.) Outside people do not get close to customers, including inside customers homes, enclosed porches, etc.

Knowledgeable healthcare professionals please improve this.
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Some would see a contradiction between that impulse and how companies from Y-Combinator might use a tax-reduction scheme.
Some could even see a connection between tax lawyers introduced by Y-Combinator to founders and that practice.

I’m not saying that _has_ to be the case but "tax-avoidance / tax-optimisation / complex international structure / negotiation with government keen to offer low tax deal" is a common point made against large tech companies. I’m surprised why Sam doesn’t connect that point to his point, or confront that issue directly.
I have a question for you, and the peanut gallery. If you hold this opinion - how many venture-backed startups have you personally been employed by?

Because I see this attitude a lot, but as someone who has worked primarily at these enterprises (good and bad) I don't think you can think that way without being completely divorced from reality. Not all of us are working with Saudi money from Softbank.

Startups that can't stay cash flow positive might as well be enriched uranium right now. Could be worth a lot of money to the right people, but you're not keeping it around the house.
Maybe the engineering team could be small. But a company like Meetup should have a huge sales and customer support teams.
No, they are different. The delivery fees do not go to the delivery person in most cases, and is an additional amount of money going to the company hosting the delivery (whether it's something like Instacart, or in-house delivery like a pizza place). Instacart keeps the entire 10% "Service fee" for orders, for example.

The commenter above incorrect about the taxing, but are correct that tipped workers don't have precisely the same wage laws. Tipped workers are allowed to be paid a lower minimum wage that varies by state. In NYC is is $10/hr as opposed to the standard 15/hr minimum. In Florida it is $5.54, while regular minimum wage is $8.56/hr.

Yes employees are supposed to be compensated in missing tip pay to reach the actual minimum-wage. But also yes, this is the fastest way to get yourself fired from a company. If you are the only employee asking for compensation due to low tips you're effectively admitting you do not offer customer service to the same tier as other tipped workers and should be fired.[0]

[0] I don't personally believe this. But every manager I've ever had while doing tipped work has believed this. And good luck getting a lawyer to fight for you when your salary was previously $5.54 / hour.
You speak of HN as if HN was a single individual with a unified mind.

My opinions are reasonably consistent. However if you try to draw a consistent picture out of a mix of what I say and what others say, you will fail horribly. Sure, I'm happy to point you to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE or https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulato... to give other viewpoints on how laying everything out as a debate between two sides poisons our society. But I wouldn't expect most of HN to be on board with the strength of my views.

I also don't agree with your characterization of the "HN community". This site usually doesn't report on the coverage of the right wing press. When it does, most commentators seem to lean towards the outlook described in https://www.wired.com/story/political-education-silicon-vall.... Admittedly with outspoken exceptions.

As for me personally, I am a libertarian atheist whose explicit goal is to be right..eventually. In that end I care deeply that my impressions reflect reality, particularly for people that I disagree with. I am painfully aware that natural cognitive biases will lead it to be comfortable for me to accept an echo chamber. I care about the misrepresentation not because I respect Christianity - I don't - but because I care that my thinking correctly represents Christians.
Hey, this reminds me of the announcement a couple weeks ago that Amazon is hiring 100k warehouse staff.

In China, companies responded to this shift in demand by having the online-retail/logistics companies (demand way up, not enough workers) contract with the physical-retail companies (demand way down, too many workers) for their workers' time. You'd still be a Macy's employee, but you'd be doing Amazon's work, and Amazon would send Macy's a big pile of cash.

Somehow that seems better for all involved than the way we appear to be going.
I don’t see why if they’re clearly indicated as clones.
Have you found any effective ways to encourage new hires to ask questions?
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Biotech companies are responding well because their incentive structures are well-aligned with discovering a solution (treatment or cure) to this problem. Academics and other government-funded researchers are simply responding to their incentives, which are not well-aligned in this case.

The Manhattan project and others like it succeeded because they gave resources to scientists and researchers who were not adapted to gaming a government-funded and bureaucratically-run grant system. Major government funded research projects (especially international ones like nuclear fusion) are not stalling because of lack of money, it is simply the system and incentive structure. Pouring more money in will not help us.

A prize system like what Tyler Cowen is advocating may work better, though I can't say I'm sure about that.
So it's not a solved problem on massive scale because there aren't frequent and long worldwide air passenger traffic shutdowns.
Covid-19 Projections (US)
They both propagandize but people in the west are less trained to identify US propaganda than Chinese propaganda. The reverse is also true in China. Useful idiots everywhere.

> an educated individual

An educated individual =/= a qualified one. There are qualified experts in government with experience managing the US-China relationship. They would not fixate on Chinese statistics in an case like this. What happened in China was not opaque like secret CPC politburo meetings. It was an incredibly, transparently, urgent crisis - the country was locked down, that alone should sound louder than any statistics coming out of China in dealing with a virus we still don't have good understanding of. China's neighbors - all the countries with experiencing managing responses to movements in China, particularly SARS, acted appropriately. The US - who has/had cultivated decades of relationships with China has many back channels to privileged information most countries don't have.

Also instead of fixating on numbers, fixate on indicators on the Chinese response because that's much more useful given where countries are. China is reopenning schools, factory are spinning backup according to expats, the same expats who can comment on the conditions of the quarantine are also attesting that no locals on their team contracted the virus. Look at imported statistics from countries repatriating citizens. Most Chinese imported cases are from returning students from NA and EU. Singaporean, Taiwanese and Canadian data shows similarly, there's virtually no positive tests coming out of China at the moment. Facts on the ground and external numbers comport that ridiculously aggressive Chinese quarantine works. The question should then be, what amount of half measures is sufficient.
> I think we're seeing that an awful lot of work that people insisted had to be local can indeed be done effectively from remote.

Where are we actually seeing a lot of this? Particularly for companies where they primarily sell hardware products such as Apple?
> That said, I'd be surprised if Apple continues with a hard-line stance on that after all of this: I think we're seeing that an awful lot of work that people insisted had to be local can indeed be done effectively from remote.

After speaking to some recruiters recently, the feeling is that everyone will „do remote for the next 3 to 4 months, until pandemic is over” but afterwards „we are looking forward to seeing our colleagues at the offices in X”.
An interesting idea but sounds like you’re treating labor like property.
What would be the advantage of that? OpenAPI is designed for HTTP-based APIs; I'm sure an equivalent can be done for WebSockets?
This is a huge issue when trying to fuzz async code also.
Great! So it actually fits this situation wherein a large quantity of spyware has just been purchased...

the price increase being the amount they're paying for their workers productivity.
The moment coffee goes I go. So you could say it's more expensive not to pay for it.
Wouldn't that seem useful at this moment?

At this moment, yes. But how do you pay for the 50,000 people and aircraft for the 100 years between pandemics?
I think it's reasonable that if you're going to be in front of a computer for ~8hours a day from time to time you're going to do personal stuff on it. This was especially true a few years ago when smartphones and unlimited data plans weren't quite as common.

I mean sure, if it's the PC controlling some industrial machine you're probably not expected to browse Facebook on it. But if you're some temp working the reception you might have some time to kill even if you do your work properly...

There's also the situation where you're traveling and don't want to carry two laptops from instance.
$50k/year per 150 people is 1$/day per person. How is that expensive?
that's your point of view, and obviously not mine. If everybody stopped tipping people would refuse to continue working in these conditions.
i dont know much about this topic but it doesn't sound as easy as you make it out to be

not that setting up any shelter type would be easy of course but i vaguely remember Erin Pizzey (who set up the first women's shelter in the UK) saying in an interview that she tried at one point to get funding to set up a men's shelter but she couldn't get a single penny.

what she was taking about sounded like it was a long while ago but I seem to remember a guy in canada recently committing suicide because he had tried for years to get funding from the government for his mens shelter but same deal.

whether men have the same trouble setting up shelters in other countries I don't know
COVID-19 is providing many opportunities for criminals. It's only a matter of time before articles come out with titles like "How identity thieves took my federal tax return AND coronabucks" given the delay in filing US tax returns this year.
THere are a bunch of places where 2 to 3 pps are in the office. I never accepted a job that didn't involve me having an office like that.
Are you not familiar with the addage: "The success of your company is inversely proportional to the number of Aeron Chairs you have"

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We designed and built out (first dot com bubble) an office in SF for Quokka Sports.

They got a crap ton of VC$ and they built out this really nice brick and timber office, fish-bowl conf rooms etc...

They crashed and burned BEFORE they were even able to move into this amazing office, near the Ferry Building in SF....

I had to go there and take a bunch of pics of the newly built office, but which was never moved into.

They had a FUCKING BOATLOAD of Aeron chairs... all stacked up to the ceilings in all the conference rooms.

Those chairs at the time were EDIT They were 700, not ~$2,000 a piece - and they had like ~500 of them or so....

So, that used to be an actual measurement of fiscal responsibility in startups 20 years ago; How many Aeron Chairs did you buy with VC Money.

To the downvoters:

https://slashdot.org/story/01/08/07/2314239/aeron-chairs-as-...
Paywall? For me it loads just fine in both Google Chrome and lynx.
It’s not absurd at all, Instagram was only what, 13 people when it sold right? If meetup is in maintenance mode, which it sounds like it might be, then I would have expected it to be very lean too. It might be wrong but it isn’t absurd.
Glad WeWork is gone. The changes they made were unpopular.
'Buying a VPN subscription' is just one use-case. Usually, those VPN services are intended to be used to circumvent geo restrictions.

WireGuard is not only about that. Sure you could do it. But it is applicable for any use-case where you have two or more machines that need to talk over a secure tunnel, over an otherwise not proven to be secure network(which is usually, but not always, the Internet). This ranges from connecting to a machine you have at home, to exchanging data between two office branches, and so on.
But if Rust is the operating system/kernel, whenever it decides to to schedule something is preemption for anything downstream, right?

I mean, you don't actually use preemption in the kernel right? Don't you have to handle all that yourself, since there's nothing higher level than you to handle it for you? In that respect, doesn't plugging in a Futures runtime that looks for device flags and stuff as appropriate and flags tasks to wake up/finish accomplish the same thing? (those are actual questions, not leading statements)
> Sanitizers are made with alcohol, which are presumably in low supply.

Amazon has the global logistical supply chain to make it happen. Bezos can send an email and have a grain-to-alcohol pipeline in the works by the end of the week.
Science has enough money, but is it not efficiently used. Actual researchers are post docs on minimal salary. Most money gets redirected to HR, administrators, ISO compliance etc...
"It would be a security/compliance/legal violation to screenshot the CxO's screen because they might be working on something materially important to our stock price and we can't risk someone in IT seeing that or leaking it".
Bumblebees can feel objects with one sense and later recognize them with another
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My experience with Medium is the paywall is sort of random.
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Pair of helping hands: $10

Lead poisoning: Priceless
The most interesting point in that article is that Japanese citizens and politicians are suspicious of the timing. All numbers looked good until the Olympics were called off. Then Japan started reporting climbing cases and talking about emergency.

I certainly hope that the politicians in Parliament who asked questions got satisfactory answers. I doubt that they did, but there should be time to ask those same questions later when there is a clearer picture.

I just hope it isn't as bad as I fear it will be.
>As far as tipping goes, nurses are not tipped for their work. Nor are doctors. Tipping should not be part of the equation as it puts too much variability in the pay for these people. They should be paid based on the risk and the need for their work, not based on the whims of some people.

Nurses and Doctors make a lot of money and have better health protection. At least, they have full health insurance, compared to food delivery drivers. On top of that, medical professional are expected to be at risk.

If you are coughing and you expect someone to risk their lives, by catching whatever you have, while delivering your food, then, be prepared to shell additional for your delivery.
Please see my other comment:

Are you not familiar with the addage: "The success of your company is inversely proportional to the number of Aeron Chairs you have"

---

We designed and built out (first dot com bubble) an office in SF for Quokka Sports.

They got a crap ton of VC$ and they built out this really nice brick and timber office, fish-bowl conf rooms etc...

They crashed and burned BEFORE they were even able to move into this amazing office, near the Ferry Building in SF....

I had to go there and take a bunch of pics of the newly built office, but which was never moved into.

They had a FUCKING BOATLOAD of Aeron chairs... all stacked up to the ceilings in all the conference rooms.

Those chairs at the time were ~$2,000 a piece - and they had like ~500 of them or so....

So, that used to be an actual measurement of fiscal responsibility in startups 20 years ago; How many Aeron Chairs did you buy with VC Money.
Of course it takes hard work to run a site like Meetup. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a good fit for the VC business model.
One man's unsubstantive flamebait, another man's hope and optimism...
Socialism isn't the government doing things. Socialism is worker control of the economy, ie much more democracy.
This is really interesting. I only knew of OpenAPI, but my project's going to have both HTTP / REST APIs and WebSockets. I didn't even know this existed. Thanks so much for sharing!
Lots of chairs from the same designer of the Capisco, Peter Opsvik, are sold by Varier. They are really good.
The doors are (one of) the problems.
> A respiratory pandemic of this magnitude wasn't anticipated by anyone, for reasons that should be investigated further.

Right, we had close calls in the near past, but why did they not spread like this one?
This is anecdotal but I have yet to find a PCB manufacturer in the US that can do it cheaper than Chinese fabs at anything less than ridiculous scale - high speed digital/RF included. I still use US manufacturers half the time because of IP, timeline, or quality concerns (its just easier to get on the phone with someone who can help) but I don't see how the other manufacturers could be within 5% of China's cost when circuit boards at anywhere from 2x to 10x more expensive here.
I need to research this more, but my impression is it should be fairly easy and affordable to get tested and, if necessary, get chelation therapy to remove heavy metals from your system.

Anyone with knowledge on the topic that can weigh in?