skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that the founders/owners knew what they were doing...

> ...they wanted a smaller and more focused company that was more joyful to manage/run.

I agree with you because the six month severance offer was so generous that it can only mean that they wanted a lot of people to take it. Also, if they found that they were losing too many people, then they would start offering people money NOT to take the severance offer. But that didn't happen. So, I have to conclude that the 1/3 headcount cut is intentional.

edit: I didn't realize this happened so fast. Now I think it may have been a misstep.
Would you prefer hyperbolic?
> What I think is lost in the conversation here is that people don’t really have organizations they can go to to advocate their political positions.

Why should workplaces serve as political-outlet therapy locations because people can't think of other organizations to use for this purpose? There are, in fact, countless numbers of political organizations and groups in the U.S. and you are free to start your own if you don't like anything on offer. The idea that you a company should cater to your other non-work desires such as baptism or finding a loved one or expressing your personal angst about some topic just because you're there and it's convenient doesn't make much sense. Yes, political activism takes time and you may not have time to go to a meeting after work or on weekends. That doesn't mean you can turn your workplace into a church or other political-therapy group.
Politics is different than BeachBody talk because it is moralistic in nature. Politics turns people's brains off much better than other forms of discussion because it combines in-group out-group bias with moral righteousness. Same thing with religion, but religion is brought up much less frequently at work.
This characterization of Craft is incorrect. Single-user “solo” projects are free, which would make it less expensive than OctoberCMS. [1] Additionally, OctoberCMS charges $97 as an add-on for support for its projects, something that comes with the $299 pro charge for CraftCMS.

It’s more agency projects that have that cost; additionally, Craft receives fees from paid plugins that have their own separate support infrastructure.

I personally use Craft for my website and chose it over OctoberCMS, though I had given October a close look when I made the transition two and a half years ago.

[1]: https://craftcms.com/pricing
Recognize that on HN, you're in an echo chamber.

Yes, we on HN are far more likely to demand repairabiliy, but most consumers don't care about the ability to repair their devices. Or at the very least, don't care so much that they'll choose not to buy the latest phone because the battery is not easily replaced.

And it boils down to what are consumers actually buying? If consumers are demanding something and the corporations are not providing it, but they buy the products anyways, the corporation has no incentive to provide it.

There was a lot of uproar when Apple removed the headphone jack when they made the iPhone 7, but that didn't stop consumers from making it the best selling smartphone in the world at the time, with ~40 million units sold. And now guess what? Other phone manufacturers followed suit. I guess headphone jacks aren't that important after all.

The market can demand whatever the hell it wants, but rarely follows through.
Real estate prices and rent are driven by how much people can only just afford it.

If people earn more, they can afford a bigger mortgage, so house prices rise.
That's completely nonsensical.
I'm in Washington. I sold my options from my startup that was basically all profit last year and it was greater than 250k. Under this law, I would have coughed up 7% more in taxes.
I'm not even remotely a highly paid dev. I just got lucky after years of being underpaid. This will affect way more people than just 7000 individuals.
I think it’s hard to tell; people like me tend to not be heard a lot in these kinds of conversations. But I feel like there are enough of us that it’s better to exercise caution and specifically carve out opt-in spaces for political discussion if you really want them to exist — marginalized people often have a lot of trauma related to their marginalization and it’s easy to inadvertently hurt people with careless political discussion.
Aren't you keeping up with the stats? It's the energy prices that are currently shooting up.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
> Thus the cosmic acceleration deduced from supernovae may be an artefact of our being non-Copernican observers, rather than evidence for a dominant component of “dark energy” in the Universe.

Could someone help me understand what the meaning of “non-Copernican” is in this context?
The company I work at has hired a number of employees whose only previous work was very low wage, and that (low wage) experience definitely weighed in their favor.
Comments like this make me worry that a lot of people don’t have lives outside of the office or their work identity.

Or maybe people keep their friend groups so tightly curated by ideology these days that the only chance they have to argue about politics is at work?
You would think a company that's been in business for two decades would have a rather robust ethics guide to working with corporate and enterprise customers. It seems to be part and parcel for almost all large SaaS companies. How in the world did they let their culture get bad enough for political rants?
Off the top of my head, Jane Yang, who I believe has quit, left non-profits and joined Basecamp to explicitly pursue a strategy of earning to give (https://80000hours.org/articles/earning-to-give/). That seems like she's "put her money where her mouth is," as you say.

What's your basis for believing these people don't really care?
Just to be clear, they banned "politics" after people complained about what they considered to be racism and cultural belittlement. This is the inherent problem with people wanting to avoid politics when what they really want is to avoid difficult topics. Topics that aren't just ballot issues but may be palpably real for actual people you work with.
I never said anything about which technology was easier to kill. The question is which technology can be made more efficient while retaining its utility. The subtle implication is obviously that Bitcoin isn't useful, but what is the point of writing all this just to essentially restate your presupposition that Bitcoin isn't useful? I already know you believe it's not useful, but it's not up to a single individual to decide that.

> when we choose intentionally 400,000X less efficient technologies because of idealism or because they're "neat."

Like I mentioned already there's no reasonable way to compare its efficiency to technologies like Visa which solve a totally different problem. So this is a useless and misleading metric aside from the obvious strawman that cryptocurrencies are only useful because they are "neat".
Do you mean what gets re-upped directly vs. what gets an emailed invitation to repost? It's a purely technical distinction based on how many stories we keep in RAM (currently a few days' worth). When a story is older than that, it's a pain to re-up it, so we started emailing invites instead. I spent some time working on the code to eliminate the distinction, but actually I think this may be one of those cases where what seems like an arbitrary restriction turns out to have more value than that. There's something about the "working set" of stories over the last few days that's different from the longer-term history of the site. Right now the system treats the former as mutable and the latter as immutable; you can think of the invited reposts as append-only rather than writeable. That somehow feels right to me.
Interestingly I once hired a trans person who, had converted to the other gender, sorry I don't really know the terminology. She was extremely proficient at her job (CSS/JS/Frontend) and so we were really impressed in the interview and seemed to have realistic expectations and views about workplace, workload and all sorts of other cultural ideas that matched nicely with ours.

Her big question to use was "is there going to be a problem with me working here". As in "are people going to treat me like shit because I am transgender".

It was an extremely professional environment and I and my boss unequivocally said - we don't care what you are as long as you do your job and do it well.

I worked with her for probably near a year and I did not see people overtly treating her badly, making comments of any sort at all. People called her by a name that she chose and used the pronouns she wanted.

Of course I don't know her experience but I can't express how it was a 'professional' environment enough. I have never worked somewhere that was so damn... professional. This included old dudes, old women, young men and women, people from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds (UK, India, Ukraine, and all over the US, and probably more places).

People minded their own business, were polite, did not intrude upon personal matters, and while there was some jockying around sports teams - it was a place where all sorts of people and backgrounds worked. There was an extremely competent HR department, and middle management and C levels who were very serious about being professional.

I don't know - kind of a rant - hopefully her experience at my workplace was one of her better ones.
Home ownership is more than just the cost of your mortgage.

And in many markets, especially in big expensive cities like NY & SF, it costs more money to buy than to rent.
Its a government granted resolution to something that absolutely must be resolved one way or the other. We can't both eat the sandwich. IP is a different class of imposition.
And with alternative app stores you continue to have the choice of only using Apple's App Store, where Apple would hopefully continue to check each app.
Is there a TL; DR summary of what’s happening? I have no context other than something something basecamp mission driven company something something politics.
Processing a signal and mapping memory via that signal is less efficient than letting the kernel do it for you.

You'll get better performance by using userfaultfd.
"Cool, we need to you visit a client site in a country which will murder you for your sexual orientation" is about as political as it gets.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127
A second root problem is the insanity of public SMTP on today's Internet: allowing anyone, claiming any identity, to send you any content without limits.

I started the "mnm" open source project to enable a new email network, on a new protocol.

More: https://mnmnotmail.org/

Follow: https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
You are doing god's work, my dude. Great insight about community dynamics, too
This reminds me of an incident they had years ago, when they blogged the name of the millionth (or something) uploaded file and then had to apologise for betraying their customer’s trust.
The most ridiculous thing is it's a 30% cut on all in-app purchases and not allowing an alternative payment provider.

For in-app purchases the service is ONLY a payment service and nothing more.

Industry standard cuts for payment providers are lessen then 5%, often much less like e.g. 1.5%.

So IMHO this is basically extortion.

For app purchases it's still an absurd cut as nearly all "costs" apple has per app are fixed. The cost which are not are super small.

Furthermore most other "running" costs are more associated with the user then the app. (E.g. Os
dev cost).

And if you now want to argue with "but they provide a messaging service" and similar don't forget that they effectively prevented any 3rd party message services (btw. google did so too). So we can't even say if it's
a grate service, we have no realistic comparison as any was already killed at he roots before it could came to be.

Just imagine Microsoft effectively ("de-facto") preventing you from using any mail service but Outlock and also forces any "notifications messages" through Outlock and also prevents applications from using polling effectively so that you have to use interlock any messenger, chat app, and similar with Outlock or it won't work properly.

This would be ridiculous, but that is basically what Google and Apple did on smartphones.

So yeah, basically Apple de-facto forces you to use a set of services you might not want to use while taking extortion level cuts for what is basically a payment service (which is also forced onto you) and reasoning that "they need to do so because all the nice services they provide for free".
The tone of this article also sounded like she was spitting it through clenched teeth, which I found to be incredibly distracting and defeating to the point the author was attempting to make. Was the point small business owners at establishments like Dales are facing troubles because they're fat-cat capitalist Trumpian Covid deniers whose problems aren't valid as such? That's what it sounded like.
I look forward to when we can have conversations about topics like economics without hyperbolic intolerance for outsiders serving an ultimately unproductive narrative that has been driven into the ground.

I live in Missoula. I am a regular customer of Black Cat Bakery and I can see them struggling. In fact most restaurants and breweries I frequent face the same issue, a few employees desperately trying to keep an inundated ship afloat. I will tell you this article largely ignores what everyone who lives here understands is the biggest problem faced by laborers in Missoula at the moment. This city is amid a dire housing shortage, expedited by lack of new construction and a migration of buyers from more lucrative economies. The median home price increased by 57% in the last 10 years, 8.6% in the last year alone to $315k. In the meantime the median family income remains only $46k.
https://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-housing-prices-se...

It is truly a seller's dream market and as such the availability of rentals has evaporated. You'd be lucky to find a 1 bedroom right now.

My wife and I bought a home here a little over a year ago and were fortunate to find the nut who, "didn't need a realtor, what with craigslist." Before then we had been outbid 5 times previously, during which we offered up to 30k above the asking price. Frankly, we wouldn't live here if we didn't get lucky. Our experiences weren't unique at the time and it has only gotten worse. I regularly hear of houses selling for 50K over listing price to people buying sight-unseen.

Frankly I don't care what the owners of Dales or Black Cat Bakery think about Covid or whether they voted for Trump. I really, sincerely, don't care. I only hope for the best for their business and their employees. I know what it's like to struggle in Missoula, I did for years and I still would be if not for dumb luck and a bit of privilege. The problems people face today are starting to pale in comparison to my own, and a solution is becoming truly urgent. I can only hope people will come to understand if we care about solving these problems, then we have to put down the tribalism and intolerance for those with different views and focus on the matter at hand.

To quote Vince Staples, "Ain't no money in havin' hate in your heart."
Yes, exactly.

California has the 10th highest foreclosure rate out of 50 states and Los Angeles is 5th for cities with a population over 1 million. NYC is in first.
> Like you said, backups are annoying and unglamorous.

It’s called having a network attached storage (NAS) device. I have a Synology NAS, which I backup to, continuously at 5 minute intervals.

Warning: Microsoft image and file backups sometimes do not work.

I recommend Acronis True Image instead, which comes with antivirus. It pretty much always works, never falter never fail. Get the version that allows you to back up to the cloud with blockchain features. You will be happy you did.
In Sweden there are farms with transit. (My wife was an exchange student there ). Suburbs are dense enough for a bus every 10 minutes, but it takes effort to get there for long enough for people to realize the bus is useful and prove you were right to run it.
Irish DPC “handles” 99,93% of GDPR complaints, without decision?
@TwoBit

I guess it depends whether you accept "technically, according to rules as written (...)" is a valid explanation.

Maybe I am wrong, but in racing it seems to be.
I did go because I hadn’t realized it was a weird chicken place until I got there and was offered the rubber gloves.

I left that job after six months. The four male founders turned out to be old buddies who wanted everyone in their little club to be exactly like them but with a deference to their incredible competence as employers. Maybe I’ve been unlucky, but I have the impression that small business tech jobs mostly suck. (Basecamp has a bit of that vibe, to be honest.)
I would add transportation and communications to the "basics of survival".
Title made me think of maven central
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

> [...] We’ve barely scratched the surface of optics and camera lens

A real genius certainly, but, I'm always doing this; bad choice of metaphor here!
It's a very common opinion amongst Asians, speaking as one who knows many who agree. Work is work.
Ask HN: Is my starter interview question too simple?
I conduct SWE candidate interviews at Google. My first question is intended to be a conceptually simple one, where the candidate must translate a certain everyday business logic into code. The logic has to do with counting the number of days from the beginning of the year, for a given date. I provide the number of days per month if the candidate doesn't know them. I also provide a function to check for leap years. There isn't anything inherently tricky about it.

I added this question as a warm-up question before the other two main questions that are more conventional coding interview questions that involve algorithms and data structures. The solution is simpler than the solution to the two main questions.

To my surprise, I found that most candidates take half of the 45 minutes allotted to do this question. It's only meant to take no more than 10 minutes. Many do the other two questions in less time.

While I won't directly post the question here, I wonder if it's so simple that my candidates are wondering if there's a hidden trick. Could that be why the candidates are taking so long?
The vast majority of people don't have the self-control necessary to be polite and professional when confronted with political/religious disagreement. Better to let everyone enjoy false consensus bias than to take the risk.
>Or if it bothers you so much just don’t buy one. You don’t speak for the entire E.U.

Ha ha, laws don't work like that. I am speaking my opinion and it seems I am not the only one that can see past the Apple giant PR. But if you are from EU you are free not to unlock your device or buy the US cooler version. What you are not free is to demand EU to not apply the existing laws for Apple because Apple is cool but apply them for MS and Google because those companies are not cool.
In an ideal world you don’t work at a company that maintains a list of customer names to laugh it. And if you did and someone pointed out how it can become problematic to have foreign names in the list and they tell you why, you don’t self-immolate.

Pretending this list and subsequent lack of discipline isn’t about the founders vanity is very ignorant
The Midwest isn't a problem as it is dense enough to support it. The west is left out.
So, how does this address anything the parent comment has talked about?

> keep all the politics talk to a minimum

Ok, so this is one management strategy and the parent comment provided another. You seem to be implying that one management choice has moral superiority to the other?

> whatever can be just as divisive and counterproductive

Yes, and their management choice could be to minimize these just as you choose to minimize politics. That is entirely orthogonal to making managerial decisions to ban certain topics.

They could choose to ban some of the non-politics topics of discussion as well. Hell, they could just say "shutup and work". They could say no work related discussion allowed at work.

Again, these are all managerial choices but you seem to be accusing the company of not managing at all?

> when they can pee or whether they fear for their lives at the speed trap that's stationed about a mile up the road from the office.

> their skin color/presence or lack of uteruses/accents come along.

You have addressed nothing about the actions of employees as the parent comment discussed. You have only addressed that people have different looks, feelings, organs, and politics. Great observation.
By "your own politics" are we still referring to things like "hey it's not okay that you're making fun of people and their different-sounding names"?
The point is that the user is in fact now able to rearrange the grooves on the record like magic and the artist wants to limit their way to do this if the user rearranges the grooves in a way that match their own work.
Web apps opened in Safari.

So if I build a web app on my own dime, on my own hosting resources, signing no developer agreements with Apple whatsoever...

... there's not a remote chance that I'm subject to any of Apple's whims, and there's very little they can do about it.

Add my site to a Safari exclusions list? That will and should go down like a flaming mess.
If you have no way of determining whether the explanation is valid then it might as well be a completely made up explanation anyway.
"A white", that's kind of telling.

And I guess you missed the part where I said disproportionately. And how bad faith actors use tactics designed to get people of color to be complicit in hopes of not being ostracized. You can't really speak to that, so what you do is go to the "black friend" defense. Ben Carson exists therefore the Republican party cannot be racist? The same Republican party that made a neurosurgeon the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development because, you know.

And yes, as long as conservatives continue to enact programs and laws that disproportionately affect people of color negatively, I will continue to view them as groups in opposition to each other.
http://webkit-cors-vulnerability.trentalancia.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20171213011409/http://webkit-cor...
Just because lives aren't being directly targeted, how isn't this a form of terrorism? If your and your employee's livelihoods depends on your IT systems, and somebody intentionally destroys them, that is terrifying!

Unless there is some serious teeth to any response to this, it will keep hapening. The FBI and the UK CCC can put out as many recommendations as they like about backups and updates, but criminals will just keep finding targets, or upping the damage.

It is time to consider these attacks as terrorism, and respond to state sponsored terror attacks accordingly.
> And I say "sadly" because it is always sad to see how people would try to defend companies and brands, against their own interests.

I've noticed that of them hold shares, or stand to buy shares, in AAPL.
How exactly could be "extremely unprofessional, childish, and really just downright embarrassing for him" to prove, beyond any doubt, that the accuser on a high-horse is actually a scheming hypocrite?
We use October as the core of one of our internal products. I'm hoping the people working on it are aware of all of this :o
"Ransomware gangs often destroy your backup infrastructure. So it's important to create pull-only backups or backups that cannot be deleted / overwritten."

Every rsync.net customer has ZFS snapshots available in their account that are immutable. They are read-only.

So, even if Mallory trashes your primary site and then gains access to your rsync.net credentials, the daily/weekly/monthly snapshots cannot be destroyed.