skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed a midpoint here, when employees stated that the list could be racist towards people with Asian heritage, the cofounder doubled down on it, claimed that only 10% could be, and well actuallyed it all and then shut down any communication or talk about it. It was crappy management that didn't listen to problems
They endorse Bitcoin openly to their citizens as a good investment.

Why wouldn't they want to dethrone USD as the reserve currency?
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Time and effort put into the committee comes at the expense of time and effort put into their primary job though.
I do see the point, it's an argument that there exists a plausible slippery slope from (allegedly) quasi-racist jokes to genocide.

I just think it's sanctimonious, a total waste of time and a distraction to throw such incendiary and flamebait things out into the workplace's communication channels, especially if it's been apologized for already.
> Those things can be as complex as an ICU engine.

From a complexity perspective an ICU isn’t nearly as complex as even something as simple is a script scraping a webpages for links and queuing them up for further crawling. I’m not sure if “complex” is the word you are going for but even the TCP state machine has significantly more complexity than an ICU and that’s just a fragment of what it takes to transmit some data.

The composability and abstractions we have in this industry allows you to quickly dwarf any regular mechanical system. There is a reason this is a whole new era beyond the industrial revolution.
To avail the benefit of writing off taxes, the ex-business owner requires future income. Who's to say that he/she won't be unemployed for a long while after devastating their life savings?
https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver
Thanks for the link, that was really interesting! It's too bad it's over, because that was only an hour away from me. It's got me thinking; I think I saw my (soon to be former) cell phone in one of those piles. Found more info and pictures on the artist's site: https://nathanielstern.com/artwork/phossils/
I am not sure I follow. Are you saying straight white men’s actions are not labeled political while other people’s actions are discounted as political and thus stifled?
I regularly have people fail before introducing fizzbuzz, and then regularly pass on people that can’t do an equivalent problem that isn’t exactly fizzbuzz. Surprise, tons of applicants out there can’t actually code, it’s true!
> you must do exactly as your boss says without question though.

You left off "if you want your boss to give you gobs of money every two weeks".
Yes, because B-school is exactly where people learn to become good leaders... please, tell me more ;-)
> Is it a coincidence that these are things often purchased by tourists?

Ha! Here in Illinois, the hotel tax is insane. But once your stay exceeds 30 days, it retroactively becomes 0%.
Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder
The Missing Bullet
I wonder if there have been court cases for this; is slack considered a non-work area for, say, the purposes of discussing unionization? Would a DM between two people mediated through the company slack be a non-work area?

Though generally, it seems this kind of ban (of union discussion or pay) would be unlawful in the US,

> For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously
To add more to the hairy part: WASM. And that's growing rapidly.
as long as you're within the endurance limits the warranty should apply. writes are writes as far as the drive is concerned, it could be movies, it could be porn, it could be crypto, it doesn't matter, the warranty was advertised with a specific wear life and if you're within that the workload is irrelevant.

(writes when very full / etc will cause write amplification, but that still shows up on the endurance counter. if you want to do a bunch of writes with 10x amplification cause your drive is full then that's on you, it still counts 10x towards the endurance... but the endurance counter is what they specify in the warranty.)

if the drive fails when it's past its advertised endurance... they can tell you to pound sand and that's fine.
completely different take on generative art, did you look at any of the examples in the interview or read it? It's not a contest around tech, its a conversation around tools and using them to express yourself
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984753
Roko's Basilisk is constructing itself
That’s even better!
> We tried randomly mixing in new stories onto the front page

When you mixed new stories onto the front page, were they clearly marked as new or could they easily be mistaken for upvoted content?

Maybe this could be a karma gated opt-in feature that individual users can enable?
We have lots of difficult, sometimes racialized discussions at BigCos that are political. It makes us better at engaging with the world outside our walls. It’s not unnecessary or distracting from our work because our customers live in the same world we create products and services for, it’s part of our work.
Look at Apple's stance on privacy for example, that’s based on a lot of difficult political discussions that culminate in corporate policy. If we did away with politics, we couldn’t have come to some of the decisions we have until forced by legislatures or our competitors.
Okay so that’s a competing theory to the parent I was replying to, to be clear, though it does seem a better fit for available evidence to my unsophisticated self.
It's only a flame war if there is a war. Management should be on the same page as any DEI initiative, especially considering who management is in this case.
Countless trillions stashed in offshore tax havens in Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei, BVI, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Dubai, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Labuan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Monaco, Montserrat, Nevis, New Zealand, Panama, Seychelles, Singapore, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos and Vanuatu seem to indicate that spending into the economy isn't something that the wealthy like to do.
> an app no longer available on the app store

This is a subtle point about older devices that doesn't get enough attention imo.

In order to have an app I purchased with the features I purchased on an older device that I purchased, I must:

- Jailbreak the device

- Extract the iOS app and externally save it

- Turn off automatic updates for apps

- Be signed in to the Apple account that purchased that app

- Have that account be valid and not revoked

At some point, Apple may:

- Remove the app from the App store entirely

- Allow an update to the app that changes or removes the features that I specifically wanted

- Insist that the app does not support that older version of iOS (even if the version you purchased was fine, and only a later version removed support for older iOS versions)

In order to restore access to the app in that case I must:

- Jailbreak the device

- Sign in to that Apple account

- Copy the backed-up version of the app to the device

- Risk losing any data in that app, especially if it was updated and I'm now downgrading to a version that might not support the newer data format
last I read china owns 60-70% of bitcoins hash power?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/peter-thi...

China's digital yuan and accumulation of bitcoin hashing power could lead to their dominance in the online dark/gray markets
2019 Mercedes Benz GLC250.

The only reason we changed our previous 2016 Mercedes Benz C-Class sedan was we needed some extra cargo space to contain some of my wife's gear which had overflowed to take up the back seat of the C-Class as well as the boot.\

Normally I buy cars new and keep them for about 10-12 years.
That’s really insightful. I was racking my brain trying to figure out how the figured Disney Plus was relevant here.
It sounds like working there has become a distraction to working there, which means that working there has become fratcally stupid. Quitting sounds like a reasonable position to take.
Being single more workable (it’s easy to control spending) than having dependents (kids). Once you have a kid or two, your expenses become less predictable and things begin to pile up (literally, a larger house becomes a necessity rather than just a luxury).

I see many people putting off kids or just opting out completely because COL increases have just made them too risky.
Um, is there some context that's missing here? That's quite an odd statement.
China decided? What?
I’m confused by this. You created a backend service that runs arbitrary SQL queries from the frontend (presumably with some wrapper that makes it nice to use)?

I don’t think you can compare that to a back-end dev wasting $4900/month on boilerplate code, since they’d be able to set up a similar thing for less.

I agree that it would be nice to use from the frontend though. My hobby projects are much nicer since I figured out that I can use better-sqlite3 and node libraries in a nw.js React app (synchrously!).
I'll bet that people with material experience in management will have a similar take.

Even if I kind of disagree with how it unfolded, I still sympathize with leadership if they've given people options, generous out-terms etc..
Expecting coworkers to treat you with enough respect to you refer to you how you identify is a pretty basic workplace expectation. It's not a violation of your rights in any way if you get written up by HR for misgendering a colleague. Who are you to decide for them who they are?
I just signed up for Basecamp and Hey because I’m sick of all the fascist bullshit from companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. I LOVE the fact that Basecamp told their employees to keep that “woke” shit at home and am happy to support their stance with my money.
You awakened neurons for me that I think are impaired from disuse. I can picture progress bars in Internet Explorer and Windows XP colors but not much more.
To ask those questions of which everyone knows the answers and of which raising the subject is 'impolite' :)
Source: I purchased the first iPad when it came out, and I've gone through all of these.

The first let-down was Orphion: when I purchased the app it was amazing, but they used the finger touch API in a way that Apple did not agree with. They were forced to remove that API call in an update, and the app has not been the same since. Unfortunately I did not get a copy of the original version, and so I lost access to that specific experience that I paid for.
Yup. It was a founder acting instigating and fanning the slightest flames of political disagreement. Your job, even if you disagree with the person your talking to, is to at the very least genuinely acknowledge the persons perspective and try and deescalate. Instead DHH seems to have continually doubled down and made things worse.

As the boss, it’s your job to get people back to work. It seems like DHH, more than anyone, was causing the infighting. It wasn’t coworkers talking politics, and fighting amongst themselves, it was a boss handling criticism extremely poorly, and doubling down on defensiveness until he had to mandate his employees shut up, or quit.
Which is a theory that predicts China WON’T clamp down, and further that the parent I replied to is wrong about the principal motivation?
Turns out subtweeting your entire workforce is dumb. Report at 11.

The issue is that the most senior people probably left first, since they’re more marketable and have more connections. A non trivial chunk of the remainder probably want to leave, but haven’t yet.

Also, I don’t think Basecamp is ready for a world where remote first is a game changing hiring advantage; that’s de rigueur nowadays, and there are a ton of companies ready and willing to snatch up engineers who have no interest in returning to an office.
> you lose 1/3 of your staff in a week over an ego trip

That's how you see it. Many other people do not see it in such a poor light.
Re: Charging enough.

New solo practices should establish an hourly rate that allows them to spend 50% of their time on business development.

Nearly everyone thinks they can get by with less, and they can -- for a while. You don't develop sales muscle without exercising it a lot.

A related point: Figure out your keep-the-lights-on-and-rent-paid number. Then? Maintain:

* Billings of at least 125% of that; and
* No single client accounting for more than 20% of your book of work.
Pretty sure the Spacewar clone "Space Wars" was the first vector game I ever saw. I was blown away because everything I'd seen until then were clunky raster graphics, be it at the arcade or one of the very early home gaming systems. Then came along Lunar Lander, which cemented into my mind that vector style games were sophisticated and grown-up. Think it wasn't until Dragon's Lair came out that I was again amazed on the same level, though the game play for Dragon's Lair turned out to be rather mundane.
They will probably add a clause that removes this exemption and add a new clause that exempts companies with names starting with a "D".
He’s now complaining about cancel culture on Twitter, which is extremely political.
Depends entirely on how many things I’m chasing at the time.

Like many people here I’m generally limited to one personal project, but I try to spend part of my workday building tools that help me do my job better/faster, so those count too.
> Keep in mind we don't have any income taxes here.

Washington currently has 0.4% income tax for W2 employees, and another 0.6% coming on Jan 1, 2022 unless you have sufficient long term disability insurance by Jul 2021 to be able to opt out of it.

So WA will effectively have a 1% income tax beginning Jan 1, 2022 for W2 earners (aka employees).
Bug tracker searches are generally pretty poor, even if your team never migrated from one to another. During a 3 AM outage, I need to grep git log for affected files to find likely root causes from 2018 or whatever.

I want reviewers to insist on a commit message that says what’s going on here and why. Not a full design doc, but enough to narrow down which commits are related to something. Please don’t make me open a hundred bug tracker pages that may or may not still exist.
Appreciate the reply!

Mux is definitely on our shortlist, the website and developer documentation made a great first impression. Very clear and easy to understand, the developer focus is obvious.
People learn skills by performing them. As parents we teach children life skills by having them help do the chore that daily life requires. When I have yard, mechanic, or construction work my children help. They have since they were able. I learned those skills by doing the same when I was young.

By prohibiting capable teens from work, either by pricing them out or law, we are hobbling their ability to learn valuable work skills. As a result we end up with adults that are lacking simple work skills that would make their labor more valuable.
If the response to this is any indication, they've just alienated a significant portion of that bench.

Basecamp seems very profitable, so it may not be fatal. But my guess is that it cuts far, far deeper than Jason and DHH intended. There may well be another wave of resignations next week.
Ask HN: What is the modern Big Trak toy?
I loved the soviet version of it https://visualhistory.livejournal.com/325080.html when I was a kid. What are the modern analogs? What are the best toys to intro programming in a fun way (and something besides iPad :) )
Except it's a fairy tale from the minds of social scientists with lots of research funding and zero experience of real world genocide. The simplest response to the diagram would be a free copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago for all employees.
Um, he starts in 1976, then says ‘21 years later’ and he’s talking about today? He’s 20 years off in his opening premise...
"it was a group of people forming an alliance to shape the nature of the company in their social view."

The only time employees at any company don't do this is when the status quo serves them just fine.
Washington currently has 0.4% income tax for W2 employees, and another 0.6% coming on Jan 1, 2022 unless you have sufficient long term disability insurance by Jul 2021 to be able to opt out of it.
So WA will effectively have a 1% income tax beginning Jan 1, 2022 for W2 earners (aka employees).
This is a pretty scorching take in context. I’ve noticed the warranty on most of the power tools I’ve purchased are 3-5 years but only 3-12 months for commercial use.

Of course there is a reason for this. I’m going to use this impact driver a few times a month. A construction company might use it several hours per day.

The purpose of the warranty is to guard against a defective product, not abuse. Everything has a service life and if my drill craps out on me a year in and I’ve barely used it that’s probably no fault of my own.

I don’t trust companies to not abuse most tools and certainly warranties ebb-and-flow in their consumer friendliness, but this is a pretty absurd take on this specific case.
Aluminum is less ductile and prone to galvanic corrosion. It can definitely be engineered to work properly, but copper is much more forgiving.
“Most” of the company staying is cold comfort when that “most” is a slim majority. Losing a third of your work force at once, effective immediately (or close to immediately) is a catastrophic outcome that’s really hard to sugarcoat. Especially when the company has just gotten into a very ugly public fight with their employees, and remote work is no longer a rare benefit to entice talent.

I would not envy being a hiring manager at Basecamp right now.
I am really sorry for this. Maybe you have a second ISP from which you could try? On my end all systems are bright green.
Sony’s See-Through Camera Disaster Cost Them $100M
Agreed. Not long ago there was debate about a permanent structural stagnation with permanent unemployment. The argument was that workers lacked sufficient training or desire to fill current jobs. All while some economists were screaming that it was actually the result of an insufficient fiscal stimulus response to the Great Recession that could have easily been solved had the response been $1.5T instead of $700B. Given the massive fiscal response to COVID and this current situation resulting in a rebalancing as you highlighted, I think it’s clear that it was never structural and always a result of unnecessary slack due to a financial recession easily solved by government support spending.
Is it a platform anyone can use, or private publisher?
The bill [1] states that the exemption requires ownership and operation of "a theme park or entertainment complex as defined in s. 509.013". S. 509.013 [2] uses this definition:

> "a complex comprised of at least 25 contiguous acres owned and controlled by the same business entity and which contains permanent exhibitions and a variety of recreational activities and has a minimum of 1 million visitors annually."

[1]: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/BillText/e1/...

[2]: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Nice reference. Gonna have to binge some Twilight Zone now. I can't find the exact quote from Highlander (TV series, not the movie) where Duncan has a friend, the "best swordsman in Europe", but he says something like, "don't ever be the best... God forbid you lose your nerve but they keep coming." Found the episode at least [0].

[0] https://highlander.fandom.com/wiki/Courage
The only arguments against legalizing heroin are paternalistic - not trusting people to be responsible. In a bygone era I was prescribed Percocet for a dental procedure, which I have been told is an extremely strong opioid, and I did not like the numb feeling and eventually threw them away. So I have 100% proof that not everyone who takes opioids gets addicted and winds up in the gutter.

The absolute truth is that drug use is a victimless crime and banning it doesn’t make it go away. I would argue the death of legendary actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was a direct result of this - he purchased heroin off the black market, was an experienced heroin user, but the potency of the drug is unpredictable and he accidentally overdosed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman

America is finally legalizing marijuana and soon magic mushrooms. I would argue LSD and MDMA are not far behind. Why stop there? Cocaine and heroin are not the devil incarnate - I don’t see why we continually move the goal posts for “good” drugs but say others are beyond the pale. I don’t care what your anecdata says as an “experienced” drug user - I have had several friends become marijuana burnouts who still work shit jobs, if you want to argue heroin is simply too dangerous for society then alcohol and weed should get the ban as well.

The push for individual rights continues. I guarantee you within 10 years prostitution will be fully legalized in progressive coastal states. I don’t see why we can’t accept vice as a natural human past time (people like pleasure) and try to manage the down-sides of legalization the same way we do with all other legalized vice like gambling (state lotteries(!)) and alcohol. Better this than a bunch of criminals providing it anyway.
Have you tried Spero sunflower cream cheese? I would say it is less like a cream cheese exactly and more like a new food on its own (like hummus or guacamole, but neutral and pair-able in taste like cheese or butter). The Goat on some toast with a dollop of jam will kill any cheese pastry envy. It is very good, even special. Vegan food is best when it draws inspiration without exact imitation and Spero really created something unique.

https://sperofoods.co/
To access the “open” internet, Floridians would have to resort to VPN’s, or proxies, as if they were in China or North Korea.
I'm not arguing either way, but both are extremes in decorum. Most companies run by generic middle of the road boring folks adhere to general decorum overall vs explicitly offensive behavior. This isn't because they're more virtuous IMO from my experience, just because they like most folks want to work 9-5, collect a paycheck and go home and not rock the boat.
Ironically, this would be terrible for the GOP, who is assuredly pushing this.
The "hyperbolic rhetoric" was when the founder compared sharing the Pyramid of Hate with accusing coworkers of genocide.
I sincerely doubt that.

1) Kids are unlikely to be as effective.
2) There's not that many kids.

It's all just motivated reasoning to argue against a significant minimum wage.
If you had the money and power to solve this problem how much housing would you build in the Bay Area?
Also, sexual assault and human trafficking. Those involved with the organization have either gone to jail or are fugitives at large.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/girlsdoporn-owners-and-...

https://theappeal.org/girls-do-porn-police-reports/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6469234-Pratt-Wolfe-...
They’ll live. They just kneecapped themselves for no obvious reason, but they’ve got enough cash, remaining talent, and customers to live. Especially since they’re not VC backed, and slowing growth isn’t fatal.

I’d wait until you hear about customers quitting before you assume that they’re in trouble, and I don’t think it’ll happen.
Is being a politician a protected class?
Can you share a link to the Fourier Transform page that you mentionted, please?
18/19 year olds shouldn't have a lower minimum wage. They're adults. Younger teens, sure.