skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a somewhat ironic illustration about how pyramids of behaviour work, in this case keeping a funny name list at work was a precondition for a third (or even more) of an already small company resigning.

That doesn't mean that keeping such a list 100% inevitably leads to losing so much of your workforce or that someone who points out that it could escalate that far (given enough time and poor handling) is "accusing" you of not wanting to retain your employees. What it means is that you should nip such things in the bud and thus simply never have to play the guessing game of "will this go catastrophically badly or not?".
Ok - but that’s true of any old device that developers are no longer targeting. Classic Macs for example.
All those regional chains you mentioned pay significantly better than McDonalds, YUM, etc. as well.
To me it looks like you two are talking past each other. In fact, I think you're both right. gruez point can be summarized as "if you're having a minimum wage job, your loss at the end of the month is smaller compared to having no income at all" [0], which is a possible interpretation of the comment that sparked this thread [1]. This is also the reason he does not account for food, while you do. Your (inetknght's) point is that "with a minimum wage job, you'll make a loss at the end of the month". As far as I read it, gruez actually doesn't try to make the point that a minimum wage job is sustainable, so there's no contradiction.

[0] Compared to, for example, driving for Uber, where at the end of the month the cost for car+fuel+maintenance might cost you more than you earned, increasing your net loss.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995335

This line in particular:

> There are a lot of jobs where your net pay is below zero, long term, when you factor in the external costs associated with working, such as needing transportation.
I'm kind of tired of the sanitization of work thing. Human beings are grimy, sweaty creatures. People make friends, people dislike other people, people speak with candor, people lie, people want to have sex with each other. "No being human at work" is ridiculous IMO. I value and understand the need for a professional environment, but it seems we are playing to the lowest common denominator and trying to create one size fits all rule sets to avoid overtly saying which problem we are trying to solve: that the politics of those people are toxic and they ruin everything they touch. You know what people I'm talking about. Everyone here knows what people I'm talking about. Why don't we just admit what's going on here and make the very specific rules we need to make to finally put a stop to it?
Consider that the Fed increases the money supply through debt. This means that for the money supply to increase, there needs to be an increasing amount of debt because eventually people pay back their debts and most of the money the Fed introduced into the economy disappears.
They said it was unacceptable but denied that it was evidence of larger problems, basically.
Then, I guess they are all lying on their social media accounts? I mean you can also leave and say nothing. I agree that it wasn't this one decision...but if you can make a generous severance offer and not only does your company implode but all your senior leadership leaves, then probably your internal culture isn't what you thought it was and/or something else stinks and/or they all felt that strongly about this one decision.

But even then...if you are a senior person that has been somewhere for the better part of a decade, you have surely both made and seen bad decisions made before. If you think that there is trust and mutual understanding and collaborative work is possible, you work through those.

(Not everyone in tech solely cares about money. And the ones that do siphon their way to certain gravitational points and/or do the jump ship every 2-3 years to negotiate a new salary and not a raise...)
Author here. You're absolutely right about Canada ;)
I'm not too sure about that one! I've seen some entry level laborers getting paid $10/hr to sleep in their car. I don't think "Sleeping in your car" is a valid job description for any business.
So all the free speech maximalists are here in force, right? …right?
Again, thank you for a well-reasoned good conversation.

> Your broader point about subscriptions being forced into some apps that don't make sense is correct, I just think sometimes people throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to subscriptions.

I'm willing to pay for something that I spend a lot of time in it. Clearly the developer deserves to benefit from my benefit.

But I've been burned by phishing, scams, and malware. So I avoid anything that even looks like it. That undoubtedly throws out a lot of good software that I might enjoy. But it also means that the very same software has room to improve.

Thirty years ago, software had demos. Demos weren't laden with advertisements beyond "buy the full product to access this feature!". They didn't have clearly paid-for reviews. Most worked without locking my data after a time bomb expired. Many of those demos resulted in me paying for the software. Some of those demos resulted in me deciding that I didn't like or need the software. The demo fulfilled its purpose.

Way too many demos of games got me to buy the full release of those games. BBEdit, like you mentioned, had a Lite version.

Demos seem to be gone from the modern walled garden.
> For example if you work at Google or Facebook and you speak up against affirmative action hiring practices or transwomen in women's sports, you will be fired. The excuse will be that these opinions are "hate speech" or that they violate some policy of discrimination at work place or made someone feel "unsafe" or whatever else.

It's ridiculous isn't it, how these flawed stances became some sort of woke orthodoxy in recent years.

Another jarring instance of this is, they'll all go on about how important mental health and neurodiversiry is and blah blah blah, but as soon as the office autist steps out of line and says the 'wrong' thing, they all pounce on him relentlessly and without mercy. I mean, just look at how RMS was treated, simply for expressing his honest opinions. Hounded out of his job.

No dissent allowed in this new religion.
I always liked October CMS. Very structured. Too bad.
i am trying to stream the audio and video into AWS or Google to do video analytics. Any thoughts on how to do it?
If you can use it as a currency some will care.
The deal's almost too good to pass up.

I'll program and be professional at company A just as happily as I would at company B.

I'm already professional and apolitical at work, I don't feel I stand to gain much being otherwise.

So I think you'd be inadvertently discriminating against people who are simply interested in getting 2 salaries for 6 months.
The vast majority of the pressure comes from China.
Precisely... my loan was actually too small to qualify for the lowest rates, according to research & some friends in the business, rates like 1.75% were mostly for $250k+ loans, but I was still able to refinance a line of credit we'd used to expand out house years earlier to such a lower interest rate that we're saving more than 20% off our previous monthly payment & about $50k off the total life of the loan (assuming we do an extra payment toward the principal every once & a while, which we were doing anyway).

Basically if you have a home loan from 2+ years ago & still have the same level of steady income, it probably makes sense to refinance.
Saw this article from the same author of this tweet a few days ago on here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708)

This part of the article had me scratching my head:

"Hansson’s response to this employee took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated in a discussion about a customer with a funny-sounding name. Hansson posted the message — visible to the entire company — and dismissed the substance of the employee’s complaint"
One of their iOS devs who left has been incredibly vocal about how he no longer felt like this was somewhere he could work because of this policy and its effects, so I think you're plainly wrong (or insisting that there's no way we could take a person at their word). https://twitter.com/georgeclaghorn

It's a lot more likely that the 1/3rd that left both left because they were unhappy with the policy, and because they thought they could get jobs elsewhere. I would bet there are some people who stayed behind who didn't believe they could find a job this good soon but who also disagreed with the policy. Which, I get it.

6 months free money is not as much as you'd think; a new job hunt takes 3, even for talented, in-demand people.
My understanding of their new policy is that it bans everything you said you’d be happy to discuss FWIW. All of that sounds like political/societal discussion.
Not gonna provide my view on the politics side, but cutting benefits while at the same time making a controversial statement about workplace politics is a...bold move. The letter very noticeably says that they are providing compensation for these benefits for this year. That holds the clear implication that they won't keep compensating people for the lack of benefits. Also, providing a monetary value for benefits misses the fact that time is also worth money. If you're going to cut my benefits, you should also compensate me for the additional time spent replacing these benefits.

Doing such a clearly cost saving move and trying to frame it as keeping focus makes me feel like Basecamp is using "mission focus" as an excuse to make a bunch of unpopular decisions and bundle them together.
It didn’t. See DHHs blog post for numbers.

> Out of the 78 names listed on the last version we were able to recover, just 6 names appear to be Asian.
You know the answer to that - it prevent large classes of social engineering attack and is part of the overall security model.
Saves a ton of battery, goes through all firewalls etc. Same applies to Google's Firebase push notifications.
It's possible for person to be more of an expert on issues "minorities" face than a single member of a minority. If it's their area of expertise and they have information from and exposure to wide swaths of those minorities. A third generation Asian American graduate from Sandford working at a startup in SF isn't having the same experience as a Vietnamese immigrant chicken farmer..
Any opinions how this project compares to Supabase (https://github.com/supabase/supabase) in terms of audience / features, maturity and overall usefulness and performance of both?
Nothing is innocuous to outrage culture.
Also a Kinesis user myself. It's the only keyboard that has helped me avoid wrist pain during intensive coding sessions.
Are there any community efforts on solving those issues?
> Between May 1964 and the summer of 1969, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) (see Secret War) operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.[6] The USAF dropped more bombs on Laos, primarily the Plain of Jars, than it dropped during the whole of World War II. This included 262 million anti-personnel cluster bombs. An estimated 80 million of these did not explode and remain a deadly threat to the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars
I don't think there's anything wrong with reinventing something to be more accessible.
They don’t prevent users from replacing the battery. I’ve done it myself.
When I was about 12 years old my dad got me a Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer [1]. It had 2KB of memory, a one line LCD display (156×7 pixels), and ran BASIC. I cut my teeth programming it and progressively creating more elaborate programs. At that time I had a hobby of drawing line art like logos and characters. I remember programming it to do animations with physics of the type you usually see in product demos, e.g. a logo dropping from the top and bouncing until it rests; a logo getting formed from animating random pixels, etc. Fun times.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1500
So the fact that the Chevy nova didn't sell in spanish speaking countries because the name means "no go" is racist too, then, right? I'm just applying the same logic.
There is no technical reason for allowing any random user to delete their data, or at least not requiring some specific capability that most processes don't have.

In fact, there were systems built this way in the 70's.
This is what NPR does on the market segment (Kai Rysdal?) The background music reflects the changes in the market over the day.

Also, if you haven't read Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", there's a good subplot around this exact idea.
Perhaps OP can answer. The AZ ID[0], as opposed to the name, does identify a specific AZ location, so certainly possible to measure AZ-to-AZ latencies.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...
By that logic, if I buy a house and live in it, I'm also constraining supply, because it's one more house someone else won't be able to buy. And, sure, it's true, in a nitpicky kind of way; they won't be able to buy it. It's also so absurd that your definition of "constraining supply" is clearly useless.
I wrote a catch-all lambda for SES too forward anything I sent it. That was 5 hours of my life I'm never getting back
It genuinely isn't difficult in practice. Be polite and professional to your co-workers. That's it.

If someone is gay, straight, whatever, it doesn't have any bearing on their work, so it's not something that's discussed. I have literally zero desire to hear about anybody's sexual relationships at work.

If someone thinks that the mere presence of a gay person is an agenda, then they fail rule 1, which is be polite and professional to your co-workers, and it's on them to either get a grip or leave.
"My pronouns are she/her" is political when you have an audience who disagree with your right to choose them.

(And those disagreeing are wrong, but telling them that suddenly, by the logic of the "no politics" crowd, makes you the problem. Almost like all of this exists to reify a status quo that's good for the people currently high on the hog. Hm.)
Learning Java about 10 years ago from this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured
> Any employer that abruptly told me I needed to watch what I said at work would lose me, too.

You don't already feel this way? There's a long list of things that would have you packing your desk if you discussed them at any other company. Society has already decided certain extreme positions are too brand damaging or disruptive to tolerate.

This policy seems to reflect that a not-insignificant portion of the population has collectively lost their minds over the past year of isolation and now is looking to pick a fight over things that no one would've blinked at 2-3 years ago. It's destroyed friendships, family ties, and I'm sure a lot of team cohesion at many companies.

I think requesting that this discussion takes place outside of company channels is a pretty reasonable reaction.
Facebook, IoTeX, R3 Among New Members of Confidential Computing Consortium
Nice box, but "Out of Stock". And no IPMI, as it seems.
Yes, and I am saying this is a weird thing for a human to do (the explanation here is that the person was the one contributing to the list, and is overcompensating).

Making of lists of funny names is not the first step to genocide. Genocide is horrendous, but the reasons for genocide are complex and the notion of a pyramid to genocide based only on jokes or whatever...is just wrong (again, that is what I said earlier about people not understanding history, I think it isn't coincidental that history/politics education in the US is of very low quality). That view is based on an extremely narrow, individualistic notion of human action/events that has no correlation with reality (living in a society where everyone accuses everyone else of being a genocidaire is also not fun for anyone, it is not inclusive, it is not diverse...I am sure lawyers would love it, no-one else would).

This is the kind of thing that you would hope people can appreciate through common sense...but, unfortunately, that isn't the case anymore.

Also, the issue isn't about someone being fired for promoting genocide...again, this is one of the subtleties of argumentation that you should learn at school...DHH's point was only about why the person was posting the pyramid of hate, self-evidently he did not believe that anyone in the office was attempting to organise a genocide (why does this needs to be said). His view on the list was clear: the list shouldn't have happened, it was bad, people who made the list should have not made it (rather than making it, and then attempting to over-compensate by saying the list was the first step to genocide).

...the stuff that people argue about on here is truly amazing. Again, the US underinvests massively in history/politics/philosophy...these are problems that just don't happen in some societies.
I suppose it depends on what you consider public. I once worked on a team at a Fortune 500 company where the majority of team members were Catholic. They’d often bring up religious topics while chit chatting before meetings started. I’m not Catholic, but I didn’t care. It’s not like they were ever trying to convert me or anything. I treated it like they all belonged to the same book club.
> A cheap generic cat might have the bare minimum amount of catalyst, and might not do a very good job

It depends on the car/engine. My old Mazda RX-8 had a huge cat - longer than the muffler and cost me $2,000 to replace (including labor) back in the late 2000's.

The rotary engine in that vehicle had a terribly difficult time passing California's emission laws even when it was brand new off the lot - which led to strange "hacks" including a blower motor that moved high volumes of air through the exhaust to heat the cat sooner and somehow improve it's numbers, among other things. I assume the extra-long cat was part of the shenanigans Mazda had to go through to get it compliant.
Does the new premium product replace bill.com? That would make me jump with joy
A point that I always try bring up is that adding more mining capacity shifts the distribution of coins but it doesn't change the rate of mining at all.

Ideally you'd have the compute power be tiny amounts divided up over a large number of people. But that would require everyone participating to be principled and using Bitcoin because of its decentralized nature instead of as a way to make money. Human nature would never let that happen.
In my opinion, Brew solve the first two.
Having a bad day does not excuse ones actions, especially as the leader of a company.

If this individual did think of it as a mistake the logical next step would be to apologize for that and to take actions towards not repeating them. His response was to outlaw any political conversations and ask anyone who disagrees with that extreme policy to leave.
ok that might just be the best video on all of youtube
> We know for a fact that Apple was artificially lowering their battery capacity.

This is completely false.
>Some people enjoy socializing at work.

I do. I have small children, don't have a lot of time in the evenings, so work is my main social meeting place (granted, there are weekends with friends, but weekdays are much harder).

During the day, I want to talk to real, physical people, have lunch or coffee with them (probably a cultural thing), and talk about things. I sorely miss it.

While I understand that some people can cope with skyping people all day long 5 days a week and have no physical interactions, I find it incredibly wearing in the long run, and am not sure that most people can. It's a bit like comparing facebook and going to a cafe with friends : sure, both allow social interactions, but the quality of said interactions is vastly different with the remote ones fundamentally lacking.

I'd happily have a day of wfh per week though - perfect for uninterrupted, focused work!
It's a problem in a lot of developed countries.

I don't know how to describe it, it's almost as if they have stopped "developing".
EU says Apple’s 30% cut from rival music providers violates competition law
Acorn Electron typing random shit in - literally cargo cutting - and getting frustrated that nothing would happen. I’d think yeah the listings do x = x + 1 so I’ll have one of those. I learned programming by trial error imitation.
What's an example of a product that would inadvertently discriminate against trans people?

What does it mean to inadvertently discriminate?

As an example, a lot of websites drop support for IE. If the makeup of IE users affected by it over-indexed on any particular type of race/gender/class/sexual orientation, would you classify that as inadvertent discrimination?

If a first version of a new website/product wasn't built to be perfectly compatible with accessibility standards, are they inadvertently discriminating against those with disabilities?

Are software bugs that may not be equally felt by all users an example of inadvertent discrimination?

Is the only way to not inadvertently discriminate to ensure products are built to be optimized for every single human and use case? Every edge case needs to be solved for before launch?
For some context: October CMS, a popular PHP Content Management System (CMS), has switched from open source to a proprietary paid model [1]. Winter CMS is a fork of the October CMS codebase to continue development of the CMS as a open source project.

The new pricing model for October CMS is cheap, but no longer open source:

- $9 per project

- $150 for unlimited projects

For comparison, Craft CMS, a popular commercial CMS also written in PHP, charge $299 for a licence for a single project.

[1] https://octobercms.com/blog/post/october-cms-moves-become-pa...
> backups that cannot be deleted / overwritten

That gets complex if your database contains PII. If a user asks for their account to be deleted...
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One might argue that the most up to date documentation is the source code itself!
> he wanted to own all of retail, and has largely succeeded in that.

They have a decent position in online retail, but they are very far from owning all of retail.
Depending on the car and where you live insurance can be lower or higher. Outside of collector/classic car insurance policies (eg: this is not a daily driver car and you agree not to exceed a low number of miles yearly) or parked insurance (a few hundred miles a year), there is not $200 to $300 a year car insurance in the USA.

Tribal reservations don't require license plates or insurance usually, and you cab choose to self insure if you have sufficient cash set aside.
Joking about the quality of your products is hurtful to the people who made them. Joking about dumb programming trends is offensive to the people who find them useful. You're still happily diminishing people, only now you won't even do it to their faces.
'Disaster Girl' meme as NFT for $500k
100x? I think that is at the edge of what the EV market can accomplish.
That would be a huge breach of anti-monopoly laws - you are abusing dominant position in the market to fuck over your competition (on the music streaming market).
I didn't mention anything about cutting salary or benefits. If employers are having a hard time finding people, they'll need to step up.
Yes I agree. Like original content takes a lot of work to produce, and could get an extra chance by default. Whereas news articles, tweets, and content from large tech companies have their own promotional campaigns.

I'd rather have eclectic ideas and projects from HN users not be overlooked (thus encouraging more of such content), and am less worried about GAFAM announcements, CNBC/Axios/BBC news, or things already popular on Twitter/Reddit.

Would this be a doable change to try?
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