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Even putting aside security aspects aside, in general I've been seeing research pop up over the years criticizing SMT's performance claims of ~30%.

Hell, even Amazon's Graviton CPUs don't have it (though I'm sure that's a product of being ARM derived rather than a design decision).
Professionalism like... mocking customers' names? On company time? Using company assets to do so?
> there was about 1.5 years

You are kind of assuming that every Tor site is someone's primary occupation. But for some people it just be a hobby, and not their primary one either. Imagine someone spending an hour or so per year. They may not even know this is coming.
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Assuming this is true, all this tells me that this is a great time to apply at Basecamp. Not only they promise a politics-free environment—a huge bonus by itself for me—but they're likely to be laxer than usual in their standards, for a while anyhow.

I'll give it a try.
Well that'll teach me to read the comments after a full day of work. Thank you for the correction!
"In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack"

Does this apply to all CPU archicetures? The article is a little vague. A fall-out from the monoculture. Hey, where did my post go?
Possibly true. Back during the election you'd read about people disowning family members. Probably hyperbole, but still insane
This marks the 50th release, improvements across the board. Nice work folks!
Primarily the "no politics" but I also see the wisdom in dropping 360 reviews. We did that several years ago and it was an amazingly positive change. As for no more dwelling on past decisions, that is the same thing as Intel's cultural value of "Disagree, but then commit." Basically, debate fiercely but then once a decision is made, commit to to it even if it didn't go your way and move on. This is a key part of being a team player. Things aren't going to always go your way and even leadership will sometimes make mistakes but it undermines everything if someone keeps harping on a prior decision. "See, I told it wouldn't work" is about the most immature and unhelpful attitude to have - no matter how correct it may be.
So what are the benefits of this over existing serverless solutions like Google Cloud Functions and AWS Lambda?
As long as CI is run on all commits, I’ll agree.

If you don’t run CI on every commit, then you have to balance nicer commits a higher likelihood of bisecting not working as easily.
>We tolerate war in the world because we tolerate smaller bad things.

Nope.
> Being harassed to virtue-signal

You tell on yourself when you use language that suggests that the people who participate in these discussions and contributions are disingenuous [1].

People are not being harassed to virtue signal. People are being harassed to be explicit about the contents of their character.

Those that refuse or think that the others are being disingenuous are also communicating something.

[1] Virtue signalling is a pejorative neologism for the expression of a disingenuous moral viewpoint with the intent of communicating good character.
There are definitions and I believe another commenter in this thread has defined it very solidly about poverty.

There will always be service sector jobs, this is the argument luddites were having in 1815 (I don't want to get into this as it is distracting from my main point).

We should be ensuring that anyone putting in 40 hours a week should be able to support a family. The wealth is there to be able to create this society (not saying it's easy not saying there are not problems).
>Also, most places serve alcohol and teens can't serve.

Considering how profitable alcohol is, I wonder if that regulation isn't a major factor in hiring under 21s.
That is so very cool.
I’ll take the other side of that bet. You just got rid of a bunch of folks who clearly didn’t want to be there anymore. You also probably put an end to those obnoxious, unproductive political debates that seemed to have been getting more pervasive. After a bit of hiring, your profits are up. Morale is much improved. Productivity is up.

Time will tell which prediction turns out to be the outcome.
I think most would agree more professionalism would be nice, in fact getting rid of a list of funny customer names (as employees suggested) would be more professional, not less. But again, that's not really what the core disagreement is here - that's not IMO why people are quitting - it sounds like most of the company agrees that is a good idea.

They are quitting because the founders decided to assert their power nakedly and without restraint, to berate employees, shut down their organisation and discussions and attempt to dictate terms to them in a humiliating public way, that is to break the social contract between employee and employed. In doing that they declared that they alone decide the rules, they alone decide what is acceptable to say and what is not.

Every workplace has some subtle set of rules about behaviour but these rules are negotiated between employer and employee, and if as a manager you lose sight of that, you'll lose your best employees as they decide they don't really want you to decide everything about their waking hours without consulting you.
Also there is always the standard deduction, and I think at the federal level there is even 30k on top of that you can take in LTCG without any taxes. So not a luxurious lifestyle, but certainly enough to survive.

I don't think WA is doing that though. They probably have a much lower threshold when the capital gains tax sets in.

Edit: just read a bit closer and WA is exempting the first 250k in gains per year. So they are offering an even better deal than the feds.
I feel it’s just TV industry, not tech.
It also incentivizes teenagers to work instead of hang around parking lots being goofballs.
Rock climbing and bouldering - often feels like the physical equivalent of trying to gracefully solve puzzles in much the same way I think about programming.
How is NYC refusing to grow? This city has been exploding in every direction for the ten years I've been here.

> Every time someone moves from the suburbs to a transit connected apartment building in SF their carbon emissions are cut in half.

I kind of agree, but if these people are truly shifting to remote work, commutes won't be quite as big a deal. (but there are of course a laundry list of other reasons why suburbs are unsustainable)
Honestly, results are not surprising. Most people who would move out of the city for teleworking would probably move to cheaper suburbs for two main reasons:

1) They might need to head into the office for facetime in situations where working abroad does not work.

2) They still have access to amenities they are use to having without paying the price of living downtown.
I see, yeah I can't help you there either. I don't see how a tree based approach would ever need more than twice the amount of space.
Fine, so long as they “fix it” for everyone. Whatever rules they come up with must be universally applied. That includes for Sony and Microsoft and the game console online stores.
My thoughts, exactly. I’m super happy with my current gig, or I’d apply.
I am as much a communist as you are a fluid that flows through the lymphatic system.
I left 5 years ago, so I'm remembering this as well as I can.

> they were complicit in allowing this dumb-ass list to be circulated around the company for years, and when it became an issue, they refused to take any action on it.

That's not really what happened, and is a part of this story that hasn't entirely been made clear. The list was, if I remember correctly, about 10 to 20 names long and was tucked away in the company Backpack account. I found it in ~2010 when I first started and thought little of it.

As far as I know it didn't get added to after that, perhaps it did. It certainly wasn't "passed around". Backpack was closed to new users in ~2014, but we'd stopped using it at that point and some time I think before then someone had found the list, brought it up with the rest of the company as a problem. I seem to recall the phrase "How would you feel if you discovered your name was on this list" was mentioed, but it was a long time ago. Anyway, my recollection was that it was "deleted" (I guess it was a "soft" delete) with no dissent.

This wasn't about DHH or Jason letting a list be passed around, or defending it. No-one was tittering about "Incontinentia Buttocks" in 2021. Basecamp while I was there (2010 to 2016) became incredibly good at customer privacy and security, and I would trust them with my data, and this just wouldn't happen.
I mean yes, you are forced to accept the preferred pronouns when referring to any person. Where is that not already an expectation? When I was young, there was a particularly tall and broad-shouldered girl in one of my classes that some of the bullies used to call a boy. They would intentionally say he/him when referring to this girl. She obviously did not like that. Is it wrong of the teacher to punish them for doing this, forcing them to use the correct pronouns?
So, if your PR has a clean history in the first place (clean as in multiple small digestible, atomic commits, that are easy to review in isolation), why get rid of it with a squash?

Is there a fundamental drawback to keeping that clean history? _It's already here_
The use case is "I have binary data coming in at 5 Gbytes/sec from a logic analyzer, and I normally want say 30 seconds of trace"

That data is too big for RAM, and coming in too fast to write to disk. But the data is usually very compressible. Some channels will be a million '0's. Other channels will be a clock signal of '0 1 0 1 0 1' forever. Other signals will be more complex, but probably still be near repeats of patterns.

I just want to compress it in realtime in such a way the GUI tools I want to use can still work. They need to do fast-ish random access on the data, and answer questions about chunks of the data (eg. is all the data between time X and time Y all 0's).
Just wanted to share a project I wrote a few months ago.
I wanted to play around with Z3 and I though this would be a good project to get started with it.

It can solve classic sudokus, as well as other variants such as thermo, miracle, chess, sandwich, killer, and any combination of them.
Not according to google (nsfw)
I have been gone through numerous diversity coaching at numerous big tech companies. Comparing diversity coaches to vampires is absurd and alarmist. All they did was demonstrate some biases in a way where I became more aware of my own biases, and educated us how everyone has biases and they can sometimes be good biases and sometimes be bad biases.
The economics also work in Apple's favor as it either requires using your real identity to commit fraud, committing identity theft by creating an LLC with someone else's identity, or paying for a registered agent in a third-world country to sign up for you (not sure how much that costs though, I've never looked!). I'm sure most malware cases they deal with are triaged for the possibility of filing a police report.
I would rather have TSMC open a chip plant in Europe if it's a big company, they are far superior, and already the biggest customer of ASML.
Yeah but the job market is not a free market, because not getting a job is existential for those seeking the job, while the company can usually just survive when a position is not filled for a certain time.

This means to make this a free market many nations did the reasonable thing and introduced measures like minimum wages and unemployment benefits. This way when you loose your job the balance of power evens out a little and the job market works better for all involved (workers have a highee chance of finding a job they like, companies have a higher chance of getting people that like them, really shitty companies get an incentive to change).

In the US all shitty work places have no incentive at all to change, because everybody and their dog is struggling to make ends meet. That means no matter how slavishly they treat your people, there will always be another person desperate enough to throw themselves into the grinder. Result: No incentive to change for the company and people who feel like society ows them nothing.

I don't think that is recipe for a bright future, but who am I to judge.

So from a systemic perspective minimum wage is like a limit you can set for how desperate you allow people to get. And quite frankly. 15 USD is still less than if you had adjusted the original minimum wage for inflation, so come on.
Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls
Thunder X2 and X3 has 4 way SMT for general purpose, but yes, more ARM is good :-)
> privacy and crowdsourcing cannot go together

Not to downplay the difficulty of these things, but cryptography literally enables things that seem impossible, so I wouldn't write it off that easily
Which is fine, but small/personal talk is extremely common at work, and many people would find a workplace completely devoid of it to be rather cold. I don't think most people saying 'no politics' want to take that as far as banning all talk of anything not directly related to the task at hand.
They also admitted it wasn't under the radar, the founders says they'd known about the list for years.
It is exactly a pointless exercise when it kills more people than it saves. They should've said that the rates were very, very low, they're monitoring the situation closely and conducting research into it in parallel, but not pausing it because it would kill more people indirectly by not vaccinating them than would it save by pausing.

This is a big problem of "democracy" (Socrates' absolute favorite political system - mob rule by popular sentiment rather than science or expertise) where benevolent dictators are essential to override the stupidity of individual "choice" for vital public health policies for the actual greater good.

Anyone who refuses a vaccine without a narrow, valid medical excuse should get 3 years of prison time. If they don't like it, too bad. "Democracies" have to quit pandering to the crazies and make people do what is best for all during an emergency.
Wow. To me that shows how much luck there is in hitting the front page of HN, even if what you're posting is interesting.
Live. Like survival desert island-style.
That too, but if you commit in big enough chunks, you amortize the signal handling overhead down to almost nothing.
How Linux Works book is another great Linux reference.

The latest edition has virtualization content that includes VMs and containers.

[1]https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3
HN will look back at this as one of the better choices Basecamp made, but for now they will grill DHH and Jason Fried over the coals because how dare they.
Yeap. Haha. Watch out for cookies too.
DHH is incapable of expressing regret in general.
Anyone know of any open source or cheap web/browser apps that let you edit data in postgres tables?

Using this tech or something more primitive?

I want to get some end user feedback on predictive model outputs...
Insane that you've been downvoted for this. Land value capture is literally THE example of economic rent. Adam Smith identified it in a little book called Wealth of Nations...
By that logic, the initial investment timing matters as well, which is technically true of course but practically not particularly useful. If you want exposure to equities, you have to buy equities at some time.
Would a communist United States not trade with China?
I recently spent a week doodling around with postgraphile and postgrest. I really liked both, writing everything in SQL is super great. It does feel a bit weird at first but the amount of boilerplate it removes is fantastic and it really forced me to think about the correct schema for my business logic.

My only gripe with postgraphile is not supporting column grants in RLS policy.[0] Instead they recommend splitting tables in two and having one-to-one foreign keys and using grants on the full tables instead. It's a shame because PostgREST dealt with column grants just fine and I don't want to use postgraphile's specific "smart comments" in my database, they just seem like a really un-elegant solution to what is otherwise a super nice pattern: SQL everything.

I also considered Hasura but they have their own auth system and don't use RLS, which is a shame. Having access control in the database is super great when you have multiple APIs and different people with psql and different roles, all with different levels of access to the same DB.

0 :
> Don't use column-based SELECT grants: column-based grants work well for INSERT and UPDATE (especially when combined with --no-ignore-rbac!), but they don't make sense for DELETE and they cause issues when used with SELECT. https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/requirements/
Funny to hear that from where I'm sitting. I guess many have not had to deal with these things. I have and as I saw the title I immediately assumed dmca complaints and wondered if the weaponization was to get your hosting pulled or google search results tanked.

I also wondered if this would be related tot he deluge of bad things from the forChaan harass book. No it's not fun learning from the receiving end on what they call the forChaan party vaan, and the other associated weaponization of things around all that.

In my experience, some takedown groups send emails to the hosting company, the contacts for the site and google. Google has a non-transparent site downranking based upon some hidden percentage of complaints for something.

One of my sites actually has something in the search results mentioning complaints and is essentially gone.

Many ways to hurt people from afar using tech, I'm not even sure many of the people sending complaints know the ripple damage that can occur. Just one of the joys of non-decentralized / non-transparent interwebs.
You mean the professionalism of the founder going off on people in petty ways after they pointed out that making fun of customer names is bad and the company should review it's culture? Or where they banned any ability to give negative feedback about management under the disguise of banning political discussions?

If anything, I see everyone who is leaving as being the professional ones in this situation.
Well, without knowing how the Corp is setup, that’s a bad example as this could easily exist: an international company can very easily be paying for high wages in one nation (ie loss leading) by low wages in another. Or staying profitable and with open doors. And so on.

Unless you’ve done an FSA class and you can explain me your thinking more, it’s worth appreciating there are a ton of levers that impact Corp finance. Same way you have performance trade offs for one algo vs the other.
Is this a big issue in Australia?
Yes, first 40% efficient ICE was made almost a century ago, but those were very big engines.
Certainly, it's a balancing act.

But equally is it ok for people to work hard and long hours and only barely make Or not quite make ends meet?

Sorry I should note that I am not saying you are advocating for the above(could be misread).
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Could you name some pointers that I should look up to learn more about both sides of this debate?
> If you lose control of an aws root account it can take weeks to get it back.

> Billing issues can lead to aws wiping out an account.

These are small-scale related issues though. When you're at the level where it's hard to have a reasonable backup outside of AWS, you can also resolve the root account issues fairly quickly by calling your TAM directly.
From what the founders and employees have said publicly there is no indication that flame wars were a problem at Basecamp
So what counts as political?

Let’s take a recent polarizing topic: whether trans people should use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. Which bathroom do trans employees use? How can Basecamp possibly avoid that issue?
Yes, but the author of the code, who would presumably know their intent, gets to choose how many commits to squash to instead of just one. This means that they can preserve the development process in a logical way.
The policy changes go far beyond banning politics or unprofessional behavior. Unless unprofessional is defined as anything which says anything negative about management directly or indirectly in any circumstance including yearly reviews.
It's entirely not insane _on the premise that the history is clean_. That's the whole argument that is being made here.

If you think that "Preserving a PR's individual commits in the master branch is insane - many of those commits won't represent a fully working system anyway", your issue _is_ "that your commits don't represent a fully working system anyway", _that_ is what you need to fix.

You need to make sure your history _does_ represent multiple small digestible atomic chunk of codes, that are understandable individually.

By squashing, you're not fixing the root cause, you're treating the symptoms.
Is the protest process automatic? Meaning if another bidder just comes forward and says they protest, does the GAO have to move forward in the investigation?

This just seems slightly ridiculous as neither of the other two have put a rocket up yet, right?
Apologies, but I'd rather not reveal too much personal info. But I did get need-based financial assistance in university. And I did attend a low cost school for financial reasons.

I didn't "pay my way through school washing dishes" or anything like that.

I wasn't supported by my family so the extra income through low pay jobs was critical.
If the “customers” were law enforcement - who already racially profile on the flimsiest of excuses - that might be seen as a feature not a bug.

If AI/ML says someone “fits the description” what better feature than being able to blame it on the computer? If law enforcement was willing to deal with the flaw, and if tech companies were willing to sell it to them, what’s to stop an unscrupulous company from continuing to sell it if they didn’t get push back?
> Interestingly the employees who left have the best career prospects

Maybe 5 years ago. Now it seems that a lot of tech companies see outspoken/activist employees as a liability, even if they are accomplished.
meh, if the only way you can get a piece of the pie is to take it from someone who has less opportunity than you I don't really feel bad.

Cities like Seattle raised their minimum wage, there was a lot of worry that everyone would go broke and there would be no food to eat. As it turned out, a few people shut down and someone else almost immediately opens a similar business in that place.

Not everyone runs a business that is properly priced, or properly managed to make a profit, but lots of people can do it, and they tend to fill the void that is left by businesses that can't offer a product that people feel is worth paying enough to support less than poverty wage.

Even for companies that pay really well, some don't make it.