skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your conclusion, but I don't agree that it's a straw man. There remains a fairly large subset of people who are "fine" with having LGBTQ coworkers, but if those coworkers regularly talk about their personal lives to the same degree that non-LGBTQ coworkers regularly talk about theirs, it's seen as "pushing it in our faces."

On an earlier thread about Basecamp, I suggested that if the real goal is to keep conversations in the office civil and focused on work, the policy should be "keep conversations in the office civil and focused on work." You can politely shut down acrimonious debate in your Slack not because it's "political," but because it's acrimonious, and you're not sending a message that "political" discussions that really do have a bearing on your workplace culture are off-limits even if they're conducted respectfully. That's where Basecamp dropped the ball. (And let the ball roll under the couch and then set the couch on fire.)
iOS app is fine
I think it's too reductive to say "if a workplace is unreasonable", as if it's a binary condition. At any workplace, there are going to be all sorts of people, with all sorts of opinions, many of which may not become apparent until the issue is forced. Some of those people will be in charge of others. So it's entirely plausible to have an office full of mostly-reasonable people and still find a manager who asks their report to relax about being misgendered.

The retrograde sexist thing sounds obvious because public opinion there is so one-sided. But that's not true for all issues. It was legal to fire employees simply for being gay or trans less than a year ago.

I think we're mostly on the same page here. I agree that ultimately, assholes will find a way to be assholes regardless of the policies in place. But we should still be wary of policies that give them cover to do so.
> Honestly curious, this is a real-life situation that me and several of my friends have done with Synology NAS.

I guess I don't understand why optimize for the cost of a single drive, above all criteria?

Between this and the other comments, you've mentioned that Synology is over-priced, lower quality, lower performance, proprietary and phones home. Are you really better off vs. building a higher-quality more performant lower-cost ZFS server that's fully open source and has better reliability?

If Synology is higher cost, maybe take that difference in price to buy an extra drive or two?

To me a NAS is all about reliability.

> and I will have one drive redundancy throughout the whole time

Mentioned in the other comment, but that's not a good way of looking at it. What matters is the probability of loss of data while rebuilding the data after one drive has died. The more drives you have in that set, the larger the probability of loss. Your risk is increasing with every drive you add.
You don't need OS to build a very precise clock for the purpose of exploiting timing attack. That's why SharedArrayBuffer[1] is disabled in all browsers.

Moreover, not every side channel attack relies on timing attack.

For interested readers, there is a paper titled "Fantastic Timers and Where to Find Them: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript", which discussed a variety of ways to build high resolution clocks.

[1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/177033/how-can-...
The Bolsheviks were just as surely motivated by idealism for a more just society.
I totally agree. It is important to have debates and foster a culture of civility, while recognizing that there are times where the debate breaks down, becomes dysfunctional and can escalate. In those moments a reset or pause is appropriate to again foster a healthy dialogue.

One of the most valuable investment I’ve made in my life is counseling focused on functional, healthy communication and dispute resolution. It has allowed to respectfully resolve areas of disagreement and reach consensus on difficult issues.

P.S. thank you for engaging. I found your follow up comment helpful and important. I think it is critical we as a society build companies that can engage in difficult debates and take normative positions to improve society. Your example of Apple is an excellent example and I think added something important to this thread.
I don't think they're mutually exclusive. If China wants bitcoin to succeed, they would do well to turn a blind eye to people evading currency controls, in order to maximize incentive for their citizens to mine and use it.
How can I resolve “502 Bad Gateway Nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)”?
Feels pretty much like that to me as well.
Is this competing with Bitcoin in the sense that maybe I could buy a coffee with it? Or is it competing with S3?
In case anyone wasn't aware, Florida man is popular because of the very liberal policy Florida has on public records (called the sunshine law).

Florida isn't really any more crazy than the next state.
From looking at numbers from the macOS SSD thrashing issue, we know lifetime usage as reported by SMART is not a strict function of terabytes written (at least on those SSDs). This makes sense, because small writes have a much higher endurance cost than large writes on SSDs. SSD lifetime isn't based on total bytes written, it's based on total blocks erased in the underlying Flash, and blocks are much larger than sectors so small writes necessarily cause write amplification to some extent (depending on the wear leveling).

If manufacturers are guaranteeing a certain number of TBW on SSDs but can't actually sustain that at pathological write sizes, they need to start qualifying those guarantees with e.g. an average write size statistic. Then they can claim Chia breaks that assumption and reject warranty claims in those cases.

This isn't unique to Chia. For example, a database workload will cause higher stress per byte written on an SSD than a raw video recording workload.

It's also possible they're talking about time-based warranties with daily usage numbers. Many SSDs will be "guaranteed for 5 years" at some DWPD (drive writes per day). In that case they're probably just saying Chia plotting greatly exceeds the DWPD stat and thus your number of years warranty no longer applies. That ignores the above problem and is just about how the drive endurance is specified.

(Also, just to clarify: apparently SSDs are used in Chia as a staging ground to build data to put on HDDs, which is then read only; I don't think there is any endurance cost to disks for actually "farming" Chia, only for "plotting" the contents of those disks initially; I think Chia is silly but just want to get the tech right)
And the people that were going to leave because they were being harassed by these talented people? How much would it have cost to replace them?
For a really stellar example, see the Washington Right to Repair hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBR8IvXVwsE (Lewis at 15:10)

At one point a senator asks why someone should be restricted from replacing a fan on a broken Xbox, the lobbyist said (paraphrasing) "I hear what you're saying and am not listening, but let's do the real talking in private"

Here's a breakdown of the exchange between the senator and the lobbyist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3Qa9tlA3o
We're not talking about the French Revolution here. This is a small-to-medium (or, recently, perhaps "medium-to-small") privately-held SaaS firm. For its entire existence, this firm's marketing has taken the form of checks written against a hypothetical account of expertise in business organization and cultural transformation. This week most of those checks have bounced, but that is because of the particular properties of this organization, not "kids these days".
Thank you. I thought I take quite some money, but $900/h ($180.000/5days/5consultants/8hours ?) is really nice money. Especially if you think that probably many of the team are fresh from university with no experience (at least my friends at Berger/BCG/Bain worked there fresh from university) - selling people fresh from university for $900/h is quite a feat.

The most expensive I've worked with in the past was EUR 700/h for an M&A lawyer.

Large companies - like Deutsche Post - I've worked with take people from all the big consultancies at once, so I assume there are enough. Governmental departments in Germany spend around $600M a year paying external consultants, I wonder how many that are at peak time. Wikipedia says BCG has 21k employees, Mk 30k and Bain 12k, Spiegel says BCG Germany has 500 consultants.

"Maybe you're confusing with staff augmentation"

You might be right here too. Would fit in with my "most consultants from BCG/Mk are not consultants but body leasing, but call themselves consultants".
I would argue that a mandate to not have societal/political discussions/statements is in itself a societal/political statement.
Malware can change its signature and then it’s no longer on the exclusion list.

However if an inclusion list is used, then the malware changing its signature means that it loses the ability to execute.
See also:
https://mbqpharma.com/mbq-167/
>These business have a model that relies on poverty wages changing the minimum wage will disrupt these businesses greatly and I don't see a problem with that.

Doesn't that just end with bankrupt businesses and unemployed workers?
Yes, I think you are right. Americans work long hours, they spend far too much time at work, and many view work as something that should give them personal fulfillment. Combine that with a right-to-work situaion and a lot of people are investing too much into what is basically a profit-maximizing enterprise instead of a charity or social group.
Not really a how-to site, but Red Hat's documentation has often been invaluable. It's freely available, and you can also get access to their knowledge base with a free developer account; it contains tons of useful stuff even if you don't use RHEL.
Except for the battery I don’t think those things have ever really been user swappable though. The issue with water protection on phones I have worked on is that its hard to maintain when removing the screen because it tends to stick. I guess you could always buy a new gasket which is probably what the Apple store does.
>Not that this has any chance of being upheld, of course.

The author of that article seems to not have a very deep understanding of court precedent. I wouldn't count it out as unconstitutional so quickly.

https://reason.com/2021/02/04/florida-gov-ron-desantis-wants...

"In a 1980 decision, Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, the Supreme Court ruled that California could mandate that Pruneyard allow protesters to engage in political advocacy there, even though it was private property. The mall wasn't being ordered to host particular messages, but rather serve as a carrier of a type of communication, which was political petitioning in this case."
> It's probably better to get them fully out of the "normal" cache hierarchy as well.

I can’t seem to shake the notion that this idea of transparent, multi-level caching might have to go away too. That cache shared between cores may have to morph into a layer of chip-local memory that you allocate imperatively. It’s possible that languages like Rust or VMs like the Beam could either adapt to such hardware with fewer problems, or even leverage it.
We keep trying to pretend like memory is flat but now we’re up to 3-4 layers of cache and memory banks. How much longer can you torture that abstraction?
PS. I did think your original response was super funny and laughed pretty hard.

For posterity, birdy told me to go back to smoking my digitaltrees.
Thank you! I'm a huge fan of the mnm approach. I wish you tremendous success.
Seems like you're reaaaally splitting hairs here. Young age is okay to discriminate against, but not old age (because you don't leave old age without dying). Anything people can enter and leave by choice is not okay to discriminate against if it's -important-, like family or religion.

What about menstruation? That's pretty universal to women (not entirely especially with non-cisgendered), not really a choice (at least, not without encroaching on the same protections you'd want with pregnancy), and all those who do menstruate enter and leave it (both monthly, and at menopause)...what's your objection to discriminating against menstruating women?
> 1) Kids are unlikely to be as effective. 2) There's not that many kids.

Neither of those even support the argument that a change from equal minimum wage would have the effect of moving jobs from adults to kids.

The first would be a good argument for a smaller displacement effect from allowing teens to work with equal minimum wage to adults conpared to not allowing them to work at all than would occur at equal effectiveness, the second semana yo be a sortear of an argument about the magnitude of effect but without a definition of what “that many” meand in context is only a sketch.

> It's all just motivated reasoning to argue against a significant minimum wage.

it's not an argument against ‘a significant minimim wage’ at all.
Woven is shutting down? Couldn't have happened to a nicer two fellows.
A 10% profit can be a lot, if like many restaurants you're pulling $5-10k in revenue in a day.
Many owners own multiple restaurants, too.
Only those who still cling to their cult (I mean their marketing gimmick). Many have moved on for a while...
Governments can solve housing issues by limiting the ratio of commercial to residential real estate ratio. If you authorize office space for 10k people, do that after you plan for 10k/2 homes at minimum. This is not rocket science.
I find this to be a very odd take.

I believe no committees is because Jason and DHH don't think they're productive.

Not bringing up past decisions you disagree with makes sense to me. What's the point in re-judging the past?

The reason DHH mentioned for 360 reviews was that they didn't contain any real criticism because you're critiquing your co-workers (I'm paraphrasing), and that makes perfect sense to me. I wouldn't want to criticize my co-workers unless I had a very strong relationship with them.

None of these changes feel like DHH and Jason being tyrants and stamping out employee insubordination.
Knowledge-wise my BS in global business isn't worth the paper its printed on, but it keeps the "you have to have a degree" assholes at bay

Considering that most b-school students go on to become MBAs, I would hope they teach some leadership skills
Why don't you ask them?
What a wonderful demonstration of the kind of toxicity that forced Basecamp management to act as they did.
Stopping the Manipulation Machines
Dino: Self-Supervised Vision Transformers by Facebook
The Enemy as Sociologist
You say:

1. [The] question is intended to be a conceptually simple one.

2. There isn't anything inherently tricky about it.

3. I won't directly post the question here.

Without the question we can't tell you if it's simple to grasp. In other words, we can't evaluate the question from its solution.
If your goal was to get likeminded people who don't want to discuss politics into the company, and "pot stirrers" out, seems like the post succeeded. Maybe that wasn't the intent and they were naive enough to post something publicly like that and not expect resignations, I couldn't say.
> Then corps would have to rewrite the application algorithms that serially discriminate against 1st time job applicants.

Places that hire people at minimum wage mostly wouldn't have that problem for those positions
That makes sense, but it seems like an unstable temporary situation? If what you say is true there’s a tension- crypto can help unseat USD as the global reserve currency, but a huge part of crypto’s value is because... Chinese oligarchs can use it to transmute their renminbi into USD? What am I missing?
There are plenty of countries who have had minimum wage for some time and have increased that minimum wage over time. So there have been lots of studies done on the impact of it. Here’s one:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

> This report includes the findings from a meta-analysis of the empirical UK national minimum wage literature. Similar to a previous UK minimum wage study by de Linde Leonard et al. (2014), this study finds no statistically significant aggregate adverse employment effect of the NMW and also no publication bias in the NMW literature. However, estimates for different sub-groups suggest some relatively larger adverse employment effects for some labour market groups, such as part-time employees.
Hi Dang, well done on getting some of the software done! I think this is a great addition.
Quantifying complexity really depends on the level of abstraction though.

Scraping a static webpage is simple when examined at the level of abstraction involving Python and ready made packages. An ICE is similarly simple when examined from the perspective of basic mechanics, as in the article under discussion.

As you note, scraping that static webpage is no longer simple when you include as part of your assessment the TCP state machine, kernel interface, NIC firmware, and similar layers that had previously been abstracted away. Neither is the ICE though once metallurgy, machining, oil chemistry, and the physics of combustion are included.

Granted, pursued to the logical extreme software eventually drags in everything the ICE did and more due to the physical hardware. But then modern engines are controlled by computers ...
There is no legal basis for that distinction.
Their menu may not appear much cheaper in the US, but McDonalds is much more aggressive with price discrimination here. You won't find the same promotions, value menu, and coupons in Europe.
short list - what comes to my mind within a few minutes

good old HOWTOs etc
* https://tldp.org/

my personal favorite distribution - with a social contract
* https://wiki.debian.org/

the following distribution where the best entry-point for newbies at some time-periode & hat the advantage to provide a lot of good documentation about the specific distribution, but also linux in general ... at least in my perception

gentoo was cool before ubuntu existed
* https://wiki.gentoo.org/

and ah, and gentoo has a social-contract similar to debian :)

then ubuntu was cool before arch existed
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

german
* https://ubuntuusers.de/

arch was cool until everybody discovered, that compiling your own shit is not so cool but pretty time-consuming ;)
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/

idk ... whats the current go-to "distro for the technically interessted linux-newbies"?

btw. not linux specific, but afaik there are lots of FOSS related docus available
* https://readthedocs.org/
> I'm continuously surprised how often the answer turns out to be no after dinner digging, even in larger companies with otherwise well-run IT.

I am not even remotely surprised, because most companies are not IT oriented companies, and most of those either have managers that can't be made to understand the importance of DR, or (sadly) IT people who can't.

I myself am currently in a multi-year long political battle to justify a mere $600mo to get our DR env (built with old equipment that is on the verge of irrevocable failure) moved from a closet at a branch location to an actual co-lo that won't lose power and internet 3 times a week.

At least we finally got that backup generator approved for the corporate office after the third time a goose committed suicide on our power lines. Ugh...
Saw this stuff on Mark Robers channel. Pretty amazing stuff. Been thinking of finding some for an emergency kit.
At the beginning of the pandemic there was rampant panic buying, it strikes me as misguided to read anything more than that into what was observed.
I don't think they expected to lose 30% of their workforce. That doesn't seem like something you'd do intentionally except in dire circumstances.
> The tech industry is all politics all the time

.. This is a comical generalization of an entire industry which spans beyond US..

I have worked in plenty on companies (big and small) where politics was simply left outside of business and everyone was fine with simply discussing the actual system design, infrastructure and data models.

Employees were simply not permitted to attempt to convert others to Christianity or initiate flame wars regarding abortion laws.

There is a time and a place for politics and a business setting is just not it.

I think this is a great move by Basecamp and I hope more companies follow. At a minimum, their stance is now crystal clear and there will be high cohesion between employees and management.
I wouldn't quit over this, but if I was offered six months salary to leave like they were I'd go. It's free money and the job market is great.
Google is well placed to accomplish this goal so I see it as entirely possible.

First, Google prints money like no other company. Google can afford carbon offsets and equipment changes.

Second, Google consumes energy mostly in the form of electricity, which can be more easily converted to renewables. Google doesn't have a business model that depends on consuming a particular fossil fuel.

Third, much of Google's energy consumption is centralized in very large data centers that can be optimized to reduce energy use, capture waste heat, etc...

Fourth, this is an area where many Googlers are strongly supportive in addition to being a nice point of pride when marketing to customers.
Scientists discover new vulnerability affecting computers globally
> We don't care [...]

Well, this might be contrarian but if I worked for DHH I might very well prefer this situation.

In fact I feel like I've been in and out of situations and I tend to prefer clear command chains: I do what I am told and those under me do what they are told.

The military is a perfect good example as is certain companies.

Maybe twice (including a decade ago and now) have I experienced self organizing teams that worked.
Many times I see people cite these statistics as if they are the actions of the company. However. 90% of those donations are from individuals that work for Microsoft and list Microsoft as an employer. It’s cited towards the bottom of the page. I think that this mostly tells us that there exists a decent number of politically active employees and that a large majority of those donate to democrats. The remaining 9% of the donations are PACs which would have their own disclosures. I couldn’t find reference on that page for which PACs Microsoft is donating too though and which party those PACs are donating to.
This is what is called "Dog in the manger": the dog can't eat the hay, but won't let in any who can eat it.
...really? What are you keeping on your laptop that is so important to you? I can't think of anything on my computer that I couldn't lose and pretty much just shrug off.
This is a very twisted and biased account of what happened. Nowhere did DHH or Jason state or directly imply these things.
UVA Eng. CompSci Discover New Vulnerability Affecting Computers Globally
More details [1], if anyone is wondering what was Island ECN.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/07/island-2/
Well, Electrical and Computer Engineering is an extremely precise discipline, and while the line between hardware and software can be fuzzy in many cases, web software is an entirely different world from VLSI design, and even from instruction set design. And of course, some software, at all abstraction levels, is extremely well engineered as well. But it doesn't seem to be the norm.

Most importantly, I'm talking about my own ability more than the best in the field.
It sounds like a dream, but going back towards interpreted JS instead of JIT may finally stem the insanity of bloat that JS has evolved in an environment of increasingly fast implementations.
isn't the paperclip maximizer a metaphor for the profit motive anyway? at least that's the way i understood it
Apple vs. the Paradox of Choice
Ah right, the employees that were told to keep quiet by their employer are the fascists. Got it.
Wow, that was perfectly executed. A testament to what the web can be.