skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White supremacist men want to pretend that it’s not about the policy.

Because white supremacist men don’t want to live in a world where women or people of color are valued.

Many of them are such bigoted shits that they cannot even _imagine_ somebody valuing women or people of color. This is why they talk about things like “virtue signaling”. That’s a term used by bigots who can’t even imagine caring about that other group, so they assume it _must_ be fake.
I think *.readthedocs.io should be mentioned.

I've found lots of great linux documenation on that site in a clear and readable form.

I don't know how to describe it, maybe as a sort of a github for docs?
This sounds like our DDoS protection. I have just relaxed the criteria. Hope it is better now.
There used to be a middle ground between MarkMonitor and NameCheap, but Network Solutions was acquired by web.com. Not horrible but they at least do not have a trigger finger on domains and they proved their backups worked in the OVH fire. I had to help teach their support staff how to use "dig" and it took many emails back and forth to get a new tld set up, but no trigger finger. I am happy with Mark Monitor though.
I was trained in Australia, in the past decade, and was taught thoroughly in both metric and imperial. The engineers and machinists I have worked with that insist metric is the only way habe been more prone to mistakes when imperial components pop up, as they do. Accuracy is down to the spec, the person and the machine, ease of use is identical when decimal inches are used, mistakes are a result of poor communication.
This is basically what happened according to available info [1]. DHH, one of the co-founders, admitted the list was a mistake but aggressively pushed back on the political assertion by some employees that the list and the people involved were contributing to genocidal attitudes. As DHH pushed back, he went so far as to dig up old employee messages and repost them publicly to argue that the employees making accusations about genocidal attitudes were themselves hypocrites. Less than two weeks later, Jason Fried announced the new company policies.

[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
Probably depends on the company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kink-com/
In my experience that has never happened

Usually its a bunch of people advocating for socialism, screaming silence is violence, and saying white people are going to hell

From what I've seen (maybe this is just the bay area) you don't usually know someone is conservative until they trust you lol
> My sense is that DHH is just a terrible boss

Not all the people who left worked for DHH, who is the CTO.

OTOH, if the CTO is a terrible boss, there’s a very good chance that the rest of the C-suite is suboptimal, since executives generally aren’t picked at random, so there is probably some correlation across the group. And, then, down the chain of management, for the same reasons.
> 6 months free money is not as much as you'd think; a new job hunt takes 3, even for talented, in-demand people.

That still looks like 3 months free money. That is a considerable offer no matter a person's politics.

Occam's razor is most of the people who left did so because they didn't like management, because that is the normal reason people leave jobs. However, it is very noticeable that if someone was looking for a reason to leave for any unrelated reason, this was the perfect opportunity.
Diesels with combined SCR-EGR can go below US limits rather easily.
I disagree. It’s about professionalism. Flame wars at work create a hostile environment where quiet voices are silenced. It’s the same reason HN bans political flame wars.
A lot of people who support minimum wage increases don't think that way though. They _do_ think the local McDonald's is raking in cash and not sharing the profits.

Conceptually, I agree with what you're saying (I also feel very strongly about off shore manufacturing for the same reasons) but, practically, when you increase the minimum wage, the poverty jobs will disappear and _eventually_ be replaced. The problem is the transition period. The real minimum wage is always zero.
What are the odds 50 years from now, the ICE becomes a hobby of the upper middle and upper classes? Much like analogue audio recording is becoming.
By saying "these changes" plural you don't only mean the "no talking about politics" policy I guess; are you also talking about "No more committees" (of any kind; only reporting-line authority), "No more 360 reviews", and "No more lingering or dwelling on past decisions" (sounds like a rule on questioning decision-making to me)?
How do you feel about kids saving for or working while attending college? It's pretty rich to say people don't deserve money when they need it.
It can't be bullying if the person (that would be bullied) isn't even aware of it.

Source: I was actually bullied as a kid. I couldn't care less if people are making fun of my name (or anything else about me) without me knowing about it.
they are for stuff, not people.
I don't think FAANG young engineers earn $250k cap gains a year.
The user you replied to said per year, not per month.
> Treating people right is fundamental to how we do business. We treat our customers as we’d want to be treated, we treat each other like family ... [1]

Absolutely spot on. I think they had an implicit contract with their team which they broke in a fundamental way.

Notable that DHH's twitter hasn't seen any expression of regret or thanks to the people who have worked hard to build Basecamp and now feel they have to go.

[1] https://basecamp.com/about
No. They have just presented an alternative so others have a point of validation if they want to not be on a hyper path to unicorn billions.
"The SCOWA has said income is property. But it's up in the air if capital gains is income, or property."

How is that?
> a room the size of a double bed

No one's building those, so maybe a tent in or near an abandoned mall.
Washing machines and other appliances used to be powered by ICE when the grid was not widespread
> They cut a fitness benefit, wellness allowance, farmer's market share, and continuing education allowances. However, they paid each employee the value of the benefit for the year and they created a 10% profit sharing plan.

So, the message that is very easy to take from this (since the employees know they work for a profit maximizing firm) is that Basecamp's own expectation of its future profitability was that the 10% profit sharing was likely to be less expensive than the benefits it replaced.

So, yeah, its quite possible that explains some part of the departures as much as the workplace speech code. But its all part and parcel of the same thing: "We're taking away your amenities, more tightly restricting your behavior, and exposing your to more risk" is quite a package.

> It’s unclear how much money the 10% profit sharing is worth, except that now it’s 50% better for the 2/3 of remaining employees.

Assuming the 1/3 that left, including many highly placed, had no role in producing profits. Which would be kind of weird.

And assuming the fact of the mass exodus has no impact on the perception of Basecamp and its product independent of the actual impact the employees had on profits, which would also be weird.
>The power is theirs.

You're right but I think that's kind of beside the point -- they didn't have to use that power.

>"a list of funny names" is in any way similar to endorsing genocide.

I would say they are similar, the chart is to demonstrate that they're two ends of the spectrum of dehumanising and hatred. I think it's mistaken to fixate on the "genocide" bit, there are a lot of other things in the middle of the chart also, but it all starts with subtle things like mocking other people for having names that would be totally normal in their home culture. It's a very light form of dehumanising and it may not even be intended that way but it still is one nonetheless.
Wouldn’t it be loud as hell? Even 4-stroke small engines are inefficient all things considered.
Putting an entire society under ubiquitous surveillance to catch a tiny minority of criminals isn't a good bargain. Fact is, though, that's not even why they do it.

Eventually you get to the point where you see that the information and ultimate large scale control permitted by the collection of that information is itself the end goal, and that it has nothing to do with detecting or preventing crime.
Standard Fenwick trees can only do prefix sums, which only get you general range queries on things with a subtraction operator, not operations like maximum.

The reddit comment I link contains an implementation that allegedly does arbitrary range queries, but it's nigh-incomprehensible so I can't tell how or why it uses 3 arrays.
There are places where the commutes from the suburbs to the city where the jobs are costs $20-50 a day, if not more.
Ford (Aus) 4.0 was a great first build for me. I'm now taking my time on a Toyota 4K 1300cc, learning a lot more, and taking the time to design new components for it. Can't recommend it highly enough, though not for everyone to be sure.
The only reason a hypothetical stalker would choose Airtags is if they needed the larger network of devices (say, in a rural area where the victim likely has an Apple device but doesn't have a Tile nor neighbors with a Tile) and only needs their location for 3 hours (the time before it alerts the victim with the beeping).
> I felt these changes were made with the best interests of all stakeholders.

Then why where a significant portion of their employees - the only stakeholders (apart from literally Bezos) - extremely vocal in their disappointment the minute it went out?
Liability insurance in the US may end up paying out for medical bills.
In what location though? Living costs are notably different by location
>>which force working employees into poverty

I think you have a widely unorthodox defination of "force" as no one is forced to take any job at any wage.

Force in the equation would come from the government using the threat of government violence to force a wage on a business owner.

A person that voluntary accepts a job for X wage is not "forced" to do so.
> Backups are annoying and unglamorous

Three years ago, after doing YC Startup School, I built https://www.borgbase.com to offer the simple, but secure backup service I wanted myself. Today it’s a viable business and my customers are all great and value backups as essential part of their own business. Wouldn’t want to be in any other “more glamorous” corner of the industry. Also kudos to anyone - partner or competitor - working in this “unglamorous” space. You’re all doing great work.
I'm sorry, but I think you absolutely have to give reasons to create a subclass. People do not need to explain why they should be treated the same.
So employees should be able to do raunchy stand up comedy about farts and sex then? Some topics are unprofessional in a work environment. Politics has become one of them.
It's never been professional or a good place to have political discussions at work because it's awkward and causes problems. And a racist list of names doesn't set a good example either.

As long as employees aren't told what opinions, beliefs to hold, and causes to rally behind, carry on.

To not be able to express an opinion related to work, or say, the weather, would just be ridiculously-insane.

Complaining does lead to more complaining, winging, and whining. It's best to not tolerate it but to do so softly: tease and suggest action. Complaining about what is "wrong" is sometimes rooted in a shared experience observation but it can just as well be people passively seeking others to fix things for them. The point being one could spend that time and energy complaining working to try to fix it.
We're saying the same thing? I said no, you can't modify FROM, but you don't want to (for my/these purposes anyway).

What you can do, and what the code does (with values from env) is set the envelope addresses.

The email ('letter') inside is still from the original sender, and to my original receiver. It's just 'repackaged' in an 'envelope' from my relay (some arbitrary but SES verified address) to wherever I want it to end up (e.g. Gmail in your case).

It looks like you tried to send 'from' Gmail, which doesn't make sense, [edit: I suppose you could verify just your Gmail address in SES, if you really wanted to use that as the 'envelope from'/`MAIL FROM`] in this setup you want to send it on from Lambda (SES having received it) to Gmail.

More about email 'envelope's here (just my first search result, looks ok) https://www.mybluelinux.com/what-is-email-envelope-and-email...
is that mathematically how profit sharing works? game of thrones style? seems like it would create some very perverse incentives.
But you might remember the disaster as HN as an experiment tried to get rid of those by banning all politics topics... Of course not 100% identical, but some analogues hold. Going against flamewars is quite different than banning topics wholesale - and if you are a "quiet voice", are you going to dare touch anything potentially political now?

And if it's about professionalism, you probably shouldn't communicate your policy change to your employees through the personal blog of an executive...
Wonderful page. Here's something a bit more poetic on the subject: The man behind the smallest V-12 engine in the world[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1pJIVqCC1E
What do you mean by needing to fit more trace than you have RAM? Are you saying those systems require you to load the entire raw trace into RAM before constructing the relevant data structures for efficient zooming? If so, that seems very limited since you can just use a storage-friendly data structure that also supports efficient zoom so you can put the bulk of the data on disk or across the network and just use your RAM as a cache for the full data structure. This is no worse than a RAM-only solution and allows you to operate on effectively arbitrarily sized traces for when you need to handle those hundred TB traces.
I for one would be glad if more companies mandated No Politics / No Religion" policies. As some one who used to bring up politics intermittently at work, I realized the error of my ways.
There is nothing to gain in bringing up politics. If they are in the opposite camp, now you have built a new trust barrier between the two of you.
Even if they are on the same camp, it is very rare to be perfectly on the same page and you will be damned for not being sincere / believing enough.
Creates a circular firing squad scenario akin to what President Obama warned against.
>We spend one third of our adult lives at work. Much of that time is spent on interacting with others in some way. Should that really be closed off to 'politics'? Is man a political animal (Aristotle's words, not mine!) or not?

It's exactly because everyone else must spend time with other people at work that they should keep their politics out of it - their right to work without being harassed for political causes is greater than someone's wish to discuss it at work. That's not why people were hired for the job, its not related to the job, leave it at home.
> Unfortunately, as competition in these areas intensifies, they are reverting to their familiar playbook of attacking rivals and lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests. They are now making self-serving claims and are even willing to break the way the open web works in an effort to undercut a rival.

Hey, that was my idea first!
DHH is a co-founder. He's a boss of everyone, whether he's in the reporting line or not.
Trailing slash behavior depends on the web server and how it is configured. There is no one way to interpret them.
If you’re not cheating you’re not trying.
There are non-profit organizations or similar private organizations that are better suited for political activity. The workplace is not the correct place. I was also harassed by the "silence is complicit" attitude. Some other employees I work with would go up to me and ask me questions like "we want to know where you stand on xyz political issue".....and I'm like.....it is really none of your business. They then take that response as you "being part of the problem" and then start going after you personally. Like who the heck does that? Especially to coworkers.
You can get cheaper coverage, but it's barely insurance at that point. They'll sell you the bare minimum that's legally allowed to be sold as insurance even if it doesn't cover liability, medical costs, etc.
If you dig a little deeper, you'll find out the issue isn't police choosing not to enforce the laws in SF...
You can click on the minus sign in the comment to collapse it and all replies to it. You won't see new replies to old comments but you will see only new top level comments for that discussion (assuming you've collapsed all comments so far).

The minus sign is in brackets like this: [ - ]

After you click it, it says "x number of replies" basically (in the form of the number of replies and the word more).
I would beg to differ. How large your commits are, depends on your tickets. As I've just explained in another reply, squash merging with rebases does not have any direct correlation with how large your commits are or whether you can use long lived feature branches.

We do sometimes use feature branches for example (very sparingly) but then that feature branch becomes a temporary 'master' that we squash merge to and the feature branch does _not_ get squashed but the individual commits suddenly all appear on master after rebasing, which results in a nice fast-forward 'merge'. Those feature branches are the result of multiple tickets which all have their own individual commits and which could all have made directly against master using the squash merge strategy, except there were 'reasons' not to (which I usually try to dispel and work with master directly but it's not always possible).
non-ASCII URLs mainly serve to make it easier for scammers to steal from senior citizens.
Our eyes can see videos on Twitter. Go show us a picture of the Apple store operating normally then.
> I use inches here because in machine work thousandths of inches is the language du jour.

I'll make a wild guess: In the USA.

EDIT: Heh, sorry... See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991690 . This time I really thought I'd checked, but there was lots of catalyst talk in between.
counterpoint - maybe the significance of not undermining the other 2/3 of the company is exactly extreme managerial competence when the crisis has already made itself clear.
hmm the vast majority of people in the US work jobs that offer FAR more in wages and benefits that the smallest amount permitted by law, so clearly this statement is objectively false
You don't think needing to survive forces or keeping your human dignity forces you to find a job?

That's the way I see it.
It's my understanding that there is no NDA.
Debuggest
I don’t see how this isn’t more obvious. 18 months ago the US was pretty much at full employment the only thing different then and now is the pandemic and the bailouts.

I feel like this article and the others like it are just political opportunism.
Yes, the unstated fact in these discussions about politics in workplace is that the dominant group is very liberal or even leftists. Especially on social issues.

People who are criticizing Basecamp want their politics in workplace. Every single one of them knows they won't be in the minority. They won't have to be one of the few opposing voices in a sea of anti-abortion, pro-gun-rights, anti-gay-marriage, anti-immigration coworkers.
It's not 0%, but I spend a negligible amount of company time talking about political issues. I also don't have a particular desire to.

Nonetheless, if something of a political nature did come up, either as a distraction that was affecting my colleagues (e.g. they're part of a minoritized group, or empathetic to one, and something is going on), or something the company was doing was at odds with my own political values; I would hope the company would accommodate the need for _some_ level of discussion.

An outright ban ala Coinbase, and now Basecamp, would send an extremely troubling message - and would prompt me to begin the motions of seeking employment elsewhere. A generous severance package would make it a much easier decision.
If indeed "This is why I move all my domains to cloudflare" - I suggest people look elsewhere. Cloudflare is great at what they do - but they are not a 'bulletproof" hosting or domaining service.

sure they are not as bad as godaddy at the moment, and maybe they are better than nanecheap at abuse complaints, but I'm not sure of that.

They have ejected customers over complaints, and they have stated they now actively inspect what your users post and report things to three letter places with chains and guns, as well as censor / eject customers based upon a shifting view free speech / well, not all speech but most, depending on the year.

My recent report to cloudflare of a customer of using cloudflare to hijack one of my domains led me to a loop of "we are experiencing a heavy load of support requests and our company is suffering with reduced support staffing for (cant remember, the freeze in tx? covid or something?) - not a huge deal but whatever - similar to google, when you don't spend a lot of money for support it's hard to complain about it I guess.

As the original poster mentioned user generated content, it would not be hard to create issues and weaponize cloudflare's censoring / reporting hammer imho.

Indeed it is a tough to beat combo, but not for the issues the OP was describing imho.
A list!? Could this not lead to genocide?
30% of basecamp employees left → 70% stayed in spite of the 6-month severance. I think everyone should evaluate if the company we worked for offered a 6-month severance how many would stay?
The belts are finely machined to very small tolerances, and things are tightened to specific foot-pound tolerances to make sure they sit exactly where they need to. So no, nothing slips.

I just went through a belt change with my brother not long ago. The tolerances you're dealing with are measured in thousandths of inches. Something that wasn't installed quite straight can cause almost imperceptible wobble that can destroy things under load.

Still, every day shop tools will help you get the precision you need.
Economic theory says yes. If prices of A go up and B is a close substitute, some people will shift from A to B.

I doubt anyone has studied that rather specific question empirically, though, and even if they had it's not an easy question to study. So theory and common sense is our best bet when it comes to forming expectations here.

I'm sure there are empirical studies about how demand shifts from A to B for other examples of substitute goods, though. Maybe start there?
> Backups are annoying and unglamorous

It gets better (as in worse) someone can easily cut down back-up expenses, and become a hero by "balancing the budget with no disruptions to operations", get a fat bonus, and then after a year or so, leave.

Their successors won't get any bonuses by increasing the budget for something that has no ROI.

And randsomware is booming!
When I see a Jehovah’s Witness coming up to my door, I pretend to not be home. I’d really hate to be forced to have that same feeling at work, but be unable to escape it. If you can’t do your job without evangelizing your coworkers in some form or fashion, maybe you should reconsider your career choices.
It makes no business or human sense to have your entire iOS engineering team quit at once with no one to replace them, which happened. It makes no human sense to make your company appear so toxic that it will be difficult to train or even recruit new hires, Etc etc.
Coin base didn’t have a ridiculous scandal that they implemented this against. If you read up on Basecamp this is all in response to their hilariously hamfisted response to the leak of an internal “funny names list” of their customers.