skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems DNSimple has determined that the git commit messages are the System of Record not only for what changed, but why. But there are other ways. You could name the branch (or put in the comment a number) for a ticket in the bug tracker/kanban/whatever you use to track work. You could add a link in the commit to internal discussion or documentation about the work.

While a bit unorthodox, I'm not sure I can be against making the git repo history the canonical source for work history.
That memo was repealed when Biden took office, but excellent example -- one of the largest employers in the country, too.
Speaking for myself, the biggest shift was mindset. You can really approach business in two ways and they're completely different. Decide which is for you.

One: the artisan/boutique way. You can make plenty of money this way, it's how a lot of high-end law firms, marketing agencies, etc. run. Focus on a very high-value problem, do most of the work yourself or with a small team of partners, and be the best at it: medical malpractice cases, patio11-style marketing optimization, that kind of thing. Stay small, make a million (or more) per year, build your brand. Get work through referrals and keep charging more as you get better and more well-known. Most of your gains will come from serving clients with bigger pocketbooks, even through the work will be substantially the same (funny how that works).

Option 2: the true "business owner". Reframe from "I can make X for Y hours" to "I need to sell x million @ y% margin". Think like a drug dealer or a guy selling shoes. Sell a million dollars of product, keep 10%, you make 100k. Two million in sales @ 15% = 300k. The point is, you aren't selling yourself, you're selling a product, whether that's hours of developer labor, some kind of outcome, or even a physical product. You're a merchant. This is what it means to be a true "business owner" -- not that it matters that much, many people that go down the other path do just fine.

The main thing is to get into the mind of a (your) customer. It's no longer about the work itself, but your customer - how they find you, why they're paying you, etc. You need to figure that out.

Good luck.

(used to run an agency and now starting a software company.)
Some people truly love problem solving and don't have to believe in the product to feel fulfilled. The 2 million dollar house with a Model S in the garage and the money to start any hobby at any time doesn't hurt either.
In addition to what frosted-flakes said, many engines are “non interference” design so that if the belt snaps or jumps a tooth the engine won’t be destroyed, and the belt will just need to be replaced. However, non interference engines are not as compact as interference engines.

Many engines also use a timing chain instead of a timing belt, but this carries extra weight and requires lubrication.

It’s all about tradeoffs!
People are gonna wanna make this about politics, but my sense is that it's really just about the owners of basecamp are crappy tyrants to work for, that's about it.

I don't think it's really even about the specific policy.

Note that the "changes" [1] also include "no more committees" (ie, no more feedback/authority/responsibilty except through the line-of-report hieararchy), "no bringing up past decisions you disagree with", and "no more 360 degree reviews" (no formal way to give feedback to your boss).

I think they are basically changes to focus on... "insubordination". Do what we say, do your job as we say it, don't have an opinion.

I think people are leaving because they don't trust or respect or feel respected by the boss, not over a single particular policy -- although in part over how little he cared what his employees opinions were about the policy.

[1] https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
I agree with this. The piece about benefits was weird and alarming to me.

If your employee gave you the individual cash value of your gym membership, it would be based on their corporate discount and the fact it was pre-tax. You would have to dip into your own pocket to renew that membership as an individual, as it would come after tax and be more expensive (joining fees, contract lock-in...). And what a shitty cop-out to call it paternalistic, as if the whole post didn't reek of paternalism.

A 10% profit share between 50 people is replacing a solid perk with an unpredictable annual bonus.
> and Apple wants that

I love how you keep bashing Apple even if Mozilla fully agrees with Apple on this. Because only Apple bad, bad, bad.

> Why location API is not good in browser but microphone and camera is fine?

Just as camera and mic location access is hidden behind a specific permission dialog in case you didn't notice.

For things like Bluetooth, HID, Serial API etc. both WebKit and Firefox (not just Apple, but both Apple and Mozilla) say that this is not enough.

Moreover, things like HID that Google happily shipped? Well, that specification is so bad that Mozilla devs didn't even understand it: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459#is...

Or look, Idle Detection API, currently in trial in Chrome. Firefox just openly says: "WebKit raised issues, we agree with them, here's the issues" https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/453

You will also find (if you only cared about this) that standards that Mozilla considers harmful (or at least thinks they have to be deferred) are mostly aligned with Apple's: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

But yeah. Only Apple bad.
> If you are an iPhone user, for instance, and someone has placed an AirTag on your person, your phone will eventually alert you that an AirTag that isn’t yours has been found “moving with you.” Apple didn’t clarify how quickly or often this alert will arrive, but it did share that it will occur when you arrive at your home (the address stored in your Apple “Me” card) or at certain other locations that your phone has learned you frequent over time. Apple declined to disclose further specifics, citing the interest of public safety.

It’s not great that the alert won’t trigger until you get home. At that point, the stalker now knows where you live.
It does so because it can.
Never understood the fans who never get fed up.
You don’t pick pronouns for your own use, but always for others to refer to you. When was the last time you talked about yourself in the third person?
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, especially not programming language flamewar, which is so shallow and never goes anywhere interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any actual responses?

Or can we all assume that my point is 100% valid and the dissenters are too incapable of providing a proper rebuttal? Rhetorical question, btw.
I'm more concerned that teenagers in poverty won't be able to get jobs at all.
We were refinancing a currently open (and fixed rate) line of credit we no longer needed into a lower interest traditional mortgage.
Most data just isn't that useful. Sure there are exceptions, but most isn't very useful.

If you offered my company our competitors source code for free, we wouldn't take it - we have some ethics. I think most of you are in the same boat - even if you don't have strong company ethics are quick check would discover that you already know how to do everything they are doing, so time looking at their code is time you aren't adding those features to yours. (the one exception would be their file format which are valuable)

Even if the data is valuable, can they use it? I know the database admins in my company are registered with the SEC as not able to trade some things because we have insider information from our customers. Even if someone got that data though, they would have to figure out the database, what it means, AND be lucky enough to do that when there is something non-public that can be traded. Most of the time the expected supply is the same as actual supply, so that fact that we have insider information on the actual supply isn't actually useful. (the above is a different department from mine so I don't know the details very well)

Thus the example of a police department is an outlier as the data is sensitive for a long time.
The 5-place date is meant to draw attention to a longer view of time, a position advocated for by the Long Now Foundation.[0]

[0] https://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-dig...
I dunno. I could find a job in a few days or weeks.

But, finding a job I want to do for many years probably takes a significant portion of that 6 month period.

Now, if I was already half-way out the door? Or also felt strongly about the no-politics stuff? You bet I'm taking the money and not looking back.
The article explicitly calls fore more, implying in addition of. Mozilla's only reason of existing is Firefox and therefore their only way to enforce this kind of measures.
So, devices are built less around discrete components than they used to be, but there are still tons of discrete components in any given product, and these discrete components fail more often than you might realize. One common failure is failure of jacks/connectors--sometimes the solder joints get ripped out due to stress.

However, I think that you're basically right anyway... because when you pay Apple for a laptop repair, I think there's a good chance that they do a logic board replacement or something similar. The logic board itself is made of components and can be repaired, but it often isn't repaired, just replaced.
It is risky and they do slip or even break from time to time. They are generally a 100k maintenance item.
The alternative is a chain, which can also fail (or other related components), but is generally not considered a maintenance item.
Somewhere recently I saw a picture of a woman wearing a hat that said "Make Kafka Fiction Again".
Sick project! When's the IPO? :D
I know most of the people who left. It's the policy and the method of delivery, not the severance. The severence will make it easier to go for sure, but this is about the policy.

People seem to be making this way more complex than it is.
Digital Ocean has been one of the best resources for me earlier in my career. Such well written documentation and resources.
But my data isn't that sensitive. I'd prefer to keep it secret, but the value decays fast.
While going through my father’s things after he passed away, I found there instructions for an old television that included the full schematic for the device. If something was malfunctioning, and you were willing, you could fix it.

For a 15 year old e-reader I found the repair manual online, which contained a full schematic. For a more recently released e-reader from the same company, the repair manual simply has a disassembly step-by-step. I can only imagine the company found it not worth the effort for technicians to actually repair anything.
I would argue that the distinction between periodic rebalancing and timing the market is subjective. Even if you aren’t trying to rebalance based on market conditions, ie selling at a high, the downsides of market timing are still there just the same. Just because you don’t care about the timing of your trades doesn’t mean the timing doesn’t matter.
Yeah it’s one of those things that you just have to replace every X miles just to be safe. I got one replaced a couple of days ago because the service history was missing and I couldn’t tell whether it had ever been done. If your timing belt goes you’re in all sorts of trouble.
While I agree that minimizing waste is important, I do have an objection to part of your description of economic growth.

>Now when we say that our economy grows exponentially, it means that the amount of matter traveling through this pipeline is growing exponentially too!

The relationship between economic growth and environmental damage is more complicated than this. Something like transitioning from fossil fuels to cheap renewables is both a case of economic growth, and a reduction waste matter. Similar principles might apply to everyone having an iPod instead of buying new CDs, miniaturization in computing, productive uses of what used to be considered waste, building mass transit infrastructure over cars, etc.

If you want to slow damage to the natural environment, I'm all for it, but if you aim to do that by slowing economic growth, rather than accepting slowed economic growth as a potential side-effect, you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Economic growth often means more people can have better lives using fewer resources.
That’s not what I mean. When I see coworkers eating red meat on a regular basis, I believe they are committing a grave moral injustice. I do not believe that the work place is the right place to push them on that issue.
It is accurate to say a founder self immolates their company if a decision they made led to 33% attrition in a week
All: this thread is paginated, so to see all the comments you need to click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127&p=5

(Posts like this will go away once we turn off pagination.)

Edit: as long as this is at the top, I'll include the related links that users have helpfully been mentioning:

What Really Happened at Basecamp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708 - April 2021 (15 comments)

Changes at Basecamp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192 - April 2021 (762 comments)

Behind the Controversy at Basecamp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963975 - April 2021 (32 comments)
Means testing in social services is such a terrible idea. It creates nothing but perverse incentives like you describe. Programs like food stamps should be available to everyone who wants them. I don't care if a billionaire uses food stamps, they still need to eat. If too many rich people use the program, tweak tax rates until it balances out.

It's a waste of our time to go through and double check that only those that 'deserve' a handout get one. It makes everything less efficient, creates bad incentives, and builds a social stigma around the programs. ("Oh, that program is only for really poor people. I'm not really poor, so I shouldn't use it.")
Easy to say for a girl like you.
>Supply-side economics clearly doesn't work,

Supply side economics works if you have a nation that is doing so many productive investments that it has trouble getting enough financing for everything. By cutting taxes and lowering interest rates you are making it easier for businesses to acquire enough capital to do even more investments.

The US economy is the exact opposite. It's difficult for the investment rate to catch up with the savings rate. Things like home construction are being delayed. Public infrastructure suffers from cost overruns, etc.

>It's not just that trickle-down doesn't work; it's that it doesn't seem to trickle at all.

For obvious reasons. Money doesn't trickle because consumer/worker behavior tends to lag behind business behavior. When a company has a good year, it can wait until the labor market tightens before it has to increase wages. If companies invent automation then they have a first mover advantage where they save a lot of money in the first 5 years and then once competitors join the market the margins are driven down. That delay is costing consumers money and it's costing workers money because the company doesn't employ anyone with it. Business oriented politics also tends to encourage inefficient (from a macroscopic perspective) corporations who lobby for bills that benefit them at the expense of everyone else.

>Part of it is that the government has done a weak form of the right thing, pumping money directly to consumers.

It's good enough. EU is still doing poorly.
Neither is it a uniformly distributed, global problem.
>Because they're not equally important. Most engineers don't add billions of dollars of value.

Let the market decide that.

>The company made billions in profits. That could be due to a number of reasons. IP, relationships, network effects, etc.

That's not the point. The point is they're using the government to make it harder for their engineers to find other work, rather than just pay them higher wages so they'll stay on their own accord.
Yes, of course. This is one of the reasons why I have 3 copies of everything I use (local/computer, cloud, NAS). This is particularly why I have a cloud backup, with blockchain data authentication.

But, this is a basic overview of how to prevent NAS ransomware attacks: https://www.howtogeek.com/435452/how-to-secure-your-synology...

There is better advice elsewhere but this is a good start.

This may be a good comment to look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618346

This may be another good comment to take a look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860863
Indeed not sure what happened, that's the article I wanted to share.

Reposted over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001085
New Hyundai Ioniq 5 full review the 300-mile Tesla EV rival styled by Minecraft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127
> One day regen braking will take over hydraulic brakes, and another big cost/complexity of a car will be eliminated.

I have read somewhere that the regenerative braking is much less effective when the car is going really slow, so you still need the hydraulic brakes to come to a complete stop.
There's a difference between not taking a side at all, and compartmentalizing so that some things are expressed in some parts of you life and some aren't.

They said employees are not expected to curtail political speech in personal contexts or using personal accounts, just for official work accounts, where work communication is done.

That was explicitly stated, and it was also stated that employees are encouraged to speak their mind politically on their personal accounts.

This is a company setting expectations about what work time and work resources should be used for, with that explicitly not including political discussions. I think that's entirely within the expectations of most employers and employees.
I am doing some calls in parallel. For me it seems to be working. Can you describe what happened in your case? Edit:typos
> What you described sounds like a product flaw.

It would never have shipped with a product flaw that frequently caused it to classify white people as something insulting.
I think it would depend on how much I liked my job.

My sense is that DHH is just a terrible boss.

Note the "changes" [1] are not just "no politics" but also "no more committees" (of any kind at all; that is, no authority or responsibility except individually along line-of-report hieararchy), no more 360 degree reviews (no way to formally give feedback to your boss), and no more bringing up past decisions you disagreed with (!). Basically, no more employee input in anything, and a new focus on "insubordination" (they're not using this word, but these policy changes are like -- do your job, don't tell us what your opinion is about anything else in the company especially if you don't like something).

They also introduced a 10% profit-sharing plan though, which could be real money?

I don't think the people leaving -- some of whom had been there for years -- are doing it for money. I think that's not usually why people leave a place, especially when leaving without another job lined up.

I don't think it's really about the "no politics at work" policy either.

I think it's probably mostly about not trusting or respecting or feeling respected by the boss.

[1] https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
Doesn't Basecamp have something like ~50 employees? It's a very small company. The concerns around the current issues scale to larger companies just the same. But saying "1/3 of employees" doesn't really amount to that many people, in this specific case. It feels more hyperbole and click bait to phrase it that way.

I think the impact of this statement would be more interesting with a big company. If Amazon or Microsoft were to lose 1/3 of their workforce, that would be something big. But knowing the size of Basecamp, it just kind of makes me shrug.

I'm guessing that Basecamp will be easily able to replace those people that took the buyout and will probably just be better for it in the long run.

[edit: removed unnecessary comment-on-voting, per HN guidelines]
Hang on to your ego.
With all due respect, you don't know me or what I've been through either.
> but it seems like only in the past 20 years has it become something people have been become forward and culturally tribal about.

It’s been about 20 years since the longest continuous period of partisan realignment (and thus absence of clear association of ideological groups with party labels) ended; since then, US culture has been reverting to the political tribalism that has been the historical norm (possibly toward a situation worse, in terms of daily life, than the historical norm, because historically there has been a much stronger geographic component to the tribal divide.)

The situation during the overlapping realignments triggered by the New Deal Coalition and Johnson’s support for Civil Rights was not a stable equilibrium.
Why would someone near the bottom quintile of income rent in an average cost area?
What is the bottom quintile rent for an apartment?
You can also opt to use API keys from Apple Connect in CI, which is what I do - less of a headache with Keychain.app.
> A teenager making change on bagel purchases isn't working for "poverty wages".

Aren't they though? You don't get a discount on rent because you're not 20 yet, and being under 20 doesn't mean you have rich parents that can subsidize your lifestyle.
Honest question: why do discussions about minimum wage in the U.S. never propose having teenagers having a different minimum to adults?

In australia we have a $12.50/hr minimum for 15 year olds. It climbs in increments until about $25/hr.

This system allows teenagers to get a foot in the door for low-skilled jobs, and allows adults to get paid a livable wage.

The result is that a lot of fast food jobs are performed by teenagers, and they are considered entry level jobs. Adults are then paid more, and take positions where they can add more value that what a teen can provide.
Do you want to go through life on a whim, at the mercy of your subconscious self, with no real insight into why you do the things you do, think the things you think, like the things you like? It's not psychopathic to want to tease out what you are, what you want, and once you do that, how to play the game of life such that you build your world to match what makes you happy?

This can be at a macro/life level, but it can also be at a much smaller scale. There was an example in the article on it, but to add another one that I think is similar: student submits an essay to the teacher, it's a good essay with better grammar, fact checking, etc than their friend's essay. Their friend's essay gets a higher score. Upon reflection, the friend's essay, while being lower quality, plays to the obvious preferences/biases the teacher has displayed throughout the term. For your next essay, you both do the high quality work, but you work in some aspects of what you now know the teacher wants to hear.

Is it manipulative or dishonest to do the latter? Some might think so. Other might think you are hacking the system to your advantage and hurting no one in the process.
Basecamp isn't going to be running out of money any time soon, they have a massive number of customers, and a tiny staff. It's a profitable company.

The benefits are a minor annoyance. They were likely dwarfed by the switch from Chicago to SF wages for the whole company, + the profit share.

This is about the policy and the way it was announced.