skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably these Cloudflare HR employees do have the data for why this person was laid off, and they might even have it in front of them, but yeah legally they can't give them any more specifics.

As far as I'm aware, evidence of good performance could be used to strengthen their case to collect unemployment (if Cloudflare tries to fight Brittany's unemployment claim); it could also be used as evidence in a discrimination lawsuit. But given that Brittany said that many other team members also got invited to 15 minute calls with HR, there's good evidence that CF didn't discriminate, but it's also evidence that this could've been a mass, quiet layoff.

Although it sounds like the simple fact that her clients backed out at the last minute could be enough evidence for poor performance, even if the sales were entirely managed properly before that point.
I’ve had wemo switches on a nighttime schedule. Dim at night, bright during the day, no flashing.
entitled brat because she feels she deserves answers for being fired without warning or performance management?

or entitled brat because she's a woman?
There's many places where everyone on the call being recorded must consent.
> and b) a concrete mechanism for prioritising roles for elimination that should feel fair in some way, rather than an opaque "bad performance" reason that does not correlate with the employee's experience.

The employee admits having closed zero sales. It doesn't get much more objective than that.

They're also relatively new to the company. Unions tend to prioritize tenure over performance anyway, so their relative newness might have put them at an even higher disadvantage under a union.

> You're right that tenure is a common way of deciding who is going, but if HR had come in and said "we're really sorry but we're letting go the most recent joiners, no reflection on you other than your start date, you'll get a good reference based on your ramp up performance", that would have gone over much better.

I don't believe this at all. If this had been a TikTok where HR said "We're letting you go because you started recently" everyone would be outraged about them firing people for arbitrary, non-performance reasons.
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> But those two HR randos aren't gonna have anything worthwhile to say, either.

companies explicitly construct situations like this such that the person being screwed doesn't have access to anyone making a decision, just other peons implementing them.
Such need not be corporate life.

If there is anything I have learned is that Corporate bend over backwards to project a face of "family" and "values" and "ethics".

What really matters is money and saving ones own skin.

A corporate job is transactional. Pure and simple. But, when it is transactional, the outlines must be in start contrast. Many a time, people stay late and spend more time than designated working hours. The company justifies this in a million ways. But when it comes to layoffs, yeah. We know it.
Um, is it appropriate to request a link to this video that isn't hosted on Tiktok? (I must be becoming crotchety old man or something because even typing that name fills me with disgust. I still find it amazing that it has any more legitimacy than a random scam or phishing site)
seems like a great idea
Stay tuned ;)

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1139
About 75% of states only require one party to consent to a recording, so you can consent to the recording any conversation that you take part in.
> Yes you do?

No, you don't. Oregon Unemployment, Claimant Handbook, Section 6. Source: I helped a friend through unemployment. He was fired from work, and his employer provided a false reason for the firing, triggering denial of benefits. We looked at his options, and it would've been cost-prohibitive to retain a lawyer to fight it, which would've been required.
Here’s some fun context from one of their earnings calls from last year. Basically, management at cloudflare are blaming sales for many of their current issues. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sahilmansuri_lets-talk-about-...?
I disagree.

I’m in no hurry to defend advertisers but it’s easy to think of non abusive, morally neutral advertising.

Local grocer has a sign hanging in the little league outfield, etc.
so far I'm really happy with my 21 tacoma... it's got just enough tech but lots of physical buttons. I just use android auto with a wireless dongle. the only issue with that is it takes about 12-20 seconds to pair on car start. The stereo is just a 2 din box as well with minimal car interactions, just a forward back/up down volume button on the wheel. which reminds me the volume is left right not up down, which is crazy.

it's a very nice mix so far of just truck and modern.
It kind of was!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)
CarPlay is all I need. I use the car screen for navigation and that's about it.
Jup. I agree with most of that, but I also don't have the details.

She mentions a couple of things regarding performance:

- 1,5 month, off-ramp

- 3 opportunities/prospects

- 0 sales

Perhaps something came to light after follow up with prospects in those 3 opportunities.

Or the metric is off for newer hires. Since I guess most were hired around May last year.
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Have bookmarked this to play in the background while working.
What's fun is I get results by just copying a phrase from your comment and googling it:

"NSA conducting industrial espionage on Airbus"

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu-sn&q=...
It seems to me like she's having new-to-the-professional-workforce growing pains.

I.e., she's still learning what's normal regarding employment relationships, job safety, etc.
That’s in a one-party state. There are many all-party states, where you need to have consent from all parties. Even if the video call is being recorded (very likely), you still need to seek consent for your recording. Of course, IANAL, but I’d be interested if there’s an additional distinction about the purpose of the recording (internal records, public broadcast) and whether the consent would also need to extend to that.
Arguing (also known as: pushing back) is how you communicate that what happened was wrong. It won't impact the decision; they're just the messengers; but it might impact how the messengers feel about what happened, which might create change. The messengers are also human.
Direct link: https://3xn.nl/projects/2022/02/17/archivebox-root-issue-in-...

note you no longer need to create a user manually though, so this shouldn't be an issue anymore. just set ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD env vars and it'll autocreate the user and collection on first run.

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#...
I think your parent is not comparing to right now, but is comparing times of abundance with times of scarcity.
This is going to make them cross from the "it's a social network, it maybe should have some oversight", to "invite lots of regulation because we're dealing with money directly".

Given the amount of spam/scams already on the platform and the lack of moderation, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. But they'll either create a proper risk team or they'll keep getting hit with fines and lawsuits that continue to bleed them.
1. It's a matter of rates, not ifs
2. It's is a lot easier to track hardware you originated than datayou didn't.
Isn't this just destructive misuse of the terminology?

@a sending @b a direct message on X is not "peer-to-peer" communication. Why would sending a payment, which is functionally the same thing to the end user, be counted as "peer-to-peer"?
that doesn't happen from getting drunk once or twice?
Good one. To be honest I wish I could still short them. I absolutely see no value in anything they've done so far.
What case? At will employment is a thing. You can terminate people with absolutely no reason if you want, most of the time.
I have similar feelings, except I joined after those arguments happened. After working in ad-tech I wanted to move into a job where I didn't feel guilty about what I was building. It wasn't even particularly invasive ad-tech, but still F&$# ads.

I don't want to name my company mainly so my coworkers don't learn my HN account, but basically every product feature involves a consultation with a very well known white hat hacker.
Canada, Mexico, most of South America, most of Europe implement such a notice minimum. The US is an outlier in that sense.
CA, DE, FL, IL, MD, MA, MT, NV, NH, PA and WA all require all parties must consent. All states i lived in and do business in.

Thus speaking from experience yet happy to learn new things!
I’m in the US, Venmo is almost as (if not, more) ubiquitous as cash between people in my area.
Here in Canada you require a cause (under most contracts) and this would be a disaster for the company if the employee took legal action. I guess in some states you can fire people without cause?
> … legally they can't give them any more specifics.

Could you please provide a source for that? That can be an important distinction for an employee. For example, when answering the question "Why did you leave your previous job?" It's important for the now ex-employee to have accurat information.
Nah, she did well by frustrating the process. Next time they’ll think twice before gaslighting and humiliating an employee. Telling her she was getting fired due to her own performance is just that. In my books she did well, hope she starts a gig on her own to never have to deal with NPCs such as those two. They feed on people’s misery.
Yeah, this seems like the standard usage. A search for "peer to peer payment apps" gets articles that talk about Venmo, CashApp, Apple Pay, etc. A search for "P2P {..}" or even "person to person {..}" yields the same articles despite them using "peer-to-peer".

I got a little invested in disproving myself on this- I feel like I've heard peer-to-peer used this way a ton, but half of the comments here were criticizing it.
> If you can collude on layoffs, that means industry demand for labor is down and salaries are reflecting lowered demand.

No it doesn't. You make a "gentleman's agreement" to do your layoffs and trust your chums to keep to it. Are you arguing that industry collusion is impossible?
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This is not 100% accurate from a trademark perspective, at least with respect to "famous" marks.

Generally speaking, you are correct - unless there is a likelihood of consumer confusion, you are free to use a trademark already used by a senior user.

But marks like Apple and Mickey Mouse, from a trademark, are sufficiently famous that they get special protection. There is a concept called trademark dilution that only applies to sufficiently famous marks. With respect to such marks, a junior user can be liable for use of the mark even if there is no likelihood of confusion.

(BTW: By "senior" user, I means a user that gained trademark rights first and a "junior" user is one that started using the mark in commerce later.)
This is as relevant to HN as AWS/GitHub outage.
Honestly, I don't get why HR should be allowed to take such calls independently, or even be granted any independent function as such. Granted, most of my work experience was at (relatively) small companies (although one was a multi-billion dollar asset manager). HR is mostly a redundant department that folks from admin and legal can and should easily do. In fact, this was exactly the case at one of my internships in Japan at a billion dollar corpo.

HR has two jobs - managing the supply and outflow of talent, and preventing a bad look of the company while doing so. On both fronts, HR fails miserably, so imo they should be the ones to be axed first.
> Header pins are not included. We recommend soldering header pins onto the board so you can access the serial port via UART.

$80 and you can't include 2 measly header pins (let alone 24)? $2 ESP32 boards from China will come with 32 headers pins.
Yeah, I dunno! With gas, they would typically just charge you some exorbitant price per gallon, but if it's just for a gallon it would only end up being 8 bucks or something. I have no idea how they deal with electricity, but I could imagine the penalty being pretty high if it means they can't turn the car around for an hour or more.
Paypal, Venmo, and CashApp have gotten away with a lot so why shouldn't Elon try the same thing.
Is this a US thing where the company doesn't want to give any reasons for firing someone because that can be used in a lawsuit against them?
Good for her.

There isn't a "good" way to do layoffs, but "being laid off by someone you've never met before" is up there with the "bad" ways.

Also, there's absolutely no reason why, in the event of layoffs, you should EVER blame the employee or point to something they could have changed.

Layoffs happen because management fucked up. Own that and let the employee off the hook.
>> According to a European Parliament report, published in 2001, America's National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted faxes and phone calls between Airbus, Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Saudi government in early 1994. The NSA found that Airbus agents were offering bribes to a Saudi official to secure a lion's share for Airbus in modernising Saudi Arabian Airlines' fleet. The planes were in a $6 billion deal that Edouard Balladur, France's then prime minister, had hoped to clinch on a visit to see King Fahd in January 1994. He went home empty-handed.

>> James Woolsey, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recounted in a newspaper article in 2000 how the American government typically reacted to intelligence of this sort. “When we have caught you [Europeans]...we go to the government you're bribing and tell its officials that we don't take kindly to such corruption,” he wrote. Apparently this (and a direct sales pitch from Bill Clinton to King Fahd) swung the aircraft part of the deal Boeing's and McDonnell Douglas's way.

Wow, I knew national industry deals were murky, but damn.
I may add an opt-in federation option at some point in the far future, it would be great to figure out a way to link willing donor's ArchiveBox instances together for public benefit.

Follow here for progress: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/50
I didn't quite understand your first link, or what it has to do with music. But the second link points to something that is neither a fugue nor fractal in any way. Mozart's piece played there has no fractal properties, and deviates completely from the original Salieri melody. Perhaps you're confusing fractality with a regular counterpoint?

To clarify, a temporally fractal musical composition would be self similar on different time scales. For example, if we consider a 7 note melody, then we could, in the simplest case, make it fractal by inserting the same 7 note melody (perhaps using a different key, or even a slight variation, but still easily recognizable as the original melody) between selected two notes (preferably neighboring) of the original melody.

Still, I find your remark "what are fugues but fractal music?" interesting, because fugues might be the most suitable musical structures to have a fractal property. In a complex 4 or 5 voice fugue, as the voices partially overlap, sometimes a higher level melody emerges, and this melody could, in principle, be constructed to mimic the common theme. I have never noticed any fugues to be fractal, but I wouldn't be surprised if a genius like Bach had tried to compose such a fugue, and it would be interesting to hear it.
I’m 18, in college. All my friends are basically addicts, I thankfully am not due to my locked down screen time settings[1]. No amount of research or lack thereof can convince me that social media is the major factor behind widespread mental illness. I believe what I see with my own eyes. Adults seem to be more resilient, I don’t know why, maybe because they didn’t grew up in the smartphone era.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850248
Good old stack ranking.
Venmo and other platforms like that are more popular in the US. I've got the possibility to instantly transfer money to anyone in the country from my bank. There's no reason for anyone here to use a third party app to do it. Venmo is a solution to a problem which doesn't exist in a lot of places around the world.
you don't need a locksmith to replace your lock. Just use a screwdriver.
I miss direct connect terribly...
Apple has their own AI strategy and it includes things like Ferret and scientific papers like running inference on "low-memory" devices. I wouldn't count them out over the long run.
Uploading a private conversation with HR to TikTok surely isn't going to help her job hunting. Prospective employers might view such behavior as a red flag... It might even be illegal given that the HR people are likely located in California, a "two-party consent" state.
POW rate limiting is such a Godsend. I know a few websites that receive regular DDoS attacks, and their uptime increased dramatically as a result. Large-scale DDoS is still unfortunately an issue, but that happens once to twice a year and can only last for so long.
California has the WARN Act.
You do unless you did something illegal or ethically wrong. Not meeting some company goal or expectation isn't enough. Killing a system with a rookie command isn't enough. Being an asshole isn't enough.
>> I've literally never heard of anyone using google pay, zelle or venmo or cashapp

But you use Twitter..? That's some crazy bubble. venmo isn't even a tech savvy thing, everyone everywhere I know that moves money between individuals or super-small business transactions (think cleaning service, girl scout cookies, club dues) uses it...
I’ve been here. It sucks. I had a similar, shorter conversation, but I was deflated by the corporate stink of half-answers and weasel words after every questions.

Like her, I was doing awesome up until suddenly, I had no job. Fortunately I was given okay severance. I hope she lands okay.

This a strong signal for me to never work with Cloudflare. I doubt that matters to them, but hopefully this PR convinces someone who matters there to reconsider their handling of these situations.
Stop sticking up for this garbage please. Have some empathy?

• Third quarter revenue totaled $335.6 million, representing an increase of 32% year-over-year

Do we need to feel sorry for cloudflare or something?

She says on the call, or her feedback has been positive, so why should she expect a negative outcome like this?

As a junior, she should be given the appropriate and valid feedback so she can learn and improve for her future. Not this dystopian, cold bullshit. Do you have any idea what this kind of thing does to a junior employees confidence? Wow.

We should never stand for it.
Nah, I'm with you. Maybe don't post direct links to psyops platforms, regardless how many users it has.
I would say so. This video is a perfect demonstration of America's "at-will employment" culture. It's extremely asymmetrical, too. Companies can fire you at any moment, for any reason (with or without cause!)... yet it is considered rude for employees to not provide ample notice when deciding to voluntarily quit.
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America is a pretend country with pretend rights.
This could be the most incredible tool ever built and nobody would ever know. This is a flooded market with a lot of relatively mature and reputable entries, but neither this article or the GitHub repo articulate why this is any better than any of them. The repo also links to a benchmarking review that... doesn't actually seem to include this tool. Props for being more honest than a lot of AI startups with this line though:

> Please note that although these results can sometimes be pretty inaccurate & unreliable...

What a pitch!
Suppose I'm using services provided by JohnFen's employer. What does it do better than Microsoft that I can trust it with my data? What should Microsoft do to be a trusted partner?
> but yeah legally they can't give them any more specifics.

Why is that?
I guess know your customer laws might force partakers to fork over more than before? I’m not sure I trust my own bank, and less for this new incarnation of Twitter.
> It sounds like her clients backing out last minute is evidence of poor performance, even if the sales were entirely managed properly before that.

Certainly not without more details.

Good sales is far more complicated than closing deals. It's like in poker: you'd much rather fold a good hand (unclose a good deal) than shove all in and then lose to an even better hand (close the deal and then discover the customer was a bad fit, which has negative second- and third-order consequences.)
That's the thing that's confusing, we already have an acronym for Venmo's model and it's called C2C.

C2C also happens to be the model for eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, Ali Express, and Amazon Marketplace as well as other payments companies including Paypal, and Zelle.

P2P's defining characteristic and what sets it apart from C2C is that it doesn't include a middleman. Think Bitcoin, Napster, and Bittorrent.
You have to use a lawyer to get a proper statement and many will take a % of winnings instead of a fixed rate.
> Fair enough, but Microsoft would be equally dead without Office and Azure revenue.

Office and Azure make up half of their revenue, but their other revenue streams are actually different things, like Windows, gaming, LinkedIn, Bing advertising. It's actual diversification.
> why we need unions

Ok.

> it's important that the right people are chosen [for layoffs], for the right reasons

Um . . . unions?

> requires collective bargaining by representatives who are able to assess and change the criteria [for which people are being fired!]

Unions?

> are able to negotiate for better outcomes for those impacted

Unions only do that?

I would hope that unions are more than just ways to protect management when they make firing choices.

Unions are not supposed to be a management condom for when management f's the employees. Do people pay dues just so they "do it with a rubber?"
She’s still on the page of people behind Cloudflare. https://www.cloudflare.com/nl-nl/people/
Well, no variance in opinions it seems.
I elaborated on that - mainly just that anything HR says can be used as evidence in wrongful termination lawsuits; even if nothing happened, it could be enough to trigger further discovery, which ultimately means spending tons of money for the company in legal fees. Being a top performer then getting fired for poor performance is suspicious in any case.
I went with Lutron Caseta. It is way more reliable than z-wave when you have a large number of devices, but they limit each hub to 75 devices which kinda sux.

As a side note Lutron did a pretty good job with led brightness which is a big deal at night with lots of devices.
In sales? Building relationships with clients?
Lots of carbon and lots of water. The early solar system was pretty similar to club soda.
PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App all comply with KYC.