Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

Post by tptacek » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 8:35 PM UTC

roflyear wrote: post #340

tptacek wrote: post #310

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This whole thing is pretty silly, right? The penalties for noncompliance with NYC's law apply to the listing company, not to the board they posted on. If you really think YC companies are deliberately skirting the law, report them to NYC. NYC does a one-time 90-day notice-and-cure, so you can "effect positive change" with listing YC companies without subjecting them to fines, if that's really what you're worried abou…

Well, it is nicer to post here than to tell the authorities, certainly.

Post by 1attice » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #306

1attice wrote: post #304

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Oh, one more thing. Popping the devtools on my brain, I think the reason this issue jumped out at me in the first place is that YC's moral ground has shifted lately, mostly because of its exposure to blockchain bets, many of which turned out to be, how to put this politely, more valuable than worthy. In this new climate, it's impossible for me not to pay close attention to how organizations shield themselves from rep…

It's fraught, but from my perspective it's no more fraught than it used to be. The very first thing pg told me about moderating HN (before I even had time to grab a chair) was not to suppress anti-YC stories. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... has years worth of these cases, and there have been masses of others. I think the editorial policy is pretty clear (I've outlined it in this thread…

Post by roflyear » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

1attice wrote: post #343

dang wrote: post #306

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It's fraught, but from my perspective it's no more fraught than it used to be. The very first thing pg told me about moderating HN (before I even had time to grab a chair) was not to suppress anti-YC stories. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... has years worth of these cases, and there have been masses of others. I think the editorial policy is pretty clear (I've outlined it in this thread…

Well, they let you down here, didn't they? Rephrasing: HN needs better self-regulation, because the weather has changed, and it's not a good look when you're standing halfway between several unhinged billionaires. This is a friendly observation. Please be well and do the best you can.

Post by dang » Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 12:24 AM UTC

1attice wrote: post #343

dang wrote: post #306

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It's fraught, but from my perspective it's no more fraught than it used to be. The very first thing pg told me about moderating HN (before I even had time to grab a chair) was not to suppress anti-YC stories. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... has years worth of these cases, and there have been masses of others. I think the editorial policy is pretty clear (I've outlined it in this thread…

Well, they let you down here, didn't they? Rephrasing: HN needs better self-regulation, because the weather has changed, and it's not a good look when you're standing halfway between several unhinged billionaires. This is a friendly observation. Please be well and do the best you can.

Post by conanbatt » Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 12:53 AM UTC

ralph84 wrote: post #74

conanbatt wrote: post #56

The real question is why HN is filled with people that have values completely orthogonal to the VC space, like people wanting to leverage the law to make other people do things.

It’s called Hacker News not VC News? There are far more hackers than VCs. And besides, VCs and their portfolio companies leverage the law to make other people do (or not do) things all of the time. IP law being an obvious example.