skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian here, but had similar ideas about the visa situation in .au however I think you can't just do a +X% of "prevailing wage"

If the prevailing wage is calculated based on an average, you will find big business will get lower payed workers bundled in to the industry average (i.e. apple has retail staff, most companies have call centre staff, all have janitorial staff, etc) and the "prevailing wage" will be significantly lower then it should be.

If its based on job title you will just find every visa holder will have a "lower" job title (i.e. Junior rather then senior) that gives the companies a way to pay less.

Thats before factoring cost of living between various locations.

Special interests will ensure that the prevailing wage is drawn sufficiently lower then it should be.

I think it has to remain a static value (adjusted for inflation) that is quite high (e.g. $180k->$250k AUD for Australia), enough that anyone who a company will pay that much would almost certainly be a world class employee, and if someone is worth that much, then I can't see how they wouldn't be a benefit for both the country / economy, employee and the competitiveness of the company. I have no issue with this being an unlimited visa class, and should be able to be streamlined for a much quicker approval (i.e. has the company signed an agreement that they are paying $X per year?, if yes its approved pending health and security approval).

This allows companies to hire the best in the world, while not allowing them to drive down salaries with similarly skilled employees. Additionally if there is a shortage it will ensure there is some pressure to train / develop employees, innovate, automate, etc, but providing a pressure relief if needed (if supply and demand becomes unbalanced enough that people are willing to pay $180k for janitorial staff, then economically they are needed).
Could you explain what happened more?

4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?
I thought what happened earlier was pretty shitty - this is 100% the right action to take and totally above & beyond. Congratulations to all startups who applied and get to move forward!
I would recommend James Michener's Chesapeake for a graphic account of how the slaves were treated right from the time they were shackled in chains in Africa and made to march hundreds of miles, dying along the way, dying on the voyage, and the lives -if you can call it that - they lived as slaves once they reached America. Although this is a work of fiction, it does a good job of portraying the horror.
yes, in that neighborhood.
I only received the acceptance email at 4pm EST. Does it mean i was in the real 25? What a mess...
You may be the only person who didn't receive a rollercoaster's worth of emails today. Maybe check with startupschool@ycombinator.com to make sure they got your application?
I always find Jenkins to be an absolute nightmare. The IT/“devops” people hand install it (most likely on your incredibly unreliable on-prem VSphere or whatever) and then immediately forget about it. Of course, mere developers aren’t not capable of such a feat of system administration as installing Jenkins. Then three months later when it starts failing due to disk space or memory issues you have to beg them to fix it so you can keep working.
sweet, looking forward to those discount codes
Cosmonaut: ORM for CosmosDB
Thank you.. !!!
I only got the Acceptance email. Does it mean i was in the real 25?? What a mess now
Startup School lesson one: keep iterating :)
Not sure if it make sense. No competition no fun.
Joke, or is that a thing?
yes, exactly. There is no coding aspect to the job, but title is SWE. Salary is not an issue, it's what was agreed to.

They are claiming the 'client solutions' paragraph (one of many subcategories of SWE listed: backend, front end, etc.) in the description is the classification of this role. We think that the term, in the context of SWE, meant more along the lines of turnkey software solutions for clients, not product support (basically help desk, but for fortune 100s).
I truly think that YC is going to be surprised by the entrepreneurs in this group.
I still wonder how anyone can do that to other human beings for three weeks. Even if you don't view them as the same status, they can clearly speak and think and come from societies with tools, clothing, art and shelter. Were the slave traders all sociopaths?

I also wouldn't want to do that to any animal, although apparently it's seen as acceptable with factory farming.
(... and don't even get me started on razor components, where every UI interaction (ie. every single browser event) involves a full round trip to the sevrer to rerender the component state, due in .net core 3.0.

I'm just saying: Microsoft have done some excellent work with .net core and kestrel but that doesn't mean every idea they have is a good one)
I knew whataboutism would be the first thing I see here. :). You’ve been trained well.
ansible-vault is great for this. Obviously it doesn't help puppet users.

The one thing I like about it is that its bundled with ansible, so you don't have to rely on version-control specific tools (eg. git-crypt) or third-party tools (Hashicorp Vault).

Yes I appreciate Vault has many more features but if you just need to encrypt a handful of secrets and you're already using ansible its a no brainer.
* These videos were produced in 1985 to 1986. Please change the title to reflect this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Universe

* The full playlist of 52 episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...

* I love the way they animate the manipulation of mathematical formulas. When I work on algebra, I visualize the same sort of animations in my head (of moving, creating, and deleting terms). For example: https://youtu.be/MWrOozSSdW8?t=1163 ; https://youtu.be/w6ynSbzPhjc?t=1081 ; https://youtu.be/w6ynSbzPhjc?t=1280 ; https://youtu.be/MSUkQXA5_bU?t=1217 ; https://youtu.be/MSUkQXA5_bU?t=1289
Whoo baby! Talk about tunnel vision!

Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.
Sure in the third world.

Doing that in the first world makes about as much sense as a tax on bowel movements because people in India don't use toilets and we need to pay for the increase in communicable diseases.
With an attitude like that, I don’t know why any kid would be inspired to learn math and science.
This is pretty much what the DMCA and other copyright mechanisms were made for. Send your request to Google and have them delisted.

https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?hl=en
Here is my take on cannabis. I live in a state that is still under prohibition. I mostly stopped smoking cannabis after I got out of college in the early 2000s. I would occasionally smoke here and there, but I didn't really know anyone who sold it and wasn't interested in finding a weed house to risk arrest. I have social anxiety, and general anxiety at night where I cannot shut my mind off. Normally I can control this with exercise, and occasional alcohol or melatonin use. Ive tried other things like ambien, lunesta, or ativan for severe bouts. I don't really like benzos, and I feel groggy and pushed towards depression when I take them.

Then I went to colorado this summer. I went to a dispensary, and I told them what is going on with me and they suggested a few things.(and I also learned a few things) I initially thought that I needed a strain of indica to make me sleep and calm my mind. I found that to be a bad call and it really made me go into a nasty head trip where I would analyze every bad decision Ive made in my life in great detail, then get a mild panic attack. I adjusted dose and it still made me feel that way, or didn't have enough of an affect to help.

I tried a hybrid strain of sativa/indica and found that a bit better, but the indica high is not fun for me. soooo.

I know sativa is the "wide awake and nootropic" high, but for me, it works perfectly. I can dose to ~2 hits from a vape pen and Im in the perfect mental state to sleep. I don't feel hung over or groggy. I sleep better and wake up refreshed.

As for motivation and pot. Im sure my experience is somewhat personal to me, but If you want to be unmotivated and lazy, pot can help you get there. However, if you just want to take the edge off, and still go about your business pot can facilitate that as long as you manage your dosage and strain.

I almost hate to invoke the name of Joe Rogan, but I think he has it about right when he says that its a problem of discipline. I think cannabis is unique (compared to benzo, opiates, and some other drugs at least) in this area because there is not a huge physical addiction with cannabis. This really puts the problem squarely on your mental state. If you are smoking pot every day, and not accomplishing much, you're probably depressed or want to be in that state.

That said, its not a magic bullet drug, and I don't advocate for everyone to consume cannabis all the time. I also would like to advise caution to those new to or long removed from cannabis. These crazy weed scientists have made it crazy potent. MIND YOUR DOSAGE!
Nice. Understand this is going to stress the infrastructure pretty severely, but it seems like both A. the right thing to do, and B. an interesting experiment / learning opportunity.

Looking forward to the class.
Nice job guys, totally the right call.

Is this the beginning of a fully crowd sourced Y Combinator?
Last commit 19 days ago. Code commits merged into master seem to be around every 3 months for the last couple years.

That seems healthy to me.

As for documentation, it seems to have monthly or bimonthly updates.

The question in your issue is that their is a lack of activity... Came about three weeks after a commit, and two weeks before another.

The issue just seems to be that rkt prefers their mailing list to GitHub issues, though they do pay attention to both. And I don't see a problem with that.
It is arbitrary, because you have to draw the line somewhere.
Yes, and the 4,000 received rejections. It was a big boolean fuckup.
I wouldn't call them idiots. They just are not as exposed to the concept of online privacy as a lot of us are.

We might be on the other side of table in many other ways, or idiots as you put it. Like the way my doctor friends avoid some OTC drugs that I never even think twice before taking, or some food, or some ready made edibles. I have a friend in textile industry and when he buys clothes it's a whole new level and makes me wonder what the hell I have been wearing so far. It amazes me how he sees through all those "Giza cotton" tag-lines and gimmick features of breathability and what not that are usually followed by a (™).

Can we all not learn everything from The Internet? No, we can't and it does not make any of us an idiot.
For someone out of the loop, what exactly are in the discount code and the 10K equity free grant? Does everyone get it on the completion of the course or does YC choose a selected few?
We have a limited number of advisors but YC partners/staff will be on the forum to help out in any way we can.
For anyone who hasn't seen the previous thread where this all played out, it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804371.
I bet that 25-40% complete the course fully. They expected 4000 so it will be around there. We will see. Great move by YC and really excited to experience the program!
> Why aren’t we refusing the really good immigrants if anything?

Steve Jobs' father was a Syrian immigrant [1]. It is doutbtful that Steve Jobs--or Elon Musk or Satya Nadella--would have been as successful in their original countries as they've been here. As a species, we all win from giving our best and brightest access to America's stable institutions and rich economy.

More to the point, I find it difficult to believe Steve Bannon suddenly cares about other countries. His line about the overabundance of brown-skinned executives in Silicon Valley is telling enough.
Gutsy moves starting YC & offering SS to begin with.

Public stumble today—it happens.

Gutsy recovery.

Thanks.

Now it's up to all of us to make the most of it
and make it more than it would have been.
Why can't we call this what it is, govt sanctioned rape of minors.
As posts in the thread have made clear, this is a third world problem which is being exported to the rest of us.

A captain for proper sanitation and waste disposal in China and Africa would greatly reduce this problem.
For the lucky ones you will share one adviser with other 24 peers, that's quite a workload for the adviser.

Good luck to all.
There is almost zero content in this article beyond what the headline says. I'm very interested to learn more, but this isn't a good source of nuanced or detailed info.
Sounds like your problem is with your admin department and not jenkins...
YC chooses a selected group of 100 startups. Time to start studying!
Hey mate. Depends on the track. For apps this is usually harder but for non apps tracks (eg mobile, infra, tools) the chances are higher.
Alibaba Cloud Will Soon Be in Top 3
From the page's title:

> The Actual Mike is not quite the virtual Gatsby

Jay Gatsby was a criminal. Of course he says he's "not quite the virtual Gatsby." But he's still essentially likening himself to a fictional criminal.
I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)
The beauty of jenkins is that you can use it for pretty much anything.
That's a thought terminating cliche, not an argument.
Individual actions by individual actors in the US political system were evil. That does not mean US as a whole is evil. Merely that evil people got into power for periods of time.

A country cannot be judged as if it acted with one mind, one body, and one will.
"Hey, I need this free plugin or I can't even build my app."

"Maybe next year we'll have time to look into your plugin."
Great call! Thanks!
Definitely mate. Do DM me.
I'm out of the loop. What are the actual costs of advisorless groups? Is it just bandwidth and server costs or are there further services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Red#First_to_TFLOPS for those feeling sentimental.
Cron works great when you don’t need to guarantee execution, e.g., if a server goes down. Unfortunately, all the alternatives are pretty heavyweight, e.g., Jenkins, Azkaban, Airflow. I’ve been working a job scheduler that strives to work like a distributed cron. It works with very little code, because it leans heavily on Postgres (for distributed locking, parsing time interval expressions, configuration storage, log storage) and PostgREST (for the HTTP API). The application binary (~100 lines of haskell), polls for new jobs, then checks out and execute tasks. The code is here if you’re interested:

https://github.com/finix-payments/jobs

It compiles to machine code, so deploying the binary is easy. That said, I’d like to add some tooling to simplify deploying and configuring Postgres and PostgREST.
M&S replaces over 100 call centre staff with AI bots
You’d probably be better off rounding up to 1/4”.
Once we have real-time ray tracing, is there anywhere further to go, or is graphics pretty much done after that?
Inaccurate status pages are fatiguing. Why are they not automated? It's such a drag to have to use Twitter and IRC to bully their CSRs into actually acknowledging problems.

The cynic in me says that these companies want to get away with not making any public statement about having an outage unless they absolutely have to. That's certainly the way it was when I worked in web hosting, the bosses would take every opportunity to avoid reporting incidents if nobody complained.

We've all seen the infamous AWS "all agreen" status page while an entire region is melting. Stripe have been slow on acknowledging their API being broken and then later deleted their eventual Tweets admitting a problem. I've sat in the Linode IRC channel with staff members acknowledging outages for the better part of an hour without Twitter or the status sites updated.

What's going on? Your engineers shouldn't have the status site and remediation competing for their time and attention. Either hook the status site up to Prometheus/Pingdom and deal with the occasional false positive, or sort your customer communication out.

Infuriating as a user and customer. Makes me really appreciate companies like OVH which have comprehensive public smokeping metrics in every region from many ASes.
China’s bike sharing startups are pulling out of everywhere
Would you move your family downwind from a coal plant? Why or why not?

Coal ash pollutes air, water, rain (acid rain), crops (our food), and soil. Which rights of victims does coal pollution infringe? Who is liable for the health effects?

Canada (2030), France (2021), and the UK (2025) are all working to entirely phase out coal-fired power plants for very good reasons (such as neonatal health).

~"They're just picking on coal": No, we're choosing renewables that are lower cost AND don't make workers and citizens sick.

If you can mine for coal, you can set up solar panels and wind turbines.

If you can run a coal mine; you can buy some cheap land, put up solar panels and wind turbines, and connect it to the grid.
In San Francisco What Ends Up on the Sidewalk
As some of the 'accepted' companies with advisors quit / drop out and spots open up, could those spots be filled with promising companies who don't have advisors?
Wild Speculation: typo in a limit clause. Probably only a few extra thousand got accepted but instead of weed them out they figured fuck it.

I'm going to also guess and say user accounts were created in a not easily rolled back way after the fact.
I liked it up until the "subscribe for more" plug at the end.

I .. ended up with way more than would
fit in this one blog post ..
Enter your email and I’ll send you them
(and if you want, you can get bonus
material each time I post).

Why so stingy about it, author? Force me to subscribe for more funny AI pics? Rather than simply posting the content in a followup article. Right. Then you wouldn't be able to collect all those e-mail addresses and subscribers.

Probably doesn't qualify as a full-on dark pattern, but I am annoyed enough to say that I dislike this approach.

Is this Web 2.0, 3.0, or higher? I'd like to go back to the 1.0.. anyone got a D/L link so I can reinstall the good version?
That is a good idea! We conducted an inadvertent A/B test :)
Since this is a brand new update to Startup School, we're going to work on figuring out how we can offer discounts/deals to all founders in the program. Stay tuned!
>I'm sure the vast majority of citizens in those states where freedom of speech is most advocated for would prefer censorship over living in a destabilised nation mired in endless conflict and divisive free speech.

The US seemed to be just fine with free speech as a tenant.

If you want a great example of a nation that has eliminated conflict by suppressing all of that pesky free speech, look no further than North Korea.

You've presented a silly false dichotomy between free speech and a stable nation when it's government censorship and oppression that eventually leads to a breaking point and genocides/revolutions.

There are hundreds of other countries around the world. People call you out for whataboutism for complaining about the US on articles about China because the article is not about the US. Why don't you say "what about Somalia" or "what about Russia"? Is it because that would seem like an distraction from the topic under discussion?

This article is not comparing China to the US, Somalia, Russia, etc.
This is a post explaining how the k8s community got to the current state: https://medium.com/cri-o/container-runtimes-clarity-342b6217...

And here’s a little info on why we’re using cri-o at SUSE: https://www.suse.com/c/cri-o-container-runtime-on-suse-caas-...
This would be awesome, especially after reading the numbers. Apparently, 15,000 applied and YC was going to take in about 4,000 companies. That's roughly 1/3 of applicants; if you factor in that I'm sure quite a few of the companies that would have been denied in the first place might not participate anyway then I'm sure this is probably doable.
>The term is absolutely not used exclusively to refer to citizens, ...

It absolutely is used exclusively to refer to citizens by an overwhelming majority of people who would use that term. Attempting to split off "citizens" from "natives and inhabitants" is a naked attempt at trying to redefine a word that carries significant meaning to further a specific agenda.

>...citizenship is an arbitrary legal distinction

Says who? It certainly doesn't seem arbitrary to me. There are considerable responsibilities that come with being a citizen. Men have to register for the draft. You can be called for Jury duty. This isn't arbitrary.

>...and other inhabitants that the government should not protect or care about.

I don't think anyone here is arguing the (American) government "should not protect or care" about non-citizens, but that claiming they shouldn't put American citizens first is dubious at best.
Deal with it, recreational drug users have been under a constant state of threat and abuse since forever. We've had to put up with a lot more than you, so next time you notice the smell of marijuana just be glad that no one is trying to lock you up.
The system described in the article is mainly automated. They probably wouldn't need a large team to manage the system or it would be completely unfeasible. Certainly no worse than a giant battery center used to store electricity.
I agree with you, aliasing is obviously less noticeable at higher resolutions, simply because the pixels are smaller (or the pixel density is higher, whichever way you want to see it).

It's just common sense but if anyone needs proof, they could look at the pictures here (e.g. look at 8X MSAA 1080p vs only 2X at 4K, yet the latter has less visible aliasing): https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/180402-five-things-to-kno...
That's a great idea. We'll definitely consider that.
hit up SIG-Architecture. https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-arch...
This would be a seriously missed opportunity for YC if they dont:

Immediately start tracking all the applicants and what stages they are in, how much funding/traction/etc they have and which segment vertical they are in and then seeing how well they all do.

This will be a very interesting experiment.
I didn't find it all that sad. Some people got to live in a house paying below market rate for a long time. Some dude pulled one over on some dumb banks and managed to extract a lot of money from their shareholders. Some fraudulent documents got filed, but the victims of the fraud are the owners of those failed financial institutions. I guess, if any part of it is sad, that is, since ultimately that's people's pensions and retirement funds. But that's a kind of faceless and diffuse group of entities to really feel sorry for.

I agree it was fascinating, though.
When the BOFH gives you segfaults, make self healing systems???
"Stripe will be giving startups discounted payment processing and an invitation to Stripe Atlas to incorporate and open a company bank account.

In addition, startups will receive over $50,000 in credits to a variety of other services, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, and Clerky."
Considering that it’s easier to get into Startup School than the regular YC batch, should founders that were rejected interpret that as a signal that they’ll likely not get into YC?