skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also run a company [1] that primarily recruits low-income Brazilians from remote locations and teach them how to code and create data-related products. The company itself is for profit in the long run, but the first priority is to make our members grow (financially and psychologically), then generate profit for the founders.

During the entire process we focus 40% of their time to study/learn about soft skills (become a better person/human), 20% for hard skills (become a better professional) and 30% for producing code and create products, we pay 100% for all the courses and books they use to lean.

Every quarter we review and increase their monthly income based solely on their level of soft skills, not hard skills. So if they become more organized, have better communication, etc. they earn more. People can start as low as R$ 500,00 per month and grow up to R$ 25,000,00 per month.

In the end, our goal is to make each of them more (or totally?) lucid/self-aware (in the context of psychology) and financially independent (more than R$ 1 million on their bank account) in the maximum period of 10 years [2].

We have been doing it for the past 5 years, fully remote, and it's currently very close to becoming a sustainable process, as some of our current members are very lucid/self-aware and getting close (2-3 years away) to become financially independent.

[1] - https://www.simbioseventures.com/v/english/

[2] - https://www.simbioseventures.com/v/english/sobre-a-simbiose/...

Edit: clarification.
I haven’t been totally happy with Google’s stewardship of Firebase, but that line in the article bugged me too. I didn’t think RTDB was ever deprecated.
Is it known to be particularly good?
I co-founded a company to make carbon removal accessible to everyone (https://carbonremoved.com)

Idea is to avoid the dubious carbon credit system and instead actually remove your historical footprint.

We've been iterating on different variations of the product for a year and registered a company (we're Swiss based) in April. So far we are responsible for the removal of 26tons of CO2 and with our customer base we're now removing over 10tons per month.

In the grand scheme of things, we know it's a small step but by supporting multiple carbon removal providers (Direct Air capture and storage; tree planting; enhanced weathring through olivine stones (coming soon); biochar (coming soon)) we're aiming to make carbon removal affordable while maximizing our environmental impact.
I don't have a website yet or anything so that I can solely focus on the building, but my email is in my profile.

Essentially, the prototype is a tiny house with greenhouse attachment. Looks like it will come in around ~$25k. The greenhouse is 95% automated using hydroponics and sensors for any adjustments to turn on ventilation, water alerts or ph alerts for making sure the nutrient solutions are where they need to be. We are currently experimenting with deepwater and nft hydroponic systems.

After the prototype, we are going to raise money to build the first neighborhood. Houses will be a bit bigger, ~1500 sq. ft. and be fairly modern style, potentially in Denver. Powered via Solar for now. And basically get 10 or so people to move in all with a skillset that could help push the technology and needle forward on how this could be implemented at a larger scale.
Some of us even have jobs that are a mix of high and low level engineering and we have to have the good judgement to choose when to do one or the other.
I would like to offer some kind words for the author of this post but in all honesty I can't.

Why is that guy still giving money to GCP if it's so bad?

Go back to AWS. There's a reason if AWS is still the market leader.
Have you tried Neos? It's basically the most in-depth and powerful virtual reality scripting tool ever created. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STZN6qTGRbQ&t=253s
The worker/company relationship is always transactional: As long as companies feel a worker generates (a certain proportion) more in value than their salary they will be retained. A workers value generation depends on both the effectiveness of that worker and the overall financial situation of the company (Eg total revenues).

They thought that they didn’t have that ratio right which is why any company makes layoffs. You might personally think that companies have some sort of moral obligation to retain as many of their staff as possible, but the law and economics don’t share those views out of the box.
RC is new to me. They force you to quit your job, connect you with other programmers, and take a recruiter's cut by getting you a new job?

Kicking someone out for accidentally missing a meeting when you know they quit their job to join seems rather... unfeeling, and would make me question their culture.
I think you're exaggerating a bit. The US has some drawbacks (like healthcare and a tendency to social conflict) but americans seem to be welcoming people and if you're in a high paid field, definitely the US offers way higher salaries.

If I was offered a good contract I won't lie, I would think about it, but it's still pretty attractive compared to anywhere else.

I don't see any reason to "not move no matter what". It's definitely in the top list of desirability. I'm pretty sure that I would have an easier time making friends and a life for myself in the US than in Germany or most northern-european countries, and if you're qualified enough you'll make decent money.

Now imagine you're a top IT guy in some poor country. Do you really think that it would be that difficult decision? It's easy to say "meh" when you live in Europe.
> butterfly effect would have resulted in different distributions of matter in their final resting states.

This isn't a verified yet. We aren't sure if fundamental particles hold up under heat-death[0]

Not even sure if the quarks and gluons hold up either[1].

All this to say, the parent comment could be right?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/147893/what-are-...
It is done here [1] because the winery used "Champagne" long, long before the 2005 US-EU agreement about origin names as trademarks. Generally it isn't done.

[1] https://www.korbel.com/FamilyOfChampagnes.aspx
Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data
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No model for weather or climate is reliable out to a few decades. Uncertainty is an exponential function of time in chaotic systems. One good super volcano and the earth would plunge into a glacial period. A series of large volcanoes over many years would keep us there for a long, long time. We have absolutely no way to predict supervolcanoes or general volcanic activity over the next several decades.

For an example of what can happen from simply a large volcanic eruption, see the Year Without a Summer in 1816: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

But that was not a super volcano. It was just one large eruption.

We have only increased by about 1 degree in the past 100 years. We are still cooler than the Medieval Warm Period when Vikings were farming parts of Greenland, and cooler than the Roman Warm Period, when they were growing wine grapes in Scotland. It's doubtful that CO2 increase of even doubling would cause catastrophic crop failure. After all, the CO2 levels were thousands of PPM for most of Earth's history, and plants evolved under those conditions before the Pliestocene. Dinosaurs were very large creatures that were supported by a rich ecosystem of plant life. CO2 is plant food. Only at extremely high levels of 7000+ ppm (20x modern levels) has there ever been any geological evidence of catastrophe and even that event is hard to disentangle cause and effect.
What skills shortage have you witnessed?
Interesting - how haven’t I heard about that story? I immediately thought about how Rick covers his outpost in screaming Mortys so that the galactic government can’t detect him. Morty pain as anti-Rick is a strange, appealing and disturbing thought... they’re effectively oysters soaking up the pain of the universe.
When you say "salary" here, are you using it as shorthand for total compensation? As in, including equity and bonus?
Thank you for the story and insight, I find it mirrors a lot of Chamath Palihapitiya's perspective on capital being an instrument for change.

What are the hardest challenges you're facing lately in operating a privacy focused VPN service?
The title is slightly inaccurate. "Foreigners" do not submit H-1B petitions. Their sponsoring employers do. The fact that the numerical limit was not reached does not mean workers don't want to come to the US. It means that, in light of COVID, their employers no longer want them and so did not pursue the H-1B petition after it was selected.
I’m the one that mentioned China, and I see what you mean.
I did it to put it in context, as from my perspective (I’m Spanish although I live in Germany) this conflict is part of a wider phenomenon of appropriating the fame of products from my homeland.
The USA and China are those I can point fingers at, since the other big market, the European Union, protects those “designations of origin”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t...
It's not hatred, it's exasperation and incredulity. People didn't expect the USA to basically give up on a pandemic response because it was too inconvenient.
I founded a small company in my country doing this exact same format, but for energy and energy efficiency.

We have currently worked with our government and several other agencies, plus some overseas companies, and the struggles are basically the same.

>The customer is mostly project based, so retention is hard.

>but the technology use in many of these type of organisations, despite being heavily dependent on data, is patchy at best

Glad (kinda) to know I'm not the only one suffering with those problems. Sometimes is disheartening to struggle as a small company when working with this kind of entities.
Cheap gas is also the primary contributors to coal's woes.
That's a nice fantasy, but the intended usage of H1-B is still in effect: there are plenty of americans that simply do not have the skill for the job, or that do not want to do the job.

Of course the system gets abused, that's par for the course in the united states with all the lobbying. But that doesn't mean that a company is going to suddenly use non-existent local workforce to do the job. At the same time, if it really was just displacing locals for profit, that same could probably be done by just moving an entire department out of the country.

There is only one real way to resolve it effectively: be the better option.

If you are trying to apply some weird protectionism construction instead of simply being the best option, it just ends up hurting everyone.
There’s no skills shortage. Just an unwillingness to take a risk on someone outside the normal profile.

I’ve done interviews where we passed on a candidate who’d be educated and onboarded within 1.5 years. Except nobody wanted to take that risk as we’d rather hire the person who can start today.

If there was no h1b program, we’d of hired that American and trained them.
If you go search regularly, there are some cheap two-dot-two you’ll find that are ascii. Bit longer in string length but shorter on the wire.

I own 0e.vc, which is on GitHub as a general purpose xss domain if you need it. Iirc it does eval(window.name), or location.hash. Whatever works for you. It’s also on the public suffix list which makes it almost like a top level domain for security purposes. So I can have subdomains that can’t ever share cookies :-))
Throwaway account because reasons.

Having attended RC, this actually makes sense if you understand the scene. First, RC intro is key to getting everybody on the same page, and has been done in-person until recently. If an early-morning meeting seems weird, chalk it up to timezones...the in-person intro is at a much more humane hour for the East Coast and has catered breakfast and everything.

Also, as part of the whole hard-line thing...RC is in NYC and is in large parts reflective of that. They need to filter out the large quantity of dabbles and dilettantes and people who would attend just as another social status thing or adventure in finding themselves. They want people who are committed to their craft, and if you've set aside six weeks or twelve weeks of your life but can't stay on top of reading emails and double-checking that you've done everything right, maybe you shouldn't be complaining.
Looks great, congrats on launching! Feature requests:

1) make the site mobile friendly

2) connect to the cloud backend and automatically import all the services, let me make the connections between them. If it's a large scale deployment it would make set up a lot easier
Ibérico in this case doesn't refer to the place of origin (Iberia) but the type of pig (Black Iberian).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n

Non-Ibérico ham is usually called "jamón serrano".

So logically, ham made in Texas from Black Iberian pigs could be called Texan Iberico. But I like the ring of "jamón tejano" -- I would certainly buy that! (Texas has a positive halo effect when it comes to meat products)
Chatwoot is an open-source omni-channel customer support solution. Today marks a year since the initial commit for Chatwoot’s resurrection as an open-source project. It has been an amazing journey after we open-sourced the code base and the success in HackerNews(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559139). Thanks to the community.
I'm still upset that they killed their Livermorium Keyboard plan. I bought a Moto Z with the Livermorium in mind.
There are plenty of counterexamples among free stuff: Hangouts, Plus, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
I'd be willing to be on call late at night, and/or be a systems support engineer, but the pay needs to be commensurate
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1. H1-B is time bound , 3yrs with 3 yr renewal

2. I may be wrong, but if you get H1 completely approved the clock starts ticking even if you are unable to travel to US

3. Looks like students\ppl already here picked up, and those coming from outside did not because in spite of having sponsor (a consulting company), they have to find job in pandemic job market and of course travel restrictions.

America is still the place smart people want to come.

edit: i would appreciate feedback while you downvote me, what the disagreement is.
Any recommendations for second best summary?
>The benchmark used different number of processes for sync and async workloads.

Wrong. Workers amounts are the same. See the chart with benchmark results. http://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html

>The benchmark was run on the same machine where Postgres was operating.

This wouldn't affect the variance between sync and async results very much because both frameworks were run on the same machine.

>the connection pool was not setup to prevent blocking when a coroutine tries to acquire a connection from the pool when the pool is exhausted.

Real world connection pools have an upper bound limit. I don't see why setting an upper bound limit to be closer to reality is not a good test.

Also you're completely wrong about the connection pool blocking when it is exhausted. See source code:

https://github.com/calpaterson/python-web-perf/blob/master/a...

If all connections are exhausted then the system still yields to compute and incoming requests.

>(for benchmark purposes it should not have upper bound limit and to be pre-populated with already established connections).

Disagree. The real world sets an upper bound. There's nothing wrong with simulating this in a test.
The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes
Those who seek shall find.
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/
Got the link from the Thunderbird-site where
https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/ redirects to
https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US

So yeah the link is out there but you really have to look for it. Which is actually s.th. quite nice.
Imagine they would go about nagging people. You might say one of 2 things:
a) So in their face, others are probably donating what do they need me for
b) So in my face, that is indescent, I do not donate.
Whatever the choice happy donating; I already did.;)
Should we go through all open tickets that are open since 2013? Or start even earlier with the "forced closed" ones?
There wasn't even a coherent line throughout elementary and middle school in Orange County. One year, 1/3 of our curriculum was geology, which was 90% of what we covered last year. More flabbergasted than concerned. It was more stressful because I was nervous about which classes were going to be hard and which easy and then that curve ball comes along and i dont know what to think!
> If the goal was to maximize societal benefit, we'd remove Factorio from the market entirely.

I suppose you're one of those people who sees video games as, well, I'll use your own words:

> pointless...addictive time-sink

The same could be said of novels, movies, sporting events, TV shows, and plays.

Removing art and entertainment from society because it's not "socially beneficial" is a terrible policy.

The end of society should be to improve human life. Producing things that are economically useful to produce more things is a means to that end. It's a very effective means. But if you confuse it with an end, you get a terrible repressive society where no one's allowed to do anything for the joy of it.

People voluntarily use their money to buy things they enjoy. Money is basically a credit the economy gives to people for helping the economy produce stuff, that then allows them to consume some of the stuff that the economy produces.

If you disallow people from spending their money on things that aren't "socially beneficial," the whole economic system implodes because (a) there's no incentive for people to produce stuff because they're not allowed to get consumption as a reward, and (b) there's no consumption to drive the incentive to produce stuff.
There is a lot more that goes on during orientation, and treating it as another optional video to sit through harms the sort of community that are trying to form.
Hey Tim!

Feel free to reach out, my email is in my profile.

But basically, its a fairly modular house, currently located in Colorado that uses solar for energy and a couple different hydroponic systems in an attached greenhouse. We've been looking at/building every step to understand where construction costs are coming from and what options are out there.

For example, we were quoted early on for part of the house foundation for $9k by multiple contractors, but when we asked a lot of questions we found we could get it done without any real skillset to do it ourselves with about 10 hours of work and $500. Work any volunteer could do. So, been working on cutting costs out of the process and working on automatically making food.

Next step is a small neighborhood to get more people involved and working towards figuring out how to expand it to a larger scale.
It was not protected in the US until the US/EC Wine Trade Agreement was signed in 2006.
If you think about it, on average people work less than a few percent of their life. Assuming a 40 hour work week, that means about 2/3rds of a working day you are not working. Factor in vacation, weekends, national holidays and basically you get to work for about 2/3rds of the year for about 1/3rd of the time. That's a bit over 20% of your time. You do that between when you finish studying until you retire for about 40-45 years give or take. The average age in a lot of countries is close to 80. So, an average productive life, would mean working maybe 10-15% of your time. It feels like more but you spend more time sleeping (33%, assuming a healthy 8 hour rest). Some of us of course work longer and harder. But we're talking averages here.

Now of course not everybody works and quite a few of us do things that arguably aren't that critical or important. There's actually quite a bit of busywork that really doesn't matter that much to anyone; including those paying for it. Companies regularly discover they can safely fire a few percent of their workforce when the time comes to scrape out some more efficiency to please shareholders. Most of us are not really not working at all most of the time, even if we are employed.

This is a big change from pre-industrial revolution life where you worked from early age until you were physically unable to do something useful, which was shortly before death, which for those that worked hard came pretty early on average.

This is not a problem because most of the things people did then are now done by machines.
cellular has bands, usually one carrier operate on handful different bands. Sometimes a phone only supports some of bands that don’t used in areas you live in.

When a phone nerds buy a phone they make sure which operator use which band or which bands are extension of which bands or which subtypes of a phone supports which bands before they proceed to buy one.

e.g. if a guy wants a phone that support Band 1, 3, 5, 7 and operator A use 2, 4 and 7 but only on rural, while operator B would use 3, 5, 9, 11 but 9 is basically 1, then he’d get a SIM from operator B.

Old Nokia had suffixes to commercial name like E71-1 for NA or E71-2 for EU and so on, as well as model number like RM-123 that each covers most bands in a region. Apple use different model numbers like A1234 for APAC, A1345 for Sprint US, A1243 for rest of US etc etc. On Samsung it’s N3546 for Korea and SM-i3456 or something like that, Sony/Sony Ericsson was XXnni for international and XXnna for CONUS at some point, sometimes completely different like “Xperia Something W12345”.

I can’t pull up BlackBerry scheme out of my memory but I think it was similar to Nokia.
This is very disappointing. Are there any alternative platforms that are simply hands off (censorship free) with content as an explicit policy and commitment to their customers?
Not entirely. Technical heat-death means there's no extractable work available anywhere and everything is in its most stable state for all of time.

If protons do not decay[0] (we're not sure), parent comment could be correct. That there is a distribution of protons (or something else) left which would be unique because of some 'butterfly effect'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
Berenson slams media for 'obscuring what the risks are' from coronavirus
To be clear, RC is run by friendly people that encourage learning (i did it last year). This situation isn’t great, but it can’t really be mapped to a universal RC experience.

With the new remote setup, I’m sure there’s a balance between the staff letting anyone limp through virtual engagement with the “programming” (of which there is very little — edit: I think this is a great thing about RC, very few mandatory events) and kicking people out based on a strict set of rules. On the one hand, you have less of an engaged community. On the other, you might make harsh seeming decisions sometimes to try to ensure all attending are “all in”.
I wouldn't know. I know FOR SURE I din't install the containers addon, yet I find them in my firefox.

If it's an addon but comes preinstalled, is it still an add-on ?
It is, especially in a legal framework, and it means I probably won't win if I sue you for writing that sentence. Do you have a point?
> he's currently planning to move back

Tell me when he actually moves back :), i guarantee you that he is BS-ing.

All my indian friends always talk about "moving back" but we never do. Everyone knows that its BS but we let it slide.

remember all the celebreties that vowed to renounce their citizenship if trump is elected. Yep, they are still here. every one of them.
Gaurav Sen's series(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMCXHnjXnTnvo6alSjVkg...) explains key areas in System design.
Android is the top example of this by far, everything is half finished & deprecated.