skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve struggled with the same transition. Do you have any trouble with feeling a lack of purpose? Restlessness?

Many days when I should be perfectly happy and content,instead I feel like I’m waiting for something to go wrong and piss me off. It feels really stupid to be anxious about nothing.
Well technically it already is pretty darn green in that the energy system concentrates its waste into tiny generally well-contained packages that have, per TWh generated, a relatively miniscule negative impact and footprint on the biosphere.

I recognize this is controversial but the numbers are pretty solid.
The energy has to “flow” throughout the system, from the input, and then eventually “dissipate”. That sets up a pattern of behavior/dynamics very different from equilibrium systems, where there are no such “coherent” flows.

As an example of the practical consequences of non-equilibrium, look up a recent HN discussions (couple of days ago) on how hot water could freeze faster than cold water.
There is a whole industry of them. Professional employment organizations or Employer of Record (PEO / EoR).

Companies like Pilot (not affiliated either but heard good things) are a modern take on that and try to streamline it as much as possible.
Is it on android?
What about the other way around - non-US corp hiring a US contractor?
Hi all,

I'm Hamed, the founder of airtape and I'm super happy to announce a new feature. We added multiple backups for audio recordings to make them fail-safe. Every couple seconds the recording will be saved to the cloud in the background.

If you're not familiar with airtape. It's a SaaS product for podcast and interview recording via web browser.

Best,
Hamed
In Mexico manchego is a very specific cheese and definitively not used to define generic cow cheese.
Only if you exceed your traffic limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average will they even try to upgrade you. That seems very fair to me. OP is trying to make this about traffic but it's really because he knowingly had more then 2 active staff accounts.
Regardless, this explosion happened and there are many human beings in distress. That alone would be enough reason to donate.

If I was in a car crash, I would not ask people to donate. This is different, this is a humanitarian crisis, and he is not soliciting donations for himself but rather the hospital.

I'm all for questioning things, but come on. There's a giant freaking crater in the ground. And you think, what exactly? This is a grand conspiracy to get you to donate a few dollars. I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense.
How do you plan to get back to work-force after the money you saved up run dry?

Majority of software engineers are able to save up for few years forth of expenses by not going into any major investments.

To give an example - I can stop working for 3 years now, but Ill have huge issues explaining that afterwards. And if I plan to build a house - there is no option for me to stop working for the next 10 years.

Not everyone is in so proviliged place.
I built the community at https://collective.energy to help environmental entrepreneurs have a platform to find an audience, get feedback, and collaborate!
There are like four different trash services we can pick from. It's kind of crazy to me. I guess when all you need is a truck, it's not a hard business to get into.
This is amazing, I'd really love to learn more! Do you have any resources I can look into?
I agree. I think the coming change is much bigger than anyone is prepared to handle..

We are in a transitional period - the utopian endpoint of technology was always to perfect/automate so much that there is no need for humans to work (except on what you want to of course), but as we get closer we have no idea what society is supposed to look like in that world.

Politicians still promise jobs, the Fed targets employment, the entirety of society is built around the idea of working to make a living. Those ideas don't even necessarily make sense in a world of increasing automation - at some point if everything keeps getting 10x more efficient, there simply won't be enough jobs of any kind to go around.

It means a transition to an entirely different way of organizing society - we don't know what it will look like and its going to be a very bumpy ride.
I know this is possible in The Netherlands, it happens all the time. Dutch companies also specifically state whether they are open to this in their job postings.

From my experience, what Dutch companies have trouble with is matching the salaries from US-based companies, and in general they don't. So people from the US that do come to The Netherlands specifically have other reasons than money to come here.
> and got their data back

after going viral, apparently. Once again proving that you need social media to make these kinds of businesses behave ethically.
The budget for the entire project was just way too low. The Center allots 500cr for each smart city, matched by 500cr by the state. When you're dealing with city-wide infrastructure, this much money goes away very quickly
> he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it

Pastebin is a thing.
Looks like this is the paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

ArXiV: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07267
Both parties handled it with emotion and childishness.

The CEO should not have acted the way he did. No excuses for what he did.

I wanted to be careful before blaming OP but after reading his blog post, he did not send a polite email to begin with and then on top of that, he immediately complained on Twitter and even accused them of shady practice. He went too far. Sorry OP, an email that starts with "This is an extremely shady business practice and makes me question my commitment to moving to Ghost" is NOT a polite email, whether you are right or wrong. A Polite email would have been "I am a little surprised receiving this email from you guys and wasn't aware of this rule you guys have. Can I get more time to think about this since I am not sure I want to pay that kind of money" etc etc.

On top of that, OP says "I also decided to tweet about it - because that’s what people do, right?". No OP. People don't do that by default. Good customers try to work it out with the business first. They wait for a first response. They give them a little benefit of doubt before making judgements. If you cannot resolve it together in a friendly way and you feel you have been wronged, go ahead and rant on Twitter by all means. But it was a knee jerk reaction on OP's part to post on twitter which accused Ghost. No business likes these types of customers. Of course, the CEO had an equally if not worse response and now Ghost deserves all the negative press. This doesn't absolve OP's immature reaction. I cannot agree with their tactic.
Languages are easy. Knowing the underlying frameworks, ecosystem, etc. is what takes awhile.

I could (re)learn Java in a weekend, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to be able to write an Android app.

Even for backend API development there is a leap from knowing C# to knowing how to correctly use all of the packages that surround it.
Interesting, care to share more?
People realize this, especially on HN. The post is referring to deprecations. You can patch security vulnerabilities and move a product forward without deprecations. Google does it well with Go.
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It shouldn't be too surprising since the universe and earth have been and remain naturally filled with radiation for billions of years. The heat that keeps magma warm in the earth comes 50% from radioactive decay of uranium and its daughters. Life today is based on plants and microorganisms absorbing radiation emanating from a giant nuclear reactor in the sky.

This is just a twist on how it's always been done.
> I just can't relate to the Python bits.

I work in visual effects/animation, and 2020 is literally the first year anyone is even trying to use Python 3 (and Python 2.x) is still supported everywhere. Prior to 2020 Python 3 couldn't even be used at all (and I mean that literally: could not be used outside of isolated toy examples on alpha software that wasn't actually running in production).

We (as an industry) have written thousands and thousands and thousands of business-necessary logic/scripts/libraries in Python 2.x that have to be updated to Python 3 that work across commercial tools so literally every tool has to be updated at the same time in tandem to Python 3, so much so that the VFX Platform[0] project was created in 2014 specifically to address how badly Python 3 had fucked everyone in my industry.

It's all make-work too: literally none of us actually need Python 3's new features.

Javascript's "use strict"; is the way to do backwards compatibility if you really really really need to change the semantics and keep existing code working as-is.

[0] https://vfxplatform.com/
I’ve been working for, running and volunteering for social enterprises for 12 years now.

I find that “social enterprise” as a term isn’t really known by anyone outside of the social enterprise bubble, e.g. those running, funding or volunteering for a social enterprise.

The funding structures available to social enterprises seems to be an issue - you can be anything from a private limited company through to a registered charity or anything in between (and don’t get me started on CICs...).

I know a fully for-profit company who claims they are a social enterprise just because their main client base is registered charities.

I also think that the B Corp movement (https://bcorporation.net/) is building a much better brand than the social enterprise movement - and the whole process to becoming a registered B Corp is much more stringent than become a social enterprise, and has the added benefit of helping improve the social impact of organisations that apply to become B Corp registered.

I’m currently building a database of social good organisations in the UK and beyond here: https://goodhere.org/

Would love to see more projects and funders submitted. Email is in profile if you’re interested in discussing more.
> In the 2+ years I've been at Mozilla, I think there's been almost complete turnover at the C-level.

Interesting. What was the reason for the turnover? Who evaluates their performance?
Investing is opportunity/risk management.

If investors suffer more than they are prepared for, they have been incompetent.
I do have one (a Dutch sole proprietorship), but I never mention it. I guess I should mention it in my cover letters and on my resume.
There isn’t much around to govern social enterprises, so we don’t have much of a framework.

We report impact regularly internally (it’s in dashboards the whole team has access to) and through the B-Corp certification we get assessed in detail every few years. Our staff hold us to account, more than our customers or the law.

For us we found a mechanism where benefit and profit are aligned, and I think most good social enterprises have done the same. That’s to say that the more impact we have, the healthier we are on classic business metrics.
It’s maybe not quite so simple and you need to keep an eye on externalities. I’d adjust your formula, somewhat crudely, into:

Social benefit = profit - externalities.

Sadly, most businesses on that construction are negative social benefit.

And that’s down to our bawbag accounting system.
Chrome won't load that without the trailing dot: http://dk.
56% of US population was not working in July 2020 according to BLS numbers. US population is 328M. 144M are working civilians. Add 2M for military employment. 44% employment rate.
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Yes but it was not "just the squirrel" it is a combination of factors (usually faults or overloads upstream).
> That doesn't sound at all bad.

"Wait for a year until the bill is high enough instead of telling them after a week that they probably have missed adding those licences and it's going to cost them $x more if they wish to keep using those extra users". Yeah, sounds not bad at all.
Wouldn't it be easier just to start a charity and get funding from one of the tech companies looking for charities to fund. Just take an edgy leftist position, and you will be floating in money.
Eg. "dismantle the nuclear family"
But thats not compression. That's downloading and running an executable that duplicates files.
No haven’t raised yet (haven’t needed to), but have spoken to VCs. Being a bcorp hasn’t ever been mentioned as an issue.
I'm the co-founder of Oswald Labs (https://oswaldlabs.com), an accessibility technology company that builds products for people with disabilities.

For example, we built Augmenta11y, an AR reading app for children with dyslexia, that makes reading 20% faster for them. We even published a research paper in the IEEE about it: https://oswaldlabs.com/research/publications/dyslexia-augmen....

Our business model is B2B SaaS for our web accessibility/customization plugin that adds features like dyslexia-friendly reading mode to websites. We charge a monthly fee for the plugin after a free plan for websites with less than 10k pageviews per month.

Not that it means much, but we were one of the youngest founders in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list as "Social Entrepreneurs", so you can find many other companies focused on impact there: https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2020/social-entrepreneurs....
You can see why Apple saw the sinking ship in 2015 and started down the ARM path with all the delays and vulnerabilities.
No Android version?
> Thinking that the topic that concerns you personally is somehow universally special among the others is despicable arrogance.

You can disagree about political issues if you have an alternative position - if I think we should have a robust social safety net and you think we should eliminate welfare because everyone should work, at least you've articulated an alternate position where people can still survive. You can want to privatize the post office and mail still gets delivered. The issue with arguing about people's human rights is that there is no alternative. You're just saying some class of people should have less than others with no remedy
Oh! Now that's nifty. How long have they had that?
Quick clarifying question: are you saying this earnestly, or as satire?
I wonder if SCTE-35 makes it to broadcast mpeg streams on digital television...

I know it does (did?) on Twitch, last time I looked.
I am walking the talk...

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There are other tradeoffs between cloud providers that are important to keep in mind here. In my experience, GCP has been easier to get started with, and has offerings that are by-and-large more comprehensible. One thing I really appreciate is that a lot of their client libs have automatic auth within GCP (last time I used AWS this wasn't the case or I didn't know about it).

As someone who hasn't been burned by it personally, it is hard to quantify the actual risk and maintenance cost of GCP's deprecation policy, but I know decision makers at larger organizations that are rightfully afraid of it.
Not only is it ambiguous, it changes. Insider trading also need to come with an exchange of value. But we’ve been litigating for decades what that means. Is friendship value? Is admiration value? These things actually change over time.
As another commenter mentioned, they changed the definition of how highway lengths are calculated.

Stunts like these is what makes me sceptical of government claims (being sceptical of governments, imo, is necessary for democracy). You have to read the fine print of every statistic.

I agree that there is no more policy paralysis. But I will also say that there is a lack of follow through of initial plans. This government is a lot like a new entrepreneur - you have tons of great new ideas and lots of energy. But you keep trying out new ideas instead of focusing on one single thing.

The government needs to pick one agenda and go all out on it. I hopeful that they'll see the pandemic as an opportunity to push local manufacturing and will go all out on it.
For sure but in the interest of national defense seems like we should work to amend that
It looks like the CEO of Ghost has a history of booting customers when they criticize them in public.

https://twitter.com/adbertram/status/1148165765629128704
A serious investigation based on actual real verified events.

The series of secret meetings, lies and changing narrative from so many in the admin that were later exposed as false tells its own story.

Whether it could be proved as collusion, conspiring or is another issue. There is plenty of 'there' there.
You can use emoji with a .to domain.

Does that count?
But they only spent a fraction of the cash on developing Firefox features like Quantum that people want, and essentially wasted the rest of crazy projects (FirefoxOS), buying things that their users hate (Pocket), and outlandish C-level salaries. They could have paid the core developers and had the endowment.

If they wanted to do the non-core stuff, that's something that the foundation that managed the endowment might have done with x% of its capital, simply by investing in companies that align with Mozilla's mission.
I apologize if it looked like I was singling it out, my intention was to just point out that not all construction might be something to feel happy about; some of it should definitely be questioned.

Regarding the US example, since most of the freeway construction in US happened long time back. A lot of these oppositions are old, we are now much more aware about the human impact to ecology. Also, isn't it better to learn and not repeat the mistakes of even others.
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A 2011 MBP can't run it at all
I’m one.

Through SEAL, we fund academic research and take on impact campaigns on specific environmental initiatives.

We just called on financial institutions to create an environmental charity rewards card (a portion of your credit card rewards go to charity, not airline miles):

https://sealawards.com/eco-rewards/

The potential here is huge - could raise even more funding than Jeff Bezos $10 billion climate fund. And the consumer survey data (n - 3,000) is very encouraging.

Now the tough part is convincing them - if you want to help please visit https://ecorewardscard.com/sign-up/

My overall summary of social entrepreneurship: expensive (I subsidize this), hard....but really fun and rewarding.
I hear you. At the end of the day though a little more effort on front end setup is infinitely better than the time wasted later on when you have to rebuilt everything every time Google decides to get rid of another product / service / platform / setting. Burned by that one too many times and moved on.
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I will never understand the fascination with Twitter.
Note in the last election a couple of candidates would have said the the US unemployment rate was 56%, not 11%. They counted everyone who wasnt working as unemployed, including 1 year olds and 90 year olds.
No, I do believe you. There's a lot I don't like about his approach, but if he's decided the "bring the troops home" is a populist plank, I'm certainly not going to complain about saving both their lives and the lives of civilians in the Middle East.

And honestly I could probably be convinced that there is no responsible way to get ourselves out of the mess we put ourselves in over the last several decades and the only solution is a commander-in-chief willing to be irresponsible.
I posted this dashboard here back in March, but with the recent investigations into insider trading by Kodak and the USPS Postmaster General I thought it was very relevant once again.

There are a lot of sites out there which list off every insider transaction. That’s good if you want to find more detail on a specific case of suspected insider trading, but it makes it difficult to quickly identify companies with suspicious activity.

Instead of displaying data at the transaction-level, I decided to aggregate transactions from a 6-month rolling period. I then created the “Insider Confidence Index”, which measures a company’s insider trading activity relative to their total market volume.

I also created a graph showing daily net purchases/sales across all S&P 500 insiders, to give an idea of the aggregate sentiment among insiders. It was interesting to see a huge spike in selling back in early February, and then again a couple of weeks ago.

I’d love to hear any thoughts or suggestions you have on how to improve this dashboard, and if you’d prefer to see the data at a transaction-level.
Considering the economic fuck-house as a result of the pandemic , our company has shifted our focus from increasing MRR to helping out anyone and everyone who can benefit from our resume software.

Furthermore, I've started to familiarize myself with the Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN - specifically inclusive economic growth as so many people are the edge of economic ruin.

https://rezi.io - we are just a simple resume software that many people love and trust
https://arcentry.com/ was nice, but they shuttered the service.

https://shutdownlikeaboss.com/post/190564787340/wolfram-disc...
I am walking the talk - impact over profits.

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> empty arrays to designate behaviour that isn't obvious

This drives me a little crazy too. That behaviour can be easily documented by wrapping it in a function with a name that makes sense, but people litter their React code with non-obvious hooks everywhere. You can reduce a lot of boilerplate (why are you writing empty arrays everywhere!?) and improve readability substantially by wrapping the hooks in more composed and idiomatic functions.

I think that was along the lines of what was intended for hooks, but I don't see it often.
Firstly, the question of browser superiority and choice is not just about speed.
You wouldn't want to choose an operation procedure A) over B) simply because A is faster as A has a mortality rate 30%higher that B.
Secondly, the web is not high-end-gaming so a few ms more or less don't really matter IMHO. Also note that Alphabet might slow their service down deliberately, because you are not using their browser.
Lastly, to finish off with a strong argument, I want you to look at https://arewefastyet.com/win10/overview?numDays=60 . It always depends on the benchmark and circumstances, as I havn't checked other OSs on that site.
I co-founded Akvo Foundation [1] in 2007. Akvo is a not-for-profit/not-for-loss [2] organisation that put together a combination of tools, services, local expertise and sector knowledge. We work mainly in management of water, sanitation and agriculture, even though organisations use our platform for all sorts of data. WWF are tracking turtles in Indonesia, SNV manages their massive biogas programmes, Sierra Leone quality test their drinking water etc. Lots of stories here https://akvo.org/stories/

We are 75 people in a bunch of countries, with HQ in The Netherlands. We have worked with two dozen governments, hundreds of organisations and companies, in over 70 countries in the last decade. We work hard at making all our tools and work open source or open content.

Working mainly in international development is not easy. The customer is mostly project based, so retention is hard. You have to sell into each new project. We have some of Europe’s largest NGOs using the tools as corporate tools, but the technology use in many of these type of organisations, despite being heavily dependent on data, is patchy at best.

[1] http://Akvo.org

[2] We charge money for our services and any positive results are reinvested in our tools, people and knowledge platform.