skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This persons visa is dependent on their employment so now they get to go into a city they don't know and try desperately to find employment with an employer who is interested in sponsoring someone from abroad (which is a small fraction of the total employers).

Alternatively they can just return to India? I'd be surprised if they didn't receive reallocation package (16k USD according to teamblind?). I don't expect any employer to go above and beyond their contractual obligations.

There is also certain irony here in Meta employees expecting ethical behavior from Meta whilst happily creating and maintaining unethical outcomes for the customers.
Fixing a broken web crawler in 1h
Not affiliated with the Nobel Prize, except… the Nobel Prize website lists it.

I guess nobody cares about message forum well-actuallys, least of all the Nobel Prize itself.
Isn't it the case that as long as these exchanges keep acting so bank-like (holding on to people's keys, possibly using them for trading or fractional trading or what you would call it) they will keep having these problems since crypto is so prone to "bank"-runs. There are no real reason for any of their customers to keep their money with them as soon as there is even a hint of suspicion of illiquidity or insolvency. In real banking you a lot of the time atleast need to go and take your money out but in the crypto currency world that can be automated.

I feel like the only real way they could be run while avoiding this to only work as a broker to make dealto purchase coins available to users and possibly also sell a wallet software or something that is mostly a frontend and no keys/money is kept with them. Then they are only ever able to trade on the exchange fees and purchase money for the wallets they get. But I guess such a reasonable way to run a buisness is no way to get filthy rich...
"Trading while insolvent" we call it in the UK; the legal obligation is to call in the administrators when you realize you're insolvent. Which they have now done. And insolvent companies generally do themselves, because it's less painful than the alternative.

There will probably be a lengthy argument in court (but which court - Bahamas?) as to whether they should have realized this earlier and whether their accounting was deceptive or incompetent.

(those interested should read "Lying for Money" by Dan Davies, it's an entertaining and escalating history of fraud)
I can confirm that it takes around 6 months to open a GmbH, having done it myself here in Germany. It is a complex process even though I had an accountant the whole time as well as a notary.
I know of people still in bootcamp that got the same severance package as everyone else. There was no minimum working time.
What's the wavelength range for burning away those pesky sinus cavity infections?
...Does their dog use a radar to smell?

(Context: there was a recent HN post on radar software being restricted in the US partly due to ITAR)
Ask HN: Feature set of software products in the social pillar of the ESG domain
Over the past 10 years I've been working on software in the Social pillar of the Environmental, Social, and Governance domain. e.g. social services program management, employee recognition and retention, occupational health and safety, etc.

I like building B2B products that try to make our lives a tiny bit easier by improving UX, reducing the time it takes to get help, and keeping people safe at work both physically and mentally.

Within this domain of software products are ISO standards. The ones specific to the Social pillar of ESG are ISO26001, ISO27001, and ISO45001.

What I'd like to try and do is compile a list of software products and their specific features that address each of these ISO standards specifically.

This would help me to focus on getting better at building software products with these features, and narrow down my "area of expertise".

ISO26001 Social Responsibility Guide

ISO27001 IT/Data Security & Governance

ISO45001 Occupational Health & Safety

Any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, or opinions are welcome.

References

https://www.cgbusinessconsulting.com/sustainability-and-iso-is-key-to-competitive-strategy/
Folks buying these are not miffed by transient market wobbles
checking formulas on spreadsheet - hmm it looks like I typed over the "total cost" number - which explains why it didnt change when I added more staff
That'll teach me to posts things on HN before I've found my glasses.
There isn't even a english speaking country in the EU anymore, and you say english is the defacto langauge of Europe? Seriously? If someone comes to a foreign country, they better start learning the language there, or they will have a hard time integrating. I see this on a daily basis. Language barriers are the biggest issues. We have people from foreign countries working in restaurants now, and somehow the customer is now supposed to speak their language if they want to talk about the order? The future is sign language I suppose.

No, it is not as simple as you seem to put it. Egnlish is not german, period. If someone wants to prosper in germany, they better learn german.
Why do you believe an infinite growth is impossible? It can run on merely increasing the net productivity. Which can be done up until a post-scarcity society at which point capitalism is obsolete anyway.
The one you're replying to was making the point that although Raspberry Pis may no longer be easy to obtain there are plenty of similar devices on the market.
I'm not at all doubting it's a problem, but it's a problem with poor risk management. The increase in birth rate in 2021 was around 5% it seems. If you don't have the slack in the system to handle a variation that small, or a plan to address it fast enough, then all kinds of other things could also mess it up.
>This argument may make superficial sense if you talk about a library, which is not the case here.

That is only the case if you are thinking it as a programmer.

The company doesn't want anything AGPL. It doesn't matter where you grant special permission, or your product fits the AGPL like what you describe. The company wants ZERO AGPL.

It is also not about what APGL said, or what you think APGL said, or what the court and lawyer thinks AGPL said. They dont want AGPL. Full Stop.
> Otherwise you can just wrap everything in Arc, Cow and similar helpers and call it a day.

… which is how we got slow, bloated legacy C++ codebases today, should we make the same mistake with Rust? If you are wrapping everything in ref-counted smart pointers it might probably be better to just use a garbage-collected language like Java or C# instead…
India unblocks VLC Player website videolan.org
Well to me it’s quite unfriendly to small businesses to (without telling you in advance - UG is always advertised as the simplification that it isn’t) require so much money for essentially nothing. I think it should be much cheaper and easier to shut down a business. Yes, there are alternatives, but nothing is really great to start a business there, especially if you want to bootstrap and not get a massive apparatus running before you have a good market fit.

My impression of Germany was that they try to force you to keep things going on forever - health insurance, pension, etc. as soon as you want to change something you lose a ton of money. Also: don’t ever criticize anything because they obviously really know what they’re doing.
If the Phy on one terminal isn't capable of receiving anything the Phy on the other terminal can transmit then all the software in the world won't help there. If the frequency bands for Tx and Rx don't overlap then you're out of luck.
No real critique against this project but where I work we have an in-house build system called Bob and I've heard several other companies that have systems named the same. The Bob the builder reference is too easy to pick up I guess.

We need to get more creative with our project names nowadays people. Things with too obvious references are usually not smart enough.
It depends how you define old.

Plus, no matter how you slice it it's still better to engage, than not.
`firefox -P` with a better UI?
I do agree, but I guess I'm not sure what the solution is here?

Large layoffs in large orgs are generally done at a team level rather than an individual level. So presumably this individual's entire team no longer exists.

So out of respect for them relocating do you then try to reposition them in the company somehow?

And what about all the people who didn't relocate but may have recently left stable job for an opportunity at Meta? Do they not matter or should they also be repositioned out of respect? And what about those who have personal reasons that make the layoff extra difficult? For example, those who might have just had a new born or who have family members in hospital? Do their personal situations not also matter?

And for how long would these individuals be safe if you do make an exception? Do you keep them for 3 months just to be nice then proceed with the layoff anyway? I'm not sure that's much better...

I think maybe the best thing to do here is just to give good severance packages?

I don't think I'm being heartless. I'm sat here thinking both, "man this is awful" while also having no idea what the right answer is. You can argue layoffs suck more for certain people and those people should be protected, but for a larger org needing to do mass-layoffs it seems almost impossible to make those kinds of assessments on an individual level in a way that is fair. You'd inevitably just end up protecting certain types of crappy situations (recently located) over other types of crappy situations (family member just died).

Just thinking out loud... Maybe I'm missing something here.
I am wondering if the author is still open to sell Mold to change its license to MIT for a few million.
Ask HN: Are you using open source solutions to secure your SDLC?
Hey community, I’m trying to research the use of open-source in the security space (especially for securing SDLC) and figured this would be a good place to start.

I have a few questions on top of that:
1. Do you use open source in your company and what is your process for approving an open-source solution?
2. Does your company secure its SDLC (software development life cycle)?
3. What tools do you use to keep your SDLC secure?
4. In your opinion, what are the biggest pros and cons of using open-source tools in cybersecurity?

Thank you so much!
I read a story on my LinkedIn feed about a lady who had it worse: she relocated to the US with her family a couple months ago on an L1 visa, before being fired from Meta. Because of this, she now has a few months to pack her belongings, because obviously the L1 is non-transferable, and even if she applies and wins on the H1-B lottery and finds a sponsor the earliest she could start working again is fall of next year. There is nothing she can do about it. Life is really unfair sometimes.
renewable energies are not even remotely close in terms of providing the energy for that kind of growth

Solar energy grows at an exponential rate which will provide 90% of the global energy in 2040 and 200% a few years later. If authors fail at one basic axiom I usually discard the rest of their "conclusions".
I'm talking about the Portuguese sim card I'm using in Portugal every day. The German system started to switch pre-paid cards from abroad off, nevermind that my phone number is registered with the Portuguese telecom and they know who I am.
I would love to see a robust and repairable class D design make it to the market as a kit or module. It's the one disadvantage I see of class D. Most techs can fault-find on non-switching amplifiers, but blown commercial class D modules typically just end up in the bin.
I'm not sure what Amazon was paying him in India as a SDE-2, but the range is somewhere between $35k and $50k

So he probably got around 1.5 years of his previous yearly comp.
The Privacy Policy [1] only covers what is defined as "Personal Data". What about the data created by users themselves? E.g. Tasks/cards created by users.

Is user-generated data private enough? I know Trello, Asana, etc. are widely used by businesses, but that is after many b2b guarantees about privacy, defined through legal agreements. For everyone else, it's what you say in Privacy policy document.

Bonus: If the data is end-to-end encrypted, you won't even need to get legal involved. It is a big feature in itself, but it's worth considering in the interest of future opportunities.

[1]: https://upbase.io/privacy-policy/
Bear shits in wood
Why should there be anything 'wrong' with laying off someone who has just joined, whether they've relocated or not? When companies decide on large re-orgs, whole teams, departments, business unit can go. That's just the way it is.

Relocating is no protection against being laid off, be it legally or ethically.

Companies can show empathy and that they care by providing support, as said.
> and requested a fee of $150.

Did they pay? They really should have to get it published

"Correction: This article previously said the article was published by the journal. It was only accepted, because the author didn't want to pay $150."
If the allow margin gambles they probably are not selling the cryptos for cash to save transaction cost and just calculate the balance virtually. With all the cryptocoin volatility I don't see how process margin calls without keeping the actual cryptocoins either, so you can give them back to the lender.
It's not a snark. If your opinion was as strong as it sounded, you would have done the investment. Instead you are not doing it because you do not believe in what you just said yourself.
This is feeling which I am getting from him as well. His videos have great comedic value, but most of his predictions about country X are expecting that country X will do nothing to mitigate it and ram in the wall, full speed.
I wouldn't, and it is decided by new German telecom regulation that went into force last year. The card I'm using in Portugal no longer works when I visit Germany, because it's a pre-paid card.
This article is a meta magic trick; the color of the text made it vanish!

Had to use Reader mode on Safari to read it.
It's really more about whether the decision makers at that level care about this kind of stuff or not.
I stand by what I said
Because Apache/MIT is compatible with the GPL, it is totally fine for people who like to license their code in Apache/MIT to do so.

An example of that is KHTML, the web engine: KHTML was licensed under LGPL, despite it was based on Qt in very deep ways (usage of core feature such as QString, QList, all over the place). Qt was GPL at the time.
Even then, Apple was able to take KHTML, and remove the Qt dependency, in order to create WebKit which is fully LGPL.

One can totally make a "more permissive" product based on Slint.
If someone wants to use the extra permissions that are not granted by the GPL,
they still have the option to do so by purchasing a license, or using the free Slint license, or (worst case) porting away from Slint.
> so many of the comments here that seem to lack even the most basic of human decency

Reading them, so am I. There is no sign of empathy: that understanding of another individual, the ability to put oneself in someone else's shoes, that is fundamental to a healthy society and (IMO) personal integrity.

I read a comment a few years ago that no-one thinks of themselves as a bad person. To yourself, you are always okay. Yet lacking as you phrase it 'human decency', or for me, 'empathy', as so clearly illustrated in those harsh, inhuman, uncaring, comments that show no concern nor understanding of the person, the human, the feeling caring uprooted emotion-bearing trouble-striving human at the center of this...

I don't know. I feel like quite a few people in this post need to question themselves.
Why call out Elon when this situation was Zuckerberg?
This is not a new observation. The crypto market is basically the pre Great Depression banking sector. That's why this libertarian talk of "freedom" and "decentralization" is really just longing for chaos. Respek the fiat.
Oh no, "not far right"! Make sure you don't listen to that opinion!
Besides the lie, it’s also editorialized to be clickbait.
immigration policy does not address employee rights or notice. Its not wothing scope
Then again, we have all seen that Asshole that destroys a whole team.
It should be ideally, but I don't know a country where that is. Relocation between EU countries has no barriers and is relatively common but is expected to be on your own dime. Sure, for skilled professions in demand sometimes you get a relocation bonus to sweeten the deal and soften the financial blow, but there's always the risk that you get laid off during the probation period, which is something you need to take into consideration if you have to uproot your entire family to move to another country for a new job. Best way is to find a cheap place to rent and live below your means for a while until you feel comfortable and stable in your new country/job and not blow all your money on arrival.

I've seen this happen a lot. Guy sells everything he has to move family to a new country for a new dream job, then spending big money on renting a nice new house for his family, buying a new car and tons of new stuff for the house and the kids, and a few weeks/months down the line he doesn't pass probation or the company changes course and lays him off, or he realizes the job or city is not what he thought and wishes to leave. And since he hasn't been contributing to the social services for long enough he's not entitled to any welfare/assistance from the state. It happens more often than you think.

The good thing is that in EU your residence permit is not tied to an employer so if you get let go, you can still stay and find another job with relative ease, but no country or company that I'm aware of here pays for your relocation if things don't work out for you. That's why having some savings and living below your means for a while is of major importance when you move cities/countries.
> speed of correction, lack of oscillation, and avoidance of side effects.

Aka good, fast, cheap.
They are a public company, they have an actual board, they are also audited by a big 4 accounting firm.

This is MUCH more transparency than some corp in the bahamas.

Obviously it's not complete security, Enron was a public company and audited, but it's still considerably better than FTX or Binance.
It's not about board members in the sense the term is used for U.S. public corporations. “Executive team” or “C-level employees” would probably be more accurate for comparison. These people are typically full-time employees of the corporation. Not external directories, no-show jobs, or anything like that.

German public corporations have a separate board representing stakeholder interests. It's not a full-time job (typically just a few meetings per year, and in theory some legal responsibility), and some of the board members are not employed by the corporation. Considering the time commitment, typical compensation for board members is still very, very generous, but much lower annually than the numbers quoted in the report.
No matter which way you try and slice it, there's always a human at the end of the decision. A human made the policies, a human made the layoff decision, a human decides to enforce policy.
Rust doesn’t handhold you for anything low-level. It’s just that Rust hides all that complexity beneath Unsafe Rust, which is an eldritch language that no one quite knows all the rules yet (including things related to undefined behavior…) I hope the MiniRust project (https://github.com/RalfJung/minirust) succeeds in writing a formal spec of it someday.
Also Firefox Relay! https://relay.firefox.com/

(Which is a shameless plug, since I work on that, but I know there are quite a few people here who trust Mozilla and for whom it's relevant.)

And if you use it to generate email masks in your browser, it can remember what website you created on without exposing that to the sender, and without a trail linking the email address to your other addresses.
Does the docker have users set up? I seem to remember that being a pain point in the initial setup.
If by plain text you mean in numerous leaks ... can confirm I have the same problem. Never otherwise been published online.

Also gmail spam filter isnt what it once was, or perhaps it is just the 1% failure rate shows up more when you get 100's of spam messages a day.
Most developed countries have consultation requirements and notice period requirements for layoffs that would have made this either a non-issue or at least significantly less of a problem.

The US (EDIT: given this was in Canada, clearly the US isn't as extreme an outlier as I thought, overall point still stands for the US and Canada) is a pretty extreme outlier in how it allows employers to deal with redundancies, because almost every other developed country recognises there's a massive power asymmetry.
Making of Mathematical Instruments
I'm not from India so no idea how many good engineers are there. I am immigrant myself though and I have a lot of friends who changed countries so have some insight there.

People who decide to move countries usually not just do it for reasons like career or more money. Most often it's because they dislike something in their home country or want better opportunities for their children.

So no amount of shiny remote work tools or good local offices will make any difference for people who look for relocation. They'll just choose to work for company that does offer relocation.
First time I am hearing it was blocked. I bought a new phone and laptop couple months ago and I have VLC installed on both (one is Android and the other is Windows). Anyway, if it's unblocked now, that's good news.
And you will get homesick eventually. You will miss the food you usually eat, the places you visit, the feeling you get after e.g. the rain in that special place etc.
And the culture of the people or just hearing your home slang, or the smell.
Not easy
But the article talks about Canada, not the US. Why/how is the US relevant here?
This is where the "lender of last resort", i.e. the government, comes in. Depositor losses are sufficiently bad for the economy as a whole that it makes sense to prevent them at almost any cost.

The UK ended up owning RBS: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/royal-bank-of-scotland-...

Ireland got hit pretty hard: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/2022/... but did at least manage to send Sean Quinn to actual jail.

Cyprus had too large and too dodgy a banking sector for its government to cover, so there depositors did incur real losses ("haircut").
"Satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize" - Tom Lehrer
been there, done that.
Do we have a reason to believe he was treated poorly?
Yes, it actually makes me feel slightly sick.
All good! I have been trying to better gather my thoughts on this in the face of... ongoing critique... so it is on me for not presenting it better in the first place. I blame it on being 5:30 AM in the morning here and not having had any coffee yet.
I had thought this would be Microsoft Bob shipped on a CD-ROM ;)
Thanks for pointing me towards the Pi Juice "intelligent on/off" that makes things more clear, looks like it has a Cortex M0 microcontroller with RTC that can be programmed to wake at a specific time [1]. The Pi Juice is a really cool piece of hardware. Still interested to know the total time between charges for this thing, and some details of programming the Pi Juice would be cool.

1. https://github.com/PiSupply/PiJuice/blob/master/Hardware/REA...
A budget is good to have, but a worst case budget is even better. I have a worst case budget so that I can see how long our money will last in the worst case that can happend (both my and my wife are out of jobs, private job endurance runs out (it's a Danish thing)) and were are totally fucked.. economically.
But without a job he maybe forced to move back.
Like a dog?
A lot of sun means a lot of shade ;)
This occurred in Canada, not the US.