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Coaching is still a big part of what we're building, and I think it will be an ongoing option for orgs to have the option to bring in coaches to dive into their leadership and communication issues.

Been working on a small team exploring what the intersection of coaching, employee engagement, and AI looks like. (https://engage.myemmaai.com/)

Most employee engagement software is just placation for HR. When it's common that the lowest scoring question on feedback cycles is "I believe that action will be taken based on the results of this feedback," there's something fundamentally broken with how companies handle feedback, and how the tools their given enable them to react to it.

Our end goal is to help leaders and managers identify problems with trust and communication within a team. The reality is, 90% of the time, the problem lies with the leadership itself. We're trying to provide both the tools to diagnose what the problems are, and frameworks for managers to fix them.

Offsite | Full Stack Engineer (#2 Engineering Hire) | REMOTE (USA) | Full-Time | https://joinoffsite.com

Offsite (https://www.joinoffsite.com) is helping create more engaged, connected, and empathetic workplaces of the future by allowing CEOs and their People Leaders at high-growth tech companies to easily plan, manage, and follow-up after team retreats and other types of Offsites.

We're currently looking to bring on our second engineer, and will be hiring two more soon after.

- Looking for a full stack engineer with at least a couple years of experience

- Preferably with some TypeScript experience, but we can be flexible for the right candidate.

- Distributed team

- Quarterly Offsites. You'll join us at our next one in March!

Check out the full job description here: https://joinoffsite.notion.site/Full-Stack-Engineer-2-techni...

If your interested in applying, reach out to me at andrew [at] joinoffsite.com and please include "HN" in the subject.

I think the concept is awesome, and I'm excited to see it, but it raises so many questions about how this is going to work. First question that comes to mind is how are you going to handle weather- and not just crazy storms, but heat and pressure too. Blimps/semi-rigid airships face a less than ideal operating window, and while ballonets and ballast can help manage the buoyancy of the ship, inevitably you'll have to vent helium. How are you going to approach the infrastructure the drones are going to need to stay topped up on helium and ballast, and how are you going to approach emergency situations where you end up outside of the operating window of the aircraft?

Used Atlas to incorporate and they helped correct mistakes that were made on both ends, was really nice having an actual person to talk to. Also had a deal for reduced fees which made it even sweeter. There were a few UX things that I wish were more clear initially, but they went above and beyond to fix them. Previously used LegalZoom for a 501c4 which was an experience I don't really recommend. It'd be nice to see some more options for different kinds of businesses. Kinda crazy to see how many companies they've incorporated yet still were able to offer really good support.

I use Shpotify to shuffle and play a playlist of eurotrash/techno during especially long builds. Pretty nifty thing you made!

Yeah, noticed my Shopify site was down and it's obnoxious it's the one thing I can't put somewhere else.

I like the new logo and colors, but man the weird thickness, spacing, and kerning of the font is off putting. The rhythm is all wrong so some of the letters look like they're the wrong sized or positioned wrong.

You're pretty spot on with this.

I think for startups in general you gotta blend a bit of those two strategies to be successful too. You gotta build a nice landing page to convince people you're serious to get some of those early meetings to convince other people you're serious.

I fall on the idea person end of the spectrum more than the work-horse end, and when someone comes talking about big ideas without some baseline plan, hypothesis, or validation I zone out too. I get so frustrated with people who spend 40 hours working on shitty slide-decks trying to convince me something is a good idea instead of finding a way to show proof.

I feel like this article kinda confuses "idea people" and "people with an idea." Idea people should know how to prove an idea. I've had a lot of similar hairbrained ideas come my way looking to build an MVP for something, and typically the end of our conversation is "use an excel spreadsheet and prototype this idea and come back in 6 months, then I'll charge you $75-$200k to build the tech"

I've prototyped enough of my own ideas to know that most ideas are shit.

Kinda interesting to think about how this fits in the market. Is some warehouse/manufacturing consultant using this or is it supposed to be for a small manufacturer to DIY their way to building the machines they need?

I think he means more like you need a few batteries or you have to break up your work across a couple days

This is kinda an analog for doing the uncomfortable thing. There's a certain amount of security in doing what's comfortable, and if you can find happiness in that I think that's great. It's all relative. I think it's less "be cool at dinner parties" and more being happy with the path you've taken through life.

The 480nm number is really impressive at this size. Especially at 5000rpm with the 4-1. Compared to a ICE motor that weighs ~200kg, you effectively free-up 40kwh~80kwh (80 if you believe the 400w/hr claim that Tesla makes) of battery capacity right there. I think there's still a long way to go, but seeing things like this and planes like Pipestrel's electric planes, GA electric planes are more and more feasible.

Your preparation should depend on what kind of time horizon you're dealing with. Long term horizon? Be aggressive. Short term? Be conservative.

Trying to time the market typically results in smaller gains (larger losses) than just going with it. I think there are some overvalued sectors, but I'm overall pretty bullish. We might see a "true" crash if we uncover some fundamental flaw with the banking system.

The only way they would've made this deadline would've been to delete all of their posts.

I'm not upset in the slightest about them being gone, but I can kind of see the argument about how the app store is deciding how someone uses their phones here.

Clearly a big deal and congressional IT staff are going to have a crazy few weeks ahead of them. However, my understanding is that any classified information would have to be in a SCIF. I assume that would be the case with congresspeople as well. I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced, but haven't seen that corroborated anywhere. Anyone know if that's true?

Repeating what a few others here have said, but k6 has been a really easy tool to use, with great open source tools, and a managed service with pretty competitive pricing. Creating "real world traffic" is a little more tricky, but you can easily spin up a load test for just about anything in 15min.

ProNvest | Software Engineer - Backend | Chattanooga, TN | ONSITE | https://pronvest.com/

ProNvest is changing the way people interact with their finances by building retirement management for the masses. Our core tenet is that you don't have to be a millionaire to invest like one. We're a small team working hard to build exciting fintech products. We're looking for a talented, driven backend engineer to join our team.

We have a lot of interesting projects on the roadmap for Q1 2021:

- Full rebrand of the legacy business

- Robo-managed low-fee IRA

- Real time performance tools

- Back office improvements and business process redesigns

The ideal candidate has experience in:

- C#/.NET Core and SQL (I know it's not an exciting stack, but it's the banking industry)

- A bit of experience in React and Docker would be nice-to-haves.

- At least 1 year of real-world engineering experience

To learn more about the role and apply, you can view the job posting or you can email me a cover letter and resume at ascales(at)pronvest .com

https://angel.co/company/pronvest-1/jobs/543763-software-eng...

For scale prototypes, it's great. I have a 3D printed 1/100 scale sailboat hull on my desk right now. However, you aren't going to beat building hulls out of fiberglass. With a large CNC, foam/starboard/coosa, and a roll of fiberglass you can prototype a full scale boat in a weekend.

Maybe printing a hull buck would be a good move? But you just as easily could CNC foam blocks for that too...

Bill Gates is involved with TerraPower, the other PNW based nuclear startup

That's neat, but I'm not sure I learned about graph theory. I liked playing with it but the background was a bit too much for my eyes.

I don't know what the business decision was to hire outside contractors, however it resulted in the layoff of 62 workers. TVA hasn't hired an H1B employee since 2008. But if they needed to hire for a role where H1Bs were required they could afford to pay a competitive salary.

It has been revenue positive for decades, and the rates are cheaper than the private alternative.

I completely agree, but castrating the Authority's ability to run the business, and stay profitable will do more harm than using contractors. Looking at Trump's firing as anything more as a step in the direction of privatizing the TVA at a cost to everyone who buys its power.

The H1-B hires (all 10 of them) and the outsourcing to US-based, but foreign owned, contractors are two different issues.

While getting some US developers back on the job might be a good thing, taking steps to dismantle a government chartered public utility is not. This isn't about the 10 H1-B visas, this is low hanging political fruit that Trump will use to attempt privatization of the TVA.

I got polyfill. Interesting how it stumbles on these things. The definitions are the more interesting parts.

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/polyfill/eyJ3IjogInBv...

Really not a good look right before market open... Especially considering the conditions over the past week.

WSB has some hot takes https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fcczde/robi...