skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US there are PEOs (professional employer organizations) that function as virtual co-employers that allow companies to hire in all 50 states without establishing a physical presence, handles payroll, state taxes, health insurance and benefits in all the states etc.

Something like that, but on a global scale, would be amazing for remote hiring. What unfortunately now seems to happen is that remote foreign employees get classified as contractors (which probably wouldn't stand up to any real scrutiny), which isn't great for either party.
OP here. Also recorded a quick demo of using this from a Mac to edit code on a Linux server.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/419428954
Sorry about the high pitched whine - need to figure out what's wrong with my setup now.
Refer to the company website, cheapest configuration available is $39,500 USD. Not sure what you're on about.
Guess what, they've already started!

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/combatting-vaccine-misi...
I think private platforms could act as the town square as long as we demand that platforms beyond a certain size can't just censor whatever they like. Make protections in section 230 of the communications decency act dependent on providing a platform for free speech if the platform is large.
In the US, there's a great deal of protectionism that really makes it difficult for your average person to start a random electrical business.

You usually need 4+ years of experience as a licensed journeyman. That requires 4-5 years of apprenticeship school and usually 2-3 years as a helper before you will be able to get in. No chance at that "startup" until you're in your 30s usually.

Next, you need a few hundred for the exam. You need thousands in "working capital". Then you need tens of thousands for a bond. Not many people have that kind of money lying around.

Finally, as a final dose of nepotism, you have to be "pre-approved" to take the exam. That means that a few people who already have master's licenses must approve you to become their competitor.
>allowing those views on your platform make you complicit

Every faction since the dawn of history has said that the views of the other factions are objectively harmful. What is it that blesses SV neo-something-or-other as the one true faction that has finally discovered the objective truth?
Ubisoft and Genba to “kill the grey market” with silent key activation
Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Others from Its Services
The reason why OP didn't get accepted into any college is because (assuming OP is a white male) colleges are racist against white & Asian races, and also gynocentric. It's not your fault, OP. If you would have been accepted, you wouldn't have had to desperately design such a website or purchase such a domain name, but because of racism & gynocentrism, this is your life now.
I don't know about that. I've seen first hand, through close acquaintances, where some hedge funds will expend enormous amounts of financial and human capital resources when it comes to legal fights. Especially when it involves current and former employees of said funds that get sideways with founders and partners.

These guys running a lot of these funds didn't get to where they are without really throwing some sharp elbows at times. With the amount of money at stake, and the sheer megalomaniacal attitudes in play between parties, you can bet the drive to get ahead in any dispute will be especially acute.
Ask HN: Has the “Who wants to be hired?” thing worked out for anyone?
Question for who-is-hiring was asked 6 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808063), HN grew a lot since then. Curious if those posting to get hired have success or if you found suitable candiates in the post?
I just read someone talk about job post on linkedin with over a thousand applications. Are people on linked in truly mediocre that not one out of a thousand can fill the position?
> They're dangerous in the same way that, say, anti-vax views are dangerous [3]. The views themselves won't hurt you or hurt me. They're 'just' opinions. However, at some point, allowing those views on your platform make you complicit in promoting pandemics.

Are they? We have plenty of rigourous evidence supporting the dangers of anti-vaxx, but I've seen little data on Yiannopolous or Watson or even Alex Jones causing anything like a comparable social pandemic. Unless you can provide this evidence, your analogy fails.
Not important, but there's horizontal scrolling on your website on Firefox and MacOS :-)
Ah. In any case, you can probably acquire new SMB customers using Facebook ads for a reasonable ROI. Something to think about as your business grows.
I think Farrakhan is a really tough case.

First, he's cartoonishly anti-semitic and has been for years. He's as much of a hate monger as any of the other people who were banned and that's enough reason to ban him.

That given, he has also materially supported vulnerable populations in a way that few organizations have. He has pushed very hard for black people to be proud of their blackness and to create narratives in which blackness is not looked down upon. This is good, needed work.

Members of the black community have spoken about and wrestled with this difficulty. [1][2] I don't think I can add anything other than to agree his situation is more complicated, though I also agree that he should be excluded from the public square as long as he continues to promote hatred.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/nation-...
[2] https://www.theroot.com/a-word-about-louis-farrakhan-and-tam...
Deutsche Bank Report Says Student Loan Debt Is a ‘Micro Problem’
To my recollection, I never changed the install... unless a new google profile login to chrome carries settings from another, previous chrome install for the plugin. Because if I did change the lists, it was literally years ago, and I wouldn't have added an esoteric option.

I only know it didn't render when I came in... disabled uBlock Origin, and it did render.
Just curious, is there any value to making a clone of H&R Block / Intuit and making it open source (with also hosted somewhere)? It probably takes only a weekend for me to do this and I'll be happy to do it if there is significant interest from my fellow HNers.

Besides, fuck Intuit, never been a fan of them for the exact reasons mentioned in the article.
Building Fault-Tolerant MicroServices Using Netflix’s Hystrix
Next: KO
Credit Karma swooped into the game this year and offered free tax return filing.

The software worked well for me and my simple return, and expect it could work well for medium complexity problems as well.

I have no doubt that they will try to monitize in the future, but until they do, this seems like a good deal for consumers
It's on by default, but literally the first thing we ask you, actively, is about giving us feedback and let you turn it off right then. It's not remotely hidden.

I totally understand, though about trust. We've been asking users for feedback for 20+ years, I hope we've shown ourselves to be good actors!

Disclosure: I work at Azure on machine learning
Credit karma lets you file both federal and state for free . CreditKarma's filing service is pretty new, so there are lots of edge cases they don't handle well or at all (for example the UI to enter stock trades is awful). I put my numbers into TurboTax and CreditKarma to make sure they match for validation, then filed with CreditKarma.

You give them a lot of data about you that they then use to sell you insurance and loans and so on, but I actually find their services useful so I consider that a fair trade.
Decorations can't add utility? Does color-coding (tools|parts|areas) count?
I'm suspicious of that figure as you've presented it, but I'm not all that familiar with the trial either.

If it weren't for Android, how many fewer people would be using Chrome as their daily mobile browser? How can we quantify the data slurped up and clicks generated on google.com by those added chrome instances? What about YouTube impressions? How many fewer people would be using Google maps daily? How much less location data would Google possess without living in people's pockets?

How did they measure the value of the Google play services ubiquity?

Have these things plus the app store really only generated 21 billion?
Well, it does say he's "relentless."
I've yet to see a working survey in HN, especially if the group asked is small (people who applied and/or got hired). I asked the question open now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811805), let's see.

From older questions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826312 (and others I can't find right now) it seems companies get good candidates. But the who-wants-to-get-hired and freelancer posts don't get enough contacts, those threads also receive much less upvotes and disappear faster from the frontpage.

Personally I wonder if users realize the who-wants-to-be-hired thread has multiple pages? There's a 'More' link at the bottom because it got over 500 comments.
This is huge. Two letter words are very important in Scrabble for exploiting double use of double/triple letter/word scores. K is a medium-scoring letter so being able to have a two-letter word with it in makes quite a difference.
I haven't used this online spreadsheet, but saw it mentioned in a HN discussion earlier this year: https://sites.google.com/site/excel1040/
> Full disclosure, I did get into two schools in the fall which I am excited to attend.

Oh man, my eyes couldn't possibly be rolling harder back in my head.
Yep - here! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/gd...
For the First Time, Green Power Tops Coal Industry in Energy Production in April
An unfortunately representative sample of the utter nonsense "blockchain consultants" produce.

1. "Blockchain for X" where X is something the client cares about.

2. Blockchain is revolutionary, but blockchain is also complex. See what I did there?

3. I guess not. FOMO! FOMO! FOMO!

4. Gather your stakeholders for a series of working groups where we'll figure out what blockchain can do for you.

5. I refuse to reveal even one problem calling specifically for the magical Blockchain. Nor will I give you one single specific solution made possible by only this new technology in your industry.

These pitches are targeted at people who have long since hung up their spurs for the greener pastures of corner offices.

Funny in a way the first 20 times I saw it, but now this is really getting old.
I think you're fundamentally correct, but with the caveat that trust inside the system can be the basis for trust outside the system via Zahavian signalling and/or escrow. As a simple dumb example, if an institution sends a million dollars to a burn address then I can probably trust that institution to handle half a million dollars in assets at a time without screwing over their customers (if they didn't intend to act fairly and make back that money over time through sustainable business practices they wouldn't have burned it in the first place). It's trickier than that -- you have to consider whether this is a sunk cost in a given context, if all customers are on the same page about what assets the institution is handling, etc. -- but the basic idea is there. Escrow is more clever than a burn pile, but could lead to some weird situations where one side attempts to extort the other for most of the escrow's value, and simply making both sides pony up doesn't obviously solve this (though it goes a long way).
Really any networked or distributed filesystem will struggle to implement mmap semantics well.
Its not that they wouldn't care, its just unintentional blindness to issues that plague young people, likely people of an older age can afford housing while younger people can't and thus is confused what the big fuss is. Or its just for older generations, they are more concerned about older problems or politics from previous times in the 1980s like combatting marijuana or like same-sex marriage while young people have issues stemming that are more relevant to 2000s like internet and social media addiction.
That seems more like some of the early systems for movie sound recording. There's a whole history of clunky synchronized movie sound systems going back to 1918 or so. Optical tracks on film, synchronized disks, magnetic strips on photographic film, sprocket-fed film with a magnetic coat. The movie people needed to edit audio, which involved lots of cutting and pasting and specialized machinery.

IBM also had something called the Magnebelt, an endless belt of tape 4 inches wide used in dictating machines.
NPC detected.
Cheers codr7!

You're project looks great -- you even got channels! Can't wait to go deeper.
> given the reality of self driving cars, can not happen next year even if everything else went positivity for him.

Why is that? They've now got tens if not hundreds of thousands of cars running their FSD tech all the time comparing it to what the driver actually does and using that to get edge cases to add their every growing dataset to test and train their algorithms. The average American has a commute of 16 miles [0] which gives an estimate 13173 miles driven per car by the end of next year. At a low estimate of 10,000 cars, that would give them a subset of driving data for 131,733,333 miles driven. Presumably, they label these interactions with what should have been done and then throw it into a training/test pipeline. The US car fatality rate is just over 1 per 100,000,000 miles driven [1] so they should have a training/test suite multiple times the US car fatality rate and that's not even counting regular crashes. Granted, it won't actually be that large since they don't report back when the car is running fine, but I don't see why it is 100% impossible for them to get their FSD tech to human quality driving in certain conditions (like geofenced and only run during nice weather) at some point next year when they have that much data to work with.

[0]: https://itstillruns.com/far-americans-drive-work-average-744...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
I don't really have a problem with that. If you're making content, and it's valuable, and it's related to a product, that's great. If your content isn't valuable to me, then I won't bother with it.

If you're just getting folks on facebook to promote your products in the hope of some minor dispensation or something (a popular gimic these days). That's easily identifiable and blockable.
How many articles are we going to have on this?
Its OK... Chinese Vampires hop, so we can totally escape them. No big apocalypse.
Oh oh, can you show me your chimera.nix file? I'm having trouble finding a correct incantation how to do that and how to use it in an /etc/configuration.nix for NixOS :(
When you have a terminal illness such as cancer, you're willing to try anything.
Cozmo maker Anki is shutting its doors
That only matters if you think it's possible for the people doing the hiring to be fallible, which...is not a given in this industry.
+1, what a brilliant piece of fiction, thanks!
People like you deserve harm.
Scientists Identify Factors That Make People Naturally Resistant to HIV
The primary download is from OSDN. CNET is just an available mirror.
Thank you, components is what I needed to find!
FWIW, Turbotax/H&R's hiding of their Free File site pages was discussed here about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758126

They have since made their pages discoverable by search engines and have denied that it was intentional obfuscation. But the news in TFA is that apparently someone at (or formerly at) H&R leaked internal documents with explicit guidance:

> “Do not send clients to this Web Site unless they are specifically calling about the Free File program,” the guidance states, referring to the site with the company’s free option. “We want to send users to our paid products before the free product, if at all possible.”

(there's also interviews with former employees recalling meetings)

This is all "news" because Congress is considering a bipartisan tax reform bill that includes a law that would
block the IRS from creating its own official Free File program. Senator Ron Wyden, the bill's co-sponsor, is now having second thoughts [0] and yesterday, NY Gov. Cuomo ordered a state investigation into the tax prep companies [1].

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taxpayer-first-act-free-file_...

[1] https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-calls-depart...

edit: changed "permanently block" to "block"
It also says he's "smart" or something similar I'm sure. Did not read entirely. Blatantly spamming suggests otherwise.
Horoscropes don't have a victim. Stuff like elders of zion portrays jewish people as villains, to real and tangible consequences (did you know anti-semitic hate crimes are up around 300% of the last two years?).
I charge my hybrid for free at a ChargePoint station near my office. My wife likes to charge her electric car at an outlet mall when she goes into town. I don't take my car on long distance trips so I'm not sure if there would be a benefit to the Tesla network for that, but I've never had an issue finding a place to charge.
The first time I tried to quit social media, I was shocked at how I instinctively tried to share every mildly amusing thought. It took hard work to relearn how to let my passing thoughts just vanish without trying to spread them around.
I agree 100%! In fact your comment reminded me of something from nearly 20 years ago. A friend was putting together a startup for some kind of "interactive advertising email" and asked a couple of us if we would find it objectionable if we did a joint promotion with a porn company.

I said that if I worked for a camera company, of course I would know that our products would be used for all sorts of different purposes beyond our control, but if the camera company was doing special partnerships with porn companies I would probably quit.

(For anyone who is thinking "what's wrong with adult porn?" I'm just sharing my feeling from that time. Substitute "child porn traffickers" or "genocidal maniacs" to get an idea of where I was coming from.)
That's wrong in two ways. First, many Android phones, including my Galaxy S7, can use the FM radio via the NextRadio app. Second, iPhones do not have an FM radio.
Smart and wise are not the same thing. It also says he's 17.
Name Convention Project
The antibiotic industry is broken
Why do we need to reinvent Notre-Dame? Why not just rebuild it as it was, accurately matching the original design?
Show HN: QuickAnswer – An AskReddit Alternative
It's available via OSDN.net as well. Available as a .deb for GTK+ and Qt and also a portable file.
Repair is not longevity [video]
Basically any computing device as well since all the processor manufacturers have defense contracts.

Interestingly there is a rendering of what appears to be a Predator drone on the AMD website:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-soluti...
Which ones? I don't see it in manual pages for any of the ones I know about (Free, Net, Open, Dragonfly).
Whenever I got to the gym in my office, if nobody else is there, I just turn the TVs off. So much better that way.
Is that true in your interactions with other people? I have not seen that be the case. The distribution is very different.
despite the number of views and subscribers(1.6 million) he has on YouTube alone.

I'm not saying that far-out views should be banned from the intarwebs, but 0.023% of the world's population sounds pretty fringe to me.

Heck, it's only 0.4% of the United States. Not even a rounding error.
For better or worse, here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/gd...

However, if you don't trust us (and I get it!) Your best bet is just to opt out which you can do at any time, including during install.

Disclosure: I work at AZure on machine learning but not VS Code
Hmm, I took the parent to be implying that capital is the main ingredient in innovation. It sounds like you are saying something different.

Capital is necessary but not sufficient for innovation.
Thinking in Web Components
Thanks! How about the multi-user story for non-OS Guix?

Also, can you share some links to third-party non-libre package sets/channels, or some place where I can find them to see what's available?

Edit: As to kernel: are you using Hurd, or Linux? Or any one of them can be chosen? If it's choosable, I imagine L4Linux should not be that hard. Edit 2: I see there was some work being done on this: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/tags/gnuhurd/ but last news seems to be from Feb 2017. Did the work get integrated into trunk, or did it bitrot in an old branch? Edit 3: Found some info: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-04/msg0023... IIUC, not very stable (missing some Shepherd stuff?), but at least the work seems upstreamed (?)
If you just look at the time between 2000-2007, the first half of Ballmer’s tenure. The stock wasn’t doing well, but revenues were steadily increasing. During this time:

- Apple was still on PowerPC processors until 2006 and weren’t really any threat to Microsoft.

- GSuite didn’t even launch until 2006 and even today, it’s really not that much competition to MS Office. It has less than a tenth of the revenue and only a few Fortune 500 companies (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-gsuite-idUSKBN1F...)

- The iPhone didn’t come out until 2007 and really didn’t start gaining market share until 2010. Even today, Google’s “winning” with Android has only netted it less than $30 billion in profit since inception (https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...)

- Microsoft adding WSL only matters to a few techies.

- Even the Nokia acquisition happened later during his tenure.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367680
When I read "reverse college application" my first thought was of an application the college had to make to have the honor of the student's matriculation. Maybe they'd be accepted. Maybe they'd feel the sting of rejection, and they (in the form of their deans and presidents and regents or whatever) would start to question their own worth. Seemed like a cool idea, so I was rather disappointed to find that it was something else entirely.