skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a small company in the US and hire internationally. There really is no easy way other than hiring as a contractor unless I have a subsidiary or branch in your country of residence. So the only option is either you are hired as a contractor legally (and then you fill out W8-BEN) or there are services like remote.com that offer something called Employer of Record (EOR). HOnestly, I didn't get far with remote.com when I approached them recently (no response really) so I only hire as a contractor with exception of 1 country where I have multiple people so we actually did setup a subsidiary (a nightmare process)

Lot of people are making assumptions here saying it is in bad faith etc. I don't know the other company but most likely they cannot do anything else. So the option is either NOT to hire you or hire you as a contractor. Benefits cannot be provided to you legally so you will need to work out a deal built in the cost. That is all you can do really.

Some people are saying that equity can still be offered. Well that depends. If the US company is setup as an S-Corp, guess what. You cannot get equity in an S-Corp unless you are a US Citizen or a Legal Permanent Resident (popularly known as Green Card). So again, ask the company if they are structured as S-Corp or not. If they are, tough luck with equity.

I just hired a senior VP of customer success from the UK and they are on a contract as well. I am still trying to see what is possible.
Strong BS smell on the basis of this manifestly false statement:

The vaccines are reducing transmission only for about eight weeks for Delta, with Omicron it's probably less.
Was this hijacking the browser's back button for anyone else? Not a fan of not being able to press back to go to the previous page. The site is neat though.
Another commenter mentioned that due to recent rising gas prices, it's become very profitable for smugglers to transport LPG across the border to Kyrgyzstan and China, selling for up to 3x the price (buy at subsidized Kazakh prices, sell at market rate). This black market is so profitable for the usually low-income Kazakhs, that organized crime has sprung up around it (a la Al Capone). The government decreased the subsidies due to this discrepancy, and organized crime around Almaty is the one encouraging and enflaming the protests to ensure their profitable smuggling.
Electrolytic production is significantly more expensive, but it isn't 10x or anything like that. Certainly not lifestyle altering. As a practical engineering matter, you'd want to use base load power for this, so it would have to be nuclear, which is why it will not happen in the foreseeable future.

Ammonia is a highly fungible global commodity, and is commonly a means for countries with large natural gas resources to produce an easily transportable value-add product from excess natural gas. None of those countries are going to produce electrolytic ammonia because consuming natural gas is the entire point! If it wasn't being turned into ammonia, much of it would ended being vented to the atmosphere or burned off. While it doesn't look like it in isolation, a lot of industrial chemistry is actually reprocessing and finding value in the waste products of other industrial processes.

The US currently produces ~10% of the global total, but we used to import ammonia like everyone else until a glut of domestic natural gas made it cost-effective to produce our own (again, a way to consume excess natural gas). Ammonia is feedstock for a ton of cost-sensitive industrial chemistry, not just fertilizer, so costs will show up in places people might not expect.
If you've ever dealt with public departments, you'd know that the vast majority of those they employ would be pencil pushers and meetware.
There's a decidedly cheesy B movie call The Travelling Salesman about a crew of computer scientists who prove P=NP and sit around a conference table trying to decide what to do with the proof. It's fairly accurate without ever actually trying to posit what the proof looks like.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1801123/
Yes. PC DOS 7.1 was the last version, i.e. it continued development in parallel with MS-DOS. The whole history can be found here [1]. All versions including their amazing (they're really good) manuals are available on WinWorld [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS

2. https://winworldpc.com/product/pc-dos/1x
BMW debuts its new color-changing paint technology at CES
I don't use the mouse much, but yes, certainly in my Alacritty/tmux terminal, the mouse selects, moves pane boundaries etc. I've never actually tried a multi-cursor, I have a feeling it might suffer the same fate as the auto cursor positioning you get from snippet completion. But that specific bug I've fixed locally
This is starting to sound like that debate between Dennett and Chomsky about whether recursion is a universal feature of languages. Linguistics is a strange field.
Sure, one of them would have figured it out. But then they would spend the next year trying to get managers to listen and would eventually quit out of frustration.

Counterfactuals are fun!
If there are no rental trucks in CA, doesn’t that mean all trucks are gone from CA to other states?
Rat poison can most certainly kill a dog, and at lower doses still cause severe symptoms like seizures and paralysis. For many dogs even just a few milligrams of rat poison can be fatal.
I'd rather that than a computer hemming and hawing over whether a single pixel is an oncoming truck and not turning just in case.
While this is true, life at all costs is NOT always the best answer, and begging someone to hold on when they're ready for death is incredibly tragic and a little selfish on the part of the family IMO.

My grandpa has been clinging to life for the past couple of years for the benefit of his son despite the fact that he clearly doesn't fully exist on this plane anymore, and it's hard for me to watch. When I'm his age, I hope I'm surrounded by people that understand me enough to let me go when the time comes.
> Now that SB9 is in effect, shouldn't the ability to split a lot and build on it be priced in to the price of the original lot?

Once the market has a consensus.on what the change is, sure; it's fairly speculative what it will be, though; it's not like homes are a fixed price per housing unit and, because who can afford to live nearby also affects value in a positive feedback way (because people pay a premium to not live near poorer people), the relation is not simple or easily predictable.
> it’s unknown that they will add that sum to my salary.

Well, if they didn't, you could just change jobs. The old benefit of working for an employer that paid all of your premium would be gone, so that wouldn't be a reason to stick with them.
You make several good points, but this whole "what can civilians with pew-pew weapons do against a modern army?" argument has been put to bed in actual combat now. See Vietnam and Afghanistan for humbling examples. Not to say it wouldn't be bloody, but victory is not assured by the technologically superior force, apparently.
My perception of Akroyd's character completely changed after hearing some of his recent podcast interviews when he was peddling his vodka brand.

Either he's a conspiracy theory nut irl, or he still hasn't broken character since filming Sneakers.
I think 6000 sq ft is the lot size.
I did used to have a diesel Winnebago, and did pump my own gas. It's the sort of loophole that causes the whole scheme to seem non-sensiscal.
From the abstract:

> We find tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Our results therefore provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy.

I'd be interested in hearing from those who consider this a surprising result. To me it seems entirely expected, but with online echo-chambers being what they are I have no doubt my lack of surprise could just mean I'm in an informational cul-de-sac.
That's not ridiculous, that's literally ancient history ongoing. Those early human tribes that managed to keep a fire going forever are us, today. Still living theoretically forever, as long as the water and fire (and the amazing combination thereof, hot water) keep on going.
Precious metals is 3.77% of Bitpay volume. Which part exactly is bullshit? I'm quoting their site.
2022: The Year of Web 3.0 – Tokens, Trends and Opportunities – Report
I love when I'm searching the web for something (in this case, I was searching for "DIY loop antennas" which took me to http://makearadio.com/loops/index.php) and I come across an old-school web site. No ads. No seo. No bullshit. Just someone's passion for a subject, beautifully presented.

The web was better when it looked like this. And lo and behold, Dave has a portfolio of sites:

http://1n34a.com/websites/

His FAQ is also pure gold, filled with dad and geek/techie jokes, while remaining informative:

http://makearadio.com/faq.php
My First Impressions of Web3
The big secret of history is that there was far more mixing between disparate cultures than is currently let on. There are many reasons that this is not widely accepted into the historical cannon, the main one being that some cultures most esteemed figures and events were catalyzed or can be completely attributed to another group of people/culture.

General examples being, some sea faring civilization A far in the past sailed 2000 miles, mixed with some other civilization B, which catalyzed notable events there, which are now attributed to that civilizations B greatness. In schools the children are taught of those events, but evidence supporting a root in civilization A is suppressed or even destroyed.
In a traditional definition of "algorithm", maybe.

But think about a machine learning model or a neural network. The kind of breakthrough that will break RSA might not be describable in a research paper (sure, the science would be, but the science for neural networks took decades before it was able to be applied practically)
The only argument is need is that this offer isn't equivalent to the verbal offer and if they want you, they'll make you whole either by honoring the verbal offer or upping the $$$ to match whatever it is you ask for.

If you're willing to walk away, that's all you can do.

If you're not willing to walk away, ask for more money or accept the contract.
The actual law is a bit more complicated than that. California is unusually aggressive about tax enforcement compared to the IRS and most other states, but if you're for example working for a California-based FAANG in Austin, you're probably not paying CA tax.

(This is not tax advice, I'm not a tax advisor, etc.)
Yes you can buy low tech cars. Dacia is popular for example.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/0d8705c82c64df...

STOP!
This folder contains the legacy Keras code which is stale and about to be deleted. The current Keras code lives in github/keras-team/keras.

Please do not use the code from this folder.

Yeah, not the most obvious notice.

The fact they didn't find the same mistake(s) in keras-team/keras (I assume they scanned, it's one of the most popular Python repo) makes me believe these issues have been fixed/removed in up-to-date karas repo.
Have each speaker transmit a little packet with a timestamp 10 times per second to each other. Or relative to some designated central point. Each speaker will have an internal clock but use the central clock tick to keep exactly synchronized.

Having synchronized their timestamps, the central hub transmits a specific time for playback to begin. At this point you need to make sure that there isn't any unexpected buffering going on, output buffers have to be tiny/realtime or the process of sending signal out has to be again synced to the clock, which means you need control over the firmware/drivers. Worst case you might have to skip or repeat a couple samples once in a while to keep synced up which in a 44000 samples per second signal is not a big deal.

You need a big enough input buffer to play a few seconds of audio, just to be safe, but the output buffer has to be realtime.

That's pretty much how I'd do it, off the top of my head.
There's an OpenShift version themed as a Wild West gallery style shooter game as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFoeq16ojU4
https://github.com/openshift-evangelists/Wild-West-Spawner
Yep; I knew a few small businesses where an employee got cancer or whatever and their insurance company let them know that their plan would become significantly more expensive and "hinted" that, to avoid this, maybe the employee in question could be fired for some reason...
Maybe they’re using “exponential” metaphorically to mean “a lot”. But if they’re using “exponential” literally, then maybe the exponent is 1.03.
I mean. I guess I'm glad someone is out there actually looking at the data. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it's not going to actually sway anyone.
It's honestly a breath of fresh air. I wish Apple made it easier for developers to adopt this business model instead of having to choose between an unsustainable one-time purchase and an unpalatable rent-forever subscription.

I wonder how much work went into building the framework to enable a "subscription to new features" on iOS. Perhaps it's even something the developer might be interested in open-sourcing so more developers can go this route?
Technically Intel actually did the things Linus asked for and did AVX-512 as well (on the server at least): The Golden Cove cores are extremely wide and brought a big single thread performance boost.
Techies love it for the accuracy but it's also just a really fun, high quality movie with an all-star cast. Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier are worth the price of admission if the movie was about typewriter.
TL;DR: Google used to reach into the World Wide Web and deliver what I asked for, now it sells me what it has on hand in its stockroom.

If I type terms that map unambiguously to a result into 1998-201x Google, I get a well-regarded exemplar of that result as the first result, followed by less-trafficked exemplars of the same result, followed by things that are related to the result, followed finally by irrelevant results. It was so consistently good that I took it for granted for 15-20 years.

If I do the same today, most of the time I get no relevant results on the first two pages. I get fresh results from popular or well-funded sources that happen to have a few of the search words, but are otherwise 100% irrelevant. It's like asking a shopkeeper for an orange, and they say "You're in luck! I bought way too much orange paint so I have tons of that in inventory. What do you say? Eh?"

I always want the former. I never want the latter. I don't know how I can be any plainer. If that isn't specific enough for a would-be contender, then frankly that company doesn't belong in this space at all. If you think I'm looking at the past through rose-tinted lenses - that's fine, that's what they all say - but your search engine is still going to fail.
> The real solution would be for Intel to detect the presence of AVX-512 instructions then automatically and unconditionally pin the thread to the big cores.

Wouldn't it be entirely up to the OS to decide on what core(s) a thread will run?
How do you guys ensure the character of a neighbourhood remains in tact? That's the only thing I see wrong when people do this. Banging up a cheap white/grey box that just looks so incongruous with all of the older surrounding homes.
World is not fair. People expect it to be. That expectation seriously harms them in nearly all instances.

Listen to criticism, extract from it anything that you think might guide you to any sort of improvement. Ignore the rest of it as if in was never uttered. Don't dwell on where it came from and never think about whether it was just or unjust. It doesn't matter.

Don't develop any emotional relationship with your bosses and your place of work. You are there only to earn money and learn things. If those two things happen everything is as good as it needs to be. Disassociate yourself from any drama even if it is about you. Value of your work is increase in your bank account balance and new things you can put in your CV. Your work has no value beyond that.

Work is not a place to make respectful friends. Especially among your superiors.
>this information.

what information...exactly what information?

if I file a FOIA request for the presidents tax return and it gets denied for a legal exemption is that the government hiding something?

There is a FOIA process, there are things that are exempt from disclosure - that is part of the law as well.

FDA follows a process, outlined here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/023-FDA-Appendi... (page 5+)

In reality, the plaintiffs are the ones slowing the process of releasing this information down by being unreasonable. it means FDA is reviewing and denying OBVIOUSLY privileged or exempt documents that the group only asked for to then waive about the number of documents that the FDA 'wOuLdN't DiScLoSe'.

If you are playing quantitative games with FOIA request document numbers you are acting in bad faith. When you are trying to scope as many exempt documents as possible into your request so you can later use that number to push your narrative, you are acting in bad faith. Because when you aren't interested in the content of the documents, nothing you are doing has anything to do with serious efforts at transparency.
Most California income tax returns are AGI 47k or less[2], which we can round up to the top of that (6% marginal!) bracket: 48k. This next bracket, which probably starts at the 51 or 52%ile, is taxed by CA at "$1,672.87 plus 8% of the amount over $48,435."[1], which is about 3.45% actual state tax rate.

The 9.3% marginal bracket stretches from 61k-313k. (260k is the 95%ile for CA tax returns, so minor-increase brackets above this one don't matter all that much)
10.3% is 313k-375k.
11.3% is 375k-625k. (99%ile is 680k)

At 61k, at the end of the 8% bracket, the real tax rate is still just 4.40%.
At 100k, 6.30% actual.
At 150k, 7.30% actual.
At 313k, 8.32% actual.
At 375k, 8.67% actual.
At 625k, still only 9.72% actual tax rate.
We finally cross 10% actual at about $702k AGI.

It's really, really important to keep in mind how much marginal rates mess with calculations, particularly when estimating.

Also, Californians are statistically much poorer than people often expect, especially around here.

[1]: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/california-state-ta...
[2]: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-adjusted-gross-...
and funnel money away from crop subsidies?
For the most part I consider myself super lucky in the sleep department. I go to bed roughly the same time every night, fall asleep within about 15 minutes of turning out the lights, and usually get about 7-8 hours of sleep.

Sometimes I'll wake up to use the bathroom, and lately I've been waking up for a few minutes at 3 am every morning, which is weird, but I always get back to sleep easily after the odd wakeup. Waking up is harder in the winter when sunrise is later and I need to get up in the dark, but it's not a major issue.

A poor night of sleep for me is either one where I wake up more than a couple times (usually because I overdid it at the gym and I'm crampy/sore, or because my apartment is unusually cold), or any time I get less than 6.5 hours of sleep.

I don't do anything special, just follow all the usual boring sleep advice: I don't lay on my bed unless I'm going to sleep (mostly), I go to bed and wake up at the same time most days, and have a set routine when I wake up. I exercise daily for 30-60 minutes, don't drink coffee after noon, and if I'm drinking alcohol, stop drinking a few hours before I'm going to sleep.

[Edit: I should add that when I was younger, I could drink coffee or alcohol at any time of night and still sleep well. That has changed as I've gotten older]
an unsurprising find, considering its birthright was US president Ronald Reagan who had invented it out of whole-cloth to evangelize and tantalize neoliberal reforms during his presidency.

It strikes me as fascinating that so many of these reforms, once touted as essential and prudent, have over two or more decades proven to be outright political grifting.
I don't think this is surprising either. The whole "trickle-down economics" arguments for such tax cuts have always sounded... bullshit (for lack of a better word), exacerbated by the fact that decades of it (since the Reagan era in the US, for example) has only served to make the rich richer, poor poorer and erode the middle class completely. If it was a brilliant idea (i.e. the idea that the the only thing holding back the rich from elevating everyone else from poverty were those pesky low 10s of percent taxes) that worked, everyone would've been favor of it and we would've eliminated taxes for the rich completely by now.

It's always good to have scientific data and analysis confirm your intuition, though.
Question I'm asking in good faith: will this proof have any consequence for the bottom 99.99%? Is there a way this research helps shape policy?
Forward vs. Reverse Engineering
Ah, Operation Paperclip, and in Germany of all places!

(spoiler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip)
Yes, the pumps that automatically stop at a pre-set amount of money are newer. They aren't very common, but in some more rural areas of the US, I have come across the old style pumps that do not stop automatically and the attendant is just reading the value off of the pump to settle up. You can pay with a card at most of these places these days, but it is still paying a preset amount and then a sale and/or refund afterwards.
So there’s still lots of space then!
As an insider - what are the steps a reputation company takes to “clean” someone’s reputation?

Anything beyond new publications to replace undesirable old ones, SEO, social media posts?
I agree that it's important to include the complete model of fossil fuels in agricultural production, which is in the paper Enginerrd was citing (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29842158). It turns out that even when you do that the number is still pretty low; most of the energy is used to make ammonia.

You might want to put a blank line between your list items so they don't come out as a single paragraph and/or format them with ·, •, or ●.

I think the urea price spike is due to a temporary collapse in natural gas production, which is indeed one of the first overall effects of reduced excess production capacity in natural gas, or shippable natural gas anyway. I don't think an overall fossil fuel shortage would slow renewable growth, though; it increases the returns to renewable generation, and renewables production is one of the sectors of the economy least dependent on fossil fuels.

I think an overall fossil fuel shortage is unlikely because coal reserves are still enormous and interconversion of different kinds of fossil fuels is lossy.
Update: In Kazakhstan internet has been cut for some 60 hours
That's really too bad, as there was interesting material in there otherwise.

It's really important to avoid anything that feels to readers like a bait-and-switch. It's ok to write about / include your own startup in a post, but you should be really explicit about it and you should do it up front, because readers feel misled if they encounter it later.

I have some notes that I send to startups who are trying to write for HN, explaining various pitfalls including this one. If the OP or anyone else wants a copy, email hn@ycombinator.com and I'll send it.
Sure, tax cuts haven't work yet, but that's because they're still too high!! One more should do it.
From earlier in the article, the total number of requested pages is 450,000. At 8 minutes per page, it's 60k man-hours, or 30 man-years, of work.
For people that just skimmed over MarcellusDrum's comment and didn't find the relevant info:

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