skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outsourcing can be used to mean offshoring: physically moving part of the business to a distant country, but there could still be a physical office, just (for example) in Delhi instead of San Francisco. Alternatively it can mean delegating the work to a different company, often employing cheap engineers in a foreign country.

Meanwhile remote work means having the worker not need to come into the office at all - each employee can theoretically be anywhere in the world, whether that be in the midwest or in Eastern Europe.
Privacy is not the same as free speech - the thoughts are still yours but can be monitored if there is a threat to public safety as judged by our judicial system (which by all means should be continuously improved). Most individual rights are not absolute - we can be detained if suspected of having a dangerous disease, we're not allowed to shout "there's a bomb!", we can be followed & our homes searched if we're suspected of criminality by a judge, our children can be taken away if we severely neglect our responsibilities to them, etc...
Somehow I don't have a problem with the touchpad while typing, I guess different people hold their hands while typing in different ways.
can you transfer tens of thousands without any ID like bitcoin?
That's a bold statement. What's your reason to make it?
Don’t think the external keyboards have anywhere near the same keys. At least the magic keyboard 2 doesn’t. They have a bit more travel, and while not really mechanical they’re satisfactory for daily use.
Before CMake the "proper" thing were ./configure and ./automake scripts which are an atrocity from any point of view.

More than "proper", or simply "nice looking syntax" the thing I like from CMake is that a single file makes my project compile in several versions of Linux and Windows using a variety of compilers.

Any suitable replacement system should also do this.
Thanks - I found the ability to offer additional services (and to make it known to my clients) made sure I got paid for things they ended up asking for anyway as I could refer them back to the page :).
Furthermore. I own a lightweight ultrabook with nVidia and it helped me a lot to train prototypes of neural networks on GPU, 10x or even more faster and CPU is free for usual work.
> Reporters don't generally write one-sided opinion pieces like this.

First, they do, and they do it often. Second, it's not just a personal biased opinion without any factual basis.
I use Remarkable (https://remarkable.com/) and it's been quite good. I have heard the Sony one is also okay.
Just my 2 cents: I have an Indian friend whose dad owns a college. When Demonetization happened, his dad asked all of his students to take cash and deposit into their account, and afterwards transfer into his account. To incentivise them he told them they would get a discount on college fees(off the books, ofc) for each cash deposit. Students were lining up all day for weeks to make deposits, many even got a lot of family members as well.

Another friend's family opened a luxury car dealership overnight, buying cars wholesale from legitimate car dealers who could then pass off any income as legitimate.

I'm very skeptical when anyone says black money was affected significantly by Demonetization.
As fsloth says below, JMS knew every plot point from day 1 and had trap doors for every character. If an actor's contract fell through after 2 seasons, they didn't have some emergency, they enacted the back up plan (Talia being replaced with Lyta). The shows lead had mental health issues and was also replaced after season 1 with some later cameos. It seemed like it was obviously meant that way. Even the super fans didn't know until recently when the actor died.

Yes B5 had some painful filler episodes and the acting was both amazing (G'Kar, Londo, Delenn) and at times bad, but overall the show is the one show that has stayed with me since Kindergarten. Just like TNG episodes (the drumhead and measure of a man) served as mini courses in morals, ethics, and philosophy for kids, Babylon 5 was the same, but more memorable to me as the arc was 5 seasons, two spinoffs, and like 5 TV movies. I learned all about politics, facism, standing up for what's right, leadership, really cool spaceships, the impact of discrimination, and diplomacy (kind of :)). A great show to watch at an impressionable age.
The 2x Ethernet is a little quirky in implementation: Internally, the CPU only has one ethernet MAC, which is connected to a switch on the same die. In practice, linux sees two ethernet ports, but this is implemented by VLAN tagging on the internal switch. So if you think you have two actual ports and want to interact with VLANs, you're gonna have a bad time.
The devs who are working on the compiler. Not the end user.
Boost.Build is so good that even Boost is moving to CMake
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>I’ve never fired anyone in my entire career in the EU

You are simply an exception. Typical "Survivor-ship bias".

Millions of people in Europe are hired and fired every single day.
If you pick up all the plastic on the beach and put it into either general waste or plastic recycling bins, what percentage will actually end up back in the sea or in open landfill somewhere?
(me and my team) wrote an entire private label system on this ( and perl ) by early 2000´s; on pgsql 6, if i recall correctly.
It was ( at that time ) a very good option, to avoid the Oracle's pl/sql ( version 8.1.5 ) that would be needed for the reporting tasks.
Didn´t write much of pl/pgsql since...
You're right! It should be possible! We certainly have the ability to collaborate on code over networks and video links.

Is it possible that there might be some complexity to this beyond boring old corporate inertia? As you so correctly say, there are talented people hungry for work everywhere.
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I find it OK to type with. Not absolutely terrible like the keyboards in the high school computer labs, and not great like <insert mechanical keyboard here> (I've never used a mechanical keyboard).

The main annoyance I have with it is that it's incredibly loud to type on when in meeting rooms, which is the only time I really use it (I have a full size Apple m=Magic Keyboard I use at my desk). It's obnoxious, especially if you're not using an external mic.
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> And let's not pretend saying words is the equivalent of murder or that what happened to either Barr or Gunn is the equivalent of the punishment faced by murderers.

No, the point of the example was to illustrate that justice is not temporally dependent.

While I agree and disagree with some of your points, I'm short on time, so I'll just focus on my main point which you seem to have missed:

If you encourage mob justice, you deserve mob justice. A mob is not open to nuanced moral reasoning. Gunn was fully supportive of mob justice for those with whom he disagreed. Gunn therefore deserves the same treatment, and he got it.
> found M4 to be really nice once you get past the bad documentation

The gnu m4 manual is one of my favourite technical documents, what's wrong with it?
The way I see many devs on Emacs and vim doing development is hardly any different than when I got to university in early 90's.

They might be using a modern laptop, but their screen is hardly different from those beige UNIX terminals with green phosphor screen and VT100 keyboard that I had to use the first couple of semesters.
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The photosphere is no more well defined unless you specify a particular wavelength, or you admit defeat and accept averages as perfectly fine physical properties.
You can get pretty fantastic latencies on stock linux with some tuning, with the kind of processors embedded linux runs on you only really gain some microseconds by going to realtime variants. The main reason to prefer a true RTOS is because it will generally be simpler, and thus a bit more predictable and reliable in its behaviour, which is important for high-reliability systems.
Dell XPS 13 is my primary choice for last 5 years (I had 2 work laptops from this product line and still own a model from 2015). The only bug in it is a nosecam.
Honestly after a week with the new keyboards you get used to them and you don't notice them. If you're coming from a mechanical keyboard or deep-travel keyboard, it feels horrifically shallow at first, but after some time with it you cease to notice or even care. And this is what I think Apple is betting on.

If you found the 2014 MacBook Pros enjoyable, I think you'll be even happier with these. I certainly am.
They already do. To open an account, you need to present your identity card, which they photocopy (both sides) for their files. Visible on the back of the identity card is your fingerprint.
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I agree with your second paragraph that any concept of uploading is inherently squishy as we don't even understand the problem domain well enough to show how to do such a project.

As far as colony ships go, I think it would be hard to feed people for a couple of centuries, keep the systems running, and keep the passengers from going insane. It would have to be very big for even a few people in my mind for the agricultural requirements.
In general, I would agree.

I'm sure there are cases where Promises are still superior, but I think our brains work easier in the x = y sort of notation.
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Agreed, spent time last year on a project fusing lidar and rotating LWIR (thermal) with some smart people and calibration took significant effort, mechanically, in electronic timing, and in algorithmic fusing. This looks like a nice step forward.
"Undesirable" and "come at the cost of a lot of human life" is technically correct, but is also a pretty sterile description, that doesn't communicate the full picture.

The worst-case scenario is a collapse of civilization, which - with or without wars - means mass starvation (if you live in a large city, you'll die in the first week). Your grandchildren - or more likely, someone else's grandchildren - will be living in Mad Max hellscape, desperately trying to stave off reverting to pre-industrial levels of life and technology.

(And with all the easily accessible energy sources already mined out and gone, I suspect the next industrial revolution won't be possible for many, many millennia.)
It's the product of whipping together some basic examples for proof of concept in a few weeks. :)

To some degree it will always be "messier". 30-60% of generated code will just be converting between C++ and V8 types.

But really, I just need to prioritize using more tmp values so I'm not shoving crazy amounts of logic in one line.

It can definitely be difficult to debug. Things would be easier if I were generating C++ ASTs and pretty-printing it (I should probably do this in the future) but for the PoC I'm just emitting strings of C++.

Chicken Scheme's generated C is more along the lines of what I'm aspiring to.
Having had a quick look at our street, there is a lamp-post for about every 10 cars.
While this is possibly true, I think we should not discount the fact that a lot of prescribed reading (in schools) is not age appropriate literature. If I had read 1984 or 'Lord of the Flies' during my schooldays I would not have been able to appreciate it. I read a lot in that period and I loved to read (and still do) but I seldom liked reading what was prescribed as part of the curriculum - with the sole exception of 'Robin Hood'. It was an 'abridged' version and I read it so many times because I was thoroughly entertained by the story.
What technology do we need that we’re currently lacking? We already have fiber broadband and decent VR.

If it’s just a case of the future being unevenly distributed, where in the world is an example of the distributed future? It’s certainly not the Bay Area, for a start.
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Makes sense if the economics of living in the city make the point that IoT will make cities obsolete moot.
As long as they can recharge in under 10 minutes, I'm happy.
I live in Austria and I know two fields were men voice their concerns: nursing and kindergarden teachers / daycare.
That presumes he wasn't sufficiently punished earlier.

Also, in what manner is ABC a mob? ABC took no time at all firing Barr.
Similar experience, started coding around 1986 with a Timex 2068.

We had Input magazine, the Capital's newspaper computer section on Friday, Crash and from our neighbors Microhobby, which helped to improve my Spanish as well. :)
Kinda like the Mr. Trash Wheel in Baltimore?

http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/
I think it's a generalization to say that tech can't bridge distances and improve rural development.

Our apps to communicate are run by corporations, and despite what their marketing says, are not built to connect us.

Rural economic developers are usually out of touch with the possibilities of tech, and rely on old economic development methods like how to get an Applebee's in town.

Despite the articles claim that people move to cities for face to face interaction, people report elevated levels of loneliness in our urban tech paradise.

I think it's a lot of features contributing to slow rural development, and as a society we aren't using them as productively as possible.
Nice work. Unfortunately adaption by browsers will probably take a few years, if you consider that WebKit still has a broken Masking implementation, fifteen years after the spec was released. Anyway, keep up the great work.
So embarrassed that I didn’t pick up on that the first time. I assumed they were kidding sometimes but not the whole thing.
> Do you think Temple OS will have a future

No.
This sounds suspicious. All these transactions are traceable now and it should be much easier for the income tax department to find out. No one in hier right mind would have so many people send money to their bank accounts like this.
Undesirable is here merely a mild manner of saying: "you and your family in are extremely likely to suffer devastating climate related loss of life and property damage".
Doesn't Netherlands publish national classification of university quality, thus allowing a better selection where to apply for?
> the trackpad is a really great idea on paper

I guess you meant "Touch Bar"
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> What goes on in peoples minds to believe in these things?

Anecdotally, RE is by far one of the largest destinations of black money. A friend is still unable to sell his flat 'coz he doesn't want to accept cash. Another has had to bring down the price from ~2Cr to ~1.7Cr, still no takers for the same reason.

Sure, all those measures (PAN etc.,) exist but so do enough loop holes. One common practice is to register the property at a super low (almost nominal) price compared to actual transaction amount. This is what I as a common person know. I'm sure those involved in daily RE dealings have more tricks up their sleeves.

So yeah, it's clearly not fictional.
I remember the Oric1. I used to hang out in the local computer shop, reading all the manuals.

Dragon, Oric, Commodore, Amstrad, Sinclair and BBC.

I already had a Sinclair ZX81.

The article really captured the exploration and discovery of that era.

On a more amusing note, my mate wrote a utility which we put on a floppy disc. We would go to shops and boot it, and it would copy all the roms. Good times.
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It sounds exactly like a dictatorship. A prime minister with little to no economic knowledge (heck he doesn't even have an undergraduate degree) making a far reaching policy decision on the advice of a charlatan economist along with a few cronies, while keeping the MIT educated central bank chief in the dark.
That's true and it's well documented. I think E.T. Jaynes gives a poigntent reflection in his Theory of Probability.
Do understand that things change over time, from simple beginnings to complex offspring.
But I agree with many commenters here; it is frustrating and a ball-ache to have to learn yet another syntax to manage build dependencies and instructions.
On that, I also detest how YAML, Python and so on make space indentation a core aspect of how the files are interpreted and processed. That idea stinks. imvho.
And an ESP32 is already at the level of a PCW 1512, just more powerful.
<spoiler> Stanley Kim Robinson has very colorful description of space elevator falling on Mars. Basically it should loop around the planet accelerating during the fall, likely supersonic in the end and flatten everything in its path.
Do many developers actually use laptop keyboards for coding? From what I've observed, most have a real keyboard on their desks and only use the laptop keyboard in meetings and such.
It really baffles me how that is the case (I understand the tongue in cheek). I have been working remotely for just shy of 10 years. That capability was a primary reason for going into programming in the first place.

I find it so old fashioned how by default, they expect me to stand in the rain for 2 hours a day to travel to the centre of a city to sit at a desk and log into the internet for 38 out of 40 hours a week.

That is a real life equivalent of a code smell.
I remember seeing those DIY kits on electronic stores.
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There is a clever solution to this from a bank in Slovakia (Tatrabanka), you can use their mobile banking application to generate a one-time numerical code for the withdrawal. So you can just generate the code and enter it on any ATM that is owned by this bank. You don't need to have the card with you (and you can forward this code to your wife for example). Also 100% of cards in Europe are also protected by PIN, so simple skimmers won't work.
>The CIA fights dirty and definitly will fight TempleOS.

The glow in the darks man, they're up to something
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Read the comments to the article on medium.
Anyone doing iOS app development effectively has no other choice.
Shouldn't it deflate the cost? If the seller had to pay 10 lakhs extra in tax, he would sell it for 100 lakhs instead of 90.
Well, you can take a gun and shoot schoolchildren and in the US and it will demonstrably not be a big deal in less than about two weeks. But I don't see that as a good argument in favour of ignoring school shootings.
Because yeah, there ~aren’t any~ actually is tons of comparable USB-C cables with the same breakaway mechanism as MagSafe.
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I read that too.
One mystery: How did he make income off it?
To everyone hating on the TouchBar - as you should - seriously consider the entry level MBP and just max out the specs. Voila, physical Esc and F keys. Adios idiotic touch strip.

Only downside is that only 13”es are sold this way.
Those are the sales of the first Touch Bar MBP that the loud minority ranted about from the moment it was rumored. Apple's "reputation" has been getting "exposed" since the iPhone 6's BendGate, and before that the iPhone 4's AntennaGate, and since long before that:

https://www.macrumors.com/2001/10/23/apples-new-thing-ipod/

The more things change... :)
I don't think there is any complexity as such. It is mostly just that power centralizes. This is hard to argue though since so many people an incentive to believe otherwise. But ask yourself if there is any concrete indication that e.g. the Internet has lead to decentralization? People used to say that companies were too centralized compared to co-operatives. That companies were "one dollar, one vote" instead of "one person, one vote". Today with different class shares most tech companies aren't even "one dollar, one vote". Everything is going the other way.
I think it's the only deal. It's obviously not the planet that we should be protecting, as it'll be fine here with or without us. It's not also the habitability that we should worry about, because it would be really, really hard to damage the world to such an extent all humans would go extinct.

The thing that matters is keeping our current technological civilization together. If it collapses, it'll undo all the things humanity has achieved, and will prevent the next couple hundred generations from achieving them again. All the advancements in our understanding of the universe, our capabilities, our quality of life - and all the hopes of further advances, ending aging, leaving Earth - poof, gone, not coming back in a while.

(Yes, I'm of a view that there's little difference between humanity 500 years ago and 5000 years ago; everything that's interesting started happening with the printing press and industrial revolution.)
You could put it into airplane mode before putting it into the airplane mode?