skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO that’s a solvable problem by just having sane remote policies.

The last company I worked for was basically “remote only if there was no other way” but the office policy was “if you need to be out for family events, doctors appointments, kids things at school, etc it’s totally fine”

And it was great.
>When this "rich randians" make the technology for living and working in a floating city cheap, they not only will get what they want but also will make it possible for "brave marxians" to try out their ideas too, and maybe they'll finally will build the society that will show to everyone that high taxes and planned economy are the best things.

I'm looking forward to an union of floating egoists, equipped with fancy glasses, a gallant smile, and contempt for spooked randians and marxists, while unsucessfully trying to disrupt the dairy market.
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> This is more "nobody noticed they were doing it" than "it was obviously happening, and the government shrugged its shoulders." Obviously, unlike a computer, it is quite possible for humans to just not notice that you're doing an illegal thing.

That sounds exactly like a zero-day bug of the sort that caused e.g. Heartbleed and Shellshock.
Have to chime in here, since I once studied the history of anarchism as a social/economic/political movement.

Anarchism was overwhelmingly a socialist movement, contemporary with Marxism and communism. Many anarchists debated the ideal forms of socialism vigorously at congresses held by groups like the First International. Historically, Marxism and communism won the most mindshare, with rare exceptions like the Spanish Civil War.

Leading 19th c. anarchist thinkers, like Bakunin and Kropotkin, would have laughed you out of the room if you had claimed anarchism was in any way not a leftist movement.

This conception is from a much later argument of economist Murray Rothbard from the mid-20th c., and owes more to the Austrian school of economics then any strain of anarchist thinking. Rothbard drew upon some individualist anarchist writers, but tossed out all the economic parts he disagreed with, and called it anarcho-capitalism. Claiming anarcho-capitalism as a form of anarchism reveals a complete misreading of, or disdain for, the overwhelming majority of anarchist thought.

Now for an interesting follow-up: the term "libertarian" underwent the same change in America, but even more thoroughly, to the point that only historians recall its leftist origins. (Outside America, "libertarian" is more synonymous with anarchism.)

To quote Rothbard above: "One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy... 'Libertarians'... had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over..."
Legality isn't the issue here, it's morality.
And yet einstein went to the US and give them the bomb.

During the cold war, little progress has been made engeenering that were not benefiting the wzr effort. Source: my last gf was born on the other side of the wall.
Isn't part of the rise due to the fact that, in 1990, DSM-5 classified a substantial number of additional symptom sets as mental illnesses?
> If you fly the US flag, but claim no subdivision, one would have the benefits of citizenship without having to pay state and local taxes.

That doesn't seem right - why don't refugees, who appear to already be attempting to boat across large swaths of water, simply fly the US flag then?
This is the canary in the cage for those of who still live in something resembling a democracy. This kind of censorship, whether from governments or tech giants, is already starting to take hold in the US and Europe.
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Duh. Anyone who didn't think this was happening is simply not paying attention. Gmail will show a "track your package" link on Amazon order emails, adds flight or hotel booking to your calendar, and shows ads relevant to whatever email you are looking at.

This is how Google makes money, and they're not very subtle about it.
Germany has a fairly liberal immigration policy. If you have a college degree that they recognize and earn a reasonable salary you can get a Blue Card which gets you permanent residency after 21 months and citizenship after 6 years if you learn some German. Salaries are significantly less than in the U.S., but the differential has been decreasing in recent years.
Since we're on the topic of OS/2 wrapped up in a discussion about Microsoft's messaging versus actions in open source:

OS/2 could be open source. There was a push for this a little over 10 years ago. IBM actually took notice and issued a statement. They were willing to make OS/2 open source, to the extent that their interests in the IP allowed them to, but that alone wouldn't be sufficient. So the reason that it's not open source, right now, today, is because of Microsoft.

If MS really is this new and changed philanthropic messiah of free and open source software, then let's see it. Open source OS/2. I'm not saying "open source Win10". I'm not even saying "open source XP". We're talking about friggin' OS/2—a product that barely fared higher than DOA status at its height on the market.
try VR headsets !
You know that charge back costs you money right?
One of my favorite hikes up the california hills was with a friend who worked for Infocom back in the day... it was much later during the DotCom boom and an acquaintance went hiking with us who turned out to have been cracking (and distributing through BBS) my friends games. They had a long conversation on various forms of copy protection and how they were broken... but the great thing was that he still had copies/floppys that worked whereas my friend's copy protected versions no longer read properly!

So my friend was able to get a copy of the game he had written long ago to run again :-) A very happy ending.
It is censorship though. Part of the job of the censor is to determine whether the likelyhood some information will be seen, justifies the censorship in question.

You can read the censor reports from the estado novo for example, and in many of them the censor declined to ban the book because even though it was objectively illegal, it would naturally be a book that wouldn't be sought after by the general public, and so only those who knew about it would look for it.

I'd say this is an even more pernicious form of censorship because you dont know what you dont know.
Your not solving anything, at best you are getting maybe one extra level of abstraction by shifting potential complexity in the application. It may or may not care about internal file "schema" and thus has no code for it. Shifts to concrete complexity in the system; Your application doesn't utilize file schema but some applications might so everyone gets a schema field and there is a bunch of extra code and complexity to support it.

From a security/reliability standpoint it sounds like a nightmare combining the worst of things like NTFS alternate data streams and share library loading into one.
Why Mark Cuban is taking coding classes
Real time object recognition/tracking
That's true! Here's some more info about it https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
Unless your goals are physical in nature(I want to be able to check the mail again or otherwise return to a level of mobility, become a body builder...etc) I see very little benefit.

"I want to not die, and if I must, preferably at a later date." About sums it up.
Agreed. But that's not what I really mean. Perhaps it was a bad choice of words on my part. But if most of us see the asymmetry of the relationship, then we should do what we can to rebalance it so that the relationship is to the benefit of both. Or maybe what I should say is that if our trade relationship is not to the long term benefit of our country, we should seek to renegotiate it.
Unfortunately this will never happen. The C++ committee, to my understanding, has made it very clear that they want to bless no tooling and are only concerned with the language itself.

Maybe it would be a better situation of a secondary organization started up that acted similarly to how NodeJS as a tooling platform operates with ECMAScript, the language definition.

I'm really quite fond of C++ the language, but the tooling around it always makes me hesitant to try anything new with it when so many other languages' ecosystems have come so far.
I think it's dangerous to assume that one side are the good guys who never lie while the other are the bad guys who always do.

Disinformation comes from all sides and one has to be critical of everything.
Generally anything separated by water should fly, but even just going across the continent I think flying wins out; eg why train from shanghai to Urumqi for 2-3 days when you can just fly for 5 or 6 hours?
Right, this is exactly the misapprehension. The agreement that nobody claims the middle of the ocean does not exist for the purpose of letting folks create their own countries, it exists for the purposes of allowing everyone's ships to pass through. Starting a country is unlikely to go better in the middle of the ocean than in e.g. the middle of the Mojave.
I'm a blockchain engineer with 6 years of experience. Been developing software in the space since 2013 when Mt Gox erupted. I have broad experience: built DEXs, p2p networking stacks, smart contract protocols, and other decentralized systems.

Currently looking for a company with a good remote culture and nice people. Doesn't have to be blockchain related. My basic requirement to do my job well is to have access to an automated, deterministic, build system. Unless my job is to do dev ops, I need this to avoid wasting anyones time.

Style of work:

- If I'm a project lead I need to have strategic expectations written down, with those doing the strategy signing off on what I think the project is and how I should go about doing it so the project gets off to a good start.

- If I'm working as an engineer I prefer having responsibility over clearly defined tasks. I've worked best in the past when I've had detailed specs to work with written by another engineer.

Tl: dr; What this comes down to is good developer tooling and clear communication. IMO, you need both to be productive in remote jobs.

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Bitcoin Script + TXs, Solidity (Ethereum) + TXs,
Python, Javascript, Node, C, PHP, * (lang agnostic),
Distributed systems, Unix sockets, DHTs,
peer-to-peer networking, 'ledger technology',
'blockchains', smart contracts, applied cryptography,
decentralized exchange and trading systems,
future contracts, 2/3/4g cryptography,
basic: front-end / dev ops / sys admin / UI mockups,
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Hi! This looks very interesting. I use mutt but have two pain points. The big one is that mutts locks up when the network connection is broken (e.g. on suspend). My understanding is that this has been known for a long time and can't be fixed without a major rewrite of mutt to be multi-threaded and non-locking. My current solution is to either kill mutt once frozen or to remember to close it whenever I suspend. Would aerc solve this?

My other common issue is that it is not easy to search a GMail inbox over IMAP. I have seen some solutions such as using notmuch and offline-imap, but these are kind of a project so I haven't implemented them. I usually just sigh and open a browser tab when I really need to search.
I'm not agreeing with the parent, but some of my health issues were improved by changing my diet, and a large part of that was avoiding sugar almost entirely.

Those health issues included exhaustion, which shows up most at work.

In short, I can see a possible connection, and I can definitely get behind the idea of trying to eat more healthily. But I definitely don't subscribe to the "you can fix anything by looking up these magical words and then avoiding them in foods" that is parroted so often on the internet now.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, and Microsoft had to worry about antitrust action if they priced their tools too low or made them free.
Having lived in China though the scale issue does seem to be a problem. A brief Google shows that Taiwan has a population of a little over 23mil whereas Hunan province alone has around 67mil and Sichuan has 87mil people. Add to this that because of lack of development and the legacy of Mao many of these people either have no education or live in remote mountains or both.

I'm not saying this means democracy is impossible, but if you work in tech I'd hope you'd be able to at least recognize that doing democracy in Taiwan is not even remotely comparable to doing it in China because of scale issues alone.
He's an anarcho-capitalist, which has little in common with most strains of historical anarchism, despite the name.
I was recently asked by a friend who teaches 5th graders to do something similar for their school's "career month." I tried a few different things, and found the most successful was showing them how to use a web browser's built-in developer tools to inspect the source of and make live modifications to web pages.

My reasoning behind this exercise was:

- I checked in with their teacher ahead of time and confirmed that all of these kids had a least some experience using a web browser. Generally it seems like a likely "lowest common denominator" of tech experience for kids.

- Most web browsers have powerful developer tools that can be used to inspect and modify source and will display the results of many types of changes in real time. It is easy to get kids to understand the relationship between HTML/CSS code and the webpage that results from rendering it when you can make live changes to the code and see it immediately reflected in the rendered page.

- Web browsers are freely available. I gave them a handout with instructions on how to access the developer tools in web browsers that are either free (Chrome, Firefox) or readily available to them (Safari, since their school computer lab had a few Macs). I specifically wanted them to be inspired and continue experimenting after I left.

I concluded by spending 10 minutes taking student's requests for the modifications to nytimes.com. It ended up with a bizarro color scheme, comic sans on all the things, and pictures of dinosaurs and Pixar characters at the top of every article. Everyone had a blast, myself included!

I think the demonstration tickled the kid's innate predisposition towards mischief. An immediate question was "can everyone in the world see this changes? are you hacking right now?," which allowed me to naturally give a high-level explanation of the server-client architecture of the web. A few kids came up to me afterwards and asked me to specifically walk them through finding and opening the developer tools so they could continue experimenting at home, and that was the best outcome I could've hoped for!
Mods sometimes boost an older post to the front page and patch up the timestamps on the comments. Perhaps that’s one on these?
But note that these loopholes involve taxation. Tax laws are based on intricate policy considerations. They aren't based on 10-commandments, carved in stone, legal principals. They are expected to be updated regularly. Courts will often presume "loopholes" in tax code to be there for a reason and throw the law back at the legislature for corrections.
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Spent the past 4 years working in Adtech so have developed skills in running low latency applications at global scales. Senior level SRE (has managed a team of 5) or mid level Python developer. Looking for a job with some interesting technical problems and a fun team. Open to anything really.
If you're going for one mostly-perfect bend or knot, make it the Zeppelin Bend[1] and the Zeppelin Loop[2]. Secure, fixed, easy, jam-resistant. It's not well known, so don't use it when other people need to understand your knots, but it's hard to beat for overall utility. If you need other people to understand it, use the Alpine Butterfly Bend[3]/Loop[4].

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Not really, or rather it very much depends on MS subdivision. Their browser and Alliance for Open Media efforts are commendable, but their gaming division with its DirectX lock-in straight from the '90s is still as nasty as it gets. At least they dropped their obnoxious UWP push. But let them start supporting Vulkan on Xbox, then they can come back claiming they aren't that bad anymore.

Also, don't forget their other cash cows that thrive on lock-in, such as Outlook, Office, exFAT and etc. Opening up stuff there could indeed take MS out of their dark empire stigma into something positive. But that didn't happen yet.
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• Senior Ruby/RoR Software Engineer - A senior engineer to help design, build, and maintain our Ruby backend. This is a technical role that will include some leadership tasks like mentorship, code-reviews, etc.

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You don’t need recognition.

In fact, some sovereign nations lived for thousands of years without even being known to the outside world.

It’s nice to have though.