skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU is great insofar as it functions merely as a multilateral treaty and economic zone. But the moment the EU itself arrests someone or issues a court injunction against an individual or small business (or gains the legal power to do so), it has crossed the line in my opinion. Same with the UN, NATO, NAFTA, etc.
I often do my taxes twice with a cheaper competitor and then use Turbo Tax to double check my results.

Let me tell you, Turbo Tax often gets a worse off final result. For example, I changed jobs in Q2 and exceeded my Social Security contribution last year. For some reason, the cheaper competitor actually caught that and got me a better result than Turbo Tax.
I have a script that can fetch YouTube videos links and download them easily, and it doesn't need external service to work, only YouTube are needed: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/369400-local-youtube-downl...

Disclaimer: I am the author of the script
One of these init systems is run by a guy that is openly hostile to POSIX, the other can be found on several different operating systems and has been around forever. hmmm...
I agree on all counts, but DoH removes control and choices that I want to keep. pi-hole itself supports DoH. It's a good way to protect privacy and keep control.
why cant the govt build a frigging excel sheet or a website for filing taxes because "THEY MAKE THE RULES" of what goes into a tax software.
This is one of those things that is used by companies to force people into their ecosystem.

in india, the govt makes 4/6 tax returns available to be filed on the govt portal itself. It has a simple workflow based approach, asks you a few questions and in minutes you are done.
Software companies exist alongside them but there is no "bad blood" between the two because they both do the same thing. the software companies products make it easier for tax professionals to keep a record and such but otherwise millions of users just dont bother with paid offerings.

that is a much better alternative than the one US has
I think the issue is less the truth I. Your statement (it’s undeniable really). But more that it’s by design. Intuit lobbies the govt to make the tax system over complicated, and the gov provided tax documents half asses as hell. And then along with few others (H&R Block for example) make a killing by having software that easily navigated the shit hurricane they otherwise would be a tax filing. Hell H&R Block can literally hire part time meth heads and window washers to fill out the forms, while without the software a Bonaire accountant can fuck up a filing.
I gave it a try and couldn't get it to change. It will show as the new address in the terminal window but when I hit option + wifi it shows me the prior address.
The comment opens with "I can share my individual perspective" There's no intent to negate other people's struggles at all.

Here's the hypothesis. If life is like an RPG, then whiteness / being male (in America) is a passive buff you get in character creation, like "+10 Social Points"

Truly, for many people, that still isn't enough to offset the many other debuffs life can bring.
My JS is terrible, and I find it’s really hard to make even simple tweaks to complex JS built pages. I really miss platypus (a wysiwig editor that generated user scripts from edits). I’ve searched and searched but there seems to me no functional equivalent today.

I’d love an easy way to run a regex on some particular part of a page.
> That's a tough one, because the examples you gave are exactly the ones that I don't want a shady ISP or other interested party to my snooping.

This sounds like a personal consideration - one you're entitled to, but perhaps shouldn't force on others. Maybe consider Tor?

> ever-shrinking pool of people who can't/won't upgrade.

Are you sure about this? The kind of security you're advocating for here is a moving target. As the pool shrinks on the tail end, surely the head advances...

> Well, now it's broken. Fix it.

Erm, no. The device isn't broken, you are willfully breaking it. I can appreciate your stance, but glib comments like this aren't going to convince anyone in that camp.
Amazing. The most difficult thing I had to do with tax last year was wait until my employer pressed a button they had forgotten to press on some web form. Then it all filled out instantly.
who is the cheaper competitor?
rumor has it 10cents this week is realistic and the hype is 1 dollar.. and the memes have been hilarious
I wish the post had actionable advice to migrate.
Depends on the cost. If they use resources to roll out am ineffective vaccine now to the detriment of future attempts to roll out effective options, waiting might be a better choice. Also, there is enough vaccine skepticism in the world today and I'm not sure vast distribution of something with questionable efficacy is necessarily a good idea.
> Maybe it was because of my non familiarity with Chinese names or lack of detail to a lot of characters, that I had to constantly look back to see names if they appeared again after a while. I am not sure why this happened as I have read Manga or Manhwa in the past and have been able to hold a lot more characters in memory.

I had a similar problem, but don't think it was a lack of character details, but rather that the dialog seems rather undifferentiated. What distinguished one character from another was only what they say, and almost never how they say it.
Correct. And there are other people working on those projects too, even if we assume Lennart is that good. I found a fairly trivial DoS issue in systemd-resolved in ~10min with a fuzzer. (Years ago, fixed already) That shouldn't happen in a system obsessed with correctness.
Easy answer: Gnome desktop.

Red Hat produced systemd. Red Hat is the major contributor to Gnome. Gnome now refuses to run without systemd. Every major distro wants to carry Gnome, so...

Well, at least some distros offer a choice. Some other distros (Alpine, popular for containers, Void, which powers my laptop) live happily without it. Various shims exist, logind exists to allow running things like Xfce without systemd.
It’s one of those polarizing things for which there is a small group of hyper vocal critics. When people discover something unexpected, they end up googling it and take a trip down the systemd rabbit hole.

The majority of people don’t give a hoot about it.
In terms of the privacy and corporate interests concerns, at least, it seems like a lot of this article consists of systemd hate. So use a non systemd Linux distro. Simple! https://nosystemd.org/ can help you choose one. (I know, pretty much all the major distros have fallen like dominoes, but there are still reasonably mainstream choices out there).

There's almost no mention of such issues in the Linux kernel itself, except for "the kernel forcing adaption of DRM". I'm not versed in that story, feel free to enlighten me. But from following the link to the kernel.org thread, it seems fairly clear that the feature in question is opt-in, and that the Linux kernel therefore isn't forcing DRM onto anyone.
"Bodybuilding & weightlifting meets gymnastics"

That's called calisthenics
Hey thanks, yeah definitely going to.
Sure but the question was about how a small business can be more inclusive without spending a lot of money. Not how they can be more inclusive without doing anything or changing anything. In the end everything has a cost and it's up to them to decide if it's worth it.

The largest cost is that certain people will simply not stop doing these things so you have to decide if firing them is worth the inclusion gains or not.
No, it's accurately conveying the sadness and the loneliness when you see the right moves (in life, in work) and people being oblivious to them and ending up poor/unhappy/etc.
Journalism, "the 4th estate", in the past was used to go after the powerful but it has recently become the power.

It's a concerning change and I don't see it getting better. Maybe it's "corporate journalism" that is problematic.
How many other countries charge for the cost of pretty much any degree, the full salary of an electrical engineer that is several years into their degree? Like literally, if I put every penny into paying my degree off it would take over a year. That seems pretty excessive, when even in the US, you used to be able to work part time at a minimal wage job to pay it all off.
Skepticism and the Second Enlightenment
was it available in hard copy as well? that you were paid in addition to the $1500 you got for pdf sales?
brew install spoof-mac

or

pip install SpoofMAC
I ran Remarkbox for 5 years before deciding to make all plans free!

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Japanese people are maybe not starving, but because of high COL cause by tariffs a few years ago Taiwan became a richer country by PPP per capita.
It's easy to buy central government.
That’s kind of where I am. I have yet to run into issues with systemd in practice. I suppose I did run into two but they both came down to old style init scripts that didn’t work right and so systemd couldn’t make sense of them.

Is it not possible to turn off things like systemd’s DNS server, etc? I imagine if you care about such things you should be able to reconfigure your OS to use something else instead.
Can anyone compare this with Ardour?

https://ardour.org/
> Linux is fragmented

Ten year old FUD. Most distros are on systemd now. Whatever you want to say about systemd, it's definitely not fragmentation. Also there's the freedesktop project and dbus which creates a standard API for desktop applications. All Linux distros use glibc and GNU coreutils. Where's the fragmentation?

Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace.

> Torvalds has a bad opinion on ZFS

Doesn't matter. ZFS on Linux still works. Also ZFS is not immune to criticism. BTRFS is getting better and is more than adequate for everyone who is not running a CDN. Also ZFS isn't exactly usable on all BSDs, just FreeBSD (nor did FreeBSD come up with ZFS in the first place (why not migrate everything to Solaris then?)).

> Linux is being heavily influenced by corporate interests

Good. Problem? The computer is a tool not a political bumper sticker. I'm happy to use something for free that developers are paid to improve and that I still have complete control over. Linux [Android] is the most widely deployed OS in the world. It's constantly improving and lots of eyes are on the code. There just aren't enough skilled volunteers to maintain a giant codebase as critical as an OS.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html

When BSD is used by corporations, they fork it and make their improvements proprietary.

> Time to migrate everything to BSD

Then almost everything I do with my computer would be impossible except for dicking around in a web browser. How do I run containers, modern hardware, or CUDA? Hard mode: No Linux emulation.
It is a shame that some parts of American govt is such a slave of big businesses that they keep public good behind corporate good. For instance: gun ownership, monopoly of car dealerships for unfair & opaque practice, not upgrading railroads to help it compete with airlines, state & non-investment in public transport in non major cities, allowing large wall street cos to manipulate the markets
I wonder if some hedge funds looking to short their next target might do a cost benefit analysis of how much a hit to Intuit's stock price might occur for $X spent in lobbying for widespread free tax return prep.
Read the comment by Clewza313.

The vaccine doesn’t seem to protect the people in the study (young people). Young people don’t tend to die from covid. They don’t know if it would work on older people but I would think it wouldn’t either. This doesn’t look like it actually saves lives.

The study may be early to really tell but so far there is no evidence that the vaccine works at all against the variant that is widespread in South Africa.
> the better-than-average people move on, and the worse-than-average people stick around.

Is there any evidence for that? The "better-than-average" have to work somewhere, so why should we assume that they change jobs more often? If you are an above-average workplace why should you not be able to retain above-average people?
lol, the Internet Explorer school of thought. Sure, form a work group for an open init standard with systemd as the basis - chaired by people both inside and outside the systemd project. But before that, rent a home in Malibu and wire it for reality TV, because that would be the most entertaining WG ever.
Don't believe it's a rule to apply universally, but it does strike me as perhaps a good rule of thumb:

Only include a free plan if you can demonstrate it leads to a better outcome (holistically).

So then, does the author plan to remove the currently available free plan from their own SaaS product, Friendly Captcha?
I dont think this exactly applies to the NYT and the New Yorker which are subscriptions based.

I do think subscription based journalism can be just as pernicious. The most profitable route now is to find a niche group and produce content that they want. In general people "want" the objective truth, but its so much more tantalizing when it's spun to confirm your biases. There's likely a point where people will pay to get 90% of the truth and 10% confirmation bias, and if that's the most profitable route pubishers are going to report in that way (hence the left lean of NYT in particular, and right lean of other publications).
Once you do a (planned) migration of a few sites, you quickly learn to set the DNS TTL to something small beforehand. Alternatively (if possible), keep both IP blocks active for the TTL duration.
Same here, I wrote about it in this essay over here: https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Easy is not the word I’d use. Lucrative maybe. Not easy.
Only to the extent that “bias” is a character flaw. I understand the nature of it, but it is certainly a liability when after the “truth”.
Doing the right thing doesn't always make it easy. I've rejected candidates that I thought were awesome people, just not at the right level of expertise for the role. I really appreciate the enthusiasm that people just entering the industry have, but at some point you can't overcome the lack of experience with enthusiasm. Likewise when you do Zoom interviews with people who don't have awesome jobs currently, and think about what they could do with their lives if they made the kind of money the job pays.

It's emotionally draining because there might be a dozen reasons you want to hire someone, and you have to mentally debate whether any of those reasons can outweigh their faults enough to let you say yes. But they can't, so you have to smash that person's hopes and say no.

It's also emotionally draining to try to confront unconscious bias. You have to tediously step through each link of your decision to say no and make sure that it's consistent with how you treat other people. It's important to do, but it does take some mental effort.

And at a certain point, when you've rejected 5, 7, 10 candidates for the role, it starts to feel hopeless. Are we ever going to find someone to fill the role? And yet you can't let that hopelessness bleed into the interview, so you have to take 5 minutes before the interview to get into "pep mode" so you don't let the interviewee realize how bleak you feel about their prospects of passing, and then to make sure you don't your hopelessness seep into how you review the candidate.

It really is emotionally draining. Especially if you're doing it once or twice a week, because there isn't enough time to forget about your last experience.
>But the purchase gives her access to all of the information which must be legally shared with investors...publicly-traded companies.

Publicly traded companies must share this information with the public.
Just look at athletes before widespread steroid use. They have spent way more time training than actors and haven't looked like that even in sports that require dehydration like boxing.

Athletes train for performance, generally meaning muscle strength and endurance. Actors train for appearance, generally meaning muscle size. These different training goals generally require very different training programs.

Would you take it if million dollars and fame were on the line? We know they take it because we know quite well how juiced up physiques look.

Clearly, you don't, or you would see immediately that Rudd and Najani are not juiced. If they were or had been juicing, they would be significantly more muscular after a full year of training.

Besides, if someone who is not a professional athlete did 6 hours of serious training per day their body would give up sooner rather than later unless the recovery was "enhanced".

With proper exercise form, proper diet and recovery, the human body can sustain elevated levels of serious training indefinitely. Our armed forces do it all the time; only 2.5% of the military uses steroids.
For people who use Arch, Artix is a fork that offers a choice of init systems. You still get the AUR and rolling release, but you can use runit (void's init system) instead of systemd.

Worth a shot! https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=artix
This is so true. I don't think most folks understand how complex it all is, otherwise there would be more pushback to legislators that "allow" (through inaction) the tax code to be so complicated. It certainly has discouraged some from running their own business, because complying with it all costs time and money, which are resources large corporations have plenty of, but small businesses have precious little of.
How about Free Plan needs Paid Support, otherwise use Community Forum/Knowledge Base. Then Paid plan comes with Free Support.
I would hazard a guess that it was 2G. And yes, it's absolutely infuriating that so many basic services (which used to be implemented just fine on 2G speeds (or less!)) no longer remotely function without LTE.
In the book we're discussing, the Cultural Revolution is presented as a catastrophe where the heroes are well-meaning scientists who's neutral observations of nature are twisted into being counter-revolutionary.

The book covers the Cultural Revolution like US films cover Vietnam: not favorably.
It's an interesting question, copyright doesn't cover tone/pitch/etc... so how do you protect that? Should you even be allowed to?
Remarkbox is not open source, but the service is now free:

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Learn Why ‘Less’ Is Faster Than ‘More’ Command for Effective File Navigation
I got a royalty advance, which I am not allowed to disclose(pdf sales were part of that, so not in addition to), but overall, it was way under minimum wage for the work done.
Commanding RTS Commands
This was published October 2019.
lots of fun ones. I'd do something like Boeing. There's an airplane on your wifi
I will give you the fact that word2vec basically changed NLP forever, but it was a very popular download on more than one torrent tracker.
For writing, a portable mechanical typewriter. None of a computer's infinite distractions. Cordless. As direct as pen and paper. Cost toward the stack of spiral notebooks end of the scale.

It filled a hole I didn't even know was there. I can completely wrap my head around it. The only downside is how crappy computer keyboards feel after thwacking on it for a few minutes.
I did this with freetaxusa.com and turbotax on 2019 and ended up ditching turbotax for a better return with lower fees.

I now have to copy fields, but I double checked them anyways, so I think it's faser to input them myself. It's just triple clicking on a pdf and middle clicking on the browser
Systemd is a replacement for Unix.

Folks at Red Hat noticed that the Linux userland architecture is not convenient for what they would like to build. So they are building systems which replace the traditional mechanisms: first DBus, then systemd, which is an umbrella of many services: init + service monitoring + containers, logging, interactive login, some networking, etc. I suppose that in 10 years a linux kernel + systemd could be a complete system, with little need for other userland.
My point is that the idea of "more inclusive" as a unidimensional thing is wrong. Mandating a specific set of speech standards is more inclusive of some people and less inclusive of others. It can often be the right thing to do, but you've gotta bite the bullet and acknowledge the effects on both sides. It's a bit offensive, frankly, to dismiss any culture that's incompatible with the standards you'd prefer as "certain people will simply not stop doing these things".
Ubuntu's gcc also randomly makes me need to add -Wl,--no-as-needed to my flags. Probably because I'm doing something slightly wrong, but whatever it is I'm doing works fine on Fedora/EL.
It's not a fact if it isn't true. Disinformation and misinformation both often take the form of something stated factually. So there must necessarily be some judgment and evaluation of the truth value of everything they report. There is also the judgment involved in deciding what to report: there is an infinity of things that happen every day.

There is no avoiding the need for judgment in news reporting. Any process of judgement may be biased. An institution may itself have biases, and these will make there way in the judgments made there.

The idea that news organizations can simply and objectively report on facts and world events is functionally impossible. What you want are honest judgements made with an awareness of potential bias, knowing it can never be completely removed. As consumers of news, we should look for the organizations that seek to do that, and preferably read/view a variety of they present to us a more complete picture despite the differences in the judgements they make.
OpenDNS was the first to expose cache clearing to end users: http://cachecheck.opendns.com/
As someone that wants to abolish patents and limit copyright, I'd say no. Others without those leanings will no doubt disagree.
The context of the original post is a hiring manager moralizing only considering candidates from underrepresented groups. I think many people have a deep sense of empathy for the struggles of people trying to climb the economic ladder and starting from a lesser point. I commend Apple for investing in the Propel center in Atlanta and creating a developer program in Detroit as creative ways to alleviate the social problem, but a hiring manager exclusively considering underrepresented minorities is discrimination and will lead to more racial resentment. If we are to work towards an inclusive future it means everyone is included and I really think we'd achieve more by working together than fighting. I think a lot more people have a deep sense of empathy than are given credit for. I'm concerned with the rent seeking behavior that I see and hear instead of a focus on wealth creation and growing the pie for everyone.

I think its great to give personal anecdotes, but I never want to judge an individual person from their group membership. There will definitely be similar experiences across members of a given group.
> Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace.

See, I get where you are coming from, and I use Linux myself, but I feel that the author sees this as the fragmentation problem. One of the author's points is that the division between userspace and kernel is a problem, and the *BSDs offer up full operating systems, not just kernels.

From TFA: "Linus Torvalds has many times made it very clear that he doesn't care about what goes on in the "Linux world", all he cares about is the kernel development"

Otherwise, yeah... BSD is a great choice for some stuff, but it certainly falls short of the tools available to a Linux environment.
Man, maybe the GQP should win elections then, as they have consequences.