skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia has a long history of GPS jamming for security reasons. A friend serving in the russian forces in Syria says that GPS accuracy in the country varies dramatically with Russian military activity in the region. About two years ago there were a series of posts about GPS distortion around Moscow center (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26060590, https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/kremlin-gps-sign...). But this happens not only in Russia, also in the US as an anti-drone measure (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/09/26/gps-spoof...)
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Technically the system is pay-as-you-go in the US; employers are required to withhold estimated tax from paychecks and pay the IRS in the employee's name, or quarterly payments are made if self-employed. The broken part is that you will receive penalties if you withhold too little, or you end up loaning cash to the IRS until you file for a refund; and there are far too many variables that change the actual tax you owe for the year, so there's no way to get the number exact except in limited circumstances.

A "cheap" fix would be to eliminate deductions, and automate marginal withholding. An expensive fix would be to service deductions on a rolling basis, applying them to future income withholding.
In my opinion, the biggest problems with sources is that journalists often fail to provide them.

They will often make sure assertions without named sources to back them up. And they will fail to provide citations and links when the source is present on the internet, so you can confirm and verify it.

This is sometimes the case for things like scientific research, where you're just expected to know which specific paper it is they're talking about, or where to look for further information.
The Time story supports my point. Trump was a historically unpopular President who had basically stopped governing during COVID. And as the Time article points out, Biden had everyone from Wall Street to the media to Big Tech in the bag for him. Biden vastly outspent Trump in October. Bloomberg dumped $100 million into Florida. Yet Biden won by just 80,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, with Trump getting the second most votes in history, higher than Obama.

Maybe the full backing of Wall Street, Tech, and the media combined pushed Biden over the finish line. But it was at best a nudge. And how modest that effect was should be good for thought for skeptics.
What was the primary motivator creating this?
FreeBSD.

There is a mess of things wrong with the linux ecosystem and a lot of it comes down to packaging systems and package management. Once you get over a little learning curve, working with FreeBSD is a breath of fresh air.
It seems to be behind a paywall or otherwise doesn't load completely.
How do you decide when it is safe to update?
What about my post makes it seem like I’m making a moral point?
Thinking about it, Apple seems like they'd have better dealt with this sort of issue in four ways:

* Stricter review process to catch this preemptively

* Stricter app isolation to limit impact without a vulnerability explicit

* Longer maintained and more forceful operating system updates to minimize the number of phones running with known exploits

* Likely removing/disabling app from phones and not just the app store
Hmm that's really obnoxious, but why would Intuit benefit from forcing people to buy Excel? They don't make any money from that.
For $149, this Oakland Airport vending machine dispenses Covid tests
And forbid everyone from using any thing than chrome and safari. Web development around the enterprise is fun.
Shouldn’t that tell you something? What kind of high return market attracts so little investment?
Windows registry is also evil. Because it’s basically the same thing.

Global state may be inevitable. But that doesn’t mean you should throw the towel and sprinkle global state all over the place. You should try really really hard to have the barest minimum global state. You might be surprised how little you actually need.
Were you using funny third party repositories?
That's a very interesting game-theoretic view of the issue. I've got to read that book, thank you for the recommendation.
Great article and perfectly expresses the ridiculous situation we're in now.
This is the first time someone recognised me. By writing style, I suppose.
I'd imagine the problem is that iPXE is preboot firmware, so the emitted setjmp/longjmp builtins assume a shadow stack that's set up, etc.

Ubuntu should not enable the flag when -ffreestanding is set.
One side of the political spectrum has argued that the government will take advantage of this to overcharge citizens. Which sort of treats the taxing entity as an unscrupulous business looking to make a quick buck.
Yes.

Demonstration of this being done: http://arss.sourceforge.net/examples.shtml
There's a few elements from the system itself needed to properly support it. KDE is only one part of it.
Why should it not? For the most part this flag seems to be working. And it improves security. Windows can't do something like that for most of the software targeting it because it's all in binary form. For the software available through the default Ubuntu repos, source is available, so Ubuntu can offer this.
I don’t understand. You think a pro-coal industry position is, what, unpopular with voters in Montana?

Your interpretation of the facts seems to be based on the preconception that voters in Montana have an antagonistic relationship toward the coal industry in the state. Such that there would be a conflict and companies would have to lobby the elected representative to do something they want at the expense of what is constituents want. That’s not what’s happening. Montana voters know where the jobs come from. And in fact, polls show higher trust in corporations than the government: https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-trust-in-business-than-in-...

Read Gallup’s polling on the issue. Americans are incredibly suspicious of government and government regulation: https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro.... Just 23% of people say there’s “too little” regulation of business. 45% say too much.

Now think about the $43,000 in lobbying, except assuming that voters in Montana want what’s best for the coal companies in their state. In that view, it makes more sense to understand that lobbying not as changing the vote, but coal companies communicating what they want to a politician that knows that his voters support giving coal companies what they want.
The only reason this was detected was very overt behavior - opening AD popups. So I guesstimate for each one of these we have 10 that go undetected.
This means the whole ecosystem is broken, as there is no reason this will happen only for updates and not for new apps as well. Apple's ecosystem is somewhat better, but I can't imagine they go through every line of code in each package, so most of their review is probably done with some combination of automatic static and dynamic analysis, and these can be fooled. The problem with both platforms is that they don't provide run of the mill users the option of installing an effective firewall and security solutions.
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What exactly is the "Save Journalism Committee," and what's it's agenda? The link "What is the Save Journalism Commitee" at the bottom of their pages brings you to this nothingburger: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/about, https://archive.is/pY8rd.

The author's Quora profile describes him as a "Messaging Consultant" (https://www.quora.com/profile/Jeremy-Arnold-4, https://archive.is/ch3uz), which sounds like PR to me.
Can't Google remove apps like Rocket Cleaner, that participate in these ads?
Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to raise taxes if people have to manually do their taxes every year.

I think you meant to say it would make it harder to raise taxes if people had to do their returns manually. I also think you're mistaking the excuse offered by Republicans for the underlying reason. After all, if it were true then Republicans would be logically be opposed to any sort of electronic filing, whether offered from the IRS or by a third party.
Myself and my accountant find they are off by laughable errors and stir government accepts intuit errors. It is somewhat hilarious. After a disastrous 24k error I hired a real tax professional. Money well spent.
I was struggling because of terrible eyesight, and the ergonomics. I used to have an IPS monitor that used to fatigue my eyes a ton.

I also have a cheapo Cherry MX Blues (TVS gold) and a Logitech G402 mouse. Ergonomics and eye sore was killing me.

I sold off that monitor, got a decent 24in 1080p LG monitor with a TN Panel with VESA compatibility, Height extensions and boom all the eye fatigues have basically gone along with the shoulder pain.
I’m doing this right now. Linux has gotten too large, bloated, corporate. It no longer feels like a community project and there are quite a few recent move that make me question whether or not it will be viable down the line.
It's safe almost always, unless A) you're doing something really undefined-behavior-ish and strange... or, here, for iPXE, I'm guessing the problem is B) you're running code that it emits assuming it's running on the Linux kernel in a fully initialized environment in a preboot/embedded environment.. and still expect setjmp/longjmp to work.

That is, it doesn't make sense with -ffreestanding, but Ubuntu enables it in that case.
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I don't get why no barcode scanner app is shipped with Android. It's such a basic functionality. Edit: apparently it IS shipped on iOS and at least my Lineage OS default camera app has a QR code reader too.
Lucian Freud has a quote that’s always stuck with me, and I’ve returned to it often during the lockdowns.

“My idea of travel is a downward travel really. Getting to know where you are, better, and exploring feelings that you know more deeply. I always think that thing ‘knowing something by heart’ gives you a depth of possibility which is more potential than seeing new sights, however marvelous and exciting they are.”
Absolutely this.

The purchase of Credit Karma is textbook "buying out a competitor", especially since Credit Karma's tax solution was offered for "free" to customers.

Why did the government not intervene? There's hardly better evidence of political capture by the corporate America as that one.
Right, like so many other things these days, the term has been corrupted. Guilty as changed. ;-)
And, fun fact, Windows .lib files are also ar archives! (sometimes with a little more structure to them).
And so with macos .a files, except that they're a slightly incompatible variant of the ar format.
Kindly do your research.
"Mysterious" because you don't know about Swaymass.

You are not our client. You don't know how we operate. You didn't request a proposal. You didn't contact us.

Ai - generated, We wish AI was capable of doing what we do. :)

This link was posted by the owner of a company which is in direct competition with Swaymass.com.

The company name : Laskie.co

They sell marketing advice.
Used to name arrays, at one point had a hell of a problem because we found out that we had no way to consistently name, and thus communicate, PCI-X I/O-bays (it was a big POWER server...)

But if a pet "melts", well, the pet died. You moved the functions over to another pet. Whether it's a move from Zeus to Jupiter, or rebuilding your precious cattle management system on eu-central-1 after us-east-1 burned down and you got slapped with data locality requirements, is less relevant ;)
I don’t think my past two phones (one Android, one iOS) have built in QR scanning, or at least it’s not very discoverable. No fun to have to find something in an App Store when it all looks like 7 year old malware.
EU will probably follow suit and ban AstraZeneca. in many EU countries is restricted to under 55
I'm curious as well. It's an interesting app for sure.
Depends on your needs. Is it desktop? Is it server? Is it container base? If there any specific software/hardware you rely on? Etc. There's no "best alternative".
The archive has it: https://archive.is/BBAsb
Here are some ideas (and US prices):

1) Nespresso coffee machine.
Can get a good one for < $200

2) Autonomous standing desk.
Base model $399

3) Trackpad.
Nice addition to the mouse. E.g. $129 from Apple.

4) Second monitor.
I personally find this convenient. A decent one will cost you under $300.

5) Tablet.
Useful for when you are too tired to sit or stand. Good for reading docs or whitepapers, for example. $329 for a base model iPad.

6) Faster internet.
A few bucks added to your monthly bill.
I'm not sure why this got downvoted. It is a very high-signal comment.
>would not be surprised if articles like these are just another form of PR for tax preparation companies

They absolutely are not - the crux of the issue is tax prep companies should be a very niche product - the government should provide an efile option. Since most people's taxes are fairly simple they should be automatically done for you so all you have to do is log in and approve of the autogenerated form. At the very, very least e-forms should be pre filled out with what the government already knows about you because your employer, bank, or brokerage reported to them.

All this standard in almost all other developed countries. It's absurd there is for profit companies calling the shots in this area.
I think the best answer is that systemd-the-project tries to be the things that all of the different distros historically had to do themselves, the things that didn't have an upstream, but maybe deserved to have an upstream so that they could be reused by other distros, and maybe benefit from more eyes and more engineering effort.

Each distro used to have to roll their own initscript system (with varying degrees of compatibility), so they made `systemd`. Each distro had their own init script to save/load the backlight state, so they made `systemd-backlight` (if you're going to replace the initscript system, you'll also have to replace the things that the initscripts for that system did). Each distro used to have to roll their own network configuration scripts (Debian's /etc/network, Arch Linux's netcfg and later netctl, ...), so they made `systemd-networkd`.

Some of this class of thing got picked up by other projects; each distro used to have to roll its own initramfs system; today Dracut exists, so systemd won't be doing that (unless the Dracut folks decide to team up with the systemd folks--remember gummiboot? gummiboot renamed to systemd-boot).

In one of your other comments you wrote "in my opinion that implies more modularity than it posesses." While there are some nasty couplings (it'll take some patching to get systemd-nspawn to work on a non-systemd system), you can successfully use many of the systemd modules on an OpenRC system; it is a lot more modular than people give it credit for.
Don't use Debian stable for desktop. Debian testing or unstable is a much better option.
For what its worth, they do seem to patch the documentation as well:

https://salsa.debian.org/toolchain-team/gcc/-/commit/2f9aefe...
Top parent here. I originally deleted the word “influencer” but put it back in with quotes since it was the best word to use.

You’re totally correct in your assertions and the understanding of the intent and meaning of my post.
You can point the builtin Camera app on iOS to any QR code, it will pick it up just fine.
Sorry I could have been clearer. The archive.org page that shows all scans[1] will mark dates as orange (4xx), green (3xx), or blue (presumably 2xx). The reason I don't think that the link you posted is indicative of something is that all the scans of that url resulted in 4xx's. As opposed to scans of index.php[2] which primarly show 2xx responses. Any framework, Coldfusion or not, will generally throw a 404 when you hit paths that don't exist.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.faceb...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.faceb...
Agreed. There are plenty of examples where overwhelming money failed to change the outcome. Bloomberg’s presidential run where he spent $1B and failed miserably is a great example.

As is the failure of the Keystone XL pipeline where according to HN that sweet, sweet oil money would be impossible to defeat. Well, it was defeated.

The mistake people make is “oh this problem hasn’t been fixed and someone is spending lobbying dollars so it won’t be fixed, so that must be the reason”.

I’d ask if Intuit wasn’t lobbying against cheaper ways to files taxes so we really think it would have been implemented?
No. Half the number space is free for local management.
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I used Debian for years, it is stable and has very few surprises.
Ubuntu is a clone of Debian and can be a bit buggy.
That been said Ubuntu is great for trying new things.
Probably my favourite distro of late is Fedora, works well, the s/w packaging system is stable and quite user friendly.
My advice is try them all.
Oh and FreeBSD.
> "What if I want to replace the Windows Audio... service with something else?"

In Windows Vista, Microsoft rebuilt the audio stack on top of WASAPI, making MME and DirectSound shims which feed into WASAPI. However, they didn't break compatibility, and all APIs more-or-less work nowadays. On Linux, ALSA apps sometimes have trouble picking the right device when talking to PulseAudio, and it's difficult for PulseAudio and Jack to share a single device.
Try your plain camera... this seems like such a hidden anti-feature though... no one I know has tried just the camera
> When Debian adopted systemd, after some debate, every Debian-based distro did too. This wasn't considered a particularly invasive change at the time. But systemd started to expand into its "middleware" position, absorbing vital system functions like udev.

Your timing is off. udev became part of systemd in 2012. The big Debian debate was in 2013-2014, and was acrimonious enough to eventually cause several of the CTTE members to resign their position over it. One of the core issues driving the Debian systemd debate was the fact that GNOME was planning on dropping support for anything other than systemd-logind (or something like that), and there was definite concern that packages were already making decisions that were forcing everyone to adopt systemd as the only init system.
I think you're probably being downvoted (note: not by me) because the way your comment is written makes it sound a bit like you're assuming the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is an mRNA vaccine when it's not.
>because it is really, really hard to to build an org that is more diverse than the average (let alone anything near society), and you still have to meet other objectives.

I've thought about this a many times with the hiring I'm involved with. There are some potential problems you can tackle internally, such as whether you have bias against certain types of candidate. However, the major blocker is one I really don't know how to solve.

Essentially you have to solve the underlying problem of, "How do you increase the number of qualified and diverse candidates in the hiring pool?" Since the pool of applicants for the jobs I'm interviewing for are overwhelmingly male, and the vast majority are White, East Asian, or South Asian, the candidates we end up hiring end up more or less matching people of those descriptions. I am somewhat encouraged that there are improvements happening in the gender split through, there has definitely been an increase in the number of women applying for our student positions, hopefully that translates to more looking for full time positions in the near future.
I think you mean Google, but also noting that #4 is possible (supposedly) through Google Play Protect
I know that the value here is that it saves people effort to pre-digest this knowledge, but oh man this is the stuff that high school math definitely taught us to solve.

Heck, maybe this makes it a useful interview question scenario?
I think it’s pretty interesting to read about pilots shot down in WW1 over enemy territory. They were brought into the enemy’s squadrons and treated with respect. They would talk and laugh. The book The Aviators talks about this a bit.

It also talks about how Rickenbacker didn’t want to kill the people in the airplane he shot down (well it got bitter after Lufbery died). He just wanted to shoot down the airplane and accomplish his mission.

I think fighter pilots don’t have a hatred for the others across the line. They study their skill to have an advantage over the enemy’s systems. It’s not all athleticism. It’s science. As Rickenbacker said “Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.” I would assume the same goes for the SA-3 Low Blow operator.
It only costs them a single lookup
No worries; there’s always a balance between being overly verbose and not covering every edge case.

The core point of your article was still clear, and as a result generated interesting discussion and follow up for an update.
How many people go through the process of making sure the gov’ts calculations are right?

And for those that don’t, how many are losing out on money because of an error?
Food is very rooted in memories and childhood. A lot of people who ate Red Delicious as children will feel that same sense of safety and warmth that they did when they ate them as kids. Proust’s Madeleine and all that.
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> This particular belief really shouldn’t have survived the Trump era

If the effect of money is really not significant, why don't politicians simply ignore the funding and do what they think their constituents want?
I stand corrected.

I eagerly await the publication of "SystemD: A History" and its subsequent adaptation into a dramatic screenplay.
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I found this behavior in the Barcode Scanner app by "the space team"

That was not one that was mentioned by the article

It's url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qrcodescan...

(See the reviews)
Most sales taxes exempt essentials like basic groceries, clothing, toiletries.

It’s actually a great idea.
Imagine what goes on that we don't even know about
It’s a little hard to believe that any BSD is a drop in replacement for most use cases.

For sure there are some narrow cases where it is, but Linux just supports sooo much more
The short answer is "when the benefits outweigh the risks"; i.e. if there's a huge bugfix or new feature you need, but something like a barcode scanner is something whose change frequency should be very close to zero.

The "update culture" has unfortunately trained users to obediently "bend over and take it", which is horrible from both the security and change-management point of view; but is the dream of those who want to exert control over "the sheeple".
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I would love to hear more about this. I'd like to implement a model like this for my project.

Any articles or communities you could point me to?
It also gained them a reputation as literally the only operating system that cares one whit for backwards compatibility, which is one of the reasons it has such high penetration, especially in enterprise. Linux explicitly has no kernel ABI guarantees, and Apple gleefully breaks shit between minor releases.