skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in general companies will reject people based on race an sex all the time. In fact most of the time when candidates who are not fitting their mold come up. It is super easy to avoid pushback if you plead culture fit as an issue or just judge their responses more strongly. The person who would oversee that won't know what suboptimal solution would really mean, other than unqualified. Maybe they had an unused variable. Maybe they didn't explain themselves.
At least on macOS, the script can be made more efficient with less code; no need for interaction or manually reconnecting: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts/blob/master/macs...

I’ve been using it for years without a hitch. Installable with `brew install vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts/macspoof`.
Yes you are missing something.

DoH on-by-default means that I as a sysadmin -- for my family, enterprise, or even just my own computer -- no longer have the ability to easily specify how DNS works for the systems under my control. Maybe I run a PiHole; maybe I run a parental control DNS server; maybe I'm better at privacy protection than Mozilla and Cloudflare are.

Tough luck; now I'm no longer able to configure all my systems to use my DNS server over DHCP. I can't even manually set the global DNS server for one computer any more. Now I have to manually set preferences on every instance of Firefox (at least to verify that DoH is truly off), and every other application that adopts DoH one at a time.

The goal of DoH for preventing snooping by ISPs is fine. It's the implementation with hardwired per-application resolver hosts that's bad.

Edit: There's a way to tell Firefox to disable DoH at the network level [0] but AFAIK this is just a Mozilla thing; it's not an RFC. Will other browsers and apps adopt this mechanism? Who knows?

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-di...
I can agree with not taking things personally but "obsessed with correctness" is not how I would describe systemd or PA
I swear at this point there is not a soul that really understand the low level pieces of a Linux distro fit together.

systemd-resolved is a separate project from systemd whose only relation is that it’s in the same repo. It’s up to your distro builder to decide if they want to use it. And also up to your distro if they want to use the stub resolver. It’s not necessary for systemd-resolved to work. The reason they have the stub listener is because on Linux every application is supposed to use glibc nss to resolve names but there are real-world applications that try, incorrectly, to parse resolv.conf and do dns queries themselves. This breaks things if your assumption is that all dns queries are going through systemd-resolved. And this project isn’t the first. Ubuntu and others have used dnsmasq as the stub resolver for the same reason. Using just the dns nss module and resolv.conf is fundamentally broken and at this point unfixable when you are connected to multiple networks or with separate dns or split tunnel VPNing. You have to provide your own, smarter, nss module and/or use a stub resolver to cover these use-cases.
Of course! Shoot me an email on carl@loodio.com
If you want to prevent MitM attacks, run a local DNS server with DNSSEC. DoH is a trend in the wrong direction. The more IoT garbage begins using DoH, the less control over your privacy you will have. Solutions like pi-hole are rendered useless by DoH.
I just can't get myself worked up over systemd. Every in-principle objection I have to systemd also applies to the Linux kernel itself—but orders of magnitude "worse."

Principles aside, in reality, systemd has been a complete non-issue for me and a massive quality of life improvement for Linux as a desktop operating system.
This is a nice list of linking "gotchas". However, i feel that the author is venting somewhat since this has been well known to experienced C/C++ developers. If you follow a few thumb rules, the situation is not bad and quite simple/dumb.
I had no idea about the creepware. Good write up!
For me: both
There is another interesting angle to Free File. If you are really annoyed at having to pay to file your taxes, there is a pressure relief value you will inevitably find that will make you reasonably content.

Anyone who really wants to not pay doesn't, so there is never a critical mass of passionate people.
There's just not enough in BSD for desktops. Ultimately, BSD solves package manager fragmentation (kinda, although there are now four BSDs) but not graphics layer fragmentation, and nobody's investing their time in half of a solution. Sure, "it's for servers [and powerusers]", but the barrier to entry is always lower for OSs you can use on the desktop and the narrative that most developers like tinkering with their config files has by now been conclusively disproven.

As for graphics layer fragmentation, it seems like Wayland makes it worse by handing more of the graphics stack over to window managers. But I guess it's also an opportunity for a BSD to make their own 'blessed' compositor (although this is extremely unlikely IMHO, for graphics driver reasons if nothing else).
Since most paid wifi networks let you log in without a network password and then gate internet access by redirecting HTTP/DNS requests to a captive portal, it should be possible to launch an ARP spoofing attack [0] to impersonate the default gateway, causing all clients to route their traffic to your device, whereupon you can examine it with WireShark or tcpdump to get at their MAC addresses. I've tried something similar while bored on a flight, but sadly the Surface Pro 7's Windows network drivers don't seem to let you change your MAC address.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing
I've checked out Zathura, but TBH i do want a GUI :-P.
Why not use Stylus instead?

.hnuser {font-size: 20px;}
They shouldn't need to "support" any Linux "release" if they only published the specifications for their hardware like a civilized hardware vendor.
I wish PLEAC had "filled out" more:

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

Rosetta Stone was a good idea, but it kind of fell into a algorithms zoo rather than actual help in cross-language fluency. I guess stackoverflow fills that void from a more scattershot direction, but when it comes to things like basic "library" operations, java has the JDK, Guava, Apache Commons, and a half-dozen other libraries for most tasks.
> There is so much glorification of the US Government in so many Hollywood movies it has simply become a thing to filter out.

There is almost as much vilification of the USG as there is glorification.

For example, a stereotypical USG Agent Gone Rogue character can just as easily be the hero as the villain in a Hollywood blockbuster (with the rest of the agency, or at least it's leadership, serving as the opposing villain or hero as needed). I don't know enough about Chinese cinema to say for certain whether the equivalent is true in that context, but the superficial impression I have is that it is not.
There is really no losing for them here. They make the whole thing more complicated and make money. As part of this they "lobby" lawmakers and so the lawmakers are happy. The candidates running for office get to use "streamining tax filing" as an election promise from time to time. Its a win-win all around for them. There is no way this changes.
A better criticism of DoH is here:

https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/12/03/doh-anti-competitive-an...

I just hate that it breaks Split Horizon which is totally legitimate. Leaking local-to-the-LAN queries onto the public internet is also a concern.

IMO the right way to do this is to run your own local DNS recursive resolver, and deploy DNSCurve. This doesn't work for myopic browser vendors though...
I would be wary of such an individual :)
Rajeevatla.com – high schooler does physics problems on his blog
Pass. The person asking the question is also very nearly begging it.
Sure, that's true. But being tall, attractive, and white, lets you get away with a lot of things were being under 30 and college educated doesn't matter as much.

For me, just growing out my hair and beard, which give away my ethnicity, result in drastically different treatment. Same for attractiveness, if I wear contact lenses and make an effort to look a certain way, life in general becomes significantly easier.
Biden says it will be difficult to achieve Covid herd immunity before summer end
Group people/pages you follow on social media
You might not consider that "quite limited", but that is likely because of a different interpretation of "private DNS".

Private communication is something that only the two (or more) parties communicating are privy to.

With HTTPS, the risk is reduced to CA compromise. With DoH, the risk is the company running the service on top of the CA compromise.

The parties communicating are the root/TLD name servers and me. Private DNS is DNS where nobody sees any of my DNS traffic, except for the root resolvers (which thus become the target of potential privacy breach).

Any intermediary means that they can see your data, but if they are centralized in only a few places, it's a bit beside the point. But then again, if they are so small that only a handful people use them, your traffic will be simple to filter out.

Finally, how do I set up my system to use any of these half-solutions for all DNS requests today?

I'd still prefer a DNS-over-Tor solution if anyone came up with it.
Or maybe people just didn't think it was relevant.
Manufacturing Consent is a book that had a big impact on how I perceive media, and I think it's wise to examine who's saying something and what their motives are, but I don't totally understand what you're saying. What's their motive here? I can't see a link between the narrative that people distrust media and their pr work for a bunch of gross corporations.
My high school provided MacBook Pros to students that would only connect to the network if the MAC address was whitelisted. Since I wanted to use my own newer Mac, I spoofed the address of my school provided one.

Since it was an open network, it was simple scraping the network for other connected devices and spoofing one at random, and I was surprised when the same technique worked in say, hotels with open networks.
Have you read the original memo with the citations intact? Gizmodo published an edited version. I would agree that the memo reads like a series of bigoted conjectures if you read the edited version.
Cannot compete with The Big Hack by Bloomberg, LOL
In my Algorithms in Drug Design class in school, one of the research projects was using docking software to do an alpha/beta search for mutations that would alter protein structure while preserving binding affinity, with the idea of heading off vaccine escape (in this case HIV) by predicting the mutations likely to escape antibody binding.

Is anything like that being done with covid?

Edit: the Alpha move was to mutate the antibody and the Beta move was to mutate the viral protein iirc.
The functionality provided by the stub resolver is documented in the man page[0]. You may not be using it, but other people are.

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-res...
The term "banana republic" was coined in 1904, exactly to describe Caribbean states where governments have less clout than United Fruit Company.

But this is too close. Instead, let's remember how the Hanseatic Union, an multi-national sea trade corporation of medieval times, waged war on Danish and Norwegian kings which had the impudence to plunder one of its trade ports, and won singlehandedly.
Growing up in the pre-Internet era Reader’s Digest was such a good resource due to stories like these. Was always excited to see a new magazine arrive every month.

I wonder if it’s any good now. Haven’t looked at it in years.
Even if there were 5 million net new gun owners (which your source doesn't even begin to indicate), that would be less than +2% of the adult population, which would be within the year-to-year noise in any of the data series on gun ownership. It wouldn't cast even the slightest bit of doubt on the long term trend, which is clear in every long term data series on the issue.

And, of course, 5 million first time gun buyers aren't the same as 5 million new gun owners, much less 5 million net new gun owners, (that is, after accounting for gun owners who died or—voluntarily or not—stopped owning guns; and the died part is more significant than you might think, as gun ownership is significantly lower in the sub-50 age cohorts than the 50-64 and 65+ cohorts; just by naive estimation considering only age, deaths in the 50+ cohort alone would reduce the count of gun owners by something like 1.3 million, and in all age categories by about 1.4 million)
> But then I'd be tacitly agreeing that it's a "bypass", when there's nothing to "bypass" in the first place.

If the terms of the distributed content are “I don’t want you to copy this” and the technology has the ability to disable copying it (however flawed or limited), and your expectation is that the software disregard that express wish for distribution... you are asking the software to facilitate you in disregarding the express wish of the creator. How is that long winded way of saying it not “bypass”?
Reward Dependence - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_dependence
I have indeed read the memo.
I’ve been paying for it for years and honestly I don’t regret it. There’s a lot that goes into their software that makes filing taxes really easy. Their site also provides so much help during the filing that I would probably spend hours researching otherwise. It’s not for everyone and yes I agree their taxes are deceiving, but does save me time each year.
>>> The GPL license is more strict on developers and it is an open source anti-pattern

...oookk...
Nujani is on gear, and what's more, he has an NDA which means he can't talk about it even if he wanted to.

Najani gave a series of press interviews in 2019/2020 as part of the original press campaign for The Eternals, so I don't know why you think an NDA would apply here. (And for that matter, the SAG agreement with the studio would generally bar an NDA of that nature.) He had a year to get into shape, and a wife to make sure he kept to his diet, and that sort of transformation is definitely doable for a normal guy in a year. If anything, his transformation is pretty underwhelming given that he had a full year to get ready; if he had been doing steroids his arms and chest should be significantly larger.

Look at his jawline if you don't believe me, what diet is supposed to do that?

His jawline in that picture is natural; that's what it can look like when you have <9% body fat and you're extremely dehydrated and sucking in your cheeks when the picture is being taken.
Agreed. I think the hate against him stems from him just completely dismissing POSIX and the unix philosophy. Personally, I think this is a positive direction to move in. Let's stop worrying about the design principles that happened to underlie one of the operating systems that got popular. Instead, let's keep innovating and thinking of better ways to do things. That's what Poettering is doing.
Saving lifes for a month doesn't make sense?
In the UK most people never file taxes. It's all done Pay As You Earn (PAYE), i.e. taken out of your monthly pay check. You get an annual summary of your tax payments every year, as well as it being detailed each month on your pay stub.

People that are self employed tend to need to do self-file, or those with slightly more complicated investment approaches but even then that's generally not a particular hard task.

One of the other advantages of it, is it discourages a rebate based approach to incentives. With most people not needing to file taxes each year, rebates wouldn't be particularly effective at encouraging behaviour. The government instead opts for subsidies, so the item is cheaper _at the time of purchase_. No shelling out the extra money and then eventually clawing it back, without any interest it might have accrued for you.

It was quite a shock when I moved to the US and got to experience the "delights" of filing taxes here.
Not all MitMs inject malicious responses; denial of service is equally problematic. If you can block DNS requests via a pihole, so can your upstream ISP (whether it's because they want to throttle your internet usage, or police it, or whatever else).

And even just a passive observer snooping on your DNS requests can result in an invasion of privacy.
I am part of the US study for this vaccine. Any ideas on what this could mean for the possibility of an EUA in the US?
Running a distro is a ton of work. Writing your own one off init scripts per package is even more work.

The short answer is...Red Hat has money and threw it behind systemd. Like them or hate them, they are in many ways the deciding fate of Linux systems. So, other distros fall in line. Ubuntu is a contender, but gave in and followed suit too.

Void and Solus are both good distros that don't use systemd. I'd go as far as to call Solus the best out of the box distro ive ever used.
People tried. But the dotcom voices were louder.

And drunker.
Thanks for sharing this piece of info, I had no idea, seems like great news!
First - I don't know if this guy originated the term or not, but he's got an eloquent, well-written explanation about what is meant by "straight white male is easy mode for real life": His original post is here[1], along with two follow up articles [2][3]. Definitely worth taking the time to read.

In terms of why life isn't easy for all tall white guys - being tall, and white, and a guy helps but it's not everything. Some example of how it helps: As a white person I've never had to worry about being pulled over by a cop for "driving while white". A couple years ago when videos of cops shooting black people for things like 'driving away from a traffic stop' horrified me. Obviously it's wrong to drive away from a traffic stop but I couldn't imagine a police officer responding with gunshots if I did that. So yes, my race does make my life easier here in the USA.

Some ways that tall, white, male isn't helpful: none of those things directly get me money/wealth. If I grow up poor I'm going to have a tough life no matter how safe I feel around the police. Being tall is nice, and it's great being able to use the top shelf in my kitchen cabinets, but it doesn't put food on the table (at least, not directly).
Similarly, what if one grew up with abusive parents? That can really f*k someone up, and while it's nice not having to worry when I hold hands with my sweetie in public a history of abuse may make it more difficult to find and sustain positive relationships with the women in my life.

So yeah - being tall, and white, and male makes some things easier, but it doesn't fix all the problems for everyone.

[1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-t...

[2] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/17/lowest-difficulty-set...

[3] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/23/final-notes-for-lowes...
I don't think this is as simple as you're suggesting. You mention talking over people and interrupting, but there are cultures like my own where that's just how you have a conversation. In order to fit the "inclusive environment" mold, I have to deliberately suppress my natural speech patterns, making sure I don't ever talk to my coworkers the way I would to my family.

I don't mean to claim this is the biggest problem in the world. If a company thinks they can be a lot more inclusive of other people by being a bit less inclusive of me, that's fine in my book. But it's frustrating to see these kinds of cultural impositions described as though they have no costs or tradeoffs. Cultural mismatches are hard to handle, and we do ourselves no favors by pretending that the solution is obvious.
You agreed by accepting the distribution that expressly forbade it. The software knows you agreed by you accessing content that instructed the same software to prevent you from copying it to the best of its ability.
I didn't understand that argument at all. The GPL mandates that companies release their code. That's it. There's no rule that the code has to be upstreamed or that the companies need to try to make other projects use it. To the extent such behavior is incentivized, it should be incentivized just as much with more permissively-licensed code.
Gun owners already don't have a seat at the table when it comes to gun control laws. There is no room for discussion, no give and take, just take.
Dec 24 2020: Fauci says

> "we really don't know what the number is"

and

> "In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...
As I understand it the FM radio feature requires physical headphones to act as an antenna. Maybe enough people are on bluetooth headphones (Airpods etc.) that it's no longer cost-effective to include the physical headphone circuitry which is required for the FM receiver to work.
This looks very similar to the mobile multiplayer Mini Militia: https://www.minimilitia.mobi/

We used to play this a lot among friends a few years ago in college.
> Eventually, you want the ownership experience of the gasoline car without the emissions

No I don't. I abhor getting into the car and realizing I need to stop at the gas station before I can drive to the trail head and ride with my friends. The idea of having a car that is ready to perform at maximum every time I step out the front door has a tremendous appeal. I hate gas stations, they stink, they are a waste of my time, often when I don't have time to spare.

Maybe you want to replicate that experience. I'll pass.
What the world needs now is a Dogecoin ETF that meets SEC standards and regulations...
and more importantly... reader shows obvious bias against Walmart... I wonder if he works for Target?

(Lesson: Random idiots on the idiot yelling at each other about who can't be trusted pushing "conspiracy theories" about "The Wallsmart" pushing polls and people who don't believe the polls and etc etc etc. Yes... I'm one of those random idiots.)
I'm not positive if any of them charge at this point, but years ago this would also work at airports.
1980's Japan
Or disabling and stop systemd-resolved should do the same thing.
I think the point is that tax filing being difficult, hence software to "make it really easy" is in some part their fault.
This thread started under the topic "believe it or not, Chinese people are actually pretty happy with their government given the record over the last few decades".

Can you think about what would be persuasive to such a person?

They're not American, didn't grow up on your information diet, and really don't give a shit about what's "communist" or not. Their economy is state-controlled to the tune of Norway, or a little less so. Who cares. They are all doing way better than a generation or 2 ago, and here in America, we are comparatively struggling. They see this. Why should they want our system instead?
...why did global warming killing 9 people make a glacier break in India?
> He in no way satisfies the nature vs nature debate

I'll assume you meant nature v. nurture. If so, then the Tyson family is absolutely an edge case in the debate. Mike was famously in and out of trouble in his younger years, having been arrested 38 times as a teenager. He was a bit of a child of the streets, so to speak.

What is fascinating and much lesser known is his older brother, Rodney. (Their sister unfortunately died at 24 from a heart attack)

Rodney Tyson is a pediatric trauma surgeon.

Two men who grew up eating the exact same food, in the exact same rooms, watching the exact same TV shows grew up to have radically different lives and careers. Yet both are accomplished in their choices.

I don't know what to exactly make of the Tyson family in the nature v nurture debate, but the differences between the brothers are some of the widest that I have seen.
Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update