skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The assertion of this injunction is, in essence, that if there is any technical possibility of denying access to content by a specific party or mechanism, then it is required by law that blocking take place on demand, regardless of the cost or likelihood of success."

Technically, this block does not stop anyone from getting the IP address for a domain. Anyone can resolve a domain name using public information that is disseminated from domain name registries, domain name registrars and other authoritative DNS providers. Quad9 is just a third party DNS provider, not an authoritative source for IP addresses. In theory, third party DNS providers could refuse to provide (resolve) the IP address for any domain name. They could do this on their own accord, to suit their own interests, or at the behest of anyone, e.g., an end user, a financial contributor (donor), an interested corporate partner, or perhaps pursuant to a court-ordered injunction.

In fact, this in exactly what Quad9 does: they block domains. They advertise this capability on their website, where even the most non-techical reader could find it. From the "About" page:

"Quad9 blocks against known malicious domains, preventing your computers and IoT devices from connecting to malware or phishing sites."

Third party DNS has a number of potential problems; filtering is one. Funny how people have literaly turned that problem into a selling point. For example, OpenDNS, now part of Cisco, started a business doing DNS-based filtering.

Personally I fail to see why third party DNS (ISP-provided DNS or so-called "open resolvers") remains a preferred method of retrieving IP addresses or other RRs. IMO, there is no technical advantange anymore.

Many years ago I wrote a system for resolving domains without using recursion, using only authoritative queries, never setting the RD bit. It was very fast. Faster than a cold cache, IME. It could actually get faster as it acquires more addresses of authoritative servers, because it does not need to look them up again. It "learns". The best aspect though is that there are no unecessary third party middlemen. Third party DNS providers are not authoritative sources for any RR. They are middlemen. They do not operate for free. They are potentially subject to influence from whomever pays the bills.

People often discuss "privacy" when they discuss third party DNS service. IMO, using a shared third party DNS cache seems antithetical to "privacy" (not to mention "security"). In any event, it enables filtering by someone who is not an authority for the DNS data they are serving, a middleman. This is the view of an end user, not a corporation nor a developer working for one.
Doesn't opa do something like this?
Am I the only one who feels like Windows 11, at its core, is just one giant telemetry upgrade with a shinier UI?
Careful. The top 1% pay 40% of federal income tax, not of all taxes. Federal income tax is around half of total federal tax revenue.

I also wonder, is that "20% of all income" figure 20% of all taxable income, or all declared income?
It already has broken the cycle. I was a Windows Insider and have used Windows 10 since the first build in October 2014 and several builds of the bi-annual updates after that (assuming the new features/optimizations were worth the headache). The early RTM versions of 10 really sucked as far as getting UWP apps to operate without random crashing. Since Windows 8, Search of Windows has been designed horrendously and that was made worse by Windows 10 with it's "cloud-based" Bing clutter (something that still hasn't changed since). Telemetry processes gobbled up memory and disk speed on HDDs and required cmd hacks to stop. A plus for Windows 10 is that the OS itself is stable and robust even on early Insider builds. Bad Patch Tuesdays and hibernation issues notwithstanding, it takes quite a bit of effort to get the OS to BSOD. But Windows 10 would have been better of as a reskinned and optimized Windows 7 + MS Store than the perennial Beta test OS that Windows 10 became. And it doesn't look like Windows 11 is going to be all that different in the respect.
I've been exclusively using LibreOffice for ~10 years, and OpenOffice before that, and aside from just doing some things differently (not worse) compared to MS Office, it's been smooth sailing.

And for most people Google Docs or... Office 365 are all they really need.
Thinks back to days in high school just willing that minute hand to move
Which computer are you posting this from?
Hi Glenn, how are you finding hiring for product-type roles right now, at this stage of the pandemic recovery?

I'm interested in moving to the USA from Australia with the special E3 visa* available to Aussie professionals,

but I suspect that the job market needs to be kinda hot already, for me to get a look in (given the initial inconvenience and uncertainty of hiring a non-American).

*Similar process to hiring a Canadian
I am aware of the fact its popular to dislike the ultra-rich, but is this not worrying to the general public?

ProPublica has obtained a trove of IRS tax return data on thousands of the country’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years.

Someone leaked not only Gates, Bezos, Musk, etc data, but thousands of private citizen's intimate financial disclosures (edit: seemingly for the purpose of weaponizing the data against them).

What crime were these thousands of people convicted of to deserve this?
Ha.

Just googled my own name. I know there are ~5 living people with the same semi-unusual name. They now show wikipedia text for an 18th century person (with the same name) along with a great 2020ish color photo of one of other currently living people with this name.

I've purposefully kept my few necessary online photos in grayscale, perhaps that helps ever so slightly with their brilliant industry leading AI algorithms...
Don't play multiplayer games on Linux.
Sure, sex and year of birth alone are fine. Why do you assume they won't be able to use the medical data to further de-anonymize it? "Male, 1993, records are from a hospital in Central Texas so he lives there, who has posted on social media about conditions x, y and z" would probably turn up... me.
I hear ya...
It sounds like a specific failure of gyros, what characteristic causes that failure? Are they more susceptible to cosmic rays or something? Do you know how they've mitigated that failure?
I think this should not be related for OS tiers. Every user should have possibility to use different accounts on their computer, and to adjust permission levels of them and choose which one to connect to MS account.

One could be sceptical that with admin account required for MS account, telemetry collection and applying some other kind of restrictions is much easier to target the vast majority of the users.
I expect Amazon would be included under Android in those numbers.
I think reversing the x-axis was a particularly inventive choice!
This is why the media usually refers to well known criminals by their full (first middle last) names.
silk is still an animal product, so really, it's not vegan at all.
It is entirely possible that at the time the Nightwatch was considered ugly.
Let us not forget Rembrandt died an impoverished man.

How art is appreciated changes with the times.
The group, formed in December, is private and relatively small (57 members)

It's not reasonable to promote a private group.
> “Progressive Democrats of Nevada,” “Michigan Republicans”, “Bernie Sanders for President 2020,” “Liberty lovers for Ted Cruz,” “Philly for Elizabeth Warren”

For classifying things like this as political, a typical bayesian 'spam' filter would perform very well.
this just seems like a google-faith comment.
In the current job market, you might try reaching out to companies posting full-time jobs and ask if they'd be interested in having you part-time. They might go for it.

(I've had some success with this but by no means universally. Depends on how much trouble they're having filling a role, how much of a fit you'd be.)
In that case you should know whether a management profile[1] has been installed, but you shouldn't assume you can simply create another admin account.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/server/intro-to-profile-mana...
With all due respect, if you think someone will give you $50M because of your medium post, you are delusional. Who are you?
Thanks! Let us know if it ends up being used at your college :)
WPS Office is alright for most people, if you are okay with proprietary software from a Chinese vendor. However, it obviously doesn't cover e.g. Excel power user needs.

Or you can just use Google Docs, or even the browser edition of Microsoft Office.
Lol. Advertising is the least of my concerns when it comes to surveillance
I don't use Snapchat so I could be mistaken but I don't think it works in a web browser or in a desktop app. There could be some others as well.
Finnegan's Wake absolutely exists to be read, or even sung, out loud. If you've never gotten the appeal, just try listening to the start of an audiobook version. There's a Youtube series that covers the first few chapters that I adore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HgCjtd2iPU
re: Secure Boot:

>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

>For more information, search for the System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot system requirements in PDF download of the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program Specifications and Policies.

>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...

>Windows 11 >Download Specifications and Policies, version 21H2

This is a .zip file containing multiple PDFs. From "Systems.pdf":

>System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot (page 99 of 184)

>15. No in-line mechanism is provided whereby a user can bypass Secure Boot failures and boot anyway.Signature verification override during boot when Secure Boot is enabled is not allowed. A physically present user override is not permitted for UEFI images that fail signature verification during boot. If a user wants to boot an image that does not pass signature verification, they must explicitly disable Secure Boot on the target system.

So if you want to boot an OS that doesn't work with Secure Boot, you're allowed to disable it. You just won't be able to boot Windows 11.

>20. (Optional for systems intended to be locked down) Enable/Disable Secure Boot. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-bandmanagement connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible.

So they don't disallow the OEM from allowing Secure Boot to be disabled.

It does seem weird to see "must be allowed to disable" in a point marked "Optional", but maybe there's a strict definition of "systems intended to be locked down" that OEMs can't apply willy-nilly to any arbitrary consumer device. At the very least, they're not requiring the OEM to disallow Secure Boot from being disabled.
> * TPM 2.0 and UEFI are hardware requirements. No legacy BIOS compatibility at all?

This is a dealbreaker for me, guess I won't be upgrading and will use linux most of the time instead of half of the time going forward
What do people expect if you effectively decriminalize these crimes?
Some countries have public tax returns (Sweden? Norway? One of those Nordic countries.)

I think probably they should be public data.

That aside, for very rich people, having them be public is in the interest of the public as it reveals the shady stuff they do to dodge taxes (legally.)
Covid, Forecasting, and the Problem with the Precautionary Principle
> . In both cases, the correct hours were posted on the business's website

Google has started favoring info inputted into the Google My Business listing (the same one that dictates what appears in Google Maps for claimed businesses), so if the owners are updating their website but not updating that (or checking their email for emails from google that say '[business], are you open on 4th of July?') it'll show incorrect info.
from my angle yes, zero, nothing not one proper conversation

I tried many time to talk anyone about the logic, nothing

after the vote the same.

and I'm not really an emotional person at all, but I realised early on this was emotional subject. I just wanted to understand the facts and the reasons
That’s fucking lame.
Thanks for responding.

Question 1 is basically how do you define impact? What does a candidate who has not made an impact (or made a negative impact) look like in an interview? The reason I ask is that it strikes me that there are so many intangibles in business outcomes.

I'm also curious about how you conduct and benchmark your reference interviewing - I have given lengthy reference interviews for colleagues taking executive roles, but those references were extremely rose-colored. There's no incentive for me to be candid.
Simplicity is not for ordinary mortals. How many people did you think can wrap their head around simple taxation rules?
> IMO, there is no technical advantange anymore.

So, have you tired resolving a domain on a high-latency connection? Or live in an area where the internet routing don't make sense but you don't have a choice (or worse, you have a choice to different ISPs who all have different weird routing)? Not everyone has a good connection, and this is doubly true for residential connections. In those cases, "smart" DNS providers can steer the users to the fastest route, which in some cases resolves to a better server than the answer given to when a user does a direct recursive answer (because the authoritative servers directs the user into a "bumpy" routing). That's the (original) selling point of 1.1.1.1: they will use Cloudflare's knowledge of your routing to give you a better server (even if the domain you're asking for is not from Cloudflare's network).
It's not about disliking the ultra-rich.

It's about recognizing how the entire system is stacked against working people and that these ultra-rich pay 0% in taxes, while I pay 30%.

The backbone of this nation is funded by the middle class and the poor being taxed, while the rich externalize their expenses to the government and pay little to nothing in taxation.

If some IRS docs need to get leaked, then so be it. The reporting on this has been pretty responsible.
I would say that tax evasion isn't as black and white as you make it out to be (tax attorneys will take aggressive and passive stances on their interpretation of the law). As well there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.

Agree I could also have set up a roth IRA like that. What I don't have access to is the deal flow and the ability to structure the deal on my terms (supposedly i.e. shares for pennies). That's something only power/money and access can get you.
Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes Successfully
I pretty much assume they're watching everything I do on a work computer. I don't do anything that would be too embarrassing to see sitting printed out on my supervisor's desk.
What do you mean "exchanged"? Are you suggesting people should just trade a larger (and more expensive) house for a cheaper one? Why on earth would anybody want to do that? They may sell their house and buy a smaller one, but "exchange"? Based on this comment and others of yours it sounds like you don't believe people should own land.
I agree with you; however, that's kind of the point. Google has the power to organize and control a significant amount of information. These statements are very different:

- Google doesn't censor anything

- Google censors things that a lot of people agree are offensive

The 2nd gets into tricky territory, because not everyone agrees on what is/is not offensive. I happen to think that most of the things they remove are probably good to remove. But the implication is still that Google wields (and at times uses) enormous power.

Things get even more grey (and potentially problematic) when you get into ranking algorithms, which have the power to sway opinions on major topics/events.

And as you mentioned, my parent comment is also a response to the very direct (and incorrect) claim:

> It seems that they do [control information], but they don't.
In this case, we also several hints that the guy is dead:

- “Hristo Bogdanov Georgiev […] was a Bulgarian rapist and serial killer”

- “Cause of Death: Execution by hanging”

- “Died: August 28, 1980 (aged 23-24)”

Yet we also have

- Born: 1956 (age 65 years)

Also, if they don’t exactly know at what age he died, how do they know he would be 65 now, and not 64?

I think Google can do better, but not at the scale they need to cover all bases in Google search.
What is a 2D language?
Many years before I left my company, I purchased my own equipment for personal use. I actually had better equipment than that provided by my employer.

They monitored the living bejeezus out of my work equipment, and wouldn't let personal equipment (including phones) connect to the corporate network.

It was pretty overboard, but my company was seriously paranoid. It actually caused problems. For example, we wrote optimized C++, and optimizing on a monitored system is...difficult; especially with some of the custom gnarlyware we got from companies like Intel.

It also meant that I never worried about mixing my personal work with company work. If I had personal equipment at work, I would use 4G/hotspot. Not ideal (so I didn't really do anything more than check emails at work). It also allowed me to get to some of the banned sites (the company had a nasty habit of banning exactly the kinds of sites that optimizers like to read).

Another benefit was that I left my work equipment at work, so I couldn't easily be roped into doing out-of-band work. I had a great excuse.

It was annoying, but fine with me. I think the company went way overboard in their paranoia, but it was their company, and they got to set the rules. I have never had any interest in causing issues with them, so I was careful not to do anything that would step on their toes. They pretty much returned the favor.
Now I'm wondering if times I couldn't sleep because of a ticking clock were due to arrhythmia in the clock - low batteries, extreme temperatures, dirt, spider mite sitting on pinion - that somehow prevented my brain from filtering out the sound.

Probably more likely a lack of sync in my brain (I have very little sense of rhythm).
If you are not going to pay for the mortgage or rent then who owns the house? Nobody? Everybody?
Definitely limited by the 1gbps or even 10gbs network connection
Naughty Dog historically disagreed with this [0], plenty of games these days are developed in languages with GC but it is a performance trade off. For maximum performance any Lisp is probably not the way to go but I don't think it's unfeasable.

I want to say in general e.g. SBCL (a popular common lisp implementation) will perform a lot better than Racket. Racket is a great language but performance is not it's strong suit.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
Got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon today, thank you for the suggestion. I love it!
this is a very very narrow view on this, but it creeps me out thinking that in 10 years I won't be able to see a good amount of my personal computer run.
I don't disagree - I would say that he definitely leaned in on the letter of the law and leaned away from the spirit of the law. $5B in untaxed gains is frankly both impressive in that he generated those returns and also feels a bit unfair to the rest of us who have to pay cap gains on all our smaller wins.
That's not a positive. Ethereum is a premined scam coin.
Even if 90% of businesses play along (doing Google's data entry work for them), the 10% chance of my wasting half an hour makes it worth ignoring the info box and double-checking each time.
Everyone knows that HN is work.
From my point of view, one person telling all their friends that your game sucks can completely offset the nearly zero sales of native linux games. On the other hand most linux gamers know how to run games under wine, so I really don't see any advantage for a developer to make a native linux version.
If I knew the author this would be cool: AFAIK I've never met a serial killer!

Of course were I him it might be pretty bad. Serial killer is serious enough that people might consider there to have been a bug (as there was). But something less outlandish, like a misattributed fraud arrest, could have some pretty bad consequences.
Debating wether tax returns should or should not be public is a great debate to have, I agree. The country should be having that debate. And if we decide tax returns should be made public, it should happen in the future so everyone is on the same page.

The fact is that US tax returns are private information, regardless of what other countries are doing or what you and I think should be done.
Microsoft is the second Tech company to reach a $2T marketcap
I would have never thought of that. ty for the tip
Why does 1366x768 resolution exist?
Apple and MSU launch first U.S. Developer Academy to empower Detroiters
Most people know the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, fewer know what comes after that. AFAIK it's "epsilon" after delta, not delta+

Joking aside, in my opinion this naming convention is useless and just leads to more confusion. What argument supported this naming convention at the WHO?
Agreed. To be even more explicit, I'm not saying "do not weigh the research concern against the privacy concern".
I had a similar experience. MacOS was the answer. For me, the moat around MacOS is so large that I refuse to consider any other laptop brand.

This has been the most frictionless operating system I've used to date. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to make other options undesirable.
> I think China is just trying to take pot shots

Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the UN, had some good ripostes to China (and Syria):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqBOlLRcgQ&t=11m12s
That limit is not specific to `find`. It applies to the `exec` family of functions. There's no way around it, so it also applies to globbing, command substitution, etc.

Also, it's not ARG_MAX arguments; it's ARG_MAX byte length for the argument list, in addition to, on Linux, the environment list.

A modern Linux machine has it set over 2,000,000, so it can easily fit 1,000 arguments.
I think the problem is these IRAs were not designed to shield the super rich from taxes. It's meant to help the average person. Implemented properly it should have an upper limit, probably under a million dollars. Letting it grow to five billion tax free is a loophole that shouldn't exist and does not benefit society at large.
How odd to demand anything of a free content producer, no?
If I don't see a Profiles section in my System Preferences, does this mean that my employer has a very high level of trust in me?
This reminds me of why I think Wargames is likely the best hacking movie of all time: the crux of the final moments is about poisoning an AI by giving it bad data to bias it's outcomes!

This kind of vulnerability is not really on many people's radar, but will likely be a huge deal within 15-20 years, and for that movie to make it the major plot point in 1983 -- wow! It has a lot of other great things in it like shoulder surfing, wardialling, hardwiring, phone phreaking. Just an amazing tour.

Anyway, I support your plans to trick the drive-lords into special-casing an audacious jacket. :)