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> They [the leaked files] show banks blindly moving cash through their accounts for people they can’t identify,

This doesn't seem like a solvable problem in practice. In theory KYC laws require them to know who the customer is, but what does that even mean? The shell corporation whose sole purpose is to be listed as the customer of the bank? The straw man with no ties to the underlying organization who received a bag of cash to be listed as that corporation's executive?

All KYC laws really do is harass innocent people who have trouble meeting their requirements. The people moving large sums illicitly can work around it by paying a fixed amount to do these kinds of shell games, which the ordinary people dealing with ordinary sums of money can't afford but the big time criminals can.

> failing to report transactions with all the hallmarks of money laundering until years after the fact

This sounds more like garden variety bureaucratic incompetence than some kind of malicious activity. After all, if they were actually in cahoots with the bad guys, they'd have advised them how to make their transactions not have "all the hallmarks of money laundering" to begin with.

Also, a lot of perfectly legitimate transactions have "all the hallmarks of money laundering" because money laundering is, by definition, designed to look like a lot of perfectly legitimate transactions.

> even doing business with clients enmeshed in financial frauds and public corruption scandals

How is that not what they're supposed to do? To do otherwise would be to presume guilt rather than innocence. Imagine you get falsely accused of some kind of fraudulent activity and while you're busy proving your innocence in court, you get evicted from your house and have your car repossessed because no bank will allow you to make your loan payments while "enmeshed" in those false accusations.
This type of misleading behaviour and false-representation is called astroturfing.
I feel we are quite lucky that Egypt is a relatively stable country throughout the time that modern tools have become available to find ancient burial sites.

They are able and incentivized to use proper scientific methods and slow exhuming to preserve as much information about an ancient human culture as possible.

Considering how much political and societal turmoil has been and still is in the surrounding regions, all of these finds could have easily been pilfered and lost as they had been through Egypt's earlier history.
Open real-time crypto market data set
Check out Anonymouth:

https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

(How do you hyperlink text here?)
> In the next round of languages, we'll probably have to deal directly with non-shared memory. Totally shared memory in multiprocessors is an illusion maintained by elaborate cache interlocking and huge inter-cache bandwidth. That has scaling limits. Future languages will probably have to track which CPUs can access which data. "Thread local" and "immutable" are a start.

Interesting prediction. It is precisely the model of threading which Nim follows, global variables are thread local and sharing them is restricted. I'm not sure if the Nim designer thought of it in the terms you've described, but I will certainly point this out to him :)
Most non-fiction has a recursive introduction, body, conclusion structure. The nature of the structure varies a little from author to author, but can be identified pretty quickly. In pop non-fiction (and especially in business/management/productivity non-fiction) at a certain depth in the tree the body will be entirely filler and can be skipped wholesale. This is how I "read" most non-fiction now: first and last paragraph of each chapter (or section), first sentence of each paragraph in between, if something strikes me as particularly interesting or unintuitive I'll backtrack and read the full paragraphs before and after. Once I've done a first pass like this I'll decide whether I want to go back and read the full thing word-for-word. Typically the answer is "no."
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I'm a techie who indirectly makes money off the explosion in AI so I can't say how to fix this problem. It's good people are talking about it. There are many problems with social media and tech addiction, some of which were partially or totally covered by this movie. It was a nice production and should get people talking.

I hope we all, as HN commenters, take a moment to consider our participation in social media, including this site. Please be aware that your online communities are not the real world, that people are human, and those upvotes do not validate your opinions. I apologize for all the pointless, angry arguments I've participated in, and hope you do as well. Let your humanity shine through everything you do.
I call it "disruption management". A strong assistant knows your priorities, often times better than you when you're being bombarded. They help manage the firehose of requests, logistics, details, and information to keep you focused on what's important.
I'd love to give you a long list but I don't have it - I just know what I don't know. I'm actively looking for more sources as I'm interested in working in this area, given its societal importance.
> Rust will never displace C++ or C. C++ does things Rust can't.

Could you expand a little bit on that?
Maybe its most useful to think of this as sort of an "isometric" 3D rendering, because this extra dimension is usually only exposed to the user modally: the third dimension is whatever site you happen to be visiting at the present time. By 2D I was mostly referring to the interface, which is a "matrix", and commenting on how that particular metaphor makes managing a complex request blocker a much better experience.
Thanks for your work on pychromecast, I've looked and it's the best supported library for working with Chromecasts out there. It was also pleasant to integrate into this project.

Does the pychromecast project use semantic versioning? I've had to pin the library to a specific version after running into an API breaking change on what would be a minor or patch update to 7.X if the project used SemVer.
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I have a lot of great conversations on Facebook, typically better than the conversations my blog posts elsewhere. It's a matter of cultivating a good community.
WebAssembly is a red herring because anything useful that these applications do is enabled by the available APIs.

A WAsm program can’t magically bypass the browser and access OS services directly. Everything still needs to go through web APIs, and then you realize that it doesn’t make much difference whether your program bitstream is delivered as minified JS or WAsm.
Teflon, Pyrex, Spandex/Lycra, Ethyl (sadly), NutraSweet, Mylar, Nylon. That’s just a few seconds of thought.
That was Jaron Lanier.

http://www.jaronlanier.com/ if you're interested in more. He was an early pioneer in VR tech, and is a person with generally interesting ideas. He is more known today for his critiques of the tech industry and Silicon Valley culture.
Whereas if you'd bought an LG TV you'd punch the volume control and nothing would happen on the Denon. Both devices claim to support CEC. With an older Sony TV, only some CEC messages worked (I think enough for a Chromecast to be able to switch the active input).

I think they forgot the "consumer" part of "consumer electronics control".
No, but anybody who uses a strawman as an argument can clearly never see a finer point...
Screened Out is also very good and touches on the influence social media has on child development https://www.netflix.com/title/81306217
Defending Digital Democracy: The Election Influence Operations Playbook
my parents have gone through about 4 microwaves in the last 15 years. the one before that they had for about 15 it was only replaced because the dial broke off while they were moving.
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I used to worry about these sorts of questions much more. At this point I'm fairly convinced it's already past saving. The current state of browsers is pretty scary. Combining the text-web and the app-web into one client has caused serious issues.

But it doesn't have to be a bad thing. I think the browser will continue its slow death, and eventually be replaced by something new, or maybe a suite of new things tailored to different tasks, rather than a single monolithic application. We've learned a ton from the web, and that knowledge will inform what comes next.

These days I'm much more concerned about the health of the internet (ie what's happening with QUIC, net neutrality, fiber rollout, ipv6, NAT, etc).

The internet will far outlive the web.
How do you remove a dictator from power without invading that country?
I’d disagree that goretex is teflon. They have the same chemical formula but are clearly different. PTFE is used in laboratory glassware and would be neither gore-tex nor teflon.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535903
Probably that already in the "middle 18th century" it was close to a billion people (and in any case, many more than low thousands: hundreds of millions).

Heck, ancient Athens alone (a single Greek city) had a population in the "low thousands" in 500 B.C.
The drug dealer was selling meth. Meth destroys people. And meth addiction leads to many robberies and burglaries. I think punishing this meth dealer is a net positive for society.
Does borg prevent attacker verifying the presence of a file? Dedup content based things may have this problem, and I can't find in the docs that this is addressed.

File or chunk.
Go needs synchronized and immutable collections, or at least to start trusting users to roll their own. Concurrent slice appends will overwrite each other unpredictably, and concurrent map writes and reads can panic.
Documentaries are made a clear statement of narrative intent. You can disagree with the positioning, but a documentary never pretends to be something other than a documentary.

What is Instagram? Is it a tool for sharing photos, or is a social engineering experiment intended to increase competitive anxiety and narcissism?

What is Facebook? Is it a way to stay in touch with friends and family, or is it a social engineering experiment designed to promote "engagement" through ever-increasing political and emotional extremism?

If I want to make a documentary I can use the camera in my cellphone and maybe a cheap lapel microphone, buy some cheap studio lights, and edit it with cheap software. The research would be harder to buy, but still not impossible for someone with good basic journalism skills.

If it's not defamatory I can post it on YouTube. If it's solid journalism with an original and interesting angle there's even a fair chance I'll be able to sell it a media network.

If I want to create my own global social network - that's a slightly more challenging project.
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Its been 5 years since you’ve been living in the UK and now you’ve gone out to celebrate with the mates. Everyone is celebrating, sharing memories about how it’s been staying In the UK with you. The conversation shifts to the of how amusing their permanent residence card pictures look, everyone laughs but you grow nervous. You have no idea what is a permanent residence card. So that’s what we’ll be explaining today and how we can help!

Applying for a permanent residence card can be a quite hectic process. A qualified person can include you if they apply online for permanent residence. If they cannot apply online, download and fill in the permanent residence card application form. Post it to the Home Office, using the address on the form. Include the fee and supporting documents listed on the form. You must also pay £19.20 to have your biometric information taken. You’ll be told how to do this after you’ve applied. Now, you’ve seen how time consuming and confusing this process can be, and that why most people tend to stay away from it. Resulting in them not wanting to apply at all. This is where Hoopers Group steps in to make this process so much easier and faster. Hoopers Group offers professional support to you and promises quality service. We understand the hassle and ensure you a smooth journey. Envision being very nearly an inch away from accomplishing your dream and being restricted since you were unable to get enough data about a college, your visa handling couldn't come through or your budgetary position wouldn't permit you-that is the place we come in. That little inch? We go about as an extension to make that inch vanish. Hoopers Group is a group of experienced experts who try to offer help to understudies and people who need to seek after their higher investigations universally. Hooper Group isn't only any organization, we are one that needs you to win.
What data do you have on your personal machine that warrants such a setup? For me, I keep my laptop clean such that if anything goes wrong then no worries.

Photos are on Google Photos, use Dropbox/drive for data.
Also related: North Korea launders money through US banks to avoid sanctions.

https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/XtRtcaydYdST5KStBdEU2bYn1sX...
That could even be an incompatibility between the Bluetooth & codec implementations in your player device and headphones. APT-X-LL was meant to be a "low latency" codec but I think there's some obscene per-device fee to implement it.

If you can be bothered, it's possible to enable a Bluetooth debugging mode on Android and see which codecs are being selected by dumping a file into Wireshark (!)

The lowest common denominator codec will be SBC, and I don't think there's any latency guarantees there.

Yeah, Bluetooth, totally simple.
As other comments said, DNS is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks without DNSSEC, and DNSSEC is not widely adopted.

However, even with DNSSEC, bob could obtain domain.tld's keys and then use them to MITM alice's DNS requests, getting her browser to show a malicious site for domain.tld complete with a trusted certificate. Furthermore, bob can do this for alice and only alice, decreasing the odds of detection by a large margin.

With LE you gain:

- Targeted attacks harder to pull off, since you would need to successfully attack the LE servers/networks first and then your actual target.

- LE participates in the certificate transparency initiative, meaning every time a certificated is emitted for a domain it gets recorded.

These things are particularly relevant when you consider that in most cases the DNS is either directly or indirectly controlled by state actors at their root. With DNS-only, they could pull off such targeted attacks without anybody noticing. With LE, they can still pull off these attacks, but there would be a papertrail when that happened.
TikTok approached Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom about becoming the app's CEO
Well,

Isn't part of this not just the gray area of knowledge, that you don't know if a given pattern of activity is necessarily illegal, but the gray area of law and even more, the gray area of legal and regulatory decisions, that the banker might not know if a given sort of activity would be considered worth prosecuting by given authorities according to their interests and priorities. And that bankers might indeed know that some flagrantly illegal activity might well be entirely ignored by authorities based on said authorities interests and the actors connections.
The dose makes the poison. Almost everything in life is about 'how much' not 'is or isn't'.

The vectors we have to spread misinformation nowadays are far more powerful and readily available than ever before. What was once a (literal) walk from one village to the next is now an express line straight into the brains of thousands to millions.

It's easier to destroy truth and reality than it ever has been.
People were always misinformed, but now misinformers operate at web scale. Thus, more misinformation.
> For example, the inventor of the Like button talked about how the goal was to spread love and appreciation. I believe him that he didn't for-see it would someday cause a rise in suicides among young women. How could anyone?

Every single thing in the world has upsides and downsides. Cars made transportation affordable to people but people die in car crashes. Farming is feeding billions of people but also polluting environment. Internet brings information to people but also disinformation. Medicine saved 100s millions of people, but also messed up with natural selection as a way of making our spice stronger.

You can (and should!) look for bad things about each technology and try to minimize it and make sure there’s right trade off. But trying to present something as pure evil, just because it’s also doing harm, is intellectually dishonest.
Show HN: Fitness Alarm Clock beta test
Fitari is an alarm clock which can be stopped by doing motion based activities. To do this, the Fitness Alarm Clock uses the motion sensors in your phone to detect your movements. Its gentle alarm wakes you up quietly and gets louder if you don't turn it off. Recording your sleep movements can be used to let Fitari wake you up during a light sleep phase, improving your sleep quality.

The features listed below will be available in the next update of the app. You can now test the newest, unreleased version.

New in this update:

- Lock all alarms for a couple of hours

- Disable power off button during alarm (hard mode)

- Scan a QR- or barcode to disable an alarm

- Press the background to restart the progressive alarm music (silences music, will get louder again)

- Emergency call functionality for alarms

- Available time formats: 12am/pm and 0-24h

- Better design of the user interface

Survey (please open it after using the app for at least two weeks): https://surveymonkey.com/r/PCZGSSG
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I watched it last night. It's pretty good for non HN crowd that might not know this already. But I personally felt that they forgot the most important question: what pushed algorithm to recommend what they are recommending? Why are Youtube's rabbit holes more likely to be conspiracy theory related and/or inflammatory content? In the beginning, the algorithm was probably equally pushing for this type of content and more educational content. Why can't we make science related/educational content interesting enough for it to become a rabbit hope recommended by algorithms?
There is no point in the past 2000 years where world population is estimated to be "hundreds of thousands".
There is certainly no city in America that compares to New York City.

There are “megacities” in other countries that occupy a similar position, such as London or Tokyo (although they obviously all feel different in their own unique ways).

In the United States, however, the closest thing to NYC is Los Angeles and even that is spread out over so much additional area (much of which requires a car) that I don’t consider it necessarily comparable.
I didn't really get your suggestion. There won't be any 'flying back' coz if the airlines are blocking me, I won't be allowed to board the onwards leg of the journey.
I opened a bug report[1] regarding this issue a few days ago if you'd like to leave a comment.

[1] https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/25116
I did look at the linked document and poked around, it was all Cg (the programming language) centric. Which obviously overlaps substantially with computer graphics, but isn't what I'd consider an ideal introduction to the field unless the goal is to work with the Cg language.
My girlfriend's exhaustion lasted about 3 months. Our loss of smell is persisting and likely permanent as it's been 6 months. Lost about 2/3rd of it.
My oven has a numpad. I punch in the temperature I want. It's great! GE Profile dual oven circa 2000.
> I want more and if a job comes up tomorrow that will pay me more, I'm there.

Tere's diminishing returns on wealth accumulation. You need to give up something to make that extra more. Different people have different thresholds for "giving up" certain aspects of their life.
Can’t they just not use the thing? Usually this critique is applied to social media, which is not an essential human need. Ubiquitous and handy, yes. But not essential.
Power is an irrelevance now.
Here's how the app is helping its users: https://twitter.com/FitariApp/status/1302390056582361088
Telegram Bot to flash and test PineTime Smart Watch firmware remotely
https://youtu.be/lt6KRKHpKhY
But no one knows what that means, so you would have to explain the whole thing every time you use it, defeating the purpose of a short acronym.

Say tl;dr in the first sentence and everyone knows what it means.
I have set up a PineTime Smart Watch for flashing firmware and testing remotely...

1. You can send flash commands to the Telegram Bot...

/flash 0x0 https://.../firmware.bin

2. Then view the live video stream on YouTube

Hope this will encourage more people to try PineTime programming. More details here...

https://github.com/lupyuen/remote-pinetime-bot/blob/master/R...
I wonder what a fairly lightweight webapp standard wrapped around WASI might look like. Especially if it had a really nice high-level UI toolkit built it.
If you look at it, it's largely due to the nature of unrest in Egypt vs elsewhere in the region. Egypt's unrest is largely formed by local Egyptians, who are otherwise extremely proud of their cultural past dating back to the Nile Valley civilization, a past that was also widely celebrated within the Western world. Places like Syria and Lebanon on the other hand have had massive foreign influence and foreign players influencing their rebellions. Of course they wouldn't give a damn about what happens to those relics. Not to mention, local Phoenician/Syrian/Babylonian cultures aren't as popular worldwide as their Egyptian counterparts, hence there isn't as much dedication towards preserving them - sometimes even the local population partakes in the destruction, especially if the relics in question are of another faith.

It would be a different world altogether perhaps, had the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Roman infrastructure in the Levant were preserved well. Ironically, one of the major proponents of reviving interest in Babylonian culture in the recent past was Saddam Hussein, who engaged in rebuilding most of the city of Babylon.
Which evidence?
Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation
• Rust is focused on being explicit rather than pretty/elegant. So there's sigilisitic code like `&/&mut`, `move||`, `Arc<T>` for details that are implied in higher-level languages.

• Rust wants to have easy-to-parse unambiguous syntax. This makes turbofish required when you have a type in expression context. You need `->` for the return type.

• Rust uses generics, and angle brackets are ugly. It also mandates `{}` in blocks, but allows skipping `()`, which gives you a high ratio of ugly brackets to the nice round ones :)

• Rust wants to make up for the cost of explicitness by adding abbreviations. So you have `fn` that's both explicit and terse. Instead of verbose `switch/case/default`, Rust's `match` uses patterns and `_ =>`.

Rust designers pay a lot of attention to the syntax, but it's designed from a very practical point of view (it is clear? unambiguous? easy to write? composes with other syntax?), and "does it look neat?" is very low on the priority list.
> Personally I'm not very excited about making Java a hard dependency

Why be concerned about this? Either way you're making a hard dependency on some languages runtime, be it go, rust, or the jvm and I see it sticking around a lot longer than the others.
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The Daily News isn’t considered liberal.