skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hawala is just a system for eventually consistent settlement between money lenders; sometimes the transactions are entirely legal, sometimes possible legally via more expensive regulated entities, sometimes entirely illegal. Legal or illegal, crypto is still just a possible settlement layer in between parties that receive and dish out spendable cash, requiring the cash dealer to trust the stability of the token rather than his relationship with the counterparty
Hahaha, I didn't notice that, thanks
Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search
engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good
example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the
right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular
queries. This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising,
because it is not clear who "deserves" to be there, and who is
willing to pay money to be listed. This business model resulted in
an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a viable search engine.

But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For
example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results
from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from
competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could
still have a significant effect on the market.

Sounds like a plan! ヽ($_$)ノ
The local sources in social media all were mentioning protester fatality numbers in hundreds. They are definitely not reliable, however, I would consider the official numbers reported by KZ government - which BBC is quoting - as even less trustworthy than random social media posts.

Until we have better data I think that it is entirely appropriate to treat all current data from KZ government as intentionally falsified and either apply a reasonable multiplier (historically from other similar cases, a 10x multiplier seems appropriate; certainly that would be a better estimate than accepting their reports at face value, in similar earlier situations the reports always have been intentionally adjusted) or treat the local estimates as the best estimates currently available.
Unfortunately, often not. Unlike other VPNs which tries to blend into residential connections, Mullavad is simply for user privacy and oftentimes is known as AS39351 (which is 31173's AS - https://www.31173.se/). Note that this simply means that a particular user was using Mullavad, not that it identifies a specific user.
This will be used by the CIA to give people heart attacks.
https://www.dn.se/sverige/dronare-levererade-hjartstartare-r...
In my uni in Poland, had I asked teacher for help, I'd be at best laughed at. Homework/assignment is graded and it is fully expected that student does it all by themself.

And if you have questions, it is fully expected of you to just study harder and check for the question in books.
Hmm...isn't that event loop I/O and such programs I/O bound?
> Today, only benchmarks and HPC workloads make use of it.

From what I've heard, there's also a PS3 emulator that benefits greatly from it and its users are quite annoyed by this [0].

According to the sources, users would need to disable E-cores and preferably HT as well to get the best results, though. Pretty niche and not helpful in general (since disabling up to 50% of the cores/threads doesn't seem great for other use cases, but hey - 10% more performance in PS3 emulation).

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps3-emulation-i9-12900k-vs...
What exactly does this woke agenda push, if I may ask?
TFA: EMADE UAV delivers AED to MD doing CPR
Yes, but with NVidia at least they get it right and do it prior to benchmarking and selling into the retail channel, rather than the other way around.

And they - rightly - get plenty of flak for it.
Another important context is that maxwellhill, whoever they were, were more than just another reddit power user. They were the first user to pass 1 million upvotes, they were instrumental in promoting the site from early on, and Aaron Swartz, of course, was an early reddit dev often credited as a co-founder.

It seems unlikely the early reddit admins would not know who maxwellhill is, whether they were Ghislaine or not.

That said, it seems to me maxwellhill (again, whoever they are) did absolutely not "promote pedophilia". The worst they've been able to find is some questions about age of consent laws.
Stephen Hawking's 80th Birthday
> The EV, by comparison, is a totally new technology that’s part of a much larger, unpredictable transition in urban mobility

No, EVs are cars with different power trains.

Putting electric motors on bikes and scooters is not some radical transformation of urban mobility any more than the segway was.
I’ve yet to run into the iCloud path problem mentioned in this post. Did Apple change the behavior?
Consumer Reports' Digital Lab rated Mullvad as the top VPN in a comparison of 16 VPNs, including Private Internet Access:

https://digital-lab-wp.consumerreports.org/wp-content/upload... (PDF)

> Although Mullvad, IVPN, and Mozilla VPN—in that order—rose to the top, there are still improvements that can be made.

> Of the 16 VPNs we analyzed, Mullvad, PIA, IVPN, and Mozilla VPN (which runs on Mullvad’s servers)—in that order—were among the highest ranked in both privacy and security. However, PIA has never had a public third-party security audit. Additionally, in our opinion, only IVPN, Mozilla VPN, and Mullvad—along with one other VPN (TunnelBear)—accurately represent their services and technology without any broad, sweeping, or potentially misleading statements.
First of all, I would want to do a bit more research than you appear to have done before calling someone a "cowardly, insincere opportunist". I don't know much about the CEO of Raytheon or his historical record on gay rights. I suspect that you don't either.

I do wonder just how early people are required to come to the 'battle' in order to escape your scorn. If someone was an adult in the 80s, are they an insincere opportunist if they weren't speaking out in favor of gay rights then? What if they were an adult in the 1960s and didn't support the Stonewall riots?

As a gay person, it means something to me that a company is willing to speak out publicly in support of its LGBTQ employees. No-one is perfect and no-one is free from hypocrisy. All of us have probably blown with the wind on certain social issues where we could have spoken up earlier if we'd had more courage and moral clarity.

This holier-than-thou cynicism about corporate LGBTQ activism is extremely destructive, in my opinion. In the final analysis it only gives succour to those who are opposed to LGBTQ rights. For actual gay people, the massive shift in corporate attitudes to LGBTQ employees is a huge deal, and has real practical benefits in our lives.

Edit: By the way, a little bit of internet research suggests that Raytheon are actually pretty above average in their support for LGBTQ rights. E.g. they have been praised by the HRC: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/defense-giant-raytheon-pr... And here's some news coverage dating back to 2006: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006...
Then why not leave it as an option for people who want to experiment with the feature?
Or to get some good PR, which they are in real need of.
> People are probably not gonna like it here but I think alternative perspective is important.

Thanks, I hate it. :-)

Anecdata is the worst*, as generally only self-identified outliers feel compelled to share. So then there’s more outlying noise than there should be, and normals get confused.

Still useful in the sense of serving to illustrate probability curves mean tails exist, so a bunch of people must be outliers, oh look here’s one.

But where it goes wrong is when someone looks at 1000 viewpoints on whatever, identifies the 2 who think it’s aliens, and creates a “both sides” narrative. Or self-identifies: hey y’all, I’m a walking survivor bias!

For policy, “alternative perspective” of an outlier is worth exactly 2 cents, but must be stacked up against the 80 cents of the bell curve. In other words, yes, the case must exist, but is not illustrative of what a normal distribution participant can expect or how they should behave.

* Anecdata is also the best. Edge cases matter for bounding problem spaces, contingency or mitigation planning, or maybe even important for novel discovery. For instance, while it shouldn’t determine majority behavior, why one individual might seem immune to COVID could be very worth a quick check to see if worth looking into. If it’s not tail luck, if it’s immunity, that could reveal an undiscovered mechanism helpful to the normal distribution.
Yep you got it. But I grew up on the original runescape... classic. I still love the game, even though it's killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kws89gVKoxw
In Germany we have our own data kraken though. See Schufa. Even with GDPR you're basically forced to hand data over to them.
Yes, there is the “or lose it” option. There is no forcing. They have the option. I can understand that they don’t like the rule. But to say they are forced is like saying your friends forced you to to go to a movie with them. It’s not forcing in any way.

“Inspiring” is probably the right word.
I’m waiting for amd to do TB4 so I can get a ryzen framework laptop.
The accountability piece is really important. So many things become easier to do, or persist with, if you've got the accountability there.

Even better if it's external accountability because it's also easy to self-sabotage.
Ask HN: Startup Co-Founder Only Trusts Seed Team
I joined a startup this year, and the CTO only trusts those who joined him during the seed phase. It's two years old and he doesn't give newcomers a chance. He's trying to hire senior engineers, and I'm one of them, but he doesn't give us the freedom to do things our way. For everything, he wants things done the way his pet developer does it, and that's usually Django-driven. The HR is powerless, since they report to the CTO as well (CEO manages global operations), so what are my options? I feel like I should leave, but I'm not the sort to job jump every so often.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!

Quickz is built on a SvelteKit, powered by a Node.JS backend that handles the database and creates a thread for each game room. I chose MongoDB for the database, because I found that the non relational approach helps with the complex structure of the decks. It's self-hosted at home using a Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu Server right now, but eventually I'll have to move to a better hosting setup. :)

Currently it only supports Google login, mostly because I don't trust myself enough to safely manage and store credentials. Many schools are already in the Google ecosystem, so for now it should be enough. However, I'm not a huge fan of my website depending on a single third party, so I'm going to have to work on that soon.

The host's screen is just a mirror of what the players will see, and so you can't interact with it, apart from going forwards and back. I think this needs to be communicated better, so I will be also working on improving the UI/UX on that.
I mostly talked to data-scientists in Europe and made interesting connections. I usually check people's LinkedIn, twitter, etc before agreeing to meet. So no, I haven't seen any MLM, but maybe I'm more strict in my filtering than others.
I just don't understand that part. Where I live, admitting to making a mistake would be equal to admitting to your incompentence, and I'd be shown the door on my way out.
As someone who works on mods for games with no mod api, so using dll injection, hooking, code editing, etc... (basically very similar to what cracks do),
it's very easy to get flagged for doing stuff like that.

But even doing simple stuff like compiling with winsock, or with the wrong(!?) compile flags will trigger most AV.
We almost always have to just report the dlls as false positive and pray microsoft actually adds them to the whitelist, and I'm guessing that's not really an option for cracks.
The BIOS doesn't upgrade microcode - the OS does.

During boot there's usually no network connectivity, so how would the BIOS even know of an update, let alone acquire it?
Intel very specifically said that AVX-512 instructions will not be available only a few weeks before the Alder Lake launch.

While it cannot be said that Intel advertised AVX-512 for Alder Lake, at all previous disclosures it was said that the Golden Cove cores have AVX-512 and the Gracemont cores do not have it.

It was clearly said that in hybrid configurations AVX-512 will be disabled, because for Microsoft it is a too difficult task to implement scheduling on a system with heterogeneous cores.

Whether AVX-512 can be enabled by disabling the Gracemont cores was not said, but everybody interpreted that saying nothing about this means that it will be possible to enable AVX-512, because Alder Lake is a replacement for Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake, both of which have AVX-512.

This is one of a very few cases, if not the only case, when Intel replaced a CPU product without preserving backward software compatibility.

If this was their intention from the beginning, then they certainly should have said it much earlier, not just immediately prior to launch.
I think there's two reasons to have a tool to track tasks:

1. To help ICs keep on top of what they need to do in a given week. I think your post is a great summary of that reason. The tool doesn't matter as much here - whatever has the least overall impact on developers is likely the best tool here. JIRA can be 'OK' at this, but it can very easily get slow or bureaucratic, largely due to -

2. To help communicate to stakeholders outside of Engineering. This can be a bunch of things - whether a project is on track, is the team performing more or less efficiently over time, are we managing the backlog appropriately. Sometimes this is a requirement imposed from elsewhere ("when will project X be done"), but sometimes it can be something that the engineering team wants to communicate to everyone else ("our bug backlog is becoming unsustainable and we'll hit a crisis point soon"). This tends to put pressure on reason 1 - whatever will give you more useful data for this is going to make actually using the tool more cumbersome. Over-emphasizing this tends to result in the JIRA nightmares everyone hates, but ignoring it leads to conflicts between engineering and other teams when they're viewed as unaccountable and haughty.

For me, the sweet spot is Shortcut (used to be Clubhouse) - it's a very smooth UX that gets out of your way, but still offers some pretty decent reporting and analysis, and doesn't let you get too crazy with overconfiguring things so it always feels pretty snappy and gets out of your way.
Its a rite of passage in Germany to get a "Waldorf & Frommer" letter. I plastered mine on the wall and use it as target practice.

https://kanzlei-bennek.de/en/waldorf-frommer-warning/

Ignore these people and never reply.
You're saying that for a statement to be falsifiable, a logically invalid falsification needs to be accepted. How can you argue that a counterfactual can be proven without actually setting up the counterfactual scenario? Or doing something else that makes logical sense?

[edit]

Also, to be clear, I think that if a study is being used to justify a counterfactual, a long-form argument needs to be made about why it does that. You can't just give the study results (which don't actually test the counterfactual scenario). The relevant counterfactual here is "If copyright law were to be abolished then it would not hurt producers of media like film".

This whole discussion reminds me of the 2000-2010 internet. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-o...

Finally, I've edited out some insults and comments which didn't make sense.
The "pinch to change" is kinda bad, since.. mice. But the drawing itself is interesting, the constraints makes it a very enjoyable experience, but do try not to assume people are using a touch screen,.
interesting, we don't have it in dk, never heard of a company doctor or anything like it
For me the biggest red flags are when people start talking about wokeism, is when you ask them about it they then continue to elaborate that they mean "communism", "lgbt-agendas" etc.
99% of people who complain about that kind of wokeism sound like alt-righters to me, or at least like people who parrot what the alt-right says without being aware of it.
That's truly evil.

echo "README: No such file or directory" > README
I started to play Doom as procrastination as i've read the title.
>>Yes, but once it has shipped and people may have come to depend on it it will break stuff, not fix stuff.

If people depend on functionality that is explicitly unsupported then I don't know what to say other than that I don't see how that's Intel's responsibility. If you buy a CPU that doesn't support AVX-512 instructions in order to use AVX-512 instructions then ...I think you're the one who is wrong here.

To go back to my car analogy - if you buy a car that isn't type approved for towing, and yet you install a tow bar anyway, you can't complain to the manufacturer if stuff breaks.

>>Besides the obvious benefit of first having benchmarks out there claiming these chips are better than they really are

Are any of the published benchmarks using AVX-512 instructions that were used by Intel in advertising, and were those in fact available at the time when the benchmarks were ran?

>>If it would be a fix then it would be that something that was advertised did not work, and now it does

Those CPUs were not compliant with their own published spec, now they are - it is absolutely a fix.
I want to work with people who don’t have a stick up their ass. I would find this hilarious.
They’re not very subtle. It’s painfully obvious

I have no doubt the likes of MI5/6 “work” with British series creators too
Your analogy doesn't hold water. This is your garage, and you'd lose the rights to it by not using it.

A better one would be:

You have a reserved parking spot near a nice beach; but you will have to visit this beach at least 20 times during the summer or you will lose your reservation.

Does this make sense? Depends on your goal. If you want fair access to the beach for as many people as possible, no. If you want a smaller number of regulars that will spend many days at the beach and might be more willing to maybe buy some ice cream at your chiringuito, yes.

The actual problem also translates well to this analogy: You might drive all the way to the beach only to park for 10 minutes and drive back, only to keep your privilege for those days where you really want to use it.
>I am aware that a number of websites featured in this list rely on operating under obscurity, and that this list could potentially contribute to their demise through excess exposure. I'm sorry about that - I just like making lists.

Well, at least the author is responsible and owns up to being one of the cheaf reasons sites like these die :)
GitHub become shit these days. Moving to Codeberge.
> The alternative is to stick with the ad-driven, dross-filled panopticon we already have.

Sure, I'm all for paying for something if they don't track me, if I can use their API as I need, etc.. the only thing that wasn't clear to me was the conclusion of "more people paying, cheaper it will get" because that probably isn't the case.
Good old Silkroad Online!
You don't remember the Moscow train bombing? Or Moscow theater hostage crisis? Or any of the other number of attacks carried out by self-professed Islamic militants from said regions?

It's funny how people don't remember any of the history of the eastern bloc that's literally happened within my own adult life, and I'm in my 30s...
Fair point, but again most Windows programs aren't designed with heterogeneous CPUs in mind, so probably they don't want to deal with the headaches, plus the space used for AVX-512 (note that it's now in microcode) can be repurposed for more important tasks.

Of course, this could be evil Intel playing its tricks again but financially speaking removing AVX-512 do have tangible benefits to them in the form of increased microcode for the rest of the instructions (I want to see the detailed Alder Lake errata, maybe there's indeed a bug in another instruction that requires more microcode to implement - AVX-512 is an easy sacrifice for that).
"Started looking for a wife"

No need to read further. I wonder if he already had a dog, or whether "looking for a dog" is an activity that requires a wife?
A few years back androidpolice had a article on how apple gets _media_ to hate android.

For example, friendly publications would regularly receive "dirt" on android directly from apple execs. I recall this was confirmed by macworld writers, who provided email screenshots.

Can't find the link anymore, maybe someone can dig it up for me?
I don't know what to tell you, you said yourself that your question cannot be answered, so why even ask it?
I just watched Don't Look Up on Netflix and the propaganda was so thick it actually made the whole movie painful to watch. I suppose it's naive to think that old movies are propaganda-free. But I find myself missing the narratives I grew up with. The new ones are whiny, cynical and uninspiring. At least the old ones inspired me towards positive things.
Still one of my favorite movie trivias:

Two years later, backed by Corman, Bogdanovich wrote, directed and appeared in his first film, Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, who owed Corman two shooting days.

(Also one of the last movies starring Karloff.)
Sure. But I don't run around daily acting like I have a moral high ground and constantly baiting people. I took your bait, and I'm the bad guy? Okay bud. Maybe try not being so angry about stuff that literally doesn't matter. You're constantly enraged on here. I'm not here often and if I can tie your screen name to rage inducing you're doing something horribly wrong with your life.
I thought Github Pages only worked with *.github.io but it appears you're correct and we can now own domains hosted by Github. So my original argument only stands for people using Github's domain instead of their own. Thanks for correction!
It's the equivalent of senior law firm partners leaving simple typos in their emails to junior staff.
From my experience, the nextcloud android app autosync features are unreliable while I never had this problem on syncthing.
Game theory suggests the optimal strategy is to be either a "provokable nice guy" or a "Genghis Khan":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_war_game
> Recognizing that trans women are women and trans men are men? 100% that’s the bare minimum and I am happy to see it.

If women are a group historically discriminated against by virtue of their sex (female, different physicality, different reproductive role) rather than by their gender (feminine, caring, pretty, submissive, domestic, …) then is the fusing of sex and gender truly progressive? Is it medically, scientifically or philosophically true to assert TWAW, or is it a well-intentioned social fiction?

Like you, I believe there’s much to be commended in “woke” (including the full acceptance of people who wish to live as if they were the other sex, or of no sex) but I think the mechanism (identity politics, intersectionality) and the philosophy (postmodernist) are unhelpful and irrational.