skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hitman-for-Hire [ the Black Mob ]
The website states: We are an underground co'op of ex military corps, ex special forces and trained assassins sponsored by the CheChen Mob, we have agents from Russia, Albania, Ukraine, The United States and UK, our agents are located in more than 28 countries across the globe, our agents are masked, and execute an order perfectly, leaving no mistakes, traces or prints.

On the dark web, the group is generally considered to be one of the more viable hitmen-for-hire operations and many people claim to have used its many 'services'. Visiting the website The Black Mob (TBM), using the anonymous Tor browser, you will find a rudimentary layout and the full range of 'services' offered by the group.

The Black Mob - http://j2dbibq43m4fdyry2pltez346mwneqfl7a5dzr2mgsouhp7lox2eu2qd.onion
> We likewise have evidence that the FBI created fake terror plots.

Such as?

> It's certainly not reason alone to accuse the Crown of running a sham trial, as you seem to be implying.

Didn't they specifically make laws to prohibit prosecutions and inquiries into what happened?

> Whether the federal government had a right to pass it or not (it went to the Supreme Court)

The constitution is the document giving power to the court isn't it... weird to have them rule on the document that grants them powers.

Why not simply get all Provinces consent? That sounds better than convoluted legal gymnastics if you ask me.
The Pelosi ETF
Title should include "(2014)"
The thing about these kinds of comments is that it's impossible to know why it worked for you, why you're specific situations worked out different.

So many men try all your advice and still struggle greatly.
You must enable it in the settings or via cli flag --enable=fast-csg
You could let the utility companies, which users already "trust" evaluate and then recommend/sign-offs on your engine? Or just have the utility embed your engine and bill them?
Freeplane now
My early 2000s girlfriend worked for forbes.com and told stories of the shitheads she worked with. I don't doubt you needed to know someone to get your name in the pages, but chances were they'd be clueless braggarts.
> tell Women painfully stupid stuff they want to hear about their quantum vibrations matching and other new age nonsense.

These sound like the kind of partners you're trying to avoid anyway. Although I may be projecting.

Also, are you wanting an easy time dating, or are you wanting a long-term relationship with kids on the horizon? They're two wildly different desires.
> Who would be put on trial?

If it is done by a powerful country, no one. If it is done by a less powerful country, someone. The same as is the case now.
Just watched this a few days ago (it's on HBO Max for those who subscribe, and it's a very high quality digitization). It's a fantastic movie that still holds its own as a science fiction tale and work of art.

The setup (spoilers):

- Impending malfunction that can't be duplicated by Hal's twin back on Earth

- Poole and Bowman discuss what to do in the pod

- Bowman goes out to fix the antenna and his pod-like vehicle sneaks up on him

- something happens (not shown) that causes Bowman and the vehicle to go spinning off into space

- Poole goes out in a second vehicle to retrieve the body

- Hal [apparently] shuts down the hibernation pods of the three other astronauts

- Hal refuses to let Poole (without helmet) back onto the ship, shuts down discussion

- Poole removes the emergency hatch and blows himself back into the ship

- Poole disconnects Hal's memory and logic controllers, as Hal pleads with him to talk things over.

In this portrayal, Hal is a sentient machine, not a brain in a vat connected to life support systems. This is made clear in the final sequence in the list above.

For audiences watching the movie (as opposed to reading the book), it's not clear if it acts with malice, detached self-interest, psychopathic delusions, or something else. Science Fiction at this time (mid-1960s) was already using crazed robots or corrupted/untrustworthy machine intelligences as a storytelling device, for instance in Herbert's Dune and Destination: Void, so these scenarios would not have been unfamiliar.

This is quite different than say, a Tesla driving its trusting owner off a cliff or a military drone programmed to kill or directed by human operators to fire a missile.
One is a privilege escalation, the other is just buying a fake rolex that you thought was real. Except that the rolex costs less than the cost of a hamburger.
Don't be ashamed to go to a gym or take a fitness class. It's a great way to meet people.
> a judge ruled in Dickens’s favour: yes, he could announce the switch, as long as he said Household Words was being “discontinued by him” and not the publisher.

> A triumphant Dickens used this phrase in the advert intended for the Times, but a clerk rejected it. Unaware of the legal ruling, the clerk felt the advert gave the false impression that Household Words was indeed being shut down.

> The Times swiftly apologised and reinstated the advert. Dickens had won.

What does everyone think about this? I can see why the clerk labelled the wording misleading, although I can also see how the Times would prefer to keep themselves out of legal hot water with such a successful author.
No, but if you tell someone to kill someone else, and that person does, you'll be found guilty - assuming the normal standards of you reasonably expecting a person to do that, you being mentally competent, etc.

Those caveats apply to machines as well: if I tell a toaster to kill someone, and then the toaster electrocutes them, I would not be guilty.
You are, to a very high probability, less interesting than you think you are. Same applies to everyone else.
Capitalism has taken more people out of poverty than anything else on planet earth and produced incredible abundance and flourishing in the past 200 years. Socialism has failed every time it has been tried. (Also stop describing everything you don’t like as “Capitalism”, it is intellectually lazy, instead describe what aspect of Capitalism caused the thing you don’t like directly and provably and with a clear alternative that wouldn’t have had worse downsides)

Good critiques of Capitalism are important to help it continue to evolve, compete, and win in a competitive marketplace of ideas.
Yeah I get that viewpoint for sure. It's not as simple even if each ad is a direct buy here right now sale they also have branding involved too
Note that 'cultural legacy' is completely different from 'organized religion'. Celebrating 'Christmas' as a family get-together is completely different from celebrating the arrival of the messiah and deriving your complete moral compass from that.
Yes, the correct way (these days) to detect what the OP actually wants is the pointer media query:

https://davidwalsh.name/pointer-media-query

Which has values for coarse (finger) and fine (mouse, tablet, etc)
And the power dynamic this creates puts men in a state of walking on eggshells to unrealistic expectations from a partner who can take them to the cleaners for any reason, which is highly destructive to relationships, and a massive reason why so many are opting out of relationships and spend their life online
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I did refute the origin I gave two examples of origins of the theory before OP said Marx
Second MultiMC, the best launcher by far and fantastic for managing multiple instances with different versions and modpacks.
> The selection process is on Tinder, not the maternity ward, and the bar is brutally high there for men.

I’ve been seeing this exact trope repeated more and more on HN lately: Some vague assertion that Tinder is the only place for matchmaking and that only a tiny number of men are getting all of the matches.

It’s an objectively ridiculous claim for anyone who has experience in the real world where, yes, even “normal” men can find partners. It doesn’t even stand up to the most basic tests of logic.

Are only attractive people getting married and having kids? Of course not.

So what is actually going on here? Is this some talking point being repeated on some corner of the internet that resonates with a subset of people who view the world through their cell phones instead of getting out and interacting with real other people? It’s an objectively absurd assertion, yet it gets repeated with great confidence in a lot of online discussions.
Much of the research on the topic indicates the former. Gender bifurcation in jobs is even more pronounced in more egalitarian countries [1]. Babies exhibit different gender preferences for toys at ages less than a year old [2] [3].

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...

2. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160715114739.h...

3. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01624-7
The FUD is strong with this one.
SeL4 on RISC V Fast, Secure, Open Source and Proved Bug Free OS Kernel
If you're interested to play around with those concepts mentioned in the blog, I built a small go library here:
https://github.com/thomasjungblut/go-sstables
It's always a moving target.

To continue working at a company, you are usually expected to sign every piece of paper that they put in front of you throughout your tenure. If you don't, the consequences could range from absolutely nothing, to being pestered every six months, to being kept off a project or not promoted, to being fired.

If at some point you become popular or are seen as critical, you may be able to spend some of your political capital to get around signing some of the papers that you don't particularly want to sign, but this doesn't always work, and you can't always get away with this indefinitely.

An amendment to your offer of employment that tries to prevent you from moonlighting could come after your first day, or after your third month. They get to choose the timing, and the more unscrupulous will absolutely use this to their advantage. They won't give it to you after the first day or week, so you don't just walk -- they'll wait until you've settled in and are more likely to concede in frustration.
Zero dependency is better.

Your database does not need to be a separate process. It can just be a library embedded in your application.

If your application is distributed across several physical servers, then your database can be as well.
The weird thing about it all is that this bridge is very heavily trafficked during rush hour. Occasionally, traffic even backs up to the bridge.

I'm really curious what could have happened to cause it to collapse so catastrophically when it withstood far more traffic just ~12 hours earlier.
There’s a lot of discussion around this topic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Nostalgia Time: The Floppy Clock
You got me!

That's why I got bullied, you see I failed the Turing test in Kindergarten.
Thank you. Somehow, I thought the tree structure they described for breaking down program logic was the problem. Obviously I agree with all the other stuff, which is table stakes for a safe web app
How do folks recover when 2FA fails?

Edit: nevermind, I'm sure I'm wrong about this, and it's offtopic anyway. Apologies!
That's a good idea. I'll have to try that if I can ever manage to get a hold of a human being again.
past remains in past. You can only control present and plan future. You can start living up to your potential starting tomorrow.
> It isn't like Epic doesn't have legal control over how Fortnite is distributed regardless: if Epic doesn't like Apple's terms for their App Store in the current model, they can choose to just not give you the software at all. You are just hoping to play a super dangerous game by assigning a single negotiator between your community of users and Epic in order to try to convince them to develop their software differently

Not exactly. I'm hoping that at least one popular smartphone platform exists that exerts some leverage against software developers on behalf of users, so that users who value that feature can choose that platform. But it's also crucial for customers to be able to choose that platform (in this case, iPhone) for that reason, and to also have viable alternatives if they're not interested in this feature of a smartphone platform. I don't want Apple to do monopolistic things, and I absolutely wish there were more viable smartphone platforms, and I condemn Apple for the things it does to attempt to lock people in to the iPhone platform.
Most of these words have unusual spelling since we got them from French.
Yeah; that's not right. Only in the more limited context of a complex plane would I think of "Gaussian".
Using RSA Securely in 2022
Murder presupposes will. It requires an executive function, like cognitive flexibility. Computers can do that, but we're going back into a circular argument of free will(unimpeded choice) versus automation(determinism).

As we create more complex systems and getting closer to AI, we are also discovering how much of a machine we are. We may never be able to have a clear distinction.
> Even today, with women's educational attainment and workforce compensation skyrocketing, they still strongly marry "up".

Yes, while the delta between spousal earnings is much smaller which also leads to a third observation:

3. Economic equals that are stable are marrying each other for the first time/generation, which increases inequality for the people (mostly for the other remaining women) that have nobody to marry up to.

The women aren't interested in being in an unstable situation and are also not interested in taking care of a man, both genders in this binary situation are opting to avoid marriage (or merely consider it unattainable) if there is no stability. And of course there is my observation that it's also a bad contract.
It's not my job to reveal what's well known.

There are several ways for heads of large companies or states (which she presumably is as she's 2 steps removed from being President) to divorce themselves of direct control.

One is a blind trust which executes trades without the direct involvement of it's beneficiary. 2nd is execution of trade schedules (e.g. CEO sells company stock on a schedule to prevent appearance of timing his/her sales).

You and I agree on what needs to happen. Pelosi is only part of the problem but she happens to be the most powerful person in government whose spouse trades stock. Justice Clarence Thomas's wife and her lobbying cash moves are equally as corrupt.
> turn the car on, stick the first key in the one port, remove it, open the driver side door as an indicator and then finish with the second key

I'm reminded of the farcical firmware reset procedure for C by GE Light Bulbs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo

Though, in GE's defense, light bulbs do have a pretty limited interface.
Add Gopher to the stack too.

Gopher: Curated blog, sites, services and even news aggregators. No bloat, no JS, no waste. No ads. No clickbaits. Pure raw text.

gopher://magical.fish, gopher://1436.ninja and gopher://sdf.org as my main source/portalish gopher holes.

IRC: tech channels, sometimes news. Libera.chat it's my
main network. No bloat, too, you don't need an i3/Core2Duo
to talk to someone.

Usenet: techgroups, delayed help available. No need to be online 24/7. You can pull posts once a week and everything will be fine.

If you are a geek/nerd, you can code your own client on most programming languages in just two weeks. With something like TCL, Perl, Python or Ruby, a single week would be fine.

The opposite is different. An IRC server requires maintenance, and INN can be crazy difficult for Usenet, but
for Gopher it's dumb simple to set up both content and a server. And, yet, there are pubnixes and tildes oferring this even from SSH, for internal and federated use against other pubnixes. And it's amazing.
Could you please list which of the Java launchers from that download page is not working? I tried the Mac one just now, and it did work; it needed a right-click Open in order to launch, but after that it updated itself and launches with the normal double-click.
Our customers at Render run Tailscale in user mode every day. Here's the repo they use: https://github.com/render-examples/tailscale.

An example of using Tailscale to access VSCode in the cloud: https://render.com/blog/host-a-dev-environment-on-render-wit...
The Postgres documentation is also excellent, far better than many other software packages. Postgres' academic lineage really shines there.
Rats and Humans Can Optimally Accumulate Evidence for Decision-Making
Does anyone else who is following the FLCCC/Ivermectin/Peter McCullough story find it ironic that they would use this as an example of something we can believe the "experts" on?

Japan, India, and a growing list of countries apparently never got that memo...
You are right. XCHG can do the job to acquire the lock. At least on x86, XCHG does lock the cache line on the address of the variable, so it should be ok.
Is that true? I thought that a lot of the organs were more often than not about the same size in everyone, so the reason that tall people can appear more willowy and less tall people were more likely to be somewhat barrel shaped was simply that the latter needed to have their organs go someplace.

Also that geriatric people tend to lose height as they age while their innards are the same, thus you get a bit of spread as you get old.

But I never studied this so this may be some stray memory of something misunderstood.
Yes, men typically have less agreeableness. It's borderline bigoted for the school system to favor typical female psychology so much.
Uh, the whole point of code signing is a checksum — it's valid only for an exact match to the original executable that got signed. If it changes, the checksum and code signing become invalid.

That's the only reason they even created it.
It certainly does follow reality. You just haven't talked to the large number of financially ruined men that the family courts system has let be abused by vindictive women.

It's common. The root problem is presuppositions in the marriage contract are wrong.

The reality is most relationships don't last forever for lots of reasons and most reasons being benign.

But the penalties in the marriage contract are based on the fallacy that relationships should last forever and if they don't it's the provider's penalty and the provider's life energy should be consumed forever to pay for it.

Obviously there's some reasons it was setup that way such as providing for kids, but it's out of balanced and been abused for so long it's now a stereotype.

This is a major cause for lack of relationship formation! Because a failed relationship can demolish your future many hardworking smart men have moved the goalposts so high that we can see statistically they are less likely to have children.

Those who didn't work hard and have nothing to lose are not being punished they are instead given welfare.

Won't someone think of the children and fix this stupid law driven power imbalance that's driving us toward the future warned in the idiocracy movies.
Electric Sheep: Crowdsourced Evolving Art
I'm not sure if it's the cities I've been living in but bars seem to have relatively few women in them. Going to a bar in search of a partner almost seems not so different than swiping on Tinder.
And maybe carp?
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
> Is there anything even a tiny QC can do better, faster, and cheaper than a classical computer?

That's an area of active research in computational complexity theory. It's not known if the class BQP[1] (bounded-error quantum polynomial time) is equal to P (classical polynomial time). Many people suspect that BQP > P, but it may not be and quantum computers might not have any problems where they're faster than classical computers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP
Something cliche but perhaps relevant:

Is it instead that some of these folks who have an "easy" time actually don't care that much about the process? Not ignorance, but not spending much time over-analyzing everything. Instead, they're out and they're drawing people to them because they're not thinking about having a good time, but just doing it?

It really is that simple in some ways. Focus on enjoying yourself throughout your day to day and especially in social situations and perhaps someone will find their way to you instead.

PS: those crystal sellers don't sound to me (generalizing) like good long-term matches for most people. So, stop comparing yourself to them.
My family just got into Minecraft so we started with Microsoft accounts. They worked fine in the Java launcher, on Linux, Windows, and Mac Os.

We've since moved to MultiMC as others have mentioned.
In my case, I got an email notification 12+ months ago that this migration was coming. I finally migrated last month, and it went fine.

It's entirely possible that the notification emails went to spam, though.
Author cites a Danish medical professional:

> I do not believe in imposed vaccine mandates. It’s a pharmaceutical intervention with possible side effects. I think if you push too much, you will have a reaction. Action generates reaction, especially with vaccines.

Yep, that's definitely how we handled smallpox, polio, mumps, measles and more, diseases that use to kill or cripple huge numbers of people, and whose general eradication has come at little to no cost in terms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

If you want to discuss the appropriateness of COVID19 vaccine mandates, it might help your case not to try to broaden your point to all vaccines everywhere.
I thought the API was added in the latest beta, in experimental mode, not working, and without announcement. Link to the announcement?
If I had to hazard a guess, you feel downtrodden and targeted. Please hear me: I'm sorry. I've gotten my head out of politics lately, and it's seriously improved my mental health. Please cut your news media intake, it will help.
Yes, but Maui caused that to happen by stealing the rock, so…
I see No Country for Old Men as partly a study on the conflict between those who believe in free will and those who don't. The villain, Sugar, has shed the illusion of free will, and has thrown himself into the thing he knows motivates him: prejudicial termination of other people who stand in the way of his current clients' goals.

This is in contrast to the backdrop of a community reeling with outrage at and fear of his brutality. They see him as an agent of evil, some sort of amoral if not immoral demon, a spawn of the escalating narco wars. Normal people imbue themselves and others with causative powers. This is exemplified by the exchange with Norma Jean.

"You don't need to kill me. I ain't got any money."

"I'll flip a coin. It's the best I can do. Call it."

"No, I ain't doin' that. It ain't the coin that decides. It's you, it's always been you."

"I got here the same way the coin did. Call it."
Forbes named Holmes the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire--worth $4.5 billion--in 2014, when she was 30 years old.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elizabeth-holmes/?sh=4a110eff...
The key word is "independently". If you build a robot that is capable of doing anything, and it chooses to kill someone (without you specifically telling it to), whose fault is it? It is pointless to speculate about it today, since the status of a hypothetical intelligent robot of the future could be that of a pet (you are responsible), a child (you are not responsible) or really anything else.
Likely that many boys have seen "gauss rifle" or "gauss cannon" in video games. I doubt they know about degaussing CRTVs or mine-sweeping vessels.
> True determined harm usually requires ideological zeal.

That's not what I think motivated all the US school shootings in the last 25 years.

Ideological zeal that pursues actively harming others is something I don't think the US has much of, culturally speaking. No one preaches "those people need to die" or "we need to harm those people".
Thank you. All of these sound like great ideas!