skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stories like this can be heard every now and then and I think we all agree that Google's customer support could be vastly improved. But taking a step back, I am finding this particular story slightly suspicious as the site seems a little bit weird to me. The domain is only 4-months old and the entire site is almost empty, it consists of just a couple "reviews" of mostly VPNs and password managers and the author himself admits to participating in referral schemes. And despite advocating privacy he uses google analytics and one more tracking system on his site.
The story he published is the only post that is not a review. If I had so much experience as he claims I would have better places to post my rant rather than at a newly created website.
I can imagine a scheme where one posts a sensational story just to drive the traffic to their affiliate links-based business.

Now, having said all of this - I do NOT accuse author of anything, their story may be true, it actually sounds plausible. I'd just like to remind you of another google ban story [1] that made headlines some time ago and was later debunked by Google.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin...
Hmmm what's stopping someone from hacking Trump's twitter account and announcing things that would swing the stock market?

"I am now placing sanctions on the Bank of China and PetroChina for North Korean oil sales"
"I am now announcing Magnitsky sanctions on [insert Central Committee members here] for Xinjiang"
"The whole country of China is now subject to technology sanctions"
"I am now placing tariffs on German cars until Germany cancels Nord Stream"
"I am banning US companies who source components from China from participating in federal contracts"

or even positive news like "Tomorrow, my great friend Xi Jinping and I will announce a wonderful deal with China that lifts all tariffs, solves IP issues, and lets our great economy invest in theirs and vice versa"
This is a dumb question and want to qualify with my field is medicine, not technology: would one have the same username and password on the web facing side of a website as the backend of things (having access to servers or I have no idea what else one would do)? I have no idea how any of this works, but am curious if this would be the case.
Worth noting that this basically means that all of the JS engines are converging on what JavaScriptCore pioneered:

- More than just two tiers (JSC has four, and I guess Moz has four too now; I guess it's just a matter of time before V8 follows).

- Bottom tiers must include a fast interpreter that uses JIT ABI and collects types (Ignition and this Moz interpreter smells a lot like JSC's LLInt, which pioneered exactly this for JS).

It's weird that they kept the C++ interpreter. But not too weird, if the IC logic in the new interpreter is costly. In the LLInt, the IC/type logic is either a win (ICs are always a win) or neutral (value profiling and case flag profiling costs nothing in LLInt).

Also worth noting that this architecture - a JIT ABI interpreter that collects types as a bottom tier - is older than any JS engine. I learned it from HotSpot, and I guess that design was based on a Strongtalk VM.

This is the current state of the art of JSC's bottom interpreter tier FWIW: https://webkit.org/blog/9329/a-new-bytecode-format-for-javas...
Not really. They might refuse to accept it for policy reasons but that doesn't mean that attempting to pay with it is a bad-faith act akin to paying with a counterfeit bill.
I am happy with my looks, there will always be people far more successful, far more handsome - I've made peace with that long ago.

I am in A++ health, won't risk it for any surgery.
Modern life is so Kafkaesque.
look at Equifax for example: huge organization yet undone by very elementary errors
The hacker could have said he is stepping down from TWTR because of massive financial fraud, and make money by trading TWTR.
The way to contest evidence is to show that either: the statistical analysis has an error in the math, or that there is an issue with the scientific process used to obtain those results.
1pm PT is 4pm ET, and as we know from cron, 4pm is teatime.
You'd never know. They'd never tell you. They'd just be giving you the silent treatment whenever you came in the building with no explanation.
Police in El Salvador killed 116 people over four years
One person is an extreme case. Was everyone on Apple Card banned?
I tend to build out a mental model of the bigger blocks of a feature, but will iterate on details as I code, just like you described. And I rarely run my code through a debugger because with that mental model and some judicious logging, I get the job done. But there are people who think coding in that way is asinine, and shows I'm not experienced. Different folks work in different ways.

But because of those differences, it may have been the right call to not move forward with you. That is not a judgment against you. It is an acknowledgement that you don't work the way they like to work, and may have had a hard time melding into the existing team. Or it may have worked, but hiring managers try to avoid risk where possible.

That is fine. Getting turned down for a job that you were perfectly capable of doing is a reality in this industry. Find another place, try again.
One point of 2FA is to protect from phishing.
C++ exceptions would not help at all. There's a reason they are not used in-kernel in Windows.

C++ RAII would help a great deal, but Rust's main feature is that it's RAII on steroids.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841976
I've got a metal Capital One Venture card. I've had it for about a year. It's in a metal wallet, touching other cards. I see it has some superficial scratches on the front, but none of the lettering, numbers, or mag strip has worn down at all.
The actual title is Calculus Unlimited, not Calculus Without Limits. The terms "unlimited" and "without limits" have extremely different meanings in this context! :)
That is a great question - remote_syslog2 is a fairly mature project and is still the recommended way to aggregate your application/text log files. It does one job and does it well!

There is still active server-side development that does not show up in the rs2 repo on GitHub.

I will forward this comment along to our product team as feedback - thanks!
"Poorly designed" may be subjective, but do you happen have any evidence to support your claim that Apple Card "scratches and stains too easily"?
This makes no sense to me. You have $250k/year income and you go to the trouble and risk possible unintended consequences of emancipating your child to save $20k/year for 4 years? Totally bizarre.
Bunch of natively 256-thread CPUs, distributed enterprise messaging system (TIBCO-style) in Java (before NIO). It was normal to have 60,000 threads/machine, just debugging was a bit weird. Whole London, Frankfurt and NYC trading was running on the same or similar systems.

Can't wait for 64-core Threadripper to have something similar at home in a little box ;-)
I oppose capital punishment, but yes — that's how democracy works.
Instead of Twitter then you just hack CNN and post a story that war was declared. Same thing.
It wasn't the first time: https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/9/12134754/ceo-jack-dorseys-...
Maybe it's time to take security a wee bit more seriously Jack.
Could you? Sure.

Would you? Not unless you were completely batshit insane.
There are also an increasing number of cases in the last few years of such maintainers moving on, and that infrastructure failing soon after that. The event-stream npm debacle, the left-pad npm debacle, the electron-native-notify npm debacle, the rest-client ruby gem debacle, the strong_password ruby gem debacle...

Single points of failures in underpaid open source maintainers are an amazing security risk to critical infrastructure. "Patching" the labor market of open source to better account for the realities of downstream profits relative to upstream labor efforts, might be at least one way to make the entire ecosystem better for everyone.
> Here's a thought: if classwork and homework is getting so overwhelming that teachers can't possibly grade all of it, then it's overwhelming for the STUDENTS too

There's no necessary connection there, especially if one of the reasons that teachers are being overwhelmed is that the teacher/student ratio is increasing.

> You don't need a 5 page essay to determine whether a kid has read a book.

No, you need it to determine whether a student has (1) read and understood a book well enough to apply structured thought to the contents and (2) has developed the writing skills to write a 5-page essay.

Determining whether a student read a book is rarely, on its own, of significant interest in school.
Depends. If I'm just sketching something in code, or I don't know what I'm actually building, I'll write it out in code first.

However, if I'm designing a known thing, where I understand what it's suppose to do; I usually devise a mental model of the thing I'm trying to build before I start committing to code.

Also, having a mental model for the system that you're designing makes it apparent whether someone else can pick up and understand your system.

I also don't really use a debugger. Not sure why though.
except that governments would quickly try to freeze the banks and stock accounts
In the US, the 1st amendment and current case law don't support restricting that kind of speech. Only if there's an immediate, specific reaction, can the speech be curtailed, and even then it's difficult. Trying to incite a riot, for instance, can be restricted, as it could have the immediate effect of causing a riot in the area. Saying a mass shooter's name doesn't cause an immediate response, nor can you specifically say who or where will be affected, so under the current case law, cannot be restricted.
What was the debunking?
Unconfirmed, but there's a suggestion the "hack" was an SMS spoof on Cloudhopper, an SMS-to-Tweet platform Twitter acquired 10 years ago:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1167533000592109568
I used to be a customer of Simple, which sends out white credit cards -- plastic, yes, but still white. And in a leather wallet, every one looked like crap in weeks. In my current Tom Bihn, non-leather wallet, they... didn't get any worse. But the reality is that white cards get crappy easily. (In fact, the reality is probably that all cards get crappy easily, but most cards don't show it as easily.)

The form of the physical Apple Card is: the form of a credit card. I would argue that it absolutely shouldn't have been a white credit card, given my experience with Simple, but, welp. I'm not sure I'm going to be carrying the damn thing anyway, less out of concern over its pristine Ive White Room-ness than because it only gets me more cash back than my Discover Card does when I pay with it electronically.

If Apple didn't publish this silly-seeming "how to take care of your Apple Card" document, then in a month, pundits would be screaming about how the Apple Card already showed signs of wear and tear, photos of cards showing unremovable leather stains or blue streaks from denim or whatever, and we'd be subject to endless bloviating about how terrible this was or was not. For better or worse, they've opted to front-load the bloviation.
It is not sugar per se. It is being able to concentrate and crystallize it and then eating it in a completely non natural way.

Fructose in nature , on fruit, has lots od fiber(celulose), that makes release of sugar in the bloodstream slow, that is
Glycemic Index low.

Refined sugar on the other way, specially in dissolved water, like with milk, coffee or soda, release enormous amount of fructose in a very short amount of time.

In nature, only honey does that. Refined sugar was a luxury until 200 years ago.

US by the way produces the worst sugar of all, because it is not fructose, but something they could produce from corn, way cheaper than brown sugar that comes from tropical places.
How often does this happen?
The Week in Tech: Are You Ready for Facebook’s Future?
Decades ago, I used to skydive out of a small airport in Florida [1] with a dirt/grass runway, albeit a very long one, over 6000 feet. Nothing flew out of there except for the jump plane and crop dusters. One day, the jumpers were surprised to see a fully equipped 737 on the dirt runway. We found out it was running trials for unpaved runway landings as an unnamed African customer had requested.

[1] https://www.airnav.com/airport/X58
Just personal interest in converting heat to electricity. I saw a demo of it on youtube and it seemed simple in principle. The materials required are often superlative and hard to master.
A Maryland teen punished as a child pornographer for her own acts
The video gets to a similar point at 27:10.
My previous experience with machine learning involves applying to both oxford and cambridge computer science undergraduate courses with specialization on AI back in '98 and getting rejected because I asked for full scholarship. So I feel fully qualified when I tell you that after you finish your course and become an AI Expert, most of the time you will be selling snake oil to companies that could easily do with simpler, more clever algorithms to categorize and explore their data.
Doing so would make it really easy to trace it back to him, if he decides to make a trade big enough. The data of all trades on public markets is, after all, public.
Ugh more YIMBY shit. There are more empty houses available than there are homeless people, and yet these houses go empty. Why? Because its profitable to have scarcity. This is what capitalism does. It allows a few people to capture property, then induce scarcity of that property in order to charge more money. These same landlords are the ones writing the laws that make it harder to build more housing. Its all connected to rent-seeking behavior that is at the heart of capitalist economies.

The actual fix is to de-commoditization housing, have housing owned by the public, whom is better situated to make decisions about how many houses to build and where. This is the only way to end homelessness and eliminate the grapple hold that landlords have on the situation in our major cities.
There are millions of traders trading randomly (see r/wsb). Good luck spotting the one belonging to the hacker.
You seem to have read the "scientific apology for racism" part but not the "fuck off" part.
It would also have been exfiltrated to everyone who uses Android.
Screenshots of more of the tweets, not sure if this is all of them (warning: includes racial slurs and similar):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDPrA0lWkAcFxc2?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDPrCh4XkAA3i9W?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDPrDLJWsAEySy-?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDPrDxXXkAEoeKQ?format=jpg&name=...
Speaking of good tech blogs, Netflix has an excellent one as well.
Open source is good. I've been saying for years that OSS devs should be paid and the cheapskates who use OSS for commerce should put their hands int heir pocket instead of forcing devs into the humiliating position of begging.

Ads are cancer though. The idea that the only reliable way to fund anything is turn it into a billboard needs to die.
Misandry is MRA bullshit. Gender equality is called feminism. Read a book.
An American Missionary and Her ‘Paper Gods’
What Happened at Hanging Rock
I would guess that for a large set of combinations of loaned items and customers’ typical credit card limits this would probably lead your customer to quickly hit his card limit and thus to a lot of frustration.

(Also, in many cases the potential ex-post charges are unknown and theoretically unlimited at the time of purchase, think e.g. of a car rental company wanting to charge you for your speeding tickets.)
The tale of the missing semaphore
There was a video circling around of pilots flying the MAX in a simulator, and reproducing the failure conditions; they were unable to physically hold the trim wheel to counteract the system.
Well, in the real world I find that you don’t understand the problem you want to solve until you’ve applied a working solution to it. Practically speaking I tend to deliver quickly to accelerate the process, then refactor once all the requirements have been exposed. As mentioned here, this probably doesn’t project well in an interview. It’s a case where the most efficient practice is not the most presentable one. I’ve failed interviews for this reason too. Lessons learned!
It's really beyond belief that they insisted on reinventing the wheel with so much of the system. How much more sane would it have been to just ship a regular Linux desktop with a curated selection of libre applications and established programming environments/repls?

RPi is the learning computer that OLPC never was.
Exfiling a file off my device w/o my consent is... hopefully against Android's ToS? Looking to see if FB gets banned from Google Play....
Is it possible to make a substantial amount of money on such schemes while evading detection and subsequent prosecution?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/to-catch-a-thief-how-nasda...
I worked around the accidental-Command-Q problem in Firefox by setting up a custom keyboard shortcut using the paid app Keyboard Maestro (https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/). I have a macro “Confirm Command-Q to Quit” that intercepts the ⌘Q keystroke, only in Firefox, and instead shows a floating dialog titled “Really quit Firefox?”. The Cancel button in the dialog stops the macro, and the Quit button continues the macro to the next step, which is a Quit Firefox instruction.

Another possible workaround is to go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and create a new shortcut. You can specify that in the app Firefox, the menu item “Quit Firefox” should have the shortcut ⌥⌘Q. Then a normal ⌘Q should do nothing.
Reading hacker news!
If you want jail time, insurance fraud is probably a tad quicker.
> Is it a toxic way of thinking?

It might be, if it dominates your reasoning and view of the world.

It might be that what you are looking for is not the ability to refuse to open the door for a woman, but to being able to do so without a second thought.
I too struggle to get the card out of my thin folder. I had to remove a few seldom-used cards because I couldn’t get the card out.
Stuff like this is why I’m holding out for the Apple Card Pro.
This is the most relevant comment here this far! Sugar wasn't designed for western adults, their prejudice and office work but for children's learning in pedagogical scenarios within developing countries.
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Do Not Use This With Your Own Money.

Literally millions of people have already trod this path, the low-hanging fruit in finance is already picked, and in many other contexts as well. The big mistake people new to the field make is to reason about machine learning as if it's a replacement for human intelligence, rather than just applied large scale statistics.

Do you know some other area extremely well, where you could apply these methods? Given how vague your question is, it sounds like you don't have much background or sense of direction. You will get taken to the cleaners if you try to compete with an established group; if you have some specialized context in which you can use machine learning, by all means, but the short answer is that you can't make money with machine learning. You may be able to find a problem or an application you can improve with machine learning, and make money that way. But it's very easy to lie to yourself in your evaluations with methodological errors, and then ship a product that does nothing remotely like what you intended / evaluated it for.
> Canada's asylum acceptance rate is higher than the US.

Canada decides who comes to Canada to apply though (via resettlement programs where the seekers have been referred by a third party like UNHCR), it's generally not that people just walk across the border as they do in Europe or the US. If you can choose, for example, to resettle a bunch of academics and their families from Afghanistan, you are in a very different situation vs having the average Afghan population show up at the border which includes a large amount that are functionally illiterate.

This isn't a critique of Canada's selective policy, it's just a very different situation, much like somebody who lives in a rich part of town will not have to deal with the same issues as somebody who lives in an area with high poverty even though they both go to work, buy groceries, take showers and talk to neighbors.
Google ignoring their customers is a recurring theme,, and I'd like to think that I have a pretty good list of tech news that I follow.

Since this is HN, which (at least used to) primarily cater to the startup crowd, I hope it goes without saying that Google does not fix this issue because they don't have a financial incentive to do so. This is basic capitalism at play, and what you as a developer/advertiser/user need to do is use and pay for competing products if you're not happy about the status quo.
That's a cool idea!
Hmm, I thought they had basically the same meaning! The premise of the book is to replace limits with the method of exhaustion, so I thought the title 'without limits' conveyed that clearer than the somewhat Punny title the book actually uses. From the abstract:

> As the title Calculus Unlimited implies, this text presents an alternative treatment of calculus using the method of exhaustion for the derivative and integral in place of limits. [...] As you will note, this text has a more geometric flavor than the usual analytic treatment of calculus. For example, our definition of completeness is in terms of convexity rather than least upper bounds, and Dedekind cuts are replaced by the notion of a transition point. Who Should Use This Book: This book is for calculus instructors and students interested in trying an alternative to limits. The prerequisites are a knowledge of functions, graphs, high school algebra and trigonometry.
I do not know about success in FAANG interviews.

This is just something that happens while I'm "thinking about how to approach the problem." I have an idea of what a computer can do and (hopefully) what the steps might be to solve the problem I'm trying to solve. I'll test out some things in my head and then start typing.

I think different people are different, using a console that doesn't tell me that you didn't have a mental model of how the program would work, it just tells me that you like to test as you go. That's a good, careful, practice and not a red flag to me at all.

read-eval-print loops are a time honored tradition in a number of communities. I've written entire programs by typing into a REPL and dribbling the results as I go. Languages with long compile times are genuinely unfun to work in.

So i guess my question for you, if you didn't have a mental model, how did you know what to type into the console?

Also, if developers didn't need debuggers because of their mental model, why are there bugs in the code that they are working on?

Mental models are necessarily imperfect.

Personally, I prefer your approach to writing a big huge chunk of code, assuming it is perfect, and testing it at the very end only to find all of the bugs.
A good form creator helps businesses grow
And a reply to that tweet mentions that it was used to hack other accounts before:

"I know this is an old Tweet. But are you helping out with Shrouds jacked account? Looks like whoever took over the account is using Cloudhopper to post these hateful messages on Shrouds Timeline."
I'm sure it happens plenty. people are unaware, forgetful and lazy.
What damages can you prove?

Google presumably hasn't signed a long-term contract with you to provide any services or continue a business relationship.

Is "We don't want to do business with you any more because our algorithm isn't smart enough to differentiate what you're doing for fraud" actionable?