skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no lawyer either, but I imagine that the definition of authorisation is key here.

If you're a sysadmin on a company email system, then you do technically have access to everyone's data on that system.

However, you're generally limited by company policy that you are not permitted to access/modify that data without direct authorisation, say from the employee themselves or from HR.

So, therefore, if you go and read the email of your boss, you're still in breach because you didn't have the authorisation.
I was perplexed by this study as well and in a dilemma. I had to choose between a couple of new studies showing smoking might reduce my risk of Covid vs decades of studies showing smoking causes cancer. So I aimed to quit smoking and get healthy to reduce my risk of cancer and Covid.
> Maybe you shouldn't use a free service that is not under your control or any proper regulatory or quality constraints for your most important messaging to the public then?

No, I think they should use best-in-class media and Twitter is exemplary for that. Twitter is only dangerous for this because it is very effective at being a communication medium.

Yeah no one is going to fall for the 5th ColdFusion site with an admin backend left open on sqolkla7.info.gov.us/press-releases but that's because no one is reading that site.
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Have you considered asking questions that involve queues.
I was already doing it in 1999 with Tcl, nothing new really. :)
My interpretation is that "currently" is referring to right now, after that incident. I assume they meant to suggest that the monitoring system was put in place as a result of the incident.

Or, I'm wrong. Maybe there wasn't an alert, or maybe the alert was ignored.
And this is why Orwell is a superior writer, he gives actual examples so we know what he's actually talking about. I have no idea what "dangerous ideas" pg is always complaining about. Social Darwinism? Who knows?
Could you elaborate on twitter employees attacking his account? This is the first time I read about that.
Geez every poster is assuming that the hackers knew they would only get 12BTC.

In their minds, they are thinking at least 200 Million followers at least 10% success rate. So 2 Million in BTC or several millions of untraceable wealth.

BTC hackers aren't exactly known for smartness in other areas
I haven't had a chance to try it too extensively, but I've heard good things about Pure Maps [0] (linking to UBPorts app store since it has screenshots).

[0]: https://open-store.io/app/pure-maps.jonnius
This is unlikely between nation states. The menagerie of diplomatic officers in every capital city prevents this from happening.

Well armed militia who don’t offer diplomatic representation — they are the ones to worry about.
nothing but pure speculation, but i came to conclusion #1 more or less independently.

the obvious qui bono is not twitter. and twitters biggest opponent at the moment is?

the pound of salt for that is just that once clandestine motives are introduced theres no bottom to the subversion one would introduce to make attribution difficult.
A chocolate maker has a small ship under construction to transport cocoa

https://graindesail.com/content/14-voilier-vootan-72
Exactly! I want to be charitable, but I can't help but feel he really really wants to say something awful, James Watson style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Comments_on_race
Yep that’s the kind of picture I was looking for but couldn’t find on google images.
And I just realised why I prefer to read HN on mobile. The Hews app in particular has fantastic flow to churn giant multi-threaded conversations. The desktop website, in comparison feels like designed for reading every single comment.
Same here! Then I remember that problem to solution only takes a sentence or two in the article, but might be few days of dead ends irl.
Yep. And several of them seem like issues that would be very difficult to reproduce outside of production (e.g. overflowing primary key index), so it makes sense that they were not caught earlier
Not data generation. Label generation. .. but the charitable interpretation of your question is valid - we've been doing such ensembling to make higher quality models for some time now. It's getting some good structure, practice and tooling around it is what I feel.
Does anyone have a link to a non-paywalled version?
Microwave background provides a kind of reference frame for the universe. We are moving ~370km/s relative to it [0]. We are fairly certain CMB is homogenous so this reference frame is same everywhere.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
What's not easy about downloading the blockchain? All you need is to have enough free space, press the button, and wait a while.
Man, you really know your stuff.

Thanks for sharing it. It gave me a very interesting perspective on the problem.

Wondering if there's any advancement in fiber production that reduces these problems (cracks, etc), or reduces dB of loss over distance.
I assume the victims aren't technically-sophisticated bitcoin owners. I had previously told a family member that I had a little bit of cryptocurrency, and then a few months ago they messaged me asking how to buy some bitcoin. I prodded them a bit, and it turned out that they had seen a scam somewhat like today's. I was able to stop them and explain the scam. Presumably if they hadn't asked me, they might have figured out how to buy some on their own and then sent it to the scammer.
You can still blog about it.
Geez, why would you assume that the hackers knew that they would get only $150K.

They were probably thinking several millions of dollars of untraceable money.

BTC crowd isn't exactly known for their product-market fit, conversion rates of ads and other esoteric analysis
Exactly my experience twice over phone interviews with them, after the second one I actually got some kind of survey question, my answer was not to ever bother me again with stupid emails how great my CV looks like, that I would be the right person that they are looking for and then waste a couple of hours of my life with such exercises.

And for what? Anyone that works with Android only has to wonder where do those algorithm magicians land at Google.
There's a lot of speculation going on here, and I do not think it helps. I feel incredibly sorry for his family, especially his sister. I cannot even imagine what it would be like to walk in on a family member murdered in such a brutal fashion.
I wonder if this is related to Twitter easing some security restrictions to enable wfh for Covid. As in for example get rid of an IP whitelist which would have been too cumbersome to maintain with everyone wfh.
I agree that most media aim to create such click-bait titles but I think in this particular case the word "structure" comes from the original paper [0] so there isn't much the author could do. Our language is too slow to invent new words for newly discovered elements of the universe and scientists have to draw words from the common language for it to be easily interpretable.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9952
Migrate from Twitter to Mastodon
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Is it really that much harder to track 1 address vs 10k? It seems like it would be additional work for no marginal benefit.
This is likely a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) which allows for federal prison sentences.
Money smudging? :-)
It's crazy to me that we still haven't hacked RNA polymerase or some other such "obvious" method to just linearly read all of the strand. The machinery is all there, by definition!
I primarily work in 1-indexed languages, but I think everyone is missing the forest from the trees in this discussion: indexing should be selectable by the programmer.

One or zero indexing is a question about domain and communication. In signal processing, it is quite normal to need a negative index (autocorrelations f.x.). Ada (and I believe Pascal and Julia) has supported for specifying the indexing type, which can then be selected to match the problem domain.
I guess it’s good that they reached higher temps? It does not seem like this is quite the breakthrough that will make fusion possible.

Will fusion be achieved iteratively? Or will it need key new insights we have not yet discovered?
The "default" is a 32 bit int, large enough for almost 4.3 billion records. That is enough for the vast majority of tables, and going to a 64 bit int has some performance implications, which at GitHubs scale is absolutely something they need to take into consideration, just as they should have with the table size.
Slate Star Codex was absolutely amazing for that, but is currently down.
Are you inferring "ninja outfit" from the article description? Because it vaguely mentions a black suit and face mask. And I'm not entirely sure "face mask" doesn't just mean a now-standard-in-a-pandemic mask type.
Tangentially related: I once read that EVE Online, the massive multiplayer space game, uses a technique to "slow down" the passage of time when network congestion or server CPU usage reaches a certain point, so that the game remains playable, but the infrastructure can temporarily take a sigh of relief.
Could it tie all the way back to hardware?
I understand, and I do agree to some extent. However, I did enjoy being able to wait for a month and picking up a set I wanted to usually < £1 rather than buying loot boxes over and over. It's the same I'd do for CCGs, which is probably the reason it felt familiar to me.
Another problem is when town square hosts are held responsible for what their participants do and say. Which is sometimes understandable. But it can be messy
Misleading headline. No recent breakthrough has been mentioned in this article, except one made in 2016.
Very cool, just the day before, I had to clone the repository just to install it on Fedora because there wasn't any rpm package, which I found weird considering that you use Electron, congrats for the release, keep up with the great work.
This has to be the biggest advertising flop in history!

The hackers basically ran an advertisement on the most followed Twitter users in the world, and had 374 conversions (based on the number of transactions as of the time of this post).
I find it more funny that many people quit smoking during the quarantine in my country, because they stayed in their comfy homes without stress. However, once everything got back to normal, their habits did too.

Of course, I am not laughing at their failure, but how these conclusions about smoking and quitting always seem very superficial. I don't doubt the same result globally after things change a bit. It always finds a way back for many, unfortunately.
>Doing a good job requires extensive, encyclopedic, knowledge of what's out there

I wouldn't say that. What I feel like I've accumulated in knowledge over time is I can look at a new problem and without having the solution/encyclopedic knowledge, I can know in my gut that (a) there is a solution, and (b) the solution I'm looking at is not the solution.

Merely being able to look up things on the internet without these two things means you will either give up too early or settle on the wrong solution.

This is the most succinct way I can describe what I think >a decade of experience is worth compared to being fresh out of college.
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I have a little thingie that generates time based codes, similar to wee-calculators banks use but w/o the pin, that's on top of a private key.

SMS is fine for end user access but companies can do better, even RSA/Google authenticator are a lot better option than SMS
And yet... I've read countless anecdotes about this kind of behavior, over multiple decades.
Just curious, but why is spacing an issue? Just use an auto-formatter or something. A proper IDE will also have similar tools to fix it for you
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A good rule of thumb: Centralization has the optimal best-case. Decentralization has the optimal worst-case.

For example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, is slow. Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful.
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Its mission to sell advertising? People on both sides are lying when this question gets asked and answered.
Yea they got a lot of btc
Topology is a canonical example of "mathematics without numbers" (and indeed of "qualitative" rather than "quantitative" mathematics), so for anyone approaching it with an undergrad or lesser background in math, learning it feels a bit like starting with a clean slate. As benrbray mentions in a sibling comment, there aren't any prerequisites in the usual sense, as you won't need to draw on any reserve of mathematical facts built up in learning previous topics while studying it. But learning it does require the ability to assimilate axioms (and to intuit why they make sense as a starting point), and then the ability to reason about those axioms rigorously to draw out the interesting consequences.

That said, a background in some mathematical topics is useful for learning topology. The subject is rooted in a particularly abstract notion of distance, so it's useful to have some experience reasoning with somewhat less abstract notations of distance like metrics, the most familiar of which is the quite numerical Euclidean metric involving the familiar square root of the sum of squares. Familiarity with metric spaces in general (that is, spaces equipped with any axiomatically acceptable notion of a metric distance) is even more useful because it requires a similar sort of axiomatic reasoning as does topology.

Kolmogorov & Fomin's classic text on analysis, the Dover edition of which is under $12 on Amazon [0], has a good (albeit austere) introduction to topology, leading up to it via axiomatic set theory and metric spaces in the book's first chapters. On the one hand, I hesitate to recommend this book, because it was the text for a course that mercilessly exposed the shortcomings in my mathematical education to that time; on the other hand, I recommend it for precisely that reason. Having later assimilated the material, I do consider the book a very good introduction for anyone who either already has the mathematical maturity to do the book properly or for anyone who wants to gain that ability in the way that everybody who has done does: by staring at the same page for hours on end while working everything out on paper, down to the axioms if necessary, until you stop misunderstanding, and then start understanding.

That said, there surely are gentler introductions to the subject if you just want to get a rough idea of it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mat...
> selling or using insider information, blackmail, shorting Tesla, taking out politicians, etc.

Can't it just be that they're not that knowledgeable about stuff outside their domain? The things you mentioned require knowledge of stocks and politics. If I, personally, woke up tomorrow with access to a Twitter backdoor and the desire to exploit it, I wouldn't know how to do any of those things, because I also don't know anything about stocks or politics.
The problem is more fundamental: corporate profits are easy to move, and make a poor practical target for taxation. Corporations are free to optimize their structure for tax purposes, so there's nothing stopping the surplus cashflow from returning as bond coupons, intellectual property rent payments, or whatever other clever thing that doesn't book "profits" in the taxing jurisdiction.

Like, as a concrete example, suppose you're an American who owns some car washes in France. $15m in sales, $10m in costs, $5m profit. You could do an equity-for-debt swap, and own the exact same assets in the form of bonds that pay $3m per year and a more indebted company with a $2m per year profit. Poof, you've just moved $3m of European profits and transformed it into $3m of American interest income. Maybe not the best idea, but if you live in the right jurisdiction...
Isn't UUID discouraged for a PRIMARY KEY pertaining indexes?

What would the B+Tree look like for over 2 billions UUIDS where there is no order within? Also, the cache locality problem.
If this is the true story. Is it a standard practice on social networks to give to an administrator the right to post anything in your name without any distinguishable marker? There is a enormous trust issue here. I expect an administrator to be able to moderate a post or disable an account, not to impersonate it from a admin dashboard.
It was, 5 meetings including lunch. Each meeting had at least 2 interviewers and I had lunch with my prospective manager and another senior peer.

1. 2 pms - collab and project management questions.
2. Trivia Q&A with 2 devs and tech projects
3. Lunch with Dir. Eng, and senior dev.
4. Whiteboard leetcode with A researcher and a junior dev.
5. Systems design with Dir. Eng and a senior devops
6. Chat sessionr for questions with VP of Eng.

Needles to say I was burn out on the systems interview after having been in interviewing mode all day and the interviewers were definitely mentally drained, nitpicking on a lot of low leve elements on a systems design task.
I smoke cigars occasionally....I don't inhale any smoke. Before puffing I inhale a little air, close my throat, then pull the smoke into my mouth via suction on the cigar, then exhale to blow the smoke out of my mouth.

The previous straw analogy is accurate. It's the same effect with water via straw and smoke via cigar.
That comparison doesn't hold.
So are you making LeNet shallower somehow?
@wcoenen you're right in that there's a misunderstanding of intent.

@ooobit2 I was asking, only to hopefully learn a bit about how people who do such weird things, can be like, otherwise at the workplace.

> I've fired people for having less wherewithal than to ask a question like this

Makes me wonder if you've fired people in the past, because of misunderstandings
Lua is probably way more popular as a scripting language for web servers than for games.
I think you’re wrong, everyone knows that Bezos would never do a “I have decided to give back to my community” of any kind. :P
Given that I gave my feedback about 10 years ago and it keeps happening, something is not right.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=twitter+employee+trump+account&ia=...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/former-twitter-employee-who-...
You've been "following this closely for 3+ years" through the lens of a group of people (journalists) who have political views that are strongly in opposition to that leader. Of course they would tell you that he is unstable, that he is wreaking the country, and so on. Those journalists are even employed by companies that want access to large and powerful countries that dislike a US leader who isn't a pushover in trade negotiations. Given those facts, it would be shocking if you got a fair view of the matter.
1. Absolutely! This is in the conclusion of the post - I suggest HEY won’t match this.

2. I disagree here because Fastmail and HEY are both paid-for services, so the target market is likely similar. I could be wrong of course!
I don't believe that he's an appointee of the President, so it's not clear to me where things go from here. If the White House can fire him, they will, but can they?
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Fizz buzz/leetcode != Real software engineering

I think we should come up with new software engineer interviews techniques
There doesn't seem to be any info yet, but he did build companies in the taxi industry in 3rd world countries. I can only imagine how entrenched those industries are, and how interested they might be in getting rid of the new competition.
Oh, I thought you meant defacing his account or something. It "just" being deleted didn't quite register as an attack for me.
Bitcoin scammers hack Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff and others
I spend HOURS editing breaths and other noises out of the VOs I do... and they put them in? Why on earth would you do that? The voice is the unconvincing part - if that was 100% realistic, then the breaths to try to convince the listener that it's real would not be needed!
In my opinion that definitely will help theoretically!
But a significant number of users will find it complicated to use, in a business point of view implementing something that compromises user-friendliness isn't a good strategy.
Probably this is one reason why blockchain based dApps are yet far from being mainstream.
Majority of users of mainstream social network/email don't even use MFA to secure their accounts.
Sure the town square has had value throughout history. But no one ever lived their entire life in it until now. They spent most of their time outside the town square with their friends and family.

It's a weird accident of information capitalism that we all signed up on platforms to talk with our friends and then those platforms gradually morphed into hyper-engaged outrage factories where you're getting sucked into political arguments with strangers.

What's striking to me about HN discussions of ActivityPub being the future is that the future is already here. The resistance already exists. Do you not know anyone who participates in a semi-private Telegram group or Discord instance?

Especially when you talk to younger folk they're acutely aware of how the behemoth, wide-open networks like Twitter and FB are dangerous places to be yourself. They don't participate heavily in these networks. They are already moving to loosely moderated, semi-closed communities on other platforms. These platforms have millions of users.

Now in light of that fact, Mastodon's role in the discussion seems to me to simply be "here is a similar solution which some techies are really into, it has federation which some of them think could be a killer feature, though it isn't yet."

If an individual is concerned about the effect of Twitter on society the best thing to do is quit using it, move to semi-open, semi-moderated platforms, and encourage everyone else to do the same.

I participate in Discord and Mastodon instances, I've cut back my FB usage and I wouldn't touch Twitter for a million bucks. This digital town square bullshit needs to do a lot better to earn my engagement. I'll just keep going to the local pub for that because at least I get to drink a beer when I'm there and people are usually more civil when they have to say things to my face.
> But simplicity is not what they're optimizing for. They're optimizing for productivity

it's not only simplicity we're leaving on the table but efficiancy (resource usage) as well. this is not sustainable industry practice (see climate crisis, rare earth depletion).
the need for ever more hastly crafted apps is compareable to the need for cheap plastic toys from the 1-dollar store i.e highly questionable.
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My question was only to hopefully learn a bit about how people who do such weird things, can be like, otherwise at the workplace.

Wasn't suggesting anything related to firing or not.
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