skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Companies should have never been taxed based on a virtual, and fundamentally nonsensical, figure as the location of their headquarters. They should be taxed based on substantial things, like (the location of) capital, labour and sales.

This is fundamentally the right answer, but don't underestimate the political difficulty in getting there.

Taxing "profits" in the location of the headquarters was always a seduction. You have an international company paying developers in California, manufacturing products in China, selling them in Germany, but if their headquarters is in France then France gets a cut of the profit from all of that whether they had anything to do with it or not. Very nice deal for France.

Until Ireland sets a lower rate and the company moves their headquarters there, and then the crying starts. No, it was a stupid way to tax from the start, not when they moved the headquarters to Ireland.

But you tax capital and labor and sales, well, the implications of that are different. Now if they have operations and employees where you are, they can't avoid the tax, except by moving out. But uh oh, if the taxes are too high they might do exactly that, so now you've got to worry about the rate again if you don't want to lose jobs to other countries. Or your people would have to accept lower salaries to keep that from happening. And on top of that if you lose the jobs you still lose the tax revenue.

The company also can't avoid taxes on sales if they want to sell to your people, but if the company wasn't in a monopolistic industry to begin with then it could easily be the customers paying most of those taxes and not the company.

So the taxes get paid, but so do the true costs of taxing things heavily. The free money everybody always wanted was never really available. And there may be some wailing and gnashing of teeth as people figure that out.
I'm sure there are still companies like that out there, but getting fewer and fewer. My current company (bank, non-tech) hired like that when I joined 5+ years ago. At most you would have gotten some language or framework trivia questions. Fast forward to today, and interviews are now all leetcode on whiteboard - just like a FAANG, albeit easier with lower standards. My direct manager and half my team is in London, so I know any UK candidates also get leetcoded the same way US candidates are.

Same thing with other banks and hedge funds - 5 years ago I think the only major bank that leetcoded me was Goldman, and even that was leetcode easy level. Today, every bank leetcodes candidates AFAIK.

Pretty much every company, both tech and non-tech, I've interviewed with the past 3 years has done leetcode interviews at various levels of difficulty and rigor. Interestingly enough, recently FAANG and a few other top tech companies seem be creating frontend specific interview tracks that are arguably more practical tests of JavaScript knowledge rather than pure leetcode problems.
No one has ever gone bankrupt by taking profit. State level actors/smoke screen/geopolitical implications all sounds great and are exciting but this might be a small group that just thought 'let's get what we can, easier to launder 100k that billions lol'
You mean the deep OTM daily put options
Many people call Vienna beautiful, but I have a direct comparison. I spent most of my childhood in Attica (northern suburbs, 8 Km from Syntagma square, so basically still Athens), in 5 different polykatoikies. All of them had balconies, bidets, elevators, good heating, plenty of light, were quiet and relatively clean. Here in Vienna, I've had one apartment with terrace and 0 with balconies (of 6 total I've lived in), lots of noise, thin walls and dirt. Elevators and toilets inside the apartment were often added in the last 20-30 years in older buildings, balconies are often impossible and you usually have noisy and somewhat dangerous gas heating with boilers inside the apartment. IOW, housing quality in Athens was significantly better even though back then we were lower middle class (my mother was a single mother with 2 kids). The apartment I'm sitting in right now cost me approx. €750k (for 75m²) and has no balconies.

I don't want to go back to Athens, but apartments are typically much better there.

FWIW, the house I lived in from 1985-1990 is still standing and looks exactly the same: https://www.google.at/maps/@38.0225488,23.8094767,3a,65.9y,1...
It probably helps that Julia and Fortran are both column major.

When interfacing with C languages, that can be a big penalty (depending on the complexity of the algorithm).

It will probably take two generations of developers to make this happen, but well worth it. When I was studying atmospheric science I tried to understand OpenWRF (weather research forecasting) and the barrier was too high... And I had programming experience, imagine those with none!

An open source project is only as useful as it is accessible to it's average developer base.
It kinda is, if the premise is "they hacked a 3rd party app"
Tweet from TwitterDev team yesterday:

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283068902331817990

> 2 days to go… #TwitterAPI

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283433096780677122

> Thank you to all of you who have engaged with us and shared your feedback. Your input has been vital, and we’re committed to continuing these conversations with you. There’s so much more we’re doing to build a better #TwitterAPI… and Early Access is coming tomorrow!

Were they supposed to launch some new API tomorrow which got hacked?
Eh, this site is bullshit. It just lists random content in a scareware fashion.

I’ve already tried it from a few different IPs, and not only did it list none of what I actually torrent, but it also listed shit I’ve never even heard of before. Mostly porn. And identical content across different IP’s (home static and cell LTE).

As in, I don’t torrent through my phone, and even on that (wifi turned off) I got a list of torrents with a completely different listed IP.
I dunno. I always thought that one looked kind of like a scaled-up version of Bath.
Yes. The issue is I gave it permission to access my photos so I could add a review (for the post office). But weeks later it was going through my photos without my permission. It must have either recognized a popular statue or building, or used the exif data to determine the location. From there it decided to interrupt my day and make a suggestion based on some algorithm. Maybe it noticed I go to the park a lot and thought I should review that place.

Whatever, I don't care. I could infer now that my entire photo library has been uploaded to google and is in some database somewhere. Or that every picture has been scraped for location data and recognizable landmarks, and all of that data is somewhere on google.

Whatever it is, I'm freaking disgusted.
>I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat

I am curious to know more about this for personal and professional reasons but am unwilling to give my email just to find out. Do they have an about page hidden somewhere? Hard to find information on these guys!
Billions? Ridiculous.

There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you use it, you're likely to lose it, so its value is pretty precarious. How much can you really accomplish in a few hours?

People get hacked so often on twitter that there's already substantial doubt ("did they get hacked?") whenever somebody tweets something odd, so I really doubt you could accomplish some diabolical geopolitical aim that some seem to expect.

And as if it's so straightforward to find a terrorist billionaire that's willing to pay top dollar to use it to start a war or something to that end.
Thanks, I wasn’t familiar with that technical term.

I just put on my Echo Buds and started walking. If I’m understanding microphonics correctly, it means a rustling electrical sound when there’s mechanical vibration. This does not happen with my Echo Buds.

However, I do hear the thud of my footsteps. I’ve accepted that this happens with any in ear headphones. Not sure if there are any IEMs out there that don’t have the footstep problem.
Hmm the thing is, associating it even more with "hack" and "scam" isn't really great marketing.
Doesn't the state provide roads for Amazon, and schools for the children of kids employed at the subsidiaries of Apple? I know there are a lot of details in which "state" (of all the bureaucracies) does that, but is Europe somehow exempt from that arrangement? Is your concern with the EU taking this action instead of Ireland? Isn't that going to be a race to the bottom, where "states" try to out do each other in tax breaks? And, if the cynicism is warranted, aren't lowly paid civic employees going to be outgunned by high paid corporate lobbyists in the end?
Bar-raiser program didn't have a feedback loop to track its effectiveness. Bar raisers periodically met to discuss topics related to hiring and increasing interview bandwidth but we didn't evaluate the process as such.

That said, the program (like any such program I guess) didn't scale well with the immense pressure on increasing the head-count which in itself was a result of delivering more. Hiring managers and recruiters (who are incentivised to hire more) would rig up interview loops in a way to get their candidates through.

The program itself came under increasing scrutiny (I guess for the right reasons) as being too restrictive. I distinctly remember period between 2008-2012 they hired at a blistering pace, all over the world. In fact in Seattle when they moved into SLU campus the buildings went from empty to nearly 100% occupancy in a matter of year or so. You could even see it based on the number of product launches from 2012 onwards (AWS, the hardware products, new country launches etc.,).

And now Amazon is such a behemoth that it doesn't even make sense to speak about it or analyse it as a single entity anymore. My prediction is in 5-8 years it'll be broken up into at least three companies under Amazon as a holding corporation --- cloud, retail, and consumer devices.
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(1) Yes, the evolutionary pressures are possible. There's also the related notion of treatments getting better over time, etc.

Basically, and you alluded to this, my position is those effects may occur to some extent, but will be massively dwarfed by the downsides of trying to slow down the timeline.

(2) As far as the CDC, I hate to be that guy but I don't trust their numbers very much. I'm just a bit suspicious of them upwardly revising their number at this point in time, especially given the statements coming out of the CDC head which seem to lack any type of nuance. In particular, they are modelling asymptomatic spread but not pre-symptomatic? Weird.

But yes, I generally give a range of .1-.7%, but settled on .30% as the best number for my purposes. It's more-or-less pulled out of my ass, although it is almost exactly the median in the big spreadsheet of IFR estimates which I now cannot find the link to (grr)

Anyway, the important thing is for my "argument", it actually doesn't matter to me if the IFR is .3% or .9%. The costs of lockdown just end up being too risky. So, feel free to ignore my mistrust of the CDC.

Note that Ferguson's classic (albeit incredibly myopic) paper models an IFR of .9% and 82% of the US population being infected, with an end result of 2.2 million. With these T-cell findings and other findings, we might see like 1/4 as many total infections, so even with the same IFR that gives us a shitty upper bound of 600k.
Just do a coin join transaction. These kind of blacklisted addresses can be easily bypassed.
> They also can't be stupid enough to not understand that using a single address that is blocked in most web wallets now is completely dumb.

Everyone always assumes stuff like this after every big criminal case. But every time it turns out that yes they were that stupid.
I am sorry but either from the article or discussion here, I am not exactly clear what has happened. Can someone explain ? Meaning did the user accounts on Twitter got hacked or the actual company websites ? Or both ?
There's basically no way to earn any significant amount of money beyond what they've already done without getting caught. Certainly not a billion dollars.
Just guessing: fortune cookies are bite-sized tautologies, but people still eat them.
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It would be probably cheeper - simply because the perimeter would be shorter than the sum of perimeters for most of buildings included in the city/district. That is what cities did since at least Neolithic til moment when cities become undefendable (because of cannons and airstrike).

But that is probably not the point. In order to build wall around the city, you need to have power or consensus in society to deliver this decision. And achieve that in reasonable time might be unreal for someone in charge of one building.
Seems like Ireland is doing fine, it's one of the best places to live in the world. So it is ethical then, by your argument.

By the way, in case anyone claims that the tax revenue was 'stolen' from other countries- it's not up to the Irish government to charge higher taxes in order to subsidize other countries services (be it directly or by presenting itself as more expensive tax-wise than it needs to be).
The title is inaccurate. The Twitter accounts hacked are far more important than just a couple of prominent cryptocurrency accounts.

Obama is in there, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and many other prominents that have nothing to do with crypto.
This has been the norm growing up in the Philippines. We lived in a gilded fortress and we're not drug dealers. We learn about the dangers of being kidnapped before we enter grade school. I can go on, but it's not much different from life in many parts of South America, Africa, and South & South East Asia. You're not required to wear body armor, but seeing that there are armed guards posted outside of a KFC with body armor and either an assault rifle or shotgun; it's not a terrible idea either.

Yes, it's very different from the sheltered life of a developed country.
What are you saying? That privileged suburb experiences growing up can't be extrapolated for all people?

Not sure that kind of talk is allowed here, HN feels very strongly about how all knowledge can be extrapolated from first principles if you grew up in a nice enough suburb.
Why do you think they will feel the pain ever?
I think that's part of the point. i.e. the usual line about wanting to avoid false positives (bad engineers putting on an act) even if it means sacrificing many false negatives (good engineers who suck at interviewing, or even just simply wasn't having a good day on the day of the interview).

Ironically the modern technical whiteboarding interview often does require the candidate to effectively act and put on a show,
Thanks for the reply! My brain got stuck on having to have extended if/else chains if one area changes frequently, but most of our changes are spread out, so fit well with your points. Excited to try it out more!
Monero is still traceable with dust transaction analysis.
If you like this stuff:’one of my all time favorite books is “The Last Grain Race” by Eric Newby. He signed on as a sailor on the Last sail shipment of grain from Rotterdam to Sydney in 1939 (just as WWII was breaking out in Europe). As is typical for him he knew nothing about sailing when he signed on. He’s a great writer and it’s an exciting story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Grain_Race
The money used to pay income taxes also was the consumer's money originally. It's really all the same thing.
This is an awful question for hiring software engineers. It’d be like asking a building engineer what quicksort is.
What does google maps have to do with google photos? I didn't upload my library into google photos. I selected a single picture to attach to a review.
Selling shares to finance business ventures has been going on for hundreds of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company#Early_join...
Seems to be begging the question a bit. If 100% of energy came from nuclear, then maintaining it (and all other activities) would be 0-emissions. Construction work and transportation can surely be done electrically.
this assumes two things: that there is a security model that would prevent this attack that they should have implemented, and that alarms _weren't_ set off. Both of those are weak assumptions.
You are making the assumption that everyone reading these statements about "White" and "Black" are American.

Even if it is Americans making these statements in an American context, the Internet and the media broadcasts them to the rest of the planet.

You have to think, not just about whether they make sense in an American context, but also whether they make sense in the non-American contexts in which they are being received.
It is not a foreign court, it is the highest court in Ireland's legal system.

No law has been sturck down. No law has been rewritten. No law has been applied retroactively.

A deal was found to be illegal, based on the laws at the time, so was anulled (as any illegal deal would be).

This was appealed, and the court found that the facts of the case had been misinterperated (ie they're arguing about what counts as state aid, not whether state aid is illegal).
This entire thread and not one mention of 4Chan. Why isn't this simply an insider with a few friends doing this for fun?
Tip: Don't ask visitors to your repo to follow you on Twitter. Some of us don't use Twitter and find this advice rather annoying. Start a blog or something.
Doesn't even look like Twitter has acknowledged the attack yet. The status page [1] shows all green.

[1] https://api.twitterstat.us/
‪I’m seeing more complaints about the abstract concept of “things you can’t say” than actual object-level things-you-can’t-say said anonymously.‬

‪How come, if the internet makes anonymous publishing so easy and safe?‬
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It's not just the inhalation of smoke into the lungs which causes damage. Nicotine itself causes cardiovascular disease.
If life was like Sherlock Holmes, the real hack would be put in place during the rush to fix this one.

I don't seriously suggest this is what happened though. I don't have any information about this. Glad I never did send or receive Twitter DMs though.
Ignoring that medical data is included in this category. Would we have known about this particular data collection without the law?
Is the attack now changing usernames to the BTC address or are these people just trolling?

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
No. No it wouldn't. Trust is priceless and they're losing it by the minute.
Yes, taxes should be 100%, for the nurses!

/s
Maybe they're POTUS fans ;)
Just imagine if they have to shutdown twitter momentarily —- it has been a long time since the last big fail whale
You could always hand traffic enforcement over to the meter maids. No real reason you need armed police for that.
That's what I first thought of a potential better scam. Pump and dump. Emergency news covid vaccine gets emergency authorization or the opposite Moderna is pulled from next phase it killed people. I know the SEC is good at sniffing that out but seems like could easily get more than a few 100k especially given the Moderna news / earnings season
Ask HN: How to make self-hosted software without open sourcing it?
Are there examples of ways one can make software that companies can host internally without open sourcing the code to said software?

Looking for some guidance as to how to be able to do that.

Cheers
Nice catch, this may be what it was.

Edit: looks like an admin panel was the culprit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23853786
It’s been close before, the below comes to mind. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/10/asia-pacific/po...
2 hours later. it's more likely that they developed the button and deployed it
No, as it doesn't detail necessary reintegration into the economy. You will need to offer a service for crypto which you report taxes on. Your "customers" either pay directly in XMR which there is no trail on, or they swap the XMR back for a more likely used cryptocurrency like bitcoin or Ether, and pay you with that. So now it is.

In any case as your lawyer might tell you: if the origin is illicit it is money laundering. If the origin is not illicit then its not money laundering.

The irony being that it is the onus of the accuser to determine the origin, and if you do it right that is not possible to know in any scenario. Typically money laundering then is a tacked on charge, after other clear evidence is already known, to help ensure a conviction.

But really at this point, its probably better if your public resources weren't spent on flagging transactions in the first place, and if the private sector was not burdened with doing this work for the state.
Perhaps Twitter has additional security around his account? An IP whitelist? Perhaps the President has a special version of the twitter client that includes additional authentication? Twitter is no fan of the current president, but it seems plausible for national security reasons.
You might find this interesting:

> IFR takes into account both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases and may therefore be a more directly measurable parameter for disease severity for COVID-19.

The latest CDC estimates an IFR of 0.65%

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

I'll let you do the math on how many are estimated to die without mitigation.

And for a lot of those who don't succumb to COVID-19, here are the extra-pulmonary effects:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0968-3/figures/2

Spreading the idea that shutting down was unwise is incredibly irresponsible.
Its that epic WFH productivity!
An even bigger flaw with most academic research into parser error recovery is that the vast majority of syntax errors occur from modifying a valid program to produce an invalid program, but the recovery algorithms are oblivious to this.
I make a deliberate effort to not involve myself in any communities, either online or in person. Social communities from my experience are nothing more than a small group of people, or even a single person using the community for their own ends until, eventually, everything becomes about them.

And sure, it can sometimes be lonely, but I find that honestly preferable than the alternative.
I guess he’s saying dishing out clever aphorisms is similarly like the sayings in fortune cookies.
Or disgruntled ex-employee
If you’re not already familiar, check out Tcl. It’s well established, similar domain, and addresses some of your concerns head-on - very stable API/semantics, not 1-based, comes with quite a few “batteries” included, excellent concurrency and parallelism (lovely thread model (apartment [0])), native Unicode... but still portable and actively developed.

[0] http://www.opengroup.org/comsource/techref2/CHP06GDC.HTM
This is a critical point that a lot of hiring misses. We talk about building great teams, but the hiring requirements are static and never seem to consider who's currently on the team and what mindsets or backgrounds are missing.
I read about this in the news before I saw it in my Twitter feed. My trust in Twitter has dropped severely.

Why weren’t these tweets deleted immediately and a note pinned to every users feed?