skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that the SEC wouldn't put the required resources into this. After all, this would've caused tens of millions in damages, rather than the mediocre 100k$.

Also, you could filter for new traders and traders overly invested in TSLA. Giving the rather mediocre execution (i.e. single Bitcoin address), I doubt the attacker had a lot of time and capital upfront to hide in these masses.

Lastly, stock market transactions can be paused and are reversible - there's a good chance of a circuit breaker hitting or a reversal happening with that blatant market manipulation.
> even though you are not allowed to vote the president directly

Yeah, you are.

> He didn't kill minorities

Covid kills minorities at a far higher rate than the general population. His incompetence in handling the epidemic has killed minorities (it's killed a lot of people, but disproportionately minorities).[1]

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/30/8654130...
>I'll never be more than an intermediate developer

Do you mean this at your specific company? I felt the same way in my last company because there was definitely nowhere to go up, but I've since moved on and am in a more senior role.
You still need capital. This could have been executed by some bored teenager who had nothing better to do on summer break (and likely has no access to capital or loans).

Time is also a factor here. It's possible the hackers here were afraid their insider would chicken out. If they were afraid of that, they don't have time to setup a realistic looking brokerage account, transfer money and do some trading to make it all look good. That type of setup would take weeks or even months. If you sign up and the first thing you do is go all in on TSLA puts shortly before this happened you're gonna be on a list of suspects.
> The populous centers have more people, so it makes sense that they have more say.

This is a rather short-sighted position. There's a reason the tyranny of the majority was avoided, and it's because the majority will always vote for their own benefit. If they do so, it almost always hurts the 49%.

You have to balance the needs of a state as if it were a living organism. You can't simply optimize everything for the heart when the lungs have needs as well, or the body dies.
Western US coal plant closings could free up more than 76B gallons of water/year
Anonymous lambdas instead of comprehensions, delegates instead of closures. D does not have decorators in the sense Python does, well function attributes might come close. What I do enjoy in D syntax-wise is UFCS: https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/uniform-function-call-sy...

Array slicing, ranges, compile-time execution. Probably the most succinct and easy-to-read syntax out of many compiled languages. It's an investment (as with any other language) but the learning curve is not steep if you get scared away by C++ or Rust for that matter. Julia comes to mind too in terms of syntax but no UFCS and its interoperability with C++/C looks like a lot of work compared to D.
Twitter has nothing to do with national security. Official national communication comes from offical government offices through official communication channels and/or on official letterhead. Twitter is a social message board, whether people want to believe that or not. Nothing said on twitter has to be true or accurate or authentic.
4chan prioritizes active threads, which means a huge boost to trolling and content dumps.
EU/US “privacy shield” deal is fallen.
Please insert disc: Microsoft Flight Simulator will spread across ten DVDs
Trump's account got deleted in the past by a twitter employee. (Potentially through the same tool?)

Pretty sure Twitter communicated after that that they took precautions that this won't be able to happen again.

I guess the question is why other high profile accounts like Obama's weren't secured the same way.
If you want a laugh, delete your YouTube watch history. I did this about 18 months ago as an experiment. It took YT a LONG time to get back to suggesting anything like worthwhile content, despite me spending time on YT deliberately watching things that I liked (and avoiding the initial suggestions it gave me after the deletion which were all generic videos with millions of views.

There are some channels that I used to watch that I no longer see as a result of this, but then there are others I wasn't aware of that I now see.

I'm careful now to not watch what I consider junk, and if I want to watch anything I don't want my suggestions to be influenced by, I do so in a private browsing window.
From the link:

> By 2031 water use for coal-fired power plants in Colorado will drop to 3.7 billion gallons – a 68% reduction, according to the Energy and Policy Institute.

> The closing of 30 coal-fired generating units across the West – including 10 in Colorado – could free-up more than 76 billion gallons of river and groundwater a year in the increasingly parched region, although utilities appear cautious about giving up their water rights.
The decision was sort of the reverse of that. The EU got the technicalities right but didn't provide enough actual evidence.

To quote the article, "While the court expressed sympathy with the Commission that the Irish Revenue agreements with Apple lacked detail and rigour, because the Commission didn’t produce evidence of the appropriate counterfactual, the procedural failings on the part of Irish Revenue were insufficient in and of themselves to evidence an aid."

That's hardly Apple getting off on technicalities. They won because there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
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Maybe they did access his account, and they just didn't post a stupid Bitcoin scam with it? :)
Thank you. That's a great intro.
Real interest rates on treasuries are negative. That is, adjusted for inflation, people are giving away money to the government when they loan it money. That's the opposite of exorbitant.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
You have to be so good that they can't ignore you. Or, so good, it doesn't matter that that group of folks who remain silent are around. There will always be another group of folks who are genuine and will praise you for doing great work.

Now, the most difficult part, is when someone in position of power decides to keep silent — like your manager or another high profile individual. In that case, it's better to bounce, you don't want to work in an org that promotes those kind of people.

Peter Thiel said it best in Zero to One. I'm paraphrasing here, if a start up is not rewarding individuals based off of merit, but PR, then it's time to go.
>One morning he had the 0100 watch while the Canberra was steaming down the coast of North Vietnam firing its 8-inch guns against targets of opportunity (bicycles, water buffalo and occasional trucks) on Highway 1.

Just steaming along casually bombarding civilians and livestock like normal.
Do you (or parent, or GP) have allergies or food allergies by any chance?

I recently did a ~7 day liquid elemental diet [0], followed by a 3 day fast, and at the end of the fast I was more mentally acute and more lucid or "present" than I have ever felt in my life.

The results were far better than any medication or treatment I've ever tried. Unfortunately, re-feeding brought me back to the same state I've known for all of my life.

[0] - https://www.siboinfo.com/uploads/5/4/8/4/5484269/homemade_el...
Fiscal and monetary policy are under the purview of the federal government. Individual states are stuck between a rock and a hard place - needing to ramp up spending to respond to the crisis, while receiving much less tax revenue. States can only respond by taking on more debt, further compounding the cause of this financial jam. Hence red states passing the pain downwards by turning the screws on workers. The current response just takes us further into the debt spiral, making the next crisis even worse - if we're lucky enough to have a next one!
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Yes and no. The story is more about how that specific (type of) pencil was made, and no single person knows all of it. Even things that we consider simple ... really aren't.
> well known software company

named...? :-)
I would have avoided the obvious doubling scam and gone for "donate bitcoin to this charity". Maybe with an explanation of how bitcoin can make it directly to the country where it is needed immediately.
I would be happier if the sound quality was better but did not expect that which means my expectations were not only met, but surpasses as they performed better on other ways (batter, connectivity, comfort etc.)

I do take pleasure in high quality things, just not these and especially not something so easily lost.

And they are wireless. The prices for equivalent earbuds run $25-$45 now, but if you time it right they'll go on sale or a new company will discount for under $25. I got mine free as a promo but would gladly pay even $25 for them.
"You did not go to Oxford, you went to Vietnam."
It's enough proof to convince enough people to cause issues. The media lacks depth and loves click bait stories. Timing is key but there is an election coming up soon and Hilary got hurt when her emails got leaked.
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If China didn't hate Taiwan enough...
And they should tell their manager, word should reach the ceo.
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I've spent the COVID weekends working on an open-source plugin to use my Nikon DSLR as a webcam for the endless Zoom calls, and here it is:

https://github.com/dognotdog/ptpwebcam
> from people you don't follow

To try to recover the metaphor: A television pretending to be a window. Which... isn't a new problem.
Probably Sowell's Basic Economics
Recruiters call? I would have expected them to use other more asynchronous methods like text or email, unless you strongly indicate a preference.
big Nozick guy huh?
It doesn't have to even be the stats game. Just the fact that employees know there's mandatory 10% cuts every year/quarter whatever produces a hostile work environment. Amazon is a fantastic example of this. The PIP culture has produced an environment where everyone is backstabbing each other for promotions and to keep their job. If solid product gets built, it's incidental. People are too concerned about their jobs and employment.
In my medical training, I had precisely one patient reach out to hospital leadership to commend my care of them. It was really appreciated - I like to think that patients appreciate when they're treated kindly and well taken care of, but it seems that's taken for granted. I didn't so much care for the official recognition as just knowing that the patient was actually touched by the trouble and feeling I put into looking after them.
I was imagining how much worse this hack could have been if a tweet came from @RealDonaldTrump:

I tried to be nice to Little Rocket Man but the time for games is over. China has not been helpful in keeping @KimJongUn in check. We will now take matters into our own hands.

Kinda surreal to think about a fake tweet having a real geopolitical implication where people's lives are at risk.
I tried my best on the calibration demo page in Safari and consistently get a 0% accuracy result. It calibrates sort of ok in Firefox. I guess this is heavily browser dependent? But why?
So you're arguing that Jews, Blacks, and LGBT don't exist?
Several government agencies would disagree with you.
Well you can quite easily filter to the people that hadn’t had significant trading activity before suddenly making massive moves.

There aren’t that many individual investors with short positions that large.
This is fake, nothing has changed. Google has never formally labeled Palestine on the map. A quick search for "Google maps Palestine" reveals that articles like this pop up once every year.
My daughter has been waiting since March 19th for her EDD benefits. When EDD sent her the initial paperwork (after she signed up online), it had a different social security number listed for her (she typed in her correct social security number online).

The letter stated that she needed to provide proof of her social security number.

She has tried to do that for four months now. She has called them, written them snail mail letters along with proof that they have the wrong social security number, and numerous faxes. They keep telling her that the ID fraud department will eventually reach out to her. It has not happened yet after all this time. We have even reached out to the California Governor's office for help. Nothing has worked.

If she did not currently live with me and have me financially support her through all of this, she would be broke and possibly homeless.
I think the problem is you would need to use a previously active account to pull it off. If you get this hack today without an account history going back a ways, you're easy to find.
Just one example: city people trying to ban guns statewide while rural people live in places with dangerous wildlife (and more) will cause preventable deaths. In a city far more freedom must be curtailed in order for people to tolerate living near each other and rural folk often live out there precisely because they can't be happy making that trade-off.
If you were to break down the argument even further, let's say Kansas had a farmer that owned 90% of the land. The remaining 10% of the land was shared between 1000 people.

Why should that single farmer be allowed to control the entire state over the rest of the 1000 people?
Let me ask you another question. How do you identify the additive employees from the multiplicative employees? You probably don’t want all multiplicative employees on a team, but you surely want some of them. How do you create metrics that don’t encourage too much of one or the other? How much is too much of one or the other?
Mine sit in their little charging case and as a result are always ready to rock.
You still need to keep your cool and explain that to the FBI agent at your door. OPSEC is hard.

Not to mention that this requires a lot of upfront time and capital and depends on no circuit breaker being pulled, which would be quite likely giving the high amount of damage and blatant market manipulation.
While you're right, I really do like 4chan. It doing away with any voting really creates a wholly different culture. It requires a completely different approach to reading it. Now, the people there are outcasts in one form or another, in real life or digitally. That can get you mixed results and tainted content, but the principle of how that 'forum' is set up I like a lot.
Crap - wasn't aware of that.

Maybe it can come back as a paid service like the VPN. I'd pay $5/month for it!
You overestimate the quality of your "trusted" brands.
You're making a serious is-ought confusion here. Everything in your post is obviously how the world should be, but is just as obviously not how it currently is.
As a counter point, being diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication was one of the best things to have ever happened to me. Everybody is different though, medication is beneficial for some and detrimental for others. It's important to be aware of your mental state and how treatment (whether drugs or other) affects it, and to be able to make informed choices regarding treatment. A good doctor/shrink should take into consideration your feedback and act accordingly. Bad doctors will just push pills on to you. This is why I'm deadset against prescribing stimulant medication to children, it's easy (and common) for doctors and parents to basically force feed their kids amphetamines, often causing them great harm (I also believe that it stops children from learning proper ADHD management strategies, leading to them being completely incapable of functioning without medication or illicit drugs)

Meditation and yoga do nothing for me. Seeing a counsellor has been good though, and I think that its something that everybody should do, regardless of neurotype or how well they appear to be functioning in life.
I think the "canceling" is too extreme, but the idea of limiting the number of people can follow / be followed by seems interesting, especially in the context of Dunbar's number [0] where a person could only really maintain ~150 connections.

Users would then need to decide who's more important to their feed, their best friend's sister or Justin Bieber. It may lead to interesting social dynamics in the same way that Twitters 140-character restriction created new discourse dynamics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
I got the impression that the author doesn't quite know the volume of people holding ~100k in TSLA options that could easily be 5x that with a well-crafted tweet.

Given that he said "buy the stock" and "short the stock", options leverage may be the missing puzzle piece for the author.
yes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002438411...
Sure I agree there are people who do that as well.

That reminds me of the propaganda movement from Edward Bernays [0] how he profited the industry by convincing people that they need to buy material things (for example, new fashionable clothes) to express their individuality.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
I'm not making that argument, either. I guess I'm playing devil's advocate. I honestly don't think either scenario is correct, so what's the solution?
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Why do biotech VCs prefer older CEOs? (2019)
He wasn't fired for it. He did it on his last day.

https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926267806261407744
That’s the value of the internet that’s gone under leveraged by the public

Synchronize intent in one online bubble. Make it look like banal, random, distributed behavior via Robinhood transactions.

Mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa sat on the couch shouting impotently at Dan Rather.

The kids are shouting about all that behind their backs and figuring out how to leverage information technology from age 5 at a different scale than 30 years ago, to coordinate
While city dwellers vote may be technically less powerful on a per capita basis, they make up for it in numbers. There are simply more of you with similar needs/wants. Not to mention far more money to achieve those needs and wants. In a city an individual's needs from his/her government are just less unique.
Yeah, I've actually got a custom Chrome Extension I've been working on to do stuff like this, though more around deleting Promoted tweets, tweets from people I don't follow ("buddy liked [stupid tweet I don't want to see]")... I had it working perfectly until the recent redesign. Even re-filtered as I scrolled, by hooking into the same lazy-load events they used... One day I'll get it working again! Thing is, posting it on the Extensions directory requires paying $5 and I also imagine Twitter might take action against my account if I posted a browser extension that blocks their Promoted tweets...
My message was ambiguous, I meant more likely to care about privacy than Windows and Android users not Linux users. 1 and 2 of what you said are good points tho.
No, the hacker isn’t going to have a hard time cashing out their Bitcoins. All they have to do is pass the coins through a few Bitcoin tumblers before exchanging it for cash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
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Threads are the new black. It looks cool, might try it before Slack.
It's somewhat interesting in that aside from Musk, most of the people hacked were on Trump's enemy list.
Compilers are better at eliding array index checks than about eliding numeric overflow checks; an ordinary function that operates on arrays will often be able to reasonably determine both the length of the array and the scope of the indexing variable (Rust's iterators are very good at this), whereas an ordinary math function often has almost no information that usefully limits which values it might be getting called with.

I don't disagree that making more obvious errors into panics would be nice, but the performance implications are often quite unforgiving.
> All it does is create a zero-sum game

Which is exactly what the employer wants.

It's also why they don't want people talking to each other about their salaries, which is a practice that needs to die.
The performance evaluations I've been through claim to be evaluating how an employee does vs expectations. That doesn't demand comparing workers to each other.

In theory, you have a list of things to check for each category of performance. If you tick enough boxes, you get a certain category. In reality, it seems managers stack rank, and then apply the required curve to the stack rank. If everybody on your team does their job as expected (or better), too bad, X% need to be flagged as poor performers as declared by the performance curve.
This is naive. Whether you like it or not, the president of USA frequently tweets, and many of his tweets contain news that has not yet been released through official channels. Multiple former Trump staffers have learned about their own dismissals from Trump tweets. He also tweets inflammatory things about other world leaders ("little rocket man") and influences market participants ("I LOVE GOYA").
> Without a degree of essentialism, that is, an idea of what is normal and what a person/society should strive for, you can accept anything.

Essentialism is a tool, at most a particular lens that should be viewed through, but what is seen should not taken as a truth, but only a highly filtered and downsampled representation of it. Essentialism is also what kept slavery justified (under the theory that Africans were "essentially" fit for forced labor), before a different essentialism took over.
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Just like software development then?
Nice! I made something very much like this last year using Svelte[1], which was a nice choice because of the automatic reactivity it provides.

1: https://github.com/trbrc/svelte-inspect
Thanks, great project.
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The only recommendations I enjoy are music playlists based on my history.

Otherwise it always seems to ultimately lead to conspiracy style videos. I may start with some DIY videos, archeology, history, physics or even MMA...then a couple recommendations in its Basically “fail videos” and conspiracy videos. As of late I’m also loaded up with pizza reviews which is ironic because I’m generally following low carb or keto regimens.
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Just another example: rural people trying to ban mask-wearing statewide while city people live in close proximity will cause preventable deaths.

In fact, we see that scenario happening right now here in Texas where cities are not allowed govern. See also: Georgia.
This was the extent of the changes necessary to get Meson working on the system-provided Python: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/85686e21d78a587de.... Surely that is not a "Stone Age tool"? The people doing the work right now to get foundational stuff working are doing that precisely to aid the porting efforts of the many, many developers that will depend on those things working in a few months when they have to port their own codebases.
What's the best metric for metric quality?
You would be surprised, at least with array access stuff. And, if it doesn't, you can often help it understand with a bit of work. Sometimes an assert before a loop or re-slicing something can take a check in the body of a loop and move it out to a single one.

I ported a small C function to Rust recently that involved some looping, and all of the bounds checking was completely eliminated, even once I took the line-by-line port and turned it into a slightly higher level one with slices and iterators instead of pointer + length.
> The problem seems to me to be in their mission objective: they view every applicant first and foremost as a potential "wellfare queen"

this doesn't apply to 'stimulus check' in question. They sent it to everyone immediately based on tax returns.