skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to pretend that when people who say incredibly stupid, harmful, and provably falsifiable things that they deserve a pass for it. They can say what they want in the venue they want if they can find the support for it. People have a right to speech. They don't have a right to a venue or a platform, and they don't have a right from the consequences of their speech. If you're going to say something that is incredibly stupid and insensitive, then you shouldn't be surprised when you aren't invited to speak in most venues.

The venn diagram circle of those who believe that people with power deserve to have the right to reach the most people with their speech almost completely overlaps the circle of those who are currently whining about being demonetized because they're saying stupid, harmful, and reprehensible things.

This is literally the world they championed. They just thought that they would be the ones making the decisions.
Combining the parent post and the dismissive post at #2 the best way you can understand quaternions is to either learn about them or come from a different perspective and extremely dislike them to the point that you understand the simpler or different way.
insofar as universal masking works, we should not be wearing masks.

There's another factor in here that I don't see that you've weighed. Although this is far from certain, I've seen some preliminary claims that the size of the initial viral exposure may be one of the factors that eventually determines the severity of a case. This makes intuitive sense - if you only get a small dose, your body has longer to notice the virus before it reaches a given threshold.

If this is true, then masks may still be worthwhile in order to keep a lid on the proportion of severe cases.
You said: “the people telling you they're being silenced is a group of privileged folks unaccustomed to being pushed back upon publicly, with "cancel culture" as the reactive appellation for that push back?”

Which I interpreted as: “the only people who complain about cancel culture are unaccustomed to pushback” and disproved by counterexample.

It occurs to me now that perhaps you didn’t mean “all”. You meant “some”. That’s called nutpicking and it means your original claim wasn’t substantial enough to discuss in the first place.
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I just posted the same thing. Definitely seems to be part of the exploit and doesn't seem to be trolling.
I always thought water cooling was about noise.

You could move the heat to a giant radiator, which could have a giant fan. The bigger fan would move exponentially more air with exponentially less noise.

Meanwhile air cooling seems to require a lot more engineering, and you end up with something that looks like an oil refinery in the center of your motherboard.
They might actually like Mengele there.
couldnt you just use the btc to buy monero? no trail then or do I misunderstand monero?
> Repetitive sequences yield lots of short reads that look almost identical, like a large expanse of blue sky in a puzzle, with no clues to how the pieces fit together or how many repeats there are

Ah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_recovery !

Too bad DNA isn't a run-length limited code. (Wouldn't that be something.)
I don't know the number of accounts affected, but there seem to be many, and there are multiple unique messages. Richer accounts offered to "double" BTC up to greater amounts than poorer accounts, some messages refer to "fans" and others refer to the bitcoin community.

Someone (or someones) had to configure a message for each victim, they had to write the script to send all the tweets simultaneously, they probably had to test the script, they had to execute it. To me, that says they had enough time to think about what they were doing and weren't racing a very short expiration clock.

If I were at twitter I might try to investigate by looking for accounts that they might have used to test their script. If you could look for something like multiple accounts tweeting the same thing within 1 minute, in the past couple weeks, you could turn up some candidates for test accounts. You could further refine that by checking the messages sent, follower counts, etc. Maybe the hacker will leave behind clues on the script test account.
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An irony, because smokers are said to be more immune.
Sure, I guess that is a wrong assumption on my part.

Perhaps a better way to word it, is: two factor auth only seems to protect you if all the other parts of site authentication are solid, which rarely seems to be true.
Probably not, at least in the sense being talked about.

After all, there is a glut of applicants to the top companies, combined with the idea of wanting to avoid false positives (bad engineer putting on an act) at any cost, even if it means losing out on many false negatives (good engineers who interview poorly).
you joke but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
I mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?
The AIO are not really worth it.
Custom loops can be if you do it right.
My basic rule is - There is no replacement for displacement. get a big, like proper big 200mm(in both directions) or bigger radiator and a single big fan.

Ultimately, you want more surface area to blow air across to cool things. "Water cooling" is really "water transports heat to fins for cooling". Just a bigger version of the heatpipe really.

If the fins are not better suited to airflow cooling then it won't help you.

The AIO radiators don't add that much more fin area than a good air cooler if at all. But you can put them somewhere outside the otherwise warm case if that helps. Maybe if you live some cold and your desk is just right you could dangle it out the window?

Also, for the noise conscious, two(often on the 280 AIOs) or more fans "beat frequency" is a thing. Also why I don't like "push-pull" configs on air coolers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834483
People have been gushing about the value of such a hack, but as a marketer I can tell you that Twitter traffic is pretty close to worthless. I suppose there are other things you could do, such as manipulating stock prices. But that would take a large amount of capital to take advantage of, which this person may not have had.
Seems a little presumptuous to assume that the decline in outreach was personal and not associated with the heavy decline in companies hiring during uncertain times.
That's really suspicious timing - probably was an exploit against the new api.
Instead twitter will repeatedly ban my account for having very little activity.
I plainly said there were valid reasons for not having children. If you feel unable to give them material or emotional resources, that's fine. If you currently live in a Syrian refugee camp or a ghetto that's fine. If you just aren't emotionally ready/haven't found the right person and would resent the kids then that's fine. If you want to devote your life 100% to your career, or become a monk, among many other examples I could give, that's fine.

If for example you read about, say Global Warming and say that's the deciding reason you don't want to have kids, and it isn't just a self-serving lie/excuse and you actually understand the issue, then you are an extremely weak person and you should work on that. If everyone acknowledged global warming, or saw insert negative news story and decided not to have kids on that basis the species would end in a generation. That sounds like a pretty weak species to me, literally scared to death.

As for untrustworthy, in my experience weak people are inherently untrustworthy. Even if their motives are good they are unable to endure or contribute under stress. Someone who folds on the issue of having kids because of what they see on the news is someone who's likely to fold on other things under extremely mild pressure, and I don't want to have to depend on such people in a crisis; and everyone's life will have crises unless you're extremely lucky. This is hardly just my opinion.

As for the helicopter parent line, the poster argued that while hypothetical kids can't be harmed if they aren't born, having them does potentially cause them harm. Thus they are arguing that "harm" to the hypothetical kids is the deciding factor, and said "harm" should be avoided by shielding said kids from the world. That is the exact thought process of many helicopter parents, only taken to an extreme level of over-protection and perhaps with less overt narcissism.

And yes this gets a little personal, it's a philosophical argument and I'm calling out perceived weaknesses in another person's life philosophy, just as you are calling out weaknesses you perceive in me. I don't see a problem with any of that.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft sued over photos in facial recognition database
Early access wasn't supposed to be enabled until tomorrow. I wouldn't speculate until they give a post-mortem.
I interviewed with Amazon and I hated the LP bullshit. I hated it so much I gave a ton of feedback and had a very lengthy and illuminating conversation about the process with a friend of mine who works there.

Amazon knows full well what the LP interview experience is like, and it's by design. It's not about "how much you want to work at Amazon", but it's also explicitly, intentionally not about "actually getting to know you".

My friend told me that every Amazon employee has to go through an interviewing training course where they are explicitly told they are not allowed to ask any questions that are not directly related to an LP. In most cases, they don't even get to choose the LP that they are asking about. They are given a specific list of 2-3 LPs, and told that when they come out of the interview room, they must have asked questions about those 3 LPs, taken the answers down as notes, and are explicitly told that they must not ask any other questions or take any other notes.

The explanation I was given is that this is all an intentional attempt to make the interview process as impersonal and consistent across candidates as possible. They intentionally do not want to ask any questions that would lead you to talk about your education or hobbies outside of work, and they intentionally do not want the interviewer coming up with their own, not-pre-approved questions. Apparently they think that this makes it less prone to bias, which I suppose is a good thing in theory, but in my opinion, the execution resulted in a piss-poor experience as a candidate.

Apparently it isn't fun for the interviewers, either. My recruiter warned me that my interviewers would likely be rushed, impersonal, and focused entirely on recording notes about our conversation, because apparently if you are designated as an interviewer you have very strict quotas on the amounts of notes you have to take, and then as soon as the interview is over you have to rush immediately to another interview where you again have to take a certain amount of notes. The entire process sounds awful for everyone involved.
I'm reading it as "(only) (hurts the President)," not "(only hurts) (the President)."

From the article:

> “Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,” Fauci told The Atlantic in a series of interviews this week. “When the staff lets out something like that and the entire scientific and press community push back on it, it ultimately hurts the president.”
Or someone making one last use of an exploit on the old API, since ostensibly there is a day to go before the new API is released on the public net.
or just tell you "what bug? lol that never happened..."
Crazy twitter can’t pin a warning to everyone’s feed... or just kill the site.
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical.
what's going on there, the fact it was a draft tweet - is the implication that north korea can read his draft tweets before they are posted? or could at the time?
The pandemic is inspiring creative efforts to get locally sourced food
With almost every online service, you can easily reset your password through E-Mail. So if someone gains access to your E-Mail account, the person can take over your other accounts. If you use your Matrix ID (without a password like in the demo) instead of E-Mail, it's the same count of factors (because you can't even guess the password if using "Login with Matrix" because there is none) and the only difference remains in the communication protocol (E-Mail and Matrix). And because Matrix uses E2E, it's more secure than a plain E-Mail, even if not verified. Also, afaik Matrix requires you to verify a new session (with a logged-in device or recovery key) to gain access to encrypted messages, which makes it a lot harder to fully take over your Matrix account with E2E messages than your E-Mail account, even if someone guessed your password for either one. It's of course a good idea to add additional factors (Hardware Keys, OTP App) to the whole process for improved security, but this is true for both E-Mail and Matrix and that's why I think that "Login with Matrix" is more secure than an E-Mail/Password Login.
> and make me feel depressed because they make the world look like a dystopia

How do you feel about refrigerated trucks handling morgue overflow of dead grandparents, in terms of dystopia appearance?

> but IMO the difference in probability of death or maiming from covid with and without a mask is also quite low

The probability of death for _you_ is likely quite low, but it's not about you. If masks slow transmission even slightly (and evidence is mounting that they do), that will save lives. Possibly a lot of lives.
I would say I've found "cloud engineer misconfigures something that knocks the whole service offline" happens more frequently than "my building has a hardware, power, or ISP failure". To some degree, I feel like cloud services have, after overengineering their redundancies for such common failures... introduced a far worse failure via their extremely sophisticated update cadence and orchestration systems.
Someone on here said Twitter set up some special security for just his account
Which suggests that parsing should be done while editing, supporting many other refactoring tools as well. The key feature enabling this facility is incremental parsing.
Counterpoint: Someone on Twitter collected a list of ordinary people (not famous or rich celebrities) who had been fired, threatened, bankrupted or otherwise harmed. As of this afternoon, it's now at eighty examples.

https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404648389926913
Where does one go to sell or buy DMs like this? I'd like to take a look to see if or when twitter data becomes available.
That scam existed before. Youtube had this issue already.
Github had been in growth mode up until the acquisition. If Github stops being the nirvana for developers that it once was, it will be another dark mark in the history of MS acquisitions. Moreover, considering how sentiment influenced the stock market is at the moment, continued news of one of their products having outages could easily shed a considerable amount of Microsoft’s valuation, ~1%. The say stocks only go up nowadays, but when everything goes up, whoever grows at the slowest rate is really going down. I‘d assume that the Microsoft executive team won’t be happy with the new perception of Github.
Senior/Principal Engineers at FAANGs may not even code all that much in their day to day. The difficult decision that gets faced when interviewing those folks is whether they could walk into a fresh environment, and stack, and immediately earn the trust of their team.

In practice whiteboard interviews assess this pretty well. A new senior engineer must immediately be shipping optimal, tested, and well designed code. Otherwise you'll have Junior Engineers coaching Senior Engineers and the Junior Engineers will just get frustrated and leave. Worst case, you'll have an "architect" who never learns how to actually deliver independently in the environment.
Careful, lads, it's possible to be TOO confident.

I interviewed at a few places for some really easy, fun-looking jobs while I was doing freelancing. I didn't care if I got the jobs, but they did look trivially easy compared to what I'd been doing earlier in my career. Surprisingly though, after making it through all the technical people and talking to the CEO in every case, I never got the job.

Later on I applied to a really awesome job at a FAANG-class megacorp, and the hiring manager's manager called me. He said "Look, you've gotten the highest marks I've ever seen for a candidate. Everyone loved you. But I have a hunch that you aren't going to be dedicated to this job. So before we move forward, I want your personal promise that you aren't planning to just hop ship in 6 months to start a company or something"

I was JUST starting to get nervous about finding a new job at this point. My consulting work had dried up, I was down to about 3 months' worth of cash, and I was thinking about selling my car to get a few more months' runway while I grind Leetcode in order to be able to pass the bar at Google.

So you can imagine how shocked I was to hear that this guy thought his awesome senior engineer FAANG job wasn't good enough for me. I promised to stick it out, got the job, and so far it's been my favorite job of all time (other than the glorious week where my crypto trading bot was working well and just printing free money..)
>you don’t denounce meat eating therefore you are evil and your peers and employers should ostracize you (...)

This seems like a valid position to me. It’s extreme, I don’t agree with it, and I think people with such positions should be encouraged to be more tolerant, but it’s a valid position to hold in the public space nonetheless.

I don’t think the problem is people holding these positions - outrage will always exist if you allow crowds to converse freely, which is easy on the internet - but that institutions like universities instead see the outrage as an excuse to fire people. The institutions ultimately make the choices that alter people’s careers, not the crowd. Universities and companies should do more to stand up for tolerance of opinions. If the crowds themselves are viewed as the problem, then I fear for the future of free communication on the internet.
There are something like four distinct head-waggle motions with different meanings.
To be clear, there's not much evidence that masks _protect_ you from covid. The point is to prevent you from giving it to other people when you have it but don't know about it.
Not sure if the hackers are doing that or people are just trying to get attention from the search results

e.g. tweets like this look like people are consciously looking for attention: https://twitter.com/Statist_Sam/status/1283533522536411136
The US and Ireland are both at fault here, both caving to the largest of mega-corps, giving them massive tax advantages, while placing all tax burdens on individuals and corporations that aren't so insanely wealthy.
Those are very good points, you're right. Here's hoping.

I guess the best thing we can do is normalize these behaviours by making the moral decisions ourselves and encouraging the same within our family and peer groups. Just like those movements before us. Stop flying, stop buying things wrapped in plastic upon plastic upon plastic, cycle more places, eat more plants and less meat, etc – the 'drip in the ocean' strategy might be all we have, but you're right... It has helped before. There's no sense in discouraging that.
> But I think, as a conventional shorthand for “the best of all possible worlds because humanity is imperfect and damned”

Then I'd reject this on moral grounds:

Which is a better society: that everyone is approximately equally happy, or that overall happiness is greater, but at the cost of an inequality in happiness based on birthright?

I'd claim that the second system is inherently unequal and therefore we should prefer the first even if it is, in a strictly utilitarian sense, better.
Like the touch screen a Prius has, but without the buttons?

I’m just saying if you can trivialise the huge R&D effort that went into the Prius, you can trivialise the Tesla in the same way. I think anyone who appreciates the nuance in engineering knows that it wasn’t just putting in a slightly bigger starter motor, they invented a whole category.

But the iPad is just a big iPhone, and the iPhone was just an N80 but it had a touch screen and you couldn’t install apps.
Ah yes the lame stream media. Which such huge gaffes such as......
Approaching this from the opposite side, language designers should also take into account how code with slight mistakes (typos and confused use of features) could be detected. Sometimes adding small things to the grammar can pay a lot of dividends when writing the production ready compiler. Alternatively when adding a new feature they should be thinking "what common mistakes will be made to produce worse errors if we introduce this with this syntax".
What if the attackers disabled this? Unlikely, but still worth considering when designing a maintenance mode...
I sometimes get "we hacked your site, pay us bitcoin" spam via a contact page on my website. Once, I decided to send them a few cents to see if they were dumb enough to sweep it somewhere. To my surprise, they really were that dumb. It seems to be in some sort of wash trade loop (maybe a coin tumbler).

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Dismembering someone is something that most people do not have the fortitude for and goes way beyond a crime of passion. It is not just as likely to have been a "date, hookup or somone perturbed at inequality". Serial killer, maybe, however they are much rarer than some sort of cartel/organized outfit.
I guess an employee screwing up thing is easier to imagine now with everybody wfh
Yeah, my linkedin recruiter messages dropped significantly especially for management roles and I changed nothing. I'd say the drop began 1-2 months after covid started and only began recovering now. Seems to lineup with when he did his test.
That looks like an Ergodox keyboard! I really want to get one of those...

It's not just that they're great ergonomically (which I truly need), but they're also highly programmable. I can imagine how a large set of macros could improve screencasts quite a bit.

More related to the article, I've used OBS for nearly all of 150+ screencasts and it's been fantastic. I tend to use Streamlabs OBS for Twitch and the fully open source OBS for all my YouTube videos. The plugin ecosystem is great.
Masks are believed to be more effective for stopping an infected person transmitting than stopping an uninfected person being infected, so this probably wouldn't be especially useful.
Ireland has a low tax rate, other countries are free to lower theirs. This is not a 'race to the bottom' for the simple reason that people will vote out a government that gives too much to multinationals at the expense of the people. Low corporate taxes are extremely popular in Ireland, so it's obviously working there.

On the other hand, if you're referring to where taxation occurs, then other countries are free to change their rules to make sure taxation occurs where they want it.

Simply put, Ireland is successfully out-competing high tax, high waste countries (like most of the rest of the EU), and they are sore losers about it.
2 months ago was April/May. The stock market was crashing, layoffs were surging, and hiring freezes were everywhere. Absurd time to test this and declare the reason.
Another situation where geometric algebra makes everything clearer.
So a normal scenario would be `hourly_rate + (monthly_cobra_cost / 160)?`
There's a lot of "could" and "will need to change" there, don't see hard facts proving a myth.
Basically when someone says something vague enough to apply to many situations and people who hear it think he's telling the future.

"You will need clarity to deal with upcoming personal conflicts."

You get in a argument with your friend/spouse/partner/coworker, the fortune cookie sounds prophetic