skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people have high anxiety levels but still perform well under pressure. The anxiety gets sublimated into other behaviors, or bottled up until after the interview, or meditated away, etc. Even people that can handle high anxiety levels can still get impostor syndrome.
Some reports that this was related to compromised OAuth tokens. How would someone know and what is the source of the compromise? A third party app that all of these accounts use?
Sounds like an exploit. The article says that some of the accounts were confirmed to have multi-factor authentication enabled.
Reminds me of the iCloud phishing hack, a lot of high profile celebrities were hacked that time.
Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.
I was already aware. How does pointing this out solve nuclear waste storage issues?
With OWA there is no need to use the outlook client anymore
also all @apple tweets have been deleted lol
the hacker already got 6 BTC!
this is crazy.
I still see it as a "pinned tweet"

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907

(Now gone @ 3:32p Pacific)
I think this is true as a hiring manager, but isn't necessarily true for an interviewer, who may be a senior engineer applying a very strong filter to the "who would I want on my team" test.
I'm unhinged, when you come in with a throwaway and accuse people of mental gymnastics for ignoring details that literally aren't available to them? And, using the word "fucking" for emphasis is not "cussing you out." 10.00!
Ah yes, the college that employs John Yoo, and runs one of the primary labs that develops nuclear weapons. Total Marxists.
Might be a third party client, browser extension, insider threat... not necessarily a compromise of the Twitter backend.
Thought we were talking about the much publicized incident in NYC. Looks like we weren't. MY BAD.

I agree that the police use excessive force way too much and are sadly allowed to get away with it. We definitely agree there.

But I do draw the line at arsonists in the act. That's the kind of "property damage" that can quickly turn into "mass murder" with a shift in the breeze.
Does anyone have suggestions for how to check if your resume is correctly parsed by these tools?
Most of the jobs at these companies are boring grunt work and definitely not working on something great. So they're selecting the right people for that. You do get paid significantly more than other companies so there's a very real incentive for playing the game.
I don't like Pinkers books but this just makes me sad that cancel fascism is getting so bad. Unfortunately I think it's just the beginning and going to get worse, much worse. The future will look like Idiocracy, only it wont be funny.
> The problem with the public communities is that it doesn't take long before they're dominated by those who have the most free time on their hands.

In both online and offline communities you can partially mitigate this issue by employing people to be full-time caretakers of the community.
Sure but Khashoggi was a very high profile Journalist and Activist and that happened on Turkish soil. An assassination like that in the US would be a dramatic change in their behavior and politically very hazardous.
The wallet that the hacker who got Elon posted has been given 5.7 BTC and counting: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
Where did you get the 2.5BTC number from?

It's more like 1.3BTC by looking up the address on their website.

https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl...

Edit: I stand corrected. Holy crap!
The leaked credentials of an employee at a tweet scheduling service theory sounds more plausible to me on the face of it.
It's also getting reposted.
I am positive that you still don't have the historical context.

One place to get that historical context is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_G2u1RrLOk&list=PLR8X5I0C1L... which is part 2 of Gwynne Dyer's 8 part series on War. It is from the time period in question and is about boot camp.

If you watch it, you will find that the "exclusively male intangibles" in that article were, at the time, messages brainwashed into every soldier during boot camp. In every service, in every military. This had been true for generations. The concerns in that article were mainstream concerns about how integrating women into the military could go wrong.

You probably find it brutish and offensive. That was by intent. It was part of a package of beliefs that was intended to turn young men into soldiers who kill at the right command. Whose use of force stops when it is supposed to. We want soldiers who take the town by force, but don't continue on raping and murdering for pleasure. We don't always get this package right. Graveyards are littered with the consequences.

As it happens, the generals were wrong in their concerns. We have been able to integrate women without losing military culture. However I guarantee you that if you scratch a soldier today, you'll find lots of beliefs you don't like. Beliefs instilled during boot camp for the same job - to turn young people (mostly men) into controlled lethal weapons.
Suggestion on Twitter is a third-party app that has write access to the accounts was compromised.
> Whoever hacked @Twitter today definitely got major access to their backend

Is there any proof Twitter was hacked and not just these two accounts?
This C2H approach seems to ignore the fact that companies have a genuine preference for paying with stock options that they can pay for by issuing new stock rather than expending cash on hand in the US, something which can be a scarce resource at times given a combination of cash flow situations and US tax law. Stock options on short-term contracts tend to be less feasible.
I like that you give an example of what kind of interview you do like.
The scammer's address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
Your last paragraph sums what why everyone on HN is so upset about the interview process. That is, the process is tailored for new grads, and what is being tested is not at all related to the job. 5 years of schooling, and 10 years of experience is not enough if you can't implement depth first search using double linked lists, hashes - and ultimately graph theory - within 45 mins. Heck, new grads can't even do so.
You're saying that the pain of the people who crafted a police cruiser is alone worth committing violence against a person. Don't do that.
While I don't agree that the data supports your anti-mask, large-gatherings-are-OK preferences, I appreciate you making the strongest possible case for what has often been mocked as a "let 'er rip" response. It's helpful to see the collected data & reasoning for that idea.

In particular, even given much of your argument, I believe it's still wise for most people, and especially those with any extra risk factors, which likely include some yet-unknown among the outwardly-healthy, to avoid getting this for as long as possible. The end point – nearly everyone having an upgrade immunity to the somewhat-novel threat – is the same. But the upgrade is slower, to minimize collateral damage, and involves more conscious processes, including at some point synthesized vaccines, rather than purely natural/chaotic.

Every week brings better understanding of risks & treatments. Every week gives more opportunity for the pull of 'optimal virulence' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence) to eventually select for even-milder strains. At least partially-effective vaccines for high-risk/front-line workers may arrive before the end of the year. Delays prevent overwhelming health facilities – or increasing average initial infectious loads – which each seem to risk synergistic escalations of mortality rates.

That said, it's not implausible that the right strategy for those least-at-risk – the young & very-healthy – is to mostly go about their normal day, and not worry much about getting an mild case from other mild (presymptomatic/asymptomatic) shedders. The risks are offset by the value of adding to their internal (and thus society's) immunity library against Covid-19 & related viruses.

But: these people should remain diligent about limiting their interactions with the higher-risk. So even more important than the 'regional' strategies now in place, would be for people to declare & behave consistently with their own personal risk-tolerance. At an extreme, this might include wearing some outward declaration of your risk-profile, and segregating shared facilities, by place or time, to minimize interactions between "let 'er rip" & "avoiding" subpopulations.
That’s not the only reason. Overweight women have a harder time conceiving. More alarmingly, men’s sperm counts have been dropping for decades, and not by small amounts. I think it’s a greater threat to humanity than global warming, yet most people aren’t even aware of it.
The attacker already made over 5 BTC:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
Ought != unverifiable. That's the point. Go read the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
In my experience, with C2H you typically earn more in the contract phase than you would with a base salary, which is helpful in covering benefits or out of pocket expenses. Maybe that's not always the case, but salaried employees usually earn 80% or less what their contract counterparts do.

And you kind of have to bomb the contract phase to not be given the offer, unless there are other circumstances at play (budgets, pandemics, etc). Hang with the team at lunch or after work if they do that, make code contributions asap, and be the kind of person any team would want to have.

C2H usually just makes it easier for them to drop you if you're (surprisingly) not a good fit - and after that kind of time and money investment, they definitely don't want to do that.
Wouldn't Twitter have locked the affected accounts by now then?
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

5.9BTC now
I've seen several live streams on youtube that replay spacex launches and display the same offer. Viewership goes up during actual launches. The one I found had 10k active viewers and the address they linked to had brought in 2btc in under an hour.
bug exploit or some kind of inside access
Those are both tiny sums anyway.
My favorite interview experience of all-time was essentially a two day contract. The company listed a couple of simple tasks in their codebase that didn't need a lot of context to complete. And there was no pressure to complete all of them — it was simply, pick a couple that you think you can accomplish over two days.

I put up a few PRs, then a final assessment was a discussion that was essentially, "Now that you've seen our codebase, what are your thoughts on how we could improve our architecture, etc.?"

I was paid for my time as well (because I was legally able to accept payment at the time). I think that's actually a larger hurdle — companies that disallow contract work that prevent engineers from getting paid for this type of interviewing, although I suppose it's in their best interest.
I take notes by finding common concepts among different topics and constructing a hierarchical mental model of the domain i'm taking notes on. for example, for programming languages, while there might be many dozens of languages, they all share similar components:

- data structures

- boolean
- array
- hash
- ...

- control flow

- for
- if
- ...

- io

- read/write
- ...

I use https://dendron.so to actually take my notes. Its a markdown based, hierarchical note-taking application built on top of VSCode (disclaimer - i'm the author)
It wasn't fair in the slightest, having a plan in place for your company going under is more than many have and shows foresight.

Not having kids but good look with your business :).
- Uber

- Apple

- Bill Gates

- Elon Musk

- Jeff Bezos

- Joe Biden

- Barack Obama

- Michael Bloomberg

- Kanye West

- Wiz Khalifa

- Bitcoin

- Ripple

- Coinbase

- BINANCE

- CZ_Binance

- Gemini

- Kucoin

- Gate .io

- Coindesk

- Tron

- Justin Sun

- Charlee Lee

That seems like someone got full access to the backend, not the accounts per se.

Also worth mentioning that the tweets get deleted but then they get added and pinned again.
This one's a bit more up-to-date: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
In tech cities almost every non-tiny company has the FAANG approach
> there is nothing obvious about what went wrong. It just...closes.

Yeah, that's disconcerting from a support standpoint. Fortunately, I was able to remotely load their event logs and get the status code. DDG pointed right to the above article.
And still US corporate taxes are among the highest in the world, while the working poor benefit from various tax breaks.
no, it's a rejection of your argument from authority, not a supporting claim of "overreaction from people who aren’t used to pushback". if you think there are other substantial coutnerclaims, please make them.
Very true.

I certainly don’t say BEGIN NOW! It’s a conversation. I continually ask questions during the design and ask the candidate to speak about the decisions being made.

In all honesty this process can easily last more than 30 minutes.

This is not a hard problem for someone with the experience I want, and there are many different correct answers.
You’re not on the same thread at all
I work at Google and have performed plenty of interviews over the years. We're specifically trained not to do this. We have "feedback feedback" in our interview systems specifically for this type of situation.
Just the idea of a "conversion interview" seems nuts. Interviews are a way (albeit imperfect) for you to gauge the likeliness that a candidate would succeed in a position.

If you've already worked with the candidate, you already know this so there's no point in having an interview.
Really surprised by this. I suspect a system-level 2FA hack or a bug exploit, all these people woudln't fall for phishing
There is an obvious difference between disagreeing with what someone says and believes and circling a petition that harms their livelihood because of said disagreements.
I rescheduled the second date with my now wife at the last minute. Worked out well for us, but I was so tired from work that there’s no way that date would have gone well (busy period of a project at the time).
We have a medium-difficulty coding question which can translate into any language. It's pretty open-ended, in that there are a few different ways to tackle the problem. It's not algorithmic, but it definitely forces the candidate to flex their coding and problem solving skills. From watching how the candidate proceeds, I get a very good idea of their skill level and how they react when they hit a roadblock: are they able to debug? Do they get overly frustrated?

From this relatively simple question, I get a lot of insight into the candidate's skill level, i.e. how well do they write code? and it has nothing to do with algorithms.
I think he means dominated in terms of posting as much as dominated in terms of moderation.
pivotal does pair programming interview. The morning with one person in a theoretical problem and afternoon with another in a real problem.

I liked the experience and the process, in the morning it was a blast. We really clicked.

In the afternoon I had to use the same setup as the guy I was collaborating with -- Vim with his bindings and Golang. I had never used Golang before and even tho I was proficient with vim his binding were quite opinionated.

I felt the guy from the afternoon had 0 interest in being programming with me. He wasn't collaborating and was looking at his cellphone the whole time.

The problem was to write a functional test for a CLI that would spawn a web service in Golang, parse some json and run some assertions.

Golang had some quirks with JSON and new line encoding that I spent my whole afternoon with. It is something he could have unblocked me as it a very specific problem, instead he kept telling me to read the official golang docs, not even to google the error.

As someone being interviewed I followed what he asked me to do and worked in his environment but it wasn't a representative of how I would have worked.

That said, I feel it could work! I just should be able to judge the person who pair programmed with me instead of just being judged :) the person in the morning would be a 10/10 and in the afternoon a 4/10.
That explorer probably does not count unconfirmed transactions.
The Democratic party is being driven by those on the left flank of the party. Yes, the moderates are nominally in charge, but only so long as they drive the agenda of their more extreme members. It's similar to how John Boehner was an arguably more moderate Republican, nominally in charge of house. However, he got led around by the nose by the more extreme Freedom caucus who didn't have a lot of official control, but wielded a tremendous amount of soft power.
Noctura is even more bulky, unless you get the slim version.
Count me in. I refuse to buy into the Apple ecosystem anymore after "courage" and the last few years of laptops, and I develop in linux anyway, so I'm extremely interested. Perhaps I just need to make the plunge?
>Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript

Really???

Vi vs Emacs
Linux vs Microsoft vs Apple
Android vs iOS
java vs C++
Rust vs any other programing language
Gnu Linux vs Linux
copyleft vs mit/bsd style licensing
js framework x vs yet another javascript framwork y

there is a reason these are called religious wars.

baking i don't know their religious wars i am not big on baking outside of my cookbook, but pretty much any technical debate degenerates into the same thing in my experience.
What's decentralised about it? You can't even use your own domain yet.
While that's unfortunate, I think it would be best if you re-calibrated your expectations. The Pinebook Pro is not a consumer product; it is an enthusiast product being sold with minimal profit margins. The PBP is produced in China and shipped out from Hong Kong in batches rather infrequently (maybe about once per month). To the best of my knowledge, they don't really have a "customer service" team. Taken together, these things obviously do not lead to an optimal consumer experience, but this is to be expected for such inexpensive low-volume niche products.
Good for Substack! Drawing a line in the sand like this makes me want to support their cause.

I get excited when I read stories about companies or groups standing up against patent trolls. Reading this made me feel a similar sort of excitement. Of course, it will be challenging for Substack to determine which actions are "bad-faith" and which are justified. It's probably too much to expect for them to stand up for all points of view on their platform that meet their terms of use.

[edit: adding a question]

Can anyone recommend good writing on Substack to follow?
how does that compare to the pop_os! nvidia drivers, default on their downstream-from-ubuntu distro?
One of our numerical analysis(NA) professors had worked at NASA, at IBM and had enormous real-world experience in NA. Several weeks into the class he challenged us to write a correct square root routine in FORTRAN. Over the next two weeks submissions were presented in class, where our professsor showed how each had multiple critically fatal errors. He let it stew awhile: two weeks before semester's end he presented and explicated to us a correct implementation of the square root, which turned out to be far more lengthy and involved than we had imagined. He said there was always the possibility of more bugs being present. That was really an eye-opening class.
Still going on as of this post time. Elon's just went off again.

Over 30ish minutes now. Holy shit, it's going to be fun to see the outcome of this.
That's doable. Common Lisp has a programmable debugger hook which allows for implementing one's own debugger - also, possibly, as a web application. And for situations where the standard debugger hook is not enough (e.g. BREAK or INVOKE-DEBUGGER), one can use https://github.com/phoe/trivial-custom-debugger to completely override the system debugger with a custom one.
Crypto Scammers Hack Elon Musk and Bill Gates on Twitter
Seems they’re cashing in. According to one tweet, $7.8m transferred to their address so far.
Perhaps you should read more carefully before you comment.
You can still make contributions to a Traditional IRA [0], you just won't be able to make deductions above a certain income if your employer offers a retirement plan [1].

[0] https://www.fidelity.com/retirement-ira/contribution-limits-...
[1] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/ira-deduction-limits
2.5 BTC = $23,000
> vs "Implement a hash table", which isn't too hard to do for a naive solution, and demonstrates that you know how the basic data structures you work with day to day work.

I disagree, anyone can write out an algorithm from memory. That's not hard, and does not prove that you know what you're doing.

I've done my small share of interviewing, and I always did a little bit of whiteboard coding, but the objective was never to see if the candidate remembered algorithms, but to see if they could execute code in their head.

Because I've encountered "programmers" who clearly couldn't execute code in their head, and whose idea of programming was copy-pasting something and heuristically modifying it until it did what it was supposed to do, instead of knowing what the code does. And you really want to make sure you screen for this group so that they fail the interview.
NPR Radio Ratings Collapse as Pandemic Ends Listeners' Commutes
I have a graduate education in probability and statistics; in the technical literature, an "average" is an estimator which, subject to some bias, predicts the value a sequence tends to. My professor was fond of saying, "the function f(x) = 15 is an average, but since it's a constant function it will almost always be a terrible one" to drill this into our minds.

The arithmetic mean is colloquially called the average and differentiated from the median and mode, but technically speaking these are all averages. They are all estimators of central tendency. It would be not be out of the ordinary if a statistician asked, "which average do you mean" for clarity. Which definition of average is best depends on what you're trying to measure.

I dislike this interview question because it's an area where it's 1) more trivia than practical knowledge, and 2) easy to not recognize someone who knows more about it than you do. It's like if I tried to test your knowledge of the difference between "affect" and "effect", and then you correctly used "effect" as a verb and I thought you were wrong.

If I repeated everything I just said about estimators in an interview, the interviewer might think I'm too ivory tower to realize that "of course he's just talking about the mean!" But then I could also ask why I'm being asked a question like this in a software engineering interview.

It's a language game where no one wins (somewhat in the sense of Wittgenstein).
I am not familiar with BTC markets. How would they be able to collect? Wouldn't everyone be watching that wallet like hawk, making it impossible to withdraw without revealing their identity?
Rebooting didn't work for us. Rollback did tho.
They are reposting the same message on the hacked accounts again. This is a coordinated Twitter hack.
Details on SpaceX Starlink beta emerge along with photos of user terminals
> I then went and sat in the waiting room while the doctor impregnated my wife.

Beautiful phrasing.
First thing that comes to mind: What was the financial or other motivation behind Mohammed bin Salman killing Khashoggi?

It's a power move. Putin does it too.
It's amusing that the tweets keep coming, get deleted, reappear, get deleted...

I can't help but imagine how any account on twitter would be safe if the Bill Gates', Elon Musk's, and top crypto site's Twitters are compromised.
In my normal work I don’t have someone staring at me and probably thinking I’m an idiot for blanking so it’s not at all a simulation of work stress