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If Disraeli made it famous, why doesn't anyone have any idea when or where he said it? When Twain first used it, he indicated that it was a phrase attributed to Disraeli by some, but in a way that made it sound like Twain knew that not to be true. There is no evidence Disraeli ever said it and its first appearance in history is after Disraeli's death.
I think your inference-making algorithm doesn't distinguish between people who earnestly hold strong beliefs about speech, and racists. Perhaps there are so many more racists that it doesn't matter...
You do have a say in what happens there, that's why there's local elections.
For now, I just want some reading glasses. Somewhat-smart-glasses wired to my phone that allow me to read books and textual internet on the go. Basic text editor would be nice to have too. Doesn't even have to be full colour. I can wait for all singing and dancing immersive AR. Is there anything like this available or near to market?
I would like to recommend the book 'crazy like us' it's about how mental health functions differently in different cultures and how we been exporting western conception of mental health and they've actually changed the symptoms people report to their therapist. It also touches on the pharmaceutical industries influence. Really a fascinating reas
You might be surprised.

I have heard of drug busts that began with detectives going to a university in a town where the drugs (think synthesized drugs) seem to be originating from. Cross-reference all students on financial aid with all students that had taken Organic Chemistry 300. You could count the number on one hand.

Each were watched, one was seen making the handoff....
The lowest common denominator leads to working with Stone Age tools. I'm not surprised that not everyone goes that route.

And regarding your porting, Perl, sure, was easy to port. What about CPAN? Want to bet how many Perl libraries will keel over? Same thing for Ruby/gems, Python/pip, etc.

Don't get me wrong, your work is nice, but the people that build on top of your work outnumber you by 2-3-5 orders of magnitude and not all of their porting efforts will be trivial.
Ask HN: Do you know of a good open-source microwave oven firmware?
Short story long: My microwave has a terrible control panel and now the very custom and highly integrated rotary encoder broke and I can't set time and wattage anymore.

Pretty much all microwave ovens work the same way, you need a relay to turn on the magnetron, and one for the light bulb, a few buttons to set time and wattage, and a few pins for the segment display.

I am surprised that I couldn't easily find a generic microwave firmware for arduino boards..

Do I have to write this myself ?
> * If you negotiate a deal with the highest authority in Ireland, and they sign off on it, are you done? Why do you have to care what other deals they have made with other parties?*

When joining the EU, Ireland promised to have (tax) policies consistent with certain principles. The 'side-deal' with Apple alleged (according to the EU) broke those principles.

If Ireland doesn't want a higher authority looking over them they can leave the EU. This is one of the arguments made by the Leave side in UK Brexit: we don't want Brussels breathing down our necks.
I'm an experienced programmer and I've never found anything harder to work with than OAuth 2.0. Every project I work on, there's a two week "WTF" while we figure out all the details.
The stock is highly volatile. This could easily end up with investors thinking that Elon has gone fully mad and the stock tanking.
So how would the vision correction work? I’m not seeing that.
I agree that it seems like fallacy to think there was some golden age of neutrality (iirc Ben Franklin bought newspapers which he used to stir up revolution), I'd be curious to here which era supposedly had neutrality.

However there are degrees, and this does NOT mean that neutrality is not worth fighting for. The points about authoritarian states serve to highlight how much worse it could be without a constant pressure toward objectivity (or as close as we can get).
I had been thinking about rather than a robot, the thing I really need is actually just a camera and remote arms I control, that can help me cut the back of my head more accurately.

If I could see the back of my head in front of me in a way that's not reversed in the mirror, and use my own hands as normal but they do the work back there, all problems would be solved...

I don't need a smart robot, I just need an improved angle of using my own hands!
> I think people underestimate how risk-free receiving small amounts of btc from random schmucks is,

I agree with this

> and how risk-averse these hackers may be.

And I agree with this statement in most cases, but not in this particular one. The wide spread and super high profile nature of this attack makes it a high risk play no matter what. Being cautious when it comes time to collecting the loot seems like too little too late for them to get away easily.
This makes me very nervous - I agree it is technically possible to do that volume of change in a short amount of time now, but I don't think it is possible while still accounting for QA / testing and documentation. That is a massive amount of change in a small time without any team oversight
Even very average positions could yield millions, especially a series of them. Imagine a "manager" of a MLM doing this with their team of sheeps. There are many teams like that.
> specifically youtube video with a clickbait subject (such as a self aiming basketball hoop)

How can the subject of a video be clickbait? The essence of clickbait is that an interesting title tricks you into clicking on uninteresting content. If the content is as interesting as the title, then it's not clickbait, you're just making something people want to watch.
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In 2017 a Twitter employee already got fired for momentarily deleting his account.

After that incident I doubt the regular employee admin panel has access to it. Probably a few accounts require special admin privileges (world leader accounts I assume).

Which would be a much more reasonable explanation than the conspiracies being floated and could also imply that Twitter has thought about the "national security" scenarios in the article.
Metrics are CYA insurance for managers to promote or PIP employees without getting into trouble with HR
Assuming competent E2E encryption, but a completely compromised backend, I'm guessing the cops deployed an app update that took the decrypted chat logs off the devices and forwarded them discreetly to the cops.

I wonder if the app updater (surely they don't use the Google Play Store) checks the updates for a valid signature, and whether the developers just stored the signing key on their compromised backend server.
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I don’t think you understand - the systems themselves are shared.

This isn’t ‘let’s decide to let X country know Y’. If it is on the eyes network (and tons of things are) everyone gets it per the multi country agreement.
Yeah, funny how all those anti-2A talking heads evaporated as soon as the country descended into chaos. Almost my entire family has been armed long before COVID so they haven't needed to procure any additional weapons. Although I've been trying to convince my mother to add a shotgun to complement her revolver for a while.

That said, I'm glad I live in Japan and don't have to worry about firearms in addition to the psychos with knives.
I don't know if I agree. Its plausible, but also these businesses are monopolies, so even if they churn out shit it doesn't undermine their market position.

But I think Electron in particular is a symptom of the fact that GUI frameworks are in general horrible. There was a market gap for usability because using everything else was obtuse, and now we're paying for it.
It could have been a demonstration of power, maybe a state actor was testing their team, and they decided to Runescape meme on Twitter to show they could make a bigger play later.
I guess time will tell.
I do like the category ADHD is put in though. It's a form of 'executive disfunction' which I think describes it much better.
Same here. I am also stupid in another way - I can't boast of my "incredible" accomplishments by sending out huge and beautiful emails to prove my "impact". With that kind of combination, I am looking forward to stagnation at my current level.
In the meantime, send.firefox.com has been unavailable for at least a week now (probably longer, but for sure not in the past 7 days).

Wonder if this is a resource issue or they are planning on launching it as well.
Some people I know who trade Bitcoin also are waiting for their Iraqi dinars to revalue in a decades old scam. It's not a nerd club.
Occam's Razor suggests the likeliest scenario is that the hacker got in way over his head and panicked. Most hackers aren't international criminal masterminds; they're infosec warriors or, fundamentally, bored clever people who enjoy the puzzle of finding out the true limits of what can be done with the technology in front of them.

The name of 2600 magazine is inspired by the story of people who---having discovered the worldwide telecommunications grid could be manipulated by properly-sequenced audio tones---used that knowledge and power to make free long-distance phone calls.
Feds: Absolutely

State: Depends on which state you are talking about

Local: Depends on the municipality

Let's also not forget the international leadership, particularly WHO, for its spectacular early failures such as ignoring warnings from Taiwan (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan...) and avoiding any action or statement that would offend China such as calling for a travel ban in January (“In fact, we oppose it,” https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/30/275959/the-china...)

Regardless, the U.S. federal leadership's incompetence has made everyone's else's jobs exponentially harder. But I don't think it's fair to blame all states and municipalities for failing.
"How far away are we" is a strange question to ask about something we already do. You can read about this technique being used to investigate how we read here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-rec...

Note the citation to a study that used the technique in 1975.
> The idea isn't to be anonymous per se, it is to blend in with the crowd. You join a few communities, you can easily, easily pull the Casino Royale short position/puts.

This significantly underestimates effectiveness of market surveillance tools.
Like I said, you don't need incriminating DMs, you just need the threat of incriminating DMs and enough authenticity proof to cause chaos. I can imagine certain governments who would pay money to have incriminating DMs about Joe Biden be released right before the election.
I've removed the yelling :-)

Someone else was saying the same thing in the comment you linked. I'll summarize it as:

"Rust takes time to port to a platform which is not even commercially available".
So I neither follow nor enjoy conspiracy theory videos. Does this mean that I might soon be served up such videos because I am actively avoiding them?

I sincerely hope they solve the issue of destructive fringe videos.
It was great and I enjoyed working with them. That's why even though interviewing is broken at most companies I enter the process assuming the best and with an open mind. I'm disappointed 90% of the time, but you don't want to throw out a gem just because you usually dig up worthless stones.
Very interesting but they might not have a need to steal but they still actively do en mass.
Yep, sharing information may be important, but generating the information to begin with is even more important. Whatever we do, the incentives must align so we have as many people working on the problem as possible. It is critical that there is a guaranteed revenue stream as reward for developing a vaccine; the world does not have enough scientists that can/will volunteer their time. IP is the established way of doing this. Maybe there are other solutions, but if they haven't been implemented at this point, it's already too late.
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"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S."

They seem to be getting that part right...
I think the problem is misidentified in the article. I agree that giving people the idea that they need a pill to function normally is not great. But the 'chemical imbalance' explanation itself is very helpful, and doesn't require discounting a person's experience, a dependency on medication, or a fear of being labeled as crazy.

I had severe depression as a young man, and I remember being confused about it, as when I objectively examined my life there was no reason for it. But I was drowning in despair. When depression was explained to me, with the idea of a chemical imbalance, it all clicked. It enabled me to fight back appropriately and win back my mind. Without medication. It took a few years to get back to normal but I am a much, much stronger person for it, and have never had a hint of a relapse despite actually going through difficult times since then.

Humans are, as much as we hate to admit it, fundamentally emotional thinkers. And when we have emotions we immediately conjure up logical reasons for those emotions to exist, whether they are truly justified or not. And then we tell ourselves the reasons came first, and caused the emotions. Depression can be a bad feedback loop of chemicals that color the way we see the world, and then we justify how bad we feel, making us feel worse.

This might not be the solution for everyone, but for me the trick was not to try to understand my emotional suffering, but to ignore it. I would think, "that's the depression talking, its meaningless, you will feel bad today but it doesn't matter, get on with life". It was very hard, but as I stopped feeding the beast it slowly died away. Of course there are those that truly have reasons to be depressed, but I still think, after processing what happened, the best approach is to move on.
You need to consider the whole basket that the CPI is based on including other factors like housing, utilities, and oil/gas. We probably won't see any specific store bought items drop in price but trends overall will reflect deflation. Part of that is the cash injection is not spread over just the US population but anyone that relies on the USD for transactions or backing their currency. Being the default currency has perks.
Fair enough - but what do they put in 200 characters that is important, and how often?

I mean, when they release a paper? How often is that?

What % of their tweets are of interest, and what % are them being 'forced' to play the social media game to improve their 'stature' among funders, peers etc.? I often wonder how much they might loathe it themselves.

As someone 'social media adjacent' - having been forced to think of a few things to Tweet once for a company, it was probably one of the more ridiculous things I've ever done as a professional. Invent something out of total thin air, to stir the pot, for no reason other than to stir the pot to garner attention.

I understand the dynamic people are pressed into - and I don't blame a soul for it ... however I get this funny feeling that a lot of people Tweeting hate it just as much (ie making up stuff) and resent the fact they feel compelled to do it, and another group who derive way too much sense of false identity out of it.
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stable: depends on what you mean, but afaict, cargo is very stable, in both terms of interface and bugfree-ness.

easy: far easier than gradle and maven, imho even easier than go. Definitely easier than cmake.
I designed an inclusive keyboard app for low vision and blind users. What do you think ?
An extra large irony here is that "left-leaning cities in right-leaning states" is much more common than the reverse, so what we often see in practice is rural state dwellers telling city dwellers in those states what to do. Look at the mask stuff for Atlanta vs Georgia from today, for instance.

That's without skewing the strength of the vote, even!

So, no, I'm far from convinced that we have to protect the poor rural folks from their fellow citizens.
Jesus Christ, everything is a matter of "national security" nowadays. Celebrities' favorite shitposting platform is not a critical piece of infrastructure or a real tool for soft power.

Could whoever flagged this care to explain?
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It's not what is reflected in data though, just hype.
This assumes they could only access DMs of people that sent out the spam (which includes Biden). In reality they could have pulled Trump and friends' DMs also, who have a history of using twitter for official use and seem to have questionable operational security.
The ocean is not so wide or deep as to guarantee that the FBI treating it as a high-priority case wouldn't find correlation between evidence the hacker left on their Twitter attack and market motion. They have a lot of resources to invest, and are willing to spend more than the short-term value of money changing hands in the fraud.
It seems just a few years ago, maybe less than a decade, Palestine recognition was all the rage. What happened?
Also the recommendation are not so bad: for example in the conspiracy bubble I expected a lot worse, but they mix the few strange conspiracy videos with less "crazy" and more scientific ones like Buzzfeed Unsolved or the Kurzgesagt channels.
except the stamp is obviously not proof as noted by your scare quotes
FF Send was suspended indefinitely because it was being exploited to distribute malware. I used it constantly (not for malware!) so I hope it comes back.
I actually think it's a positive thing that the media system is being shaken. Society puts way too much trust in shit that is posted on twitter.

I feel the same way about cancel culture on twitter -- it is bad in the short term, but if it incentivizes people like Yann Lecunn to leave it -- it reduces the importance of the medium itself.
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Seriously. This whole part of the comment tree has been fabulously enlightening. Great insight into the psychology of how we end up with chat clients that do less with 20x the resources than entire operating system + office suites of yesteryear.
The suspicion doesn't trigger until the twitter scam happens. Once the scam happens though then a huge amount of scrutiny is triggered on all of the TSLA market activity. Will you still be able to hide? Maybe. But the high profile nature of the Twitter scam guarantees that they will be looking for you.
Like thepangolino says, this is exactly what I fell satisfied about. I'm not really arguing that the overall outcome is desirable. I'm simply satisfied that the European Commision is indeed shown to be a subject of the law, not the other way around, as many people tend to believe both inside and outside of the EU.

EDIT: A further note. If this eventually makes the combined body of EU institutions come up with clearer laws, all the better.
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> "sociopath" isn't even a diagnosis in most of the world.

The fact that much of the world doesn't consider this a valid diagnosis even when it's done by a professional does not add credibility to your amateur diagnosis.

> That said, there is a distinct recognizable group of people exhibiting such dominant-abusive behaviour and they are easy to recognize. We all know our schoolyard bully or neighborhood tyrant.

Yes, we all recognize these archetypes of people who, more often than not, aren't sociopaths.
And the source that is available today dates back all the way to 2001.
> My manager is left in the dark about what I'm doing.

Then loop your manager in. I work for a marketing agency primarily doing consulting work, and operate semi-autonomously from my manager. For the clients and accounts I support, I am the face of my group. A client may not even know my manager's name, unless there's been cause for someone with a fancier title than mine to make an appearance. And account teams may have found their way to me directly rather than routing through my boss, so have no working relationship with him.

If I get a kudos via email, I either BCC him on my reply, or forward it to him as an fyi. If it's given verbally, I thank the person giving it, and let them know how much I'd appreciate if they could jot that down in writing and send it over. If it came through something like a Slack DM, I'd either screenshot it for something minor and pass that along or again express my appreciation and call out how much it'd mean if they could throw that into an email.

I've never had anyone balk at or refuse to do the above. If someone has taken the time to give you kudos for your work, they're usually appreciative enough with what you're doing that they are perfectly happy to put it in an email for you if prompted. And more often than not, the writeup that comes through talks you up far more than the informal shout out they originally made, as they're well aware of why you're asking for it.
I think for most people the stock market manipulation would stand out enough to warrant deeper investigation.

- If you never trade in options or short sell, but the first trade you do is a massive windfall, that will stand out.

- To earn a decent amount, you need a lot of exposure to the particular stock. If you're not exposed somewhere else, and only to tesla to maximize this particular great trade, again that stands out.

- The above may narrow the scope, so when investigators look at you particularly, does your personal background include technical capabilities that others in the narrowed group would not have.

I suspect your correct in the sense, that if you had lots of assets, regularly trade in markets, and can be prepared ahead of the hack that you might be able to pull off market manipulating. But if you stumble into this huge hack as the author sort of points out, and were trying to pull this off before someone else discovers the bug or exploit and are unprepared, for many it doesn't seem likely they'd be able to manipulate the markets without standing out.
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The patterning machines used for the leading node isn't exported to China due to export restrictions. Only the Dutch company ASML is able to manufacture these patterning machines.
If you break this argument down, it gets really muddled.

Let's pick a state - Kansas, nice and rectangle. Let's say it was empty, and 10 farmers moved in and divided it 10 ways. They are happy to themselves on their huge plots of land, doing their own thing.

One farmer needs extra cash, so sells off a dozen acres. That dozen acres puts in a neighborhood of 20 houses. Now that 20 houses controls the entire state, effectively. They decide people shouldn't be able to own so much land, and owning more than 10 acres is illegal.

Sure it's contrived, but you start to notice how it's not as simple as 'majority rules is best.'
The danger of the protesters is overblown in the service of certain people who want to divide Americans. The division, polarization, and people reaching for guns is far more dangerous than the protests themselves.