skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is not anonymous; it’s pseudonymous. And there are several companies that perform blockchain analysis for tracking transactions.

The FBI and other law enforcement is getting pretty good at tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions and money laundering [1].

If these guys are professionals, they’re using mixing services to cover their tracks. Guess we’ll find out if they made any mistakes along the way.

[1] “Blueleaks: How the FBI tracks Bitcoin laundering on the dark web”—https://decrypt.co/34740/blueleaks-how-the-fbi-tracks-bitcoi...
You are doing our work and I am grateful
> Or is it more like they have the monopoly of violence and we have to pay whatever they want or else?

You have to switch we and they. We are not Apple, but we are the people of a state.
What's old is new again! I'm waiting for the author's next article "Crowdfunding WW2" (war bonds).
The largest bulk carriers would need to be replaced by almost 10,000 of the larger of these ships, and 400,000 of the smallest. There are no commercial ports capable of this transition. It's not technically feasible if it would take years to load and unload.
Purely speculation, but the exploit could be tied to the APIs that they are deprecating today. It's possible that this is simply a last hurrah
Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam
This reminds me of Colin.

Back in 2013 when I was working at Sky News, the person responsible for the social media accounts (with millions of followers in total) stormed into a meeting: "Our Twitter account has been hacked".

This was at a time when many high-profile news Twitter accounts were hacked by so-called "electronic armies" who published damaging tweets. However in our case it was a single obscure "Colin was here" tweet.

We had recently built an internal endpoint in one of the backend apps that takes a string and publishes it straight to the main breaking news Twitter account. This was integrated with a custom UI tool that the news desk people used to quickly break a story across TV, Twitter, the website etc with one click.

I had a suspicion that this endpoint was how that tweet was published, but could not prove it. Many thoughts were going through my head.. “is this an internal job, or did someone hack our backend system and somehow figured this out etc.. “

We quickly returned to our desks, and straight away I greped our logs for "tweeting" as I developed that feature and was sure we logged that when the endpoint is called, but in the heat of the moment forgot that to “-i” as it the log message actually contained "Tweeting" (which cost us a few minutes). In the meantime there was panic around the business, people were putting out PR statements just in case it was a real hack, the tweet was deleted etc.

Finally, with help from colleagues, we tracked down a "Tweeting" log message around the same time the tweet was published along with the HTTP request source IP, and traced it (just like in movies) to our secondary news studio in Central London. This is when one of the managers shouted "I know a Colin who works there, he's a testing team manager!".

We gave Colin a ring to understand what was going on, he had no idea about any of this but said he was doing some DR testing earlier of all tools that editors use, and wasn’t really aware this would go out. As you can imagine, it could have been much worse.

The entertaining bit was the 30 minutes of fame this mysterious Colin enjoyed on the internet, where many people were worried about the welfare of "Colin", and it was picked up by various [1] news [2] websites.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/an-important-history-of-t...
[2] https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/an-important-history-of-t...
yeah, dang mentions the link was changed a couple of times
The FAQ states the following "If you send the maximum 8.5Mbps, 1080p60 stream, Amazon IVS will create 8.5Mbps 1080p60, 3Mbps 720p60, 2Mbps 720p30, 1.2Mbps 480p30, 800Kbps 360p30, and 400Kbps 160p30 renditions in an ABR stream."

I assume you will only be charged for full hd if the client is streaming it
I'd probably use PCRE there. Every C library becomes a Luajit library when you run the relevant header through the C preprocessor and paste the result into your code. Sometimes you have to do this yourself, which makes it more work than you'd need in Python though.
Not really. OP made no mention of any other factor.
Don't you still need a bit of TP to dry off?
We have a flu vaccine that millions take every year and it works. That is why we don't lose our shit over the flu.

Your most stable solution to the problem is reasonable (build widespread population immunity), but your actual solution is to try and achieve it as quickly as possible by just letting the virus spread without any measures to slow the spread. That is not reasonable.
Uh, unless you saw a better candidate earlier in the day/week.
But your kids are teenagers at some point, that's exactly what he was getting at.
Isn't it ironically racist to assign negative properties ("white fragility" and racism in particular) to an entire group of people based on their skin color? Are we really just going to ignore that fact?

The treatment of racism in the book is tantamount to original sin (we are all born as sinners:we are all born as racists [whites only]). This book [and the affiliated movement] is laying the moral foundation for the oppression of white people, who will soon be a majority minority - and already are a minority globally.

What's worse, the very concept of "white fragility" is presented as a Kafkaesque, unfalsifiable trap. If you dare defend yourself against accusations of racism, well, we won't even address whether your argument is legitimate, we just dismiss your concerns as a "fragile whiteness". Just like the recent forced redefinition of racism (privilege+power), it is an intellectually dishonest concept designed to begin any argument from a position of advantage, not to actually communicate anything of substance.

If you replaced "white" with "black" or "Jewish" or any other race, this would be a blatantly, undeniably offensive and hurtful text - yet not only do we champion it, but it is being used effectively as a textbook for ramming diversity and inclusion down an increasing number of throats. The fact that this book is a best seller only proves that a growing faction in society has completely gone off the deep end.

Why are we letting irrational, self hating ideologues influence our society to this degree?
I'm interested to see your data showing this is the case.
That's a bit extreme, but maybe a moderator level account that could moderate tweets and accounts.
Who do you think founded SV (and thus Apple) initially?
> hell, even if it's 1 pound it's still a hell of a lot more than I ever assumed

Hell, even if we get a 1% conversion rate, we'll be rich!
> I had the same question you mention. "This is a problem a paper was written on, are you expecting me to derive a whole paper from first principles in half an hour, or are you expecting me to have seen it before? If it's the latter, why not let me Google, as I normally would?"

> I feel that saying "I would solve this problem with <algorithm>" should be good enough, and if I'm asked to implement it, I should be able to copy paste the Wikipedia pseudocode and start converting.

Long ago, milo.com posted a challenge to codeeval.com (both websites now dead) which turned out to be an example of the "assignment problem". That is, given a set X, another set Y, and a payoff function f(x,y), assign each element y in Y to exactly one element x in X such that the total payoff from all assignments is maximized.

I tried to solve it, realized I didn't know how, and was eventually able to look up the solution in a couple of papers. There is an algorithm called "the Hungarian algorithm" which will do it.

So I wrote up the Hungarian algorithm and sent it in. This was good enough to get a phone interview with the company.

I tried to prepare for the screen by going over the Hungarian algorithm to the point that I could myself give the proof that it correctly solved the problem. This was fun. But in the phone interview, it was barely mentioned at all. According to the interviewer, I passed that step by just mentioning the name "Hungarian algorithm".
I canna stop it Cap'n, the computer's overridden the manual override!
really?

The Prime Minister of Israel was hacked. What if he'd announced "Dear holy men of our faith, now is the time to immediately strike the black devil threatening our very way of life within the U.S."

Or Barack Obama and Joe Biden's account saying "The jews have finally taken over the White House. Donald Trump has been confirmed to be a planted Russian agent. Act now in the streets before it's too late"

Obviously, those aren't worded very well because I'm tired as shit. But how can you not imagine the implications that could be had? It's not that hard...
Not to mention and I guess a lot of people dont know this but Turkey was one of the main allies of the USA not too long ago for quite a while at that. It was quite a strategic alliance too. Just look at Turkeys neighboring countries sometime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93United_States...
If you negotiate a deal with the highest authority in Ireland to access the entirety of the EU Single Market, then yes indeed you should care about EU laws. It's not like Apple is only selling iPhones in Ireland...

If you sign a deal with Nevada to sell products in the entirety of the United States, you expect federal laws to apply, don't you? Well, EU is not a federation like the Unites States, but it's half-way there. You cannot ignore Bruxelles when dealing with the Single Market, just like you cannot ignore federal laws when doing interstate commerce in the US.

I have found that EU is really something hard to grasp for non-European. And to be fair, for most Europeans too. If Ireland wants its sovereignty back it can exit the EU (and the Single Market) at any time. But then of course it won't be the gateway to the Single Market for American companies anymore...
Is it though, or do you just get complacent?

Like if you don't swivel your head and check for cyclists before opening your drivers side doors or do the Dutch reach [1], you're still probably not going to hit a cyclist. Until you do.

[1] https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/tips-resources/know-how/du...
They prefer to use managed services through third parties. Even to their detriment as those third parties basically own their customer lists. If for instance the auth provider goes out of businesses the business would end. Same with code, most new companies are using something like gitlab or github. But it's not as dangerous as many people will have a copy of the source code cloned.
It may not be significant to you, but to an epidemiologist this means a certain fraction of the overall population is going to die.
> I've heard that a major use case

It was. At peak perhaps 10 years ago. It is telling that the game engine citation in that article is from 2009.

Now the ecosystem of game engines is very different. Very few games are written in raw C/++ and have to have their own tiny scripting language packaged. They are mostly based on more established engines. 'Small studios' have gone, niched out of end-to-end dev, or re-invented as the 'indie game' world, and pretty much none have their own multi-game engine.

In fact, I've only come across Lua used in Pico-8 gamejam games in the last 2 yrs, personally. (Though I'm retired now.)

It was a phenomenal language for gamedev. I commissioned a Lua consultant to extend the language in a small way for a game, I ended up paying for about half the hours I expected.
> Infotainment is the source of more than a quarter of all problems

To be honest, all car infotainment systems suck, and have sucked since cars were invented.

The stock systems had good ergonomics, but shitty features.

The aftermarket systems had good features, but suffered from "presales" whizzy RGB design, with crappy button-itis after you got it home.

Now there are basically no aftermarket systems available because of car all-in-one designs.

The problem with Tesla is that their car looks like it has a big iPad in it and people judge it by the same standards. And Telsa probably has 1/10000 the staffing devoted to ios.

That said, Tesla has definitely NOT listened to it's customers when it comes to the USB music system:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/comprehensive-usb-bu...

There are over 103 pages of comments on it sucking.

why USB? It's the way to get lossless music playback for the $2.5k high fidelity sound some cars have.

It's also always available and fast. I have not only music, but tons of downloaded podcasts.

Personally, I think they should just put someone good on it and fix it.

While they're at it, add skip-back and skip-forward buttons for spoken audio programs. Losing your place is a nightmare.
so like an illicit origin? :)

yes, people need to be aware of the universe of illicit origins. When I was working for the US government most of the people indicted under these laws (structuring, avoiding reporting thresholds, and then obfuscation so money laundering) were not terrorists or drug dealers. They were people like landlords freaking out because a tenant was suing them and they wanted to move their money without triggering a real or imagined $10,000 threshold. Whoops structuring is illegal straight to jail and we’ll take the money too! Tenant lawsuit still pending lol.

All while HSBC completely undermined the ‘purity’ of the licit financial system in the tune of billions over many years on behalf of the LITERAL CARTEL. Guys, 9/11 wasn’t that expensive to pull off, and today’s compliance measures wouldnt have flagged those wire transfers, so who is this for?

Stigmatizing the whole concept of having money and moving money has been an expensive and unnecessary and fruitless exercise. While increasing the costs of offering a financial service.
Another oversimplification in the title of an article, but at least this one removed the term "black teenager" like the article I had seen on Yahoo. Author seems to have most information from the mother of the girl and less information from the side of the court/case worker, so I take most with a certain amount of skepticism. Does seem to be overkill especially in the time of COVID, but at what point do you just let youth engage in certain behavior without consequences? The girl seems troubled for sure and sees a therapist regularly.
Looks like Hootsuite Twitter integration has been having issues for 50 mins now https://status.hootsuite.com/post/623750375373160449/twitter....
How hard do you think it would be to configure the phone using Guix or NixOS?
Someone got mugged with their phone unlocked and the mugger had a friend who was into bitcoin.
That's fine, I can buy one every year for less than the cost of 100 clippers.
Show HN: Use your components to remove dependency on engineers for websites
No, but if someone managed to hack a bunch of Teslas and cause chaos, driving their stock down, you can bet law enforcement would be looking at shorting activity.
Is this a troll post? I clearly said _another_ source of EMF. As in additional.

Lets talk, do you find yourself getting accused of strawman attacks often?
Media sure seems to spend a lot of time navel gazing lately. Any random group of five people or random bunch of twitter users criticizing an “intellectual” or pointing out the hypocrisy of an opinion columnist now seems to rise to the most important moral issue of our time.

In the past it was great because nobody really had a means to criticize or point out problems with “the paper of record” or our “intellectuals”. So we didn’t have to hear this constantly. Now they don’t know what to do with themselves that people do and that criticism is everywhere.
Anyone have links to more of these images?

Also, if you search for the source for one of the images (mentioned in the article), you can find this tweet: https://twitter.com/UnderTheBreach/status/128349929454113177... which says the recent hacks were done through that tool.
Not to imply you suggested otherwise, but smoking costs far more life years than the coronavirus. Anyone quitting is doing a good thing for the wrong reason.

Vaping is less clear--I do think there's some non-negligible chance that for the next couple years, it will be a net benefit to public health. That would be funny, considering how hard the public health authorities worked to smear nicotine vaping with the deaths from adulterated (vitamin E acetate) marijuana cartridges last summer.
Openmoko Freerunner ;)

Had one many years ago. Great idea but not a livable-with phone. Put me off dev phones possibly forever.

Didn't stop me getting an N900 at launch though. Great little piece of kit.
Does Stress Impact Technical Interview Performance? [pdf]
> but his public discourse is at odds with the LSA's officially stated goals.

It should be noted that the complain singles out LSA's stated goals of "listening to and respecting [the experience of students of color] is crucial", but their criticism of Pinker is that they feel he doesn't support their pet cause enthusiastically enough.

And to substantiate their accusation, the persecuters cherry-pick a hand-full of tweets dating way back from 2015, where he cited the New York Times showing real-world statistics on police shootings.

So, I feel the article summarizes the problem pretty well. This is a good example of how this Cancel Culture systematically resorts to persecutions and chilling effects as weapons to punish and censor away anyone who doesn't enthusiastically endorse their pet political cause.
For years I had on/off tummy trouble and yesterday I had the realization that I couldn’t remember the last time I was seriously hurting in the gut. I haven’t done carryout since February. I never believed that modest dietary changes really could have that big of an effect but kinda a believer now.
This made me think, what if we post take home assignments on github. Along with company name and status - accepted/rejected. This is a testimony of your work as well as of hiring company - if code is good and you are still rejected, that is the red flag to developers.
That is complete nonsense. Germany is nowhere near herd immunity threshold. Taiwan and S. Korea and Japan are no where near herd immunity threshold.
Hospitalization is one of the good outcomes.

The people dropping dead in the streets, like we saw so much of in Wuhan (smoking population ~50%)-- those are the smokers. Smoking opens up more ACE2 receptors which is like opening more lanes for COVID traffic.
Shake window to minimize all other windows
Anyone else envious of the health care packages lab mice have? They get free exercise and nutrition programs, get cured of diabetes and other chronic diseases. You name it. They must have a great union rep!
And their status page shows their integration with Twitter is having issues now https://web.archive.org/web/20200716000356/https://status.ho...
Being a teenager is very, very temporary.
>>Cigar smoke isn't meant to be swallowed like in cigarettes. Most people inhale the cigar keep it in their mouth for a few seconds and then exhale.

So I'm not a smoker, but this is the second time I read/hear something like this. It almost sounds like you are saying that you can keep from inhaling the smoke into your lungs. I don't really buy that. If you inhale, my intuition tells me that it is going straight to your lungs no mater what.

Any smokers want to chime in?
I'd be interested in reading your writing. If you'd care to send me a link, my profile contains a description of my email address.
Slow clap?
What single basket ? All other communications are working just fine - the world is humming along fine.
lol my thoughts exactly
Did anyone actually know about this? I discovered it because it kept happening to me by accident when I would be moving a window. Still don't know if this is a desirable feature or not...
Everyone here is suggesting a monetary motive. Maybe there's a political motive--someone who really hates Twitter or serves to benefit if Twitter suffers.
I think this is the problem for open source software. It's not a one size fit all.

We all do complex software and you all know its complexity. Sharding, failover, retry, back off, schema etc...everything in a high scale systems.

The problem is user who used it but doesn't need other features feels frustrated. At the same time, user who used it at scale need feature others don't like? What can we do? I don't know.

A good example is Sentry: https://blog.sentry.io/2019/05/14/sentry-9-1-and-upcoming-ch... Say you are a small single person SaaS? are you going to install ZooKeeper, Kafka, Snuba...No. But they need it...
For me, going to sleep can only be accomplished by holding my body as still as possible, for as long as possible. It happens over a period of an hour or more.

When I’m conscious of what is happening, I notice that I no longer have a physical sense of where my leg is. Or maybe it’s my arm. Or maybe just part of an extremity. It’s not tingling, but there is no conscious connection between that part of my body and my brain.

I can wiggle my fingers or toes or whatever, and then I will immediately be able to sense that it is still connected and where it is, but then I can stop wiggling my fingers or toes, and let that connection drop back away quickly.

I’m forcing the conditions where my body slowly paralyzes itself to sleep, and stops stimulating my brain, so that the brain can finally go to sleep.

Waking up from a deep sleep, I have to go through the reverse process. I cannot wake up quickly and easily. If it has to be quick (like I’m late for something), then it has to be pretty violent. If I want it to be easy, then it takes at least a half hour of slowly waking up different body parts until I can finally be awake enough to sit up in bed.

And if I have to wake up too quickly, it’s easier for me to lose my balance if I have to physically move quickly — like picking up a second cat that has managed to snuck into the bedroom, when I already have one cat in the other hand. The result is that I fall to the floor, and hopefully don’t squish either cat. Then I can lay there for a couple of minutes, get my bearings, figure out if I’m actually injured or just feeling minor pain from bruising, and then get back up and get on with the rest of the morning.

Our cats are really good at snucking into the bedroom when they’re not supposed to be there, but so far the falling part has only happened once.

So, where most fear sleep paralysis, I for one welcome it. It’s the only way I can regularly get to sleep at all.
I do think it's odd that so many prominent accounts were hit but not Trump's. I remember there was an incident a couple years ago that a trust and safety employee at Twitter suspended Trump's account on their last day. It's very likely that after that incident, special guards were set in place to prevent admin tools from messing with Trump's account. This would align with speculation that this hack targeted an internal employee admin tool.
Same goes for Germany. Companies may not ask for one by law, but its considered good form by most (through some progressive companies are starting to ask you not to send one).
'The right' holds this temporary power. But the arc of the last half-century remains unchanged: the platform of the democrats today will be the platform of GOP in 50 years. The right lost the universities and the culture long ago.
In this case, the MO is "take some notes and then explain what they are to your rubber duck". Just like debugging, you'll stop at least once halfway through when you say "waaaait that's not right at all!"