skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I appreciate your point that white isn't intended to stand in contrast to black in this context. I'll keep that in mind. Unfortunately, that only makes less clear to me what the infographic is attempting to convey, how it's supposed to contribute to the discussion. It seems to me to be implicitly encouraging some kind of comparison that it leaves to the exercise of the reader, and I don't think that's a great idea.

Separately, I'm not clear on how "white cultural norm" is defined or what exactly it means. Is it meant to imply "majority norms in much of Europe, the British Commonwealth, and the US"? If so, why call it "white" instead of something more precise like "EBCU"? Otherwise, is it implying the existence of a shared white culture based around color of skin? When Latino and African and Asian individuals/families share similar ideals, are they contributing to the white cultural norms, or not?

I think the terminology here is important to get right, as I believe that the popular terminology is a source of a lot of the strife at present, whether intentional or not. For example, the tyranny of the majority is a well established problem in democracies. Society has debated for centuries how best to protect the rights of minorities while implementing the will of the majority. Strong individual rights is one method, as it provides a platform for all of us to actively participate to expand and protect the rights of every person. Recasting that debate as white vs. black seems to needlessly alienate potential allies and to reinvent a bunch of concepts without benefiting from the lessons and debates of the past.

For a concrete example of the terminology issue, I think that a big part of the controversy around the Black Lives Matter movement is disagreement about the meaning of the omitted, implied adverb. Does it mean "Black Lives Matter too", or does it mean "Black Lives Matter more", or perhaps something else? Radicals and dissidents on both sides of the spectrum seem to assume the "more" interpretation and react accordingly, whereas sympathizers interpret it along the lines of the "too" interpretation. To complicate things further, some sincerely respond that "All Lives Matter" in a well-meaning way, apparently attempting to clarify and agree with the "Black Lives Matter too" interpretation. Declaring "All Lives Matter" is currently a fireable offense, which brings us back to the theme of PG's essay.

To summarize, I think that terminology is incredibly important. Using "white" as a placeholder for a nebulous concept, especially when it routinely has a negative connotation, only seems to make unified progress more difficult.
Are you sure? TSLA is the most shorted stock in the US. I think it would be easy to blend in with the crowd.
Just to add to your excellent post, the same mistake happens with war casualties. A war might kill "only" 2% of the soldiers, but for every soldier killed there are many who suffer significant physical and/or mental harm that impacts the rest of their life.
If you do plan on buying a GPU you should wait for the Ampere-based 3000 series to come out sometime in the next few months.

It's a process shrink so the performance gain per dollar should be comparable to the 900 -> 1000 series transition.
We don’t know how much of that is the attacker sending himself to make it look legit.
Yes! Just search eBay/AliExpress. They work and sound great. I get the appeal of having nice things, but earbuds? They're tiny plastic things that just sit in your ear and could easily fall down a sewer grate at any moment.
Managing your own emotions is a part of EQ. Why should we hire people with low EQ to a job as collaborative as software engineering?
I didnt have time to talk about it, but I think that the COVID crisis could be helpful for maturing this part of the internet. Its not that I dont think its possible for serendipity to be found online, but that we still need to develop a framework that is able to mimic it well
But the sentence you quoted says there was no zoning.
But then wouldn't these tweets say something other than "Twitter Web App" ?
Men compete, women collaborate – A study on mixed-sex conversations
Turkey is totally not friends with Saudi Arabia right now.
intelligence is multi dimensional. Even more so at a working environment. I can't believe algorithm intelligence is a relevant skillset for 99% of the projects. Including projects inside google.
I'm honestly surprised that Twitter doesn't have some sort of circuit breaking for such gigantic attack towards major accounts. It's a PR nightmare that a circuit breaker would help a bit with, no?
Right, total about $55k received so far. Big numbers, sure, but probably not worth the heat you'd receive with going after such prominent accounts.
There is no "impending global food shortage". It's also baseless speculation that "psychological and physical consequences of lockdown" make you more or less likely to die.

There is ample precedent, however, of doing lockdown right and basically being done with it: Asia and Europe have many countries with drastically lower infection rates than the US. And most of them are further along the way of opening back up than the US.
Exchanges should[can] blacklist the address.
How does this work with non-local applicants?

I would certainly move, even internationally, for the right job, but I'm not going to relocate for a shot at a job.
I apologize for the confusion. There are two situations.

The argument is that if human services are important enough that reducing service is unethical, and a government also provides other services that do not meet that standard, then in the event of revenue reduction, those other services should be reduced before human services. This specifically has to do with the Irish situation the link is about: corporate tax from externally derived revenue.

Additionally, human services are not necessarily best provided by governments, so in a situation where all corporate tax revenue were reduced, meaning more money to be allocated by shareholders and employees, and human services budgets were reduced commensurately, charity would make up for it, or more than make up for it. This applies to a potential case of internally-derived (internal to the EU) corporate tax revenue being generally reduced.

I realize you will disagree strongly/viscerally with both points. That’s okay.

I also stand by my belief that we can all strongly disagree and still extend goodwill to each other, even if you don’t find that attitude helpful.
Fools, or people doing it for the lols
There is no loosing in doing so: just put a padlock on verified mesages and show the signing key. If the message sounds fishy and it's not verified then you should start worrying.

We've had the technology to avoid these sort of issues for decades and it's a shame it's still largely unused. Yeah, I know the argument PGP usability is really bad but it doesn't mean Twitter or other network used as official channels can't provide their own friendly interface and start signing/verifying messages, they certainly have the resources.
I can't speak to the rigor/validity of this study, but, taken together, the benefits of exercise are amazing. If exercise was a drug, no one would believe all the benefits could be real.
There are quite a lot of trading bots that base their trades off high impact twitter accounts. I wonder how they would've reacted to this.
What can you tweet to trump supporters for maximum monetization? Crypto scam? Doubt many of them own crypto or know what it is. Get them to send western union/itunes gift cards? Too obvious, will probably get clawed back.
Yeah, but they're incurring transaction fees…
If this exploit is deep enough, the attackers might be disabling the anti-abuse systems as well.
My bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check.

I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.
Lua is a language I really want to love. I like the emphasis on simplicity and minimalism, and the Scheme-like semantics, which mix imperative and functional styles, really hits a sweet spot IMO. LuaJIT is a crazy impressive feat of software engineering. However, there are some specific issues which hold Lua back IMO. First, as LuaJIT author Mike Pall famously noted, the Lua authors constantly break compatibility between releases. Lua is really several different, incompatible languages (Lua 5.1, 5.2, etc). LuaJIT is still at Lua 5.1, IIRC. Second, there are a bunch of minor nitpicks (1-based-indexing, anyone?) which turn off a bunch of people. Lastly, because Lua is so minimal and focused on portability, people end up reimplementing their own abstractions (such as object systems) from scratch, further fracturing the ecosystem. I think there's a space for a new project, which takes LuaJIT as a starting point and addresses some of the issues I described. It would also be great if this hypothetical new language had better support for Unicode and concurrency.
The screen uses dark mode at night, and the backlight can get pretty dark beyond that.
Temporarily block anything that matches the format of a bitcoin address?
Have you tried Flang? It’s LLVM's fortan compiler and was written from the ground up to support FORTRAN-2018
Considering that Twitter has taken a decade and not managed to create a functional web media player, something like a circuit breaker is probably low on their priority list.
Have you considered starting a blog? I'd be interested in following your take on these matters.
Yes. Also, we're about an hour in now, and Musk's account just sent out another tweet after the message had been posted and deleted several times. At this point, if it was just an account compromise, someone would have reset it by now
I write enormous walls of text really fast full of examples and detail, I move the sections around until I'm happy. Then I delete about 95% of it and rewrite 10%. I start above the text and eat what is written below while rewriting it. I always look at the end result and think, if only I really was that smart.
Are capsules network a good idea? A generative perspective
The hacker could have puts on Twitter as well. The Bitcoin scam might be just a cover / distraction so it looks like an unsophisticated hacker while the real money might be made with options contracts.
Seems like it would have been more profitable to take a huge short position in TSLA and hack Elon's Twitter to post something about a SEC investigation for accounting fraud and that you'd need to restate multiple years' worth of earnings.
Barack Obama, Wiz Khalifa, Joe Biden, Floyd Mayweather as well
> What I found was that the worst case scenario of lockdown is worse, and the average-case scenario is worse.

That is assuming that prolonged lockdown continues to be our response. It clearly doesn't have to as other first-world countries cases have actually been floored.

Aside from complaining about our first run at this, we could/should probably just all wear masks and then spreading is mitigated such that new cases approach zero.
Ha Ha! I've got an apt-cache server. Suckers!
I think that more niche communities tend to be more valuable, but they still run the issue of intellectual isolation
Here's a link to make your life easier:

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...

They'll all say "Twitter Web App" as the tweet source.

If you search through all accounts (ie: also the unverified ones), you see plenty that say Twitter for iPhone or Twitter for Android. Those are likely trolls.

Those are here: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
There's a trail with crypto too and it may be impossible for them to cash out.
Watch this turns out to be a JS dependency tree problem from some library that was compromised months ago in some NPM module, used in the twitter web interface.
They seem to have more access than purely posting as the user, I'm seeing reports that the attacker has changed the email addresses associated with the accounts to protonmail addresses.
Yeah, buying out-of-the-money options is a dumb way of insider trading in general, but on TSLA specifically you might could get away with it. Just don’t make your first trade right before you post to Elon’s account.
My bet is on one of those social media managers like Hootsuite/Social Blade/Buffer getting hacked.
https://archive.is/qhaMK
Nope, it's definitely not pre-reviewed https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/atlayx/how...
>Litter is everywhere

The busy parts of Athens are much much less dirty than the busy parts of Paris or London.

>People dress in ugly clothes and are poorly groomed and rude.

So it's like a typical big city then.

>People hate working and all the time they talk about how much they hate working.

So, these people are experiencing city life.

A couple of other points I'll give you, but I think this is mostly a case of the grass always being greener.
If you take the time to read this article, read it all the way to the end. It is not what it might seem to be at first glance.

Though the title is about higher education, there are is a clear tech tie in.
probably a social media manager api keys
> Now you can allocate a string of a non fixed size - simply amazing technology!

That’s more than what C gives you out of the box ;)
Labelling products that used these low carbon sail methods would be a product differentiator for the commodities they shipped. A great lakes trading route for regional craft products shipped by sail would be super interesting as well, especially for breweries and distileries.

A retro "platform" company that facilitated this and authenticated the cargo with labels akin to a fair-trade/organic and other effective luxury branding could be a thing. The great lakes and the intracoastal waterways connect markets large enough to support it, and companies could in effect audition products for it. Doing sail deliveries could be a way to offset the cost of a sailing trip as well.

Craziest idea ever.
From the article: "Repetitive DNA sequences are common throughout the genome and have always posed a challenge for sequencing because most technologies produce relatively short "reads" of the sequence, which then have to be pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle to assemble the genome. 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. . . . Filling in the remaining gaps in the human genome sequence opens up new regions of the genome where researchers can search for associations between sequence variations and disease and for other clues to important questions about human biology and evolution."

Or, to make this more simple: Finding the complete DNA sequence of chromosomes is difficult. That's because some parts of the sequence are highly repetitive. Using a new type of lab machine, the scientists were able sequence the repetitive parts of the X chromosome. This gives a more complete picture of the X chromosome. And that can help scientists fight diseases and understand human biology better.
Autopilots are reliable in aviation because they are simple. An autopilot for road steering cannot be that simple. The term transfers badly.

It is a false dilemma to say that we need autopilots to avoid road deaths. Because assistive tech is already successfully being used for exactly this.

We want self-driving cars to avoid the drudgery of driving. But the current batch of implementations needs very controlled conditions (Waymo), or close human supervision (Tesla).
Yeah, agree FAANGs have too much volume for this.
One person's mob is another person's protest movement. It just seems less a problem with the number of people or the methods and more an issue with a difference of opinion about the content.

I haven't seen folks on the right vigorously defending those on the left or visa versa. They brutally denounce the other side and actively seek to remove them from positions of power or limit their voice. "Cancel cancel culture" feels more like "don't come after folks like me" rather than "don't go after anyone", which is fine, but I just don't see a consistent application across the political spectrum.
More profitable but more likely to be caught.
Lots of them have been hacked: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-g...
TikTok has rapidly scaled up US lobbying in the past year
It's got to be a 3rd party authed w/ the Twitter account, I'd guess.
how desperate are you people? its over, try again in 2024 and good luck to you!
This. Last interview I bombed because no one would ever remember what they were asking for in the interview test. I said I'd just google it and then dropped "Never memorize something that you can look up." ― Albert Einstein
Not just health care, most people don't want to leave a steady paycheck for the possibility of no paycheck.
Hackers still actively tweeting out from everyone's accounts

https://twitter.com/search?q=All%20Bitcoin%20sent%20to%20the...
All the big names hit said "Twitter Web App" as the tweet source.
When in history has anyone ever been free from the consequences of expressing themselves? Are you proposing that people such as neo-nazis should be allowed to just spread as much hate as they want as openly as they want?
The first link in the article you provide - the one which says that Fauci fought against the president wanting to ban flights from China - says the exact opposite - that no, Fauci, did not fight the president ie, Fauci supported banning flights from China.
They are posting to almost every other account, high profile or not. Its a massive spam, too much users to be a password steal.

About the client, they are post from accounts that have only used "Twitter for Web" or only used "Twitter for Mac" or only used "Twitter for iPhone"... in the past

Updated accounts with the spam.

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
Based on this, a metric fuckton of small accounts are posting this as well right now. Unless you hacked the backend I don't see why you'd bother with 200 follower accounts.

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
You were saying that unverifiable statements were ought statements, by arguing that because you couldn't figure out how to defend a statement, it had to be an ought statement. The truth or verifiability of a statement has nothing to do with whether or not it's an is or an ought statement.
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It's amusing that this is so successful only because of all the people posting their triumphant screenshots of success in losing all their money.

All it takes is 100 gullible people to net $100k, and there's a lot more than 100 gullible people on Twitter.

And it all happened in the span of 20 minutes. Can we expect any better response in the hopes of preventing this next time assuming all the accounts are hacked already? Or does the nature of realtime media and hundreds of bored eyes sitting on wads of cryptocurrency getting to it first mean it's just game over?

I remember the golden days of messing up people's lives over digital terminals, where the most they'd do was wipe your harddisk or warn the user of something vaguely ominous on the third Tuesday of April like "the Reaper's gonna get you" or play an 80's Top Ten number rendered through the PC speaker all of the sudden scaring you to death.

From here on out it's always going to be about money, and to me that's just boring and sad.
Sure. I will cite Zeit.de, a german newspaper. They write in https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-02/atomkraftwerk-fe...:

> Das 1977 ans Netz gegangene Atomkraftwerk Fesseheim gilt seit Jahrzehnten als Sicherheitsrisiko. Es liegt in einem Erdbebengebiet und ist unzureichend gegen einen Flugzeugabsturz oder einen Anschlag geschützt. Zudem kam es immer wieder zu Pannen.

They link to https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-03/fessenheim-atomenergie-zw..., a report about how the ASN lied about how bad an accident in April 2014 was.

There definitely were safety issues, the only question is how bad they were.
I think you overestimate how useful "human readable error codes" would be: https://i.imgur.com/SL88Z6g.jpg
It's astonishing that they can't seem to at least shut the platform down. Have they lost control completely or do they think it's preferable to let the scammers go on than to close shop?
This strategy would require having money to begin with. It's a pretty big assumption that hackers have any money. If they had money, they wouldn't have to be hackers.
Just because you can stuff dollars under your bedsheets doesn't mean you can't also use a bank.
> Can't comment on microphone while walking because I rarely talk while walking.

I was talking about microphonics [1][2] i.e. the noise caused by the earbuds vibrating(?) when I walk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphonics

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/dd4gqi/tws_iem_...
Nope, I left the field in 2012 so haven’t kept up to date at all, sounds cool though!
And just as I checked it, they pinned this tweet (an hour later)--

Elon Musk
@elonmusk·38s

I am giving back to my community due to Covid-19!

All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled. If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000!

bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.
Quaternions enable one to formally prove that SO(3) is not simply connected. Here's how: The path in quaternion space e^{\pi i t} is not a loop, but its image in SO(3) under the covering map is a loop. Any contraction of the image loop would imply a contraction of its pre-image, which is impossible.
You under-estimate the amount of power held by conservatives and/or don't pay attention to where they do speaking gigs.
I don't think most people attribute a moral value to the amount of taxes you pay
In order the bottleneck is: gpu ram, cpu ram, then pci-e lanes.

There is a big delay moving memory from ram to vram to run a task on the gpu, so much so that you'd be better off running the task on the cpu if you can't fit it all in the gpu, or are very clever in how data is buffered, which isn't an option for neural networks. Because of this, the pci-e lane is not saturated except when first sending the data to vram. PCI-E 3.0 x8 runs at 7880MB/s, so if your gpu has 16gb of vram, the difference between x8 and x16 is 1 second, when a task can typically take 8+ hours to complete.
So, easy now. The phase 1/2/3 process has been developed over a long period of time, and has given good results. There are doubtless a lot of ways to do it worse. Deciding to make up a new process on the spot in the middle of a crisis, with a lot of high-anxiety thinking, may not actually deliver a quicker/better result. Plus, the manufacturing is going to be started in parallel with the testing, but we don't have the capacity to manufacture every one of the dozens of vaccines that are in development right now, so which ones do we make "risk starts" on? Well the best way to guess would be to look at the phase 1/phase 2 results, and see which seem most promising.

There are a lot more ways to get it wrong, than to get it right, and we want the quickest, good result, not just the quickest result. Aside from the ethical consequences of experimenting on poor people (and I don't think those are something we should put aside), coming up with a new process on the spot is not even probably the best way to get a good result fast. Would the people who step forward to do that be unusually healthy (hence willing to take the risk), and so throw off the results? Would they be disproportionately people who have already had Covid-19, for the same reason? Would they be different in some other way? Let's not try to wing this. We've got a time-and-battle-tested method for developing a vaccine. I would prefer we use that.
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