skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a few points I didn't see elsewhere and would like to point at for further thought.

It seems to me that some parents have kids to help them deal with their existential angst and fulfill a need for meaning they couldn't find elsewhere, let's say providing and caring for people who are already alive and in dire need of help, lets say orphans in developing countries, homeless ppl etc. Or something entirely different. Having children have a very strong narrative for meaning associated with it, which might cause some who are lost in their life have children which will be equally lost.

I happen to hear things like "spread my genes" as example, probably not accounting for the 99.9% similarity with the next random guy and we all share the same ancestors. Even the homeless dude would help us spread our (common) dna if we could help him get his act together.

There are lots of good reasons for having children already mentioned and I agree with many of them, however, difficulty making friends and feelings of meaninglessness should probably be resolved before having children.

Focusing on having something meaningful to give is a lot better. My takeaway from the article is that people deal with more complexities today and might not reach a point where they feel enough "on top of things". Having children if already stressed out might not leave much left to give.
I love this theory, but at the same time, I feel that it's unlikely. Without knowing how their back-end is put together, that'd be like... trying to smuggle in a robot into an office building to break into a safe that's inside without knowing the floor plan, what kind of knobs are on the doors, etc.
Don't know, but current corporate dogma is to not host anything, including using third party auth provider which is like giving away their customer list.
Just imagine if Trump’s account were hacked to indicate that the US is launching a missile towards North Korea. Or maybe a message to encourage some kind of armed uprising in the US.

Hacking the right Twitter account could easily have massive life-and-death consequences. Isn’t that terrifying?
There's (was?) an on-premises enterprise version.
It's a bit more straightforward on Pop OS with two lines, `sudo apt install system76-cuda-latest ;; sudo apt install system76-cudnn-10.2`
Thanks. :)

Amusing side note, the doctor was a woman and devout Christian, who believed that she was simply a conduit for God's work, and if you got pregnant it was because God guided her hands well.

Also interesting was that she had the highest success rate of all the doctors in the clinic.
Looks like hackers got approx 60K. Anybody know how that compares to bug bounties at Twitter?
This is such bullshit. The root cause of this is the US tax system, and the US decision to allow corporations to defer taxation on profits made abroad, with the aim of subsequently applying political pressure for a tax amnesty. The US could unilaterally fix this problem tomorrow if it wanted. Sort your own house out first.
Wow, so beautiful: https://youtu.be/YUtwJYVdUms?t=103
Isn't structs which embed structs composition, not inheritance?
Indeed, already billions in trust lost so far, guessing by the ~4+% after-hours TWTR drop.
These people are usually called "references" :)

As for interviewing for a few days... Yeah. No. Not in a country with an abysmally bad vacation policy like the US.
NarraScope 2020: Inform 7 Update [video]
I think that tape-like piece that you removed from the SSD compartment is actually the thermal pad that makes contact between the SSD and the MSI heat sink cover so you may actually want that!
Risk/reward for the sitting POTUS just isn't there.
Not really.

As far as we can tell right now, Obama and Biden could've posted about a complete coup to assassinate Trump and that every middle eastern country already has nukes on their way...
He's saying "this makes you more likely to win at the game, perhaps you want to teach your kids this skill so they can win." He is not saying "the game is fair."
Yes. https://enterprise.github.com/faq
Work from home wouldn't backfire, they said.
Or a distraction while a bigger hack is going on?
Eh, it's good enough, in fact MIT has an even easier workshop where you pump out an express.js MVP and gives you just enough domain knowledge to make it happen: https://functionalcs.github.io/web/

CS50w is probably exactly what a self learner would want, a crash course on how to make something work and advice where to find more information. It's like those ancient text files I used to find about writing your own LKM, they didn't teach me everything there is to know about operating systems but taught me just enough so I could go forth and learn independently, that's the point of all these short workshop style courses on edx.
Ditto this, I've run into some strange compiler bugs I've had to work around. Intel Fortran 2019 actually fails to compile a code at work that's worked for ~40 years, Intel Fortran 2018 compiles it but produces numerical errors when the code runs. Intel Fortran 2016 actually works perfectly, as do several earlier versions.

With gfortran I run into issues primarily when using the "newer" features of Fortran 2003/2018.
I love the internet so much right now.
Sounds exactly correct to me.
The attack is ongoing. Why haven't they

1) shut down api endpoints
2) locked down all verified accounts
3) blocked any tweets with the btc address in them
4) make a statement if they really can't stop it?
Github has offered this for years: https://github.com/enterprise MIT used it for a long time.
And it would need to be a relatively small bet compared to your total net worth to avoid detection by the SEC and the hack could fail at the exact time Tesla had a 20% pop leaving you underwater
You're less likely to get caught using a key than breaking a window.
Security is myth
Renters in Munich have very good protections. You effectively cannot be evicted without cause (and evidence), and most contracts are indefinite length (unless you are explicitly looking for <1 year).
Hmm, how much money this scam would potentially generates? I think the salary of an engineer working on twitter would be higher given how fast this scam would be shut down. Would a twitter employee risk their career to this scam?
Can you point to any examples of higher taxes spurring economic growth?
It would be incredibly irresponsible if there isn't a team at Twitter right now working to bring the whole site down.

It's one thing going after a couple celebrities and CEOs, but they've now hit a former US President and a current Presidential candidate.
Whatever!! Go finally brought generics. The same thing which it used to criticize java for
Lol
A lot of people (rightly) pointing out that the actual exploit payload here is a horribly inefficient way to monetize such awesome power. Some of the replies that influencing regulated markets would be traceable...sure, but trillions of dollars flow through these markets each and every day. A decently large options position accumulated over days wouldn't raise any red flags, and one tweet about the Fed raising rates on the back of strong employment + vaccine hope would have sent markets into a tailspin. The reality is that it would be much more difficult to identify bad actors than it is with public crypto addresses. And your money is clean at that point, part of the US financial system (or other tier 1 banking system).
Twitter depends on GitHub?
I know hootsuite is a very popular app for managing the social media accounts.
Well no, the EU just lost the case. Taxation is not an EU competency. The court case was about whether Ireland gave taxation opportunities to Apple that were unavailable to other companies, which was shown to not be the case.
Has Twitter's forever WFH policy resulted in this Zero Day Vector or Whatever it is!
Which has resulted in Hacking of So many big Accounts and Bitcoin Scam?
Its not extreme at all.
Been very happy with Lambda Stack at our company!
How can a culture which does not have those values (specifically, the ones around scientific method, work ethic, and future orientation) compete against one which does, in a modern industrial/technological society?
Decarbonize and Diversify
Kill-switches are dangerous, since they get built and never get used. I work on an anti-abuse system. It caused two user-visible outages in the last couple of years, one of which was an accidentally triggered kill-switch that had not been used in years and had some unexpected side-effects.

So I can see why they wouldn't have one of those pre-built for setting the entire site to a read-only mode. It's not at all obvious whether the risks are larger with or without that capability built in. But a spam filter with configs you can push quickly seems like table stakes, and should be a system that gets excercised weekly if not daily.
It has become extremely popular to "idea bash" anything and everything on the internet and in real life. It's not possible to do anything anymore without a crowd of haters.

People can't stand the idea that an idea they don't understand might actually work, and they get angry when it does.
What could have been the best prank of 2020 wasted on a bitcoin scam. If it were me, I'd try to start a war or two as the ayatollah, or maybe make some unplanned celebrity trump endorsements. Wasted potential.
Ok but a few accounts asking for Bitcoin from rubes isn't WWIII
MIT team collaborates with 3M to develop rapid Covid-19 test
Minus the support from Cisco, which you won't get once you tell them your serial number, which either isn't registered to you, or doesn't exist.
I agree, but only until the bombings, I mean he's the most anti-war president in living memory.
Developer Creates VR Time Machine to Relive His Past Year
Corporations don't do anything unless there is a executive sponsor and business need/attached revenue. Probably they have never needed a maintenance mode, aka self imposed downtime. The only thing worse that unexpected downtime is some manager causing the need to turn on maintenance mode. They would lose their job.
Bingo, they're probably walking away with all of Twitter's internal data as we speak...
i'm using firefox nightly, with just a handful of extensions. vim vixen, lastpass, ublock origin and simple tab groups.

that's on linux, latest nightly.
The lord works in mysterious ways!!
I'd say you're spot on. Compromising an elevator can't be the hardest thing to do computing wise. It's all actuators in the end and they really don't care what gives the signal.
The most recent Elon Musk tweet (2:38 pm PDT; I cannot believe Twitter hasn't locked this down yet) used the same address.
> Even my own interview, if I hadn't prepped a story for each of the LPs, I would've bombed.

Not denying this part. Candidates at most companies are openly advised about the Behavioral Interview format, and told to come prepared with a collection of stories. Even Google's previous head-of-HR tells all job-seekers to do exactly this (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/win-every-interview-6-steps-l...). This isn't unique to Amazon in any way, and Amazon might actually be better because they give you very strong hints as to what the questions will be, instead of expecting you to know this implicitly.

My previous comment was mostly responding to stuff like "ask very veiled questions and you're supposed to know that they're asking about an LP" and drinking the Amazon kool-aid.
Software engineering jobs typically do not have situations that are anxiety-inducing like job interviews.
There is no way Twitter depends on Github CI/CD to push updates. I refuse to believe this.
Prospects for a World of Declining GDP
I can't imaging some of those hacked people not having extremely good security habits. 2FA, long unique ramdom-generated passwords not used anywhere else, and secured phones that would be hard to do a SIM swap on.

Which leads me to believe someone has really hacked twitter in a bad way or there's someone on the inside helping them.
They're well aware of this scam.
Wow, it's not just big accounts, it's like anyone or everyone.
Maybe they do and they haven’t needed to resort to that yet?
obligatory request for citation
I wonder if they have access to the accounts’ DMs too. Lots of juicy info potentially there.
One of the unknown corner cases in this space is that it implies hidden state. We've ruled out Local Hidden State with physics experiments, but you can't rule out Global Hidden State that way. There could be in this sense say, a 1MB global "random seed" for our universe.

In this model you can build Quantum Computers but when you build a really big one to, for example, attack traditional public key cryptography with Shor's algorithm it mysteriously doesn't work. This is because without you knowing it your Quantum Computer is using the global hidden state as scratch storage and it ran out.

Almost everything about this scenario is terrible news, but on the bright side you can't attack modern cryptography with a Quantum Computer because it won't work.
Just like you say, I passed the AP calculus exam in high school and then when I arrived at college my advisor, who also happened to teach a freshman Calculus 1 section, told me, "I know you passed out of it, but why don't you sit in on a couple of my classes and see what you think?" I ended up staying the whole semester when it became clear that I didn't understand anything about Calculus.
Maintenance for nuclear in France is not "minimal": for the past two years (2018 2019) capacity factor of nuclear power in France has been around 70% mainly due to maintenance according to RTE (1)

For reference best UK offshore wind farm had 55.3% capacity factor in 2019 and UK offshore wind average capacity factor was 40.6% in 2019 (2)

(1) https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/
379.5 Twh produced, 63.1 GW installed, 68.7% capacity factor

(2) https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors
At the risk of bringing the level of commentary on HN down, why not create a new publication called: The Tomes
Bombing != war. Trump administration has had plenty of people killed by drone strikes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-strike-live-update...
> Its just that Apple does a lot better with marketing and makes a much bigger deal of these things. Microsoft on the other hand has always been really bad at marketing.

It's more complicated than that: It's all about understanding disruptive technology. Arm is disrupting x86 / x64.

The thing with disruptive technology is that being ahead of the curve is just as bad as being behind the curve. Microsoft has no benefit from "pushing" Arm, all they need to do is make sure that Windows is ready to run on Arm when someone's ready to sell an Arm desktop computer.

But, Apple, as a hardware company, needs to be much more proactive about where the market is going and actively switch its hardware. If this means that Microsoft's first major Arm market for Windows are VMs on Apple, so be it. The rest of the PC makers will switch or be disrupted.
All the DMs would definitely be valuable.
Conventional wisdom: total fertility rate must be {above,below} replacement to ensure well-being of future generations.
Betting on inside / direct database access or admin account.
Twitter should suspend the entire platform until they can credibly fix this and prevent it in the future. An attacker could drop AMZN stock by 10% in minutes with just the wrong tweet from Bezos.
> and we are no near achieving any herd immunity.

I wouldn't be so sure about that, actually.

Sweden's response has been widely reported on, and even more widely mis-reported on.

Sweden chose the least amount of restrictions in the EU, and mobility analysis shows that although the Swedish people changed behaviour drastically, they did it the least of the EU countries. People were doing the most distancing in late March, same as everywhere else, and have been slowly easing up ever since.

And yet, the death rate has been going down steadily in Sweden since mid-April.

Testing has been too low for a long time, but is finally up at reasonable numbers.

And yet, the positive test rate has been cratering the past few weeks.

The Swedish public health agency have done a bunch of random samplings of antibodies to measure the immunity rate, and it always came back at much lower levels than expected. The peanut gallery was quick to crow that Sweden's "herd immunity" strategy was a complete failure, zombie apocalypse etc, but the reason people were surprised that the antibody levels were so low is because it didn't match the actual spread.

Something is pushing the death rate and case levels down in Sweden, it clearly isn't lockdown or distancing measures, and it clearly isn't sars-cov-2-specific antibodies.

There are reports out now that a lot of people seem to have immunity or resistance through T-cell response, presumably as a result of earlier coronavirus exposure.

Another thing to consider is also that if you vaccinate people to reach herd immunity, you effectively pick people at random and give them immunity. But if a virus spreads naturally through a population, it won't pick people at random, it will pick the best spreaders first, and when those have either died or recovered, it will pick the next best spreaders and so on. The remaining population will successively contain worse and worse candidates for natural spread, which means that the threshold for herd immunity is much lower.

And all of these things together suggest that herd immunity is easier to achieve than we initially thought, and that regions that have been heavy hit, but that now see very little death and cases, might be very close to it.
We don't know but perhaps we might agree that this is most unlikely?
What on earth is wrong with asking to see the interviewee's code? Skim over it looking for neatness, how they comment, what build procedure is there and quiz them about what you see: anything from language choice, to build reproducibility, from architecture to install. And of course quiz them on algos you see.

All of these 'tricky' exam style questions don't show a thing about the person sitting in the interview room.

I've hired based on a good discussion alone, without code... And got a great engineer.
How do we know that it's not the actual OP trying to pose like a big account target?
This also has a very nice and simple explanation of the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996OiexHze0

It's about 1h long, but it's really worth it.
How much will Twitter pay me for it's liability of my hacked account?
Seems like they could have sold this hack for way more than this will make them.
I think „coding security risks“ referred to language properties that increase the likelihood of introducing bugs in a general sense, not in terms of cyber security/hacking.
Given the nature of how twitter has influenced elections, why would this be extreme? So far the known targets all appear to be of a particular political persuasion, but I haven't seen a comprehensive list yet.
They could have just bought puts on twitter as it is currently down 4% after hours.
this is the best fun i've had in a while but i've just ruined it for myself with a conspiracy theory that some prankster youtuber has set this up and there will be a "hilarious" video about it tomorrow
> I get 3-4x speed up with Intel Fortran compiler over gfortran

Wow, even at similar optimization levels? -O3 for each?
And if the United States had an actual leader they would have taken far more action. You could easily make the case that Trump's weak foreign policy stand is what enabled this murder to happen in the first place. The Saudis felt they could get away with this and in fact they did. No repercussions whatsoever.
It's not 100% guaranteed though; Tesla stock is odd. And it might be possible to people short selling who timed it exactly right.

This "scam", while crude, will probably not result in any loss and it would be much harder to catch them
According to their hacker one program they pay $7,700 for account takeover exploits
I really HOPE the details of this hack become public, because this is huge. (I can already hear celebs who say dubious things trying to claim they were hacked.)
It might as well be an employee whose devices were compromised.
I don't even have a personal laptop, seems like bringing the employer provided laptop to interviews is not the most sensible.
It is google.. they get bored and leave after some time. It also feels like they are forcing things to thier existing gmail (would have been better if they build it from scratch like MS teams). It feels quite complex and not sure how they will manage the notifications from all the systems.

But I agree with the pain point they are trying to solve - switching from app to app disrupts the flow. The concept seems exactly like airsend (https://www.airsend.io) .
Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement with Subquadratic Communication [pdf]
Seriously, this hack should inspire the most terrifying Black Mirror episode yet.
> current corporate dogma is to not host anything

Do you mean that they prefer using managed services? Or do you mean that the services managed by their internal IT utlize AWS/etc for servers as opposed to on premises.
It already is around $1.4 from the close on heavy volume. It's pretty clear that they have a major problem.
Or just, someone stupid and uncreative got very very lucky and this was all they could come up with.
Sure, the gp started out talking about regular satellite, that what I was commenting on.
Do you have any actual numbers to back these claims up?
>> Separate the man from the accomplishments.

I think this is mostly good advice. However, the company does intentionally market him as the face of the company -- so it's hard to fault people for disliking the company due to the press he intentionally gets on the company's behalf. His twitter account antics are marketing, too. It's all part of the brand, for better or worse.
Same. If someone makes it that far, I (and several others) have already decided that they stand out. So I'm secretly rooting for them the moment the interview starts.
Exactly. Just like AT&T and Verizon often shutdown the telephone system when its being abused.
Show HN: Subtitle Synchronisation with Docker
Containerised Subaligner for synchronising a subtitle file to its companion video.
Your apple is showing.
Is it just me, or does this seem suspiciously poorly thought out? Perhaps there is a second stage involving stock plays. The BTC thing might be a diversion.

Or we are incredibly lucky and the exploit was found by people with really bad foresight and imagination.
Now _this_ may be the real con! A much better idea.
OpenStack, the open-source cloud at 10
The post says to use a 'modern font'... what is that?
Cancel culture people do not believe in freedom of speech. They do not believe in free and open debate.

The cancel culture people have a set of views on topics such as race. They further believe that every institution should have an elaborate, harshly enforced set of rules that forbids and punishes anyone who expresses contrary views.

My question to you is, do you believe it would be good for institutions to have such a set of rules?
Keeping in mind the attackers will not be able to perform this stunt again though the same attack vector, It could also simply be that the attackers overestimated how much they would make from this attack.
What makes you think they don’t? We had one on Reddit in 2008.
It could just be a relatively unsophisticated actor who stumbled upon a serious vulnerability and didn't know enough to market it to, eg, a state actor or whatever.
You don't need to go to war. But you certainly also don't need to defend them. See how the UK responded to the Skripal case or Litivenko.
yup, trump hates war because it's bad for the businesses he's in (like real estate and luxury branding), but drone strikes don't have that downside.
> With so many accounts compromised, the hackers might actually have full access to Twitter's backend.

This.
Link to the actual petition:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/17ZqWl5grm_F5Kn_0OarY...