skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the concept of a blast radius exists.

It is so important to critically examine and limit the blast radius of administrative actions. This is both from a vulnerability perspective as well as honest human mistakes.

For certain actions like taking over an account and impersonation there should be rate limits all around. Overriding them requires a break glass process where multiple people may have to approve (or even just acknowledge that it is happening).

Social engineering happens. It can happen to the best of us who hold the keys to the kingdom. The goal is that no one individual can completely break all the barriers. They need a bit of help, time, or both.
I've restarted both the phone and computer, and let the batteries drain to 0% on the AirPods.
If the goal is to simply publish statements, the press already exists for that. The value of a platform like Twitter is in the network and communication. Twitter already has politicians and official accounts from around the world, and millions of users. I don't know how a particular state-owned platform could replicate that... and let's not get into the technical acumen that government contracts lead to. Remember the debacle that was the Obamacare website right after launch.

And on top of all of that, people will still complain that their tax dollars are being used rather than existing public platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Whichever administration puts it up, the next administration of the opposing party will call it waste and propaganda and burn it down.
Yep. Our model was run by other organizations and incorporated into amalgamated models that had further downstream error bars that they needed.

Not that our model contributed much but we were one tiny part of the early warning system for solar flares for satellites and astronauts.

We admittedly weren’t super formal about the transition but wanted to make sure the differences wouldn’t be meaningful or propagate into other models we contributed to.

Also fwiw, we had no control or say over how others ran our model so they could have easily done their own 64 bit build of our code but I think it’s unlikely.
Maybe an alien civilization just fired off this star for some gigantic war...
I used an ultra fine point and covered it in a tiny hard wax ball to clean off my AirPods. I bet they're cleaner than even new ones at this point. No clue why they still sound so faint.
ActivityPub isn’t great, but anything is going to look bad when compared to a utopian pipe dream.

Im looking forward to a better comparison in Q4 or Q1 2021 when Urbit is more usable for regular people though. As of now, I don’t suspect that anyone will pay $10 for a VPS and $5 for (reliable) star service.

It should be noted that when I critiqued ActivityPub here a couple months ago, a main developer of the spec was very supportive and already on top of the improvements that I was hoping for (such as being less reliant on servers, more true decentralization, etc)
IP restrict the admin console at the application or (better) firewall layer. This means you need to VPN in to use it offsite. Put MFA on your VPN. None of this will save you from a malicious internal actor.
You can just say idiocy :D
Or maybe just move Earth out of the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth
Am I the only one confused?
The "headline" offers no information, other than there is an ongoing information.
I click on the title and I see two tweets. One says people can tweet again, the other is essentially a repeat of the game. And that is it. Am I supposed to make up my own story now? Or read a bunch of random tweets to figure out what these two tweets are about? Like how is this site usable for anything?
Reading the comments here, it seems someone hacked some twitter Asia , but that is all I've gleaned so far.
Blackmail targets could still deny them.
> our digestion is probably closer now to a dog’s than a gorilla

I feel you are nitpicking one of MANY factors and choosing Gorillas out of all the primates because they are more terrestrial folivores than the rest. Almost all aspects of our structure mirror primates such as chimpanzees and orangutans. What about our digestive system is more like that of a dog?

By the way - you flagging my comments just because you disagree is misusing the feature. This isn't reddit where you downvote whatever you disagree with. Flagging is for marking comments as breaking HN guidelines.
The fact that doctors generally don't ask about a patients diet says more about doctors than it does about the importance of what you eat. Diet has a huge influence on so many aspects of health and well being.
Yep. Fair point. The folks I worked with were very pragmatic so didn’t get into the internals and just treated the code as the instructions. Many of them came from an earlier era where the code was a lot more specific and the concept of an R8 is not quite as specific on x86_84 as it was on a VAX because the modern CPU does a lot of tricks under your nose.
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The point is, that's not an airgap; RDP and ssh tunneling are transititive and we're all logging on from home right now.
Nah, you're good. Don't worry about it.
I wish they had used unique addresses for each tweet they sent out.

It would have been fascinating to see which which account had the best conversion rate.
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The most natural solution for most people is to give shards of your key to various friends/family that you trust not to collude and reconstitute your key (or be socially engineered -- make them talk with you on video chat or something). Require 5 out of the 9 shards to reconstitute it.

Obviously you can scale up your security according to the value of your account and your threat model.
What gets brought up in addressing the problems of White Fragility by this writer are not the same objections I hear from white people, for the most part. While the article's author has valid critiques, they are not "racism doesn't exist" nor "we shouldn't be taking this time to better understand the role of racism in our culture," nor "most white people are not fairly ignorant when it comes to the role race plays in dealings with police, economic position, or status in many industries including tech."

I would highly recommend doing additional reading that is less concerned with "how white people should feel," and more related to the history and construction of the idea of race in America. Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts, is a good look at the role of science, and the Warmth of Other Suns is an interesting look at migration, for example.
Good point about the government's job. I forget we could not live in such a corrupt time/place.
Didn't know this ... what an awesome guy ... sadder now ...
Pretty cool use of lasers:

> Prior to creating the water attracting and repellent metals, Guo and his assistant, Anatoliy Vorobyev, demonstrated the use of femto-second laser pulses to turn almost any metal pitch black. The surface structures created on the metal were incredibly effective at capturing incoming radiation, such as light. But they also captured light over a broad range of wavelengths.

> Subsequently, his team used a similar process to change the color of a range of metals to various colors, such as blue, gold, and gray. The applications could include making color filters and optical spectral devices, using a single laser in a car factory to produce cars of different colors; or proposing with a gold engagement ring that matches the color of your fiancee’s blue eyes.

> The lab also used the initial black and colored metal technique to create a unique array of nano- and micro-scale structures on the surface of a regular tungsten filament, enabling a light bulb to glow more brightly at the same energy usage.
Actually, that proves that it is helpful.
That's like blaming the post office for chain letters.
# Tips for Writing Documents

## About

This comment explains what I know about writing docs to make them easier to understand. A succinct paragraph at the top should state what the rest of the document will cover. Don't create a document with random "stuff" in it and not explain what that "stuff" is at the beginning.

## Header Sections

Break up your document into discrete sections. They can be categories, a series of steps, etc. These headers break up the page into logical chunks of information. The header title pre-loads your brain to receive the following information, and makes it easier to skim. These header sections become a Table of Contents later.

## Grouping Information

A leading sentence groups a set of correlated bullet points:

- bullet points are useful visual indicators
- they break up important points
- they are very easy to absorb individually

Call out the major steps needed to perform an action.

Step 1. Figure out the major parts of your instructions
Step 2. Break up instruction into discrete steps
- Provide sub-grouping for complex steps
Step 3. If additional steps are required but not included here, call out
that they are necessary and where to find further information.

## Adding Emphasis

Using specific emphasis can help to underscore __unique information__ and make it easier to find specific information ON THE PAGE. It also helps break up concepts visually, making it Easier To Read.

Emphasis makes skimming easier. Skimmability makes it more likely people will absorb the information you want them to.

## Be descriptive

Using extra, otherwise unnecessary words can "de-compress" a concept so that it takes less brain power to understand what the words mean. It may not be beautiful prose, but it will be easier to understand to more people.

Don't be afraid to break a paragraph up to make it easier to read. One idea spread over many paragraphs is a lot easier to understand than trying to pack it all into one.

## Don't make assumptions

Probably more than one person will be reading your document. We all have different life experiences and will interpret it slightly differently. Ask yourself if all your readers know everything you know. Probably not, or they wouldn't be reading your doc!

Before you dig into something complicated, think about what information is necessary to understand it. List the pre-requisite knowledge needed to grok the next information. Provide background information for concepts you haven't covered yet, and refer to other documents when possible.

## Use Graphics

Complex concepts can be understood easier when presented visually. If it would take you two pages to explain something that a simple diagram or flow chart can express, start with the visual. Use the text to explain details that the diagram doesn't show.

# Edit, edit, edit

Drafts are important. Constantly revise your document as you write it. Review it and see if re-writing or re-organizing sections makes it easier to read. Read it from the beginning and see whether your edits have stopped making sense, and edit again.

Documents get better when you revisit them later and solicit feedback. A fresh perspective is always good.
More importantly, in the article Dr. Ioannidis warns that

'the draconian lockdowns imposed in many countries may have the opposite effect of what was intended. “Globally, the lockdown measures have increased the number of people at risk of starvation to 1.1 billion, and they are putting at risk millions of lives”'[emphasis mine].
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Very true. You're much more likely to be killed by someone out of rage or mental illness than being mugged and then shot as a random victim.
supply vs. demand.

as long as 9 other candidates are willing to run the LC gauntlet, the 10th doesn't stand out.
Yes, judges have a lot of leeway, and that's how you get things like brock turner's "good kid" sentence while a black teenager gets years for a minor drug offense.

The US legal system also thrives on plea deals. Prosecutors charge people with WAYY more than is fair, so the risk of going to court is too high (years in jail) and defendants are bullied into plea deals that suck.

If you'd like to learn more about how messed up this system is, season 3 of the podcast Serial is a pretty good starting place.
I just pulled out my laptop and if they aren't cool with the solution I google'd in 30 seconds, they can test my critical thinking in another manner. That was my critical thinking and resolve under pressure.

These are nothing but shit test.

What are shit tests? When somebody fucks with your head to see how you will react, what you are experiencing is typically a (series of) shit test(s). Everyone has been shit tested, gets shit tested and will continue to be shit tested; We use shit tests to make value judgements about people, likewise they can be used to determine how people cope under pressure. The underlying mechanism of shit tests is to test your mettle.
Being a contractor is not unique - if you read his book, most of his co-workers were contractors on paper.
I think he might if he thought he could get himself out of it someway. Look at how callous the administration has been about allowing covid to go wild without even blinking until lately. Tens of thousands of people dead for no reason, soon to be hundreds of thousands. It's a nightmare.
I had heard that Lua was adding const support, which I was excited for, but I hadn't seen the syntax until now. I don't care for it. I'm guessing this is due to ambiguity as to whether variables declared as const would be local or global, but I would rather have something like

const x = 1

local const y = 2

over what they're adding.
I don't buy it.

I was a very heavy smoker for 20 years. Having discussed the topic with many people, I firmly believe that nicotine addiction varies dramatically from person to person. Some people can smoke a few cigarettes a week for years on end without any major symptoms of addiction. Others, like me, can't even imagine going more than an hour without a cigarette. Sick? Who cares, I'll still smoke a pack and a half a day. So ill that every single drag of a cigarette burns my throat like fire? I'll take pain meds and use chloraseptic spray, but no way I'm going without my cigarettes. It's not even up for debate.

When I finally quit 3 years ago, cold turkey after some failed attempts years prior, it was a living hell. It wasn't until month six in that I finally felt the irritability and constant mental distractions finally fade. It was brutal. Longer and more depressing than even the worst case scenarios I had formulated in my head after heavy research.

These days, you'd have to beat me bloody before I'd concede to consume nicotine. Within inches of my life. I'd rather face a dozen novel hells before facing that well-trod hellscape another time.

Quitting smoking for heavy smokers is a big deal. Not a "14% more likely" to developed generic symptoms big deal, as the article suggest. In fact, I've read before that smokers are less likely to suffer severely from COVID-19, a fact that, true or not, is precisely the kind of fact an addict's brain is wired to cling on to. Even if smokers are "1.8 times more likely to die", do you have any idea how easy it is for an addict's mind to explain that away? Addicts do - it's insanely fucking easy!

Point being, I don't think the threat of COVID-19 can fully explain why so many people quit smoking in the UK. I'm sure it helped push a few people over the edge, and that's great. But my own intimate knowledge with addiction makes me wonder what else might be at play.

Perhaps the lockdowns elicited a powerful and much-needed jolt to the otherwise routine lives most of us live? Perhaps the time all alone, or in constant contact with loved ones, changed perspectives in a way that everyday life could not? Maybe some people who smoked only when away from the home, like many smokers I have known, were forced to more fully confront their addiction?

I can imagine a thousand reasons why our disrupted lives in 2020 might compel addicts to take on and succeed at the terrifying task of quitting. But the old excuse of "it is bad for your health" is very, very low on the list. That's the reason addicts are most skilled at ignoring! I find the other possibilities, specifically the wide-scale and unprecedented disruption of routine, much more plausible.

(NOTE: I wholeheartedly recommend he book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking' by the late Allen Carr. It was a very helpful motivator when I quit smoking.)
Anyone dumb enough to give money to a "double your bitcoins" scan deserves what they get, even if it is apparently endorsed by celebrities
I think that's one of a big problem for candidates to fix - that mindset is wrong and should be changed. An interview should not be a "high stakes situation". It should be more of a casual event - trying to get each other and see if there's any fit. An interview that didn't go well is effectively the same as not having an interview at all. Worst case is losing some time and even then it's often a possibility to learn something.

Taking it all too personally is a big mistake. Sometimes even candidates that did really well don't get a job offer for weird reasons, etc.

It's very similar to dating. Desperation ruins everything.

I think that might be a reason why a lot of people report getting a job after they stopped carrying anymore.
This could end up being a big deal in the days to come if legitimate. Twitter has made strong public statements that they don't have shadow banning tools[0].

Apparently sworn statements have been made about this.

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-t...
> Bar-raiser program didn't have a feedback loop to track its effectiveness

Which itself is a Bar-lowerer.
https://orgmode.org/

It's just incredible how much can be done with it.
I’m not saying there isn’t one, but curious what you think is the imprisonable offense?
It's taught me that I can work from home pretty productively. I was worried at first given the lack of separation between home and work but the discipline required I've found has benefited other areas like making sure I get outside and drink plenty of water etc.
I’m sure a lot of mere twitter mortals were enjoying a sweet schadenfreude moment.
Just click on any of the tweets (like the second one), to open the thread: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128359184496275046...
Interesting theory, but then why would they include Apple? Among others in the list, they’re almost guaranteed to be of no value and only increase the risk.
Ventura County sees increase in number of positive Covid cases among farmworkers
Could some of those just be ordinary people who fell for the scam, or bots that retweet top accounts?
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they made the completely user-unfriendly decision that when you're signed out at least, linked tweets you land on do not unfold the replies below, but rather some facebook-tier 'you may like' type unrelated garbage. You have to click the tweet again, to go to the same url (!) but with the normal display
My friend used to live in a building like this. It is assumed that everyone else in the building is equally rich and also have their own floor, so they would be able to ride up with you as you would with them. The problem now with air BNB is that you don’t really know who’s supposed to be in the building or not as many of the residents list them when they are away, which is often(either visiting their other properties or travelling recreationally/for work).

These buildings also change hands, whether between family members, or just outright sales, more so if a unit in the building is currently for sale, someone could access the building by showing interest, not even with the real estate agent but just telling the doorman you have a viewing. You wouldn’t have to hack the elevator at all and I doubt this perpetrator did. It would take a pretty vigilant doorman to stop this/determine the identity and purpose of all visitors.

Most of the doormen are there to provide additional services to the residents, like having a cab waiting when they are on their way out and other small conveniences, not so much as gate keepers especially since 99.99% of the people entering are no cause for concern.
I saw an analysis from a epidemiologist who said the result is due to naive over adjustment for confounding variables. Specifically if you treat related confounding variables as if they are independent you end up with garbage.

They also said elsewhere that a lot of researchers from outside epidemiology are running really bad studies and publishing papers.
They apparently have another level of auth, used for at least Trump's account. And probably the CEO's considering past events.
Let me tell you about a use case I had not too long ago.

I'm trying to read in some Lisp code, from a wide variety of sources, as grist for a mutational fuzz tester. I don't want to have to define all the packages used in this code. So, when I come across FOO::BAR I want to be able to gracefully handle this rather than causing a reader error if the FOO package is undefined.

Restarts let me do this. In SBCL, there's a restart that let's the handler use a different package in this case. In my case, I just stuck the symbol in some other default package.

One could also imagine this being used as a load-on-demand system. The handler could look up FOO in some list of packages provided by various libraries and automatically load the right library, then return control to the reader to try now that the package was defined.

The reader itself doesn't have to know about any of these various ways of dealing with reader errors; it just has to provide the restarts so the various handlers can tell it how to proceed.
It's definitely in the same direction if not the same league.
The assault was a fight with her mother, and the theft was stealing stuff from school. These are not things that make someone a threat to the general public... or at least not enough to incarcerate someone during a pandemic - something that has the VERY real potential to be a death sentence.
A minor hobby of mine is collecting proposed changes for Lua. Let me make sure I have these right:

- some syntax like js arrow function (this is tough because {} are not block delimiters, maybe single-expression lambdas like in python? I kind of hate those though.)

- `??` operator which does the same thing as `or` except when the left operand is exactly `false`

- `?:` operator. Should this evaluate to exactly one value or any number of values? e.g. x?2,3:4,5

I recently encountered a library that addresses some of the first need: https://github.com/starwing/luaiter#the-selector-interface
Agreed. I am quite disillusioned by take home exams / online hackerrank style tests.
What about having a revocation key? Or something similar.
No, many accounts, including Kanye continued to post follow-up comments with the same content as other accounts.
That's a great method for preventing loss as opposed to allowing recovery.

We need to keep the conversation in recovery because eventually it'll happen. Your 5/9 people could have n+1 unwilling parties where n is the losable amount.

It is unrealistic to say it will _never_ happen.

When my identity is lost... is it lost for good? how do i recover?

If it's lost for good, and i make a new 'identity' then what is my 'identity'... is it just... my reddit username?
It is of note that they're claiming a social engineering attack on an internal employee; not a wide spread social engineering attack on each individual account.
Wow. This does the job for me:

curl 'https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/12835123178466590... -H 'cookie: m5=off;'
I don’t work at Twitter, but at my company, Duo restricts us from sensitive web apps while on personal devices.
Bad hacks are announced fairly regularly. I highly doubt law enforcement investigates shorts everytime one happens.
Very interesting! Where’d you find this?