skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dismembered body of “Gokada” ride-sharing app found in Manhatten apartment
We make roughly the same whether you go C2H or direct salaried. C2H interviews generally take much less time, so we do have an incentive, but so do the companies and candidates.

You don't have to take a C2H job, but for some people that don't have stellar resumes or are bad at interviews, C2H will give them access to more opportunities.
How did you come to this conclusion? I’ve been curious about it for some time but haven’t seen anything concrete which could explain this at a level I understand.
How about the possibility of a Bitcoin marketing campaign?
I live in a city where tourism is a huge part of the economy. Since AirBnBs took off, our hotel occupancy dropped off massively, and rents have gone up. Much of our government revenue depends on hotel taxes, which obviously not collected on AirBnBs.

Yes, we can build more residential properties (and we are), but I think it's a bit naive to assume that tourists leaving hotels vacant, and staying in livable housing instead wouldn't drive up rents for locals in the short term.
> are thousands in maintenance monthly

Yeah, I'm going to be skeptical (based on my ownership of multiple Audis and a Jaguar) that you were paying "thousands a month" (i.e. at least $24,000/yr) maintaining a two year old premium vehicle.

Electric cars have more "mechanical" reliability due to the inherent simplicity of the electric motor, but this hyperbole just further encourages the perception of the "Tesla Fanboy" / RDF.
Hacking a former president and presidential candidate.... not really that far of a jump.
It's much better to have experts assessing other experts than laymen (say politics or judges) assessing experts (like what happens with privacy/piracy laws).
also any attempt at negotiation can be construed as extortion, and now they have all your info too.
You can trade after hours but I really doubt that was the purpose.
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Because they go against the narrative the proponents (irony...) of cancel culture want to impose. Why doesn't anyone ask why 13yo girls are not interested in becoming loggers, or police or trash collectors? Why are most 13yo boys not interested in becoming ballerinas?

Sure the proponents of cancel culture try to pretend there is no such thing as human biologically encoded biases: everyone is a supposed blank slate. That's why it seems a bit stupid for people who don't share their views, why try to fix human nature (as if it were possible) when you can just live with it?
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In that scenario 10% per month would be a sufficient inducement and likely more believable given the volatility.
TBH I find it much more likely you are a Russian spook (or inadvertently working for them)

It seems to me the Bellingcat hate is more likely Russian propaganda.
This comment is not only based on anedotical evidence, but demonstrably wrong [0] (compare hours worked between Portugal and the UK - these are significantly higher in Portugal) and perpetuating stereotypes with regards to Southern European countries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_annual_labor...
It appears Twitter has now prevented verified accounts from posting. Us schlubs can now run the asylum for a while.
But then why set up a rather simply scam instead of getting the bug bounty from twitter? That wallet is currently sitting at about 150k USD and these are rather hard to pay out. Why not just go for 100k USD bug bounty, completely legal and with fame?
Twitter to Pause Tweeting
Parent takes the posted-from metadata as absolute truth.

I say it can't be relied upon when an active & involved hack is underway.

You provide nothing of value. What do you think this entire thread is, but for idle speculation?
I’d be curious to find out which one of the accounts proved to be the better “sales lead”
But we do have better solution, I just have a talk with the candidate like they do in other professions, trying to suss out what they did and to what level. If they sound good to me I just take them for a trial as contractors for 3 months and if all is going well I switch them to full time. My success rate is no different to any other method.
Well, no verified user can tweet at the moment: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128352640014683751...
Breakthrough in deciphering birth of supermassive black holes
Even if there is no "huge red button", at this stage it should be easy to reconfigure their load balancers to just return 500 for all endpoints or even take down their DNS records and essentially shut down the platform until they sort it out.
In an attempt to mitigate the damage, Twitter appears to have blocked verified accounts from sending tweets.
Yeah, I wouldn't relocate for a C2H job either, unless it was a dream job or something. I think in those cases it would be best to opt for salaried and just deal with the current technical interview process.
To be clear, there, though - the word reliability is used by The Sunday Times, not by the survey.

Though you could argue that "I can rely on my vehicle to have a consistently high initial quality, coming from Manufacturer X" is consistent.
While possible, this scenario requires such a massive disconnect between the attacker's skill, connections, and luck versus their understanding of economic and geopolitical context that I would consider it among the least likely.
Pseudo-regular parsing combined with hand-written pratt-parsers is a nice sweet-spot: easy to read, very robust, and produce great error messages. The technique was, I am told, moderately popular in the 80s and 90s. (My familiarity with them comes from a language called Spad.)
Agreed. Any public sector institution should be running its own W3C standards-compliant infrastructure (or should be paying someone else to run this on their behalf).

I envision that the current centralized services could be getting into this business if they were to white-label their applications.

Imagine "Twitter, but for your own domain" in the way that G Suite is Gmail and Google Apps for your domain.
I mostly meant that I don't have any faith that the code will work correctly. I'm not even assuming malice. There are all kinds of super simple rounding mistakes you could make that would mess up the rounding. Especially if you're writing for a market that you're not part of (eg, out-sourced coders living in one country, but writing POS code that is deployed in another country).

That said, do I think that someone, somewhere, has/does/will out of malice abuse this specific oft-ignored dark corner of the marketplace, for personal gain? Yeah, I absolutely think that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSlE28hOgI
>Revealing the intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 with sub-parsec resolution ALMA observations

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/496/4/4061/5870560
Verified Twitter accounts can no longer Tweet while incident is being dealt with.
Yes, we might be agreeing on most points.

To me it is biology. A set of factors contribute to fear and disgust when people meet and an other set of factors trigger empathy and cooperation. We can use the word privilege to mean, in a given environment, having more triggers than someone else for the positive effects and less triggers for the negative effects. The resulting individual experience is the sum of interactions.

Some trait has stronger effect than others such as social economic status and kinship. Close to that comes gender, although sometimes it can also be the strongest factor. Research into this subject generally show a strong environmental aspect to this as well.

I would not use "white privilege" in an online discussion because it often than not lead the discussion away from the complexity of in-group and out-group interactions and into the realm of blame and over simplification. The most insightful thing anyone can really make about white privilege is that being rich, healthy, appeasing appearance, surrounded by a strong majority of in-group members (preferable kinship) that have similar cultural values, then being white is also a benefit as long as the other in-group members are also majority white.
>That's generally how decision-making works: you weigh the tradeoffs and make the best choice.

You weigh the tradeoffs and make the least bad choice. We've decided as a society that we cannot live without electricity. No method of generating that electricity is without negative implications. (yet?)
I cannot imagine that infographic being produced about black culture without it producing a howling firestorm of opposition.

First, who produces it? Whites? Yeah, that will go over big. Blacks? That makes it look like propaganda or wishful thinking. Professional sociologists? Is sociology objective enough to produce a consensus?

Then there's the content. Black culture? Which one? (There are several.) Any one you pick, those in other cultures find your infographic to be nonrepresentative.

But every bit of what I said is true of the actual infographic. Who produced it? Whites? Blacks? Professional sociologists? And, which white culture? There is not one uniform white culture across the US.
multiple addresses, mixing, small batches, etc. there are tons of ways to evade exchange restrictions.
We have been suffering as well.And it sucks as there is no support response, just a status page. Clearly, they do not value smaller tech businesses.
We definitely will be looking to migrate to compass, that was long time due.
Whatever hack you have that can take a verified account over with 2FA is worth some money... you could sell access to any account with this bypass...
The USB webcams suck though, I want a better quality camera and mic for the entire room.
Make everyone post the N-word and goatse?

Hell, even just hacking Trump to do it would probably trigger a federal investigation. I doubt this current situation will.
"Cancel culture" is orthogonal to the issues you're describing, I think. Professional and social life is very unfair for people across many spectra of belief and being, sadly. I'd argue there's been growing outrage about both sorts of phenomena in the past few decades.

If some sort of culture deems you impure, you're likely to be outcast. Different people just happen to run up against different cultures.

Discrimination based on immutable attributes is inherently much more unfair, but unfairness is still a battle waged on many fronts.
"How many fell for the scam is anyone's guess" Actually not, since the Bitcoin transactions are public, no?
A Few Management Principles
Doesn't matter. Imagine, for a moment, a Tweet posted on Trump's account along the lines of Reagan's joke in 1984 [1]:

> Iran has gone TOO FAR! As President I have ordered the use of nuclear weapons against key military targets. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Regardless of the plausibility of the message, it would be likely to trigger a panicked response from foreign militaries. It's not at all implausible that it'd start a war.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
You say they'd target POTUS but of the very high profile accounts it's so far billionaires, corporations and democrat politicians. Does make you wonder.
> Does inequality drive you?

Absolutely!
If there is no inequality there is no profit for working more. If I can't earn more by working more then I'll just do the bare minimum and still receive my equal share.

Luckily I never lived under a communist regime to witness it, but I've seen this happen in companies with middle managers who don't care: a few employees start working very little, a few more follow suits, motivated individuals complain, see that nothing happens and then start slacking as well.
What I don't understand: 'Riot is now Element', yet when you click on 'Get Element' on the website and select the android app > 'Riot.im' by 'Vector Creations Limited' package name 'im.vector.app'
IMHO if you rebrand it, everything should be in place.
Posts stopped for the other btc address (bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh)

Here's a tweet from KimKardashian, for a different BTC address (bc1qwr30ddc04zqp878c0evdrqfx564mmf0dy2w39l)
https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/1283523054874877953
You again? Please stop with the Trump apologism already, we have a trade war that was mostly conducted via twitter, people heard via twitter that their services were no longer required, the whole Mexican affair was conducted via the phone and when that didn't work out led to a slew of angry tweets. There is definitely precedent enough that if Trump's twitter account would speak the right magic words that you can expect a reaction.

"Dear Twitter Followers, It is with grave heart that I have to ask you to do the right thing for your country, go out and do something about - insert bogeyman of the hour here - and I will be sure to reward you greatly. The time has come to do your part. I personally promise to pardon anybody that ends up on the wrong side of what today still is the law. Let's take this country and make it even greater."

That's just a two minute sample, give me an hour or so and I'll come up with something much worse than that. These things are easier to start than to stop.
Networking can in fact overturn results of the interview loop. In some cases, the result is known and the interview is arranged to support the case. You may outright fail some questions, and still get a green light from those interviewers.
Unlikely. That isn't how hacks or outages are punished in large software service orgs, unless it was intentional or due to negligence like disabling a failing test to get something shipped to prod.
Isn't "weird == not seen it before" anyway? I get what you're trying to say, but MATLAB is not really a programming language SWEs would use, so if that's the best example you can think of, Lua's bound to confuse most people in the industry.

May work better for mathematicians, non-SW engineers etc, but I wouldn't know.
I would not call this a major outage. The service still worked, just not from a single client app, many apps still worked as did the web interface. My house is more stable too but my office is not. I've had UPS systems fail. I've had ISP outages. The overall up time is better, in the case of Exchange, than I could make it at the office - especially considering the 24/7 nature of email today. We need fewer IT people because we offload some of the work. I don't want to be Rambo.
See, you haven't actually understood what I'm talking about, so no wonder you think my position/view is contradictory.

I'm not saying that as an insult BTW, just a statement of fact.

Countries stop getting new cases without lockdown measures when they approach the herd immunity threshold. So, if we look at New York, which got absolutely ravaged (relatively speaking), they don't have significant new cases anymore. Not because Cuomo is a genius - he's the opposite - but because there's almost nobody left to get infected.

So, no, while I have been citing American examples because I am quite clearly an American, what I'm saying is relevant to every country in the world. Following a course of lockdown, social distancing and universal masking is simply an exercise in lunacy. At best it has no effect, and at worse it massively increases mortality.

In short, I really don't understand the point you're making. My goal is the maximum aggregate well-being of society, thus I oppose lockdown. If my goal were a more myopic measure like "maximum lives saved" (ignoring that a life is not a life is not a life), lockdown would still be the wrong call. Now if my goal were "minimize COVID-19 mortality regardless of the cost to all-cause mortality", then lockdown may or may not be effective, I personally think that it almost certainly makes COVID-19 mortality worse in the long run full stop, but that point is more debatable. I think the first two are inarguable, though.
Why? It's certainly imaginable Obama's cell phone was targeted.
Founded AngelList and made some good investments https://angel.co/p/naval
Again, nothing. Given the accounts that were hacked, they could easily have moved markets and had pre-placed short bets that would have netted them potentially hundreds of millions.
> We got into this mess by agreeing that some form of action was necessary. Stopping to make sure we aren’t just making things worse is reasonable.

That isn't what I said. You can agree that the status quo is bad while being unsure of how to fix it (noticing flaws is a lot easier than finding solutions!). I'm speaking about people who believe the status quo is okay.
Worst case scenario, shut down the app servers, load-balancers or even the network equipment that connects the platform to the Internet.
I assume each of his tweets have to be approved manually by some employees somewhere considering a hacker could start a war with his account.

Would make sense to have something like this for @jack, too — could explain why his bio was changed but he didn't tweet.
Going differently, an internal API for managing accounts was exposed externally or not authorized correctly.
They just disabled posts from verified users.
It's not just their personal information, though. Go to the "Suspicious Activity Reports" section of the linked article. It's... eye opening.
CPUs have some number of individual units that do different things. You'll have a few ALUs that can do stuff like adding, subtracting, xor, and, etc. You'll have some number of units that do floating point math. You'll have a shift unit to do bitshifts. In ye olden days, the CPU would only do one thing at a time, while the rest of the CPU sat idle.

x86-64 (and most other architectures) can use multiple units at the same time using what's called a superscalar architecture. There's a hardware unit that figures out what units are in use and what instruction just arrived, and can either send the instruction to ALU0 if it's unused, or ALU1 if ALU0 is in use, etc.

But this hardware unit that does scheduling is complex, it takes up space that could be used by other stuff. IA64 aka Itanium, not to be confused with x86-64, is a VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture. The underlying assumption is that the compiler knows in advance what operations it's already emitted, and what operations are coming next, and the compiler can be considerably more complex than the hardware scheduler does. So a VLIW instruction isn't just "add eax,ebx" like x86, it's more like "ALU0: add r12,r48; ALU1: add r93,r42; SHIFT: r60,12; MEM: load r17,r32". (Itanium had 128 registers) The compiler had to do a bunch of stuff that modern CPUs do in hardware. I think it even had to deconflict instructions; like the compiler had to know that an addition takes 3 clock cycles or whatever, so if you used ALU0 on cycle 123772 and then tried to use ALU0 again on 123774 something bad would happen, but don't quote me on that.

So at some point the compiler is going to have a DAG of operations that need to get run in a block, and it needs to bundle up those individual operations into bundles of (I think) 4. Sounds dynamic programmy to me. At least I think that's what's going on.

It turns out that most code is pretty branchy, which means many lines of code will have multiple entry points. This invalidates the assumption that the compiler knows what operation it just executed. So in practice, VLIW architectures aren't able to achieve their theoretical performance, and superscalar architectures are better.
My Indian coworkers shake their head side to side for yes and no. When I first starting working with them I was always a little mad that they never agreed with me until I realized what was going on.

You can tell if it's yes or no depending on speed but thanks to covid WFH for months I've forgotten which is which. Going back to the office is going to be an adjustment.
> In the summer, all this concrete makes the heat of an already pretty hot place unberable

You may have found it unbearable because it was just really hot, but it would have been far worse in a wood building with similar density. Concrete has very high thermal mass and when thick enough and thermally coupled to the ground, significant thermal resistance, so it acts like a cave. The bigger problem with concrete landscapes is the lack of air flow and shading that would otherwise be provided by clearings, trees and foliage.
I've heard that a major use case for Lua is to enable scripting in game engines - for something like that, it sounds perfect, because the entire runtime is just a couple thousand lines of C with few dependencies, that can be literally copy-pasted into your codebase if need be.

But honestly, I can't recommend Lua for any other use case. You'll be chugging along and then run into a brick wall when you need e.g. real regexes instead of Lua's comparatively crippled pattern matching, or a networking library that isn't hosted on one professor's personal web page that hasn't been updated in years. Take it from someone who had to throw out and port a bunch of Lua scripts when they just couldn't keep up with new business requirements: Python or Perl or Ruby is almost always a better choice.
And, oh, let's go after ... professors.

Yeah. So edgy. So radical.

How about going after Zuckerberg? Giuliani? Nunes?

But, no, those people might punch back when you fight them.

Cowards.
Yep, something like that already happened when the AP’s Twitter account was hacked back in 2013.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor...
They could have make >$10m With Elon’s account alone by manipulating the share price. A few 100k is nothing
"All the current PP variants (1.0–1.2) have a major issue, that prevents CC pins from working correctly. It's therefore not possible to perform any kind of negotiation and communication over the CC pins. It's not fixable in SW, other than via a manual selection of power and data roles by the user. There's a HW mod that you can do to fix CC pins from being hogged by the VCONN switches by removing the switches."

It's a pity this requires tricky surface mount rework.
You also need to figure out how many of those crashes are intentional suicides or a result of something else (such as someone having a heart attack and losing control of their car).

Basically, you would need to figure out how many of those accidents hits stationary objects on the highway that are the drivers fault. That's what Tesla cars have done. I don't think those stats are available.
I've got a check and I can't tweet. It just says 'unable to send'. Twitter must have no idea where the source of the hack is.
But both Mercy and Comfort were offered by the Feds for non-COVID-19 patients only.

That doesn't affect the argument. The fact is that the other facilities were able to handle the total of "normal" patients as well as COVID-19 patients. The entire set of patients did not get to a size sufficient to need those boats.
I'm trying to think of other ways to monetize this without ending in prison, and not really coming up with much...

Sure, you could short stocks and then make "Aaah, Tesla is going bankrupt!" tweets... But without an army of lawyers and accountants and money to pay them, it's hard to anonymously short stocks.

You could bribe people with publishing DM's - but again that's pretty high risk. And how do we know that hasn't already happened?

What else is there?
I know how they feel. I have two cigars a year. Got stressed. Wanted a cigar. Half way through it I thought, “This diseases affects lungs.” Then I put out the cigar and continued my walk.
Nope, I just stopped reading there. But I still see no convincing link to the red khmer.
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which one of us did that?
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Can anyone explain what happened in this block of transactions to me?