skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are visual basic and,net programs so bad?
Any program designed with a WYSIWYG interface produces bloated, unreliable code, i suspect. The best programs are done in raw c or c++ without such tools.although this requires much more skilled programmers.
Right - diffuse radioactivity is harder to contain or clean up.
Occasionally I work as a speaking examiner, assessing people's foreign language level.

The test is rigorous and well designed. Few minutes of questions are designed to be so easy any can answer them. "How do you spell your name?" etc. This is by design as people can be extremely nervous when taking a foreign language exam.

If you are interviewing people, do what you can to put them at ease at first.
The block only affects people moving coins from an exchange account. Those coins are, in the final analysis, still controlled by the exchange. It doesn't affect anyone who is moving coins from an account they directly control (i.e. have the keys to).
Hackers Seize Popular Twitter Accounts for Giant Bitcoin Scam
What timezone is "tomorrow"? Did this happen at midnight for some timezone?
Iirc, ponzi schemes used to be welcomed on the bitcointalk forums. And people would sign up, knowing they were ponzis. Kinda like people playing roulette at a casino knowing they are playing a losing game but do it anyway for the thrill.
Maybe I should start saying (as a candidate):

> I understand you want to test my programming ability, and in order to do that, we should do it under conditions as close to real world as possible. Because I don't know every algorithm in existence, I'm going to use the internet like I do normally to look stuff up. And, I'm going to use my own laptop that I've brought here. Is that cool?

Not really, of course, but I'd like to.
I am curious about the opposite end of the spectrum. What is the smallest and cheapest self contained setup that can be a serviceble development box for someone doing ML / AI type work? Does not need to run the production load, but has to be capable enough to allow local development activity that is still representative enough.

So far the best I have identified is Intel NUC8 + nVidia GPU via Thunderbird. But it is still $1000 at least by the time you have it all together.

NB: I know lots of people will say, just do it with cloud, but I work in a setting where much of my data cannot be put in the cloud, and also where the cost structure of funding well allows for fixed capital expenditure but not variable cloud costs.
I like your thinking. This is a novel idea.
I think in some cases they do. Python3’s parser can detect when people use the old print syntax for example.
I used to take notes on a pad, old school. Then I realized I never looked at them again. If it's important, I send myself an email. Or keep a draft around for a few days.
Hm, looks like a new job for the Silicon Valley blood boys.
> Vaping is less clear--I do think there's some non-negligible chance that for the next couple years, it will be a net benefit to public health.

By "net benefit", you mean because it can help people quit actual smoking, right?
> Can anyone recommend good writing on Substack to follow?

https://nathantankus.substack.com/

https://oversharing.substack.com/

https://mattstoller.substack.com/

https://sirota.substack.com/

https://gwern.substack.com/
I think that would depend on who was offended and to what degree. Consider that Christianity is still quite a thing here, and while there aren't many killings for criticism of Jesus, people will boycott.
How are you lifting with gyms closed?
Litty.Party is the ClubHouse for meeting new friend groups
one time I went to an interview and they had a laptop ready with something for me to do. This guy had some insanely powerful glasses to have the font so small on his computer (considering he was also quite old) and a few other things combined with it being a Windows machine and I'd been off of windows for a couple years made it almost impossible to make it work.
Then there's also online proctoring for test taking for universities as well where you need to stream live test takers to proctors.
If the screenshot is real, I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams (the cartoonist) has that Search Blacklist button applied to him. I recently tried to search for users with his name, and he wouldn't appear at all (while unverified names with 0 followers would show up).

Had to go through DuckDuckGo to find his handle.
The problem isn't so much signing up, the problem is that from their website, without signing up, I have no idea what their service does and what are it's features.

A small paragraph and maybe a screenshot would do wonders for my willingness to try their service. But I'm basically complaining for the sake of complaining because I dislike this trend.
opposite (seriously). it clogs them, causing you to produce more, complex adaptive cycle.

I'm reluctant to recommend quitting
For example, historically the UK had "Theft By Deception" a type of theft in which the requirement is that you deceive people, intentionally, in order to permanently deprive them of something of value rather than just taking it.

This was replaced by modern Fraud crimes this century. The new crimes reduce what prosecutors need to show somewhat. With "Theft by deception" there can be a problem if the prosecutor struggles to show that the defendant actually permanently deprived the victim of something of value, especially if the victim realised there was a problem in time to use some sort of "claw back" mechanism. With Fraud the prosecutor can show that the defendant intended to gain even if ultimately that didn't work, so long as the deception actually happened the crime was not merely attempted.

All these Tweets are Fraud by False Representation under that replacement law, because the tweet deliberately pretends to be from somebody (e.g. Apple or Bill Gates) when it's actually from the perpetrator of the crime and it's clear that they intended to gain from getting Bitcoin sent to this account even if a prosecutor can't prove how much they actually made.
I've been asking myself the same question as of late, I haven't come up with a good answer yet.
All the hacked accounts seem to have had the associated email changed. I think the attack goes admin panel -> change email -> reset PW -> tweet bitcoin scams.

https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/1283485972286656517
Wonder if this could have been done by a rogue employee at Twitter? Since they are working from home during COVID, wonder what internal controls they have? I know some wondered if they used serveral high profile accounts, why not the presidents then? Well Twitter put extra protections on his account after an employee on their last day decided to suspend his account for 11 minutes. So if this isn't an hack and done internally that might be a clue.

I was surprised Apple especially got their account hacked, since they are big on security as a company. I know with Facebook a page can have multiple person accounts managing it, but I don't believe Twitter ever had such a thing unless more recently... So if you want multiple people to manage an account you'd use a special tool or just share the login info between your social media team.

I kinda feel like if you have to commute to an office, maybe more accountability as I'd feel someone might be looking more over your shoulder but I'd depend if someone gets private offices or a more open office design.
It was only a couple dozen accounts right? They could have just had a bunch of browser windows up and hit send all at the same time. This is a very low-effort scam, all they really had to do was tweet their wallet address.
Yes, my relatives in China are amused by this. Most people in most places have defined "racism" to mean the judgment that a person is bad in some way merely because of his or her race, regardless of any personal characteristics. But in recent years, Western leftists have edited the definition to make it race-specific, (un)ironically. You can only be guilty of it if you are white. If you aren't white, no matter what you say about or do to another race, it might be bad, but it can't be racist. The justification is that racism is about power, and whites are in charge, so only they can be racist.

So, my relatives want to know, are the baizuo (white leftists) claiming that in China, nothing white people say about or do to Chinese or blacks can be racist? Or are they claiming that they are actually "in charge" of us in China?
Even forgoing the value arguments, the skill required to identify a vulnerability and develop a provable exploit for it and the time it will take is not free, just to pay a senior security researcher a hourly rate or monthly salary will cost much more.

These kinds ofrewards are better than nothing I suppose, but it is looks like a cheap trick to crowdsource blackbox pen testing.
Perhaps less puritanism as around sexuality and a bit more acceptance of people as they are.
The roads in Oregon are paid by a fuel and or license tax. Thus everyone that uses them weather it be commercial or personal pays for them not the state. When you consider the recently failed joint OR-Wa bridge project you get to see what happens when state bureaucracy is in control.
To address only a tiny sliver of that massively one-sided view of yours: At least in many European countries, publicly-funded universities train the scientific, engineering and managerial talent these corporations need.
The original comment[1] spoke about "statically linked binaries" which has a pretty specific meaning ("file" says its a static binary). There are similar issues for Debian packaging if you had a hypothetical language which required you to vendor your dependencies because maintenance for security issues would be annoying (Debian worked around this problem in Go through "de-vendoring" and Go modules -- in theory -- mostly solve this issue today). But static binaries are generally not distributed in distributions because they make make core library updates worse in terms of download size as well as inflating memory usage due to lack of page-cache sharing.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23773480
That may be right. I love martial arts and m body craves doing them. But running to me is root canal. When my wife says she actually enjoys running and not just the end results of increased endurance I think she is nuts!
Fabricius, a Google Experiment to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
I've worked on products before that have a feature that lets an admin open the site using the user's session, which is useful for verifying issues that only present when logged in as the user.

To be fair though, this was not for a social network, and even if you broke into that account there wasn't much you could do beyond paying the user's bills.
Hah not only that but guess which BTC just became less fungible
Thank you dang, I originally read the first link on my phone and didn't notice that it was quoting another blog.
Your picture didn't really help me visualise.
Roughly halfway down this thread though...
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=55069
And by burning their access they could make sure nobody else is able to use that exploit to exfiltrate data
Great write up! Thanks!

Regarding step 1 how can any human have an entire homozygous X chromosome?

Also/rather why not just use a male with one X chromosome?
Ha, Openmoko Neo Freerunner was my first smartphone :) It managed to play the role of "livable-with phone" well enough for me though (but not without some effort of course). Then moved to Nokia N900 and only now I'm switching from it to Librem 5.
Interesting design choice to make a giant header video and start it off with just watching a dudes butt as he walks into a room.
I'm outside the edit window, but this page [1] looks more relevant. App owners can opt in to sharing additional data with Google for use in things such as spam prevention. It is off by default.

[1] https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6383877?hl=en
There are multiple differences why it’s not the same in France. The biggest one being that in the US, a plant as to confirm to its design security specifications, whereas it France, it has to conform to the security specifications of when it is inspected.
It looks like someone found a 0-day in the new API and wanted to use it before others did. Probably didn't help that the bug bounty for this would have been only 7k. How much does the Twitter employee who implemented this bug get paid?

https://twitter.com/LiveOverflow/status/1283511782380908545
"Never memorize what you can look up in books" is often attributed to Albert Einstein; the long version is "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1920s
Is this data sharing a consequence of RealID, or were these requests made independently of that?
I do not think it is hyperbolic at all that I immediately just felt the hand move a full minute towards midnight.

This is suspiciously underwhelming use of an exploit.
The CIA, Covert Action and Operations in Cyberspace
Speaking of Instacart, I scheduled an interview with them via interviewing.io, which I was told was a "technical chat," designed to get to know a little about me, and to answer any questions I might have. I had qualified for the interview by scoring well enough on phone screens on interviewing.io, so, this technical chat was supposed to be followed by a real, actual coding interview.

Guess what? It wasn't. They rejected me as soon as I de-anonymized to allow them to see my resume.
And, had Germany not gotten rid of those nuclear power plants, the new renewable generation would have replaced coal. Sure, you can say that renewables replaced nuclear - but at the end of the day, Germany is using coal+renewables instead of nuclear+renewables.
Yes, this is true. Thus Somalia's ascendant tech scene. No pesky state to get in the way of innovation.
Woah, this sounds very convenient! The idea of seamlessly logging seems to be where we're heading and I think it'd help with guarding against phishing attempts because of the auto-fill.

> While they’re a necessary measure we take keep valuable information safe online, passwords also act as “speed bumps” disrupting the flow of the online experience

Yeah this seems spot on
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Well, give or take a generation change.
That's the problem: whatever they do, it's got to be plausible.

If I read that from Obama and Biden I'd immediately smirk and think "They've been hacked!" I mean there would need to be a sit-down interview on CNN before I'd believe that.

Israel... same. They're a sophisticated nation state with Harvard Ph.D.'s helping to lead their foreign policy, and messaging. If they go from diplomacy to sounding like jihadists in 15 minutes, that's a hack.

Anytime the volume or aggression level goes from like 10 to 1,000,000, it's probably a hack.

Given that context, I think tweeting out a BTC address for a giveaway is something that's halfway plausible, as opposed to totally unbelievable.
It's anonymous as long as you don't use it for anything. As the GP notes, that allows it to be stored for a while to deal with later.

If nothing else, it's a good way to prove capability. Want to prove your prior deeds and that you're the one that pulled off that twitter hack? Have someone provide you an address and transfer out of that wallet, and now you've got proof of control of the funds, which works pretty well as a way of verifying you are the individual/group that pulled this off if someone asks. In that way, it's a good advertising.
Yes, people call China “capitalist” now, but I don’t think that’s a very good label for what they’re doing. It’s a bad label because the category is not well defined.
License under proprietary terms?

Like “This software is copyrighted by Picklevick Corp, you don’t hold any rights we grant you mere permissions to use it. Don’t poke your head around it”.

You can’t have GPLv2/v3 or similarly licensed components in it though. If you do and later caught, you’ll be obligated to either cease its use and distribution, or completely revise your term and supply the source code to recipients(you don’t have to put it on the Internet)
What would a state actor do with this? Read celebrities' DMs?
Yeah, I'm agreed. My point, I suppose, is that the best "acceleration" available to me involved a good deal of emotional neglect and a pinch of actual abuse.
Method call without parenthesis is very useful for making DSL.
Yup, I remember this! B-52 armed to the teeth with AIM-120s. Later he has B-1, B-2, and F-111 versions too.

I remember enjoying his earlier novels. His later novels became both weirder and more political, so not much of a fan of them.
This is exactly the solution I'm imagining. You do a take home after the initial soft screen(s) but prior to coming on-site. Onsite the focus is on the work you did for the take home--discussion like "why did you model X that way?", "if a new requirement Y was added, how would it impact the design", etc. And of course all the normal soft talk and cultural stuff. Just don't put them in front of a board and ask them to solve something under pressure, please.
That has the down side of some potentially sticky legal issues. For instance, people on visas can't do paid work for any company other than the one sponsoring them. It introduces a small annoyance at tax time, as well.
This is independent of RealID and a consequence of the census department not asking citizenship questions during the most recent 2020 census.

New York state declined, and is having Global Entry signups from that state rejected by DHS [1].

Edit: @crooked-v: Agreed, the administration found a straightforward way to the data other than via the census dept (it boggles the mind that people thought the federal government wouldn’t or couldn’t aggregate this data, remember when they withheld federal highway dollars to extort states into raising the drinking age?). Throttled by HN, can’t reply directly to your comment.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/dhs-new-york-...
> we had a huge ordeal converting our 32-bit space weather model to 64-bit because the change in precision changed our results, so we couldn't publish (in good conscious) without making sure the results weren't within a good margin of error.

Had you done some kind of external validation of the original results? If not, surely the new results are just as valid to publish as the original ones - any bugs are as much or more likely to be in the 32-bit than the 64-bit version.
Doubtful: It is well documented that Twitter has re-written many parts of the FE/BE framework, so I think it likely that their NIH attitude might be a benefit.
Because it’s between two very stable geological layers that have been there for millenia.
Magic Leap Taps Microsoft Executive Peggy Johnson as New CEO
Imagine not knowing how to use the 3 seashells.
Ask HN: Page Layout Tools in 2020
I’m crazily enough planning to start a print publication.

I used to use Quark XPress.

InDesign is expensive.

Frame maker RIP

What options are available. Mac OS preferred. Open source project I could patch bugs for OK too. Any suggestion welcome. TeX?
I've had comments voted lower than -3 (you start at 1) plenty of times. My favorite one is one comment criticizing Microsoft that oscillated from 25 to -10 a few years back (yeah, I refreshed this one quite a lot to see how it changed, that was fun).

But I don't remember anything lower than that recently, so it can be a new change.
This is my case, although with a little caveat. I used to smoke 1 pack (20 cigars) per day, but right at the same time that I read that COVID-19 was more dangerous for smokers, my preferred brand (Gold Leaf) got discontinued. Im not superstitious, but this was kind of "Yeah, this is the moment".
Was smoker for more than 15 years.
I saw this the other day, almost bought a yearly subscription. I'll buy it soon though, just whenever I start using Twitter more.
Ten people? 10?! I guess if it's really 5 slots with 2 interviewers (though that has its own set of disadvantages, on both sides), I guess. But, that just sounds like a distressingly long day.
I've always said AWS is the master of the 80% solution. They make a product that gets you most of the way there.

The reason they can get away with this is because your data is already at AWS. It's a lot easier to use a new service if the data you need is already there.

That's their advantage. That's where the real lock in comes from. Not from you using their services, but from you keeping your data there.
Occam's Razor. My bet is on it being some teenage hacker who was screwing around with Twitter APIs and noticed a glaring security flaw.
You could have bought Bitcoin for $3000 just a few months ago
USPS could delay mail delivery as new boss pushes cost-cutting
> it's illegal right now to even buy seeds to garden.

Say what? Why?
> The original value we were trying to maximize was the value of black lives

Wait now hold on! I'm not trying to maximize the value of black lives. My claim is that black lives are currently given less value than white (or broadly, other) lives. The goal isn't to maximize the value of black lives, but to bring parity to white lives. Maximizing the value of black lives is a very different position.

Or in other words, Black Lives Matter is about maximizing equality. I claim that Marijuana legalization is one such change that will reduce inequality, and will have few enough side effects that they don't make it unacceptable to implement.

tl;dr: We were looking to increase the societal value of black lives, but that is done within the lens of achieving equality.

> I think the number of black people killed in police encounters due solely to the prohibition of cannabis is probably very marginal. I might be wrong, but again that's not a values difference.

I would agree, but (at least if you take the systemic view of racial injustice that I do) the long term impacts of things like incarceration due to the inconsistent enforcement of petty drug charges do have far reaching consequences that make other kinds of change difficult to consider/analyze.
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FL/OSS digital voting is bad news.

Proprietary is nightmare news.

Maybe just don't do digital. While it _may_ be possible to create a secure system that an expert could understand, is it possible to create one a layperson can understand? If not, how do you prove that it is trustworthy to the laypeople who make policy?
> Why are we letting irrational, self hating ideologues influence our society to this degree?

How do we stop them? The modern discourse has been completely hijacked by ideologues fanning the flames of division. Divide and conquer, divide and conquer. We've got people throwing themselves into a plague because they think it's some kind of political statement! The need for social belonging has always been stronger than the survival instinct, but sheesh.

I feel like it's all fundamentally the infopocalypse - pervasive fine-grained mass media is defining people's social zeitgeist more than their actual peer group. But that still doesn't point the way to a solution! It's tempting to blame the [social/incumbent] media giants for optimizing for engagement, but something tells me their bias isn't as significant as the sheer volume. The only way forward I can see is that we are all going to have to learn to adapt to the onslaught of memetic attacks and learn to ignore the feel-good (feel-something?) distractions. But it's not going to be quick process.
The BTC is adding up to many millions so far. I'd say it's worth it by itself.