skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you are being downvoted given that this is probably correct? Sounds like the attack was through an admin portal. Given that Trump was one of the few high profile accounts not targeted, it seems like the attackers were not able to access his account through that portal. And his Twitter has been attacked by employees before so Twitter probably locked it down so employees can't modify it.
You may not know and it may be very hard to determine the ultimate loss of life expectancy in younger people. I read somewhere that people that survived a bad bout of polio often suffered poor health later in life. Long term kidney damage could easily be something a person could live with for decades before it came back to bite them.
I thought the human genome was mapped in 2003, when the Human Genome Project wrapped up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project

What's different about this?
Repro'd with:

curl -fSsL https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1283512317846659073 | grep -i bitcoin
Unlimited is a euphemism for limited of course.
The SEC will find you. I know from experience.
Wearing an eye tracker creates one hell of a different context.

Being ask to solve a problem without your typical tools does as well.

I assume these tests don't actually get to the root of the issue but only represent a portion of behaviour.
>>This business of high stakes quiz questions serves just one purpose: feeding the ego of the interviewer. "We have high standards!"

It's scary how true this is. I know one manager who routinely rejects perfectly good candidates for making negligible mistakes in the interview. All on the grounds of "We have high standards!"
Countries that are yet to report any Covid-19 cases
Some people are unable to chat socially via text only.

Since going full remote I've pretty much lost track of a bunch of work friends, since we don't directly work on the same thing and don't have a reason to chat on Slack. We used to hang out at work and lunches regularly.

I've been on IRC since 90's so having text-only friends I know only as a nickname is a completely normal, but it seems younger people need either voice or image to connect properly.
Here's a chainalysis blog post where they say they tracked coins through CoinJoin: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/plustoken-scam-bitcoin-...

If they convert to Monero after then it's a different thing entirely.
Seems like a huge liability. They are still disseminating these messages under the identities of major public figures, 8 hours after they became aware of it.
How does identification for federal services online work?
> Present an argument that acknowledges that they are protected but that they they should still be voluntarily avoided.

Sure, here: They are protected, but they should still be voluntarily avoided. I'm not sure what you're looking for here. (To walk into a grocery store and say something rude to the first person you see is protected. It's also to be avoided.)

> You don't think that sports mobs are "mob rule" do you?

Well, yeah. If this is something that we can't agree on, then that seems like a strong signal that we are going to be unable to agree on much of anything. (Maybe there's some confusion. I'm not talking about the mere existence of crowds at a sporting event. I'm referring to the instances of mob rule, resulting in violence, theft, sexual assault, etc.)

> Mob rule is characterized by the failure of the government in the face of the mob. And mob rule is a concern because of it's inability to protect minorities.

Sorry, this is just not an honest approach. I realize there's a little bit of "A implies B does not mean that A can't also imply C", but there's a rhetorical trick you're using to your benefit here whether you mean to or not. Mob rule is a concern for the reasons people find it concerning—e.g. instances of violence, theft, sexual assault, etc. Whether it's perpetrated on a minority or not isn't useful or interesting—it's the injustice that's of interest. To repeat: there's of course plenty of overlap between mob rule and the tyranny of the majority, but mob rule does not necessarily imply such a majority acting on a minority, and whether it does or not is the least remarkable thing about them, generally, because the observation about what it allows the majorities to do is trivial; it's well known.

And it looks like you're discounting instances of "mob rule" by simply defining "mob rule" to exclude the things you want excluded. That's where the begging the question comes in. Even if we grant that "mob rule" means what you want it to mean, and it excludes certain things, it's just not a very useful distinction to make wrt the context where the conversation began. (In any case, we're only talking about "mob rule" at this point because those are words you used in the comment I replied to.) Clearly the excluded referents are worth talking about, even if your definition of "mob rule" doesn't include them and they have no name. We can call them "glarck" for all it matters—and let's do if this conversation is going to continue, in order to avoid the pointless wordplay.
I find myself confused by this as well, surely people who are sufficiently technically sophisticated to own bitcoin won’t fall for “I’ll send you bitcoin if you send me yours first”?
Dismemberment Killing of Tech CEO ‘Looks Like Professional Job’
I think they do it for brand reasons. Having an empty Twitter page makes it seem like they're "above it all".
Anker has several options for
under $20 with very good build quality, sound quality and battery life. The mic for phone calls is a bit lacking; I haven’t found any cheap earbuds with noise cancelling mics.
Probably acquired later and didn't want to lose his followers.
> Poor connectivity in the US is a political problem, not a technical one.

Correct. Lawmakers in your state have to take steps to clear the way for broadband. Otherwise lawsuits fly when rent seekers gouge whomever has right-of-way when data services try to come through. Also, utilities have to be forced to get off the dime. If they're required to offer non-discriminatory access to poles and trenches, for instance, then they either seek to operate the broadband service themselves or come to terms with someone who can. Otherwise they behave like it's 1975 forever and squat on their power lines.
Wait a second...they were hacked in a way that makes it so we can't trust any tweets. Does it make sense, then, for them to use tweets to report their progress on addressing this?
What some of us do now is at home exercises with no deadline and setup the interview to do a code review of it after it's given back.

It gives so many advantages:
- people will have some fun trying to solve a real issue / build a little software
- they will show how good they are at stack overflow, general methodology, cleanliness, test coverage, deployment and even git (how many we see who can't even gitignore their project files, make a build script that works, or test for real)
- horrible candidates who can't even cheat will not be able to lie their way around a fake resume, cheaters will bomb the code review quite fast
- candidate will also discover their future team mates general work attitude during the review and if the reviewer is good, will lock the candidate faster than "how many billard balls can you put in a Boeing 747" type of interview.
- candidate will even LEARN during the code review => you get away with something out of the interview even if you fail

Since I've been interviewed that way, doing my little project on my wife's pregnancy bed smiling like an idiot at solving the challenge, then fell in love with my manager showing me new tricks during the review, I'll never do any other kind of interviews myself.
I’m not a lawyer, but I’d guess something related to wire fraud: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
Social engineering like it's 1000 AD pre technology era.
The term "social engineering hack" is doubtful.
This is the social engineering hack: "I am very important Twitter board member, give me an access to the internal tool."
To gain access by bribe, coerce or persuade the frustrated low paid worker is not.
Its not a crime if the cops are defunded.
In some parts of the world, for some people, it was enough to want to kill him to actually do it. And in such a brutal way.

It doesn't have to be that complicated.

"The killer was evidently belonging to a highly capable skillset," - no, it's not skill, it's just the diabolical will to actually do such a thing. Depending on circumstances, there can be a lack of evidence ... and that's that.
Nothing specific, but some people have asked me about UI components for popular JS frameworks.
But that's not really identity then right? That just becomes my hnews/reddit username that's unverified.

I read @elonmusk because I trust it's him and I'm interested in what he says. Personally, I genuinely like Starship + Starlink updates... I ignore most the other stuff. But still, I want to see those awesome rocket tweets!

So, I want to know what he says.

He can change his username because it got hacked/whatever... but then I personally have to see what he changed it to... how do I know that he is the one who changed it? how do i know it's not some rando dude impersonating him?
This has intensely piqued my curiosity.
Its pretty amazing that realdonaldtrump@ was not a part of this. I guess the controls on that account are at an even higher level than elon musk/obama.
> "We used a rep that literally done all the work for us"

This is why the privacy and security guarantees of almost all companies, credit bureaus, banks, the IRS, the department of motor vehicles, etc., are worthless. Every customer service rep that works at any of those places -- all 500 or 5000 or 50,000 of them -- can pull up info on anyone at any time. The only thing that prevents that is rules. There are no technical countermeasures.

I'd like to see a system where it is physically impossible for a customer service rep to discover any info about me until I authenticate and authorize it. Or to at least offer me the option to lock my account such that I need to authenticate and authorize before any access is given to the customer service rep.

Does anyone know of customer service panels at big companies or government departments where this is the case? I.e., it is literally impossible for a rep to browse random customer information even if they are willing to break the rules? If it's been done somewhere, it would be interesting to hear how it was implemented.
There’s bribery but I think blackmail is even likelier. This is such a huge breach that no one should think they could get away with leaking their credentials or opening a backdoor. Plus Twitter employees are really well paid. Now some life-ruining online behavior material is another type of a motivator.
Plus, it would make human trafficking harder.
"If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?" The power differential isn't there either, the comparison would be 'head of Uber' not an 'Uber Driver'. Also, France is not Nigeria.
How to filter out candidates who are only good at talking? I’ve worked with people like that and it’s miserable.
Why not? They're not updating HN with those but media and shareholders.
It's also quite slow.
#2 is a true story. GovWorks was a real startup.

After the company failed, the cofounder, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, went on to become a convicted felon as of 2017.
There's no need for them to actually have any messages.

With a highly public hack like this one can simply manufacture messages afterwards and claim they came from the hack. Most people would believe it.
On a serious note, does that 4000+ employees include the content moderators? If yes, then I can see why. If not, then I am not sure what that many employees is for.
start here:, and then catch up to whatever the state of the art is. Humans are the weakest link in the security chain. https://theintercept.com/document/2014/03/20/hunt-sys-admins...
Yeah a couple of tweets could have made them millions with financial derivatives.
I think you underestimate the value of this hack — it's really safe.
BTC is transparent but pretty safe and easy to launder compared to messing with stocks which would draw so much heat that it's very likely you'd get caught.
The Power of Dopey Ideas
To be fair, the linked article states that they do not shadow ban, not that they don’t have the capability/tools to shadow ban.

Also what do people consider as a shadow ban?

- Removing the tweets from people’s feeds, and only showing them if you browse/go to the offending users profile ? (Personally I don’t think this counts as a shadow ban)

- The offending user is the only person who can see their tweets, even if other users look at their profile (This is shadow banning imo)
Yaml is already too complex to be reliable.
Does pg reach many people who don't want his money or favor?
Heh, another thing is variable salary on a test period. Like how I was recruited out of uni, on a 6 month cheap internship barely paying a rent, with 0 commitment from the company to keep me. Long enough to evaluate me, see me contribute, teach me part of the sytem, not long enough to "exploit" me.

We could scale this to 3 months on 80% salary (whatever the company is comfortable spending on throwaway) with the full salary after the test period, with maybe even back pay and a little ceremony to make it a big deal. That would kick my ass for three months, cost me nothing long term, put a big smile in my face and let any company hire me without 15 interviews.
The management of individual accounts is generally performed by low-level employees at companies like this. It's operational work that is thought to scale poorly and the costs of it are looked upon unfavorably by public market investors. Hence, there is constant pressure to push it to as low of a level as possible.

Perhaps a higher tier of user support personnel handles verified accounts (or accounts somehow flagged for extra review in a non-public fashion), but I'd still be surprised if anyone particularly high-level is doing the grunt work of using this tool.
What if I lose that key? lose the laptop? data source gets corrupt.

Give enough people using the system, it's not if, it's when. So how do I recover?
I wonder if it's coming from inside the US, to prevent the President from using Twitter the way he has used it -- signifying that the presidential twitter account could be compromised, without actually compromising it and with minimal damage otherwise.
I remember watching an episode of Beyond 2000 (?) in the 90s or so about new brick tech. Nothing seems catch on...
How does a single rep coordinate the mass amount of posts across verified (and non verified?) accounts? That is an insane amount of access for 'a rep'. They can just copy and paste the same message across that level of accounts?
Will your belief be different if knowing that there are those where owning a car is the only option -- where bikes nor public transportation can get us to our destination on a day to day basis?
For the purposes of meeting the aerobic training goal, is walking considered moderate exercise?

I’ve never liked jogging, but I do strength training, about an hour of walking most days, and occasional sprints.
Your hnews username is an identity. A small, weak, and reasonably disposable one, that you can have many of. Why do you want to use your God damn real name on the Internet unless you are a public person already? What do you have to gain? Hate mail, Death threats and calls for your firing? I've always wanted more of those. You do not WANT to be verified. Verified is a euphemism for doxxed.

You could trust it was Elon because it's published on his own website instead of on the worst thing to happen to human communication since writing was invented (I.e., Twitter)

For other cases we can evaluate merit based on previous performance and character of published material instead of "identity". I do not care who is behind a pseudonymous blog if the blog is good.
All of it is too much.

It should be called 'Cruise Control Plus'.

Or 'Cruise Control Augmentation'.

It shouldn't really even hint at autonomy.
> The fact that politicians and important people use it in an official capacity is the problem that needs fixing.

I don't disagree, but with what?

It's easy to say this is 'wrong/broken', but I don't see a great fix other than people 'rolling their own solution' and that's not realistic.
Elon definitely DMs.
Detail/wash cars. Paint the house.
The worst part is the racist use of the word black to describe a list of things to be excluded. Twitter should really use the less offensive term 'shitlist.'
facebook can learn something from github
Very strange. Why exactly is it possible for any employee to tweet as any user? Unless the person who was targeted was the Database admin himself or something.

Even then, how tech illiterate is this employee with such high permissions to fall for a social engineering attack? I would like to know what this employee's role was in the company.

Also who did the social engineering?
I've seen studies confirming the inverse relationship between strength and all cause mortality numerous times. It seems pretty well established by now.

Personally, I started lifting several years ago, and it's been the greatest change in my health in my life. I lost a lot of weight, my resting heart rate is way down, everyday tasks are easier. I move better, and I just feel better overall. Plus, it's a wonderful discipline for building determination and grit. I am certain that most people's lives would be significantly improved by the addition of a strength training program.
>If the ships only carry 4 TEU (or 4 FEU), then lashing is likely not needed if they use Twistloc's welded to a boat deck that is designed for the dynamic loads. With only four containers, I wouldn't even dock/undock the ships; keep them continuously moving, and pick and place the containers dynamically as the boats move through canal lock style controlled conditions. There are Twistloc designs that are purpose-built to automatically work with the container cranes with no manual intervention.

on a ocean going vessel you wouldn't need to lash them, no. On a ship this small I would most certainly do. We can probably devise a hypothetical solution for this as well, though.

I tried to illustrate (badly) how hyper-efficient modern container operations are. People don't really realize how much work has been put in optimizing all this stuff.
Was this for verified users only? Or is that only verified users were targeted?
And go to prison?
Germany has below 2 percent seroprevalence.
Especially with most of us shut at home, I've found kettlebell to be excellent as medium for strength and conditioning.

The focus on the posterior chain helped resolve a lot of back issues I had from sitting at a desk all day. I could feel my posture improving in a week or so.

Unfortunately it does have a bit of learning curve to it, but it's still something I recommend friends try as an effective quick workout.
Building a Flappy Bird Game Using Solar2D / Corona SDK – Part 1
Good on GitHub for being transparent. That said, I hope they return to being a more reliable platform soon
I have yet to read the methods used, but my low prior leaves me somewhat skeptical even after reading this article. The vast body of pre-existing material indicates "aerobic exercise" is the primary driver of health, with strength training obviously delivering some aerobic exercise too, but not nearly as much as some other forms of exercise.

The way these studies are described in the article, it sounds like they might have mislabeled a bunch of confounders as signal.

(E.g. people who regularly get aerobic exercise -- especially as they are older -- have greater muscle mass and are less likely to die. Heck, just that people exercise at all in any capacity is a signal of health, which lowers risk of death.)

Edit: That said, I believe some level of strength training is critical to avoid injury or overstressing particular muscles, even when your interest is primarily aerobic exercise.
Obviously not, but I think it’s pretty straightforward: use common sense. If you think someone might take offense, then don’t say it.
Can anyone share their experiences with highly dense PostgreSQL deployments, lets say nodes managing 10TB+ of data in billions of rows? Anyone know if there are practical upper bounds, such as a point when the database will no longer startup?
Using Lua tables alone would be anything but complicated. The syntax is almost the same as JSON.

You just have to practice self-discipline and not let Turing creep take over.
> Sure, here: They are protected, but they should still be voluntarily avoided. I'm not sure what you're looking for here

This is not a moral argument, it is a personal preference. We have moral arguments as for why you shouldn't insult people randomly (rule utilitarianism provides some good ones), but "hold people accountable when they do bad things" is usually considered to be laudable, so you're arguing from the other side: what is so unique about this form of speech that using it to hold people accountable when they do bad things should be voluntarily avoided?

> Well, yeah. If this is something that we can't agree on, then that seems like a strong signal that we are going to be unable to agree on much of anything. (Maybe there's some confusion. I'm not talking about the mere existence of crowds at a sporting event. I'm referring to the instances of mob rule, resulting in violence, theft, sexual assault, etc.)

No, you're talking about mobs, not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy, which is a form of government. For the 17th time, a mob is not the same as mob rule, they are distinct concepts. If you don't want to discuss mob rule, then you are free to just not mention it and talk about mobs but please stop trying to conflate a mob and mob rule, unless you actually mean mob rule. This is the point I was trying to get across to the prior person, and they didn't seem to understand. And the semantic distinction matters, because like I said, they aren't the same concept.
This reminds me of 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value:

Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23...
I don't think this is going anywhere. You just keep dodging the question while acting elitist about a topic it is becoming clear you don't actually know much about..

The software has to get there somehow. The images have to get created somehow. The databases need to stay running somehow. At the end of the day they are machines that need to be managed. Just because you don't have people SSH'ing in and SFTP'ing files around changes nothing about that. And I'm not talking about doing that anyway, or any of the other things you keep telling me I don't understand are bad practice (you're wrong).

Hand waving and mumbling 'old tech, newb' doesn't help in the slightest. I've been writing software with a small side of infrastructure management for 10+ years. Not all of us work at FAANG and magically know how things work on that scale.

Thanks anyway.
"Strength training in a gym and doing bodyweight exercises seemed to confer roughly equivalent benefits. "

So no, bro, you don't have to lift.

Just buy a yoga mat and start doing press-ups / sit-ups / dips etc

That what we were told in the military back in the noughties and it makes sense; wherever you are in the world you can still do your daily sets. No need for weights and bars; a bath towel on the floor of a hotel room suffices.
Threadripper Pro is an ideal processor (higher clocked Epyc). Unfortunately it's OEM only at this point.
Haha this is fun. Is it a GPT-3 project?
Could this be related to the Executive Order POTUS signed yesterday on Hong Kong Normalization?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidents-e...
Well, the question was why someone wouldn't use the company's disclosure program, so that's the point.