skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but is just as obviously definitely not how it is.

I think yesterdays events prove otherwise?

I see what you mean though, but society is largely *dumb* if they get official news from unofficial sources it's their fault no?
With my experience at running technology and security at a large fintech. It would relatively easy to purchase stock anonymously with a stolen identify. KYC(Know your customer) checks that online financial firms use to verify identity revolve around credit report data that can easily be bought or hacked. Think of all the online companies that offer access to your credit report.

Any foreign actor could get a brokerage account with relative ease compared to hacking a major social network. For the SEC to investigate, they would have to go through multiple companies to find the account. First would be the exchanges to search for suspicious trades. Next the clearing brokerage firms which online fintechs use to do the trades and then lastly the the fintech that stolen account was created on. Much longer to investigate than it takes for the money to settle from the trade and to get money out of the account.

Also there is a good change that you wouldn't trip any of the online FI's monitoring. If the money went out to the same account it came in on, that isn't that suspicious and happens all the time. The cash transfers would generate SAR(suspicious activity report) but still that would take a while for government to process and investigate.

Authentication of a person is broken in the US and needs to be fixed. We can't rely on credit report data and SSN.
I don't get it. Who are they outsourcing it to?
I'm guessing that's just reflective of how many people dislike Trump.
Was that employee questioned by the FBI? Did they face further consequences?

You shouldn't be able to get away with something like that.
Well, I have cheated a bit, it's a third one if I count right and I still have some spares... :D

Freerunner sure needed some attention to make it work, but with workarounds and hw fixes for the infamous #1024 and call buzz issues it was a pretty great device. I would have used it longer if not for unbearable GPU performance that drove me towards N900 (damned glamo :))
The only thing that really matters is your reputation among others. If you want a promotion, start looking for another job or start your own company. The only incentive companies have to give you raises is the changes in the going rate for software engineers. Everyone ends up moving in ~5 years; and if you make a good impression that becomes an opportunity for you.

I do a good job because I'm a professional, and care about what my peers think about me. I'm not competing with them, I'm living up to the high standards that they have to me and vice versa. I don't do a good job because of some carrot on a stick tier "promotion" or "raise". Those are easy enough to get by job hopping or having the option of job hopping.
Yes, addiction twists mind - smoking is not custom or habit, it is illness, addiction. Obvious only once quit. It is awful hard to look at the truth, the mind rationalizes action, constant stimuli reinforces it over years.

The they I've fought it - imagined addiction as white monkey sitting on the neck and driving with reins [1]. The question was "am I a slave? that's disgusting"

[1] description of heroin addict from The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Android System information command line tool
android-sysinfo is a Android Native program which reports the system properties of any android device using the system properties C API existing in Android libc bionic.

Over the years, Android has evolved a lot and I don’t have multiples device to test on them. This is a call for testing as I would like people to try and report android-sysinfo on their devices to make it evolve, robust, better and be more sustainable.
what do stimulus checks have to do with the state?
I'm so glad to hear this! While it's common to give feedback on bad experiences, I've always felt it's important to give feedback when things go really well. Especially if someone has fixed a really difficult situation or made it manageable - I will always send feedback to the company about that individual and thank them for their help. I've been surprised about the lack of feedback sometimes though, whereas a negative response will always get feedback from the company.
Look, functors (and therefore monads as well) are closed under fmap. That should be the end of the story.
Don’t believe that about yourself for a second. I regularly scored low marks at a previous company of mine; and, even during one review, I got a ‘you improved a lot! But your coworkers improved even more, so you’re getting a [low rank] again.’

I’ve since moved on to different positions at different companies and am doing plenty fine. I’m even the senior member on a new team I’m joining now.

A few bad years or even many bad years don’t end your career :)
Indian online tutoring platform Vedantu raises $100M
Not my experience of Google, at least having worked there as an intern multiple times. All of the peer bonuses on our teams and affiliated teams have been for people going out of their way to help out with some project even if it was not part of their day-to-day work. I can only speak for the research-y side of Google, which in my experience seems to avoid most of these problems probably due to having managers that also do research and write papers. Having a separate academic status system other than your internal work position probably helps in this regard.
Washington state lost $650 million in a month or two trying that.
I don't think it's a stretch to assume this hacker group has some member with an active account, or to charitably take "you" to mean someone with (at least) a sporadic day trading history.
If you have a pressure cooker at home, boil some chickpeas for a couple of whistles, wait 3 minutes, take the cover off, put it back on the stove and stir fast.

You will see all the steam doing the dance and shooting out like you'd expect from a black hole.

I'm not sure if only spinning Black Holes have a corona or even static ones do, that may be an interesting point to ponder.

The chickpeas stew is yum as well after (1 part chickpeas, two parts water) :)
I’d previously read about BaFin investigating FT journalists but have never seen a comprehensive list of all of the times their protections of Wirecard. This jumped out at me:

> An early chance to look into Wirecard came in 2008, when an association of small shareholders filed a suit with a Munich court targeting Wirecard’s accounting practices. It alleged Wirecard counted customer deposits as its own cash and that its margins were suspiciously high.

> BaFin opened a probe into the accusers. Wirecard had complained after the suit caused its stock to slump. Two former officials of the staid association were charged, convicted of market manipulation and handed suspended prison sentences.

I’m struggling to see a non-corrupt explanation to this pattern of behavior.
Giving your first International talk – Recon2019 and BlackHat
This is what I do now after trying and failing at "doing my best work and hoping to get recognized".

I'm bad at communicating when I've worked on something challenging, so now I realize I should never give more effort than can be noticed. You may think that's cynical, but this is a business and I'm paid not on what I actually do but what the business perceives me of doing.
This is so random to be asked on HN! Why don't you ask the founder.

But to be true, I do not think IH is slow. If there are a lot of comments then it might take time to load.
As someone who volunteered for multiple campaigns this cycle, I saw this clearly. But I also see most people that I have met on my travels just seem to be checked out, even if they vote. I think this is the bigger problem. The previous cycles have already just turned people off from thinking they can do massive change. Even with a record number of volunteers and supporters with a campaign like Bernie, it still wasn't enough numbers.

I often wonder how painful things will have to get to enact some change with the checked out masses. What will happen if we reach that point?
I wonder if this falls under the category of insider trading? On one hand it's an interesting idea, convince a huge discord server to all buy a little stock. See if it moves the needle. But I can't imagine that there wouldn't be some implications from the SEC or feds if they found out the people were organizing.
Pay attention to these two statements like you would looking at a Autostereogram. After a while, a new shape begins to form, and you see an underlying truth.

1:
The National Security Agency said that a hacking group implicated in the break-ins into Democratic Party servers in 2016 has been trying to steal intelligence on vaccines from health care organizations

2:
The potential harm here is limited to commercial harm, to companies that are devoting a lot of their own resources into developing a vaccine in hopes it will be financially rewarding down the road
There is the glut of the older population, captivated by neutered or divisive nightly news, that does not want change, only preservation of the perceived status quo.
Additional hypotheses:

- The hacker intentional choose a rather low-crime way with modest damage amount so that Twitter catches most the heat and he doesn't have all three letter agencies hunting for his head.

- He knows that OP-SEC is hard and choose a way that was simple enough to avoid traps.
I think it's a combination of a lot of people are more biased towards watching a video than reading compared to some of us AND the fact the a lot of people find it a lot easier to narrate a video than it is to write a decent blog post especially if they also have to add photos etc.
I think you vastly overestimate the SEC's ability to catch these things. It's searching for a needle in a haystack.

The only time where the SEC has a really easy chance of catching you is with very out of the money puts purchased only days before the attack. The volume is much lower there and that's a much more common way to make money on this stuff (since with put options you don't need to short massive amounts of the stock).
Russia is one of the countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases. Decades-long brain drain makes a development of its own vaccine impossible. Now state-employed hackers try to steal an already developed one to mass produce it for Russian population.
Another factor is most western nation bonds as well as corporate bonds are running close to 0% return. As long as competition for investment is sitting at about 0%, including private equity investments in companies that could fail in the next year due to recession, supply chain issues, or tariff wars, where else are people putting money?

Most employed Americans are still paying into retirement and mostly dumping cash into index funds on the bet that in 20-40 years the market will be up. Private investors and hedge funds are watching the Fed buy up trillions in bad bets, might as well make more bets with a feeling of lower risk. Even Hertz is gaming the system at a time when it's still very uncertain how the US will cope with the pandemic long term.

However, we are seeing a drop in inflation not quite to deflation but down like 3/4 from above 2% to .65% for recent months: https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentIn...

This my be due to oil price drops in the past quarter with prices going negative at one point. But generally speaking we are not seeing excess inflation, quite the opposite. I think we are going to see a massive drop off in Q3, especially based on recent weak Q2 earnings reports and likelihood of the US not coping well at all.
I understand what you're getting at but I think you're seriously underestimating the implications of what I said.
Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets
> However, I do hear the thud of my footsteps. I’ve accepted that this happens with any in ear headphones. Not sure if there are any IEMs out there that don’t have the footstep problem.

The thuds annoy me a lot, but I found that in the Bose QC30 (which I still use), the Sony WF1000XM3, and the AirPods Pro (which I've tried), it somehow seems less obvious.
Has any information about an audit come out. It seems like his account should have been the number one target to suck in all the drafts and DMs and posting a trash bitcoin scam on other prominent accounts seems like a great way to distract from their goal.
That's me. I don't like visibility. I like to do a good job for the sake of the job without bragging.
U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”
The President is not the government. Democrats have the house. Republicans have a small majority in the Senate.
I would argue that when Huxley said that realising all is each is all he didn't intend you to lose your ego. In my opinion he intended you to realise that there is power in the self and that everyone has a self and therefore there is a universal ego that we would call humanity.

But I suppose every proverb is a platitude..
I sure hope the “half” you have in mind isn’t one of the political parties, because I’ve got some bad news if it is
I think this assumes that only the obvious accounts were affected (basically any that sent out the tweet about the scam). It's quite possible many accounts were accessed more quietly.
Do you trade? There are many ways to bet against a stock without actually selling it short. Shorting a stock is not even that capital efficient, and is capped at 100% return.

Sell a call spread, buy a put spread, do a diagonal calendar...
Software Update: Reflections from my 20 year journey from stutter to fluency
At a certain point I think cashing out investment funds which benefit from the current administration's policies qualifies as being complicit with those policies.

We should either reject those gains or re-invest them directly in initiatives countering the staggering disregard for human health, education, and well-being, currently being done.
I think you'd get different answers from different people but you can really put your back into the UK pronunciation of "twat" to make it sound really venomous, as opposed to the much more innocuous "twot" pronunciation of the US. That tends to make it more offensive. "Git" just doesn't have quite the same impact.
Is there a postmortem on how the hack happened?
Makes sense it's taken for granted since health care is expensive as hell so people expect the service to be good if they pay for it.
Yeah, we had $5 trillion to drop on bad market bets. We had something like $10trillion over 10 years to give as tax breaks to the ultra wealthy.

We can deal with a few trillion to establish basic income replacements for general benefits, universal healthcare, affordable college/education, and other programs to better our citizens vs the rich and stock market.
Purchasing homes in low CoL areas is much easier.
Oh, was that their logic? I don’t even recall if they actually interviewed me, despite passing their challenge. As I recall, I was rejected for not enough experience.
I'm saying he should be using the power of the bully pulpit, to help coordinate the fixing of this issue, not selling beans
Yes, that's the classic argument. However, it is quite irrelevant today, where human error and time are both stupendously more expensive than precise record keeping executed by software in the first place.

The tools you mention are tangential to this: signatures are for non-repudiation and authenticity, hashes are for checksums, parity is for self-repair in bad checksum cases (rarely used in application level software today), and blockchains are for distributed trust (eg. distributed ledgers), essentially providing the combined properties of signatures and hashes to a shared database in a distributed system over time.

Note that all depend on the input of valid data in the first place, and none can be efficiently applied to a manually written notepad.
> I think yesterdays events prove otherwise?

Can you elaborate?

> I see what you mean though, but society is largely dumb if they get official news from unofficial sources it's their fault no?

What does fault have to do with anything though?
Ricky Gervais talks 'cancel culture'
Yeah, you do realize that Trump's main means of policing is Twitter, right?
Sure, that's because America's law enforcement are extremely interested interested in the "war on drugs".

Will they go to those same lengths to find people who profit a few hundred grand or a mil on the stock market, when the consequences of what we're talking about could result in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of profit/loss?
No, it isn't. One person, one vote. If there are more farmers than city dwellers, the farmers have more say. If there are more city dwellers than farmers, the city dwellers have more say.
A recent thought I had. Before a service can be authorized for use by public officials, it should go through security compliance similar to PCI, PII, or SOX. Most public offices obviously don't command armies nor nuclear codes, but ones that do should be subject to more rigorous vetting of the services they are authorized to use.

Had the recent vulnerability been a different message from, say, a certain prominent Twitter account, there could be very, very, very disastrous results.
The next shoe to drop will be if ASML cuts off Chinese chipmakers. ASML absolutely dominates fab tech.
You might be right (or at least closer to it) if the current POTUS didn't regularly use Twitter to make actual policy pronouncements with significant real-world consequences.
The beautiful spiral galaxy IC 342 and the mysterious bubble
Politicians aren't stupid, they just play it on camera. Everyone knows how it will play out, but some are selectively ignoring it.
@dang Can we add [Rust] to the title?
I think the concept is similar to how BTC (and other crypto) have major price fluctuations that get reported and acted on via liquidity from a vanishingly small proportion of the actual total BTC. There's reasons, differences, nuance, etc, but I think that's where the thought starts.

If most capital is in rarely-traded funds (I think 90-95% are passive?) then by definition those last 10%-5% active investors are going to set the market, at least in the general day to day.
My strategy is to pull everyone up around me all the time. If I want more money I find another job and professionally threaten to leave.

This strategy has worked great for me in the long term so far, because I have so many random connections now from every job who like me because I'm friendly. I have a reputation of pulling everyone up around me and being easy to work with because... I am.

Don't compete for a 5% raise for 25% more hours when you can get a 25% raise for 5% less hours somewhere else.
For comparison, the angular resolution of the fovea is about half an arc minute, or about three times as good.

It drops of fast with eccentricity, though.

So, you might be able to see individual pixels that size, but only in the center of your vision (might because I didn’t bother thinking about the difference between angular resolution, acuity, and effect of line length, color, intensity, contrast, flicker, adaptation, etc)
I agree with this. One of the things I've always loved about Star Trek isn't just its radical utopian economics, and sentientist egalitarianism, but the specific parable of the Kobiyashi Maru: that it is preferable to knowingly enter a fatal trap that exploits our altruism, than to risk failing to help those who are truly suffering when it is in our power to do so.

Still, I think it's better to make such choices intentionally, informed by both conscious deliberation and gut-check instincts. There are instances where one can "throw good money after bad", wasting altruistic resources to no end; or, where "tough love" is warranted, such as the case of enabling addicts and alcoholics, and the kindest act to take might be to withdraw.

Reframing back to speech issues, the current standard I'd like to see in public squares, is the "beyond a shadow of a doubt" standard that is (ostensibly) applied in our legal system. It's easy to squint at something like "The Bell Curve" and see arguments for scientific racism, and under a "preponderance of evidence" standard, perhaps it would be found guilty; but we should find the prospect of discarding potentially true ideas as abhorrent as convicting a potentially innocent citizen. Nonetheless, in private life, we are free to draw whatever conclusions we please, where we consider that OJ Simpson probably committed murder, and Charles Murray might not be an entirely unbiased analyst. (Though perhaps the very crux of the matter is the blending between public and private realms of thought. What would a quasi-Bayesian Rule of Law look like in the court of public opinion and outrage mobs?)
It's had that model way before Slack, et al., kind of bolted it on. I've participated lightly in a couple orgs that use Zulip. Zulip's model does a much better job of keeping convos from getting drowned out / lost when pushed off the page, so it's much easier to log in sporadically and meaningfully participate. The apps, especially mobile have rough edges, but I still prefer it to Slack and the like, fwiw.
Not just the government, not really the government at all unless you consider the Federal Reserve Banks lending money to regional banks "government".

The majority of the M0 money supply, that bit of currency we use to get things done in our economy, is created by fiat at any of the ~4500 commercial banks (in the USA). Every time they give out a loan they create the money out of thin air as debt on their balance sheets. They are only required to have a tiny fraction of the money they 'loan'/create (fractional reserve).

If instead of letting only these banks create money, if the new M0 money supply was distributed to ~300 million human people instead of ~4500 corporate people, there'd be plenty for basic income. It'd be universal basic income then instead of commercial bank basic income. And banks could just be banks and get by on their actual services instead of being money machines.

... and that's not even acknowledging what the NY Fed have begun doing since October of last year, 10s to 100s of billions a week swapped for worthless items from corporations who can't pay their bills in Reverse Repo operations: a shallow attempt to pretend it isn't just giving money away (https://apps.newyorkfed.org/en/markets/autorates/temp).
>I'm not sure how it "exposes", was it not known that it gets heavily personalized? I've certainly noticed it for years

It shows what the homepage looks like for someone in a variety of different bubbles. You knew it was happening, this exposes how it looks.
I didn't know this. I wonder if ASML's export restrictions might be expanded to prohibit shipping even older machines.
GDScript progress: Type checking and Enums as types
(This subthread was originally a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848916)