skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed at Google quite a few years ago and had a similar experience but over multiple interviews. I had 5 interviews slowly getting harder and harder questions. By the fifth interview I got past the first question pretty fast so he moved onto a second harder one that my answer did not seem to impress. After all these interviews they just never called me back again. The whole process was senseless.
It was as if they wanted to find the point at which I would fail so they could stop. I'll probably hate Google forever after that. I am sure they have great people but I am always very interested when I meet someone who works there so I can ask them about what they do and they always seemed kinda average good not amazing.
Well in a way it is, the point of the verification check box is authenticity that twitter is supposed to guarantee, this breaks that trust
He killed a general from an opposition nation state...
Yet, VAT is not Apple's money, it's the end consumer's.
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I agree with you for the most part, but Google goes out of its way to force the interviewer to just hand in an emotionless, gender-neutral description of the candidate's code and coding performance to a hiring committee that makes the decision

This kinda bit me in the rear when I applied to Google a couple of times. As a nerdy American male, aged 22 to 40, with above-average people skills (for nerds) I got along great with everyone I talked to. But the hiring committee would get a sloppy page of half-functional garbage code, along with a note like "Seems like a great candidate". I found another FAANG company I fit into a lot better anyway, so it all worked out great
I've wondered for a while- are there heuristics on the income a steamer can make per viewer-hour?

Edit:
I'd googled this before, but apparently I found the right way to ask: this site says from 1c to $1/hour/viewer. https://wallethacks.com/how-much-do-twitch-streamers-make/#:....
I know television and film popularize this kind of thing, but how often are people actually murdered and dismembered for financial reasons??? Same question around murder-for-hire generally, as well as specifically "someone in power" being so upset as to murder the man brutally?
As further warning, the Western fingers up "come here" gesture has an offensive connotation to the Japanese.
For those countries that have 'reopened almost entirely', what's to prevent another strong wave from coming through?
It makes potential sense in fact.

If this rocks Twitter to its foundation as a trustworthy platform, it's the end of Twitter as far as prominent figures being willing to utilize it. If Twitter loses its prominent figures edge, it's all coming down. Twitter has nothing else, it's mostly a broadcast platform for elite people in terms of where the extreme majority of all of its value is produced.

That said, that outcome is far-fetched. The content that was Tweeted appears to be far too benign to accomplish that outcome. The attackers seem to have intentionally avoided Tweeting anything particularly dangerous. If they were trying to ruin Twitter, they would have used the accounts to do something far worse, that would terrify prominent figures away from using the service.

I think they had one target in mind, to go after their DMs, and hit lots of accounts as a cover to hide which one was the primary target.
Not really most sensitive, just their internal wiki. If Snowden would have had access to real sensitive data, the world would look different now.
This sounds a bit extreme. Which ones are the “outside of developed countries” and how many of them require walking around in body armor everywhere?
is it just me or are they now mass altering users' names?

https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
It did in my apartment, don't know how I lived without it
Ah yes, social media, well known for its reliability as a source of truth.
You don't even need a loop. Binet's formula gives a closed-form expression for the Fibonacci sequence. (And of course I don't remember that formula off the top of my head, but I know it exists, so I'd be 90% of the way to solving a problem which required it.)
Recently some banks are using video calls to do KYC checks. You need to hold up your passport while they verify and then Q&A.
Agreed. They are basically telling the scammer(s) to use a more anonymous & untraceable crypto next time, as everyone will be following the coins in that BTC wallet now, which makes it much more difficult to "launder".

I guess the choice of BTC but the scammer(s) was based on its much bigger popularity relative to Monero (many people have a few satoshis somewhere, but not many have some monero lying around)
Mid-1990s I was running a boutique software company that made drivers and add-on tools for the graphics library that came with what at the time was the most popular PC desktop compiler tools (Pascal, C, C++). Got a frantic email from a customer one Friday night explaining he was on site (a steel mill) in China and ran across an obscure bug in my code. He was frantic - he was leaving China on Monday and needed a fix ASAP. So I worked through the weekend, fixed the code, sent him an update, all is well. Over the course of the following days he was most grateful and answered some of my questions about doing business in China - remember, this was like 1995-ish. The first thing he told me was that he fully expected the Chinese steel company to steel his code and pass it along to the government for the rest of the industy to use

"If you know they are going to steal from you, why do business over there?" I asked.

His reply: "I need this sale".

35 years later our industry is still having this conversation.
They also shipped a block on tweeting the address: https://twitter.com/_akavi/status/1283524504866586624
Silver linings: Maybe this will teach people a valuable lesson about not believing nonsense they read on Twitter.
Walmart controls what goes on the shelves at Walmart.

If they take your product off the shelf, that’s entirely up to them.

If Walmart was your only market where you bothered to put your product on their shelves, then that’s your fault.
Maybe a popular browser extension? Would explain why it seems to target tech people.
Apple never tweeted anything (only promotional ad tweets)
There is a spike of the short volume on 8th - https://fintel.io/ss/us/twtr
This is completely tangential to using open communication protocols.
> I think you're missing one factor, which is the fact that evolutionary pressures will cause the virus to become better able to transmit, but also less likely to cause fatalities. That's the normal course of such things - consider that a virus that kills its host is no longer able to transmit itself to others, so strains that don't kill the host will reproduce more effectively. And there's some evidence that this is happening with covid-19.

Citation, please.

As I undetermined it, coronaviruses evolve quite slowly compared to many other viruses. In a perhaps optimistic scenario in which we have a widely available, safe, effective vaccine in early-mid 2021, there may well be no appreciable evolution of the disease before it’s mostly eradicated from the developed world.

In that scenario, the real outcomes to consider are the number of deaths and disabilities caused over the next year or so, the economic and other costs of people getting sick, and the cost (economic, social, etc) of the lockdowns and other countermeasures.

My personal belief is that countries like Taiwan and New Zealand are taking the right approach. If they continue on their current course and a vaccine shows up next year, then they will manage to keep total deaths near zero at moderate economic cost. If the entire world had pulled this off, then COVID-19 could plausibly be gone by now.
You are being downvoted because you are just plain wrong. What exactly do you think happened in Bergamo? NYC? SARS-CoV-2 is much worse than the flu. It is not overall a fairly mild virus. You don't see hospitals running out of ventilators and ICU capacity being overwhelmed every flu season. Once it passes through the entire population, we could very well see 5-10x the deaths we've seen already, or even considerably more. That's 5 MILLION people dead from a single NEW cause.
Very loudly indeed. Think message sent or stocks shorted.
Root Cause Analysis, and comparisons. There was a thread a few weeks ago about how the military doesn't have culture of the "blue-wall" but rather actively roots out bad-actors. The thesis was that this was due to to trust in the institution itself and that this was a relative difference to police in a variety of structural ways. Looking at police departments and cultures in other countries is also instructive, but we need to get the reason's why.
Interrogate Your Fears
Not trying to be snarky but isn’t it intuitively more expensive assuming you’ll try to fire and then rehire correctly? It’s like asking “why does it cost more to go through a process twice rather than once?”
The highest authority in any modern deomcracy should be the rule of law.

What you're advocating for is despotism.
if the hacker lives in Eastern Europe opening a stock options account is not possible, unless he has connection with an American who can make the trades and cash out. no need to try to fool the SEC , which has billions of dollars of resources behind it. Also not all exchanges are regulated, and even regulated exchanges may not be able to trace the source. The money can be split and sent to many exchanges and mixing services over a long period. It is not safe. elon musk twitter being hacked would trigger extra scrutiny of all tesla stock option trades. The SEC has extremely advanced tools for detecting this stuff.
There are 2 stages in sending bitcoin:

1) You submit transaction to the mempool. It may take a couple of minutes for a miner that "liked" your transaction to include it in a block. While in this stage, the receiver technically does not have anything yet, thus impossible to use them in any way.

2) The transaction get put inside a block. Generally, most vendors would say the transaction is "unconfirmed", although technically it is now in the ledger. There is a small chance that due to inconsistencies and network latency the block gets orphaned and the replacing block does not include the transaction. If you are a vendor and start shipping products immediately after your money is put into the ledger, you open yourself to a range of possible attacks. For this reason most wait two or three more blocks, just to be sure.

To answer your question: After a block gets created and the scammer receives his crypto, albeit still in an unconfirmed (read as "young") block, they can start using it however they decide to. Small chance that their actions get reverted exists tho.
There's no single place. Ideally this question should be answered by "use the mainline kernel", and eventually it will.

I'm aware of three maintained kernel trees specifically for PinePhone:

Samuel's: https://github.com/smaeul/linux
Mine: https://github.com/megous/linux/
Pine64: https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/linux/commits/pine64-kernel-5....

I think at the moment all of those are pretty much equivalent feature-wise, except for some mild differences.

It's not possible to workaround (in software) anything that requires CC pins to work properly, that includes setting up display port alternate mode.
This.

There's that promotional video with the hotdog where the saw doesn't even open a gash in it. Just pops right down.

That's nice and all for marketing, but the reality is that even Sawstops can mess up fingers pretty good. Sure, there's a far better chance of you keeping it, but still.

It's a last line of defense. A person really ought to act as though it isn't even there.
After having alerted twitter to the hack and given them time to fix it? I'd say that's worth approximately $0
It's called a website. Office holder communicates via his office's offical website. Constituents have email addresses he can email. S/he can setup a slack/zoom/irc channel and have a constituent "town hall".

Tweeting is actually effectively reducing the available bandwidth of communication, and quality of content.
I think the context is actually the most significant part of the debate. You'll get in trouble for saying something in one context and not in another. That's normal.

If we're having a discussion about racial differences in criminal justice and you bring up that you just read The Bell Curve and IQ differences explain the gap, I'm going to start to think you're racist. Partly because you're bringing up debunked junk science. And partly because we're talking about a systemic problem that can't be addressed with the information you're bringing to the table.
Benefits of LCn3PUFAs on Brain Aging
I remember seeing similar articles. While I don't understand the science behind these findings, my understanding is that smokers are less likely to catch COVID, but if they do, then their symptoms are significantly more severe than those of nonsmokers.
Amazon's a fucking pit of vipers anyway, dude, you're better off. If your potential future teammates were so busy putting out fires that they couldn't meet up with you on time, that team was probably in bad shape too
Yes. Some wallets allow you to use "Replace by Fee" protocol, which allows you to do that.
Apparently all tweets containing seemingly random strings of characters are blocked: https://twitter.com/NepalBlockchain/status/12835375822492180...
> I doubt this current situation will.

I'm not so sure about that. Sure, it didn't impact THE account or crash the stock of an unaffiliated company, but that proverbial bullet flew close and I bet that quite a few powerful people felt the wind. The "harmless" nature might spare the hackers a bit, but it definitely won't spare Twitter.
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You could issue a double spend transaction that goes to another wallet you control with a higher fee and the network will probably apply that one first.
What Zulip needs most isn't UX but a sane installation, upgrades and management.

It's software with many moving parts, it uses PostgreSQL, Redis, memcached (!) and RabbitMQ (!!). That's at least two more than you'd expect. All these have completely different cluster architectures. Point in time backups isn't trivial either. This makes things like HIPAA requirements harder to implement.

The official way to install it is to run a sprawling Puppet manifest, which is dependent on a number of other tools to do the work. How do I store this in an existing configuration management system? How do I connect to existing databases? Those DBAs were hired for a reason. The documentation on that is less than ideal.

You'd better run in on the recommended Ubuntu version, any deviations will cause the above procedure to explode into a ball of mud.

There is a Docker image, but it's not stable yet, and upgrades become a bit unclear. It would also mean running all those databases inside a K8s cluster, again with their own ways of doing clusters, backup and maintenance.

The kind of organizations which needs to run things on-prem, and will glady pay for the privilege, are also the kind of organizations which have streamlined processes, sysadmins and DBAs and there Zulip isn't a great fit. It seems to be decent software otherwise with some great and unique features.
> - a diversion while they get the real loot

It's that one. They were after the DMs of one target, and needed cover for who they were specifically after, so they hit many accounts.
I'll bet that Bill Gates doesn't have much on his Twitter, but I'll also bet Elon Musk has some crazy DMs.
Not sail freight but in a similar vein, the flettner rotor is pretty neat:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_rotor
Those guys get a ton of criticism. Universities have been deciding to oust people for public outrage. Zuckerberg owns most of his company. Elected officials are removed by voting, and their critics are trying to reduce those votes.

Edit: My point is that all these people receive criticism. Universities seem to act on it more often, but they don’t have to. They choose to.
If anybody here ever finds themselves in the same dilemma, use Morphtoken over TOR to swap to XMR, a completely different blockchain.

This makes all the chain analysis companies and the armchair blockchain sleuths simply follow transactions on the bitcoin blockchain forever, thinking they are doing something productive with their lives, while you have hopped over to another chain that they can't track assuming they even noticed that you swapped.

That was a viable last decade solution and is unfortunately centralized, this decade in 2020 you can also use the decentralized renBTC to permissionlessly lock up and mint your bitcoin as an erc20 token on the Ethereum blockchain. So now you are really liquid and have access to the entire decentralized finance economy.

But again, if you really want to get government bucks and an unlinked trail, you need to sell the renBTC token for Ether and move that Ether into either Tornado.cash for a little while, or go back to the centralized solution like Morphtoken and swap the Ether for XMR as XMR has an inherently stronger anonymity set than anything else.

Peace.
Imagine something of this magnitude combined with well-voiced (or silent and subtitled) high-effort deepfakes.
Your quotes are from the decision that was just overturned, ie, the commission was found to be wrong. The fact is those taxes were legal and not preferential state aid, as was just ruled.
I think that's the case. No prominent Republicans were targeted. See: Watergate, Wikileaks DNC emails. Same shit.
Somewhat related is my belief that text based languages have long since outlived their usefulness. With text based languages the compiler creates an abstract syntax tree and a bunch of metadata and then throws it all away afterwords.

Oh sure you can save an object file if and ONLY if it didn't change and it's cached locally.

A perfect system if you edit a file and save it 90% of the compilers work would already done and saved as part of the file format. Topical is the parser would usually have access to the previously unbroken file.
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I was pack a day smoker for five years in my twenties. I quit cold turkey 14 years ago. It can be done.
"This is a test of the emergency broadcast system..."
Ah, thank you! The more I look into a lot of these (in)famous behavioral psychology studies, many don’t hold up or aren’t replicable. As a layman who is simply interested in the topic, I appreciate the correction and insight!
And to think Twitter wanted to have end-to-end encrypted DMs at one point, but killed the project.
Right now, sure. But the political machinery is never in bed with the more radical people. Things are extreme now because it’s being driven that way by various parties.

As that calms down, compromises will be made and order will return. Recovery from economic catastrophe will be the priority.
That's an upper bound number, relying on some dubious assumptions.

Some women don't wear lipstick at all, so by the mean value theorem the average must be less than that number.
Tree-sitter: a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library
Weird but fascinating. That question suggests:

1. They have a lot of problems with people who come and can't get stuff done in a giant organization

2. They don't try to teach newcomers how to get stuff done in a giant organization. Which would be the obvious answer to those problems.

I'm admittedly stretching a little, but I find more often than not the kinds of questions people ask tell you a lot about what they're trying to select for. (Or, for a lot of orgs, that they have no idea what they're trying to select for.)
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>accessible to anyone with subpoena

I assume it's encrypted.
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Yes, in life I make inferences on incomplete data. Racists online regularly complain about PC run amok and cancel culture, so if you complain about "cancel culture" too much in purely abstract terms, I don't really trust you. There exist people I'd like to cancel in the harshest sense. Cite specific instances, and maybe we can be on the same side.
Well I do remember seeing that in the news cycle earlier in the year and I think it was a loose correlation of interest during the early days of the spread - that smokers seemed to either be catching it in lower numbers or that smokers were seeing fewer symptoms. Of course correlation != causation, and many odd rumors from March have since been debunked.
'cancel culture' is about old elites losing power in the social media age
I think you can believe the status quo is better than the set of changes you are proposing without devaluing the lives of black people.

“Okay” is a relative term. Fundamentally, no state of affairs on earth can ever be truly “okay” because humanity is imperfect. No human society is capable of perfect justice. No human society ever has or ever will achieve perfect justice. That means injustice will always exist.

> noticing flaws is a lot easier than finding solutions

Yes, thank you. That’s my point. We’re all noticing flaws in the status quo. And a lot of people, yourself included, are proposing changes to the status quo. Changes which, in and of themselves, will also have flaws. But I think, as a conventional shorthand for “the best of all possible worlds because humanity is imperfect and damned”, you can just say the status quo is “okay” in that scenario.
Are you saying Jack Dorsey had access to everything via a super-user account?
> a national intelligence organization could have caused orders of magnitude more havoc with this sort of access

It doesn't need much fantasy to cause more havoc. It was speculated in another thread, but maybe the hackers held back since the manhunt is going to be far less for a
'harmless' Bitcoin scam rather than i.e. crashing $TSLA or declaring a war.
Oooh, that's nice
Your point is often missed and I wish it was stated more often. However, I think the current sticking point for many is that, while their wage may allow them to buy more consumer goods, it is a lot harder than it used to be to pay for housing and health care.
Perhaps, however proving you can access verified accounts is harder, still even that could have been proved lot more quietly if they wanted to , clearly this is a distraction or something else being is sold/showcased beyond this exploit
Just to be clear, this is a step by step process for how to launder money, right?
No. No one is saying that.
That's to go from 14 to 16.

Anyhow, I know it's pointless to talk about this here on hnews, because the smug crowd that's read one or two articles on war is boring or such drown everything out, but I've seen this issue discussed by actual military aviators at length, and they were overwhelmingly of the opinion this F-15EX buy is a bad idea, and basically just a pork politics attempt for Boeing to pull some more cash their way.
There are any number of really bad scenarios. The militias and the QAnon folks scare me the most at the moment.
That would be hilarious and full of irony.

Given that most FANGers are obsessed with cash, I'm pretty sure they'd say "yes" to risking their career for some sweet BTC.