skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My original comment was deleted, so I'll try this again.

I've read the comments here and quite surprisingly there are a lot of folks saying that the value of this hack isn't worth more than roughly one year's salary at Twitter (as an intern). I appreciate the pragmatism, but unlikely.

Anyone with this kind of exploit could have sold it, moved to Russia, and received immunity from extradition. Secondly, people should be scrutinizing any moron willing to give away thousands of dollars to billionaires for a promise of a 2x return. Especially in these times.

So, reason can only allow us to arrive at a most likely cause. That this was indeed an inside job. It was not about money. It was not a security flaw. But rather, it was simply a group of employees that were unhappy with Twitter allowing the federal government to investigate bad actors on the platform behind closed doors.

And here is why: https://www.scribd.com/document/467148777/DHS-Social-Media-L...
The difference in deaths is from less at-risk populations getting it. It was projected to have a .1% to .3% mortality rate. It had 3-5% when it spread through older populations.
I rarely carry any ID as it seems offensive to have to justify my existence. People who ask for ID usually find a way to do business with me without it.

I do have a driver’s license which I leave in my gf’s car in case I have to, you know, drive.
This "send me btc to send you more btc"scam has been happening for the past few months and Charles Hoskinson (https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles), founder of the Cardano blockchain was warning about this issue for a while, he mentioned his team was trying to get in touch with twitter and youtube to stop this and these companies have let this slide for a while.

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some are wondering if this is some type of money laundering scheme
https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1283521742602940420
> a consequence of the census department not asking citizenship questions

The purpose of the US Census has never been to determine citizenship. It's also fundamentally useless for that purpose, as not only is it entirely self-reported data, but it also cannot legally be accessed by other parts of the government until 72 years after that census is taken.
Want to improve? You've got to read
When I was in college I more or less tried a different note-taking system every semester.

I tried just writing things down free-form, making flashcards while I was in the lecture, drawing mind maps, drawing one continuous mind map that would be compressed over the weeks of the class.

They all had benefits and draw backs. Flash cards were kind of fiddly and distracting to make. Freeform notes were slightly disorganised.

Whatever I did, I found it helps. For note taking, the act of taking notes is more important than what remains at the end. Be honest, how often do you really go over your notes?

For things you absolutely have to know, I really do recommend flashcards. That said, I think they are quite difficult to produce when you are are learning something new. Flashcards aren't really for learning, they are for not forgetting.
Up the reaction would be more like "oh look, another stupid Trump tweet."
This doesn't sound like a normal car to me. I've never driven a car where doing the wrong thing on the infotainment screen would prevent the car from moving.

Typically cars do it the other way around- if you're doing something you're not supposed to while driving, they just freeze or back you out of the infotainment screen but allow the car to move
Maybe you want AutoML? There are some recent posts about getting YOLO on mobile or in tiny amounts of bytes
It has to be inherent in the genre. Clancy fell off a cliff in the mid 90's also.
I think a pull-quote might be one of the intended uses of <aside>.

(Though really, I don’t think HTML “likes“ pull-quotes — they’re a denormalization of the information conveyed by the markup. The ideal from WHATWG’s perspective would likely be some sort of intra-document transclusion reference, such that the pull-quote could “sample” the text out of where it already is on the page, without mirroring it.)
According to the IRS[1] "income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040 or 1040-SR), line 8, or on Schedule C (Form 1040 or 1040-SR) if from your self-employment activity." So I guess you'd just count it as "other income" on your 1040.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17
Past few years, actually.
There are 700000 cops in America. I can name maybe 200. I've personally worked with maybe 50. I investigated 1, and could find no evidence of crime, though he realistically was likely committing some.

Out of 700000 cops I guarantee some are the scum of the earth who should be locked away forever. I don't know where they are. I can't effect that

It's like getting mad at the manager or an applebee's in Chicago because the waiter spit in your food at an olive garden in Seattle.
When I posted my comment the title simply read "twitter compromised". I'm not sure if the exact nature of the attack is known, but it definitely wasn't at the time.
Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" by him some years ago.
Or just say, as Trump, "I've just ordered a nuclear strike on China!". People wouldn't even know if it was fake or not.
Does anyone know where they're manufactured?
Mastodon is a foam of filter bubbles. If the rest of the ActivityPubIverse looks like that it will be even worse than Twitter or Facebook in the bubble-induced problems.
Isn’t that the purpose of money laundering, to create an income stream so that you can pay taxes on it? I don’t know tax law in depth, but it seems like if one could just report to the IRS anonymous money it would largely obviate the need for money laundering at all. Of course there’s the question of other gov agencies.
The reason it matters, and why the US and UK are complicit (as are Ireland and several other European nations) is that as someone hiding money you need the Rule of Law. Both countries are famous for the Rule of Law, at least in respect of the very wealthy.

Imagine a hypothetical country the Amazing Fiefdom of Jim or AFJ for short. AFJ seems like a good tax haven at first glance, they have 0% tax on offshore revenues, companies can be set up there for a modest fee of $100, you don't need to be a citizen or ever visit, they don't ask you to file much paperwork and they reject all law enforcement paperwork queries for the little paperwork they do have.

But alas, the ruler of the fiefdom, Jim, just sometimes takes stuff he wants. A billionaire who had hidden $400M and a big stake in Amazon via a company in AFJ one day discovers the company was now mysteriously owned by Jim, no way to dispute it!

If that happens with some tiny island that used to be a British colony you can get it unwound, you'll need to pay some expensive lawyers in London to make that happen so it's not an option for the average person on the high street, but if you've got this sort of "need a tax haven" money you can afford those lawyers and get Jim dragged over the coals until he agrees to give back your stuff.

This faith in the rule of law is why Russians hide money in England not in Russia. If you hide stolen money in Russia, and one day Putin wants the money, he just takes it and if anybody complains maybe they "commit suicide" by hurling themselves off a tall building entirely unassisted...
I mean you could but seems unnecessary.

Putting tweets on a blockchain would make it very difficult to delete them or edit them but offer no more certainty than a regular tweet that includes a signature verifiable with a known public key of mine.

I just don’t don’t want someone impersonating me on any one of the many random website I have a profile where anyone with access to the db can write whatever they want under my name.
> (Also if they don't create an "official account", someone else will do it for them)

What do you mean? How would anyone not affiliated with a given government agency convince human verifiers at Twitter that they're official?
No true Redstate?
This may be an unpopular opinion to voice here, but if we take a time-tested construct X and remove physical proximity constraints restricting its scale, we must hold the resulting technology to much, much higher standards than the old X—because scale, along with potentially unbounded yet-unknown upsides, brings potentially unbounded yet-unknown negative implications, and we should be concerned about the latter more than the former.
I'm 37, and politically active, I'm generally slightly left of center too, I can't think of a single proposed program for a National ID, much less one scuttled by Republicans.
Imagine if every celebrity you knew in New York suddenly started tweeting about some kind of massive rioting.

Imagine if every verified account related to finance started tweeting “cash out your accounts NOW.”

You could easily, easily cause some pretty massive panic.
I think it's too early to absolutely determine the life expectancy cost of a covid infection. The pathology is so diverse with this virus it would take a very complex calculation and obviously years of observation to make your claim.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0968-3

To quote this paper's author: "This virus is unusual and it's hard not to take a step back and not be impressed by how many manifestations it has on the human body"

and to quote the paper itself: "In a study of nearly 5,500 patients admitted with COVID-19 in a New York City hospital system, (acute kidney injury) occurred in 37%, with 14% of the patients requiring dialysis. "

and that is only one of dozens of conditions in their findings.
I work with Lua extensively, including abstract syntax trees.

To mark a node at the third position, containing one character, we say {3,3}.

But what if there's a node at the third position, that contains no character? Well, thats {3,2}.

It's like nails on a chalkboard every time. 1-based indexing is a mistake.

~=, by contrast, is just notation. You get used to it quickly.
Interesting, didn't see that article. I remember seeing a lot of people post about Michigan back when the lockdowns started. Seems like even the non-local nationwide media was attacking the governor there for some of the things she did.

However it kinda seems strange they'd apply it to a big box stores only... I know some people wrote comments saying they'd grab the seeds anyways and just use the self checkout - unless they put the effort into making it error out if you did so...

> The limits apply only to in-person sales and do not apply to stores with less than 50,000 square feet.

So a smaller store it's ok? I figured a huge box store like Walmart would be better since larger space probably has more ventilation... But I was wonder the impression the small garden centers closed from what I seen in the media and online. I guess online is always an option but I know some older people or the unbanked is probably left out. Then some garden centers sell plants already started for you too. Just still seems a little illogical to me.
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You realize that an interview is not the same as writing a technical article, right? It should be a conversation between two potential coworkers, and, in that context, I think saying "average" instead of "mean" is totally fine.

Incidentally, "mean" doesn't quite cut it, if you want to be a stickler about it. There are several types of means: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, etc. By that standard, you just failed the interview.
Why do you say this? What about "the other way" would make the logic any different?
This may be the last straw that tips politicians over into considering Twitter & co utilities - stuff that the gov has a say in running because failure is unacceptable to the public.

Not that I think the gov could do a better job, but that doesn't stop them elsewhere.
Ehh, I supported the China travel ban until I learned it was political posturing and didn’t actually ban China travel. Trump got some heat for it, but all travelers from inernational flights should’ve been screened.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851393
I can't count the number of times people have asked here "How can Twitter possibly employ 4,000+ employees?". Well, I suppose we've learned 4K isn't even enough for good anti-abuse systems.
Rather than linking to another page, you can link elsewhere within the same page, using fragment URI-refs. Write your asides as long footnotes, and then link to the footnotes.

(Or, go further, and split your article into a set of related articles all on the same page, with one “main” article and then several “supporting” articles that you can read or ignore. A non-editable Tiddlywiki, basically.)

(Or you could go even further and make your article into a Twine game. But that’s just getting silly.)
> I'm constantly amazed that people who are critical of billionaires and corporations, never wonder why billionaires and corporations are usually democrat supporters.

Most billionaires and large corporations have connections in, and make donations to, both major parties. The people who are critical of billionaires and corporations tend to also be the people that point out that the dominant faction of the Democratic Party (less sophisticated members of the critical group will shorten this to just the Democratic Party, without making the factional distinction) has for decades been, in economic policy terms, a center-right pro-corporate neoliberal group, not a progressive one.
It's not that easy to setup your own wallet. Most require you to download the entire blockchain if you want to be completely independent of a third-party.
Oh wow. I lurk 99% of the time, so I doubt I'll ever reach those heady heights. Thanks for the link, though!
Here's a nice big collection of programs that either don't require equipment or use minimal equipment you could improvise - https://darebee.com/programs.html

No account or login, no ads or affiliate sales, and all programs are PDFs you can download.
> These letters indicate that potential layoffs or furloughs are possible in the near future as air travel demand continues to suffer due to COVID-19.

it's a warning of a furlough, not an actual furlough.
Valuable data point. This idea of a premium green service is the key, and beer/distileries were the examples of local products, but if there were dry goods, that would make it. Also, we can solve the preservative issue with refrigeration if it's worth it. Again, there's no ceiling on what people will pay for a luxury item that is green/local/craft etc, and we could figure out what's involved in making kegs/cans survive a great lakes transfer and price it in.
I've never heard of Hacker News censoring comments that do not abuse the site guidelines, with rational opinions. This comment thread is being heavily censored. This fundamentally abuses the trust that users have put into this site.
As a preface, I’m a white millennial who grew up in a southeast US middle class family. I’m completely aware my upbringing and experiences do not only not align with a large percentage of those in the US but probably even less than say 20% or so.

In saying that, I’ve always understood and expected minimum wage jobs to be one of a couple things:

1. A first job for young people who live with their parents, or at least aren’t depended on to pay the bills, who want to cut their teeth with what it looks like to have a job and/or have some extra spending money

2. A non bread winning family member looking to contribute a little towards day to day bills

Is there documentation or something from the government that outlines expectations for exactly what the minimum wage is supposed to accomplish for a person? Is it intended to be a “living wage” or arbitrarily set to something that folks in charge deem appropriate for some reason unbeknownst to me?

If it’s supposed to be a living wage it should be data driven based on cost of living and evaluated on a relatively high frequency (at least once per year). I know this is a hot political topic, but it just seems like another issue that we could use actual data to solve based on intent of what minimum wage should be instead of poking the right or left bears and polarizing the world more than it already is.
Gates, Bezos, Zucckerburg, etc. etc. I was talking mostly about tech billionaires, should've made that clearer.
I haven’t read White Fragility and couldn’t read the entirety of the article linked here due to the paywall, so I cannot comment on those.

I have been trying to educate myself about the topic recently, though, and would strongly recommend looking into some of the excellent work on systemic racism in the US if you’re interested in learning more.

The documentary “13th” (available for free on YouTube at the moment), the 2nd season of the podcast Scene On Radio (“Seeing White”), and the book How to Be An Anti-Racist are three things I can recommend based on what I’ve read/heard from them so far.

What you’re calling the “recent forced redefinition of racism” is not especially recent. I first heard this argument around 30 years ago, and at the time dismissed it, but now understand why people want to emphasize that over the definition I recall learning as a child which was structured along the lines of a belief in superiority of one group over another.

Having a belief may impact how you feel towards someone and how you act towards them, and may even have an impact on that person if you are in a position to influence the course of their life.

Having a system that is designed and reinforced to encourage disparate outcomes is far more impactful to that group as a whole.

I’m not going to argue that both aren’t harmful, but I’ve certainly come around to the conclusion that systematic or policy-based racism (if you’re uncomfortable calling it racism, feel free to disregard the name and come up with something you’re more comfortable with) has disproportionately affected Black and non-black people of color in the US.
Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Research Lab
What were you being asked to present your ID for other than driving (or alcohol if younger) in the first place?
Car locks aren't actually serious locks. Aren't you at least somewhat concerned that a car theft would escalate to an identity theft?

Also, I would assume that it may be possible to somehow locate SHW's car info and then find the actual car.
Yes, there was segregation before Brown. But it was not so pervasive and near-universal in the way it became after. There were many places where whites and Blacks did live in the same areas. These places may have been segregated, but it was on the scale of city blocks or streets. You did not have large urban ghettoes in virtually every city of any size like you do today.

Of course Brown was not bad, it was just not enough, and we still have to finish what Brown started. A big part of the problem is that the Supreme Court undermined the force of Brown in subsequent rulings instead of following through.
> at what point do you just let youth engage in certain behavior without consequences?

Uh, what? That's what you have to say about incarcerating a teenager with ADHD amidst an unprecedented global pandemic???

Edit: I got so worked up, I for got to add the punch line: ...for not doing their homework?!?!
Great way to alienate the hacking community. That would work only a small number of times before word spread not to bother even trying that company's disclosure program.
You're assuming this internal tool was built securely and was feature complete.

My experience with internal tooling in general suggests otherwise.
> I'd be surprised if anyone other than Mike Pall was able to retarget it to support a different language.

Not that difficult. See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon#lua-source-and-bytec..., https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-in..., or here a whole list of other language frontends: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
Best way is to find someone on a service like local bitcoins who can meet you in a public place and sell you btc for cash. You can wait a bit to get a couple confirmations.
You chose a bad example, because Lua has lpeg as a "blessed" library.

lpeg is leaps and bounds beyond regex. When I have to work with mere regex, I miss lpeg, the same way someone who is used to regex would feel when stuck with Lua patterns.

Networking isn't a problem for me personally, I just use luv and I'm very happy with it. But it's true that this is under-documented, and you do have to do more thinking and less Stack Overflow copypasting than you would with a language with a larger user base.
This will open another can of worms (floating point errors).
The US constitution restricts acts of the federal government to enumerated powers. A lot of stuff gets justified under an expansive interpretation of regulating interstate commerce, but I'm not sure how a register of citizens qualifies. Certainly, you could find legal scholars who would tell you it's allowed and those who would tell you it's not.

There's a fair amount of resistance to government information gathering, especially by the federal government. There's a bigger question of records quality. There are a lot of citizens who have no records of their birth --- either it wasn't recorded, or the records were lost, or the details you would need to find the records aren't available. Anyone contemplating reconciling all those edge cases is going to simply give up.
The POTUS account likely has more additional security than normal accounts.
Maybe if it was the first time the scam appeared, but this is old hat now. This was possibly thrown together quickly to make the most of an explot before the API changed. Prior to this there is no reason to assume they were not very careful with access and this was not the main money making part of the job.
> I know this is a hot political topic, but it just seems like another issue that we could use hard numbers to solve

While factual disagreements are generated over the issue, in part deliberately to obscure the real issues, the disagreement here is more about objectives than whether the policy meets agreed-on objectives.

You can't settle a conflict of values with facts and data.
"Once someone is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the immune system is mobilized. As the virus replicates, cell and viral debris or virions may interact with the nAChRs blocking the action of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. If the initial immune response is not enough to combat the viral invasion at an early stage, the extensive and prolonged replication of the virus will eventually disrupt the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway seriously compromising its ability to control and regulate the immune response. The uncontrolled action of pro-inflammatory cytokines will result in the development of cytokine storm, with acute lung injury leading to ARDS, coagulation disturbances and multiorgan failure. Based on this hypothesis, COVID-19 appears to eventually become a disease of the nicotinic cholinergic system."

"Nicotine could maintain or restore the function of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory system and thus control the release and activity of pro-inflammatory cytokines. This could prevent or suppress the cytokine storm. This hypothesis needs to be examined in the laboratory and the clinical setting."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192087/#!po=22...
> Compared to other JIT compilers LuaJIT is very simple.

Wow, the understatement of the year.
TWTR is a largeish company. I have no evidence but presume it is overwhelmingly likely that their scale a) makes getting inside the head of every employee is impossible and b) fosters the right conditions for a healthy number of little agenda-ized splinter cells with various passionate motivations and whatnot.

Besides public state and company size, Twitter is also new media. And all media is information warfare. (Hmm, that sounds a bit strong, especially considering the toxicity that is the platform itself; I mean the term generically speaking.)