skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC fails to catch or even detect the vast majority of market manipulation and insider trading. A volatile stock like Tesla has so much volume that a large amount of contracts (calls/puts) wouldn't even look unusual.

They most certainly could have gotten away with some form of manipulation using Elon's (or someone else's) account and gotten away with it.
We still don't know if the hackers didn't steal all the DMs to sell on the dark web. They basically can prove without a shadow of a doubt to anyone that they were the hackers involved (by sending BTC from the publicized address). That removes any questions of authenticity for potential DMs and is likely to increase the price. They or someone else they resell to can then go about the blackmail aspects of the whole thing.

If they didn't mean the BTC address to be an authenticity stamp after the fact it seems silly to not have varied it to get around blocks.

edit: They can also use it for blackmail even if there's no incriminating DMs. By making up fake DMs and then using the authenticity stamp to "prove" they were authentic. Could cause quiet a bit of chaos if released in the right way and be worth something to someone.
> Why not?

For better or worse, Rust 1.0 released with the philosophy that the `as` operator is for "fast and loose" conversions where accuracy is not prioritized; e.g. casting a u32 to a u8 would always risk silently truncating in the event the value was too large to represent. Over the years the language has added a lot of standard library support for bypassing the `as` operator entirely, and I think the prevailing opinion at this point might be that if they had the to do it all over again they might not have had the `as` operator at all, instead making do with a combination of ordinary error-checked conversion methods and the YOLO unsafe unchecked methods as seen here.

Which is to say: it's not that they technically couldn't have gone with the panic approach, but (performance implications aside) I think they'd rather just start moving away from `as` in general wherever possible.
US, UK and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on Covid-19 research centers
If it's helpful at all to you, I've had success with the list of books from this website:
https://mathblog.com/mathematics-books/

Most of them likely have significant previews on amazon. The ones I was interested in which didn't have previews ended up being available one way or another online, which I used to assess whether they'd be worth it for me or not (instead of wasting everyone's time and energy on ordering a book and returning it within five minutes).
I've just added this as a "Verified accounts" feature you can toggle on in the options of my Tweak New Twitter extension (v1.23 - Chrome Web Store always takes a while to update):

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

If you just want to check how much of your timeline is driven by verified accounts, you can also have them highlighted instead of hidden:

https://imgur.com/gallery/lcqq5bq
> and it must not be

Why not?
Managing Non-Feature Work: Part 1–Failed Approaches
Typically when you try to rotate something in a way that makes it move faster than the speed of light it'll just rip itself apart.

Actually I think this typically happens when you reach speeds somewhere on the order of the speed of sound of the material.
This is probably wrong. Quoting from the wikipedia article on this phrase:

> The phrase derives from the full sentence, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.";
> it was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain and others, who mistakenly attributed it to the British prime
> minister Benjamin Disraeli. The phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were
> years after his death. The phrase was attributed to an anonymous writer in mid-1891 and later that year to Sir
> Charles Dilke, but several others have been listed as originators of the quote, including frequent erroneous
> attribution to Twain himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies%2C_damned_lies%2C_and_sta...
There was no interview. Not even a phone call. After I submitted the 3 hour paid assignment they hired me by giving me access to Slack and we just started working together. One of the smoothest and easiest "interviews" I've ever done and I got paid for everything except for a 30 minute challenge that helped solidify my understanding of git.

> people you really want just don't have a reason to waste that time

I'm "really wanted". In the past week I have had to say no to two clients calling me for follow up work. Where do you think I wasted my time?
Anonymizing BTC is a lot easier than hiding from the SEC. There are that many people holding massive amounts of short-term TSLA options (enough to make >$500k on a single day movement) that the SEC can't look at each of them.
Some cars are doing a HUD option with driver info in you field of view at the bottom of the windshield, I think that would be a great way for Tesla to maintain the “cool screen” factor while keeping important information available when infotainment breaks.

But then you need the HUD hardware and another little computer to manage it, and since the Model 3’s “everything goes in the infotainment system” is fundamentally a cost-cutting measure, I doubt it will happen. Or if it does, it’ll be a premium trim item.

And since vehicle speed is arguably pretty important for driver safety (if not when flowing with traffic, then when taking a sharply curved exit ramp off the highway) it’s not a good look to put it as a paid upgrade. Tesla wouldn’t want to admit that a second screen is helpful.

Best case would be to make the main screen stop crashing, but if that were easy they’d have done it already.
I keep up with technology as a developer with a chronic health condition
Hacker News, which is literally just text, can't display every comment in this post. There's a disclaimer at the top. Scroll up and read it.

How much money does the Y Combinator Web team receive? Do you think its enough that they should be able to render... Text?
Hey, I'm a therapist in training and also a developer. I built a side project called Taaalk. It's a platform for people to have public conversations, and I have done a few on mental health:

https://taaalk.co/t/discussing-eating-disorders

https://taaalk.co/t/exploring-obsessive-compulsive-disorder

Would you like to do one to see if anything comes up? Kind of a public anonymous therapy session...

https://taaalk.co/t/invite/what-s-going-on-with-dukha, invite code: 314798825

(If anyone else is interested my email is in my profile)
It wasnt better because verified accounts couldnt tweet, it was "good" because everyone was just memeing and making jokes bout verified accounts being locked out.
I don't think our current media is the correct model - it is much worse than in year's past.

> Further, it seems to me that the press that you and others believe we cannot function without is really a method for disseminating a centralized ideology and set of beliefs that, true or not, allow the majority of the country to continue in a unified direction. I don't believe that is necessary for the nation to continue, but I could be wrong there.

Historically there are two sources of tyranny - authoritarian rule, and the rule of the mob. I am specifically against centralization as I already said - this would lead to tyranny of authority in most cases. The other is the mob - as we've seen from doxxing witchhunts online, cancel culture, etc. This is simply tyranny represented differently. The idea that social media can replace journalism has been markedly disproved since the rise of social media.

Function is the wrong term - I'm sure something will function, like a broken clock functions - it still runs, but does it tell the right time?
the analogy is "an environmental condition that significantly modifies 'natural' behavior".

The only essentialist argument is that there was a 'natural' to begin with, which in this case ought to be obvious. Our 'natural' environment, i.e. the environment in which we evolved to prosper, is far different in which the environment that we live today.

If you fail to see the analogy, you are either being overly reductive or you have very little imagination.
You probably have to give Robinhood information about yourself for anti money laundering legislation. I don’t use them, but I had to give my birthplace and National Insurance (UK’s SSN) because of the latest round of aml law.
Rust rejects this because it isn’t necessarily safe. The Rust deque grows when it needs to, reallocating and copying all the old elements over to the new location, and then freeing the old location.

If push_back triggers this reallocation, then you get UB here.

So either the C++ deque doesn’t offer the same functionality, or it isn’t actually safe.
I think what the parent is saying that the original post definitely misses is that the trading volume in short expiry options on Tesla is so high that it would be impossible to detect one trade in a sea of hundreds of thousands.
Just because some opinion shows "top rated" it doesn't necessarily mean that "news reader" audience like to be treated the same way. Right? Somewhere I would like to have a little more qualification to that a "reading audience likes to read opinions".
I think it makes sense to get your foundation and ergonomics correct before piling on features. Otherwise you end up building features that may need to be completely restructured/redone later.
I'm not sure I understand the quoted concern? The study they referenced[1] showed that France was ~37% never smokers average over all ages (nowhere near 75%), and their in- and out-patients were about the same fraction (Table 2) for male, a little lower for female. The big discrepancy is under-representation of current smokers, and over-representation of former smokers. But their patients are old, and I'd expect older people to have more former smokers, since they've had more time to start and stop and since the general trend in smoking is down. I don't see that broken down by age in the paper they linked though. Maybe we'd have to dig in to the raw data, or maybe it's just not available?

In any case, many other studies of COVID-19 have found similar results, and studies of different respiratory diseases have not. I'd initially just thought people were lying too, but at some point the evidence becomes overwhelming--if the protective behavior were anything but smoking, then people would have accepted it long ago.

Of course smoking is far deadlier on average than the coronavirus, per my calculation elsewhere in this thread. No one should start smoking because of this, but I do see enough evidence e.g. that a nursing home patient (who's at very high risk of death from coronavirus, and likely to die of something else before smoking-related diseases could develop) shouldn't quit. Vaping probably gets any benefit with almost none of the health risk, though that's speculative.

1. http://beh.santepubliquefrance.fr/beh/2019/15/pdf/2019_15_1....
I disagree, with the stock market manipulation.

The idea isn't to be anonymous per se, it is to blend in with the crowd. You join a few communities, you can easily, easily pull the Casino Royale short position/puts.

Say that production is halted, that you discovered faulty accounting, immediate recall, etc. Tesla would've plummeted.

And that's if you want to blend in with the crowd of volume and people holding puts, which, are not that expensive, especially if you push out a few weeks.

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With bitcoin, it is not anonymous. You will have a pain to cashout 100k+ of bitcoin. The address is now literally blacklisted, the coins will be forever tracked, exchanges blocked and whenever there's movement, ironically, twitter threads will appear similar, if not akin to bitmex margin calls.

Any localbitcoin dealer worth their salt, would flag it because even if it's in escrow, it is most likely that small amount would blacklist their own account, especially since most traders are cheap and will send from exchange>localbitcoin escrow.
There are also AP libraries in development that do the heavy lifting for you. Furthest along is GoFed, written in go, that just reached its v1.0 release.

> go-fed/activity is unlike most other software on the Fediverse. It is the first standalone ActivityPub library. It is also the pioneering solution in Go. It is designed for those who have no prior experience with ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, JSON-LD, or RDF.

https://go-fed.org/

https://github.com/go-fed/activity
Didn't the address also send back 2K to a few people? Making your theory even more plausible.
Where was the project manager in all of this? There should be a dedicated person whose role is to manage scope creep, track milestones and completion, be firm on commitments, handle/mollify the personalities on the client side, etc. If you were being expected to do this as well as doing the code, you should have asked for two salaries!
Yeah that sure as hell makes it sound like the reasons for having or not having customer support are economic in nature.
In what client server situation does it make sense to use pickles over JSON/YAML?
Tesla has such absurd volume and short interest that buying a large amount of puts on it would not be suspicious at all.

It's an ocean of contracts out there.
A psychedelic experience can often offer a profoundly different perspective on things like one's beliefs, perceptions, experiential phenomena, etc - have you ever investigated/considered that avenue? The effects are typically mostly temporary, but one is often left with some convincing fragment of knowledge that what we think/perceive reality to be is wildly off the mark, which can be a useful new base to build upon going forward.
Half of it does.
> The problem is people aren't interested in using correct definitions for anything anymore.

Really? That's the problem? Not the mental disorder itself?

These semantic debates are less than worthless.
This doesn't really seem to have anything to Twitter's account verification feature. Surely the verified accounts just tend to be more popular and you were just seeing what your feed looks like with less popular accounts.
> Panicing is not in line with how `as` casts are supposed to act. (e.g. `u32value as u8` does not panic but just takes the "lower" one byte.)

So, instead of this being traditional UB, it was a combination of two separate issues:

- Rustc erroneously emitting code that exercised an LLVM UB case, and

- Imprecise Rust documentation around the exact behavior of float -> int ‘as’ casts
I actually have been thinking very hard about the problem of astroturfing and how to combat it. Not really sure how I would go about it currently but one idea I tossed around is IP address physical location, it might work on HN...at least during working hours. Mixed with a bit of submission and comment history processing, it's almost viable as a concept.
Those types are caught because they're people who do virtually no active trading and then buy an individual stock while related (and connected by phone/email contact) to an insider. Not day traders who have joined a massive herd of the world's favorite stock to short.
I used to be this stupid too but then I learned that it's better to just play their game, win and then move on, no point in fighting it, just think of it as another part of the job.
Be aware that Rust gives you the tools to be fast, it is not necessarily fast by default, although a lot of constructs it guides you towards usually help with that. You still need to profile your code to see what you need to optimize, whereas other languages with fewer knobs will perform optimizations that you otherwise need to manually annotate in your code in Rust. I prefer this approach, but it can be surprising to people used to the alternative.
What Makes a Picture Good?
In your estimation, how far away are we from eye-tracking software being able to detect the start of a microsaccade, estimate where the gaze is moving toward, and draw new contents on the screen there before the gaze even reaches that point? I would think that by "hacking" into human brain "vulnerabilities" like saccadic masking and chronostasis, such software could potentially yield seriously trippy and mind-altering results!
Biased reporting has always existed - again, no one is claiming utopia without bias. The idea is to have enough trustworthy sources for different points of view, arguing in good faith, for certain positions.

Now biased reporting comes from a few sources - the polarization is evidence of this.
Are a lot of people going to use the UBI to better themselves? A large number will probably end up hanging out. Or work a few years to save for a downpayment, then end up hanging out.

It will prob speed up automation. Like some 40 year old with no skills is gonna suddenly re-skill and being a computer programmer? Lol.

Just gonna be a bunch of people chilling on the taxpayers dime. Reproducing, taking up space, etc.

Everything is going to be a sharp bimodal distribution. Those that are productive, get paid a ton. Those who aren't productive and just chill all day on UBI.
I think they could have made more with just better ad copy. Send 1 get back 2 just stinks so much like a scam, most people wouldn't do it. What if you just asked for a donation in some good cause, and frame it as a contest between Elon and the other billionaires?

Also use different addresses per account. Should be really easy.
I am not even sure it would move much in either direction. Some traders would think it's good, some bad. Everyone's bets would cancel each other out and the delta in either direction would be small.

My guess is it would trend downward since my evaluation of $tsla is that it is a personality driven bubble; but my evaluation isn't everyone else's.
This looks like another "Twitter was hacked" articles... There's virtually nothing about the article about national security... Disappointing.

Here's a national security concern: a president announced he's going to war. Or a military tweets they've lost control of their nukes... Or reports a widespread network communication fault and advises all personal to communicate through a specific channel (which might degrade security)

If you were hoping for national security concerns, don't bother reading the article.
Yes, for all but the simplest or most abstracted projects sticking steadfastly to standardized features this is fairly hard to do. But the closer you stay stick to that, the more platforms your projects has been through, the more foundational (and less dependency-heavy) your project is, the more likely it will port with few or any changes. My preferred shell and text editor, for example, required zero changes; as did many core tools such as ncurses or make or autoconf. And on top of those it was easy to get things like perl or ninja up with perhaps a small tweak to their configure script or something.
My experience at Google was that the secret sauce wasn't that it was full of geniuses. It's that everyone was _reliably_ competent and very smart. It's hard to overstate how valuable that certainty is, and how impressive it is to manage that at scale. It enables an entirely new world of employer-employee relationships, including their famous transparency and policies that could (and would) be abused by people too dumb to understand coordination problems. The cost of this is of course going to be plenty of false negatives. (Bear in mind they were a fifth of their current size when I was there, so I don't know how much this applies anymore)
This looks a lot like Chrome’s console viewer for json (and all other javascript objects).

Is the enhancement just making it easier to cut paste a json than having to craft a page and dump to console?
The culture in America shames those who post upsetting things or express those feelings. It’s a whole thing where you have to always be happy and “positive”.

I’ve rebelled against this for a long time. I post happy things here and there but since my life isn’t particularly happy, I post the more upsetting things more frequently and express those feelings in real life. I like to think I’m adding balance but I know I’m just being ignored because the culture doesn’t like to hear about suffering.
This seems like a very nice process.
Why not combine the methods? Use the BTC stuff to fund the stock stuff, and have different twitter accounts do different things. Biden's for BTC, and Musk's for stock market manipulation. Plus steal the DM's for sale on the dark web.
You might have an Aristotelian sense of "success" in mind here (meaning that it covers something like the long-term overarching benefit of the person), but I don't. I just mean success as in, anxiety medication actually improves anxiety; depression medication actually improves depression; attention deficit medication actually improves attention. Whether there are better ways for us to achieve long-term outcomes is a different issue.
Money is created by the government, and creating more of it to distributed equally across individuals just redistributes the relative purchasing power from people with more than average to people with less than average.
Show HN: A React SSR framework built on top of esbuild
> In this case chemical imbalance would be objectively wrong.

I disagree. Chemical imbalance is not necessarily a solitary cause, it's describing a condition regardless. shrug

> you would have doctors selectively treating the symptoms (the 'chemical imbalance') rather than the cause

Typically they treat both or in most cases, the easier problem with less severe treatment consequences (classic House MD - live in constant pain from muscle death vs lose a limb).
SMIC isn't close to the same node as TSMC. A competitive high-end SOC could not be manufacured by them.
Me too!

Thats's why I use Stylus in Firefox. I style most of the sites I visit (I really like dark mode...). What I did on HN was e.g. to apply `.comment { max-width: 35em; }`. That's a much better width!
Heck, you could even sign a message saying you own the DMs with the private key that corresponds to the address that all the hacked accounts posted if you wanted to sell them / use them for blackmail
Oil/Gasoline went down in price early this year quite dramatically. This (as energy cost) is included with a heavy weight in the price index calculation.
Some of the members of that podcast write a fair amount of Swift. Actually, I think the majority of the hosts do, and the holdout is seriously considering doing so as well.
You'll always have people across the industry who want you to go work with them :)
A Primer on Pseudorandom Generators [pdf]
There are periods of more objectivity and less objectivity - not all times in the past were objective, and some were more so. No one has claimed above - a most convenient strawman.
I feel like the main point should be "if your coworker does great work, tell them". Be curious, see if they have feedback through you, see how they'd like to be recognized.

That step is often missed. People are often resistant to providing direct feedback - yet that is also how the strongest bonds are made.

The more a manager acts as an intermediary, the less direct emotional (and consequently professional) relationships are.
Your surprise comes from the fact that you're modeling an institution as a single person when it in reality consists of a hundred thousand people. It's obviously less mental effort to reason about large entities this way, but it's obviously much less accurate.
Glancing at the numbers there may, ironically, be less life years lost through covid than life years saved through stopping smoking

Covid: Maybe 70k deaths, 11 years lost on average = 770k years

Smoking 1 million, say 5 years saved = 5000k years

(the 5 years is a guess, I think the real figure is nearer 10, the 11 years is from https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/02/would-mo...)
But my example was precisely about lack of differing opinions. The issue there was consensus in media, that made it look like there is clear agreement of experts about something where it was not the case.