skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the other day about a digital signature for limited character tweets.

Provided I’m not a cryptography expert and you should explore my ideas with caution, why not even just sign every tweet with an ed25519 signature? It’s on 64 bytes tacked onto the message and easy to verify...
This would be interesting.

Let's say you made a boat that could hold 4 standard cargo containers. Sail powered, solar electric + batteries. Fully autonomous. Then have autonomous loading and unloading of containers as well. Build a fleet of boats.

The beauty of it would be zero waiting. Boats are always ready to take the next container, and loading takes only 5 minutes, then it leaves right away. Even if it were slower than standard container ships, it's always moving.
If that's the worst criticism you find in my rather speculative wall-of-text, I actually find that pretty promising :P

But yes: Autopilot/autonomous driving, data collection & curating for this, OS controlling all actuators & sensors in the cars, car UX, OTA updates of this, management of fleet sensor data for health monitoring/preventive maintenance of common problems, custom software controlling manufacturing hardware and supply chain, charging station software (local & fleet level), software management of stationary battery systems, battery packs in cars, motors +++.

Doesn't compare to hooking up tenants to a desk space.
Actually closer to 4 years of experience:

> As for my Rust experience, I’ve been using it for personal projects since ~2016 and I worked as a Rust software engineer at a startup in Berlin for a year after leaving high school.

Publish date on this blog post: July 14th, 2020
> it is the highest court in Ireland's legal system.

And not just Ireland's.

And that's what I'm saying. If your legal system is united to this degree into a larger framework, then that new thing is the locus of sovereignty. It is much more than a trade deal. (That doesn't mean it's wrong, or a good idea or a bad idea. But it's a big change.)
> I guess Twitch can stay in business for now.

I assume you're being sarcastic/coy, but for those that might not know, Amazon owns Twitch. I'm guessing this service is them white labeling Twitch's tech infrastructure, and priced such that someone could not make a Twitch competitor with reasonable profit margins.
Perhaps it already happened, but people don't know because they aren't visiting each other's houses.
Headline:
Outlook crashing worldwide

Subhead:
Are we better off?
McKinsey is making $100M (and counting) advising on the government’s response
Bartering is back: When life gives you lemons, trade them for a hand sanitizer
> more of a Universal Operating System.

not to say more trusted.
Yep. If they did exfil, it would make sense to do before they tweeted. I expect we'll see solicitations offering to sell a copy of DMs from the affected accounts - even if the hacker didn't exfil, the public doesn't know that and opportunistic scammers may try to pose as the hacker to get BTC.

Interestingly, by tweeting a bitcoin address, the hacker could authenticate themselves to 'potential buyers' by accurately describing future transfers of bitcoin from the tweeted address.
if you are having trouble getting liquid because a has-been exchange flagged your address, I wrote a guide
SEC can just reverse the trade. For shady sht crypto is superior
I deleted my Linkedin about a month ago and have also seen a sharp decline in recruiter interest.
Hospitals are running out – and this time could be worse
I am a fan of water cooling too.
Built gaming rig for my brother. He had an issue and posted it over 3000km (2000 miles) while full of water.

Was fine. I fixed it, refilled it and posted it back!
Still running 5 years later.

But I do go a little more paranoid and insist on more expensive silicone tubing(some $$$). Fits nicer, feels nicer, less concern over perishing.
Azure ML/GPU instanced are also really expensive.

I did the maths recently and figured out I could put together a machine with a couple of 2080 Ti’s and have it pay for itself in a couple of months.

I’m very seriously considering doing it, especially as I’m the only data scientist, if I had a team I’d be more in favour of going to the effort of setting up cloud-based training jobs etc
>"Take home" questions are heavily biased in favor of the employer because they're not required to put anything on the line.

Not to mention it doesn't test the collaboration aspects of real work. Imagine doing your job but you're not allowed to talk to your teammates in case of a blocker. How are we doing our jobs here?

But when it comes down to actually starting them, I will always pass if they come before any interviewing round. You don't yet have a stake in the process.
You lose out on candidates who work at companies that don't let them show you their current code, and have a home life that occupies their time outside of work.

So, you can ask to see candidate's existing code if you work at a small enough shop and/or don't care about missing out on candidates who don't have shareable code. But if you are trying to hire at a larger scale, it does not work.

Many great hiring schemes work until a certain scale and then they fall apart. Some hiring schemes also severely tilt your candidate pool towards a certain subset of the population. I'm sure whiteboard style interviewing also has similar issues.
In my experience parsing is pretty robust and fast already, to the point where optimizing that stage of the compiler isn't worth it. Regarding the discrepancy between the AST and the source code, I think that it is worth noting that although there's a relationship between the syntax and the semantics, there need not be a 1:1 mapping between these, both allowing different features look similar (because they are pedagogically similar, like in impl Trait in Rust in argument position and return position) or dissimilar. I could see leveraging ASTs for more accurate diffing algorithms and fancy tools, but none of these would require that the AST be the source of truth.
Selfhost. If you rely on Github for your service you are rightfully doomed.
>They even allowed me to bring a "cheat sheet" with notes about the stories I planned to tell

Is this unusual in your experience? I don't think I've ever been to a job interview where I didn't bring along a notepad where I had prewritten talking points, and also used it to take notes during the interview. I thought this was standard.
The author seems to be unaware of two notable historic shifts in western investing.

1. Bonds used to be the preferred method for investing into businesses. Equity was considered so unsafe as to be not much more than gambling. Judging if a bond could be repaid or not was a key motivator in pricing. Nowadays bonds are a tool exclusive to highly stable mature corporations. The author appears surprised that early ventures could also issue bonds, but this was a common characteristic of financing.

A notable improvement is how regulation and enforcement now effectively protects minority shareholders. Part of history's preference for bonds was how easy equity could be abused by controlling interests in a company. For a modern analogy look to Russia where equity trades at a strong discount to the west thanks to Russian oligarchy's habits of stealing money from minority shareholders.

2. IPOs used to be about raising required capital to finance capital intensive industries. The US railroad boom was financed by IPOs. These initial public offerings were different from todays. Stronger regulation and protection for investors has pushed IPOs to a late stage. Now only established businesses can IPO. Back in the era of over investment into railroads investors were putting up fresh money to build tracks and stations from scratch.
I quit vaping back in mid-Feb when it was obvious things were going down. But then I took it back up in May because the studies with very large N (ie, millions) had started coming out of the UK showing even literal smoking did not increase your covid-19 risk after infection. And you can bet if it did, at all, there'd be big news about it. But instead study after study shows nothing of significance either way.
Most of these seem pretty gimmicky. I love sailing, and I'd like to see a reduction in the carbon footprint from sea freight, but it's already pretty low per-pound. It's certainly better than flying cargo.

The total footprint from sea freight is high (3% of global carbon emissions), and the fuel they use is terrible in other ways (it's dirty and carbon isn't the only bad thing emitted). It can't be replaced by sailing, though. Maybe if someone creates a sailing megafreighter, but not by schooners or smaller vessels.

Of everything on that page, the Kwai seems the most pragmatic and the least gimmicky; it's a large vessel and operates in an underserved market. While Tres Hombres is also a large vessel, trans-Atlantic freight is just a silly market to operate in. That's a gimmick to sell expensive "fair trade" goods to niche markets. People are paying a premium to absolve themselves of consumer guilt.
> I think I'm perfectly capable of understanding American politics

You're making wild assertions based on supposition and nothing else. Worse, you're using deliberately spun articles to support your nonfactual assertions.

You're getting all worked up about leaders of a foreign nation, that literally have nothing to do with you or have any impact on you. Trump said mean stuff on Twitter so people thousands of miles away should engage?

> You're more than welcome to criticize the leaders of my nation with cause. But you likely won't even know their names.

No I don't, and I don't care. How your nation governs itself is your nation's business, and the entire point I'm making. It's OK to ask questions, or wonder aloud... but to pretend to have a deep understanding and an authoritative judgement on foreign affairs, based on clearly biased opinions disguised as facts is simply unbecoming and devastatingly unproductive.

What you are engaging in is sport... not a civil discourse.
As a sort of thread topic derail, this video is a good example of the use of a common consumer-grade easy to fly drone (DJI mavic 2 pro, mavic air, mavic air 2, etc) in the under $2000 category, used for travelogue type video, without the drone shots being used excessively. It's a good way to show an overview of a place from a different perspective.

Since drone video is without audio, you need some sort of audio track to overlay on it to keep things interesting. The traditional singing and chants work really well to set the tone of the piece.
"Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people."

Economists universally agree both personal and corporate income taxes should be abolished and replaced with taxes on carbon, wealth etc.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...
Considering UCL also released a study[0] saying eCigs helped smokers quit, I would assume transitioning off of traditional cigarettes to vaping counts as quitting for the purpose of this headline.

[0] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/oct/e-cigarettes-may-help-ov...
...there are downvotes in HN!?
Thanks BTC which make it true!
BTC is the only thing that is totally useless and harmful!
I's a guide on how to pay privately with cryptocurrencies. You should still report and pay tax for private cryptocurrencies.

Privacy and tax evasion are not identical..
More fun would be "illiterate, why you are it"
Common sense. You demonstrate on low profile accounts so when the “client” pays you for the real job, you still have access to the vulnerability.
Really cool, I remember having issues with this and wanting a solution. Bookmarked for future use!
Yes, never said it can't be done. I'm saying that the success rate is ridiculously low, our anecdotes aside.

EDIT: BTW, congrats, I don't mean to take anything away from you, doubly so because you did it cold turkey indicates some serious emotional willpower. But I think you're the exception. Here's some CDC numbers for you, seems like a little north of a ten percent success rate:

In 2015, 68.0% of adult smokers (22.7 million) said that they wanted to quit smoking.

In 2018, 55.1% of adult smokers (21.5 million) said that they had made a quit attempt in the past year.

In 2018, 7.5% of adult smokers (2.9 million) successfully quit smoking in the past year

In 2017, 2300 people per day started smoking (839k annually)

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cess...
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
That’s hyperbole. More like the beginning of the end of elected officials’ use of social media.
If I dress myself like a valet and you hand me your car keys in front of a hotel, am I stealing the car when I drive off?

Well in this case people intended their money to go one place, but they got tricked and it ended up in another.
I'd call that stealing.

Whether it got technically stolen from the charity or whatever they meant it to go to or from the original owner, that's debatable.
You're thinking of pull quotes, which can be confusingly similar to block quotes but are a different thing:

> It seems that many people (myself included) confuse blockquotes and pull quotes.

> The main purpose of a blockquote is to separate a large section of text — quoted from an outside source — that is relevant to the source material at hand.

> A pull quote is a section of the article pulled out of its context and repeated to give either emphasis, or to aid the reader in scanning the article.[0]

Unfortunately HTML doesn't provide a pull quote element so you have to make do with applying some CSS to a <blockquote>, or <p>, or whatever to get the desired visual effect.

[0]: https://www.studiopress.com/how-to-use-block-quotes/
Evolutionary pressure selects for survival, however the "less likely to kill" is entirely your assumption.

No. For example: https://www.westernmassnews.com/news/could-covid-19-weaken-o...

Two Italian doctors claim they are increasingly seeing weaker and less deadly cases of COVID-19 in the country. Hamilton said it's not uncommon for a virus to become less pathogenic as time goes on. “Over time they become less dangerous or less virulent because they just want to live in you and replicate in you,” she said.

Hamilton said viruses, in general, are trying to pass on their genetic material. “In some pathogens, it’s actually better if they don’t kill you because if you’re still alive, you’re more likely to spread them around,” she said.

This is why she said some of the most successful viruses raise the fewest red flags “Things like head colds or warts,” she said.
Apple, Kanye, Gates, Bezos, more hacked in Twitter account crypto scam
The state doesn't provide roads and services on its own, it neither has the required qulification for building them nor posseses funds to sponsor the required effort. Firstly, it needs to take money from somewhere where a money-represented value already exists in the world and then use it to pay for the work of qualified individuals, that tend to self-organise in private entities. The work always is done and the value always is created by individuals. In a transparent world the state wouldn't be able to claim ownership of any results of the work sponsored by money taken from other private entities with a help of the "or else" incantation.
It's funny that it's ok to commit computer crimes if you do it to against the enemeies of the current zeitgeist.

Not exactly a paragon of a fair and just society
They can seemingly do most acts which occur in war, as long as they don’t officially declare it.

I mean, when is the last time we officially declared war? It has to have been decades ago.
Leave Microsoft out of this.
> Politics have been getting in the way of Americans broadly adopting a crucial preventative health measure: Wearing a mask in public

The experts got in the way. Fauci, the Surgeon General of the US, and the WHO all strongly discouraged masks for quite a while.

Fauci finally admitted:

“We were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply,” Fauci told The Street. "We wanted to make sure the people, namely, the healthcare workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in harm's way to take care of people who you know were infected with coronavirus, and the danger of them getting infected. We did not want them to be without the equipment they needed."
I imagine there’s only a small overlap between users that know how to track transactions, and those that would fall for this.
If you’re looking in the event log, I think it’s fine to have human readable error messages.
For every one couple who wants to get pregnant but can’t due to weight or sperm count, I would wager there are dozens and dozens who cannot afford to take on a baby.
This might actually explain the simple scam nature. Setting up more complex monetisation, i.e. by shorting a company, takes quite a while, especially if you don't want to be tracked. A bitcoin scam is quick and simple to do. And it's not _too_ illegal (compared to, for example, stock manipulation), so the attacker will probably catch less heat.
> He also got hired - apparently the committee agreed that "can't think when hungry" is not really that important a flaw.

I hope you suggested that this employee get tested for hypoglycemia. It'd probably greatly improve their quality-of-life to go from "my brain isn't working and I don't know why" to "my brain isn't working and I know exactly why; I need to drink some fruit juice."
I wonder if when global warming starts eating coastal cities will the government have to seek out centenarian fortran programmers to analyze the climate models?

(like the new jersey unemployment system in cobol)

:)
Of course it's a matter of time. But it's a little like watching the nuclear fireball rise over the Trinity test site and think "Wow, I can't wait to use this technology for radioisotope imaging." That's one thing that it can be used for, yes! There are others.
American Fall (2016)
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility
All you're pointing out here is that a candidate should be able to differentiate between average, mean, median, and mode, and should be able to swiftly correct "what's the difference between average and median" to "do you mean mean and median? because a median is a type of average".

Given that, showing more charity to the comment you're responding to would have been the correct course of action.
Ah alright, really impossible to tell with everything going on!
Unknown = Aristotle.

In that video from Larry McEnerney linked above he says: Tell them what question they have the text is going to answer.
Or just bite the bullet and learn how format statements really work. ;)
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That cuts to the heart of it - the 'old elites' get most of the attention, but they're not the only ones affected.
For what it's worth, that's just income directly from sponsored content. The bulk of livable streaming income (outside of huge endorsements) comes from monthly subscriptions, so conversion rate matters as much as total viewership.
In time you may come to view this as a bug, not a feature.
Thanks BTC which make it true! BTC is the only thing that is totally useless and harmful!
Weird that they just not charge for egress as with other services.

Also it seems a lot cheaper, assuming full hd is 1 MB/s. That would mean approx 3.6GB/h which would come out at 0.54$/h in comparison to their 0.15$/h pricing
Don't ship the source code?
This is so extremely true, it’s insane. I’m particularly thinking about these “polymath” guys on Twitter that have a following for reading the Stoics, into Keto, and following Naval and Tim Ferris. They sell their courses and continue to espouse their strong takes on everything.

At a real life event they would quickly be seen as a know it all and too domineering, and taken down a few notches. But online they grow a “community”. It’s not all bad, and they share some good thoughts, but it is very different, for better or for worse.
I'm just glad the fallout from this isn't nuclear, to be honest.
Surely any individual client would have had their api keys immediately blocked. It would have to be more like a compromise of, say, the API key back end that allows them to surveil logins over a period of time, and the accounts we are seeing hacked is what they scraped.
I don’t think it’s a valid reason. It’s not considered widely unethical or evil to eat meat, therefore people should not suffer disproportionate consequences. Note I’m not saying eating meat is unassailable, I’m saying for most people it’s an okay position.

In the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s universities allowed people to espouse things which were then outside the norm, contrarian and subversive. We could construct philosophies to either support or impune (the whole somewhat discredited moral relativism which had garnered popularity) but at the end of the day universities allowed people to say foul things or upset large populations of people without resorting to firing or censuring or shaming them.
This is the route I would have taken, but not with OTM puts. It’s far easier to let the stock tank, then buy up calls knowing that the reason is bullshit, and wait for the price to recover and sell.

You will blend in perfectly because you have an alibi for why you are buying so many TSLA calls.

And when you buy an OTM put, it’s hard to predict what a good price would be exactly. How far do you think the stock would drop? With a call you could be fairly more confident it will return to a previous level.

That said, this kind of attack requires you to have a good amount of capital on hand, so you need to be a fairly independently wealthy hacker.
Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
Well the victim's business was in developing countries. Perhaps his killer or killers were based there too.