skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might also be that impersonating a government official is a serious crime.

Sure, the hackers here have committed a crime, but this was more of an embarrassment for Twitter than anything else. If they had posted from Trump's account though...
If they made a movie about how these guys did it, I would totally watch it.
Surprising that all these big box retailers are allowed to be open at all when smaller businesses are forced to close.
mmcclure is way too polite to say so, but Amazon IVS is definitely not going to give you 2s latency.

Currently, IVS configured for "ultra low latency" is using HLS segments that are three seconds long. The client tries not to buffer more than one segment, so on a good network connection you'll see ~4 seconds of latency.

In theory, you could start playing the video while you're still downloading the first segment. That's how you'd get ~2s of latency. But the AWS player doesn't actually do that. And for good reason. These are TCP connections, so if there's any packet loss at all, you'll have to either buffer or skip the segment and change bitrates. Starting the video and then immediately buffering is a pretty poor user experience.

This is pretty easy to test. I just did, twice: streaming from OBS on my desktop and then directly from our compositing servers in the cloud. In both cases the latency was ~4 seconds.
Buy mining equipment and start mining.

The ROI won’t be great but you’ll have virgin coins to do what you want with.
It sounds like definitely an opportunity at the minimum for the existing online interviewing sites to provide a service which installs a candidate's vim configuration (or emacs, not sure how that one works) from a public Github (or other host) git repository URL. They've already gone through the trouble of sandboxing the runtimes somehow so it can't be that difficult to also sandbox the editor. Not sure how it would work for other IDEs but that should at least support vim, maybe others like VS Code and IntelliJ too.
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Lol @ wouldn't hire Jesus of Nazerath to be a story teller. I'm going to use this phrase.

Also, I love it when people say Jesus of Nazerath. Such a melody to that.
I speak English and Spanish and I have almost no hand gestures. But I see other English speakers that are mono-lingual and they have extensive hand gestures. I wonder what is up with that?
I do believe exercise and strength is helpful for long term health, but these studies obviously don't control for the fact that people with poor health / health conditions are both more likely to die in the future and less likely to exercise / develop strength in the present...
They are not currently using ASICs, so ASICs are presumably not a good fit for the application. Maybe the NRE costs are too excessive given the very small volume, flexibility/updateability is essential, TTM is too long, something else, or some combination of the above. Any way you slice it, being cut off from Xilinx is going to cost Huawei.

Building a competitive ASIC will also be significantly more challenging now that Huawei has been cut off from all the major EDA companies.

Finally, I assume that Xilinx is well into development on future product lines based on newer processes. It would be extremely difficult for Huawei to bootstrap their way to commercially competitive FPGAs.
It's reverse money laundering! Take legit money and dirty it by faking a scheme where it was stolen due to a scam.
I'm practicing wearing two masks.
The weird thing is the virus has been around for 6 months and no one has caught it twice...
They're far less rare than Rust jobs from what I've seen.
Your working from an overly simplistic model of cooling. The delta between the fin temperature and CPU temperature makes a huge difference in cooling efficiency. Two sets of fins may be moving the same amount of heat, but the CPU’s are at different temperatures due to differences in plumbing. Also, the way your working fluid flows through a radiator is a big deal, ideally you want the coldest part of the radiator on a return loop rather than heating the fluid as it’s passed to the CPU block.

Now, sure under ideal conditions and stock settings it’s not a big deal. But, in practice things get tricky.
Why do employees even have access to tools that allow them to take over accounts? What use case does having this functionality provide?

Unless they're saying that there's certain people who have raw DB access...
For strength training, you want exercises that can be performed with increasingly heavier weights (e.g. barbell exercises). This is how you get stronger. If you always lift the same weight you won't get stronger.
Multi-billion company with thousands of employees of a shitty micro-blogging website can't make their site read-only lol

Just shows how massively overvalued these projects are — crash and burn.
I think initially, yes, but you might rather quickly be walking into diminishing returns. The idea is to get your heart rate up and force your body to build more efficient ways to create/consume energy. If you are in good shape, walking might not do this unless you're thinking of long-ass multi hour walks.

But there are other aerobic forms of training than running!
If they wanted to get as much money as possible without being caught what else could they have done?

If that was the case they could only deal with bitcoin. Blackmailing with bitcoin may be smarter but maybe they figured that would be investigated more or treated more harshly? They could have released fake financial tweets and shorted the market - but that still would be investigated much faster.

I'm sure the 100k or whatever they got isn't as much as it could be - but for a random dude who paid 10k to a disgruntled employee it is pretty good.
Didn't Twitter buy "Moxie Marlinspike"'s company specifically to get him to fix their security? I guess they didn't really get much out of that. Now I'm starting to get nervous about the security of Signal.
It depends on your heart rate during the exercise.

I walk a lot. You can increase heart rate while walking by walking uphill or walking with weights, such as water jugg in a backpack.
How did you start? Any recommended regime?
Got myself an elliptical machine second hand for $50. Great for getting your heart rate up without a lot of impact on the spine. The heart rate formula for good cardio is 90% of 220 minus your age. I can hit that easily on the machine. I highly recommend it.
I remember a debate in the 90’s on if consumers should have to get licensed (like ham radio operators) to use a personal computer on the internet.

Maybe eternal September wouldn’t have happened...
Is there a good resource to learn more? I went to a fertility clinic and was told nothing really could be done lifestylewise to improve motility. They seemed to think IVF and IUI are the only way, which they offered for a fair chunk of change.
More prosaically, and less politically, academia is full of people who are very smart but not necessarily emotionally and socially well-adjusted. If you conjure in your mind a stereotypical non-self-aware computer nerd who sees that the people around him know less about networking than he does and therefore cannot fathom that his understanding might be inferior to theirs in other ways, think of how much more powerful and persistent this misperception can be when you replace networking with behavioral economics, foreign policy, or the works of George Eliot. Many academics take it for granted that they must be emotionally sophisticated because of what they study. It doesn't occur to them that they can write about poetry or social theory for a living and still be operating on an early adolescent level in their relations with other people. It's pretty obvious that you can be an emotional child and brilliant at an adult level with computers, less obvious but just as true with any subject where success is measured by your ability to publish a paper that other people cite or argue about.
> Couldn't tell an average from a median.

Shouldn't that be tell a mean from a median?
Commissioning means "putting into service" in this context (to me, at least).
Maybe they just drop dead immediately in their homes? /s

Seriously though, it's baffling because smoking causes so many underlying health problems that don't go well with COVID. Also, smokers have a depressed immune system compared to nonsmokers, so it would seem to suggest they'd be less likely to fight off an infection like this.
That means nothing in isolation. Fill us in.
Last I checked, the aerobic range is a quantified goal so you should be able to alter your circumstances to hit the range while walking. Personally I've been walking for weight loss and exercise since 2013 and a lot of it easily qualifies as aerobic, just depending on the incline, pace, weight carried, and other factors.
+1 for a blog post please!
Buy shares in a small publicly traded company. Pump/dump shares. One tweet from musk stating he was adding such and such to all Teslas would send the target company through the roof.
Did the Whole30 diet. No gluten, no dairy for 30 days. Life of allergy pills and skin cream (6 shots a week as a kid in the 80s) Got worse as I got older (40s now). 20 days in no ezcema no pills. Day 31 you add something back. Had some udon and a beer. 5 minutes later turned red, had issues breathing and itchy all over. Hum. It’s gluten. Test (blood) from doc no celiacs. WTF? Do some research, get butt scope to look at my intestines. Hum, looks like you should not eats stuff with gluten. I miss beer and the perfect cheese steak (the roll is a major factor in the yum level). Feel so much better. It’s a pain to eat out. Cross contamination is a bitch.

Still drink wine every dinner and smoke a cigar everyday :)
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Here’s pretty good starting point for building overall strength: https://stronglifts.com/5x5/
It depends on what you mean by "live." Twilio video is WebRTC, so it's very low latency. (Much lower than IVS.) But Twilio scales only to 50 people watching at a time, and costs ~10x what IVS costs.

On the other hand, IVS scales to an infinite audience. But IVS has 4+ seconds of latency. Which might not be live enough for your use case.

With IVS, you'll also need some way of capturing the video, encoding it as RTMP, and sending it to AWS. Not terribly hard if you've done a fair amount of video work previously, but not trivial if you haven't.

If IVS is roughly what you need, it's very much worth looking at Mux. Great APIs, great support, been around much longer, and there's excellent sample code for building stuff on mobile.

If you do need interactive latency (<200ms), you might also want to check us out at Daily.co. We compete with Twilio programmable video, have been around roughly as long, scale to 200 people in a live session, and we can stream to Mux for infinitely scalable recording and IVS-style live distribution.
In electricity production, in absence of diminishing consumption, new production always replaces something. IOW - in absence of that coal plant, something else would be running (or less electricity would be used).
I often wonder if research into neural networks is taking air away from other kinds of research that would yield similar results, but also yield a comprehensible takeaway in the form of principles or equations, rather than vague hints that we can (if we’re lucky) reverse engineer from the structure of an NN.
What if qualities you might judge in an interview other than “general IQ” and “grit” are even more bias-prone, and using those other qualities is actually worse than measuring “general IQ” and “grit” and applying a corrective factor?

In other words, I’d rather work with a disadvantaged person who may appear rough around the edges but made it this far and has the “general IQ” and “grit” to do well on the programming problem, than the preppy white kid who has a lifetime of experience preparing for the task of exuding status and competency when answering behavioral questions or engineering case studies, but lacks the “general IQ” and “grit” to solve the programming problem.
Gwatch: Program that watches for file modifications and auto-commits them in Git
It would’ve crazy to “fix” that problem. It would be making US corporations the highest tax corporations in the world and give foreign companies like Samsung a huge advantage over auS competitors.
5x5 is a simple and effective program. It's gone the route of marketing and sales but the principle is the same. A few big lifts a few times a week produces a lot of strength. You'll be surprised. You don't need to do 50 exercises.
Correlation is not causation.

People who work out tend to practice a range of healthy habits.
I’m surprised they pulled off that much.
You wouldn't need to gain any money directly for the tweet. Load up put options and fire off Trump tweets in your favor during market hours. You'll make orders of magnitude more than whatever you could get from followers without any trace back to you.
LMAO. Of course they would say that.

Best Case: This was a mole.

Worst Case: A hacker found a backdoor and enabled god mode.
For sure, the hard part isn't building it, it's getting people to actually use it. The amount of effort involved of actually acquiring and transporting a hardware security key is well beyond what most "normal" people are willing to do.

Plus, reading your example in a different comment, it's completely jarring to someone who isn't used to reading things in that format.
Get started with any exercise is difficult! Soon after I commence, I find exercise-induced injuries that force me to rest until the pain goes away. A younger me would ignore the pain bit now I'm not so invincible anymore.

More exercise also necessitates more sleep, which can be hard to do when there isn't enough of time.
How would you write a regex that does this? How do you determine whether a string of characters is random?
You beat me by 1 minute! 5x5 is an excellent starter program. I've lifted for about 10 years and while I'm more in the advanced and intermediate lifting programs, 5x5 is my goto when I have a long hiatus in lifting. I'm definitely doing it once the COVID lockdowns are over.
I started with Stronglifts 5x5. It's a good starter program if you haven't lifted before, because it'll give you the opportunity to drill and learn the movements, and the program is simple, and there's an app that holds your hand.

In terms of programming, it has some deficiencies, but most people just need a structured program to start with. You can probably run it for 12-18 weeks and then have a strong foundation to switch to another program. People argue its deficiencies, but if it gets you started and gets you structure to build a routine with, that's what you need, IMO.

For the last couple of years, I've been training with Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 program, and it's fantastic. I keep getting stronger and can probably happily train on it for many years to come. I've competed in a couple of local powerlifting meets, and have a routine that I feel like I can sustain forever. There is a 531 for Beginners program, too, but it's less hand-holdy than Stronglifts.
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Seems cool, I'd love it generated or was OpenSCAD code though
I don't think a replacement is needed. If your communication is important to a lot of people, it shouldn't be just immediately jammed into 280 characters using your thumbs while sitting on the toilet or whatever.

Post it on congress.gov using some inefficient boring process or whatever the official communication method of your role is.
The income tax on that bounty would halve its value compared to Bitcoin, if they have a way to cash out that isn’t reported.

Also for example, if they’re a US student, they could lose access to benefits and loans as a result of reporting the income.
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Learning the ropes of a new company is fair and being slower at first is to be expected, but explaining that code reviews need to be tested to a senior hire isn't as fair. Similarly a new senior hire should be able to hop into a code review and catch problems/suggest improvements early in the process.

These two behaviors aren't as dependent on knowledge of the system as they are on core coding competencies. The whiteboard interview reasonably works to assess these, but it requires a lot of prep and is prone to false negatives.
You're right, unfortunately that's what it sounds like I'm saying. It's not really what I meant. The idea I was trying to get across is closer to "being able to communicate what I'm thinking about as I'm thinking about it, and verbalizing that as a coherent sentence rather than just fragments." Ironically, I wish I had communicated that better :)
IDK about you, but bodyweight exercises are much more boring that lifting iron.
Kettlebells go all the way up to 5 poods bro
Everyone involved in the process wants you to succeed. If not out of the goodness of our hearts, then because we've invested time. Under-preparedness is a stupid and preventable reason to lose a candidate.

When someone comes in and bombs, that is at least valuable information: we don't want to work with this person. When someone comes in and seems smart and capable, but makes hardly any progress on the problem because it's obviously their first time on a whiteboard, it's just regrettable all around.

We're not selecting for preparedness. In fact, we try to select against it: interviewers take pride in designing twists that separate understanding from recall. If you seem to be recalling, we're supposed to pick a different question, or failing that, report a null signal. But we do need you to be prepared enough that your interview skills don't get in the way of your actual skills.
If their goal was to get BTC, why would they copy/paste the exact same message with the same Bitcoin address for every compromised account? Nobody who could pull this off would be that dumb.
The most important part is at the end:

According to Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, a member of the team, the graph neural network learned to encode a pattern that physicists call correlation length. That is, as DeepMind’s graph neural network restructured itself to reflect the training data, it came to exhibit the following tendency: When predicting propensities at higher temperatures (where molecular movement looks more liquid-like than solid), for each node’s prediction the network depended on information from neighboring nodes two or three connections away in the graph. But at lower temperatures closer to the glass transition, that number — the correlation length — increased to five.

“We see that the network extracts, as we lower the temperature, information from larger and larger neighborhoods” of particles, said Thomas Keck, a physicist on the DeepMind team. “At these different temperatures, the glass looks, to the naked eye, just identical. But the network sees something different as we go down.”

Increased correlation length is a hallmark of phase transitions, in which particles transition from a disordered to an ordered arrangement or vice versa. It happens, for instance, when atoms in a block of iron collectively align so that the block becomes magnetized. As the block approaches this transition, each atom influences atoms farther and farther away in the block.
Really depends on the person, I think. I would lose interest without being able to easily see progression week after week in the form of increasing weight on the bar. At least in the beginning.
Pass regulation that puts in a place a federated messaging infrastructure, so that Twitter users can subscribe to messaging from Government official that sends out messages via an external system.
The post you're replying to is suggesting that manipulating the market like that draws the attention of some very powerful organizations. It'll likely be investigated swiftly and they'll come down on you harshly when compared to the consequences of some Bitcoin scamming.
Apples foreign sales and profits are taxed in every country they sell in.

- then the remaining profits are taxed again by the US government when Apple repatriates them to the US.

- Then the remainder are taxed again by the state Apple reports them in.

- Then they are taxed again by the federal government when Apple shareholders receive the remainder as dividends.

- Then they are taxed once more by the Shareholders state, finally allowing the shareholder to spend (or reinvest) what remains.
The argument against (in 3d graphics/games): "Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine" by Marc ten Bosch, https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/

(And its HN threads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200260 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18365433)
If you have a system where customer service reps are strictly unable to access your data without some kind of cryptographic authentication, that defeats the purpose of customer service for 80% of customers (who suck at using computers and mostly just lose their passwords). If you’re in the other 20%, you might as well use some kind of decentralized cryptographic system with no customer service anyway. This is one of the chief complaints I see against Bitcoin on here - “what if I lose my password?” - the implicit dual to that being that someone else can access your account without your password, and you hope they’re not a bad actor.
That sounds like centralized with extra steps
The LD50 in rats for caffeine is < 200mg/kg and this MSDS has a neat skull & crossbones under the words "toxic if swallowed":

https://www.fishersci.com/shop/msdsproxy?productName=O172850...

...also for reference caffeine seems to be more than an order of magnitude more toxic than pure ethyl alcohol by weight.
Did the attackers have direct access to the database, or why does their internal admin dashboard allow employees to tweet on behalf of any account?
Because america doesn't fight wars it cant win :(
Price is likely set based more on how much customers are willing to pay for this service. The cost to provide the service can be much lower.

Target market could be for example companies that provide live streams as streams as service (equipment, people, production etc)
I don't mean to give advice on gaming the system—I'm sorry if I came across that way. The point I was trying to make was much closer to your first line—that the current interviewing system rewards confidence and communication skills, and that debate helped me build those. Ironically, I wish I had communicated that better :)

Also, I agree that there are drawbacks to doing debate. For one, there's a certain "debate kid" mentality that I picked up and had to unlearn.
I've found that developing a workout habit is a gateway to other healthy habits. You tend have less stress and sleep better, which improves workout performance thereby creating a virtuous cycle. The drive to improve workout performance leads you to make changes to your diet and watch other health indicators more closely. It's all connected.
How to achieve a flow state easily:

0. Exercise (+5min HIIT)

1. Turn-off distractors (ex. notifications, dumbphone, etc.)

2. Breathe & drink a glass of water

3. Put a timer with your effort (Forget pomodoro!)

4. Put the tab your working on

5. Press F11

6. Start working

7. GOTO step 2. IF sleepy or tired add step 0.
Yep, for one, you shouldn’t be able to just hand over your credentials to other people and they can immediately start doing stuff in your systems.

Also, the ability to impersonate people (not just celebrities) should require at least manual approvals. Not sure why this ability even exists.

The original speculation (that it was an API vulnerability) is actually easier to stomach.
I don’t understand what is wrong with hiring someone the interviewer likes. I can see there may be racism, misogyny etc at play here. But setting that aside for a second, if people like each other, all other problems can be solved much more easily.
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