skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You had to charge each project you worked on and record your time to .1 hour precision.

So recording 1.1 against project 3456 would charge that project for 1 hour and 6 minutes of your time.

You had to do the same thing for a dentist appointment. 1.0 hours for an "overhead project".

(I should mention this was years ago)

Also, lots of the people who worked there were ex-government employees and were fine with it, because software folks got to go home to their family every day at a predictable time, you would get training at regular intervals and although the pay wasn't super competitive it was a good job, indoors and in an air-conditioned office.
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Maybe it's not two "Factor" auth because ID/pass and card number is both knowledge of secret.
"Tweet As User" is the basis for almost all social media management tools and Twitter still doesn't have very fine-grained permissions grants. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/apps/guides/app...

We had a running gag in our social media startup of tweeting "poop" from people who left their phones/computers unlocked ... someone did it to an employee that was logged in as a customer (corporate brand) context and that was the end of that 'joke'.
That’s exactly how I feel all the time.

I guess I have an AI soul mate now
Yes, I'm currently working on implementing this using a Lattice iCE40 FPGA. Not the largest or most powerful of devices but I don't need much for this and it does have a fully open source pipeline available.

The other part of reverse engineering something like this is to figure out the other parameters of the chip, e.g. propagation delay, slew rate, output voltage profile etc. etc.
You can calculate the orbital velocity of an object from your distance from the object. v=sqrt(Gm/r) where v is the velocity, G is the gravitational constant, m is the mass of the black hole, and r is the distance from the black hole. Any slower and it’ll fall in; faster and it’ll drift away.

For an object 10x the size of the earth, a satellite would need to travel at 282300m/s to orbit the object at 50km. He’s off by a factor of 1000, due to units change from m to km. This is about a thousandth of the speed of light, but about 4x the speed of the fastest manmade object.

If you weren’t at orbital velocity and were stopped instead, you’d be pulled towards the black hole at 162600g of acceleration.

10mass of the earth is a lot of mass. You get pulled towards the earth at the rate of 1g when you’re (earth’s radius) distance away from the center of earth, you’re dealing with an insane amount of force when you’re only 50km away.
That seems like it was the case, but the attackers got access to lower privileged accounts and used them to find who had that access so they could target them.
If you want to be filter bubbled, there are plenty of sites that cater to that right now.
On a side note. Mike Duncan's been silent since april 7th. At least on revolutionspodcast.com.
it's not copying the cookie, but there are absolutely third party UIs via a user's API key, it's not a huge leap of faith to assume Twitter has similar internally.
Well Twitter did indeed have malicious internal employees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

If you're hit by a paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200717083254/https://www.washi...
He explicitly calls out the elephants in the last paragraph

Namely Well-typed, FPComplete and Tweag.io who are all consultancy companies working on the Cardano project
Not programable at run-time, it was factory programmed and part of the main logic for the processor accessing RAM/CIA/VIA/SID/etc. Im no expert but I think it was mainly memory address decoding etc.
> captured the high end with a superior experience in the fundamentals (the phones are better, the OS is smoother, etc etc),

And many it is a superior experience because of the restriction to one App Store. Everywhere else seems to have tons of malware.
I’m EU-based and my business is going to be B2C SaaS so these tips might not help you a lot. To minimize legal exposure the safest bet is to form a limited liability company wether that be a Spanish SL, a Dutch BV ir a German GmbH. Usually these also have a smaller counterpart which doesn’t require as much capital but still provides you with limited liability. If you need an US based corporation Stripe Atlas might also be of interest to you or if you need an EU-based one Estonia offers something called an eResidency and lets you create an EU business from abroad. Apart from that having an account take care of your taxes or at least proof-read your yearly filings seems like another step to limit you personal responsibility, even if a bit expensive.

As for VAT, I’m focusing on the EU market at the moment. EU law is that all SaaS B2C sales have to pay VAT in the country where the client resides, luckily there’s a process called mini one stop shop which allows you to file your VAT taxes in one EU country (while still indicating the country of every sale) which will then take care of the redistribution of the VAT taxes (a similar procedure exists for non-EU businesses who have EU customers, searching for EU VAT on e-Services should help you get started). With Stripe that means creating a taxId for every country and matching that with the country of residence my users have to provide on checkout when I create their session in the backend. Sadly I haven’t found any good applications that then take care of everything so it’s probably going to have to be a mix of csv importing everything into accounting software and handing everything to an account. It’s a bit frustrating tbh because it looks like accounting will be the single biggest expense in the initial phase of the business. So if anybody knows of a good solution for EU-wide SaaS B2C sales with Stripe I would be happy if they shared them. Even Quaderno and the like are not really feasible if you’re product costs less than 5$/month since they base their pricing on the number of sales.
Twitter says high-profile hack was the result of a phishing attack
They can deliver a subset of services. Unless they have a general-purpose search engine ready to go, they'll likely always lag Google on that side.
MDMA has its benefits in moderation. But cocaine will eventually steal your soul.
Plot twist: The beams are pressurized lava.
That's what time tracking software is made for. No need to pause, "just" remember to switch the software if you change tasks/projects.
The schwarzchild radius doesn’t really matter for engineering purposes. Think about the earth; when you are standing on the surface, 1 radius away from the center of mass, you experience 1g of acceleration. Imagine how much more force you experience if you were closer to the center of mass, and replaced that mass with a black hole.

It’s hard enough to build a dyson sphere at 1*earth radius, the amount of forces acting on the structure at 50km radius is insane.
Never build something no body wants to use
It's not programmable in the sense of a ((E)E)PROM; it is "programmed" in the design of the silicon logic, not programmed in the sense of putting it in a socket and (re)programming with the data you want.

PLAs have a few benefits over ROMs in that it can represent a subsection of a logic space and can also handle custom inputs / outputs like "Don't Care" or "High Impedance" / "Z state" / "Disabled" which a ROM can't do.
That’s fair, thanks for sharing your point of view
"It provides an invalid metric for making a hiring decision, namely: “do I like how this person types and talks”

Imho, 90% of getting things done in software eng revolves more around how much the devs like each other and get along, so I'm not sure this statement is accurate.

The other huge factor which I think this platform, and many like it, completely miss is the candidates personal experience. For instance, a Dev could get completely tripped up having to learn Docker on the fly because Docker wasn't a part of their daily experience - and probably won't be in the "real job" either. That doesn't mean they can't deliver top notch Java code. I personally think all these sights are doing it backward - they should be focused on asking the candidate what skills they think they know best, and then testing on that. Maybe 70% should be on what the candidate is great at and 30% on a new type of challenge the candidate hasn't had to see how quickly they can adapt to a new challenge. These test are often the exact opposite (because engineering is a wide field) and in my experience both taking and giving these tests, they are no more beneficial or accurate than 'does this person get along with my existing team.'

Just my 2 cents. Good luck to you.
Let's invest in medium speed national passenger rail that will go to cities of 100,000 population everywhere.
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Won't that pave the way to the very thing everyone got up in arms about net neutrality for? Having to pay more for certain types of traffic or to certain websites. If your ISP is supposed to forward on some funds to certain types of content then you'll bet they'll add packages and throttle bandwidth for certain content unless you pay extra.

Regulation clearly won't help in the US any many parts of the world if ISPs have that kind of leeway, even if "regulated".
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Real-time noise suppression for video conferencing
I don't feel this way at all. Videos have automatic subtitles which you can automatically translate into the language of your choice, speech recognition is so good that the right tool will let you program with it, text to speech is a button-click away for basically any Web page (all I need is an extension). Post-processing for color blindness is amazing, left-to-right languages render readably on a consistent basis. OCR is progressing dramatically and we're starting to see projects focused at individual users, and automatic image tagging gives textual descriptions of a huge amount of picture content.

We're at a point where a lot of these tools haven't matured in their consumer implementations, but that's coming. It's just a matter of time.

That's all ignoring the soft accessibility of things like iPads that have made computing accessible to Grandma.
Screwfix uses the same model doesn't it? I think they still have catalogs. Given that elderly people and very young children might prefer a catalog they may be missing out on a bit of business, but the costs of the department producing the catalog is likely to be huge!
> ... turn down to their laps to look at their Apple or Google phones, Google search something, ...

This reminds me of the article where the newspapers know when a senator or congressman is reading their article. Maybe these are seasoned politicians, but I wonder how much subtle influence will wend its way into government going forward.
The interstate highway system had something to do with the end of long distance rail.
They maybe evaluated by some sales metric rather than percentage of hours present during shift hours ;)
Thanks for the follow up. That is..shocking.
Yes, probably. I was not referring so much to "benefits", or lack thereof, but to the subjective experience of the kind of high it gives.
Hardware is way cheaper than 11 months salary + lost opportunity cost.
> The answer is that it's much simpler to send everyone a check.

I am always shocked by the general lack of awareness people have about world intricacies.

Social welfare, fiscality and related issue in modern developped countries is one of the most complex systems I know of. I am 100% serious. It's a huge mess of rules, exceptions, directives, conflicting aspirations, unforceable & not unforceable || not unforced rules, outdated scheme, 0,1% population targeting welfare, federal, state, regional, city size rules and much more.

It crosses to healthcare, food, housing, education and more.

This whole mess was built bit by bit, step by step, over decades.

Thinking "we could send everyone a check" is right down heresy to anyone having truly worked aroung these fields.

* Else the check amount is the same for everyone and good luck to 4 kids families in high rent area

* Else the check is calculated depending on all the above factors and this system will never roll out (check Obamacare implementation issues)
sorry, again, I'm not following you. How does the ineffectiveness of tax regimes mean that Google and friends aren't competing like a normal business?
> Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month?

Private Eye is £34 a year, so $3.72 a month. And it comes every two weeks.
Isn't there something about genetic predisposition to happiness https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8kb4/this-gene-mutation... ?

> -being happy in inappropriate contexts (people tend to not resonate with you when you're happy at a funeral).

Oh ! I have that. I somehow feel very calm and tranquil at a funeral. I understand it's a breaking point for people and it brings into focus a lot of emotions and tensions and I have that too but not at funeral.
The interwebs were full of these
https://gifcities.org/?q=construction

Not that I'd know anything about that.
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The question was interpreted as “why do admin tools have these features” on account of that was in the first sentence, and not, as you may have imagined, a request for a twitter employee to explain all of their tools, or a request for a twitter employee to justify creating these tools.
> Do you really have an incentive to change something to the better if you are in a constant state of happiness?

I'm not sure what a constant state of "happiness" is because I certainly don't consider it en emotion in and of itself, (I consider it contentment, or perhaps euphoria on an occasion, or perhaps lack of suffering), so I'm not sure the concept of "chronic happiness" even makes sense vs the very real physiological effects of chronic stress on the body and mind.

Suffering is only informative as a signal. You have to parse it out and identify the source yourself in order to translate it into effective motivation. This same process is likely necessary to achieve the "happiness" in the first place.

Optimizing outcomes will likely be easier if you're able to focus on the task at hand with a clear mind, or you're able to address background stress, and will let you know if your stress is pushing you in the wrong direction (say, towards a career, but because of social pressure and not your own volition).
The VPN credentials could be phished. Of course appropriately-secured might mean U2F, in which case it likely would have prevented the attack. But they also could have used U2F without a VPN, and that also would have likely prevented the attack. So the VPN isn't really a benefit.
When you "consume" a new piece of information you have are three options: verify it yourself, believe without proof or dismiss it without proof.

The problem is that some claims are hard to verify so you immediately have to believe or dismiss the claim without proof. However, when you receive new information it is possible to change your stance on unproven claims. Over time you develop a network of claims that strengthen each other. This makes you less susceptible to obviously wrong information because you can easily cross check it based on several existing claims. The downside is that when you see a new obviously correct claim it could potentially require you to throw out a large portion of your existing beliefs. It's less risky to just deny the claim even if it had substance.
I don't like this phone since lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, sed do eiusmod videus chatum incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Seriously, does it even support rutrum tellus pellentesque eu tortor lowlightena capturum nulla? Apple Iphone eget blurtutate bokehus at tellus at urna condimentum mattis pellentesque?
http://archive.is/NVCYs
That's not true if you consider the world around you and your interactions with it to be part of your "state".
The numbers are not fantasy at all - this will be a huge radio telescope - one square kilometer of pure collecting area and thousands of receiving antennas (For reference: Arecibo has around 0.073 km^2). We are talking data input to the correlator on the terabit/s scale.
And technology-demonstration with ASKAP are well under way.
ALMA is working quite well by now as well (> 600 Gb/s with just an 50 antenna array).
When I think of situations like that, I think it's an ecosystem and if youtube would be limited or disappear lots of other services would spring up.
I found the mock latin with mobile words hilarious. Also, devices needs more checkers...
Qt is more and more trying to get away with restricting the open source version as much as they can without triggering KDE's escape rights.
While it's not the selling point politically, I think those lobbying for things like this are very much happy with any monoculture that results.
With services like Google News, people can get exposed to news from various media outlets, but by killing it through lobbying for absurd regulatory burdens on aggregators the well known larger outlets can choke out access to their competition. This of course is hampered to some extent by the reality that many will just rely on other users posting on social media for news updates, and if that too is choked out through regulation on platforms, many will probably just skip the news or reduce their consumption in favor of other things like entertainment.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/06/How-to-improve-your-blog...
That seems a sane response to obvious, impending doom, tbh. Panicking doesn't seem like it would help much, either.

In any case that seems like a separate emotion than "happy"... "traumatized" seems more like it.
I’m old enough to remember all of these things you’ve condescendingly assumed I must be ignorant of, including trying to find my way around LA freeways, during my first hours in America, at night, with a paper map unfolded on my lap, trying to work my way backwards from the address of our motel to our current location, as that changed constantly at 60 mph.

Google Maps is much better.

But you’re missing my point, and also the specific thing I was replying to. My point was not that things didn’t work before Google, obviously they did - we’re here, now. The universe didn’t start with Google. My point is that so many businesses and people today are directly, constantly, relying on the multitude of Google services that if Google went away overnight it would be a catastrophe for them. Google going away overnight is the thing that was posited in the post I replied to.

I also made no assertion about whether Google is a net good or not, so again you’re replying to something I didn’t say.

(For the record I do believe sum of the services provided by Google and the cost at which they provide them is a net good for the world. No, In not interested in debating that)
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I don't believe there was a tool allowing support personnel to pose as users. I believe the tool allows support personnel to reset emails on accounts. Then the attackers used did password resets on the accounts then logged into the accounts and tweeted.
Some math shows that can't work. Half a trillion to 35 million is US$15,000 per person.

For one year. And people will complain that US$15,000 is not enough to live on.

What happens in year two?
There are plenty of "good enough" engineers, most jobs are not a lot more than "intellectual grunt work while being distracted" as someone on here said.
I would not consider GMaps as an "essential" service. One, I can find my way around my city well. Two, I can find my way around my country well too, even with offline maps.

Also, you seem to forget that there are other mapping companies out there. Google Maps itself came into picture after crushing Satnav systems like Garmin, and Nokia Maps.

If Google Maps were to be dead today, again, it is inconvenience, but people would move on.

As to stepping into the most biggest services? What are they? Google search? I am sure venture capital would flow into other companies that are technically capable to provide internet search. You have Bing, DDG, etc. Sure, they are crap, but they are not end of the world. And they will improve. Google Mail? I can live without it. I can choose other providers. There are hundreds out there. Heck, I will setup my own mail server.

People do rely on many Google services, but people can also get by without any of that.

In an event of Google failing right now, it would sure be a macro-economically significant event, but for a very tiny section of the population. And they too would move on.

Until it fails, people will talk and talk and talk about big, size, impact, and other nonsense.

Just see when it fails. It's going to be a collective shrug from 99% of the population.
The last of the catalogue shopping - going the same way as Marshall Ward, GUS and Empire Stores.
For me it caused me to realize the value of different items, especially saving up from a paper-round and having to hand over weeks of hard-earned cash for some goods.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/06/Free-seo-tools.html?m=1
Nonetheless, they have customers because a need (for privacy) hasn't been met by others. They're also probably making microsoft money.

(I just wonder if microsoft has some sort of method of identifying or matching queries with actual people)
I've been looking to get my feet wet with SAT and/or SMT solvers; can anyone recommend any short courses that I could start with to get a practical feel where where & how to use them? Python would be preferred.

Maybe this https://www.coursera.org/learn/automated-reasoning-sat would be a good start?

Ideally I would like to be able to take predicted outputs from ML plus business requirements to solve allocation problems; and more pie in the sky I would like to know enough to get inspiration for how to link a neural network with a sat solver, such as perhaps replacing or augmenting beam search in sequence decoding tasks.
Imagine thinking this is even close to accurate
Seems like they were already using openresty. Having used openresty professionally, I appreciate that it provides ways to write code to solve a lot of the problems outlined in TFA, but solving the problems out of the box is significantly better.
Big difference is screen time today is pure consumption, whereas years ago one had to be creative and make an effort to get anything out of it, so there is little comparison.
There's a hidden opportunity cost of Netflix though: instead of spending 10 hours a week watching Netflix, you could do something much more productive. Netflix is cheap, but it's also pretty much a waste of your time, you're not going to learn anything, and it doesn't satisfy: you always need the next series.

If you quit smoking, you will not just save the money you spent on it, you'll also get more energy, no cravings, and not spend an hour a day smoking. That adds up really quick.
Countries like mine benefiting from deforestation are just as culpable, we can't blame it all on Brazil.
I thought the US got rid of property qualifications for voting in 1856? Or why are you restricting to "among SF homeowners"?
Yep, I think that's a good thing. But I also think most employees will still fall for real phishing emails some of the time.
Big companies have the resources to do that sort of thing. I work at a small startup, we need some experienced people because its just extra overhead getting juniors up to speed and we are already under resourced. I don't think anyone has anything against training juniors in principle, but it takes time and effort.
I have no idea what it does, no explanation, nothing.
Totally agree about the entitlement of journalists.

I hadn't heard of PICS before, it's interesting. Is there a published story about why it failed anywhere?
More often what happens (London) is the inverse. They’ll take two carriages off and squeeze you in tighter. Mornings always 10 carriages comfortably seated? So, Let’s take two off and let them stand for their expensive season pass.