skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From his Twitter profile: "Harmless wannabe hacker | Made 50k selling configs and 1 Million sim swapping" https://twitter.com/lelouchwashere

Another story from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/twitter-tiktok...

The Twitter incident began when the hackers connected last year in an online forum focused on buying and selling rare user names, some of the individuals involved told The New York Times at that time. They then broke into Twitter’s systems by tricking employees into providing login information, according to legal filings. The hackers used an administrative tool to take over accounts belonging to political figures and celebrities, including former President Barack Obama, Kanye West and Elon Musk, using the accounts to conduct a Bitcoin scam, the filings said.

Graham Ivan Clark, an 18-year-old who prosecutors said was the “mastermind” of the Twitter hack, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in March in a Florida court and agreed to serve three years in juvenile prison. Two others, Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli, were arrested and accused of serving as middlemen for Mr. Clark to sell the Twitter accounts.

Mr. O’Connor was a well-known figure among hackers dealing in user names, going by the name “PlugWalkJoe.” According to chat logs that the hackers shared with The Times last July, Mr. O’Connor interacted with the group briefly, acquiring the Twitter handle @6.

At the time, Mr. O’Connor denied involvement in the Bitcoin scam. “I don’t care,” he said in an interview. “They can come arrest me. I would laugh at them. I haven’t done anything.”

According to an affidavit submitted by an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated the breach, Twitter’s logs showed that a Twitter account belonging to Mr. O’Connor had viewed several accounts, as though shopping, during the hack.

Ms. Thorne’s Snapchat account was compromised in June 2019, according to the affidavit. The hacker threatened to release nude photos found on the account unless Ms. Thorne posted a tweet thanking him for returning her account, the affidavit said.

Instead, Ms. Thorne posted the images on Twitter. “I feel gross, I feel watched, I feel someone has taken something from me,” she wrote in a statement accompanying the photos. “I can sleep tonight better knowing that I took my power back. U can’t control my life u never will.”
Out of curiosity from somebody watching, what makes you say it's still trash?
Yes, and perhaps that might be a problem, don't you think?
You can nearly triple your pay by contracting?
What do you think will happen when the chains beat out the smaller restaurants due to economies of scale?

They will raise prices because there are no competitors and lower wages because there are no alternatives. They will collude. They will extract the maximum economic value out of every community that they are in. Enjoy your nothing
Learning programming using Nokia feature phone with J2ME
Fwiw - GCP already does this through "Enterprise Agreements"

This is largely desired by customers with complicated acquisitions and budget allocation periods (Government)
It's possible it might mean fewer long-time residents means fewer people knowing the state and characteristics of a neighborhood and thus fewer people to notice patterns and know what's out of place and not, so fewer people to intervene against anti-social behavior and fewer people calling the cops, so it goes down hill. A tourist might not care about antisocial behavior that does not affect them. Mugging, breaking and entering, theft, etc. Whereas locals would have a stake in the health of their neighborhood and intervene.
radv is one of the fastest ones. What does it do that it shouldn't?
that sounds about right. but if you're not married, you're more likely to get to ~3,800€ a month after taxes and social security contributions, which comes in at ~42% combined.
> For example, a faster and better compiler for a popular language that itself is slow, might get some traction.

I used to think this, but now I am skeptical, because of zapcc. zapcc was almost exactly this: a faster compiler for C++, first propreitary, now open source because it failed. Still no traction.
Is this in USD?
There's Archer City, Texas. The late Larry McMurtry moved his used book operation there from the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, ago. I don't know what its long-term future is, now that McMurtry's gone, but the website says that it's still operating: https://www.bookedupac.com/.
Wouldn’t it make sense that Antarctica and the open seas are “next in line” before Mars?

The point is we have a huge, open continent. At the present moment there’s absolutely zero demand to colonize it. Why? Because it’s inhospitable and hard to get to. But it’s a hell of a lot more hospitable and accessible than Mars. So, honest question why would we expect anyone to move to Mars if they can’t even be bothered to move to Trinity Peninsula?
Or use lynx.
> No one [...] is using Kubernetes to run a simple LAMP stack.

Au contraire! This is very common. Probably some combo of resume-driven devops and "new shiny" excitement.
> If you call the cops saying that you are being taken hostage by someone with a gun who is threatening to kill your family, I don't think it is unreasonable for the cops to bust down your door.

All of these situations are very difficult and very dangerous. I don't agree in emergency situations that the police should wait, and I don't agree that police should be militarized either. There are dangers in both situations, waiting too long and have multiple armed men in APC turn up on your doorstep to kick butt.

So if we decided that waiting is not an option which I think is an acceptable stance to take, what level of force should be used in these situations becomes the question. Especially in this example where a phone call turned into an innocent death.

I don't know what the answer is, but it very concerning that this is happening.
Off topic, DAE find that drop-down Science Mag "eyelid" banner extremely annoying? I see it both here and on the In The Pipeline blog[1] I often read. Is there a browser extension that will kill such things?

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/
They doxxed a person, and allegedly misattributed racist comments to the wrong person based on that info which was gathered without authorization from Disqus.

That probably shouldn't rise to a CFAA violation, but there was a supposed ethical standard around publishing hacked information, so it's a bit weird to see that ethical consensus come and go so easily.
Author seems to have just backed into rediscovering B-trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree

> To conclude, binary trees are optimal when we ignore the cost of accessing a node, but they aren’t when it becomes costly to access a node. When we access the nodes on disk, with a high cost, it becomes interesting to bundles many keys in a node, and we gave the optimal solution. However, the problem is often solved quite more directly. We just fit as many keys as possible in an I/O block. Disks operates on small blocks of (typically) 512 bytes, but file systems operate in somewhat larger, but fixed-sized blocks, something like 4 or 8k. A good strategy is therefore to fit as many keys as possible in that block, since even if the number of comparisons is large, it will still be faster than bringing that block into main memory.
Almost every team I've worked on has needed to deploy multiple services somewhere, and almost every app has run into escalating round trip times from nested data and/or proliferating routes that present similar data in different ways. While it's true to say not all developers have those problems, they're very common.
Kutcher kitchen talks EP 1
I don’t see why it’s assumed AI would be overly antagonist. For example without biological needs they might prefer Mercury, Moons, or even Pluto depending on constraints over earth. Similarly computers have great memory persistence, but AI may sacrifice that for increased flexibility.
You're correct, "particular" and "specific" are synonyms, and I concede that I might have been unclear. I'll try again.

What bothers me, and I imagine the original commentator, is that swatting works at all. It is deeply concerning that police in America are so reliably violent that they can be used as a fairly effective murder weapon.

Discussing the fact that communication mediums that allow arbitrary messages to be sent allows one to construct abstract scenarios in which such a transmission causes a chain of events that leads to someone's death feels like it misses that point.
With regards to your "alternate theory" here's a relevant line in the paper.

> To further test the direction of causality for the results, we use a lag/lead analysis in the spirit of Granger [33, 34]. This method is used when the sample includes multiple years and uses both lead and lagged versions of the treatment variable (τ can be both positive and negative).

I don't have enough experience in econometrics/statistics to evaluate this technique. But I would assume they've determined that the increase in crimes lags behind the increase in AirBNBs.
Signal's use of phone numbers is an absolutely terrible practice and is one of a number of reasons for which I condemn it. In particular, Signal's use of phone numbers cannot be independent of SMS routing as you propose, because Signal must have some way of verifying that someone actually controls a given number, i.e., by sending messages to it. So however Signal anchors cryptographic identities to phone numbers, it has the telephone network's routing infrastructure as its ultimate anchor and thus as its Achilles heel.
If you think that's bad, you haven't been to the US. Public transport is at least an order of magnitude worse here, with all the issues you mentioned and then some, such as contracting a wide variety of crippling diseases like drug-resistant Tuberculosis and MRSA and getting maimed / killed by folks with serious mental illness.
I hope you and the author realise that sockets are a library. And used to be products! They're not naturally occurring.
"Do a little investigation first to try to corroborate the claim before treating it seriously!"

If the police don't act swiftly enough and harm was to come to anyone they'd be criticised for not taking it seriously. Police can't win either way. If you were the person in need would you want an immediate response or a little investigation first?
We had anti-hoarding measures on masks but dont seem to have them on homes. Every additional income property you own (and used as such) should have an escalating hoarding penalty.
Since shipping hardware looks like it won’t work, what’s available to buy in terms of hardware where you are? Seems like a bigger screen would help.

And then there’s the problem of money transfer. I’m guessing moving money through paypal/bitcoin/etc. doesn’t work?
Nope, just an argument against the "you must write all of this yourself" line. :)
Have you ever watched Air America?
You're blind to the injustices and violence in the system, masked under the veneer of "free transactions". There's nothing "free" about the current organization of the global economy.

Free market ≠ Capitalism ≠ Post-80s Neoliberal Capitalism
Many countries have number portability meaning you can take your number with you to your new provider, it would be ownership in the same way as a domain address.
Now make it not-brittle and prone to falling over, without using hosted k8s. ;)
Not sure if you can find stats, but many countries simply don't have a mail service infrastructure, but darn near everywhere has phones. Even North Korea has phones, although there are administrative barriers that prevent calling between most domestic NK numbers (+850) and the rest of the world.

Rural postal service gets pretty iffy in the US, and in countries with less resources, you might only get mail service in big cities.
Why can’t you pipeline desalted water? Or is there not enough throughout. Take oil tech for refinery storage and transport and use it for water.
If that’s all you use k8s for, you don’t need it.

Myself I need a to setup a bunch of other cloud services for day 2 operations.

And I need to do it consistently across clouds. The kind of clients I serve won’t use my product as a SaaS due to regulatory/security reasons.
... but then you could pay a fraction for bare metal cloud hosting instead of paying out the nose for managed K8S at Google or AWS.

Its complexity and fragility are features. It's working as intended.
> the Intel CPU dispatcher does not only check which instruction set is supported by the CPU, it also checks the vendor ID string. If the vendor string says "GenuineIntel" then it uses the optimal code path. If the CPU is not from Intel then, in most cases, it will run the slowest possible version of the code, even if the CPU is fully compatible with a better version.[1]

I’ve been a little shy about using intel software since reading about this years ago

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
I have been waiting for this for a decade. Now that I’m a software developer I can only imagine what the difficulties of implementing this would be.
since when has a regime mouthpiece required an organic audience or anyone's laughter???
In the 90s, I once saw a commercial on a magazine selling a notebook computer that looks like a cheese. I always wanted it, but I don’t recall the brand.
Depends on how you deploy and your scaling strategy.

e.g: If your smallest deployable unit is a Kubernetes pod, and all your affected applications live in that pod, you can treat it as a private change.
This reads like a truism that one is simply expected to accept. Yet we could just as well cite the Wright Brothers as an example of people innovating for no other reason than a desire to improve technology:

> In 1896, the newspapers were filled with accounts of flying machines. Wilbur and Orville noticed that all these primitive aircraft lacked suitable controls. They began to wonder how a pilot might balance an aircraft in the air, just as a cyclist balances his bicycle on the road. [1]

> The Wrights' serious work in aviation began in 1899 when Wilbur wrote the Smithsonian for literature. Dismayed that so many great minds had made so little progress, the brothers were also exhilarated by the realization that they had as much chance as anyone of succeeding. Wilbur took the lead in the early stages of their work to solve the problems of flight, but Orville was soon drawn in as an equal collaborator. They quickly developed their own theories and, for the next four years, devoted themselves to the goal of human flight. [2]

Human flight was one massive innovation born not out of "necessity", but out of the curiosity of two restlessly brilliant men seeking to make a technological breakthrough for its own sake.

[1] https://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Wr...

[2] https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/learn/historyculture/theroadtothefi...
Metal gives no choice for the lower level. Something higher level built on Vulkan with ability still to use the lower level for those who need would be the successful execution. Metal isn't that, besides being Apple only anyway.

I.e. I'd agree with your idea if Metal was actually built by Apple on top of Vulkan as a convenience abstraction and you could use Vulkan there directly too.
Sorry, I'm not into trading but what are implying by "so easy, every mother and grandmother can do it"?

That women have lower IQ than men?? Sexism is a social disease so you better see your doctor!
I think you're overstating the importance of land bridges. The English Channel is narrow and hunter-gatherers have crossed much greater bodies of water, like in Oceania. Actually, water is essentially a teleportation device: you arrive by slow foot travel to some coast and end up on the opposite coast pretty quickly.

But everything is different when you go to prehistory, it seems hard for us laymen to imagine correctly. A given band of hunter-gatherers would not have travelled far in one generation. And I don't really see why the Stonehenge couldn't have been erected by a culture that had not even met another culture for a hundred generations. Look at the statues of Easter Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island).
Skiplists are my favorite data structure. There are a few use cases that they can't satisfy, but for the typical memory-bound key-value store application, it's a very simple & effective approach.

If you have to go to disk, a combination of: splay tree, batching and append-only log structure are your best bet.
So, you're saying because past research has been correlated with causality fallacies, we should just assume it's the case when we see claims of this sort? ;)

More seriously - I'm well aware of the difficulties of causality, and also use causal direction as a great illustration of them. As I've said in pretty much every comment here - I'm not championing the study, I simply haven't done a deep enough pass to have a strong opinion, and it may have any number of subtle flaws (off the cuff my biggest concern is that they're focused on one city, and I'd like to see similar results elsewhere, preferably in different geographic areas and cultures).

In other words, yes - more controls like you said. But I am responding to the overuse of a simple statistical argument in the face of studies that, whatever flaws they have, are not cases of "the researcher forgot the controls." Demographics, income, and homeownership are actually not bad features to have I'd say, and again it seems like most of the large claims bothering people are from the coverage and not the research. To refute research you generally need to dig into the details of the research itself.
The authentication system you're appealing to does not exist.
I'm aware of portability. This doesn't create ownership, it simply seeks to alleviate the most common pain point around the fact that numbers aren't owned. It's not the same thing as ownership such as regards a domain name. Telcos can allocate numbers as they please, much as ISPs or web hosts can allocate IP addresses as they please to your services but this doesn't make you the owner of them. Fortunately, nobody uses IP addresses in their email addresses (though it is allowed).
They did talk in the article about how slow IBM was to adopt the 386.
This is such a great addition to BBEdit's impressive legacy
I imagine cartels have no problem flying lower than the legal minimum altitude (difficult to track because of ground clutter).
I haven't heard of that. Took a look and it still seems too low level. I think we need to think much bigger in this space. Btw were not approaching this from a Kubernetes angle at all.
> Signal's use of phone numbers cannot be independent of SMS routing as you propose

I didn't say anything about how Signal decides on routes. I said that Signal uses phone numbers as identifiers. If Signal wanted to make you verify "ownership" of your identifier some other way, that would not change anything about the nature of the system other than its ease of initial setup.

Both sending a message to a phone number assigned from a phone number registrar and sending a message to an internet domain name assigned from a domain registrar are sending messages addressed with identifiers assigned by registrars. Even if the implementations themselves differ, those differences are not condemnations of the principle of sending messages to identifiers. And it looks bad when you start using arguments like "phone number registrars are more gullible than domain registrars" as if that's not entirely circumstantial, speculative, and un-intrinsic to the technology or the business.
the priest is on grindr, bears poop in the woods, news at 11
These penalties are never high enough to actually discourage the behavior. It's better to just ban accumulating more than X homes, where X could be as low as 1.
Didn't they just land a robot on mars? Maybe they aren't failing but have different priorities. People marvel that SpaceX docks with the ISS but the existence of the ISS and the people on it is taken for granted at this point. How did they get there before SpaceX?
Because in a lot of people's eyes all Branson and Bezos have done is show up late to the game with inferior technology and thrown themselves a party for it.
Try to do it without an engine
Many properties spending significant time empty seems like another huge issue.
Therapy for High Achieving Professionals in California
Interesting. Perhaps k8s is succeeding in the real world because it is the only one that tries to support all the weird and dumb use cases?

> Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features.

> Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP.

Instead of seeing k8s as the equivalent of "cover fire" or Windows XP, a more apt comparison is probably Microsoft Office, with all kinds of features to support all the weird and dumb use cases.
When Boss says "my idea is gonna be HUGE, so make this go fast", you can either spend 4 hours optimize some DB queries, or you can spend 40+ hours in a broadly scoped "conversion" project and have a new thing to add to your resume, and then spend 4 hours optimizing some DB queries...
This is why I am so hopeful for Pernosco, a better debugger with better interface.

https://pernos.co/
Hard to adopt the 386 when they basically bought the whole supply of 286's.
I love the idea of retargetable backends for deployment.
Counting by Cola or Kebab works also pretty good.
radv is one of the ones I'm referring to, it's open source so we can see the tricks they use. One example: it spawns a thread behind your back in order to execute command buffers in order to make the queue submit appear nonblocking (or at least fast). This is completely contrary to the spirit of the Vulkan spec which deliberately doesn't provide any convenience mechanisms for things like callbacks on command buffer completion, precisely because these would require runtime threads to be around. The user has no control over this thread, including where it spawns or its priority (how could it, when it's an implementation detail of the driver?) nor can they take advantage of this knowledge to improve synchronization on the CPU side (e.g. by removing external synchronization around queues).

Contrast this with the situation on Metal (explicit runtime that spawns threads, and explicit callbacks to be able to take advantage of that) or DirectX 12 (explicit runtime that works for the average case, with extremely fine grained control provided over the threading model, priorities, etc., including being able to turn them off completely if you really need it). Both of these are clearly much better models because they are actually exposing the detail that seems obvious in hindsight (applications need queue submission to be nonblocking) and are able to provide much more flexible, efficient, and useful APIs as a result.

By leaving everything up to the user, Vulkan in practice ends up underperforming its competitors unless the drivers patch up the work--at which point you have the unfortunate situation where you have people targeting a low-level API running on a high-level runtime. It's this, not some dumb digression about extensions, that IMO make Vulkan kind of disappointing--it's definitely not a failure, but it could've been much better than it was.
Synapse is indeed very bad but it should by replaced soonish