skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using AI for Quality Control (Inspired by Spot Robot Inspecting Construction)
The devices look to my eye to be suspiciously close to a dispersal device for chemical or biological weapons just as they are. With a fully charged battery, some modifications, and some TATP in place of the propylene glycol, they would also make a decent fuselage-breaching bomb. I could see how they might be considered a security risk. I have heard about vape-battery explosions, just as I have heard about cell phone and laptop battery explosions.

I think they could easily be checked in baggage with the same precautions as a firearm. Battery out, fluid reservoir empty, and in a flight-approved, locked container.

That said, I was on a cave tour once and some jackass was vaping inside the cave. The guide reminded him "no smoking" and he kept on puffing, explaining, "I'm not smoking. It's a vape." It was already too late to remove him from the tour.

People didn't ban cigarette smoking specifically because of the cigarettes. It was because it was the most common means for people to blithely pollute the local air. Vape fluid might be less overtly toxic and more pleasant-smelling than cigarette smoke, but that doesn't mean I want your candy-flavored solvent precipitating out of the air onto my clothes. When you're in an enclosed space without openable ventilation windows, like a cave or airliner cabin or elevator, don't smoke, don't intentionally fart, don't take your shoes off to air out your stinky socks, and don't vape.
Of course, the one thing that all of those countries have in common is universal healthcare. "Treat addiction as a disease and prescribe heroin for it" doesn't really work so well when the overwhelming majority of addicts most likely don't have insurance or the means to pay for medical treatment out-of-pocket.
I find this shameful. Does anyone have an idea of what I, as a non-Pennsylvanian, may do?
The vulnerability allowed the attacker to obtain an access token for your site. So with that access token, they presumably had full access to everything as if they were you. Hence their ability to get a phone number not listed.

I'm not sure if the web interface uses those same access tokens, but the mobile app probably does. So they were probably able to access everything using unpublished API endpoints that the mobile app would normally use.
Yes, I should have said mainstream personal travel. As someone who travels mostly on business, I'm not the one picking the absolutely cheapest base fee.

On the other hand, those business travelers mostly don't even care about early boarding or baggage fees anyway because they're either expensing them or get them for free because of status.
SDSL – Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0
I have been affected, quoting text:

Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?

Yes. Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, attackers accessed the following Facebook account information:

Name.
Email addresses.
Phone number.

Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, the attackers did not gain access to certain information, such as:

Account passwords.
Payment card or credit card information.
Not acknowledge, e.g. would advise against and, if were the maintainer, would reject the change.

ACK and NAK are used quite a lot in communication protocols, and the usage drift from there.
Works in Fennec (Firefox but from f-droid), but it took a sec to load the library it seems. Maybe that's the issue?
That's interesting. Not where we'd speculate? Thanks for the insight, and sorry I didn't see it was a part of the guidelines.
It is, but that is because it is tailored to my workflow as a power user who has an unfortunate knack for making use of many of the lesser known features of Firefox.

As for new features, nothing that I personally use. Many of these features were removed to pave way for Web Extensions and Quantum and that is justification enough and a direction Firefox needs to move towards if they want to capture the general audience.

They are perfectly fine as a browser-that-isn't-Chrome. But they're no longer a browser for Power Users which is what I feel the roots of FF 2 - FF 4 was like. It was a browser for power users, who wanted control over their browser. Now it's a competitor to/alternative of Chrome that's increasingly being simplified and locked down.

For example, I can't open a new tab to a website I own because setting the new tab page was used maliciously. There's no way to opt out. That's catering to the general population at the detriment to power users. That's all.

It isn't necessarily a bad thing - as iffed as I come off as being.
If your tool doesn't support IE11, it seems like you wouldn't get as many IE11 users...

Almost all my clients use IE11 by default...
I email the backups to myself (routerOS scripting) using a dedicated gmail account, but the backup is also written to an external USB stick on my device.
I love the way you present the data (where clicking on the hex values of the bytes gives their explanation). At work I work on software that communicates via RS-232 serial packets; I should make something that turns logs of the packet data into HTML files with an interface like this!
> It's becoming a logistical problem in Switzerland to have so little replacement as they've aged.

this sounds like a pretty good problem to have.
Could the market solve this problem better than the goverment? https://labdoor.com. What's missing now is enough people to negatively review products on Amazon and the like. Perhaps that could be automated.
About a third of what I follow is webcomics, which often have extra information in hover-text or bonus links, and I like the presentation of the site itself. XKCD includes the alt text in the RSS feed, but I still prefer the presentation on the actual website. The context of content is as much a part of the experience as the content itself.

Another third are recipes, which include so much extraneous backstory and contextual pictures that they're obnoxious to navigate in a nested panel of another website. It's easier to scroll ~2/3 down the page to get to the recipe on the actual webpage than in the reader. This is arguably a complaint about the specific presentation in my reader.

> And including the article body preserves both options as a choice.

Certainly. I don't want to impose my preference on the RSS ecosystem, I'm just expressing a different point of view.
I’m really interested in understanding this. So please indulge me...
So, I’m Oumuamua rocking my way through interstellar space. I see nothing around me so as far as I know I’m not spinning. Then, all of a sudden I happen upon a solar system that is spinning around me. Who is spinning? Me or the solar system?

Is the point here that I’m spinning with reference to my direction of motion?
Not really, when it comes to speculative investments. A bubble didn't make it genuinely worth more and the pop didn't make it worth less.
Seems like it would be cheaper and safer to continue giving them the opioid derivitive medications they were already using until they are willing to go through treatment.
Sorry no. I only know that was the case when he went there. He graduated about 4 years ago.

I would contact them and ask.
I have to agree on the writing style. I think it's pretty anecdotal that it's "...almost considered child abuse to deprive your child of a mid-morning snack or after-school snack."

I suspect the author has first hand exposure to helicopter parents at soccer games, but should realize that inserting such experiences might get in the way of their main point.
Dude, Wordpress supports RSS, and it powers the web. For those that use it, RSS works just fine.
You're at the wrong bank my friend. Alliant Credit Union is paying 1.9% at savings accounts and has been paying >1% for a year or two.

https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/
I also got an alert in my feed. I stopped using Facebook 2 years ago... I didnt delete my account. But this incident highlights the latent risk our data poses across hundreds of websites...

Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?

Yes. Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, attackers accessed the following Facebook account information:

Name.
Email addresses.
Phone number.

Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, the attackers did not gain access to certain information, such as:

Account passwords.
Payment card or credit card information.
That's an interesting idea. The turnaround could be a little faster than food trucks that are preparing food on the spot. Just have a list of what's available on a big menu, order and they hand it to you right away.

Some food trucks around here (Minneapolis) have kind of elaborate hand-cooked processes. You can see confusion where there's a line to order, and a bunch of people standing around for minutes waiting for their order.
I tend to agree that there needs to be some regulation. Probably as simple as fines for breaches that are based on the volume and details of the data leaked. This will make business think twice about what they store. It also makes it easier for providers / devs to argue for increased security if it's legally required.

Users (the market) are a big part of the problem. I run a SASS product, and I've chosen to enforce a Magic Link login for (one-time token based sign in, like Slack), to mitigate the issue of horrible insecure user passwords (E.g. sn0w3d1n). I get a significant amount of pushback on this though, and it was probably a bad idea from a business perspective, but luckily I'm in a position to force it anyways.

It's a simple formula. When you increase security, you also decrease convenience. My hope has been that the market eventually demands security (it becomes a service differentiator people value), and maybe some day it will. But you're probably right in that we need big brother to enforce it on people's behalf because most care more about convenience than security and probably don't realize how much damage could be done to them by using the same terrible password for 10 different web sites (including email and banking). I generally take a libertarian point of view on most things, but not exclusively. I do think we benefit from government involvement in some issues, and this is probably one of them. I don't mean to say this from an elitist point of view either. Security is complex and people are busy. It's naive to expect everyone to grok it.

I'd love to enforce 2FA, but it's going to be a complete mutiny from my customers if I do.
It will not do well. And not because the food doesn't taste good.

It's because of 'customization' every American customer seems to want in a resturant here.

Almost no one seems to order food in US as it's offered by the restaurant. Everyone wants something replaced with something else, with something added a little more while something is subtracted a little less.
Can you have that information entered into Facebook without then showing to anyone but yourself? If so, why would you have the info in there? If not, and as is common, you allow friends to see it, then that information is basically public anyway unless you are very, very selective in who you accept as a friend.

Even when being selective, there is no identity verification, so it is common for spammers or data collectors to simply make an account using the name and profile pic of any of your friends and requesting to be your friend.
Star Trek is a tv show. Unlike Objectivism, it is not trying to be a philosophy.
Hey, have no references easy here, but you might not need that much proteins while losing weight. Fasted, your body breaks useless cells to get more protein when needed.
Are you suggesting requiring this by law?
Reminded me of: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/11/17/within-the-con...
It's good results for society but bad for the addict and their families. They are the ones pushing back. And they have a point.
Luckily i deleted my facebook account over the summer, One less account to have to worry about now.
It wasn't an easter egg, it was advertising. Preinstalled in my fucking web browser.
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Southwest.com is down with a “Access Denied” error
I think it is just more polite to cite the article than make an accusation. There is no real benefit in accusing someone of not reading the article. This seems like a case of fostering civil discussion without losing any clarity. Since "you must not have read the article." or "did you even read the article?" adds nothing to the discussion.
I have been through this Wikipedia vs DBpedia, any kind of case where there is the primary product (which is part of quality control loops; bugs in the HTML get fixed) vs secondary products (RDF/RSS bugs don't get reported never mind fixed.)

Part of the solution is this sort of A.I.

http://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

but trained by you and not some other person who is training it to control your behavior.
This is really good feedback. Agreed. What I have seen work is to put common cases. It probably makes our life on Picovoice side easier as answering repeating price questions is not a fun day to spend our time. We will address this soon. I promise.
Ayn Rand's characters and storytelling is crappy. The correct response when someone asks, "Who is John Galt?" is always "WHO THE #$%^&* CARES?!" That notwithstanding, Rand understood that one can moralize without limitation in our culture as long as one does it in narrative form, and she used her platform to the extreme.

The message and moral I took from her stories was essentially pro-human, where the archetypal good is that independent man who creates according to their own taste, without any overlords, and without the approval of others. The greater any effort is collectivized, the greater the sin.

Rand's is a hyper-optimistic view of the individual - it feels like an atheist's attempt to replace God with Man and then posit him as the highest virtue. And in the introduction to The Fountainhead, I believe Rand even said her philosophy was a form of worship of Man. It's foolish because life is much too brutal for man to ever truly ascend that way. In any case, her brand of optimism is so rare, and that sells.

It's so interesting to me that your critique went to group politics and identity, though. Rand was consistently negative about groups and big government cronyism. She treated her archetypes as equally noble whether they were breaking rocks in a quarry or engineering some new miracle metal. Do you view the world through such a group identity lens that you couldn't see that in her writing? It's absolutely plain.

The evil archetypes in the Randian universe are any nullifying spirit, destroyer, or parasite. Remember, these are archetypes, no-one in the real world is so black-and-white. It's not a bad characterization of evil, and has parallels in religion and literature.
We could revive Project Orion[1] and use up some of the world's nukes in a productive way. If there was high confidence that ’Oumuamua was an alien constructed object, I would support it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Agreed. We try to put the price for easy cases. I rather to not put estimates. It probably ends up making customers unhappy.
I am a Pennsylvanian (or rather, was, and my family still is) and we don't have some magical red phone to our various governing bodies. This is not just PA. This is broadly countrywide, an eroding of civil liberties, often with a disproportionate focus on the incarcerated, and a pivot of govt from serving a wider breadth of the electorate towards special interests. Recall the comparatively recent rollback of private prison legislation and how their stock bounced? It's very clear where the incentives and accountability lies for the govt. decisions we're seeing, and it's not in the hands of your average voter.

To not just have this be a cynical "there's nothing to do give up," take this as, "this is a much broader problem than PA, fight the good fight, get people angry/willing to go to bat even if it inconveniences them, don't allow the excuse of "they deserved it" (incarcerated), make your elected officials accountable (even if only through social pressures and stigmas), and spread the message." This is one tiny battle in a war that I worry we're losing ground in.
I empathize with your viewpoint, but this may not be the place for rage. Berea is doing things right, even from your perspective. Shouldn't we applaud that instead of taking this opportunity to cast stones?
Soyuz is exclusively manufactured by Russian entities, and whether or not we like to acknowledge it politics permeates spaceflight too. This is similar to how SpaceX is an American company. It's okay to conflate in context when we're talking about influencing national perception.
Sweet! Go for it!
I know it's been shit on for being a power grab by Google, but an RSS reader today could pull in AMP versions of pages very easily.
From the article:

> Google might agree to let a random online shopping company scan what I’m typing into Gmail, but I did not agree.

Google might, in the sense that they could start, but Google doesn't do (and never has done) what is described.

First of all, Google has never let companies scan what you type. It did let companies target based on content of messages, but that involves advertisers sharing targeting information with Google, not Google sharing email content with advertisers.

Second of all, even that stopped last year. From the Google announcement:

> G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products.

( https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... )
Yes, but both classes of objects are very dificult to detect, due to distance, size and lack of brightness. We only detected the extrasolar object once it had already passed perihelion and was on its way out.
> The BMC is supposed to be on a trusted network inaccessible from the outside.

After it left the factory. But can't the firmware be installed by someone while the board is in the testing phase?
Just don't accept email addresses with a + in them.
I've been involved in incident response where that was actually the decision made, so this is a real choice (extremely costly, obviously).
For all we've done in science, it seems like we still have a huge correlation != causation issue.

I just had someone tell me that the amount of auto accidents increase between 2 and 4pm in the US. This somehow showed that people make poor decisions during that time because of our sleep cycles? I was met with much resistance when I pointed out that there are fundamentally different people driving during 2 and 4pm than 8am or 5-6pm. The numbers don't lie, right? Just how you read them...

Anyway, I'd love to see the science that mindfulness and meditation have dubious benefits. I am such a believer in those practices, I have a hard time understanding the argument that they are not beneficial.
How do you organize the s-expressions? Interlisp offered what you describe: structured storage, with "in-place" structured editing, for code and data. The unit of organization was still the file; you just had structured files (which BTW was the norm in most operating systems other than Unix). A hierarchical file system is a tree anyway (add symbolic links, and you have a graph). A lot of data storage layouts use it exactly as a data structure. Maildir is an example.
"So I just fasted, and now I want to do intense cardio.... but I might run out of glycogen or blood sugar."

I used to think like this, but then I actually tried it and found that not only does a short (16-18 hour) fasted state not negatively impact my workouts but it improves my performance to exercise in a fasted state.

Heavy squat/deadlift day at the gym ... 2 hours of BJJ ... 10 mile run ... these are all examples of things I do in a fasted state. You have no bloodflow diverted to stomach (or other digestive processes) you are fast and light on your feet and your energy is very steady.

Would I embark on a triathlon or an ultra ? Of course not - but whatever fears I had about fasting throwing a monkeywrench into my training were unfounded.
And of course they make sure that the bad news comes out on a Friday. FB has the all the credibility of a greasy politician at this point.
I suggest doing a quick read on one of the demos (Python for example) that should clear things up. If not you can always open an issue...
You are committing the gambler’s fallacy. There’s no reason to expect your “luck” (whatever you mean by that) to decrease rather than increase the next time you race.

This is different from saying that you are likely to win again. You’re just as likely to win as you were the first time around, which may be high or low depending on ability.
Why do doctors still exist?
Can someone please explain to me why doctors have not been replaced by machines. It seems like the kind of thing that could be automated. You walk into a booth, get your finger pricked, pee in a cup and get a diagnosis. Why is that so hard?
The name is probably a reference to bare metal devices - "Iron-ic", but seems oddly apropos here.
This is not exactly true, at least according to the DOC FAQ[1]. Inmates can still purchase paper books, and they are "working on a process that would enable the DOC to accept free books for the general inmate population."

1. https://www.cor.pa.gov/Initiatives/Pages/FAQ-New-Procedures....
Oh man, I haven’t soldered anything in 10 years since my physics PhD, but damn, this thing is calling to me :-)
"On Exactitude in Science" is a one-paragraph story written Jorge Luis Borges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
I think a better idea, due to the issues pointed out by others, is to use valid sounding answers but not real answers. So if your mother's maiden name is Smith, don't put f4jjedglkej. Put something like "Anderson" and then store that answer in your password manager. This is what I do in order to avoid potential social engineering or employees that are simply confused by a gibberish answer.
can you say any more about how cheating is prevented? I always wondered about that as the incentive is high and since teams enter as a team, it seems there is a lot of opportunity for planning communication.
I guess I always assumed there was some kind of mixing of partners to prevent collusion (and judge the contribution of a particular individual rather than a team), but it doesn’t seem like that is the case.
When will we start prosecuting these companies for letting user data getting hacked? If you cannot protect user data, you have no business dealing with them. At the very least, there should be monetary compensation.
Try getting a math professor to admit that he doesn't actually have an intuitive understanding for any of the stuff he teaches. I believe the vast majority probably don't have any such understanding but they are understandably scared to admit it.

Mathematicians are famous for embracing the fact that they have no intuition. For example, here's a famous quote from Geoff Hinton:

To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

And here's a famous quote from G.H.Hardy:

In mathematics, you never understand things; you just get used to them.

The idea behind both of these quips is that there is no intuitive way to visualize these weird mathematical objects. The main reason people struggle with math (in my experience) is that they assume there must be an intuition. There's not. Math is weird. And all mathematicians feel that way about math.
the best way to keep your passwords secure is the old fashioned way. Write them down and put them in a lock box. I only access my financial information from one computer. Perhaps I am paranoid.