skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smell-o-vision: a device that can be programmed to release smells.

Here's the pitch:

Art has the power to move minds, and a startup that expands the creative power of artists by letting them paint with smells could change the world.

There's a ___ billion dollar market for smells. Theme parks, film and streaming, extended reality, and commercial retail. It's our most powerful tool to trigger recognition. Today we use primitive devices with fixed scents, but there's no search engine for smells there's no reprogrammable scratch and sniff - we're using analog smells in a digital world.

We want to revolutionize the way we smell by democratizing scent. Provide new technologies to discover and recreate smells in any environment, at home or on location.

The applications are endless. We can train medical professionals and industrial workers to recognize dangerous scents without putting them in harms way. We can create the next generation of virtual experience, expanding art into new dimensions.

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This has been done before, going back to the 60s. It's kind of niche but the practical issues of building a device that can do it and one that people will buy have been insurmountable.
The females probably all died together in a group and are less dispersed so are harder to find. Obvious conjecture.
How would this other form of exercise you propose demonstrate that the staff isn't vulnerable to a fictitious promise of a bonus sent by a malicious outside actor?

I disagree that one can characterize the simulation of a specific scenario as "lazy." Is it unusually attractive to the target? Yes. Lazy? No.
It does actually get a lot of hype in tech circles. I tried it recently and found it to be addictive as advertised, but in all the wrong ways. Programmers kept going on and on about how great it was, but all I saw was ever increasing complexity for no real reason. I launched the rocket and haven't touched it since. I think I would have enjoyed it more if bots were available much earlier in the tech tree or something.
In mammals it’s near universal I think with the exception of whales where the sizes are comparable.
Does Zapata's turbine flyboard use a line to the surface? I haven't seen one in videos. The more common flyboards that pump water from the ocean or a lake up into the jets and then back down obviously do.
Females were eaten, because they are weaker. Would like some data on predators.
That might be true. But still those are all paid services, and not ad subsidized ones.
The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation? While a trained human might be able to work all of this out on a case-by-case basis, the issue was that of designing a planetary-scale medical system that could do this without the need for such detailed human oversight.

I'm not a data scientist and I've never encountered that term "provenance" before but I've encountered the problem he talks about in the wild here and there and have searched for a good way to describe it. His ultrasound example is a great, chilling, example of it.

I also like the term "Intelligence Augmentation" (IA). I've worked for a couple companies who liberally sprinkled the term AI in their marketing content. I always rolled my eyes when I came across it or it came up in say a job interview. What we were really doing, more practically and valuably, was this: IA through II (Intelligent Infrastructure), where the Intelligent Infrastructure was little more than a web view on a database that was previously obscured or somewhat arbitrarily constrained to one or two users.
Merry Christmas to you, too!

It's been a rough year for many and I feel lucky to have been in Taiwan for it. It's not a lot, but I decided to give away five copies of my programming ebook to the internet on Twitter.

Any other creators out there, I can say that it's a great feeling to do some random giving. I don't mean today specifically, but in general.

Stay healthy and may 2021 be a better year for all of us!
> Nim can inherit these unsafe behaviors of C?

Not at all. You could apply the same reasoning for assembly: just because you can write insecure assembly it does not mean that all assembly generated by compiler is using vulnerable coding patterns.
It's kinda like the Western equivalent of how many of the tropes that make anime anime come from kabuki and other traditional forms of Japanese theater.
The small business stuff is just rationale for the rubes. It is a stalking-horse argument for their real interests.

And I'm not sure what unfair 'nefarious intent' people are assigning - FB have made it clear that one of their goals is reducing Apple's control over their own platform.
Clicking the link shouldn't be enough to consider a target to have fallen to fishing. Sometimes, if a get a fishy email, I open it in a private tab within a browser I don't use, or even within a throwaway VM (if I feel something is REALLY strange).
Thanks for the correction; it’s about five years since I’ve done any serious work in Python, and six or seven since I last did any involved metaprogramming, and I assiduously avoided old-style classes even then, and so I had completely forgotten about types.ClassType. Python 2.4 was the oldest version I ever worked with, also.
REvil is ransomware that locks you out but first exfiltrates your data. Then the attackers have 2 points of leverage, lock out which you may be able to circumvent with a safe backup process but that won't protect you from the release of your data. This gives the attacker 2 nites at the cherry when trying to convince you to pay.
This thread basically gave me a mild panic attack so I guess I’m right there with you.
Hacking a Candleflicker LED (2013)
> This is the thing that powers arXiv Vanity.

Never heard of this. Does it have access to the LaTeX source of the arXiv paper? I didn't know arXiv hosted sources.
It's not internal vs external, it's employee vs users (e.g., @google.com vs @gmail.com)
But mostly objective limitations. The most advanced minds executing the most robust, cutting edge ML aren't likely to do very much better. And most of the metrics by which they might suggest otherwise end up being flawed themselves due to the bias introduced by the feedback loops involved.

When your predicate influences the next version's antecedent, it's easy to show a big ROI, lift, or whatever other jargon you might care to use.
> Would a more rigorously-typed alternate-universe Python have been as successful?

Yes, perhaps even moreso. It certainly would've been easier for alternative implementations like PyPy.

Maybe even easier to make the transition to Python3 if the interface had been better designed.

But, hey, with all its faults I still think it's really great and deserves a lot of credit. That said, it could be a good time for Nim or some other new language to shine.
>but it is far from dead

Modern day mainstream Media and word usage uses the word Dead when they meant it has become largely irrelevant. Basically IBM was dead a long time ago, except it really isn't.

The same with any modern technology, software, or in particular Web Frameworks, which is moving faster than any other fashion. Every few months a frameworks is declared as dead.
> I would prefer it generate direct machine code instead.

Why? C has been the best choice for Nim so far.

Compiling with Nim+GCC is much faster than Rust, it generates applications with comparable performance, and it supports way more architectures.
Cool! I would not have thought of that!
You could use the node tiddlywiki which saves the tiddlers in separate files, you could also use the markdown plugin and the tiddlers are saved in seperate markdown files. Perhaps as service could do a git commit with each file change in the background, perhaps saving the browserstring and ip address with it. You could make a seperate page - for example Gitlab with the commit history.
Clever, don't think I'd have thought of that.
This is the same drivel people who consider themselves "purists" in the watercolour scene spew whenever a new person expresses interest in painting. "You MUST spend $10 a tube minimum to REALLY be painting." "If you don't use 400lb cold press linen paper, you're really wasting paint." Blah.

As someone who started out painting with a $10 set of Daler-Rowney on a $4 block of paper from Walmart, I can say wholeheartedly, one can experiment at the cheap end and then be pleasantly surprised at the top end while learning and enjoying themselves. $200 worth of colours you never use because you don't enjoy painting that much is a waste of money. $20 worth of paint you fill every notebook and sketchpad up with doodles is worth every penny. As you progress (and decide if the hobby is even worth doing), you pick up some of those $10 a tube paints and realize the purists weren't wrong, they DO paint better, but they won't make you a better painter.

Personally I have a $99 AKAI MPC-Mini with only one octave worth of keys and have only dabbled a bit with it connected to my PC, but its infinitely better than Smule on the iPad and eventually with an app or through lessons on Youtube, one could absolutely learn the skills needed to play a composition an actual piano--all as the GP said, from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace.
> It’s like working on a program that is always running, in a debugger, but with the ability to dynamically add and change the running code in real time.

Which is actually pretty true of actual real world environments like SmallTalk.
Exactly. If the emperor shows his weakness, the empire could collapse. If you have followed the story, China has been asking Hong Kong to implement Basic Law 23 from 2008, it was a guarantee for no independence movement, and they couldn't do it until 2020, the National Security law was basically forced on Hong Kong because its inability to implement it. China was hoping to continue the original strategy but the movement has been used as evidence that the original strategy will not work. Also you have to know, there are so much wealth from Chinese officials and elite family are in Hong Kong, there would be strong power within the party to keep Hong Kong as it is, unfortunately they are losing ground because of whats happening on TV. You don't have to mention that Hong Kong was set to be a model for the one country two systems example, China has all the reasons to make it work as much as possible. Okay, I just wanted to analyze what's happened in my way of thinking, not trying to play the judge.
It's a message from a valid internal email address. If a company's own email servers can't tell the difference between valid internal mail and external phishing, that's the company's problem, not the employees. If the company's email is hacked so that a hacker can send valid emails from a legitimate internal email address, that's the company's problem, not the employees. Nothing of value was learned by this test, besides the disdain GoDaddy has for their own employees.

If I put myself on the other side, I'd stop producing gross sexist ads, stop supporting overreaching internet legislation, and stop treating my employees like garbage.
Reminded me of the Phantom Secure phone saga [i]. They crossed the line by apparently openly flogging their service specifically to/for criminals.

[i] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/chief-executive-and-fou...
Since the article doesn't seem to address it, the email was sent from “happyholiday@gocladdy.com” and tried to trick users with the kerning between “d” and “cl”, here's a screencap where the address is shown in a different font

https://imgur.com/a/eqrijWx

source: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/godaddyunderfireforfakebon...
Former Pokémon TCG enthusiast (circa 1999) here! Kids back then had the same approach, large and heavy coin, flip from a consistent height, consistent strength. Heads every time.

There were popular coins made specifically for Pokémon TCG then, and they happened to be large and thick and plastic and heavy, so the cheating was widespread.

I was one of the many kids who did this routinely. But there was one kid who took first place nearly every week, out of a field of 50+ entrants. “He must cheat the coin, AND be an amazing deck builder and card player on top of that”, I thought.

Then one week I was matched against him, winner goes to top 8.

Our decks were nearly identical, I could flip heads every time, I was a strong player. “50-50” I thought.

Turn one. Retreat Scyther, in Electabuzz, Thundershock. I flip my giant coin, and before it flattens, he picks it up and hands it back to me. “Flip it higher please.”

He must know I’m cheating. I assumed he must be cheating too though, every other kid is, and he wins this tournament every week!

Guilty, I flipped the coin fair this time, higher. Before it flattens he picks it up again, hands it back to me. “Higher please.”

I lost every coin flip that match. He won, went to the top 8, later won the tournament for the nth week in a row.

It wasn’t until adulthood that I realized how he was winning every tournament. In a field full of cheaters trying to flip heads every time, all he had to do was wait for the coin to enter that terminal spinning motion every coin does right before it flattens. Well practiced at this, if he sees that it’s about to flatten heads, he quickly grabs it and hands it back to you. “Higher please.” Repeat until the coin flattens tails.

His tactic was a silver bullet in a field full of flip cheaters. Nobody ever questioned his intentions when he grabbed the coin and asked for a higher flip.
thanks, but Germans aren't allowed to use it.
Nothing like flaunting your status as a premier burglary tool to attract the ire of law enforcement.
I hear what you’re saying, and even agree with it in principle.

To provide a counter example, I subscribe to Ulysses. They embody “subscription for access done right” (at least so far). I liked the app enough that I bought into that promise, and so far, the developer had delivered with excellent updates over time.

What I dislike is that there’s no guarantee this will be the case.

But to be fair, this is how reputations will be built: both good and bad. Developers who build a bad reputation will not succeed in the long run. It sucks that someone had to be the guinea pig though...

So while there’s risk in buying the promise, it can pay off.

I’d still prefer the “subscribe to updates” approach.
I think the problem is deeper than that. Every company wants to advertise to high earning college educated people, and nobody wants to advertise to unemployed anti-vaxers. But presumably Facebook has a lot more of the latter. So they have to get a bit "creative" with their targeting if they want to sell their inventory...
The ground in the LA basin around LAX is very crowded. It's safer for the people on the ground that new pilots not be flying overhead.
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should have been != was

I don't know what the security situation is like at Godaddy, but I'm sure there's some amount of investment needed to roll that out broadly without accidentally breaking existing employee workflows.

And my point still stands re: insider attack. At least at Google, anyone could ostensibly register HappyHolidays@google.com (or some variation if it's already taken) as an alias or a mailing list, which removes the need for spoofing.
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my problem is that I don't know what sort of organization has targeted me. https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/authorial-qui...
I agree, although the flipside is cheaper rides that can be marketed as going to local drivers.
Ask HN: Is Tesla worth its current evaluation?
Ask yourself what the purpose of proving this point is other than a vanity metric. Then ask yourself whether that should be the actual goal. Because it seems to me the actual goal is to have a workforce with generally high awareness and caution around phishing risks in general - and that can be built without goodwill-destroying tactics like this.
I bought a lenovo legion with 1080p screen after having used a macbook for a long time. I had to return it. It was fairly disturbing to read text even on a small screen such as a laptop screen.

I ended up getting Gigabyte Aero 15 with 4K display. It was a great decision.
Have you heard they've returned to do another season?

https://news.sky.com/story/dexter-one-of-tvs-best-known-seri...
Cross posted medium link: https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re...
Er, if the person who just emailed me something about charterm and ANSI color happens to see this comment, could you please resend your email? (The email was lost due to an MUA & IMAP problem as I was moving it out of the spam folder. I always reply to emails about open source.)
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My bet is viral marketing for the flight school/experimental aircraft company that posted it.

Why else put text ON TOP of the footage?
Also the book "Gambling Scams" by Darwin Ortiz.

As I recall, the techniques generally involve not making normal "fair" free-tumbling rolls, but constraining the die movements somehow. Things like tossing them into a corner or making one of the pair spin flat, around only a vertical axis.
I don't agree with you, but with the other posters in this thread. You can't just pull your punches, phishing and ransomware crime is currently skyrocketing. This is exactly the type of scenario that will entice many people to infect themselves with malware. This is also a scenario I've seen multiple _real_ e-mails of in recent weeks. It's not like your employees are not likely to receive something just as nasty as this over the course of their employ.

That said, I do agree with you that money is better spent elsewhere. A company with > 1000 employees should just assume there's an infected machine in their network 24/7. Defense in depth stipulates that this should not matter for their security.
It's blackmail.
You aren't the first person to feel that way; there are mods specifically for pushing bots to the very early game (if not the very start).
Sorry tsimionescu but I read your post as follows:

It's ok for company to prepare its users for phishing, except for the kind of phishing where the attackers:

(a) devised an emotional hook
(b) put in effort to make it look legit.

You can see how that creates a vulnerability, right, because a moderately sophisticated phisher would aim to do (a) and (b) every time.
Hey, I'm all for making it better if it's possible! But the evidence isn't clear that other forms of training are effective in stopping an attack that involves this sort of messaging. If there are, great - but we need to prove that out first.
Your comment made me feel better about myself, thanks.
My last company would do this, and yeah, I think I got bit at least once.

THEN, without any clue about the irony, they'd send us "important" emails with something to click in them... employee surveys, links to benefits information, etc.

This must have been pointed out by other people than me, because once one of the emails had a line like, "AND YOU CAN CLICK ON THIS LINK, IT'S AUTHORIZED."

I don't miss working there (though I do miss a lot of the people).
When I was involved in a cycling-related incident, I had to specifically ask the paramedics to carry my traditional bike onto the ambulance. They probably wouldn't have if I needed critical care. A recumbent bike is much larger and the odds are much higher you will be separated from it.

A tattoo seems a bit extreme but I imagine that it's something that you'll never forget to bring.
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Stealing would be breaking into their premises and taking the computers. Obtaining data isn't stealing.
I think you're probably right in this case. However The Quiet One, a stealth helicopter based on the Hughes OH-6, was reputedly tested over Los Angeles in the 70s. An unusually quiet helicopter doubtlessly attracts less attention than a jetpack though.

(Hughes was based out of Culver City in LA.)
The greatest trick I think we've had played on us is that we think privacy requires justification at all.

It is the natural state of existence, where there is a boundary between your experience and that of others. It is the primary and most natural freedom, and the people who use language and force to deprive you of it only do it because they want you to to work for them - instead of them. Privacy is not defended by words, because words themselves presume an external authority to prevail upon and get permission from. Privacy itself is freedom and it is only exercised by action.

I actually worked in privacy for a decade or more, consulting to government organizations about how to preserve their legitimacy when they collect data on people. I've discovered there are a fair number of bureaucratic nihilists who think ends justify means, and see the idea of privacy as being anti-progress, but mainly just anti-them. Wow do they get mad when you ask them do comply with the law.
I've used gong.io for this in the past. It produces a transcript and does some other useful stuff. Maybe check it out for UX inspiration.
Agreed. That's why I put in only legal, primary sources. I was curious how those pushing for a pardon would respond.
They advertised their services directly to criminals by posting in forums - as themselves - promoting their VPN as a way to evade detection by authorities. Crossing the blue line is a sure way to provoke a show of force.
I don’t care for the default as long as the choice is there. Facebook wants to take that choice from users.
Not really, no; unbound growth is hardly unique to one economic system, or economics at all.
also putting Does He Exist? over the video is a tell
86 is good advice for overly confident people, but destructive for people who are too agreeable or lack confidence.

In fact, sometimes you are right and it is ok too think you are right. It is also ok to want things, you don't have to step back every single time.
How crappy of a company would you have to be where a year end bonus doesn't really make sense.
Why not have both? That is, plan to provide a real bonus and amount, even if it's just 100 bucks. Beforehand, send out said phishing email, and collect data. Provide the bonus to everyone. Once the holiday is over, notify employees who failed the test of how easy it is to prey on people's emotion and to be careful, that email was in fact in no way tied to the bonus.
Doesn't matter - even if facebook loses all its traffic tomorrow, it has a huge gold mine of data that it can sell or train AI on.
One of the main writers left before season 5, which might explain it.

It's disappointing, because the season's focus on journalism and public optics was really interesting and educational and in many ways well-executed. But the serial murder stuff just made it kind of goofy.

Seasons 1 - 4 are so good that it's not a big deal, but it seems so rare that multi-season shows stick a graceful landing.
I got started 10 years ago with this Wikibook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

The official Blender website also has a tutorial section, in case you missed it: https://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/
I've seen it in NYC and SF. One thing you won't get from Disney+, and I didn't get it in SF, was "the greatest city in the world" line from "The Schuyler Sisters" felt more magical, but maybe it was just fan service to the audience.
I'm not saying no SA articles should ever be posted here, but a lot of them really are just clickbait devoid of any real analysis at best, and this article is such an example.
I would suggest doing it in Europe where many countries have dedicated cycle paths that are separated from the main roads. Much less risky, much more enjoyable.
Thanks for liking it. Admittedly, at first, I didn't know, if this would make a story at all, but decided to do the writeup anyway. So everyone enjoying it is decidedly a win.
You're assuming, incorrectly, that phishing attacks can't come from the inside.