skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember as a kid being fascinated with the first car that I saw that had the radio antenna embedded into the windscreen glass. All antennas I had seen were on top of houses, rabbit ears, or the long annoying things attached to cars/trucks. This tiny thin line that wasn't even exposed to air was the antenna? That opened up a rabbit hole.
> How do we warn...

As the article notes - actual, effective warnings will act as powerful magnets for future archeologists, looters, thrill seekers, idiots, etc.

So either make the stuff extremely inaccessible, or disguise it as useless junk (and still pretty inaccessible).

Best idea I've seen for the former uses iron waste casks that looks like telephone-pole-sized arrows. Drop 'em into a deep-ocean subduction zone. The money and technology needed to fish them back out (6+ miles underwater, then ~200' of penetration into the ocean-floor sediments) will stop 99.99% of wannabe's before they can even get close. And the other 0.01% will understand in advance that there are far, far cheaper and easier ways to get their hands on iron casks and radioactive waste.

For the latter - find (or dig) a deep mine in a remote area, where the minerals available to mine are common, but the ore is much too poor for the mine to turn a profit. Put your waste in very bottom, then fake the mine being abandoned, and eventually suffering major cave-ins. (The cut-rate pillars left supporting the ceilings sagged and broke, or whatever.) Money-losing and abandoned mines are miserably common, and the cost and difficulty of digging out the bottom of a long-abandoned and -collapsed mine are very high.
There's a strange assumption going around the (western?) world that, because something is fun for children, it must be bad for you.
Maybe we need mini packblimps that can not only carry fuel, but part of the pack, the dog, the kid, etc. It could have AI assisted propeller machetes to hack away at wayward branches, geofenced to protect endangered flora of course.

Then if you add some condensing coils and a transparent roof, you could also just leave the backpacking food in there and it'll slowly get moist and solar cook. After a twelve hour hike you'd get lukewarm edible mud, mmm.

Explosions are a minor risk, but if you can make water out of the hydrogen anyway, surely you can put out any resultant wildfires.

Cyberpunk Smokey would be proud.
Sad reflection of the realities of manufacturing, I suspect. They won’t ever achieve the kind of scale you’d need to make it cheaper.

IMO it is what it is. Especially when you consider the hardware kill switches etc this is a niche product that the right small audience will pay $1.2k for.
Some companies will absolutely give a crap.

And the ones that don't create a paper trail of not giving a crap

The researcher is protected from being sued by being granted permission and following any regulations created for ethical security research.

We can make security notifications from companies mandatory. Now if they try to hide something, and it comes out later, there is documentation of the cover up
Government control of the main sources of information hasn't worked out very well.
Doesn't matter. Even if you are a German citizen and by 55 you've never been in the health system you're out of luck.
They set out without any ability to do what they claimed to do and lied about it to investors,
customers, and the press. A 3D model outsourcing shop isn't going to raise a lot of investment money compared to an "AI" startup.
I believe the USA manufactured version is the “Liberty Phone” starting $2199. The regular Librem appears to be made in China. https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
Personally, I developed the habit of opening search on incognito because of Google. But if something like Kagi or DDG doesn't track, then it's probably no longer necessary
Not necessarily: that email reported a legitimate bug and identifies a buffer overflow. They don't mention anything about it being exploitable or try to work towards this. Then the CVE was published >20 days later. It's very possible someone else watching the Postgres DL saw an email with "buffer overflow" and pushed it out.
Twitter/Shitter has been doing this for ages. It's a common practice.
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That's not actually true, or at least it is not currently known. It is very well possible that distances less than a Planck length have meaning, or maybe distances lose all meaning a couple of orders of magnitude above the Planck length. We just don't know the physical laws at that scales.

If you consider at what energy a photon (E = hc/λ) will be able to resolve, i.e. have a wavelength equal to, the Schwarzschild radius of that energy (r = 2GM/c² with E = mc²), then you get the Planck length up to a factor of root two [1], implying that measuring a Planck distance requires a photon so energetic that it turns that region into a black hole. If, very big if, the known laws still apply at those scales.

[1] To get the Planck length, the wavelength must be doubled, i.e. be equal to the diameter instead of the Schwarzschild radius.

r = 2GM/c² → m = rc²/2G → E = rc⁴/2G (with E = mc²)

hc/λ = rc⁴/2G → hc/2r = rc⁴/2G (with λ = 2r) → r² = hG/c³ → lₚ = r = √hG/c³
Did I? How?
More pertinent in this case, probably: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-15/china-wan...

When Xu was apprehended, he had with him an iPhone whose contents he’d faithfully backed up to the cloud, a lapse that allowed FBI investigators to recover all the data from Apple Inc.

...

FBI search warrants to Apple and Google had opened up his iCloud and multiple Gmail accounts, and digital forensics experts at the bureau had mined the contents of the phones recovered at the arrest. (Investigators were not able to recover anything, however, from the iPhone Xu Heng had been carrying. The day after the arrest, someone remotely accessed the device and wiped it clean.)
Marijuana is well known to exacerbate depression over long periods of time. It tends to make people feel "better" in the short term because that's the main reason people consume it, but the cumulative effects of chronic use set in over months or years.

Many people believe they have positive initial effects and then continue to use it for years, then eventually discontinue and are shocked by how much better they feel without it.
Or, said state-sponsored team maneuvers itself to be that private company that offers to take on the burden! Even if it can't suppress a CVE entirely without tipping its hand, it could delay the announcement - thus giving its attack teams a heads-up on a security advisory!

Decentralized multi-party peer review might be one way around this - ensuring that no single entity can function as gatekeeper. It's a lot of overhead, though, and there's way more time sensitivity than there is with academic peer review processes. And who adjudicates who is an independent subject matter expert on Postgres?

It's a tough problem, made tougher by the fact that it's a "dark forest" environment where any potential advantage to any party will inevitably be leveraged.
The best thing a company can do is implement good security?
Yeah I think that is a self-selecting group a little bit.

My cyclist friends love exercise for its own sake. My judo friends mostly accept it for what it enables them to do. My board game friends tolerate it, at most.
i took that course. it was a whole lot of fun. i still have yet to take parts B and C.
Let's see how quick EU officials are to enforce and punish their own industry for those practices. GDPR is one thing but they don't even tell their customers what they are collecting and there is often no way to turn it off.
Tangential, but your joke got a laugh from Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1699289522167517475
I believe they're paraphrasing the Snap paper, and also that they're extrapolating too far from it.
Because they need to fund the refunds from previous people who bought it.
We're talking about what compels people to do something.

How does the chance of failure track here?
roughly half the weight, plus the weight of the burner equipment. again, that weight still remains even after the supply of fuel to make water is depleted. a just of water gets lighter. by the end of the hike, this is very much a nice quality
American civilization is designed to make money - if it can make more money with you sick and depressed vs happy - you know what they will do.

Now that e-bikes will flatten many hilly towns - we can all get outside a bit more.

Towns need to orient their lots to be centered around 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile mixed use zoning nodes where very little parking exists. Single family zoning between the village nodes.

That alone will do half the work of eliminating obesity. Just get people walking 1/4 mile two times a day.

I wish the rich people around 1900 had more financial interest in livable cities than the huge automobile dystopia we all live in now.
Ask HN: What to do about scam page hosted on Cloudflare
The website impuestosunicopendientes472 [dot] [com], hosted on Cloudflare, is impersonating a legit delivery service[0]. The scammers are sending SMS messages in Colombia (South America) in an attempt to convince people that their package is being held at the port due to a missing tax payment, which is a false claim.

I just found the SMS message. It was sent two days ago. I guess because I didn't visit the website they're showing a blank page now.

What do you when you find these instances? can anyone from Cloudflare help me here?

[0]http://4-72.com.co
This is me. I bought two new cars every 2 years like clockwork. We replaced one car because we NEEDED a larger family car and have gone without the 2nd for over a year.

It feels impossibly hard to buy a great car today.
Tracking this here, with proposal: https://github.com/measuredco/puck/issues/41
It's very common for TDD advocates to claim that testable code is good code - or at least better than it otherwise would be. I don't think that's actually a wild claim.

However, I don't think TDD even ensures testability, especially in javascript/node and similar languages. You can always use goofball mocking frameworks, reflection, and monkey patching to brute force a test into working. That's what I wrote this blog post about.

I see real wonky tests a lot, and am confronted by test automation skeptics with bad past experiences, and so I wrote the blog post really for that audience and also for the people who _DO_ claim TDD forces a high quality design.
Thank you for sharing this nice story. What an amazing uncle to find her and help her like that.
I read the first chapter and then got bored and read the synopsis on Wikipedia. That kinda ruined the magic for me.

Just like with video game skyboxes, it's more fun sometimes to look at the cover and imagine that the book is profound and would deeply resonate with one's soul. In Skyrim you can actually visit the mountains on the horizon, and they're just boring mountains. What a letdown!
For many cars (like the Chevrolet bolt) the information the car collected is available for purchase at lexisnexis https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/disable-or-opt-out-of-onst...
@dang can you merge these? Also, both are just repost summaries of this source: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Right. And that’s what we should also incorporate into the knowledge about masks.

But before putting too much weight on compliance, there are other factors that also lead to low overall effectiveness.

For example, the equivalence of mask types. There’s an explicit presumption that any mask is better than none. But it’s not a practical configuration that can lead to a substantial reduce in spread. So if getting infected matters, then we should educate that only the best (N95) will do. (And cloth masks are nowhere close to good enough.)

We should also not dream that compliance will ever be good enough to protect others. So optimise for where compliance can be controlled, right? (Of course this is “myself”, because I can control my own behaviour 100%, but others not so much, and there’s more of them.) We should have been saying “wear N95 to protect yourself, and wear it well”. Instead we let people labour under the impression that (a) they could wear just about anything, and (b) the onus was very much on others to protect you. And, of course, if you’re in a vulnerable group, that’s really terrible advice.

Basically we asked people to do something that was doomed to be ineffective. And when we factor compliance in, it shows up as not very effective at all. Instead, we should have asked them to do something very effective, and then the compliance hit would have been less.
My only anecdata as a parent is my son's recent decision to join the cross-country running team at his high school. I've been amazed by the level of positivity and support of the team as a whole. The coach doesn't take any crap, but is amazingly supportive.

One of the reasons my son joined was the experience of his very nerdy, overweight, non-athletic in any way, friend that joined the previous year. His friend went from not being able to run more than 500 ft to being able to complete a 2 mile run, with all members of the team strongly supporting him throughout. So far, my son has experienced the same things.

It's amazing the effect it's had on these kids. My son is learning how to push himself and how much mental strength translates to the real world. i.e. Are you really that tired? Are you sure you can't make it to the end of the next lap? etc.

What makes me sad is how few opportunities kids have for organized sports as they get older. By the time they're in high school, it's basically only for the super-competitive.
Right. I just didn't see the significance of his fitting a specific definition of whistleblower.

Most of the article was discussing the illegal secret data collection he exposed and the worldwide response to those revelations in the ten years since.

I wasn't sure what difference it made that the official government whistleblower processes didn't work for him. Someone else mentioned he therefore lost legal whistleblower protections. I don't think that the public worried about big brother, the tech companies like Google who promptly encrypted all their traffic, or allies like Angela Merkel that were spied on, cared that Snowden stepped outside the government's whistleblower process when it didn't work.

I didn't know if this is what you meant, or if you thought that what he did (double cross the government) was worse than what the NSA did (double cross the public), or if he should have kept his mouth shut when the official process wasn't working, or something else.
Screen sharing in Wayland is possible by capturing your window/desktop with OBS and streaming it to a virtual webcam that it can create for you. It's a minor hassle, but comes with the added benefit of filtering for your webcam. I use it to remove and replace my webcam background with a plugin, and it works for me in apps that don't have that as a feature.
> unknown supply chain attacks.

Is that the case given that iPhones are manufactured in China?

My tinfoil hat theory is that they find it harder to hack iPhones to monitor their government officials.
I'm rather a fan of the BBC and not aware of anything particularly equivalent to it in the US. I have certainly seen the immense degradation that private ownership has had on the half century journalistic career of my mother however - she's extremely skilled as a reporter, but is basically reduced to a few soundbites between songs and commercials and a few weekend shows that I suspect are to fulfill an FCC mandate.
Guess freedom peanuts aren't free
Treadmills are a form of punishment. Man in motion, going nowhere...

I've taken to forcing myself to walk to the convenience store when I want a single unit of junk food instead of hoarding and binging. Gives me purposeful exercise and limits my spending on crap.
Your comment seems to imply that you think the UN has failed as a solution to what they fear: a war which escalates into an existential threat.

Considering no such war has materialized, I'd say they would only feel more justified in their opinions.
Two generations of pinephone disagree. I think the price is due to labor costs for software.
The combine of government/corporate control of information isn't so great either.

“Interlocking directorates, revolving doors of personnel and financial stakes and holdings connect the corporate media to the state, the Pentagon, defense and arms manufacturers and the oil industry.” [0]

[0] https://commonreader.wustl.edu/how-a-company-called-blackroc...
You might appreciate how silly this thought is - I watched a few episodes of Railgun and what bugged me most was that her weapon doesn't seem to be a railgun at all.
This is the exact reason I bought an automatic. I had a 1994 BMW 318is that I loved, but I spent probably a couple thousand hours on the 91 freeway in southern California pushing the clutch in and out. The BMW "sporty" clutch was a leg workout and a half. The return spring was super stiff. Sometimes I would play a game to see if I could stay in first and just let my lead distance increase enough to not have to stop at all, but it pissed people off so bad.
Physical fitness and competitive sports are two different things, though.

It's another nerd trope that physical fitness means you must engaged in competitive team sports or toxic masculinity. Again, step out of these bubbles and you realize that competitive, organized team sports are only a tiny little slice of the physical activities that people do.

Also, not all competitive team sports are like this. It's a mistake to think that the toxic masculinity, outraged coach yelling at kids is totally normal. It's not. Many coaches will push their students past their comfort zones and refuse to take any crap, but someone who is just plain toxic will gradually lose their team and get pushed out most of the time.
> And that makes sense as well

I dunno, I think I'd rather a group of people I was trying to hack were using a collection of random devices with vendor-supplied customer Android builds on them than iOS.

> if everyone in the gov has an iPhone it makes it harder to be tough on Tim Apple

Everyone in the government is a party member and will toe the line. It's the middle-class public you need to keep your eye on.
I remain skeptical that models are licensable at all. To be subject to licensing, they would have to be property. What kind of property are they?

Certainly, they are not copyrighted works. You can’t copyright mere data. You could no more copyright a model than you could a phone book, or even a matrix transformation of a list of phone numbers.

And even if they are covered by copyright, they are hopelessly tainted by the copyrighted works they are trained on without license. Without upstream licensing, licensing the model is usurping the rights of the original authors.
> Linux for instance already does that and linux specific binaries can be run on windows.

Also on NetBSD, FreeBSD, and illumos:) There's something there about win32 .exe being the most portable binary format thanks to WINE, but Linux ELF being the second most portable option on account of Linux being popular enough for others to spend effort on supporting it.
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Only 12 states require routine safety inspections.
On a tangential note, how do you pronounce the second researcher's name? Zhang as to my knowledge is pronounced with a distinct "Jha" aspirated sound, correct?

Back to the article though, from what I understand, the alkenes and arenes merely act as the catalyst for the reactions, so the article calling them the equivalent of hydrogenation reactions seems incorrect. Perhaps, a more equivalent term would be temporary hydrogenation.
I was jobless from october 2015 to march 2018 - and on top of not having money, being at the verge of depression and the systematic bullying from my own sister, lost my best friend in the world and could not do anything about it (my dog).

Riding a bicycle kept me alive in that time. Even if it was an absolute crap bicycle. Riding a bicycle also kept me alive in the lockdown days.
I do wonder why people automatically assume "AI" is "100% AI"?

Maybe we need to acclimatize. We all know when a company claims their soda is the tastiest or that their cars will make you cool, it's marketing fluff. Or that packaged food has to have some amount of preservatives. We should just assume that "AI" means "AI system", one that involves humans for software maintenance, taking care of edge-cases, and providing training inputs.
This is exactly what I'm getting at in the blog post. I think the message that it works "if you listen" needs to be front and center so that learners and skeptics can figure out how to apply TDD in scenarios where they don't have any hands on guidance.
I remember The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay being very interesting, and that was my first real introduction to Bletchley Park.
Asymmetric warfare here: it's easy for someone to run a security scanning tool and very difficult for someone to debunk the false positives it finds. But those two people don't work for the same boss.
Huawei hardware cannot be legally distributed or sold by US companies.

There are bans on Huawei telecom equipment, but their phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc are not banned and are readily available:

https://www.newegg.com/Huawei/BrandStore/ID-15388

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Huawei/page/34F6034C-1D34-4913...
I'd bet most people look at the tactile buttons when adjusting them, to see the temperature, fanspeed, etc. and that the difference between this and swiping on the tesla display isn't an important difference.
> Many people think of their car as a private space — somewhere to call your doctor, have a personal conversation with your kid on the way to school..

The above quote was 100% true just a few years ago but it appears to be vanishing in speed light as the tech advances and the race to collect private data reaches its peak.

I’m afraid we will have to check the “I Agree to Terms and Conditions” in our new cars and before even leaving the dealership parking or getting the usual message: “Hey there, we’re updating our terms and conditions, accept to unlock your car”

I’m afraid that once we reach fully-autonomous driving, Ads will start showing up in the car’s digital cockpit and/or head-up display.. probably, based on your current location, mood, the radio station you’re currently listening to.. you name it..

What a time you might not want to live to see!
I agree. In the same way we resent nuclear warfare though, we should want to "de-surveillance-ize" as much of the free world as possible. It's an unsafe deterrent and (as we're seeing now) a terrible precedent to set when things verge towards war.
> Kaspersky exposed apple devices are backdoored and cannot be trusted.

iPhones are of course not invulnerable to malware, no one is claiming that. Android devices aren't either.

What Kaspersky "exposed" was that their corporate devices were compromised. They claimed victory afterwards when they found the fact. But the truth is that they inadvertently allowed malware to roam free in their corporate devices for several years, which is quite telling, especially for a security company.

Them shifting the blame to Apple is like blaming Cisco for a corporate network hack, when your personnel left a device exposed to the internet with no appropriate protections in place. Yeah, a Meraki could be as much of a "black box" as a mobile device.

I get that Kaspersky has no business with Apple, but the whole saga was bizarrely unprofessional from their part.
They had around $1.2 billion in cash reserves at the time.
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The hardware is made in China but not the software. So it probably depends on how much oversight of the software the CCP has, and this decision implies not enough for their comfort.