skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the pumps I've used, zip code entry is required for swiped cards but I don't recall a time a tap to pay pump has asked me for one. Also often the "Do you want a car wash? Y/N, Do you want a receipt Y/N" screens can often by bypassed by just choosing fuel grade but I do acknowledge some don't continue until you make some selection. That said, I don't go to too many gas stations with car washes on site so that might be the reason why I don't recall getting stuck on those screens very often.

Either way, the 5-10 seconds of dealing with a prompt or two on the machine pales in inconvenience of waiting for the car to charge, so much at least in my opinion its a rather inconsequential inconvenience. Cool, you've shaved off 10 seconds so I can hurry up and get to my 20-30min wait for the car to charge. Its not like its really saving me that much more time. I've never in my life thought "dang, my life is so hard, I had to tell the pump I didn't want a car wash. If only someone could come up with a process that would prevent the pump from even asking if I would like a wash, my life would be so much better." And I have used the plug-in and charge process with a Mach E and an EA charger, so its not like I don't know what I'm missing. Its just such a massively inconsequential change in my life and yet it gets billed as the best thing since sliced bread and clearly one of the main reasons why you should pick one expensive car over the other. And as I've mentioned elsewhere, it makes it a lot more complicated to change to a different payment method other than the default you've set up on the account. To change a payment method with traditional pumps, I just use a different card. To change the payment method on a plug and go kind of car, well, that depends on the car and how its account is set up and managed.

Also, I get why electric charging stations don't have covers, they're much cheaper to deploy. That said, you're probably going to have your car there longer, there's a higher chance you might be in the car waiting during that time, so it would be really nice especially where I live (Texas) to have that covered. That and while I realize these connectors are designed for it there's something about handling high voltage high amperage power connectors in the rain that makes me quite uncomfortable to plug and unplug in the rain.
Julia targets a space that has plenty of free offerings as well (like Python and R). Julia is itself open source too, and while the founders got work in consulting and cloud offerings, they didn't have to lock up part of the ecosystem behind proprietary licenses.

I don't see any point in having a proprietary ecosystem when open source is so much better in every aspect.
How much does it cost to buy that "anonymized" data from grindr or tinder?

I feel it could be really useful if I ever need to blackmail someone.
Even when developing your own stuff internally, you have a limited resource: your dev team's capacity to do work.

The most important question for your internal software team is still "what should we work on" and estimates are a fundamental part of answering that.

It's someone's job to figure out what things that team could do to provide the highest value. Usually some combo of product/sales/marketing/tech.

But that's only half the equation! You also want to know how much it's going to cost, in terms of those scarce dev resources. If one project would add X value but take a year, and another set of projects would add Y, Z, and A value, but each only take four months, you want to compare Y+Z+A vs X to see what gets you the most value over the next year. So the better the estimates, the more rational you can be about what work gets done. If you have no estimates, you might pick a project that will go on for way too long, and not get the value out of it that you expected.

(However, I doubt anywhere truly uses NO estimates. I've never seen a place that didn't at least have an informal level like "oh that'll be really hard" or "that'll take us a long time.")
People shouldn’t be downvoting you. I’m ambivalent about this whole situation (I’m a fan of NL so I’m biased either way). But the most strongly unequivocal point for me is that the defendant fell short of the journalistic standard of confirming the story and talking to the main people involved. Yes — exposing someone via tweet thread while on the job is still an act of journalism
Ask HN: Traveling software engineers, what is your favorite travel backpack?
I am having to travel for work for an average of 2 nights a week and my current setup of laptop bag + small suitcase is excessive and unwieldy. Is there a decent, business-looking backpack with a good laptop carrying capacity?
Draught wines: French vineyards rediscover the power of horses
The idea comes from the vast and overwhelming deluge of marketing of AI products, which give the calculated impression that products are “smart.”

I just saw a product being described as containing the “distilled wisdom of 1000 testers.” So, really? Are you actually wondering how people like me can think that some might be trying to work on genral AI?
Perhaps it is not about a jet engine, but I find this beautiful presentation extremely fascinating:

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
> while you got a 1400 dollar check so you could survive

American people had the most generous COVID response of any country in the world, including the Superdole.
Eh. Kubernetes is complex, but I think a lot of that is that computing is complex, and Kubernetes doesn't hide it.

Your UNIX system runs many daemons you don't have to care about. Whereas something like lockserver configuration is still a thing you have to care about if you're running Kubernetes.
As I understand the P(passing) through a second filter is related to the blue line here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Be...

Couldn't the passage through the first filter effect the polarization angle in such a way that it matches the blue line instead of the red line. One could devise a physical contraption to demonstrate this is possible by sending bar magnets through slits of magnets of the same charge. Any magnet oriented such that it's too close to a slit will reorient slightly. Visually...

https://ibb.co/gDnpqCb

That is, if both photons or magnets happen to pass through the first filter, their probability of both going through the second filter is boosted from the slight reorientation, and thus their outcome correlation will be boosted, which is what the blue line in the graph above shows.
Perhaps I should've said good faith discourse, because yes, I do not believe continuous good faith political discourse is possible when people can hide behind pseudonymity. Most political discussions online devolve into bad faith because there are no consequences. Not having anonymity is the first step toward ensuring good faith.
The scrolling on this page doesn't work unless I turn off uBlock Origin.
16 Years in Hiding – Millions of Printers Worldwide Vulnerable
When did they ever want to monetize C#? That is pure FUD. It's been an ecma standard from the start with multiple compiler implementations including Mono since very early 2000s.
Should you care about NFTs? Radicle has produced this short primer on NFTs
abstractions layers exist for this reason. as much of a sham as the 7-layer networking model is, it's the reason you can spin up an http server without knowing tcp internals, and you can write a webapp without caring (much) about if its being served over https, http/2, or SPDY.
Of course you can just put your specification somewhere in a blog post, but chances are it will be taken more seriously if it goes through a process of review and ratification by national and international standardization organizations.

The point of standardization is that you reach an international consensus on how to do something. If everyone can just create their favorite variant of the spec and put it on their blog, then that would be quite fun, but it wouldn't exactly be the best way to achieve interoperability.
I don't think it's really fair to lump Bezos, Branson, and Musk into the same bucket.

Musk, for all his flaws, started an actual rocket company with new and frankly insane tech.

Bezos and especially Branson's ventures feel much more like personal vanity projects than something that will actually push space exploration.

I mean Blue Origin has been running for 20 years and the best we have from them is flights that were accomplished in the Cold War?

SpaceX has been around for two years less and has accomplished orbital missions. Lumping them all together feels like we're giving out participation trophies.
They are the real deal! Awesome team and product.
FUD. Provide sources for your claims.
Etci
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Ironically, the thing that first got me really into Linux (which I consider a functional and pragmatic system at its core) was having lots of window managers, some of which did frivolous things like having waves lapping on my desktop. I think there are worse things than operating systems looking pretty. Your computer might be a tool, mine’s the spaceship I spend most of my life inside.
Oat milk has more carbs than the rest of the alt (?) milks, and sometimes more than cow. Def could be the reason for feeling better.
Technically, self employed people pay less than double because they can deduct the employer contribution. So I think it’s like 12.4% for self-employed vs, 7.5% for just an employee.
The cells in the body of a murderer could have stopped him/her, if they had seized the moment. But they did not. Thus there are endless philosophical arguments about free will to be had, but for practicality, we assume the outermost shell with the most control, is responsible for the inner components.

If we treat cooperation like persons, they should be judged and sentenced as person. Including restructuring of malformed processes and life-time-imprisonment for anti-social behaviour
>there's a version of Goodhart's Law [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ] buried in here somewhere

and/or:

* Campbell's law — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law

* the Lucas critique —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique

* the McNamara fallacy —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

Previous discussion of Goodhart's law on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762526
> NSO will continue its mission of saving lives

Sounds exactly like Lt. Col. Jessep from A Few Good Men. The film teaches to never trust that line or those who utter it.
While the effect of residents is small, the usage of other sectors is, ultimately, in service of residents. People raise cattle in response to or anticipation of demand. Those cattle use more water than if we raised chickens or wheat for seitan. I consider it unlikely that a top down campaign to ration beef, in service of water usage, would succeed without a change in residential culture.

I am more apt to agree with Hank Green [0] that success in major social restructuring requires involvement at the individual level, too, because this encourages secondary behaviors that reinforce the restructuring. People who are voluntarily quitting hamburgers and steaks are more apt to write to their representatives or donate to NGOs that do in support of this issue, initially and to check in later on that promises are kept.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvAznN_MPWQ

As another example, Alec, who publishes youtube videos as _Technology Connections_, recently published a video about using his house as a thermal battery [1] so he can offset his energy use to night time, rather than running his AC at peak hours. He suggests that utilities involve residents to widen this strategy, in favor of brownouts or other centralized tools for shedding load in extreme circumstances. A policy solution that did not burden individuals with brownouts, ex by overprovisioning generation, would fall back on their shoulders in the form of higher utility rates. I allege the same would be the case for adverse climate change or overallocated water usage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f9GpMWdvWI
Yet people always assume that a tech union will look exactly like the AFL-CIO of yesteryear, without any new ideas.
If I am willing to work for less than someone else, it is wrong to insult me for that with terms such as "scab". I own my labor and other people own theirs. I would not take a job unless it were the best available to me.

"Scab" is a hate term that has been used to justify violence against so-called scabs. Epithets for gays have served a similar purpose in the past and are now considered to say more about the speaker than the target.
Are Turing machines representable in ZFC (pretty sure they are)? Seems like it'd be at least _really_ difficult to do that trick if so.

That would mean that in ZFC+A there exist algorithms that can't exist in ZFC+B? Hard for me to imagine what those would even be, since they'd have to be representable in ZFC itself anyway, right, since that's all that an algorithm would be this model, a particular Turing machine?
This is about the unhealthiest aspect of our justice system, I'm coming to realize. It's part of what makes consolidation such a great investment. Do something wrong and have enough money to throw at a settlement and you don't even have to admit you did anything wrong!

It's central to what makes one law for big business, but another for everyone else.
Commencing self experiment in 3,2,1...

Combining with this other little jewel found on HN earlier this afternoon:

https://sudo.fm/?ambience=1,50|2,50
GrapheneOS is an Android distribution focused on security and it's likely to protect you from this. Read this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/GrassFedBitcoin/status/14168360691237847....

>GrapheneOS is heavily focused on security enhancements making exploitation significantly harder:

>grapheneos.org/features

>Those other operating systems [Calyx and Lineage] don't improve resistance against exploitation and won't provide more resistance against an exploit working against AOSP/stock.

>If they specifically target GrapheneOS and put work into adjusting their exploit chains and finding new bugs as necessary, then they could certainly develop an exploit working against GrapheneOS. Costs will be higher and they'll usually need to specifically take it into account.

>Firmware exposed to remote attack surface like the radios (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, NFC) and GPU is generally a lot harder to exploit than the OS and those components are isolated. It's much rarer and generally involves using an OS exploit to bypass the component isolation.

>Nearly all of these exploits are memory corruption bugs. GrapheneOS does actually provide hardening for firmware through attack surface reduction including the LTE only mode and other features. It can't directly harden firmware, but it can avoid exposing as much attack surface.

>So, for example, with the GrapheneOS 4G only mode enabled, vulnerabilities in 2G, 3G and 5G are not usable to exploit the cellular radio, only those exposed by 4G.

>The radio firmware also does have substantial hardening and internal sandboxing, but GrapheneOS can't improve it.

>GrapheneOS also fortifies the OS against exploitation by an attacker that has gained code execution on a component like the GPU or radio.

>Main hardening we provide is for the most common path of exploiting an RCE bug in userspace and then exploiting the kernel to escape sandbox.

GrapheneOS runs only on Pixel phones which have great hardware security.

Also, DON'T USE CopperheadOS: https://grapheneos.org/history/copperheados
Karl Marx: Unrealistic and Heinous World View
How does not being vaccinated put anyone else’s life in danger? As far as I am aware, the vaccine does not prevent you from getting or spreading it, only reduces the symptoms drastically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy

I'm not an expert, at all, so take this with some salt. I sometimes wonder if the electric approach is fundamentally misguided. It's possible to synthesize liquid fuels from carbon dioxide or monoxide plus hydrogen plus heat. These are proven technologies used both historically and today, at large scale.

All it takes is to swap out the source of hydrogen, CO2 and heat from one that is fossil-fuel derived, to one that is nuclear or renewable derived. I have no idea on the economics, admittedly. But it would be practical technologically, to synthesize essentially unlimited amounts of carbon-neutral methane or methanol that would be usable directly in turbines, internal combustion engines, and so on. Uranium, water, and air in -> methanol out.

Given there is no ready substitute for fossil fuels when it comes to air travel and shipping, I do hope this is pursued. Last I heard Rolls-Royce was investigating using SMRs to synthesize fuel for aviation needs: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/rolls-roy...
I always knew that printers where sent from hell. This is just a confirmation. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
A few other points I didn't see anyone mention:

Extensive Applescript support. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume most HN readers are not fans, and probably those who know any of it hate it. But, BBEdit has great documentation and an extremely solid and comprehensive implementation. It's one of the only Mac apps I truly feel I can do anything at all with in AS.

Shell worksheets. Something of a Mac-only tool, I think. Emacs users won't be impressed, but this feature isn't common on other Mac editors, and I think both camps can agree "why the hell NOT?". Having your shell environment be your text editor is great!
I update our polyrepo code all the time. I just have to go into each repo and make the change. It isn't much more work than you have, the only difference I need to run more "git pull/git commit/git push" steps, and my CI dashboard draws from more builds.

I sometimes leave some repos at older versions of tools. Sometimes the upgrade is compelling for some parts of our code and of no value to others.
> So we replaced something that sucked with something that sucks just as bad but it has an app.

I don't know that it sucks just as bad. If a medallion driver wanted to get out of the game he had to find a buyer. And often drivers considered their medallion their retirement naively thinking it could only go up in value. Then the city decides to emit 500 additional medallions and theirs stays on the market for years because if they match the city's price they'll lose money.
Crazy thing about the "tinfoil hatters" is that they'll fight to the death to defend their pet conspiracy, but it's impossible for them to believe the much more plausible conspiracy theory that certain huge corporate interests conspired to sell out the entirety of humanity for ridiculous gobs and truckloads of short-term profits.
mRNA based vaccines such as Pfizer do not change your DNA.

https://fullfact.org/online/rna-vaccine-covid/
Are your scripts available somewhere? I would love to take a look at those. Can other languages be used instead of PHP?
The gap from an "online notebook" to "here's the script to run the monthly report" or "here's the model complete with training and inference that anybody can retrain" is wide.

Yet it's the difference between a data scientist making an occasional report to putting their expertise on wheels that makes it worth paying for.
The successor will probably be a more integrated platform where it provides a lot of stuff you've got to use sidecars, etc for.

Probably a language with good IPC (designed for real distributed systems that handle failover), some unified auth library, and built-in metrics and logging.

A lot of real-life k8s complexity is trying to accommodate many supplemental systems for that stuff. Otherwise it's a job scheduler and haproxy.
Never. People with a scarcity mindset tend to be resentful of anyone who's achieved any level of success greater than their own.
And the handout-mentality people want to give that abusive system more power by demanding handouts on which they become dependent, and demanding censorship.
A trump appointee would likely be replaced in 4 years.

If I lived in an autocracy, I'd be less likely to support government surveillance.
I believe it really does suck less. You just have to understand the enormous scale of suck that we are dealing with.

It went from super extreme suck to extreme suck.
Increase in value of assets isn't taxable until you sell them -- this applies for the value of your house just the same as Bezos's Amazon stock.
The more macro question is can enough alfalfa be grown elsewhere, in areas that don't need so much artifical irrigation, or is the Utah production required to meet demand?
Wow. Some of these seem highly significant.

EG "Neanderthal flake with birch tar grip - 50kya"

AKAIK, birch tar production has already been attributed to neanderthals, but hafting hasn't yet been. I wonder what kind of tool that is. It doesn't look like a spear point or axehead.
But wouldn't he need to sell stock eventually to service the loan payments?
I run Payload Space. We are about to transition from a weekly newsletter to a media company. We hope to solve the problem that there is no real media coverage of the business and policy of space.
You shouldn't use WhatsApp. It's a product of a spyware company.
Second this. Other products have it as well but Notepad++ has worked very reliably for me.
I think it is actually happening now, at least in my area. There are less drivers, and rides cost more because of it.
You're completely ignoring the fact that it's alarming for a person to act this way towards you in public... camera or not. He acts in a way that many people, especially women, associate with antisocial or predatory behavior.

There's also a significant difference between employer-installed cameras and trespassing (which unlike photographing public space, is actually a crime).

If someone stood stationary in a public place while recording, the reactions would be much more mundane. There are all sorts of street photographers who photograph people in public, and while people do get upset, it's nowhere near the frequency in his videos. There's a reason for that.

There's a point to be made about surveillance, but
surveillance camera man is also defying social norms to get these reactions... which severely clouds his alleged purpose.
That's a very interesting thought and it seems to answer the question in the title (which the linked article doesn't).

In theory though there are certain business opportunities in this space that haven't been explored yet, it seems.

For example, a faster and better compiler for a popular language that itself is slow, might get some traction. Personally I would pay for a Swift compiler that doesn't take seconds to compile a single long-ish expression with floating point arithmetic, or doesn't take tens of minutes to fully build a project that isn't even that big. Similarly I'd pay for a replacement for Xcode that doesn't have bugs in every single feature it implements. As an iOS developer I'm honestly very tired of and fed up with both Swift's slowness and Xcode's bugginess. There has to be some competition here too, already.

In other words, competition is what the PL industry is lacking, I think. But not among the languages themselves as much as among the compilers (and possibly the rest of the tooling and environments).

I don't know how we ended up in a world where there's only one compiler per each newly created language. I'm not sure this is normal or it's the way it should be.