skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm undecided on this. On the one hand, the idea of living in a city where everything is within 15 minutes is great for many reasons. It incentivizes walking, which is healthy. It reduces the need for cars, which is good from a pollution standpoint, infrastructure standpoint, and personal finance standpoint. 15-minute cities also make much better use of land and space. They can do more things with less land. And land is inherently valuable due to its limited supply as well as growing population (assuming a society doesn't conquer more land).

But on the other hand, having a car also has its benefits. Many anti-car people really underestimate the value of having your own means of transportation, going to and fro on your own time, and the inherent privacy being in your own car provides. I love driving because I can listen to a podcast/music or making a call without someone breathing down my neck or hitting me with their bag as often happens on the train/bus.

I'm sure there's probably some middle ground to be found here.
Is it actually Bluetooth, or did they get their hands on keys or remotes for the dispenser?

The dispensers have constant real-time communication to the forecourt controller and the attendant inside. What are they showing when this "hack" happens? Are the attackers taking the RS485 line down (which would show the pump offline immediately inside) and forcing the pump to manually dispense?

I'd kill to see some more actual information than this. I am not aware of a single pump on the market with Bluetooth right now but I do remember some IR-based remotes for some old Wayne pumps.
How do you approach this for travel booking.

Like does it really matter if you get an account or not, when you're already providing all your PII for the ticket?

Asking because I'm wondering if I need a -checkout as guest- thing or not...
Oh I'm well aware. How many downturns have you lived through?

It's rarely so easy when times get lean, but everyone has a different experience for sure!
Most of these stations are owner-operated. They usually aren’t owned by BigCo.
My statement included legal and illegal immigrants.
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I never had such an expectation.
They appear to be aiming for Go without -compulsory- garbage collection and goroutines.

Also go has a -lot- fewer sharp edges than C.

It's an (extremely) ambitious goal, and skepticism is warranted, but I think their desire for such a thing to exist does actually make sense.
I'm annoyed that the "sample code" hasn't been published to Github yet.
Indeed but worse for all the accidental Americans, expats, and lord help you if you want to start a business while living abroad.
The "other person" clearly called out the entire category.

> I still would place money on most of the change has been about car size (sedan -> SUV) vs car type (ICE -> EV).
I thought it was interesting. Why are you starting the flame war?
Yeah, I have no idea why the government doesn't just completely scrap all IRA and 401k limits, and just combine them into one total "tax-advantaged account contribution cap" of X dollars (maybe $30K or so, indexed to wage inflation).
>at every trial there is a prosecutor whose job is try to get you convicted whether they think you did it or not

That must vary a lot by jurisdiction. In San Francisco and neighboring Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley), prosecutors are facing criticism for their insistence that they will not bring charges unless they believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty, even when there appears to be a lot of evidence in that direction. Essentially, they are pre-empting the jury's job. It's so bad that Alameda D.A. is facing a possible recall just a year after being elected, for not bringing charges that in the past would have been routine.
What other reasons would make you leave the iPhone beyond the Google decoupling?
Interesting - in Canada, if you want to "Pay Inside", you have to go in and actually pay - they authorize the maximum transaction, and it unlocks the pump and sets it to a maximum amount. If you pump less than that amount, you pay only for what you use. But, OTOH - Canada seems a bit ahead of the US when it comes to Interac/debit-card transactions in general (... but also a little "behind" Europe and AU/NZ...)
My memory is that pay inside was a forced prepay option? My entire adult driving time has been after the advent of card readers being on basically every gas pump so I'm going off vague childhood memories of going in to pay for my parents.
You could have a Duration argument though.

The parallels of string length with the phrase "How long is a piece of string?"[0] make this apparent/amusing. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think that.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/how_long_is_a_piece_of_string
"Pulp isn't juice"

True, but a juice can contain pulp, and that's what they're asking.
You want the juice with or without pulp.
It's here: https://github.com/machine-discovery/deer :)
'Please sir, control and regulate the contents of our speech' - smacks of astroturfing to me
Another update for the Jolly Roger's Cookbook
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
Why does it need to directly compete with dram?

The current set up is based on separating volatile and non volatile memory and adding caches to paper over the slowness. Caches are getting bigger and bigger because of the huge speed disparity. I think you underestimate how much of a game changer this could be.

This is persistent and fast.

If this takes off, and it does only last 10s of millions of cycles, just use cache for fast changing things and ultraram for everything else.

If it lasts trillions of cycles, it potentially would completely change pc architecture. It was the 80s when we had ram/rom that could keep up with the processors of the day. This potentially gets you an instant on computer, no need for caches, no need for memory for the graphics card, no separate hard drives. Just one big simple bucket of bytes for everything.
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What good reason is there for a pump to release gas for free through some Bluetooth interface? This hack proves you cannot rely on unauthorized people
not able to learn how to interface or guess a (default) password.
Setting up a proper public key infrastructure so that only authorized technicians can make use of the feature is probably not practically or economically feasible. It would be better to simply not have this feature at all.
Yes I think you are right. From looking at the zstd source, as far as I can tell the entropy coder operates on bytes only.
Source for that number? Reported quarterly numbers are often annualized.
Electrophoretic Display Controller. Yes, that is correct. It's one of the methods used.

Wenting goes into more detail in 'Basics of driving E-paper displays':
https://hackaday.io/project/11537-nekocal-an-e-ink-calendar/...
> Many website owners do explicitly block Bing and all other crawling bots in their right minds.

If by "many" you mean "less than 0.1%". Nearly all sites want traffic, which search engines provide.

And you're moving the goalposts from the commenter I was responding to.

Nobody disputes it takes a large capital investment to create an index in the first place. But this is the business world -- that's what investors are for.

But the idea that websites provide their public content to Google and leave other crawlers with no way to access it is simply untrue. That is not a factor hindering competition.
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What is that `g` register that you are talking about. It seems to be a reference to some internals of the Go. Do you have some references to some existing documentation about this thing?
Presumably they find out within a week when they reorder gas and the filling truck has to fill substantially more than expected.

They probably start investigating for a fuel leak, pull the data from all the pumps, and then realise the number of gallons pumped and the number of gallons paid for don't match up, and then check the CCTV.
The Tory attack on 20mph speed limits is already a losing battle - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/02/tory-2...
I think it's more that unsafe/unpredictable pre-processor features are being implemented in the compiler so that more errors can be checked at compile time
Most local councils in the UK use "15-minute cities" to restrict cars and little else. That has unfortunately given a bad name to the concept because driving becomes more difficult but none of the places one wants to go to are getting any nearer or convenient to access.
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Not sure if this was ever necessary or when it stopped being necessary, but you definitely don’t need to disable SIP to use VeraCrypt (anymore).

You do need to install macfuse which is effectively closed source, but SIP stays on.
But Rishi Sunak is a part of WEF and they want 15 minute cities. So what is this really about?
There is no conspiracy here.

It makes a lot of sense to offer a service for free (as a customer acquisition tactic) to a VC funded company because the 2 options are either they go bankrupt or they can be charged 100 times more revenue in 2 years.

On the other hand what is the point of subsidising a bootstrapped business potentially forever?
I tried on all zstd compression levels, all perform poorly. (author of blog post here)
Simple Haskell never was anything real lol. It's main accomplishment is becoming a derogatory term.
A lot of places in the US are either pay by credit card at the pump or pre-pay inside only. I've also seen where "pay inside after" only works if you leave your driver's license with the attendant inside before the pump is activated.
while im completely against theft, theft is as old as economies of any kind. It is utterly irresponsible for the developers of such software system to have no/little defensive measure or protection against intrusion.

This is article is like saying the bank teller has some kind of responsibility to mitigate an armed thief emptying out the bank vault when the bank vault has no lock, no door, and no real form of security.

Up until now, the technology firms which creative this software have pushed the responsibility of security unfairly (and, imo, criminally negligent) onto their customers. This article just represents that the respective technologists need to actually do their job.
Judging only by the anecdata of my wife and her female friends' behavior, I doubt it.

Doesn't mean there isn't abhorrent harassment toward many women on social media, just that it isn't common for most women and will not "drive women away."
I find quite funny that one reason why its "fill..ellipse" example is hard to read is because it's setting global variables and this is never discussed in the webpage.
> my_nice_color = color(161, 219, 114);
ellispe(65, 50, 60, 60, my_nice_color)
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> There's also some mysterious implication that the criticism was due to some kind of undercurrents in Hungarian politics. Is this another tedious culture war thing?

You're allowed to regard anything as a tedious culture war thing, and be annoyed or offended by it on that basis. That's what's great about a culture war. Feel the annoyance course through your veins. You know you want to.
Haskell already doesn't suck to use! And it's still improving. Cabal is really solid nowadays, for instance.
I can’t help but feel that it has to be a small but dedicated group of extremely entitled sociopathic men sending the majority of these messages. There needs to be more consequences for this kind of behavior.
Mine is a love hate relationship. Social media is not worth the value to pay for it, and I use every means necessary to block and ignore ads. However, even if I pay to stop the ads the website will still collect and sell my personal data. Further, it has been demonstrated by Prime, Hulu, and others, that even if you pay that still does not stop them from inserting advertisements in the future.
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Are those expectations coming from reading the landing page at ipfs.tech, or where they come from?

> * I want to be able to mount / as IPFS and know that I can boot linux from anywhere.

A starting point: https://github.com/magik6k/netboot.ipfs

> * I want to have my photo library on IPFS and add to it from anywhere.

I personally wouldn't keep my private photos on a public network, but everyone is different. You should be able to do this today, maybe you're saying that the client software for doing this is missing? Because the protocol would support it, but I'm not aware of any clients that would help you with this.

> * I want to be able to share anything on IPFS, and if someone else has already uploaded it for the upload to be instant.

You don't really "upload" anything to IPFS, ever, that's not how the protocol works. You "provide" something and then if someone requests it, you upload it directly to them. So in that way, "uploads" are already instant if the content already exists on the other node.

> * I want all the storage on my phone/laptop/whatever permanently full of other peoples stuff, earning me credits to store my own data.

> * I want my stuff reed-solomon encoded with lots of other data, so that in case of a failure of a chunk of the network, my data is still recoverable.

These are both "solved" by Filecoin rather than IPFS, although you can solve the second one by yourself with IPFS by just running multiple nodes you yourself own. But the whole incentive part is (rightly) part of Filecoin rather than IPFS.

> * I want the network to be fast and reliable with excellent sharding of data and minimal hotspotting.

You and me both :)
Their comment is more substantive than your comment.
The entropy of the original heightmap is much higher, around 15 bits per symbol.
I watched two incredible grandparents' life ebb away painfully in hospital beds and hospice care. It was agonizing to sit helplessly while they suffered for days on end. But it helped me come to peace with my actual powerlessness in the most important aspects of life. Personally, I'm glad they didn't take that from me by choosing their own moment of death away from family.

Just my experience and I don't discount that that same experience could have been traumatizing for someone else.
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> Legislation, such as the UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill—can push social media companies to address these risks.

There we go. This "grassroots social justice" campaign brought to you by Palantir et al.
I see this comment a lot, but I don't understand why. I dove into Haskell and I didn't need to thoroughly understand each extension to be productive. Even the ones I turned on because a library asked me to.
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The interesting question is how often they notice, and whether the pump keeps logs. Because not everybody is stupid enough to invite their entire neighborhood to a free-for-all.

Just drive up, unlock pump, fill up, lock pump, leave.

I would not be surprised if the pump doesn't have a time-stamped log of Bluetooth service function calls. And even if it does, how long can you run this scam before they notice missing inventory from their underground tanks? How long do they keep CCTV footage?
How was that rude?
Things can both be literally correct and patronizing. Words have cannotations beyond their literal meanings

In this case "Young content creator" can have the implication that she is not a real success but is only impressive because of her age. Since if she was on the level of a real media personality there would be no need to add the "young" adjective. She would just be a "content creator"

Similarly, content creator can have the implication you run a blog or get your fame solely from social media instead of being good enough for more traditional venues (which could be true, i dont know this person).

Is all that massively over thinking this? Probably. But i understand how the phrase could be seen as patronizing even if literally accurate.
yeah, I opened it just in case they explained how it's done. For research purposes of course.
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If that's all in one vehicle, this guy either drives a massive tractor or the fraud has been going on for years.
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Yeah, also Hungary keeps questionable friends. I suspect that HMD just went with "cheapest" in the EU. I don't see why they didn't just go across the border to Romania or maybe Bulgaria instead.
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Anything I don't like is ideology and contrarianism, sorry.
Hah, I'm going to make a startup that shows ads in the in-car display, "this gallon of fuel is brought to you by McDonald's. Try our new quad-cheeseburger, a drive-through is coming up 2 miles ahead!".
This person hasn't started anything and is planning on piggybacking on GHC
If they've done that, I think the concept of "turning off" a device goes away. You just unplug it, and the energy needed to dump the stuff in the pipeline to memory can be stored in a capacitor.

The OS can just always be loaded and ready to go; when power is restored it checks to see if the hardware has changed and just loads up the 64 MB of CPU cache. It could take just a few milliseconds. It takes on the order of a millisecond to charge the capacitors in a desktop PSU. "Restarting" becomes basically the same thing as reloading, and takes >100s of times longer than actually restarting the device. That's crazy to consider.

If boot time is 0, stuff will just unplug itself after its been idle for a few seconds. I'd expect the hardware in phones/laptops to become more distributed, with basic vital functions handled by a separate processor. Probably the screen gets taken over by a very simple processor that can only display the time, battery %, cell info (or the current screen buffer, for a laptop) and user input causes the main cpu to wake up in between frames.
Last I heard, gas station "owners" make such a minuscule amount of money from the gas pumps and really rely on what they sell
And some people think laziness is still good and a desire-able property [0].

tldr; laziness enables a lot of optimizations for high-level languages that are good for performance. Laziness/strictness aren't direct causes for performance but impact it in different ways. There are a lot of myths around thunks and memory usage. There are still fertile areas for improvement.

Haskell is suitable for industrial use and production. Most of the research being done these days is around maintaining an industrial-grade compiler pipeline while supporting new, interesting features [1]. And it has been that way for quite a long time now.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSqE-HSh_NU

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334751646_Dependent...
> A jury of twelve is democratic

Is it? One obstinate person can upend the whole process.

> and those people can put themselves in your shoes

Unless you happen to not be of the same demographic as the majority of pool the jury is drawing from.

I know, I know, "Well, what do you suggest?". I'm not sure, but I don't think that the jury system is democratic, nor do I think it guarantees that you're going to have people who are empathetic.
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Ask HN: Should I talk to VCs with conflicting investments?
And if so, should I be careful? Any advice? Thanks
Computers are better at captchas than humans these days.
Well like everything else, do not blame shoddy security, blame the people who discovered it.

I am sure the people who did this will get hefty prison sentences and hefty fines. While the large companies that do all they can to avoid paying for expert security get a "I and disappointed in you" from the Government and "lets go after the small guy".

I almost think we should make cracking of Large Companies Legal, that will force these companies to use good security practices.

FWIW, I doubt this is a ma&pa gas station. In the US, in most cases, ma&pa stations charge more for gas and make their money from Auto Services. Most Stations in the US are owned by the large Oil Companies or other large corporations.
Depends on if it is a direct corporate owned location, or franchised - but yes, I would argue that it hits many of the average small/medium business owners.

Things will be "interesting" over the next 10-20 with the switch to electrification - yet another entire sector that may no longer be viable for small/medium independent owners. (but, time marches on - we don't see many people lamenting the "buggy whip manufacturers" from days of old)
Ask HN: Should I mention personal reasons for leaving job during interview
Hi,
I'm in process of looking for new job. Common question during interview is, what is my reason for leaving my current and even previous jobs. And as even though there are more things that adds up, the main reason is that I'm just not able to come along with my boss and management who are objectively not performing well (politics, projects delays, etc.). But I struggle If I should be mentioning this during interview as it's something that can't be easily proved. Do you think it is better to be fully open or try to avoid this topic.
Ha awesome! I just checked the repo literally before I posted and it was still empty, thanks for the heads up, will give it a spin now.
on the profile text there is a lot of white text on pastel backgrounds? It's almost impossible to read.