skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from London, I find Singapore rather backwards in many areas - especially where tech has to intersect with culture or other industries. Compared to Japan and Germany they're ahead, of course, but everything in Singapore seems to involve a ton of paperwork and calling people. The country overall is _extremely_ bureaucratic.

Lots of things that in London would be buy online, same/next day delivery were, in Singapore, have an in person, shake some hands, sign a bunch of contracts and then wait two months for delivery. On the other hand, they have things like Sim Lim Square, which initially seemed like an anachronism to me (like Tottenham Court Road in the 90s), but then when contrasted to ecommerce situation there, I kind of understood it.

Paying for things was confusing, most shops had 3 or so readers for different payment systems, and sometimes things that were supposed to work didn't (e.g. Google Pay or NFC). The details are long and confusing and involve lots of acronyms like NETS, ENETS, EFTPOS, etc. but overall I wasn't impressed.

In fintech specifically (my area), their regulators have a bunch of rules that basically force you to do things the old fashioned way.
Hmm, interesting, those don't really sound to me like the cause. Is there anything in the site settings or anything, maybe it's disallowed from local storage?

For what little it's worth, I haven't run into the need to login on every visit on either FF or Chrome. Which is just to confirm that it's not supposed to work that way.
I'll also be glad for this "ethical hysteria" to end.

That won't end until it actually happens. Google doesn't want to deal with it, insurance companies don't want to deal with it, regulatory bodies don't want to deal with it. Because of the wonderful reactionary society we live in, self-driving cars won't be properly reined in until one of them swerves into a busy sidewalk and mows over 20 people because it was avoiding a human driver swerving into its oncoming lane.
> very least it'd be handy to have self-driving at least on, say, highways

Me too, like driving home after a long day on the highway, being sleepy, in the night, while raining. Good luck with that: [1]

[1] https://9gag.com/gag/azMv16z
That's not much of an advantage if you haven't grown up with it. It's also very arbitrary in that it doesn't account for preference or acclimatisation.

EDIT: or humidity, which is also going to be a major factor in how much you can stand.
>...actually, I'd VASTLY rather pay a small monthly fee to a small number of writers I care about, than a larger fee for a collection of writers that I don't.

This is the norm, I think. Surprise surprise nobody really wants the shopping channel or the landline that comes with their broadband either.

Newspapers are well aware of the threats of unbundling. It's one of the reasons why the Economist doesn't have bylines, for instance: writers have to remain a commodity.
It should be reasonably safe to store database files on various cloud storages. If you are not willing to do so, it is also possible to keep them on flash drives at your relatives' homes.
Volvo have already said that that is exactly what they will do.
Now your security issue is other applications accessing your clipboard.

I'm quite aware of this ever since Samsung/Android started adding a whole interface for the clipboard and added integration with the keyboard (it shows some codes in the clipboard sometimes so you can quickly paste). Can the clipboard be accessed from other apps in the background? Probably?
see this articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521244/ , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6456154/
https://www.huginn.uk/
You may find this video interesting : https://youtu.be/jKFV7qjWaD4

It's a self driving car spending an hour in Guangzhou traffic and managing to not hit anyone. I'm sure there is still a lot of progress to be made though.
No. I’d much rather meet drivers with a higher risk of crashing into me than autonomous cars with a slightly lower risk. Me (and I assume a large part of the public) will not accept FSD cars on roads with merely “human level” as the bar. Perhaps when the improvement is an order of magnitude.
TSMC Evaluates Germany Plan, but Intel One Step Ahead
My suggestion, again: buy FluffyChat. Add important missing features, such as cross-signing. Make it the default client.

You can keep element for advanced users.

I'd argue it's still not a great client for tech users either, but I see an evolution in that direction more likely than the opposite.
We're an early stage startup [0] for web analytics and something that worked incredibly well so far is Discord. A lot of our customers/users have a Discord account and it's very easy to join a server and get into a (high quality) call, or to use the chat. That's something I didn't expect to work so well.

Appart from that, I like to ask questions in email replies and give customers the feeling to have influence on our development process (which, in fact, they have). Even if someone doesn't become a customer or signs up for a free-trial, you can learn something from them.

[0] https://pirsch.io/
They have an app buried somewhere that lets you select and insert Unicode characters from a scrollable table, but you have to find it first. In MS Word you can open that window from a menu command.
> For example, due to the precession of the Earth's axis, the star which is the North Star changes over a 41000 year period.

That's a great idea you have there. I like it. I am going to quibble with some of the finer details though:

41,000? I thought the best estimate for the Platonic year, the time for the precession of the equinoxes to complete one revoution, was 25,772 years?

The Gregorian calendar has a 400 cycle. If we are sticking with the Gregorian calendar, any new epoch needs to be aligned with the 400 year Gregorian cycle, or else leap year calculations will suddenly get more complicated. So that suggests using something like -23600 CE (23601 BCE) as the starting point. That's 64 Gregorian cycles before 2000 CE, which is the closest possible whole number of Gregorian cycles to 1 Platonic year prior to 2000 CE (a Platonic year is 64.43 Gregorian cycles).

The Gregorian cycle is of course based on the AD/CE chronology, modulo 400, so it is still an indirect link to Christianity. But I think it is as practically close to culturally neutral as we could get, without also changing the calendar. (Which isn't really Christian in origin anyway – it was developed in pagan ancient Rome, and the 7 day week is pre-Christian in origin as well, through Judaism, and possibly some ancient Babylonian influence as well – the only Christian to touch it was Pope Gregory XIII, and his aim was only to make its leap year rule more astronomically accurate, albeit he ended up linking it more tightly to the AD/CE year numbering in the process.)
If you happen to live near the right bus stop and have an office on the other end of it's route. For many of us it's a much shorter commute with a car, and a guaranteed seat to work from, which you don't get on a lot of commuter public transport.

I live in a place where public transport is actually pretty good, and it's still a PITA to work on the way.
> talk about the idea of making it legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected

https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/
John Zerzan and the anarcho-primitivist ideas are all about that. Interesting perspective on life. The collection of essays Against Civilisation is well worth checking out.

In essence evolution is chaos. Biological on large time scales, social on much smaller, but still chaos and no such thing as a grand design in anything anywhere anytime.

Thus as civilization advances more chaos happens. To be happier we must get back in development and to a lower state of chaos. Not sure if this is physically sound, from the point of entropy, but it is quite tought-provoking.

Yesterday domestication, today self driving cars, tomorrow super intelligence. Is that good or bad? If we knew no such thing as philosophy would exist :)
By "don't they do everything to avoid hitting civilians" do you mean the warning phone calls? They don't make such calls when their aim is to assassinate someone - for obvious reasons.. The IDF also has good information on who lives where - that's how they know where to bomb - so they know that many children will be killed/murdered - as they often are.. The aim is killing some terrorist leader - which is arguably rather dubious given that they'll soon be replaced and the additional hatred will help greatly with terroist recruitment..

e.g. see https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entir...
I can't even create an Instagram account with my home IP and real phone number. It says something about suspicious activity...
I saw the username and assumed giantbomb, big fan :)
> talk about the idea of making it legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected

That's kinda sorta one of the goals of the GDPR. And they go farther as they're liable for any leak of personal data, not just the unnecessary personal data.
It wouldn't be nearly as bad if it were possible to debug Safari issues on other platforms. Instead, you either have to own a Mac, or use something like Browser Stack. At least Chrome is cross-platform.
Regardless of the semantics, I love how this post has lead to a philosophy 101 debate.
Maybe epigenetics? I mean blank slate theory is off the table anyway...

In addition think about how bees can tell harvest locations to each other by dancing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance This dance is probably also something those bees know before being born.
Yes. I think the real ingredience is that the culprit is rich and has a beautiful house and Colombo is the underdog bringing them down.
Related to this, I've been working on a side project (https://www.hedira.io/, house plant care advisor) for nearly 2 years now. We haven't gotten time to add species recognition by images, but I've done enough to know it's really hard! Thankfully, being houseplant focused, people normally have an easy time finding out what specific species they have in front of them.

I made some classifiers using coreML to test the idea and as with a lot of ML problems, 90% accuracy is trivial, but it gets difficult really quickly after that. Especially without flowers (since they tend to be more unique).

The simplest way I could find to add detection was to use something like the plantnet API (https://my.plantnet.org/usage) which powers the app of a similar name. There are a couple of other plant recognition APIs worth looking at too.
Right but the eventual benefit in that case is to eliminate the need for someone to drive the bus/train/boat/subway.
Hmm, I think so, too.

But it weakens your argument a bit. Basically, it would only convince people who are already convinced.
Amusing this hits the front page the same time as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970824
Yes.

But within the Linux kernel, you might not need that cross-process IPC at all, so if you're into squeezing every last microsecond of latency, you likely want your entire app running as a monolith in kernel mode.

But if you want security more than top speed, seL4 + a few daemons you write for other OS needs must be fine.
See, this is hype. I don't find Figma (running in Chrome) to be as responsive as Illustrator or Pixelmator.
Respectfully disagree on Spielberg. Many episodes from the early series show exceptional visual flair. Watch the opening sequence of Publish or Perish or the post murder cover up from Death Lends a Hand.

Spielberg was young and had enormous talent obviously but I think a blind taste test wouldn't show the difference.
My comment is bound to be redundant in this thread, but so have I. SumatraPDF is an excellent piece of software that has made life for countless people easier and without them having to pay anything in exchange.

It's as simple as it gets (with a UI), it's fast, robust and reliable. I wish governments would set aside some generous budgets for this type of projects that are consistently useful and reliable, like they do for arts and education (well, some governments).
Can you define in the morning what you are going to do today? If you can clearly define that you should be able to release some of the anxiety.

BTW that's why I transferred from an analyst to an engineer. It's a lot easier to do so for an engineer. You just clear a few tickets and you are done for the day.
>dollars and euros lost value

>crypto is worth at least twice as much

of the currency that lost value?
do you see the irony here?
Public transportation works for those living in cities. When you live in the countryside, which is still legally allowed, suddenly public transportation ain't that much of a solution anymore.

Related to TFA: I got to experience the extra called "first class" on a Mercedes Class S (an entry level one, but it had that one extra), where the rear seat (on the passenger side) becomes basically an airliner first class bed (and there's no room for a passenger next to the driver anymore). That is what I call a car I can sleep in and when I'll have a self-driving car, that's the kind of "bed" I'll want.

I hope resourceful engineers working on self-driving cars think about comfort and get to experience that "first class" extra that the class S offers (not that Class S cars are my thing: they're not but, darn, was that bed good for a car).
#19 Satisfaction is not guaranteed.

#27 There's nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.
I'm not sure I get the point (other than saying something mildly controversial to attract attention to his company).

I've never watched them but I'm fairly sure there's videos of people sleeping in Teslas that are driving themselves. Possibly recorded by police cars about to arrest them.

And you'll say, yeah well that was only for x distance and in y circumstances.

But then we're just back to arguing again, which this was supposed to circumvent.

A delivery truck that could let the driver sleep on long roads between cities seems like it would be big, even if the driver had to wake up to do some tricky bits at either end. Of course then you can replace the sleeping driver with two drivers at each end of the journey and slash costs even more.
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I guess there are some other conditions? Such as that you should be able to sleep in it without it causing accidents per distance driven, or only a few accidents, or only a few fatal accidents.

If not, my bed also classifies as a self-driving car
I compare all to CHF, but it doesn't matter if you have a somewhat stable base currency you see the same I described.
PhDs in this area are sufficiently embedded into generic technical industrial practice, perhaps unlike early eras.

> assisting in biomedical image interpretation

I suspect there's going to be a (counter-)renaissance of expertise and anti-tech sentiment because of gross technical failures in these areas.

I think tech budgets into these projects are presently so massive, and so unlikely to deliver on an ROI, that reputations here are going to be destroyed.

So the question is what the nature of this counter-reaction will be. I suspect, within the decade, people will be hiding "AI" from their CVs and describing all the python/data-eng they were doing.
Per capita electricity from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables, 2020
The funny thing is Firefox used to be beautiful for embedding, but then they decided the future of embedding was Servo, and unfortunately they ran out of money to build that future
>They based the character squarely on Porfiry Petrovich, the astute but meandering lead investigator in Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment – a book both had studied at college.

Perhaps, but I would find it difficult to believe that the creators of Columbo hadn't also seen the 1955 French film Diabolique (also known as Les Diaboliques). This film features a detective who seems very friendly and not very competent but who is cleverly setting up a rhetorical trap for the murder suspect, very much like how Columbo acts.
You can sleep on public transportation and get to some destination, but you have to make sure you wake up at the right time if you want to get to a specific one :)

(Bonus points if that was the last train and now you can't get back until morning. Double bonus points if they forgot to check and you've woken up in the depot)
Honestly the American cops are unlikely to bother with that. But still, I agree that a burglar is unlikely to bother with your password notebook.
Intel tries and fails to get into so many markets that aren't high end server and desktop CPU's, and they are rarely successful.

Now they have a chance to still get a piece of the action.
Shared Slack channels.

We're an early stage e-commerce startup selling mainly to medium sizes companies, and one thing that's worked incredibly well is setting up a shared Slack channel with each customer's org. They can get hold of us quickly, we can both pull relevant people into any conversation, and it makes the relationship feel so much more collaborative because it's almost like you're a part of their team.

We've gotten a lot of positive feedback about this, and being available to fix any issues is a great way to get over some rough edges in the platform you are bound to have early on.
It's totally the rich people going down.
What if I only want a nice front-end to search my chrome browsing history? Is there a good app for that? I know I can visit the chrome history page but looking for a better UI
Well, then don't do business with Microsoft?

Only contract with companies that either have a reputation for upholding their end of the bargain without a court threatening them (ie most good companies), or only contract with companies where you have a reasonable expectation of being able to win a fair court case.

As an example of a more generalised version of the former: Amazon is pretty generous in their customer service, and you don't typically have to sue them to get them to eg give you a refund.

Reputation is a powerful asset, and companies often want to protect theirs.

(Not always, though. Amazon is less nice to sellers or employees, I think, for example.)
Second comment on the video: would of been nice to see inside of the car.. its easy to say "there was a human driving!"

I mean, I am working at a start-up too, fake it till you make it is our daily bread...
I get the point, but there are plenty of appliances that work entirely on their own but that many people wouldn't go to sleep running, such as an oven or a clothes drier. Falling asleep alone in a self-driving car would require a level of confidence I'm not sure we'll reach any time soon.
Why don't you just stop posting. You're not welcome here.
Sure. Cloud servers are a good one. But I still see no benefit for the end user to lock down any consumer devices like that. It only benefits the device manufacturers themselves. Like, you know, Apple forcing its online services onto people literally by burning stuff into silicon. I don't have a problem when hardware and software are tightly integrated. I do have a problem when said software isn't modifiable and has a hard dependency on servers you can't control and can't self-host.

Let people modify their modem firmware, just make sure they understand what they're doing. But they might interfere with other people's service, you say? They could as well do that with a $300 SDR, or they could buy a purpose-built cellular jammer. Let governments enforce their laws, don't make something technically impossible because making it possible might enable someone to break a law.
Maybe. But now we are just speculating.
Every country has an agency that regulates drugs and supplements. For Australia see https://www.tga.gov.au/complementary-medicines
‘The harm done by lockdown will last for decades’
I don't think you can debug issues on iOS for that matter. Perhaps it changed, but at least a while ago this wasn't possible. And people say you can do work on iOS...
> dealers parked cars in the spots for charging, had them in locked off areas, had them turned off or otherwise inaccessible, etc

That has caused me a few anxious drives in my Spark EV, finding charging at dealers that was available on the way there but blocked on the return trip. Also, sitting in a car dealer lot for half an hour is not anyone's idea of a good time.
AI and Sustainability – how the two can come together to heal the world
The 1991 Project
If you want a local one, Keepass will do.
Already feasible: https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/docklands-li...
Yes. And for even larger babies, c-sections are common.
> They're very useful for receiving updates about things like replies to comments, new videos from a certain video service and actual notifications from a few web apps.

The service formerly known as RSS/Atom.
The comment you replied to was hyperbolic, but it has a point. Why are my taxes going towards paying for 30% of Israel's military?? They do nothing to improve the safety and stability of my country, in fact they increase geopolitical tensions.
Fall of 2014 for the LiDAR. I am not sure about the other DEM though.
If using this taxi fleet is cheaper than owning a car and you can have a car outside your house in at most, say, 5 minutes then most consumer will be happy to take it.

Choosing no car maintenance, no other hassle and cheaper is a no brainer.
The bigger issue for me is how coupled the OS and Safari updates are.
Apple is great at keeping their phone updated, but once it stops, everything stops. My iPhone 6 is on iOS 12, which means Safari 12 and no way to get the latest updates.

Android support is dreadful, but at least you can run the latest Chrome on Android 4.
I'm not trying to talk down your personal experience or have any skin in the game, but...

We also have a group of technical users on Matrix, where we were formerly on IRC. Nobody complains about Element and most prefer it over the native clients they tried (but it doesn't rule out the possibility that everyone hates all native clients here).

This is also just anecdata with a sample size of "handful of users", but from the other side.

I personally would love to have a native Windows and Linux client I really like (preferably the same), but so far I've had no luck. The Android version of Element is perfect for my usage pattern though.
> A large percentage of the terrains where vehicles are being used are NOT public roads.

But the absolutely overwhelming majority of people who use cars need to be able to do so on public roads. It doesn't help that the acreage of, say, private cattle ranches in Texas is probably larger than that of public roads in the state: Cowboys that need to drive around (only!) on the terrain of those private cattle ranches are probably -- I'm taking a wild guess here -- a pretty tiny minority of the state's population nowadays.
Thanks for all the explanations!
Oh, so now they’re ‘forbidden’? A few months ago they were only ‘impossible’.[1] I saved the article (which also was here on HN) at the time because it contains the conceit “science does what puny humans say is impossible,” but the people who say things are impossible are scientists themselves. Are we supposed to be impressed by that? Plagiarists, AKA journalists, get paid to copy other people’s work. Come to think of it, that’s what Stack Exchange is for, too…

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01332-0
There is a non stated expectation of sleeping and it beeing safe.
Sleeping in your Tesla with FSD on is not safe.