skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore has a very high level of space devoted to car infrastructure. It has little infrastructure for cyclists, despite cycling being a large part of it's history and a common use of transport for many today, so pedestrians are forced to fight for space with cyclists on the tiny drain cover sidewalks that do exist. In SG, by law you have to yield to cars everywhere, some have internalised this so much they yield even in zebra crossings that by law motorists have to yield to pedestrians. Walking in sg is a chore, given you have to yield at every informal crossing (termed "unmarked crosswalk" in US parlance). This is even more mafan on bicycle because you have to stop and stand. All of this for a city where only 11% of people own a car, mostly people who are wealthy enough to afford COE, meaning they can fork over 100K+ sgd every ten years just to drive, or have company car (rich ang mo), it's a great example of the class stratification that exists but has been systematically squeezed out of the consciousness and discussion or has been substituted by racial or anti-foreigner sentiments.

The public transit saves the city and the fact walkways do exist everywhere is great and a lot better than for example the US (hard to do worse than the worst), but it is seriously car centric of a city.
>those of us who don't own a device running either Apple's or Google's proprietary OS will be pretty much excluded from many of the basic conveniences of everyday life.

Considering that Google is already incorporating Web Environment Integrity API into Chrome, soon we won't be on the internet either, and that's a much more pressing concern imho.
C probably feels spiritually close to D. B is scared anyone from C or D can shoot past them. Most A fear nothing from a C or a D and probably a B but exposed to the competitive edge of a B may act differently to them?

On this topic of toxic (or not: you decide) competitiveness "The master of Go" by Kawabata is a good read. Or "the Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse
palm-2-l-instruct scores 0.909 on Winogrande few-shot. Where are the symbolic rule systems that get such results?

https://github.com/LudwigStumpp/llm-leaderboard/blob/main/RE...
This article feels like it’s written by someone who wants the boom to be over. Just spending a few hours with AutoGPT made me realize it’s very far dram over. It just started.
I don't think the technology is going anywhere, but the hype is cooling down, as limitations are starting to be better understood, and the 'Dude! Don't you get it! At this pace[1] we'll have a 1e304 parameter GPT17 model and weaponized AGI by noon on Thursday'-bros have quieted down a bit.

[1] https://xkcd.com/605/
Here we have precise stats broken down by race, age, drug addiction, mental illness, gender identity... This is not going to backfire at all...
But you’re okay with using a credit card - controlled by Amex, Visa and Mastercard
Singapore isn't really corrupt, it's just that the rich are allowed to play and everyone else is allowed to suffer.

Hyperbole aside, I actually really enjoy my life here. It's just really expensive (that's the "rich are allowed to play" bit). People are very friendly and down to earth which is something I don't usually experience in the other big, dense cities I've visited (San fran, LA, NYC, DC, Paris, etc).
In some states, yes, you have to accept it.
Many cancers triggered by smoking hit during late working years.
Must be Windows investors after a new background view for an upcoming version of windows.
You can do 1-4 with Zig frames, but 5 and 6 are tougher since there's no guarantee that you won't end up with internal pointers.
I'm more or less in the same place, but been moderately successful in convincing my wife that certain games are very good and much better than watching tv (or any other passive thing). My kids hates to loose, and especially in the beginning would have very bad reactions which would feed my wife's point that games are bad. I just started picking better games (low-level challenge, more fun and exploration)
You think this because the cases where smartphones are worse stand out more.

Finding businesses that match some profile in the area, finding out that business' hours and offerings, then getting directions there from wherever you currently are -- all MASSIVELY easier on a smartphone compared to doing the same in 1990/pre-web. Doing that stuff with yellow pages and a map was a huge pain in the ass that took forever.

Grabbing a playlist to listen to music on a jog is also way easier in the age of music subscriptions and smartphones, compared to going around with a walkman+tape, especially if you factor in getting variety in song choice.

Also, remember communicating with people at arbitrary times? If they're at home, that's fairly safe, though if you're not home you may need to find a payphone. But if they're away from home on errands, lol, good fucking luck getting a message to them.
Yeah and arguably, many survived to see the light on the other side of the tunnel.

It's completely legitimate in the same way as this argument is: "since there's a risk of me being hit by a car, or having an unpleasant day when I go outside, I better stay inside."

Overly focusing on the negative outcome to the point of inaction is often a thinly veiled excuse for some other often internal/personal reasons.

Doomerism doesn't have legitimacy because it's just a decaying idea. If ideas had an evolutionary tree, it is a recurring branch(leaf) that always died off while legitimately calling itself legitimate, every single time.
> So what did you expect Lyft to do to accommodate your lack of willingness to use a smart phone?

Allow unlocking a second scooter while in your own session already, I feel like this is kind of obvious.

I ran into the same situation just because my phone was dead. My girlfriend couldn't unlock a second scooter for me.
LLMs still do not match humans on Winograd Schema Challenge but the top ones already get pretty close.

The current top model, Vega v2, is already at 98.6 (compared to human’s 100.0).
https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

Several other LLMs score higher than 95.0 as well.

I suspect some upcoming multimodal LFMs will be very close to human level since their training data would include video, audio, and possibly even physical interaction input.

Moreover, top LLMs already surpass the human baseline on SuperGLUE, a suite of many language tasks.

This is my experience when using GPT-4 as well. It’s like an extremely well-read intern who follows instructions much better than an average person on the street. It is just often a little drunk or sleepy at work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ……for now.
Access to data on the phone for example. Just from top of my head: camera, stored data, contacts, location, microphone...

I am firmly in the browser-over-app camp. One of the reasons I have close to zero third party apps on my phones.
Somewhere in HN there's a post about disrupting or revolutionizing the laundromat industry, where some person is showered in praise (and later money) for setting up this lousy system.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
> I believe this idea could integrate with Block’s vision for Web 5, which to the best of my understanding, also anchors Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) into the Bitcoin blockchain.

There's a lot of effort going on in the EU to enable international, decentralized identity that can be recognized by every country. The first thing they decided was that DIDs on the blockchain are a terrible idea. GDPR demands that personal information must be protected, but having your DID in a blockchain forever, for all to see every transaction your DID ever performs, goes completely against that. It's one of those ideas that doesn't pass even 5 minutes of light consideration when you actually understand the implications.

However, DIDs are not tied in any way to blockchains, so they're still a good idea, just the ideal implementation needs to be found yet.
I have taught in 26 countries, over 20 years. I had a total of two conversations relating to someone who wanted to complain about America. Both were taxi drivers. I enjoyed both occasions. I’m always ready to tell folks that they can take their complaints to me and I will listen. If they make a good case, I’ll go home and fix the problem

But such conversations are very rare.
yeah, it's a vacuum cleaner
Really nice article i really enjoy the way you write.
> Please note that I changed my Nostr public key identity. My last private key was compromised, likely from using it to log into a web client last month. This is still a very new technology ...

That seems like an area that needs work before the other 90% of the world can use Nostr securely.
"Show, don't tell" is where artists can get really clever.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag
I'm not the OP, but for me it's email, phone calls, instant messaging, paper mail sometimes.

Surely your pocket computer isn't your only computer? Like, you do own a computer with a physical keyboard, right?

Pre-COVID, when I made plans to go out with folks, we arranged a time and place to meet, and, like, arrived at that place roughly around that time. It's pretty easy, really.
I would be interested if anyone had similar tweaks for MySQL. I used to mount the directory where MySQL stores data into memory, this used to be very effective until upgrading to MySQL 8. Now my test suite takes three times as long to run and I never really figured out why.
Weekly reminder to not take Gartner's hype cycle as gospel or dogma, it's as much a marketing instrument for Gartner as anything else.
Chat GPT what is betteridges law of headlines?
The linked article is rather short, however the references on that page are interesting.

This is an interesting topic. My name (Daniël) is often written as Daniel, just because people don't know how to type an "ë" on their computer or smartphone.

I've setup a compose key on my keyboard, so I can press <compose> <"> <e>. I guess this is a leftover from when I used Sun systems, where the keyboard had a physical compose key.
And none of that information is available unless you explicitly give the app permission.

On the other hand using standardized APIs, a web page can access everything you mentioned except for contacts
Those from the eu are moving back to the eu, and those with skills in demand that hold british citizenship only and cant leave find remote work in the us or the eu. The uk contract market which used to be the ultimate goal for highly skilled engineers is getting slaughtered by silly regulation that pushes work either to outsourcing companies or, surprise surprise, to remote workers from the eu.

For instance, when i speak with folks from east europe they tell me there are remote jobs available from … the uk (somehow remote within uk is not ok, remote outside is). With a pay gap of roughly 20-30% that means that due to the cost of living and taxes being lower their pay is significantly higher than pay within the uk. The reasons companies outsource or externalise are because hiring contract workers is a tax nightmare (have to prove they are not disguised employees, otherwise rates would be much higher since the worker will have to pay as much tax as an employee..although non employee taxation is also pretty high, because eat the “rich”).

Then you have companies that hire locally in a crappy hybrid setup. As if anyone with skills in demand is going to uproot their family or want to live in expensive london only to work on crappy agiled to death products, where the only challenges are getting the process to work instead of solving actual problems.

It feels as if this country is making one wrong choice after the other. Brexit was one of them but since then there are plenty more.

I do believe that things can turn around, and as such, I will call out what i think damages progress any time i see it.

Hybrid or onsite that’s forcing people to return to an overcrowded over expensive city such as london is one of them. Get real and grow up, the world has moved on from wanting to piss their money away on commutes and rents, and the tech for remote is already here.
Nothing is a coincidence when it comes to pipelines.
I'm calling it now: Word with ads will ship inbox with future versions of Windows :)

Maybe the whole Office suite; if you want a PowerPivot in Excel you'll have to watch a 2 minute unskippable ad for hair loss medication. Totally "private" though, scout's honor.
Hello, cash?

At least credit card isn't a continuous and multi-sensor surveillance device.
I think the largest of those forks is tenacity [1]. Some of the other forks were incorporated into it.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/
Some relays try to store messages for as long as possible (aside from cleaning up some really large spammy ones), some others keep a certain number of messages.

There are some relays that have no storage at all, they only relay messages between connected clients and then discard the messages.
No citation. No evidence. No thought process. No credibility.

Where do you think dead malls are, exactly? I live in an SFH neighborhood that's threatened by developer giveaways, and there is a boarded-up Macy's and defunct Fry's growing weeds within two miles. And, to the west, there are stretches of decrepit small-commercial/industrial tracts awaiting rejuvenation. But NOPE! Let's let developers replace one house with 10 FUCKING UNITS, with no permits or review.

So... you're wrong.
Because it was too long for HN. I had to work on it quite a bit to make it short enough. Sorry that I needed to manhandle it, I did not enjoy it either.
That's why it's so frustrating when people point at homeless people having smartphones and snarkily say oh they aren't really poor, why would they have a smartphone if "allegedly" they can't afford food.

Well the answer is that in modern life it's literally impossible to access basic infrastructure of many places without a smartphone. It's an absolute necessity unless you want to be a nomad and live in the wilderness.
And then they have to hire someone to go by and get cash from each of the machines.
Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica
Excellent point.

There may be use cases where a DID tied to a verifiable history is a feature (particularly for organisations as opposed to individuals), but for most people having it linked to a blockchain is definitely not the way forward. Also, blockchains and associated protocols can become defunct, or dwindle in usage until a 51% takeover of the remainder is feasible, or many other things.

I imagine that in the end, a DID will be a private/public keypair wrapped in some hardware that the average person can use.
Babel will still pollyfill async await too if configured.
It's pretty popular in India too, especially among IT workers. These days I see a lot of young ladies smoking as well, which was pretty rare a decade or so ago.
Why would they have to release everything else if the Supercollider server is running as a separate process? Just fork it on Github.
I know it's meant to be a joke but I can't help but be a little pedantic: Xi is pronounced more like "see" -- "she" would more like xü
That's a very interest project. As a amateur sailor I have played with some models for sailing path optimizatio, wich can be somehow related to your problem. I started with a very simple model using sailing polar graphs, these map wind speed and course to maximum speed and usually based on empirical data, I found some DBs with this data, I can check if you are interest. Nevertheless for a better simulation you will at least need a simple model that gives you the forces at least especially if you want to simulate the boat acceleration, heeling and leeway. Simulating the sail foil behaviour would be very computational intesive as the airflow around it can get very complicated especially as the sail changes it's shape with it.
We have a discord "HN Learn", where we collaborate to learn things, especially Maths.
If you want some company to delve into linear algebra, feel free to join.

[0] https://discord.gg/RxSjEMnW
Smart businessman or 'impetuous narcissistic bully'?
I'm ok with people choosing not having children & it's good that there's a choice.

I'm just pointing out (from personal experience, an experience someone who doesn't have kids doesn't have) that it's not a float happiness with traveling the world adding +1.5f and a child +4.3f. It's not comparable, not in the colloquial sense that one is a much bigger value than the other but literally in the sense that it's not the same quality/feeling/satisfaction.

It's true that you don't know what you're going to get (e.g. children with disabilities are a lot more challenging that healthy kids) but I think the materialistic approach ("should I take 4 vacation or raise 1 child?") is not conductive to finding happiness in life.

I agree regarding the challenges in our current system & government/societal support.
Nothing like finishing a conversation with your child about the lack of need for a smartphone then jumping into your financed 2023 BMW SUV when a 1987 Toyota would fulfil the requirements.
Our minds need times of boredom to be creative. Especially children who learn at fast pace. I have seen it multiple times that children without immediate stimulation start solving problems.
"Almost 50" and "got a modem at 12yo" doesn't add up...

48yo today means you were 20yo in 1995, so already an adult by the time porn and pirated games were a thing?

Not trying to gotcha, but I'm left with the only possible conclusion: you spent your university years exposed to porn, trolling and pirated games! :-)
This is basically true. Liberal cosmopolitan types are the government, may be not the MPs although they are being pulled anyway from their younger technocratic underlings. The older folks, religious folks, etc are the reason for the social conservatism, it's essentially done to appease them. I don't think government cares, just like most global businesses, they've found doing the corporate-rainbow capitalism stuff is good for business, which is a mixed bag for progressives in general but is what it is. I think in with a different public the same technocrats in the PAP would end up being as rainbow capitalist as the rest of the world, with it's benefits and issues.
I’d certainly prefer to use an app rather than having to hunt for quarters. If the app didn’t exist, I’d probably have to go to a bank to get quarters or an ATM to withdraw cash and beg the closest convenience store to give me change.

Granted, there are probably better solutions that require neither quarters nor a mobile app, but between those two, the mobile app wins for me.
Define soon. Passwords, for all their annoyances, will probably be around for a long time.

While they are not brilliant at anything, they are good enough on many dimensions. Some disadvantages of the things you mention are:

* They don't require specialised hardware
* They don't require complicated recovery mechanisms if that hardware is lost, stolen or broken.
* Arguably, biometrics should not be used for authentication. Once a biometric system is compromised, you have no way to recover. You can't change your biometrics.
They are ignoring the problem of how do you know the other person's public key. And you don't. That's why people post their public keys on their own websites or on X or whatever - basically, a third-party THEY trust and believe you can trust as well, so yeah, this doesn't remove trust on a third-party as that's impossible.
«Contributions», debatable; «value», debatable; "impact", cannot be ignored.

It is probably best if we stick to Doug Lenat and postpone the meta to a more neutral occasion: Doug Lenat has just died.
This is spot on, I also use it to write bash scripts where I could never remember the exact syntax to accomplish a task.
Wow what a weird take. I think it's the same attitude that leads to modern technology being inaccessible to people with disabilities - after all why plan our systems for anything other than "readily accessible technology". If you refuse to use it you're just an asshole, that's your problem, right? If you physically can't use a smartphone because you're blind that's your problem, and not the problem of the idiotic system built so that it can't be accessed in any other way, obviously.
You think individual citizens failing to mind their own business don’t fuel America’ “democracy and liberation” wars? Along with immoral and destructive economic sanctions on countries like Iran?

And OP’s use of “we” and “taking down MBS” aren’t consistent with your characterization.
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Hoopy: Inline Haskell in your Python code
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Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom
Labor Day BBQs May Feature NYPD
This is the problem I have with long form articles. They are promoted as a counter reaction to short shallow articles without substance. Though most of these long form articles are just as shallow. Starting a articles on physics by the description on how a professor wiped his horn rimmed glasses that shimmered in the morning light only to have them steam up again by his first sip of chocolade brown coffee.
Takes about 3 seconds for me, maybe it's just hardware limitations for you?
Damn, i knew that Apple did marketing well but not this well. Great success, apple marketing team.
Minor spelling mistake on the card "Deploy ML Models in AWS Lamda" (Lamda -> Lambda).
Comparing a smartphone to a hat is like comparing a Tesla to a sock. It doesn't illuminate the conversation at all, it's a straw-man in the extreme.

Some people don't want smartphones. Some people can't get hold of them. They are both getting locked out of basic societal functions.
A modern iPhone has all sorts of affordances for people with disabilities - including blind people.

Do you also complain that you can’t use Uber without a cellphone?

Most people in society are more than willing to help those who for whatever reason can’t do for themselves. But are less forgiving for those who won’t
Iga Swiatek pulls on the heartstrings of US Open crowd
Agreed. I lived somewhere that switched from a credit card reader on the machines, to an app.

The credit card reader was instant. You could just put in your laundry, swipe your card, and that was it. Instantly started.

They switched to an app by the same service company, and now there were a bunch more steps involved. Put in your laundry, find the app, open it, scroll through their “what’s new in laundry!” news that nobody cares about, click a bunch of buttons until you find the machine number that matches yours, go through the menus to pick washer settings, then pay there, and still need to push the start button on the machine itself.

So much worse, and also more error prone — I would regularly get errors when a machine disconnected from the internet.

Why people think it’s better, I have no idea. The only thing I can think is that credit card fees are cheaper on a $20 transaction compared to 20 $1 transactions
It is not mandatory, but for many people not flying is a choice in the same way not having a smartphone is. Like where I am right now: Getting around in Norway means flying.
I am not American, but is my intuition correct, that burning such materials already occurs in huge quantities, but the outrage is coming up because someone is talking publicly about it?