skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social scoring systems, such as those launched in China that track the trustworthiness of people and businesses, are classified as "contravening the Union values" and are going to be banned.

> The proposal also wants to prohibit AI systems that cause harm to people by manipulating their behavior, opinions or decisions; exploit or target people's vulnerabilities; and for mass surveillance.

> many technologies currently in use in Europe today, such as algorithms used to scan CVs, make creditworthiness assessments, hand out social security benefits or asylum and visa applications, or help judges make decisions, would be labeled as "high risk," and would be subject to extra scrutiny.

> One of the Commission’s requirements in the draft are that data sets do not “incorporate any intentional or unintentional biases” which may lead to discrimination.
This is exactly my plan. Another 6-7 years in London, then back to Australia. I love London and my life here - I’ll be able to move back to Australia when I’m 40, have a high quality of life and be in a strong financial position relative to my peers.
> Obviously every nested simulation is many orders of magnitute less "powerful". That does not mean that there could be enough nested simulations. "Outer" universe could be unimaginably bigger, with more dimensions, have different laws of existence which would allow to simulate ours.

The argument only works if you have an infinite or at least unbounded simulation tower. Otherwise you can't jump from the observation that there could be simulations to the idea that there must be simulations or a Great Filter.

My point with the religious stuff was to show that you can re-state any religious idea into a 'scientistic' interpretation if you accept the simulation argument. This doesn't mean you should believe in Thor any more than you do now, but to point out that if we accept the simulation argument we must also accept that all religious texts are valod objects of scientific inquiriy, as they could be presenting events that are non-physical in our simulated universe but physical in the upper universe. Even contradictory ones could be true, as the simulation could have been unwound and replayed differently.
When I was a teenager in the 90s in the UK, if I wanted my parents to collect me from somewhere then I could let them know by calling the operator from a payphone and asking for a reverse charge to my parents landline. Calls to the operator were free but reverse charged calls cost a lot to those who accepted them.

When asked for my name I would usually use my first name and use my last name as the place to pick me up from. If that gave them enough information then they could reject the call, which would cost them nothing.
>The argument of EA is closer to: doing more of the things that currently feed 95% of the world is the way to feed 100%.

That is purely a political choice. Just grow the food supply faster than the population. Most developed countries have solved this on the population side. If every EU country had 0.5 - 1 billion people all of them would run into food problems.
Well... I'm puzzled about it on AWS. I don't know about Azure, but on GCP I tried their equivalent of CloudFormation and it was absolutely POS. Reported a bug in their repo, and got response acknowledging the bug, but it's in specific component's API that is owned by another team (within Google of course) and there's not much they can do about it.

Like WTF? Do they think I have better chance reaching them than them? Tried then TF and it was much simpler and everything worked as expected.

On AWS though, seriously, TF is inferior.
Like with everything else they will carve out exceptions for themselves
The miracle drug is a good example. Sure everyone benefits if it is not expensive. Take the Covid vaccines for example, there are many locations (e.g. In India) that could produce vaccines, however the companies (and the Western countries) do not want to open up the patents, even though we would all (even us in the 1st world) benefit, because eliminating covid as quick as possible would reduce the chance of mutations.
No rockets to Mars because all of the luxury hotels are on the moon?
Heard rumours they left $6B on the table, as demand for their equity exceeded supply.
As a regular viewer of NHK US, it’s filled with shows where the producers are non-subtly implying a country that is slowly circling the drain... but with dignity.

Show after show of very old people keeping the family business, farm or trains running. Kids off to the city, grandma literally crawling through the family peach orchard weeding. Lone western adventure cyclist droning around to largely empty roads, cultural sites, towns and always visiting “the last [insert hand skill] in the prefecture”.

It’s quite fascinating to watch, and I can’t wait to visit, but they’re not hiding it.

The US is only a couple generations behind them and we will not be going in as dignified a manner.
> wxWidgets, [...], uses native controls

But only the old school Windows style right? I still don't get the argument because Windows itself now has like 3 different styles for their system apps themselves. There is not the "one" native style.
I bet Brian owns a much larger stake on coinbase than on airbnb
Thanks for the share, didn't heard about it before, I see the advantage in a use-case that we have :

We have are actually working on : "How to manage Terraform resources". We ended up having a conflict dev <-> ops where dev teams are messaging the terraform guys to create resources. For example, to create a database, it will take only 1 hour writing HCL, but 2 weeks of emails to align on the specs.

We are currently building something on top, to have resources that can be created in a self-service mode by the devs themselves. (Behind the scenes, it uses Terraform modules to generate resources that will comply with the company policies).

For the moment, it's a bunch of Jenkins pipelines. Having a CDK can actually help us a lot there. (Can plug it to a CMDB database, have a UI on top, etc)
No, the burden of proof lies on the person claiming that something is "obvious".

And nitpicking the numbers is incredibly important if said nitpick happens to span orders of magnitude.
Not at all. I see it as a great thing! But I love London, and actually enjoy being career-focused right now. It satisfies me in a way that Australia did not. I definitely plan to move back in 6-7 years, and will be in a strong financial position when I do. Win-win.
> Is this about the AI or about the use of regular technology that could hurt citizens

I would think the intend is about technology that could hurt citizens. More like responsible use of technologies. As a tech I support this kind of initiative. Anything allows software to identify person become a slippery slop to totalitarian government (in this day and age it won't just be government, also include trans-nation corporations).
I’m not sure if you’re thinking of somewhere else, but Medicare does not cover dentistry - some health services have dentistry but it basically takes care of those who are having poor Health outcomes due to poor dentition (my housemate at Med school was studying dentistry and used to do a couple days out at westmead a week drilling on these people).
still astounds me/blows my mind to see "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" becoming prophetically true before our very eyes
> The various V3.1.x releases all say please use this release for production, even though in theory it's the even number releases that are supposed to be production worthy.

V3.1.x is 5 years old now and it looks like they’re using semver for at least v3 releases. So I wouldn’t worry about this being an odd numbered release.

https://semver.org/
This comment ignores existence of Starlink that already proved the tech and business model, while also having a considerably lower cost to build the constellation than competition thanks to the reusability.
Not sure if I'm understanding you right, but this is an amendment to that February filling. This isn't a brand new raise.
Do they send mail about breaching?
Try this link: https://investors.twilio.com/governance/person-details/defau...

Phone number on the page and an email address that may work for you. Let me know if that helps.
Pyright works well for me in vim-coc. Of course ymmv
This 'news' is scheduled 'blogspam', this article links to prev. article with exactly the same premise and that posted exactly 1 month earlier (15 april, 15 march), while both based on ~2018 research. Moving on.
SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
I'm not parent poster, but I believe (when he mentioned looking at TF and AWS documentation) he most likely meant to use TF instead of CloudFormation. And frankly I think CF is far more robust.
That assumes assaults in the US are reported the same way. Murders probably are because there is a body. I doubt I her crime is given the weird incentives in the US system.
I find it disappointing how many people on HN post these types of comments, and just the general sentiment of the internet nowadays. I don't know what compels you to make such negative comments.

SpaceX has a solid track record, extremely profound technical achievements, and very compelling goals (interplanetary humanity!). I think less cynicism would go a long way, unless you're leading your own rocket company that outperforms SpaceX in these regards.
If I pay my taxes, why should I also give to charity?
Private health insurance in Australia is quite cheap - my silver extras plan is $480/quarter (dentistry and basically anything else that could happen to me)
I mean Manhattan, the touristy parts.
I work for Twilio and forwarded it internally. If you are 6 years with the company, you probably have an AE assigned to your company or have been in touch with any other human being along the way?

UPDATE: Your account should be active now.
Some memories with those time. We used missed calls for varying reasons depending on the people we interact with.

* When going to meet someone, first missed calls says you've started, then the second missed calls says you've reached. This will be informed before hand while scheduling the meet.

* You're supposed to reject when you're expecting a mutually agreed missed call, and if the call comes the 2nd time immediately, then you should pick up.

* During meets, there usually is one organizer who everyone gives missed call to update their status and they'll follow-up with another missed call to those who didn't update. I know it sounds complicated, but it surprisingly isn't.

* Before mobile, landline was pretty common and caller IDs were almost non-existent, missed calls with a pattern are the way to denote that its you that's calling to make sure her parents does not pick up the phone :). One ring, then two rings, and she should be near the phone for the next call to pick (you hope and pray its not her dad, again.) and pretend to talk with a friend.
Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
When a company like Microsoft is writing production code in Rust, I think it's fair to say that the language has passed the "fad" stage.

https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-rust-is-the-industrys-best-...

https://medium.com/the-innovation/how-microsoft-is-adopting-...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3605551/microsoft-forms-ru...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/rus...
Yes and no - if I was in real trouble I’d want to end up in the public system (where I work and where the care is the best) but PHI is great for the things you never know are going to happen. Generally your life will be fine without it though
Sorry to hear. Twilio has changed since its early days. Last month, our bill went from $20 per month to $16,000. The reason: fraudsters use Twilio to setup premium numbers, then use Twilio customers (like us) to send OTPs to those numbers using bots. The result is us out of pocket, fraudsters and Twilio making money.

Twilio is also the only Pay as you Go SaaS vendor that doesn’t have spend limits on accounts and advises customers to implement their own any fraud measures themselves.

While this was going on, we got an email from their sales rep, congratulating us for increasing our spend by more than 8000% and wanted to have a chat. So I guess they do have the systems to monitor unusual patterns, they just turn a blind eye.

You’d never know, someone in Twilio might even be selling customer lists on the black market to the fraudsters so they know who to target.
A browser extension is not a threat model, I'm not sure what you mean.
i would invest in every single stock that you would short.
There are two reasons why the loans are 80% APR, either because lots of them fail to repay (which goes against the 96% repayment rate) or because the recipients of the loan generate enough value to justify paying 80% APR. (unlikely because that would have attracted a colossal amount of investors and reduced yields back to the single digits that are available to other markets).

Honestly, looking at it, it would be better if they just obtained the funding themselves by borrowing it at low interest rates and you just pay a subscription fee to cover the interest and administrative costs.
Ask HN: Struggling to make progress at my internship
Hey HN! I'm a robotics intern working in a Fortune 50 company. The project that I work on is great, I really enjoy the problem statement anr it's been my life's mission to work in robotics.

I'm 3 months into this internship and I'm struggling to make meaningful progress on the parts that I'm supposed to be working on. I find the topic technically challenging and so far I've been powering through it with blunt force, a prayer and crossed fingers.

My question is, how do I get better at this? How do I keep my head above water and succeed at this very valuable experience? I'd appreciate any pointers, personal recollections and advice.

Thanks a ton HN!
I'm not sure if you appreciate how utterly surreal that visage is to someone who is 3 hours off a flight from Sydney.

It honestly feels like a scaled down version of the slums you see in South Africa butting right up against typical suburban homes.
The main reason for this "it's all over my head" feeling that one gets when reading his thoughts is that he freely invents new concepts with names like "branchial space" and "multiway hypergraph" and "slicing rurial space" that sound sciency/mathematical and give you the feeling "oh if I only understood math/CS/physics better then I knew what he is talking about" while in reality this is all his own terminology and thus the reader has of course not really a clue of what's going on. It's because he does not clearly define what he is talking about or gives discussions of the properties of the things he throws around, but just "as it turns out there is this beautiful thing I call this-and-that and it's exactly like feynmans path integral" and then we're just supposed to sit in awe. That's not how you communicate scientific progress. It's all just smoke.

Of course one feels inadequate in an article supposedly about fire if all we ever get presented with are different shades of grey smoke and "as it turns out it's beautiful" and "I've researched this smoke since the 80s".
Additionally it ignores the well documented and known (they're public companies) yearly revenue from the top 15 largest geostationary satellite owners/operators, which starlink is going to absolutely take a huge percentage of business from.
I think that the mentions of that have been deleted from the relevant PEP since, but e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7zvyhx/pep_563_ment... is also asking about it.
Over 800 fast-growing YC startups are hiring engineers at YCombinator.com/jobs
Maybe boring things don't attract so many bad programmers, that statistics are getting messed up.
I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind's harddrive had been defragmented.

Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.

She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.

To say it's frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.

I'm convinced we'll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.
Wire closes $21m Series B funding
Gas station isn't someone. It's an endpoint, as the bar in my story. If the gas station cashier takes from the register to get a bier, you're right. If not, my thesis still holds I think.
It's more about the opinion relative to the overall context of the thread. As an example, if you try to defend or contextualise Facebook (the company's) actions in a thread about how much they suck, you'll get downvoted.

The same opinion in a different thread will probably just be ignored, because people self-select into threads based on what they care about, and the FB dislikers won't be so concentrated.

Nastiness and "can't you just" statements tend to get downvoted regardless of context though.
Suck dick faggot ass bitch.
Gun violence exists only on media outlets. However 600k/year deaths from cancer is very real and the US healthcare won't miss a chance to bankrupt those people before they die.
So... what I said?
Regarding (1) - Becoming rich isn't part of the premise of EA. Getting a $100k job is often sufficient to have extra cash that can save real lives.

Regarding (2) - There are examples of successful EA in action. See the FTX founder.

Regarding (3) - Getting rich can't make people poorer (on net) unless you're exploiting negative externalities, which we would both agree need to be addressed by government. It can transfer wealth from A to B (e.g., by deprecating one industry and replacing it with another), for sure, but I don't see that as automatically bad.
Bitcoin hacker donates one million euros of “undeserved wealth” to green party
This whole area has got so muddied with Microsoft going beserk after Windows 8, the shift to the web, mass use of Electron and Apple bringing iPhone/iPad apps to macos.

It's quite sad really because none of it was changed in the name of users interest.
And EA isn't against this kind of thing, but political activism often tends not to be low-hanging because people are very invested in political activism. If you can set up an organization that can consistently identify low-hanging, high-impact activism, then EA will be all for it.
I know a lot of people whose minds were ruined by psychedelics. It’s something you will see when you spend time in those communities. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s common.
So TF would come where you would otherwise use gcloud commands, if I get it.

One part of the cluster building that caught me off-guard with GCP is that cluster options effectively change over time, as the k8s versions march forward.

For instance some feature go out of beta and become the default, and trying to rebuild a cluster exactly similar to one built year ago would require specific “don’t use that new feature” flags added to it. Or using these new features require adapting the other resources to the new configurations.

I guess TF is still useful in that it helps audit and reproduce the same infra inbetween changes, and will be nicer as an interface than bash scripts, even if it won’t save from dealing with nitty gritty of the platform.
Most people in positions 1 and 2 can’t really leave their countries either, and depending on how strict 2 is you may not have been able to travel far within your country either.

This is mostly an artefact of the fact that HK is so small. At least you’re not in Macau, which is 30 sq km?
You seem to have missed the point of the up vote requirement for downvotes though. It exists to restrict downvotes to those who are more active, and thus more "invested?". I believe that this was a very deliberately chosen barrier to entry here.
Other Source:

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-04/parteispende...
IIRC dentistry is only covered in fringe cases for health related reasons i.e. you need this done or you will get very sick or die. Also under some concession schemes. Otherwise, regular check ups, cleaning, fillings, and basic extractions are not covered at all for the general population.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809535
Terraform (and hashicorp) don’t follow semver. Terraform has been spinning up infrastructure for small and $100billion+ companies for years, it came out in 2014.

Business critical readiness is not measured whether something has or hasn’t got a “1.0” tag on GitHub.
This is, in my opinion, the best way to design software. If you’d like to see what happens when you take it further with a more powerful type system, read type-driven development in Idris or any of the F# type-driven development blog posts.
I have lived in LA county for more than 25 years and lived in East Hollywood ~1 year. I have never heard gunfire anywhere in LA. I'm sure it happens in the worst areas but I've never heard it and I've been around plenty of recreational gunfire (outside of LA).

Do you think it's possible they're mistaking gunfire with fireworks? There are plenty of fireworks here.
Yeah we should better give that money to the army and destroy another country in the Middle East?

We could've been on Mars by now given the military industrial complex expenditure.
I did a couple of commercial programs with it back when Qt was charging for a licence. In the end I wish I had stumped up the money for Qt as I had a lot of problems with wx.
We had the same problem some months ago with Mailgun. They blocked our account after many years using them without apparent reason or prior notice and took them 2 days to unblock it, leaving our thousands of clients stranded without receiving any of our transactional emails.

Lesson learnt, always keep a backup for crucial services and move away from Mailgun
In the region, countries like Korea and Vietnam did move away from Chinese characters - though I'm not sure what impact that's had on educational outcomes and time spent studying different stuff.
> algorithms used to scan CVs

so "5 clever if statements" (which most CV parsers are, if that wasn't clear) too are subject to extra scrutiny depending on application being labeled high risk or not.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. I feel it's good intentions but marketed wrong.

Why not just say, we will evaluate critical software like we evaluate other critical engineering projects/infrastructure? Why mix in AI?
Ah yes because Microsoft is a beacon of good software design.
China actually had a bit of advantage here, as other countries started shutting out Chinese nationals, preventing their citizens from going abroad and reintroducing the virus. Also it seems like as the first hard hit place its citizens started to become wary of traveling abroad earlier.
Excellent examples which gave me a more clear idea on the right way of thinking about this. I think more important than anything, it is our ability as founders to ask the right questions, form the right hypothesis and be able to recognize the signal from all the noise.
I don’t want to live in a world where the solution to depression (caused by governments, politicians, or general existence in the modern capitalist world) is a drug. Not a good idea.

Instead, figure out why depression has increased so dramatically in the last ~century and address that.