skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really, really, really do not think this story gets any better with multiple private entities (startups perhaps?) competing to make determinations about disability pay. In fact that sounds horrible.
In that case the government should smash Southwest with a billion dollar fine so the cost of not doing this drilling exceeds the cost of doing it.
It means that you're working to find a peaceful solution. It's no different from people who opposed the Afghanistan and Vietnam wars and pushed for peace.

People who oppose war were discredited by the regime then and they are being discreted today. News at 11.
> This "secret key" is not stored on 1Password's servers, instead it should be printed on a piece of paper and stored safely. While this is a good starting point, it significantly reduces usability, since you need this piece of paper when re-installing 1Password.

you can bootstrap from an existing installation too. you’re painting this to be more of a hassle than it actually is in practice.
Disclaimer: I am a person of Indian origin.

I personally do not think reprimanding India will solve this. If somehow India stops this the void will be filled by scammers from some other country.

This calls for reforms in telecommunications systems / regulations / norms / protocols.
Best advice: don't have an area code that matches where you are. when you start getting calls from Houston (for example) you know it's spam/scam. But when you get calls from the area code you are actually in, it's legit.
"intuitive and feature rich formal verification frameworks for the major programming languages"

I doubt that such things are really possible. I see two problems: 1. computers in general don't have domain knowledge, so they can't really say what "correct" means; 2. computers don't have a conceptual model of what it is a human is trying to do, so they can't determine if that way is correct.

I thought about this when I was playing with microcontrollers. There are all sorts of bizarre flags and ways and means of configuring and controlling a peripheral. If there was only one correct way of doing things, then it wouldn't make much sense to give such fine-grained control.

In one particular case I was writing to a peripheral. Normally one would block processing until the transfer was complete. However, I needed the operation to be done frequently, and blocking would have consumed much-needed computing cycles. My solution was to simply write to the peripheral. I knew that it would be complete by the time I made the next transfer.

Well, the thing is, a checker just can't reason in that way. It takes a human to do that. Humans can of course be wrong, and often are, but thems the breaks.

Formal checking may be able to establish a few things, but as a general exercise, there is no more chance of some kind of AI proving your program to be right as there is of solving the halting problem.
> These operations have to be sponsored by the state at this scale. At the bare minimum they're at least looking the other way.

Its more like
1. They don't care
2. Those who care, don't have time to work on problems of Non-Citizens when the citizens are suffering too

India is a country of almost 1.4 Billion people. That is 1 Europe + 1 North America + around 200 Million people more (figures from google search, may not be accurate)

Indian law enforcement is archaic, understaffed, and riddled with corruption. They prefer to sit on their asses all day and collect paychecks rather than working. For the select few that actually work, they have all the local issues to deal with that comes with a population of that size. They simply do not have the time to work on things that are affecting someone on the other side of the planet.

And tbh I don't blame them for putting citizen's problems over non-citizens. Thats literally what every country would do.
Not meant as snarky.

I Googled "IBM zOS certificiation" because I figured that IBM offers training and because getting certification is antithetical to HN's zeitgeist.

I got this, https://www.ibm.com/training/certification/C0005400 so though this might not be what you want, it is a breadcrumb.

Good luck.
I did a lot of job hopping and can tell you all projects are a mess. So for me it's all about the money. And having a hobby project where I can have fun.
I dunno. It may have something to do with the fact that many people wire them up directly to the power circuit, especially in older houses. I've included outlets on GFCI circuits for the kitchens I've built, and seen others built the same way: those situations call for a normal power cord with a plug.
The telcos have all my info, name, ssn, address everything. They can easily prevent all of this. These spammers generate revenue for the telcos and so for them spoofing calls is a service they are providing and don’t want to remove that “feature”
Well that at least narrows it down to near you. /s
All telcos in don't allow number spoofing. No matter what is your requirement. Indian telcos don't allow for number spoofing. The same rules must be implemented in every country, it's just ridiculous that in this day and age open robbery using telephone is still being allowed. Nobody should have that facility period. You must one number per customer no matter how many lines you take. The ability to change number should be next to impossible. Everything stops with this one change. Number spoofing must be stopped from all countries.
Interesting. If you swap VScode and Vim in this post, you come up with my reasoning for not using VScode.

(Full disclosure- I never write JavaScript).
if you are expecting a delivery, it might be common sense to not wear noise cancelling headphones!
The minute we created agriculture this day was inevitable. It is stupid that we created agriculture? That is a matter of opinion,but I would say no.
I think that's right. Customers have decided that maybe getting charged a couple full fares once every ten years is better than spending 10% extra on every ticket.

Which makes sense. The airlines have decided this as well.
They're French.
Seems like the law is working exactly as intended then. 219 people, or 2.2% if participants, is an excellent outcome showing the program hasn’t been taken over by greedy children pushing their elderly loved ones toward an early demise.
I enjoyed attending ALA events in the past. I met a few interesting folks and always learned something at each event.

It’s sad to see it come to a close but all things have their cycles, and I suppose ALA events are no different.

PS. Over the years, I purchased many of their books on topics like information architecture, accessibility, customer research, etc. The content is usually written with a practical lens and I found the advice easy to action.
Tesla stocks have always been overvalued. The reason why is that people believe in him, his vision and the future sales of Tesla based on him and his vision. It is a luxury brand. A lifestyle. I am proposing the theory that maybe he's lost a little bit of that magic in people believing in him. I could have it all wrong since it is anecdotal evidence of the worst kind - my own.

I recently considered purchasing a Tesla Plaid, but ultimately decided against it because I did not want to indirectly support Elon Musk. Instead, I purchased a Porsche. I was in the market for a Luxury car - not necessarily an EV.

I used to be a big fan of Musk so much so that I wore the t-shirt ("Occupy Mars.") But, his opinions have become too personally problematic for me to feel comfortable supporting him. I mean it and want that to be absorbed, so I will say it again. His /personal opinions/ have become /too personally problematic/ for me as a consumer to feel comfortable supporting him. I have a personal boycott against him, if you will. I will do away with my Starlink just as soon as Amazon gets Kuiper online.

I am concerned that others may feel the same way, which could make it difficult for him to attract and hire talented people. It is unfortunate because I could always see the ~potential~ of Twitter under a visionary capitalist. You see, I am/was also Twitter's biggest fan, I am user-id 11,647 from 2006. I don't know that he can hire the right people, now, to meet that potential. I envision a platform that serves as a forum, creators' storefront, and a place for fans to subscribe and tip content creators. Twitter could grow a lot of these barely tapped markets. With the right moves on the chess-board, I have no doubt in my mind Twitter could rapidly become one of the top three mobile wallets if the cards were played correctly. There are so many ways for Twitter to become an old-fashioned business that takes cash from it's customers which would allow it to diversify out of the advertisement revenue. This would meet his goal of Twitter being a public square for its users not one that is required to appease it's advertisers. It would also ensure the continuity of Twitter. But, I am not convinced he can get THERE from HERE if others feel the same way I do.
I've had a Model 3 since 2018. You can see earlier in the thread that I am not a raging Musk fan, in particular of his public behaviour over the last few years.

But a couple of these concerns are may be just because of the short experience renting?

Door handles: for the first week or so they seemed awkward, but I've been opening with a single hand ever since. The design is very similar to various exotic sports cars - and not well suited to a midpriced daily driver. Tradeoffs for aero, I think.

Unlocking and locking: bad experience on a rental with the card. As an owner, it locks and unlocks based on the phone-key automatically in daily use. I tried the key card a couple of times in the first month to understand how it worked - it's great as a backup key that fits in a wallet.

Touchscreen: I've used the touch UI in various brands of recent cars, and find the Tesla experience by far the best. Though I agree another $50 worth of physical buttons for the most commonly used features would be nice.

Steering wheel controls: after a few weeks you remember what they do and the physical minimalism is totally fine. Design optimized for owners, at the expense of renters.

Lane controls: there are about a dozen switches that control this behavior. It can be incredibly annoying, or no problem at all. Sounds like the defaults nowadays (or what the rental place sets) are awful, since as configured it ensured you won't buy one.

Price: they're selling all they can make at the price the market will bear. Would be nice if it was lower. Many industry watchers predict lower prices are all brands in 2023.

Fortunately it's a big industry, there are now some great electric cars competing with very different dashboards. I like variety, I'll pick a different one when I am ready to trade in.
I’m worried what will happen when deepfaked voices improve to the point that you can get a realistic impression with only a very small training set. Imagine receiving a phone call in the voice of a family member telling you that they’re in serious trouble.
This is very real and dystopian. If they hear that you're suicidal you'll get a straight-jacket and involuntarily medicated but if they see your broken ankle they'll suicide you for free.
Is that based on anything, or just a gut feeling?
For some reasons many westerns believe that Russia will nuke the world before losing Crimea. I disagree but don’t see Musk being unique in believing this. Also and unfortunately, I do not see Ukraine taking back Crimea any time soon.
The most legacy of systems. They didn't even get rid of human operators until 1970 on Catalina island. https://youtu.be/jitW_yLwihI

SS7 doesn't have a clean way to do this hence needing to make SHAKEN/STIR, but I don't think anyone did the signalling work for POTS.
Thanks a lot for summarizing it. I was curious to see whether it had a new idea, apparently not.
About 15 years ago I made a documentary film about homeless people (https://graceofgodmovie.com). Two of my subjects had the same medical condition, a seizure disorder resulting from a head injury, which made it effectively impossible for them to work. (To quote one of my subjects, "It's not that I'm incapable of working, the problem is that I'm not reliable. Most people don't want an employee who might lapse into a seizure on the job...")

Both applied for SSD. One was approved, the other denied, and so one ended up on the street and the other didn't. The judge who denied the first subject didn't give a reason, which became the basis for an appeal that went all the way to a federal circuit court. The appeal was denied.
The article isn't really an argument against it either. It's simply presenting events with the understanding that people will see it as self-evidently unconscionable. I'm interested in arguments for this underlying assumption.
Pretty soon it'll eliminate call centers. One person will be able to use AI to mass-robocall millions of people.
I guess that makes it less like a valley and more like a plain of negative value.
Just like how sanctioning china is working out right?
Data point delta airlines IT is almost entirely offshore
Why should options be held back? I'd want to know all options available to me for whatever my scenario is rather than being treated like a child who can't decide for themselves. When I ask for help I want all reasonable possibilities presented because I'm not going to think of everything.
Incentives are different between state and private actors. The state has many tools at it's disposal to encourage or even force suicide (aka, murder in the latter case). The state is the ultimate arbiter of whether or not someone is mentally incapacitated, thus they can determine who lives and who dies.

I can't think of anything more shameful than encouraging a non-terminal person to kill themselves.
I love not being nickel and dimed by them, and the companion pass makes them significantly cheaper for family travel, but I absolutely avoid holiday travel with them, especially winter holidays.
Can't they implement DKIM, SPF etc. like system? Not aware of technical reality of Telcos but international number spoofing should be easily solvable as billing is done through the origin location
> the illusion of self-consciousness

I've read and head that a lot, and it is appealing in many ways.

However, I always ask myself: who is having that illusion?
They can leave a message or text. I have been doing this for years as this is the only way to be able to use a phone line without getting crazy. If your number is not in my phonebook you go to my voicemail.
well, I'm a heavy smoker; I'm not troubled by other people's smoke, and I usually don't wear a mask while smoking :-)

The last time I "gave up" smoking, I said to the doctor that I was expecting to get less winter colds. She said I was completely wrong, and that I should expect to get everything that was going around; that tobacco smokers maintain a lung environment that is hostile to anything living, including microbes, and that quitters can expect to catch everything that's going.

I have no idea whether that was true. But I'm still standing - yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah in the end when you recognize that they just try to be middlemen, you realize you're better off finding a remote personal assistant that remembers prior context.
> they become … still stupid, but it’s more difficult to tell.

I feel like this describes my entire formal education path.
Is it time for GDPR 2.0?
Yes, the advantage that human logic and reasoning offers over probabilistic AI is the ability to evaluate and make nearly instant judgments in unique circumstances without prior training.

Defense driving is all about making these sort of judgments --- and choosing the least bad option when there are no good ones.
> right-wing governments feeling more and more empowered to say "if they don't like their living conditions, they can just ask for assisted suicide"

Wait, isn't the right wing very much against assisted suicide in all forms?
> I think we all know scam calls are a serious source of revenue for carriers, so they will need to be led to this conclusion by force.

Why would they be a major revenue source? The carriers make their money from normal users, not dodgy call centers.
Particularly on mainframe systems like airline reservation systems tend to run on where the Y2k fix in a lot of cases for Cobol was to simply contextually know that certain fields couldn't have been created before 2000, so '00' BCD is simply year 2000.
It's not just that. There's complex rules around how frequently crews can work flights and how much time off they need. Delays can cause ripple effects as an hour delay can make an expected available crew unavailable. Then you have a mismatch of available crews and planes and scheduled flights. It's one big thorny ball of spaghetti that even the best designed computer system will struggle to unwravel.
I'm not betting on a massive resurgence until the fed pivots, perhaps 2024? A timeline measured in months is not realistic.
Longer term hold. If the price goes down more, then I'll just keep buying (to a point). Seems like a pretty good risk / reward setup for me. Politically I don't divide people into Maga Hats and not Maga hats. I divide them into MAGA hats, the far left and then normal people. The MAGA are on the far right, and there is the far left currently panicking over Musk. I'm betting on the normal people in the middle.

Side note, so far the deliveries have been fine. Will have to wait and see on how Q4 went.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v...
Fraud was an expected result of generous pandemic era benefits. A system which reduced fraud would have been slower at getting benefits out to intended recipients and less effective at keeping people home to reduce Covid spread.
It is that easy. Regardless of what convoluted setup they're using, at some point those calls need to get to the US-based carrier. That is where they can be blocked. The carrier can simply say "we'll stop peering with you if more than 10% of your calls are spam" and the upstream carriers will have to clean up their act (better screen their customers or implement similar terms) or be cut off from being able to reach the US.

The problem is that the US carrier gets paid for terminating the call, regardless of whether it's spam or not. Why would they kill the golden goose?
Its too bad they had to build a whole separate tool because Grafana wasn't capable. The Node graph panel for Grafana really needs some love.

Edit: Also they need a SaaS to sell, so of course.
>“There are times when it seems autonomy is around the corner and the vehicle can go for a day without a human driver intervening … other days reality sets in because the edge cases are endless …”

Self-driving cars (and AGI in general) might not be as close as we thought, but edge cases trip up humans too.
> small companies that I'm actually paying
I lived car-free in Boston for many years in the days before Uber and Lyft were a thing. I loved it. People always expected lack of a car to be constraining, but I actually found it liberating. Yes, I had to figure out transit, but not having to deal with parking and traffic meant I was very likely to simply hop off the bus/subway/train to check out something interesting along the way. I also appreciated the "down time" granted to me by walking or taking transit. I could zone out in a way not possible in the car, and for whatever reason that helped me relax.
I have to preface this with saying that most Indians are decent people, and do not work at call centers scamming Americans. Within India, they deal with this type of phone crap on a level beyond what we do. There are some shady loan companies there that require you to upload your contacts list and harass every one of your contacts if you miss a payment.

Anyways, I'm all for insulting a call center scammer, and a rude comment about their mom, especially comparing them to a dog or something, will probably piss them off. Then if they overreact back, threaten to email their boss the call recording.
Car rental inventory is absurd, and renting a box truck is even worse. I've learned over the years that a "reservation" is a best case scenario. - nothing's real until money changes hands. There's also a lot of weird nuance around renting at an airport and renting at an in-town location. And even when you've turned down all the needless upsells and paid for your car, you have to be careful about further sleight of hand!

Earlier this year, I reserved a mid-size vehicle for a few days' drive for a business trip, and after they charged my card, they told me they're bringing around a compact vehicle. I probably should have let it go, the difference in price wasn't that much (and was a work expense) but old habits die hard. "That's not what I paid for - either you can refund me the difference, or you can bring me a mid-size sedan."

They said if I could wait 15 minutes, they'd bump me up from a Hyundai Accent to a larger Toyota, but it wasn't until I sat in the car that I learned that even as a new car, it was as bare-bones as they make them. No CarPlay/Android Auto, the in-car GPS was disabled, no cruise control - I'm sure it would have had manual windows if that were an option. The Hyundai would have been a better ride, I shouldn't have fussed.

But yeah, U-Haul or Ryder or whatever, it's the stone ages there. Years ago, I drove halfway across the state to pick up a sixteen foot truck I'd reserved, and when I got there - "Yeah we don't have a sixteen foot truck, I don't know why it let you reserve that." A smaller truck wasn't an option for what we were moving. I ended up having to call around and hit some local place up.
Just live abroad for a bit and you'll notice a trend.

Here in Australia, I get maybe 4-5 Indian scam calls a week, compared to maybe one per year originating from anywhere else (Philippines, Eastern Europe).
While you have a point, I really do think the absolute numbers matter too. When 1 in 20 people die from MAiD, it’s no longer a rare edge case regardless of how good their reasons might be; the provision of lethal injections is now a routine component of the Canadian healthcare system. I don’t think that any routine procedure can be subject to the level of weightiness and caution required to end someone’s life.
Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400M users
DLL linkage with the same compiler has been possible since the beginning- for instance rustc itself is built this way.

This is about going beyond that so people can interop with other languages, link with DLLs without rebuilding them every 6 weeks, etc
Diplomats have been MIA on this issue for far too long. This is exactly what diplomacy should be good for.

The victims of these crimes aren't in India. It makes sense that it would take external pressure to prioritize them.
Yes and that line is drawn at an action, not a word.

People can talk about whatever they want and there isn't a line I would draw anywhere that said "you can't talk about that". People can _talk_ about whatever they want.
>cancellations due to weather are not subject to fines and fees from the FAA

I thought this too, but apparently there are no federal regulations other than reimbursement for the direct costs.

"Airlines are not required to provide passengers with money or other compensation for costs that fall outside of the cancelled airline ticket and fees tied directly to the airline ticket (such as baggage fees, seat upgrades, etc.) when flights are cancelled." [1]

"Each airline has its own policies about what it will do for customers on bumped or cancelled flights. There are no federal requirements." [2]

However, there are rules around "bumping" passengers on a flight.

"An airline is required to compensate you after involuntarily bumping you from an oversold flight in certain situations. However, there are many situations where you are not entitled to compensation." [3]

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...

[2] https://www.faa.gov/faq/what-are-policies-bumped-or-cancelle...

[3] https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...