skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can assure you almost nobody here has any interest in ever visiting the US for prolonged periods of time.
> If somehow India stops this the void will be filled by scammers from some other country.

As if those would-be scammers in other countries presently don't scam.. because Indians do? How do Indians presently scamming stop would-be scammers in other countries from doing the same? That's nonsensical.

Face the facts, this is an India problem. Harsh economic sanctions against India are necessary to solve this problem, and if that fails, null routing India and the whole of South Asia if necessary. And if diplomacy fails, escalation to military strikes against Indian telecom infrastructure would be in order.
> “if you commit in 2022 to java/scala - you subscribe to heavy 20yo over-engineering legacy, whether you want it or not”

Fully committed to Java on services side and Scala for data transforms and Spark jobs.

The Java services have 500k-1MM TPS.

For a dev onboarding, setting up personal dev environment on Mac or their VM and creating personal cloud stack takes less than 10 min.

some of the services are up to 4-5 years old. couple spun up end of q3 this year. I think those are getting more like 100k TPS.

Devs are pretty happy, we have decent roadmap for next year, and operational support is totally reasonable. Zero pages all month (knock on wood).

We have high test coverage, including unit and integ tests, canaries, and full ci/cd. A couple code paths use AWS X-ray but with very low sample rate to avoid blowing up costs.

All the services are Java. The Scala I think is even simpler and more straightforward. Spark and a few other things orchestrated using Airflow. The Airflow scripts are in Python though.

Let me know more about your prediction for our over engineering. People are happy (close 1:1 feedback from people I mentor, their managers, and managers manager), and we’re making money [knock on wood].

Why is this not good enough and how can it be better?

Btw we have dedicated software engineers in test. Their tooling is also using Java in quite a few places, and their partnership with core dev teams is very strong. Haven’t gotten negative feedback from them or their leadership either.
What kind of maintenance?
Add it to the list of authortarian demands. Many have already been waiting more than six months for the US to drop the outdated Covid vaccine requirement.
Hang on, those aren't only sums. Got 22 correct, which I guess may be fine for a tired Tuesday evening.
yup.

I am just not going to read your long email.

As a rule of thumb, 90% of emails essence is contained in the second from last sentence in the email (usually an ask; don't believe me, just check your inbox). If it is a long email, that's the only part I am going to read.
What's ironic here is that groups like USAF are constantly pressured to adopt private industry models to be more "economically efficient" and completely ignoring that resiliency is a requirement baked into the high cost. I understand why both take the approaches they do but it seems everyone holds private industry barely running with no resiliency optimizations above all else, which don't make sense in all contexts. Corner cutting is fine in many contexts, especially when you know the side effects of their failures which may be quite insignificant.
Thanks, I'll remember those when my current 1Password 7 setup becomes unviable.
Visual programming languages already exist.
It has gained a lot more traction in the last couple years when they figured out, that qunatum effects DO HAPPEN in "noisy and wet" environments. Please update your research!

Of course there are still criticism, this is how scientific research works. Criticism does not mean disproven, mind you!
It is a "new" theory with a lot of promise, that needs a lot more work
You told me that doctors who don't want to participate in MAiD can willingly opt-out of it and refer any patients to other doctors.

This seems completely opposite, unless you mean doctors are being forced to not throw up barriers to access to MAiD to be the same as being forced to participate in MAiD, which seems totally backwards.
I’ve always thought the rename was more about distancing it from the “bad press” Facebook was getting at the time than anything really about VR.
Reading through the slides, it appears that what has been discussed is sharing signature and fingerprints for travel into the USA. There is a lot of weasel words, but it's probably worth nothing that the USA currently collects this information for foreign nationals coming into the USA (as the EU does for Americans traveling into the EU). This is being done in the context of a DB query as part of the e VISA application.

It's worth noting that almost all of this is still the output of the 9/11, where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA.

I don't like biometrics, but the hyperbole needs to be tuned down a bit here.
Heh, ask me in a few months when I'm done with the current thing :P
It’s already happening with retirees moving to Mexico, Portugal, and Southeast Asia. Agree you’ll see it pickup as more folks retire and can’t make ends meet in the US.

Half of retirees over 55 have no retirement savings whatsoever, and will rely solely on Social Security income.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/retire-abroad-in-these-10-ci...

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/retirement-savings/info-2019...
Why would someone buy a car that gave a bad experience when rented, on any point? I would think that "renting bad" would be a huge problem for sales.
I wouldn’t say “of course” for a few reasons:

1. It was introduced only within the last couple of years, even though spam calls have been happening for much longer than that
2. A bunch of calls escape the “spam likely” designation even though I’m on one of the major carriers

So I’d say although we have it, it’s not nearly as reliable as I’d expect it to be.
My question was intended to be rhetorical, but since you've spelled it out - isn't this the same explanation for why flowers are beautiful?

Fruits are flowers before they can be eaten as fruit; if sugar is flavor candy, then flowers are the eye candy appetizer.
So what? If the rules are the same for all eu countries and with reciprocity, then the US will be isolated, and any eu-us business will be harder to do, and EU will do more trade with other countries, which also won't give biometric data to US, and US will be locked out of them too.
Why Glass Onion didn’t work for me
The Zen anti-interpretation of quantum mechanics (2021)
The whole context of this conversation is >If the connection fails for any reason, the script will stop, potentially breaking or corrupting things.
Uh, how is this related to school policies? I don't see things through the same lens you do, so it would be helpful if you could explain it to me.

> It's basically equivalent to white men wearing blackface in terms of offensiveness, yet we're expected to go along with the pretence that these guys are women.

You have to break this down for me! Do you think this applies to all trans people? Or just trans people who want to be stars on social media by acting like everyone else does on social media? I think it is often cringe too, but I don't think it's b/c they are trans, I just think social media is cringe. Maybe your problem is partially with social media?

Like, maybe you're not familiar - but the guy whistlindiesel was constantly talking about how he's going to go to Hawaii and drive on sacred land there as a joke b/c it pisses off Hawaiians. That was super cringe, but I didn't take his views and suggest that all white dudes, or white conservatives, or [WHATEVER] are supporting or pushing similar policies (tho my younger cousins watch this shit and they do learn from him and seem to lack maturity b/c of this). Great conversation about this here, interesting perspective, and I think we can BOTH agree with the "social media influencers want attention" take! https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/comments/ozsska/...

BTW men taking hormones DO get cramps, believe it or not! This is documented: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/can-trans-women-ge...

Trump has had a lot of controversial guests at the WH has well, remember!
Probably, and the EU was talking a big game about that a few years ago. But between Nordstream 2 and the Ukraine war the EU seems to have shown how willing it actually is to decouple...
Well, I'll tell you that they will if you give me any data. At least, I will read it and tell you my opinion of it. If that is not worth your time, ok.

I promise you that I have changed my opinion about things after learning more about them :)

For example, if you could substantiate that certain policies are being enforced by the government in Canada, likely I would agree that they should not be enforced that way! (I just can't find that anywhere someone was arrested for misgendering a person).
> Every airline at every airport should have a certain number of crews and airplanes capable of providing service in place of a delayed flight.

Good luck finding pilots to be “on-call” to fly anywhere in the world (and most commonly to small US cities) on a moments notice, with a jump seat return flight as their way home (after a night in a small city hotel).
We're bothered, but maybe not enough to do away with visiting family/friends/coworkers/conferences/cons/national parks/etc. Also having various privileges (white, Western European, male, middle class, etc) dulls the concerns.
> Can you cite this happening?

Can you cite a rule preventing this? We'd like to keep it from happening.

> There are multiple MAiD online communities.

The Veterans community is pretty pissed off about that Paralympian athlete who was offered suicide instead of a wheelchair ramp. They don't feel this is working correctly.
In my experience, and I don't mean this as an insult, people who think this stuff is such a big deal are either young and immature and don't understand how things work, or extremely naïve.

I have family who are surprised that the government surveils people, like it is some kind of conspiracy.

I disagree with government surveillance, but inevitably they use these examples as why "the XYZ are bad" where XYZ is ... whatever they don't like. Clintons, globalists, democrats, republicans, trump, jews, whatever.
Back to one year.
Also Ceiterion Channel. Tons of old (good) stuff, and lots of weird indie modern stuff.
I’ve worked for the US government, large NGOs, and large corporations. The difference in waste between government and corporations is qualitative, with much more waste occurring in government. NGOs sit somewhere in the middle in my experience. The entire structure of how government operates encourages and facilitates waste, it lacks the negative feedback loops that constrain corporate waste.

Not only are there no consequences to waste in government as others have pointed out, the entire incentive structure around government spending actively incentivizes waste. This waste serves an organizational function in practice, but there are many ways to achieve those functions without lighting giant piles of money on fire. In corporations, waste tends to be the product of neglect; there are significant incentives to reduce waste once it rises beyond a certain level. Corporations may be less sensitive to the threshold conditions that cause them to reduce waste than may be optimal but they are always there.
I don’t think it is offensive.

I think it is that “next month” is probably an indication of importance and “next month” will be busy too / the importance of a message you want an AI to spam back… still not important.
I think it's become apparent that the whole recycling concept is misguided. There's just not enough economic value in these materials to justify the socialized cost. It's better to dump the waste into proper landfills.

Ultimately environmental impact is mostly about CO2 release these days. We're not running out of most of these raw materials. And for the one big one we are (oil) having it end up buried in a landfill is about the best realistic option we have today.
> 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.

As
Seinfeld said, they're good at taking the reservation, but not good at holding it.
The UK rejoins EU and it falls apart all in 2023 - that is epic. There’s negative chance it happens, I can’t take it as “Elon think this will happen”
Thanks. If you don't mind, what's the size of your individual files, and how many of them does it take to serve a single request: one, a few, N?
It is true that there is a risk of AI adding creating content that is unnecessarily verbose. This could end up consuming time and putting a higher cognitive load on the humans who ultimately read these emails.

On the other hand, these AI systems will only advance over time. It's certainly within the realm of possibility that these systems will be able to write with increased brevity. Additionally, much like current recommendation algorithms, they will likely adapt to specific needs and styles of a given user.

Whatever the case, we can expect many changes to the way we communicate in the coming years. You might even say it's a brave new world!
"I think the conservative opposition is more directed at how early the modern left wants to introduce the concept to children"
The article just uses an uncommon and trivially verifiable definition of "panpsychism" that can be proven by the existence of computers. I don't think the author reflect on what it means for himself.

(People that do this usually have the "but magic (oh, no, it's just not understood physics, trust me), souls or whatever" explanation exempting them, but this one doesn't need exceptions.
It's a ridiculous assertion. There is no correct, deterministic path from natural language expressions to directed machine behavior, as there is no correct, deterministic natural language expression in the first place. It's not static, it has varying levels of precision, meaning is context and listener dependent, natural grammars are descriptive not prescriptive, speaker perspectives are regional, historical, fluid, metacognitive, and full of ambiguity as feature, and always in need of hermeneutic methods to adjust and adjudicate interpretations.

There is almost nothing about natural language use that ought to lead anyone to believe we are going to get computers to understand our requirements any better than we do, which often, is very poorly even when we try very hard.
I don't think art comes into it except maybe colors, but even artists use pallets or understand enough color theory to make their own. The discipline should be data driven - study what works and what doesn't, etc. but I don't think this is common anymore. UI design seems, as a field, at the lowest point I've ever seen it and I've been using computers since windows 3.1. A mess of undiscoverable stuff presented in just novel enough of a way as to make it a snowflake. I think lack of consensus around best practices and methodology would make this a very though thing to learn and be good at right now.
The idea is that Consciousness is in fact a manifestation of 'God' and we're little sparkly transducers of the divine, & that no amount of 'structure' can give rise to our godlike -- we are 'sentient creators with free will' -- consciousness. Various spiritual schools differ on precise formulation. The one I am familiar with, Qu'ran, explicitly asserts that whatever can be considered 'Light' in 'the Universe' is God. "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth".

So the proposed arrogance is the 'metaphysical arrogance' that attributes such a profound capability with a few kilograms of organic matter. Interestingly in Qur'an, this sin of 'arrogance', and, associating 'sentient worth' to its material composition (the famous statement of satan that it is "made of fiery matter while Adam is made of clay") is a declaration of satan. This then circles back to other comments in this thread questioning the Organic Matter Mind (clay centric) chauvinism.

> What are the proofs that someone unable to perceive anything from the physical realm can be conscious?

John Lilly famously did his isolation tank thing to get to the bottom of that, in this diminished (but not totally occultated) sensory environment. He wrote books about the experience. I personally find the idea that mere structure gives rise to mind to be 'wishful' (if not arrogant) thinking.
I am always willing to correct an error or omission. Could you share more?
I was curious if my statement was bias (on my part) or fact so I did a little research and came across the Edmunds quote below. They are basically the consumer reports for vehicle shopping.

"The Tesla Model S Plaid is a high-performance luxury electric car that Tesla says pumps out 1,020 horsepower and does 0-60 mph in 1.99 seconds. If all of that sounds impressive, that's because it is."

I'm always willing to correct my world-view though so I would love to learn more. I do recognize there are super-luxury cars which a Tesla S is not. Say a Rolls Royce or a Bentley but the little amount I drive there was diminishing returns on that next level of spend on a vehicle.
This is asuming that EU will work in their (our) interest.

For me it seems that most of EU works with interests of other actors, especially US, from Ursula downwards, so they might give the US access and ignore their own people... again.
Did you read TFA? It would only be used for people entering the US.
>It's just not worth worrying about

For you, apparently. Other people do worry about it, which is why they do take care to wrap their script in functions. And my point is there's an even easier and more foolproof way than that.

>in the same way that a cosmic ray bitflip could cause a kernel bug that erases my entire drive but in reality I don't spend any time worrying about this.

Other people use ECC memory because they worry about this, and because it does measurably happen.
The first thing that comes to mind when considering why this requires a form of a kernel module would be accessing functionality that normally results in protection faults, eg. trying to disable LAPIC interrupts from userspace with combination of iopl(3) and CLI instruction.
Not the person you are replying to, but the assertion in question may not be arrogant if we construe it was made with the intent of saying "I think that consciousness is an emergent property having to do with the whole body," instead of just flat out making the assertion as if it was a general consensus.

If an assertion sounds like it makes sense, that doesn't mean it's not arrogant to make. Another point is that you supposing that since it "makes sense", that's enough justification to pass the burden proving-it-isn't-plausible onto someone who disagrees. In effect it comes off like someone taking one person for their word while asking for documentation and proof from another. Consciousness is an elusive thing to define much less to start making super strong claims about at this point lest you reveal some internal prejudices.
Likely cannot book that far not because of the underlying date format, but because of jet-a fuel prices which fluctuate. Airlines typically hedge their near term purchases with longer-term futures
Sorry, but no. If a Harvard epidemiologist comes to another conclusion that the White House finds inconvenient for its mass-vaxxing campaign, that is not "misinformation". That is called research.
That works until you end up with one scholar saying A and another saying B.
You would need to explain why consciousness is a discrete thing though, you don't feel what a rock feels just because you are close to it. You just experience the data from a small subset of neurons in your brain, why not the other neurons? So not even computational connectivity explains it, otherwise your consciousness wouldn't be tricked by optical illusions, since it would be able to feel the data flowing through the optical nerves before the computations that creates those illusions happens.
I mean Lucid only makes 1 car that’s the equivalent of the Model S. That’s like saying Tesla pre-Model 3 is bad.

Wait for Lucid’s Model 3
Any user who designs something like this that doesn't realize the number of mouse clicks needed to navigate this interface doesn't need to be a designer. Helpdesk experience won't save them, they're either bottom of the barrel incompetent or outright malicious. I could understand if it were something more complicated, but there's no excuse for this stuff with date pickers.
My wife gave birth to our three children. Here are the costs:

First child: $10.00
Second child: $10.00
Third child: $2.50

These were the parking fees for 24 hours (there were no complications necessitating longer stays) in the two different cities she gave birth (the third child was born in a much more rural area with cheaper parking). I cannot stress enough that it cost us $0.00 beyond these amounts.

These costs include the use of a midwife in all three instances, with around 12 visits in advance of birth, then 2 midwives or 1 midwife and 2 nurses for the actual delivery, then 4-6 visits with the midwife post-birth, several of which were in our home.

I would say that’s a positive experience.
Try these:

https://designforhackers.com/

https://www.interaction-design.org/
Are you referring to STIR/SHAKEN that is a requirement and has been/is being rolled out?

I'm not sure how much was commercial benefit vs lazyness/no incentive to solve the issue directly - the telcos aren't making a lot of money on inbound calling. It's just a problem that didn't impact them directly - only their customers.
> No visa waiver - be my guest and have your tourism industry go belly up.

Unfortunately for your plan, Yellowstone will still be Yellowstone, and New York will still be New York.

I agree with your attitude, but this "well, let them hang themselves" attitude just means the US ends up with the money and the data (via a slower path). A lack of visa waiver won't significantly negate tourism; there are a lot of attractions in the US.
Wanna spend some time out in Gitmo because your phrasing had wrong speak?

This is the introduction to draconian policies/laws in which you have no rights to opt out of this, representation caring to uphold your rights, or courts that are principled. Wanna get out, but still have family.. oh wait better give up more rights/risk going to jail to see them in the us. (Or they'll be interrogated back at home).

The point in this post is not to criticize you, but to criticize the lack of caring that a 6 month waiting for a visa is a systematic failure in need or ability.
Building a startup that ends up with a very high valuation, relative to its peer cohort, is a good thing. It's desired.

I was speaking more from a founder-perspective, but being an early employee with equity in a startup that becomes very valuable is pretty good, too.
Had one crappy experience with them where I lost a bunch of money due to the operator not knowing how to use google maps to tell that they were buying tickets two hours away from where I lived. I asked within 15 minutes. They couldn't get the tickets refunded. I got charged for the time they spent asking for a refund. Never used them again, not worth the hassle.

Unfortunately they seem to be in that cursed valley of only supporting tasks that anybody can do with 10 minutes of googling, and the chance of them screwing anything else up is too high to be worth the risk of setting $100 on fire for zero results. I don't think that will be a solvable problem with humans until ML mostly takes over.
This is yet another violation of the forth Amendment right to privacy by the United States federal government as outlined by the Bill of Rights which applies to all people, not just US citizens and is self-evident and inalienable. Democracy worldwide is in absolute shambles as the United States government abandons the rule of law in favor of absolute dictatorship.