skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice - I'd be interested to hear about cases where sites that are not just static have been migrated over. Those really are the big use cases.

For example can you move a Next.js site that leverages Incremental Static Generation to Cloudflare. I wonder if ISR is even possible out of the box without you having to setup complicated caching logic anywhere besides Netlify and Vercel.
> 1. Siloing off the EU facebook, with no contact with the US

That's already business as usual with China, but companies like Facebook have absolutely no problem with that silo as it protects them and benefits their bottom line.

But somehow, use cases that protect users, those suddenly pose major blockers.
If you look around Indeed, Senior Engineer is basically equal to 5 years experience.
I am not against Mars but I just think it’s premature. Build up robotics for a while and Mars will be much easier. There is no rush to become a multi planetary species. There is no credible threat of a big asteroid or volcano in the next decades. All threats we may be facing are self made.

My favorite moonshot project would be to create robotics that can clean up the environment and handle recycling. Having the technology to pick up dog poop and plastic bags in an efficient and affordable manner or separating recycling items would be a huge technological challenge that would create a ton of spin-off opportunities including a base on Mars. Or clean up the pacific garbage patch with robots.
This reads like a human trafficking story, picking up cheap fresh grads and exploiting them to work way below market wages and making sure they can’t leave.
I would rather that neither happens.

If it isn’t right when one protest group does it, it doesn’t make it right for another to do it.

This is literally the rules we teach in kindergarten
From widely published articles:

“Josh Wardle, the dev behind the popular free puzzle game, has no plans to monetize it”

I’d say selling for millions is the most extreme form of monetization.

Why make such claims in the first place?
>It's sad, but honestly the prevalence of these practices (and perhaps growth of them?) only makes the genuine among us more valuable.

I wish this were the case, but I don't think it's true. On the one hand, real, proven experts do get called in to fix these phonies' messes. On the other, often these people succeed often enough that it devalues our labor as a whole. Finally, if employers cannot determine real experts from fake, then it means they won't pay real experts their full worth (eg 'full worth' of 100k, 5% chance it's a fake = pay of 95k).

These costs of lower trust show up elsewhere, but they are hard to quantify and make everyone's life worse.
Paul Dawkins has combined his 25 years of experience of teaching and turned his daily lecture plans into textbooks on the subjects he teaches (Algebra, Calc 1, 2, 3, and differential equations). These are the most approachable math texts I've ever found.

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
“There is no royal road to geometry.” -Euclid
I like Satisfactory mostly because you get to enjoy the native flora and fauna without it constantly trying to kill you.
That wouldn't solve anything. The EU treats all US services as being in the US, regardless of where the physical servers are, as Facebook is still subject to the US subpeonas and they are legally required to give data to the US even if it's on a European server.

You are right that the same logic would make any American communication website illegal. I think the end goal for the EU here is to require all communication platforms used by EU citizens to be entirely run by the EU.
There are a lot of edge cases that people don't think about.

A lot of communication data has two people associated, and a lot of it is highly sensitive. If a US person and a French person chat how does each get the messages? Message data is obviously highly sensitive and shouldn't be shared.

Does the US person need to hit the French servers to see new messages, and vice versa? What about quoting?

Message metadata (i.e. the fact that these two people are talking at all) is also pretty valuable -- the classic pen register is just a record of which calls were made to which numbers. Where do you store the metadata of the thread? It arguably belongs to and is private to both people.
I'm very concerned that Forbes' role as a bastion of journalistic integrity is under threat
this is such an interesting project. three things i would love to see is a proper privacy focused with tor option version; a pdf reader; integration with org-roam
To be fair, if you can actually implement the strategies within using real technology (AWS, your own kafka cluster etc), then you deserve to be senior.
https://hn.algolia.com/

OR logout
I know a few people who have gone this route and now have very successful careers. Getting a job as a new grad is hard as it is, and if you are on a visa you barely have a month or two before you must obtain sponsorship or pack up and leave the country. "Consultancies" like this one give you a buffer, beef up your resume with fake experience and give you interview training, with the end goal of getting you a permanent tech job and getting a cut of your salary for the first N months.

Honestly, I don't even fault them for it. The author seemed a bit naive about the situation he was getting into, and he left, which is fair. Ultimately this whole thing is just a symptom of a broken immigration and hiring system. If an embellished resume can fool an entire big tech interview panel and the candidate actually does good work for them moving forward, who should take the blame for it?
As other comments have said, Meta never said they would leave the market willingly.
I've been on the fence about Satisfactory, but I just checked Notch's twitter and the dude is STILL sitting there playing it all day

The man's rich enough to be swimming with whales or partying in space and he's sitting in his basement playing Satisfactory.. there must be something to it
It already is illegal. Just no regulatory body made a crackdown on it, not yet at least.
I guess covid is gonna make a lot of us cardiovascular specialists ..

I wish you a good recovery (as much as possible)
About 5 years ago, I was told Facebook uses a single global “write” datacenter, which works for their use case of read-mostly.

I’m not sure it this is still the case, but assuming it is, wouldn’t that make for a reasonable argument why it would be “impossible” (a.k.a. possible but non-trivial) to keep the data in the EU?
I know people who got hired as Staff Engineers fresh from coding bootcamp.
Yep, was logged out of some accounts and able to log back in on the web, but no timeline is loading.
Agreed.

With so many centralized services making up what the average person thinks of as “the Internet”, if the centralized services disappear, isn’t that the same as “turning off the Internet”?

I wonder if there’s a threshold yet to be crossed where “shutting down the Internet” becomes a fad? Where people begin abandoning social media en masse? This idea actually makes me a bit hopeful!
I've been waiting on this for decades. I think the not being popular is helping out on this front. Also that it only ever costs money and never makes any really helps.
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I have a dream of killing the "hierarchical storage" metaphor. It started as a program to organize my images w/ tags: the images go into content addressable storage, the tags get stored in a relational database, and then you can query the tags, link them into a tree (taxonomy) or graph, etc.

While building this I realized I wanted it to interact w/ other programs in my operating environment: so I made some tools to take queries and spit out hardlinks on the filesystem hosting the content store. This would let me write a quick query in my shell, spit the results to a taxonomy of ephemeral folders, and then access those folders from your usual "naïve" applications.

Then I became addicted to this workflow and realized I wanted to organize all my media this way; which spiraled out of control when I realized I never wanted to deal with paths again for any of my documents.

I'd stress that the idea of content-addressable storage w/ an interface on top is most emphatically not novel, Venti[1] from plan9 was doing it in the early aughts w/ references to prior work from the decades prior, git and many VCS systems are just interfaces into a content-addressable store as well. It's just that hierarchical organization won in popular culture, and as best I can surmise nobody is really interested in replacing it.

The problem one naturally runs into is: hierarchical storage is inextricably linked into our modern operating systems, file systems, shells, protocols, etc. at the most fundamental levels; so the complexity grows enormously w/ every layer I want to subsume. You either deal w/ the friction of the "impedance mismatch" between your storage and operating environment, or you basically resign yourself to building an entire OS where "files" live at one and-only-one path, with a myriad of indexes & manifests to make sense of it all.

Am I likely to succeed in killing the "filing cabinet" metaphor? Probably not. Has the journey been worthwhile? Absolutely.

[1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/
Who knows. They used to say people who think the government is saying on people are tin foil loonies, now everyone is worried about privacy. Don't see the reason to assume this most be crazy. Journalists as a whole have that "when I break this story everything is gonna change" mood regularly
Yes exactly. I didn't go to an Ivy League, but it was still pretty good.

The 100 level big classes were waaaaay harder than classes for the actual major. Lots of dumb problem sets that were huge just to be huge. Lots of time writing lab reports with error calculations etc.

The one hack I figured out was that if you didn't include an error calculation in your lab report, they only took off 1 point. Given it took 20+ minutes to write it up in the format they wanted using the Word equation editor (this was before I knew Latex), the -1 was absolutely worth it.

I never, ever, had to spend 60-70 hours a week outside of class doing work though. That's insane.
I don't think of anything at all when I see "Plex".
Another framing of this: good scientists are comfortable with cognitive dissonance, which is a trait held by only a minority of most populations. Consequently, this means good science and politics are inherently at odds.
>but not confined by national borders.

Store everyone's data in Europe then and do your data transfers in the other direction.
Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching... does not work

China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees.

For you, math may have been a deduction from first principles, but to us mere mortals, math is a decade-long slow reveal through wax-on-wax-off repetition.
If modeling taxonomies of the world is not OOP modeling, what is exactly? The very reason Barbara Liskov had to point out the damn principle is that people were doing dumb stuff like this.

They still do btw. Universities still teach that Mammals have a walk() method that you implement for Dog and Cat, except then you need to add a Whale and now you're screwed. Silly example, but real world cases are much more subtle. I have seen plenty of NotImplementedExceptions strung across various codebases.

If you haven't done Domain-Driven Design, with cute UML diagrams and everything, then we aren't talking about the same thing (and I have no idea what you are talking about).

Reflecting the business domain into class hierarchies and structuring your codebase around that structure has ruined more codebases than NULL ever did. Code structure should not be dictated by business taxonomy concerns, only by concrete business data.
Sometimes it means “someone who can bill $300 an hour” with no relation to actual ability. I was a “senior” three years out of college and I had no clue what in the world I was doing.

Come to think of it after 20 years I kinda still feel that way.
Pardon me while I blow the dust off the standard quip about "years of experience:"

"Is that one year of experience, repeated five times?"
"We are not leaving because our stock just dropped by an effective 200B and we need you now more than you need us"
Side note: there are (legitimate) training services that teach coding and interviewimg skills that have a setup where they try to get you a job (without fudging your CV). If you don't get a job you pay very little, but if you get a (good) job you pay similar to 10% or your salary for a few years. A pretty smart and entrepreneurial arrangement in my opinion.
(Unfortunate I don't remember the name or further details, I had read this in the newspaper in Mumbai perhaps 4 years ago.)
In the context of 'IT Consulting Companies,' which the blog post is about, it means that clients are paying a higher billable rate than for more 'junior' staff.
I don't get what you are saying. DB schema is irrelevant in terms of where the database backend is stored.
No, there is no TV in my office. Nor was there any other source of Slack sounds, save for my phone which has a different notification sound.
Since I'm working on a similar project, this is how I am planning to pull content from the web, utilizing percollate[1] to get the HTML content, I haven't written any implementation for this in Python yet.

If you don't mind me asking, how were you going to implement spaced repetition? Since the Incremental Reading algorithm has never been published as far as I know.

[1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
See, you've gone and ruined Jenny's chance of legitimately getting any online presence. Hopefully, she never forgets her password and needs to verify her identity.
This threat is utterly empty in most states.
I think this is really interesting. Are you using this typing style by yourself? If yes, how fast can you type with it? Touch-typing? Do you know some courses or further writeups etc. to teach this method, or is it really completely diy to learn it as mentioned in the link?
I wrote it because I find it fun, which is an end to itself, and because its a reminder to beware our rationalizations, which is helpful. I reject the premise of those expectations, but I do note its both productive, and on topic for the link and the comment.
this reminds me of Charley Bucket’s Teacher from Willy Wonka. “Our test we normally have on Friday will now take place on Monday before we’ve learned it”
Probably not too difficult for a company like Facebook, don't you think?
My point is I could just as well have a local database and permanently persist everything I see on the web, no? The same point applies.

Think about internet archive, BitTorrent dumps of Facebook, etc.
Probably not surprising, but John Carmack. Since early on, he made huge strides in graphics programming. His engines resulted in some of the most iconic games that were ever created, such as Doom and Quake. Despite being a nerd, he's had a rebellious streak that got him into trouble when he broke into his school to use their computers as a kid or would push the limits of his driving with illegal nitro boosters in his car when speeding through the desert. He gave away a Ferrari as a tournament prize. And he moved into working in aerospace and virtual reality.
It's fairly obvious that actual psychiatrists make that diagnosis on a lot more than a HN post
Recently discovered Satisfactory. It's roughly GTA2 vs GTA3 when compared to Factorio (2d top down vs 3d open world). I'd love to hear peoples thoughts on the two games and what one does well vs the other. What people get out of either.
And you ask why Britain left EU. Some old jerks think they represent the whole EU population and can easily forbid something for everyone.
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I have no interest in any of Meta's products or services. They could have left Europe months ago without me or my family / friends noticing.
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In my job, I was able to get a position just as "Software Developer." I didn't like devaluing "Software Engineer" and I didn't want to be seen as a WordPress guy if I used "Web Developer." (My job is web development with Laravel.) And lastly, I didn't want to be called "Junior" (because I have less than 5 years experience).
Crazy thought: if there was to be a major event (say a Russian invasion of Ukraine) would taking down Twitter, which seems to have a high proportion of journalists and politicians on it, not be a smart move? The few hours of confusion it would buy might be valuable.

It’s most likely just a run-of-the-mill outage, but the thought crossed my mind.
I have demonstrated my ability to convince clients to pay amounts of money like this for my skills. And yes, the not-so-secret thing about consulting is that if you're able to convince a client that you're worth $500 an hour, it's just easy to convince them to pay $300 an hour for the work of a colleague of yours they've never seen.
> passing any PII (which includes identifiers) across international/org lines

My understanding was that it's not about that.

> the reality is that recent EU regulatory action has come down not on where the data is stored, but whether the parent company is in the US

Interesting, do you have any source on this particular aspect? I haven't heard this before.
There are possibly other options, such as:

1) Providing end-to-end encryption on user data travelling from Europe to outside Europe.

2) Your option for number 1, but then allowing users to freely consent with their data to be shared internationally (which they can then revoke later if required).

I'm sure there are others... Also IANAL but a social media post may be covered under the "legitimate interests" scope of GDPR (but facebook's tracking data would certinally not be covered).
Utility poles with cables aren't casting massive, fast-moving shadows on your property/home or keeping you awake at night (or just ruining your day) with the loud rotational scraping/whooshing noises you can hear a kilometer away. Check 2:20 and 2:55 in this video I came across https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=f7DQ3SgSg0c .. Have fun hanging out in your yard listening to that.
Yeah, to the user who requested it. Also, it's just the user's post, not the user's tracking/advertisement data.

So the only thing the US government could get, are the public facing posts/images which the user posted but nothing more. If the profile is private, even less. No messenger data (except when send to users in the US).
My use of overthrow is as follows: an unelected group removing a legitimately elected governing body from power via direct force or threats.

They haven’t stormed parliament with guns. They have used force to inflict measurable economic damage and threatened tocontinue it until their demands were met, and are threatening to escalate and continue their economic damage.

As a side note: I don’t disagree with everything this group stands for. I think that if we are to have mandates, their should be explicit achievable goals tied to them. If they said border requirements will be lifted when the ICU availability rises above 5%, that makes sense to me.

What I don’t agree with is that anonymous money from abroad should be allowed to be used by political organizations, especially ones with explicit goals of regime change.
The advantages of developing in a dev VM with VSCode Remote
Why does this sound like a series of Tweets? I cannot believe an SVP wrote this and thought it was a professional enough tone to publish. It reflects doubly bad on Meta because not only do Europe’s (or Apple’s or Google’s or whatever enemy du jour) privacy laws limit their ability to execute (as seen from their latest quarterly results), but they don’t even have the maturity to address the situation without more whining about how user privacy means they can’t harvest their data to make billions of dollars. This sort of tone might fly for a start-up but not one of the largest companies in the world. Doubly true since Meta just identified a huge downside in their prospects and this does nothing to assuage investors. Rather than say “we are looking for ways to continue to provide our services while remaining compliant with privacy laws” and a bunch of marketing speak about it, they throw in the towel and say “boo hoo, if Europe wants privacy, we just can’t have Facebook there.”
Obligatory Zachtronics and Screeps links. TIS and Shenzen are my favorites of the zachtronics series. I've never really gotten into screeps but it always looks so cool.

https://www.zachtronics.com/

https://screeps.com/
AR, not VR.
The place I used to work at hired fresh grads into senior positions exclusively to make the job more attractive. Sr. Engineering (position) had a much wider salary band, so it was apparently easier to hire fresh grads with a Masters degree into those positions, on the lower end of the band, and keep them there for 2-3 years before actually handing out any raises.

We also had very cheap company housing, and a lot of other perks.
An invite-only social media site designed for "thoughtful, actionable conversation" free of ads, trolls and brigading. It's a bunch of domain experts, silicon valley insiders, New York finance folks, etc tired of social media and chat systems, and taking apart complex topics.

We're building on Zulip and for now it's also open source.

inviteme@forecast.chat if you care. Please include some links to thoughtful social media posts you've made.
Visiting Twitter.com on my desktop shows an error page and refreshes the page every second or so. Definitely seems to be something on their end.
People in the EU can explicitly share data with other people, they aren’t trying to take down the phone system.
Meta could also lobby for US laws to change. I’m sure they are large enough.
Your premise is flawed. From one anecdotal (and subjectve) data point you leap to "Many Universities support [...]".
I wonder if connected to LostArk deployment problems
I don't think that's business as usual in China. I don't think Facebook operates there.
Do you oppose government funding of parks?
Is this based on anything at all or just border-line libel?
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but... you can't beat the prices. i've had one TERRIBLE booking experience, a couple of meh, but the vast majority of my experiences have been just fine.

heartburn avoidance: read the fine print (the cheapest rate(s) usually don't allow for cancellation/rebooking), and compare similar rates/condition across a couple of sites before clicking 'book'.
> regardless of where the physical servers are, as Facebook is still subject to the US subpeonas and they are legally required to give data to the US even if it's on a European server

Is that so? I'd like to know more about this then, I don't see how that would be practical at all then.
My point isn’t Facebook in particular, but more generally around data residency. Inherently data must be saved and stored to all who access, no?

Wouldn’t the true solution simply be for those who don’t want other regions to save to simply not have access, e.g firewall?
I got senior last summer after 7 and a half years... each to their own I guess! But even now I question the title so no idea how people can do it with 0 years experience and a little bit of JS/React knowledge
I'm in my early 30s
Xiaomi Pledges 'War of Life and Death' Against Apple to Become Biggest
Nothing in the constitution says that the Supreme Court has that power.
The app seems to be working, but the website seems to be having problems and just errors out.