skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is an important topic to discuss when looking at the hackernews algorithm. Central banks breaking their inflation-control commitment can lead to a lot of negative consequences, like market distrust and higher rates. It's therefore important to be honest and keep your promises if you want to maintain stability in the economy. For example, Reagan's tight monetary policy helped to tame inflation in the 1980s. Nixon's decision to break the gold standard in 1971, on the other hand, caused a lot of instability in the economy. The Gold standard and inflation are complex topics, and further reading is recommended for those interested in learning more.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121015/what-...
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inflation.asp
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/inflation_targ...
I'm pretty sure when we talk about "transfers" here, we aren't talking about "user in US requests data from URL that is served from server in EU". We're talking about user-data from/about/on EU citizens that is stored on servers in the US (or transferred there from servers in the EU with the intent to keep it on servers in the US). The former is fine[0], but the latter is not.

[0] Obviously if there is some web forum hosted in Germany that a bunch of Germans living in Germany post to, and I -- in the US -- visit the forum, that involves data leaving Germany and flowing to the US. There's nothing wrong with that.
Nobody ever believed that America is a super-hostile environment.
> Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching, which is where having large sets of questions and answers to study is useful, does not work; it isn't mathematics.

You're right, but you need to know the basic mechanics pretty well in order to start to understand the deeper philosophies and ways of thinking that math _is_.

It's like learning to ride a motorcycle without ever having ridden a bike; Riding a bike is not riding a motorcycle, but you're going to really struggle to make progress past a certain point of learning since you're mastering the absolute basics of _both_ things at the _same_ time.

It's the same thing with math. If I never see what well-formed answers to problems look like, never gain familiarity with the symbology or jargon, then I can never start to even learn proper math because the professor can't communicate with me.
When considering non-government sector burrowing due to lower interest rates, these transactions net to zero for the private sector, because an asset and a liability is created to the private sector. In the case of government paying interest to the private sector, the private sector balance sheet nets positive.
They're not threatening to leave Europe. They're warning their investors that the EU seems to be outlawing any form of international social media.
What's more fun is that companies have bad databases and won't fix them. I have a Google Voice number that I ported to a physical device, and Discord won't let me use it as a 2FA backup number. The mistake they made is two-fold: 2FA is for me, so if the text message goes through, then it doesn't matter if it's VoIP. But they tied the system into their "you must have a verified phone to use this server", which has to reject VoIP for abuse reasons. (It's a bad abuse management mechanism of course, but having implemented similar blunt instruments myself, I get where they're coming from. There's a problem, how do you fix it in a day? Blanket out-of-date denylists.) Compounding the issue is that their database is simply incorrect. My number is a physical phone.

(Oh, and of course you can port your physical-at-the-time-of-registration phone number to VoIP, which I may or may not have done, and they don't go back in and check against the database. TOCTOU, a classic security vulnerability since approximately 1970.)

It grinds my gears because I have been a Nitro subscriber since it first became available, and they won't bend one millimeter for one of their first paying customers. I am looking forward to their death by greed.
I remember a time where I was playing a phone game to get some sleep (the mindless stimulation works for my brain, which has hyperactivity issues). There were time-limited events that gave bonuses for completion. One of the things I distinctly remember was that there were teams you could join, followed by team vs team competition for rewards at the end of the week. Competitive teams then had minimum floors of activity... It became like a job to keep track of your own contribution for... for... some bonuses at the end of the week? I remember becoming disappointed/unhappy that the game was asking more from me than I wanted to give (10-30 min of playing before being calm enough to sleep) and quitting. Now I only play phone games without a team/online component, like the stupid merge games or bubble games.
I only use Instagram because some of my friends refuse to leave WhatsApp, and we still want to exchange pictures and memes.

I still avoid having any meaningful/private conversations on FB products.
The best part of this video is that they show Webb's selfie.

I mentioned this capability in a HN comment a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29860357

I'd been disappointed that it-- or really anything about the alignment procedures-- weren't covered by any of the public facing webb materials, I learned about it by reading the academic publications on the design.

Selfie mode just seemed like something with great public appeal potential, even for people without a lot of interest in the more technical details.

So I'm really excited to see this video!

I hope they put something up about the wavefront sensing.
My point was rather that if you're ok with centralization, ok without censorship resistance, and ok without meaningful absolute reliability guarantees - all of which is true on BSC - and you value low cost and low latency, what on earth are you doing using a blockchain?

At $0.12 per execution that's one heck of an expensive AWS Lambda function, which are normally priced at $0.0000002 each and $0.0000133334 per GB-second of execution on ARM.

Lambda is about 625,000 times cheaper per request than BSC while offering the same-or-dramatically-better guarantees. [1]

[edit] Ah, I see the answer to my question is regulatory arbitrage. Gotcha. Along with crime and grift, regulatory arbitrage is one of the three big pillars of blockchain.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
I chose Vancouver because it is the city closest to me.

Besides, what’s wrong with Vancouver?

He asked for proof. I provided validated proof from different sources with undeniable video showing exactly what he was castigating me about.
The publish date on this post is today (Feb 11th) but I think I've seen this exact article posted to HN before (perhaps with a different title).
I have been using Anki for the past 6 months (2021-Jul, present), before that I used SuperMemo for 9 months before that (2020-Oct, 2021-Jul), the reasons I switched to Anki are plenty (Linux/MathJax support being the top ones).

My project is not related to the Incremental Reading Anki plugin.
This post caused me to update my cautious strategy to a somewhat less cautious one. Hoping to invite discussion about aspects Zvi might be missing, though
In the last 5 years, Whatsapp has basically replaced SMS in many EU countries. The equivalent in the US is probably the combined market share of FB Messenger, Whatsapp, iMessage and Signal.
They are saying "We aren't threatening to leave, but we will be forced to leave".

If it is a threat or not is a matter of perspective and opinion, but they are implying that they will leave if legislation isn't revoked.
"LINKED" and "increased BY jet noise" are doing a lot of work here. Could be lead. Could be that poorer people (who tend to also be less healthy, no fault of their own) tend to be clustered in areas of higher noise, which is absolutely true. Correlation is not causation.
Many of the literary magazines mentioned in the article have always been dependent on the financial largesse of a larger institution such as a university. As such they haven't had to concern themselves with being independently financially viable. Changing that type of culture can be extremely difficult. It is probably easier to start from scratch as your friends have.
Nice try! I suspect it’s fake until I get further evidence. She’s not wearing her mask and answering the questions too willingly. Plus it’s too conveniently filmed right as she handed over the pamphlet. Just a gut feeling of course.
When Facebook's size, db backends are sharded. When someone looks at a page, any page, queries are hitting a number of sharded backends.
As someone working in this field at the moment, what you and the commenter you are replying to are saying is exactly part of the lobbying push by the likes of TurboTax and H&R Block. It’s complex, yes. But the data is publicly available and does not change all that frequently. And of course an effort like this should 100% be subsidized by the government anyways.
Not really. Factory/building games are the only ones that keep me up until 2:35 AM (at least today).

This was fine when I could just sleep in until 10, but I’m fairly certain my little bundle of joy will need my attention somewhere before 8.

3 years in and still trying to figure out how to combine these things.
Wouldn't everyone just switch to Telegram?
I wonder if that could be partially mitigated by solar. That could be a good combo.
A facebook feed doesn't just show data from one user. When I look at my feed, I am seeing posts from 100 people distributed over 7 countries on 3 continents. Stitching that data together from multiple data sources is an extremely difficult thing to accomplish.
There are other companies that silo each customer from each other in ways that are very expensive to the platform owner (can't get more specific, sorry).
I mean in the context of users providing support for commercial products without being paid for it.

Stack Overflow is a general Q&A site, not a support forum for a commercial product. The context is very different. Also, while I'm at it, it has its own flaws, but people providing trite and useless answers isn't one, they get downvoted to oblivion.
Is there any way to quantify 'luck'? Your comment is also commonly posted but it isn't always 'luck' and without any way to determine how much luck is involved at an aggregate level, it seems meaningless to mention it.
Weird to assume that when we don't even know which country it is. I don't find blanket cynicism in favor of apathy to be useful.
I'd be amazed if they couldn't come to a medium-term compromise agreement if they wanted to. EU authorities have precedent in giving companies time to fix things up if they show that they're willing to do that.
The irony.

> An individual has a phone number

> Some people do not own phones, or do not wish to provide you with their telephone number when asked. Do not require a user to provide a phone number unless it is essential, and whenever possible try to provide a fallback to accommodate these users.

Source: https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHO...
You are welcome, I'm happy about it too, especially with others mentioning similar projects to check out.
I can back you up on this. I lived in China in 2017-2018 and have friends in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. As skeptical as I am of Chinese reportings, it really does sound like they've kept Covid under control for the last year and a half. Everyone I know there is doing normal things and has moved on with their lives, with the caveat that -- as you said -- international travel is all but impossible. A few of my friends who went on vacation outside of China during Chinese New Year 2020 have still not been allowed to go back.

A few months ago, a Shenzhen friend said she had to go on a business trip to Shanghai, and was a little worried because there had been 2 reported Covid cases in the last few weeks. Another friend, earlier in the pandemic, would mockingly send me US statistics of million of Americans getting Covid, and that it's nearly eradicated China.

It frightens me to think of what means they took to get these ends, but I really do believe they have it under control.
Many providers don't give you a choice. Many major banks default to using SMS for 2FA. I'm sure if they get breached the government will bail them out so why should they change?
The TL;DW is that a popular YT'er bought an open box mobo from NewEgg. He didn't need it, and returned it w/o opening the box. They refused to restock it, saying he damaged the CPU socket, and kept his money. After they sent it back to him, he found a sticker on it showing the Newegg had RMA'ed it to Gigabyte due to a damaged CPU socket.
Given that there has been sporadic violence associated with the protest and counter protesters that isn’t accurate.
Which companies use stack overflow as their one and only customer support channel?
Well, the few people I had in mind aren’t exactly tearing up the world of financial services to put it nicely. Maybe moron was too mean.

A related belief I have is that college students over-index on trying to get their foot in the door of whatever industry. For example, students who skip stats and CS classes because they might hurt their GPA might find themselves behind the students who did 5 years down the line. Even in the humanities and social sciences. Another example is all the junior engineers who are leetcode experts but don’t know what DNS is.

I actually agree with what you are saying. But why can’t college be the place to do that? You have a bunch of people together in one place who want to learn (and have the time), in theory guided by experts. Most people are highly social learners and need some accountability, and Khan academy videos aren’t going to cut it
A computer science degree isn’t a math degree any more than a physics or chemistry degree is a math degree.

Classes like Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Networking, Databases, Software Engineering Fundamentals, the first year programming sequence, etc. could hardly be considered math courses.
It is indeed - but why is that relevant, or somehow undesirable?
Author here. I wrote this post after my comment on the post you're mentioning was rather well received. People asked me to write about that experience in more detail, so I did and shared it here. It's a related story, not an identical one.
Meta's user base shrank and share price fell, what would happen if all EU users were gone?
My understanding of Telegram is that it's big in eastern europe, but here in Ireland at least, it's got a reputation of "that thing you contact your drug dealer on".
Maybe they've read "Designing Data-Intensive applications".

(Semi-joke)
At the end of the day, profit determines reality. And that's where futurists have always screwed up, because profit funds solutions.

Nobody has colonized Antarctica not because it's impossible, but because it's difficult enough and useless enough that we all agreed on a treaty prohibiting it.

In contrast, we constructed the 63 radars (some with bases) of the DEW line in the late 1950s in under 3 years, with part of the Air Force's budget. Because it was useful.

Establishing a Mars colony is not impossible, it's just extremely hard. Which means expensive. Which means it needs a justification. Which is what I think the knee-jerk is really about.

And is a fair opinion. You may think interplanetary colonization should not be a priority. I think it should.
Many readers will not include alcohol in the group drugs, so it needs to be mentioned explicitly, even though it actually is part of the "drugs" group.
Making an assumption here about Proxima Centauri's own Oort Cloud, but seems like if it's the same size as ours, they'd overlap? Seems like a potentially interesting way for "stuff" to get transferred from one solar system to another.
Broadly speaking, I've been approaching mathematics from two different angles: CS, and the mathematical background that subtends it.

On the CS front, I'm interested in two main subjects:

- Distributed Systems (especially peer-to-peer overlays)

- Programming Language Design (in particular: type theory, algebraic effects, and -- more recently -- optimal beta reduction)

On the pure math side, I've tried to focus my efforts on topics related to the above. I've tried working through "introductory" books on each of the following subjects:

- Combinatorics

- Graph Theory

- Category Theory

Prior to that, I tried working through some more general books. This is where most of my small progress emerged:

- Thompson's Calculus Made Easy

- Stewart and Tall's The Foundation of Mathematics (Set Theory)

In all cases, the biggest blocker for me is the proofs and exercises. I rapidly get stuck on a problem, which of course prevents me from understanding the subsequent chapters.
>speculative fiction magazines are doing just fine,

F&SF is down to six issues a year (they had 8 in 2009, and 11 from 1991-2008). Analog and Asimov's each dropped from 10 to 6 in 2017 (and each went from 11 to 10 in 2003).

That's not what I'd call 'just fine'.
Discord told me the same thing: just use a friend’s phone number if yours doesn’t work.

What exactly is the point of phone verification of the official answer is “lie to us about your identity”?
> If a user in Florida tries to view a post by a user in Germany, doesn't the German user's data have to leave the EU?

> One option would be to serve this data directly from the European server.

What do you think happens with the data when you "serve it directly from the European server" to a user in Florida?

Exactly, it leaves the EU to go to Florida. ;-)
Reminds me of this tweet:

“Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.”

Honestly I’m starting to operate under the assumption that anything can be hacked with enough focus and determination. Obscurity isn’t such a bad defense in the long run.

https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1116670170980859905?s=20...
There is no standard whatsoever for the adjective "Senior" when applied to engineers:

Sometimes it means, "Able to work without someone looking over their shoulder at all times."

Sometimes it means, "Able to lead and mentor others."

And sometimes it means, "Has organizational skills above and beyond engineering skills, able to lead cross-team initiatives and deal with all the human/organization issues around the engineering."

The latter definition is the most interesting to me, it describes what "Staff" and "Principal" engineers do in most orgs. But if I had to pick a line to draw, I'd say that while a Staff or Principal spends most or all of their time working on projects that involve the human/organization issues around the engineering, a senior engineer is one who does this at least part of the time.

There are other, perfectly valid perspectives on what makes an engineer "senior," but what I like about this one that's relevant to TFA is that this kind of "seniority" is hard to fake.
if WhatsApp goes people would move to signal or telegram.

Instagram is a bit trickier, but I'm fairly sure people would start making a new one immediately. You could even relatively easily transfer everything and everyone across using the zip you can get thanks to GPDR.
It's almost definitional of IR in fact, but not quite.

Waves which are relaxed enough to pass through ordinary matter, but interact in interesting ways with metals and other electron clouds, we call radio. Microwaves start out doing this: usefully, they spin water molecules around, hence microwave ovens. What we call microwaves 'bottom out' on not doing so, it's a useful but somewhat artificial category which I would split between radio and IR if you gave me the gavel.

Unlike visible, which is 'visible' because it has distinct properties.
Hah, and i thought i was the only one who tries to "play through the internet" - somehow, every time i think i'm through, it grows back it seems...
Cool! I'd love to know more about your project when it's ready to share :)
I wouldn't say feature, but they're probably not naturally inclined toward spending more time raising the average level instead of enjoying the few genius newcomers.

There's a small sadness in this but I can't word it out perfectly.

ps: I mean I would understand very much that these people just want "new buddies to play hyperstimulating math games with no drag whatsoever" but from school I expect just a few pointers. The rest is on me (us).

edit:
At my university, CS was called math-CS, it required intenses calculus courses with a similar failure rate.

Of those who failed : ¼ retook the course, ¼ pivoted to the bussines-CS program (given by the CS department) , ¼ pivoted to bussines-IT (given by the business and management school) and as far as I know, the rest disappeared from the university.
Please consider what your $400B number would be if the FFR were 5%. Here we are talking about perhaps 3 billion. Thats the point. Fed is trying to hit the brakes but actually is hitting the accelerator. MMT 101.
That's pretty much what is going on here. Math 202 is a weeder course for engineering majors, and all it really does is teach you the existence of various linear algebra concepts and how to compute them. There are no proofs, no consideration of why you might care about the eigenvalues of a matrix, etc.
Aside from the difficulties in operating effectively without passing any PII (which includes identifiers) across international/org lines, 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.

The reality that the EU government has recognized is that a FISA order of the parent company could compel a US organization to pull data from the EU servers to provide to the US government; and it’s a valid critique.
All the more reason to ditch Booking.com
I'd be happy to talk all about it, but my comment was flagged and so few other people are likely to see the discussion.
They should have written this a week ago.
I was curious about this subject and found a video[0] of a couple whose house is about the same distance (1600 feet or 487 meters)... In this case the turbine even casts a shadow on their home and property which is SUPER jarring.

I'm not sure people realize but wind turbines are pretty darn loud (check at 2:55 in the video), that's exactly what they sound like at times. There's honestly zero excuse to build something that loud anywhere within audible range of peoples' homes.

[0] https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=f7DQ3SgSg0c
That's not data though, that's anecdotes. A handful of videos is hardly a fair sampling of a thousand incidents per year. The videos that percolate up are going to be the exceptional circumstances either way. Are there hard numbers you can point to that are published by folks other than the departments themselves?
This same class did the same thing to me at Princeton except I was an engineering major at the time. I had done well on the Calc AP exams in high school which the engineering department said placed me in MAT 202. On the first day of class the professor started summarizing "what we already knew" from high school about linear algebra and I had seen basically none of it with the exception of basic matrix multiplication. The rest of the week was ego-destroying as I attempted to get help from the professor and was repeatedly told (almost berated) that I should already know the answers to my questions from my high school courses.

I eventually dropped the course, left engineering entirely, and majored in a biological science. But the jokes on them because I self-studied a shit ton of math after I graduated and eventually went back to grad school doing ML+Physics. It turns out that I'm actually pretty good at Linear Algebra after all.