skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data on the internet always travels all over the globe.

It's where the data is stored and kept that is at issue.
I've spent the last 13 months making a "functional" web desktop environment. To me it's a life long project to push the limits of the browser and to help me learn programming. I enjoy the process of trying to replicate something in every detail. I have no desire for monetary gain from the project, nor employment. It's just for fun and I hope that never changes.

Site: https://dustinbrett.com/

Code: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
Is talking about detonating nukes behind a ship with a big shield behind it.
> Yeah.. The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Liars

Only as long as your users are fine to only talk with people from their "world region cluster". Everyone else would not be able to communicate with, say, family that lives overseas.
>What is the difference between wind turbines and highways or utility poles festooned with cables?

All make noise, are eyesores or both. All also have benefits.

The residents have judged the benefits of highways and utility poles festooned with cables running everywhere outweigh the cost. They've also judged that the benefits of the turbines do not outweigh the costs.
So there is no tool that would say "At the moment I'm using this SSID to determine location"?
"Yeah.. The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Liars" - nixass

Look, I realize I'm not an elite hacker news hacker, but how can I as a US user look at my friends posts in germany without them transferring data to me in the US?

What makes this so obviously a lie that such strong language is called for?
admit powerlessness over your addiction and start reflecting upon yourself (shadow/feelings(anima)/etc)

...the wound is the cure
Meta does not want to understand. People are not happy that their data is Meta's business and that, as a result, Meta keeps socially engineering them to milk more of their time.

People are not even mad about ads, they are mad at the waste of time and general sense that FB brings the worst out of you.

They need to shift their business, changing the landscape (metaverse) will not change anything or trying to convince people that what they offer is great is a long term losing proposition, imh.
Unless I'm reading the report wrong, it's from a single hospital. We shouldn't be taking any lessons from such a limited dataset as there are far too many possible confounding factors that would be ameliorated in a larger dataset from more hospitals.
Inherently isn’t the data stored and kept everywhere it’s accessed? If you’re in Germany and are a German your message sent to me just now also now is being stored where I’m located to even read it, no?
Having worked there, the sheer volume of phone interactions was crazy, and I haven't worked there in almost 10 years.

Regardless of the volume, it was very shocking to me how many situations that ended up being escalated to even the executive level were caused simply by the interaction with the phone customer care channel. These situations "cost" the company quite a bit in highly paid people time to solve. Granted that cost is never quantified, but it is real.

You also see this pattern replicated in the ISP industry quite heavily.
>While still letting Joe Average create an account with their usual phone number once they've been verified as an actual person.

so, how?
So nothing to do with the original subject of the thread, basically.
I love construction/management games but I very rarely "finish" them for exactly this reason. The moment I can see exactly how I would go about making it to the end goal, I'm done.
Just looked in the current Squeak trunk image as an example. The max depth of a Class from Object (rather than from the metaclasses like Behavior, ProtoObject, etc -- these to me are irrelevant to the count) is 8. There are very few 8, 7, or even 6 deep classes. The vast majority are between the 1-3 range.
2nded!
Yes, however, as in China, if EU wants their own internet, having their own internet is an option, however extreme.
> Yeah.. The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Liars

Can you explain to me how would you allow communication between EU and USA users without transferring any data out of EU? Expect for putting all the datacenters in EU?
Their form 10-k, in listing all the business risks, said something along the lines of "if it becomes illegal to operate in Europe we'll have to stop operating in Europe". Then the clickbait factories were off to the races.
I dont think there is any one type of engineer that is hard to find, rather the difficulty is finding them within your company's budget. There is a lot of talent out there, it just doesn't come cheap. The catch is that the companies that have to the budget to lock up top talent generally have large bureaucratic departments where their best engineers are really bored and/or working only 3 hours a day, and using the job to fund their lifestyle while they launch their side project.
According to Kahneman, when a chess pro makes an “intuitive” and unexplainable move it’s just pattern recognition happening subconsciously.

If language models like GPT-3 are “just” pattern recognizers, wouldn’t that makes them capable of intuition?
No one in my circles cares about Facebook leaving Europe. Until they realize that Facebook includes Instagram and WhatsApp and they do actually use those other services.

Point being: to all the commenters saying no one cares, a lot more people care than you think.
> skip the database, the ORM layer, the glue code, the data model, and all that ancillary stuff, and simply cache the ebook objects themselves

It is nice to see people thinking in this direction, instead of just assuming you need a full database if you have any data. For non-transactional key-value storage, it works well in many cases, even with 100GB+ of data.
One option would be to serve this data directly from the European server. However, it's not the public profile data which most people object to be shared, it's the tracking/user-profile data which FB collects in the background.
Sure, you can do that. But from a UX perspective, the system is clearly badly designed.
My ignorant guess is that long running magazines end up targeting older readers who have a bad habit of dying off.
That is correct, as well as caching.
Yup. My observation (having not had to take College Algebra myself, but knowing people who did) is that it's a class to make sure people who fell off the math train back at operations on fractions or factoring or whatever, don't get any farther.
Quectel, not Qualcomm.

Of course Pine has to treat it as unfixable -- the modem is already an untrusted component out of the box, and the FCC (and peers) would never allow Pine to ship their own modem firmware.
> The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running.

Practically speaking, running FB in a way that doesn't transfer anything out of the EU would involve either:

1. Siloing off the EU facebook, with no contact with the US side

or

2. Building a federated facebook, which transfers across e.g. only the timeline entries US friends are granted view access to

The former would not be well-accepted, as it would cut off communication from e.g. international relatives, and would be a rather large project to launch. The latter would be an even bigger rearchitecture, which would likely take, at a minimum, several years to complete, since it's unlikely this was ever anticipated as being a possibility when FB was originally created.

So, I sympathize with them - while in the long term they might be able to find a solution, in the short-to-medium term, FB would have no choice to stop operating.
Your mileage may vary.

You had a miserable experience.

I did not.

I'm not saying the courses that I took (or TAed) were all superb. It was a mixed bag.

The prevailing philosophy was summed up by one of my profs in my 2nd semester. He said, "You're expected to aggressively eradicate any gaps in your knowledge by whatever means you feel are appropriate."

Translation: You're going to have to teach yourself. But that doesn't mean teach yourself alone. If you have to corner me, or the teaching assistant, or your classmates, to understand the problem set, then do that. If you need to hunt down a book, then do that. The buck stops with you.
It does not, they obey it regarding indexing pages but not crawling.

They can and will crawl even if you say no, they've officially said so as well in their docs.
Large computer systems with baked in assumptions of the fact that data locality regulations wouldn't be as strict as they are in 2022 are... difficult to update
Linear Reasoning
I think you will need to provide a bit more information on your setup. The FreeBSD ports system may have configured SBCL in a non-standard way.

As the sibling post points out, the Makefile line should work, it does work for me on NetBSD.
I don't see how else your comment relates to the original article, then.

Other than to insinuate that the main reason "these stories from Tesla keep coming out" ... is because Musk is a "thorn in side" of various narratives.
Would be really great to see even more regulation to make these so-called “data businesses” to stop gambling with people’s information.

One example of that would a mandatory paid option which takes you out of all company data sharing stuff.

I dont use any facebook/Meta related platforms such as facebook, instagram or whatsapp. But it makes me sick seeing people around me addicted to it, due to their shady operation patterns.
I get 0.999c for 20x and 0.99999c for 220+
Waymo video showing 3D renders they've made of San Francisco
Yes (and this is fine - because you're sharing that post with a certain audience). But the issue is all the metadata that comes and goes with it.
> This was sufficient for people escaping scary regimes for centuries

just curious, are you grandstanding or have you (or even your close relatives) been through such a situation? with statements like this it can only be one or the other. also it does not have to be escaping a "scary regime". it can be escaping war for example
This completely blows up employers asking you not to share your comp data amoung your(our)selves. They share amongst themselves.
That is why they rarely list is as a prerequisite; and instead list specific classes that likely fostered it.

Any good definition of mathematical maturity would likely be so technical that you need mathematical maturity to understand it.
ThePrimeagen

https://m.twitch.tv/theprimeagen
Musk's family has a long history of exploitation in one of the most racist places in the world (Apartheid South Africa).

I notice everyone denying these claims seems to ignore that.
paper here
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05263
It could be a confirmation bias problem on my end, I agree. I just know how much time some highly paid corporate support people dealt with "escalations" that could have not become that had the person answering the call either had more resources to help OR just knew how to better de-escalate a situation.

Of course that time is not really quantified officially, it's just a salary.
This is really cool! So basically instead of using LiveEEX templates, you can write it like a SPA with Typescript?
> Meta Is Absolutely Not Threatening to Leave Europe

But then in the body of their post...

> EU-US data transfers mechanisms poses a threat to our ability to serve European consumers and operate our business in Europe [and] we have absolutely no desire to withdraw from Europe, of course we don’t, But the simple reality is that Meta relies on data transfers between the EU and the US.

I mean, that sounds like a threat to leave to me? If you can't operate your business in Europe? Talk about mixed messaging and double-speak!
Agree. To go further, I find these "community-powered" support forums infuriating to read, when they are run by a huge company that should be remunerating support staff.

Why anyone would volunteer to answer queries for free in this context is beyond me. What do they get out of it? A flashy hat to wear and a few trivial perks?

Respect to those trying to help out, but when a question like this is posed in the forum, I would only be interested in hearing the response of a salaried Google employee, not a volunteer.

It's even worse when the response offers trite, generic information that doesn't relate to the problem, regrettably a common occurrence on this type of forum.

Edit: Note, these remarks are not applicable to the commendable people providing support in FOSS projects, and in other non-commercial contexts.
> Yes, but I doubt you had write code to factor a quadratic equation because it's a solved problem and you have libs that will do it for you.

It is not totally unreasonable to expect students in an intro to CS course to have some basic competency in algebra (university dependent). Giving them a problem in a domain they're already familiar with (or that where familiarity can be expected) lets them, in theory, focus on the algorithm/data structure side without having to also be taught the domain. Most of the exercises in a first CS course are solved with libraries (standard in some languages, or 3rd party in others). That doesn't mean it's not useful for developing the knowledge the course is aiming for.

Do you also think we shouldn't teach arithmetic and should only teach using calculators? (You may, actually, I know people who think that way.)
That's one issue. Another more complicated issue is which country's legal authority does the owner of the data have to respond to. If the answer is USA, then the data can be requested by this government regardless of where it's stored...
> It's kinda hard to believe that in this section the US somehow managed to actually protect their people better than Europe.

Well, I don't know what to tell you. For instance, in the US you have 24 hours to cancel a flight booking for any reason if booked more than 7 days out. In Europe, you might get a 4 hour window if you're lucky, but often times not (especially with the vicious European LCCs).
I don't care if people choose to interpret it that way. I can follow people or institutions I want to keep updated on, regardless of my approval of their actions. A more realistic interpretation is that your followers range from detractors to loyal supporters.
> Yes, but I doubt you had write code to factor a quadratic equation because it's a solved problem and you have libs that will do it for you.

Actually, I have, because I've done a fair bit of embedded development and "toss this massive lib on" is not always a reasonable solution. Inferring the structure of plant in controls is often a polynomial factoring problem and it's not something that one tosses Singular or FLINT at on small hardware. But aside from that...

Factoring a quadratic by hand is something I expect a CS major to know how to do, because they might very well be doing algebraic manipulation to develop solutions to real world problems.

And someone who knows how to factor a quadratic by hand knows a number of formulaic (suboptimal) steps to perform it-- the exact kind of things that's easiest to translate to code before you have gotten into that mindset of explicit thinking.

So--- declare and manipulate variables to do the quadratic formula. OK, what if we want to confine ourselves to integers, what can we do? Can we loop and search solutions in some meaningful way like a human would?

It's a completely reasonable space to explore as an early programming problem for someone who's familiar with it.

I'm teaching a secondary student to program right now. In his core math class he's doing a lot of trig. In turn, we're doing a whole lot of exercises like "make these dots chase the other dot using atan2 and sin/cos".
That is entirely the point. The number line is awkward for multiplication.

But mapping the relationship between multiplication and the area of rectangles is very visually intuitive. Geometric reasoning is powerful. Being able to use your understanding of multiplication rules to derive the formula for the volume of a cube, or a cylinder, or whatever is probably more insightful than realizing some arithmetic tricks.
Which is fair, but then it becomes more of a luck-based game because the luckiest first guesses will always yield the fastest 2/6 or 3/6 results. I play in an office of 60+ and first guess determines the winner most of the time.
I thought we don't editorialize titles here.
Gwern noted that adding things like thousands separators and $ signs to the input makes GPT significantly better at math.
Note that some countries have prepaid SIMs that are regularly reassigned to new SIMs...as soon as 6 months after the last "refill" of the card.

This happened to a customer where their IT sysadmin got a prepaid phone and registered this as a recovery number in a critical system (read as: full control over infrastructure).

And yes, the company forgot to refill the SIM card only to realize a year later that some script kiddie got the phone number by accident and was curious enough to lookup where the number was being used. DNS entries and ASN entries were enough OSINT to form an attack strategy.

What you gonna do then? As it turns out, this was a shitstorm of problems to deal with through hours (probably days) of support hotline calls.

Remember folks: 2FA via SMS is useless. Avoid phone numbers like the plague, everywhere.
ok, maybe I'm too aggressive lately, but the only reason to do a break is to stop iterating over the array. You can easily achieve the output of using break using filter, but you cannot achieve the behavior because filter goes over every item in your array.

Probably the most common reason you want to break is that you found what you were looking for so find is what you would use.

so to make an example that would not be reasonable for find:

you have a long array of objects, you need to display 5 of the 'interesting' objects out of this array. What constitutes 'interesting' is determined by some relatively complicated logic on each item in the array. Since you do not know how many items in this array are interesting you want to process all items until you have 5 items. When you have 5 items you want to stop processing items therefore you break, if your first 5 items have the property of being 'interesting' you just saved a lot of work in your application and things feel zippy so you want to do that (because your application maybe needs the help at this point)

It is obviously, as all examples when one does not need something at the very moment, somewhat artificial - but I would say it is not unthinkable.

However, as I made clear earlier, I am not arguing for the necessity of break - if I wanted to do what I just described I would probably use while unless the syntax became unwieldy - I dislike break.

The only reason I got into this is because someone said they didn't believe most programmers wouldn't ever need break (which can be used to stop iteration of an array) and the guy who said all most programmers needed was map and reduce (both of which iterate over every item of an array) then said they never said most programmers wouldn't need break.
Eh. If all three of those left the US I would care exactly not at all. There are better alternatives and if FB et al disappeared suddenly it would just create room for those services to take hold.
But the material is not the problem. You have the whole world knowledge at your fingers, in books, the internet, etc. Schaum's outline will give you hundreds of worked problems. The problem is that the student sees no possible solution to this if she is not handed the solution by her instructor.

>Does it? If by clear you mean "relating to the anecdote you shared at the top of your comment", then sure - but that is far from my standard for "clear," at least.

It's a temporal correlation that all my colleagues observe as well. Average grades drop by 50% using the identical material that was always successful pre-pandemic.

So you find it more likely that lockdown, restricted gathering in learning groups, Zoom lectures, potential financial hardship had no impact on learning whatsoever? That's not quite up to my standard.
I don't believe it.

In particular, IBM was formed by amalgamating various subsidiary companies, so there's no "first product". Even if you focus on the Computing Scale Company, I think their first product was a computing scale and the cheese slicer was later.

That said, the IBM cheese cutter restoration video is very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VhNF_0I5c
Is this why PRC gov could get Taiwan back?
I get it. After working in tech for 10 years, I went back to grad school for statistics recently. I came to the realization with every math class that I took - after the first couple of lectures I had to say to myself, it looks like I'm just going to have to teach myself this class.

I think that's the deal with math. With some other subjects, you can get quite far by knowing the gist of the material. Since math classes are generally evaluated on one's ability to grind out problems, you have to just grind out a lot of problems - no shortcuts. Like learning to play the piano - there's only one way work your way to learn to play a mozart sonata or whatever - lots of grinding away at it.

Definitely think it's open to debate if this fact us USEFUL to anyone. For example, making Calculus II students learn to grind out loads of integrals by hand which can be solved by Wolfram Alpha in a fraction of a second may be of debatable value - - let the debates carry on... But I think under the current idea of what it means to "learn" math, to my eye it appears it really is the case that one has to teach it to onesself...
> The nearest turbine is over five miles away ... a bright red light at the top ... with about 20 of those lamps visible it destroys the night darkness ... even for a good night's sleep

That sounds like a measurable decrease in quality, but to be fair you're starting from a highly unusual baseline.

And I don't mean to be uncharitable, but when it comes to sleep effects (reported by others, apparently), I suspect that the light emitted from tower-mounted aircraft lights at a distance of five miles has a greater effect on their psychological perception than on their photon receptors.

The light "pollution" of a full moon is surely larger than the tower lamps. And more variable over the night (the moon moves, towers do not).
Controlled Prices
CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in the Linux Kernel
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Why are they treating students like children?

The easiest solution would be to provide solutions to problems. The lecturer obviously has the solutions.

It makes life easier for everyone. If you provide solutions you don’t even have to grade homework because students can grade it themselves.

People generating extra work for everybody sounds pointless.
> Only one technology matters: that which enables transportation.

Is this tongue-in-cheek? I genuinely hope so.
Let's add https://shapez.io/ to that list!
> International data transfers underpin the global economy and support many of the services that are fundamental to our daily lives. For many years, the legal framework supporting the transfer of data across the Atlantic has faced severe disruption.

Huh, if I were a Facebook investor I'd be pretty disappointed to hear that they've known this was an area of active disruption for years but haven't managed to rework their business model to avoid it.
Good read, but don't stay in a shantytown and call it a hotel, lol