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throwawayiionqz··on The bunkbed conjecture is false
Many examples of conjectures true for all n, until a very large one is eventually found : https://mathoverflow.net/questions/15444/examples-of-eventua...
throwawayiionqz··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Abortion in Poland is legal only in cases when the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland#Legal_sta...

throwawayiionqz··on IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system
> the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes should be

File for an extension. Then after April 15, download your wage & income transcripts from the IRS. Use that to reconcile with your own records and file before October

throwawayiionqz··on IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system
If you file an extension, after Aprilc 15 you will be able to see on the IES tr
throwawayiionqz··on Mathematician withdraws preprint 24 years after initial submission
Previous versions such as https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810162v1 clearly link to the latest withdrawn version, with text in red and bold at the top. Researchers accustomed to the arxiv don't miss it.

Peer reviews don't catch some important mistakes. It does not guarantee much by itself.

throwawayiionqz··on Notmuch – Just an email system
Why tag anything at all? If the query is fast you may run the query again. This avoids migrating tags if the query gets modified/improved etc.
throwawayiionqz··on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
Landlords in NYC require pre-tax income of 40 times the monthly rent.

For $5k monthly rent you need $200,000 pre-tax income.

throwawayiionqz··on Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
What about traces.vim?

https://github.com/markonm/traces.vim

throwawayiionqz··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
Cisco vs California is one example with discrimination (no sexual abuse enabling here, though).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083

throwawayiionqz··on Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?
Most tinder profiles are inactive. The person created a profile long time ago and never logged in the last few years, yet these profiles show up to make you believe so many potential matches are out there.

Start a physical activity in a group with other people and aim to do that 3 times a week. Sport, dancing, etc. Yoga, salsa, tango or other dances for instance, as these are activities that will involve at least as many girls as boys.

throwawayiionqz··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thanks Peter for doing this.

I had my PERM and I-140 approved in 2017 but haven't filed my I-485 yet. Visa (H1B) and sponsoring employer are still the same as on the the I-140. Priority date on I-140 is in 2017.

I am about to file I-485. Is there any issue that may arise during I-485 processing from the delay between I-140 and I-485?

Thanks so much

throwawayiionqz··on Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/loenset-slatted-bed-base-402787... below the matress directly on the floor does the job and gives some ventilation. Writing this from this exact setup. Safe for kids also
throwawayiionqz··on NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
It's not simple because there are two axis of interest: the axis along you sum, and the axis that are preserved (ie, that gives the dimension of the returned array).

Both of them are of interest and after you were confused once about which one to supply to axis=..., there is no way back to clear the confusion. With einsum there is no confusion.

throwawayiionqz··on NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
I could never grasp the conventions for "axis=". Everyone has some memory trick, some of them being confusing/wrong.

On the other hand einsum is Crystal clear and not prone to confusion.

> np.einsum("ij -> j", B) # sum along rows to create one column-like array

> np.einsum("ij -> i", B) # sum along columns to create one row-like array

Edit: More Einstein sum fun at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26089893/understanding-n...

throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
Thanks for putting this into words so clearly.
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
The US has some reciprocity in terms of information flow in the original FATCA agreement. The US (and US banks) does not comply.

Many countries would need information flow about their former or current tax residents to enforce tax obligations, similar to the information the EU banks report to the IRS about US persons. E.g. several EU countries have an exit tax on worldwide income and they would need the reporting from US banks to enforce it.

At the point this is also a competitivity issue for the EU to attract talent and capital. Coming to the EU after having been a US person (citizen or green card) is such a hassle for banking and to manage stock investments in the $100,000s. Just so much pain in terms of paperwork and tax uncertainty that staying in the US and not coming back to the EU solves a lot of hassle.

throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
FATCA is an agreement signed between countries, not between the US and foreign banks. The US certainly has more leverage with the USD than the EU with the EURO but trade agreements are made of various things and the US cannot simply bully the EU and Asian countries with FATCA indefinitely. I can't wait to see how this plays out in the next 10 years.
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
Regular bank accounts may not be hopeleless after some paperwork fights. Investments accounts on the other hand are actually hopeless. Source: Googling the bogleheads forums for investments options for US citizens residing in the EU.
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
I wonder which countries allow dual birthplaces though
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
What happens the day your kid shows the wrong passport at Port of entry?

TSA Officer: "Hi foreigner, you don't have ESTA?"

Kid: Oh sorry this is the wrong birthplace passport. Take at look at this one plz

throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
You can find a continuous spectrum of Americans suffering FATCA and IRS struggles while living abroad.

At the end of the spectrum are these accidental Americans.

In the middle you can find e everything, e.g. your kid studying in the EU that cannot open a bank account there or issues getting a real estate loan to buy a house in the foreign country you work and live in. Essentially opening a bank account abroad is a no-go unless you lie or have a lot of money.

Then you have ultra wealthy tax evaders that were the target of those regulations. Obviously these people don't have a hard time opening bank relationships anywhere.

throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
Not so strange after you experience it. Walk into a bank to open an account where to receive your salary. In no time after mentioning your US citizenship, you are shown the exit door. Try every bank until you eventually lie about it as the only way go on with your life.
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
Non-accidental Americans and green card holders living in the EU also face major difficulties for opening bank accounts and basic investments. The accidental ones are the tip of the iceberg, but the problem need a fix for everyone.
throwawayiionqz··on FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
The best way out of this is the EU asking for reciprocal measures in future trade agreements and tax treaties (fatca reporting, residency based taxation).

If US banks had the same reporting requirements to EU countries regarding EU dual citizens accounts, this absurd situations of being denied banking relationships in the country you work and reside would stop promptly.

throwawayiionqz··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
This is the cost of training the final architecture with all the refinements enabled by years of research.

These years of research involved trying many different architectures, many of which received as much or more compute time than the final system.

The price of training the final architecture is meaningless. Researching and training AlphaGo was expensive but it enabled the ideas and development of AlphaZero which is more computationally tractable.

To have any chance, an academic team would need the same compute resources as what the DeepMind protein folding team used during the whole development of the architecture during the last few years, not only the resources used to train the final system. And I bet this funding is not available to most if not all academic teams.

throwawayiionqz··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
Another huge differentiator is price. At $3 to $4, many countries will jump on board ASAP and stay away from the expensive vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.
throwawayiionqz··on Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
Search for emails with the word "unsubscribe".

Then select-all and Mark as spam!

Edit: Or go through each result, some email clients will highlight the search term "unsubscribe" after search, making the unsubscribe link easier to find.

throwawayiionqz··on AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
What is wrong with opening the PDF on a phone?

Arxiv vanity has issues. Figure 2 in the paper you listed doesn't display correctly. I am not sure the author would agree or be happy that arxiv vanity reproduces their work into a webpage with sub-par rendering.

throwawayiionqz··on Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
"Audit" is nowhere to be found in that article.

Someone from UN counter terrorism went and met some Chinese diplomats. The statement mentioning they "reached consensus" is not even clear about what the consensus is about.

throwawayiionqz··on Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
What's the point of slowly moving pieces of wood when everything fits in RAM
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