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Piracy has proven to be the best competition for shitty legacy content delivery methods. I wonder if we'd have Netflix without ThePirateBay. Fact is, people want to pay for content (not because it's "not cheating" or whatever, but because they genuinely want to support artists and want them to keep creating) but are unwilling to jump through hoops for that. It's on Patreon & co to improve their game.
Hi guys, Barbra co-founder here too. Would love to hear your thoughts on the tool as well.
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Note that this was true at a time (some of my math teachers learned group theory in middle school) but that nowadays math education is much less abstract until the end of highschool.

At this point there is a specialized track (preparatory classes) to get into the most prestigious engeneering and buisness schools that will have you cram mathematics / physics / computeur science / english / a mix of litterature of philosophy in two or three years.

The student then get into the various school according to their grades on a serie of national exams.

This track is very competitive (and as such often decried) but I believe that it is a very efficient way to get the top talents to the top institutions with a maximum of learning on the way (also note that this education is free and that the very best school will even pay you).

Note that a student can also choose to get to college and ignore this track.
In Denmark, universities (and possibly high schools too, I don't know for sure) get paid by the government based on the number of students passing exams every semester. I think this is part of what's called "new public management" where you attempt to bring market-like incentives to the public sector.
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Author here! Thanks for all the nice comments (and helpful bug reports). This idea has been in the back of my mind for ~2 years now but I recently got a wave of motivation and decided to ride it - and here we are. Happy to answer any Qs :)
Reminds me a bit of Quizlet (search functionality on Quizlet was amazing) but looks like a nice cohesive product.

Best of luck!
The argument I regularly hear is that there would be more energy spent heating local greenhouses than flying the flowers.
I agree it's not exactly the same. I would also love to inhabit the parallel universe where Netflix hands out a 4-minute buffer, because in this one 20 seconds seems to be on the high end.

However, I strongly suspect that Netflix's video and audio are sent in different streams. Occasionally video for some titles is missing but audio gets through, confusing our daughter to no end. So while you can't infer individual syllables from the audio stream (as you would from VoIP), the audio streams should have varying enough size and chunking characteristics that allow to identify them.
ha, yep. that's why we persisted. i mean, if by stopping smoking it meant you could live to one thousand years old, then yeah, it'd make a lot of people think again.
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Advanced schooling used to be for the elites.

With the revolutions, the system was simply expanded, not created from scratch anew. So you would have the methods used to teach the elites be the foundations of the new system.
Badges. A simple dot. Log scale. Is there a reason not to?

ETA: Guess there must be. No, please don’t explain or discuss. A puzzle for the “noob”. Thank you!
As someone that has been spending a lot of time around Higher Education over the past 7 years or so, I personally cannot think of a single University I have interacted that isn't making many of their decisions under the influence of the ideas described above.

This is in the US/UK.
Like the message I answered to, I didn't mean that it was equivalent in quality.
So much racism for treating functions as black boxes. That's what you're supposed to do: treat functions as black boxes, not express casual racism on hacker news.
I have the same issue with Firefox on Windows :). How can I help you in reproducing it?
> Obviously, tumblr could have shifted everything NSFW to nsfwtumblr.com

Or just kept using their web page?? I'm pretty sure that I can still access NSFW content in Safari.

I never understood what's the point of website-specific apps - like HN app or Reddit app or even Facebook & Twitter app - except of course some middle manager's quest for promotion.
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The term "elites" in this thread does not refer to the aristocracy or the financial 0.1%. It refers to the high-achievers in math and science, and they have to work for their income just like everybody else (and from what I've ready about postgrads and PhD students in the US, they have to work their asses off).
Being an exemplary candidate for this article, and a hobby musician myself, I listen to new music searching for that effect where on the first listen, the hair on the back of my neck stands on end. It's exceedingly rare to find that nexus of musical innovation and recognition which seems to cause it.

I find production and sound design are a good space to innovate in, while letting recognizable melodies, scales and rhythms keep everything digestible.
That's still one of my favorites :)

I loved everything on "Below the Salt", really.

But long before then, I loved "The Incredible String Band". And still do, along with the "Butthole Surfers" ;) And ...

Edit: I know that's a strange jump. But consider BS's "The Wooden Song":

Take me, break me
Tell me a good one and maybe I'll cry
Go with me, show me
Tell me a good one and maybe I'll die
Lately I've been dancing in ceiling fans
Into the kitchen and out the back gate
Well I know it sounds strange but it could be the other way
Round to the ground where I know I must stay

That's not far from ICB's "A Very Cellular Song", really.
Thank you. Quizlet is definitely an inspiration. Our benefit is that you can write notes and flashcards in one place and share them easily in study groups. And the study groups motivate each other through visible daily goals. Quizlet only offers flashcards.
If you can't see the why we're incredulous at the idea of intercontinental travel at the height of a pandemic where an often asymptomatic and incredibly infectious disease is running rampant ... then I honestly do not know what to tell you.
The conventional wisdom used to be that many people would go back to school during a recession. I certainly did that in after getting laid off in the tail end of the dotcom bust. The timing of getting a degree during a normal recession cycle might work out simply because 1 or 2 years after you start school, you might be graduating when there's no longer a recession and hiring has picked up again. If you go to a 3 month bootcamp during a recession, you're likely to face a recession when finishing the program.
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Bourbaki school of thought. Read Dieudonné - not a single( I think to remember) illustration. Kindergarten starts math education with set theory. This was the imaginated ideal.
Has WD also bamboozeled NAS Raid enclosure sellers such as Synology? If you go into their compqtibility lists you will find the WD Red with SMR (the WDxxxEFAX series) listed as compatible, but with a specific reference to their SMR KB page which just warns not to mix SMR and PMR drives in the same raid volume.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...
The multidimensional spreadsheet is a more complex piece of software than the 2-D, and invites more data that needs to be managed and processed. So it trends to a more database-like system. There might be a niche for small and even-more-complex modeling. It’s hard to open-source something that takes the required investment.
I started off by bringing in MS Sans Serif from my windows 98 VM, but ditched it since it was rendering almost identically to Arial.

Making a webfont out of the original 8pt Tahoma sounds fun, but I am unsure if I have to do it manually. I was worried about having to provide bold glyphs, and wasn't sure how to make it scale while still looking pixelated. (That is, if I need to hand-draw an 8x7 lowercase 'e' do I also need to hand-draw the 24x21 version?)

Anyway, I cut it but agree I should get this right!
That's... incredible. That last paragraph especially. Beautifully written speech too.
Yeah maybe it was just me but I was predicting what the day would be, how many questions, difficulty, etc.

Ended up failing the elementary school test and was 1 out of 4 in the district who aced the middle school placement test to skip prealgebra (math 6 to algebra directly). Much of this can't be done nowadays because of common core.

By the time I went through precalc and calc at MV I realized maybe I should've taken a slower math sequence XD
> Those languages have nothing in common other than being pleasant to work with..

That's where the author had an insight, that they (could) have everything in common - except for the syntax on a surface level.

Underneath, languages are just different ways to produce and operate on the same "stuff", data and algorithms - values, function, list, dictionary, stack.

So, to me it makes sense that there can be a Lisp-y flavor of Python, Pythonic flavor of Lisp, Forthy Python, and so on. It's a matter of parsing/compiling them into a common format, targeting the same interpreter or virtual machine.

That said, this Forth-Lisp-Python Continuum verges on mad genius, to have all these different syntaxes in one language.

It was interesting to see this project, since I've been working on a hobby language, whose syntax is infix-oriented like C (but everything is an expression). It gets parsed into a prefix-oriented Lisp-like syntax tree.

The interpreter is a "machine" based on Lisp's eval, with lambda, macro, tail-call optimization, etc. So, basically, the language is just syntactic sugar that compiles down to whatever the machine expects. I plan to implement another (much simpler) parser for a Lisp-flavor of the same language.

In the case of FLPContinuum, I see that the interpreter is a stack-based loop (https://github.com/asrp/flpc/blob/f47de76fcab6d2d2b1840e5376...). The actual implementation of the "machine" almost doesn't matter for the language(s) though, as long as the interface stays the same.
This is so wonderful to read, thank you :) 100% feel the same way which is what kept me going to ship this.
Aside from the credit issue, nobody wants to be associated with a porn site.

Would you launch your new line of e-books on a site that is 95% porn and well known for porn?

No.

If you're a porn site, then you're pretty much going to be just that, it's its own content vertical, fairly distinguished from everything else.
Strange that the post never mentions iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks. His academic work on the so-called "subsumption architecture" clearly influenced the Roomba so much.
There will always be stupid kids in a world where intelligence levels vary.

In the 80s and 90s some attempts were made to try to escape this reality by changing the question. Multiple-factor intelligence models were proposed and widely accepted by pop-psychology, but most academics acknowledge now that there is some general intelligence level, a "g-factor".

Anecdotal - I always remember my aunt who was a literature teacher. She always stuck to those ideas and told me that it's obvious that there are different types of talents, because there are people that are good at maths, but do a lousy job in her classes. What she did acknowledge once though, was that people that were good at maths were also the ones that have been writing the best essays from all of her students. There was something that underpined their skills in both areas, but since they knew that they can achive something real in maths they probably did not try so hard to "pick the right key" in interpretive literature tasks. On the other hand for those students that were a bit slower literature was the only field that thay could perform well. Good literature students did not have any particular field in maths that they could perform well in. They stuck to literature, because they could memorize all the important answers and boast that they poses some innate talent.

Anecdotal 2 - Sure, there are some kids that could perform in one area better than in the other, but in my experience this variance is overshadowed by the difference between kids that can do ALL things well and kids that can do NO things well.

EDIT: A nice example of the multi-factor intelligence "scam" are the books from D. Goleman in "Emotional Intelligence" series. They were mostly targeted for middle management people and were very in line with the whole trend. The main motive is that emotional intelligence is a much bigger factor than general intelligence in the context of career progression and overall success in life. What was not made obvious is that the comparisons were done in environments of people that were already successful. If you take a group of people that have a high iq level, then it's very possible that the most successful will be the ones that can work with people a little better. Unfortunately it's not sufficient to be a peoples person to achieve high efficiency in such environments. The "hidden" conclusion was: GI + EI > GI; EI < GI; GI + GI < GI + EI (at least to some degree). There were also some unresolved questions - can you really possess EI without a sufficient level of GI? Isn't EI just a form of GI? In summary there was a lot more of nitpicking of definitions than actual science. It all felt like p-value hacking on language level.
I'm also pretty optimistic about democracy. The problem with autocracies is that while any given dictator can be dynamic and capable, and the administration can work well for a while, autocratic regimes tend to stagnate because there are no checks and balances to stop corruption and nepotism.

Also, democracy reduces the amount of violence necessary to keep a state going in tough times. While violence itself isn't a problem in strictly pragmatic terms, it does create a sort of moral malaise that leads to a dispirited, cynical and corrupt governmental culture, that ultimately leads to regime instability.

People often forget that autocracy is what democracy replaced - and the autocracies were replaced not just because they were bad in a moral sense, but that they were also badly run, dysfunctional, and uncompetitive.
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Works for 9 as well (or any b such that 10 mod b = 1 .. so 3 and 9).
You can't prove that something is secure, because to be applicable in mathematics/computer science there has to exist a precise definition.

If someone is just saying "This is a formally verified protocol" without what they actually checked for, they are salespeople not mathematicians.

"The authors of the KRA paper were able to understand what the proofs were about, and why they don’t cover the KRACK vulnerability. Even though the original proofs didn’t reveal security flaws, a principled approach would use these proofs in order to discover where to look."

https://galois.com/blog/2017/10/formal-methods-krack-vulnera...
I wonder about its memory footprint. Does it grow ithout bound, until eventually you have to kill it? What control do you get?

Systemd's memory footprint, it must be said, is nothing to write home about. Generallly you get good daemon behavior, when demands are very dynamic, by periodically starting a new process, passing the baton, and dying. Biology discovered this early on.
Sources for the long term effects on the brain mentioned in the above journal quote the following "While changes in the hippocampus and parahippocampus were frequently identified, the findings were inconsistent across studies."

And the above journal also makes an effort to mention how "low to moderate quality" the data is.

For what is the world's most popular recreational drug, it's astonishing to see the lack of research committed.
I'm far from your target audience as I rarely wear jeans.

I was curious about the origin. You wrote "Elio Fiorucci invented the modern skinny jean in the 1970s".

What makes something a "modern skinny jean"?

That is, I did a quick (and non-exhaustive) search of archive.org and found an advertisement in the UCLA Daily Bruin from January 15, 1971, on the bottom left corner of page 16, at https://archive.org/details/ucladailybruin55losa/page/n89/mo... .

"""Newest body decorations. Skinny jeans with just the right flare. Low-rise. Scoop-front pockets. Sharp, multi-color stripes in a bunch of different widths for whatever is in your head. Permanent press Fortrel® polyester and cotton. $9"""

These are not made of elastane.

OTOH, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim-fit_pants#The_1960s says that in the 1960s, "By 1962, Sears were selling tight jeans made from "stretch" denim that incorporated elastane."

So, what defines the modern skinny jean different from pre-Fiorucci skinny jeans?
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I remember I had issues with word problems in primary school, main issue being I hated them. Trying to recall the specifics, I think they just didn't resonate with me - I've seen them as some weird tales of people I don't care about doing nonsensical things, that you then had to translate into numbers and equations while minding the non-obvious caveats, or that real-life intuition didn't apply.

On the other hand, I was a stupid kid back then.
An interesting implication of this line of thought is that a lot of the value of getting a degree during a recession is not so much the degree as having something respectable to say you were doing with your time.
Of course abiogenesis had to occur somewhere, but if we can't be sure that abiogenesis occurred on Earth itself, it means we don't have any clear idea yet of the conditions necessary for abiogenesis (apart from some a priori knowledge, such as needing to have carbon and water). Perhaps the necessary conditions are extremely strange.

We already know that Earth as it is today can't support abiogenesis, since it's not happening, and judging from the phylogenetic tree, it probably hasn't happened for more than 3 billion years. There is also a reason to believe that even if the Earth was once appropriate for abiogenesis, it only happened once, given that all life on Earth shares the same chemistry (though of course it is possible that there was simply no other way for life to be, or that there have existed other forms of life from other abiogenesis events, but that they simply have not survived).
Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion and I learned more about music itself while enjoying new tunes.

People have the tendency to outright deny than to try new things but if you think about it, it's just picking up patterns and how they make us feel.
Yep, can confirm, such system existed in other large Soviet cites as well. I also graduated from one such maths and physics oriented school. Compared to regular public schools the education level was much higher, and not only in those subjects. The studying there was extremely intense, 6-day week (which was standard in USSR at that time), long hours, and tons of homework to keep you busy late at nights and weekends (read: Sunday). Best graduates were expected to go further study in MSU or other top universities. The rest of us who went to local universities found themselves bored in the first years of their studies.

Now, living in a western European country I found in a hard way that the key to a better education for your talented kid hides in your bank account.

Don't get me wrong, I in no way support Soviet system, but this was one of the things they did good.
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People don't 'choose academia to be within a zero-sum system and project the same expectations to students'. My partner and most of my friends are or have been in academia and the one common thing is a real passion for their subject of choice and industry doesn't offer the same flexibility to focus on it.

Being suspicious of those who voluntarily become academics is odd.
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Funny I'm the same way I think. I used to be so into music, I was always listening to something. I had a massive collection of pirated music lol. Always looking for something new to check out.

When edm and dubstep blew up I was always out at shows, festivals, random dj nights. Tried writing a lot of my own music, even had small release

Then idk I got my first job out of college around 24 and stopped searching or even listening. I only have music on in my car and like stuff from high school, concerts I go to are just bands from high school

I think part of it is there is no scene for music any more? Or I'm so out of touch. But bands used to be big on the radio, but there's so many release sources. there's no filter anymore. Everyone used to listen to the radio. Now everyone's Spotify is custom and completely different
Induction seems like an odd way to prove this. Do you need to preform induction over all the numbers that are not multiples of three?

The converse claim (every multiple of 3 has a digit sum that is a multiple of 3) is a more natural one for induction, though that's not the most standard proof there either.
Can only speak for Sweden but you do need to take a paycut as well. In Swedish but you can see the table here: https://tillvaxtverket.se/om-tillvaxtverket/information-och-...

For the 60% bracket the company reduces your working hours by 60% and you get a paycut of 7.5%. The government covers the difference, effectively reducing the cost for the company by 53%.
"I think on average the difference between a high school student from Russia and US is negligible." That's difficult to believe. I went to comparable level early education schools in Russia and the US and observed stark differences in the quality of math education. Math culture is a thing, and it varies between countries, affecting the education system on the whole as well.
In Australia, a few of the top private schools as well as government schools in demographic areas with a high Chinese student population do have an intellectual culture.

A few of my family members are teachers (in both private and government schools) and from what I hear there is not yet much of a shift away from the anti-intellectual culture.
The clarity of such perfectly defined buttons is unbeatable! Maybe they'd be more amicable to modern tastes with rounded shapes or a touch of color, but that 3d visual effect of a button being physically pushed definitely needs to come back and never leave us again, it's so clear and pleasant!
The official stance from my psychiatrist was, if you have times where nothing seems that interesting to do or there is no motivation to do normal day to day activities, and that happens regularly (once a week) then you're clinically diagnosed as having minor depression. If you have those several times a week it can be major depression.
Combined with the parent comment, I think that makes it a perverse incentive here, depending on who is setting yhe standards.