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I remember, in maybe 9th grade, after learning Newton's Method in a pre-calc course, writing a TI-83 program to do N iterations of Newton's Method for me. I showed it to my math teacher. He wasn't much of a nerd, and this was the early 2000s so technology wasn't quite as prolific as it is today; he was blown away.

Come exam time, we were allowed to use our calculators. I asked if I should clear mine out given I had a program which could "cheat" (I was a teachers pet). He said something to me (privately) along the lines of, "don't worry about it. the way I see it, you've already proven to me you know the content." Ironically, today I could probably piece together a TI83 assembly program from memory, but I couldn't even tell you what Newton's Method does, let alone how to do it. Not sure what lesson to glean from that.

I remember eating lunch one day, maybe a year or so later, in his classroom with some friends, and he was browsing around the internet trying to find a job I'd like in math. Looking back, I find it funny that he was landing on things like "actuarial science" and "accounting" instead of the obvious. I think that was his way of trying to make up for the piss-poor guidance counseling in my school of 80 people in the middle of nowhere. I ended up wasting a semester in Computer Engineering doing CAD and coding MatLab before a professor took me aside and basically said "you're finishing these matlab assignments faster than my grad students would. Are you sure you don't actually want to do Computer Science?"

It sucks to see this. The accessibility of coding today has never been better, so I'm not going to pretend like this is a doomsday thing for helping kids get into the field, but it did have power in its ubiquity. Teaching computer science in high schools isn't a tenth as effective as students coding up a program to make their math classes easier, or modding CounterStrike after hours, or "hacking" the school computer labs to play Halo with their friends. Technology, and the ability to shape it to help us, should be ubiquitous. It shouldn't be thrown out the window just so one teacher can more easily proctor a hundred tests instead of twenty.
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I think it is an over-reaction problems that stem from the fact there aren't established cell-phone norms yet.

Some people expect immediate replies to their text messages. This is a big problem with current teens, where their parents will demand this from them. But even some adults do this with other adults. Some people adapt to this by learning they need to respond to every message asap or else! Other people are more willing to treat phone messaging as something that is strictly asynchronous. I think most people are between these two extremes and vary on a case by case basis.

There also isn't consistent norms with how much phone use is acceptable in front of other people. Some tolerate nearly none (see the person you responded to). Some tolerate use motivated by the social situation (eg you look up something directly related to a conversation). Some tolerate only responding to VIPs (spouse, children). Some tolerate any kind of use as long as it isn't too much (I perceive this to be the most common, but it is also the vaguest). Some tolerate unlimited use (I've seen entire tables of people together at a restaurant on their phones the entire time).

One aspect that I find... disappointing is that an individual person's position on the first issue may not be compatible with the second issue. I know some people who would both demand only social motivated phone use when with others, but also demand immediate responses to their messages. To me these seem fundamentally incompatible.

There also doesn't seem to be a social custom of replying that you are with others and won't be particularly responsive for a while.
I am curious if it can change now with so many good online educational resources.
I deactivated my account a couple of years ago and then realized someone has been impersonating me.
So I reactivated and used the Jumbo app to monitor and wipe out all the content from both Facebook and Google.
They run weekly checks and remove anything you setup including tags by other people.
I would argue the opposite.

If I submit a micropayment for an article that turns out to be low effort clickbait, my disappointment will be magnified by the fact that I lost money. I would also expect my satisfaction to be magnified for high quality content. Consequently, my trust in a brand will decrement or increment accordingly. A micropayment service could even track my reactions and maintain a personalized reputation score for a publisher/brand.

Obviously, this happens now, but I don't personally have as visceral as a reaction to losing the few seconds of time as I would to losing money. Putting even a small amount of money on the line clarifies the cost of the transaction.

Long term subscriptions, on the other hand, give the publisher more wiggle room to produce lazy, low effort content. Loss of brand image needs to build up to a critical threshold that motivates me to cancel the subscription.
>“We are making very good progress in our healthcare, enterprise, and defense deals,” Abovitz writes. “As these deals close, we will be able to announce them.”

Wouldn't surprise me if they sold lemons at such absurd contract prices that it made their investors giggle.
Yea that's the problem with tuning these things, same with tarrifs, just leads to companies having a rational reason to spend money on lobbyists. IMO the VAT would be much simpler as a flat tax than trying to tune it, but it's not as popular with people who then complain when the price of goods go up (despite the fact that you'd have to be spending something like $120k a year in order to offset the losses of a 10% VAT with 100% pass-through (in Europe it's only 50%) with a $12k/year UBI)
the technology is really wonderful and given this current crisis, things which digitizes us becomes even more important. we should try and go for mind uploading soon.
I understand the theoretical basis for removing misinformation and disinformation, but policy proposals is an entirely different ballpark.

Two reasonable people can agree on the underlying facts but disagree on policy.

Additionally, this is absolutely censorship and an effort to silence people. It is not an illegal act of censorship. similarly, you can agree that it is legal, but still not like the censorship.
Money can help you craft a heck of a lot of evidence of leadership.
I went to Tin Can Bay three months ago and fed the dolphins there. There's a tiny little cafe that manages the process and hundreds of people turn up every morning. Presumably the operation makes good money.
Well beginning in 2008ish, we saw websites and applications that served the entire world, literally billions of users. That simply did not exist before then. The internet as a whole was a tiny part of peoples lives. All the stuff that went into solving that was genuinely new ideas in servers, databases, ops, data centre's etc. Eventual consistency went from being a joke to the only game in town. Distributed computing on large data sets went from a Google paper in 2005 on Hadoop to a widely used idea. Smartphones went from zero to iPhone to literally more than half the world has one. Devops became standard. Google went from just managing 1 or 2 datacenters to running AI to optimize the power efficiency of each one.

When you already have architecture that is capable of serving the entire world, when everyone has a smartphone all that's left in that space is efficiency/cost optimization. Whatever shiny new programming language or framework comes out, the bedrock of computing is solid (and the shiny new programming language is really mashing together decades old ideas which is cool if you're new to them but boring if you're not) . Every company is a mess on the inside of course, but they do their core functions well enough. AWS did not exist 10 years ago, now it's big internet drama when it goes down for a few hours twice a YEAR.A detailed postmortem comes out (not standard before), revealing the problem was a configuration change (because everything has long since been automated, so it's driven purely by configuration) .

I know not everyone is interested in those same problems, but I thought they were interesting and what's left now in the guts of software is an adoption phase, people rediscovering lessons that others long since figured out. Perhaps people who work on higher layers of the stack think differently, I'm only interested in the deep tech below, and it's pretty solid at this point.
I agree, but I'll note that I did exactly what you're talking about (went on a snowboarding trip while getting paid to "WFH"). I was in Europe, so I was on the mountains until midafternoon, and then worked the rest of the afternoon / evening. Worked great - I got a lot of work done, spent a ton of time on the mountains, and my employer never complained about my output (I spent a good 6-8 hours working each day, and easily got my normal workload done).
The author of the expanse himself clarified that Basic is not UBI http://www.scottsantens.com/the-expanse-basic-support-basic-...
This thread is so important. At times of crisis like this we need to know about demand. Demand is king. All of the sudden we have resources like knowledge, materials and even money, but not much clarity about how to employ them for the greater good.

In my head, still in a very abstract way, we need something like LinkedIN exposing demand and not only job openings.
iPads behave as single user device, so they don't allow for multi users at the OS level.

Personally I'd prefer both Firefox and iOS support multi user things ... even if just for my own convenience. I have "work" and "home" type profiles.
This is very unfortunate. Yes, you can improve your SAT score by studying somewhat, but not massively. The College board has made a free online prep course with Kahn academy that achieves similar results to professional coaching if the student puts in the time. The fact that a student is willing to put in that time should be an indicator that they're likely to be successful in college.

Where more of the abuse is is in parents getting disability diagnoses to get extra time on the test. This same technique can be used to game grades though too.
Opposed to them rioting about "the vehement censorship"?
I live in Solana Beach, a few blocks from the Pearl site. AMA.
Ibram X Kendi has an excellent book, "Stamped from the Beginning" that does a great job of explaining how SAT and ACT tests were really only ever meaningful as a barrier to class mobility for blacks in the United states. in the 21st century it does the same thing. By keeping test prep out of public school and forcing takers to invest up to a thousand dollars on a classroom instruction for the test (which often promises an increase up to 200 points) it remains a disadvantage to latinx and black minorities who are generally poorer.

'Test prep' is also less about what you learn, and more about the finesse or 'form' required to take the test. Much the same as a power lifter lifts greater weight due to ther superior form, those whove attended test prep complete the SAT and ACT with a higher score because of superior test taking 'form.'
Finland, often touted as the best in education, does not use SAT. The same can be said for many other European countries with excellent education. Are you implying there is no correlation? Have you looked at their systems before making a claim such as "haven't come up with anything better"?
If they were to implement a new test, I can pretty much guarantee applications would drop like a rock; it would have the essential effect of limiting the applicant pool to Californians who don't want to go out-of-state for college--'cause when anyone else is applying for colleges, do you really think they'll want to take another big test just to add the UC system on to the big list that they can already apply to with an SAT or ACT?
Ding-ding-ding.
Hopefully they change to AVIF soon. Apple has always been the one to hold back free file formats in the past though.
Google deleted / censored CSPAN video of a Senator on the floor of the Senate[0].

[0] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/c-span-video-of-ran...
I don't think you will be doing those things 40 additional hours per week when you are purely WFH.
I worry that "holistic" admissions in universities with highly competitive admissions are already disadvantaging groups that aren't culturally aligned with university administrators and their donors: Asian Americans, people from the South and rural areas regardless of race, and people brought up in religious households where most time spent on "extracurricular activities" is church-related. I personally think that people pushing against standardized tests and for holistic admissions have good intentions and aren't trying to systemically ensure that all students at prestigious and elite universities in the US talk, think, and act like them, but I can't blame anyone for thinking so. And I worry that will be the main result while the inequities they seek to fix will be obscured rather than improved.
I don’t know how old your son is but for a high level and amusingly written book was How to Ace Calculus, The Streetwise Guide. I know it sounds a bit gimmicky but even after years of calculus classes I found it helpful for the higher level view. I always found from engineering school there being a stark difference between the classes taught by engineers and those taught by mathematicians. It always made more sense to me to have a concrete example of why I might use something before diving in than to have all this abstraction and be expected to abstract it to other problems.
Ask HN: Any examples of companies using Basecamp to manage software projects?
I'm currently reading "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" by the Basecamp team, and am left wondering if any larger software shops are successfully using Basecamp to manage projects.
I had the same reaction to that comment. I bought Civ VI for the iPad for maybe $40. I played it for probably 80 hours total, and felt like I got my money’s worth.

It’s hard to imagine the mindset where you play a game for “years” and then say it wasn’t worth the $50 or so it cost.
What's wrong with OS level control? Your kids can install alternative browser.
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Cities centralize services and make them more efficient. Groceries, trash, hospitals, etc. By spreading all of these things out you make them less efficient. It seems you're overlooking everything else and focusing strictly on commuting's negative effects.
Going to save a bunch of $$$ on rent I guess.
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I ultimately feel like my time was wasted because the tests have almost no relation to any of my studies in class.

The SAT is basically a somewhat disguised IQ test and I'm quite confident that intelligence was related to the studies in your classes.
The reviewer is very enthusiastic about the calculator and loves that thing. How can a teardown be more positive and flattering?
Magic Leap has already signed over its patents to JP Morgan back in Nov 2019. Are those still acquirable assets in the event of an acquisition?
my first thought, when i read the headline was: ah, that must be because the majority of people still out on the road are irresponsible idiots
They're not that time consuming.

Compare it to knitting. It might take a few days to get good, or a few weeks to get great at it.

But after that? It's second-nature.
Finland has its own national exam. Many European countries have something like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriculation_exam_(Finland)
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Every person I work with is under 40 and everyone that wants to own a home, does. SF and NYC are not the only tech hubs in the US.
Given that it was Zürich where CHF = PLN looking at sticker prices(with exceptions), my cost of living as a percentage of salary actually went down since I was renting a room instead of a whole apartment.

In terms of what I could nominally save every month the difference was enormous.

But yeah, with a child on board I would definitely have to get something larger paying somewhere in the order of 25-35% of my salary. But that's just CHF = PLN again, so no increase here.
There is no SAT in Canadian school admissions. What would make it difficult fo the US to adopt a similar policy?
Southern Europe :)
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I've sailed with dolphins plenty of times. They've tended to lose interest when I was on a windsurfer or dinghy after a minute or so, no matter what speed I was doing. On the other hand, when I've been on a cruising cat, they can't seem to get enough. As long as you stay over 7 knots under sail they'll follow along apparently having great fun, particularly around and between the bows. I've even seen a large pod travelling in one direction hook a U-turn when they saw the boat to play for ten minutes before heading back in their original direction.

All of this is to say what everyone else is saying. They're complex creatures with sometimes non-trivial motivations.
You can't without standardized metrics, is the problem! If no one's failing, must someone always get a D?
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The salary I referenced is high for the region in general (and I had it on a remote contract with an US company, though in hindsight, it was under market rate), but not necessarily for our industry, for the position I would be otherwise aiming for locally.

From my calculations, London works out quite well if you're single and willing to sacrifice heavily on the living space. It also works out a-OKish for two-income families with children at kindergarten age. Not so well with a toddler; I was shocked to discover that daycare costs more than rent on a two-bedroom flat west-side.
Retraining is part of the answer. For professional jobs (in the classic sense) continuous training is a core tenant of remaining current in the field and if applicable maintaining licensure. The faster technology moves, the more everyone should be thinking about how careers will be in a constant state a flux. Not just retraining from a factory job to some service job, but every few years basically having a role that has morphed into something new. We need institutions, practices, and norms that reflect the new normal of high-technical change.

Many historical blue-collar jobs that have been automated (or even things like farming before it) were much higher-skill than most people give credit for. It is just that the training and general knowledge available to perform well were more ambiently available. An example today is working with standard business software. You don't get trained in office and excel, you get trained on how they are used in the company's specific workflows. Companies also had more on the job training and apprenticeships.

So I also don't know what do with the wave of truckers that will be automated away with self-driving big-rigs (presuming that happens) but I think the future is one where we don't actually have as many folks dedicated to one line-of-work where such a jarring transition is necessary. Or perhaps the corollary, that we should aim for that more dynamic approach to prevent further disruption of big discontinuities
>However, the public health agency had previously said it expected about 25% to have been infected by 1 May

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/just-7-per-cen...
> People are free to move to lower cost of living areas. I

That's probably NOT what is going to happen if you implement UBI. Rather people complaining UBI is too low for the place they are currently living in. Well known phenomenon.
Actually no one can precisely predict how much an employee is going to net for the company - companies lose a lot of money in bad hires. You are being payed according to a scale that works out to keeps costs down, as much as possible for a specific cost center.
Funny. Echoes real life.
No offsites please. I'd rather go in then fly around the world at this point.
I think we're agreeing here. I don't think money buys a good SAT score (I'm willing to read something that suggests otherwise). Wealthy elites do all of the above poverty tourism as well, but if they can redirect those funds to other "holistic" activities that have nothing to do with academic aptitude it's easier to hide the mediocrity in a "stellar resume".
Its their fault that the system did not reject the file, show any actionable error message or allow users to try again. Its also their fault for saying "take the test again in a few weeks" instead of "we fucked up, send us the file again today.
I appreciate your perspective, especially around motivation, and I think you're right that students learn differently.

I do wonder though -- for heavily skill-based endeavors (say swimming, sushi-cheffing, curling, etc.), the best way to learn is to do. First principles/mental model approaches tend not work so well in these domains, at least not isolation.

The best approach is probably a blend: learn by doing and understanding first principles.
This is getting more into forums than platforms like YouTube, but I like how the article "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...) describes this divide:

>Maybe it's because I grew up on the Internet in places where there was always a sysop, and so I take for granted that whoever runs the server has certain responsibilities. Maybe I understand on a gut level that the opposite of censorship is not academia but 4chan (which probably still has mechanisms to prevent spam). Maybe because I grew up in that wide open space where the freedom that mattered was the freedom to choose a well-kept garden that you liked and that liked you, as if you actually could find a country with good laws. Maybe because I take it for granted that if you don't like the archwizard, the thing to do is walk away (this did happen to me once, and I did indeed just walk away).

I think many people coming to the internet nowadays have had their formative internet experiences on large social media sites, where moderation is both impersonal and rare, to the point that users don't bother understanding it because it's unlikely to affect them, and then if it does affect them, the reasons for it aren't understood and they feel singled out. When these people hear someone talk about smaller better-moderated places, they can't understand the appeal, as if it were proposed to them that a site would be better with more boogeymen.
Svelte is easiest to pick up and gets you far.

Eventually it makes sense to learn JavaScript on its face. It is a weird and beautiful language. Abandon hope of understanding it unless you read a coherent book about it. As for me, I read JavaScript: The Definitive Guide from cover to cover. I have also read good things about JavaScript: The Good Parts, and I know that Douglas Crockford is smart.
Again remote first does not mean offices do not exist. Once you start working you’ll see that there’s already a lot of collaboration over the internet. It’s nothing like school
Would you mind explaining the difference? From a perfunctory search online it looks like Finland also has a system of university entrance exams (although of course theirs aren't called the SAT)
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While I learned calculus, both in highschool and in university, both introductions belabored the concept of an infinitesimal.

I remember a good portion of both classes finding the concept confusing.

EDIT: It seems like the top-level comment by user woah also finds it confusing.
Have you looked at:

* Hasura (https://hasura.io/)

* https://www.prisma.io/

* https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
SAT test prep has a very small impact on scores.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/201903...