skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that statement taken alone sounds stupid, the justification they give sounds more or less reasonable:

> Of course, most math problems have correct
answers, but sometimes there can be more than
one way to interpret a problem, especially word
problems, leading to more than one possible
right answer.

> And teaching math isn't just about solving
specific problems. It's about helping students
understand the deeper mathematical concepts
so that they can apply them throughout their
lives. Students can arrive at the right answer
without grasping the bigger concept; or they
can have an “aha” moment when they see why
they got an answer wrong. Sometimes a wrong
answer sheds more light than a right answer.
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This document was also highlighted in the article, and to be honest, I'm having trouble identifying why anyone would call it "racist".

It seems like a toolkit for identifying how seemingly innocuous ideas could support existing power structures in our society. Why should that be shunned?
> if you accrue a 17k bill for a service then that's what's due

Au contraire: every time I have had a large bill it has been because the biller stuffed up.

Water utility couldn't read the water meter because of the dog so they estimated based on past usage. I don't have a dog. They estimated using someone else's meter. They overcharged me by an order of magnitude.

Electricity utility couldn't read the meter because of the dog, so they too estimated based on past usage. Again, I don't have a dog and they estimated based on the average usage of a house my size (typically a family of 4 to 8). They overcharged me by a factor of three or so.

At one point I changed my mobile phone plan to one that had a special offer going. It took three months for the company to get the amount right, and then it took another three months to get my money back for the first three months they billed incorrectly.

With any system that has variable costs (such as usage fees) I far prefer to receive a bill and pay it by hand because it only takes one error to completely wipe me out financially.

Note about the dog above: at one point the utility company wanted access to my yard to perform some maintenance on the electricity transmission lines (in my town the aerial electrical services are in the back yard to improve the street aesthetic). I asked them to please call me so I can lock up my chickens. The person I talked to didn't have a box to tick for "chickens" so they ticked the box that said "dog". Since then I have not had a meter reader actually read my meters, every bill is "estimated because of dog." I have to take a photo of the meter and send it in to them because they're too lazy to read it themselves.
I wonder how this compares with codec2[0] which is decent at around 3kbps and can go even lower.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2
Ironically it's this comment that raises Red Flags.

There's really nothing whatsoever in his articulation that is flag worthy.

He's clearly a little bit curmudgeon, and probably disagreeable and there's nothing wrong with that.
hopefully you don't hire anyone here. they all suck.
> Someone will always play politics if playing politics gives them access to power or money.

Well, then the obvious solution is to make it so playing politics doesn't give them access to power or money. And not allowing politics to be a career seems like an obvious thing to do to move in that direction.
Here's some code on WavTool for trying out overtone combinations: https://wavtool.com/?code=3
And it increases maritime territory 6 fold.
The apple card actually gives you 0% on apple products
Mario Kart Wii: The Ultra Shortcut Revolution [video]
I had to change all my iCloud credentials. I couldn't believe there was any linkages between the 2 things. Seemed insane and dangerous to me. Luckily I was able to get back into my iCloud/Apple. I just assumed the Apple Card was like any credit card. But I learned the hard way that it is not, and it's dangerous to mess with.
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It's also the "most racist document he has ever read". That's kinda fantastic in itself.
It's out of 82 here and it's nearly at the bottom of the industrialized nations.

Also I said it's becoming a third world country.
I've been trying to look for a free alternative to MyBB (it seems stuck in development), with a discourse/flarum style out of the box, but without the need of a MySQL/Postgre installation.

This is the best I've come so far, although I was really looking for something for with SQLite, as it's enough for a small forum, but I came empty-handed with this requirement.

Flarum is cool, but It's too early, and I need something to upload into a sharing hosting without too much hassle. I'm looking for that compromise between control and hands-off.
read through the homepage and not sure what value add this has over airflow? i must be completely misinterpreting the software.
> A mounted VESA arm is such a nicer experience

I previously had many negative associations with VESA-mounted monitors, and I think other people have as well, due to poor-quality mounting arms. I've used VESA-mounts where monitors bounced every time someone walked by; that's a serious issue.

When I started working from home full-time, I set up a high-quality VESA-mount system using a pole mount and a professional monitor arm; the service I purchased it from actually looked up the monitor specs to figure out the level of support the arm required. The resulting setup is rock-solid and always stays exactly where I place/tilt it.

So I do think VESA-mounting can provide a great experience, but the difference between cheap and high-quality can make or break the resulting experience.
This is infuriating to read. Not a single one of the accusations in this article is about "math being racist" (or, as the title suggests, "white math"). They all question whether math instruction is racist; that seems like a question worth answering!
I've read the readme, and still not entirely clear. I know it's not a 1:1 analogy but it this effectively a distributed task queue?
while the framing of every single issue as "white supremacist" is kind of cartoonish, if you replace it with "methods for more inclusive teaching", nothing in that document sounds particularly crazy or even new. Disagreeable sure, but nowhere does it claim that math isn't real or that 2 + 2 isn't 4.

It talks about not being either/or in regards to succeeding, not dismissing students because they don't have a good grasp of mathematical language, not being super harsh about sticking to the curriculum. This just sounds like Waldorf or Montessori school stuff.
New China regulations requires bloggers and creators to get government permits
Well sure, easy mode if you add in the dang AI.
The guy's problem is he's a terrible writer, which is pretty unforgivable considering his career. If he could articulate himself better I'd be interested to learn more about his story. Brevity is the way to go. This guy isn't Faulkner.

I'll regularly go hours into holes reading fascinating articles about obscure topics. I even wanted to learn more about this, but I just could not stomach his awful writing. He thinks he's more important than he is and he clearly does not know his audience, which is what got him into trouble in the first place.

He is legitimately a bad writer. He's not even mediocre. And the majority of comments here on HN seem to agree, and this is hardly the "knee-jerk" reaction forum of the internet.
All of these are assumptions are based on fabricated conjecture. Major Red Flags.
This video is the sequel to Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut, which was posted here in 2018 [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18103720
> Indeed, authoritarianism in general and Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc in particular always starts with speech restrictions. The idea that free speech and authoritarianism are bed fellows doesn't make sense; these are mutually exclusive.

This is a myth perpetuated by selective cultural memory. The Nazis were all about "free speech" before they were in power. They frequently complained about "Free speech" when papers published editorials criticizing them, or when their public appearances were protested, or when opinion pages didn't present "both sides".

One widely used Nazi propaganda poster from 1928 even showed Hitler with a big "CENSORED" block over his mouth, captioned "Only One of the 2000 million people in the world is not allowed to speak in Germany"[1]

> in speech-tolerant societies, a diversity of ideas compete and the best, most valid ideas rise to the top irrespective of bias.

I'm not sure that you understand what "bias" means. Bias is that which leads people to believe in ideas that are false for various sometimes difficult to quantify reasons. The fact that evidence opposing flat-eartherism is available has not prevented that idea from gaining popularity, in fact it is more popular today in 2021 than it ever has been.

The "marketplace" metaphor itself exposes that the argument comes from a utopian perspective, the argument only works if you pre-suppose that a free and unregulated economic market produces best results, but we know from experience that it produces monopolies, child labor, and bread doped with sawdust.

Public discourse is like a market in some ways, namely that people with more money are able to advance their ideas further by buying media outlets and marketing broadly and engaging in deceptive communication that exploits cognitive bias to acquire more believers, in just the same way as people with more money are able to buy out and undercut competition and exploit addictions and consumer psychology to get more sales than their products deserve.

1. https://twitter.com/_amroali/status/1190809322315534336?s=20
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My points written elsewhere are that while this particular moment was sensationalized, from his own posts I don't get the impression at all that he created a negative and unpopular reputation for himself by a single incident alone.

Here's a one second google search on actual laws against cursing though: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/2009/08/11/curses-blas...
Love this interface, slight deviation but related question:

If I wanted to hire a web developer to build a web app that let the user quickly build marketing funnels, what type of person would I be looking for? Front end JavaScript developer?

Essentially like LucidChart lite
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I write here instead of edit - when I say he's not Twain or Dickens I used them as my examples because they are two of my favorite authors and I've been rereading them quite a bit, also they are verbose and perhaps given to rambling.

This guy, a journalist, isn't Hemingway either. Which is a pity.

on edit: I also notice I expected him to have a couple cults in his story. Can't have too many cults, nor too many words in your comments describing how someone has to many words in their version of events attempting to win the public to their side.
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Are you sure Domain Driven Design is overrated?
Around 2000 there were deals to be had on eBay..
Somewhere in the last 20 years or so the Lomography fad and general internet consciousness about soviet "copy" cameras got ahead of the value.

Even then I usually had to buy 2 cameras to cobble together 1 good working camera, but at least they were cheap.

Since then there's been enough people marking them up beyond their value or recycling the same broken cameras over and over.

Lenses may be a better bet as there are less moving parts and they are to some degree more easily re-adjusted by a competent repair person.
And yet from the free to export US we keep finding backdoors and hardcoded admin passwords in things that are supposed to be way more secure than a random chat client. Even if all of them are actually bugs I'm not sure that is any better. No E2EE to share my shopping list with my girlfriend versus the piss poor security in enterprise hardware from manufacturers like Cisco etc? At least I can download another chat client. Purging US enterprise equipment from my company, home and ISP? Not so much.
IMHO there's more misuse than overrating
>> I would contend consequences now are the weakest they have ever been.

> I strongly disagree. Worse by far than any time in my memory.

And yet we have literal nazis posting on social media for the world to see, with the occasional one losing their job, and that's it. Hardly a chilling effect.
That's why I was asking. There has been a lot of discussion on which part was voided, and you stated it was very clear without providing any source.

If you had provided that source in the first place, I would have agreed with you.
Not to mention that the threads shift up and down due to votes in-between clicking on Page 2 and further, so really the only way not to lose sight of the threads you want to read is to open them all as tabs at once, and then be left with 20-30 items that are of marginal interest.

HN to me feels like being nerd sniped[0] in perpetuity. I've only myself to blame for this, ofc, but that doesn't change how strong the draw is.

LeechBlock NG has helped me somewhat. I still waste time on HN, though not as greatly as before. That override button makes me think: am I willing to burn another 10 minute block of productive time this day on doom-scrolling Reddit and HN?

[0] https://xkcd.com/356/
I didn't say that it's not possible, just that it's not likely. It's clearly not how the human mind works, and since that is the only computer we know for sure can do NLP, any approach that is so obviously alien to it is unlikely to be a good approach.

In case this is not clear, the human mind obviously doesn't do stochastic prediction on phrases, it has a model of the world ( based on agents interacting with objects through mechanical laws) and it produces or interprets speech by assessing its interaction with this model of the world. When assessing whether to produce phrase A or phrase B, it doesn't assess the likelihood of this phrase in the corpus of phrases it has seen/heard before, but on its appropriateness to the situation. Most prompts for language use are not language at all, but come from the world itself [0], something which pure LMs can't even in principle do (they they could potentially be combined with other kinds of models to achieve this).

[0] for example, 'seeing a fire in a crowded theater' is the prompt for yelling 'Fire!'; the correct response/next step from hearing a shout of 'Fire!' in a crowded theater is not a phrase, it is a desperate attempt to run away
They briefly mention the existence and current role of the webrtc codecs, but I don't see where they suggest they intend to contribute it or open it up as a library others can use.
Probably not... unless you used sign-in with apple to sign in, and you only had apple pay (which you can't use anyways because you already got suspended on that account), and no other cards, and all sorts of other unlikely situations put together. But someone else reported that Sign-in still works post account disable
I read that after patches GTA V is now around 95GB.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is around 200GB fully installed with all features (HD textures etc).

Some people have insinuated this is intentional to crowd out other games on console hard disks and make moving away from CoD have an opportunity cost. It's probably just laziness.

I haven't looked into it in the past but some prior offenders had a lot of space wasted from uncompressed multi-lingual audio. Instead of letting us choose a language it installs them all so you can switch in game, and uncompressed for saving the CPU for game logic. For CoD the optional HD texture pack is 38GB so that's still a lot unaccounted for.
When rich person pays others to, let's say, build a luxurious castle, the money is both redistributed back to the economy AND the castle is there to use, for a few centuries at least.
That's how investing* makes the society wealthier over time, and promoting consumption instead is nuts.

* There is a caveat that it should be a new investment rather than a purchase of the existing one, the latter is zero-sum.
Can someone explain me why do we use C for writing code for electronic control unit of a vehicle motor if it is so unsafe? It is true that ECUs are programmed with code generated though model based design,but there can be some parts manually programmed. Maybe this is why they use only a subset of C (Misra C)
Only at the top of the page.

It's correct at the bottom.
How do I link two parents to a child? This didn't work:

node 1
child of node 1
node 2: (2)
We’ve all encountered ambiguous poorly-written word problems.

That’s a problem with grammar and language; not math.

The agenda behind the pamphlet is obvious. I liked this gem from the page at issue:

>Schooling as we know it began during the industrial revolution, when precision and accuracy were highly valued. What are the myriad ways we can conceptualize mathematics in today’s world and beyond?

These thing WERE highly valued? They are no longer?
And weren’t they valued BEFORE the industrial revolution?
Indeed, was not the Industrial Revolution possible in the first place due to the high value put on precision and accuracy?
It's like they didn't even read the information they are arguing against. It just seems like the author wanted to rail against the "ideology of wokeness" as they call it without regard to the merits of this specific argument.
I appreciate very much that you bear with me.

I'll do my best to offer a low-fat, no-sugar option to get stuff into the internet, that's absolutely layperson-friendly. And contribute to the fediverse if wanted. And even the silos.

Very few steps, no unexplained jargon, very few core concepts. Ideally no running code facing other users (alas, the search). Use existing tools, no NIH. Align with what the hosters explain and sell.

But absolutely zero dependencies that might need patches (except a webserver). No node, PHP etc. No DB. A minimal trusted computing base. You can simply copy the whole site to backup/mirror it.
Amex pays cashback here, other cards have done this before too. They don't pay that out of the processing fee here, that's paid out of the 27.3% APR you pay for any outstanding balance at the end of the month.

But you seem to think you're winning with retailers needing to put prices up to pay you cashback. Great system.
Or literally anything about the physics of sound, which is very well understood and has names for all of the concepts the author is talking about without mentioning any of them.
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Because life shouldn't be spent afraid to apologize, or in constant debate about whether an apology is "required."

If you hurt someone, whether intentional or not, apologizing is the least you can do.

If you don't believe an apology is warranted, apologize, and sort though where the disconnect is later.
Or perhaps people aren't actually rational utility maximizing machines and might not properly anticipate the utility benefits from the change.
In the article,

> This trick enables Lyra to not only run on cloud servers, but also on-device on mid-range phones in real time (with a processing latency of 90ms, which is in line with other traditional speech codecs).

Does that not cover it?
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Yes, if you are in a country friendly with the US it is better to have Xiaomi harvest the data than Apple.
Glad a few folks already posted this. I mean, this is just good teaching, /especially/ in a world of standardized tests.

I don't think I can rephrase it better than the document already states:

> And teaching math isn't just about solving specific problems. It's about helping students understand the deeper mathematical concepts so that they can apply them throughout their lives. Students can arrive at the right answer without grasping the bigger concept; or they can have an “aha” moment when they see why they got an answer wrong. Sometimes a wrong answer sheds more light than a right answer.

It is hugely useful to be able to interrogate misleading paths to seemingly correct but ultimately incorrect answers. Half of standardized test answers seem to be written to intentionally capture such missteps.
Nope

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I know absolutely nothing about this, but a PowerPC processor from 1998 seems extreme. You'd think wrapping a normal CPU (or 10, all double checking each other) in gold mesh, lead or whatever would work just as well. Or maybe a couple of rare-earth magnets strategically placed to give the same type of magnetic barrier the Earth gives us would work?

I'll assume the people who just landed an SUV-sized robot on a dime from 12 light minutes away know what they're doing, but it's curious to me.