skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the conclusion: no one is claiming "as smart as humans". Intelligence is multidimensional, and along some dimensions animals outperform us by a long shot.

Some birds remember thousands of locations of their stashed food. Some animals have a detailed internal map of many square miles of land on which they live. Pick just about anything a typical 3 year old can do, and we can find an animal to outperform them in that respect.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393...
Once they've done this I wonder how hard it would be for Google to make an Apple like "do you want this website to track you/share data with these websites?" popup in Chrome. To reduce the efficiency of Facebooks data capturing/targeting and profitability of their advertising?

Technically more challenging of course.
The great Graphene Promise recycled.
"Cliqz sounds too much like an off-brand, gutter ad seller to ever have credibility, and I say that as someone who was fairly impressed with their tech."

That's because they were. The parent company was in adtech and they even had another subsidiary that was hawking browser toolbars.

Frankly though, the Brave brand has no better reputation with me however, so it still means seeing whatever promise the tech might've had consigned to the same headspace as the rest of the scamweb.
It's sad to me that a fair amount of the people actually doing the work at Google believe the company line on this stuff. I suspect because some of the work does hamper Google's ability to track. It just hampers Google less than other tracking companies. Thus, it's still a net gain.

People working on AMP, Manifest V3, and so on don't seem to understand how the leadership is playing them like chess pieces.
Velodyne removes founder from chairman post, wife claims 'ambush'
"If renting is less profitable, then supply of houses to be sold will actually go up."

You wrongly assume that the landlord gets to make this choice. In this situation, the landlord does not - the tenant does. If renting is made more attractive by rent control, then fewer renters move out and supply is thus lessened.
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Why 'China is not innocent'? Yes, China is not Europe, and it is not US. So is its per capital GDP. so is its business. so is it brands. so is its industry. I wouldn't trust BBC at all on these reports. Journalists could use facts but they choose to lie again and again.

At the same time, the British government is playing their game. Coincidence?
a $100k here, a $100k there, suddenly, we're talking real money.
Whether she actually is racist (and I agree she seems to be given the facts available) doesn't seem to matter regarding Disney's decision.

My point is that these decisions aren't made in any way based on anything but social pressure. As you mention, the people working with her have known she is a crazy racist for a long time, and nothing was done. She got fired after 'public outrage' took hold. Media amplification of tweets is not a good system for truth finding.

As for Dr. Seuss, I'm not defending racist images. Those images have been in those books for nearly 100 years though, and almost every child and adult in the western world has seen them over and over and over. Many probably noticed them. It may well be overdue to address them. Twitter driven social pressure campaigns trying to eliminate the entire library of his books overnight by personally targeting a handful of people with the power to pull the books from shelves isn't a reasonable way for society to make these decisions.
Related: I highly recommend the documentary My Octopus Teacher

https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007
>These articles bring back memories of teachers telling me I was wrong, because I didn't use the quadratic formula, but completed the square instead.

Education is probably a special case, at least from my educational experience. There's often multiple ways to abstractly represent a problem in mathematics and find the desired solution. The example you pointed out is such a case.

When teaching mathematics, I think the goal is to introduce a lot of forms of mathematical thinking and approaches to solving a problem, to make you realize there are often multiple approaches and to take a peek at the insight of some of these approaches and how they often connect or think about different 'branches' of mathematics.

Teaching math needs to be explicit with this though: solve this using method X. They should also explain this to kids as to why they're doing it. One of the biggest mistakes I see in mathematics teaching is the perception there's "only one right answer." Well, yes and no. Under certain condition a specific answer exists, sometimes it's a set of answers and sometimes you they're not really assessing so much that you can get the correct answer, but instead that you understand a specific method.

The 'answer' is a means to an end to force you to step through, internalize a process, and hopefully at some point understand the deeper insight of that clever process you internalized and apply it to other problems you may encounter in the future. You may never use the exact process or insight behind it as-is, then again you may use facets of the reasoning you internalized later. If you don't work in professions that require this sort of abstract thinking I can see how the entire dance is quite silly but if you work in research, you often appreciate all these nuggets of deep insight and wisdom you've gained you can cobble together, remold, or lead to new insights. As a kid you probably have no idea where you'll work as an adult so maybe a lot of that effort is wasted.
Hypothesis: the real motivation is that Google has determined the following:

1) we can sell all our ads for just as much money anyway, even without targeting based on web browsing, because the advertisers will take what we let them get

2) targeting based on browsing history is more complicated, requiring more developers and server capacity, which Google could certainly afford but it has plenty of other things to do that pay off better

3) it turns out that advertising based on what website you are currently on, works just as well anyway; to put it another way, all that "show a person who just bought a car an ad for another car" targeting was not really working.

"We respect privacy" sounds better than "our targeting accomplished almost nothing and you'll buy the ads anyway."
You're absolutely right about rigor: I'm not claiming that Cardano discovered complex analysis or anything...
I hope this fixes my issues with bluetooth on Linux. When I'm on battery the audio breaks all the time. I've tried all sorts of obscure config tweaks with Pulseaudio.
That is because BTC extremely unstable, which is good for speculation but not for a currency
> that they are not giving people unique identifiers

How far can this data be reversed? If I have a group of ten people can google tell with high reliability that probably three of them are homosexual, two have Alzheimer's and none are pregnant?
How Far Away from Perseverance Did the Descent Stage Land?
So every publisher that's ever reject any piece of work is a censor?

It's not censorship to decide to no longer publish something. It's only censorship if someone comes along and stops you from publishing it.

The owners of the work have decided to stop publishing it. They have that right. No one can force them to publish a damn thing. Forcing someone to say or publish something they do not believe in anymore (or perhaps never believed in) is dystopian and tyrannical.
Based. The soys at HN obviously downvote like crazy.
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But if you want 5 icons, 5K of SVG beats 55K of WOFF.
Great question!

We built axiom after running a software consultancy trying to integrate UiPath for customers.

We realised, those solutions are great for $1 million consulting projects with a big development team. But most bots people need are small, and they need to be updated regularly. Paying for developers to do this is expensive.

So, axiom is self-serve - it's designed to be built and maintained by non-coders on the ground (we provide support). Also, it's designed for the 0-$100 p/m small use-cases. There's lots of these in business.

Some customers think we're expensive, but we're really not compared to most RPA, like UiPath :)
You are basically hinting that low unionization made the US rich but Norway got rich despite high unionization because they have higher IQ or it’s cold there. I would call that cherry picking.
I only read this article, so I'm still fuzzy on the exact technical details, but couldn't a system like pipewire eventually be adopted into the kernel after it has proven itself adequate? Or is that not a thing the kernel does?
I really don't get the point you're making. If we're going to pull out random examples, monoids aren't guaranteed to be abelian; strings and concatenation form a monoid that's not abelian.

If you have enough mathematical sophistication to conceptualize a non-commutative ring, you're well past the point where naming conventions are even remotely an issue.

The original article was contrasting addition and multiplication on the basis that addends are called the same while factors are supposed to be called differently, which not only makes no sense (it's just a naming convention), but it also breaks down when you have more than two factors: what is the "c" in a x b x c called? Or we're talking about non-associative operations now?
This is giving me xkcd "Standards" vibes.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I hope I'm wrong. There is a lot of potential to do better in that realm.
I think the author is trying to say that _from a teaching point of view_, thinking of multiplication as a kind of addition is suboptimal.

Because you can indeed multiply through repeated addition (which she acknowledges), repeated addition is one valid way to look at multiplication. But it might not be the maximally helpful framework for students.
When you switched to Ubuntu 10 years ago, I assume you weren't thinking about how refined Ubuntu was 10 years prior to that.

So why would the state of the product as it was 10 years ago matter in your decision to switch back today?
That's because they shouldn't be fed grains.
It does. The support for Pulse and JACK APIs is to ease adoption.
That was mostly for the benefit of people who may be more familiar with US geography. Most people don't consider California or Texas tiny.

But you can also compare Argentina to the 150+ countries with less population.

Including four of its five neighbouring countries.
Thank you! we'll look into it!
Crossing the streams a bit, I'm wondering if there's enough grunt in EBPF to do mixing and resampling.
It is without a doubt the only thing they can agree on.

... well except for these guys https://www.bitcoinpos.net/
Evolution takes a very long time. If we manage to not kill our own civilisation we will be fine as our technology will advance many orders of magnitude faster than evolution will be able to cause any significant changes to our intelligence via natural selection.

Anatomically modern humans evolved 300k years ago and didn't change much since. Can you imagine what kind of progress we will make in the next 300k years? I can't even imagine the next 1000 years.
It is precisely systemic racism.

People who do not have dark skin make a system. It turns out that the system performs poorly on people with dark skin, and possibly causes discriminatory outcomes.

Perhaps the training data didn't have enough dark-skinned people. Or perhaps the optics and sensors didn't work well.

The point is that the outcome is biased against a certain group of people, and it's (edit: partly) because that affected group of people lacks representation in the group of people developing the system (edit: , because if they were represented they would have flagged the issue and it would have all been presented and handled differently).

No, it does not imply that the individual researchers are racist as such.
It is a test, and it is used on humans. It isn't a qualification for human-ness, any more than "breathing" is.

Theory of Mind is much more a test of human-ness - a stage person-ness really. And yes, quite a few animals qualify.
Because as we all know, learning the ins and outs of commands designed for teletypes with 50 years of incremental evolution, where the only common interchange format is ASCII, and all sitting atop kernels that think fork() is a good idea, is extremely pleasant.
The answers, from the abstract seem to be "young people" are living at home more, drinking less and gaming more than they used to.

"Among young women, the decline in the frequency of drinking alcohol explains about one quarter of the drop in the propensity to have casual sex. Among young men, declines in drinking frequency, an increase in computer gaming, and the growing percentage who coreside with their parents all contribute significantly to the decline in casual sex."
Why would containers do anything to memory requirements? I guess you can't share libraries, but otherwise I don't see why memory use should be any different running the same process in a container or not.
why is shorting a company perverted? I would argue it's a great asset to society.

Eg. those who shorted stock because they expected covid-19 to cause a market dip, sent a giant signal to the entire world that covid was going to be a big problem.
> Is there really a difference between multiplication and repeated addition, or am I tilting at windmills here?

You are tilting at windmills

> Is it even necessary for teachers to define multiplication?

No, at least not in formal terms

> Or is the teacher’s job to provide plenty of examples of multiplication in action?

I think so

> Should we let the students intuit their own definition(s)?

Yes

> Will it help students if we change our focus from “how to get the answer” and teach them to identify the multiplicand, the “this per that” unit? Or will that introduce new difficulties I haven’t considered?

It will introduce new difficulties

> Or do we already teach this way, only in different words?

We don't, thankfully

> If you are an elementary teacher, how do you teach multiplication to your students?

I will let elementary teacher answer

> Are some students clueless because, no matter how we explain it, they just don’t pay attention?

While we can't always blame teachers when students don't pay attention, if it is systematic, maybe there is a problem with your teaching.

> Have you tried using bar diagrams to model elementary arithmetic situations? And if so, how did your students respond?

I will let teachers respond

Ok, I hope you are still there and didn't just click the "downvote" button.

I think the author raises good points for at least high-school level students in STEM fields. But in reality, the important thing in elementary school is that we want people to know how to count. 5 apples at $0.50 each is $2.50, this kind of thing.

Dimensional analysis is very important in engineering, and I definitely think is should be taught, as well as everything in the article, but at college level, not in elementary schools. Teaching such abstract concepts too soon is a recipe for disaster, I know because it has been tried. The expectation was that it will make better engineers in the future, the reality is that while it may have helped a tiny minority get college degrees, it mostly produced kids who couldn't do simple arithmetic.
I can't tell if you're being satirical or not?
No they don't.

Gaming is the sole demand for all consoles and GPUs produced in the world. Those devices alone consume a lot more energy than Bitcoin miners (by about an order of magnitude).

Gold and Silver are extremely expensive to mine energy-wise.

The banking system is amazingly expensive to run. Not only it requires lots of buildings and transportation for millions of workers, it also requires a lot of computing resources to be run -- without even guaranteeing you can withdraw your money from banks, and with your money there being corroded due to inflation.

Bitcoin, in comparison, is actually pretty "green" once you consider the value it provides: a distributed ledger with 10+ years of operation and no flaws/attacks detected, meaning it's the safest store of value known to mankind, while not being under any control of any organization or government.

In any case, even if your point that Bitcoin is "evil" as it requires "too much energy to run" is true, what are you going to do about it? Feel free to short Bitcoin in a futures market, and leave all your wealth allocated in assets associated to fiat currencies.
Google Plows Ahead with Plan to Stop Selling Ads Tracking Users
> Make no mistake - as far as I can tell, this preserves Google's ability to track that you are, say, a new parent because you've searched for baby clothes. What it won't know is which new parent you are.

If you've searched for baby clothes in Google there's absolutely nothing in the FLoC proposal that stops Google from inferring that you're a parent from that search and, idk, storing a bit in your profile or something.

This proposal is about allowing ad targeting to interests or whatever without tracking your visits across the web - your browser generates the cohorts clientside (idk how the cohort assignment algorithms get standardised on, I guess that's where the 'tuning' would go). And yes, you could just tell your browser not to do that, or have it only use the most recent n days' data, or randomize your cohort, or freeze your cohort in time, or blocklist certain sites from ever entering your cohort, and so on.

Where this ties into tracking if you're a parent is that while it doesn't prevent tracking that, it does lessen the incentive - if you're a parent, you're likely going to wind up in a parent-y cohort. Is the signal from the original search still going to be useful enough to warrant keeping around?

(obligatory: googler, but nothing to do with ads)
How do they not track you if when they must verify that you paid?
> This idea that if Nazi's are allowed to spread their message openly they will inevitably take over

This isn't the claim; the claim is more moderate: Nazis gaining political power, and not necessarily inevitably doing so. Nazis are only an example here; you can substitute any 'wrong' idea to see the analogies, from climate change denial to anti-vaxx to flat earth theories. Further, political power is only the end goal. I think most people would agree that a society where a large percentage of the population consists of (Nazis/anti-vaxxers/climate deniers) who don't vote in themselves would have negative discursive effects socially or politically on those who do vote. The state has power, but it does not have absolute power, and that's a good thing.
Such as median wealth per adult? USA is #22, behind the likes of Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada and Australia. Nobody debates that the US has an elite pool of the super-rich. They do run the show, but that doesn't make the country as a whole very wealthy.
I've read a couple of the lawsuits on courtlistener. From what I've read, these lawsuits are going to go absolutely nowhere.

The biggest problem most of the lawsuits face is that there is a provision in the Terms of Service that basically says that Robinhood can prevent you from trading in any stock it wishes. Any complaint that amounts to "Robinhood violated its contract" is going to go down in flames as a result--it didn't violate its contract; the people who are complaining didn't read the contract.

That really only leaves two kinds of claims that might have legs: arguing that Robinhood violated securities laws, and arguing conspiracy on the part of hedge funds. The first part is difficult to win on because many of the complainants will simply lack the standing to do so (you have to have owned the stocks in question and bought/sold at a manipulated price to show standing, and since the complaints are generally on the theme of "we tried to buy but couldn't", they fail that) [1]. The last one might survive until discovery if properly pled, but I sincerely doubt they'll ever eventually win it.

[1] One of the cases filed for a temporary restraining order mainly on the basis of the complaint. The judge found that the briefing didn't even meet the "raises serious questions" burden of proof, although they mentioned that the TRO failed really hard at the "suffered irreparable harm" part because losing money is pretty much by definition a reparable harm.
I smell a SaaS ( or FlightaaS ) here!
"Standard pitch measurements. Not all pitches are the same size, though the preferred size for many professional teams' stadiums is 105 by 68 metres (115 yd × 74 yd) with an area of 7,140 square metres (76,900 sq ft; 1.76 acres; 0.714 ha)."

The field dimensions are within the range found optimal by FIFA: 110–120 yards (100–110 m) long by 70–80 yards (64–75 m) wide.

Managers can instruct groundskeepers to alter the pitch size at home.

I heard that referees are not feeling pressured into giving or not giving penalties that they may have been pressured into due to home crowds.

Some sports have fixed sizes.

I’ll watch your recommendation. Thanks
I'm not a big fan of "RH should protect people more"

They clearly did not have the finances available to provide the service they offer. Regardless of whether that was forced on them, the outcome was RH's failures manipulating a market.

RH should be fined and sued out of existence.

I also don't see the value in short selling. Seems like a way to gamble legally in all 50 states.
"Privacy first" is Google-speak meaning "the first thing we do is eliminate your privacy".
Does it matter now that we have negative interest rates?
Facts are biased now?

One of the cartoons on that page has a sign that literally reads: "Take home a high grade n*** for your woodpile. Satisfaction guaranteed."

It's not like there's a lot of nuance and interpretation.