skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of comments asking what is "Soviet/Russian Math" actually like, and how is it different.

I was lucky to get an education in three systems (Soviet Math, Romanian Math School (influenced by both French and Soviet Math school), and finally in a world top 40 university in North America.

I would summarize the Soviet/Russian Math/Physics approach like this:

- understanding of the mechanism/intuition behind the equations/methods is paramount
- teachers are astute at spotting students who memorize blindly, and will intervene to correct that
- while rigorous about notation, the mathematical representation always comes after understanding, not before
- the progression of teaching (order how material is introduced) is very well thought out
- the old soviet textbooks are generally less verbose than North American ones (less fancy), but high quality in their expression, typesetting, and ESPECIALLY (!!!) the quality of the exercises
- the Soviet Math textbook exercises are something to behold: they have funny/memorable setting (like jokes), they are short and easy to express, the numbers are chosen in such a way that the result will be a nice whole number, or pi, etc. Basically as a kid you can read one of those problems, lay down, close your eyes, and work on it in your head.

That being said, I did like some of the aspects from the so called "Western Math" (in my case Canadian university):

- teachers are more approachable, more friendly
- textbooks can be gorgeous (nice colorful plots, etc)
You can usually ask for a hardware device (called something like a security token device) to login with.
Contemporary Thinkers
and the aus left continue to wonder why they are just shouting into the wind at this point.
Daycare? In August? Not here. They got vacation. Daycare's closed. School vacation lasts 6-8 weeks (6 for our's). I do have vacation days left, but not for 6 weeks.
Perhaps exploitation is too negative and it is not true for some cases, but most companies do not employ it or use it as a component because of the restrictive licence.
A related film I have not seen but have on watch list is Cave of Forgotten Dreams about the Chauvet cave art.

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_16
I'm in exactly the same position at the age of 40. I've attempted to memorise the times table to no avail. It seems to me one of those things that you need to know cold. And then from there you can look at other things.

To me mathematics is a thing of beauty I just find I havent found the right handle to grasp it with.

I ask myself what would be the order in which one could most easily absorb the material. Does it really start with rote learning?
Agreed, i’m also a happy FF user… The satisfied users don’t post comments as much i assume.

Haters gonna hate, that’s just how it is.
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.
> Assuming usage of cars. Leave the US and generally public transportation is a thing used by most people. The trains/trams/buses still travel the same routes and times as before-pandemic times.

Across the US and presumably the world mass transit reduced service in response to reduced ridership. If WFH becomes more common that will definitely cover more areas as schedules very much are based on demand. Ex: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-mta-subw...

> IMO it's futile to even try to calculate this value globally.

Electricity is directly measured at the grid level and 2020 saw a clear reduction, how much of that relates to WFH is more questionable.
If those figures are anywhere close to being real it’s not about money but about logistics.

All it means is that they don’t have a sponsor or at least a major one that provides them with sophisticated weapons, during the last civil war the Taliban rode into Kabul on soviet tanks.

Syria had tons of weapons to steal, so did Iraq and parties like Iran transferred arms including ATGMs to non state actors involved in the conflict.

ATGMs also may not be as useful in a mountainous country like Afghanistan.

Right now the Taliban is riding in HMMWVs at least the Americans didn’t give the Afghans M1 Abrams tanks like they did with the Iraqis, Kata'ib Hezbollah and ISIL are rolling in M1’s these days in Syria as they managed to “liberate” them from the Iraqi forces.

People overestimate just how easy it is to secure weapons, especially sophisticated ones without a local source. Most illegal arms are those which are bought legally and then transferred illegally or are stolen from those who bought them legally.

This means you need either a local adversary or a local ally that has ATGMs in sufficient quantities to get your hands on them, without that even Nick Cage won’t get you your Kornets.
>But if you frame it as a 10% pay decrease

especially after you have structured your life around having that money and you already know you can handle the commute.
Well,they are religious extremists fighting a underdog fight against a big bad empire. If youre an extremist muslim youll probably take a discount to work with them. They might not be paying that much.
Random aside: I want to be able to put the same bookmark in multiple folders!
Kurt Vonnegut is really great, my personal favorite is Sirens of Titan which is his most "sci-fi" of the bunch but I wouldn't really call it sci-fi. Other great starting points are Cat's Cradle, Mothernight, and of course Slaughterhouse Five.

I've only read one Toni Morrison book, Song of Solomon, but that was one of my favorite reads of this year.

If you haven't read Frankenstein or Dracula then I would highly recommend them. I personally enjoyed Frankenstein much more than I thought I would.

Norse Mythology and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman are also fun reads.

If you want some non-fiction, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a very engaging read.
I LOVE bullet journals, and all of the youtube videos on different layouts are a wonderful rabbit hole to fall into! However, I'm finding that I like a daily layout and at present I don't have the energy to re-draw 365 days.

Also I like to write in appointments months in advance and I can't do that if I'm drawing just a few weeks ahead.
Strategy, in the end, if it's done well should seem fairly obvious, even boring.

a product roadmap that takes into rational consideration the aspects of market dynamics.

If your company is looking to make incremental improvements and not trying to do anything innovative, I agree.

If you’re building the first smart phone where there exists no “roadmap” or “rational consideration”, then it’s neither going to be obvious or boring.
Tail handling is not a problem if you generate custom SIMD code for your particular computation.

For example, https://NN-512.com (but you can imagine similar code generators for other domains)

Vector overhang (masking), unrolling, full/partial iterations are all known when the code is generated. This allows a very tight fit between the SIMD processor and the work that needs to be done.
I think you can kind of do this now? The Temporary Containers plugin will create throwaway containers but you can also create permanent site-specific containers.
So I'm not saying strategic vs tactical is a binary; it's a spectrum. And where to fall on it is hard; I think we're in agreement here.

But, you mention you've been overridden by bad executive fiat on occasion, and also made forays where you shouldn't have because you didn't have the bigger picture. The 'right' course of action to address both of those as your manager would be to make sure you understand the bigger picture, and then to let you (or whoever bears the effect of the decision) make the decision, not to make it for you, nor to let you stumble blindly into a bad one.

In terms of Jobs, Musk, Ford, Bezos, strategy informs tactics, and tactics inform strategy; as you say, you have to ask questions and seek to understand; you also need to communicate and help people connect the dots. But that's different than daily status reports and directives. Seeking to understand the why, rather than endlessly try and stay up to date of the what, is the goal. If you've built a healthy org, they'll raise up concerns about the what when they need to; even when they do, the fix for a bad situation is never focusing on the situation ("still in the hole?" "yep"), it's helping navigate a way out of it ("quit digging; here's a ladder, our new goal is climbing out"), and then figure out how to avoid it in the future ("how did we get in that hole? Why did we keep digging ourselves deeper? WHERE DID ALL THESE SHOVELS COME FROM?!").

And, yes, strategy is often boring and predictable; given the same knowledge, the same set of inputs, most people would make the same decision. It's one reason why I don't think executive pay is justified; I'm not intending to mythologize it or something. Just point out that as you climb a management hierarchy, your concerns move along the strategy/tactical axis toward the strategy side, and that oftentimes bad, poorly informed decisions are due to execs moving too far toward the tactical.
Maybe they meant ATGM.
Just because you assume attack vectors are simple doesn't mean they are. First of all, why would Apple forward a report about something that isn't CSAM to the NCMEC?
Skype and GeForce Now are two I used today.
10am PT, Aug 10: live demo of OpenAI Codex, AI that writes code
Step 1: Remove CCP Backed, and known pedophile, Joe Xiden from office.

Step 2: Execute every mask/vaccine mandate politician out there.

Step 3: Declare war on China and bomb them back to the stone-ages.
Let alone the economic damage that was prevented by being able to vaccinate people now instead of requiring more severe measures to keep the pandemic in check...
“So we broke the rules a bit and had pets, so what?” I get that this is a bit dystopian, but not hard to see why the man has installed these cameras
> ... and Earthlings forget or stop caring about the war.

[spoilers]

Not quite. Humans develop (via cloning and other tech) to the point where they can finally communicate with the hive-mind aliens, and realise that the whole 1000-year war has essentially been a mistake from the outset.

> It was an allegory for the U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam

Yes. The obvious allegory is that to the very few baseline humans who survive the entire war due to time dilation effects the whole thing was a complete waste of time.

A key subplot in the book is that humanity adopts homosexuality such that in the latter stages of the war, the baseline heterosexual veterans are perceived as weird sexual deviants. This seems to me allegory for the difficulty Vietnam vets had in readjusting to civilian life.
True, but not everyone lives close enough to work or is in physical shape to bike. Most people should, though :)
The issue with this is that the more deeply customisable a fork would be the further it would stray from upstream (and by extension the more dev resources it would require to maintain).

> I keep hearing the Firefox codebase isn't very modular and makes it hard to pursue such a project, and I don't doubt it. But aren't there enough of "us" out there to make a concerted effort?

There's been plenty of people making such an effort, but yeah it does appear to be "hard". If you're interested in following previous work, some relevant links:

- Overview of Myk Melez's efforts in this space https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/

- https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ (official but Android-only)

- https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt

It may also be worthwhile reading about CEF which has become something of a defacto standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
>It's also important to note that there is widespread, normalized abuse in the teaching system, especially towards children with poor grades, or who are just poor. Things like yelling, demeaning, even spanking and hair cutting (for male students with longer hair, especially)

Americans will be appalled, without realizing that these are common hazards for poor, and especially black, students to face. In many cases, these tactics aren't even used for punishment, but as preemptive control measures (especially the hair-cutting).

It continues to surprise me how many parallels there are between the Eastern European and Inner City American experiences.
And all at 1g... I wonder what forces the human body is capable of adapting to over a long period.

What happens if say we double the thrust, presumably halving the timescales and doubling the experienced "gravity"... would a human body be able to adapt and get stronger? or would we experience adverse side effects? (not necessarily mutually exclusive). It could even be a way to acclimatise to a different planet's mass before arriving.

[EDIT]

Looks like 2g is reasonable. The limit is higher but it sounds a bit ridiculous, astronauts would all have to compete in the strongman competitions for 4g. Any higher and we wouldn't be able to walk without breaking our bones.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/whats-the-maxi...
Brilliant, I've been struggling with this, and this solution didn't occur to me!
Maybe your province isn't too bad yet, but these things tend to spread:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-sc...

With no advanced/honours tract, you have two choices.

Subjects too difficult for a large portion of the class, or everyone gets education tailored to the least capable students.

Clearly, they aren't removing advanced classes, then suddenly failing 1/2
the class...
Wonder if this means cookie-autodelete[1] is now redundant?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Eh, I've studied in a "respected" post-Soviet school as well and can't related to this at all. Teachers were awesome and passionate, had really thorough understanding of math (and physics, and chemistry), without any hint of elitism.

It's almost as if there are good and bad math teachers (in all countries).
I question the premise that MapReduce really ever went away. Many migrated away from Hadoop, but in frameworks that succeeded it, MapReduce was still a core pattern. And in some cases, moving away from Hadoop wasn't ideal because later frameworks still got some things wrong. Maybe we stopped talking about MapReduce because we were focused on new patterns and challenges -- how to support many complex jobs and pipelines, more interactive and exploratory analysis, etc.

I'm curious about the difference between "continuous MapReduce" and I guess a subgraph in a "differential dataflow" (which I have read about but never really used). https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow
Great. Finally. I always wondered why some sites reopen on data relevant to a past date, (weather web site for example), even though all history, cookies, site data, etc, has been set to clear upon shut down. Which always makes you wonder what else is stored.
>Apple’s privacy engineers don’t have the luxury of being radical

Not doing anything anti-consumer that the law doesn't force you to do is "radical"? I know you're not an astroturfer, but I had to double check because this is textbook astroturfing tactics.

Apple simply does not have to do this, as far as I'm concerned it's obvious they're either currying political favors or being incompetent. It's perfectly fine if they want to run it on their own unencrypted devices, they absolutely don't have to overstep into their user's devices.
> All the bigger banks I have been using offer a hardware device to generate authentication codes.

I guess banks suck in my country.
Total Cookie Protection, built into Firefox, makes sure that facebook.com can’t use cookies to track you across websites. It does this by partitioning data storage into one cookie jar per website, rather than using one big jar for all of facebook.com’s storage. With Enhanced Cookie Clearing, if you clear site data for comfypants.com, the entire cookie jar is emptied, including any data facebook.com set while embedded in comfypants.com.

This seems exactly right: now that we have partitioned cookies, cookie clearing should clear cookies for the whole partition.
Heard that story recently watching Drive. Decent movie.
Average in a (big) city is skewed by other office jobs. Developers are not the only white collars in town..

> developers have to waste their evenings, weekends and vacations to learn new technologies and you will not even be paid fair for that sacrifice

You can read tech article at work.
Not mandatory to work at home to learn new tech, and if you do, it's up to you to be paid for it: change job to match your news skills.
Come join us over here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1704347

I can't distinguish the current tab anymore as well if lighting conditions are less than perfect or if I sit at an angle from the screen.

Or here, same issue, 19 years ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173667

(I get that things change, I just thought it was funny)
Great story all around. A company made a product that massively benefited people and is getting a lot of money for it.

Even though they are making $18 Billion, it is likely that the vaccine is actually worth trillions due to the number of lives saved and because vaccination is allowing the economies to open up again.

You hear a lot of about companies making money from developing and selling stuff that is a net harm to society, but it is good to hear about a company making money from developing and selling something that is a massive benefit to society.
Theter seemingly froze some the money (https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1425107440324935680). So code is law until it isn't.
You do need a JIT, but a simpler one, like AOT-on-demand, since it's very static compared to other formats. It's not that far from shipping LLVM IR, except it's specified.

As for the memory overhead, where have you seen that? To my knowledge the most problematic part there is that wasm currently doesn't offer any way to return memory to the OS.

The point of sandboxing is that the space allocated to wasm is well delineated and there should be no way to access the rest of your memory from the inside. For stuff like plugins, that's very valuable compared to just providing a .so with absolutely 0 isolation, in addition to having to compile the .so/.dynlib for your specific OS and architecture beforehand.
because that time wasn't spent on work anyways. it was already 'free' for the company. this is literally just trying to claw back money for a perk people really like.

the fact companies pay different rates based on locale is insane given the value of the work a person contributes to a company is independent of said location.
I work longer now that I am permanent WFH, so I wonder what that means about office perks
You do not need windowing. You can do everything you want with regular KeyedStream. You can join not-windowed streams using IntervalJoin.

This is if you want to use high level API. If you use lower-level ProcessFunction you have even more flexibility.
> I hate hate hate iTunes

Yup. Same here.

This is why I don't have my large collection of CD's in my phone and just use Pandora.

Going back to iPhone 3 days, iTunes did not allow me to import my CD's into my device and play them as entire CD's.

If I want to listen to Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall", it's a nightmare. iTunes is song-based, not album based. Well, the above, and many others, are works you pretty much listen to in order as recorded. In some cases (The Wall, Brandenburg Concertos, etc.) the works span multiple CD's.

I stopped using iTunes and storing music on my iPhone because of this. I don't enjoy music the way Apple seems to think you should. I have no clue if they fixed this since iPhone 3 days. I would not be surprised if they have not.

In sharp contrast to this, I have not problem playing single or multi-CD works as intended using Windows Media Player on my desktop, where I have my entire CD collection stored.

This, for me, is the single reason I would instantly jump into a Windows phone if Microsoft got their heads out of their asses, committed to doing a good job and integrated a phone experience with the desktop. They would have to regain my trust, but as a life-long user of both Apple and MS desktop products, I would absolutely welcome a better phone experience than Apple has delivered over the years. I really want to abandon iPhone and go to a good Windows phone, but MS does not seem interested in creating that opportunity.

Oh, yes, and to address iCloud, back in the early days it managed to delete not only whatever I had on iTunes (which I own on CD's so I don't care) but all of my contacts. Thankfully I had my contacts stored in my prior phone (I think it was a Blackberry). After disconnecting from iCloud I entered them manually and never again enabled iCloud all the way up to my current iPhone X.
Is WordPress Development All That Hard to Get into Today?
A truly intolerable thing about SPAs and JavaScript is that regular HTTP caching of images and fonts had to be limited because JS APIs can be and are used for fingerprinting, driving the whole web thing ad absurdum.

Switching off JS/fingerprinting doesn't really help either since it'll just disproportionally benefit Google's stronghold on web analytics even more.
Yes because it’s a mechanism to prevent actual abuse from occurring on their platform and to report offenders directly. When one of the participants of an E2EE conversation reports the convo then the messages would be sent up in a way for Trust and Safety to read the messages and report to the authorities.

What is messed up about that? The method of reporting is in the hands of the user, not an ML algorithm. The ML algorithm would prompt the kid to stop and think about what is happening, before actual abuse occurs.. I assure you Stamos is speaking from a place of experience, in having to prevent these kind of things.
If you want to hack your own: https://3ds.hacks.guide/

It used to be somewhat easier, but Nintendo surprisingly released an update last month (despite discontinuing the 3DS last year) that fixed the last exploit.
Unfortunately there's still no guarantee for which variant will be represented by 0
Tether stablecoin discloses its asset backing
Testing apis with Postman is really interesting and you can learn a lot just by inspecting requests with the browser’s developper tools. We’ve build a command line tool [1] to be able to simply add integration tests in our CI/CD pipeline for our website (that was difficult with just Postman or Selenium)

[1]: https://hurl.dev
Why rely on a foreign business when you have Wechat? Or maybe better worded, why even need it?
Daversa: The company that recruits Silicon Valley’s senior leadership
I find Firefox's bookmark UI to be incredibly slow and clunky, not to mention so many things get in my way, like this "Bookmarks Toolbar" I cannot remove.

So, I often find myself resorting to opening the SQLite database Firefox uses to track places and doing queries against that, looking for time ranges and key words in the title or URL.
Cookie AutoDelete deletes cookies when you close the tab, right? That's pretty different from this feature, where cookies are only deleted when you ask the browser to delete them.
that's the inspiration for my browser extension, Yet Another Speed Dial. it works as the new tab page but basically i use it as a visual bookmark manager. i find it way easier to scan my bookmarks as thumbnails to find what i want. it's open source and supports all the major browsers, check it out!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
For those encountering a paywall:

https://archive.is/MxpF4