skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something that mastery-based learning solves pretty cleanly. Or more accurately, in a MBL pedagogy, there's no need for faster/gifted or slower/remedial paths.

All the debate for/against gifted programs fall into the same trap of not thinking critically enough about the pedagogical model that powers pretty much all of our education from childhood through higher ed. IMO, we're only debating about the symptoms of a outdated pedagogical model, and not talking enough about the underlying problem -- the factory model of education.
> This is the stuff (rote memorization) that professional mathematicians seem to hate and want to get rid of or downplay, even calling it "not actually math"

I'm not a mathematician, but my understanding of them saying that is because that's more computation than mathematical thinking. You're not getting an understanding of what's actually happening when you've memorized 4x5=20, all you're doing is creating basic word-mapping.

Maybe I just lived a very different life, but even though I'm reasonably good with my times tables, I still almost always use a calculator/spreadsheet/spotlight/phone to do all but the most basic of computations. Why wouldn't I? I always have a supercomputer in my pocket that is substantially more likely to be correct than a twenty year old memory of fourth grade.

> I'd guess 99% of the math I use in a given year could be done by an average 5th grader.

I don't mean to come off as a jerk, but I guess I'm just going to say it; in the 25 years you've been a developer, have you not tried to make a game? Some machine learning? Data science?

I'm not saying you need to be the next Guass or anything, but all of those require more advanced math than what I was taught in fifth grade. To make a platformer game, you have to know enough to do a basic Euler integration. To do machine learning, you have to know enough to at least know what a Sigmoid is [1]. To do data science, you have to understand basic statistical methods (E.g. ANOVA, Chi Squared, Student T Tests). Maybe you were taught all this stuff in fifth grade, but I don't think that the majority of students where.

[1] I don't do machine learning for a living, I know that the Sigmoid has fallen out of favor but I think my point still stands.
Glad you are reconsidering your assumptions. Being a parent is hard. It is not like kids come with an instruction book especially for very difficult behaviors and other things like adhd, autism, anxiety and depression.

"Parents expect the school to fix/improve behavioral issues in their children"

Of course we do. The kids spend 7 hours a day in class and their behaviors directly impact what and how they learn. Regulating behavior is a life long skill that you learn. We send our kids off to school at age 5 typically.

I am tired of the blame the parents trope. We know and have therapies and interventions to reinforce positive behaviors and the schools should be working with parents to help them learn how to apply these in both the home as well as school.
Show me what I missed then. What could be an explanation of why there is a huge difference in racial demographics when it comes to these schools that don't fall into one of those two categories?
It starts with something palatable like anti-cheat systems.

But I look forward to video players using the TPM preventing screenshots or recording, and after that, websites preventing screenshots or copying text, and your bank verifying your browser before letting you log in.

Of course only a handful of large browsers will be supported or able to get licenses for the accompanying DRM code, but you can still use your 'free' browsers for less important things. Don't worry.
At least the unions make sure everyone is paid 300k and all automation is blocked.
It depends if they kept coming back. Smallpox worked to the settlers' advantage because colonizers were establishing themselves in the carribean and south america before any serious ventures into north america got going - so there was time for a pandemic to actually spread before folks really started getting serious about settling. I think with statistics and spread rates and all that it's likely that viking settlers would need to stick around for a decade or two to really see the effects in terms of population thinning.
I think parts of it are deeply controversial, but Guns, Germs, and Steel argues this was because Europe had higher population densities for longer + more domesticated livestocks providing a more potent breading ground for deadly diseases. I also think that disease being a factor hardly removes culpability from the conquers, there are plenty of quotes of some of them saying things about how the plagues were a gift from god and similarly terrible things. I also am not an export, but I believe there was some transfer in the other direction, particularly syphilis.

If we're just speculating though, I wonder if the fact that one group was traveling by boat could have insulated the disease transfer a bit. Most really bad diseases would run their course by the time a sailing ship made it back across the ocean and certainly people knew to quarantine ships with sick people on them in Europe. For a disease the ship crews were resistant to reach the Americas they just had to visit a village, where to go the other way it had to survive an in built month plus quarantine which is plenty of time for most diseases to show up
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of ideology, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see, so long as it's someone else's sacrifice, it's fine, they should do that.
No, but I use feedparser in the same script.

Basically I'm scraping SEC data, but the script has been around for awhile untouched, so there are probably better solutions today.
Idk if it's that hard when your that rich. Bill gates did it.
You can also compute non-integer percentages by just adding the period after the math.
There is still a local CSAM database and still a method somewhere that returns a probability that an image is in the database, isn't there? The safety voucher logic is layered on top.
I simply don't understand how the US can issue statements like these given the existence of CIA, NSA, etc.
So, why aren't the workers seeing that amount, or anything near it, in their "paper wealth" go up?
Well, there's interesting take from him

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...

>Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

>Does one have to be a genius to do mathematics?

>The answer is an emphatic NO. In order to make good and useful contributions to mathematics, one does need to work hard, learn one’s field well, learn other fields and tools, ask questions, talk to other mathematicians, and think about the “big picture”. And yes, a reasonable amount of intelligence, patience, and maturity is also required. But one does not need some sort of magic “genius gene” that spontaneously generates ex nihilo deep insights, unexpected solutions to problems, or other supernatural abilities.

>The popular image of the lone (and possibly slightly mad) genius – who ignores the literature and other conventional wisdom and manages by some inexplicable inspiration (enhanced, perhaps, with a liberal dash of suffering) to come up with a breathtakingly original solution to a problem that confounded all the experts – is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics. We do have spectacular, deep and remarkable results and insights in this subject, of course, but they are the hard-won and cumulative achievement of years, decades, or even centuries of steady work and progress of many good and great mathematicians; the advance from one stage of understanding to the next can be highly non-trivial, and sometimes rather unexpected, but still builds upon the foundation of earlier work rather than starting totally anew. (This is for instance the case with Wiles‘ work on Fermat’s last theorem, or Perelman‘s work on the Poincaré conjecture.)
Probably also the world's most costly port to operate. Every decade or so the workers organize a slowdown in order to increase their salary and benefits. They are already incredibly overcompensated workers, which is why the jobs are so coveted.

https://www.practicaladultinsights.com/how-do-i-become-a-lon...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dockworker-pay-201503...
> Only in America!

This is... not really true. The US is indeed in the lead in COVAX donations at 45 doses pledged per million dollars of GDP, and that's laudable. But it's not like no other country is close; France follows closely on the US's heels at 44, with the UK not far off at 38, Germany and the Netherlands are at 27 and 29, and so on — https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covax-donations-per-gdp

Nor is it true that the fundamental research for all the major vaccines came out of the US. Moderna indeed was, but the Pfizer vaccine was developed by BioNTech (Germany), and the Astrazeneca vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford (UK).
Wow, what is the system doing to have 11000 tests?
And does that make you the outrage police police?
> nonsense puritanical values

Such as?
I have m1 air with 8Gb and I see that had to take 16Gb at least. Not sure about 32GB, but 16 is the minimum. Profile: JS, TS, Rust, sometimes Java.
> guess that's technically not wrong

Hey, don't command me to guess things.
No to be critical of America. I love Hawaii. Not that its really American. But the declining Standards are kind of alarming. Starting to remind me of South America, which is at least mostly heading in the improve direction.
Its kind of ironic that the decline of middle America has so much to do with California deciding its cheaper to trade and do business with China than with Chicago and Detroit and rest of the rust belt. And even then, California cheaps out on the ports.
Have you visited IndieHackers.com? They are demonstrating you don't need funding to create amazing things.
I wish it were but then again I'm not ready to spend $20k on a cellphone with performance from 2005.
I wonder if the few Dr's could be fixed manually by checking their names, e.g. if they're Steven or Maria, the gender should be clear enough.

At least that was the case when I was young, but don't tell anyone I said this, the rage machine might knock on my door.
> Roads at best should be a Local and State government issue not Federal Government. The fact that the federal government as taken over that function is an example of Expansion of government power.

But that still means the issue is insufficient government strength, though right? Simply at the local and state level rather than the federal level. Perhaps you can reframe it then as a power misallocation, but it still means some government is not powerful enough to get things done.
Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018)
This is a perfect explanation of why ”I’m living my truth” and post-modernism is completely incompatible with a functioning society.
wtf is chinese algebra
Kids can play games with complicated puzzles for hours. You can make games that teach math in this way and I am sure they'd be a big hit.

My kids play some gamified educational games and loved them.
Ran across this recently (the view of the port backlog crisis from the POV of a trucker): https://news.yahoo.com/lazy-crane-operators-making-250-20010...
The problem isn't that she got money, it's she got on the order of ~1,000,000,000£ of it. There's no "merit" that warrants that kind of reward. There is definitely a case to be made that such massive amounts of wealth need to be more progressively taxed. Not as in "evil gobernmint comes to steal your hard work", but as in that's the pay-back to society for enabling that success in the first place, that's the social contract.
It is a bit outdated. Its useful only on certain optimization problems that in the real world get solved with simpler methods.
I think you're being purposefully absurd but there is a legitimate question as to whether this article is comparing LA ports to ports with negligent safety (and compensation) practices.
When people say they hate unions this is why. This port is not automated, and it's entirely because the unions want their money: https://www.presstelegram.com/2021/05/20/automation-war-expe...

"But the International Longshore and Warehouse Union was quick to issue a response following the meeting, saying the proposal threatens U.S. jobs and local economies." i.e. we want to make things worse, so we get more money.

When you read stuff like this, is it any wonder that Amazon and WalMart are so opposed to unions?

Are there any unions that advocate for good working conditions, without also opposing efficiency gains in the name of jobs?
Seems a lot like the creation of Alphabet. Nothing says faceless conglomerate like deliberately naming your company Alphabet.
That's EXACTLY what I would end up doing. People in this thread have a decidedly hostile attitude towards people using their accumulated wealth/success in order to make their own children stand out. But honestly, what's so immoral about that? If I have the money to pay for private schooling, tutors, or afterschool activities, you betcha I'm going to give that to my child. Sure, it would be nice if the other kids had that too, but that's something the voters and politicians have decided on. As a lone voter in a democracy, how can you reasonably expect me to raise the quality of education for all the other kids before helping my own?
Here we go again.

https://qntm.org/abolish

https://qntm.org/calendar
I've been seeing a lot of pro-perl comments here on HN. Never used it myself, may have to check it out.
The high expectations is indeed something to think about. It has never been harder to be extraordinary at something; I feel like there's just too many people on this planet and the competition is fierce. So I don't know who those gifted programs track - but if it's simply your 130ish IQ top 2%, that's really nice and all but doesn't really mean these kids will achieve anything great. Most of them will be successful lawyers, programmers or doctors and that's it. Nothing extraordinarily gifted about them when they will reach adulthood. They are not likely to be pioneers in their fields, to win awards or do anything memorable or great.
So why create this insane pressure for them to show how unique and gifted they are?
Does giving more tax money to underperforming schools help society?

I'll answer that question myself: no, it does not. Detroit Public Schools receives more funding per student than the average school district in Michigan, yet it is one of the worst performing school districts in the nation.

You cannot simply throw money at bad schools to make them better, so why punish gifted students by removing their ability to learn at a level that's more appropriate for them?
"They made" natives fight each other is a weird way of putting it. Warring tribes were more than happy to use the Europeans against their enemies. And many of those enmities long predated the arrival of Europeans.
> The Windows Subsystem for Android is available across the full spectrum of Windows processor types (AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm).

But scroll down to see "Feature-specific requirements for Windows 11"

> Apps available at Amazon Appstore. Additional requirements apply, including 8 GB of RAM, a solid-state drive (SSD), and a supported processor (Intel® Core™ i3 8th Generation, AMD Ryzen™ 3000, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8c, or above).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

Overall, that's much higher requirements than you'd find for WSL or Bluestacks. I wonder why they've set the bar so high!
> Who did he steal from and what damage did he cause to the people who worked for him?

All the staff that made his shows possible. All the workers that made his ability to make tons of profit possible, and they saw essentially no real amount of it.
Which is granted to terror regimes like Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.
Like I said, companies are free to use a more sustainable model that doesn't require artificial scarcity: they can provide services to reflect the fact that copies of software are not a scarce resource, while labor is.

It's not our duty to keep old business models alive. We shouldn't try to appease companies so they do what we like; they're the ones who should adapt to our needs.
And it is also possible that a Varangian that visited North America ended up as a chief or advisor of a slavic tribe.
The same could be said of social media, games, streaming entertainment, etc. in the modern day.
It's also important to width-test fields. Never forget to make sure that WWWWWWWWWWWW doesn't cause weird application wrapping.
It's the busiest port on earth.
I suppose they should be getting minimum wage?
Because it has nothing to do with the company and what it produces. And also they do all get stock options. So the irrational value of the stock does benefit them.
What is this ive not seen this before emulators can get you in a bit of issues if you give over the roms though no?
People make mistakes all the time. Breaking because somebody made a mistake that you can correct for just leads to unnecessarily fragile code.

What's the point of failing and breaking stuff if someone tells you their image is 144x144 but it's really 145x145? Who does that benefit?
> Only in America!

I'm not disparaging what the US has done during the pandemic (I have issues with a couple of your other examples, but that's not for this thread). I do however take exception to the final sentence.

Astra Zeneca (UK/Sweden) has shipped over a billion doses, is massively (hugely) cheaper, and has production in 15 countries. And the reason for the cost (as little as a tenth of some others) is simple - not profiteering.

So likewise, not "only in the UK" either, but both our nations need to move on from our exceptionalism and the assumption (in general) that the rest of the world does less.
When I was a kid I remember seeing weird bugs in the garden and wondering if I was the first person to find that bug. I’m sure I wasn’t, but in theory I could have “discovered” loads of new species - but would it even matter if I wasn’t aware enough of my own discovery to share it?

Did the Vikings even realise they were on a new continent? My understanding is that they “settled” a tiny area and may have thought it was just an island off of Greenland or something.
“Non-biological” can mean cultural, not just economical.
The report:

https://cdn.ihsmarkit.com/www/prot/pdf/0521/Container-Port-P...
> I think that's the real question. How much does it cost to add a bunch of packaging that serves no purpose other than to sell the item? I have no idea.

I think that it has been established that the cost of packaging is smaller than the marginal increase in profits from greater sales (from the perspective of the manufacturers and retailers).

In theory, an AR-heavy economy could displace packaging costs with AR facsimiles overlaid on generic (even standardized) packaging, but I don't think that would be a win, energy-wise.
Without local tribes? Probably not, but that’s almost always how conquering actually happens (by exploiting existing fault lines). The situation with Alexander the Great is kind of representative. Alexander the Great had an army of about 30,000 people and conquered the Persian Empire which had a population of about 50 million. The Conquistadors had 3000 and conquered the Aztec Empire which had a population of 5 million, although the Conquistadors also had the benefit of disease traveling before them and not just better tactics but also far superior metallurgy. It doesn’t necessarily take an enormous advantage to conquer large territories, and the Conquistadors had numerous advantages.
I've had extensive experience with gifted and magnet school programs through the 2000s to the mid 2010s--as an anecdote to account for this period in my area, (the Mid-Atlantic US,) I found that a fair portion of my classes were immigrants and people of color. It may've been the case that racism was endemic to gifted programs in the 90s, but this was not my experience in the slightest.
The question wasn't if it was better than a new, from-scratch store. It was if it was better than the current windows store.
This is actually one of the central points of the book "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert, who invented the Logo programming language. He contended that the early sorting of children into good/bad at math is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That children who are told they are good at math seek out math, while those who are told they are bad at math actively avoid it. And you can see this effect decades later. My wife was told she was bad at math at a young age, and despite getting As in algebra and trig, and an A in physics, she still thinks she's bad at math. Even after objectively measuring that she performs within the top 10% of her peers at a particular subject, she still thinks she's bad at it. That's how bad this is for children.

The irony here is that I first learned the Logo language in one of these enrichment programs.
indeed. From my experience, I see that my MBA uses swap sometimes, but I can't notice it. Still, I want to avoid it.
> users now associate Facebook with all of the negative things Facebook has become.

who are these users you are writing of?
It's not competing against local, it's in addition to.
Isn't that because Europe was able to bounce back while in the Americas, the diseases were immediately followed up by the European colonizers who didn't give them time or space to repopulate?
I would say yes, "making noise about it" would be a relatively important part of discovery. Did Erikson know that there was an entire continent with advanced societies completely seperated from the "old world"? Because that is what Columbus discovered. I'm making the distinction between Leif Erikson discovering a tundra-like landmass beyond Greenland that they didn't think was significant, and Columbus's actions which ended up connecting the old world to the new. Those two things are very different from each other. If I google "who discovered america" and got Leif Erikson, I think that would be more confusing than Columbus.
I'd say the OS, rather than a language, having a package manager is more of a walled garden..
Where do you think PowerShell's OneGet comes from? It comes from embracing and extending AppGet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287
> notch

Minecraft became what it is because of the third-party developer community. They saw nothing of it.

> j.k. rowling

Has already been explained. But also, her editors, and the fact that copyright/intellectual property is still a govt backed monopoly.

> George Lucas

Same deal as J.K.
Your .bashrc, .zshrc, .profile, etc. files are also special. All that's going on is that there is folder where you can leave functions to be included in the main namespace, I don't see the big difference.
There's few open source tools for any HDL full stop.

Indeed I'd say SystemVerilog is doing better on that front, as Verilator (https://www.veripool.org/verilator/) supports SystemVerilog and is probably the best open source tool for 'real' HDL work (note the number of industrial users).
Do you have a citation on that?

It's a pretty well known stat that violent crimes in the US have been steadily declining since 1990 all while gun ownership has been steadily increasing.
> This is not limited to macros, but any abstraction.

Disagree here. Unix process, file access api's, programming languages are all abstractions that make life easier.
Setting a specific path as an “autoload” path to load shell functions is in bash and zsh too?
Thanks for the feedback! As for the list of cities, I'll work on simplifying that somehow. The map idea is pretty cool, it'll take a bit longer to implement. I'll be working on that soon.

San Francisco definitely exists in the list, I'm not sure why it doesn't show up on your side. Here is an example https://thehtime.com/intersect?locations=USA+-+San+Francisco...

Please let me know if it works.