skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at this rate, all California schools will just give a "P" grade for "participation". Just teach algebra in 8th grade but give everyone a "P", then nobody struggles!
Gentle note - I participated in one of the Catherine Project's events - a two hour session on Genesis 1-5. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Everyone involved came prepared, asked good questions, and listened thoughtfully to what others had to say. I'd cheerfully participate again.

I don't understand the skepticism either. If people want to engage a great text with a community, what's the harm?
I’ve never heard of anywhere in the US doing just one year of math. My family currently in high school are required to do math all 4 years.
I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market. This involves a great deal of understanding on mathematics topics involving everything from stats, probability and economics. They manage to do this part time while governing, so I'd have to say they are pretty adept.

I could be missing something though.
Wow I took algebra in 6th grade and it was easy for me. This is sad and dumb.
> The arguments seem to be between "we should present these concepts early for the benefit of the students who are ready for it" vs "we should delay these concepts until all students are ready."

Yes, I'm saying that the argument should be quite a bit broader than that. There's much that could be improved in how we expose students to more advanced math in early grades, and there's also much to learn from these well-established teaching approaches. If you do it badly, it's less likely to work.
There's no way to be notified of comment replies, or see votes, though. But otherwise I love it as well.
Xi Jinping laughing his butt off.
Germany solved this by past 4 years of primary school having three different advanced schools that prepare for different types of careers and that have different durations. That's in addition to having AP classes towards the end. It has the downside that it disadvantages late developing children, but there are also ways to continue at the higher schools if you do really well. Making the jump is harder though.

I think this is a decent trade-off between going slower for some kids and holding others back who could go faster and more advanced.
"Actually" means something rather different than "literally", though.
The Lush virtue signalling has front-run other conscientious consumer trends like low/no plastic packaging, refillable containers etc. I am sure plenty of others will be watching to see if getting off facebook translates to a new brand premiuim.
I went to a normal public school in a rural area. I am also not very good at maths ;)
We were introduced to algebra in 6th grade. Talking about Indian subcontinent in the 90s. I (and a lot other kids) did fine with it. Well there were many that didn't and they switched to humanities or business studies later. But even if lives are not good at math, they should be taught math. Doing otherwise is how they grow up to become conspiracy theorists.
Source code (in TypeScript) here: https://github.com/inkandswitch/peritext
i think a better approach would be more things like after school robotics programs and outreach to try and recruit historically underrepresented groups into them.

not only do they provide additional space for engagement in a healthy environment, they also provide something that was always important for me when i was younger, longer goals or projects that learning lands in the critical path for.

problem sets are pretty boring, especially grade school calculations, i always needed a carrot to do boring things.
I, along with 30 other kids in my grade, took our first algebra class in 7th grade (early 90s). After a few weeks of struggling, I was entirely fine with it. I really think you're underestimating what kids can do if taught properly. If students don't have the "mathematical maturity" for algebra until 8th grade, or later, then that just means instruction in prior years was lacking.

Not everyone took algebra in 7th grade; those who did not, took it in 8th grade.
In a US public school, I was doing very basic algebra— math with variables— in 6th grade, which is around age 11. The class called 'Algebra' in the US school system, which this article references, is a subset of what Algebra actually is on a whole. Very basic algebra before high school (which starts at grade 9, or age 14/15) is often called pre-algebra.
Tell that to the retiree living on a fixed sum for life.

Of course inflation is bad you should see what $100 over 10 years at 2% inflation is.

Now try it for 6%+.

It’s the reverse compounding for savings people should strive for.

Who did you learn your basic economics from?
> IC is a commonly used acronym for Individual Contributor

Its not though. Outside of hacker news I have literally never heard this term before, nor does it make any sense. If I'd start talking about "Individual Contributors" to my colleagues they would all be confused wth I'm talking about and wondering what's wrong with me. Who even coined this stupid term, and why do we pretend we need a new name for "engineers"?
1. Yes, but, what is actually happening on the box?

2. I doubt this is xterm.js. The font and text to not appear to be aligned columns/rows like an xterm session. (Compare the outer emulator font sizing and the inner x64 font sizing.)

3. The croisis protocol says, "x protobuf for vague 1-sentence description", but this does not actually specify the behavior of the backend--and you can't read the source.
The leak might have been accidental, but allowing it to spread was definitely not accidental. Most people in the West don't realize that this is not China's first full-scale run-in with SARS. They had similar, but local pandemic over a decade ago. Ask a Chinese person who was there, they'll tell you - the similarities are quite profound. Back then it stayed local. This time it was allowed to escape. I'll let you fill in the blanks as to "cui bono". We won't really know who made the decisions and how it was done for another 50 years. Maybe we'll get to know by the time FDA releases vaccine testing data.
Moving to the US from Europe isn't that easy. I only made the move because my wife is a postdoc over here, but with things like H1-B freezes and covid-19 it can be very difficult to do.
Not the original person you are replying to, but several including myself.

That said, I think that your question is a bit loaded. Textbook-level treatment of a subject is usually very shallow (depending on the subject, I suppose).
I wasn't all that tech savvy but I was using the internet in 1985 when I was a university student. Oh, right, it wasn't called "the internet" and we used bang addresses for email and rcp instead of scp to copy files between hosts because security was physical locks on the room with the VAX in it, but it was continuous with what is today called the internet.
Something interesting: Two sides of a story
Tiptop – Command-line system monitoring
Yes, that is part of the trade and cooperation agreement (who knows how long this thing will last, though?)

It includes mechanisms for the UK to pay if British scientists get too much of EU money. Who can bet anything on the British government keeping their word when they need to pay? The government with no qualms about breaking international laws “in specific and limited ways” when it suits them, and that is reneging on its promises about the Irish protocol?

Besides, this does not cover any use of other EU funds beyond Horizon Europe, like the ERDF.
That is why they included an alternative count of unjust enrichment. In the case the defense proves they never agreed to the user/license agreement then they will have also proven that they obtained Apple's software and accessed Apples services without a license and used them for their own profit and to Apples determent. Thereby unjustly enriching themselves.
I immigrated from India after high school and we had already studied advanced calculus and other subjects by high school. Basic Calculus was introduced in grade 9 onwards if I remember right. When I immigrated for university to Canada, I was teaching algebra, trig, calculus etc to university students 1 year above me.

All these delaying important subjects is going to let immigrants from other countries like India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc excel while Canadians and Americans to fall behind. This is a stupid idea.
I am looking and I don't see my preferred extensions without which I cannot live (I won't repeat the already mentioned ones):

- Selection Context Search - very extensible addon which will allows you to select in page and use that for opening an URL: search in any engine, add to search strings in Wikipedia, IMDB, torrents, almost anything

- Ant Video Downloader - downloads any video from page

- Bookmark Tab Here - bookmark by right clicking directly on bookmark folder

- HistoryBlock - blocklists sites from history (for example google.com, your search history)
> It’s the official shift from “we can lift everyone up” to “we need to hold everyone down”.

No, its based on empirical evidence that the way things were done previously holds everyone down, and they should be done differently if you want to lift everyone up.

Educational approaches are technologies, and old familiar technologies are, often, just not as good at their purpose as newer ones.
This is a terribly ill informed take.

Sony Animation ( who you misattributed to marvel) were already pushing animation style heavily. Just go watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

There's also tons of animation variety from outside America. The issue is that in America, a lot of the style was defined by Pixar. Which was probably the biggest experiment of them all.

But even among the major studios, there's a lot of variety in style. Trolls is incredibly stylized and DreamWorks really pushed style far in Kung Fu Panda 2.

Even Pixar are now experimenting more with style with Luca and Turning Red.

This is also only considering feature film work. If you pay attention to shorts, there's a huge variety.

It comes down to Art Direction. Arcane and Spiderverse are expensive and require an insane amount of per shot bespoke work. A lot of people also tend to find hyper stylized content not as compelling. So there's not a great risk to reward ratio.
They're thinking that teaching people stuff is promoting a diversity of outcomes, which is anathema at the moment.

Diversity is supposed to only extend as far as categories one mustn't use to discriminate (age, race, sex, religion, etc.). If it occurs in other areas (achievement level, ability in particular subjects) ... oooh that's bad. Must make it stop.
You seem to be ascribing to me a position that I do not hold. I don't have a problem with test as a measure. I don't exactly have a problem with tests as a motivational device, either. I have a problem with cramming as a learning technique. I don't think it works very well for actual long-term learning.
Funnily enough, but it actually didn't feel that way at all. Investors definitely communicate and share their dealflow a lot (a lot of vcs told us they heard about us from others and wanted to meet us, although we mostly had no's.), but my impression is they are not discouraged by no's from others, if they like what you are doing.

I assume that is because they understand there a lot of different reasons behind no's (bad timing, wrong stage, not excited about the area, ...) so it doesn't automatically mean something is fundamentally wrong with the company.

On the other hand, getting yes is definitely a big signal for others and makes them move much faster.

To me it all felt like a really fast game with a huge pile of deals on the table where everybody is just digging through and looking for something they like - no is here just a default answer and everybody has their own "filters" and premises they are going after.

This is why it really helped us when we focused really narrowly on finding investors who are a good fit for us, that was probably the biggest factor of all.
Easier to do coke off it when you can hold it near your face.
I'm curious to see how this will turn out as other countries are not buying into this nonsense. In an increasingly competitive world this is a recipe for disaster.
This is exactly the reason NYC terminated the gifted and talented program. They're all so woke that they've reinvented anti-literacy laws.
> for social networking services, this means interconnection on basic features “such as posts, likes, and comments”.

If Alice is on Facebook, and Bob is on Mastodon, and they are friends in meatspace, then I can't think of a reason (compliant with this proposed law) why Alice shouldn't be able to let Bob see her Facebook posts (without him needing to create a Facebook account).

The various nodes in the Fediverse have already shown that this is technically possible and users want it, so Facebook should expect an unsympathetic judge if they implement anything less useful than that.

I can only imagine that Facebook would set the requirements for federating with them to be as onerous as possible, and that they would break federation often for spurious reasons (following the precedent of some Fediverse nodes blocking others for political reasons). To be fair, it's true that if Bob's node is malicious it can spy on (or alter/drop) Alice's messages that she shares with him, but Bob might feel the same way about Alice's provider, Facebook.
The CFAA includes this. I am not sure it's possible for US government actors to violate the CFAA unless they're violating some other law also. It seems very unlikely Congress intended to make T&Cs binding on law enforcement or intelligence investigations.

"This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#
You shouldn't optimize for the average student; you should stratify instruction so students of different levels are pushed to their limits and beyond.

Sure, some students will not be able to handle algebra as early as others. That doesn't mean you hold back the students who can. That's disastrous public policy, at the very least.
Found it amusing after moving to the bay area that a job ad on the side of a local Chinese restaurant was offering more for a "floor supervisor" than a professorship at Oxford Uni that I had just seen.
Because their targets are on iOS and exploits garner more money. That sounds like a signal that the supply of exploits are lower or the demand very high. This doesn’t, to me, seem to signal that it’s more insecure, in fact, it may signal that it’s more secure.
They had 250+ meetings over ~3 months to raise only $1.5M? Wow. That's a lot of time that could have been spent building a product. Is this what YC money is supposed to be for? You get a few months of runway that you need to turn into a higher raise to have a longer runway on someone else's dime?

Are there any hacker/entrepreneur communities that focus on revenue-funded efforts instead of the self-perpetuating financing cycles?
Public school is just state sponsored daycare so parents can work full-time and be productive first. Then a means of socializing children so they can be minimally functional in society and also work and be productive. Lastly to produce individuals that can think for themselves.
Insider trading is what you're missing. As evidenced by the March 2020 dump
I learned it in 7th since my 7-9 highschool had an option to test into it, and could have learned it in 6th.
This is a pretty cool idea. The only catch is retaining consistent state across the page when there are multiple components that depend on same data. For instance, if there’s a form that submits to increment or decrement some dataset, but there is a stat based on that data in the sidebar, then it’s nearly impossible to keep the stat relevant. That said, its a planning problem than a stack problem.

I’ve been trying this in all my hobby projects and am absolutely hooked. It feels simpler than even django-sockpuppet, say.
I don't understand what this means. Where I went to school there were no gifted programs but we all were doing algebra and word problems much earlier than in the US. If people want consistent outcomes then teach everyone the same thing and hold everyone up to the same standards by investing more resources in students that are underachieving. That to me seems like a much better way of equalizing outcomes.
No I didn't mean 1 year of math. Rather I meant breaking down math into these individual topics (that may or may not be compulsory) that you don't teach every year, makes the experience very disconnected.
I'm British. For the lulz I decided to complete the US "GED":
"The General Educational Development (GED) tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has United States or Canadian high school-level academic skills." (Wikipedia)

I had not looked at what it encompassed before I signed up. I was given a huge book to study from. I glanced at it briefly each day for two weeks and then sat for the exams.

I got 99% in all subjects. Apparently that was the maximum possible as the score went from 0-99% for reasons I didn't bother to explore.

It was disturbingly easy. And bear in mind that I was thrown out of my British secondary school at 16 because my exam scores were the worst on record at my school, allegedly.
> I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market

Politicians are not using math to decide which stocks to pick, they are using insider information.

edit: ok, it's clear that the parent comment was sarcasm now but you never know
I think it is way past time we physically remove all liberals from the tech industry.

We should EMP the bay area.
I would want to see it as a top level "language" where your files show up on the left and are accessible using disk commands in the environment. Running something would execute the commands to load and run on the C64 emulator, etc.
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Despite all that, I still find it absolutely necessary to get in the same headspace with someone on the other "side". We can and should always float any outcomes to the primary points of contact on either side, but a POC is a primary point of contact, not the only point of contact.

Put differently, interfacing directly with customer ICs is good and necessary, so long as it's done with the go-ahead and oversight of each POC.
I hope that helps. The book was illuminating to me, despite it being a textbook for law students, which I never was.
Show HN: Recipe for Roman Concrete
These are things the Romans are experts at:

wheat flour - bakers were some of the highest paid tradesmen, Rome thought often of bread. Wheat flour is a toughener. Gluten when mineralized, fossilized, and hardened is very tough.

ash – fossilizer they lived in a volcanic region

slacked lime and concentrated urea (like mule urine) – hardener and calcifier

porous volcanic rock filler – makes it more economical, it improves compressive strength

red cabbage juice – neutrality indicator – an emperor once abdicated his throne to grow cabbages.

water - They were on a long thin peninsula and watched water a lot

The preparation process:

Add 1 parts slacked lime 4 parts sifted, Italian volcanic ash to enough water to make a crumbly paste in the mixer. Add enough durum wheat flour in the mixer to make a heavy rustic dough consistency. Mix in some porous rock. It will begin to harden all by itself so don’t let it stand too long. Quickly add and mix enough urea to make cabbage test water blue. Test every 10th of the way. Add enough water now to make a workable cookie dough consistency mix (with the chunks of rock in there). Pour and shape into your form.

Explanation:

Urea is toxic to life because it aids calcification. https://atlasofscience.org/urea-is-truly-toxic-the-empire-strikes-back/

Calcium supplies the mineralization process via quicklime. Durum wheat flour has a lot of gluten in it that get denatured by urea and mineralized by quicklime. It is then fossilized by the ash. Gluten when turned into rock is very tough and hard. For even harder and more durable concrete use collagen instead of durum wheat flour or to a degree as economics afford. You must use durum wheat flour, no other flour will work. Durum flour is the bare minimum protein ratio flour you may use. Adding gluten flour may enhance toughness. Unfortunately for us as we age, aragonite crystals grow in Cartilage causing arthritis but calcium transposition in denatured protein can make exceptional concrete. And Co2 gas neutral to boot.

If this concrete is to be used as a salt sea pier you should use sea water instead of fresh during this process.

This is very expensive concrete however it will last longer than you will if you get the technique right. The great wall of china was mortared in rice and roman concrete is even better!

[ this is a hoax, how do you know I’m right? ]
Yes, but, to quote Paul Buchheit, how does it *actually* work? What is the non-handwave-y explanation?

> "IDE" of sorts...*effectively* a disk image...a VM (what kind?)
How old is a 9th grade student in the US? My cohort started Algebra in year 7 in Australia, which is 12/13 years old. And similar to GP's proposal, we learn age appropriate topics every single year, every single week.
Everything about this movement is rotten.

SFUSD claims their reforms pushing algebra to 9th grade decreased the algebra re-take rate from 40% to 7%. However, the drop in re-take rate was actually caused primarily by the removal of the requirement to pass a curriculum exam. Quite simply, if “knowing algebra” is removed as a requirement to pass algebra, more people will pass algebra.

More at https://www.familiesforsanfrancisco.com/updates/inequity-in-...
Get labelled incorrectly in grade 8 and get shutout of any advanced math/science classes which disqualifies you from a good university program.
what evidence and what data? I studied math in Syria and was doing Calculus at 8th grade, came to the states and was forced to redo basic algebra. Do you know how soul crushing it is to redo those classes?

edit: I dont understand how poor war-torn countries can have a better educational system than the most developed country in the world.
Ask HN: How do you prevent getting spammed?
How do you guys clean and prevent getting spammed?

I find it annoying to find constantly clean, block, and report spam from my email and sms? Not really fan of the alternative of creating new email and switching sms as when I do that I still get spammed.

Filtering is kinda awful tbh, occasionally i would miss a message that is relatively important.

The worst part is they've programatically made it so that the senders phone number / email changes everyday
Chooses both, as far as I can tell.
>Talking about inflation to motivate pay rise is a logically unsound argument.

I get the rest of what you're saying, but I don't see how it's logically unsound.

To me, it logically unsound if a company raises prices to match inflation, and all of it's costs other than employee salaries raise at roughly the inflation rate. Why are salaries solely exempt as a cost subject to inflation?
You say there are 65.4 million females in the age range that you want, but only 1.4 million of them are beautiful? Only 2% of young (18-25) females are beautiful?

Yeah, that might be why you don't have a girlfriend...
How does the current system hold everyone down?
If you were pretty close to the receiving end on the microwave link, it wouldn't be that hard to overpower the signal from the studio.
They have a higher priced section now. Not everything is $1 at Dollar Tree any more. At least here in Colorado.
uMatrix can be configured similarly, but it is extremely limited. I am thinking something more like the Firefox/Chrome DevTools.

Also uMatrix is no longer maintained.