skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point still stands.

But if we want to be pedantic, you are assuming a filibuster and controversy.

I think that could be done entirely by executive action, using administrative actions, like 900 billion dollars of other covid spending that had no legislative approval.

I suppose states and governors could sue to have federal hospitals treating their residents torn down in the middle of a pandemic, but that would be terrible PR.
A port of simdjson, simdjson-go, is in the benchmark graphs. It seems to be too fast to be visible in most of the graphs.
the NSO Group itself is an Israeli firm, founded by ex-Israeli intelligence, and whose products are subject to Israeli national export controls.

All this means is that the NSO Group is an Israeli company staffed by Israeli citizens. I don't know what export controls have to do with anything since those apply categories of products, regardless of whether or not you have business with the Israeli government.
While this is true, I would like to point out a good portion of schools do allow students to continue to more advanced math if they elect to.

I went to high school in California, I was able to take all the way up to what was called Calculus BC, which covered up to learning integration techniques. This was in a bay area high school that was underfunded, and the majority of our senior class didn't graduate.

But the vast majority of students stop at Algebra 2, and struggle through it.
previously on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Mobilizon
Your words. Not mine.
You could use hashed token claims to encode a role or other identifying info.

If you use a webhook you don't have to worry about this, since the user doesn't get to see what you forward as the authorization claims payload. But if you're using a JWT to hold state, since JWT's are publicly viewable it has to be non-obvious and non-deterministic.

IE, something like:

{ "user_id": 5316, "$2a$09$ckHFIEsR8Sjveh1ynOLKguynRDGjEfMCZz0vsUk/Jtm/cW1SxibaK": "$2a$09$pCyjFN6perhHNspS1NFj0eScZ4.ZlOzzPMXhoMrYVmNLMx3MvXdYK" }

Where in the example above, the key is "X-User-Role" and the value is "moderator" that have been bcrypt hashed.

Probably you would want to choose more obscure/uncommon words. I'm not familiar with the details of hashing but it seems like a good idea.

Then you can attach the role (or other identifying) metadata to each request in a way that isn't immediately obvious what it's for.

Disclaimer: I'm not a security expert, possible (probable?) there is a gaping hole in this and it's an awful idea.
> but even very young children can learn these concepts if you would just spend some time teaching it to them.

Many decades of cognitive science disagree with you.

See Piaget for one of the earlier researchers on this topic. Even though his original ideas have been refuted or refined, the basic premises of his ideas are still prominent among the large group of modern researchers that some people dub neo-Piagetians.
call me dumb but i respect them.

they're going all in, they try to make the greatest financially sustainable and privacy friendly message platform or they die trying.

they're brave.
With the original Borne shell, the exper command was used for arithmetic.

The POSIX shell allows the $(( form for native shell arithmetic, but not the (( alternative found in bash and Korn.
If you were following the guidelines yourself, you would have assumed my comment was not targeted at the author at all, which it was not. And you would most definitely not assume I was criticizing someone for their language skills...
> Though something along the lines of discord's nitro would be a nicer way to fund things. I wonder why telegram doesn't do something like that.

I'd guess because paid features quickly exclude people in poorer countries and people that prefer to remain anonymous, both of which are avid telegram users.

Also, remember that WhatsApp choose the same route, despite actually being non-free for quite some time. It might be simply be the better market strategy.
Has anyone tried re-working the audio to cancel out whatever filters/distortions they used?
Who's the bottom tier of society?
Excerpt from one of my favorite passages, Chapter 7, p. 136:

To detect errors, the programmer must have a conniving mind, one that delights in uncovering flaws where beauty and perfection were once thought to lie. Perhaps a touch of paranoia helps---the kind of thinking that automatically conjures up the worst imaginable cases.

For locating errors, however, we want a person who has the persistence of a mother-in-law and the collecting instincts of a pack rat. In one project, for instance, a bug in the operating system was known to exist for six months before it was finally tracked down by one programmer who had saved every dump taken in that period---three nine-foot stacks of paper! Late at night he could be found poring over his dumps---searching, groping, rummaging about for some slight clue that would have escaped the eye of a Sherlock Holmes. Months went by, and then, in one dump, a single bit which didn't seem quite right. Back he went through all the other dumps, until he had ferreted out two more cases, then five, then a dozen out of the hundreds. These twelve cases he arranged on a large table, first in one pattern, then another until some threads of connection became visible.

By this time, his mind was so specialized to the cases at hand that it was fruitless for him to try to explain his hypothesis to anyone else. It seemed to him that one of the data channels---when certain conditions were just right---was picking up a bit in one of the positions of its address register, thus causing a single character to be stored out of its regular sequence. Since this error usually occurred in the middle of a large data block, the stray character was usually wiped out by subsequent characters in the block, but in a few cases---the twelve---the character was found just past the end of the block. He tried to convince the engineers, but they would not listen. Programmers always say that there are machine errors. So, finally, he constructed a program that would force the channel into just the right circumstances with an increased frequency. Then, when made the error occur with more regularity, he was able to define the circumstances with enough precision to find on the schematic exactly the circuit card that must be in error. The engineers were impressed with his diligence, so they finally granted him a test of the card---and found he was right!

Such programming sleuths are not rewarded for their discoveries with the fame of a Pasteur or a Salk. Nonetheless, they are satisfied--beyond the comprehension of ordinary men---with the work itself.
> Unfortunately, Telegram cannot financially sustain third-party apps that do not display sponsored messages and they will have to be disconnected.

The whole post could have been summarized to these few words: "Telegram has now joined the club of the apps that have grown of age and need to figure out a way to actually make money".

Which is perfectly understandable. I just think that slamming unsolicited ads in front of people's eyeballs is a very bad and uninspired way of making money - and collecting their data so you can target better ads is even worse.

I'd be happy to pay up to $5 a month for a decent messaging app with relatively high adoption, modern features and a well-supported API to build integrations. And many HN users would probably prefer to pay too.

Unfortunately, we are not the majority of the users. Any fee for a widely adopted app that used to be free would cause a bleeding of users. And, on the long run, Telegram is likely to make more money from advertisers rather a $5 fee.

I'm getting quite sick of this cycle. We keep seeking for products that respect our privacy and do not show us ads. We may find them, we may stick around with them for a while, then at some point they are also like "sorry, now we also need to make money, therefore we'll also add ads/trackers", and then the cycle repeats.

Nobody's infrastructure is free. And while it's understandable, I also don't want to rent somebody else's servers in exchange of ads I didn't ask for. I'd be happier to just pay for the rent, but nobody is providing me with that option. Everyone finds the ads/trackers model more profitable than the subscription model.

I'll try and convince as many friends as I can to switch to NextCloud Talk (if I'm hosting the service then I know that I won't get surprises), but in the meantime we really need to talk about federated apps. A centralized infrastructure to store messages for millions isn't cheap, and eventually anybody who maintains that infrastructure will have to find a way to make a profit (or at least not make a loss) out of it. We need to have smaller and more maintainable "clouds" to connect users to one another. It's insane that we're in 2021, we can deploy services anywhere within seconds, and yet most of the messaging traffic generated by billions still goes through the gateways of 4-5 apps.

p.s. btw, client-line commands like Bitlbee (and any libpurple-based integration) should unaffected, unless they display ads as _actual_ messages (which would be a horrible decision).
As someone who went through a gifted program, I seriously question the validity of any such study.

So much more was expected of us, that of course we came out learning more. 8th grade was a 20 page research project. 6th grade math was algebra, in 7th grade we learned logarithms and binary math.

When I went back to mainstream academics in high school, the difference was stark. In one of my city's top schools, students were still reading books out loud during class. Expected reading assignments were around a couple dozen pages a week. Math was all repeating what I had learned in middle school. Essays were a fraction the length and difficulty.

And in high school I knew plenty of smart kids who were bored to tears and misbehaved. Hell I watched one kid in Latin class piece his own nipple. (The teacher did nothing, possibly because said student was also pretty darn good at Latin...)

I wonder how a study is going to account for "smart kids who dropped out of school from sheer boredom".

Another aspect to examine is that behavior problems in gifted programs were, IMHO, much less than in mainstream classrooms. When all the students in the classroom are there to learn, no big surprise, learning gets done. Students turn in HW on time, listen when the teacher talks, and have expectations of not only themselves, but of each other.

Yes, gifted programs need to be accessible across socio-economic levels. The fact that I had to be bused to the rich part of town to go to a gifted program is a great example of classist and racist policies in action.

> while being fairly expensive.

I fail to see how gifted programs cost any more than regular programs. You are literally taking the highest achievers and placing them in a separate classroom for a few core subjects. For middle school and high school, there are no additional teachers, no additional programs in place, it is purely a cohort.

> and they don’t appear to make any meaningful difference in student engagement or motivation.

As someone from a poor working class family, gifted programs gave me the opportunity to rise up out of generations of being poor.

Gifted programs need to be made available to everyone who qualifies.

The fact is, one college graduate can help elevate an entire family. Every student needs to be given the chance to reach their full potential, and for some, that means placing them in an environment which has an expectation of academic excellence and lifelong achievement.

Edit: I just reviewed the study my local school district did to justify shutting down their spectrum program. None of the reasons (!!!) had to do with student outcomes.
But firing the CEO, even a founder, is the right of investors who paid for it... I mean what else do you sell them?

If they like the business but not the guy, why should they forever be forced to have him as a parasite in their mind ?

Dilution seems wrong though, because they were supposed to buy something, not steal it.
it's the same thing whatsapp did iirc.
> I don't understand the skepticism either.

The thread's been jumped on by mysoginistic conservatives?
These efforts feel misguided. Black and Latino people aren't bad at math because of the language used in math education (most of the language seems neutral from what I remembered), it's because they are largely poor, due to structural racism or they are first generation immigrants who didn't come to work in tech or something. They're just poor and unfortunately it's hard to really do anything when you're poor in America.

My parents immigrated from Romania and were part of the Florida Romanian community. Many were poor, didn't really have a great support system, and didnt really get America. Many of the kids in that community just dropped out or didn't do well in school and that's largely because of a poor home life and just not having access to anything. All the countries that have great education systems also have great support systems for families.

Algebra isn't hard (though it is time consuming imo), you can pass all the tests with memorization since it's applying a few patterns over and over again. Delaying it isn't going to make people better at it.
I read the first stride of [1]. This is going to be divisive.

The recommendations are quite sane--seek student understanding over the correct answer, use examples students can relate to, etc. It's basically a few dozen pages of very sensible (perhaps even cliche) guidelines.

But throughout it's couched language claiming the opposite is white supremacy. Eg. grades stress getting the correct answer over comprehension, and are part of a White supremacist model.

I can allready see how the debate is going to end up, with each side talking past each other. The reformers will claim that the only reason you're opposed to it is because you support White supremacy. The traditionalists will say it's using race as a cudgel to silence opposition.
I would say practical reasons. How would you structure those lessons? You'd need a lot more resources to be able to tailor everyone's path like that.

It would be great though. I loved going to school for the first 4 years when we were ~30 people in the whole school (spread over 1-4th graders) - the teachers were able to address individual needs. Then I went to fifth grade where were were 35 people in the class. It just went downhill from there.
There is no single US. Each state has it own program to separate students into different tracks. In mine they identified "talented kids" in 3rd grade and they have advanced math and language programs going forward. They had additional evaluations in middle and high schools. So it wasn't like all doors are closed after the 3rd grade.

Regular public schools in a pretty big district that combines both urban and suburban schools.
that’s the point!

now the plan is to get $2m from each ads partner, of which only $1m can be used towards ads and the remaining $1m is a “deposit” which can’t be withdrawn unless you plan to spend $10m

also consider that none of the channels can disable ads nor get any % cut
I wonder if you could include a rules engine and some sample rules that could be loaded.
> US based NSO property, practically speaking

Nope. Not only does Israel have an extradition treaty with the U.S., their civil systems are quite tightly linked.

[1] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/07-110-Isra...
When I was in 5th grade, I was put into the advanced math class. We graphed equations, learned y=mx+b, slopes, etc. All the basic concepts that are introduced in Algebra 1.

When I was in 7th grade, we were taught "what a negative number is." That entire year was a complete and utter waste. But fortunately, 8th grade offered Algebra where I could get back on track.

This was 30 years ago, in California. Public school math standards are a joke here, and apparently getting even worse.
> "I only invent the bomb, I don't drop it."

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Not just Asians, even Africans (blacks), e.g. Nigerians - they even outperform local (US) whites!
> A gifted program is where you take some kids aside and teach them some random extra stuff, at the end of the day they're still in the regular classes with the other kids also and don't really have a chance to go any faster.

Those are modern cut rate gifted programs.

The 90s had gifted programs where students who tested well got placed into a separate cohort for core classes (English, History, Math) in Middle and High School, or were in a dedicated classroom for elementary school.
If I were implemting telegram, the MVP version would be on AWS. Then the "scales to 10M users" version would also be in AWS, but only using EC2 and no deeply integrated Amazon services. Then I'd hire a team to build it on-site for the "scales to 3B users" version of the infra.
> We need people who can cooperate with other humans, who can leverage technology to achieve their goals and who can evaluate information critically. Throw money at THOSE problems.

Sounds to me like you want some science, technology, engineering, and math curriculum.
Furries absolutely love Telegram because you can make custom sticker sets very easily, all you need is some PNGs of your fursona expressing a variety of emotions.

The general sentiment I see in the furry fandom is very anti-crypto.
Well that and all that boring but important infrastructure that means you have the pleasure of living in a viable society, rather than a hellscape.
I believe that is the plan: payed version will get rid of the public chat ads, but private chats will remain always ad-free, according to the CEO.
I've always wondered what the original character's name was, and now I finally know: Max Headroom! I remember being very creeped out by it when I was a kid in the 90s. It's one of those things that lots of other shows referenced but I never thought to go find the source.
Page 7 is where they completely lose me. "Students are required to “show their work” in standardized, prescribed ways" is a manifestation of white supremacy?

If you click on that item, it takes you to a page where they suggest non-standard classroom activities like "Have students create TikTok videos, silent films, or cartoons about mathematical concepts or procedures."

I'm pretty open minded about education pedagogy, but you completely lose me (and 99% of teachers) when you suggest creating TikTok videos so students can adequately express their mathematical understanding.
Those are literally the minimum possible requirements to get a diploma anywhere in the State of California; judging from the document, school districts may impose stricter requirements.

Those are unusually lenient from what I've seen; my home school district [not in California] currently requires 4 years of English, 3 years each of math, science, and social studies, 2 each of PE and foreign language or fine arts, 1 year of economics/personal finance, and 4 electives. And apparently 1 course must be AP, IB or honors. As a matter of practice, you'd be expected to take 4 years of English, math, science, and social studies, and at least 3 of foreign language anyways (and indeed, there's an 'advanced degree' that has those requirements; it looks like 2/3 of students graduated with the 'advanced degree').
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Most kids get into it.
> It's a civil case

If you perjure yourself in a civil case, you've committed a crime. Contempt of court is, similarly, a (process) crime.
> Gifted programs aren't the same thing as tracking kids into more advanced math classes

In elementary school gifted programs are often tracking people into advanced math, reading, and other subjects all at once. Plus teaching them extra stuff.

At higher grades, if it exists at all, its often tracking them into a different school that has both more advanced and more diverse classes.

> A gifted program is where you take some kids aside and teach them some random extra stuff, at the end of the day they're still in the regular classes with the other kids also and don't really have a chance to go any faster.

I’ve heard of lots of different gifted programs, and most don't fit that description.
given their customer base, they could provide some dumb whatever extra feature and get that 1$/year that whatsapp used to bill and probably still be profitable (as whatsapp used to be)
Apple seemingly inflates Podcasts app rating with new review prompt
I suggest the people who have the most beef with 'traditional orgs' haven't worked in them (or not for very long) and don't understand the nuance of the limitations of them, and also don't grasp the value that's created at scale.

Also, I think less than 0.01% of 'artists' have ever heard of Web3, even most people in Tech haven't really hard of it or couldn't describe it in any meaningful way.
Telegram has investors and revenue streams that far surpass anything Signal has (even with Acton/Marlinspike's generous endowment).

This means they can hire more employees. In fact, telegram has more than 10 times the employees and 25 times the funding than signal has.
Be careful when using vxlan
10% of income is the standard
Pavel Durov is a dollar billionaire, so that’s something.
why did it take almost 9 years though? what were they thinking?!?
“Mostly” and “only” aren’t the compatible.

Anecdotally: I use telegram (and have since Facebook purchased WhatsApp) and I am neither purveyor nor purchaser of “crypto scams” or “dodgy nonsense”.
Explanations for the Havana Syndrome [video]
You're looking at the Bailey, not the Motte.
> I would say a strong counter to your argument is that Covid highlighted the need for much better STEM education, because of how painfully obvious it was that so many do not understand "the science".

I'd argue that information literacy is more important. I know plenty of STEM-credentialed people who might have insight into their narrow STEM field, but are effectively data illiterate when it comes to evaluating data that's from outside of their field of expertise.

Even then, I don't think the majority of the people that COVID exposed as "not understanding the science" really don't understand it. It's just that they don't care. We're mistaking their lack of giving a shit about the truth for a genuine misunderstanding of the science.
Insufflation generally makes a compound more bioavailable and gives a higher peak but a far shorter duration. It can take 100mg orally to get a normal bump effect. So people view it as wasting coke, but the effects can last 4-6 hours.
> which isn't replicating an existing financial instrument [available to the developed world] while trying to avoid the eyes of the [benevolent] state

Not everyone has access to Venmo or free checking accounts. And not every behavior the state is trying to restrict is nefarious.
> I am an IT guy and I would have done a much better job.

I'm sure you're a very nice and competent person, but that's a quote for the ages.
It doesn't fit the frame properly on my system.
The GNU way for handling files that have inconvenient characters in their names is:

find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...

It makes all the problems go away.
Or it was a US lab and we will never release the records al la JFK.
So if I sell you a magic rock under the contract that so long as you are in possession of said rock I have legal authority to monitor your household to make sure you don’t misuse the rock for evil, and you die and your heir comes in possession of the rock, I now have a contract with your heir? I can go set up cameras in their house and invade their privacy just because you wanted a magic rock? That doesn't seem right?..