skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benn Jordan (perhaps better know by his musical moniker The Flashbulb) put out a video today[0] about another scam in a somewhat similar vein, but this one perpetrated by a NYTimes reporter and specifically targeting musicians

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk872ERRVxA
Not allowing myself to be more like George Clooney, at last as relates to working for unethical / sleazeball / just plain dishonest employerss:

Unruffled as the silver hair on his head, Clooney leans forward, as if he is about to confide in me. “Well, yeah. I was offered $35m for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal [Clooney, the human rights lawyer he married in 2014] about it and we decided it’s not worth it. It was [associated with] a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought: ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.’

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/03/i-was-offered-3...
Eh, watching all this makes me only more willing to properly research homeschooling ( it is not yet apparent whether we will be able to afford private school.. so I am assuming we won't be ).

Still, the pattern is hard to miss. I think my current favorite is biology and its treatment of race ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/race-biology-genetics.... ).

Quote directly from the article:

“We basically decided, no, race is still a social construction, it’s not a biological thing,” Ken Miller, an author of the widely used Prentice Hall biology textbook, told the science magazine Undark of the decision to omit mention of race.

I guess what I am saying is not new to anyone. Public schools will continue to degrade. There is no benefit to any of the groups other than the parents to ensure kids learn things ( administrators, their lawyers, your congressman, my congressman, teachers, teacher's unions, book publishers ). Sure, they pay lip service and some individual teachers care, but each of those groups have goals beyond kid's education.

edit: I was gonna add Apple and Microsoft in that list, but I removed them, because, as flawed as their reasoning is, at least they pretend they want to teach kids basic coding, which is not horrible.
There is a ton of terrible advice out there, including from official standards organizations. Office ergonomics is a mess, with widespread normalization of injury-causing practices, and a lot of poorly designed/implemented research uninformed by any understanding of human anatomy.

If you find some particular screen placement personally comfortable though, go for it. Keyboard design and use is generally a much bigger problem.
On one hand, I have pity on major cave syndrome in Silicon Valley. Kids are not going to sleepovers and are forced to do outdoor PE with masks on even if fully vaccinated. Adults are still not meeting their family or traveling on vacations. On the other hand, if hysteria gets me more work flexibility for as long as possible - thanks I guess? Just don't force me into your bubblewrap lifestyle.
Everybody hates it to different degrees, but grinding Algebra I & II problem sets hard for a few years was a dramatic advantage in college calc & physics. Some classmates were still struggling with special right triangles where it was completely intuitive to me at that point.

The applications of math that everyone clamors for in high school eduction became far more apparent once I got to college.
They seem to have overlooked Achilles, of tendon fame.
Consider the following: if your design expertise was as significant as your database expertise, perhaps your view of the downstream implications of decisions in each would be more alike than not.
Remember that this group's tools have been used to murder journalists, which they are unapologetic about.
>Do we have data that it helps/worsens

We've been playing games with education in the US for a while now. This identity stuff is the newest, but you can go back every decade or so for some 60 years and find some fad that was really big at the time.

Now look at the test scores over time. Up? Down? Flat? Break it out into race, socioeconomic class, religion, however you want. Check again. Up? Down? Flat?

We pretty well know how to teach things like math. It's a lot of drills. It's a lot of homework. It's word problems. It's all the things that both teachers and students hate, because it's annoying to do and annoying to check. But math is more or less like learning a language. You have to immerse yourself in it and do a lot of practice.

And, in the end, you have to accept that some people are just not going to cut it. They will top out at about 8th grade basic Algebra. And that's okay! Cramming some kid who can't cut Calculus into a Calculus class just because you need to count a certain number of different colored noses is daft and unproductive. School should educate people to their maximum ability, and everybody's maximum ability is different.

It doesn't matter if it makes you feel better to attribute somebody's poor performance to some vaporous societal ill. That's not helping. That's trying to shoehorn your preferred reality into actual reality. The hell of it is that it completely shafts those who really did earn their way into the top ranks. There is always the spectre that they're there because some administrator needed enough $IDENTITY to make their Powerpoint presentation look good.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” -- Dr. Ian Malcolm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLvdmifDSk
Inb4: “We can't use #000000 because we don't have a license for VantaBlack.”
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Curious to know if there's a free-tier level to use GPT-3
OP spoke in generalities, and I answered in generalities with specific examples merely as illustrative aids.

You just used sarcasm.
A different, similar compromise is 1 full week in the office once a month or two. That's fairly easy to manage if you still want to live in a LCOL area, with a minimum 3 nights in a hotel.

Coordinate with your team and project stakeholders to all converge on the same week where you can collaborate and plan more efficiently. Then break and work remotely to actually execute.

Many small businesses won't even need to maintain a consistent workplace. They could cycle the meetups in more flexible co-working spaces as needed. Larger megacorps could still justify maintaining their own space that ends up being designed for more modularity and flexibility.
It is interesting to me that you didn't encounter problems with the rote geometric method before abstract algebra. I went to a so-so public school in the American South, so I don't think I exactly had a stellar introduction to math or even school/academics in general, but beginning in trigonometry, we had to structure our proofs with more words and 'connective tissue,' and less explicit axiomatization/symbolization. Calculus continued this trend, and by the time I took linear algebra (at a local university while I was still in high school), the proofs were exactly like the proofs I would write throughout college. But there were several 'stepping stones' away from the original geometric proof.

Though admittedly I only got an SB in Math, I think geometric proofs were an okay introduction to the idea of the proof and of logic. Of course they are not representative of professional math. There are many things we learn as an introduction which don't turn out to bear that much resemblance to the more advanced form. I don't write 5-paragraph essays with clear thesis sentences anymore either. But it helped me to learn to write that way as a way of clarifying that I was stating my arguments effectively.

Sometimes, for my homework, I tried to state very explicitly in my proofs which axiomata I was using, both as an intellectual exercise and to see, e.g., where I might have gotten my logic backwards or where I used the axiom of choice (which constantly surprised me). I wouldn't turn these overexplicit proofs, but it helped to clarify that I was doing things correctly. If anything, when I was in college, the trend was away from 'informal' language. When I took, e.g., Discrete Math, for more complicated proofs, we were encouraged to write out a DAG for the dependencies of the proofs/lemmata so that it was exceedingly clear what depended on what and that we had in fact proven what we set out to prove.
In fact this is why self-driving cars are so hard! A complete newbie driver faces all of these tiny issues, which they learn to forget as they become practiced. There are so many subtleties in these scenarios, that it's mind boggling.
Again, I ask: Unified, or something else?

Having a "majority" isn't really different from what we have now, and it includes the downside of a more robust monoculture.

And to be clear here, I'm not anti RISC-V. I am very highly skeptical, given how frequently we see things like code size critics responded to with 'but it will be faster', which isn't really an answer,

The same thing happened here. Hand wavy "the market" and "orthogonal way" doesn't communicate anything meaningful, and or worth some clear downsides at present.

Finally, "the goal" is really "a goal or vision" as expressed by proponents. It's not really one in the objective sense.
It says something about a helper tool, but I don't see it in my dashboard.
Tip: You don’t have to actually have a separate room, all you have to do is trick your brain into feeling like it’s another room. Design two completely different lighting schemes for work and off-work, and connect the lights to a switch to change between them. Use two different chairs. Switch to another keyboard and mouse. Reposition your monitor. If you have an height-adjustable desk, change it.

Idea courtesy of Vallejo B:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck&lc=Ugzl3DOl0s0oS...
Honest question from someone from the Netherlands: when are kids in the states old enough for these topics?

Me and all of my friends were thaught the fundamentals of algebra & trigonomatry (admittedly not calculus) at 13 years old. I had no idea the wasn't the case in the US and it honestly kind of blows my mind.
Long time VI(M) user here, probably starting in the 80's. I don't think it's the best, nor do I think it's for everyone. It's just what I'm comfortable with at a deep memory muscle level.

And a confession - I probably only use 25% of what its capabilities are. And some of what I do is totally "wrong" like when not inserting I use K for up, Enter to go down and space to go right. If I want to go to the beginning of a line, I hit enter (down) which takes me to the beginning of the next line. Then K (up) to get to the line. Totally "wrong" but it's what I've done for years and do it without even thinking about it.

It kind of brings to mind this bit from the first Perl State of the Onion...

"...I believe that learnability is a laudable goal, but frequently misplaced. The purpose of a language is not to help you learn the language, but to help you learn other things by using the language. We don’t water down English to make it easy to learn. We prefer English to remain a rich language, quirky, sloppy, and full of redundancy. Same for Perl.

A corollary to that is, while we don’t water down the language itself, we do allow people to speak subsets of the language. We don’t expect a five-year-old to speak with the same diction as a fifty-year-old. We don’t expect a native German speaker to use the same subset of English as a native Mandarin speaker. Similarly, we don’t look down on people for using subsets of Perl. There are certainly enough of them. You can write Perl programs that resemble sed, or awk, or C, or Lisp, or Python. This is Officially Okay in Perl culture. By way of contrast, try writing in the C subset of C++ and they’ll make a laughingstock of you."
I think your interpretation of the word identity in this case is wrapped up in political discourse. Encouraging students to identify as an educated people for whom pursuing knowledge is both important and desirable seems like a net positive goal. Understanding that there are cultural and psychological hurdles that can stand in the way of this when people don't see themselves as math people is part of solving the problem.

I can also agree that it is very difficult to do and learn Calculus when your understanding of Algebra is limited or out of practice as someone who went back to get an undergraduate degree after almost 2 decades of not doing math. Is Calculus actually essential for critical thinking ? No and it does serve as a stand-in for this in many STEM degrees and if someone is lacking in understanding of the basic principles of algebra then it is going to feel like torture to solve calculus problems even if you can understand the concepts.
I'm sure that's a real benefit to all the people living paycheck-to-paycheck who wear mechanical watches.
NSO's PE investors are big-time American and British funds.

Just sayin'.
I just did some verifications and it seems to be a number used by RoboKiller[1].
Have you wife installed that application or any spam blocking app?

It basically forward spam call to that number. Maybe a bug or something happened when you deleted the app and the calls were still forwarding after the deletion.

[1] https://www.robokiller.com/
Apple may have a problem with iPhone demand as well as supply
It’s Not a Supply Chain Crisis – It’s a Failing Economy
I'm genuinely a bit confused and suspicious. The german state is known for it's contradictions regarding security and privacy, e.g., mapping sites cannot record "street level" images in public view, but the government will decree what is and is not allowed speech and has been caught compromising systems to monitor that.

Now the government that is obsessed with making sure everyone thinks only approved things is going to codify a right to encryption and prohibit state authorities (Is there a 5+1 eyes workaround prohibition) from building in or maintaining vulnerabilities?

Maybe this really is just a bone for the peasants that will fool them into feeling like they have rights, while the Ol' 5+1 Eye Switcheroo is used to keep vulnerabilities and compromise encryption anyways.
> Geometry proofs are a terrible way of introducing rigorous mathematical proofs to students

You might be right, but they are the only high school math class that teaches proofs. If you take away geometry you are left with nothing.

Having said that - any math concept can be memorized and regurgitated. My kids are in CA elementary math right now and it seems to be better than when I was a kid. The emphasis is on derivation rather than memorization. It might just be that geometry is better now than when you were a kid.
That sucks, sorry you're going through that.

I reacted fairly strongly to all three of my Moderna jabs, the most recent was the day before Thanksgiving, and I basically slept all the next day and felt like crap the next two. But fortunately ever since alls well.
For me, I question the infallibility of original authors. It’s certainly a testament to greatness that their works have survived criticism for a long time, but a lot of the value of their work came from the incremental work done by those who came after. Who is to say that people who came after were not greater than the originals? Derivative work can be better than the originals.

Take Freud or Rousseau for instance. They certainly were pioneers but a lot of their works were superseded and refined. Reading them in the originals helps establish the baselines but those baselines were not infallible. Western civilization is based on disputation and questioning the canon.
I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work.

Some people consider this a bug, others consider it a feature.

I use both VS Code and (Neo)Vim on a regular basis. A huge advantage of VS Code is that for many languages, it works pretty darn well out of the box. I do a lot of ECMAScript development, and I have exactly two extensions installed for VS Code: ESlint and GitLens (plus some themes, but I don't consider those functional). My init.vim file is nearly 400 lines long, and that includes everything to provide a reasonable IDE-like experience (fuzzy finder, Ctrl-P, NerdTree, Airline, Git, various mappings, etc). Granted, I did not type all 400 lines (that is, they are copied from other user's configuration files), but I still stitched a lot together. And that's fine, for me. I get that some people don't want to spend their time tweaking their tools to that degree. VS Code is still a convivial tool[0], in my opinion. It simply starts from a different place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality
Co-working spaces exist. Your desire to work from the office comes at the cost of everyone else. When a majority of people are in office, the entire communications model of work changes. It turns into synchronous communication instead of asynchronous communication.

The proponents of in office work are people who have been so fucked by capitalism that they're unable to actually find life & joy outside that they want everyone else to live so miserably.

Life exists outside of work. Stop expecting all of us to give up on life just to be another cog in the machine. I like my coworkers, a lot. But I also don't want to spend my entire "time with others" with them. I can go work from different locations, with different people, etc.
blacker_than_the_blackest_black_times_infinity
This is a typical "shadow government" symptom. You have forces working within the government that 1) have their own agendas; 2) have connection to international communities, usually military-intelligence ones; 3) have almost zero regulation; 4) even many high ranking government officials don't know about them because they are brotherhood-like closed circles.

This reminds me of Operation Gladio or Propaganda Due but domestic. Same playbook, different players.
There are also numerous instances of their intelligence forces spying on us, an ally.

- https://apnews.com/article/israel-jonathan-pollard-espionage...
- https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...
But geometry is sort of badly suited to teaching this because it's very hard to justify. We're good at thinking geometrically so things look "obvious" unless you do bad things like explicitly mislabel images (I remember some geometric problems where clearly unequally drawn line segments were labeled as equivalent).

Like you end up having to reteach proof in university discrete math or stats classes anyway!

Using motivations that we know to be true (or can see empirically are true) but don't feel trivial because "duh those lines are the same length" is a lot more compelling. You actually feel like you've learned something, not just a dumb formalism for something you could already intuit (and I mean if that's all proof does, let you formalize things you already know, what's the point?)

You're of course not the audience of these changes, because I expect that my last statement made you gag a little bit. But that's the way a lot of people are, and we shouldn't restrict ourselves to teaching the way they did 2500 years ago[0] unless there's still good reason to do it that way.

[0]: I'll admit that I think "look they were able to prove these things in this way 2500 years ago prior to the conceptualization of zero" is a compelling way to teach this stuff, but we don't do it that way either.
It boils down to speed of editing text, especially editing code - I've yet to find anything that comes even remotely close (and for a long time I tried to find something else, haha).

Maybe one challenge in grasping it is that if you look at any one feature in isolation, it sorta looks like a negligible amount of time savings (if at all), and at the cost of weird key combinations. So maybe instead imagine if you took the top 200 common actions you do when editing code and recognize that over your career you might perform those actions many, many millions of times. Now shave 100ms to 5000ms (or more in some cases) off of each one.

I dunno if that helps, but anytime I have to use something other than vim, it's incredible how slow and tedious it is to do even the most basic things, and it feels exponentially worse with any sort of bigger editing tasks.
Wow -- your example is real (page 12). Thanks for that fascinating article.
Make a great christmas mustard from scratch using mustard seeds instead. That's what I randomly got enthusiastic about today. Seems pretty easy, and with a pretty wide range of ways of mixing your way to your perfect mustard.

Not sure if "christmas mustard" is a thing in the US though. Perhaps not.
This runs within the database engine? Doesn't that adversely affect scalability?
lol...FUD. it's basic fucking chemistry.

Go back to school. Please.

Batteries that the FAA is worried about are orders of magnitude smaller than what we're talking about in an electric vehicle.
Ok, we'll change the URL to that from https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.0/. Thanks!
They made a tradeoff of having higher and less uniform memory access. This was not a failure. It was a decision that paid off.
Does anyone on HN have experience with this service or a personal comparison with Blur?

I’ve used delete me which works well enough (from the people that make Blur), but I’ve ended up just using the Apple Card which has a tiny amount of the privacy guarantees without a lot of the hassle (and good software).

I’ve been tempted to switch to one of these services though, but I think your data still gets resold by the card processor?
My guess is that downvoters don't get the context of your statement.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430498, which was posted earlier.
For the ones who want a cheap watch that works well and looks good, absolutely.
Let’s see if I can explain it…

I have the avy-goto-char-timer function bound to Cmd-j. If my buffer looks like this (cursor at |)

Foo |bar baz zoop quux

Then I can delete through zoop like this:

d Cmd-j op

Since there’s only one candidate, it should delete the words to give me:

Foo quux

Or something similar. Not at a computer atm, and I’m still getting used to this so there might be some inaccuracies.
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