skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this have to do with the actual changes being made?
I had to look up "additive rythm", eager for a (hopefully not too painful) mind expansion but I couldn't understand the explanation in wikipedia until my friend aksed "what, like kalamatianos?" (3/8 + 2/8 + 2/8 = 7/8). And then we had a big fight because she kept saying "so what, where's the difference"? :)

Morale of the story: it's not just western music that's deeply ingrained into western peoples' minds. It goes the other way too.
What do they say when confronted with the fact that Asians are the top performers in this system?
I'm not and I wouldn't presume folks that enjoy working in the office are all like that. At least from a lot of folks I've spoken to at different companies (not speaking about any Google survey here. opinions/anecdotes are my own), it seems like a sizeable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week. I think that there are a lot of folks that want fully remote but they tend to be much more vocal than people quite content with 3-2.

Either way, I'd recommend you try and find a company that supports your work style and I'll find one that supports mine. Not every company has to be everything to everyone and I think that's okay.
The wider discussion is about how to structure public math education. If we're not going to connect it to the details of said education, then it is a moot point to discuss.

Of all the things to evaluate the policy on, this is a real poor proxy as whether there are gifted people or not usually has little bearing on the overall health of math education across a very highly populated state.

I never disagreed with whether they exist or not. I just don't see why this is such a sore point for people. I can virtually guarantee that the existing education system in CA didn't really benefit the gifted folks either. If I were setting up the program for a whole state, whether it will be good for a Jacobi/Euler/Gauss is totally irrelevant. We're not going to make people who show up once every 50-100 years be a major factor in educating millions of people.
>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things.

If we're going to go there: I went from being a straight-A math student in Pre-Calculus to a C (verging on D) student in my AP Calculus course in high school. In college, I retook Calculus and aced it, receiving one of the highest final scores in the class. The first course was taught by a black woman. The second was taught by a white man. The last was taught by a black man. I am a black man.

People in this conversation are frequently quick to dismiss the value of anti-racist (and, for that matter, anti-sexist) policy and execution in STEM pedagogy. They lean on and extrapolate erroneously from the notion of many great mathematical thinkers' probable hereditary advantages to a general, in-born hierarchy of fitness for STEM thinking. Coincidentally, this shields them from tough conversations regarding their own fitness to teach, and especially to teach children whose backgrounds they cannot or will not find sympathy and empathy for. I will admit that the solution is not so simple as my anecdote might suggest, but the implied path shares character with the correct one, in recognizing the farcical nature of assuming that the status quo - especially in this country - is a product of actual potential playing out as it must necessarily so, and not of history overshadowing even the best of intentions (though they are usually less than that).
Sorry but could you point out the misinformation? As for "FUD", Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is all we see nowadays anyway, don't think my comment read by a few people on HN is contributing much (if I even agreed it's what I was doing :P)
Not stated in the other replies to your question: Vi is available on pretty much any UNIX derivative OS, and many other platforms. You can learn it once on your platform of choice, and then when you find yourself using some new (or old) platform that you are unfamiliar with, you will at least know how to edit a file.
I should have heeded the warning. I wasted too much time already. Very fun to see someone go off on a Lego set like this. Rightly so I must add.
Related, I also have a hunch that the UC system dropping the SAT is going to promote inequality. I don't want to defend standardized tests as flawless, but the SAT has been around forever, you can go to basically any public library and get a prep book, one of the librarians can probably help explain it to you, most teachers are familiar with the strategies to improve score on it, resources exist on the internet, etc. So there exists a multitude of paths toward showing proficiency on it.

Now that we're not doing standardized tests and turning admission into high school transcript plus additional material it's really going to help the kids whose parents can organize and pay for the most extra circulars.
Apple too. There's a reason it was, in recent memory, intel embedded graphics or an AMD mobile GPU in the portables.

Not going to be a thing going forward, of course. The M1 (next seems to be M3 at 3nm ?) will handle the GPU from here on out
> What happens to the rest of your spin system when your payload releases?

I mean, it's anchored to the ground, right? I'm sure it takes a shock but it shouldn't be out of the realm of stresses we already deal with regularly.

> What about air resistance? ... what happens when your payload hits atmosphere at orbital velocity?

This and the high Gs that must be involved are the biggest worry for me. Max Q is at full atmosphere right outside of the barrel of your gun? Protecting the payload and preventing the rocket from immediately disintegrating seems like the hardest part here. But it doesn't seem unsolvable if you can just glop on more and more shielding now that weight isn't as much of a concern.

> What are your neighbors going to think

I mean, there's always the deserts of Nevada.
Money is fungible. All dollars, regardless of how you, got them are interchangeable.

Knowledge is not. Spending 20 years mastering piano will do little good if you need to build a staircase.

Shit, spend a couple years learning how to build furniture and then go build a chicken coop. There's shockingly little overlap between those two skill sets! That's not a hypothetical. There's a lot of knowledge that your body learns that doesn't come into play doing carpentry.
Can anyone figure out a reason why issuing new cards would require a new terms and conditions or is this Privacy.com just using this as an excuse to force users to accept new and presumably worse T&C (if they aren't marketing the changes then it is a safe assumption the changes aren't pro-user)?
Fit, healthy, people are dying left and right.

There are risk factors, but don't start thinking you're invicible for not having them. The adaptive immune system is slow, vaccines prime it to react faster with more specific antibodies.

Dying of pneumonia does not feel good. It makes grown men cry and beg. Strongly recommend against.
Under the Common Core as specifically implemented in California, children who are ready for Algebra in middle school may take it, and children who benefit from a delay may opt for delay.

A central pillar of Equitable Math is that this disparity sustains White Supremacy in math, and thus all children should always be in the same class, up until the last year of high school.¹

This is the central point of contention, and not whether some children benefit from a delay of Algebra past middle school, and nor whether all children ought to learn Calculus.

[1]: https://equitablemath.org
> It’s not any more straightforward to use IME, and I have had an instance vanish without a trace in the past 4 months.

It's called administrating on whisky ;)
Was this before or after Merkel brought back tyrannical lockdowns on her last day in power? I will at least credit her for including immunity from past infection as an escape from the lockdowns unlike the tyrant Daniel Andrews in Australia. But the point still stands that Germany having any pretense of leading the way in rights, for encryption or anything else, is laughable until such a time that Germany abandons its covid lockdowns and passports and does away with plans to require everyone to get the covid vaccine. It should be optional.

Until these conditions are met, everyone should laugh at the idea of German government knowing anything or caring about rights.

Where are all the antifascist activists? Tech had lots of those. What happened? Why aren’t they staging marches and protests? Why aren’t they standing up to authoritarianism, and fascism as it rears its ugly head again?

They presume to tell you and mandate how many people can gather in your own home now.

“ Under rules announced Thursday, gatherings are limited to “one household” plus two other people, if those among them include people who are unvaccinated or who have not recently recovered from covid-19”

Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/03/germany-vacc...
That's basically never going to happen. Emergency services in the US are already in a precarious position. And there will never be enough funding to increase coverage such that people out in rural areas can expect life-saving response all the time. Often people will die if you have to wait for an ambulance, and the only safe option is to drive the person to the hospital yourself, even if you're impaired.

(Then again, in the case of childbirth, it certainly could be safer in some cases to allow the birth to happen at home, rather than drive dangerously to a hospital a half hour away. Hard to say, and a spouse is usually not in a great position to evaluate the risk of staying at home.)
From my perspective, the term "Social Justice" is more of a rhetorical tool than a cohesive ideology. Yes, I know I can google "define social justice" but if you look at the results there is no agreed definition. You will instead see dozens of different think-thanks, universities, and NGOs 'define' social justice use very flowery feel-good language that is almost impossible to disagree with. And yet, the details about how to achieve such positive things are what people would actually disagree with.

Your statement "That shouldn't be controversial" encapsulates this perfectly.
Just reading the page is challenge in itself. It seems to timeout after 5 seconds and redirects to /haha. (Chrome/Android)
you don't need to 100x it, but you can keep 20-30% of slack in the system, instead of literally cutting or not even keeping up funding for one of the most important sectors of the country. Nurses and healthcare workers have been overworked for ages in Germany, and not just here. With the NHS in England it's the exact same situation. Most of the countries had higher capacity ten or twenty years ago then we have now. What's the point of getting richer and growing if your public infrastructure decays?

And the other thing you can do is, actually have a prepared and tested response plan to a crisis. Our reaction to this was to dust off some plans from the the shelves, every individual state had different systems in place, two years in we don't really have a functioning digital app, but ten different solutions none of which more than a fraction of people have adopted, and so forth. Completely avoidable chaos if anyone was actually in charge of readying the country for these situations.
You are missing the key point: these experts on maths, sciences, etc are not arguing HOW to teach maths, sciences, etc.

They are only arguing WHAT is important to teach.

High school math teachers do not have the perspective to understand what kind of math is needed for jobs in engineering, data science, etc (The fact is that a background in algebra and calculus is necessary for almost all of these jobs).
that is all true, i've seen two ideas :

- western way: use tech. some people have floor detectors, doesn't avoid the fall but helps saving people early. Maybe soft floors help too

- easter way: daily taichi .. so then you just roll and never fall
In some US public schools, the "advanced math" curriculum puts 7th graders in algebra. In more, though, algebra isn't available until 8th grade (and that is still treated as accelerated). "Normal" math progression has standardized on algebra as the first high school course, followed by geometry, then trig, then precalculus/analysis.

The first level of math acceleration moves that high school progression up a year and has seniors taking calc 1 (limits/derivates & single variable integrals. The second level of acceleration has calc 1 in 11th grade and calc 2 (multi-variable) in 12th grade.

There are a handful of schools, mostly private, that move faster or have more diverse math curriculum offerings, but this is the most common.

So, when do American kids his algebra?

Standard curriculum: 9th grade, ~14yo
it does have some false positives, like when your mouse leaves the page. Sorry about that!
Dei also means God in some context, so who cares.
Dear zohopublic.com: please use real <a> anchor tags for hyperlinks instead of restyled <span>s, thank you
It's difficult, you have to break down those brotherhoods who will fight to death to be "independent". And then you have to find a way to prevent them from spawning again. I don't have any idea how to do it properly.
> if I buy justgooglethings.com and setup my own search engine there that Google will find issue with that sooner than later.

Well, LMGTFY has been a thing for as long as I can remember, but it's not a new search engine, it's just a way to snarkily direct people asking questions to Google for their answers. It's also not critical of the Google brand (and although the URL doesn't have the Google name in it, the website title does), so who knows if Google would find more issue with it if it was.
> What percentage of you is saying this for fear or concern of the virus, and what percentage is saying it because you like to work remotely?

I'm not the person you asked, but for me it's the virus. Not only for myself as a healthy 20-something year old, but also for the family and other people that I see outside of work as well as for my colleagues. We're all vaccinated, we have tests in the office and you're recommended to take one in the morning and take your mask off only after the results are in 15 minutes later, but still we work from home because I really don't fancy dealing with spreading corona to my parents and grandparents and I guess it's similar for the others.

It's not all terrible of course, I dread having to get a bus subscription again (80 euros a month to do with whatever I want is a lot of entertainment), I dread the commute time, the inflexibility. But I also miss my colleagues and the 'flexibility' of going into the city for something small and silly because I'd already be there for work. I have a much harder time concentrating on work at home. Some people have no problem with that and I kept it up for a while too, but it's been pretty bad since about mid-summer this year. At one point it just really hit me that I'm done with covid.

But then this shit happens https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... and I figure: okay then, let's be good for another holiday season and then I'll see about going back to the office again. It also feels stupid because it's never me, like, I haven't gotten covid at any point, I've been responsible, I'm not part of the problem. But then I'm also privileged in this ivory tower making an above-median amount of money early in life while just sitting at home. It's mixed feelings all around.

In short, to answer the percentage question with a percentage: let's say I like office/home 60/40 (not as a time share, but as advantages vs. disadvantages). I'm not dying to go back, but the virus is definitely the reason that tips the scale.
I guess all the artists will love freely distributing their music as charity.
>Office life will never return to the way it was pre-pandemic.

I think this is absolutely right.

It will vary by company of course. But more people will be fully remote and, based on a bunch of different studies I've seen, in-office will probably be 3 days a week or so for most people. Now I would expect co-located teams to coordinate some but I doubt that the 9-5 everyone in the office world will be the norm at most companies for the foreseeable future.
Implying that Israeli spying on the US is some fringe "shadow government" sub-group of the Israeli government is strange given a long, long history of high profile Israeli spying incidents against the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Franklin_espionage_sc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Ami_Kadish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)

Then there's the time they stole nuclear material from us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair

Then there's the time they slaughtered several dozen US navy and NSA personnel with repeated attacks on an unarmed vessel because they didn't like that we were watching them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
> Terence Tao signing up for a manufactured outrage? Alan Kay?

Or Scott Aaronson. Scott Aaronson is about as social-justice-y as you get. When even he thinks the equity types have gone too far, it's really time to step back and see if you're making sense, even to yourself.
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You're really referring to genetic ancestry, which is regularly used in biology without any issue. The term "race" is really not used anymore, except in a social/historical/statistical (population) context for humans. It's only informally used in human biology.

> Because, and I don't think that is questioned, race as a biological concept exists

This is questioned constantly, and is far from the standard or consensus opinion for human biology. In reality, most scientists and biologists don't use the term "race" often or at all precisely because of it's historical connotations and social uses. Removing the term "race" from a science textbook does not change anything really, beside clarify that race in the context of racial essentialism in biology is a useless concept. Understanding how the concept of race was used to abuse science, and in turn abuse large swathes of the population, is more important, and likely has a role in learning about the ethics and uses of biology.
As others point out, those “losses” are more than made up by the customer lock in effects and market dominance they bring.

A sale on item “x” is not a loss if it’s net effect is to bring in massive profits. If there was no overall monetary benefit to prime it would be peculiar for Amazon to keep it.
critical for version control, esp if you believe git history is important for long-term software maintainability -- smarter transplantation tracking leads to history 'surviving for longer' even as things jump context
I was able to capture main.js by using firefox inspector and throttling the connection to GPRS, and hitting the STOP before anything else happened. I'm surprised the escape characters prevented me from curling to a file tho.
I have a corgi/beagle mix, so she loves to smell and doesn't have to crane her neck as much as a standard beagle. She loves to smell everything, so areas where other dogs have been are slow to traverse. She is smart and seems to understand commands, it is just a coin flip of if she will listen (or just give me a quick mopey look)-- especially if there is an interesting smell they're locked on to.
I would like to point out: vim is a text editor. It exists to edit text. This is all it does. That's it. It is not an IDE. Maybe you can mangle neovim into an IDE shape, but not vim, not really.

Lots of complaints here boil down to "I can't [insert IDE feature here, e.g. use a debugger]". Of course you can't. You'd have a bad time using a hammer to put in a screw, too. But you can sure use a hammer to put in a nail.

If you want text editing, use vim. If you want an IDE, use Emacs, or VSCode, or whatever. Just don't complain about the hammer when you actually need a screwdriver.
Twitter seems to mostly agree with him. Cannot read the pay walled article either.
I've always considered the $700 collector sets to not be toys. They're models that will be built and put on display rather than played with, and will never be torn down to be added to the big bucket of Legos.
Much much smaller covid is not just like the flu please go away.
For post-paid things like cloud offerings, prepaid cards are much easier to get compared to debit/credit, so you end up with a lot more fake accounts that just run malware/use hundreds of dollars in resources in a month only to have that card decline after the money on the prepaid is already spent somewhere else.
He should tell this artist:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/21/holed-u...
what was the new rule/policy change? I must have missed it.
I'm surprised I'm hearing about it here before getting an email from them.
I need a thoroughly reasoned argument? You are comparing twitter to physical toxic waste.
But it's still good for raising awareness of the issue. These devices whether Apple-branded or otherwise should not be unregulated and generally available to be affixed to an unsuspecting target.
Sometime it is not the programmers that don't know the benefits of maintainable code or how to write it, it is the culture that rewards short-term velocity instead of long-term reliability. I've seen superstars designing shitty system and writing messy code to workaround processes and policies to launch quickly, and as a reward, they are promoted like taking rockets. It would be really hard for others to not follow the same path as long as the company needs to make money. Long-term benefits are hard to demonstrate while short-term feature/product launches are so obvious.
To put my tinfoil hat on: I believe that the recent crackdown on the dislike count and the twitter rule change/bot purging has been orchestrated by the Biden administration in an attempt to combat a repeat of foreign interference via social media.
pretty easily, I think. even taking the claim as given, "placing obstacles" is not the same as "forbidding"
Well, for one thing, "adds value" on HN is a pretty loaded term that comes down to "making money for someone else". You're basically saying that when you can't pull any harder, you'll line up behind Boxer at the glue factory so the pigs get one last cent out of your hide.

But lets assume a more charitable definition of 'adds value', then when does that end? I'd argue 'never', but I've also lost a parent and an in-law this year, so maybe that's still a little close for me.
Thunderf00t is a contrarian with a cult audience.