skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
States will increase the yearly license plate tag costs for older vehicles until the cost of keeping the vehicle as a daily driver will not be economical. It takes a couple decades and then one day your children are adults and believe it normal for TSA to remote monitor driving and look under everyone's clothing at airports.
It's not that the students need to be taught high school or college math in Junior high.

It's that a teacher which did not master high school and college math is not necessarily a good candidate to teach high school or advanced middle school math, and it absolutely occurs when the primary focus of the teacher's college career was teaching and not Math or another STEM field.

The model in the US seems to have become that the Teaching degree is the most important degree for a public school teacher regardless of the subject that is going to be taught. At some point that breaks down in a big way in the STEM fields in the range of middle or high school. Certainly you are not going to be taught Math at the College level by someone who does not have a Math degree. But in public school they've decided at some point that a math teacher doesn't need to have a math degree.
I loved my 90' Honda Civic because it didn't have Power Steering. You could practically drive it blindfolded because of how much road feel it had.
I sous vide mine at around those temps which is below the coagulation temperature, and makes it perfectly safe with no chunks of cooked egg.
The yakyak is all but a solved problem in many languages.in c++ Clang format on submission, and clang format on updating files to your preferred local syntax.
My armchair take of the situation is that the administrators of K-12 education are too focused on the potential value of kids actually using these math frameworks instead of how they sort of rewire how to logically reason about things.

I'm having trouble finding the right words to describe myself, but I vividly remember how many moments of epiphany I had when I took Calculus and Linear Algebra. I don't directly use either of them at all in my day job, but I feel like they were foundational in developing reasoning skills.
Come on, this is such a willfully ignorant reading of this text. Check the FAQs, interviews with the authors, or simply the rest of this very document. Sure, it could have been written better in order to not trigger and scare people, but the meaning is pretty trivial if you read it without being primed, especially in the context of all the other words around it.

First, they are listing words cited in an academic study, to set up the language used for the rest of the document. Claiming they are saying "objectivity in math is white surpremacy" is like saying "critical race theory is taught in high school".

Second, the overall message is that "roteness" is a bad way to teach. Sure, they link it to how "my way or the high way" authoritarianism is linked to how the downtrodden have been treated in America and make a parallel between that and rote memorization style of teaching. How is that unreasonable in a document talking about the experience of black people in highschool?
> A middle school algebra teacher should of course understand middle school algebra.

Yes. Exactly.

> If a teacher lacks the ability to master middle-school algebra, how on earth did he get into college?

Knowing a subject well enough to pass a class or pass a test is not the same as knowing it well enough to teach. STEM in schools is a real problem because, well, non-education jobs pay 3-5x what teaching jobs do for math, CS, and robotic.
Commercial eggnog definitely uses pasteurized and sugared egg yolks (generally in small quantities); they come as a homogenized liquid. For home cooks who don't have access to pasteurized (or to pasteurize) eggs, or don't want to have alcohol in their drinks for the raw "real" stuff, you can always make a cooked custard base, strain it to remove any coagulated bits, and then thin it with additional dairy before serving.
> manufactured outrage

Have you ever seen Terence Tao signing up for a manufactured outrage? Alan Kay? If you're the type to read technical papers you'll recognize a bunch more names on the list of signers. Furthermore the language in the post was calm and measured.
I replicated the relevant part of the design. I put the same 4l axle into the same sort of Technic slot, it's specifically designed to be flush with those, so there's no easy way to pop it out other than to push it out from the other side.

I then used the "bush" piece to hold onto the axle from the other side, so you have to pull it out of that piece to get the axle out. It's not the exact same piece that's holding onto the 4l axle in the article, but from experience they've got about the same hold on the axle, so the difference won't matter.

Yes it's annoying. I'm just pointing out that it's far short of the "can't be taken apart" claim in the article.

I'd be willing to bet that it can be taken apart conventionally. You can probably push the orange piece a bit from the other side.

Of course it will run right into the frame on the other side, but even Lego doesn't make components with micrometer precision, there's usually a bit of give in the plastic. If you can get some play in it of even a half a millimeter it'll be sufficient to do this with a toothpick instead of a sewing needle.
Also irrelevant. Think it through over the long term. Since the virus is now endemic and can't be eradicated anyone who lives outside of a sterile bubble will occasionally be exposed regardless of the protective measures they take. Just like with the other endemic coronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43. Differences in personal risk assessment won't change that reality. Unfortunately some people still have an irrational, unscientific belief that they will somehow magically be able to avoid the virus forever.

That said, I do hope that remote working will continue to be an option for those who want it as there are advantages besides virus exposure.
I don’t understand your comment. Why is your current favorite biology “and its treatment of race”?
Tags do not go on at birth. The mother cows have their calves and then much later when the rancher rounds them up the calves tend to stick by their mothers so we know what calf belongs to what cow.
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Very roughly, subtract 6 from age to get grade. For example, barring being held back, jumping a grade, or unusual things around birthday timing, you'd usually finish 12th grade at age 18.
1.“I don't believe you. It is pretty obvious someone would object to luxury cars and jewelry:”

Let me revise, since I have met ppl like OP:

Im so bewildered at this attitude that I’ll just ask “what problem do people like you possibly have with luxury cars and jewelry?”

2. Jewlery can be made with slave labor. There is nothing inherent in jewelry that it must be made with slave labor. Thus, you can object to a available jewelry or specific jewelry but your objection isn't valid for jewelry generally.

This is like objecting to running shoes. De facto they’re made in sweatshops, and available sneakers supports slavery. But nothing inherent in trainers requires slaves.

3. As to the scarcity of resources for jewelry, so what? Thats a moral judgement on your behalf that jewelry is inherently less worthy than, say, an Orthodox icon, or bullion as a hedge against inflation.

4. As to cars, most of your objection appear to be directed at their drivers. How is a VW golf more dangerous than an A3? Only if you assume nastier drivers drive luxury cars. Let me assure you I drive like an utter asshole on my $3000 assessed value car (mea culpa. But I live in the mountains, the car is stick…) Nor does the A3 consume more resources than the Golf to make.

5. As your third objection, I dont agree with your statement: “[…]often used as displays of wealth, intended to demean people who can't afford them”. Clearly some ppl buy expensive things to show off, but I dont think it follows that their intention is to demean. I think that says more about the feelings of inadequacy that we feel next to a fancy car. Feelings we rationalize by telling ourselves they’re doing it on purpose to spite us. They probably aren't giving you a second’s thought.

I think your use of the word “often” is telling. Myself, I’d love to have a luxury car but one criteria would have to be that it is not obvious that it is a luxury car. It follows that luxury cars are not purchased solely to show off (and therefore immoral?)

6. Look, if the OP had objected to cars I wouldn't have bothered to object. Maybe I’d disagree (on the fence on cars), but I can see that an argument can be made that cars, electric or otherwise, are inherently immoral.

The statement was just self-righteous

EDIT: typos. Writing this on my 5 year old SE
OP here. It’s been a while since I built something outside of work, so I decided to build something I would have fun using and sharing with others.

It’s inspired by Reddit’s r/place experiment from 2017, with four key differences:

- The canvas is infinite [1]

- There’s no time limit. The canvas can keep evolving forever.

- There’s no signup required. Just click the link and start drawing.

- You can randomly teleport far away from the center to start your own drawing that nobody will find without the link. For example: [2]

Everything displays in real time. It should be fun to watch when there are a bunch of people drawing simultaneously.

A few similar apps have popped up over the years, but I found them all to be a bit cluttered, so I wanted to build something with more of a focus on the art. When zoomed in, there’s minimal UI aside from what’s needed to select a color. When zoomed out, the canvas covers 100% of the viewport. I also tried to make drawing and navigating easy on both desktop and mobile.

The frontend is mostly custom built using native browser Canvas and Websocket APIs. The backend is Go code running on AWS Lambda with pixels stored in DynamoDB. I mostly optimized for making it cost as little as possible to run long-term. When there’s low usage, the AWS bill is $0.50 per month (for Route 53) and the actual hosting costs are free. I’m hoping to keep this running indefinitely without having to worry about cost and maintenance.

Draw something and let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions about how it was built.

[1] Okay, the canvas isn’t actually infinite right now. Things stop working once you run up against Javascript’s MAX_SAFE_INTEGER. I plan on eventually having the canvas wrap around when it hits that value, making the canvas work for any huge number the user might hard-code into the URL.

[2] https://everyonedraw.com/-2/5030/81159
Funnily enough this used to be a benefit Microsoft touted.
Except when they were completely unusable.

Making an html version of most of the stuff i'm talking about would have been much easier than the flash version. when the only interactivity is changing pages.
Or the smartest move. They probably own more politicians than the NRA, the pharma ind, and and the aerospace ind combined.
> 3) have almost zero regulation;

What would shadow government regulation look like?
Why are you being so aggressive? What did I say that was so awful? I'm just thinking out loud of the long-term implications of this. What is so unreasonable about what I said?
I don't know how good is but you may want to look at airwander.com
Talking about "testing out" and "gifted" programs is a complete distraction here, since very few students "test out", and taking Algebra in middle school is not considered a "gifted" program. With regards to math in California, gifted programs are largely not a story.

A pillar of Equitable Math is that all students should be at the same level up until the last year of high school.¹ The re-arrangement of subjects is not the hotspot of contention, and neither is the disagreement over "deepness".

The contention is over whether or not there ought to exist a faster track which, for example, permits students to take Algebra in middle school. This has been specifically derided as a sustainer of white supremacy under the Equitable Math discussion.

A return to gifted programs as the way to deal with students with differences in math preparation and ambition would be a return to administrative opacity. A failure to specify tracks which allow students to take Algebra in middle school would be a solid win for private schools and after-school programs like RSM.

Under Equitable Math, the last year in high school is the only year of differentiation.

[1]: https://equitablemath.org
Possibly but they're not perfect either. If the hypothesis is that discrimination post-birth is tied to innate characteristics, then presumably both twins will face similar discrimination and this will correlated their environment, even though they've never met and were raised by different people.

That said, twin studies do provide substantial evidence that giftedness is highly heritable and probably significantly genetic.
Typically privacy.com cards showed up as a prepaid card, and most merchants online block these. Curious to see how it improves acceptance rates.
Linux has no stable driver ABI, meaning if your driver is not open source and mainlined into the kernel, then it breaks frequently.

There is no standard mechanism of distributing software outside of any given distro's package manager other than to compile from source. Distros tend not to let people put closed source software in their repos. This has only recently started to change as Flatpak is starting to be more widely adopted; even though other solutions have existed for some time, they've largely been ignored by the Linux Desktop community. Even Flatpak gets a lot of backlash from people who believe the traditional distribution methods are best in part because of the functional requirement for software to be open.
Wow! You found one instance of the US spying on a friendly government. That totally justifies NSO leasing spyware to authoritarian third world regimes! Carry on folks, nothing to see here.
Possibly the hardest part of my life. Almost all of the other family members decided they were not going to try to help. Mother did not really want help taking care of father, resorted to yelling sometimes when he couldn't move and she didn't have the strength. She insisted on lifestyle choices that accelerated her death and refused medical treatment that could have extended it. After she passed, still close to zero help from most family members taking care of father or hiring help.

That type of behavior, crawling up the stairs, is not rational. If you have funds, I would start by looking for help such as on https://care.com. If you are lucky you may be able to find someone who can convince him to stop.

It's easy to say, but you can try insisting, or even physically blocking off the stairs. And if having hired help around the house does not seem like enough, do not feel guilty about putting him in some type of facility, as long as it's a good one. There are a lot of bad ones unfortunately. The hardest part of that is the cost.

I don't know a good way to handle it. It might come down to him having the choice of living downstairs or being dragged into some assisted living facility. Or the third option of just waiting for him to roll down the stairs and break his body.

But my suggestion is to get professional help if possible, and make it very clear to other family members that this is their burden also.
The matter of whether the universe is or isn't infinite is definitely not a settled matter.

> Because we cannot observe space beyond the edge of the observable universe, it is unknown whether the size of the universe in its totality is finite or infinite. Estimates suggest that the whole universe, if finite, must be more than 250 times larger than the observable universe. Some disputed estimates for the total size of the universe, if finite, reach as high as 10^10^10^122 megaparsecs, as implied by a suggested resolution of the No-Boundary Proposal. [1]

Secondly, rays (the geometric construct that have a point origin and extend infinitely in one direction) are infinitely long, but any point on them is finitely far away from the end. Why couldn't the universe be the same way -- unbounded in one direction (of scale), but bounded in the other?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size_and_regions
Is anyone working on a microkernel design for privacy-sensitive devices (like phones) that would prevent outright this class of kernel-level arbitrary code execution exploits? We're stuck with iOS and Android for the foreseeable future, but is there hope that we'll get this right some day?

Actually, would a microkernel design even be sufficient? Given that hackers exploit deserialization, memory safety, and variable type confusion issues, there's still plenty of avenues for data corruption and data leakage.
Genuine question. 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?

From where I’m sitting, it feels like the laptop class liking WFH is one of the brakes for a return to normality.
The delicate art of the exit interview
This is a great question!

It helps to put things at waist height minimize reaching easier (essentially apply heuristics from Human Factors Engineering like we do in factories). For example, in her 80s my grandma started keeping a small trash bag on the countertop at waist level so that she doesn’t need to bend as much or walk all the way to the larger kitchen trash while cooking or doing dishes.

Another focus area is weight reduction. For example, buy pints of milk or bottles of water instead of gallons (or transfer from large containers into smaller, reusable ones to help your elders and the environment at the same time).

Recently, my cousin got my grandma an Alexa speaker. He also put a large text note up on the wall next to it with phrases my grandma can use. Stuff like “Alexa, what time is it” or “Alexa, play classical music”. I thought it was silly, but then I realized it’s actually pretty cool. Plus, Alexa games give the great grandkids something fun to do in grandma’s sitting room.

Once people stop driving, grocery delivery can make a big difference.

Think about flooring. My grandma seems to have an easier time on wooden floors than carpet. It’s easier to slide a walker. Of course, if the floor has too much slide that can become a problem.

If you can afford it, a walk in bathtub is a game changer. My grandma is 98 and has used one for 15+ years. Late in life, even a 6-inch step up to a sidewalk curb can be a challenge.

Edit: I bet there’s a YC startup hidden in your question, especially with people investing more in their homes again now that they live and work at home.
I have been offered a job in a new SARS vaccine design team and, ironically, they want to put me in a tiny crowded office with no HVAC.

Of course, when I stated I'm less than happy about that, they claimed it's very safe. Yet all workers are traveling by bus and masks are not mandatory.
They canceled them because “How about this weather, Janet?

That’s right, Bob! It’ll be a cold one this week. Sportsball is next.”

What weasel words?
It didn’t really help. Why do you mention interbreeding? Are you confusing race with species?
Cutting stringers instead of using brackets would implicate pretty much exactly the same set of details and problems.
Can you pls share the city? I've looked as far as London, ON but houses are still too expensive to make it work.
Seriously, the number of people in this thread who desperately crave an IRL opportunity to kiss up to their boss is staggering.
Dead journalists can't close them down, but the US government can.
Not catering to the gifted is a dangerous game for society as an disproportionate amount of progress is made by gifted which are properly nurtured.

> Gifted will do well regardless whether we have special programs for them or not.

This is very much not true. Only gifted with rich or caring parents will do well. Others might suffer a lot. Being in a program for gifted for me made the difference between being thrown out of a school because I never did the homework and being invited and having my flights paid to a conference in Japan where I gave a presentation while in the last grade of school.
How does it work then? I was stonewalled by various banks investors and insurers over this in berlin…
Another shark preying on lazy wannabe vimmers.
I don't have an extensive design background, but took art classes through out high school and college. What he is saying as absolutely true for painting and drawing images - pure black or even mixing with black puts a hole in the page that is almost never the effect you are going for.

But when we moved on to graphic design, that advice changed. Pure black ink on white has been used as an art form for centuries. The sharp lines and contrast create an effect that really pops which is often what you want. And the gamut of (non-HDR) monitors isn't wider than what you would get in these mediums, so that isn't a concern.

You don't want to use it everywhere, but it absolutely has its place. If anything, the trend towards low-contrast design is worse than over-use of high contrast elements these days.
The intervention in Syria? That's a military operation done by the U.S for Israel? How did you come up with that? If there's no Israel tomorrow the entire region is still messed up with possibly tens of millions of new refugees flooding Europe. It's not all about Israel.
It’s this metastasized concept of identity that scares me. The traditional response to “I’m not a math person” was to reassure students that, hey, you don’t have to be a math person to learn and get value from math. (This is where culturally responsive education was understood to come in - it helps students realize that math is useful for them no matter who they are and where they come from.)

Now the conventional wisdom seems to be that you do have to be a math person, and teachers had better work hard on cultivating a “math person” identity, because otherwise there’s no way their students can learn math. I think this is a false belief that will make education quite a bit worse if acted on. I would never have learned to write well if teachers told me I needed to identify as a writer first!
https://youtu.be/Y-bDgsJKTqc?t=45s
I don't have kids but I keep seeing https://www.kiwico.com/ recommended all over the internet and it seems like a great way to get projects and learning infused into early childhood play and exploration.
Or maybe one can get an electric kettle, a mug, and a proper tea bag? I’m sorry, but the frustration exhibited in that Reddit post is as idiotic as the machine’s DRM.
Maybe stop funding them, for a start?

Congressional oversight used to be a thing.

Snowden showed the NSA lied to congress. No heads rolled.
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Just like HR departments exist solely to protect corporations from lawsuits this agreement is there to protect corporations from idiotic lawsuits insinuating that the dumbass who went into the office unmasked and got covid somehow takes zero responsibility for their behavior.

Or is this your way of saying that you're opting into getting a free smallpox infection this year because children get 5 to 8 viral infections a year? We still have some small stockpiles of smallpox if you're so inclined.