skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s just interesting that we are using statistical methods to argue that teachers don’t need to understand basic math. Ontario doesn’t have dedicated math teachers until high school, many of these teachers will need to teach math in grades 3-8.
You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old wait’ll you see...
I’d say not eating a regular morning dose of red meat is an excellent start to a healthy vacation.
Aren't we even scared anymore by the fact that google is inspecting our files?
This is for teachers, not students.
I'm no fan of what HTML has turned in to, but Win32 is hard to find developers for because it's an atrocious pile of crapola that nobody in their right mind touches with a barge pole if they can possibly avoid it. Even Microsoft don't use it anymore, except of course, all the places they do still use it because they never bothered upgrading their apps.
No, I mean Twitch. They offer free games via Amazon Prime: https://gaming.amazon.com/
>The major engines like Unity and Unreal Engine make it a breeze to release games across all currently used major platforms.

Maybe for popular platforms, but their Linux support has been lacking to say the least.
Going from 25th percentile to 75th at math does little good. Going from 90th percentile to 99th is more valuable. Better to have a population that has a lower median math skill, but many math geniuses than a population that has a slightly higher median, but few right tail geniuses.
New Census Data Shows Population Increased at Lowest Rate in US History
It’s a strange way of looking at things. Probably what they should be doing is using the data to identify groups that may need extra support to meet the standard and make that support available to them.
Eliminating the standard completely is rather odd.
These guys in a Japanese PoW camp set up a workshop and built themselves a screwcutting metal lathe in secret: http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley-pow-lathe/
> but what underlies the inability for firms such as IBM to continue to grow?

I think you've answered your own question with the examples you gave.

Alive companies: Environment hasn't changed much.

Dead/hobbled companies: Significant change in the environment around creating the product/service or distributing the product/service (or a substitute) which upended the competitive dynamic. 100s of companies try to take advantage of the new dynamic and the existing companies might win, but are just another 1 in the 100's who are vying to win the new game.
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But the case being argued is demand for the Steam Deck which is demonstrably high.

The counter point to that was that production was low, therefore selling out doesn't mean much. However, the Steam Machines didn't sell out at all so at the very least there is more interest in the Steam Deck than Steam Machines.

Sure, it doesn't follow that the Steam Deck will necessarily be a success, but the GP's arguments seem lazy and bad faith, which is presumably why they are being downvoted.
Probably demographics; the white Francophones also speak English.
> I'm not denying that the natural sciences are /interesting/ - but are they especially useful?

The last couple of years certainly highlight the problems caused when people aren't given, or don't pay any attention to, a certain level of education in biology...

The general understanding of scientific methods of enquiry/study/critique is also essential for modern life IMO, and sadly lacking in many very vocal and otherwise high profile people.
One of my first program was something like:

- What is your name?

- <name> is dumb, haha
The counter example for Spanish is b/v which is pretty much the same sound in most dialects nowadays, and it seems increasingly common to see misspellings online, e.g. baca for cow.
Hey there, Adam from Render here, I manage our product eng team. Could you say more about the quality of life improvements you'd like to see? Or happy to chat with you or anyone else with suggestions. I'm adam@render.com.
You typically don’t have access to Google when you’re taking a test. The onus should be on the test writer to ensure that what is tested is math knowledge and not math knowledge + some random facts about gardening.
> In my experience, many things are documented, but the documentation is unhelpful, redundant or outdated. Sometimes there are several documents on the same thing, some are outdated in different ways, or the author has given up on it.

> In code itself, often you see comments that say one thing, the function name saying another, and the relationship doing something different.

Is that not a red flag in of itself? Because it seems like at some point someone cared enough to write the docs, but eventually no one cared much to maintain them.

To me, that just expresses that later either the other developers or even that same dev cared only about keeping things running, which was the standard of quality that they chose for themselves, as opposed to actually caring about the long term sustainability and therefore the docs.

I've seen situations like that as well, but generally when everything surrounding the projects is also bad - improper risk management, old dependencies possibly with insecure code, unaddressed technical debt and either god objects or overly long functions with outdated names/docs all go hand in hand.

Personally, i don't take it as "just the way things are" but rather something to be addressed head on - in the past year, i've written everything from onboarding guides to initialization scripts and tooling for around 5-10 projects and have kept them up to date.

Furthermore, i've definitely sent back merge/pull requests on the basis that they need further refinement due to the aforementioned concerns. Not nitpicky stuff that's irrelevant, but rather things that would make the codebase lie to someone reading it, in one way or another.

Of course, one can argue that docs are useless in of themselves because they're not what's actually running on the servers, but personally i disagree with that point of view as well, though perhaps that's a conversation for another day.
The panic is people's fear of the Iron Heel[1]. For most of us, the systems we depend on are controlled by other people. In this chaotic political climate, when these systems start closing in on us, or restricting us in new ways, there's no way of knowing where the tightening will end. Some are incredibly insulated and have no worries about the kind of world we're living in, but others are constantly on edge and feel that we're sleepwalking into a dystopian nightmare. That's what this "panic" is about.

[1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1164/1164-h/1164-h.htm
But in social studies there is math that gets discussed. We had percentages for sure when discussing politics for example. My social studies is ever old but we definitely had some portions that had some math involved.
none of that is true. Learning science in school is not about teaching you how to analyse methodological errors in whitepapers. That's way too high level for high school students. In my experience it was mostly about learning the basic scientific method, and learning about some practical scientific models like Newtonian mechanics, basic biology & chemistry, that sort of thing.

This claim that the world would have less conspiracy theorists if only there was more science on the curriculum at school has a huge [citation needed]. So much of that stuff is downwind from cultural conflict and distrust of the government, not a lack of education.
Ha, I too found the GWBASIC manual at home in a bookshelf and just read it. Afterwards I asked my father whether he had GWBASIC somewhere and he provided me with QBasic, which had integrated help (so I didn't have to refer to that 500-page tome). From there I eventually went to Turbo Pascal and later Visual Basic and much later to lots of other languages.

I still wonder sometimes what the modern equivalent to learn programming would be. Most modern programming languages are infinitely more capable, but the hurdle to start is also a lot higher in many cases. JavaScript is probably equivalent in that it's available everywhere, but there's so much you have to at least understand a bit before you can really write some code ...
Intel signs up as Corporate Patron for Blender
If anything, it seems like this was an effective means to introduce a lot of people to possible liabilities they have under GDPR/CCPA (or why they are not applicable to them).
Usually banned users get feedback about being banned. The ones usually not getting feedback are spammers - they are being shadowbanned to avoid spammers being able to deduce their ban cause and circumvent the anti-spam measure.
All of these are questions asked and solved 10 years ago by bean counters who only job is risk mitigation.

Every cloud provider has compliance locks which even root user cannot disable, version history and you can setup your own copy workflow storage container to second container without delete/update access to second one to two different people or whatever.

You don't need to do any of it offsite.
> The book forms a coherent whole

I think when perhaps in isolation, some of the individual books may be coherent, but as a whole, there is no logical consistency, but instead there are a myriad of contradictions, such as those between the synoptic gospels and John. For example, on what day was Jesus crucified? John does not agree with the synoptic gospels regarding this. Or in the Old Testament, in Exodus, we have two entirely different sets of Ten Commandments, the first we find familiar, but were destroyed, and the second set that few would recognize that Exodus specifically refers to as the Ten Commandments, including a prohibition on boiling a young goat in it's mother's milk. Is God El, or Yahweh? Is God a perfect being, or subject to all too human emotions like jealousy?

I am nearly certain the Bible was never intended to be coherent. It's authors span nearly a millennia, and it is doubtful they expected or intended their writings to be translated and compiled together by St. Jerome or the First Council of Nicaea. Joseph Campbell, a Jungian, stated "a mythic dream is a personal experience of that deep dark ground which is the support of our conscious lives, and the myth is the society's dream," that a dream is a private mythology, and mythology is the public dream, and as easy it is to understand what he means, not even that is coherent.
> Do you really think that Nord Stream 2 AG lawyers are that stupid?

Nord Stream 2 AG is a subsidiary of state-owned Gazprom. They probably think that if they put enough political pressure, they could negotiate an exception.
Yes this. As someone who was “gifted” in school but with a father who teaches mild/moderate learning disabilities, the skill sets of the two ends of the spectrum of teachers are dramatically different. “Gifted” student teachers can take as a given that their students are there to learn and generally speaking want to be there. For my father getting students to begin to think that is a big part of the job. To replace him with a “gifted” student teacher who has no experience with that type of clientele would be absurd.
> Considering how much our whole society is supported by math nowadays and how much the average person sucks at math,

I would have finished this sentence perhaps that’s significant evidence that the average person doesn’t need to be great at math.
I don't understand. What infrastructure do you need to setup for that workflow? Instead of having someone spend an hour on a year's worth of bottles, you could hand them five bottles that you used since the previous store visit and get your dollar in thirty seconds.
EAC has supported wine for years, but developers just never bother or do not want to enable it.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
- Butler Lampson

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection
"Big tech permabanned me and doesn't mind false positives"

Isn't this often the case with humans minus the algorithm making the decision? Many times of the few times I've been in trouble, with HR, the law, or whatever authority you realize doing things that seem bad but aren't actually bad is almost as dangerous as doing something actually harmful because turns out humans aren't very good judges of ambiguous cases in low information environments.

Even when not ambiguous humans by and large don't have a good grasp of what is or isn't moral. And they typically show a large lack of empathic ability for how their actions will effect others.
I like to imagine the AI spits out a line like this:

> Should we ban this user? YES

Then you request a review, and the support person double-checks that the output really does say "YES" and not "NO". Then they tell you they reviewed their decision.
"meta" good faith != good faith

> why folks are so up in arms about this

The implicit legal threat is similar to the harm described in the Prenda saga: https://arstechnica.com/tag/prenda-law/

It is wronger than the deception because the PI "Jonathan Mayer" is not just a run of the mill academic focused on "publishing a paper or whatever." This is an activist with an ax that won't grind itself. Reviewing his work mentioned in Wikipedia I'm impressed and appreciate the contributions Mayer has made. Mayer can't be not aware of the problems with the approach.
> If only Adobe would release their software in Linux, then, I could ditch MacOS too.

Have you written to them that you would purchase their software anew on Linux? Without a financial incentive, Adobe will not support Linux.

I do not use Photoshop, but I would purchase a copy for Linux just to encourage and support development.

Adobe support: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/contact.html
Funny. Working with XML often drives me to violence and alcohol.
Turns out having a stable ABI, even if it isn't the native one, is preferable to the garbage fire of mutual incompatibility that Linux Desktops have.
> "Apple's CSAM would scan your offline photos."

No it wouldn't. It would only scan photos you upload to their cloud.

"This feature only impacts users who have chosen to use iCloud Photos to store their photos. It does not impact users who have not chosen to use iCloud Photos. There is no impact to any other on-device data."

and

"Does this mean Apple is going to scan all the photos stored on my iPhone? No. By design, this feature only applies to photos that the user chooses to upload to iCloud Photos, and even then Apple only learns about accounts that are storing collections of known CSAM images, and only the images that match to known CSAM. The system does not work for users who have iCloud Photos disabled. This feature does not work on your private iPhone photo library on the device."

- https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
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"The Divisional Court found that the Math Proficiency Test had an adverse impact on entry to the teaching profession for racialized teacher candidates and other reasonable alternatives should have been implemented."

Ontario.

Also Ontario:

"Haha teachers of color too dumb to pass a simple math test"

The real question here is: who's going to suffer from subpar teachers?

Rich people who can run away from bad schools (through private schools or private mentoring or any other means) or poor students?
Sounds like the kind of short-term thinking that leads to companies being completely wiped out by ransomware. Who needs backups anyway?
Could you expand on that? I don't see the situations as being directly comparable at all. Maybe in technology terms, but the situational context is completely different as far as I can see it, especially as it pertains to Linux share of the Gaming market.
I wonder whether we will see something similar to public utilities in the web.

Companies like Google would be required to provide a basic service to basically everyone and are required to go through a court before suspending accounts (or maybe just some core features).

On one hand it would enshrine their position in the market, on the other hand it would remove some of their ability to make arbitrary decisions with no recourse and no information why it hapended.
You can believe that users should be able to request this information legitimately, but arbitrary third parties should not.

The idea is that the burden and stress of response is outweighed by benefit to the legitimate user. In this case there is no legitimate user.

This is similar to the concept of standing in the courts. Someone who is harmed can bring a suit for compensation or redress, but an uninvolved third party cannot.
> You really don't need almost any of this stuff. If you have small on-prem needs just grab a couple fiber links, try for diversity on paths for them (good luck), add some power backup if it fits your needs, and be done.

Then you’re not running HA and thus the argument about cloud downtime being “worse” than on prem is moot.

Obviously if your SLA is basically “we will do our best” then there are all sorts of short cuts one can take. ;)
I has been slowly but consistently growing: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
If they implement it, Apple's CSAM would scan your photos as they are being uploaded. Not really “offline”.
What assault on public domain?
Bug bounty platforms handling thousands of Log4j vulnerability reports
Context is everything here.

“Please respond quickly.”? Fine.

“The law says you have a month to reply.”? A little aggressive, but OK.

“According to such-and-such code, section 45, part b, subsection 3, you have 87 hours from the time I sent this — that is, from 12:43:56 PM Eastern time on this date — to give your on-the-record response.”? They’ve got a lawyer, and this is going to be a pain in the ass.

These particular emails were somewhere between the second and third options.
Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data
Demanding a subject to actively participate in your study upon pain of vague and mostly incorrect legal threat is ethically wrong. Passive participation (like scraping) without consent is morally wrong, but since it doesn't cause undue distress to the subjects, it is not as big of a story.

The IRB in this case didn't consider this ethically suspect because "websites aren't people". And yet the study disproportionately targeted small websites where there is, in many cases, only one person involved.
Go to game credits, count everyone until they mention a publisher.

Industry convention: Project only: Main studio first, ancillery studios next, outsourcing parties next, then the scope broadens and includes the publisher, HR, office team etc;

But anyway, Tim even says that they shipped with only 25 people. Even if they broaden it now the scope was defined early.

If you really want fortnite to be AAA, I concede, I don't really care.

But then: please give me at least 1 other example.
People should study STEM because that's how you learn to think properly, even very generally speaking, regardless of your discipline.

It doesn't even matter which specific maths concepts you're exposed to, and it's not even about how directly applicable it is: every single piece of maths under your belt translates in non-obvious ways to a better ability to think and reason.
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Right? It's like Canonical looked at all the hate Windows was getting and decided they wanted in on that action.

Snaps can kiss my ass.
Would people respond the same way if they knew it wasn’t a real request i.e. take it less seriously?
I don’t think I could make a living selling sketches in the park, but the ability to “draw a picture” is actually a basic problem solving step in a lot of these math problems.
Whether you realize it or not, you believe in the Scapegoat Effect, and it's going to get you into a shitload of trouble some day.

Customers don't care if it's you're fault or not, they only care that your stuff is broken. That safety blanket of having a vendor to blame for the problem might feel like it'll protect your job but the fact is that there are many points in your career where there is one customer we can't afford to lose for financial or political reasons, and if your lack of pessimistic thinking loses us that customer, then you're boned. You might not be fired, but you'll be at the top of the list for a layoff round (and if the loss was financial, that'll happen).

In IT, we pay someone else to clean our offices and restock supplies because it's not part of our core business. It's fine to let that go. If I work at a hotel or a restaurant, though, 'we' have our own people that clean the buildings and equipment. Because a hotel is a clean, dry building that people rent in increments of 24 hours. Similarly, a restaurant has to build up a core competency in cleanliness or the health department will shut them down. If we violate that social contract, we take it in the teeth, and then people legislate away our opportunities to cut those corners.

For the life of me I can't figure out why IT companies are running to AWS. This is the exact same sort of facilities management problem that physical businesses deal with internally.

I have saved myself and my teams from a few architectural blunders by asking the head of IT or Operations what they think of my solution. Sometimes the answer starts with, "nobody would ever deploy a solution that looked like that". Better to get that feedback in private rather than in a post-mortem or via veto in a launch meeting. But I have had less and less access to that sort of domain knowledge over the last decade, between Cloud Services and centralized, faceless IT at some bigger companies. It's a huge loss of wisdom, and I don't know that the consequences are entirely outweighed by the advantages.
> I'm unable to create a new ElastiCache cluster in different AZs of us-east-1

Isn't that because Elasticache will distribute the cluster across AZs automatically?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/...
To me, DNA is more like an esolang than any normal programming language.
Just curious, but do you use the laptop’s keyboard when playing games? Even for the limited style of gaming I do I can not imagine not using a full sized wireless keyboard and mouse.
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You are correct, thank you. I shouldn't shoot so much from the hip.
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>Apple's CSAM would scan your offline photos.

Apple's plan was to to scan photos that you uploaded to iCloud, only. Even that plan was canceled.

Google, however, still does scan everything in your account and has been doing so for the past decade.

For instance, this article from 2014:

>a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect's Gmail account

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...
> In contrast, there is no evidence to suggest that these negative diversity impacts would exist in the context of a mandatory math course (i.e. that racialized teacher candidates might disproportionately fail these math courses), and we do not think such an inference can be made on the basis of logic or common sense.

Uh... what? Performance outcomes differ between racial groups in mandatory classes all the time. If the argument really is that "disproportionate impact" in classroom outcomes is enough to render a policy unconstitutional, then your only option is not to measure outcomes at all, because every educational measure shows differences between races.

I edited the quote above to contain the court's entire statement from the finding, because it's even more damning and removes the possibility of a less absurd reading. Apparently the justices know absolutely nothing about education and race because they don't know that "racialized teacher candidates might disproportionately fail these math courses" is exactly what we should expect, because that's exactly what we find in every other educational context.