skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good question, why is it that seemingly nobody uses the math they've been taught?

When I was in school, my math teacher used to write AMBS on the board before calculus lessons: Algebra Must Be Strong. What happens when you study calculus is you end up rehashing algebra over and over again until it's second nature. Consequently if you find someone who's done well at calculus, you can be sure they can do algebra.

Someone mentioned this in relation to RenTech. Why do they hire mathematicians who have studied incredibly complex things with seemingly no relation to trading? One reason might be that people who have done that know the fundamentals very, very well.

Similarly accountants don't use vectors or geometry at work either, but they certainly are comfortable with arithmetic and its application in spreadsheets.

When I look at my own education, it is also the case that the things I'm least sure of are the deepest, latest courses that build on everything else. Probably if I built on top of those I'd be more comfortable with them. Taking this line it would appear that you can't just teach people the math they'll use, because they won't really get it until they try to do the next thing.

A thing that needs addressing is the notion that we should only teach people things that will be useful, which seems to underlie this article. We should teach people how to explore, and math is the premier example of a large space that can be explored with very little access to resources and evidence. You can do it just in your mind, and you don't need any apparatus or conclusions from people who had such apparatus, like you do in science.
> Trust 100% requires content moderation. Good scientific journals are trusted because they exercise extremely tight control over what gets published.

Editorial endorsement and evaluation of content can be entirely decoupled from publishing. This is what "overlay journals" based on repositories like ArXiV do: they provide independent endorsement of papers published elsewhere.
Private sector Venus upper atmospheric bio-exploration is now live. The game is afoot ;)

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/rocket-lab-venus-explaine...
21h2 and more recent versions of Linux allegedly add these codecs, but I don’t know how that played out in the real world
> with no motivation to do anything

Do you have some sort of goal in mind? I guess if you're asking this question, probably not? Then set some, just for the heck of it. Last year, I was in a similar situation, and somehow I began setting goals for each week: these goals are not result-oriented but process-oriented (I call it a success as long as I spend x amount of time on it); I'd also have a single goal that I'll target to achieve at any reasonable cost. I think the artificial feedback loop (simple goal, goal that I force myself to achieve at any cost, journaling down) made me feel good about myself, probably trained my goal-setting/motivation muscle that has long atrophied.

Another thing I want to mention is that in the book Mindset, the author mentioned that what separates the academic outcomes of students with mild depression is whether they continued with their daily routine or not. I've found this to be profoundly influential for me personally: I'd force myself to complete the actions that I normally did when I'm at better states, and when I feel happy and accomplished, I'd write down what I did, which has served as a tremendously useful source of energy (mostly for self-affirmation) and benchmark when I'm sad.

Finally, it's best that one never enters into such a rut state and it's worse if one stays in it for a long time (since I recall there are many studies showing that long-term stress causes physiological damages that are hard to repair). Therefore, I'd try to self-monitor for the behavioral changes that might signal I'm about to enter into rut, and kick off the prevention strategies.
Yes, this is a prime example of bad data being worse than no data.

In the UK, for months now, the rate of infection has been higher among the vaccinated cohort than among the unvaccinated cohort, for most age groups. [1]

The antivaxxers are of course pointing to this data and claiming it's evidence that the vaccines make you more likely to get infected, and therefore the tinfoil hats were right all along.

But what's actually happening is that the unvaccinated cohort contains a lot of people with natural immunity, who are dragging the numbers down, while the vaccinated cohort doesn't have as many people in it who have had a prior infection.

I strongly suspect that if you were you properly separate people by vaccination status and prior infection, you would see that the group of unvaccinated+no prior have a much higher case ratio than any other group. But since we don't have this good data, the antivaxxers are running hog wild with the bad data, drawing the wrong conclusions.

[1] https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/t.coddington/viz/UKRe...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 review: effectively the RTX 1060 Ti
Moderation should be fully reviewable. I made a site to do this for reddit [1]. As of this hour, user pages [2] work best because the archive service is down. Subreddit history pages [3], which show where the community and mods have disagreed the most, also still work.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq

[2] https://www.reveddit.com/y/rhaksw

[3] https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history
I believe the discussion is about what Wealthfront is doing to earn their 0.25% fee. "Tax loss harvesting" seems unpersuasive.
TIL, I am youngling.
I agree that robo-advisors are great, but they do leave a lot to be desired. I’m actively working on a service that would drastically change the way people engage with robo-advisory accounts.

I for one prefer to make stock selections on my own, however Wealthfront, Betterment, and Personal Capital do not allow me to manage my own investments with any of the robo-advisory features. There is a huge opportunity in the space.

It would be great to talk to you about it - I’d love to hear your thoughts - any way we can connect?
Exactly this. I wish more developers were being made mindful of the humongous amount of resources they're wasting.
Attempting to refute the entire petition based on a few fake signatures is a similar argument used against the VAERS database.

"Hey it doesn't matter if there's 20,000 deaths, I found this one fake report! The entire system is thus suspicious and should be disregarded"

Luckily people see right through this weak argument.
When I started learning woodwork I was really excited to apply geometry which I hadn't used much since highschool (even working with geospatial data vis). However as I've progressed I find myself using math less and less and it's often faster and more accurate not to measure or calculate.

To give an example, making a three legged stool I needed 3 equally spaced spaced points around a circle, I could find the center, draw the first point then use a protractor to find the other 3 points at 120 deg. But it was far far quicker to just use a divider, step around the circle a few times adjusting until 3 steps takes you back to the first point.

Of course this is still some form of math, but it doesn't involve any calculation. I feel there's a whole world of very useful techniques that work on a different abstraction, though I'm struggling to name or describe to properly.
Any good resources that help instill the "why"?
Yes, that sort of thing! Its claim to trustworthiness seems to be based on the idea that its CPU runs on an FPGA so you can audit the source code for that and compile it yourself. But the underlying FPGA looks like a proprietary Xilinx device. Who’s auditing that?
Isn't myocarditis something you can get when you have a virus (even non-Covid). I wonder what the myocarditis rates are for covid patients in that age range
Vanguard is not famous for actively managed funds.
I don’t care, I want google maps and I want the default to be google maps, but there’s no way of setting that, I even tried uninstalling apple maps and now when I click on addresses it prompts me to reinstall it.

Didn’t Microsoft get done for antitrust for similar dark patterns in the late 90s?
As a little exercise, about once a day I take a pass through CNN or NPR, and then another through Fox News. Just to get a high level idea of what each side believes reality to be. It is fascinating how little overlap there is. For the most part I don't think people are really arguing with each other, they're just arguing with a straw man they have constructed to represent the opposition.
Ask HN: What is your problem/koan/TodoMVC to try out programming languages?
For frontend development on the web TodoMVC is an established example to test programming languages with; whether it is performance, ease of implementation or whatever your metric is.

But not everything runs in the browser, and whether you are looking for the most enjoyable programming language out there or you want the most concise or ... you need a project to kick the tyres of a programming language. What is yours?
> If the code is tagged as being MIT in GitHub

Yes

> includes an MIT license file

Maybe. MIT license permits additional license restrictions on top of license. For example, MIT code can be copied into a proprietary system with a different license, which will forbid copying code out.
> So I'm in the awkward middle ground of believing it's counter-productive to try to shelter people from ideas but also believing that lots of people are very easy to manipulate, even so easy to manipulate that it can happen en masse and entirely by accident.

Don't think it is an accident. The ruling class has set this stage by design. There is little to no critical thinking being taught in K-12. Create a malleable population, then push censorship to protect them from themselves.
Yeah, I just expect all software to be buggy. To be honest my main way of evaluating software is by Googling stuff like "X ate my data" or "X stopped working" and seeing how many major complaints people have, relatively to how many users there are.

I think the duct tape and string feeling comes from the obsession with smallness and modularity and people trying to make "Linux not be like windows".

Half the FOSS scene WANTS things to be taped together because their main thing is random tinkering.
> Refusing future boosters comes at the risk of your own health, as well as the health of the people around you.

And some scientists think that repeated boosters will backfire and lead to waning immunity or at least immunity better centered around the exact strain the vaccine is made (so could be mitigated by different boosters). Plus downsides of repeatedly have to make time to get boosters, taking doses from people who haven't even had the opportunity to get a single dose. Differences in risk between a healthy under 30 and an unhealthy over 65.

It's possible that your statement is correct for some demographics and incorrect for others. But that nuance is not in the current discussion or the current mandates; and that nuance could save lives in less-developed countries.
People have speculated on doing that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus says Carl Sagan did in 1961)

For an (IMHO highly optimistic. It surely reads like science fiction to me) sketch of a plan from 1990 see https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/TerraformingVenusQuickly.....

It claims that, if we start in 2030, there can be ten billion people on Venus by 2200, and that the project can break-even by 2045 (after spending 150 billion British pounds)
Substack will always be a sort of niche site. It will never pull anything close to Facebook or Twitter numbers. So investors do not have much expectations for growth. If investors had higher expectations of ad-based growth, then censorship would be a consideration if it meant boosting ad revenue.
Here's an example from within HN. I'm not sure this is a strawman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052781
Is it because he's a board member?

I remember a time when people thought it worrying when regulators moved to highly paid positions of the companies they were in charge of regulating.
> most school is forced knowledge work on problems that don't fit the person's problem situation.

Have you never been in a situation where you are about to take train going at 80 mph; wondering when you'll meet up with your friends going in the opposite direction at 90 mph?
Where are Putin’s troops and what are his options?
> Uh, there is a carpenter with a Web site that uses the "3, 4, 5 rule", of course, the Pythagorean theorem.

Knowing a triplet ain't employing Pythagorean theorem.

> [lots of following examples that are moderately deep applied math used in lots of skilled professions]

Most people don't do this kind of work or analysis.
Bose quite comfort 35 ii and the 700. We use them 4-6 hours a day due to covid homeoffice and couldn't be happier. IMHO if you want to have something better you have to switch to the studio section and give up the BT.
The silver lining of this awkward middle ground is the certainty that censorship is the wrong way to go. We may be doomed if people remain so easy to manipulate, but if you really believe that censorship is counter-productive, then education is the only path out.
A lot of the relevant authors are already dead, and many more of them will be in the next ten years, so this is not good enough. It may reduce ACM's conflict with authors but it doesn't particularly help a researcher who's trying to track down a result someone published in CACM 40 years ago.
Weird comment. It's a piano because falling pianos have been in movies and cartoons as a gag since forever. (Pianos have been raised and lowered via cranes above the sidewalk)
I think it’s mostly on the device side. Both sender and receiver have to have the codecs available. TBH, I just recently learned you can go into iOS Bluetooth settings and change the device type to “speakers” and use your computer (at least if your computer is running Linux) as a speaker. It’s freakin magic.
Sorry, but in my opinion that is a silly thing to believe. I'm assuming you're from a liberal democracy, what if I told you you could have _your_ name on the (local) ballot next time a $LOCAL vote comes around?

The government, for the most part, is not an evil cabal of deep state cultists (in most countries that describe themselves as liberal today). People like you or me can join a party, and then get elected within a year or two.

What I absolutely do believe is that people elected, through what is essentially a harmless popularity contest in peace time, are the worst type of people you want to have taking decisions in a crisis. People worried about their next re-election are _not_ going to make the right decisions, apart from the fact that in peace time the electorate optimizes for populism and extremism, and the candidates are sometimes more like actors than leaders. In short: they are incompetent, heavy handed and not even remotely equipped to deal withe massive leverage attached to the levers they control.
My point is that most people using Gemini agrees with this: "It is its own thing with its own community that is entirely complementary to the web, and nothing more" even if they think some parts of the Web can be replaced by Gemini (which it can. Text only web pages with simple markup is a thing)
Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
It's a little nuts to me how many articles cite the $10 billion price tag as astronomical when we spent that in maybe 2 weeks during the peak of the Iraq War, and for what?
Yeah. One underappreciated thing about education is exposure. It's not that I've been walking around every day for the past decade being capable of matrix multiplication. But having been exposed to it once, it's amazing how quickly the knowledge comes back when you need it. I did advent of code over Christmas and when the 3D transformations came up I thought about it for a bit, then remembered... something about matrices... linear algebra..? And then searched for the resource I needed to refresh myself on it. Just the fact I was exposed once a decade ago means I was able to refresh myself in a few minutes.
It's perfectly cromulent English.
The question is where that trust problem comes from. Taking the trust problem as granted and shying away from certain measures like censorship is not going to solve anything. Not to discuss whether censorship is wrong or right, but wouldn't this then be a case where we just put lipstick on a pig?

I grew up in Austria and back in the day the Nazis also didn't trust a lot of people. But their lack of trust was totally irrational and based on nothing real. Not doing something because you are afraid they might lose even more trust would have been the wrong way to go back then.

And it might be today as well. If we want to do something here we jave to divide those who reasonably doubt the integrity of the media from those who doubt it no matter what. This is an issue of education, of media law, etc. But giving in to people because they stop trusting is not the way out.
It depends on what strain you had and timing — this paper had a previous infection lower than a 3 dose vaccination:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.03.21268111v...

The big question, of course, is timing — if you had a mild case in 2020, you're unlikely to do as well as someone who got their second dose a couple months ago.
>>Who does any of the things you listed?
1) Any of the states/countries who uses vaccine passports.
2) Any employer using smartphone badges [0]

>>why? What's the "win" here?
The win would be that the one carrying all your 'required' stuff is not the same one as the one you use for telecommunications & other work. Separation. The one with all your licenses, accounts, etc. has ONLY that stuff.

And sure, if you want to carry only one with the minimal stuff, go for it.

>>If by "wealthy enough" you mean "has 40 bucks..."
Yes, I'd make the license/pass/etc phone a cheap one, but it still might require a separate plan, which is monthly maintenance, etc...

>>I'm genuinely bewildered about your threat model.

I'd say the main post described it rather well.

Just the combination of nice-to-have options becoming mandatory/primary, the underlying device thus also becoming mandatory, and the device explicitly working against our interest.

While 'I've got nothing to hide', I still don't like my devices gathering data on me that isn't also useful to me.

E.g., right now, it's pretty optional to be tracked - just leave the smartphone behind, bring cash and your license/badge/whatever. We can't do that when all those passes are on the same device, along with our communications history and more...

[0] https://blog.dormakaba.com/this-is-why-smartphones-will-repl...
> I’ve looked at the Sony XM1000’s and from what I understand there is some issue with Windows where if you enable the mic, it goes into some different Bluetooth mode that degrades the audio quality coming out of the headphones.

I have the Jabra Elite 85h's and have the same exact problem on OS X from time to time. (I really like them otherwise, though!) I'm not entirely sure what it is.
> PC gamers often seem to refuse to admit there's untold little quirks you have to deal with when using a general-purpose operating system and modular hardware to play games. They don't notice the workarounds they are continuously employing, because it's become a reflex.

Not just a reflex, a cargo-cult reflex.

Look at the litany of optimization/debugging nonsense that is parroted across the internet. Registry fiddling, disabling Windows services, setting core affinities, divination by chicken bones, all sorts of nonsense - the impact of which is, of course, not ever empirically measured.
The other side of the argument though, is the "reduce existential risk" part. There probably isn't anything meaningful I could do, to reduce the risk of some future war against aliens. But with AI, the presumption is that the risk is near and that AI research going on right now could meaningfully impact future AGI designs. AI research, say, 80 years ago wouldn't have the same tradeoff. I'm not sure I buy the assumptions, but the argument does require an assumption of near-term influence (albeit it allows that that influence to be very small).
I didn't mean to say that no incentives exist. I meant to say that those incentives wouldn't get stronger if authors or readers sent more money to Nature.
Aperture VC on raising first round of their fund using Dropbox and DocSend
College kids were already required to get multiple vaccines to attend and I remember being lined up to take the swine flu nasal spray with no say in the matter if I was going to continue education.

> There's no other way to frame this than as coercive behavior

We coerce people constantly when they have bad behavior that affects society and others. I don’t know why people keep trotting out mandates as having aspects of coercion/authoritarianism is a mic drop moment explaining why they are bad. How is this worse than all the other health based coercion we’ve had?
There is a pre—existing vaccination mandate for enrollment at colleges in the US.
Legacy/traditional/corporate/entrenched media has an outsized impact. There doesnt need to be some pure alternative in order to recognize that.
Still doesn't tempt me to "upgrade" to Windows 11.
Have you lived in major cities in America? ;-)

In ATX, there's a deficit of 200+ police, 50+ EMTs, and who-knows-how-many nurses. Finding a decent doctor haphazardly is like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in a 6 wheel. (Obligatory firearms metaphor for Texas.)

I've already been through a couple of psychiatrists since their misanthropic lack of BSM and acceptable human behaviors like listening were insurmountable. Found a good otolaryngologist and a gastroent. PCP also needs to be changed.
> Many students are only taught math as symbol manipulation. Less instruction is focused on identifying situations where it might be useful. We need to give students more training in noticing and converting everyday situations into the math problems they know how to solve.

No, please don't do this. When I was learning math as a kid I found word problems incredibly irritating and stupid. It's just a way to waste a few seconds of my time when I just want to solve the problem and get to the next one. Word problems are just disrespectful
Nobody is banned from buying groceries. Good god.
You may not have to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus#Argument...:

“It has until recently been assumed that the rotation rate or day-night cycle of Venus would have to be increased for successful terraformation to be achieved. More recent research has shown, however, that the current slow rotation rate of Venus is not at all detrimental to the planet's capability to support an Earth-like climate. Rather, the slow rotation rate would, given an Earth-like atmosphere, enable the formation of thick cloud layers on the side of the planet facing the sun. This in turn would raise planetary albedo and act to cool the global temperature to Earth-like levels, despite the greater proximity to the Sun.”
So every government, the world over, even those at war with each other, all decided to push a "get vaccinated" message for reasons other than health?

I mean, governments want to ensure their income stream (tax payers) are alive to pay taxes, but that's hardly "corrupt" and is still to do, indirectly, with public health
Is he removing his Youtube channel too? Guess Youtube has no misinformation!

https://www.youtube.com/neilyoung/videos
> not even other massive corporations are exempt from

Massive corporations can sometimes make a special deal with Apple.

Small companies, not so much.

Therefore it makes sense for small companies to assume that they will have to follow Apple's rules, whether or not they agree with them.
It 70-80% has been infected, then most of the vaccinated population will be vaccinated and infected, which provides still stronger protection than just infections.

The end result is the same: higher proportion of severe illness among the unvaccinated, which is most easily fixed by vaccinating them.