skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but linear algebra being the crux of so many disciplines the linear algebra course should be especially emphasized and clear. It's not the place to throw random hurdles. It's the place to get this information into the students' brains 100% so they can leverage that knowledge correctly later. More of a foundational course in that sense. Like if you were pushing out liberal arts majors without any grammar courses.

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Now, the course says it's for students considering a major in STEM. I wonder if the business side of the college means to say: "Students who got into Princeton ostensibly to study some area outside of STEM but who are now thinking of going into STEM. They may take this course then add to our STEM student roster by switching majors and we don't want that for business reasons. So here's a course that will push back all but the students who have a good case to be in STEM."
There'd have to be existing trust/reputation in order for it to be captured, and in the case of Forbes there isn't any.
Princeton has picked a metric, and has gotten so good at optimizing for it that they're now #1 for eleven years and counting:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/09/13/us-n...

(U.S. News & World Report's Best College rankings)
So only ~36x more deadly!
> /wiki/Requests_for_comment/Rodrigo_Tetsuo_Argenton@brwikimedia

Everyone Loves Rodrigo
The Case for Time-Tracking
A graphic designer probably wanted to beef up their resume/portfolio. For a webpage about a font it's a little much.
BWT is so good. I dare say it’s the best web typography site I’ve found.
Always cool to see research from Numenta. They don’t get as much love as DeepMind, Google Brain, and OpenAI because their results aren’t as flashy, but I do feel like they’ve got a principled approach to engineering intelligent systems distinct from that of the big players.
With the rise of ORMS, I'm coming across more and more devs in my work that have no idea how to write performant SQL, and don't ever check to see what gets generated and run "behind the scenes"
The programmers virtues: Impatience, Hubris, Laziness

-Larry Wall
> It's possible the author was in a "math for engineers" class

Indeed, she says exactly that:

> MAT 202 is not a course that math majors typically take, but rather for underclassmen who are majoring in engineering or sciences.
I make no reasoning or conclusion. My comment consists of an opinion followed by a statement.
> Consider the availability of free resources like Khan Academy, Paul's Online Math Notes, hours and hours of Youtube videos from people like Professor Leonard, Gibert Strang, etc. One can also often find problem sets with solutions by just Googling around and finding previous years course websites for various courses that have been taught at universities all around the world.

As a university professor, given the availability of all these resources, I'm not sure why you'd want to take advantage of them and take a university course if you're not interested in the credentialling. Universities are a place to learn the deepest knowledge of content experts, and I don't want to downplay that; but these content experts are usually not pedagogical experts, and they often tend to be less skilled at teaching less advanced material. That's not to say that there are no good introductory-level teachers out there—there are lots, and they do heroic work—but that a random university professor, even a very good professor, probably won't be as good at teaching introductory material. (With that being said, I don't regard Linear Algebra as introductory material—but, then, I'm not teaching at Princeton.)

Certainly, if I were advising a non-math major who wanted to take an introductory math class, I would encourage them to think very carefully about an auto-didactic approach to see if they like it well enough to continue. If you want to learn lots of mathematics, then a university math department is the place for you; but, if you just want to dip your toe into it, then it may well not be, because so many of those courses are set up as 'service courses' for people who don't want to be there but have to be, and that inevitably shapes the tenor of those classes.
We can look at the effect of anti-COVID measures by examining regions with small amounts of COVID but large amounts of anti-COVID measures like Australia and New Zealand. You can even compare between Australian states like Victoria that had 6 lockdowns and WA that had virtually none.

The result is that all cause mortality went down, largely due to elimination of respiratory viruses but also due to a slight decrease in car accidents. Suicide rates actually went down, not up and there was a uptick in self-reported mental illness and distress but that uptick was far smaller than the later uptick when COVID became widespread. The economy took a hit but a far smaller hit than countries that that let COVID rip.

The effects of lockdowns are real and measurable and they are bad but far, far less bad than COVID itself.
What about Node makes it unsuitable for FastCGI? I always found it curious that Cloudflare Workers does not use Node, makes sense that there could be an underlying reason.
Multiplication tables memorized in school usually stop at 12x12. They're super useful for doing the exact thing you demonstrated, in your head, very fast, using some tricks to turn the problem into smaller problems (with memorized answers, so they're solved almost instantly).

Memorizing that multiplication table was a more valuable use of time than the vast majority of time I spent learning mathematics. It's useful daily. Can't say that for much else.
This page matches the nature of this font. It's OK in this context
>a grad class called "Hard problems in combinatorial optimization".

I don't think that that is an introductory course.
Lots of large companies do their own fonts. Not only does it allow them to get a unique branding look, but it can be cheaper than getting and keeping all the necessary licenses for an existing font. Generally the actual font design is farmed out to another company that does that sort of thing for a living.
The issue today, IMHO, is that every university is looking for professors who are "good at research" (meaning, they can win grants), and teaching is not even a secondary or tertiary thought (if a thought at all). The last four professors we hired in our STEM department could barely speak English (I am in the states), let alone get points across or create examples. You know what they can do well? Write grants that get awarded.
First the phrasing "teach me math" like it's a thing that is done to the student, or in this case, failed to be done, as opposed to something the student failed to do. An example alternate phrasing may be "help me learn math". I think this is a modern attitude that removes the student agency from the process. If the university failed to give worked solutions and the student feels they need it then there are other sources for worked solutions. I could understand lack of desire to spend additional money on a different textbook with worked examples when so much money was spent on the course in the first place. At the same time I could see reasons for a math course to push students to figuring much more out for themselves to ensure the early principles are deeply embedded into their brain.
It's a bit strange that Musk doesn't allow his workers the freedom to talk about such things without risking being fired given his numerous statements about freedoms and such.
There were lots of I, Robot cabinets in the UK. I loved it - was mindblowing! Was also ported to various home computers
What does variable mean in this context?
My favorite IBM font: the PS/2's VGA font, seen in DOS Mode and BIOSes all throughout the 90s and 2000s.

My preferred implementation: https://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font
> Unfortunately, it is difficult for students pursuing humanities and social science degrees to explore classes within STEM departments due to the inaccessibility of introductory courses.

People in humanities and social science tend to avoid these topics in high school, and would have a tough time with something like Algebra 12.
I've developed quite a few SNES-related things for fun, mostly using Go and C++, with some 65816 ASM sprinkled in.

https://github.com/alttpo/alttpo - A Link To The Past Online. Lets multiple players see and interact with one another in the same game world and synchronize their progress through the game. Exclusive to a customized fork of the bsnes emulator which provides a scripting language and PPU-integrated drawing routines to render remote player sprites. In retrospect, I consider this a dead-end architecture; redesigned in o2 project (see below).

https://github.com/alttpo/o2 - Second version of alttpo (see above) but this time targeted at SNES hardware console support (via SD2SNES flash cart USB feature) and does not require a customized emulator nor a scripting language. Trade-off here is a loss of the visual aspect (cannot see remote player sprites) due to tight hardware limitations in the amount of VRAM and limited SNES CPU cycles available. Work is in progress to gain back the remote sprite rendering as an optional add-on via the bsnes-plus WASM module support (see below). This project includes a 65816 machine code emitter library (pure Go) with support for named labels of branch targets. There is also a bare-bones headless SNES emulator library (pure Go) included for unit tests to verify the generated 65816 ASM and ROM patching mechanism.

https://github.com/alttpo/bsnes-plus - A fork of bsnes-plus in development that invokes WebAssembly modules when certain general SNES events occur, e.g. `on_nmi`, `on_power`, `on_reset`, `on_frame_present`. WASM code has access to a draw-list API for drawing into the various PPU layers, e.g. extra sprites, text (with PCF font support), basic shapes. WASM code can also receive arbitrary binary messages from external applications, e.g. to update remote player positions or exchange custom sprite graphics.
Oh man, I can totally relate. I'm a self-taught programmer, and have been trying to learn math in the same way for the past couple of years. I've certainly improved a little bit, but learning math is very different from learning programming, and I'm frustrated. Every time I buy a book, I think I understand what I'm reading until the time comes to do the problems ... then I get hopelessly stuck and discouraged.

I've never encountered something I couldn't learn with a bit of consistent effort before. To make matters worse, I can already appreciate the beauty of math from a distance, yet it somehow remains totally inaccessible to me, and this despite my honest-to-god best efforts. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It's a terrible feeling. =(

I harbor a secret fantasy of meeting a maths enthusiast who would take me under his or her wing, and help me struggle through problems for one hour each week.
This is just bizarre and backwards, now that a university could put the overflow into a MOOC.
Where is Masochism in this list?
I think this happens a lot. For some reason people have a really strong tendency with math to attribute it to innate talent. Of course talent matters, but people get hung up on it and discount other factors. The word "maturity" is supposed to help indicate that it's a matter of having and digesting the right experiences, but it honestly isn't great, because maturity can be driven by experience, but it can also be dictated by biology. If someone is isolated from human contact between the ages of ten and twenty, they will emerge fully mature in some ways and immature in others. We need a less ambiguous way of saying that somebody hasn't yet had the exposure and practice that will prepare them to tackle certain material.
Right, CRISPR is ok, but they haven't figured out that many real applications. This approach to vaccines has actually been around forever.

I bookmarked this thread specifically to watch your links later. I appreciate them and will watch, as I am really interested in the topic.

My hope is that biotech is the next step, but as I mentioned, for now I am highly pessimistic. We can't seem to treat virtually anything in any real sense, despite the experiments you mention. If anything, the progress in prosthetics (including the spinal bypass) has been great, but nothing to do with life extension or genuine recovery of lost functionality without surgical intervention.

Personally, it seems to be me that the closest thing we can do so far as individuals is reduce risk factors and try to stay high on Death Clocks: https://www.lifespan.io/news/grimage-is-the-best-clock-for-p...

Completely unrelated, but this reminded me that we can't seem to regrow cartilage either. This is a huge issue after cancers and cardiac deaths. Any falls, excessive wear and tear, etc all destroy quality of life with the joints. Latest efforts here: https://www.studyfinds.org/arthritis-pain-regrowing-cartilag...
Also, there is https://windicss.org.
If time travel of information is possible we could send and receive packets back in time to play with players located in the years of 2005-2007. It would solve the problem of dead servers and allow us to play during the golden ages again for many games.
Can you explain the particular meaning of that term for the rest of us?
> These magazines cannot be gatekeepers any longer.

I reckon they really could, with a bit of smarts. The brands alone are worth so much, in these times of winner-takes-all. Look at the news: anybody can start a blog, but the actual "papers" we turn to are almost invariably old, established brands, even when they clearly suck. And there is so much shit online, respected filters are worth their weight in gold.

One of the problems is indeed the competition with bazillions of stimuli coming down the internet hosepipe every second. People have to make a conscious effort to sit down and read certain material, rather than using it as escapism - on escapism, the mobile internet cannot be beaten.

Another is that there is no economic model anymore. People bought books and magazines convinced that they were paying for distribution costs; in fact, they were also retroactively paying to produce the material. Now that distribution costs are virtually zero, nobody wants to pay anything, and the industry has not been good at making clear that writing and editing cost money.

Another again is that there is massive digital fragmentation: some people will read on kindle, some on phones, some on laptops, and some still want paper. The numbers are so small, for each mode, that they cannot individually sustain much; but supporting them all costs real money.
You can get paid, but it on its own most likely won't cover the costs that go into creating it. But it's often worth that cost anyways
Unstated premise: the most brilliant and motivated minds of their generation ought to all be able to grasp mathematics. I for one don't believe this premise. University level mathematics requires a level of abstract thinking that most people are simply incapable of.
My high school AP calc course started out somehow getting behind in the first week. After that, the teacher kept assigning homework for material we wouldn't even cover until the day it was already due to be turned in. It was pretty brutal for someone like me who was accustomed to coasting through all of my other courses.

I took a bit more math in college. It wasn't easier; the professor simply kept pace with the material. If you needed help, you had to go to a TA or the professor out of class hours (an option that wasn't really available for a high school setting).

I can easily imagine that many students who were exposed to college level math for the first time in one of those courses would flounder and drop out (though I didn't witness much of it myself).
Someone has thoughtfully folded Plex Sans JP in with Plex Mono to make a nice monospace which also handles Japanese pretty well. It's called PlemolJP[1]. I've been using it for one of my projects[2] and have been happy with it.

[1] https://github.com/yuru7/PlemolJP
[2] http://lofi.limo
So how do you do it?
This is true but the class the author was taking was not required for Math majors.
The funny part is that several providers do actually have GTFS included in GMaps. Someone with decent lobbying power managed to score a contract to provide "Google Maps integration", so I don't think the providers even have the right to share the GTFS files, even if they have them.

And since the contract is absurdly overpriced and (unofficial info) charges for each conversion instead of simply handing over the conversion software, their GMaps data is often out of date. So currently, for at least one city, the GTFS file my system generates from scraped data is actually more accurate than the one they have and provide to Google.

One of my goals though is quite similar to what you're saying - to have the most accurate data and provide it openly enough that it takes away Google's (and anyone else's) power to come in and offer something like "we'll develop a conversion system for free if you push Chromebooks or GClassroom in your schools". Our municipalities love making deals that are "free", but actually end up costing far more in other ways and it really needs to stop.
Inventing the Klingon and Vulcan languages [video]
Or leaves you chronically damaged/paralyzed/etc.
Another thing that one might not have considered is the perception of women and math. Of course your daughter might not want to protest against unfair mathematics teaching structures given that her struggle is societally used to represent that all women struggle at math. <relevant xkcd comic here>. I would also hesitate to protest unfair practices in situations where I was a minority because I know anything short of quietly excelling is a negative representation of my entire demographic.
Whenever anyone mentions Harry Potter I always think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8shqjr6O8

Stewart Lee is not everyones cup of tea however.
Same here, but I feel like Forbes' reputation is at the point where it might actually be improved by Binance's influence.
>"To date, despite repeated requests, the DFEH has declined to provide Tesla with the specific allegations or the factual bases for its lawsuit."

What do you think would happen to those people providing information? You think they would still have jobs?
Phone number has been used too many times
Wait for the new design of punchcards, spoliers: elliptical holes.
You were playing with info time travelers back then and didn't even know it.
TLDR; He dual hosted on CloudFlare & Vercel for redundancy, then CloudFlare had an outage. Doesn't say if he dropped CF altogether after that or what.
And this is such a problem we have kids running around becoming dehydrated from all the mouth watering?

Or perhaps breasts, vaginas and penises are not like fruit at all? Do most people get sexually aroused from fruit? No. Do most people get sexually aroused when they see the sexual parts of of the sex they’re interested in? Yes.

Fruit is not the same as sex, and I can’t believe this even has to be explained.
weird to see this covered by cnn, though i guess it makes sense because literary magazines were part of the mainstream in the past.

it's a shame they shut down the believer. i'd be curious to see the finances. even if it is a financial issue, maybe literary magazines and other artistic endeavors shouldn't be run like a profit-making business / quantified by money, since you can't put a dollar value on the benefits of art.

here's a different take on why it shut down: https://www.gawker.com/media/the-believer-was-a-victim-of-mi...

edit: so much of the best literature (imo) that's come out in the past 20 years have come from loss-making small presses who do it for the love of it.
I meant Framer Sites - their new product, currently in (private?) beta. It’s exactly the same as your product. But of course Figma has much bigger user base and it’s good there’s something directly in Figma.
Is there a donation link or something for homebrew? I can't believe such a popular tool is not making you guys money.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30281041
Gas plants have a possible rate of change of aprox. 20%/minute. Admittedly, it may be a matter of taste whether a fourfold rate might be called a "strong" contrast. So let's just say that the rate of change of gas plants is typically four times higher.

Besides, the actual rates of change for nuclear power plants vary widely, depending on the current load of the power plant. According to the German Wikipedia the actual capabilities of (former) nuclear power plants in Germany ranged from 1.1% to 10% per minute. When the plant was below 50% of its load, the possible rate was near the lower end of this spectrum. The maximum of 10% was only possible when the plant was already running above of 80% of their nominal power. The value was also very much dependent on the operating state of the plant.[1] So the 5%/minute you mentioned are just an average.

Historically, nuclear power plants have been used as load following plants in Germany, but this was during times, when the overall volatility of power production was lower than today. And when it comes to new nuclear power plants currently being planned elsewhere, their load following capabilities are to my knowledge typically an afterthought.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastfolgebetrieb#Kraftwerkstyp https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druckwasserreaktor#Lastfolgebe... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siedewasserreaktor#Lastfolgebe...
Browsers are complicated - They all suffer from these kind of issues. Check the release notes for all of them and you'd see similar
I have no idea where Forbes reputation comes from. Is it because they were the first to track the richest 100 people?
Big brand name, little backing afaik.
> My 2 cents: The author presumably goes to Princeton - the ivy league is in general a tough place to "start learning" things, especially STEM. Few of the staff would teach you the basics of anything, mostly because you are attending a research college, where teaching is the professors' side gig.

Still, it seems there's bits of departmental strategy that are a bit kooky. Why provide practice problems (not for credit, it seems), and then never share solutions? What is the point in the student practicing without feedback about correctness? Wrong practice is just as likely as right practice.
From what I understood, the HW/exams were graded, but solutions were not provided. I've studied math at two universities, and every professor provides solutions after they've been graded. And if they didn't, they would give you the solution to a particular problem in their office.

They may not give it as a handout, but more likely would solve the problems in class for everyone to see. But one way or other, they would give it.
Iconic and extremely relevant.
Well it is a bit strange that corporate profits are at record highs and CxO's keep talking about how they are driving increased prices on their investor calls during a time of record inflation.
Wow for 18-49 the only “deaths while hospitalized” were in the vaccinated group. No deaths in the unvaccinated in that age group. Over all age groups paints a different picture entirely, with more deaths for unvaccinated. Glad the broke out the results by age group.
It’s called context, the entire subject is about pornography not nudity.
The London Review of Books marked 20 years of increased circulation in 2020, and has grown by 13% since then. I think it would be of interest to some people here and I highly recommend buying a subscription: https://www.lrb.co.uk/.
If the need arises, they can get back on earth in two days time or so. I also think/guess their major health risks are of the “you die immediately” kind, not of the “it helps a lot of you get to a hospital within x minutes” kind.
Illusion of visual stability through active perceptual serial dependence