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Misuse of literally in first paragraph. Math concepts never exist figuratively or metaphorically in a curriculum. They are always there, spelled out in literal letters and everything.

The goal of math is to show you how ideas can be precisely put into symbols, and then symbols can be shuffled around to bring about clear reasoning according to rules that we can objectively verify to be true or false.

Just because you don't factor quadratic equations or divide polynomials in real life doesn't meant that math doesn't leave an imprint on your ability to reason.

The use of variables comes from math. When people use sentences like "customer C ordered from a company P", that is familiar because of the math you took in school.
Math warns you of edge cases like that C and P potentially being indistinct.

What's next? Drop gym class because 99%+ people don't need to shoot a basketball through a hoop in their job of personal life? Some lunatic parents being opposed to gym is a thing.

Math is needed by people who go into engineering, tech, scientific and business fields. Those fields have more math courses. When you end up working in those fields, you will not necessarily use that math either, but the concepts relevant to your job couldn't be transmitted in their most rigorous forms without the mathematics.

Math education is like a booster rocket. You can't declare it having been unnecessary just because it's not there any more once you have reached orbit.

Nine months into life, you don't need a placenta any more, so what was the use of clinging to that?

What are toddler toys good for? The only grownups using a BusyBox are embedded engineers.

The "you're not going to end up using it" argument is pseudo-intellectual and hollow, based on the idea that anything used at any stage of development having to be justified by its indefinitely continued presence and utility, rather than a needed temporary benefit or a boost to the next stage, or other scaffolding role.
> do not work with [...] tools like Github

feature

> with a clear code of conduct

bug

> Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

terminal infection
OP wants to be early to report a trend. Too early and premature IMO, but he wants to be first, I guess.
I was always good at art. Until the age of 14 I wanted to be an artist. I paid no attention to math - I spent most of those classes practicing graffiti lettering in my notebook. It was around this time that we got Internet in our household, and I wanted to create a custom website for my artworks, because I found deviantART lame. So I started looking into how websites are made, and ended up cobbling together a basic PHP page on a free hosting provider. I was fascinated by web programming, so I decided that I would go on to get a software engineering degree, but I still considered graphic design and illustration my main forte. The first class on the first day of university was Introduction to Linear Algebra, which started with matrices, determinants and Gauss-Jordan elimination. I vividly remember it was that first 2-hour lecture that made me realize math was actually awesome! It sounds stupid, but it was at that lecture that I realized for the first time that vectors are just lists of numbers. Like, what the hell? It all made sense, and it was beautiful!

As the years went by, each new topic that I’ve learnt seemed like some kind of revelation: the fundamental theorem of calculus, Fourier- and Laplace transforms, Cauchy-Riemann equations, the central limiting theorem, Markov chains, quaternions, Galois theory, and the list goes on. I felt like I was living in Plato’s cave before, being oblivious to this infinitely complex and fascinating world.

I still love making all kinds of art, but it is mathematics and software engineering where I feel truly at home. (the pay is also nice)

Anyway, my point is that you shouldn’t assume someone with artistic talents wouldn’t find math enjoyable, or that they wouldn’t be talented in it if they gave it an honest try. It can “click” at any point in life, not just high school - but if it “clicks” it’s going to be an awesome journey.
If you hadn't learned calculus or what a derivative is, do you suppose you would have eventually figured out to measure the change in temperature and respond to that?

I wonder how much of the value of the course is just in the repeated observation that the rate of change (and so on) is useful to measure
Great start for peace, the assumption that nothing said by Russia is true, and their future behavior will always be bad. You have no inside line, and no particular insight, what makes you so sure of what Russia thinks, what Russia wants, and what Russia will do, and casually disregards anything that Russia says and any of Russia's stated concerns?

Why does everyone speculate about the inner states of Putin and the Russian administration as if they know more than what they're told?
Are we calling chess a sport?
He is paying the same amount as he offered originally but now with 0 push back.
You can get huge political dividends by controlling twitter.
You said:

> No one in this world is training to fire a "warning shot". That is from the movies - full stop.

That is clearly not true, as evidenced by the two sources I supplied.

As for the third source, that has nothing to do with warning shots, but the fact that the military does prioritize things like verbal warnings before engagement.

They clearly write on page 4 "when possible, use the following degrees of force against hostile actors: 1) Shout 2) Shove 3) Show" with "4) Shoot" followed by several caveats.
The strongest players would be the "best" cheaters but also the least likely to cheat. Top n players for small n would only need one "this move is important" hint per game to significantly improve their rating. Very hard to detect of course. But when you hear the actual top players talk about chess they genuinely seem interested in playing the game and not so much driven by chasing some accomplishment of winning. It's quite hard to get to that level without having the genuine interest.

But also their games are subject to the most scrutiny and study and they themselves will spend a lot of time publicly talking about and analyzing their own games, those "cheat" moves would stand out as ones which were hard to see and had bad explanations after a while.
How's that unproductive?

He writes these programs to research things, and then publishes an authoritative book on the subject.
How could vision possibly replace the front bumper ultrasonics? Their primary function for me is showing proximity to objects at low speed, and many of those objects aren’t visible to the front camera because the hood is in the way.
Compare 2000-2020 on that M2 graph compared to 2020-2022.

Jan 2000 - 4,666.2
Jan 2020 - 15,401.8

An increase of 10,735.6 over 120 months, average monthly increase of 89.46.

Aug 2022 - 21,711.4

An increase of 6,310 over 20 months, average monthly increase of 315.52

M2 grew 3.5x faster on average since 2020 than previously.

I'm not directly stating this is the main or only reason for inflation, but I imagine the rate of increasing the money supply 3.5x faster than before could have some kind of effect.
What I'd really like to see is better standardization on network interface diagramming. Many organizations are doing just fine and well as far as the programming goes, but their undocumented network relationships are utter spaghetti, with zigzagging microservices going bananas in every direction.

If folks were compelled to write it down, it would be obvious what a mess they were making, but it's all inside people's heads, where it pretends to be coherent and "obvious". And no I don't think enterprise service bus stuff helps any...
There's probably a non-zero number of employees who would be excited to build something new, versus their current work at Twitter (assuming Musk follows through with making big changes). What those new things are and how they're managed will be more important than who owns the company IMO.
Not really, if "it" goes into a non-reproductive location. No fancy technology required. It's not like such things were unknown, even in ancient times.
No. Let's do a quick recap:

You said that people ought never address text by characters or bytes.

I'm pointing out that this is nonsense and I offered several examples.

You responded saying basically that those tasks are complex and someone else should do it.

In your followup response, you recommend using ICU which ... has an interface for iterating by character. Which is all I had mentioned to begin with. Sigh.
Why would you expect there to be some unifying theory of inflation? It's an emergent phenomenon resulting from the actions of many individual actors. I'm quite sure the people raising the prices every week had no idea how much cash was in circulation.
You have a sort of a point; what I should have said was, 'The "signal path" is simply having more money in the hands of buyers, which will then necessarily cause an increase in prices.'
Perhaps it has to do with being failure-safe?
Traditionally chess engine moves were identifiable easily enough by regular players, and chess.com even has algorithms in place to detect this.

Thats all going to change now though, and its totally possible to cheat using a second computer with an engine that will be undetectable.
The discussion is about EU forcing Apple to play ball. The discussion should be about how the EU just mandated a monopoly for the USB-IF. For Apple detractors, this is a hollow victory.
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This would potentially work... if the cameras could see the places where the ultrasonic sensors were. But they can't! There are big blind spots near the bumpers. I guess they are planning to just have the car fill in the blind spots by remembering what it saw from other perspectives? But that only works when the car is moving and can't account for small obstacles that can move unpredictably, like animals or toddlers.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that it's possible to drive a car with just cameras, but the specific cameras that Tesla has aren't good enough. They need more coverage, better quality, and self-cleaning.
Bush II stole his first election from Gore and started a multi-trillion dollar war based on lies that ended up killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Calling him a success story is completely insane.
Okay, I'm curious - when was this?

I mean, modern nomenclature nominally started in 1892 at the Congress of Geneva, with changes and additions in 1930 that generally reflecting practices already in use by then.

But I don't think you're 100+ years old.

My guess is you're talking about the 1960s, when the name "IUPAC" started replacing the older name "Geneva".

This guess comes from reading Eugene Garfield's 1961 PhD thesis on using linguistic methods to allow machine conversion of nomenclature to molecular weight says:

> All students of elementary organic chemistry are still taught the “Geneva” system though some teachers may now call it the I. U. P. A. C. system.

Quoted pages 450-451 of http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v7p441y1984.pdf
It wasn't that, it was a one-liner by McGinley's character that just got inexplicably stricken.
> The idea of property came into existence long before capitalism, which seems to be the linchpin of your take.

That is not what I understood. I understood a simplified definition of property under modern capitalism. Capitalist property value is overwhelmingly limited to physical utility and not to consequence of consumption. There are a few exceptions, in various countries and industry, notwithstanding.

I did not see a suggestion as to what to do about this.
> Seriously, you don't need to invent a conspiracy for every single move Apple makes.

On the contrary, over-simplifying the motivations of a multi-trillion dollar corporation often leaves you as the fool.
>That does imply that you might consider some backup energy solutions for the winter. I'm a fan of kerosene lately. Less annoying to use than propane, and stores almost as well.

By backup you mean for heating? Can you safely burn kerosene indoors? I thought you would have all sort of pollutants on top of monoxide?
Exaggerating about timelines of products being ready. You are accusing him of lying.
Have you noticed that every investment instrument saw its price go up, and up, no stop, until it had no relation to how much return it would get you, or how much money the people that wanted it for using in a secondary market could spend, and then it kept going up the same way for 2 more decades?

Yep, that's inflation too. But since the money was mostly circulating there, and the official measurements of inflation don't look at investment, it didn't make into the news.

The really good question is why the money was contained there. I don't have a good answer for it.
> Inflation occurs because the owners need to remain wealthy, hence prices go up everywhere.

The fun thing about HN is I hear all sorts of unique economic theories not found in any econ book.

P.S. If the wealthy (or everyone else) needs more money, and just raising prices will work, why don't they do that anyway? The answer is Supply & Demand, it's the Law, and is in every econ textbook.
It seems like this is a solution that should have been baked into the smart device. For example, the Nest thermostats preempts your arrival home and commences toward the desired temperature.
They have some overlap but not large enough to be reliable. My B pillar is regularly blinded due to their inefficient moisture sealing (called out in their manual instead of fixing it) and sunlight. It causes it to fail to see most things to our side
i think he just wants to be done with it. he's just gonna take the hit and remove the 80% of accounts that are owned by bot farms / CIA propagandists etc etc and they just dont want to draw anymore attention to it
I had a conversation about translations with an actual author, some things I learned from him

* It is not possible to specify in advance how a good translation looks like, it is one of those "I know it is good when I see it". Naturally this assumes that the author can read the destination language reasonably well, otherwise they don't have a clue.

* When authors can read the translation, they tend to feel very strongly about it. An author payed a large sum of money for a translation, hated it, binned it and payed another translator to start from scratch.

* Many good translators (by whatever good may mean here) are not authors themselves.

WRT Nabokov, some of his works were originally written in English - Lolita for example. He then went ahead and translated Lolita to Russian.
IIRC, individual I-bond purchases are are limited to $10k p.a. - not $15k
This rings of "just asking questions"

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
Because the people most directly involved are dead (e.g. staff from the wuhan lab) and records have either been lost or concealed it'll probably never be possible to prove a 'lab leak' one way or another.

If you look at the defuse project proposal, however, you'll see a proposal that a reasonable person would conclude had a high risk of creating SARS-CoV2.

They proposed to take a bad corona virus and attempt to grow versions that infected humans by growing it in humanized mice. If that failed, they proposed to genetically modify it to insert a furin cleavage site. After getting their humanized virus they intended to expose immune boosted wild bats to it to inoculate them to this 'predicted' virus.

The biggest discrepancy is that SARS-CoV2's closest known ancestor isn't the virus they were proposing to study: instead, the nearest ancestor is the virus the lab was working on immediately prior to the defuse proposal. And CoV2's most conspicious difference from the wild type ancestor is the furin cleavage whos sequence is very distant from the virus and would not likely be produced easily through mutation yet happens to be identical to a sequence in the literature prior to the research.

Even if we had absolutely concrete proof that SARS-CoV2's origin was completely natural since the research proposals obviously could have created it there ought to be serious inquiry and policy review-- because if it wasn't man made it seems like it would only be by good luck. We have been playing with fire.
Agree. Twitter should absolutely be able to make money with competent management. It vastly underperforms for the space is occupies. Musk overpaid, but going private and getting good management should get it to return something.
However they said the same for radar and removed it regardless after some time.
That "instant no-go" is the problem. C++ is still unwilling to budge even a tiniest bit for safety.

In most scenarios there has to be a check somewhere. Where C++ got it wrong is allowing separation of the check from the use of the now-known-to-be-set value, so the necessity to have convenient zero-cost unchecked use is a problem C++ has created for itself.

Safe languages solved this by carrying the checked state over using the type system (e.g. pattern matching or flow typing), so further the uses after the check are free AND guaranteed safe.

There are some situations where the state of the optional being set is known from the context, but in a convoluted way too complex for the type system to follow. C++ focused on supporting this case — unwilling to compromise on either syntax or performance, and sacrificed safety for it.

Other languages in such muddy scenario either take the cost of a branch or have an unchecked-unsafe function for optimization, but importantly — that function doesn't get a syntax sugar. It is meant to stand out as a rare risky operation, and not be hidden behind super common innocent-looking syntax.
This is typical Tesla. Tell you they're giving you a great new feature when in reality they've made the product worse.
He already admitted to cheating a lot. He didn’t say he cheated in two games, he said cheated at two times in his life. He even detailed how his second time was pumping up his rating, you can’t pump a rating with only one game. Sounds like if it went to 2020 then he would have been 17 at least, not 16 but that’s pretty close at least.
His "peace plan" was literally to ask Ukrainians under Russian occupation if they want to surrender and give Russia exactly what Russia is demanding.
It's less days. Companies also try regular submissions and I sent some towards the whoishiring threads only to see that commenting is no longer possible. Telling the companies they have to wait 10 days for the next thread to open is a bit frustrating.
> HN: a corporation with a monopoly dictating standards is bad

Typically on HN it's "Corporation enforcing closed standards is bad. Unless it's Apple. They for sure do this for innovation".

I've seen people saying that iMessage is closed for "security", where there are literally emails from Apple execs denying that. Now tons of people state that USB 2.0 molded into different plastic was vastly superior to USB-C.
After reading /r/sysadmin for years I have zero faith in the average user's ability to use such a device. The closest thing I have ever seen was some D-Link router that had the option for a DMZ
Get a dishwasher, seriously. No dirty dishes in sight.
This is really interesting. Thanks for open sourcing it!
Yeah i think that's probably gonna happen here too, hence their "at this time" language.
> “Outside his online play, Hans is the fastest rising top player in Classical [over-the-board] chess in modern history,” the report says, while comparing his progress to the game’s brightest rising stars. “Looking purely at rating, Hans should be classified as a member of this group of top young players. While we don’t doubt that Hans is a talented player, we note that his results are statistically extraordinary.”

I basically made the argument that, in any sport, when a player does statistically much, much better than their previous performance would predict, that in and of itself should be considered evidence of cheating - perhaps not conclusive evidence, but definitely evidence warranting further investigation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32990022

> All this talk of "Carlsen accused him of cheating with no evidence" reminds me of the blowback against some athletes in the 70s and 80s who accused rivals of taking PEDs "with no evidence".

> Sometimes the evidence of someone doing monstrously better than can be expected by their history is sufficient IMO. I mean, look at this article about swimmer Shirley Babashoff [1], dubbed "Surly Shirley" at the time by the media, for suggesting the East German women were on PEDs in the 70s. Nowadays we look back on those images of the East German women, looking more manly than any dude I've ever seen, and wonder how we considered with a straight face that they weren't on a boatload of drugs. Similarly, it completely baffles me how any sane person can think that Flo Jo wasn't on PEDs in the runup to the 1988 Olympics - her 100m dash record still stands today.

> I'm not saying Carlsen went about it in the right way, because now Niemann is basically in an indefensible position, but I'm also not willing to quickly dismiss it because Carlsen has "no evidence".
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Fedora Cloud and Fedora KDE get a lot of work. But since Red Hat doesn't care about them, there's not as much incentive to highlight what they're doing.

But Fedora Cloud is an Edition again in Fedora 37, and Fedora KDE continues to tick along quite nicely.
When you have a several month wait list for your product, legions of devoted potential customers, if you're head and shoulders above any of your competitors, you're able to get away with things like this.
At 10 bytes per second.
Serious question: why isnt online play excluded at this level of competition? Why not restrict these "pro" matches to regulated conditions as in any other pro competition?

We dont generally place full trust in online job interviews so why lower the bar to "honor system" when it comes to the most cheat-friendly competition in the universe?
Which is exactly what happened.
A tournament with a >$200,000 prize pool (the Sinquefeld cup or a Magic pro tour) is hardly "just a game."
I think this used to exist for stack overflow jobs, probably not up to date though
i remember doing stuff like that too, but now it's official! ha.

it's exciting to see web standards (finally) taking direction from web developers rather than corporate interests, despite chrome being so prominent. as a random aside, i'm especially hoping forms get more love, like the common behaviors (datetime entry, combobox, validation/feedback, etc.) that every developer has to wrangle with over and over. and it's great to see things like the <modal> element becoming almost fully usable without js (it still needs to be triggered via js, but can be closed with a method='dialog' form button).
It's hilarious, if you have an iphone, an apple watch and an ipad you need 3! different cables. You can't even get around 2 of them with wireless because the apple watch doesn't support qi charging, so you need 2 different pads for iphone and watch. I will never understand how apple let it come to this...
You could easily use the reasoning from calculus in your everyday life. For example, understanding even just the basic gist of stokes' theorem could be useful just as a basic cognitive tool. But a lot of people are never challenged to think about this. Like imagine not having any intuition for flux. There are people who have none. That's cognitive impairment if you ask me.