skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm seeing from your long essay is that the common core curriculum is indeed great...

That summary is woefully incorrect.

I will grant that Common Core had well-meaning people, some good math, and interesting pedagogical theories behind it. But it was broken on every other level. "Great" is hardly the last adjective that I'd use for it.

I believe that its pedagogical theories don't work in practice for children. The process by which it was created guaranteed that its standards would not be achievable in practice. The process by which the textbooks were created guaranteed that they would mostly consist of rough spots which would need a lot of ironing out for their target audience. The process by which teachers were trained was supported by decades of practice in creating enthusiasm for bad ideas, and the teachers showed it. And the inevitable failures of real teachers to deliver would guarantee that they could be blamed for the eventual failure of the whole endeavor.

...but average teachers are too stupid / mathematically illiterate to teach it...

What did I just say about blaming teachers for a multi-level disaster that was doomed from the start? How convenient of you to provide a demonstration.

...so we would be better settling for mediocrity instead.

HAH!

I discussed Singapore math briefly at the end. According to https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-sc... Singapore is currently #2 in the world for delivered results on elementary school math education. But the #1 country, China, adopted the same techniques. Individual schools in the USA that adopted that technique have also had great success.

If we care about actual evidence over rhetoric, we should choose what has proven to be excellent in practice. Which is NOT Common Core.
You're probably thinking of this paper from 2007:

"Electrochemical Acceleration of Chemical Weathering as an Energetically Feasible Approach to Mitigating Anthropogenic Climate Change"

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es0701816

It was mind blowing for me at the time! Subsequent approaches to accelerated silicate weathering like Project Vesta dropped the chemical component and just used mechanical crushing of rocks to accelerate weathering. The all-mechanical approach is less complicated and energy intensive.
RE 3: as an SJC alum, I found my reading speed slowed drastically both during and after four years spent reading and discussing these books. I found myself thinking while reading more often, making more connections within and between works.

That said, reading alone misses the meat of “The Program” (always capitalized!) - it’s the searching, pointed, urgent discussion of a work with others who share a common language (from all having read and discussed the earlier works in the Program) that provoked deep thought and reflection, held me to account for intellectual rigor, and built up my faculty for critical thinking.
It’s not obvious that policing should require more training than plumbing. Significant plumbing is required in almost all property, yet plumbing mistakes can cause massive, often irreparable property damage. Plumbing is involved in almost all hydration and hygiene, yet plumbing mistakes can poison and harm people in a variety of ways. A hot water system big enough to supply a domicile of a given size is also a potential bomb big enough to demolish most of that domicile, if the system is improperly installed. Plumbing has to be installed almost everywhere and is expected to function continuously for decades with minimal maintenance. It’s plausible that plumbing is genuinely harder than policing.
A co-worker's son visited St. John's, since it was one he was considering, and it was sufficiently interesting that he mentioned it when we were discussing education in general.

I looked up the reading list, and have been reading the texts, trying to patch up my rather spotty education --- it also makes me wonder how many of these texts would have been a part of Edmund Dante's (from _The Count of Monte Cristo_) education:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...

I wish that there was better accessibility of the texts --- a lot of them are not on Librivox, and not all are on Project Gutenberg either.

One notable example of technology aiding accessibility of a text though is "Joyce's Java version" of Euclid's _Elements_:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

and one can't help but wonder what other texts could be better presented using modern technology.
Fossil brain undoes 350M years of scientific understanding
They claim to but nobody has posted proof that they got their money. Their terms of service at tether.to/legal says they can basically deny or indefinitely delay redemptions arbitrarily, and the only people who backed up Tether's claims publicly are SBF and Trabucco and I'm not sure I believe them anymore.
Nvm, I misread it. Yeah, you're right.
If it works for you, that’s great.
Money market funds do, but of course, they're heavily regulated securities.
DeepSource (YC W20) is looking for a Senior Front-end engineer
yeah, you should use javascript /s
> I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role and there are no puppets around me.

He pretty much nailed it.
Here are the results for numbers up to 50:

http://codepad.org/NBmpZGpT

The advantage simply comes from getting a better initial guess in some cases. When the test number is halfway between two perfect squares, the advantage is maximized -- for 30 we get 5.5 for the one method and 5.47727~ for the other, with a true value of 5.47722~. For some numbers, like 35, the integer square is closer than the half-integer, so the results are the same, but these are also the numbers with the best approximations to start with.
Something that has stuck with me for my entire life is my mother reading me poetry as a child, in particular

- The Cremation Of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service

- The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

- Forgiven and King John's Christmas by A. A. Milne

- Called Up by Dudley Clarke (not sure how good that one is to everyone, I'm just incredibly nostalgic for it.)

It gave me a lifelong love of rhyming and word games, one I've always been happy to have. Yours might still be a bit young for that, but other more age-appropriate stuff would work just as well. Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic by Shell Silverstein are fantastic.

Oh man, wait, also Robert Munsch. Equally wonderful memories with some of those (Love You Forever is in my opinion, really great from the lens of a kid, and it's silly to read it through the eyes of an adult. The intended message is very obviously that your parental love will always be with your child. It also introduced me to the idea of caring for my parents someday as something I would have to consider, and something I would want to do).

As for screen time itself, I would really recommend just putting a hard limit on it, it did nothing but good for me as a kid to be limited to 4 hours of recreational screen time per week, and when I was introduced to computers, the limitations they place on me vis-a-vis social networks saved me from myself in so many ways.
How and what is the liquidity? Can a well capitalized firm put down several hundred millions?
Looking at the GCC docs, it seems like it isn't possible to have zero optimizations at any point, even at the lowest optimization levels. To quote the docs "Most optimizations are completely disabled at -O0", so it seems you can't assume you can force correct behavior just by turning off optimization passes.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
Wow, these songs were impressively similar to my queries. I would love for a interpolation playlist feature, where I put in 2 different songs (from say, classic rock and EDM), and I could get 10-20 songs that slowly change from the start song to the end song.
Hard coding credentials is wrong but here is an example:

http://shairosenfeld.blogspot.com/2011/03/authorization-head...
Very cool, just tried it out and seems to work. Great job
That, and the thousands of numbskulls who waste their time trying to get ChatGPT to do math problems that a $1 calculator (or worst case, free Google Sheets) could do, is the most pointless waste of computing power, and I say this as someone who remembers Flash ads.

If you really are staring at strings and wanting those letters counted, you can easily ask it to write you a Python, JS, Ruby program that will do so, and in my experience for a task like that it will NAIL that task perfectly 100% of the time, and can even explain how it works to boot!
Not true. My body tends to 'run hot' and I overheat very easily. Even when I'm in shape (and years ago in high school), I can just be cleaning up at home just in a thin pair of shorts and be sweating. Some bodies are just different. I'd love to try out a wool shirt though, cotton does get very cold.
Reading "American Midnight" about Wilson & industrialists promoting/propogandizing WWI & the whole US using that movement as a cudgel to beat down labor, progressives, minorities, basically everyone with anything to say that wasnt ra-ra-ism.

The Postmaster General Albert Burleson makes up a solid part of chapter 3 of this march through a tragic & vicious time. Burleson told post offices to send any suspicious/un-American/not-war-supporting publications to him for review, which he then used either deny mailing to or used to attack directly the institutions. The web of publications not just suppressed but attacked here seemingly extended to basically anyone with a dissenting voice on labor, race, or seemingly most any topic where the governmemt wasnt portrayed in favorable rights.

We did (thanks to the courts) come to limit government power to censor & abuse eventually, and to your defense not that much longer after. We have only just gotten to ~100 years of there being some clarity, but after an enormous cliff where these ideas seemingly meant nothing, and from which we emerged only because of a very very few sensible & reasonable high placed people who reversed an animal & base anti-speech anger that government had been systemizing actively.

I still broadly agree with your distinction, but noting the dark shitty times & bring aware how bad things were not that long ago- at a governmental level- is also important. This book has been eye opening.
The very notion of fact-checked seems deeply politicised these days and instantly raises my suspicions about the agenda of the checker. It's not like the old days of Snopes categorising memes and urban legends, but more often than not some vested interest out to rubbish dissent.
"Consider the great fifteenth century philosopher, theologian and cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. He suggested that the universe is infinitely large and has no center and that all bodies in the universe, including both the earth and the sun, are in motion in infinite space. He also theorized favorably about the existence of intelligent life on other planets, which he thought was probable due to God’s creativity,

<<We surmise, that in the solar region there are inhabitants which are more solar, brilliant, illustrious, and intellectual—being even more spiritlike than [those] on the moon, where [the inhabitants] are more moonlike, and than [those] on the earth, [where they are] more material and more solidified . . . We believe this on the basis of the fiery influence of the sun and on the basis of the watery and aerial influence of the moon and the weighty material influence of the earth. In like manner, we surmise that none of the other regions of the stars are empty of inhabitants—as if there were as many particular mondial parts of the one universe as there are stars, of which there is no number.>>"

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/what-can-catholic-...
What vector database do you use? Did you run into any scalability challenges there?
You can go see the most impressive ones launch at the annual BALLS event [1] in Blackrock desert several weeks after Burning Man.

The FAA closes off the airspace around the desert which allows the really powerful rockets to fly.

[1] http://www.tripolimn.org/events/balls/
I controlled a Tesla with my brain
I programmed a neurosity(brain computer interface)to control a tesla to come to me.
That goes way beyond the scope of legislation in question. Suggesting that something akin to the great firewall of china could be deployed in the EU is unrealistic - having said that, it sure feels surreal when expression and support of these authoritarian ideas by EU representatives doesn't lead to immediate political suicide.
> So yes, this shower violates the code.

Again, the shower is not the only one dictating how hot the water can get, the water heater does as well. Turning down the temperature on the water heater will make the max temperature of the shower also go down, vice-versa if you put up the temperature in the water heater.

Could be that they just run their water heater really warm, some people seem to do.
> I have the opposite perception of prices. I can buy a $700 to $1,000 iPhone 13 mini or iPhone 13, and I know it will work well and receive software updates for at least 5 years.

If you bought a mid-end Android each ear for the past year, you'd spend half the cash and you would always have up-to-date software.

The hard truth about iPhones is that they are way overpriced, and are a Veblen good.

Think about it for a second: Apple sells it's phones for a higher price than their fully featured and also overpriced laptops.
One I learned recently:

E.g. sqrt(7) = 3 x sqrt(1-2/9)

~= 3 x (1 - (1/2)(2/9))

= 3 x 8/9 = 2.6667

Where the second line uses the first term of the binomial series, i.e. (1+x)^(1/2) ~= 1+ x/2

Real answer is 2.65 in this case, obviously picking a factor to pull out that makes x as small as possible works best
Very interesting read. Regarding the example animation, is that lifted directly from chapter 1 mission 4 of Robotech Battlecry or is an astonishingly good recreation?
> We were a bit surprised to hear that he essentially memorized a large part of a table of logarithms. But maybe he was just trolling us.

I am not familiar with that particular demonstration but having studied similar things, they are all a trade-off between doing computation cleverly in your mind and memorizing information. The more you memorize and the less you have to compute on the fly, increasing speed (step 1 of practicing that type of show is to learn mnemotechnic thoroughly).
So I wanted to call BS on the statement that 19th century elementary school textbooks had the & character as the final letter of the alphabet, but lo and behold: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/pho...

Now this was not universally true, but there seems to be at least some anecdotal evidence that in the mid to late 1800s some English language school age textbooks did indeed have this extra character.
I prefer the OS/2 Workplace Shell so I use WPS4WIN.zip which puts the OS/2 Workplace Shell on Windows 3.x.

Screenshots: http://toastytech.com/guis/wps.html

The download is here: https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-workplace-shell/151

The app windows still have the Win3.x buttons so I use the button editor in MAKEOVER to make them look like OS/2 buttons. Download: https://archive.org/details/MAKEOVER_ZIP
Generally, when something like this becomes news, someone is trying to shift the Overton window.

Who wants this to be news and to what end are they manipulating collective perception?

I am so cynical so I respond the opposite way. Good for China, I applaud them for keeping tabs on a nation that routinely use drones in foreign skies to murder civilians.
Don't think this is a US-only thing, seems to vary even inside countries. Been to a lot of countries, and most showers have been without single knobs for hot/cold, but seen that too of course.
Seems like your server is down or overloaded
I'm frankly so tired of endless reports of the tight US labor market. Wouldn't talk much about non-software market, but last 5+ years were increasingly hard for software engineers in search of a job. It's rare these days to find one who's doing ok - maybe in FAANG they still do, if they're not downsized - at least in terms of parity with e.g. 5 years ago especially including inflation. All of that is about educated - B.Sc. or M.Sc. - engineers, with many years or even some decades of experience in roughly the same market, people who used to be technical leads and to their early adoption of promising technologies add wealth of practical knowledge.

My guess is that hiring practices has changed. Even Y Combinator companies seem to hire by keywords, refusing even to talk with somebody who doesn't show nearly exact match. Many companies, including those who complain about inability to find competent workforce can't explain why they don't take a candidate after all those interview rounds, the answers at best look like just made plausible. If this is correct, we're not going to leave this state when there are much more positions advertised than people on the market - those positions are for unicorns of engineers, somebody who don't exist, and kept open in case Linus Torvalds (figuratively) will decide to apply. The companies are actually quite fine with keeping those positions open, which breaks the intended definition.

Maybe we're on the verge of renaissance age of freelancers, where meaningful work can be done not only by companies, but solo engineers as well. It's definitely not only the recent round of Big Tech layoffs which explains the situation, as it was here way before that.

> In addition, given the tightness of the labor market overall, workers who desire more hours could easily leave their current employer and find another job with longer hours.

This is something which I'd like to be supported by evidence, not only by traditional opinion.
link

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/the-generative-ai-re...
Interesting idea. I think it needs some finetuning to find songs that are similar but not covers. For well-covered songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, this is more like a cover-finder.

Also this song, Shangri-La Is Calling, is bugging out: https://maroofy.com/songs/1632142336
Chinese spy balloon the size of three buses is spotted floating over Montana
Needs massive energy input which would come from where? Also, massive amounts of toxic chemicals. Use biology to solve climate change by growing biomass (bio CCS) in the form of kelp, diatoms, and other high growth life (maybe GMO) to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Nature: Could solar panels in space supply Earth with clean energy?
Like most wasps! Wasps get a bad reputation unfairly.
Doing the work here is epic. Even if Apple's legal domination of the situation stays in-force, having the technical potential there & making it available & finding whay the performance wins to brag about are- it shifts the Overton window of Apple's dominion.

Hugely worthwhile effort, whatever ends up happening. Having a buildable target individual devs can go build, try, run themselves: it shifts this from a hypothetical to a lawyer based constraint. Maybe it goes terribly & Apple's defense has been right all along, but I tend to think the availability of real information on how this would work in practice is not going to back up or do well for Apple's overarching aggressive "defense" by lawyers that they have maintained.

This shifts us into a real mode, beyond lawyerspeak. Good stuff.
You've entered a bad faith argument by accepting the premise as a given. These political threads seem to be full them.
This legislation seems so absurd, I can't see how it will pass. I can't think of any reason why a school would need to know this history of a student's menstrual cycle for the purpose of participating in sports. Anyone happen to know how the legislation is being justified?
Unbelievable. Supernatural. Godlike.

But unfortunately not cost effective.
All of the list and they also want to pay you $0. $20 sounds like a robbery. Meanwhile it costs 20 minutes of a freelance time.. for the whole product.
I can't vote this high enough, this is exactly my thinking
Immune was a very good read. The analogies go off the rails a few times but the complexity of the immune system explained so well to lay people is incredible.

I still remember the hot dog buns!
I don't think it's right to assume that fast food jobs are a hallmark of job security.
Pentagon Discovers Suspected China Spy Balloon Over Northwest United States
Yes, I grade this paper, a D-. More information needed.
Nostr Decentralized Social Media Project 'Damus' Gets Listed on Apple App Store
I said for example, "this isn't necessarily a power trip". I said nothing more, and nothing less. And yet many people took that to mean something a lot more.

I say, "there are deeper issues at play", yet people are so attached to the idea that this is about police overreach.

Go to the end of the article to the author's link to her foundation, Let Grow, and see what other kind of articles the author has written about. Look at the front page, and the language. What is that foundation advocating for? Are they framing it in terms of police overreach? Is that the most important thing they are advocating for? Did they even talk about police overreach in the front-page text, above the fold?
Are you saying you trust that China is keeping tabs on the US? In what way do you think they are and what is your mental model for deciding who to trust?
By that logic random murders are also not crimes until you get caught.
TBH I got curious. Clicked on one celeb, oh man, I've seen 90's Photoshop cut and paste the face onto a different body better than those "deepfakes"...
This makes me wonder what else of interest occurs in that desert throughout the year? Is there anything preventing someone from just camping there year-round to enjoy the spectacles?
If there's a pressurized tank of hydrogen and something pierces the car, it's kaboom.

If something pierces a lithium battery you at least have a few seconds to get out.
>As the ASN operator don't they have a legal duty to shut down illegal operations from their network?

Noooooooooooo

I mean I'm not a lawyer, I'm not even American, but I think that if they demonstrate that have the capability to police that sort of thing they become responsible for policing it. Where as responding to (or even forwarding) cease and desist letters opens them up to much less culpability.

In modern times I'd worry that actively trying to prevent piracy, taking concrete steps like blocking torrent protocols, could mean that you're no longer protected by safe harbour provisions in the DMCA. You start acting like you have the capability to be responsible for your users actions and then lose all kinds of safe harbour and common carrier provisions. It's part of the reason why ISPs don't use more aggressive traffic shaping, start blocking pirate sites and you start being responsible for all the pirate sites you missed.
I think the key word here is high heat, I'm not sure electrical heating can be used in the same places?
> Why would you exchange tether for crypto or IOUs

They’re your own IOUs [1]. Imagine if SBF had Tether.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
The military could shoot it down in less than an hour if it was a priority.
That is interesting, do you have more info on that self-jamming videotape?
Ha! I said exactly this in a slack convo at work the other day.
"similar-sounding music" is indeed a good way to put it. 120 millions ! This is awesome!
Reminds me of https://cyanite.ai/ (Search by audio). I will have to give it more time, but so far, I like your results better. Well done!