skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They also won't have to prove that they're going outside to continue receiving the money, the spokesperson added.

While I believe that money can alleviate their financial situation, I don't see how this is going to fix the root of the problem. In fact, they'll probably just spend the money on online games, food, rent, etc.

This topic hits close (but I'm not Asian), as someone going through what hikikomori struggle with, I believe it would be better to have them attend meetups where they can find like minded people.
It's absurd that you blame this on "white supremacists". This entire ethos is the egalitarian morality whereby they cannot have differentiated learning or high standards that expose differences in outcomes by racial group.

This elimination of curriculum, and testing requirements, particularly as application criteria at elite colleges, is allowing for more under-performing students to gain entry to elite school while doing away with merit based, race blind enrollment. We are seeing systematic anti-racism. You have anti-racists in charge of the curriculum. This is what it looks like. Don't get it twisted.
Even by volume, a tank of hydrogen has higher energy densities than li-ion batteries.
Memorization was the wrong word - I think they are referring repetitive processes like solving algebra equations over and over again until it's second nature. Probably an essential component of mastering basic math as a useful tool, at least it was for me - but focused on procedure not broader understanding I guess.
It hurts underperformers.

https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/1/159

>We find no evidence of a positive mean impact of acceleration in any specification and significant negative effects on performance in both Algebra I and the traditional followup course, Geometry. Accelerating algebra to middle school appears benign or beneficial for higherperforming students but unambiguously harmful to the lowest performers. We consider whether the effects reflect the reliance on less-qualified teachers and conclude that this mechanism explains only a small fraction of the result.

Anecdata, fwliw: I learned multiplication and division in preschool, and I still loathed math to the point of neglecting it later (maybe because of how hellish math kept on being through 1st and 2nd grade overseas). I didn't even fully understand fractions when I took the SAT. (I'm just lucky my reading/writing were stellar. ;) (So that I could go on to fail both calc 1 and 2 when taking CS in uni. Made it through the second time though, mwahaha!)
Yep.

Nothing worse than when journalists try to turn the genesis of musical genres into a defined, definite thing and play the game of accusing some of "stealing" from others. It's absurd, and defies everything about art.
Which ones are those again?
Also related:

Neil who worked on this paper is working on buck2 at fb:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472845
My parents were straight D/F students and never helped me with classes at all. I would’ve appreciated help that would’ve let me go farther, but that’s at a point well past algebra.

Parents are part of the problem, but it seems like we’re just desperately trying to pin the responsibility on one specific person in the child’s life and put it out of their personal responsibility. That’s not the case. Some kids get everything they need to succeed provided for them and have plenty of assistance and choose to fail. Some have nothing but barriers put all around them and they still bust their ass to succeed.
Sure, but that means if I’m age 30-39 and wanting to be an ATC, im not legally protected, but the second I turn age 40, all of my above arguments apply. So basically the same argument as above, but also pointing out that in the context of ATC, there’s this weird situation where people aged 30-39 don’t have as much recourse to argue against something clearly illegal
aishit is a reverse turing test. if you find it's output exciting or impressive you can no longer qualify as human.
If you are really interested in selling and getting the best price find a company that specializes in selling tech companies. In the space I operate on dhcapital is one who handles some of the technology space and would likely understand an app. For multiple - not sure what an app gives now a days my guess with higher borrowing costs is it would be a multiple of profit and not revenue. Other options are seeing if there are any larger dating sites who may be interested. If you are not getting direct unsolicited offers to sell and don’t want to go through another party to sell use your profit margin to do some targeted ads and try to build brand to get noticed by a larger company.
> They usually show the actual price, or the actual price minus a $2 tourism tax.

In my experience this is not true in the US, although God only knows how they segment their customer base for tests.

I use booking.com frequently but not exclusively, but that's mostly because I have more familiarity with the domain than most. It's perfectly fine for figuring out availability in an area (although you may also want to check airbnb) and then making a decision about how you actually want to book.
Where do the resources come from?

Also, among those who aren’t willfully ignorant, it’s well known that increasing resources increases inequality. The classic example is height: when resources are low everyone is short. But when resources are plentiful then those with the genes for height tower above those without.
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And lithium is somehow easy to deal with? This is really just another excuse. The point wasn't claiming those problems don't exist, it is asking why we are not seeing those problems as motivation for massive R&D spending in order to solve them.
So is this basically HCCI?

And there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transonic_Combustion

There are a bewildering array of 'revolutionary' ICE engines, that have yet to revolute.

What happened to these?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_disk_engine
- https://studymafia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MECH-Ball-...
- https://www.dukeengines.com/technology/overview/
- https://cyclonepower.com/
- https://www.starrotor.com/technology/engines/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoMotors
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelzer_engine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderi_engine

And I'm sure many others.
this is a great reply that deserved more
What would you recommend reading on this?
> Some modern AI art workflows often require more effort than actually illustrating using conventional media.

Then why don’t they illustrate it instead, and save themselves some time?
A Japanese Island Where the Wild Things Are
Wonder how many smaller bugs went extinct because of artificial lights. Humans activity does quite some damage just out of sheer ignorance and neglect. We need exclusive non-human zones on this planet.
There are three different AP Physics tests—1, 2, and C—and only AP Physics C requires calculus. The others presumably give you the formulas and expect you to memorize them and use algebra rather than being able to derive them.
"Un limited." It's Spanish, probably.
Because it’s totally irrelevant to today. The fact is anyone can be fired from any job they refuse to do. That’s something that happened 40 years ago and it’s incredibly odd that people keep bringing it up as if it’s got any relevance to what’s going on today.
You memorize the equations for position and velocity without learning how you can derive one from the other. In my school we took no calc physics sophomore year then senior had the option to take AP physics which finally introduced calc.

My high school offered more than most, I was able to take multi variable calculus which served me well in college.
Clearly not, since the original article didn't even mention it and very few in the comments section brought it up either. It is seriously being ignored in a real way.
Yes, that's how I'd put it. OP is not really a 'language design analysis' so much as a 'syntactic sugar roundup'.

The interesting parts of HolyC is that it is moving C towards a Lisp-like, and Terry seemed to be reinventing it independently? At least, his explanation for not having #defines misses why, besides 'just not liking it': you don't need #defines (which are a very poor man's macro), when you have implemented compile-time computation, which can give you real macros (pass in an arbitrary string to an arbitrarily complicated function to interpret & compile it into some HolyC).
>Salmon is often eaten raw.

Is cold smoked salmon considered raw or cooked?
Thanks; I stand corrected about my example of a/b.

> Semantic MathML basically wants you to provide a URI pointing to the definition of / you are using, eg. http://www.openmath.org/cd/arith1#divide.

A better example, thanks.

> This is nonsense...

Could you clarify (dare I say markup) which sense of 'nonsense' do you mean?

1. spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense: he was talking absolute nonsense.
2. foolish or unacceptable behavior: put a stop to that nonsense, will you?

I'm not trying to just be pedantic: driving out ambiguity has value; even more so in mathematics.

Whether a particular technical suggestion for reducing ambiguity seems practical to you is quite different from it being understandable from some point of view and/or having internal consistency; i.e. making sense.

Let's move away from squishy, vague notions comparing semantic math markup vs English markup. Let's talk about some objective differences:

* "who": audience: mathematicians appreciate and deal in formality orders of magnitude more than English-speakers in general (perhaps second only to lawyers and grammar teachers?)

* "what": First, dictionary size: 1600 in OpenMath vs ~600K English words.

* "how": For a particular math document, it is likely that each operators used tends to have a common semantic. So it would make sense to state a mapping from certain operators to their semantics up-front and reuse these definitions throughout the document. See the bottom of this comment for some ideas on how this might be done.

* "why" : computability / reasoning: If mathematical is sufficiently formalized, it can be reasoned over very effectively, limited only by the computational algorithms. Reasoning over English sentences is fraught because English is frightfully ambiguous.

Conclusion: the 'who', 'what', and 'why' differ substantially.

P.S. Regarding the "how" discussion, here is a conversation with ChatGPT 4.0:

> In Semantic MathML, what mechanisms (if any) exist so that one math document does not have to restate the semantics of a particular operator repeatedly?

> "In Semantic MathML, use the <csymbol> element and Content Dictionaries (CDs) to avoid restating the semantics of an operator multiple times in a document. The <csymbol> element refers to an operator in a CD, which provides the operator's semantics. This way, you can reuse the operator without redefining its semantics in the document."

> Please double check this.

> Apologies for the confusion earlier. In Semantic MathML, there isn't a built-in mechanism to globally define the semantics of an operator for the entire document. However, you can use XML entities to create a shorthand reference for operators, and their semantics can be defined using the <apply> and <ci> elements, which encapsulate the semantic content. This will help reduce redundancy while still preserving the semantics of the operators throughout the document.

I'll spare you the rest of the chat log; the syntax is not pretty.
> That smells like illegal age discrimination for any other employer.

Sure. But that's the benefit of wearing the crown.

The government also gets to run IQ tests[1] on many prospective employees, which would be illegal in the private sector due to the 4/5ths rule.

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1. https://www.officialasvab.com/
My mom helped write the Texas math curriculum and had high hopes for San Diego Unified when my kids just happened to hit the roll-out years for "common core" (the math 1/2/3 you refer to). She was compelled to admit it was a catastrophe for my daughter and useless for my son.

My daughter's story is tragic. I think it basically came down to teachers just not giving a shit about the outcomes and presenting rote lessons. So when my daughter came home for help (my undergrad is in physics) I would try to explain how to solve a blazingly obvious problem (e.g. solve for x where 2x + 3 = 2y, and y is 4) she would lose her marbles, telling me that's not what her teacher said, and best I could figure, she had been taught some weird path through something geometric, and there was no way I was going to figure that out. So, my knowledge of math was completely invalidated, despite my having a more advanced math education than her teacher. This went on for a couple years and she finally failed a course.

She fixed the grade over the next quarter and we incidentally moved to another school district for my job. She excelled and got an A in pre-calc as a junior. But the new school district enrolled her in calculus and then decided they didn't have enough students to justify the section, so they cancelled it and rolled everyone into other courses. They decided my daughter had only taken 3 years of math so they had her take Algebra 2. After getting an A in pre-calc, they had her take Algebra 2. The next year she enrolled in college and they decided that she had to take a math class, but she would be best served by taking pre-calc again! What. The. Literal. Fuck!

My mom, the math teacher who wrote the Texas curriculum, and adores the whole Berkeley math education scene, leaned in to help her (mostly just to recover from the crushed self esteem) and near the end of the semester my mom called to tell me my daughter should not be pressed to do any more math. She hates it, feels terrible about herself whenever she thinks about it, and it would be best to never think about it again.

She's now a philosophy major, finishing junior year at a top college with a 3.9, straight As last quarter, and as long as we don't equatr logic to math, she can rock logic all day long

Fuck every math department. Every fucking math teacher, professor, and administrator who buys into this math reform shit can fuck right off.

Ok. So, my son. What of him? He was ahead a year when we went to that other school district. And they wouldn't have been able to keep him up with his peer group. So 18 months before the pandemic we pulled him out for home school, my mom taught him, and got him through 3 years of math in 1 year. He started high school in pre-calc.

Same parents, same grandparents. He just happened to avoid common core entirely by virtue of circumstances and is now going to UCSC as a math major, having finished every math class at Foothill Community College a semester before graduating high school.
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As a non academic this is an example in how to express a simple opinion with structure and references. My first reaction was to think this is much ado about nothing, but then I saw it provides a small map one can use to start to navigate this topic.
Many constraint toolkits in other languages wrap around https://www.gecode.org/ . A rathe well established and performant library. I think the same folks behind Mozart/Oz are key behind this if I'm not mistaken.

For a free one, SWIProlog has a very usable and fairly performant constraint library too (CLPFD and CLPQ). It also has the more general "constraint handling rules" (CHR) as an embedded language. If you need to develop your own constraint search strategies, Mozart/Oz 's "space" concept is elegant.
Berkeley public schools have a terrible reputation:

https://www.greatschools.org/california/berkeley/25-Berkeley...

Slightly above average in California is a failing grade by US standards. (California schools are 43rd in the nation.)
Looped music came from Robert Fripp which came from Steven Reich which came from Daphne Orem which came from Edwin Votey which came from ... But if you think about it, who was the first to serve the new music to a large audience and have it documented and then commoditize it is where i think the notion of "first" really comes from. It's like trying define the exact day that Boomers became Gen-X in the US: broad strokes make sense, but resolution is only so fine.
Is there a path to take AP Calculus BC before senior year? If not, this still seems limiting.
I had some of those Winamp skins back in the day!

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russian school of math is very popular at the schools my kids are at. i ask the parents why and they tell me they think math is important and the public school isn’t challenging them
None of this alters the fact that they are shutting down their safe and well maintained nukes, and as a consequence will burn a lot more coal and buy a lot more gas.

And whataboutism comparisons with the US, which everyone knows is a basket case of corrupt special interests, is truly pointless.
Totally agree. AFAICT, our math curriculum has been set for a hundred years by mathematicians. People who by some quirk of their upbringing were extremely strongly motivated to dig deep into mathematics.

Naturally, the mathematicians laid out for everyone the short path to deep competence in advanced math as fast as possible. Only seems obvious to them.

This path ignores the obvious fact that 99.5% of students are not intrinsically motivated to persevere through the decade-long marathon to reach PHD level math. No one in the kids’ lives ever made it clear why this is a goal worth investing in. Even their teachers don’t know. Not well enough to explain it.

It’s not even assumed you grok the fun puzzle game that is math. Instead, math is presented as an unending series of seemingly arbitrary rules that all strictly build on each other, eventually leading to an end goal of… … …

You are simply required to memorize these rules because if you fail you are a failure. And, maybe if you are unlucky you will utilize something more advanced than basic arithmetic twice a year for the rest of your life.

The reality is that math is tremendously interesting and useful and fun. But, all the life was sucked out of it from the beginning of public education. Before the common kids had a chance to even be presented with the idea that math can be fun.

We gotta turn this around. Present math as the game that is it. Not a “gamification” to artificially push you into doing things you don’t want to do. But, something that’s actually fun to do in itself.
Japan doesn’t have a nearby superpower that makes sabotaging your entire economy a yearly campaign point in order to prove your country sucks. Cuba’s had that for well over half a century.
Economists have studied this extensively. Less substantial government social safety nets lead to higher personal savings rates. Personal savings rates reach as high as 40% in countries without social democracy.

This capital is managed by the individuals who will derive the entire benefit from it, so they are incentivized to manage it effectively, and not hand it over to inefficient union-run bureaucracies, which give their employees early retirement at 55 with massive pensions:

https://www.hoover.org/research/california-state-government-...

They are also incentivized not to be lazy and draw upon it, as doing so hurts their own interests, by depleting their own savings.

When people pay for their own expenses, their incentives are aligned with the goal of national economic efficiency.

Government, meanwhile, ultimately becomes a rent extraction mechanism, no matter what its ostensible purpose is:

https://twitter.com/SpencerKSchiff/status/125276128577685913...
Imo it's the exact opposite: If it weren't for the economic gloom and general uncertainty there'd be infinitely more hype.

There'd be even more money pouring in, less focus on a general dystopian slant to it, and less obsessing over labor (COVID was what really spooked a lot of people on that)
I’m Canadian and I think this is insane. Free trade between the provinces seems like a no-brainer. I also think we should be taking a harder look at our protectionism against American companies. I understand the value of having healthy domestic industries but the prices of cellphone plans here, for example, are nothing short of outrageous. We already pay so much more than Americans in taxes, must the services we buy from private companies also be so much more expensive than stateside?
Not ATC but recently obtained my pilots license at the ripe old age of 41 and trained at the busiest class delta in the US. 30 year old age limit seems pretty restrictive .
I did the exact same thing when I saw DreamBooth for the first time! I showed it to a bunch of friends and they convinced me to turn it into an iOS app.
https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-avatar-for-dogs-floof-ai/id165...

People have been sending me the cute pics the AI generates of their pups. I think this is arguably the best thing so far in this latest wave of AI releases!
> I use this pattern so much I actually wrote a little metaprogramming language that is capable of generating a lot of the boilerplate for you. Link in my bio, if anyone's interested in looking at it.

Your language [0] is an interesting idea. I've done a lot of similar stuff (not at work, I'm very rarely asked to write C code professionally, but I like mucking around with it in my personal time). My own approach to C metaprogramming involves obtuse preprocessor hacks (e.g [1]) and shell scripts that use grep/awk/sed to find macro invocations and spit out new header files as a result. Maybe your way is better.

A word of warning though – do you realise your name for your language is an anti-gay slur in several dialects of English? You might end up unintentionally upsetting some people with it.

[0] https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof

[1] https://github.com/pfultz2/Cloak/wiki/C-Preprocessor-tricks,...
I strongly recommend Minizinc. The coursera course related to it is also an excellent introduction to constraint programming: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling
I took AP Calculus BC junior year and there were some sophomores in my class - is there no accelerated path?
Faux Ghee is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalda
> suffered from decades of economic sanctions

Protecting an economy is the same thing as economic sanctions. You can't claim that one results in prosperity while the other explains economic malaise.

> which it does not

It certainly does. It wasn't a perfect free market, though, as nothing human is perfect. But it was close enough to do the job.

BTW, I wrote that it was a free market.
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