skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve seen philosophy, English and history majors work in tech, I’ve never seen the reversal.

I don't think you can draw a meaningful conclusion from this, other than the idea that it's easier to demonstrate competence in tech versus humanities.

If someone asks you to demonstrate your programming ability, you can point them to something you threw up on GitHub. If someone asks you for a critical analysis of Chaucer, Sein und Zeit or the death of Franz Ferdinand, what are you going to do? A degree is expected in the absence of any clear and demonstrable competency.
I think the virtual scroller will be performance boon for many sites. https://chromestatus.com/feature/5673195159945216
Sweeping Reform Would Tax Capital Gains Like Ordinary Income
I’ve thought about collecting all those emails I get. There is some good creative writing going on :)
At the large public university where I am employed, there has been a recent sharp drop in enrollment in humanities departments, which has sparked a lot of concern about what the future holds for these departments. The business school, on the other hand, is overwhelmed with applicants and growing rapidly.

From personal observations, it seems that students are becoming more and more focused on practical skills development. I would also say this seems to be the prevalent viewpoint on HN. But it is hard to deny the enormous benefits that a liberal arts education can have.

I have a background in the hard sciences, but I would say I owe the heart of my education to the many humanities electives that I took as an undergrad. I can only hope that the pendulum swings back at some point.
Yes, they are already unfriendly to taxis. In Orlando and many other places we didn’t use taxis as much as we use Uber now. When we get to fully autonomous vehicles this will be an even greater problem as it will not make sense to park the car. Real estate investors should be planning for that now in the buildings they are designing that will still be standing in 30 years.
You can place monitors at different distances from your eyes. Screen resolution can be changed to maintain perceived relative size of onscreen objects.

For eye health, have the monitors backing a window (or 20+ feet of empty space), so that you can periodically (at least every 20 minutes) look past the monitors at an "infinite" plane.
yeah but the DMPs were the ones who should have been hauled in front of Congress

right now, legislatures are asking the wrong questions to the wrong people

The CEO of the wrong company to ask can legitimately say "we don't record you I have no idea why you suddenly started seeing ads about that thing you were talking about"
It’s funny to read that because I had the same experience when I was in school. I’m in the US and took a Canadian and Mexican History class, and had a TA from Canada. When I wrote positive things about America it would be crossed out in red with comments like “wrong!”, “at the expense of others”, things like that. I did a 180 for the later papers and talked about “evil American imperialism” and suddenly started getting A’s.
This all has to exist within your tolerance and commitment. In my case I have limited time and patience (kids, etc). It’s different for everyone.

But the battery and sleep issues aren’t close. On Windows I get probably double the battery, maybe more. With Linux I had to hard reset out of sleep on a regular basis, never mind if I had it connected to a monitor.

Again I really want it to work. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Maybe next year I’ll try again. But in reality I’ll prob just get a new MacBook, it’s really the best of all worlds imho.
> makes it seems like the UK is this corrupt, broke country when it couldn't be further from the truth.

If so, how is it that we no longer fund $service adequately any more (where $service is any and all of them)? How is that possible after so much has been privatised leaving so many fewer to fund publicly? Why can't we afford enough police?

Why can't we afford adequate library provision? Interesting that parliament keeps their public library though, isn't it?

How is it that in a time of highest levels of employment food banks have grown from barely existing to being everywhere? Could it be that policy has resulted in deliberately inadequate welfare provision? How, in a time of such extensive employment, are wage rises barely noticeable?

If your definition is a few incoming oligarchs buying up expensive property they never set foot in, or someone putting up a willy waving skyscraper sure UK is doing great. By every other measure, including levels of mental health, poverty, satisfaction etc, UK has effectively shot itself.

Oh, and don't hold up Tories being elected as some sort of proof when our democracy is one of the least representative on the planet[1]. Our system is biased both systemically and demographically.

It feels like a corrupt, broke country, especially after a visit to London. It feels like somewhere to be deeply embarrassed of, and I mostly am these days.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rGX91rq5I CGP Grey's "Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History" on the 2015 results.
Germany has 30000+ wind turbines.
Climate change is both:

1. A slow and steady increase in the average temperature.

2. A rapid increase in the frequency of extreme weather events.

Point 1 doesn't force people to buy ACs, but Point 2 will. For example, you generally don't need AC in San Francisco, but a heat wave in 2017 killed 14 people[0]. As the frequency of heatwaves increases, people will need to equip themselves against the temperature _extremes_, even though the _average_ temperature hasn't changed much.

[0] https://www.kqed.org/science/1932692/climate-change-dishes-u...

>As the world has warmed, that warming has triggered many other changes to the Earth’s climate. Changes in extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves and droughts, are the primary way that most people experience climate change. Human-induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events. Over the last 50 years, much of the U.S. has seen increases in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, heavy downpours, and in some regions, severe floods and droughts.

[1] https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/...

>One of the most visible consequences of a warming world is an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. The National Climate Assessment finds that the number of heat waves, heavy downpours, and major hurricanes has increased in the United States, and the strength of these events has increased, too.

[2] https://www.c2es.org/content/extreme-weather-and-climate-cha...
Strength and Reliability: Applicant Statements in Anesthesiology Residency Match
I think you mean this - https://www.jitx.com/

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654865 )
Facebook Looks to Build Underwater Ring Around Africa
> often even then only if they want to work at a FAANG for that first job. Where people end up 5-10-15-20 years later in their career has little to do with their degree.

As someone who doesn't have a CS degree, I found that FAANG companies were much more willing to take a risk on someone without a degree getting their first job than many smaller companies.
I think we all agree that some investors won’t spend capital until it is too late. The thing that interests me is that there is apparently no incentive for real estate investors to plan for the long term.
This actually depends on the university, with CS in some colleges in the US splitting off from the Math department and others from EE or CE.
Why are all 50 items on the list "SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!"?
What do you mean the "other" WWF?
Many of the items on this list are very cheap today.
Didn't they already have a shot at education? That whole Academies mess. Although the master plan to make every school an "academy" [0] was shot down days after it was announced.

[0] This is a weird, UK government definition of the word. Don't think Plato.
This is not the conclusion reached by the people spending money currently trying to retrofit the garages.
The Rusty Browser Trap
Any suggestions for good monitors to use in a vertical orientation? I notice that the LG monitor they sell at Apple stores (the smaller one) cannot be rotated on its stock stand. Maybe one can achieve this with a VESA mount + arm?

But that's an expensive monitor. Any suggestions for others? High DPI would be nice, I'm so used to it.
Does no one donate to Goodwill anymore?
Yeah, and that's even the hero image of this article with no mention. I find having a secondary monitor in portrait is great. Laptop is primary, but the portrait is great for reading. Also, for debugging for mobile.
"The Brussels region has particularly strict radiation standards for telecom applications. The standard of 6 volts per metre has already led to problems in the past with providing fast mobile internet via 4G in the capital."

On one hand, 6V/m seems like a lot; I haven't been able to find a reliable regulation site. On the other, 20V/m is apparently common (https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/what-is-r...).
It’s not practical in an open office with everything standardised. Sure in an Home Office you can do pretty much what you want if you have enough space.
on further reflection, theliberal arts degree taught me how to think about complexity and ambiguity, and how to think about intersubjectivity, whereas computer science taught me to think in the clean room of mathematics where things mean what they mean.
Very few jokes here on HN. Upvoted due to involuntary chuckle. ;)
Much of STEM is self-teachable. It is easy to self-evaluate "yes, I understand this math, and I get the right answers / produce working tools."

It is not easy to learn the humanities without direct feedback from an expert, or robust experience with your peers.
It’s more than policy. It is architecture. As I described above, I live in a new building. I step out into traffic to get into an Uber. This was an obvious thing to consider during this building’s design.
What kills me about public transit is the variance. One trip in or home can often take 70% longer than another. It kills whatever motivation I started my trip with and I have to work up to it again.
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given the catastrophic failure of every single plaque therapy ever tried over the last 30 years, i’m going with “certainly misguided”.
Go into Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) – that way, you can become an engineer or IT specialist. And no matter what you do, forget the liberal arts – non-vocational degrees that include natural and social sciences, mathematics and the humanities, such as history, philosophy and languages.

What? Mathematics is both a STEM major and a liberal arts major now? I digress.

But few courses of study are quite as heavy on reading, writing, speaking and critical thinking as the liberal arts

There is no evidence that any particular university major produces more gains in critical thinking skills over any other. Additionally, there is no evidence that critical thinking skills gained in university persist after graduation [1].

And while there’s often an assumption that the careers humanities graduates pursue just aren’t as good as the jobs snapped up by, say, engineers or medics, that isn’t the case. In Australia, for example, three of the 10 fastest-growing occupations are sales assistants, clerks, and advertising, public relations and sales managers – all of which might look familiar as fields that humanities graduates tend to pursue.

What? A sales assistant is someone who works the floor at a retail store. Is the author really trying to say that a retail job is as good as an engineering job? Wow.

We also know that as more women move into a field, the field’s overall earnings go down. Given that, is it any wonder that English majors, seven in 10 of whom are women, tend to make less than engineers, eight in 10 of whom are men?

It took a while to get here, but we've finally arrived. There's a correlation between men leaving a field and average earnings in that field declining. Has she not considered reverse causation? Research indicates that men prioritize earnings growth more than women [2]. It seems entirely more convincing to me that men depart a field due to the decline in earnings, not that greedy employers see women and think "cheap labour."

This speaks to a broader point: the whole question of whether a student should choose Stem versus the humanities, or a vocational course versus a liberal arts degree, might be misguided to begin with. It’s not as if most of us have an equal amount of passion and aptitude for, say, accounting and art history. Plenty of people know what they love most. They just don’t know if they should pursue it. And the headlines most of us see don’t help.

A somewhat ambivalent conclusion to a troubled piece. The reality is that people really do agonize over the decision between pursuing their passion and looking for the best economic opportunity. Not everyone who completes a liberal arts degree can get a nice job blogging for the BBC. Tons and tons of them end up severely underemployed, usually in retail or low-level office positions. It's irresponsible to tell people anything other than the reality of this situation. Trying to convince them to just go for the "worthless" degree, despite these economic realities, is unfair and unhelpful.

[1] http://www.johnnietfeld.com/uploads/2/2/6/0/22606800/huber_k...

[2] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22173.pdf
I bookmarked this a couple weeks ago, to help with your own note-taking, here's the list:

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Amaranth

Buckwheat

Finger millet

Fonio

Knorasan wheat

Quinoa

Spelt

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Pumpkin flowers

Okra

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Beet greens

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I use to use 1080p 3x 24s, I recently upgraded to a 2k 27". If I had the same resolution for the 24s, I'd go back.

https://i.imgur.com/T4L7W7t.jpg

I couldn't use two monitors, as I need a focal point. It's nice to use the secondary monitors for extra things, depending on the workflow. For browser development, a browser tab and devtools on the side, text editor in the middle, everything else (spotify, filebrowser, discord, documentation) on the other side.

Bonus: Me and my wife's current temp setup https://i.imgur.com/klRAeCd.jpg (yes that's a massage table)
I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:

- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.

- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...

- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...

In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.
Not many candidates finish a CS PhD in three years. Four is probably the mean, with three and five being the typical upper and lower ranges.

Often the funding dries up after three years, but the student soldiers on anyway because they're well past the point of no return, or because their advisor can employ them in some other capacity like a teaching or research assistant.
The problem in the paper is to predict most probable "words". In NLP terms, model must be optimized for perplexity. Transformer holds records not for perplexity (it is too heavy for that) but for other tasks like machine translation or semantic similarity, I believe.
Trash on the streets is fairly difficult to fix, without authoritarianism or major cultural change.
Many of them advance such arguments because someone else may benefit.
These "rules" miss the big picture. People react in certain ways for entirely different reasons.

Example: Recruiter mispronounces my name. I don't say anything. This can be because:

1) I'm a coward.
2) I don't care.
3) I care and am not a coward, but think it would be petty to interrupt the conversation to point this out.
4) I'm overly practical and don't care about this kind of details.
5) I think the other person may feel bad if I correct them.
6) I accept that people make sometimes mistakes. Maybe I'll point it out if they do it 3 times or more.
Etc.

Which is it? You'd have to know the person better to know.

Even if the person is just a coward, this could be based on specific traumatic experiences other persons didn't have and which affect only minimally the rest of the personality.

Same applies to thank you emails, coming late to the interview etc. With such subtle situations, you need to know _why_ somebody act the way they did, and without knowing the person, which you usually don't, when interviewing, you just can't.

These are just BS rules with which recruiters try to make their work easier. Similar to Codility & co. tests for software developers. Well, bad news, recruiting is hard. You'll have to take the time to listen to and think about your candidates.
If you just want to write papers about whatever you want to write papers about, why take a class? The professor is supposed to give you push-back.

Anyway, I studied those subjects in college and had zero issues with professors pushing political agendas. I did, though, have professors push back and give me poor grades on papers where I either didn't understand the material, did a poor job thinking about the material, or had some issues with my writing style that hurt my ability to communicate my ideas. But those are fair reasons for low grades: Students should be compelled to improve those weaknesses. 'Tis the whole point.
I mean, the southern tip of FL, the outer banks of NC, and the mid gulf coast really are the problem [1, NOAA, Return Period Between Major Hurricanes]

The CBO [2, "The National Flood Insurance Program: Financial Soundness and Affordability"] calls that out as clearly as possible without naming names.

"In particular, the overall shortfall of $1.4 billion is attributable largely to premiums’ falling short of expected costs in coastal counties, which constitute roughly 10 percent of all counties with NFIP policies but account for three-quarters of all NFIP policies nationwide."

You know who pays the highest NFIP rates? Connecticut. The lowest? Florida.

[1] https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/images/return_mjrhurr.jpg

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53028
The limit is that no particular gram of your flesh can be exposed to more than 1.6W/kg.
Really? Is this a relatively recent change? I have a degree from the UK and what you're saying runs counter to my experience...

Does this depend on the field? In my experience most students do a three year bachelors, a one or two year Master's, and then a three year PhD.
That's a question that misses the thrust of the argument - how do you intend to read an author's thoughts?

Butterick is discussing text, and text doesn't exist without typography (or handwriting).
>The reason the US PhD takes five to seven years is because most students enter it without a Master's degree. In the UK it only takes two or three years because they generally need to complete a relevant Master's degree first.

In a number of countries, the MS is 2 years, and the PhD is capped at 3 years. That's still a total of 5 years. If you don't get the PhD done in 3 years, that's fine, but the funding is capped at 3 years, so pretty much everyone gets it done in that time frame.

The reason it takes 5-7 in the US is because the advisors want it to be that way, and because of the glut in funding in some programs.
I think this is close to a pretty good definition, but it should be restricted to people who already have learned the mental models of the domain. In that the mental models learned to use the software should match those of the domain.
Because OH YEAAAAH. That's why.
Tl;dr: The author went to Miami and spoke to real estate agents, whose job it is to sell property, whether they thought climate change is going to make real estate a bad purchase. Surprisingly, the real estate agents, whose livelihood depends on selling homes, minimized the dangers of global warming.
I think parent post might be alluding to the saying, history is written by the victor. Here in Africa we have freedom fighters who started out as brave and selfless people fighting against colonialism. Once they became elected officials unfortunately a significant number fell into the money trap or were naive when it came to structuring deals with foreign bodies, resulting in messed up corrupt economies. How you view these leaders largely depends on your outlook in life (and probably age). Some see them as villains who have take us even further back than we were and others see them as the heroes they were 40 years ago. If I wanted to pass in my home country I would stick to the hero theme.
I think you should choose between not relying on average voters' perception of something and democracy because democracy is a popularity contest targeting the average voters who will choose their representatives according tho their perception of wildly diverse topics where even the best one cannot be well versed on more then few of those.
Hi,

Really cool approach, but even for an alpha product I think it could be a very good idea to publish a security contact (there is no contact information at all on your home page).

I'll try a couple of blind addresses @codiff.com ...

Cheers..
Nitpick: Scottish undergraduate degrees are typically 4 years - the education system being completely different up here.
I've worked as an intern at a commercial property company (Colliers International) several years ago. One thing I've learned is that commercial property (be it office or residential) is always being sold. They are essentially large bonds you can touch and live in.Party A develops or buys the building, gains an annuity via rent, attempts to raise rent slowly over a few years (thus increasing the value of the property), and selling it to Party B, which repeats the process. In commercial residential buildings, this process happens faster than in an office building because leases are shorter and residential tenants can accept rent raises every 2-3 years. In this business model, Long Term thinking is not in the best interest of making profit.