skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking back on this, I feel I should also mention that there's not any single piece of evidence that should be bullet-proof convincing evidence for the EM field's quantum nature, rather it's the totality of many many many different, independent results exploring various quantum mechanical properties of electromagnetism (and its high energy unification with the weak nuclear force), all of which converge on the basically undeniable fact that electromagnetism is a quantum mechanical phenomenon.

Of course, this isn't the full story. There is physics beyond the standard model. But whatever that physics is, it's description needs to reproduce quantum electrodynamics in the appropriate limit.

I should also mention that it's not even mathematically consistent to have a classical field like electromagnetism coupled to quantum matter. It's fine in certain approximation schemes, but the breakdown and limitations of such an approach is well documented.
I think one big problem with college here is that it's fairly easy to attend and get a degree while putting in only minimal effort. If you are someone who is motivated to make the best of your college experience, I think it is still possible to have experiences there that are difficult to have elsewhere.

As a personal example, I have a journalism BS, a law degree from a T20, and I then self-studied comp sci and software dev for four years before doing a career switch. I was fairly unmotivated in college and feel like my BS was a waste. The prestige of the T20 law school didn't change that; once I was admitted I was virtually guaranteed a degree and my motivation followed accordingly.

Then I had a life revelation that led me to the comp sci and a career that I am now obsessed with. My dedication to learning was able to get me significantly more educational value than I got out of my unmotivated degree work. I think I was able to get myself 90% of the way to a BS level in comp sci, but at the same time I do believe there are things I have missed out on by not getting a CS degree that I will really struggle to replicate on my own. For instance, I have tried and tried to (a) find a valuable Compilers course online (like I was able to for algs, ML, linear alg, discrete, etc.), or (b) self-study via textbooks, but neither has been very successful.

Now, would that missing 10% from my CS self-education have been worth $100,000? Since I'm someone with no interest in academia, probably not, but it's hard for me to tell.

I do think that encouraging young people to pursue other avenues than college is part of the answer, but I think we'll fail to make college a truly valuable experience for all unless we increase the challenge (on the average -- certainly there are some schools currently in existence that are highly challenging).
Love to see Bandcamp get some love on hn. I'd like to give a shout out to their Bandcamp weekly podcast, which I think to a great job of showcasing releases and artists:

Current episode:

https://bandcamp.com/?show=378
No, that’s stuff we invented recently. Before it was just jam it in a box and see if it works.
Not sure what you mean by the 'forum discussions'. The open thread discussions were almost uniformly of higher quality and depth than most HN threads.
Bill Gates has this
It's QB64, not QuickBasic64.
Zettlr uses virtual folders basically so that your physical organization might not reflect how it's organized in Zettlr. Also, Zettlr is for markdown so you basically have to rename your files as plaintext files are not supported.
Hello everyone,

Lead author of the paper here. I am encouraged to see such insightful discussion on our work. Excited to discuss and address any questions/concerns that you anyone may have.

A preprint of our full paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15794.pdf.

We are also publicly sharing a disclosure page (https://github.com/shehrozef/canarytrap). This page contains details of third-party apps which are detected as misusing user data or violating Facebook's TOS in our work.
The 'liberal left' equally views every issue as 'us vs them'. It's very apparent by watching the daily headlines.

They were against mask-wearers as 'hoarders' at the start, then pro-mask, then stopped talking about it during BLM protest and subsequent riots, and are now back at it.

All of it shameful, including the fuzzy messaging from WHO, CDC, White House etc..
Way to go. :-) You reminded me, I bought a couple of those little rechargeable FM transmitters recently and was surprised to find that they're so much simpler than Bluetooth in a lot of ways. I haven't used any of my portable BT speakers in a few weeks now, because it's easier to pipe audio from my phone through to a nearby radio.
Pulling up some Walkman/Discman designs from Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic (etc) just makes me want to buy one.

Somewhere after the IPhone 4/5, phone designs started to homogenize into that mostly large screen, rounded corners, and mostly became uninteresting.

Business laptops have mostly settled on the MacBook design, Gaming laptops are still coming in weird interesting designs:

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Zephyrus-i7-7700HQ-Processor-Pro...
The biggest problem with the check was means testing. The U.S. has extremely progressive income taxes, there's nothing wrong with sending the same amount of money to everyone, and it would solve all of the problems except the one where you have to finally explain how taxes are calculated to the public.
I feel like https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen really drives this home.
Sony TC-50 is a cassette recorder that could be considered as a predecessor to the Walkman; it even went to the moon with the Apollo 11 crew [1].

[1]: https://kottke.org/19/07/sonys-proto-walkman-that-went-to-th...

Off-topic question:

Since this is a thread on Walkman I'd like to ask you on any dedicated music player that you'd recommend?
Yes, Tacitus is, sadly, relevant again.

A big problem in the US is that Congress has abandoned so much power as an institution.
Perhaps so they can check your social media/criminal history. Someone might not want to rent to someone who has a history of criminality or posts lots of pictures of them partying on their social media. Not saying it's the right thing to do, but one of the things I first thought of. Also it might add more personality to the site and make it not as 'sketchy'. Just my opinion
No, I’ve heard of them. When I was a kid, I actually had a General Lee windup car, before I knew anything about the history of the civil war.

And then, I grew up.

You can still drive a charger if you want. Now you just can’t paint a racist flag of treason on it.
I’m a fan of Typora [1] which also combines the simplicity of Markdown syntax with a WYSIWYG editor.

[1]: https://typora.io/
This is a great podcast. Loved the Atlantis episodes.
Sorry, I don't understand really. You are questioning to be required thinking about work during the time you are paid for to work? Again sorry if I failed to see sarcasm if intended.
> non-millionaires, let alone non-billionaires, may be asked to pay full price.

People with under $1 million in net worth are very unlikely to pay full price at the wealthiest US colleges. Unless they have huge income but no savings. By “millionaire” do you mean people who earn a million dollars of income per year?

To take the Harvard example you linked to, a family with $500,000 in assets (not including equity in their primary home; for many families home equity is a majority of their net worth) and $120,000/year income will get about 2/3 of college costs paid by financial aid.

A family with $1 million in non-primary-home-equity assets and a $150,000/year income will still get 1/4 of college costs from financial aid.
I’m an adjunct prof at a middle tier college. We have a couple classes planned to be in person for fall. I highly doubt it. Plus a majority of the student body is foreign and can’t even travel to the USA. Essentially I’m sayin RIP to middle of the road universities. Guess I need to start looking for another side hustle.
Or if you're attending without a badge, which is what Nathan was doing. As someone who's done the same thing... they definitely check at a lot of conferences.

One of the few times I was caught was at a psychoanalysis conference where I stood out for being roughly 20 years younger than most attendees. I wish I had a badge in that case because I was very obviously called out due to my age alone.
TikTok somehow convinced a bunch of young girls to dance in scanty clothes for the enjoyment of the internet for likes and comments. It’s not as bad as it used to be but knowing how they got started, as a de facto child porn production and distribution outlet (imagine if /r/jailbait was a default subreddit when Reddit launched), it’s hard for me to get over that and use TikTok.
"Close-mindedness that would make John Calvin blush."

I swear that some of you (Silicon Valley autists) can think only memetically. Truly a tragedy.

"There is no chance I would let a university humanities department anywhere near my children at this point."

They wouldn't let your child in it to begin with.

Let me share an anecdote: Out of the seven friends that I have that graduated with engineering degrees, only 1 is still an engineer. Most regret it since it hampered their social skills.

On the other hand, the Chinese language and History double major is pulling in bank by luring in Chinese real estate investment. He is easily the most happy out of all of us.

STEM is a meme that needs to die. America does not need any more biology, chemical engineering or physics undergrads. It needs stats, philosophy, and accounting undergrads. It needs people who can maneuver political systems with ease. It needs people who can approach a problem from 15 different angles and see them for what they are.

Specialization is not king. Adaptability is.
I wouldn't consider Discourse/Reddit/Github/etc. to be a messaging app per se, even if some of those have messaging functionality between users...
In addition, the science has changed over time.

It seems like skin contact isn't quite so likely to spread the virus but breathing in exhaled droplets is.

Incidental interaction doesn't seem to spread the virus that well, so wearing a mask significantly reduces the risk to people like your grocery clerk.

It seems like general contagiousness isn't the primary mode of transmission, but instead the vast majority of cases come from superspreaders.

All of those indicate that mask wearing is probably more beneficial than expected.

If skin contact were the primary mode, then masks would likely have downsides as they tend to provide a warm, wet spot for the virus to hang out until you touch it.
I hear you.

But I think that dogmatically saying "You should never rewrite code from scratch" is just useful enough to catch the vast majority of instances when you should not rewrite code from scratch.

I'm willing to be called out for being totally wrong for my dogma in the rare instance that the application should be rewritten from scratch.

Every project I have ever joined on, there has been someone who wants to start fresh. There have been a lot of projects. There was one such instance where it was a good idea.
> should be born by the public rather than the financial sector.

Given the size of the financial sector, I am not sure those are not all that different.
Apple needs to put their money where their mouth is and demote Google as the default search engine in Safari.
Agendas are expected. Don’t use an economics paper to back a policy decision under the guise of data/science-driven policy making though.
Here is an example... https://reason.com/2020/06/10/ucla-business-school-lecturer-...
Yup. I was a shitty student (I used to read novels on my way to the exam hall) and still got a masters degree without breaking a sweat (with decent grades). And this is from a good institution with a fairly tough entrance exam.

Everything I learned, I learned outside school. Sometimes I wonder if the only things that schools provide are friendships and connections, and in some cases brand recognition. Something is not right about the way we teach youngsters.
Ah, right. I've heard reference to this before. Very unfortunate.
If you can't control the experiment and identify causation or limit the number of changed variables, you really shouldn't even use the word "experiment".

Sure there's an upside in letting smart people try to figure things out. But there's a downside in legitimizing the practice. Especially since academia isn't so just about intelligence but as much or more about self-agency. The people who push hardest for agendas get the funding, write the books, etc.
People talk about the old internet and how it used to be full of people sharing their interests and obsessions. I would argue that content on Youtube is intersecting the Geocities end of that period. Every oddball thing you could look up in 2000 is happening right now in someone's backyard on Youtube. Also ten times as many worthless spam videos, but this also correlates with the Geocities period. I don't like Youtube for a lot of reasons, but I love how it's illustrating that the nostalgic internet wasn't so much a contextual or cultural thing, it was more about the result of easy access to DIY publishing and the means to discover the results.
I usually think of the opposite affect, someone making double money in San Fransisco pays the same price for what they order on amazon as someone working and living in a cheaper market. Also cars, airline tickets, vacations, etc. Cuts both ways, I guess.

My two cents: I'd blame San Fransisco, they are the ones with the weird housing market and shouldn't make others subsidize things around their propped up property prices.
> Any social engineer

From my readings of pentesters doing social engineering, female pentesters have the vast advantage when trying to gain building access.
I've come across lots of hikers and trail runners doing this, usually small groups of HS students. It's not really a big deal because they pass by in a matter of seconds, or you can let them pass you if they're going the same way. In some ways it's safer to use ambient audio on the trail rather than headphones.
In America a having a HS degree won't get you very far or impress most people but not having one is a terrible thing. The amount of work required to pass through four years of public school is a joke, 'D' grades across the board will do the job.
Over 120 000 Americans have died from COVID in the last few months, that's more than died during the Korean and Vietman wars put together - this is a pandemic.

To quell your conspiratorial concerns about 'masks' you need only visit most of the rest of the world and find out, particularly in close-quarters E. Asian countries, they've been doing it for some time.

Nobody is suggesting they are perfect, the messaging has been mixed, and we're not exactly sure of their efficiency, all of those things are allowed when supporting a 'pro mask' policy.

America has been losing the battle against COVID while E. Asian countries have been doing very well, and most of the rest of the world is doing 'OK' - popular US debate is the most ridiculous, least credible place for facts.

The CDC has some integrity, but this is a global phenom and literally everywhere else with integrity is taking this seriously.

People are not bing 'lied to' about masks, they're getting mixed messages because the issue is inherently grey.
I'm leaning more strongly to "major impact / selection event / paradigm shift" than extinction. Education generally, and universities specifically, are highly durable institutions which have undergone massive changes over time, whilst retaining recognizable elements from their origins. Specific universities are remarkably durable, with the oldest (Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge) dating to the 11th and 12th centuries (Bologna will be 1,000 years old in 2088, within the lifetime of some now reading this). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...)

Curricula, degrees conferred, methods, organisation, associated attached sport and medical industries, and defence and research programmes ... are largely newer. Starting with the Humboldtian reforms in Germany in the early 19th century, much of what we now think of as the modern universiy started taking shape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...)

In-place instruction of both explicit and tacit knowledge, remains the most effective method attained. Mediated education, whether through old low-tech such as books, or high, such VR headsets, may have their affordances, but simply cannot match the full immersion of simultaneous group presence. More so for tacit knowledge in which simply ingesting words is not sufficient, where hands-on experience is required, and equipment, facilities, and materials needed.

There are several fundamental functions of the universiy which seem unlikely to vanish. Education; credentialling; open research; establishing curricula and pedagogy; relations with culture, industry, and government, document archival, basic research; keeping aging academics off the streets; and serving as transition institutions four young adults entering the world, all remain. No doubt individual campuses or systems will collapse, and many revered traditions will be abandoned, at least temporarily.

How this is accomplished given a few months, or years, or decades, of endemic disease, is a challenge. The institution's seen worse.
Doggerland was a "city" in any way we understand the term.

There's a bait-and-switch happening here.
You can't do this here and we've banned this account.
> is there any good new stuff or is this movement dead

There might be some good content, but the movement is definitely dead.

Sebastian Thrun / udacity never actually delivered. You still need to get a bachelor's degree by a regular university to get into oms-cs.

Sad.
> A white male in a suit could probably get into most office buildings.

A woman is going to have a far easier time getting into an office building.
Remind them it got started as the reddit.com/r/jailbait for video and see what their reaction is.
“ Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 ”
Copy and paste are application-level interfaces; the operating system holds the data, but has always given it up on demand. I've actually seen some applications that use the clipboard as an IPC mechanism (most recently, a Python application, I don't recall what for, was wiping URLs from my clipboard to see if it was already running)
My Walkman stopped getting security upgrades in 1984.
For the modern 2019 take: https://youtu.be/05mVvkp6f2M
Economics is a social science, not under the umbrella of humanities. Maybe subfields within economics like economic history could be in the humanities, but most micro and macro would be outside of it.

There are a lot of overlapping fields between the two, but economics isn't in the humanities.
Dressing for success is not exactly some secret of influence. A black guy in a suit in 2020 is going to be able to get into any office building as well. A black guy with a hard hat is not exactly unheard of on construction sites. It's quite common.
I agree, a lot of the old designs really had something special. I was looking through an old emergency backpack recently and found an Aiwa HS-SP590, similar to a Walkman. For quite a few years it was kind of boring as tech, but now it's so unique that my kids are very intrigued. I'm thinking I'll put something else in the backpack and have a play. (Ideally there weren't any batteries left inside...)
From Zero Onward
I definitely agree with this, and I will check out the book you suggested.

The title of the posted article is particularly relevant to me, as I'm also a 28 year old without a degree. I gained my technical skills from schools in the military, OJT, and self-teaching. When I was applying for software engineering jobs in the civilian world, my resume often wouldn't even be looked at because I didn't have a college degree.
I'm not sure what a better word would be. We use the same word informally to describe how babies learn—they poke and prod at their environment and see what happens. Just because they aren't rigorous doesn't mean the process doesn't give them some idea (with an implicit confidence level, of course) of how things work.
> as they gave up Hong Kong’s usefulness as a financial hub

Did they though? Many banks are still based there - but relative to the rest of the PRC, HK became less important because the rest of the country developed at lightning pace.
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We are making a new version of our open source genome browser with React and typescript (think data visualization, but lots of interesting software architecture too). Familiarity with bioinformatics a plus, but not required.
I guess the question this article asks is what, if anything has changed since the examples you cite.
Currently around 12% of GDP. In the New-Deal era it was around 3%.
I was at the grocery store earlier and, man, within 10 minutes I started seeing people dropping to the floor struggling to breath! It was cra-cra! I ran around tearing their masks off, yelling, "Breath! Breath!" Some, sadly, I was too late.
I don’t see why they are sticking with the nitro boost model. As a regular user of Discord none of the Nitro perks come even close to enticing me to part with my hard earned cash. They need to find a tangible add-on product that adds functionality, not tied to performance, to start getting people to start paying imo
Online tests are wide open to cheating if they aren't taken in person. Hybrids exist (take online test in a testing center, e.g. AWS certifications), but aren't all that useful for the slums of Bombay.

And in a way Google is already doing this in person with their interview process: they ask obscure questions aimed at knowlege gained in a computer science degree (or by good test preparation).
Hi there.
I can help you get up to speed with a REST API
Just give me the URL of the OpenAPI definition of your API

> What is an example of an OpenAPI definition?

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What do you recommend that can hold an interesting conversation?
Maybe, but cyanobacteria are not an uncommon thing and kill animals all the time.
Arguing with blood oxygen saturation is prety much strawman. Nobody here claims that facemasks impact that. Effects of insufficient CO_2 elimination are much earlier. If you were in badly ventilated room with 2000 ppm CO_2, you would feel dizziness even that you would still have full oxygen saturation.
Moreover, there's no mention of the names of any organizations, nor could I find the press release that the quotes were taken from.
Saroj Khan Famous Bollywood Choreographer Passes on at 71
Trump has consistently made a point to not wear a mask, even when the places he was visiting specifically asked him to. Trump has also mentioned several times that he thinks masks should be optional. He has unequivocally and undeniable undermined harmed efforts to promote make mask wearing, and continues to do so.
Up until a week ago, HK hadn't been abandoned as a financial hub. Things are moving fast, so let's keep a look out.
There are quite a few people in the world with a high level of character and no degree
This is normal. Mainstream media articles have always been in the mix. The proportions fluctuate.

Paywalls with workarounds are ok. People post workarounds in the threads. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Im sorry, but I'm not getting your point. A guy in a non-humanities field of study got put on involuntary leave, and, in your mind, this is due to the humanities department?