skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sean Carroll's many worlds is what I subscribe to.

In a nutshell, you are a quantum system as well, when two quantum systems interact, then you get the wavefunction collapse, but it doesn't collapse, it just appears that way.

https://youtu.be/F6FR08VylO4
I was a lot more open to it 18 months ago before The Great Descent began. Now I probably never will, because on ideology alone I don't want to contribute to Musk's finances.

If only Rivian could scale up quicker, I'd be tempted to buy the SUV.
> my thought is for him to change majors if tinkering doesn't come naturally

I wouldn't worry about that. Not everyone that studies CS loves programming, a lot do it because it's a way to have a good career, and that's fine.

> He had a few classes in js and C++ and did very well, but its not something he continues to do on his own.

You have to give a bit more details about how much he writes code and his general situation (which year, classes, etc.).

One thing that is a guarantee, is that people that do their own projects on top of school and get internships will be light-years ahead of someone that does neither, in terms of skills.

From my personal experience, I did a class with people in their last semesters that were literally unable to write any code beyond the basic exercices they had seen in class. They had basically never written and ran an actual project, and it was obvious that they wouldn't have a good time getting a job.
Sure was. 720x348 if my memory isn't failing me (don't ask why I can remember such useless numbers for decades). And twice as many text columns. For a teenager into coding, it was heavenly.
"Plays into common misconceptions" is one of the worst properties that a video targeted at general audiences can have. This even happens if your video is technically correct but sounds sorta like the common misconception [1].

Someone who watched the Dr. Quantum video has learned a bunch of keywords and phrases associated with quantum mechanics. They've now heard of waves and particles and detectors and whatnot. But they have been actively misled with respect to how those things behave. I bet it's possible to put together a reasonable looking test where watching the Dr Quantum video caused scores to go down.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8
Reading the blog and the comment section as a european, I realise how Europe feels nowhere near as dangerous as natural parks in the US, less extreme weather conditions, mostly no dangerous wildlife and less environment diversity (mostly moutains, no desert)

I've done some hiking and camping in the Alps, and while some surprise thunder had me stop for 30 minutes, there never was sudden storms or weather change which really put me in life threatening situations

I wonder how much of those "Death in ..." stories are about foreigners who misevaluated the landscape and weather differences between their home country and those national park
Well yes, but what exactly would you say he does here?
Having a CS degree, doesn't mean you have to code. Some of the best product managers or designers I've worked with have a CS background.

Also change to what? Granted I went to a top school, but I remember people with engineering or CS degrees even getting finance jobs, etc... over other majors.
True. Not smart in all areas. However, it is disheartening to see they can't put 2+2 together or they can but as money is involved, they are being **ts.
Chronosphere (Series C startup) is hiring Sales Engineers with prior Observability experience.
> Eating cooked chicken bones is very dangerous

Why is that?
Yes! It’s really good. I’m mostly a data guy with a bit of rails experience and i’m learning a lot that i think will be useful outside of just Rust.
Bob Frankston: Distributed Cooperation
Does anyone know what the Many World's interpretation of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment is?
It's actually quite an interesting happening, as banal as a self-righteous Reddit mod might be.

I recall in the very beginning of Stable Diffusion being released, the first few models used to have an odd behaviour where mentioning the artist "Greg Rutkoswski" in the prompt would ameliorate the quality of painterly or sketched styles.

So much that it kinda became a meme, and the artist himself became quite vocative about his issues with AI generated artwork - but not because he inherently opposed it, his issue was that pictures associated with prompts mentioning him started to displace his actual artworks in search engines and public perception.

I find this case here to be a great example of the issues arising from the "AI art debate".

Models will soon become good enough to emulate recognisable styles in such quality and higher resolutions that the giveaway errors and artifacts created by the diffusion process will start to fade, which might very well and ironically impact better known digital artists and subject them to the general rejection of purists and legally cautious companies, when the lines start to blur.
Another huge fan of just, here. I love that it's installable with a one-liner and I've added this as an option to my dotfile setup.

I'm done trying to cast spells at Make
Have you figured out what you were/are doing that is causing RSI in both forearms? For example, are you bending your wrists while typing (just one example)? This is not a direct answer to your question, but maybe figuring out what is contributing to your RSI can be part of the solution.

I'm not an expert in RSI. I have typed on computers for 10 hours/day for decades and never had a problem, but I also touch-type with correct hand position and play piano regularly, so maybe those things have protected me somewhat. Perhaps something like breaks every 20 minutes or icing your wrists/forearms periodically while working could help reduce your RSI problems.
> Occasionally my friends will have me tell the story to someone else and we’ll all laugh about it (occasionally to the horror of anyone hearing it for the first time).

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
> For a fresh out of college grad new hire/interview they're going to care much more about grades and school prestige than hobbies or side projects.

In my experience it is exactly opposite of that. Especially for FAANG companies.
If he’s happy and successful, I think he’s fine. In fact, perhaps better then fine.

Plenty of new CS grads go straight into Product/Program Management, and there are plenty of other roles such as consulting and sales that really value being able to combine people skills with technical skills. Having been in that world, the right combo of people skills and technical knowledge is both hard to find and remunerative.
There’s a kind of thing that happens in these discussions where somebody makes a complaint about an extremist position and somebody else responds that nobody thinks that and the two are kind of talking past one another.

To be clear, I acknowledge that we’re talking about an extreme, broadly unpopular position, but it is one running through certain segments of leftish twitter and academia. (No, I don’t keep a file of such utterances, so I can’t produce a list offhand.)
Why is 100mbps tragically low? That would be enough for all but a vanishingly small minority of consumers, surely.
Go playground to run code and get profiling
There's a lot here to unpack, but I don't believe this is a red flag. CS is not a "gimme" major. If he's continuing to pursue it and the college isn't weeding him out, then he's clearly doing alright and has enough enthusiasm for the major. Let him continue.

On a more personal note, I don't believe this is any of your business. Your son is a grown adult. Perhaps he's getting a degree on your dime, but he needs to make his own choices in his education, and you aren't living his experience. You're very focused on "tinkering" as a tell for whether he's in the right degree, but only he can know if he's happy in his major.

My wife had a father who was very involved in her choice of majors, and it left her with anxiety and a sense that her college years were wasted. She was left feeling like getting his approval was more important than reasoning through her own decisions. The best thing you can probably do for him long term is let him make decisions, even if you think they're wrong.
I started college more than 20 years ago. I had an internship during school and I've been a professional software engineer since I graduated. I get nothing but great performance reviews and I've naturally risen to leadership/mentoring position in every job I've ever had.

I've never "tinkered" or written code outside school or work. Ever. Not before college, nor after.

It's also incredibly weird you're complaining your son is socializing. Socializing is normal and healthy, spending all your free time working is not.
75% download would be fine too. Right now many connections are 90% or 95% or worse, and that is not okay.
It's definitely _helpful_ to a young dev if they have a passion for what they do, and it's a trait that would serve them well as they grow their skills. But it's also not a requirement. It might just be the case that his workload from classes takes up enough energy that he's not interested in coding in his spare time.

I'm a firm believer that it's not a requirement for people to enjoy the thing they do for work so much that they want to do it in their spare time. Do people who frame houses build frames for fun off the clock? Do garbagemen go around the neighborhood emptying cans just for the hell of it? No, and no one thinks that's weird.

If he's doing well in his classes, he's probably just fine. I didn't start programming on the side until well after I started my actual career. To me in college, it would have been like doing math in my spare time - programming was homework, not something I did for fun.

One other comment I'll make is that when I was in school I did not yet have the skills I'd have needed to build satisfying side projects. I was learning the basics of syntax and logic, wrapping my head around the concepts behind coding. It wasn't until I was further along in my career that I had enough experience to actually build anything I wanted to build. I found my mid-level programming classes pretty difficult too, and definitely wasn't interested in further "punishment" in my free time!

tl;dr - I don't think you have anything to worry about. If your son is doing well in his classes, that's good. Let him enjoy his hobbies and social life.
> Way back when color screens were considered too expensive for everyday use, computer operators used black-and-white screens.

No, it was way back when the dot pitch accessible to shadow mask CRT hardware[1] was too coarse to display more than ~300 horizontal pixels well, so computer operators used monochrome displays where they could readably get 80 characters across a screen.

[1] Composite color encoding was another hurdle, though the C64 and IBM CGA got past that well enough. It wasn't until VGA monitors in 1987 that color text really broke through though.
What became of his wife and daughter?
Small paper uncovered, reported George Santos scandal before November election
Unis to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams as students used AI to write essays
Since I wasn't sure whether it's meant literally or if I'm missing some context, I decided to do a web search with this joke as a query, and was rewarded with a recording of it (apparently) playing out in real life:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamegrumps/comments/9kgeqg/a_horse_...
Sure, but people have said similar to what you're saying for a few years.
iOS/safari here and works fine for me.
An Update on Fairphone 2
Blacklists absolutely exist, but they are company-by-company. SAP HR software even comes with a special table for it.
> For example, JS strings are superficially similar to an array of characters, but their semantics such as equality are completely different because strings happen to be primitives while arrays are not.

How do the semantics change? They are arrays, they literally have pointers to their characters.
People don’t always get a job in what they major in. If he’s doing well and continues to do well he should complete his degree, he may not use much of it but it will set him up with the ability to learn and solve problems that other majors may not emphasize.
This should be illegal, you can’t just take away my account so you can save a little bit of money
Inflation is going down.
Does sports gambling follow the general gambling trends? Is U.S. gambling in general lower than in other countries? Might the cultural / religious norms around gambling be the difference?

>Basically want to hear what is keeping young, tech savvy and well educated Americans (mostly quants but also similar fields) from earning money on sports betting?

By earning money, do you mean by placing successful bets on sports outcomes? Or by creating websites that enable others to bet, and skim off the top?

Sports betting seems like it subject to all sorts of potential cheating, like point shaving, doping your athletes/horses, etc.. Maybe crypto seems like it is harder to be cheated? Or maybe gambling seems zero-sum, while the ideal of crypto doesn't?
Can you point to one? Usually the stick PCs will connect to an HDMI monitor, and may get power from USB, but this seems a different use case.
This thread got remove from the main discussion.

Fell like Twitter before the cleanup here.
Everyone always thinks the current bandwidth is enough.... it never is.

I have no idea what the future hold but a typical VR movie is ~20gig

I'm not saying VR is going to take off but maybe streamed AR virtual presence might and it will require more bandwidth than today's video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A

And even if that doesn't, something always comes up that needs more bandwidth.
As someone from the PNW: if you're going on anything beyond a quick trip, pack for literally every type of weather. Never leave without at least a small camelback with a wind breaker, rain pants, and a foil emergency blanket (bonus points for packing a few plastic bags and a roll of tape, because once the heavens open up, you can quickly slip those over your socks and tie them off so your free stay dry even if your shoes soak through. Keeping your feet dry is stupidly important). The PNW is literally rain forest, just not the tropical kind.
I was a victim of the Experian data breach in 2015 and I now have a lifetime of credit monitoring services to pay for, meanwhile Experian had to pay a fine that amounted to a slap on the wrist.
It's C level speeds.
Our local library had them for a while when I was young. The Windows PCs that eventually replaced them seemed worse - they seemed okay at doing a thousand different things instead of very good at doing one thing. The amber sceen PCs were hyper-focused on searching books.

Looking back now, they were probably DEC VT320s as seen in this LGR video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZUPpmXfT0
Fuck all that. Quit the moment you feel it is negatively impacting your life. You don't owe employers shit if they violate the spirit of your contract, the only signal you can send to make it clear that you find that despicable is to quit. Everything else is toxic careerist bullshit.

We aren't on this planet for long. You are entitled to a small rebellion once in awhile, particularly if it is merited.
I don’t think company size is often indicative of compensation. Rather, determine if you will be a cost center or a profit center.

A small company where you will be a profit center can give you significantly more money than a large company where you will be a cost center. Even if you’ll be doing essentially the same work at both companies.
Shameless plug: I made a library to encode any json as query/hash params in a human readable manner adhering to url friendly characters.

https://github.com/recurrency/urltron

Perfect use case for storing page state in url.
But then that opens them up to having their victim commit code to their repos directly, as well.
The circuit is not back to the substation, but rather your local transformer. There is likely a grounding rod at the pole the transformer is on, and one grounding rod at each of the premises served by the transformer. It's just that resistance of the earth, especially dry earth, is quite high compared to wires.
Ask HN: Why Become a Doctor Nowadays?
Hello! I'm a computer person and sometimes I have health problems and then I'm really grateful that doctors exist.

Sometimes I wonder whether doctors will stop existing at some point.

Why would someone go through years and years of painful studying and training, to end up working in a hospital (!) doing colonoscopies all day, being on call 24/7, just to end up with the same income as some kid joining a FAANG straight out of high-school?

Perhaps I'm too tunnel visioned in this tech world, but I'm wondering about the incentives here and if they will keep existing. We do need doctors, right?
The author addressed this by way of their by-line
He can always go to graduate school and become an attorney, underwater basket weaver, or whatever he wants. For many folks, CS is only the beginning and if they don't enjoy the work they'll naturally move on to something else.
Many years ago I wanted to build an Issuu-like PDF viewer (https://issuu.com/) built on top of pdf.js and spent a lot of time manually doing CSS transformations. Eventually, I gave up because I couldn't get pdf.js to be fast enough and the experience wasn't as slick as what Issuu had. I wonder if it would be a lot easier now!

Back then, Issuu was written in flash, I'm guessing they've since switched to CSS as well :)
You’re the first and only person to point out this fact, which shows how depressingly little history is studied by people who work in this field. It’s a shame it’s become about getting to The Money as quickly as possible…
Everything is different with companies shrinking. It's an employer's market now and sadly they are mostly filtering based on where you went to school.
Breaking compatibility from the current spec/functionality of python should be a definite no-no for any implementation. That being said, I can still appreciate that they didn't try to write their own busted unicode implementation since many other ones have contributed to security issues.
The electricity spent doing computations is still turned into heat.
How Does a Geothermal Heat Pump Work
I don’t think tinkering outside work/class is required to be a good programmer. Nobody rags on accountants for not fiddling with spreadsheets as a hobby. I think the frequent expectation in tech that programmers live & breath code all the time is actually pretty unhealthy. I got into programming as a hobby, but the longer I’ve been a professional at it the less I do in my free time because I just don’t think it’s mentally healthy to do the same thing 80 hours a week.

I do think there’s a risk, if he doesnt also pursue programming as a hobby, of being out-competed by those who do. But not to point of it not being a viable career, just maybe not being like top-of-the-heap. Which is fine, it’s a big industry, not everyone needs to be the best.

The other thing I’ll note is that programming is definitely a career that requires ongoing professional development. Tech changes, you gotta keep up with it to stay relevant to some degree. A lot of that ends up being on-the-job, but like other jobs some it inevitably isn’t.

With those caveats addressed: if he’s doing well and continues to do well, I think it’s entirely possible to have a career programming without also treating it as a hobby.
I mostly see streetview stuff, but twice I've seen one that had stuff like "which one is a ladybug" or even "which one looks like a blah without a blah".

This prompt of course could still be for classification of images.

But then the "ladybugs" often were heavily distorted to the point where they did things like morph into other animals or the background. They did not seem possible to be photos, but I could be wrong. The prompts were very odd.
Extending the Android SDK
I know electrical/electronic engineers that don't know how to solder (which is how things were done in their day) and can't actually construct physical circuits. Hell, one of them is an IEEE Fellow.
Stone isn't very conductive, so I expect that majorly reduced the current.
It might have been a red flag 20 years ago, but the software engineering space has really opened up a bunch. I know plenty of engineers who only code at work and they range from okay to excellent.

Coding as a hobby doesn't guarantee you'll be a quality engineer and not coding as a hobby doesn't preclude it.

The absolute best in any domain will normally involve living and breathing your profession. The difference now is that the hyper majority of software projects do not require anywhere near absolute best in technical ability.

Honestly, ability to socialize gets you further than technical ability nine times out of ten. And in the one in ten where you need the technical chops then being able to socialize means you can find and organize the talent you require.
> my thought is for him to change majors

To something else that he won't tinker with either, and in which he doesn't have a track record of doing well like he does in CS?
Not true. Most FAANGs don't care about grades or even your major. All that matters is the interview which you can get via referrals. The interview is all leetcode for interns and new grads. I have interviewed at FAANGS and work at one.
phenomenon
No -- they laid off a broad swath across the board -- I know folks with 10 years experience who were laid off, although it did seem the layoffs were tilted toward more recent hires.

(I didn't get laid off)
They are that they way for a reason. Legacy copper infrastructure only offers so much bandwidth, and customers would rather have most of that bandwidth be for download.
It's conversations like these that make me think I probably should get in to stand up ccomedy.
He takes specifications from the customers and brings them down to software engineers. He is a people person!
The part where you actually sit down and type in code isn't the part that is fun for me anyway. I like solving problems and the problem needs to be solved before you know what code to write, so the fun part is over before I even open an editor. Maybe he likes programming but just doesn't like typing code.
If he seems happy and is paying enough attention to it to do well in class then I wouldn't worry too much about it.
they are beautiful.

https://portaldasmissoes.com.br/noticias/view/id/2507/lagart...
Cool-Retro-Term gives a fun approximation of an amber CRT.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
A modern high resolution display (4/5k) has subpixels easily small enough to emulate the old monitors accurately in terms of color. What you can't get is the CRT curvature and the glare of the fluorescent lights bouncing off the glass.

Also, the green phosphor Apple and at least some other vendors used wasn't a pure #00FF00 green -- you'd have to light other color channels. This picture is a pretty accurate representation: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/btaokj....
Crypto is fleeing banks. Bank investors should be worried.
Yes, I am aware of that, that's why I made sure to mention it. There is a world of difference between local and non-local theories. And in no way do non-local theories fit in any of the simple explanations the original poster had in mind.

> We haven't ruled out hidden variables

No, but we ruled out every non-local or non-real one. Which is a far more interesting achievement.
ah missed that part good catch
Everything changed last year, those companies are in layoffs and have greatly tightened hiring practices. HR is much more strictly filtering and dialing back where they recruit.
Probably you're referring to:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

But, I'm not being snarky or rude... I'm just not 100% sure he is being sarcastic.

Given that Make is not portable and does not include _any_ tools that it is commonly used to execute, I consider it hugely sarcastic.

However, other lines were true and it sounds like it was written seriously, so, can't tell if sarcasm or not.