skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is stating that "workers who double majored in college have more stable earnings than workers who majored in a single subject, meaning they’re less susceptible to sharp swings in income." I think the world requires increasing specialization in knowledge and cross-/multi-disciplinary skillsets are required to achieve excellence. But for this particular effect from the article (earning stability) I wonder if it's more related to a selection bias.

I believe people who successfully double-major these days are likely to be more reliable at work. With that increasing specialization, if your niche is experiencing a broad downturn it would seem especially difficult to find another role (though obviously when one does open up, there would be less competition for it). Particularly because:

> “They have a wider funnel, a broader set of opportunities to select from, and this seemed to affect their earnings years later,”

My feelings here differ from that OSU professor's. Personally I feel that after about 5-8 years of experience, it gets increasingly difficult to transition your career out of your original niche. For younger employees it certainly opens up the opportunity to change careers to any ~entry-level role related to either of their degrees, but mid-career and senior roles generally want someone with specific experience, and few entry-level roles will consider mid-career candidates with unrelated experience.

So I do wonder if people who get dual degrees are simply the type of worker who are less likely to get laid off in the first place, regardless of whether they're filling a niche role or something that is garden-variety for one of their degrees.
What's expensive about living in SF these days?

You can fairly easily find a room in a shared house for pretty cheap, and you don't need a car.

I don't really see how moving out of state somewhere where you might rent a place for slightly less but then tack on a car means you save money in any meaningful way.
And Surface initially was an interactive table (now called PixelSense) before they reused the name for their tablets. Which made it really difficult to find relevant information on developing software for the old Surface after the tablets were announced!
Nice, so i am slowly turning more and more into a 3d printer!
> And it makes plenty of reason that brewers would be incentivised to keep ABV low so people could drink it all day if they could.

Still true in modern times. I'm not even sure it's possible to get drunk on Bud Light. Light rice beers have always been clearly intended to be drunk all day. I worked at a convenience store in a trashy neighborhood in the 90s, and the same people who had just bought a case a few hours ago would come back in for the next case, dead sober.
1300$ for the 16GB Asus laptop.

That's actually not bad, I'm gonna toss a 4TB M2 in one of these.

I doubt it'll actually clear 18 hours of battery life, but I'd be happy with 10.
Why replacing Postman for Bruno saved my company millions (really)
A bit of a rant... I used Postman for nearly a decade. I also had my company (at the time) first purchase it about 6 years ago.

Over those 6 years I watched it:
1. Go from $72 per year to $1,188 a year
2. Become a bloated mess that won't stop trying to be this first class citizen it will never become
3. Continue to expose more and more security risk (making us login, store things in the cloud, etc)
4. Finally try to strong arm everyone at a legitimate company into paying by basically creating a loophole that any of your data can be pushed public or is saved under your personal account unless you buy their Enterprise bs account for $1,188 per year.

My company was trying to work with them but it was legitimately going to be millions of dollars a year.

Ultimately, their own sales team put the final nail in the coffin. As part of one of their presentations, they were sharing a TON of data about us, how we use the product, the type of collections, etc. One of our security folks basically tricked them into exposing that EVERYONE at Postman has access to our collection-level data (tokens, keys, etc) through their Looker instance. With that level of risk that apparently is unsolvable, enough was enough.

A bunch of people were already using Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) so we just moved to that. It does everything we need and basically solves one of engineering's biggest requests which was to version our collections in GitHub. Now we don't need to maintain all of these workspaces and collections separately.

End of rant but this is how we not only avoided a $1M+ bill since Bruno is 1/12 the cost, but also probably saved who knows how much by not having a crazy security breach.
> without needing any library other than the cross platform Foundation implementation

which is seemingly what the user above was talking about! I think
Do you think the majority of humans will do this when there is a chatbot already available by default or by saying a wake word?

There is a growing constituent that doesn't even own a computer and rely on their phone only.

You have to step out of your shoes, where you are interested in these things, to consider things from a non-technical person's pov. There is a lot of unknown in having to decide what model to use... or they can just use the one put in front of them that doesn't drain their battery
Greg Maxwell's summary of the judgement on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/1cwbsb9/mellors_main_j...
I'm guessing correlation, not causation
Here I thought it was going to be a 64k Amiga or .COM DOS demo. This seems to be a very expensive and elaborate demo that is out of general reach.
> THe code isn't that complicated.

This is an indication that we’re at the infancy of this field.
>Nvidia and AMD at one point (still?) exclusively use TSMC.

While Nvidia and AMD both uses TSMC, they are usually not the client for leading edge node. Yield will always be low on leading edge and you want small die size at preferably below 100mm2. You also want extremely high margin products to justify the highest bid and large investment in all the adjacent tools.
Often warts don’t have nerves. If you’re very good you can excise one without hurting the patient.
Also, most warts spontaneously resolve with no specific treatment.
That's because HN isn't a single hive mind. People have differing opinions about this stuff. Some of us are pro-labor, and some pro-management. I find the latter type of person kind of gross, but... both kinds exist here.

"Prevailing opinion" is very hard to determine, so I wouldn't be so quick to label one or the other as the default or majority.
None of the material on the moon is worth more than the cost of shipping it back to Earth.
Corporations cannot act. If there is criminal activity, prosecute the human beings that committed crimes.
> I think you're being unnecessarily harsh.

More like dogpiling and coattail-riding of the current in-focus topic. Both comments smack of smug know-betterness but are accompanied only by vague remarks and no real claims that might be subjected to scrutiny. It's almost like dogwhistling for karma.
The ideas people have about HN demographics is wild.
Yeah, having police say, we could find out who the guy charging towards someone with a knife is, bland we have the technology, but we can’t do it is not likely to be a winning political argument.
Thankyou for telling me. I may have missed other coms, my apologies.
How so? All you need is money, and maybe a bit more time.
Podcasts are just syndicated audio feeds and in that respect, Antennapod is pretty serviceable. That said I've tried it a few times and always bounce off for two issues:

1. If you want to discover new podcasts, you will have to do that somewhere else.

2. Playlisting is not as good as others.

If you follow a few podcasts and aren't too opinionated about it then AntennaPod is a perfectly good app. I also use pocketcasts as I am married to my different filters and ability to sync playback status to PC.
If you have 100 resumes, and each one wants 15 minutes to talk - that is 3 days of back to back to back phone calls. (Aside: this is a rather soul draining endeavor and means everything else is pushed back a bit... the person who is conducting the calls should have some training / awareness of what is entailed so that they don't accidentally create an HR incident - this pretty much rules out the junior dev and many engineering team members).

What if you have 200? or 500? or 1000? How do you (the employer) decide which ones to talk to? How much budget are you willing to allocate to that?
If vendors will go for strictly on-die TPUs, then maybe. However, I expect these machines to be quite capable without the AI hype.

I hope ar least some laptop vendors will use PCIe cards for their TPUs so that there's an upgrade path of sorts, and reusing older cards for simpler models remains possible.
Saying 1 is both an integer and a rational number is wildly different from saying it is both an integer and an ASCII character. Z is a subset of Q. ASCII characters don’t overlap with either.

When you construct numbers using sets under ZFC axioms or inside lambda calculus what you get is representation. But 1 is just 1.
Here is my question though, comparing how this works on Mac.

Will Windows have the opposite? ARM running on x86?

I continue to wonder how Microsoft expects to work long term. Are they expecting that every developer is just going to keep x86 and ARM based app perpetually or users be stuck always using that emulation layer if they are running ARM?

Microsoft won't be able to 100% transition to ARM like Mac did. At some point all Intel Mac's will be old enough to no longer get the latest version of Mac and for developers to stop targeting and they drop Intel support.

I just don't see many developers bothering with an ARM native Windows version when doing so means they have to support both or risk annoying customers later.
I think you already know the answer. The only reason I can see staying in SF is if you plan on raising funding.
Is that survey actually scientific? I have been doing Ruby and Swift for years and never completed that survey. That survey is of reasonably active users to Stack Overflow — there is a selection bias. There isn’t a lot of great Swift content on SO, so that’s going to attract fewer developers to answer the survey.
No one cares for power saving. Turn it into higher performance at same power usage and people will bite. Of course it has to actually be a real upgrade like the Apple Silicon chips were.
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
Not really because the ordering is unambiguous given the parens. No need for operator precedence rules like PEMDAS.
Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.
Microsoft Releases CoPilot and PC Surface Pro, with Detachable Keyboard
This is not the point of the article. Even at the level of the objects themselves, 1 : integer is not 1 : rational. The latter is an ordered pair (1, 1) of two coprime positive integers, or an equivalence class of ordered pairs up to cancelling. Some ugly hackery is required to really make the integers equal to their respective rationals, and its consequences aren't great either (just imagine that some rationals are pairs while others are not -- that's what you get if you forcibly replace the rational k/1 by the integer k), and no one wants to do that.
It's definitely one of the best examples of well-executed generative art that stands well above the spray hose of crap produced on a daily basis. Thank you for sharing.
Of course Acrobat Reader doesn't handle it well since it's an inherent design flaw of the format despite your trying to deny the obvious. Just tried it - same issue, a paragraph of 3 lines is pasted as 3 lines

> PDF file format (which supports semantic paragraph tags, for example).

These are called newlines and have a pretty widespread support outside of some paper pockets of resistance! You only need some other semantic tags because the format fails at basics
I had a plantar wart that just would not go away. Frozen off and came back 3 times. Did the duct tape thing consistently for about 10 weeks. Worked great. It didn't go away quickly but after the 10 weeks I just kind of stopped doing it and at some point a while later just randomly noticed it was gone.
I bet Intel is not happy.
Is this is it or did they already lock down "their" hardware so you wouldn't be able to install alongside or solely another operating system? It seems that it's something we shouldn't take for granted as of now that the separation of OS and hardware allows you to install Linux or any other homebrew operating system on "your" computer.
The human mind and an LLM are not the same, that’s an ignorant thing too imply. Your questions are intensely naive too. Also your logic is weak. Just because scientists don’t know exactly how the human brain “works” doesn’t mean we don’t have accurate tests for general intelligence. On the other hand we know exactly how an LLM works and it’s not in the same ballpark with human intelligence, it’s not even the same game. It’s like thinking a calculator has a soul because it can “do” math. It’s childish fiction.
Ah yes. I look forward to seeing “double major” in the nice to haves list in job descriptions /s
It was a standard D-sub connector at one point in time, DA19P is going to be the first part of the real part number. Only issue is that no one makes this one anymore as the D-sub is pretty much abandoned by the consumer electronics industry. Serial ports, single density 9 pin, and VGA, double density 15 pin, being the only survivors and even those have been almost entirely removed. Defense contractors still use lots of D-subs as it's a simple and cheap way to pass a bunch of signals. The major connector manufacturers stopped making 19 pins because no one was asking for it. Defense contractors aren't going to keep that model alive with their low volume orders, it's easier to just use a 15 or 25 pin D-sub.

Since there are so many compatible drawings out there of D-subs, it's easy to find one that shows the breakdown of why the measurements are what they are. From there, you can easily backtrack and get the exact dimensions of a DA19P.
To really be an AI PC, I'd want to be able to run something like llama 3 70B locally, and that's going to need a lot of RAM. Even running a 7B will take 14GB if it's fp16. So these really just need to be able to run a few MS AI apps. A quick googling tells me things like the Gen-AI in photoshop is actually done in the cloud, so that should still work but doesn't really require a special "AI PC".
Another old remedy just involves paper, pencil, and a fire.

Surely paper touching a wart doesn’t do anything substantial other than trigger the placebo effect.
A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead
I think the very way you're dismissing things as "performative" proves my point.
Now, I'm all for not having to deal with their annoying paywall tactics bullcrap, but I'm wondering, is using archive.org as a way to get around paywalls like WSJ's an abuse? I'm concerned less for their profit and more for the fact that we might get archive.org hit with cease-and-desist's or cause archive.org to have to foot larger bandwidth costs when they're a really good service that's important for the long-term of the internet. I see a lot of people do it, though, so wasn't sure if there's some sort of blind-eye going on.
> I think it's totally fair to call the top comment (most upvoted) the "prevailing opinion".

I don't think that's fair at all. Moderation/voting isn't a perfect reflection of a site's tastes. HN's seems to be better than most at reflecting that, but sometimes a post gets popular long-term because it got popular initially, and sometimes that's just luck of the draw.

> don't down vote because you disagree

This is repeated a lot, but isn't true or correct. A lot of people do downvote because they disagree (myself included, though I try not to downvote when I disagree but also think it's a substantive, thought-provoking comment), and there's a comment from pg from many years ago (can't seem to find it) where he says that's a perfectly acceptable reason to downvote.
I'll admit I'm asking myself a similar question, about my different US HCOLA city. (And I hope comments don't make me regret candor.)

One reason to stay is familiarity, and knowing that I can at least scrape by here a while longer, including living car-free (but not compete economically with the FAANG outpost workers, for safe and comfortable housing).

Another reason to stay is that -- should scraping-by not work out, or the economy suddenly gets much worse, such as due to geopolitical instability -- the city government has a lot of money and tax base, and I'm guessing currently a better social safety net than much of the US.

Another reason to stay is that my startup might have to pivot, due to how consumers are using LLMs, with nothing obvious (and ethical) to pivot to. But my skillset is sometimes highly valued by highly-paying companies, as well as early startups, and the right carrot to abandon my startup would erase the biggest downsides of staying in my city.
What accounts for the ups and downs in the bachelor degrees by year chart?
The Type G connector serves perfectly well, and is vastly safer than the standard US outlets!
And why is that ?

(.. because they can't do it with Style (lossless) or something else and that's because browsers are kept broken mostly (so it's not possible at all or without strings attached) or they don't know how - neither why they can't find no other ways and how the one only left for them disables any other uses than some programmer (that just happened to be there for a moment without any reflection) vision, neither think about it ?

Yes, there are cases when JS shine - but the rest are just patches.. that need patches.. if anyone follow.

Yes, it keep some ecosystem alive and good for business - but it's not the interface a thing to take away my focus, neither one more level, "AI", doing any different. )
At least in the American college setting, most people who double major pursue a much higher number of simultaneous courses (also described as 'how many credits you are taking this semester').

This means less time for fun and socializing and more time in class and studying.

Industriousness is displayed by the willingness to work harder than is expected of someone with a single major which is the dominant way to do undergrad. IQ would be involved in the ability to study for and take more exams in finals week(s).
The OP article cites Kahneman & Frederick quite a bit in the intro.
You cannot exclude wealth, both family and neighborhood, as a proxy.

I did not come from a rich family but we were in the district for the public school which included a lot of professional class parents.

The school offered a lot of AP courses. If you do well on the AP test then some colleges would accept that as college credit. This would make it easier to get a double major.

However, not everyone could afford the AP tests, and schools from poorer neighborhoods, or from smaller districts, didn't offer as many AP courses.
In a site where people upvote and downvote it's really not that hard to judge the prevailing opinion. It's the one at the top of the site, as opposed to the greyed out comments which were downvoted to death.
The paper also mentions a wider funnel of opportunities. I can see that in myself and my adult child. There is a kind of “generalist penalty” in terms of landing certain kinds of specialist positions, but there is a class of troubleshooter jobs and system integration jobs that a generalist is simply much more effective at doing because of the broader perspective.
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>Substantive stories are allowed on HN - therefore it's not against the site guidelines, unless you think [...] is common run-of-the-mill, not once-in-a-lifetime politics?

This is the rhetorical frame that has been used for the last decade to justify diluting topical spaces with thinly veiled culture warring by the extremely online for whom every new media cycle is another entirely new Armageddon.

I respectfully disagree with the notion that every current outrage or controversy should be treated as the paramount issue necessitating everyone's unquestioning attention in unrelated spaces.
You both broke the site guidelines so outrageously and so often in this hellish flamewar that I need to reply even though it is over a week later.

If you break the site guidelines like this again on HN, we will have to ban you, no matter how provocative someone else's comments are or you feel they are.

Absolutely no more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or the reality is that the vast majority of "remedies" for things that average people experience are nonsense and have no method of action.

Or are worse than nonsense, like all the people over the centuries who have insisted on treating a burn by applying butter to the area.
The MessagePad hardware was pretty limited. There was 128kB of RAM, of which NewtonScript got to use about half. But there was 4MB of ROM. So the ability to leave objects in ROM was very important. Most (all?) other languages including Dylan and Smalltalk assume objects all reside in RAM and are mutable. The prototype inheritance system is what made this work, as described in that paper.

NS used a simple bytecode interpreter, except toward the end where we had an AOT native compiler you could apply to individual functions (native functions were much larger than bytecode so you had to be selective).

Later hardware had more RAM (up to 4MB in the MP2000) and we might have been able to try some kind of JIT compilation, if the product had survived longer.
Rent is not cheap in Walnut Creek. Maybe next door in Concord, but not WC lol
I had bad warts on my foot. I tried the over-the-counter remedies (salicyclic acid, do not recommend), and it only spread all over the foot. I went to the doctor who stated they could freeze it off, but if it was down in the nerve, the pain would be intense.

I didn't know what to do, so I did nothing. A few months later, all gone! No trace.
Thanks for reading and asking the question!

Yes you assumed right it is for tax reasons. I have some RSUs and other stocks that I could sell and only worry about the 15% federal.
This sounds like a good thing; it gives them plenty of space for rewilding.
The huge news is indeed that this time vendors support Microsoft's ARM efforts.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418629 regarding a flamewar that happened over a week ago. It's important that this not happen again.
You're suspicious my comment is an ad, or the original post? I have zero affiliation with the channel, have never emailed with the creator or anyone on their team, and am not even subscribed to the youtube channel. I just saw a guy wearing one of the shirts at the Palo Alto farmer's market and was intrigued. My first reaction was "is that the guy who runs the channel?" and then I realized he probably had a shop and probably didn't go around wearing his own swag.
Sure, it could be. All sorts of things could be. Making that observation is not an argument that something is.
The problem is that no one thinks of type conversions as taking any explicit paths! It's one thing to view the actual process of long division as path-dependent (something everyone who learns about Gröbner bases is familiar with, as at the right level of generality even the result is path-dependent); it's another thing to apply the same intuition to the way the inputs are parsed. (You said divide 3 by 2 with remainder? Sure, the quotient is 3/2 and the remainder is 0. Problem?)
Mine usually is pretty responsive about it, but the results searching in the start menu are strange. I start typing the name of something, what I want pops up, I type one too many characters (still a substring of the correct name) and suddenly it decides something completely different is the best match.