skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard skills are skills that are easy to measure. For example, the score on a specific test, you can measure wither the person can do arithmetic's, algebra, spell words etc. This gives you hard evidence that the person possesses these skills.

Soft skills are skills that are hard to measure. This includes social skills, but also other things like being able to create a good architecture for a complex software project etc.

There is nothing stating that soft skills needs to be social and hard skills needs to be technical, if you mean those then just say social or technical instead of soft or hard.
I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes. The current hardware is more than enough for any consumer applications I can think of.

Maybe just need to reuse more hardware. Standardize and commodify replacement parts for mobile devices like framework/fairphone. Reduce the amount of IoT crap in toasters/etc. Use multiseat instead of thin clients. Upcycle old computers.
Most are started outside of California, yes, but there are plenty of large scale companies in the EU too. So unless we are limiting the discussion to large scale tech companies of the sort that are predominately in the Bay Area, the discussion just isn’t congruent.
As an Andean Native-American I think that there were some things that were science, like being able to tell time and the seasons by their star observatories. And then there was religion around a planet or the moon.
Mechanics aren't shy about charging "hours" from a reference book that have little to do with how long the task actually took.
Ok, but what is the next step? Take this guy’s Bitcoin wallet address to court?
JPMorgan Finds New Use for Blockchain in Trading and Lending
I hate to be the one but a) this means fixing these psu's are going to be even harder now and b) at some point people are going to have to worry about energy intensity (W/m^2) exceeding values where the devices themselves will melt. That said, interesting tech. It feels like a lot of new tech news these days is just furthering gimmicks (adding "blockchain" to this or ML applied to something that didn't need it) but this is actually cool and could open a host of new applications.
Large companies definitely aren't immune from litigation over stuff like this. I sent Google a demand letter for breach of contract for wrongfully terminating my Adsense account.

In the letter I gave them 30 days to restore my account and pay the money they had wrongfully withheld. On the 30th day the account was restored and the money was paid.

Though I wrote the letter myself, I'd imagine anyone similarly situated could hire an attorney who practices contract law to write a similar letter for relatively low cost.
That explanation is wordy, but it is easy to see they are impossible if backed by token(s) that are backed by nothing, since those things can fall so low in value as to not have enough reserves to back the $. Regardless of reserve ratios.

Although 10k ETH backing $1 would be quite safe and reduce the probability down to that of your bank going bankrupt. But having $20M in reserve to back $1 is silly.

Stable coins try to buffer volatility in the volatile thing, but ironically the more volatile the thing the more likely it is to undo the stablecoin.

More interesting than a stable coin would be to make a stable currency on the blockchain. To do this you would need a real and large real economy (trading goods and services) based on that currency alone. You would need a nation to adopt it. That has not yet happened with cryptocurrency.
> One pretty big one, if you're looking at homelab use, is that Proxmox is just Debian, so it's waaaay more likely to run on crap-tier commodity hardware

That was my first (and last) hurdle when wanting to try out ESXi...

I booted up the installer only to be greeted by a "not enough RAM" message.
I believe it's 4GB minimum, which my tiny machine had, but ESXi read it as 3.9GB instead of 4.0GB and refused to budge.

Very happy with Proxmox on the other hand! Having access to the underlying Debian is also quite nice if you need to do something that's not supported by the interface.
Chaos theory is orthogonal to quantum theory. Neither depends on the existence (or nonexistence) of the other.

Chaos is unpredictable but for a different reason than quantum systems: Chaotic systems are unpredictable because we can never measure the real world perfectly (even ignoring quantum weirdness) and that lack of precision in measurement coupled with nonlinearity means our measurement errors amplify quickly. Nevertheless, chaos is theoretically deterministic. It's just not practically deterministic (except in the coarse-grained statistical sense of saying "the system's position in phase space is somewhere on a strange attractor path bounded by X.")

Quantum systems are not even deterministic in theory, let alone practice. And ironically quantum systems are fundamentally linear. So the spookier theory in a sense is based on more tractable math.
I go to college in Boston and was housed around Berklee, and I also agree that the billboard (recently removed, IIRC) was in pretty bad taste. I agree that we're missing the point here, but more so because messaging like that only seems to be counterintuitive and provocative and probably does more harm than good.

The billboard in question, when I saw it: https://www.stophandgunviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
I've found high-wattage USB-C chargers to have very poor reliability. All the 18-W chargers I've owned have lasted multiple years, but the compact 90-W+ chargers have a lifespan measured in months.

Of course, they all purport to offer a warranty, but if you try to claim, they will not honor it. They will claim it's because you bought from Amazon and they don't warrant Amazon purchases (despite this being their main retail outlet, and the fact that they advertised the warranty IN the Amazon sales materials). Or something similar.
I'm curious if they explicitly excluded their blog from Google search results, they don't seem to have the highest opinion of Google from various posts.
People open YouTube to feed their hunger for content with whatever they find. If a creator leaves, then they just have to switch to content from one of the 10 other channels that are similar. It’s a low friction, low loyalty world.

And from my experience, people overwhelmingly watch YouTube on phones or tablets, and wouldn’t be messing around with anything like BitTorrent. If you think that is a good alternative, then you are not representative of the average YouTube user.
I'm not sure, this looks like it can be done in a college chemistry lab without too much retooling. A dedicated factory process could be even stronger. Lithium is found and wasted wherever vapes are sold, so it's not like there aren't economies of scale for material supply available.
Reminds me of a variable name at my last job, fagg. Stood for like frequency aggregator or something..
Relax, it's a head band that plays sounds. Not some weird peptide cooked up in a lab.
>go after Google

ROFL
I don't understand the legal requirement thing. In my state, I'm pretty sure I could put a straight pipe down there and I'd never have an issue. In fact, I'd probably look into it if it happened to me. That said, I know my state is pretty lax about that sort of thing. Curious how it's actually enforced in others.
In consumer market, Intel supported AVX-512 only on -X, HEDT processors. There is a rumor that either Adler Lake-X is coming out or it will be folded into Xeon -W workstation line. It will support AVX-512.
> I think you are talking about a later era.

Probably right, I didn't leave North America until the twenty aughts. Things changed very rapidly in a short time between that first trip and just a few years later.
Viagra is also a direct neuroprotectant and phosphodiesterase(5 I think) is implicated as influencing intelligence through a GWAS.
Do people fix PSUs?
> They'll eventually pee and sweat [the water] out.

It's infuriatingly hard to find good citations, but I think they actually mostly breathe it out. IIRC, the water breakdown for some (spacecraft) life support system was something like 50% from respiration, 30% in urine, 10% in sweat, and 10% in feces.
> I played with it for a minute, and the feature I want is just a checkbox to reset the database each time I run the query.

After experimenting, i'm extremely hesitant to add the option to _automatically_ nuke the db each time input is submitted because, frankly, That Way Lies Madness and you are probably the only person who would use it. However, the app now has a button to nuke the db.

In related news: if any text in the input field is currently highlighted, only that text is submitted via the Run button or ctrl-/shift-enter.

That's not yet (as of this writing) deployed but will be the next time Richard updates the site.
> But quantum mechanics is founded on the idea that nothing in it can be guaranteed and it's all just statistics and probability -- yet we consider QM a "hard science".

Quantum mechanics describes the probabilities exactly, it includes every single way the particle can behave. There is no statistics here, it just gives an exact probability distribution. This is not like psychology at all where we don't have any exact descriptions of how humans can behave in different situations.

Or in another way, the results of physics are "hard" (unyielding) since we have yet found any experiment where the particles don't behave according to the distributions we get from quantum physics. Those distributions are therefore as exact as anything humans can know can be exact.

Psychological experiments aren't that exact, the psychological experiments run produces different distributions all the time since they don't have hard requirements on the input, humans aren't exact, humans are very fuzzy data wise so until we can specify a human precisely psychology will remain a soft science.
Nix/NixOS. It is the best in class tool for this purpose, with a bumpy learning curve due to the subpar language and complex documentation. But once things get going it's quite a convenience.
how does soundmind compare to the dreem headband?
I wouldn’t even consider fixing a psu. It’s dangerous high voltage electronics so messing it up could result in a fire or personal harm.

And they are standardised. Makes more sense to just replace them.
Yes?????????
The authors of the letter seem open to that, as well as for drug/poisoning cases. But on the other hand, the traffic related deaths seem unperturbed, which makes me wonder if we overrate how much “lockdown” actually happened.
Don't forget Midnight Commander, which uses a TUI just like this one.
Can history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it can
The average age of vehicles is trending up because cars are more reliable and just last longer. It used to be an event to roll over a 5-digit odometer. Now, 250K miles is just getting broken in.
Sure, competing platforms will be differentiated by their userbase, unless they're offering very favorable terms or paying for exclusivity. It's not like one platform is going to be all that different from the next. What reason is behind TikTok's rapid rise?
I also wonder if this could apply to robocalls and phone companies.
They're wild viruses, but we've given them the perfect environment to mutate: massive populations of animals packed as closely together as possible.

It's no coincidence this is happening now. We've tripled poultry production over the last 30 years and intensified its production. This allows viruses to evolve in ways that would be incredibly difficult in wild populations.

It was only a matter of time until something like this happened.
The example showing two linked together for 500w was interesting. This would allow more compact or oddly shaped desktops.
That's really just a guide for mechanics to figure out what to charge, it's a fixed fee deal with the estimated man hours on the invoice for reference purposes. You could call them work units or story points and arrive at the same number.
How many people fix their psu vs eWaste when they stop working, which is usually 5+ years after they were made, unless they were made with unusually poor components or design?

I don't necessarily need a smaller power supply, but options are nice.
The fact it is philosophical does not make it irrelevant to physics. As such to point out the distinction here does little work. I.e. What QM interpenetration do you support and why are the others unendorseable?
$145 is pretty steep, and I'd like to see the Vpp (also called ripple) before considering this. I currently use picoPSU (ASIN B005TWE5E6), 50W and 80W versions to power 7th and 8th gen atoms and celerons. I use a "UPS" style 12VDC PSU connected to a fairly large sealed lead acid battery - about 4x the volume of a standard UPS battery. As far as my measurements go with the induced noise from the PSU for radio reception work, it seems to work pretty good. I've looked at using SBCs instead, but you're never really going to get away from buck/boost on boards, since some things need 3.3 or less volts (memory, etc). The picoPSU also have survived for years up in elevator attics with all of the machinery and dust. never had an outage caused by the picoPSU or the attached 12V UPS stuff.

I wonder if it is possible to run more than one board off the same PSU. I know you can run a board off multiple PSUs, but is the inverse true? If i ever get a new batch of these 25W TDP computers racked, having 2 of these connected to two UPS and 6 computers might be cool. It's just the ATX connector that needs population, i use NVME whenever possible, no GPU, no cards, just USB and ethernet onboard.
I have a ravpower, a hyper, and just bought the new ugreen. The ugreen is too new to judge, but the others have ran for over two years, and a good amount of that time has been outdoors in the sun.

I constantly expect failures. This seems like an absurd task I'm putting them up to. But they are all still alive & doing the job.

I've had a kill-a-watt so I can see their power consumption. A large amount of their life is spent ~60 watts, but there's definitely hours on end & heavy usage days, where they go up to or stay at 90+.

My anecdotal data looks different than yours.
I just checked, and this method is still syntactically valid (though not recommended style) in...

C

Javascript (Node)

Python

Perl

Ruby

Rust

The strings did end up in my Python 2.7 .pyc bytecode, though not in my C or Rust binaries.

My intuition was that this would work in most of these languages, but not all. For example, I thought Rust would probably complain about a value being unused.

There's no such thing in general as an expression as a complete command in shell scripting, but there is a silly way to write comments as

: comment

instead of the normal

# comment

where : is a shell builtin equivalent of the "true" program, and anything otherwise syntactically valid on the line after it will be treated as command-line arguments to that builtin.
Practical designs of this sort of system don't use anything that concentrated - the idea is to build receiver arrays over farmland, since the microwave receivers are really just an array of towers with loops of wire suspended from them. The on-the-ground RF intensity even in the middle of the rectenna would be low - not "advisable to stay in low" but you wouldn't suffer any ill-effects if you strayed in there accidentally for a while while.
Internet drama in Canada
"Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that they should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness. It can be considered as a version of utilitarianism that gives greater priority to reducing suffering (negative utility or 'disutility') than to increasing pleasure (positive utility). This differs from classical utilitarianism, which does not claim that reducing suffering is intrinsically more important than increasing happiness."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism
Here's a much simpler way to get the same distribution (in JavaScript syntax):

var radius1 = Math.max(Math.random(), Math.random());
var radius2 = Math.sqrt(Math.random());

Basically taking the maximum of two uniformly distributed random variables is the same as taking the square root of one of them in terms of their distributions.

Whether taking the max of two variables is cheaper than the square-root of one depends on implementation details, I guess?

You can also re-use the random variable that the max 'tossed' away by scaling it.
Why couldn't they go in through a window? Why not breach the door with battering rams? How much backup do multiple cops armed with handguns need against one guy with a rifle?

Being outgunned is not an excuse. They signed up for a dangerous job (isn't that the justification we hear all the time when discussing wrongful police shootings?), and they ought to do it when called upon, even at grave personal risk. Charge the gunman with bare hands if you need to. It's easy for me to say because I don't think I'd ever do it. But that's also why I would never try to become a cop.
Awesome! I've got about a hundred server power supplies that need fixing, what do you charge?
I'm currently reading "Idoru" for the first time and it feels contemporary. Much of Gibson's work is no longer science-fiction.
The capital being invested has already been taxed at the source.

Capital gains shouldn’t even be taxed. I earned it, paid taxes on it; what I do with it beyond that is no one’s business. I’m the one taking the risk yet the government benefits if that risk pays off but doesn’t compensate me if it doesn’t.
I would start by taking the answers given here with a hefty portion of salt.

It is fairly shameful to answer this question with authority, so largely you are selecting for shamelessness among the answerers. I am revealing my own shamelessness then, now, by answering you.

To start with, the main thing that is required for my process is an emotional investment. This isn't dispassionate analysis. Truly critical thought requires, in my experience, a strong fear of being wrong. I do not believe there is a shortcut to this. Fear is a powerful motivator, and if you are not afraid of being wrong, then why do you care at all?

The fear drives an internal adversary that tries to find flaws in all encountered beliefs. Preempting the arguments that could be used against you if you were to hold them. So afraid are you then of being wrong, that you will change your mind. You will do this even if it means you will disagree with people you don't want to disagree with. You will fear being wrong more than not agreeing with them.

This fear should be relentless, but it does not have to be unpleasant, and by submitting to it completely, you can gain true confidence in your beliefs. The adversarial process does not always converge upon the truth, but it does at least converge on something that is hard to refute.

I have one more piece of advice, but I'm not sure how applicable it is to everyone. There is no such thing as true or false for beliefs. Or rather, you should not act as if there is. Whether a belief is true or false is one of the less usefull things about it. Instead, you should consider beliefs as resting on top of each other, in a sort of jenga tower. Since you have committed to potentially changing your mind about anything, it is far more important to keep track of why you believe things, than that you believe them. If you then do change your mind, you can be less wrong in a lot of other ways for free just by letting the jenga tower above it fall down.
> It is a wealth-sharing problem as well. I don't know much about stripe, but think of Bezos as a pretty good example - to a O(n) rounding he has 100 billion dollars and 1 million employees. Why is he getting 100,000 from each employee?

I used to work for Amazon. I did not give Jeff Bezos $100,000. In fact, I actually made money out of the deal.
The law changed to prohibit the sale of used converters for installation or the installation of used on a different car, but I can still buy a new one and install it in my driveway if I want. (You might have a law in your state to prevent that, I guess.)
> you are not representative of the average YouTube user.

Yeah, probably not, as I never visit the site except through links or if I need a how-to-repair video. There's no reason people can't consume video through torrent or other p2p tech though. Webtorrents, peertube, etc are relatively mainstream and completely painless to use. There also exist torrent clients on Android for maaany years.
Although SciPy retains an alias for compatibility, the preferred name has changed: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924
It’s not used to generate foresight, it’s used for parallel construction and reverse targeting.
Btw, the following two are equivalent (in JavaScript syntax):

var a = Math.max(Math.random(), Math.random());
var b = Math.sqrt(Math.random());
Jeff Bezos isn't the CEO of Amazon anymore.
Every mutual fund prospectus I read tells me that past performance is no guarantee of future performance.
Politics and the Price Level
> I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes. The current hardware is more than enough for any consumer applications I can think of.

Electron says, "Hold my beer!"

I would love to see lower software requirements, more long lived systems, etc.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is obsoleting... basically the last decade+ of hardware for Windows 11. It's an uphill fight.
> The wave function is not a description of anything physical. The domain of the wave function is not physical space, it is configuration space. This is the reason entanglement seems weird to us, because we live in physical space and the wave function does not.

This is circular: you're assuming that realism about the wave function is incorrect to argue against the (tragically misnamed) many-worlds interpretation, but the only substantive claim the MWI makes is that realism about the wave function is true.
Shell scripts should be written to be clear first
well normal money, but in a revolutionary form factor.
metal coin usd -> paper usd -> crypto usd

Smaller jump then gold -> usd -> btc which actually means changing the global reserve currency.

If you think about it didn't the U.S. government did a similar thing by gold. USD was pegged to gold initially, then they changed it.
endocrine disruptors, possibly
Twilio but for accepting payments. Mostly for a bunch of DTC and subscription businesses that are not getting another round of VC funding
ha, I honestly have no idea. I know very little about birds. I just drown my fb out with bird and mushroom groups so at least if I waste time on there I'll learn something or at least look at pictures of nature.
That’s still very much a booming business, unfortunately.
You might need to install a downstream O2 sensor simulator to prevent an OBD2 failure to verify function of the (now missing) converter, but those are readily available for off-road use as I’m sure would be your application. ;)
Huh, interesting. It gets POS tagging correct in a few edge cases I've used to test other frameworks.

Bookmarked!
This brought me back to college and me learning about steganography. I wonder how many images are floating around with secret messages in them! Also reminds me of people who immortalized themselves by putting their initials or a favorite phrase in the header of a file format that got popular (like Mike did at Microsoft for .exe's; every exe header starts with MZ, which is really friggin cool)

Or the "Don't Steal MacOS.kext" that was used to prevent Hackintoshes from booting if it was messed with