skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electronic services of the United Russia party were subjected to DDoS attacks
I'm assuming you're using a UBlox M8 or F9P or something similar? Most of the built units have a small battery or supercap that allows them to retain almanac and ephemeris data while powered off. If the ephemeris data is less than 4 hours old this will allow it to very quickly re-sync to the visible SVs and get a lock again.

It's quite impressive, though, at how the hardware has improved. For a complete cold start one of the challenging issues is to actually find a single satellite to listen to. For GPS there's 32 different spreading codes and each transmitted signal is affected by Doppler shift depending on its position and velocity relative to where you are on the Earth. You basically have to iterate through (spreading code, Doppler shift) pairs and run a correlator to see if there's a signal present. Contemporary hardware has a ton of correlators that can run in parallel which can significantly improve the TTFF (time to first fix). As soon as you find one SV and start to get a bit of almanac data you can quickly eliminate (spreading, Doppler) options from the problem space by dropping SVs that you know are not going to be visible.
Its Managers all the way down...
All those in my opinion are dad tv. Dads with kids 2-10 in my office love those shows
That’s true. Look at organized religion: it may provide a survival advantage, even when it’s based on false beliefs.

However, murder can also be fruitful for some people, but I think we’d still call it dysfunctional.
> I found this article inspiring because of the hopeful message of influencing reality [...] your life experience could give you excellent reasons to have these beliefs and they could serve you well, but I don't have the lens to see it immediately.

>> Filling that void by becoming that icon is how most con artists operate, and great artists steal.

We have too many con artists in this world and I feel like this article is encouraging people to ignore rational thought. I'm not going to take anyone as a leader. That's for the ignorant and insecure. We should all lead ourselves. Ideas are more important than people. Just because I agree with a few things someone says doesn't mean I'm going to let them walk all over me.
The initial part of the article seems to imply this would be used by a large group of people, but then later clarifies it's for a person or two at the church, meaning it's essentially selling marketing info.

Is this different than how churches already find my name to send me targeted mailers or just a specialized version of an existing business?
Atomically exchange vfat files in Linux
It's not actually unreadable - you just have to learn convention on top of the Nix language. For instance, what mkDerivation does. Actually, the Nix language usage here is somewhat minimal. Mostly let bindings (aka lambda calculus).

I wouldn't expect a layman to be able to grok that file. That's fine though - it's not for laymen.
Agreed lasso is peak dad tv. Also season 3 is crap so it might be done
Hard disagree. I've been doing this for 35+ years and pure async communication is the worst. A blend is the best, but you need sync to accelerate things.
I have a watch that I don't connect to my phone that gets GPS signal and lat lon and it works better than you describe. You made general claims despite your situation being specific to you - intentional or not, that's FUD.
I’ve written and self published a few small books, including Publish Your eBook. Maybe we should create an author collaborative where we make our books available to libraries either free or at a more reasonable price. There must be a handful of authors who would be willing to do this and who own enough rights to do so. It sounds like even a few books would help libraries bolster their collections.

1. Publish Your eBook by Joel Dare
https://amzn.to/49WjVrn
I thought JavaScript becoming the de-facto standard language for the web even on the back-end had already proven that.
This is naturally happening in all languages, but there’s a big difference between widely accepted new norm and a jargon invented by a small group of people who didn’t bother to think enough.
My comment is based on my experience with reading this book, which explains the narrative quite well.

But I accept that people are biased and won't listen by default. Good luck USA.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong
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I would have been shocked if Snapdragon had suddenly beaten Apple silicon because it would necessitate such a huge increase in performance, that it's nearly impossible.
Their marketing emails and their strategy of rotating networks and spamming services that they use were my reason to maintain my own blocklist for postfix [1]

I have zero tolerance for scraped email spam, and every single entry in that blocklist doesn't do shit when you send a complaint on their abuse@ email.

If you host your own email server, this tool/repo allows to generate ready-to-use blocklists for postfix and dovecot.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/postfix-spamdb
Dark matter is a proposed explanation for an observation, that's all. All these other theories (MOND, etc) are also kludges. Nobody has a satisfactory explanation for galaxy rotation speeds, yet.
Yeah, to me it feels like a step change to a new level, followed by a lot of exploration of that new level. It feels like there's lots of exploring left to do, but we're not going to reach "magic box that turns English into flawless programs" on the current level.

Speaking just to programming, yes there's probably lots of AI-generated code in the training data now. But the generation of that code was guided by, and (presumably) confirmed to be working by, a human. So it's been filtered.

I suspect that AI-and-human produces better code than human, on average. I know that if I throw any twenty lines of my code into it, it can usually suggest some improvement, even if it's just a variable name.
Who will strike first Russia or China? Both are building up and will eventually move. Russia is drawing down at the same time so they seem unlikely to launch a big campaign. At worst they might reoccupy some former Soviet territories
I think that under the doctrine of hot pursuit, once a suspected crime has been committed, as long as the police are able to visually identify the suspect they're allowed to cross jurisdictions.
Apps are bloated like crazy now so Android needs that much just to keep a couple open.
> While a definitive cause for the condition hasn't been identified, studies have increasingly suggested that the condition is caused by a combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure to things like pesticides and heavy metals.
Ambiguity in requirements is where the majority of bugs come from now. So I don't think AI would improve things.
Yep, exactly. And a mobile phone has an internet connection, which means that it always has an up-to-date ephemeris.
> Yeah, sure, 5G gives you Covid. That was a fun one to unpack the first time...

Asking out of curiosity rather than cynicism - did you actually encounter that one in the wild? Where? I've never met anyone who believed that, despite the remarkable amount of effort that seems to go in to debunking it.
sounds like unfamiliarity. OCaml isn't a language a layman can read without prerequisites.
Not to distract from your main point, but I wonder how other employer costs (payroll taxes, insurance and other benefits, etc.) vary between the two countries.

That could affect the 3.5x number.
What's still weird for me is Bluetooth audio hardware. After hours of working perfectly it gets choppy or jittery or it sounds like a second layer of hiss where intensity follows the volume of the audio. It's either restart the audio stack or the OS. I can't find a cause.

Also on my last Fedora install on an HP EliteBook some random PC speaker alarm would sound and I couldn't for the life of me find the perp.

Yes, Apple's walled garden is pedantic as hell, but the main UI stuff just works.
I can disagree. I work as a sysadmin/ database admin for a large church. A large portion of the congregation consists of engineers, lawyers, doctors, etc. Granted this is a famously upper-class WASP denomination, but it's a solid spread for a congregation of this size, as I understand.

These people are quite technologically capable, they reach out on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and others and they have no issues. All our reading materials are digital as well, accessible through QR codes.

All this being said, I can't wait to get out!
I quite like the hobbit calendar. 12 months of 30 days each, plus 5 (or 6) extra days that don't belong to a month and are celebration days. Mid-year day and the leap day don't have a day of the week, so each date always is the same day of the week.

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Shire_Calendar
Also 802.11ac gets me 400mbps or so down/up on my phone, I can't imagine why I would need faster than that. Even offloading 4k videos is perfectly fast enough.
You complain about the documentation, and the first thing I wonder is if you’ve tried using one of the prominent chatbots like chatgpt or claude to help fill in the gaps of said documentation? Maybe an obvious thing to do around here, but I’ve found they help fill in documentation gaps really well. At the same time Nix is so niche there might not have been enough information out there to feed into even chatgpt’s model…
And without unified memory I assume, and probably smaller caches.
Somewhat unrelated but is SQLTools still the best plugin for SQL in VSCode. Wish there was something better.
On windows for ARM there are quite a few bugs during emulation that I don’t get on an x64 based system, even while using effectively the same settings for the program. Software using custom installers will be the biggest issue, and this is significantly more common on windows than on macOS
It all depends of course, but I tend to disagree.

A requirement such as "A web interface to play the game of chess, but with all the pieces replaced by photos of my family members" is fairly adequate if I were to make a Christmas family game.

I am totally uninterested in specifying whether it is possible to have two white bishops on black squares. Also, I don't want to test whether my uncle's moustache is the proper size.

I'd much prefer to iteratively build the game by prompting than by specifying thousands of details. It just seems the wrong way around.
I don't think there's much System76 can do if the ARM SOC vendors aren't willing to cooperate by openly releasing code and documentation for their parts.
This!

Whenever people get a hard on for biometrics I tell them exactly that.

No I don't want to loose a finger. I'd rather just give them my password.
But how many experts do you need? Most dev jobs are mostly repetitive plumbing and those might disappear very fast because 1 dev + LLM >= 5 devs without. So what we'll see is an increase in company margins and an elimination of a large swathe of the middle class.

The alternative theory is that if everyone can now quickly create systems multiple companies and competing products will pop off which will drive down the margins instead but creating a compelling product requires much more than just software engineering skills.

Either way this doesn't look great for devs, especially the ones that are entering the workforce now or will be in the nearest future.
ALS increases in men who have money and hobbies. Wtf study is that? Stinks of 3rd factor problem
I found the idea pleasant, but not in actuality. So maybe it's an acquired taste? Haha
The title is a bit sensationalized but it is the title for the linked article.

- Participation in certain hobbies and avocational activities alters ALS risk.

- Avocational activities should be included in ALS exposome studies.

- Certain exercise, hobbies, and avocational ALS risk factors are sex-specific.

https://www.jns-journal.com/article/S0022-510X(24)00034-0/ab...
A good place to start might be in mandating some level of media literacy in the national curriculum.

Media Studies tends to be a bit of a meme but it’s becoming increasingly important.
>The world of the empire in the 9 films seems orderly and well orchestrated

I'm curious what you mean by this, since we don't actually see a whole lot of the civilian day-to-day running of the Empire. In the original trilogy, the only planets we see have little to no Empire presence, and the prequel and sequel trilogies take place before and after the Empire respectively.
Where are you seeing that Claude 3 scored 85%? That would be a massive jump
> This is backward.

How so? Your comment refutes something I didn't say. I said that Uber is blaming the law for their own decision to pull out of that market and that this is an intentional/manipulative decision on their part, which seems not to disagree with your comment.

> The real solution is to create an environment where companies compete to get workers.

This will remain impossible while there are far more workers than jobs (that they can work). Every job I apply to already has hundreds of other applicants. I can't get in anywhere, so I have to apply everywhere. Everyone else also does this. Workers have to compete for jobs & employers routinely fuck you over because they know they have leverage.

While it would sure be nice if jobs had to compete for me instead, I need to live today so I need money today and this "healthy low employment environment" will never exist. I have to take the first job I get an offer from because it might be my only job opportunity for years.
I'm a software and product guy; what I don't get, is how we're going to replace us lowly engineers and not a substantial percentage of a company's Human stack.

Close to engineering, what about the SCRUM masters? The testers. What about the product owners? What about devops? Further from us, what about the people signing up on our vacation? Or the ones signing up on our daily budgets when traveling, or hell, even the ones we interview with.

In my closest group of friends (we're all seniors in our domains, and very honest with eachother), I find that only the construction worker's job should be safe. And compared to myself and the devops guy, most others have what they themselves describe as trivial and bullshit jobs. Join a meeting, do some paper pushing, some document signing, a little coffee and the day is over by 1PM.

Am I seeing all these AIs replacing programming because I'm on a board where maybe a lot of us are programmers? Is it the same for other roles? Wouldn't it make more sense to have the interview process automated by LLMs if they're capable of building great software, before we replace those hired?

I'm very confused by all the hype when matched with my experience of using LLMs daily for the past years.
> Delusional thinking is a dysfunctional process almost by definition, since it produces invalid conclusions.

His point is that delusional thinking is _normal_ and almost all people have deeply held delusions of one kind or another. There is nothing about _any particular delusion_ which implies some kind of disorder, which implies the person lacks agency or any ability to be talked out of them.

I think that is different that saying that there is no disorder which can give rise to delusions, only that having some particular delusional belief does not imply that you have such a disorder, necessarily.
> Worst case buying it at my expense

Please don't ever spend your own money on stuff for a business you have no ownership of

This is absolutely not a behavior we should encourage or normalize
I did nothing, I'm not parent.

Is that watch de-googled, running only with FOSS software, without a proprietary location service? How it the AGPS system mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725522 working, who provides the data? Was it stale?

If you can't answer that or if it's backed by (recently acquired) proprietary data, then you just do not know how GPS behaves in the scenario we are talking about.
I agree that English as lingua franca of computing makes sense, especially when communicating with non-(German)-native speakers. But one important reason why German is no longer viable for this is the terrible state of translation from English to German. Instead of using the "established" German terms, English terms are usually translated word-by-word to German without context, either by machine translation, or bad human translators who don't have a technological background (for instance for a long time, "link time code generation" was called "Link Zeitcode Generierung" in MSVC's German documentation, which doesn't have anything to do with LTCG even though it is correct German and a (mostly) correct word-by-word translation of the English term).

And instead of this butchering of the fine German engineering language, just switching to English is indeed the better alternative (and less painful).

My favourite trivia btw is that the 'else' in 'if-else' is a "bad" translation from German into English ;) (https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el...)
I think it’s worth putting the scary-sounding 300% into context: the CDC says prevalence is 9/100,000. Even tripled, it is a very unlikely outcome for a given man. Which means I’m probably not going to give up woodworking over this (however I will redouble my existing efforts on dust collection).
I used .co.nr alongside .tk for a while, before moving to .co.cc, and then finally managing a way to buy my domain.
It's bugging me for a long time now. Is tesseract actually the state-of-the-art solution here?

I just really don't know, it feels like it's, uh, subpar. Isn't it? I never seriously worked in that domain, but it somehow felt to me in the 2019, that with all recent advancements in computer vision, text recognition must be essentially a solved problem. I'd expect it to be better than human. Yet I still cannot accurately convert a low-res scan (scan! not even a photo!) of a receipt with tesseract, especially if it isn't in English. Maybe I just cannot properly use it?
If you're wondering how in the hell woodworking exposes you to formaldehyde, the answer is that it's in some glues.

In particular: urea-formaldehyde glued are used in the manufacture of sheet goods: plywood, OSB, MDF, etc. UF glue is also used in some veneer and lamination work because it gives a hard glue line (unlike yellow wood glues). That reduces springback on bent lamination work.

I believe it also has a longer open time than most other adhesives used in woodworking. A long open time is really nice if you're doing bent lamination.

My go-to is liquid hide glue for bent lam and veneer work. It also has a pretty hard glue line and a better open time than hot hide glue, though likely worse than something specifically formulated for a long open time. It's a tradeoff.
The exact code written won't compile but it gets the idea across - the original claim from the blog post was just false as far as I can tell. We can't in fact be sure that no allocation took place just because we didn't provide an allocator. It's a convention at most, probably for code that's written by Zig programmers who prefer this style, it's true but you could say the same about any convention for any language.
Peronal Journal Hosted with RAG based LLMs
I wonder why the snapdragon does only slightly increase in compute power even tho they nearly triple the power consumption, or am I reading the charts in the source (linked on page) [0] wrong?

https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-unveils-more-snapdragon-x-elit...
This happens in the movie Crimes of the future...
Yeah, not holding my breath for a Vision Pro II to see the light of day.
It's also possible that the developer who quoted $400k was probing the current market rate for his/her skills.

When I was laid off almost a year ago, it wasn't clear how much of a pay hit I'd need to take to get a job in the new market conditions.
The Qualcomm has 12 high performance cores. The Apple one has 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores that deliver 1/3 to 1/2 the performance. The Apple M3 Max had 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, but that’s also a lot more expensive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valveless
Maybe the advertising company believed vibes were more important, or maybe they had focus group claim so, or figured you needed lots of smiley vibes to deal with local population being NIMBY about possibility of barely seeing a wind farm from the famous beach resort New York /s

Or maybe the advertising was just crap which is why American investments failure hangs over recent firings.
> For no reason other than people don't want to.

You're living in complete fantasy land. There are many reasons people find it hard to make payments in crypto, other than "just don't want to".

Again, I'm reiterating the point that artists need to eat food to live, and artists would be happy to set up payments in crypto, if that would lead to them gaining access to food. But it wouldn't, so they won't.

> You can look at the code. It's like 50 lines. It is logically trivial

Ah yes, the thing I always love to do before purchasing a naughty comic book: code reviews! I just love to read the code that verifies that my $2 purchase of a comic book. I love sweating nervously and verifying that clicking this button will not have unforeseen consequences, such as one where I lose my house because I missed something in code review. wHy dOEsNT evERyONe jUSt uSE crYPtO
looks like thats what OP wants on his walks
That's fantastic and I agree with it, my initial view of the article was individualistic e g I don't have to second guess my own beliefs as unsound but rather trust my intuition and blaze a trail. Your view is more external and collective i e someone else imposing their world on yours, and you don't want to trust and assimilate into epistemically unsound systems of thought which is completely reasonable. Perhaps you can lead yourself with even more confidence using this idea, meaning that unrigorous beliefs can still be fruitful and behaviourally beneficial, perhaps amplifying the speed and intensity of thought in your life allowing a slightly higher "delusion"-ratio. An epistemically sound suggestion, or another con artist imposing their will on you, you decide haha :)
Operating systems with lots of background tasks and threads.
How did you recognize that it was sleep apnea? Have you snored at night?