skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you define as 'traditional': basically if you want positioning information via GNSS, the techniques for getting a better reading a fairly well understood, and it doesn't really matter how good your satellites are, the atmospheric distortion is the issue and you need to model and compensate for it by measuring it with a near-enough base station, using multiple frequencies and constellations, and if you're moving, an IMU to constrain your motion over as long a period as you can to effectively average out the other noise sources. Half a centimeter, given all of the above, is better than what I've seen quoted in the space, but not utterly crazily so.
Antiphrasis, actually.
> Why do they need to give that products for free to everyone, or even their competitors?

It is "free". Anyone can make an extension using the API features. However they do not allow anyone other than themselves to bring it to market (i.e. the official extension marketplace).
Wow, I hadn't even thought of that for that question. Disgustingly genius. The person administering the test can simply tell the person who took the test the opposite interpretation of however they answered, and that's it for their ability to vote.
I used to write very short programs for the Amiga that would scan through all the pixels on the screen and assign a color to them based on whatever math functions I felt like writing. They took hours, sometimes days to run, but the results were often interesting, sometimes radial gradients, sometimes random noise, sometimes things that looked like musical notes on a random background. Then I'd load a color table and color cycle the resulting image. Sometimes this created movement in the image, sometimes it animated the noise so it looked like old-fashioned TV static. Just did it for fun, only took a few minutes to write the code, and sometimes the results were great. It was often very difficult to predict what the final image would look like, unless I started with a program I'd run before.
That is not my comment, but pdfernhout's.
What do you want out of your junior engineers? What is the actual skill, talent, or trait?

I don't think GPA, take-home assignments plus an interview about them, personality tests, or on-location tests like leetcode or architecture interviews are measuring the same thing. Are you just looking for any means to winnow down the pool of applicants, or is there an underlying ability you're searching for?
> I was being paid like I lived in the Bay Area, but I lived in a much lower cost of living area

I'm a little confused as to why a company would pay bay area rates for remote workers given the higher competition for jobs.
Huh? I'm talking about the US?

ATT, Verizon, and Tmobile are selling many many expensive phones, locked, on 24 momth payment plans, literally hundreds of possible configurations of dozens of models.
Perfect pitch exists completely outside the domain in which temperaments are applicable.

Yes, sometimes we use letters to name notes, and the letters refer to a particular tuning system. But perfect pitch can be applied to any tone in any tuning system. If there's a way of naming the note, someone "with" perfect pitch could use that ability to name the note.

If I invented an 18-tone-geometrically-fumigated scale based on octaves of the golden ratio, someone with perfect pitch could name all 18 of my new notes based on hearing them (after learning my new system). Perfect pitch has no relationship to western music, and certainly doesn't exalt it.

It's can be used on any music with discernible pitches.
Create a spreadsheet to track it yourself. Set a goal and make sure you hit it. If your previous job gave you 6 weeks then set that as your goal now too.
This isn't necessarily true. The scarcity of IPv4 addresses could very well induce a lack of demand and decrease the price. You wouldn't dream of developing a technology that requires people to have an individual IP address, so you don't. This massively reduces the demand for v4 addresses. It's not as if there are users out there who will demand the features you can't implement, and it's not as if you could fund the entire IPv6 network by yourself to bring about those features. Then ISPs have no reason to support v6 because no customers demand it. Instead of increased price, the cost is paid through decreased service. Think of a congested road network. It could be well worth it to build some more roads and ease congestion, but if there is no one in the system willing to pay for it, everyone will suffer.
What if you were told that I've worked for those ad companies, I know all the tricks they use, and I know extremely well how they target me - and I'm still not worried about buying a "smart" TV and using it while not connecting it to the internet.
The sheer unadulterated racism from the past is horrifying and sickening. Sure, we still have work to do, but I'm glad we've come so far in the last few decades.
> The change in clarity of mind and focus were life changing to me.

Feeling smart != being smart. I was once doing a water fast for a week and felt rather enlightened after a few days, like any problem would be easy. Upon trying to churn on some more advanced math proofs and programming stuff, it seemed to actually be harder than it would usually be. In fact I quickly decided that my time would be better spent walking around outside in the woods.

Fasting isn't really the same as keto of course. But I wonder if there are actual studies proving an increase in problem solving skills during something like a ketogenic diet or similar.
That Pew Alabama poll you are likely referring to is absolutely ridiculous:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/databa...

There is a world of difference between (a) a 10 year old child being raped and needing an abortion, (b) woman who will die if she gives birth and (c) woman getting an abortion the day before the baby is due simply because she feels like it.

And yet the poll lumps all of those together. Such a complex issue needs far more nuance.
That’s super helpful - so basically what other deals are going on in the market and how they’re being structured?

Which makes sense - seems like Perplexity will always cater towards your average retail investor, there’s just too much complexity and cost to acquiring the type of data a professional cares about. Seems like that will need a to be its own platform.
> OSS is the foundation of our cloud layers but not amazing for desktop loads.

That's news to those of us who have been using it for... check's watch... 25 years on the desktop.
I have unlimited and I set myself a goal for 25 days a year, which I usually hit, not including company holidays (~11).
And the person who answered wrote the last two words such that they're not "on the line provided", so regardless of which phrase they're supposed to write, they got the question wrong.

Assuming they did write the correct thing, and assuming the test administrator would be unusually generous about the placement of the words, they still got it wrong: they left off the colon at the end.
I haven't done a deep-dive on this subject, but it appears adolescents under 15 are 0.2% of US abortions according to the CDC.[1] So raped children needing medical interventions is some sub-fraction of 0.2%, which is less than 1,200 abortion across the entire country. It seems like such an extreme edge case that it is highly irrational to tar the adults of the entire state of Alabama as "garbage people" over these highly irregular scenarios.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm
just for the sake of conversation…

if you did, where would you have set them up at anyway?
Asking for a friend
The story that was going around on social media (which I only know because Claude refused to translate it sometimes) was that a particular developer was modifying weights in other developers models and crashing their training runs so that the developers own work looked better in comparison.

https://twitter.com/YouJiacheng/status/1847420973580243092
I'd love to hear about 2cm accuracy uncorrected. Does it have dual GPS units?
A Small Language Model...
Kind of like modern App Store review. Google must have employed some history majors
It goes way back to when some 700 MHz LTE spectrum was auctioned off in 2007. Before the auction and before the FCC finalized the rules that would apply to the spectrum the FCC commissioners were circulating drafts of rules they were considering. One of the drafts was proposing open access rules.

Google wrote to the FCC and made a binding commitment to bid at least $4.3 billion if the final rules included certain open access rules. The FCC then included those rules, thus guaranteeing they would get at least $4.3 billion.

Verizon outbid Google and so got that spectrum along with those open access requirements, which included no SIM locking.

In 2018 Verizon, citing fraud concerns, asked the FCC to relax the no locking rule. The FCC agreed, allowing a 60 day lock.
I’ve also done this with hash… though given the footguns scattered about, I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke the spec.
In addition to the Dracula's Guest short story, I actually liked quite a few of the other stories in the book Dracula's Guest.

By the way, for anyone who is thinking of reading Dracula's Guest, it is likely it was intended as a first chapter of Dracula, but was cut.
Thanks for the info. I haven't looked at this in a while. I'll take another look!
In the 80s, 90s, and 00s, he was mostly known for his work on shyness and anxiety. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672266.Shyness
Yea, it’s pretty weird. There’s no technical reason for it, merely a legal one.
Appreciate the feedback. For some reason I feel like I dismissed this as an option at one point, but that was long ago. I'll take another look!
> Arkansas isn't so bad because I can drive 300 miles to a different state if I need medical care

Would just add that Republican lawmakers are trying to ban you doing this:

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/in-print/volum...

For example, Idaho became the first state to outlaw “abortion trafficking,” which it defined as “recruiting, harboring or transporting” a pregnant minor to get an abortion or abortion medication without parental permission. Which is obviously a problem if your parent raped you.
You still need to open a port for WireGuard. And you may be forwarding that open port if your gateway device doesn’t handle the vpn termination.
What's even worse about this is this test wasn't given to everyone who wanted to vote, only those who gained their right to vote after the civil war.

White people were "grandfathered" in, literally.
To everyone talking about EEE, what can they extinguish here, code editors?

If they get too annoying, like really forcing copilot or something like that, there are several other editors to choose from. Until this day comes I'm having a positive experience with VSC.
More blatant Clickbait garbage by the unreadable Ars Technica.

No, the carriers did not say anything of the sort - they said locking the phones keeps the price of handsets low, and that customers like cheap handsets.
I think passive surveillance with cameras in areas that are vulnerable to crossings but far less likely than other areas where we might want a stronger presence is extremely reasonable.

Without them you have massive blind spots which can be taken advantage of as soon as people realize that attempting illegal entry through the easier areas which are being monitored is likely to result in failure but there are locations which aren't being monitored in any way. The expected response to making it harder for people to cross illegally in one area is that they will try another place to do it.

Keeping an eye on those areas in the most cost effective way possible is the ideal. Keep in mind that the people illegally crossing today are mostly looking for higher paying work and citizenship for their children. Still they've already demonstrated that they can be very determined. The people crossing illegally tomorrow will be much more desperate and looking to survive. Intentionally leaving yourself blind to huge areas to save a few bucks on cameras is basically setting out a welcome mat.
After skimming the article, I found it unconvincing. It feels poorly structured, almost like something a high school student might put together for a monograph. The references seem to be there to add a sense of authority, but they lack clarity. Who exactly is the article referring to? Is it talking about all human beings, specific types of people like artists, or perhaps Einstein when he was daydreaming?

There are plenty of successful people who possess this trait the article critiques, which makes me wonder if one strong counterexample is enough to challenge the entire premise. In my view, the argument lacks depth and fails to consider broader, real-world examples.
Why not?

Seems to me that IBM is trying to differentiate their AI from others by offering a complete solution that can be self-hosted.

The part that cannot be produced locally, the core model, IBM publishes the inputs and indemnifies. From there, IBM and RedHat provide a holistic solution for fine-tuning, pipelines, and a platform to run on (RHEL AI and OpenShift) that endeavors to "just work."

The fine-tunning tool can be used on any model from Huggingface. So could the pipeline tooling. IBM is saying that they are trying to build core models that are more friendly to fine-tuning. Smaller, faster, and more focused.

They are not trying to be OpenAI or Anthropic, but the IBM models could be a really nice fit for many applications.
It reminds me of the Simpsons episode with the spelling bee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sn5wyBDxn4

> "Your word is 'weather'."

> "Which one? Can you use it in a sentence?"

> "Certainly! 'I don't know whether the weather will improve.'"

(obviously the joke doesn't work as well written out)
Question 29 is particularly cruel - even if someone somehow managed to provide "good" answers for the preceding 28 questions within ten minutes, then they were surely almost out of time, and just parsing that sentence took me about four readings.
As an American that went to Cuba for tourism during the Obama years, let me say, once you go to Cuba once you’ll decidedly go somewhere else after.
I see a language that compiles to JS. What makes this a superset of Typescript? Are there more types? A more powerful type system?
The time dilation at the event horizon is infinite for an external observer. It appears that the person falling into the black hole slows down and never passes the event horizon. They redshift until you can't see them anymore.

For the unfortunate person falling into the black hole, there is nothing special about the event horizon. The spacetime they experience is rotated (with respect to the external observer) in such a way that their "future" points toward the black hole.

In a very real sense, for external observers there isn't really an interior of the black hole. That "inside" spacetime is warped so much that it exists more in "the future" than the present.

Professor Brian Cox also says that from a string theory perspective there isn't really an inside of a black hole, it's just missing spacetime. I tried to find a reference for this but I couldn't find one. Perhaps in his book about black holes.

I'm no physicist so happy to be corrected on any of the above!
Whew, I was getting nervous. A place I worked at had a developer implement Triple AES. I'd hate for them to have to refactor it.
All the money being spent on enforcement is being wasted, if the alternative is just to raise general taxes by the same amount and fund it from that.

So yes, of course there is absolutely money being wasted in this comparison.
It's possible. It was designed to be. It was used because southern Blacks actually did have a lower literacy rate than Whites at the time and this was seen as the most expedient "filter" they could create.

The real racism was in all the ways to bypass the test. Grandfather clauses, land ownership clauses, "demonstrated understanding" options. Most White people challenged by the test wouldn't ever need to actually confront it.

These weren't the only requirements either. You had to be of "good character" and "understand the duties and obligations of citizenship under a republican form of government" and to be able to "read _and_ write."

Finally even if you were Black and managed all of this it wasn't at all a guarantee that your registration or vote would be accepted. Sometimes this understanding would be communicated in an act of violence.

The test is a tiny archival curiosity created by a much more overt system.
My ability to focus deeper and for a longer period of time increased substantially - I'm afraid my IQ is still the same ;)
In a similar vein, linked are math questions Russian universities would give to Jewish students to filter them out in entrance exams.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
It's not possible. Several of the questions have multiple valid answers. It's pretty obvious what the scheme is.
If you can convince the other people who own the building to upgrade to a standing seam metal roof in the future, that should avoid repair needs for most original owner lifetimes.
I mean whose going to report the company?

Probably need to give the first person to report a company (that is then successfully prosecuted) some reward like citizenship.
No, we are not disagreeing on whether it constitutes the root problem.

What I am saying is that there’s nuance to the mechanics of the problem that are important to acknowledge when forming an effective solution; and you’re just repeating yourself with no acknowledgement of the nuance and an appeal to the masses.
my answer is "no"
all beuaucracies are in the business of divying up
nature for exploitation in one way or another and with an expanding population getting more per human per day,the beureaucrats, not wanting less themselves will happily create another layer of government that then can get churning up some more
policy that the failure to impliment can be layed
on the alter or budgetary realities
> getting the free phone as part of a 24/36 month agreement ended up being cheaper than many alternatives

This is generally strictly true, but most people don't move on to the next deal once they've paid off their device, and end up paying more than they would have had they bought the device outright, device+plan cost considered.
Note: there are questions about this test's authenticity. Per a note on https://www.crmvet.org/info/la-test.htm:

> [NOTE: At one time we also displayed a "brain-twister" type literacy test with questions like "Spell backwards, forwards" that may (or may not) have been used during the summer of 1964 in Tangipahoa Parish (and possibly elsewhere) in Louisiana. We removed it because we could not corroborate its authenticity, and in any case it was not representative of the Louisiana tests in broad use during the 1950s and '60s.]

Each parish in Louisiana implemented their own literacy tests, which means that there wasn't really much uniformity in the process. Another (maybe more typical) test: https://www.crmvet.org/info/la-littest2.pdf
If you don’t want to be upset, don’t take the test.

If you take the test, and they didn’t show you the results per your suggestion, then wouldn’t you know that you have a hearing problem if the quality of music/etc. significantly improved through your AirPods anyway?

So what would be the benefit?
Written by someone who (apparently) thinks that a simpler malloc will solve memory safety issues, someone apparently unaware of the dangers of pointers arithmetic, out of bounds indexing/references, uninitialized values, UB, etc.

(Don't misunderstand me, I will happily - and carefully - program in C when I need to, or can, and will claim to be a safe three star programmer (the only time I had to do it, which was recently, I spent a LOT of time making sure it was necessary and safe), but the reason I can write reasonably safe code in C is that I know where (at least some of) the foot guns are - and every time I do something close to the edge, I learn of more limb shredding behaviour. But I am slowly acquiring Rust, and some of my colleagues are much farther along that path. For what we do, some things MUST be done in memory safe languages, and the Rust I've read and written is such a joy compared with the pain I often feel when using a language I have love for (takes out fingers, counts) more than 4 decades. The idea of NOT having to spend hours trying to find that unexpected leak or SEGFAULT is giddy-making.)
Given the size of the booster, what corrections would placing GNSS sensors in multiple places provide to increase positional accuracy?

Eg if you space sensors 20m’s apart.
this is, legitimately and without any exaggeration whatsoever, almost exactly how nearly everyone I speak to IRL as a homeless individual interacts with me. There are a few here and there that absolutely do make an attempt to have real discourse and actually discuss in context, but by an overwhelming majority, most of them just take the (to borrow from a response) SLM approach.

life is exhausting sometimes
> I'm not suggesting you don't do this

I hope this is intentional
Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm
Such is the indiscriminate nature of mad gods.
#8 is wrong, T should be crossed out because it's the first letter of "the alphabet".

#18 is wrong, after the 15 comes 18, so 18 should be written in the blank space.

Bastards.
Some 20 years ago I was doing competitive intelligence on them. After finding the third or fourth affair/divorce/chicanery among executives in a week of digging I asked my veteran boss, like, wtf, why is this company so gross? "It's Bentonville. They recruit cosmopolitan MBAs and the only thing to do is each other."
Does Microsoft have a monopoly (or large enough market share) on text editors?
If that was the case the State would already have arrested him.
> English doesn't have any cap on sentence length

Well, yes and no. Constructing this "infinite" sentence will run into some serious problems once the last star burns out, possibly sooner.
The analogy would be more like a library forcing everyone to swim through a pool in order to read a particular book. And if you complain you have a disability, someone says that the world shouldn't cater to an individual.

The analogy is ridiculous, yes. As it is ridiculous to build such a website that disabled people cannot possibly read. You don't have to make it perfect for them, just don't make it impossible.
The (what very much feels like an) assertion that "If a collision concentrates enough energy in a small enough region, the particles form a black hole" seems very much rabbit out of a hat.

That supposes in particular that general relativity is still a valid theory at these minuscule scales, something that I believe has never been experimentally verified.

If general relativity's equations do not work at the planck scale, we know strictly nothing about black hole formation.
Making a Variable Color Font
A prime example of why "unionization" is good: You only need two people to do this differently and be told the opposite by the administrator (preferably the same one but not necessarily) and you've proved that it's BS.

That's all theory of course and in practice I bet people did talk about this afterwards and figured out it's BS and it didn't help either way. But it's easy to "find out" (and then try to do something about it) if you stick together. But if nobody sticks together on it and tries to do better for themselves by themselves, everyone does worse for themselves in the end.
The industry has deemed those languages completely unnecessary when we migrated away from coffeescript.

Syntactic sugar can’t be the only thing that makes a programming language.
Just make it a web page, not a powerpoint presentation.
But that case can be explicitly ruled. There being no highest speed doesn't mean that there is infinite speed. No edge, no edge case.
Much of the world “gets by” on outdoor toilets, but we put value on indoor plumbing don’t we?