> ‘If America attacks Iran,’ I said, ‘won’t people be killed?’

> ‘They don’t kill people. Our own government does. No enemy in our history has done to us what these clerics have done.’

There is not even the option to call phone lines inside Iran, or call abroad from Iran (not tried direct call, but no VoIP works).

You still can access any server inside Iran ("Internet-e-Melli" or National Internet, they call it), but none of these servers in turn have access to free Internet.

Would love to hear your thoughts if there is a technical way to bypass such restriction (me and my friends, fairly tech savvy, could not find a way).

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You can read the chat here: https://chatgpt.com/share/680a449f-d8dc-8001-88f4-60023323c7...

It took 4.5m to guess the location. The guess was accurate (checked using Google Street View).

What was amazing about it:

    1. The photo did not have ANY text

    2. It picked elements of the image and inferred based on those, like a fountain in a courtyard, or shape of the buildings.

I have friends in faculty positions at well-known universities who were very unhappy about these practices, but could not publicly discuss it fearing repercussion, prior to these events.

TBC, I am not supporting any of the things happening. I do think the DEI thing went too far, but what the new admin. is doing can be much worse.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Jd9GI6XqE&t=4906s

What amazes me is how simple was the fraud (or at least the ones reported by Pete!). They basically just opened an excel file, started from the top, changed some random numbers, until they reached the effect they aimed for!!! Really? What about those that can do more sophisticated data manipulation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621363

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Now anytime I check, it is anything but positive. It's either content creators desperately trying to get your attention, or self-promoting people (whether in your circle or not) trying hard to present a different self. Even the photos from friends often appear to be a highly exaggerated version of reality, to win some sort of popularity contest.

I get part of my early social media experience these days in private chat channels in Telegram and WApp. But almost any time I spend on social media, I regret it.

And the research also suggests the negative impact of these sites is quite common. So it's not just me.

My question is, to what extent you think the current situation of social media is the result of their monetization policies, and to what extent is it the fault of human behaviour?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003336

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I have a set of PDF files, and this week was thinking how I can link them to an LLM and be able to ask questions about them. So this was very timely.

I did a quick side-by-side testing against Nougat, and it clearly works better. On a handful of PDFs I tested, Marker extracted considerably more text (the text did not have any math, just academic papers), finished the job faster, and did not crash on any pdf, while Nougat took a lot longer to finish, and sometimes crashed due to out-of-memory error (could not allocate more than 7GB RAM!)

I've been also trying to find these people and follow them on tweeter, but it's hard to find. Mostly either don't tweet much, or tweet a lot of noise!

While bloggin is for writing an essay. You may write the essay and just publish it, but in most cases you do some research and at least proofread it once. And again the blogging UI is optimized for this: you have an empty page, nothing other than your written content.

And they really complement each other: you talk to people to get ideas for your essays, and you write essays to share your ideas with people and use them as the base for your writing. I don't think you ever can replace tweeter (or similar services) with blogging.

For other positions we often have three technical interviews:

    - First one is done by an HR, involves ~10 simple short-answer technical questions, to weed out those with just a fancy CV.
    - second one focuses theoretical skills: e.g. algorithms and data structures, programming language and tools, software engineering, etc.
    - Third one focuses on practical skills: often involves one practical question that the person is supposed to resolve within one to two hours.

For the first and second though, I'm wondering what questions we should include to assess the candidates? I've read previous HN posts like this one [1] and similar interview question banks, but because I don't have experience in this domain myself, I don't know which questions should be known by someone with good experience in data science, and which one is a bad one ("gotcha" question, something that is often googled, too theoretical, etc.)!

Any advice on how to pick questions for this position?

If it's any relevant, I do have CS background and a fairly good understanding of programming and software engineering. I also follow ML/AI topics out of interest, but have no practical experience there.

Reference: 1. "Data science interview questions with answers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460141

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https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv...

Section 3.c.i

So yes, a tool like this has value in helping with better understanding ourselves, but also can help population research as well.