skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The items placed in an auction don't generally have a market price - that's the point of the auction. So, there's a market price for gold. It wouldn't make sense to hold an auction for a 1oz block of gold because the price is known to everyone participating in the auction. On the other hand, say there's a 1oz rock taken back to Earth from a Mars mission. There's no market price and therefore no way to just sell it. The auction will find the True Value by auction - in Milgrom's case, going round by round and asking every bidder if they're willing to buy the rock at X price. In next round they ask every bidder if they're willing to buy it at 1.1X. So on and so on until there's only bidder left.

To answer your question about valuing a used Tesla - a regression formula would work best, take the variables like mileage, features, color, etc. and find 30-40 used Tesla sales to create your formula.
Neither of your sources (even if they were systematic rather than essentially anecdotal) identify anything like the cause you've posited (one is a post hoc ergo propter hoc with a change in post-conviction punishment, the other links no cause or even preceding change, neither indicates anything relating to pre-trial detention policy even viewed in the most favorable light.)
Seems to have largely worked for Chemical and Nuclear weapons. At least in terms of weapon systems, banning lasers designed to blind was apparently completely effective.
Winamp visualisations. Spent a lot of hours in front of that app a couple of decades back.

I'm sure there's better stuff somewhere out there nowadays, but my music consumption has simply moved away anyway - period on iTunes/Google Music, now only ever streaming random stuff on-demand from Spotify.
Microsoft was already one of the companies that considered buying Red Hat but turned them down: https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz...

Red Hat and its enterprise focus would have been a better fit than the much, much smaller Canonical, so there's no reason to believe that MS would consider buying Canonical.
I think preventing your car from being stolen is an extremely basic issue - it's a risk that exists at the back of your mind constantly when you drive an expensive vehicle, so yeah, I'm glad the car does this.

The situation in here is more like "haha, ok, we just need to tow this thing out of the garage and try again" - no big deal.
Aye. The images seem to be static: you always get the same one for any given size. So there isn't much work being done to serve them most of the time. I expect they have nginx configured to serve a file statically if found, and on error go to the script that will pic one, resize as needed, serve it, and also drop the result into place so next time that size it requested the image can be sent as a simple static file.

CPU time is often a limiting factor with shared or VPS hosting, this will most likely keep that from being where the bottleneck actually is. Or the hit of DB access, which this scheme would not need (at least not for most requests, perhaps there is a DB of images used when a request for a new size comes in).
the app and overall design of the service is, like many Google entertainment products, half-baked at best
It looks like it is, given they mention the UK.

I don’t know how they handled Germany, but a few years ago he used this as an example of something FB would allow despite it being awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/zuckerber...
I'll make a principled stab at it.

If you ban Holocaust deniers, then you're in the business of drawing lines, proclaiming what is truth. This is a powerful position and many will wish to use it for more than just the Holocaust. They will initially do so by presenting a variety of outrageous content which maybe should be banned, applying public pressure, and their initial targets will be reasonable.

But the outrage industry is big these days, and its targets are many. I shall present some recent evidence of its working. Consider a figure like, say, Bruce Gilley, who I was just reading about this past week: he's an academic who says non-mean things about colonialism. A public outrage drive, started by Maoist philosopher Joshua Moufawad-Paul (author of "The Communist Necessity") got his publisher to cancel a biography of Sir Alan Burns; similar outrage drives have previously attempted to see his doctorate revoked. I have not read his scholarship and have no reason to suppose his work to be excellent; however, I should prefer that academic degrees are not revoked after the fact for failing to conform to any particular orthodoxy.

Yet these are the times that we live in: we are increasingly censored by the mob. Facebook content moderation is an obvious target and there is no doubt will be targeted. The categories will expand. Facebook's resistance to such measures will either be heroic, or profoundly inadequate.

So consider: Is the Republican party under Donald Trump a hate group? Is it legitimate for them to have Facebook operations? Surely if you work in Silicon Valley you know someone who considers it a hate group, and believes it should not be permitted a Facebook presence. That is where this ends up. It is not a long and tortuous path. And as hateful as Holocaust denial is, it is possible that Facebook might make the world a better place in the end by allowing it, that they may say, "We are not the content police. No one is."
Seems like insurance is safer.
people who are designing these things are not considering some of the most basic issues

Is replacing the seats in your car basic?
Can you write software of medium scale that is 100% bug free?

Edit: My point is - We shouldn't be making smart cars and TVs because there are always going to be bugs that are not forceable and can cause your device to brick. I wouldn't want a smart microwave or coffee maker.
> It should be noted that there actually are debates among historians about the Holocaust but these are not over whether it happened [...]

Will this be allowed on Facebook? I don’t have an opinion either way, but I think the original concern with removing “Denial” content was that it would impact this type of debate.
You have to be careful because you risk taking all the meaning out of the terms when you say that anything other than a completely unfiltered firehose is encroachment on free speech because you catch spam, bots, threats of violence, abuse, scams, etc. in the crossfire which (at least to me) are not types of speech that should be protected.
To think the minecraft image really is in black and white is mind blowing.
I wonder if that could become a minecraft mode and how it would look as a video
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I believe that being exposed to the same piece of information repeatedly causes us humans to believe it is true, whether it's true or not. So the evidence suggests that articles like this actually are helpful, since there are only so many times you can read that this is the warmest [month] on record before you start to believe that things probably are getting warmer overall.

But as to what you were seeking, here were my first DDG results:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

I think newspapers publish things that are news, which means it's something that happens at a given point in time. A monthly number is news, while "the past few decades" is not. An organization putting out a press release is news, so if that mentions a long-term trend, that can become news, but if it hasn't changed in any detail since the last report, then it's not really news either.

Newspapers, and news sources in generally, are really bad at communicating long-term trends like global climate change, unfortunately.
>In reality we all have seen old applications die when windows updates. Security-related applications are notorious for this.

I wouldn't expect "security related" applications to work (e.g. some antivirus), as they use bizarro / too low level APIs.

But you can still run 15+ year old games, office apps, and whatever...
Because only one of those are a right enshrined in the Constitution.
> The arrow of progress points in a specific direction.

Pretty much everyone agrees with this. What people don't agree about is the direction.
Digital book burning 2.0.

“But it’s ok, we’re the good guys and doing it for the right reasons”, says every tyrant ever.

Never let speech get censored no matter how good it makes you feel in the moment. It’s the worst precedent you can ever set.

I’ll try and give an example here that might be safe to give because it rips the Republican Wing of the Military Industrial Complex.

If Facebook was one of the world’s primary communication channel in say the early 1990s, the people who would have called BS on tearful made up testimony about Saddam unplugging babies from respirators that was used to sell the war to the public wouldn’t have even had an opportunity to challenge the official story. Facebook would have blocked their opinions as hateful content and if they persisted just conspired with the rest of Silicon Valley to completely remove them from the Internet. A chain of events that have cost arguably millions of lives and trillions of dollars can be tied to some of that testimonial propaganda and would have been unable to be talked about critically with Facebook’s current rule set.

Now we want Facebook in charge of determining truth? Be careful about what you wish for. You applaud today, but now the precedent is set. What’s next on the chopping block might not be something you’ll like.
I think it would be wise to learn why somebody hates you, yes. There might be a very good reason for it.
Correct, but if you want to add something to the mainline kernel, you do have to answer to the community, such as Wireguard or [1]. I wasn't talking about custom kernels.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rejects-stupid-...
No, it works. It's just non-obvious that it does due to the reliance on 4 levels of braces.

It is equivalent to the following:

lhs.Major < rhs.Major
or (lhs.Major == rhs.Major and lhs.Minor < rhs.Minor)
or (lhs.Major == rhs.Major and lhs.Minor == rhs.Minor and lhs.Patch <= rhs.Patch)

Deduplicating (lhs.Major == rhs.Major) decreased readability enough to be confusing.
The hot head will at least get a bollocking from the captain that shooting people dead isn't how you pacify a town. Within the police, no such concerns.
2017, 2018, 2019, the committee has been on a tear, picking interesting, slightly-less-mainstream but still really defensible winners. E.g. Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer (2019) are unusually (for economists) engaged in the real world. Nordhaus and Romer - both considered on the quirky end of mainstream (though Romer's textbook of course gave him total mainstream cred, look at the rest of his career). Thaler (2017) had a huge body of writing that verged on popular economics. When I was an economist, each of these really shook up the way I thought about what was possible in the field.

Milgrom and Wilson is... expected. I mean, auction theory has been very influential, but I think Roth + Shapley (2012) just recently covered more fun intellectual predecessor and successor movements to much of Milgrom and Wilson. Classic theory-heavy work that has had practical influence as well. Arguably, their emphasis on supermodularity was a deep theoretical influence on follow-on work, so I have to count that as high impact. But it does feel a little less exciting than past awardees. Maybe just because we've lived with auction theory for so long now?
To be honest, I think this country could use antitrust breakup for probably every tech giant (in addition to other industries altogether like telecom!)

I think both shareholders and the economy would benefit in the end; these breakups would make explicit the implicit relationship between these multibillion dollar business functions and, in the process, incite a profit motive that would invite competition to make the ecosystem healthier.

For example:

Google could be split roughly into ads, search, browser, youtube, mobile, and nest/devices. When the relationship of each of these divisions is made external (ads pay search, search pays browser to be the default, browser pays mobile to be the default, etc) then we we can now have healthy competition, like bing bidding to become chrome's default search or facebook ads bidding to serve google search ads.

I haven't thought it out as much but I'm certain society could benefit from breaking out a few major business functions of amazon, of apple, of microsoft, of facebook, and so on.

In fact, if we were a really forward thinking society we could write a law rather than rely on antitrust action to restrict tech companies operating in the US from combining too many business functions - did it ever make sense to allow content discovery platforms to also be ad distribution platforms? Perhaps we should categorically disallow that.

Of course, I'm sure the free market minded of you will immediately point out - why do we want government dictating what private companies can and can't do? I sympathize with this sentiment, but ultimately the point of democracy is that the democratically elected government can make fair rules with the goal of promoting a better society.

If we can make a better society by separating content distribution from content monetization, I don't see why we shouldn't. If we can make a better society by separating marketplaces from their participants (e.g. amazon & AmazonBasics) then I don't see why we shouldn't.
See Ashtonkem’s reply for why this is a false dichotomy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754897

Refutation is not predicated on first disseminating the hatred as widely as possible.
-Because you need volume to make car production economic. We're a small and, hence, neglected minority.

The product you want already exists, though - it is commonly referred to as the 70 series Land Cruiser. :)
As long as the control systems are properly air-gapped you should be fine. (doesn't work for jeep apparently due to cost savings... https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...)

won't stop someone physically breaking in and connecting something to the bus but the alarm should sound in that case.
For that you use the other trick OP already knows to prove a lower bound, e.g. showing a newspaper or announcing a recent blockchain hash in the video (or include it in the other hash's computation).
If so I'd encourage them to rewrite the post to make that clearer.
Bingo. I recently left my job at a FAANG, and there are the top three reasons I saw for code to be written locally.

(1) Need to interact with other internal systems.

(2) Pure NIH.

(3) Need to scale further than outside solutions.

1 and 3 are closely related. There are quite a few legitimate category-3 internal services for provisioning, configuration, service discovery, monitoring, upgrades at various levels, fault remediation, etc. Any other production service would have to interact with most or all of them. It's often easier to build something local than to add all of those "touch points" to an open-source project. I know because I did both while I was there.

But pure NIH is very close behind as a reason. Despite all protestations to the contrary, engineers get far more "impact" for creating new things than for fixing old ones. It's hard to get somebody to do X when their bonuses and raises are better served by doing !X. This ends up amplifying, instead of attenuating, the natural impulse of all engineers everywhere to build new things because it's more fun. People always make up other reasons, and perhaps even believe those reasons themselves, but nine times out of ten those reasons are pure delusion.
Four pilots in two different aircraft plus the radar operators all confused in the same way. What are the odds of that ?
Vybit: Event Tracking Through Distinct Sounds
You're right, Apple should have less control over our guns!

But just to state the obvious, there's nothing in the constitution that talks about an inherent right to control over your phone, but there is absolutely an amendment that says "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" (and no, "well-regulated" does not mean the modern definition of "regulation")
How is it different than "Doesn't work for me TM"

The linux fanboy definition of works is either works out of the box or can be made to work.

The opposite position seems to be must work out of the box on any of 50 distros on any hardware I buy at Walmart AND must invent time travel to change the fact that it didn't work 7 years ago on the Acer I bought from that weirdo on Craigslist the only time I actually tried installing it.

Take High DPI

It kinda looks like cinnamon for example supports HiDPI out of the box but all the knobs are there if you want to tweak how different things scale.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

If on your distro something isn't configured correctly for 4k screens the fanboy says its workable because there is a readily available resource that will tell you how to achieve the result you desire.

The anti fanboy will throw up their hands and say Linux sucks.

An argument can be made that that this isn't good enough for "grandma" or "regular people". I see problems in consumer electronics and windows that are too hard for grandma or "regular people" all the time.

If they don't want to install and configure it presumably they can pay Lenovo or Dell to do it for them just as they do presently. If it comes with a high dpi screen presumably they will configure it for such.
People are entitled to their own opinions, but Facebook is not required to provide a platform for them if they want to voice them. Same with flat earthers; they are entitled to their opinion, but nobody owes it to them to provide them a platform.

I'm not sure if it's classified as hate speech, but it will be classified as fake news and false/misinformation.

Keep in mind that the forces behind these "post-fact" trends aren't average joes that happen to have an opinion, they're likely foreign government agents trying to influence people's relations with each other (infighting) and political directions.

Examples: Trump is friends with Putin and $400 million in debt; I wouldn't trust him as leader of a country with those influences.

A constant campaign of "immigrants are here to take your jobs" in the UK has led to Brexit, removing an important economic and military force from the European Union whilst crashing the UK economy. This weakens the EU whilst allowing rich people to get richer.
I’m struggling to see your distinction. Are you implying the “winners” know what they are doing with technology is immoral but are willfully casting it as moral just because they are in a position to do so?
Fun Fact. I've been in to places where it was an almost impossible feat to achieve without substantial background clearance checks. Chatting to the cleaners around the coffee machine during down times showed a shocking disparity between the checks run on 'obvious people' vs. the 'invisible people'. (My personal viewpoint on life is that we are all just people doing equally important jobs, i.e. Cogs in the Machine, regardless of pay rates).

Pen-Testers use the 'cloned cleaners' pass' thing all the time and it works surprisingly well.
Would you prefer it if the system was designed to failed open?

e.g you could override the security system with a signal jammer.
This is not true for billions of people for whom Facebook is the web. Their businesses run on it, their family only communicate through it, and giving it up would mean disconnecting, essentially, from their entire world.
With the rise of more mainstream alternatives to Twitter and Facebook like Parler, I think that affect is going to be minimalized.
> This could set a potentially dangerous legal precedent. Microsoft are arguing that the malware operation damages Microsoft's brand, instead of putting the fault onto themselves for making vulnerable software.

I agree with you.

Why on earth would opening a .doc document infect a freaking computer? Imagine opening a freaking json file and getting infected by a crypto virus... The real problem is with Words or whatever software Microsoft has built that allows some code execution VIA a .doc document. They must of have so much technical debt nobody's willing to touch some old code anymore or something... IMHO, this and the fact they ditched their own browser engine in favour of Google's because it couldn't compete says a lot about the state of engineering in some Microsoft teams...
The really quick and dirty version:

I can't tolerate (neo) Nazis because they want to harm queer people, Jews, disabled people etc. The people they want to harm can't do anything to stop being targeted by (neo) Nazis.

Nazis can stop being Nazis and then I'll start tolerating them.

It doesn't matter if a Jew stops practising Judaism they will be targeted. It doesn't matter if a gay person is in the closet, they will be targeted. If a Nazi stops spreading Nazi rhetoric and performing Nazi actions they will be tolerated.

See the difference?
Because Microsoft is a vigilante looking for legal cover.
Don't forget to report the uncertainty on the regression estimate too!
I winced when I first read this because I thought they had sold the whole block, however reading that it was a subset I think ultimately this is a win for amateur radio and radio telecommunications more broadly because of the endowment it produced.
There is a principal in motorcycling that says: it doesn't matter if you had the right of way, you are the one who will wind up in the hospital, and the car driver will be fine.

I'm an avid cyclist & ex-motorcyclist. Self preservation & being a courteous road user tops what I might technically be entitled to do.
Security and privacy-wise that's practically "bricking". Crazy shit. Does iOS do that too?
The concept of free speech has nothing to do with governments or private institutions. The legal differences between those entities has nothing to do with the general concept.
Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Do Work to Communicate with Your Cat
It might interest you to know that Popper only advocated for the right to censorship in the context of democratically established political institutions, as a last resort function of a liberal democracy with a constitutionally established rule of law, which Facebook most definitely is not. Whether or not the current US government is a better steward of censorship power is a separate question, but Popper would straightforwardly disagree with this exercise of power by private parties, imo.
Crowd source a Build-Your-Own-Car model kit?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Study discovers process that may have produced first organic molecules for life
The grandparent comment to yours already linked to that.
What? Um... no. Facebook is, literally, a collection of speech.
It's interesting to consider power balance theory in other contexts, eg the # of applications for NICS background checks (a loose proxy for firearm sales) have massively increased this year: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_mo...
What do you think has been happening for a while now?
1v12 is greater than 1v2. The issue is the "." looks like a radix point, so people think they're decimal numbers. Pick some other separator and that confusion goes away (don't use ",", since that's a radix point for many languages).
The car wasn't disabled because it lost reception, it was disabled because of an anti-tampering device that activated when the owner tried to install a child car seat (admittedly, what they did to install a child seat that set off the tamper switch baffles me). It remained disabled because the remote support team couldn't fix it since the parking garage was underground and had no cell reception.
While I have not yet tried Zope 5, it looks like Zope has been revived as an option for the web. We used Zope for a large education platform and found it to be efficient, quick, and powerful. It's nice to have an updated version back in the toolkit.