skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I'm understanding it, the cheating is to communicate within the bidding system in a way that isn't written down to be disclosed to your opponents. Is that what you're referring to and what the tournament players are doing? If so then I misunderstood, yeah.

But how is it possible to avoid that? You can't possibly write down every possible bid and its meaning in relation to every possible bidding sequence (the history matters; bids have different meaning in relation to previous bids, particularly if the opponents intervened at any point.) There always has to be some amount of heuristics and intuition to determine what your partner is trying to indicate. Are the bidding conventions expected to disclose all possible heuristic paths?

Like, think about a cue bid to show an ace, as an example. Are you expected to formally write down exhaustive rules saying when you treat a bid as a cue bid as opposed to trying to find a fit in that suit? Can the disclosure be more like "it's a cue bid if we think we already found our trump suit" without saying exactly what fulfills the latter condition?
Thank you for the kind words. It was an horrific experience, I had thoughts of jumping off of any bridge I crossed / walking into SF traffic, but in those moments, I'd feel the angels hold me back.
While somewhat true in general, there isn't a lot of evidence in the article in support of the headline. Some high-end stamp collections have fetched good prices. OK.

But at least for the population the article is talking about, interest is dwindling. And it's hard for me to believe that, in general, either stamp or coin collecting has the mainstream appeal that it once had.
Look at this graph of freight prices: https://cdn.jpmorganfunds.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/...

It's not that it's cheaper to make new containers. It's that the opportunity cost of waiting for the ship to be loaded with empty containers is more expensive than immediately heading back to Shanghai with an empty ship so that you can make another very lucrative journey to LA.

That's my limited understanding of the situation. I could be wrong.

Source: https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional... (which was posted here a few weeks ago)
Probably china uses low quality steel to make those containers. But you could melt containers and they would take up less space to ship back to China
Having built ITX for NAS before I would highly suggest to get a SAMA IM01 mATX case which is almost as small as an ITX case and will let you avoid ITX price premiums on MB's, RAM, and GPX cards. mATX MB's are much cheaper and will give you lot more options.

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811197012
My uncle used to have a usb shock ring (it does what you think it does) that you would use in a chatroom that allowed the person you were sexting with to shock you (and vice a versa.) There are legitimate, if weird, reasons to have networked sex toys.
They are a car company that is slowly turning itself into a multi-faceted company. They are doing some tech like things, but they are also turning into a chemical company and an a equipment and manufacturing company. They are also an infrastructure provider. They want to turn into a robotics company.

> More generally companies from every sector are compared against each other to see which one provides the highest improvement in citizens' quality of life .

Cars are the single largest expense other then a house people make. Of course its gone have less overall impact then a free product that everybody is gone spend very little time on.

The Supercharger network alone and showing the way for EV infrastructure will have a huge impact on everybody.

> Tesla produces lots of noise but the improvement in citizens' quality of life is basically none or negligible.

People usually love their Tesla and that is reflected in the data that is gathered about that. Cars are the second most expensive people buy behind a house. They have huge impact on the people who buy them and clearly less on those that don't.

> Google, Facebook and Microsoft completely dominate Tesla in this fundamental, during the same timespan.

Idiotic comparison, no matter how long you talk about it.
[Buggy HN.] ... relatively rare systems that do rely directly on Paxos, not Raft.
i have had a theory for years if you sold any drug like meth or cocaine in an advil bottle with a label on the side saying “take at most 1 tablet every 4 hours, do not exceed 6 tablets in one day. do not use for more than 2 days in a row” etc then the vast majority of people would not have any issue with it. the people who are already abusing it would continue to abuse it. most people can be around hard addictive drugs ingrained in society like alcohol and do just fine
Clearly more noise than signal from the author.
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I grew up in the Soviet Russia. Vodka cures everything. Prove me wrong! Ok, I was making a joke in the original reply to begin with
Near the end of the article/podcast they say that the group that kept track of the records stopped allowing new entries. So officially no one can break the record.
> What could SBCL become with all those man-years behind it?

Whatever stopped that happening in the past, still stops that happening, and will continue to stop that happening in the future.
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No, not everyone should get college degree. I do wish society provides a way for young (or old) people the opportunity to experience (military or civil service) something like college where they get a chance to meet/see/feel/listen to others. Trade schools don't offer that.
Mobile friendly strikes again, been meaning to tackle this one, facepalm
What, exactly, in a drug's pharmacology or chemical structure makes it "hard"?
I can tell you that the person who got a question in literally every year since like 10 years is a long term investor. See Tesla Daily Podcast.

Long term investors are very well organized and upvote certain questions.

However that question was not from him.
This story makes no sense to me. For example, he says

“Chance of escaping sandbox = upvote conversion rate x views”

“Chance” must be a probability. But this formula will yield a chance > 1 most of the time. That makes no sense.

His example is 30 page views and an upvote conversion rate of 13.3%, which means the “Chance of escaping sandbox” = 3.99.

Reading more, I see that most of the math makes no sense. But I’d love to “triple” my chances of getting to the front page by making my probability 11.97.
What exactly is the problem with 8-9 high, or 20 high, or whatever the technical limit is? The land belongs to the port owners, why should anyone else be able to restrict how they stack containers?
Wow! I thought it was just me. I find it incredibly difficult to read icons. Even small design changes throw me - the most annoying was the change in speaker icon across versions of Windows. The bigger the icon the less of a problem it is but those fiddly toolbar icons throw me all the time. I have mentioned this to a few folk but honestly thought I was on my own.
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>how about we create a new port?

There are other ports. They're not economically viable. See e.g. my old comment about the history of Prince Rupert, BC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28871284
I think it may be a GPT3 blog:

>Noise is necessary for our brains to function in an orderly fashion. In the book The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver says that “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”7 Andrew Smart adds that “there are many circumstances in which the addition of the right amount of noise actually boosts the signal.” So within the randomness of the noise, we can achieve greater creativity as the randomness of evolution brings the best out of humans.
I'm involved with an online stamp store for collectors. We estimate the average age of our customers is 70. The business has been around for 30+ years; a big contributor to customer attrition is death. I can't imagine the hobby surviving for another generation.
Isn't that part of the fun for this audience?
Sure. And my point is that, for an organization like NASA (which is basically our government's "approach to space") "fundamentally rethinking how you approach space" is basically saying: "fundamentally transform everything about how the organization operates".

Which, if Starship delivers on its promises (and I'm quite optimistic and hopeful that it will!), then NASA will have to fundamentally transform everything about how the organization operates.

But that's a huge transition to make on the back of a program that hasn't proven its key value proposition yet. I'm happy for NASA to wait the extra 2-3 years for Starship to prove that it can deliver on its promises, before NASA commits to a reorganization and restructuring at such a fundamental level.

If NASA commits to such a restructuring now, and in 2 years we learn that Starship's economic dream fails to materialize and the program ends up as an improvement (but an ordinary one) over Falcon 9. NASA how has to unwind all of that organization restructuring and program development. It seems...wise to me for NASA to wait a handful of years to see Starship prove itself before committing to such a transition.
Yeah I had a similar reaction. Chalk it up to the chum bucket fatigue at the end of listicles.

I am recently considering that imagery on the web is too powerful. It can be detrimental or subversive to my attention. I feel rejuvenated from HN much of the time because it's textual and thoughtful, not so much of the web that's trying to influence me with images (moving images even more so). Using reader mode / pocket can help.
Right after I patent this rectangle with rounded corners
"I mean there's nothing stopping you in zig from creating a rich "error" struct"

Thus Rust's std::result::Result<T, E> where the E in Err(E) is anything that implements the std::result::Error trait.

Rust got this right. It satisfies most use cases with the least possible noise and accommodates the weird ones easily, and does it in a std:: codified manner where no one has to wonder whether or not there is anything stopping them.
> suck it tensorboard

The poor little TensorBoard is crying right now because you didn't love it.
Yea, that stood out to me too the stacking limit was not at the port..
280, the main motorway out of SF has standing water on it every time it rains heavily. Seems to be built with a different profile to motorways in UK which are cambered for the rain to run off. Guess it must just not be worth it given how rarely it rains heavily here.
Why didn’t private industry work to solve the problem that they created?
Fun facts, in Arabic language there is a word 'Marhalah' for a maximum distance covered by a horse in one day that's approximately 45 km. In ancient time along the Silk Road there are guard houses that have this distance in between them and there will be at least a spare horse for seamless message delivery by the messengers. Once arriving at the next guard house, the message delivery does not need to stop and can be passed and relayed to the next messenger for fast messages delivery due to this arrangement. This robust messaging concept and mechanism is the pre-cursor to Pony Express, Post Office and the venerable SMTP protocol.
redgifs was spun out of Gfycat (with a new owner too), so I assume that the same player is being used at https://gfycat.com/ (or rather the other way around), but can't verify right now as I'm in a working environment.
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When I read the headline, the idea I had in my head was of some kind of crowdsourced meth production system.
Yeah, FU money and FIRE are different concepts (although there are some overlap). The former is just about being able to quit a job whenever (with the expectation that you will find another one eventually)
This. But it's not like politicians aren't intelligent and ambitious, so many of them look to earn money in other ways, ie the stock market, which gets dangerously close to conflicts of interest because they are, by design, there to regulate industry.
Meth in a bottle is called Adderral.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/94rk1a/how_is_m...
I know Vince Gilligan did his research prior to Breaking Bad but st strikes me how on the nose it was. BB came out in 2008 and must have been in production a few years earlier but the increase in actual purity pretty much matches the show coming out.

I also recall the show depicting meth users having all those problems - Jesse is paranoid the missionaries are bikers, there's that guy digging a hole in his front yard, Spooe and his head, etc

Seems like the drug was fucking people up way prior to the last few years in fiction.
Unfortunately with such a tax you would also punish businesses doing digital advertising in a healthy manner (not everyone is out there building a reckless engagement maximization machine while completely disregarding ethics).

Many people and businesses monetize their online properties without letting advertisers dictate what kind of content they produce. For example, the traffic of unregistered people is monetized using advertising but they then have membership plans.
Ok well I'm glad to hear you're better, but as I started out with I think that is the less likely situation than just being ironic and the irony not being apparent (because it was said online).

But maybe I just think that is the more likely because I can totally see myself saying that ironically.

on edit: I probably don't sound caring enough but I have a hard time doing that, so believe me I am glad you do not have this problem anymore since it sounds pretty bad.
>I think the risk to NASA of assuming the benefits of Starship before it’s proven are just too high.

This seems to be a theme of many of Elon Musk's ideas: assume they will work and talk about what a difference it will make. Just look at the media coverage surrounding the Tesla Robot.

So, this stuff is cool and I'm glad it's happening, but there's a ton of capability to prove before any sort of external organizational budget should be allocated to the Starship project. It's still a rough prototype.
Very interesting perspective, thanks! I have no kids but I'm the oldest of 4 siblings (all boys...).
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Whether it's broke is an empirical question. How are their costs and revenues doing in the Biden era?
Yeah it's all very straightforward when you look at usage patterns. Often meth abusers will smoke multiple points across a day (a point = 100mg). As a result they stay awake for days straight, don't eat, and often will engage in enormously risky sexual behavior (this is the dirty secret of AIDS btw...it arose in the context of the "party and play" gay subculture where people would smoke meth or other drugs and have sex for hours and hours and hours straight with many, many different partners...but I digress)

The infamous "meth mouth"? That's caused by not sleeping and by just overall letting one's life go to shit. Amphetamines do suppress saliva production, so they aren't great for teeth, but it's 95% the lack of sleep and other associated behavior patterns.

I've taken pharmaceutical adderall (which is 75% d-amp and 25% l-amp btw), and pharmaceutical dextroamphetamine (100% d-amp), and illicit, presumably cartel-sourced, and presumably very pure d-methamphetamine. When taken orally, d-meth is, in my opinion, simply a superior ADHD drug (it is much more dopaminergic than amphetamine, yet causes less peripheral stimulation, so you get a much more favorable ratio of positive cognitive effects to negative peripheral effects).

However, the moment someone starts taking (especially smoking, since the RoA of any drug makes a massive difference in addiction, doubly so for meth) hundreds of milligrams, it becomes a completely different drug. It becomes super deleterious to health through the sleep deprivation and risky behaviors alone. Furthermore meth has a unique property that amphetamine apparently doesn't, which is that it can become directly neurotoxic in large doses (meth has some serotonin release, like a much, much weaker form of MDMA, whereas amphetamine has virtually none, so it's possible that that's the mechanism). This is why in the research literature there's a lot about methamphetamine "neurotoxicity", but the papers conveniently omit that if taking oral doses comparable to what's given for ADHD, it's not neurotoxic whatsoever (and frankly may be neuroprotective, especially against traumatic brain injury).

So yeah, your analogy to Adderall is spot on. I've often seen people derisively refer to Adderall or other amphetamines by saying "we're basically giving kids meth!". Which is true in a sense, except it's really the other way around: meth is really not very different from Adderall. If someone were to smoke 100mg+ of amphetamine, their body would break down the same way it does in a meth user, except possibly for the direct neurotoxicity effect I mentioned.
This is the connection more people should be making. The placebo effect is a social effect. Somebody else whom you trust has given you something. More generally it is an expectation, but the double-blind nature of placebo studies means that it is also always a social transaction. The effect is boosted by the perceived authority of the prescriber (white coat, hospital, colored pill). The same mechanism probably underlies higher survival of religious-minded cancer patients.
The ones I linked are for transportation, you could make autonomous ships and test them in canals for cargo, doesn't have to be for passengers. GP said there aren't canals in America, was simply pointing out there are.
Meta is the crack of internet forums, so mostly* a bad thing. We downweight it pretty proactively. There would be a lot more of it if we didn't.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxuvOs0NkM#t=210s
You’re at (or very near) a million a year at the Director level in FAANG.

My lowest paid manager makes $250k.
More interesting than the chassis. If this had 3840x3840 resolution I would buy two of them. The 1:1 aspect ratio is very attractive.
Will existing HATs for pi zero work for this one? I'm wondering about the ANAVI Infrared pHAT
s/bequethed/bequeathed

:-)
> using anything and everything google did without question.

Google Video[1] launched one month before YouTube, yet the latter won so decisively Google bought them a year later.

> Now they don't like it?

It’s been over a decade. You’re allowed to change your opinion and dislike something you previously liked, especially if the thing changed[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150323121117/http://doonesbury...
> The current system is far from perfect, but it does favor upstarts and entrepreneurs' ability to build business rather than incumbents.

I think exactly the opposite is true. Patents are one of the primary ways that incumbents are able to rent seek on their inventions for decades. These large companies hoard patents, and are legally granted monopoly on a given technology, making direct competition on their invention illegal.

A world without patents would be more enabling to small entrepreneurs, because the amount of things they are allowed to attempt is so much higher than in our current world.
I saw this phrase in the context on how people might cheat stupid rules from their religion without feeling bad about it
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Are there any open source TV firmware projects? Think OpenWRT for your TV.
I ended up going with the NZXT H1 for my mITX case, and while it has had issues I had to fix, I'm finally happy with it I guess. My competitor was the the Fractal Design 7 Compact had I gone ATX, so if you're diehard about this I'd recommend it, and it's also still very small: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-...

That said performance and noise was a concern for me and I've overall ended up satisfied, you may be pleasantly surprised if you do your research. IMO the only actual thing that makes noise on any modern rig is the GPU (and I don't put spinning rust in anything except the server in the other room.) Everything else can be effectively silent even at the highest grade, and low-end GPUs can be tweaked to be nearly-silent as well if you aren't a gamer. Mine has 10TB of storage (2TB NVMe/8TB SSD), 64GB of RAM, a Zen 3 5600X, and a triple-blower RTX 3080, and I'm using it as my 4k gaming rig with a 144hz monitor rather successfully. I understand there are a lot of cases you might need even more oomph, though; I literally can't extract any more perf until Zen 4, I guess.
I applied to codecademy earlier this year, recruiter never showed up to our intro call, and then never emailed me back. Took it as dodging a bullet!
>Great so nobody ever researches anything and we still all live in the stone age.

Sounds far more climate friendly. Also moving out of stone age only once we've stopped with hunger and war? Sign me in!

>The underlying philosophy is equally flawed. Its like picking out of the technology bucket only things you don't like.

God forbid we're picky with the tecnologies we adopt!
> They are a car company that is slowly turning itself into a multi-faceted company. They are doing some tech like things, but they are also turning into a chemical company and an a equipment and manufacturing company. They are also an infrastructure provider. They want to turn into a robotics company.

And I want to turn into an adonis bedding a different Hollywood actress every night

Doesn't really matter what the CEO of a company tells you about his projections about the future of the company

It will always be an up& to the right chart.

Especially here people should know better and take those promises and straight up throw them into the bin because they are just that.

As the old saying goes: "It takes one to see one".

With Microsoft, Google and Facebook you didn't have to be on the lookout for anything suspicious because they provided very conservatives estimates, begging financial analysts to be conservative for their own estimates too.

That's one huge difference between those companies and Tesla, an other huge difference is the fact that you can tangibly see those companies products in your daily life, whereas Tesla is only famous for future projections of techno-utopian dreams and the stock price which is constantly inflated by the cult leader CEO. The same cult leader CEO who managed to get in this privileged position by overselling equity to bigger fools for his whole life.
We hire FTE software engineers to be autonomous creative problem solvers and leaders.

We hire contractors to be a pool of labor for clearly defined and menial tasks that would be a waste of FTE time.
Dang is amazing because he's got a weirdly razor sharp ability to keep a relatively huge overton window without removing much, but still keep the discussion going without entering chaos.

Compared to the strictly moderated Reddit forums that are completely useless for perspectives outside of the status quo, often to a frightening degree in all directions.

Thanks dang!
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