skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's what I wrote in the later part the $10,7,5 example I thought might be the case.

If that's the flat out only thing literally happening, I can't think of a reasonable reason that would be in the best interest of the publishers paying google to sell supply side.

it's all jumbled when you control all sides of the auction and infrastructure which is the real problem IMHO.

Maybe I can see a scenario where bid shading is conflated here a bit or at least complicates the scenario.

For instance 'drop' the 2nd bid maybe means placing a lower bid instead of 'deleting' one.

all DSPs have a good sense of what will win the auction and offer bid shading to buyers.

Just trying to think through that line of thought. For instance I buy political ads. Google knows that video inventory X usually sells for $30 CPM, but my settings have $50 CPM max bids because during the election it's hard to get scale sometimes. my DSP would bid shade lower to say $30.01 on that individual impression, and if I happen to be the 2nd price maybe that is 'drop' they are refering too?

IDK i don't think traditional news media reporting here will ever give enough information / they understand enough
indeed, a sibling was talking about neutrinos and somehow I got mixed up where it started.
I usw the backupfunction in graphenos and then sync that via syncthing. Same for pictures etc.

I havent tried to restore from that so it might not work.
Enterprise-level Chromium removes view-source to prevent students from cheating [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29211611
GPS is trivial to jam. Any exotic IMU has huge defense implications. Being able to miniaturize it would be a big deal.
> Capitalism would _solve_ this - but government actively stands in the way of letting market pressures fix that market.

No it wouldn't, Capitalism caused the issue. Its called Regulatory Capture.

I don't understand how people can look at Capitalism and all of its failings and say more Capitalism is the solution. Maybe in theory, more Capitalism would solve it, but in theory Communism _should_ be a much fairer form of government and we all know how the USSR worked out.

To say that Capitalism didn't cause this in the first place is laughable. Its gotten to the point that corporations or special interest groups are just writing some of the laws and having lawmakers champion them as if its their own bill. its called Model Legislation.

Make no mistake this is full blown Late Stage Capitalism.
> I essentially challenged the creator to advocate for his new platform by supporting the speech rights of child abusers to promote their ideas

I wouldn’t do that. I’m not sure why anybody would.
The underlying assumption is that this behavior is bad.

Why is it bad? Especially bad enough to be regulated by a new law?
That was a helpful read, thanks. My company (also in Melbourne!) is probably one stage of growth beneath this. We have “verticals” and “teams” but don’t really have the layer in the middle yet (“domains”).

As we’ve grown from only a few teams, to multiple verticals, we’ve tried to jump straight from unclear boundaries and implicit APIs to fully versioned services and packages.

Thinking about these as solutions to communication problems, where the problems differ in degree depending on the number of teams interacting with it, is a useful way of framing the discussions.

Hopefully it brings some clarity to discussions about when the light-and-loose methods are okay, and when the more heavy processes are justified.
Is it possible the EU is being careful because the major tech companies that it would want to punish are all American? People over here could see those actions as the EU trying to take down American companies so that companies in EU countries can take an overwhelmingly dominant position. I would imagine that perception could lead to restrictions and tariffs just like we've applied to China.
I tried uploading a trace... which promptly failed due to Qt running RDRAND and Pernosco detecting a desync on playback.

I do think it's a cool idea (assuming the binaries are symboled and everything). However in my recent debugging, I've noticed that sometimes I recompile and run programs to change what logging I add, or rerun programs because I screwed up my breakpoints (pernosco could fix), but sometimes I recompile to change the code behavior and observe how the visible output of an app changes (which probably can't be simulated in a trace in general, aside from identifying what downstream code would be affected by changing a variable). So this won't be a complete solution for debugging, especially given that uploading more teaces costs extra money, but I assume it will be a powerful tool to have.
This is based in the assumption that fusion energy would be cheap. I want to see some solid evidence of that, but all I have seen is the assumption.

From where I sit fusion seems likely to be more expensive than fission, by a factor of 2 or possibly an order of magnitude. Fuel cost is negligible in either case, but OpEx and quantity of radioactive waste are much higher with fusion. So are the NIMBY factor and consequent regulatory costs.
Agree this wording is confusing, but from the article I think we can infer that the client makes s POST request to the backend which sends the email.
Share your contact info and collect others contact info all from one place
Create a simple free landing page in 2 minutes that can show your business and personal contact information you choose to share while also being able collect contact information from clients and followers. Share your page link anywhere online or give your username to people in person (similar to a cashapp account) so they can get your contact info and give you theirs.
What about compression?

What does restic use under the hood?
Dropsy the Clowns was a very unique Forum game in the pixelated style of Day of the Tentacle / Full Throttle. Collectively choose your own adventure, by incorporating posts and prompts from everyone. https://jaytholen.net/dropsy2.html

And, the collective scam baiting, with the p-p-p-powerbook. http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/thepowerbook.pdf

I still shiver at the words "keyboard goop".
Patents can be challenged for being obvious.
Ok. So basically if i'm reading that correctly? :

- google is basically offering bid shading on both sides of the transaction. (RPO on pub side according to this tweet)
- Both dynamically increasing floor to buy NyTimes.com based on the current likely bid
- And for buyers increasing/decreasing bid to pay the best 2nd price auction clearing price

which imho is the main problem that should be legislated; you can't own all sides of a transaction AND the pipes. instead of trying to convince a jury of some complicated insider trading monopoly confusing mess.
this is really cool! I am going to try for longer texts and see. thanks for building and sharing.
just read it and see if it makes sense, if you are not confident to form an opinion, there is always the option not to.
Seems like the easy solution there is to not drive drunk.
You have to press the calculate button. It reports it as around $16.
It hinders fair competition, which hurts consumers. It misallocates dollars to these gatekeepers.
The current chair of the FTC has an interesting paper on this question (written before she became chair).

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...
Are you kidding? You don't think this kind of behavior disincentivizes innovation?

And it's not exactly new. Common carrier regulations have been a thing forever.
Damn interesting read, but it just doesn't pass the smell test. A seasoned security professional and an antifraud higher up(at AMEX, no less) selling 5 gallon buckets on ebay? Perhaps more likely they are victims as well, if of nothing else identify theft.

If not pure larping, it may just be a case of scammers getting ever more creative. I sold a device on Swappa once, got payment, everything seemed fine. Before I shipped it, luckily (or not), I received personal emails threatening me and telling me I was going to jail and such. I still don't understand the scam completely, but someone apparently used a person's name, email, and finances to pay for something, and that person was able to get my info from Swappa so assumed I was playing a part.

If true, will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

Side note: My brother works fraud for a huge national bank. The stuff he tells me both amazes and horrifies me. I swear, if some of these scammers used their ingenuity for legitimate business, they could go far.
I think there is some promising work around using blockchains for this purpose.
I suspect that cheap energy would mean more waste and even more destruction of the environment. Cheap energy would help reduce the it but people don't think about the waste they produce so it would be at the bottom of the list of problems to solve even if people thought about it.
Natron
Is there some special settings to enable iphone sync with Mac computer instead of cloud?
Off topic, but I have some free time over the next year and a half and thought a fun intellectual project would be to work through the Lisp books (SICP, AIP, Theory of Metaobject Protocols, Let over Lambda, etc...).

Would this actually be worth it if the metrics are intellectual curiosity and general engineering skill improvements with a focus on the long-term?

Edit: If it's not worth it, what would be a similarly interesting alternative?
Out of curiosity, how do these non-competes work with remote work situations? Are they applicable to the state the business is in or the state the worker is in? Is this one of the reasons so many software companies are pushing to get coders back in the office, just to get rid of these little legal questions?
How incredibly stupid. A twelve year old who spent two seconds thinking about what confirmation codes are for would realize the error of generating them in the browser. What do they think conf codes do? Just be there for show? Don't programmers have to pass some kind of minimal literacy test to work for the government?
Identifiers are just attributes. If you want to attach a library card, US Passport, refugee id to a blockchain instance of your identity, you can inherit that endorsement.

In NIST speak, you can get a level 2 assurance level (good for most commerce) by collecting two strong identifiers or verifying one.
Absolutely. This is why I'm absolutely hostile towards current-day Gnome. Even if they do make some incremental improvements, the reluctance to do so in a "share-it-back" way is the exact opposite of why I got into Linux in the first place. I quite literally wish it failure.

(But KDE? I don't know, I don't use it much, but it seems like at least their stuff is mostly-compatible-if-you-work-it-a-bit, unlike Gnome's full on hostility to 'cross-compatibility.')
I absolutely would.

Because child porn is evidence of a crime and in of itself it shouldn't be a crime. Any more than owning snuff films, like the ones made by the Mexican cartels, should be a crime.

The more the evidence is hidden the more the criminals get away with it. The more public the crime is the quicker it is stopped.

Back in the dark days of 4chan you had child porn posted regularly on there and you would see people getting busted in real time from a bag of chips that was sold in one specific state. Today you hear about children who were abused for decades because no one from the general public saw the videos and did something about it.

The people who want it hidden don't care about children, they care about being holier than thou.

I can't host such a site because I'd get arrested. Sent from tor because society is insane enough that pointing something this obvious out will get you lynched.
My understanding is that radioactive waste would be minimal with fusion. That's one of the advantages over fission. Did I get bad info?

Here's what I read:
https://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs
I’d rather have sites more like SA than more
Reddits, Twitter, FB, etc. that is and it’s
a bit of a pity the business model never
really panned out at scale.

It doesn't have to pan out at scale, though. That's the thing that I've always loved about it.

By charging directly you can stay smaller. For example, suppose you're charging $5/month. You can achieve $100K revenue with 1.7K paying users. You don't have do it "at scale", or to put it another way: you can do things at a scale orders of magnitudes smaller than those going the ad-supported route.

There have always been businesses quietly succeeding with this business model. They don't make the news because they're making "only" hundreds of thousands or several million dollars profit. But that's potentially a nice living for a small team of people.

One recent successful example is Defector.com; formed by ex-Deadspin writers. They hit their 1-year anniversary and recently disclosed that they're profitable and doing well.

The main problem with this model is that, essentially, you kind of have to bootstrap it. I don't know if there are investors actually funding this kind of revenue model, because the revenue ceiling for this sort of model is probably laughably low by SV standards. I don't envision Mark Cuban hankering for a piece of some business that could well be profitable but isn't likely to ever crack $1mil revenue.

I’d rather have sites more like SA than more
Reddits, Twitter, FB, etc.

I feel like it is a logical next step, but I also felt that way ten years ago and there wasn't exactly an explosion of them. My reasoning was: as things consolidated at the top, folks would stop even trying to focus on the top. Even in 2010 the barrier to entry for becoming the next FB/Amazon/whatever was unimaginable.
> Sometimes we hire older people.

As an "older person", ugh thanks for the charity?
Not at all. It's been more blah blah blah. No country has properly executed the promises that it has made in the past. There is no reason to think that any will do better now.

Especially (to pick one of the more egregious areas) promises by OECD countries to provide funding and technology transfer to less developed countries so they can leapfrog fossil fuels.

No country has made a visible start on building energy retrofits or industrial transitions. Transport is 5 to 8 years behind where it needs to be. Electricity supply, likewise. All countries are assuming miracles in the form of carbon sequestration.

This round of talks is no different to any of the previous ones. Politicians still seem to think they can bargain with the laws of physics.
What? I think it makes much more sense for this to be a one-time payment. I am actually surprised to see anybody advocating for a subscription over a one-time payment.

Plenty of products I have used have had one time payments and it has worked out fine. Sometimes in the future they switch to a subscription model or add other paid features but that usually doesn't happen until they start to have investors and have pressure to generate more revenue.

Pocketcasts is an example of this. They had a one time fee for each platform you bought their product on. Eventually many years later they switched to a subscription model but allowed people who had the original one-time fee to keep it forever which was nice.
CDC recently started publishing data from multiple (not all) states: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
Agreed. I ran across SomethingAwful when I was quite young (maybe 12-14?) and it was rather upsetting. I kept seeing calls to action that sounded like "Hey guys, let's go be mean to _____ for entertainment! Bonus points if we make them cry!" The whole culture seemed to be like that, so I closed the site and never went back. I never understood what others saw in it.
They were mostly closed prior to the huge price spike, the spike was caused by retail buying, probably thinking they were causing a squeeze. You can read the details in the SEC report on the topic (note the massive drop in short interest in Figure 5).

https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market...
I think that the "Dependency Management"/packaging is a legitimate gripe.

Specifically, the pip/poetry/whatever_else fragmentation.

If I had the time/chops, I'd love to PEP the packaging story into shape for 3.11.

As it is, it would be great if there were some sort of bounty system whereby the consumer end of the equation (me) could contribute to pay for some 800lb brains to focus on tasks that are needful but not shiny, like packaging.
Crypto Is Kryptonite for Larger Companies
Understood!
I like the aesthetics of interpreting this through the academically fringe lens of “Quantum mechanics/entanglement plays some role in the human brain and solving the binding problem” and hope this relates more to making quantum-scale events capable of triggering action potentials at a statistically meaningful rate, than it does to mere energy savings.
Space Studies 17nov Meeting, Elon Musk on Starship
MIT engineers develop an intrinsically unscalable way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, for use in soft-drink bottling plants.
It really depends on what you want to do next.

I found myself in a similar stop about a year ago and I came to the realization that I wanted out of the startup frenzy, and thus I started looking for companies that where 1. established/biggish/profitable, 2. that seem to have an idea of what they actually wanted/needed from a developer, that is, I wouldn't be thrown to solve product or design stuff, and 3. that seemed to have a sensible leadership that was aware that things took time and "crunch time" was not the norm (read, boring, predictable work).

Through a series of coincidences I did find such a company and it's been a blast! I still have energy to work on side projects (after being bitten by the entrepreneurial bug is hard to go back), but now I'm not constantly sweating about a limited runway (if something doesn't happen in X time we run out of money... that really keeps you up at night!)

Bus I guess the bottom line is, figure out what you'd want to do first and then find something that aligns with that.

As an entrepreneur you often have quite a bit of marketable skills, leadership, product, customer support, software engineering, devops... usually you can find companies that want exactly that, a tech handy man, and how the job market is right now, those skills are in high demand! (heck, my company is hiring! email on profile)

Good luck on you next chapter!
Cost is often a proxy for energy expenditure, though. That's what I'm getting at. It is not obvious to me that reusing a glass bottle will necessarily decrease net energy expenditure.
A brief introduction to dozenal counting [pdf]
It takes time to google things, and the engineer is paid to write code not google stuff.
Agreeing.

I personally find it psychologically much easier to not eat at all for now (knowing I'll feast in a while) than to exert the effort of eating less when I'm eating now.
This is, in a sense, a microcosm of the argument in Daniel Dennet’s “Consciousness Explained.”

To oversimplify (and potentially butcher): consciousness results from innumerable “drafts” or guesses arising from neural interpretation of sensory input.

From Wikipedia, describing the book:

‘The brain consists of a "bundle of semi-independent agencies";[3] when "content-fixation" takes place in one of these, its effects may propagate so that it leads to the utterance of one of the sentences that make up the story in which the central character is one's "self". Dennett's view of consciousness is that it is the apparently serial account for the brain's underlying process in which multiple calculations are happening at once (that is, parallelism).”

This squares with your observation about likely early cell communication, which led (via many routes) to modern cognitive functioning.
I like them both. The best part about Twitter is that when a person in a position of power posts something there is a random yokel there to call them out on their shit immediately. And aside from a check mark I barely notice, the posts are indistinguishable.

I belong to a pay-for-play online community also. It's where I go to not have to deal with the riff raff. It's really wonderful.
That really only works if you assume routing symmetry and a single optimal route.
Awesome, please yes. It would be great to have a Firefox version.
Because it explains how equities markets work, mostly correctly, and this is background knowledge you need if you are buying or selling equities or forming opinions about capitalism or things like "clear conflict[s] of interest".
This works great until you have something that doesn't fit, and it can block new features as a result of that.

I worked on an application a number of years ago where it was trying to load all the comments and details about an internal bug tracker into memory. It must have worked fine at first, but after time it was a POS.
Research: Cameras on or Off?
Shades of 1Q84.[1]

1. https://study.com/academy/lesson/1q84-summary-analysis.html
I think a big question is how much $ to make one, AIRS is very good but damn expensive.
Same here. Btrfs send/receive made me forget about backup programs. I trigger periodic snapshots with Anacron and never worry about corruption.

I do miss Obnam, nevertheless. The interface was the best.
500 Mile Email - curated list of absurd software bug stories
It is a conflict of interest that allows them to gain a disproportionate amount of control over the market. It causes direct harm to competitors, through both the access to confidential sales data and access to the market. It also causes harm to consumers (at least in cases of locked down platforms like iOS) since they no longer have access to competitor's products. In short, it is no longer a free market.
Last time I IFed I found hunger to become a more varied signal and something much more under conscious control.

Some hungers turn out not to be that urgent.

There's a different hunger for an empty stomach and for a suddenly drop in blood sugar, etc.

I mean different body signals tell you that you are hungry and you learn to introspect them a bit.

I had quite a bit of fun trying to get to biochemical/physiological/phycological understanding of the triggers/sensations.

The one I could never quite crack is a craving to chew when I could tell my stomach was full and I was satiated otherwise.
Does this only go for internet companies? Or do you think it applies to Walmart selling its own Equate brand of everything or Costco selling its own Kirkland brand of everything?
Show HN: WildCard.html, a working retro HyperCard/HyperTalk simulator
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

Long ago, I cut my programming teeth on HyperCard until I was ready to jump to C. Later I started to learn web programming, which was rumored to be based on many of the ideas, and I was struck by how similar and yet how different to HyperCard it really was. The event model, for example, just needed a mouseUp handler, to make buttons work -- but you had to write in JavaScript??

WildCard.html was built in about a month of spare hours, and runs great on WebKit, Mozilla, and I even touched up some of the UI to run on iPad. Sure, HyperCard isn't suitable for much modern work anymore. Nothing from that era is, directly. But I would like to go back to those days when WYSIWYG (What you Saw is What you Got.)

Couldn't modern web programming use a shot of simplicity? The UI is almost obvious; the HyperTalk "Reference" is in BNF format; the tutorial is three cards long; and you can edit everything you want. All of it fit in about 100K of vanilla HTML5 that runs in any green browser, just like it did in 1987. Try it, have fun, and dream of the future!
It may be OK with aneutronic fusion such as the 3He stuff that is a couple orders of magnitude more difficult to do than D-T fusion.

With a lot of released energy in the form of energetic neutrons, D-T reaction vessels and containment structures become radioactive and get weakened, necessitating replacement every decade or so. Thousands of tons of radioactive waste.
Fuel waste would be minimal - but how long will containment vessels last?
How do you handle payments?