skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the article, but "The Winner's Curse" is an economics concept I'm familiar with.

Basically, The Big Insight is that every bidder has an estimate of the value of something, and the true value might differ from these estimates. If you're the winner of a transaction then you have likely overestimated the value. Since you had the highest estimate, you probably overestimated.

But it only arises in certain situations. In practice, it depends on whether all bidders have the same information. If you have more information your estimate might be correct. It also depends on whether the item has different value to different bidders, as it might truly be more valuable to the winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse

> Savvy bidders will avoid the winner's curse by bid shading, or placing a bid that is below their ex ante estimation of the value of the item for sale—but equal to their ex post belief about the value of the item, given that they win the auction. The key point is that winning the auction is bad news about the value of the item for the winner. It means that he or she was the most optimistic and, if bidders are correct in their estimations on average, that too much was paid. Therefore savvy bidders revise their ex ante estimations downwards to take account of this effect.
Tiger Global Blames ‘Disgruntled Former Employee’ for Mystery Memo
> With "contracts" of adhesion proliferating, and how impossible it has become to exist in the modern world without acceding to them (something as simple as buying a new SSD involves agreeing to one), this problem is getting worse by the day.

The craziest example of this is how all these contracts are appearing in the physical world as well. There are stores that actually have a sign indicating that entering the store constitutes acceptance of contract terms (with a QR code that you presumably can scan with your phone to read the contract). I've also seen public parks with the same thing basically indicating that entry binds you to a legal agreement to not sue the park/follow posted rules/etc.
They don't have luxurious insides, but the overall design I find is still nice. Seems odd to spend resources and thought into making really neat interior design with dashboard and screen and then default to the cheapest materials for it.
I have it. It's my first time with COVID, or at least my first symptomatic infection.

It's really sad not to be able to say that the pandemic is "over" (though strictly speaking I guess this is called "endemic COVID" even if tons of people are getting it). Just one day before testing positive, I used the classic phrase "during the pandemic" to talk about the past... :-)

On the bright side, my neighbor who's an ICU nurse said that he hasn't seen any ICU admissions attributable to this strain so far, so it apparently also continues to be much less serious than classic COVID, at least given the number of people who are partly immune from vaccines and/or prior infections. (His ICU had lots of admissions from classic COVID, and I believe some of his patients died of it.)
> as soon as either (or both) operand of any binary relational operator is NULL, the whole expression is NULL!

Isn't is a binary operator?

Because "NULL is NULL" is True (not NULL).
You have.

Watch this disturbing documentary on teflon

"the devil we know"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJFbsWX4MJM
No, just to use for some time before bed.
They launch rockets at a scale they are not legally allowed to, adjacent to multiple wild life reserves home to many critically endangered species, and this is not close to the first time they've burned down the wildlife. Turtles and cats are a bigger concern to than the crabs imho.

Side note, and not that it matters much to this topic, but whether someone thinks Martian colonization is plausible or not seems to be a decent litmus test to their reasonability in general.
Drinking a slushie without a straw sucks (it basically hurts).

Drinking coffee/hot chocolate with whipped cream without a straw sucks (gets all over your face).

Drinking tea with bobba without a straw sucks (crunchy).

Drinking a beverage with tons of ice cubes (think fast food) without a straw sucks (a special lid could help though).
You‘re probably not the target group. It’s an open source project (in comparison to the MacOS walled garden) and I think that especially your 3rd question is disrespectful. In general your comment reads like a rant against the open source philosophy to me and is attacking/demotivating people who spend their spare time to create free software. Instead of attacking OSS creators one should give kudos and encourage them to go on.
… just my 5 cents.
There's a part of me that feels the urge to prepare for disaster. And yet I know it's a reaction to fears I have that won't be helped by being prepared. My main concern is that one of many possible AGI disasters will come to pass. None of them are really solved by prepping. But I can speak to this being driven by fear, at least for myself.

To be honest, I have fantasies -- but they are fantasies of a simpler life without all the craziness of the world. Or rather, if I had to spend all my time getting food and staying alive for the next few days, I wouldn't have a lot of mental energy to worry about all the ways that things could go really badly that I don't have any control over.
What exactly did the officials think would happen when it was approved in the first place? The rocket is mind bogglingly huge with a mind boggling amount of thrust.

I did want to comment I’m aware of concrete chunks being thrown in the first test, but they were obviously okay with it exploding on the pad (a reasonable assumption for rocket development).
Without trying to dismiss your opinion: Was the internet before Google/ad-tech not "open, free (as in beer)"?
I feel that the goal of "cloud computing" is done better using other technologies. Shadow.tech is a good example of this - it allows you to stream a powerful and capable windows machine to your computer. low latency, you benefit from the massive windows ecosystem that already exists, and you're not limited by local hardware, as a javascript OS (presumably) would be.
> I imagine German has some epic words that can be written in just the first row.

My understanding of German grammar is that words can be of infinite length since they allow unlimited compounding. But they also have a language authority that makes words official, and the current longest is 68 letters.

So it would indeed be an interesting exercise in German.
> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through

I'm pretty sure this is nonsense and is not a consistent way to distinguish languages that are considered scripting languages and languages considered compiled languages.

> Compile litterally means "group together".

Maybe so, but as a technical term in computer science, it means translate from one language to another.

That said, I definitely agree that compile times matter.
Are they not using MRI primarily?
The professionals are doing educated guessing when it comes to treatment, both medicinally and psychiatrically.

AI should be part of the toolkit of that guessing.
Do you plan to crypt secrets on tfstate file? I think it could be a killer feature.
Nah not really. I think it's worth noting that SEO comes in two categories, and both of those are somewhat unfairly villainised online.

Technical SEO: The on site stuff with relevant keywords in copy, heading/HTML structure, metadata, alt tags, etc. This is all stuff a good site should be implementing by default, but sadly a lot of them aren't.

External SEO: Link building. Getting attention from authorative sources so people know about your work and link to it.

In theory, a site that does these two things well should be better than a site that doesn't.

The problem is that while they correlate to a site having useful content and being useful to humans, they don't require it, especially when Google's systems are too stupid to tell if a site's content is any good and the company is deathly allergic to the idea of hiring people to check or applying any real penalties for wrongdoing.

So SEO is associated with all the crap sites that do these things badly in an attempt to do well in search, and Google's failure to filter them out (perhaps because it isn't actually possible to do so automatically).
Would it be feasible to use induction to briefly induce a reverse current on a short section of the line that is of the same magnitude as the forward current so that there won't be arcing when you break the circuit there?
As others mentioned, undersea cables suffer from capacitive losses. But another big factor is grid synchronisation: two AC grids cannot be joined if they are not perfectly synced. Their phase must match. DC having no such phase, it’s very useful to connect independent grids (e.g. UK to the rest of the EU, or the three main grids in the US)
Ask HN: How should I design my API docs for AIs to read?
Say I have some SaaS APIs for sale, I'd like to make them not just developer friendly, but also AI friendly. I understand I could stand up my own chatGPT wrapper and feed in a vector database of my tech docs so developer could ask questions or get support that way. But what are the best practices here? How do I make my tech docs into the knowledge set of co-pilot AIs, or how do I make it easi(er) for developers to find or embed useful technical knowledge of my services into whatever third party AI tools they might be using or prefer?
If they think that I’m not the universe, they’re wrong
Hmmm, I'm a bit confused on something. The HiQ vs LinkedIn case, to my knowledge, went through the following stages:

- LinkedIn sues HiQ, Ninth Circuit sides with HiQ

- LinkedIn pushes to Supreme Court, Supreme Court vacates citing Van Buren

- Ninth Circuit re-reviews and affirms their decision

- LinkedIn moves to get the injunction preventing them from blocking HiQ dissolved, which is granted

- A mixed judgement is finally issued in Nov 2022 ultimately resulting in a private settlement

Where exactly does this leave things at? I feel like everyone loves to cite this case but never goes into the finer details.

Reading a summary of the mixed judgement from Nov 2022, it looks like maybe the issue came from HiQ using people to log in and thus the ToS came into play...? If I'm reading correctly, it looks like the court did eventually side with LinkedIn in stating that HiQ violated the ToS.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/court-finds-hiq-breache...

Edit: Formatting.
Yup, when I order something I get really annoyed that I get an email for every fart that the delivery driver lets out. I'll hear the doorbell, I don't need 500 anticipatory emails. It's not a scam, not a phish, and it's 100% factual and "informative". But still junk.
Your proposal would break all of logic and mathematics.

"All marbles in the bag are black" is equivalent to "For all x, if x is a marble and x is in the bag, then x is black". Since the antecedent is false if the bag is empty, the statement is true by material implication.
This case ain't very common anymore, just Nvidia proprietary driver users suffer with this commonly these days.

Intel and AMD don't have significant breakage when upgrading the Linux kernel.
I guess it's because it's in Women's Health, but it seems very strange (to the point of misleading) that the headline is gendered when I don't think there's anything in the article that would justify that framing.
1A. Its a negative because it imposes both a third parties control on global open source software or possibly worse the control imposed by the parties country of residence. Literally the only reason one would keep in closed source is to profit from designing the system in a fashion that is disadvantageous to others.

For instance if it works like channels its virtually impossible to charge a percentage like Apple's app store because people will just publish to a free channel, every distro will include the free channel, and users will just ignore the paid channel. Consider the paucity of software on the Mac app store vs the iphone app store.

1B. There will never be an open source Snap store backend because it would both be more work than you imagine and continued work to retain compatibility of both front and back. If you try you will most likely end up with something that sometimes work sometimes fails and takes a full time maintenance. You may as well call it "snap but shittier how I burned 200k figuring out how moats work"

2. The problem isn't merely re-inventing the wheel its reinventing it for no reason and doing it poorly then not integrating it in a fashion that makes it easy on the average user. The casual user of ubuntu may end up end up needing traditional packages, snaps, flatpaks, ppas. If I understand correctly the current state of software management they can easily install both traditional and snap packages but will have to turn to additional cli tools to integrate ppas and flatpaks.

Arch with the AUR enabled provides funny enough an easier and simpler experience.

3.Agreed

4. The is a positive wherein new versions never fuck things up or remove features that users rely on. This doesn't seem to be the current state of play and pinning a version or launching an older version seems to be table stakes for dealing with flawed software.
Is that something you can do? I wouldn't have thought there previous license would be compatible with the BSL, and so distributing the software under the BSL wouldn't be possible?
That's what you get for making the world a worse place.
Again, law is not morality.

> Would apache have survived in a world where software engineers, or their software, had to be quality-certified? Would MySQL? Would Linux?

Yes
Part of me really misses those days, and another part of me is screaming “please no” internally.
I like Lua the language, but why is it and LuaJIT terrible to work with in your experience?
it was just a way to increase profit, because, you know, growth growth growth...
I hear you that small companies can suck even harder than big ones. But the idea of capitalism is that it’s a search function, looking for optimal solutions.

So having many firms positioning themselves differently is better than having a couple in that you’re more likely to find a good best solution.

We need some rules, but we need to err on the side of fewer not more rules.

My point is that mass ads requires massed capital. There will be few, huge, entrenched players. It’s much better to have a dynamic economy with piles of mom and pops as well as a couple of huge companies. This can only happen if mom and pop can afford to advertise. This can only work with targeted ads.
I mean, businesses change? The founders didn't have a crystal ball to see how every decision would play out.

Reading through these comments, I'm reminded of a pop psychology book that I read that essentially said "never try to take someone away, no matter how small, it is perceived as a much larger loss than it is".

If Hashicorp had started with this new license in the first place, do we really think they wouldn't have had the business success that they've had? We'll never know, but my guess is that a license that says "competitors can't copy us" would seem totally reasonable to folks contributing, and irrelevant to customers that have a problem to solve. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I want to understand this obviously passionate response.

(Since I've commented a couple times on this let me also say I'm not a hashicorp employee nor know anyone there)
Another layer to this is that even if they have an active hobby farm that is self-sustaining, do they have medical skills? Can they set a broken leg, deliver a baby, and pull a rotted tooth? Do they have the technical skills to maintain various equipment, even if its renewable?

The irony for a lot of the prepper community is that the most efficient "off grid" social structure is concept that they strongly oppose, the commune. A small community working together for a common good in a shared space.
Like the infamous UK 3G radio spectrum auction that both raised huge amounts of money for the Treasury and led to the winners suffering massive loses.

http://www.gsmhistory.com/3g_auction/#3g%20auction
I LOVE kiwi with the skin on. I rub the fruit against my jeans or a tea towel first, then just eat like a pear. Really adds to the whole flavour (like how eating a pealed apple is nice, but a whole apple can be better.
Do doctors want to gatekeep technology to make sure they get a cut every time someone uses this machine? This seems to be sending a signal to the market for more competition of scanning technology so I can see this driving the price down for everybody in the long term.
> Each of them pursue different goals - FreeBSD stability, OpenBSD security, NetBSD portability, DragonflyBSD no idea, never tried it.

The goal of desktop BSDs are to specialize as desktop OSes, and people keep trying it because the four main BSDs aren't particularly great at it — OpenBSD is probably being the best (mainly thanks to OpenBSD devs dogfooding it on their laptops), but its hardware compatibility and older packages aren't particularly great for most desktop users nor is its functional but spartan setup process.
Almost none of that matches up to what OP says, but without outing him it's hard to know if we're even talking about the same person. I'm looking for the aforementioned high-profile "press releases by the justice department," because this would be the first time I've ever heard of the state or feds go to the trouble of prosecuting just one single charge against someone, without filing any others, convicting someone, and the sentence being "special assignments" instead of fines, prison, restitution and/or probation. This one sounds like Reddit "and then everyone clapped" nonsense. Look at what Swartz faced over downloading some bullshit-- they were going to fuck him so brutally, he killed himself.

> I wonder if he's downplaying it to potential employers and then background searches + googling reveals the truth?

That's usually what I find, hence my speculation. The pretext is always the same-- I have baggage, won't pass a background check, but here's what really happened. It's usually a semi-accurate account of their latest conviction and framed as though this is their biggest obstacle in life. Every now and then some well-meaning fool (or cheapskate) mistakes feigned honesty for integrity and skips the background check to feel good about themselves helping some poor soul overcome a hurdle, and never discovers the rest of the story.
I've seen discussion about this. It seems the general opinion among doctors is that full-body scans for everyone would be a bad idea, because most people have some structural anomalies inside that shouldn't be a concern but would make people anxious anyway.
How can parts ordered directly from Apple also be taken from stolen phones? Surely anyone being able to get parts from Apple reduces demand for those if anything?
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yes I know the trends. But the current leadership in both Brazil and India were democratically elected. You might not agree with the outcomes, but that was what their electorate wanted. In fact, Modi's party got more votes in his second term than his first. Also in India's case -the ruling party while having authoritarian leanings, still doesn't control all the states. In fact, it recently lost a state and could lose more. I don't personally like where India is headed. But they still continue to have multi-party elections and have a very vocal opposition. Not to mention a clear separation between their military and their political branches. Neither Brazil or India are anywhere near having a single party control of the entire country. (unlike China and Russia). In Brazil's case , they actually voted out a authoritarian leaning president in the last election.

Flaw democracies they might be. Nonetheless, they're still democracies (For now at least). That index isn't a static ranking. Even countries like the U.S have moved couple of rankings up and down in recent years based on policies set by whatever party is in power.
Prenuvo give you a link to all the .dcm files downloadable in a zip.
Yes, but in practice, no. These games are usually coded as a loop that runs with full CPU as fast as it can (unless capped, which the old one wasn’t), using as much cpu as is available. In that case, the fps is a side effect of how long the loop takes to run each pass (which is what happened here) - i.e. you don’t determine the fps, the fps is a result of how complicated or (in)efficient your code is. So going from running at 30 fps because it was so poorly coded and made such inefficient use of the cpu to running at 6000 fps because it now completes each loop pass that much faster, the cpu usage is actually the same.

Now if your code is so optimized that it can run at 6000 fps, at that point you can say “gee, I don’t need this many updates a second, let me cap it to x frames per second.” But how do you do that? The GPU is grabbing finished frames out of the buffer at its own pace, whether you are generating them at 6k/sec or just 5/sec. To cap your cpu consumption you would usually say “we need a new frame every 0.015s to always have a new frame ready for the GPU so that the screen updates sixty times a second, so if we finish a frame in 0.001s instead, sleep (effectively yielding cpu consumption to other processes) for 0.01 seconds after we run through the loop” - but while that may work for some things, there are other stuff that need to happen “in real-time” such as reloading the audio buffer (to avoid pauses or corrupted/garbled audio), etc and you also can’t rely on the system to actually wake you before 0.015s even though you asked it to wake you after just 0.01s to be extra safe.

Tl;dr, yes, once your code is running at 6k fps, then capping it to reduce consumption is an option, but running at 6k fps doesn’t actually increase cpu vs inefficiently running at 30fps.
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> Scrappers can be dicks about it too

It's not always about individual bad actors. You can have lots of small players causing problems. I wonder how many python developers there are right now trying to make their own offline copy of stackoverflow.com.

Wikipedia has a great defence against this. They ask you not to scrape, and at the same time, provide torrents of the data (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents)
Sacred Servers
A reusable plastic straw is a lot better than a one-use plastic straw.
No, it's more like 2012 Twitter: the free speech wing of the free speech party [1] (which, of course, means letting Neo-Nazis express their opinions).

[1]: https://archive.is/cXp7m
"helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac."

I think I am kind of exactly the target group.

Why is "why is half of the screenshot used as my first encounter with this system in a different language from the rest" a disrespectful question?
> There is a very clear difference between compilation and interpretation: in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through.

But most scripting languages are usually compiled (even if not to always AOT and not always to native code, but instead to bytecode of some kind), so how can a difference between compilation and interpretation, even if it was a valid one, be relevant here?