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> main reasoning by the judge seemed to be that a single round sealed bid process is unlikely to maximize the sale price which on it's surface seems pretty accurate

Did the judge argue against the single round or the sealed price?

Criticising sealed bids is nonsense. The gold-standard auction (Vickrey, or more accurately, VCG) features sealed bids. If the judge is criticising sealed bids at all, The Onion should appeal.

Criticising a single-round auction, particularly with two bidders, on the other hand, is valid.

> as the families forgoing parts of their judgements is allowed to be part of the bids though any competing bids seem doomed, it's a big war chest they can throw around that's essentially meaningless because they'll never be able to collect it anyways

Isn't it also meaningless if the person whose estate they're collecting is bidding against them?
Create your own jigsaw puzzle from any image
Nowhere can one pay a fee and receive a legal digital copy of a movie. YouTube allows people to pay for the privilege of being allowed to stream a movie for and indefinite period of time. YouTube retains the right to revoke all movie "purchases" at any time.

GP is asking why we can't actually buy digital copies of the movies like we could with music in the iTunes era.
Elon is going to be the highest bidder if they run the process again.
Eulogy for a Gambler
But not about grammar Nazis ;)
having peaked 15 years ago and still being actively used is success. How many JS frameworks survive more than a few years?
That doesn't count because they're defending "Our Democracy" from those who don't agree with them. Such noble people. Snark aside, it really is interesting to see how much people are now cheering on authoritarianism as long as they think it will service their ideology (which is the only one true ideology). Of course, monsters usually get tired of being told what to do and turn on those foolish enough to create the monster in the first place... along with most everyone else. They do get to feel wonderful about their virtue in creating the monster they think will destroy anything in the way of their utopia. The feeling isn't so wonderful once their creation that they empowered turns on them (and most everyone else) and delivers misery instead of the promised nirvana.
Docker is just a solution for problems that PHP, unlike other methods of building stuff doesn't usually have.
Show HN: Dark Discord UserStyle CSS for Minimalists
I have created this CSS for discord dark mode. Try it out using stylus on discord web.
Fork, Star and modify on Github
Source Repo: https://github.com/ChandanShakya/Dark-Discord-Black-Clean-Co...
You could also say we are already using fusion power - via solar panels. We have a massive ball of plasma powered by fusion in the sky and we are harvesting the energy it creates at an ever growing scale.

Whether we'll be able to replicate it profitably at small scale is a question.
They're different operators. . is the string concatenation operator.
The problems with streaming services:

- they do not allow anonymous usage (you need to provide a visa application worth amount of personal information)

- stupid geographical restrictions

- they tend to limit quality, both for copyright and traffic saving purposes

As an intermediate result, a generation of people is growing who got used to watching digitally compressed audio and video (social media, especially for mobile platforms, use even worse compression). And new Apple headphones seem to use lossy compression as well, so we have a codec compressing another codec's artifacts.
People can easily do that if they purchase a bluray, so the difference is not very big.
Don't Get Distracted (2017)
The lOwEr to uPpErCaSe is based on a popular SpongeBob meme and heavily implies sarcasm and/or outright stupidity.
Dangers of AI copilots for junior developers
Sharing a physical product is not even close to the same as sharing a digital file. If you share a book/VHS/DVD, that physical item is no longer usable by the original person until it is returned. A digital file shared means the both people now have a file for as long as they want it and now each can share as much as they want.
Hacker News, I smell the fruits of yearlong training by social media, they have ripened.

Many here seem to think there are only 2 choices. This is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Please remind that his is just a fallacy. There are many more employed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy#), but the fake binary choice is highly effective wrt USA topics.

The USA has always had big flaws in its democratic constitution. They always has struggled with oligarchy, even the press is a vehicle of super wealthy owners.

This article presents you with a cold shower. That does not mean that other things got less bad. You are not helped by whatabouttisms and false balance.

Focus on what you think is right. Fight for change.
Honest question, have there been startups which chose PHP recently?

To be even more honest, I never thought that PHP was dying, but I often thought it should not be used for new projects.

Previous job was in a very PHP-oriented company and it was just a Java alternative, the only advantage being the edit and refresh page dev cycle, and being worse in every other way. Perhaps Laravel could have changed my mind, as most devs there hated Laravel because of the magic (some then proceeded to implement control flows with typed exception throwing so maybe not the greatest bunch to discuss such things)
The word "plot" has a sinister ring to it. And I thought that the newsroom at WSJ had a leftish lean to it.
A similar argument:

If you look at the statistics, you’ll find that casual, condomless sex is very common. Despite the risks of STI transmission, it often pans out okay: most STIs are readily curable, while HIV has a low transmission rate amongst heterosexual couples (about 0.08% to 0.2% per sexual act) while PrEP is pretty common for homosexual men, and HSV has fairly low odds of transmission outside of an active outbreak (annual odds of transmission amongst couples: about 11–17% for couples with a male source partner and 3–4% with a female partner). Consequently, many people who have casual, condomless sex with many, many partners will end up just fine.

Is it reckless? Well, the connotation of “reckless” is fairly negative, and I don’t see why I should get to judge what two consenting adults decide is an acceptable risk vs reward for themselves (at least, so long as I’m not involved).

However, when we pivot back to the domain of software/engineering: when software design choices are made via bandwagon fallacy, claiming that “it usually works out okay”, I do find that to be reckless. You may be fine with such a carefree approach, but it isn’t really fair to other engineers, users, and stake holders.

It’s not that I believe JSON (or similarly pitfall-laden technology) should be strictly avoided, but rather that the risks and failure modes should be given serious consideration, rather than minimized or outright dismissed. In terms of the STI analogy, it’s perfectly reasonable for two individuals to be aware of the risks, and depending on their appetite for said risk, agree upon the inclusive/exclusive nature of their relationship, as well as whether they exchange test results; what would be ridiculous is to pretend that the risk of infection is zero.

There would be zero value in the article minimizing the design flaws (and resulting footguns) in JSON. The insistence that the article should do so is about as bizarre as someone responding to an article on safer sex by insisting that the article be amended with a note that “… but raw-dogging strangers isn’t too risky anyway, so, like, YOLO”.
Which is grand if your audience is entirely composed of folks who speak your native language, at which point you should probably just write your native language.
>Is battery manufacturing that bad for the environment?

In any practical sense, no, it's not. Its a dumb argument pushed by people trying to sandbag EVs.
Thank you for this clarification -- for me it addresses a good part of the crank/fringe/sci-fi aspect

> While we're here, we can clear up the misconception about "branching" — there is no branching in many-worlds, just the coherent evolution of the universal wave function. The many worlds are projections out of that wave function.
Bankruptcy is something that happens to the borrower. Foreclosure is something that happens to the property.
Bankruptcy law is federal law, Delaware law has nothing to do with it.
Why is the impact of global fishing never mentioned? This probably is having a huge an impact on the whales habitats.
The most annoying bit is that it can't toggle the Google 'now' status thing, sometimes it's totally unreadable even with the built in wallpapers.
The proceeds of the sale will not come close to the value of the judgement - and Jones has acted extremely dishonestly through the process and repeatedly tried to move value from his company to his parents and other affiliate companies. I don't believe it's a fraudulent conveyance but there's a lot of awful happening here.
I don't think anything is unclear. You assert that people only want destruction and that they disregard what comes after. I disagree, your opinion is disrespectful to the human spirit and indeed implies you see people as subhuman, acting purely on a musky animal instinct with no regard for the future. I am saying that the vast majority of those expressing glee in the shooter's actions aren't stupid, they know what they want to grow out of the ashes.

What "observed reality" are you even referring to? In the end all we're doing is speculative mass-psychoanalysis. Something tells me you don't quite know what you're even saying...
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I think we are speaking past each other due to definitions. I wouldn’t think “lean” is the same as “super low body fat”. I assumed the lean we were talking about was maybe 10-13%. Whereas super low would likely be in the sub-8%.
Well, a BB may well be bigger than our conception/imagining of God(s), but there's a fundamental difference - BBs are constrained by physics etc whereas God(s) are supernatural and not constrained by physics.
The specification does not explicitly say that, but the clear intention is that REP with CX=0 should be no-op (you get exactly that situation when REP gets interrupted during the last iteration, in that case CX is zero and IP points to the REP, not the following instruction).
It looks like[1] combining the bottom 10% gets you a substantially negative number, such that even the bottom 1% have more wealth than the bottom 10% combined.

[1] https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentiles/ under "Household Net Worth Percentiles for the United States in 2020"
Importing * is universally discouraged by most Python linters and best practice docs.

Yup, I would never do it in a .py file. But I do it all of the time in the interpreter, which is what the video shows.

This looks largely like common workarounds that most people will write using Python-based browser automation. Most of the time, we accept that those capabilities aren't there by default because they are not explicit enough and can result in bugs and undefined behavior even when the elements that we expect to be on the page are actually there.

It sounds like you haven't tried Helium yet. I think you should, and see for yourself whether the trade-off you talk about actually exists.

Given the adage "explicit is better than implicit", I worry that a layer like this might create more trouble than it's worth for the sake of readability.

You could make the same argument about using C / assembly instead of Python. I suggest you try Helium before making statements about the "trouble" it may create. I believe you will find that there is no trouble.
Kind of wish you could drop a list in there, and have it step through.
yeah the amazon product API has some severe limitations. I have 25,000~ books on my site, and I just don't have enough API calls in a day to keep the prices 100% updated. It's on my todo list to revisit this, but it's low on my priority list. I don't make that much from amazon refs(couple hundred a month)

I will say that I don't think they really defend their TOS too much from my experience. I used to have a cookbooks site for years that used the same affiliate tag i use for my greatest books site, and never had any issues.
No, not quite, it's about the error-per-gate. RCS has very loose requirements on the error per gate, since all they need is enough gates to build up some arbitrary entangled state (a hundred or so gates on this system). Other algorithms have very tight requirements on the error-per-gate, since they must perform a very long series of operations without error.
What do you mean? It's exactly that in almost any programming language.

What is it you don't understand: "method" (a representation) or "decimal" (a number that consists of a whole and a fractional part)?
There's "Is an ev better than a new ice car" and "is an ev better than an ice car you already have".

I think we're discussing the latter, where the upfront cost of the ice doesn't count because you already have it.
> Incitement means means explicitly encouraging.

He was literally, as in literally, comparing the families of the victims to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

I don’t know about you, but if someone has been screaming at me for years that I need to be ready for armed conflict with “the enemy” and then points to someone screaming “that guy’s Hitler”, I would definitely take that as explicit encouragement. But obviously it’s all “just comedy” right?
Refactoring UI suggest you need a wide range of colors:

https://www.refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-p...
Probably because they did not think of this special case when writing the standard, or did not find it important enough to consider complicating the standard text for.

In C89, there's just a general provision for all standard library functions:

> Each of the following statements applies unless explicitly stated otherwise in the detailed descriptions that follow. If an argument to a function has an invalid value (such as a value outside the domain of the function, or a pointer outside the address space of the program, or a null pointer), the behavior is undefined. [...]

And then there isn't anything on `memcpy` that would explicitly state otherwise.
Later versions of the standard explicitly clarified that this requirement applies even to size 0, but at that point it was only a clarification of an existing requirement from the earlier standard.

People like to read a lot more intention into the standard than is reasonable. Lots of it is just historical accident, really.
Flipped through the language overview on the website and noticed that matrices are limited in how large they can be because they're stack allocated [1]. Ergonomics of the language otherwise look solid but for my use case that would be fairly constraining

[1] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#technical-information-o...
I skimmed it; I didn’t think it was ai necessarily, but in between topic sentences it was boring filler no matter how it was written.

Even at a high level though, it’s poorly reasoned. If quality code is not maintainable, what are your criteria for quality exactly? It’s basically an ad for consulting services targeted at people without strong critical reasoning skills.
I 100% agree and believe the same.

Execution is 99%, and the idea is just 1%. But you still need that 1% to start in the first place.

The site is just there to help you achieve that 1%.

In the end, the execution is on to you :)
When I bought my last car, I was sort of excited about adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. But maybe because most driving I do (which isn't a huge amount) is on pretty busy roads I've sort of avoided really using it.
I'm really tempted to get another one for use with my laptop, but I'm currently using a left-handed Elecom trackball that is wireless - it's fine, but not the sheer luxury of a Ploopy.
for lightweight automation outside the browser:

https://github.com/elyase/screenium
if you wanted a PHP object to use dot notation, then you'd have to change the string concat operator to something else. So you mention the "+" symbol, but then you confuse addition with concat and then you've just introduced JS issues into PHP.
I am interested in learning more. Is it available in the US?
Tried it out. The ideas seemed pretty good. The downfall was the names.

Has anyone else noticed that? The AI (in general, not just this product) seems really bad at coming up with names for anything.
Bi-elliptic can also be better for large inclination changes. The catch is that coasting to the eccentric apogee takes way longer.
Absolute cope. Objectively wrong.
> Also, containers build on other containers. E.g. the highly popular phpmyadmin or nextcloud images build on top of php. So each "nextcloud" pull, will result in a pull for php too. Are those developers? Does that mean hundreds of millions less pulls?

When pulling images from dockerhub that are based on other images, the image is rebuilt from scratch each time? That doesn't sound right.
> CTO who should also be CPO

This is just awful, awful, awful advice. Please do not do this. Your technical leaders should think deeply about how to build a product, but not the product that is to be built. Asking them to do the latter is asking for absolute carnage.
This a thousand times over.

Workflow engines are often complex beasts and rasterizing your business logic into them is nearly always a mistake unless your logic is very simple, in which case why do you need a workflow engine?

They certainly do often make sense when the alternative is building your own generic workflow engine.

Usually I see folks grasp for a workflow system because they don't want to think about or really understand their business logic. They're looking for a silver bullet.
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Does it really work like this? Can you marry someone in December and get all of the tax benefits, and then divorce the next year?
At the same time, in different multiverses..
Please read: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
>Nobody would argue that people hit with $100 million judgments for copyright violations while torrenting music actually had copyright on that music

I don't understand the above, but they've actually made this judgement, and it's much too large. A firm worth as little as 30 million can be an incredible innovative company, supported by a government and serious effort, and here we have people just handing out a 1 billion dollar fine over something where nothing even close to that value has been destroyed.

It's as I said in my initial comment, the value of a whole town.
It’s still an insurance system though, whether it’s publicly owned or privately. There are still bureaucrats who decide what is covered and what is not, and they make that decision for the entire population. Things like cutting edge cancer treatments (often developed in the US) are many years late arriving to public healthcare systems. And many expensive treatments are simply not covered, or covered as second or third line (eg. immune therapy), when patients in the US with appropriately good insurance receive them as first line with far better outcomes.

> No one negotiates rates with the hospital

No one negotiates period. Coverage decisions are made unilaterally by government officials, and services that those officials deem too expensive are simply not offered. The same issue exists with medical equipment. The wait time for an MRI is absurd in eg. Canada because government only funded so many machines. In the states there are simply more machines, because supply was more elastic, and more freely
able to meet demand.
I don't think it's an autocorrect error. Cop doesn't get turned into cope. I think the guy just think's it's "cope out" from seeing the word cope thrown around in similar contexts.
Show HN: FakeDoom – software renderer written in C# and JavaScript
It's a learning project that illustrates the process of rendering of BSP trees. The C# version is a rewrite of the JS version with minor enhancements. It was a good opportunity to learn some of the newer C# features that made the language a very good fit for this type of project.
America was founded with a constitution that guarantee's citizens a megaphone as part of a list of inalienable rights (God given per words in the constitution). Bankrupting Jones won't remove his ability speak or muzzle him and it's more than likely only going to give him more of an audience. He'll still be able to voice his performance art about growing babies-in-cows-for-25-years and gay-frogs. He'll more than likely struggle to sell his seeds and end-of-times nonsense and he's probably been debanked. But megaphone wise he'll be louder than ever.
> went to the bidder that would result in the two largest debtors being the happiest with the outcome but that bidder didn't bid the most money in a regular manner

The creditors own the asset. If every dollar the creditors are owed voted, which bid would they choose?
Exactly, I'm surprised that DBOS was founded by the Postgres creator
International House of Logorrhea
Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer
It makes jigsaw puzzles to solve online, which I wasn’t really expecting. Does anyone enjoy solving them like this? I was expecting it would create some file for you to print, or be a service that would do it for you and ship it, or something.
The key thing is that in the US there are two distinct kinds of religious schools: indoctrination focused, like "evolution bad, women stay in kitchen" level in some cases, focused on "the Bible" and anti-secularism, and these usually have an academic cap because they're not going to do advanced math or stem, or teach accurate history, because of the focus on religion.

On the other hand you have more traditional religious private schools, whether Catholic, segregation academies, etc., and these kinds usually have good academic standards and are probably more comparable to what you refer to. They are also rarely intersecting with the charter system.
Baking soda and super glue. Or just carbon fibre and laminating epoxy...
> I do think the lawsuit sets a precedent that OSS developers are required to provide software with warranty.

Not really. The court order is to restore things to the status quo of 3 months ago, to require that Matt undo all of the things he specifically had to single out to do to fuck over WPEngine. If Matt hadn't specifically singled out WPEngine, and instead decided to stop providing the website to everybody, there wouldn't have been much of a case anyone could bring.

> However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity.

As I understand it, everything Wordpress is Matt in three trenchcoats. Certainly, that's how he's pushing it in his defense filings in this lawsuit.