skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, a Second-price sealed-bid auction will produce the same price as an Open ascending-bid auction. Every bidder will offer the true value of the item to them, and the item will go to the highest bidder at the second-highest price.

But some people might think, due to human nature, that one auction or the other gets higher prices. Maybe an open bid auction gets lower bids, because interested people start lower knowing they can bid again, then back out when they see there's a lot of competition. Maybe sealed-bid auctions work better for large organisations, as getting board approval and CFO sign-off on a multi-million-dollar expenditure takes a few days. Or maybe an open bid auction gets bidders het up and excited because they're in second place and surely no matter what you've bid, you'd always bid 5% more to win - right?

None of which is backed by theory, but if it feels true to the judge - who's to say?

IMHO the main value of buying infowars, to The Onion, was the publicity and headlines. Those are harvested now. If the auction was repeated I can't imagine The Onion upping their bid.
Interesting - how heavily are you utilizing AI generated content? Pages like this for example: https://audiala.com/en/germany
yes, i added it to my blog post, will investigate
Also good question and something we've thought about. The difficulty there is actually getting the forklift tines out after placement. Actual forklifts in real warehouses rely on pallets as an affordance for manipulation, and we don't have that luxury here.

There have been some neat attempts with short conveyor belts as end effector tools [1]! Generally these systems rely on being able to rearchitect a significant amount of the process (building a controllable conveyor belt or rearchitecting part of the bag-room), and we're focused on dropping into existing processes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Wy_tduq5k
Yes. Correct. But what is the outcome of such an argument going to be? Are you implying that I don't already know all of that? Such a statement lacks empathy for how regular people use computers, which, I truly feel, is why Windows stomps Linux market share.
> Virtual IP Address of Tunnel Device Leaks to Network Adjacent Participant
> X41 recommends to mitigate the issue by setting the kernel parameter arp_ignore to 1 on Linux.
> It is also recommended to randomize the virtual IP address for each user on each connection if possible.

... isn't randomizing the virtual IP address makes the situation worse? sounds like the best solution would be just give every user the same boring static IP address like 169.254.199.1/30.
I'm convinced signal handlers are nearly impossible to write without introducing terribly gnarly race conditions.
We are very clear about you sharing your data, requiring you to select a checkbox. And we are compliant with both LinkedIn's and Chrome Web Stores terms about user data.

Also, we do not scrape any data explicitly. At no point in time do we read data from the linkedin api nor html.
I don't think they had any desktop or web app before they were acquired.
Windows Phone was actually great though, and would've eventually been a major player in the space if Microsoft were stubborn enough to stick with it long enough, like they did with the Xbox.

By his own admission, Gates was extremely distracted at the time by the antitrust cases in Europe, and he let the initiative die.
When they worked, and only for very small scale calculations.

I bring up this specific era because there was as much skepticism about electronic computers then as I think there is now about quantum computing. They were big and slow even at the small applicable scale, and incredibly unreliable. We had radio; it was comparatively gangbusters. We had telegraph, which also failed a lot but at least was obviously useful. For all the hubbub about computers computing, we knew humans were extraordinarily more capable and had tools like the slide rule to handle calculations at varying scale. I think you'd have a hard time being in computer sales then, even if you knew what today looked like.

Not that I am all that confident about quantum panning out, I'm still in a superposition about it, let's say. But it was what I felt to be an appropriate comment to the root-comment's sentiment "quantum computers don't exist."

Good point about being able to check the answers against reality. It is a big sticking point about anything QED related.

EDIT: oh, nevermind, it appears that comment has since been removed.
Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems
Some part of geothermal energy comes from gravity which could be argued is not related to fusion (even if the matter undergoing gravity was created in fusion)
Yes. And cheaper operating cost per TFLOP.
You're assigning a persona to a piece of software that doesn't exist in the material world. It doesn't walk on two legs or drive a car or go to the grocery store or poop.

Everything it says is meaningless unless you assign meaning to it. Yes, I can see children thinking this is a real "being". Adults shouldn't have that excuse.
Zulip does this: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/zerver/models/__ini...

Zulip in general is a great example of a large open source Django app that's been maintained and actively developed for a long time. I use it as a reference quite a lot.
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The criteria are insufficient to protect people from harmful chemicals. That's the point.
I get very little phone or SMS spam. All SMS spam gets replied to with "STOP", which, for most of the SMS services, is a strike against the spammer. I've been on the Do Not Call list since it started.

Email spam is repetitive enough that the usual Thunderbird filters work.
If a spam email has an unsubscribe link, I click on that and add the sender to the block list. If it doesn't have an unsubscribe link, I try to find out which service sent it and send them a notice of a CAN-SPAM law violation. The usual suspects (Mailchump, SpamGrid, etc.) do terminate accounts for that, to prevent being blocked themselves.
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Although a bit annoying to install I am still using the rails plugin for NetBeans.

I just never switched to Aptana or Rubymine and now I don't wanna.
hmm weird, do you mind sharing your profile? Or try refreshing that page it could be a cloudflare issue... we have to protect against the endpoint to avoid financial ddos.
Fair. But when you land the face to face interview with the hiring manager and peers, I think it's still good to have a nicely designed CV. And with nicely designed I don't mean lots of graphics and colors, but something that was thought out to read well.
Published some more detailed notes on my explorations of Gemini 2.0 here https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/gemini-2/
Good to know! I'll stay away from this guy. Thank you for the advice!
Jailhouse lawyering involves the aspects of law that most correspond to code - reading documentation to learn a system and converting a human language request into a very strictly formatted request. If they can't do that then they should spend their time in jail learning what they're missing.
Also i used some geo tester and loads fine in a bunch of locations. Where are you located?
Excellent analysis and deduction!
Sure, guess I read your comment as bone-focused. That said, joints also do get more resilient when resistance training. Although, I'm aware not necessarily at the same rate as the muscles themselves, leading to issues where the muscles are capable of handling more weight than the joints can happily handle (if we are to personify joints). But, I think that issue is mostly obviated with good programming and load management.
> “It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added.

So it sounds like the judge specifically had issues with the use of sealed bids.
Crypto relies on state structures to prevent wrench attacks[1].

[1]: https://xkcd.com/538
Excellent post! Curious if WebRTC can be adapted for 3d sensor data and would love to chat more about it - I'll send an email!
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I would acknowledge that the Tea Act itself did not introduce new taxes, but instead retained an existing tax from the Townshend Acts. The real concern for many colonists was the principle of being taxed at all by a distant government. The Tea Act gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea imports, effectively removing the ability of colonial merchants to participate in the trade, and forcing colonists to buy taxed tea. This move was seen as an attempt by Britain to assert greater control over colonial commerce through taxation by making the colonies dependent on the British-controlled East India Company.

For many colonists, the Tea Act was part of a broader frustration with what they viewed as excessive and unwarranted taxation on goods they needed, like tea. They objected not just to the specific tea tax, but to any form of taxation that they felt was imposed without their consent, and that undermined their economic freedom. This frustration eventually culminated in the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, which was a protest against both the specific tax on tea and the broader issue of unfair taxation—whether or not they had direct representation in Parliament.
2,400 telephone providers fail to stop robocalls, may be shut down by the FCC.

I'm not sure if being removed from the Robocall Mitigation Database is tantamount to being shut down, but it sounds like it to me.
U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak
Actually, Grover’s algorithm would speed up a wide range of tasks. Hardly a tiny amount.
> As the topic progressed, it was brought up that a functioning democracy has "way less" income inequality.

I brought it up, but should have said wealth inequality to avoid any technicalities. The fish we are talking about have the means to move the nets like they want, so for our subject is does not even matter.

Democratic societies with an educated populace, with access to health care, equal rights and a functioning judicial system usually have less anomalies in wealth distribution too.

Kleptocracies usually have an extremely rich but small elite, and a poor populace that have less access to education, health and rights.

That's all. But as a bonus: the gdp/pp is higher in democratic societies than in kleptocracies. But that is another topic.
I bet he had had that crystal on the shelf for a long time and he kept trying to sell it.
I know essentially nothing about machine learning, nor about what approaches to ML that Tesla or Waymo are using. Is there a Metcalfe-type effect possible here? Where the better FSD becomes, the more people use it, finding more edge-cases, so the driving get better, so more people start to use it. With the end result that the learning starts to get better/faster with time, in a positive-feedback like mechanism?
That's similar to saying that a 20 megapixel front facing camera of a cheap chinese phone is superior to a 12 megapixel DLSR.
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Trying to help people be better versions of themselves is a good thing.
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They don't want to pay CA taxes on all those registrations? Makes sense.
Knew a contractor that finally received a check from the US DoD 10 years after the invoice was due - 100k+

Don't be the guy that waits that long to get paid. Get a lawyer.

Don't be the guy who doesn't pay your bills.
All your examples consist of things no company has any commercial incentive to do.

Airlines don't want high altitude supersonic spy planes, for example.

And GPS is a collective action problem: no one wants to pay for it, but we do all benefit from it being ambiently around.
> I've yet to see anyone who doesn't believe that stupidity exists and it's the other side of the same coin.

I do not think that is the argument though. Clearly, there is some sort of distribution of all human attributes. I think the argument is in how (in)accurately something as qualitative and arbitrary as intelligence can be measured.

I like the analogy of athleticism. Some people are more athletic than others, but again, such differences are generally highly contextual. I am sure some sort of test composed of factors like the number of push-ups, sit-ups, and time trial of a 100m dash could be used to generate some sort of AQ (athletic quotient).

However, scoring high on the 100m dash might positively correlate with performance in sports, but I would not wager that a high AQ is truly indicative of athletic performance as a whole. At least not in any transitive sense when mapped to many sports. For example, Usain Bolt might have a very high AQ because of his running ability, but his AQ might not serve him well in a game of ice hockey or swimming.
The difference between an MBA and a hacker who lucked into a profitable business.
> CUDA, just the subset of tensor operations that are used for training and AI inference. If demand for training and inference wanes

Interesting take, but why would demand for training and inference wade? This seems like a very contrarian take.
because they choose when, where and at what price they will provide their service, unlike employees
The ESP32 is an amazing piece of tech. Wifi, bluetooth, camera, a full blown webserver on a single chip. Incredible times we're living in.

I'm using mine as an open source doorbell camera (albeit with many kinks)
My experience with Sqitch was "all the fun of git rebase with all the fun of manual rollback and verification code" :-( I would never wish that upon my enemies

I'm open to the fact that we may have just had legacy antipatterns drug into the project, since it was shoehorned into the team by a similarly strongly opinionated advocate
I've not been asked about my car's extended warranty for months now.

I think the FCC finally shutting down just one or two blatant bad actors made a massive difference in robocalls. It just took them months (years?) to do it.
Trump was willing to build a coalition while Democrats were not. RFK, assuming he gets past the Senate, will be in a substantially better position to influence health policy than if he were to have snubbed Trump.

The game of politics makes enemies one day become allies the next. If you want real progress on an agenda, being dogmatic generally isn't the best way to accomplish it (imo).
Yeah, either AI is significant, in which case Google isn't going to kill it. Or AI is a bubble, in any of the alternatives one might pick can easily crash and die long before Google ends of life anything.

This isn't some minor consumer play, like a random tablet or Stadia. Anyone who has paying attention would have noticed that AI has been an important, consistent, long term strategic interest of Google's for a very long time. They've been killing off the fail/minor products to invest in this.
QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support
I'm several decades not a millennial and haven't answered the phone since...before the millennium.
https://archive.is/2tmIy
Rubbish.

Signal has no shareholders and is a nonprofit, precisely so they don't have the wrong incentives.

Stories were added two years ago. There have been no "unwanted features" since, provided stories is an unwanted feature in the first place.
They can just train another one.
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> I'm currently working part-time on retainer, which allows me to work less than full-time and still make enough money to live (definitely less than a full-time job, but enough to live comfortably).

This is probably the way to go. Having _some_ income drastically improves the equation in your favor (due to tax laws and compounding growth).

Unfortunately, when I did this, I struggled balancing my time between the work as well as wondering if my startup failed b/c I half-assed it working part time or if its just not a viable business..
Serious question, why would I use this? I searched for a topic I'm interested in, in English, and got barely related results in various languages (Swedish, Spanish).

On YouTube, the first result for the same search is an amazing playlist, in English, on the exact topic I searched for.
It's meta. They make money from advertising.
cool. please let me know when you post, I would like to read. I'm the author of dist if that wasn't clear. Also looking for feedback on the project should you find it useful.
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This is a sad approach to legal compliance.

One reason regulations like this exist is to save people the burden of having to worry that some asshole will suddenly start transmitting in a way that interferes with you and you’ll have to go to the trouble of complaining. You can proceed on the general assumption that other people will be acting within the agreed limits.

It’s a very selfish attitude to take to say ‘Ah, I’ll just crank up the gain til someone complains’ rather than ‘I guess I’ll stick within the guidance so I don’t inconvenience anyone’.
Some example websites I got from a quick web search:

https://freecarrierlookup.com/

https://www.carrierlookup.com/

https://www.ipqualityscore.com/free-carrier-lookup

By looking up the carrier you can then find the right company to complain to via their reporting process, if they have one. And additionally you can file a report to the FTC and FCC that mentions them.

EDIT: The idea is that you complain to the company whose platform is sending you spam, the regulatory agencies at https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/, your own cell phone carrier by forwarding text spam to 7726, and that will result in actions that hopefully will address that one situation but also collectively reduce spam for everyone. Without identifying which platform sent you the spam, you cannot know which company to go complain to (they usually have a reporting tool on their website). And you can name them in your complaints to the FCC and FTC.
I guess I don't have an issue with being wrong if we treat 'measurement' like a black box.
Yea that one is still a WIP (along with "R", "Rust", maybe a few more) because parsing out some of these tags is a little more difficult than others.
People will only rely on UB when it is well defined by a particular implementation, either explicitly or because of a long history of past use. E.g. using unions for type punning in gcc, or allowing methods to be called on null pointers in MSVC.

But there's nothing like that here.
Thanks for the question. I believe it's impossible to answer once and for all.

Currently, I like doing many things, finding the bottlenecks, and overcoming them. Today it's demand generation, tomorrow it's product and tech, and ultimately it's me being inadequate in some capacity. Which means lots of growth as a person, which feels very real, like you can be shy of being in front of another person and therefore avoid doing sales calls. This is big and feels much more real than 'growing' in an organisation where you're told to do XYZ to impress your manager so that they can beg their managers to get you into the raise quota, or even worse, simply bang your head against the 'we don't have money now' wall at a typical smaller company.

Being in control, jumping on interesting things to constantly learn something new and stuff like that are a good bonus as well.
Cool site - very clean lightweight interface which is great. Have a few friends that are looking that would for sure have checked it out had there been a free trial.
Summary of some LLM Cybersecurity risks
Debunking the Myth: SSR Isn't Expensive
+1, almost all (if not all) Google training runs on TPU. They don't use NVIDIA GPUs at all.
Vote where? Do you see that on the ballot?
Psql from the Browser
Homeowners have nearly 40x the wealth of renters. what's causing the wealth gap?
So, everyone who ever joined the police? That is certainly a new take.
Well put... It feels weird
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You can, but gcc may replace it with an equivalent set of instructions as a compiler optimization, so you would have no guarantee it is used unless you hack the compiler.

On a related note, GCC optimizing away things is a problem for memset when zeroing buffers containing sensitive data, as GCC can often tell that the buffers are going to be freed and thus the write is deemed unnecessary. That is a security issue and has to be resolved by breaking the compiler’s optimization through a clever trick:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/d634d20d1be31dfa8cf06e... 12352

Similarly, GCC may delete a memcpy to a buffer about to be freed, although I have never observed that as you generally don’t do that in production code.
I too have been watching the 900 MHz stuff as I have a number of unlicensed long range devices (1W ERP) that work in that range. The paranoid folks believe the FCC is trying to move all of the unlicensed stuff into the GHz+ range to limit long range communications. I don't subscribe to that opinion, I expect however that there is pressure from commercial interests on UHF and VHF frequencies.

I also believe you are correct in that the bulk of the use of the 6 GHz band will be UWB related and folks will exploit the multi-GSPS ADCs and DACs that are on Xilinx's RFSOC and Analog Devices is shipping. I read a pitch for a UWB "HD video extender" which was basically connecting a 4K display over UWB to a source rather than via a cable. That idea became a lot more viable with the current FCC order.
I can totally feel the 'half-assed' part. One of the real reasons I am avoiding getting a well-paid job is because it feels that it's impossible keep it and dedicate enough time to anything else really, let alone building a business on the side.
It's described in the preliminary injunction linked in the article. I can't seem to copy-paste, but it's multipart test including whether the plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits, and also public interest. It's under the heading "legal standard." Every part of the test went in WP Engine's favor.
"These are all confounding factors to a simple and frankly wrong narrative...

Unless you have well designed co-hort studies most of the data just isn't really useful."

Interesting that you claim the data isn't really useful, but then are forceful about a narrative being wrong. This seems like the issue you are complaining about - holding beliefs without facts or contrary to facts.
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How do you define 'serious scientific literature?' In other words, what type of evidence would you like me to present? Does any peer reviewed research that uses IQ as a factor count as serious? (Obviously, I won't present research that is about IQ measurement.)
The goal is to actually run RISC-V binaries on RISC-V hardware, to see what works and what doesn't. You wouldn't spot code generations bugs like this one if you merely cross-compile and never run the binaries: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=c65046ff2e...

For quite some time to come, the main user of the Fedora riscv64 port will be the Fedora riscv64 builders. With cross-compilation, we wouldn't even have that limited use of the binaries produced.
Don't fool yourself, they've taken VC money [1], even being one of the top sponsored projects of all time on Github will not satiate the investors who want returns.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dioxus-labs
I’m assuming that you search for the originating phone number of spam callers? It was unclear to me from context how this would help in the manner you suggested, for blocking or reducing spam calls.