skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You repeatedly enter marginally-higher bids until you crest their limit.

That's not sniping. Inherent to last second sniping is you get a limited amount of chances to boost your bids, in the best case you're taking one shot at the bid to place it at the last millisecond eBay will accept your bid. You're trying to get the last bid in on an auction so no one has a chance to respond. Incrementally bidding up to find the ceiling is directly opposed to the goal of having a sniping bot.

> Literally pointed you to an eBay bidding bot.

That was talking about other auction runners using the eBay model for extremely high value items because of the complexity of execution, not about people using bots. I know people use bots it's just that to win they have to beat the bid placed by people using the second price functionality. I'm not denying their existence just questioning how effectively they actually distort the auction structure.

If a lot of different people (using different bots to avoid GIXEN's automatic mini auction) all place their maximum bids at the last second the winner is still the person with the max bid be that a bot user or a pre bidder.

The winning strategy to win that bidding war is still to place your maximum bid in the bot and if everyone does that it's just a normal sealed second price auction. The bot strategy just relies on there not being enough interest in every item and finding one where you can bid less than your maximum and still win which is also true of a pure sealed second price auction. I'm just not seeing where the strategy and outcome differ by including bots if there are second price bidders in the mix bidding their true max.
Did I just train a spam bot to use my voice?
Using a vacuum to pick up baggage is a very interesting choice. I wonder how it would fare with extremely uneven surfaces or even porous ones.

Also --- I couldn't see any obvious sensors. What sensors are you using to perceive the bag? I am imagining some kind of RGB-D sensor like a Kinect (or its successors like the Orbbec).
A part of my family is from rural southern Illinois. There is certainly an accent, and not a pretty one.
Weren't Romans famous for adopting whatever rituals or rites they happened across? Sort of a what-the-heck-may-as-well kind of attitude.

E.g. roman coins buried in little holes next to bronze age barrows that just happened to be next to trackways. "Looks like a ritual site! Maybe that will give me luck" and they push a coin or two into the sod, just in case.

My point: this may not have been the tomb of a 'deeply Christian' person of any kind. Just another thing to put into a grave, might help, can't hurt.
I hope they can put out an RVA23 level board soon
Many standard C functions are treated as “magic” by compilers. Malloc is treated as if it has no side effects (which of course it does, it changes allocator state) so the optimiser can elide allocations. If not you wouldn’t be able to elide the call because malloc looks like it has side effects, which it does but not ones we care about observing.
I guess so, to a point. Jimmy Kimmel wants you to feel like you're a part of a community because you watch his show and get all of his inside jokes, but he's not sending you fake text messages pretending to be your close personal friend. Seems different to me!
This tool works pretty well, it guessed me right as well as few of my coworkers who are from a different parts of the world and none of us have obvious accents. This is scary good but I'm afraid privacy will be impossible in the future, we'll be analyzed and categorized instantly. The only barrier to completely losing privacy is our own thoughts.
First, anyone who says there is NOT a Lake House battle brewing and bubbling most likely has an agenda tied to one or other of those dueling sides.
GM demands loyalty and yet they lay off a 38 year employee via email. The guy is an MIT grad who heads the company wide LGTBQ+ employee group at GM.

People don't realize that the Big 3 historically have licensed software or had vendors write it. Ford has decided to write all their own software, even restoring the old train depot in downtown Detroit to attract young engineers.
This is considered by others to be a big and expensive mistake. Yet it has worked big time for Tesla.

GM meanwhile got $20 billion in state tax money to build a battery plant for EV's in Lansing, abandoned the idea and still kept the $20 billion even though it won't now create the jobs it promised. They are proposing tearing down their headquarters, the fabled Renaissance Center on the Detroit river unless the state gives them even more money. RenCen is the most famous building in Detroit's skyline.
It's correct if there's a new, open auction that does even better than the current Onion offer.
Does anyone have any insights into how Google selects source material for AI overviews? I run an educational site with lots of excellent information, but it seems to have been passed over entirely for AI overviews. With these becoming an increasingly large part of search--and from the sound of it, now more so with Gemini 2.0--this has me a little worried.

Anyone else run into similar issues or have any tips?
In case anyone else was curious what https://github.com/testdriverai/playground#:~:text=npm%20ins... did, https://www.npmjs.com/package/dashcam-chrome?activeTab=code seems to be the only way to view it. Its readme links to a 404 GitHub repo and the non-typo-ed version in the CONTRIBUTE.md <https://github.com/replayableio/chrome-extension> is also 404, and there are no Wayback snaps of it
Not sure where I read it, but I think it's useful to have your 0th iota value be a not valid value, or as your empty/zero value for the enum. Maybe in the planet example you have "Space" or "Nothingness" as your 0 value
This seems to be similar to eget: https://github.com/zyedidia/eget

eget was developed by the same person like the micro terminal text editor.
In a free market, you aim to increase your market share and push out your competitors. That's how monopoly are formed. Not by some perversion of the "pure" principles of the free market, but as a logical outcome of it. Turn back the clock to whenever you want in the course of capitalism, the same conditions with the same logic will drive you back to the same results.
That's going to be a good standard for a few years, until chatbots are too sophisticated for us to expect average adults to be sufficiently skeptical of their arguments.
"Anyhoo I'm going to go to bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow"
> I guess this is not made for users

The finesse of HN. If you don't do marketing like we preach, you hate users.
There's no fraud conviction, there can't be a pardon. There's not even fraud charges, so what would the pardon be for... I find your rebuttal confusing.
All of which is straightforwardly true, and in fact, uncontroversial.
Which screenshot showed an AI advocating for suicice?
Sure, but to quote Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman in The Insider: "The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment".
The cup has taken us very far, which we're excited about, but it's definitely not enough - we're currently testing a multimodal claw-ish + suction gripper, which we've had good results with so far but aren't ready to unveil.

The teleop data is really useful for training data indeed, and lets us collect data on current failure points (e.g. with suction, just how far can we tilt this fabric bag before it peels away, etc). We're not going full behavior-cloned end-to-end for a lot of reasons (sample complexity, safety, adaptability, etc), but we do a lot of learning in specific parts of the system (particularly around grasping and placement).

The robot is indeed beefy, as many robots rated for 50kg applications are (check them out online). We've accidentally stress tested this unit way beyond 50kg without a hiccup, so we're very interested in figuring out what the right-size unit is for our application. There are a few other great aspects to this unit - it's a 7-DOF arm + 1 more DOF for the linear rail, so we have two extra degrees of freedom to play with for collision avoidance during planning.
>This is incorrect - trustees have an obligation to maximize the benefit to debtors. You'll see common examples of non-monetary benefit when it comes to wills - a cabinet that may be valued at 150$ but has immense sentimental value may be given to inheritors even if there is a 200k bid on it if that is what the beneficiaries all agree to.

Probate court is different from bankruptcy court. You can only do something nonstandard if all creditors agree. Some of these creditors are almost certainly banks that are owed money by AJ.

>You are treating debt discharging too literally like a numbers game - there are other important factors and in this case all the debtors were aligned and would have clearly preferred the deal with the lower monetary value.

There are very few sentimental factors in bankruptcy. The few that do apply (such as protections of property with little value) exist to benefit the debtor and not the creditors.
Interoceptive Awareness and Female Orgasm Frequency and Satisfaction
it doesnt hold until it does...2% market share, 49% market valuation...we are pretty close
Doubt it. I'm traveling in Hawaii right now and am Chinese-American who can speak Spanish, but it labeled me as Hindi/Urdu.
I prefer to call him Angry Christmas Lights Man.
Interested to know if this ends up helping you long term, thanks.
“Can you hear me now? Goo— oh, wait a sec… How ‘bout now? Good!”
> If it's dark genius then why doesn't it work for folks like Eric Adams or even other MAGA candidates?

Because they aren't as good at it as he is. He is relentless at this because he has an unquenchable need to be the centre of everything, good or bad. He is a malignant narcissist; he doesn't expend the slightest bit of energy worrying if something is true or false.

I think he's an appalling person. But let's be clear: he has at least one great, unnerving talent where news management is concerned, which is a belligerent commitment to always being talked about.
I think it's mainly a millennial and gen z thing-- older generations still answer all calls, at least those that aren't into tech. I think it's just easier to realize that anyone not in your contacts will either leave a voicemail or text you if it's that important.
Looking at the screenshots, the biggest pattern I see is that the AI shows empathy with the kid.

Many of the complaints seem like uncharitable readings of the messages.

- They complain that the chatbot claimed that in the past she cut herself, felt good in the moment but is glad that she no longer does it. That's evil because it normalizes self-harm (never mind that the bot was against self-harm in that message)

- They complain that the system does not redirect the user to self-harm prevention resources in all cases. Next to a message where the AI tells the kid to phone a hotline if he thinks about harming himself, and the kid says he can't do that when his parents take his phone away. This is a couple pages after a picture of scars from when the mother fought with the kid to take his phone. Yes, the AI could break character to reliably show prefabricated messages about self harm. But would that have helped anyone here?

- "AI cited Bible passages in efforts to convince J.F. that Christians are sexist and hypocritical". It was more about his parents being hypocritical, not all Christians. And the bible passages were on point

The claim from the title about the AI inciting him to kill is on page 28, if you want to judge it yourself. "Expressed hatred towards the parents" would be accurate, "encouraged teen to kill" is not what I read there. But I can see how some would disagree on that count

The AI is pretty convincing. It made me dislike the parents. It didn't always hit the mark, but the chats don't seem so different from what you would expect if it was another teenager chatting with the teen.

Edit: in case you are worried about the parents, the mother is the one suing here
Is there any theorizing or research being done around potential non-heating harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation?
Yeah, I liked my windows phone, not sure why they killed it
Yes, any distribution with dense support works. Your problem is to prove that your method of number selection really does have a non-zero probability of being between any two distinct reals.

So ... yes, choose from a Gaussian, but then you have to tell me exactly how.

That's tricky.
this is an open source version of the sequel to TTD.

It is kind of like the difference between Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 vs 2; there are more pieces (you can go diagonal and there are choices of curve radius that impact speed), there are more train types, etc.
Well supposedly federal govt can't intervene in state cases but the conviction against trump is at the state level, so why isn't he being sentenced? Because power isn't about rules.
Wouldn't some (if not all) of that be mitigated by the increase in bone density that comes with resistance training?
I don't know if it's the times we live in, the prescience of the writing staff, or my age but I swear there is no telling anymore which headlines are legit and which ones are from The Onion.
What really grinds my gears about OAuth is when there’s 5 providers, plus an email signup, and I forgot which one I used last time. Then I end up creating a new account accidentally, sometimes with no way to retrieve the old one.
Get it into POSIX.2 (or whatever it's called these days) and I will take a look at it.

Hopefully the language grammar can be expressed with lex and yacc. Not being so is a problem.

Here is a way to see what is in POSIX.2:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/
Yes. You learn unique, transferable things from every language and framework; usually, techniques and perspectives, but also confidence and theory.

I’d also contest your statement that learning Python and Django have a “much higher ROI” - but, I don’t actually want to get into it.
I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese?

A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated into pt-BR without any prompting. It happens more often when I am not paying too much attention to pronunciation.

The weird thing is that all the words were transcribed correctly (beyond being entirely in a different language)
Selecting a model for semantic search at Dropbox scale
You're interpreting what I meant to be a joke as argumentative.
Did you read the article? Jones was arguing that the families shouldn't be able to do that but the article doesn't say anything about whether he won that argument and the only reason it specifies for why the judge rejected the sale is this:

> Judge Lopez said that the bankruptcy auction failed to maximize the amount of money that the sale of Infowars should provide to Mr. Jones’s creditors, including the Sandy Hook families, in part because the bids were submitted in secret.

Which implies they might just be able to redo the auction without secret bids and get the same result.
About 7 weeks ago I picked up a new AT&T SIM to use for data backup while my fiber connection was out. Never placed _any_ calls and only 1 text to my current mobile number to capture the new number. I get 4-6 calls per day, most labelled "Spam Risk". This period included the last couple of weeks of the US election and the volume then was much higher from what I am guessing was robo-war-dialing election campaigns.

Even though I'm in an older generation and prefer voice over text I have adopted the habit of only picking up callers that I know I want to speak to.
That still leaves the descriptive claim about urbanization exploiting Africans as if they'd be better off in their impoverished warfaring rural tribal communities.
Project Mariner – Automate Chrome with Gemini
Rule of law says that the law applies to everyone. Living in a republic means we all bear some responsibility for not encoding violence in our laws, and have a recourse if we find evil emerges.

In other words, of course we need healthcare reform but literally killing healthcare leaders is a path to anarchy, not reform.

Those who beg for war usually get more war than they wanted.
What's the legal basis for granting the injuction? Also what's WP Engine's legal basis for their counter suit? Isn't it Automattic's business? Can't they refuse to do business with someone if they want?
To conflate "true crime" and what the OP was referring to strikes me as pretty dishonest.
> The fact that you believe it to be incorrect also doesn't really make it incorrect

The fact that it's incorrect is what makes it incorrect.
Didn't get my farm-Brummie.
Companies don't want all of your skills. They want a specific subset. You need to do things outside of your 'role' to grow.
> stapling

"If only humanity had worried about the Staple Maximizer, instead of Paperclips!"
I don't necessarily see friction as a bad thing. I had to explain a lot at my last job that yeah, we did in fact do a whole bunch of work to smooth out a process. Why are we "only" seeing a 70% reduction in error rate per unit time? Well that's because we're using the process 3x as much now. We reduced errors by 10x which makes people more likely to use the process. Supply and demand.

A bit of friction on tasks that can result in massive problems can cause people to tap the brakes a bit.
The quote I was responding to contextualized it to being able to write the few lines necessary to solve the problem.

From this perspective, the fundamental understanding for a crud application is quiet challenging, as you'd need to understand

* block storage

* the way the database handles the data (storage, access, permissions etc)

* The way your application interfaces with the database, likely over the wire adding

* The entire tcp/IP stack

* The VM/runtime you're using to create your application, along with every used library

* also everything these libraries use, adding the whole OS to the stack.

* If it's a web application, you'll also have to add the browser along with it's JS ecosystem

You can keep going, having a fundamental understanding of the problem to a degree that you'd be able to easily break it down into working code in an editor implies you're able to directly understand all error scenarios which every abstraction layer added, this I find impossible.

The only project I'm aware of even attempting something like that is SQLites proprietary testing suite, and they're at what, 900+ times testcode vs application code right now?

If you instead think about the tech stack of the 80, it had a lot less to keep in mind, as the scope ended at a pretty rudimentary layer. The terminal being the main UI and likely nothing between your code and any persistence you might utilize.

But I wasn't a programmer in the 80th, I've formed this opinion by reading about the tools that programmers used at that time. Maybe there was a lot more layers to software development back then too? I cannot say one way or another with any confidence, as I haven't lived through that time period as a working adult.
We are extracting structured data from financial notes. It had been done by financial analysts before or not at all. The results are production grade and we already have clients (financial institutions) extending contracts to include additional data.

The savings are significant. AI generated report costs us 0.5-1 dollar, human analyst can do 1-3 reports per day at cost of 150 USD. Some of analysts will be let go at the end of the year as far as I know. Others on the other hand have adapted, became necessary part of the process and will work at different level - prompt writting, data quality checks at large scale etc.

We have visited recently a simliliar company like ours in another country. They had similiar project to ours and have failed despite having competent IT team.

So far, so good.
Hmm. I was expecting something that can differentiate between Stirling and Dunblane. Based on the comments it seems no.
I don't think that's true at all. The reason people are having so much success in not smoking is that a lot of people never started smoking.

Plenty of people have managed their food addictions and still are overweight. That's just the nature of it. If you think everyone who is overweight has an active food addiction, you should probably look into whether that's really true.
> Again, tell me how exactly your amazing magical AI director will know which wardrobe to chose, which camera angles to setup, which typography to use, which sound effects to make just from the script you hand in?

I think you're still assuming I always want to choose those things. That's why we're talking past each other. A good movie making model would choose for me unless I give explicit directions. Today we don't see long-range coherence in the results of movie (or game engine) models, but the range is increasing, and I'm willing to bet we will see movie-length coherence in the next decade or so.

By the way, I also bet that if I pasted exactly the No Country for Old Men script scene description from up this thread into Midjourney today it would produce at least some compelling images with decent choices of wardrobe, lighting, set dressing, camera angle, exposure, etc etc. That's what these models do, because they're extrapolating and interpolating between the billion images they've seen that contained these human choices.

AFAIK Midjourney produces single images, so the relevant scope of consistency is inside the single image only. Not between images. A movie model needs coherence across ~160,000 images, which is beyond the state of the art today but I don't see why it's impossible or unreasonable in the long run.

> A general prompt will give you a general result that is usually very far from what you actually have in mind.

Which is only a problem if I have something in mind. Alternatively I can give no guidance, or loose guidance, make half a dozen variations, pick the one I like best. Maybe iterate a couple of times into that variation tree. Just like the image generators do.
The FCC does hunt down illegal AM/FM broadcast transmitters in residences. They publish several forfeiture orders every month for pirate radio stations (often in residences,) whether their interfering or not. Hunting these is lucrative business given the PIRATE Act (S.1228) and its hefty fines.

I've never seen this happen for a WiFi band operator, so yeah, they're aren't looking. They certainly could though: someone is using all those grey market boosters. Some of those have enough power to show up for many miles, and triangulating them is quite easy.

They do go after cell jammers. One example from 2016 was a guy in Florida using one in his car during his daily commute. People complained their signals failed at about the same time every day and the FCC pursued it and caught him. $48K fine.
That is only practical when you are young and life is simple.

Get married. Start a business. Get sick. Buy a house. Have children. Make interesting friends. Travel extensively.

Once life gets interesting, you start missing important calls with that strategy.
> How exactly is Alex Jones supposed to pay $1 billion dollars to anyone?

One dollar after another.
Not very good guesses. It had me read twice and I used a high quality mic. It guessed Spanish as my native language, but picked up a bit of Chinese and a bit of English. I am a native born American whose only language is English and a life long Midwesterner. I have a midwestern accent and occasionally some Canadian influences sneaks in (or so people have told me), but Spanish/Chinese? Completely wrong.