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by jefftk 2y ago
> eBay is a second price auction too most people just don't use it like one. You can place a huge maximum bid and will only pay the second highest bid plus an increment. It just automatically semi-unseals bids as new bids come in s
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> nobody uses Vickrey because it's impossible to explain to the public why the highest bid wasn't accepted Google used to use second-price for all their ads, though I think they've stopped: https://support.goo
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Here's the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9 It was trained on global data, and makes global forecasts.
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Even if an area is pre-mapped, if you're operating on public streets you need to handle all sorts of unusual things. Here's a Cruise video recorded in 2016 on SF streets, showing a tricky interactions with buses, stopped delivery
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by jefftk 2y ago
When you say "what was available" do you mean what a Tesla was capable of? Because I was trying to talk about things like Cruise driving for 90min at night in a city with no intervention: https://youtu.be/KSRPmng1c
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I think there's some chance that Tesla's approach will work out for them, but I'm not optimistic. Getting self-driving software to "impressively good" happened pretty quickly, and even systems from 2016 would usual
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I'm very much aware of how Drive Pilot doesn't handle most cases: in my comment I described it as "super limited" and linked to where Mercedes describes the details. But within the range of cases where the Mercedes syste
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> The latter is closer to a Waymo or Cruise than it is to a Mercedes or GM driver assist. It depends how you look at it, but in the (super limited) cases where you can use Mercedes Drive Pilot you can legally and safely read a book, wa
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I often want to comment individual array values to give more context or describe provenance. I don't think I've ever wanted to add a comment in the middle of a keyword.
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Thanks for the tip! (I'm very conflicted about learning new things that make shell more convenient: I don't need more things pushing me toward using this in-many-ways-horrible-but-I'm-so-fast-with-it tool.)
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In this case a big part of the problem seems to be that OP has 2fa enabled but set to a phone number they don't have access to anymore. This is a really tricky situation for any provider to handle.
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Back when I worked on mod_pagespeed we wrote shell scripts for our end-to-end tests. This was expedient when getting started, but then we just kept using it long past when we should have switched away. At one point I got buy-in for switch
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My experience is that Gemini is overly willing to admit it was wrong, but (currently; it used to be worse) won't start saying false things in response to correction. I just tested your examples: * "What color is the sky?"
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> Where do you draw the line between extending your project and providing free labor to a for-profit company? I work on my various projects to the extent that it is fun. If it stops being fun, I don't do it. Making something broad
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Tech support is entirely optional, and I only do it to the extent that I enjoy it. (Or, when at one point I had a job as an open source developer, to the extent that I thought it would improve our software.)
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I've been an open source maintainer (and still am to a smaller degree) and I think sneak is right. I'm happy for people to use things I create and release, and their use doesn't impose costs on me.
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> The US government bailed out GM for $51 billion dollars. The headline number here should be ~$11B [1] -- while the US put in more than that, they also got most of it back. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a
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> Something about having the fat globules loose in there makes it taste richer, and gives it a different texture. You can also just mix skim milk and cream right before drinking. Tastes richer for a given fat content. (We started doin
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It reads to me like this was on the exam for getting into the CS program in particular, though. Which makes it sound like IIT has dealt with the very large number of students who want to study CS by trying to limit it to the overall academi
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Since writing this: * My colleagues Simon Grimm and Will Bradshaw did a much more thorough analysis which ended up in a similar place: https://naobservatory.org/blog/investigating-the-sensitivity... * I've updated
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Not surprising that this would be on a list of questions at least one model got wrong, since I think the real answer is "there isn't one anymore, but from 1879 to 1999 the answer would have been Radcliffe College".
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Over a decade ago, and after asking about it on the OpenSSL mailing list, yes. I don't think it is much of a reason not to use Debian now. Characteristically good piece on this by Russ Cox: https://research.swtch.com/o
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It's a trade: IP for more sales in China. At this point these companies surely know how it works and are doing it because they think it's the more profitable choice
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Outside of browsers this is already how it works. Nothing is stopping LLVM versus GCC from adding their favorite language features, but it's not a disaster.
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Mmm, looks like you're right. Sorry!
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> An ice age is simply when the earth's poles have an ice cover. Are you sure? I'm not seeing that definition anywhere, and it looks like even in interglacial periods there's permanent ice in both hemispheres: https:&#
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> the only thing that changed when replacing the "old" Google Assistant with the Gemini-powered one on my Pixel was that it's no longer able to create reminders Weird! Mine can still create reminders, as well as set tim
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For JPEG this is the EXIF Orientation flag: https://jdhao.github.io/2019/07/31/image_rotation_exif_info/ It allows the camera to write almost its output without considering how you're holding the ca
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The Mercedes system is definitely, as I said, very limited. But within it's operating conditions the Mercedes system is much more useful: you can safely and legally read, work, or watch a movie while in the driver's seat, literall
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Note that Mercedes does take liability for accidents with their (very limited level) level 3 system: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892154/mercedes-benz-dr...

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