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I assume he also meant the Alameda Antiques Fair as well.

Google, as a company, is easily ahead even if the model isn't, for various reasons.

Their real mote is the cost efficiency and the ad business. They can (probably) justify the AI spend and stay solvent longer than the market can stay irrational.


I suspected this. They were moving, but randomly to an observer. I’d seen about 2 out of maybe 20 stopped Waymos navigating around Arguello and Geary area in SF Saturday at 6PM. What was worse was that there was little to no connectivity service across all 3 main providers deeper in the power outage area as well - Spruce and Geary or west of Park Presidio (I have 2 phones, with Google Fi/T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon).


those are GPS based too. You typically would have a circuit you trained off off 1PPS and hopefully had a 10 or so satellites in view.

You can get 50ns with this. Of course, you would verify at NIST.


> ...and hopefully had a 10 or so satellites in view.

I believe you'll need 12 GPS sats in view to gain incremental accuracy improvement over 8.


GPS could be blocked easily, and AFAIK even given corrupted inputs. And HFT could possibly benefit from blocking or corrupting competitors GPS.


Deploying a GPS jammer in civilized territory is a great way to go to prison.


Would it actually go so far?

Would the police actually try to investigate from where came the jammer? Might the competing firm possibly even finance an investigation themselves privately? And if so, would the police then accept the evidence?

People have done far more evil things for money.


The victim firm would definitely notice, they’d tell the FCC, and their investigators will show up with a device that literally points them to wherever the jammer is. If you do this for stupid, silly reasons you will get fined[1], if you do it in commission of another crime you will probably get made an example of. It doesn’t matter how evil you are, it’s hilariously easy to get caught doing this.

[1]: https://www.nj.com/news/2013/08/man_fined_32000_for_blocking...


> “Mr. Bojczak claimed that he installed and operated the jamming device in his company-supplied vehicle to block the GPS … system that his employer installed in the vehicle,” the FCC decision stated.

I'm not surprised that somebody would try and do this. However it is just so stupid at every level.


Next to Newark Airport too. He’s lucky they didn’t throw the book at him - they could’ve hit him for reckless endangerment.


We are talking about the UK, not the US. And the jammer will most likely be tucked away in some closet with no hint as to how it got there.


Where were we talking about the UK? All anyone said in this message chain was HFT (and NIST).


Sorry, you are correct. As soon as the subject of HFT came up I was thinking about London and the things they do to reduce latency to the exchanges in North America. It's too late to edit or remove my previous message.


It's not like foreign adversaries care.


The parent was saying HFT firms would do this to other HFT firms. They would care about doing this kind of thing - it’s not a white collar crime. And foreign adversaries would care about doing this during peacetime, especially for very unclear benefit.


it's just software.

it changes and you move on.


were lmgtfy links ever forbidden?


"but now also has a sql engine"

it has had a combined SQL and dataframe engine since March 2015...


30 or 32" 5k is what I'd love - maybe 6k at 32


The minimum wage should easily be 11-13 by any inflation metric you use for the last 40 years, and doubling that for a high cost of living place is reasonable.

Lots of states have state-run liquor stores, even super conservative ones.

It’s a smaller delta than you think.


11-13 isn’t anywhere near 60.

Anyone who has shopped a state run vs regular liquor store knows how much worse the gov version is unless your goal is higher prices, worse service, and worse selection.


The reason state-run liquor stores make some sense is that we don't want to optimize alcohol sales. Neither on price nor volume. This is unlike groceries. The same reason state run monopoly on gambling makes sense but state run monopoly on car manufacturing doesn't.


conda (and its derivatives that are also “conda” now), and conda-forge specifically, are the best ways to install things that will work across operating systems, architectures, and languages - without having to resort to compiling everything.

Want to make sure a software stack works well on a Cray with MPI+cuda+MKL, macOS, and ARM linux, with both C++ and Python libraries? It’s possible with conda-forge.


Conda is hell for multi operationg systems projects. Its lock file is OS dependent. You can't commit it and hope it will work anywere.

It is probably the easiest way to install a lot of binary dependencies, good for who doesn't have experience with sofware development and don't care with reproductbility.


But either you're not doing anything that is OS specific (and then you probably could just use pip), or the OS does make a difference, and hence you need to reflect that in the lock file.


You generate multiple lock files for each OS/Arch variant. You specify the dependency versions in a different file (may also be in a recipe)


For me the best way to install things across operating systems has been nix. I wish it was more popular in the ML community.


You can do all of the above with Wheels.


Can you show me someone who has packaged log4cxx in a wheel? Is it in pip?

Arbitrary examples, I know, but I moved a large software that was truly mixed C++ and python project to conda-forge and all sorts of random C++ dependencies were in there, which drastically simplified distribution and drastically reduced compile time.

If I had done it today, it might be nix+bazel, or maybe conda+bazel, but maintaining a world of C++ libraries for distribution as wheels does not sound like fun - especially because nobody is doing that work as a community now


I wrap Rust/CUDA programs in wheels. I've packaged arbitrary binaries in wheels, like software that's not directly related to Python. Can't say it works for everything, but I suspect so. You just run `maturn build`, then it can be installed with pip.

Conda is like Jquery or Bootstrap: It was necessarily before the official tools evolved. Now we don't need them any more, but they still are around for legacy reasons. You still need it for example, for some Moleular dynamics packages, but that's due to the package publishers choosing it.


Except the ONE annoying quirk that certain major projects and repos let their conda distribution get stale.


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