skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've implemented several things from computer science papers in my career now, mostly related to database stuff. They are mostly terribly wrong or show the exact OPPOSITE as to what they claim in the paper. It's so frustrating. Even occasionally, they offer their code used to write the paper and it is missing entire features they claim are integral for it to function properly; to the point that I wonder how they even came up with the results they came up with.

My favorite example was a huge paper that was almost entirely mathematics-based. It wasn't until you implemented everything that you would realize it just didn't even make any sense. Then, when you read between the lines, you even saw their acknowledgement of that fact in the conclusion. Clever dude.

Anyway, I have very little faith in academic papers; at least when it comes to computer science. Of all the things out there, it is just code. It isn't hard to write and verify what you purport (usually takes less than a week to write the code), so I have no idea what the peer reviews actually do. As a peer in the industry, I would reject so many papers by this point.

And don't even get me started on when I send the (now professor) questions via email to see if I just implemented it wrong, or whatever, that just never fucking reply.
The Miracle of become: (2009)
California's lawsuit against ExxonMobil shows why recycling is broken
I love Diamond Age and Void Star for speaking to some of the raised by internet/laptop-per-child dreams.

This opening up of horizons, connecting us to more, is something so unique & powerful.

Jimmy is talking about all the help & outsiders who pitched in, but I'd also say that this all-ness we can connect to has some of the least guidelines, terrible ability to orient oneself or understand or decypher it. Ateasy growing up Internet For Dummies was a book and covered a decent fraction of what we might find. Now that all society is here the guidebook to the internet it's use and it's dangers is vastly deeper.
People keep saying there's not enough punishment but they're not seeing that somebody is being punished; it's just not Caroline.
I think you mean "also", not "though". (UPI in India was just one example.)
It’s a matter of incentives. Everyone who wants a PhD has to publish and before that they need to produce findings that align with the values of their professors. These bad incentives combined with rampant statistical errors lead to bad findings. We need to stop putting “studies” on a pedestal.
I'd argue that it really depends on the kind of criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of accusing someone of wrongdoing rather than just criticizing them.

I think tagging someone when you're accusing them of wrongdoing is the fair thing to do, considering how quickly that sort of thing can whip others into a frenzy. I see a lot of this sort of thing, where someone will accuse someone of heinous things like pedophilia from behind a block, and by the time the person being accused understands what's going on, they're being hounded by people who get off to drama about why they haven't denied the accusations yet.

On the other hand, tagging when simply criticizing someone often feels like attention-seeking to me. I see this a lot with space stuff, where someone will offer (often completely ignorant) criticism, while pinging Musk, Bezos and/or other figures in the space discussion community.
According to the same prosecutors whose DNA was found on the murder weapon. It’s unlikely he could be found innocent in the future, but when the evidence is that flawed, and the prosecution and the victim’s family are asking for life instead of execution, it seems like a no brainer.
As a hobby historian (not really haha) I'm interested in old streets and names particularly.

Especially here in Europe / Germany, where entire quarters where bombed to rubbles newer streets do not match neither namely nor spatially.

I loved how you could "move back in time" in street view. I think that has been killed too? There is a lovely Twitter/X account for Detroit tho: https://x.com/DetroitStreetVu
It's worse than that. It's actually an AGI seed. If you run it, you get an AI which quickly gains sentience... but it's Mad.
FedNow is not launching in Europe.
The Patreon approach works for non-news content.

But stuff like the Ezra Klein show is a mix -- some of it is more evergreen content (interviews with authors), but there's also a lot of stuff that is topical for the specific week. Getting it a week late, you might as well not get it at all.

The back catalog approach is consistent with the "news archives" approach that a lot of newspapers and magazines have -- even if you're allowed to access a certain number of free stories per month, the "archives" are all locked behind a paywall.

I think it makes sense -- the most-shared episode is probably always going to be within the most recent two, while it's the real fans who are going to go through the whole back catalog and are willing to pay.
I had heard of this, but never understood how it works until now.

Intuitively it makes sense that if you have an accurate universal clock, you can check your longitude by measuring at what time the sun rises/sets (i.e if you fly east 3 time zones, the sun will set 3 hours earlier).

It turns out that Jupiter’s moons can be used as an accurate universal clock, by noting the timing of various eclipses.
I understand that packaging cross platform apps is hard. Just note that I was talking about the MacOS package, not Flatpak.
Ask HN: How are you using AI for sales in your startup? Clear use cases only
Wow, sounds awful. Help the rest of us out - what was the huge paper that didn't work or was actively misleading?
Cheap alibi
We had remote teams before the cloud. We had VPNs for accessing files and services on our own servers. Often, those servers were a pile of boxes sitting in the corner of the office, but sometimes off in a data center somewhere. We had instant messaging, too. Remember that "the cloud" is just someone else's servers, and yes we did have servers before the cloud.

The cloud is easier, and better in many ways. (And worse in a smaller set of ways.) But be careful saying that the cloud was what drove remote work, because that really isn't it - wide access to broadband speeds from home is what enabled it more than any specific set of servers you choose to access.
This isn't password-protected RSS, though. The article explains it requires Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and you either have to subscribe within those or link your existing NY Times subscription.
The no snitching rule applies mostly to someone who is already in prison and consequences depend on the security level. No one’s going to kill a snitch in minimum security, worst case scenario is that they’ll be outcasts and get into a fight occasionally.

The majority of prisoners are in prison because of a plea deal, not a jury verdict, so they often have to snitch on their accomplices as part of the plea deal (with severe consequences for lying and omissions). In practice the traditional prisoner’s dilemma usually plays out with everyone snitching on each other and everyone getting a deal because the prosecutor doesn’t want to waste time and money on a trial.
Agreed. Some other examples:

It counts Jamboard (the device) and Google Jamboard (the app) as two different things, despite the link to the news of their death being in the same article and Google shutting them at the same time.[0]

It counts YouTube go which was an optimized version of YouTube for slow devices in developing countries. Google claims these optimizations are no longer necessary. That makes sense as devices have gotten more powerful over time and a smartphone in the developing world should be enough to play YouTube videos in the regular YouTube app. Seems like the latest budget Itel model, which is popular in Africa,[1] the A50, has 3GB of RAM and 64GB ROM.[2] For comparison the iPhone SE from 2020 also had 3GB X 64GB. Running adb shell dumpsys meminfo while running a Youtube video shows the following: 585,268K: app.revanced.android.youtube. So it seems to me that the YouTube app may really not need a Go version anymore. Same for YouTube Leanback which was for the web. Similarly shutting down YouTube gaming probably did not actually affect users in any way. It's not like there were videos that were only accessible from that app.

[0] https://www.itel-india.com/product/a50/

[1] https://www.pulse.ng/business/domestic/top-phone-brands-in-a...

[2] https://9to5google.com/2023/09/28/google-jamboard/
It's a corrupt market imo, like car dealerships - they work to legislate their continued existence.

Any market structured where you have some people doing many transactions and some doing few ends up skewed to benefit the person doing many while screwing the person doing few.

It's true with realtors, IPOs with investment banks, car dealerships, funeral homes etc. and it's a hard problem to fix.
We tracked hours when doing R&D on Innovate UK grants that required it. (Ex UK startup.)
Interesting. This is a common problem in academia?
Or since prices are set up by retailers, they'll get extra 3% profit.
When someone says something, but their actions or commitment don't align with what they said, they were lying. Always place more weight on what it takes more effort to do: spout a bunch of hot air, or put your money where your mouth is?

Occam's Razor, duh.
Yeah, but it's not saying "don't do papers", it's saying your long-term investment should be projects.
What would be the recommendation to run on ESP32?

https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3? https://github.com/espressif/esp-wasmachine ? https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/tree/... ? https://github.com/TOPLLab/WARDuino ?
True, but if they accept credit cards then customers will rarely pay with cash. We assumed here cash is a major transaction method, since otherwise their cash management costs are minimal.
“Needs access to the camera” is inherent in the modal popping up in the first place.

Explain why you need it and what you’ll use it for.

“Halide needs access to the camera to capture the photos you take.”

Capture photos, that’s obvious. Will only be used when _I_ choose to take photos. That’s good to know!

Contrast with something like “App needs access to capture the photos you take as well as perform periodic background captures and image recognition to provide feedback to our advertising partners.”… Wait, what?!

Still silly, but I don’t think there’s no room for more precision and clarity here. The prompt Halide is using doesn’t actually say they’re _not_ doing the second one.
They say books are even better, how big your books are is telling something about anyone?
You would be teaching a soon-to-be-adult about the adult world. The game engine is entirely incidental to developing a peer to peer relationship.

Their interest in spending time with you will diminish. That reality is the one to optimize for. Recreational interests come and go and come back sometimes. But most don’t stick.

Learning Unreal Engine with your 11 year old is possible, but not for more than year.
Oh, I didn't know MicroPython was fully AOT. I'm surprised, since vanilla Python is typically interpreted with maybe a bytecode cache, right?
If you are iterating over a lot of files, a read while loop can be a major bottleneck. As long as you use the null options from find and pipe into xargs, you should be safe with any filename.

I've found it can reduce minutes down to seconds for large operations.

If you have to process a large number of files, you can let xargs minimize the number of times a program is run, instead of running it once per file.

Something like:

# Set the setgid bit for owner and group of all folders
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s

# Make the targets of symlinks immutable
find . -type l -print 0 | xargs -0 readlink -z | xargs -0 chattr +i

Way faster.
But there are lots of caveats. Make sure your programs support it. Maybe read the xargs man page.
So do old Chromecast's.
People have uses for conclusions that sometimes don't have anything to do with their validity.

So while "if it's any good, people will use it" is true and quality contributions will be useful, the converse is not true: the use or reach of published work may be only tenuously connected to whether it's good.

Reputation signals like credentials and authority have their limits/noise, but bring some extra signal to the situation.
You can't move between nodes, because, unfortunately the usernames in ActivityPub have the server name embedded into them like an email address. Nostr fixes that by having user identity be basically a crypto signature instead.
I think the comment was hyperbole
`find` is almost always easier, but you can get quite far with `ls -Q` if you can assume GNU ls.
The most interesting part to me is the Cyberpunk 2077 performance compared to Snapdragon and AMD. It's surprisingly good and considering Strix Point pricing, Intel might be the next sure bet for the Steam Deck 2. If not with this, then maybe with Panther Lake (Intel 18A).
I never had internet until I was 13, 2000, but CompuServ was always bundled with the Windows 95 companion disc with the game Hover!

While I could never connect to; however you could launch the browser GUI of buttons upon buttons which always left me excited.

The days where you were excited to get a 512mb memory stick for xmas or a new graphics card are long gone, it's sad now that technology nowadays are just a rehash.

There was always something special about AGP but maybe because i'm an adult rather than an edgy teen it's just not the same.

Surprised my boss at work today when I told him I wanted to work on the Solaris boxes.
FedNow is analogous to SWIFT, not applications like Giropay / iDEAL / wero.
Back in the day, Yahoo Finance provided anonymous message boards for each publicly traded company. Someone with an anonymous handle was posting all kinds of (accurate) shit about my company. He wasn't using his real name in the forum, but his complaints were specific enough that the company could narrow it down to his department, and it didn't take long for them to fire him.
> If we cannot trust that results of research are true, then how can we justify using them to make any kind of decisions in society?

Well, don't.

Make your decisions based on replicated results. Stop hyping single studies.
As a software developer, I can understand the point Matt is making but it's sad to see him calling another competitor a "cancer" to the web. I like Wordpress and was inspired by it a lot but with many years hosting Wordpress sites for our customers, I find its plugin and theme architecture very vulnerable and often be the backdoors for hackers/scammers to launch attacks on servers hosting Wordpress sites. Whoever hosting Wordpress sites must do a good jobs securing their servers to prevent exploits through the Wordpress plugins and theming system. I dont know much about WP Engine but they should be credited for securing their massive Wordpress installations. In my opinion, Matt should focus more on fixing the weaknesses of Wordpress architecture than bashing his competitor, Wordpress is really a pain point to those providing hosting for it. We used to provide Wordpress hosting and did customize it as a website builder but due to its fragile architecture, we have decided to develop our own CMS system, with 3rd party plugin and theming system inspired by Wordpress but have built-in protection mechanism to prevent backdoors potentially exist in 3rd party code.
Some fees will drop, there will definitely be an H&R Block version of agents.

Other agents will have such demand, their fees will remain high.

It’s not clear to me as a potential buyer that I want to go with the commodity, especially in quirky areas like TICs in San Francisco. We’re in for an interesting ride, best of luck to this team!
I served 30-ish days in jail for a lot less than that. Not that I had a lot of choice in the matter.
I'd rather not, for obvious reasons. The less obvious reason is that I don't remember the title/author of the paper. It was back in 2016/17 when I was working on a temporal database project at work and was searching literature for temporal query syntax though.
My mistake, I was going by the release of the Switch (2017) but I forgot their support overlapped for a while before the 3DS was officially EOLed. Nonetheless if Google Toolbar gets a spot for being killed in 2021, long past it having any relevance whatsoever, I don't doubt that YouTube 3DS would be guaranteed a spot no matter how long Google kept it on life support.
It’s not hard to set the price so that, after tax, it’s exactly $60. It’s a local shop. They aren’t dealing with a bunch of locations or planning to move any time soon. They are good enough that you will seek them out in their low-rent back-street suburban mini-strip-mall. They don’t rely on walk-ins or visibility to sell. You will drive there just to eat their cake, and they are well-known enough that they do most of the high-end cakes in town for weddings and the like.

So instead of advertising a $55 cake that sells for $57.62 or whatever, advertise a $57.33 cake that sells for exactly $60.
Am curious as to where this happens. Everywhere I go around the world, train is much faster than buses (a general rule is 2x faster but express trains can be even faster). Anytime there are buses replacing train services, the bus is often at least 2x slower than the equivalent train service (and sometimes they even end up skipping certain low-usage stops for the bus to try and achieve a manageable timetable for the buses). I've not seen anywhere in the world where buses are faster.
Really valid use case too. Very very common in recovery to block alcohol or gambling companies to avoid their ads.
On a livestream the other day, Stephan Wolfram said he stopped publishing through academic journals in the 1980's because he found it far more efficient to just put stuff online. (And his blog is incredible: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/all-by-date/)

A genius who figured it academic publishing had gone to shit decades ahead of everyone else.

P.S. We built the future of academic publishing, and it's an order of magnitude better than anything else out there.
You got a real question or is all about your iOS18
>These people are not seeking "truth"

Careful with those absolutes, there. And the whole "these people" thing, too, probably.
I ship 50+ app updates per year on the Apple App Store including updates for a top 10 ranked app. This kind of thing happens more often than less. It mainly hurts timed promotions or marketing efforts that the rest of the company has planned for.

Last month our app was rejected for not working on the iPad Air. This rejection came in at 2 am in the morning on a weekend. App was never supported for iPad. My company panicked but I realized what was happening and just sent it for review again and it was accepted after 15 hours.

But the damage was done and iOS platform missed the marketing launch. Android made it through.

It’s a mess because the review is almost always disproportionate to the changes you might have done in a update. That update was a simple content change and there was no reason to assume it would be blocked. But there is never any guarantee. Sometimes they will say you can’t say iOS 18 in your release notes. :) it’s dumb so be warned, set the right expectation to the rest of the organization.
My brain skipped the Caroline part and I totally believed it
Cinebench is really a terrible benchmark and not indicative of real-world numbers for performance or efficiency (particularly not for any of my use cases). I'll wait for better reviews and benchmarks before deciding who's "won".
But the money is already gone. You will probably get it back, but you don't have it until then.

With a credit card, you haven't lost anything yet.
You are genuinely unwell, I suggest seeking professional help if you believe cars are the single root cause of problems in the world. 5 of the top 5 are also related to cellphones (obesity is increased by spending all day on technology, RF is possibly carcinogenic according to the IARC, accidents in tech happen daily that kill people, lights can induce stroke, and Big Tech demand WFH positions come into contact with COVID-19 via forced in-office days) and yet I don’t hear you complaining, despite the objective reality that cellphones are related to more death than even cars, and are even the root cause of most “violent” auto accidents.
HealthEquity Notice of Data Breach
I think it's clear that this paper has stood the rest of time over the last 20 years. Our estimates of how much published work fails to replicate or is outright fraudulent have only increased since then.
She should have gotten the same as Sam.
Robot soccer has been around for years. It's still not very good. Here's the current level of performance.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppNmh6l3DM
The obvious incentive is that Visa is giving you 1-2% cash back while charging the merchant 3%+, so the merchant will give you a >2% discount to use FedNow. Or charge you the extra 3% to use Visa.

But this is where we get into antitrust issues. Visa imposes a 3% cap on the surcharge you can add, but then typical processing fees (e.g. Stripe) are 2.9% + $0.30. For a $1 transaction that's >30%, but Visa caps the amount exposed to the customer at 3% -- and low value transactions are the exact market where the lower-fee competition would gain the most ground from having a price advantage. How is that not an antitrust violation?
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Zoomin
In the context of GP's quoting, you'd be a convicted felon, sure. But you'd also be a billionaire, and which point I'd not be terribly concerned about "stigma".
They may, if the issuer wants to be generous. They are not entitled to the same legal protections that credit cards are.
You mean offering it for free to everyone, but driving traffic to social media? Also, can I ask, from a consumer's perspective, what pricing do you think would be acceptable for my product?
Corporate america is like a prison. Only you have the illusion of choice.
> The block button doesn't stop them.

No and nobody claimed it does. Making it just a bit harder and making the other party jump through an extra hoop reduces it though. The extra friction has been implemented on many platforms and it works. Instagram adds friction in a different way, but also claims it has a positive result: https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/key-be...

You can also see people migrating to other platforms who raise the lack of search / being easily found as a feature. It's not black and white and it's not public or not. There's a whole range of how accessible your content is to parties who will attack you.
Light rail provides mostly equivalent service to streetcars. Brooklyn-Queens is getting the Interborough Express at some point.

https://new.mta.info/project/interborough-express
> got into computer science because of The Matrix?

Looking at at least one. It put me into the cringe habit of customizing my desktop the way I wanted it, and realising that Windows just would not do for customization, and thus began my lifelong Linux affliction.
In almost every case the prisoner is doing it voluntarily.

There are actually fewer prison jobs than prisoners willing to work. So in nearly every case being able to have a job while in prison is actually a privilege for the prisoners. One that can be taken away if they get in trouble.

There's a lot of reform we should make with relation to prison jobs including raising wages and introducing relevant skills.

But criticisms of it being slave labor are misleading.

Forced labor is legal in the US and there are isolated cases of it happening but you're talking about a fraction of a percent of all prisoners.
Outright research fraud is probably very rare; the cases we've heard about stick out, but people outside of academia usually don't have a good intuition for just how vast the annual output of the sciences are. Remember the famous PhD comic, showing how your thesis is going to be an infinitesimal fraction of the work of your field.