skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no compensation for reviewers, and usually no compensation for editors. It’s effectively volunteer work. I agree to review a paper if it seems interesting to me and I want to effectively force myself to read it a lot more carefully than normal. It’s hard work, especially if there is a problem with the paper, because you have to dig out the problem and explain it clearly. An academic could refuse to do any reviews with essentially no formal consequences, although they’d get a reputation as a “bad citizen” of some kind.
As far as I can tell, "Enhanced Visual Search" is the same thing as what Google Photos calls "Estimate missing locations"[1]. In absence of GPS coordinates added by the camera, it "estimates your location from information such as landmarks and locations in your other photos".

[1] Settings > Privacy > Location Options > Estimate missing locations
Gents, I'm the CEO of getfullyear.com

Happy to answer any questions regarding our service.
And it seems to be David C Norris, a software engineer from Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcnorris/details/experience/

Here are more details about Bogus Software: https://minesweepergame.com/history/bogus-software.php
The problem isn't that people don't want quality. The problem is that people can't find quality a priori.

Sure, I can tell the quality once the thing is in my hand. However, that's far, far too late.

I was willing to pay more for my Chevy Volt, but GM discontinued it anyway. I'm willing to pay more for soap without perfume and chemicals, but Proctor and Gamble discontinued their scentless, antibioticless Ivory Hand Soap and then changed the formula on Ivory Bar soap. etc.

I'm willing to pay double for a better plumber, but I can't find him. I'm willing to pay someone double ot triple the amount of money for some bespoke clothing, but I can't find him. etc.

If I can find the thing I want, I buy it. A lot of it. But I can't find it.
"Free-speech absolutist" supporting far-right in German elections [1], suppressing (specific) far-right arguments in his own country [2].

I guess he is an "absolutist" as long as you absolutely agree with his political interests.

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869986946031988780

[2] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1872860577057448306
Whether it’s a journal, a university, a tech company… never take it personally because there’s bureaucracy, policies, etc and information lost in the operation of the whole process. Cast a wide net and believe in the value you’ve created or bring.
Dont feel bad, the discussion shows most of HN doesnt have what it takes :) meanwhile others are trying to move around the map without killing anything. Haha

I cant figure out how to take the right turn without killing at least one shotgun guy.
"And the problem was that people ignored what they were supposed to think, and carried on celebrating the new year on 1 January anyway, as they had done since time immemorial."

"Time immemorial" is an exaggeration, right, as many commenters here gave contrary examples.
Interesting but... The first website I've tried it (which I'm currently working on due to a change of platform) couldn't find anything other than the main request, and I know for sure there is a POST reguest to the API to get some data (I had a scrapper working, website changed, had to re-do the scrapper again).

I've checked the tutorial, seems that I'm not missing any step, the software simple cannot capture anything if the request is made on the main page, seems to work fine with forms, buttons and "manual" actions.

I can DM you the website plus the expected request that is made, visible with any browser internal debugging tools.
Probably no big deal for fire development, but throws a spanner in the works for successfully extinguishing it
Xbox as a console is a failure in as much that it's coming third in a market of three and that in response to that, Microsoft are significantly changing their strategy, something they probably wouldn't have done if they were market leader.

But I agree with you on all points and I think the direction Microsoft are going in is the right one, though they should have done it sooner, the Series consoles have felt rather superfluous. They should have been working on adding a solid console UI to Windows a generation ago.
If you replace the title with Django it still works. I’m doing the same as the author, but with Django.
I am unfortunately skeptical. As you say theyve got two test units in orbit and every day the frequency allocations tick closer. Whats the launch schedule look like for 3000 successful units inside 18 months? What about the in house build process. I havent heard anything that reflects the exponential process growth & delivery theyll need.

That first real launch also starts the recurring costs ticking on the limited orbit lifetime of that hardware. I havent thought through the numbers in a while, but something like a billion or three per year to maintain the constellation? Swag (an optimistic?) $2m satellite and $2m launch cost and 7 year lifetime, thats an yearly average of $1.7b in “maintenance” to keep the very minimal constellation up there. Easily double if their

Im also pretty skeptical of their business. AFAICT its a bunch of ex telecoms and space/defense contractors. So theyre going to try and soak US DoD for connectivity with a more uh, “reliable”, company and a consumer side of “space comcast.” Im pretty skeptical on consumer space “broadband” due to the density problems. And I use comcast as a perjorative for their business & network interop coming from CDN & ISP land.

Lastly on a positive note, I dont expect the same employee resignation bloodbath that AMZN at large is going through at the moment. Kuiper (afaik) has been pretty top down “you shall come in to the office” the whole time, so any rto mandate is unlikely to change the existing experience.
You mean forwarding to VSCode dev container?

If you are using Docker Engine directly on Linux, you can forward a device to a container via docker-compose `devices` setting.

If you are using Docker Desktop (or similar), there is no native way. However, there are ways to share USB devices via network (USB/IP is an open source implementation of this), in which case you setup server on host device (can be macOS/Windows/Linux), and then run a client software inside a container.
Hi Burak, all serious discussions about types end up talking about logic at some point, and I just don't think that types are a particularly helpful way to think about logic. I'd rather use normal mathematics to think about logic. Take a look at [1], at this point abstraction logic is less confused and hopefully clearer than it was a few years ago when you first checked it out.

[1] http://abstractionlogic.com
It's also good to remember that Macs weren't exactly that stable until Mac OS X.
That's why I come to this website. Happy new year!
Some of it is this.

I often buy things I suspect are low quality. Why? I can't really figure out what is or isn't low quality, so I am basically purchasing the cheapest raffle ticket so the cost of being wrong is minimal.

Same with a lot of services. I often cheap out and DIY. Might I screw up? Absolutely. But family experience with trades has shown that they are also a crapshoot outside a few certifications. Breaking a few locks or light fixtures is cheaper than screwing up once on a locksmith or handyman.
This only discusses the difference between professional and non-professional users, but forgets the amateur side : it will not take long before an amateur becomes picky about their hobby.

Also, picking the "crappy" choice because it's the safe choice in a social context is yet another matter... (the quality there is one of helping socialization !)
Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel
(I solicited feedback from this wonderful community for a draft of this project eight months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972586 ... I was humbled by and am wholeheartedly grateful to several brilliant proofreaders; their names appear at the end of the second chapter.)

_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next.

Think: escape room in the form of a novel -- or, as one reader put it, "Interactive Fiction meets Advent of Code."

A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too!

My wife, the author, passed away six years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most unusual, unapproachable, and personal of her major works. It is also, as the only novel of hers that I cannot breeze through in an afternoon (and despite my unflattering appearance in it), my favorite.

Though _Dimity Jones_ was left unfinished, and perhaps abandoned, at the time of my wife's death, its elements were all there, on her hard disk, awaiting only a final compiling. My contribution to this text has therefore been little more than that of an occasional copyeditor (my wife was a meticulous speller and self-proofreader) and playtester.

Thank you for checking it out.
> Do universities require staff to perform a certain number of reviews in academic journals?

No. Reviewers mostly do it because its expected of them, and they want to publish their own papers so they can get grants

In the end, the university only cares about the grant (money), because they get a cut - somewhere between 30-70% depending on the instituition/field - for "overhead"

Its like the mafia - everyone has a boss they kick up to.

My old boss (PI on an RO1) explained it like this

Ideas -> Grant -> Money -> Equipment/Personnel -> Experiments -> Data -> Paper -> Submit/Review/Publish (hopefully) -> Ideas -> Grant

If you don't review, go to conferences/etc. its much less likely your own papers will get published, and you won't get approved for grants.

Sadly there is still a bit of "junior high popularity contest" , scratch my back I'll scratch yours that is still present in even "highly respected" science journals.

I hear this from basically every scientist I've known. Even successful ones - not just the marginal ones.
On mobile you have to stop walking to turn. It needs 8 directions to really work.
I agree that would be the next line of investigation.

Although them not knowing this would mean the OP's argument is incorrect.
For more general algorithms along these lines, see exercises 25–28 in section 1.2.2 of Knuth[1] (and note that the printed solution to exercise 28 in early printings has an error[2]).

[1] D.E. Knuth, The art of computer programming. Vol. 1, third edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997.

[2] https://www.werkema.com/2021/10/14/my-knuth-check/
I learned I can't play Doom if I can't strafe. I'm a bot!
Unlike a book or a movie, the people doing the interpretation do not have access to the source material.

The best analogy for me is a reproduction of an artwork without using it as a base material and that would not be covered by derivative laws I think.

> You can additionally argue it's a translation. From machine code to readable source code. Translation are directly covered by copyright law already.

What's under copyright isn't exactly the binary, it's the translation of the source code to the binary because the source code is what's copyrighted at the end of the day.

Here the line is much muddier since the end result has nothing to do with the copyrighted work.
How an Old Laptop Is Transformed into 9-Karat Gold Earrings
I like “it” but it’s a shame it works only in single line blocks.
Option what. I am trying to solve a captcha on a mobile phone. I have 4 buttons on left of screen (equiv to wasd) and on right I can shoot. If I go back the imp (IIRC that was its name) cannot hit me, so I can easily shoot the cannon fodder coming from the right. Gg. But no strafing!
I've just gone through the "Docs" section and I appreciate how it covers the intended workflow and use cases. I'm on Debian/Intel and other than the need to install Chrome I only had a few small issues.

++ A self contained appImage is a good way to go, but where do you put it? A default install location should be added for those used to an `apt install`.

I went `sudo wget $URL -C /usr/local/bin/` and `chmod +x $appimage`. This worked fine until Collection creation when some internal state change smacked into my root owned file permissions. I `chmod 777` it and restarted the app, no more issue. It's my machine and I can chmod how I want but I think doc clarity would help those unfamiliar with appimage.

++ Renaming projects, collections, etc is cumbersome. For example, when clicking the 'New Project" pencil a change name window opens with several steps needed then to rename the project. That single click could combine opening the window, that window grabbing focus, with the cursor in a blank form window, followed by 'Enter'.

++ Ability to toggle showing the Properties column. On a 14" hi rez laptop, the screen is crowded. And resize Project width.

++ The default flow view size is too small.

I hope that's helpful. A small number of UI tweaks and it's already at "Don't F*** With It!" stage. The issues above are small and don't take away from how great and EXCITED I was going through the tutorial. I went through the entire docs and the tutorial and I think it's a fine program. Your layout of the DOM response is also really nice!
I agree with your first part but not your second. Most authors do not make outrageous claims, and I surely would reject their manuscript if they did. I've done it before and will do it again without any issue.

To me, the point of peer review is to both evaluate the science/correctness of the work, but also to ensure that this is something novel that is worth telling others about. Does the manuscript introduce something novel into the literature? That is my standard (and the standard that I was taught). I typically look for at least one of three things: new theory, new data/experiments, or an extensive review and summation of existing work. The more results the manuscript has, the more likely it is to meet this novelty requirement.
ok, true. let me rephase that. there will always be places and situations for which cloud syncing is not a feasible solution. as a frequent traveler and digital nomad i am quite frequently in such places and situations and therefore i prefer to maximize my recovery options by not relying on cloud sync. (i do have a self-hosted cloud backup, but it is not a replacement for other recovery options)
I was going to write a bite more about convention over configuration in regards to AI, but it didn’t feel super tight.

I think that the doctrine of convention over configuration leads to content that is much more legible to LLMs in training. I find querying Claude for Rails issues to be really helpful. I suspect would be very helpful to a novice.
I think Gemini did better than you think with its second answer! Your original question didn't mention that the bags were made of the same material or the same density of material. The set of all possible bags that could hold 1 pound of feathers includes some thinner, weaker bags than the set of all possible bags that could hold 1 pound of gold (the gold being denser). So absent any other prior information the probability is greater than 50% that the gold-bag would be heavier than the feather-bag on that basis.

One could go further into the linguistic nuance of saying "this can hold one pound of [substance]", which often implies that that's its maximum carrying capacity; this would actually make the "trick question" answer all the more correct, as a bag that is on the cusp of ripping when holding one pound of feathers would almost certainly rip when holding one pound of (much denser) gold.
on mobile phone. Just back up directly from the start to the door behind you so you dont get shoot then snipe them from a distance. captcha solved.
Looking more closely at the image, it seems that the strikeouts are what are confusing the model. It sees "Henry" and disregards "James" written above it. In a few places, the strikeouts almost look more like underlining.

Gotta be an insanely-challenging task for a program that wasn't even written with handwriting recognition in mind.

Other than the proper names, are any major details wrong?
Random trivia: the creators of Doom made sure that they could complete each level starting only with a pistol and 50 rounds by doing it themselves.
During that 20 years experts dismissed Apple as dying and too risky windows was the smart investment just like VHS.
There are definitely things they’re good at. And there’s definitely things that they’re bad at, worse than nothing at all. The problem is how often they’re being used in the later case, and how rarely in the former.
Apple exists.
Pistol-starting E1M9 "Army Base", the first episode's massive difficulty spike of a secret level, on a touchscreen? Not that I don't appreciate the massive vote of confidence, but...
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/card/2025/01/01/business/uk-royal-mi...
Lua is very flexible and very fun to hack! With a different approach [0], you can get a switch on tag that feels more like a "standard" switch statement, eg.:

result = switch(shape) {
rectangle = function(r)
return "a rectangle with width " .. r.width
end,
function(s)
return "an unknown shape"
end
}

Can't easily get rid of the pesky functions, though.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/krajzeg/9bd8806fb72c1ae22eb931b42b3d...
If unis "win", what is the likely outcome?
I can kind of see that, but t
I think the main thing is more along the lines of "this interesting thing shouldn't be banned just because some people can't handle it" and "the punishment should fit the harm".

Regulations actually in place to protect people are fine. Most regulations on this sort of thing are overbearing. A lot of the licensing and recordkeeping are targeted towards companies and commercial producers and apply ham-fistedly to individuals. One example is distillation of spirits. It's illegal for me to distill. I'm not even allowed to get a license to do it because my property is residential and not commercial even though I want to do it for myself. There's really no valid reasoning for. The courts are starting to agree - there was one court that said making the permit impossible to get as an individual in a residential property is a violation of some right.

The point is, we should challenge regulations that don't make sense. If there is a valid reason, then we learn. If there isn't a valid reason, then maybe we can correct some injustice. Even as hackers/programmers/etc, we miss edge cases and have to amend our code, it's really not much different for policies, probably even worse than the spaghetti code with of us has seen.
They were stable enough and the plug and play actually worked.
Key word here is '_and_'. Yes, I have not seen SS7 in a decade. On over hand Diameter is widely used everywhere.
Because that was a little too subtle and I was sufficiently curious:

view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20240827031455/https://ottertune...

scroll until you see ASCII art
> Obviously 62%, 72%, 72% in ten tries, etc. is not sufficient by itself. How do scholars use these tools? Without some external source to verify the truth, you can't know if the software output is accurate. And if you have some reliable external source, you don't need the software.

Without an extant text to compare, everything would be a guess. Maybe this would be helpful if you're trying to get a rough and dirty translation of a bunch of papyri or inscriptions? Until we have an AI that's able to adequately explain it's reasoning I can't see this replacing philologists with domain-specific expertise who are able to walk you through the choices they made.
This is the funniest and the most elaborate way of closing form submissions that I think I've ever seen. Well done!
Not sure if wasd was used by high profile Doom players. You see, there weren't many keybinds. You had ctrl and alt for shoot and strafe (fun thing to do was press del casually on a player's keyboard, like Russian roulette, then be like 'WTF crash?'), and you had the arrow keys for movement. Then you had 4 keys for weapons in Wolf3d and some more in Doom. Swapping those required travel, but IIRC swap wasn't instant. So, no crouch, no jump, no look up or down, not even reload IIRC. Games utilizing wasd were usually multiplayer games. One would sit left, with wasd. One would sit right, with arrow keys.
I assume other Steam Deck like hardware which is a fixed target could support it, apparently the Legion Go S is going to ship with Steam OS rather than Windows.

On PC hardware it seems unlikely, more chance of Epic fixing their engine.
How does it make it not a secure, distributed store of value? Just asking.
It’s a trick question sorta.

You can’t make a compound curve out of sheet material. Drywall can bend in a single axis only. If you add a second axis (compound curves) it won’t really work. Think about trying to drywall a sphere. The best you can do is a high poly sphere.
And yet people kept buying windows and whining about it many versions of OS X later.
Title is patently false. The first part of the article boils down to "most people aren't pedants". The second part is mostly irrelevant because the Netflix pivot to "casual viewing" is a bid to enter a new market. Their viewership (and stock) would immediately tank if they switched exclusively to "casual viewing". TFA acknowledges this when elevating ABBA against something "no one has ever heard of". The insinuation is that popularity equates to quality whereas the opposite is true.

It just takes time.

Contrary to popular rhetoric, people are neither as dumb nor as smart as you might think.

> Fashionistas decry the homogeneity of modern dress. Most of us think jeans and a t-shirt are basically fine.

Again, most people are neither pedants nor purists.

I think that's the actual point TFA makes, but they chose an inflammatory title.
Huh. TIL.

But in the rails context couldn’t you mostly manage with an ActiveRecord validation? I know it wouldn’t be ideal.
The iPhone especially in America is a unique case.

Sure the average selling price of an iPhone is $500 more than an Android. But all of the major and even minor carriers either subsidize the phone or have no interest payment plans between 24-36 months. The price difference is negligible over 3 years.

No other product is like that. Even today in the US, the Mac only has around 15% market share.
Andrew Wiles spent 6 years working on 1 paper, and then another year working on a minor follow-up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27...
When submitting papers to high-profile journals, the expectations are very high for all authors. In most cases, the editorial team can determine from the abstract whether the paper is likely to meet their standards for acceptance.
This connects quite well with another post discussed in the previous days here on hn, the age of average

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405999
> The only rational points for the beginning of a year are the solstices or the equinoxes.

It makes sense to use those as a basis.

And it makes sense to line up the months with those points.

But if the months don't line up, I think aligning with the nearest month is much better than not doing so. At least on the kind of solar calendar we use.
Counterpoint: k8s is a bad orchestration system with bad scaling properties compared to the state machine versions (Borg, Tupperware/Twine, and presumably others). I say this as someone who has both managed k8s at scale and was a core engineer of one of the proprietary schedulers.
Every time I've tried to use DuckDB it has segfaulted on me, so yeah I'm betting on DataFusion..
Mostly windows machines of comparable spec could be had for 10% less, but most importantly there were many OEMs willing to sell objectively bad underspecced machines that were 50-75% cheaper than the cheapest Mac. Remember the era when people had overheating laptops etc.