skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in academic publishing for a long while, and I can tell you from experience that:

- "quantity of publications" is a problem and directly leads to bad science, so is on aggregate a measure of anti-quality

- "quality of the journals published in" is all in the mind; prestigious journals with high impact factor have been repeatedly found not to have the best research. The rigour of the editing process is more important, but few researchers know that, and importantly they are heavily incentivised by funders to go for high impact factor, completely muddying the waters of who's a good researcher by that metric.

- number of citations would be a better measure, but unfortunately is directly linked to impact factor, in practice and in perception.

- awards won, books published - too niche and random to matter much.

- "every academic could tell you the top 5 journals in their field" haha, no, you'd be as surprised as I was when doing that research.

Academic publishers have been considering the measuring problem for decades, and no one has found a solution yet.

There is no good measure of the quality of a paper until many years after publication. It's easy to identify some true positives (high impact, no retraction), it's quasi-impossible by definition to identify false negatives (unfairly ignored papers), and most importantly this emphasis on prestige research is terribly harmful to Science. Science needs researchers who are happy to replicate studies, people who publish disappointing results, and people who study otherwise unglamorous topics, otherwise Science fails.

TLDR: measuring how 'good' a researcher is by their prestige is extremely destructive to Science. You can't do that.
From the supplementary materials:

> Importantly, the dynamic viscosity µ and surface tension γ do not change across our experiments, nor in the context of human urination.

From the paper:

> Splash generated from a jet or droplet train impinging on a flat surface is a complex phenomenon depending on many factors, including the impact speed (U), impinging angle (θ), dynamic viscosity (μ), density (ρ), diameter of the jet or droplet (D), surface tension (γ) of the liquid, ambient pressure (P), as well as the wettability,
contact angle, and roughness of the surface. ... In the context of urination, most of these factors cannot be changed. However, the impinging angle can be controlled to reduce or eliminate splash.
I built a site with free utility tools – looking for ideas beyond the usual
I recently launched https://freeutilitytools.com — a collection of free tools like text formatters, number converters, age calculators, etc.

The goal is to solve simple, everyday problems without ads, logins, or distractions. But I don’t want it to end up as another generic “tools everyone has” site.

What are some uncommon or underappreciated tools you wish existed?
Curious to hear your thoughts — whether it’s niche calculators, developer tools, or weird-but-useful utilities.
An ELOC for a HNWI can be significantly lower interest than a mortgage. They can often get "fed funds rate/LIBOR + 0.5%" or so. This is because they can accept a floating rate, while mortgage rates get locked in for 10-30 years.
The GP meant if I maliciously order a $1 in your name, specifically to cause you to pay.
> they ship over the lowest quality garbage imaginable and create so much pollution and waste in the process.

Lots of words for "I ordered something on Temu once, got scammed, now the whole industry should burn down"
> There's five toilets on each car, you never have to wait.

Can't agree based on personal experience.

> There's free wifi.

That wifi is barely usable. I often ended up using my phone as the hotspot.

> Riding the train is more fun than flying

Depending on whether you are a big train nerd or plane nerd. I am a little bit of both, and I never consider train to be any more fun or boring than flights. On shorter trips where plane flies at a low altitude (e.g. Boston-NYC-Washington DC), if the weather is good, I would be staring at the ground and take (crappy) aerial photos the whole flight.

And your post doesn't mention the routine delays on Amtrak trains. Trains in China and Japan are much more punctuate.

Don't get me wrong, I take trains in the US for leisure purposes more than almost anyone I know, but it is not nearly as romantic as you try to paint, which is why most people choose driving or something else.
Probability and Statistics – The Science of Uncertainty, Second Edition
I have never ordered anything on temu and I never will.
you can install Qbittorrent client, after loading torrent file/magnet link, right click on that torrent and click on Download in sequential order.

torrent PROTOCOL does not require to download random pieces, in random order.

ONLY bittorrent, inc. COMPANY which releases "Utorrent" and "Bittorent" NAMED APPLICATIONS/PROGRAMS does not want legal trouble from media/music companies. Because STREAMING is other legal category then downloading. There is no other reason for torrent PROTOCOL to not deliver file pieces in sequential order.

if you need instant nanosecond delayed stream, those does not exist anywhere, even radio, tv stations over the air are delayed so they all transmit synchronized. so 0 latency and synchronized can be mistaken for each other.
Yesterday I was shopping and noticed a couple small battery packs with "5000 MAh" on their boxes.

I imagined someone had invented a matter/anti-matter battery and how much of my city I could vaporize if I deliberately shorted the terminals.
So how are they able to deliver at such low rates and why can’t other work it out and use that as well
Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft
lol. i mentioned rust as being the worst typed solution, to highlight ts is even beneath that.
Write a comparison between X and Y
It was flagged, but saved by the mods soon after, I saw it.
The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea
Multiple transmitters that constructively interfere to create plasma in the exact spot under a heat shield might work I guess? Probably impossible to track accurately and quickly enough for that even with beam forming antennas.
The time offset impedes the ability of viewers to interact with the streamer via chat, which for many people (incl. myself) is the whole reason to watch live instead of a recording.
So the general idea is to find with compass and pencil the exact needed separation angle that can be used to bounce around the interior circumference of a circle with perfect overlap.

You then join up the bounces to their neighbours to get the desired N(prime)-sided polygon.

The easier Heptadecagon (17-sided) was illuminating here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptadecagon
Why is that the case? If an item (from every manufacturer) costs $5, and there's a new tax on it, making it cost $10, why would this be split between buyer and seller? The seller needs to make a certain margin on it, and it's not like the competition can sell any cheaper, or they already would have been.
Will just any request even pass the host matching?
That's likely just you starting the read the "straightforward" code and not looking through Rose tinted glasses.

The cutoff date for Claude 3.5 is April 2024, that's currently slightly over one year ago.
It's really interesting to see people being ignorant, and proud of their ignorance. Imagine someone saying "All American products are garbage. And I obviously never bought anything American, why on Earth would I buy garbage?"
Every time I see MCP I think of the Unisys mainframe OS.

It runs on x86 processors (under emulation), so it'd make some sense if Google offered it as an option in Google Cloud. Maybe they could offer OS2000, GCOS, and GECOS as well.
> Another important trend: power outages tend to be more severe in rural areas than in highly populated urban areas.

I've been getting a good taste of this one. If you want an excellent ~real time visualization of just how fragile these areas are, pull up the Entergy outage tracker the next time a hurricane rolls through Texas/Louisiana.

In my current neighborhood, approximately 90% of the homes have LNG standby generators. A typical outage in the area is at least 12 hours to resolve. With a catastrophic windstorm it takes upward of 2 weeks.

On the other end of the spectrum, I used to live close to the original Samsung factory in Austin. I was in an apartment that was fed with underground utility. I had a server with over 3 years of uptime and it was plugged directly into the wall. This was 2011-2014.

I think a lot of it boils down to your local infrastructure. If you pay really close attention to how the utilities are implemented at real estate transaction time, you can influence how much impact you would see during a disaster.

If you're in ERCOT and you absolutely cannot handle the idea of losing power ever again, buying something around Taylor, TX would probably be a good way to bunker up. You need to understand that the Koreans would never build another semiconductor factory in Texas if they didn't have incredible guarantees from the utility providers moving forward from that winter event.
For a while, I was CTO of a company called Livestation [0], which as the Wikipedia article states, was "originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research".

This P2P stack was meant to allow for mass scaling of lowish latency video streaming, even in parts of the World with limited peer bandwidth to original content source servers. The VC-1 format got into a legal quagmire, as most video streaming protocols do, and it speaks volumes that by the time I turned up in ~2012-ish, the entire stack was RTMP, RTSP, HDS and HLS with zero evidence of that P2P tech stack in production.

My main role was to get the ingest stack out of a DC and into cloud, while also dealing with a myriad of poor design decisions that led to issues (yes, that 2013 outage in the first paragraph of the wiki article was on my watch).

At no point did anybody suggest to me that what we really needed to fix our attention back to was P2P streaming, beyond the fact the company built a version of Periscope (Twitter's first live streaming product), and launched it weeks/months before they did, and were pivoting towards a social media platform, at which point I decided to go do other things.

The technical and legal problems are real, and covered elsewhere here. People want reliable delivery. Even Spotify, YouTube and others who have licensed content and could save a pile by moving to DRM-ified P2P don't go near it, and that should tell you something about the challenges.

I'd love more widespread adoption of P2P tech, but not convinced we'll ever see it in AV any time soon, unfortunately.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveStation
Absolutely mind-blowing how much our ability to observe the universe has exploded
At various points various researchers/entrepreneurs/influencers will say this, based on what "eternal life"/"life extension" solution/research/product they're selling. Then they somehow still die in a normal distribution age, as if programmed. I'd rather they'd lead with the results, not the sales pitch.
Generally agree. There are some subtle edge cases like price dumping, but even that's still ultimately an attempt to gain market dominance.
Where Does Astronaut Poop End Up?
No it won’t. It will be either 1) good or 2) somebody else’s fault.
> If got the math right, then about 1 in every 32,000 stars in the universe goes supernova each year

Can’t be right, can it? It would make the Sun (over 4 billion years old) an enormous outlier.

It also would mean stars, on average, do not get very old. Over 10% of the stars that the ancient Greeks saw in the sky would have to have gone supernova since then.
I think both those cases are easy to decide, and are legitimate play. Even if they were not legitimate, I think the remedy is simple -- not jail, but at worst return the money that was taken. In this case, even if deciding the merit of the case is hard, there was a transparently reasonable remedy (return 90% of the funds, continue with your life) which Medjedovic rejected. More than just rejecting the offer, he then went on to launder the tokens through a mixer, fled the country, and has refused to put the funds in escrow while the case is decided in court. None of this is reasonable, in my opinion, and I am 100% ok with the legal system forcing him to comply.

> This phrasing removes relevant context to the point where it no longer represents what actually happened.

I don't think it does, but you don't explain why, so there is not much to argue. It is hard to get an objective description of what happened, but as far as I can tell, the liquidity pools operated by Indexed Finance are governed by a smart contract, the smart contract contained a mistake, and by exploiting that mistake, Medjedovic was able to drain them completely.

Can you explain to me in simple english how that is using the contract as intended? Note that "it's what the smart contract said" is not sufficient, for the same reason that "the web server allowed me to make that request" is not a defence against a charge of computer hacking. What the smart contract says is actually almost irrelevant. What is relevant is what it was intended to do.

Incidentally, why should I be rooting for this guy? It seems like literally the only argument in favour of what he did here is "everything that is possible is fair". His extraction of money is purely parasitic, and aside from merely identifying the bug, he hasn't done any useful work at all. I would grant that this applies to the lottery and card counting examples too. But why should I care that he's having his money taken away?
We have a couple trillion years to figure out a way to fix that.
>What's the point of all the encryption claims?

The point is that _you_ read them carefully. They are true to their claims.

https://proton.me/support/does-protonmail-encrypt-email-subj...

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hops and latency in general does not really matter in streaming context after the first few seconds, which are a bottle neck due to connecting to peers that might or might not exist
yup. If we were using fossil I’d agree more, but git is code exclusively, which is not actually much in a project.
How long will it take him to change his mind again? He has already exempted a bunch of stuff from tariffs, coincidentally the same stuff that is likely to be imported because the US doesn't make much of its own of.
What do you mean when you say that 4o doesn’t have chain-of-thought?
useless to know the brand.
Amazon will change the seller every time you see an item, and pretend the reviews apply. then the new seller will ship you counterfeits while selling under the good brand and reviews. after a few sales, seller bestbikesbrooklin7456, is banned and you are offered bestevercyclesocal888 and the cycle restart.
Honestly one of those rare games that makes you feel like a real explorer, not just someone following a path the devs laid out.
> I had a server with over 3 years of uptime

Dear God! Update that kernel!
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Usually both happen. You usually get 3+ months of severance on your "don't sue us or badmouth us" paperwork and then security escorts you out.
Whoosh, my point exactly. This is an r/selfawarewolves-tier comment.

You don't seem to be thinking very well.
He mentioned a rough estimate of one per century per galaxy. Estimate for average stars per galaxy is 100 million, which would be 1 in 10 billion stars every year
That's because it was still an iOS-exclusive.

People forget that the Android app and the aquisition announcement came out like one week apart. The basic web version didn't come out until half a year later.

My point is it already had a solid rich, influencer-y userbase + was about to become available on more platforms. Aquisition definitely had an impact on the user growth, but the growth itself was already inevitable.
"US Cyber Trust Mark" - I can trust the server is in Room 641A and they added microphones and cameras to my smart plug.
Yeah that’s a fantastically deep site. After reading the torch ship chapter I’ve come to the conclusion that we either are alone in the observable universe or we’ll be forever bound to our solar system, because we’d see fusion drive signatures on sky surveying telescopes if both are false.
Kmart DGAF they’re the primary junk purveyors in Oceana.
The number is random, so there's no need to worry about plain storage.
One of the best infinitive canvas webcomics ever was done on that topic by Drew Weing: https://www.drewweing.com/puppages/13pup.html
France is going to benefit hugely from a China/US trade war. Actually, many countries will benefit, especially European ones.
There's something kinda poetic (and maybe even logical) about the idea that what we perceive as scattered galaxies and physics is actually just the internal processes of something far bigger than we can comprehend.
It is really interesting to see people making up stuff in their heads. Nowhere did I talk about "all", obviously Chinese factories can produce extremely high quality products. E.g. iPhones.

Temu is a trash distributor, the race to the bottom needs to be stopped. Their entire business model is being cheap and shipping trash.
Basically full local home assistant support or I'm not buying. Some products start to have badge on the box.
I think you're building a 100x tech debt with that.
Ebay do something similar too. You can immediately provide positive feedback, but you have to wait 7 days to add negative feedback. This is ostensibly to encourage sellers to address issues to retain reputation. Sellers can also get negative feedback removed after the fact by doing refunds, etc.

This means high volume low value sellers have little incentive to actually properly describe things or post correctly.
A common issue I keep seeing is sellers using slower postage than paid for. You can immediately see from the tracking number, even if you wait 7+ days to submit feedback, you'll get a 'sorry' refund and the feedback is somehow 'addressed' without them going back in time and delivering it faster.

Online reviews are just a sham now, Goodhart's law etc as even if the reviews aren't fake, they're encouraged or incentivised from real customers. Look up any service provider on TrustPilot and it's the same: hundreds of 5-star reviews from people told to add a review just after signing up, a dozen 1-star reviews from bad customer service, and barely anything in between.
It's 2025. For fucks sake, getting _basic_ USB-C compliance for power is a matter of two fucking SMD resistors. And yet, people are _still_ messing that up.
> What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?

Amongst others, legacy admissions and discrimination against Jews, Catholics and non-whites. Let’s not pretend that Harvard’s admissions process, or American society more generally, was some kind of perfect meritocracy in 1925.
But it was at 30m users, post inflection point wrt its hockey stick

Facebook knew what it was doing and the emails plainly reflect that
This used to exist in 2008 and it was perfect. It was called Joost and worked like this:
- P2P streaming
- You get a big menu of channel logos
- You click on a channel and it would start the first episode of a randomly chosen series from that channel, or it would continue from where you left off
- There might have been a "zap" function? I'm not sure
- The GUI was so nice and large that if you connected a Wii Remote to your PC, you had the best TV experience from your couch, ever: Just press a button to bring up the menu, aim at the channel you want to switch to, done.

Such a shame that it failed, nothing after it ever came close.
You’re correct, but sometimes bad things accidentally have a few good things
I often do ultra races, always trying to be at the pointy end. I have all the training, and all the fancy equipment you could possibly imagine. Doing something of the magnitude of this article though still scares the hell out of me. Every year I watch the Transcontinental Race, and every year I say "yeah, would love to do it, but next time". I still haven't signed up.

The gear, the legs, they help with going faster. Whether or not you can finish (barring catastrophical mechanical or injury) is all in your head!
This is super cool — love the zero-codegen approach. I’ve had to deal with codegen hell in monorepos where a tiny .proto change breaks half the pipeline. Curious how this handles more complex types like nested messages or oneof fields?

Also, been building something in a different space (LeetCode prep tool), but the idea of removing build steps for dev speed really resonates. Would love to see how this could plug into a lightweight frontend setup.
> Their entire business model is being cheap and shipping trash.

[citation needed]

I spent a few thousand on items on AliExpress, and I'm satisfied with almost all of them. How come?
Chinese give tariff exceptions to things that suit them. There has not been talk about a trade embargo as far as I know.
Good news! Codeberg has pull requests!
> Fibre lasers, where hundreds of tiny beams are joined through optical fibres into a larger beam

I'm no laser expert, but this doesn't seem right to me.
Can you expand on this? I thought that without the usual effects in a medium that's filled with particles lasers achieve much greater ranges.
> https://youtu.be/8D-S8nYCwjA?si=TZfnb2qrkiZdiYU6

TIL that Pan Am was flying Airbuses!

> It takes about two weeks to totally numbify your backside.

Beat you sit-bones into submission until your pain-reporting nerves give up.. The week-and-a-half before you get there, though.. Ouch.
Seller-side here. Amazon combine my author page, with that of A.A. Milne. Some of my products show up under the deceased author, some of his under mine. Reviews for one particular product are combined.

My seller ID is separate, my last name is also Milne, but my first is James.

He wrote a book called "The Red House Mystery", I wrote an homage to it because I am related to the man, called "Red House". Different products, with different ISBNs.

Combined reviews. [0]

That's not exactly a fair process for customers - and no, I can't get them uncombined. I've been trying for years. But if the seller can't get rid of something completely misleading, that seems to have been caused by a very badly automated process, then there are processes at Amazon that cause problems.

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Red-House-James-Milne-ebook/dp/B0C...
( not a criticism of you/your post )

it is insane to me, for people to have need to watch toxic channels like LinusTechTips livestream, regurgitating weeks old toxic marketing disinformation and having need to have that 0ms latency... XD

why everyone needs low latency for one way stream? unnecessary hurdle just to have that hurdle. no benefit to anything.

but agree with you that if companies already forget existence of IPv4, internet will be simpler, faster and more usable. for less price for everyone.
No, the word citizen applies very strictly to US Citizen which is a strict legal designatation that visa holders do not possess.
Completely different experience though, since RAAM is a supported race, a very different kind of suffering. The Trans Am is a more comparable one (though still a race): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_Bike_Race
Revolt against the companies powering shit like this. Take down the Verints, NSOs, and all the other Unit 8200 scumbags out there.
Balatro publisher Playstack delivered a marketing masterclass
According to this report (https://www.earnestanalytics.com/insights/temu-growing-faste...), Temu is growing fastest among high income earners. Would be interesting from which countries most customers come from.