skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > The fire department gets called to an exploded meth lab containing a few dead bodies and a safe containing $200,000. What do?

> Find out whose money it was, and wrap it up in their probate. This should be nothing to do with the police.

The example was a meth lab though and the claim was "This should be nothing to do with the police.". Is operating a meth lab not a crime?
Both will never come. For obvious reasons.
> > Yes, you must copy and paste content and not having layout page is annoying at time

> I think this was one of the most common usages of PHP in the beginning,

> <?php include('header.inc'); ?>

And other tools beforehand: basic CGI or even more basic server-side includes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes)

To reduce CPU and IO load on the server (or just in circumstances where SSI was not enabled on the server they had available) some would pre-process the SSI directives (obviously this doesn't work for dynamic results such as the output from many #exec examples), so all that is being served is simple static files ‑ a precursor to more complex modern static site builders.

> It would be great if HTML had a similar capability. People have asked for it for over 30 years, so it's unlikely that it will be implemented now.

That doesn't really fit with the intentions of HTML, and could impose a bunch of extra network latency overhead compared to using SSI instead, leading to either complete rendering delays or jumpy pages as included content is merged in in steps, though I have seen it implemented multiple ways using a bit of JS (some significantly more janky than others).
The challenge of course is that ‘I just didn’t like them’ is a valid form of discrimination.

So while it may be obviously bullshit (what, you can’t find anyone you actually like out of thousands?), it takes a non trivial amount of paperwork right now to prove it’s bullshit to the degree you could actually punish anyone for it. Especially with the recent administration change.
> I'm not sure why the non-unicode APIs are still so commonly used. I can't imagine it's out of a desire to support Windows 98 or Window 2000.

A lot of the uses are indirectly via standard C API functions that are effectively broken on Windows but work just well enough (i.e. work with ASCII) that their use goes unnoticed when someone ports something to Windows.
Some people are against industrial policy (like the CHIPS Act) because they don't believe that market failure exists.

Some people are against Biden/Dems.

Some people are clueless about the foreign policy and the geopolitical reality in Asia and take the status quo regional power balance as a given.
Urgh, I'm half way through this and I hate it.

The problem is it's upfront that "X thing you learned is wrong" but is then freely introducing a lot of new ideas without grounding why they should be accepted - i.e. from sitting here knowing a little physics, what's the intuition which gets us to field "stiffness"? Stiff fields limit range, okay, but...why do we think those exist?

The article just ends the explanation section and jumps to the maths, but fails to give any indication at all as to why field stiffness is a sensible idea to accept? Where does it come from? Why are non-stiff fields just travelling around a "c", except that we observe "c" to be the speed of light that they travel around?

When we teach people about quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle even at a pop-sci level, we do do it by pointing to the actual experiments which build the base of evidence, and the logical conflicts which necessitate deeper theory (i.e. you can take that idea, and build a predictive model which works and here's where they did that experiment).

This just...gives no sense at all as to what this stiffness parameter actually is, why it turned up, or why there's what feels like a very coincidental overlap with the Uncertainty principle (i.e. is that intuition wrong because actually the math doesn't work out, is this just a different way of looking at it and there's no absolute source of truth or origin, what's happening?)
The same thing happened with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Berlin, the entire effort to support refugees was coordinated on WhatsApp and Telegram, backed by Google Docs. It still did a marvelous job until the authorities could catch up and prepare resources. Even then the unofficial resources were far better.

I run an information website for a living. There is nothing I could have done that would have beat the speed and flexibility of that response. My own response was just to give those resources more visibility.

My takeaway was somewhat opposite to yours: it's marvelous that we can do so much, so fast, for free, with minimal computer skills. We should aim to make the independent web this easy.
Market Sentiment Aggregator
I've made a prototype on lovable.dev for solving my own problem of monitoring countless news and rumors daily while trading.

It's an app that's hooked to a bunch of different AIs and global news sources to determine market bullishness for the news in the past day. It works real time, and users can register, like and comment on the news pieces.

By evaluating the bullishness of news and rumors, it provides you with a clear, aggregated score, so you can make informed decisions before the rest.

What do you think of it? Would you use it? How would you improve it?

My ideas for new features (please suggest new ones, or if they're good or bad):

- entity analysis: keep track of entities (stocks, organisations, crypto projects, countries etc) mentioned in global news by date and display their frequency

- user generated / opinionated bullishness: create a table of stocks, commodities and crypto to vote for bullishness

- assets table: Display all risk assets and their prices alongside bullishness in news (coinmarketcap style)

- rumor vendors: add capabilities for registered users to add new private rumors, give them subscription plans to sell their rumors (for alpha trading groups to sell their news and rumors from our platform)

Please let me know if this is a good tool for you and more functionalities you'd like to see here
The full scale invasion is entering its fourth year in fact. But I was addressing the nuclear war fears expressed above. Experience show you can hit anything in Russia (including the Kremlin) without nuclear retaliation.
Bacteria and other organisms “eat” the wood, and then “breath” out CO2 (and sometimes methane).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_respiration?wprov=sfti1#
I know of one family that’s doing homeschooling. It’s not because of classmates, it’s because of curriculum failures. Their school district has messed up both reading (not doing phonics) and math. So if their kid goes to school they still have to go home and spend a lot of additional time learning. If they stay home, they learn everything they need in much less than a school day.
This is only possible for them due to modern education software that lets them know exactly where their kid is at and where tutoring is needed.
> Firstly, you don't need to spend America levels (more than than the next world powers combined) to have an efective military deterrent,

Would you consider most European countries to actually have an effective military deterrent?

By troop count, munitions stock, or the number if tanks and jets I don't see anyone as having a particularly impressive military in Europe. That doesn't mean they couldn't organize one if needed, but that's a different issue.

> Thirdly, America's lack of social services is not due to its powerful military, but due to political choices and inefficiencies.

You're missing a big factor here, cultural differences. America was built on the idea of people making a way for themselves and living or dying by their own successes or failures. We've moved pretty far away from that and do now have social programs and safety nets, smaller than many European countries' nets, but the expectation of making a way for yourself is still under the surface. Many people simply don't want the level of welfare programs seen in other countries.
ReaderLM v2: Frontier Small Language Model for HTML to Markdown and JSON
Actually I agree with you - if Russia's main aim in Ukraine was changing the regime, that would have turned Ukraine into something like Belarus, which I don't really consider independent...
I'm using Firefox and I do not see this option. Probably not working on Linux?
Says the US who can't manufacture anything modern unless they urge a Taiwanese manufacturer using European lithography machines to make chips. Let's please not do this senseless patriotism that so en vogue in the US right now.
Well, no, that's still a Herculean effort. But look at all of those slick TODO apps we are now building non-stop!
I can't see your content, it's redirecting to /subscribe.
Same. This would work really well for my site, I think, although I worry slightly about latency as it scales and I add more and more photos. That is not so much a problem right now, but it might impose some latency later.
You’ll note that the official ones were all at the start, where a decapitation strike early might have helped. Once he became a national hero for staying that option dried up.

The Ukrainians could hit the Kremlin with current drones, having hit targets in Moscow already. That they don’t is a deliberate calculation.

No one wants to discover Putin’s genuine red line on nukes and his own personal safety.
Nah, it's not. Things sometimes needs to be spelled out so that there's ZERO wiggle room. That's why the universal declaration of human rights had to be so extensive and verbose. There are people that will justify a missing comma as their actions being allowed by the constitution.
You're telling the guy who pays for development to keep paying. Everything was well so long as Automattic paid and you went along for free, right?

You can tell him he's a dick for messing with the status quo and most people will agree with you, but the guy who did the paying won't agree. And when you think about it you wouldn't have agreed with it if you were the payer, would you?

You're telling him "man up and keep paying". Maybe you wouldn't put it like that? Would you say "you earn [number goes here] so you can pay a hundred FTEs to work on open source when your biggest competitor pays for one" or something?
Maybe I missed it but the article doesn't seem to contain the original sound. Here's a YouTube upload of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRC37grckk
Recently learned a little trick for google. Adding `-ai` at the end of query helps. Not much, but something.
Soundboks 4 sync wirelessly with each other. They’re also battery driven and absurdly loud, so perfect for bringing outdoors or a dance party somewhere.

They just had a 30% sale for the holidays though, so might not be worth getting them at full price
The list is quite long: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_German_ex...>
There are redis offerings that are fully managed as well. You have both options.
> don't get me started with programs.<program_name>.enabled, see above for "too many ways to do the same thing"

programs.<program_name>.enabled implies that there is some system configuration needed in order for the program to function (or in home manager, the analog would be user configuration in your home directory).

Whereas environment.systemPackages simply puts bins on your path.
Intricate tattoos on 1,200-year-old mummy revealed by lasers
How old was your kid? I mean apart from learning to balance itself there is a matter of how strong the thigh muscles are in order to pedal. If your kid was like 5 then it makes sense that it would not be that interesting. If your kid is like 3 or sth, then a balance bike can be a great means of transportation for them. They can use it really a lot and enjoy it, until they can actually pedal on a normal bike in a way that it can be practical. The point of the balance bike is not "to learn balance", but to actually be used for moving around.
For accessibility I think this is a great thing, but as entertainment less so.

Example is Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, the narrator Rob Inglis, makes an amazing voice performance giving depth to environments and characters. And of course the songs!
What makes me skeptical here is that the author claims that fields have a property that is necessary to explain this, and yet physicists have not given that property a name, so he has to invent one (“stiffness”). If the quantity appears in equations, I find it hard to believe that it was never given a name. Can anyone in the field of physics elucidate?
Do you mean 298 KHz? I thought the 6502 on the NES was slightly over 1MHz
Team develops plan for 3D-printed microscope, including lens,costs less than $60
Thanks, and LOL:

we will model the spaceship as an idealized box with perfectly reflecting walls. This is necessary, because the second law of thermodynamics applies only to thermally isolated systems, to which we can assign a Hamiltonian [5, section 11] [Landau L and Lifshitz E 1980 Statistical Physics vol 5, 3 edn (Pergamon)].

Chasing down that source: https://ia802908.us.archive.org/31/items/ost-physics-landaul...

§11. Adiabatic processes

Among the various kinds of external interactions to which a body is
subject, those which consist in a change in the external conditions form a special group. By "external conditions" we mean in a wide sense various external fields. In practice the external conditions are most often determined by the fact that the body must have a prescribed volume. In one sense this case may also be regarded as a particular type of external field, since the walls which limit the volume are equivalent in effect to a potential barrier which prevents the molecules in the body from escaping.

If the body is subject to no interactions other than changes in external conditions, it is said to be thermally isolated. It must be emphasized that, although a thermally isolated body does not interact directly with any other
bodies, it is not in general a closed system, and its energy may vary with time.

In a purely mechanical way, a thermally isolated body differs from a closed system only in that its Hamiltonian (the energy) depends explicitly on the time: E = E(p, q, t), because of the variable external field. If the body also interacted directly with other bodies, it would have no Hamiltonian of its own, since the interaction would depend not only on the co-ordinates of the molecules of the body in question but also on those of the molecules in the other bodies.

This leads to the result that the law of increase of entropy is valid not only for closed systems but also for a thermally isolated body, since here we regard the external field as a completely specified function of co-ordinates and time, and in particular neglect the reaction of the body on the field. That is, the field is a purely mechanical and not a statistical object, whose entropy can in this sense be taken as zero. This proves the foregoing statement.

Let us suppose that a body is thermally isolated, and is subject to external conditions which vary sufficiently slowly. Such a process is said to be adiabatic. We shall show that, in an adiabatic process, the entropy of the body remains unchanged, i.e. the process is reversible.

I am unable to make these statements coherent
> Google already recognizes that fact, by setting a different value in the "sub" field of the claim it returns

Then Google is doing the right thing. It's incumbent on the relying party to enforce its own authorization policies based on the information the authorization server provides.

Google says, "here's bob@example.net <id=n49d0x>", oh now "here's bob@example.net <id=pv82x1d>"

Google can't save consumers from their own negligence.
I don't think it's impossible to enforce, you can probably do it on social media limited to hundred(s) of participants, where moderators (and other users) can get familiar with specific posters.

On most social media people aren't anonymous, they are pseudonymous - this can still have an impact on your behavior when you know that even non-moderators can look up your post history.

But I guess that a lot of posters are still going to feel pseudo-anonymous, because looking up still requires a lot of effort... at least until for a few they become famous enough (dang, pg...) that their pseudo-anonymity is gone.
And it did. US could do very very significant harm to Russia's military if nuclear retaliation wasn't a threat. And probably that would be cheaper than the weapons/training that they are giving to Ukraine.
Ask HN: How much AI code was in that Sonos app?
It would be tremendously interesting to know how, on a technical level, what happened to that infamous Sonos app and if socalled AI play a role.
Oh this is nice, thank you!
Sadly true. The data centers built in the next few years will be powered by natural gas, and some fraction of the hype around nuclear-powered AI may be driven by them attempting to distract us all from the massive increase in fossil usage that they're ordering right now.

I'm glad they're saying they want nuclear, and I understand they will use what's available when they need it.

For us in nuclear, we have to focus on delivering reactor products that can be built on time and on budget so that AI or any other load can both want us and actually get us.
Memos: Open-source, lightweight note-taking solution
Previous discussion (July 2023, 40 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36683214
> I figured this would basically make it never fail with any weird filenames regardless of the code page.

Windows filenames are not guaranteed to be valid UTF-16 so A functions with UTF-8 code page can still fail to access some files. If you want 100% compatibility you need to realize that Windows is a WTF-16 system and make your own compatibility wrappers for the W functions under that assumption.
The timing is clearly laid out in the article: it was exactly a hundred years ago to the day. I think that is the size of the conspiracy here.
I know quite a few people who have started homeschooling their kids in recent years, including one who stopped homeschooling their kiss last year and will be pulling their kids back out of school this spring.

The most common reasons I hear are either that the public schools they are zoned for are terrible, mainly complaints over safety and/or drugs. The other common reason is just not seeing the value in the education being provided, often complaining of teacher quality or the design of a school system modelled after a program meant to churn out good factory workers.
Full paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628684v1....
Its also the name of the AI in Terminator Zero https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Kokoro

I'm not sure if that is related here.
So presumably, sometimes when asked a question in another language the model should “think” in English? TFA doesn’t say either way.
I am falling back to 'plain and simple' in the world of web applications (or a website)

While I am a programmer, I will continue to write code that injects html text with another... like a layout having a title and body html, etc.

I certianly limit my client-side codebase. Most of my javascript code is really focused on GUI/UI, even if I have to use a specific library. I dont bother with React or the like.

I will use htmx if I want to do partial updates. Other pages might be a tad more complicated if fetching data from SQL. However, I also have pages that are SIMPLY HTML+CSS!!

As I say - plain and simple.
> Your home lab probably isn't on the high priority target list.

Yeah but these days with botnets widely available to hire? Everything is fair game and whatever you run gets indexed on Shodan and whatever almost immediately. The game has never been easier for skiddies and other low-skill attackers, and mining cryptocoins or hosting VPN exit nodes makes even a homelab a juicy target.

My homelab for example sports four third-hand HP servers with a total of about 256GB RAM and 64 CPU cores on a 200/50 DSL link. That's more than enough horsepower to cause serious damage from.
Depends on the repository used, actual version revision of Python, compiled features, the way the requirements file is written, the way the current version of pip resolves them, the base is that Python image and a lot of other things. Doing that gives you maybe 30% of the way towards something reproducible and consistent.
What does "Run Excel formulas via API for automation or analytics" do that isn't already done by the fact the data is in Google Sheets/other?
std::string is not an issue, how you get strings from the environment into it is.

You can use W functions and convert the WTF-16 strings you get to WTF-8 and use that in std::string without problems.
I've seen a lot of people saying this generally but no specific recommendations.

I've used Simple Gallery Pro before but it's not very good.

Currently using Immich but that's not really a general photo app - it's got a narrow use case - so I still use the Google Photos app alongside it quite often.

Specific alternative recommendations that aren't malware welcome.
Don't be so hard on him. With all the time he spend thinking in right-leaning pseudo-technocratic psycho-social algorithms while being on designer amphetamines and with his origins and the lack of sleep he accumulated, nothing should be surprising except him not being constantly followed by authorities worried that he might turn into an AI augmented Charles Manson with his own social media platform. That or Grok wants to bang TikTok and hijacked Elons brain.
I'm pretty sure that it was one of these: https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

It had folders, a mouse, document icons, and a trash can.

I can't really remember much else. It was B&W.
No, IIRC, on a Connection Machine, a light blinks when the corresponding CPU is active. A LED which is on or off means the CPU is idle.

I am personally quite convinced that they chose to do it this way because the way you describe it – the obvious way – did not look cool enough.
One Dutch party in the previous government tried to outlaw carrying more than €2000 in the street. As far as I know, that law didn't pass. Plus you can keep as many cash reserves at home as you want (but good luck getting any back if that gets stolen).

However, there are rules that make cash less useful for large payments. Cash payments over €10000 (€3000 starting in March) are outright banned without involving the government.

There are more practical problems than "I just really want to buy a car without giving out my bank account", though: more and more Dutch stores have stopped taking cash to reduce the risk and losses of robberies. You can still carry cash, but spending it may require some research ahead of time, and not every business is interested in the overhead of going through the money laundering prevention system when normal people usually just buy >€3000 stuff through their bank accounts.

If anything, the Dutch government has been telling people to have cash available in case of emergencies after "geopolitical tension" (read: the Russian invasion into Ukraine). Not that anyone seems to listen, but they encourage having cash reserves. They're still working out an exact amount to recommend, but a couple hundred euros seems to be most likely.
> […] so it's highly unlikely that anyone will want to beat you up again.

That is, unfortunately, not how this works. The only ways to stop bullying are to be able to stand up to the bullies, which usually is not a realistic proposition (you wouldn't get bullied in the first place if you could) and can lead to further escalation (right on up to shootings or stabbings); to have a very, very empathic teacher who will put their foot down; or to have solid anti-bullying programs which use effective, proven methods to stamp out bullying.

Mind that nothing will deter a really determined bully, and getting punished because your victim spoke up instead of accepting the bully's power will escalate things from 'bullying just because you are available' to 'bullying because I now want you, and specifically, you, as miserable as you can be, all the time'.