skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, China operates covert ‘Police Stations’ internationally
As for windows, I always assume you need to install an IDE like visual studio, clion, codeblocks.
A guy was arrested for being a PRC spy, stealing sensitive documents from GE Vernona. 2-3 years ago. I remember it because he was using stenography to embed documents in landscape photos sent via email.

They also use various means to charge people. Lying to a federal agent is a serious crime. Almost any misuse of federal funds can a a serious crime.
My hope, and the hope of the six other parent friends I just sent this to, is that this will still be up in a few years.

Made my and several friends evenings. Thanks.
Glad to see I wasnt the only one thinking of this angle.

But I still hold its Nick Szabo
IATA says a limit of 2 <160Wh batteries (with airline approval) and a limit of 20 <100Wh batteries (which is a lot!), but also airlines are free to be more or less strict as they see fit, so basically check with the airline (it's rare that they'll be less strict as a policy, but they may be OK if you clear it with them beforehand, and some are more restrictive by default).
It's difficult to have a productive, thoughtful conversation when someone reads a moral imperative into the phrase "supposed to" and starts lecturing about it.

The sense of "supposed to" above is: the human system was "designed" for a certain environment, and its behaviors make sense there. Outside of that environment many behaviors won't make sense, but can easily be explained by reference to the original environment. This is not a moral point, although it is one often employed in moral arguments.
What does this mean? I have no idea what niche you're even working in
That homework setup sounds awful. I wonder how much it was shaped by educators, and how much by techbros.
I don’t disagree about inheritance.
Reminds me of the time I suggested to my cousin's new girlfriend (gentile) that she bring macaroons (a standard kosher-for-Passover dessert) to our Passover seder and instead she brought macarons (delicious but not kosher for Passover). We all had a laugh.
They're more dangerous. The reason lithium-metal batteries are "non-rechargeable" isn't that recharging them doesn't work; it's that they have an unacceptable probability of exploding during the process. Other forms of electrical, thermal, or mechanical abuse can have similarly spicy results.
Given the (highly memed) state of dental health in the UK it seems reasonable they would be responsible for this.
I've been working on Zigpoll as a one-man project for a while now: https://www.zigpoll.com/ it has traction and solid growth (~100% YoY for the past 3 years) but the larger the numbers the harder it gets to double each year.

In a past life I would have thought this would be the easy part given the product market fit but it's hard to figure out growth channels that are scalable and cost-effective at this stage. Burning what would otherwise be a large salary month on month in search of growth is mentally taxing when it doesn't deliver. Metrics across the board only seem to tell part of the story so it's tricky to figure out what needs changing and what's worth doubling down on.

If anyone has experience doing this sort of thing - please get in touch!
This is where the steelman comes in. Replace "supposed to" with "have adapted to over the last thousands to millions of years" and enjoy the productive conversation.
No, but I'll look into that as I get closer to having something ready.
I'm a synthetic biologist! And I think a big problem is physically executing biology programs.

I've been working on building a programming method for biology labs. Basically, it is a dynamic execution environment using lua that can have full rewind-ability (for complete execution tracing) and pausing - you can execute some code then wait a week or so to continue execution. The idea is you can have a dynamic environment for executing biology experiments where the route changes on the basis of outcomes - something I haven't really seen anywhere else. Then I focused a bit on the pedagogy of LLMs so that you can ask an LLM to generate a protocol, and then when you execute it and get unexpected results, it can automatically debug its own protocol using a code sandbox.

It all sounds decent in theory but the difference is I actually implemented it and ran a real biology experiment with it (albeit a simple one that I knew wouldn't work)

Demo here: https://github.com/koeng101/autodemo (probably watch the video)
I tried rereading Perdido Street Station last week and couldn't make it past a few chapters. I guess the last time I read it I was a teenager, so maybe, as they note here, it's "a young man's book", both for author and reader.

What made me stop is that everything is intentionally gross, seemingly just for the sake of getting a reaction. I picked it up one morning and read "airships moved from cloud to cloud like slugs on rotten cabbages" and just put it down again. Maybe that was groundbreaking fantasy once, and I can appreciate it as a form of world building - but I'd rather read words written by people who can see the good in things, as well as the bad, rather than someone who's every metaphor is turgid and intended to invoke disgust.

I think, when I was a teenager, I read to expose myself to all possible worldviews, without discernment. Enjoyment was secondary. Now that I'm in my 40s, I still read to expose myself to worldviews, but only ones that I feel can uplift me or teach me something new (and still for enjoyment, of course). I don't need any more exposure to purely negative worldbuilding in my life, it feels pointless.
Interesting. Sounds like a similar premise to Supabase Realtime. I'll keep an eye out.
> Full self replication of a machine either from sand to silicon or through some yet to be developed process inspired by biology will be a fundamental change in how we do everything.

Not any time soon. This requires the whole economy to build the core parts like microprocessors. It's sure possible even on lifeless rocky planets but will require a lot of resources from Earth to begin with.

There is also a biological way. Here we can start with lobotomized and chipped monkeys. But on other planets this requires the whole ecosystem.
http://gfblip.appspot.com/

X axis is time. Y axis is milliseconds of latency.

Green blips are your ping time to gstatic.com (a very fast site that should be close to you wherever you are).

Blue blips are your ping time to apenwarr.ca ("a site on the Internet"). It should be slower than gstatic.com. How much slower depends on how lucky you are.

Red blips mean something sucks.
Maybe better phrased as: "Humans evolved in small communities for thousands of years, but those communities had to be larger than a single family unit in order to survive, so there is an instinctive urge for humans to be in communities."
AMSAT-OSCAR 7: The Ham Satellite That Refused To Die
You're right. I think it will be less of an employee-employer relationship and those types will be hired guns on retainer (i.e., you don't need a lawyer until you do but it helps to have one on retainer if you're a big entity).
Due to health issues I've tried to cut down my drinking over the past couple of years. The surprising thing about the NA beer world is that, IMO, the best tasting beers are the ones based on widely available lagers from companies like Molson that I wouldn't normally drink the alcoholic variety of, e.g. Heineken, Corona, Stella. The ones trying to be craft beers are uniformly bad to my tastes.
People should just choose to have wealthier parents, then they have more options from which to chose what to do - breed dogs, travel, get a degree in a totally useless but culturally enriching subject, make some great garage music, tinker with inventing or explore some arcane area of math, have kids, read voraciously, write a bad game or operating system etc.

It seems these sorts of things happened more in the 1980s, when we had lower inequality - middle class post-teens could pretend to study while actually learning something in their free time.

Now students are burdened with debt before they even get started, and have too many part time gig jobs to attend lectures, or mope around the campus having random conversations that challenge their ideas.
Fort Worth's population was 918,915 as of the official 2020 U.S. census count, making it the 11th-most populous city in the United States.[7][8]

What’s going on with this post?
The question is, why don't you have an imaginary friend? It doesn't preclude Homo sapiens friends.
Only $59.99 with the coupon on the same page. Less than 6 cents a page.
The higher the level of education, the less attention paid to pedagogy. I had better teachers in high school than in college.
I wonder if you can have a snippet for that (can be a script that generate the code for one item) It’s not like such blog is updated thrice a day!
I'm skimming the results, but it looks like adult teeth had less cavities when they turned the fluoride off...and that was not observed in Edmonton where they left the fluoride on the whole time.

"For all tooth surfaces among permanent teeth (Table 1a), there was a statistically significant decrease in Calgary, for the overall mean DMFS, which was not observed in Edmonton."

Based on their data, you could argue that fluoride increases cavities in adults... I'm not making that argument. I agree with you in that I think confounders are at play and the difference attributed to fluorinated water isn't as large.

People will use this study to take about the rampant tooth decay in Calgary, ignoring that there is roughly as much decay in Edmonton which had the fluoride on the whole time.
Show HN: I automate YT Shorts using this
Foreign tourists? How about a million children dying so American billionaires can enjoy tax cuts?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyd505vzlwo
MAME is versioned no differently from Chrome. v0.276 might as well be called v276.
Thanks for sharing. I was planning on building something like this in April after hitting too many issues with Jina and Tavily but it looks like you've already done the hard work!
I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but Luigi Mangione as martyr figure makes me extremely uncomfortable. This is a very different situation than the Aaron Swartz or any of the other victims of abuse by powerful people and corporations.

What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? It's one thing when you agree with the motive, but are we ready to accept the inevitable outcome that someone decides to engineer a high-profile murder to push a different agenda?

In a lot of ways this is like all the media attention on school shootings: we will see copycats, and the next one may not be targeting an unsympathetic healthcare CEO.
I think this is akin to the "wearing a seatbelt makes me drive more dangerously" argument. (I also don't use a case, but mainly because I don't like the extra bulk and don't mind dinging my phone up a bit, not because I think I'll take better care of it).
> Why Is This Site Built With C

The short version: the author eventually decided that statically generating the site would require literally only a Markdown parser and a wrapper to iterate over .md files and fix internal links and add a common header and footer. The author then found a Markdown parser implemented in C and therefore interfaced to it in C (which of course involves a bunch of buffer manipulation and memory management and looks incredibly clunky compared to any obvious choice of language).

> I looked for a better alternative and found md4c, which is a parser written in C with no dependencies other than the standard C library. It also has only one header file and one source file, making it easy to embed it straight into any C project.

I see three of each looking at the repository's src/ folder.

> My website converter script, which is all in this 250 LOC source file (less md4c) is feature-complete and runs on any compiler that supports the C standard from 1999 onwards. There's no platform-dependent code and it's portable to Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Feature-complete if you're the author, I guess. Portable if you're willing to edit source code and recompile just to change file path configuration. Except for the part that makes a system call to `find` (prepared in a statically allocated buffer using sprintf without bounds checking). As far as I can tell, <ftw.h> is also Linux, or at least Posix-specific.

250 LOC if you ignore the author's own array, file and string libraries as dependencies.

And, again: that 250 LOC is way more than it would be to do the equivalent in a higher-level language.

> It seems better than some alternatives like pelican which is written in Python and thus will be slower to parse md files.

You'd think experienced C programmers would know to benchmark things and not make assumptions. And if the goal is to find just a markdown parser, this simply doesn't reflect looking hard enough. For example, I can easily find https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/ ; in fact it's what gets used under the hood by Nikola (and I'd guess Pelican too). It's less than 1MB installed, pure Python with no further dependencies. I imagine the story is similar for Hugo. Sure, I wouldn't at all be surprised if it's slower, but it seems like there's considerable acceptable slack here. It's good enough to enable Nikola to implement an auto-refresh using a 1-second watchdog timer on the source directory, for example, despite that it's also feeding the Markdown result into a full templating system.
Sounds compelling - I can’t see any mention of apple silicon on your site, any intention of supporting it?
Elementary OS is very mac like. Thats the one I would go for. Nice thing is that you can install window managers along side each other, so you can have your parents try out different ones.
I'm thinking of writing an app to manage ticketing and events in Europe. There's Eventbrite but it mostly for larger cities instead of mid-sized ones. I think there could be a niche for cheaper alternatives especially since student societies get charged like 2.50 euros on top of a 10 euro ticket.

Also, writing a Masters thesis on area-level and individual-level predictors of breast cancer... so a lot of applied ML.
Adults run through things in their heads, sometimes repeatedly, sometimes obsessively for much of their lives (in the case of trauma). We just feel too limited to act it out with toys - but why not? We'll even watch movies, plays, read books, partly because they enact things that trouble us - we'll do anything but be seen to act it out ourselves.
Unfortunately, the setup I'm talking about is the norm these days. It's the MyLab and Mastering software offered by Pearson.

It doesn't just stop at physics. I've seen it used in math courses and economics courses as well.

Sometimes professors will setup the system so that you can redo the problem with different numerical inputs for the variables, and that approach is fine to me as it lets me learn through trial and error without negatively impacting my grade.
And the cases we don't know about? When the highest powers, and some random empowered billionaires, do what they want to erode, ignore and subvert constitutional, judicial and civil right processes what sane person can say this sort of thing isn't happening?
If someone/some group can’t successfully create a smaller competing subreddit, what prospects would they have to successfully convince over half the existing userbase of a subreddit to formally vote for a “fork”?
Neat! How does this differ from KSQL?
Slightly disagree at least for GCP. It will error with a detailed permission, but you're not just going to add that -- you're going to add a role (standard, unless you have custom roles), which you technically have to map back to the permission you need. But also, those (standard) roles have many permissions in one, so you likely overprovision (though presumably by just a bit).

...If only we could do something like: dry run and surface all the required permissions, then grant them in one fell (granular) sweep.
"Most of the digital functionality is emulated. Audio is not yet emulated."

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13404/files#diff-f78737...
I keep hoping MAME will fix a few outstanding bugs in their Tandy 2000 emulation: most prominently, that there is not a visible blinking cursor in text mode, making many programs difficult to use.

MAME is the only Tandy 2000 emulator, and in the wake of the discovery of Windows 1.0 for the Tandy 2000, the emulation got good enough to take a trip down memory lane. But it can't usefully run everything...
bsd? on a macbook? well I never!
Contemporary arcade games are usually just a PC in a box with external arcade specific hardware making up everything else. Probably better to hack the game into thinking it's running on the right hardware than the other way around at this point.
> A construction in Pathunam collapsed.

Damn, I was staying in a hotel right next to there only 6 weeks ago.

I remember getting to the hotel and seeing warnings not to use the elevator in case of earthquakes.
I don't think the author of the piece is saying there has been a cultural change among students, emanating from within. Rather the thesis is that smartphones are the culprit. "Things changed" can encompass the proliferation of smartphones.
It's becoming acceptable to people because many people increasingly feel their means for change are being suppressed or their voices ignored. This kind of violence is just the beginning. It's what happens when societies start to collapse.
Conservation of angular momentum doesn’t prohibit reducing angular momentum by extracting energy, in this case the angular momentum is converted to electricity.
Useful and simple. The pattern could be applied to any templatized document we need to generate.
Elon Musk's Mission to Take over NASA–and Mars
This reads like a cyberpunk short story. Bravo!
There is a point where "benefit of the doubt" is not appropriate though. Personal opinion is that point is past.
I took AP CS freshman year (30+ years ago), spent the rest of high school learning UNIX, becoming a sysadmin, putzing around with computers. I did spend a summer taking the Berkeley course teaching SICP, but I regret it. I recommend saving that for when you’re a freshman. There will be plenty of time for the theory.

Bulking up on math in HS is smart. I took AP Calculus and then went to community college to take more calculus.
Seems like you're getting downvoted but I remember a paper that suspected Satoshi was from Indiana.
A basketball shot chart. I’m about done with it, but one thing I was happy to have figured - out coaches often want to tag a shot as a particular type. So like a three pointer, mid range, or whatever else it may be. With my shot chart, it automatically tags the shot based on where they added it, which I think is pretty neat.

https://bsky.app/profile/jordanmorgan10.bsky.social/post/3ll...
Federal loans are enough to pay for a state school (especially if you do your general education at a community college). Income based repayment means you’ll never pay more than 10% of your discretionary income for 20 years (income above 1.5x the poverty level for your family size). If you never make more than 1.5x the poverty level, you’ll never pay back a dime.

College is financially attainable for just about anyone.
It requires a paid account.
Thanks! I'd forgotten about it until I needed to update my old chud stack app haha
To be fair, this is her characterisation of the slides.
> Xiaogang (Cliff) Wang is listed as the principal investigator.

No, you are misreading the award abstract. Cliff Wang is the program manager at NSF who is the point of contact for the investigators.
Ambermoon Advanced
Paper tickets, yes. Paper boarding passes, no. Replacing a paper boarding pass has been easy since airlines switched to an electronic ticketing system where the actual ticket is an entry in the airline's database.
How do we know it's not. Maybe PG wrote it and had AI "clean it up" or "transform it" for a particular audience, or any number of things AI might have conjured up here. If you cannot demonstrate that PG wrote the entirety of this himself with no AI help, then your comment is mostly worthless.
Associating a political initiative with an unrepentant murderer is a pretty bad idea. Imagine anti-abortion activists decided to make James Kopp the centerpiece of the movement.
You probably already know this if it was bothering you, but just in case: System Settings -> Notifications -> toggle off "Allow notifications from iPhone".
Non sequitur.

Those kids are not in America’s economic self interest. Just moral. (Our culture hasn’t values honour for a while.)
>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?

No one's setting it. Things have been that way in the past. A lot of laws now are designed to avoid allowing organizations to brutalize people so badly that those people view violence as the only recourse.

When there are no judicial penalties for running a vast machine of death like UnitedHealthcare, then eventually people seek extrajudicial ones. Our goal should be to make sure that this doesn't happen. Luigi is a symptom, not the sickness to be treated.
I think that's just what parents who have more money than it's good for them do. It's fine though. If you can build sheltered world for your kid you are rich enough so that your kid won't have to care about the world either if it has bare minimum iq. And if not, who cares, there's plenty of kids always.
The reason I used it is that the correct answer to the actual problem is unknown and nobody has any idea how to solve it. No amount of sampling an LLM will give you a correct answer. It will give you the best known answer today, but it won't give you a correct answer. This is an example where LLMs all give correlated answers that do not solve the problem.

If you want to scale back, many programming problems are going to be like this, too. Failure points of different models are correlated as much as failure points during sampling are correlated. You only gain information from repeated trials when those trials are uncorrelated, and sampling multiple LLMs is still correlated.
Are the UI's for bolt.new and lovable really that similar? That's nuts.
I don't think Mangione is ever going away. He's outright embraced by left-leaning folks as a hero and an answer to current ills [1].

America is a land of revolutionaries that fought to the death. That's still in our cultural DNA, and we still sell guns to people. If a Mangione incident happens again, it may embolden folks even more and become an increasingly frequent phenomena. (Teaching others how to behave through mimetic behavior and normalizing it.)

The French Revolution wasn't that long ago. A lot of incredibly violent rebellions happen all over the world. If you push people to a point, they'll act.

This is probably just the start.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jnfgnb/antiteslamusk...
If the system were capable of holding companies and CEOs accountable for behavior that causes obvious and irreparable harm to thousands or millions of people, there would be no need for people like Luigi, and he would not be viewed the way that he is.