MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by westurner | 2025-06-23 12:40:21+00:00
DOIs could be stored for lookup in a blockchain. Isn't there currently a centralized single point of failure in DOI and ORCID resolution?

Users would generate and centrally register or receive a generated W3C DID keypair with which to sign their ScholarlyArticles and peer review CreativeWorks.

W3D DID Decentralized Identifiers solve for what DOI and ORCID solve for without requiring a central registry.

W3C PROV is for describing provenance. PROV RDF can be signed with a DID sk.

PDFs can be signed with their own digital signature scheme, but there's no good way to publish Linked Data in a PDF (prepared as a LaTeX manuscript for example).

Bibliographic and experimental control metadata is only so useful in assuring provenance and authenticity of article and data and peer reviews which legitimize.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382186 :

>> JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) has managed to get articles indexed by Google Scholar [rescience_gscholar]. They publish their costs [joss_costs]: $275 Crossref membership, DOIs: $1/paper:
by jonathanstrange | 2025-06-23 12:40:42+00:00
I've never had a big complaint about LaTeX, it's easy to get into and the results are stunning if you use it minimally and with care. They only thing I've always been missing was a way to make it easier to have perfect register-true typesetting for books. This has to do with LaTeX's paragraph flow algorithm and lack of global optimization, or so I've been told.

Can Typst provide better register-true layout? That would be interesting to me.
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-23 12:40:53+00:00
I have two friends who are FTM. One is busy putting together the outfit of his dreams for an awards ceremony. The other is strikingly handsome, and dresses so masculine-dandy-perfect he looks like a male model waiting for a fashion shoot.

Just two data points, but I have zero reason to believe what sounds like transphobic rationalization.

I personally can't comprehend why anyone would want to change their gender, but my dogs can't comprehend why I like salads. Nonetheless, they let me enjoy my dinner. I try to be like them.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-23 12:41:21+00:00
The US has a history of pulling this kind of stuff on its allies. To mind comes pulling out of Breton Woods. To those not aware, at some point in the past the US told the world: the dollar is as good as gold, you can convert it at any time you want, pinky promise. Later: lol joking, I'm keeping the gold, enjoy your dollars.

I wonder what it says about Europe that its leaders are still falling for these rugpulls. That they are uneducated is the most generous reading I can think of.
by supplied_demand | 2025-06-23 12:41:47+00:00
== Government programs have no concern for ROI and that's precisely the problem; they just siphon more resources out of the private sector and keep going regardless of whether there's any return or not.==

You have inserted your personal bias and declared it a fact. Many government programs have ended. Many programs have very specific concern for ROI. Government has an ROI timeline lasting generation-to-generation (see: moon landing, interstate, quantum investments), a company has a timeline lasting quarter-to-quarter (see: SEC filings).

Different entities can also measure ROI differently. To you ROI means positive net income and growth. It could mean patent or litigation protection for a large company.
by dtech | 2025-06-23 12:42:36+00:00
I'd suggest to just give it a shot and notice the difference, it's night and day.

I couldn't get cursor agent to do useful stuff for me - might be because I don't do TS or Python - and Claude Code was a big productivity boost almost from day one. You just tell it to do stuff, and it just... does it. At like the level of a college student.
by lproven | 2025-06-23 12:42:37+00:00
All right, valid point.

It was intended for indexing IIS websites, although by W2K it could handle MS Office files. Was it directly visible from Explorer? The first Windows I personally remember with file search in the desktop – for instance, in the Start menu – was Vista, which came out in 2006 and which has a totally different indexing and search tool which replaced Indexing Service.
by Pxtl | 2025-06-23 12:43:29+00:00
Basically, the fact that any kind of tweaking to the history in terms of comments or grouping together related commits into a single commit changes the hashes. This means that git's normally useful ability to check "hey is commit X in the history of both branches A and B" is broken.

That's a huge usability problem with git. Even as simple as a "rebase on merge" or "squash on merge" automation makes it impractical to push your topic-branch and keep working locally on that same branch while your topic-branch is being reviewed and tested, because git doesn't retain any concept of the fact that "this block of commits has been transformed into that block of commits and so you can consider them one-and-the-same".

I'm the git sme at my office and I deeply resent the amount of time I have to spent training juniors and students around git's jagged edges.

Ideally git should have a proper in-repo objects that reify a relationship between rebased/squashed/amended/etc commits and their predecessors and exposes that when you ask things like "hey is commit X in ref Y?" it could say "no, but there is a modified version of that commit".
by wickedsight | 2025-06-23 12:44:14+00:00
> someone assigned male at birth wanting to be attractive/desired is not necessarily different than them wanting to live the female role in our society.

What even is this idea? If we take the target audience of men who are loudest about wanting to be 'real men', the Andrew Tate (and the like) followers. These people spend hours at the gym to be desired. They wear tight shirts to show off their muscles to be desired. They wear designer shoes and shirts to be desired. They have weekly barber visits to be desired.

Does that mean all these men want to live the female role in society? I don't think so, since that's the exact thing they claim to oppose.
by gavinray | 2025-06-23 12:44:14+00:00
This is insane.

I've had this EXACT idea for the last few months and was going to build this.

The zeitgeist is so strange. Really happy to have caught this post by chance.

Awesome work! I've wanted something like this for a long time.

---

The only difference in my idea was to be user-curated. So a user would enter a list of artists they like, and viewing an artist would show you the network of everyone's list who included that artist.
by reify | 2025-06-23 12:45:34+00:00
Here in the UK we are told our tap water is fine to drink.

however, quite a few years ago I started to see this black staining and sludge coming from my taps. In particular the inside of the toilet cistern there was black sludge growing up the sides of the Cistern.

So I have not drunk any tap water for at least 5 years.

I installed a water filter that has four ceramic water filter candles.

The water now tastes great again. No sludge either.

considering that Thames water has ripped people off, dumped tons of pollutents and sewage into our rivers yet still pay their executives millions in bonuses.

All water companies need to be owned by the people, not some for profit wankers

I wont drink that shit anymore

I wont buy that shit in bottles either, have you bothered to read the label on bottled water.
by Xylakant | 2025-06-23 12:45:37+00:00
> It's permissively licensed, unfortunately. Wonder why.

I've been loosely involved in setting this up, so I can say a little: The people that funded the initial work wanted it permissively licensed. My (somethwat informed) conjecture is that they rank making things secure - even in closed source apps that now could take the code - higher than barring closed forks. It also tracks with the Rust ecosystem in general - APL or derivates are very common in that ecosystem.
by lm28469 | 2025-06-23 12:45:45+00:00
School, and education at large, isn't about teaching you what's economically useful. It's about building a society sharing a common base of values/morals, history, patriotism, as well as the basics of science, maths, &c. You want people who are able to think for themselves to iter and create new things which are in the continuity of your country's history.

The vast majority of everything you learn before university isn't that useful if all you care about is creating robots for your economy.

> What happens when AGI ...

What happens IF AGI ...
by loudmax | 2025-06-23 12:45:53+00:00
My theoretical explanation for the gap is that women are sensitive to much more than physical appearances when selecting a mate. When men select a mate, they over-index on physical characteristics, relative to women.

So, women will take into account a man's physical appearance, but also his social standing is also very important, plus perceived intelligence and dependability and so on.

When men look at women, physical beauty is paramount. Intelligence and so on is a plus, but not nearly to the extent that it is for women looking at men.

The other part of the explanation is menopause. Humans live long past the age of sexual fertility, which is somewhat unusual in the animal kingdom. Presumably, ancient human social structures made it beneficial to have grandparents around, in a way that does not exist for most other animals. Relative to other species, this puts more evolutionary pressure on human males to seek out females that are of reproductive age, and ignore older women.

The combination of these factors means that female physical appearance comes out as a prime selector in humans, in a way that it doesn't for other animal species. Male physical appearance is also significant, but relatively less important because of other factors, especially a male's status in the social hierarchy.

Anyway, that's my explanation, but I wouldn't hold any of this as a firm belief. Coming up with evolutionary psychological explanations for sex differences is easy. Actually testing them is much harder.
by thoroughburro | 2025-06-23 12:46:03+00:00
> If the entry is in English, and the style demands sentence case, convert to sentence-case and output

Nope: not possible to automatically determine which capitalised nouns are proper (and thus remain capitalised in sentence case) and which are common (and thus become uncapitalised).

This is in fact why it is better to store sentence case: it can be unambiguously converted to title case while the reverse is ambiguous. It’s not mere preference.
by patrickk | 2025-06-23 12:46:09+00:00
> A secret report by Germany’s Federal Audit Office leaked to the public last week states that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York refuses to allow Bundebank staff to even view the gold, triggering suspicions that the vaults are empty as well as calls for the gold to be shipped back to Berlin.

> The Fed implements stringent security controls, and refuses even Bundesbank staff full access to the German gold hoard. A team of personnel demanding access in 2007 were only allowed to visit the anteroom of the reserves, and when Bundebank auditors visited in May 2011 only one of nine compartments was opened for direct handling.

> The Federal Reserve’s fervent secrecy has engendered suspicion and concern, with some claiming that Germany’s gold has long ago disappeared or been lent out, and that only promissory notes of nominal value are sitting in the vault.

https://www.mining.com/germans-begin-to-demand-their-gold-ba...
by scheeseman486 | 2025-06-23 12:46:41+00:00
Worked out for Linux, which remains a largely open, collaborative ecosystem. Meanwhile all the BSDs are good for are as less-good Linuxes that can be shoved into proprietary products. Google is choking out AOSP, which they can do because of Android's "less restrictive" license.

Copyleft licenses are demonstrably better for open source projects in the long run. We've had enough time to prove that out now.
by jerf | 2025-06-23 12:47:29+00:00
There's no "connection". This is constraint solving. The supposed connection to quantum theory in the name is spurious, as that is not what superpositions are, nor is it how nature resolves them, nor is it even particularly defendable as an "approximation". It's something else entirely.

It is what it is now, but when you see people like me grumbling about the name, this is basically why.

It's like all those "I built a monad library!" posts that in fact haven't even come close, they're missing half-a-dozen critical properties of monads, all they can do is "Maybe" or "Either", and then someone else sees that library and thinks that's what "monads" are and pass the confusion down even farther in the next generation of "monad" libraries. Words mean what people use them to mean in the end, but there are still some meanings sometimes worth at least trying to defend.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-23 12:47:33+00:00
"I don't find them particularly relevant to the situation in Gaza"

Do you find the Hamas attacks that killed 1,200 people relevant?

"you recognize the fledgling UN's decision to partition the land but don't recognize any decision they've taken since"

I know that the Palestinians have rejected at least two excellent offers from Israel for their own country. If they had accepted them they would be VASTLY better off then they are now.

You cannot absolve the Palestinians of their responsibility for their shitty lives due to their terrible decisions.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 12:47:44+00:00
No. It had nothing to do with RTO and PCR was not an alternative.

There was a federal policy (not legislated btw, just an EO for all the people complaining about Trump using EOs to undo previous EOs) that said any company with federal contracts (which is nearly all tech companies in the US, not just defense contractors) must have 100% of its employees vaccinated. It had nothing to do with safety since there was no provision for remote workers.

Keep in mind this was very early on before they had any reasonable amount of time to even test the vaccines. Forced medical intervention like that as a federal policy is far more oppressive than just asking immigrants and vistors for social media handles, there isn't any debate to be had here.
by CodesInChaos | 2025-06-23 12:47:55+00:00
Generally Typst looks like a significant improvment over LaTeX to me. The language is cleaner and easier to understand, and the first class scripting support is appealing. Its embeddability and templating features make it an interesting option for automated PDF generation (e.g. invoices) as well.

However its handling of introspection and convergence gives me a bad feeling.
by p_l | 2025-06-23 12:48:05+00:00
Yes, the default windows search boxes utilized indexing service if it was enabled. Windows 2000 also shipped with a ton of IFilter modules to enable indexing of various files. It was also first shipped for indexing IIS, but originally was part of Cairo as whole-OS indexer.

Vista introduced "next generation" implementation and used it by default, though you could still use the old one. IFilter remained the same for both. What really changed was how it was more visible and less performance impacting with newer computers - most people I knew disabled indexing because performance and there was no real culture of using built-in windows search.
by westurner | 2025-06-23 12:48:45+00:00
They do have great 3D videos. E.g. "What are PCBs? || How do PCBs Work?" https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LgmIGE2nI&

NIL Nanoimprint Lithography does not use EUV laser light.

(There's also solid-state DUV lithography now.)

/?yt nil nanoimprint lithography: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nil+nanoimprint...
by caseysoftware | 2025-06-23 12:50:40+00:00
> To rebuild public trust. Hongoltz-Hetling argues that institutions must respectfully engage with unconventional beliefs and offer inclusive frameworks instead of dismissive critiques.

No, we don't need "inclusive frameworks" because some beliefs are idiotic.

We need experts who put reason and data before political agendas and they need to be able to say "I don't know" instead of lying.
by __d | 2025-06-23 12:51:19+00:00
> Do you buy bottled water from the store?

No

> Do you filter tap water?

No

> What filter do you use?

N/A

> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)?

Yes (Australia)

> Something else?

I use unfiltered tap water to make soda water -- I drink quite a bit of that.
by ospray | 2025-06-23 12:51:55+00:00
Its more like we build computers that way to protect people from running code they shouldn't and limiting the blast radius if they do. A lot of the protections that pushed iOS zero click jailbreak exploit chains to the $10 million plus range impact capability and performance heavily. However you do have a good user experience that "just works" and keeps people safe. Run as sudo no pass if want man just for many that's to much risk.
by p_l | 2025-06-23 12:51:56+00:00
OTOH, it was used for multiple container-optimized distros by now:

First CoreOS, which forked into Flatcar Linux (now funded by Microsoft) and Fedora CoreOS (rewrite from Gentoo/ChromeOS base to Fedora base), and Google's Container-Optimized System (used heavily in Google Kubernetes Engine).
by Rotundo | 2025-06-23 12:51:57+00:00
Tap water, unfiltered, in the Netherlands. It regularly tests better than bottled water.

In fact, the quality controls for tap water are more strict than for bottled water:

https://www.drinkwaterplatform.nl/fleswater-vs-kraanwater-wa... (in Dutch)

https://www-drinkwaterplatform-nl.translate.goog/fleswater-v... (Machine translated to English)
by jottinger | 2025-06-23 12:52:03+00:00
I worked at one of their computer centers - I wasn't a great salesman either, because I didn't want to sell something to someone who didn't want it, but I did all right. They had a heyday and blew it.

I gotta admit, though: the TRS-80 series was a wonder, all told. You could legit go from a Model I to a 6000 running a full UNIX (Okay, it was XENIX, but still!)

You'd never WANT to do that - even running the 6000 on XENIX was a bad idea compared to running XENIX on an 80386, never mind that it was XENIX. This was back before SCO turned evil, anyway. But you COULD!
by gmac | 2025-06-23 12:52:52+00:00
I don't think so. A security vulnerability is a kind of bug, and a bug is a kind of flaw. Once you've introduced a problem using the most specific terminology, it's OK to refer to it using less specific terminology. It can help you avoid sounding repetitive.

(This reminds me of one of my kids at a very young age. If you said "I like your trousers", she'd reply "they're not trousers, they're jeans". But, of course, jeans are a kind of trousers, and it isn't mandatory to be as specific as possible at all times).
by hedora | 2025-06-23 12:52:54+00:00
The GP doesn't understand the vulnerability:

https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt

Instead of using something standard like environment variables, pam has a special "pam_env" that contains facts about the user session that it apparently trusts. Users can override pam_env settings by writing to hidden file in ~.

So, this exploit chain is more accurately described as "yet another example of utilities inventing new, obscure configuration mechanisms for security-critical settings, allowing policy flaws to remain undetected for a long time".

Running security configuration options through a special snowflake IPC mechanism (instead of keeping them in a file where they could actually be inspected by humans) would only make things worse.
by luckylion | 2025-06-23 12:52:58+00:00
The IAEA reported in 2023:

---- 34. During the monthly interim verification (IIV) on 22 January 2023, the Agency took environmental samples from the product sampling point at FFEP, the analytical results of which showed the presence of high enriched uranium (HEU) particles containing up to 83.7% U-235. The Agency informed Iran that these findings were inconsistent with the level of enrichment of the UF6 produced at FFEP, as declared by Iran, and requested Iran to clarify the origin of these HEU particles.

35. In a letter dated 20 February 2023, Iran informed the Agency that “unintended fluctuations in enrichment levels may have occurred during transition period at the time of commissioning the process of [60%] product (November 2022) or while replacing the feed cylinder”. Discussions between the Agency and Iran to clarify the matter are ongoing.

36. On 26 February 2023, the Agency took destructive analysis samples from the cylinder containing the HEU product at FFEP, the results of which showed that the enrichment level of UF6 produced at FFEP remained up to 60% U-235. This cylinder has been collecting the HEU product since the start of production of UF6 enriched up to 60% at FFEP in November 2022. ----

If Iran "hasn't been working on" a weapons program since 2003, did the uranium just jumped from 5% (required for the claimed purposes) to nearly 83% (not consistent with any purpose besides nuclear weapons as far as I understand)?

Sounds like a strange claim, I wonder if that was really the consensus in the US intelligence community, or an opinion of Gabbard.

[1] https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/documents/gov2023-8...
by roxolotl | 2025-06-23 12:53:27+00:00
> Without freedom of association people stop socializing when you get a plurality population, you can see this everywhere in the US.

Can you elaborate on this? To me, again just being honest and genuine, it reads as a racist dog whistle which says “without a shared cultural baseline this country will collapse”.

I’ve worked with local immigrant advocate groups and have multiple immigrants living on the same street as me. They largely want nothing more than to be part of American society. Is this a range? Absolutely. Different people want to be part of society to different extents. But it’s very rare to find people who won’t be kind and welcoming to you if you are kind and welcoming to them.

On housing that’s obviously true. There are two solutions there. Reduce the demand, or increase the supply. Given that the demand is “humans wanting shelter” any attempt to reduce demand is clearly immoral. So the answer there is to up the supply.

I also genuinely want immigrants. At a minimum they bring delicious food I get to enjoy.
by Xylakant | 2025-06-23 12:53:58+00:00
I think it's pretty reductive to boil down linux' success to the choice of license. There's governance model, development model, institutional inerta, ... - and the linux ecosystem contains tons of permissively licensed pieces of software, some of which massively contributed to its success (the once-default webserver that came with its own permissive license, the APL). Even the kernel includes APL, BSD-2 Clause and MPL'ed code.

To the contrary, GNU Hurd is GPL'ed and is much less successful than the linux kernel.
by dubbel | 2025-06-23 12:54:37+00:00
We are talking about national gold reserves, not some household items.

They exist for the reason to liquidate them in case of national emergencies/severe economic crises. It's easier to liquidate these reserves when they are stored in trading hubs. That could be New York and London, or maybe even Shanghai, if China wasn't a systemic rival.

Storing all of them at "one's place" is a larger risk than splitting it up and storing them in several places, each with a different risk profile.
by salawat | 2025-06-23 12:54:48+00:00
Should your calculator ask who you are to compute 2+2? Contrary to popular belief, access control was stapled onto the computation space. There was a time when it was considered an unnecessary extravagance. It only became the night unbuckle mandate that machines give a shit about who you are once we started using computers as the basis of business systems.

Accounts thereafter, ruined everything.