skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what that has to do with my previous comment but yeah, pushing the boundaries of science is kinda difficult and you can make mistakes.

My understanding is that they pretty convincingly showed that the thing they built acts as a qubit. This means that if its not doing what they think its doing (the "topological" / Majorana stuff) then they accidentally made a qubit which works some other way. That isn't outside the realm of possibility but it is fairly unlikely.
Yes, and they have sued over several events so far. I don’t know what advice they could give in the moment.
As much as I want that last paragraph to be true… the results speak for themselves.
I do the whole random charity thing but I need the feedback loop. Like I would give a game to a homeless dude on reddit saying they were homeless but just want a game on their phone that they can't afford. Because it's a trivial thing. I know I'm not getting cheated. Maybe he doesn't buy a game but instead spends it on a week of bread. That's fine too.

Giving an anon stranger an anon amount of money for "charity" triggers "anti-scam" instincts. It's not about losing the money. It's about encouraging bad behavior in society.
I believe Americans would be terrified of the idea of government agencies linking all their information together. Letting them be siloed is quite likely intentional.

You seem to be making the analysis based on first principles, but it looks like it’s inspired by some facts or experience you have. could you share that source /info?
Sounds like the true answer is having a colleague you can buy £1 eggs from.
> real untraceable anonymity and is 100% free.

And 50% of the time it works every time...

A lot of things simply don't work if you're using tor. You get blocked, you get blacklisted, accounts get terminated, and so on.
Ah, of course. I misspoke on that name. I may be showing my age here but the gen 1 papyrus displays were horrid. The scribes constantly complained about it muddying their quills.
With the bird flu epidemic, that probably is the worst idea I have ever heard.
That’s simply not true. Congress has the power to organize the executive branch, not the president. Congress created the agencies and departments and they cannot be closed by the president.

Edit:

Constitutional explanation: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...

report on Congress control of executive branch agencies https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45442/2#:~:te...
Including the copy pasta that the department created by an elected official is "unelected".
Though it is precisely the sort of arbitrary and inappropriate meddling that monarchs used to get up to in the bad old days, before democracy broke out (virtually all monarchs today are powerless constitutional monarchs, essentially figureheads).
Sadly, because the soil are too polluted by PFAS, it is adviced against to eat your own eggs (by medical authorities) where I live (larger paris aera)

https://www.iledefrance.ars.sante.fr/polluants-organiques-pe...
There is not an "OS" or anything even remotely like it. For now these things behave more like physics experiments than computers.

You can play around with "quantum programming" through (e.g.) some of IBM's offerings and there has been work on quantum programming languages like q# from Microsoft but its unclear (to me) how useful these are.
You'd give an AUD$1000 phone to a kid?
And 4900 "wrong ways" that will hurt you one way or another
Congress alone has the power of the purse per the Constitution. The idea the executive has absolute discretion to ignore statutes is absurd.

You either support the Constitution and the republic. The unitary executive types, and most especially those who encourage ignoring the courts, stand in opposition to both.

By the way. What did Trump promise about Russia and Ukraine? Did he promise to lie about Ukraine starting the war? Call a democratic ally a dictator while formalizing negotiations with war criminals who published a genocide handbook stating their clear intent? Do you suppose Americans expect Trump give Putin everything he wants without preconditions or expecting anything in return? That's what he's doing.

Pretty sure Americans weren't expecting Trump to promise invasion of Canada, Greenland or Panama either.
That's an empty argument. I think people hate musk, if they do, for the things he does and has done. It's not the other way around. Judging people for their actions is a fair way to look at it.
It's interesting that you have fewer concerns about the safety implications of firing regulators before taking the time to establish what they do or why they were hire/promoted, never mind their competence than you do about the safety implications of underrepresented groups receiving advice on job applications. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that arbitrary firings damage organizations (and indeed qualified white people's employment prospects) more than interviewing a few more black people.
It’s fascinating to see people developing operating systems for a post-apocalyptic world. I’m not that pessimistic - yet. I just don’t want to wake up one day to some random pop-up saying all my data and software are gone because I trusted companies one the wrong side of the globe for too long.
What are their guardrails? Do they have accountability? Does "parallelise" mean compiling data on people from different systems? Dossiers? Are they even following the law?

> They have simply...

Oh yes, because this is all very simple. What is "waste"? How is it defined? Who decides what is waste and what isn't?
Ummmm.... that is why you clip their wings.

(Though clipping one wing is more fun, that way they flap about in circles).
Advisors with unlimited power and endless conflicts of interests with zero obligation for transparency?
Whether I like Musk or not has very little to do with it.
Abhi is one of the best engineers I know. I’m excited that he and his colleagues are tackling this problem.
Thanks for the advice. And yes absolutely, my email is tahmid.hm.dev@gmail.com
Chicxulub Impact
> a large coop

It's large compared to the average, but the longer we've had chickens the more we're convinced they thrive better when given appropriate space (anecdata about average age of our chickens vs all other people with chickens we know), leading me to think something like yours is still too small even for 2 chickens.

For us the minimum is now such that there's at least some of the gras/moss left throughout the year instead of the puddle of mud we used to get. Plus I'm not gonne lie: seeing their (and their ancestors) behavior 'in the wild' it feels morally/ethically better as well. Especially the younger ones are keen explorers: easy to see when let ranging free - they'll go in a radius of like 100m around their nest, but not much further than that. Apart from that one mandatory weirdo obviously.
Really good resource, thank you.
> It’s deliberate inefficiency.

Inefficiency is a useful property of many systems [0,1]. Current
cultural obsessions around the word are a burden and mistake, and the
word "efficiency" now feels rather overload with right-wing
connotations.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/efficiency/

[1] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/cash2/
In clearance there is the concept of classification by compilation, which means that the clearance required for a piece of information can be higher than the one required by any single component that makes up that information. Being able to combine data across agencies makes it much more dangerous than keeping it separate and compartmentalized. Parallelism is a gigantic risk from a security perspective and ripe for abuse, especially given that DOGE itself has flaunted court orders trying to hold it accountable.
Large amounts of teams are very hard to scale.

There is a reason why startups innovate and large companies follow.
I'm worried that one of Musk friends might be a Chinese or Russian spy.
This was really useful, thank you so much. Reading Tally's story only strengthened my resolve.
You are confusing quasiparticles with fundamental particles. If we were to observe a Majorana topological state, this would have no bearing on the properties of the neutrino.

Also to say Majorana fermions are not considered outside of neutrinos is a patently ridiculous and ignorant statement. There is absolutely nothing in physics to say the only particle that can possibly be Majorana is a neutrino. For example, there have been theories of Majorana dark matter which are a consideration of fundamental Majorana particles outside of neutrinos.
Fair enough. I got downleveled into such a company but got paid same as a higher level elsewhere so now there is somewhere to go up! Plus even they have raises at same level. I have no ego and grinded leet and design interviews. Happy with my choice
This is one of those instances where I’m simply baffled after reading the first few paragraphs and have to express that immediately.

The author did the same thing twice and he didn’t consider as the most important factor that the second time around he already knew how to do it?

He trimmed down the infinite space of possibilities to a single solution and learned the lessons? And had the neurons connected already in his head?

That’s what made him faster. There was a lot of work that he didn’t need to do anymore. Learning always takes time.

Maybe it’s an overreaction to a blog post, but still…
Which law are referring to? I work in such an agency and I’ve never heard of such a thing
> False. It was a temporary injuction until the judge has time to review it.

It was in fact multiple injunctions because people at DOGE kept trying to work around it in increasingly stupid ways.

> So are 2.5 million other employees and advisors in government.

Those employees are employed by a government agency established, funded and given their mission by Congress. The heads of these agencies are approved by the US Senate.

None of these statements above apply to Elon Musk or "DOGE."
Just on the un-elected private group bit. This would apply to every one of the staff members of these departments. How many elected software developers worked on the original software? How many private contractors were elected?
Are there a pile of elected software developers working as cobol and java devs?

It's not the stupidest argument, but it applies to every last staff member of the us treasury.
How about going for an independent cloud storage like Dropbox, they are not affiliated to any OS or Windows platforms
Thanks for the feedback. Yep, definitely want to work on a form backend next. As mentioned in the original post, I built this on the side and it was a looot of work. Hopefully it will get easier from here.
I don't know about the US but in other countries it is definitely by design that the departments and their data are separate. It is far too easy to abuse gathering and joining data on people otherwise. History did teach us these lessons, and it's continuously visible as well today, fortunately at small scales just because they are separate.

It would truly be a nightmare scenario to have all government databases under a single potentially corrupt roof or having someone with access to all of them cough.
If I were in their shoes I would take some small comfort from a constitutional lawyer even saying "officially we don't know".

It's not often you're asked to do something that could break the law, with the whistle-blowing chain being potentially broken at the top.
Also looking at threads view first before actual news helps with that.
TLDR; visit this link: https://immigration-portal.ec.europa.eu/index_en

American living in France for 5 years. Previously worked in NYC startups earning a similar salary to you. Made lots of mistakes that, if I had known better, I could've saved myself some time and money. That being said, I am doing far better financially even if I make less on paper and I just bought my first place (unthinkable in NYC). I work as a software contractor technically, though I work full time for an American company.

Your first question is what your longterm goal? Permanent relocation or experiment for a few years? In other words, where are you planning to retire? You want to make your social security payments to the correct country. Your tax paperwork will stress you out for the first few years if you don't figure that out.

In either case, I'd suggest you try to keep your American job and go fully remote. You don't need a work visa if you don't work for a European company. But if you move permanently, you should do the paperwork to replace your American employment contract with a European contracting company like I did. It's more paperwork but earning an American salary in Europe gives you a significant purchasing power advantage even if you pay more in taxes. The real killer is the paperwork. European bureaucracy sucks.

If you don't keep your American job, you should apply for jobs before moving ideally. Most EU countries have reasonably low bars for skilled worker visas. Spain and France I know are very simple. The Netherlands are a bit more confusing. Regardless, you roughly need an offer of 50 000 € and a college degree to get one.

EDIT: saw discussion about housing shortages. France has tons of housing (https://pap.fr). I had a two-bedroom apartment with a balcony in Paris proper for 1 900 €.
Netherlands indeed. We live downriver from known contamination in Dordrecht and around heavy industry in Rotterdam area
You should have a deep chest or big standing freezer away from the kitchen for long term storage .. somewhere cool that it can do fine in for six hours+ if you lose power.

Oranges, yep - marmalade (castor sugar + other stuff, and jars) OR skin | cut away peel and pulp, save juice and freeze for later in the year; drinking ot adding to cakes, etc.

Lazy cooking == slow cookers once every two weeks or so, make a lot of vegetable stir fry and pacage and freeze, chicken and vegetables ditto. If you use tomato stock | paste for these batch meal preps then always get a standard jar and save those in a jar cupboard for reuse for orange jam, fig jame (also look into glace figs, etc).

Keep that up and you'll be living like a 1930's off grid veteran in no time ;-)
And you aren't even factoring in a keeper/guardian, that's a full-time wage.
that's not the way to think about quantum computing AFAIK.

Think of these as accelerators you use to run some specific algorithm the result of which your "normal" application uses.

More akin to GPUs: your "normal" applications running on "normal" CPUs offload some specific computation to the GPU and then use the result.
The amount of time people spend grinding leetcode instead (if you believe what they say about it online) is just as much or more.
We've been showing a concerning amount of weakness lately. The government is in total chaos, we have navy planes and helicopters falling out of the sky, a navy aircraft carrier even managed to plow into another ship, inflation is out of control, we've got mystery drones in the sky, we're incapable of manufacturing and are almost totally dependent on china who also hacks the shit out of us, over half the population reads below a 6th grade level and our nation's science literacy is even worse, we can't get our own Astronauts off the ISS, and the population is suffering under record levels of household debt and homelessness.

I expect to start seeing a lot more articles giving "signals of strength" to try and offset the many signs of weakness and failure which have been painting a target on us.
Have fun hiring any talent after three years of advertising to students that all programming/data jobs are going to be obsolete.
The project is an open source project, so it's likely not your fault :)

I can fully see how and why this might have grown historically in ye olden days of python2, but it's not sustainable to continue adding floors ontop of a rotten foundation. Code needs maintenance like anything else, and far too often there's no budget or time available for it. Even if that maintenance would reduce the overall workload.
Given that BlueSky is funded by Twitter, I'm assuming they know a lot more than us on how Twitter architects systems.
”Simply been tasked with X”

We’re on a community that discusses, amongst other things, the running of firms and startups.

Just because someone is simply tasked with X, doesn’t mean we all agree to ignore the big picture. The big picture of

1) Complex projects

2) Security

3) High functioning teams

4) Ethics

This is fundamentally unethical, and irresponsible. I 100% think you agree with me on the irresponsible part.

You may sincerely stand on the reduction of waste, which frankly no one is going to argue. But a team this small, for a project this vital? This fast?

What was that saying? Good, Fast, Cheap? Pick 2? Why the flippty flip, is anyone here OK with fast and cheap?

Hell, What precisely are these people doing? What are the project milestones? Where can we see what’s going on?

And if the transparency of their actions is a cybersecurity risk - then which independent body is checking them?

Edit: Forget their elected, unelected status. Why should we turn around and trust them? What are they planning to do. I don’t want more outrage - you could find the whole thing was running on alien souls. What is the replacement method, and what is the gain we can expect from the changes?

If they’ve taken charge - then they should do the work, and do it well. And if it’s tech related or s/w related stuff, then talk about it, and explain.
It just extracts the abstracts?
These are also staff of the government.. Or contracted by the government. The government contracts out all the time.
You know I 100% agree with your advice, but I can never follow it in practice. I just run head-first into development, driven by a nebulous vision that I can't properly explain. Forms.md is the peak of that experience for me haha.

Thanks for the comment and support though, again I 100% think this is solid advice, but I also believe it certainly does not apply to everyone/all products out there.
> So what we have is a hype on top of beliefs in progress as continious phenomena. But progress itself has slowed greately.

I think we can split the two.

a) I don't think there's anyone seriously doubting there's a lot of hype going around. But that's to be expected. Trust not the trust me bros, and so on. I think we agree here.

b) Progress hasn't slowed, and at the same time progress (in research) can stop tomorrow and we'd still have work to do for 20years, simply using what's on the table today. LLMs have solved "intent comprehension". RL seems to have solved "verifiable problems". The two can and will be used together to tackle "open ended questions". And together we'll see advancements in every aspect of our lives, on every repetitive mundane and boring task we have ever done.
Is there a resource to read more about the types of plastic commonly used in current generation consumer products?

Other than a degree in material science or something similar, that is. Maybe something a bit more digestible, like a book.
So has Kendrick Lamar’s’ hit song, but no one is suggesting that it has geopolitical implications.
I'm guessing you actually mean "basically 'illegal' because of some regulations"?
Has there been enough retractions?
hm, maybe it's better if Trump stays president for 4 years (instead of Vance coming up). The devil you know...
This is why I don't use the c std library for my compiler/vm projects. For the few functions you need, you build your own library that wraps the syscalls. And then you can distribute a binary that will run on Linux kernels going back two decades without worrying about questions such as "what is Ubuntu/Arch up to today?"
Yeah the only way an extra tax would be fair for the worker would be to think of it like a fee for PR. Otherwise it's just discrimination.
> Multiple readers are okay but a single writer will cause transient errors in all other concurrent read and write operations

They don't cause "transient errors", they cause transaction failures, which you should be handling by retrying the transaction anyway.
That's fair, and I don't like their marketing too (and others too, look how the reviewers pushed back on misleading claims in the paper). I was talking specifically on Majoranas being behind sc/trapped ions/cold atoms. If they manage to make 1 and 2 qubit gates and it will have good error rates in couple of years (and that's a big if), they'll be approximately where for example Google is expected to be. And the question what will be easier to scale is very unclear and will decide who wins eventually
Harvesting crops is materially different from slaughtering animals, and calorie for calorie, plant-based nutrition involves less termination of life than getting calories from animals (if you're grouping insects and non-animal life into the "forms of life" being killed).

If people don't like killing in general, or killing animals more specifically, they can live a wonderfully health(y|ier) life by going plant-based, be responsible for less killing, and today do it without having to give up the textures and experiences they've be conditioned on.

It's difficult in 2025 to conclude that a person who doesn't choose to eat this way is particularly opposed to killing, in the way that you propose.
$6500!! You may as well buy 5x3090s for $1000 each for 120GB ram, spend the extra $1500 on the sundries.

Like, I'm sure Nvidia is aware of Apple's "unified memory" as an alternative to their cards and yet...they aren't offering >24GB consumer cards yet, so clearly they don't feel threatened.

Don't get me wrong, I've always disliked Apple as a company, but the M series chips are brilliant, I'm writing this on one right now. But people seem to think that Apple will be able to get the same perf increases yoy when they're really stretching process limits by dumping everything onto the same die like that - where do they go from here?

That said Nvidia is using HBM so it does make me wonder why they aren't also doing memory on package with HBM, I think SK Hynix et al were looking at making this possible.

I'm glad we're headed in the direction of 3d silicon though, always seemed like we may as well scale in z, I imagine they can stack silicon/cooling/silicon/cooling etc. I'm sure they can use lithography to create cooling dies to sandwich between everything else. Then just pass connections/coolant through those.
Industrial eggs are tightly controlled. Homemade eggs are far more susceptible to infection. AFAIK, scrubbing eggs like in the US is generally a bad idea, and results in the need to refrigerate them.
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the first and the second sentence (to my completely uneducated mind).

If topological qubits turn out to be so much more reliable then it doesn't really matter how much time was spent trying to make other types of qubits more reliable. It's not really a head start, is it?

Or are there other problems besides preventing unwanted decoherence that might take that much time to solve?
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That’s the thing. The reason why there’s no concise term is because it’s not really a meaningful concept. Does hemlock contain chemicals? Is botulin a chemical? They’re both 100% natural. The colloquial sense is totally meaningless, so by insisting on the scientific definition, you’re stopping marketers from saying nothing while looking like they’re saying something.

Also, ‘things are bad for other reasons’ isn’t an argument for trying to eliminate this particular reason.
There are many useful tricks - like cosine distance.

In contrast, softmax has a very deep grounding in statistical physics - where it is called the Boltzmann distribution. In fact, this connection between statistical physics and machine learning was so fundamental that it was a key part of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Hopfield and Hinton.
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