skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a joke. Topological anyons are the real deal, someday.

This is an article I found while preparing a comment about superfluid quantum gravity; https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1iqvxn0/comment...

I was collecting relevant articles and found this one.

TIL about the connection between superfluid quantum gravity, supersolid spin nematic crystals, and spin-nematic liquid crystals (LCDs,) for waveguiding entangled photons.

And also TIL about anyons in neutron stars, which are typically or always the impetus for black holes.

And also, hey, "3He" again.
css grid is a real grid. it can do masonry just fine. what they want is a shuffle feature.
Read this first: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

There are multiple alternate asynchronous computation expression implementations which give different ergonomics and behavior (like https://github.com/TheAngryByrd/IcedTasks). There's an entire CE extension to specifically enable this kind of convenience and flexibility too: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0...

None of this is possible in C#, at least without jumping through many hoops and ending up with extra boilerplate (and this is okay, C# has enough of its own complexity). As cjbgkagh noted, providing this type of control is the whole point and what makes F# so powerful.
I agree that a lot of people don't care. But the government installs secure rooms (SCIFs) in various locations for the safe discussion of classified material:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scif-inside-high-security-rooms-2...

Just because Signal comes preinstalled on devices doesn't automatically mean it's intended for discussion of classified material.
Low-latency brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis
> Upload your static site to us

How do you prevent abuse, like illegal material?
One more welcome from another Tom o/

Nice to hear someone else is looking at Arc now as well! Any chance we might see some issues on anarki resolved now? Perhaps https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues/89 would be a good starting point :grin:

Jokes aside, its good to see YC cares about community, and looking forward to seeing your nick in the comments. Good luck
Postfix, past present and future (2010) [pdf]
Profile of Greenoaks' Neil Mehta
Gemini Pro thinks this is a April 1 prank and says the computational cost makes it infeasible.
Eh.... you think government officers who fat-clicked a journalist into a top secret discussion would care about whether some other three-letter agency has access to a backdoor in Signal?

For all we know, whoever US agent who was responsible for handling these potential "backdoors" is already laid off and is available for pickup by foreign governments with the right payment.
> non-Automattic employees

non-Automatticians. Yes, they literally used this term in TFA.
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak In The Alps
Not surprising, however, something I'm curious about is how much of the effect is due to first order bias directly due to racial prejudice -- and how much of it is second order biases and miscommunications due to the inherent social tensions of a minority traffic stop in the US.

For sure, I am immediately privileged by my color when I am stopped by the police, but the social ease by which we communicate and interact during the stop also intuitively plays a role in whether I'll get off with a warning or not.

Although I guess it's probably a distinction without much of a practical difference.
You are misinterpreting the study. They are interested in the change in lean body mass wash-in to post RT because that is the lean body mass that can be attributed to more than just the initial increase from simply taking creatine. The increase in females that you cite is including that initial increase, which is not interesting.
this was based off Paul Graham's piece: https://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html

where individual views may hit extremes, but the average of those views will be in the middle for independent thinkers

his essay explains it better, though I do agree there should be some dots on either end and up high
Or he thinks girls like it. That he looks more cool than other boys like that.
With apologies to Louis XIV, Matt is Automattic.
> I don’t even know what to believe anymore

Good research? Even if studies which did not find this problem were not published, if the methodology is correct this study is correct regardless of external pressures.

> The cars know how fast they are going

They don't. My car's displayed speed is 5% higher than actual speed. It will change a little bit again after the next tire replacement.

> the cars know where they are

They don't. Not only are there no up to date maps for permanent roads, roadworks will add changes and in downtown gps will happily put you on the road on the other side of a high-rise.

> the cars know what the speed limit is

Again, up to date global, correct, precise maps do not exist and will not exist. Vision can't be relied on either, because bad luck can make a speed limit invisible.
As has already been said, by far the best way is to work for a company whose product is open source. I would find one that is fully committed to open source though, not just partially. By that I mean, a mainstream, money-making product of theirs is licensed appropriately (AGPL, MIT, etc). Going with a company that open sources a few libraries here and there is not a good strategy.

That said, I have friends that have been able to spin open source roots into money, in one case really good money. Their paths were:

1. Find need not being addressed

2. Write open source solution for said need

3. Promote open source solution to drive adoption (yes, marketing is important in open source!)

4. Create training courses/material on solution

5. Sell training primarily to corporations and sometimes individuals for $

The other path has the same first 3 steps, but instead of training:

4. Establish a "support" department

5. Sell support to corporations

There's also the "open core" approach where you put enterprise features behind a pay-gate but give the basic product out as standard OSS. The biggest challenge here is that your business strategy will ultimately be in conflict with your community member's interests, which inevitably results in sacrificing one for the other, usually sacrificing community needs for the business. For example, consider you have SSO gated behind payment, and someone sends you a PR that adds SSO to your open core version. I would personally avoid this model unless you enjoy inner philosophical conflict with guaranteed losers and having to exert tight control on other people.

The support path requires your product to be a lot more mature than most people usually think as most corps will expect things like SSO, audit logs, and other enterprisey features. You can usually find customers who won't insist on that, but any of the medium to large fish will.

The donation model can be sustainable and even pretty good if you find the right niche, though expect to put in a lot of time/effort early on before you get many donations.

Lastly you could try the free-as-in-speech but not free-as-in-beer approach where your software is GPL but not free. Davis Remmel has used this for rcu[1] for example (which if you have a Remarkable Tablet you should absolutely purchase rcu!). Personally I love this model and am highly inclined to purchase when prices are reasonable, but it's not for everyone.

Regardless, thank you for being interested in contributing to OSS! I think most people are largely unaware of the importance and significance of open source in our current world. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give, and enables people to do things they otherwise wouldn't be able to do. Essentially everything we have nowadays is powered at least in part by open source.

[1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
I'll remind only leftist media calls him nazi and he's been persecuted by "antifa" for at least a decade.

If you fail to see there's massive amount of propaganda then I'm sorry for you.
Apparently not, as I'm pretty sure she had one next to her name when she got "disappeared"
A passport card is easier to obtain (with or without the passport book). Get that instead.
Yes. How much did they pay you for this discovery?
mostly in-person actually
I wonder if the CEO throwing a tantrum that another company was using "their" open-source (thus, not theirs) code wasn't the real problem, but it made investors take a closer look, and they noticed that Automattic has less of a moat then they thought.
Indeed. We ran out of time :)
I'm well aware that not everyone is a trigger-puller; I had a twenty-year active and reserve career. Sure, you could technically have a software development MOS/NEC/AFSC. The Navy recently stood up a "robotics warfare specialist" rating.

My point is that, having spent a full career in, the "buy vs. build" calculus for military software tends to fall on the side of "buy" for any number of reasons. Those people who aren't "out in the field sending rounds downrange" are still doing plenty of other things in their assigned fields other than writing software. If you think there needs to be a software development career track in uniform, you need to be able to justify it outside the obvious places like CYBERCOM or the NSA.
This sounds like an order from the Key and Peele "Soul Food" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zDHSLDY0Q8
There's a lot here, and it's more complicated then "the government should never use Signal".

First off, I 100% agree that the bombing of civilian buildings in Yemen should be a bigger controversy. I don't really have anything to add to that, I just agree that it's important.

There are a lot of situations where it'd be acceptable for a government employee to us Signal, even to communicate potentially sensitive data. There are a lot of times where someone with only phone access may need to communicate sensitive info, and Signal is a good tool for that. It's a hell of a lot better then text messages or Slack or whatever.

The issue isn't Signal's security, it's the security of the phone it's installed onto. The phones of high-ranking government employees are a huge security weak point, and other countries know it. One has to imagine that Russia (or some other country) is trying very hard to hack into Pete Hegseth's phone. A lot of countries have invested huge amounts of money into developing hacking teams, and it should be assumed that any device with access to the broader internet is a potential target.

That's why government devices that access high-security information have immensely high security requirements. From air-gapped networks, to only buying hardware from vetted vendors, to forbidding outside devices (like phones) from even being in the same room. This is a level of security that Signal can't provide, and is necessary when discussing things like military plans.

Finally, the fact that someone accidentally added a journalist to this group and no one said anything shows a frankly reckless attitude towards security. Someone should have double checked that everyone on the group was supposed to be there, and the fact that no one did is fucking embarrassing.
Agree.

Also, AlphaFold is great but hardly an innovation. David Baker deserved it 100%.
https://mullenweg.wtf/

https://web.archive.org/web/20241026031947/https://bullenweg...
Can you explain the stats to give me the proper N for when this experiment would be properly powered?
That is in fact not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal. Thanks to Bill Clinton, many aliens are removable on an expedited basis if they meet certain criteria.

But this particular person we are talking about got a hearing and a BIA appeal and was found to be deportable. His asylum request claim was denied. What’s perplexing is why the immigration judge didn’t order him deported.
Cybersecurity Professor Faced China Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing
Hi, Same Tom Howard from osnews.com ??
I'll be honest this "conservatives hate the government so they don't fund it then they point to how bad it is as an excuse to cut it further" seems tautological and pretty intellectually lazy.

I've contracted onsite for both state and federal governments. Government employees have a reputation for... let's just say not hardest working. That didn't come out of nowhere.
From Reddit discussions, if they can be trusted, there is nobody who can remove Matt from any position. It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares.
yeah I tried to include this via

"It’s not that truth-seeking is a requirement for friendship, far from it."

agree (and thanks for reading)
This is the best news I've heard of Mozilla in a long time.
It's more possible at giants, IMO. Level of technical competence/excellence tends to be inversely proportional to company size. FAANG might be exceptions, but IMO large companies (like big banks, etc) have a lot of hidden technical incompetence you can't see.
I was surprised, but at the same time not at all surprised, to find out that they not only reinvent Android UI libraries yearly, but also much lower level parts of their software.

(I build Android apps since 2011. I stopped following their updates since around 10 years ago. I still write Java, albeit modern versions, and use XML views. My apps are tiny and launch instantly. I'm also very controversial among the Android developer community.)
It's all fun and games until these same concepts are applied to computers and Windows prevents you from typing anything potentially "hateful" while pinging the government so you can get fined appropriately.

We're nearly there actually with technologies like Gatekeeper and OSs requiring account creation to use, so I expect to see it in my lifetime. The missing piece was the ability to classify content automatically in real time, but luckily AI came along.
The Plan 9 port of Go _was_ not particularly healthy. It is now.

Fixing Go to not special case Plan 9 benefits all platforms--- all operating systems use the same code paths now, making the code simpler.
Not in position to judge the product, but had me thinking...

Perhaps this is 1998 again, when you could earn big money on creating a visitor-counter service, or a guest book service.

Perhaps, now is the time for a lot of smaller projects with AI, that will, in a few years, all be blasted off the market by big corporations and change in trends.
In the post or the comments here nobody mentions end-to-end encryption. Obsidian Sync offers multi-user sync withe2e encryption. An open source general tools solving the same problem would be great.
A friend lamented in 2016 "If I vote for X I'll lose my friends. If I vote for Y I'll upset my family."

I reminded the voter of the secret ballot and the ability to just lie.

"Tell them what you think they want to hear", was my advice
A Bulgarian cleaning lady became a Russian spy
Diversification Across US and European Stock Markets in a Less Globalized World
What does your desktop look like?
If you torture it a bit, you can make it "tomorrow" said with a weird accent. To mh ow
> He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do.

I wonder if there are any other secret moderators.
> That would hold true for whatever systems.

Remember how you started with how every UI system and framework was somehow this separtaion of style and presentation and structure and interactivity?

And now it's "they are never separated, and this holds true for whatever systems"

> The pretention is just for making it easier to do the job without extraneous effort.

In reality there's a lot of extraneous effort especially when systems become more complex. BEM was invented not because CSS was great and amazing at reducing effort, but because it was adding a great amount of effort for a very large number of designs.

CSS Scoping was finally, thankfully, added not because cascading nature of CSS reduces a lot of effort.

The rest of your comment has nothing to do with what I said.
https://archive.ph/KIX8k
"Does the AI system perform actions under its own identity?"

I don't agree with this definition.

I view an agent has having the ability to affect the world, and then sense how it affected the world and then choose to make additional actions. Thus there is an act, sense, re-act feedback loop going on that does not require a human to mediate this. This to me is an agent.

"But why isn't, say, ChatGPT an agent?"

ChatGPT (the web app where you send it chats and it responses) by default doesn't act on the world and sense the changes it is making. Although once you take the GPT o4 model and hook it up with tool calling that affects the world in a feedback loop is definitely an agent.

I believe this definition generally aligns with most people's definitions as well.

I wrote an essay about building an agentic coder and it really is when you establish the tool-calling feedback loop that things move from an assistant to an agent: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...
A good chunkn of YC seems to be this model.
Kids are taught about them as about super serious no fun civilizations. Then I associate it woth fetishisation of military conquest and such.

I would see God's as hedonistic but not greeks. Honestly, my bias is that they were very boring amd sort of artificial.
Apart from all the dissidents being tortured in basements. But sure, it happened quickly enough that most people ran to ground quickly.
> Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard.

I dunno, the glottal stop sounds pretty different from normal English usage of apostrophe. If anything it's closer to - than ', like in uh-oh.

French uses both grave and acute accent marks, and they sound very different.

Makes sense to me
I agree with you, but that's not what happens for polarizing topics that are technical in nature and not political. People on HN seem to flag comments rather than downvote them.
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I have `showdead` enabled. It should not be the case that I find flagged posts that are good -- that are well written, don't break rules, etc -- but are flagged (presumably) due to expressing a dissenting view.
I thought it is an April fool joke about having Tom Holland as moderator.

My bad.
"Stating facts" does not mean you are following the other rules of the site.

For example, if you irrelevantly post "My software is on sale now for 10% off and here is the link!" on every story, everything in it is factual, but it's spam regardless.

I'm sure your specific facts that you want to post are in service of a particular social or political viewpoint you are trying to push, one that the people flagging find either off-topic or odious. And, given that you refuse to elaborate on what specific facts you think are banned, reveals that you think you only can convince people by being vague about what specifically you mean.
Imagine affording an avacado
Basically, you contributing / creating OSS has to be tangential to what you charge money for. IE, your code is critical to your service or business, but not what you're selling.

For example: My employer might open-source a C# adapter for an open-source C library. We won't make money off of the code, but it's a way to promote ourselves within people in our industry.

I once met a guy who consulted on making realtime web applications in 2010. (Before websockets.) His library and protocol were open-source; but the service was making changes to real commercial web applications.
There's a parallel timeline where he admitted he messed up, stepped down, hired a real CEO, put someone else in charge of the nonprofit, and the downward slide he caused started to reverse.
I think the issue comes with trying to present a USB mass storage API to the host where you allow the host to write to any arbitrary byte offset of the mass storage device without the structure that is imposed by a file system.

If the host and guest both get presented with the same “array of bytes” mass storage interface, then they will compete and potentially mess up each other’s reads and writes, let’s say if they both treat that array of bytes as an ext4 file system and try to write a file system metadata to the same physical location at the same time.

Of course you have have a “virtual file system” exposed over USB, but isn’t that exactly what MTP is? The point is that USB mass storage is not a virtual file system.
The EURion constellation[0] is how that detection mostly works as I understand it. Neat bit of tech. It's real obvious on euro bills once you know what to look for. Fun fact: not all printers give a hoot about this pattern, so it's a neat trick to annoy people with if your printer doesn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The president can pardon anyone.
he'd already be out if it was simple to force him out
> So surely the server validated that the phone number being requested was tied to the signed in user? Right? Right?? Well…no. It was possible to modify the phone number being sent, and then receive data back for Verizon numbers not associated with the signed in user.

Yikes. Seems like a pretty massive oversight by Verizon. I wish in situations like this there was some responsibility of the company at fault to provide information about if anyone else had used and abused this vector before it was responsibly disclosed.
Fine is how I describe most things which are disappointing me.

There's just no reason given the architecture of it that the hamburger menus shouldnt be toggleable to just be menu bars. And menubars were a perfectly good solution for mouse interaction.
wait, did he put his name in the company name?

if so, that's what we in the narcissist-identifying business call a "tell".
Part of the problem with the English translations is this ambiguity. Sansho comes from a different species (Zanthoxylum piperitum) of the same genus, native to Japan and Korea. The flavor is different, but reminiscent. I keep both sansho and red Sichuan peppercorns for use in different dishes.
Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders open next week
Reminds me of the work that Corridor Digital has done with similar tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y
This specific alien was not deported under the AEA. And the immigration judge and BIA both found him deportable on the basis of ties to MS13. And they denied his asylum claim.

So the scope of what’s at issue here is compliance with whatever “protection from deportation” might exist where someone has been found to be deportable due to gang ties, and found to lack a valid asylum claim. What possible justification could there be, and are we going to let all the 22 million illegal aliens in the country invoke such third-string justifications?
Nowadays virtually every boat has Starlink and 4 new forecasts every 8 hours and routing via PredictWind.
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