skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are numerous examples of similar events in the past which are roughly the source for 2/3rds of all of our pathogens. We don't have any evidence for the remaining 1/3rd, mostly because biology is messy and too much time has passed.

No hard evidence for a lableak exists can be because of obstruction by the CCP (it is a possibility) or simply because there wasn't a lab leak. You can't jump to conclusions like that.

We may never know for certain, but it is also still possible that the reservoir will one day be discovered, for some diseases it took many years to do so.

Highly recommended book: 'David Quammen, Spillover'.

Note the date it was written, read it and then you may see a bit more clearly why I don't think a lab leak should be the foremost candidate for this particular virus. The writing was on the wall for years that something like this will happen, and, sorry to bring bad news, it will likely happen again. Possibly much worse.
What you are talking about has literally came and went. You can probably track one down, buy it and have it in your computer in a few days.
Ask HN: Will a digital experience ever emulate the joy of a physical blank page?
Twenty years ago, instead of a smartphone, I used to carry around a notebook. I would bring it with me everywhere, and whenever I had a spare moment, I would take pleasure in sketching out cool inventions and devices, imagining fictional worlds or characters. The notebook functioned as a workout for my creative muscle.

Today, the smartphone has taken the place that my notebook once occupied in my life. Paper and pen have been replaced by an ultra-portable computer with capabilities that would have seemed pure science fiction back in 2003. In theory, the potential for creativity is infinitely greater, yet I find myself ending up as a passive consumer of content, my thumb's scrolling prowess the only muscle being flexed.

Is it possible to rediscover the joy of a blank page within the confines of the digital world? If so, what might that look like?
Honnold has kid now, in the height of his fame curve when he did most dangerous stuff he had barely a girlfriend (with typical fanatic attitude of 'me any my passions first', and if there is sometimes anything left then others).

He is still doing some soloing, and may very well die from some stupid accident outside of his control like random loose rock just falling on his head, but chances compared to before are much smaller.
Is it? For a single-line function, that parses and runs just fine. Also it might just not have the text formatting of ChatGPT. That doesn't make it terrible, just makes it significantly less wieldy for formatting-heavy tasks like code, especially the whitespace-sensitive Python.
Check out WikiChip for an example of it. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/WikiChip
Without the test you'd be none the wiser. Why the need to reduce your relationship to mere contractual obligations. If you raised the child its yours.
Are you confusing Cuba and Venezuela?
But even in this case Russia rarely directly engages ukraine with aircraft. The S300 is risky to go up against directly. They just don't have the ECM and number of aircraft needed to take out significant numbers of Ukrainian anti aircraft sites.
How about if they start bombing pipelines and refineries? Would that help you to take them seriously?
It will be a terrific moment when we can browse a galaxy map or other lists of LLMs, and select "context" groups - so you can say from history, give me X
These are good things and possibly make the struggle of NixOS worth it.

But the impression the community gives is very much that you can always rollback and everything is in its own sandbox, which is sort of true, but not at all true as soon as malware happens.

I've never really had a huge problem rolling back an ubuntu or arch update when something breaks, so I'm surprised at the amount of effort people are expending for just this feature with no additional security.
Really weird he would part with his troops.
NHTSA: Car crashes cost Americans $340B
> The Oxford comma can prevent ambiguity in complex sentence lists. For example, use the Oxford comma before the last item if you’re using a defining phrase applicable only to that final item.

> A defining phrase is essential to the meaning of the sentence. The following examples show how the Oxford comma can affect meaning, using the defining phrase ‘for stockfeed’.

Seems like it provides a clear cut framework for when to use it?
Meanwhile Yunohost uses copyleft licenses (AGPL and GPL)!
Is this the book you're referring to? The one by Peter Watts? Looks fascinating

https://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640
I wouldn't worry about the price of international travel from the perspective of per plane capacity. A380 is dying because nobody wants it anymore. Slightly smaller planes are already more attractive to both airlines and passengers. Most don't want to go to a hub then fly out with 500 others at a big bang time they want to go more directly in smaller groups and/or at better times. It's not necessarily more expensive to do so depending on the plane, regional demand, and if you can drop that connecting flight. Similarly the demand for more international flights means more orders for planes not a need for more seats in each plane, and there is no reason to expect we'll suddenly stop being able to increase plane production for a decade and then be in trouble just because the market shifted towards not making mega planes anymore.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves and assume we know how they'll turn out.
I think what I'm thinking is usually closer to property dualism although I think those positions are similar enough they all make sense to me as possibilities in some form, to the extent I remember them correctly.

I've generally convinced myself at times that consciousness in the hard sense of qualia is probably related to physical information over time, and might reflect potential physical properties of all physical entities.
Propositional and first-order logic along with Algebra and basic proofs by induction, reduction to absurdity, etc, should beat the logical, pedantic motherfucker out from your inner self. At least that is what we did at uni -- along with physics, calculus, discrete mathematics, and theory of computation -- but I'd argue the first list should be a sufficient starting point.

Not really sure about "better programmer", but I think it makes you at least more logical and helps develop a keener attention to detail. "Better programmer" entails an array of many other qualities outside of the scope of "better thinker".
I'm not sure. Surovikin was generally regarded as a friend of Prigozhin, and so I was surprised when he publicly appealed for Wagner to stop. Now I'm wondering if it was part of the plan all along? Prigozhin exposes Putin as a paper tiger, now sits back (surrounded by tens of thousands of troops to protect him) and waits for Ukraine to win, without him being blamed for it. Then he steps into the Kremlin. Maybe?
What does that even mean? Clearly the laptop itself has USB-C support (it has 2 USB-C 4 and 1 1 USB-C 3.2).
How about quadcopter drones though? How about ones big enough to hold a human?
I almost stopped reading after reading Hotz was a serious source
Well, that’s the thing: there’s not that many evidence from specific points. Imagine having relatives in Efremov or Novocherkassk, knowing that sometimes there’s fighting between Wagner and army or FSB, and not being able to tell if there’s any risk for your family. Tracking such a big force on your own turf should have been an easy task for MVD or FSB. Maybe even for some big newspapers. Visual ID, plates etc. At least some Wagner vehicles were easily recognizable.
I'd like to know what they think is unsafe about this.
Runs at consistent ~37/fps on my M1 MacBook Air, with any of the features ON or OFF, impressive!
It seems to have its output limited to a pretty short amount. Even natural language gets clipped after a paragraph or two.
Every YouTube playlist has an RSS feed too. Unfortunately they always show the top fifteen items and there’s seemingly no way to reverse that, making the feeds useless when creators add new episodes to the bottom of the playlist instead of the top (which is fairly common).
What makes sense to me:

Wagner head was getting replaced because he was getting too much power

Putin doesn't like someone else with power, that's why the military has weak leaders ( loyalty > Battlefield success).

Wagner head became aware that he's going to die, he misled his soldiers to get out of their Russian MOD contract so they would join his minor rebellion.

As soon as he got the assurance he's going to survive after his bold move ( his only move, since he got ignored by Russian military leaders), he jumped ship to Belarus.

My 2 cents for now
The worst thing about real data is that it might as well be synthetic.
> that don't hallucinate

“Hallucination” is part of thought. Solving a new problem requires hallucinating new, non existing, possible outcomes and solutions, to find one that will work. It seems that eliminating the ability to interpolate and extrapolate (hallucinations) would make intelligence impossible. It would eliminate creativity, tying together new concepts, creation, etc.

Is the goal AI, or a nice database front end, to reference facts? Is intelligence facts, or is it the flexibility and the ability to handle and create the novel, things that are new?

The ability to have confidence, and know and respond to it, seems important, but that’s surely different than the elimination of hallucinations.

I’m probably misunderstanding something, and/or don’t know what I’m talking about.
Oracle and IBM print money from the processes in the article.
That doesn't sound ideal at all to me. It also sounds like a bottleneck. I want to ask AI once and it recommends or selects the best "context" group.
What if it's using antigravity technology or magic to hover instead, posing no threat to the people below due to wind.
I'm not aware of a text lawsuit either, but there is one for code: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/. I'm a little surprised there isn't one for text yet, since the Washington Post published an article detailing how many tokens from websites, including those run by major media companies, go into large models: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a.... It may be that corporations think they can profit off these models to a greater extent than they are subject to damages, that their attorneys simply don't think they have a case, or that they want to see how the image and code lawsuits go first. This is all speculation, however.
The OP was confusingly suggesting a 2U box with four distinct computers inside (4 node), each with two sockets. These types of systems do exist, and can help with volume density, but then you have to work a lot harder with regards to power and heat density.

I don't know what things look like now, but I recall hearing many stories a decade ago about datacenters running out of power and cooling when the volume was closer to 1/3rd full.
I don't think so. I remember most of my required math (for a CS degree) was proofs, and I mostly hated it. Discrete math was great, and anything else with practical applications in CS would be good too.

If you have a choice, I'd rather spend the time further studying algorithms and data structures instead of proofs. There's a ton to learn, and working through algorithms in pseudocode is always useful.
They don't know that they don't know. It's only hallucination from a human's perspective. From the model's perspective it's _all_ hallucination.
Not just young people. Windows is still bad software - eg i apparently cannot turn off bing search in my moms start menu. Also behavior like forcing apps (eg teams) to run at startup. ubiquitous telemetry (pretty much full on spying), default settings in edge. I could go on.

I have been massively impressed with VS code, it’s good software. Maybe they “get it” re developers.

But as a consumer, i don’t think they do get it. I think their fans must have Stockholm syndrome.
What do you make of these findings?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/are-...

As shown in the three panels, credit scores are distributed over the entire support for all three income groups, and, apart from the distribution of the high-income group having a larger mass at the high end of the distribution support, the shapes of the histograms of high- and middle-income groups are broadly consistent. Indeed, even among the high-income consumers, a significant mass of consumers have credit scores lower than 680, commonly known as "nonprime" or "subprime" borrowers.
That track really goes hard, and Busta's verse is always a treat lol
Ask HN: How do you use your web browser?
Do you use multiple windows? How many tabs do you use on an average day? Do you limit yourself in terms of tabs by closing them, or do you just let them run wild and clean them up when they're a problem?

What about bookmarks? Do people still use bookmarks?

What are you top five plugins?

Can we be friends? (this question is optional)
I have no idea. The only thing I know about gpt is what I read on HN. The rest of the comment is also hard to understand.
The same way "attention" was a game changer, I'm not sure why they don't invent some recursive self-maintenance algorithm that constantly improves the neural network within. Self directed attention, so to speak.
It is just me, or does the article date say "07/11/2023"? Someone goofed.
I believe there is opportunity for a Minecraft-like in the browser (including multiplayer, mods, etc.). I've been wanting to make it (open source of course), but I have been waiting for the WebRTC ecosystem in Rust to mature. That's where you could really get into teleporting across servers and other federated mechanics.
None of those links support your claim.

> “This aversion to taxes in the U.S. is high and should not be underestimated,”

Yeah, the environmental left really hate taxes.

> AOC tweeted in 2019 that “carbon tax or cap-and-trade … could be part of a solution [but] they are inadequate as the whole answer

Not thinking something is the sole answer is not the same as not supporting it. If it was then I (and AOC) don't support any climate policy because we support at least 2.

Several of them talk about carbon taxes being voted down by the general population, so unless you think the "environmental left" have a majority support that doesn't matter.

I'm also sick of the yellow vest protest being mispreresented:

> The movement was initially motivated by rising crude oil and fuel prices, a high cost of living, and economic inequality. The movement argued that a disproportionate burden of taxation in France was falling on the working and middle classes,[71][72][73] especially in rural and peri-urban areas.[32][74] The protesters called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum wage increase,[39] among other things.

People seem really keen to skip over all the inequality bits that fed into it, taking the sole lesson that "you can't tax carbon" which is only really true in the US. France is part of the EU's carbon trading scheme. It already taxes carbon.
Really engaging article. The "climbing as therapy" notion is a bit overhyped, in this article and elsewhere. IMO anything that promotes focus or mindfulness can chip away at a depressed state, and once in a while, pop you into happiness. It can be painting, mountain biking, playing piano, anything.
Blowing up dams is a pretty standard thing whatever side is on defense to do. Ukraine did it earlier in this war, Russia did it (much smaller dam) after Kakhovka, the Netherlands has done it, Belgium has done it. Blowing up nuclear power plants is way less common.
What if it is a digital vehicle? If we're all wearing AR glasses, and can interact with it, is it there?
Absolutely. Fire won't be put out unless someone shows exactly how much there is...
> they spent nine months taking a town of 70k in a separatist province

I do not think this can be a measure of anything. Just a reminder: Verdun was smaller in 1914-1916.
Sony isn't trying to buy activision ? The issue isn't sony, it's the size of Activision/Blizzard in the gaming market.
You can learn it yourself, but when I took a similar course, it opened my eyes to knowing which tools were useful for what and how to apply them productively. (I work with people now - software engineers - that basically see any command line fu to be magic that they couldn't possibly understand.)
Minecraft itself ran in the browser officially 12+ years ago when Java applets were still supported by most browsers.
input.split('').filter((c) => c === chr).length;

Edit: ah I assume you mean more like a histogram. Yeah, that's going to be less clean, e.g.

input.split('').reduce((acc, el) => ({...acc, [el]: ( acc[el] ?? 0 ) + 1 }), {});
The Tsar can't do anything wrong.

It's always his trustees that fail the tsar.
But if being in work also doesn't improve your social status then why work? For the pure joy of being dog tired and not near your loved ones as often.
Sure, post some here. Would love that.
Dropping AI buzzwords will becoming increasingly important. Very important for managers to stay one step ahead in this area.
To me the article pretty clearly indicates that mental illness, and multiple traumatic injuries, play major role in Austin's addiction to free climbing. In the middle of the article is a point where his father tells him he's going to die if he keeps this up and he says he's "willing to take the consequences of his actions."

He might be reckless but I don't think he can be called a fool.

(Also: The author's credentials are in the article - depressed, took SSRIs, started getting high from free climbing. That's enough of a relation to the subject of the story for me. You're obviously closer to it.)
>Some Ukrainians I know tell me there's local suspicion that was a feint or a ruse to see where Ukraine would attack.

I'm credulous of this. It's a lot of effort and drama but the stakes are extremely high too. If it lured Ukraine into a death trap it would pay for itself.

The fact that very little fighting occurred and nobody even went to prison is suspicious.

The fact that Prigozhin demonstrated extreme personal loyalty to Putin in the past and vice versa on a level few others have matched is also suggestive. Who else would you ask to run a fake coup?
A simple but powerful tool to scrape TikTok followers from any public profile.
Yeah, unfortunately belaying is one of those things where it's incredibly easy to lose focus, and when you do the consequences can be catastrophic.

Unfortunately, climbing in general can be like this. Maybe you get reckless and space out your pro too far. Or you forget to tie a knot in the end of your belay line. The more competent you get, the easier it is to get too comfortable and to make a truly catastrophic mistake.
> Usually the lie is in your own code or bad dependencies when an “unknown” type (including “any”) is cast to a concrete type without being validated.

Yes, but one of those bad dependencies is the standard library.
At the end of the day all you need is one person and one bullet, right? See: JFK, Indira Gandhi, John Lennon, many more. 50,000 people all with a lot of bullets seems like a bit of a problem no matter what. Gandhi in particular is interesting, as she was murdered by two of her Sikh bodyguards angry over how she dealt with the Sikh independence movement at the time. Who knows who will get "inspired" from this action, and what they will do.
Ukrainian prisoners were incorporated in Ukrainian armed forces, right? Different culture than in PMC, which kills traitors with a hammer.
>But purely from an computational perspective (GPUs, multi-core, concurrency, etc)

Most of the stuff people do with Python isn't hampered by the "computational perspective". For the things that are, we usually don't need to interface with C/C++, because somebody else has already written the library that does it.
Fully agreed on this. The simple, default way of doing anything should be able to be undone. Hell, years ago Google even figured out how to give people an undo button on email! Yes, it's just a simple time delay but it makes such a huge difference because of how your state of mind changes between typing an email and hitting send. Or hell, maybe you just accidentally hit the send button.

Undo allows you to make the default behavior for every operation to be to just go and do it (or queue it up to be done). No need to have a confirmation that the user is going to quickly become conditioned to pressing yes on while also being just an annoyance 99% of the time.
I thought they did when they cut off 3rd party apps and removed the docs, but I might be mistaken.
Indeed, complacency kills.

But I think most of the "dropped by belayer" incidents are caused by belayers who were taught improper technique, or never taught at all. I've seen lots of youtube "how to belay" videos that involve switching hands and other dangerous practices which involve taking the brake hand off. Just slip slap slide, people.
I'm curious to know why OP wanted to post it. I've seen dozens of voxel landscape demos - running in a browser, running on a Raspberry Pi, running on a refridgerator. It would be great to have some insight into why this one is worth my attention.
With so much nukes Russia has, I am wondering if the US' export of instability to the border of a country that has more nukes that the US really worth it. I also understand that lots of folks see it as "export of democracy" and gonna hate the comment. But what you gonna say on the first nuke use? Second, third?
Berkshire's history pre-Warren isn't that noteworthy:

Berkshire is known to be one of Warren Buffett's worst investments. The Berkshire textile company agreed to sell to Warren, but broke its word and raised its asking price at the 11th hour, which pissed Warren off, so he paid more than he should have to get control of the company to get back at them, even knowing that textiles were a declining industry given offshoring. Warren eventually had to shut everything down and lost a bunch of money. Warren calls it one of his biggest investment mistakes and kept the Berkshire name for his overall investment vehicle to remind himself about that blunder, so it's a little silly to think of the modern Berkshire as a continuation of the original Berkshire.

More: https://www.cnbc.com/2010/10/18/cnbc-transcript-warren-buffe...

Even more in the book "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life".
You mean of PaLM-1? No. PaLM-1 was extremely far off Chinchilla scaling, it's not something you can salvage with just a few more millions of TPU-pod time. Think more like, hundreds of millions... I think somewhere I estimated PaLM-1 was at something like 5% of Chinchilla-optimal, so they would have to train it 20x more. Obviously, they are not going to, not with methods improving so rapidly, with innovations like UL2. PaLM-1 is just a sunk cost, is all, and a useful historical datapoint (eg. studying inverse scaling).

Equally obviously, PaLM-2 did not make the same mistake and so for that and other reasons, greatly outperforms PaLM-1. So, beating PaLM-1 at this point is an achievement, but you are still far from 'beating Google'.
What published (linkable) basis have you used for these claims?
Nice work. Reminds me of the old Minecraft Classic that ran in-browser. I used to spend hours playing the Lava Survival gamemode.
> The submissions that we continue with check a bunch of boxes. The submissions that we pass on don't.

What detail is shared about what "checkboxes" the candidate met and didn't meet? From the parent post and your reply, it doesn't sound like much at all?
256 next hops isn't enough. Typical ASICs support 20,000 to 160,000 next hops FECs.

Cisco tried caching routing decisions from non-line rate routing engines in the 90s, and the industry learned the lesson that it's a bad idea. Caching works until you overflow the cache for some reason, and then the box completely falls over as it thrashes.
Undo needs a ton, possibly infinite free space.