skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lead author of Proximal Origin wrote this in slack on April 17, a month after the letter had been published in Nature Medicine:

"Okay, so about the current news. Is there any reason to believe that they might be onto something, or is it all smoke and mirrors? Eddie Holmes - any insights on the China side? The main things from my perspective:

1. Bioweapon and engineered totally off the table

2. If there is no engineering and no culturing, then it means that somebody magically found a pre-formed pandemic virus, put it in the lab, and then infected themselves. The prior on that vs somebody coming into contact with an animal source infected with the virus is as close to zero as you can get. Humans come into contact all the time with SARS-like CoVs, but the likelihood of somebody finding exactly that pandemic virus and infecting themselves is very very low (make no mistake - if they did find that pandemic virus. then they would get infected if they grew it in the lab - but the likelihood of them finding it in the first place is exceedingly small (or so one would hope - otherwise, good luck World avoiding future pandemic).

3. But here's the issue - I'm still not fully convinced that no culture was involved. If culture was involved, then the prior completely changes - because this could have happened with any random SARS-llke CoV of which there are very many. So are we absolutely certain that no culture could have been involved? What concerns me here are some of the comments by Shi in the SciAm article ("I had to check the lab" etc) and the fact that the furin site 1s being messed with in vitro. Yes, it loses it but that could be context dependent. Finally, the paper that was shared with us showing a very similar phenomenon (exactly 12bp insertion) in other CoVs has me concerned...

I really really want to go out there guns swinging saying "don't be such an idiot believing these dumb theories - the president is deflecting from the real problems" but I'm warned that we can't fully disprove culture {our argument was mostly based on the presence of the O-linked glycans - but they could likely play a different role... We also can't fully rule out engineering (for basic research) - yes, no obvious signs of engineering anywhere, but that furin site could still have been inserted via gibson assembly (and clearly creating the reverse genetic system isn't hard - the Germans managed to do exactly that for SARS-CoV-2 in less than a month)."

And:

"Shi didn't do any GOF work that I'm aware of - but GOF work isn't the concern here. She did A LOT of work that involved isolating and culturing SARS-like viruses from bats (in BSL-2) and that's my main concerning scenario (we cite several of those in the paper - if you have a look at those original publications, it's definitely concerning work, no question about it - and is the main reason I have been so concerned about the 'culture' scenario)."

I don't think much more needs to be said. The above messages are self-explanatory.
Okay, the proposal is what it is but it doesn’t explain how the attestation is generated. So this would look into the underlying OS and decide if my computer is a real computer? And when it has doubts it displays some pictures and asks me which ones show bicycles?
> Netflix churns out hundreds of thousands of hours of content each year at heavy, heavy losses

Netflix is quite profitable, so this is clearly not true in any meaningful way.
I've always been interested in visiting but I live in the US. Anything cool in particular about the place you'd like to share?
Thank you this is great!
None, but many die prematurely from air pollution.
It bundles the PHP run time for you.
Tried it and enjoyed the simplicity and productivity. I wish I would have been able to do more with it but the lack of docs stopped me somewhere along the path. To me the overview page is not enough, it doesn’t go much into details. The packages documentation page is hard to navigate, you either know what you’re looking for or just get lost. Same for code examples. The only way to have a better grasp of some stuff is by asking on Discord, which I don’t like doing. It would be great if something like “The Odin book”(like rust has) goes live
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I think you have this somewhat backwards, though? Netflix keeps getting taken to the table to renegotiate terms that they would not have to do if they were sending DVDs. If the big studios say no, Netflix has to stop streaming their shows. Pretty much period.

Studios did originally take them up on some early license agreements that were very time limited to see the market. And they kept terms that were basically identical as some of the terms they use for syndication, which Netflix agreed to as they don't want to share too much data, for fear of things.

Not shockingly, at the table between studios and Netflix, the actors and writers are not represented. Getting that corrected does make sense to me. I'm not entirely clear that having residuals tied to actual streams will actually benefit as many as the current discussion hopes.
You don't send any data to the attester. It runs locally on your device, or rather is part of its core functionality. Building a chain of trust from the TPM hardware module, validating secure boot is enabled, validating the kernel and drivers have not been tampered with, eventually validating the browser has not been tampered with.

You can't run your own attester - these are implemented by the companies who provide the hardware, such as Microsoft or Apple.
Oof, yes. There's a reason the TV series was just set in the same world rather than being an adaptation of the books, and it's because the writing started out weird, and got progressively more insane with each volume. (Also, way too horny for even cable TV.)
> it was never the language

That's just, not correct. I programmed web sites primarily in PHP back in the PHP3-5 days (and have had some jobs and contracts since, in PHP7+).

PHP, pre-5.3ish, was a bad language. It had terrible design decisions, a polluted global space, bad default configurations, weird scoping rules, function/objects with massive security holes that the developer had to patch around (the MySQL functions, being notorious) and a terrible object model. PHP5-5.3 did a lot to fix that, and 5.3+ became a usable language. PHP7 finally did a ton of work to clean up the global environment, deprecate and toss out old/buggy libraries, clean up the ABI and improve performance. They also reworked the object model completely. It is now a genuinely decent language. But it was not "always great".
A good explanation of how he would reconcile his proposal and the ideas he's previously expressed: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Another comment linked me to a previous post.
Ok, but Netflix has a seat at the AMPTP table. They are the Hollywood you're talking about now.

If Netflix never got into production that would be a different story, but they did so here are the consequences of that.
We really are getting the Fallout 3 timeline after all.
Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration (1996)
Serious question: What do you think the ethical concerns of having 800,000 neurons connected to a silicon chip are?
How Wirecutter Tests TVs: Complex Gadgets, Sophisticated Software, and Ted Lasso
Also, in the accompanying press release from Scripps, Kristian Andersen says:

“These two features of the virus, the mutations in the RBD portion of the spike protein and its distinct backbone, rules out laboratory manipulation as a potential origin for SARS-CoV-2.”

https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/2020...

There's no hedging there and it's a press release, meaning it's targeted toward journalists and the public.
He spent a lot of time and effort working against people who were working to promote climate change and mitigate its effects. Years, articles, TV shows. And he dismisses all of that with a “eh, guess I was wrong, still their fault”.

He hasn’t spent nearly the effort trying to correct his mistake that he spent making it.
Tell HN: Protip: _ doesn't work for italics on HN. Use * instead
The ubiquity of Markdown has trained us all to use underscores for _italics_, but that doesn't work on HN. It just makes your post harder to read. To get italics use asterisks (* *) around the word.
Time for SV to go on strike too. Far too many companies have promised far too much to investors.

Now that it's harder to get the same meteoric growth, they are resorting to squeezing workers, RTO mandates and general hand flailing at the expense of employees.
> Does it mean that a person is unable, even with a lot of training, to form any visual images in their heads?

Joel Pearson, one of the top researches, speculates it could be possible to “start” the visualisation by training and electrical impulses. Electric impulses on the prefrontal cortex and visual cortex are known to make visual imagination less or more vivid. But how well and whether this works at all, is unknown.

Maybe it only works with acquired aphantasia, only for people with weak aphantasia or for people whose aphantasia has a specific cause. (These are my thoughts on this, not Joel Pearson’s).
Tesla is just one of many charging networks in Europe. All brands of charger charge all brands of EV in Europe.

Big charging locations are already being built. For example, this one is 13 Alpitronic 300 kW chargers, 26 charge ports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMyz62dXPmc

This one has 10 Aliptronic 300 kW chargers, 20 charge ports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpbtgfqrYdA

And often different charging networks deploy chargers near each other, so if one is full or expensive or performing poorly you can switch to another one.

Here's Fastned and Tesla living together and an EnBW station with 52 charge ports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDUuusBcTg

Here's Gridserve and Tesla living together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoN4WCpuxHY
The code is largely irrelevant - it's all simple enough that it can be easily replaced, and most current users of LLaMA only use the weights in practice.

NN design is more interesting, but I don't think we're at the point yet where they are sufficiently complex to be copyrightable in general. Patentable, maybe.
Quite some lofty goals for $400k investment… supplanting silicon chips no less
The amount of money plowed into creating new content that nobody watch is the hollywood equivalent of the Bridge to Nowhere project, except on the private investors' back.

The volume of content that has been made in the past few decades is enough to keep the entire world occupied for probably the next couple decades.

Human attention is a finite resource and it directly correates to and puts a ceiling on how much the money studios and creators can earn.

We've long past the ceiling and the gravy train has been coming to a stop.
Only 35% of Americans believe the government should encourage production of nuclear power. In constrast, 72% answer affirmatively for the same question about wind and solar.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/23/americans...
No: it doesn't need to be implemented unless you actually want to do something with USB. Random websites aren't not working because you don't support USB. My iPhone doesn't support WebUSB even if I updated its firmware.
Solid advice. It's hard to break into a new field, but it helps to read/skim a lot of papers to get the vocabulary and then slowly assign meaning to the words. What you'll find over and over is that many concepts are the same across many fields, but invariably gets different names.
Ask HN: Do you use ETags for performance?
I'm in the process of improving the performance of my app. Some stuff can be browser-cached, some stuff can be public-cached, but the data doesn't change much, and when it does I want the user to get the latest. At some point I'll probably have to setup programmatic cache-busting with a CDN.

People don't talk about ETags nearly as much, and I know it's not the same performance gain as a cache, but are people using them in the wild? My instinct is the performance gain from not downloading vs calculating the hash should be a clear win (if a small one).
As a common man someone who hates what journalism has become: I hope "AI" swiftly replaces your industry which has become a cancer and plague upon society. I would rather deal with a used car salesman than a journalist.

Journalists today only provide unnecessary exposition and emotional poetry (read: wasting my reading time) and actively cause more problems and conflicts in society than they address and resolve (sensationalism and fearmongering is what brings in the clicks and thus the money).

I have no sympathy whatsoever for such a rotten, morally devoid, worthless industry, and while I doubt "AI" will bring about any fundamental difference or improvement it will at least make the process of journalism better reflect the actual value of the final product.
> The instant temperature change is super handy

It's amazing to me to see us careening towards a future of doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling every household's electricity usage - but we're not doing anything to ensure the capacity is there to handle the demand. Every new power plant, dam, nuclear, etc is met with fierce opposition...

Induction uses a tremendous amount of electricity, and is expensive to operate. So are the other current trendy items, such as heat pumps and electric vehicles.

We have no way to support all this, even if they were objectively better (and the fact that there is debate around this subject proves just the opposite).

It's also strange to see the duality of complaining about things like bitcoin wasting electricity, while we also advocate for massive increases in consumption everywhere else.

For now, Induction ranges are a thing for those privileged enough to be able to afford them, all the peripherals required to operate them (cookware, etc), and operational expenses.
> The flies drop instantly when they touch the liquid.

To be slightly more specific, the soap changes the surface-tension of the liquid, causing it to, er, schlorp onto the insect in a way it does not expect.

That reminds me of JBS Haldane's classic essay "On Being The Right Size":

> An insect, therefore, is not afraid of gravity [...] But there is a force which is as formidable to an insect as gravitation to a mammal. This is surface tension. [...]

> An insect going for a drink is in a great danger as man leaning out over a precipice in search of food. If it once falls into the grip of the surface tension of the water -that is to say, gets wet - it is likely to remain so until it downs. A few insects, such as water-beetles, contrive to be unwettable; the majority keep well away from their drink by means of a long proboscis.
Some of the best LLaMA finetunes today are trained on GPT-4 output.

Yes, you cannot do this kind of thing indefinitely and expect endless improvements from "endless training set". But that's a very different problem.
testes, sorry
I haven't posted anything that was accused of being generated by AI yet, but I assume it's just a matter of time. Having to create new accounts because of false positives would quickly get more annoying than the odd AI comment.
Do you track humidity as well? That's the main reason my windows stay closed in July on the east coast of the US.
In the LGBTQ space.

I think it would be good if you assumed the best in people instead of the worst.
Agreed. I’ve used induction and really enjoy it. When my gas stove at my current (new to us) house is done, I will definitely replace with induction.

However, gas is just fine and these problems are way overblown.
I don't think we should pay, I think Google should. They're the ones making profit.
100% agree. I've said similar things before on HN and got dismissive replies. Have a really good AR integration is essential for long term VR use. I should be able to toggle in and out of VR experiences and go back to real life when needed, just with googles on. But also have a digital interface layered over (without a full VR fake room like a Quest but my living room).

That would make the experience far smoother and relaxing.

The most basic thing is good pass through, I used to box every night on my Quest 2 and having a drink from my shake bottle was challenging and annoying.
Huh, kind of weird that they don't have the chat-tuned Llama 2 in the comparison mix.
... Looks fine to me? (33 mins later)
Arguably a '1 token at a time' model is itself a tree search, so it's more of a perspective than anything. It's really when you start pruning this tree that this distinction becomes interesting. And of course treating the tree as an explicit object may allow the model to do interesting stuff like jumping to a different branch entirely (deletions insertions etc.).

Generating 16 alternatives and picking the best one only makes sense to me if your standard for picking one is orthogonal to the model itself, if you just pick the one that your model deems the most likely you've just figure out a very crude and expensive way to lower the temperature.
i've started watching speedruns, especially glitchless and 100% runs, as background watching to scratch the itch of replaying games
Can you provide any data related to cooktops, in-home air pollution, and linked deaths?
This example at the bottom is too good https://ibb.co/4Rqfr2M I can feel it
> Stack Overflowed enables me to freely vent about my team's outages, unlike the guy who flaked on my 45-minute meeting last Friday.

> Anonymous manager

maybe stop having pointless meetings?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OlMU6p9OzMg
The iPad now has handwriting recognition in arbitrary text fields. You can just pick up the Apple Pencil and start writing somewhere. It’ll fill in with text as you write.
You can use synthetic data produced by more complex models to finetune smaller ones to be better.
We bought a cheap standalone bug zapper and put it on the counter and it has been a life saver for the fruit flies. Ours come from bananas, we think, and washing them after bringing them home from from the store seems to help some too.

The best part is, working from our offices in separate rooms, my wife and I will hear a zap and both shout "Good job bug zapper!"
It's mostly GC and JIT and a huge amount of corner case interactions between them. And also the many supported instruction sets.
Odin is lovely and a great fit for graphics and games programming. I’ve been doing my real time graphics research in it (the CPU parts at least).
Life. The missing ingredient of AI. Funded by the military. What could possibly go wrong? Never bet against humanity's ability to destroy ourselves trying to "become as gods".
First Netflix as a company is profitable so it’s hard to say they’re losing money on producing content or not.

Netflix owning the content it’s producing means they can use it to help retain customers indefinitely. It’s a very difficult value proposition to accurately calculate because in say 2025 they could stop streaming and still have a revenue stream from licensing their content to other platforms.
The way LLMs work is they output probabilities for every _token_, so you don't really need to backtrack you can just always pick a token that matches the provided grammar.

That said, you might want to do something like (backtracking) beam-search which uses various heuristics to simultaneously explore multiple different paths because the semantic information may not be front-loaded, i.e. let's say we had a grammar that had a key "healthy" with values "very_unhealthy" or "moderately_healthy." For broccoli, the LLM might intend to say "very_healthy" and choose "very" but then be pigeonholed into saying "very_unhealthy" because it's the only valid completion according to the grammar.

That said, there are a lot of shortcuts you can take to make this fairly efficient thanks to the autoregressive nature of (most modern) LLMs. You only need to regenerate / recompute from where you want to backtrack from.
> Maybe it's cultural? I'm from central Europe and the author seems to be American

It’s not cultural, it’s a question of enforcement. The author describes professional licenses that are enforced by a board. You describe a “license” that isn’t enforced. If your legal system doesn’t enforce licenses, that’s not a cultural difference it’s a legal one.

> unlicensed professions can still have professional ethics

This is like saying you can have laws without police to enforce them. If the consequence for violating the ethical norm does not jeopardize one’s license (because there isn’t one) then you don’t have a norm, you have a suggestion.
at geopolitical, climate, and market boundaries, for starters.
Any on expert on induction stoves here? Alec mentioned in a technology connections video that the next generation of induction works with more cookwear/better with suboptimal cookwear, but I couldn't find any sources or information on that.

He mentioned it here [0] or in the associated video

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUywI8YGy0Y
They probably had this all put together before Llama 2 was available.
If you think it’s expensive in America, you should see how expensive it is in Europe.

Anything that’s not fast food costs an arm and a leg in Iceland, UK, etc

And on top of that people make way less money and pay way higher taxes.
Yes, it is more reasonable to use encrypted IDs externally from structured/sequential IDs internally, not hashed IDs. Recovering the internal ID from the external ID is computationally trivial since it will fit in a single AES block and you don't have to worry about collisions.
>Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday from Zuurbier to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia...

Is this the reason why lemmy.ml and lemmygrad stay up?
“According to gpt4”…. Uhhh. LLMs are text generators. Not a good source for facts or information, if accuracy is desired.
They’re stuffed with content, but much of the content is of poor quality. The good stuff everyone has seen, and you can attract new viewers with a new show that is good.
Stubble burning in grain fields is routine, yearly, and doesn't increase atmospheric C02 (when smoothed over a year).

https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/crops-and-horticulture/grains...

Giant flamethrowers aren't required - the stubble will burn in any case if struck by lightening - it's a fire hazard and burning off increases district safety, promotes nutrient recycling, kills weeds.

Swings, roundabouts - see the link for cons.

As for carbon; crops capture carbon, burning releases the carbon captured. This is the literal 'natural' carbon cycle.

The issue we have with climate and CO2 stems from a century of bringing to the surface millions of years worth of captured and sequested carbon from all the plants that went towards the billions and billions of tonnes of fossil fuel we've been burning through lately (past 50+ years).
One of the professors were giving them out. Not a class requirement as we all had school Unix login. Remember pine? I don’t remember the sound card anymore. It was pentium and expensive as hell. Spent all my money earned during summer construction. Like $2K.

I might be mistaken, I think I had a CD rom instead of floppies.
k10k (aka the "kitchen sink")
Just as long as they don't start using kitten brains...
Absolute legend, it was a different time during that era.

I'd bet dollars to donuts the tech that fixed it knew what you were doing and let it slide unless you came back and broke the lock to do it again.

Or you got lucky and he though someone on their side made the mistake :)

Good times!
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

Surprised no one mentioned this actually. For those not familiar it's a shooter located on the site of the accident where the disaster produced various mutant monsters and an unstable environment. Really immersive with the difficulty, story and ambience. Haven't seen the movie it was based on.