skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper itself was already submitted and briefly discussed, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593098

As for previous attempts from the same authors (e.g. Pekar's "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2"), it starts with low-quality data from the early pandemic, does some complicated math, and concludes that the pandemic originated from zoonotic transmission in the Wuhan market, "beyond reasonable doubt". It therefore wasn't a research accident, and there is no need for increased regulation of high-risk research of the type performed at the WIV.

The details can and should be criticized, and I linked a detailed rebuttal in the other post. But fundamentally, how could any model reach any conclusion with the confidence they express? Western authorities had prior warning, much more advanced surveillance, and good knowledge of where the virus might get introduced (by necessity, an airport or seaport)--and yet they succeeded in tracing almost zero cases back to their introduction. So how could anyone possibly believe that a much cruder set of tools has succeeded at the more difficult task of determining the pandemic's earliest origins?
Why client-side frameworks are not a silver bullet
Great catch ! Also very cool to know a bit more about the tech they are using.
> zstandard streaming significantly outperforms zlib both in time to compress and compression ratio.

Time to compress is a measure of how long the CPU spends compressing. So this is in the blogpost
2024-09 Discord Dave Protocol Code review [pdf]
What's not going to be unusual is that there likely are 10x more mice to be found at the food packaging facility. There is no way that such a problem develops without humans and food inspectors knowing about it with sufficient warning. Someone has been cutting corners and not doing their job.
The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country
Can't we do both?

This is what happened to Germany. They tried going 100% renewables and then had Russia take up the slack for the rest of what they needed. Then they realized they had a massive shortfall and then was leaning far too much on Russia to take up the slack.

As someone else pointed out, geopolitics always weighs heavy in energy production. Just like in Germany's case where they relied too heavy on Russia for the shortfall of renewables, then Russia invaded Ukraine and Russia used their energy production as leverage to essentially blackmail Germany into not going along with UN sanctions against them.

However we need to get to total energy independence, I'm all for, and this whole idea it has to be one or the other only lengthens the process of getting there. In the mean time, it puts us in a precarious position to be involved with countries and regime's that don't like us and will never have our best interests in mind.
> I don't see a single mention of CPU time

> Looking once again at MESSAGE_CREATE, the compression time per byte of data is significantly lower for zstandard streaming than zlib, with zlib taking around 100 microseconds per byte and zstandard taking 45 microseconds.
Fred Wilson – Vitalik: An Ethereum Story
Thank you for that link! You just saved me a lot of time reinventing that wheel.
Like big O notation probably? So some constant time that does not depend on the size of the tables.
SpaceX protests FAA's fines with letter to Congress calling out inaccuracies
What sensor chip are they using?
I should have quoted you more specifically, my apologies. I was responding to the comment that there was some training of the "model on your chosen book".

There is no fine-tuning done specific to the corpus you own. I noted this in a sibling comment, but both the pretraining and fine-tuning objective uses a generic dataset (redpajama) which "aims to maximize the generation probability of the next token given the KV cache of the previous memory tokens" (quote from section 2.2 of the paper).

This is why I noted you could really use any long-context model that also has good retrieval performance. They're training their own draft model in lieu of using an existing model, but you could get similar/better outcomes using something like claude sonnet 3.5.
I don't understand why so many protocols that expect to handle large amounts of data don't default to a binary schema. JSON is fine on the edges, but the wire format between nodes is not the edge.
that's a MediaStore / file API operation, not a photos API operation.
Apologies then, I always assume show HNs are new projects but maybe that's unfair.

Would be maybe a good idea to explicitly list any problems you had with ReviewNB and why yours is different as the demos etc look pretty similar
Strongly typed HTTP/JSON APIs for browsers and microservices
Still a dupe, as far as HN is concerned. Sometimes dang will consolidate the threads and pick the most informative/closest-to-the-source article for the link.
Letter in text form

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1836766988544127128.html
See also: Man, Interrupted and Man (Dis)conneted by Philip Zimbardo. Also, a TED talk on the subject.
> Team member Ed Holmes at the University of Sydney says

> He was an honorary visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, from 2019-2021

Real good timing on his part.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Holmes
I feel like the guy has skill, but it’s unreliable as to whether he’ll employ it, get preachy or wander off entirely.
"No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather."

Generally agree. However, I want to point out that it could defined be possible if designed the right way. You can use "batteries" like pumped hydro, which could protect against longer duration outages. Bonus is that when there's no sun, there's usually rain, which one would hope would also offset some of the draining of the water.
Suppose you have a devastating earthquake that wrecks renewable power sources in an area. Bad part is you're out of power for a good while. But the second-order risks are very low - maybe some people are killed by falling wind turbines or solar panels, but there isn't any equivalent of radioactive contamination making the place uninhabitable for years.
No the overwhelming majority of the city loves aborting children. Being pro-life is not a majority opinion whatsoever. Maybe you live in the rural south, I live in a Democrat-lead blue city.
Nah, just ask ChatGPT.
Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyone who could was fleeing.
I noodled with a project a couple of years ago to pick art based on the weather
https://bazzargh.github.io/weather/

put it on 'manual filter' and try setting some of the filters, you can see the tagged images it comes up with. I wasn't really interested in this being an accurate weather report, I was thinking more of using it in a photoframe or as a desktop background for mood.

the image tags are all in here https://github.com/bazzargh/bazzargh.github.io/blob/master/w...

and were largely done manually, I started by picking paintings I liked, then looking for gaps in the tags and trying to find paintings to cover those.
Very true, I agree. Not trying to claim the customer is always right (lol), just that when preparing someone's food I feel there should be a bit more turning the other cheek when dealing with rude customers. It certainly sucks, I've been there, but I don't think doing something to their food is a good response.
The naive way in this case wouldn’t be to make an issue: How do I clone this repo? I see it has submodules

The naive way would be to just clone the repo without any (apparently) options.

I can attest to this because that’s probably what I would do.

The readme would not resolve a problem that someone knowingly had. It would resolve an unknown upcoming problem.
Probably not for live shared audio/video
Germany did not make a real effort at truly going 100% renewable. There are other European countries doing it for real and having wild success.
Should be "DAVE" in the title, but the auto-correction hit it.

A related interesting read was the DAVE protocol design review, available here:

https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/revi...
You can't post personal attacks to HN. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597837.
A Swift 6 macOS/Windows demo application
Hey there,

This is the source code and documentation for a cross-platform macOS/Windows application implemented in Swift 6. It’s an LLM client. I’ve been playing with it for some time in my spare time and I’m happy to share it publicly now!

My main goal was to learn about architectural patterns and developer experience for cross-platform Swift. I found some really cool pointers from The Browser Company about how that was possible and how to get started but I still felt like I needed deeper hands-on experience.

How would “real life” Swift Windows code look like? How would the developer experience be? What would be shareable and what wouldn't? How would be a Swift Windows app be released and packaged? What would be the major trade offs when following this approach? How would Swift 6 fit in all of this?

I tried to condense down everything I learned about cross-platform Swift in this GitHub repo. If you have questions please let me know! Happy to improve it so we can all have more learning resources in the Swift community about how to follow this cool approach. Let me know if you have any thoughts about it!
That’s insane. That’s the size of a decent EV battery.
I installed Windows 95 on an Amiga 3000 with a 25 MHz m68030 via floppy to see if DMF formatted disks would work and to play around. By the time it finished, I had forgotten what I wanted to try out.
Bullshit. Sun and wind can be built everywhere. They're just more effective some places than others. But they are cheaper than nuclear everywhere.
3-mile island plant and AI power
Ask HN: Why doesn't GitHub ensure binaries are compiled from the source as is?
In this way, you would feel safer downloading binaries without worrying about security issues.
The author seems to miss that relational algebra was developed for the needs of the databases of the time, i.e. in an effort to optimize reads off spinning iron. Any effort for async is destroyed by blocking fs syscalls.
BFCL V3: LLM Multi-Turn and Multi-Step Function Calling Evaluation
There was something called Agora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(web_browser)) which was sort of an email/http proxy. You could browse the web via. email and set "GET", "POST" etc. commands. It was my first exposure to the web.

It sounds very similar to what you mentioned.
IMO: Unless you really, really, really want the job, it's time to walk away.

FWIW: Sometimes companies need to fill open jobs to meet artificial metrics. IE, they want to look like they're growing, so they over-hire. Or, someone gets promoted to a lofty title and now needs to hire so they have direct reports to justify the title. Use care, because if a company is filling seats with warm bodies, you will have to work with those warm bodies.
Three mile island already hit jackpot once in the statistics game and it didn't only go offline for a few days. And it is true that fuel cost are not the driving factor for fision. I am all in, if power companies really have to pay for all security and lifecycle costs upfront.
With Brave you don't need to, even for sync.
Not a good look it not being on the main page! I personally use [zen browser](https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop); I like the ideas of Arc, but it always seemed sketchy to me, especially it being Chromium-based and closed-source.
I think it would be hard to make a solid argument that AR or non-AR is strictly better wrt full sequence error rates, whether or not we place constraints on compute, memory, etc. I'd guess that there's some intrinsic form of complexity inherent to any particular distribution of sequences which requires spending at least some amount of compute to achieve sequence generation error less than some epsilon. I'd also guess that AR and non-AR models could both achieve this bound in principle, though maybe it's practically harder with one or the other. It would be interesting to formally characterize this sort of complexity, but that's above my analytical pay grade.

The hash function example is interesting. I think the model could compute y prior to outputting any tokens and then output the `hash(y), y' sequence deterministically. In architectures like transformers, all the compute in earlier steps can be reused in later steps via attention, so it wouldn't be necessary to recompute y at each step as long as the model commits to a given y up front before starting to generate hash(y).
Most pipelines already hash/sign the binary
There is a book about how women had better orgasms under Communism in the GDPR. While the premise seems far-fetched, it kind of makes sense and is inconvenient for adherents of the prevailing anarcho-capitalist worldview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Women_Have_Better_Sex_Unde...
Astal: Library and Framework for Building Desktop Shells
I remember being scared by this as a kid.
> So in general, I think it makes sense to question the value of constraints, and not blindly trust them to always be beneficial.

Yes. But the constraints are the entire point of something like a library.

So, it's not so much questioning the value of "constraints" in the abstract sense, but questioning the value of the specific constraints you are creating.

As always, good engineering happens on the details and can't be described in a concise way.
what does this offer that podman desktop does not?

https://podman-desktop.io/
I just use Brave with a shitton of profiles. That does cause problems for mobile use since no Android browser dev has bothered with proper profiles or ability to install multiple copies of the browser, except for Google I guess.
Wow, we got a No True Scotsman right here. On a more serious note, why would there be (more) microjitter? Isn't the defaut reaction to jitter to automatically increase buffer size as stated above?
>An Orthodox Christian with a Ph.D. from Harvard, Pravica has found hyperdimensionality to be a unique way of bridging his scientific background with his religious beliefs.

In case anyone was wondering why this theory sounded familiar, this is the Wikipedia page on the theological concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_cord
I've been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, https://rancherdesktop.io/ on macOS and Windows, it's pretty solid.

It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).

What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl
Hydra-ai.js now supports 01-mini, sonnet-3.5, Gemini-1.5
hydra-ai is a react package that powers adaptive UIs with AI.

It’s open-source and free to start using.

hydra-ai 0.0.38 now supports:

- openai (o1-mini)
- anthropicai (sonnet 3.5)
- gemini (gemini 1.5 pro)
- mistralai
- grok
- openrouterai
- bedrock

Thanks to tokenjs!
I have a pair of custom-made boots I bought a few decades ago for $500 and which have been repaired once. Don't wear them much now because they're so heavy. So, yeah, they're not really for me today but that's what high quality is.
Fonts can still have source code. See this, for example:

https://github.com/rsms/inter
Researchers find a place to take a Python's pulse
This was the original dream from the 60s, where we would be building so many plants that the power would be too cheap to meter.

This of course is nonsense because it requires the entire industry to ignore market conditions for no good reason. You can't fight the market, not on a large scale, and especially not in the US. Power plants are only built if they will be profitable in a reasonable time frame. If power was too cheap to meter then nobody would be building new plants, there would be no return on the investment.

This is also why nobody builds nuclear power plants anymore. They are too expensive to build and can't compete on price. Especially not with renewables cratering the price. There's a reason solar installs are outpacing even the most optimistic projections from a few years ago. You can argue theory all day long on the Internet, but the people doing the actual work have made their decision.
A space rock is about to become Earth's new 'mini-moon'
I think the compression ratio will be a bit better, but the compression and decompression time will be a bunch better.
I am assuming that sars-cov-2 has a human-specific furin cleavage site, and that the others are less-so.

The text below is from an article posted elsewhere on this page (which is obviously biased).

"All you really need to know about furin cleavage sites is that SARS-CoV-2 is the first and only SARS-like virus, out of many hundreds that have been described, ever to show up with a furin cleavage site in its spike gene. Sure enough, it’s an insertion, not a mutation, and it’s at the S1/S2 junction."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/there-is-now-no-dou...
Off the top of my head, in no particular order and probably not comprehensive:

Improved health for people not living that way.

More freedom to live as you choose. Heteronormative culture has long pressured young people to get married and have kids and told them from birth they are straight without giving them time to figure out for themselves what their sexual orientation is.

Freedom to leave a marriage that isn't working because you no longer are a prisoner of the fact that your wife knows all your health issues and the dietary restrictions they dictate and cooks better than you, so she is essentially irreplaceable because that catalog of data about you isn't readily replaced by merely marrying a good cook -- assuming you can even arrange to remarry immediately and aren't forced to feed yourself (inadequately) for months or years while looking for a wife

Fewer mental health issues from society no longer dictating to everyone "You will be straight, don't confuse us with the facts. You will fall in love with The One meant for you, never mind the overwhelming evidence this is the exception not the rule. You will fit your entire life around tasks society decided are yours at birth due to the bits between your legs."

Less homophobia, less transphobia, less misogyny, more economic stability due to more personal flexibility.
> There isn’t a single intellectually honest harm associated with the majority of app telemetry and for almost all ad data collection. Like go ahead and name one.

The harm is the privacy violation. App telemetry needs to be "opt-in", and people should know who can see the data and how it's being used.
Five-minute rule.
Hm. Tempted to try pytorch on my Mac for this. I have an AS chip rather than a Nvidia GPU.
I guess this meme will never die? It absolutely was not, to the point that Dr. Shi used blood samples from Wuhan as negative controls. The closest known bat viruses were collected around Yunnan (~900 miles away), and in Southeast Asia.

EDIT: And since my comment is downvoted, here's a reference from Dr. Shi herself:

> We have done bat virus surveillance in Hubei Province for many years, but have not found that bats in Wuhan or even the wider Hubei Province carry any coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. I don't think the spillover from bats to humans occurred in Wuhan or in Hubei Province.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210727042832/https://www.scien...

No one expected natural spillover near Wuhan. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but the claim that the WIV was situated based on that is unequivocally false.
And this is is why I have come to love AWS Sigv4
What does the FTC expect in for-profit healthcare system?
I have heard this said by many people: “I don’t look at documentation because it usually is inaccurate/out of date”

There’s plenty of people sharing anecdata about bad docs, and I’ve dealt with my fair share. But my anecdata is that engineers who habitually go to the docs directly and read them gain a better understanding and write better software than those who do not. I believe that most software for engineers has documentation that is more informative than stack overflow and blog posts.
According to the poster, he found a combo that wasn't available in the online booking system. From what I recall from my time at Travelocity (coming onto 20 years ago, so probably slightly out of date), there are only a handful of GDS 's(Global Distribution Systems), of which Sabre - the owner of Travelocity - was at the time the largest. Those GDS systems are supposed to know about all of the flights from all of the airlines and find the cheapest route across all airlines and for a long time, they did. But as time went on, carriers like Southwest refused to participate with the GDS's and offered direct fares to customers while competitive GDS's sprang up and started to fragment the ones that were being used.

I can't recall exactly which GDS Expedia used (Worldspan or Galileo I think), but I do remember that you could comparison shop between them and us and find lower fares depending on which GDS you were using because they listed some airlines that we didn't and vice versa and even some fares on specific airlines - Sabre was originally an AA subsidiary so tended to have better access to AA fares and was _always_ the cheapest way to fly in or out of Dallas.

So what OP is looking for is what the GDS's would call an uber-GDS - which is, of course, what all of them are angling to become, but are being thwarted by competitive business practices. It's entirely possible that he found a route that was partly available on Sabre and partly available on Expedia that was cheaper than what was available on either, but he had to go poking around for it.

So, why not make a GDS of GDS'es that searched all of them and found combinations like the one OP found? A lot of companies tried - sites like Travelocity and Expedia and Orbitz were online and scrapeable, after all. The problem was, there was no money to be made in them. Travelocity made a lot of its money through travel agency fees - Travelocity acted as a travel agent and got the same commission on tickets that a brick and mortar travel agent would get. I assume Expedia and Orbitz and Priceline did the same. The aggregators, on the other hand, had to charge a fee on top of that to make their site profitable. There are a few people like OP who have a specialized need to be in a certain place at a certain time that an aggregator of aggregators could come up with, but not enough that were willing to pay a fee on top of the combined flight. In addition, savvy travlers could search the aggregator... and then go book the individual flights directly on the travel sites (you couldn't do this with GDS flights, at least not back then).

So yes, Expedia's way is better, and the best option in 99% of cases. It'd be great if the airlines would play ball to give consumers what they wanted, but... well, good luck with that.
Not entirely what you're looking for, but https://github.com/immich-app/immich has worked well for me, running on my own server.
Maybe we should take some the money being put into AI and direct it towards fusion research. The rest of the funds can be spent on AI to help with fusion research. Once we have fusion we can forget about the awful fission era and also get on with healing the planet.