skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things that are true:

The first large cluster of infections was associated with the Huanan Seafood Market, and retrospective analyses of influenza-like-illness patients and blood donations in Wuhan found no evidence of earlier circulation.

Sampling of many individuals prior to December 2019 showed no positives for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting that the virus did not spread widely before the market outbreak.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not known to have possessed a sufficiently close backbone strain to engineer SARS-CoV-2, and there is no public data indicating they had undisclosed viruses that match it.

Specific genomic features, like the furin cleavage site, appear suboptimal for an engineered virus (e.g. the PRRAR sequence and an out-of-frame insertion), which fits with a virus evolving naturally rather than through targeted gain-of-function work.

Several closely related bat coronaviruses have partial insertions near the S1/S2 region, suggesting that such changes can occur naturally over time and need not be artificially inserted.

A negative binomial pattern of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, with many zero-spreader events and a small number of superspreader events, is consistent with a spillover followed by rapid amplification in a crowded market setting.

Evidence of multiple potential intermediate animal hosts (e.g. wildlife farmed animals) further increases the probability that a bat coronavirus evolved into SARS-CoV-2 through natural spillover events rather than intentional engineering.

Early cases identified at the market and lack of widespread pre-epidemic infection clusters elsewhere in Wuhan align with the idea of a swift zoonotic jump to humans in late 2019.
The first link is taking into account government incentives, and doesn’t actually cite any source about cost comparison:

> New Inflation Reduction Act clean energy incentives and financing and potential strengthened U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards mean the economic risks for existing coal — and the communities that depend upon them economically — will only get worse

The second link is also about the inflation reduction act.

The EIA link is also a market prediction of where investment will be made, which also takes into account subsidies.

Post your best link that makes your point. My conclusion right now is you litter in links to appear authoritative.
You have been since the 1960s. The NSA and CIA entitled itself to intercept and read mail of United States citizens sent or received from foreign countries. The NSA built room 641A and captured traffic in the bulk with very wide filters. There is a data center in Utah which stores all of our cellular telephone call and message "metadata."
So the conclusion of the comment-article cited in the parent of your comment is false?

"According to the current phylogeny, FCS appeared independently six times in the Betacoronavirus lineages, demonstrating that FCS insertion is compatible with natural evolution (2, 7, 8).
[...]
7. Wu Y, Zhao S. Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses. Stem Cell Res (2021) 50:102115. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2020.102115"
Have you even tried it out locally and asked about those things?
Before clicking I was like “is this dude stupid?”

but I clicked on the article I see that Larry Ellison is a billionaire, of course he wants AI surveillance for his workers. I doubt he’ll let this AI he is thinking of surveill him though.

Awful idea, don’t think again.
Big Cushion would defeat you at every step
2 weeks!
the real bloat is in managers, Sr. Managers, Directors, Sr. Directors, and VPs, not the engineers.

At least engineers have some code to show for, unlike managerial class...
I used R1 to write debug statements for Rust code, close to 50 pages in total. It is absolutely crushing it. The best debug statements i have ever seen, better than gpt for sure.

In my experience GPT is still the number one for code, but Deepseek is not that far away. I haven't used it much for the moment, but after a thousand coding queries i hope to have a much better picture of it's coding abilities. Really curious about that, but GPT is hard to beat.
I've seen claims that the official API is less censored than the public weights.
Actually are there any SBCs with low power sleep?

I have reverse camera connected to SBC with Allwinner H6. It easily saves around 5 seconds compared to Pi (their closed bootloader takes ages to even start loading kernel). I considered early booting the system when opening the door, but really it is fast enough already.
This applies to the great unwashed only, and not the rich, posh toffs like Larry.
The whole thing feels like it is just a giant money sink. Are there going to be 5-10 companies that spend 100 billion, and then they are done, no one else can catch up and copy their training strategy? I think much of these billions will be wasted, we'll have power plans that we don't need and then more justification for coal plants. Could it be it ends up making electricity cheaper overtime from over capacity? I think so.

As AI or whatever gains more capability, I'm sure it will do more useful things, but I just see it displacing more non-physical jobs, and now will expand the reach of individual programmers, removing some white color jobs (hardly anyone uses an agent to buy their ticket), but that will result is less need for programmers. Less secretaries, even less humans doing actual tech support.

This just feels like radio stocks in the great depression in the us.
Once CIA, always CIA. Larry is just explaining from first hand knowledge what the deep state wants.
That's again false. It is also nonsense.

The original ePD was issued in 2002 and implemented by Germany in an update to the TKG in 2004 (and in an update to the UWG if you want to be pedantic). This precedes the GDPR by 12 years.

The GDPR is not a superset of the ePD. The GDPR did however lead to the recasting of the ePD in directive 2018/1972/EU (to clarify some ambiguities/conflicts created by the GDPR), which is what in turn led to the creation of the TTDSG which implemented the recast ePD and replaced parts of the TKG and TMG. The TTDSG in turn was renamed to the TDDDG when the DDG replaced the TMG due to the EU Digital Services Act.

So my statement that the TDDDG implemented the ePD was not entirely correct as the full story is a bit more complicated: the ePD was implemented in the TKG in 2004, the TTDSG implemented the recast ePD in 2021, the TTDSG was renamed to TDDDG in 2024. Also the TKG itself still exists, however parts of it were moved into the TTDSG/TDDDG.

But saying that the ePD did not lead to any changes in German law is wrong for both the original ePD and the recast ePD. Saying that the GDPR is a superset of the ePD is also wrong because if this were true, the ePD could have simply been replaced instead of having to be recast. And saying that the TDDDG didn't lead to substantial changes is only technical correct when referring to the renaming of the TTDSG to the TDDDG (which, again, was due to the EU DSA, not the EU GDPR nor ePD) but is, again, wrong when referring to the underlying TTDSG.

Here's a fairly comprehensible German language article about some of the changes in the TTDSG:

https://cms.law/de/deu/publication/das-neue-ttdsg-ist-in-kra...

Of course "substantial changes" is subjective but that's different from what you originally claimed about Germany "not changing laws at all", which I've hopefully demonstrated isn't true by any means.
Yep. And invent a new type of VPN every quarter to break free.

The indifferent mass prevails in every country, similarly cold to the First Amendment and Censorship. And engineers just do what they love to do, coping with reality. Activism is not for everyone.
Different sizes have different uses.
But it is non-trivial to impossible for them to prove it wasn’t. Which is perfect for political tools and wedges.
I think the guardrails are just very poor. If you ask it a few times with clear context, the responses are mixed.
This is a reference to the infamous rant by Bryan M. Cantrill after Sun was acquired by Oracle: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=1982
> You have been since the 1960s. The NSA and CIA entitled itself to intercept and read mail of United States citizens sent or received from foreign countries.

Every country has has this ability for much longer.
Thx, see here: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/

I use MapBox, but similar things can also be done on Google Maps.
If your column named simply `id` isn't a unique index you've gone very wrong.

The rest of the query plan probably won't need much power.
the "practical difference" is that zoonotic spillover and lab leak may not be mutually exclusive theories.
The biggest irony in this is that apparently the lesson the current US government learned was "let's cancel all the fire stations and fire all the fire fighters!"
U.S. Air Force removes course that included Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots
> Does Larry really lack enough self awareness to not realize these kind of statements make him sound like an orwellian super villain

He's joining the attention economy. Saying something stupid but provocative yields earned social media. Larry Ellison saying something sensible wouldn't make HN's front page.
X fka. Twitter: the garbage collector for minds.
and I'm sure this trend will be effectively accelerated.
Display lists date back to the antiquity of computer graphics, and Atari obviously knew how to build game machines.

Now we have GPUs which can do all sorts of things, but a graphics coprocessor for an 8-bit machine is a nice addition.
try asking US models about the influence of Israeli diaspora on funding genocide in Gaza then come back
You can, in fact, imagine other things.

For example, maybe the people shutting down the investigation had no idea what it would find and just didn't want to take the chance.
My bar for web dev's on Twitter is very low for this reason.

I'd almost argue this is a ragebait post and shouldn't be on HN, but I don't know if I'm the only one
Yes, but in the article I posted:

> Popovers created using the Popover API are always non-modal. If you want to create a modal popover, a <dialog> element is the right way to go.

> You can turn a <dialog> element into a popover (<dialog popover> is perfectly valid) if you want to combine popover control with dialog semantics.
Speech and thought are interlinked. Encouraging our society's most powerful to pander to social media in what they say undoubtedly affects how they think.
If you don't need so many gpu calcs regardless of how you get there, maybe nvidia loses money from less demand (or stock price), or there are more wasted power companies in the middle of no where (extremely likely), and maybe these dozen doofus almost trillion dollar ai companies also out on a few 100 billion of spending.

So it's not the end of the world. Look at the efficiency of databases from the mid 1970s to now. We have figured out so many optimizations and efficiencies and better compression and so forth. We are just figuring out what parts of these systems are needed.
> Officials are saying that, true.

I have no idea if the report's conclusions are correct, but I doubt a report like that was created in three or four days. Tasking expert analysts, reassigning the manpower necessary and going through legal and secrecy review in 96 hours would be extraordinary for a large bureaucratic agency. Sure, it could happen but that kind of all-hands, crisis urgency is hard to keep quiet. It's something we'd hear about from insider leaks.

I think it's more plausible that the report existed (because we know the CIA did look into it multiple times already) and the previous director had decided not to release it. And now the new director decided differently. Both of those decisions (not release vs release) were probably politically motivated to some extent but we don't have to jump to assuming an entire new report was fabricated with different conclusions practically overnight. After all, most government agencies that looked into it already concluded with low or medium confidence that it was a lab leak. It's not like the CIA report conclusion is an outlier here.
If you're arguing that landlords should have to get written consent to post a tenant's name on the mail boxes and door bell, then I agree. If we're talking about tenants doing it themselves, then there's no privacy issue unless someone else collects that information and uses it for other purposes.
I doubt it’s the age of him, it moreso feels like the age of society.

With Musk swinging his arm to in the air to hail his führer it really feels like the defining moment of new age rich people, don’t get me wrong the build up was there but this is just the moment that best encapsulates it all.

The best person to personify the old age I’d say is Bill Gates, awful person behind the curtains I’m sure, real buddy buddy with Epstein but he did the whole “caring for humanity” shtick, he donated bits of his money, y’know he at least took some effort to make it seem like he cared.
The thing that makes any given arrangement of society work (or not work) is how quickly/cheaply it removes decision-making power from people who demonstrate poor judgement.

This is a difficult task, because people with decision-making power tend use that power to alter the system to solidify their position.

Capitalism, at its finest, does this by letting people make bad decisions with their money until they haven't got any. This was an improvement on, say, holding wars until enough people decision-makers get killed off. However, a variety of long-term policy shifts have meant this no longer appears to happen - merely possessing capital is so profitable that even astonishingly poor decisions cannot reduce your wealth enough to matter.

IMO, through this statement Larry Ellison has demonstrated the kind of poor judgement which a functional society cannot tolerate in a decision-maker, and lacking an effective way to remove this from the decision-maker pool is the primary cause of societal trouble today.
Crazy to me that folks still recommend Hetnzer considering how easily they will shut off your services with zero recourse. They include vague things in their T&C like "2.7. Furthermore, we reserve the right to terminate the contractual relationship without notice for good cause."

There have been plenty of stories just on HN about this. Not a place I'd choose to host anything important.
Out of idle curiosity, which better element am I supposed to use when I'm using flex layout to space out elements on my page?

(e.g., a toolbar with with left- and right- justified elements, among which is an expanding searchbox).
Surely end of an era.
If you're a billionaire today, you might be forgiven for thinking the current state of extreme wealth inequality is completely normal. You will obviously want to lock in a system that has benefited you and ensure that nothing ever changes.

Historically speaking though, wealth inequality in developed nations is reaching a point at which, as often as not, revolutions happen. Sometimes they're bloody. Sometimes not. There are two approaches to avoid a revolution:

1. Back off from controlling government and let reform happen gradually. Your wealth will be lessened, but you'll probably remain one of the richest people alive.

2. Lock everything in with a totalitarian panopticon state that you control. AI surveillance offers a huge advantage over surveillance networks used by past totalitarian regimes. e.g. East Germany's Stasi showed the limitations of surveillance in an age where humans had to do it themselves. With AI to do it, you can avoid employing a large portion of the population to watch the rest, and you can keep the power of that surveillance network concentrated in just a few hands, preferably yours.

It's clear which approach is being attempted in the U.S.. I'd just point out that #2 is inherently high-risk. If you lock in wealth inequality at today's levels (or make them worse) and then use repressive means to prevent any form of push-back, the state becomes brittle. If it breaks, the result could be a bloodbath. Approach #1 is much safer. Yet, here we are.
> they've been doing it since the 60s when kidnap and ransom insurance started being a serious thing

Private security has been a thing for millenia!
> it's meant to infantilize them

There are a few assumptions embedded within this statement.

Firstly, you assume that 'they' have an intent other than the stated one, without explaining who 'they' may be, why 'they' would want to do this, and that 'they' have managed to be the only large group of humans to ever keep a secret successfully.

Secondly, you imply that 'being infantalized' would somehow be harmful to you, and that it might reduce your ability to care for yourself.

I suspect that as a relatively young person you've realized that you are an adult, but not what that actually means yet. It means that YOU get to help decide what being an adult means, and how other adults should be judged.

If living an isolated life brings you joy somehow, that's fine. We aren't all wired the same. However, the rest of us are starting to realize it doesn't have to be that way, and as your fellow adults we don't have to do it the same way our largely miserable, broken, and frightened grandparents did.
Taligent Inc. was an American software company
These labs were putting coronavirus samples into a forcing environment that drove evolutionary development towards the goal they wanted to study. Creating new lineages of the virus that differed from the original was the entire point!

Given that, it’s plausible that sloppy lab handling procedures led to someone being infected with multiple different viruses that were present in the same part of the lab.

None of this proves the lab leak hypothesis of course, but a lab worker being infected with multiple variants simultaneously (or separately) is a perfectly plausible outcome.
Looks like it doesn't work on firefox.

Cool plugin idea though!
> "We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem,

Nothing will happen. They're supervised currently and many carry body cameras. The public is entitled to complain about their behavior and there is an internal affairs unit. If none of this is currently working then simply turning up you observations will likewise do nothing.

> Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.

That's not how human citizens work. It's hard to believe that someone so well connected can project such parochial and theocratic false ideas about the world.

> Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. "You just have a drone follow the car," Ellison said. "It's very simple in the age of autonomous drones."

Larry, the reason we chase people, is because they can get to a location and further victimize people. Knowing where they are is half the battle, the other half is going there and getting them into custody.

The demented mind of a spoiled child. This is what happens to you when you refuse to compete and instead lean into your state connections to earn your lifestyle. Disgusting, really.
> modern super billionaire is so rich that only complete societal collapse or being personally targeted by a state-level entity can threaten their basically never-ending wealth and power

Plenty of billionaires have gone to jail or gone bankrupt.

> Anyone can sell their soul for a price

But not for any price. Anyone who thinks they could build an Apple or Microsoft or even Oracle is probably not being honest about their own limitations.
Ubuntu kernels might have a different default IO elevator than proxmox kernels. If the issue is in the IO elevator (e.g. it is reordering in such a way that some IOs are delayed indefinitely before being sent to the underlying device) and the two use different IO elevators by default, then it would make sense why Ubuntu is not affected and proxmox is. There is some evidence for this in the comments as people suggest that the issue is lessened by switching to mq-deadline. That is why one of my questions asks what Linux IO elevator people’s disks are using.

The correct IO elevator to use for disks given to ZFS is none/noop as ZFS has its own IO elevator. ZFS will set the Linux IO elevator to that automatically on disks where it controls the partitioning. However, when the partitioning was done externally from ZFS, the default Linux elevator is used underneath ZFS, and that is never none/noop in practice since other Linux filesystems benefit from other elevators. If proxmox is doing partitioning itself, then it is almost certainly using the wrong IO elevator with ZFS, unless it sets the elevator to noop when ZFS is using the device. That ordinarily should not cause such severe problems, but it is within the realm of possibility that the Linux IO elevator being set by proxmox has a bug.

I suspect there are multiple disparate issues causing the txg_sync thread to hang for people, rather than just one issue. Historically, things that cause the txg_sync thread to hang are external to ZFS (with the notable exception of data deduplication), so it is quite likely that the issues are external here too. I will watch the thread and see what feedback I get from people who are having the txg_sync thread hang.
> There are good reasons to believe the natural or the lab leak hypotheses.

Given the ridiculous response from everyone involved, I'm just going to assume it was an accidental biosecurity breach of a natural specimen. It happens frequently enough and enough puzzle pieces seem to fit. Not that I care or think anything should come of it, other than hopefully learning better biosecurity procedures.
Post-truth era
Steelworkers, Erased (2021)
I'm guessing the subscription activates some sim card? I wonder if that's activated anyway and still tracks you if you don't sign up...
"Unfortunately, the authors did not provide details of their BLAST research. The patent database that they used contained 24,712 sequences. Yet, by querying BLAST, we obtained a database of 46,121,617 patent sequences with an average length of 560 nucleotides."

is that not relevant?
Does anyone have a solution for reading these to convert to digital? My family has some and if I don't convert them soon I think they'll be lost.
Every thing wrong or suspicious in the world is not suddenly Trump's fault. This is trump derangement syndrome.
Years ago Microsoft TV had a free 3rd party extension that analyzed the video and skipped the commercials. Amazingly you could see the downloaded video, there wasn't drm on that in the early days. There were several tools like this.

I think you could do this. If you had a web page logged into the same program it could analyze the video. I wonder if people build "video scraping" from web page tv apps, probably some drm blocking thing.

There also used to be subsonic chimes or something simila on the network tv audio to signal to some other server (maybe at the local tv station?) that would know to automatically run a commericial right now.
> Russia is a poor country geographically

Leviathan vs Behemoth. Russia could be a strong land power, à la Rome. America is a maritime power, ruling via alliances and trade, à la Carthage. (Or Athens. Or the British or Dutch.)
Note that null is being used here in the “unknown value” sense in order to combine several possible queries into one query plan. Which is a bad idea for a query you need to be performant: $1 can be null (which is possible in the original stackoverflow question that this blog post is a reaction to), and if the parameters are passed in via a bound argument in a prepared statement (not uncommon), then the query plan won't necessarily be taking the passed parameters into account when deciding on the plan.
You do need a hyphen for a custom-tag. The HTML specs have guaranteed never to create a tag with a hyphen, so it prevents collisions with any future tag additions.