skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect that most people are so against the lab manufactured hypothesis because they've been infected by Covid

Sorry, but that borders on historic revisionism. People are so against the lab manufactured hypothesis because millions of posts regarding it on social media were suppressed and blocked across Facebook, Twitter, and others; and because high-level US officials pressured scientists to claim that it was more likely natural origin than a lab leak despite their actual beliefs; and because a vast section of media and academia blithely swallowed and pushed Daszak's paper in The Lancet despite obvious flaws and massive conflicts of interest. Dissenting views and evidence were heavily suppressed, no matter how convincing or reputable.

The narrative was so forcefully shifted that any discussion of a lab leak was often met with hatred.

And all that was well before most people were infected multiple times.
That’s fair, you’re right.

In my defense, I’ve been advocating for accessibility in computing for over 20 years, and reading the original post really enraged me as it goes against all I stand for, hence reacting too strongly here.
But it's so rare! Surely we would be driven to comment on it.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809268 - A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial (2025-01-23, 76 comments)
agree. i think getting to have a look at o1's reasoning was pretty fun.
>convert to digital

All 3 are digital.

If you want to copy: MakeMKV for BluRays are perfect.

For MiniDV you can use any MiniDV camcorder, they have a digital video out (probably FireWire) then import with a video editor on PC. An old Macbook/Pro is the best with the built-in port and iMove.
The other team is outside of my circle of influence and control.

But at the end of the day, did money get put in my account?

Course language:

https://youtu.be/3XGAmPRxV48?si=ibxkZ2_GYaITjiWt
Are NUCs with batteries unserved market? Just thinking of them as concept. How popular would they be?
Hyperscalers need to justify their current GPU investments with pay2go and provisioned throughput LLM usage revenue. If models get more efficient too quickly and therefore GPUs less loaded by end users, short of a strong example of Jevon's paradox they might not reach their revenue targets for the next years.

They bought them at "you need a lot of these" prices, but now there is the possibility they are going to rent them at "I dont need this so much" rates.
I was just wondering. It seemed like you had a perspective that I wouldn't associate with someone new to the industry.
> Sorry, it was a given.

No sorry necessary. I just think it is interesting how hard it is to not have an opinion about something beyond "I don't know." We all seem to feel more comfortable making an assumption and picking an answer, even when it won't change our behavior and not picking has no cost.
That still means your /48 identifies you with much higher precision than a cgnat-ed ipv4 address ever could.
haha, i've been in similar situations, but this one's something else.
As intended.

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...
You forgot about 3. Brave new world.

Mass of people that will not revolt and storm the castles because they will have computer games, recreational drugs and not so bad life.

That will not care about voting so 1. would not happen and 2. would not end up in French style revolution as they wouldn’t mind state control.
How long will the media be available from other manufacturers?
Thx! Downloading all the photos took the most time. Object detection process took only several days.

At TripOffice, we use simple and widely-used tools: Python, NextJS, and MySQL.
Yo this is sick
Spicing up your [RSS] feeeeds
When Google did this with the recent Gemini paper, no one had any problem with calling it out as credential stuffing, but when Deepseek does it, it’s glorious unity and camaraderie.
Both happened.

People who merely "suggested" the lab could have leaked, and asked to investigate more, were being called racist.
The primary value of Blu-ray to me is on a good home theater system the audio is going to be so much better than a stream.

The visual fidelity on a good 4k streamer is hard to tell the difference between Blu-ray (you can, it’s just not glaring), but even the sound on a DVD beats any streamer.
I'd be nervous about giving access to any nonpublic data to a closed-source app that only works while online.
Linus Tech Tips editors spoke briefly on how they’re bringing Mac minis with them to events to edit on the go.
I don't think it's so simple.

* A worker could've been infected while hunting for viruses in a cave.

* Someone could've been infected prior to the sample being ascenioned.
Two months, exactly. And like as not built on internal reports started long ago.
Looking at repeated pushes for breaking or banning encryption it is pretty clear that privacy of citizenry is no priority for anyone in power. Slow degradation is inevitable.
Imagine working for the government as a volunteer.
Curious to learn what do you think would be a good "Tiananmen-test" for US based models
That's wild, because the only way we were able to mount network drives that had stuff hidden on them by other students in the know was "net use". The drives would be visible to us on the network but if we merely clicked on them it would give us access denied, but a little two line bat script would let us mount and open the drives with no problems. Must have been windows 2000 server badly configured. I remember some other kid getting in trouble for the net send thing but I think he was being obscene to someone else who got mad enough... Everyone saw the obvious viruses and didn't click them but that one kid. As soon as he did that they found our little secret network share and closed it off. We definitely referred to him as a 'skiddie' after that lol

We just used it for a place to run scorched earth from on the whole network without having to download it to our home folders where it'd get noticed and punished
Thank you so much for your interest! We’ve definitely thought about supporting multiple CI providers, including GitLab, and your feedback helps us prioritize future features. We truly appreciate it and will keep it in mind as we continue to grow. Thanks again for your support!
> For established software where performance matters, hand-writing the SQL is reasonable.

These things aren’t mutually exclusive though. Every ORM I know gives you an escape hatch to write whatever sql you want. ORMs are great for 90% of things and as a reviewer I don’t need to scrutinize their queries too much. It’s much easier to for me to review an ORM builder query because I know it’s going to do the correct joins on the correct columns. For example in the ORM I use id rather see:

query()
.where()
.eq(“parent”, parent);

Instead of:

“select * from table join parent on parent.id = table.parent_id where parent.id = :parent”
"Digital" has become this weird overloaded term with a second meaning that means "no physical media". You see it mostly in videogames, "bought digitally" means buying it from Steam or another online store as a download, as opposed to a physical disk.

Obviously you're right and and literally every commercial* videogame ever released is digital in the sense that it's binary information, and the movies that person was talking about were already digital on Blu Ray.

You can kind of justify it as literally correct if you infer the context of "digital" referring to the method of transferral, rather than the method of information storage - I.e when I bought a game disk from a shop, the game was transferred to me physically on a disk, but when I bought one from Steam it was transferred digitally. Doesn't really apply as much for this situation tho.

(*I almost said every videogame ever made, but I suppose Tennis For Two and some other experimental games ran on analogue computers)
> TL;DR Well, the Steam Deck didn’t fit in my backpack…

I'm not sure if this is meant to be taken literally, but I would have just bought a bigger backpack. In some ways, I think this makes me respect the author more.
Move to bsky
It's probably not a good idea to piss off people with corporeal power.

Xi makes a lot less than Jack Ma, but I think that he showed him who's In Charge.
This sounds like a bad interview IMO. But also, don’t be this interviewee.

Solving a problem like this with the type system is setting off all kinds of “too clever for their own good” alarm bells. The goal of a coding interview is to showcase as concisely as possible that you know the craft of software engineering. Fizzbuzz should not be considered an IQ test.

The progressive requirements in the interview, while clunky, are getting at the reality of software development: there rarely exists a spec for what you are building. You need to be flexible to future requirements, and you need to write maintainable code that others on your team can understand.
But developing nations are already there. China has a social credit system and the Russians have had convenient ways of denouncing each other for their citizens for decades.
> As Nvidia senior research manager Jim Fan put it on X: “We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive — truly open, frontier research that empowers all. . ."
SAMBO does a good job of finding the global optimum in a black-box manner even compared to Nelder-Mead, according to its own benchmark ...

https://sambo-optimization.github.io
Pathetic man wants to monetize your rights to privacy. Will use big words to make it sound ok.
There is no way of knowing.
Advancing Language Model Reasoning Through RL and Inference Scaling
From Machiavelli's Study to Joe Rogan's Studio
The hard part in programming is understanding the perspective and the paradigm shift, as well as the theory from an intuitive perspective. In many respects that degree is a gatekept subject, where you are useless outside your very niche specialty. You'd need to take courses in EE, CSE, CS, and at least to Abstract Math from the Math department to have an intuitive understanding of the entire stack.

There are impossible problems that cannot be solved by computers, but through changing the structure/requirements we can make many of those problems possible to solve.

The problem with AI is it makes the value of labor worthless at the early stages of a generational pipeline of professionals.

If there is no economic benefit, the best and brightest leave the field for better returns on investment. If no one enters the beginning, no one makes it to the end. Intermediate professionals in their first decade stop existing, Senior level professionals die off from old age. The only people end up being left are those who cannot pivot, which is the bottom 50-60% who aren't particularly competent but can scrape by if they work alongside competent people.

Then there is also the societal failures that this will rapidly accelerate, where production will inevitably cease from chaos, and half the world starves.

AI is worse than pandora's box. Its a proverbial devil's pleasure palace, where you get everything you want in the short term, and self-annihilate in the long term (if you fall prey to its initial allure).
If the relevant Coast Guard officials need advisory committees for the things you mention, core parts of their mission for who-knows-how-long, they ought to be fired too. My point is that advisory commissions are not a core part of any government agency, and should not be.
Show HN: ComputerX – Run OpenAI Operator Features on Your PC for Free
The set up: https://obviy.us/blog/pilane-spotting/
All this non-lawyer programmer legal analysis is always fun because no one really knows. When I send email aren't I just telling my email "robot" to do something? This is one layer beyond that, my 'llm robot' is sending text messages on my behalf.
They do request to take down repos, sometimes in person for a disciplinary effect. And GFW is very effective, BTW.

Wholeheartedly agree with the rest of the comment.
I tried to embrace BD-Rs for backups, and to some degree they are useful, but ultimately I have given up on them.

The 25GB discs are cheap, and have enough space for a considerable backup (depending on your needs). It's also possible to put 4K h264/h265 videos on one and play them on some players, but this isn't very convenient compared to other options.

The 50/100/128GB discs are far more expensive per GB, and have an awful failure rate for writing.

Write and read speeds leave a lot to be desired. Fast enough to stream video, but that's about it.

And consumer writable optical media has a poor lifespan, and will probably become corrupted within a decade.

I have moved on to LTO tapes. A single LTO-6 tape is about $10, and holds 100x more than a basic single-layer BD-R. Read and write speeds over 1gbps. Not appropriate for everyday access, but perfect for large long-term backups.

If I want to move files from device to device, especially multimedia, I just use a flash drive.
Saw this yesterday:

>The rate of decline in US physical video game software spending accelerated in 2024.

>Spending on physical video game software in the US has been cut in more than half since 2021 and is now more than 85% below its 2008 peak.

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3lgj...
Well, if their dream is to turn twitter to whatsapp then we also will lose some control of our money.
As someone who loved both C&C games and Impossible Creatures growing up and has played them recently, it mostly boils down to the flavour and soul of the game for me personally.

It feels really cool to escape into these worlds, each unit and building feels alive and unique.

They're mechanically not the best games, but that's never gotten in the way of the fun factor for me :)
I agree - flag it
I think COVID year stats are always a bit sus. I imagine the people who had the option of working from home tended to be higher income. Outside of medicine jobs, the stay home order mostly exempted lower income jobs (eg grocery stores, mechanics)
Thanks for the great reply!

Hmm, I could see why the ZX81 kit would be educational but perhaps not as exciting as the ZX Spectrum with its color graphics and game library.

I'm not an expert on the Spectrum, but it seems like a very capable machine, with a lot of good games, some great contemporary books and magazines, and many fans here on HN.

It looks like later models featured a capable sound chip. And it had a Z-80 CPU, allowing the +3 to run CP/M natively.
A Cavalcade of Updates
This is a software tester.

In 1995, there surely emerged “web quality leads.” Although I don’t specifically remember that, I would have called them testers. In ‘99 someone tried to convince me that testing object-oriented software was a new discipline. I guess they were proposing OOP Quality Leads. I called them “testers.”

SDETs are testers with coding skills. The title was created to make coders more okay with doing testing, I think.

Testers are testers— but of course if you test a specific technology you have to be familiar with it.
All part of the plan for everyone to have to repurchase all the content they already own. Again.
Brave New World is not a historical example, it is a fictional one.

And if AI is what the developers hope it to be, the fictional reference points would expand to anything from Manna to The Culture to I Have No Mouth.
I think you are wrong. suburbs are dense enough in other countries to support ten minutes service. Then you just need to ensure no more than 15 minutes until you are on an express bus (not all will go downtown - the next suburb is important). Of course where you transfer to the express but should have lots of TOD so many are not transfering.

The above if done across the whole metro should get 30% mode share across the merto which would be world class. It would also cost about $200 per month per adult - which is a lot cheaper than a car - but still massively more than any city spends on transit.
A technical intro to Ibis: The portable Python DataFrame library
We recently explored Ibis, a Python library designed to simplify working with data across multiple storage systems and processing engines. It provides a DataFrame-like API, similar to Pandas, but translates Python operations into backend-specific queries. This allows it to work with SQL databases, analytical engines like BigQuery and DuckDB, and even in-memory tools like Pandas. By acting as a middle layer, Ibis addresses challenges like fragmented storage, scalability, and redundant logic, enabling a more consistent and efficient approach to multi-backend data workflows. Wrote up some learnings
> I suppose that could happen if what they were carrying wasn't capable of human transmission yet, but was capable of infecting some species of the live animals at the market

Or if infected carrions from the labs were sold at the market – I suppose it only takes a low-ranking employee wanting to make a few bucks.
> oh, no, no scientists released a paper that says the natural origin is still a live theory

Not to mention that the main paper cited for this was written by ... Daszak, yet again. And it was endorsed by 26 other people who all had conflicts of interest, under a Lancet editor who since admitted that he knew Daszak had a massive conflict of interest, which wasn't admitted publicly for a year.

Ain't it odd that media never really ran with that story? That neither Dems or Republicans had much to say about Daszak? It didn't too viral on social media, there were never any TV interviews where they showed people reacting to being told that, no documentaries about the flaws of the Lancet paper and how it was pushed; it was never part of any drive to change policies, etc. Seemed odd to me anyway.
This is about Devin, right?

Update: Yes it is
Bird Flu mRNA Vaccines Remain Work in Progress, 4 Years After Covid-19
1989 Poland government change from Communist regime to Democratic government.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2009/12/09/1989-poland-was-fi...
Right, and that doesn't contradict what I wrote.
I loved the Command and Conquer games and played them for vast amounts of time.

Don’t seem to be able to play or replay any such real time strategy games now. Don’t know what changed.
Its the latter, Larry is not your friend
TBF, the idea of two zoonosis event, at the same, and virtually at the same time, do not rank very higher in the probability scale either.
I didn't know Mac Minis had good batteries in them. How many hours do they last on full load?
Laterel. Show me correlated subqueries, & I'll take it seriously.

The blog reads like exercise in Rust macros writing.
The research didn't cause it.

The scientific evidence that the outbreak began at the market is overwhelming at this point, and there's never been a shred of evidence for the lab leak.

If you think otherwise, then you have not been following the scientific publications on the subject for the last 5 years.

So yes, EHA has been proven right, and you're hounding the very people who dedicated themselves to warning the world about the threat of a pandemic.
> That's too marginal to motivate an adverse conclusion at the CIA.

The decision to not release by the previous director and the decision to release by the new director probably were political to some extent. But I agree with you that the report's impact is too marginal to assume its creation or conclusion was politically motivated. But I think that for a different reason: I doubt adding yet another "low confidence" agency report onto the pile of existing ones changes much - either in geo-political super power negotiations or in the mind of the American public.

The issue has been played out and it's not top of mind or relevant anymore. The majority of people have already made up their minds one way or the other - or decided it doesn't matter anymore and they don't care. Pretty much everyone already acknowledges we'll never know for sure.
No, it is not.

Firing an "ATC training team" and replacing them with advisory commissions is not a good thing. Advisory commissions are not, and should not be, functional units of government.

I know it's so easy to jump on the hate train, but you're confusing different aspects of government, and what has happened.
So just keep scanning repeatedly until it gets you to the right menu?

Wouldn’t it be easier to just have the link the QR code points to show a language picker?
Being the originator of this thread, I hold the same opinions about the Gemini paper from DeepMind, I see team spirit over cred stuffing
> was rightly rejected by people who care more about evidence than spreading hatred.

The French CNRS, well know to be a right-wing US actor wanting to spread hate

https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/la-question-de-lorigine-d...
It takes quite a bit of effort to determine that a repo is free of malware - very likely more effort that the coding challenge itself. And I would not rely on antivirus software.

Checking the background of the hiring company may help. Check the investors, board of directors, founders to make sure they are real and have a backstory. Search TeamBlind or Glassdoor for complaints.
> This will likely not decrease our salaries. It may increase them as funds get reallocated away from HR.

You have serious misunderstanding how companies operate.
I actually wonder if this is true in the long term regardless of any AI uses. I mean, GPUs are general-purpose parallel compute, and there are so many things you can throw at them that can be of interest, whether economic or otherwise. For example, you can use them to model nuclear reactions...
If I remember correctly, people used to mod RA and other C&C games to have custom models, like Tanya nude and such. I wonder if this was born from that.
The sense lines, however, are switching--as is the clock. Just because the RAM cells are sitting there doing nothing doesn't mean that everything else in the RAM is also idle.

Also, take a look at the Apple M3 chip, for example. Note how much of the die size isn't RAM.
ok, so you're going to explain to people to scan it at different angles? absurd. this is like having a hyperlink go to a random destination.
Why would you think that?

It's obviously false if you just think about it, but you can also do some searching if you need some authority to tell you.
>They have amassed a collection of pseudo experts there to collect their checks

LLaMA was huge, Byte Latent Transformer looks promising.. absolutely no idea were you got this idea from.
According to MDN [1] there is a <portal> element but hell if I know what it does.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/po...
I have no idea who they are, but I think you'd find there are lots of "old-timers" (even notable ones) who've never had HN accounts. Any of them could decide to join at any moment
Thank you for the reminder and links, much appreciated!
The world won't really be any better off because there are other empires vying for the top spot, and they will simply replace US if the latter drops the ball.
Dude can move to China if this is the society he wants to live in.
The Clippy resurrection seemed gratuitous.
I still enjoyed reading your post, it's fun and interesting!

Maybe one could try having two different models play together, to see if they are genuinely good at the game or simply able to infer their own reasoning, if that makes sense.

I'm kinda bad at word games like codenames, even in my native language (french). With carrot and ray, I'd try something like "striation"? But it's really convoluted.
I like how the CIA has "low confidence," but that you are positive. You should share your evidence with them so that they can upgrade to "high confidence" and we can settle it.
They don't, but they do idle as low a 4W for the whole system[1] so running one off a large portable battery would be possible (if not exactly elegant).

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/103253
Some useful ideas here:

https://www.aura.com/learn/how-to-identify-job-scams
It doesn't need to. We had oligarchs before capitalism.