skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious if this lends credibility to the Indian research that was dismissed early 2020. The paper claimed the covid19 virus was man-made.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/fauci-described-indian-r...

"...Indian researchers wrote that the composition of the 'inserts' in the Covid virus was similar to one found in HIV-1."
rtfm O:-)
https://wikenigma.org.uk/info:notes_for_contributors:registr...
just do the BLAST yourself and see. it's a publically available database. you will find zero other exact matches. note that today in 2025 there are a shit tonne of sequences that are resequencing of covid variants so you'll have to filter those out

https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
I don't disagree at all. But I guess they really wanted their CDRs.

Another unusual piece of tech was the use of SLR tape drives. That's really the only time I have encountered those in the wild.
From xAI: Gina Haspel (Director of the CIA) who was the, allegedly authorized bonuses for six CIA officers to change their assessment from a lab leak to a non-lab source for the origin of COVID-19.

Sources documenting this: National Review, New York Post & Daily Express US.

US government lies, and then calls "misinformation" on people who call out the truth. Now they are being held accountable to go back to the truth. Which is why the CIA is now switching 180-degrees from a Lie to the truth (non-Lab to Lab).
Windows will boot without a monitor, or at least, it used to, not sure about Windows 11. But Steam Link mirrors your display, and so doesn’t work without one.
DeepSeek: Posting Will Continue Until the Takes Improve
I would even say that he's now consistently lying to get to what he wants. What started as "building hype" to raise more and have more chances actually delivering on wild promises became lying systematically for big and small things..
I so want Valve to make this
Disney straight up stopped releasing discs in Australia. I'm sure that will extend to other regions in the future.
> Given the choice between a 4K stream and a 1080p Blu-Ray, I’ll take the Blu-ray in most cases.

Is it really? My experience has been that 4K downscaled seems to make for a very solid resulting 1080p image. I've been kind of thankful for 4K streams in that way.

I generally do freeze-frame comparisons of stills in landscape/conversational scenes, however. It might be different for jittery action sequences?
I did this for a while in college ~20 years ago with the original Mac Mini, it worked pretty well. A little clunky given multiple things to plug in but it was nice to have your entire environment with you locally.
And also that drug dealers and cartels are terrorists who should be executed, except the kingpin of the largest online drug market and likely hitman client, who should be pardoned
Ukraine is using shotguns on drones to hunt other drones. Seems it works.
Depends what you mean by optional join- if you mean you want the flexibility to build up a list of columns you actually want data from on the fly, you would probably have good results from doing left joins to the tables that contain those columns while ensuring you have a unique column (PK, Unique constraint) you're joining to. Your query engine should be smart enough to realize that it can avoid joining that table.

The logic is that you've ensured the query engine that it'll never return more than one row from the optional table so if you're not returning any actual columns from that table there's no need to think about it. Without the unique constraints the query engine has no idea how many rows may be returned (even if you aren't selecting the data) so it still needs to go through the work.
Show HN: Box – a script-based interactive container manager
TL;DR - a Podman wrapper for interactive environments with strictly opt-in host integration. Uses shell scripts as a "better Dockerfile," including the ability to set runtime options a la compose.

This is something I've been toying with for the better part of a year after I decided that I wasn't a fan of the mandatory host integration used by Toolbx and Distrobox. It started as a PR idea for Distrobox that I binned; the idea then mutated into a janky (but functional) Fish script that I ultimately ported to Rust to escape from glacially slow string-typed hell.

I've been using this for all my development environments and some local services for a few months now, and I think others (esp. atomic distribution fans) may find it useful!
Hey I made this! Thanks for posting! I answered most questions in the r/webdev reddit thread but I will happily answer more questions here.
I observed censorship on every ollama model of R1 on my local GPU. It's not deterministic, but it lies or refuses to answer the majority of the time.

Even the 8B version, distilled from Meta's llama 3 is censored and repeats CCP's propaganda.
Am I being censored? Some TikTok users say app feels different after ban lifted
Great. I would love to see this. Mostly I want to see companies be forced to offer their service with explicit opt outs of data collection AND data sharing as part of signing up. There is great danger in everyone having their private information stored in so many companies’ systems. All it takes is one leak to subject that person to fraud.
It's pointless to argue with people on hn because you'll tell them "I have cold hard experience" and they'll respond with hype links and conjecture.

> But I wouldn't imagine that scala performance is particularly significant.

Imagine all you'd like - reality is much less imaginative though.
I still believe those early 8 bit computers were great to introduce young people to coding. These days we have many options but also lots of distractions. At one point I tried to replicate that coding experience in a browser by implementing codeguppy.com -- I think I had partial success... What do you think?
Does a proof of concept need a use case? :)
The Case Against AI Control Research
With the announcements lately, I would be unsurprised to see an edict stating “federal funding requires the use of Oracle rdbms”.

Thousands of open source projects would support Oracle in short order.
This is absolutely wonderful. As a former resident of Astoria and soon-to-be Brooklyn resident, I noticed something that becomes pretty obvious quickly to NYC residents: literally all of Queens (except perhaps LIC) is over 40 minutes from the vast majority of Brooklyn by subway. When I lived in Astoria, it was literally faster to _walk_ than to try to take the subway (with weekend delays and redirections and schedules) to most of Brooklyn.

We really need the Interborough Express (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interborough_Express) 50 years ago.
it's incompatible. Why is there COVID speculation in Stem Cell Res?
Whoa! I'm a big fan of yours. You've really inspired me to think more creatively about the web/software. Thanks a ton, I'm glad this reached you.
There is a collection of these prompts they refuse to answer in this article:

https://medium.com/the-generator/deepseek-hidden-china-polit...

What’s more confusing is where the refusal is coming from. Some people say that running offline removes the censorship. Others say that this depends on the exact model you use, with some seemingly censored even offline. Some say it depends on a search feature being turned on or off. I don’t think we have any conclusions yet, beyond anecdotal examples.
agreed but some might read your comment implying otherwise (there's no world in which you would have 'started using o3 regularly enough to opine'), as i did - given that you list it side to side with an available model.
So, social credit system then?
Polytopes
The thing is, if you watch using AirPods on your iPad with spatial audio, it's actually far better than the vast majority of people's actual surround sound setups.

I never cared much about surround sound until the AirPods got spatial audio. Now it's like I can't live without it.
It has always pissed me off that the media industry plays it both ways. Out of one side of their mouths, they'll say you only own a license to watch whatever content, not the content itself. Then when a new media format comes out, they say out the other side that you only own that piece of physical media - you need to buy a new copy to keep up. It's a tangible good when it suits them and a digital one when it suits them.

I was in film school in the 00s. At the same time that kids were getting sued into oblivion over piracy, media executives would come be guest speakers at our class and would be gushing about how cool it was to watch a movie on their iPod on the way there. They were participating in the same piracy they were trying to ruin other people's lives over, and they were completely oblivious to the hypocrisy.
sorry. it was 19bp

Here. you can do it yourself. databases are public.

CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG
Tom Cotton is one the lowest integrity people I washington. Watch him in Cspan sometime. Just a buffoon.
Rev5 "full" 060 (not EC/LC). Quick capture of crappy methodology: https://imgur.com/a/XwQ1Tnp (PCR with revision number is in d0)
I have a friend that has a Devin subscription, working on a large scale Rails app.

So far, he says it’s a net win. Saves him time.

From the sessions I observed, Devin even came back with some really good follow up questions for clarification.

Sample size 1.
I guess it depends on how you define peak. With regard to sales of prerecorded media, DVDs were the peak. For TV recording, DVRs were so much better quality-wise and more convenient than VCRs.
so, no
Say what you want about incompetent coders, but at least the incentives are aligned.
Actually, it's more difficult to prove a wild origin than a lab origin, because labs have papertrails and witnesses.

I never said I was right. I said it makes a lot of sense and I believe it's probably true.

This is the sort of thing that neither of us can prove to the other at this point. You seem awfully aggressive to prove something though.
i think both American and Chinese model censorship is done by private actors out of fear of external repercussion, not because it is explicitly mandated to them
I'll stick with 3, not rewriting so much of the codebase because taking away features is now an improvement. Not sure where dogma and performance overlap but it isn't in making @apply a hassle.
A reassuring outcome. However what are the realistic implications of this ruling for potential future cases?

Similarly, How is challenging DMCA 1201 going?
Sure, I wouldn't imagine it'd turn into a cluster of skyscrapers if the restrictions were not there, but I would imagine there might be some small apartment buildings near the train station. New Jersey has had some impressive housing changes happen by opening areas near transit to development in not-dissimilar environments.
Show HN: I Built a keyboard extension app which has a bunch of useful tools
Hey folks, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on. It's a keyboard extension app I made because I was tired of constantly switching between apps (when applying for jobs) and losing track of the things I copy or save. If you’ve ever juggled between tools trying to stay organized, this might help!

Here’s what it does:

* Clipboard Manager: Keeps track of everything you copy, text, links, and even media files (like images and PDFs). No more frustration over lost copied text or links.

* Bookmarks: Save and organize reusable text, links, or files (great for things like email templates, CV, or reference materials). I have submitted a version where you can edit them and view them in a nice grid layout now.

* Calculator: A quick calculator right within the app for all those little math tasks.

* Dictionary: Instantly look up definitions on the go. Super handy when you're reading or writing.

* Calendar: Check dates fast without opening your calendar app.

You can access most of these directly from your iOS keyboard, so you don’t even need to leave the app you’re using.

I built FlexiBoard with privacy in mind. NO DATA is collected and it’s free to download. No sign up needed. There's a pro version, but the free version has almost all the features except saving media files.

If you do business on your phone, this will definitely be useful. If this sounds like something that could help you out, feel free to check it out! Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback if you try it.

Link to App Store: https://apps.apple.com/lk/app/flexiboard-keyboard-shortcuts/...
Do you understand why RL is better than SFT for training on reasoning traces?
More details here in the latent space pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrf76uNs77k
The problem is de-industrialization gets your society dependent on authoritarians who rent out there slaves to the lowest bidder and who then can wield you like a puppet.

And the focusing on a more abstract economy- produces a inability to even perceive physical products, limitations and overall reality and the world.
If everything is an abstraction, then problems like climate change, running out of energy or societal instability, surely can be doctored, narrated and abstracted away. And they cant. Which is a fundamental incompetence that is pretty obvious by now.

One stuck in such a delusion, would imagine it optimal to blast furnace a mountain of money towards "elegant" formulas, unable to perceive, that those formulas at the end of the day have to produce fertilizer to feed a world of billions even when the crops fail.
Too late to edit, but I was specifically thinking of mini dv -> computer. Digital as a shorthand for file on computer.
Just blogspam rehash of https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html#what-is-de...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734681
I agree except on the "isn't easily repurposed" part. Nvidia's chips have CUDA and can be repurposed for many HPC projects once the AI bubble will be done. Meteorology, encoding, and especially any kind of high compute research.
Think of it like a bet. Or even think of it a bomb.
Do you have any other examples? this is fascinating
I'm glad you're thinking about this. It's always strange to search for a topic, and find a dozen hits, most with one post max, and one which went absolutely viral.

In a world where karma/upvotes/etc actually does contribute to reputation, it seems unfair and arbitrary.
Depends what I'm looking for.
But we're in the test time compute paradigm now, and we've only just gotten started in terms of applications. I really don't have high confidence that there's going to be a glut of compute.
I actually bought an album off Bandcamp on MiniDisc maybe five years ago. I'd assumed it was just new-old-stock media but maybe not?
Unfortunately while it shouldn't be the case, education for education sake is regarded as a privilege for the wealthy.

Most are becoming educated and going into significant debt to get a specific job, or salary.
> b) Works Made for Hire.

>In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#201

You are responsible for infringing works you publish, whether they are produced by commission or employee.

Due diligence refers to the reasonable care, investigation, or steps that a person or entity is expected to take before entering into a contract, transaction, or situation that carries potential risks or liabilities.

Vicarious copyright infringement is based on respondeat superior, a common law principle that holds employers legally responsible for the acts of an employee, if such acts are within the scope and nature of the employment.
I mean a series of joins that are conditional on a user filter. For example, users with orders with invoices that are paid in the last 10 days.

Anyone can string-concat simple one table queries. That’s fine. The moment you add any non-trivial joins it gets exponentially more complex.
Does thw presodent get classifief EOs caise, thays thos
Microfluidic Purification of Genomic DNA
> If your job is so unimportant

Wouldn’t management know that already

when is fear ever a good workplace strategy?
what is leetcode
The blogpost is linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42826392
Not sure what you mean here—care to elaborate? The eventual input to these models are integer token IDs (128k different ones for DeepSeek). The tokenizers do the conversions from Unicode streams to streams of token IDs.
Those are not just-throw-money problems. Usually these tropes are limited to instagram comments. Surprised to see it here.
I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection.

On the one hand, even finding a DVD player that still works can be an uphill battle, and 480p looks like shit when it gets upscaled by a modern TV.

On the other hand, there are 100 titles that I already own outright. I don't have to chase down which service they're on or sit through all the ads it injects. I know that they'll always be there, even if a reality TV exec buys a prestige studio and starts deleting their backlog over in pursuit of some handwavey Hollywood accounting.

I should probably donate them and save my space for things I actually use, but I have a hard time committing to this world where we're perpetually renting access to our cultural heritage.
Yeah that’s a huge pain in the ass, I was hoping there would just be some mini dv to thunderbolt adapter. Oh well, probably won’t bother.
a style of coding challenges asked in interviews for software engineers, generally focused on algorithmic thinking
there's a 19 bp sequence CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG that is directly lifted from the moderna hiv vaccine patent (which preceded covid-19 by a decade).
now an exact match of that length isn't impossible, but which is more likely? that this managed to be exactly correct on accident? or some grad student was told to just copypasta every furin cleavage site in the database into a GOF library and surprise surprise the most virulent form that became a pandemic came from the sequence that is engineered to be efficient.

any scientist that has any molecular biology wet experience will tell you this is exactly what they would have done (though us researchers would probably not have pulled from the patented BLAST sequences, since that selector is turned off by default by the NCBI)
"Looks don't matter" - good looking people

"Money doesn't matter" - rich people

The reason he's in a position to complain about capitalism is because he's rich. It's funny because it's predictable.
I know, but it looked like a load of fortune cookies were cracked open and someone added a word salad
There's a paper from 2014 that tried to estimate the annual chance of a pandemic from a lab leak. They estimated it at 2%.

I assumed they overestimated a bit for effect and put it at around 1%.

Pandemics have historically happened somewhere around ever 100 years. What's that annual probability? 1%.

So if you knew NOTHING else, from a bayesian standpoint, if you have to differentiate a once in a 100 year spillover or a lab leak, you would put it at 50/50.

Now add in the fact that the outbreak occurred right next to a BSL lab. Now add in the fact that this lab specialized in the exact type of virus that caused the pandemic. Now add in the fact that lab workers at that lab got hospitalized with respiratory symtpoms in November. Now add in the fact that China responded with tons of secrecy, pulled down their genomic database of known viruses in their Wuhan lab, Xi issued a proclamation in February that they were revamping safety at BSL labs to prevent leaks, and that the virus in question is remarkably similar to one they found in 2013 thousands of miles away, and add the fact that there was a proposal to modify cornaviruses to have a furan cleavage site to perform gain of function research and that the COVID virus has just such a furan cleavage site, and this virus emerged remarkably well adapted to humans very very quickly. Now how about the fact that China pushed the wet market theory even after they'd figured out that probably wasn't the case? Now add in the fact that China let SARS escape from the lab TWICE in the previous decade.

How does that affect your truth value? All the facts above push the probalistic truth value toward a lab leak. There are a few facts that push it back a little the other way, but there aren't very many that I've found.
The OST of this game is amazing. Make sure to download the official CD data from the freeware release, they are a blast.
Black Pioneer, White Frontier
Pretty great story about the founding of Washington state. And half of it is actually positive.

Also just a good example of why I am loving the Duncan & Coe dynamic.
Software Design: What went wrong?
Maybe it's better now, but Blu-Ray looks substantially better in how color gets encoded. It's not a limit in the format, there just isn't enough bitrate in streaming to get dithering-like effects to go through.
That's not a good enough reason to censor.
And if I said “from a lab in Wisconsin“ you still may.
This might tempt me to get a graphics card and run local. What do I need minimum to run it?
I played in a Codenames tournament at CGE's stand at GenCon, and they forbid guessers from communicating at all. Officially, its supposed to be just the clue and number and nothing else.

Of course, I never play this way in my own games
Does this include BDXL media?

I bought a drive a number of years ago with intentions on backing up my NAS. Never did because the media was still prohibitively expensive for the amount of data I was looking to back up.

I've been waiting for the price to go down.
Documentation for Devtools
One Instruction Set: Mov Is Turing Complete Implementation
For example, if it is meaningful to use large batch sizes, the gradient variance will be lower and adam could be equivalent to just momentum.

As a model is trained, the gradient variance typically falls.

Those optimizers all work to reduce the variance of the updates in various ways.
rough estimate worse than 1 in 3^7 (based on # of wobble codons) but its even lower likelihood if you also allow AA variation in the universe of all furin cleavage sites
I’m working on it.. to me distributed or decentralized or anything tech-y doesn’t matter. What matters is the masses, the common man and at the end of the day, the masses don’t care or know about that stuff. They want to be entertained and maybe they even want to help. Create simple but powerful user experiences. Make them addictive and productive and then you have something that can actually help society
The 'safety' stuff should really be variable. The only valid explanations for how extreme it is in LLMs is corporations paying for it want to keep it kosher in the workplace, so let them control how aggressive it is.
My prior includes neither agency can provide genetic analysis which would be the easiest way to convince a professor of virology that this theory has any merit.
there are a lot of people lying and grifting in order to make money / prop up their stock prices / feel important

ignore them
Cool.
What are the outputs of this workshop? Is it only to academic purpose?
One product created a multi-million dollar brand
GPU export controls are basically the USA “cheating” to try and stay ahead.

Looks like it didn’t work though.
Why are you promoting your own unmerged pull request? This is entirely unnewsworthy unless it is actually merged.
For gaming, I'd also rather have the Steam Brick, I think. You have a large company with strong interest in the drivers for built-in hardware and external controllers all working smoothly. We also know video over USB will just work. And USB-C power so I don't need a barrel connector to travel, not sure where NUCs are at on that one.