skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> while most people (here too) cheered for "fighting misinformation" with censorship?

Exactly right. Remember any comment daring to question the authorities was shouted down to oblivion. Anyone daring to question lockdowns or other draconian measures were met with fire and brimstone. I lost a lot of respect for HN during Covid.

I feel it’s important to not forget the level of adherence to authoritarian rule that infected the population during Covid. Even places like HN were not immune. “Just following orders” was SOP even here.
Kagi has all the bangs possible and imaginable, and you can configure new bangs.

But I barely use them, Kagi results by themselves are already great.

And optional LLM summary of results (either by clicking or by ending the query with a "?") is super fast and great specially when you're searching for some easy thing like "how to crop a video in ffmpeg" or "how to do a ternary in kotlin".
> unlikely we normies will ever know the truth

Thanks for the dose of epistemic humility. I'm willing to go one step further: It's plausible that no one knows the truth. Keeping secrets is hard. If someone knew they might've died in the early stages of the outbreak.
Ooh I see. Athom also has their own system called homey: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homey_(smart_hub)

They're not open source so I thought maybe their other stuff isn't either. I didn't even know they made switches in fact.

Several of my friends have the homey, they're very popular here because athom is a Dutch company and they market here a lot. But I prefer the openness of home assistant.

Edit: Aah I see the confusion. The athom that makes the esphome devices is a Chinese copycat company that has nothing to do with the real athom but is trying to get a free ride on their name.

They've just received an injunction banning their sales in the EU and have to take back all their products sold here. https://community.homey.app/t/athom-wins-lawsuit-against-chi...

I had never heard of the Chinese company before.
The lawnmower wants to use vast AI surveillance on the blades of grass.

Do not anthropomorphize the lawnmower.
Common table expressions do exist, and they compose ~alright (with the caveats that you're limited to unique names and they're kinda clunky and most ORMs don't play nice with them).
Kagi has "Verbatim Mode", and a toggle in settings if you want it enabled by default.
I cannot help but wonder what the answers are to these points:

> Norwegians are forgetting that domestically produced power is not always cheaper. Whenever the current in the cables flows towards them, it helps reduce high prices.

Norway could add some diodes to the cables so that it only imports and does not export.

> And even though Norway exports more power than it imports, that is fantastic for domestic energy producers. Norway’s state-owned power firms have been raking it in, which is one of the reasons the government can afford to subsidise household prices.

Wholesale prices would plummet if this energy had nowhere to go. Getting wholesale prices down seems to be the goal here, so why not keep the energy trapped and let the wholesale prices drop? If they wholesale prices drop, you would expect that to help pay for lower household prices.

These are not my actual views. I just feel that the articles' author did not address these points, so I decided to raise them here.
> What was the Tianamen Square Massacre?

> I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

hilarious and scary
Some football analytics links

Soccermatics course[0], the book of the same name[1], R code [2] and some more general resources [3].

Learn Python and Data Science With Football[4] and Python library for plotting football charts[5].

Machine learning Fantasy Premier League team [6] and Python for Fantasy Football [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

[0] https://soccermatics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26073086-soccermatics

[2] https://github.com/JoGall/soccermatics

[3] https://github.com/eddwebster/football_analytics

[4] https://fcpython.com/

[5] https://mplsoccer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[6] https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AIrsenal

[7] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-in...

[8] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ma...

[9] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ge...

[10] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ap...

[11] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-in...

[12] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ad...

[13] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-un...

[14] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-fe...

[15] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ra...
Wasn't it? Most of the earliest cases had a link to the market, many of whom were vendors including the very first known case. The early cases which had no known link lived/stayed clustered around the market. The market sold live wild animals which were known reservoirs for the previous coronavirus break (SARS).

How can following a trail possibly be no better?
Finding a previously unknown undocumented instruction at this late date in a line of processors as prevalent and historically significant as the 68k is surprising. Congrats on your achievement! If someone does dive into fully characterizing the undocumented instruction so it can be properly supported in emulators (as you suggested), please post about it on HN. I suspect, like many undocumented CPU instructions, it was probably to help the original designers test or verify something during development but it would be interesting to know.

While obviously a subjective judgement, a lot of people who hand coded assembler on 68k processors regard the ISA as especially elegant, powerful and fun to develop for. In many ways I think of it as peak CISC, thanks to its orthogonal instruction set and wildly flexible addressing modes. And of course the platforms which used it are legendary, from consumer (Mac/Lisa, Amiga, Atari ST, Sinclair QL) to workstations (SUN, Apollo, Quantel) to gaming (Sega Genesis, Neo Geo, Capcom, Atari, Namco, Sega, Taito, Konami) to embedded (automation, print/network controllers, synthesizers, appliances). I'm certainly biased but to this day the 68k (and its 8-bit little brother the 6809) are the only CPUs I still enjoy writing assembler on.
I hear you. The extremes on both sides are awful. I try to ignore them when I make a decision on who to vote for. I try to look at the actual impact the policies and agendas have.

That said, ignoring the loudest voices in the room, especially when they're pointed at you is very hard to do.
For one, he’s one of the OG’s who’s had vast wealth and power for longer than many others have been alive.

And two, he’s at an age where people lose any sense of self-awareness, shame, filters - all that shit.

Anyways I don’t think he cares that it makes him sound Orwellian. I suspect he’s fine with being Orwellian outright. Not having what he has is as unimaginable as for all of us having a fraction of what he has. It’s too much of a stretch for someone like that to extent so much to imagine.

And yeah it’s frightening, it’s why we did away with autocratic Sun King calibre aristocracy/royalty and all that. We can expect all the other zillionaires to follow this path reliably over the next few decades.
because they’re able to pass signal on tons of newly generated tokens based on whether they result in a correct answer, rather than just fitting on existing tokens.

it’s on the path to self play
I'm pretty sure they're going to say they don't regret it at all. Either because it's true, or because they are too invested in it.

When I've started doing FPGA consulting a few years ago I've started using Chisel, but eventually had to go back to SystemVerilog due to client reluctance.

I was dramatically more productive with Chisel than with SystemVerilog.
"This project was not approved or endorsed in any way by Valve and is generally a very bad idea. "

why are you confused when from the first words on the page, it is acknowledged this is nothing more than "hold my beer" project.

the confusion is how you would pose a question as if this were a serious project
Your process can be started in a paused state by a debugger, have new libraries and threads injected into it, and then resumed before a single instruction of your own binary has been executed... and debuggers are far from the only thing that will inject code into your processes. If you're willing to handwave that, pre-main constructors, etc. away, you can write something like this easily enough:

struct BeforeEnvFreeze(());
struct AfterEnvFreeze(());

impl BeforeEnvFreeze {
pub fn new() -> Self { /* singleton check using a static AtomicBool or something */ Self(()) }
pub fn freeze(self) -> AfterEnvFreeze { AfterEnvFreeze(()) }
pub fn set_env(&self, ...) { ... }
}

impl AfterEnvFreeze {
pub fn spawn_thread(&self, ...) { ... }
}

fn main() {
let a = BeforeEnvFreeze::new();
a.set_env(...);
a.set_env(...);
//b.spawn_thread(...); // not available

let b = a.freeze(); // consumes `a`

b.spawn_thread(...);
//a.set_env(...); // not available
}

Exercises left to the reader:

• Banning access to the relevant bits of Rust's stdlib, libc, etc. as a means of escaping this "safe" abstraction

• Conning your lead developer into accepting your handwave

• Setting up the appropriate VCS alerts so you have a chance to NAK "helpful" "utility" pull requests that undermine your "protections"

And of course, this all remains a hackaround for POSIX design flaws - your engineering time might be better spent ensuring or enforcing your libc is "fixed" via intentional memory leaks per e.g. https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/7a61e7f557a97ab597d6f... , which may ≈fix more than your Rust programs.
depending on how deep you want to cut costs, the best way to optimize is to simply send them less data.

at my last place we relied heavily on APM traces in prod and kept the sampling rate relatively low. you can add metadata and send custom trace entries to take the place of most log entries. likewise the most valuable metrics could be derived from APM data easily enough. we kept shipping the must-have logs and custom metrics but their volume was surprisingly low once the noise was gone.

also, I don't think I'd ever let datadog slurp everything from AWS cloudwatch again. the amount of pure useless noise there far outweighs the value. a few targeted collectors from services like WAF and AWS SSO were all we really needed in the end.

TL;DR: be ruthless and cut cut cut. you might be surprised at just how much is never used. also, avoid letting datadog integrate with lambda or ECS, since those come with a per-unit cost which is fairly extravagant.
As far as I understand the model needs way less active parameters, reducing GPU cost in inference.
I have family that have worked on developing NBC equipment for the military. The first thing they said when covid was spreading was that it was most likely from a lab. That was before anyone in the news was saying that. So an independent first-look assessment by someone with experience, followed by later finding out that there was in fact a lab there, has me heavily leaning towards it being true. But it doesn't really change anything unless there's hard proof. Even with hard proof, do you think China would pay for anything? I don't think so.
The Case for Vaccinating Chickens
Perhaps they already do, we just don’t know about it yet =)
Is this a comment from 2002? It's been over 20 years that everybody _knows_ Google is "fantastic".

The only new thing in the last 5 years is the absurd decline in quality of Google results.
or maybe this is one of a thousand studies they performed, and they threw it out because it wasn’t found to be credible
The 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. That's why they all have built bunkers on various islands in the world and have kissed the rings of whichever political leaders that look the most likely to threaten their position and/or life. If some of these leaders are also going to give them more money for their services, then that's just another good transaction for them. Anyone can sell their soul for a price. It takes a billionaire to sell it over and over for an ever increasing return.
does your vision get reversed after drinking?

q coz of ur username.

just sayin ;)
There will be no major discrediting of China since the bat coronavirus research at Wuhan labs was funded by the National Institute of Health. This was firmly and unequivocally established by the hearing held by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Refer to “Overseeing the Overseers: A Hearing with NIH Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak”.

Dr. Tabak testified in this hearing that the NIH was funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China through a grant to EcoHealth.

Of-course this was in "direct contradiction" of the earlier testimony given by Dr Fauci under sworn oath. But hey - he has already been pardoned for it.

The only thing that can be laid at China's feet is ignorance of what was going on in their labs and the useless attempt at media suppression once the virus got out. However, anyone who has studied the facts in detail would easily form the judgement that a subsection of the U.S. government had the majority share of culpability.
If my fuzzy memories are anywhere close to correct, Trump wanted to buy it in 2017, Denmark said no, and he went on to slapping stupid[0] tariffs on Canadian and European exports before putting tariffs on China.

Trump's 2025 playbook seems entirely identical. The thing is, America has wanted Greenland for at least a century[1]. I would not be surprised if there's some long-timer in the Executive Branch that just happens to have a chip on their shoulder about how much America should have a Greenland. There's a lot of reasons why America would be safer and wealthier with the island, but Denmark isn't going to sell it. Hell, Greenland itself doesn't even want to be Danish, much less American[2].

[0] They're stupid because any hope of America remaining economically prosperous without China to sell us cheap shit (or Saudi Arabia to sell us cheap oil) relies on having a large free-trade area. Y'know, the sort of thing TPP was supposed to give us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_State...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_independence
Yes and I’m saying that was bad.
from the faq at the end:

> Why remove the screen? It wouldn’t have made the build larger!

> Keeping the screen would have significantly complicated the build, as you’d need something to keep in in place. More importantly – the brick was built to be tossed in a bag as-is. No case, no screen protector, just throw it in a backpack or suitcase and don’t worry about it!
While clunky to implement, variadic calls is mostly a solved problem in rust by way of tuples and macro rules. It’s ugly to implement as a library author (generate K different declarations using macro expansions, where K is the limit of the variadic expansion), but IMO that’s secondary to the library user experience, which is fine with this approach.
> Everyone who is not a saint is equally a sinner?

I never drew equality, just analogy. No, they're not equivalent. But it's a lot easier to throw stones when one is not themselves in a glass house.

> He said Trump would target his son corruptly

Anyone can say this about anything. His son broke the law. It's a silly law. Which is all the more reason to change the law, not the sentence.
> all botted

Of course it isn’t all botted. You don’t put astroturf muscle behind things that are worthless. You wait until you have something genuinely good and then give as big of a push as you can. The better it genuinely is the more you artificially push as hard as you can.

Go read a bunch of AI related subreddits and tell me you honestly believe all the comments and upvotes are just from normal people living their normal life.

Don’t be so naive.
It is quite a terrible thing if AI technology completely replaces the human with their own flaws with something that mimics human but is completely devoid of it and obediently executes the deed, reads the scripts that is fed and never fails. Yes it is more efficient this way but is this consumption geared towards humans or just to the human as cattle? Seems perfect for propaganda though.
This is a open source project allows you to use various models, including those from OpenAI itself and some free ones like Google Gemini, Cohere, SambaNova, Groq, and Cerebras.
It's worth noting that Google Gemini is among the best in the LLM Arena.

Why is it free? Google provides a free API with up to 1500 requests per day if it's a Flash model, and 50 requests for the Pro model.

Google isn't the only one; there are several other free options.

Interface: https://eliaspereirah.github.io/OrionChat/

GitHub: https://github.com/EliasPereirah/OrionChat
I'm saying you'd just record perf stats with a normal profiler and never do any sort of decision or analysis based on what you read in a log?
It's begging the question to claim they were proven right. Sure, they were proven right in some respect, but if the research itself caused it (and let's be real, it did) then they were proven right in a manner that doesn't really speak well of their record. And yes, they were influential in arguing for continued grant money to study coronaviruses. They were also influential in arguing against the Obama administrations restrictions on gain of function research and seem to have sought ways around the restrictions (we know from comments on the DEFUSE paper). They didn't publicly disclose the DEFUSE paper, a whistleblower in the DoD had to leak it. It is relevant because it suggested adding a FCS to natural coronaviruses to make it more virulent to humans. It seems like as soon as a virus with FCS appeared on the scene, their first reaction should have been "oh no, did someone do that research we proposed somewhere? We have to tell someone!" -- but, alas, no. Let's keep crying that they're being demonized, though.
I begrudgingly use Google.
I'm really starting to like Perplexity. I was relating an anecdote about it earlier today.

I was trying to answer an obscure question about the meaning of something in Linux's /proc filesystem. Whatever I entered into DDG or Google, I just got hits where someone had posted a copy of the file into a forum post, so it hit all the search terms, but the discussion wasn't actually about my topic.

Perplexity understood the question, and answered it... dead wrong! But its fake "citation" links led directly to several pages where people really were discussing my topic, and they answered my question.
Side question: are those glasses any good? I almost got myself a pair
How composable do you want it?

When I want to make a complicated intermediate query that other queries can reference I create it as a view.

I will admit that future me hates this sometimes when I need to dismantle several layers of views to change something.

And some people hate to have logic in the database, Personaly I tolerate a little logic, but understand them who don't like it. any way, common table expressions (with subquery as ()...) are almost as composable as views. and have the benefit of being self contained in a single query.
Things that are true:

"Officials said the agency was not bending its views to a new boss, and that the new assessment had been in the works for some time."

The Department of Energy concluded with low confidence that it was a lab leak.

The FBI concluded with moderate confidence that it was a lab leak.

The CIA's new report also concludes that they have low confidence that it was a lab leak.

It's important to note that low confidence is a positive number, not a negative number.

The wet market theory loses some credibility given some data points, but the lab leak theory remains plausible.

China has had lab leak origins in the past, so this would not have been unprecedented.

China obstructed and delayed the investigation.

Whether it leaked from a lab or not, China covered it up. China covering it up is not necessarily evidence that it was a lab leak. If there was any truth to it (which they may not even know), they probably wouldn't want it reflecting poorly on the state. China is big on "social harmony", so you don't have the right to know.

Whatever happened wasn't necessarily intentional. China made some deeply embarrassing and shameful decisions around this time and they won't want to promote them, but they were also not alone in making mistakes.

If China concluded it was a lab leak internally and shared that, there wouldn't have been as much need for the world to speculate, analyze and investigate so much which only hurt China's reputation more.

Coincidences occur, serendipity occurs. Most people have experienced one. As a result, proximity to the lab is not solid proof, but it is not the only datapoint either.

If China was more transparent and cooperative, there could have been more information to make higher confidence conclusions with.
Sorry for the late reply: he’s been in the maratime industry his whole career. Met the founder years ago, stay in touched, then made the ask.
Apart from directing anger for political reasons, I don't see the big importance.

It's like wondering why a single building caught fire, when the shocking thing was that the whole world caught fire. Surely the lessons to learn are with 'how to deal with a spreading fire', and not with 'how to prevent a fire'.
Why not DeepLearn, what's it Seeking here ?
Not all entertainment is for all audiences.
Time to fuzz the rest of the processor.
I'm wondering if you've ever actually asked a real corporate lawyer for an opinion on anything relating to GPL licenses. The results are pretty consistent. I've made the trip on three occasions, and the response each time was: "this was not drafted by a lawyer, it's virtually ininterpretable, and it is wildly unpredictable what the consequences of using this software are."
This is brilliant.

When I was in sixth-form, a friend built a portable case containing a micro-ATX motherboard. No battery, but he could sit down at any of the school computers, plug into the wall, and use its peripherals with his PC. That was more than 25 years ago, I feel old now.
Same price, only difference is you pay it annually instead of perpetually. I think it’s like 10-15k per license per year.
I have had trouble searching for blogs/sites older than a few years, in particular with image search with all the AI-generated crap that floods the internet now. The same search query in kagi gave me the results i was looking for in the first row which convinced me to do the switch. Otherwise before kagi I was going with google/startpage (uses google index). I tried DDG/bing some point but it was horrible compared to google.
Which is strange because you absolutely can open dialogs without javascript with the popover attribute

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Popover_API...
There are some smart switches that work without neutral. They trickle some power through the load. This only works with some loads. I have one fixture with small LEDs where one of them glows slightly.
Fine. But let’s also make sure that there is no indemnity for AI companies.

And that we pass laws to make it that systemic mis-identification should be classed as criminal negligence. Just to ensure everyone is on their best behaviour and not overstating the reliability of AI.
> I'm pretty sure they're going to say they don't regret it at all.

i didn't say that as a supposition - i know that they regret it. the chisel compiler has been an enormous (enormous) technical debt/burden for them because of how slow/resource intensive it is.