skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been following it closely but I am guessing the documents from the Select Committee were the closest thing to "compelling evidence"

The Intercept wrote an article about it: https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-re...

It begins as:

House Republicans on the subcommittee probing the origin of the Covid-19 virus appear to have inadvertently released a trove of new documents related to their investigation that shed light on deliberations among the scientists who drafted a key paper in February and March of 2020. The paper, published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, was titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” and played a leading role in creating a public impression of a scientific consensus that the virus had emerged naturally in a Chinese “wet market.”
The paper was the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, which coincided with the release of a report by the subcommittee devoted to the “Proximal Origin” paper. It contains limited screenshots of emails and Slack messages among the authors, laying out its case that the scientists believed one thing in private — that lab escape was likely — while working to produce a paper saying the opposite in public.

The newly exposed documents include full emails and pages of Slack chats that were cropped for the report, exposing the “Proximal Origin” authors’ real-time thinking. According to the metadata in the PDF of the report, it was created using “Acrobat PDFMaker 23 for Word,” indicating that the report was originally drafted as a Word document. Word, however, retains the original image when an image is cropped, as do many other apps. Microsoft’s documentation cautions that “Cropped parts of the picture are not removed from the file, and can potentially be seen by others,” going on to note: “If there is sensitive information in the area you’re cropping out make sure you delete the cropped areas.”

When this Word document was converted to a PDF, the original, uncropped images were likewise carried over. The Intercept was able to extract the original, complete images from the PDF using freely available tools, following the work of a Twitter sleuth.
It allows you to be query engine agnostic - query the same data via Spark, Snowflake or Trino.
Granted, performance may suffer vs Snowflake internal tables somewhat due to certain performance optimizations not being there.
They should have used 98.css, but with font-face: Tahoma.

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
What do you mean by "no evidence"?
For a while there was also a distro project working on the opposite direction. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

An official Debian GNU distribution using the kernel of FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel.

https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD officially terminated July 2023 due to lack of interest and volunteers.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html
Not too terribly sure, but NXP puts out power consumption numbers and they get pretty low in sleep modes with self refreshed DDR and whatnot. I think it's just something the market hasn't demanded enough. I'm not really a SBC person, usually just uC, where it's trivial to get microamps of sleep current. I'm sure there's an SBC out there that allows for it.
Specifically, physics papers concerning research based on particle accelerator experiments always have hundreds or even more.

It doesn't minimize the research; that sort of thing just requires a lot of participants. But it does imply a lessening of credit per contributor, aside from the lead investigator(s).
Maybe the laws of thermodynamics?
If this wasn't a political problem, but me and my teammates dealing with the aftermath of an incident that cost the company serious money, that's how we'd approach it. But we are technicians trying to prevent a problem, with incentives very well aligned with the company.

Government committees just don't have anywhere near this level of goal alignment, and it's not as if there is a lot of media whose best interests aligns with prevention either. You aren't getting a lot of information in the future out of a group of people you badmouthed a year ago.
Not remotely, Schrödinger is well established and basically leads the commoditized computational chemistry market. In fact, there are very many companies that would love to find a cheaper alternative to Schrödinger tools, but no alternatives are performant enough.
It sure seemed like a lot of people wanted the other theory to be true also though didn't it? I think the biggest driver for the lab leak arguments is backlash.

Both theories would presumably have people that are culpable due to violating safety rules designed to prevent exactly what happened. But I suppose a lab screwing up is more embarrassing to China than a hick selling wild animals or whatever illegally.
I started there as an intern in 1982, and it was my first job out of college. Tandem was Kleiner Perkins's breakthrough: it was the fastest-growing public company in America, and the growth was anticipated and carefully planned for. There were brilliant people everywhere: Jim Gray's office was on the other side of the wall from ours, and Tom Van Vleck, who wrote the first email program for CTSS at MIT, was down the hall. It was the closest to a Manhattan Project I had in my career, and pure luck that I was there.
They could as well say "We aren't sharing our real sources, but we have high confidence."

But they are saying that they have low confidence, and that there is no new evidence that changes anything.

They're just changing the way they're biased, because they think that the lab's conditions weren't particularly safe.

But then, we might as well expect that dozens of dangerous viruses should've gotten out.
This comment needs exploring more please! The fundamental ask of policymakers is "what can we do?" and you've alluded to some factors you think are key, eg stable family units, respect for education and attainment etc. Would love to read more.

I grew up on a council estate and escaped that environment. I credit a headteacher that directed me to one of the better secondary schools, and a well run public library that was a safe third space between home and school. Curious what other escapees credit, and what lessons might be drawn.
Maybe only parent-child can be unconditional, but it doesn't imply ALL parent-child love is unconditional though
Good point, no human is absolutely perfect so that makes them interchangeable.
> - Democrat aligned mobs routinely invade the Capitol building without facing similar charges

It’s the internet, can you link to some concrete instances where they did this? Were Congress people forced to retreat when they did it (assuming your claim is that they were roughly similar in extremity?)?
Luckily in the US the govt can do no such things due to the 1st amendment, so it only takes a relevant billionaire to get a model with different political views.
Another interesting, currently ongoing, mixture of Linux world and FreeBSD is NixBSD. A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.

https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd

I came across it earlier today.
selectively enforcing
NixBSD: A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
It's a pity that people like him and Zuckerberg have so much control over technology and the shape it will take in the coming years. As AI gets better, these aren't the people that should be at the helm or have this much power. At this point, I don't understand people who try to explain away his Nazi salutes. He keeps hitting a new low every day.
Meta - anyone else not seeing a scrollbar on the blog? Chrome on OSX.
which problem is toxic masculinity solving? i don't get it. all my life i try to get away from that, and make sure i am not becoming like them. if toxic masculinity is needed to be successful, then i'd rather be a failure. i refuse to howl with the wolves as it were.
The two Covid strains were closely related with only a few mutations difference between them. As you’d expect if eg two different raccoon dogs were infected with the same virus and one of the lineages was preferred.
We could have something like android in the linux world if manufacturers did the minimum to support Linux (which already accept binary blobs). But they also want to push their (bloated) apps alongside the driver.
I suspect someone could make up some sort of violation, but it seems like it is unlikely there's a specific order preventing them. Ship's captain is going to have a lot of leeway to complete his mission. Punishing a high ranking officer in their efforts to save allies would not look great, and at the end of the Vietnam War, I'm not sure who was interested in that.
If you don't have extra evidence, and the you don't trust the CIA, then what base do you have for your assumption?

Wanting human like causes for problems is how humanity invented gods. So that they could feel more under control by trying to appease the now humanized force.

Of course, if the problem went away after you prayed, that would really just have been luck. Even though it strengthened your belief.
Has Oracle ever had a consumer-facing product?
Understand that it is not an exclusive concept for particular side in the political spectrum.

I find it curious that you associate terms like "rugged", "vegan" and "compassionate" with a particular leaning on the political spectrum.
Kitboga
Half yes half no. Democracy dies in darkness, as a paper used to say. Shining a light on their agenda is helpful to show people primary sources of concern. And, to make it plain Muskovy Duck isn't making aspy hand wave gestures, he actually backs the Illinois nazi agenda.

But you are correct, it's free advertising for a bunch of nasties.
I phrased that poorly:

I understand how WIV could have caused a pandemic, but I don’t understand the other direction — how WIV doing gain-of-function would help the situation in which there was a zoonotic origin, eg at the wet market.

The person I was replying to said that our opinion on gain-of-function should depend on the origin — but I don’t understand how gain-of-function would have helped at all. Only how it poses a risk, whether or not this particular virus was such an example.
Interesting that it says CarPlay but it doesn't seem to support maps or other apps, just music playback? For me, maps are the real killer feature of CarPlay
Form of what?
I think the parent is arguing that lab leak is plausible, even if it wasn’t certainly the cause. GoF is foolish if you think the lab leak was remotely plausible.

Most folks had no idea about the sort of GoF being done, and the attitude of many researchers (highly dismissive of risks) should worry us a lot.

We should also be more worried about zoonotic transmission too, and press harder to ban wet markets.

I don't think these conclusions compete, that’s the point; the actual fact of the matter regarding origins doesn’t much affect the weight of the damning evidence.
From my observations, I think Cony is very quick to identify when a particular technology has outpaced the rest is the portfolio, and so he is very quick to spin up a new venture to try and capitalize on that, rather than waiting for the rest of the portfolio to catch up and deliver.

How many useful technologies were created in pursuit of a goal that ultimately was never realized, but were later repurposed into something incredible in an entirely different field or market? My guess is (and this is just a guess), that the newcos were attempts to capitalize on technology created in pursuit of other goals. If you need 5 things to come together to design a drug, and you only get 3 of them, you may fail to get the drug, but you still have 3 pieces of valuable technology that it might make sense to commercialize.

Also, biotech failure rate is up there with restaurants. It's always a roll of the dice....so if you can roll more dice for marginal cost, its basically always a good idea.
Good UI design is appealing in any type of software.
We're going to shift from merely recording everyone's movements in public, to identifying and analyzing each individual in real time and doing behavioral analysis. Laws need to stop that from happening. Maybe some states will be better than others.
You're absolutely right—right now, Actionate focuses on running and managing GitHub Actions within the IDE. We chose this initial feature set as a foundation to build more advanced capabilities, like the ones you're describing. Our goal was to get an early version out to gather feedback from users like you, so we can prioritize features that truly matter rather than relying solely on our assumptions.

The next major feature we're working on is the ability to manage Actions Environments, Variables, and Secrets directly from the IDE. Not only will you be able to manage these values effortlessly, but Actionate will also provide intelligent auto-complete for workflow files by leveraging this data. No more worrying about fat-fingering a hardcoded string again—Actionate will offer native IDE suggestions for environments, variables, and secrets, all based on the currently set environment in your workflow file.

We have several other exciting features in the pipeline and can't wait to bring them to life. Your feedback is incredibly valuable in helping us decide what to prioritize next—so please keep it coming!
What trouble did you have?
His control over technology is highly conditional and in a more rational world we would both enforce his regulated behaviours and deny him market controlling behaviours. The problem is that the bodies willing to take him on face opposition from the US tech sector investors at large because "being a bit nazi" isn't the only reason his kind of market dominance is concerning: Zuckerberg isn't that much better, remember his roots are "babe hawtness rating". Bezos like Musk is opposed to organised labour and all of the US Tech giants oppose being regulated to European norms.
Thanks for the explanation but it shattered the narrative by mind was building about an alien intelligence that slipped up and posted about its memories of its sixth physical form, the result of its fifth metamorphosis.
There is a bunch of AMD-based tiny boxes for under $1k, and fancier boxes from HP or Zotac with discrete NVidia GPUs for $3-4k. They are somehow larger than a Mac Mini, but still very much the form factor of a small box to push into a backpack.
The theory is quite clear, if you know which strains could hop to humans then you can prioritize monitoring them, just like we monitor influenza types in animal populations now.

The problem is just that P(avert catastrophe) is fairly low, and P(create catastrophe) is substantially higher.
Not necessarily true.

They did studies and it turns out the kind of ADHD abilities would’ve been useful back in our berry finding days. ADHDers would pick all the berries they could see and then go off to find another bush, not bothering to finish picking all the berries. The neurotypicals would follow along, picking the berries the ADHDers didn’t care about.

All this made berry gathering more efficient.
Now do generals
When I saw those 4 words I thought of "letter" or "writing".
(But I likely wouldn't have thought of that cluster while scanning the full board.)

I think "paper" is a great clue, and those 4 words lawyer/mail/log/line match better than gum/king/light.

There's an even better reason for "lawyer/-paper" than chatgpt gave: lawyers "serve papers".
> Reanalysis of the H1N1 sequences excluding isolates with unrealistic sampling dates indicates that the 1977 re-emergent lineage was circulating for approximately one year before detection, making it difficult to determine the geographic source of reintroduction. We suggest that a new method is needed to account for viral isolates with unrealistic sampling dates.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2887442/

I will have to have a discussion with the editors of that page.
Nothing, but at that point, you could tell the court “look, they manipulated my program to agree to something it wouldn’t have otherwise agreed to.”
Same for Taboo for me. It's why we married.
It told me to look elsewhere for historical questions, but then happily answered my question about Waterloo:

https://kagi.com/assistant/7bc4714e-2df6-4374-acc5-2c470ac85...
Ah well hello! I'm not sure I've been recognized like that on the internet before. Thank you, that makes me very happy!

From your website it looks like we're in the same city; feel free to shoot me an email (mine is in my profile) if you'd like to grab coffee sometime :)
Is it realistic to expect that the people who have surveillance across the whole planet don't know the origins?
AI Reads Books: Page-by-Page PDF Knowledge Extractor and Summarizer
They should at least play with two different AI models.
anyone remember this from the 2000's when it was called triptropnyc ?

https://www.triptropnyc.com/
I saw no attempts to make DeepSeek regurgitate content that is unspeakable in China, such as May 35th, Winnie The Pooh, etc.

Such content seems ripe for glitch exploration.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/May_35th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...
Thank you! Yes, I will definitely make another post if and when someone figures out what the instruction does.
It's right there in the article:

From the bridge Chambers quickly consulted task force commander Adm. William Harris, who was at his battle station below deck.

“The admiral ordered me to tell the Bird Dog to ditch,” Chambers later recalled. [...]

Assuming he would be court martialed, Chambers ordered those helicopters thrown overboard as well. He later told interviewers that since he expected to be deposed by prosecutors, he turned away from the action to avoid seeing exactly how many were pushed into the sea. [...]

Chambers kept his job as the aircraft carrier’s captain and was later promoted to rear admiral; he retired in 1984. Nobody was prosecuted for the estimated $10 million loss of the helicopters that Chambers ordered overboard.
From 2.3% in 2010 to 1.8% in 2020 of Louisiana’s population.
If no answer, then this typically means no bounty.
I think it's very clear what he meant
God forbid someone has fun with the design of their own project.
It was never implausible, it has always been the most likely the most straightforward theory. A lab that worked on gain of function of coronaviruses.

All other theories sound as made up bs.
The Sympathizer/The Committed though fictional have many details that match the stories of different people I know, with the taking off from Saigon airfield while under attack from NVA to others escaping on a boat with only the hope of being picked up by friendlies of some stripe and avoiding pirates or others who could only escape in any case with some of their immediate family and had to get the rest reunited years later. Not a few of the ones old enough to remember the details though are getting scarce simply because of age (some of the people I know were too young to remember anything and had to rely on their parents memories).
Meaning power over the body (armed thugs, for example). Bit of a play on words.

Ma has power over the money, but Xi has power over Ma's body.

Rich people often think that money is everything (and they are usually correct), but there are some things that money can only buy, when facing a bat with nails driven through it.
> Upd mq-deadline for all drives seems to be `none` for me.

I am not sure what you mean by that. One possibility is that the ones who reported mq-deadline did better were on either kyber or bfq, rather than none. The none elevator should be best for ZFS.
In a higher chance, they want to nuke your website, because too many 301 can be harmful to SEO in some rare cases.

If they want to sell you sth, or scam, they won't do 301, because after 301 the juice power will gradually move to your domain, and its pointless to do this before any scams and sales.
Just used the glitch token attack in a CTF a week ago. The paper is worth a read and there is a repo out there as well that makes the attack straight forward- but implementing it yourself is also something worth doing.

I will add that the author thinking no one had done this with deepseek is unlikely, I run this against models every week out of curiosity or for work, not deepseek yet- but considering the adversarial ML community is pretty packed, someone likely had and just didn't write about it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09894
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15052
https://github.com/wooozihui/GlitchMiner
500 billion can move whole country to renewable energy
I did not know that. I checked the schedule for those when I had jury duty in Morgan Hill and it was always never the right time and/or in the wrong direction, so I had to take the bus from the Diridon station to make my jury duty appointments.
lol that's pretty cool!
Reddit: Those with jobs in Rust, what are you working on?
so. many. authors.
I legitimately can't think of worse companies for this than Oracle or IBM. Words absolutely fail me.
No, but it was a suitable candidate:

Under the deal being negotiated by the White House, TikTok's China-based owner, ByteDance, would retain a stake in the company, but data collection and software updates would be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of TikTok's Web infrastructure, one of the sources told Reuters
Bill Gates: I Coded While I Hiked as a Teenager. Was I on the Spectrum? Probably
They attacked the White House and forced the president to flee to a bunker on 5/29 — as referenced in my original comment. Note how that’s called a “protest” and not “insurrection”. (I’d say riot, but protest is closer to the truth than insurrection.)

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/trump-undergroun...

They interrupted a proceeding two weeks ago.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5087021-protesters-trump...

They fought with police a few months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIbMhuo1F78

They occupied part of the building until arrested last year.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050443/capitol-buildin...

For their large scale violence, Democrat mobs prefer to target civilians — eg, their live-streamed murder of Antonio Mays Jr, by a militia that first fought police and then seized a city park. As part of a coordinated attack on dozens of cities resulting in over seventy murders.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-wha...

None of that resulted in anywhere near the charges of a protest by Republicans that turned riot when police tear gassed a peaceful crowd.
https://archive.ph/pVcsH
Yes. True propaganda is generally more effective too.
The only one I've found useful so far is Cursor Agent mode, but yes generally agree there's a lot of marketing going on
Oh, now I see what you mean.

I am not in the sector but AFAIK there has been no direct benefit from GoF. There is huge potential which some experts believe outweigh the risks, which is why it is controversial, and that is why it has been politicized.

Protecting the funding and ability to continue the research would explain why scientists have a preference for spillover as opposed to leak. Then there are the politicians...
I like it, and I laughed out loud when Clippy popped up. That bastard came out when my college ran everything from slow network drives. He'd bring the system to a grinding halt, unless you were on one of the few workstations with a local hard drive.
Isn't pgbouncer putting extra limitations like prepared statemens use ? Genuine question
"Requirements for building Snowdrop OS

Works on: Windows XP 32bit, Windows 98, Windows 95"
One only needs to look as far back as the first Trump administration to see that Trump only cares about the announcement and doesn’t care about what’s actually done.

And if you don’t want to look that far just lookup what his #1 donor Musk said…there is no actual $500Bn.
This is a strange take to me. Of course the search for truth is to some degree a search for accountability. It's not a gotcha to say "They just want to hold China accountable". Of course they do if it seems likely it came from poor procedure, it makes it their responsibility.
Can you please share the reasons why you are skeptical?