skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why airplanes are the so much faster than they were 20 years ago.
pro lab leak:
1, WIV being 10 miles from the outbreak area
2, WIV housing dozens if not hundreds of strains of coronaviruses
3, poor bio security / laboratory technique amongst WIV staff
4, previous incidents of accidental leaks in Chinese labs

does it conclusively establish that the virus leaked from WIV? no. but i’d say it at least moderately probable…
A Mountain Lion Attacked My Nephews. What Could Have Stopped It?
My error, apologies.
Zillow was buying and flipping houses but they stopped in 2021 and sold all of their properties.
That's an excellent reason, to be sure. But here we're talking about an app to "just write", like opening a file and start pounding out an article or something. For someone who wants to do that, on a Mac, and who wants basic formatting and word-processory WYSIWYG-edness, I'd recommend Pages.
If they were sealed, it stands to reason as well that the journalist may not have seen all the sealed records, leading to an incomplete picture. Perhaps the girlfriend had a written recantation, or came to a mutual understanding, or a psychological assessment was conducted, or it was discovered she was the instigator; we wouldn’t know, it’s sealed. Good luck defending your name publicly when your defense requires pointing to sealed records the public can’t verify.
I mean, see the last financial crisis. A lot of that was more or less precisely this; activities relating to real estate lending were made more profitable, but riskier (in a way which was poorly understood at the time, though obvious in hindsight).

As a result of that financial crisis, real estate is somewhat heavily regulated in most countries, and exotic financial instruments based on real estate (which you’d need to make this work) are treated with suspicion. Probably not the most fertile ground for the aspiring scammer.
I don't disagree, there is that Dutch saying that trust enters the town on foot and leaves on a horse. When the media's pursuit of financial incomes results in actions that actively destroy trust (the WaPo non-endorsement and unwillingness to present important points of view is the current poster child for this) then they simply become 'independent and untrusted' which is of not much use.

For me, a more sobering example was that Twitter was gaining trust and it seems that in response Elon Musk bought and killed it. That felt a bit more like actively denying the emergence of new media. It was also an example completely counter to Friedman's view on shareholder value as, as an action, it destroyed shareholder value. Just as Bezo's actions have destroyed shareholder value in the Washington Post.
Show HN: Material Design template for academic portfolio
I created this template because most academic website templates felt bland to me.

It features fresh designs for sections like 'Coursework,' 'Publications,' and 'Academic Service.'
CRDs and their controllers are perhaps the reason Kubernetes is as ubiquitous as it is today - the ability to extend clusters effortlessly is amazing and opens up the door for so many powerful capabilities.

> I don't want to write a Kubernetes controller. I don't even know why it should exist.

You can take a look at Crossplane for a good example of the capabilities that controllers allow for. They're usually encapsulated in Kubernetes add-ons and plugins, so much as you might never have to write an operating system driver yourself, you might never have to write a Kubernetes controller yourself.
I don't have access to o1-pro, but in my testing R1 performs noticably worse than o1.

It's more fun to use though because you can read the reasoning tokens live so I end up using it anyway.
Same in Montreal, people say that prices are going up because of the luxury condos. Where 'luxury condo' == 300 sqf boxes in towers built near highways.
Just want to confirm: so this is the first locally runnable model with a context length of greater than 128K and it’s gone straight to 1M, correct?
Careful before installing OS-wide application with a single git commit, from someone with no public GitHub activity.

Speaking of the tool, would be great to be able to trigger the action immediately by pressing a keyboard shortcut.
* You can now block private network traffic from crossing environment boundaries (https://render.com/docs/projects#blocking-cross-environment-...). We also just launched an invite-only feature that creates a high-level Organizational structure with multiple teams, where each team member is only charged once.

* Otel exports are in development and should be live in early access in a few weeks!

* Heard on subnet IPs

* There's ongoing work to remove a major Cloudflare dependency; it should also go live in a few weeks.

We'll keep polishing and pushing the envelope on control and flexibility. Thanks for being a vocal customer.
Its like ... take something, do not use it, then, then no charge
Streisand effect is for when someone is trying to intentionally hide something from the public eye. Here the case is already in the public eye and they are suing for damages. It seems less about hiding it anymore and more about seeking damages for what’s already been shared in the public.
Thanks for quoting the textbook at me. Does that seem like a competitive market to you?

It shouldn't, because if it was, the cost would be pushed down near it's landed cost. That's a result of companies (both CPG producers and food market retailers) having concentrated market share in contravention of the law.
What value does gold produce?

Sure, there's some value there, you can use it to make gold-plated contacts or shiny things, but if that was the only use case, it wouldn't be nearly as valuable as it is now.

Gold is valuable because people think it is valuable, and the same hodls true for Bitcoin.
Chain of agents seems to be a promising approach for splitting up tasks into smaller parts and then synthesising the results[1]

[1] https://research.google/blog/chain-of-agents-large-language-...
> hoarded

It’s bad to be able to transport wealth through time? Spend it or lose it? Never work hard now for later?
Each code has a defined meaning, which helps clients and servers understand the nature of the response.
I've just finished both campaigns (and moving on to Firestorm!) on my M1 Macbook by running the game through https://www.portingkit.com/ .

It guides you through installation and wraps the game in Wine and other layers as its own .Application for running on arm or intel macs. Porting Kit has bespoke configurations for compatible games.

Also see https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks (formerly Wineskin, the upstream tech leveraged by Porting Kit without the bespoke angle) which i've used for various modern games to great effect.
Didnt understand what its about. Clicked link, typed "WTF is yapz" into the field, pressed enter and nothing happened. Considered closing the site right there, but gave it the benefit of the doubt and turned on javascript. Second try landed me on page wanting my email, so closed the site there.

The other comment mentioned some video, so I went to watch it. After 10 sec had to mute music, and near the end (where there is speech present) I had to enable it again to perhaps, for the first time, see if I finally understand whats it about. I still dont.

It almost have the feel of AI generated everything, where even the creating AI has no idea.

Good luck
My point was that any deserving and more helpful product that is not from Microsoft or Google will not see any revenue because customers are already being forced to pay for Microsoft or Google’s AI products.
> Next to nobody is actually using it as a means of exchange because it is poorly suited for that purpose in practice. The only type of commerce for which it’s viable in practice are typically crime or crime-adjacent.

Yes. The size of the money-laundering, exchange control evasion, and tax evasion industry was way underestimated.

What surprised me is that after China banned cryptocurrencies in 2021 [1], the price didn't drop.

Outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum, almost everything in crypto eventually tanks.
The entire NFT market has tanked. Even the big names, such as BAYC, are down. BAYC is down 80% since launch. In memecoin land, "eventually" can be measured in days. Check out TRUMP.

Even Ethereum peaked back in 2021. Bitcoin has had 75% drops. If you bought and held anything other than BTC, you're probably under water now.

Then there are the constant collapses and "rug pulls".[2] US$76 billion total so far.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58678907

[2] https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
> R1's release during President Trump’s inauguration last week is clearly intended to rattle the public’s confidence in the United States’ AI leadership during a pivotal moment in US policy, mirroring Huawei's product launch during former Secretary Raimondo's China visit.

Interesting. I hadn’t thought of that, but in retrospect it does seem obvious. I have to applaud the Chinese government for their successful timing and strategic decision making, since it is having the intended effect.
>* expressing concerns can result in being labeled as “racist,” “transphobic,” or “woke,” which discourages open and honest discussion.*

The article is not really about people feeling constrained in their speech on specific topics. That implies that people know what's wrong.

It's more about the idea that things feel "off" for a lot of people in ways they can't quite describe. And, it's saying that the reason is that there really are dramatic changes happening in the world, but the powers-that-be are acting as if everything's normal.

"when everyone knew the system was failing, but since no one could imagine a possible alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society"
I'm addressing the part of the article that uses inflation as a framing device. If inflation is the motivating issue, then we are turning a blind eye to the elephant in the room. I don't disagree with the criticisms of price collusion criming.
I also have some stamps to sell. A real example of collectible that has fallen in value outside few very rare and perfect specimen.
I feel like the main thing would be discoverability. If they’re not showing up in people’s recommended they’ll have significantly lower viewership which could ultimately affect their Patreon income over time.

They’re both techie enough to set one up, so I feel like the best approach if they were interested would be to set it up as a mirror and see how it goes with traffic. That way they’re at least not beholden 100% to YouTube for their livelihood.

Another thing that just came to mind, how is discoverability of PeerTube in search results compared to YouTube? I wouldn’t be surprised if Google promotes YouTube links over PeerTube in search results which could also have a big impact.
Object storage is a major missing piece. Stay tuned.
> we’ve surpassed 2 million developers ... 100,000+ developers who sign up for Render every month

There's something like 2 million software engineers in the entire USA. There's no way their penetration is significant (>25%) in the USA, so where are these developers coming in from? India, China, LATAM?
AirBnBs are 0.05% of the total hosing stock in the Greater Montreal area.
Converting that 0.05% to a long-term wouldn't do anything.
>The bigger risk to a protest movement, I would argue, is an opposing agent provocateurs trying to get people doxxed.

That wouldn't be an agent provocateur right?
Yeah, for a lot of companies, this is way overkill. Thats fine, don't use it! In the places I have seen use it when it is actually needed, the controller makes a lot of work for teams disappear. It exists, because thats how K8S itself works? - how it translates from a deployment -> replica set -> pod -> container.

Abstractions are useful to stop 100000s lines of boiler plate code. Same reason we have terraform providers, Ansible modules, and well, the same concepts in programming ...
Basically, a model is always a reflection of the ideology that it was trained on.

Imagine you're an anarchist - you probably won't get the answer you're looking for on how to best organize a society from an American or a Chinese model.

The tricky part is that for a lot of topics, there is no objective truth. Us nerds tend to try to put things into neat answerable boxes, but a lot of things just really depend on the way you see the world.
The concern of your phone being taken by authorities or capturing incriminating evidence
Very nice styling! you should release it as a lib haha
If X is 40 and Wayland is 16,that means a difference of 24 years. Hence Wayland compositors have 8 years to work out the kinks. I am currently using Wayland via Plasma 6 and it works well enough but I don't have special needs, so I don't know how well... say... screen readers work.
and cool app
>Seems like a Streisand effect case to me

He already lost his job, news is out there, so at some point I wonder if the effect doesn't matter anymore.

I gotta think it doesn't really matter if more distant randos (you, me) know.
I'm not sure if any of these numbers are actually spoofed. When I look them up they are always VOIP numbers.
I mean... when has this not been the case?

Technology has never been class-agnostic or universally accessible.

Even saying that, I would argue that there is more, not less, technology that is accessible to more people today than there ever has been.
What exactly is better? I can't even think of a single thing.

It has worse performance on almost all metrics. Heavy fragmentation. Very limited and incomplete API measured in functionality but still extremely complicated to work with as developer. Extremely slow development. The only thing that it has over X11 is better funding (for whatever reason).
Insofar as cryptocurrency is valuable for this at all, it’s really more stablecoins than bitcoin. And even then the concept predates crypto; notably, there’s the Eurodollar (not to be confused with euros or dollars) which is a stablecoin-like thing which has many of the same applications (though a more limited scope).
Everyone keeps making the context windows bigger, which is nice.

But what about output? I want to generate a few thousand lines of code, anyone got any tips?
This has been the problem with a lot of long context use cases. It's not just the model's support but also sufficient compute and inference time. This is exactly why I was excited for Mamba and now possibly Lightning attention.

Even though the new DCA based on which these models provide long context could be an interesting area to watch;
I know very well what an http response code is. But what is the reason for wanting to extend the standard? What exactly makes 450 better than 404? Who benefits from it, and in what form?
Ok, but MiniKanren isn't intrinsic to Scheme. I agree Racket makes it especially easy to embed sub languages, but you could embed core relational Prolog just as well as MiniKanren. My understanding of your statement is that Scheme and MiniKanren share sexp syntax, but the same applies: you could embed an sexp-based Prolog just as well. The only remaining MiniKanren advantage is then to have a complete search strategy, this I concede.
> 16 years old [...] in a few years [...] it'll be as old as X was when Wayland came out

Lol no. X is from 1984: https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

That means Wayland is only 66% the age of X when Wayland came out, or you'd need 50% more of Wayland's life before its as old as X was.
Thanks so much! This was exactly what I was hoping for. I really appreciate all the detail you went into, and the followup links.
Defamation requires the information to be false.
> How dare you paint it as “mostly harmless.”

Yes I am sorry for your loss. Now let's get to the point.

Because I understand statistics and am making sweeping statements I can and will make them from an objective viewpoint. Please do NOT sensor proven facts. I don't care for bible thumping tora humping nonsense that does not match reality. I'll take 2k years of religion and raise you 50 years of tech, oled TVs and microprocessors.

I know someone who ended up hospitalised and several years later does from complications due to a winter flu, doesn't mean we shut down society _every year_.

CV19 was a novel virus introduced into an existing population without any pre-existing immunity. This meant we will see complications, deaths at every age group and people's lives ruined by something that most 4yo, 25yo and 68yo will simply shake off.

Again the statement of millions dead _DOES NOT_ match the real world where several developed nations with populations sub 1B did not have dead numbers into the 10M+ of healthy individuals.

People died yes. This is expected. It is an illness. People die of staph infections. Life is unfair.

That _DOES NOT_ mean that this is equivalent to small pox. It's not a bioweapon it just meant the subpopulations who we identified really early (2020) should have isolated or accepted their risk.

The rest of society should not bend for the risk (again high survivability even in at risk groups). If it did we wouldn't sell guns, scissors or cross the road.
This specific case is not a great test bed for this, but it's absolutely a big problem that newspapers will publish the full name of someone who was arrested, even if they're subsequently released without a conviction or even without charges. It's a massive and dangerous weapon in the hands of law enforcement (and others) that they can permanently damage someone's reputation—harming their future job prospects and social connections forever—without ever having to prove anything.

This isn't a problem that's going to be solved by lawsuits, though, partially because Streisand and partially because in most of the cases where someone's hurt by this the newspapers have no legal obligation to refrain from publishing, so there's no grounds to sue. What we need is to reevaluate the law in light of "the internet never forgets".
Show HN: Vigilant Scanner – A CLI Tool for File Integrity and Log Analysis
Hi everyone!

I want to introduce you to a tool I've been working on recently – Vigilant Scanner.

It’s a lightweight and user-friendly CLI tool for file integrity monitoring and log analysis (this part is in development yet, more info in repo docs), designed to help detect changes and spot malicious activity in your system. I though it will be good for small teams or individuals managing their own servers.

P.S. It was inspired by AIDE, but I wanted something more human friendly, with better UX and easier to support + extend.

Would love your feedback and ideas on how to make it better!
My first thought was if you can be sued for revealing sealed court records? Apparently in CA it is explicitly illegal:

>The lawsuit leans heavily on a California law that makes it illegal to publish an arrest report after it has been sealed by a court. The law has been attacked by First Amendment advocates, who say it violates free speech protections, strengthened in this instance because the information is an issue of public interest — an argument Blackman contests.
One correction:

Change "Build more housing" to "Increase supply of available housing". Those are distinct. There is a LOT of unused housing that sits empty. If you changed the incentives a bit, that housing would not sit empty, and thus the supply of available housing increases.
That was not what was argued, and not what I am arguing. OP claimed that "only someone who has never built anything of significant complexity and utility can think that putting natural language encoding between you and the bytes is a net positive."

Unless OP is also willing to claim that all the people who are working on LLM dev tools are frauds, and act against their better knowledge, OPs claim is obviously false. The entire premise that the people who build these tools operate under is that natural language "between you and bytes" can be a net positive.
[Disclaimer: I am the author] I completely agree—I wouldn’t install it either without reviewing the code first! Thank you for being the first person to provide feedback on my tool; I really appreciate it.

Here’s how it currently works:

Press the Option key twice.
A floating window appears.
Select the action you want to perform.
Press Enter—the window closes, and the text is replaced.

Which part of this flow would you change?
It depends on the model. Wireless mice don't have to be slower than wired. But even then, for this test it's irrelevant. It's the same mouse in both scenarios, and we only care about the difference. Even if a wired mouse stripped X ms on both sides, the result would be the same.
If a few stories I read were true. The part of the thing was absolutely certainly going to blow up sooner than later. Certain loans were economically impossible.
Yes, using gold as a store of value is inefficient. You would generally expect returns worse than global equity markets over any significant period of time. You are at significant risk of _losing_ most of your money (adjusted for inflation, gold has never returned to its 80s peak, and was _much_ lower for most of the last 40 years). ~No-one should be investing in gold.

And bitcoin is even _worse_ than gold, on the fundamentals; gold does have at least have that bit of intrinsic value (plus a few millennia of cultural cachet). Bitcoin has _nothing_.
Loans. They control money supply.
> After a decade, there are no examples of widely used smart contracts or even long-running projects that haven't been fueled by boom and bust speculation cycles

MakerDAO, Aave, Uniswap, Ethereum Name Service, and OpenSea are all long-running smart contract projects that have weathered multiple speculation cycles chugging along all the same.

> Every time there is a "code is law" gone wrong with large $ at stake, people immediately fall back to real life police.

It's one potential recourse. As opposed to legal contracts, where falling back to real life police is the only recourse.

Code is not law, but it does solve the "possession is 9/10 of the law" issue by aligning possession with legal ownership more closely than legal contracts do, so that the law has to get involved a lower percentage of the time. This is especially helpful for low-value contracts in the hundreds of dollars or less where it's not economical to involve a lawyer. Same for cross-border contracts where international litigation is infeasible.

> There is both a ton of money in crypto and it has completely failed to reach its promised potential.

Smart contract tooling has only been mature since about 2018 or so. Blockchains have only started scaling since about 2021. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency-related company, didn't launch their chain until 2023. Sharded data availability won't even be in production on a major blockchain until next year, with Ethereum's PeerDAS. Zero knowledge proof technology is both in its infancy and developing extremely rapidly. In other words a text-based browser isn't going to host a video stream over a dial-up connection. These roadmaps are long, and it takes time for new breakthroughs in math and computer science to mature, standardize and reach production.

> The largest uses in the next half decade will continue to be scams, pump-and-dumps, speculative frenzies, and money laundering.

The "largest" uses aren't really relevant unless you're trying to make an overarching moral judgement and say "blockchains are bad", which whether true or not, I think is an observation about as useless as "knives can be used to hurt people".

If you're trying to determine whether a tool has any legitimate helpful uses, look for an increase in its legitimate helpful uses.
Isn't that the same? limit-wise.

Now you just need to convince it to output that much :)