skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works the opposite way, LOL.

The Chinese gov spent a lot of money trying to support chip manufacturing but kept failing from 2000 to 2020.

Every company preferred to buy chips from the US or outsource manufacturing to TSMC. Local semiconductor companies, especially in manufacturing, moved super slowly, even freezing up at times.

Then, when the chip ban happened, all local companies were forced to buy and manufacture chips locally. Those struggling semiconductor companies suddenly got all the resources and market overnight.
A few reasons, though as I note in another comment, I'm not an expert in spillover events, my area of interest kicks in about a week later. So there's a few:

1) People I trust are skeptical, including people who are opposed to gain of function research. I've found Angela Rasmussen to be one of the better voices in terms of discussing the evidence for a natural origin, but she's far from the only one.

2) We have had two naturally occurring coronavirus epidemics during my career. A third is all but inevitable -- I wrote a grant in October 2019 suggesting a novel coronavirus as an example case for a modeling exercise, for example (sadly, said grant didn't get funded). So for me, there's a very strong prior on coronaviruses emerging as significant public health threats.

3) At the same time, I've come to distrust many of the voices who push the lab leak hypothesis, either because they're obviously doing so for geopolitical reasons, or because they've become addicted to being "the lone voice in the wilderness", despite it not being a risky position to take.

4) The lab leak hypothesis, in terms of evidence, relies on WIV, the Chinese Government, the WHO, etc. being broadly incompetent except when it comes to the characterization of the initial cases when SARS-CoV-2 emerged, which is arguably the hardest part of any outbreak.
Fauci’s pardon curiously goes back to 2014. What do you suppose he needed cover for that long before Covid?
AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
Unfortunately digital nomads aren't going to be staying in hotels. Maximum 30 days, plus terrible internet.

https://thewirednomad.com is better suited because they are all non-hotels and have verified internet speeds.

Previously posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176439
I thought Windows 2000 was a typo.
I mean, it's your claim, not mine.

I looked at the first part of the whole narrative that seemed out-of-place and it turned out to be not quite as claimed.

> which Fauci helped EcoHealth avoid

But had he? What exactly the order entailed in the first place?
Ask HN: How to Learn Robotics?
Hi everyone! Lately I've been interested in robotics (coming from an extensive programming background) and was wondering how I should go about learning it/related fields? I'm assuming that much of this will be project-based learning so it would be nice if there are some affordable/cool projects that teach the basics.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions?

Thank you!
every single model does/did this. Initially fine tuning required the expensive hand labeled outputs for RLHF. Generating your training data from that inherently encodes the learned distributions and improves performance, hence why some models would call themselves chatgpt despite not being openai models.
Depends on how you do your coding, and your expectations.

The glasses claim a 1080p screen, but realistically with text, you gotta scale it up to be more like a 720p screen.

If 1280x720 is good enough to code on for you, then you're fine, and it's certainly fine for some (e.g. I think some of my co-workers have vision problems so they set the font to be mega large, but code just fine).
Now I'm curious how similar being a software developer is to being a doctor, in the way of having to stay up to date with the latest stuff. Like, how much new medical research is just hype nonsense, and how much is something I should really learn. And how many doctors are selected during interviews for their currentness in research which is overhyped.

What other industries suffer from this to this extent?
>Efficiency going up tends to increase demand by much more than the efficiency-induced supply increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Hotels all have 30-day maximum stays. And they always use the cheapest bandwidth pool so internet speeds are not good. And it's shared.
From the OP, it sounds like those tokens are generated from the UTF-8 bytes instead of from the Unicode code points. And those bytes are, taken in isolation, complete nonsense. Imagine a token that represented the right side of the letter d followed by the left side of the letter e but could also represent other mishmashes of characters.

I bet the first layer of the model is mostly stuck reconstructing something resembling actual words.

(UTF-8 is locally decidable. I bet that a bit of work on the token list could cause it to avoid tokens that do not align with code point boundaries.)
And also they have much less capacity than mass transit systems like a subway, so they are bad for most commuters who tend to travel at rush hour[1]. I guess they are great in tourist areas though.

[1] In my experience, at least in the cities where I have lived
Related:

A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17991021 - Sept 2018 (67 comments)

I vaguely recall that there have been other threads about this too. Can anyone find them?

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
I agree with everything you're saying but I'm referring specifically towards people's hatred towards tech workers.

Maybe it's just because I live in a small town on the East Coast but it's brutal out here in the sticks. It's gotten to the point where if someone asks what I do for work, I just say "computer stuff" and wave my hands around like I'm typing on an imaginary keyboard. It's vague and odd enough that there aren't any follow-ups or rebuffs.
> GoF is foolish if you think the lab leak was remotely plausible.

Even if you don’t think the lab leak was the source of COVID-19 virus, we know for a fact that lab leaks occur even at the highest level security facilities.

I’m not sure about gain of function research one way or the other, I’m just commenting that leaks will happen.
I’m pretty sure they either fall under “useless features that sound sort of useful when you’re booking a room,” or “alleviating your guilt for not getting a cheaper hotel room on someone else’s dime.”
Game developers keep reinventing Tetris
Awesome stuff. Thankyou.
Show HN: Use Hugging Face smolagents to grab a journal's RSS link
Here's a python script to find the rss url on a science journal's website. It leverages smolagents and meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. The journal’s html is pulled with a custom smolagent tool powered by playwright. Html parsing is handled by a CodeAgent given access to bs4.

I've tested with nature, mdpi, and sciencedirect so far.

I built it b/c I tired of manually scanning each journal's html for rss feeds, and I wanted to experiment with agents. It took a while to get the prompt right.

Suggestions welcome.
> karma/upvotes/etc actually does contribute to reputation

I hope not!
I think the fundamental conceit that underlies all the surprise at AI's progress is that we humans rely more on figuring things out than mere chance. Trial and error is a huge part of human (indeed of all beings) progress.
Yeah that’s my point - bad behavior is what’s agreed upon to be bad. Hopefully AI can disincentivize the things you point out as bad. That’s the politics of it.
you're really going to make us watch a 45 minute youtube video?
The initial outbreak cases were clustered around the wet market, not around WIV, and the cases weren't linked to WIV. There was a documented lab leak with SARS-CoV-1 and it killed the affected researcher's mother. That'd the kind of thing you expect to see in a lab leak. Instead you see a cluster of cases that look exactly like it spilled over from the wet market.

And there's zero evidence to support the lab leak. All the research they were doing on live virus was based on SARS-CoV-1. You can't get SARS-CoV-2 out of that. And while they sequenced RaTG-13, there is no evidence they ever had live virus, and RaTG-13 is still around a thousand mutations and a few decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2.
I need someone to post again the "so you invented a new battery technology list" with 30 possible failings. Expensive, low power density, toxicity, explosive, I can't remember them all.
None of those things are going to result in a monetary return of investment though, which is the problem. These big companies are betting a huge amount of their capital on the prospect of being able to make significant profit off of these investments, and meteorology etc isn’t going to do it.
It will run faster than you can read on a MacBook Pro with 192GB.
It's also not a uniquely Chinese problem.

You had American models generating ethnically diverse founding fathers when asked to draw them.

China is doing America better than we are. Do we really think 300 million people, in a nation that's rapidly becoming anti science and for lack of a better term "pridefully stupid" can keep up.

When compared to over a billion people who are making significant progress every day.

America has no issues backing countries that commit all manners of human rights abuse, as long as they let us park a few tanks to watch.
and probably bump fist with Jesus on your way to the parking lot!
It was racism to suggest that China’s only level4 bio lab that received funding for coronavirus research was the source of the leak…

But not racism to declare that the virus must have come from a wet market where the savages eat uncooked bats and pangolin.

Now the goal posts have shifted to “lack of evidence” knowing full well china would nuke the city before admitting they caused covid by negligence.
This is so cool.
Sorry. I can't help myself.
As far as I know, sabbaticals were universal.
“Tokenizations are learned at the byte level” seems wrong. Tokens are integer representations of one or more characters, which themselves can be multiple bytes.

When you tokenize “ant” to 0x38 0xF9, it doesn’t matter if the original was three bytes of ascii or 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x61 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x6E 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x74
The US has tried to commission Japan for that before. Japan gave up because we wouldn't do anything they asked and went to Morocco.
Find me a conspiracy theory that was found to be true AND was pushed by the left. I haven’t seen one yet.
> I don't have time to watch the 3hr debate

It was 18 hours.

Three blocks of six hours.

Plus preparation time by both parties and the multiple judges who were chosen to have the kind of expertise to weigh up arguments.

Both parties were invested in making a case, and each put up $100,000 in escrow to add weight to the debate.

The case that you put forward lost.

It was debated by the person that put it forward.

He lost.
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
Society is like a meta-brain. One neuron may believe something to a different degree than the others - i.e. different priora. Highly-reported channels like this are the society brain updating its priors at large.
What system are you using to generate the code? We felt this way a year ago, we don’t feel this way now at my company.
I have been using it to implement some papers from a scientific domain I'm not expert in- I'd say there were around same in output quality, with R1 having a slight advantage for exposing it's thought process, which has been really helpful for my learning.
> not having a mouse plugged in will mean you have no mouse cursor when remoting in.

Parsec has a setting to fix that too. Look in the host options.
They still kept their software redundancy, but when Tandem switched from their own custom CPUs to MIPS, they used pairs of lock-stepped CPUs like Stratus.

When they still had their own multi-board proprietary processors, Tandem also used lock-stepped microprocessors in their maintenance and diagnostic subsytem and some of their communications controllers.

I also gather Stratus is still around running on x86-64.
Their argument failed when they had to refer to ad hominem
I think you're right. If someone's into tech but also follows finance/economics, they might notice something familiar—the AI industry (especially GPUs) is getting financialized.

The market forces players to churn out GPUs like the Fed prints dollars. NVIDIA doesn't even need to make real GPUs—just hype up demand projections, performance claims, and order numbers.

Efficiency doesn't matter here. Nobody's tracking real returns—it's all about keeping the cash flowing.
You could just as easily say that Elba was a private island.
The issue with Meta is that the LLaMA team doesn't incorporate any of the research the other teams produce.
LeCun doesn't run their AI team - he's not in LLaMA's management chain at all. He's just especially public.
Homomorphic encryption and trusted third parties are proposed to limit government visibility into site visits and avoid identity leak in age checks.

The Australian privacy commission and the CSIRO seem to believe it's a viable model. Anything involving a TTP causes some grief, but in this space it's often about least-worst choices.

It has to be said that devolving sex-ed to porn sites is causing significant distress to young minds. A cohort are growing up thinking choking is normalised. On the other hand they should have some idea what a clitoris is.
> "which were just those companies’s normal hardware design"

For Alienware (not sure about the others, but AW was Valve's lead partner on it anyway) you're right in that it was a computer designed by Alienware not Valve, however it was a) very different to other Alienware PCs, and b) Valve were genuinely part of the development process, they didn't just say "hey make a small computer". They also shipped with the first gen of Steam controllers, which were created by Valve themselves. (Unfortunately, due to delays with SteamOS, the first version of the AW "Steam Machine" actually launched running Windows only, but with the Steam Controller, because Alienware weren't willing to delay their launch further and instead developed their own controller-based UI for Windows in a rush job...)

(Source: me, I was in the loop on those goings on at the time.)

To this day, I think the Alienware Alpha (as the Windows version got called) was one of the nicest machines Dell ever made and one of the best small PCs I've ever seen.
The one thing I've noticed about its thought process is that if you use the word "you" in a prompt, it thinks "you" refers to the prompter and not to the AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7C3X5NTzBk
I found what I think is a flaw in your methodology: you did not use the Mario font in your post.
We always allow any number when we play, because part of the thinking is we cannot be sure what the spy master has in mind. Of course, the number is related to the clue but possibly also to the game history up to that point. The teammates and opponents might interpret it wrong, and that’s OK. Infinity is typically used when there is enough info in principle to finish the game and a high risk if you dont; zero is super rare. We do tend to have very aggressive bids with tenuous connections, and 4 or 5 for a clue word are used in most games. Often, they don’t all work out in a single round, but on some lucky boards or in spousal teams, they occasionally work well.
That's one of my favorite quotes.

Our society has become so both-sides-pilled that one side being right about an issue is no longer even theoretically possible. No matter how correct a conclusion might be, it would get dismissed as cable news echo-chambery. It would be called a derangement syndrome. It's like people believe there's a fixed law of the universe, a law of conservation of debate. All debates will always exist in equilibrium, no matter where the fulcrum meanders over time.
This is a fascinating exhibit. To effectively summarize favorite take on Covid, “the peasants will go to their graves before they admit they were fools”.
Signature moves: Are we losing the ability to write by hand?
I feel like this whole thing is a PR campaign to make people empathize with AI.
I agree neuroscience still in the stone age. Flooring the research I don’t think will do much to change it. It’s like flooring plasma physics research during the renaissance. We need different patterns of thinking, imo. Two examples come to mind: (1) our interest to boil down neural dynamics via quantization (what else would it look like, you may wonder. and exactly my point!) and (2) studying the brain in artificial environments. it’s like look at fish behavior while they’re in a tube in space
The virus was somewhat ironically named it seems since Sin Nombre means nameless or no name.
Well I did say DON'T look into it, but ya'll had go ahead and Streisand this.
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?
Using AI to blankety blank
Seems like a decentralized like button. But without any quality control on the data, so the number of likes is meaningless.
Chy-nah
That's called evals, which are just unit tests.
1920x1080@20fps, and there's 2 frames with the meteor in it before it impacts.

I'm messing around a bit, but no matter how I turn it over, I'm getting something like 36 m/s for the meteor's (terminal) velocity, while I'm expecting it to be going at least 60 m/s

Possibly I'm making a mess of figuring out the actual scale of the image/video.

Posting here in the hope someone can do this a lot better than me!
Ask HN: How to Consult Part-Time as a Community College Instructor
Hello. Back in the fall I made a career change from being an AI researcher working in industry to becoming a tenure-track computer science instructor at a community college. I am based in Silicon Valley; I did not relocate when I changed careers. I have a full teaching load during the fall and spring semesters where I teach introductory programming courses, discrete math, and data structures. However, I also have a one-month winter break and a 2.5-month summer break where I am not required to teach. I love my new career teaching computer science and I have no plans to return to industry.

I am curious about doing part-time consulting during my breaks as a way for me to keep my practical skills up-to-date and also as a way of making extra money. I am wondering how I could get started as a part-time consultant, and what the market for consultants is like, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aside from AI, I have also done research in storage systems, and I have some software development experience from non-research jobs.
many americans do seem to view Chinese people as NPCs, from my perspective, but I don't know it's only for Chinese or it's also for people of all other cultures

it's quite like Trump's 'CHINA!' yelling

I don't know, just a guess
Hey it's easier than establishing an entire business selling secretly explosive pagers!

Makes you ponder what's coming in the next high effort nation-state scheme.
Google pulled this on a friend of mine. "Solve this in any language you want."

Friend solves it in Objective-C.

"Oh, except that one."

I have shunned every Google recruiter since.
The map on Wikipedia shows several HVDC links exiting Norway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

HVDC for long distance power sharing makes sense since it is generally more efficient than HVAC. On land, HVDC is more efficient beyond ~500km, but underwater, HVDC is more efficient beyond ~50km:

https://www.electricaldeck.com/2021/08/comparison-between-hv...

Beyond the efficiency benefit, HVDC easily handles transfer of power between grids operating at different frequencies. There are also several other benefits documented at that second link.
Our internal models have improved dramatically. I think people are also better at using them now. Nearly every eng I know uses them to write non-boilerplate code as well.
Haven't interviewed lately?
Hells freaking yes.

XReal should totally make these, in partnership with Valve. It just makes so much sense.
With only two frames and no apriori calibration for that site, etc it'd be hard to constrain the error.

That said, there's entire international communities dedicated to fireball trajectory analysis.

Starting with the OG: https://fireballsinthesky.com.au/

They do set up well in advance and like to have overlapping coverage from multiple sites, of course.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41070703
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441180
Sure, but I think that's only a matter of time, to be honest.

No one anticipated junior SWEs being automated away so soon - I personally didn't think I'd live to see something like this in my lifetime.
No. The patent in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9587003B2/en

The article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virology/articles/10.33...

The sequence (reverse complemented) matches positions 2751-2733 of sequence ID 11652 attached to the patent: https://seqdata.uspto.gov/seqdetail?docId=US09587003B2&publi... - as the other person said, it's located in the S1/S2 furin cleavage site, and produces no BLAST hits outside the SARS-CoV-2 lineage.

It's not entirely clear to me when the sequence was incorporated into the patent - it doesn't look like it was in the first revision. But it looks like it was added before 2020.

The whole theory still has gaps (even if we assume someone was searching specifically within that patent, what would a screen look like to single out that sequence? It would have to be very high throughput and use very sophisticated modeling), but it's interesting.
It is close to my degree, and it was always the most likely explanation. I am not saying there was purpose, I am not saying there was gain of function, but the connection to the Wuhan lab was obvious.

Don't suspect maliciousness if something can be explained by stupidity!

This was a likely source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8490156/

There was a Chinese master thesis found on the web about this incident that was translated. I can't find any sources now anymore.
Maybe it was this one:
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/a-chinese-phd-...

Nope. This one: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/masters-thesis-analysis...

There is even a girl that worked in the Wuhan lab and has likely died from this Virus.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-mail-on-sunday/20210117/2...
I pay for Kagi, but while the results are generally good enough, they aren't great. I've tweaked the settings recently so I hope I see a lot less crap, especially SO scraped content.

Blocking these sites is like playing whack a mole
Its origin is at a huge meat market full of both hunted and farmed produce and animals both live and dead from all over the country and attended by thousands of people daily. I find that far more convincing than the fact that there was a virology center in an urban area, there are virology centers in tons of large cities and all of them hold samples of many corona viruses because they are incredibly common. The fact that the one that potentially escaped just happens to be incredibly dangerous would seem like an astronomical coincidence if it wasn't released on purpose, and there are many problems with that idea. But the fact that a market full of both live and fresh slaughtered animal products ends up being the origination point of a dangerous virus does not seem coincidental at all, just a mere matter of time.
What Is AI? Matteo Pasquinelli
Not a good idea since they might be regrouping to fight another day.

war is aweful.
Can someone summarize the upshot for people here?
It’s a commonly used term. https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/comparing-s...
That's at a lower standard. If they can't do EUV they can't catch up, and they can't do EUV.
This is pretty much exactly what was going through my mind as well. I was excited the aliens had started reading HN. Now I'm just sad.