skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh! The google drive link also provides the divot with a ruler next to it. Using that instead of going by a rough guesstimate based on just a couple of pixels really helps. In that case the theoretical terminal velocity should have been about 39 m/s , which is pretty close to the speed I estimated. I'll take it.
> You had American models generating ethnically diverse founding fathers when asked to draw them.

This was all done with a lazy prompt modifying kluge and was never baked into any of the models.
IIRC they clarified that they'd already been doing something similar, and just called it a replication since it's now second to publish.
> Now add in the fact that the outbreak occurred right next to a BSL lab.

The outbreak was likely to happen in a large population center near where the bats were. The actual probability that it went north and happened in Wuhan was probably 1-in-12 or so. And the first time there was a coronavirus spillover and pandemic, it happened in Guangzhou. So we rolled 1d12 once and didn't get a 1 and then rolled it again and did. Not that mind-blowingly improbable.

Also, not surprising that the lab was in a major city somewhat central and closer to the bats than e.g. Beijing. Because that is what it was set up to study.

> Now add in the fact that lab workers at that lab got hospitalized with respiratory symtpoms in November.

This has been asserted by a story in the NYT, but never proven and denied by WIV. There's literally no evidence of this.

> and that the virus in question is remarkably similar to one they found in 2013 thousands of miles away,

Still roughly a thousand base pairs and a few decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2. You can't get from RaTG-13 to SARS-CoV-2 in a lab, and there's no evidence they ever had live virus RaTG-13 in the lab.

> and that the COVID virus has just such a furan cleavage site

It had a novel PRRAR furin cleavage site which had never been seen before. Not one that humans would have ever guessed. That is actually strong evidence AGAINST it being lab-made.
It worked for Ottawa,Canada
This results is with disabled code execution, is this the line to reenable? https://github.com/hkust-nlp/simpleRL-reason/blob/e37e8ef166...
See https://fed.brid.gy/.

> Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky. You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible.
If an employee behaved like an LLM, a company should immediately get them into a debriefing with corporate counsel, HR, management, and trusted top technical personnel.

For example, to try to find out whose IP they plagiarized, and how badly we're scrod.

Or, for example, to find out how they generated so much code they don't understand at all, and how badly we're scrod.

Or, for example, to find out why they wrote a criminally negligent security vulnerability or data corruption, and how badly we're scrod.

Or, for example, to see what engineering assurance they "hallucinated", and how badly we're scrod.
The article talks about the ships captain expecting to be court-martialed for it, but ultimately being promoted (not necessarily for this act).
Obscure driver support doesn’t seem like it fits with a “simplified” Linux but maybe…
Tone deaf
The WIV had the single largest collection of novel sarbecoviruses in the world. There's zero question that the UNC and WIV wished to engineer those sarbecoviruses to produce an enhanced virus broadly similar to SARS-CoV-2, in their unfunded DEFUSE proposal. An unconfirmed intelligence leak further claims that work was actually performed, at the WIV only.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/inside-wuhan-lab-covid-p...

Lots of cities have "a lab doing virus research". There's no reason to shift to that broader category except willful obfuscation, though.

As to prior spillovers, proximal hosts have been identified for those other two coronaviruses (SARS-1 and MERS), for both within a ~year of emergence. For SARS-CoV-2, we're still waiting.
> While SQL isn't normally used as a general purpose programming language I think it's quite illustrative for those otherwise unfamiliar with declarative languages (though apparently it is Turing complete)

SQL itself is not Turing complete in its standard form because it lacks some essential features of a Turing machine, such as the ability to simulate unbounded loops or recursion within a single query.

SQL with procedural extensions, such as PL/SQL (Oracle), T-SQL (Microsoft), and PL/pgSQL (PostgreSQL), are Turing complete because they allow constructs such as loops, conditionals, and recursive functions.
And they weren’t useful anymore. In a time of crisis, that would just complicate things. Better to simplify.
Thank you for the correction! My original comment is too old to update. It’s so frequently described as one (for example in https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL/issues/202#issuecomme... ) that I assumed they shared a history.
Were I to have the ability, I would absolutely never let that person anywhere near people's money again. Check this person's history on this very site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Isn't the above-the-board justification for gain-of-function the promise of built-for-purpose microbes? The dream of "we spilled a million litres of toxic soup, here's a jar full of bacteria that eat that stuff and poop out useful compounds" or "let's make a virus that selectively over-infects tumours to weaken them?"

We might have the usual problem with every high-powered technology, from the fission reaction to the silicon fab: the underlying science is viewpoint-neutral, but people will be overwhelmed by doom scenarios associated with it.
What does the biocontainment angle entail? They keep the bodies of animals (or live ones) or samples?
At 24 you’re simply too young and have been lucky to not realize that life throws your curveballs.

You might be offended by my comment, but you won’t as you get older.

As you get older you might look at your teens as still being a baby, twenties as still being a kid, early thirties as starting to learn a thing or two, mid-thirties with some life lessons, and forties as finally knowing some things.
Considering the hundreds of thousands (millions?) that were imprisoned after the war for any suspected contact with the Americans or South Vietnamese government, and the horrific conditions they were held under (forced labor, malnutrition, disease, death) they maybe shouldn't act so surprised?

Even today in Vietnam, these families are still "marked" by the regime and not allowed to serve in government roles for three generations. It's a blood liable.
It's also entirely possible that the flagging is being done by a small minority. I don't know precisely how flagging on HN works as I've never done it, but I can't imagine it's terribly difficult to game and there's a definite motive.

I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was all one account, really.
DP Alt Mode

Jan 2025, https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113821266231103150

> I just spent the past 2 days trying to get the Apple Type-C PHY to work properly in the various alternate modes, including DisplayPort and USB3 host and device. It's a painful mess. If you touch one part of the code, another part of the code breaks ... Not happy with the pile-of-hacks approach, but it does seem to mostly work for now.
GoF pro: might help in some case, to the best of our knowledge never did. (Some scientists like their deadly toys!)

GoF contra: might cause a pandemic, kill millions, probably did.

So, yeah, I don't know, tough decision.
Yes, holy crap that username is surprisingly ironic.
I'm like that for Doom. I grew up playing id Software games (Wolfenstein 3D, Catacomb Abyss, Doom, etc). The Brutal Doom mod completely ruined the vanilla experience for me. It's just scatalogically absurd and dialed up the shock value to eleven. Great fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutal_Doom
If it's a decentralized like button, why is a new protocol needed? `PUT /count/increment` is a pretty straightforward RESTFUL solution over the existing HTTP protocol.
Garth Hudson Has Died
Void Linux is part of the status quo they were unhappy with.

Chimera Linux started off as a rewrite of the Void source packaging system. One of the complaints was using shell scripts for package templates. Chimera cports uses Python. Cports builds the binary packages (for apk 3).
To be clear these tokenizers use byte-pair encoding (subword tokens) so an individual token index typically corresponds to a piece of a word; this index does not depend on any intermediate decoding of the byte stream as long as the start of the stream is a start of your input. The decoding always works left to right and always starts at the start of the stream. You could write a tokenizer that uses plain bytes and one that uses unicode code points if your tokenizer was trained on unicode and forced to keep unicode codes together (almost all are), and the results would be identical for all practical purposes.
The were the PPC maintainer. Which is why PPC is a tier one arch for Chimera Linux from the start.
Who's "they"? You just grabbed a bunch of different arguments you disagree with and then bunched them all together with the lab leak.

Btw, I wouldn't remind people of "horse dewormer" debacle I were you - you come off as anti-science.
The list of hardware supported by the Linux kernel is not exactly “obscure”.
Awesome, thank you for the resources!
Is it accurate to compare 8k example RL with 8k example SFT? RL with the same amount of examples would take massively more compute than the SFT version (though depending on how many rollouts they do per example).

RL is more data-efficient but that may not be relevant now that we can just use Deepseek-R1's responses as the training data.
No, the academic papers that were published strongly pointed to the origin being the market and from wild animals, not lab animals.
The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each application, you have to learn the designer's "vision" in order to figure out where things are and what you're looking at.
PDF is a print format that evolved to support some modern features like links, forms, etc, but at its heart, it's still a fixed-layout document, and I think having a responsive static multimedia document is a massive advantage in a world dominated by heterogeneous devices
Apologies from my cynical self & Poe's Law.
You can only run a distilled model. They're quite good but not nearly as good as the full thing.

As for as fast as you can read, depends on the distilled size. I have a mac mini 64 GB Ram. The 32 GB models are quite slow. 14B and lower are very very fast.
I had a Chinese colleague in January of '20 saying it was obviously a leak. I hadn't even heard of Wuhan before, and he told me there is a bio lab there.
How is this different from just using smaller prompts?

i.e One could just use their own prompt for the binary classifier right?
I did that for while, but recently switched to Bazzite. It's a much smoother experience.
It may be that software development is less gatekeeped than other white collar jobs. No degree, no certification to get started. Thus seen as "lazy". Paid for sitting on your ass.

Or it may just be the high school mentality carried over into adulthood. In other words envy. The "dorks" are supposed to stay miserable. Not do what they like and earn good money from it.

No surprise it's seen different from being a founder or a manager. Our culture respects these occupations more. They may be in "tech" but they are for sure not the "lazy dorks" the developers are.
What does "FPGA friendly" mean? I tried to figure it out from the README, which says "Implement multiplication using multiple sub multiplication operations in parallel ("FPGA friendly")". Put another way: what is the FPGA-UNfriendly way to do multiplication?
No it doesn't? That's not how glitch tokens work.
Minisforum machines are excellent in that regard. Sturdy little bricks with price and performance.
I know it’s weird, but when you just protest outside of the white house and don’t actually do anything illegal, they can’t really arrest you and throw the book at you.

Also, disrupting a public hearing open to the public, definitely rude but not actually illegal.

The Gaza protesters were arrested for refusing to leave the capitol, but didn’t force their way into congressional offices nor did they threaten any congress people. Still wrong which is why they got arrested, I guess, but not the same as an insurrection.

I lived in Seattle during CHOP (well, I still live in Ballard), but I never got over to Capitol Hill to experience it (we go downtown a lot, but never Capitol Hill unless it’s hospital related). I don’t think they were any position to overthrow the government though.

Thanks for linking though, and I didn’t downvote you. It’s always nice to know what the right is referring to when they say “the left does it also!” We can compare the behavior of the two sides head on at least.
The obvious answer is to build on the Linux kernel. That means more extensive desktop hardware support. That means better desktop software compatibility. That means robust support for OCI containers.

But Chimera goes beyond the BSD model in several ways. For example, it aims to bring the Systemd feature-set while avoiding Systemd.

It also uses pipewire and Wayland.

As mentioned elsewhere, the Chimera Linux founder also found the FreeBSD packaging system to be lacking.

Chimera Linux also aims for stateless /etc and /var.

There is a lot more to Chimera Linux than the userland.
In fact, if a new flu came out from Atlanta I would immediately suspect an Emory grad student working in the CDC labs.

(Not to knock Emory students, I love them, but Emory has a relationship with the CDC and grad students can be cavalier)
Right. It fits well with the Anglosphere’s concept of compensible negligence.

China had a duty to run the lab safely, it breached that duty, and so China is responsible for the harms and losses caused by its negligence.

Missouri actually filed suit against China, and it is set to go to trial next week. It will be interesting to watch. If Missouri were to get a judgement for all the costs created by the virus, it could theoretically collect Chinese-owned assets in the US.

And, the news has been full of stories about one particular Chinese asset the US would like to have held in the US: TikTok.
This is the endgame of the “lesser of two evils” game (for some people), sadly. I don’t think anyone on the planet can claim the democrats didn’t drop the ball totally and at every possible juncture.

The sibling dead comment is right: we need ranked choice voting. I doubt it will ever happen though because the two party system (really a one party corporate interest system) would be massively disadvantaged as a result and will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from getting implemented.
Can you elaborate on point 4? Your comment is interesting but I don't entirely follow.
We need to stop thinking of human bodies as anything more than machines, and we need to start growing them in labs.

Conscious humans are obviously special. But if we grew non-thinking bodies and used them for research, we could vastly accelerate medical science, research and development, and treatments. We could accomplish this with gene knockouts.

It's too "icky" for people, so it hasn't been done.
As I read this article, with its meandering narrative and digressions, I kept getting frustrated and thinking to myself "get to the point!"

This says more about me than any flaws with article.
Let’s look at income stats: to be top 1% earner in US you need to make 787k a year. 1% in California: >1M.

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-income-needed-to...

Several millions of people in US make more than 500k, so it’s not really that rare.

$450/mo on food is probably insane for a homeless person in US, or for an average person in Uganda. Why not slash this amount to, say, $50? I’m sure you can do it if you decide to grow your own food on some remote land. Why don’t you “change your lifestyle”?

I spend 2k roughly 50/50 on groceries and eating out. Nothing fancy.

Bottom line: should I move to a shitty area, put my kids to a shitty school, and cook more (which I do not enjoy)? Why? So that whoever owns arsenal can buy an even bigger superyacht next year?
If that's the the only critisim, I'd say deepseek is a huge success.
[Multi-] SWE-bench Leaderboards:

SWE-bench: https://www.swebench.com/ :

> SWE-bench is a dataset that tests systems' ability to solve GitHub issues automatically. The dataset collects 2,294 Issue-Pull Request pairs from 12 popular Python repositories. Evaluation is performed by unit test verification using post-PR behavior as the reference solution.

Multi-SWE-bench: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Modal GitHub Issue Resolving Benchmark: https://multi-swe-bench.github.io/
Yes, I’ve asked Claude about three Ts and it refused initially.
Why single out GNOME? There are also KDE images, and of course, plenty of other DEs and WMs in the repos which you can always install.
It's almost as if the people with the money and power know something about "next token predictors" that you don't.
I was in high school in the late 80s and early 90s, I'm well aware. :-)

We (a few friends and I) were basically the Novell Netware admins because our school didn't have a full-time computer tech and none of the teachers knew anything about it. We convinced them to let us help them in exchange for letting us read the manuals and tinker around, and we actually did help with problems and troubleshooting, mostly printing if I remember.

They never figured out it meant we also had access to the teacher-only folders though.
Wow... love it, thanks for posting.
I think it would be better to say “simplified desktop Linux”. The project is more about the Linux “plumbing” than about opinions about the desktop environment.

Chimera is not even out of beta and it already includes GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXQT, and others. The founder uses GNOME but Chimera users do not have to.
Out how many conspiracy theories end up being right.
Here this very HN thread is heavily brigaded by everyone critizing it, because R1 can't reason "tienamen squre".
The self-congratulatory tone and constant shilling of the author’s career (they are a nobody who hasn’t done anything meaningful despite the pedigree) makes me nauseous. The headshots and such make me think this is a ploy for easy (dumb) VC money.

The association with UCSF is touted but based on my experience, it’s nothing to brag about!
There's a different reason to lean on the DB: it's the final arbiter of your data.

Much harder to create bad/poisoned data if the DB has a constraint on it (primary, foreign, check, etc) than if you have to remember it in your application (and unless you know what serializable transactions are, you are likely doing it wrong).

Also you can't do indexes outside of the DB (well, you can try).
Kind of cute they gave credit to the AI for writing its own paper.
HAR files are big and it seems like overkill to send them every time. Can't you make just make a client side fetch to an error reporting service? i.e. if the app detects a 400, then it sends a (no auth required) payload of the failed request & response, with secrets sanitized, to another error reporting endpoint.
The 1977 flu is uncontroversially accepted to have arisen from a research accident, probably either an inadequately attenuated vaccine or a challenge trial in human subjects. The death toll is typically reported as 700,000, though I don't think that's a very good number and I can't find the methodology. Many fewer people died in the 1977-78 season; but the virus has continued to spread, so the cumulative toll is much higher (and continues to increase).

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/936217

So how many people have to die before this is no longer an extraordinary claim? Bhopal managed to change chemical manufacturing standards with "only" thousands or tens of thousands of deaths; but the 1977 flu is somehow completely forgotten.

Perhaps the death toll is so high that people simply can't believe it? YouTube's fact-checkers recently removed an unambiguously factual description of the 1977 pandemic, ignoring appeals well-referenced into the peer-reviewed literature with no stated justification.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-i-fell-foul-of-youtu...
I'd like to note that traditional cursive styles,
like D’Nealian, Zane-Bloser, Spencerian, or Palmer Method,
are kind of bad.
Among other issues, they were developed for a time when everyone wrote with dip pens, or some kind of less-than-neat fountain pen setup. Also they tend to be aggressively right-hand dominant.

On the other, er, hand, styles like Getty-Dubay Italic give the legibility of the simple block letters we learned in early childhood with a connected flow that is fast and smooth.
Making a Sunlight-Powered Aquarium with No Filter [video]
In fact the government has been quietly acknowledging that the lab leak has merit for about two years now.
Yeah it ruined numerous relationships in my life. My brother in law turned into a total luddite and liar due to my tech career. He foams at the mouth with stories about Indian's replacing us all.

I've thought a lot about it and I believe it's because tech is one of the few careers that has a ton of freedom. In normal job markets we can switch companies easily. We can go raise money and start our own companies etc.

Most other careers are do x, y, z then you might have your choice of 1 or 2 employers that you then are mostly stuck working for.

I think a lot of people are very threatened by that freedom.
I remember seeing women on the sides of the highway in one part of town gathering plants to eat, there's plenty of edible stuff out there, and my parents telling me they were refugees. Must have been in '74/'75 and I was a wee lad. In a Southern state.
My parents were PhDs from Berkley and UCLA who got positions in the south so it was a weird time and place. For everyone.
> there was a huge overlap.

There was a huge overlap because within a month it became completely taboo for anyone who cared about not being seen as an alt-right activist to say anything about it. Even freaking Jon Stewart got caught in the instant-cancellation blast [0].

A major problem with our world today is that anything that the alt right supports instantly becomes taboo for the rest of us. People are more concerned with distancing themselves from the alt right than they are with finding and supporting the truth—and that goes for just about anything, not just COVID.

[0] https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/jon-stewart-recalls-outrage-af...
I watch movies on planes with them and it’s perfect for that. Coding I haven’t made work, and MarioKart is too full-on for me in them.
Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
Loved this site for a long time, always felt like I could come to learn something interesting and find niche topics and experts.

Feels like posts have overwhelmingly been on LLMs for the past few years and I've just lost interest.

Makes me sad, this was really my favorite site.
It's not their model being bad, it's claude.ai having pretty low quota for even paid users. It looks like Anthropic doesn't have enough GPUs. It's not only claude.ai, they recently pushed back increasing API demand from Cursor too.