skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have previously shared this little known, but factual, event on Hacker News. It is simply a Wikipedia article--the 1977 Russian Flu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu). This is not my statement, note this well dang, and read or argue with the editors of Wikipedia if you want (not me), but the following statement stands firm:

"Genetic analysis and several unusual characteristics of the 1977 Russian flu have prompted many researchers to say that the virus was released to the public through a laboratory accident, or resulted from a live-vaccine trial escape"
wow i don't like the 'wink wink nudge nudge' very obvious racism against african americans in this article. A lot of pointed and extraneous details about various minorities (non-blacks) that fall squarely into very specific talking points. In fact the only minorities this article doesn't mention are african americans, despite very obviously talking about them. And don't tell me i'm reaching...It's called theory of mind. Kind of sad this has gotten so many points.
A 20Tb HDD is ~$350 right now. That's, what, around 150 BDXLs?
Because pedestrians and drivers are idiots (or if you want to be nice, have lapses in judgement).

Whereas it is possible to have a subway where it’s completely impossible to get on the tracks without heavy equipment or the right keys.
Curious to what extent Iceberg enables data composability and what the best complements and alternatives are.
I spent 30 years searching for the secret to happiness – it isn't what I thought
Enshittification already started with DVDs with all the "you can't do that" stuff blocking fast forward etc for parts of the video.
> On the one hand, even finding a DVD player that still works can be an uphill battle

Doesn't every blu-ray player, Xbox Series X, and some of the PS5s play DVDs?
Parsec has a driver which adds virtual monitors so you should be able to use that instead of a dummy HDMI plug.

Another issue is not having a mouse plugged in will mean you have no mouse cursor when remoting in.
I recently used SQLAlchemy for the first time and was delighted it has something I’ve always wanted in Laravel’s Eloquent: columns are referenced by identifiers on the models rather than plain strings.

Seeing `.where(Foo.id == Bar.foo_id)` was a little jarring coming from a language where `==` cannot be anything but a plain Boolean comparison, but it’s nice to know that if I make a typo or rename a field, it can be picked up statically before runtime.
I think Sony only have one plant left (in Austria) pressing physical discs.

Vantiva (formerly Technicolor) are the biggest players but have just announced they’re unloading their Supply Chain Services division, which includes their disc-pressing plants, to private equity.

Blu-Ray (both HD and 4K) is obviously a niche product now but there are numerous boutique labels doing great licensing work. It feels in a healthier place than it did a couple of years ago when the streaming wars were at their height.

It’s a bit like a return to the Laserdisc days of the 80s/90s. Most people were happy to rent VHS tapes (read: streaming today) but there were enough connoisseurs, techies and collectors around to keep the premium physical media format of its day alive and kicking.
Eternal Disney Vault
The lack of expressiveness in query builders that the author refers to in their first post as a motivation for ditching them is an easily solvable problem. It seems like most ORMs have easily solvable design issues though, and I would definitely agree that you should ditch tools that get in your way. What I've been doing is sporadically working on an _experimental_ Golang ORM called Trance, which solved this by allowing parameterized SQL anywhere in the builder through the use of interfaces. e.g.,

trance.Query[Account].Filter("foo", "=", trance.Sql("...", trance.Param("bar"))
When you've profiled the code running in production and identified memory bottlenecks that can not be solved by algorithmic/datastructural optimizations.
Well-done BRTs are probably the best thing you can get for cost/benefit. And you can subway them at points if you want, and if they get super popular you can put them on rails.
I'm pretty sure tesla's car insurance company mines data from tesla's cars to set rates.
Not that it will fit a western centric ideology but there is zero mystery with people going into hospitals in Nov. It would be surprising if it weren’t so.

It’s flu season and Chinese don’t go zoom their Dr, they go and check into the hospital.

In other countries, it would be considered sociopathy to go to work with a flu, but we’re all Real Americans so anything different means… conspiracy.
White House in talks to have Oracle, US investors take over TikTok, NPR reports
I have this pet theory that a well-written dynamically-typed program will have fewer bugs than the typical statically-typed program.

Static typing doesn't reduce bugs. It just changes when they appear, from runtime to compile time. Further more, types are largely about communicating information about how a client should use a piece of code. A compiler for a statically-typed language just happens to help automate this exchange of information and reduce the likelihood that the code is used incorrectly.

It's kinda similar to precision vs accuracy; to be precise means to throw a bunch of darts at the same spot on a dartboard, and to be accurate means to actually hit the bullseye. A lot of typed programs are precise, but end up solving the wrong problem.
never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux
Nothing's stopping you from linking to whatever you think might have a valid counterpoint, bud. But okay...
Clarifying:

Many of the pardoned individuals have video evidence of assaulting police with weapons and claim to be part of organizations diametrically opposed to BLM, Antifa, and the FBI. Are they:

1. Lying, masquerading as Trump supporters in deep cover for many years (secretly a part of the organizations you're blaming, despite playing part in an attempted coup that would have opposed those organizations and despite no evidence of such multi-year subterfuge)

2. Framed (mind you, AI is wishy-washy for video even now, and it wasn't good enough then)

3. Innocent for some other reason despite their violent actions

There aren't a lot of options that make tasing and trampling cops while heavily armed and overrunning the White House look good. Even republican congressmen, whose careers partially depend on not pissing off Trump, are happy to publicly decry those pardons, no matter how they feel about the rest of the executive orders. Every Trump supporter I've talked to so far (except, perhaps, you) has agreed that was a step too far (though they're all still optimistic about the presidency overall).

What, exactly, about those pardons was appropriate? If I stormed your house with guns and trampled the police blocking my way, would that make me an American hero for defending the right to free speech?
Could this trend bankrupt most incumbent LLM companies?

They’ve invested billions on their models and infrastructure, which they need to recover through revenue

If new exponentially cheaper models/services come out fast enough, the incumbent might not be able to recover their investments
Respectfully, if someone puts "remote available" on a job description and expects you to know they don't _actually_ want those applicants due to specific nuanced cultural differences, those people can go fuck _all_ the way off for wasting my time.
If it’s a good 4K stream then yes, it’s fine. The problem is many of them aren’t, whereas damn near all Blu-rays look spectacular even upscaled 1080 -> 4K. Bitrate is the issue, not resolution.
There definitely is hope for AI aiding with the less subjective elements of refereeing, such as offside, ball out of bounds, keeper moving off of line before a penalty is taken, etc.

It has already had a big impact for ball crossing the goal line judgments if you put computer vision in the broader AI category (e.g. Hawkeye in the PL)
Simply judging by the fact that you have competitors that are paying to show up in search results for "codeguppy" implies you're quite successful
> It helps when they see you fail publicly and handle it with grace.

I like that mindset, it also removes some nervousness before presenting or performing something :-)

> could be they have narcissistic

That's what I thought too when skimming the article. I though it was odd that the author didn't seem to recognize this, but instead wrote about "people who think they are smarter".
Yeah, I was lucky to have DVD players with a mod chip that defeated those restrictions.
I'm in the process of ripping all of my media so I can play it with Jellyfin and get the disks out of my living room.
Which means what?

"Rootclaim" then bet $100,000 on being able to back that claim in a independant structured 18 hour long debate of their own devising .. and lost the $100,000.

The Rootclaim assessment was worthless.

See: https://protagonist-science.medium.com/lableak-truther-loses...

Or watch the entire 18 hour debate in which that claim was shredded.

Given your user profile about: it's easy to see why you might give weight to Saar Wilf's Rootclaim project .. championing this particular result while ignoring its full history seems professionally questionable.
They are using those mostly to take down larger reconnaissance drones. Not the small ones used to directly attack individual soldiers. Watch the videos.
America never had city walls, so the density pressure provided by them is only found where natural rivers and other boundaries occur.

Subways are so expensive that we don’t see existing rail/tram lines being buried to reclaim land in some of the most valuable cities in the world.
The only options for this sort of backup are tape, HDD, or cloud. Optical media were never really feasible for backups because they were either too small or writers were too expensive. Supposedly AWS Glacier used them at some point, but you need that level of infrastructure to manage them.
Can't we sometimed expect more from computers than people, especially around something that compilers have done for decades.
"Well, of course I know him. He's me."
That's one way to look at it. Another is that a lab leak makes the government seem much more culpable, since they would presumably have more direct control over the activities of government funded scientists. In any case, I think world governments have been reluctant to endorse theories that place more blame on the Chinese government for fear of forcing them into a defensive posture and risking a larger confrontation. But there are also those who desire such a confrontation. That makes it hard to trust the motives that any given party might have for promoting one theory or another.

At the end of the day, all that any sane person should care about is preventing another similar pandemic.
I still wonder why we're training models on all these languages especially when they have different alphabets etc, we've got solid translators, wouldn't it be more parameter dense to target one language for all data and tokens, and then have a layer specifically for input and output translation?
99% of the time there isn't a good reason to censor things, that doesn't stop it from happening constantly though. Especially in China where censorship of anything with bad publicity for the country or government or people is the default stance.
DVDs I would rip and donate personally, purely because if you care about image quality they are just not going to look very good on modern TVs. Maybe if you have any special editions, cool box sets, or stuff with sentimental value then hold onto just those?

I am kind of amazed that DVDs are still on sale. I guess they still sell enough to warrant it and enough people don’t care how bad they look on even cheaper TVs, but given how little the average person cares at all about physical media these days, I wonder who is actually buying them in 2025.
they have a choice, i dont see the problem
Suggesting that the two sides have the same motive, goal, and methods is a criticism. Suggesting that they are both full of whining dogmatists is a criticism.

Here is your argument, since apparently you didn’t get it from the much more brief sarcasm that started this little chain: “it’s shortsighted and frankly ignorant to suggest that destroying the most powerful country ever to exist via secession is a reasonable idea just because someone is butthurt that their ‘side’ didn’t win an election this time around and we had some hurricanes and fires this year that required significant federal disaster assistance”

By the way, my argument doesn’t change if it’s republicans talking secession or if the democrats are doing it. It’s a stupid idea.
Thanks a lot for elaborating. I'm traveling at the moment, but I'm going to try reproducing this issue once I'm back in town. IIRC I did do partitioning myself, using GPT partition table and default partition settings in fdisk.

Upd mq-deadline for all drives seems to be `none` for me. OS is Ubuntu 22.04
The perspective on how AGI might reshape societal systems is both fascinating and unsettling in the best way, besides its broader implications for how we define work, value, and progress.

One idea that stood out was the transition from human-driven decision-making to something potentially alien in its logic and priorities. I wonder how societies might handle the inevitable tension between human emotional needs and AGI’s cold efficiency? Could there be room for compromise, or would it fundamentally require redefining what we consider "human progress"?
They didn't care about neural networks once.
Someone else makes blanks, right?
CASE
WHEN $2 BETWEEN 0 AND 100 AND $1 > 0
THEN (($1 - 1) * $2)
ELSE
50
END

What a wonderful, maintainable language for expressing logic in /s. Perfect for my COBOL on Cogs application.

The problem with SQL has never been that it's impossible to put logic in it. The problem is that it's a classic Turing Tarpit.
Can someone explain what the motivation for this protocol is, and why it merits the name "protocol"? It looks like regular old HTTP to me.

(I earnestly hope I'm wrong, because I'll learn something new and cool.)
Elections and AI in 2024: observations and learnings
This is one of many reasons why I just don't let Windows touch bare metal. My old gaming rig was a Linux machine that would boot a Windows VM with GPU passthrough, and the control I had over the virtual hardware that Windows thought it was attached to was really helpful for working around a lot of Windows bullshit. Won't boot without a screen? Virtually attach a fake one. Recognizes a device and tries to auto-install the garbage manufacturer-provided driver? Run the better Linux driver (if one exists) and have qemu present Windows with a generic version of the device. Want to debug some issue that requires disconnecting a piece of hardware? Just take it out of the qemu command instead of needing to go physically disconnect it. Want some remote peripheral attached that Windows has no idea how to talk to? Proxy it over the network in Linux and just present it to the Windows VM as a USB device. Having full control over the world that Windows lives in makes it much more manageable.
Essentially goes back to the start, bunch of rich nepo kids playing spy. See Sidney Gottlieb for a fun story.
Trump administration reportedly negotiating an Oracle takeover of TikTok
Yeah, no. Look up "sick sinus syndrome" and "premature ventricular complex". (The latter occurs in up to 75 percent of people at times.)

4B years, yes, but evolution is a pile of kludges on top of kludges.
Simplified desktop doesn’t very clearly map to “very text oriented, barebones Linux UI“.

I was expecting something more like the ststem76 Pop OS kinda thing when I read this.
Not really lol, literally if you add a robots.txt check someone can just create a fork repo with a git action that escapes that routine every time the original is pushed... Adding options for filter and respecting things is great even as defaults, but trying to force "good behavior" tends to just lead to people setting up a workaround that everyone eventually uses because why use the hamstrung version instead of the open version and make your own choices.
If we actually care about public health, we should act as if both the lab leak and zoonosis theories are correct. We should take laboratory biosecurity, wet markets, the bush meat trade and intensive livestock management equally seriously as threats. We should do this because we have no idea where the next pandemic - and there will be a next pandemic - will come from.

It seems fairly clear to me that a lot of people are much more concerned about finding someone to blame for the last pandemic than about preparing for or preventing the next pandemic.
> Also, try to get out of the habit of being overly critical of other people

What makes you think he is?

He wrote:

> people with mental or physical disorders, with anxiety disorders (like myself)

From that does not follow that he would have a habit of being overly critical.

Did you blindly start to believe in what the article author wrote, or how were you thinking
The soundbite was great lol!

Nice Work!
Same reason Senators claimed American blood was spilled on American soil in ~1835 in the Mexican state of Tejas, which we now call Texas. Notably, Abraham Lincoln demanded proof, but the senate was too happy to see manifest destiny come about even on lies. Fast forward ~200 years and you're starting to hear the same things.
Doesn't feel like a radical change in position to me. They said they weren't sure either way previously. In this statement they're explicitly calling it "low-confidence."

The FBI & Energy Department have both said that they think it's a lab leak.
Thank you! I've been researching more about Krita vs other softwares, it might lag behind in places but they are really cooking when it comes to brushes in my opinion. (plus it is free haha)
Do you want the version without data collection/sharing to still be free?
> The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible.

Just to make sure it is clear - they were asked to give an answer by the former administration, so they did. But TFA literally says there is little confidence in that answer.
Lax health codes mean the virus came about through sheer (bad) luck, by a bunch of "dumb hicks". The US doesn't have to do anything to compete with a bunch of yokels with bad hygiene. We have those in the US too. But if it came from a lab, using advanced technology that the west doesn't have, China goes from being more than where shitty knockoffs come from, to a much scarier boogieman that requires us to give more money to the military-industrial complex.
I have started building a UHD Blu-ray collection too now the price of discs has come down a little vs regular Blu-ray. They’re fantastic.

I have a new annoyance though: many new movies are offered in Dolby Vision on streaming services, but the UHD BD release is only HDR10. I saw a comment on Reddit from someone involved in the industry who said that the additional work in getting the different metadata in line on discs is often just skipped. On streaming they can just serve different files for all combinations of resolution and HDR offered.

It’s annoying because if I’m paying a premium to get the best-of-the-best option, I want it to actually be the best.
Did you read the tweet? It doesn't sound that way to me. They hire specialized talent (note especially the "Know-It-All" part)
Which part? The one where he had a kid with his colleagues wife? Or the one where he was "petting and cuddling" 14 year old girls he tutored?
Because a lab leak could imply that China had a direct, active role in cultivating or engineering the virus, as opposed to the “mere” disastrous negligence entailed by the wet market theory.
It's also pretty clear in the article that the newly appointed head of the CIA is very politically motivated to endorse this conclusion.
You're not saying it, but you're obviously starting with a very different bayseian prior than my 50/50.

As someone that makes forecasts for a living, I'd like to see what you're assumptions are about the base rates there.

As for how the facts produce modifications to the base rate, personally I think that a virus identified in a cave over a thousand miles away popping up in a very urban area right next to a BSL facility that specializes in researching that type of virus moves the needle toward it being more likely a lab escape. You seem to feel otherwise and I don't really agree. In particular, if you take the converse: suppose the virus wasn't known at all to man, you'd probably argue it also pushes you toward the conclusion that it was a natural spillover. (In which case, I'd be in agreement.) So I don't think that argument is really a logical one.

Your objection in the last paragraph, describing this as a "bioweapon modified virus" is really a classic strawman, and since it isn't the argument I was making I see no reason to indulge it. It is indeed a relatively ridiculous notion.

Also, just for precision, my own assessment of the truth value there is about 70% in favor of a lab-leak.
Hmm, well the super secret stuff we’re working on comes directly to mind, but if I set that aside, boring entity resolution is actually a big pain point.

Regardless of their sophistication, 3rd party data products in football tend to rely on manually collected and maintained player metadata. It can be unreliable. If I could reliably have a durable unique ID for every player, manager, and team in world football along with reliable timestamps for every moment each said player entered and left play, that would be pretty great. When joining together disparate data sources, discrepancies in things this simple cause all sorts of pain downstream.
Based on the general reacion from some of the comments here, going for strange/novel solutions is seen as something to be avoided though
I used to use both GIMP and Krita, but I switched over to Krita-only when many of GIMP's filters were bundled into the G'Mic plugin, which is now installed by default in new releases. You don't get everything but I'll trade it for the UI upgrade (and everything else) xD
It may be true that other states don't want to antagonize them, and that may also be why we don't see enough emphasis placed on how absurd it is that China has allowed these wet markets to exist so long. Imposing a basic set of health codes is a very fundamental task of any government, and their inability or unwillingness to do so does not reflect well on them.

If anything, one reason why the China hawks may prefer the lab leak theory is because it makes China look more threatening than the alternative: the we-couldn't-enforce-basic-health-codes version of the story doesn't mesh well with the image we have in the West of the CCP as an all-powerful Big Brother that has complete control over every aspect of their citizens' lives. It instead projects a CCP that can barely perform the minimum functions of a state, which is harder to be afraid of.
I believe this is the set of patches referenced in the article.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mkarsten/linux.html
Movfuscator and reductio ad absurdum (2019)