skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A MiniDisc community member based in Japan contacted Sony just a few months ago and confirmed that they were still producing one model of blanks (the MDW80T, which is (was?) still sold at retail in Japan and are the blanks used for most Bandcamp MDs (which themselves are usually prepared by a company called BandCDs in the UK)

Happy to discuss MD more if people have questions!
The major reason for that is that many were doing this in language that was generally considered racist and/or mixed in some other weird stuff like how COVID lockdowns were like the Jewish persecution, rants about masking, or that type of stuff. I'm not saying everyone did that, but there was a huge overlap.
You can definitely run graphical environments without a screen in a virtual environment, e.g. https://github.com/selkies-project/docker-nvidia-egl-desktop which is even GPU accelerated
Yes, this is product differentiation, features, demand elasticity, network/ecosystem lock-in, loyalty tax etc.

Just as software and internet also has a mixture of free to use, once off, subscription, usage metering and fixed cost revenue, so too does banking and credit services vary their fee revenue structure and sources for its various financial services and products.

It's very hard to make universal statements to how these are structured, but about the only thing I think I can say is that if you aren't paying fees, the commercial entity must be aiming to make revenue off of you being a customer in some way. Some savvy customers can get services with a net positive value for free, but the business at large scale is going to try to extract what value it can.

It's hard to give a universal statement on price structuring, but generally fees can help squeeze revenue out of sticky customers, customers who need your services, customers who do not provide enough net capital or volume-based revenue to cover your costs.

You can also use fees to explicitly target or select for particular users. For instance, in some money and credit markets or markets which offer various costly rewards you can sometimes split your customer base into good revenue sources and costly freeloaders. A fee structure can even help signal or self-select these costly customers out of a product or identify them for your other product lines.
Hasn't this always been the most likely cause? I thought practically all evidence pointed to that. I haven't even heard a competing theory.
Could be that too. But that’s not a flattering comparison!
I've been using the 32b version and I've also found it to give detailed information about tianamen square, including the effects on Chinese governance that seemed to be pretty uncensored.
How do you evaluate a startup company when you are applying for a job?
I'm considering joining a Series A startup, and I want to do a comprehensive due diligence before making the leap. What key factors should I dig into during my evaluation?

Funding/Financials, Product/Market Fit, Team Dynamics, Tech, Growth Potential

Is there anything else I'm missing? Where can I do further research on the company?
Sure they could, they seem to be using chatgpt for executive orders so why not this.
Show HN: I made an AI-powered news site showing the important bits first
Hi everyone, I made this little site where AI analyzes the news stories (currently CNN only, I will add more sources later) and extracts the summaries from the articles to show you the important bits. It uses embeddings / vector search to show the news by keyword, so you can get only the news you are interested in.
Yeah, this is what I am seeing with https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b:

https://imgur.com/a/ZY0vNqR

Running ollama and witsy. Quite confused why others are getting different results.

Edit: I tried again on Linux and I am getting the censored response. The Windows version does not have this issue. I am now even more confused.
I think some of that is the gamification of social media. "I have 1200 posts and you only have 500" kind of stuff. It's much easier to win the volume game when you aren't actually writing them. This is just a more advanced version of people who just post "I agree" or "I don't know anything about this, but...[post something just to post something]".
No. The paper by Pradhan et al. was withdrawn and its methodology refuted in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00129. Spike protein sequences in SARS-CoV-2 don't have any unique similarities to HIV-1.

> Putting these together, we believe that there is a close evolutionary relation between 2019-nCoV and bat coronavirus RaTG13. The four insertions highlighted by Pradhan et al. in the spike protein are not unique to 2019-nCoV and HIV-1. In fact, the similarities in the sequence-based alignments built on these very short fragments are statistically insignificant, as assessed by the BLAST E values, and such similarities are shared in many other viruses, including the bat coronavirus. Structurally, these “insertions” are far away from the binding interface of the spike protein with the ACE2 receptor, as shown in Figure 2, which is also contradictory to the conclusion made by Pradhan et al.
Spend time using them. You'll quickly learn how much they aren't living up to the hype.
The competing theory is that it was transmitted from living animals sold at a wet market in Wuhan.

Either story isn't a great look for the CCP: either they failed to maintain sufficient health protocols to keep diseases from spreading in wet markets, or they let a dangerous virus leak from a lab. There's no theory for its origins that have the CCP looking competent, so I'm not sure why it's such a politicized topic.
No, the steps 1 vs 2+3 refer to different things, they do not depend on each other. They start with the distillation process (which is probably easier because it just requires synthetic data). Then they will try to recreate the R1 itself (first r1zero in step 2, and then the r1 in step 3), which is harder because it requires more training data and training in general. But in principle they do not need step 1 to go to step 2.
Yeah, but you aren’t getting a $1.8mm mortgage on a £150k salary :)
Why do you think this sticker [1] is so popular? It is because prior to Twitter acquisition, despite some blemishes, most people thought Elon Musk is a smart but otherwise normal person. Most of the things you mentioned came later.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bought+this+before+elon+went+craz...
>because labs have papertrails and witnesses

If you have access to the labs. Second hand information and extremely delayed visits to labs in a one party state are a whole other matter.
Whatever Nvidia sells
I doubt they are actually related but it’s something I read presumably because:

“Wuhan Branch of the CAS.[4] Located in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei, it was founded in 1956 and opened mainland China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory[5] in 2018.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology

There was also a separate BSL-2 facility that moved right before the outbreak which also got news coverage due to the timing. But I think that was more confusion as they shouldn’t be working on coronaviruses in a BSL-2 facility.
Regime change when an occupying power leaves is a different scenario from changing underlying power structure of society where the controlling powers are in the society.

One reason for that is that when an occupying power leaves regime change must happen.
Ya know I used to have these types of issues more often but I was a.) on PopOS instead of arch (which i use now) and b.) it was awhile ago and the software seemed to have matured a bit.

As such, Im a little surprised to see someone blaming Nvidia specifically for issues rather than Windows, WSL, or any distribution of linux that makes it difficult to install software outside of the official channels (e.g. debian variants). Can you elaborate on the context?
Maybe they meant to add the np-complete version, in which case, do you really need more than one?
I was an analyst who covered the server space but I sort of lost track of the details of Tandem FT latterly even though I knew the head of HP enterprise server pretty well. As I wrote, a classmate. Originally it was 3 hardware modules voting but that changed latterly and I forget the details. NEC had something as well based on standard hardware as I recall.
He's being given 500 billion dollars to build it here :c
I'm sticking with AltaVista for now. They came back against Lycos so could do it again. Anything but Yahoo! though.
Can you tell me more about how Claude Sonnet went bad for you? I've been using the free version pretty happily, and felt I was about to upgrade to paid any day now (well, at least before the new DeepSeek).
it's not as expensive as it looks, if you don't count time. CNC alu and the display would be the biggest costs. other carrier board projects use 3d printing over CNC, but the display/bandwidth is kinda what makes this novel so a lower res wouldn't make sense

really hoping Byran's excellent writeup helps encourage others. SoMs have lowered the barrier to entry and birthed a ton of SBC/carrier communities, but most of their tribal knowledge is buried in discord servers
And, as per the article, the Biden admin did order reinvestigations.
The practical difference is that many of the arguments against lab-leak theories in general are actually arguments against the gain-of-function theory in particular. Things like lack of markers that would indicate engineering, or the presence of markers that would indicate animal origins. So distinguishing the two candidate theories becomes important for discerning whether the evidence is for or against a lab leak: you can't use animal-origins evidence as evidence against a lab leak, only evidence against an engineered virus.
> Could AI be a con?

The conclusion doesn't really mesh with the body of the argument, because you can measure whether AI is useful or not. How can something be a con when it's genuinely useful to me every day? When it writes half the code at our company? Methinks the author's base rate of P(con) is too high.
That's a shtty take, centralization is almost always the most inefficient way to do things, and leads to multiple problems by implementation, specially around different cultures

What country A wants to do is totally different that country B wants.

Some western countries are freezing as they are investing hard in solar/wind plants, while China makes ton of carbon plants.
Are we finally realizing the "AI Agents" are complete snake oil? Cron jobs and while loops with non deterministic crappy behavior?
Clippy is an office thing, not win2k.
it came from a lab no it didnt yes it did no it didnt grrrrrrrr
Then it's a stupid way to check for it, because it was possible and trivial enough to implement in a short time frame with a "rewrite" in the middle and no attempt to meassure pushing back in other ways when the first one failed
Sorry, I was mistaken about having used LiteLLM - this is the one I was using: https://github.com/wangxj03/ai-cookbook.git, and you can see the hardcoded shit here: https://github.com/wangxj03/ai-cookbook/blob/main/anthropic-... - it does not actually restrict anything though, and like I said, I noticed it was getting slow when it was sending 100-200K token requests.

Also, it's pretty easy to find unresolved bugs related to openwebui not handling context length parameters correctly - I believe I actually read something from the author saying that this parameter is effectively disabled (for non-local LLMs maybe?).
I think you misunderstood what I said. There is value in being first to establish a dominant position as a market leader. Just focusing on costs misses the bigger issue of market domination. It's a missed opportunity UNLESS you believe that oil is the more cost effective solution in the long run. The subsidies are an investment in your country's dominance. That all the competitors believe otherwise might indicate your math may be off. Or the historically close ties between US leaders and Saudia Arabia on both sides of the aisle distorts the decision making.
Great work!

Is it possible to resize grid rows/grid cols directly in the editor? Similar to the bottom-right handle in react-grid-layout?

https://react-grid-layout.github.io/react-grid-layout/exampl...
My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes. Sure, you could have zippers to aid in the updating process by acting as a kind of cursor/pointer, but raw access to data beats them anytime (even if you optimize for cache).

So if you had to optimize for raw speed, why not choose mutable data?

https://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/~sefl/papers/zippers.pdf
> I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection.

2 options:

- Rip them all and serve yourself using Jellyfin or Plex.

- If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hundred DVDs, you can, ah, take a trip to the high seas. Your legally-purchased DVDs serve as a license, for which the digital versions count as allowed "backups".
I think you're both right,

Look here: 100 men and 100 women in their thirties in a small town. The men don't work out and don't study and learn new things.

Then a day they all start working out at the gym, cut their hair properly and spend time learning new things, getting more well paid remote jobs.

This will increase the number of relationships in that small town! (I think)

Before, some of the women were singles because they couldn't find any attractive men. After, they had many attractive men to choose between, although 50% of the men are still below average among the men in that town.

But the men as a group, improved compared to the women in the town.
>"Tasks that seemed straightforward often took days rather than hours, with Devin getting stuck in technical dead-ends or producing overly complex, unusable solutions," the researchers explain in their report. "Even more concerning was Devin’s tendency to press forward with tasks that weren’t actually possible."

Apparently we've all been working with Devin for years.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, or delivering scathing sarcasm.
I think the fact that it can do anything at all is pretty amazing from a technological standpoint.

Not sure if it will impact jobs really. Most likely, I think it will impact the number of people entering the field only. I suspect software will be a very good career in 2035.
Could 30 Lines of Linux Code Cut Data Center Energy Use by 30%?
So i'm to gather that >4 people clicked on a link to githubs login form and thought "why yes, Ill upvote that!"?
I built a NUC running Windows 11 into a tiny portable server for a project I was building and can confirm it boots and functions just fine without being plugged into a monitor.

I just plug it into a power source and it does what I need it to do, but I can plug a monitor and keyboard (and sometimes a mouse because keyboard-only navigation seems to be getting less and less supported/intuitive...) if I need to perform troubleshooting.
It's Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
> When it writes half the code at our company?

Half the code "by volume", maybe. Surely it is not doing any of the intellectual work, planning, architectural decisions, etc., right?
There is a way to go from mini dv to thunderbolt. Apple made adapters for Firewire to Thunderbolt 2, and Thunderbolt 2 to 3. These can be chained to do what you want. See this video/channel for more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0oDYbqwwk
Facebook search..

Twitter search??

Wechat search!!

A lot of people use social media search.
That sounds completely irrelevant to the company.
My priors include all the agencies (the Intelligence Community, arguably the deep state) having ulterior political and personal motives. Does noone remember the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction hoax that the CIA cooked up for GWB?

I would not trust any of these agencies to provide objective findings or conclusions, there is a lot of power on the table that's at stake.
Is this true for the Millenial Disks as well? Would somewhat defeat their purpose...
I asked Hamel Husain to test devin on a task which took my agent 3.5 minutes to complete. Devin took over 30 minutes and ultimately failed. https://x.com/xundecidability/status/1882302153387352205
> He even shows up sometimes with a builder

Something I’ve ran into a lot over the years is people not realising that (at least in MySQL) prepared statement placeholders can only be used for values, not identifiers like column names.

Because many query builders abstract away the creation of a prepared statement, people pass variables directly into column fields and introduce injection vulns.

Number one place I see this is data tables: you have some fancy table component where the user can control which columns to see and which to sort by. If you’re not checking these against a known good allow list, you’re gonna have a bad time.
how much of the SFT data for r1-zero was from other frontier models?
Barbara Streisand effect.

Wow, did not know that about his history. What a scumbag.
But I didn't demark them so they are still elements.

Also Oxygen was mentioned, but not Argon
> This is also why you see so many "solve this random programming problem" type interviews - they hope (wrongly) that it's less fakeable and somehow gives you an idea of how they will do in the future.

Whether they can code or not isn’t indicative of whether they can get things done. The last time I had an open req last year, the coding part was ChatGPT simple. It was for a green field initiative. I needed to be able to throw any random thing that came up - a complex deliverable - and know they could run with it - talk to the stakeholders, disambiguate the problem space, notice XYProblems, come back with a design and a proposal and learn what they needed to learn with a little direction. I needed a real “senior developer”. Not someone that “codez real gud”.

I actually turned down a “smart” candidate who was laid off from the AWS EC2 service team I think dealing with Elastic Block Storage (EC2 encompasses more than just VMs).

I knew he could code. But he didn’t show me any indication that he could deal with the ambiguity on the level I needed or the soft skills.
Needs more exclaimation points!
I think it’s a sign the developer is trying too hard to be cool…
If I said I had cousins that were bankers, I am not sure that it would make me more credible to talk about finance. I mean - to the people who care about expertise.
Can someone help me understand why a lab leak looks worse for China than zoonotic spillover? Why would Senator Cotton need it to be a lab leak to give him more leverage?

From what I understand, one theory is that China has for decades tolerated unsanitary wet markets that allowed dangerous diseases to evolve, get stronger, and eventually transmit to human hosts. They'd been warned about this over and over again and had failed to implement the required policies, leading to a preventable pandemic.

The alternative theory has China accidentally letting a disease leak from a lab.

From my perspective, if anything the lab leak theory is the one that makes China look better: at least it emphasizes that it resulted from China's scientific pursuits and not their lack of health codes!

Why would the China hawks need a lab leak in order to China hawk?
And China should be investigated for phone hacks but now that should stop.
rootclaim gave the lab leak theory an 87% probability using Bayesian analysis back in 2020: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...
DOE has its own massive farm of experts: https://www.energy.gov/intelligence/office-intelligence-and-...

There’s 17 intelligence agencies that all staff knowledgeable experts on all sorts of topics. Our government is Leviathan.
I think you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNgyUAEv0Q
The example of seeing a stripy equine in Colorado and having to decide whether it's a horse, ass, or zebra is a good one and highlights what base rate means.

However, it even more strongly highlights a problem that comes up in probability: missing assumptions. As in, there's several important missing assumptions in the example.

Suppose you're hiking in a country without wild zebras and you see what is clearly a white equine with black stripes.

Which is more likely:

1. It's a zebra.

2. Someone painted stripes on their horse

3. You saw patterns of shadows on a white horse

4. You accidentally absorbed hallucinogenic fungus through your skin when you wiped you hand on a tree branch

...and so on. The longer you think about any unlikely events, the more unlikely possibilities you can come up with.

In fact 2. is something I've personally encountered on a hike before, although it wasn't in Colorado.

How would you know which of these unlikely events had a higher base rate? It seems unknowable. It depends on whether there are some isolated farms nearby where people keep horses, or whether there was a small zoo in the next town that you didn't know about, whether hallucinogenic fungus grows in this area, and so on.

I think it's important to address this in any discussion of probability theory, because hard though the maths is, the complexity of reality is even harder and it's usually omitted or hand waved away when teaching this stuff.
Interestingly, Steam’s first hardware product was a Steam Box: a little computer brick that could boot Steam on linux and let you play all your games on your TV (with a Steam controller or game controller of your choice). The cycle is now complete.
sometimes working for him.
Chinese lab paper trails are as trustworthy as Trump’s toilet paper roll trails if we are being honest.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/streaming-movies-and...
At a high level culture is about how people operate within.
It's not good or bad per se but rather how your personality fits into that working style.
For instance some companies put a big emphasis on ownership, which means that everyone will be chasing work like a hungry animal to get it done.

This attracts people with ambition and drive, which as a consequence also makes the workplace toxic if there are too many ambitious people.

My take is that culture requires balance, you need different personality types to create that balance in a team and end up with a good culture.

All this to say, the more a company talks about culture the worse their culture is.
To me it barely moves the needle, specifically because as you have said we have found other remarkably similar viruses in the past.

We have known about coronaviruses for almost 100 years, and we have been studying them due to their dangers for atleast 60 years, and it has likely existed since before humans could be called human. And it has been shown to be a highly virulent numerous times in many different forms. No matter how low the chances of winning the lottery, when literally billions of people are playing it daily, it is only of matter of when, not if, it turns into something more dangerous.

Now none of that comes anywhere near proving anything, but the fact that we have had multiple coronavirus infections in the past, many of which have come dangerously close to pandemic level infections, makes a natural occurrence seem the most likely source.

On top of all that, even if it did come from a lab, why does that matter? A handful of extra lottery tickets were sold and someone won from that pool. This isn't some bioweapon modified virus purposefully bred from a farm of human subjects, you would never be able to get away with such a program in a large publicly known virology lab and we aren't knowledgeable enough in viral genetics to make something like that without testing it on farms of people. There are no markers indicating engineering it in any way that we are actually capable of. And worst case it is something a mere handful of unguided generations away from a sample that was pulled from the public already and the lab got "lucky" with a random mutation on a petri dish they were studying.