skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It mostly depends on stable borders and a culture of centralization. Some US states such California and Texas have multiple major cities. Germany and the surrounding areas were historically fragmented, leading to many regions having multiple mid-tier cities instead of a single dominant city.
Only one lab in the world doing GoF experiments on this specific furin cleavage site AND a random natural mutation happens within a few KM of this lab on this specific furin cleavage site. What are the odds of this happening? Very close to zero.
> There’s a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI’s founding goals to democratize AI for the masses. As Nvidia senior research manager Jim Fan put it on X: “We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive — truly open, frontier research that empowers all. It makes no sense. The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”

Heh
you don't need a hyphen for a custom tag ; as far as i know the hyphen makes it an inline element while no hyphen makes it a block
30+ years later, I'm still always amazed at how effective the Mac debugger UI could be with such a tiny screen resolution. It's really quite masterful.
> It's relatively easy to implement your own temporal tables on most existing databases

It gets tricky when you need to change the schema without breaking historical data or queries. SQL databases could do a lot more to make immutability easier and widespread.
> Are the FBI or DOE assessments public?

Yes (DNI) [1] and no (State) [2].

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...

[2] https://oversight.house.gov/release/classified-state-departm...
My priors include none of the agencies having expertise in epidemiology.
There’s an asymmetry of potential evidence for each of the theories as well.

• If it was a lab leak, then even if the people responsible are dead, there was likely data that could trace it back. It is unlikely that data still exists or is findable, for obvious reasons.

• If it was not a lab leak, it may be impossible to find evidence to prove that is the case.
Because he foresees it, believes it and will profit from it?
It is great to see that this is the result of spending a lot in hardware while cutting costs in software development :) Well deserved.
There are a few things to consider that I’ll add, which further bolster the idea that China has systematically covered up up a lab leak that caused the COVID-19 pandemic:

1. Coronaviruses are hard to contain, even if you have good practices. For example, the earlier SARS outbreak (from the early 2000s) had several documented lab leaks, including multiple within China (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7096887/).

2. The US state department was aware that China was conducting dangerous research on coronaviruses on poorly managed labs a few years before the COVID-19 pandemic (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...).

3. The WHO got completely manipulated by China, either willingly or just due to their incompetence. For example, it is well documented now that the WHO publicly praised the Chinese government but privately was concerned and frustrated by the lack of transparency and sharing of vital information, including blocking visits to Wuhan (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-china-blocked...).

4. The NIAID (Fauci’s agency, under NIH) conducted gain of function research through a third party, EcoHealth Alliance. The grants are all public and document gain of function research, which was illegal since President Obama had banned it through an executive order. There was evidence that the NIH helped EcoHealth craft their grant language in a way to avoid oversight processes that would have blocked the grant (https://theintercept.com/2021/11/03/coronavirus-research-eco...). Note that the president of EcoHealth, Peter Daszak, is a listed author on gain of function publications from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. After years of trying to bury this, the Biden administration finally blocked funding to EcoHealth in 2024 (https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/health/us-government-suspends...).

5. China only allowed a WHO visit over a year after they knew of the COVID-19 outbreak, in early 2021. They only allowed specific people to participate in the investigation, and the only person allowed from the US, was the same Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance who participated in the research at Wuhan Institute of Virology (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/asia/wuhan-coronavirus-who-ba...).
He wants to give it a "it's a bipartisan conclusion, so it's sane!".

Considering it's "with low confidence", someone else could've published the findings focusing on the low confidence rather than the fact that their needle is pointing more towards "lab leak".
refusal to answer "how do I make meth" shows ChatGPT is absolutely being similarly neutered,
but I'm not aware of any numerical scores on what constitutes a numbered amount of censorship
FTA:

The absence of CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG from any mammalian or viral genome in the BLAST database makes recombination in an intermediate host an unlikely explanation for its presence in SARS-CoV-2. You can verify for yourself that there are no other sequences with an exact match.

The subsequent comment about statistics of blast searching is irrelevant.
I find Gemini to be the worst of the AI tools. meta.ai for me has been the best for most things. chatgpt is also good if you aren't constrained by the last date it's been updated on the free version.
thanks for the comment. I actually tried explicitly mentioning in the prompt that 'Your guesser follows the same reasoning process'. But this did not make any clear improvements. Maybe I should've done more prompt engineering.
If I’m going one, maybe two stops, a tram can be optimal if it’s already in front of me[1]. Otherwise the subway tends to win the curb to curb speed contest for me. It’s a little more traversing through the subway’s infrastructure and getting to the right platform and the right part of the platform, but I’ll get to my destination in less time and it’s not even close.

[1] Otherwise I have to check the Transit app on my phone and do some math factoring in the wait time and the time it takes me to get to the platform. The subway usually wins this contest too.
A hypothetical lab worker which only spread it to the market and nowhere else seems implausible.

I suppose that could happen if what they were carrying wasn't capable of human transmission yet, but was capable of infecting some species of the live animals at the market, but that's a big if.

There's till the problem of the second lineage which would indicate multiple zoonotic crossover events.
There's a certain sort of fanatic who believes that everyone has the same opinions as them under the covers, but are disagreeing purely for performance purposes.
Also equally thankless when one team meets all goals/deadlines for their small product but the rest of the department is a dumpster fire — making the entire product suite unusable.
I have very rarely used a business center in literally years of days traveling on business. Maybe I've printed a few pages over time.
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess I just don't worry about it that much these days. What you're describing - the fear of overburdening or burning bridges, the uncertainty about what I can give back - I dunno. I had that, at one point, too. A LONG time ago. Middle school, high school maybe. But many years of being shown I can count on the people around me, and that I'm better at giving support in kind than I think, has made it less of a serious worry.

Of course there are limits, and they have to be respected. "Do not discuss rope in the house of a hanged man." But that's why there's so much breadth. If I can't talk about it with my partner, or my close friends are involved, I can almost always find someone willing to hear me out. Someone it's appropriate to go to support for.
It may be due to their chat interface than in the model or their system prompt, as kagi's r1 answers it with no problems. Or maybe it is because of adding the web results.

https://kagi.com/assistant/98679e9e-f164-4552-84c4-ed984f570...

edit: it is due to adding the web results or sth about searching the internet vs answering on its own, as without internet access it refuses to answer

https://kagi.com/assistant/3ef6d837-98d5-4fd0-b01f-397c83af3...

edit2: to be fair, if you do not call it a "massacre" (but eg an "incident") it does answer even without internet access (not perfect but still talks of casualties etc).

https://kagi.com/assistant/ad402554-e23d-46bb-bd3f-770dd22af...
> Deepseek obviously trained on OpenAI outputs

I’ve seen this claim but I don’t know how it could work. Is it really possible to train a new foundational model using just the outputs (not even weights) of another model? Is there any research describing that process? Maybe that explains the low (claimed) costs.
Just like the “Spanish Flu” didn’t originate in Spain. And information about it was suppressed in the US.
Open-source models sounds like it would be cheapest, maybe running it on a VPS or something
Yeah... it's strange. Every partner I've had has been someone very aware (to the point of reading books about it in a few cases) of gender issues and the issues with our social norms. But all of them still followed this same trend. Dealing with their emotions was priced in - I was expected to do it. Dealing with my emotions was too scary, too burdensome, there was always some excuse to recenter it on her instead. And the horrifying thing would be when they bring it up later as ammunition for some petty argument. It gives you the sense that they hear these things and hold them like grudges. It makes you never want to open up ever again.
i can’t think of a single commercial use case, outside of education, where that’s even relevant. But i agree it’s messed up from an ethical / moral perspective.
Larry doesn't care about anything other than Larry. For Larry, the biggest issue facing him beyond how he can live forever, is how he can ensure nobody ever commits a crime against him. The best way to ensure nobody ever commits a crime against him is to monitor every living human on the planet.

Any crime he commits can be figured out in courts with his high-priced lawyers so the idea that AI constantly watching you would be repressive seems misplaced to Larry.

For people that think I'm joking, at one point his primary philanthropic contributions were almost exclusively to life-extending efforts:

>Take the massive amount of money he once gave to life-extension research, which was the core focus of his philanthropic efforts.

>And so over the course of 15 years at the beginning of the 21st century he would donate over half of a billion dollars for anti-aging medical research, at a time when the field was seen as fringe science.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/24/21369773/larry-ellison-...
> using OpenAI outputs violating their ToS is considered cheating

I fail to see how that is any different than any other training data scraped from the web. If someone shares a big dump of outputs from OpenAI models and I train my model on that then I'm not violating OpenAI's terms of service because I haven't agreed to them (so I'm not violating contract law), and everyone in the space (including OpenAI themselves) has already collectively decided that training on All Rights Reserved data is fair use (so I'm not violating copyright law either).
Editors and form validation are where this gets tricky. The user isn't just reporting new, independent observations to append to a log. They're looking at existing state and deciding how to react to it. Sometimes avoiding constraint violations with other state that they're not looking at is also important.

It often works out, but if you're not looking at the right version then you're risking a merge conflict.
> China obstructed and delayed the investigation.

You can only assume from this that whatever was going to be found would have been unfavorable to them. Although that would be the case with both the market theory and the lab leak theory.
> they couldn’t have meaningfully created the analysis for political reasons in five days

CIA has been in the hot seat for long enough to be politically sensitive. Soviet bureaucrats would notoriously produce multiple reports for every conclusion. It's not implausible that this happened here. In any case, we're talking about a partian topic with low- and moderate-confidence reports with a President who has zero chance of holding China accountable on it. Parlour talk.
The “random article” link is irresistible
Machines can't go on strike, and don't need to be ordered back to work at gunpoint. The part of the defense sector allocated to manufacturing was much bigger prior to automation.
I’d say only complete coding challenges that are sent directly from a prospective employer or that you yourself access via a coding challenge site. I’d never click on a coding challenge link posted in a social media link.
I wanted to play around with the temperature, but unfortunately o1 only supports '1' as the value.
> The lab was founded by the CIA

What evidence do you have for this claim?
I think this is the same reason why people preferred a "Call of Duty" over "Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory" when playing a multiplayer FPS. You do not necessarily want to invest a lot of time to enjoy something.

On a personal note, I really enjoyed "Dune 2000" and "Emperor: Battle for Dune" but I have never really been a huge fan of the "Age of Empire" series. Recently I tried "Impossible Creatures" and it was frustrating. I suppose for I am a very casual RTS player. Each to their own.
keyboard warrior strikes again lol. Most people would be thrilled to even be a small contributor in a tech initiative like this.

call it what you want, your comment is just poor taste.
Trump can nominate a CIA director, but cannot appoint a CIA director.

Once a CIA director gets confirmed, they can influence hiring decisions at the CIA, but that takes time.

This was investigated for a long while before Trump was even president. This was started under Biden.

Trump doesn't have that many people left to convince that China is problematic.

The CIA isn't the first to conclude this, but also the FBI and the DoE. Both of their reports came out under the Biden administration.

This doesn't appear to be a new trend or a dramatic shift in conclusion as a result of Trump becoming president.
It just makes the poor people move elsewhere, they are still around.
Earthquakes between July 2017 and July 2018
> the main intelligence agency changes its position radically

When did the CIA come out against lab leak? Everyone's been spitballing low- and moderate-confidence guesses.
No, they are. RA2 and AoE2 came out within a year of each other, and it isn’t even a contest. RA2 is fun, but it’s so much simpler, and games are so much shorter.

I still like RA2 quite a bit, but it’s not in the same league as others.
Why can't you have trams travelling at 80km/h? That's around the max speed of some of the trams used in Europe.
No, you are in alternate reality

https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/09/by-claiming-he-would-be...

Why do so many liberals overlook the vast amounts of evidence that a few bad actors in the crowd, some of which may have been FBI agents, were the main antagonists.

And that the members of the crowd that entered the capitol were lead inside by police that moved the barriers out of the way and waved them in.

AND that the mayor of DC knew ahead of time that there would be a massive demonstration and didn't bother to beef up the police on site. They were actually understaffed that day.
This might sound overly paranoid to some, but I think that most developed nations are actually at risk of becoming surveillance states in the future.

The technology is already here, and there would also be clear upsides, especially for private citizens trying to protect themselves, but the end result is that we end up in a surveillance state. Arguably, we may already be in one.
Side note: I’ve read enough sci-fi to know that letting rich people live much longer than not rich is a recipe for a dystopian disaster. The world needs incompetent heirs to waste most of their inheritance, otherwise the civilization collapses to some kind of feudal nightmare.
if you actually look at the numbers, The billionaires are by far the most criminal types. Almost all of them are either convicts or have paid hush money for sexual assault or similar. No other demographics comes even close. Maybe presidents with about %12 being convicts.

Full surveillance should be installed to every single billionaire. AI can really help us to reduce criminality and keep billionaires in best behavior.
well, it certainly sounds like we'll all be better off with him in charge of tiktok.
I know and I think the same as you, I'm just reproducing what other posters are arguing ITT.
There's already a literature analyzing this. For instance William Lazonick's 1983 Business History Review article, "Industrial Organization and Technological Change: The Decline of the British Cotton Industry," and his subsequent book "The Decline of the British Economy: An Institutional Perspective" (1987)
In short yes. That's how the raw base models trained to replicate the internet are turned into chatbots in general. Making it to refuse to talk about some things is technically no different.

There are multiple ways to do this: humans rating answers (e.g. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Direct Preference Optimization), humans giving example answers (Supervised Fine-Tuning) and other prespecified models ranking and/or giving examples and/or extra context (e.g. Antropic's "Constitutional AI").

For the leading models it's probably mix of those all, but this finetuning step is not usually very well documented.
I understand this position very well! Sometimes there’s room for trade offs, you lose some flexibility but gain something in return.

Also replacing some of CF primitives with something else later can be viable, specially if you plan for it.
It's simple, the surface of attack of their system is much larger with the mere existence of this backup scheme, even if none of their customer used it...for the convenience of a fringe of their customers (the real reason is to widen their userbase to less security conscious customers and make more money this way). They also have proven to be poor deciders in the past when it comes to protecting their customers' data. The two combined make me want to never purchase a device again from them, and made me demand that they delete all my PII from a former purchase.

If these red flags are not red enough for you, go on, use them, I refuse to recommend them anymore for the stated reasons, especially when there are alternatives with better security/track records.
It would be trivial for the Chinese to determine if covid 19 matches with what they were investigating in the lab, and if the people in the lab were among the first infected.
Them going into banking shows it is still a valuable degree,.
Every important social reform in history has violated unjust laws. Do you want to live in a society where social reform is not possible?
that is a really interesting point. if it is true, this shows direct usage of a single training data point ( cus there are no other resources talking about this fact)
How is the ZX Spectrum not a great machine? Isn't that where Elite was born?

Building a ZX81 from a kit sounds highly educational - not to mention learning how to wring the last bit of performance and functionality out of a tiny system with minimal RAM.
It rose because of his government access

And you could argue his government access is due to controlling twitter
Hopefully this helps people realize how meaningless it is to be labeled a conspiracy theorist.
The Popover API only makes non-modal popups.
I think by describing it in the starkest possible terms, one can elucidate the situation. What people object to here is the idea of being a drone, and I'm saying "you are and it's fine".
ugh, ROLLS EYES

if I could embed a video on HN I would, such bullshit.

This person probably saw the nonsensical amounts of money that was being thrown at shitty AI vcs and thought “I can put on a performance like that”
> ... giving Trump leverage in a trade negotiation.

That is a perfectly valid hypothesis. In the EU there are also doubts as to what Trump's actual goals are. People are preparing for the scenario that first Biden and now Trump are driving a wedge between the EU and China, whereupon Trump will suddenly change course and be China's best friend. (The unspoken second thesis is that the same scheme applies to Russia):

https://www.politico.eu/article/fear-and-loathing-in-davos-e...

"There’s another scenario that has the Europeans worried: After getting a reluctant EU onside with his anti-Beijing agenda, the famously fickle Trump could U-turn and end up ganging up on the bloc with his “very, very good friend” Xi Jinping, China’s president."

"There’s precedent for that: In 2020, after years of escalating hostility during Trump’s first term in office, Washington and Beijing struck a mini trade deal aiming to increase U.S. exports to China and to ease their trade war."

"Now, Trump has billionaire China dove Elon Musk in his ear — and he needs Washington to retain good ties with Beijing to keep his electric vehicle company Tesla afloat."
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“OpenAI stole from the whole internet to make itself richer, DeepSeek stole from them and give it back to the masses for free I think there is a certain british folktale about this”
Rk3588's have HDMI input (I think with hdcp decoding) that you can use v4l2 API. The multiplane API can be a bit tricky, but otherwise somewhat trivial
I'm missing the part where there has been institutional reform since then. Otherwise, the mandate and policies that fostered those affairs are still in place, no?
Do you feel the need to call everyone who disagrees with you on the Right, a Nazi?

You need better insults.
They’re good enough for gaming, don’t expect to do much coding.

They are very good for your neck, though.
My point is nobody at the CIA is winning a promotion for helping on a trade negotiation like this. It's unlikely this was politically motivated in substance. (Timing may be.)
Commercial work is different to pet projects, and, given that I have been told off for using <address> before now, I am wary of making up mu own elements.

I quite like styling the attributes, which gets me half-way to what you describe. In ecommerce we have all kinds of extra attributes for marking up products, although you can ditch that and just have a chunk of JSON+LD these days.

What happens is that I end up with great document structure and human readable/writable HTML and no CSS preprocessor things needed. However, sometimes I have things such as lots of sections containing lots of articles that contain lots of sections. I might take your tip to write '<top-category>' for those top-level sections.

When styling the elements, you tend to use the full range of elements, so a list could be a <dl>, <ol> or <ul> even if it eventually just gets styled as an <ul>. Really, semantics needs to come first, even if the presentation is just normal stuff.

I keep finding code examples where people are doing more than just using divs, which means that I am feeling more confident flexing the whole HTML element LEGO set.