skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that time I was just clicking around in the various virology lab public facing web pages, glancing over their various research projects, the funding sources, the names of the scientists involved, it was all there, super transparent and open. I was just following my curiosity at that point, I was not suspicious or skeptical.

So I'm Canadian, and I recall reading something about Canadian and Chinese scientists moving back and forth between the Wuhan and Winnipeg labs. It was all very open and collaborative. Of course, some time later sensational and scandalous headlines blew up about Chinese spies all up in our high security bio-labs.

So I would say that if it is a lab leak, then China is culpable, the US is culpable, and they're culpable because they trusted the good judgement of the international science community that decides how labs such as the one in Wuhan are run. All parties have incentives to manage the narrative.
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> ... seems like a good idea, as long as everyone in the government isn't incompetent. For example, if we had governments with strong tech departments that could fund helping the development of...

The US had two very strong and competent tech departments -- 18F and USDS.

They got doge'd -- dismantled and coopted, respectively.
What does "one photon hits a slit and on the other side two photons come out" mean?

There is no photon multiplication happening on the double slit.
Hello, I'd love to use this but I work with highly confidential data. How can we be sure our data isn't leaking with this new UI? What assurances are there on this, and can you comment on the scope of the MotherDuck server interactions?
To be more precise, four CPUs - two ARM and two RISC. There is just a mux for the instruction and data buses - see chapter 3 of the [datasheet](https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-datasheet.p...).

It’s space-inefficient as half of the CPUs are shutdown, but architecturally it’s all on the same bus.
I’m tired of metaphorical discussions about this experiment.

Stop with the “wave particle duality”.

Stop with the “until it’s measured”.

Explain the experimental setup in grosse detail.

What do you mean by “a particle is emitted?”. What do you mean by “a particle is measured?”.

Even within the bounds of self described “double slit experiment”s there are numerous variations on how it is designed, constructed, and conducted.

Stop explaining the abstract notion of the experiment through a lens of your preconceived interpretation.

Show me data.

Show me numerical analysis.
The big tech billionaires got there by taking the same money from the government and keeping the ownership. If the government money keeps the ownership in the hands of "we the people" then that sounds good to me.
I think that "on a molar basis" is there to clarify that it's counting by number of atoms rather than grams. On a gram-for-gram basis, methane is ~75% carbon.
The experiment came first, all the rest of it came after to try and figure out why the results are as weird as they are.
Please don’t spread misinformation, there’s a HUGE difference between GPL and LGPL, and you CAN statically link with LGPL you just must provide the object files to the user so they can re-link them with any version of Qt they want.
This has been debated about glinet stuff in the past. I don’t think everything gets open sourced but it has open source code for parts of it
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I encourage you to read the government's appeal to the DC Circuit Court. It is terrifying. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69742127/01208720432/jg...

The government is saying that it can declare that transnational crime is an "invasion" under the Alien Enemies Act, and that the courts cannot review this decision. Therefore, they can arrest, deport, or transfer to a prison in a third country, any non-citizen and the courts have no power to intervene or review the decision.

Transnational crime will always exist, and it is present in many countries. So if you're a citizen of Italy and a lawful permanent resident of the US, they can arrest you, accuse you of being in the mafia, and send you to a prison in El Salvador, and you will have no legal recourse. I don't even think they would need that fig leaf since the courts would have no power to review their actions.
Have you considered the technology developed to save/help due to that drive could be and probably is, a net benefit to science?

And I am fairly certain that evolution requires much longer time scales than the 10k years of civilization humans have existed in?
Isn't it one of the 'does it matter if you didn't interact with it?' questions, and keep in mind 'observation' at quantum scales is to a good approximation synonymous to 'interaction'.
Listening to the radio occasionally today, it seems like it is primed entirely for gen x. I’m not sure how many times they play Sublime a day now but its at least three time with three different songs on a few stations in LA county.
I actually see nothing from Liang suggesting that the work is motivated by or relevant for trading. Care to share your quotes?
What I do see though are these quotes that mildly contradict your POV:

“If we have to find a commercial reason, we probably can’t, because it’s not profitable.”

“We’re going to do AGI. It’s driven by curiosity.”

“Giants have users, but their cash cows shackle them”

“It’s like someone buying a piano for a home—first, they can afford it, and second, such a group of people are eager to play beautiful music on it.”

“Giving back is an honor, and it attracts talent.”

“We won’t go closed-source. We believe that establishing a robust technology ecosystem matters more.”
Needing to do serious work would correlate with Exo having multiple publications about its design. It's a broader sense of scheduling than "reorder trivially-independent instructions", but, if you remove the "trivially-" part and replace "instructions" with "operations", it's the same concept of doing transformations that only move around when certain things happen.
Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research
> either the male is dead before he finish reproducing with the female or at least, he is not able to reproduce with other females

In addition to the sibling comment's caveats, it's worth mentioning that the latter might actually be an advantage? If the male is able to continue reproducing with an unbounded number of females, and the females are limited by how often they can lay eggs (or how quickly they can after copulation), a mutation that causes females to prevent males from reproducing with other females could potentially drown out the ability of females without those mutations to reproduce (e.g. if those females were able to copulate with most males first, they'd be the only ones to produce offspring, and there could even be other adaptions or mutations that aid them in the "first to copulate" race).
Government can and does tax its workers and suppliers.

In a bubble, there is no revenue raising difference between a government owned economy and a private economy with equal production.

Realistic differences come down to comparative disfunction of management (IMO, best considered in terms of which is worse).
So, fertility rates are dropping because men are scared of women extracting resources from them?

Too much Andrew Tate?
I want to apologize for this joke in advance. It had to be done.

We could take a page from Trump’s book and call them “Beautiful” LLMs. Then we’d have “Big Beautiful LLMs” or just “BBLs” for short.

Surely that wouldn’t cause any confusion when Googling.
I'm not interested in engaging with you further because you've now twice ignored the main point of my argument in favor of nitpicks and out of context quotes asserting that I said things I didn't say. There's no point in engaging with that style of argument. Have a nice day.
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Double slit experiment did happen and totally reproducible even then photons/electrons are sent by one at a time.

"two photons come out" part makes no sense though. On a target side, there's always single hit after single photon/electron, but distribution of theses hits as if said electron got through both slits and interfered with itself

P.S. the funny thing is - this works on any small thingy, measured up to 2000 atoms-big, as if it's the property of the universe itself
Hi! That’s a great question

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Syncing: Data is synced in real-time using secure WebSocket connections and background updates, so any changes made on one device will reflect on others almost instantly.

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Transparency: We’re working on adding a more detailed privacy and security policy to make this even clearer — but I hope this gives you a better sense of how things work under the hood!

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Politicians should not decide what is scientifically useful. Scientists should (and even then, the process is fraught with problems).
We ordered swag T-shirts for a conference from two providers, but EU provider L's were actually larger than US L!
fwiw i've added a summary of the discussion here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/67d708bc9844db151612d782
Who said anything about breathing? Where's the culture that doesn't know about wind?
Large organisations had access to subscription software long before modern SaaS, and chose to use it. In the 1990s Microsoft offered an Enterprise Agreement that operated in this manner. Support is also something that large organisations value and are happy to subscribe to.
"Funko Fusion" was developed 10:10 Games, a company founded by Jon Burton from Traveller's Tales. Unfortunately, the game got really bad reviews.
I still like Big Data Statistical Model
Yes, who can think of Los Angeles without considering its massive and all-encompassing walls.
I didn't see it in the docs, but I'd want to know the delivery semantics of the pubsub before using this in production. I assume best effort / at most once? Any retries? In what scenarios will the messages be delivered or fail to be delivered?
I don't think you need that much credibility if it's just old ideas restated in new structure.

The article is basically just "customer obsession" + "do things that don't scale". I find the 5-week framing interesting, but the concepts aren't new.
G'day mempko, I remember firestr! Very nice! You might remember around the same time (2013) I started Peergos. We're still working on it!

https://peergos.org
The simplest answer might be to change your company name.
I'd prefer to see olive sizes get a renaissance. I was always amused by Super Colossal when following my mom around a store as a little kid.

From a random web search, it seems the sizes above Large are: Extra Large, Jumbo, Extra Jumbo, Giant, Colossal, Super Colossal, Mammoth, Super Mammoth, Atlas.
I understand what you describe is prohibited in many jurisdictions, however I’m curious about the technical aspect : in my experience they host the html but often not the assets, especially big pictures and I guess most movies files are bigger that pictures. Do you use a special trick to host/find them?
How does AGPL work in the context of a non-compiled language like Python? Honest question.
As of 2025 any US-based services are persona non grata for national security reasons. Which other nation's services could the EU switch to that isn't from US?
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Meanwhile raserization is fundamentally incapable of producing the same image.
> We’d still feel like we’re making our own decisions when we’re actually being gently herded.

This part got me into a bit paranoia. We already know (e.g
based on Anthropic's research) that an AI can strategically lie to protect its long-term goal. So is there a non-zero probability that some current-day models already do so, for example by intentionally failing/hallucinating on tasks that conflict with their goals, while succeeding on others?
I don't see the appeal of having a browser interface.

You can thank work-locked machines removing any app-level flexibility. I'm not signing into any google work account on my personal phone.

Browser level access allows for multi-device multi-context (personal/work) access.

Also google docs/drive is deeply unusable when trying to organize mental spaces.
If I was not a US citizen I would be making plans to leave.

Read what the government is telling the courts in the Alien Enemies Act case. They are saying that the President can declare that transnational crime is an invasion, and arrest, detain, or deport to a prison in a third country, any non-citizen, and that the courts cannot review this decision.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69742127/01208720432/jg...
Show HN: I built an AI that gives expert-backed blood test insights in seconds
I built Blood Insight AI after realizing how difficult it is to interpret blood test results without medical expertise. Many people either ignore their results or spend hours searching online for answers. I'd just like to know if I need to worry or not...

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I mean, it all depends on what you want to assume. You can assume that a woman in this case will have more offspring, and continue reasoning from there.
There’s a chance the Trump administration can bring the US out of its massive debt hole caused by every single recent administration before it.

So yeah, it’s definitely accelerating, but the outcome has not been decided.

I’ll happily take more downvotes to point out that society hasn’t collapsed yet in spite of your feelings. :-)
They wouldn't have any way of knowing this before choosing the female.

I suppose the can develop a more advanced social structure with prenups, courts, and police, but then we're talking about millions of years.
Look up what happened to TechLead.
Opinions can vary on what is "interesting". Personally, I find LLMs extremely boring from a scientific standpoint. If they turn out to be a product, they could be extremely valuable, but if they fail in the marketplace, they don't offer any interesting insights into the nature of the universe of computer science. LLMs are a technology of engineering, not science.

What is clear though is that none of that "interesting" AI stuff would exist without the mountains of research done by academic institutions. Google may have cemented "Attention" as a concept in LLM style AI, but the math to do that didn't come from nowhere. That math isn't thought of as a "technology" because it's not valuable without some product development. Academic institutions don't do that product development. That's precisely what makes you think they're being "beaten"

OpenAI and DeepSeek are not beating academic institutions in any metric the academic institutions should care about. That's just true.
It's funny you say that, but when travelling abroad I wondered how Europeans and Japanese stay sufficiently hydrated.
It seems that the editor is supported by ProseMirror.

Kudos for their work!
Except that it isn't like that at all. All you get from the driver in terms of ray tracing is the acceleration structure and ray traversal. Then you have denoisers and upscalers provided as third-party software. But games still ship with thousands of materials, and it is up to the developer to manage lights, shaders, etc, and use the hardware and driver primitives intelligently to get the best bang for the buck. Plus, given that primary rays are a waste of time/compute, you're still stuck with G-buffer passes and rasterization anyway. So now you have two problems instead of one.
I grew up with physical encyclopedia, then moved on to Encarta, then Wikipedia dumps and folders full of PDFs. I still prefer curated information repository over chat interfaces or generated summaries. The main goal with the former is to have a knowledge map and keywords graph, so that you can locate any piece of information you may need from the actual source.
What are some example use cases where having the ability for the database to push updates to an application would be helpful (vs. the traditional polling approach)?
It can only control one set of monitor/hid but through the extension port you could wire up something for multiple computers power buttons (the ATX module mentioned by GP uses a rp2040, which has plenty of GPIOs).

I think it would be simpler to buy a network PDU (or iot plugs) for your use case, assuming the computers can be set to power-on automatically.
Isn’t big LLM training data actually the most analogous to the internet archive? Shouldn’t the title be “Big LLM training data is a piece of history”? Especially at this point in history since a large portion of internet data going forward will be LLM generated and not human generated? It’s kind of the last snapshot of human-created content.
Show HN: I built an Open-Source Cursor Agent, with Cursor
I just released a simple, open-source version of Cursor Coding Agents. You give it a user request and a code base, and it’ll explore directories, search files, read them, edit them, or even delete them—all on its own!

I built this using the leaked Cursor system prompt (plus my own guesses about how Cursor works). It’s missing a few features like code indexing, but it still runs smoothly on the latest Sonnet 3.7 thinking model. Everything is minimal and fully open sourced, so you can customize it and add your own knowledge. If you’re curious about how I built it, I made a full step-by-step video tutorial. Enjoy!
Whoever is paying for it, usually. Ideally, the existing body of knowledge helps find the next set of questions which need to be investigated. If your funding source doesn’t like your current set of questions, you reframe them or find a new set of questions. That’s why it’s important to have funding sources of all types, so different types of research topics get funded.
This will not be popular, but I think the real problem with tech these days: too many software engineers.

Used to be just 40k comp sci graduates in the US per year, now it’s 150k plus and growing. Everyone wants tech money, but nobody wants to write all this damn code.

We have people in this industry who have no real love or passion for the engineering and the science, and soon they will become the majority. Vibe coders and prompt kiddies are not satire, they are a real thing. A lot of incoming graduates would not consider this field if it wasn’t for the money and remote work opportunities. They are not like the true enthusiasts who would still be doing this even if it didn’t pay well. We need to gatekeep harder. Crush people in interviews, make it damn near impossible to get in a company unless you really want it. Redirect people to other careers like finance or sales and marketing.
My paranoid self believes that this is 100% happening.

Perhaps not by the models offered in the web interface, but the research teams at those companies are surely working on extremely powerful models that are never seen by the public
search is the #1 feature I use in our corporate slack (huge, huge instance).

without search it's useless.
This doesn't hold at all. Path tracing doesn't "just work", it is computational infeasible. It needs acceleration structures, ray traversal scheduling, denoisers, upscalers, and a million other hacks to work any close to real-time.
lol, go play Cyberpunk 2077 with pathtracing and compare it to raster before you call it a gimmick.
> there is no concept of "species" in nature, species is an arbitrary grouping we humans apply

The results of a cluster analysis are not arbitrary, even if the exact location of the boundaries can be a bit fuzzy.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do something more interesting with EFI. It’s extremely capable and could easily host a minimal recovery environment that would be invaluable in many situations, particularly on laptops which might be out in the field away from recovery tools when things break.
such a large part of what's going on extends directly from billionaire tech culture - Musk, Thiel, A16Z - this culture is where things like "we should annex Canada and Greenland" come from. It links closely to "countries should carefully engineer the racial makeup of their nations" as well as "Democracy is obsolete" - both concepts that require draconian and centralized authoritarian control over the lives of citizens both immigrant and non-immigrant alike, as we see now taking place in the US at breakneck speed.

Hacker News is to some extent in this extremely rarefied zone where billionaire tech culture reaches out into the broader tech culture to find new recruits as well as where potential recruits seek connections to this club. This is why I think it's very important that "the other viewpoint" is presented here. Being a tech billionaire is inherently political; you can't be a tech billionaire and claim you aren't a heavily political figure (seriously, PG did a post on the evil of "Wokeness" of all things and the 1000+ comment thread went strong for days). HN's claimed desire to be "non political" is a ruse meant to favor the politics of tech billionaire culture to the exclusion of all others.

edit: and there's the flag. please disperse, citizens!
Hey everyone,

I'm Larsen and I've been a software engineer for 5 years now, but I recently started building my own apps. Blood Insight AI is one of my first projects, inspired by my own frustration with how difficult it can be to understand blood test results without a doctor.

The idea is simple: AI-powered insights backed by expert data, so people can get a quick, understandable breakdown of their results and see if there is anything to worry about.

This is an early version, so I'd love feedback. Have you ever struggled to interpret blood test results? What features would make a tool like this truly valuable?

Also, I’ll be in SF soon! If anyone wants to meet up and chat about AI or related topics, let me know. Always happy to exchange ideas.
Their first significant monetized product will be a Discord Nitro-type subscription for accounts that will enable HQ media, more allowed media posts, visual gimcracks, etc.
Israel owes them something because they control the territory where they live. If you are fine with countries anexing territories and then discriminating people based on ethnicity, then no, they don’t owe them anything.
So large large language model?
Check out Hamsters.js[0] for a another convenient parallel processing library.

[0]: https://github.com/austinksmith/Hamsters.js/tree/master