skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no direct evidence. Due to the experience with SARS-CoV-1 and fear of repercussions, farmers in China mass-culled susceptible animals before any testing could take place. However, SARS-CoV-1 was traced to palm civets, and both -1 and -2 seem to be very well adapted to small carnivores. So a fur/meat farm with civets, raccoon dogs, minks, or something like that is probably a good guess for the origin.
I enjoy reading rants even if I do not completely agree with them. This is a great rant and I love that the author didn’t hold back.

Eg I quite like LessWrong from a distance, but nevertheless this description of it made me laugh out loud:

> a forum called "LessWrong", a more high-brow version of 4chan where mostly young men try to impress each other by their command of mathematical vocabulary (not of actual math)

I recognize that if that were an HN comment it’d break half the guidelines so I’m happy it’s a blog post instead!
That is only ever theoretically possible with a direct fiber connection between both nodes at <= 200 miles between.

So the answer is “there’s a data center in your city.”
the:

> people I've never voted for

Is bullshit. What about government officials from parties you haven't voted for? Or even the ones in the party you voted for you didn't vote for with preferential votes? It's the same mechanism.
If there was a single case of bird-to-human transmission, and that person went to the canteen when they were at the peak of their contagiousness and passed it to 54 others, you'd see the same impact.

You can't guess this stuff.
No, not really. When the virus gets into a person right now, it's an evolutionary dead end. There's no iteration going on there.
I’m not sure I agree. Now instead of communicating your vague idea, you are communicating a lot of detail not part of your idea.
For this book, that is absolutely what you should do. It starts you off building a simple parser and interpreter, and then has you add features to both as you progress through the book. Skipping sections can mean that you end up missing functionality you might need.
Wasn't SARS-CoV-1 from a wildlife market, not a farming operation? Factory farming wasn't the issue there if it was from trapping in the wild, but maybe cramped conditions before sale made it spread more amongst the confined animals in a similar way?
This book is intended to be a cover to cover job. I tackled it about 2 or 3 chapters at a time while building alongside. But after the midway point where it swaps to a C based byte code compiler I just read it instead.

There are books like the dragon book which cover PL design in a more reference book style. But I don’t recommend them.

If you’re looking for a lighter alternative then “writing an Interpreter in Go” is worth a look.

Also Bob Nystrum has some other good material on his blog, and a chapter in game programming patterns about PL stuff.
A field of antipersonnel mines is already a human-free military.
It claimed that version 5 supports Apple Silicon natively, but why I still saw it showed as Intel in Activity Monitor?
Well, in the instance of this book, you should follow along with the steps that Bob Nystrom writes for you. From reading it, it’s clear you’re supposed to follow along and write code “with him”. He even outlines exactly where each line of code should go, and explains why along the way.
And here's me, contracting for like 10 years now, and having zero to do with any employment laws. :D

Once you are not under them you are completely on your own, at least here in Eastern Europe.
Go Range Iterators Demystified
HeadSpin, whose founder is in prison for fraud, sold to PE firm in fire sale
I use VS Code for Javascript, Eclipse and Idea for Java/Kotlin without issues. Before VS Code I used Intellij for Javascript without issues.
R is a Lisp dialect in disguise.
If you want the real thing you have to go to the restaurant named after his wife:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sanders_Dinner_House
If you want to read every comment in a thread, https://hnrss.org/item?id=

Otherwise, though, HN itself has a terrible format that's nearly impossible to follow.
dang unflags a lot of these, but the conversation is rarely productive. I don't think it's a particular bias or attempt at censorship.

But it's probably for the best. Once it's unblocked, it becomes a tug of war on both ends to flood the site with propaganda.
A) If you're going to make a point of defining inflation as something other than inflating of the money supply, why should people care? The only reason anyone pays attention to it is because of the long term downward trends - which are pretty much 100% due to monetary creation. Otherwise why, in practice, would the value of a currency drop? And why would this sort of "inflation" in Monero be an issue?

B) The [whatever]:XMR exchange rate is quite volatile, but that is measuring real fluctuations in the value of Monero depending on what is happening in the market today. Real value fluctuations are, by definition, not called inflation.

It is like saying the price of bananas experienced 12% inflation when there is a hurricane and a banana shortage. That isn't the right term - that sort of volatility isn't inflation.
A feedback loop, sensors, and a goal; boom, AGI.

So many people are stuck on AI hallucinations. How many times have you seen something that, for the briefest of instants, you thought was something else?

"Orange circle on kitchen counter, brain says basketball, but, wait, more context, not a real circle, still orange, furry, oh, a cat; it is my orange cat" and all that takes place faster than you blink.

You didn't hallucinate, your brain ran a feedback loop and based on past experiences it filled in details and as those details were validated they stayed (still looking at the kitchen counter, orange thing unexpected) and then some details deviated from brain expectations (the orange ball is not behaving like a ball) and so new context is immediately fed back in and understanding restored.

For AGI you have to have a loop with feedback. An LLM is one leg of the stool, now add a way to realize when something it generates is failing to stand up to prior experience or existing need and be able to gather more context so it can test and validate its models.

Really, that's how anything learns; how could it be anything else?
The day we have a “human free military” is the day that every human on earth wakes up to find they just got enlisted without notice.

Game theory only works when you have skin in the game. You think the other nations’ machines are just going to wreck your machines and then go home?
https://www.politifact.com/article/2008/jul/14/obamas-wireta...
> I haven't used an IDE that has that

You don’t need an IDE for this, an LSP plugin + Pyright is sufficient to get live type checking. For instance, Emacs (Eglot), Vim (ALE), Sublime (SublimeLSP) all support Pyright with nearly no setup required.
Yes,they claim to be social media, but are actually adds.
The blue checkmarks are the price to be allowed to post an political add on the plattform.
> I am so glad that the European Union wants to protect me from bad words.

You're making it sound like disinformation campaigns driven by hostile state actors are free from any negative impact.

In the meantime, false advertisement is already ilegal in any remotely civilized country, and boosting hate speech is obviously far more damaging to a society than buying subpar shampoo.

> It's always good when people I've never voted for protect me from things I've never asked for.

I don't know what you are talking about. Every citizen of a member-state of the European union votes not only for their representatives in the European union but also for their own government institutions, and all executive positions are either elected by members of the European Parliament or by representatives of all member-states.
My children each started reading in earnest after memorizing the several pages beginning "So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!"
Terence's blog is a classic and a must. Popular because reached HN top 1 more than once
But it will have AI.
Cloud Well-Architected Cheat Sheet
> I think the fast and loose style that Python enables is perfect for small scripts and one off data science notebooks and the like.

Agreed - I only use Python for scripts like this, preferring statically-typed, AOT-compiled languages for larger programs.

That’s why I think Python should have adopted full coroutines - it should play to its strengths and stick to its fast-and-loose style. However, the people who decide how the language evolves are all employees of large companies using it for large codebases - their needs are very different from people who are only using Python for small scripts.
John Henry died immediately after winning his competition. He's like a 19th century Kasparov or Lee Sedol, a notable domino of human superiority falling forever.
What is notable here to me is how in computing we used to expect 2x improvement every 18-24 months, so for 20 years that would have meant 1000-10000x improvement. Yet almost all the increases are <1000x here.
> This runs your frontend and backend code (yes, http servers) in a local browser backed filesystem

This runs your development environment in the browser. Why not just run natively on the operating system, which already gives you filesystem access, terminals, and processes?
Skim for keywords you're interested in, decide from a glance whether or not a comment chain is just two people passive-aggressively fighting semantics (and whether or not those semantics matter to you), scroll to the bottom to see if the dead comments have anything useful to say and rescue them if they say something interesting (albeit not popular)

Don't internalize everything you read here, just a quick dip down for some interesting perspectives, and then you resurface with those endorphins and wait for the next hunt
It's not even a dream, militaries are already many orders of magnitude more capable per soldier compared to the past. That ratio will keep increasing at an even faster rate with new technologies like AI.
At least it's staying in the same vertical.
Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/GEEso
Saying that humans can be a threat and AI can't, seems to me to be a claim that humans are exempt from information-theoretic limits.

I see general-AI (given that robots already exist) as having the potential to do all that humans can do, including be harmful. Like most, I also model superhuman-AI in a trivial way, as being as capable as the best human in every field — Einstein's grasp of physics, Sun Tzu's of military strategy, Churchill's of rhetoric, etc.

> The biggest threat in the equation will always be humans who deploy tech, not the tech itself.

Naturally; but does that include humans who unwittingly set the AI's utility function with a bug in it and pressed "run", in a way that ends with us saying "the situation has developed not necessarily to [Humanity's] advantage"?
Interesting. Feel free to elaborate! E.g. do you have to pay full price for healthcare etc?
While authelia is quite cool "infra-as-code" tool, since you have your entire configuration in yaml form, for those not willing to spend a few evenings configuring SSO, there is authentik [1] which features management UI.

Offers similar feature set, also self-hostable, but most importantly - simple to set-up. I've spent 8h on authelia deployment, where 30 minutes in authentik would be sufficient. But both are good options, pick what you prefer.

1: https://goauthentik.io/
Larena: Yet another simple header only arena allocator for C
This has been a refrain for a long time now. And yet…
Dev environments? In my web app?

It's more likely than you think!
We love the look of those tin ceiling tiles so much we covered our walls with them too!
This is an advert, not an article.
Obviously Dylan is political but this does not mean the price was political. The Handke debacle seems a pretty clear indication they evaluate the litterary merit without regard to the politics of the author.
Tree structures suck for that. Linear style all the way.
I'd argue Ukraine would be better served by the ~1000 ATACMS (in service 1991-) sitting in storage with their expiration dates rapidly approaching, than by a small number of some prototype hypersonic missiles.
Point 1 is a big assumption. I am also not you, and although it's true that I have different goals, I share most of your human moral values and wish you no specific harm.

I'm also unconvinced by the idea that rapid reasoning can reach meaningful results, without a suitably rapid real world environment to play with. Imagine a human, or 8 billion humans if you like, cut off from external physical reality, like brains in jars, but with their lives extended for a really long time so that they can have a really good long think. Let them talk to one another for a thousand years, even, let them simulate things on computers, but don't allow them any contact with anything more physical. Do they emerge from this with a brilliant plan about what to do next? Do they create genius ideas appropriate for the year 3000? Or are they mostly just disoriented and weird?
Well, C++ has the likely/unlikely attribute to somewhat prefer a branch over the other in the eye of the branch predictor, and C++, Rust and some other low-level languages do have native SIMD support (note: C doesn’t have an official one, just compiler-specific ones. So in this vein it is actually higher level than Rust or C++).
There's also a really great project called eXoDOS that has 7k+ games and launches and emulates them all. I can't access their homepage, but here it is on the wayback. It's a torrent download anyway.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240126232012/https://www.retro...
Ukraine hooked up image recognition software to a machine gun because they kept losing gunners. They also can use the same tech to auto-track targets with kamikaze quad rotors. It's already happening.
But that did happen. It auto typed stuff in the editor after start.
In fact, you probably should punch a hole in the Teflon. Whenever I've taken the pads out, I've never managed to put them back on and have it work as before. Usually, either some glue or some plastic catches somewhere, and the mouse's feel gets noticeably worse.
I also hate selfie based authentication because some tasks it asks for “liveliness checks” are downright impossible for some people. For example, my smile simply doesn’t pass as a one for some reason and has prevented me from getting a bank account in the past
Nice, however there is an issue, for example add a few boxes then if you try to move one and move it as towards the others to overlap, eventually they go all the way down, outside the bounrary of the grid and feels funny but yeah. No errors showing on the console. I don't think it was the intended operation as they cover the code part.

If is not clear what I am saying, I can try to make a video or something.
Yes, good summary. My prediction is that free-threading will be the default at some point because one of the corporations that usurped Python-dev wants it.

The rest of us can live with arcane threading bugs and yet another split ecosystem. As I understand it, if a single C-extension opts for the GIL, the GIL will be enabled.

Of course the invitation to experiment is meaningless. CPython is run by corporations, many excellent developers have left and people will not have any influence on the outcome.
SIM-swapping issues don’t exist here in Sweden.
Banks here haven’t used SMS as authentication in decades.
I work for a mid-size publicly-traded software company that makes software development tools.

There's a clear dichotomy internally in choice of operating system. Corporate, project managers, and people managers use Windows. Developers and technical people use Linux (and we used to support Mac OS but that was recently dropped). Recently Corporate IT decided to move on-prem services to a Microsoft-hosted SaaS cloud, which caused some pain for the majority of employees but there was some kind of kickback or discount and some line in a spreadsheet was tortured to reveal the right numbers, so the deed was done.

Of our customers, about one third run our product on Microsoft Windows and two thirds on Linux. We certify both but only Linux gets dogfooded and support for Windows customers tends to be higher. The only people who ran our product on Mac OS when it was available were students and hobbyists and small startups whose license fees wouldn't keep our office lights on long enough to walk to the coffee machine.
That's not the hype you are looking for.

It's more that by 2040 AI/robots will be considerably smarter than humans and we can kick back while they build us palaces and yachts. Not that that will definitely happen but it's not a business as usual scenario.
There is quite a lot of evidence, it's a lie to say otherwise. I don't think there's a smoking gun, but there is a tremendous amount of circumstantial evidence.

Some of it was outlined nicely here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid...

(Although you're not wrong about the disease risks of factory farming.)
Then why are we giving the owners limited liability? In exchange for what?
It doesn't seem infinite.... after 3 minutes I was just crawling along a wall, waiting for a left turn that would expand outwards. Never came
> The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for producing "the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" with "the greatest benefit on mankind".

They should award one posthumously to Gene Roddenberry then. After all, the Federation from Star Trek is pretty much the only well-known case of an utopia that actually works in fiction writing, and the show itself is one of few examples of aspirational and inspirational writing in modern sci-fi.
This is a disingenuous comparison because the US dollar and most fiat currencies never increase in value medium to long term / "deflate" by design. The decreases in the value of the dollar are never offset, so if a basket of goods goes up 5% we bake that in forever.

In the UK I can't really think of a time when inflation has stopped or reversed for even a few months.

By contrast Monero goes both up and down. So sure, it's unstable, but it doesn't have "higher inflation", it's just more volatile.
> In that case then neither can the American left call the right fascist.

Both sides call each other fascist, usually by misapplying the term. That said, the political program of today’s American right is much closer in alignment to historical fascism (and includes some self-avowed fascists) than the American left. Which makes sense, historical fascism was always a right-wing and conservative political program.

> By definition, you just said, the moment they are church affiliated they cease to be fascists. Isn't that right?

Well no, religiosity doesn’t make you fascist, and fascism doesn’t make you areligious… there’s a big leap between church-affiliated and totalitarian theocracy. Though, again, the American right is a lot closer to wanting to establish a totalitarian theocracy than the American left.

> And if that's true then we can say the left's agenda in calling the right fascists looks strikingly similar to the one you attributed solely to the right.

Well, no… if the American left were calling the American right something like “Christofascists”, then maybe. And I didn’t say that crafting propagandistic neologisms was exclusively a tool of the right, it’s just one the right is really prone to using precisely because those neologisms appeal to the more authoritarian elements of their base. And, yet again, the American right is way more aligned with authoritarianism than the American left, which is what makes the left’s own ignorant base more prone to discord than all joining in a chant of worship to their orange god-king. Precisely the point of this kind of propaganda, really.

The real center is when you realize what direction the Overton Window is from you. If it’s too your right, then the odds are you’re yesterday’s centrist and today’s communist. In today’s America the Overton Window is extremely far to the right.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid...

https://archive.is/pyJaF
This is incredibly delusional ahaha

Just look at how popular TikTok is (it wouldn't be without its powerful recommendation model), or the fact that the majority of the world's population has to rely on translation models and subtitles to translate the vast amount of English text online. Bitcoin is never going to "revolutionize" banking, it's really just a downgrade, no privacy, no fraud protection.
It's fairly likely that covid was from the large coronavirus research lab just down the road that was experimenting on making coronaviruses more transmissible to humans
Reportedly firesaled for “cents on the dollar”, probably between $20-40m, had ARR ~$20m.

Last valued at $1.1b in 2020. In total, raised $117m since 2015 inception from investors.

Ex-CEO convicted in 2024 of ”inflating revenue 4x, making false claims about its customers and creating fake invoices to cover it up.”
Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier
https://archive.ph/A02to
If you're right - and I think you are - that people have an intrinsic
suspicion not of "AI" but how the already powerful will abuse the idea
and myth of "AI", then LLMs have been a godsend. We need hype cycles
and premature false-starts to re-orient and prepare.
The fact that a large portion of technologists are apparently unable to differentiate between creativity and the product typically created through the creative process is genuinely really worrying
OT but since it's mentioned. Has there been any new evolution in the vision pro space?

I haven't heard it mentioned since it was launched, I haven't heard over the internet about people using it at all, nor I've heard of any killer app coming the VR headset.
There was also no need to buy a case and a screen protector.
It's gone 100% perfectly and you've never ever had a shower thought where you second guessed yourself?
Seems like work from home should eventually make a dent in commercial prices.
If they're an expert in medical simulation or sonar, aren't they likely already working for a relatively small company, and one that's located near, say, a hospital center like Boston, or an ocean? That's still a service within their locale and to their local community, even if the local community is also engaged in specialty work that benefits the whole world.
"Wildlife" markets usually sell farmed animals, otherwise the produce would be prohibitively expensive.
By this logic, every TV station and website whose main revenue is ads are also ad companies, which I don’t think is accurate.
Poppies are prohibited not just in South Korea but also in North Korea, China and Singapore.
It doesn't sound like they are short saying bubbles may go on for a considerable time etc. Goldman etc make most of their money from fees from clients, not from punting the market.
Just found that out the other day, Teams has its own preference for what your standard browser is and somehow its edge
What AIs are you referring to? "If ... Else" type of AI?
Well as I understand it the goal now (or arguably 'still') outside Mozilla is just the engine, not the browser that uses it (which would have been Firefox)?

So there still needs to be some browser project like the Ladybird mentioned, or a Brave, or whatever that decides to use Servo instead of WebKit, is my understanding.

(A bit of a tangent since not a browser, but I assume Tauri will be keen to use it.)
> glad that the European Union wants to protect me from bad words

What is your view on fraud?

> when people I've never voted for protect me from things I've never asked for

Not how a republic works.