skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that expert opinion in recent months have been converging towards the lab leak theory. Consider this opinion piece[0], which points out some notable differences between the previous outbreaks of coronaviruses that had natural origins to Covid.

I'm not sure whether GP really wants to believe that Covid has man-made origins like you claim, but I think by now with all the evidence that has been released into the behind-the-scenes workings of Dr. Fauci et al[1] we can all agree that in the early days, a consensus was deliberately manufactured away from the lab leak theory. Moreover, there is clear public interest in discovering the true origin as well as preventing this type of politicization of the scientific process in the future.

What is your theory as to the most likely source?

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid...

[1]: https://www.public.news/p/fauci-diverted-us-government-away
Oh :(

I thought ImGui was a regular GUI library.

Why are people even mentioning VB6 and Delphi then in the comment threads?

Possibly because they made the same assumption that I made :)
> but shutting yourself off to the what's happening in the world is somehow worse

I see this point sometimes, never qualified further. Can you elaborate? In what way will my quality of life diminish if I have no idea what's going on outside of my local area? Provide an actual example.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Stop_Killer_Robots
I don't want to be that dude, but the tect seems AI generated. Cool product though! I'll give it a go
That's exactly what it is: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/subway-comes-up-with-5...
Customers refusing to pay inflated prices and suppliers losing business from closed retailers is exactly how markets regulate pricing.

I'm sorry for the disruption to the people displaced but not every single restaurant is entitled to revenue.
Actually nothing there always be daily free scans, maybe with a limit.
I mean. Should be doing that anyway. Code doesn’t just exist for the computer, but also for humans who have to maintain it.
I think you're confusing "simple" and "easy". One task vs two is simpler, yes.
I mean, there's a very straightforward way to have that work for you:

Just get bought by Disney.

I'm sure Disney would be happy to control more parts of the world, too. Everybody[0] wins!

[0] "Everybody" includes only those under Disney's corporate umbrella. No consideration is given to the welfare of the rest of the world. Winning void where prohibited. All rights reserved, including yours.
We also spend around way more per capita on health care than any other country. I bet both health care and defense expenditures could be reduced significantly if they were run with at least a little efficiency and less profit making by middlemen.
I'm particularly excited about FUTO funding Immich [0], a photo management app similar to Google Photos. The money allowed the FUTO devs to go full-time [1]

[0] https://immich.app/

[1] https://immich.app/blog/2024/immich-core-team-goes-fulltime/
Bernoulli Numbers and the Harmonic Oscillator
> Moths aren’t just pretty to look at; they’re also important pollinators and a major source of food for birds and bats. But moths, like insects overall, are declining in both raw numbers and species diversity. Eckerman says recent studies have shown at least a 30 percent decline in insect abundance around the world over the past few decades. The likely culprits are pesticides and the loss of habitat to urban development. A threat to insects such as moths is a threat to the plants they pollinate and all the creatures above them in the food chain.

It's amazing the drop in biodiversity of insects that comes from habitat destruction, monoculture, pesticide (ab)use. As a kid we'd drive across the prairies and have to wipe literal goop off the windshield and side view mirrors at each gas station...

We planted native prairie plants throughout our yard roughly sequenced that something is always flowering. This morning I saw at least a dozen wild bees on one bunch of goldenrod* and nothing on the annuals next to it.

* https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services... (not invasive for my region)
Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds
it would be nice if America could do the minimum that the rest of NATO theoretically agree to and spend just 2% of GDP on defense. Right now that figure is 2.9%.
$19/year is very reasonable.
> So like... it's all extreme these days? $40 for two cheeseburgers makes Subway seem tame in comparison.

That's the delivery price, right? Pick-up price is $24 https://order.toasttab.com/online/calibursf
Well, he's saying if you don't have a passion for Computer Science then maybe taking 4 years of computing science isn't going to help you. I think if you don't know what your passion is, it doesn't hurt to take a couple of courses in Computer Science.
How did Malta get drinking water in ancient times, without streams, rainfall
Everyone I don’t like is a potential terrorist.
Conformal Sets Part 2, Estimating Precision
That isn't ethical, that is a magical fairy realm where everyone else has 0% profit margins and you get 100% of the profit.
Golike error handling in JavaScript and Python
> we hold teams accountable to delivering the milestones on time and on budget

Holding someone "accountable" means firing them very quickly for a drop in performance. This is hard in large companies for many reasons.
Simpsons did it https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E21/284016
I just listen to No Agenda, a veritable news source by composting most news sources.
Visual Studio is nice but I vastly prefer Rider, even on Windows. It feels bit snappier, especially when you're comparing Visual Studio + Resharper versus Rider. TBH this is probably a matter of what is familiar though.
True, there's some irony in that...
> Then I tried some Fibonacci with tail recursion and surprisingly that worked too. I'm impressed, because often when people reimplement the Python interpreter they get those wrong.

Huh? I thought Python didn't have TCO anyway. Guido had a whole blog post about why it supposedly doesn't belong in Python: https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elim...
Crazy that LLMs are able to do that when they’re not even trained on visual data.
But if I could just go to Amazon directly,presumably they'd offer support, how do I give you money.

I just don't understand how for-profit company can develop true open source software. You can have a non profit foundation and a for profit support studio. Godot effectively does this.

Plus if you've taken VC money you can always get voted out in a few years. Or just have a nice exit. I wouldn't be mad at anyone for taking a large payday and retiring. But then the for profit company is free to change the license.

It feels more straightforward to use a proprietary or copy left license from the start.
Your company exists to make money, and I think most of us can respect that. We just don't want to start building our projects off of open source software, that converts to some other license years down the road.
Thanks for noticing this. Just pushed up a fix!
Apropos of the other reply, you can't compare GrubHub/Uber Eats/etc. pricing to "Subway/etc., in store".
The NFL Kept Its Most Advanced Data Hidden for Years. Now It's Finally on Sale
What Makes Things Cool? (2018)
> Also, there is no "program" here, in the same way that coding HTML is not programming, as vector graphics are not supposed to be Turing complete. And where they pulled the "symbolic" from is completely beyond me.

Aren't HTML and vector graphics descriptions both data structures that could be interpreted via a Turing-complete interpreter? I don't see the difference between HTML and a C AST in this regard.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I think we need to play around with some different terms. A few others have suggested "personal homepage builder", or something similar along those lines.
I still have my childhood IIGS. It sat in my folks’ poorly insulated attic for two decades before I rescued it, and it booted up on the first try! They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
I hope it's OK to hijack the thread a bit: could you please tell me whether you'd recommend the Open University?
I think I might be interested in one of their Mathematics MSc. I don't know anyone personally who's gone so I'd love to hear what you thought of the experience please.
Micropayments can work.

They have to be micropayments though. That means show me the headline, a brief synopsis, and if I want to read the full article I pay a few fractions of a cent.

The problem is that most services want to make a killing without doing any real work. Automated ad feeds, new services etc without any internal reporting doesn't provide a service that people want or need. Also, people are not going buy dozens and dozens of services at $5/month to $20/month each. Even a buck a month is too much when you get beyond a certain point.
Why are you making conference posters?

Good luck.
Federal spending on transportation, education, health, and social services outnumbers defense spending by over 4 to 1.

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

And in my opinion, compared to the first half of the 20th century, pax Americana is well worth that 13.5% chunk of the budget. War is also bad for health.
Oh god also the brother died of brain tumor and she has children. I would be terrified for them, makes me think it's genetics
Second and third paragraph talk about using a vector as an underlying storage, but mention that 'if you store data in a vec its address might change all the time'. If you hold indexes instead of references to the vector cells, what does it matter if the vector changes its location?
if you read the charges against galileo or bruno, specifically what they're accused of is dissent from church dogma, and many of the specific dissenting opinions were in fact scientific truth. in galileo's case, their epistemological grounding was also entirely scientific in the modern sense

it's probably true that if they'd been easier to get along with, they would have gotten away with it. but a reasonable crude definition of 'scientist' is someone who cares more about the truth than about getting along with people

so your argument boils down to 'the church wasn't harassing scientists [and burning them at the stake], but rather harassing scientists [and burning them at the stake]'. and that's because they were not, in fact, interested in truth wherever it was found; specifically, as you acknowledge, they were not interested in finding truth in the opinions of bickering italians with good egos. in galileo's case, the church very much failed to live up to philippians 4:8, and continued to do so until 01992. bruno's case is still live

other authors in whose writings the church was not interested in finding truth, and in fact in whose writings it prohibited its adherents from seeking truth, include machiavelli, pascal, descartes, francis bacon, diderot, gibbon, erasmus darwin, and kant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_and_works_on_t...

we're not talking about the period until 01758 (at which point heliocentrism officially stopped being heretical) but until 01966

that's not even including the authors whose inclusion in the index librorum prohibitorum was eventually reversed, including galileo himself, copernicus, and kepler

here in my own country of argentina, public education could not be instituted until 01862 because of the strenuous opposition of the catholic church

in short, your account of a church that did not oppose the forces of science and enlightenment is entirely false from beginning to end

as for the greek tradition, it very much did not fizzle after aristoteles; eudoxus was another student of platon, sure, but eucleides was a quarter century later, archimedes didn't die until a century later, and ptolemaios and galenos were almost 500 years later. i recommend reading lucio russo's the forgotten revolution, which makes an excellent case that there was a sustained scientific enterprise in pre-christian hellenistic europe

and, of course, today there is a sustained scientific enterprise throughout the world, and most scientists in the west are not christian; about half of all scientists are atheist or agnostic, with the numbers being much higher in the west: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/237802311666435...
I love it when people who have been actively engaged in an arguement, suddenly turn around and say its pointless.

It takes two to tango, and I am only defending my opinion and trying to clarify the meaning of the OP. You seem very concerned with what I think and my opinion about semantics. Sorry you had to go, I had lots more to say that would have no doubt interested you.
Database Startups
>> Apple, Blockbuster, Toys "R" Us, or Enron

This is such a great point. Blockbuster stores were so ubiquitous, and I never thought streaming would be a thing considering the state of the internet back in the late 90's, early aughts. Toys? Who thought a toy store would ever go bankrupt? And Enron were heralded as pioneers in the idea of buying commodities on demand and how this was going to change all kinds of different industries with their business model of how they sold their wares. Enron was considered light years ahead of companies in the energy sector.

At the same point, Apple seemed to be, like you said, constantly failing, moving backwards, and essentially looked like it already had one foot in the grave when every other company was seemingly destined for a lifetime of success.

Having experienced the rise and fall of all the companies you listed; I think a lot of people are unaware of how destabilizing the internet has been for companies who were unable to grasp how seismic the changes that were coming and didn't move fast enough to adapt.

I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well?
> I think we need a better term than monopoly, that separates it from what people usually mean which is 'the best product'.

I think the problem is that people don't know what the word means. We don't need to redefine it, people will either respect the importance of definitions of we'll just lose the next term for a monopoly as well.

For anyone following along, Google is a monopoly because they are the market leader in multiple overlapping industries and product lines. They choose to leverage those products together to fain a competitive advantage that no one competing with a single product can reasonably compete with.
What do you need that for? It’s not really cheating when it’s going into a product, if it works it works. In a hypothetical ideal corporate environment wouldn’t it be preferred if one could save company time by copy and pasting?
Grubhub has price markups, service fee, delivery fee, and tipping that might be skewing the comparison compared to walking in to Subway. The base Subway price has gone up relative to the less expensive tier of real restaurants. And it's not only Subway.
SSH-OIDC
I think you mean taking an Uber.
Is not really difficult to find this amount of biodiversity on most wild temperate gardens. With some effort you can easily have a collection of two thousand species of plants on a middle size garden if you want, plus animals attracted by those plants.

On tropical ones the number should be much, much higher.
In my experience its all about adapting, and the people that dont are the ones who have their heads stuck in the ground and get left behind.

But we can agree to disagree, thats fine. Thankyou for the respect :)
> From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf.

This sort of thing concerns me. So if Wolf has a change of heart, suffers some sort of financial catastrophe, etc., then... the project just dies, and any project depending on them for a significant portion of their funding has a crisis?

> a few talented engineers can produce delightful software that rivals anything big, established firms can produce.

Sort of, but... not really? In my experience, more resources means more polish and more scale. It's the usual 80/20 problem: with a small team you can get to 80%, but the last 20% bogs you down forever. Certainly large teams come with their own problems, but that last 20% is hard.

In general, though, I love the idea of this. One thing I really want to try out is the FUTO keyboard: I currently use the stock GBoard on my Pixel, but would prefer something that just doesn't connect to the internet at all. I'm curious to know how well their swipe-based keyboard works (GBoard has become so hit-or-miss lately with that), as well as their voice recognition (Google's is of course famously good, but I don't love the privacy implications of sending all the things I might say to my phone to Google's servers).

Still, though, privacy-wise: why should I trust this guy? I like what he says on the website, but I've never heard of him, and don't really know anything about him.
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It's bread.

The fact that they freeze and ship the dough probably has something to do with the quality...
> but not every single restaurant is entitled to revenue

As much as I am a fan of small business, I see this attitude from a lot of small business owners as their businesses are closing. One near me on Facebook literally said this in one of their final posts (and I get it, emotions are high):

> It is sad to see that our dream with so much potential collapsed because the community wasn't willing to support it.

Like, excuse me? We're the reason your dream died, because we didn't financially support it? I missed the part where that was our responsibility.
In recent years they changed the menu, jacked up the prices, and can't seem to keep staff that are willing to clean tables and bathrooms in any location.

I haven’t eaten at a Subway in a good ten years, and one of the reasons was because they were often dirty-looking (or just outright dirty). So from my experience, it is not just “recent years”. As for the rest, meh, they were a serviceable option, but never all that great. Meaning that for me at least, it didn’t take much (menu change, higher prices) to start looking for alternatives.
At this point I view fast food as a laziness or convenience tax. Like food at an airport, only people with no other options would opt into it (an exaggeration sure).
What if we swap the computer vision solution for a genetic sequencing solution? Can DNA tests can do moth identification at human-level performance?
Waymo's driverless cars honk at each other, waking neighbors
Can you explain how any of the data was already public?
>every bit as clever and complex as us

5000 years is a long time for adaptational/behavioral selection in the comparatively - compare to other large mammals - dense society. During the well observable last couple centuries we see significant changes in the average human height, aggressiveness and testosterone production, socials skills, even IQ level noticeably drifts over just few generations being the subject of economical and societal mass-selection process. You can't just dismiss the selective effect of mass culling events like wars, revolutions, Inquisition and similar societal level massive behavioral-based selection processes adjusting the society for specific traits (for example Russian revolution killed several millions most educated people, and later Stalin "adjusted" the society by killing several millions of people who tended to be less-conformists), executing over the centuries or later putting in prison significant number of people with specific social/behavioral traits, etc.
The Christian Scriptures actually include something of a counter-example to this, in Acts 19:35 and following, where an angry crowd is settled by being reminded that the statue in their temple _fell from the sky_:

"When the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: 'Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from (Zeus/Jupiter)? Therefore, since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly. For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of (y)our goddess. Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another. But if you have any other inquiry to make, it shall be determined in the lawful assembly. For we are in danger of being called in question for today’s uproar, there being no reason which we may give to account for this disorderly gathering.' And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly."
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I'm more curious how they think LLM's can imagine things:

> To understand symbolic programs, LLMs may need to possess the ability to imagine how the corresponding graphics content would look without directly accessing the rendered visual content

To my understanding, LLMs are predictive engines based upon their tokens and embeddings without any ability to "imagine" things.

As such, an LLM might be able to tell you that the following SVG is a black circle because it is in Mozilla documentation[0]:

<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="50" />
</svg>

However, I highly doubt any LLM could tell you the following is a "Hidden Mickey" or "Mickey Mouse Head Silhouette":

<svg viewBox="0 0 175 175" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50" />
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" />
<circle cx="150" cy="50" r="40" />
</svg>

- [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/cir...
Four-wheeled Furbies.
I've been enjoying HFY on yt and manga recaps on yt, makes good podcast type content. Also some of the books I listen too are about 6 months behind the audiobook release, so I just use TTS so I can listen while I work/drive.

Audio is great when you multitask, and with the current tv shows lacking in good sci-fi content, books are about the only choice.
So much hype for a lock-free MPMC ring buffer. If you're familiar with the concurrency literature you'll see that nothing here was novel even at the time.
I'm just so baffled by this entire situation. The man's wife had an allergy which the restaurant workers allegedly reassured they can accommodate for, and then they managed to include enough allergens that her epipen did nothing. In response to this, Disney lawyers are arguing the man has no right to a wrongful death suit partly because he signed up for a Disney+ trial on his PlayStation 5 years ago (which included an arbitration clause)

Whatever amount the man is asking for surely can't come close to the reputational harm this situation is causing Disney. Disney's argument also shows being a pirate is the legally safer option here because you never have to accept any arbitration clause!
No, the EU accelerated the timeline but Apple was already en route to USB-C.

It is also worth noting that Apple had already started transitioning some of its products, like the iPad and MacBook, to USB-C before the regulation was finalized. This suggests that Apple was likely already moving in that direction, perhaps due to the technical advantages of USB-C, such as faster data transfer and charging speeds, and the growing adoption of USB-C across the tech industry.

So, while the EU regulation might have accelerated the timeline or made the decision more definitive, it’s possible that Apple was already planning to make the switch eventually. In the end, it seems like a situation where consumer interests and regulatory goals aligned, leading to a positive outcome.