skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I felt like my wife ended up with all the money"

Congrats, that's marriage. My wife and I have mostly separate finances and she still ends up with most of the money because she doesn't contribute appropriately to the bills.

Seems like spending and priorities can be a problem whether the finances are combined or separate. At the end of the day, someone has to pay for housing and save for retirement. Even if the accounts are separate, it's still "our" money, but many people don't get that.

" I believe that the details of your financial structure are less important than the process of communication and accommodation you establish around it."

This is what it comes down to.
Mostly admission of liability. The longer they can argue that the government deemed it safe, the harder it is to sue them for knowingly contaminating water supplies.
A hand-written SIMD wc is likely to be even faster than a state machine, but at the cost of orders of magnitude more work. The huge advantage of state machines are that they are a relatively generic approach that provides massive speedups nearly every time. A SIMD wc algorithm is a significant effort that can't be generalized, and is only likely to provide a 4x speedup or so: rarely worth it except in cases where the task is a performance hotspot for a lot of applications.
> (i) physicsts don't want to give up the beautiful and geometric simplicity of 1/r^2

Not a physicist here, so maybe this is a naive question: but is this really something that they care about? Why does a formula describing some physical principle have to beautiful and simple? Aren't we supposed to observe reality and then come up with the math? Rather than start with a "known true" equation and add factors and parameters it as more and more observations call the equation into question? Who's in charge of the direction physics proceeds? The observing scientists or the mathematicians?
> No, you aren't suppose to be able to see how the word-count works by looking at this code. The complexity happens elsewhere, setting up the state-machine.

This is like most of the reason I opened this article. I wish they'd spend more time talking about this. In fact, most of the README covers details that are important, but, irrelevant to their algorithmic improvements.

Maybe they expect you to open up the code, but even there the comments are largely describing what things do and not why, so I feel you need to have some understanding of the algorithm in question. For example, the parts where the state table gets constructed rather unhelpful comments to the uninformed:

/**
* Build an ASCII row. This configures low-order 7-bits, which should
* be roughly the same for all states
*/
static void
build_basic(unsigned char *row, unsigned char default_state, unsigned char ubase)

...

/**
* This function compiles a DFA-style state-machine for parsing UTF-8
* variable-length byte sequences.
*/
static void
compile_utf8_statemachine(int is_multibyte)

Even `wc2o.c` doesn't delve into the magic numbers it has chosen. I was hoping this repo would be more educational and explain how the state table works and why it's constructed the way it is.

Does anyone have a good resource for learning more about asynchronous state-machine parsers, that also could hopefully help explain why this is better than just iterating over characters? I'm guessing maybe it's the lack of branching?
>> If you turned all of what’s been made into cling wrap, it would cover every inch of the globe.

An interesting analogy but cling wrap is famously thin. Here is another perspective:

Worldwide plastic production is estimated at just over 400,000,000 tons, or 400,000,000,000kg. Not all plastic is the same but its density is roughly equivalent to that of water (once all the air-filled plastics like Styrofoam are crushed down). A cubic kilometer of water weighs in at 1,000,000,000,000kg, roughly double the world plastic problem. (someone please check my math ;)

So yes, you could wrap the entire planet in a layer of cling film. But you also could dispose of all the world's plastic in a single 1km x 1km landfill piled 400m deep, which would be barely a dot on the map and certainly a far better solution than dumping it in the oceans.
Spotify has a 12bn budget? What are they spending it on? Does it include licensing fees?
Show HN: I made a macOS app to spot differences in images instantly
Beautiful software that too open-source.
I guess if you kept the total calories in line, it would be fine? It'd be interesting to know either way.
it's not a conflict, it's a feature

/s
What stops them from just charging 3% more? Kinda sounds like an awkward sales tax?
This presupposes that conscious, self-directed intelligence is at all what you're thinking it is, which it might not be (probably isn't). Given that, perhaps no amount of predictors in any arrangement or with any amount of dynamism will ever create an emergent phenomenon of real intelligence.

You say emergence is a real thing, and it is, but we have not one single example of it taking the form of sentience in any human-created thing of complexity.
> My point is that you can't have corn that is as nitrogen-fixing as a legume and still produce nearly as much corn - the plant (or its microbes) will need the majority of the available photosynthesis products to fix nitrogen. This directly makes the cobs smaller.

I can believe that. However for people who don't want to use nitrogen fertiliser, this might still be useful.

You can see it as an alternative to clover (or manure), that happens to produce eg a bit of grain.
Idk potatoes are pretty great.
Thank you! It's my co-founder Viktor who is the designer!
All nutrition science is junk.

This is like arguing about chiropractic or homeopathy papers. The field is diseased and you are wasting your time if you read or analyze individual papers.
Show HN: Wealthaire – Talk to Your Finances
generative ai powered platform to let users understand their finances
3.6 ppb, not great not terrible[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YDV6vC2qo
one might also position it this way: “most people probably don’t feel the need for a document like this because they believe their preferences are the default for most people.”
i think the reason people like arvind stopped using surnames was that, in india, surnames had come to mean far, far too much. now that he's dead he can't protest against mit news foisting a surname on him
Reminds me of this sample from the Lwan project: https://time.lwan.ws/blocks -- where the clock is rendered on the server, and new frames are sent to the client using chunked encoding.
That's not a fair characterization of the Western or Eastern districts. Those districts actually hold claim construction hearings before a motion to dismiss. Whereas other courts will dismiss a patent for being non-patentable without having ever construed its terms, which is nonsensical. Yes, trolls go there because they will get a judge that wants to litigate a patent case, versus about any other district where there is a good likelihood you get a judge that will do anything to not have to deal with the substance of a patent case.
> A constitution kinda is that - limits on what laws the country can make.

Right, but constitutional changes can be unmade or superseded. Even in a notoriously conservative country like the US, constitutional amendments are repealed on occasion. And a lot of other countries’ constitutions get complete overhauls every now and then, at which point the details of the previous constitution cease to matter. So the fact that something gets to the constitution does not mean that nobody can discuss it, ever, it just changes the process of doing it.

I don’t know if any country where a draft law is rejected because it was too similar to another failed proposal. Although I wouldn’t put past the English having something like that in a dusty corner of their constitutional hodgepodge.
What was cutting edge in 1990 is very far from it today.

Sending up Hubble II and Hubble III would of course not mean that Hubble I stops being used.
1/r^2 directly comes from how much area an object spans your field of view vs how far away it is. To a paraxial approximation, of course.
I'm a Wisconsinite and I approve this message.
Orban is a true liberal - not a fake liberal. He opposes government control of private communications.
why would someone pick opus at these prices?
Except you look at what they are spending on the entire SLS infrastructure vs what they are getting (vs other science options and/or space exploration options) and basically your mind is blown at how wasteful NASA is.

SLS is a $2-$3 billion per launch DISPOSABLE rocket. The orion capsule is going to be something like $20 billion(!). I think things like launch abort and service module with all the propulsion etc are also disposable.
I think this is but a detail in the context of the article.

Yes, you can implement your state machine on SIMD sized states, but there are also millions of other optimizations you can do like that, aligning your reads, prefetching the file, parallelizing, etc.

Doesn't change the core concept
Arm is aiming for ~50% of the PC market in 5 years. Mediatek's Arm laptop SoC should be released next year. AMD and Nvidia are also rumored to be working on Arm laptop SoCs.
If I had to give up cheese I would probably have a very sad rest of my life... I try to consume it in moderation tho
The Commission agenda and mandate is set by the Council that nominates it, and periodically reviewed by the same Council. Items are set in meetings, the agenda of such meetings is typically public.

If the Commission pushes, it's because the Council told it to push.
In the "simple and interesting language" front we also recently got a post about Forsp, a hybrid between a lisp and Forth: https://github.com/xorvoid/forsp

What is the simplest most interesting language?
Adobe has some top-tier software though and they keep improving it. It's like a senior leader at my company said - "Oracle's a terrible company but their stuff works". This was during a discussion of another company's software that was also a black box and didn't even work well.
Ask HN: How to write effective cold emails?
I'm a tech founder looking to improve my sales skills, specifically in reaching out to potential clients. This isn't about mass-spamming people, but rather about reaching out to relevant profiles and asking for genuine feedback.

What kind of email would you respond to? Any tips or examples would be greatly appreciated!
I understand that. But the migrants also need housing and food while they wait. I am absolutely for some kind of immigration. But not for "everybody that comes here will stay". And absolutely for trying to engage people into european society. Fundamental islam is a real thing. Second generation of immigrants is getting radicalizes and european union needs to do something with it. And if somebody accuses me on hating islam, i dont like all religions the same.
It's much simpler IMO to explain autism as what happens when the brain systematically overreacts to surprising inputs at every level. The reason e.g. stiff faces and list-making would go together is that they're both coping mechanisms to reduce the probability of being surprised by anything. This would also explain social difficulty, the desire for rote social rules, the focus on special interests (e.g. fields of knowledge that can be mastered and therefore predicted), and when combined with the predictive processing theory of motor control, could also explain difficulties in motor control as being a predictive processing failure.
Traffic analysis also exists.

"Every time a message goes from X to Y, suddenly Y does (thing) a day later"

And then investigate from there.
Good point, thank you. Upvoted.
This is impressive. I just tested a debug problem I encountered in real life, which previous models including got-4o can’t do. Claude 3 sonnet nailed it in first try.
Metaphors dawg
https://archive.today/XnsUO
>It basically seems like the risks involved aren't necessarily worth taking right now, seeing as Hubble is technically doing just fine.

*https://www.space.com/jared-isaacman-hubble-space-telescope-...
Cello! In fact, a few years ago I quit my software job to study cello full time in a masters program.
I've been daily driving Linux for maybe 10 years, and I see all these pushes for "lets make it easy. no cli!" as counter-productive. The cli is the interface on unix based systems, and the more time you spend learning fundamental knowledge like that instead of some ephemeral, unportable skin for the cli, the better off you'll be.
Mastodon ships with a web client that’s enabled be default.
It kind of is a feature. I had a boss once that owned the building to the business and charged rent to ensure zero profit.

It's like life is a realtime monopoly game I'm learning tactics all the time.
Koyeb Announces Volumes Technical Preview
> The general feedback we got talking to folks in the industry was that 100 GB

and then user discovers that DuckDB is plagued with OOMs and dramatic performance degradations when his data is slightly larger than memory.
Oh, I certainly believe there are plenty of households that don't have any devices that play back optical media.

Apart from some very old laptop (which might or might not work), my household doesn't have any CD nor DVD nor Blu-Ray etc drives. No car either, so we couldn't have a CD player in there.

I just doubt these optical-drive-less households like mine form 99% of all households.
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Depression Quest (2013)
Hacking pycjail with Python specialized bytecode
which systems do you think are better?
Completely disagree on getting rid of .mjs, .mts, .cjs, etc. This has actually solved a lot of the problems we had of mixed module loading IMO
Though at least with that it would presumably be open in that you could do mock tests against the LLM and see how it reacted. I would probably never write politically incorrect stuff for a human academic examiner if I wanted to pass the exam.
Most people are smart enough to do most things, in my experience. Whether or not they're motivated to do those things, that's a different story.
Years back I went to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with a date and stumbled upon an Arborist competition happening. I knew of the word Arborist but was ignorant of what that entailed and wound up learning a lot.

The competition had an Arborist get their climbing line strung up and anchored, climb the tree to touch 5 flags dispersed around the tree within a set time limit. The flagged branches had bells tied to them so they had to be nimble as well as fast. Touching a flag earned them points and ringing a bell cost them points. Of course one flag was located far out on a thin branch making it very difficult to reach without ringing the bell. They also had to do no damage to the tree in the process.

It was very interesting and I was talking to one of the competitors who explained their profession and how they travel around climbing trees for a variety of reasons from forestry and conservation to basic tree pruning. They are also required to be certified and that is handeled by the International Society of Arboriculture (I.S.A.) He also mentioned "target pruning" which is a term I was unaware of so I learned something. It certainly seems like an interesting and fun profession. I need to hire one to check out my big oak that is in need of a trim.
I stopped following GNOME and Linux drama so I can't name the people, there was the designer that had no idea what XFCE is, the PR guys that were lying that GNOME has no File Picker with thumbnails because it is not the GNOME way and later it surfaced that they would love the feature but they are incapable of implementing it.

So the GNOME guys were explaining the GNOME way to upload a image, it was something about using the File Manager to browse the iamges and then D&D the image in the browser and they claimed that it was the superior way (like all GNOME workflows all are superior).

The guy that refused to allow GNOME to be customized, he wanted like Apple to force the superior GNOME color scheme and wallpaper on users, he failed to see that the hard core GNOME fans are split in distros and each distro has a different brand color and the "superior GNOME experience" where a guy chooses the best color by forcing it on everyone his personal opinion was dropped a bit, though there is still a group of big egos dudes that are still trying to force apps to not be customizable.

Also I did not named the big ego KDE Plasma guy even if I still remember him, and his stupid refusal to give us the option to hide the cachew, don't want to name hi, probably he forgot by now about his assholery and hopefully is not an asshole with other people still .
that website/project looks pretty dead
Good essay with many great points, for example:

> Business rules engines are little Conway’s Law devices: a manifestation of the distrust between stakeholders, customer, and contractor. We require BREs so that separate business units need not talk to each other to solve problems. They are communication and organizational dysfunction made silicon.
I don't understand the point of your comments.
Tbf, the German government also committed to a No vote on this proposal, so at least they are consistent.
Immigration is good in general and inevitable on mass scale. People will not understand why they are confined to a single country from birth.
Did we actually complain about a Chinese freedom of navigation activity? I think the US vigorously supports the right of all countries to send a carrier fleet to hang out in international waters wherever…
"Sometimes works, but can also blow up at runtime after any upgrade" seems to me like a "pragmatic cure" that is worse than the existing "disease" of needing to treat all ESM imports as async and/or migrating all uses of `require()` to `await import()`. If incrementally moving a CJS code base to use `await import()` in more places is too hard then you probably have other problems you've overlooked for too long (bad promise usage, callback waterfalls, etc).

(But I'm a hardline "all you need is type=module" sort and think a CJS=>TS emitting ESM "rip off the bandaid" approach to CJS legacy libraries works and is fundamentally easier than most of the "pragmatic" solutions to CJS/ESM interop. It is past time to jettison CJS out the airlock.)
Hobbyists who collect barf bags
It's either https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/112905, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/84366 or (most likely) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860.

It can be argued that those are bugs of the compiler, not the language (but in practice that doesn't matter, it's unsound in the only way that matters now!) and that it's very unlikely to be hit by accident (but someone can leverage it intentionally to cause unsoundness in their library, without the presence of unsafe).
His reasoning is very flawed and this book is responsible for a lot of needless consternation.

We don’t know how human intelligence works. We don’t have designs or even a philosophy for AGI.

Yet, the Bostrom view is that our greatest invention will just suddenly "emerge" (unlike every other human invention). And that you can have "AGI" (hand-wavy) without having all the other stuff that human intelligence comes along with, namely consciousness, motivation, qualia, and creativity.

This is how you get a "paperclip maximizer" – an entity able to create new knowledge at astounding rates yet completely lacking in other human qualities.

What has us believe such a form of AGI can exist? Simply because we can imagine it? That's not an argument rooted in anything.

It's very unlikely that consciousness, motivation, qualia, and creativity are just "cosmic waste" hitching a ride alongside human intelligence. Evolution doesn't breed inefficiencies like that. They are more likely than not a part of the picture, which disintegrates the idea of a paperclip maximizer. He's anthropomorphizing a `while` loop.
You mean picking each ear/grain by a single device? rofl
What rock have you lived under? Are you not aware that Apple has bought a lot of its technology? Siri and iTunes just off the top of my head.
I've lived in five countries on three continents. And am currently still living half a world away from where I grew up.

It's fun, but it's not for everyone.
>but I don't really find the intellectual capacity of mice to be particularly interesting.

But you should find their self-direction capacity incredible and their ability to instinctively behave in ways that help them survive and propagate themselves. There isn't a machine or algorithm on earth that can do the same, much less with the same minuscule energy resources that a mouse's brain and nervous system use to achieve all of that.

This isn't to even mention the vast cellular complexity that lets the mouse physically act on all these instructions from its brain and nervous system and continue to do so while self-recharging for up to 3 years and fighting off tiny, lethal external invaders 24/7, among other things it does to stay alive.

All of that in just a mouse.
Boeing crash families demand record $25B fine
I moved away from the front-end/React world, but until a couple of years ago, Svelte was the darling and the future of F/E development and now it's htmx.

I don't want to start another framework flamewar but was it something in particular that people stopped talking about it?
Recommendation on a better Chile article would be appreciated.
> This state machine approach always results in the same speed, regardless of input.

This is strange to me, shouldn't it be O(N) with the size of the input ? Or maybe in this benchmark the inputs are small enough that the difference isn't measurable ?
> Van Deelen tried to submit the letter to court in his effort to disqualify Jones from the bankruptcy case involving his lost investment. In a court hearing, a Kirkland partner argued that the letter was unsubstantiated and moved to exclude it as evidence. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur, Jones’s former law partner and a court colleague, sided with Kirkland. He denied Van Deelen’s request. Jones later signed an order to permanently seal the letter from public view.

Amazing when the person who is supposed to help and be impartial to deal with matters involving another judge turns out to be a former partner and also involved in the grift and then silenced him.

Always works out that way in these stories.
Bounties are tough imo. You quickly run into goodharts law where everyone just looks for loopholes or how to satisfy whatever requirement as easily as possible. With markets we know that everyone involved is better off for partaking. With billions of dollars on the line you better believe the pharma lawyers will find some way to get the bounty with a suboptimal product. A bounty on QALYs would probably be the best method, but that makes it difficult to commit to a sum before development.
Housing prices have gone up a lot even in places with low immigration and low population growth.
> They're still hyping up the threat of Covid in the article for God's sake.

And the article states why we should still be paying attention to Covid.

To wit, I personally know three people diagnosed with Covid in the past month - all right here in the United States. Every single one of them were fully vaccinated. Two are fine - suffering the "normal" Covid issues. One is in the hospital, and while they've made progress in getting the disease from getting worse, they're not out of the woods yet.

Also, so-called "Long Covid" is turning out to be worse than we'd thought.