skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please see my other comment that provides links to a study that shows: yes you get the best price from a broker using pfof

Your argument seems reasonable but isn't borne out empirically

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378516
They have been around as a significant service provider for over a decade in a highly regulated industry. Ask anyone in the brokerage world and they will not care if there’s a Wikipedia entry. They are a huge player and have been for a while.
Fidelity has a few direct indexing products.

Here is one that is $5/month: https://www.fidelity.com/direct-indexing/customized-investin...

I'm curious if Double has any advantages over this offering other than price. While I'm not personally interested in direct indexing, if I was I would absolutely be willing to pay the extra $4/month to do it at Fidelity vs some unknown startup.
What a great attitude for doing math no matter with kids or just for one's fun.
That’s just silly. What mechanism do you believe makes healthcare fall apart in a larger country but not, say, the larger EU? Similarly, these alleged major problems don’t seem to show up in stats where residents of those countries live longer and healthier lives at much lower cost, and medical bankruptcy is rare.
> so funding them doesn't have the same issues with misaligned incentives

Not exactly.

China is federal, and funding comes from both local government and central government.

This can lead to local governments burning money on less successful ventures because of the close nexus between leadership and local politicians. China still has a severe problem with Access Corruption for this reason.

Also, at the Central Government level, ministries and SOEs will have their own funds and competing interests which leads to the occasional backstabbing

The collapse of Tsinghua Unigroup and much of the investments from Big Fund 1 are a good example. Big Fund 2 is only just closed recently, so it will take a couple years to judge the results of that batch.

After the 2015-16 market crash, China basically migrated towards a State Capitalism model with SOEs and Governments (local and central) acting as fund managers. This has pros in the sense that you can act quickly on political directives, but this has massive cons in that your incentives are aligned with keeping your direct managers who are political/party appointees happy.

Political Incentives (local or federal) might not always align with what's best for a product or company. EVs are a notable example of that, with private BYD and Tesla out-competing every other state funded EV and car manufacturer in China.
Feeding the last layer back as the input embedding has been done many times, e.g. Transformer-XL. The models are trained like this, it's not like they're taking a pre-trained Llama and just feeding it to itself. It's a simple, computationally cheap mechanism to add feedback.
I'd suggest people dig into their specific country's data too (at the bottom)

For the US it is here: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/survey-of-adults-skills...

Though the US is near average, man, that's really hiding some data there. Things that stood out to me:

In literacy, 28% of adults (OECD average: 26%) scored at Level 1 or below, meaning they have low literacy proficiency.

In numeracy, 34% of adults (OECD average: 25%) scored at or below Level 1 proficiency

In adaptive problem solving, 32% of adults (OECD average: 29%) scored at or below Level 1 proficiency.

In the United States, average results in 2022-23 went down compared to 2012/15 in literacy and numeracy

Again, these results are near the average. But still...? I wasn't expecting that ~1/4 or ~1/3 adults had these issues or that we were going in this direction. Yes, the reasons are flamewar-able, of course. Still, these data points are, to me, stark.
Any "shelf-stable" or "no-stir" peanut butter (aka Jif brand) will likely contain sweetener and also palm oil.

You don't have to make your own peanut butter but it tastes even better than a good peanut butter like Kirkland/Adams/etc. Some stores allow you to grind nuts on-site (almond/peanut) and charge you for the output.
> That was a quick end to that conversation, because of how insane it is to suggest giving up human rights for money.

It is insane when you write it out kike that, but this is further complicated by money providing extrinsic motivation, and caring about human rights being intrinsic, at least with our current economic system and jurisprudence with laissez-faire approach to human rights violations (see wage theft for a direct example of the insanity). C-suites are more worried about shareholder lawsuits than they are about those from either consumer or employees.

My suspicion is that there's active filtering that prevents those who "overly" care about human rights from climbing too high up the leadership ladder at for-profit organizations.
That nobody respects is is a false statement. Some do. Also that header permits users to signal sites if they want or not to be tracked, avoiding cookie popups.

Edit: I just saw that Firefox supports GPC, which seems a better alternative to DNT.
Drug dealing isnt a financial crime
Those were called "choose your own adventure" books.

On an early version of my personal website, I created one of these, but as the reader, you could reach an unwritten section. Your reward was that you got to write that page of the book, and the choices (or ending) that the character received.

I seeded a few pages to set a story, and then let the readers go wild. It was pretty fun.
Can you (is it okay to) TLH assets that you have separate holdings and purchases of in IRAs or 401ks?
The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
> Here’s an example. I have a program that does a lot of memory allocation and reallocation.

It's likely that if memory allocation overhead is part of your bottleneck, that using malloc() is actually a bad idea. Other management strategies such as arenas or rolling buffer will likely perform better. They're also trivial to implement ad-hoc.

Of course, you might arrive at the conclusion that the complexity overhead of custom allocation strategies[1] might not be worth it, but in this case, it means speed is not really an issue.

[1]: as well as, maybe, the necessary redesign of the application to fit those allocation strategies more elegantly.
To those, like throwaway on this thread, who say " Give it 5 years and this "AI slop" will write better than your best trained journalist. Get over it."

How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?

AI can hoover all that up and rewrite and expand, but surely there will be a need to have boots-on-the-ground?

If so, who pays?

I am already seeing AI giants using local media copy in output with $0 paid for the knowledge and information.
Totally agree. It's very hard, especially since when writing fiction, and the kind of fiction I wanted to write, there are a lot of things you doubt about yourself: is my style as good as I wish? Are my stories and my characters strong enough, with the right motivations? And I bet many of this ingredients are still there even when writing technical books if the goal is to do a very good job. Teaching in written form, with a book, is like a long story that must fit, chapter after chapter, sentence after sentence.
If journalists want less slop media then maybe they shouldn't go around having their identities stolen by scammers producing fraudulent articles pretending to be from a legitimate news source.

What you're complaining about is that real journalism costs money to produce, but fake journalism via AI is vastly cheaper, so really it's the journalists' fault for having to pay bills and eat food. The journalists "perform worse" because they have to get paid, and because they're writing articles to be truthful and enlightening rather than appeal to SEO algorithms.

What a disgusting and useless take.
I don't mean this in a critical way to you but, man, this makes me so sad to think about. Models making money from lonely people so desperate for a connection that they pay to chat with someone and then they don't even end up chatting with a human at all.
That it should exist because one (and there's probably not many) consent managers actually understands and uses this flag is not a strong point in support of that feature.

There's better ways to protect your privacy that don't rely on a best effort voluntary flag that you send to advertisers and hope they accept it.
Hey there, supabase ceo here. I did a cmd+f for "HIPAA" and didn't find it anywhere in your description. I don't mind whether you use supabase or not, but please make sure that you take care of patient data. Everything you do should be HIPAA compliant.

The number 1 feature of your project should be security. Supabase is just Postgres + tools - it will be as secure as you decide to make it.
the vast majority of (non-native) react applications require a back-end, at the very least to deliver them to users

htmx-powered applications can be local-only via service workers[1]

i think there is a sense in which htmx vs. react is apples to apples, in that in the common case they are used to build web applications that talk in some manner to a back-end system. On the other hand, it is true that react does require additional support code in order to do that communication.

Regardless of that latter fact, and the fact that htmx does not require a server, there is a large overlap in practical applications that might be built with either, so it is good to know the strengths and weaknesses of both for comparison.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
I posted elsewhere in the thread, but Fidelity does direct indexing for a flat $5/month fee.
The courts don't have to care. There is a good arguement that amazon (unlike ebay) is trying to hide the seller and so should be seller.

Mostly amazon has deep pockets and can be brought to court.
Funnily enough, same question is often asked of devout Muslims, since your average loaf of bread is 1-2% ABV, and the answer is also yes, yes you are.
as someone who has been trying you guys out for the past 8 months... you need a speed lever. default devin is way too slow for me :/ i asked scott for a "demo mode" first time we met
Indeed. The project had continuity. The trademark exited the building.
When the initial SQLite3->LibSQL fork was announced I was pretty negative about it because SQLite3 has a wonderful, 100% branch coverage test suite that is proprietary, and so without access to that any fork would be bound to fail.

However, if there's a big product behind the fork, and even better, a rewrite to a memory-safe language, then the fork begins to make a lot of sense. So, hats off to y'all for pulling this off!
Is that a financial crime?
Hackernews has a “second chance pool”, where the mods decide to reignite topics where they feel there was no enough deserved attention.

Or… it was just resubmitted.
In section 2 they briefly mention studies such as [1] that point out that the token outputs of a chain of thought aren't always entirely faithful to the responses of the models

I'm not sure whether it wouldn't be more reliable to let the model run on latents and try to train a separate latent-reading explainer module that has at least some approximation of what we want as an explicit optimization objective.

Assuming it actually is or has the potential to be better than CoT, from what I gathered from the paper the current results are mostly just more efficient token-wise.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388
Wikimedia foundation could audit the admins who defend each other on a tit or tat basis and attack newbies.

My lifetime achievement is getting one those assholes banned.

Exactly as you say - rules dont aplly to them.

Also using the "standards" to delete everything even when fully cited, while their own articles are slop.

Not to mention people who edit good articles just to have more edits. Often for the worse.

The worst trend recently is putting 5-10 paragraph quotations in articles. Often by some randoms (self promotion?). Those look like articles written by 5th graders.

Wikipedia should be concise!
Haystack Editor uses a UI of inter-function control flow graphs, but lacks the ability to "summarize" surrounding code. (In my usage I found it was buggy, and useful for tracing a specific level of knotty code, but had issues relative to traditional IDE tabs/panes for both small files and flipping between multiple "aspects" of a system.)
>> One similar product is M1 Finance, but Double is more powerful. We offer tax-loss harvesting, a wider range of indexes, and greater customization. For example, when building your own index, you can set weights down to 0.1% (compared to M1's 1%) and even weight by market cap.

+1 on the comparison to M1, and congrats on your release @JJ and @Mark
> Nepal’s flag is a popular one among flag obsessives, who refer to themselves as vexillologists

I'm not even into vexillology, but that description is so offensive that the shockwave offended me as collateral damage.

While it may be true that vexillology isn't a strictly defined academic field, calling people who are interested in it "flag obsessives" is quite demeaning — all the more so considering that not only are fans of vexillology not necessarily "obsessed", but also that one can well be obsessed by flags and yet have no knowledge of vexillology.
Odd accusation. OPB may have some bias, but it's definitely not "AI slop" territory.
Man, the evil that was done to diets by the sugar industry in the 80s is still paying dividends.

Saturated fats, like anything, are bad in excess. However, avoiding them completely is bonkers - and leads to people replacing (ok) fats with additional eating - mostly with sugary snacks.
I'm definitely going to check this out for MSFS. Thanks for sharing!
That vector sets design outlined towards the end of the article is delightful - it's exactly the kind of API design I appreciate from Redis over the years: simple, elegant and feels obviously correct to me.
Be sure to check the privacy policy on your default keyboard. I've been burned by that before. The default keyboard on my last galaxy phone was sending every single keystroke to a third party and checking their privacy policy showed they used that data for things like market research, guessing at my level of education, building a psychological profile, detecting my interests, etc. and that they in turn shared that data with others.

I switched to AnySoftKeyboard and although the auto-correct/spellcheck is way worse (understandable since they're not collecting every word everyone's typing) the customization and terminal mode are great. I'd occasionally code on my phone in termux (the largest program written on that device was only around 2000 lines) and it did the job.
>I think it implies that it did way more than it did, so it was just a faux feeling of security.

Flipping that bit increased your browser fingerprint a smidge, ironically :-)
Some other animals

| Animal | Lifespan | Breeding Frequency | Potential Generations They Can Witness|
|---------------|-------------------|----------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| Turtles | Over 100 years | Every few years | 10-20 generations |
| Whales | Over 200 years | Every 2-5 years | 20-30 generations |
| Koi Fish | Over 200 years | Multiple times a year | 30-50 generations |
| Elephants | 60-70 years | Every 4-5 years | 10-15 generations |

Forget about trees, which breed annually and you can find 10-100+ generations around a mother tree; fungi (similar); or bacteria, which can witness 1000+ generations in its lifetime
> can't SQLite be partially rewritten step by step on the main branch

Only by the SQLite team. They don't accept contributions of anything other than spelling fixes and such.
Since you don't have a realistic alternative should those hold up?
Looking at that example, I too feel it's a thought process I could go through once or twice. I think this highlights an important difference between humans and LLMs: a human can think such things explicitly in their head, or on paper (I do it in text editor more frequently than I'd care to admit), once or twice, and then it sticks, quickly becomes more of a "system 1" thing. With LLMs, the closest to that outside training/fine-tuning would probably be prompt caching. It would be great if we could figure out some kind of on-line learning scheme so the model could internalize its own thoughts and persist them between conversations, but in the latent space, not prepended as token input.
Reduction rules (1) and (2) correspond to those of K and S, respectively. Reduction rule (3) corresponds to the elimination form for a Scott-encoding of a datatype like `X = Leaf | Stem X | Fork X X`. The cases of rule (3) are essentially parsing the argument into one of these three forms, and dispatching on the result.
> Does a hung jury not just lead to a retrial?

A hung jury leads to a mistrial. After a mistrial, the prosecution has the option of trying the case again, but it gets harder (you’ve got more time from the events, a more-tainted jury pool, etc.)

Also, if there are multiple charges, and the jury reaches a not guilty verdict on any charges, that may impact the ability to refile other charges, or make it harder to try them if they can be refiled, because any fact that the jury necessarily rejected in an acquittal is finally decided by that acquittal.
what do you mean with "on the main branch"? i doubt that migrating from c makes sense for their constraints and expertise, you would not want someone to come into your house and change your furniture.
forking is the right political and technical approach for this team.
also rust does not support a lot of sqlite target platforms
Very happy to read this from you, Simon!
Given the code quality and rigid testing, SQLite is probably the last project that should be rewritten. It'd be great to see all other C code rewritten first!
This isn't new. News Corp has been 'innovating' since 2023:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/01/news-corp-ai-c...
They take so much money yet use none to acfually police wikipedia.

They dont even bother to search for sock puppets.

Or make admin edits anonymous, so admins can be judged
The lion's share of people I mute on Twitter are VCs.
Courts can be against it all they want, it is still legal and well within a juror's rights. I'd never expect a judge or attorney to raise it as an option, but at the end of the day it is.

Jury selection throws a wrench in the system, lawyers have a chance to ask questions under oath and get rid of jurors for most any reason. As i understand it, its pretty common for them to try to ferret out anyone that may go the nullification route.
I do see a need for multiple implementations of SQLite3. First there's the need for multiple implementations for the reasons given by the LibSQL folks, second there's the need for a memory-safe language implementation of SQLite3, and third there's the need for a native language implementation for languages whose runtimes really want not to have C involved (e.g., Go).
That's where grid-scale energy storage comes in then. Or at least a less volatile battery chemistry. Not every solution has to be individual unit sized
> Where are you going to find a jury where nobody on it has the same grudge for more or less the same reasons?

By having a filtering process before the jury is empanelled to identify that.
"Game Programming Patterns" has been of huge help throughout my career and it's always my go to recommendation for new game programmers and reading your comment makes me feel even more grateful that you made the effort of writing it, thanks for writing such a great book!
> Why isn't that approach ever used to validate these quantum computing claims?

Hossenfelder’s linked tweet addresses this head on [1]. We need four orders of magnitude more qubits before a QC can simulate anything real.

In the meantime, we’re stuck with toy problems (absent the sort of intermediate test algorithms Aaronson mentions, though the existence of such algorithms would undermine the feat’s PR value, as it would afford cheap takedowns about the QC lacking supremacy).

[1] https://x.com/skdh/status/1866352680899104960
SQLite is open-source but not open-contribution – they don't accept contributions of that sort. They follow "cathedral" style development and invented a whole alternative to git for that purpose https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/43c3d95a/www/fossil-v-git.wi...

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rewrite your patch from scratch.
I was in the same boat. I gave Claude a try, just to see what I was missing, and I ended up never returning to ChatGPT except to generate pictures (which Claude can't do). Give it a try for a month. It's worth a shot. They have improvements beyond just generally being smarter. For instance, Claude can _edit_ a prior code block rather than just emitting a new one. It can build React components and show them to you, rather than just giving you the code.
I sincerely hope your kids will never read this.

They will never forget.
But others use it as a signal. You are easier to track by the dishonerable with it. Meanwhile the honerable were probably not tracking as much [no way to tell but a reasonable guess]
Am I the only one who laments this trend of using a common first name as a product name? When I see this, my first reaction is that the company lacks any empathy for people who have the name they're co-opting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...

https://archive.is/w8r58
> We know exactly how China is winning.

An anti-intellectual campaign in the late 1960s [1] that eliminated almost all university education, except for in engineering (as engineering served the Great Leap Forward's goal of increasing agricultural and industrial production) ? Combined with a deliberate purge of the previous ruling class?

Thus creating the conditions for the country to be led by Jiang Zemin (electrical engineering, National Chiao Tung University) then by Hu Jintao (hydropower engineering, Tsinghua University) then by Xi Jinping (chemical engineering, Tsinghua University) ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Old_Ninth
How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?
I have a couple of first name second name Gmail accounts and I regularly get odd emails (like about my new bike bought in New York - never been there). It seems to be mostly either transcription errors or people trying to see if there is a verification process. Never had any actual problems, though a pet may yet still not have had it's treatment (I did my best).
Learning to leverage AI as it exists today takes effort, but is usually worth it.

However, ignoring the effort undercuts the distance these products have to go. Speech is great because there is just a single interface to integrate with. Obviously I'm biased to my employer's speech product, but I'm sure there are many.

Biggest thing for me was when I saw that the lem editor[0] posted on hacker news[1] was a small editor, which has 3 top level features: common lisp API, LSP support, and copilot support.

I've installed gptel[2] in emacs, and hacking up a few tools that really make it shine. Up next is figuring out voice + AI + emacs :)

[0]: https://lem-project.github.io/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357409

[2]: https://github.com/karthink/gptel
Agreed that users need more baseline protections.

Separately, privacy signals are being required by law in some regions. If we're going to have browser level privacy signals in the first place, we might as well support and use them as intended.