skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, and as good a place as any for the thread to sprawl from, so I'll ask: it depends on how you know the stock is going to shoot up the next day, right? Trading on private information isn't illegal, and there's a huge variety of ways to acquire private information at varying levels of confidence, and in a sense the purpose of the markets is to aggregate everyone's private information to estimate a price.

So a scenario I'm curious about:

Say you're, like, an employee at DataDog, and you're involved in a long-term M&A discussion with Cisco that you know is competitive (I've had the pleasure of witnessing one of these at Arbor Networks). Things are looking great, you've picked up a bunch of strong signals that Cisco is definitely going to make a move, and then: the talks fall apart.

Knowing Cisco, you immediately reach the logical conclusion that they're about to acquire your biggest competitor.

You have no fiduciary duty to Splunk whatsoever. Cisco is, if anything, hostile. Buying Splunk options that are valuable only if Cisco acquires doesn't impact DataDog at all.

Have you violated insider trading laws if you buy the options?
Yea. Maybe not "destroy" but "bring down to the lowest common denominator." To be sure, there's a market for media everyone can enjoy... I just hate how they seemingly have to find existing franchises to do it with.

But now that I'm thinking about it... seems to be every single company these days. Soooo disappointed with the Witcher. Huge fan of the books and games. The first episode I knew it was gonna be bad. The color grading and general vibe was that of _any_ generic fantasy show on netflix. It wasn't gritty and I didn't get a "eastern european culture/lore" feel more like a "how can we make this appeal to the most people possible by turning all the dials to average." Aggressively middle of the road fantasy from such great source material, ugh.
So whip out that Amex and get cracking pal
The "Government needs to know all about you" is a technocratic conceit less than 100 years old.

I remember, as a kid, when Canada rolled out the Social Insurance Number, only for tax use! Now it's used for everything.

And later... health cards! Used to be, you'd just wander into a hospital.

Now you need endless id for everything.

50 years only!

It's really absurd.
Sounds like you’re talking about Element Web or Desktop here. On Mobile, we just rewrote the app as Element X and it addresses almost all your concerns (other than per-room nicks, although ironically Element Web does have that today - try the /roomname command).

Having got Element X out the door, my attention at least is going to swing back to Element Web. In terms of encryption disasters, we are about to switch Element Web’s crypto to the same rust implementation as Element X, hopefully next week - you can track the progress at https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/21972#issuec.... Hopefully this will make a much-needed massive improvement on encryption, while also speeding it up 5x or so. On Element X, encryption failures are almost unheard of (other than when talking to Element Web).
Can you point to a single csp installation the produces equivalent power to existing coal plant 24/7? Would it work in the US Midwest or North East?
what was the issue?
this is honestly way cooler than the OP tweet
> Analog is hard, and quite different from digital.

In the infamous words of Bob Widlar [0]: "Every idiot can count to one."

[0] For those who don't recognise the name, Widlar was a legendary analog designer - along with Jim Williams and Bob Pease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar
Whenever we see a big mistake on these fields, it becomes a scandal. Whenever we see a big mistake in tech companies, it's just part of the daily news.
Show HN: Photos Backup Anywhere' – My First Mac App for Photo Backups
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Cups are a volumetric measurement, not a mass measurement. 1 cup of flour == 1 cup of butter in the same way that 500mL of flour == 500mL of butter. You just don't normally measure flour in mL.

This is confusing because there are fluid ounces (usually labeled as FL OZ) which are a measurement of volume and are subdivisions of cups (a tablespoon being 1/2 FL OZ, 8 FL OZ in a cup) while there are also just ounces (OZ) which are a subdivision of pounds which is a measurement of weight. Which, weight and mass aren't necessarily the same things.

Because cups are a volume measurement, 1 cup of brand X flour might be a different amount of grams than 1 cup of brand Z flour. Still though, 1 cup brand X == 1 cup brand Z == 1 cup butter == 1 cup maple syrup, when measuring in cups. Different amounts of mass, same amount of volume. Loads of people cooking at home don't really care that much, or they'll just standardize on one brand of flour so its pretty close every time. Or for the majority of the dry goods for baking they'll end up buying some form of mix to use that's already measured they just need to add butter/oil/eggs/water/whatever. Professional bakers and those who really care will use scales and go by mass/weight for their measurements and not by "cups" for things like flour.

Here's an example photo of a pretty typical stick of butter:

https://sweetsandthankyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Mea...

They'll pretty much always have marks for tablespoons. Some of these other markings on the wrapper will vary from brand to brand. Each stick is 8 tablespoons, which is 1/2 a cup. They are then sold in a box of 2-4 sticks, which is either 1 cup or 1 pint (a pint being 2 cups). Like this:

https://images.heb.com/is/image/HEBGrocery/000113910-1

I greatly prefer this pre-graduated way of selling a product like this which is pretty much the standard of normal butter sold. There are other butters and margarines which are sold in tubs or odd sized blocks, but those are usually marketed as "spreadable" butters or have things like honey or other stuff mixed in and really more like spreads rather than stuff you'd normally cook with. Not that you need imperial units to have pre-graduated packaging though, just saying its nice having it.

Its bad when a recipe calls for like 1 cup of peanut butter which is sold in jars by weight. Absolute mess trying to measure it by volume.
FhEVM whitepaper (homomorphic encryption for blockchain) [pdf]
At the end of the article it says

"InfluxDB said in March this year it had solved the cardinality issue with a new IOx storage engine."

Does this mean that in the end it wasn't really necessary to switch to VictoriaMetrics' offering?
Can you say more? Like describe what your experience with it was
LOL no, it's not a little faster than python :D

I just showed you that it's possible to generate native code ahead of time but you ignored that. Now you've moved on to the "next" objection. Anyway, good luck with your life.
Has there been empirical estimates of the true cost of damage caused by the Experian incident?

If a major company got liquidated for extreme negligence, even once in a while, security would be much more in the forefront of executive's minds.
React Server Components made our site a lot faster
Requiring protocols for interoperation results in more competition in implementations, which is often the better scenario as far as users are concerned.
Someone made over 40,000% return this morning from a trade placed on this news yesterday (before it came out). Strange.
I'll point out the related concept

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=schizotypy

which has quite a few papers in the research literature but the concept has not escaped into clinical practice. (e.g. there is a “schizotypal personality disorder” but it’s not used that often, I’m not quite sure if I want to say I have a PD, it seems it was used way too much in the former USSR)

The classification is controversial, particularly it's not really clear that schizotaxia is something you have or don't have (taxonic) or whether it is something dimensional that you might have more or less of.

Schizotaxia is believed to be a neurodivergence that is genetically determined, schizotypy is the personality organization that you get when you fail the Turing test in Kindergarten and get treated accordingly. See also

https://www.amazon.com/Loners-Life-Path-Unusual-Children/dp/...

This book comes the closest to telling a coherent story but it is completely bought into the taxonic approach

https://www.amazon.com/Schizotypy-Schizophrenia-View-Experim...

and he completely denies the possibility that you could find something positive in schizotaxia/schizotypy and also doesn't answer my emails. Other than that there are a few conference proceedings that have a few that is more balanced but muddier.
TL;DR: they don't work either.

See the Boeing 737MAX fiasco for reference.

Regulations are pretty easy to circumvent with enough money it seems.
Per the legend, atlantis was a chain of islands connecting Europe and America; when the last one of those sunk, Sahara had risen, turned into a desert, and the tidal waves washed away Egypt.
Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma
My Hue lights have never been connected to the Internet, so they'll never have to worry about this. I use my own Perl client: https://www.floodgap.com/software/huepl/

I might not buy another base station again, though, if this gets enforced at that level.
A lone billionaire pulling the plug on regional jobs is just another Tuesday.
The development of better power technologies is ~necessary, but not sufficient, to eliminate coal (and other carbon-emitting energy sources). There are all sorts of friction effects which can delay a migration to clean power even when the economics are favorable, so direct efforts to push the decision forward are an important piece of the puzzle.
We sold our technology to IBM back in the day (EJB era) and the deal involved a "break glass" option where they could pay a pre-agreed fee at any time if they ever needed the ability to modify our source code.
Is liability insurance viable?

Software can be installed on billions of devices. Even a low liability could be financially ruinous...

Especially for open source.
Sorta on-topic, some credit cards do have insurance coverage that lets you get an airfare refund if you applied for a visa and it was rejected.

Not sure how this will go here for applications in progress.

And what the airlines will do if their traffic takes a dive.
> Yes, because nobody wants to run a business at a loss.

Which is why some important services (like the post office) shouldn't be run as businesses.

> The fact that the airplanes were often nearly empty under regulation and nearly always full when unregulated is pretty strong evidence they were serving a far larger number of customers.

They are serving a far larger number of customers in areas A and B while now serving zero customers in areas C D E F and G. It might be far better if fewer people in areas A and B could fly if it meant that more people in the other areas could.

Airlines aren't stupid they are just doing everything they can to deliver the least to the public while charging the most they can extract from the public. Also, it isn't as if the changes airlines made to fill up seats couldn't have happened under regulation, or even that they never would have.
The impact on the immediate victim and family members pales in comparison to the large scale impact this can have by driving a wedge between nations that ought to be friendly and allied.

I don't wish India and Canada (and the West) to be unfriendly for one bit, as the result of this misalignment could be a more severe return to bloody Cold War era and its related proxy wars. Many more victims will derive from democracies not being on good terms and showing a strong unity.

The only winner in this spat is whoever benefits from India and the West being driven apart.
It's a Guardian article. You get used to it...
Cyberpunk 2077 2.0
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know why there are no web app stores. It's sort of weird. I guess everyone did commerce on their own sites and then things like Shopify showed up.

Will take the comments on board about vertical displays. And totally get the point about firebase and payments in bitcoin. We'll probably have an onramp from credit cards soon.
Sometimes its easier to trade the right to buy/sell something than to trade the thing itself.

It’s less obvious with stocks because there’s a pretty streamlined system for taking delivery of the stock ownership but with physical goods or real estate sometimes actually changing ownership triggers a lot of regulatory or tax or process things.

For example, with real estate if you actually buy it you’ll need at minimum to get insurance to cover if any trespassers or workers get injured on the property. Lots of paperwork to transfer the title/deed, and you might be on the hook to help sort out future title / deed / survey errors. But if you never own it you save the headache of all these things.

For buying commodities you need a safe, regulated warehouse/tank to store it, handle all the ohysical logistics, etc.

By buying and selling the right to purchase the things you can delay the actual purchase until you find someone who can and wants to actually deal with the ownership of the thing.
I haven’t used Hue bulbs since their first products, so I can’t really compare, but I have had no problems with IKEA bulbs or switches in terms of quality and features.
My only issue is that their Tradfri outlets are too big and poorly shaped. I can only fit small plugs next to them (in US outlets).
Show HN: Build your own custom AI code interpreter
Cute quote, but sometimes it really is everyone else.
Try using accessing the video via Invidious (FOSS YT frontend): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TyGhg8BmECw
Zuckerberg's philanthropy project plans AI system for life sciences research
It just feels like a casino, where if you win you get sent to jail. No risk for the house. No upside for the gambler.
Which side of the effort are they throwing money at?
Does anyone know how would this possibly affect intern return offer… Still no news about return offer yet…
Sorry. As per the sibling comment to yours, we made a decision on Element Web/Desktop to rip out the old encryption implementation and replace it with matrix-rust-sdk’s crypto implementation about a year ago, and while it’s due to land next week, it means that some folks have had a miserable time in the interim.
insider info on mergers. Control of info on M&A is a constant worry for any corporation. And anyone who works in it has to get the lecture from Legal about how you cannot profit from it, so don't try.
The vast majority of security breaches, large and small, start with someone clicking a link to a malicious place from an email that probably wasn't even that sophisticated. How does rewriting the entire world in rust fix that?
Same goes for memory inspection in browser code. So much is revealed it is not even funny!
End of the day, ICE cars are getting more reliable due to emissions controls, and EVs are much more reliable. So the ongoing revenue stream for car companies (service) is a dead business.

The "why should we care" is the same as many other things -- the car company is going to use technology and tracking to monetize valuable features and experiences. There's few if any scenarios where this is good for you.
Mr Miyazaki is alive and well.
He was implicated in this murder in 2022 - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/conspiracy-to-kill-...

And a Congress Party MLA was murdered 2 days ago and the person who called the hit was in Canada as well - https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/congress...

The guy who called the hit - Arsh Dalla - is a known associate of Nijjar - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/arsh-dalla-funded-g...

To be fair, most Indian commentators also assumed the hit was indirectly called by the Indian govt when this happened. Especially after this former Khalistani turned BJP supporter was offed near the same Gurdawara a year ago by some hired hitmen - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ripudaman-si...

It's very much a tit-for-tat gang war that's being further enabled by black money, Punjabi politics, and clan politics (Jatt versus Bishnoi).

So happy I don't live in Surrey anymore.
I'm admitting there isn't much innovation left in pure airlines. The customer has spoken, they want cheap flights. Some are willing to pay for legroom, some are willing to pay for luggage, [insert a bunch of other things] but will do without for cheaper tickets. It is very hard to find any more innovation that hasn't already been found in this space. Airlines are working on the things grandparent named because it works to consumer wants: lower prices.
Somebody had a 45,650% gain in one overnight trade on $SPLK calls
Oh gotcha, thanks that makes sense. 32 did seem like a bizarrely low limit for how many documents you can sort, but as a number of fields it's plenty.

I've removed that part of my comment. Appreciate the correction.
The issue is more that one entity bought so many.

If this was e.g. 1 million different buyers of 1 option each instead of 1 buyer of 1 million options this would be a non-story.
We're[1] building the OSS equivalent when it comes to the observability side of Splunk/DD, on Clickhouse naturally of course but believe in the same end goal of lowering cost via separation of compute and storage.

[1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
This obligation-centric view is in conflict with my understanding and the above investopedia link:

> Material nonpublic information is data relating to a company that has not been made public but could have an impact on its share price. It is against the law for holders of nonpublic material information to use the information to their advantage in trading stocks.

Edit: or would a leak on a webpage be considered “public”? I recall a podcast where they said that if you saw a company’s factory blow up while in an airplane, it would be illegal (insider trading) to trade on this information until the news was announced publicly.
>There is no denying though that if it helps teachers in safeguarding children that is a good thing.

The problem is the variability of quality of teachers. I seen and been involved, both as a parent and governor with Safeguarding leads. There has been wonderful, caring and talented teachers. I am not convinced the excellent teachers need more data - they know the kids and the families very well and can draw on years of experience and support.

There has been also teachers, which have out-dated views and prejudices. This tool in the wrong hand makes matters far worse. This feels like a tool put together with people with outdated views. Like teenage parents are an indicator of a need for safe-guarding or being out of work is a correlation for safe-guiding. This clear prejudices being born-out.
I mean y'all can downvote all you like but that doesn't change the financials of shuttering a powerplant. How tf you gonna retain the skilled employees required to run the damn thing when they're furloughed 300 days out of the year?
> I think you're grossly overestimating the fallout from this.

Really, I think if anything I might be underestimating the fallout from this in that I don't see it being an issue at all and I think most airlines will follow with the same changes in the future.
> That's mostly true because it seems yards are only used to measure football fields and fabric.

Also shooting ranges, but yes.

> There's a highway exit coming up in 800 feet and another in 1/2 mile. How many times longer does it take to reach the second exit compared to the first exit?

Prior to GPS navigation nobody ever said "there's a highway exit coming up in 800 feet"; road signs in the US consistently use fractions of a mile. When my GPS app switches units from fractions of a mile to feet, that means I can see where I need to exit/turn. Calculating a precise ratio doesn't matter. It's between 6 and 7 since there's 5280 feet in a mile and 86 is 48 but 87 is 56, but who cares?

Also, on a highway, I'm usually traveling at least 60 mph, and since there's 60 minutes in an hour, that comes out to one mile per minute. Try that with your fancy metric system!

> Tell me you haven't worked in engineering without telling me you haven't worked in engineering. If you eyeball everything and use intuition, I can see why you don't care about units, conversions, and calculations.

You're imagining a scenario where a guy who's worrying about fractions of an inch building a cabinet has to talk to the city planner who's worried about miles and they have to convert units to do that. That doesn't happen, and yet you want to optimize the entire unit of measurement for that specific use case at the expense of more common use cases like "dividing by three".

When it comes to domains where consistency does matter, we just don't do unit conversions. For instance, flight altitude is measured in feet, even when it's thousands of feet, instead of miles. If you're flying an airplane at 30,000 feet, who cares how many miles that is? That's not what miles are for. Likewise with domains that use feet per second rather than miles per hour. Again, even "metric" countries don't commit to the bit here; name me a country where the highway speed limit is in meters per second.
>the IRS doesn't really want you on their sites if you don't have a US address. ... This is a reasonable thing for the IRS to implement given the significant interest in fraud from their systems from people overseas.

Except that US tax law also requires that all US persons, worldwide, to file US tax returns (note: this is a superset of US citizens).

So if the law applies to expats and to anyone who has ever applied for a green card even if denied or not used or not revoked, then the system needs to support worldwide access.
A jury gets to decide whether the evidence proves the crime. Do you think a prosecutor could convince the jury that no reasonable person would make that bet without insider knowledge?
This seems inaccurate. You can certainly write C++ for Unity. People usually don't. Its a pain and C# performance is good. IL2CPP allows the compiler to optimize across game and engine code so its rare to write C++ plugins. Unreal also supports generating C++ from blueprints.

But saying 'oh you shouldn't use the nice language anyway' is just making excuses. Obviously they're meant to be used to call engine code.
That's raytracing. You can do LOS by raycasting only at line segments and points of blocking shapes, especially in 2D, which is the original post's concern. https://ncase.me/sight-and-light/