skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Code was constantly being profiled using raster bars.

For those wondering: we'd change the background color from, say, black to blue for the "physics" part, to green for the "drawing" part, to purple for the "audio rendering" part... All in the same frame, while the frame was being drawn.

So you'd see on the border of your screen (usually outside of the drawing area you'd have access to) approximately which percentage of each frame was eaten by "physics", graphics, audio etc. and how close you were to missing a frame.

And it was quite "hectic" typically these color "raster" bars would jump around quite some from one frame to another.

But yeah there was indeed something very special about having a pixel-perfect scrolling for a 2D game running precisely at the refresh rate (50 Hz or 60 Hz back then). And it wasn't just scrolling: games running on fixed hardware often had characters movement set specifically in "pixels per frame". It felt so smooth.

Something has definitely been lost when the shift to 3D games happened: even playing, say, Counter-Strike at 99 fps (was it even doing that? I don't remember) wasn't the same.

People don't understand that their 144 Hz monitor running a 3D game still doesn't convey that smoothness that my vintage arcade cab does when running an old 2D game with pixel-perfect scrolling while never skipping a frame.
Prototype pollution is among the most frequent sources of CVE in the JavaScript ecosystem. As a result, detecting them early has always been a key challenge for fast-check. Let's find how you can quickly find some!
You certainly couldn’t build a small nuclear power plant for $500M and in under some decades of work
Many financial laws consider spouses to be "identical" from the point of view of law. Since your wife would benefit from you acting insider knowledge she has, it applies.
Undoubtably the hundreds of artists and producers working on Ghibli are extraordinarily talent. But talent isn’t genius. But I’ve come to realize talent isn’t brilliance.
The bottom 50% of the population holds 2.4% of all wealth.

The top 10% holds 69%.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/institute-for-economic-equity/the...
How do you know the matrix.org server or the element.io web client is running the same code as the source posted publicly? How exactly do you, personally, audit a hosted service? The answer to both questions is: you don't.
> 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

How does this square with using satellite analysis to predict a company's retail volume?

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-hedge-funds-use-satel...
DHH: Finishing Hotwire with the Introduction of Strada
IQ is a mediocre-at-best metric for intelligence. "Intelligence" is probably real and variable among people, but poorly defined, very hard to test, and subject to a whole lot of opinion.

IQ is bad at comparing people from different backgrounds, especially across cultures, languages, etc.

But IQ can be a valid comparison for a single non-cultural variable. i.e. lead exposure in otherwise identical cohorts.
We can makeup any number for 2030.. lets go for .5 cents
Disclaimer: not financial advice

I don't think so, it happened publicly, you weren't privvy to classified details. I would go for it if I were in that scenario.
>Regular reminder Matrix/Element work closely with law-enforcement to provide encrypted comms for them.

Thank you for the reminder. Based on that, are you claiming that Matrix servers/clients are insecure or have government back doors?

If so, what evidence do you have that supports such a claim?

If not, why should I care? I'm not a fan of many organizations/individuals. Should I survey them all to create a database of software those folks use and refuse to use any software they use? What value would I derive from such actions?

Unless you're claiming the former (evidence please), what difference does it make? I use Matrix servers/clients only on hardware that's under my physical control. And I use free (libre and beer) versions of Matrix implementations, so I'm not even giving the developers any money.

Or are you making the argument that LEOs shouldn't have access to secure communications protocols?

I guess I'm confused because I don't understand what the issue might be. If you'd elucidate, I'd much appreciate it!
Otherwise phrased as "this is why we can't have nice things".
> We’re just doing more because we can now.

Are we though?

Our computers are orders of magnitude faster than they were. What new features justify consuming 100x or more CPU, RAM, network and disk space?

Is my email software doing orders of magnitude more work to render an email compared to the 90s? Does discord have that many more features compared to mIRC that it makes sense for it to take several seconds to open on my 8 core M1 laptop? For reference, mIRC was a 2mb binary and I swear it opened faster on my pentium 2 than discord takes to open on my 2023 laptop. By the standards of 1995 we all walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. But you wouldn't know it, because the best hardware in the world still can't keep pace with badly written software. As the old line from the 1990s goes, "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."[1] (Andy Grove was CEO at the time of Intel.)

My instinct is that as more and more engineers work "up the stack" we're collectively forgetting how to write efficient code. Or just not bothering. Why optimize your react web app when everyone will have new phones in a few years with more RAM? If the users complain, blame them for having old hardware.

I find this process deeply disrespectful to our users. Our users pay thousands of dollars for good computer hardware because they want their computer to run fast and well. But all of that capacity is instead chewed through by developers the world over trying to save a buck during development time. Every hardware upgrade our users make just becomes the new baseline for how lazy we can be.

Slow CI/CD pipelines are a completely artificial problem. There's absolutely no technical reason that they need to run so slowly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
The article is mostly a slideshow with captions, which does work on the bizjournals page. There is some text cut off below that which can be viewed here:

https://archive.ph/Tcx8O
Expect galactic rain and possible thunderstorms for the next 2-3 days.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042715/what-differe...
Out of the money call options are long shots, you'd loose money to buy the stock today via the option vs just buying on the open market.
Hard to find the info, but seems like the guy got sentenced to death in absentia.

From what I can tell, Canada can’t constitutionally extradite when a death sentence is on the table.

Not much of a technicality. Not a guest of Canada either, but nowhere to deport him to. Bangladeshi judges basically made this guy unreturnable to Bangladesh.

Probably also fair-trial concerns in any conviction in absentia. Kinda surprised another common-law country allows that as Canada doesn’t.
Ah, good point... are clinical trials expensive to run?
Perhaps a regular IQ test taken at age 65 and then every few years after would do it. Enough of a decline and you’re no longer fit.
https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-n... is a great blog (back when Element was called Riot) explaining how it works :)
Show HN: Transform-x - Convert between JSON, SQLite and Excel formats.
This is a JS lib, CLI, Web UI and HTTP API to convert between JSON, SQLite and Excel formats.

I built this partially as a challenge to see if I could reuse the JS code in each environment.

I also move between these formats often during development.
Ah yes, it’s not an obvious lie, it’s an “alternative view”.
Michael B. Jordan could try to be Michael Jordan. There are many popular names out there. Heck I'd change my name to Bill Gates.
how are you different than resend (another YC company) ?
can you still set up direct connection between a switch and a light which would work even if the hub is down?
The reason cert and signing costs are expensive is to discourage random people from signing up for accounts they don't need, or uploading useless apps.

This sort of "price people out of being annoying or doing things they don't remotely need" technique is extremely common in society.

EV certs involve a pretty lengthy number of checks, by the way. Having a PO box isn't enough.
Insider trading also makes markets more efficient. So I don’t think your argument is as strong as you think.

I also think it’s weird we don’t apply this consistently. I can buy many assets with “non public information”, just not those the SEC regulates. So it’s not really about markets at all, but specifically about fairness for shareholders (or something by like that?)
Studies like these always make me wonder what the equivalent of this today. Microplastics? Carbon? What else?
> The only one that is close to equal in simplicity is JSON, which only allows booleans, numbers, strings and arrays/dictionaries.

NestedText only allows strings, arrays, and dictionaries, has a proper specification, and you never need to escape anything.
I love OrganicMaps but lacks in certain situations.

When I want to be able to zoom into any and all of my bookmarks, I have to keep the map data of all countries I've ever been visiting. Thats tens and tens of GB of data on a mobile phone.

And everytime there are maps updates I have to redownload all of it. Tens and tens of GB of data.

When you're traveling and forgot to DL everythibg beforehand and have to use some WIFI hotspot you might not be able to get your maps downloaded. Happened to me multiple times.

So, my feature request:

- smaller maps data

- incremental updates

- online maps

...oh and better search of course. ;)
Oh, no doubt. There will be an investigation looking for a relationship.
Then we might have NPM for the BEAM--Uber popularity isn't always a good thing. Don't get me wrong, though, I want Elixir to get more popular.
And next you'll have a subscription to indoor lighting.

What can be turned into a subscription next! I can't wait to find out.

Maybe I'll become a survivalist who builds his own lightbulbs, computers, etc.

Once I figure the off-grid lifestyle out, maybe I can launch a paid newsletter about it...
The illegal part in this equation comes from the asymmetric nature of the bet. Not many sane people play naked way out of money options. 99% of the time it is a losing trade. It is like playing the lottery. Perfectly legal. But being suspicious when someone who doesn’t play lottery buys one and wins next day.

While a hedged out of money option is commonplace. various payoffs you can create with options is mind boggling.
If I'm unaware and about to be educated, I'm up for it.
Yeah, because relocating is just SO easy. Just ask all the women who are being forced into getting sepsis in their home states because abortion providers are afraid to treat them until they can prove that they have a life threatening illness.
Matrix is great but when is the tech industry going to deal with the fact that many, if not all, bridges are against the respective services' ToS and subsequently put the developers of those bridges under legal risk? Whatsapp has already sent legal threats to multiple bridge-component level project maintainers without any recourse.
It's going to vary based on the company you're with but a typical day for me includes reviewing/writing code, attending some meetings for projects, and answering pager duty when something goes boom. Occasional post-mortems and active maintenance of systems. I was up until last week an SRE at a firm maintaining an industrial information system and related services.
> people who work at coal plants and lose their jobs will not turn around and become solar panel installers

They could. They won’t, because of loss aversion and inertia. But a smart community could tell Bloomberg they’ll close their plant if they get a subsidy for a battery plant or a very large concentrated solar power plant.

It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. And I don’t know if there’s a solution for the mines. But the tragedy is that the populations surrounded by coal aren’t selecting for long-term decision makers.
Here is an article in a Nature journal published today indicating that additionality is basically non-existent for California's forestry offset program [0]

> [verra link]

I was not aware of the reporting by the Guardian, so can't comment on that specifically but was familiar with the research work of West et al.

I found West's arguments convincing and the arguments in this response less so (worth noting that Verra's CEO resigned in disgrace a few months after this was published). Regardless it would be easy for Verra to conduct an RCT to actually measure additionality. And yet they do not..

> imo // "Pretty much fake estimates". ?? Do you have any relevant experience or knowledge in the sector or are you just spouting off?

I work on causal inference and have read a number of forestry projects descriptions on how they estimate additionality when I was looking into how to offset my own carbon footprint. What I read was clearly insufficient for the causal claims they were making, which led me to West et al's research using synthetic controls.

Regardless, I don't find the appeal to credentialism that convincing when you can't name a single forestry project that has a solid causal estimate for their additionality. And that's before we get into the other CARB-certified projects, like CFC destruction with Verra's baselines that assume 100% violation of the clean air act in the absence of intervention.

> Also you are conflating projects outside of NA and inside of NA.

This is a fair objection to the West study applying to California's market - but it is the same organization certifying the carbon here as the one that has engaged in verging-on-fraudulent additionality estimates. I also linked additional, recent research specific to California's market.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00984-2
So if the founder goes on TV and announces their merger then it’s nonpublic information until they file the form? Everyone who trades on that is insider trading? That can’t be right.
They always say that when a sunken city is found.

There's a lot more than you would think!
That's neither here, nor there.

I didn't say they're not engineers or developers. I said they're not engineers/developers in the old hacker sense. They don't have a passion for computing and for making something, but for the money and VC schemes.

If you think Google and Meta is run with a passion for computing and hacking in mind, and that their products and actions reflect that, then I have a bridge to sell you.
UBIK. read it.
> So correct UI applications cannot call any blocking function from their main threads.

Author is redefining "correct" to mean "has the property I care about, which in this case is performance".

There are many desirable distinct properties of a computer system: correctness, performance, security, etc.

"Correct" usually means something like "gives the right answer". It has nothing to do with performance.
52% of women ages of 7 to 21 want to be homeowners by 30 years old
For mail forwarding at least, there could be two John Smiths and requesting forwarding for the wrong one would let someone steal mail easily.
> But was there an interpol warrant on this person?

Yes [0]

> would cooperate in the investigation and sentences would be handed by cooperating judicial systems

They don't really cooperate.

A lot of this is due to mutual red tape, and also because of jurisdictional issues (eg. is transnational crime under the CSIS, the RCMP, the Vancouver PD? Which court does it go to?) because Canada is very similar to India structurally (weird hyper-federalism mixed with federal powers attempting to further gain control).

Also the Indian equivalent of law enforcement isn't the greatest either due to federal-state conflicts along with like 6-8 different competing federal law enforcement agencies, plus a couple national security ones.

[0] - https://torontosun.com/news/national/what-we-know-about-slai...
Show HN: Autodevs – Generate simple prototypes automatically
We've been working on this for a while and just put it up on our homepage.

Generate simple app prototypes using text prompts. Iterate through refinements. Turn it into a live app. Get the code. Share it with others to let them make their own version. Add a (human) dev team if it needs to be more complex.

More to come, but putting it out there for feedback that can help us prioritize what's next
It pretty much undermines the fairness of the entire market. If insider trading wasn’t a crime, the single goal of every investor would not be to find investable companies but to find insider information.

The stock market would cease to be an effective tool for raising capital.

It would be more akin to the crypto market where there are no such rules about insider trading and everything is pumped and dumped via influencers and degens acting on insider tips.
Or people just haven't tried hard enough to find a politically correct explaination.

I think slavery itself could be one cause of it. Restricting the freedom to pick a partner of one group compared with other nearby groups seems likely to have an effect.
Japan is actually relatively short on things to do considering how many tourists they get. There's some proposals to build another large theme park in Yokohama IIRC.
I don't think how it can be wrong. I wrote a beaten-up game, 2.5D. Player(s) + Enemies + NPCs + Weapons + Bullets.. I can imagine that in some moments, we were easily doing a few hundreds of raycasts per frame.
> Rather than exposing a kitchen sink of features and settings, we’re keeping Element X truly focused: doing one job and absolutely nailing it - all while harnessing the power of Matrix for secure, interoperable, open-standard communication.

does this mean the Element X is more for the mainstream user and regular Element is better suited for power users?
HN is consistently stretching the definition of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"
An accounting professor I once had called trades like this “speed dialing the SEC from your Bloomberg”.

Even if it’s legit, this trader is going to be spending a lot of time giving depositions over the next few months.
I didn't claim/assert anything other than what I linked to already in my original post.

You don't have to care, and like I said, I don't care if you care or not. I'm just making people aware, because some people _do_ care.

It's nice that you personally use matrix on hardware under your physical control. That's rare. The vast vast majority of matrix users have their account on matrix.org and are using Element. I'm glad to hear you are using alternative server and client software.

I addressed the other questions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602089
A couple of billion per drug.
is this not a breach of "other relationship of trust and confidence"?
The Nancy Pelosi case is extremely interesting from a market manipulation point of view! It’s one of the strongest arguments for extreme restrictions on Congress trading. Trumps behavior in office is a similarly strong argument for extreme restrictions on Presidential trading.

But it’s not strictly about insider trading. Pelosi (or trump or Pelosis’ husband) are not traditionally insiders. The testimony they receive is by its nature public. That we’ve allowed lots of things that shouldn’t be secret doesn’t change that. That elected officials can be corrupted by their power isn’t an insider trading issue, it’s a corruption one.
I assume the study authors controlled for such things. For example, they could bin the study participants by socioeconomic group, race, location, etc, etc, etc, and then show the average IQ loss per bin.

I haven't read the study, but statisticians do this stuff for a living, and there are definitely ways to control for sample biases that let you distinguish between "poorer people have lower IQs and are exposed to more lead, and the root cause of both is being poor", and "lead leads to lower IQs within all socioeconomic groups we could think of and measure"
> we need to move on from it

Agree. However, we need to solve the problem from the supply side (create more and better Rusts, Gos, Zigs, etc. so that people choose to use them), not from the demand side (shame people into adopting Rust).

I think there is a significant portion of developers that want to leave C++ for a better language, but for different reasons may not be satisfied with Rust or Go, so they just stay on C++.
lol, the homekit provides said security.
Critical Race Theory is politically incorrect, under any definition of political correctness I know
Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant
As somebody’s who traveled to Georgia, I can’t recommend visiting enough. Amazing food and wine, culture and sights.
It just seems to be some specific features being added to different products like remove background to MS Paint. And of course hooks to image and content generation AI engine.
"Accelerate digital resilience". Huh. Wonder what that means in English.
4 hour storage will deplete quickly. You can't get away from base load generation unless you want periods without power
"if someone posts it on Twitter."

Yes, if you trade on public information, then it's not material non public information.
oh do share those choice words
Well I take offense if India killed someone in Canada. And if Canada killed someone in India, I would also take offense. I wish none of these parties had such disappointing relationships.
Coffeemakers usually turn themselves off? My $12 one does.
Understood. I will work harder to try to insure my behavior always/consistently remains acceptable.

It grates on me that discussions on national issues seems to be extra heavily shut down, and the yolk of moderation & being rate limited is an unceasing aggravation. But I will try to up my expectation of myself at all points, including my weakest.

I wish there was some credit gained for being a good community poster, which I think I generally am. The only presence I see or feel is negative actions, is presence when things go bad. It's a one way relationship over only bad things.
There’s another loophole: “lead free” means that the wetted surface is no more than 0.25% lead (by mass, I think).

As far as I know, lead has nice properties as an element added to brass alloys. Which is not an excuse for using it, IMO.

(Why is any of this still a thing? Stainless steel is cheaper than copper these days, and it’s a great material as long as you aren’t trying to screw one piece of stainless steel into another, and there isn’t a great reason why one should need to do much of that. And there are some excellent plastics available, too.)
It mostly just works. Back when I was actively using it it was IIRC the most stable part of the stack. Only went down when daily quota was exceeded. When it ran out of disk, nothing broke, it showed a message in the ui. When space was added, it just started going again like nothing happened. This was something like 2018?
I need at least one reason why people should pay attention to this.

Being active on Twitter is not exactly gonna put you on top of any employer's list.
Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa – ESA/Webb
Matt Levine covers this fairly extensively

I believe someone in Europe overheard info on a train and was successfully prosecuted. The US has not historically prosecuted trading on inside information that wasn't obtained illegally

So if you research that's fine. If you overhear something that might be fine (I don't think anyone has been seriously convicted yet but I could be wrong)

It can't be enough to say the trade was statistically unlikely because your independent research might legitimately let you make an unlikely trade. This particular trade was very unlikely though.