bjconlan (u/bjconlan)

bjconlan commented on Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements biotradingarena.com/hn... · Posted by u/dchu17

bjconlan · 5 days ago

I used to work for a human that did this (sits mostly on the classical therapeutics side). He actually started a business where he was reviewing and auditing the submission processes outlining approvals but he had been around the game enough to know where the next submission would put them in the approvals process for a number of agencies.

https://maestrodatabase.com/

Looks like he's still on top of everything given the most recent blog post is from 6/2/2026.

I believe the insights here could be useful given he has sense of when the penultimate submission has occured (but I'm not entirely sure what that is on a % basis nor as a basis for if the stock of the company reacts)

bjconlan commented on Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html... · Posted by u/liminal

astafrig · 3 months ago

It’s not misleading to measure the performance of WebAssembly in a web browser.

bjconlan · 3 months ago

Yeah, but it's specifically testing things that implement against a posix API (because generally that's what "native" apis do (omiting libc and other os specific foundation libraries that are pulled in at runtime or otherwise) I would suspect that if the applications that linked against some wasi like runtime it might be a better metric (native wasi as a lib/vs a was runtime that also links) mind you that still wouldn't help the browser runtime... But would be a better metric for wasm (to native) performance comaparison.

But as already mentioned we have gone through this all before. Maybe we'll see wasm bytecodes pushed through silicon like we did the Jvm... Although perhaps this time it might stick or move up into server hardware (which might have happened, but I only recall embedded devices supporting hardware level Jvm bytecodes).

In short the web browser bit is omitted from the title.

bjconlan commented on An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf] courses.cs.washington.edu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

markhahn · 4 months ago

Java, and all living JITs, are hollow parodies of the Self environment.

bjconlan · 4 months ago

Or toit, which unsurprisingly has Lars Bak involved. A man with history touching all self, Jvm and v8 codebases.

I wouldn't be surprised if toit primaries, Kasper or Florian also have experience in these technological intersections.

bjconlan commented on Bluefin LTS Is Released docs.projectbluefin.io/bl... · Posted by u/nikodunk

baobun · 5 months ago

Mostly agree.

I think they have some improvement to do on supply-chain though. A lot of random COPRs and kernel patches pulled in from various random third- and first party repos that I think should get consolidated before I can consider it mature and really ready for prime time.

Similarly it would also be nice to see end-to-end builds being reproducible locally. (Things are currently hardcoded to github.com or tied to GitHub Actions in a few places. The patching required for that is nothing crazy - Good First Issue material :))

bjconlan · 5 months ago

Perhaps if a supply chain attack is your largest concern then using some well vetted system like wolfi is more up your alley. (See some of their related repos on GitHub https://github.com/projectbluefin - I've been following the development of it and currently it still under development.)

Again "vetting" is a source of contention here as I'm not sure how the quality of official rpm sources compare to those outlined in an sbom

bjconlan commented on Shutting Down Clear Linux OS community.clearlinux.org/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jeffbee · 7 months ago

Mostly it's just compiling everything correctly and getting the most juice out of transparent hugepages.

bjconlan · 7 months ago

Yeah, but there is something else here too... I used cachy for a heartbeat and it advertises the same benefits; it just felt slower (notably on boot) Maybe it was just all the graphical load screens.

There's something clear had that made it feel modern, familiar and boring (which might not be for everyone) 90% of my tasks were in vscode devcontainers so kept things simple and out of the system for the most part.

bjconlan commented on Shutting Down Clear Linux OS community.clearlinux.org/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nine_k · 7 months ago

It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.

bjconlan · 7 months ago

Fingers crossed. I probably just did my last fresh install of this a couple of days ago and my last swupd update now. You will be missed...

bjconlan commented on RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine labs.stardog.ai/rag-is-a-... · Posted by u/kendallgclark

bjconlan · 8 months ago

I do love the warnings here... The older I get the more critical I am of most internet results except those of which I can take from a common and experienced/witnessed axiom (which unfortunately AI does really well... At least entrusting me to said point). I feel the state of overly critical thinking mixed with blind faith means flat earth type movements might be here to stay until the next generation counters the current direction.

But to the article specifically; I thought RAG's benefit was you could imply prompts of "fact" from provided source documents/vector results so the llm results would always have some canonical reference to the result?

bjconlan commented on Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game ncase.me/trust/... · Posted by u/felineflock

gcanyon · 9 months ago

No conversation on game theory is complete until someone brings up Golden Balls, and in particular this amazing moment (warning: terrible audio quality). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8

bjconlan · 9 months ago

I must say this is amazing. The psychology and manipulation makes me realize how poor I am regarding trust even when the other side is pushing for some unconfirmed equilibrium.

In the game I acknowledge that I was aligned to the "Simpleton" strategy (before it was outlined). Looks like simpleton might actually be applicable in a more general sense too which is a little disheartening.

bjconlan commented on LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code vlaaad.github.io/lsp-clie... · Posted by u/vlaaad

0_gravitas · 9 months ago

My thoughts are "cool!, neat!"

But I don't feel like the world particularly needs to hear my singleton exclamations, no reason to add unnecessary noise, this isn't reddit.

bjconlan · 9 months ago

Yeah I feel yah; But to bolster the post:

I now want to hear more as to why Defold now has a clojure repl! I noticed some musings around some native bindings in gh issues which is "interesting" but I'm not quite getting it. I guess off to the forums I go!

bjconlan commented on Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers github.com/Zouuup/landrun... · Posted by u/Zoup

__turbobrew__ · a year ago

> but nobody uses it because the API is ... hard!

OpenBSD really got it right with pledge and unveil.

bjconlan · a year ago

This is where I need to shout out to everyone's favorite developer Justine for keeping Linux cool:

https://justine.lol/pledge/

Which also points to landlock-make[0] or vice-versa (the original project that made me aware of the kernel functionality (although didn't realize it also isolated network which is great).

[0]https://justine.lol/make/