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iakh··on Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
IP addresses are not people
iakh··on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
I'm assuming you agree the FDA shouldn't allow somebody to sell deadly nightshade to somebody that doesn't know that nightshade is deadly, but then how do you tell the person that knows the nightshade is deadly apart from the person that doesn't know that the nightshade is deadly?
iakh··on Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges
I majored in EE and only ever had math and engineering classes. I had one class in philosophy that I took for fun but dropped after a week after realizing it's not for me. It didn't hurt my option to graduate in three years. What's the requirement for general education?
iakh··on Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
I can see value in tracking offers to see how negotiations are going. so if there's standard fields for this, then that's a way he could track comp data without requiring, and even get offer increase info which is probably even more valuable.
iakh··on Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
Does that really buy you anything though? If they're willing to rescind offers, they'll be happy to lay you-off a few days into your employment too.
iakh··on Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
I'd be careful using ChatGPT for this. I tried the same recently to bootstrap spot yields from par, which is a fairly common code problem with hundreds of examples online. ChatGPT couldn't do it. It produced code that looked right, but would fail my tests abysmally. I ended up writing it by hand. I hope you are validating their code with known data.
iakh··on Concord bank offers a 100-year CD
interest rates have been falling for over 700 years [1]. I wouldn't bet against that over a single unprecedented year

1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...

iakh··on Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard
Should probably replace the address in the sample postcard. While most here will probably get it's intent, I imagine your target audience will not appreciate any associations to "hackers"
iakh··on Pentagon contracting Starlink to provide satellite communications for Ukraine
Right. "both sides" have engaged in $787MM worth of fake news.
iakh··on Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p
I recently decided to move our cash into money market funds and built https://moneymarket.fun/ to help find the highest yielding ones. Right now WMPXX is 4.9% on WellsTrade with no minimum investment. Several other options all > 4.8% as well on various other brokerages.
iakh··on Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?
But allegedly that happened 6 weeks after she was told she had consented
iakh··on Peter Thiel's Founders Fund pulled cash from SVB before collapse: Report
Next story will be much more interesting about how he shorted SVB before he started a bank run.
iakh··on Word-as-image for semantic typography
My four year old that's just learning to read had a great time trying to figure each out. This could be great as an early reader game
iakh··on J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules
The shares are borrowed, but not always with the knowledge of the original shareholder. So should one owner get excluded from the fine just because their broker happened to loan out their shares and not the shares of another equally eligible holder? Opposite thing happens with dividends and the original holder is still entitled to those.
iakh··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://boxtrades.com is my latest project. Got into box spreads for earning greater than Treasury yields more or less risk free and wanted a way to see what the current trading rates are. Costs me about 20/mo for data and hosting.
iakh··on Translatewith.wiki: Translate complicated concepts between languages
Reminds me of a project I made several years ago to translate different proper nouns into multiple languages: http://adamhwang.github.io/wikitranslator/

Simple open source all client based: https://github.com/adamhwang/wikitranslator

iakh··on The $8 Linux Computer
I know you're right, but I never could figure out why they'd sell singles for less than wholesale. what's the point?
iakh··on Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
That's quite the generous interpretation even if the OP wasn't a posting about mastodon, a social network that directly competes with Twitter, and had nothing to do with any of the reasons you think Elon Musk is a victim in all of this.
iakh··on What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?
This isn't accurate. Options are discounted by their expected dividend payout. Unless a company is issuing either 0 dte or decades out expiration options, no options are giving any corporate exec 100x leverage.
iakh··on Amazon Alexa Deemed ‘Colossal Failure’ Following $10B Loss
We use ours everyday in nearly every room, but they all are technically collecting dust as well. So may not be the best measure in this instance.
iakh··on FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
Is it really that surprising people would rather keep their money in a bank that has hired professional security guards rather than at home under their mattress?
iakh··on Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
Why should it matter if a website is marked up on the server side or client side to a search engine?
iakh··on Is the Ride over for Uber?
You've never done iPhone development it seems where there's neverending new or deprecated versions of iOS and "kits". I've had clients that try this without a dedicated team, and each time was a nightmare for them(and hence us) where nobody remembered how anything was done
iakh··on Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
What was the reasoning for pursuing a 14m offer from Microsoft over multiple others at 18m?
iakh··on I don't trust papers out of “Top Labs” anymore
I'm not in this space, but I'd expect that they wouldn't know the results beforehand and just publishing the results even when not a major improvement tells the community that they don't need to spend the extra 99x compute. That seems valuable to some degree. Or is the argument that there wasn't any improvement to be had so why even test the 100x extra?
iakh··on Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
What's a quality brand you're recommend?
iakh··on CA bar says attorney records leaked through database flaw, not hack
Depends on the contract they drew up
iakh··on Misidentifying talent
Wouldn't this self select for the unemployed? Unless they took a week off and then gave notice after the "contract" period.
iakh··on CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint
There's a while saying dedicated to it, "lock them up and throw away the key".
iakh··on An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
Market makers can't just conjure up a counterparty. The spread widens because lack a liquidity increases directional risk. If it were truly riskless, others would jump in to close the spread.
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