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mrhands556··on Elon: Code is brittle. Need a complete rewrite
At his level who has had consistently more or the same level of success doing something similar to him? I don’t understand all the Elon hate lately outside of people being bias for the sake of the narrative.
mrhands556··on Amazon Announces RTO for Employees
In my experience all the people who are most vocal for WFH are the ones who fall into the “out of sight out of mind” bucket.
mrhands556··on Fentanyl vaccine tested in rats
Do you think at any point in the last 100 years if drugs were readily available uptake would be low?
mrhands556··on Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
I bought my first two houses over the last 10 years and each time I thought we were at the peak, and I was way wrong. First mortgage had over 5% mortgage rate and 2nd was the same.

Outside of closing costs mortgage rates are temporary (can always refi). Land is a finite resource. It should continue to go up.

mrhands556··on Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
input lag like when typing? I use remote env on vscode and afaik it’s locally editing and syncing after the fact for lint, compilation etc
mrhands556··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
There will always be insane people in this world. Was Hitler and the nazis radicalized through the internet? Was Timothy McVeigh? Censoring people out of the fear semi casual relationships occurring between them and radicalization doesn’t work.

It’s not like people who apt to deeply believe radical ideas once their source becomes censored they just stop there. Human beings don’t work like that.

I don’t believe libsoftiktok is causing real world harm.

mrhands556··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
If you’re depositing into a bank or exchange it’s not like 1 person is controlling that entire entities wallet(s). Deposits have the same risk of being misused in crypto as in fiat.
mrhands556··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
I assume you’re saying the way they prevent misuse is because the ledger is public and it’s trackable by anyone who wants to look at the ledger.

If I’ve mistaken your argument then please correct me. I’m familiar with blockchain and have contributed to multiple projects in the open source community back when I saw potential and promise in blockchain tech.

mrhands556··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
> Blockchains mathematically prevent the misuse of deposits

Depending on the argument I hear that the ledger is anonymous or not anonymous.

mrhands556··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
No but with these exchanges collapsing I keep seeing the argument that it people kept everything in a soft or hard wallet then everything would be OK. I disagree with that premise for the reasons prior. Also in the case of Luna and many others their coins are effectively worthless.
mrhands556··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
That’s equivalent to saying if a bank goes insolvent you should’ve had your money in a safe at home.

For crypto yes you can have a hard wallet, but it can still be stolen from you without anyone physically touching your hard wallet.

I don’t and won’t see the appeal for crypto until it has a killer app that people NEED to use for another reason than “I can get rich quick”

mrhands556··on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet
Does apple require Apple Pay for all in app purchases? Why isn’t Apple Pay an option on Amazon?
mrhands556··on Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test
> You may be trying to simulate a ‘session’ where a client performs many steps in order to achieve a goal. As Gerard Meszaros writes regarding the test smell, this is appropriate for manual tests, but rarely for automated tests.

Integration tests are typically easier to write / maintain and thus are more valuable than small unit tests. Don’t know why the entire premise argues against that.

mrhands556··on NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay
Difference in those are vaccinations that yield quality, long lasting immunity whereas the Covid vaccine is comparable to the flu vaccine in terms of effectiveness. Also, those are battle tested and widely accepted at this point, but the Covid vaccine was a type of vaccine that reached production for the first time with these.
mrhands556··on It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing
Did Facebook the entity influence election results, or was it the result of awful guardrails by Facebook the platform?
mrhands556··on It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing
I’m amazed at the level of distrust and fud from meta when the other side of the coin, google, is much more invasive and people generally enjoy opting into the google ecosystem.

Gmail is reading all of your emails, google maps knows everywhere you’ve been and are probably going to go to, etc

mrhands556··on Ask HN: How did you become better at programming?
I like to be thrown right into the fire. If I don’t know a language or tech I will piecemeal it together from stackoveflow snippets even if I don’t totally understand it.

There will be bugs inevitably in getting it running, but debugging these give me pound for pound the highest return in learning.

mrhands556··on Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)
Why not just have a lower TTL on your JWT?
mrhands556··on The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
> That markets are entropy machines rougher than a normal distribution, and any gains come directly from information.

Isn’t this partially what this model is accomplishing with sentiment analysis?

Also has there been a lot of investment into sentiment analysis for algo trading? I’m sure there have but references including books would be interesting.

mrhands556··on Italy's right wing, led by Meloni, wins election, exit polls say
Before covid the trump presidency had good times to those not paying attention to news articles specifically about trump or late night talk shows.
mrhands556··on Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers
Does Facebook have a monopoly on small businesses? They arguably had the most efficient ads at one point which no doubt enabled some small businesses to grow and compete.
mrhands556··on Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker
500ms seems high for a cold start for a proxy layer. Is there anything I’m missing? JVM is pretty awful at cold starts but with graalvm I got a pretty big micronaut project starting in ~80ms.
mrhands556··on Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
What option is this? I see 4 core options reaching ~$20
mrhands556··on Snap lays off 20% of employees
20% of their employees had salary + benefits of 500 million?

Edit: Snapchat has 32k employees!? :o

How does Snapchat have 4x the employees that twitter has?

mrhands556··on Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google
Has this happened before?
mrhands556··on Tesla on autopilot rear ends motorcycle on freeway, killing rider
I assume that every accident like this involving autopilot is blasted all over every news outlet. This happens multiple times every day for non autopilot cars, which gets little to no coverage. It’s just something we accept as a society.
mrhands556··on Tesla on autopilot rear ends motorcycle on freeway, killing rider
Do you have statistics behind these claims?
mrhands556··on Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday shutdown benefit
Aren’t most nurses unionized though? This sounds like a union problem or at least something a union should prevent.
mrhands556··on U.S. public health agencies aren't ‘following the science,’ officials say
https://mobile.twitter.com/kerpen/status/1548335911233998848...
mrhands556··on Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres
> We won't have false positives (like with a bloom filter) -- we'll have a degree of error (i.e. the actual count may be 1000, but the HLL reports 1004).

Isn’t what the article is describing a false positive? I expected an undercount.

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