Hacker News: ashtonshears

New comment by ashtonshears in "Claude Opus 5"

ashtonshears — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:20:35 +0000

‘Dont think, play pretend and be jolly’

New comment by ashtonshears in "Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price"

ashtonshears — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:49:38 +0000

No, nobody who has basic financial market literacy thinks that

New comment by ashtonshears in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

ashtonshears — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:39:26 +0000

New comment by ashtonshears in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

ashtonshears — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:37:34 +0000

I am not a financial advisor.

Assuming you are the average person, and not a financial professional, using actual financial hedging instruments properly is unlikely, and far more likely to just increase risk and lower expected return.

A realistic way for an American citizen to reduce risk in the current market is to have a globally diversified portfolio that under-allocates to the US.

New comment by ashtonshears in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

ashtonshears — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:44:09 +0000

‘Moral panic’ shows lacking understanding on the real damage

New comment by ashtonshears in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

ashtonshears — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:48:31 +0000

Please dont minimize disasterous societal policies, it is not respectful

New comment by ashtonshears in "A desktop made for one"

ashtonshears — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:04:40 +0000

That has been the case for a decade

New comment by ashtonshears in "Where the goblins came from"

ashtonshears — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:26:40 +0000

Computer technology has many significant unique factors compared to other technologies

New comment by ashtonshears in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

ashtonshears — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:50:04 +0000

Your trauma is not reason to prescribe privacy invasion on others

New comment by ashtonshears in "Where the goblins came from"

ashtonshears — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:28:51 +0000

Poor correlation comparing physical material to computer technology

New comment by ashtonshears in "Where the goblins came from"

ashtonshears — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:25:58 +0000

LOL

New comment by ashtonshears in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

ashtonshears — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:06:04 +0000

For some, feeding the beast is unpleasant

New comment by ashtonshears in "Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture"

ashtonshears — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:33:31 +0000

Thanks I am! I hope you do as well

New comment by ashtonshears in "Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:38:41 +0000

My statement had two sentences. You chose to read only the second for some reason. We dont disagree, respect

New comment by ashtonshears in "Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:44:46 +0000

Thats what i said

New comment by ashtonshears in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:30:50 +0000

I appreciate that info

New comment by ashtonshears in "Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:26:11 +0000

Yes claude is being dumb/hallucinating. Yes it does exist, there are much larger drives than that produced by the main manufacturers

New comment by ashtonshears in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:03:15 +0000

This is soley a list of how to be explicitly negative internally and externally, the people in this thread equating it to disorders need to re-think the text. Its a list of what not to do as a human.

With respect to all; there is an incredible amount of subtle communications that go into standard conversations

New comment by ashtonshears in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:55:02 +0000

Given the context of the discussion is about lacking social cues, its not possible to know the social setting to give you specific advice.

However, I would suggest considering if the ‘making fun’ is in casual conversation or truly adversary.

In casual conversation of someone making jest about your lack of speaking, just smile and say you are having a good time listening and hanging out.

If they are actually making fun of you, never associate with those people again, they suck

New comment by ashtonshears in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

ashtonshears — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:43:54 +0000

But, being more respectful to you and who i orignally replied to — yes actual revolution could/would be brutal and could/would create a much worse daily life for the non-elites.

Still, as I bet you could agree when not aguing semantics, its inexusable for people to declare we should accept corruption