<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chollida1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chollida1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:09:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chollida1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chollida1 in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "DX tarpits"<p>Google shows no results for this term so i'm guessing its your own short hand for something hard?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:33:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555949</link><dc:creator>chollida1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chollida1 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh wow.  I love mine, so much that I've never been back to the apple laptop eco system since.  The two surface laptops I've had are the best laptops I've owned.<p>The build it rock solid, its trivial to run wsl for a Linux environment and I still get a windows environment for work with excel, etc.<p>The keys don't come off the keyboard like they do with my old mac chicklet style laptop keys and even my 10 year old can still drive multiple external monitors.</p>
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<p>We do all our work samples in person at a our offices as part of the in person interviews.  Takes 2-3 hours, never been a problem so far.<p>If you are going to take a day off to do 3-4 in person interviews at a company then this slots in well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336422</link><dc:creator>chollida1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chollida1 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The technical term is that you must have an “insurable interest” in what you insure.<p>Yep, we're in full agreement here</p>
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<p>being pedantic here but<p>> You aren't allowed to set up a life insurance policy on someone else's life, or a fire insurance policy on someone else's home<p>This isn't really true.  Lots of people take out life insurance on others as a hedge for many reasons, small business partner is one.  Same fire insurance, we had a case where someone pledged a building as collateral and we took out separate fire insurance on the building so we'd get paid out immediately.<p>I'm not sure where this false premise started but alot of people believe it.</p>
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<p>I do find it to be true that with coding agents the famous quote from Jurassic Park goes through my head multiple time a day<p>"our scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to ask if they should.<p>I've now come to the realization that if I'm having an llm work constantly all day writing code for me i'm probably doing something wrong as I'm no longer focusing on the core issue itself.<p>I may be in a minority here in that I write code to augment my self and not to ship to others so I can tell very quickly if I'm just gold platting something or if i'm actually delivering real value to my trading or risk management.</p>
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<p>Is there something similar for the HP 48G calculators that anyone knows of?</p>
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<p>> How can you make yourself genuinely care about something you don't care about? It sounds as plausible as changing your own sexual orientation.<p>Most people don't care about the gym but they care about their health and their health as they age so many learn to care about going to the gym even if they don't love every minute of their gym time.  I'm one of those people.</p>
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<p>I wasn't looking for a gotcha at all.  I was wondering what specific individuals are you referring to and what crimes you think they committed.</p>
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<p>> It's a real problem at this point. People still say "nobody went to jail for the GFC" even though over 200 people did in the US; it's just it took a decade and nobody actually paid attention a decade later when they went to jail.<p>Did over 200 people in the US go to jail for the GFC?  I just tried looking and I only see 1 person in the US.  Iceland had about 25.</p>
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<p>What were the crimes you believe were committed in 2008 and who do you think committed those crimes?</p>
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<p>Nice work.<p>I remember giving this task to a summer co-op 10-12 years ago.  it was alot harder to scrape the edgar site then and gather all for form 4 filings without the new api call first interface and the XBML markup in 10-K and 10-Q filings.</p>
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<p>Shades of early twitter.<p>Early twitter showed the fail whale as often as it showed tweets and yet it was an unstoppable juggernaut that people kept using.</p>
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<p>Sad commentary on the modern world where my first thought was, well good for Orban to concede defeat.  Not all current world heads of state have that much maturity.<p>This bodes well for the midterm state of the European union.</p>
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<p>That may be true, but capitalism has nothing to do  wit betting or prediction markets.<p>You can have those with any government or market style.</p>
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<p>Sure and Google, FaceBook and Twitter support section 230 that gives them cover for hosting others content.<p>A company backing legislation that takes liability off them is something that they will always do.</p>
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<p>> so “what’s the weather lile in chicago today and forecast for tomorrow?” won’t work either?<p>I was able to make those queries work. I'm guessing hte difference is those are very common questions and openai has very specific workers to answer those queries with known oracles or sources of truth and the other is a local primary which is a query that is orders of magnitude less common and therefor has  no specific oracle or worker specific to that query.</p>
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<p>Oh, sorry I thought you meant the percentage would be huge.<p>Yes it’s a big ipo but early indications are that they’d be about 2x over subscribed if they ipo’d today from what the sell side is saying and I don’t doubt it from what other funds are saying.</p>
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<p>Umm the yen carry trade unwound in August of 2024.  It hasn’t been a factor in the markets for over a year:)<p>> On the real though, I am not sure how a 20yr veteran can say this is the best time for an IPO.<p>The best time for an open AI and anthropic ipo.  They are hot now, the macro environment doesn’t weigh into that calculus.<p>Also a 10% float isn’t massive, most companies ipo with anywhere from 20-40% of their total share count.<p>And being a 20 year veteran means you can cut through all the noise you mention and focuse in what matters. At all most all points in History there is doom and gloom, 20 years gives you the experience to know most of the doom and gloom never matters.<p>You go public when you get the chance.<p>I appreciate you comment and I hope I helped update your understanding of how things work!!</p>
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<p>Is that censoring, or is that an LLM that doesn't actually know for sure and makes that clear, rather than making up something?<p>That response is exactly what I'd want from a LLM that was trained on data from the past and doesn't have upto date knowledge on something very specific in the future.</p>
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