Hacker News: crawftv

New comment by crawftv in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

crawftv — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:59:07 +0000

The biggest red flag in all these stories is getting a call from a customer support person trying to help you. When it seems like it’s impossible to get ahold of them in a real emergency.

New comment by crawftv in "'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting"

crawftv — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:32:54 +0000

Is it still going? I watched "The Art of the Steal" documentary and thought it shut down.

New comment by crawftv in "Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)"

crawftv — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:23:25 +0000

This just means your boss needs a spreadsheet model guy. "Bosses" would rather die than enter a formula in spreadsheet.

New comment by crawftv in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

crawftv — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:07:40 +0000

This was the whole issue. California made it illegal for insurance companies to raise rates, so the insurance companies stop renewals. Leaving everybody uninsured. Homeowners couldn't buy insurance at any price.

New comment by crawftv in "University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics"

crawftv — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:01:31 +0000

The glass recycling in my area is hauling my glass to a container and it gets turned into fiberglass.

New comment by crawftv in "Anthem drops controversial new plan to cap anesthesia coverage after backlash"

crawftv — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:43:17 +0000

There is a specific type of nurse called a CRNA that is basically a replacement for anesthesiologists. And half the nurses I know are going to school for that. It seems like hospitals and insurers want to replace the MD here.

New comment by crawftv in "Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization"

crawftv — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:38:52 +0000

To answer your last question, we would need to have a good idea of what the language sounded like. Linear B was deciphered, we think, by doing frequency analysis but using the Greek language. so it was a script for the Greek language in Crete. It seems impossible to decipher the script without a sound of the language.

New comment by crawftv in "Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?"

crawftv — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:12:28 +0000

I second this. Do t be scared off by it being for math Olympiads. A lot the first volume deals with concepts across much of the field. Lots of practice and ideas for logs, exponents, word problems. And it comes with a solution guide which helped me a lot.

New comment by crawftv in "S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week"

crawftv — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:45:26 +0000

As long you have tolerance for it to keep dropping further you’ll be fine. Don’t expect to know where the bottom there is. People forget the second part of the famous saying. “But when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.

New comment by crawftv in "Show HN: ChessCoach: Find mistakes in your chess games, and improve"

crawftv — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:38:22 +0000

This is very neat. I'm glad someone figured this problem out.

New comment by crawftv in "Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims"

crawftv — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:54:12 +0000

The reason is that they are highly levered with many small short term trades. >dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/senate-inquiry-faults-hedge-funds-tax-strategy/https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/senate-inquiry-fault... “Jul 21, 2014 Within these complicated financial structures, Renaissance Technologies was able to borrow as much as $17 for every $1 in the account.”

New comment by crawftv in "Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?"

crawftv — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:37:26 +0000

Exposure is one reason. Two of my articles have over 3k views. On medium you can make good content and get a decent amount of views much easier than hosting own blog and growth hacking.

New comment by crawftv in "WeWTF"

crawftv — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 19:13:22 +0000

It all really comes back to Trump in the end.

New comment by crawftv in "Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python"

crawftv — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:44:56 +0000

With advancements in saved/pretrained models I think answer is or will be a raspberry pi. I think a more interesting question is “what is the smallest computer that can learn chess”

New comment by crawftv in "The Effect of Sleep on Happiness"

crawftv — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:54:38 +0000

In my experience, I think the momentum/flow and thrill helps. Also hacking turns into late-night-hacking as I try to dig myself out of hole. So it ends up being productive by trying to finish something before bed.