Hacker News: lain98

New comment by lain98 in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

lain98 — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:48:00 +0000

VTI avoids these issues. It's float adjusted market cap weighted. More float allows better price discovery. So a company like spacex has negligible weight.

New comment by lain98 in "Cisco workforce reductions"

lain98 — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:28:30 +0000

Whenever a company does layoffs willy nilly frequently I stop trusting them with my career. The AI excuses are lazy.

I was laid off last year by one of the big tech companies, and they called me again for a rehire but I just dont trust them anymore even if they pay more. The layoff completely disrupted my life and I developed health issues because of the stress. Not worth the mental hassle.

I have seen a few workplaces which are more deliberate in their hiring and are not on 24x7x365 hire and fire mode unlike many of the big names. I would rather work in such a place rather than have 10 varieties of coffee and condiments in the pantry.

Frankly i'm pissed off.

Sorry for the people who pinned their hopes on cisco and were laid off yesterday. It's not easy.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"

lain98 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:44:14 +0000

Engineering books are very expensive in my country. I want to give calculus a spin. Spivak is a hundred dollars.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

lain98 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:07:18 +0000

I use archive storage class on google cloud, to store old movies and wedding videos, pictures of old vacations.

For everything else I use paid onedrive subscription. The biggest problem is user interface with s3 like storage and predictable pricing because remember you also pay for data retrieval and other storage apis, with dropbox etc you pay a fixed amount. Every year or so I roll over data into the bucket.

But for infrequently accessed data its fine.

New comment by lain98 in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

lain98 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:00:06 +0000

I find myself completely outclassed by mathematicians in my own field. I tried to learn a little math on the side after my regular software engineer gig but I'm completely outclassed by phd's.

I am unsure of the next course of action or if software will survive another 5 years and how my career will look like in the future. Seems like I am engaged in the ice trade and they are about to invent the refrigerator.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

lain98 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:39:08 +0000

It's possible to do the same with google sheets using GOOGLEFINANCE function and I have been using it to track and manage finances since years.

New comment by lain98 in "Math from Three to Seven"

lain98 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:36:37 +0000

I have been trying to join/create a circle as an adult. I asked some of my online friends but no interest so far.

New comment by lain98 in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

lain98 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:45:41 +0000

ACE 6. I did good career wise, failure was just not an option to me so I worked hard. At school I was put into accelerated classes for gifted kids. But I feel like I could have done a lot better with more support at home. I see that people get points for diversity etc. in college or hiring, but there is no such support for people who suffer silently, and even if there was I have too much pride to let others know just for some brownie points. Life was particularly hard before I found employment, roughly from the age of 18 to 26. That was also the period when my mental health challenges were more difficult and I had not yet learned how to cope. I have not yet gotten any ‘treatment’ for mental health issues. I got some money after making some fortunate investment decisions that allowed me to climb out of poverty, it might be trivial sum for most people out there but it was a lot to me. Lately I get feelings of being an orphan, just out there on my own and not having my own people to share things with or support in life.

My wife is startled sometimes when I react as I do, she doesn’t understand where it comes from. I have forgetfulness and emotional regulation issues. But she is a nice person and helps me out.

I worry about money and the future all the time.

I would like to thank my mom and God for everything, and Jensen Huang. Will delete this later.

Sorry for poor punctuation and english.

Stem Stranded Assets

lain98 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/insights/chief-investment-office/market-insights/paul-donovan/2024/stranded-assets.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259942

Points: 1

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Finding New Readers When Google Is Out to Disappear You

lain98 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/seeking-input-fundraising-and-the-challenge-of-finding-new-readers-when-google-is-out-to-disappear-you.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38442996

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lain98 in "Babur the Naturalist"

lain98 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:11:59 +0000

Why is this on hacker news.

New comment by lain98 in "Llama 2"

lain98 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:33:06 +0000

Can I run this on my laptop. Is there any LLM models that are neatly wrapped as an app I can run on windows ?

New comment by lain98 in "Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic"

lain98 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:14:40 +0000

Gurgaon, India

New comment by lain98 in "Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic"

lain98 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:48:37 +0000

I am considering contacting the Employee assistance program for this. I have never used it and I am not sure if its a good idea.

New comment by lain98 in "Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic"

lain98 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:39:51 +0000

I feel that is an answer for americans. There is no sports or arts classes where I live. Most people work and go home to watch TV. A lot of places in the world don't have such option with activities or outdoors.

New comment by lain98 in "Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic"

lain98 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:25:30 +0000

I am suffering from this too, and I am not sure who to turn to or what to do about it.

I work remotely and all my interaction with coworkers is maybe half an hour everyday where we talk about work and nothing else. If I challenge myself to go to office, I find that its only about 33% occupied.

I have few friends but they don't call me anymore and live far apart. Tried to meet women but it didn't work out.

New comment by lain98 in "Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review"

lain98 — Mon, 30 May 2022 16:08:42 +0000

I cant afford these books.

New comment by lain98 in "Ask HN: Feeling Depressed and Choked. How to handle it?"

lain98 — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:33:31 +0000

Talk to your mom or dad. I think its the change in your life that increase your anxiety and will pass in a months when things stabilize.

Btw, youre doing better than most >American households had a median balance of $5,300 and an average balance of $41,600

New comment by lain98 in "Loda-lang – language, computational model, and OEIS miner"

lain98 — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 12:18:14 +0000

Unfortunately named.

New comment by lain98 in "What a tiny masterpiece reveals about power and beauty"

lain98 — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:45:04 +0000

Not the first time nytimes has given a tongue bath to a genocidal maniac.