Hacker News: mghfreud

New comment by mghfreud in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

mghfreud — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:53:58 +0000

How do you use iPad for coding?

New comment by mghfreud in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

mghfreud — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:33:39 +0000

Designing for zero loss in a major war is way more expensive than we can undertake.

New comment by mghfreud in "Can I run AI locally?"

mghfreud — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:21:10 +0000

I am not following what we are talking about here. I am a basic human being, I cannot truly simulate a nondeterministic system. Does it mean “I am not thinking”?

New comment by mghfreud in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

mghfreud — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:14:36 +0000

Visit Turkey for a couple weeks. Rules are the same, but behavior is the opposite. Weekly dose of 1mg is sold over the counter for around 150$.

New comment by mghfreud in "Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset"

mghfreud — Sun, 18 May 2025 11:59:04 +0000

I am not following where (in your initial message) you stated that “centralized entity that controls the payments is not good”

New comment by mghfreud in "Preferring throwaway code over design docs"

mghfreud — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:59:44 +0000

Why not get it read by a couple peers and iterate on their feedback? My writing is not great, but with the design docs I created, the first version is always terrible, not easily understandable mostly because of not listing all the assumptions whereas the third version almost always becomes something I would never be able to achieve myself. Over the years, I settled on 2 rounds of review. First to mostly add missing sections and rearchitect the design and the doc, second to mostly hone the explanation/details.

New comment by mghfreud in "Crystal Ball Trading Game"

mghfreud — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:37:08 +0000

Not following this. 1. Aren’t everybody seeing the book at the same time? The exchange do not publish the same data to everybody? 2. The “information advantage example” does not make sense to me. If there is an order for 48$, that is top of book and everyone has seen that order, how come the new participant not know it?

New comment by mghfreud in "Crystal Ball Trading Game"

mghfreud — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:28:36 +0000

How do you fontrun orders? You can only take action after you see the order. Am I missing anything?

New comment by mghfreud in "Crystal Ball Trading Game"

mghfreud — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:18:28 +0000

How do Citadel have a crystal ball for price?

New comment by mghfreud in "Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked"

mghfreud — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:54:03 +0000

Do the data shared with political parties contain real estate deeds?

New comment by mghfreud in "FDIC auction for SVB said to be underway, final bids due Sunday"

mghfreud — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:20:22 +0000

Please ELI5.

New comment by mghfreud in "Silicon Valley Bank Failure [pdf]"

mghfreud — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:48:44 +0000

But if they panic, bank will go down.

New comment by mghfreud in "AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back"

mghfreud — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:53:34 +0000

Do you have any source? I want to read more about this.

New comment by mghfreud in "Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer"

mghfreud — Tue, 31 May 2022 22:23:08 +0000

Virtual computer is a bunch of processes.

New comment by mghfreud in "Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer"

mghfreud — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:54:11 +0000

isn’t this exactly what the vm migration in cloud is?

New comment by mghfreud in "KDE Connect Now Available on iOS"

mghfreud — Sun, 15 May 2022 10:56:07 +0000

Probably Google?

New comment by mghfreud in "Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay"

mghfreud — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:00:37 +0000

For L5: - base is 175k+ (Usually around 180-200k, if not newly promoted). - 15% cash bonus - 120-150k$ worth rsu

These are for average performers. Above average performers get up to ~100% more bonus and rsu

At each promotion, these numbers increase by around 15-20%. (Same for L4->L5 promotion, but L4 is not a senior level at Google)

* These are ballpark Bay Area numbers for L5 to L8.

New comment by mghfreud in "Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay"

mghfreud — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:28:49 +0000

Yes, but cash bonuses are “only” around 15-25% of base pay depending on seniority. For senior engineers, rsu grants are >= base pay.

New comment by mghfreud in "C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)"

mghfreud — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:34:07 +0000

I am lost here, the mentioned bugs are a result of optimizations like speculative execution, branch prediction, prefetching etc.

These are language independent optimizations. For example, any language (that allow for loop like constructs) compiled to intel machine code and executed on intel processor will be exposed to these bugs, it is not C specific. Am I missing anything?

New comment by mghfreud in "Turkey's Financial Crisis"

mghfreud — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:03:26 +0000

I am saying that the government raised interest rates substantially, one way or the other. It used couple of tools to do it, one of them is promising expected dollar appreciation as interest. (Tl is expected to depreciate at least at the rate of inflation, which substantially higher then central banks overnight rate, hence they have increased interest)