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New comment by nexuist in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

nexuist — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:50:00 +0000

Assuming a perfect system this still fails because you have now locked in all the law abiding citizens with someone who has proven they are ready to break the rules, effectively inventing a hostage situation out of thin air whereby a miscreant can terrorize their fellow passengers for the duration of the police response time.

New comment by nexuist in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

nexuist — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:36:06 +0000

This is a legacy design decision all the way back to iOS 1 before notifications existed. SMS messages used to be delivered through the same modal system. I believe the Apple ID and update messages are now banner notifications, and the battery alert gives you an easy way to turn on Low Power Mode, although I agree there should be a way to make that a banner notif as well.

New comment by nexuist in "Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C"

nexuist — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:47:35 +0000

It is all downstream of the loss of the manufacturing industry in America. In the 50s you could entrust a random guy to build a liquid rocket engine in a dusty garage because he spent every day of his career building various pipes and combustion chambers. All of these guys are now dead or retired so when you try to build hardware today you get new grads who settle on LIDAR and computer vision not because it is the best choice but because it is literally all that they are familiar with; the old solutions have all ceased to exist within the minds of employees and classrooms.

New comment by nexuist in "Show HN: GoatDB – A lightweight, offline-first, realtime NoDB for Deno and React"

nexuist — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:02:58 +0000

This is clearly intended for use in web applications so a JS runtime comes for free and the package is only 8.2kb

Twocents – social media where your username is your bank account balance

nexuist — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:18:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Nexuist/status/1865265021929783311

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371175

Points: 2

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New comment by nexuist in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

nexuist — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:34:21 +0000

Hey, this is great! Could you make it so clicking on the video ID in the bottom right corner opens the full video in a new tab? It would be nice to be able to like / save the whole video for later. Kinda like DVR.

New comment by nexuist in "Basic ReAct webapp using FastHTML and LangGraph"

nexuist — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:43:27 +0000

At long last: A way to write web apps in Python while preserving the un-Googleable naming conventions of JavaScript frameworks

New comment by nexuist in "Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars"

nexuist — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:20:54 +0000

Awesome, so in addition to confusing aircraft and sending them in the wrong directions, Putin can also stop everyone from driving in Europe whenever he feels like it.

New comment by nexuist in "Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago"

nexuist — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:53:24 +0000

That essay also loosely inspired the opening scene of Lord of War, which showcases the journey of a bullet from an underground mine to an Eastern European factory all the way into the head of an African child soldier.

Recognize faces in photos using local models with Apple Vision

nexuist — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Nexuist/faceprints

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40675127

Points: 2

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New comment by nexuist in "British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower"

nexuist — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:14:34 +0000

Wait till you find out about diesel generators!

New comment by nexuist in "How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?"

nexuist — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:10:44 +0000

I also wrote a Swift CLI that wraps over the Vision framework: https://github.com/nexuist/seev

Text extraction is included (including the ability to specify custom words not found in the dictionary) but there are also utilities for face detection, classification, etc.

New comment by nexuist in "AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules"

nexuist — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:12:11 +0000

As a steelman, wouldn't the abundance of infinitely generate-able situations make it _easier_ for us to develop strong theories and models? The bottleneck has always been data. You have to do expensive work in the real world and accurately measure it before you can start fitting lines to it. If we were to birth an e.g. atomically accurate ML model of quantum physics, I bet it wouldn't take long until we have mathematical theories that explain why it works. Our current problem is that this stuff is super hard to manipulate and measure.

New comment by nexuist in "Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years"

nexuist — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:19:38 +0000

> The boss of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, was also convicted of failing to protect his customers' sensitive data.

> Investigations found that the databases were vulnerable and open to the internet without proper protections.

> He was given a suspended three-month prison sentence last year.

> The company which was once a highly regarded and successful business in Finland collapsed after the hack.

Copy and pasted from the article.

New comment by nexuist in "Network visualization of 50k blogs and links"

nexuist — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:09:31 +0000

This is really awesome work! How did you classify so many links?

New comment by nexuist in "Financial market applications of LLMs"

nexuist — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:20:35 +0000

No, not at all, given the context of stock trading. Stocks do not trade the same way today as they did in 2014. Similarly there is no point in using trading data from the 1850s given that that kind of market with those kinds of traders will never ever exist again. You can only pick a few recent months or weeks to capture current trading sentiment/technique and even then everything could get blown away after the next rate hike or international incident.

Generally I don't think there is any alpha in training transformers to predict the next price point just given historical price data, because the price is determined by humans (and algorithms trained on data generated by humans) that react to news. If you can predict the news, you can probably predict stock prices, but if you could predict the future you'd have AGI and not some dingy time series calculator.

New comment by nexuist in "Financial market applications of LLMs"

nexuist — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:12:33 +0000

I've sort of come around on this. Yes, everything you listed is valuable and good. But the reality is all of it was built with money that came from banks and investors. The only reason to do anything scientific is to get investors to give you money. If you do something scientific that does not make people want to give you money you will impact no lives. In this way gaming financial markets is indeed the only point to doing anything ambitious at all.

New comment by nexuist in "Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS"

nexuist — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:29:50 +0000

Right, the value add should obviously remain locked in the hands of a few elite professionals and the rest of the world should have to beg and grovel at their feet to get anything done. Any attempts to simplify workflows should be looked at with scorn and an aura of arrogance.

Do you work at Oracle?

Show HN: Unprofitable.ai

nexuist — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unprofitable.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894418

Points: 2

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New comment by nexuist in "The New Inflection"

nexuist — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:16:53 +0000

I hope one day we can drop the corporate facade so these blog posts can be two to three sentences of "Our company sucked. Microsoft wanted to give me a fuck ton of money. I decided to take it. Some other guy is in charge now. Good luck!"