Hacker News: nknealk

New comment by nknealk in "Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter"

nknealk — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:07:22 +0000

Vanguard regularly pushes the envelope on cutting fees for investment products. In 2025 they reduced their fee structure by 350M (1)

(1) https://corporate.vanguard.com/feecuts

New comment by nknealk in "Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch"

nknealk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:17:45 +0000

The G7 pairs directly with an Apple Watch and acts as the primary sync device. Unlike the G6, you don’t get null readings displaying on the watch until you open the app. I have the dexcom widget on my Apple Watch series 10 with a G7 paired with direct to watch and it always displays the current reading

New comment by nknealk in "New iMac with M4"

nknealk — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:28:32 +0000

I believe it’s a limitation of the memory controller on the M4 chip. It can only address 32 gb of ram. Addressing more ram would require more die space

New comment by nknealk in "Ask HN: Do you track how your email address is used?"

nknealk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:55:10 +0000

I love this feature in Apple’s ecosystem so much. The newer iOS and iPadOS releases when autofilling a sign-up form even give an option to generate a new hide my email address. It’s effortless to not use your real email. If you pay for an iCloud subscription, hide my email is included. Apple tracks what site you used hide my email on when signing up and allows you to toggle forwarding of emails to your inbox on and off.

New comment by nknealk in "An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes"

nknealk — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 22:23:35 +0000

It’s also frequently used to price stock options given to employees at publicly traded companies.

New comment by nknealk in "We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half"

nknealk — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:53:15 +0000

> You can run DOOM Eternal, building the Stadia that Google couldn’t pull off, because the L40S hasn’t forgotten that it’s a graphics GPU.

Savage.

I wonder if we’ll see a resurgence of cloud game streaming

New comment by nknealk in "FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python"

nknealk — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:01:43 +0000

Take a look at streamlit as well. It’s got a few weird sharp edges but is really easy to pick up

New comment by nknealk in "New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall"

nknealk — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:39:35 +0000

It’s worth noting that companies are testing flu + COVID vaccines as an all in one shot. I think most people don’t want to come to their pharmacy for multiple jabs.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

New comment by nknealk in "Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale"

nknealk — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:10:09 +0000

There's a hammer museum in Haines Alaska with similar vibes. Countless different types of hammers.

https://www.hammermuseum.org

New comment by nknealk in "He trained cops to fight crypto crime and allegedly ran a dark-web drug market"

nknealk — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:31:21 +0000

Is this more safe or less safe than laundering cash the old fashioned way?

Jokes aside, it’s incredible that the FBI could still attribute transactions

New comment by nknealk in "Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?"

nknealk — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:40:52 +0000

https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-price-of-incivility

Not explicitly related to management but good advice. I’ve seen too many people put in a position of power and become assholes. It destroys morale.

Edit: a non paywalled link https://www.qualitymanagementinstitute.com/images/hrsolution...

New comment by nknealk in "Show HN: I created a SaaS with Htmx and Django back end (nicecv.online)"

nknealk — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:30:57 +0000

If you’re open to it, can you share what resources you used to learn Django and htmx?

Pfizer Helped Save the World with Covid Vaccines. Now It Needs to Right Itself

nknealk — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:08:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/pfizer-drug-company-cost-cutting-2da7524d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38651481

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nknealk in "I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)"

nknealk — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:43:00 +0000

Can you please update the terraform docs for google batch? In [1] it’s really difficult to know what everything in the json configuration is under the base64encode() call. What levers can I pull? How do I run something more complex than hello world? Do I need my CICD to upload scripts to GCS and have the instance download them at runtime and hardcode that path into the batch script?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/batch/docs/create-run-job-using-ter...

New comment by nknealk in "Nvidia to Challenge Intel with Arm-Based Processors for PCs"

nknealk — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:48:52 +0000

I think it’s slightly more complex than that. Apple included in their processor design custom extensions to ARM that alter things like memory order to make emulation easier [1]. It’s not just control over the software stack that makes Rosetta so performant.

[1] https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler

New comment by nknealk in "10-year Treasury yield rises to 5%, highest level for the key rate in 16 years"

nknealk — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:46:15 +0000

In most financial models, the return investors demand on risky assets like stocks depends on the opportunity cost of the risk free rate [eg 1]. As the risk free rate goes up, the return investors expect on risky assets also goes up which pushes their price down.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capm.asp

New comment by nknealk in "Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app"

nknealk — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:48:14 +0000

All I want for Christmas is the ability to set multiple timers on my iPhone.

New comment by nknealk in "Ask HN: What's your residential Internet speed and cost?"

nknealk — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:05:20 +0000

I pay $70 for 1 Gb/s but I usually end up getting 800-900 mbps up/down when I run a Speedtest which is fine by me. I switched to centurylink fiber during the pandemic. Before that I was paying comcast $65 for 100 down / 10 up.

Seattle WA

New comment by nknealk in "Ask HN: How do you exercise?"

nknealk — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:08:15 +0000

Soccer.

For those in the Seattle area there are multiple adult leagues (Seattle RATS is what I play in). We play year round on turf, rain or shine. They’ve got beginners divisions and over 30s divisions. They also host a free Saturday skills clinic.

New comment by nknealk in "Ask HN: How do you navigate Seasonal Affective Disorder?"

nknealk — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 17:04:12 +0000

I live in Seattle, having moved from California. The thing that helped me more than anything was playing soccer outdoors year round. Rain or snow. Several times a week. The exercise more than anything helped me get over the dark and the grey. The fact that it’s a team sport and 10+ other people are counting on me to show up helps keep me accountable.