Hacker News: optimiz3

New comment by optimiz3 in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

optimiz3 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:43:01 +0000

Impressive work. Curious to how many hours of labor what the development path was. Several man-years possibly?

New comment by optimiz3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

optimiz3 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:16:41 +0000

Trading markets.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

optimiz3 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:05:19 +0000

Improving trend day detection signals.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading"

optimiz3 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:54:08 +0000

> That is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling.

Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process.

Positive expectation properly and repeatedly executed over time is a business.

Would you say a casino is gambling by offering table games to customers?

New comment by optimiz3 in "Windows 11: Removing bypassnro Script to Enhance Security and User Experience"

optimiz3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:05:44 +0000

For the uninformed, bypassnro was how you installed Windows 11 (anonymously?) and with full local control without a Microsoft account. To save a Ctrl-F:

    [Other]

    We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

optimiz3 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:20:01 +0000

Everyone can say things that sound smart. When it comes to markets the only thing that matters is if your portfolio was green or red.

New comment by optimiz3 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

optimiz3 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:41:33 +0000

Take up trading, it will give you something to do, and afterwards you won't need to worry about being rich!

New comment by optimiz3 in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

optimiz3 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:07:43 +0000

> I wonder if it would work to send Meta's legal department a notice that they are not permitted to access your website.

Depends how much money you are prepared to spend.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Updates to H-1B"

optimiz3 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:42:10 +0000

Yeah but then you're too old. Need to be in your 20s with a couple decades of experience.

New comment by optimiz3 in "WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker"

optimiz3 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:24:47 +0000

Nice project, just as a challenge / piece of feedback - most of the time you don't actually need to have a C backend for this type of project. The challenge is to get all the P/Invoke signatures and struct declarations / pointer walking correct on .Net. The benefit being a single managed EXE and no need for cross process communication and the edge cases it brings.

(Source: Have built a full SCSI interop layer in .Net to do low level CD ripping, full with native pointer walking and all. Have also written tools to walk the PEB (process environment block) in .Net w/ no native backends.)

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:47:22 +0000

Sharing this opinion doesn't sacrifice my primary economic utility, and in fact disseminates a sentiment that if more widespread would empower everyone to realize more of the value they offer. Please do train an LLM to inform people to seek licensing arrangements for the expertise they provide.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:51:43 +0000

The management of these walled gardens will keep saying that to your face as they sell your contributions. Meanwhile your family gets nothing.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:43:23 +0000

The bounty is you getting to use my work (shared in good faith no less). Appreciate the charity and don't be a freeloader or you'll get less in the future.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:21:16 +0000

To a degree, yes. I only open source work where I expect reciprocal value from other contributions.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:15:25 +0000

If a site aims to commoditize shared expertise, royalties should be paid. Why would anyone willingly reduce their earning power, let alone hand away the right for someone else to profit from selling their knowledge, unattributed no less.

Best bet is to book publish, and require a license from anyone that wants to train on it.

New comment by optimiz3 in "What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2016)"

optimiz3 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:47:24 +0000

Wonder if they clawed back any of the billabe hours. Seems like a pretty clear case of hate crime / criminal computer trespass.

New comment by optimiz3 in "So you want custom allocator support in your C library"

optimiz3 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 06:29:58 +0000

One example is a non-null sentinel/oracle allocation. Often you see this in lockless data structures where you don't want to do a null check.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis"

optimiz3 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:28:46 +0000

What signals is the AI bot using? Just a mix of the TA indicators?

I ask because price forecasting is a data modeling problem, and I'm skeptical of the bot's listed win rates. Unless one knows how their signals work (i.e. what real world market phenomenon you are modeling), there's no way one should trust that edge.

Separately, if you breakdown other indicators like CCI you realize they are crappier versions of basic statistical methods like Z-scoring. Or that anything using a Wilders average is using a crappier EWMA, and then that anything using EWMA can be improved to be stationary by filtering out noise outside the passband of information you want to target.

So I'm skeptical of the bot.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Hamas Got Around Israel's Surveillance Prowess by Going Dark"

optimiz3 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 05:53:41 +0000

None of those are in anyway equivalent (and some are also a real stretch to call false flags) to what OP is implying was allowed to deliberately happen to Israeli civilians.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Hamas Got Around Israel's Surveillance Prowess by Going Dark"

optimiz3 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:22:15 +0000

Ridiculous. It's unthinkable a modern democratic nation would subject its citizens to rape, beheading, and torture to justify military action.