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New comment by riskneutral in "Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?"

riskneutral — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:21:27 +0000

> email clients that don't implement CSS properly (Outlook).

Can anyone explain how this is even possible? It's 2025.

New comment by riskneutral in "Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?"

riskneutral — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:17:02 +0000

Awesome

New comment by riskneutral in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

riskneutral — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:51:13 +0000

is this better than miniconda?

New comment by riskneutral in "Jane Street's Figgie card game"

riskneutral — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:07:00 +0000

my experience of trading and speculation has been the opposite. very little profit (or zero or negative profit) in return for an extraordinary amount of effort and expertise. see Acura/Honda NSX trading.

New comment by riskneutral in "Jane Street's Figgie card game"

riskneutral — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:15:31 +0000

> trading just doesn’t make sense to me.

it's not complicated. suppose Bob wants to buy an Acura NSX and Kazuo wants to sell a Honda NSX. enter trader Joe. he knows Bob, and he knows Kazuo, and he knows that the Honda NSX was also marketed as the Acura NSX. trader Joe can buy the car from Kazuo, obtain an export license, arrange for shipping and tax duties, and sell the car to Bob for a profit. that is called trading.

you're thinking of "speculation." one could argue that the market needs speculators to take the risks that hedgers want to reduce. speculators might also find interesting information and improve the efficiency of market prices. traders intermediate between speculators and hedgers.

now does it make sense?

New comment by riskneutral in "Argentinian president backs away from LIBRA memecoin after 90% crash"

riskneutral — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:02:17 +0000

> send one or two people into the boonies ... there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout

This was called "wild catting." It gave people an excuse to carry TNT dynamite into the boonies and detonate explosives for fun (like fireworks for grown ups).

Show HN: Greatest RPG Video Game of All Time in Less Than 100 Lines

riskneutral — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:30:10 +0000

Presenting: "Terminatrix." A console-based, AI-driven, text-based RPG video game, in less than 100 lines of Python.

I've enjoyed minutes (even hours) of entertainment with this video game. I hope you will enjoy it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006665

Points: 5

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New comment by riskneutral in "New York State Prisons: How to Avoid Rape in Prison – Men's Orientation [video]"

riskneutral — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 22:35:55 +0000

OK well good that you've done your research then.

New comment by riskneutral in "New York State Prisons: How to Avoid Rape in Prison – Men's Orientation [video]"

riskneutral — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 20:56:14 +0000

Is that one for you?

New comment by riskneutral in "The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend"

riskneutral — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:13:22 +0000

Oh wow, I read this story as evidence that neural nets are not the future back when I was an undergrad studying machine learning. Maybe I should have followed my instincts back then because even then neural nets seemed intuitively very interesting even if the statistics and math professors hated them because they weren't derived from any first principals.

New comment by riskneutral in "AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement"

riskneutral — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:57:33 +0000

Time for copyright laws to be rewritten then.

New comment by riskneutral in "People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes"

riskneutral — Mon, 08 May 2023 15:53:05 +0000

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's not a thing. Lying to the court is a routine part of litigation, and there is no penalty or sanction for it - especially not against the lawyers themselves.

New comment by riskneutral in "Bank Failures Visualized"

riskneutral — Wed, 03 May 2023 01:24:00 +0000

This needs to be re-expressed as a % of GDP to be useful. And as already pointed out, the largest of them (Lehman) is missing

New comment by riskneutral in "A silent crisis in men’s health gets worse"

riskneutral — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:08:20 +0000

> Males have dominated all power structures in every society in the history of humankind

> Why are men doing this to themselves?

What you are doing here is using a tiny substrata of hyper-successful men (those who "dominated power structures" as you put it) and using that to represent the entire structure of Western society. There is nothing about that that is vaguely appropriate.

New comment by riskneutral in "Turmoil at ‘Chief’ raises the question: is empowering corporate women enough?"

riskneutral — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:46:49 +0000

I know that those networks still exist, but literal "boys only" country clubs are no longer socially acceptable as far as I know.

New comment by riskneutral in "Turmoil at ‘Chief’ raises the question: is empowering corporate women enough?"

riskneutral — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:55:16 +0000

> For admission to Chief, a women’s leadership network, members pay up to $7,900. That gets them executive coaching, big-name speaker sessions, a Rolodex of female executives and, for an extra cost, access to five sleek clubhouses. Chief is essentially an “old boys’ club” — for the ladies. The venture capital-backed company has grown to over 20,000 members and over $1 billion in value since it started in 2019.

So ... can we have the "old boys' clubs" back now, for the other half of the species? Somehow I don't think so.

New comment by riskneutral in "Stuck with the soul"

riskneutral — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:29:24 +0000

That is a LOT of words dedicated to something that the author thinks is "ridiculous." People like this never pause to ask why they spend so much time thinking about things that they say are ridiculous fictions. I can say this because I used to be a radical materialist evangelist myself. Thankfully I grew out of that and settled into a comfortable agnosticism which I find much less exhausting.

New comment by riskneutral in "AI Could Write Our Laws"

riskneutral — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:22:05 +0000

TLDR: Lobbyists are going to use AI to ply their nefarious trade more effectively. In order to stop them, Congress needs to stop passing "monolithic, multi-thousand-page omnibus bills voted on under deadline" and instead a bill should focus on individual area and undergo through a debate and deliberation process, and we need more transparency over the activities of lobbyists. I can see how the AI part might happen, sadly the rest doesn't seem realistic at all.

New comment by riskneutral in "Russian aircraft collides into US unmanned system in international waters"

riskneutral — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:43:33 +0000

They're being generous by saying it was merely a lack of competence. If they were in another mood, they could say that their aircraft was deliberately attacked in an act of war.

New comment by riskneutral in "Mercury Vault: money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance"

riskneutral — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:33:52 +0000

Imagine a convenient, Single Point of access for all your Redundancy-as-a-Service needs!