Hacker News: ruste

New comment by ruste in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

ruste — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:54:20 +0000

I've been following this guy for a while on X. He does live this way. This isn't a hypothetical. He lives on his writing and has plenty of free time to chop all the wood he'd ever need.

New comment by ruste in "Ask HN: Programmable Lasers?"

ruste — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:53:24 +0000

I actually did this at one point in time. The hardware you're looking for is a "laser galvo" setup. It typically takes a +/-12v range analog signal as input. I ended up building my own hardware to drive this. You can use a D to A converter and an op-amp to take a digital output from a raspberry pi or arduino and get the correct signal level. I ran mine on an arduino and it was plenty fast for simple things. Complex animations that require more compute on the device might be a bit much. Enabling and disabling the laser is as simple as a transistor.

New comment by ruste in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

ruste — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:15:32 +0000

Been watching your development for a while on Twitter. This is a monumental achievement and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

New comment by ruste in "The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land"

ruste — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:37:14 +0000

I probably could have been clearer with my point. A park is never the highest and best use based on gain. A LVT would make it _harder_ to create things that may be valuable in ways not measured by the market.

New comment by ruste in "The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land"

ruste — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:50:03 +0000

The problem with this is that it's fundamentally incompatible with zoning.

I own a chunk of acreage in farmland adjacent to my metropolitan area. The township won't allow it to be developed further due to density restrictions, I have my one house on it but that's all I get and I'm happy with that, but his tax would be implemented at the state level. The state would say "You have a lot of valuable land here right next to the city. We're going to tax you wildly on land you can't develop.

Furthermore, this tax would just serve to increase speculative churn and encourage chunks of land that would eventually go on to become parks and public lands to be broken down by landowners into small chunks for the densest and most valuable uses.

The whole problem is that what is valuable is not necessarily what is good for society and this does nothing to address that. I'm always struck by how weirdly free-market / Laissez faire land value taxes are given who typically pushes them.

New comment by ruste in "Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler"

ruste — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:32:32 +0000

This is probably fantastic from a maintainability perspective, but I'm curious if some performance is left on the table by using LLVM IR instead of compiling directly to machine code. I know there are a number of optimizations that can be made for Fortran that can't be made for C-like languages and I wonder if some of those C-like assumptions are implicitly encoded in the IR.

New comment by ruste in "Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source"

ruste — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:35:01 +0000

The author is in the UK. They noted that they were on a wait-list just to get tested and likely wouldn't be for a year at least so they decided to take it on themselves.

New comment by ruste in "APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)"

ruste — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:23:27 +0000

The advantage of single character concatenated symbols is that it allows your brain to group them rather than forcing you to read them separately. This means you almost unconsciously build up a bunch of set of instantly recognizable "chunks" of symbols that represent concepts you're familiar with. Each of these chunks can represent the equivalent of a huge amount of code in another language.

New comment by ruste in "I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday"

ruste — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:37:35 +0000

I've tried a few times to export my data from Facebook and it's never worked for me. I request it and it just silently fails.

New comment by ruste in "Startup Uses GPT-3 to Provide Counseling and Then Realizes It 'Feels Weird'"

ruste — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:15:28 +0000

A lot of the benefit of therapy likely comes from the social aspect of feeling understood and seen by another _person_. This can't come from an AI as long as those treated know it's an AI.

The truth about SSRI antidepressants

ruste — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:31:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tpr.org/podcast/petrie-dish/2022-12-16/the-truth-about-sssri-antidepressants

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34342391

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ruste in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

ruste — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:05:02 +0000

Personally the return on the air fryer for me is a direct result of it being smaller. For most things my larger kitchen oven needs time to preheat. That's an additional step that isn't required when I just want to roast some vegetables / meat or heat some frozen potato products quickly in the air fryer. This time / extra step is well worth cost for me ($20 of fb marketplace).

New comment by ruste in "We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)"

ruste — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:55:33 +0000

I love how quickly after ChatGPT's release we're conflating the chicken and the egg. It's not that the content online is barely better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is what it is because it was trained on that content.

New comment by ruste in "Louis Rossmann explains why he left New York"

ruste — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:52:58 +0000

He has! One of the things he mentions in this and other videos is that not even the CPAs he hired can answer if something is legal. He's also got recordings of him calling the city repeatedly about a fine and nobody can tell him how to avoid it, when it applies, or whether what he's doing is even legal.

New comment by ruste in "Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game"

ruste — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:36:10 +0000

Lower your population cap in the config file (I like 10-15) and don't pierce the cavern layers. This was a total gamechanger for me in terms of fun and fps :)

New comment by ruste in "Researchers develop thermoformable ceramics, 'a new frontier in materials'"

ruste — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:16:00 +0000

The only way I've seen this done is by lapping the touching surfaces after firing.

New comment by ruste in "TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)"

ruste — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:54:39 +0000

Didn't facebook / instagram have to testify before congress only a couple of years ago about what they were doing to fight the body image issues that their platforms were causing in underage users?

New comment by ruste in "Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General"

ruste — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:11:32 +0000

Most burglaries happen when the occupant isn't home. Unsurprisingly burglars don't like people to be there when they break in. Guns don't operate themselves so it's not crazy to think that people who have them would have their homes targeted.

New comment by ruste in "Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General"

ruste — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:10:07 +0000

The reason guns are the number two deterrent behind dogs is because the overwhelming majority of burglaries generally, and in particular, for the purpose of theft, happen when the homeowner is gone. A gun won't operate itself, but people often leave their dogs home alone.

Given this context, the fear that those looking for guns would use this information to target a relative minority that have them becomes much more plausible.

New comment by ruste in "Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone"

ruste — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:16:47 +0000

https://www.guerrillamail.com/ has been around as long as I can remember.