Hacker News: steeeeeve

New comment by steeeeeve in "Revisiting the Algorithm That Changed Horse Race Betting (2023)"

steeeeeve — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:25:24 +0000

If you have an algorithmic edge, eventually it will stop working. If it's a really good one, your trades become someone else's edge. The market is constantly changing and active traders are constantly looking at what's going on and trying to take advantage. The more I looked into trading, the more it was just a sea of "Use these charts", "don't really trust these charts", and "once you lose a ton of money, you'll get a feel for things"

New comment by steeeeeve in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

steeeeeve — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:14:11 +0000

I won't downvote you, but I will die on the other hill - the one over there that has a guy sitting down with his arms folded sporting an angry face every time someone something positive about WSL. There's at least three of us on that hill. And we're not going anywhere.

New comment by steeeeeve in "PDF to Text, a challenging problem"

steeeeeve — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:53:46 +0000

I too went down that rabbithole. Haha. Anything around that time to get an edge in a fantasy football league. I found a bunch of historical NFL stats pdfs and it took forever to make usable data out of them.

New comment by steeeeeve in "I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)"

steeeeeve — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:28:29 +0000

Government is the worst possible solution to every problem.

(not an attack on you. I have to say that every time I see someone say anything along the lines of "the government should do it")

New comment by steeeeeve in "I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)"

steeeeeve — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:23:12 +0000

I would agree with you. Dating app data might not be legally protected like some PII out there, but there are easily foreseeable bad consequences from compromised dating app data of any kind. Security should be accounted for from the very beginning.

New comment by steeeeeve in "We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing"

steeeeeve — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:49:05 +0000

Old school Zeiss glass is like butter for any camera body. My dad told me to stick with Nikon and spend my money on lenses first. He was not wrong. You can put 25 year old professional lenses on a mid-market Nikon body and the images will be stunning with very little effort.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

steeeeeve — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:13:23 +0000

This is one of those decisions that confuses you when you're on a mac and things just don't work how you'd expect.

New comment by steeeeeve in "How IMAP works under the hood"

steeeeeve — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:10:03 +0000

This is the kind of thing I would have expected to read in 2600 back in the day. And why I _always_ looked for 2600 at the bookstore.

New comment by steeeeeve in "AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years"

steeeeeve — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:23:18 +0000

I find this odd because that's exactly how I thought viruses worked when crossing species and I have no background that would lead me to that conclusion and have almost nothing in my life that would make me ponder such a thing.

I feel like someone explained this in the 80s to me.

New comment by steeeeeve in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

steeeeeve — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:57:26 +0000

Who buys a drill not strong enough for a hole saw? What does that even look like anyways? An electric screwdriver?

New comment by steeeeeve in "Catalytic computing taps the full power of a full hard drive"

steeeeeve — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:53:11 +0000

That's brilliant

New comment by steeeeeve in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

steeeeeve — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:51:02 +0000

global from day one and circumvent government interference

--- There are banking laws all over the world that need to be considered and followed, the US in particular has a set of banking laws that differ in each state unless you are an actual bank that follows federal regulations.

Ignoring or being purposefully ignorant of the laws is a bad path.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Rust’s worst feature"

steeeeeve — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:59:16 +0000

The selling point of Rust was that it protects programmers from doing dangerous things.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Keycloak, Angular, and the BFF Pattern"

steeeeeve — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:08:20 +0000

The BFF pattern is just "mostly microservices dedicated to a particular client type".

It makes sense when you have drastically different needs between a desktop client and a mobile client (or maybe for a kiosk client or POS interface)

Hosting a microservice is cheap, it avoids unnecessary workload on backend data stores, and teams can operate with more autonomy if they don't have to cooperatively update APIs in coordination with other groups with differing priorities.

This article really just reads like "I figured out how to do authentication with keycloak using OIDC"

New comment by steeeeeve in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

steeeeeve — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:03:57 +0000

Today it is. Tomorrow everyone will look at it like Wish or Temu.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

steeeeeve — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:02:48 +0000

You could displace DeepSeek pretty easily with Amazon Mechanical Turk.

New comment by steeeeeve in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

steeeeeve — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:58:34 +0000

This really seems to me like a big warning that says to avoid hiring people that were laid off.

Better advice. Be who you are. Work for and with people you like. Do what interests you where you are valued. You will spend a lot of time at work. Try to make sure it feels good.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Turn any bicycle electric"

steeeeeve — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:20:24 +0000

Oddly, yes. A regular bike accident would have been covered. And it would have been covered on a moped as well even though she's too young to have a license.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Turn any bicycle electric"

steeeeeve — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:56:37 +0000

I _just_ went through this when my child had an ebike accident (AAA, southern california). You need specific ebike insurance. Auto/homeowners doesn't apply for different reasons.

New comment by steeeeeve in "Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit"

steeeeeve — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:00:18 +0000

So having clear requirements, a focused purpose for software, and a clear boundary of software responsibility makes for a software development task that can be accomplished?

If only people had figured out at some point that the same thing applies when communicating to human software engineers.