Hacker News: the88doctor

New comment by the88doctor in "Why fake research is rampant in China"

the88doctor — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:48:45 +0000

Incentivizing quality over quantity always leads to more fraud. It happens in academia, and it happens in sales (e.g. Bank of America scandal). If I need more of X to get promoted or to get my bonus, then it's easiest to just create fake X.

New comment by the88doctor in "Research suggests political differences may prompt neighbors to move"

the88doctor — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:45:09 +0000

I've moved 22 times in my life. I've never moved from an area due to a single neighbor, but some areas you just feel different than everyone living around you. That causes you (or at least me) to think about moving.

New comment by the88doctor in "Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated"

the88doctor — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:38:16 +0000

I definitely need to move out of Florida before having kids.

FinCEN proposes new rule for residential real estate held in trusts or LLCs

the88doctor — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:57:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-proposes-rule-combat-money-laundering-and-promote-transparency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304312

Points: 75

# Comments: 70

The global fight against HIV is at risk

the88doctor — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 11:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm6975

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38140222

Points: 61

# Comments: 96

New comment by the88doctor in "Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all"

the88doctor — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:13:46 +0000

Not sure what data you're looking at, but that's completely off. Trailing 12 month food inflation is over 4%. Transportation inflation is over 10%. Services excluding energy are up 5.9%.

New comment by the88doctor in "Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all"

the88doctor — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:06:39 +0000

3% construction loans would majorly undermine the Fed's effort to fight inflation

New comment by the88doctor in "Google no longer offers new domain registrations"

the88doctor — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:34:12 +0000

"I wouldn't underestimate how... having one company as both your registrar and cloud service provider can impact the choice of which otherwise commodity service to use." THIS. Even if I'm just spinning up a simple blog, unless I'm buying a premium domain name, I'm gonna buy it on Bluehost instead of a cheaper registrar like Namecheap just to avoid the few minutes of work and few hours of wait time to link that domain with another hosting service.

New comment by the88doctor in "Emoji Generator with AI"

the88doctor — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:07:38 +0000

True, but I think a human graphic artist would have known what I was asking for

Gene editing of microbiome may help prevent asthma in children

the88doctor — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:55:13 +0000

Article URL: https://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/gene-editing-microbiome-may-help-prevent-asthma-children

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446798

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by the88doctor in "Emoji Generator with AI"

the88doctor — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:10:03 +0000

The generator isn't very accurate. I prompted "a sad bald construction worker" and I got a smiling construction worker wearing a hard hat. Only 1 out of 3 adjectives was implemented.

Crypto casino 'Stake' loses $41M in hack

the88doctor — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://rekt.news/stake-rekt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37390806

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by the88doctor in "Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists"

the88doctor — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:54:23 +0000

I started my PhD doing algebraic topology and tried using TDA for a couple industry projects before eventually switching to work on quantum computing algorithms because I decided TDA wasn't that useful. It's definitely a solution in search of a problem, and while there do seem to be a couple interesting use cases (such as genetic data analysis), I completely agree with you that there are better alternatives in most situations.

FDA Approves First Vaccine for Pregnant Individuals to Prevent RSV in Infants

the88doctor — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:50:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-vaccine-pregnant-individuals-prevent-rsv-infants

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253016

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by the88doctor in "World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events"

the88doctor — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:25:35 +0000

Chess is one sport where I didn't expect transwomen controversy to even be relevant -- physical abilities don't even come into play.

Telemarketer Fees to Access FTC Do-Not-Call Registry to Increase in FY2024

the88doctor — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:22:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/08/telemarketer-fees-access-ftcs-national-do-not-call-registry-increase-fy-2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176025

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by the88doctor in "The worlds largest Online Toaster Exhibition"

the88doctor — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:14:01 +0000

A lot of the toasters shown from 1910-1940s only toast one side of the bread at a time and have a flipping mechanism to then toast the other side. The flipping mechanisms seem like they would be nearly as expensive as just adding a second heating element. So is the reason for the one-sided toasting a constraint on how much electrical power was commonly available to homes 100 years ago?

New comment by the88doctor in "FCC imposes record penalty against transnational illegal robocalling operation"

the88doctor — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:44:11 +0000

Does this mean no one will be trying to reach me about my car's extended warranty?

New comment by the88doctor in "Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?"

the88doctor — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:14:03 +0000

The Market Wizard series has several good interviews with traders with verified records that significantly outperformed for decades. The ones who used TA invariably say that it used to work but became less and less effective as computers became more prevelant.

I wonder if the crossover strategy would still outperform (on a Sharpe Ratio basis) starting in 2005 instead of 1998.

I also wonder if the crossover strategy would fail to outperform (on a Sharpe Ratio basis) once transaction fees were considered.

New comment by the88doctor in "Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it"

the88doctor — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:51:44 +0000

Sadly, not only is it legal, but it is incentivized. Financial service providers have enormous civil and criminal liability by tech company standards, and some regulations require them to use "risk-based" approaches to decline service to clients. The legal consequences of shutting out innocent small businesses are essentially nothing compared to the consequences of allowing a single criminal or terrorist to use their service.