Hacker News: tony69

New comment by tony69 in "Ferrari vs. Markets"

tony69 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:25:30 +0000

.74 is pretty weak for a correlation, and correlation is already mostly meaningless on its own

New comment by tony69 in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

tony69 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:39:26 +0000

The picture of the 4004 and 8008 are super low res

New comment by tony69 in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

tony69 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:56:17 +0000

Our business got charged a 200% tariff on a UPS import from Japan, completely incorrect. The dispute is taking much longer than OP’s. Either UPS doesn’t know what they’re doing, or they willfully charge higher fees, or maybe they’re just understaffed from the massive layoffs they did to try to save their stock price.

edit: as a biz you (we) should use a legit import broker instead of UPS. But individuals like OP are stuck with no option.

New comment by tony69 in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

tony69 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:00:39 +0000

He is describing how bidding for publicly funded projects fails, because the bidding process designed to avoid corruption has been poorly designed (or corrupted by lobbying) such that it effectively sidelines honest and qualified bids. I would say this is a typical outcome with well meaning bureaucrats in a democracy, not capitalism

New comment by tony69 in "Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust"

tony69 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:28:14 +0000

Stack allocation/deallocation does not fragment memory, that’s a yuge difference for embedded systems and the main reason to avoid the heap

New comment by tony69 in "Most expensive laptops"

tony69 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:20:41 +0000

Nice. In california it’s $800/yr

New comment by tony69 in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

tony69 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:12:29 +0000

You would’ve sold it way before it became FU money

New comment by tony69 in "Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff"

tony69 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:40:23 +0000

In Europe this (some rec drugs bring out latent schizophrenia) is taught in med school as a “known fact” (source: psychiatrist friend) so it’s well beyond “starting to seem”

New comment by tony69 in "RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines"

tony69 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:55:51 +0000

*I Promessi Sposi (spelling)

Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet

tony69 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:59:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2477008-astronomers-claim-strongest-evidence-of-alien-life-yet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43713881

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by tony69 in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

tony69 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:11:08 +0000

You have it reversed.

Currency inflation leads to unfair distribution because the value of financial assets grows faster than the real economy (it inflates).

Currency deflation benefits the poorer. As technology and productivity grow, it costs less to produce goods, so their prices should decrease.

The currency hoarding behavior that you describe is no different than today’s financial investment.

It is trivially easy to avoid the effects of inflation by investing - if you have assets to invest, that is. But if you live month to month, you get screwed by inflation, because your salary is sticky as prices rise.

New comment by tony69 in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

tony69 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:21:13 +0000

Deflation is fairer and reduces moral hazard in finance. The weak point of gold is that it’s too slow to settle transactions (you have to move it), so a paper gold system on top of it inevitably arises. [0] “broken money” by Lyn Alden

New comment by tony69 in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

tony69 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:27:15 +0000

It’s comforting knowing that I’m not the only one being driven crazy by the renaming file focus thing. Now when I paste a file and go to rename, I wait and watch the focus selection switch 3 times before I know I’m good to type

New comment by tony69 in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

tony69 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:23:43 +0000

(not OP) I open the “videos” folder and it takes 10 seconds to show the files list (there’s only like 50 files). I tried various forum solutions (whose existence proves it’s a bug) and nothing worked. Only happens on the videos folder.

New comment by tony69 in "CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer"

tony69 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:25:43 +0000

Claude can write cadquery, worked well for me

New comment by tony69 in "Rotation curves: still flat after a million light-years"

tony69 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:44:49 +0000

If it’s translating at constant velocity, the satellite is orbiting the point in space where the object actually is. There is no “lag”, gravity points to where the center is now, not where it was 8 minutes ago.

New comment by tony69 in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

tony69 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:29:19 +0000

You might be right that the AI is more difficult, but I disagree on the androids being dangerous.

There are physical limitations to androids that imo make it very difficult that they could be seriously dangerous, let alone invincible, no matter how intelligent: - power (boston dynamics battery lasts how long?), an android has to plug in at some point no matter what - dexterity, or in general agency in real world, seems we’re still a long way from this in the context of a general purpose android

General purpose superhuman robot seems really really difficult.

New comment by tony69 in "Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics"

tony69 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:43:16 +0000

https://nuitka.net/ ?

New comment by tony69 in "The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts"

tony69 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:00:03 +0000

I don’t understand the “security theater” criticism. There hasn’t been an airplane hijack or terrorist attack since 9/11. That is not proof that we can relax security checks. Nor is it proof that it’s just about the locked pilot doors. If anything, it’s proof that the system has worked well so far.

New comment by tony69 in "The Truth Machine (1996)"

tony69 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:53:12 +0000

I really enjoyed this sci-fi novel. It’s free (funny that the download format is “.doc”)