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bronco21016 commented on Burner Phone 101   rebeccawilliams.info/burn... · Posted by u/CharlesW
supersour · 7 days ago
These look pretty fun, have you played with them much? What kind of range can you get?
bronco21016 · 7 days ago
I’ve tried them on snowmobile trails. With the vegetation the range was about a mile.

Range can be 100+ miles though if you can establish line of sight. Depending on the scenario, a high elevation repeater could give several mobile devices pretty significant range.

bronco21016 commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
scarface_74 · a month ago
I’ve only had one employer that allowed after tax contributions (which for other people reading this is not the same as Roth 401K).

The issue is that most companies don’t allow it because of compliance reasons and rules regarding highly compensated employees. Of course the one company that did allow it was BigTech.

Not that I’m missing much. I doubt I will be in a higher tax bracket at retirement than I am now and I live in a state tax free state.

bronco21016 · a month ago
To me the primary benefit is when it comes to RMDs. Having a mix of traditional and Roth allows me to draw down the traditional in lower tax years to avoid RMD and have the Roth to fill in those later years or pass on to children. Plus, if you’ve maxed the $23,500ish of the traditional 401k and still have extra to save, it’s more tax advantaged in a Roth vs a taxable brokerage account.

These are obviously champagne problems but if you’re a high earning W2 it’s worth considering.

bronco21016 commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
scarface_74 · a month ago
This is generally not applicable to most people.

1. Invest enough to get the company match in an S&P 500. It probably isn’t Vanguard that your company uses

2. Pay off all of your debt except your house (and maybe your car)

3. Max out your HSA - if you are married it’s - $8550

4. Max out your 401K - again that’s probably not through Vanguard - $23500

5. Step 5 - then call Vanguard and depending on your income just do a Roth up to $8000 (?).

(Unless you are over 50 then do catch up contributions as 4.5)

If you are under 50, you can do $40,500 tax advantaged and over 50 $48050

bronco21016 · a month ago
Step 6 is the mega-backdoor Roth. Do after tax contributions to your 401k and have your 401k servicer do an in-plan conversion to Roth 401k.

Also, on step 4, you may need to do a backdoor Roth IRA if you’re over the Roth IRA income limits.

bronco21016 commented on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025   machinelearning.apple.com... · Posted by u/2bit
basisword · a month ago
>> What is 75 degrees fahrenheit in celsius, and what is 85 degrees in fahrenheit

Probably wouldn't have made a difference but the second half of that statement isn't exactly clear. 85 degrees what?

I also think when you're chaining these two separate calculations together you get a problem when it comes to displaying the results.

bronco21016 · a month ago
Meanwhile users have been conditioned to expect a system that understand the multiple queries and answers them appropriately.
bronco21016 commented on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean   icm.csic.es/en/news/major... · Posted by u/riffraff
ars · 2 months ago
If this is the very first time this part of the ocean has ever been imaged/studied, how do we know that this is unusual and not something that happens periodically?
bronco21016 · 2 months ago
Exactly the same thought I had while reading the article. They mention multiple times this is the first time ever that they’ve been able to measure anything in this area. My take on science is that we need to measure for some period of time before we jump to conclusions about the normal state of affairs.

This isn’t to argue against climate change, but I think journalism like this only fuels skeptics.

bronco21016 commented on Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?    · Posted by u/Satam
jakevoytko · 2 months ago
I work for Hinge, the dating app. We use them for our "prompt feedback" feature, where the LLM gives constructive feedback on how to improve your prompts if it judges them as low-effort or clichéd.
bronco21016 · 2 months ago
Won’t this lead to long-term everyone using the same prompt? It seems like this already naturally happens.
bronco21016 commented on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights   jameshard.ing/pilot... · Posted by u/jamesharding
ProZsolt · 2 months ago
Sometimes I wish software development didn’t pay so exceptionally well. I’m interested in so many other things, but it’s hard to justify switching to another full-time field, knowing it would mean a significant pay cut.
bronco21016 · 2 months ago
Depending on your locale and position, you may have it backwards. Check out pilot pay in the United States at www.airlinepilotcentral.com
bronco21016 commented on 11ai – The personal AI voice assistant, built with ElevenLabs Conversational AI   11.ai... · Posted by u/bauerpl
bronco21016 · 2 months ago
Tried it out today. The idea is the fantasy of what Siri should be right? However, just asking basic queries like "What events are on all my calendars tomorrow?" completely fails. It doesn't understand the concept that it needs to query for all the events on my calendar for the next day.

I eagerly await someone to develop something that does what this promises to do. However, I'm not sure anyone will for a few reasons: - Product is potentially immediately disrupted by Apple/Google if they get Siri or Google Assistant to do it. - The ability to make tool calls that make sense largely depends on how your life is organized. Personally I run multiple calendars and display them all at once for various reasons. Others likely run one calendar.

bronco21016 commented on Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break   github.com/zeenolife/ai-b... · Posted by u/zeenolife
bilsbie · 3 months ago
I had this same idea for monitoring my pool while I’m away. Watching for things in pool, low or high water levels, cloudy water, stray dogs, etc.

There are actually hundreds of applications for this basic idea. Common sense applied to a video feed.

bronco21016 · 3 months ago
I've thought of the same for my lake shore, which is very much not a "just build a fence" situation.

We have 50 ft of lake shore with neighbors on either side. Assuming I fenced my 50 ft there is still a path around said fence on either side.

At the very most I could gate the dock, but again, there are about 8 other docs readily available.

bronco21016 commented on Build your own Siri locally and on-device   thehyperplane.substack.co... · Posted by u/andreeamiclaus
jedisct1 · 4 months ago
More or less. This is what Perplexity does.
bronco21016 · 4 months ago
I saw an article about this and downloaded the Perplexity app but I was unable to figure out if this was true? Do I need a paid tier? I just quickly worked through the free sign up and couldn't sort it out. The demo looked really slick. Is it worth pursuing?

u/bronco21016

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