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fmx commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

fmx · 3 months ago

There have been so many cases of Apple, Google, etc. doing this that it's hard to have any sympathy for them at this point. If it was some grandma who didn't know better that would be another story, but the author was surely aware

  - that Apple *can* always *just* disable their account
  - that Apple regularly *does* do that
  - that Apple does not care about them at all

and they chose to bet their entire digital life on Apple's benevolence anyway. They lost that bet.

We need more stories like this hitting the mainstream news until even a non-technical person's reaction to this is "well, what did you expect?"

fmx commented on DOOMscrolling: The Game ironicsans.ghost.io/dooms... · Posted by u/jfil

stevage · 6 months ago

It is absolutely wild seeing people who do not know how to code building and shipping computer games.

This kind of language is fascinating/terrifying:

> I assume doing all this computationally is more processor-intensive than using pre-rendered monsters, but it’s very smooth for me on both desktop and phone, so it must not be too intensive. I guess I’ll hear from people if it’s choppy on their device.

I think the nature of our profession as coders is in process of shifting very rapidly, from "write code to do something useful" to "write code to do something useful, better than I could vibe code myself".

Feels like the painful transition when professional photographers started having to differentiate themselves from whatever people could do with their own phone.

On the other hand, as someone who can code in certain domains (web, maps), I could definitely see myself vibe coding as a way to quickly create something in a domain where I have no expertise (eg, Unity).

fmx · 6 months ago

The number of monsters on the screen doesn't seem to affect playing speed for me, but when the wall of fire appears it slows down the game very noticeably. (Using Firefox on desktop.)

fmx commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa

yvdriess · 7 months ago

A good opportunity to point people to the paper with my favorite title of all time:

"How to wreck a nice beach you sing calm incense"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.1040898

fmx · 7 months ago

The paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.10...

(Agree that the title is awesome, by the way!)

fmx commented on PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client github.com/commandprompt/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

tlh · 2 years ago

Thoughts on TablePlus? It’s my goto and have never been left disappointed by it

fmx · 2 years ago

Just tried it and, apart from the UI being highly confusing (you just get a blank workspace basically, and it's unclear how to see other DBs and objects in them) it seems to have no support for PG schemas. When I did manage to connect to my DB it showed me the tables in the "public" schema only.

fmx commented on Money bubble tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

pyrrhotech · 2 years ago

ah, sorry for the confusion. That's because the last 20 trades are excluded from the table/chart if you don't have the appropriate access level to view, in this case a Gold membership. That means when you are looking at the chart / table with starting year 2022 you are only seeing the trades up to 3/24/2023 instead of the present.

fmx · 2 years ago

Right, I didn't notice the end date, sorry. So that was ~5.7% return for ~15 months (not 26) and the remaining ~28.7% was in the last 11 months.

fmx commented on Money bubble tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

pyrrhotech · 2 years ago

It's obvious that bubbles exist in retrospect, but determining whether current growth and valuations are sustainable in the present is incredibly difficult. As another poster mentioned, we are essentially talking about market timing here.

Most investors have been conditioned by many popular talking heads to immediately dismiss the idea of successful market timing - and for the most part, the talking heads are correct. For the average investor, successful market timing is nearly impossible.

However, we have many counter-examples of successful market timers over the long term. James Simons' Medallion fund has returned 50%+ CAGR over a multi-decade period and stomping the market, creating many centimillionaires and billionaires in the process.

I set out thinking, what's so different about Simons and his crew at RenTec? Why is it so difficult for their success to be replicated? Not one to easily back down from a challenge, I began working on my own algorithms to successfully hedge against market downturns and provide superior absolute and risk-adjusted returns compared to the S&P 500. While I haven't yet seen Simons-level success in live trading, since launching Grizzly Bulls (https://grizzlybulls.com) in January 2022, 6 of our 7 models have outperformed the market on an unleveraged basis:

SPX (benchmark): +7%

VIX-TA-Macro-MP Extreme: +39.98%

VIX-TA-Macro Advanced: +34.38%

VIX-TA Advanced: +12.92%

VIX Advanced: +9.91%

Vix Basic: +5.76%

TA - Mean Reversion: +15.46%

TA - Trend: +12.97%

Of course two years of outperformance also doesn't yet stand the test of time of Simons' remarkable run, but I'm confident that we've discovered alpha here.

fmx · 2 years ago

> since launching Grizzly Bulls (https://grizzlybulls.com) in January 2022, 6 of our 7 models have outperformed the market on an unleveraged basis:

> VIX-TA-Macro Advanced: +34.38%

I'm not sure how to reconcile that with the numbers shown on https://grizzlybulls.com/models/vix-ta-macro-advanced

When 2022 is selected as the starting year, it shows an increase from 16,911,242 to 17,881,510 which is an increase of 5.7% in 26 months.

fmx commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

seanwd · 2 years ago

Coremix | REMOTE | FREELANCE | Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for several senior software engineers for the job description below.

Location: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe

Stack: We don't expect you are a jack of all trades. Welcome to apply if you are MASTER in +2 stacks listed here.

Frontend: React, Angular, Vue, Ember

Backend: Express, Nest, Django, FastAPI, Flask, RoR, Asp.net, Laravel, CI

Languages: Node, Typescript, Python, PHP, C#, .Net, Ruby

Requirement:

* You MUST be native English speaker or highly fluent in English (above C1)

* Only applicants from US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. We don't accept applicants from the rest of the world

Apply here: https://shorturl.at/dkW35

fmx · 2 years ago

> This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls.

> Are you strong enough to pass technical interview?

> We will pay $100 for per call whether you pass the call or not, but hope you try your best to keep working with us.

I've never seen this kind of thing in a legitimate job at. It smells like a scam to get bank details, especially combined with the very generic description here and lack of any company details.

fmx commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

sebastianlinden · 2 years ago

Yea right! People seem to like it :) the last one I posted here got more than 200 applicants, many curious, great minds here. Could the job ad be connected with how companies are building product?

fmx · 2 years ago

I like the brevity of it, but I don't like the assumption that every good candidate will have everything that they want to share with a prospective employer on their LinkedIn page. Something like "Link to resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc. (whatever you want to show us)" would be more inclusive.

fmx commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

sebastianlinden · 2 years ago

Scope (scopeapp.io) | Senior Software Developer | Full-time | Python | Remote

We're hiring 1-2 Senior Software Developers:

Scope is a platform that helps brands find and manage influencers. Works with tools like Klaviyo, Mixmax, Google Sheets, HubSpot, and Shopify.

We started Scope 2018 -6 years ago, never got in to YC (a couple of tries). Been profitable for the past 4 years, grown 90% word of mouth. Team about 10, spread over multiple countries. Customers in 50+ countries. No crazy ipo plans, humble, thoughtful and curious. North star from day 1, listening to customers & building a great product.

Role: Senior Software Developer Stack: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, AWS-services such as EC2, SQS, Lamda, RDS, Cloudwatch, S3 Frontend: React (TS & GraphQL), Tailwind CSS

Who are we looking for?

You're curious and responsible – pragmatic over idealist. You enjoy helping peers but also love to get things done yourself. You're looking for a contributor role rather than a manager role. P.S. At Scope, there's no need for BS meetings; we have one meeting per week, a product catchup on Tuesdays that has been on the same time since we started.

Apply here: https://scopeapp.io/hn/

fmx · 2 years ago

That is the second-shortest job application form I've ever seen. (The shortest one asked for a name, email and LinkedIn without a free-text field. I think "who are you" is more important than "name".)

fmx commented on 4B If Statements andreasjhkarlsson.github.... · Posted by u/r4um

plufz · 2 years ago

Might be this from his GitHub bio “Several years ago, just before my 40th birthday, I switched careers from sales, marketing and consulting to learn how to program” Good way to get more eyeballs…

fmx · 2 years ago

Ah yes, that actually explains a lot! Thanks.