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impostervt commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

impostervt · 4 days ago

"major Western banks frequently pay large fines for AML violations, yet bank executives rarely face criminal convictions"

Seems like changing this would fix a lot of the problems.

impostervt commented on Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience · Posted by u/p-sharpe

impostervt · 25 days ago

I use AI to create customer avatars representing potential buyers of a product I may create (based on existing competitors and their customer reviews). I then use those customer avatars to help design the product.

I love the idea of going from "AI generated customer avatar" to "simulated real people". It would help add depth to the customer avatars, and lead to better product design.

I tried creating a society around products that I sell, but it looks like the "real-world data" is pulled from LinkedIn? I'm not necessarily targeting business people.

impostervt commented on How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin arclight.run/how-i-fixed-... · Posted by u/arclight_

impostervt · a month ago

Over the weekend I stood up a small site with a blog of only a few articles. I've done this in the past with Wordpress and Jekyl, but I do it pretty rarely so I forget exactly how to do it and how to make the sites fast.

So I let Claude write it. I told it I wanted a simple static website without any js frameworks. It made the whole thing. Any time I add a blog post, it updates the blog index page.

The site is, of course, very fast. But the main gain, for me, was not having to figure out how to get the underlying tech working. Yes, I'm probably dumber for it, but the site was up in a few hours and I got to go on with my life.

impostervt commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

cjpearson · 2 months ago

I sympathize with the pedantry here and found Fielding's paper to be interesting, but this is a lost battle. When I see "REST API" I can safely assume the following:

- The API returns JSON

- CRUD actions are mapped to POST/GET/PUT/DELETE

- The team constantly bikesheds over correct status codes and at least a few are used contrary to the HTTP spec

- There's a decent chance listing endpoints were changed to POST to support complex filters

Like Agile, CI or DevOps you can insist on the original definition or submit to the semantic diffusion and use the terms as they are commonly understood.

impostervt · 2 months ago

As long as it's not SOAP, it's great.

impostervt commented on -2000 Lines of code (2004) folklore.org/Negative_200... · Posted by u/xeonmc

impostervt · 2 months ago

About 1.5 years ago I inherited a project with ~ 250,000 lines of code - in just the web UI (not counting back end).

The developer who wrote it was a smart guy, but he had never worked on any other JS project. All state was stored in the DOM in custom attributes, .addEventListeners EVERYWHERE... I joke that it was as if you took a monk, gave him a book about javascript, and then locked him in a cell for 10 years.

I started refactoring pieces into web components, and after about 6 months had removed 50k lines of code. Now knowing enough about the app, I started a complete rewrite. The rewrite is about 80% feature parity, and is around 17k lines of code (not counting libraries like Vue/pinia/etc).

So, soon, I shall have removed over 200,000 loc from the project. I feel like then I should retire as I will never top that.

impostervt commented on 100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006) research.mietek.io/mi.Mar... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

impostervt · 2 months ago

I've never quite gotten the axiom of choice. Can anyone ELI5?

impostervt commented on The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return ericneyman.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

impostervt · 3 months ago

I take a similar approach to investing on Masterworks (they sell shares of paintings). Most investors seem to buy the upfront offering, which is always $20/share, regardless of the painting. They don't seem to realize that MW holds onto the paintings for years, so it can be hard to cash out. Many will sell at a loss just to get their cash our before the painting is sold, so I can buy their shares very cheap.

impostervt commented on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up autoblog.com/news/tesla-o... · Posted by u/hjjkjhkj

impostervt · 6 months ago

I recently got a letter from the bank that owns my tesla loan, informing me that I can buy the car at the end of the loan. Previously that wasn't an option. Plus, it was for $28k (at the end of a 3 year loan).

Got another letter trying to get me to buy a new 3 with 0% interest for 60 months.

They're definitely under pressure.

impostervt commented on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025? · Posted by u/uncomplexity_

andy_ppp · 8 months ago

Dopamine management medication will lead to a renaissance of human ingenuity and scientific discoveries and a big crash for social media and gambling sites (and in fact most online activities) but everyone will start becoming more robotic and even less social. Think GLP-1 inhibitors except for thinking more deeply and for longer periods. If not 2025 very soon.

impostervt · 8 months ago

Do GLP-1 already do this, to some extent?

impostervt commented on DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration deepl.com/en/products/voi... · Posted by u/doener

Rinzler89 · 9 months ago

What's DeepL's plan to survive when competing with ML translation from big tech?

In the era pre-ChatGPT they had a USP which it made it stand out, but today it's a different landscape.

impostervt · 9 months ago

I created a web site that uses AI to translate books, and in my testing, Deepl was way better than other AIs I tried at translating.

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