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phoenixhaber

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My website is roundabouthoolahoop.neocities.org. I'm completely broke and could use money donations. Broke as in homeless broke. I can work were that I had the means - I used to be a software developer and work in banking. Always happy to connect. - Peter - phoenixhaberdasher@gmail.com
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phoenixhaber··on Ask HN: Looking for a Book
Specifically it has to be within the text and not the title itself.
phoenixhaber··on When the job search becomes impossible
There are no jobs. I'm being stalked and fucked with in San Francisco. Constantly. Everyone here is insane and most people are sick. Life is pointless. I'm just waking up and doing something and then going to sleep in a shelter again.

They give me sick to their kids as some sort of sick joke and wait for me to die. I had someone put fentanyl in the coffee they served at de haro church while I was lugging fifty pound bags of potatoes to give to the poor. Cool way to fuck up someone's back. Because they're insane and murderous. It's like that shit everywhere unless you have money and can hire private security or a group of you and your friends have a secret way to poison people.

I've asked construction workers if I can do shift labor for cash and they always say no. Fucking bonkers. I hurt all over more or less all of the time. There are people that have had their entire bodies melt from disease from being exposed to weaponized sick here.

There's absolutely no point in giving a shit about anything anymore. I'm just waiting to die truth be told.

phoenixhaber··on A new experimental Go API for JSON
I will say this and I feel it's true. Dealing with JSON in Go is a pain. You should be able to write json and not have to care about the marshalling and the unmarshalling. It's the way that serde rust behaves and more or less every other language I've had to deal with and it makes managing this behavior when there's multiple writers complicated.
phoenixhaber··on Ask HN: How can AI be used in brain machine interfaces?
Oh by the way these are all my comments which I've just talked into my phone so just read it as if you were reading someone talking to you there's no punctuation in there's multiple repeated words and stuff like that but just imagine someone's just talking to you while you read it so it's like a I don't know it's consider it like a literary art form where it's like the direst entry except someone's just speaking at you rather than like going through and playing with their thumbs in order to put in periods and s**
phoenixhaber··on Serverless Horrors
Since this seems to be getting some comments. Yes, it is in fact easy to shut down an instance if it goes over a spending limit. As in you monitor traffic tied directly to the billing system and you set up an if statement and if it goes over the limit you shut down the server and dump the service to a static drive.

It's the easiest thing in the world - they just don't want to because they figured that they could use their scale to screw over their customers. And now you have the same guys who screwed everyone over with cloud compute wanting you to pay for AI by using their monopoly position to charge you economic rents. Because now things like edge compute is easy because everyone overspent on hard drives because of crypto. And so you have jerks who just move on to the next thing to use their power to abuse the market rather than build credibility because the market incentivizes building bubbles and bad behavior.

Smart evil people who tell others "no you're just too dumb to 'get it' (oh by the way give me more money before this market collapses)" are the absolute bane of the industry.

It's weird that you have people in here defending the practice as if it's a difficult thing to do. Taxi cabs somehow manage not to charge you thousands of dollars for places you don't drive to but you can't set up an if statement on a server? So you're saying Amazon is run by people that are dumber than a taxi cab company?

Ok, well you might have a point. And this is how Waymo was started. I may or may not be kidding.

phoenixhaber··on Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
I'd like to know the effects of air pollution on at risk populations that use inhalable drugs or smoke as well. I believe the results would be much worse.

Potentially related

https://m.slashdot.org/story/446420

EDIT commenting to child so as not to start a flame war. Lung scarring, emphasema, bronchial illness and so forth can cause the lungs to trap particulates in the lungs longer than they should over the long term this exacerbating health risks. It definitely makes sense.

phoenixhaber··on Serverless Horrors
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony).

Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had them refund the bill (as in how am I going to pay it?) but to this day I've hated Amazon with a passion and if I ever had to use cloud computing I'd use anyone else for that very reason. The entire service with it's horrifically complicated click through dashboard (but you can get a certification! It's so complicated they invented a fake degree for it!) just to confuse the customer into losing money.

I still blame them for missing an opportunity to be good corporate citizens and fight bot spam by using credit cards as auth. But if I go to the grocery store I can use a credit card to swipe, insert, chip or palm read (this is now in fact a thing) to buy a cookie. As opposed to using financial technology for anything useful.

phoenixhaber··on A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom
I see your blue book exam and number two pencil and I reraise you a micro earbud smart glasses and wifi connection.
phoenixhaber··on I Am An AI Hater
Many of the comments presupposes that human free will isn't mechanic or deterministic at some level of introspection. How would we know a sufficiently complicated AI were incapable of love or hate and how would this differ from ourselves saving in one is made of silicon and one of neurobiology? This isn't an easy question.
phoenixhaber··on WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi
Ok let's say I'm making a robot spider in my garage half the size of a Tesla and with as much horsepower. I'm putting nvidias new Jetson brain as the chip. If I use enough of these can I replace a lidar package for autonomous control?
phoenixhaber··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
I'm worried that this could have unforeseen knock on effects or create havoc. Fukushima knocked out global supply chains for parts on cars so for a couple years there were no Honda fits for example (they were missing a necessary but small part). Is there any risk of domino effects having to do with business closures or is it just moronic and annoying?
phoenixhaber··on Margin debt surges to record high
The best investment advice that I believe I ever had is to take a basket of goods and rebalance them. My father uses a collection of bonds and stocks and if the valuation shifts he sells high and buys low once a quarter to rebalance the percentage risk he wants in the overall market.

Ideally the best markets to get into now are probably healthcare which is about to have a raft of medicines, energy which is going to be the shovels that everyone needs to power the AI. Transportation is always a good bet and shorting palantir to go long Exxon might be worthwhile so long as you don't do so on margin.

Margin is generally bad. Having a basket of commodities tided inversley to margin would probably be a good idea. Buying currencies and holding as an inverse proportion of the margin in their stock markets?

phoenixhaber··on My Neocities Site (Wrong URL woops - also why can't I delete posts?)
I'm of the opinion that there isn't much use in anything more than a static site for much of anything that doesn't require user interaction. This is my site that has a bunch of ideas on it, many of which may be wrong and most of which, if all goes according to plan, are incredibly offensive. Email me and give me money.