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AI Is Upending One of Finance's Cushiest Jobs

bloomberg.com
5 points·by ctkhn·mês passado·2 comments

Show HN: RSS Feed Generator

github.com
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Ask HN: Favorite Pairing App?

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ctkhn
·há 8 dias·discuss
True, it is pretty bad at getting right to what I want. A genuinely useful integration of AI would be to process and classify listings on upload so that I can have more filters on attributes of items for sale. I'm not holding my breath for that though
ctkhn
·há 8 dias·discuss
People like Zuck are incredible outliers when it comes to wealth and most people are basically underwater financially. A lot of us do send some money to the food bank or the local arts initiative but the amount left after the bills for living a regular life come due is a lot less for me than a guy with over $200b and no good ideas. That's a crazy order of magnitude difference, a thousand times a thousand times 200k which most people aren't even making. For all of the pretty gross stuff it seems Bill Gates has been up to, at least he did spend a lot on stuff like mosquito nets and AIDS prevention.
ctkhn
·há 8 dias·discuss
It feels like the only thing it's really big in now in the states for is facebook marketplace, which is just a slightly higher trust (but still scam and flake prone) version of craigslist using the existing user base. Feels like all his big swings have been strikes
ctkhn
·há 11 dias·discuss
I got around 50-60 on my m3 max so 100tps seems very realistic for 2 gens later of chip and double the ram
ctkhn
·há 11 dias·discuss
I think that's a good point, never thought about it like that. I like the abstraction level that Spring Boot brings, but working with a principal engineer who was very into AOP on my previous team was a huge pain. Like you and GP said, AOP absolutely destroys readability. Current team has code split into a million xyz-common libraries, which isn't my preference, but I can still click through to see the source of the library. I will never get what AOP truly improves on
ctkhn
·há 11 dias·discuss
I don't even travel a ton but portability is huge. It's not a flex, it's a functional thing that lets me move around within my house or work while I'm at my parents or traveling or anywhere else. Other than my media collection that lives on my home server, I want most of my files to come with me on my laptop.
ctkhn
·há 11 dias·discuss
I have been running qwen 3.6 35b a3b with opencode on my macbook pro 16" with m3 max and 64gb ram, and it's been great for local planning and coding. To be honest I have been on and off wishing I had future proofed with the 128gb after seeing how powerful 64gb is. On the other hand, I also haven't run up against a wall with a model that is just slightly larger than qwen.
ctkhn
·mês passado·discuss
Not sure what the actual cost was, but in 2015 my parents got a solar system in California that covers the entire house plus an EV. I remember looking at the time to payoff and I think it took maybe five years, now day to day power and all their driving is essentially free.
ctkhn
·mês passado·discuss
I haven't used AI for investment advice, but I did use deepseek and google ai overview to prepare returns from my w-2, 1099s for HY savings interest and brokerage account stock sales, and some non-1099 capital gains from previous employer startup equity that didn't come with a form, but AI helped me figure out that it needed to be on an 8949.

I still filed through an online tax help site just to be safe, but when I compared the forms I saw that my AI assisted forms were a 100% match with what the paid service generated. I can't see myself using AI to pick exact stocks, but I assume most value of advisors provide is in telling the uninformed what is normal and safe for their risk tolerance, I imagine a lot of it can be automated pretty simply. The article mentions extraction from Israel and Ukraine as human advisor perks but I doubt anyone but the absolute highest tier clients was getting that sort of service.
ctkhn
·há 2 meses·discuss
The US needs to start imagining something else. It's hard to think of the last war that the US won.
ctkhn
·há 4 meses·discuss
What theater is that at? Sounds like a mega chain like AMC or Regal. The local indie theater we go to in one of the 5 largest American cities has never been over $15 per ticket and adding popcorn and a drink is maybe $10 more on top.
ctkhn
·há 5 meses·discuss
This is fantastic. Been looking for a way to get feedback on my pronunciation since I came back from Shanghai and haven't been seeing native speakers every day. Is there any plan to make this a download for desktop or mobile? Would be using it weekly to get back up to par on Mandarin
ctkhn
·há 6 meses·discuss
Teams is still nowhere near Slack's features and usefulness. I wouldn't say it's a direct competitor, it's like store brand vs a mid-luxury item
ctkhn
·há 7 meses·discuss
I've got a paperwhite 4. But for now KUAL is enough
ctkhn
·há 7 meses·discuss
Love my jailbroken kindle, but would love a full replacement OS like this.
ctkhn
·há 7 meses·discuss
As an American I would take DB over Amtrak any day. At least the country would be covered with fast rail to some extent
ctkhn
·há 7 meses·discuss
People have been writing about it for years. This is why we have child labor laws, work week standards, etc except in white collar and tech work we've been tricked into thinking we don't need those things
ctkhn
·há 8 meses·discuss
In my experience, a lot of the time the people who COULD be solving these issues are people who used to code or never have. The actual engineers who might do something like this aren't given authority or scope and you have MBAs or scrum masters in the way of actually solving problems.
ctkhn
·há 8 meses·discuss
That is a bonkers edge case that it never occurred to me would happen. I am glad to not be under those regulations
ctkhn
·há 8 meses·discuss
People need to learn manners, nobody should be using video calling without headphones. It's insane whenever someone joins and we hear all their background, feedback of whoever is speaking, etc as if nobody has ever told them to mute or stop using speaker in their life.