<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BalinKing</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BalinKing</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:11:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BalinKing" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI-generated or -edited comments are disallowed on HN, see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>.</p>
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<p>Your comment is—at best—misleading. See the last two paragraphs of the article:<p>> The study's authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws.... Many of the other cars that ranked highly on the list have also been given high ratings for safety by the likes of IIHS and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, as well....<p>> “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities”....</p>
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<p>What does "isomorphic" mean?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076548</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "The lamps in my house"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For the benefit of other readers, this is (to my deep chagrin) just a coincidence. Some other fun false friends (i.e. w/ no actual etymological connection), some sillier than others:<p>- そう <i>sō</i>, "so"<p>- 名前 <i>namae</i>, "name"<p>- 乱暴 <i>rambō</i>, "violence"<p>- 被る <i>kaburu</i>, "cover"<p>- 孫 <i>son</i>, "descendant"<p>- 銭 <i>sen</i>, "one hundredth of a yen" (sounds similar to "cent")<p>- 買 (meaning "buy") can be read as <i>bai</i><p>- はず <i>hazu</i>, "has to"<p>- 鈴 <i>rin</i>, "bell" (sounds similar to "ring")<p>- おい <i>oi</i>, "oi"<p>- 陰気 <i>inki</i>, "gloomy" (sounds similar to "inky")<p>And just for fun, one from Old Japanese:<p>- 女 <i>womina</i>, "woman"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:57:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982546</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "The lamps in my house"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure that it's true, sadly—my dictionary, at least, only gives the illumination-related definition for <i>akari</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973357</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO the experience of learning to use and understand a proof assistant gives one a pretty good foundation for then going deeper into logic and proof theory. I'm specifically thinking of <i>Logical Foundations</i> [0], which doubles as an introduction to Rocq and also an introduction to intuitionistic logic (and also type theory!).<p>Some specific disagreements:<p>- "Proof trees" on Wikipedia redirects to the page for analytic tableaus, which I don't think is particularly relevant to Lean. I think natural deduction [1] would be infinitely more useful.<p>- Why is Gödel incompleteness necessary for one to understand how Lean works?<p>- Why is compactness necessary knowledge? In my experience, one can use and understand any modern proof assistant without knowing anything about model theory.<p>[0] <a href="https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/index.h...</a>, and see also its sequel <i>Programming Language Foundations</i> [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/plf-current/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/plf-current/index....</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_deduction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_deduction</a></p>
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<p>Only tangentially related, but I'm reminded of Frege[0], a Haskell dialect for the JVM that I stumbled across at one point and thought looked really cool.... I see recent commits but the releases are all really old, so I can't tell what the state of the project is.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/frege/frege" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/frege/frege</a></p>
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<p>I don't think the parent comments were arguing that America.gov is <i>illegal</i> for having a chatbot, just that it's a bad idea.</p>
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<p>At least as I see it, it would be just as unacceptable for a "normal" government website to be dangerously outdated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:24:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900831</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm honestly very puzzled by all the positive comments I've seen about Golden Gate, it's strictly worse in my experience (i.e., I can't think of any old bugs that don't bother me anymore, but there are annoying new ones). For example, I can report the same menubar bug as the author: as I'm typing this very comment, my Firefox menubar has two menus permanently "selected" [0]. I use the Hiding option for the Dock, but ever since I upgraded the Dock randomly switches into an unhidden state (but it still <i>thinks</i> it's hidden, so I have to <i>disable</i> Hiding and then re-enable it to fix the behavior). I now have to semi-regularly `sudo killall coreaudiod` to fix the audio randomly cutting out on my AirPods (this would occasionally happen before, but it's gotten <i>way</i> more frequent). I'm left very unimpressed with whatever's going on at Apple.<p>I just checked and 27.0.1 is out, so here's hoping it fixes anything....<p>[0] <a href="https://imgur.com/a/5i5TlzQ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/5i5TlzQ</a><p>EDIT: Actually, one bug that I haven't noticed on Tahoe is the weird lack of vertical padding that some System Settings screens used to have. Credit where credit's due.</p>
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<p>It's an HDR image, I think.[0] At the moment, only some browsers show it as brighter—Firefox on macOS, for example, doesn't support HDR images and I had to open the page in Safari to see it for myself.<p>[0] see, for example, this submission from the front page a month ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402521">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402521</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857932</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rats, there goes the Eighth Planetary Boundary....</p>
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<p>[Disclaimer: I believe that morality is objective (and that our consciences are generally reliable guides, albeit ones we can suppress or even change), so any strong statements I make below are implicitly coming from this perspective.]<p>I strongly disagree, I think this is instead true for those who have an <i>image</i> of themself as "good". IME, someone whose identity involves their "goodness" (and I certainly include myself here) will be willing to do a whole lot to maintain that perception (whether it's a self-perception or an external one). In particular, I think that someone already motivated to feel good about themselves is going to be easier to mislead by slick arguments. See the unfalsifiable longterm-ism of modern-day EA ("you can do an incalculably large amount of good with comparatively minimal effort"), much of today's political violence/radicalism, or the religious persecution all throughout history, whether <i>against</i> the religious (many of last century's authoritarians) or <i>by</i> the religious: cf. Jesus' warning about this in John 16:2 ("They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God."), or even just the Bible's very many warnings against pride (e.g. Proverbs 26:12 [0]) and self-righteousness (e.g. Romans 10:2-3 [1]).<p>(Of course, sometimes people have no way of knowing <i>a priori</i> that they're being misled. I'm exclusively talking about cases where, deep down, one could/should have known that the situation wasn't actually on the up-and-up... which I'd argue is much more common than we often like to think.)<p>On the other hand, I'd argue that someone who is truly doing what is good is, <i>by definition</i>, unable to be swayed from that (for then they wouldn't be doing good things anymore, no matter what words they want to use to describe themselves or others). Relatedly, I don't agree that someone can be a "good person" in the absence of actually doing good. (Naturally, this is an extraordinarily high bar, and I'd argue an impossible one to perfectly meet.)<p>I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis's famous quote:<p>> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.<p>[0] "You have seen a man wise in his own opinion—
there is more hope for a fool than for him."<p>[1] "For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For not knowing about the righteousness of God and <i>seeking to establish their own,</i> they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God." (emphasis mine)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:35:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790488</link><dc:creator>BalinKing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BalinKing in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I only just skimmed the referenced essay, but a priori I don’t think “problem-solving” as Gowers uses it has anything to do with real-world practicality. The problems under consideration are entirely theoretical, regardless of which “culture” a mathematician belongs to.</p>
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<p>(minor nitpick, but it’s “Navier–Stokes”)</p>
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<p>> If they don’t use the microphones why do they have a statement in their Terms of Service to not say sensitive things in front of your TV?<p>1. The introduction says that Smart TVs are not included in this ToS ("not including Smart TVs").<p>2. Where do the terms say anything about "sensitive" content? The closest thing I see is section 4.d, but that's just about wiretapping/privacy laws in general.</p>
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<p>Does Hack[0] fit the bill?<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)</a></p>
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<p>> But it, and the piano black keys with it, are definitely not optimal. It makes playing in C easy, and playing in anything else hard.<p>I don't think this is true—I was under the impression that, at least on piano, keys other than C major are sometimes chosen specifically to make things <i>easier</i> on the fingers.</p>
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<p>You made a specific claim (~100% of ChatGPT image use is non-organic), and they asked you to support your claim. That is not sealioning.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure myself, there are a lot of comma splices and other such grammar mistakes. Maybe just edited with AI?</p>
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