<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: Scarblac</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Scarblac</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:24:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Scarblac" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is correct though, since 2010 Saba is a "speciale gemeente" of the Netherlands, and its mountain is thus our highest point. Before that it was organised as a separate country "Nederlandse Antillen" with the other Caribbean islands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:25:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573639</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That genus is part of the Canidae family though. Dogs and wolves are in the Canis genus in the Canidae group.<p>Jackals and foxes are also each their own genus, and there are a number more genuses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481299</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Afaik, in Europe there is no person who "owns" the tip. It goes into a centralized pot that is shared by all the employees.<p>Especially because most payments are by card (where I live), the tip first ends up with the restaurant itself anyway, not individual waiters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:27:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432093</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Mathematics in the age of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would it not be able to find reductions now, but be able to find them just by being told that P=NP is definitely true?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:55:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372922</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Mathematics in the age of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well then, just tell the AI that the statement is true and it will find reductions!<p>In reality, it wouldn't depend on the truth value of the statement, but on the AI <i>understanding the proof</i>. If it understands it then it might be able to use it to find reductions.<p>So the point remains, knowing that P=NP isn't what's important, it's the proof that matters.</p>
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<p>Sure, but just that some random statement is true isn't interesting. It's interesting if it helps understand some abstract structure better.</p>
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<p>How would the mere knowledge that it holds, without any understanding why, be useful?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:11:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369948</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note that for the second, that's not really a house, it's a boat (woonboot). It floats. The page lists the legal requirements for any replacement boat new owners may want to put there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:37:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314568</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As usual this discussion is people talking past each other because some people work on web sites and others on web applications.<p>React is great for applications, perhaps not as much for sites. I wouldn't know though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:41:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173016</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel the killer feature of doing everything in JS is components. I just want to import something from a library and use it.<p>Web pages have their code split between HTML, CSS and JS. There is no common story that works for all three except for using JS.</p>
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<p>Spreadsheet software, like Excel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:13:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151824</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OTOH, there's spreadsheets. The abstraction is just so great that users can and do use them for anything.<p>The problem seems to be that there's not many such great abstractions to be found.</p>
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<p>What is done in practice, for daily development use? Building the image in memory from source files at startup?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:42:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094503</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At any rate, if the AI's side in this conversation were a human, that would be an extremely intelligent human indeed.<p>But there's no way the thinking times would have been that short, of course.</p>
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<p>It's hard to say because it depends on what you're looking at too, of course.<p>But doomscrolling seems to teach your brain to never pay attention to anything for more than a few seconds, while at the same time being more exhausting than watching TV.<p>So I'd say the TV is healthier.</p>
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<p>But even then, it's still the phone, in my experience. It takes up so many hours but you also don't really rest, and it also tends to keep you up too long at night.<p>If you can replace five hours of doom scrolling with an hour of doing nothing in particular, an hour more of sleep, some time staring at a book page or soduku, some more work on chorse, you'll most likely gain an hour or so to use on something that takes mental energy.</p>
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<p>There's a rope around the field, if the ball goes over it without hitting the ground (like a home run) it counts for 6. If if it did hit the ground it counts for 4.<p>They can run more than one (get to the other side, turn around, run back, etc) but the chance of the wicket you're running to being hit with the ball (so you're out) becomes larger so they usually manage 1, sometimes 2 or even 3. And both batters have to run the same amount.<p>If the number of runs is even, they end up on the same side as they started from.</p>
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<p>No, that would make it even less likely that they obey the law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:10:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679256</link><dc:creator>Scarblac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Scarblac in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their legality is very questionable given all the likely copyright infringement going on, and a state can't really ignore that.</p>
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<p>I interpreted as saying he knows a lot about different kinds of ideas / memories / things in the head.</p>
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