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New comment by aroberge in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

aroberge — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:24:35 +0000

I, and I suspect many other people here, prefer to live in countries where there are no neighbourhood associations that can dictate the look of your house, what colour of paint you must use, etc.

New comment by aroberge in "An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems"

aroberge — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:25:38 +0000

> Understanding never was the goal, results were.

Understanding is the goal, both at an individual level and at a societal level. If no one can understand it, no one can teach it and it can't be used to progress.

New comment by aroberge in "Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports""

aroberge — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:26:31 +0000

> Python is quickly turning into a crowded keyword junkyard

* Javascript (ECMAScript) has 63 keywords. * Rust has 50 keywords. * Java has 51 keywords + 17 contextually reserved words, for a total of 68. * Python has now 36 keywords + 4 'soft' keywords, for a total of 40. * Go has 25 keywords.

New comment by aroberge in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

aroberge — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:52:41 +0000

> The workers were breaking the laws, ...

How sure are we of that? Did we really get this information from trustworthy sources?

New comment by aroberge in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

aroberge — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:19:28 +0000

I accept your suffering if you choose so. If I knew you personally, I would even do all I could to help and comfort you. However, I cannot condone you imposing suffering on others in the name of YOUR religion.

New comment by aroberge in "The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)"

aroberge — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:46:47 +0000

It is not that someone else shares YOUR birthday: it is that two people (among those 23) will have the same birthday.

New comment by aroberge in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

aroberge — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:59:12 +0000

He did mention he lives in France ...

New comment by aroberge in "PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL"

aroberge — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:05:02 +0000

If I remember correctly, unlike the standard Python interpreter, ptpython does not support the replacement of sys.excepthook by a custom one. I know that I look at seeing if I could have it support friendly-traceback but couldn't.

New comment by aroberge in "Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'"

aroberge — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:14:10 +0000

If they are not located in the US, why would they?

New comment by aroberge in "New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 times more CO2"

aroberge — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:01:15 +0000

In my experience (in a different field), it is common for researchers to acknowledge the source of their funding. In particular, researchers are keen to acknowledge funding from government grants, as this is perceived to be helpful in applying for future research grants.

I glanced through the paper and I could not find any mention indicating who funded that study.

I'm also very sceptical of single studies that support the status quo for very large industries -- even more so when there is no indication of who funded the study.

New comment by aroberge in "PyPI Was Subpoenaed"

aroberge — Thu, 25 May 2023 12:15:09 +0000

This is simply not true.

New comment by aroberge in "The Framework Laptop 16 is trying to bring back snap-on removable batteries"

aroberge — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:31:51 +0000

Tooling is a single screwdriver. There is no "unused bits" clutter, and no need to pay someone to replace a part.

New comment by aroberge in "Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot"

aroberge — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:00:24 +0000

> How bad could it be?

It could suggest that someone vulnerable commit suicide and have that user do it.

New comment by aroberge in "Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?"

aroberge — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:53:34 +0000

> yet didn't the truckers get robbed by the government?

No.

In the end, a few accounts were proactively and temporarily frozen by banks acting on their own, which they could (possibly would) have done due to fintrac [1] requirements.

[1] https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/intro-eng

New comment by aroberge in "A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing"

aroberge — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:57:06 +0000

No.

"Dark" matter refers to something that does not interact at all with photons - not that it scatters too little light.

New comment by aroberge in "How light is a neutrino? The answer is closer than ever"

aroberge — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:59:36 +0000

electron volts is a unit of energy. Using E = mc^2, one expresses masses in the equivalent energy quantity. It turns out that electron-volts is a convenient scale for the (energy equivalent) mass for elementary particles -- much better than trying to express the mass in kilograms.

New comment by aroberge in "Google Search Is Dying"

aroberge — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:32:23 +0000

Up until a month ago, when I searched Youtube using the "latest" filter, I could reliably get the latest videos uploaded that were relevant to the search terms. Now, it shows a couple of recently uploaded videos followed by many which are for weeks ago, while I know that many more had been uploaded in the recent days.

New comment by aroberge in "Bitcoin price crash: Crypto plunges by 9% as billions wiped off market"

aroberge — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:13:02 +0000

44% down since November is a bit more than fluctuation I would think. Still, I agree that today's drop should not be described as a crash.

Bitcoin price crash: Crypto plunges by 9% as billions wiped off market

aroberge — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bitcoin-price-crash-today-update-b1997914.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30028129

Points: 25

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New comment by aroberge in "Things I like about Python"

aroberge — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 20:49:15 +0000

You could also perhaps look at https://friendly-traceback.github.io/docs/index.html