Hacker News: bardan

New comment by bardan in "Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com"

bardan — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:46:54 +0000

Potentially related is yt-dlp getting a 403 lately when downloading from Reddit. The extractor uses old.reddit.com. Hopefully they'll find a way to use the regular Reddit gateway instead.

But I can't stand new Reddit so maybe I'll take this as an opportunity to give it up entirely.

New comment by bardan in "0.9999 ≊ 1"

bardan — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:29:16 +0000

0.3... is just the decimal representation of 1/3. So:

0.3... = 1/3

0.6... = 2/3

0.9... = 3/3 (= 1)

New comment by bardan in "LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders"

bardan — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:40:33 +0000

Seems like a competition that started reasonably and mutated into nonsense over time as the rules were exploited (and never modified, I guess). If it's an established debate style and offered to kids as legitimate you can't blame them. Kids do what is available to them.

New comment by bardan in "LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders"

bardan — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:32:12 +0000

The equivalent would be speed chess, wouldnt it? There is nothing intellectual about speaking as fast as possible.

New comment by bardan in "When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)"

bardan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:04:43 +0000

There is also safe-rm https://adamheins.com/blog/a-safer-rm

New comment by bardan in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

bardan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:35:28 +0000

I completely disagree with you. Very ideological people might be given to lie about or simply ignore things that challenge their ideology.

New comment by bardan in "Maybe Bluesky has "won""

bardan — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:17:12 +0000

It seems very cozy, although filled with people pushing their commercial projects. If people are projecting Bluesky's future on its current cozy state they are fools. The only way to remain cozy is to remain small.

New comment by bardan in "Title drops in movies"

bardan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:27:56 +0000

Nearest thing to a name drop is the end, but isnt a name drop (also spoilers):

"And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name."

New comment by bardan in "Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models"

bardan — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:55:35 +0000

Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).

New comment by bardan in "Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS"

bardan — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:10:32 +0000

If they are unable to use a shell, don't understand environments etc. I would push them onto some specific IDE/plugin combination that creates a new virtualenv, handles PATH etc. for every new project.

Dealing with environments and understanding how different parts of the filesystem relate to each other is its own pretty steep learning curve. You wouldn't want them to get tripped up on that while they are learning to program, so I think I would opt to teach the two as entirely different concepts and not mix them at first.

No idea if an appropriate IDE/plugin combination exists! Surely there is one.

New comment by bardan in "OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall"

bardan — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 06:51:56 +0000

Can confirm that after donating > 7€ I am still able to unlock pro features on new devices 8 years later

New comment by bardan in "There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent, and That's a Systemic Risk"

bardan — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:29:59 +0000

For me the baseline is if an AI made up a new joke that is actually funny. As you say it's sort of an "I know it if I see it" issue, but anyone who has tried to prompt a language model to come up with a novel, funny joke knows that these models aren't really demonstrating human-like intelligence.

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:51:02 +0000

Amazing. I have never witnessed anything so pathetic, or such a level of projection. Thanks for exhibiting that buddy, it was quite a show.

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:37:43 +0000

Lol. If you weren't just repeating bullshit, why isn't information about the Assange series being funded by RT reflected on these sites? You have given me a line in an article that came out before the series aired, got upset and now... you have decided to list your "credentials"...

Ahem... hrm...

Edit: Haha is that you editing the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Tomorrow&di...

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:33:29 +0000

You could retreat into invective or you could point me to a better source than an article that came out before the show even aired. Assange has enough fuming and frustrated detractors that a verifiable source saying his show was funded by RT would have made it into the Wikipedia and IMDB pages a decade ago.

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:15:08 +0000

As I mentioned they were in the middle of one of the biggest releases in their history, the submitted documents didn't look interesting and indeed when they were published nobody cared. Do you know what they were? Publishers won't just publish any old trash you send them.

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:07:23 +0000

According to the article you link which was posted before the series aired, but not according to IMDB or Wikipedia which anybody could have edited with sources in the 12 years since:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223847/fullcredits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tomorrow

(Or if you actually have a real source for "RT funded it" then you should update Wikipedia and IMDB)

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:28:04 +0000

Wikileaks had no "gig" with Russia Today. They produced the series tthemselves and it was picked up by various news channels - just not any mainstream Western ones (what a shock)

New comment by bardan in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bardan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:56:05 +0000

It isn't made up. It was during one of the email leaks when the org was stretched to it's limits. Suddenly they get these documents that they don't have time to fully parse and don't look very interesting anyway. Immediately there are dozens of articles put out simultaneously about how Wikileaks refused to publish Russian documents. I guess they learned about the documents being passed to Wikileaks in the first place, wonder who let them know?

The documents were later published elsewhere and nobody cared because they were uninteresting.

New comment by bardan in "Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes"

bardan — Fri, 31 May 2024 05:24:15 +0000

Might be nice to display a couple of related articles from eg. Wikipedia or Wiktionary if the user wants to cross-reference.