<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: belviewreview</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=belviewreview</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:43:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=belviewreview" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The focus of the article is on why Japanese corporations excel at so many different areas. Are you saying that all the factors it mentions, like employees being trained as generalists, life-time and so on, are completely irrelevant? or are you saying they are important but some other essential factors were left out?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244213</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article mentions software as an area where the Japanese don't excell doesn't work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:05:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244193</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Why Can't Writers Seem to Quit Substack?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your evidence for your claim?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142907</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember how fossil fuel promoters always say its big advantage over solar and wind energy is reliability?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 01:55:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090209</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recover 98.04% of waste heat energy? That may follow the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, but it definitely violates the 2nd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 01:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090205</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US is much better at integrating immigrants into its society and making them economically productive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:57:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070992</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are various causes. One is that live performing has pretty much died as a source of income. Venues have closed because of rising rents and fewer customers, due to covid and people in general staying home and spending their time on social media. Touring has also gotten much more expensive.<p>Also recording has died out as a source of income for most artists due to streaming and now ai. Also session work where most musicians have been replace first by computer generated music and now ai.<p>Also recording companies have stopped signing acts and then publicizing them. Every artist is expected to do their own promoting on social media. And then, as Beato says in the video, there is the lack of practice spaces, and cheap apartments to live in.<p>I am a fan of the astonishing prodigy drummer Yoyoka Soma. She moved her family from Japan to LA 4 years ago, but was able to do it only because she has a rich patron. I am also a fan of the astonishing prodigy singer Angelina Jordan. She moved her family from Norway to LA 7 years ago, but was able to do it only because her grandmother, whom moved with them, is wealthy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043391</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "The Dunning-Kruger effect is probably just from bimodal skill distributions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is so speculative. I think the first step in determining why some people believe they are much more competent than they really are would be to interview them on how they came to believe it.<p>I think the fact that the author thinks this is unnecessary and that he can determine the cause of this phenomenon without this sort of empirical research indicates he believes he is better at understanding how one goes about determining human psychology than he really is.</p>
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<p>Was the article flat out wrong or at least misleading in any way that might lead people to make poor decisions regarding which drug to take?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:05:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871554</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "How can I keep from singing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some people learn to sing, and some people were born to sing www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXknLZDoRVQ</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801777</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. And modern Western science and political thought has followed Aristotle far more than Plato. In particular, the parts of Aristotle's science that got thrown out was the result of following out his empirical method further than he was able to. We have also followed his empirical approach to political philosophy rather than Plato's Republic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:28:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746078</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem started because Azure was initially designed and released in a huge rush because Microsoft was so far behind AWS and needed something better.<p>I am reminded of the research finding that every human-designed complex system that works well started with a simple system that did did just one thing well, and new functions were added one at a time, with each one perfected before moving on to another. Which is the exact opposite of what happened here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:57:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635207</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For what use cases is this supposed to be better than using a desktop editor like OpenShot?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483935</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Our commitment to Windows quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember, Microsoft's goal is to turn Windows into an AI agent that keeps all your data in the cloud, that it can use that data for endless money-making purposes like advertising, and that you pay for with a dozen different subscriptions.<p>Microsoft will continue to move in that direction in various overt and covert manners, and any so-called responding to what users wants is just a charade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:32:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463146</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Why are Chinese EVs cheaper than Tesla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have read that Musk has given up the car industry, except for cybertaxis, because he think Tesla could never compete on price with the Chinese manufacturers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:19:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213456</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The basic problem is that human hands are made of flesh, while robot hands are made of artificial materials like steel and carbon fiber composites. Flesh is a million times more complex, starting at the molecular level, and so it can do all sorts of things that artificial materials cannot.<p>Compare for instance a jetliner and a bird. The jetliner can fly fast and carry a lot of cargo or human beings. The bird is a lot smaller and slower, but it can do all sorts of things a jetliner cannot. This includes growing itself from a single fertilized egg, self-repair, defense against attacks of various types, finding and getting food, building its own shelter, and reproduction. All because it is made of biological cells. And note that for a jetliner, the similar tasks are carried out by human beings also made of biological cells.<p>I think a similar analysis explains why artificial general intelligence is impossible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:12:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189763</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A few thoughts:<p>Won't kids just lie about their age, like they do to sign up with social media?<p>What if more than one person uses the pc?<p>What if it is sold?<p>If the OS is open source, then the user could remove the software code to collect the data.<p>This is protect-young-people theater.<p>If</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:01:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189669</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am I correct in assuming that you believe, as Trump puts it, that global climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese to ruin the American economy? And that we should stay on fossil fuels forever?<p>Or if I am wrong about you, then tell us what you yourself actually believe. What do you specifically believe about global climate change? And what specifically should we be doing about energy?  And also, what do you think about Trump's claim that wind turbines cause cancer, and his claim that China has no wind turbines?<p>I strongly suspect that you won't answer these questions, or you will do so but in a vague, evasive manner. But perhaps I am wrong about this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142471</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use archive.today all the time. How do you access pages, like for instance on the economist, without it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096495</link><dc:creator>belviewreview</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by belviewreview in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it is plausible that this piece by Chomsky's wife is honest. However, I have one problem with it. This is that it does not say what they did when they learned the truth about Epstein in 2019. Did they cut off all relations?</p>
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