<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: bvan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bvan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:28:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bvan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvan in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gave back my green card the moment I left the US. No longer wanted the hassle and ties to an unpredictable regime. Haven’t looked back.</p>
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<p>Why?</p>
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<p>Along the same lines: <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ad0542" rel="nofollow">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ad0542</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:06:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161932</link><dc:creator>bvan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvan in "Agents for financial services and insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, in very specific cases where I fully understand the methodology(ies) that is (are) applicable, and am able to verify correct implementation. Also, as an enhanced ‘Google search’ to supplement what I have found. I am the skeptical type… yet, so far have been impressed. But, I wouldn’t trust using AI to blindly give me solutions to a problem I couldn’t solve myself, albeit much more slowly.</p>
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<p>Fake it ‘till you make it. Seems like LLM’s have caught-on to that too.</p>
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<p>That’s great. I find the Sultanate coins, for example, are much more refined in terms of style relative to those minted Western Europe  around the same time. For example: <a href="https://www.numismall.com/collections/bengal-sultanate-1203-1576" rel="nofollow">https://www.numismall.com/collections/bengal-sultanate-1203-...</a>.</p>
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<p>As someone interested in coinage, India is fascinating. Coins from the Sultanates and Mughal periods are just beautiful.</p>
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<p>Totally agree. Especially for commercial or code that adds value. Writing code is just one element of developing quality, robust, software. In the rea world, commercial or production software must be maintained, supported, and must respond to changing user requirements. The human element is critical, unless you’re OK with relying on LLM’s, crossing your fingers, and have no care to support users.</p>
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<p>WPF marked the end of well thought-out UI’s and standards. It’s been web-inspired slop ever since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661853</link><dc:creator>bvan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvan in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This a very insightful post. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. AI is incredibly powerful, but it’s no free-lunch.</p>
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<p>Absolutely nothing, as 99% of comments to the post. But it is the norm on HN it seems.</p>
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<p>As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?</p>
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<p>Nicely done.
I have the same challenge with Bayesian stats and usually do not understand why there is such controversy. It isn’t a question of either/or, except in the minds of academics who rarely venture out into the real world, or have to balance intellectual purity with getting a job done.<p>In the very first example, a practitioner would consciously have to decide (i.e. make the assumption) whether the number of side on the die (n) is known and deterministic. Once that decision is made, the framework with which observations are evaluated and statistical reasoning applied will forever be conditional on that assumption.. unless it is revised. Practitioners are generally OK with that, whether it leads to ‘Bayesian’ or ‘frequentist’ analysis, and move on.</p>
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<p>Very well said. Slow code for me. I fully understand what I build. The AI magic bus will come crashing down at some point.</p>
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<p>Quattro pro was the bomb</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:49:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321525</link><dc:creator>bvan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvan in "Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Around the world in soundscapes.. great idea.</p>
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<p>Wonderful 404 page. Wonder if Kai Lentit optimized it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069053</link><dc:creator>bvan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvan in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oops, someone forgot to delete or redact it.</p>
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<p>Not a word about sustainable sources of energy or the long-term viability of this massive energy suck.</p>
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<p>Intellectual surrender is exactly the risk I fear with coding agents. Will the next generation of software ‘developers’ still know how to code? Seems coding agents are in a way taking us further from understanding the machine, just like frameworks have in the past.</p>
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