Hacker News: cinntaile

New comment by cinntaile in "Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video]"

cinntaile — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:53:28 +0000

Perhaps you could try addressing the arguments instead of irrelevantly focusing on Harvard?

New comment by cinntaile in "Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?"

cinntaile — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:55:04 +0000

As I understand it, you're an investor in Featherless. It's good to mention that.

New comment by cinntaile in "USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida"

cinntaile — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:20:29 +0000

That one went right above your head.

New comment by cinntaile in "How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario"

cinntaile — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:24:29 +0000

I don't understand. What's special about being able to charge your phone? Can't you do that anywhere you have a power socket?

New comment by cinntaile in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

cinntaile — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:18:03 +0000

I think you would need something that tracks relevant per cable metrics over time to see if it is degrading. That one just says yes/no, but maybe yes/no starts to flicker around its end of life?

New comment by cinntaile in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

cinntaile — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:15:02 +0000

Your sibling comment is right. It stands for Levelized Cost Of Electricity.

New comment by cinntaile in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

cinntaile — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:14:19 +0000

You could try using arguments instead of an appeal to authority fallacy?

New comment by cinntaile in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

cinntaile — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:07:20 +0000

It's not as clear cut as you describe it here. In the other old thread you linked there was no real consensus if this should be considered a backdoor or not.

New comment by cinntaile in "Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI"

cinntaile — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:36:14 +0000

There is no such thing as the Renaissance Fund. Quanta receives funds from the Simons Foundation... I also don't know where you get it from that Renaissance Technologies is heavily invested in AI. Any sources to back up your claims because I suspect you made all that up?

New comment by cinntaile in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

cinntaile — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:19:54 +0000

Another commenter already mentioned that it's more likely a lack of compute and funding that forces their hand to focus on niche tasks.

New comment by cinntaile in "Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off"

cinntaile — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:54:20 +0000

Why does it say 0 for the US? You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July and more? Are they unpaid days off?

New comment by cinntaile in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cinntaile — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:51:03 +0000

That would be Sv, not SV.

New comment by cinntaile in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

cinntaile — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:47:35 +0000

I don't see how that's relevant, my original post made no safety claims.

New comment by cinntaile in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

cinntaile — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:51:59 +0000

I don't find it ideologically inconvenient, I just don't think it's a realistic take. There are situations for power generation where fossil fuels are the only viable alternatives hence why I mentioned them. Now if you had infinite resources and infinite money then that's probably not true, but we don't live in a world like that.

New comment by cinntaile in "Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress"

cinntaile — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:08:28 +0000

A bit of a weird tangent? You can tell them yourself. You are free to reuse my sentence if it helps.

New comment by cinntaile in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

cinntaile — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:19:56 +0000

It's unsafe so it's never a good fit? That kind of reasoning is just noise. Unsafe for what? Compared to what? What alternatives, given the constraints, exist?

New comment by cinntaile in "Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress"

cinntaile — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:19:28 +0000

I can access court decisions just fine and I'm not in the US, so no. It's not.

The chances are not very high that you are well-versed in how all the other countries in the world work. Whenever you think something is unique, it is quite likely that you will be wrong.

New comment by cinntaile in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

cinntaile — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:36:26 +0000

It's not going to reduce any time soon. Either way the reality is that sometimes fossil fuel power plants make sense, that's why they're still being built.

New comment by cinntaile in "Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress"

cinntaile — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:11:22 +0000

> Americans know because we can access our US court decisions, unlike any other country in the world.

This is not a uniquely US thing?

New comment by cinntaile in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

cinntaile — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:12:41 +0000

> It depends on what you are optimizing for and what is geographically, (geo)politically and economically possible.

I mentioned all of this in my message. What was unclear about it or did you perhaps not read past the first sentence?