<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: dba7dba</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dba7dba</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:37:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dba7dba" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the California coast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A Korean-American served as an US Army officer in the Japanese-American units in WW2.<p>Young Oak Kim
<a href="https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/young-oak-kim/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/young-oak-kim/</a><p>Colonel
100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, 31st Infantry Regiment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076990</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Berkeley has no legacy admission...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 08:35:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31538651</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31538651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31538651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "The Legendary Survival Story of Sir Ernest Shackleton"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And only a few years later many of the survivors would be killed in WW1...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648858</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Abut 10 years ago, City of Los Angeles tried to ban engine-powered leaf blowers (driven by people tired of the noise pollution) but was reversed when local gardeners made a big stink about it.</p>
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<p>Samsung moved most or all of their factories from China recently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148328</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Science is essentially what a few large donors or institutions or interest groups want to fund."<p>Quote from a disillusioned researcher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:55:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137071</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't start your IT/tech career with AWS certification first.<p>- Instead, learn some scripting (bash, python). You will need to constantly work on improving this.<p>- Learn how to set up a Linux server and get a website going, from scratch. Even if you won't do it much in real life, it's helpful to know how it's done.<p>- Get at least AWS Associate cert.<p>- Find an employer/manager who will let you work with AWS in lab/production in real life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:11:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233008</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the ways China managed to hack into America's F35 (or F22) fighter development program was listening into a conference call of various vendors discussing project status.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:10:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170431</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One big recommendation for all to watch "The social dilemma" on netflix also.<p>The social media apps on the phones are specifically agonized over, tested, and refined continuously to increase interaction, aka make users into addicts.</p>
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<p>Foxconn = Taiwan<p>Samsung = South Korea</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:48:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842230</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of a post here before. I read someone here post how he got his initially unwilling teen son to learn how to code.<p>The dad tried to get him into learning to code but the son was uninterested<p>However after the son worked at a sandwich shop for 6 months earning minimum wage, the son came to dad asking for help with learning how to code.<p>I thought that was hilarious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529591</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know Hyundai Motor started shipping production model of fuel-cell truck in July 2020. They are planning to ship 1,600 hydrogen-powered Xcient trucks to customers by 2025.<p><a href="https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/08/hyundai-xcient-fuel-cell-semi-truck-hydrogen-electric-europe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/08/hyundai-xcient-fuel-cell...</a><p>And then I ran into this article.
<a href="https://www.autoblog.com/2020/08/13/nikola-hyundai-hydrogen-partnership/" rel="nofollow">https://www.autoblog.com/2020/08/13/nikola-hyundai-hydrogen-...</a><p>Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp, said he would like to cooperate with Hyundai. He said he had twice made proposals to Hyundai that were rejected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437848</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Theoretically one family could even get 2 starlink services if they really needed faster link. No physical line is used so I can totally see some people doing that if they really want to and can afford it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165951</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meanwhile, I read on this thread that UCSF admitted less Asians.<p>It was 40% last year. It's been now cut to 22%.<p>That is a gigantic shift of a demographic of a new medical school class. Within one year.</p>
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<p>You sure about that?
That number sounds so extreme that I have to see official source to believe it...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24150335</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24150335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24150335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "They Just Don’t Listen': SF Kimchi Maker Saw 'Food Tech' Practices Up Close"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't really see it as trashing but a real person running a real business in a real world, who just can't believe these young people who live in a fantasy world that is funded by VC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:55:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078057</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Fighting poverty accidentally stopped deforestation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>South Korea is another example of fighting poverty that stopped and completely reversed deforestation.<p>Korean peninsula in general went through extreme deforestation under Japan, especially during the WW2 era and Korean War, as supply of coal was cut off from the civilian population and redirected to war effort by Japan and Korea. In order to get fuel supply that was needed to cook food and heat homes, local hills were cleared of trees by locals.<p>If you watch video footage of the Korean War 1950 - 53, the hills are completely devoid of trees. The trees are missing because they had all be cut down for fuel.<p>If you talk to any older Korean men who were teens up until mid 1960s, they all remember walking 1 - 2 hrs one way up into the hills to collect firewood, piled mountain high on their A-frames (in Korean, jigae).<p>Once South Korea started getting better off, they went to coal, oil, natural gas, and then electricity for fuel source.<p>The South Korean government "Korea Forest Service" ministry is completely focused on restoring the depleted forests. And they seem to have done reasonably well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 05:38:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548177</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "Ask HN: Software for producing terminal-based tutorials?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also recommend asciinema.<p>A tutorial using asciinema in action.<p><a href="https://asciinema.org/a/188659" rel="nofollow">https://asciinema.org/a/188659</a><p>You can't add voice into asciinema itself but a asciinema recording URL would be an excellent handout material (like powerpoint) to give to students. Your students can view Terminal action with very clear text, unlike videos where reading text can be difficult.<p>Even if you use other method for recording/delivering your voice/audio lecture, including Asciinema replay link would be a huge benefit to students.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325681</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm thinking why not move to Hawaii or a beach town 1hr - 2hr north or south of Santa Monica CA? 
Quality of life will improve vastly for those who can afford to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2020 23:35:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295937</link><dc:creator>dba7dba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dba7dba in "So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know friend of friend who went to Harvard Law like 15 years ago and she told me there is SO MUCH butt kissing going on there.<p>You'd think people who got that far would be confident enough to rely on their own skills/study to get ahead BUT even at that level, there is a lot of butt kissing to get ahead.</p>
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