<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: finebalance</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=finebalance</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:08:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=finebalance" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by finebalance in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This war was unavoidable btw, it was going to happen sometime this year or next.<p>Iran was, as per the latest reports I've read, complying with terms and not enriching uranium to weapons-grade or close to weapons-grade. Are there credible reports suggesting otherwise?</p>
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<p>"What's the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you."<p>They are all horrible. If there is ever a reckoning, I hope this entire class of spineless shits get destroyed.</p>
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<p>"evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose)."<p>Oh, I absolutely love this lens.</p>
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<p>It can be both, I think? Politicians/powerful people take advantage of divisions in society, but often those divisions do exist in a fully-fledged or nascent form for them to exploit.</p>
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<p>Killing USAID.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:01:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864678</link><dc:creator>finebalance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by finebalance in "Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do it more or less this way - except I keep the root intact until the end. It keeps the onion structurally intact until I'm done with the dicing. At which point, the root takes a single chop to lop off, and then the whole thing scatters into tiny, mostly uniform dices. It's quite satisfying.</p>
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<p>Google exposes their reasoning. You can use their new gemini python sdk to get thought traces.</p>
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<p>>  not that a single user uses a lot of energy for a simple chat.<p>This seems like a classic tragedy of the commons, no? An individual has a minor impact, but the rationale switching to LLM tools by the collective will likely have a massive impact.</p>
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<p>That's ok. AI will kill those off soon enough, and like all winners, rewrite history enough so that that inconvenient theft never happened anyway. It's manifest destiny, or something.</p>
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<p>I can't speak to Rust, Go or C, but for me LLMs have greatly accelerated the process of learning and building projects in Julia.</p>
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<p>Not a clue.<p>I'm a decent engineer working as a DS in a consulting firm. In my last two projects, I checked in (or corrected) so much more code than the other two junior DS's in my team, that at the end some 80%-90% of the ML-related stuff had been directly built, corrected or optimized by me. And most of the rest that wasn't, was mostly because it was boilerplate. LLMs were pivotal in this.<p>And I am only a moderately skilled engineer. I can easily see somebody with more experience and skills doing this to me, and making me nearly redundant.</p>
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<p>So, tech workers paid >200k couldn't anticipate that hot places are going to get a lot hotter due to global warming and all the trends we've been observing over the last decade or so? Interesting.</p>
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<p>... like women are all special and interesting by virtue of being female? Most of humanity is bland and forgettable. Gender is hardly a factor there.</p>
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<p>The purple prose is exhausting.</p>
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<p>> And in all of this no-one gives a crap about the children, since they rarely spend even a word talking about tracking down the uploaders or creators of said porn (i.e. they say a site "has child porn", but not how fast it is removed, or if the site gives the IP of child-porn uploaders to the police, or anything beyond trying to establish in the viewer a bad site <-> child porn association).<p>Aren't there legal requirements in place for this stuff, at least in the US?</p>
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<p>Collective fucking madness.<p>It's tiring to be subject to the constant narcissism. The human toll of the incompetence of this government is incalculable. They've set us back decades, if not forever, because I have no clue how our dumb bureaucracy and spineless civil society are going to deal with destruction that climate change is likely to visit on the subcontinent without completely fragmenting.</p>
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<p>I swear. But it's not just an issue with the cheap, knockoff stuff: my Bose Soundsport Earbuds often fail, too, with the left one connecting maybe two thirds of the time. It's so infuriating. The only upside is that they were a gift rather than a purchase, so at least I don't have to suffer through the fact that I paid for this crap.</p>
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<p>In so many of these papers it seems to be almost a given that the global south is fucked so, holding that constant, they do a cost-benefit analysis on various levels of warming for already (mostly) rich countries.</p>
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<p>It's kind of astounding how rapidly the series has disappeared from the mainstream. Couldn't have bungled it up worse had they tried.</p>
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<p>Slick pretentious nonsense unfortunately makes the world go round these days.</p>
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