<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: foldr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=foldr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:13:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=foldr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foldr in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s just an analogy. I can understand if you don’t think the analogy lands, but it hardly seems grounds for doubting good faith.<p>And err, yes, not everyone is billed for water or electricity on the same terms as private homes.<p>>This is not a complicated concept to understand, please make an effort.<p>You could leave this out? It’s not the most effective way to bring people round to your point of view.</p>
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<p>I guess to me this seems a bit like saying that free markets are the default setting. We’re not in some kind of perfect state of nature. We’re in a complex interconnected society where virtually everything of any importance is regulated to some extent. What you’re saying seems like saying “as soon as you impose one regulation you no longer have a free market”.</p>
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<p>What would be the model of a country with stronger net neutrality laws? I think EU regulations are now a touch stronger than UK regulations due to post-Brexit divergence, but by world standards, the UK has strong net neutrality protections.</p>
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<p>It doesn't meet a perfect theoretical definition of net neutrality, but it's a set of defined legal limits on the extent to which providers can treat different kinds of traffic differently.</p>
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<p>There aren't anywhere near enough British nurses for the NHS to use only British nurses. Can you point to a credible long term plan to change that situation? That's what you'd do if you had a goal beyond just stirring up unjustified mistrust of foreigners.</p>
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<p>> That should be always supremely easy and never contain work<p>But bills?</p>
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<p>You know that the NHS crucially depends on immigrant doctors and nurses and that their contribution is overwhelmingly positive. Your original comment was a completely transparent attempt to derail the discussion with a single cherry picked example.</p>
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<p>We’re not going to figure out a practical way to improve the NHS with this level of debate. We get that you don’t like foreign nurses, but I’m not going to respond to your rhetorical questions.</p>
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<p>If you actually put the fixes for those “systemic issues” on the table, it’s obvious that no-one is going to vote for them, so they’re total non-starters. E.g. it would be great to pay nurses more, but no-one is going to vote for the tax hike required to fund it.<p>If any of this is difficult to debate seriously, that’s because opponents of current immigration policy consistently appeal to the lowest common denominator (people’s prejudices) rather than framing a proper argument. Even in this thread, you can see someone trying (absurdly) to redirect the discussion towards some Nigerian nurses with fake qualifications.</p>
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<p>This isn’t a serious contribution to the discussion. The overall level of NHS services would clearly be far lower (non-existent in some cases) without the contribution of immigrants.</p>
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<p>> The issue is compounded by the fact that successive governments say they want to be tough on immigration, but actually do the opposite.<p>There’s a simple explanation for this. Being “tough” on immigration would be bad for the economy, bad for the NHS, and bad for the country as a whole. So once a party is actually in government, they don’t want to do it, whatever they said in order to gain votes during the election campaign.<p>Or, maybe massively restricting immigration is actually a great idea and the establishment is conspiring to prevent it. Just like with Brexit, right?</p>
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<p>High density of “no shit” quotes in this one.<p>Nuclear brinksmanship is dangerous? A small chance of a catastrophic outcome isn’t something to shrug off?<p>Not wrong, but we don’t need a stats expert to tell us this.</p>
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<p>You're conflating terrorism with irregular warfare. The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was terrorism committed by regular forces; the French resistance blowing up a German supply train was non-terrorist action by irregular forces.</p>
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<p>Sure, but it was ironic then too.</p>
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<p>The presupposition behind that question is that immigration is a necessary evil to be limited as much as possible. I am not American, but that strikes me as an ironic position for Americans to take.</p>
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<p>It’s negligible as far as I can tell. If the LLM can “speak” the language well then you can prompt it in that language and get more or less the same results as in English.</p>
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<p>The agent may be translating to English behind the scenes. There are all kinds of hacks layered on top of the underlying models. But however exactly it works, it’s clearly not the case that these things only make use of Spanish training data when you prompt them in Spanish.<p>Lets take a language with orders of magnitude less training data, like Nahuatl. The following is what happens if I ask Claude Code in Nahuatl to give me an example of a simple program that I can execute inside a web browser (avoiding any direct keyword prompts like 'Javascript' or 'Hello World'). Interestingly, it responds in Spanish. I doubt that it has any relevant training data in Nahuatl. (Apologies if the Nahuatl is wrong – I just used Google translate.)<p><pre><code>    ¿Uelis techmakas se neskayotl tlen se programa tlen amo ouij tlen ueliskia nijchiuas ipan se navegador web?

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    Entiendo tu pregunta en náhuatl. Aquí un ejemplo sencillo — una calculadora en HTML puro que puedes abrir directo en el navegador, sin servidor:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
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        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>Calculadora</title>
        <style>
        body { font-family: sans-serif; display: flex; justify-content: center; padding: 40px; }
        .calc { border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; width: 200px; }
        input { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em; text-align: right; }
        button { width: 22%; margin: 2px; padding: 8px; font-size: 1em; cursor: pointer; }
        .wide { width: 47%; }
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        <input type="text" id="pantalla" readonly>
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        <button onclick="tecla('4')">4</button>
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        <button onclick="tecla('6')">6</button>
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        <button onclick="tecla('1')">1</button>
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        <button onclick="tecla('0')">0</button>
        <button onclick="tecla('.')">.</button>
        <button onclick="tecla('+')">+</button>
        <button onclick="limpiar()">C</button>
    
        <button class="wide" onclick="calcular()">=</button>
        <button class="wide" onclick="borrar()">⌫</button>
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    <script>
        const pantalla = document.getElementById('pantalla');
    
        function tecla(val) {
        pantalla.value += val;
        }
    
        function calcular() {
        try {
            pantalla.value = eval(pantalla.value);
        } catch {
            pantalla.value = 'Error';
        }
        }
    
        function limpiar() { pantalla.value = ''; }
        function borrar() { pantalla.value = pantalla.value.slice(0, -1); }
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>
    
    Guarda esto como calculadora.html y ábrelo en cualquier navegador — no necesita servidor ni dependencias. Es un buen punto de partida para aprender HTML,
    CSS y JavaScript.</code></pre></p>
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<p>In my experience these models work fine using another language, if it’s a widely spoken one. For example, sometimes I prompt in Spanish, just to practice. It doesn’t seem to
affect the quality of code generation.</p>
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<p>Mac has about 15% of the market share in the US. It's not really a niche.<p>$3500 is more than I would spend on a hobby too, but there are, in absolute terms, a large number of Americans who can spend this much on their hobbies.</p>
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<p>>This isn't accurate. A compression interface can have the same resistance as a soldered connection.<p>All the information I can find suggests that CAMM2 will have higher parasitic resistance and capacitance than a soldered connection. Do you have a source for this claim?<p>The issue isn't just reaching a certain speed, but doing it at the same power consumption.<p>>The modules take up approximately the same amount of space on the board as the chips themselves.<p>They do take up more space, as anyone can easily check. Modern laptop motherboards can be very small, so this is significant.<p>>DDR5 and LPDDR5 are nearly identical [...]<p>What I mean is that Apple isn't going to want to invest any resources in adding the option of external RAM just for the relatively tiny desktop market. It's not that it's technically difficult; it just doesn't make sense from a logistical point of view.</p>
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