<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: giardini</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=giardini</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:30:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=giardini" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article's author is only the second person I have known to speak fondly of Derrida, the first being a young relative who lost his soul AND brain to various claptrap at university.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:22:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512581</link><dc:creator>giardini</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you know you are "Random"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479004</link><dc:creator>giardini</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nope. For the most part in the USA you can burn any flag provided you aren't violating some property law or safety statute by doing so.</p>
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<p>solarhoma sez <i>"it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag,"</i><p>It is legal to burn the USA flag in the USA.</p>
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<p>Could you restate this another way: I don't follow.</p>
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<p>WTF?</p>
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<p>Paywall (I can't read the article).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407511</link><dc:creator>giardini</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The Economist" is falling into the rut that the remainder of British publishing has been bogged down in for a decade: increasingly liberal headlines generated via social-media topic measures to gain increased eyeballs (enough to survive).<p>Increasingly, British news sources are drifting leftward, primarily b/c right-wing sources are increasingly <i>rare</i> and, let's be honest, <i>dull</i>. Maybe with a little bit of say, "DEI", in the topic we can raise some eyeballs, is a typical move.<p>But that's a dead end. The real news is that good article headlines are hard to find and good composition is hard to write. No easy way to do that other than to find better writers.</p>
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<p>paywall</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325627">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325627</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>That is, were I to omit all, say, novels and non-fiction from my LLM's training would then scientific questions be  better-addressed by that LLM vs another?<p>IOW is an LLM trained like a scientist indeed a better "scientific" LLM?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304669">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304669</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 04:53:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304669</link><dc:creator>giardini</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "Why Everyone Feels Like They're Losing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Odd that the article speaks of a phD in <i>history</i> as a touchstone for how  the job market is. PhDs are laughably unemployed - one might as well carry a dead albatross around one's neck for interviews.</p>
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<p>I too enjoy mending my socks! I wear mostly cotton athletic socks, so sewing them up is enough. I can't darn worth a darn.<p>Patches I tried didn't last and I haven't found a machine that works. And it feels bad to buy a new pair of socks only b/c of a hole in the heel.</p>
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<p>I fail to see how.</p>
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<p>Occam's razor ("Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity")?<p>I mean, God, isn't one enough? Honestly, it's too much for me!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 04:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275157</link><dc:creator>giardini</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by giardini in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rebuild it like Venice: imagine canals, building water passageways, and pirogues carrying tourists up and down the romantic Bourbon Street, all the former riff-raff washed away and only paying businesses remain. The sewer smell of Venice provides a good model.</p>
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<p>Good for you!<p>When I was a boy I wanted a pocket knife b/c a friend got one and I saw it as useful. My Dad vetoed that until....I joined the Boy Scouts! Mom paid for a new official BSA knife along with the uniform. I promptly cut myself once with the knife, despite warnings from Dad. Doing so is a rite of passage for a knife-owner, I believe.<p>Fast forward to today. I've almost always carried a pocket knife and found it enormously useful. For my ~30th birthday my Dad finally bought me an Uncle Henry's 3-blade pocket knife about 3" long. It is finely made, always sharp, but difficult to fiddle with and not really very practical. I think of it as his acknowledgment that I am ready to carry a knife!8-) I'm glad I didn't have to ask him for a penis, though!<p>That little knife always sits atop my file cabinet. Someday I'll pass it along to someone else to perplex them. And I carry a folder of my own choice in my pocket.</p>
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<p>And slow down too.</p>
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<p>I don't think you need to show videos, but definitely discuss street safety with your children when they are young. Possibly several times at different ages.<p>When I was young my dad took me out to the curb and warned me about the dangers of being on the street. He pointed out how fast cars were going, how being hit could be really damaging, how animals not infrequently died from being hit. He also warned about getting excited while playing games and inadvertently running into the street. Even bicycles were a danger. Everything changes at the curb. Having a good imagination, I took the lesson to heart.</p>
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<p>Show me the math!<p>Aside: BTW I would be pleased if someone would also "show the math" for LLMs. Not code, classical mathematical equations.</p>
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