<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: glial</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=glial</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:40:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=glial" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "AI has already killed academia as we know it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paper reviews are traditionally blinded, so the reviewer doesn't know the authorship of the paper they're reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:44:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636654</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My own preference would be to build educational experiences on three pillars:<p>1. experiences. Intuition comes from experiences, and IMO an under-appreciated amount of 'education' is building strong intuitions. Experiences can include project work (including struggling!), travel & reading (what it's like to be someone else), sports and music (what it's like to build skills over time and work as a team).<p>2. practice. So much of what we can do - from language to mathematics - is a composition of rote behaviors, responses, and habits. It's impossible to become skilled without practice.<p>3. building habits of mind.  This includes scientific thinking, applying mental models (I like this list here: <a href="https://fs.blog/mental-models/" rel="nofollow">https://fs.blog/mental-models/</a>), pro-social behavior (listening, conversing).  Much of science & math is having an available set of mental models, understanding how/where to apply them, and recognizing when a new one is needed.<p>My preference would be for traditional subjects to be taught with these firmly in mind: when thinking about biology, for example, what are the rote skills that must be learned? What intuitions should students achieve, and what experiences will enable them? What habits of mind produce an orientation, attitude, or set of thought processes conducive to practicing the science and art of biology?<p>I think this doesn't contradict the author.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405796</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Anthropic,OpenAI meet religious leaders to discuss faith and AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That faith and ethics can be so easily conflated points to a failure of Western post-enlightenment intellectual leadership.<p>On the other hand, perhaps this is just responsibility laundering on behalf of the tech orgs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 21:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100713</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this agrees with the parent's point. How do you know when to refactor?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 19:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099332</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not convinced. There is already an 'Auto' and 'P/A/S' setting option on most of these cameras. P/A/S is great for those who want control. I wish Auto was better for those who don't care and just want good photos.<p>In other words, no camera exists that has great computational photography and a lens bigger than your thumbnail. Why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 05:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045620</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The use of energy certainly equates directly to a higher standard of living. Oil seems like an implementation detail, with benefits as well as costs. Why not consider other implementation options?</p>
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<p>How so?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039594</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish "real" camera companies were more aggressive about offering computational photography post-processing, at least as an option. I've gotten spoiled by an iPhone. Despite my Sony and Fuji having huge wonderful lenses, I am pretty disappointed when using a dedicated camera and interior lighting leads to slight blur, or a cloudy day produces washed-out skies.</p>
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<p>Definitely, but the first 3 issues are also created by human co-workers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:49:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028314</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Is my blue your blue?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Send it to a significant other, then discuss your differences. Will provide you with a new in-joke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:00:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927963</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, for one thing, critical thinking and communication skills seem to be in short supply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759244</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "How to get better at guitar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I learned to play guitar this way -- listening to CDs and scrubbing back and forth, writing down what I heard. It's great, but it only gets you so far. Learning pentatonic scales was a step-change for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:47:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681160</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Broadly speaking, gambling is just making decisions without knowing the future. It's everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:51:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429840</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The SPRT is probably already making your life better: it's used to decrease the cost of medical trails, optimize classifications in high-stakes examinations (i.e. for medical certifications), detect defective manufacturing processes, etc.  It sounds like this paper extends the method to groups of hypotheses, whereas the basic version is limited to a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128822</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While possible, there are also many bodily processes that are finely tuned through eons of evolution, and destabilizing pressure leads to disorder. Sometimes it's difficult to know which are which (or at least I don't know).</p>
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<p>I'm partial to "culture is shared expectations".<p>Which can, of course, be random, self-reinforcing, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:09:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993515</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> lacking many core values to guide them<p>This is a fundamental problem and one reason we're mired in this culture war. Social friction is caused by jostling based on group membership, and there's no common values-based scaffolding we can use to collaborate in building a better way.<p>I used to scoff when told to say the pledge of allegiance as a young person. Now, the closing words "liberty and justice for all" sound quite aspirational.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:09:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699479</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a recent write-up by a local: <a href="https://wburdine.substack.com/p/letter-from-an-occupied-minnesota" rel="nofollow">https://wburdine.substack.com/p/letter-from-an-occupied-minn...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634913</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree, targeted advertising in particular is a trojan horse for many other internet-fueled social ills.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:10:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624435</link><dc:creator>glial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glial in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used mine to buy Macbook Airs with 0% interest just fine. For the iPhone, the fine print says you (now) have to sign up with one of their pre-approved carriers. If you use another - Mint or US Mobile or whatever - you're out of luck.</p>
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