<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: lynguist</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lynguist</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:13:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lynguist" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- Fuck diesel cars<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/umwelt-tiere/luft-strahlung/luftschadstoffquellen/verkehr/abgasmessungen-rsd/icct_ldv_nox_emissions_zurich_20190628.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/...</a><p>"High diesel-family averages were approximately 1–3 g NOx/km.
Most gasoline-family averages clustered around approximately 0.02–0.15 g/km."<p>[1]: <a href="https://publications.tno.nl/publication/34635198/KxBBl3/TNO-2020-R10006.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://publications.tno.nl/publication/34635198/KxBBl3/TNO-...</a><p>"TNO tested in-use vehicles directly at the tailpipe. Three diesels with DPFs emitted: 3.9–5.3 million particles/cm³ at warm low idle. The same report measured warm Euro 5 direct-injection gasoline cars without gasoline particulate filters at: 50,000–60,000 particles/cm³ at low idle."<p>[2]: <a href="https://d-nb.info/137495313X/34" rel="nofollow">https://d-nb.info/137495313X/34</a><p>"In 2017, the highest diesel was approximately 12 g black carbon/kg fuel, versus roughly 0.4 g/kg for the highest gasoline car.
In 2023, the highest diesel was roughly 8 g/kg, versus approximately 0.7 g/kg gasoline."<p>[3]: <a href="https://trueinitiative.org/insights/true-brussels-emissions-testing-dpf-malfunctions-and-tampering-responsible-for-90-of-all-diesel-euro-5b-and-6-emissions/" rel="nofollow">https://trueinitiative.org/insights/true-brussels-emissions-...</a><p>"approximately 5% of measured Euro 5b/Euro 6 diesel vehicles exceeded one million particles/cm³, and this small group produced more than 90% of the particle emissions from the tested diesel group"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:20:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359477</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "The Indo-European Family Tree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah... But it's not fully true to use a tree shape. Languages have "horizontal gene transfer" as well (some call it "extensive contact" or whatever), and the branches come in and out more easily than what the prescriptive method shows.<p>Same for actual speciesation, on every level. On homo species, on any other species, even all the way down to the origin of eurcaryota, it's all a network. The tree was never the correct model, just a "neat" model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291836</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure if you're reply hunting or we talk about different apps but how would you fit the Qt runtime, Javascript runtime, font cache, graphics, networking libraries, etc in this limit? This can't physically be under 70 MB, and more like 100-200+ MB.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233722</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is very _Huxleyan_. I feel disoriented and nauseous thinking about it, the feeling is stronger when I see the 3D models and the enthusiastic writing. There are all sorts of people in the world... Not for me.</p>
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<p>We use 400V in Europe (in the most modern infrastructure, probably since the early 2000s) and have roughly 1.7x the power of gas for cooking. Gas measures at around 4.5kW and the modern induction stoves are at 7.5kW (old "ceran" electric cooking fields are 3.5kW)</p>
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<p>Strikethrough</p>
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<p>> "Attention is All You Need" came from Google<p>It also came directly from the university of Toronto, and the university of Toronto seeded all American frontier labs (including Grok (why do you think they could start so fast))</p>
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<p>Yes, I understand. I wrote it in a too polemic and dismissive way but what I wanted to say is:<p>- there's a type of "puritan" people that is outright against enjoyment (if not "deserved") (I think you understand what I mean even if I don't go in detail) (and this type of people can often be extremely effective engineers and also managers)<p>- and that there's a type of engineering that makes disproportionately bad outcomes like a price point that is let's say 15% cheaper but a performance that is 80% lower, and that <i>that</i> shouldn't be lauded</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:17:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991286</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand the unwarranted and ongoing care and enthusiasm for this category of e-waste that was forcibly put upon us.<p>They came out in 2008, were sold until 2010, had literally less performance than a 2000 Pentium III CPU, were lauded from pundits left and right, and probably the school/hand-me-down laptops of that age (like today's e-waste class Chromebooks).<p>Especially when Acer and whatever had proper laptops with proper Intel SU-class CPUs and 3-4 GB RAM for the same price.<p>I disliked these "netbooks" back then and still do, and all that followed its footsteps, including the "laptop"-lookalikes with 32 GB e-MMC storage some mobile carriers would give out with their plans.<p>It's a disrespectful destitute class of computing.<p>I know that the Raspberry Pis came out later, but a Raspberry Pi 2 is a hundred times better engineered and well-rounded product, that will also run a desktop better than these netbooks (or at all).<p>On a related note, I also have colleagues at work who will run <i>only</i> sub-200 dollar smartphones and enjoy living the proper Nigeria/Bangladesh experience <i>from 1-2 years ago</i>. I also know that they don't use heating at home, and do everything in the name of efficiency.</p>
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<p>That is extremely closely linked to lead, especially the ban on leaded gasoline</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828112</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Monsieur, on Windows this problem was solved with a large development effort, that's why it goes unnoticed on you. Note that CPU level instruction emulation is literally the easiest problem of emulation. (Why do you think you can't just go and execute Nintendo Switch binaries on your Mac M1? Both run ARM64.)<p>On Windows, this was is implemented as SysWOW64. WOW64 means Windows on Windows 64. It makes the userland emulation and pretends towards the process that everything around him (incl. drivers) are the 32-bit ones.<p>Source: Microsoft.<p><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20081222-00/?p=19763" rel="nofollow">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20081222-00/?p=19...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:45:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672015</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "How to get your first customers [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He says to use Reddit in the video! That was one of my takeaway messages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671954</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Jerry's Map"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's funny that I watched this less than an hour ago, and I click on hackernews and bam it's #1 on the front page.<p>Probably someone else must've also watched this in the past few hours or days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651191</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/sprachen-religionen/sprachen.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerun...</a><p>Scroll down to Gelernte Sprachen (=Languages being learned).<p>The data of the Swiss Federal Bureau of Statistics confirms that among languages currently being learned among the residents of Switzerland Japanese comes at 7th rank!<p>It is actively being studied by every 40th person above 25!<p>Everyone is a weeaboo!<p>The ranks are: 1 English (lingua franca of the world) 2 German (administrative language of most of Switzerland) 3 French (administrative language of 1/4 of Switzerland) 4 Italian (big minority language) 5 Spanish (first language with no direct connection to Switzerland) 6 Swiss German (oral language of most of Switzerland) 7 Japanese (everyone is a weeaboo) 8 Portuguese (another language with no direct connection to Switzerland)</p>
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<p>Check my sibling comment for a photo link (M1); or here:<p><a href="https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-teardown-mac-mini-chip-m1-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-tea...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583669</link><dc:creator>lynguist</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lynguist in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-teardown-mac-mini-chip-m1-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-tea...</a><p>This image shows it best.<p>The memory is on the same package as the SoC. (It's not on the motherboard.)</p>
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<p>Thank you for the laughter! (I laughed out loud)<p>This is a well executed joke, from the design to the shortness to the being on point to the abrupt punchlines when one looks at the lower ones and it also vibes well with what we all were thinking anyway, and the unexpected seriousness of the title.</p>
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<p>This makes me think of two things:<p>1: Everything can be bought and sold in this economy, and all the large and weird machines we pass by in our lives have whole production lifecycles where there are firms specialized in making them, and those that use them, and for money everything can be had.<p>2: In the 90s and 2000s in Switzerland the "warehouse sales" resulting from decommissioning companies and offices were rampant! There was a certain wealth and breadth and a minimum of equipment needed to do any work, and there was also a certain pride in using good equipment. The 90s/2000s switch to the neoliberal economy and getting by with less and less led to many mergers and obsoletions and the like and many beautiful products could be had. Some had also just ran their time. For example drawing tables from the pre CAD days. The world is grand and I'm nostalgic about the days of abundance and overengineering, but I don't mind they won't come back.</p>
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<p>Snow Leopard even happened in the first place because Apple's A team was busy with iPhone, and iPhone has priority.<p>You will see that during this era Mac OS X was relegated to stepchild status and received far fewer support.<p>All this glory is just Steve Jobs selling it to us as a good thing! In the end it worked out, but it was more incidental and a collateral of the iPhone than the public memory likes to admit.</p>
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<p>This is Russian, written in Latin characters.</p>
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