<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: miniwark</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=miniwark</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:51:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=miniwark" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is interesting but i find it strange than there is no tests with a controls groups with closed eyes. Maybe some of the observed effects are visual only or psychological and not tactile at all.</p>
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<p>Did this thing (or open-whispr) work well with other languages than english ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629978</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lets go with the usual reminder: de-soldering / soldering Li-ion cells can be super dangerous. With a bit too much of heat it can fire or even explode...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:39:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273170</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They explain in the article what they consider a proper citation, an erroneous one and an hallucination, in the section "Defining Hallucitations". They also say than they have many false positives, mostly real papers who are not available online.<p>Thad said, i am also very curious of the result than their tool, would give to papers from the 2010's and before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182245</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not exactly true, they have hacked the end of the copyright for SteamBoat Willie, by adding a few second extract of it, as part of the actual "Walt Disney Animation Studios" actual logo.<p>They cannot sue anymore for copyright infringements, but they may do it the registered trademark way, by saying "It's in our logo !".</p>
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<p>I buy mine at redbubble.com<p>Only one simple non-computer related sticker to:
- hide the logo of the laptop company
- recognize my work laptop at airports security checks<p>Simply because i do not what to exchange my work laptop, with another traveler by mistake.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:52:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898644</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the discovery, i did not know of this one. From the docs, it look like promising to me.</p>
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<p>Apart from Flyway (Apache), Atlas (Apache) and Sqitch (MIT) still use "Open Source" licenses.</p>
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<p>It look like easy to disable a rule : `SELECT pglinter.disable_rule('B006');`.<p>That said, i agree with you than some of the default rules may be bad. For example : B001 & T001 recommend primary keys, but it will effectively kill a TimescaleDB hypertable (primary keys are not recommended).</p>
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<p>Don't you have energy cooperatives to avoid this in the Netherlands ? According to rescoop.eu i did find hetcooperatie.nl, energiesamen.nu & lochemenergie.org.<p>Even if you are instead in Newfoundland, maybe ask cecooperative.ca if there us a project to create one in your province.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 08:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049488</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2 x Nvidia Tesla P40 card for €660 is not a thing i consider to be "on a budget".<p>People can play with "small" or "medium" models less powerfull and cheaper cards. A Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 card with "only" 12Gb VRAM can be found around €200-250 on second hand market (and they are around 300~350 new).<p>In my opinion, 48Gb of VRAM is overkill to call it "on a budget", for me this setup is nice but it's for semi-professional or professional usage.<p>There is of course a trade off to use medium or small models, but being "on a budget" is also to do trade off.</p>
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<p>What i do not understand in this case, is why politics are involved in this ?<p>Why do the fact than a local government changed from Conservative to Liberal, did have an impact on the story ?<p>Either a case must be opened or closed, must be decided by doctors & researchers alone, not because of politics.</p>
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<p>This is a nice text, but it's heavenly oriented to the very upper class society.
The author talk a lot about "sexual books" of the times, but you will certainly not find the "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Fanny Hill) in the hand of a proper young woman.
(this stuff where costly rarities for men too).<p>It was far more simpler than this, no need for books.<p>Every rural girls and boys, and women and men living in a city did know, without any books,
what there is to know simply by looking at the animals in the farms
or the horses and dogs in the streets.<p>There was also the "education" at the wash-houses... The hubs to know everything there is to now at the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:44:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779076</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They where all nomadics, so the concept of a village did not exist yet. It was more like family related moving groups, or maybe "clans". That said, at an individual level there was probably a concept of people exchange when meeting another group, or banning of an individual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:43:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459599</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With recent genetics proofs than early human, did have interbreed with at last Neanderthals and Denisovans, this is now indeed more "true" than the "Only from Africa" hypothesis.<p>Thad said:<p>- as the time of the emergence of both theories there where no genetics evidences yet in one way or another<p>- the interbreeding with this two other species is still very small, (less than 5% of the actual genes). There is still no evidences for other important species like Homo erectus (or hedelbergensis, or florensis, etc.)<p>The truth maybe in between: a major pool of gene from Africa, but with small local parts from all over the ancient world.<p>The big remaining question is:<p>- Did sapiens and erectus had babies? And if yes, then, what was the results (Denisova or something else ?).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453360</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The view of the chinese researcher is in line with the Multiregional origin hypothesis of modern humans, where asian humans may partially come from asia. So his reply is not surprising.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern...</a><p>Instead, the article follow the Out of Africa origin, and therefore did not explain the old chineses and autralian remains. The article try to explain this by saying than it's because this lines where extincts or than the dates are wrong, but this explanations are not very convincing.</p>
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<p>Drakonhub is nice and support also a few other flowcharts too. I highly recommand their very clear documentation to learn about Drakon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:01:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326715</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the Perrault version the shoes are undoubtedly in glass, not in furr (and so the Disney one are too).
There was a debate in France since the XIX century, but it's now concluded to "glass".<p>See :
<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controverse_sur_la_composition_des_pantoufles_de_Cendrillon" rel="nofollow">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controverse_sur_la_composition...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:55:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786487</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The example case of "sanitising" Cinderella, do not have a lot of sense. Sure if you compare the Disney version to the Grimm one, the Disney version look like far less horrific. But the Grimm one is just one of the many versions of Cinderella.<p>The (probably) oldest know version is the story of Rhodopis, where there is only an eagle who bring the shoe of a woman to the king. Apart from the fact than Rhodopis was probably a slave, there is no need for sanitation in this story.<p>Also, Disney have used the older Perrault version as a base instead of the Grimm one. In the Perault version, Cinderella forgive her stepsisters in the end. There was no need to sanitise anything.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786263</link><dc:creator>miniwark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by miniwark in "Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- Skellig Michael: monastery, circa 6th century<p>- St Michael's Mount: monastery, 9th century<p>- Mont Saint-Michel: monastery & sanctuary, 708<p>- Sacra di San Michele: monastery, circa 983-987<p>- San Michele Arcangelo: sanctuary, 490 (St. Michael, supposedly did appear here)<p>- Taxiarchi Michail: monastery, 18th century (the younger one)<p>- Stella Maris: monastery, 1185 for the latin monastery (but in fact 15th century BCE as part of Mount Carmel)<p>So, none of them are a proper cathedrals but monasteries and sanctuaries. With San Michele Arcangelo & Mont Saint-Michel the only two important ones as pilgrimage destinations.<p>For a partial map of St. Michael churches or alike see:
<a href="https://www.reseausaintmichel.eu/carte-des-sites/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reseausaintmichel.eu/carte-des-sites/</a><p>The "line" could easily be "broken", if we add for example, the Castel Sant'Angelo in Roma (Mausoleum of Hadrian) or Saint-Michel de Cuxà. Both are far more prestigious than... Skellig Michael than nobody would know about if if was not on this "line".</p>
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