<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: rocqua</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rocqua</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:22:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rocqua" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was a lot of forceful diplomacy by the US. Sure, but there was also a lot of actually good diplomacy happening. Calling all of that a thin glove is underselling the good work of a lot people.<p>The good side of US diplomacy was one of the most positive forces in the world. Trump fully dismantled that. Not just the US aid work, but also the Pax Americana that really limited the scale of war in the world.<p>There were horrible missteps at the same time. The US wasn’t all good. Maybe it wasn’t even net good. But there was a significant good side, and its dismantling isn’t a small thing in the world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706577</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Confidentiality of the TLS connection is indeed easy to handle here.<p>The hard part is certificate authentication. And that's not included in the cipher suite setting.</p>
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<p>I've heard it a lot from podcasts that are towards the abundance movement. I think its common within the rationalise movement.<p>Personally I really like it for "load-bearing assumptions". Because it let's you work with assumptions whilst pointing out the potential issues of that assumption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561178</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nonono. Nothing mandatory. It's a parents choice. The thing to do is help parents enforce their choices. Not forcing choices onto parents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478694</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "A Case Against Currying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not that they are meaningfully different. It's just acknowledging  if you really want currying, you can say 'why not just use a single parameter of tuple type'.<p>Then there's an implication of 'sure, but that doesn't actually help much if it's not standar' and then it's not addressed further.</p>
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<p>Someone else in the comments mentioned that scala does this with _ as the placeholder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478241</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For schools and hospitals, why specify COTS? Do you want SOTS for schools and HOTS for hospitals just like we have MOTS?</p>
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<p>Figure out where you can't buy pictures to narrow it down, if you want a more exact match, pay for pictures from that area from non US providers.</p>
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<p>If the solution is parental control software, that also puts onus on operating systems to present the means for such software to work properly.
This does not mean the OS should censor, it might mean the OS offers a censorship interface.<p>At least we seem to agree the solution lies with better tools for parents.</p>
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<p>So the solution is effective parental controls. Government mandated age verification isn't parental control, and is unlikely to be very effective.<p>That means making it possible for parents to actively block bad websites, and making that hard to circumvent.</p>
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<p>I think intentionally and willingly doing something whilst informed of the consequence doesn't count as human error. At least not in this context.<p>Though it would make more sense, since these humans are likely largely erroneous.</p>
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<p>There's likely natural experiments in cases where police was misinformed either way about the danger of the suspects being arrested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441185</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Age limits might be an alternative. Say at 65 or 70.<p>That's at an age where wizened legislators can move into advisory roles, instead of needing to find a next career.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:57:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186232</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you put an LLM in reasoning mode, it will approximately have a conversation with itself. This mimics an inner monologue.<p>That conversation is held in text, not in any internal representation. That text is called the reasoning trace. You can then analyse that trace.</p>
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<p>If you want to be pedantic about it you could phrase it as follows.<p>When the LLM was in reasoning mode, in the reasoning context it often expressed statement X. Given that, and the relevance of statement X to the taken action. It seems likely that the presence of statement X in the context contributed to this action. Besides, the presence of statement X in the reasoning likely means that given the previous context embeddings of X are close to the context.<p>Hence we think that the action was taken due to statement X.<p>And that output could have come from an LLM introspecting it's own reasoning.<p>I don't think that phrasing things so pedanticaly is worth the extra precision though. Especially not for the statement that inspecting the reasoning logs of sn LLM can help give insight on why an LLM acted a certain way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044897</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems great in concept, and totally infeasible. 
But if anyone can do it, unicode seems like a great candidate.<p>Does anyone have reason for more optimism?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:50:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033519</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recall similar advice around mylar heat blankets. Perhaps those got mixed up?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:55:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032168</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels quite power-law like to me, but checking this roughly it seems to decay more quickly than a power law, but with a fatter tail. At least in the top 1000<p>The top 3 with 4,000,000 words have about 20 times as many words that the 0.14% percentile (at rank 1000) with 200,000 words.<p>In between (at rank 500) your at about 450,000 words, so its not a true power law. Because a drop of a factor 9 per 500 ranks would suggest that rank 1000 were at about 50000 words.</p>
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<p>So for the ISS at 20c you'd get 481 W/m^2 so you'd only need 2.3m2.
So comparing the ISS at 20c to space datacenters at 70c you get an improvement of 63%. Nice, but doesn't feel game-changing.<p>The power radiated is T^4, but 70c is only about 17.1% warmer than 20c because you need to compare in kelvin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:03:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869925</link><dc:creator>rocqua</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rocqua in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why does it matter if people have to sell their shares to unlock value? Is it just the friction of small orders?<p>Buybacks for manipulating share prices and earnings per share are indeed silly. But they should also be trivial to compensate for by normalising on market cap instead of a single share.</p>
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