<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: while_true_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=while_true_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:16:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=while_true_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They had 59 votes from Democrats for the public option, not single payer.  Public option is to let people choose either a non-profit government insurance plan or private insurers.  They needed 60 votes to break a Republican filibuster.  Joe Lieberman (Ind-CT) said he would filibuster the public option but would vote for the ACA without it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:21:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334491</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting this earthquake struck shortly after a solar eclipse, implying significant spring tide forces were present.  The earthquake occurred near dawn, when the sun/moon pair, Indonesia, and the Earth's core formed a right angle to each other, creating tidal tension forces on the crust.<p>Tidal forces have been linked to the Dec. 26, 2004 Sumatra earthquake. This paper claims there's a significant link between tidal forces and earthquakes in the region (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027074" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027074</a>).  The authors conclude "The observed relationships suggest that the cyclical crustal flexing, which will be at a maximum at full or new moons, might provide sufficient extra force to a plate-boundary region already on the point of rupture to trigger an earthquake that was ‘waiting to happen’."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310913</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>California has huge amounts of excess renewable generation nearly every day, especially in spring and fall. Last April the grid operator curtailed 1.47 million MW/hrs of renewables, or about 2 GW per day. That's excess power the grid did not accept due to no demand. (source: <a href="https://www.caiso.com/documents/key-statistics-jul-2026.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.caiso.com/documents/key-statistics-jul-2026.pdf</a>)<p>In my mind the ideal solution is in addition to daily BESS time-shifting is seasonal time-shifting: long term storage of April excess for use in July.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:07:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236617</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI, when used in an organized and structured way, is excellent for learning a language. For example:<p>1. Ask AI for the 10 most commonly used verbs in ordinary daily speech in language X.<p>2. Prompt AI: generate 4 short sentences for each of the 10 verbs at the A1 (beginner) level.  Provide the sentences in .csv format compatible with the Anki flash card program.<p>3. Import .csv into Anki.  Study your 40 cards.<p>As you advance you can do much more like having conversations with AI avatars, transcribing videos, translating text, generating audio clips, and so on.<p>Dr Taylor Jones, a PhD linguist, goes into greater detail here: <a href="https://youtu.be/xQXiSGDXknA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/xQXiSGDXknA</a>?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:19:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139042</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Exercise Erased Half the Molecular Signature of Muscle Aging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many elderly die primarily from sedentary disease, not from aging itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043599</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but the bars shown don't match the NOAA data source I found. Also, if the chart goes to 2025 then why was the 1961 to 2020 period chosen for the average? Doesn't make sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971031</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why was the period 1961-2020 chosen? Why omit the years 2021 to 2025?  The X user appears to be a climate denier and is cherry-picking data to support their agenda.<p>In 2020 the average US temperature was 55.7 F.  In 2025 it was 57.8 F, an increase of 2.1 F in only five years. The cherry-picking conveniently excludes 2022 when the US set an all-time record of 34 days where the max temp exceeded 100 F.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968396</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too late. My household's desktops and laptop are all on Debian/KDE Plasma linux.  Glad I switched, I think Plasma is a better more customizable "windows" than Windows is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915124</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too late. In my household there are 4 desktops and one laptop. Wiped Windows and installed Debian with KDE Plasma. For our use it's a better "windows" than Windows. Not going back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:41:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724104</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rapid addition of 16 GW worth of batteries play a significant role in reducing demand for natural gas, especially in summer. On a hot day with high A/C demand batteries can meet the demand around sunset, reducing the need to dispatch gas peaker plants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579654</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>California often produces over 100% of the energy it uses, is sometimes a net exporter of power, and often curtails in-state solar and wind.  For 2026 the import limit is 11 GW, so in-state production won't be less than about 81% at any given time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579612</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Large lithium mine under construction in northwest Nevada at Thacker Pass, joint venture with GM.  <a href="https://lithiumamericas.com/thacker-pass/overview/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://lithiumamericas.com/thacker-pass/overview/default.as...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:10:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547700</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. It's as if they think AI will forever be LLM only and won't develop world models that incorporate current state assessment, dynamic next-state prediction, cause-and-effect reasoning, object permanence, etc. I'm not in the AI industry but I assume there's got to be lots of research and work being done on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:41:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509755</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Social Security Now Expects Shortfall Earlier, in Late 2032"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Put a tax on AI for each human employee it displaces.  Estimate the human labor equivalent of AI each year and levy a tax to replace Soc Sec and Medicare revenue no longer received. Benefits need to be funded for existing retirees and they need to be there for younger generations too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480197</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Canada's shortwave radio time standard station CHU to go dark June 22nd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Makes me wonder if WWV will meet the same fate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240597</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "GPT‑5.5 Instant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct. I have the $20/month plan and I just checked, the default is 5.3-instant. I can manually switch it to Thinking is 5.5. I also have it set to auto-switch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:06:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027775</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "Nocord HF – A discord style FT8 client written in Golang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIRC there are other WSJT clones that translate and consolidate the code to avoid the awkward mix of Fortran, C, C++ into one language but they have the same problem, they aren't as good at weak signal decodes.  In WSJT-X maybe there's some sort of probability-based decoding in addition to the use of Costas arrays to fill in the blanks when partial signals are received?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935958</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As one dabbling in Mandarin, this french e, è, é, ê, ë thing makes me chuckle. Mā mà mǎ ma? (Is Mom scolding the horse?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:06:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532951</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 2026 utilities will install 86 GW of new generation, of which only 6 GW will be natural gas. The other 80 GW will all be solar, wind and battery storage.  Utilities are doing this because of economics. Environment is secondary.  Even oil and gas rich Texas has been aggressively adding solar, wind and battery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:12:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494482</link><dc:creator>while_true_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by while_true_ in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wind and solar are consistently the cheapest forms of new energy generation. Pouyanné knows that.  He is being a politician here, saying what he knows will play well with the current administration. When in Rome...</p>
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