BalinKing

6 ms·

1.
by BalinKing 4d ago
> If they don’t use the microphones why do they have a statement in their Terms of Service to not say sensitive things in front of your TV? 1. The introduction says that Smart TVs are not included in this ToS ("not including Smart T
2.
by BalinKing 5d ago
Does Hack[0] fit the bill? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)
3.
by BalinKing 6d ago
> But it, and the piano black keys with it, are definitely not optimal. It makes playing in C easy, and playing in anything else hard. I don't think this is true—I was under the impression that, at least on piano, keys other than C
4.
by BalinKing 8d ago
You made a specific claim (~100% of ChatGPT image use is non-organic), and they asked you to support your claim. That is not sealioning.
5.
by BalinKing 10d ago
I'm not sure myself, there are a lot of comma splices and other such grammar mistakes. Maybe just edited with AI?
6.
by BalinKing 10d ago
This is incorrect, downvotes are "allowed" for mere disagreement; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 .
7.
by BalinKing 10d ago
I'm fairly certain only comments can be downvoted, regardless of karma.
8.
by BalinKing 14d ago
In the last company I worked at, when a project was major enough (read, long-running and full of tricky details) to require two devs' full-time attention, they'd hole up in a flex room for weeks at a time.[0] "The cave"
9.
by BalinKing 16d ago
If I reached the video from the recommendations on another video/the YT homepage, I'll go back and select "Not interested" there. It's not foolproof, especially b/c the back button will still cause YouTube to u
10.
by BalinKing 1mo ago
> you need to review only the lines that correspond to the theorem that you want to prove and their types This is (unfortunately) not actually the case—just a few weeks ago, someone "proved" the Collatz conjecture via a Lean pr
11.
by BalinKing 1mo ago
But this means you're "abusing" dark/light mode to signal unrelated information. If some visual customization (theme, font size, etc.) happens to allow you to do something like that, then of course more power to you, but
12.
by BalinKing 1mo ago
Wikipedia (FWIW) says that the fictional USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was named after the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) rather than the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101).
13.
by BalinKing 1mo ago
There are enough grammatical oddities (e.g. "reads off", "my not-the-proudest") in the linked excerpt that I'm honestly inclined to believe them.
14.
by BalinKing 1mo ago
I'm not a DBA or sysadmin, but naïvely I feel like there's a difference between adding it to the client prompt and adding it to the server log. One-time startup messages in prompts/REPLs/etc. are noise (most of the time)
15.
by BalinKing 2mo ago
I've never really understood this argument. If someone's a manager of an incompetent team, no amount of management skill will save the quality of the resulting software. I don't think "just treat LLMs like smart junior d
16.
by BalinKing 2mo ago
The general sense of “liking” something is usually 好き ( suki ) in Japanese, AFAIK. Depending on the context (romantic, etc.), “love” could be 愛, 恋愛, 大好き, and probably others.
17.
by BalinKing 2mo ago
I ran into that issue too w/ sentence-based flashcards, where I almost immediately memorize the sentence itself and the whole thing becomes self-defeating. Similarly, I thought to use LLMs to generate fresh sentences on-the-fly, but th
18.
by BalinKing 2mo ago
But Wikipedia[0] says Ῥωμαῖοι transliterates to Romaioi, i.e. "Romans". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Nomenclature
19.
by BalinKing 2mo ago
On the subject of nostalgic paint apps, I distinctly remember one of the Kid Pix drawing tools/games that I had growing up... what a weird piece of software that was!
20.
by BalinKing 3mo ago
Welcome to HN. Just a heads up that, from the site guidelines[0]: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans. (I'm not a mod or anything; I just noticed that most of your comments have
21.
by BalinKing 3mo ago
IIRC linguists (like, actual academic researchers) prefer to “break up” kana and analyze the consonant and vowel separately when dealing with conjugations. Treating kana as indivisible units is AFAIK only really a thing in Japanese linguist
22.
by BalinKing 3mo ago
The lead says "how I approach IIS targets during bug bounty " (emphasis mine), so (assuming the author is being truthful) I'm guessing the tone of the title is just for fun.
23.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
Excluding supergeniuses, pure mathematics—even at a very basic, undergraduate level—simply can't be understood passively. Even with an infinitely patient AI teacher who could answer any question on-demand, it'd still require a mas
24.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
> horrific things are going to happen to them without the their/or their families consent Indeed, that is (allegedly) the case with organ donation: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-tran
25.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
Towards the end of the article: "the company plans to eventually remove the anesthesia from some brain slices" Here's hoping the idea is that the slices will be really small, or something, because frankly the whole thing is u
26.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
The advantage(?) of take-home exams à la Caltech is that they can be open everything and 3–5 hours long :-P (For what it's worth, being able to listen to music during an exam, ctrl+F a digital textbook, etc. was super awesome; it wou
27.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
Things may have changed, but I don't recall any group exams during my time at Caltech, and conversely I do recall a strong sense of pride in the Honor Code. Also, if your professor allows collaboration, then it's definitionally
28.
by BalinKing 4mo ago
From the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
29.
by BalinKing 5mo ago
I'm not the other commenter (and I believe you that it's not AI), but I'd guess it's mostly the first line: a short affirmation followed by "The problem is ...." feels like the sort of formula the LLMs love to
30.
by BalinKing 5mo ago
In general, I think this phenomenon is called "phono-semantic matching": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching .

More ›