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halayli commented on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken tushardadlani.com/the-lev... · Posted by u/tush726

halayli · a month ago

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem.

It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as:

"Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

you will end up writing a completely different post as a result. a more sincere one, and one that is closer to the reality of the situation that needs to be addressed, and that is one's perceptions, biases, and feelings that come from our own personal experiences.

halayli commented on Hierarchical Reasoning Model arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734... · Posted by u/hansmayer

JonathanRaines · a month ago

I advise scepticism.

This work does have some very interesting ideas, specifically avoiding the costs of backpropagation through time.

However, it does not appear to have been peer reviewed.

The results section is odd. It does not include include details of how they performed the assesments, and the only numerical values are in the figure on the front page. The results for ARC2 are (contrary to that figure) not top of the leaderboard (currently 19% compared to HRMs 5% https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2025/leaderboa...)

halayli · a month ago

The fact that you are expecting a paper just published to have been peer reviewed already tells me that you are likely not familiar with the process. The first step to have your work peer reviewed is to publish it.

halayli commented on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain sailhealth.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/glasscannon

halayli · 2 months ago

Prolonged stress is often a major contributor to cp. The problem is that after being stressed for a long period we no longer feel the weight until it's fully lifted which requires taking some time off and the majority of us are not in a position to do that.

halayli commented on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel lcamtuf.substack.com/p/de... · Posted by u/Ariarule

halayli · 3 months ago

this is one of the best videos to understand what a dB is and when it is used, and how to interpret them. what's unique about this unit is it relies a lot on the context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mulRI-EZ80

halayli commented on The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob

tomhow · 4 months ago

We don't know why people vote the way they do, but in this case the comment breaks the guidelines, as does yours:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

halayli · 4 months ago

That is your opinion. If all you understood from my post was that I am commenting about voting, then you missed the point.

halayli commented on The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob

photochemsyn · 4 months ago

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halayli commented on Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim pikuma.com/blog/origins-o... · Posted by u/amosjyng

anamax · 4 months ago

"while other editors, like Emacs, could cost hundreds of dollars."

Huh?

While I suppose that one "could" pay for Emacs, the vast majority of users never have.

Then again, I've only been using Emacs for 45 years, so I'm a newbie. (Yes, I started with the Teco implementation.)

halayli · 4 months ago

It's a bit dishonest imho to quote out of context. Here's the full quotation:

> Joy also claims that most of vi's popularity came from the fact that it was readily available and bundled with BSD, while other editors, like Emacs, could cost hundreds of dollars.

Joy was referring to the late 1970s early 80s here and in the context of making VI available when he created BSD and published it for free. Unix operating systems were not freely available outside academia back then.

halayli commented on Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer hforsten.com/designing-a-... · Posted by u/pdziepak

halayli · 4 months ago

If you're interested in RF circuits, I highly recommend taking a look at X-MWblocks prototyping framework by https://quanticxmw.com/

halayli commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

dang · 5 months ago

> this goes way beyond moderation

I'm sorry, but that's not true—quite the opposite.

If you guys had any idea how next-to-impossible it is to host substantive discussions about a topic like this, you should recognize that you're getting what you want (frontpage attention for this story) instead of complaining about a secondary detail (the title edit).

A title edit like that is not making a statement about the underlying story, and certainly not trying to suppress any aspect of it. The article is one click away for people to read and make up their own minds about. This thread is filled with comments about the detail that I took out of the title; no one is missing it.

Rather, what I did was bog standard HN moderation, the sort of thing we've done thousands of times on hundreds of topics over 15+ years, purely for the purpose of supporting a substantive discussion of the article that you (I don't mean you personally, but the set of commenters who have been complaining about this) want to be discussed in the first place. From my point of view, that amounts to demanding 100% instead of saying yes to the 90% that you're getting in this case. That's not a realistic assessment of the tradeoffs with a thread like this.

Edit: I'm sorry if that sounded tetchy—I certainly understand the feeling you're expressing and why it feels that way.

halayli · 5 months ago

I'll try to explain myself better. What triggered my response was that the edit is not different from NYT/CNN publishing an article titled '20 people died when a building collapsed on their head' instead of '<entity> launched a missile on a civilian building'. What's the criteria we are using here to keep or remove '<entity>'? The article involves 3 entities and dropping anyone of them changes the narattive.

I have been hanging out on HN since 2009 and I truely appreciate your dedication to keep this site civil and it definitely is one of the very few that did not degenerate over time. That's the main reason why HN is in my bookmark bar. I appologize if my comment triggered you, and I totally understand where you are coming from as well. If it was my decision, I would keep politics out of HN as I never saw anything fruitful come out of these posts and stresses out moderators as they have to police the thread and find themselves in the way of fire.

halayli commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

dang · 5 months ago

Edit: ok you guys, all your responses have convinced me that I misread the room, and I'm going to reverse the title edit now.

-- original reply: --

I did those title edits to (marginally) reduce the flamebait effect of the title, in keeping with standard moderation practice (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Titles have by far the biggest impact on discussion quality, so this is a big deal. Especially when the topic is divisive.

halayli · 5 months ago

I totally understand the contention around this topic but you're altering the keypoint of what the article is about. Why remove one country name and keep the other? The article is not about Meta, but how their platform is being manipulated by one country against the other. Your edit shows a strong evidence you're not taking a partisan position and have a preference. I am not sure you should be editing contenious posts when you don't hold a partisan position. Your edit is in the same realm as what the post is talking about. I understand moderation is tricky, but this goes way beyond moderation.