<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: arbitrage</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arbitrage</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:25:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arbitrage" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, light is EM radiation. Not all EM is light.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41533812</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41533812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41533812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reddit attracts a lot of trolls. Managing the reddit takes work (moderation, keeping up with stupid reddit drama).<p>With a project discord, you're filtering out people immediately -- typically only people who want to be there wind up there. It makes things easier for a lot of people this way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380032</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "The creatives pushing nail art to sculptural new lengths"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're gonna break that necklace if you clutch your pearls any harder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41300876</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41300876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41300876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fastmail is a paid solution, and you are comparing it to the ad-laden version of gmail. They are absolutely going to be different experiences.<p>You do in fact appear to be heavily biased based on your previous involvement with google, it shows.</p>
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<p>t;dr: it's Japanese</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:37:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946239</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you talk with them, or talk at them? Are you the only one giving feedback? What feedback do you get from the employee you've been failing to connect with?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 03:26:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881118</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Not sure what to make of this.<p>One possible conclusion here is that you are not as discriminating of a music listener as you assumed or thought you were.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:39:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39807157</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39807157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39807157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Why are there suddenly so many car washes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The machinery is all commoditized and the same. Plumbing as a trade has been around for thousands of years. The level of sophistication here is limited.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:48:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738350</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Why are most sofas so bad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're exaggerating about light-bulbs. There is no way LEDs last less than incandescents. If you are experiencing this, its possible your wiring is bad. You should call an electrician and have them check that out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720012</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tachyons aren't a thing. Tachyons are sci-fi nonsense.<p>Nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. This does not hold for the universe itself. It can and does expand faster than the speed of light, using specific reference frames (i.e., big enough).<p>So, space can increase FTL. Particles do not travel faster than light tho, that is nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:46:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674507</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a mouthful.<p>The title should be "Hubble Tension almost certainly not caused by measurement error."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:43:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674489</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "A broken vintage piano turned into an analog hybrid of 20 instruments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/mgu2l" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/mgu2l</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592488</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google didn't slip. Google's stock price fluctuated. Which is a normal occurrence. There's a difference between the two, and the headline is really close to click-bait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:29:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383837</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "It's Fair to Describe Schizophrenia as Probably Mostly Genetic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article mentions nothing about twins being affected asymmetrically by schizophrenia. Any model of the disease needs to account for that.<p>Also, this gem: "You also can’t point to any individual lung cancer patient and say “smoking caused this person’s lung cancer”."<p>Article loses all credibility at that point. Lol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:05:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218227</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Let's Block It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh wow, I can block already watched videos on youtube, at long long last.<p>Thank you so much!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959107</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hold the fob under and in contact with your chin and aim your face at your car. The beam gets focused in a specific direction when you're using your head to amplify the signal. This is how you get improved distance with your head. Your skull is not an isotropic resonant emitter. The signal ends up beam-shaped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:08:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38928621</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38928621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38928621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you read the linked article or abstract?<p>> Participants' demographics, including education and familiarity with LLMs, did not predict detection rate, suggesting that even those who understand systems deeply and interact with them frequently may be susceptible to deception.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:56:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424434</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good point, and the answer to that is possibly not. But, considering that it isn't ideal to publicize this sort of thing during market hours anyway, regardless of your public/private status, my takeaway is that OpenAI felt that they had to get in front of this news at all costs. I find that very interesting, and I wonder what the competing narrative would have been had they not done that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38320249</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38320249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38320249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "Do authors get paid for ad placement in novels?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it particularly scene breaking as well. Stephen King does this a great deal -- he seems inordinately fond of name-dropping electronics.<p>I don't think authors get paid to include name brands as adverts. I think what you and I are seeing is men of a certain age thinking things are "cool" and then using the name of a product or service to themselves appear "cool" or in-touch.<p>I personally always feel it has the exact opposite effect for the reason you already said: authors who do this do it so often that it becomes extremely noticeable and scene-breaking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890327</link><dc:creator>arbitrage</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arbitrage in "PFAS Forever Chemicals Present in Some Plastic Recyclable Bottles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article was not about recycled plastics. It's about plastics that can be recycled. Subtle difference, there.</p>
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