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New comment by hansbo in "I want to live like Costco people"

hansbo — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:35:08 +0000

But quality is strongly associated with brand. Showing off the logo might be taboo, but everyone can tell the difference between an IKEA kitchen and a Funkiskök.

New comment by hansbo in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

hansbo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:18:04 +0000

Gestation crates are up there among the most immoral things created by man.

Sator Square

hansbo — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:29:03 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785514

Points: 3

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New comment by hansbo in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

hansbo — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:58:54 +0000

More like, continue living in a sketchy neighbourhood because all the thieves go to the newer, more polished neighbourhoods anyway.

New comment by hansbo in "So Much Blood"

hansbo — Thu, 08 May 2025 11:03:39 +0000

It is controversial to put into system letting people sell their bodies to make ends meet.

New comment by hansbo in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

hansbo — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:00:27 +0000

Pretty sure it should be kWh / 100 km

New comment by hansbo in "Weierstrass's Monster"

hansbo — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:55:33 +0000

It is unintuitive to me why the rational numbers are dense in the reals, since rational numbers are countably infinite, as opposed to the reals. I think infinity is hard to grasp.

What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models

hansbo — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:36:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-apples-ai-tells-us-experimental

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658009

Points: 2

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New comment by hansbo in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

hansbo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:10:30 +0000

I don't think it explains "How" either, in this case.

New comment by hansbo in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

hansbo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:09:26 +0000

So a proton can emit a positron. Does that mean that the positron is somehow "part" of the proton? Does it mean that their wave functions interact in some specific way? Is there another reason?

Quantum physics has always bothered me, personally, since I find it difficult to understand reasons. Not philosophical reasons, I am fine with axioms and foundations to models, but rather intuitive reasons why it works a certain way. I know it is an extremely strong theory which makes unexpected, later confirmed, predictions, but there is a frustration that the only explanation to things is "math".

New comment by hansbo in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

hansbo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:19:57 +0000

I am reading this as "it has to be this way, or the model does not hold", but it does not explain why. What causes it? Consistency of a model cannot be the ultimate reason, right?

New comment by hansbo in "How to Make Your Own Spooky Magic Eye Pictures (Autostereograms)"

hansbo — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:32:50 +0000

Fun, but extremely unpleasant. The more stressed I get the more difficult it is to relax my eyes and see the pattern.

New comment by hansbo in "Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe"

hansbo — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:52:39 +0000

Are we? How? Because the curvature is flat?

New comment by hansbo in "2023 UNAIDS global AIDS update"

hansbo — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:03:45 +0000

This is probably politically incorrect, but there was always a path to end crime, just like there was and is a path to end slavery and collective punishment. That path is kindness: get a job, don't feel the urge to commit a crime, avoid prison to be sure you live a good life, and abstain from crime if you are poor. Crime continue to exist because selfish people put selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights. People refuse to change their behavior, and, because (not "so long as") they refuse, there will be no end to crime of any sort. Sure, there are edge cases of accidental theft or something else non-criminal, but the vast bulk of cases are from irresponsible criminal behavior.

New comment by hansbo in "I hope you will never see this letter (1961)"

hansbo — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 06:09:39 +0000

The IPA of chair also contains a t though:

/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

I think it makes sense. To me there is a clear difference between chair and sheet, where chair starts with the sound of a t. Same thing with Ч.

New comment by hansbo in "Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely"

hansbo — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:21:04 +0000

It's cheaper to raise kids since you would already have paid the cost in taxes if you didn't get kids. The important metric is the difference in cost of having kids vs not having kids, and since daycare is heavily subsidized, the difference is small.

Same things go for schools, food in schools, universities, et.c., they are all "free", as in paid for by everyone in proportion to their wealth, instead of individually by the parent.

New comment by hansbo in "Ask HN: Where are all the parties?"

hansbo — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:14:57 +0000

I think the relative isolation is one of the smallest challenges related to colonizing Mars.

New comment by hansbo in "I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year"

hansbo — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:11:19 +0000

Nicely done! Not sure I could tell this was not just another HN post if you didn't explicitly say so.

New comment by hansbo in "AI solves Advent of Code 2022"

hansbo — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 16:24:51 +0000

It's really quite amazing. Inspired by your example, I tried to make it create something which nobody could have thought about before:

Write a deep poem about life, death, and the website Rotten Tomatoes

The result:

Life is a fleeting flame

A dance in the endless game

We come and we go

Leaving our mark, but never to know

What the future holds or who's to blame

Death is the great unknown

A mystery, never to be shown

But Rotten Tomatoes, a website so bold

Attempts to rate our stories untold

As if life and death can be bought and sold.

But in the end, what does it matter?

The ratings, the reviews, the bitter chatter

For in the grand scheme of things

We are but fleeting moments, the faintest of flings

And Rotten Tomatoes, a mere blip on the radar.

New comment by hansbo in "Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud"

hansbo — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:50:23 +0000

She was found not guilty of that. You can't say "equal crimes equal times" when the crimes are in fact not equal.