<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: ks1723</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ks1723</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:33:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ks1723" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also did prefer my plastic Pasmo (essentially the same as suica) card until I learned during my last trip, that it can only be recharged with cash :-/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471198</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just BS. I had and saw many public discussion also on German Marktätze on this topic, some quite heated.  Nobody was arrested or removed from their job or otherwise sanctioned. But of course people were disagreeing. 
The right to free speech is not the right to freedom from contradiction!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:52:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802604</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just not true. There has been tremendous progress in the field. Starting with google’s experiment in 2019 on showing quantum advantage - admittedly on a useless problem, but quantum advantage nevertheless, to fault tolerant encodings by the Harvard group to recent demonstrations of a road toward advantage in generative models by goggle, to name a few. It’s still far away from running Shor’s algorithm to factor relevant numbers and break RSA and the like, but even there dramatic progress is being made, see, e.g., <a href="https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665" rel="nofollow">https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:25:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314155</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Unfortunately, the United States yet again has to bail out the rest of the world.<p>You mean like the one last time where they fought the war on terrorism in Afghanistan for the rest of the world  and where it took them 20 years to replace the Taliban with … ehm … the Taliban?</p>
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<p>This is utter nonsense. I have seen and read many reports and articles about the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank in the mainstream media! And you won’t loose your job when expressing solidarity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:43:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382094</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Visualizing the most common unisex names in the US"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similarly, “Andrea” is male in Italian but female in German.</p>
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<p>But apart from all the other stuff you mention, you’re missing an important point: these things move. And unless all objects are synchronized (which they are not) they occupy a whole orbit, not only their actual volume. If two orbits intersect, the objects occupying those will eventually collide.<p>Therefore, they occupy much more volume.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754233</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Laminar Flow Airfoil"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What really surprised me when I heard about it was that even after all those decades of research and development, there was still room to develop novel laminar flow wings and fuselage to be used in a business jet[1] in the early 2000s.<p>[1] <a href="https://global.honda/en/products/HondaJet/innovation/innovation2.html" rel="nofollow">https://global.honda/en/products/HondaJet/innovation/innovat...</a><p><a href="https://www.hondajet.com/-/media/HondaJet/Documents/Technical-Papers/PDF/Journal_of_Aircraft_Vol40_No4_P609_P615_SHM_1_NLF.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.hondajet.com/-/media/HondaJet/Documents/Technica...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:18:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633532</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "A Century of Quantum Mechanics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the major problems with dark matter and dark energy is, that the standard model has been experimentally confirmed to such high precision. All possible extensions proposed so far which tried to explain dark matter /dark energy have been basically falsified by the experiments.<p>The standard model is so descriptive and accurate, there is just no room for extensions which predict new physics but are still consistent with existing data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557864</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Quantum Physics Is on the Wrong Track, Says Breakthrough Prize Winner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is formalized in the Kochen–Specker theorem [1].
Quantum mechanics is shown to incompatible with the following three assumptions being true simultaneously:  
(1) locality, (2) non-contextually (independent of the context of the experiments (3) realism.<p>AFAIK, at least one assumption needs to go.<p>There is a nice paper by N. David Mermin illustrating the incompatibility [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker_theorem" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker_theor...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.physics.wisc.edu/courses/home/spring2020/407/experiments/bell/Bell%27s%20Theorem%20Background%20Papers/READ_THIS_FIRST_Mermin_reality_Phys.Today.38.38.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.physics.wisc.edu/courses/home/spring2020/407/exp...</a></p>
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<p>What I (as a non-US citizen living outside the US) never understood about the US political system is<p>1. Apparently none sees the (to me obvious) downsides of a two-party system where there is only black and white with cold-war logic of being either with us of against us, no grey zones and willingness for compromise.<p>and<p>2. monetary interests are so close to the political system by construction: candidates need to raise a lot of money during their campaigns which they get from companies, private persons and which is tied to their person. How can you not assume that all those people who get into office (senator, president, even judges as I learned recently) with money they got from someone is not in a conflict of interest right from the start? To me it seems there cannot be any independence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 09:56:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086746</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are also common in France and Germany:<p>These shutters serve as insulation in locations prone to harsh weather conditions, safeguarding windows from hail damage and designed to endure strong winds.<p>From <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_shutter" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_shutter</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907702</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To get some quick insights on North Korea, Andrei Lankov talks about it in this podcast:
<a href="https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/why-north-korea-is-planning-a-second-korean-war-and-how-to-stop-it-anRN_lH0" rel="nofollow">https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/why-north-korea-is-pl...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 06:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866831</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I my view, the 'exactly' is crucial here. They do implicitly tell the model what to do by encoding it in the reward function:<p><i>In Minecraft, the team used a protocol that gave Dreamer a ‘plus one’ reward every time it completed one of 12 progressive steps involved in diamond collection — including creating planks and a furnace, mining iron and forging an iron pickaxe.</i><p>This is also why I think the title of the article is slightly misleading.</p>
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<p>From the second wiki article:<p>“… the soil and the lagoon water surrounding the structure now contain a higher level of radioactivity than the debris of the dome itself, so even in the event of a total collapse, the radiation dose delivered to the local resident population or marine environment should not change significantly.”<p>This is just insane.</p>
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<p>You sure know the concept of incubation time. Barring infected persons from entering if they have no symptoms is not possible.
And quarantining every single person who enters is also not possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:37:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859034</link><dc:creator>ks1723</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ks1723 in "US pauses all Federal aid and grants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big “if”:
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024...</a></p>
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<p>100% this!</p>
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<p>This is the case not only in the Nordic countries, but also across Europe like Germany, Netherlands, Italy, UK and probably others.</p>
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<p>In this snippet I hear no „No“ to the disinfectant, he is just suggesting it an seems to go on:
<a href="https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?feature=shared" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?feature=shared</a></p>
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