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New comment by milanhbs in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

milanhbs — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:52:17 +0000

A good general rule is to make it hard for people to do bad things, and to not create incentives to do so. This seems to do the opposite.

Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994)

milanhbs — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:53:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1175.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317738

Points: 4

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New comment by milanhbs in "Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities"

milanhbs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:31:12 +0000

Isn’t homeowners insurance subsidised in the US in some places, especially in high risk areas?

I can‘t find good resources on this - is there a logic behind this beyond pleasing the people that have vested interests in those areas (like owning a home)?

New comment by milanhbs in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

milanhbs — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:58:43 +0000

I agree, I've found it very useful for search tasks that involve putting a few pieces together. For example, I was looking for the floor plan of an apartment building I was considering moving to in a country I'm not that familiar with. Google: Found floor plans on architect's sites - but only ones of rejected proposals.

ChatGPT: Gave me the planning proposal number of the final design, with instructions to the government website where I can plug that in to get floor plans and other docs.

In this case, ChatGPT was so much better at giving me a definitive source than Google - instead of the other way around.

New comment by milanhbs in "We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945"

milanhbs — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:45:51 +0000

Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.

New comment by milanhbs in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

milanhbs — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:38:47 +0000

Are we going full circle from TV to streaming back to TV? Probably not, but I do really enjoy the discovery aspect as well as reducing the overwhelming options of streaming down to a few channels.

This has a super smooth feel and throws you directly in, really well done.

New comment by milanhbs in "The strategy behind Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology"

milanhbs — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:05:01 +0000

How has the LMB changed?

New comment by milanhbs in "Why are there suddenly so many car washes?"

milanhbs — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:55:53 +0000

Your driveway drains to a nearby body of water, most likely, while your bathroom trains into sewage which is treated.

New comment by milanhbs in "Money bubble"

milanhbs — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:41:00 +0000

In both of your examples I could see the model becoming the default, with humans double-checking, if even that. If things go wrong as you describe, humans are pulled into the loop by the humans wronged (unless they give up before). There is a company making money with auto insurance claims: https://tractable.ai/en/products

New comment by milanhbs in "Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years"

milanhbs — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:35:36 +0000

I live in Basel, Switzerland, where it is common sport to jump into the river Rhine on a hot day, and float right through historic downtown. It’s a marvellous thing, even just to watch. Really adds to quality of life! Edit: Missed the other comment by a fellow Baseler.