<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: bennettnate5</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bennettnate5</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:08:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bennettnate5" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That'll put a whole new spin on drive in movie theaters...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:16:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991895</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a matter of when, not if, and that _when_ was more than a decade ago. Round-up resistant Kochia (a weed) has spread across Western Canada and was first observed in 2011. Pretty difficult stuff to get out of your field once it takes root.<p>As for solutions, I agree with you that there's no single clean solution to mitigate resistance. But it seems like some weeds' reproduction paths are better suited for resistance than others (Kochia produces tens of thousands of seeds and spread similar to tumbleweeds, so there's a lot of potential for mixing and genetic diversity relative to other weeds).<p><a href="https://saskpulse.com/resources/kochia-resistance-update-results-from-the-2019-to-2023-glyphosate-dicamba-and-fluroxypyr-resistant-kochia-prairie-surveys/" rel="nofollow">https://saskpulse.com/resources/kochia-resistance-update-res...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928412</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So is your general take on the problem that because the way it's worded (blue => "everyone survives", red => "only those who press red survive"), enough people would choose blue that therefore the empathetic/moral thing to do would be to also choose blue to save them? I can get on board with that line of reasoning</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:48:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914256</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm wondering if it's really the framing of the problem that's inflating the number of individuals responding with blue (similar to certain confusingly-worded ballot measures).<p>Suppose the problem were worded in a more concrete way: "I have a large container ship that I'm draining the ballasts out of tomorrow. If less than 50% of <whatever population we're working with> get on the ship, it will capsize and everyone who chose to get on it will die. You can choose either to get on the ship (blue button) or refuse to (red button)."<p>Would one hold a person guilty for not getting on the ship? Would a perfectly empathetic person even board that ship?</p>
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<p>Let me frame it another way and see if you still consider it homicide:<p>There's a cruise ship that needs to have a certain weight in order to not capsize. That weight threshold happens to be at 50% of the population (for whatever population we're considering in the original question). If the ship capsizes, everyone on it dies.<p>You're given the option: either get on the cruise ship or don't. Not to take an actual cruise, not for some other intrinsic prize, just file on it for a minute and then get off.<p>I don't see how those who refuse the risk of dying on the ship are complicit in the deaths of those who willingly choose to hop on it knowing the risks involved</p>
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<p>This doesn't seem to be a game that tries to be particularly clever--one button could kill you, the other certainly won't. Trusting that nearly everyone will avoid pressing the button that could kill them seems a reasonable assumption, and it's not necessarily an indication of a lack of altruism.</p>
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<p>The usual justification is that if you don't do at least a breadth-first literature review, you can get burned by missing a paper that already does substantially what you do in your work. I've heard of extreme case where it happens a week before someone goes to defend their dissertation!</p>
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<p>For me, it wasn't so much about mitigating this cycle as much as recognizing that the grit of pushing through that last 20-30% is actually a valuable life skill that the PhD could teach me to do, and that projects that I felt like I would never want to touch again actually started to become interesting again after I had left them for a year or so.</p>
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<p>> This is definitely not true. There is no biological pathway that can do this<p>Nevertheless, it continues to give her migraines even in small portions where other foods don't. I don't doubt it could be some byproduct from the process of MSG salt's synthesis or cooking with it rather than the actual glutamic acid, or some allergy as others have suggested.<p>I wouldn't be so strong as to categorically say that MSG can't cause migraines in any of the human race as you so claim though. There's so much we don't know about human biological mechanisms in niche cases; even water can cause allergic reactions in certain individuals (see Aquagenic Urticaria). What is true generally is not always true specifically when it comes to human health.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:52:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892774</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I definitely wouldn't be surprised if that were the case</p>
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<p>Incidentally, this describes what I believe to be the great difficulty of PhD research. You have to take a topic you find interesting and read all possible related work in it, which tends to result in significant scope creep as you realize just how much there is that already does you want to do. Having exhausted your initial energy and excitement for the project, you have to force yourself the remaining 20-30% of he way to the finish line to get that work to a publishable state.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:53:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891121</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a family member who has discovered through gradual process of elimination that she gets migraines from MSG, aspartame and yeast extract. "just sodium headaches" doesn't really apply to her case; simply chewing a piece of gum that has aspartame, or eating a piece of meat cooked with MSG in her salad is enough to trigger them. I agree in the general sense with your comment and the article that there's no widespread danger to public health from these additives, but it doesn't mean there aren't still individuals whose health gets messed up (including legitimate headache or migraine symptoms) by these additives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890611</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fancy gains in ROI come from smart seeder/sprayer attachments and combine harvesters (a completely different piece of machinery), not from the tractor that's pulling those equipment. At best there's the ROI from less seed overlap, but plenty of GPS systems integrate well into any tractor and the gains are really marginal. I don't think tractor electronics are as important as they're hyped up to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867643</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The market for used tractors went through the roof years ago--20 to 40 year old tractors with tens of thousands of miles on them sell for not so far from new prices because farmers value being able to fix them without paying $$$</p>
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<p>I guess in that case it would be to eat gamma? Assuming you're keeping all three long-term, the gamma particles will be washing over you whether they're inside you or out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715984</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Despite this promising start, the conservation experiment wasn't to last, after a rival juice manufacturer called TicoFruit sued Del Oro, alleging that its competitor had "defiled a national park".<p>No good deed goes unpunished--wild that the competitor company successfully sued them.</p>
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<p>It's common in English writing to interject additional details in on a noun by using a phrase separated with commas. I've personally found Oxford commas can in certain cases make it unclear whether you're interjecting or not, like so:<p>Alice, the cook of the house and the guest were very chatty that evening.<p>Alice, the cook of the house, and the guest were very chatty that evening.<p>In the second, is Alice the cook of the house or not? This is the ambiguity of Oxford commas.</p>
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<p>Here's a potential winning strategy: take a coin out of your pocket and flip it 100 times. If it lands heads 51 or more times, take both boxes; otherwise, just take the one. Provided the computer had anticipated you being the kind of person that would do this, it would anticipate you are probabilistically more likely to take the single box exclusively and put the million dollars in it. Regardless of the outcome of the coin tosses, you get that million dollar box, and you still get the added $1000 in the first box 49% of the time.</p>
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<p>Not commenting on the quad tree specifically but I know a lot of reasoning that goes into non-binary tree structures comes down to performance gains from exploiting cache entry size. When each node lookup in the tree is going to trigger an 64-byte load from L1, it's often much better performance to have your tree have 4 or 8 pointers to children in that cache entry rather than two if it means you do on average half or quarter as many traversals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182993</link><dc:creator>bennettnate5</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bennettnate5 in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> prince Fëanor<p>> one of the good guys<p>Uhhhh...<p>Feanor drew his sword on his half-brother and threatened to kill him because he was paranoid Fingolfin was trying to usurp his power. He compelled all of his sons to swear an oath to slay any man, elf or being in possession of the silmarils (which led to subsequent needless bloodshed).<p>Then he ordered and carried out the mass-murder of relatively unarmed Teleri in order to rob them of their ships.<p>Such actions does not a good guy make.</p>
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