<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: bitshiftfaced</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bitshiftfaced</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:17:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bitshiftfaced" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Zugzwang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's kind of an illusion when you think about it. "Whose turn it is" is an inseparable part of the game state. If any move makes the game state worse this turn, then the game state was already bad before this turn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988286</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prediction markets have realized that they will lose potential customers if they don't prevent insider trading. Kalshi already has a policy banning politicians from trading. Presumably they understand this, so while I'm glad to see the rule, I wouldn't say it's that self-sacrificing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967884</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a perfect analogy because of factors that affect individual policies, such as the replacement cost of the home, moving next to a fireworks store, moving into a flood zone, etc. You pay more when your home is more at risk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903203</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> smokers die early saving even more money.<p>I thought cancer care tended to be pretty expensive. Not sure that your math is so clear cut.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903174</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oversimplification. Businesses can exist when the the cost of a good is less than the price they can get. There are many possible prices that this might be true, and there is some price that maximizes net profit.<p>When an item's margin becomes large, the risk/reward equation becomes favorable for new competition to come in. That puts downward pressure on prices.<p>For a given good, let's say that tariffs increased the business's cost for that good. If that cost goes away and the price stays constant, then the margin increases. That triggers more competition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:44:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895524</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> we also need to talk about the effects of cannabis use on neurodivergent folks.<p>"Neurodivergent" lacks a well-defined meaning. What is it about someone for whom you would define as neurodivergent that makes cannabis more harmful than someone someone for whom you wouldn't label as neurodivergent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876010</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parents also tend to gain weight, and higher BMI is associated with a decline in T.<p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3809034/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3809034/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821003</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a while I thought I really liked sci fi novels and short stories, and maybe that's somewhat true. But I've started wondering if maybe I just liked Asimov's writing in particular. Other writers in the genre are more hit or miss. Can anyone recommend other writers that are on his level?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:03:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805487</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And the liver creates cholesterol. It even senses and reduces cholesterol output when we have too much. Except saturated fats interfere with this process.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:31:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634213</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are some other transformer based models on the GIFT leaderboard: <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/GIFT-Eval" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/GIFT-Eval</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586792</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It’s also mighty interesting how it’s always the male division that’s open, until you happen to have a sport where women are beating men at it, and then suddenly it’s the women’s division that’s the open one!<p>Hypothetically you could have three divisions: open, men, and women. In many contexts it's more practical to have two, where one is open. In those cases, if the sex that didn't win more was also the open division, then people would complain because both divisions would be dominated by players of one sex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535090</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Woman in Labor at Florida Hospital Brought in Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quoting this without context, people might think someone from the case said this about the expecting mother. Instead, this quote comes from a law professor (that the author interviewed maybe?), who was, I guess, projecting the thought on to those of the legal system. The author kind of stuck this right in the middle of the story, so I don't blame readers if they confused the quote with someone from the trial saying it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466331</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have no doubt that blackberries will go this direction because it's annoying to get seeds stuck in your teeth. On the other hand, compare the fiber of blackberries (8g in one cup) to modern grapes (1g in one cup).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:15:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309389</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends on the season, but they tend to have too much acid at first. Leaving them in the fridge reduces the acid over time improves the flavor profile. But really you should refrigerate all citrus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309336</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are dekopon trees that give fruit with the bump and without the bump. You may be finding the ones without the bump. But satsumas have a different enough flavor that you should be able to tell. Also, satsumas are smaller, more oblong, and tend to have a thinner skin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:09:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309316</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similarly, the Tango variety is becoming more commercially available. It has a zipper peel, seedless, and outstanding flavor. It's usually marketed as "Mandarin", though. You kind of have to know what it looks like to be able to tell what's a clementine or not.<p>Others to watch out for are Gold Nugget (my favorite, but I very rarely see them at the store), and I also saw Kishu at the grocery store for the first time this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:05:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309241</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree. It shows that the policies that they put into place gave them resistance to whatever it is about the pandemic that reduced scores everywhere else. As the article laid out, Alabama didn't just keep doing the same things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:49:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074357</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People who responded as "very conservative/conservative" was 36% in 1992 and 37% in 2024. <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/655190/political-parties-historically-polarized-ideologically.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://news.gallup.com/poll/655190/political-parties-histor...</a><p>"Very liberal/liberal" has increased though (at the expense of moderates).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:55:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053978</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> that almost everyone should take it<p>I can see why every vegetarian should take it. But if you eat meat regularly, your creatine stores will be at a level where you'd probably only see a cognitive benefit at times of sleep deprivation. But if you're regularly sleep-deprived, then you'd do best by addressing your sleep issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:03:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048230</link><dc:creator>bitshiftfaced</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bitshiftfaced in "What dating apps are optimizing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pie in the sky idea: users sign up and deposit to an escrow. If after x years, the user has been married to another user on the site for 1 year without being divorced, the matching site receives the funds. Otherwise, the user receives their funds back.<p>Might also work with using the users' registered home addresses instead of marriage. There are ways to game it and ways to make it less game able, but you get the idea.</p>
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