<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: mrpopo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrpopo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:29:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mrpopo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How else do you guarantee that things will keep going the best way possible in the future? The magical hand of the market?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006544</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> someone can be very confident and wrong at the same time<p>And sometimes that someone can be you, and AI is notoriously bad at telling you that you're wrong (because it has to please people)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:37:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180354</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably people complaining about AI today were fine with Stack Overflow before and didn't have anything to complain about back then.<p>I also had a better experience with Stack Overflow over AI. It's been unable to tell me that I couldn't assign a new value to my std::optional in my specific case, and kept hallucinating copy constructor rules. A Stack Overflow question matching my problem cleared that up for me.<p>Sometimes you need someone to tell you no.</p>
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<p>> Do you have some information or argument that will help me see things differently?<p>I already told you 2 things, coastal areas and agriculture.<p>This is Bangladesh elevation map. Bangladesh is amonng the most dense countries in the world, and also among the poorest.<p><a href="https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/ElevationMap/CountryMaps/?cz=BD_2" rel="nofollow">https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/ElevationMap/CountryMaps/...</a><p>People are gonna lose their homes and starve to death, this will create massive refugee crises. They won't care if you have micro plastics in your testicles</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:36:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762851</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There's certainly a lot to be said for humans needing to take better care of the planet. Co2 just gets a little too much attention for my taste.<p>GHG are a matter of life or death for hundreds of millions living in poverty in coastal areas or living from their own agriculture.<p>Of course you live in a 1st world country and it likely won't kill you, just cost you tons of money<p>It's not about "take better care of the planet", whatever you think that means</p>
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<p>Yep. It's not just oil rigs in the desert. Chevron in Ecuador destroyed the Amazonian rainforest. Oil pipelines and open pit mines destroying Canadian primordial forests. Probably tons of untold stories.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:24:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631452</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Considering at least half of all squares are empty, further compression is in order for the empty space.<p>Also if you're encoding the king as a position instead of a byte sequence you would have to encode their space as empty, that's an extra 2 bits</p>
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<p>It's also 700kg of CO2, one of the best ways to worsen climate change per dollar spent</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:04:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066662</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trains are just the most efficient way of moving people between cities. They benefit everyone, even people with cars.<p>You have a business trip and need to go from A to B by yourself? Take a train, it frees your brain and the highway for people traveling in groups or with lots of luggage.<p>Incidentally it also avoids moving 2 tonnes of material for no reason.</p>
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<p>I am quite confident that the bandwidth cost is absolutely not a concern for Microsoft, and that the obvious goal is for them to capture the market.<p>The "C/C++" extension github repository is 4MB. Probably the download size for the extension itself is a fraction of that, but I won't bother measuring. It was downloaded 400 times over the last minute (there is a live counter on the extension page [0]).<p>[0] <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...</a><p>That's a 25MB/s or 200Mb/s bandwidth, for one of the most popular extensions. Multiply by the top 10 extensions and you get the bandwidth of an average home optic fiber connection...</p>
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<p>Disregard the obvious environmental risks of spraying silver iodide in the air, cloud seeding will artificially redirect rainfall in specific areas, which may deprive downstream regions of water, harming biodiversity. Note that cloud seeding is currently used for drought management, not global warming mitigation.</p>
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<p>I don't think a battery swap is more dangerous than the current fuel stations where you can just use your lighter and set everything on fire</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:53:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263974</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:02:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791089</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Tesla now focusing more on developing self-driving vehicles than on pushing for huge growth in EV sales volume, which many investors had been counting on.<p>Yep, don't count on Tesla for replacing fossil fuel cars. They had a good headstart but hopefully other manufacturers will now take its place to fill growing demand</p>
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<p>And remember that the Cybertruck is steer by wire. The software controls the entire car, and it also happens that the software just randomly crashes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084971</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Safe (locked) bike parks are popping up everywhere in Paris</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:42:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771141</link><dc:creator>mrpopo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrpopo in "Genetically engineering koji mold to create a meat alternative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mold is used on dozen varieties of cheese, on cured meats like salami, in Asian cuisine (Tempeh/Oncom, miso paste, soy sauce).<p>More generally, fermentation and bacteria are essential to most cuisines in the world.<p>If you feel put off by the idea of eating mold, I feel sad for your taste buds.</p>
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<p>I want a "Netflix of information". Let me pay 30€/month for unlimited information access, quality, no clickbait and no ads.<p>Of course, seeing what happens with Netflix now, I guess it wouldn't last long until things turn back to the old way...</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i-MiEV" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i-MiEV</a><p>Max speed is told to be 130km/h but I'm pretty sure I drove my C-zero faster than that without much issue</p>
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<p>"The Great Filter" is the only non-egotistical, and therefore IMO the only valid explanation. Even then, people still believe in egotistical great filters such as global thermonuclear war.<p>We already have evidence of an extinction-level event (Chicxulub impact) 66 million years ago. A strong enough solar flare would eradicate all life in extra-terrestrial colonies. We are just lucky to be alive.</p>
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