derbOac

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by derbOac 11mo ago
> they are signals, distinct packets of information That's an idealized assumption. Real world economics is full of deceptive signalling and false information. I'm not sure binary free markets or not is the right framing anyway
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by derbOac 11mo ago
As a parent it would be nice to have a better sense of what the book is like — I'm always interested in different ways of explaining concepts to people for the first time, especially kids, but without seeing the content it's impos
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Interesting read. Framing things as a "cultic relationship" makes a lot of sense to me. The part about using your experience as a basis of truth determination being flawed and a source of vulnerability also was pretty insightful.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
That or something like Matrix, although I use Signal myself. This thread was depressing to me — I can't believe we're still dealing with the lack of a truly open near universally used secure messaging system.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
That's the thing. If they've identified some tiny percent of fraud, investigate that. Implement policy or protocol changes to prevent it from happening again in the future. Requiring everyone to reapply on top of whatever else the
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Something that struck me when I was looking at the clocks is that we know what a clock is supposed to look and act like. What about when we don't know what it's supposed to look like? Lately I've been wrestling with the fac
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Oldest RNA Ever Recovered Captures a Woolly Mammoth's Dying Moments(gizmodo.com)
2 points by derbOac 11mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 11mo ago
I was wondering about Briar... seems maybe like reinventing the same thing over again although I assume there's some important functional difference I'm not thinking of.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Why should that mean anyone else should lose control of their device? Maybe at some point you have to accept that it's the user's responsibility? Maybe empower users to be aware of what the apps they install are doing, without tak
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Why Don't People Return Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation(behavioralscientist.org)
4 points by derbOac 11mo ago|3 comments
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by derbOac 11mo ago
I have lots of thoughts about this. I never like to see the price of something increase, and the reasons for the increase in this case are not anything anyone wants. On the other hand, for me personally I feel like chocolate is far too prev
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Interesting read and interesting links. The entry asks "why the square root?" On seeing it, I immediately noticed that with log-likelihood as the loss function, the whitening metric looks a lot like the Jeffreys prior or an approx
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by derbOac 11mo ago
This was interesting to read but didn't pass the sniff test for me. I strongly believe there are secular trends in sexual and gender identity, and it's worth noting that the trends they discuss — real or spurious — predated the cu
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by derbOac 11mo ago
I admit I'm not knowledgeable about this law but as it's written it seems fairly meaningless to me, as it could be interpreted in many different ways, and the exclusion is a hole you could drive a metaphorical truck through.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Sometimes I think the way this type of thing is framed is misleading. There's a list of putative causes of death and there's an assumption that they're equally systemically impactful, and you can go down the list and just low
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by derbOac 11mo ago
I've lectured about this. It's an underrecognized issue, at least in the US. When you look at rates of PTSD by profession worldwide, train conductors are surprisingly high on the list. There's the accidents, but suicide invol
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Irony is fertile material for comedians and psychoanalysts alike.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Maybe I'm in the minority, but with ad blockers I never see ads on Reddit. I honestly don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit at all, with a tiny exception for ads for other Reddit offerings, which is very recent for me. N
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Not meaning to sound too critical because it's cool but there's so little information here it's hard to interpret? I'm kinda wondering about the nature of discrepancies between the inferred and actual images, and what th
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Unable to delete messages (Google backup)(old.reddit.com)
1 points by derbOac 11mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Meta-analysis suggests flossing doesn't affect tooth decay. But it does seem to prevent gum disease.
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Both are correct, at least according to my memory: you used to be able to read tweets without an account, but that stopped, and it stopped before Musk took over. There were similar trends at other social media sites that happened around the
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by derbOac 11mo ago
Here on HN we talk about models, and rightfully so. Elsewhere though people talk about AI, which has a different set of assumptions. It's worth noting too that how we talk about and use AI models is very different from how we talk abou
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by derbOac 1y ago
See also "taxicab theory". I wish I could upvote you more. Speaking from experience gained the hard way, I thing compatibility matters a lot. But it's hard to measure and probably includes a lot of physical stuff like chemist
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by derbOac 1y ago
They couldn't answer the question most on my mind: "We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this ar
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by derbOac 1y ago
The essay links to this study, so yes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29741239/ I was a bit confused about why it would matter, but then realized I brush, then floss, then use a fluoride rinse, which isn't really
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by derbOac 1y ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 1y ago
Yeah I saw that... maybe I should amend it to say "every other time", or "whenever these claims are made without a caveat or exception". I'd edit it but will leave it there because you highlighted this mistake in my
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by derbOac 1y ago
Glad to see this study, seems decent, but for a different perspective there was a relatively recent meta-analysis on the effectiveness of Vitamin D for RIs that suggested no effect: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la
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by derbOac 1y ago
Is there a good text on random number generation that someone on HN can recommend? I've read about various generators, pseudorandom and truly random, but those have always been scattered across various places, and I'm wondering if

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