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The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

Riseed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:11:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766026

Points: 195

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New comment by Riseed in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

Riseed — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:02:14 +0000

Disease can change body odor, and dogs have been trained to "sniff out disease" [0][1] (i.e. detect via smell) for years. Various researchers have been working on robot noses that would be able to do the same.[2] Presumably a widespread and/or less expensive version of this "robot nose" is what doku means by "AI nose sniffs out many common diseases".

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01629-8

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-do-dogs-sn...

[2] https://bigthink.com/the-future/robotic-nose-smartphone-dete...

New comment by Riseed in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Riseed — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:45:02 +0000

> it seems like some will choose to work and pay taxes in order that someone who is able but unwilling to work can have better housing and food than they do

This is certainly possible because it already happens now with the current setup.

New comment by Riseed in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Riseed — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:03:20 +0000

As I said, I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

Yes, I believe people should have food and water sufficient for survival regardless of their ability to work.

New comment by Riseed in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Riseed — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:44:09 +0000

I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

The government can work to provide the medication that its citizens require to stay alive. Under such a system, those who are able and willing to work can, via taxes or other contributions, provide medications that some citizens require to stay alive. Many such systems seem to cost less overall than the system currently existing in the United States, so the average man who will work will have to work fewer hours to pay for an average dose of average quality anything required to stay alive.

Alternatively or in tandem, the pharmaceutical companies can sell such medications at cost, with rebates and coupons for no/low-income patients, while still making plenty of profit on reasonably priced pharmaceuticals that patients do not technically require to survive.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)...

https://www.house.mn.gov/Caucus/View/DFL/31433

New comment by Riseed in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Riseed — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:26:09 +0000

I don’t think the average man should have to work any hours to pay for an average monthly dose of average quality anything that they require to stay alive. Perhaps I’m insane.

New comment by Riseed in "Even Oprah Is Struggling to Navigate the Ozempic Era"

Riseed — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:33:58 +0000

https://archive.is/vtbh9

Email Reply to All: 'Leave Me Alone' (2007)

Riseed — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:18:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402258.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089403

Points: 3

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New comment by Riseed in "What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues"

Riseed — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 01:08:44 +0000

> Honestly don’t bother with canned O2. It is not 100% pure, which is an absolute necessity, and they don’t deliver nearly the quantity you need to knock out a cluster

They definitely don't knock out the cluster, but do seem to slightly lessen the pain in minutes. I wish triptans helped, but no luck yet with any we've tried.

Thanks for the help with O2 :)

New comment by Riseed in "What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues"

Riseed — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:33:10 +0000

(not the person to whom you were replying)

Hello, fellow clusterhead! May I ask how you obtained 100% O2? Insurance won't cover it because I have no respiratory issues, and medical supply companies won't talk to me because of insurance denial, even with valid rx. In the meantime, I've been using the canned O2 from sports stores, which is expensive and seems unnecessarily wasteful.

The iOS to GrapheneOS Migration Guide and Review

Riseed — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/06/the-ultimate-ios-to-grapheneos-migration-guide-and-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587803

Points: 4

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New comment by Riseed in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

Riseed — Tue, 28 May 2024 02:16:00 +0000

Yep. And something "made fast" is also perfectly reasonable usage for vastly upgrading its speed. "Fast" can absolutely be a contronym.

New comment by Riseed in "I'm a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn't Believe My $10k Medical Bill"

Riseed — Mon, 20 May 2024 02:05:03 +0000

Related article quote about a bear attack: "Literally, as I was being eaten by a wild beast, I wasn't thinking about Jesus or my family or my son. I was thinking my insurance was not going to pay for this," she told The Independent. "I had to make this calculus as I was being eaten, 'Do I want to survive this?' Not, 'Can I survive this?' Not, 'What am I going to look like?'" [0]

In an AMA, she said that the worst part of the bear attack wasn't the bear attack, but dealing with her health insurance. [1]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1byn1l/i_was_mauled_b...

New comment by Riseed in "Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters"

Riseed — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:13:56 +0000

I've lived in places where the "ice event" that caused the power to go out was freezing rain. That kind of ice can make trees heavy enough to lose limbs into power lines and makes roads slick enough for vehicles to crash into transformers and power poles (hence the power outages), without outdoor temperatures necessarily being cold enough to preserve frozen goods and without there being enough easily available ice outside (e.g. ~.5cm covering on all surfaces) to bring inside for stuffing the freezer.

New comment by Riseed in "New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8"

Riseed — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:56:56 +0000

Yes, they're commonly used as "starter" credit cards, to increase credit score. I presume they also come with the other benefits of a credit card, such as the amount of security deposit required when renting a car, as well as fraud and chargeback liabilities and timelines.

New comment by Riseed in "Homeless Mortality Data"

Riseed — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:17:03 +0000

I am not the commenter to whom you’re replying. But for what it’s worth, I regularly “actually encounter[]” homeless people, and personally interact with at least a few of them multiple times per week. My image of them is neither abstract nor idealistic. I agree with what deepspace wrote.

New comment by Riseed in "Most people with addiction simply grow out of it (2014)"

Riseed — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:06:22 +0000

> Can you show us a single example of someone who destroyed their life because they couldn't stop counting their steps?

‘I Am Obsessed With Taking 100,000 Steps A Day,’ Woman Says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkhD0Lo-fxk

New comment by Riseed in "Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid"

Riseed — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:34:42 +0000

Not the user who made the original report, but I had the same problem. I got stuck on the second mine because the tutorial textbox covered that shape and so I couldn’t flag the mine.

iPhone SE, Safari

New comment by Riseed in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"

Riseed — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:45:24 +0000

Every SD-accepting phone I’ve had has had a cap on the capacity card it would accept. Not sure whether that’s the norm or if I didn’t buy the right phones.

New comment by Riseed in "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?"

Riseed — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 04:13:46 +0000

Not the person you asked, but yes. My not-logged-in recommendations are scarily great. They’re excellent (better than my logged-in recommendations, as of my last check) on the non-incognito browser on one machine, and merely very good on the incognito browser on the other machine.