<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: reliablereason</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reliablereason</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:22:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reliablereason" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the effect size is big small sample sizes does not matter as much as otherwise.<p>You really have to look at the power analysis and the sample size together.<p>Saying this as a general truth. I am not sure about the power of the method in this papper, i only read the abstract.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887751</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right a very simple UI thing that they should have that would have prevented so much misunderstanding. Is a simple counter. How much usage do a have i used and how much is left.<p>If a message will do a cache recreation the cost for that should be viewable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882668</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly that would be quite good, an intelligent ad remover
that scans the page and the dom for modals and removes them.
Like a classic ad blocking tool on steroids.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:49:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774499</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had it on professional, maybe efficient is better.<p>Um right if they have retention as a training metric that would probably explain allot as to why AIs get worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562836</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure if this is a general trend amongst att LLMS but ChatGPT did over time become more and more affirming with its iterations.<p>I just recently switched away from the OpenAI garden largely because of it.<p>I do wonder if this was caused by some quirk of the training or if it really tests as a positive feature for most people. When i talk about stuff i don't want a mirror i already have a mirror. I want to be questioned, understood, helped.<p>To me support if the form of affirmation has no value when coming from an LLM since you know it has not thought about what it said.</p>
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<p>No but it is a behaviourally defined disorder like autism. Which means it can and has many different causal patterns behind it.<p>That is there are many different things that can cause the behaviour.<p>Anyway on your main point, the definition of all psychiatric disorders has requirements of subjective suffering. So if you don't have subjective suffering you don't have the disorder.</p>
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<p>Well they are Swedish here it is like a daughter company or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375511</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing in particular, based on my understanding CGI a Swedish IT consultant company was hacked, they have contracts for and are the maintainers and developers of a bunch of various government departments IT services.</p>
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<p>The amount of people that seam to react negatively to living brain cells doing the computation is unexpected to me.<p>I do understand where it comes from to some extent.. some idea that human cells are special i guess, but it seams very naive to me. We spawn, use and kill far more complex AI agents millions if not billions of times every second in this society.<p>No one gives a shit, as those intelligences are not "real" or whatever.. or they are not "conscious" but conscious is a fictional word without an actual definition. In the end i think it comes down to suffering.<p>No one knows if some internal part in a LLM is suffering just as no one knows if a cell culture with brain cells like this can suffer.</p>
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<p>> It is given as a nasal spray and leaves white blood cells in our lungs – called macrophages – on "amber alert" and ready to jump into action no matter what infection tries to get in.<p>Right and if that is such a good thing why are those macrophages not always on alert. I smell longterm cancer or similar.</p>
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<p>Well it is largely genetic, but it could still be behaviourally linked for sure.<p>As i see it the fundamental issue in dyslexia has to do with tokenization and embedding.<p>The dyslexic brain uses a embedding space that is not very fit for purpose.<p>Some stuff that is dissimilar get embedded close to each other and some things that should be far from each other gets embedded close to each other.<p>Downstream networks that try to use these embeddings has a hard time trying to counteract the bad embeddings. The final result is a dyslexic person.</p>
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<p>Um right did not think of that, if you burn a organism you get to core components but the organism was not originally made of the core components.<p>The core idea was not generated from a chat bot. Neither was the article i gave (that was my own googling).<p>The core idea (that there is a requirement and a availability of energy that may differ) was generated from my brain not that i personally think the origin of an idea matters to its value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081516</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If i understand that correctly the "energy required to grow" would be bigger than the "enthalpy of formation"?<p>I hear you.<p>It was really just food for thought.</p>
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<p>I calculated over 5 days. Which was just a guess.<p>But i focused on the 10% mentioned.<p>That said time could be factored out if you did everything properly.</p>
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<p>Initially i asked a AI for standard values but here is a proper source:<p>- Negentropy concept revisited: Standard thermodynamic properties of 16 bacteria, fungi and algae species ( <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00494" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00494</a>)<p>> Maybe you meant that radiation alone wouldn't be enough for that growth, so there'd be other components that it's helping with.<p>Yes. Clearly it grew as it grew, but the question is what drove/powered the growth.</p>
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<p>I did some basic calculations to compare the energy in the radiation vs the energy required to grow 10% extra.<p>- If we assume they are working in the reactor we get radiation levels of something like 1 mGy/hour. But we can prop this up to mabye 500 mGy/hour since i dont know how they grew their culture<p>- That leads to 0.05 J of extra energy per gram of microbial bio material.<p>- Energy needed to grow 1g of microbial biomaterial ≈ 3.15 kJ
10% of that is 315 J per gram<p>The result is that:<p>The amount of radiation energy available is 4 orders of magnitude too small
to power even a 10% growth boost.<p>Edit: updated with more accurate estimations.</p>
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<p>Yes, its not learned "knowledge" it is evolved. Mammals are born with systems primed to fear things that look like snakes. Not cause their parents learned that snakes are dangerous but cause the parents that was born without those priming circuits died.</p>
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<p>All research points to ADHD having multiple causes. Each case will have a specific causal pattern. This makes sense as it is a diagnosis defined by symptoms. Same with autism.</p>
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<p>Attachment Styles is a very low dimensional way of observing something that has very high dimensionally.<p>When people use this type of dimensionality reduction you get problematic outcomes.<p>This type of phenomena will always keep happening. The world is complex and perceptually high dimensional. We try to understand it(the world) using low dimensional concepts and when those low dimensional concepts have low validity issues arise.</p>
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<p>they say it is it's cause its greener but they could have used a website.</p>
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