Hacker News: reltnekhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reltnekHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:53:07 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by reltnek in "How do wombats poop cubes? (2021)"]]>The old toxicology proverb is: "The dose makes the poison"

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:00:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759459reltnekhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759459https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759459<![CDATA[New comment by reltnek in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"]]>I think this might be conflating confidence with accuracy. I tried leaving the slider the the middle (nominally the least confident position) and it gave a score of 0.25 and diagnosed it as 'overconfident'.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:36:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666687reltnekhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666687https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666687