ownlife

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by ownlife 4mo ago
There's no "getting elections right"; these models just estimate probability. They gave Trump a 29% change in 2016 -- that's almost 1 in 3! A better way to assess accuracy would be to bin predictions (0-10% chance, 10-20
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by ownlife 4mo ago
How can we jump to that conclusion? Maybe they were only willing to interfere in that process in extreme cases.
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by ownlife 4mo ago
Many things are the truth, so it's really a question of framing. Another truth: humans have done reversible and irreversible damage to their natural environment; they can collectively reverse some of the damage and prevent further reve
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by ownlife 4mo ago
Why shouldn't infinite growth be possible?
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by ownlife 4mo ago
You want to the documentary to end with David Attenborough saying that it is too late to revert the destruction of natural habitat?
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by ownlife 5mo ago
Arguably, it devalues this list of books because it calls into question its credibility and its author's seriousness.
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by ownlife 5mo ago
Kettle? Cattle?
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Misattribution of Arousal(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ownlife 7mo ago|1 comments
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either(newyorker.com)
2 points by ownlife 7mo ago|0 comments
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Anthropic's plan to scan and dispose of books(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by ownlife 8mo ago|5 comments
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Joan Didion: Only Disconnect(writing.upenn.edu)
4 points by ownlife 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ownlife 8mo ago
> Why is that? It's a fair question. I think most of those students would answer that they are protesting the US government's complicity in this particular injustice -- which doesn't apply to the other injustices you lis
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Dartmouth Announces AI Partnership with Anthropic and AWS(home.dartmouth.edu)
3 points by ownlife 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ownlife 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One(nytimes.com)
3 points by ownlife 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ownlife 10mo ago
Surprising how little he's in the office - it probably only works since he’s already a CEO who does a lot of stuff, is beloved, etc
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by ownlife 10mo ago
This is a great development -- it's surprisingly difficult to high quality scans of a lot of Escher's work.
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Illuminations of a 3D Alphabet(gnsi.org)
1 points by ownlife 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ownlife 1y ago
Did Jimmy Kimmel celebrate the assassination? (He did not.)
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by ownlife 1y ago
counterpoint: I’m surprised “delulu” wasn’t already in OED and certainly would not consider it “cutting edge” slang in 2025 (quite the opposite). Just because one person hasn’t heard certain words doesn’t mean they don’t belong in what is m
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Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API(ch.at)
269 points by ownlife 1y ago|72 comments
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by ownlife 1y ago
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408423
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by ownlife 1y ago
Are most submissions here news stories?
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by ownlife 2y ago
Huh? It’s evidence-based speculation. Of course it’s conceivable that a 68-year-old would have less concerns about putting her career on the line. I’m trying to understand how you think a conversation on HN should operate
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by ownlife 2y ago
"The basic, domestic quality thermionic tubes have codes for a projected life span of either 1500 (6Н3П-Е) or only 500 hours (6Н3П). Many were used and then stored for over 50 years, quality stamps may have been accidentally altered, s
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by ownlife 2y ago
Are there any polling experts you recommend over him?
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At Justice Alito's House, a 'Stop the Steal' Symbol on Display(nytimes.com)
6 points by ownlife 2y ago|0 comments
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by ownlife 2y ago
Why is the NY Times afraid to namedrop XKCD :( https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by ownlife 2y ago
I don’t think the takeaway from the Dunning-Kruger effect is "don’t invoke basic aspects of human nature on internet discussion forums unless you’re a trained academic psychologist"
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by ownlife 2y ago
7 out of 24 - just under 1/3 - making it to or past 88 is probably higher than average. More also made it past 88 but are dead now.

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