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reliablereason··on ERP Therapy Sucks
You cant erase a memory, once you have it you have it. This means that no matter how many other memories you add too to morph and alter the original, the original will allays be there in one form or another.

But people can go from debilitating OCD (meaning hours a day), to a state where they only think about the thing once a week. It might (and probably will) poop up later in life but even so with such a difference i would call that cured.

reliablereason··on 3D tracking will never be the same again [video]
COLMAP has been the same for years. It is technically better than most commercial tracking software. But it is buggy(or the gui is) and complicated to use due to strange input and output formats as well as very awkward gui workflow.

There are even better software like mega-sam https://github.com/mega-sam/mega-sam.

And there are wrappers around mega-sam that makes (almost) perfect tracking of any moving video in to a single command. A command that outputs industry standard .abc files as output.

You also have the recently released https://github.com/nv-tlabs/vipe it does not export as .abc but the tracking looks very good.

reliablereason··on QUIC for the kernel
That depends on how much data you are pushing. if you are pushing 200 mb on a 100mb line you will get 50% packet loss.
reliablereason··on How we rooted Copilot
Don't really seam to be a vulnerability?

The safety in the system is that the code is executed in a container.

reliablereason··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Probably depends on where you live, or some other thing apple knows about you.
reliablereason··on The first non-opoid painkiller
Given how scared people are of "addiction" the seller certainly would like that narrative and it might make sense from a withdrawal perspective. Which in turn has an effect on how addictive a drug is to a very large degree.
reliablereason··on The first non-opoid painkiller
Operant conditioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning

There are also lots of studies indicating that the speed of action of a drug is important for addiction. Which essentially boils down to the fact that the brain (beeing effected by operant conditioning) needs a drug response that is sufficiently noticeable to be connected to the action of taking the drug.

reliablereason··on The first non-opoid painkiller
According to our psychological theories any sufficiently fast acting and strong painkiller will be addictive as long as it removes or reduces any type of pain.

Seams strange if this one truly will not have "drug abuse" connected to it.

reliablereason··on Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs
Seams reasonable that it would probably form in the same way that it forms in the embryo. But i guess it would depend on how we manage to convince the body to do this.
reliablereason··on Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of the Universe's Missing Matter
I want to hear what Sabine Hossenfelder says. I trust that she will say her honest truth.
reliablereason··on Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear
I have heard people say that eating fibers together with fructose(like when eating a apple) reduces the impact of fructose, as fibers create a lining on the gut wall reducing the absorption rate.

Sounds reasonable. But i have had a hard time finding evidence verifying that hypotesis.

reliablereason··on Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear
You say sugar, but are you referring to glucose or fructose?

There is a meaningful amount of scientific literature connecting fructose and inflammation.

The AVERAGE human can only digest about 30g of fructose a day. Some substantially more, some substantially less.

A can of soda or three apples is about 30g of fructose.

Inflammation (high- and low grade)then being a second step linking to anxiety.

reliablereason··on Root shell on a credit card terminal
Hopefully the important private keys that is used to identify the terminal are erased when the tamper is activated.
reliablereason··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
Looks like the example video is extremely expensive. It racks up almost 2$ of usage in about a minute.
reliablereason··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
The security is in the fact that you cant just list every single user and all their info. You would need to scrape the info.

A URL with a cryptic file name is theoretically just as secure as a a random password.

reliablereason··on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
I wonder if that is a "Genuine question"..

"military grade" is often used as a marketing term used for things that pretend to be built to be extra strong.

In this case it is a stupid term to use to describe a firewall cause a firewall either works or it does not.

reliablereason··on Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
The only entities that could use such a thing are major streaming platforms, and projects trying to stream copyrighted content without consent.

The former don't want to use it as it degrades their control over the content, and the later don't want to make a new system cause systems that are built on torrents are good enough.

reliablereason··on Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes
How come almost all humans live longer than dogs then. Dogs don't smoke and they are very physically active, yet they generally die before the age of 20*.

The article is a based on a over generalisation from study results that are not applicable in the way that the article claims.

*The dog metaphor is sort of a joke, but it is true for the human case to, due to the fact that you cant factor out the genetic "effect" on behaviour.... ie. behaviour and genes are too intertwined to separate from each other. Smokers smoke in part cause they have the genes that make them more likely to smoke (or exercise, or overeat, or do whatever; just pick any example that is unhealthy).

reliablereason··on Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?
Sounds like people don't feel that you are adding things of value. Which might mean that you have low social value(ie people don't want to put in effort in to being your friend). Or it might mean that you are talking about things that people feel is irrelevant. Or maybe some combination of those things.

Since you are having this issue with your wife you should ask your wife, hopefully she might have the guts to tell you her real honest opinion on the matter.

reliablereason··on Unique killer whale pod may have acquired special skills to hunt whale sharks
Maybe it is an instinct, an instinct in the same way we humans tend to not eat rotten meat or maggots in wounds. But humans have not been around for so long so I am not sure how deep such an instinct might be. Maybe it is a preference for "seafood".

Or they understand that we are dangerous to have as enemies. Either through recent observation or through some type of communication that has been passed down through the generations. It is not that long ago since we stoped killing killer whales; less than a hundred years, some of them might have been alive and still remember.

There are records of untrained killer whales hunting together with humans; so some of them certainly understand what we are capable of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_(orca)

reliablereason··on Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)
use this instead: ffmpeg -i original.wav -i decoded.wav -filter_complex "[1:a]aresample=async=1,volume=-1.0[inverted];[0:a][inverted]amix=inputs=2:weights=1 1" difference.wav

But honestly the only thing you get is something that subjectively sounds exactly the same, but lower volume. Probably due to the fact that subjective sound experience is more related to the fourier transform of the waves than it is to the waves themselves.

reliablereason··on Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)
You can try it yourself:

ffmpeg -i original.wav -codec:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k output.mp3 && \

ffmpeg -i output.mp3 decoded.wav && \

ffmpeg -i original.wav -i decoded.wav -filter_complex "[1:a]aresample=async=1,volume=-1.0[inverted];[0:a][inverted]amix=inputs=2:weights=1 1" difference.wav

reliablereason··on Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?
There is the NOVA system used to classify food where category 4 is ultra processed food:

Monteiro, C., Cannon, G., Lawrence, M., Louzada, M. L., & Machado, P. (2019). FAO. Ultra- processed foods, diet quality, and health using the NOVA classification system.

But to add to that.. ultra processing is not the issue in itself (well not if you use the definition as described in the NOVA system), the issue is certain steps or ingredients used in certain types of ultra processed foods. So blaming "ultra processing" is technically an over generalisation.

reliablereason··on The Static Site Paradox
What?

A static website is a website that has no server side generation. That's how simple it is.

reliablereason··on New Laser Could Cram GPS Alternative into a Shoebox
I would assume that the refrigerator sized ones are definitely already in submarines.
reliablereason··on ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day
How can something that feels like nothing change how you feel and act?

The answer: It can't, electrocuting your brain might work for some types of ADHD (maybe for example for the people who have a type of ADHD caused by tight cranial muscles).

But I severely doubt it will cure ADHD caused by more complex things like inflammation or genetic changes to dopamine synapses or one of the other (uncountable many) reasons that can be behind an individuals ADHD symptoms.

reliablereason··on What makes e natural? (2004)
The simplest way that I could put it using words is:

The number is what it is cause it's "increment of increment" is the same as it's "increment" when you are using exponentiation.

reliablereason··on Parable of the Sofa
Personally I have always attributed my tendency of that to the fact that I sit on chairs or at a table when I talk about these types of things. So they are convenient examples to use in the moment, examples of objects that people have a good understanding of (or so they think).
reliablereason··on (Tesla) has twice attempted to drive directly into a train while in FSD mode
I would not trust something that drives as fast as that car does in that type of fog.

But I trust my open pilot device, but a large part of that is that I can see on the screen actually what it intends to do.

reliablereason··on AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
Would be very useful if one they used it to predict the structure and interaction of the known variants to.

Would be very helpful when predicting if a mutation on a protein would lead to loss of function for the protein.

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