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A computer scientist/electrical engineer who is arrogant? I dunno, I need to see the statistical test to believe that's possible.

"Puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements, she said, most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began. “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles."

You get a null effect for psychological treatment if the group you are treating is, psychologically speaking, already equal to the control.

Puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements, she said, most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began. “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Ok so there was no "improvement" because they were doing fine already. What's the problem here?

Yeah it's your lack of insight and your projection of your own psychology onto others

This is great for game making! Thank you!

To work on customers who are interested in over-the-counter hearing aids

Sounds like someone is interested in some classic Shannon.

Prediction and Entropy of Printed English, Shannon 1951 https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/shannon_51.pdf

Why do you feel the need to police people asking technical questions on HN under a "Ask HN" tag?

Can you define "open-source aesthetic"?

You might be interested in Semantra: https://github.com/freedmand/semantra

This is nuts and I love it. Great work!

Old Haidt piece. Wonder why it's getting traction this year.

Because HN loves Sabine H.

If you just want semantic search, check out Semantra: https://github.com/freedmand/semantra

If you read the paper, nothing has changed. They still depend on the target talker not having competing co located sounds or voice.

Interested to try it out. I've been using https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin

I think you missed my point that the idea of a "feed" being something scholars need is not really clear. It is more that a feed is something that website developers know how to make

Huh. You know, I think HackerNews folks must approach literature searches and reading academic papers differently from the scholarly world at large. I can't think of any of my colleagues who would be looking for an algorithmically driven feed of papers to peruse. Usually we have specific questions we are trying to answer in research.

Cool! It's a fun challenge to come up with a meaningful hint system. Here's mine from 2022:

https://greatfilter.itch.io/lexicode

Supposed evidence of the harmfulness of cannabis compared to alcohol shows that cannabis absolutely deserves to be OTC and available for recreational use. Popular sentiment is popular precisely because the supposed harm has never materialized to the point of justifying the paternalistic and authoritarian control of social groups who tend to use cannabis.

Yeah when you use OpenAI you are giving them free labor for data curation.

You are exhausted. That doesn't mean the concern isn't well considered by those who are presenting it. The problem is your emotional fatigue, not that people are insufficiently "circumspect".

That is a very tiny latent space. Wow!

There is no algorithm for truth.

Astronomers hate this one weird business trick.

This is exactly correct! It's an asymmetrical accountability mechanism.

Well done discussion of the issues. This is correct in broad strokes. Knowledge is not a static consumable transmitted in journal articles. Science is a social dance, and it's the movement and process that's important. This kind of "knowledge extraction" would be like analyzing song lyrics to try to understand why people dance.

Totally agree. Cochrane is a dinosaur and can do more harm than good.

Protecting service members is a real challenge. I have a couple of papers investigating hearing protection and voice use in noisy military environments.

https://journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/abstract/2021/11000/eva...

In this study, we evaluated whether an extended-wear hearing aid could feasibly work as a hearing protection device. There were some issues, especially comfort, but perhaps once those issues are solved, extended-wear hearing aids might be a way to protect hearing while still enabling people to hear important situational and environmental sounds even if they have some hearing loss.

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00150

In this study we found an important effect of noise exposures and temporary threshold shifts on voice problems among service members. To quote myself:

"A fourth hypothesis is that the relationship between voice concerns, hearing difficulties, and TTS arises from the trade-offs of wearing hearing protection in high-level noise environments. The use of hearing protection presents a challenge when selecting an appropriate vocal loudness level for effective communication (Brungart et al., 2012; Vaziri, 2018). In particular, individuals who wear hearing protection in high-noise environments tend to speak quietly, making them difficult to understand. People may overcompensate by talking too loudly (placing their vocal health at risk) or by removing their hearing protection so they can communicate more effectively (thus increasing TTS and placing their hearing at risk)."

Published in 2016