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thewanderer1983··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)
Australian Government did something similar for woman a few years back. The research of which set the foundation for it being assigned national security importance. During that research they found these men issues as detailed here in this article. No action was taken. Only on how it affected woman. Now some action has started, hopefully Canada doing something about it will push them to do more.
thewanderer1983··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Top post on /r/cryptocurrency Good to see all these organic posts across social media.

MelangeBot OP • 2h ago Their insurance fund (SAFU) is completely wiped out, it's only $1 billion in BTC

The name of the fund was originally inspired by this meme

FWIW, at the end of every crypto bear market, a CEX usually blows up (eg FTX)...

thewanderer1983··on Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
It is right. Read about Able Archer 83.
thewanderer1983··on Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
As someone who is old enough to remember the start of Wikipedia. Academia originally had issue with wikipedia due to the lack of academic oversight and therefore didn't allow it in citation for academic work. Now they have to defend it?
thewanderer1983··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
> they will find other solutions like mass arson.

Or the more likely option is they will no longer do investment properties as the return it too low vs the risk.

thewanderer1983··on Attention is all you have
I noticed the Tetris effect when watching Lex Fridman interviews with Academics. Every expert saw the universe through that lens and thought it was the most significant and most interesting way to look at everything.
thewanderer1983··on Measure internet censorship
Not just reddit mods. Google 2013 Eglin Air Force Base incident reddit.
thewanderer1983··on A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on
Do you know how humans run stop lights and kill people, how does it compare?
thewanderer1983··on RF Cafe
Reminds me of the early 90's internet I used to browse. Filled with people obsessed with tech and zero politics. I miss that internet.
thewanderer1983··on Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe
And here I thought this was the biggest 2D map.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/a-logarithmic-map-of-...

thewanderer1983··on Cyberpunk Video Games
A couple more worth mentioning. Beneath a steel sky, flashback.
thewanderer1983··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
This academic publish and industry doesn't is an incorrect view. Academics also hold off from publishing groundbreaking science in order to protect their research edge. You shouldn't see this as industry bad as driven by profits and academia is free from career incentives and money.
thewanderer1983··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured. What took this industry decades to advance it taking months in AI. Think the spaghetti Will Smith and now this. Another one people don't mention here but is specific to video is higgsfield ai.
thewanderer1983··on Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Guzzles or sensibly sips?
thewanderer1983··on The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Yes the complete lack of geography in the article should of raised red flags for people.
thewanderer1983··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
My original specialist wasn't very engaged with my condition. I was getting the same speech every six month visit. On my last meeting she incorrectly stated a condition I wasn't having with bleeding. My wife had a thyroid issue a number of years ago including cancer growth on it. Her first specialist was using older techniques for her treatment. We ended up going to another specialist who's focus of research was her condition. It was worlds better. Given that experience I decided to find another specialist who focused on my condition.

The first specialist ( hematologist) was referred from local GP. She is a a hematologist, but she wasn't focused on MPNs.

I recommend joining your local MPN alliance to keep up with what's going on in this field. I also recommend finding a specialist with a focus on MPNs. Looks at their papers or listed focus.

thewanderer1983··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
I was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) which is part of a group of diseases called myeloproliferative neoplasms. This happened about three years ago. Recently, I decided to get a second opinion and my new specialist changed my diagnosis from ET to Polycythemia Vera (PV). She also highly recommended I quickly go and give blood to lower my haematocrit levels as it put me at a much higher risk of a blood clot. This is standard practice for people with PV but not people with ET. I decided to put the details into google AI in the same way that the original specialist used to diagnose me. Google AI predicted I very likely had PV instead of ET. I also asked Google AI how one could misdiagnose my condition with ET instead of PV and google correctly explained how. My specialist had used my high platelet count and blood test that came back with a JAK2 mutation then after a bone marrow biopsy to incorrectly diagnose me with ET. My high hemoglobin levels should of been checked by my first specialist as an indication of PV not ET. Only the second specialist picked up on this. Google AI took five seconds, and is free. The specialists costs $$$ and took weeks.
thewanderer1983··on New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Here is the translation from the article. Which is slightly different from what is listed below in the comments.

Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord. He established a beginning. He first shaped for men's sons Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator; then middle-earth mankind's guardian, eternal Lord, afterwards prepared the earth for men, the Lord almighty.

thewanderer1983··on LittleSnitch for Linux
Thanks for the response. Sorry I should of been less vague. Paqet works on raw sockets with KCP. Though it's intended for good. What's to assume bad actors aren't also using this method to get around solutions like littlesnitch?

A recent example, but not the only is a Iran a botnet, using this to get around detection.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/iran-linked-botnet-exposed-aft...

thewanderer1983··on LittleSnitch for Linux
Does little snitch and similar software work against solutions like Paqet?

https://github.com/hanselime/paqet

thewanderer1983··on Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
Have you considered including Gemini and gopher support? There is a very nice small web community there.
thewanderer1983··on New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight
Yep.
thewanderer1983··on GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
I was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) which is part of a group of diseases called myeloproliferative neoplasms. This happened about three years ago. Recently, I decided to get a second opinion and my new specialist changed my diagnosis from ET to Polycythemia Vera (PV). She also highly recommended I quickly go and give blood to lower my haematocrit levels as it put me at a much higher risk of a blood clot. This is standard practice for people with PV but not people with ET. I decided to put the details into google AI in the same way that the original specialist used to diagnose me. Google AI predicted I very likely had PV instead of ET. I also asked Google AI how one could misdiagnose my condition with ET instead of PV and google correctly explained how. My specialist had used my high platelet count and blood test that came back with a JAK2 mutation then after a bone marrow biopsy to incorrectly diagnose me with ET. My high hemoglobin levels should of been checked by my first specialist as an indication of PV not ET. Only the second specialist picked up on this. Google AI took five seconds, and is free. The specialists costs $$$ and took weeks.

But yeah AI slop and all that...

thewanderer1983··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
did “not impact the main text, analyses, or findings.”

Made me think of the black spoon error being off by a factor of 10 and the author also said it didn't impact the main findings.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/13/how-a-simp...

thewanderer1983··on Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales
How about some local performance that recreated shoes from the Victorian period. That ended up in the ocean?
thewanderer1983··on Global Village Construction Set
Someone only has to take part in a makerspace to see tragedy of the commons in action.
thewanderer1983··on Choose Your Own Adventure
Interactive Fiction still exists and is being actively developed. Check out the top games on Interactive Fiction DB. https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=1lv599reviaxvwo7
thewanderer1983··on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
>Peer review isn't spellcheck or proofreading.

>It's about logic, methodology, significance, and citations

To quote kazinator in this thread. "The typo is not the problem; it's that the typo is evidence of academic dishonesty.

When you make a citation, it means you cracked open the original work, understood what it says and located a relevant passage to reference in your work.

The authors are propagating the same typo because they are not copying the original correct text; they are just copying ready-made citations of that text which they plant into their papers to manufacture the impression that they are surveying other work in their area and taking it into account when doing their work."

>It's not some gold standard of perfection or truth.

"Gold standard" is a term used within the scientific community to describe the high rigor expected within the scientific community when doing research. One of the processes they hold up in this standard is Peer Review. I wasn't making some general public statement about perfection. Google "Gold Peer Review Gold Standard".

thewanderer1983··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Go here. https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues

Very helpful community.

thewanderer1983··on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
Similiar tech was used for screeners to try and track leakers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener_(promotional) Printer Tracking dots is another example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

For those interested in modern solutions. Look at watermark researchpapers.r

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