djannzjkzxn (u/djannzjkzxn)

djannzjkzxn commented on We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/throwaway888abc

bduerst · 6 years ago

Psychedelics can cause HPPD (temporary) and Visual Snow Syndrome (permanent) in people, where they hallucinate while completely sober, sometimes indefinitely for the rest of their lives.

As someone with Visual Snow Syndrome (not contracted from drugs) it is a private living hell that risking it is not worth whatever trade off you get from discovering yourself. This is going to rub some people the wrong way on HN, but until we know more about these neurological conditions, I wouldn't recommend doing these drugs outside of a clinical setting where there are very clear benefits.

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

If you don’t mind me asking, what is hell about visual snow? I have some visual artifacts including snow but they don’t cause any suffering. They are just things I can see that don’t have any emotional significance. I don’t think about them unless my attention is drawn to them somehow. Maybe the snow is more disrupting for you than my artifacts are? Do they limit your ability to perceive the world?

djannzjkzxn commented on 5G and Shannon’s Law waveform.com/blogs/main/5... · Posted by u/sinak

cinquemb · 6 years ago

And yet, somehow, being able to get two collateralized loans for peanuts in value are comparable to being able to get many uncollateralized ones rolled over for years (yes they were junk before covid) for billions…

No gross mis-allocation of resources or moral hazards as far as one eyes can see… surely the companies will use these funds much better this time for capex… lol

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

Total US mortgage debt and corporate debt are around the same size - roughly $15 trillion each. Mortgage and corporate bondholders have both seen principal losses in recent history. Fed support is pushing down both types of rates, and it’s not obvious to me that one is somehow unfairly pushed down more than the other.

djannzjkzxn commented on 5G and Shannon’s Law waveform.com/blogs/main/5... · Posted by u/sinak

cinquemb · 6 years ago

Large cheap loans from the federal reserve only they have access to and you don't.

Also helps when FRBNY in conjunction with the Tresury dept via state street and blackrock is buying their HY bonds (TMUS US87264AAT25 [Ba3], S US85207UAK16 [B1], CTL US156700BC99 [Ba3], LVLT US527298BF96 [Ba3], VOD US92857WBQ24 [Ba1] for just a few examples, all trading way over par) on you, the taxpayers behalf, on leverage, in the secondary market and thus helping to lower their ongoing borrowing costs.

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

Consumers can get a mortgage with 3% interest rate.

djannzjkzxn commented on The May jobs report had “misclassification error,” underreported by 3 points washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/epistasis

coderintherye · 6 years ago

As was March. They have been cooking the books for 3 months now: https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/new-unemploymen...

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

It’s weird to describe it as cooking the books when they are being completely transparent about the issue that is occurring. If they wanted to cook the books all they had to do was leave out the disclaimer.

djannzjkzxn commented on People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds phys.org/news/2020-06-peo... · Posted by u/pseudolus

anoplus · 6 years ago

Doesn't seem perplexing to me either. Humans are tribal and their survival depends on teamwork of about ~100 people or so. This is natural on intimate scale.

What perplexing is to think about how humans can cooperate effectively on a scale of billion people to solve humanity biggest problems.

As we can see, empathy for humans outside of the tribe is limited and so different gangs fight each other, let alone different countries.

Maybe we can think about techniques to create empathy among strangers.

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

If the world is divided into many super-tribes made up of millions of people (based on ethnicity, religion, etc), try to encourage mixture of those super-tribes at school, work, and socially. Then people have a maximum composition of different super-tribes within their personal 100-person tribe. This way people will be less likely to identify everyone from another super-tribe as part of the outgroup.

djannzjkzxn commented on DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches syncedreview.com/2020/06/... · Posted by u/Yuqing7

bencollier49 · 6 years ago

I have one question about this, I'm sure it's completely explainable and honest but it comes across as suspicious.

In the image labelled "Illustration of the model’s deep learning framework architecture", the input face has a strange line drawn underneath the chin. It seems like an odd thing for a human drawer to put in, and makes the person look like they have a double chin.

Yet in the output shown at the end of the pipeline, it appears as a shadow. I didn't go into the article suspicious, but this immediately made me wonder if for some of these sketches, a face to line drawing network was used for some sort of reverse process.

The image does appear in a part of the article discussing their learning methods, though, so I'm probably missing something important. But given that they "are working to release their code" it doesn't really help with confidence.

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

Adding a line where you want there to be a shadow in the output seems like something you could learn from trial and error when messing with a model. It somewhat weakens the accomplishment of the paper if the sketches aren’t drawn by naive users, but it’s a lot more defensible than generating the input like you suggest.

djannzjkzxn commented on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine thelancet.com/lancet/arti... · Posted by u/marvin

elihu · 6 years ago

What did the retracted study say about hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine? Did it claim they were efficacious versus COVID-19, or that they weren't? Or was it something else?

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

This was the original report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

They claimed that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine both caused more deaths. The study claimed a huge effect size (~20% increase in death rate) and a giant sample (14888 treated, 81144 control across 671 hospitals). Despite not being a proper blinded trial, this still appeared to be strong evidence and sufficient to stop any reasonable doctor who heard of this study from giving these drugs to patients. If the evidence was fabricated, that’s a big deal.

djannzjkzxn commented on S&P 500 CEO Pay by Pay Ratio docs.google.com/spreadshe... · Posted by u/kpmcc

missedthecue · 6 years ago

Apples to oranges. You should be considering salary to salary.

If shareholders want to pay their CEO more directly from their pockets in the form of dilution, it doesn't hurt or affect the standard employee in any way.

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

A CEO gets paid in stock, which the company later buys back with cash. Ergo, the CEO getting stock compensation reduced the amount of money available to pay workers.

GAAP requires companies to report stock compensation as an expense because it does actually move wealth around in a zero-sum fashion. It’s not a magic free money tree.

djannzjkzxn commented on America has more new spaceships on the way arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/samizdis

nradov · 6 years ago

Requiring the astronauts to execute a cross country EVA from the lander to the ascent vehicle seems like a huge risk. What if they land just slightly too far away?

djannzjkzxn · 6 years ago

They can land the Falcon 9 first stage in the middle of the drone ship. Any reason they can’t locate a perfect spot on the moon and land there exactly?