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jtc331··on When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think
Couldn’t even be bothered to disguise LLM generated content.

Painful to read.

jtc331··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
Given there are cases of sudden onset autism being resolved with antifungals, it’s at least not implausible that fecal transplants could be effective too.
jtc331··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
There’s some research on sudden onset autism being treated with antifungals; so at least sometimes a sudden change may be the result of something very specific in the gut.
jtc331··on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
“More social pressure to stop at the top of the hour.”

False.

This doesn’t work.

Source: a company doing this. Meetings just continue on to the 5 after mark.

jtc331··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Brown sugar should be packed; flour must not be — you’ll get substantially more mass per volume than the recipes assume.
jtc331··on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed
I appreciate that the article correctly points out the core design flaw here of LLMs is the non-distinction between content and commands in prompts.

It’s unclear to me if it’s possible to significantly rethink the models to split those, but it seems that that is a minimal requirement to address the issue holistically.

jtc331··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
VLAN with an id of 0 isn't possible on the new interface last I checked. Which, granted is a weird thing to do, but...
jtc331··on Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
The obsession has at least one interesting question attached: ownership of real property. At the limit, at least, that becomes a genuinely interesting question.
jtc331··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
That assumes that China’s population doesn’t collapse, which mathematically seems quite likely (and it’s already declining).
jtc331··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
> What problem, other than judicial review, does it solve for the executive branch?

It’s fairly obvious on its face the concern of the EO is not judicial review but about agencies that nominally are past of the branch the President heads determining interpretations of law contrary to what the head of the executive desires.

And, it does genuinely seem weird to have an executive branch where the head of that branch doesn’t actually control things.

The negative reaction is entirely because of the current executive head, but no one would bat an eye if this were Barack Obama reigning in some executive agency interpreting, say, immigration law in opposition to DACA.

jtc331··on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
For example you might do surgery on people who wouldn’t benefit.
jtc331··on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
The problem is that the two theories can have competing indications as to how to prepare. Specifically: should we do gain of function research, or is that foolish — depends on how you read what happened in 2020.
jtc331··on Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages
I believe sucrose and fructose are processed differently — specifically fructose is processed by the liver so can have the same issues as alcohol there.
jtc331··on Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter
At minimum it changes the urgency for individuals with existing cookware.
jtc331··on Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails
Civil suits _do_ have jury trials. They’re even conducted with a lower standard of burden of proof, which is good or bad depending on if you’re potentially getting ramrodded or potentially finally past the Big CO’s lawyers.
jtc331··on Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865429
jtc331··on Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
Have you looked into Mutaflor probiotics? It’s a beneficial E. Coli (seriously) that has research showing it can colonize the gut and clinically improve e.g. IBS symptoms. I’ve personally seen it solve (or significantly mitigate) issues for multiple people.
jtc331··on Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86
Graviton single thread performance is _not_ the same as the Intel or AMD offerings on AWS.
jtc331··on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
The issue is with inverter based EV drive systems.
jtc331··on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
What about Vioxx?
jtc331··on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
How do you eliminate the personal incentive to have found a meaningful result? I don’t think that can be changed without redesigning the human psyche.
jtc331··on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
My wife seems to be basically immune to cavities; I get them easily. I brush very carefully; she brushes only quickly. Our diets are the same — if anything she probably gets more sugar. We have the same water source. Etc.

Clearly there’s a lot more to this than what you’re claiming.

Unless you’d propose that all of my current problems are due to conditions while I was child or similar.

jtc331··on Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
What is in dispute isn’t that it crashed but how it crashed.
jtc331··on Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
Yes, cheaper in the same store, but not usually compared to other stores that don’t have cash discounts.
jtc331··on New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities
Are the reporting methodologies constant for the years compared?
jtc331··on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
That just means advertisers need to manipulate children into pressuring parents. Not a good social dynamic.
jtc331··on GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments
But does it replicate _better_ than really running the experiment again?

Joking…but not joking.

jtc331··on Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident
Thanks, that’s helpful information.
jtc331··on Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident
I don’t quite follow why a missing underscore results in a security problem. It seems like it must be somehow related to what’s valid for CNAME records?
jtc331··on Study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed (2015)
Yes, because there’s no indication that heart disease vs other diseases is properly controlled for demographically.
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