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(April 1, 2024)
phnofive··on Scientists found a major clue why 4 of 5 autoimmune patients are women
Speaking of, here's a study showing a reduction (sort of) in autoimmunity in such persons following a course of TRT:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1905740/

phnofive··on Evidence and Orthodontics: Does Your Child Really Need Braces?
(2020)

Submitted once before, but not discussed at the time.

It more or less complies with Betteridge's law of headlines, but since publication, the article was amended:

> Editor’s Note: The original version of this article failed to disclose that some of the quoted critics of orthodontics have financial ties to alternative, direct-to-consumer therapies. While the criticisms raised by these experts pre-date these financial ties by decades, and Undark’s reporting — both prior to and after publication — supports the story’s premise that there is disagreement within the discipline over many of the purported medical benefits of traditional orthodontics, these relationships should have been acknowledged in the original article. They have now been added, along with a response from the individual experts involved.

phnofive··on Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says
Taking compounded tirzepatide ($6000/yr for 15 mg/wk) and lost ~120 lbs. Ironically, sugar tastes a lot stronger, and food generally tastes better, but I don't want as much. Haven't seen any other changes or improvements.
phnofive··on Show HN: Rot - Offline secrets management
Huh, nitializing the submodule with GH requires key-based auth. Learned a lot just setting it up locally.
phnofive··on Why you can't divide by zero
Stretching the metaphor, but your jellybeans were in a group to start with, so halving it makes sense.

Changing the sign is harder, but let's say your group of jellybeans was actually a loan, and you borrowed from two people... beans / -2

phnofive··on Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?
> She needs to find a giant corporation where she can live out her pre-retirement days in Storage Room B, only writing very specific SQL queries for Oracle, IMHO.

Cool, how should she get started?

phnofive··on Ask HN: Switching from Software Engineer to Data Engineer Because of Leetcode
I'm looking for a similar change - if you don't mind my asking, are they still hiring?
phnofive··on Wegovy's heart benefits due to more than weight loss, Novo says
Tract*

I honestly don't know what to say about someone who can't recognize their own intestinal blockage. Perhaps ask patients to keep a BM journal and flag anomolies?

phnofive··on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
> We should not divert resources from vaccines to immortality

Is there any risk of that? Probably the biggest challenge vaccination faces is uptake, there's no shortage of funding.

phnofive··on FDA Proposes to Ban Food Additive, brominated vegetable oil
I'm failing to find any study linking BVO to thyroid impairment in humans - obviously we're not going to dose people, but even a low-quality food journal correlation would be nice. So far all I can find is animals and BeWo. I'm nonetheless OK with seeing it discouraged (banning feels weird next to the ATF), I was just hoping for better data.

If you can find some and share, thanks in advance!

phnofive··on Corporate America weighs risks of the Ozempic effect
https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbus...

I've been using compounded tirzepatide for some time now, and it has dramatically altered not only how much food I buy, but what kind; in some cases, I'll spend a lot more per unit since I know I'm buying a lot less.

The secondary effects for medical device makers (fewer gastric sleeves sold, more artificial hips and knees) sound promising for everyone's health!

phnofive··on Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all
This study was measuring the effectiveness of trained suppression - not distraction or letting go, but specifically not imagining the event. I found it surprising, but at the same time avoidance might just have weakened the mental strength for doing exactly that.
phnofive··on Llama 2 on togetherAI is as bad of a privacy nightmare as OpenAI
Any particular problems? Just linking to their policy is a bit confusing. You might consider submitting this as a question and linking to their policy in your summary.
phnofive··on Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)
What do you think makes your experiences so different?
phnofive··on Cow Tools
(1982)

Previously:

1 point | 0 comments | submitted by 'cowtools' | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31800303

phnofive··on Why We'll Stay Remote
> However, if I know anything about high performing teams, it’s that you need to have mutual trust (which breeds psychological safety), and a shared model of what success looks like (metrics anyone?). Without these you’re going to struggle to produce results office or no office.

Hear, hear.

Note that these points are interdependent: Staff must trust management will collaborate and iterate on metrics, and management must trust employees will not game the metrics. If those things are true, then success measured against those metrics (that flows into business health and employee rewards) will reinforce mutual trust. The opposite is true, too.

phnofive··on We can save what matters about writing
'seem like' would swap well with 'appear to be', but frankly I'm not following your similies.
phnofive··on FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships
Yes, it's fine to do that; the videomaker just needs to disclose it.
phnofive··on In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing
Extraordinary claims, etc.

Of course, there is extraordinary evidence for this one.

phnofive··on Kagi: Words You Cannot Use: 'Constitutional AI', 'Anthropic', 'Anthropic, PBC'
> What can FastGPT do?

> Based on the limited context provided, FastGPT appears to be an AI model that can perform GPT-2 inference faster than PyTorch. It was written in Fortran to achieve higher performance. However, the details of what it can actually do or produce are unclear from the provided information.

phnofive··on Everything must be paid for twice (2022)
> if it was explaining lean startup methodology and made stuff up then it mostly wouldn't make sense.

The joke practically writes itself, though I suppose ChatGPT could take the last bit of work out of it.

phnofive··on Result of Pursuing “Ideal Task Management Tool” → Made by Myself
(2019)

How's it been?

phnofive··on In praise of blowing up your life
The Onion's take ten years on is a bit different:

https://www.theonion.com/women-explain-why-they-became-tradw...

phnofive··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
(2012)

Top past discussion here from a couple years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27632835

See also: https://slate.com/comments/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-coo...

phnofive··on Cops Raid Swedish VPN Provider Only to Find Out There’s No ‘There’ There
I appreciate the Swedish Police National Operations Department's effort to validate Mullvad's data handling claims through this unscheduled audit.

Original post from Mullvad:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...

phnofive··on Show HN: AI Playground by Vercel Labs
> The platform uses advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to intelligently identify and match discarded materials with potential new uses, connecting individuals and businesses with creative solutions for repurposing waste.

In other words, GPT-4

phnofive··on Anime Confronts a New Apocalypse
Vending Machine is getting adapted?! Awesome.

...yet, I think you're right about the parallel world escapism.

phnofive··on French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison.

How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?

phnofive··on Swearing Is Dumb
Perhaps the author should read up on code-switching before writing an article about it. This could be reworked as 'Dialects are Dumb' with a little bit of search and replace.
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