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jtc331 commented on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed guard.io/labs/scamlexity-... · Posted by u/mindracer

jtc331 · 3 days ago

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 commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx

alt227 · a month ago

> An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities.

This is just not true at all. I agree unifi can be buggy at times, and their super clean interface means they need to hide stuff all over the place, but I havent found any network configuration I couldnt do on Unifi yet.

Care to elaborate on exactly which functions standard asus routers have over Ubiquiti gear?

jtc331 · a month ago

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 commented on Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit? libertystreeteconomics.ne... · Posted by u/jnord

codingbot3000 · 3 months ago

Adam Smith already pointed out that a trade deficit is not really interesting, so I do not understand the American obsession about it ;)

Also, the often-mentioned US-EU trade deficit is not that big if you count in services. Which I think should be done in the 21st century. Large parts of the US economy are focused on digital high-value services, and they are "exported" worldwide.

jtc331 · 3 months ago

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 commented on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? twitter.com/dieworkwear/s... · Posted by u/taubek

rayiner · 5 months ago

Americans need to get over their view of “Asia” as being about making shoes. When I was working in engineering in the early aughts, we mocked the Chinese as being able only to copy American technology. Today, China is competitive with or ahead of America in key technology areas, including nuclear power, AI, EVs, and batteries.

We need to anticipate a future where China is equal to America on a per capita basis, but four times bigger. Is that a world where “Designed by Apple in California, Made in China” still makes sense? What will be America’s competitive edge in that scenario?

What seems most likely to me in the future is that the US will find itself in the same position the UK is in now. Dominating finance and services won’t mean anything when both the IP and the physical products are being produced somewhere else.

jtc331 · 5 months ago

That assumes that China’s population doesn’t collapse, which mathematically seems quite likely (and it’s already declining).

jtc331 commented on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/martialg

svnt · 6 months ago

Naive interpretations like this one, of bad faith actions is how we get there.

This same assumption of good faith was wholly present in peoples' responses to project 2025 prior to the election.

They are not acting in good faith.

Try restating the problem: Why is this EO being issued? What problem, other than judicial review, does it solve for the executive branch?

EDIT: For those who do not think this contributes anything: can you answer the question?

jtc331 · 6 months ago

> 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 commented on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy

Redoubts · 6 months ago

> You may cause lasting harm to some of those 105 people.

Could you elaborate on this?

jtc331 · 6 months ago

For example you might do surgery on people who wouldn’t benefit.

jtc331 commented on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us... · Posted by u/doctaj

jdietrich · 7 months ago

If we actually care about public health, we should act as if both the lab leak and zoonosis theories are correct. We should take laboratory biosecurity, wet markets, the bush meat trade and intensive livestock management equally seriously as threats. We should do this because we have no idea where the next pandemic - and there will be a next pandemic - will come from.

It seems fairly clear to me that a lot of people are much more concerned about finding someone to blame for the last pandemic than about preparing for or preventing the next pandemic.

jtc331 · 7 months ago

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 commented on Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/tchalla

EasyMark · 8 months ago

also a lot of people won't acknowledge that as far as damage that sugar is likely just as bad as HFCS. both should be heavily reduced

jtc331 · 8 months ago

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 commented on Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/ars

oidar · 8 months ago

People are missing the forest for the trees on this one. I agree with the author here - unfortunate error, but the conclusion should lead to the same actions.

jtc331 · 8 months ago

At minimum it changes the urgency for individuals with existing cookware.

jtc331 commented on Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails blog.ericgoldman.org/arch... · Posted by u/hn_acker

johnnyanmac · 10 months ago

You can't be spammed with jury duty in the US. And honestly, being able to actually decide for my fellow man every once in a while against BS claims sounds more impactful than "well, this person was on camera doing the crime. Open and shut".

But alas, the "will of the people" isn't used for civil suits. Wonder why (genuinely. Feels backwards for a jury to decide on something more technical like a criminal trial but not to have an opinion on civilities, which is more subjective).

jtc331 · 10 months ago

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.