skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a Feynman story in one of his books where he shows a university class a french curve (a very curvy plastic shape used in technical drawing) and explains to them it has the amazing property that no matter how you turn it, the lowest point is tangent to the horizon. No one in the class realized he was just messing with them.
This is from memory, so could be wrong.

The goal is to starve the streptococcus mutans bacteria in your mouth. Since that lives off sugar and starch, you both (a) rinse your mouth with a bactericidal (b) brush teeth, tongue, and gums after ingesting any sugar or starch.

The downside is excessive bactericidal use or brushing can damage your mouth tissues and teeth.

Another approach I had heard about but have no further info was to be vaccinated against S. mutans, so presumably your saliva would attack it somehow. I don't understand the mechanism here.

In the meantime, I use a prescription dose of fluoride toothpaste daily to harden the hydroxyapatite in my mouth.
As an example, if shareholders invest in your company despite saying you will never show targeted ads then they can't sue you for not showing targeted ads to increase profits.
Yup this is me
About two weeks ago I got an envelope in the mail from Google saying they were offering to pay $1000 per month to install a special router into your home that tracked everything regarding your internet usage. They disclosed everything they'd be tracking and said all the information recorded would be viewable by google. They even sent a $1 bill (I guess to prove they were serious). It was quite strange but really made me realize how invasive Google is planning to be in the future.
The '/s' at the end is so called sarcasm mark. That means the previous comment wasn't serious.
So they failed to take it down a year ago, they started crying and now they what them to turn the statue around to face the wall?

If they can't even take it down, what makes them think they will even turn it 1 degree on the spot?

The left wing circus at the guardian surely doesn't how this works. The many times they have been played by the whole BLM fiasco and turned into a giant scam.
this is actually what alethea.ai is doing
Another thing is that I'm in France. Where I went to college, there were no frats. We had a small association but it was like 50 people out of the thousand in CS that went to their events, and they were pretty tame. On the other hand, the equivalent of frat culture is very present in medical school.

> It's easier to dismiss it as a maturity thing but it might have a little to do with how kids are crammed into the same spaces with the same people, good and toxic while in college somehow it seems less so.

I totally agree. Maybe that's just psychological, but as I mentionned my college was "open", at any point I could just walk away. In high school, and before, there always were big wall between me and the exterior, and every exit had people making sure we didn't go outside. You really feel trapped inside with no escape. Anecdotally, the last high school I went to had a large park with lots of place to "hide", and I was often hanging out with a few friends in some "remote" places.
On the topic of hating to read, it reminds me when I bought my TV, the online store would only sell it on credit, with 0% interest. The paperwork came in the mail with a free credit card too. The sign up form (from some bank, not the store itself) had 2 signature fields, but the 2nd field was to sign up for insurance tied to the card. I looked it up online and there were so many mad reviews of this bank from people who signed the 2nd field and claimed they got scammed...
Ever heard of files you can't burn on CD-R

I know about weak sectors. Only shitty (i.e. defective by design) drives wouldn't be able to handle them, while others would do it just fine.

Why are you drawing an arbitrary line for RAM and saying it can't use ECC?

I'm not saying that ECC is not a good idea. I'm saying that ECC errors in RAM occurring simply because of specific access patterns is far from "normal operation". In fact, if you use ECC RAM and see a lot of errors, it should be considered a sign of failing hardware. In other words, advocating for ECC in this scenario is deflecting the blame and compensating for a defective product.

The solution is simple: don't buy QLC flash. That stuff's garbage, at least today

"QLC" and "TLC" are complete misnomers developed specifically to hide the truth. It's not 4 or 3 "levels", but 16 and 8, respectively. 16LC and 8LC are the technically correct terms.

Corporate greed has somehow resulted in everyone parroting the dominant industry position and using Intel and ECC as a scapegoat. That just shows how entrenched their propaganda is.
Personally, the watch I grab most these days is a good ol’ Timex Ironman. I pretty much only wear a watch when exercising and pretty much only care about the time while doing so.
In my country it is mandatory for electric vehicles to make artificial sound so they can be heard.
Worked in targeted ad tech for b2b. High dollar sales stuff.

Short version. It works really well. Like absurdly well.

Massive fear if browsers started limited cookies. As that would destroy the cash cow.
:-) my approach is just to not eat any sugar or starch but definitely agree with mechanism.
Perhaps they want to snatch up the domain names people are trying out and then sell them to them with a margin?
It's sort of the opposite of a probiotic. In many organisms, including many non-human mammals, it short-circuits normal metabolic processes. Xylitol-sweetened products will easily sicken, and frequently kill cats and dogs, for instance.
does seem to just be /slash commands.

Saw the name fusebot and was hoping for another way to bridge discord/matrix/twitter/insert-other-thing-here - that could be smart enough to send copies when it detects X thing or Y person.

Like the landing page though - and nice thought to put 'Too busy now to install? Sign up for a reminder'
To be fair, dentists do engage in what really looks like price fixing (at least where I am, and to an outside eye). Every dentist here charges the exact same amount, regardless of whether they’re in the middle of a high-income metropolitan area or in bumkinville.

Also every once in a while you see some real horror stories of dentists doing unnecessary procedures on sedated patients, and although the extreme cases are absolutely the exception, I always do have to wonder if I actually need the (often expensive) treatments they recommend.
Doesn't Xfinity do the same thing with xfinitywifi?
TLDR: They didn’t click any suspicious links.
When I was two years old -- apparently, I only heard it from the obvious source -- my mother went to a doctor and asked when she could start giving me candy. I'm dating myself but this was before 1990. Anyways, he said, "Never! Never give him candy. He'll develop a sweet tooth and it's game over for his teeth!".

Again paraphrasing and dramatizing, but you get the idea.

So my mom never gave me anything with sugar. To this day I don't eat any sweets and I have no cavities or tooth problems. I eat ice cream once a year, and mostly because people seem to like shaming me for not liking it. I always just have a couple of bites.

Anyways my teeth are in great shape.
KDE has been in the process switching away (to Gitlab) for a while.
I got out of my junior and senior years by taking the GED and going straight to college. I think that benefitted me a lot more than just graduating college a couple years early.

The environment was radically different and freeing. Teachers weren't babysitters. They wanted us to do well, but they weren't going to coddle us. I noticed that immediately, and it really changed how I approached my classes. I didn't have to be there if I didn't want to, so I really invested myself in a way that I don't think would be possible if I were being forced.

In Oregon at least, colleges must consider a GED score over 600 equivalent to a high school diploma. I went to the local college (SOU) for one year to get a solid transcript, then used that to transfer to a state college (U of O). I'm really glad that I did
The /s at the end of my message was to say that it's sarcasm. Most teachers (like most people really) have good intentions and end up being good people, or at least not bad people. On the other hand, there's always a few power-hungry people (be it in teaching, or other things) that are just here to have power over people, because that's their thing.
I think its not only analogue to the many worlds, I quite suspect it’s the same problem actually.

Or rather it seems we’re basically asking the wrong questions and therefore ending up with seemingly bizarre or contradicting things like particle/wave duality or the concept of time.

How can we have consciousness when there is no objective “now”?

To me the question of which processes experience consciousness is akin to asking if a sound wave is a crescendo or how many image frames in a movie is required to make a scene.

Well, it depends... you might say, and the follow up question “depends on what?” is much more interesting.

Some physicists say the world is fully determined. That there are at least four fully existing dimensions of space time, or even more than that given some interpretations of quantum mechanics.

So we are given a static structure with certain patterns following specific laws of how the structure may be formed. Like if you made a 3D-print of a play of conways game of life.

Now in that static structure we have this interesting phenomenon called consciousness that at first approximation looks like paths of focus tracing specific patterns.

There might be just a single path, or many, or even a single connected path through them all as you say. I’m a compaibilist here, I don’t think it’s a difference with more substance to it than the particle/wave duality. It’s mostly a matter of perspective.
Perhaps you should get some therapy. Healthy individuals do not get that worked up over minor things like loud vehicles. It passes you and it is over. Or do loud vehicles sit outside your home all day and night?
Why would you not pay for deactivated accounts for which they’re still storing the data? I don’t think the delivery of email is what costs most money, it’s the storage of data.
Ehhh... dentists (even the not-obvious-scam ones) are notorious for overprescribing expensive and invasive unnecessary treatments.

They are medical professionals of course, and few are recommending completely nonsense, but it's like, if go to a plastic surgeon... they are probably going to find plastic surgery to perform. Not that it's _wrong_, just that it's really not necessary when you balance in the cost.
Ok? THat's probably somewhat accurate as accents are always changing, but I'm literally just citing what I read from some actual linguists.
makes me happy to hear people like you do what makes them happy, not more money.
What is the difference between the existing "I don't want to see this" button and a "dislike" button?
Regulations are the only reason Windows even exists. If had not been for government antitrust laws and their enforcement, IBM would have stifled the PC market before it even began.[1] The thing about these cases is that they don’t even have to fully succeed to open the space for competition. The case against Microsoft continued this trend, providing space for Google and the monopolies of today. So regulation isn’t just good for society, it’s necessary to ensure a competitive market.

Taxation ensures that all of society benefits as the collective wealth increases. It pays for shared resources, and provides for a shared safety net. Taxation isn’t confiscation, it’s the cost of doing business and thriving in a complex society. Trickle down and deregulation are awful policies that only destabilize.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/15/business/us-vsibm.html
If it's malicious it could be to buy up commonly typo'd domain names
Here's the cookie text if you are lazy to read it...it sounds a bit creepy: https://share.synthesia.io/a4159eee-f70b-4318-a8bc-ec0fdf6af...
The comments often tell you if the article is worth reading or not. I don't mean indirectly - if the comments barely mention or quote the article then I probably won't bother opening it.
I've also made a Discord slash commands bot recently in a single AWS Lambda (Node.js) and a DynamoDB table (all free tier). My only dependency is `discord-interactions`, to validate requests, which Discord requires.

I like the serverless approach because if the bot commands are only used a few times a day, the lambda only has to run a few times a day and takes at most 0.5 sec (Discord has a 3 second timeout for slash commands)
It would be great if we, the customers, were actually given a genuine, competitive choice. As you say, right now you literally don’t have a genuine choice.

There is precedent for this too. Amazon Kindles came (come?) with two options - one with ads and one without. The latter cost something like $20 more. That was good!

Having said that, I bought the one without ads and they increasingly, with software updates, devoted greater and greater screen space to the Amazon ebook store. I consider that to be an ad too (and arguably worse because of anti-competitiveness reasons).
I came here to write up a similar story.

Grew up in the mid west, went to through a pretty average public school system. Participated in sports, AP classes, and generally had an excellent time.

I suspect that like most of the internet there's a strong tendency for people to post their feelings about negative experiences. From polling people in real life, it seems to be somewhat hit or miss, so clearly there's room for improvement, but I don't think that the current system is completely broken.
This is wrong. Many bikes have pops and cracks like this stock, straight from the factory floor. So do not assume the owner went out of his way to make it so.
Gerrit is good, if opinionated in ways that we have to put work into onboarding for. That said, it only covers a small subset of what Phabricator does -- it's missing the entire issue tracker part, most importantly.
with 80k you can connect to a torrentswarm and seed out[slowly] what? topsite pr0n, perhaps something noone ever wants to be accused of seeding so use nieghbours bandwidth
Will this help Mitch Hedberg enthusiasts realize his dream of having just two long curvy teeth?
I strongly recommend reading Ubik. To me it is his strongest and most consistently good book.

I used to love The Three Stigmata too, but when I tried to read it again recently I couldn't get in to it either. I do think you have to be in the right mood to savor a Dick book, so maybe I was in the wrong mood that time.

The other first-tier PKD book for me is Martian Time-Slip.

Second-tier PKD books for me are VALIS and Galactic Pot Healer.

Third-tier are Maze of Death, Eye in the Sky, and Divine Invasion (the 2nd in the VALIS trilogy.. didn't like the 3rd in the series, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer at all).

Many of his other books, like Lies, Inc, also have great parts in them, but are kind of inconsistent.

Some of his short stories are excellent. My favorites:

- Beyond Lies the Wub

- Roog

- The Father Thing

- Faith of Our Fathers

I didn't really like A Scanner Darkly, nor Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep and would consider them of minor import had not movies been made of them. Other books in this category are Now Wait for Last Year (made in to Total Recall) and Time Out of Joint (made in to The Truman Show.. though the book is much darker). The movie Minority Report was based on another minor short story of his, as The Terminator might have been partially based on his story Second Variety.

Virtually all of the movies made from his work only bear only a very slight resemblance to the originals, which tends to be a lot darker, a lot less action-filled, and much more thought-provoking than the Hollywood adaptations.
I very much assume they wouldn’t care (or not more than you do anyway).
Maybe they just want to buy these domains.
I imagine that available domains people query a lot can be resold for a lot of money.
Or they are into typosquatting.
No not necessarily by being an asshole. By being loud. Animals do it too like lions they have a mighty roar. But they only roar when they are afraid. No? Why would they otherwise roar?
Am I the only one who really wants to see this happen, but not for political reasons? I don’t really care about the Democrat/Republican split; I just think border changes (especially more geographically representative ones) are cool.
All new extensions are manually vetted now, and there is manifest v3, but there has been a lot of concern about the effect of this on adblockers so progress has been slow.
Most of the work that the Chrome folks have been doing on web extensions recently has specifically been to make finer-grained APIs to do the sorts of things extensions do without giving them full access to edit pages etc.

For instance, see the new "Declarative Net Request" API, which allows you to specify certain transformations on requests in JSON, like blocking them if they match a regex, without knowing what the request is: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...

In theory, this allows you to implement things like ad blockers without having high levels of access to the user's browsing behavior. In practice, it's very hard to make these APIs complete enough.
Yeah, when I first shared it in a developer discord server I joked that Microsoft was operating a black market Bing-conversion program. Seems too shady even for Microsoft though. I guess they want me to inject ads/trackers into the results, but I don't see how it's easier with these search engines?
You can also just quit eating saccharides. Incidentally (or perhaps not), this has a lot of positive effects besides improving dental health. It's a first line treatment for many metabolic disorders like diabetes and even many cases of epilepsy. It resolves many digestive issues, as it reduces or eliminates most things humans can't easily metabolize (plant fiber, large sugar molecules, etc.). It helps with weight management because most human groups have not yet evolved an appropriately tuned satiety response to saccharides.
> do things with their computers

Do we mean "do thing to their computers"?
Nick Cave: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/communication-dream-feeling/

"It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable."
Definitely not. Sole programming? Yeah, absolutely. But CS is general? Nope.
I'm going to put you on a spot a bit, because this seems important to ProtonMail's viability, and I want you to keep succeeding...

> Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.

When you cause a request to be made for ReCaptcha, it seems that you're leaking enough information to (in many cases) link a possibly-pseudonymous Protonmail account to an identifiable individual.

(For example, even if you leak nothing else than times that individuals identifiable by Google logged into unidentified ProtonMail accounts, Google can already see various external activity of specific ProtonMail accounts, and you've given them temporal correlations between activity of pseudonymous accounts and logins by identifiable individuals. That's not the only example, but even that alone seems a significant risk.)

And it's seems to be a real risk: Google is in the business of doing things like that, has a track record of doing things like that, and presumably is more than capable enough of doing it some more.

> but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.

That sounds like a lot. And the "at any time" sounds like an even higher percentage of users are potentially being compromised by the use of ReCaptcha.

> we don't like it either

I'm not yet convinced that this is the least of all evils. And I don't know how much you have to dislike it before you decide not to do it.

For persuasive effect, is it helpful to imagine the reaction of your philosophical adversaries, when they heard that ProtonMail was using ReCaptcha? I just imagined some of them laughing derisively or incredulously. I don't say that to be mean, but I don't understand the rationale for using ReCaptcha, and I want to emphasize that it seems to be a problem that threatens ProtonMail's raison d'etre and/or brand image.

(BTW, I'm assuming this ReCaptcha choice isn't due to legally-compelled cooperation in unmasking specific accounts -- in which case I wouldn't say anything -- since, in that case, I expect you'd find a way to comply without misrepresenting the rationale to everyone else. I've seen ProtonMail thinking ahead to avoid related conflicting obligations and assurances.)

(BTW, I'm speaking here of Google as an adversary of your customers, and therefore of you, only because that seems to be how your product is positioned, and why you have customers at all, rather than everyone just using GMail. I'm not saying that Google is bad; only that I think it should be considered an adversary from your perspective.)
I personally think one failing of these concept vehicles is that they are clean slate... and too weird.

As an example, early electric cars and fuel cell vehicles were/are uniformly non-uniform. The GM ev1 had fender shrouds, and the that corbin electric vehicle had 3 wheels.

Personally I would like an electric bike that performed and looked like a sportbike.

related: I found it interesting that the look of sportbikes actually derives from racing rules. Originally racing bikes chased aerodynamics with long streamlined fairings usually shrouding at least the front tire. Then racing rules came along that said the fairings couldn't extend past the front axle, and that set up the look.
>In addition, the researchers are investigating a gel or solution with the engineered peptide to treat hypersensitive teeth. This problem results from weakness in the enamel that makes the underlying dentin and nerves more vulnerable to heat or cold. Most common products currently on the market can put a layer of organic material on the tooth and numb nerve endings with potassium nitrate, but the relief is only temporary. The peptide, however, addresses the problem permanently at its source by strengthening the enamel.

I want this so badly.

I've never had a cavity despite my poor dental hygiene habits and lack of dental practice visits but apparently I suffer from bruxism that can make half of my teeth hurt whenever I bite on anything harder than a wet noodle. Just now I brushed my teeth with a pain-numbing toothpaste and just the act of brushing my teeth made them hurt. Although sometimes I can go for some time without pain, it's been pretty much a constant in my life for the last years.
Really happy with fastmail. It is above anything else, very fast.
This is an ongoing project I started during Covid lockdown, building a fully functional and MSX compliant computer on a breadboard. It's a good introduction to CPUs, logic, and digital electronics. This is part 1 of a series that I update periodically.
This actually seems like a win win vis a vis representation.
https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

> MongoDB is a distributed document database which claims to offer “among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today”, with “full ACID transactions”. Jepsen evaluated MongoDB version 4.2.6, and found that even at the strongest levels of read and write concern, it failed to preserve snapshot isolation. Instead, Jepsen observed read skew, cyclic information flow, duplicate writes, and internal consistency violations. Weak defaults meant that transactions could lose writes and allow dirty reads, even downgrading requested safety levels at the database and collection level. Moreover, the snapshot read concern did not guarantee snapshot unless paired with write concern majority—even for read-only transactions. These design choices complicate the safe use of MongoDB transactions.