skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Plaque removal has to be the #1 thing done at a dentist's office. I've had one cavity filled in the last 15 years, and the rest of the visits have been cleanings (ie. plaque removal).

Plus, it really doesn't matter how well you brush and floss. There's always something for the hygienist to remove. Which, I can only assume prevents this lozenge from actually doing anything.
I just want to point out though, depression isn't about feeling happy or sad throughout the day. Depression is more of a long-term condition.

It's likely you have something interesting to do or something to keep you occupied in days you're waking up early. You might feel happy those days, but lack of sleep might actually be worsening your depression in the long run. Not saying this is what's happening necessarily, but it's possible.

That said, the article isn't even talking about sleeping less, it's talking about waking up early. But I remember seeing interesting studies that are actually studying the link between sleep deprivation and depression.
You could just eat a spoonful of baking soda.
The one I remember is called MI Paste [0]. From what I understand it can help remineralize and strengthen teeth. Basically vitamins for your teeth.

[0] http://www.mi-paste.com/about.php
Amazon pays affiliates money each time they refer you to purchase something on Amazon. They check the referral by giving you an affiliate id, which you can add as a query param to urls on your pages.

Injecting your id into unrelated pages gets you affiliate rewards sooner.
The DNC is the leadership group of a political party; it's not a government agency. As such, their e-mails and other records are not subject to FOIA. (If any DNC members happen to also be government officials, their e-mails concerning government business should, of course, be done via government e-mail accounts.)
They give me very bad tooth pain and cause my teeth to move (I couldn't close my mouth properly after I used one for a couple weeks as 2 teeth would end up touching that didn't before). Luckily it reverted quickly but I stopped using it.

I mainly used it because sometimes I woke up hitting my teeth together really hard (it hurt a lot) but it was mainly due to stress. I really try to avoid that now, if I fail I may go back to using it :(

These lozenges will be great to get. I have pretty strong enamel though as they give all kids regular fluoride treatments. It really helped for me. I didn't have a cavity until the age of 43.
If you're looking for an issue tracker to use with Gerrit, that's open source and developed by Google, you could try Monorail: https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/refs/heads/m...
Then they'll ban you from using their services...
Project Loon closed down just as project StarLink was proving its viability. Not a coincidence in my mind.
There's no law in the books like that in the US that I'm aware of, but law enforcement and courts will still go after whoever owns the account or systems that are involved in crimes.
I really like how most of them answer a common trope that I tend to see in the industry. For example:

> Appreciate marketing. It seems like bullshit, but it’s bullshit I don’t want to have to do. I’m glad someone else is doing it, I’m sincerely grateful for their efforts.

or:

> User interface matters.

That's a good basis to compare my current attitude too.
A silicon crystal based intelligence is also a product of evolution.

It’s possible that the subset of intelligence characteristics obtained on a given matrix of material differs substantially.

I.e. Si based intelligence will always be somewhat different than bio-soup based intelligence.
Good try, but on the page where you ordered the hardware from, there is white-on-white text that says "By reading this paragraph, you agree to a bunch of terms and conditions that Amazon may change at any time and retroactively. You are not entitled to a copy of these terms and conditions." In those terms and conditions, it says even if Jeff Bezos breaks into your house and kills you in the middle of the night, you're entitled to a maximum of one (1) dollar of compensation.

Good try though.
The Ruby community continues to grow in absolute terms of you’re looking at conference numbers etc. The rest of the industry exploded!
FB sells user data?

Good thing I don't rely on HN comments for facts.
The points made in this post mirror my own, and this incident has caused my trust of sound privacy focus design and implementation on the part of Proton to diminish somewhat.

Any small leakage of data/activity/identity is unacceptable to those of us who know how this information can be taken advantage of, and choice Proton specifically to avoid that happening.
Weird teeth-cleaning trick that I discovered from suffering from interstitial cystitis / painful bladder syndrome (IC / BPS): toss a bit of baking soda in your water, such as 1 teaspoon per liter. It makes it alkaline. My teeth got whiter and felt better (less of a film feeling).

Baking soda is used as a cooking ingredient and shouldn't be too risky, but don't go overboard... bit of discussion on the IC / BPS aspect in the two citations below (including risks):

[Effects of urine alkalinization with sodium bicarbonate orally on lower urinary tract symptoms in female patients: a pilot study](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00192-017-3492-...)

[Urine alkalization improves the problems of pain and sleep in hypersensitive bladder syndrome](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24224617)

UPDATE: Also check edathamil toothpaste as I mentioned in a below comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329165
Doesn’t fufill your wish for no-sign up link yet, but https://hex.tech supports live collaboration for python notebooks.

I think as time goes on, live collaboration is becoming “table stakes” for a lot of tools.
The tl;dr from the paper’s abstract: “Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of major depressive disorder (MDD); however, causality in this association is uncertain.”.

So the article appears to be bullshit.

That said, if you suffer from depression, trying to alter your sleep pattern is a worthwhile experiment - there is a good chance it could work for you.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

If you want to refer to what you posted someplace else that's great, but a link is the tool for that job. In rare cases you could always ask us at hn@ycombinator.com to move your comment to a different place, if it's much more relevant there.
Build your own Chatbot therapist in F#
It sounds like his argument is that moderation isn't speech, and the posts on these sites, due to 230, aren't attributable to the would be moderators, therefore the tech companies don't have a right to claim that their first amendment rights have been breached. I'm unsure what the caselaw on site moderation looks like, so i have no idea if the assertion is correct
interesting how the offers went from mostly buying user data to most recently mostly acquiring the extension.
That's the parent's point: the tools and methods have changed so that now it no longer hurts.
I imagine it injects affiliate links - ie if you search for something on Amazon, the affiliate payment would be attributed to the extension's owner. This would include overwriting existing affiliate links too.
Hazing is pretty common among student organizations in general in college. During undergrad, my friends in club rugby or marching band got hazed way harder than anyone I knew in any fraternity.
Affiliate marketing pays out a fee to an affiliate (i.e. referral source) when a user makes a purchase, normally to the last-touch source using a unique affiliate id (e.g. Wirecutter constructs an Amazon link that contains their ID, so they get some money back when you buy one of their recommended products). With certain extension permissions, malicious actors can replace these instances of IDs with their own, or cause all Amazon links to contain their affiliate ID, etc, thus falsely claiming that payout for themselves.
The choice isn't binary though.
There is some truth in that, but I think HN is different, at least in how I use it.

The overall quality of comments on HN is pretty high. I use the the comments to vet the article. If there are a number of thoughtful comments discussing what people got out of the article, I'll go and read it. If I have anything to add after that, I'll add a comment myself.

At the moment, HN is the only forum I trust to do this, does anyone have others they would recommend?
> The only time that isn't the case is if the market is irrational.

There are other situations, such as when measuring actual ability is sufficiently difficult or impossible (subject to the constraints you pointed out - via a process that's repeatable by a largely undifferentiated set of interviewers).

In those situations, you have basically no choice but to look for proxy measures.

Now, obviously, proxies can be gamed to various degrees. Leetcode is not actually such a terrible proxy, though. Here are some points in favor:

1) On average, better engineers will require less practice time to achieve similar results,

2) There is a certain minimum level of capability required to even "grind it out"; that minimum doesn't serve as a sufficient floor for being a net productive engineer, but it gets you a reasonable chunk of the way there, and that's why so much of the evaluation criteria for these interviews focuses on communication ability, since that's the rest of what they care about

Taken together, you get a process that is reasonably good at eliminating false positives and still manages to tilt the field in favor of more skilled candidates. On the candidate's side, it has the benefits of being generalizable across multiple interviews and also getting easier each time you do it.

While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the claim that the process favors candidates who have more free time, I think it's a largely overstated concern. First, this is true of any interviewing process wherein a candidate can improve their performance through practice. To a first approximation this is all interview processes. Second, it doesn't take _that_ much time. If you put in 100 hours (which is basically "made it a moderately important priority for 2-3 months") and you still can't clear any interviews, there are a few possible explanations.

1) You're failing at the communication side of things. Thankfully this is also something you can practice!

2) You fall into an unfortunate edge case, e.g. extreme performance anxiety, which isn't reflected in your day-to-day work. This sucks! I don't think there's a process that doesn't have unfortunate edge cases; all we can do is try to minimize them.

3) You're not able to learn the material well enough to generalize it to novel interview questions. This is the process working as intended.

I've also heard a reason that goes something like "I can totally solve those problems, just not in 45 minutes". Problem-solving speed is going to be positively correlated with other traits of talented engineers; obviously some otherwise talented engineers will still fall on the right side of the curve. Again, this sucks, but please bring me a process that effectively rules out false positives without bringing in some false negatives. If you can manage it there's a huge market opportunity there.
Isn't baking soda a fairly common ingredient in toothpaste? (See arm and hammer brand toothpaste)
I've been doing that for a decade now and what a relief! I'm the same, I just use an old pillow nothing special purpose.

I also find lower leg straight and upper leg on the pillow (so you look like an 'h') works really well.
Scottish Café
Get yourself a dog and take it to park every day, it will do good for both. Bet you both make new friends!
Google should fund popular extensions and label them as "Trusted, Secured by Google" etc. Easy fix. Then when people ask to buy the extensions or inject updates the developer won't (be allowed to) accept.
I wish he would write something similar about dashboarding tools. "The Cognitive Style of Tableau".
See https://swisscows.com/web?query=pizza&region=iv. results do change depending on where you set your location to or if you don't set a location. Here's another one: https://www.qwant.com/?q=pizza&t=web&locale=en_GB
Seems valid to want someone to vet your software, especially if it’s capable of self-upgrade. But I also think that’s an expensive process, and one that Google probably doesn’t want to pay for. People seem very up-in-arms about App Store fees but then complain when unmanaged stores produce mounds of garbage and/or malicious software.
Depends on how buggy the firmware is and how poorly maintained the sensors are I’m guessing?
Hair is a bigger market. Not in terms of people it affects, but what people will pay. But.... likewise, it amazes me we have a million and a half ways to grow hair on mice, but none on humans. Makes me think we need to relax human trials on volunteers (only half joking).
At first I thought Artificial Life (ALife) here is about cellular automata, soft robotics, etc. Turns out it's not...or is it?

I am curious to know if ALife is actually heading into the territory mentioned by this article.
I wonder if they'll change their policy on mandating belief in a God of some kind, as agnosticism and atheism become increasingly popular.
There is no system that can't be co-opted and ruined by bad people.
> There's no way to organize the current amount of hours in which you have "small groups" for 5 hours a day, unless small is 30 students per one teacher, in which case we're already doing that.

The proposal was 5 hours a week not 5 hours a day, IIUC. Likely you'd still be looking at rather large small groups and/or a substantial increase in teacher-hours per pupil, though.
I haven't used many "corporate email providers", whatever that means, but I've used my fair share of "classic" email providers (standard mail stack + basic webmail) and most of them charge per inbox. If an address is deactivated, but the inbox is still present, it counts towards your quota (depending on your package, this might mean you're paying for it). If you want to reclaim it, the inbox with all its contents must be deleted. Since that is a highly destructive and usually non-reversible action, a few do require you to go through their support.

I personally don't like it and surely there's better ways of doing it, but it is definitely not unheard of.
For me the most frightening PKD story was Faith of Our Fathers, but I haven't read Upon the Dull Earth. I wonder how they compare.

Looks like Upon the Dull Earth can be read here: [1] and Faith of Our Fathers here: [2]

Well, I just read Upon the Dull Earth, and found it to be an interesting story. Like many PKD books I've read, it starts out pretty weak and a little boring, but gets a lot better and weirder as it goes along (except for the very beginning of this story, which is also weird and interesting).

I found the dialogue and writing to be pretty awkward and stilted, and the first half to be kind of predictable. The main interesting idea is the big twist towards the end, and of course the very ending of the story, where that idea is taken to its limit.

Overall, I liked Faith of Our Fathers much more. I think it's a deeper, more compellingly told story.

[1] - https://philipkdickfans.com/mirror/gutenberg/Upon_The_Dull_E...

[2] - http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd020-0.html
I've used Sensodyne for years for sensitivity issues.

Last year, I tried a new version with whitening and after a couple of weeks my teeth started hurting all day long. It took me a couple of days until I made the connection.

I stopped using that and went back to what is being sold (here in Mexico) as Sensodyne Original.
Oh yea. Sitting in a waiting room for hours drinking shitty coffee while the guy you are talking to goes "in the back" to talk to his manager to see if he can "work out a deal" on the car you want to buy. Wonderful experience! 10/10!
Owning nothing and the shared collective ownership is a major tenant in Communism. So in this case, it's half true.
I'd assume fluoride. On a recent trip to the dentist, I was told I'd had the start of a cavity that had re-crystalized (I believe that was the term). The American Dental Association [0] and an arm of the NIH [1] appear to back this up, as well:

> Fluoride is a mineral that can prevent tooth decay from progressing. It can even reverse, or stop, early tooth decay.

[0] https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/fluoride-superhero

[1] https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay/more-info/...
The Hover Zoom extension I'm seeing in the Chrome Store [1] refers to a prior version that was overrun by malware and removed from the store.

> This is an open source version of the original HoverZoom extension which is now overrun by malware and deleted from store. In this version all spyware has been removed, many bugs were fixed and new features were added.

Were you involved with the project when that all went down?

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc...
Is the water with baking soda meant for drinking or for brushing your teeth with?
I've always enjoyed the Phabricator landing page, because it looks like a joke.

> Pre-Commit Code Review

> Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted.

> Shows code so you can look at it.

> Leave helpful comments and anecdotes.

> Challenge the intern's test plan.

> Gently place bad code back in the author's queue.
A polite question asking the person to go into further detail, for instance.
I'm not suggesting we make extra paper just for the purpose of sequestering carbon. The would obviously be foolish. All I'm saying is that if we are going to keep printing newspapers anyway (and at the moment we are) and the paper that goes into them is a sunk cost, then it might make sense to keep them around both for their historical value and as a carbon sink.

But my tongue was part-way in my cheek when I suggested this because you'd have to warehouse an awful lot of newspapers to make a dent in the carbon problem.
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

-Noam Chomsky
See though, this is kind of the problem right here. Doing everything right is super rote and boring and apparently deserves your mocking commentary.

Whereas doing things wrong (or taking advantage of other people who do things wrong), well that’s fertile soil for good storytelling.
Sharing more than zero bytes is still sharing.
And you will be adding interesting projects to your resume, which might create new opportunities.
Native IDEs go out to lunch sometimes too.
In an infinite universe with random local density of matter, the gravitational constant would vary by location. Anyone know what the consensus is among astonomers if the universe is infinite or not ? Is there even a way to theoretically know ?
It's a great point. The quote I always have in my head at work is from Mr. Wolf in Pulp Fiction. "I'm here to help. If my help isn't appreciated, best of luck, gentlemen." After seeing so many people lose their minds over the "mission" of my previous employer I vowed to never let the company dictate how much I should sacrifice for them ever again.
Related current thread based on that link:

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27327892
Let's look at what students who have lived under both systems over the course of this pandemic are really saying. For the most part, they feel much more engaged with in person instruction.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/students-learn-from-anywher...
Yep. Altho I've been using LivFresh which contains edathamil [1] and has no baking soda.

The benefit of it being in your water is that you get that constant little flush of it

[1] [Effects of a Novel Dental Gel on Plaque and Gingivitis: A Comparative Study](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d87n65m)
Drinking. In my case I'm trying to alkalize my urine to address IC / BPS... but if you just want the dental benefits you can treat it like a mouthwash
The book itself via the author’s website: https://mixtape.scunning.com/

Though of course if you like it and find it useful, you should buy a copy to incentivize him to keep working. (NB: I am not the author and I have never met him, though we have friends in common.)
How this reconcile with the school that says people have a natural sleep pattern? For example I cannot fall asleep earlier than 2am. I was actually depressed because of everyone telling me I have to go to bed at 11pm or even earlier and that made me feel sad that I just couldn't. Only through a therapy I learned that it is perfectly okay to go to sleep at 2am. I also found out that in my case I only need 6 hours of sleep max. I was very sad that I almost never had the mythical 8 hours of sleep.
I have a very acute sense of gloom and almost anxiety when I wake up late. Or even get out of bed late. For me personally this definitely accumulates into a sort of sense that I’m unhappy, not living well, and need a change. It correlated with more depressed times without questions. But is it the cause or a symptom?

My wife doesn’t really get it, and it bothers her quite a bit frankly. But I’ve come to crave waking up early, and doing so is almost like the first accomplishment of the day. Before cleaning my sleeping area, coffee, anything - I made the effort to respect my time and my day, setting myself up for success. I know I’ll sleep better that night, and give myself proper time to accommodate what I need to do that day. It feels right.

I do wonder sometimes though, where is the head and tail of it? Is it a purely psychological phenomenon or do I actually benefit from waking earlier, regardless of time spent asleep?

Is it a learned thing, or am I actually sensitive to my needs?

Sleep is a hard one to understand. All I know is I need a lot of it.
Not interested in using it, but the licensing here is going to be the real killer blow here. Word to the wise: the market of people who want to use your tool and pay for it is smaller than you think. It's the same mindset that kills most of these projects, thinking that the "average users" are going to represent a considerable portion of your income. It won't. Focus on milking enterprise users who want to pay hand over fist for stuff like this, but don't keep it closed source and slap your "patent pending" line on top. You're selling zero-marginal-utility here, and it's not super hard to see.
Argentinosaurus
Interesting. I hope the models were paid adequately, considering that they can now use them effectively for free infinitely.

Reminds me of the movie The Congress.

Obviously this technology has a long way to go, but it seems that that actors should feel less secure about their jobs being resistant to automation.
Perhaps in the future there will be a layer added to this pill that first dissolves the plaque.
Did Schwab say that? I thought that was some random writer that the WEF had run an op-ed.

See also https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wef-idUSKBN2AP2...