skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So within the existing population today there exist individuals who essentially never get cavities. The hypothesis for this has been 1. they don't eat sugar, or only fibrous foods, etc. 2. They have a genetic difference that builds stronger enamel or similar.

I have never heard of anyone discussing bacteria in the mouth as a possible difference. Be interested to see if there is a natural strand that some people have present that could also be a culprit.

There has been modest support for this concept in term of gut bacteria, i.e. thin people who donate their excrement to fat people seem to inoculate them with a gut biome that helps them lose weight, or deal with digestive issues.
> "to produce ethanol instead of cavity-causing lactic acid"

So, brush your teeth and have ethanol in your mouth forever? I'm curious if this would be of high enough concentrations to show up on a breathalyzer, or if it would cause problems for people in recovery from alcohol or drugs.
There's no reason for that site to use cookies in the first place.
By ‘portals’ what do you mean? Some sort of non-local causation?
Not sure why this was downvoted. The dose makes the poison here

>The average human digestive system produces approximately 3 g of ethanol per day through fermentation of its contents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_metabolism
Common law is only one basis of law and it's almost exclusively an English thing. In England, alternative bases of law were associated with horrific abuses of power. In response the Anglosphere has adopted a sort of extreme legal conservatism: anything other than inviolable natural rights decided on the basis of "we've always done it this way" is not freedom, but privilege[0]. Every acquittal binds the law, ideally forever. This is the same form of law that gives us things like "human rights are what you afford your worst enemy", which is contradictory[1], but sounds like a really strong bulwark against tyranny.

Outside of the Anglosphere judges are free to ignore precedent, which they call "jurisprudence". This is a tradeoff: you get justice "in the moment" in exchange for less future surety about how the legal system will react. The legal system might just decide that you doing the exact same thing someone else did and got away with is now illegal.

My personal opinion is that any basis of law can be used for tyranny, and that common law and inviolable rights are less protective than we have been propagandized to think. Even common law legal systems occasionally overturn precedent if they feel like it - remember when anti-abortion laws were a violation of the 4th Amendment until they weren't?

[0] This even extends to the word "franchise", which means "French-ize", as in to be given freedoms by being turned into a Frenchman

[1] What if your enemy seeks to take away your rights?
Every time I see one of these positive reviews for autonomous taxi rides, I think about how many people were having sex in it...

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...

It was even predicted...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90264809/self-driving-cars-will-...
Building an Animal Crossing Fortune: Automating Nintendo Switch with Arduino
There's a lot more nuance to the GDPR. It's perfectly possible to use cookies and not need a banner. Our industry's use of banners is just a passive aggressive reaction to being told to respect our users.
Discourse on Winning and Losing – John Boyd [pdf]
Under the assumption that no one has the capacity to perform all the science experiments and analyze all the data themselves to model the world, individuals would have to rely on a proxy such as other people telling them the results of science experiments.

Given how complicated nature or whatever around and within us is, there will be many shades of gray. What is looked down upon is (usually) conclusions reached from methods outside of the scientific method, such as predictions of one’s personal life based on a deck of cards or medical interventions with no explanation of cause of action or experimental numbers to rule out random-ness.
I can see how this would have trouble attracting development funding. If your product is successful, people need one dose, ever. After some number have bought it the natural spread is likely to wipe out the rest of the market. It might be "pirated" with a kiss or a shared lollipop?

Against that, you have the entire dental industry, an established market of i dunno how much per year but substantial. They're already well versed in selling people intangibles packaged with inert ingredients. They've got a long history of "science to order" (9 out of 10 dentists agree!). They've got a large body of known sadists to call on for the less civil dispute resolution processes they might choose to employ.

I salute the folks behind this effort. Even if its all fairy dust you've put your lives on the line.
With filters you should be able to do it pretty easily assuming you have the data in Loops already. Always ways we could improve though!
At this point, isn't consent compliance a solved problem? That they can't find a canned solution to suit their needs is eyebrow-raising.
Speaking as someone who did what GP suggested, it can be cross-platform; I just abstracted the string to path and path to string conversions, as well as any path operations that are different across platforms.

The first thing to realize to make it work is that paths are not strings, so you actually don't want to treat them like they are.
Emacs on termux from a Logitech K780 works great for me, the benefits of not being mouse dependent pay off in life more often than you might expect. Almost all the "editor" apps (foss only app user here) are subpar compared to using emacs/vim. Web apps are obviously the "in-between" without much of a solution. Also, I do miss my Blackberry KeyOne sometimes and have heavily considered some of the newer physical keyboard phones.
A quick search suggests kidney and liver problems are related and liver damage tends to precede kidney damage.

Maybe someone more invested in this question will go down a rabbit hole and share. I was just doing a gut check of my knee jerk reaction of "But what I know of the human body...."
The time-value of money means the adjustment goes the other way. $20k is absolutely insane. That’s three times the cost of a full orthodontic treatment. They’ll get a handful of customers, if that.

$2k is more likely as a price point for mass adoption.
I believe this is the standard way of doing things now. And has been for decades. Practically all big brands used some form of "growth hacking techniques" on launch so you can't really blame newcomers.
They have a pitch deck lamenting 90% of US adults have cavities, and they are 2x likely to get untreated if you are poor, then propose to market this for 20k$/dose. Saving the world, again, startup style.
> Source?

You're replying to the CEO of MailChannels
> It's a risky investment strategy to put so much emphasis on AI startups.

At some level, YC is a marketplace for VCs. One'd think that this over-emphasis (it was crypto, b2b SaaS, mobile app startups before this) is YC working as it is supposed to be? http://paulgraham.com/herd.html / https://archive.is/vkzMd
Your assertion is simply wrong.

SBS is not just a parent trying to shush a baby - it requires a very significant amount of force in a healthy infant. This is not a "oh shush let me hug you" thing, this requires repeatedly seriously jostling the baby hard enough to pinch it's airway off or bounce it's brain off the inside of it's skull. Usually repeatedly.
I'm 40 years old. Never had cavities.

I eat plenty of sugar.
What would they do with your nudes?

Not like you wouldn't know if something went wrong. You'd literally have a cause for suing them.

Like if I was working at AppleGenius or whatever, this would probably be a routine thing.
I find I almost always prefer using a stylus to a finger. That's the Onyx's pencil (previously as Staedler, unfortunately since broken). I can see what I'm tapping on with the stylus, positioning is far more precise, and it doesn't smudge the screen.

It's still hell for text editing, however.

Unless I'm doing actual handwritten note-taking, which might be another option.
The New York Times buys information from similar databases and uses it to determine the articles that are recommended to you on their site (among other things) [1]. Ironically, that may be the reason the submitter saw this article in the first place.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/privacy
The FDA requirements for the original clinical trial were wild: "...the FDA required them to find a cohort of 300 healthy 18-30 year olds who lived alone, not near a school zone, and had fully removable teeth."

I can see why this makes sense, but no wonder they failed at enrolling the cohort.
The set of people adversely affected is even smaller than that: it's people who would actually use the basic HTML in the future, which can be closely approximated by the people who use it now.

Google knows the numbers for that, we don't. But it's striking how few "I use this UI in situation X" comments this story and its duplicates have. Most of the comments are by people who at best imagine it would be something they'd use, but actually don't. (And at worst the comments are by people who don't know what the basic HTML UI was, but are here to complain about other aspects of gmail.)
What exactly is "stochastic terrorism"?
Now that we have kind of clarified what you mean, what is your evidence that any of those things actually happend besides that someone wrote a couple of paragraphs about them in the Bible? I would also be interested in knowing why those miracles no longer occur or, if they still occur, why do we not have any credible high quality videos of them?
Specifically, the problem can be solved with a supplied-air respirator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplied-air_respirator
Texas Instruments TMS34010
They say it was because of FDA approval. As it was GM, in order to prove it is safe they wanted a study done on healthy people who are completely isolated from the human race so that they can't spread it. As nobody lives in a place where they are completely isolated from the human race it wasn't a very realistic. Then the patent ran out so it wasn't worth it for any drug company to proceed with approval because everyone else would just wait until they've paid the fee and then sell it too.
The stock Mac mail client is excellent, millions of people use Outlook or Thunderbird, and there's even better third party clients available.
Is the new version actually inaccessible or it’s just that you don’t like its bloat? It would sound strange to me that one of the most used apps in the world is completely inaccessible, especially considering that the non-basic-html Gmail has global shortcuts, which are surely faster than tabbing around a page.
More like few trillion to Afganistan and Iraq with no real threat but idk, you can say whatever % too.
Like how most of our ancestors got here, you mean?
Oh, I see. Thanks for your perspective. I can understand trying to use contacts and calendar for this and the need to keep it simple. I had a really hard time keeping those organized and the data entered but as apps like Messages get smarter and recognize when I say Happy Birthday to someone that it needs to put a birthdate on that contact, it’s getting a lot easier for me to stay organized.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/17/appeals-court-halts-...

Yes, this article is from 2016 and yes it's in Texas which has a strong law which allows throwing out bad science.

The suspect forensic claim was such a small part of the evidence against the defendent that it didn't survive appeals.
Yeah Iirc the status of the biggest enclaves are still enclaves but that's manageable.
Remember T9? I haven't much experience with it—I'm young. But it was a much more pleasant experience than the current experience with touch screen. Swiping works, but I feel it requires too much cognitive energy. As soon as a conversation is taking longer than this paragraph, I tend to call the person instead.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
NASA hails 'awesome' rescue mission as asteroid sample reaches military base
Debug your GitHub Actions by using SSH
It's not a situation where someone is "giving up land". Croatia doesn't claim the land from its own legal perspective. The Croatian ambition is to use a historical path of the Danube river (from something like ~150 years ago) as the border. This way, Croatia could control larger pieces of land which today belong to Serbia. The line of control, after the war, is the modern-day river, which follows Serbia's claim.

However, despite Croatia's claims, there's also been some gray-area Croatian forestry going on there, through Hrvatske Šume. And since the Liberland movement started to claim the parcel as "no man's land", Croatia started patrolling it with police and arresting people occasionally.
Canada is pretty heavy on immigration I hear-- its how they partially make up for a declining birthrate.
This bit is no longer entirely accurate:

> For highly proficient users, this gets even worse as their is no command key equivalents for cut, copy, or paste. […] Part of the unspoken reason desktop clipboard use is so high is the speed in which it can be used. Mobile has none of this.

I recently discovered [1] that iOS has several three-finger pinch/swipe gestures for copy, paste, cut, undo, and redo. Apparently these gestures were introduced in 2019/iOS 13 [2]. While they are certainly not the easiest gestures to reliably perform, they at least do not suffer from the issues of ambiguity described by the author.

[1]: accidentally, of course, because the discoverability of many features on mobile is quite poor

[2]: https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/12/gestures-undo-ios-iphone-ipad...
I think internet explorer did this selection thing at one point years ago. I don’t recall chrome doing it. Firefox used to have a ‘caret browsing’ feature but people didn’t use it so it was eventually removed. So I don’t really think it’s a missed opportunity so much as a feature people didn’t sufficiently love.
Why are they not pushing against fluoride en masse, then?
"Retribution would require mimicry of the original crimes."

No, it would not. That's not the definition of retribution.
I know it’s not exactly related but I have to say that it sucks that we can’t repurpose old iPhones even though they are full blown computers.

Really hope this changes in future….
It's Yet Another Libertarian free land project like minerva, sealand, jfip, operation atlantis 1, 2 & 3, satoshi, rose island, blueseed etc. They all end effectively the same way: either discovering there is such a thing as society through things like disease, disaster, securing water, or that other people, with like armies and planes, also value property rights.

Yet somehow I guess the inevitable happening is still shocking to some. When I'm either old or dead, I'm sure this will repeat itself on Mars
The "tedious recipe blogs that require so much scrolling" usually first start with an emotional story about how the dish reminds the author of their childhood, which is included (presumably) to milk SEO and also annoy readers, followed by a recipe with maybe one photo.

This is a recipe with short (but not one-liners) yet helpful instructions, including images of how the cooking process would work.

Do you have an example of a better recipe post?
I think it might be. It's apparently not the real website for Bus Pirate, if you read sibling comments.
Mel Brooks explains how he came up with "Hedley" Lamarr

https://youtu.be/ZEQ3OxYL2Co
Brushing your teeth and using mouthwash wipes out the majority of the micro biome. Application of the new strain shortly after could totally replace it wholesale.

That said, I can’t imagine there’s not other side effects that just aren’t known yet. The sample size and reporting (as far as we know) is just too small and meaningless.
Instagram's Time Capsule Bug
As soon as you've had a dose you can just start kissing people and they will get it too. Or do what the government does in bioweapon simulations and just start spraying cities with it to see how easily it spreads.
This really focuses my thinking on the matter. I've been planning an app with a web frontend, but what I really want to do is to design my own post-W3C protocol and browser. I don't know how to do this, but the web is totally broken.
A New Way to Protect Against Heart Attacks
...which is exactly what the folks at the link are proposing. From their Investment Proposal doc:

> However, we can create a new, derivative strain of SMaRT, which would be under new IP protections, and therefore, would very likely be of interest to a large pharma company.
The fact the iOS delete button moves at snails pace then suddenly jumps to deleting words for about 4 words then suddenly starts deleting whole chunks of text. It’s objectively trash and a nightmare to use when just ramping up single character delete speed alone would be an improvement.

This is before we get into the silliness of autocorrect repeatedly autocorrecting the same thing when you delete it and retype it.

Dread writing on mobile.
Want:

Mechanical Keyboard with an OS powering a PaperWhite screen.
A mathematical knot is a knot with the two ends brought together. So they are real knots as well.
I think the word is not great. "conduit" would be better.
Yes, basically when Longhorn started to fail to meet expectations, there were two possible ways, do what Google did with Android, push forward no matter what to make it work, or forcing a rewrite into something else, which is what WinDev ended up doing.

"What Really Happened with Vista"

https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7f...

"Turning to the past to power Windows’ future: An in-depth look at WinRT"

https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...
Ok you ranted about data collection, but you failed to address the fact that every single company does it, including those that you’re paying for, like your bank and ISP.

Data collection exists whether you pay for a service or not. Since Google does not have my CC info, Gmail is 100% free of charge, regardless of how you define data collection.
IRL use cases for Python and Htmx
It has nothing to do with patents or royalties. It's all about the total addressable market and whether or not Apple thinks they could make enough profit from adding such a feature.

Obviously, Apple has decided not.
Classic encounter with an improper noun.[0]

I think the more substantive critique here is that when people hear “learning styles” they stop thinking and just reject the idea reflexively. To be fair, this is a reasonable defense to a scam that persuaded a lot of people historically and still has a fair bit of traction.

A practical response would be to work around the wordings that have baggage, not because you have to for Big Brotherish reason, but because you have empathy for the people you’re speaking to.

[0] https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1773806.html
I'm using termux, so I ssh in to a machine where my drafts are (although I have SyncThing installed and can theoretically use that, I haven't bothered). The ThinkSmart can lock itself in the usual ways.
All desktop and mobile operating systems come with native email clients.
Cookies needed for a functional site can be used without notice.

The permission popups are only needed if you want to gather and store data. And why do that if you don't want to use it?

If you're really worried you can write a simple privacy policy stating your server stores some stuff like the client IP etc. (so you can do something like, block abuse) and then follow that policy to the letter by not doing anything else with the data you gather.

It's not hard.
The child did not have pneumonia. Roberson CLAIMS the child had pneumonia.

You know the issue with that claim? It would have shown up in autopsy. There would still be inflammation in the lungs.

The child had breathing problems because of SBS. SBS can pinch off the airway.

This is a kid that was repeatedly in a hospital. Not for a diagnosed issue such as Asthma but because SBS damage kept occuring because Roberson kept shaking the child hard enough for her to pass out on multiple occasions.
That's where it principally diverges from physics - in reality a knot is about creating friction and wrapping a rope a few times around a tree can for some practical purposes achieve the same thing.
Wanting to weaken or abolish any kind of property right - even the non-naturally-derived government-granted monopoly bargains that form copyright, patent, and trade secrecy - makes you extremely fringe in the legal profession. If you want to be a competent and successful lawyer while holding those opinions you have to firewall half your brain off from the other half. Partially because fringe people who want to change the law make terrible legal arguments[0], and partially because nobody wants to hire a lawyer that's arguing that forensic software should be decopyrighted and its source code forcibly expropriated by the state for the sake of avoiding a miscarriage of justice.

[0] Like me, right now, who thinks we should demand copyright term maximums
My mother contracted coccidioidal meningitis (CM) [1] around 1991, perhaps because her immune system was weakened from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Apparently fluconazole was not widely used at this point, and they treated her with Amphotericin B via intrathecal delivery, but the treatment was unsuccessful and she died. Apparently treatment is now more successful.

[1] https://health.ucdavis.edu/valley-fever/about-valley-fever/c...
Yeah, I know more about Hedy Lamarr than I do about Margot Robbie even though she was at the peak of her career 40 years before I was born.
You'd want to put them in Low Earth Orbit, not Ceres. Data centers (CDNs) in space would have 10ms ping times in basically the worst case (assuming a relatively high low earth orbit of 1000 km and hitting satellites at approximately 45 degrees elevation). In the best case they'll have ping times possibly as low as 3ms (satellites that happen to be directly overhead in their 400 km orbits).

You get direct connections to the servers without going through multiple local jumps and you aren't slowed down by the slower speeds of light in fiber.

Error correction, mass limits, and power generation are the difficult parts.
We aren't talking about cake though. We are talking about inexpensive highly processed foods made predominantly from ingredients that are subsidized specifically because of their caloric density. I.e. corn.

High caloric density is what you want if you need to be able to feed your country in war, so we subsidize these foods.

No one wants to eat just plain corn though, so companies process it into other foods that are then sold cheaply because they are receiving these large subsidies.

People end up consuming large quantities of these foods because they are cheap, and our brain reward centers a pre-wired to love lots of cheap easy calories.

Knowing all of this, it makes perfect sense to tax the living crap out of highly processed foods that are made from subsidized ingredients. You're just taking back the subsidy you put there in the first place, and shaping consumer behavior for the greater good (which is a common use case for taxation).