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Agreed, Porkbun is so reasonable I've purchased extra domains I don't even really need

Probably only for Pro edition, not Home

Another day, another service driven to madness by the poison of advertising

I agree. I have plenty of concerns about AI, but those concerns involve real-world harms that can happen in the immediate/short-term, not just some hypothetical sci-fi mass casualty event and having AI criticisms focus on the wrong conversation really just compounds the short-term harm by shifting the conversation away

Long before AI causes mass harm without human involvement, humans will find hundreds of ways to make it cause harm, and harm at scale. I do think the technology itself is part of the risk though, because of the flaws, the scale, etc inherent to its current iterations. However, maybe those are still the fault of humans for not giving it the proper limits, warnings, etc. to mitigate those things

That said, it can be used for good in the right hands (accessibility tools, etc), potentially, though I'm certainly more of a doomer at this point in time.

Since there are examples of locations having a more accelerated rise over time in tooth decay when water fluoridation is discontinued [1], I think one can extract from that, that possibly the explanation is that enough water is being drank/used in ways where it contacts teeth, that a difference is clearly seen in the dental statistics of a population monitored over time when fluoridation changes are made.

[1] Article/study discussing Calgary vs Edmonton in Canada, linked elsewhere in the comments here that has this snippet:

What’s happened since 2012? A study found that within a couple of years of ending fluoridation, decay in children’s baby teeth had risen by 65 per cent compared to 2005, while the increase was only 14 per cent in Edmonton, which continues to fluoridate its water.

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I won't argue the fact that there may indeed be problems with ingestion, and additionally that contact to the teeth is the only way for the fluoridated water to help, but I'm not convinced that existing water fluoridation isn't having a positive effect on tooth decay. Whether it's worth other potential health trade-offs is certainly a valid concern.

Yes. It was useless to me and I would not work or apply anywhere that requires it

Diet sodas have been a helpful tool to me when losing weight, as I enjoy soda enough that it's one thing I don't want to give up- and diet sodas are a way to enjoy it without calories and sugar and it keeps me a bit more satisfied 'in the moment' at least, when I'm eating less food

Do they cause cravings and would switching to something else (water, etc) be better? Oh I'm sure. I'm not aiming for perfect. I've been able to combine keeping drinks diet (soda, flavored water, completely unsweetened sparkling water) + other calorie restriction to lose weight.

I still struggle off and on personally with weight loss in general but that's more because of psychological struggles than anything else. But keeping some things I enjoy but having less of them or less caloric versions of them has been far more sustainable than any other weight-loss lifestyle I've tried- one that's easier to bounce back to when I do struggle

Why "less dense" is considered good design in something like this boggles my mind

IMHO, every single change looks worse and will feel worse

There's been a "how's it going" meme making the rounds using just the headline from this article so that's probably why it's catching peoples' attention

I had this problem with Boost Mobile for phones. Apple Store and various podcast sources seemed ultra-throttled and often wouldn't even want to load at all.

Eventually switched to Mint and problem went away. Maybe a fluke, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was some shaping BS

I've used this for both a print server and for pi-hole. It's lightweight and I love the ease of setup/configuration/updating. Really enjoy the TUI interface

Wow, super frustrating that this article, instead of actually listing options for non-smart TVs, just brushes them off with saying that they'll be "missing features" you would want, then lists features plenty of people don't need.

Thanks for essentially nothing instead of actually answering the question, Wirecutter.

Generally I agree, though I do enjoy the way it seems to humanize celebrities in many cases.

It's nice when that curtain can fall- and I've often found myself realizing that I had a pre-conceived notion or negative bias about some celebrity that turns out to be false. By the end of some interviews I find myself viewing the guest much differently than before, or learning a little bit about the life/work of a celebrity (just as another human being) that I normally wouldn't be interested in, in any capacity (as someone that doesn't consume the media that most of the guests on the show are involved in, particularly shows/movies)

I hesitate to legitimize your reply with my own, but my take was anything but saying Linus does no wrong and in fact I explicitly stated there are things for which LTT/Linus can be legitimately criticized

Your initial post was a vague enough comment that it could easily be taken to be criticizing LTT for giving a "glowing review" as "someone who invested in the product... yikes" etc etc, not just Framework not putting a disclosure. The latter is something I don't actually disagree with. Had your post had that clarity then I doubt we'd have had a disagreement at all

That said, I think the fact that the review occurred prior to the investment make even that disclosure unnecessary.

Not sure we want to ask Apple to build more software when they can't even get the quality of their existing software up to par. I would be strongly inclined to stick with something less tied to the platform/ecosystem, like 1Password

Linus has always been upfront about this investment and I believe some of his content was from before the investment took place. He's explained his reasoning for investing at length and has included a disclaimer in places where necessary.

So this is a very uncharitable take. There's plenty of things to cringe or criticize LTT for- but this just isn't it

Yes how convenient of him to step down days before having to make a difficult announcement and instead pawning it off on the new interim CEO instead.

So admirable. How this could be characterized as "going down with his ship" is absolutely wild to me

So their reaction to pirated books is to... remove books from their most-competitive-with-piracy service? Does nothing to help prevent piracy and only hurts authors and paying users.

Piracy will never end and the only way for businesses to meaningfully reduce it (to an extent) is to provide a compelling option that competes with it.

I had to remove quotes to make it fit, but maybe something like:

USCO tells judge AI art created without any human involvement is not protectable

or, to retain quote marks,

USCO tells judge AI art "created without any human involvement" not protectable

I suppose I'm looking at it from a more distant, human perspective, just in that, for any human to sign over rights to their voice or likeness is to fundamentally sever a significant level of autonomy / agency from themselves- which gives me chills for multiple reasons, but from a work perspective, essentially puts themselves out of certain forms of work / voluntarily obsoletes others' need for their work.

I just kind of shudder at the thought of a voice actor signing over rights to their voice without appropriate compensation and their career just vanishing (assuming AI gets good enough to outright replace them completely)

In my view, any human that signs over such rights deserves to be well-compensated upfront and should ensure they have a contract that pays them significant royalties for each subsequent use. I suppose maybe the most important part of all of this work-wise is just to have a reasonable contract so one retains some control.

Of course, all of this I say with the disclaimer that I'm not certain I think anyone should sign over such rights. I freely admit I come at this from a perspective that is biased against audio/visual/text-generating (and potentially other forms of) AI, unless it is significantly reigned in through restrictions/regulations. I do not look forward to an AI-dominated future of soulless pseudo-art generated by entertainment corporations.

"signing away a voice for a few grand"

I sure hope not. That is equal to a few pennies in the grand scheme of things. Someone signing away their voice (not that I agree anyone ever should, for any reason) should require enormous compensation in return at a minimum.

See HN FAQ on Paywalls

"Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

One thing I've noticed is that it seems certain results (bandcamp as an example) strongly prefer a certain word order in the search term. For instance, I can search artist album and not get any bandcamp results but they do appear if I search album artist. So, sometimes just changing word order in your query can make a significant difference

Can't wait to see the AI corrupted by advertising and money

I always shudder a little when PRs get shared on news sites because I know the devs/maintainers are going to get a huge influx of unnecessary noise/commentary on the PR. Nothing like having the internet opinion bee hive swarming on your project, often wasting time.

That said, maybe this is too negative a perspective and maybe useful contributions will outweigh the noise

This editorialized link title and the article's headline itself doesn't really match the article's content (as is increasingly common it seems). Sure, Beyond Meat has had lower sales- but soon after they mention that retail sales of Impossible meat products increased 50% in 2022- with an odd "but the CEO left so they're in trouble" assessment which seems a bit bonkers. Then the author seems to say that because fake meat hasn't *replaced* the real meat industry, that they have failed. Odd criteria, IMHO. I'm quite certain it could be assumed rather easily that such a thing would not happen, especially in a few years time. The fact it has stuck around this long makes it clearly *not* a fad.

(Anecdotal, but noting this:) My nearby Walmart Neighboorhood Market has all sorts of plant-based meat products, and that section has only expanded over time, not the reverse. I have tried some frozen meals by Impossible and really enjoyed them, as well as some other assorted items from those sections.

I do think that price is still an issue, but real meat maintains a much larger, more established market and supply chain so that is to be expected (unless fake meats are cheap to produce and we're being gouged).

But overall I would lean towards them being more popular now than I've ever seen before- or at least all of my local grocery stores' choice to use up more space for these products seems to imply so.

This was handled in the least professional, most user-and-dev-hostile way possible (not that I expected anything different)

I support the abstract idea of replacing our convoluted tax code with an extremely simple, straight-forward one that avoids negative impact on the poor and maintains an appropriate level of taxation on those (individuals and businesses) with millions/billions of dollars who are not personally impacted the same way (when you have a billion dollars, no reasonable amount of even "high" tax is going to affect your ability to have shelter, food, etc like it would when levied on lower income classes). I am even okay with setting that threshold relatively high.

But this will never happen, and even if it did, it will only affect things at the federal level. The very way our country is designed and divided by states, counties, local jurisdictions makes me feel like we're doomed to complexity forever. However, simplification on the federal side would be a huge step forward. I don't claim to know exactly what that solution would look like but I think it is possible. I am not convinced "Fair Tax" is it, however.

I won't speculate on a reason why, but this information now only seems available when logged into UPS. The public information is more limited and has a "want to see more? log in..." kind of prompt at the bottom.

If I log into my account and look up the same package I can see all the details I would normally expect.

They shipped me an LED bulb... in a padded envelope

It was absolutely destroyed in shipment. They accepted the return, but what a waste of my time, and now I can't trust anything remotely fragile to be shipped successfully from them.