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kozinc··on Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
It may not change much as far as researching a treatment or cure goes, but it may help with other stuff, like being better prepared for the future, like organizing a health care worker or getting family members to help out or to look out for you, and other stuff, which you might not be able to do at a later stage of Alzheimers.

While there aren't any cures yet, certain treatments and lifestyle strategies may slow its progression, keep quality of life as long as possible and stuff like that for as long as possible. (And the sooner you start with that, the better)

kozinc··on How to Firefox
Tab Groups combined with Vertical tabs makes for a pretty awesome experience
kozinc··on A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement
Funny, but not exactly accurate :)
kozinc··on Mercedes testing EVs with solid-state batteries on the road 'in a few months'
To me, this is more like "maybe hold off on buying a vehicle for just a bit longer until we got our shit in order (and know exactly how much we can charge you)."
kozinc··on Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
Ah no, their argument is because she signed up for a one-month free trial of Disney+ in 2019, she agreed to arbitration for her death in 2023. So by their metric it doesn't matter if you cancel, you're still bound to that if you visit Disney IRL.
kozinc··on Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
You know, there's 3d models for the expansion cards, so you can always just design your own LoRa expansion cards, probably (or get someone else to do it)
kozinc··on Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
And if, for example, my Switch breaks, or Nintendo shuts down whatever online stuff they got, and I still want to play the games I own? Sometimes an emulator ends up being the only answer.
kozinc··on Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it
TLDR: Google is bad, here's how to delete your Google account. BTW, looking for a better google now? Use our stuff since we just convinced you to delete your Google account! "Ditch your spam filled mailbox and delete Gmail now! We have a better alternative - Tuta Mail."

Yeah, something tells me they're not completely altruistic about this even though I get where they're coming from.

kozinc··on Google pays publishers to test AI tool that scrapes sites to craft new content
Well horoscopes do tend to be general enough they might as well apply to nearly everybody, so I'd believe it.
kozinc··on Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley's Giants
Even if it's true, it would be a terrible move marketing-wise.
kozinc··on The United States is producing more oil than any country in history
Or maybe someone will just crash an ice asteroid into the planet...
kozinc··on Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
Being a layman too, as I understand it, it's because the deafness is caused by a single (mutated) gene which makes it (comparatively) easy to change. In this case, because the altered gene causes a necessary protein to be faulty or missing, gene transfer therapy can introduce a normal copy of the gene to recover the function of the protein.

For other diseases caused like this you're mostly right on the money - sometimes because while a single gene might be the culprit, the mechanism is unknown, sometimes mutations in some ‘single-gene disorders’ may not be in a single-gene at all, not to even mention other possible interactions or the risks inherent to gene therapy.

kozinc··on Tiny Baroque Prints Once Served as Edible Prayers
How some of these edible charms are described makes me think they were sorta like tablets or edible vaccines, except faith-based.

Unless someone actually used them as medicine and then just perscribed faith-based/supernatural powers to them (so people wouldn't complain/accuse them of being witches)

kozinc··on Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023
Sure wages may be higher, but prices are higher too, and they've increased more than the wages - and that means cost of living has increased.
kozinc··on Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage
Why would the Russian military care if Tesla can or cannot receive licence plates fast enough?
kozinc··on Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition
Well, they do, technically, the issue is that they aren't enforced... because they have the monies and lawyers. :(
kozinc··on Judas goat
With pens and corrals, the animals can be moved naturally from one point to another, following the one ahead of them. There are specific ways to design facilities to move animals through slaughterhouses naturally. In some places they're still being used though.
kozinc··on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries
Heh, if it were only so easy.
kozinc··on Ask HN: Everyone says my product is cool. Is it a good reason for a startup?
Your product is cool. Now what? How would you monetize it, or sell it?

If you did, what's the competition like? Can you carve out a niche for yourself?

...Now that you're properly discouraged - can you overcome all those challenges? If you can, calculate how much effort(look: money) it would take to do make your product into a money-making product; something you can sell...

...And then decide whether it might just be worth trying, even if the chances are small, even if you need to buckle up and work like a horse.

kozinc··on Terry Pratchett’s hard drive steamrolled in 2017 had '10 unfinished novels'
Most definitely. People would still want to read them though.
kozinc··on Terry Pratchett’s hard drive steamrolled in 2017 had '10 unfinished novels'
Well, if I have to point out the obvious, so that people could read those unfinished novels. (regardless of his wishes)
kozinc··on Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases
BTW, what does this even mean: "But if the tests work much better when taken three times over the course of several days."
kozinc··on If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys?
The problem is also that intelligence isn't on some kind of a line where a specific test tells you that you're closer to a base amount of intelligence needed for sentience. It's a whole bunch of things combined in some yet to be defined way that ends up allowing for the development of intelligence.

As for GPT-4 - it can't even recognize for itself whether data is good or bad, and it can't even recognize that it doesn't know something; IMO right now it's still basically just a black box that takes an input and produces a statistically matching output. A very good one, but still.

kozinc··on Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
If you're the one with the 3-4 load, can you rely on the company to hire more people?

For the worker, the solution is to find a job with a smaller load. For the company, it's to either to find more people to join or to convince the person who manages the high load to stay on as long as possible.

kozinc··on Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
Sometimes, however, you don't even get a full article text when the paywalled site loads. In those cases, no amount of Scroll Into View will help.

For those cases try something like Google Cache or Wayback Machine! It still won't always work, but it's nevertheless got a pretty good success rate.

kozinc··on Professor Says He Was Barred from Campus After Monsanto FOIA Inquiry
I mean, it would make sense, like Meta Facebook, Meta Oculus VR, etc.

Good or bad, the ones at the top have to be responsible for whatever happens under them or the buck just gets passed around, and if we don't even know where to point the finger, they don't have an incentive to be better.

A naming convention like this, while a bit stupid, would be better than having to look up who bought/owns/(is a subsidiary of) whom.

kozinc··on Facebook Suspension
I suggest you look over the Facebook Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help), and navigate to (https://www.facebook.com/hacked), or just email them directly (appeals@fb.com)