skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of perverse incentives baked into dentistry. This is true of allopathic medicine was well, though I think it can be more difficult for someone to dispute a diagnosis from a dentist; who are you to say that little dot on your X-ray isn't serious enough to be drilled? It wouldn't surprise me if there are many fill-n-drill dentists out there. I knew people whose oral hygiene and diets were far worse than mine and yet they almost never were told they had cavities, and then there were those who ate properly who have had root canals and crowns.

In my experience, and in my own opinion, the industry of dentistry would be nowhere near as necessary as it currently is if people largely gave up consuming too much carbohydrates and sugar, which feed the bacteria that are ultimately the root cause of tooth decay. Acidification of saliva is of course an issue as well, but I think the whole "drinking cola will rot your teeth" thing is an exaggeration and a sort of red herring. It's not the soda per se, or so much the acidity of carbonated water, but the fact that you're feeding bacteria which colonize in the crevices and pores of your teeth, forming biofilm, creating isolated pockets of acid that wear holes in teeth. If it was all about exogenous acid, then the entire tooth would be rotting evenly, but that's usually not what you see.

My teeth aren't perfect. In fact, there's some decay that I've let sit there for nearly two decades now. Ever since I cut sugar from my regular diet, any caries I had either reversed (when extremely early) or stopped progressing. I do plan on seeing a dentist soon to actually address the decay, because it's silly to leave it there, but I'm confident that I otherwise stopped it in its tracks. My gums don't bleed, and I've seen no meaningful changes to my teeth in all that time. If my hypothesis is correct, then there's a real conundrum because the most affordable food available to people also tends to promote more tooth decay; dentistry largely exists to compensate for the fact that the cheapest available energy for humans comes with negative side effects.
This is actually something I've been thinking about a lot. Once we do have AGI, and it chooses to embark upon a large project, would it prefer to just do it all itself, or would it prefer to spawn independent agents to take responsibility for each part of the project, which would then need to periodically meet to coordinate?

If the latter, I do expect something not too dissimilar from current office meetings. But if course what I'm really imagining are the cylon meetings in the reimagined BSG.
Ok, and isn't it worth losing 20% of productivity for something that may improve people's quality of life?

This whole productivity thing is so dumb.
Experts exist.

If you think it's impossible or merely undesirable for a society to have experts in public employ working for the greater good then... okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm certainly not going to change your ingrained beliefs. But hopefully you can learn to understand others' views. What I'm seeing is the typical tendency to misrepresent others' beliefs as some sort of all-encompassing faith in "bureaucrats." Wrong.

Markets are useful and proven tools. So are rules.

Both of them have proven inadequate on their own.
You use out of band non yubi key mfa and contact your support and they give you a new one. Been using them for a while it’s really not too much of a challenge.

Also you just keep a bucket of non signed up ones at the office. Enrolling them is pretty easy.
I do. I watch YouTube videos through yt-dlp and haven't touched Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp for as long as I've lived.

Edit 1:

> what do you think is the worst thing about ad tech?

For all intents and purposes, the simple fact that I have to encounter advertisement is the worst part. If you made me watch YouTube with advertising enabled I would stop using it.

You seem to be convinced I'm one of those "ads will ruin society" shmucks, but I'm not. Ads annoy and trouble me, so I fight for my right to avoid them. Whatever you do with your time/money is up to you, but watching ads is a vehement waste of my life energy.

> what kind of society can we have without it do you think?

An extremely authoritarian one, probably.

> how will the economy work? :)

Something similar to how it does now, with less hucksters trying to sell software that is 2 free libraries glued together. The entire software service industry (advertising included) is a bubble - we'll cross this bridge when the music stops.
> I've only had one done, and it wasn't a fun experience - it's something I see as a last resort to save a tooth, certainly not something I'd want to go through for cosmetic improvements.

What was "unfun" about it? I'm familiar with what they are, but not the pain-points (in the non-literal sense lol) of getting them.
Absolutely brilliant game.
SequelPro is quite decent for MySql.

Tooling for Postgres seems to be more for the technical who prefer command line than not.
It's so tiresome how much of popular geopolitical/macro "analysis" is literally just a linear extrapolation of surface metrics. Almost zero understanding of underlying trends and agendas and how new technology (renewable energy, automation) will disrupt.

Growth went from 10% to 5%, therefore it is basically 0% if not negative.

Birthrates are down, therefore total demographic collapse is imminent.

Some real estate projects failed, therefore all real estate is about to crash.

So much noise. But hey, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for producing such nonsense.
2 hours? I hate to say that, but:

Too long; didn't watch summary?
> I'm still not sold on the "China is dying" theory.

I don't know if it's as much a story of decline as it is one of unmet expectations.

China has a declining (and likely overstated) population. They have a very heterogeneous population. They also have an unsustainable growth model and an unwillingness to 'pull the plug', stop manufacturer subsidies, and tackle local governance issues.

In other words, China looks a lot like many other East Asian countries in the past that have pursued an export-led growth model with a de-facto single party government.

The difference between China and Korea, Japan, and Taiwan is that the country is - much - larger. Modernization is almost always city-first. It's possible to gloss over a significant rural-urban divide when you have a high population density and a relatively homogeneous population.

For comparison, Taiwan's population density is three times larger than China, and that's before you account for the fact that much of the island is essentially inhabitable.

All of the infrastructure China has built exists. From what I've been told, the east and south coast cities are the most modern in the world. It's hard to imagine - decline.

However, the country has very well known and very large issues that they're unwilling or unable to address. Lower growth and - maybe - some form of stagnation are more likely, (I'm thinking it will be the former after a correction of some kind).
Older (2020), but a lot more detailed article:

https://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/20200601/

The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), a University of California San Diego partnership project led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, supports Internet-data applications in the research, education, and public safety realms.

(If you are not familiar with HPWREN) https://hpwren.ucsd.edu/
For sharing results widely, there's arxiv. The problem is that the fanout is now overwhelming.

The public perception of a publication in a prestigious journal as the established truth does not help, too.
Interesting stuff, and I hope that it's true. Would be really great if humanity can outgrow war.

Not mentioned in the article, but very similar to the "McDonald's Theory of Conflict Prevention"
I'm in the city quite seldom and take the T even less so I'm admittedly not very plugged into the day to day experience.

You're probably right about young professionals. I'd guess that relatively few mid-career+ professionals don't own a car. But I know a number of recent hires at my company who were typically interns at a university in the city and quite a few are basically continuing their college lifestyle for now (including leaning on their friends who do own cars).

I think last time I looked, both T and commuter rail ridership were still way down. Maybe a bit over 50%. I know when I take the train in a train that would be packed standing room only starting at at least Waltham there are almost always empty seats today.
Definitely some of that going on, and SF government begging companies to bring workers back downtown. But also, and I feel this even as an IC, working in person is better for the company and for some types of people. I work much better in person, company culture can actually exist in person, career development is easier.
Some Startups and their industries can get more done quicker in the same physical space together.
Can't you just give some love to the issue https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44 instead ? As I said before this would be very helpful for the community because there are a lot of libraries that use libpg_query and cannot be used on windows (f.e see https://github.com/lelit/pglast/issues/7).

It seems that the only problem for fixing the problem is:

> Thanks for the offer, but the problem is our team being time limited / having an engineer with a Windows machine ready to take this on, not that we wouldn't want to pay someone to work on it :)

(https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44#issuecomm...)

Hosting the LSP elsewhere is not really needed since if people wanted to go that way they could use Remote ssh (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh) to host the whole dev environment on linux and connect to it.

Thank you
Such a perfect HN submission. I'm pretty uninterested in gardening and yet love the implications and insight of seeing this kind of specialized knowledge, both the article and commentary.
So, its okay if you leave money on the table when it comes to business decisions?
And the mobile brother of that, the “half the things you do are now a slide-up-from-the-bottom modal, which has its own stack, so you get confused and accidentally go back irreversibly many levels when you inadvertently close it.”
Nine Planets With No Intelligent life - https://www.bohemiandrive.com/npwil

Not so much dystopian... as philosophical. Though, Uranus was both.
The theory was that they are also the landlords
My system is basically to emphasize easy rebuild of a database. So I have directories that contain a text file that can be easily parsed to build databases or process workflows. I have found this works extremely well even in draconian IT environments.
I hear you’re looking to raise another round. It’d be a real shame if a board member got in the way of that.
CBOR is Greener than JSON [pdf]
I can use SMS with Skype, with the caveat that some SMS systems won’t work with it. (e.g. most dating sites will only send verification SMS to a real phone for instance.)
Hybrid seems interesting
China might not be as successful as the west(yet) but they have their own ecosystem and have alternatives for most tech products.

All the tech companies in China are practically under the control of the party. China also has a billion+ people, even the market is smaller than the west, I think they will manage.

Not to mention the difference in privacy laws and a higher number of stem grads to throw at the problem.
Well many of them would just use office space for zoom calls then.

Eben after rto I'd never climb a few floors to find a meeting room for f2f anyway.
The thing about teeth and crowns is, it's fine until it isn't. I've actually had a molar collapse while eating almonds. It's honestly more traumatic than you'd think. Anyways, as a result I did a bunch of research and it turns out that crowns are important for reducing further damage to the root. A split down the the root is it for a tooth, and prosthetics are not a great replacement. My dentist gave me a price breakdown between extraction or root canal and crown both as valid options. Just because they say it's optional doesn't mean they're trying to price gouge you (though clearly the former was).
That is my idea... If we opened it up, there's probably more interesting iterations, such as requiring pre-registration for all papers, having papers with pre-registration count as some portion of a full paper even if they fail so long as the pre-registration passed scrutiny, having non-replicated papers count as some portion of a fully replicated paper, and having replication as a separate category such that there is a minimum k, a minimum n, and a minimum k+n.

The non-easy part of this is once we start making changes to the criteria for tenure, this opens up people trying to stuff all the solutions for all of the problems that everyone knows already. (See Above.) Would some one try to stuff code-available for CS conference papers, for example? What does it mean for a poster session? At what point are papers released for pre-print? What does it mean for the tenure clock or the Ph.D clock? Does it mean that pre-tenure can't depend on studies that take time to replicate? What do we do with longitudinal studies?

I think you're looking at a 50 year transition where you would have to start simple and iterate.
Sure, I understand how to authenticate to my remote machine with a smartcard (and already do use this setup). I'm wondering how to authenticate to resources (over HTTP) from my remote machine while using webauthn.
Yeah, agreed, I totally don't believe this problem has gone away. In fact, it is still a noteworthy article for the very reason that it was 26 years ago but sounds like it could have happened yesterday. But, it should be noted in the HN title.
Thanks all. Wasn't aware of MusicXML or musescore. I do write out exercises on manuscript paper and find that the time it takes and contemplation is helpful. They're legible bug generally pretty ugly, and I don't always want my notebooks to take up space when traveling. Even when I do use tools to generate certain things, I often still write them out as a way to contemplate the music without my instrument. Also having a bunch of handwritten manuscript paper makes me feel more accomplished than I am.
> Zoom, which remains a leader in the post-pandemic remote work trend, is now asking all employees within 50 miles of a company office to go in at least two days a week on a hybrid schedule.

This doesn’t seem like all that stringent a requirement.
> I had stellar dentists up until I moved to a new city and had my first experience with a bad dentist. Never again.

Is the only way to determine a bad dentist by going to many? I am in need of lots of work, but the thought of going to a ton of car-salesman-esque "medical professionals" to pick the correct one .. is terrifying.
It has a multiplayer mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-multiplayer-co-op-gui...
"We happen to have some cheap rental space near other companies we own, no credit checks, and you're near <insert other SaaS companies that can be used so you have close accss to them>"

If you're a startup, getting office space without much bullshit is worth a premium.
It’s not the managers that are pushing for return to office, they’re just the messengers for senior leadership who have spent millions buying real estate and want the return on investment.
That type of video usage is a new medium and just blasting cameras everywhere isn’t a good use of video meetings
I agree, but American knowledge workers have somehow been convinced that the best path forward is to remain ununionized, at-will employees, which means the desires of the workers are always superseded by the desires of capital. In the capital class’ eyes, productivity is more important than worker quality of life.
>By... using Zoom to connect to those meetings?

It was a rhetorical question pointing out that zoom would still be used for meetings.

>What's the point of joining a Zoom call from an office when you could join it from home?

Because you are already in the office.
Coexist (Image)
Schedule meetings only on those days for the most part to focus on the other days?
Ha, different strokes for different folks I guess.

Usually when I'm reading something, my hands are off the keyboard and I use one hand to scroll with the mouse. In this scenario, it's so much easier to double-click to select a word and drag it to a new tab instead of reaching for the keyboard.
It actually increments each word it finds, so while most words will turn to "1", "356" will become "357". I have to imagine this ending up in the blog is the result of a copy-paste mistake, a LLM hallucination, or something similar.

Others have commented on built-in vim functionality for counting words, but assuming the author copy-pasted a similar looking command, they may have intended something like:

:%s/\w\+//gn

Knowing that the n flag will return a count instead of doing the substitute may be useful to know, but I personally don't need a search count very often.

Knowing that you can execute a vimscript expression on each search match using \= is also cool and I was unaware of such functionality. https://vimhelp.org/change.txt.html#sub-replace-expression
I guess that makes sense. There was some ridiculous extrapolation on the “new normal” like COVID would last forever
I've posted this before, but I went to a new dentist one time and though I'd never had a cavity, the new dentist said I had nine, some of which were pretty bad and needed immediate treatment lest they require a root canal. I didn't have any money or dental insurance at the time, so I didn't go back and just worried about it a lot for a while.

That was twenty-five years ago. Haven't been to a dentist since. My teeth are fine, and always have been.

Funny story about the 'no cavities' thing - when I was maybe 12 I went to a new dentist who found a cavity in a molar, drilled it out, and filled it with some sort of 'invisible' polymer filling and charged a whole bunch of money for it. Next dentist I went to, I mentioned the cavity and he said nobody had drilled on the tooth and there was no sign of a cavity or a filling of any type there.

Some years later, I was reading somewhere online and found out that the dentist who "filled" the "cavity" was a subscriber to a dental practice management program run by the Church of Scientology that, in part, taught that it was OK to rip off patients who weren't Scientologists. A few years after that, the dentist got arrested for molesting children and is probably still in prison.
> They’re very clear about how they use your data

You lost me there. Every day there seem to be new terms in new places about what they do. I have absolutely no idea if I've managed to find and turn off all the spying that they want to do, and even if I have I assume they still have terms that let them do what they want that they've opted me in to.
"Pick up the rice cooker bowl with a towel, and eat right out of it."

They get me!
It's not exactly new that Twitter and others take over handles.

https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687537767671070737

The lesson isn't that Musk is Bad (in this instance anyway) so much as your existence on a platform continues to be at that platform's discretion.
These types of papercuts (see other comments on how podman-compose and any sort of custom networking have issues, too) are why I have mostly avoided Podman so far. I find myself just using Docker rootless on Linux workstations and the Docker Engine on servers. On MacOS, I use Colima and it has worked well for me.

> I loved the idea of rootless but it doesn't work on Mac

One clarification I think is worth making in case you weren't aware is that the "rootless" approach isn't really a factor for any Linux container runtime on MacOS since all the container solutions on MacOS run in a VM (since Linux containers rely on Linux kernel features). I.E. Docker Desktop, Podman Desktop, etc. can't run as root on MacOS because they rely on a user-level Linux VM.
Where else are the investors investing?
Try telling one person they can work from home and someone else they can’t, it’s hard for some people to accept.
That is correct. If you actually use a browser remotely, you would need to use something like RDP with the WebAuthn Virtual Channel enabled, which unfortunately I think is currently only available by Microsoft. Some remote control software like Teamviewer has USB passthrough, but I've no idea if that works with Yubikeys (I doubt it).

So yes, working with what I'd call a "thin client setup" is something where Yubikeys are probably not a good fit, unless the protocol for that setup would support some kind of direct USB forward that actually works with Yubikeys...
Yes because it is a video calling app. It should have never gone so high in the first place.
I think this is right. It is also a tactic to increase attrition without having to announce layoffs. A big chunk of people will just move jobs instead of wasting 10-15 hrs a week to a commute.
> How would investors even ask for that?

What do you mean "ask"? They demand because it's their capital that fuels the company.

It's not like a VC gives money to a company and then cannot do anything but wait for returns.
I do find it quite useful to have copilot on when working on notebooks within VS Code.

It's particularly useful when I can just write a comment explaining the kind of transformation I want, and it then writes a pandas incantation which I can immediately check and iterate on.
I've destroyed two yubikeys in a 2017 MBP that would occasionally send excess voltage out of USB (I guess it was a bugged first-generation USB-C chipset), and one from leaving in on my keyring in my pocket in the laundry.

It's possible to break, but it's not trivial.
>But many enterprises simply took advantage of easy bank loans to refinance their existing debt without adding new spending or investment to the economy. These companies eventually became loan addicts; and as with any addiction, increasing doses were needed to generate diminishing effects.

Sounds like a description of the Western economic situation to me.
...live together in a big building, work together, pray together, ~~cook~~ eat together...

What, kinda like this?

https://youtu.be/EqTyZoupc1w

... monastery.

Ooh. Very nice, eh? Do I get to take a turn as a "sort of executive officer for the week"?

https://youtu.be/t2c-X8HiBng?t=41s

More seriously, where do I sign up? ... The older I get, the more I think those monks were / are onto something...
> To meet that demand and hit its climate goals, the report says the US has to add 27 gigawatts of offshore wind and 85 GW of land-based wind and solar each year between 2035 and 2050. That timeline might still seem far away, but it’s a big escalation of the Biden administration’s current goal of deploying 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030.

Isn’t this sentence backwards?
Because every relationship I ever started has ended, means I should stop dating!
The beautfiul thing about these situations is that if the company demanding no WFH is doing it for productivity reasons, they could much more simply demand employees reach a minimal productivity threshold or be let go. No need to mandate what methods an employee uses to be productive, be it working from the home or office, if productivity is the goal, productivity should be the target.

When there is a mandate to return to the office, it really makes me wonder if the employer can even tell if their employees are productive at all, much less know that they are more productive in the office. If they could tell, they would simply use that measure directly.