skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know the best way to get proper diagnostics care for a possible tooth fracture without being given the run around and ripped off by dentists?

Whilst extracting my last wisdom tooth (in the US) the dentist must have made a bad mistake, because right after the procedure I couldn't bite down properly on the affected side on my mouth.

I went for years with this situation, and started experiencing occasional pain on that side. Whilst a teaching assistant the the University of Washington (UW), I used to visit UW Medicine for faculty, telling the dentists that I suspected a fracture (based on my research). However they would invariably just throw me off, claiming it was very hard to identify such cracks, it might not actually be a crack, etc.

Eventually I lost that tooth, almost certainly due to the widening crack, as I suspected.

Now back home in Ghana, another tooth seems weak when eating certain very hard foods, and again I suspect a crack. Again, dentists in general seem unwilling to really address it, halfheartedly trying various diagnostic procedures that do not actually uncover the problem.

One was quick to propose a root canal, which seemed weird to me as the first line option to address something like that. This dentist describes himself as a root-canal specialist, and it's not a stretch to assume that he sees every dental problem in terms of root canals. Another dentist suggested it was a small cavity, and did her drill and fill routine, which has done nothing at all to alleviate the problem. Yest another dentist claims I need some tooth tissue filed away to correct the problem.

So now I'm not sure what to do. It seems cracks are hard to identify; I'm not sure why dental imaging cannot help much here. I'd like to know if there are better options than dealing with lazy dentists who just want your money.
Many Americans think cloud storage involves actual clouds.

The prevailing view in the 60's among the public was that moon landings were a waste of money.

These decisions should be taken by scientists and experts.

I think it's important to have these advancements. Not to mention, asteroid hunting will be a lot more effective from the moon anyway, since it has high visibility due to a lack of atmosphere and a low gravity which makes escaping the orbit a lot easier.
> 2) Bags can be mistagged in the first place (like in this article)

This I dont get. They pull your file and check your ID, then print the baggage tag and attach it to your file - or have YOU print it. How can they mistag? The process seems sufficiently straight forward that, short of sending you to the wrong direction as well, your baggage should always have the right tag?
The diagnosis that the "problem" with Lisp was the syntax has always been wrong.
It is a lot and I certainly won’t pay that much but I also understand a bit. That was a price I would pay for a pc many years ago, which was my primary entertainment device , and phones have become primary devices for many people. Add in tv/music/authentication/work/email/communication fairly long term support and ability to resell it with decent value I am not judging too harshly.
That's incorrect. We have significant surplus of electricity in Winter so long as gas generators (the companies that extract natural gas from the ground) can effectively work. The problem being that if gas extraction gear gets too cold (meaningfully below freezing) then it stops working, or at least works poorly.
> And, if you’re somebody who has a product that could support WebAuthn and/or passkeys better: please do! (we might even be building/planning this ourselves )!

It's ironic, as users have been requesting that feature for years, and discord has been pushing back the whole time.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600313...

Instead, they did the infamous qr code, the new font, the new id that's often similar to the old one but without the #, and the like.

The overly popular support page isn't even cited or mentioned in the article !

I can't understand the disconnect between the teams at discord and the users.

For me, the teams are doing this blog post like they had the idea first because they're the best (when they have actually pushed back for so long).

And not even acknowledging users is just disrespectful. It shows that Discord only involves them in the payment process, and ignore their suggestions whether they're good or bad (because they come from the users).

At the same time, for any change, they post they're visionaries. And I'm sure their CVs go on about how they disrupted their workplace. (while they really did push back on this feature)
Not disagreeing but FWIW Texas has been turning purple [1] for some time now. I suspect 2021 numbers will make it even more purple as COVID drove a lot of people to Austin. I have to wonder if another factor is that Texas has it's own independent power grid and they for the most part do not tie into the rest of the US grids to let other states absorb some of their pain. [2]

[1] - https://purplestatesofamerica.org/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection
I dunno, go look at the top selling games of 2022. Largely old games/franchises, many over 20 years old. I'd argue video gaming is pretty stale because game companies play it safe and mostly recycle old games. Bless Elden Ring, one of the only big new games that wasn't a sequel last year.

Madden - 34 years old

Pokemon - 26 years old

FIFA - 29 years old

Mario Kart - 30 years old

Call of Duty 20 years old this year! (23 if you count back to Medal of Honor)

God of War - 17 years old

Gran Turismo - 26 years old

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1285658/top-ranked-video...
I think it's going to burst regardless. Plenty of companies have fully embraced the remote model, and many more are only doing hybrid. Even if they don't completely sell off their buildings they're not going to use as much. One company in my city is already closing their HQ and reorganizing their other offices: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/07/progressive-to-close-...
Ever since realizing how effective tree of thought prompting is, I’ve accepted the idea that AGI will actually be just a giant continuous conversation between tons of different personas that debate until consensus.
But what about a BSer that is working in conjunction with ChatGPT? That is BS^2, and that is hard to beat...
I agree, but for some reason the people responsible for the IT budget did not like that solution... (Yes, they are really not that expensive, but somehow it is pretty common that companies like to cheap out on the small stuff).
I disagree. The linearity is super helpful for scanning and finding quickly, by time, by name, etc. Id argue that any app that makes the interface "spatial first" will have to add these linear features on top of what they're doing to find things fast, at a minimum for full-text search.

I do think spatial organization can help for human consumption of not easily orderable datasets >1000 items, but I think that's a niche case for everything ive interacted with so far.
Amateur guitar player here, I feel like sometimes I don't know if my fingers have gotten the concept or if I've just learned a difficult passage by rote.

I'd love to have something that generates the same right hand picking pattern with a different left hand.

Also, I think there are licks that you have to be very precise with fingering or picking pattern. It would be cool to generate those.
Wholesale electricity in Texas is often $50/MWh or less. Consumers are paying $0.12/kWh delivered at retail.

It could well be that even with these price spikes the energy retailers still have enough arb during the normal times to cover these wild times. If so it seems like markets are working insofar as consumers are paying lower average prices.

It might be that occasional price spikes are more economic than building new generation capacity.
nah because if it was about productivity, the rto emails would emphasize that. not "helping out our neighbour restaurants and city centers"
VC's investing in real estate, that a new one. Care to share any data or sources on that?
How about a face to face meeting once per quarter?
Except it isn’t working as it is supposed to since infrastructure investment hasn’t occurred the way it should.
Why would it make a difference if 5% spoke up?
It’s the same for me, but the ideal is a mix of 2-3 work from home and 2-3 days from the office.
>> You agree to grant and hereby grant

"Hereby grant" means the grant is (supposedly) immediately effective even for future-arising rights — and thus would take precedence (again, supposedly) over an agreement to grant the same rights in the future. [0]

(In the late oughts, this principle resulted in the biotech company Roche Molecular becoming a part-owner of a Stanford patent, because a Stanford researcher signed a "visitor NDA" with Roche that included present-assignment language, whereas the researcher's previous agreement with Stanford included only future-assignment language. The Stanford-Roche lawsuit on that subject went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.)

[0] https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...
The documentation for now is the README file on Github, I also shared my thoughts on frontend frameworks there if you wanna have a look.
Like the time I ordered some slate coasters but received an envelope of slate chips and fine powder. I was not able to leave a review that mentioned that the seller just wrapped the coasters in a paper towel and tossed the coasters in a sturdy envelope.
> this entire comment section is linked surrounds piracy--which for better or worse is illegal, just like child porn

So is "jaywalking", but we don't bring them up in the same discussion because copyright infringement is not in any way comparable to exploitation of minors.

> and it is absolute non-sensical to argue that spam is something we opt into. [...] and to even imply that people can opt-out of actual spam is wild. go ahead, set up your own email server, don't "censor" any spam, and attempt to opt-out.

Firstly, I was obviously referring to spam filtering, not spam itself. Secondly, spam filtering is not censorship. If the government or private entity unilaterally decided to stop emails from <Political Party> from reaching your inbox, that would be censorship. When you yourself decide to use a spam filter, which you're free to customize to your liking - that's not censorship. There is no equivalence.
If you're equating content filtering which you have full control over, with censorship, then any discussion is indeed a waste of time.

> if you can't distinguish between the organizations i listed (restaurants, bars, forums, etc...) curating their audience and some version of wholesale "individuals free speech" then obviously the nuance needed to talk about this in any meaningful manner doesn't exist.

The person above the "Who gets to decide?" question was not talking about "censorship" at private in-person establishments, but wholesale censorship of communication because they perceive the entire concept of freedom of expression as a net negative to society. Perhaps you should read it again.

> now that multiple actual state backed attacks on free-speech are happening across the country. from book bans in libraries, to book bans in schools, to silencing teachers, to drag shows. there have now been 100s (if not 1000s) of these instances

I don't understand, you seemingly agree that "who decides" is an extremely important question when someone proposes "censorship", even though you just spent several paragraphs dismissing it as ridiculous.

It shouldn't be "them" deciding what gets censored, right? So if not them, do you get to decide what gets censored?

> again, there's no false-equivalence as the topic has been so muddied by disingenuous bad-faith actors

I agree, dragging user-controlled spam filters into the debate about government censorship of speech is disingenuous and bad faith.
That's actually an amazing story.

I ordered some things some year ago, maybe 5-7 years ago now, and they never arrived. Amazon said they did, and they didn't reimburse me at all. I was pretty frustrated for quite some time about that, especially given my Amazon account goes back to 1996.

I did get invited to Vine about five months ago though, so I guess I can forgive them that $50 worth of stuff, given all the things I've ordered from Vine thus far.
Fwiw That’s fairly typical. It does not mean you were not paying attention to driving.
I don’t think this article is saying “China is dying”.
You can add a tablespoon or so of oil to keep the foam down
I like to look at unit tests, to see how one would use such a thing, but the tests are incomplete.
I use something called More than Gourmet Glace de Veau Gold. (They have other varieties as well.) www.morethangourmet.com
Reminds me of the juicero. Over engineered to the max [1] to literally squeeze a bag of juice...

[1] https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ
>You distribute binaries you have to distribute its source as well.

binaries are distributed only to those on the active contract, if you lose the contract you lose the binaries and thus the source. Of course, if you made a local backup you can still use everything for your own benefits
If they generate an AI model based on your data and allow anyone else to use that model, you should assume that the user will also be able to query data about you.

So really it all hinges on if the AI is only used in house, or if it is accessible by the general public.
I'm not sure you can. If it is possible, it probably requires some open-source tools and a pretty painful process to get the credentials off a hardware token (if that's even possible) and go through the various API calls.

Maybe there's something here?

https://github.com/herrjemand/awesome-webauthn

https://github.com/Yubico/yubikey-manager
Hypermodern Python (2020)
It shows the demographic of those who would customize their search results. Any search engine that provided this feature would probably skew this way if you looked at who used the feature.

Though since they offer it and others don't, your point still applies.
Eh fine if the original reply is not getting reinstated I'll repost it:

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It’s fine in the sense that Musk owns Twitter/X and can do whatever he likes with it. It’s a bit stupid in my opinion (I don’t know if they really gain much by having @music vs @twittermusic) but there have been plenty more stupid things going on over there and the former owner is apparently a fan of Elon so it’s not really worth losing any sleep over.

The right-wing guy recently posting child porn and getting personally reinstated by Elon, for example, was another one of those “he owns it and can do what he likes” issues … but one that’s far more troubling.
It's kind of fitting that a state flush in oil wealth (the stuff that burning destroys the climate, causing extreme heat and such), is suffering worse under climate devastation, and also doesn't have enough energy to keep people safe.

The power brokers also kept their energy grid off the federal network so they could also pollute and do horrible stuff at their impunity cause 'feds are bad'.

I guess this is an economic variant of darwinism.
If anyone is in my situation where you need dental work but can't afford it and have some time/availability, see if there's a dental college nearby that has a student care program. The one I'm going to is costing me about 40% of the quote I got from a regular dentist for the same work. (The downside is it takes a lot longer.)
Any good investor will diversify their investments, so maybe the funds themselves are not investing in real date but the investors of the funds and probably the managers do it.
I had a rough life when I was younger. I went to the dentist maybe 7-10 years ago and they told me they wanted to pull over 10 teeth. Probably closer to 14. I was shocked and shaken. They were even talking dentures. I couldn't believe I was going to be basically toothless. I never went back and it ored dentistry for years.

I just switched dentists last week. One cavity and they want to fix an old crown.

I never had one of those teeth pulled.
So.. it is correct?
I know my comment is anecdotal but for me it's relevant.

I'm 60 years old. Up until about 25 I just listened to dentists. They drill-and-fill and I went along. No longer. In 35 years I've had one problem. I broke a tooth biting on a hard seed in some Indian food. I got a crown for that. A few years later the crown came off. I haven't bothered getting it replaced.

I don't have tooth pain. My teeth have not shifted. I still eat what I want. I'm careful with Indian food. :)

My takeaway? I'm not seeing the dentist until I'm in pain or something breaks. No one is drilling on X-ray shadows again.
I did not see that comment as being critical at all. They were just adding to the conversation.
Eh, if you treat it as a perk for good performance, like a salary increase, bonus, or additional PTO, then I don't see the problem? Either you earn it or you don't.
I have a group of 20 people I meet with every work day over Google Meet. No trouble or complaints.
It's a bit of clickbait; first I wouldn't call a non-profit environmental NGO a "charity". A charity is a group that helps poor and oppressed and defenseless people. An environmental NGO is supported by donations, and I suppose that donors will say they gave their money "to charity", but EcoLogic Group isn't doing charity, they're doing research and conservation.

Anyway, the phone bill is thanks to an enterprising thief in Sudan; while the stork was a means to an end, the stork wasn't the one who made those phone calls, and nothing the stork did incurred any phone bill, it was what happened to the SIM card after the stork set down in Africa. I bless those rains.
The last several monitors I’ve purchased have been from Costco and exclusive to Costco.

Same with Samsung TVs. Unfortunately Samsung’s smart TV stuff is worthless, but the panels have been just fine.

I abandoned HP’s trash products awhile back. I found that replacing my HP printers with Brother’s mid-range laser printers have been a fantastic upgrade for the price.
Beware dogma. It’s mostly trappings. Study classics, eastern and western and everything besides. Then reading Carl Jung and modern theoretical physicists will then blow the doors off of what you think you knew. Feynman sees ways around everything. Bohm sees behind everything. Whitten’s trying to connect it all together. They will all point you to other readings worth some time.

After that reading Robert Anton Wilson, Terrance McKenna, Ram Dass, and Tim Leary will leave you probably going back to the start to find all of the things you’ve missed. Don’t take them at their word, either. They use a lot of tricks, but it’s just to add perspective.

Then if you’re still feeling wild take a journey through comparative religion and it will add another dimension to it all yet again.

…then you will go all the way out and back again. Don’t take anything for granted. It’s your life you’re living, and all of these writers and more could recognize at least that. Just don’t forget your good humour. Wilson will remind you of that.
Bill Gates email about Netscape in 1996
It's entirely plausible this is true just one layer up, where major partners at SF VCs are separarely invested in real estate investment firms without actually making that part of the VC strategy.
So where are all the studies showing this precipitous drop in productivity? Surely those would be cited to support RTOs right?
I'm a fellow MSG-migraine sufferer myself that can beat any double-blind test (my wife pulled the same stunt on me multiple times over the years; she refused to believe I wasn't making it up).

Having lived in both NYC and SoCal, what they have in common more than crack-smoking warlocks is easy access to MSG-laden Chinese food. Could be coincidence, but my own problem only manifested when I went a couple years eating an admittedly-unhealthy amount of ramen and Chinese (my constant feeling like shit afterward was attributed to me eating like shit...and dehydration), yet they persisted incidentally years later, which makes me wonder if the headaches are a reaction to too much exposure and it's become an allergen or something to me now.

FWIW [takeout] Chinese, kewpie mayonnaise and [Maruchan] ramen are still completely off the table for me, but I can eat a vending machine/kids' size bag of Doritos without issue. The smallest store-bought size will trigger a migraine though. Your wife might be able to indulge a little herself if she's willing to be masochistic in testing how much sets her off.
There has been a vast increase in understanding in the myth of meritocracy [1] and increased awareness of the adversarial (and, really, exploitative) nature of work in the last few years. What you are seeing is a concerted effort to suppress wages and make labor more compliant through greater insecurity. That's all. Poor leaders want their underlings dressed to a certain standard, driving into the office and sitting at their desks as long as possible as a method of control.

There may be an element of commercial real estate usage but I honestly think bad leadership and control explains most of this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy
I think the free market idea can work somewhat at the individual level, assuming proper tools are in place. What would have to happen is variable rate based on the amount you consume -- you get the first X KWh for the base price, going over that is where you pay the premium. So you can choose to run your AC at 72F, or 85F and not go over your allotment (or run at night to super cool your house, back off in the day, and have good insulation). Now I don't know if a tiered system is common / available at the household level, I know it exists for businesses in various markets.

A second individual option would be to use a gas generator if the electric rates are too high, and install solar for longer term savings. Individual gas generators would be a horrible option for climate change, but may be a short term solution while waiting to install solar.
hey, this is Bill in sales. I’ve shared your prototype with a few of our customers. They love it! Can you add the follow features by EOW?
I've tried a number of notebook AIs, jupyter ai, hex, deepnote, einblick. The one that worked best for me was einblick probably because it's data-aware. For AIs that don't support that you need to be overly specific when writing prompts, which is annoying, and you keep having to rename/reference the correct dataframes and variables (even more annoying).
Why not a face-to-face meeting everyday? It’s what some people prefer.
I ride year round with my 2 kids in Colorado as long as the roads are decent. I wouldn't ride main roads with them when the bike lanes are crowded with snow but there are plenty of neighborhood routes and bike paths around town.
Then go to the office. Mandating return to office is the problematic part.
A couple of my coworkers were paying up to the limit of their insurance and just leaving the rest.

I think that’s probably even worse.
I guess if software developers will complain that it's too hard or too expensive to thoroughly test their code to ensure exactly zero bugs at release[1], then that just shows their work is BS.

[1]: if you have delivered telco code to Softbank you may have heard this sentence
Foreign currency is assets in central bank balance sheet. Their own currency is liability.

When an exporter in China gets foreign currency for their export, it goes to the exporters bank. The exporters bank "sells" the foreign currency to the central bank. In this sale, the central bank usually "prints" the yuan to exchange for the foreign currency.

When a trader in China imports goods, it asks their bank for foreign currency. They give the bank yuan. The bank sells the yuan for the foreign currency with the central bank. The central bank sells it's foreign currency assets and "extinguishers" the yuan they received.

It's not as simple as this but this is the theory.