skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to some awful, painful, overly-expensive dentists that acted more like car salesmen than dentists.

I finally found an honest one that prioritizes my comfort and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg, and I've been a customer for over 20 years.

I moved to a different city a few years ago, but I will still drive 1.5 hours in traffic to go see my dentist (I'll try to book outside of rush hour though).

I did try one dentist close to my new house, and it was awful. It reinforced my confidence in my regular dentist. Never going to anyone else as long as I live.

Once you find a good one, stay with them as long as you can. Not all dentists are the same, it's no joke, some are just there to rip you off.
16” M1 still perfectly good machine for my work (web dev). Got a battery replacement which also replaced top cover and keyboard - it’s basically new. Extended applecare for another year which will turn it into fully covered 4 year device.
If that risk is "soaring", one wonders why nobody talks about COVID's effect:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
To be fair, it would have to be the next step to integrate their LLM offerings into their flagship product
Very interesting article. The irony is, if not for politics I think many more Americans would be unsettled by the many ways in which China is becoming extremely advanced. As it stands today our instinct is to dismiss it. But I think these trends are too big to ignore.
At this point i’d like to read two people’s opinions:

- Richard Stallman, author of the GPL license

- a judge
Same here. Specially back when Atom was a thing, Notepad++ would always be my "side editor" for any kind of heavy lifting (or even heavy-ish - looking back I really ask myself why I didn't just use it for everything ^^)
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My long term experience with Visual Studio is the inverse of stellar.

In order to submit bugs with Microsoft the application redirects the end user to their website with web socket. The company I work for has extra security and this breaks preventing me from filing a cornucopia of bugs with Visual Studio. I cannot even file a bug on how the submit system is broken with Visual Studio.

Closing and re-opening Visual Studio is a daily task. Most often during code refactoring of multiple parts. Creating new classes has inconsistency of template usage in the second most recent released version. Compile error message history can become stale and inconsistent where the output console does not. Pasting content into the resource manager is still broken during tab entry. Modal dialogs still cover the screen during debug. And those don't even touch the inconstant and buggy user experience.

C# is a tool and like all tools it is good for some things and really bad for others. No tool is perfect. You can still use a ball-peen hammer for roofing but be better to have a roofing hammer. I would use Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android for those platform projects, I don't even know those languages, and wouldn't use C#.
Image if stdout still required a physical UNIX teletype from 1970's actually work.
Show HN: Open source Chrome Extension to Auto-Create Google Tasks/Calendar
hey hn,

I built lazel because i wanted to get more organized, but was too lazy to do it myself.
The extension is still under verification and not yet published, but i figured that it might be better to share as its fairly easy to set up locally and modify it to fit your needs.

Right now it only supports Goggle Tasks and Google Calender, but the idea is to integrate more services.

This is my fist open source project, so any suggestions are welcome :)

Cheers,
Anand
Both in the sense that Win32 GUIs (introduced in Windows 95) are a bit out of style but are still supported and widely used; and Powershell being a major departure from traditional CLIs.
What would you consider to be more robust, while still being usable? I'm referring to the type system here specifically.
That could be an article title from either the Onion or the WSJ Opinion section.
Folding/rolling screen would be awesome. 16” form factor that turns into 20” screen.
How would performance be a concern for rendering the UI of a terminal app? Surely that happens in less than 0.001% of all cases. And of course no one in their right mind is implementing the core functionality of their app with react state variables. (Right..?)
What do you have against people "more towards local business"?

That's basically what is intended. Since people live in a pod, they'll eat out more often so that's more money extracted from them. Gotta keep the economy going, right?
They are only for collecting user data. Firearm manus tend to either cover everything aside from user modifications/damage, no questions asked, or cover nothing.
And offers tabs
I miss Photoshop 5. That's why I was so happy to discover and use photopea.com now :)
An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give Covid vaccines anymore
This means Scintilla (the editor component in Notepad++, Geany, and others) is about 25. It was the foundation of my move away from proprietary editors like Visual SlickEdit, and served me well for more than a few years. I'm glad it's still around.
Unethical by whom? The now richer employees? Or the salty cheapskate?
Adobe is going online as in Photoshop will be browser based in the future as they already have a beta version. The days you have an Adobe desktop app that sends data to the cloud will be over in probably 10yrs. Sure they will probably make an "local desktop app" the same way Figma does, but it won't be a true desktop app anymore.
It is not just google, people "prefer video content" like instagram's CEO says.
So, some traffic lost because people just find the same stuff on tiktok/ig.
Oh, and accidentality google has youtube.

But the main issue is that just googling stuff and checking the results is a pretty miserable experience, because of quality of search results (they would give you CEO optimized trash 90%).
While I enjoy the content, I find myself surprisingly annoyed at choice of PDF as the format. It's the worst of both traditional and web publication modes; low accessibility AND low portability
You seem to be concerned over a non-issue: I'm pretty sure you're the only person in this entire discussion who misinterpreted the graph. Does that mean the people you're talking about are yourself? :P
Let's see, I have 157 shortcuts defined at the moment. That wasn't due to some mass effort, just a bunch of little things that accumulated over time.

I have one shortcut that shares the song I'm currently listening to in Apple Music to Mastodon. I use iA Writer for my work notes, and another shortcut creates a new note with today's date with wiki links to yesterday's and tomorrow's notes. (I use that one with Keyboard Maestro: if I'm in iA Writer and press F2, it opens that note (or creates it if it didn't already exist)). One runs on a cron job and copies any new links I've added to GoodLinks to my Pocket account so that it'll sync to my Kobo. Here's one that runs a custom sorting script on my OmniFocus projects. This one dims my office lights; I use Keyboard Maestro (again) to link it to one of the buttons on my Stream Deck.

Basically, for me it's the equivalent of shell scripting for GUI apps. I wouldn't want to write a whole app with it, but for quick and dirty automation jobs it's terrific.
Budget Android (€99) vs. Expensive iPhone (€1000) (2018)
> I am sure most of the dentists are honest.

Honest but incompetent. For example most wisdom tooth removals are not necessary, but because (I think) it was taught at dental school most would recommend it.

To be fair this is not a dentists' only problem, it's true for every profession.
Interesting, and congrats to the Pixelmator team.

Why announce the acquisition before regulatory approval? I think I’d prefer to wait, but maybe it’s because this could be publicized through other channels anyway?
> I’m mostly joking, but my point is that physical AI probably implies a complete rethink of every individual routine from first principles: why fold the shirt at all?

You may have skipped over how clothes are stored and organized in your first principle exercise. Clothes are folded because it saves space and makes it easier to find and select an individual piece of clothing.
Very cool! Good job. I will most definitely check it out.

Do let me know how your experience with K4 is, if you do end up experimenting. I'm always striving to make it the best it can possibly be. :) I'm open to opinions, new features etc.

Cheers
There are plenty of American software engineers interested in making software and getting paid for it. Let the ones that are running a race to the bottom leave if that's what they want to do.
I hate dynamic linking and this is one of the reasons. APIs should be small, self-contained, not break backwards compatibility (except for security reasons). Libraries provide much more extensive features and, as such, need to change a lot more often.

APIs are: Linux system calls, the std{in,out,err} convention, termcap/terminfo, X/Wayland, D-Bus, PulseAudio/PipeWire etc.

These change very rarely, and when they do they generally offer compatibility layers (XWayland, pipewire-pulse).

But dynamic linking makes every single library an API that can break!
Successful negotiations require more than two parties. That’s the whole point. If you are only getting one offer then you are leaving money on the table. You need to “create a market” by getting multiple. And if you’ve only got one, then stall as much as you can to find another (which could be a counteroffer from your current employer).

“Negotiate from a position of strength” is evergreen advice.
“cloud coverage percentage”

Have you tried windows?
> > the most important people in tech including Nvidia CEO, Sam, Hinton, Musk and many others believe that AI will very soon be able to do everything a coder can do today.
> They all have a serious financial interest in that being the case, so that's entirely unsurprising and not terribly persuasive.

perhaps more importantly there have been constant hype cycles of tech CEOs saying the same thing, and plenty of submarine advertising efforts to hype them in the same way OP is.

this skepticism isn't coming from nowhere; plenty of history of CEOs lying through their teeth to the world
This seems extremely negative on China, and echoes a lot of web content that frankly smacks of anti-Chinese propaganda. To be clear, I'm not accusing you of being a propagandist and in fact I believe you are 100% sincere, and I'm glad you've provided your opinion here. But the similarity of your description to the various China-bashing outlets is striking and makes me question the sources of it.
No, money needs to be like Monero and the state can f- right off with their panopticon financial surveillance. Sometimes it's better to be armed and tolerate or handle an occasional little bad-guy, than it is to succumb to a supermassive Goku-monster bending you over a barrell and freeing you into life-long [legal] disability with his gargantuan **** of [In]Justice™ for failure to report and pay that last $40 in income tax!

Ben Franklin on security and liberty, or something.
When I was a teenager, there was a dentist in my town who had the reputation to be the best guy at removing wisdom teeth. Everybody and their mother wanted to have their wisdom teeth removed there. Fortunately, my father told me this was BS and I kept them.

That being said, where I live dentists don't make a lot of profit on that kind of care. They earn on crowns.
>You clearly didn't even read the article.

Of course not, I come here for the comments.
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Does anybody know if the search window is still a new popup window?

Something that always made me prefer to go use other editors.
Or perhaps if incremental search support regular expressions?
Isn't this based on an expression from Abigail then at Perlmonks? https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...
How does it fail? Are you qualitatively saying it's just...worse?

I understand UI criticism but I've seen lots of people instantly saying it's worse when it's working just as well as Dark Sky ever did for me.
You might end up with Khan Noonien Singh who will try and steal your ship then stick a bug in your ear
It's a bit older (and focused on web), but you can try this

https://github.com/pomber/didact

At a high level though, you create a tree of nested objects. Each has a handful of special properties (children which contains an array of child objects being the most interesting to users). The rest of the properties are used to interface with the rendering engine by passing it configuration and (usually) event functions it can call when something happens.

That tree of objects gets passed to the rendering engine which turns the tree into some kind of output (DOM, Canvas, WebGL, Ink, etc)[0].

When something happens (an external event, a timer, event from the render engine, etc), your code potentially changes the object tree. React then walks that tree and uses a few shortcuts to quickly detect what has changed. Instead of re-rendering everything, it can give a list of things that have changed and what the new values are. The render engine then decides how to make those changes happen and the cycle repeats.

It's really pretty simple.

[0] https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer
Pros hate UI redesigns
Unfortunately then you will eventually be forced to work in environments without it and feel like you just had a brain aneurysm due to how insufferably slow and clunky everything else is. Ignorance is bliss, just look at all those cute commenters here who think notepad++ is the best thing ever. "It even supports regexp!" It makes the editor wars feel so pointless, but Windows users are adorable.
In college, I went to a dentist in Santa Barbara exactly as you describe--he even offered sugary beverages from a fridge when you left the office. I remember on my first cleaning he said I had 6 cavities! Up until that point, I'd only been to my local dentist and I'd never had any cavities. I ended up getting a second opinion from another dentist and he didn't think think I had any cavities. And here I am 20+ years later and I've still never had a cavity... I've had similar experiences with veterinarians...
> risks your offer being pulled

This is almost never a real risk. At worst they will say they can’t budge on price and you need to decide within some deadline (which is also somewhat of a bluff).
The elderly? I'm drawing a blank.
It's a well written article, but a lot of it appears to be based on a flawed interpretation of Yuen Yuen Ang's "China's Gilded Age".

Ang's argument is that there are 4 types of corruption - Petty Theft (eg. policeman takes a bribe), Grand Theft (eg. a Governor embezzles from the state pension fund), Speed Money (eg. business pay bribes to speed up processing of a permit), and Access Money (eg. pay bribes to get access to the bureaucracy).

Ang's thesis posits that China's comparative ability to somewhat temper Speed Money corruption was the primary driver for China's economic growth (eg. via SEZs and allowing foreign corporate structures to leverage Hong Kong).

This is not meant to be treated as a positive though. Ang points out that China still has an active problem with Access Corruption due to the chumminess between regulators and politically connected firms which can lead to systemic risks (eg. Evergrande Crisis):

"China provides a sharp illustration: by enriching capitalists who pay for privileges and rewarding politicians who serve capitalist interests, access money perversely stimulates transactions and investment, which translates into GDP growth (Ang 2019; Ang 2020, chapter 5).

Yet this does not mean that access money is “good” for the economy—on the contrary, it distorts the allocation of resources, breeds systemic risks, and exacerbates inequality. The harm of access money only blows up in the event of a crisis: for example, America’s first great depression of 1839 (triggered by risky public financing and state-bank collusion) (Ang 2016, chapter 7; Wallis 2000, 2001), the 1997 East Asia financial crisis (Kang 2002), and the 2008 US financial crisis (Baker 2010; Igan, Mishra, and Tressel 2011; White 2011; Fisman and Golden 2017; Fligstein, Brundage, and Schultz, Forthcoming)"

- "Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption", Yuen Yuen Ang 2019

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3481412
I would like to see a comparison for the inference time compute between a regular transformer and this. I’m assuming token/s is lower since you need to compute the weights of the model for each token prior to the actual attention calculations for the sequence position.
Small error: Oskar van Deventer's 17x17 is at 2009 in the timeline, but the description says 2011.
We'll put Shazam in the Filemaker category of continuing to exist, but not really benefiting from Apple.
I continue to use Notepad++ despite having tried every other editor and IDE under the sun. This, of course, drives every person completely insane when I explain that my "IDE" is:

- Notepad++ for editing, pretty much stock, no plugins

- command line for git and grep (Console2 or Git Bash)

- File Explorer alongside Everything [0] for navigating files

- Beyond Compare [1] for visual diff/merge

- WinSCP/PuTTY for SFTP/SSH (usually to Linux)

- Synergy [2] for sharing keyboard and mouse between Windows and MacOS

I personally enjoy being in all 3 major OS's at the same time, and find it helpful to separate concerns to their respective applications/interfaces -- it helps me keep a mental geography of "where things are" and "what tool is used for which purpose", rather than being beholden to a IDE-dictated workflow or tool that's obscured behind specific UI patterns.

That said, I'll happily use Handbrake over command-line ffmpeg for a lot of things, so obscuring behind UI isn't always a bad thing.

Anyways, HUGE RESPECT to Notepad++!

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[2] https://symless.com/synergy
Curious about sponsorships, do you guys provide HSM visas?
That's why I stick to using sh. Wait no, bash... but make sure it's got all of the features from the 5.2 release... unless it's when I'm using zsh in which case we'll need to change some syntax around. For interactive use the program has an ncurses 6 interface, if you want to manage it that way, so make sure you aren't still back on ncurses 5 and have an xterm-256color terminal!

Jokes aside, stdout is more like the X11/Wayland comment than anything... and even then it's been what, >30 years with one backwards compatible swap there?
> This might sound stupid but I refuse to go to dentists that have "too nice" of an office.

That is a very good heuristic, and I've come to the same conclusion.

> Over the years I have lived in several places and had a variety of dentists and one common theme that sticks with me, the nicer and higher tech the office is, the more procedures they are going to recommend you. They need to pay for the equipment and office somehow.

This is exactly my experience. When I first moved to a new city, I booked an appointment with a new dentist that had an office right next to my apartment building. My previous dentists since I was a kid were trustworthy, so I was kind of naive and trusting.

Their office was new, overlooking a large pond/small lake. Very nice.

After the first visit, the dentist said I needed 4 new fillings, three because his diagnodent (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4282000/) went beep on those teeth (one was legitimate and IIRC I spotted it in the xray myself). He also said I should replace my existing amalgam filling because it was "wearing out." Because I was naive, I got the five fillings over two appointments. Then every visit after that, they tried to sell me on Invisalign.

Eventually I got sick of the place (some obnoxious hygienist was the last straw), went to a new dentist, told him about my last one, and he said you should never diagnose a cavity based on just a single diagnodent reading. If you use it at all, you need to track increasing decay readings. He doesn't use one. I've been going to that office for 10 years, and haven't once had a filling. They're watching a few areas, but that's it.

That dentist still has a CRT TV in the waiting room (and had a Nintendo 64 with another CRT in a forgotten corner until COVID).
Coming from the perspective of a non-DarkSky user, the DarkSky acquisition added tons of value for me. Apple's iOS Weather app is better than it's ever been in terms of accuracy and feature-breadth.

It seems that Apple made things worse for the (small number of) DarkSky users while improving things for (a huge number of) default-app users.

I hope they do the same thing with Pixelmator.
It does have the benefit that if the file changes or is deleted then you can carry on working with the old version. (It notifies you when this and lets you choose whether to reload/close.)
They don't care, hurts the narrative.
Notepad++ is my daily driver for taking notes, todos, do pastes and use new tabs as buffers. It’s the most reliable place on my work machine, being always found how you left it off. Notepad++ and WinMerge are my two favorite tools. Integrating Winmerge with Visual Studio 2022 was a breath of fresh air, any compares pop up outside VS in a WinMerge window, could leave multiple versions open, etc. I don’t even want to start about by pet peeves with VS but many UI/UX features in it are just bad. Unfortunately I have to live with it for now.