skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that everyone who I know has told me they have RSI, and I had a chance to observe at the computer, had one thing in common: They have a very "stiff" posture while typing, hit the keys with sharp pokes, and also grip the mouse extremely tightly with what I'd consider a very awkward positioning of the fingers (looks like the mouse is too small for the hands.) IMHO being relaxed is probably the best way to prevent RSI.
I'm not a fan of "everything you know about X is wrong" articles. Very often they try to present some little tidbit of knowledge as a revelation and mislead the reader in the process.

In this case, the tidbit is: "grapheme clusters exist and they are useful".

The misleading part is that the article draws a false equivalence between what the author calls "UTF-32 code units" and UTF-16 code units.

UTF-32 code units are Unicode code points. This is a general Unicode concept that exists in all Unicode encodings. UTF-16 code units, on the other hand, are an implementation detail of UTF-16. It is wrong to present them as equally arbitrary concepts.
> I'm sure it'll be by appointment only to begin with as they'll have many more people wanting to try it than who will want to buy

The sweat is going to be disgusting.
DHS official warns of 'absolute threat' to public safety, economy
> I wrote up a long comment that got scrapped by my focus filter

I've been making productive use of the "textarea cache" extension lately. Sites and browsers lose text a lot more often than they should.
Except that you could actually use it instead of being a legendary project we only heard about but very few people actually used. That makes it all the more painful that it was taken away.
Vivaldi can do tab tiling. Not nearly as customizable as an IDE as you describe, but you can vertically or horizontally tile multiple tabs on the same "page". Only browser I know that has that close of functionality

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/tab-tiling/
Is it OK to recline your airplane seat? Some travel experts say no
I'd frame it another way, many, many people fell for the hype, immediately.
If suddenly braking causes an accident it's because someone was not following at an appropriate distance. You should always allow space for unforseen hazards. It's actually the law.

If both cars have AEB even that unsafe condition becomes a non-issue.

Just because humans have adjusted to regularly driving in an unsafe and illegal manner does not make it the safest way to use roads.
Don't offer to save 20%, that's a minor benefit. The sales team will still be working that time. Offer to increase sales 25%. That's a serious improvement. ((100-80)/100 = 25%)
Health System in Minnesota Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt
>> There is a reason almost every new database aims to be distributed from the beginning.

That's partly because you can't compete with the existing RDBMSs if you're single node: they are good enough already. Nobody will buy your database if you don't introduce something more novel than PostgreSQL, whether that novelty is worth it or not.
IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors: 4k in 2001
Is there a situation where I am going to try to get the length of an emoji and I care about the outcome?
Will Russia and china and North Korea refrain from it? That’s how arms races work
Do you pay for ChatGPT 4? If so I am puzzled why you say "But for actually solving novel problems it completely fails" as I find it has no problem solving novel problems, better than I would. Could you give an example of a novel problem it completely fails at?
tmux but a browser
Presence of nicotine and antidepressants detected in Antarctic waters
Same here: Honda CR-V 2020. It uses single lens (so not a stereoscopic vision) and radar.
Never did it brake hard, only warning and few times brake pretension.
It will occasionally give false positives on a street curving left with cars parked on the right side.
Once it did warn on a highway most likely due to metal comb joint of the elevated road section. (I specifically looked at what could be the cause)
The driver reaction within a time window is likely important factor in preventing the system to elevate. I have good reflexes and will put my feet slightly on the brake in such situations.

Honda had a recall for an older AEB system 2017-2019 Accord and CRV:

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/nht...
As an engineer, I am the same way. Since I’ve been working more closely with sales I have learned the overwhelming majority of people are not like this.
You nerd snipe them and move on with your day. Don’t take it personally if someone has their whole identity wrapped up in how they are the smartest. Don’t feel responsible for fixing them.
Most of the comments in favour of this technology seem to be "It saved me from rear-ending someone because I wasn't concentrating". On the other hand comments against this technology are essentially "It had a false positive and almost killed me". As I'm capable of maintaining good following distance, riding to the conditions, braking correctly, and being aware of the traffic around me; I'll choose not to use this technology, thanks.
Fraternity hazing is (was) supposed to create those bonds, but it's been drastically curtailed at most universities, and I'm not sure how well it ever worked (was never in a fraternity). In many cases it was just "here drink all this liquor and if it doesn't kill you, we'll initiate you"
> Unicode defines text as a sequence of code points.

Does it? Do you have a link?

[edit] I looked up the spec and here is what it says.

> The Unicode Standard does not define what is and is not a text element in different processes; instead, it defines elements called encoded characters. An encoded character is represented by a number from 0 to 10FFFF_16, called a code point. A text element, in turn, is represented by a sequence of one or more encoded characters. [1]

The definition of 'text' in the context of Unicode seems to explicitly not be defined as a sequence of code points, but rather a more nebulous sequence of aggregations of code points. It's probably closest to a grapheme cluster but they seem to want to avoid pinning it down.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/UnicodeStanda... p. 7 (1.3 - Text Handling), PDF page 33.
To add on, most people have never experienced what “full braking” is in any car since it is so uncommon to even use half of the ultimate braking power a car can deliver in a non-track day or non-emergency situation. Even a modern Toyota Camry can sustain on average >1 g of deceleration force from 70 mph to 0.

Thus, people think they have applied full brakes but in reality they are only 60-70% of the way there.
I have had the "Emperor wears no clothes" reaction to much of so-called modern art. Much of it seemed like gaslighting or sh*t tests for snobs obsessed with class signalling and Having The Right Connections or Causes. Rather than a demonstration of any real masterful skill, rare talent or artifact of relentless practice or an eye-for-perfection, of decades-long study or trial-and-error.

I mean compare a random surviving Da Vinci against the stereotypical "Man in Box" install circa 2005 NYC (say a cheap red string tied between two posts, while the audience listens to musak -- to give a dumb exemplar of the type of thing I've heard decribed as Modern Art.)
This is one of my favorites. Many here correctly point out that modern art was not created by the CIA and that's certainly laughable.

However, there are a lot folks here who don't seem to got the intent of this operation, and it was an operation with a goal. The goal was to subvert any trend toward political expression in art in the US as Soviet art was very political and a powerful force in shaping public opinion. We knew we couldn't control it so we ensured that it didn't happen here. Roughly speaking, of course.
Which competitors?
Other (computing industry) standards bodies make their standards freely available–e.g. ECMA, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, IETF, etc. Given they can't make money from selling the standards documents, they need to find other funding sources. Many of them rely on corporate patrons who fund the standards process, and in exchange often get greater input into moulding the standard to meet their interests. The Open Group makes some of its money by selling trademark licenses and proprietary test suites.

ISO defends its own model by arguing that it produces greater independence from vendors, being less reliant on them for funding and thus making it easier for them to say "no" to them. One big difference is ISO is not an industry-specific standards body, it has standards for all kinds of things that have nothing to do with computers – screw threads, metallurgy, analytical chemistry, oil and gas pipelines, you name it. Possibly their defence makes more sense for some of those other industries than it does for ours.

If the major SQL players got together (major proprietary vendors and leading open source projects), they could create their own SQL standards process to supersede the ISO one, and release the standard freely. The ISO standard could still exist, but it could turn into one of these ISO standards where ISO just adopts the text of an existing standards organisation - e.g. the ECMAScript standard is developed by ECMA. Initially ISO republished ECMA's standards under their own number (ISO/IEC 16262), now instead they publish a 3 page standard which just incorporates ECMA's by reference (ISO/IEC 22275). They offer it for free download [0], but are also willing to sell you a copy if you are desperate to give them money. ISO's SQL standard could turn into the same thing – but, that would require the SQL community to decide to push for that, and I'm not sure any of the players feel sufficiently motivated to do it.

[0] https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/in...
What are your favorite fitness apps?
If we could make it happen then why hasn't it happened?
We are told that we can make these kinds of changes, and we have a system that makes it theoretically possible, but in practice, the people are powerless. Occasionally we've found ways to overcome the obstacles put in place to prevent meaningful change, but over a period of centuries the system has been carefully manipulated to eliminate those opportunities. We are plainly incapable of passing the legislation we'd need to fix this situation.

Even if we somehow did manage to get the laws passed (which we can't) they'd be quickly overturned or worked around. We fought like hell to get regulatory agencies that were created to protect us from exactly the kinds of biological and ecological harms we suffer under yet they've all been captured by industry or made toothless. Legalized bribery, a largely ignorant and uneducated public, and a broken legal system all conspire to protect profits over people and nothing suggests meaningful change is possible, let alone likely.
I'd love some exposure to the per-customer "ARPU" equivalent. Headline sums are really hard to relate to "yes, but per-user, how many $ in the app store do you need to recover this cost"

I guess none of them want to be that overt to the income stream side of this, but ultimately Reddit will, because it kind-of has to: it wants to launch into trade, it will have to declare its revenue prospects.

I use, and paid for Joey. I paid in the appstore. It really shouldn't be hard to either do a levy, or some fee recovery model, although I prefer not to pay-per-click. You would think some kind of intermediate cache would help here, although I can see why not (live content, variant feeds) but frankly if this converted to "one bulk update a day" I'd be fine.

They say the NSFW feed/moderation burdens are rising too. I don't like people combining a financial and a censorship topic, I see distinctions between them. Please can we tackle subjects distinctly? (or maybe it's reddit who is folding in the cost into a single conversation)
It’s definitely a lot more social media now than it was when it started or DiggV4 era.
If the boss is really going to replace all the help desk with AI, then the current employees jumping ship is a great thing. It means less severance.
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Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process
I’d be keen to try something like that out.

I’ve been using pop os for the past few months and I’ve fallen in love with its snapping window manager.

I have a 4K screen plus the laptop (xps 13).

I can have two browsers open, then my ide. And then terminal on the laptop screen.

And I can easily slide the divider between the ide and browsers as necessary based on what requires the most space at the time.

Only issues I’ve run into is being able to move multiple stacked windows to a new location, all at once. I probably just haven’t found the right shortcut.

It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, as the browsers are independent, but I’d be keen to see new browsing options like that.
The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913) (2012)
Did you try copy pasting the relevant Sqlite docs into ChatGPT?
Ok, we've remojied the title above.

Edit: there are always exceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460417
I agree, "length" is an ambiguous function name. It should probably not exist and instead you have functions with units in the name: .sizeBytes, .widthCharacters, .widthResAdjPixels, and so on. Back when the world was ASCII you could get away with just .length because the numbers would always be the same, but with Unicode and all of the other complications of the modern world it isn't sufficient.
I heard that some US states don't require yearly inspections, and that people there drive rusted through cars to the point of almost braking in half, and it's still legal to drive them across the whole country.

My personal experience is europe, EU countries and the balkans, and all those countries allow all cars from all other countries to drive there (temporarily, when visiting or driving through), although some require additional equipment (snow tires in winter in some countries, extra pair of glasses in greece etc.).

For example above, EU mandates separate turn lights and brake lights, but you can still drive a US car in EU: https://www.a1autotransport.com/can-i-drive-a-us-plated-car-... (for 6 months max, if you return home)
That's not true though. It just counts the number of code units, that's not version dependent. It's certainly no worse than counting the number of UTF-16 points (I'd argue it's better since it's less arbitrary - whether something is a unicode scalar is a design decision, whether something is in the BMP or not is mostly an accident of implementation).
IMHO; Dogecoin[1] was ripe for a classic pump 'n dump.

[1]>Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer,

who decided to create a payment system as a "joke", making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time.*

[1] Dogecoin : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin

(2021) "Understanding the Truth and Malice of CryptoCurrencies: Beware of the dodgy coin"

: https://cryptocoinerdaily.com/2021/02/22/understanding-the-t...

Greater Fool Theory : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Tulip Mania : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Ponzi Scheme : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

'Fool Me Once, Shame on You! . . . Fool Me Twice...'

'foreWarned is foreArmed' : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forewarned_is_forearmed
Reddit is well into its second decade of existence, and already had at least one “exit” via Condé Nast. In what sense is it proper to continue to refer to it as a “startup”?
Australia's most-decorated living soldier found guilty of war crimes and murder
Gentle intro to DeepScatter: visualizing millions of points in the browser
Not parent, but I mostly stick to FitXR and BeatSaber. I wanted to give supernatural a try, but the whole give up a credit card in the app when the headset already has one is too shady. I haven’t tried as many as I wanted to (like the bullet one) since I’m pretty happy with my routine.
I have the same car and my experience matches yours. Lane assist is just a tiny nudge, and I've never had the emergency braking kick in. I wonder what causes the different behavior?
This is like when you first dive into date-time and slowly unravel the maddening complexity of it all.
I haven't followed personas closely. Do you have examples of Sam Altman saying deceptive but technically true things?
> MB

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz
> It's not an issue of "alignment." The reward function was poorly written.

What else do you imagine “alignment” is?
There was an idea going around a few years ago to split the keyboard in half then make each half a mouse. King’s Assembly as a (successful but fizzled) kickstarter about this but there were others. I thought it was a great idea but it seems no one makes them now.
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I'm a lifelong learner and I'll learn anything to help me build practical tools that provide real-world value. I have no problem starting ambiguous projects and taking them from 0 to 1.

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What are your favorite games? I’ve enjoyed super hot and beat saber. Those two have been the most compelling so far. Do you recommend some others?
I think to some extent it depends on the language. In the article they talk about Swift's implementation, which by default does the slow, fancy thing (but makes it easy to do the dumb, fast thing). String manipulation in Swift is almost certainly going to be used for a GUI for end users of many possible languages / locales, so it makes sense to spend the extra cycles to get the fancy version by default. If it isn't the default then you'll end up with half the apps on the App Store displaying broken text on line breaks, ellipses, wrapping, etc. on their hand-rolled UI stack.
> make cost/benefit tradeoffs that decrease the safety of those around them

And yet we see that truck and suv purchases are through the roof with buyers regularly expressing the sentiment that they would rather be in a large vehicle to keep themselves and the other occupants safe. Generally the other side, which is fuck the pedestrians, cyclists, or other drivers who cannot afford to drive a full sized truck to starbucks, is left unsaid.
Video encoders usually have a decent amount of assembly code.

eg:

x264 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/tree/master/common...

ffmpeg https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/tree/HEAD:/libavcod...

if you go up, you will find folders for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, SuperH, ...)
> This comment is irrelevant to the discussion of the AEB,

This discussion is about _mandating_ AEB, not it's mere existence or implementation, and of the overall value of that proposition; which, I am suggesting is low relative to all other problems and efforts spent mandating this would be better spent elsewhere.

> If anything, AEB would help mitigate some of the impact from the drunk and impaired driving.

Are these systems tested for this use case? I'd like to see that. Otherwise, this is a guess, and a bad one.
Yes. Like those sailors who truly thought the Atlantic Ocean terminated in a sheer cliff before hitting Asia.
If you're asking whether https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146358 broke the site guidelines, I guess it was a borderline case. It wasn't very substantive but I don't think it was a swipe. It would have been better if you had explained what you meant more.
> comp.infosystems.gopher

LOL. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the overlap in interests. You like one old fossil of a communication system you will probably like more.
> That means 7 is also a measure of bytes, just slightly more awkward.

It's not a real measure of bytes though. It's the count of bytes in an encoding scheme that is (probably) neither what you use to communicate with the outside world nor what your language runtime uses. (And certainly it's no better than 5, since that's also a measure of bytes in a particular encoding).
I think you missed their point. It's not that most situations are improved and some get worse, it's that those situations might be unevenly distributed among drivers.

A seat belt is basically the same for everyone. It makes things safer when you look at all drivers, and it makes things safer for just about any subgroup of drivers.

But a buggy AEB might not fit that pattern. Imagine a system that reduces crashes by half, but then adds an extra X crashes per million miles. If someone's unassisted crash rate is 5X, then this system reduces it to 3.5X and is a great help. If someone's unassisted crash rate is .5X, then this system increases their crash rate to 1.25X and is a terrible trade.
The argument is that indexing by codepoint is even less useful than indexing by byte.
They keep changing to make the site worse and worse for users.

On my iPhone, Reddit.com shows 5 articles when I’m logged in. Old.Reddit.com shows 15. The recently killed compact mode showed even more.

To view the same articles I would spend more time scrolling, so I guess I like that. But instead I spend less time on the site.
I think parent means most correct of the three given examples from Rust, JS and Python.

Especially because the article says that Python's take is the worst.
I think the real question is: why C++ is better for not defaulting to an automatic GC that does heap compaction? Think of what would happen to all those pthreads. :P
Same. To anyone who hasn’t gone down the polyphasic sleep rabbit hole, it’s quite the trip.
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I'm interested in tech that help foster a better social fabric (I believe loneliness is a big problem in modern world), so I'm especially in apps with focus on communication and community.
>That's some spooky action at a distance nonsense.

In pretty much all languages operators are just sugar for calling a method. There is no difference other than an easier to read syntax.

In rust for example, doing a + b is exactly the same as doing a.add(b).

In python it's exactly the same as doing a.__add__(b).

In C++, my understanding is that its sugar for a.operator+(b) or operator+(a, b).

I think there are some arguments against operator overloading but "spooky action at a distance" doesn't seem to be a very good one to me.
I love kebab case. I want it everywhere.