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I have no idea why both of these comments assume that I am talking about treating people with only diet and lifestyle. Other than possibly prejudice and people know more about me than they are willing to admit.

I'm talking about doctors having a tradition of being some of the wisest and most knowledgeable people in a community and going to someone's home allowing them to know things about their lifestyle by seeing it with their own eyes instead of taking a history and hoping the patient didn't lie or leave out something important.

And we've lost a lot of medical wisdom that will not be available should some version of the tricorder ever empower doctors to take MRIs, x-rays and similar diagnostics to the patient's home in their little black bag. Those traditions are gone, possibly forever, as an unintended side effect of placing tech on a pedestal above human wisdom.

I'm talking about diagnosing things effectively, not denying people drugs and surgeries. And I don't intend to reply further because from where I sit, it looks to me like HN is going out of its way to intentionally misunderstand me here lately.
You don't know how statistics work.
Some people have reported CIA involvement in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which had a great deal of influence on the direction that literary fiction took in post-WWII America. I'm inclined to believe that such projects were likely the playthings of a few dilettantes in high places--spymasters with subscriptions to Commentary and Partisan Review--rather than a serious attempt at stifling dissent, or discrediting socialism, or cultivating soft power, or whatever.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-americ...
I wrote some (decently repetitive) code today. Copilot autofilled 80% of it. Even if it doesn't impact bottom line, will save my wrists for sure.
Same reason a considerable percentage of smokers die of old age instead of heart attacks or cancers. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to start smoking.
This comment is irrelevant to the discussion of the AEB, since, AEB doesn't prevent anyone else from working on eliminating drunk and impaired driving. If anything, AEB would help mitigate some of the impact from the drunk and impaired driving.
The article says:

> A metanalysis in 2015 found a 38 percent decrease in collisions for vehicles that utilized such a system, for instance.

Barring massive fuckups in methodology, that should account for false positives that cause an accident. The number of non-collision severe injuries (are we theorizing folks get their head banged against something when it brakes heavily?) is likely to be pretty small versus that 38% stat.
Yeah I was just adding to the things to consider. In my case it has never really confused inanimate objects, the worst was a curved road and a car coming "right at me" which was just at an angle. But it was a temporary slowdown due to cruise control, nothing major.

Car reviews are largely useless fluff - a real analysis of the differences between brands for this kind of thing could actually be useful.
Am I wrong for assuming the .length should return a length in bytes? If you want to use 32bit units, then multiply your output by 4.

If you want to do Unicode string manipulation and length counting, then use specific functions for that - but the base internal .length function should just output bytes.
Oh interesting! I’m going to have to look into that for sure. Thank you for the heads up, I didn’t know about this. Much appreciated!
Opera was the Xerox PARC of web browsers in a lot of ways.
"There's more to a job than the salary" is just rhetoric from those trying to justify bad salaries, often by implying intangibles are suitable substitutes for money.

Imagine a candidate being so coy regarding their skillset. Hi, I'd like a job. Yes I know some programming, a good amount, don't worry about that.. but let's talk about my sense of humour. Would your business benefit from daily jokes? No? Ok what about my haircut, surely having this haircut in the office all day would be appealing? How about monthly I bring in some muffins my wife made?
No they don't seem vastly more powerful. They're stochastic parrots--there is no 'intelligence' or problem solving, logic, comprehension, etc. They generate a stream of BS and the applications for that kind of tool are far more limited than the hype implies.

The exact same arguments you make were said about NFT and blockchain. It would revolutionize finance, it would empower people with decentralized finance, that the art world would be totally revolutionized with digital artifacts. All of it was just vapid hype. Much of the same people making those silly claims are doing the same for AI now...
Why stop at two mice?

Get yourself 2 keyboards, each with trackpoint nubs, and a mouse and a touchpad! Probably the touchpad comes for free if your desktop is a laptop with a touchpad; mice are cheap -- there's a big tangled knot of them near where the desktop support people hang out where I work. The same goes for cheapo keyboards, though keyboards with touchpoint are a bit more thin on the ground.

For a very long time I used 2 keyboards and one monitor, just because everyone else used 2 monitors and one keyboard. I'd use one keyboard for my left hand and another for my right hand; I'd randomly nudge the keyboards around the desk until I was comfortable with the setup and then nudge them around a bit later, just because. Also I had 2 mice -- a big messy desk workspace.

Anyhow, it's not like we're stuck with PS/2 inputs -- USB lets you have as many input devices as you like.

Lastly -- there's a bug in MacOS that for some reason the meta keys of one keyboard don't apply to key strokes from another keyboard. So left keyboard / left shift key and right keyboard letter a would result in an a glyph; while with windows (and perhaps linux; haven't tested) you'd get the "correct" output of "A".
Unicode defines text as a number of different types of things. They are sequences of codepoints, sequences of graphemes, sequences of graphime clusters. Furthermore, codepoints are different depending on how you normalize them. Accented characters can be written two different ways and have a different number of codepoints depending on how you write them (and if normalization is used)
Definitely, but it's also interesting that Jim Morrison's dad was the in charge of the ginned up operation. I don't think most people know that.
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I'm very interested in some new challenges to tackle and grow my skill set.

In particular, I'm extremely interested in roles that involve building dev tools and improving the workflows of fellow engineers.

I'm also very interested in roles involving ML devops.
Treating Unicode strings as a sequence of code points is a completely valid thing to do, but is usually not what you actually care about when dealing with text. Really, are code points any less of an implementation detail?
The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that I want a browser that functions like an IDE.

Multiple panes with tabs, that can be resized either to custom sizes or automatically (binary space partitioning).

It’s too much for a general purpose browser, which is how we’ve got the Chrome, Safari, Firefox we have. But I think the appeal of a more information-dense browser is broader than we think, anyone doing research would benefit from it.
The crypto wallet video ad in the middle of the article is intrusive and frankly infuriating, especially when there is no video illustrating the lifecycle of the new vertical tabs.
High level: I appreciate the point being made here. Challenge: If true, why does it not already exist? Idea: Apache Maven repositories use pom.xml to define dependency trees. Why don't these get used more for non-Java'ish languages? Mind you, I am not advocating to use Apache Maven as a build tool. I am noting that (remote) repos and their dependency metadata are a huge achievement in that ecosystem.
Not only is it unwarranted it is more obnoxious than some YouTuber making predictions about all lawyers being replaced in the next three years.
I agree, this was less than a year after the JFK assassination and of high priority to Johnson and his "supporters".
HN search is actually very good. You can even use Google for that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cia+%22modern+art%22+site%3A...
How about all the other industry experts and leaders including the ex head of alignment at OpenAI, Elon Musk, the guys who pioneered neural networks and more? You dismiss them all on what basis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warn...
Today I learned, that multi-glyph emojis are a thing.

Zero width joiner emoji sequences https://emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequence/
I struggle finding good page <titles> with the amount of space browsers give you. You should at least be able to see which tab is what if you have 3 for a website.
Still it sounds funny that they would need to employ the CIA in order to finance the Museum of Modern art in... New York, doesn't it?

The USA had the "Congress for Cultural Freedom", the Soviet Union had it's "World Peace Council", funny kind of influence peddling.

wikipedia has a list of "Communist front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_front_organ...

and one for "CIA front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_Intelligence_...

And nowadays the spooks are all busy with trolling on twitter (the taxpayers money is doing some real work :-) )
This is wonderful. I’d love to see this integrated into Jira and my own personal project manager (OmniFocus). Even if I could import and export TaskPaper that would be super handy.
The Irrational Exuberance of a Non-Catastrophe
Why is it the worst way though?
In addition to reviews, I've started to really enjoy format-on-save as a way to save keystrokes. Instead of manually formatting my code (even for myself), I can take the shortest editor path to the AST that I want and then have everything else snap into place
This is a real “drink the kool aid” take.
> Reflecting on her rare experiences of charisma across 25 years of interviewing notable figures, the newspaper columnist Maggie Alderson wrote: “I still don’t understand what creates the effect. … If not fame, beauty, power, wealth and glory then what? It must be innate. I find that quite thrilling.”

"Thrilling" is not a word that I would choose to describe the possibility that there is an innate force that makes people very convincing for no reason.
Jazz too!
TL;DR: Cheap GPU cloud with alpaca-LoRA
Bug reports filed through NHTSA?
Did Lisp improve the IF statement? Certainly. But here's John freakin' McCarthy citing Fortran's IF statement which he had used. That means Lisp didn't invent the IF statement. Lisp invented better syntax.

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
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I think it might be a mistake to conflate business ethics with personal ethics. I have sympathy for individuals who through no fault of their own struggle in the dating scene; I have no sympathy for corporate entities in any regard.
Yes! Perfect :)

We A/B optimized for that
How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
Eloquently put. The last time I was on the market I didn’t apply to a single company that didn’t list salary - every time I’ve done that their pitch was underwhelming.

To those saying “there’s more than salary” - that’s a privileged take. I hate to use that word but it’s appropriate here. Salary ONLY MEANS being able to put a roof over your family’s head and feed them.
US military drone controlled by AI "killed" its operator during simulated test
Figma is a nice-to-have thing. Collaborative, more focused and vastly simpler version of Illustrator/Photoshop. Think of it as what Google Docs was to MS Word.

AI is in a different league altogether. I don’t know if we’ll reach AGI in my lifetime, I think we will, but even if we don’t, what we already have and what’s on the horizon is ground breaking.
As someone who does ML for a living I can definitely say that false positive data from the field can significantly improve the experience for those 1000. That is what should be standardized if we wanted to see systems that work for everyone.
Like the Lambda Calculus in 383 bytes. https://justine.lol/lambda/
I disagree. Especially for institutions that have as much easy to look at data as this. Total wrecks is easy to track. And if it is going down, regulation to help is working.

Paranoia on overreach is fine. Good, even. That is best approached by auditing and running the stats. Constantly. But to claim that this is a meaningful restriction feels wrong on many levels.

That said, if you are going to assert some of these claims, on what evidence? I'm restricted such that I have to wear seatbelts. I can't buy a new car without rear view camera. I can't buy a new car without antilock brakes. Headlights. Brake lights. I could go for a long time on this list. Are you claiming none of those make driving safer?
In Python len() on a bytes type gives you the number of bytes, and len() on a str type gives you the number of codepoints. I think that makes sense, as strings are only intended to deal with text, and you should never have to worry about byte indexing at all.
More and more I've wanted a browser based on WebKit/Blink from a company with the original Mozilla's values. I know this will get a lot of flack, but Gecko feels way too antiquated for what I want out of a modern browser. Not to mention, browsers are significantly complicated that splitting developer efforts just doesn't seem like a good idea; Firefox keeps falling further behind in term of modern features.
Single digit employees can’t be really considered “junior” regardless of their experience since you are looking for people that would literally build your company from scratch.

Whilst experience is important it doesn’t not directly correlates with competence as you’ve also mentioned.
Having just left a large enterprise, it certainly feels like executive jobs are replaceable soonest with the AI tech available to us now.

Not sure why those of us that live in code editors or even Excel should worry about our jobs more than those that live in Powerpoint.
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It is wrong that "{emoji}".length == 7 -- but it's wrong because there's no such thing as the 'length' of a string out of context.

A string should be viewed as an opaque data type with views into it depending on what you're trying to do. You can have its length in the context of storage/retrieval/transmission (UTF-8 byte count), its length in the context of parsing (code points), its length in the context of editing (grapheme clusters) or length in the context of display (a bounding box in points when used in conjunction with a specific font and paragraph style attributes).

Claiming to provide an out-of-context length is strictly wrong because there's no such thing. This is where people get confused.

The attribute shouldn't be 'length' it should be something like 'countOfCodePoints' or exposed via a `CodePoints` type view.

It's particularly bad because so often (esp. for western programmers) 'countOfCodePoints' == 'countOfBytesInUTF8' == 'countOfGraphemeClusters' == """length""" so it's hella easy to accidentally write buggy software. Especially for people who don't know the above about unicode, which let's face it, most people don't. Not until they have to explain to their designer why they can't limit a label to '10 characters.' ("What do you mean there's no such thing as a character, and what am I trying to do?").

This is basically the tl;dr of the article but it's also my personal opinion.

All of this isn't about 'wrong' so much as 'imprecise and overloaded terminology making it easy to write buggy software through poor abstractions.'

If python explained which length you were getting, then this article wouldn't exist.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic so maybe I'm taking the bait here.

Regardless, there is probably a middle ground for the lamps between "widespread use" and "extinction". It's not great that they are inefficient, but they are certainly historical, and the emissions from a few thousand gas lamps are a drop in the bucket for Berlin and the world.

I would argue that the cultural, historical and educational value of the lamps should be given weight against the downsides and preserved to some extent.
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This is a pretty big handwave:

> The number of non-collision severe injuries (are we theorizing folks get their head banged against something when it brakes heavily?) is likely to be pretty small

(People can be injured directly by the seatbelt, and there's also whiplash to consider.)
NFTs and blockchain never had the adoption rate that LLM had (see GPT4 and how companies and users are using it).
If they do this, then

- Make alignment of front facing cameras free (for newer automobiles not retrofits), not a $500 service option. The front facing camera is bound to fall all out of alignment, which makes the system begin to see ghosts. This then causes drivers to simply disable the automatic emergency braking, after 1 or 2 scares. Therefore the system is broken.

- Fine car companies that cause accidents due to emergency braking randomly braking due to ghosts or other spectra, if due to flawed mechanics. There should not be corner cutting in a safety feature. Such fines already exist for airbag regulations.

If we were to mandate automatic emergency braking today with the state of the current technology, it would be a disaster.
I don’t know why you think I was saying only diet and lifestyle, because I definitely wasn’t?

You seem to be imagining that this scenario where the Dr. Goes to your home and gives you something useful was ever a mainstream phenomenon, which as far as I’m aware is just not true.

So maybe the issue is not HN?
SalesForce repositioned as a data company back in 2010 when they bought data.com (prev Jigsaw).
this one one of those things that people point to when comparing languages, but in reality rarely matters. with Go, you just get the number of bytes, which the the correct default thing to do:

https://godocs.io/builtin#len

if the language default was anything other than this, THAT WOULD BE WRONG and unexpected. I would prefer the default to be the dumb, fast thing. then if I want the slow, fancy thing, I can import some first or third party package.
It does, for the western US. Comparing it to.... Albuquerque or Denver maybe.

It's nothing compared to the powerhouse of Boston or New York city. Seattle is Alright compared to them.

San Francisco wipes Seattle on the floor of the fish market in comparison tho.
I can see how I muddied that. My point is I have heard complaints from cruise control accidents. If anything, I would expect regulation against cruise control.
All the comments I make on Hacker News are done in good faith and assume good will on the part of the person I'm replying to. If you really think I misread, please rewrite what you wrote; as far as I can tell, I read and interpreted it clearly. It's best if you come out and say things directly, while your statement's thesis isn't entirely clear, but I read it as:

Flies directly in the face of study after study after study that says: diet and lifestyle are major factors in all deadly diseases. <- yes, this is true. However, it's not a useful statement when criticizing medicine based on technology. Even if everybody in the world had a "perfect" diet and lifestyle, it wouldn't address the majority of diseases at a very large scale.

Probably driven by modern tech, completely inadvertently, because x-ray machines and MRIs and such demand that the patient go to the clinic or hospital rather than the doctor going to the patient's home. <- OK, not sure what to say about this other than, it's an unfair comparison; there's plenty of in-home care and in-home doctors can't resolve a wide range of issues at a person's house. It also brings risk to the doctor, as well as causing them to spend their day travelling around.

Star Trek's Dr. McCoy and his tricorder was a dream of tech that you could carry in the proverbial little black bag. We aren't there and have forgotten a lot of important principles in the process of pursuing shiny tech. <- actually, doctors and medical researchers, for all that they pursue shiny tech, still mostly have a good appreciation for "important principles". For example, I watched my surgeon count the sponges that they took out of my spouse after surgery, to make sure they hadn't left any in (this was a surprisingly common problem with surgeries). They don't try to make a "sponge detector machine". That's just one example out of millions; if you've followed doctors on Rounds, you'll see that most of what they do isn't technology.

But it's generally a bad idea to critique any of that. Gets one nothing but hatred. <- I explicitly wrote my comment to be friendly, fact-based, and make my thesis as clear as possible. If you're going around pointing out that "medical basics that we've known for a while matter", nobody is going to agree with you. But if you attack doctors/medical researchers the way you do, you instance cause people to interpret you as somebody to argue with.
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