skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What else is in Go 1.11?
Please don't be disingenuous. Not one of those promises an instant, painless lights-out the way a gun does.
Kind of a dreamy logic... you may be right.

But this kind of logic does not play well on the internet. Too easily picked apart. Needs to be concrete and ready for action.
$3-400k gets a tiny 1 bedroom apartment downtown, which I would have loved early in my career. The kiwibiuild homes are being aimed at families and necessarily much larger.

I do agree that NZers have this strange desire for bungalows in the suburbs, commuting and mowing lawns. I'm in an apartment downtown and love it.
An empire of garbage knockoffs ‍️
This is not correct. Exceptions do different things than report an error. They unwind the stack. That's why they are called exceptions and not errors.

One important benefit of Go's error handling pattern is readability. With exceptions, it's not easy to see who handles it and where. There is indeed less code, and that's nice for the writer, but from the reader perspective, error handling becomes obscure. And from the quality control point if view, this becomes unsafe.
Ah yes, I see how you can read it either way. Even at $10 a ride under the same assumptions that seems light as I assume something like this would cost 100's of millions upfront and then fairly decent running costs.

So VERY guess work but if it was 10x under the same generous assumptions this is ~$45mil/year revenue

What are cost...
- $15m for 5% interest on $300m debt?
- $15m for running cost and maintenance?

Then a $15m buffer, would not be a margin bad margin for infrastructure if he can start building a bunch of these. Maybe cheaper rides to grow the concept..
Show HN: BlueLoss – lock your computer when a bluetooth device is lost
It's already dying on X.

The new Gnome apps for instance don't respect standard interaction even when the window manager is Gnome. (For instance, if a window has a modal dialog box open, you can't move the window; I think I've also had issues with pushing windows back despite this being a configuration option.)

If you use Chromium too, it doesn't respect your settings for where the minimise/maximise/close etc buttons go until you right click somewhere and say "let me forget that your developers think they're so special they have to remind me i'm using your app every time i want to immerse myself".

Gnome people will probably say "it's a trivial bug which we will fix shortly". But in reality it's intrinsic to the design. Now instead of picking an application which does its job well and a window manager which does its job well, you have to pick an application which manages its own windows well and does its job well. All because someone thought it's prettier if title bars have menu bars in them.
Rather than offer your thoughts on what may have happened, you might be interested in reading about actual research into suicide. The gist is that many suicides are impulsive when an easy method is available– most often a gun.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068255/suicide-impulsive-gun-...
It’s odd that you’re willing to so vehemently question sourced reporting, while simultaneously postulating, without any evidence, that a very narrow, favorable to Google scenario is likely to be the case.
Divide by markets and genres and its not so much.
In the context of this story, this comment is flamebait and breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You've unfortunately done that quite a lot. That will eventually get you banned here, so please read the rules and follow them from now on.
Former Tesla employee's tweets show allegedly flawed batteries
Investors fight for lower rates, while people who live in the places want better services.
I did, they were the more powerful and less durable cousins of chimpanzees.
How is that problem any different than other single track transportations (subway, train, trolley)?
That's the issue, and no.
By the time it's done "improving" I will be making 150k a year and still won't be able to afford a house or to have children. Great! At some point we're going to have to admit that everything is simply getting wildly more expensive than our wages are keeping up...and for whose benefit? Certainly not yours or mine.

God bless people who haven't been as fortunate as you or myself, for in addition to not affording these things they find themselves in shipping containers, or worse.
UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding using up to two code units which each are 16-bits wide.

UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding using up to 4 code units (though it used to be up to 6, and could again be up to 6) each of which are 8-bits wide.

Both, UTF-16 and UTF-8 are variable-length encodings!

UTF-32 is not variable-length, but even so, the way Unicode works a character like &acute; (á) can be written in two different ways, one of which requires one codepoint and one of which requires two (regardless of encoding), while ṻ (LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON AND DIAERESIS) can be written in up to five different ways requiring from one to three different codepoints (regardless of encoding).

Not every character has a one-codepoint representation in Unicode, or at least not every character has a canonically-pre-composed one-codepoint representation in Unicode.

Therefore, many characters in Unicode can be expected to be written in multiple codepoints regardless of encoding. Therefore all programmers dealing with text need to be prepared for being unable to do an O(1) array index operation to get at the nth character of a string.

(In UTF-32 you can do an O(1) array index operation to get to the nth codepoint, not character, but one is usually only ever interested in getting the nth character.)
I hope they can collaborate with Netflix on this, much like they're collaborating with Microsoft on a bridge between Siri and Cortana. I'd like to see Black Mirror on the big screen.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-softwar...

University of Oxford Master’s in Software Engineering

... However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.
No, they don't. For some people, that time is better spent on their "main project" -- family, relationships, etc. Your entire life shouldn't be slavishly devoted to work.
And also didn't prevent us (a couple thousand years later) from lumping them all together as "ancient Greece". Distance from the components, in time or space, lets us paint the set as homogeneous.
That makes a lot of sense.
I feel the hardest part is always finding something that one is so passionate about, that they will see it through till the end.
As an Indian, for me it refers to both. "Spiciness" may bring heat to the tongue (chillies) or may be easy on the tongue but hell in your stomach (Andhra spicy). the latter is less likely to be taken as "heat" but it is more of a combination of spices.
The problem people have with organ donation is that it requires the donor to still be alive, but without brain activity, when they donate.

So it boils down to what do you consider death?
Has YC become a meme? Yet another company doing the same thing, and claiming subjective advantages over the competition.

Almost like companies are selected for being part of a story ('poor college student craves mums food') rather than being an actual business.
>You can't expect a Prime 2 day delivery if you use standard Post.

You can't even get Express Post items in 2 days about half the time, even tho they "Guarantee next business day delivery"
On a chip, there's really no difference between the source and drain. The source/drain can be connected to ground, another transistor or power as needed.

Look at the diagram of an inverter in the article, and it should make it clearer how gates are constructed. A NOR gate is similar to the inverter, but with two input transistors in parallel, so either one can pull the output low. A NAND gate has two input transistors in series, so they must both be on to pull the output low.

There's a single metal layer in the 8087 (but many metal layers in modern chips). The transistor can be wired however works best for the layout, with polysilicon or metal. If a transistor's source is connected to a neighboring drain, the silicon regions can just be merged and no wiring is needed.
Faster, cheaper (than car) and with less emission right? Seems quite good to me.
Prime Espresso is actually scary, since coffee is one of the three products in 1984...
The land in Auckland is driving the value. It's a lovely climate, great city to live in, stable economy and government and open the water. There simply isn;'t much of that sort of living around.
And now you're reinventing the Windows Console API... :)

I mean, both approaches have their pluses, but the API approach is only ever going to work well for remoting if it is standardized and interoperable. And the installed base of Unix termcap/terminfo programs is huge, so plain old text-with-in-band-controls is not going away anytime soon.
Why indeed. If someone were to propose a new airline that used 50 Cessna Caravans instead of one 737, people would rightly claim they've gone off their rocker.

But Elon is on record being no fan of public transport:

"I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people (...)" [1]

So I think its fair to say they're sacrificing capacity/efficiency for the sake of comfort and "the premium experience".

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...
To add to that - the valuations include both the land and the property, and they are itemised.
Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy, then copy into an editor that does not support images, only text.
Any company operating in China must necessarily welcome a new stakeholder to the table, which are the Chinese citizens, themselves. With that, Chinese citizens are on the whole proud nationalists. Flag waving, chest thumping Nationalists, proud of their country and protecting against any perceived or real slight. Sure, many of them are likely Party members, raised from birth. So, it seems hard to discern the line here between it being an actual concerted government action against these companies vs. just simply a function of a gang of these loudly screaming nationalist citizens, connected through social media, calling out the companies.
> Why would you want to do that? Use (RPC | shared memory | some other IPC mechanism).

Yes, structured data exchange is the correct answer. When I have the opportunity to code something from scratch, this is the route I take.
The pattern is the programmer's choice. Here's a contrary example/approach:

https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
Its pretty much the only thing recommended for OCD. Maybe meditation or mindfulness gets a look in. But you want to try to get less superficial diagnosis than some random person on the internet; the OCD behavior could be a side effect of something else, eg. comorbid GAD or many other things I'd only be guessing at.
Georgia Tech biases heavily towards hands on project design. It was also rated the worst school in terms of work life balance while I was there. Grad level courses will easily suck up a substantial portion of your life, even if the content seems 'simple.'
Generally, you only create one uv_loop_t, and it is vital it is never copied (which is easy to do accisentally if you stack allocate it).

mallocing is the entirely sensible thing to do here.
You are right in that the age wouldn't necessarily correlate with quality, but I can speak from first hand knowledge about the inertia that different EMRs bring. A lot of these drug interactions are mild precautions or the evidence changes with time. Ideally what is supposed to happen is a multidisciplinary committee reviews the latest evidence and continuously updates the interactions. What often happens though is that there isn't enough 'oomph' to override a previously established notification so inertia wins. It's often not until a major EMR upgrade where things get more closely looked at and some of the less important flags/notifications get weeded out out. Definitely true that new major interactions get added all the time and usually in a timely fashion. As you can also imagine there is a medico-legal aspect of removing a previous flag, so often it's easier to just leave it and make the provider do an extra unneeded click.
You seriously think this is about making the world a better place?

It's about money. Private businesses don't care about Chinese citizens. They care about cold hard cash.

Now, am I saying private US businesses shouldn't work with anyone in China? Not really. All I'm sayng is: at the end of the day, technology can only do so much. Eventually, policy must change also and this is valid for any country, including the US.
They sent a confirmation mail saying that "I am in" as soon as I cancelled their subscription! Pretty lame they can't identify difference between an entry event and an exit event
I was just doing a categorical mapping, which you might call it analogy...

How is that "lumping" relevant to the current discussion initiated by King-Aaron?
It sure seems to take a long time to fix things. Maybe fixing things at the point of a gun is the problem?
All the political parties here have similar polices - it's a country with a social welfare system. On the margin National/ACT (blue) like to cut taxes and spend less social welfare and Labour (red)/Greens the reverse. After 3 terms with blue we had overshot, and Labour iOS having their turn at the well.
I encourage all voters to be swing voters - that way they have a chance to influence policy. There are good politicians across all parties here, and we are lucky for that.
Heh I should be more precise. During the summer storm season (for example the attacks last week across most of the popular networks), most networks deploy spambot countermeasures that they don't typically run on a normal day. But when they flip the switch, it tests new connections only. So for example I use ZNC and essentially never disconnect. But I disconnected to renew my LetsEncrypt certs during this time and then was k-lined on reconnection on a couple of networks.
Don't Sweat the #Repsweats and Let 'Crazy Rich Asians' Be What It Is
Depends on your standards for “problem”, which is conceptually a statement I myself find frustrating, so i can see where you’re coming from.

But, we should try and be considerate when we define “problem”. LA has no shortage of serious transportation problems. This solves exactly none of them. Outside of Startupland, a problem is usually something that gets acknowledged before you find it.
C++ can allow you to write much more efficient code (in speed or space) than C code, but the key word is can. Unless you really know the hardware and really know what you're doing the opposite is possible.

I have written solid, maintainable c++ code for the AVR, but the writing of it was difficult -- it was the maintenance and use by others was easier (example: what looked like a struct actually laid out its code noncontiguously -- but someone who needed to add a small feature didn't need to know that much less worry about it).

C++ is fundamentally a systems programming language so quite a bit of embedded code is written with it. But it's designed to be span tiny to massive applications, and different features are intended for different points on that curve.
“The Office” reference in AngelList
You can appreciate the willingness to jump and start a business and take it as far as being ready to ship out your product, but I agree this product just seems redundant. It has so many flaws that people have pointed out. Literally the only point the founder made that separated this from the competition was that 'ours tastes better', even though it is way more expensive.
It's already there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ProcThread/...

You can set various limits, though I haven't seen functions to stop/resume a job.
> In my experience non-westerners tend to underestimate the level of spiciness that westerners can handle

As someone who owned a restaurant; that is not it most likely. The problem is that people say ‘super spicy!!!’ (or bloody if it is a steak) and then send it back because they find it inedible. And you do not want to cause a scene nor can you bite back too hard, so you just replace it with bland and overcooked. It is a shame but many places just want to prevent that issue.
A Quest to Document the World’s Flowering Plants
yes, but that does not mean they are a local (ie live here, shop for clothes here) or not.

But someone who dresses in Carrefour looks different to someone who dresses in Lidl, BIM or MARHNT (cannot find russian letters easily, but you get the idea)
Service as a SKU
If this is anything like the courses I did at GT, the courses might look simple, the content might not seem deep, but the meat of the learning will be done in the constant onslaught of deep diving practical assignments. Applied Cryptography definitely seems like it will fit the bill here. The Energy Systems Specialization looks like it dives deeper than the other tracks, though.

I agree that the credentialism is the real issue here. I wanted to go into security after graduating and couldn't find anywhere offering jobs with less than 3 years of work experience or a graduate degree, lucky if it was only a MsC requirement.
Coca-Cola doesn't spend a lot of money on marketing by choice. Selling a commodity is expensive because your only differentiation is brand and possibly distribution. P&G is another example.
From an earlier NYT piece:

> According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
With your reasoning, the one should use only kernel interrupts and go even without glibc; because even simple printf() would require thousands of lines pulled from stdio.h

X11 is part of the system, just like glibc...
The Germans during WW2 had the best plastic surgery for burns.
There is several other proposals for projects around the US here: https://www.boringcompany.com/projects/

The gallery page has a lot of great pictures and video as well.

The tunnels are safe from an electrified 3rd rail and the tunnel / skate design can change over time (likely more easily than railway systems).

Consider that this design, once proven, can be licensed and extended worldwide.
I used to have a roommate who used to cook a kilo of uncut green chillies in a pan; adding crushed red chillies & other spices. Then he would eat it with Roti & pickle.

I, for one, can not eat chopped green chillies as a spice in a dish unless it is fried well in Tadka to kill its hotness.
It is. People treat moving like some sort of impossibility -- apply for a student visa and go.

The quality of education you'll get there is questionable, though
Oh I forgot about wasm. Maybe one day someone will just collapse the whole thing and embed the internet in silicon.
> Have they really saturated and squeezed all they can out of digital?

They have about half of US online retail. Returns on expansion probably get a lot smaller at that point.
> I like Apple's strategy better of sitting on piles of cash until they know what to do with it.

This is exactly the wrong strategy. Money is nothing compared to investing in business'.
No worries - while I personally enjoyed Rust it was clear that it was unsustainable for Dr. Comer. He means the best, I assure you. :)
At the cost of making the entire logic's readability less which to me is more important than sometimes getting confused where errors bubble up to.

The philosophy is different when, for example the author of Ruby wanted to make coding fun for programmers and does a good job at it and Go is sticking to 'this must be right' approach and breaks some people's heart.

Personally I'd appreciate being more 'fun'.
Library of explanation and implementation of attacks on cryptographic algorithms
There is a way to test the validity of their result. Go to figure 6 of the paper, in which they have a set of "Extracted Visual Elements" for each city. Cover the captions under each set, then see if you can pick the city. If their results are valid, shouldn't the essence of the city be in their selected photos, allowing a person to identify the city by looking at them?

I picked London, but none of the others (which might just reflect my lack of knowledge of each city). What do others see in figure 6?
Amazon is buying urban, high end locations. First Whole Foods, now Landmark.
Clearly shows which customers they see as high value.
This disproportionate focus on China is being used as a distraction from the all encompassing surveillance currently run by the NSA, GCHQ and Google, Facebook and others which is a far bigger and ongoing threat to democracy and citizens here. China's actions are limited to China.

There is hardly any activism against the invasive surveillance of SV companies or protests against the NSA. This forum itself has its fair share of apologists for surveillance capitalism. Where are the protests in front of Google and Facebooks campuses and in Washington?

So if people don't care about these issues at home how can they care about them in China? This is simply not credible or serious.

China's actions don't impact you, your governments and companies here do. In the absence of any mainstream activism, just singling out China for outrage and anger is duplicitous and comes across as motivated more by politics than any genuine concern for the issues.
Was it Amron Thai On Castro Street ?
Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning in PyTorch
"Thus while the Swedish middle class is large and has a compressed earning distribution, at the very top you have a small number of aristocratic families controlling much of the wealth. Mobility into this group is rare, probably rares than it is in the United States. One reason are stronger informal class-barriers, merely earning wealth is not enough to be accepted a member of the aristocratic upper-class. Another more interesting reason may be the unintended effect of welfare-state economic policies."

Patent bullshit. Wether or not you move into the "aristocratic" group is irrelevant if you control the wealth. Is the article about wealth inequality or snobbery ?
This video is probably the best explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHyctwgE6m4
Are you putting binary blobs in the sqlite databases directly?
I also have fond memories of India Garden with their half-price menu after 11pm. Sad to hear they closed.
Umm, then build the cheaper tunnel for a subway?
interesting project!

will be great if the author can add some Go benchmark results comparing this library to the one in Go's stdlib, will be useful for potential users to know what kind of CPU performance they can expect.
I've always found Medium to only become readable once I use Firefox's reader mode. The interstitial, the aggravating headers and often footers, the utterly useless sidebar icons.

Their styling is unobtrusive, but the result is something that leaves me thinking a designer needs to be shot for working far too hard to justify their pay.
They’re well on the way to solving the accessibility problem in terms of having all the materials available to cover a Bachelor’s in CS if they’re not there already. Coursera have partnered with the University of London to provide a Bachelor’s in CS. And the company launched in April 2012. The different MOOC providers may not have disrupted education but they’re off to a good start.
Entrust Solutions for Law Enforcement [pdf]
>Fact 1: Google only pulled search business out of China. adsense/adwords/maps works fine in China

Adsense in China is franchised to a Chinese company.