skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arbitrary examples off the top of my head:

lack of references, no generics, verbose error handling, a few quirks (e.g. need to write (*slice)[i]), inconsistencies like new vs. make, interface{} hacks where there could be a zero-cost abstraction, oddities with untyped literals, no way to declare "not null" pointers and the Million Dollar Mistake, built-in functions for built-in primitives (i.e., append(slice, datum) instead of slice.append(datum))

Stuff like that, which has been discussed over and over. Go is a bit of an odd language if you're used to languages like Ada, CommonLisp, or Racket, but I really like it a lot. I like the sense of pragmatism, that it has been developed to get things done.

I believe that Go2 will be even better and am especially happy that the Go team has decided to adjust and include generics rather than stubbornly insisting that they are not needed.
I believe this is it: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb....
Somewhat surprised that the article contains 0 screenshots of the app.
>You need to get vehicle registration plates (some "electronic" or temporary) in 3 jurisdictions. You also need insurance for 3 jursidictions.

well, the bridge does put a political pressure on that situation. One China in all senses would make it more convenient.

Until that, the Uber Roaming with autonomous cars, one is taking you to the border, the another is already waiting to pick you up, a convergence of taxi and rental, will solve that issue in the meantime.
Took me quite a while to work out you weren't talking about pancakes
Actually, my biggest fear about Christianity in the USA today is that it's NOT "making things happen" Or, perhaps more accurately, the things that it's making happen are businesses.

I think it depends on which branches of Christianity you care about.

I'm not Mormon, but I get Salt Lake City television where I live, and have some Mormon neighbors, and the things that the LDS does to change lives around the world are incredible. It is truly a world-changing organization. But unless you're in or adjacent to that sphere, most people don't know about it.

Similarly, the Roman Catholic church is almost exclusively known by the general public in recent years for scandal. But I saw a report a few years ago that the Church had already spent a trillion (yes, with a T) dollars fighting human trafficking and helping the victims of human trafficking around the world.

Again, if you're not tuned in to Catholic media, or only consume media from the usual North America and European sources, you wouldn't know about these sorts of things.
5 Not So Crazy Ways to Get Your Blog Posts to Go INSANE on Social Media
I think the E6B contradicts the article's assertion that the last slide rule in the US was made in 1976; when I was taking flying lessons a few years ago, I was required to buy a new E6B, and I doubt that was from some massive overstock in the 70's.
Pentobarbitone
It's not remotely about "conquering" anything except their music's lack of popularity.
This is analogous to different UNIX programs communicating with shmget and a synchronization primitive. It's still a multiprocess model.
You're changing the argument, though (in fact, you're completely inverting it). The discussion _here_ is whether or not tech companies should be forced to police hate speech. You're trying to conflate that into whether or not they should be allowed to.
Lost and Found (band) I think has some nice song books if you've never come across them. Two piece band, guitar and piano, simple music, large variety of subject matter, very different sound.
My solution was to use a machine that's similar to what Googlers use. Even though devs at Google use 64GB RAM and Xeon chips, I've found that an Eight-core Ryzen chip at 4GHz with 32GB of RAM on Linux makes Gmail fly. I can run and work with Mutt efficiently on a Raspberry Pi, but I need an desktop machine to make Gmail work fast. We live in interesting times.

Gmail is unusable in my 2012 MacBook Pro. I wonder how Gmail works on low-end Chromebooks.
What do they need that for?

Also, such systems are primarily used by chain shops, and provided by specialized companies. Both mean the data gets shared to multiple entities.
7 years and still a “startup”? They just want cheap labor from you.
Advocates of cryptocurrency tend to promote applications of it, not just promote decentralization as a platonic ideal.

Supposedly this should make it more desirable to regular users. But for users attracted to applications who don't actually care about decentralization, a stable coin will seem better and will be hard to compete with.

So, it seems like the true believers should be worried about having fewer persuasive arguments for adoption?
If your goal is to use new technologies, sure. Personally, I would probably never take a new job with a paycut. Also, are you aware that the COBOL market is so hot right now that companies are paying alot of money to bring devs out of retirement? Perhaps you should be looking at those opportunities. Save enough money and you can work on whatever technology you like at your leisure.

https://thenextweb.com/finance/2017/04/10/ancient-programmin...
This is great news, the state file was always the worst part about TF.
Anything you can do in space would be cheaper on earth. So rather than shading the pole by spreading ~100,000 sq. km of material in orbit, instead ask why we wouldn't spread the same shade cloth / reflective mylar etc. on the surface of the earth. Then you realize how much of a colossal project it is and how completely impractical is is.
I’ve met one or two “executive level” people like this and it’s pretty shocking. You’re used to having to dumb down what you say, to a 6-year-old’s understanding, in order to talk to these guys, and all of a sudden you meet one who knows the details of CDMA technology or is an expert on spatial indexes or something. “Mind blown” moment! Sadly, like your example they don’t seem to last, and get replaced with more political yes-men.
> Another example where a USB-C cable destroyed his USB PD analyzer & his chromebook ports

That sounds to me more like a shitty design on both of those.

Short of sending hundreds of volts and causing arcing, this should be preventable, should it not?
I used to make sites when i was a kid in the 90s. i want to get back into webdev but without all the complicated stuff. How can i make an html only site? any site builders like dreamweaver in 2018?
For anyone wanting a layman's description of QT:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/12/quantum-teleportation-de...
I'll continue to assume you have no evidence as you continue to not produce any.

==Exactly so there is no need to regulate information or opinion coming out of a essentially a robot.==

Two comments ago it couldn't be regulated because it would "stop people from voicing their opinions, or expressing satire, or discussing politics"; now you say they are just robots. Which is it, people or robots?

Your stance is equivalent to believing Samuel Clemens couldn't be held liable for something that "Mark Twain" did/said. If you build a bot and that bot commits fraud, you have committed fraud.

==This has been a fun conversation but I am done speaking on it as for nothing we discuss will change anything or either's opinion. ==

You are speaking for yourself, not me.
> Keter level

For the curious: http://www.scp-wiki.net/object-classes

What Would Dr Bright Do?
What ideas do you have for publishers to actually monetize their content? That's what most of these annoyances are there for...

It's not really MBAs running the show - its the sad fact that content is so centralized and monetized by the giants that independent publishers have to result to this stuff on a large scale to remain competitive... if you don't install trackers you don't earn premium CPMs on your ads and if you don't earn premium CPMs you start building email lists and then you start spamming people to sell crap and doing exit popups and constant reminders to subscribe now and crap like that.

content publishing is largely copycat - what works or what drives revenue pops up everywhere or becomes a pattern that publishers can subscribe to in order to ink out some revenue to pay for crap.

I run a small travel blog and i spend a lot of money on good fast page loads, global cdn, high performance/fast loading website and it pains me to have to have ads/trackers/facebook connect and crap like that but i'd love some feedback on how to do something different that people would actually support - or how to do ads in a way that doesn't scare people off...

just using google tag manager i see 40% of my traffic runs adblock.... i'd break even if this weren't true but that's the reality we face so lots of insane measures of trying to monetize a visit means the web just by and large becomes worse and worse...
Any recommendations? Which udemy course is it?
Quantum teleportation demystified
I agree it's hard for me too to be precise about naming in academic sense. But this published paper "Writes: the dirty secret of causal consistency" says that both Cosmos DB and MongoDB have causal consistency so I don't know.. At least Cosmos DB and MongoDB provide the same guarantees for session/causal.
Even old Nokia phones were able to test the maximum current drawable from the charger connected to their charging port, and adjust charging current accordingly. A cutting edge smartphone which cannot manage its battery charging process sounds a bit strange.

AFAIK Qi is a standard which can communicate too, so things look stranger...

For the uninitiated, Nokia phones had a feature called net-monitor which acted as a global debug console and had 60-something pages. One of these pages were battery and charging status and data.
I don't think that "acceptable/unacceptable" is a sensible way of thinking about it; it's just axiomatic that there are some irreversible situations that cannot easily be gotten out of - time moves forwards, not back.

We might be able to move the bar, and that might be a good idea (welfare programs, etc), but that's all we can do, and there is clearly a point beyond which trying to rescue people is throwing good money after bad.

There is no way of preventing a human from damaging themselves in the general case (whether that damage be intentional or unintentional; I'm not moralizing here.).
I'm glad to see someone here gets it.
Comcast, Verizon, etc. can't intercept your Bitcoins, but DHL, USPS can intercept your cash.
How is your life any harder to live because the parent comment was made? How has any positive human quality you innately have been refuted by the comment?

There is a clear definition of hate speech. It's not as amorphous as you need it to be in order to protect your ego.
But they are no where near as easy to use as cryptocurrency. Back in 2010/2011 I used bitcoin to buy stuff from China, I was paying something ridiculous to do the same thing via traditional banks in fees and poor exchange rates. Even now these foreign exchange services make it better but only for larger transactions. Small/medium transactions still pay a ridiculous rate/fee compared to cryptocurrency. Further exacerbated if the recipient has difficulty obtaining banking facilities.
It is indeed an initialism for International House of Prayer.
In a traditional wired charger, the transformer coils are in the charger. In case of wireless charging, one half of the coil is inside your phone. I am not an electrical engineer, but whatever current is induced there, you have to put it somewhere. So the argument makes some sense. Still not a nice move.
> Making decisions about what content your audience sees is an act of publishing, even if it's executed via complex algorithm. The companies doing this need to accept their responsibility for what they decide to serve and promote.

Repealing Digital Safe Harbour would be a good first step. If you are responsible for what people see, you are responsible for the content.
Hongkong has land border with China and rail links over land.
I know what you mean. I borrowed a car from a fraternity brother to pick up a date once. Before departing he explained that if it didn't start I might have to use the crank! It was a Citroën if I remember correctly. I'm sure it really impressed my date.
> Free speech does not mean I'm entitled to someone else's platform.

You're thinking of the first amendment, there is a nuanced difference between that and the general principle of free speech.

I'll assume you happened to not be aware of this, but there are lots of people online who refuse to acknowledge that difference and continue to spout the "entitled to someone else's platform" persuasion meme, which is kind of what this whole discussion is about: power, or altering the course of future events. If one's ideas & principles are sound, disingenuously censoring opposing ideas shouldn't be necessary. I believe many pro-censorship people know this explicitly (but would never speak it out loud) and others "sense" it subconsciously.
Well, these unnamed "tech companies" are responsible for the proliferation of absurd lies that will elect a far right authoritarian candidate in my country, Brazil. The spread of this lies happens with the support of a well financed organization.

I always thought that the Internet would be a democratic platform that would improve the debate in society. Maybe we would go back to a democracy without intermediaries.

I was wrong.

We are entering a dystopian world where the profits of a handful of companies are more important than the rest of society.
What you're talking about is investing+speculating, not saving. By the same logic investing in the S&P500 over the 1999-2009 decade would have been worse than cash. You save money, you invest/speculate to earn a return -- which requires taking on downside risk.
I don't remember if this is rolling, but I can confirm they're not out yet :)
...now. How about in 5 years? Will we still be plugging the wires to our portable devices?
> This is not solving a problem that isn’t otherwise solved except money laundering and skirting AML/KYC rules. Look I may well be wrong, but can you suggest a use case I haven’t considered?

I could see a decent amount of usage for dApp developers or anyone who wants micro transactions on their platform. That being said, “stablecoin” is probably quite useless outside of that very narrow use case.
You might also enjoy this time lapse of the network topology graph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8bbuqTVEw
Facebook is rolling out a redesigned Messenger focused on simplicity
pretty much spot on. We have to change our habits if we want the web to survive. I'd love to get rid of google tag mamager/analytics/facebook pixel and all that jazz and it would be nice if people would signup with patreon and donate a few bucks a month so i could work on publishing vs milking every visitor...

wish there was a way that people would realize that getting back to smaller communities and supporting publishers is actually a good thing
For driving, I'd rather have a HUD on the dashboard, but the best still seem to be tiny, expensive, and underwhelming.
The most impactful technology would be some sort of financial instrument to fund known and future carbon reduction techniques which could be implemented independently (or with the help) of governments.
> A Stanford University study released Friday found that high school seniors and recent graduates who use Juul are more addicted to the product than those who use other e-cigarettes. The finding raises concerns about higher rates of addiction among Juul users.

I wonder if this is because the Juul pods are the most "cigarette"-like -- I know it's one of the more successful products used to stop smoking because it has a "throat hit" that other ecigs/vapes don't have.
I don't have an informed opinion on this whole stablecoin thing, but...

There isn't a single country in the world today where you can't spend a US dollar. Canadians will happily take them, especially at a 1:1 exchange rate.
>This is problematic in ways that used to be obvious to people in free societies, but for some reason seems lost now.

I don't think this is true. I think some people always got it, and some people still do. The difference is that the internet allows anyone to post their opinions, but it used to be a lot harder to reach other people.

We still have people that we hold up on pedestals for saying the right things, and the people that we remember from the past are the ones that said things that were incredibly right, or incredibly wrong. We don't remember what every common Joe used to say daily.
In this work, continuous-variable quantum states are being teleported. The reason they almost-incorrectly call it deterministic is that continuous-variable [1](think analog) quantum states even when degraded by signal transmission errors will always transmit some information to the destination. Qubit (or discrete state) teleportation on the other hand will usually have some probabilistic errors that completely destroy the signal.

Therefore, the correct metric to report for analog signals is the fidelity. They do report this as 69% - which is above a certain important threshold - but also fairly low for any practical application in the near future.

[1] as opposed to discrete-variable states eg. qubits
Treasury releases first round of rules on Opportunity Zones
What is devOps: a 2018 perspective
That's one great thing about sunshades- they can be implemented by just convincing a spacefaring billionaire or two instead of having to change policy / steer nation-states.
Meh. I quit watching some time around 2010, not long after they were butt-hurt about the 200th/201st episode censorship (which, to be fair, was bs), and did some really shitty episodes. The one that comes to mind was the one with weird live-action bits. That really made me think about the show as a whole and how much it had changed. I realized that it had turned into a weekly moralizing/bashing showcase for whatever had rubbed Matt and Trey the wrong way. Instead of Cartman getting his bully's parents killed and cooking them in a chili or Chef singing about eating his chocolate salty balls, it was now about Jimmy (hate that character, btw) doing stand-up or getting a job as uber driver or making a lame LOTR or Batman "parody" without much to say about either genres. While some episodes did hit the right notes on raising awareness on an important issue (e.g. crack baby athletic league, kenny's last will, etc.), I miss the anarchic, crude humor of the first seasons.
Now I want one of these. (Especially the "estimating cooking times" parts - I'm weirdly good at mental arithmetic so I don't actually need this for volumes and weights.)
Earth is a closed system, so the shade cloth on Earth would simply warm up and reradiate the absorbed energy as infrared. Reflective mylar would see a portion of the reflected sunlight (which would have warmed the atmosphere upon entry) trapped by the greenhouse effect.
The primary goal of Bitcoin was to be an experiment.
We're talking about pretty significant improvements in network I/O performance (among other things) with a unikernel, correct ? My understanding is that there have been several projects that have revolved around putting Linux network drivers into userspace so as to improve the throughput and avoid the kernel mode switch.
UK doesn't have free speech to begin with.
I don’t understand why someone needs to censor anything in the first place. If a user finds posts of another user offensive, etc, then the first user can unsubscribe/unfollow/block/... the second user. If everyone thinks the same way then the offensive user will just speak with her/himself.
So if I have a $2000 how much of that do lose in fees when I buy shares? Sure it makes sense if I am saving $1000 or more a month but it doesn't work when I'm saving $50 to $100 a month for my kids college education, fees eat that up the same way that inflation does, but both make hardly any difference to the person saving $1000 or more a month.
To those saying the paper isn't for the "layperson", or average reader - papers like this exist to fluff the ego of the author more than they exist to convey information. It's very possible to write in a way that is both accessible to everyone and still informative to experts.
If I was working at that company I'd be sending out my resume and looking for alternatives.
How would this affect plant life and agriculture?
My guess is this is going to correlate to eating more vegetables.
Europe should do this for their cookie law, too. Instead of every website having its own UI for it, we should force browsers to give the user some reasonable options like "accept all cookies", "reject all cookies", and "ask me every time" .. oh wait.
This internet monopoly is bad for our IQ, our society and our democracy.
Qi is the most disgusting over-complicated protocol ever.
Trees hardly make anyone any money (absent a carbon credits/tax system).
After reading your response a few times I think this might come down to whether you jump to using the word "hard" relatively or absolutely.

You seem to describe something as "hard" or "easy" relative to other things.

If your job is lifting rocks and all of them are really heavy, but one weighs slightly less, you might describe the less heavy one as "easy" to lift. Someone else might describe them all as "hard" to lift.

A lot of people in the tech industry, yourself included, seem to be in the first mindset. That mindset can be dangerous as it invites complacency.

This language matters a lot, because who wants to improve something that's already "easy"? Refusing to call something "hard" because it doesn't apply to what you view as the average or ideal user is picking a small semantic point in a way that avoids improvement.

Perhaps this is not you, but I've seen many people use language like yours("idealistic", "naive", "one size will never fit all") to dismiss turning a critical eye towards tech design. The argument seems to be that modern design is actually really good and that efforts to improve it are just a futile quest fueled by people who are unnecessarily critical.

Maybe that argument is right, but I don't think so. Whenever I get a chance to peek outside my bubble in the tech world and I talk with a less tech savvy user it becomes clear their relationship with technology is basically adversarial.

The iPhone can be "great", "easy", "hard", and "terrible" all at the same time. Refusing to accept calling it "hard" and describing someone who would do so as "obtuse, dishonest, or willfully naive" is a constrained and inaccurate mindset.
Sunshades don't address other attendant issues stemming from increased CO2, such as ocean acidification. The ocean biosphere wholesale is threatened by acidification. (Among other things, bio-carbonate generation and stability are undermined. And thus, the entire food chain above organisms that depend upon this.)
Had forgotten to give the link for the set cover problem (the [1] above). Here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_cover_problem

I didn't know the following about it before (from the Wikipedia page):

[ The set cover problem is a classical question in combinatorics, computer science and complexity theory. It is one of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems shown to be NP-complete in 1972.

It is a problem "whose study has led to the development of fundamental techniques for the entire field" of approximation algorithms.[1] ]
Lawyers may lose their license if their explanations to clients are not complete.

Generally, I find non-lawyers are often lazy, sloppy, or indefinite when speaking or writing. When I was a software engineer I didn't notice it, now I see or hear sloppy/lazy language everywhere and it bugs the crap out of me.
True, but I think this could really be useful for cases similar to google flags (https://github.com/gflags/gflags) wherein each file in a library adds to the global configuration. Then your main can more easy parse out these options to be shared across the entire codebase.