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> Go or Rust did not simply rename exception related keyword

I don't know about Rust, but Go most certainly did.

> C++, for instance, is extremely difficult to write exception safe code in.

It's WAY easier to write exception safe code in C++ than in Go, because C++ has RAII and scoped defers.

See my example for what a mess Go makes of this in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25276360

I find C++ exception safe code to be pretty much trivial. Once you get used to "no naked resources" RAII just makes everything exception safe automatically.
Does anyone know if the code GPT-3 writes is Web Scale?
Yes, but this is still progress. Baby steps add up to miles.
Nice design and name. How do you handle laggy website on old machines?

For instance, I find Google Chat to be really slow on my old MacBook Pro. Say I want to go to the previous thread at each custom keystroke. How does Keysmith know everything has been rendered before going to the next action?
How is prohibiting sending audio/video attachments in messages related to complying with privacy regulations?
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It doesn’t look like it’s out yet so you’re probably not going to get any useful info from here.

But I enjoy their case studies, if you can expense this for work I’m sure it’ll be useful. If you’re spending your own money probably worth waiting on some reviews.
True, although

> “Approximately 25 hours into the cut, the cutting chain broke,” St. Simons Incident Response writes on its website.
I agree. Passenger spaceflight would be offered widely and more affordably in short order if you remove all liability from vendors for deaths and injury of passengers. That doesn't mean it's ready yet.
Isn't swallowing (and passing) exceptions pretty much what they are for?

Should you instead handle every error close to their source, exceptions would be an overly verbose way of doing it.

But maybe it's just my specific kind of programming prejudice shining through here.
Gotcha, sounds like a miscommunication. I meant real as in, people are working on it and it’s not vaporware. In the same way that I don’t see autonomous plumbing companies when I search.
There was also MSN, and then on the side there was your Xbox Live account and your Games for Windows Live account. I think mine have all been merged at this point, but people at my job still click on the "work" account when they really want their personal (we don't use 365) and are confused when their account is empty.
The US has been very good to its athletes at times. David Robinson got an early out on his active duty requirement after graduating from the Naval Academy. West Point had a tremendous football team in 1944 and 1945.
I got 7k views in one day for my first blog post
I love markdown. I wish browsers were able to render it natively (with Firefox's reader mode, for instance) so I could write posts in it without using a static site generator or similar.
I will refer you to a tweet from 2 hours before your question here, from Paul Graham himself: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1333840629936377862

It says, "Every Christmas season, I realize how little progress online shopping has made since the late 1990s. I'm still unsure if the item's really in stock, still typing many characters in forms, still getting my credit card rejected with random opaque error messages."

Make what you will of it, choose wisely and tread carefully. All the best.
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Two news publishers ended up fighting over intellectual property
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Glad to see the Giant Pool of Money episode on the list
I am wondering about the same, even though Liechtenstein is mentionned which has the same agreements as CH with Europe.
People are looking at a bigger delta of improvement than that, IMO, but that also means they only want big commits from big names. The Tau thing really is too trivial, which means it may be outweighed by friction alone.
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In the case of Hadoop's S3 connector, this could eliminate this entire directory, plus its tests, plus a bunch of hooks in the main code: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/tree/trunk/hadoop-tools/had.... There's an argument in favor of keeping it in case other S3-compatible stores need it (though you'd still need DynamoDB or some equivalent) and because it makes metadata lookups so much faster than S3 scans, which helps with query planning performance. But I imagine even fewer people will take the trade-off now that Amazon S3 itself is consistent.
C is a high level language
Yes. See https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone#Modem_and_carrier_sup... for more info.
No, the results are not valid, or at least not in a useful way. The group who have received the wrong dose isn't a random sample from the treatment group, so we don't know whether it's more effective or not. It could even be less so.

I don't know what the regulator will do about this situation; it's clear that the vaccine is effective in at least one of the dosing regimes administered, but being entirely certain as to which is better is probably impossible to determine from the data available.
Hire more security auditors?

Apple employees would have access to these symbols and much more debugging info that the OP poster "got lucky due to an accidental share", so the process would be a lot easier for them.

EDIT: also, required reading on how vulnerabilities are discovered, important types of bugs, is not unreasonable, nor a long read.
Name them please. I work for a largish company, this subject was openly addressed in a townhall and stated it's not gonna work by CEO and the board.
As for where you gonna go, like everything else, it just creates opportunities for companies that might not paid as much but offer better environment, that's where I'm gonna go.
I think you underestimate the line of future workers willing to work under almost any condition.

People said this about consulting companies when they retracted offers in 2001. People said this about wall street firms when they reigned in party culture in the early 2000s. Yet, the show goes on because fresh graduates and immigrants at all levels need jobs and are willing to bear with it all.
Yeah, that was news to me and I’m happy there are advances being made. I was responding to claims of automation hitting truck drivers relatively soon (in the next decade), and causing drivers to lose employability, which I think is pie in the sky thinking.

If anything, I think truck drivers’ jobs will be resilient and in demand with all the move to delivery in the next decade or even two.

It’s going to take a lot of time and data to prove the safety of self driving trucks and sort out the calculation of liability and who is insuring what.
> Isn't swallowing (and passing) exceptions pretty much what they are for?

No. You either pass them up or handle them. Silently swallowing them is a recipe for disaster, because nobody gets any info about what went wrong. In very limited cases -- e.g. "I don't care about this harmless error" -- it's correct to swallow them up, but Java devs tend to overuse it and disaster ensues.

> Should you instead handle every error close to their source [...]

You shouldn't. Handle those errors that it makes sense to handle, pass them up otherwise. Just don't swallow them.
This dystopian nightmare is coming for programmers too, soon.
Unfortunately, it’s good news only for the driver who gets to manage the fleet, but bad news for the rest of the fleet’s drivers who are now unemployed.
The actual difference is that Bitcoin has problems with lacking incentives for developing the software. Ethereum has much more development happening because they were able to create useful social norms around funding the research & development of new products. The current capabilities of the two platforms and how they compare right now are secondary.
I just discovered this and found it to provide nice not-distracting music while working. Whether or not it helped me focus...

Curious if anyone else has tried it and what the HN community thinks of the scientific claims.
World’s first hydrogen fuel cell train is approved in Austria
Well duh, do you really think robots would take the shit jobs first? Would you? Or if you don't think so, it only makes sense they'd come for managers first, when you think about it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Some context:

"Today [2018], per-capita Canadian federal debt is equal to US$13,588.51. In the U.S., the same figure is nearly five times higher at $67,000 per American."

Source, the not-very-left-wing National Post: https://nationalpost.com/news/the-utterly-unbelievable-scale...
The measured data is for my Bip S lite (which is a bit smaller than the Bip S). A bump of 1mm high with an area of less than 1 square centimeter is not noticable imho. My other watches also have bumps (nato strap seams, the gshock's rear plate is uneven by 1mm easy, and seiko's glass rear window...)
> I think those firms will likely lose their competitiveness overtime. Unless they are defacto monopoly.

I suspect that's wishful thinking that assumes a greater alignment than actually exists between what we want for society and what the market will lead us to.
Functional libraries such as tailwindcss are popular because they are a good way to achieve this goal.
> Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible (...)
I think a more useful term for that might be "management automation". And it's not something I worry about is because a primary function of American-style management is to adapt too-rigid top-down systems to the complex, ever-changing nature of the work. Companies trying to automate management are even more vulnerable to competition and disruption than the ones automating labor.
Or you know, just use thermographic imaging on a satellite to dispatch airborne law enforcement as it happens.

Why anyone thinks companies would do anything more then keep an eye on their insurance rates, I don't know.
HTML and CSS are pretty stable, and quirks mode still exists for old websites.

Javascript is where the majority of the churn and instability lies.
> The maths says that we need about 70% of the population to take the vaccine in order for it to no longer be a threat

...to no longer be a threat to an unvaccinated person.

This isn't like the childhood vaccines, where we need herd immunity to protect the children who are too young to be vaccinated.

Provided that everyone who wants the vaccine can get it, I don't see the problem with letting everyone else make their own decision.

The current priority list of people is nowhere near 70% of the population anyway. Most people under 50 won't have the opportunity to be vaccinated for months. So this absolutely is a theoretical problem, at least for now.

Given that Covid is such a mild disease for most young people, I predict that by the time the elderly and vulnerable have been vaccinated, this will be a non-issue anyway.
Oh you sweet summer child.

Take the snarkiness back to reddit please.
It's ravenous.
Oh, I also like Either from Haskell. But it can get out of hand if misused by devs.

Note I say "misused" -- but it happens. After all, if Java exceptions weren't misused, there wouldn't be any problem either.
Beat me to it. My mind went immediately to Manna. Can't think of a book (or anything else for that matter) that sparked more of my imagination in terms of what can be possible (good and bad) in the near future with our existing tech.

But the biggest short-term takeaway was how middle-management is the most vulnerable to automation. Leadership may be hard to replace with a robot, but a lot of management is pretty straight-forward.
I think most humans reading the entirely correct sentence "George Washington invented an early instant coffee process" would interpret that to mean "The first US president invented instant coffee." George Washington (the president) had a wide range of careers like surveying and operating a distillery, and further was an avid coffee drinker (the article google cites for me is one claiming he imported 200 pounds of coffee in 1770). Even if you know when instant coffee was invented, the modifier "early" leaves open the possibility that this was some precursor to what we would today call instant coffee.
Governments don't need to pay off debt. At least not until they crash their currency, but that already makes the debt go away.
Thank you kindly! Appreciate the shout-out!
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One of the major examples in my life is that with respect to medication, I used to lean anti-“chemicals” and preferred herbal medicine, at least whenever I had the choice.

Completely turned around when I read more about it and after a while realized that the boundary between human-made and natural chemical compounds is completely arbitrary. Realizing that nature has its fair share of deathly toxic substances too also helped.
can we settle in Antarctica first? it has milder conditions and plenty of oxygen.
That 24 hour minimum is based on Apple license agreement.
These fields align quite well, IMHO. Take, for example, the development and operation of robots cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear aftermath. It is a very, very tricky environment where most normal assumptions of using materials and methods of communication that work in the normal world, don't apply.
https://amnesia.openaire.eu/download.html

> Amnesia Desktop Version 1.2.2

> Available for Windows and Linux

> [ mockup that is supposed to resemble a macOS app ]

:-P
Just a reminder: You can just write an OS to SD card and quickly try it out, and when you've found one that's quite good (I really like Mobian and ArchLinuxARM) you can settle on that. No need to stick with what your PinePhone shipped with :)
FWIW the Zeus Lite is another Windows based free text editor with good support for HTML.

It does the standard syntax highlighting, code folding etc and it also has built-in support for ftp and sftp editing.
Would you also burn your $2M dollars on fire to keep your daughter warm?
The scale is useless because the center has moved over time?

It used to be less fuzzy (assembled -- compiled) and now has more components (dynamic typing, garbage collection), but I don't see how anyone could deduce that the scale is nolonger a meaningful high-level (:^o) classification of a language.
Cloudflare thinks I'm an attacker. Thank you Cloudflare, very cool.
Nearly all of the things you mentioned is among old or obese people.

Lucky children can't vote, lets start vaccinations!

I somewhat kid, but COVID is a real life example where a tiny minority has ruled over the overwhelming majority.
Do you happen to know of some sources where I can find more API access to data and information like this? I'd love to be able to pull seismic data, weather data, ambient light data (as examples) or any other kind of data from all over the world just for fun.
This looked really cool, but I kept getting distracted by the sheer amount of blank ad spots (tysm UBO!), they were constant.

Literally every picture in the 'article' was paired with an ad. How tf is anyone supposed to concentrate on what they are reading with constant interruptions?

Even with the ads just being blank spots it drove me so nuts I added jalopnik.com to my blacklist.
Seriously. I encourage anyone who thinks the US or any other Western country is a dictatorship to move to a developing nation and give it a try. I have.

Once you've interacted with a corrupt bureaucracy or wondered whether the medicine you bought is counterfeit or realized the only thing stopping the cops from shaking you down is luck, you get a new found appreciation for stability, reliability and fairness (yes not always) of developed countries.
Those are all corner cases that won't convince spreadsheet guy to stop automating. And once automation does take hold, there will be plenty of incentive to solve them.
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> Show me one that can handle a snow squall or heavy rain or missing signs and lane markers and construction zones, and I might think it’s possible this decade.

And the next step would be correct recognition and behaviour
based on the current location. Different countries use different
colors and styles for road markings. Some use yellow lines in
the middle, others orange in the case of redirection around
construction sites. Then there are the cases where the lines are
simply incorrect or out of date(which famously lead to the fatal
Tesla autopilot crash).

It is impressive how far the technology has come, but it's an
area with countless edge cases and unpredictable situations
coupled with high stakes if something goes wrong. I can see
self-driving trucks being adopted slowly on specific routes, but
a full switch not labeled as "pilot project" will still take a
while I think.
If an expert read that, they would likely respond, citing why they are an expert. So I think it’s as good a way as any on hn.
Your comment has nothing to do with the logistics of rolling out a mass vaccination programme, but how exactly have the UK government’s Brexit negotiations “undermined and compromised UK logistics”?

Negotiations are ongoing to secure a trade deal with the EU once the transition period is over. The UK are also securing trade deals with other countries, including Canada and Japan.

Both sides recognise failure to reach a deal, or to extend the transition period, would be damaging for both sides.

Which is precisely why both sides are negotiating a deal to ensure that doesn’t happen...

Am I missing something here?
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Amnesia doesn't...? Then what's the download link and github page for?
Agreed. I think the first step here is to automate the long-haul portion, which is pretty straightforward. You can then have manual drivers take over at the switchover to local streets, which require real skill for an 18-wheeler.
I call BS on this "error list".

First, this doesn't take into account the other tests developed around the world (China, CDC, Institut Pasteur).

> The described concentrations lead to increased nonspecific bindings and PCR product amplifications, making the test unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In this "review" this hasn't been verified experimentally. The onus is on the ones doing the criticism. You still put excess primers in the reaction, because they don't need to be the limiting factor.

> 2. Six unspecified wobbly positions will introduce an enormous variability in the real world laboratory implementations of this test;

Has this been verified experimentally?

> 3. The test cannot discriminate between the whole virus and viral fragments. Therefore, the test cannot be used as a diagnostic for intact (infectious) viruses, making the test unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus and make inferences about the presence of an infection.

This is correct in absence of symptoms. But this test is meant as a diagnostic aid in presence of symptoms or any suspicion of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The fact that the governments don't use it like that does not invalidate the test per se.

> 4. A difference of 10° C with respect to the annealing temperature Tm for primer pair1 (RdRp_SARSr_F and RdRp_SARSr_R) also makes the test unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

This was tested in silico. There is no experimental evidence provided.

> 7. The PCR test contains neither a unique positive control to evaluate its specificity for SARS-CoV-2 nor a negative control to exclude the presence of other coronaviruses, making the test unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Other tests used in the world, including the CDC, have those controls used for validation.

> 9. Most likely, the Corman-Drosten paper was not peer-reviewed making the test unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Ad hominem.

> In light of our re-examination of the test protocol to identify SARS-CoV-2 described in the Corman-Drosten paper we have identified concerning errors and inherent fallacies which render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless.

What about the other tests elsewhere? Are they "flawed"?

The "authors" of this piece should have done like others did to uncover the poor specificity of early antibody testing: get some experimental samples, known positive and negative, and start doing experiments. Not writing a text with frankly dubious claims.
They certainly did not approve it on a study about long term effects of the vaccine.
And probably all citizens will be required to be vaccinated.
> Samsung QM49N

Great to hear of a model with multiple inputs (2xHDMI 2.0, 1xDVI-D/Displayport 1.2), a quick look at signage screens earlier this year only brought up ones with a single HDMI.
I'm seeing the same. Firefox 82.0.3 on Win10.
What name would you use after seeing the implementation of the functions called?

std/debug.zig:

pub fn print(comptime fmt: []const u8, args: anytype) void {
const held = stderr_mutex.acquire();
defer held.release();
const stderr = io.getStdErr().writer();
nosuspend stderr.print(fmt, args) catch return;
}

io/writer.zig:

pub fn print(self: Self, comptime format: []const u8, args: anytype) Error!void {
return std.fmt.format(self, format, args);
}

std/fmt.zig:

pub fn format(
writer: anytype,
comptime fmt: []const u8,
args: anytype,
) !void {
...

It's all based on the language features and the actual implementations of zig's standard library code, and at least I don't see anything "wrapped" there, and nothing what C++, C or asm programmers understand as "a macro".
The key to the salvage effort not involving refloating is probably related to the loose tangled masses of vehicles it's carrying; the ones that already caused the ship to fall over.
No government has ever or will be completely uncorrupt or efficient. Thatcher bent various rules for her shady son. Labour arranged all those dodgy PPI deals. Humans will be human. But in my 54 years on this planet and living in the UK I don't remember a government being anything like this corrupt or inefficient. Everyone politician with a brain, spine or conscience was fired and replaced by Brexit 'loyalists'. And here we are. One of the worst responses to the pandemic in the world and I don't know if I will even be able to get fresh veg in January. So much for British exceptionalism.