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I've been very hungry for a solution to golang's unsafe nil pointers, something as elegant as what dart lang got.

I was looking at nilsafe source analyzers etc, anything that can get prevent the programmer from referencing potentially nil pointers without checking them first!

Dart really got this handled well.
This is the biggest weakness for me about go, so Borgo is worth checking out!

I was even considering also looking at making a lang that transpiles to go, that is almost syntactically identical to go, but just makes clear distinction between nillable. and never-nillable pointers, and forced check before use of any potentially nil ptr.

I'm glad Borgo now exists. I really am not motivated enough to create one myself. I just want to use one. Super happy to see I am not the only person frustrated enough by this. I'm almost at the point of throwing away my super efficient go-server code and redoing it in dart, knowing it will be far less performant, just so I can have less crashy code.

Borgo or something like Borgo could be the perfect solution. Go's toolchain is incredibly fast in build time and super efficient at run time, very few things beat it for the level of programmer productivity. Just a pitty about those damn nil pointer crashes. Would have been an almost perfect language then. Even the error by value ans dual return value stuff one can live with.

But nil pointer crashes in a high-level language in current year is too much for me. Literally a game changer in modern nil safe languages. Have pointers, but know which ones can be nil, and disallow code that can lead to nil pointer exceptions. Is this really such a strange preference to have?
Well it depends if you mean increase or not. in the OP it could mean either („X% price hike“ could be interpreted as new price is X% of old price)
> This is an inevitable consequence of university privatization and the fees system

Universities were never "privatized". They were always private institutions that (mostly) get public funding (including subsidies for charging British students lower fees). They are all AFAIK non-profits (as are almost all independent schools, which historically also got government funding in the form of fees paid for some students - some still do, although it tends to be for profit ones that do so these days as far as I can tell).

What has happened is a loss of ethos and a cultural shift to running universities more like businesses. As you say, the focus is on the financial reports.

This will inevitably lead to a loss of reputation of British universities, but as you say, so one cares. By the time it causes the damage someone else will be in charge. its very like banks taking stupid risks before the financial crisis: as long as you are out of it by the time things go wrong, who cares?
Interesting idea but not exactly fast it took like 3min for a 350 comment post to show up. I know this is a basic problem dealing with the Firebase API but I think you can structure a search request to Algolia and get all the results at once ? Also l like the dots to show tree depth of each comment it would be more help to see the parent comment by link or something. Easy. Clean. Simple. So nice work!
My experience is similar, and in addition I would say that I have come across badly written, difficult to understand Haskell code, but it was always straightforward to refactor it into something clearly written.
Even on their best day a punter is still a punter. The money in horse racing is in breeding.
Ask HN: What do you listen to while you work?
I usually throw some Poolside or Chopin on while I work but I’m curious what do you listen to while you’re working?
Lot of negatively here but I think this sounds really cool.

I think I'm reading that the product sets a problem and talks the pupil through it. The pupil works on paper and the product recognises and grades thier written answer. It then uses an expert system to figure out the best concept to cover next, going back to explore the missing knowledge making the current problem impossible or advancing to the next step?

As an augmentation of teachers or a form of homework, this sounds really useful, but I'm not a teacher just a parent so who knows.

Anyway good luck!
I recently read 'The Power Broker', Robert Caro, which describes how Robert Moses came to acquire power over park, road, bridge, and tunnel construction in New York City and State for over 40 years. There are strong parallels with the story here.
BHs move in space pretty slowly!

Singleton black holes from collapsed stars move in their galaxy about the same as uncollapsed star: on the order of 200 km/s or so (faster towards the middle but still in the disc where motion is roughly circular around the galaxy's centre, slower in the bulge where motion is randomly around the galaxy's centre). Really unusually high-velocity stars move about 65-100 km/s faster than these, which is still not that fast, and "hypervelocity stars" (we've seen some twenty, compared to the 100 billion or so stars in our galaxy) move about only five to ten times faster still, but we're still at only about a thousandth of the speed of light.

Black hole binaries can be arbitrarily wide, even up to many thousands of light-years, taking hundreds of thousands of years or more to orbit each other, possibly at speeds comparable to those of stars in galaxies. MEERKAT just announced its pulsar timing array results which focuses on orbital periods of some tens of years ("nanohertz gravitational waves"), which means not moving very fast. Here's a nice cartoon: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116 LIGO is sensitive to much higher frequencies, once a black hole binary's mutual orbit has shrunk considerably - at the final chirp, they are moving at double-digit percentages of the speed of light and the orbital periods are in the milliseconds. In that regime black hole horizons do have bumps raised on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1M-AbWIlVQ

The black holes can't rip apart though: everything inside stays inside.

I'm afraid I can't figure out what you're talking about in terms of frozen in time, time dilation, or atoms compacting.
It is funny because my former company was trying to move out of vmware even before the broadcome aquisition and the local sales rep pretty much told us RHEV was a dead project but at the time openshift virt wasn't ready yet.

In the end I left before broadcom bought vmware but the status at the time was "let's wait a bit more".
"Most students paid other people to do their coursework, [...]"

I started losing interest there. Nobody wants police-style schooling, but if a university allows students to graduate who have cheated on all of their coursework (and presumably on the exams), then it's not really a "selling prestige" problem, it's more of a "this university is a joke" problem.
Thank you.

No one ever talks about just how easy it is to add GPIO to anything.
Why Prison Works
1k% = 1 kilo% = 1 000% = 11? times price hike.
I Was Wrong About Scrum, Again – By Adam Ard
Is this the second time an internet cable has been sabotaged this recent months?
Datagram Forwarding Considered Harmful – Communications of the ACM
> I am very much in that direction myself; I found it, for example, almost shameful to turn on paid subscriptions on my blog.

Almost.
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FWIW, the point I'm making isn't that this is reasonable behavior. Only that it's to be expected.

Myself, if I saw a game insulting something or someone I'm emotionally attached to, I'd probably roll my eyes and continue or uninstall, depending on how my mood is ruined. I might think less of whoever put the insult there (or allowed it to stay), too. But many, many others would, unfortunately, voice their disdain more directly.

I picked Trump as an example because, whatever you think about him, it should be easy for us in the West to imagine people going overboard in defending/dissing him too, because that has been, and is, repeatedly happening in plain sight for many years now. In this sense, it's the same reaction as 'cocacola1 is failing to understand.
I think 'bit' risks confusing storage with the type (a Boolean is often stored using at least a byte, not a single bit).
A stateful expectation of existence is what the denominator describes, but if you forced it to describe people, then you'd phrase it as "how many (ghosts) could possess (any number of apples)?"

Which would be infinite, since ghosts occupy no space and can't interact with physical reality.

As a proportion, compared to nonexistence, any quantity of something is infinitely greater than nothing, so if not n/0, how would you express you expect not the absence of a thing, but its nonexistence?
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Show HN: Yoa Wellbeing Companion
Hi everyone! I’m Luka, an indie developer, and I’m excited to share Yoa with you—a personal orange companion designed to make tracking your health easy and fun.

I created Yoa because I struggled with sleep, constant fatigue, stress, and overtraining. I needed something to simplify my wellbeing journey, and Yoa was born from that need.

What makes Yoa awesome?
- Simple wellbeing dashboard with Yoa’s friendly touch
- Personalized insights to improve sleep, fitness, and reduce stress
- Detailed workout breakdowns and clear activity charts

Yoa has helped me feel more in control of my health, and I hope it can do the same for you! If you have an Apple Watch, it’s the perfect companion to track your wellbeing seamlessly. I’d love to hear your thoughts—what features would you like to see? Your feedback means the world to me!

Let’s make health tracking personal and fun!
Ok, but the goal is not to make sure that artists can derive every possible revenue but only to make sure that they get enough to for the creation to be worth it.
To the extent humans fail at cooperation, that's nature at work. When we cooperate, we defy nature.
My wife and I were just watching a YouTube video about the history of the Mattel Intellivision gaming console. If you've never seen one, the thing had wooden panels. It was definitely inspired by an era where your appliances were meant to match your furniture. I remember, as a child of the 80s, seeing televisions that were cased in wood as well.

I would argue that these types of designs made an anti-consumerist statement which is why you don't see them anymore. An appliance that tries to look like furniture doesn't need to do that, it is a non-essential feature of the appliance that the manufacturer chooses to include. And it makes a statement: "I'm part of your home. Care for me. Display me. Treasure me. Enjoy me ... and don't throw me out because I'm not disposable plastic."

The dedicated camera vs smartphone topic doesn't necessarily align with the concept of appliances as furniture, but it does strike me as being the difference between a specialized tool and a multi-tool.

Everyone owns a smartphone. There's nothing special about that. And while taking a good photo arguably requires some degree of skill regardless of your tool, smartphones represent the average consumer; the lowest common denominator. Anyone can, and does, snap pictures with a smartphone.

A dedicated camera, on the other hand, represents a conscious decision to take photography more seriously. To want to focus only on that, free of other distractions. To climb whatever learning curve stands in the way.

Then, consider, that there are people who appreciate history and have no illusions about whether or not a particular historical time period was "better" or not. I follow a historic costumer on YouTube, from whom I learned how to sew by hand and how many historic clothing was constructed. Do I think that living in the Victorian era would be better on the whole? No. I value modern medicine and social advancements that have been made since that time. But do I love the Victorian aesthetic and value the knowledge of how to do things without modern machinery? You betcha. I feel like a more rounded person and, despite coming from a hobby, I have life skills that I didn't have before, like being able to fit, hem, repair and even produce some of my own clothing.

Trends and fashion changes, and the phenomenon of "older is better" is human nature that has always existed. It is easy to find artefacts of the past that are less common, or gone entirely, that you consider to be better than the trends of the present.

This doesn't mean things are worse on the whole now, nor does it mean that those artefacts aren't valid examples of things of value that are no longer produced. I guess it's part and parcel of change.
A cartel protecting its interests is not cancel culture.
not if it keeps losing market share.
Broadcoms policy seems to be to aim for the larger customers where a 10x price rise for a suite of products isn't an issue. Charging 10x the price to 10% of your customers isn't necessarily a bad strategy for a business.

6 months ago on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452260

> Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”
I've watched American TV a few times, over ten years ago now, it was definitely brainrot-like in that there was a lot of repetition, visuals, and smooth / uninterrupted transitions to frequent ads. I don't believe tiktok was the one that introduced it, it started decades before. Pre-TV people would get a stack of newspapers and only skim the headlines.
I thought all these sites got broken when the Twitter API v2 lockdown happened. Well done however it got done !
The ability to write coherently is actually a skill that transfers well between languages. A lot of people learning English as a second or third language actually can't express themselves in their native language that well either. The skill here is learning to write, not to write English.

I was lucky to have a good teacher in high school teaching the basics of writing properly (in Dutch). I paid attention and figured out pretty quickly that writing follows rules and that anything you do structurally wrong you can learn to do structurally right. Later when doing my Ph. D., I had to learn to write in English. Same thing. Same rules. Different grammar and vocabulary. And a bit more scrutiny from your peers who will tell you when you are being incoherent, waffling, etc.
You always want to grab the Law.

I know that there used to be some oversights where things where missing from the Law (like how to distinguish immediate effects from permanent effects on cards based on whether the box is paper or stone) but all of them have been resolved by now.
And the status quo is in no way the responsibility of the previous government which continuously spewed anti-migrant rhetoric while doing basically nothing to reduce total immigration?
UK Universities receive taxpayer funding and students also drive down the wages for the poorest in the UK which then makes them more dependent on welfare benefits, and they will likely contribute less in taxes than they cost the state as the vast majority of net taxes (taxes minus benefits) are paid by the rich.
Canada "uncovered" fake colleges and worker scams only after it became socially acceptable to question official immigration policies. Now that the Indian government is literally murdering Canadian citizens, it's a become a huge issue.
I think there may be a few other differences. For example, are people ever given the opportunity to change their behavior before the sanction gets applied? Does the punishment fit the crime? Is there public shaming involved? Do we default to public shaming anyone who says a word in defense of the person who is being sanctioned? (I would say that's the single most pathological feature of cancel culture, actually.) Are the rules constantly shifting in line with social media fashions? Are our judgments carefully considered, or are they based on shallow pattern matching?

Cancel culture applies to discussions of policy in the public square. The idea is that certain views should be silenced. You can be a believer in free speech, and disagree that those views should be silenced. And then you can work to punish malicious actors in Silicon Valley who violate important investing norms. I just don't think there's a contradiction!
> Seize or terminate their patents and copyrights. Issue arrest warrants for criminal evasion. Compulsory licensing of x86 to a European design firm immunized by EU law.

My eyes rolled so far back I hurt myself.

Please provide some examples of where the EU has been able to do a fraction of what you listed to large, US based firms in the past.

Looking at the future, if you want a trade war and an excuse for the new US administration to completely neglect NATO obligations this is a great start.
That’s because aids, the subsequent syndrome derived from hiv infection, wasn’t the target of the study?
If I met a 8 holed donut I'd tear it a new one.
> WordPress.org is not Automattic’s platform

Bullshit. For all practical purposes, WP.org is Automattic.

> Our well documented issues with WP Engine does not change the fact Automattic has been one of THE open source companies in tech for the last 2 decades

This is debatable but even if I grant this point, I’m saying that the reputation that you’ve built up over the last two decades is completely destroyed, and anyone who actually cares about open source and public stewardship of projects should stay far, far away.
Soma.fm's "Sonic Universe" stream.
The split view subway surfers thing is definitely brainrot content, it's often retelling a story from Reddit or Twitter but since a voice reading something out isn't stimulating enough (nor is reading it) they add visual distraction. A lot of non-brainrot content still has something in it though, jump cuts so you getSentences that kindaSound like this butWritten out toGet more words inLess time, camera changes, background music, graphics, etc.
>*Jaguar Type 00 is a non-production vehicle
They added insult to injury to the 2.0 upgrade by releasing promo material (supposedly screenshots) [0] that looked exactly like what fans wanted from them. Turned out, those were fake and they quickly removed most of them and what they actually did was a bad AI upscale instead.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/warcraft3/comments/1gr3win/how_to_m...
They had images like that on their website but removed them later.
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Yes and no.

The real weakness is lack of recording when you leave the UK. The last time I went abroad there seemed to be no identity check: passports were only checked on entry.

On the other hand it is impossible to get a job or rent decent accommodation without the right visas. It does not matter to illegal immigrants who work illegally for below minimum wage and sleep several to a room rented from a slum landlord, but I cannot see the sort of people who can afford overseas fees doing that.

There are also consequences. I know someone who overstayed by a fairly short time (more due to being disorganised than anything else) who ended up unable to get a visa again for years.

I do know someone who wrote a book (The Professional, by Ashok Ferry) that I think is fairly realistic about the desperate measures people can take to stay in the country, but it was unusual back then for people from affluent backgrounds to do that, and would be even more so now.
Scalzi I love as well. Clearly so good at that quick moving style.
That's.. actually not a bad looking car. I mean if I had infinite money to spend on a supercar I can certainly think of a dozen others I'd rather go for, but given that most people were expecting an eyesore, I think the new Jaguar looks pretty good while also admittedly being very unique. Looking forward to seeing it on the streets.
I use mine mostly as a context-free code copilot. It's not perfect, but it knows how to write a template and for most tasks that's all I need.
But does it not make you more vulnerable to competitors? Losing one of your few big customers will hurt regardless, but it likely hurts less if you have a pool of SMBs to act as a buffer.
Upstream, virt-v2v supports conversions from VMware to either oVirt (RHV) or KubeVirt (OSV), and we don't plan to drop the oVirt support any time soon.

However Red Hat now only supports conversions to OSV, since RHV was deprecated (sadly).

The biggest problem is oVirt itself has not proven to be a very sustainable open source project. If oVirt dies, we'll likely remove support in v2v. (There's a great start up opportunity here, for a dull but money-making company that productizes oVirt again.)

To move VMs from RHV to OSV you can just copy the disk image since they already should have virtio drivers, qemu guest agent, and be able to boot on any qemu/KVM-based platform. I believe there's some automation for that, but it doesn't involve virt-v2v.
I had considered the YA genre in fiction, which is marketed at teenagers. But I did a quick search for the general term "young adult" and Wikipedia seems to suggest that it is the period immediately following adolescence, which is generally considered to begin at 18.

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

.. this one silly statement really triggered my autism this morning lol.
I suspect their failure mode, limitation and purpose are more characterized and less surprising ? Single purpose tech vs magical black mirror that does everything.
> People using them as cheap computers ruined it.

IMO it is the people using them as embedded controllers for their products that ruined it, in combination with the poor decision by the Raspberry Pi folks to prioritize commercial demand for the products over hobbyist demand during the pandemic. We hobbyists "made do" with other solutions in that time, and now there's no real need to go back.
It really depends on what your definition of "the popular ones" is. One of the most popular games is Candy Crush, which is not a 100 hour story game but fairly quick mobile activity game.

On the other side you have Ubisoft's genre of "brainrot" games, which on the one side will have a compelling story, but on the other will have hundreds, if not thousands of similar repeating side-activities that people can jump in and out of without needing to think too much.

And on the other other side you have story-rich games, e.g. God of War or RDR 2, which have a film-like setup and budgets to match.
You're getting downvoted because this is the "who is hiring?" thread - you probably want the "who wants to be hired?" thread.
They are blatantly trying to shock people and go against the brand heritage to get publicity, looks like something from the Cybertruck playbook. Sales and reputation have been declining for a while, maybe this is a last chance gamble. It could work out for them.
> My eyes were accustomed to the dark, I wouldn't have spotted it otherwise.

Funny you say that; my partner is a mycologist and her reaction to the linked article was that the luminescence is typically too weak to be very noticeable or useful.
It is possible to have a heartbeat network a data network if so required.
Broadcom kind of went against this though as it also divested itself of several parts of the vmware product range. A lot of what we used to see advertised alongside sphere isn't even a broadcom product now.
Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ