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Contrary to others here, I would still suggest to stick with Erlang, but use Elixir's toolkit.

You can use `mix`, `exunit`, release, etc... from Elixir, and they can handle your Erlang codes fine. You also have better integration with editors like VSCode.

The reason for sticking with Erlang is that your project can be used in both Erlang and Elixir community. But if you write pure Elixir, it's pretty hard to use it in Erlang.

You can also write Elixir macro to wrap your Erlang code in an API. Not the other way around.

Project structure between Erlang and Elixir is similar anyway, so it should not be too difficult to have one single project for both Erlang and Elixir code.
Something can be both an expression of privilege and a very good idea.

Example: The advice to get at least 8 hours of sleep at a regular time each night. This reflects:

- the economic privilege of not needing to do irregular shift work

- not having a chronic disease which interrupts sleep

- not being a parent

- having a regular place to sleep at all.

However, it is still a good idea for one’s physical and mental health.

Likewise, a community might reasonably decide that certain political discussions are too acrimonious to have productively. Even if this decision reflects privilege, it might be the only decision under which the community could survive without rupturing.

I feel inclined to agree with your second paragraph, but just don’t know if such discussions are actually productive.
> In April, when a story about Katie Bouman, an M.I.T. researcher who helped develop a technology that captured the first photo of a black hole, rose to the front page, users combed through her code on GitHub in an effort to undermine the weight of her contributions.

Hmm. I guess citation needed?
Job type: Full-time
Role: Python engineer
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Compensation: £50K per annum (negotiable) plus equity

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Our service is a Web-based platform which uses a graph engine to model individuals’ competences and target skills, and make job and learning recommendations. We are looking for a generalist Python engineer.

The right person will be familiar with, or show the ability to learn, two key techniques: working with graph data structures in Python, and pulling data from Postgres using the SQLAlchemy object relational manager.

Compensation and benefits

Competitive salary: £50K negotiable
Equity: share options
25 days’ paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)
Macbook Pro
Central London office

Applications to: fintan.nagle@ucl.ac.uk
Understanding multiple levels of language processing in the brain
I find legitimate questions that contradict the mods ideas are flagged.

Are there better sites? This one is popular but not good.
Funny... I studied planning, reinforcement learning etc and what was once almost a backwater is now big business.
If you'd have access to all cards, that'd make for a very different game. For me, as a casual player, trying to make decks work with what I have and making calculated decisions of which cards to spend my money (real or virtual) on is a big part of the charm of the game.

Also, about the comment in parenthesis: I'm guessing you meant Standard. In that case, it makes sense. If you really meant Modern, I'd find it problematic. Since Modern doesn't rotate (unlike Standard), that would make it an accumulative cost unless you decide to deliberately drop the ability to play with cards which are still legal.
>One of the problems for me about HN is the secretive nature of moderation.

I agree some aspects of moderation here are too opaque. While the mods will mention to users that they're about to be banned, or warn them about their behavior, this can take place enough after the fact that it's unlikely the comment will be read. Also, flags on your account, such as the loss of vouching or flagging privileges, or being slow-banned (as my account currently is,) aren't always apparent.

What might be useful is a message queue from moderators that appears on your account. This would not only make certain that users were aware of penalties to their account, but it would sequester discussion about it away from the primary threads.
Not all places need to support discussion of politics. If you want to discuss the intersection of tech and politics you have many options to go to without bringing that stuff here.
Another reason for me to hate apple. It's only a matter of time before this greedy company goes to hell
I know you say that in jest, but I've always been curious if anyone has ever compared the size of tokenizing an OS X Quartz 2D stream that renders a screen against a PNG of the same screen. I wonder what we lost on the road not taken when as an industry we solidly branched away from Display Postscript as a possible industry-wide rendering engine, and it is unlikely we will ever explore that branch in the foreseeable future.

As noted in a thread comment elsewhere, under the hood our display rendering engines are already entirely or significantly vector engines, but what we appear to lack is an industry-wide representation scheme.
I read a reply on Twitter explaining why it was used on Signal (and I can't update my own statement anymore). So basically these push notifications are used because they always work and they work for everything.

If you would use the custom notification handler you are required to show a notification, which is fine for a new message but doesn't make sense for read confirmations, "is writing" updates or all other types of information that should not pop up to the user immediately.

Of course you can work around it by using a WebSocket while the app is open and only use push notifications for new messages but obviously that's going to be less tight than the current situation.
If we aren't around there is no problem. If we are around and have continued historical records of the waste dump areas there is no problem. The core problem is if we are still around but there has been a big disruption in technology and bookkeeping.
Probably because not everyone is okay with thousands of people coming to their city every year just to take drugs.
The first photos shot with a 64-megapixel phone camera
Levine is fantastic.

It feels like finance writing is usually split between content for the general public (understandable, but often vitriolic and devoid of context) and writing for finance types (jargon-filled and usually devoid of ethical considerations). Levine straddles the line beautifully; he uses lay terms to explain the realities of financial instruments, not just silly metaphors, and looks at what should exist in the context of modern finance rather than gut instinct.
I remember that stat from Evan Osnos book on China (a New Yorker journalist). It was between direct members, soldiers, student groups, workers groups, various retired people, and affiliate associations.

I’m sure that number is a bit inflated but the reach of the party at the local and individual level is quite significant.
Yes, Prism is great. Most of the blogs cramp the code in width, I let it spread it's wings full width.
Hi, it's the author here. You're right conda is fantastic and in fact you can use pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv with conda. [1] The article was already getting long and the goal of the article was a survey at 42,000 feet with the example that was created.

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv#anaconda-and-minic...
If you liked this piece, a good read is, "Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris" by Graham Robb.
Lisp was theory before it was code.

Javascript was a fashionable imitation of another popular language dialect.
Ruby. I just think it's ugly.
Linux: Technology's Giving Tree.
Yes if you don't count SMT.
But it’s here. On the front page of HN.
"... average salaries of Google’s DeepMind staff in Great Britain, which amounted to $345,000 per employee."

https://www.top500.org/news/ai-engineers-commanding-six-figu...
Are you actually talking about giving away your money to a multi billion dollar public company?

Buy some stock instead, don't just throw your money away. How would you even 'donate' to them?
Most companies may say "we hire the best", but what they really mean is "we hire the best we can get".
If there's one privilege that I will never feel guilty about taking advantage of, it's the ability to listen to and engage in discussions with folks smarter than I am with the overloaded concept of political belief removed.
Are they even factoring in the cost of compute required to train their systems ?
I've been working on Nomie for around 5 years. It started out as a vanilla JS app, then ported to Ionic 1/Cordova, then ported to Ionic 2/Cordova, then ported to React Native...

Nomie 4 is now a combination of all previous versions ported to SvelteJS - which I am absolutely loving.
Changing Safe Harbor Laws to Force 8Chan, Reddit and Others to Clean Up
Was AMD in a lull or just making longterm bets on technology?

I've only followed casually in the last decade+ but I was under the impression that the ATI merger was meant to support a long term bet on better chips by AMD and we're starting to see the fruit of that labor.
There's a time and place for that stuff though, if all of a sudden you start bringing up politics during your local Arduino project meetup you can't be surprised if they stop inviting you.

Hacker News sort of splits between technology and politics so drawing a line is a bit tricky.
This reaction seems a bit over the top. How often are you getting these messages? What is patronizing about them?
Microservices vs. Monolithic Architectures: Pros, Cons and CF Examples
we just got done saying that about AMD, so..
You could say the same of knowledge also as it is a power and one applied and accrued by relationship; by what material one reads, by whom and from which source it is linked from and to. Academics of various groups tend to have their own sort of tribalism. I think the mods came to the correct conclusion that politics, although annoying as hell sometimes, is a fabric of society which is nigh impossible to shed when discussing just about anything.
The audience of the website (dice.com) that the article was posted on.
Betteridge's law says no [0]

> But just as quickly as he blows my mind, he puts a damper on the excitement. So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors

> An even broader doubt is whether the epigenetic changes that Izpisúa Belmonte is reversing in his lab are really the cause of aging or just a sign of it

> Wholesale rejuvenation, then, is still far off, if it will ever come at all. But more limited versions of it, targeted to certain diseases of aging, might be available within a few years.

Like battery tech, there's some progress and exciting results here, but no where near crossing that last mile to market.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
> Travel expenses, taking time off work, food and drink, accommodations...

Most protest organizers can set you up with a free bus ticket if you reach out to them and are in a reasonable bus distance. Your city may even have discount bus tickets already available if your protest is happening at a government building (which is an ideal place to protest). There are people at protests who go not for any protest cause itself, but to make sure people get water and don't die from heat stroke. Fill a water bottle before you go.

No, going to protest on the cheap won't get you an airplane ticket and a free lunch. Pack a sandwich if you want to eat. If you can't afford that, ask your fellow protestors for some crackers or something. Remember that your fellow protestors are on your side, and will actually help you.. if you ask them. They're not psychic.

> I've never flown a helicopter, but when someone puts one in a tree I can still say "dude fucked it up." and be correct.

Can you? What if it was a SAR helicopter that was given bad flight relay information and got caught in a storm? Helicopters sometimes crash, and it's not always the fault of the pilot.

> but when the topic at hand is decidedly uncivil, for example taking people's children and imprisoning them at the border, then I believe an uncivil response is warranted.

It's possible to disagree with a situation, be civil, and take time to understand it. I've spoken to the people who work in those "prisons" with children, and most of them are dramatically against the wall, but also recognize when a kid who is 8 shows up at an international border alone, they need to go somewhere.

Again, that doesn't mean you have to agree with it, but throwing stones at the people who are at least trying to help isn't productive.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
Managing the Discontent of the Losers
It doesn't seem like the mechanism is what people are worrying about. It depends on whether the illiquidity is just a temporary thing or if it represents debt that will never be paid. If 2% of the GDP is fake/unresolvable debt, that's a huge, huge problem.
I think you forgot to account for dividends, and hence the total return.
One comment from "toxic myth" to "welcome to all countries."
>By whom?

By those who live in them and by those that visit them.

Those who design them and those who write design critiques don't matter at all, and should not even have a voice (at least not one anybody should care about). The best buildings, people take pride living in, and coming from abroad to admire, were built that people we don't even know their name, many even designed and built by craftsmen (as opposed to university-studied architects).

>If you're into architecture and design you'll care more about the practicality and function of the building than it's exterior appearance

The exterior appearance is part of the practicality and function of the building. A bleak appearance can crush the soul, destroy any community pride, and even make people physically ill. Humans are not cattle (though even cattle deserve better).
As a layperson, I never understood that merger. How does buying a graphics card company make for better chips in general?
From their blurb:

>The SoftBank Group has grown by anticipating paradigm shifts in technology and building businesses to take advantage of the next era.

They kind of look where the market is shifting eg ride sharing, co-working and try to invest in the leader eg. Uber or WeWork. I guess the theory is as the world shifts that way they will make profits. Time will tell with Uber and We. They did well with AliBaba and Yahoo in the past.
Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket
That's interesting. Do you have a page/contact? I am looking for projects in this area
Increase and demand.
How is deepmind making any money ? i’m surprised they’re making any money at all..
That makes a lot of sense. Setting up automatic dependency detection is what finally made Make click for me, and it’s not the most straightforward process to get right. How does CMake detect the files that a given product depends on; does it have language-specific dependency detection or something else?
LWN.net (mentioned elsewhere on the thread) is quite good for finding FOSS related content.
I have to say I love the meta-nature of this comment. Truly. I feel that the comment in the article about "performative erudition" does point to something -- something that I certainly do on HN!! -- that you are also doing in this comment while you say that the sentence in the article is about something else. You are not wrong about your point (HN sure does love its superficial legalism and uber-rationality) but the way you've said it is exactly the HN style!
Experts at the top of their field in an advanced industry getting paid $300k would be surprising in the UK?
Nyan CSS: write plain CSS while ripping the benefits of CSS-in-JS
> it can be quite unnerving when the engine suddenly stops at an intersection.

Even more unnerving when it doesn't start right away, and you're already pushing the gas when it does, causing the car to lurch forward unexpectedly fast. All you can do is hope the person in front of you doesn't stop quickly, before you can get your foot back over to the brake.
It is my understanding that this ability to discriminate only applies to acts by the state but not to commerce.
Bravo, and here's hoping that other countries follow.

I was recently shocked to discover that my backwards eastern european country is one of the few in the EU that has even decriminalized drugs; I genuinely thought that this was standard in the EU but apparently not, see this map https://i.imgur.com/A0JICkk.jpg
“Examples: Clojure, Common Lisp, HTML, Make

Counter-examples: JavaScript, Ruby, React-Preact-Vue-Angular-“

OP does not give any reason as to why these are churn and why stop them ? This makes no sense...basically to op’s point we should just never adopt new technology because it’s just a new shiny thing. This makes no sense at all.
>where persecution of cannabis use is a billion-dollar profitable industry

Source?
> what is to stop this individual from creating a pseudonym and committing to an open source AI library on a separate laptop on their free time

For one, the fact that this would break their work contracts. And I'm pretty sure Google can afford better lawyers that the average dev (even a well paid one).
The greatest feature of Elixir in my opinion (and it's a beautiful language with a lot of great features in the first place, including the advantages of the Erlang VM and Library) is the care it got in being approachable and easy to use. It has some of the best documentation I've seen extended to pretty much all environment surrounding the base language (including the integration with OTP for parallel processing), Phoenix and Ecto, plus great books and a very friendly community. The design of all those components is also very well done to avoid surprises for people coming from "modern" languages and to avoid unnecessary complexity. And it also has a nice plugin and formatter for vscode.
Has anyone ever seen an online community (with more than a handful of users) that focuses on more than cute puppy pictures and that is not described as "toxic" by "critics"? I'd say that HN does a great job at avoiding that. The article is titled "moderating hacker news" but fails to describe just how good a job the moderators and owners are doing. The moderators for moderation, and the owners for (as I perceive it) giving the moderators the freedom to try things that are best for the community (such as the politics-free experiment).
I think stating the article is unoriginal is a valid critique. The article is saying digital distraction is affecting society. We know that. Telling people they shouldn't be so distracted isn't a original thought and therefore reading the article is a waste of time. Despite the authenticity of a publication I wouldn't want to read 10 articles saying the same thing. There is some expectation of originality. Right?
buy a share, $32.50 at the moment
>Haussmann isn’t really a controversial figure in France

Today, when the change has settled down, and nobody lives that remembers before him, no. At his time, and for a while, he was.
Yes. Outside of the US, salaries for non-managers rarely break $100k. Switzerland is probably an exception, but that's just because the average salary in Switzerland is really high, as are living costs.
Wow, that is terrible.
Churn can be all of the things the post describes, and I think it's good to be skeptical of churn--always looking for ways to avoid it.

But it's also hard to tell the difference between churn and maintenance, and I think one of our modern world's blind-spots is a de-prioritization of maintenance.
True, it's not part of the certification process, but I do know that modern jets airframes are made to be as... um... "flexible"* (? searching for the word here...) as possible in catastrophic situations. An older airframe probably would have disintegrated under the same forces.

Luck and good fortune also played a huge role of course. What the pilots did was unconscionably neglectful. CFIT is often (usually?) fatal for all passengers.

*EDIT: It's similar to software that's written to be extremely robust that encounters an unexpected error (or set of errors). The software wasn't necessarily designed to handle it, but sometimes it can nonetheless.
A Brief History of Math [audio]
> Hacker News moderation is not appealable, not auditable, does not have bright line rules, and there are no due process rights. It simply does not respect individual rights.

Exactly. HN takes the tyrannical approach to moderation: We're right and you're wrong. If you disagree, too bad.

The mob is happy to clean up any wrongthink the moderators happen to miss.

> this moderation method succeeds for Hacker News

I think that's a pretty generous statement. The quality of discussions around here has declined substantially over the past few years. In many ways it's even worse than Reddit.
Isn’t that Oktoberfest?
I worked for a company that took SoftBank money, though I joined after the investment.

As someone else mentioned they are later stage investors, and do look for potentially transformative things. In order to get in they offer large investments and ridiculous valuations, which appeal to entrepeneur’s egos. The dark side of accepting money at high valuations is The Next Round.

If you aren’t profitable by the next time you need money, you better have shown enough growth to not only match the SoftBank investment but to go beyond it to a reasonable investor. Otherwise you don’t have a growth story and investors turn their noses up (or offer shitty down-round terms).

So in a way SoftBank can (and has) torpedo its own investments by its entry strategy and human greed. In the case of my company they eventually sold, but only after a complete pivot and focus on a different market, and ultimately at a lower price.
> For Google, the less productive they are, the better.

So Google spends a tonne of resources developing Tensor Flow only to OSS it, commoditizing AI and making it more accessible than ever, gives away lots of $$$ on AI competitions encouraging more people to get into AI/ML, acquires Kaggle, gives away tonnes of public datasets for anyone to use, just so they can hire new AI/ML staff to pay them obscene amounts of money to do nothing?

How did this line of thought become prevalent here?
That is indeed not quite the same thing. My impression of the Portugal situation was different, but apparently incorrect.
Integrating graphics card into their chips is what Intel seems to want to do as well.

So it would appear AMD was ahead of the game.

I guess, at the time, the thinking was that GPUs were a core threat to the CPU business itself, since a lot of the buzz was around using the GPU to do CPU activities.
> iFixit likens it to an “Oil Change” indicator light in a car that will only turn off if a Ford dealership changes the oil.

With the whole "iPhones throttle" thing a couple years ago, and how simple this comparison is, hopefully this will get picked up by mainstream news and be changed.
Linux Weekly News focuses on substantive technical content, like today's article on the Linux kernel's use of the switch statement: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/794944/a5770e282352a2e6/

Or today's article on the CTF debugging format. They're pretty much the only resource aimed at intermediate or advanced developers that's written to be highly technical but not academic.