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Amazing!!! Great to see Scala improving at such a fast pace!

I'm especially excited about union/intersection types. I think we could all witness how well they work out in typescript and I believe that every language with the concept of subtyping should have this feature. It is one of the things that make working in a statically typed language feel much more dynamic/lightweight without giving up on safety guarantees.
I think it's the money exchanges like Binance "owe" them for the free Tether they receive. This is accounting shenanigans because the money is nowhere (i.e. when they mint Tether and send them to an exchange the commercial paper account gets credited mechanically). It's not physical reserves, but reserves in the accounting sense.
> it deletes everything you typed

It saves the message into your drafts
Well, lookit that. There is this drafts button, and I had not even realized it.

Thanks, you just made my day!
>Why do you resort to emotive language?

because this border issue is an emotional and symbolic issue at heart and it's important to recognize that, there is no rational case here why there should be any restriction to freedom of movement. Are you going to be that calm if Scotland attempts to exercise it or if Irish violence flares up again? Erecting borders after decades of freedom of movement is no 'simple policy'. Detaining neighbors just because you can is a sort of behavior that indicates there's something going deeply wrong in the UK.
They are similar in size but not in quality. A microfarm is a profitable (hopefully) but small business.

A garage is where you park your car. A microfactory is where you build goods that you sell. Quite a few famous companies started in garages of course.

Trailer parks are where trailer trash live in old and broken trailers. People with limited means may choose to live in a place that doesn't suck that just happens to be small.

And so on. It's not just relabeling. It's actually doing things better/differently with modern means and technology. I follow quite a few people on youtube into things like farming, making, cooking/baking. It's a thing this century. People with good educations busying themselves in the small with reinventing humble things like farming, baking, etc. and making a living out of that. It's not just marketing. I was born in the seventies and find this fascinating.

These people are choosing to do these things instead of being wage slaves in some corporate hell hole and are making it work with modern technology, hard work, and creative use of resources.

I agree Soylent is weird though. I guess if you hate food and life in general, that would be acceptable as a way to survive. Otherwise, you might get a bit of joy out of eating or making some genuinely nice food. It's not that hard.
Yes - and in particular, Scala 3.0 makes use of TASTy, which will reduce backwards/compatibility issues a lot for future development.

Luckily Scala has one of the strongest statical type-systems, which will make migrating much smoother (not completely painless though)
"We prefer the term surprise mechanics"

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcu...
On mobile is completely unusable
I don't think that's the concept used. It's more likely to be a salient pole synchronous machine with the field winding supplied by an rotating transformer and diodes (the second illustration in the linked article seems to corroborate that). This concept has been proposed at least since the 1960s, to the best of my knowledge, but is only viable with modern power semiconductors. The hyped-up style is typical of american "technical" articles about electrical machinery.
>What is your bases for dismissing it?

My base is Elon Musk.

Even Elon Musk himself doesn't believe in his own ideas. He constantly winds them down. Even his Vegas Loop is just Tesla's in tunnels. Yes it wasn't meant to be a Hyperloop but he didn't even get self driving working in a damn tunnel, all you need for this is line following and collision detection for cars and pedestrians. He told us he was going to build pods that can hold a dozen people, he didn't.

If he can't even do the Vegas Loop properly then how is he going to build something more complicated than that?

He said the Hyperloop will have air cushion suspension and then "downgrades" it to ... wheels? All he did is create a sales pitch. He's not going to build the hyperloop he promised, the same way he is not going to create the Vegas loop in the way he promised.

> Not the bunch of nonsense later published by people like Hyperloop One and other basically scam companies?

Well, that is sad because those companies were actually building Hyperloops. If they are scam companies, then the concept is essentially a scam and Elon Musk avoids being associated with the scam by never building one.
I have just registered to write the same thing :)
I think that must be the problem. It's not a very easy to discover feature and I was also pretty pissed about losing my messages — until I discovered the drafts.
I guess the idea was that once you exit the input box Zulip doesn't know which thread you are going to reply to — and in order to avoid sending messages to wrong threads it just clears the box (yet keeps your text). Makes sense in the threaded model, but could be highlighted a bit more.
We have tried using Zulip at my company and the main complaint has been UX.
Ffs, I understand the linearity of the Shrodinger equation under a model which MW entails. However, you are sidestepping the randomness involved in the choice of world that you reside in. You can dress it up all you want, but your consciousness is bound to one world of the many worlds. And that is defacto random.
Here is a good read on where it goes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html

All I know is that there is no way that I am going to be physically in the US for the next presidential election(s), if there is a neoliberal political candidate in that election.
Swift.org announcing free Mentorship Program
Scala was probably the major factor here. However, the fact that Kotlin picked up these features from Scala (or at least inspired it) also proves that they are mature/stable and this has always been important for Java - so Kotlin did have an impact as well.
Single handedly? I'll say the same as when people described Steve as a genius, he is an accomplished marketing machine but genius is reserved for the like of Einstein and Feynman. Do you think SpaceX and Tesla were Musk's idea? Or were they the recommendation of the MBAs hired to research subsidized industries with significant barrier to entry? It is not that he isn't successful but he is no genius, he just has the money to overcome, what otherwise would be, impossible hurdles. I am glad he's beating bezos to the punch though, it takes a special kind of business to make Walmart look like the good guys. I think Tesla is a horrible car, exactly the wrong vehicle to address the climate crisis but it seems we are addicted to the car and consider public transit some kind of badge of shame. EVs, specifically autonomous EVs should be targeted at the last mile, IMHO. I'm not trying to be contrary, I dislike musk because I think he's dishonest and a narcissist.
Or at least attach proper liability to them. If you promote a scam, you're considered complicit and liable for the underlying crime.
New 32-bit ADC IC for high resolution Hi-Fi audio playback
"and admit their horrific acts" - I don't think any person from the UK/US has engaged in any of this (both educational systems teach about the wrongs of the Empire and American expansionism at the cost of natives AFAIK), but you're prescribing guilt, it's vindictive madness. Does a child born in the UK from African parents inherit this sin?
Literal types ("Scala" instead of String) existed before typescript to my knowledge. But union types are such a great thing. I'm very happy to see Scala catching up with typescript, as it has proven to work out really well.
Of course this doesn't apply to individuals.
It's an effect of the cultural feeling of supremacy originating from it's former colonial might, combined with a fairytale like ethos originating from the monarchy.

In a sense it is only natural to become a bit megalomanic if you're called "the united kingdom", a name so full of grandeur and dreamlike romance that even tolkien would be a bit envious.

Combine that with 40 years of anti E.U. media and you get a situation where people vote against their own self interest because they think they are better off alone.

I for one can't wait for our scrottish brethren and sisters to rejoin us. They may take your passport but they will never take our article 49.
No, not including after vaccination. When people speak about pre-existing immunity, it's most of the time covid deniers saying there "natural" immunity and vaccines are useless or harmful.

(Of course there is also valid discussion of pre-existing immunity, but the more nuanced messages are not as common.)
>There is yet a killer use case, but AI is coming so just hang on a hot minute.

Are you saying AGIs will earn a living by operating a cryptocurrency mine?
The problem is that the vaccination record cards are trivial to forge, especially if "electronically stored version" also includes taking a photo with your phone. There are tons of photos of these cards floating around the internet. Someone with even limited photo-editing skills could slap their name on one of those images, copy it onto their phone, and an overworked ticket-checker at the stadium wouldn't tell the difference.

And I expect that this behavior would be completely in character for your standard anti-vax or covid-denier type.
> geometry sitting around doing nothing

The problem is even worse, because without some time-like process, that geometry can't even be observed. The problem here isn't mathematics, it's the practical aspects of the universe.

> timeless universe within which I sit with the illusion of time

I'm not sure what the definition of illusion is here, but the universe does have an evolving state and that's not an illusion according to any meaning of the word I can think of. Time as a general measure of the speed of this evolution is not a human concept either, there is no difference in the way living matter is subjected to time vs how "dead" matter is.

Where there's room for interpretation in my opinion is whether time is a real dimension, or if it's just a dimension-like phenomenon. It may in the end well boil down to something like "time is just the local tick rate of matter", which is a position that may only be provable if we could somehow discern whether the past actually exists physically (as opposed to being destroyed as the universe's state evolves like an array of cellular automata would).
I recently had to take screenshots of some 2 Year old messages in Telegram, WhatsApp and MS Teams.
In Telegram it took 3 minutes to scroll through thousands of messages and load all that data, in What's app it took 25 minutes, and in Teams I never succeeded

This is on an 8-core machine with a gigabit connection in 2021.
>Blockchain is a brilliant solution to an extremely rare problem.

Trust and fraud is extremely rare problem?! Read the Bitcoin's whitepaper again and you will be in the better understanding of Bitcoin's and Blockchain's purpose.

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

"Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments."

Decentralizing trust means not depending on one entity or group of entities to handle financial transactions or transactions of any type.

"Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for nonreversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need. A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments
over a communications channel without a trusted party." [0]

Establishing trust means eradicating fraud in a sense that blockchain is transparent and open database based on decentralized cryptographic proof which enables trust.

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Whoever says this is falling into a "limited resources" type of fallacy and is stuck in some form of local-maximum thinking. It's one of the big failures of economics that it treats resources as "finite". There's zero evidence that anything is really finite anywhere in nature. Why should it be finite in economics or finance?

Providing crackpot, pseudo-philosophical examples of why something can't be done can make me look smart but ultimately has no utility.
You cannot compare death and infection numbers with those of a year ago when zero people were vaccinated and the vaccine was still months away.
> How to trust that unvaccinated neighbors will wear masks when they should?

I find this sentiment curious. It seems to imply that some people would rather that everyone suffer masking than accept that some will not be masked against recommendation. It bleeds over into other things. If we see our neighbour doing something we don't like, we think "there should be a law against that!"

There is a lot of distrust and desire to control the behaviour of others in our society. It is a very common human attribute and reminds me of the famous quote from Paradise Lost: "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n"

Sometimes, it is better to accept that others will do things that we think are stupid or even immoral, but be grateful that they will let us do things that they think are stupid. It takes empathy and humility to accept that other people disagree with us. The desire for control is a dangerous beast.
Sounds like a plan, I'm in!
Visiting for an interview means having a letter of invitation for an interview from a company, not this (from article):

> María, 25, from Valencia, said that like many of those detained, she thought she was free to explore the job market at least until October

This sounds like coming to the UK for work without a visa, in which case it is correct in law to be detained.

I think the practice of detention for up to 7 days before being deported is a way to inflict a punishment to deter people trying.
Indeed, if the only thing you risk if caught is being turned away at the airport then people would just try and try, why not?

There are articles from sources a bit more balanced than The Guardian:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-citizens-detained-uk-work...
I saw similar happen to my mom a few years back.

She googled something like 'mail new social security card' - clicked the first result and started entering information.

About 4 screens in she asked me to look at it - and we could both tell that it was likely not an official gov site at that point.

was first result in google so she trusted it - it looked similar enough to a gov site to go with the easy onboarding flow.. a few details like name and addy - then submit - next screen a few more bits of info.. submit next screen - real gold like maiden name, name of dog, - they already captured the social on the first screen..

some months later the irs is telling her she needs a pin code and that her identity appears to be hacked or whatever.. no surprise.

I long for the day when the faint piss-yellow box surrounded paid listings.. the engineers that came up with that perfect yellow that may show on a good desktop monitor / and in a presentation to the ftc/cpb/congress - whatever.. yet faded out on a laptop screen - and when the sun hits.. and yet as great as that was at being essentially invisible to most users - they still did away it - lets assume because it caused more clicks.. a/b testing and all the s valley bs.

I had forgotten about that incident until I saw this headline - might be time enough to still ad a note about this on a reply to a different HN article a week ago - where someone said "I've never seen any evidence of anyone hurt by the large scale collection of personal data by Google and FB." -
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27064382 )

( Part of the discussion in regards to the article
Why I Work on Ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27060898 )

This is indeed another good example of damage done by the ad selling overlords.

Now remembering stopping people from clicking the 'first result' for "flash player" - on so many devices, so many times - that ad was a two click malware install - of course it was a paid ad - sigh - people just don't know and google's been exploiting that for a long time.
Tnx for reviews, love gaming too. I play Dota 2. For me playing with a pro players is even more entertaining.
I always follow dota 2 upcoming matches at https://tips.gg/dota2/matches/. Want to take part too in the next one. Great way to improve my skills and have some fun.
> Say the woman in your example was refused by Czech customs, and sent back to the UK, then what?

Considering she is Czech, she is far more likely to be rejected by Mexican customs rather than Czech customs.
Would be interesting if you can provide some examples. I'm happy to check them and turn them into tickets / feature requests for you.
Your population no doubt trusts government a lot more. Also republicans here more or less turned trump into a Messianic figure and quit listening to science. It’s getting scary over here to be honest
The problem is that those who can't get the vaccine due to allergies or other medical conditions either a) then get lumped in with the skeptics to fend for themselves, or b) have to further increase their level of precautions and isolate from society.
Please target your anger to at most half of the British people. (I will gladly join in.)

With the UK's horrifically undemocratic voting system, the leading party often wins a strong majority of the power in Parliament with significantly less than half the national vote.

In the 2019 election, the Conservative party won 56.2% of the seats in Parliament with 43.6% of the vote.[0]

In 2017, 48.8% of seats came from 42.4% of the vote.

In 2015, 50.8% of seats came from 36.8% of the vote.

In 2010, 47.1% of seats came from 36.1% of the vote.

In 2005, 55.2% of seats came from 35.2% of the vote.

In 2001, 62.5% of seats came from 40.7% of the vote.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_el... and links to other elections at the bottom.
I love this follow up. Feels like that caring call from a family doctor.
What the fuck? You're aware that we vaccinate children for a lot of things, right?

It's not evil, it's common sense. COVID may be the first pandemic you've lived through/remembered, but it's not the first pandemic, and there are far more dangerous diseases out there we don't want coming back.

I was vaccinated as a child of things i am still immune to today.
The farm is at risk at all time.

That said, I think the risks are way smaller than previous era's trustbusting. I like FB as an example, as I said. I'm pretty confident that FB would be pretty much the same on far less revenue because they were pretty much the same on less revenue in recent years.

Comparable social media services run of far less revenue (scaled whichever way you like). You can also look at their accounts, which reveal a lot. The simplest clue is profit margins.

If we're wrong... one social media service declines and another takes its place. Personally, I see very little risk. The actual risk, IMO, is not really about keeping these services viable. There no "shit! I broke auto-manufacturing and now we don't have cars" risk.

It's about share price. Smallish declines in revenue can mean big declines in profit. Any decline in revenue can lead to a collapse of share prices, regardless of profit. The big techs are a big part of the S&P, and high profile. Quite a lot of the S&P's value relates directly to monopoly, so antitrust (IMO) directly conflicts with equity values... and things could get "macroeconomic" from there.

All that said, I'm not advocating anything intentionally destructive. Google is, I suspect, expecting to be broken up eventually. I think that was part of the Alphabet restructuring logic.

The primary objection that comes to my mind, in the vein of your comment,is a hayek-esque information argument. A Hayekian logic though, is totally incompatible with paragraph 5 above though, and I'm quite confident about that... so I don't know where it fits in.
Would recommend low end spirit instead. Effectively same thing except crowd hanging out there is more trustworthy in my view.

Also PSA - discounts in this world tend to be recurring. So don’t pay sticker price. Wait for a -25%
>Was there a time climbing was the only possible way to the top?

Probably not that much but I think there was a time when getting to the top of a lot of places hadn't been done or was much more difficult and thus more of an achievement.
If there’s a business need, you can secure a wooden box on the sidewalk in a way, that it is almost impossible to break in. It will be very costly, but if profit or IP depends on it, one can find a way.
Taking cyber security „seriously“ always depends on who you see as a potential attacker. I don’t think any corporation on the planet has the capacity or willingness to really protect itself against dedicated state actors. This does not include ransomware gangs that are not prosecuted by the Russian Federation or DPRK, but highly specialized forces within the usual intelligence services.

The types of ransomware attacks we see today might not be preventable as well, every company on the planet will get or was already hit. But, the difference between the attacks: the amount of damage. If money is spent on security, that amount will certainly be smaller.
Correct. That is the problem. I think you do actually “get it.”
How would you classify or describe your type of thinking?
It's been little more than a month since vaccinations have been open to 18+. Even if you managed to snag an appointment on day one when things opened up, you still aren't fully protected (based on the guidelines, anyway) if you got one of the 2-dose vaccines.

Wearing a mask and distancing probably provides much less protection than a vaccine. So if you want to be vaccinated but can't be, being out among the people who inevitably have not been vaccinated but will claim to be so they can stop wearing a mask will be more dangerous to you.
Amazing! That's the word that popped up in my mind too.

Scala 3 is my on shared 1st place favorite language

Union/intersection types — indeed, I use all the time, in Typescript.

And Opaque Types looks lovely too. All across my code base, I have type aliases like "UserId" or "PageId" or "PostNr" or "DraftNr" etc, and it'll be nice that this can now be type safe for real, not just type aliases. (Just waiting for opaque types to arrive to Typescript too.)