skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked both at a startup that used functional programming libraries pretty heavily, and a startup that is using as plain of a Scala as you can imagine (no cats / zios / kyos / etc. in sight), and both benefited greatly from Scala language itself. The rich, safe and sound type system, combined with ergonomic syntax and well thought out features make it very easy to both read and write code – and most importantly – to make massive changes with very high confidence – which is an absolute necessity in a fast moving startup where the business requirements evolve all the time, features are shipped urgently with some tech debt that needs to be effectively addressed later, etc.

In terms of talent there is definitely some self-selection as with any non-default tech stack. Scala is a sharp tool and there are both people who are attracted to it for the pragmatic utility of its sharpness, and people who are attracted to it for wanting to play with sharp things. Both types are smart but the latter group have given Scala a bad rep in the past for being too smart and thus writing code that was too clever for others to understand. But nowadays the general vibe in the talent pool is a lot more pragmatic.
USYD's website states that mature-age entry students are only eligible for a select set of courses: https://www.sydney.edu.au/study/applying/admission-pathways/...

Being fair, they do make it sound as though you can enter a degree you're eligible for, and then apply to transfer to another degree after a year of study. If you're transferring to a similar degree, your completed course units would probably count towards your total required elective units.
The last one may not work anymore. A ton of phones nowadays have IR filters.
I’m sure this can be solved with voting and protesting lol
I don't believe it when Microsoft announces it, but when two separate trustworthy-looking hn accounts tell me something is crazy good that seems like valuable information to me.
Going by "The purpose of a system is what it does", I think European (specifically EU-member) states do a lot more for their citizens than the US does, in welfare, healthcare, environment, infrastructure and so on, so either the oligarchs are very subtle indeed (looking at our Slovakian oligarchs... I don't think so) or they just don't own the governments far more (yet). They are certainly trying though.

I think this is because effectively influencing European politics as a whole (as opposed to individual countries) is much more complicated than the US because of the diversity of languages, cultures and media, but then the EU-level politics will also influence state politics. But also every country has a commissioner in the commission and a vote in the EC, so there are several levels of feedback. Of course many internal and external actors are trying to own or destroy the EU, I just hope they won't be succesful.
Yeah, spark was for me the reason to learn spark, as the Java Api was annoying.

But i do not like to see switch between java and scala and these days also kotlin. Syntax model switches in my head drive me nuts. :))
Yeah I just focused on how well it was paced and didn't give any instructions on style or try a second pass to spot any inconsistencies.

That would be the next step but I'd previously never thought going any further might be worth it.
Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project (2023)
Fully acknowledge and confront the fact that public education serves as essentially a catch-all social service agency for a significant chunk of our populace and stop pretending it’s just about knowledge-transfer. For kids who come from stable family backgrounds (of whatever composition—-stability and reliability are the keys), and a stable (not necessarily affluent or adjacent—-again, stability and reliability) socioeconomic environment, that model works. Kids routinely make it to high school without being able to read or do math at more than a third grade level, because at some point, we can say well, we can’t solve society’s problems, but we also can’t “penalize” these students by holding them back several years (gotta get ground up by the economic machine as soon as they’re 18), so… well, it’s above our pay-grade. I have seen some interesting work and individual charter schools that are like “full service schools.” The problem is, for every decent idea in a charter school, there are 25 charter schools that are pieces of shit.

I need to go take a shower and get ready for work, so I’m going to stop ranting, but the basic solution is to recognize that one size does not fit all. The career tech-normie hs-gifted division we operate with is too broad-brushed. The school I’ve been at has a shit ton of profound mental health problems among students. Poverty is real but it’s not as grinding as our rival school down the street (the “super ghetto” school I was told), nor is life-threatening violence necessarily a daily companion for our kids as for theirs. Yet we are both Title I urban schools.

It’s complicated, man.
Doesn’t matter, they were conducting government business on a clandestine private system with the intent of evading public records laws. Literally the crime they endlessly accused Clinton of.
> Why can I point to just as many Christian movements who are anti-science, pro-slavery, anti-individual?

Because people have free will,† and can choose to accept or ignore orthodox teaching.

This is especially true after Protestantism came about which caused a splintering into (tens of?) thousands of denominations,[1] rejecting even some tenets that were present since the beginning of Christianity (e.g., the Real Presence).

Whereas if you look at Catholicism (and Orthodox churches), they generally have consistent teachings going back to their beginning.

† Which of course some Christian denominations (and some modern materialists like Sapolsky) deny.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denomination...
It's an idiom, though I don't know how common it is. I've heard it before, but not at all often.

https://websites.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/sig.html
I’m going to take a wild guess that the incoming negative comments will be from those who haven’t read the article, as it strikes me as quite the non-story.

His business provided a CDN to an (allegedly) criminal group for their a website. I can understand someone’s granny reading this and thinking it’s bad somehow, but this is HN, I’d expect people on these boards to known better.
"Apart from a complacent reliance on Russian gas throughout its period of fast growth, Germany’s energy policy faces a detrimental resistance to nuclear energy, a sluggish transition to green energy, and an incredibly slow bureaucracy, all contributing to the nation’s energy crisis." [1]

[1] https://hir.harvard.edu/germanys-energy-crisis-europes-leadi...
That's borderline propaganda... By that logic, Cloudflare would be providing "tech support" to cybercrime rings just because some criminals used its DDoS protection. If we apply the same standard, every major tech company, from Google to Namecheap, would be guilty of offering "tech support" to cybercriminals on a daily basis.
Ah yes, a future where you can only get around in a box on wheels owned by someone else, can only afford garbage food produced by robots that are owned by someone else, and can only do computing using "AI" owned by someone else.

This is a world that brings wealth to a few. It's just deeper down into the same hole we've been digging for the past 50+ years. It's a world in which individuals own nothing and have no control over their lives.
An opensource repo asking who is responsible for this AI invasions? Well, it is you, who is responsible for all this. What did you think when you helped tech to advance so rapidly, over-pacing the needs of humans? Read about panchatantra story of 4 brothers who got a dead tiger alive, just to boast of their skill and greatness.
The latest studies show Long Covid is still growing quite fast. In the UK the GP Patient survey (of 2 million patients) had 5% knowing they suffered and a further 10% unsure if they did. A similar question put to NHS healthcare workers came back with 38% sure they had Long Covid. Both numbers are well up from the year before.

So while death rates are in the hundreds a week which is a lot less than when the pandemic started the chronic disease aspect is continuing.

The pandemic is not over, the WHO says it's still going and is a mass disabling event. We really need that Long Covid and sterilising vaccine research and quickly.
'Judged,' I said, not 'prejudged;' for example
I would like to see certain responsible individuals, as well as (I guess now Meta indirectly but beneficially d/b/a) Facebook the corporate entity, answer charges in some competent and not currently extant court of knowing complicity in at least one genocide. (The talking shop and mutual disadmiration society called the International Criminal Court has for decades lacked competence on the obvious grounds that enforcement scales in inverse proportion to the geopolitical relevance of the judgment. A law so unevenly enforced is no law an honest American should recognize, though I grant we seem somewhat thin on the ground these days.)

In any case what's dystopic in desiring that a system of governance under law function basically as designed? I realize the idea of any kind of international cooperation beyond the scope of new mercantile or Hanseatic Leagues is lately much out of fashion, but as noted I'm a touch old-fashioned myself, enough so still to consider that what's good for the goose is, broadly and taking one thing with another, likely about as tasty a dressing for the gander. Certainly in either case the bird seems lately about equally cooked.

If we have supranational corporations - Facebook claims half the species, which I might believe 10% exaggerated at most - and thus supranational crimes, then we should, always as a norm if not at all times in practical effect, have supranational courts and like-scoped means of deterring bad behavior. Lacking those, we face a return more or less to the days of the East India Companies, or - for younger folks, who may more intuitively grasp fictional examples inspired by that history - Weyland-Yutani and the like.
EU has much better banking than the US. With VAT ID is paradoxically less fragmented as well. SEPA transactions is something the US can only dream about and will never materialize because Jim Texan's Right Bank ltd. will be against a common payment framework ;D because freedom or some other generic-murikan brainfart. America ban when cannot compete. Culture of guns and oppression.
Yeah I always use the analogy of “when I’m in the neighborhood, I’ll take care of that too” for related tickets.

I’ve had it update my tickets (like, leave a comment summarizing the code changes, transition the ticket.)

And I’ve described our workflow in a cursor rules file. And it knows to reassign the ticket to a certain person when I ask it to mark something ready for test. Or if I want to transition to a workflow strep 3 steps down, it knows my workflow from the rules file ands can perform each transition in sequence.
As a context because I see people downvoting it - that slogan was on a semi-famous picture of how the invaders left one of the houses. It was painted on there.
I thought of The Concretes song, Fiction. The only song I knew that referred to a font ("This font should be bold.").

https://youtu.be/x-403FWsujw
Thanks! Might have been 1919-1920 actually, I have to check.
Encryption doesn't really help when you add "random" people to your group ..

Also, I haven't followed the email thing, but emails are by design insecure, so one should hope stuff like this was not discussed over emails (regardless server..)
Or any thug turned into private detective/policeman. Older than you think.
I can feel this already with my own use of language models.

All the questions I had before language models, I have answered with language models.

That doesn't mean I have no more questions though. Answering those questions opened up 10X more questions I have now.

In general, everyone knows that answering scientific questions leads to new and more questions. It is the exact same process in the economy. There is a collectivist sentiment though in society and the economy that wants to pretend this isn't true. That the economic questions can be "solved", the spoils divided up and we live happily ever after in some kind of equilibrium.

As far as new jobs, they are here now but they surely sound as ridiculous to think about as being a professional youtuber in 2005. Or I think of the person making a geocities website in 1997 vs a front end developer. There is no date that a front end developer emerges from the html code monkey. It is a slow and organic process that is hard to game.
> Slavery in developing nations is usually managed by an imperial colonizer.

Such as?
I haven't kept up. What changed about Java in the past 10 years?
the goal posts will be moved again. Tons of people clamoring the book is stupid and vapid and only idiots bought the book. When ai starts taking over jobs which it already has you’ll get tons of idiots claiming the same thing.
And what would be the crime?
Dumb q: could one stay the catalyst on everything, let the PET break down, then separate from the other polymers?
saw this thread on X. here are some incredible use cases of 4o image generation: https://x.com/0xmetaschool/status/1904804251148443873
There are some use-cases that Apple pioneered. After they bought Primesense, who made the first Kinect using quite interesting structured IR laser light points and a single camera to get depth, Apple shrank that technology. It is now the core of FaceID where it does a 3D scan of your face. On the backside of iPhones, Apple is using LIDAR to estimate depth, allowing improved computational photography.

Unfortunately it never caught on in other devices. I'd love a more secure face-id kind of thing in my Laptop (Apple, ThinkPad etc.) that authenticates me.
> Yes, losing your job (or your career) is not fun, and can be painful. Massive salary reduction can happen.

I'm just trying to get the point across that unemployment might rise so gdp may fall, in fact I think it should be the baseline scenario and not thinking some new jobs we can't imagine yet will be created.
It's so hard to imagine these new jobs because if the machines will out perform us cognitively it follows we will be able to get intelligent robots into the real world quite soon after. Then seriously what the heck is left? Fewer jobs, not more.

There is one "cure" I can think of for this and that's something closer to socialism, the market will have to step aside and the government will create massive amounts of new jobs. For example classes can be 5 pupils per teacher instead of 30 pupils per teacher. Nurses can attend to 3 patient beds instead of 8.
But letting the market sort this out ? I don't think so.
Yes and you or I could be prosecuted for doing so. Unless you were able to get some kind of special permission, like other well known hackers who worked with the FBI and CIA, acknowledging that stuff would be a deal breaker for regular employment.
This is exactly the complacency that's going to ruin lots of government systems. 20 or even 10 years ago, everyone would be rightly horrified about anyone like this having privileged access. He seemingly hasn't faced any consequences for his actions either - do you really want someone who associated with a group that "boasted [about] online of hacking government emails and cyberstalking [an] FBI agent"? The potential for him to be compromised is enormous.
An American colleague of mine got beat up in Idaho for being gay :<
If only they had some money to put in those banks
I'd suggest a smaller scope, as writing for a whole year can be a bit of a daunting task.
> They are probably talking about the child spec needing a unique ID if it's the same module being started.

No, my experience says that's not true. I have this code in one of my projects and it works just fine:

-behavior(gen_server).

start(Mod, Args) ->
supervisor:start_child(secret_project_worker_sup:getName(), [{Mod, Args}]).

I can spawn as many of those guys as I like and they all become children of the named supervisor. The named supervisor is a 'simple_one_for_one' supervisor with a 'temporary' restart policy.

I guess the thing that might trip folks up with how the docs are worded is not noticing this further up in the document

A supervisor can have one of the following restart strategies specified with the strategy key in the above map:
...
* simple_one_for_one - A simplified one_for_one supervisor, where all child processes are dynamically added instances of the same process type, that is, running the same code.

and that 'start_child/2' accepts EITHER a 'child_spec()' OR a list of terms

-spec start_child(SupRef, ChildSpec) -> startchild_ret()
when SupRef :: sup_ref(), ChildSpec :: child_spec();
(SupRef, ExtraArgs) -> startchild_ret() when SupRef :: sup_ref(), ExtraArgs :: [term()].

and that only the 'child_spec()' type can have an identifier, so the first bullet point in the list of three in the function documentation does not apply.

Also, I find the way the docs USED to print out function types a bit easier to understand than the new style: <https://web.archive.org/web/20170509120825/http://erlang.org...>. (You will need to either close the Archive.org nav banner or scroll up a line to see the first line of the function type information, which is pretty informative.)
That seems.. whatever the opposite of pragmatic is, but not in a good way, as in “principled”. There are very good reasons one would be required to be vague in a situation like this, but still know about a very serious issue.

It’s like seeing a road sign that says “danger ahead” and ignoring it because it wasn’t very specific. It’s just.. not a sensible move.
I certainly consider myself European. And I don't need the concept of "united states of Europe" to feel that way. That's irrelevant.
I usually look at things like https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

And you can't use spot prices in the way you're trying to for a few reasons - firstly, those countries will all have interconnects with each other so the prices harmonise - if one country has a whole problem the whole area has a problem (which might be what we can see in the prices, coincidentally). Secondly the overall cost of electricity isn't set on the median day but by what happens on extreme days (dead of winter or height of summer, depending on where in the world you are). Thirdly, a lot of German policy seems to involve taxes applied after the electricity has been sold.
Assisting cybercrime by the sounds of things: "Two years before becoming a DOGE staffer, Coristine provided network support to a cybercrime group." That enough for you?
I don’t think you can issue proper cert for a private IP. So using dns host name is the only option.
SplitQuantV2: Enhancing Low-Bit Quantization of LLMs Without GPUs
Yeah. Avoid travelling there if you can. Push back if work tries to send you there.
So you think the GDPR isn't very complex. Let's put that to the test.

I need to record names and address across the European Union. What character encodings are illegal for such fields in a database?
this is absolutely hilarious to watch.
> The US government has been trying to get Europe to invest in its own defense for 50+ years

Blatantly untrue. America has spent 50 years ensuring europe is reliant on America for security, because America likes the economic benefits that brings.
I don't like this kind of article. It tends to be very verbose but doesn't really have a point.
Yes, if you want to give your kids, a solid, college-bound education, you are more likely to find it in private schools than your local neighborhood public school. However, there are some really great public schools, it just depends on where you are and what the composition of the community is. My parents live in a town where you can’t turn your head sideways without bumping into an engineer of some kind. Very diverse place. Median household income in the district is like $80,000+. Best public schools in the state.

I don’t blame parents for making individual decisions for their own children. I blame us as a wider society for our willingness to throw kids away who have themselves done nothing but have them misfortune of being born into shitty situations.
> Double quotes in particular are a ridiculously overloaded piece of punctuation.

Pythonistas everywhere: how dare you.
trial lawyers having a field day with everything Trump is doing.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, did anyone read the article? He ran a CDN. Unless I missed something, there doesn’t appear to be any reason to believe he knew it was a “cybercrime ring”.
Actually I would argue that Europe taking care of itself reduces single point of failure in the system. Even if there was no Trump, it would have been the right thing to do.
Whataboutism (and comparing wildly different things, muddling them into a superficial similarity) is going to kill your country.
Rented a house with friends in sf in 2016. We created a facebook group for our neighborhood, put up signs, and very quickly had a similar experience. A few neighbors over for drinks one night, hosted a weekend bbq a few weeks later. Quickly got to know a lot of people on my immediate block. One guy fixed my bike. An older woman called me when her fire alarm was intermittently beepting, to see if I could fix it. Had a few other events through the group, they were a highlight of the year. Made it clear to me how much latent desire there is for connection / friends from your neighbors.
So I take it he isn't getting that top secret clearance after all?

What a circus
Your statement is factually incorrect, there are quite a few EU tech giants. But more to the point: in what universe is having a tech giant a requirement for anything? If anything, big pseudo-monopolies seem like an antipattern.
I don't see the point in this bad faith stuff. Clearly the US has provided a massive defence umbrella not limited to wars the US started. EU countries are now arming up and spending increased GDP on defence to accommodate the US spending less on their defence. The US has spent a fortune that those countries didn't have to previously spend, and could instead spend on social things. I think the US was fine with this, but they're not fine with doing this for the EU while the EU is laughing at it for not spending enough on social things.
Yeah, they’ll figure out how to feed the robot whatever will get the robot to shut up, and then go do things teenagers do when they have no adult supervision. Great model lol.
This would be terrible for accessibility for users using a screen reader.
Their willingness to integrate depends on their perception of the model quality.