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I have many disagreements with Sam Altman. But physical attacks are never the answer. Especially attacking one's family.

What about Luigi Mangione, what's HN's the consensus on him?

There isn't one (much as I might think there should be). Threads about Mangione were also uncivil and activating.

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That is unhinged.

I know, right. He paid himself more per year than 99.9% of Americans will make in their entire lifetime while denying coverage to people who died as a result.

Does it get more evil?


This second comment is still pretty unhinged.

Agree, the guy was ill. Taking all that money and ruining lives en mass.

So.. like Altman?

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Attacking Sam and his family will only cause harm to one family.

What Sam is doing with ICE, DoW, etc is harming tens of millions around the globe.


Which is why this narrative of caring about his family is so absurd.

A defense contractor is in the business of war. In supplying the war machine, you should be living in a fortress. Tall walls, check your drink for poison, live in paranoia. Every person in the business of war knows what they are getting in to, and how to protect their family.

How is someone that is near the face of AI this naive about such an ancient thing?

The business of war is fine. It is ancient. It is part of humanity. Making some morality plea towards family and "violence is never the answer" while in the business of violence is NOT okay.

Everyone in the defense industry knows the risks. Blood money is not free. You sacrifice a peaceful life for the wealth.

To keep your family safe you have to use a meager sum of that money to have tall walls, guards, and security. DoD contractor 101.

Alternatively, live in obscurity, don't talk about your work, and it is usually fine.

A world-wide known CEO doesn't have this luxury so again, use a small portion of unfathomable wealth to protect your family. I have a feeling this war is just starting.

When in the business of death, you no longer get to live with the rules of peace.


It’s almost like these people believe Being in the business of violence and death is fine. Killing other people, making their lives a living nightmare, etc.

Suddenly it’s not ok when a tiny fraction of that violence comes home.

Hypocrisy at its most extreme.


These arguments make perfect logical sense. Sam Altman has ceased to be a civilian, he has waived those rights with his DoD deal, I don't know why people are acting like he is one. I think it's cowardly that both of you are so downvoted without any responses at all against you, much less good counterarguments.

It's because there is not a moral counterargument.

The counterargument is racism, classism, nationalism, and tribalism. These are not things people will say out loud.


Fortunately, that’s not how it works, no matter what you think.

Are you saying that when a nation or individual brings violence on others it does not get given back in retaliation?

Of course it does.


How else could it work?

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What is your point?

"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

An LLM that maintains a Confluence space. That looks like an interesting idea!


I am very happy for Scala. So many people taking the time to rant on it. Yes, you can do anything with Scala in a million different ways. So what? So can you do it in C++, Python, Rust, etc. I agree that the whole "Category Theory" libraries are way over the top, but so are libraries in Java using "factories" everywhere. Every language has its pros and cons.


I'd say category theory concepts are not over the top - but category theory libraries could be! I just about never define or use explicit categoric typeclass instances - even though I almost always define categoric methods, e.g. `++` and `empty` for everything that looks like a monoid, `map` for everything that produces values, `contramap` for everything that consumes values. That's usually more than enough - and making structure explicit that way prevents your data structures from semantic drift while they're being handled by other engineers.


Thank you for sharing. Interesting insight on dep libraries.


I just hope they won't destroy sagas like they did to the Witcher. In other words, I don't think this is good for future content as there is a risk movies/series will follow the same scripts, underlying story plots, cultural norms, same cinematography, etc. Quality going down.

Moreover, this also means more time for ads to pay for this merger.


Nice feedback. I still love Scala write Scala 2 code mainly because of Spark. I wish I could migrate everything to Scala 3.


I don't think it is a problem with Scala 3 itself. Scala 3 brought a lot of improvements, one of them is using semantic versioning. People used to complain a log about binary compatibility between versions in 2.x. Now it's here. I think that the slow adoption of Scala 3 is mainly due to one of its most successful projects: Apache Spark. To this day, Spark only supports Scala 2.13 although Scala 3 has been around for years now. This is both disappointing and frustrating because a lot of people were introduced to Scala thanks to Apache Spark.


The language is actually really nice. The "we won't ship dotty as the next version of Scala, just kidding, here it is", the breakage of editors and IDEs that lasted for years, etc (aka, the WAY they did it) make migrating a poor value prop. If I have to suffer worse tools and pay the tax of fixing them/updating them, then for each system when I think it's time to migrate to Scala 3 I might think it's time to migrate off Scala entirely.

It's possible that nothing could have reversed their existing trend, but I think it's fair to say that smaller communities (as another poster mentioned) can't afford this level of friction. Have we not seen Perl->Raku? Python2-3?

Additionally, while almost all of Scala 3 is an improvement over 2, whitespace significance seems like an awful hill to die on. Most people who value that sort of syntax in domains where Scala has made any inroads are already on Python, and we're going to alienate many existing developers in the (vain) hope of increasing marketability?


I learned scala due to load testing with Gatling.

I’ve always hated Java but Scala was super fun.


Here the context is prozac FOR CHILDREN, not in general. Yet some people make a point in commenting that SSRIs are ineffective in general because they believe in some big pharma conspiracy. This is spreading misinformation. The truth is that SSRIs are modestly more effective than a placebo for approximately >> one third of the individuals << who try them. In other words, SSRIs are effective for more than 60-66% of adults. Moreover, there are a few different types of SSRIs. It takes time to find the one that fits you.


> they believe in some big pharma conspiracy

See: the Sackler family


Also pfizergate featuring von der leyen.


Here the context is for children, not in general.


This is awesome. Thank you for sharing and making it open-source!


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