I've worked in 3 places that were fully 100% remote. I'm from Barcelona, ES. They are not the modt common but they do exist if you look for them and there are quite a lot.
I saw a post recently on linkedin. A founder was saying "If you had one year to live, would you still choose to work at this company? That is the bar to join <crappy nonsensical startup>". It was so incredibly sad.
"How fast do you want to learn?": in my experience many companies in my opinion don't want employees that learn fast, because otherwise these employees would immediately see and call out a lot of bullshit.
"Would you feel ownership on day one?": in my experience many software companies don't want employees to really feel ownership about their code, since "ownership" means that the respective employee will be willing to fight hard that his vision of this "owned" code is retained and this code won't be "tainted" by "unworthy" ideas of other colleagues.
I got mine in about that time, joined their IRC and asked for an invite, someone DM'd me, asked me a couple of questions and sent me the invite. This was about 7 years ago when there as a lot less people, so I imagine it should be easier now.
The rules are very clear on when those are used though, you are not really arguing the original point imo. What are the dialectical variations in "ll" and "c"?
(B2-ish Spanish learner here but) "ll" is pronounced in at least three variants that I know of: "y", "j", and something between "sh" and "ch". E.g. "llama" might be pronounced like (in English writing) "yama", "zhama", or "shama". The last one really threw me for a while; it's super common in Argentina at least.
I spent time in the "Rio de la Plata" area in the late 1970s, mainly Montevideo, and learned rioplatense Spanish, and would use the ZH sound as in "meaSure" for Y/LL letters in "playa" and "calle".
In the last 40 years I've spent mostly in the USA I rarely have heard Uruguayan/Argentinian Spanish in person or in media, but was surprised to hear Messi and others in recent interviews use SH as in "puSH" for the Y/LL, this apparent has been a generational shift in that area, first in Argentina and then Uruguay. I'd sound old-fashioned if I were to go back to Montevideo these days.
I see what you mean. I think you should stick to one form and learn by difference or you could quickly get lost.
"ll" in standard spanish is a strong english "y".
However, in spanish argentinian from the area of Buenos Aires (but not the argentinian Córdoba, which sounds more like colombian spanish) it is "sh", being that s something like a mix in-between of "j" and "s" + h as in "she" but the sound is a bit different.
Without being able to record some sound I cannot express it better but I am sure you can find something around. Javier Milei, the president, has such an accent.
AFAIK "ll" can also be the palatalized "l" sound in some dialects, i.e. in the same relationship to regular "l" as "ñ" is to "n". Indeed, this is the original pronunciation from which all others have diverged.
So now you need several servers, an orchestrator, tons of YAML, arcane and terrible error messages and a devops team to kind of match the BEAM? That's... not a good look
Yes. This is a big part of what initially drew me to Elixir. It's more than feasible to run a server on a cheap VPS, get great, though not quite Golang or low-level language performance and have a much easier scaling story when you need multiple machines.
More importantly, you generally don't need an external queue service, in-memory KV store, task scheduler or many of the other things that JS/Ruby/Python stacks need. By consolidating just about everything but the DB in a single, well designed system, it's possible for a very small team to take on relatively large challenges on a smaller budget.
Where does your Erlang code runs in the first place? ( maybe kubernetes already )
Kubernetes does all of that in a standard and easy way but also is completely language agnostic. So your Python code without modidication can benefit from it.
> So your Python code without modidication can benefit from it.
that's not completely true though, say you have two python processes, you need to solve yourself how they communicate, HTTP? a message broker? through the DB? You need to handle errors, stateful deployments.
You can deploy python code without modification if the python code does very simple things. My point is that the BEAM gives you a lot of this mostly presolved for you without having to add more infrastructure.
You can use a BEAM system to orchestrate other code, too. As ports, port drivers, nifs, c-nodes, just other OS processes spawned and using IPC/sockets. Lots of options. Using Erlang to supervise an OS process doing work perhaps enhances the isolation principles of BEAM.
To add to that, the BEAM has binaries as a data type so when you're talking to a foreign program you can quickly prototype or design binary protocols once you get tired of parsing/encoding JSON or XML or something at the edges. Depending on the facilities of the foreign language it might be more or less feasible, of course.
It's snarky but I think it is a fair comparison. You do have extra capabilities over what BEAM offers, in exchange for having to manually handle a lot of things BEAM either handles invisibly or at least comes with usable defaults for.
Yet another Japanese learning app[0], but something that is very useful to me, so I hope it will be useful for others as well. I struggle to deal with comprehensible input that interests me at this time. The best way to immerse yourself is with content that interests you but sometimes that content is a bit advanced. I'm building this to bridge the gap, you can upload or select content that interests you (or we can recommend you content that would be comprehensible input), and we'll generate short stories, set in the universe of the content you want to learn that will introduce new words you need to understand the original content every week. The words and sentences of these stories will then be reviewed using spaced repetition (using the Ebisu SRS algo as underlying model with some modifications).
That's insane, my dad had cancer 3 years ago, and here in Spain we didn't even think about it (beyond of course the terrible situation). If you also want private insurance it will cost a youngish small family (like mine) 150EUR/month.
According to Google, person in Spain spends on average $4,432 per person per year with some $3,113 of that being paid by the government.
The US government pays out $6,000 per person per year or nearly TWICE as much.
The problem is that $6000 is still less than half of the $14,570 per person per year (2023) healthcare costs in the US.
And of course, the US government payments don't cover everyone equally. They only cover the elderly and some subset of the very poor (mostly kids).
The only fix is reducing US healthcare costs to something more like the rest of the world, but that requires sharing drug R&D costs evenly with other countries (raising your costs), reigning in insurance companies, eliminating over-credentializing of doctors and other medical professionals, fixing school cost/debt, and reducing/eliminating the massive amounts of unnecessary bureaucracy/paperwork (allowing doctors to reduce staff and see more patients per day which reduces overall medical costs).
We don't have any money to treat sick people, we need to make sure the networth of billionaires continues to grow.
We need to fund military bases all over the world and conflicts in places most of us can't find on maps.
You find how truly alone you are when you can't afford your medicine. No longer an "American" you're a freeloader, a parasite.
Perhaps God himself hates you.
And Blessed are the Billionaires for God gave them so much.
It's tricky I think, I think it comes down to specialized tools for different systems. I'm building a tool for Japanese in this direction. But of course it doesn't generalize to everything since the content and context extraction is very objective dependent.
AI definitely helps here (and it's the direction I'm going), although to start exploring the space in a way that makes sense to me (and because it's a problem I have), I've reduced the space into these steps:
* I wanna be able to watch X in Y language
* I know these words
* Help me
> and mingle with other AI's to find possible business or romantic connections for us, all automatically
I thought the top post was already depressing, but this is a whole new level of psychopathic tech-bro mindset.
Interesting also how my other comment as well as the other top post were mysteriously artificially demoted to the bottom of the comment section even with a lot of upvotes. In both cases they were the top comment and instanly went to the lowest one. AI criticism is punished now?
You seem like you not only have a chip on your shoulder about technological assistance in human lives (quite Luddite of you, even if we've all seen The Social Dilemma) but that you would prefer to believe a conspiracy theory without evidence (that "the AI is downvoting your AI-negative posts") than that you might simply be making badly-argued, negative-toned comments.
Tell you what- Here's a business idea you might appreciate: A series of islands where literally everything exists as it did in 1984, or 1992, or 2000, and you pay to basically "go back in time". All devices are confiscated on arrival but you are re-provided with the devices that were available in that era, meticulously maintained. We could call it "time/era tourism".
Heck, why stop there? Let's have one that is set in 1945, just after WW2 ended, or perhaps 1850/the Victorian era prior to the introduction of cars or the Industrial Revolution. Bonus points if it includes time-appropriate racism, sexism or diseases.
I have no problem with technological assistance in human lives in most cases. I'm just pointing out the incredibly anti-social behaviour of wanting to outsource socializing.
What conspiracy theory? I didn't say anything about AI doing shit, what I said is that somehow my 48 points comment that was at the top of the comment section, within the span of 5 seconds ended up at the bottom of the comment section while having more upvotes. I don't even care about that. But it's incredibly weird and without bringing AI into question (because it was not downvoted), it's clearly just that HN wants to slow down anti-AI sentiment (since it benefits them economically?).
Why don't you get your own island and let the AI communicate with the rest of humanity for you? Heck, why stop there. Maybe it could even outsource talking to your parents! No more of that time wasting! I could be hustling!
> pointing out the incredibly anti-social behaviour of wanting to outsource socializing
Excellently and succinctly stated.
I guess I was considering it an adjunct to socializing, or a filter on who to socialize with. Not a substitute. Have you ever spent a few minutes talking to someone only to realize that you had nothing in common? Have you ever met someone you had things in common with but it was at the very end of an event when there was no more time (or when it would be too awkward or too soon) to exchange contact info with? Well, this tech might have captured those.
Another example- There are people in the world who literally cannot stand having their beliefs get poked and prodded, and who in fact react violently if this poking and prodding (which is really just "curious probing") includes evidence against something they believe. I had a woman actually scream at me at a cocktail party once when I challenged her blank-slate hypothesis by citing Hassett/Siebert/Wallen (2008) (notably, the experimental conclusions from this study have since been challenged numerous times, which wasn't the case when that occurred years ago- I'm not here to defend it, only to point out an example). It would have been wonderful if I could have avoided that embarrassment by filtering out people who cannot tolerate a difference of evidence-backed opinion and gone straight to the people who love to debate stuff. Picture an AI whispering into my tiny earpiece, "this person, whose name is April, will likely not react well to the heretical poking and prodding you usually enjoy doing at these things."
> No more of that time wasting! I could be hustling!
LOL. Fair enough. As a friend recently pointed out to me, "if you really want efficiency in government, you'll end up with an autocratic dictatorship." Perhaps "optimizing the hell out of certain things" ruins them, or at least passes some point where the on-balance total cost is too high.
Considering how current tech has facilitated the automation of echo chambers, I doubt extending the tech into more social spaces will somehow reverse that. Of course, everyone believes they only hold evidence based, rational beliefs, so the net result 99% of the time would end up filtering out people who disagree.
You will meet, in your lifetime, a very small fraction of 1% of the human race. There exists, out there, thousands of people that you would form a life long bonds with of the type that many people never find. If a machine can help you with that, why is that so bad? I know it's trendy to have this cynical 'tech bro bad lol' approach to literally any intersection of society and tech, but we've been 'tech-bro'ing social relationships as society changes in response to technology for centuries now.
I'm just confused what you think a chatbot is where it would do anything but complicate this process. It's a lot easier to confuse a recruiter than it is to go on dates.
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