skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Things start getting highly regulated when the government sets what prices you can charge, who you are allowed to do business with, etc.

Oh! It's so convenient that the definition of 'highly regulated' for you fits perfectly into your world view. Those hundreds of thousands of pages of laws that govern trade and the tens of thousands of enforcement officials must just be my imaginiation

>For example, I'm in the software business. There aren't any regulations on it.

Your definition of regulation is different than the actual definition of regulation.

You already got your understanding of the German economy corrected by others. I think you almost certainly are a great example of someone who is a SME in one area which makes you think you are a SME in other areas, when you actually aren't.

Social Security and Medicare aren't wealth transfer programs. The United States has tons of regulations and central economic planning. Your ignorance of those facts is a deficit on your part that you can easily rectify.
They existed prior and yes have been elevated since SM. Not necessarily because of SM, but because SM can take the blame while those who drive the wedge get a free pass.
Not when I tried.
Stack overflow and github are the only ones that feel out of place there.
I agree. The stated reason is easily enough to explain the action. Tons of parents are concerned about this everywhere and would probably love such restrictions (if enacted by the networks instead of the state).
This has "rock is the devil's music" vibes to it. With congressmen reading lyrics to Alice Cooper songs, and saying it's going to destroy the American way of life. I guess things never change.
Given how the government reps talked (hah) to the TikTok CEO, and some of the speeches leading up to that farce, I’m pretty convinced it’s entirely intentional.

It gives power and eyeballs back to the entrenched traditional media moguls.
> He wanted to write a Unix-like OS but for mainframes

Historically that was a very common thing, numerous examples from the 70s and 80s. Princeton's 1970s port (which Eric Schmidt worked on) that evolved into Amdahl UTS; AT&T's early 1980s port which run on top of TSS/370; Nixdorf ported Coherent from the PC to run on top of DOS/VS (IBM mainframe DOS/360, unrelated to MS-DOS/PC-DOS) and sold that as PWS/VSE-AF. There was also VM/IX, IX/370, AIX/370, AIX/ESA, MVS OpenEdition (now z/OS Unix System Services) and its VM/CMS equivalent (originally also called OpenEdition, now z/VM OpenExtensions). And nowadays z/Linux is big, and there was also Sine Nomine Associates' OpenSolaris port (which sadly went nowhere).

Writing a Unix subsystem which runs on top of MVS 3.8J (or DOS/VS, or VM/370, or MTS, or MUSIC, etc) would be interesting. Utterly pointless and practically irrelevant, but still interesting. But, since stuff like OS/380 and PDOS is just a hobby, who cares if it has a point or practical relevance? It has a point so long as somebody enjoys it.
Taiwan, Honduras to Cut Diplomatic Ties on China Recognition
Exactly, this is gunning for Typora's aesthetic combined with an end goal of doing what Scrivener does
You have to carry a licence when driving here in NZ but in the 10-15 years I haven’t carried a wallet I haven’t carried it. I’m not 100% on how it will go if I need it while driving (potential US$200 fine). It’s not needed for domestic flights or anything really.
In my current role, I have to sometimes write T-SQL or PL/SQL stored procedures in 80's/90's tech, sometimes scripts in Groovy, sometimes starightforward Java and sometimes code that interacts with relatively more modern tech like Kafka. Do I prefer some over others? Yes. Do I spend equal amount of care towards quality of code? Also yes.

A good programmer will always try to do a good job irrespective of their level of passion with the stuff they are working on. Does enjoying a specific piece of work more produce better code? Maybe because I would have more fun writing it. But I doubt most of us gets to do the exciting work everyday. Ironically, if you are relying that much on passion, you might get those who cut corners on unexciting work. Rely instead on good programming skills coupled with professionalism.
Cargo theft accounts for $15-30 billion dollars lost each year, my quick search says shoplifting accounts for $15-20 billion dollars per year.

Why do we hear so much more about shoplifting? Sure it's more public, but I've seen dozens of stories about how shoplifting is destroying retail and this is the first one about cargo theft I can recall.
So your examples of books you've read are you books you disagree with? You are the primary source for your world view it appears.

Based on this post, I'm guessing you don't have any serious suggestions?
If you don’t like the taste of the people who want to pay for art I suggest doing what is traditional and either (a) paying for it yourself, or (b) taking over or setting up the government funding for artists so that people who share your taste are in control.
Brunello Cucinelli interview by Om Malik (2014)
i would suggest it's the confluence of a number of changes. Including the higher food prices, we have: better comms like, cell phones, multi-user "database" like google docs, guns almost too cheap to meter and available within a 2-day cross country drive with no waiting period anywhere in the united states, more powerful vehicles for catching up to food trucks, and hauling away with quickness, low-touch mostly anonymous local and national branded markets with advertising and sales like tiktok, insta, craigslist, and ebay, as well as news spreading how other people are getting away with it, and possibly a lack of good information about where to get food from food banks. And if that's not enough, there are lots of recipes being shared. Just kidding about the last part.
That would also be good. I know people who have shit their pants during RuneScape sessions. They can’t use it responsibly.
> Does that assertion suppose to convey any information?

Yes, I'm assuming you're familiar with the topic.
Actual bill is here: https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0152.html

For those wondering if it'll affect your site/service, this only applies to social media companies that have > 5m account holders.
I’m someone who had a front row seat to the emergence of Docker, and some might say competed with them (I’d disagree on that point). I don’t plan on commenting on their company, business model, or recent decisions. The only thing I want to comment on is the claim Docker was evolutionary, not revolutionary.

I disagree, I believe Docker /was/ revolutionary. And I feel like I see heavy technologists make this sort of dismissal based on technical points too soon. From a technical perspective, it was arguably evolutionary — a lot of people were poking at LXC and containerization a long time before Docker came around — but from a product perspective it was surely revolutionary.

I used to joke, in my own experience building a business in the DevOps space, that you’d spend 2 years building a globally distributed highly scalable complex piece of software, and no one would pay for it. Then you slap a GUI on it, and suddenly someone is willing to pay a million dollars for it. Now, that’s mostly tongue in cheek, but there is a kernel of truth to it.

The kernel of truth is that the technology itself isn’t valuable; it’s the /humanization/ of a technology, how it interfaces with the people who use it every day.

So what Docker did that was revolutionary was take a bunch of disparate pieces, glue them together, and put an incredible user experience on top of it so that that technology was now instantly available in minutes to just about anyone who cared.

At some point in the article, the author says it’s maybe something about a “workflow.” I’m… highly biased to say yes, absolutely. One of my core philosophies (that became the 1st point of the Tao of the company I helped start) is “workflows, not technologies.” When I talk about it, I mean it in a slightly different way, but it’s highly related: the workflow is super valuable for adoption, the technology is to a certain extent, but less so.

Technology enthusiasts (hey, I’m one of you!) usually hate to hear this. We all want to think you build the best thing or a revolutionary thing and then it just wins. That’s sometimes, but rarely, the case. You need that aspect, and you ALSO need timing to be right, the interface to be right, the explanation to be right, etc. Docker got this all right.

(Now, turning the above success into a business is a whole different can of worms, and like I said in the first paragraph, I don’t plan on commenting.)

For the author: I don’t mean any offense by this. I mostly agree with the other points of your post. The “FROM” being revolutionary I was nodding quite vigorously. Being able to “docker run ubuntu” was super magical, etc. I mostly wanted to point this because I see MANY technologists dismiss the excitement of technologies purely on the basis of technology over, and over, and over again, and the sad thing is its just one part of a much bigger package.
It's okay. Nobody's hiring anyway. Positions are 'open' to show a company is still viable. Good luck getting even interviewed.
I don’t know how I feel about living in Utah if I couldn’t use GitHub, YouTube, stack overflow, most blogs, or any of the dozens of websites I enjoy.

I lived there for a few years in college and while I’m somewhat surprised the law passed, I’m not that surprised.
Stack overflow and GitHub both allow you to make public posts and interact with others. The text targets public user posts and interactions between users explicitly.

Whether the consequences are intentional or not is still to be determined.
>If this is about achieving mystical realizations along the lines of zen koans, then OK but what has that got to do with Wittgenstein?

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is, in my view, a mystical text. Its use of mathematical-like notation and arguments make it seem like something akin to Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica, or Language, Truth, and Logic, but it is really quite different, with totally different aims and methods. It is not aiming to prove or instill in the reader any kind of propositional knowledge, despite its format. The statements at either end of the text (1. and 6.) are often quite obscure in their meaning. The point is, in my view, to induce the reader to change his mindset, and to discard his previous philosophical beliefs, rather than to acquire new ones.
If you could work without caring about pay but still get paid then that would be optimal, no? We are talking about that situation here, someone made people do work for non-monetary rewards but they still get paid, to me that seems like a good thing. I'd rather work because I want to than because I have to, call it manipulating or motivating I don't care, if they can make me forget the drudgery when doing it that is a good thing.

But apparently that makes me stupid, I don't see why that is dumb. Being manipulated to want to work is a good thing if you want the money.
I'm curious too. Can we right-away accept the proposition that "A Sentence can refer to itself"?

If a sentence refers to 'this sentence', what does it in fact precisely refer to?

And what is the "it" that does the referring?

Maybe, a "sentence" can not refer to anything.

It is the person uttering the sentence that does the referring. But then of course when he or she says "this sentence" they would really mean, me, this person.
and they will live short and unpleasant lives, like they did during the ice age
Show HN: Career Page Monitor for depressed job seekers
As a junior engineer, seeking a job in this climate is a real struggle. I have been keeping an eye on a lot of companies's career pages for an update, then I decided to automate the process.

So, instead of crawling the internet to find only disappointment, I decided to write a crawler that will collect the disappointment for me in my terminal.

The html parser is it still immature and needs to accommodate different job posting layouts, just publishing it now in case it can help anyone
I mean I’m using it (also nvim). It’s powerful autocomplete, speeds me up by maybe 20-30% when in “typing in code” phase and that’s that. Dont see it replacing software engs any time soon. SWE+copilot will replace just SWE tho that one is for sure
Just because you don't agree with the speech protected by the 1st amendment doesn't mean that you won't give your life protecting it.
One key differentiator of Milvus is the ability to use a variety of different indexing algorithms. Some will consume very little memory and provide significant speedup at the expense of recall, while others are more powerful at the expensive of compute time or memory consumption.

The most commonly used one I've seen is HNSW, which greatly speeds up search at the expensive of some extra memory consumption. Recall is also strong - for many large-scale use cases you can get 95%+ with properly tuned parameters.
But...I WANNA HAVE DOGGERLAND BACK!1!!
> quotas exist

This is kind of a nitpick but the SFFA case doesn't try to argue that there are racial quotas, instead, they argue that whites, specifically, are admitted where Asians should be. This, despite whites being the only race that is accepted disproportionately less relative to their general population percentage.

SFFA doesn't attempt to say anything about other racial categories but that Harvard has designed backdoors to admit whites at the expense of Asians. The case may not have any impact on racial quotas or affirmative action if it wins. If it wins, there will just be fewer white people admitted I assume.
You have to show id to buy cigarettes. How hard is it to id people before account creation?
I really don't want another database. I just want to have a solution built in for Postgres, and more specifically, RDS, which we use. I know there will be some extra difficulty that I will have to manage (e.g. reindexing to a new model that is outputting different embeddings), but I really don't want another piece of infrastructure.

If anyone from AWS/Google/Azure is listening, please add pgvector [1] into your managed Postgres offerings!

1. https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
The middle class in America have a small impact on climate change just like they have a small impact on most things. If you want to understand what’s going on look into who was running disinformation campaigns and actively sabotaging efforts to add carbon taxes etc.

People love to blame SUV’s because they are in peoples faces, but replace every American SUV with an EV and the impact on the climate is negligible. Things would get just as bad a few weeks later, and that’s about it. People blame the rich and powerful because when you blame the people running things when things are fucked up.

Consider, the option for electrified roads instead of burning hydrocarbons existed 20 years ago. We could have reduced gasoline use by around 90% by now without any great breakthroughs but such choices aren’t up to individual consumers.
Unwilling or unable?
Your system time is totally different from what userspace cares about. Go ahead, run "TZ=UTC date" (or a different timezone if you're using UTC already).

I'm not even sure what you mean by the OS speaking a certain timezone. Basic "time()" will return seconds from the epoch UTC regardless of your system timezone. Things that care about timezones will use relevant conversions.
I have strong support for the provisions that require certain features be built into social media sites themselves (e.g. "sites must support curfew scheduling" or "sites cannot have free reign on targeted advertisements") as it gives controls people want but currently can't easily get from most of these types of apps.

At the same time I'm not really a fan of the implementation being based on providing real identity for a hard age cutoff. Maybe I'm 20 years old and don't want my real identity to be tied to the social identity for privacy/coming out/political/other reasons as personal info uploaded seems to always get leaked. Maybe I'm 17 years old and having the same restrictions as a 7 year old that will disappear instantly in 3 months doesn't make any sense and I never had good chances to learn to make good choices on my own accord while I had the strongest support structures I'll have all my life available. Maybe I'm worried this is part of a slippery slope for all, as the ages keep rising on this type of legislation over time.

Overall I'd much rather put the tools (like curfew support or removal of targeted advertisements) in the hands of people and argue why they should want to use them. Similarly, with the tools made available, I'd rather trust parents are able to learn to raise their kid on this matter as they have every other matter so if kids are found to be working around curfews set by parents we don't need the government to step in. If one argues too many parents can't then I'm sorry to say you've done a horrible job convincing anyone what you think is good is actually so and relying on unpopular law creates more problems than it solves.

Alternatively I'd at least like a solution where the associated age verification identification is unrelated to your real identity (e.g. a one time proof at the DMV when you're getting your first 18+ license that gives you some identity token which identifies you as 18+ but does nothing else and is not stored or mapped with your real identity otherwise). It doesn't solve a lot of the blind application problems (and still lacks guarantee limitations you want to follow you into adulthood, if you so choose, can) but at least it prevents one class of issues.

It may sound like I fit in the small government camp for everything but I'd say I'm fine with government getting involved with what corporations can do a lot more often than when people are involved. Overall it also depends on the issue and the alternative outcomes with implementation. I guess what I'm saying is don't generalize because I argue for small government here I also argue for it in every case all the time, even if it is about people. There are some things I think it's great to centrally legislate but content consumption is one I don't think the benefits outweigh the costs on. It's certainly the most direct and probably has the largest impact but "we've waited so long to do anything about it that the problem to become really big" is a horrible reason to pick direct and largest impact approaches.
I get your example is hyperbole, but just for fun: the space flight would be recognized as an experimental treatment since it’s known not to be a routine/established procedure. Expenses would be covered if a legitimate clinical trial of space flights were being conducted. Otherwise, costs would be out of pocket unless a special approval were granted. If space flight were being seriously studied for an extremely rare disease, it would likely be paid for by the research institution.
Ever heard of the Panama Channel? Seen the size of the ships going through its locks there?
I haven't read the bills yet but according to the article it applies to children under 18.

17-year-old me would have considered this draconian bullsh*t, for the same reasons I would now. (So does dad me, incidentally. My kid's messages have always been her business, not mine.)
The bill explicitly calls out “Utah minors”. That is, everyone in Utah under 18.
Among admits, there are small differences in actual test scores especially among whites and Asians.[1] Also, there are racial gaps among actually using SAT prep.[2] Whites may actually be the least likely to use test prep courses depending on which source you look at.[3] I guess if you are applying to Harvard, test prep could actually be pretty significant.

When Harvard makes it decisions, test prep could actually be a major factor in admission there since scores are so close(assuming the numbers you gave). Especially since they try to reach out to people in different regions of the US.

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/widget/2018/10/21/sat-by-race-gra...

[2]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/000283121142560...

[3]: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/th...
Well, the dragon book is not very good and only really applicable if you want to write a compiler for an imperative language in an imperative language.
>>- Attempts to discipline non-white students frequently resulting in accusations of racism, making it not worth the trouble

This sort of culture now is unfortunately getting common, in the era of 'getting cancelled' nobody wants to carry the burden of helping others. Everybody is just one hair trigger away from hurting other people's emotions despite their best intentions to help.

What makes things more complicated is receiving help in many ways demands being humbled by the helper. This itself can be humiliating to go through. It could be misunderstood in a million different ways. And then you become the bad guy for helping and they become victims for receiving help. You lose in every possible way. Not only do you have to spend your time, energy and money to help them. You have also to risk getting cancelled for no fault of yours. And if you get cancelled, you are sanctioned for life.

For this reason its not just the classroom or office mentorship, people today as little as don't bother telling a person their wallet dropped from their pockets in a bus, out of fear it could be construed as harassment.

>>making it not worth the trouble

This is where you arrive.
Free beer. Free beer. That’s my favorite brand. If I didn’t have to buy it it’s the best beer in the land. —The Yoopers
Please unsimplify this then? Can you give a scenario where flying faster would be more economical fuel-wise?
Clearly teenagers are smart enough to select an age over 18.

The governor's tweet is: https://twitter.com/GovCox/status/1639015949964840960

> SB152 requires social media companies to verify that users in the state are 18 or older to open an account. Minors will need parental consent to create an account.

Ok, so what age verification does SB152 require? https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0152.html

> 246 (3) (a) Beginning March 1, 2024, a social media company shall verify the age of an
> 247 existing or new Utah account holder and, if the existing or new account holder is a minor,
> 248 confirm that a minor has consent as required under Subsection (1):

They totally punt on the issue of how you determine if an account is a minor:

> 256 (4) In accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the
> 257 division, with consideration of stakeholder input, shall make rules to:
> 258 (a) establish processes or means by which a social media company may meet the age
> 259 verification requirements of this chapter;
> 260 (b) establish acceptable forms or methods of identification, which may not be limited
> 261 to a valid identification card issued by a government entity;
> 262 (c) establish requirements for providing confirmation of the receipt of any information
> 263 provided by a person seeking to verify age under this chapter;

It is not remotely clear how you are supposed to enforce this without requiring government id for all users. Or at least, Utah users.
The whole "imaginary mainframe architecture" thing always seemed ugly to me.

I wonder how hard it would be to hack MVS 3.8J to run on 370/XA? I know the big problem is the incompatible IO channels. Too much work, unlikely to happen.

Or an XA mode hypervisor that supports 370 mode guests? Again, too much work, unlikely to happen.

So I see why people went this way in practice, even if it seems kind of ugly from one viewpoint.

I know one reason was that so GCCMVS could recompile itself. I wonder if you could hack GCC to use less memory. Break the compilation up into phases with separate executables and use disk for intermediate storage. Store large memory structures on disk and swap them in/out of memory as needed. Would make things even slower, but would be closer to how compilers used to work, back in the days of memory-constraint. I suppose again, too much work, not happening.