skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way z/OS is going to be free or open-source

I never said that.

What I said is that there aren't any onboarding routes to z/OS (or AIX, or IBMi). You either already are running one or more z/OS boxes, or you'll just deploy to cloud, CentOS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, on commodity CPUs (x86 and ARM), or any of the other stack that rivals a mainframe in some capabilities (and carefully avoid business requirements only a mainframe can fulfill)
The NYPD can bend crime stats by controlling the number of reports that get made. Want to make it seem like crime is going down in a neighborhood (so they can take credit for it)? Stop filling out so many reports. Want to convince people that there is a crime wave before an election to stymie any "defund" efforts? Fill out more reports. Neither requires doing any actual investigations.
This is a good point, the motives for first party corporate housing in an inexpensive area without severe supply restrictions are going to be completely different than in an expensive area with those restrictions.

I still think it’s possible for it to be a win-win and solve a collective inaction problem. When a business wants to expand in a rural area, it may create an acute housing shortage which the market would only eventually address, and it requires each individual developer or buyer to go through the process of finding new housing. If the business knows it’s gonna need a 100 new homes they might as well start the process asap, and I don’t mind if they get rewarded for doing so as it incentivizes job creation and housing construction.

In the scenario where it’s not nefarious and just a smart win-win, it reminds me how Japanese rail recoups its costs by purchasing/developing land adjacent to stations. It’s just a smart way of capturing externalities from an economically beneficial endeavor, which reduces costs/increase the incentive for the good thing. I support it
How AI could supplement and reinforce our emerging thought police
You are right, it is even infuriating. It is also infuriating that rich people are allowed to build a huge machine that is set to self destruct soon after take off, generating multi tons of co2 and other air, water and soil pollution. Still,climate change is a problem worth trying to solve.
Couldn't agree more. Seems like a lot of people on here think that low-income earners eat off of the McD's dollar menu by choice.
Brazil orders Google to curb campaign against 'fake news law'
All online pornography is scientientifically demonstrated to be harmful for both children and adults, see the research: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/
> GLHF

I hadn’t seen this before, apparently it’s gamer slang for “Good luck, have fun”

https://www.howtogeek.com/509406/what-does-glhf-mean-and-how...
Portland Police Bureau are in good company, it seems.

The only reason to file a police report for a stolen vehicle these days (in Portland) is documentation for insurance. I very rarely hear about people getting their cars back via PPB without it being months later (and in pieces with mysterious stains everywhere) due to being incidentally swept up in a rare chop shop bust.

And yes, this is a policing problem. It’s also a city council problem. And a DA problem. And a homeless/drug problem (both direct results of voter referendums).

But we have a two party system so urbanite Oregonians will never vote these idiots out.
I'm struggling to understand your comment, both of those claims seem valid to me
That's because he's a "check and balance" on the legislative branch, not part of it. Congress "checks" the other branches by approving nominees and controlling their budgets.

And then effectively nobody checks SCOTUS, which is kind of a problem.
+1 for the Twisbi Eco. I'm not a fountain pen expert but it's always served me well, and I love the piston filler and general maintainability. Great as a pen that gives a good writing experience but isn't so expensive that you're scared to carry it around with you or throw it in a bag. And the extra ink capacity means I can take the pen on short trips without bringing ink along with me.
Backus-Naur form was a great help to me in the 70s and 80s. Thanks, John.
Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them.

In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me.

These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I found something interesting (without the context of what that something was).

There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as it does to me.

[1]: Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765
> Numberblocks

We don't live in the UK but our kids watch Numberblocks.

Our youngest started rattling off all kinds of number stuff which I know for sure she hasn't yet encountered in school.

Me: Wow ... how do you know that?

Her: Numberblocks!

Me: Umm ... OK!
Does Privacy sandbox prevent fingerprinting completely (for example, canvas fingerprinting, WebGL fingerprinting, audio fingerprinting)? Or the advertisers would be able to use both fingerprinting and newly provided data?

I don't understand why we need to trade here. Just block figerprinting and do not provide any alternatives for advertisers. This is the best for users.
That fourth point is a great one.

One of the most frustrating things in software engineering is eyeballing a decision (i.e. naming a table with a plural) and just gut-level knowing it's the wrong decision, but not quite being able to remember specific pitfalls that instilled that feeling earlier in your career.

That fourth point is the kind of thing that just cuts right through the conversation - "doing it this way does not scale and will fail, here's an example of how". Such frission in finding those and getting consensus around them, because you can feel the future pain you've avoided evaporating.
You forgot to add good genetics.
So was apple once.
I think Chrome added the reading list feature recently - I've been using Vivaldi for close to a year now. And while I know Vivaldi uses the chromium engine below, it's nice to have a non-google browser anyway.
Vultr GPU: https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-gpu/
what discord bot? :)
Yep, different drugs for different sorts (or at least different moods and different days).

If you are seeking some general advice:

From my experience context is important. Alcohol is more technically a depressant given what we know of how the chemical interacts with the brain and most people greatly underestimate its depressive qualities, in part because culturally we've built a lot of contexts in which it is safe (for mental health at least) to drink and easier to engage with the fun sides of alcohol and avoid many (but not all) of the triggers/traps that lead to bad (mental health) outcomes.

THC from all the years it has been illegal has nowhere near as much shared cultural context. A lot of "best practices" have been quiet word-of-mouth things rather than background "everyone knows" "common sense". Legalized states are just now starting to find the sorts of contexts that work best for people and how to spread those not just as covert word-of-mouth but as overtly well documented best practices and built-safe environments. (And yeah, there's clearly a lot of bad first impressions which would lead to a noticeable "boom" cycle.)

I've found (because I can be prone to the paranoia myself), some of counter-balancing the paranoia/fear is about support structures. Use a buddy system if you need it. (I think even plush animals sometimes count.) Stick to places that are "safe" or "home" with lots of layers of trust built up already in your sober life. (I've found it is best to avoid liminal spaces like airports or train stations.) One of my fears is apparently that my heart feels like it is racing because of that weird sense of time passage, and wearing a fitness watch helps. I can check the metrics and see things are just fine, very quickly. Eventually you may find you can trust just wearing the watch and don't need to check much/at all.

> if I try watching a movie I can't remember what happened a scene ago so I can't follow the story

There are some old stereotypes about the sort of media that stoners enjoy, and many of them exist for this reason. Following the story of a movie or TV can be tough indeed. Things that don't need that sort of focus to recent past events where you can focus on "the endless feeling present" can be a blast though because every next scene feels like a wild surprise: nature documentaries, kids shows, absurdist comedies, events with lots of "spectacle" (fireworks shows, awards shows, magic shows).

> Conversations/socialization between people who smoked weed is just nothing.

Some of my best conversations have been with stoned friends (while I was sober). There's a stereotype of "stoner wisdom" and it comes from an interesting place. Drunk is often associated with "dumb" and "makes stupid decisions" in the way it plays with the brain and stoned has a "wisdom" to it. It's not always "smart", but it often makes surprise leaps and leads to real, interesting advice. (Some of the best advice in my life has come from stoned friends.)
imagine my surprise when I got to college and learned that infinity + 1 was actually a number! I felt so cheated from my childhood.
It's literally not a theocracy /in practice/. You don't get to redefine words to mean whatever you feel like. A theocracy is not a state that has some laws that correspond to one religion's moral code. It has never meant that, nor will it ever mean that.

Here are some major practical differences between a theocracy and a constitutional republic.

1. If citizens change their mind, within one election cycle they can replace every leader with atheists, or ones with different religions, and change the laws entirely. This is not possible in any theocracy, either in theory or in practice.

2. A constitution, both state and federal, limits what the state government can do, even when the leaders are all of one religion. Such limits do not exist in any theocracies, in theory or in practice, because, when you rule in the name of God, limits to your rule are sinful!

3. Utah has checks and balances via different branches of government. It has judicial procedures, for instance, where minorities can seek redresses. Our state and federal governments were explicitly designed to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. No such systems exist in any theocracies, in theory or in practice. For one, the majority doesn't rule in theocracies! When the majority rules, that makes it a democracy. I'm sure you've heard of that system of government?

4. Often, leaders disagree in Utah even when belonging to the same faith. The church itself has zero authority to adjudicate these disagreements. In a theocracy, the church's say would be final say, and all leaders would ultimately defer to church authority. Actually, they would be the ultimate church authority. In a theocracy, the ruling officials would be one and the same as the top church leadership.

> You can't get more theocratic while being inside the US.

You can't get past 0% theocratic in the US because theocracy is illegal in the U.S. You redefining the word to mean something else doesn't change this fact.
As I understand it, MLIR is the new subsystem that the LLVM project is transitioning to in the long term, and LLVM IR is the old.

As such, LLVM IR isn't a proper subset of MLIR. Rather, there is a LLVM "dialect" in the MLIR system which can be translated 1:1 to LLVM IR.

MLIR in its structure and textual syntax is a bit different.
A "dialect" is more like a namespace for your ops than a different language, in my view.
Some of these arguments are a little questionable imo.

"It reads well everywhere else in the SQL query:"

You can alias the table names and have it read well in all places, and this mostly only matters if you are actually writing SQL and not using an ORM directly, which the next point seems to imply you would be using.

"The name of the class you’ll store the data into is singular (User). You therefore have a mismatch, and in ORMs (e.g., Rails) they often automatically pluralize, with the predictable result of seeing tables with names like addresss."

Almost any modern "pluralize" implementation would handle this correctly. Rails would call the table `addresses`.

"Some relations are already plural. Say you have a class called UserFacts that store miscellaneous information about a user, like age and favorite color. What will you call the database table?"

You would call the table user_facts... Am I missing something?
Partner with MaxMind
Looks really interesting! A couple questions:

* Will Mojo be able to generate portable, standalone binaries and libraries?

* If so, will the size of the binaries / libraries be similar to C / Rust binary sizes?

These are pretty big pain points for both JAX and Julia (Julia is slowly making progress on this front though)
It came up a bit in some physics classes, when you can mathematically make something go to positive or negative infinity being able to remove it from the simplified calculation of something is very handy.
I like this kind of experiment, but it would have to be tightly controlled to avoid anyone viewing the object and possibly communicating it to the patient. Maybe some kind of duplicated 2FA device that shows a time-changing code and the twin device records its output over time - that would be tricky to cheat.
Make your Python functions return something meaningful, typed, and safe
Smart Money flips houses. The smartest money flips bits.
yes, and now they are "attacking" PacWest, whose stock is plummeting like First Republic

its an easy cycle - find a bank you want for nothing, feed bad press through the usual outlets, watch it fall, then watch depositors get spooked, then buy it for nothing

First Republic is probably just one of many banks intended to be undermined, trashed, and then sold for nothing

and remember all the times First Republic's CEO came out and defended his business as it was collapsing? me neither...makes you wonder...
I would argue that Israel is definitely a theocracy, and for similar reasons to why Utah is. It's a democratic state specifically created to house a persecuted religious minority that make up a majority of its polity and its leadership is ethnically and religiously aligned with that group and specifically elected and governs on the basis of their religious beliefs.
A VPN would get around age verification filters too, the kid would just set the VPN server to a jurisdiction that doesn't require age verification.
You don't need to build on Kubernetes when an ECS cluster and an RDS instance will do the job. It is possible to build simple things in the cloud.
Finding the best liquids to maximize antioxidant content in spinach smoothies
No, the US government caps the number of doctors because Medicare funds residency slots, and you have to get through one of those to get a license to be a doctor.

> There's no law that you can only have X doctors.

We have tons of these laws. All occupational licensing requirements are this law; that's the whole point of them.
Those help but are completely out of your control.
Just to clarify - the licenses you chose do not require any collaboration or "give back", they only require minimal attribution buried in some readme.

You can absolutely berate them for copying without attribution, but that's it; they don't owe you anything else.
So, are you suggesting we measure nuclear radiation exposure in amounts based on cannibalism? AJED, Average Joe Equivalent Dose? How many trucks of refugees do you have to eat, to get exposed to as much radiation as say, being 100 km away from the blast of Little Boy?
I don't think it is a given that not relying on corporate pensions is reducing risk. I'm curious what percentage of people have been burned by unpaid/underpaid corporate pensions vs thinking they could rely on social security/government programs for retirement.
You're conflating two things, so just to be clear about both bad things, for everyone else:

Alpha radiation is massively damaging, but is blocked entirely by the outer, dead layers of skin. Once it gets inside your body where it can access vulnerable tissue, it's a different story.

Contamination (think "source of radiation") that gets inhaled or ingested (committed) is bad because you fractionally take it with you, getting continually irradiated. Even worse, some committed contamination eagerly accumulates or replaces in processes where it won't be exchanged out. This is the case with iodine, and that is why iodine pills can be helpful in large releases of radioactivity.
I think this fear is natural whenever some kind of new tech is invented.

But I also think it's a mistake to say that no new form of tech can end the world, just because the world hasn't ended yet.

Lightbulbs, and cars, and fast trains, are not intelligence. Intelligence is a qualitative difference. GPT isn't going to end the world, but how many years do we have before someone creates something that is much smarter than humans? Even if it's as smart as humans, but thinks a lot faster, and doesn't get tired, and doesn't get hungry, or bored?

We couldn't forsee the positive and negative consequences of light bulbs because we couldn't predict what humans would do with them. But it was never going to be that humans use lightbulbs to end humanity. With AI, it's not whether humans will use it to end humanity, it's whether the AI decides to end humanity itself, a question that we've never had to ask for any other form of technology.
> watching the battery cover skitter across the street

The battery, or the battery cover? Do you recall which model?
My biggest pet peeve in the industry is sociopathic - narcissistic behavior. I have been in the industry for the better part of the last decade and 15-20% of the people I have worked with had some of those traits. Once you interact with middle to upper management you start to notice more and more people have several personalities and narratives ready to be swapped any time.
Not just tech jobs I'd think.
The problem with the cloud is how often I've run into blanket linux/bsd support bans. Especially when it comes to professional certifications done online. I had one website refusing to work on my FreeBSD or Debian installs. It would just get to a certain point and not let me proceed and multiple buttons refusing to work properly.

Got on the phone with support and they were dumbfounded. Got the idea to just spoof my user agent as a windows box on edge and it worked perfectly afterwards.

Even if not done on purpose there is a lot of crufty shit online that breaks in unsuspecting ways when I'm on a linux/BSD box. Especially if interfacing with the government websites and webapps. Our state fire code website looks straight out of 2002 and has multiple warnings about making sure to use IE6... in 2023.

Maybe its just my use case (fire industry / local government), but it helps to have a mac or windows machine lying around as backup.
I wouldn't be surprised if some native speakers, or maybe other Swiss people, said "it's really still Latin -- that's why it's so hard to understand!" or something.

But if so, I think they'd effectively be making up a story to account for Romansh's distinctiveness. I was just looking at some a couple of days ago (as a friend is traveling in Switzerland); I know Latin well, and what I saw was extremely different from Latin, in terms of sound changes, vocabulary changes, and grammatical changes.

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language there are typical Romance evolutions like

* fixed subject-verb-object word order (instead of Latin's variable word order that often prefers subject-object-verb)

* no case inflections (instead of Latin's case inflections)

* plurals apparently derived from Latin accusative plural (not nominative plural)

* compound perfect tense ("have done")

* definite articles (Latin has none)

* many systematic sound changes from Latin (all Romance languages have these, and which specific ones occur tends to define the sound of a specific Romance language)

And unlike other Romance languages (or Latin) it has "numerous Germanic loanwords":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language#Germanic_loan...

My best guess is that the idea of Romansh as distinctively close to Latin is a myth or misconception.

Here's "The Fox and the Crow" in a poetic Latin version and a prose Romansh version (the latter from Wikipedia):

Cum de fenestra corvus raptum caseum
Comesse vellet, celsa residens arbore,
Vulpes hunc vidit, deinde sic coepit loqui:
"O qui tuarum, corve, pennarum est nitor!
Quantum decoris corpore et vultu geris!
Si vocem haberes, nulla prior ales foret."

La vulp era puspè ina giada fomentada. Qua ha ella vis sin in pign in corv che tegneva in toc chaschiel en ses pichel. Quai ma gustass, ha ella pensà, ed ha clamà al corv: «Tge bel che ti es! Sche tes chant è uschè bel sco tia parita, lur es ti il pli bel utschè da tuts».

These aren't directly parallel in meaning, so they're not easy to compare word-for-word. Apart from pretty big sound changes, I notice three grammatical changes: that compound perfect ("ha ella pensà, ed ha clamà al corv" 'she (has) thought, and she (has) shouted to the crow'), the use of a relative in making an exclamation ("tge bel che ti es" 'how beautiful (that) you are'), and the use of separate words for comparisons and superlatives ("il pli bel utschè" 'the more beautiful bird' → 'the most beautiful bird'). (Latin would say "avis bellissima".)
Since at least WWII the pace of social change has been such that young people have felt like their elders have little useful advice for (1) how to get a job and (2) how to get a mate. they
I think it's important to note that they're luxuries in the modern society we've built for ourselves in the West. Long, long ago, small communities without access to high-speed travel provided social support; no cars and little white-collar work means exercise was baked into life with much walking and manual labor; diet was mostly unprocessed food farmed nearby; and no screens or even electricity meant sleep well before midnight till dawn.

Of course, there were plenty of problems back then, too - I'm not saying it was an idyllic utopia. But in our modern life, it seems like we've just traded one set of problems for another.
All online pornography is scientifically demonstrated to be harmful to people of all ages. See the research: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/
Is a non removable TPM actually the right level of security? It feels like the same level of security I would get by having one of those realtor lock boxes permanently affixed to my front door and always keeping my house key in it.

Maybe the key itself is "more secure" because it only lives in the lockbox and is only taken out to unlock the front door and then put back right away. Is this the right system for actually securing access to my home, though?
I particularly like this bit:

from returns.result import Result, Success, Failure

def find_user(user_id: int) -> Result['User', str]:
user = User.objects.filter(id=user_id)
if user.exists():
return Success(user[0])
return Failure('User was not found')

user_search_result = find_user(1)
# => Success(User{id: 1, ...})

user_search_result = find_user(0) # id 0 does not exist!
# => Failure('User was not found')

https://returns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/result.html
Obviously either ComStar or the Spacing Guild. But don't worry that doesn't happen until after we have a butlerian jihad.
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I understand this is probably an uncomfortable topic, but I’d love to hear more from you on this.