skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wondering when Rust macros will learn about types.

Lisp macros, of course, know nothing about types, because, in old-school Lisp, there are, lexically, no types. But in Rust, at expansion time, types are usually absolutely nailed down. (...Unless the macro is expanding to a generic definition; but even then, there are named types, you just don't know what they would be bound to).

Or maybe they do understand types, now? I haven't checked lately.
Umm, the other way around. "Tests don't seem to be a good predictor of college success, even when taking GPA into account. But they do seem to reduce diversity."

(You wrote "promote" instead of "reduce".)

What is the origin of your quoted paragraph ending 'If you have the intrinsic cognitive skills, you can easily do moderately well on the SAT, even without prepping.'?

I don't know how the source quantifies "a significant number of people" or "intrinsic cognitive skills". If "intrinsic cognitive skills" means "does well on the SAT or other forms of standardized testing" then of course there's no need for prepping.

And the problem is the other way around. Given the emphasis on the SAT, a single bad day (or if you have the money to re-test, a couple of bad days) - if on the day of the test! - can "doom" you.

I'm also curious about the quote because a lot of people have a good life without going to college and without "minimum wage servitude". Median pay for plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters is $27.08 per hour (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...), done by apprenticeship and/or vocational-technical training.

And don't tell me that plumbers (or Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics, or Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers, or other careers which don't require a college degree) don't require 'intrinsic cognitive skills'.

> consider diversity

As a reminder, I used the term "diversity" in quotes, because I don't like the vagueness of the term. The specific sub-populations in the paper I linked to were "first-generation-to‐college students, minorities, Pell Grant recipients, women and students with Learning Differences".

> Instead of simply stack-ranking based on the most easily demonstrable predictors of success.

I don't know what you mean. The linked-to document about UC says:

] Training admissions office staff on the “comprehensive review” process that looks at grades, extra-curriculars, the socio-economic factors in which students grow up and other non-test criteria becomes even more important, Estolano said.

That sure does not look like simple stack-ranking to me.

> the most easily demonstrable predictors of success

FWIW, two easily demonstrable predictors of success are: 1) applicants from a rich family, and 2) applicants with at least one parent who has been to college.

I think you can see that using these predictors - and if you believe college is an important influence on life-time earnings - means the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.
Sports Tickets Meet NFTs
As used there, the word 'invasion' assumes property rights exist.
Ask HN: Getting More Users via Affiliate Kickbacks
Hi, wondering about Affiliate marketing -- paying out kickbacks to successful referrals.

Have seen a few big platforms like "ShareASale" and "cj.com"

I'm wondering if there are platforms the HN crowd would recommend, or if it would be better to "roll your own" affiliate marketing / tracking (seems like Cookies are important) and try to reach out to influencers and youtubers one-on-one.
Also, "it" needs to exist before you can sell it...
Are there other data structures that need to be brought in for supply chains?

Naively, it seems like it's queues with variable delays all the way down.
What are some of the misconceptions that make it so different? "I need iron plates but there aren't any available" just feels so intuitively like a supply chain problem, I'd love to learn how the real world is so much more complicated.
I don’t really use Spotify although I’ve tried it once or twice. I seem to recall I was unable to play an album in any mode other than shuffle. It’s quite annoying as I listen to music from a time where artists spent a lot of time arranging the track order. I wondered if it would mean that albums would, over time, change to match the playback technology i.e. artists would change how they arrange their albums to align with how they’re listened to. I hope not as they then just become compilations rather than a story to be told.
You bring up a great point and humorously at that. Thanks for the clarification.
Seems very irrational but I agree it explains the logic of the people who are hopeful they are somehow immune to getting sick from an endemic virus.
I still remember when the primary environmentalist movement was "save the trees"; doesn't more wood use imply more deforestation? The wood that's in buildings won't be capturing CO2, it's the live trees that do.
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M (2018)
That is, quite frankly, sickening to me. I cannot imagine valuing human life – any human life – so lowly

Don't tell me, tell the perp. He's the one who determined what his life was worth.
Google introduced AMP, and were eager to eventually have the whole web forced through their infrastructure without it being obvious.

Shortly after, they started hiding www, and openly said that they intended to eventually hide the amp prefix as well - which would help their own goals.

"www." was never a mistake that needed to be hidden, any more than any other subdomain. I bet that if Firefox had 90% market share and decided to hide the "translate" or the "maps" of maps.google.com, that Google would not find any justification amusing. www is a subdomain, and if a dev doesn't think it should be there, he could just avoid using it.

It opens security issues (by showing the "wrong" URL), usability issues ("read me the URL letter by letter"), and it forces developers to deal with a incorrect setup that can change any day. What if Google then hide "app." or "dev."?

But Google does what is best for Google.
Alireza Firouzja has become the youngest chess player ever to reach 2800 elo
Off topic question, how did you find out all these non-mainstream language that are doing interesting things and research? First time I heard of Cone and Vale.

And I think your post deserve to be at the top. I wish I could super upvote.
I don’t understand the logic behind that default. Why shuffle by default rather than play in order? It’s good they’ve fixed it , though not sure it should’ve been fixed just because Adele tweeted them!
How so? I don't follow. It's true that the original question posits a robbery or other home-invasion scenario with the goal of stealing property, but how am I supposed to know that the intruder is only interested in my stuff?
It's really ironical. I want a key set to work on all platforms. In the end the vscode's is the best :/
I like Brave and Vivaldi for both, depending on whether you prioritize maximum tinfoil or want every settings toggle in the universe, respectively.
It feels like the index update should be a part of the filesystem layer itself. Not a separate process like you're saying.
By definition, it isn't murder
Probably same reason why pipes are round, and propane tanks are hemispherical on the ends. Under pressure / vacuum, corners are stress risers, and flat sheets have to be supported.
And of course be prepared for the price tag that comes with the 100% custom furnishings.

Knowing American labor costs, it'll cost an arm and a leg.
In my experience it’s only young americans who romanticize communism.

It’s truly bizarre, Ukrainian people idolize the US but if only they fully comprehended the boneheaded thoughts going on in the US they may change their minds.
If you’re in Texas I know a few.
I agree with all you are saying but hope one point can be made more clear and that is;

"Heaven forbid that it collide with something and produce a debris cloud that can never be fully cleaned up in our lifetimes."

At that altitude the time for natural orbital decay is not within our lifetimes by tens of thousands of years.
If mammoths and saber tooth tigers littered up there it would still be a hazard to us today.
> If, God forbid, you found yourself hospitalized for Coronavirus and were asked to give up your bed for someone else, would you?

You are arguing a hypothetical that would not happen (at least in the US). If you NEED to be hospitalized for Covid and ARE…no one is tossing you out of the bed or even asking you to give up your bed once you are there.
Talk I gave (sort of) today, any questions ask away.
Two huge reasons: one, ingesting a potentially harmful substance has almost always been considered far less dangerous than getting it injected into you. Hence aversion to needles, blood, etc. Ever seen COPS? Even the most experienced police officer will “freak” at the sight or suspicion of a needle and everything changes.

Secondly, and this one applied to me: given how new the vaccine is, and the slight chance of heart inflammation and blood clotting among other things, many people would rather passively get COVID through no fault of their own, and very likely recover from it easily like most, rather than purposefully get a shot which means they’re directly playing a role in, in their mind, potentially bringing harm to themselves.

I waited 8 months of general availability of the vax, and then I was comfortable enough with the (lack of) side effects to overcome fear #2.
Never trust a programmer who says they know C++
How to Hide Your House from Nosy People on Google Maps and Other Maps
haha this reminds me of when I started to see HTML in high school, fun times
function types are structural in most nominally-typed languages I have used, perhaps a poor example?
> People learn new facts about topics and change their minds all the time

I view it as inappropriate to put pen to paper to publish about something I've only put passing thought and research into, so this point is a bit facile.

> A 5 year old

This one even more so.
Youtuber Chris Broad "Abroad in Japan" visits these domes in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqX_2Wmj7xE
The Culture
Mixing procedural and reactive code in the same program. Imagine if A := B worked in the normal pascal assignment sense, but A :<<: B caused A to be recalculated every time B changed, like a magical assignment operator.

If you assigned something to the system clock, it would act like an interval timer, for example.
Agreed, there is definitely a great example in this little thread of a malicious comment that everyone else can clearly see.
They have great properties around wind flow and structural support of the roof system. In a concrete dome house, the roof and the vertical supports are one continuous structure - so no more hurricane blowing off your roof. The building technique is exotic but not hard - one approach is to inflate a plastic sheet into a dome shape and the. spray concrete on the inside to build up the outer shell. Check out this example, which keeps the open garage on the ground floor so that there’s less load from wind on the structure and so the living quarters won’t get flooded:
https://youtu.be/n7CjYhKBjtU
You can keep adding compartments and solving Hodgkin-Huxley at small time-steps to get basically arbitrary resolution. It definitely gets a lot of expensive than simpler models (and there’s some evidence that simpler models will converge to the same result).

The issue is that we don’t know if our neuron models are complete. Massive simulations are the easy part—computers are very, very fast and large these days.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education. It's something like Harry Potter mixed with Lord of the Flies; imagine if Hogwarts had no teachers, and the building was self-aware, and it sometimes tried to kill students.

The protagonist is definitely an introvert, and her narration is basically what made the story work for me. It's YA, but without too many tropes.
Rather the answer the cia wants published hasn't come around to be popular enough yet so they gotta keep pushing it even when the Pentagon itself discarded the existence of such a syndrome as mere mass psychosis mixed with disinformation clandestine operations to drive animosity against US enemies such as well.. Cuba
>>what we cannot measure cannot be important, surely

Which concisely explains why the algos have zero correlation with moral compass, societal value, common decency, or caring for the commons upon which FB earns its wealth.

None of that can be measured, so it is all cut down and falls at the feet of the engagement algorithms. The result is an org whose business model is poisoning the common well for profit.
And you're clearly not sane enough to understand what 'murder' means either
Small monochrome e-readers are great for reading pure text, e.g fiction.

But they’re quite hopeless for textbooks with lots of images/diagrams/tables and more complex layout. Zooming and scrolling is hopeless on an e-ink screen.
What are the top bitcoin related unfullfiled promises?
They have dental x-ray sensors[0] that are about 2 cm thick and 4 x 4 inches in size with a usb plug on the other end. You put them in the mouth and then can use a portable x-ray gun[1] to image the tooth to your laptop. No more films or anything like that.

[0]https://www.atlasresell.com/used-dental-equipment/digital-x-...

[1]https://www.kavo.com/en-us/imaging-solutions/kavo-nomad-pro-...
You're really testing the boundaries of Hanlon's razor here. Some verbal disarmament would be good.
This can be better said as 'Writing as communication to an anonymous audience is an introverted activity', which is almost a tautology.
How do you square this with the fact that the birth rate is also low in European countries with reasonable cost of living and robust safety nets.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Maybe people just don’t want kids when they’re educated.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/womens-educational-attain...
I think it would be nice if HN had a guideline about going meta, because there is some irony in having my commentary called bad in a subthread that started with a pointless wrist slapping about tone and devolved into probably the most uninteresting conversation possible, the broader trends of feels in comments as experienced by a random user who ostensibly doesn’t know how many moderators there are on HN.

I literally generate a new account with a random password and throw it away when I close the tab. Please, explain my place in this triumphant community of awesomeness to me more.
It’s an arms race. Regulation is a terrible option as governments are not known for their efficiency. It will likely hurt honest people and thieves will adapt and pivot, creating a “laundering” market.
I don't see how it would be - most of what's written is never read.
No, because all or nearly all building lumber in the US and Canada is sourced from sustainably-managed timber lots. In other words, trees are re-planted, and clear-cutting is no longer a common practice.
There's no threat created when someone simply moves into a shared space.

The word "burglar" assumes that property rights exist.

Note that I mostly think the inconsistency is silly and should be pointed at, I don't have a problem admitting that property rights exist in most societies.

edit: "intruder" has the same problem as burglar. Along with "home" and "robbery".
Wood results from captured carbon. Live trees are captured carbon, as is lumber. Dead trees decompose and release the stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Wood used for lumber, unless it’s some exotic wood from the Amazon, is usually sustainably harvested.
Correction: what's easiest to read to someone who hasn't carefully read every single line of your library. Verbosity is not always bad, if it yields clarity.
Before the 2008 financial crisis, the value of copper in (UK) 2 pence pieces was worth more than 2 pence. For a short while it was economically worthwhile to melt the two pence pieces down for copper. At the same it was also worth risking life to pull down the electric cables on the UKs electrified train lines (east coast).
I guess that makes sense but the side-effects seem overblown in my opinion. Even with being susceptible to the side-effects it is very unlikely that catching the virus unwittingly is going to be better. I haven't found any studies on comparative outcomes with respect to the virus vs the vaccine when it comes to side-effects but whatever I could find so far indicates that for those that are susceptible to the side-effects of the vaccine the virus is much worse because it attacks all tissues indiscriminately. [1]

1: https://epi.ufl.edu/articles/covid-19-blood-vessel-damage.ht...
Being otherwise healthy is a massive factor in outcome though, and reduces the risk an order of magnitude or so, to levels many people don't care about very much.
But if she told it to show people who get hooked on technical discussion that this often makes them miss a more important point, then they certainly proved her right.
> I assume the hidden leg of your rhetorical enthymeme is that the universe is a Turing machine

No, I am not making that claim. Not sure how you inferred that.

... by any chance, are you the author of the paper linked in this post? I am asking because I wonder if you are a philosopher by training, rather than being an actual AI researcher. If you are, I wonder if you'd heard of the essay "Newton's Flaming Laser Sword" (https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_Sw...)
Ask HN: Best Service to Download Music?
I want to buy and download music albums, usually commercial and famous bands, to my computer. MP3s are ok, although I would not mind FLAC etc.

I don't want subscriptions, apps, recommendations, IA, PC apps, surround sound, IA or whatever, I just want to search for an album, pay and download what I purchased.

I was using Amazon because it gave me a .ZIP file directly after purchase, but now they made it horrible, forced me into logging into Amazon Music, which does not support browsers on Linux or mobile, and eventually (as long as it thinks some other browser is "playing"), only lets me download purchased songs one by one, from a very specific page which took me 45 minutes to find, and asking me every time if I really do not want to do it on their app.

I was wondering if there is a service out there that would just take my money and let me easily download the music in a legal fashion, similar to Bandcamp, but also for commercial artists etc.
This is often described by authors. They sometimes suggest letting the writing rest a while. Come back to it a while later and adjust it into a final draft. This advice is often talking about longer form material, like books, but I wonder if it’s similar to what you’re experiencing.

If so, maybe it’s that your drafts lack something because you’re just trying to get all the words out.
> "I would phrase things differently if I was writing this now"

This is the point that matters most, and I would pay careful attention to and hone this instinct. It is the one that would truly reduce the "pain" of consuming your own efforts. Otherwise, I am not sure what to say, it is of course possible to write for different reasons and with different efforts and expectations, so I would not fret too much about how much you "care" about something over time, just how much it interests you to read your own points about it
I think the worst affected by these pills will be the ones who enjoy shaming others for not getting the vaccine. For many, that has been the central point of their identities now since around January or so, and it will probably be a difficult transition period for them moving forward.
That's why r/wrongrust exists.
Ball’s Pyramid
Sounds almost as bad as today’s Saudi Arabia
https://svelte.dev/ is an example of this idea.
The ol' Reddit switcharoo.
I am pointing at normal circumstance with example for Synology, which in itself is a decent brand. Power unit is also the easiest to game when the devices is constantly on. There are cases where the accuracy is in months. Digital TV STB sold that last only 9-12 months with a 6 months warranty. And all it takes is using low quality components and capacitor in a special batch.

These dont ever reach the shore of US or EU unless you order them via Aliexpress. Consumer protection and expectation sets things apart. But doesn't mean vendors dont do it.

I also gave the LED light bulb example where evidence are given with respect to warranty and lifetime usage.

And no one implied that all of these product, every single batch of it will specifically failed at the same time. Which I think is what you are getting at. My original post only mention it is technically possible, and in many cases actively done so.
Knockoff NFTs
I don't think that applies in this context, since any space debris will damage space ventures, cutting into profits.
Check out https://rcrdshp.com
My favorite variation is the ones like https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy (sfw). There are a lot of them.
The point is that even for healthy individuals the odds are stacked against them if they catch the actual virus instead of getting the vaccine and prepping their immune system ahead of time. [1]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/04/fit-and-health...
Commented this elsewhere on HN not that long ago, but...

One issue is what to say and not say, to solve this the three gates[0] are what I try (and admittedly fail miserably) to implement, though not in their original form.

I generally try for "Is it true", "Is it useful", "Is it kind" - in that order of precedence if they can not all be met.

[0] Is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
I learn by writing about things in detail because it causes me to think through them. So, I’m the opposite, sometimes, where I write about things I’m not an expert in. I also publish a blog, so I do it in public fairly frequently.
I'd recommend Vivaldi, they have a similar privacy and user control ethos. More toggles, a smidge less tinfoil, 0% evil.
Your itch scratching costs $4.1B per launch according to NASA OIG:

"We also project the current production and operations cost of a single SLS/Orion system at $4.1 billion per launch for Artemis I through IV, although the Agency’s ongoing initiatives aimed at increasing affordability seek to reduce that cost."

source:

https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-22-003.pdf
Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M
How can the castle doctrine possibly be applied to most catalytic converter thefts???
How does this differ in practice from typing.Protocol?
Being a right in today's USA is like being a communist in Germany in 1935.

Not that it's a very good ideology, but in this case it is actively dangerous to oneself.

Disclaimer: not from USA, tl/dr.
They didn't go into US cities in this analysis as far as I can see right, just chinese and european ones? Also do they focus on total ecological footprint or just land use equivalent, such as more energy usage from suburban housing, more emissions from car ownership and driving vs. things like every human needs this much farm land to feed them?
It is if you’ve built something.

Most people don’t have much to show.