skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied astrology independently for 3-4 years and concluded that while it can lead to astonishingly accurate predictions at times, the current literature is far from reliable or accurate. It needs to be studied scientifically to gain credibility. Currently, conclusions are often drawn from small sample sizes (sometimes just 1-2 charts), and it’s presented more as an art than a science.

I was drawn to astrology because, in India, it’s deeply embedded in the culture. Personal predictions and predictions about my family members that came true piqued my interest. For example, an astrologer told my father when I was in 10th grade that I would never complete my graduation, which was revealed to me only after I dropped out of college. Despite being a top student with scholarships, this prediction came true, sparking my curiosity.

There are many similar stories, particularly related to Agastya Nadi Jyotish. For instance, in my Agastya Nadi prediction, 10-12 sentences described my wife. Individually, each sentence was generic, like "she will be a middle child" or "she will not be tall," but the probability of all being correct is quite low. Except for one detail (she was predicted to have a master’s degree, but she only has a bachelor’s), all were accurate. Such experiences can lead one to believe in astrology.

However, I’ve also noticed that people who believe in astrology tend to remember the accurate predictions and forget or dismiss the inaccurate ones. For example, many people for whom I’ve done chart readings (as a hobbyist, for free) often recall the predictions that came true when they meet me after many years.
Why do we get so many "Rust version of X" posts on HN, compared to any other language?
give up? you mean you wanna kys or live in dirt huts? sounds good for you, but I'm gonna go make some more bag holders
> to conform to their sign

That's key here though -- even experts disagree on what conformance to a sign means. So someone who makes life decisions like "I'm not going to go on a second date with this person; as an Aquarius there's no way I can ever love someone born in the second house of Cancer" or some shit is creating a rationalization -- presented with the same facts another astrologer might reach completely different conclusions.

So they're not really "conforming" to anything at all -- they're just "making decisions" like the rest of us.

EDIT: to further clarify, the claim that "astrology works on people who believe in it" is really saying "people who believe in astrology and conform their actions to it are predictable in their reactions using astrology". The inter-expert agreement is low enough that even true believers in astrology are not predictable using astrology because two experts would predict different behavior.
Unsubscribe is not the issue anymore. It is algorithmic tracking of you as a person, and also any AI based services Ok top of that.

Mail spam? That's so 1998-2010s.
Possibly also fire fighting - which is also on the list...
1. Went to a top school

Prestigious people are essentially handed capital. This drives most of the funding at the very early stage. A random founder with no connections or background needs an MVP product with real traction, and even then may raise on worse terms than a stanford/harvard grad.

Raising venture funding can be thought of as a career path. Its not entrepreneurship. VC backed founders are more similar to hedge fund managers, they essentially get paid out a percentage of the capital they manage, assuming they manage it well. Raise 20M, you are bound to build a business with some revenue.

The bet is that if they fund 20 Harvard grads, one of them might be like Gates. Even if the rest are duds. The math still kind of works out, they need an outlier.
It's horrendus in Germany trying to cancel a mobile phone subscription, internet service, gym membership or the likes. You have to jump through hoops like sending a registered physical letter, 3 months before the end of the service period for it to be considered a valid cancellation ("Kün­di­gung"). Without this, you're forced into paying for another year.

EU regulation is badly needed to cut out this anti-consumer nonsense.
What a petty response to efforts to avert an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe. Maybe you should just give up if that's the best you can do.
Be really good at what you do, have lots of money to support yourself, be a contractor and create a tax identity in georgia so you only pay 1% income tax and then travel around europe moving every couple months so you don't create a new tax residency so you get all the money you are paid (minus the 1% of course).
That's an interesting interpretation. I kind of agree. The risk of this remedy is that this unhinged person might throw food at coworkers or customers. Obviously such an incident would likely land her in that 60 day prison sentence plus additional charges and remedies for those, but the judge is clearly taking the "rehabilitation" approach here in the "punishment vs rehabilitation" debate.

Personally I'm not a fan of that dichotomy. In my world view, government's reason d'etre is to protect the rights of all individuals within its jurisdiction. That means that the penal system, by extension, serves the same purpose. Within that framework, "punishment" and "rehabilitation" are both non-considerations. It's not really up to the state to be the daddy figure to make a criminal feel bad for doing a naughty, nor is it up the mommy figure to try and shape and mold the criminal into a productive member of society. It's up to the state to remove threats to life, liberty and property.

That doesn't mean that a first-offender should get a life sentence or anything. Of course not. And I'm not even necessarily opposed to the idea of the "forced empathy" remedy since I do think that the end-goal here aligns: which is to prevent this from happening again and given the judge's experiences with sending offenders to prison and her stated reason for offering this remedy, it might work. But do I care if this woman wants to improve herself? Not really. I'm far more concerned with her victim and preventing more.

I'm just offering my thoughts because I think it's an interesting discussion about the role of the penal system and appropriate remedies.
How about legislation that makes it so I have to explicitly subscribe in the first place? I do not want your sales emails just because I bought one thing from your store one time.
In the mid-to-late 1800s, many prominent astronomers were pretty sure there was another planet inside the orbit of Mercury, because Mercury's orbit has a peculiar irregularity. They called this yet-to-be-properly-seen planet 'Vulcan', and it became a fixture in astrologers' horoscopes.

In the early 20th century, Einstein came along with his Theory of General Relativity, and with these equations he demonstrated that the sun's gravity was bending spacetime in a way that perfectly accounted for Mercury's wobble. Vulcan was therefore found to be a myth, nonexistent.[1]

Nevertheless, many astrologers still feature Vulcan in their horoscopes even today, over a century later.[2] The inclusion of an entirely fictional heavenly body seems to undermine any other conclusions drawn from planetary positions.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

2: https://cosmicdeity.com/vulcan-astrology/
There is a law that requires that subscriptions can be cancelled online within "the click of a button" with automatic confirmation. (since 2022)
If no such option to cancel is implemented by the provider the minimum contract duration is void and you can cancel immediately.

German reference:
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/vertraege-reklamation/kue...
There's no privacy aspect. The article is about unsubscribing from (paid) services, not communication. Usually when somebody subscribes to a service the user gives the company their full address and payment information.
It doesn't say where the 152 astrologers were sourced, does it? Or how they were qualified? Should astrology be a field with very many impostors, these results would not be unusual.

Generally speaking I suspect it will be difficult to falsify astrology, but more importantly the onus is on the astrologer to prove their ability rather than for others to disprove it.
Are we operating on a similar question with two different approaches?

https://github.com/space-bacon/Semiotic-Analysis-Tool

I’m going to put some time into your question today and hopefully return with a more useful response.

I wanted to shamelessly get my early stage work on semiotic analysis in front of your eyeballs in the meantime as I see this as one of the more valuable pieces of content I’ve consumed today that could help improve my scripts direction as well.
That's another way of looking at it, but because we used to do it (we killed people over religion, involuntary lobotomies etc), doesn't mean we should support or condone it in other places. It's a difficult problem and I don't mean to take the food out of the mouths of people; the point is however that THIS particular MNT laptop is more expensive because you cannot really live in Germany painstakingly assembling one device at a time vs mass production in low wage regions. So this was more a remark on 'why is this so expensive?'.

Also, if people would buy repairable stuff it can become the norm; I guess govs are starting to demand it; either the prices go up or they find a way to make it happen ; both are good ; people need to learn to repair stuff instead of 'just get a new one, it costs nothing anyway'.
There needs to be some kind of DNS records so I can cancel emails based on sender domains.
George Carlin: thou shalt keep thy god to thyself.
>This is the key here

No, this was very much NOT my point. The java version of my program was just as easy if not easier to write, precisely because I COULD write the naive version and trust that it would work out fine performance wise.

Hell, the java version didn't even require the extra library (Pillow/PIL) that python required!
Conversely, what population do you think would be appropriate? 5 billion, 1 billion, 100 million?
This is how it works in Argentina. For at least 15 years IIRC.
Tree-Edge Triage Puzzle
Sociological Aspects of Secrecy
Go is the only language I've ever felt highly productive working in. Oftentimes in other stacks I find myself in analysis paralysis on meta things that don't matter:

- what design patterns/language features make sense to use

- what is the best lib to accomplish X

- how do you keep things up to date

With Go, the language is so simple that it's pretty difficult to over engineer or write terse code. Everything you need is in stdlib. The tooling makes dependency management and upgrades trivial because of strong backwards compatibility.
Wez is coming out with a book too on systems programming in Rust.

https://leanpub.com/sysprog
> But here’s the thing: Low – or, for that matter high – birth rates are not a problem in and of themselves.

High birthdates are a problem with scarce resources and tend to be associated with poor treatment of women[1]. Low birthrates are an extreme problem because as people age, they need to be taken care of. Even if that old person is very rich through responsible investments in their younger age, that money won’t bring them the proverbial glass of water without another younger person there.

Like with most things in life, balance is important and hard to achieve.Two to three kids per family seems to be ideal, but comes with an extreme life style hit unless you happen to be very well off. There are many irrational worries too that come with being a parent. While not perfect, I’ll take some support over none. „Too much” support is an ethics/ideology question and also has to do with social cohesion and ability of the society to integrate new members into that cohesion.

[1]https://worldpopulationhistory.org/womens-status-and-fertili...
Peak 1980s sweater design! (I recall one xmas very clearly, it was 1987)

We I was 12, brothers 3 and 16.

We lived in Tahoe - so to the Reno Mall for xmas shopping with dad... Dad give me and older brother $100 each to go buy gifts and take youngling along with him and me and brother split up.

Mall's in Reno Nevada in the 1980s are a pretty soul crushing dystopian feel (Thus my love of the Fallout Games as I could relate to the squalor of Nevada/Reno/Vegas Casino Culture in the 1980s (YUCK)

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So Xmas Day Mom gets to open her gifts.

3 very similar boxes, all from Macy's.

All three of us had bought Mom Sweaters. the knit sweaters with the braided 3D cabling and shoulder pads. (Think this vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVxNH6iN9I)

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ANYWAY...

Thank you for introducing me to UnSpun! (I have an immediate product need that I have been looking for a manufacturer for for custom thing - and all my googling and even calling actual Sock Companies (Mr. Sock from LA) I couldnt find what I needed and basically my project went dormant - but I think I found what I need in UnSpun!

F-YES. Pearl Right!

(Every time I try to spin a yarn, knitting together a bunch of seamless pun threads - 'Man, I can!", I posit... "I'm afraid not!" And it all unravels, leaving my stomach in a ball when I wanted my audience in stitches)
You can have a universal language that involves over time.
> despite astrology not being accurate or grounded in science, it can still be useful for some of the people some of the time.

That's what an art form does.

The problem with astrology is that it's framed as a science giving answers to questions, not as an artistic performance giving insight into life patterns. It as painful as seeing people watch wrestling believing it is a real competitive sport.
If you can sign on with a US labor agency, or have an established US business they can easily invoice (if freelancing), that might make it easier for companies? I think there's a few SaaS middleman companies too that can handle the logistics of that for a corporation, though the names escape me right now.

It's hard for the US to hire foreigners. Companies here have different labor and tax laws by state, and hiring non US nationals typically requires jumping through extra hoops, getting work visas, etc. And the EU typically has stronger labor protections than we do, which companies might be wary of. Then there's the time zones, language and cultural issues, different holidays, different expectations about PTO and work life balance (we have less of both), etc.

TBH if a company is going to jump through all those hoops, it's usually for people from much cheaper areas than Europe :/ Especially for remote jobs, where there are tons of Americans already fighting for in a race to the bottom.

If you could consider moving here and getting a work visa, that would up your chances significantly, I think.
Totally fair! I do think it leads people down a more interesting path though, transform matrices and processing big bitmaps lead folks to shaders! Though a DIY-with-a-scripting-language-and-iteration would definitely be a fun follow up video if you ever feel like it!
Does there happen to be a native analog to this? So like, if I eventually want some kind of native app, I wouldn't have to throw away the architecture entirely and start over? I only see mention of the WASM version of this in the website/docs.
Are you sure you're not confusing the 60* V6 family that was around in GM vehicles in the 80s (the 2.8, 3.1, and 3.4 and their predecessor engines) with the Buick 90* V6 (of which the 3800 was a part of and dated back to way before I was born). Otherwise that's pretty fascinating...GM vehicles are always so strange in so far as that the "lower end" marques and lower trim vehicles always seemed to be better designed, more durable and way more reliable. It's hard to believe that Olds didn't just use an SBC derivative like the LT1 for the Aurora given how much better those engines were (and everyone knew it) than the Northstar, which was basically a flaming expensive pile of shit from day 1.
This is no longer true, it is limited to a one month period (after a possible 2 year minimum contract to offer "special discounts") in advance and every contract can be cancelled online.
I've been coding in Go for over five years. I like Go, but I don't love it. It's never my first choice, although I don't advocate for rewrites just to move away from it.

The tooling is a mess. Go modules still feel like a 'first pass' implementation that never got finished. There's no consistency in formatting or imports (even though Go claims there is). Generics are a good step but are still very primitive (no generics on interfaces, no types as a first-class object).

It still feels very unfinished as an ecosystem. I hope it'll get better as the Go team mature things, like iterating on generics. But I can't see Go modules continuing without a fundamental rewrite.
This reads more like ad copy from OpenAI than anything reality related.
> In the mutation example you suggest, if a reference to x isn't being passed into foo, how could foo modify x

The important point is that it's not "a reference to x" that gets passed, it's a copy of x's value. x's value, like the value of all Python variables, is a reference to some object. The same thing applies to setting variables in Python in general:

x = {1:2} # x is a new variable that references some dict
y = x # y is a new variable that references the same dict
y[1] = 7 # the dict referenced by x and y was modified
x = None # x no longer references the dict
print(y) # y still references the dict, so this will print {1:7}
y = None # now neither x nor y reference that dict; since y was the last reference to it, the dict's memory will be freed
Java was my hammer back in the day. In a few more years, I'm banking on it being my post-retirement "daddy needs a new boat" solution.
Traditional astrology has an extremely sophisticated system underneath. Modern astrology, not so much.
"all-cause mortality" vs. "any harm" is quite the leap
Guessing that was based off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks a bit.
There's like 5 people saying "blackberries". One example in one region does not make a trend.
Tl;Dr: they built a flourishing city, and one hypothesis was drought but new research ruled that out, so we have no idea why they left.
I am halfway through this book and wanting to read it slower because it's that good. I think we could make a pretty cool AI powered ARG based on the lore.
I only use tmux on remote machines (because Terminal has all of the features I want and don’t need session management locally). Does anything integrate with remote tmux? It would be great to get native tabs for remote tmux windows.
Can we also make it so if you can sign-up to a gym membership online, you can cancel online?
All the sports you mention have had most of the artistic elements beaten out of them by standardised scoring systems. No one wins olympic gold in figure skating or synchronised swimming by being artistic, they do it by repeatedly and perfectly executing the highest scoring techniques as defined in the rule book.
Just from an ergonomic standpoint it's a million times easier to deploy a go binary instead of a whole jvm and a jar file.
For people interested in publicly traded companies (this is not investment advice and I am not qualified whatsoever) that make this possible: NASDAQ:PACB and LSE:ONT.

To the best of my knowledge, ILMN and other similar short-read sequencing technologies are not able to perform to the level required for these sorts of applications.
Can we pinpoint a specific decade this happened or is it a slow process? Because if we count CS as a science, I’m seeing it become just like the worst of the sciences in this regard. AI has really gotten me pessimistic. There’s so much borrowing from other subjects since there are now models for every subject and every grade level, which ultimately will become products for large corporations. Like maybe we should hire at least one full time linguist, mathematician, chemist, logician, etc to sit high in the chain behind each of the respective models. I’m seeing a lot of faux rigor because it’s moving lightning speed.
The entirety of SCP is basically that. A huge time sink of several thousand weird tiny stories wrapped in a strangely compelling procedural bureaucratic language.
Never ending growth is an axiom because population growth is a given. Unless we forcibly control birth rates, that won't go away.
I disagree, because this comment doesn't feel right to me and therefore it isn't right.

That alone disproves this stance. This higher podium for the human race and even the ability to feel means we are more than just autocomplete machines. We have allegiance, irrationality, animalistic instinct.
Because right now sustainability is a farce used to assuage the masses while the rich prepare for the cataclysmic on Hawaii and New Zealand.
I mean as far as i know the only answer that fits your "no lua/lisp" requirement is intellij IDEs, they use java/kotlin.
> Mail, email, phone call, a notice in your local newspaper, carrier pigeon.

How would that even... work? Doesn't this obligate every company to read every local newspaper in every customer's area? And a customer who feels like a company a hard time could just put a notice in the paper and then collect money because the company obviously won't read every newspaper? Also, what about companies wanting to give customers a hard time by canceling their subscriptions - now customers have to read every newspaper too? I must be missing something...
Not to cherry-pick, but:

> with the burdens falling most heavily on women

I mean, is this not true? My understanding is US provides relatively little child support, ensuring that burden has to fall on someone. Isn't that usually the mother?
> The argument is that it is not a sport, but an artistic expression.

It can be both. And really, if that's his argument, then he needs to take it up with the World DanceSport Federation. From my understanding, the IOC is kinda like the Unicode Consortium—their job is not to codify some alphabet, it's to take an already defined, used, and supported encoding, and bring it into the fold. The IOC doesn't make up what the sports are, they take sports that are already judged at the world level, and put them into the Olympics.
Until you have to deal with Jest for testing, or React.
OP said;

"I'd prefer to use an everyday-language I work in for scripting, which rules out Vimscript, Lua or Lisp."
Damn, everything new really is old again. Everyone said the same thing about Java. Yet it still works and gets the job done. Go does as well. I'd rather poke my eyes out with a nail than use Python.
In my experience, VS Code’s extension system really shines here. There are also boilerplate repos out there to get started.
> Pretty much every such product uses libz, libssl, and these days websocket and javascript libraries. Are they malware?

The answer to this question is obvious and the question doesn’t have to be asked. In what kind of thinking a product considered malware would imply that its generic components are also malware? It is clear logic fallacy. Same with C&C software - I don’t get how do you generalize it to IRC. I do not also see how this generalization can happen in law enforcement or courts.
Which fields do you have in mind, other than... doctors, apparently?
I really like this idea space. I hope you can pull it off. Please have the highest standards for honesty and integrity--not having that is what killed BitClout.

Good luck!

Here's my user test: https://www.loom.com/share/8b8920febd9f47a686e63280bedd70b6?...
this book could have been a short story
java on its own is not a competitor to go, IMO, due to the batteries included "culture" in the go ecosystem.

I would need to compare it with, for example, Java + Spring(Boot).

I find Go to be simpler and more pleasant to use.
Doctors fixed my heart in 2002 and I think that's better performance than I would have gotten from an astrologer.