skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you are using CGI, then you probably already don't care about performance."

So...I think you're missing a few pieces of the puzzle with this statement. The statement is a truism that is right almost always, but it has exceptions, and this is one of those exceptions.

CGI is slow when startup time for your app is slow, because of a VM, because of the library loading overhead, because of environment setup, because of some thing that isn't really the fault of CGI per se. CGI can be fast, or at least fast enough, if startup time for your app is very fast. An app written in C, statically linked, could potentially start and respond faster than many dynamic language apps could even when running in an app server. C is fast. C is small. C is also particularly error-prone, would be a little verbose for web apps, and does not have a good ecosystem of support libraries for web apps, but even if running it without an app server in a CGI mode it could be fast enough for most deployments.

The CGI interface is not why CGI apps are slow. CGI apps are slow because startup of many modern language environments is slow. C is a language that doesn't have to be slow in that context. (Though, it could be faster still by using an FCGI or other app server model and having your C web app running all the time, so it just has to answer requests over a socket or whatever...though async programming in C is also hard to get right for inexperienced programmers.)
It's hard to directly compare the challenges of growing fungus vs. meat. Remember that in the case of fungi, the desired product for the food industry is usually a specialized reproductive structure (mushroom, truffle, etc.), produced by the fungus only occasionally, and according to complex environmental cues. So you need a more or less complicated fruiting protocol, depending on the species, on top of maintaining the fungus in culture. This is quite unlike meat, where you are "just" trying to grow a complex of somatic tissue types that is present by default in the wild organism.

On top of this, truffles have complex ecological requirements (mutualisms with plants and associations with soil microbiota), so unlike saprophytic species they are very difficult to grow in artificial culture to start with (even just spore germination is tricky). Fruiting is tied to seasonal changes in the host plant and we're only just beginning to understand the genetics underlying all of this.

I agree with you actually, but I think it is some decades away and will require lots of GM, and lots of work on how to get control over metabolic and fruiting systems without changing flavor profiles.
Absolutely, but I can almost guarantee you the person who presents as anxious/tortured wreck is not secretly beaming with contentment inside.
I heard that claim before, that Tesla's aren't a huge increase in efficiency over a Prius. It was based on the fact that they were powered by the grid and a mix of coal, gas, and hydro power in the US which generates carbon emisisons.

Assuming the future goes more green, which it getting looks that way, electric cars will get more efficient over time since the grid will change.

Your current Prius will always be the same level of efficiency though. A 40 mpg car won't magically become a 800 mpg one like an electric one will when it's powered by solar.
It's not much of a secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#Cultivation
Hacker news needs to enable downvoting for articles. Fake news is here to stay.
Yeah, the recent news are really worrying. You should switch to your own domain and a different provider for any email that you care about.
There certainly is!

Prices for goods just need to keep dropping, as they have already been doing to.

If they keep dropping, then our existing welfare system will handle the rest.

If the percent money that society spends in welfare state the same, and goods get cheaper and cheaper, then that means that living off welfare will eventually be a pretty sweet deal, able to provide all your wants and needs.
Hey, this is me as well. Just keep going and eventually the anxiety wears off and you can actually look at clothes. I am sorry :-(
> The app should provide its own keyboard for entering the username and password. Otherwise, malicious third party keyboards can act as keyloggers to obtain the user’s credentials.

This doesn't really help, if the attacker already has root on the device they can simply hook the login or key entry function in the application. They can also just screenshot on tap when the app is launched (though that's the lame way).

> The app should be protected against reverse engineering.

There's no such thing, I hate when people say things like this. If you rely on protections against reverse engineering, you rely on half-measures.

A determined reverser will always break your app. It might take minutes or days, but it'll always happen and they only need to break it once for it to be broken for everyone.

Ultimately this is a phone security issue. Don't download and run untrustworthy code, doubly so if your ROM is out of date and vulnerable.

As the immutable law of security says: If someone has root on your device, it's not your device anymore!
> That's why he didn't just do it

Even if he tried he couldn't have done it. :v
Yikes! So he doesn't actually know what Net Neutrality is. He's come out against the AT&T/TW merger. Maybe at some point he'll realize that NN is also an attempt to fight excessive concentrations of power in media companies.

Personally I would give up NN if we could separate transport from content completely and have real competition among ISPs.
Not if you ask marxist-economists...
HN has submission flagging. How would submission down votes serve a useful purpose?
Ideally, the point of such a discussion should not be to persuade the other person, nor to be persuaded oneself, but to gain a deeper understanding and respect of the other's position.

I think the website makes it clear that this is for people who are willing to listen to each other. Once that mutual willingness is there, I believe a discussion like this can be very profitable. (Actually, I do not only believe so, I know so from many personal experiences.) Of course you are going to have some bad apples in the lineup who are going to start nasty arguments, but I think the presentation of the website is such that these should be kept to a minimum.

A big thank you to the Accord team from me - in a political age defined increasingly by the demonization of other political/social opinions (something all sides engage in), we desperately need more polite, levelheaded discussions.
For example, because half of other people's work is bullshit. Or because a third of other people's work output is used to take them from home to work. Or because the amount on the paycheck is totally unrelated to the value a worker produces. Or because a quarter of other people's work is not about creating value, but about destroying it and driving all of us always faster towards a catastrophe.

In short, because most of world organised around work is nonsense. So getting a bit of money to live poorly without work is not any more nonsensical. That's a way to see it.
That's what the "flag" link is for. Please use it when you see garbage like this.
"use facebook" is kind of a disingenuous summary of the conclusion. The author understands we should all stop using facebook, but the few people who understand this (e.g. that read this article) quitting facebook won't help anything.
I discovered this last night! I've been dealing with matrices frequently for the past 15 years and never really got them. Having watched his series now, I feel like I completely understand them, in a way that I never even fathomed before. I think I'm going to make a small series producing a raytracer from first principles, in a somewhat similar style; that visual design was just the perfect medium.
Have you ever been in a country with DNS censorship? (that includes for example Belgium and Denmark)
Not "resigning", but rather hopefully leveraging it
In a handful of big metropolitan areas. Good luck doing that throughout multiple continents. Most European countries are still on the order of magnitude of 1000 total EVs sold per year. Growing, sure, but still hardly a serious market penetration.

And I am talking about problems with scaling: "beginning to happen" and "available for everyone who needs it" is not the same as "available for everyone". Installing a dozen chargers, unused most of the time, in a shopping mall's 1000-car parking lot is not the same as installing a few hundred chargers in a multistorey parking downtown that previously only needed to power some neons.
> whether or not we decide to distribute our plentiful resources

You can already decide to do this today, and the government will even reward you for doing so. What you're really talking about is redistributing others' resources.
> diesels (which pollute more even though they consume less fuel).

Diesels pollute more (much more) the kind of air pollution (NOx) which makes bad air quality locally. But they pollute somewhat less greenhouse gas pollution, which is directly related to the amount of fuel burnt.
I paid for it, but I use Atom now. Easier (for me) to extend and customize than Vim or Sublime.
They're just words, no?
Huh, why's that?
So, you are addressing the old, often challenging issue of separating nature and nurture.

Well, suppose a mother has genetic anxiety disease and consider her daughter: Then the daughter likely has anxiety disease from both nature and nurture, that is, from both her mother's genes and her mother's behavior.

E.g., both the mother and daughter can have social phobia and, then, commonly, when planning the social aspects of a trip to the grocery store have her brain burn glucose at a faster rate than anyone has yet thinking about, say, general relativity or P = NP. E.g., when making salad dressing, don't use wine vinegar because wine on the label that might generate rumors in the community, school board, and church that the woman is an alcoholic -- it wish that was a joke or exaggeration, but it wasn't .
> Transportation is not the largest energy expense that goes into a product like a car; the largest energy expense is extracting and refining the raw materials into processed materials that are ready to be used for final production.

Sure, maybe the GP's point is that (she thinks) (environmental impact of new Prius construction + n years of Prius driving > impact of n years of driving an existing pickup truck). I have no evidence for or against this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true for n=5 years and typical mileage/day.
As you point out yourself, besides bringing the parts from all over the world, you need to mine the resources, spend the energy to cast them, etc.
But isn't this idea that work is some kind of moral obligation to society exactly the problem if it's true that work is going to disappear? Do you think his contribution to society is zero or negative simply because he doesn't have a job? Perhaps it's just easier to measure if you have a job what your relative contribution to society is because you can place a dollar value on it.
Well damn, I did the exact same thing. But I still need to be well rested if I'm buying clothes or the anxiety might kick right back in.
Sometimes it helps just sitting down and having a drink.
Got it.

It's a pretty flimsy disguise though. If people are simultaneously complaining about bad infrastructure and high taxes, then they are simply saying that they want their earned money themselves more than they want to use it for shared infrastructure projects. People would just rather have the latest iPhone than good highways. :-/
Today most people work for companies they don't own. In the future, the unemployed will become self employed and work directly to support themselves. Some have land, and can cultivate food. Others can make furniture, or give medical consultations, or teach children. Even owning a small solar farm could be a source of income.

All of them were formerly professionals, now jobless and moneyless. So they have to work directly for themselves and barter products and services. It will evolve into a bazaar of companies and professionals, offering products and services to each other, maybe even with its own currency.

We might not have money but we have work power and are not stupid, and are motivated to find a solution. If nobody will hire you or give you free stuff, what are you going to do? You got to work for yourself, like it's always been since there are people on this planet. But this time, after you earn some money, you can buy your own robot, or get your friends with a small fab to make one for you.

So, coming automation, people will migrate from employment into self employment. By relying on each other, maybe with some help from the government as well, people can make it.
In America and other countries with 110v mains, you might have a point. In the UK, my Ampera charges to full in 4 hours.
ISIS Social Media Experts Are Killed as Result of F.B.I. Program
Please just read Marx already.
If the Sun suddenly disappeared
We can be responsible for our depressions though. The CBT paradigm is that thoughts cause emotions, and if we change our thoughts (which we can have control over) our mood will shift. So there is some self-determination, I don't think the typical comparison with cancer is a good one. (Obviously you can give yourself cancer with behaviors like smoking, but once you have cancer you have little internal control to make it go away. Not so with depression.)
Politics per se shouldn't be discussed on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

However, I agree with you that all elements of the political spectrum are engaging in some pretty heavy name calling these days. One reason why Accord's project is so important.
I just wished three families Happy Thanksgiving, by putting all three family members that I mainly contact in the To line of an email. Even included a picture of my family.

You can stay known to "anyone who happens to be listening," or you can stay intentionally engaged with "those people that you specifically care about." Both ways take very little effort.

Regarding Facebook, it's strange to feel like I'm not missing anything and simultaneously feel like I'm missing something.
Because he is no longer living on the back of other people. He is living on the back of robots and machinery.
Hating him for once personal live style choices (aka salary-man) in a world that that discards those daily by the dozen- seems- slightly envious?
Subtle mass persuasion through algorithm tweaking is easy to underestimate
The 13th Amendment ended slavery by regulating away the property rights of slaveholders and so I can understand that libertarians are a might bit peeved about this reduction in their freedom to own other human beings. I offer my condolences.
Optimized for what?

What's the list of userIDs for on video or user? I mean, if you want useful commentary, the least you could do is provide a schema that provides all relevant information.
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Why is clandestine surveillance of everyone bad? Because anyone with more power than you and the will to abuse it can simply label you as an 'undesirable'. If I'm a local police officer with access to surveillance data, and I see something about you that I don't like, I am much likelier to act against you or your family or friends. And since I spied on you invisibly, you'll never know what list of 'undesirables' your name may be on, or why, nor can you ever get off the list.

As an undesirable, I (as a bureaucrat hungry for power) might uninvite you and yours from my college, business, bank loan, job offer, or I might simply charge you more for goods or services. Given the power, I can make your life hell for reasons you'll never know and have no redress to challenge.

In 1870s to 1960s America these kinds of off-the-book practices were called 'Jim Crow', intended to repress minorities and especially blacks from the civil rights and protections that were theirs by law. If our 21st century government regresses to the same state the FBI did under Hoover -- not inconceivable under Trump, since it already has occurred under Obama as he allowed CIA and NSA to escape oversight from congress or the press and hide from their abuses of constitutional law -- the likelihood of history repeating itself using domestic espionage has become almost a certainty.

If you still have doubts about the threat to everyone from unlimited domestic surveillance to big and small, innocent and guilty, then reread Orwell's 1984. And never forget that EVERYONE is part of some minority that will become unpopular eventually.
We're there already. There are vast numbers of people who cannot make an economic contribution large enough to cover their costs.

Education won't help. Teach a human how to do something, and you have one human who can do it. Teach a computer how to do something, and you can have as many computers as needed doing it. The US has already hit "peak school" in terms of economic benefit. About half of college graduates take jobs that don't really require a college education. Trade schools do even worse.

The classic solutions are lots of poor people in slums and dying towns, and ethnic cleansing.
Don't use scare quotes it's rude.
Yes, but there are ways to prevent most memory corruption bugs, even, if you're using an OS with a non-terrible malloc implementation. The gnu malloc that most people know is a terrible antiquity that should have been replaced decades ago -- mallocs like OpenBSD's make a lot of memory corruption bugs a lot harder to exploit.
virtually,
adverb
[ as submodifier ] nearly; almost: the disease destroyed virtually all the vineyards in Orange County | the college became virtually bankrupt.
But you don't get those at such low atmospheric pressure. Mars atmospheric pressure is around 600pa.

A mental exercise: Any place on Mars with higher than 600pa pressure?
For sure EV are a thing, and I don't think they are going away. But I don't think they'll be the only game in town.

There are quite a few hydrogen cars driving around in Japan, and infrastructure there is almost rolled out. For cars only Toyota is starting to roll them out in California. Some are starting to be sold around Europe as well. I think they've only sold around 700 in the USA.

Natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure can be used. Because an order of magnitude more gas can be stored as hydrogen, than in lithium batteries I think they will be in the mix.

I definitely think it's a better idea for larger vehicles like trains on lines which aren't electrified.
What do you mean by the same level of efficiency? I'm not sure if you're trying to shit on the Prius brand but every Prius generation have improved the MPG efficiency by ~10%.

It started at 40 mpg, then 44.5, then 50, and now the latest is 55.
Ride sharing means fewer vehicles existing, but many more vehicles on the road.

Today my car goes with me to work, and then it goes home with me. If I accept ride sharing, then it has to also travel empty. Each time I use the car, the car must first drive to where I am. This roughly doubles the number of cars on the road.

With self-driving, it gets worse. I can send small children places alone. This means they can visit friends whenever they like, and they can participate in more activities.
I've done it, it's usually running for a good chunk of every working day

I still use vim a lot though
These things are quite rare.

Moreover, you could feasibly buy insurance for such things which would be the financially appropriate way to think about it in terms of risk.

Tack on the cost of insurance to the cost of ownership to make the calculation.

Owning in SF has been smarter than renting for the last 20 years in almost all cases.

All the surpluses in the Valley have gone into real-estate.

In fact - given the failure rate of startups ... if you had $10 M in 1990, the best investment you could possibly make would be simply to buy real-estate, assuming you don't have access to the top tier VC funds as an LP.

By buying real estate - you're basically 'investing in tech' indirectly, across the board. And there's considerably less risk.
And if you ask biblical literalists, they'll tell you that there was no big bang but the world was instead created in six days. There are always some people with counterfactual beliefs.
Ok, could you link to one?
I'd strongly recommend a video rather than a book.

I have maybe a dozen or two yoga books and not a single one of them talks about curing cancer, removing toxins, or energy flows--doesn't seem that hard to find one. Browse and find one that suits you, not me.
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I just can't stand by and watch Mark Zuckerburg destroy the internet
Weirdly, there's also projects that extract heat from the water in Finnish Fjords:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31506073
"Facebook is already on our phones and computers, pestering us with notifications."

That quote from the article really baffled me. Facebook isn't on my phone or computer pestering me. That's because I choose not to use it. The article goes on to worry about the lack of a "disable notifications for good" option. Are people really that helpless? It makes it sound as if there is literally no choice but to use facebook. If facebook is really hurting your quality of life, then stop using it. Or at least uninstall the app.
Regardless of one's political leanings, earnestly encouraging taking financial advantage of people one believes to be gullible is highly unethical, even if it is legal.
Do you know how to document a schema? There are known ways to go about it. This is not one of them.

I know what a user ID is. I asked why there's a list of them on videos.

Question still stands: optimized for what?
Hmm. Downvotes.

Isn't this the next step after turning it off and on again.

Back when we had more mechanical drives, daughterboards, socketed chips and the like, it worked a surprising amount of the time.

Apathy... Maybe that comes with age.

P.S. Not to mention tubes. Yeah, I'm that old.

P.P.S The grandparent was making a reference to a show, and Jen is a character in that show. In case that was confusing anyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039606
> (Almost all ex soviet republics are lingering as third world)

You are exposing your ignorance. Ex soviet republics are by definition second world.

> Also I can give you a list of some countries dying with socialism and socialist society: - Norway - China

China is communist, not socialist. Norway is a redistributive democracy. There has not been a case where government or collective ownership of the means of production has led to good results.

China tried, and has been rolling that back ever since.

I suggest you learn your terms better before volunteering your opinion.
Recently saw this dj live at Java1! Pretty amazing
It's not so much that we will be entering a post-work society, but rather one where the value of labour as a commodity continues to fall. Let's hope this means more meaningfull, non-alienating work.
This is so ironic to me. Last time I was on his forum I said something critical of google (this was when the snowden stuff was still in the news more) and he was super defensive, according to him google did and could do now wrong blah blah.

Ill bet he hasn't changed his mind about that either even though google is arguably even more dangerous to privacy/freedom of speech and the open web.
It remains to be seen whether those are mass produced cars or just test market cars that Toyota produces just enough to get their eco-friendly credits. Toyota made cars just so they can claim they fill the quota in the past.
Thanks, I had not seen that channel before.
If this is viable I'd hate to see a crappy one. Clearly you were running on fumes when you created my friend NPCs.
ITT: Narcissism of small differences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

If the authors of a textbook made the decision to use 2.7, it's good enough for anyone.