skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some of this, such as,

> Python, it is slow as molasses. I don’t mean slower in the sense of “wait a couple of seconds”, I mean “wait several hours instead of 2 minutes.”

Python can be multiple orders of magnitude slower than the equivalent in C/C++/Rust, but,

> more cores (which Python cannot easily take advantage of)

Python's multiprocessing makes launching new processes (which can take advantage of more cores) pretty much as easy as launching threads.

But as a developer, I am frustrated by a lot of the things people believe are options. They are options, but … they're hard to use, and hard to take advantage of.

* Writing a Python extension requires dropping down to C, which has so many foot-guns, I'd like to delay doing so as long as absolutely possible. Even then, you might not be able to win back that much performance, if most of your time is spent manipulating Python objects. Programmers, in my experience, also vastly overestimate their ability to write correct C.

* Cython can compile Python to "C", but in Python 2 (which I am alas stuck with, despite my will; someday…), has a bug that miscompiles code dealing with metaclasses. Worse still, the latest version of six will trigger this bug. (The Cython developers do not consider this — Cython's compiled version of code behaving differently from Python and CPython — a bug.)

* rust-cpython is theoretically great, but has a bug on OS X that causes aborts (it erroneously links against the Python binary, I think, and this causes issues w/ virtual environments, where a different binary ends up getting used. I don't think this effects Linux, but I need to support OS X.)

(Throw in the enormous amount of time that I spend debugging object of type NoneType has no attribute "static_typing", and the amount of time that I spend wonder "what type is this variable supposed to be? and working it out by reverse engineering the code, and I honestly wonder if Python is actually "faster".)

[1]: https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython/issues/59
Machine Learning meets ketosis: how to effectively lose weight (2016)
It's tricky to get it working on Android. I'll just say that much cause I don't know the answer!
the puritanical value isnt 'sex is evil'

the puritanical value is 'sex should be enjoyed in marriage, monogamously'

pornography is harmful to our brains, many studies have shown this.

plenty of studies also show that people who have fewer sexual partners are ultimately happier in their sex life.

and it doesnt take much thought to see that STDs would spread much more slowly if people were monogamous.

lots of good things come from that value. on the inverse, the 'have sex as much as you want' mentality leads to unplanned pregnancies/killing unborn babies, devaluation of the gift of sex, and spread of disease. but hey, you get to have 'lots of fun' so is it worth it?

sex and money are the greatest idols in our society, and the worship of either does not yield good things.
You can't change the past, but you can make the future a better place, so I'll make the decision of whether to apologize based on the future.
> What about human feelings (e.g. mental/physical health)? Are those important in evaluating experiences?

If, and only if, they have a monetary effect.

For example a professional foot-racer becoming more healthy by X amount means the expected value of him/her running a race increases by some $Y amount (due to higher probability of winning a [higher] prize).

> The definition of opportunity cost does not mandate that the "cost" is monetary.

The cost in-question is important if and only if it is equivalent to some loss of (monetary) value.
> The puritanical attitude is wrong. Sex is an amazing and great part of life, just like roller coasters or having 3 beers. Life is meant to be enjoyed. But over-doing it, or using something in a way it wasn't meant to be used, can ruin that joy. Nothing is wrong with sex within a healthy relationship. But nobody who goes to a hooker really believes afterwards that they found true happiness there.

But that's what I'm taking about. There's no (supernatural, physical, legal) law that states for everything fun and good, I have to suffer equal amounts. That's just moralization in the puritanical strain, which I reject.

And I would also like to call out the sentence: " Nothing is wrong with sex within a healthy relationship."

Nothing is wrong with consensual sex, period. I needen't be in a marriage or relationship with them. I don't care if it's vanilla, scat, bdsm, cuckolding, or whatever. We have more than enough science and technology that people can have sex with little fear. It's only when governments want to inflict their "morals" on people do people really start to hurt. They do this by keeping drugs, devices, and techniques away. Thankfully, The Satanic Temple has been challenging these "moral precepts" as the religious laws enshrined into to state laws. (Seriously, who'd have thought that TST would fight for peoples' rights?!)

And I also have no issue with prostitutes. I've never procured the services of any, but I see no shame in doing so either. It's no more a temporary feel-good similar to that of a roller coaster or a concert. It's just "bad" because of the puritanical beliefs that all sex is bad, outside a marriage (later turned to relationship).

And regarding SAW, the show was meh. It's a slasher for slasher's sake.
Wages are not increasing and that’s all that matters. Just because there’s significant inflation in healthcare doesn’t mean I’m better off — it’s all price inflation that is eaten by my employer. Compared to five years ago, I am not better off even though my employer is paying 2x for my insurance.
If they artificially recreate the DNA somehow and then, again, somehow, bring these things to life, may as well edit the DNA and make them a lot larger. Now, that would be horrifying.
This is a great reason to avoid giving smartphones to kids, and a big reason we haven't. It's important for them to not have to deal with things they aren't mentally, physically, or emotionally ready for yet. They need to be kids right now.
However they are not subject to national security letters. You can have all the best crypto in the world but if the vendor is forced to catch keystrokes by a government it won't help you.
"You almost always" is just an intellectualized, passive-aggressive variation on "you always".
Could you please elaborate on why washing your stuff inside out helps? I would think what's inside rubs against the other side of the inside, and wears out just the same.
recently set up a wordpress site on aws using elastic beanstalk, redis, and cloudfront -- can take quite a beating. if i had the chance to optimize more, it could have handled more... but i was really unimpressed with Wordpress and how it has failed to evolve much over the years.
This is as good a time as any to point people in the direction of WireGuard, Jason Donenfeld's modernized VPN:

* It inherits strong, modern crypto from Trevor Perrin's Noise Protocol Framework.

* It's designed to be extremely simple to configure for the common case.

* It has a microscopic trusted code base --- 4-5000 lines compared with hundreds of thousands for strongSwan --- and the protocol was specifically designed to enable that; for instance, the protocol makes specific allowances to enable implementations without any dynamic allocation.

* It's probably the fastest available VPN.

You can only use it on Linux at the moment, but that will change this year.

WireGuard is so good people at my company spin up Vagrant images on their Macbooks to use it. Check it out:

https://www.wireguard.com/

Benjamin Dowling and Kenny Paterson (a name you might be familiar with) just completed and published a formal analysis of WireGuard; the results are complicated (the eCK model WireGuard was proven under doesn't contemplate separate key exchange and data transport phases) but here's a TLDR from Kenny:

https://twitter.com/kennyog/status/955884665801445377
I don't know how many different ways I can explain why this conclusion is false, but I suspect none of them would sink in.

Maybe the question to your "true or false?" comment to 'tptacek will elucidate adequately why the worst case of the WhatsApp vulnerability is still miles above what Telegram offers in terms of privacy, and even aside from Telegram, would be most generously a sev:medium (but by most measurements a sev:low).
There's a similar software called peervpn that I use. It encrypts traffic as well, but I don't know about its cryptographic strength or implementation, so I don't rely on it. HTTPS/encrypted data through the tunnels only.
It's a data point that many crime victims ask not to be contacted by the perpetrator. Again I'm asking you whose benefit this apology is for. If it's for your own benefit, maybe it's not warranted.
Black Market Activism: Agorism
> Porn is a common thread in serial murderers.

So's oxygen and water intake.

Citing NetNanny on this is pretty silly. Serial killers existed long before pornography was around, and I suspect you're getting correlation and causation mixed up there. Your average porn consumer manages not to cut heads off.
How is this different from UpWork or PeoplePerHour?
Issues Facing Computer Science Education
>What is the practical value of that anyway except some scientist's vanity?

Proof of extraterrestrial life would be one of the greatest discoveries of all time with profound philosophical implications.
That sounds like a disturbingly huge attack surface...
Yeah that's a pretty nested sentence:

> (The future) (is going to be) (based in (things like (what (Comma.ai) (is building upon) (what (the book) (describes)))))

I interpreted it to mean:

> The future will have many products similar to those made by the company Comma.ai.
Comma.ai creates technology on top of the hardware described by this book.
I was using a speaker connected to an Airport Express as an Apple TV speaker over AirPlay for a while, but it made pausing and restarting video take a couple of seconds so I rigged an HDMI audio splitter instead. Will AirPlay 2 fix that?
Life is today, tomorrow never come
I would imagine that the lack of any kind of food source for bacteria, freezing cold temperatures, and space radiation should be enough to sanitize the vehicle from anything from earth. We're not talking about organisms that thrive at the depths of the ocean or tardigrades (although I'm sure someone will bring them up). We're talking about molds and bacterias that grow in warm, damp places like car seats and dirty human crevices. I would be surprised if they lasted out there and would be giddy if it survived long enough to grow further. That's an experiment, right there.
You can't control what other people do and say but you can control your reaction to it (obviously easier said than done and in some cases impossible without help). So many arguments in life are made because you've inadvertently gone against an expectation another person had based on their own experiences.
It's the inverse actually: the more you fantasize and obsess over a given action, the more you'll end up wanting to do it. Quitting porn and masturbation (which both release chemicals in your brain that bond you to the things you're focusing on) will make you less likely to seek these things in real life.
Hotspot Shield flaw could reveal the location of VPN users
Hm.. You still own 1% of Apple right?
Otherwise, what happens at the end of 20 years when a 100 investors each buy 1%?
I am very tempted then, presently I have 5 different notebooks for different things and doing a couple of courses which I've started to study like I did at university and take written notes instead of just passively consuming.

The general consensus is that you learn better if you write but it's frustrating to not have the notes digitized and backed up.

It sounds like it might be good.
The #1 reason I dislike pen and paper is that it's impossible to grep. Does this device solve this problem? Or is it simply moving pen and paper into the digital age?
I'll go with all of the above.

The cognitive behavioral model would say that our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions all affect each other; changes in one will change the other. So we can effect our anxiety and depression by by fighting against our absolutist tendencies that are being reinforced by our anxiety and depression.
So then if we will always fall short of omniscience, why should we always seek it in everything we do?
Some crap on 'mindfulness' aka forgiving people and not holding grudges. Made me soft and a lot worse in interpersonal relationships. Now that I'm back to my angry self people are more willing to do what I want them to do.
My pet theory: Giant kevlar bag, surround asteroid, embed explosives, pulverize, cinch bag tight: bag-o-gravel :D
React SPA static pre-rendering made easy
Update: SpaceX posted a new video with the correct feed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE
People do definitely take real ideas from martial arts movies and try to act them out (although not necessarily in the bedroom). Action movies probably also modify brain chemistry if you watch them excessively, since almost everything does.

And your second link? "Do serial killers or murderers exhibit common behaviors? Based on the hundreds of crime dramas I've watched, I believe they do." Seriously?
I agree with the general sentiment but honestly this is just the worst kind of article. It’s superficial and yet also felt emotionally exploitative

Sorry but I guess I’m annoyed because I spent a lot of time working through this specific topic recently and had to wrestle with very some interesting questions:

What is real and what is fake? Why did we create these fantasies and what draws us to them? How much of our culture is fantasy? What if the fake is more “real” than the real? What does that imply for the future? How does pornography hold up a mirror that reflects us? Why is America so scared of reality?

But instead all the article gives us is: porn kills intimacy and reinforces gender roles, plus some weird obsession with facials.
Right -- the trouble is tinc only halfway adheres to this. It will happily distribute a key. This means if you delete a node from 3/4 of your network, eventually that node's key is redistributed across the network.
which Is not cheap
Language Framework Popularity: A Look at Go
They're all women?

Your fashion app has only female fashion? And we know that in 4M people there are no men that either like to look at pictures of women or, gasp, cross-dress?
Yeah, but you're not going to find those in the stitching of a leather Tesla Roadster seat.
Sustainable speed in software development
Lots of writing and some drawing. Writing is excellent, drawing works ok but it needs a few more brushes.

For drawing, see: https://blog.remarkable.com/status-update-from-the-remarkabl...
How are you getting unlimited books? I'm limited to the few hundred my local library has.
Ask HN: Light weight opensource Jenkins alternatives
Is there a light weight opengsource and self-hosted jenkins alternatives?

I need:

1. a web UI

2. authentication

3. can periodically run nothing but shell scripts

4. with (live/historical) terminal logs for each run.

5. maybe packaging or download links for each build ( not important).

I googled, most solutions are cloud based and are not free.
How's moonlight different from other contracting sites? Who your intended customer?
Woah, that's some lazy code in ChatActivity.java. Functions with 30+ conditionals depending on tons of external state. That must be a nightmare to debug and impossible to test.

I've seen some huge Android java functions where everything gets stuffed into the Fragment creation/update/etc API functions... but this is one just stuffed everything in them.

It's just asking for bugs and security issues.

Edit: the commit history all comes the same developer, each titled with a generic "Bug fixes" commit and no description of the changes. Seems like a single guy is just cowboying the whole App, it's not a team project at Telegram. Which explains the above... https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master/TMessagesPr...
You may not recall, but when win95 came out - there were lines blocks long awaiting to buy it, much like when the iPhone came out.

I recently sold several windows 95 shrink wrapped original copies on eBay which was the OS on 32 3.5” floppy disks. As an original piece of computer history.

Win 95 was monumental and great. Aside from outlook, and excel, the greatest product MS ever made.
Mistakes in Hiring
They'll be surfing the mycelial network before we know it :/
No I think the tragedy of the commons would still take hold in SF without some kind of penalty in place (either by the company or by the government, or both) for leaving the bike in a bad spot. Of course this will require a method of enforcement as well.
They also blissfully ignore the thousands of hosts using it to skirt zoning laws and operate illegal hotels.
They might all have a suit but do they have "more" outfits than Americans?
Maybe.. radial lines with sharp angles? Whatever it is, it has to be a fairly simple combination of geometric primitives.
People into finance read the FT or the WSJ
Apple can only buy stock when someone sells it.

Consider there are 100 shares and you own 1 of them. Now Apple buys 1 share from someone that sold it, that means there are 99 shares and you own 1 of them. Repeat until Apple buys 50 shares, there are 50 outstanding and you own 1 share. Now, apple does a 1:2 split so there are 100 outstanding shares and you own 2 of them post split.

It's true that the people selling stocks have to pay capital gains. However, they always need to do that when selling shares to anyone.
Welp, a 1-to-1 correspondence can be made between Brownian motion on a 1-dimensional manifold and Brownian motion in plain \mathbb R.
GitLab has a CI offering in their community edition, although I haven't used it personally.
I'm planning to get jobs from the 5 or 6 most popular ones
Even short of full colonization sourcing materials from space will allow much larger structures and shapes that would be difficult. Ultimately right now we're severely limited by the fairings, inflatables like Bigelow Aerospace solves some of that but ultimately there still limits to the volumes.

I agree we're pretty far out from being able to live comfortably in space but I think to get there we kind of inevitably have to mine resources from space.
That sounds a lot like wishful thinking. As much as I would like it to be true, I don't see it happening.

I have never had a Facebook account so I don't know what people find in it, but it really is unclear if people are leaving it in droves?

Anyway the problem isn't Facebook per se, it's "social networks" in general; if Facebook is replaced by something similar with a different name, that's not progress, that's more of the same.
Well, don't take their word for it. Go find the research: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/shadow-boxing/201704/er...

You also assume that people lead relatively normal lives with porn, but what about the subtle effects?

Don't you think that the objectification of women as sexual objects or the demeaning of marriage to something that gets in the way of people's sexual pleasure has any sort of effect in a civilized society?
plenty of recent studies show that pornography use is manifestly good to our brains

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201601/ev...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.h...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of...

Pornography is a useful tool to manage testosterone and other hormones in the adolescent and reduces sexual crimes across the board.
Firefox is experimenting with a font whitelist as part of upstreaming of Tor features into Firefox trunk. These features are controlled by the privacy.resistFingerprinting pref. resistFingerprinting has some webcompat issues, but Mozilla is considering a subset of the protections for Privacy Browsing mode, similar to Tracking Protection. Here is the work-in-progress bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336208
That will be awesome!

I'm assuming they're still going to need to get refreshed on a regular basis, but this is a great step in the right direction!
It actually makes sense, because libFLAC has no public API for getting the compressed audio packets as is. Rice/huffmann/whatever decompression always happens inside libFLAC.

With Apple’s AudioFile API you can decide whether you want the decompressed PCM samples, or the underlying compressed packets. You can get better energy efficiency if you offload the decompression step to the dedicated coprocessor. The difference is smaller than with hardware vs software h.264 decoding, but there is a difference.

(For lossy codecs this also makes sense when you want to forward the compressed packets to a wireless speaker in order to avoid lossy recompression on Bluetooth transmission.)
Oh. it is. With everybody in their bubble, the strange are free to be, as long as we're not loud about it.
More Than 800M Viruses Fall Through the Skies Every Day per Square Meter
Give up on Tesla’s dream ahead of earnings, strategist warns

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/give-up-on-teslas-dream-ahea...
He should come photograph some of us on the Arc Forum ^_^
I remember someone who had an all-in-one Compaq PC with a version of Win 3.1 that had a shell with tabs on the top, not too unlike the "ribbon" of modern MS Office.
I bet my >$700 Barbour works better than a cheap one from Walmart - and as a bonus it will out live me :-)
The practical value is that if there is uncontaminated life on Mars, scientists will be able to study it and hopefully open up new avenues of scientific inquiry. It's a research question and one that likely would contribute immense value if realized.
I agree with you, and this reminds me of the Black Mirror Playtest episode where, (spoiler alert), they create an artificially intelligent game that adapts itself to maximize terror.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtest_(Black_Mirror)
AFAIK, Airplay2's main features are 1. reduced lag, 2. allows you to do speaker (HomePod) pairing and have multi-room speakers (Homepod).
The common man doesn't care about 'natty' bodybuilders, they look pathetic compared to stars like The Rock or Arnie or Stallone or whoever else is the icon of manly manliness who may be roided to the gills or won the genetic lottery or (probably) both.

Bodybuilding is already a very niche thing that a lot of people don't even consider a sport in itself (should beauty contests be an olympic discipline too?).
It's not only difficult, it's an inferior solution compared to a file-based protocol, so I'm glad they didn't go that route.

However, here's what Martin (the CTO) has been playing with:

https://github.com/reMarkable/vfatbuse
>"So in the end companies use their cash to invest in each other?"

I don't think that's necessarily true. For instance Apple's money manager Braeburn Capital invests their money in very conservative, highly-rated bonds for instance. See:

https://qz.com/393093/the-mysterious-fund-in-the-desert-that...
Ah, but people do occasionally do seemingly-altruistic things, and by long experience, some of those are worth encouraging.

"Love" in English wears too many hats. C.S. Lewis' Four Loves does a good job explaining how the highest and best use of eros (which can be selfish) is to encourage agape (selfless love).

"The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love."
Discovery of extraterrestrial life would have huge scientific and practical consequences. The rationale behind not needlessly contaminating other planets it to not make related science more difficult than it already is. It's not meant to hold forever, though - eventually practical interests will outweigh scientific benefits of keeping things pristine, and people will get the green light.