skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Some people (myself included) enjoy "unsafe" languages like C. I'm not one of those people that argue that being careful is enough. For applications where security really matters, _please_ use something with a bit more verification (though even that doesn't disqualify C, see seL4).

Now take a singleplayer game, or a text editor. It's not a security risk if these crash, so do you need the safety? I'd argue it's unnecessary, I can't remember a time where I saw a program like this print 'segmentation fault'.

I encourage anyone to write new software in "unsafe" languages, so long as it's not a security risk.
This dream you mention, I happen to be living it. Do it, or some variation of it, even if you would be just renting the dream for a while. Dreams are often conditions we put on choosing to be happy. Achieving a variation of a dream can show how many of the other things we did before were just palliative substitutes to taking the action that would result in change. I did a bunch of hobbies that were substitutes for meeting the condition I had put on my own happiness (living in the country), and they were productive and virtuous and give me a lot to do out here now, but they are less urgent to do now that I don't use them to relieve the suffering imposed by conditions I had chosen.

The difference now is I sit by a fire in a field watching the moon, typically with a mug of tea or a glass of red wine, listening to the deer and the crickets until the baying of the coyotes gets too close, giving deep consideration to questions pertaining to reason and existence. Then I write them as glib comments on HN. I can do anything I want, and yet still I do this. It's really pretty good. I highly recommend it. Stop dreaming and just change.
Appetite differences are almost certainly the primary factor in why some people get heavy and others don't, but that isn't inconsistent with CICO at all.
"Based on these recent findings, we argue that the role of testosterone in human social behavior might be
best understood in terms of the search for, and maintenance of, social status."

https://www.zora.uzh.ch/58008/1/Testosterone_social_interact...

but I have to say that these "where is the source" posts are tiring and more often than not just a lazy attempt to destroy an argument with zero effort.
nope. all chromium derivates have an option to switch ti firefox but they dont
More SSRIs and more obesity seems like a pretty good causal mechanism for less sex.
I think people should stop calling government contracts as government subsidies - it is misleading on so many levels. Did SpaceX get money from NASA during Falcon development? Yes! But so did Boeing, ULA, Lockheed Martin on tons of projects. Did NASA save a ton more money compared to their investment in SpaceX thanks to cheaper launch costs? Also YES! Not just NASA, every government body that needed launch services (including DoD, NOAA, NRO) saved money with SpaceX compared to ULA launches.
> These trends do not lead to a sustainable future - it is like global warming, slow but indicative of bad things coming down the line, but manageable in the immediate.

I wonder how many times this could have been said in the ~4 billion year history of life on this planet, and then life just keeps going anyways in some new form.

It's just evolution. You have a changing environment, decreased hormones or what not, and some parts of the population will develop ways around it and others won't. If you have a set mindset on how life should propagate, as in "we need so-and-so hormone", then you're probably going by the wayside in terms of an evolutionary perspective.

What's the most obvious answer here? The emergence of technology. We might not even have sex hormones in the future. There might be some completely new way of genetic propagation (if genes themselves are even a thing in the future) that we can't even dream of right now. The concept of sex, hormones, etc., might even disappear as whatever new form of "information" propagation takes hold. We just have no idea. We could be in the middle of the change right now, or the bare beginnings. Maybe those new forms of life will be resistant to the effects of global warming and other things as well, and so on.

It's like how organisms such as cyanobacteria changed the composition of the atmosphere billions of years ago, and wiped out previous forms of life as oxygen become abundant. A whole new ball game got started, and we're here now.

In other words, a present solution might no longer work well for the current environment (a specific sex hormone), and so it begins to filter out of the 'system'. The issue here though, as is obvious on this forum, is that we can get attached to so-and-so hormone from an emotional standpoint, since we've been fooled into believing that it's our identify, and then get angry when we see it no longer "useful", even though that hormone is just one interchangeable part of our identities.

> I am quite disappointed in the author to be so dismissive on a topic she is an “instant expert” on. Only on hacker news does a physicist who spends their days criticizing string theory (and whose expertise there makes sense) make the front page doing an analysis on testosterone.

I'm new to hacker news, and am quite surprised by the amount of ad hominem arguments on here.
Serendipitous conversation has taken a nosedive because everyone is constantly staring at their phone. All the normal feedback loops are out of whack. This also affected fashion and even interior design. People just wear sweatpants and athletic wear everywhere and almost all coffee shops and stores have the same design aesthetic. Regression to the mean and mass addiction is wrecking the world. “Bicycle for the mind”. Yea right, more like a ball and chain for the masses.
It's not possible for humans to write correct and secure C code on an ongoing and consistent basis. Even when people pay careful attention, problems arise: consider the various 0days in sudo. C isn't simple: it's simplistic: its apparent simplicity comes from shifting the burden of safety from compilers to humans. Consequently, we spend trillions of dollars on dealing with the consequences of security vulnerabilities, most of which wouldn't exist if programmers used memory-safe languages. C++ and Rust (especially the latter) have superior safety profiles with little-to-zero runtime cost. While I acknowledge the need to maintain existing C programs, I believe that writing a new program in plain C is reckless and irresponsible.
+1 for Fiddler, though it doesn't sound like the author was in a position to forward traffic to an HTTP proxy at the time in prod
I have this problem too, you have to find some hobbies you like and make sure you lean into those in your free time instead of working and studying
I first heard about Sortition on lovely QI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNzGT0h6A64
Nice read. Oh I wish the register keyword was actually honored in today's compilers. I am tired of compilers thinking they are smarter than me and having too trust their fancy register allocator algorithm.
While I’m certainly not a good C programmer by any means (I have been exploring Rust more recently as an alternative my use-cases), I find this piece very interesting

“Some People Were Meant for C”

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21//research/paper...
>it is also decreasing in mammals across the board in North America.

North America is a big place and there are a hell of a lot of different mammals in it. Are there really enough people out there taking regular and reliable measurements of testosterone levels in a wide variety of species over a wide geographic area such that we have a representative sample?
Commenter actually read the article before commenting, like a n00b. It brings up social media and income:

"Various studies around the world have proposed different explanations, such as economic status. Lower income is associated with greater declines. One study looked at use of computer games among young people [as a possible explanation]. Some folks have tracked declines in alcohol use, and we know that [alcohol use] can be associated with disinhibition. We have seen, somewhat, [an] increase in sex toy use—from what we looked at, not a massive increase. If there is a change, it’s probably just going to contribute to one of the blips. I don’t expect it to be the explanation."
> It’s time to stop letting the government get away with trampling on our 1st amendment rights to free speech.

That needs to be a legal fight, since classified information is specifically exempted from free speech, among a long list of other things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations). Moving to Tor might skirt the rules, but does little to challenge them, and won’t prevent any legal trouble for someone who gets caught. (It could make things worse, as it might demonstrate intent.) If you believe that free speech should be absolute, that needs to be litigated and voted for. Just remember Chesterton’s Fence: all the free speech limitations we have now have already been litigated and fought for. There are good reasons that freedom of speech is not absolute.
I love HTMX! It allows me to build interactive SSR websites without knowing JavaScript. Very well designed, thank you!
Endurance athletes are getting frequent and strenuous exercise. Most people don't. There's a lot of concern and advice in this thread about diet, but exercising more is the step that's missing. We live in the hydrocarbon era of easy transport, which means cheap food and little exercise. Both of those have to be addressed for good health, not just the food.
How JetBrains Gateway works – beyond the black box
There is little to no leisure time left for most folks. There's no mandatory vacation time or even parental leave. Jobs are more demanding than ever, cost of living is higher than ever, and people are working more jobs than ever. People are more isolated and less social than in generations past. People move more frequently for their jobs and spend less energy getting to know their neighbors or making friends. There are fewer social groups like the VA, rotary club, Masons, bowling leagues, bingo, etc. So you come home from your job, you're burnt out, don't have excess cash to go spend socializing, and you don't have the time either. In contrast, you go to Europe and everyone has plenty on leisure time, plenty of vacation time, and are highly social (compared to Americans).

With unemployment at generational lows, I wish we'd shift to a 4-day work week or 32-35 hour work week. We also desperately need some baseline minimum for vacation time for full-time employees (3 weeks seems the bare minimum). And we should make parental leave mandatory on a Federal level--both parents should get to spend time with their child. I think it's cruel and inhumane that this isn't a human right. Corporations have gotten basically everything in their favor since the 1980s and the pendulum has swung too far in one direction--there needs to be a reversal.
Sure - I understand that case for general social loneliness, but I have a hard time believing that replaces any form of sexual contact, even solo. I can also see a reasonable case for social media leading to less lasting relationships, but an overall decrease in sexual contact of any kind because of it feels odd.

We're not talking directly about people having less friends or social interaction. We're essentially talking about a mass of people essentially losing/ignoring their libido for years at a time. Looking at tweets, let alone scrolling Instagram doesn't feel like it should replace a physical desire for sexual pleasure to me. It may replace me deciding to call up a friend and go have dinner or such, but it feels like a stretch to say people are having a night where they would otherwise go out to find someone to have sex with, or just deal with it themselves at home, and instead they go read their Facebook page?
Online dating replaced more "organic" pairings in a way that creates a local minimum for almost everybody.
The power of a major government behind a currency is like the framing of a building.

A building with a frame can collapse, but the odds are much worse if you don't have one.
Exhibit A and B are why you don't get the results you want. There's simply too much content being made by too many clever people trying to get money and it's impossible to curate it.

Exhibit C is irrelevant, as those companies don't make money off you finding content you like, they make money off tracking you. If you don't find what you want right away, you have to give them more data, create more impressions, click more links. What incentive do they have to give you a good experience? How can you or some other entrepreneur make money from providing a good content experience?
Note taking has this behavior, see Obsidian, Roam, Notion etc and markup import/export. It sort of works but not really.

We need ANSI pomodoros clearly :)
It really isn't normal or expected. I don't know why you keep repeating that. Talk to an experienced coach who actually knows what they're doing.
In a way, the prevalence of social media is truly a case of “the market has spoken”…and we picked convenience and quick hits of dopamine over long drawn out back and forths about what to do next.

Heck, I like playing badminton in my apartment complex but I’ll never pick up the building intercom to call individual players to ask if they want to play. I’d rather post in our WhatsApp group and hope that someone bites.

In this case, social media is reading interaction and in my view is a net positive.
Why is this downvoted? Even even you eat modern organic food it problem has much less minerals and vitamins than it did 100 years ago.
Some things aren't available for streaming, so you have to find a way to download it. Sometimes you have a bunch of DVDs you want to store and watch digitally without buying it again.

And then sometimes there's shows that just aren't worth paying Amazon $25 each for 15 seasons so you pirate it.

Now you have video on a disk somewhere and want to watch it on your TV and phone and tablet and grandma's computer. Systems like this are arguably the least painful way of doing that.

Will you watch any of those videos multiple times? Probably not, but it will always be there if you want it. It won't randomly disappear on the whims of a third party just when you want to show a new friend this cool show they definitely need to watch.
No, Popper there goes beyond that: he requires that people argue rationally and not tell followers to ignore rational arguments. That's too high a bar, IMO. The problem is the followers' use of violence. Initiating "preventative violence" against a mere speaker (who himself did no violent act) is immoral, even if an expedient way of preventing seemingly likely violence by followers. It puts the power of judging legitimate speech in a privileged group, and it is likely to be applied unevenly and primarily on political enemies.
Right now: kcctl [1], a command-line client for Kafka Connect. Using the REST API just became to unwieldy when demoing Debezium. Quite a while ago, MapStruct [2], a code generator for type-safe mapper classes for converting POJOs (Java object) between object hierarchies which are similar but not quite the same. It was born after realizing that significant time in an enterprise application I was working on back in the day was spent executing reflection-based mapping code.

[1] https://github.com/kcctl/kcctl
[2] https://mapstruct.org/
If the sites/authors are out of US jurisdiction, then there's not a whole lot that could be done, so there's that.
> but I have to say that these "where is the source" posts are tiring and more often than not just a lazy attempt to destroy an argument with zero effort.

Reviewing the literature is separate and distinct from entering into argumentation.
There is a process local object pool in some implementations.
It's rare to see offline support in a web app for a few reasons:

LocalStorage is easy to use but too limited at 50Mb.

WebSQL got deprecated by FireFox because of secuirty issues years ago ( albeit is still somewhat supported in Chrome ).

The FileSystem API looked promising, and then google killed it.

IndexedDb is the only option, it's slow on writes, therefore requiring major hacks like absurd-sql to be performant.
It's also old, written before ES6, needs lots of boilerplate, but it does actually work.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A...

Even then however there is a limit of 2GB of persistent storage it can use, which is workable but still:

Some versions of Safari are known to delete IndexedDB after 1 week because of power savings.
Chrome does not allow it unless you either accept notifications from that domain and/or pass a certain lighthouse score (these reasons are anectodal and not well-documented).

So yeah it's a mess, and a bit sad considering it will take years to ratify a better standard for this, but not impossible to do.
Also annoying to know that internally your browser is actually using sqlite under-the-hood anyway.

Web based game engines (i.e. XREngine) are able to get by with IndexedDB i think, and apps like https://github.com/actualbudget/actual created by the author of absurd-sql are good codebases to follow as example.

WebAssembly based sqlite is coming along nicely too. https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/tip/about.md.

I am personally working on an offline-capable ML product using pyscript, svelte & indexedDb and it's been a painful ammount of fun so far.
Ask HN: Why is my new residential fiber gateway box so heavy and so hot?
My ISP recently upgraded my home to fiber (from DSL copper) and provided for the connection a Nokia BGW320 Wireless Integrated ONT Residential Gateway. They took away the old DSL gateway box I had previously had for ten years.

I soon noticed that the new unit, while physically a tiny bit smaller than the prior unit, weighed 2 kg (4.5 lbs), which seems really heavy to me. And there is a sticker on it with the warning "Hot metal surfaces".

What is going on here? Does it have something to do with the power of the wifi service (which I don't use). I can't help but think of some kind of electromagnet...
Tolerating the intolerant never ends well. Oh how I wish Karl Popper was taught in schools...
I never understood the value proposition here, but I assume they had _some_ traction which motivated them to work on this for almost four years. Curious as to their numbers and what people walked away thinking after trying it.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Another great parallel would be Guy Debord's La société du spectacle, published in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
Hormones, appetite, metabolic diseases are all orthogonal to CICO. These can have an effect on how many calories you burn or how many calories you crave but at the end of the day, CICO is still law.
That quote doesn't mention social media? It mentions computer games as a possible explanation, and then explicitly says none of the things listed is a complete explanation. The article speculates that social media may be related, but what I'm asking is what the commenter thinks is the specific connection between social media and a decrease in sexual activity.

The OP comment essentially said that Social Media was causing massive catastrophic social change. I'm not seeing that backed up in the article, even if I think I may agree.
Agreed, this is great
But in any case, the difference is huge between writing a one-sentence prompt and choosing and arranging a motive, arranging the photo setting & lighting

You know you're comparing the best example of photography with the worst example of using an AI, right?

A photographer may carefully study their craft and set up their shots. They can also be someone who puts no thought at all into taking an almost random photo. Same as someone can carefully tune the parameters of a model and refine their prompt until they get something which meets their exacting specifications, or they can be someone who grunts into a text box and clicks generate.

Playing around with Stable Diffusion running locally, comparing my output to the things held up as AI art removes any doubt in my mind as to whether the creators are artists. They are.
Thanks for your feedback. At the moment, ClickUp does have real-time chat in lists, not global chat, so you can't send one-on-one messages to someone yet. For some people that love simplicity and don't need the many features ClickUp has to offer, it's overwhelming. We have a lot of users switching from ClickUp for simplicity alone.
The researchers [...] used responses from 4,155 people in 2009 and 4,547 people in 2018.

Just two sample years or a regular sample within those dates?

Discussed here before has been the significant drop in male heterosexual activity due to the growth of hookup apps post-Tinder around 2012 allegedly focusing a majority of the female partnering among a minority of men.

It would be interesting to know if the survey here is merely reproducing some of that or if the decline has been reasonably linear between the two quoted sample years.
You’re exactly right that the mental effects of testosterone have been greatly exaggerated. People with genuine hypogonadism who receive TRT into normal levels will see some improvement, but it’s extremely common on TRT forums to see people who started TRT with the assumption that it would fix all of their various mental health quirks but then become disappointed when it doesn’t live up to the hype.

> I got lucky in that my response to TRT puts my testosterone up around 1,100ng/dL which is around twice what the average person has.

I wouldn’t characterize this as “lucky”. You’re on the wrong dose. Excess testosterone can cause its own set of mental health issues, particularly if the downstream hormones aren’t kept in check. The sustainable solution is to go back to a normal TRT range and keep your dose there.
Sorry I can't explain it any better. Try reading Milton Freedmans work.

Inflation was going up well before the Russian invasion and sanctions. So I believe the covid stimulus, i.e literally money printing to be the main driver of it, and exacerbated further by supply shocks. Otherwise I would expect to see Core CPI come down.
Using zsh now but I had a similar issue with bash-it and it turns out the culprit was that I was running brew —prefix multiple times to get the home brew path instead of using an environment variable.
> Now take a singleplayer game, or a text editor. It's not a security risk if these crash, so do you need the safety

Any program that operates on untrusted data can be a security vulnerability. If an attacker can make your text editor execute arbitrary code if you open a specially crafted file, that's a major security problem. Why would you create the risk of this sort of problem on purpose when we have adequate safe languages these days?

Instead of making people decide on a case-by-case basis when "security really matters", let's make all programs safe. I mean, isn't your suggestion that text editors have not security implications evidence in itself that people will get it wrong when asked, "Does my program need security?".
How is endurance related to any of it?

Eg I have very high natural T, go to gym and I have zero cardio endurance, I never do cardio.

A possible reason are pills against pregnancy for women -> they then pee out the massive amount of estrogen due to pills -> that estrogen ends up in the water which ends up in the environment -> which ends up in our tap water.
Do you have an affiliate program? I would like to resell.
Speech can literally drive people to suicide. If you don't see this as violence just because no fist hit a person, then you are very naive.

See: how the entire world treats minorities every single day.