skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the the way this article is written, is both the symptom, and a factor helping the proliferation, of the issue it discusses.

It is more or less a trivia style collection of references and anecdotes, from different sources related to the topic. It feels a bit like a tweeter feed itself, if you search #anxiety - a really wide collection of tangentially related observations (haven't actually tried that, no twitter account, but you get the point). No attempt of synthesis, no deeper analysis of the connections between topics, no statistics.

The way I understand it, when there is no core but a shattered collection of associations, that by itself can cause anxiety. Because the reader now has him/herself to build connections, or leave that as uncertainty, and uncertainty will cause anxiety. And to expect the reader will do that is unrealistic - even the skilled reader will need time for that.

Also, consider how the article came to existence: The author
seems to be a professional writer, 2-3 articles a month, half of them about hand watches. You have just read a socio-cultural analysis by the author of hand watch surveys. On nytimes.com.

Granted, life of writers is tough and jumping to conclusions here would be premature. But even if the author is capable of writing a thoughtful piece, writing that kind of article on a serious subject should be a violation of some kind of writer's version of Hippocratic Oath.

Couldn't nytimes.com find a reasonable expert to write that? It could, but it wouldn't for some reason.

Finally, the first paragraph mentions Sarah Fader,
"the Brooklyn social media consultant", "who has generalized anxiety disorder" with her tweet - apparently a gesture by one of the common people.
One of the last paragraphs mentions her again, but now
"the Brooklyn social media consultant who also runs a mental-health advocacy organization called Stigma Fighters". So perhaps more a calculated step rather than a gesture, but why spoil the hero story right in the first paragraph?
I'm not sure if it has been looked into yet, but once EVs are abundant it would make sense to look into ways of reducing pollution from road wear. Right now it's not worth it as much, since pollution from the cars themselves dominate. But once road wear is the dominant source it'll make sense to look into it.

Automated cleaning trucks which sweep the road for dust every day maybe? New materials for roads and tyres?
A more sustainable way to refine metals
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and rants to HN? We're trying for higher quality here.
what is particularly meaningful about eye color?
I agree and would extend it to be not trusting a VPN company or a director of a company operating on the UK, even if all the servers are in overseas locations.

There is a large provider based in Gibraltar. I'm not sure how trustworthy they could be but from what I remember it's all about the law and applicability and where an individual lives. IANAL
As a 40s hacker/entrepreneur what I miss most from the 90s was the feeling of having a vast unexplored frontier with endless possibilities ahead of us even for the little guys. These days, with the web and mobile revolutions maturing, it feels like the 5 or so giant tech monopolies have locked up most of the future potential. But maybe that feeling is part of having an older mentality.
> "If there are encryption keys then those encryption keys have to be put at the disposal of the authorities."

And if each user has their own set of keys? Will every user get a visit from security agencies asking to turn those over to the government?
If that would be true, they would not push for change in locations where regulations were sane. If they stood for pure market only, they would not sabotage competitors. They have their own lobbyist pushing for whatever suits them.
> Use text placeholders for images and use JS to load them at the request of the user.

Or fix browsers so they load the images lazily (which would break tracking pixels located at the bottom of a page).
This is neat. I built something a little more complex for work; it is a bootstrap based dynamic form engine, basically you uee JSON to define any one of about 12 form elements, even things like jsgrids or file upload boxes, and add validation rules / regex, layout rules etc. The app then builds all of the CRUD aspects automatically. It is making my life very very easy, as we have to build a lot of massive order forms at my ch ompany with over a hundred unique fields. Also built a PDF generator that pulls the form elements in as tokens to do mail mergy kind of stuff. It is the best project I have built in my career, really want to try and get it open sourced.
Client software (anything that runs on the user's device) should be open source for two reasons:

1. It's easier to audit, although binary analysis is still useful (and reverse engineers are often better at finding security holes than someone doing a source code review).

2. Reproducible builds.

Server software doesn't need to be open source. If you have E2E in your open source software, you don't need to trust the servers at all: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/03/client-authenticity-is-no...
Pypixgrid: generate vector tiles for the exploration of spatio-temporal datasets
For largely B2B McMaster Carr seems to have solved this. I can easily select items, the sizes, quantities and prices are all obvious. Amazon should strive for this level of simplicity for more of it's items. Especially compare the Amazon supply/small parts items to McMaster options. Did like the lotion described in the article is even worse.
Wait, aren't linear equation systems solvable in N^3 where N is number of equations/variables? Why do they claim exponential improvement?
Well, better prepare then.

June 2018 the new EU General Data Privacy Regulation comes into force.

And it requires that you allow users to do exactly that.
I used to be like you until I discovered the thewirecutter.com. I own their recommended bluetooth speaker and it's been great. I've also bought luggage, a TV, <$20 ear buds, packing cubes and more based on their recs. I know this sounds like an advert, but it really is that awesome.
To quote a certain Alfred Charles Hobbs: "Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them."

Also see: Security through Obscurity.
Intelligence is measurable and meaningful.

It astonishes me that people can claim with a straight face that it is not. I suspect it is sour grapes or something?

If intelligence isn't measurable, then you would agree that the average frog cannot be reliably distinguished from the average human in terms of intelligence?

Ok, so lets move on from that, and don't give me some painful story about how there are different kinds of intelligence and frogs are 'smarter about eating bugs' or something, please?

Maybe with the benefit of the doubt, you are trying to say that human's are genetically not very diverse, and so you can't find significant differences in intelligence. To that I would say you are certainly not claiming this in good faith, and you have some quasi-political reason to deny something that is obviously true to anyone who has interacted with more than 3 people. (and we can skip the lecture along the lines of 'you can't trust what is obvious and have to pretend that all your beliefs are properly cited or they are invalid')
Just pain-killer or nothing if the pain is low enough. It looks like it is a source of pain-killer overuse, and psychiatric issues. In my case the pain responds very well, so I just treat it with paracetamol, but I have used just 8 doses in 3 weeks.

To put it in context, tho, it is an extremely rare kind of stroke (5/1,000,000 per year), so the select people having had this stroke might have pain medicine issues, but it is not a contributor of anything in the grand scheme of things.
The size and variety issues are a big problem when buying shoes. I see the following sizes on some Chuck Taylors: 9.5 Men, 9 1/2 Men, 9.5 (D M), "Womens 11.5/Mens 9.5," and some European sizes mixed in.

If I want to buy some shoes, I have to check every combination of my size and the colors to find what I am looking for. Sometimes there are multiple names for the same color, too, e.g. "gray" and "charcoal."

I think the bottom line that Amazon is letting sellers enter whatever values they want. They should make sellers choose things like shoe sizes from a dropdown that has a standardized list.
Audits. Education. Change.

It's not like bad guys don't already have wordlists, or that they are new in any way. Having good ones available, in the open, for everyone to use, provides a net benefit in the long run imo.
What rural, coastal Puerto Ricans can teach us about thriving in times of crisis
I don't think you would have to re-host everything. One could place a placeholder (image maybe) instead of the embedded content that says "Click to activate third party resource. Caution, it may not respect DNT". Than if they click, swap it out with the youtube video or whatever. Gives them the choice to choose what they want to do.
Public Speaking: What is Mindful Presenting and why does it matter?
The problem is the fallacy consisting in the idea that that owning a gun puts you in equal terms with the government. That used to be the case maybe circa 1776, but no longer the case in 2017, 241 years later.

The government operates a regular, professionally trained armed forces with modern, military grade equipment. Your weapons can barely counter law enforcement, let alone an army.

Good luck solving a dispute with the government by firing a semi-automatic gun at an Apache Helicopter firing you back with 6000 rounds per minute.
There are a lot more things than simply spent fuel that end up as nuclear waste.
On the contrary, I see at least social as being open for distruption. FB did displace myspace after all.

Google, Apple, and Microsoft, though, seem pretty safe.
> They're not pushing any crises

Did you read the title?
In one sense, I think you're correct: the term "genius" should be reserved for people who produce extraordinary output in some field -- whether that's math or science, literature, music, visual art, etc. Even if we restrict ourselves to scientific geniuses, the idea that everyone who gets above a certain score on an IQ test should be labelled a genius seems, frankly, small-minded. Not everyone with an IQ >= X should be labelled a genius because not everyone with a very high IQ has the other qualities required to produce genius-level work.

But in many fields, such as mathematics, high IQ seems to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for genius. This makes sense -- doing well in mathematics courses requires the same logical and analytical skills required to score high on an IQ test. In that sense, it obviously has some predictive value.
However, with McMaster Carr they do not show the shipping charge until it is packaged and shipped. That can lead to sometimes surprising high shipping charges.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/24134...
Best way to do it :)
The "HSM cluster" serves as a redundant "device" which is in Apple's possession rather than yours, but which you must trust to withstand tampering, even by Apple.

The option to record the keys yourself is also described in the whitepaper:

"If the user decided to accept a cryptographically random security code, instead of
specifying their own or using a four-digit value, no escrow record is necessary. Instead,
the iCloud Security Code is used to wrap the random key directly. "

As I said, I can't actually find this option in my iOS settings. Maybe you have to disable Keychain first?
I suppose my question would be why a lot of small systems would even need something like Docker. The theoretical benefits certainly would apply to various projects I work on, but the reality is that businesses at this scale often set up a standard system image and deploy it on a static set of real servers. Once that's done, the foundation might not change for months or years at a time.

There are usually two significant exceptions. One is security updates, which are typically monitored and tested/deployed via a separate process anyway. The rest is the day-to-day development work and deploying new assets, which typically needs no more than some sort of copy/clone job from the VCS to get the data to the servers and then running a single script to deploy/activate everything.

If you're working with hundreds of servers or dynamically reconfiguring things all the time in a Cloud environment, obviously the situation may be different. However, for the simpler cases -- and you can get a long way with them if you're just running a normal business and not trying to be the next unicorn -- the whole process already seems reasonably reliable and efficient anyway.

I'm a software guy rather than an operations specialist, as are the people I work with in almost all cases, so I always have some nagging doubt that we just have a total collective blind spot here. But so far, speaking only about the smaller scale and more static deployments I tend to work with, these kinds of tools seem like solutions to problems we don't often have.
I have several IoT devices around my home and want to push different code or configs out to them. Sure, something like Chef could work... But I'd have to install a client on each device when all I really want to do is script SSH sessions.
I'm going to ship you a item. Luckily I have multiple copies of the item. I ship using UPS, Fedex, and USPS. You'll probably get three copies, but to get no copies of the item I'm shipping you something has to go ridiculously wrong in three different companies.
What has been solved? The terrorist goes in there, takes some waste, builds dirty bomb problem? I may forgive him for not thinking about that 25 years ago but thats not what I consider as solved (asside from dissolved which he indeed convers in quite some detail). Although I agree that one could do that with other stuff as well.
Thank god.

I remember being so excited when 11.0 was released, until I found out that that NAT-ing on the VPN interface wasn't possible without recompiling the kernel.
Given that Signal was designed specifically for mobile users not desktop users, that's not a problem for its target audience.

Wire looks promising for desktop users.
I love how soothing that sound is. I would love to have it going while working in a library study hall or something.
The crucial role of Medicaid in America’s health care system
It means it's time to start looking for the next revolution.

Before the web, there was the PC revolution. And...microcomputers before that, I think?

It's true, computing technologies mature and there are fewer opportunities for real break throughs. But then new technologies arrive for the cycle to start over again.
(Another 40's hacker/entrepreneur here)

Something I try to continuously tell myself is that "It's still early days" because while it doesn't feel like it - I think it is.

Look at the massive shifts we've seen in social media use (Friendster > MySpace > Facebook + Twitter > Snap) - at near any point in their usage you could have reasonably said: "I don't see how anyone could overthrow one of these - they're too big"

There is so much future still to invent.
Seems there are plans in the works via clouddriver: https://github.com/spinnaker/clouddriver/search?utf8=%E2%9C%...

I'm sure they will eventually, but it probably takes a big amount of effort to prep and polish something for oss consumption. Thankful for all the netflix oss tools that are already in the wild!
From Facebook account takeover to an empty bank account
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Japanese Education
I'm turning 30 this year. Not old at all, but just old enough to not be young.

I don't feel nostalgia, what I do feel is envy for the younger. Especially those younger than me that I feel are more successful than I. Not in the "Ugh, fuckers" way, but in the "God damn it if I knew then what I know now or at least listened to the people who did know, I could be that ultra successful young hotshot! I had all the opportunities and I didn't take them for various reasons. Grargh!"

Not sure if that's what feeling old feels like but I certainly feel a level of "Poop, there's def less time ahead of me for all the shit I want(ed) to do than there used to be"
Kinda like a placebo effect, yes. It would be interesting to take a group of slightly younger test subjects and see what happens to them when they live with older people in the present.

Moi? The body and mind are both subject to: Use it or lose it. We also, as humans, tend to assimulate into the norm around us, be it smoking, obesity, and now I guess perhaps youth.

Finally, I have to wonder about the effects of essentially being on holiday. In addition, perhaps the group discussions energized them? That is instead of waiting to die, they had more reason to live? In any case, interesting.
100s of Girls in U.S. Town Left with One SICK Thing in Common
ProgressQuest[1] was an actual "game" many years ago. It was kind of the progenitor of the current incremental/idle games. Looks like its basically the whole thing compiled to this ui.

[1] http://progressquest.com/
You call that correctly? It's a nightmare
Something like that time lapse video at the end could be shown to kids even in preschool.
Weird. I suppose results may depend on our geographical locations.
Intelligence is meaningless? Do you seriously believe that statement?

Despite the difficulties involves in measuring it exactly, intelligence does exist objectively and is measurable in principle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Everyone cant make money in the market. Who is on the other-side of index funds.
Mathematical Structuralism
I know many mathematicians. Not a single one of them I'd refer to as "genius". Most are very bright. Some think fast.

But for the most of it, they've "just" persistently and wholeheartedly studied their field in mathematics.

Geniuses are rare. Art Tatum, Messi, Tesla, Mingus - those are people you'll have to wait another century to see the equal of. If at all.
I just finished listening Joe Rogan's podcast with Sebastian Jurgen [1] where they talked about humanity's need to be involved in society in order to feel happy. While they talked Jurgen mentioned something interesting that I've never heard before and don't know if true or not. He said that the survivors of The Blitz in some weird way missed the time that they spent hiding in the subway tunnels of London. Similarly, many veterans missed the combat after arriving back home and settling back into normal life. The obviously didn't miss the horrors. They missed the comradery. They missed the purpose they had. Their lives were all of a sudden critical to their own survival and the survival of others. And I too believe that our often sedentary way of life is the reason why we fall into depression and anxiety. We are starved for deeper meaning.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4KiOECVGLg
I think you're missing her overall point by focusing on the "genius" label though. Our reward system is set up for those at the very top. But those top performers rely on a whole host of other good-but-not-stellar actors who never see a comparable reward for their efforts.
Optimism says that both hazardous chemicals and spent nuclear fuel are problems that have solutions. In the case of chemical waste, we will eventually have entirely closed chemical cycles just like life. That is not enough of course: we must also try to avoid them ending up in the wrong places in the wrong form, and when they inevitably sometimes do, find ways to clean that up or obviate their effects.
It takes 1 second to solve a 2x2 system? I don't see how any speed-up is going to make it faster than just using a regular computer.
Very nice!
I've been using somewhat similar sh[1] for the same purpose. It's nice seeing more alternatives.

[1]https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
it is, sometimes, hilarious how entitled we can get.

a site full of jobs that allow you to use your favourite technology, work remotely, with hip startups doing cool things, but god forbid you have to upload a resume.

imagine one of the less fortunate get annoyed by the idea of "writing a resume". the horror.
Totally agree. Many WW2 probably had serious PTSD. My point is that people who haven't gone though serious struggle tend to "sweat the small stuff". When I hear people being crazy angry and depressed about the Trump election it seems it me that they are looking for a mission in life. Modern corporate life doesn't​ offer a meaningful mission so they go overboard with politics or something else really not that important.
What is best strategy to dramatically increasing price of a SaaS product?
Exponentially better than a polynomial in N is a polynomial in log N. See the abstract of [1] for the precise complexity claim about the algorithm mentioned in the article. As good as N^3 sounds, it's still not great on enormous systems.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3171
> Even a 5 minute conversation can give you a T boost of 30%

How is it different from taking drugs, really?
That's pretty good. I guess the idea that you would want cross-site identity is, really, tracking. The only benefit to the user would be some universal name and photo that remains the same across all sites. But that's a really marginal benefit. This isso project gets 98% of usefulness.
WRT short sleeved shirts: The Apollo-era NASA engineers pretty much all wore short-sleeved white shirts, black slacks, and a black tie. The image has stuck in many people's heads as what a professional engineer should look like, even younger people who've seen movies about the era like Apollo 13. It's also still a popular style at NASA for looking professional (photo ops and such).

Of course the reasoning for short sleeves is that graphite dust would stain long sleeves. Likewise for a black tie. Since drafting using pencils is pretty much nonexistent these days the need for the style is gone. Now it's just used to project an image of competent professional engineering.

It's also much more common among engineers in disciplines where they could get a PE than among programmers. Code monkeys don't match, sparkies and gearheads do.
Young people buying, old people selling.

It relies on population growth, but for the US that's a fine bet.

It would not work in Japan.
Your rant is justified and I will take it as wake up call. I am 41, played rugby until I was 30. Now I have a bond, child and in Africa you can't exactly pick and chose your job. There is a post below that captures my sentiments, the cost of living is high. All manner of taxes, interest on bond repayments, utilities like cable, school fees. I cannot take any more time off work or take sabbaticals. Yes I diligently read every post on passive income. Wealth as in number of days you can survive without a salary the deciding factor in staying put. I have a good job and mostly like it but honestly I will not be waking up with same vigor I did in my youth.

Final thought, the source of my anxiety right now is that it is 10pm and I need to go sleep to be fresh for my Monday morning project update meeting. A meeting where I will have to answer pointy haired boss (Dilbert) style questions.

Edit: grammar
Did you read the article? The victim who've had their phone number stolen weren't the ones that fell prey to social engineering - it's the customer service people at the phone provider who are persuaded to do a port of the phone number.

Unless you operate your own phone carrier, it would be hard to avoid this attack.
That seems like a very weak "should" and more of a "nice when it happens"
This has been the vector for Twitter hacks for many years.

Get the 2nd factor
I also found Amazon to be increasingly difficult to navigate, which is why I made nugget (http://nuggetapp.co/). nugget uses a mix of machine and human curation to pick out awesome stuff at great prices from Amazon.