skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My senior year of undergrad, there were 4 of us living together who were math majors. There were so many things that we laughed or argued about that when non-math major friends were over, they sort of just stared at us because nothing we were saying made sense to them, even though it made perfect sense to us.

Part of it, I think, is because of the sheer knowledge threshold: much of higher level maths has its own specialized language, so when you start discussing isomorphisms between Z_p and geometric structures, and you don't know what those words mean, your eyes can't help but glaze over. So I don't know if it's so much that there's a higher standard of 'genius' so much as it is that it's a different standard, because much of maths is so far removed from the knowledge base of the layperson.
A computational linguistic farce in three acts
This is truly terrible advice and you ought to feel bad for promoting it here.

http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html
The thing is, homeopathy claims to heal all kinds of illness (cancer for instance), while the author of this study leaves it very, very clearly that it only works on the perception of illness by the mind.

He clearly states that the placebo won't work in quantifiable illnesses because those quantifiable effects don't depend on the perception from your brain.
Depends on what you want. If you are okay being socially isolated, then sure. But that causes its own psychological problems... loneliness.
I know a lady who was managing a convenience store / pharmacy who eventually quit and became a reiki healer. Prior to this kind of study any real scientist would know it's total garbage. But somehow she makes a living doing it. Is it all duping? I suspected not.

In my mind what people who paid her were getting was something that they almost universally can't get inside the traditional medicine system here in the US at least, someone who cares.

Most encounters with doctors here in the US are 10 minutes or less at least for an office visit. If you have a lot of symptoms or back-story or whatever the doc might cut you off and ask questions and keep directing the conversation rather than hear you out. That might be an efficient use of their time, but it's not good for the placebo effect to work because part of that seems to be caring, wanting the patient to get better, doing things (even things we know won't work) to help.

This lady has I think only hour long appointments which are totally unheard of in the traditional system. It's not surprising that if the placebo effect is real that seeing someone who can really only care (or at least pretend to) could be effective.
It's really not as beneficial as it sounds in theory. Sites uses different versions of these libraries.
You would be better serving a single minified asset that is cached for your users.
> Generally, though, you're fighting the high level idea of these tools by trying to tie to specific hardware.

I figured as much, but I'm trying to avoid inventing my own solution if one already exists.
That seems to be the trick the Buddhists and yourself have figured out. The language, however, is dated. Maybe you could update Buddhist mantra for 2017 using all the parlance of our times?
My mum, after getting her PhD (and having taught herself through A-levels because her Yorkshire school stopped at O-levels, and got into Oxford) decided to take her first-ever IQ test. She rated mentally subnormal.

Astonished, she thought about what it was trying to test and took another test: now genius.

None of us think that either was right...
The question is whether Apple will allow recovery if you lost all your devices.

If they don't, I don't think it is that hard for Apple to extend their current security model to iCloud. They currently rely on senders encrypting messages with each destination device's public key, so they can store the individually encrypted messages separately in iCloud.

When a new device arrives, they could have an existing device perform re-encryption of the messages for it (after the user authorizes that the device should be added).

Even without the new iCloud functionality, Apple has always been in control over the key exchange, which would allow a malicious employee / government to write code that could add a new authorized device/key silently and thus allow Apple to eavesdrop from that point on in future conversations.
I think it was Borges that said 'all the discussions are about semantics.':

I could argue that the Second World War was about, you know, the world, not about Germany. They were fighting in all Europe, that in that moment the fight was in Germany was due to the development of the war but it was, yet, a global war.

We need heuristics because when somebody tell us something that goes against a developed heuristic we should be surprised and examine the evidence more carefully. A kind of comprehension algorithm if you want. Maybe it's another way of saying that if you are invading a country the burden of proof is on you.

For instance, Russian intervention in Ukraine was about protecting ethnics Russians, USA intervention in Iraq was about spreading democracy or defensive intervention or something like that.

That goes against my heuristic, so I should stop to examine the evidence more carefully.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/china-uncovers-massive...
OK, that makes sense. But why use a platform that abstracts physical layout when you already have a physical layout in mind?
Decades-long anxiety sufferer here, basically cured with thyroid hormone replacement...

Thyroid underactivity is a very common condition (thyroid hormone is the third-most prescribed medication in the UK), and some of you anxiety sufferers out there may have a thyroid problem (either under- or over-activity).

The most common problem is an underactive thyroid, which 90% of the time is caused by auto-immunity.

Detection is complicated by an ongoing controversy over reference ranges [1][2]. I recommend you seek the advice of the most careful practitioners. If you suspect a problem but your doctor won't treat, keep testing. The results will fluctuate, and even more so if you have a problem.

Beware TSH measurements consistently above 2.0. That may put you at risk of chronically elevated cortisol [3], which has been shown to cause anxiety in mice [4].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16148345

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16148346

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520819/

[4] http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2006/04/stress-mood.a...
It depends on the benzo I think. Klonopin and Xanax have shorter half lifes so you would need to take them more consistently for a longer period of time to get addicted, but they may be more psychologically addictive since they drop off faster. I took an insane amount of Valium (longer half life) and blacked out for two weeks but didn't have any physical withdrawals at the end of it that I noticed. I took 6mg of Xanax once and had an acute anxiety/panic attack coming down from them. Also, people I knew taking Xanax for anxiety took a dose of 0.25 mg which was laughable to me as someone who abused it. I don't really understand how you could get addicted to that dosage or have serious withdrawals from it.
To some extend the same problem applies to application code. As long as the hardware and platform are closed, we don't really know what is going on when the application is executed. Despite this, opening the application would be of course a step to the right direction. Not because it would guarantee that Apple is not doing bad things, but because it would help others spot problems that may be there by accident.
Am I right to read this as "the classical computer and quantum computer compete at the task of being that particular quantum computer?" Scott Aaronson is probably preparing to denounce this experiment already.
Still, the other problems the parent mentioned still apply. Can you verify the build against the source? Can you verify the binary on your phone against the build?
The new new things that weren’t
Reminds me of a list of "copyright myths" I saw in school.

The first nine were, "you think you can do this simple thing, this reasonable thing, or have any freedom whatsoever? SCREW YOU."

The tenth claimed it was a myth that copyright levied oppressive burdens on the consumer.

Lesson: With any type of intellectual property protection, you can usually just presume it works in the most totally disgusting way imaginable.
If for the sake of argument we presume the postulate true and we envision a better informed future could a company such as Google (or others) be obliged to a point where past a certain threshold social media and media in general adjust one's exposure to counteract people's unhealthy impulses?

For example, if (Google) knows you are living beyond your means then ads targeted change in aspect from aspirational to more basic needs and the news and social media surfaced to you modify so that you feel less stressed and less out of a loop till the time you have more disposable income?

(just a thought experiment)
"a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access."

And this is why we need security vulnerability scanners that check for default credentials :-( Instead of telling people to change the password, they should really enforce the change with a one-time script prompting the user on the first login.

Edit: I know, only for arm/armv6, but still doesn't excuse the security sloppiness.
BLAKE2 is less safe than BLAKE as well.

>Isn't this SHA-3 less safe, too?

Yes, both K12 and M14 are less safe than SHA3. Instead of 12 + 2ℓ rounds (where ℓ is 25 * 2^ℓ = r + c [where r + c = 1600 in both sha-3 and K12]) it uses just 12 rounds (14 for M14). It also uses half the c (c = 512 in sha3-256, c = 256 in K12, where c is the sponge capacity). It provides the same amount of bits of security against collision attacks for both quantum and classical systems, however the preimage security is the ~85 bits for quantum systems (128 in sha3-256) and 128 bits in classical systems (256 in sha3-256) due to the changes in c.
other interesting articles:

Changing Mindsets to Enhance Treatment Effectiveness

JAMA. 2017 May 23;317(20):2063-2064. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.4545.

https://mbl.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/crum_zuckerman_...

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You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine ( 09 February 2016 )

Jo Marchant asks if we can harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs.

https://mosaicscience.com/story/medicine-without-the-medicin...

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The Vodka-Red-Bull Placebo Effect

People take more risks when downing caffeine-and-alcohol cocktails—but only if they know what they’re drinking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/caffeine...

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Howe, L. Goyer, P., & Crum, A. (2017). Harnessing the Placebo Effect: Exploring the Influence of Physician Characteristics on Placebo Response. Health Psychology.

https://mbl.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/howegoyercrum_h...

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Crum, A., Phillips, D., Higgins, T. (2016). Transforming Water: Social Influence Moderates Psychological, Physiological, and Functional Response to a Placebo Product. PLOS One, 11(11).

https://mbl.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/crumetal_transf...

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Crum, A. & Phillips, D. (2015). Self-Fulfilling Prophesies, Placebo Effects, and the Social-Psychological Creation of Reality. In R. Scott and S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

https://mbl.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/crumphillips_em...
You, implicitly, say that the side that suffers the most is by default on the moral high ground.

Sadly this is very common: more Arab lives are lost than Israeli - seems line Israelis are more evil.

While the reason is very straighforward - Israeli put nore effort into defending their citizens while the other side shoot rockets out of civilian neighborhoods seemingly to attract fire and international sympathy :-/

I feel more sorry for the Arabs for they have bad leadership and is punished again and again for it. But moral high ground? No way IMO.
This isn't really something that I have experience with, hence asking; my issue is mainly not really knowing the tools available, therefore I'm looking in the wrong place.
So, the way I deploy code is to SSH into my server, clone my repo from GitHub, setup the db and start the relevant systemd services. If I need to install updates it's a simple git pull and restart the services. I can use something like ansible for configuration management to reduce the manual SSH part.

For someone like me, what benefit do these PaaS offerings provide?
On the example you mentioned, clicking the 3-dot "hamburger" is an example of the easing that I referred to. The menu drops out like it's needlessly spilling out of the side of the component. The user is already looking where they are clicking/tapping.

Hovering over the "view source" icons also has an over-the-top easing effect that is too theatrical for what it does. Try opening and closing the source windows on a few different sections quickly, and watch how too many things that aren't important are animating at once and how easing is making them last too long for fast use of the UI.

Things "ripple" in MD when you click them -- for no coherent reason. Users don't need such distracting visual feedback for that. It gives UIs a floppy, cheap plastic look.

Two more examples of problems with Material Design are Google's new login screen and Trello's Android app -- both due to the distracting animation. Watch how things animate and then ask _why do those elements need movement that attracts users attention at this moment?_ (They don't. The user already knows where to find them.)

I don't think that last few years of Bootstrap have been terrible, except for the overuse of the parallax effect and animations on homepages as you scroll down to each new section. There has been a kind of generic look to some Bootstrap sites, but I don't think that it's bad. Example: this random Bootstrap-based theme[1] is generally fine and readable, except for the animation in the menu items when scrolling back to the top. I think that UIs should be simple and easy to use, and that you shouldn't really notice them when trying to get to the content. Animation and easing is for computer games, not content.

[1] http://devitems.com/preview/nexo/index.html
Yes, I agree with all of that.
Failing fast applied to dating.
Well Buddhists may claim to, but how often does that not beak down into some other similar game where you have some sort of hierarchy form like for instance in Tibetan Buddhism, you have a guru and his disciples and they are better for their religiosity and what not. Maybe an ascetic monk aspires towards that, again at the cost of loneliness and then maybe through that he can assert his moral superiority over some group. It's all the same game bro.

I am better than you ... because... if anything in your existence has anything to do with that then you are in the game.
I think the third paragraph suggests the point is that it is allegedly a measure for whether a purely reductionist approach is a useful way to explain a given thing or phenomenon. For example, while I have no doubt that the history of life on earth could, in principle, be explained in terms of physics, I find that a Darwinian theory of evolution is a more useful way of looking at it.

Aaronson's argument seems to be that the resulting measure is an unsurprising outcome. I am not sure whether that proves it is irrelevant, but I think the onus is on its proponents to show that this measure goes beyond being trivially true, and is actually useful.

In the conclusion of the article, Hoel seems to be making a stronger claim: "The theory does imply that universal reductionism is false when it comes to thinking about causation, and that sometimes higher scales really do have more causal influence (or information) than whatever underlies them." There seems to be a hint of the motte-and-bailey strategy here, with Hoel defending the narrower claim but expecting us to accept the broader one.

I have not figured out how this measure is actually calculated without having a reductionist measure of the system's information content, so I wonder if it has been created to be used as a pawn in some philosophical argument, perhaps such as the nature of consciousness.
The scummy DOWNLOAD NOW ads that end up on legit software download pages has got to snag more than a handful of people. They're big shiny buttons with tiny (actually an ad) disclaimers.
> I have started to take a more active role in my wife's ongoing treatment

You might be interested in the English NICE website, which sets out some evidence based standards for treatment of various disorders.

Here's what they say for general anxiety:

Recommendations for treatment: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113

Quality recommendations: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs53

Pathways: https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/generalised-anxiety-di...
Impossibly great? I'm not saying everything responds instantly but usually there's either signal or there isn't.

AMP pages don't work offline just as much as regular internet
Gotcha! I hope I was helpful.

Normally in these circumstances I'd recommend BOSH but, off the top of my head, I don't know what kind of affinity can be defined. So it might be another rabbit hole.
Air Travel Exposes You to Radiation--How Much Health Risk Comes with It?
Ask HN: Do you respect DNT in your personal websites? How?
Yesterday, I have published some article (that is irrelevant to this discussion) up on my blog. In it, I've embedded a YouTube video. Now, it got me thinking. Even though I have configured my analytics service (Piwik) in such a way that it respects Do Not Track policy, embedding a YouTube video made me break my own, so far not heavily enforced, Do Not Track policy.

It got me thinking, and honestly, I have no clue how much time have I done it in the past by embedding third party content.

So, my question is: Do you respect DNT in your own personal blogs / websites / web app projects, and if so, how? Do you carefully inspect every source before embedding it, re-host everything and things like that, or are you using some sort of an automation tool that I am not familiar of that will force you to only embed content that respects DNT?

I should point out that I'm not aiming for a regular DNT is a good/bad idea discussion, but for the practical examples on how someone, as a website owner, could respect the DNT idea if he wants to.
I made this account specifically to reply to this comment.

I take Klonopin. It is the ONLY thing that works for me. I have tried nearly everything. Every form of therapy you can think of, basically every class of drug to treat anxiety...

But Klonopin (benzos) are the only things that allow me to function enough to work and provide for myself. If I didn't have Klonopin, I would be without a job and would be homeless. I would literally be unable to function outside of the house (by function, I mean interact with people, work, go to the grocery store...), until I were forcibly removed because I haven't paid rent in months.

So if this attitude you and others share continues to embed itself into the minds of doctors, then people like me will be left without proper care. And what that means is that people like me will be unable to work, and unable to slog through the process of acquiring disability (and trust me, it's hard as hell), so we will be homeless or forced to burden our families with our care. It's not some abstract issue, one that can be handwaved away, one that you can distance yourself from by saying "the drug is bad so it should not be used with regularity; those who need it with regularity can instead be treated in other ways". There are zero other ways, in my case, and I am sure in many others' cases too.

Sorry if I seem accusatory, but people's insistence that these drugs be given only for short periods of time is in effect an insistence that I be left without any options after that short period of time expires.
I mean the list: [j*2 for j in range(0, 11/2)] Does not give you the item "10" in the list.

So it skips 10...
Dan Ariely isn't a mere pop-sci author, but holds a Ph.D. (1996) in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The general shape of Ericsson's research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson is that other than height, vocal cord size, and body build, EVERYTHING can be improved with training.

That means: a high IQ only means you can do something new decently well the first time.
Once people start learning & practicing, the IQ isn't the deciding factor.
Would grateful to hear anyone's experience taking SSRI's (Zoloft, etc.). Was it effective, how long were you taking it, what were the side effects it any, how was the experience of stopping (withdrawal, etc.)?
(from linked resources)

> Keccak won the SHA-3 competition, and became the FIPS 202 standard on August 5, 2015. All the other contenders lost.

I don't think many professionals would agree with this view of cryptographic competitions.

> Being too late to take part in the fight to become SHA-3, it just stood on its own awkwardly.

Again with the wording... SHA-3 is not an epic battle for blood and honour. Acting as if a NIST competition is a public fight is rather disconcerting.

> It is only in 2013 that SHA-2 joined Intel's set of instructions, along with SHA-1...

Technically true, but only now -- four years later -- desktop processors were released supporting the SHA extensions, and none of these are from Intel so far.
> The one knock I have on GCP is billing. It is incredibly obtuse.

Really? We've found it to be much easier. The billing section has up-to-date current breakouts and a simple list of transactions for each billing account. There are budget alerts and the best part is the easy export into bigquery which then gives you SQL access for all of it. Add in datastudio and you have BI style analysis and visualizations too. Better than anything else the other clouds have.

Video from GCP Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL8kvTb4RbU
From what I heard, it is this way because there is currently no better way of determining which psychiatric drug will work best besides going for trial and error.
Or maybe people just don't care anymore for NYtimes articles that cite "source." Fabricated clickbait is real.
> you ought to feel bad for promoting it here.

But see, he doesn't, he's taking homeopathic medicines for that.
No, of course not. I also can't build an iPhone from scratch or look at the hardware design or firmware. It's especially bad when you consider that Qualcomm baseband and the problems it has.

Hell, I can't even trust that with my desktop computer. Further, how do I know the light in front of me isn't fabricated and that I'm not a brain floating in fluids connected to a simulation?

Realistically, I believe Apple's intentions are in the right place. And I believe that, for the most part, iPhone backdoors are not a thing yet. Being able to look at the client code is not something I believe will happen, but I believe it would be good if it did because then the security of iMessage could be independently verified much easier. It is true that Apple could just lie about it and put different code up, but assuming their intentions are in the right place, it seems like a win-win for everyone.
Medication isn't indicated as a first line treatment for anxiety. An evidence-based talking therapy is. That would be something like 12 to 14 weeks of cognitive behaviour therapy; one hour per week; face to face with a therapist; not in group sessions.

If that doesn't work or if the anxiety is particularly severe (anxiety disorders can be debilitating and cause years lost to disability) medication might be indicated.
If you have something that works and you don't need to manage hundreds or thousands of applications in a uniform way, I'd stay with what you trust.

Edit: Though as PaulRobinson points out, before thinking about a PaaS you ought to think about CI/CD.

I mean I think Cloud Foundry is the bee's dancing knees, but for a single app it's probably massive overkill.