skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating, I experienced this also. The boredom really rots your mind. At one point we began converting t-shirts into whips and practiced whipping at all the flies (man was there an abundance of flies). After many months of this you can get amazingly accurate. Most of us could easily take out flies who had landed, and the elites could nail the bastards in the air while they flew.

We had an interesting problem develop where people were going to the medic tent and getting prescribed Ambien for sleep, but then they would stay up after taking it. It makes you feel really drunk, and it was the only escape from the drudgery. This substance abuse may have ironically saved our sanity.
Looking at lectures, videos, books, biographies etc of people who inspire me. I'm not a professional mathematician but people like Ramanujan, Gauss, Euler, Grothendieck, Langlands, Andre Weil, Terry Tao, Lang, Serre, Harish-Chandra, etc. I come back to their works thinking one day I'll jump into doing something more original than my day-to-day job, may be one day I'll bite the bullet.

Musicians, mostly classical, in western: Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, and the musicians that render them Richter, Horowitz, Yo Yo Ma, etc. Also a lot of indian classical as well. Bhimsen Joshi, Salamat Ali Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Ali Akbar Khan. I know this isn't a music thread but musicians do inspire me and keep me coming back to their works.

Those folks keep me aware that something extraordinary is possible and they inspire me to strive for it. I delude myself into thinking one day I'll have a shot at reaching a tiny sliver of their potential..
Has anyone gone from being unable to do this to doing it easily, with good form? If so, what did you do?

(For context, my left low back and my right heel both have lower range of motion from injuries. Presumably that can be improved.)

Update: I have a preliminary answer to my own question: squat more. I just read more hacker news while squatting, and the front of my ankles quickly became tired.
> "they can have all the metadata"

How about instead of big-brother style "hand all your metadata over to the state", that instead the state releases an open-source program you can run that collects & analyzes all your metadata and then produces the bill?
The real point of fiat money is that it affords a government the option to increase the money supply at will.

Whether they do that for good (e.g. to attempt to combat a recession) or for evil (e.g. to invalidate government debt / inflate their way out of deficits) is a political exercise.

And knowing that, I actually think the US Fed is a pretty decent system. I shudder to think what would happen if Congress controlled monetary supply.
>> "we were able to form a model to predict the personality of every single adult in the United States of America."

That would be dystopian if it weren't so ridiculous. They can do nothing of the sort- predict the personality of any adult in the USA. At best they might be able to make predictions on a population basis, but anything more precise than that is out of the question. Behaviour prediction on an individual scale is pure, unadulterated fantasy.

This is just typical overselling of a service, by people who can use maths to obfuscate the fact that they 're making it up as they go along, targeted to people who wouldn't understand the maths if a five-year old explained it to them anyway.
When was your account created? Mine was created in the previous 30 days.

I even had brought up the browser's dev tools and tried to disable that setting but with no luck. It might had been a A/B test, or specific only to my country, but the point remains that it was a separate setting than the signature and it was impossible to disable it without paying. On desktop.
Here's the thing. When you give your data to Facebook or anybody else you no longer control it. Laws, policies, user agreements, none of that really matters. You don't control your data once it is no longer in your possession.
This topic elicited some discussion a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16471215
Florida Bridge collapse: The moment it fell captured on video as rescuers search
The symptoms you described in your first paragraph describe what I'm currently going through to a tee. Theses symptoms only started about a week ago for me.

Day 1: Debilitating anxiety, can't concentrate.

Night 1: Can't sleep, overwhelmed by anxious rumination.

Day 2: Anxiety eventually subsides because I'm so exhausted. By the evening, I'm feeling like my old self again - I might have anxious thoughts but they don't become obsessive ruminations.

Night 2: Sleep well. Repeat cycle.

---

I'm glad you got better. Hopefully the same will happen for me as well.
Tangentially, this article reminded me of this great video about politics in video games : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_tdztHiyiE

Civilization is given as a great example of political views influencing a game in the win states it provides : militaristic cultural or economical domination, all very American values. That's a very imperialistic view of the world.

It has certainly changed my perception of this great game (although not as much as it did for Sim City)
Exactly. Facebook really wants to protect your personal information - it's their competitive advantage. If other companies all have your personal info too, then it's less valuable to Facebook. The last thing they want to do is let it get out.

If you've decided to share your info with Facebook, well, that's on you. But Facebook isn't going to share it.
> Everybody makes rolling stops at stop signs on empty roads every once in a while.

I don't. Nobody in my family does (at least when I'm in the car with them).
There is also a very strong, but potentially unpalatable, correlation between driveable cities and highly affordable housing. Something having to do with supply and demand.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
If a correlation is completely explained by controlling for a third factor, that doesn't make the original correlation a lie. If black people are poorer than average and poor people commit disproportionately more crimes, blacks committing disproportionately more crimes is just what you'd expect.

What knowing the controlling variable does is give you additional information about what interventions are likely to change the situation. If you thought the reason for more crimes committed by blacks were their skin color, you might think that vitamin D deficiency is the culprit and attempt to provide them with supplements. Knowing the influence of economic factors makes that suggestion appear silly, and crime-prevention efforts would be better focused on improving the economic standing of blacks.
A Chrome extension to help prevent people falling victim to phishing scams
Hangouts didn't work for a long time on Firefox. They fixed it around a month ago or so, but that's pretty much three years after they knew that this problem would arise (deprecation of NPAPI plugins in Firefox).

For other parts, for example GMail, I've heard that they don't work as well on Firefox.

And to some degree, this is also just what I expect to see more of in the future, as outside of G Suite they're not exactly known for treating other browsers well either. Android Firefox in particular gets bullied by Google a lot. Last time I checked, the Google Custom Search that webpages can embed, just straight up returned a 404 when contacted by a browser with Android Firefox user-agent. And they serve some age-old version of google.com to it.
Not gonna argue that integrating with their platform is a gigantic pain in the ass, but I feel that part of it is the flexibility (and complexity) of their subscription model. Would you say different? Not too familiar with the other players in the field so I don't know how they compare really.

Definitely some reliability and performance concerns, though. I feel like half the pain is just having to shove so much defensive programming in our integration.
I can not do it easily, but if I'm wearing shoes with any kind of heal (even running shoes), I can squat down well enough to do things like gardening. Although there is a certain amount of flexibility in the hips, etc, the main issue is range of motion in the ankles. You need to be able to get your knees considerably in front of your toes in order to be able to shift your weight forward far enough not to fall over backwards. Most people also have poor strength balance between the calf muscle and the muscles at the front of the shin. You need the muscles as the front for the shin to lift your toes upwards -- so if you are struggling with range of motion, you will be pulling on those muscles to help you. When you have enough range of motion, gravity will do that for you.

Range of motion can be improved with training, but everyone has a limit. Where that limit is, depends on the person. If you practice every day for 6 months, then you can probably safely say that you've hit your limit.
>or even better --- not leaving your brain at all.

The faintest of ink will outlast the best of memory, or something like that.
>> In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.

So basically FB's problem is that Kogan passed the data to third parties, without FB's knowledge and -I guess- without FB being in on the deal. Because FB's whole business model is to hoover up its user's data and sell it to "third parties".

Third parties who may then do with it whatever they like, without users having any control over it. You know- like Kogan just did.

FB is trying to pretend they're the responsible party in this - "Protecting peoples' information" is what they do, they say. Well, no it isn't. Trading peoples' information is at the heart of everything they do. And this is just one more example of why it is so harmful.
Unless the vulnerability is in the CPU/DMA/whatever and not easily patched. Everyone assumes that Apple has no idea what it is, maybe they are keenly aware and it’s just not fixable.
If you're really interested, here are some other recent takes by statisticians on this issue:
http://datacolada.org/17
https://approachingblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/powering-yo...

It's simply field experience that interactions are more typically subtler modifiers of strong main effects – here's a relevant quote from the second source:

>Unfortunately, very few times in psychology do we add a factor and expect a complete reversal of the effect. (...) [It’s] more usual that we expect the new condition to alter the size, rather than direction, of the existing effect.

Or from the first:

>[Whatever] power [simple effect study] had, at least twice as many subjects are needed in [interaction study], per cell, to maintain it. We know this because we are testing the reduction of that same effect.
Make it a daily habit.

Also, if your injuries involve tendons, ligaments or cartilage, you can feed those tissues with gelatine. You can buy plain gelatine and add hot water, stir vigorously and add a little apple juice for flavor and to cool it to drinking temperature. Consume rapidly before the goo starts solidifying in the cup.

I did this daily for a year or two to help heal old injuries. My impairment improved substantially and was never so bad again.
> An iPhone typically contains all manner of sensitive information: account credentials, names and phone numbers, email messages, text messages, banking account information, even credit card numbers or social security numbers. All of this information, even the most seemingly innocuous, has value on the black market

My phone has no banking information, credit card information, Social Security numbers, or email accounts that can be used to recover or reset access to any online service. Why? Because I don't trust my phone.

But aside from all that, all that information is already on the black market. There have been so many breaches, Equifax just to name one, to think otherwise.
I really think it's just an indication of the flagging dynamic. If 20% flags vs upvotes kills an article, all "partisan" articles will be killed.

Though I'm personally more interested in this as an article of criminal justice. I mean, most of the times I chafe at "X million to 1" statistical stories, because they're sometimes the kind of bullshit used to railroad defendants, but I do wish we had some discussion.

I mean, many there's an honest explanation for payments grouping together to almost equal an even tens of thousands of dollars? I'm not being sarcastic. I want that discussion, I want to be exposed to that potential counterpoint.
Nothing. QE is just a swap, the net assets for each involved party doesn't change, only the type of assets they happen to posses.

The government get a trillion of debt but also a trillion worth of assets that pay their cost back, eventually.
Wow, I never realized I squatted differently. Time to ask a bunch of people to squat on Monday
It's a realistic point though. Illegal industrial espionage definitely happens and with the resources of a huge multinational corporation it becomes easier to conceal behind a wall of secrecy and misdirection. I doubt Apple would do it, but it also wouldn't surprise me and they definitely could.

All they have to do is discretely obtain the device in question and have a few good engineers quietly pick it apart for a few weeks to figure out how it works. They then patch the vulnerability in a regular update claiming they discovered it as part of normal procedure and nobody takes notice.

Edit: the legality of the device itself is kinda interesting to me. Like, even if it is doing something illegal (like using stolen code or something), how would Apple prove it as long as it was only sold to law enforcement? If the police aren't asking too many questions and Apple can't legally acquire one, how do they prove it? I suppose they'd have to gather enough circumstantial evidence to get a judge to issue a subpoena, but things get a bit dark and fuzzy.
Chattel slavery is not the only form of slavery.
I think of Mister Rogers as a towering moral authority; he is basically my Jesus. That said, the entirety of his goodness is boiled down to his simple commitment to taking others exactly as they are. It seems simple, but it's magic.
Seattle is a major Tech hub with a ton of talented engineers so I’m really surprised.
I was 18yo when I first heard of the "Asian squat". I had no problem performing it, and I still have no problem with it at 41. Now I know why: "Short limbs, big heads, and long torsos make it easier to balance." I'm 6' with a 29" inseam and a 7.75 hat size. This may be the only advantage of a 29" inseam that I've found...
Taking medicine and not taking medicine are both things shitty humans do, as is refusing to join a criminal conspiracy?
Sorry, I missed that sentence. It seems like sloppy or ignorant reporting. The original WRAL investigation referenced by this article makes it clear that a judge issued the warrant:

> "On a satellite image, they drew shapes around the crime scenes, marking the coordinates on the map. Then they convinced a Wake County judge they had enough probable cause to order Google to hand over account identifiers on every single cell phone that crossed the digital cordon during certain times."[1]

The WRAL article, in turn, links to the actual warrant, which is indeed signed by a judge.[2]

So in this case, the HN guideline that asks us to "submit the original source" would have resulted in a higher quality article that would have avoided all this confusion.

[1] http://www.wral.com/to-find-suspects-police-quietly-turn-to-... (which someone submitted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16604181)

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4388571-20170308-hom...
Unfortunately MS keeps changing their doc format, so LibreOffice always has to play catch-up simply to maintain compatibility.
Off topic... but...

MAN... 7.75 is big?

My head is enormous. I never knew.
I’m probably not supposed to.... but... Their guy took them to a spot, they camped out, he came back with an AK that night, he wasn’t supposed to, they saw him coming from the wrong direction, he raised the rifle up, one or two of them watched the whole thing through NODs. They found out other info on the guy later.
I've also heard it from victims of tyrannical and genocidal governments.
How the Bear Stearns Meltdown Wrecked Something More Valuable Than Money
As a developer, I've definitely felt lonely at work. I'd guess that it's caused by my personal feeling that development should treated as a collaborative effort by default; it's too hard to do solo most/all of the time, and yet my teammates & I are often expected/encouraged to work solo.
While it's a wonder in many ways, the issue with civilization, as with age of empire as it happens, is that it never have been strongly balanced. If you are a game developer and if you want to make money, I believe there is a $1B game in a balanced civilization.

The way Starcraft solved balancing a strategy game is genius. Basically, most unit have the same damage / cost ratio, but they have different orthogonal abilities. Kinda remind me the weapons of Duke3D which none was better than the other, and all useful depending on the circumstances (little known was the fact that the default gun was absolutely deadly at distance).
Looking at 7574 and Bittorrent's BEP 30, unless I'm missing something, the only part that is resisting the attack mentioned in the source article and what you are replying to, comes from also specifying the total length of the data hashed, along with the block size. So you're getting the root hash, total size, and leaf block sizes - it's that secondary information that is necessary to prevent the imaging attacks mentioned in the source article and what you are replying to.

With a better construction (Sakura, ...), that total and block size information are unnecessary. I wonder if any almost-compliant RFC 7574 or BEP 30 tools accidentally ignore those other sizes.
Thank you. I will give it a shot.
A very insightful and informative article.
Checkmate in a transfinite number of moves
> "I really think it's just an indication of the flagging dynamic. If 20% flags vs upvotes kills an article, all "partisan" articles will be killed."

I'm speaking of what motivates people to choose to click flag as opposed to upvote or just leave it alone. That's different from the effect those flags have on the submission.
Curiously, just weeks ago, Alexander Nix (CEO of Cambridge Analytica) stated, in a letter to UK Parliament, that they gather no such information:

"On 8 February 2018 Mr Matheson implied that Cambridge Analytica "gathers data from users on Facebook." Cambridge Analytica does not gather such data."

Quoted from 'Letter from Alexander Nix, CEO, Cambridge Analytica, to the Chair of the Committee, 23 February 2018' (PDF), linked from this page: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...

— So it would seem that they've been caught with their pants on fire then?
I downvoted him for the conspiracy claim that the inflation numbers are intentionally kept lower than they should.
This is called ubasute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute) and is a common theme in Japanese folklore.
Someone please correct me - but I don't think that FB sells data. They use it for their own uses, and customers of their advertising platform can use that data to target groups, but I don't think they sell their data to 3rd parties. Am I wrong ?
Yeah, your breaker box that's billed as 200A and has a 200A main breaker and wiring rated at 200A is quite safe. The breaker is designed to trip after a certain amount of time depending on RMS current, and the wiring is supposed to be able to tolerate that with some safety margin.

Your 40A (or whatever) oven isn't a 40A continuous load even on Thanksgiving. It'll draw 40A (maybe) while heating up, but it'll use much less while maintaining temperature.

If you really want, you can probably melt your breaker box, though. You'll need some really nasty nonlinear loads. Off the top of my head, with standard single-phase service, you want lots of even harmonics so that you draw 200A from each phase but put more like 400A on the neutral. Since your breaker doesn't sense neutral current, you won't trip it. (I suspect you'll acutally fry your utility's transformer long before you melt your breaker box, though -- most utilities use a rather different formula for transformer sizing and can't actually supply your rated current for very long.)
What evidence is this assertion you and your parent comment are making based on?
What is your take on the article's claim that one has to consider the cost of transportation in addition to the housing? The article suggests that some city's low housing costs are offset by the transportation costs require to get around.
Curiosity got the best of me, and I had some help searching the new YouTube transcripts feature which I copy to a text editor and do the searching there....

"""The American people have been telling Congress for many years, "Spend more money on us, please," but they have been telling Congress, "Don't raise our taxes." Congress has been listening. It's been spending more money on you, but on the other hand it's been very unwilling to raise taxes. As a result, it has imposed inflation as a tax. That's one tax that you don't have to vote for but you have to pay."""
https://youtu.be/xNc-xhH8kkk?t=1428

"""Well again- with respect to money, can you print money at no cost? It's very cheap to turn out those pieces of paper, but does that get society something for nothing? Not at all, it's simply a different form of taxation. If you print money, people have more money to spend. If they spend more money on the same amount of goods, prices go up, and in effect, everybody is paying a tax through inflation. Once again, it is only a form of taxation."""
I was thinking you were going to link to "Kill all Others"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6912900/?ref_=ttep_ep7
Haskell has also an ongoing implementation of linear types https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/111.

Anyone know what are the major differences between these two implementations?
Will linear types work better for OCaml than for Haskell?
Facebook themselves say they don't.

https://www.facebook.com/help/152637448140583?helpref=uf_per...
No, we don't need it.

The rules most of us disrespect are routinely are not useful in the specific cases (eg I'm not going to wait at a red light in the middle of the night as a pedestrian, only as a driver). Almost all people are actually nice to each other, at least where I have been.
Trippy article. Wikipedia, as always, is a good place for a deeper dive into this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
If the user agent shows that the browser is Firefox, serve a relaxed csp policy, and a large warning banner explaining what you just explained.