skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In re: drugs in general and psychedelics in particular:

> "Of course, the drug dose does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality structure and his mood at the time. Setting is physical — the weather, the room's atmosphere; social — feelings of persons present towards one another; and cultural — prevailing views as to what is real. It is for this reason that manuals or guide-books are necessary. Their purpose is to enable a person to understand the new realities of the expanded consciousness, to serve as road maps for new interior territories which modern science has made accessible."

> — Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

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In re: drugs and meditation. It's great that these folks didn't get thrown in jail but their approach is almost criminally ignorant. The epistemology or metaphysics informing the experiment is so... i don't know, 18th century? Did we learn nothing from the 60's?

Speaking with experience, don't mix meditation and drugs. I did it, and it didn't completely not-work for me, but from my POV, it's irresponsible. (With the caveat that, for a very very small number of people (like, literally one in a million or fewer), a little experience with drug trips can be educational. But the odds are you're not one of them.)

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In re: meditation, it really depends on what you're going for. If you just want to feel better, then yeah, a beer and/or a joint or a lil shroom tea is fine with one's navel-gazing. Simple muscular relaxation is about 90% of the profundity most folk experience with meditation. (Fun fact, what you think of as your personality is encoded (among other places) in the chronic tension patterns in your facial muscles.)

If your goal is Enlightenment then drugs are a total blind alley.

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I forgot to mention, if you want to experience "alterations of self-consciousness in association with feelings of bliss, unity, and insightfulness" without any drugs, training, or meditation use the Core Transformation Process ( https://www.coretransformation.org/ ), a simple, reliable algorithm.
Now all they need to do is allow the fields header to represent arbitrary graph structures and they will have reinvented GraphQL poorly.
Does this apply to mobile app install ads? I just don't see how those products are accessible to consumers in the same way without the awareness driven by highly targeted, experimental ad campaigns. I'm thinking King.com or Supercell type companies.
Yeah, it may be a decent tradeoff for those who don't want the increased effort of entering 2-factors. Password + key. For those who don't trust the fingerprint reader that much, it does upgrade you to effectively 3 factors; password, key, and finger.
It's a long way from postponing scheduled downtime to 'partnering with the US government in order to overthrow governments'. I don't have any difficult seeing how someone could view the former as nefarious but they aren't the same thing.
You can and should restrict the number of people with access to the data, but in a tech company there's always going to be a significant number of people with direct access to the raw data. Software engineers on an on-call rotation, full-time site reliability engineers, data analysts, maybe even some external contractors... maybe this isn't the case for Twitter, but many companies also have to put complete trust in their cloud provider or datacenter, which puts even more people in the loop.

Even if you follow best practices with access control, in the end you're always going to have a group of people who you need to trust with access to folks' personal data. Maybe the solution is better audit logging and even tighter access, but I'm not sure leaks of this nature are preventable.
Where did HIV come from? Like, how did it first come into existence?
Why would they murder you when you have access to invaluable data they can get from you at any time? If anything they might blackmail you to do future investigations for cheaper, but why would they mess with a good thing? We're talking about people who can basically print money.
Why? To read the damn article. How's that for a reason? They give you enough intro to determine whether you are interested, are they not?

And besides that point above, it took me literally one click to get to the full article. How awesome is that? Right? And if you like the content, subscribe and stop freeloading.
The scrubbers do not need raw DB access. All they need is a strictly audited web UI.

Very, very few people need root access and the ability to see all raw data. For example, at Google, this is a tiny number of senior SREs and that's it. Your average employees should be using audited UIs running through service accounts that have restricted permissions.
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To quote a famous movie: The biggest stunt Devil ever played on us was he made us believe he doesn't exist.

"Nazism" is still going on. Nazism is basically the same thing as totalitarianism in general. It never went away in many parts of the world. There are even Neo-Nazis in the USA.
Part of it is, Twitter doesn't fully think of itself as Twitter-scale. It's not that long ago that Twitter was fail-whaling around, a non-serious place for stream-of-consciousness shitposting by anonymous egg accounts. It's still move-fast-and-break-things.

Someone else made the comparison to banks, and well, banks deal with real money and have always been dead serious, and they've got decades of head start on handling this stuff properly.
> How do they differentiate and sell you cars then? Branding, positioning, marketing.

If I'm in the market for a BMW M3, it is because it is a stellar performance car. A Toyota Camry does not fill those roles.
> bought Pixar, but are also making movies internally that are comparable in quality like Frozen,

Frozen was done after the Pixar acquisition and helmed internally by the same director from Pixar that Disney had sought to have do it when they wanted to do it with Pixar before the acquisition, so, while it wasn't organizationally within Pixar but at Disney Animation Studios, I'm not sure you can really describe it as not independent of the Pixar acquisition.
That's the only business model as long as you ignore Automattic, Chef, CloudBees, Cloudera, Confluent, Databricks, DataStax, Gradle, Hashicorp, nginx, Puppet, RedHat, and many others.
As someone that owned a commercial holiday property, this is a real concern. I had instant booking, so I didn’t really care what prior reviews said, however there are some real jerks who are chronically unhappy. We got a 1 star review once because one of our holiday cottages didn’t have a salad spinner. Another complained because the outside air temperature was too hot — in August, in Provence. There are people that would complain about a beach having too much sand. Legitimate failures were taken seriously, but the vast majority of our “negative” reviews were just insanely silly. One person even complained that the free bottle of Rosé we gave them wasn’t chilled enough. One guest complained that the pool was too cold (in August,) while that same month, someone complained that the pool wasn’t cool enough.

I am delighted to be free of that business.
Why only 3 years? 13 / 1.2 is about 10.
The promise to investors of "tech companies" is zero marginal cost, and hence infinite scalability. As soon as you have to have to incur meatspace costs per transaction instead of doing it all in software, these sky-high unicorn valuations go out the window.
I like this idea, but I'm far too afraid that this information can be leaked out, or that companies and .govs will try to buy it from the software company.
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That's of course possible to measure in theory. I meant it as a response to "Facebook, Google and others make these tests possible in their platforms" since I haven't seen it exposed as an explicit option on either.
1. Depending your database technologies, queries are still going to be more efficient with batched operations.

2. HTTP/2 doesn't make latency/speed of light zero.

3. Outside of performance, GraphQL is a type-safe, error-minimal way to perform joins and searches.
> unrealized

She can borrow against it and easily afford property taxes for the rest of her life.
"but in a tech company there's always going to be a significant number of people with direct access to the raw data"

This is absolutely not true. This number can and should be reduced to an absolute minimum number of people.
For primary residences, I think it's something that will get fixed at the local/state level.
> I wasn't sold on the GraphQL hype then, and I'm still not,

Why not?
Thanks. So that‡ works on my Windows gaming laptop with Chrome, but not (with the same FIDO2 token) with Firefox including on any of my Linux systems (I don't run Chrome on Linux so did not test). Plenty of work to be done there apparently. Good to know.

‡ Referring to "Go usernameless too" which is the mode where a PIN is needed. All the other modes are just plain FIDO and don't need any further verification, and they work just fine on all my systems with any of my tokens.
Terrible software design decisions led to Uber’s deadly 2018 crash
my point is innocent people are going to be unduly scrutinized further. plus our current admin as-is doesn’t exactly love foreign workers (a massive understatement)
It is quite common that sql servers run just with a few accounts. Helpful audit logs on critical systems have a high cost. So technically it is not hard but practically it is.
Or maybe this constant harping on how bad of a place it is, when they have had the greatest standard of living ever since humankind started, is tantamount to malevolent brainwashing.
You have mixed up "fixed" and "limited". Zero-sum game assumes amount of wealth is fixed. What you describe is world that has limit on total wealth that have not yet been reached. But definitely it is not fixed. By your own definition you can always dig up some new natural resources and this would increase total wealth (so no, not fixed).

It is possible to create wealth. If I can do something that you can't and you can do something that I can not, then if we exchange services we can create wealth from nothing. I have more than at the start, you have more than at the start and nobody else is affected.

The maximum possible wealth I think is also not limited. There is always potential to take something and create something with more worth. Good, pure example is art. Painter takes resources that are relatively cheap and plentiful (paints, canvas, his time) and can create something of huge value to some people. Intel might take a bunch of sand and other resources and create processors from it.

There is also "intellectual property" which is not tied to any natural resources. Anybody can create something new (derive new chemical formula or write a book) that would be an example of creating wealth from nothing.
It's interesting to see how the phrasing of the headline makes this seem totally different. "Saudi Spies Managed To Infiltrate Twitter as Employees" reads very differently than "Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia".

It again raises my periodic wonder: how many spies, both for the USA, as well as the intel agencies of others, are employed in sensitive roles at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others? How many of them work on the cloud platforms? How many of them have access to HSMs and other internal systems that are used as trust roots?

Can we assume that any major platform provider's highest level keys haven't been stolen, perhaps without their own knowledge? It's safe to assume that if they were stolen by their own government's agents, they probably wouldn't tell anyone even if they found out (even if they weren't gag ordered, which they probably would be).

You can trust a company down to the ground but still necessarily realize that everyone who hires engineers is going to be vulnerable to this. AWS' GovCloud that only permits US citizens physical access to the facilities doesn't even totally solve the problem, it just (somewhat) reduces the risk, because even US citizens like bribes.
IKEA Malkolm. Seems like the best cost-effectiveness balance.
that's not entirely true - it's possible for all the data of that nature to be in an audit-logged data store, and to require specific business cases for access to the data. So you can only see a user's private information if there's a specific bug you're working on, and even then the access is audited.

I mean, the data is still accessible, it's just not easy to get it willy-nilly without setting off alarms.
Depends. If it's a hardware failure, then no one should go to jail, just like today, if my wheel falls off (through no fault of my own) and I run into a child, I wouldn't expect to go to jail (heck, drivers already get pretty much free rein to run down pedestrians by saying "I didn't see him"). The car manufacturer may have some financial liability if it was a product defect, but again no jail time.

The interesting moral dilemma is what to do if the car decided it was better to run into a pedestrian and protect the driver than to run into a brick wall and protect the pedestrian.

There's no easy answer to that dilemma.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07135-0
Is it not worth trying to get as close to that as possible, though?
I never quite understood why many religious people have a problem with Evolution. If God created everything, surely he could create Evolution as well.
> seller should modulate buying ads with a random stream of bits, such that the impulse response (of linearized approximation in tangent space for sales / advertising dollar) can be estimated

Could you unpack this a bit? (I'm not making a point or anything, just confused and curious and not sure that googling would help me understand.)
The absolute minimum number of people may still be significant
They do remove VOCs, but you basically need to be living in an indoor jungle with 10-1000 plants per square metre.

Back in the 80's I remember visiting the home of the town mayor that had a lounge room sized atrium overflowing with ferns in the centre of the house (basically an indoor greenhouse) that could be accessed from each room. Doesn't sound like that will do as much as you might hope for.
Sure, but it comes at a cost. Companies rarely push the limits of these kinds of policies because customers are not willing to pay for them.
A simple crazy fix idea, eliminate the collection of tax revenue on property... collect county taxes through income like everything else. Counties have been burdening their revenue needs onto only property owners. just add it to our collective April tax bill maybe? too simple?
Don't be silly. Real work would mess up the scam, which works roughly like this:
1) Build a software system that appears to perform a real-world function.
2) Offer that real-world function at a loss.
3) Founders and early investors collect sweet, sweet bagholder dollars.
That, of course is a Ponzi scheme, but the S-1 makes it all legal!
Forbes isn't fake news?
Is this like an American thing? You don't own people just because you pay them a salary.

In UK you cannot force someone to work overtime more than 48 hours, averaged over 17 weeks. If they require you to be available over weekend, they would probably have to count it towards overtime.

I would find it unconscionable to be available 24/7, how are you meant to go along your daily life?

What's the purpose of that anyway, you are not working as a paramedic??
I actually am on the compliance team of a HIPPA covered entity, and your link does not disprove my point.

> Most Health Care Providers—those that conduct certain business electronically, such as electronically billing your health insurance—including most doctors, clinics, hospitals, psychologists, chiropractors, nursing homes, pharmacies, and dentists.[0]

My gym nor personal trainer are covered by HIPPA as just a simple example of health-adjacent businesses for which HIPPA provides no recourse.

> Covered entities are defined in the HIPAA rules as (1) health plans, (2) health care clearinghouses, and (3) health care providers who electronically transmit any health information in connection with transactions for which HHS has adopted standards. Generally, these transactions concern billing and payment for services or insurance coverage.[1]

[0]: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...
[1]: https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_06.asp
> Most people like to regale war stories of a particular missing semi-colon

I’m curious if anyone has any real stories of a missing semicolon causing a problem in their running software.
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How does that definition work on the 30th storey of a condo building?
The data scientists at Facebook have pretty much free reign to pull down whatever data they feel they need and often do. As much as there's talk about how much of a no-no that is there, it doesn't seem like anyone is really looking.

You should be a lot more worried about Facebook.

This pretty much applied to US government warrantless wiretaps as well come to think of it. Unfettered access isn't so hot if you like your privacy.
Then you haven't been talking to the right ad sales teams. Google and Facebook have entire product options built around this specific concept. You can run a "ghost ads" test on Google for as little as $20k in ad spend; it's relatively accessible even for smaller players.
this mostly works because google stopped marking their search ads with a different background color and made the search page entirely confusing so you don't know what s an organic search result anymore
I don't understand what you mean by "smells bad"?
The same way all other viruses did?
Military drone tech is creeping into policing and everyday life
There are many stats video courses on YouTube. I list a few here:

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/tree/master/s...

Harvard 110 is a good beginner course. Someone did the lecture notes too:

http://www.mxawng.com/stuff/notes/stat110.pdf

And a 10 page cheatsheet:

http://www.wzchen.com/probability-cheatsheet
You're confusing the "fee simple" notion of land tenure that we have in the United States with "allodial title" which doesn't happen anywhere anymore because it turns out that's a terrible way to run a society.
TIL a human soul is worth approximately $300k.
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I think a better question would be:

Would it be nefarious if the State Department asked Twitter to stay open during Pinochet's coup of Salvador Allende?
If you consider a work day as a movie, and say you go there 4 days a week, that's watching a 5 hour movie, 4 days in a row.
That's exactly my point. In a company like Twitter there is some person or probably many people who are "the dba" and accessing a mysql directly or even using tools to access the underlying storage is an event of no discernible consequence. By contrast in a Google-style stack there is no person who is "the DBA", making it far easier to audit. A Gmail admin might need to unwrap the encryption keys that protect your attachments to, for example, diagnose a message-of-death that is crashing their backends, but that event would be so rare as to be easily audited, and it would tie a specific actor to a specific victim. Also I would say a custom auditing stack is way more resilient to things like just deleting the logs off the server, restarting the server without auditing, and whatnot.
They link to different articles - I wonder which one has more a primary sources.
Or, you know, colonize outer space.

Less snarky reply: More fission would let us do all kinds of new things today, if people weren’t so irrational about it.
"However, neither their possible synergistic effects, nor related state and trait predictors have been experimentally studied."

Well, you know, there was the Mash Chapel Experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment

Technically it was about religious experience, not mediation. But my BS detectors go off pretty strong when I hear "No one's ever done this before." instead of "Here's some things done in the past that are like what we're doing, but here's how we're different."
There's extensive discussion about this in the HIV Wikipedia article. Posting such a question here seems like an odd way to learn about this topic if you're truly interested.
That graph shows productivity and compensation growing together, then diverging right in the 1970s. This would be expected if we suddenly got a large supply of labor. You can see exactly that on this other graph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_foreign_born_in_...
I would suggest that your perception of his use of the phrase is just your perception. I have listened to him often, and never found him to be arrogant. He is not passively asserting that the listener is uninformed. He is just saying that the sources are abundant and easily available. Not to mention, he often cites people whose work he is referring to. If you are familiar with the work he is referring to, he is clearly not assigning homework to you. If you are not familiar, I don't see how it is arrogant to ask someone to familiarize themselves with a given perspective on the subject matter where sources are easily available.

And to assume that he does not have authority as an expert in a myriad of topics seems to be giving him little credit.
haha maybe.

I very much doubt they're getting squeezed on free tier pubsub. They're way more likely to cut VM or IPV4 (as they just attempted)
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> not a good time to be a foreign tech worker in the US

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Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen - was accused of accessing the personal information of more than 6,000 Twitter accounts in 2015 on behalf of Saudi Arabia.

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Well if they plan on spying for their government, don’t think we’d want them to have a great time? Don’t think that is too controversial.
I have a bedroom in my house that I make available through Airbnb. I live in the house so this isn't an investment-for-Airbnb scenario.

I'm totally down for these audits, but expect the auditor to pay the fee like anyone else if he/she stays, or if he/she consumes the timeslot that I could have sold to someone else.
You mean the latter not the former.
i notice that with a lot of comments about cloud-related services. While effective it's also limited to a few niches
It's thought to be closely related to a virus that monkeys have - earliest known human infection was back in 1959. Here's what's generally known about it:

https://www.theaidsinstitute.org/education/aids-101/where-di...
That's cute ;)
Maybe because tech companies tend to be careless with data. It isn’t NP-complete to track and monitor access to prod data, or prevent access to it entirely. It’s just that people don’t want to do it.
The current hypothesis is from zoonotic events via the bushmeat trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS