skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what are the actual harms

The kind of question can only be asked by someone who has never been abused by a domestic partner, never been on the wrong end of debt collectors, the law, disgruntled employees, doxxers, or other real and persistent threats that are enabled by the data collection and aggregation that is the foundation of interest targeting.
Well, there's some argument for stats and science here.

Padding for Rugby might actually make sense whereas the trend where kids can't go to the park or the grocery store alone is counterproductive.

A world where kids playing actually risky sports use safety equipment but also have the independence to go to the park and do pick-up games with friends with no adult supervision, that sounds like the right balance. Not every change today is bad.
That appears to be for consumers of federal government web services, which I would not expect to prevent large breaches. The service itself would be a massive single point of failure, and I'm not sure how it would prove a contractor has ZTA, or whatever an administrator thinks that means, all the way down.
Boggled myself. I upvoted, but it's still light text, which means it wasn't just a one-off or an accident. :-P It reminds me of what a good idea /.'s meta-moderation was: "keep that shit up, and we'll take your down arrow away".
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> Ferguson then tells me that dopamine levels raise about 50 to 100 percent when you play a game for the first time, and that’s a totally normal response to any pleasurable activity: from eating pizza to having sex (compare that to methamphetamine use, which can that raise levels by 1,300 percent). By contrast, dopamine-wise, it’s fine to play a game, and you won’t have the same regrets afterwards from eating pizza or (maybe) from sex.

This sounds like pop science but might actually be real science- would like to know if there's any sort of listing out there determining how much dopamine is elevated by different activities.

With all of the "dopamine fasting" fads online these days the future will probably be quantifying dopamine effects with very unscientific scientific-seeming popular estimation techniques, possibly aided by wearables. Dopamine diets, dopamine retreats, dopamine fat camps.

And yet, maybe studying this field is one way to solve the overstimulation problem. It's not as if smartphones and junk food are exclusively a province of the developed world.
Linux is 30 years old, not 40.
I find human psychology interesting, like Cialdini's book on persuasion. It seems that people are generally bad at making rational risk/reward decisions, even well-educated ones. (This explains the popularity of lotteries, for example.)

Another way it's been put is people don't do fractions. They do not distinguish very well getting $10 as a reward vs getting $100. The same with gifts not being appreciated in proportion to the value of them - summed up in the phrase "it's the thought that counts."

I expect it's pretty much the same for penalties. I seriously doubt, for example, if a 1 year prison sentence does not deter, 5 years would.
That’s a bit high. I’d say 350-400k TC is more reasonable. You’re not getting an offer for $500k as senior eng with 5 YOE unless you’re exceptional. Therefore, not “easily” obtained. Most of the data on levels would agree. Even with pre-ipo companies, you’re not getting 250k/yr in net asset value or whatever marker you’re using. Usually the 250k/yr with pre-public comes from them assuming the stock 10x’s. (A big if for many-many startups and a very long term game - salary doesn’t usually breach 200k/yr much either)

$500k is staff range and very few eng are staff at 5 years.

I just went through a series of interviews as well. The highest offer I got was 380K TC for 8 YOE. So, ymmv.

I agree with stock appreciation being real but don’t count on it. It can be very difficult to be at some companies even when you have the stock appreciation happening. I walked away from $1M+/yr because of toxic culture and environment. I’d only rely on what you can get reliably in the market. Relying on that appreciated stock is foolish and a quick way to misery.
You think a joint collaboration by Coinbase and Circle with monthly audits has "never been audited"?

https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
They didn't even have any company executives. The highest ranking manager was something called a "revenue recognition manager". Dude should have known that insider trading regulations are how chief executives punish defectors from their ongoing conspiracy against the investing public.
Personal finance should be a subject in schools, and scam awareness should be one of the topics covered. The long-term economic benefits would be huge.
Yes, there are reasons to be worried. Not sure Google knows that much about us though. At least compared to Amazon, your bank, your phone/broadband provider...

50 years from now the technology should have improved so much that Google will look laughably blind and powerless, I'm afraid. Let's not forget that Google, for all its evil, is still just an aging part of the dying old internet, that was naively brought into existence to be interesting and useful at a time when the world was not expecting that such a thing was possible.
Now the technology is slowly aligning with expectations and will soon assist on surveillance and control. We will miss targeted ads.
Moral question:

Being objective and moral has lead to amazing amounts of peace, cooperation, and prosperity. But I always think about an example that seems to say you can be too objective and maybe too moral:

Let's say a wolf is hungry and wants to eat you. Your options are (1) let it eat you; (2) run away to safety; or (3) shoot the wolf. No matter what, something will die. Either you die, another prey animal dies, or the wold dies (of starvation or being shot).

Being too objective means you will be the one that dies, because you can't find a reason to take an action like shooting the wolf or running away.

I have a hard time getting past this example when it comes to questions of war and morality. If there is little cost to you, of course it's easy to make the moral choice and avoid needless deaths of your enemies. But if the cost starts to become significant (e.g. protracted bloody war), then you need to make the choice that's right for you and your allies. Right?
At least your friends will be able to let their kids go places once the police are defunded.

I know of communities where they won't let kids go anywhere because the lack of law enforcement (this includes minority communities). So this concern about law enforcement presence is not universal though white allies are big on focusing on that area.
There is a 100% chance that if he was sponsored by Coke, the he would have done the opposite.

There's so much discussion on this board about 'water' vs 'coke' - that is not it. This is a businessman who makes his money from sponsorship. They know what they are doing and how it will be interpreted.

The decision to 'move a bottle of something you're not sponsoring off camera' is inevitably a business decision and normal frankly.
They get the data from people who have opted in to providing the data to them. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3467281?hl=en#loc...

If you don't want them to have data for something which is only detectible on your own land, just turn off Google's location services. Of course, the odds are very high that it's not only detectible on your own land.
Milgram's obedience studies didn't involve randomized treatments, and he had small numbers of subjects (typically around 40) in each of his many conditions. On the other hand, Milgram's investigations were serious, systematic, and in good faith -- which makes them worlds better than the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Another reply in this thread suggests that "a large number of participants may have been aware that the actor wasn't really suffering when they administered the punishment." I've studied the topic and found no evidence of this point. In addition, the claim is hard to square with many subjects' reactions -- for example, their nervous laughter and their frequent protests, even as they continued to deliver what they thought were harmful electric shocks.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928569 for more on efforts to replicate Milgram's results.

Tl;dr: there is no equivalence between the Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram's work on obedience. Milgram's work was superior.
I could lose consciousness and wake up without a limb and still be me, but take part of my brain and I might not notice it, but I won't be the same me anymore. I'm basically me as long as you don't take out thinking parts.

The problem with the transporter thought experiment is that we don't know if the arrangement of the atoms is enough to define a conscious mind. Is the mind state influenced by Earth's magnetic field or gravity well? Can we guarantee that we know enough about physics to capture the state of a colossal array of atoms and make sure nothing is lost?

Imagine a weightless, indestructible, inelastic pole that connects Earth and the Moon. Can I pull and push on it and transmit information faster than light? Of course I could, but since such material can't exist, the question is useless.
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she is amazing. I can't wait to see what she does.
I don't think I negated anything about that. But here you've got a situation where a treatment that appears to cure a condition, and which has a root cause explanation of the problem, and addressing the root cause shows remission of the symptoms. And yet they are struggling to find funding for more research into it.

Now personally, I think research should prioritize those leads over some other brain numbing pill.

Also, I do think it's very different in psychiatry. Your example of insulin for diabetes is very different than my example of Tylenol for a headache. We know that your pancreas is failing to produce insulin, we often know why it is, but we can't repair it, so we need to manually do the job that it should be doing, and that will restore your body to a more normal state. It isn't a cure, but it also isn't simply masking symptoms, it's taking over the functions of the body through some other mechanism, for which we understand the bodily function well enough to supplement them ourselves.

I don't believe psychiatry is at this point. We don't know why you have schizophrenia, we don't even know what in the body or brain is wrong, we simply observe symptoms, and we find that some pills which have effect on your brain mitigate your symptoms, often by producing other mental changes that distract from them. That's a farcry from our understanding of diabetes and its treatments.
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Apple is “fully enrolled” in PRISM just like any other company with U.S. operations, because PRISM is the internal NSA source designation for material acquired via FISA warrants, and complying with FISA warrants is not optional.
Not SEC, but US attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara apparently made his fame by going after Wall Street bigwigs. I don't know much about him besides his Wikipedia page (which could be edited by a PR firm), but it seems that was his career trajectory.
Some might take her young age to mean she's less likely to have already been bought by the companies they'd like her to reign in.
Thanks for that, it was an interesting read.
Alternatively you can probably download a free copy of FreeDOS and use that to install the update.
I’m not saying knowing how to google isn’t a necessary skill with unequal distribution. I’m saying that’s not the pathway that’ll take her as a front end web dev and allow her to write the underlying malware that the front end provides a UI around.

It’s as meaningless a statement as “I know how to read books so I can learn new skills.”
If you produce things more efficiently they should cost less, the money supply shouldn't expand to make sure their cost stays the same or more. Nobody can be entrusted with the authority to "expand the money supply" and not abuse it to the point of collapse. Case in point:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
It's probably not scraped, FWIW--Bing has a paid API:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap...

(Can't find a source indicating that they're using this, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.)
Birdshot? Plus less risk of collateral damage when the misses fall back to earth.
Experience and maturity matters.

When I was young I too thought I knew all I needed to know. The older I get the more I understand that experience is very important.
Assuming this means Server Side Includes, you have a few issues:

1. dependency on your host/server for support- ie can you do this on s3? Netlify? Gh pages?

2. No way to embed content inside an Include

3. No easy way to apply additional transformations, eg html post processing

This method only gives html pages as output, with no runtime deps
It's weird how they focus on big tech while ignoring banking, ISPs, healthcare, education, real estate, utilities and many others. Lot of markets that could use more competition.
Truth having layers of detail seems accurate to me. Outer layers conflicting with inner layers is foolish and means that the outer layer wasn’t true at all.

Fiction claiming to be non-fiction is annoying and should at least be labeled accurately.
I don't think we know if we can know everything or not. That seems like _the_ question to answer.
In this context it’s because she’s the youngest person to hold the position of FTC Chairperson.
I am continually amazed at HN's ability to reject reality in favor of some imaginary world that doesn't actually exist.

In the real world parallel construction is not common. The cops simply don't have the resources to pursue it in the vast majority of cases at the local level, and many cases get tossed because of tainted evidence. Hell, plenty of manslaughter and gang cases get tossed because of tainted evidence.

At the federal level, parallel construction is more common, because the feds (a) have more resources to pursue alternative avenues of investigation, and (b) have jurisdiction over the types of crimes which lend themselves to having multiple avenues of investigation, like organized crime.

But on an absolute basis, even at the federal level parallel construction is still rare, because it is invariable easier to just pursue different charges. Al Capone, for example, was brought down by tax fraud. More recently, many federal charges against El Chapo were dropped because the evidence was tainted...but it was irrelevant because they just pursued a dozen different crimes instead.
The most glaring question this raises for me is, why is somebody allowed to say something like this on twitter?

> I trust that there are other people who will pick up machetes to protect us from the harm transphobes like Adichie & Rowling seek to perpetuate.

https://twitter.com/azemezi/status/1346268453221658624

I mean, I think I'm not generally that pro-censorship, but I'd expect it to be pretty uncontroversial that that crosses the line.
NASA has had 2FA for over a decade for internal users, RSA dongles initially and PIV cards now (there was something about JPL and the fingerprinting requirement, though). They have taken steps recently to get rid of passwords entirely, although legacy systems are a problem (like OpenShift).

The down side is that accessing a server requires a patched Putty from Centrify and about 27 configuration steps that are documented nowhere.
> In essence, a Zero Trust Architecture allows users full access but only to the bare minimum they need to perform their jobs.

This seems like it will translate into "significant productivity losses due to security taking away access that workers use to accomplish their jobs more effectively", and possibly taking capabilities away that workers really do need to get their jobs done and requiring a gate-keeper to do them instead.

You used to get root on your development box? Tough luck - now you're developing in a thin client connecting to a VM on a remote machine that you don't get administrative privileges on, and if you want to install a new package, you have to submit a JIRA ticket. But it's ok, because you have the "bare minimum you need to perform your job".

Source: have seen this happen at least once before.
> What is the alternative? No security guards?

The alternative is whatever the process is under applicable law for setting, noticing, and enforcing closures on public roads, which pretty much everywhere isn’t “private actors seizing control of public roads and deploying guards on their own decision with no oversight, because the actor thinks that therr might be a safety risk but can’t be bothered following the legal process for dealing with that risk.”

> Yeah no. I'd rather have my legal department battle it out with the authorities.

I suspect if you talked to your legal department first, they could tell you how to deal with it without fighting with authorities and without exposing the firm and individual employees to potential criminal prosecution.

Closing public roads for safety due to construction and other activities occurring on or near them is a regular occurrence for which well-developed processes exist in pretty much every jurisdiction, not some sui generis need that creates a legitimate need to ignore the law because it hasn’t anticipated the need and compliance would be disastrous.
Even if they did go to jail they'd likely get a short stint at a minimum security country club.

Meanwhile someone stealing a pack of chewing gum from a convenience store might get shot, and someone stealing a $500 TV could wind up serving hard time in a prison where they might get raped, tortured, or murdered.
"Filter Lists" settings-tab -> expand "Annoyances" -> Fanboy's is by far the most popular one. Otherwise read the pages they link to / view the content (many have descriptions in content) - many of them are intended to work with Fanboy's, but if not you may have excessive duplicates.
I think that the difference here is that actors in places with radically different COL can pariticpate. Imagine if a kid in a Northern Triangle country could sell drugs on the street of an American city--the risk/reward is much different. To them, even American minimum wage could be a boon.
It's a good compromise for mom. Let kids run free, and give mom the reassurance they can call someone if they need help.

I don't like giving cell phones to kids younger than 12 or 13 because childhood should be free of a lot of the technology we use today.
One word reply, really? That's not even the same as generating a static site.
I studied CogSci in the late 90s, which involved taking psychology courses. Every psych course that ended in zero required you to participate in psychology experiments.

The profs like to say that 18-22, mostly white/asian, mostly rich kids are the most studied group of people in the USA.

Or course we now know that a ton of psychology research doesn't actually apply to people outside that small narrow window of people.
An issue that comes to mind is, ironically, authority. Who decides when a paper has been discredited? I can see all sorts of incentive problems with such a system. On the other hand, Westlaw is only cataloging what has already been decided. If the Supreme Court overturns a prior case, then it's overturned whether you agree with the reasoning or not.
Perhaps when every numerator you can find is wildly increasing the real problem is that your denominator is shrinking.
In case anyone else didn't make the connection, the author of the linked article (Lenore Skenazy) is also the author of Free-Range Kids.
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It's a lot like code. Is it faster for you to invent it yourself, or re-use somebody else's.

It's not surprising that somebody else thought of that philosophy before. The question is, did they think of it any better? Do they have anything useful to add over what you came up with?
The things you've mentioned seem like they fall in to the category of responses to increased awareness of CTE associated with contact sports.
There's not dropping your kid off at the play ground... and there's not wanting your kid to lose their mind in their twenties because of repeated concussions.
I'm mostly aware of it from the high profile pop culture cases like Aaron Hernandez and O.J. but it seems like a serious cause for concern and I don't think football will look the same in the next decade or so as it has in the past - especially in terms of high school athletics.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31610856/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron...
"Johnny Knoxville was 29 when Jackass hit MTV in 2000, and by then he'd already been dyeing his graying hair brown for a few years. His father had been 19 when his own head turned white, so Knoxville was prepared."

Interesting!
I just don't see how people become physically addicted to these drugs. I am on Desoxyn have been for years and at a pretty high dose for a clinical dose. 35mg twice a day. I have went weeks without taking my medication with no ill effect. Not a single withdraw, the only thing that happens is the foggy head comes back and I cannot seem to put one foot in front of the other to get things completed. there is only one company that makes Desoxyn and it always has to be ordered, so I have times that my pharmacy does not have it and no pharmacy stocks it by default because it is pharmaceutical Methamphetamine. I do not take anywhere near a recreational dose, but I cannot for the life of me, understand how people on prescriptions for these class of drugs get junkie level addicted. I don't have any literature to back it up, but I would assume by the street drugs, if any of these meds would be the most addictive, it would be the one whos active ingredient is methamphetamine. I just go oh well it's going to suck for a week and not much will get done. Recreational meth users are generally taking anywhere from 100-200mg at recreational doses. For me to take that my months prescription would be used up in about 8 doses. certainly not enough time to develop dependency. So where are these people getting such high doses that they can continually take, to develop physical addition.

I also have no idea why anyone would want to abuse something like Adderall. The levoamphetamine targets the bodies nervous system rather than the brain. On very low therapeutic doses it cause all kinds of peripheral physicals problems for me.

It is also good to keep in mind ADD/ADHD meds have one of the highest success rates in the pharmacological field of psychiatrics care. It's one of psychiatrics success stories and there is a mountain of evidence that supports it. It is sad that it is still stigmatized as just wanting to get high. I avoided treatment for years due to that. Not accepting the proven track record of stimulant based treatment for ADD/ADHD is doing a lot of harm to a lot of people. Is it over diagnosed sure, but that does not negate that it does work for people who suffer focus disorders.
It's common in a fair number of places: professional sports, music, book writing (among those doing it for money), acting, law (to a lesser degree).

The very top does well, even very very well. Most everyone else scrapes by--if that.

Most professional jobs aren't like that. Sure senior execs can make an outsized amount of money but most of the rank and file are still doing OK.
In the US AT&T shut down their 2G service at the end of 2019. Only T-Mobile has GSM/GPRS service active and that is shutting down at the end of this year. It's 3G services that will be shutting down through the end of 2022/3.
no, different EU school