Is there something you would recommend to read about the intrinsic motivation? Sounds like not an obvious subject.
I've previously been recommended "Punished by rewards" by Alfie Kohn
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velavar commented on Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/hilux
An Erdős-Bacon number is where the cool cats are at.
Not cooler than those with an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number!
https://news.asu.edu/20160126-creativity-lawrence-krauss-erd...
velavar commented on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached techcrunch.com/2024/01/03... · Posted by u/skadamat
A botnet is a system.
> Do they know about every breach out there without fail?
They know about a lot of them. I'd hazard a guess that at least three quarters of the affected accounts would have been in HIBP, probably far more.
Working in fraud prevention and I would love to know how to detect a botnet system, beyond the usual velocity checks. A decade of working in this space and I haven't found a reliable, fail-safe way to do this. Genuinely interested to know if there's a suggestion.
velavar commented on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024? · Posted by u/vanschelven
What is it that draws you so much to the threebody problem?
I honestly thought it was pretty much crap, but maybe i am missing something.
That's okay, different people can like different things :)
As for myself, I liked reading about some bits of Chinese history that I was not very familiar with, and it also provides a really good foundation for the reason behind the lead character's far-reaching actions. I also do think the best parts of the story do come later in books 2 and 3 - I like the larger-than-life ideas and the imperfect characters.
velavar commented on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024? · Posted by u/vanschelven
This was the year I got my attention under enough control to be able to read voraciously again like I used to in my childhood :)
* I'll always bring up The Three-body problem because I re-read it every year
* Piranesi because of it's fantastical story-telling
* The Covenant of Water - because it's a fantastic medical drama and a sweeping story spanning generations
* Victory City - Salamn Rushdie's latest novel which is surprisingly readable
* The Enchanted Forest/Kaikeyi/Palace of Illusions - because they cover the major Indian epics from the lens of the women characters (think Circe with an Indian background)
* Trust - The same story told from different viewpoints with a setting in the early NY financial world, which makes it extra interesting
I notice that I do tend to favour books with an Indian background because of my nostalgia for it as I live in a foreign land. Maybe I'll branch out more next year!
velavar commented on Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it playtoob.com/... · Posted by u/devrimco
Agreed, YouTube Kids is not always for kids. There is some very weird, sinister stuff on there that isn't in-your-face obvious. Stuff like that is just weird, it's definitely better to approve certain channels and keep the kiddos from getting pulled into any algorithms!
Folding Ideas had a great video on it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
velavar commented on We’re all just temporarily abled blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023... · Posted by u/_xivi
Is there any particular type or brand of earplugs you recommend, that are comfortable enough to wear for multiple hours and don't make the music sound too muffled (while still reducing the volume to safe levels)?
I got Loops on Amazon based on someone's recommendation and they work pretty well for me. They're cheap enough to try once and see if they work for you.
velavar commented on TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users noyb.eu/en/telesign-profi... · Posted by u/puresick
Why not start by supporting webauthn (Yubikeys)?
How come all online VISA transactions don't have to completed through a redirect to visa.com or master.com (or may bank website), but instead we're typing card numbers into sketchy websites? (I guess EU 2FA requirements are pushing the boundary, but very slowly and often in ways that still appear remarkably sketchy).
Trust scores of IPs and phones numbers is a tool, but when physically hardened security tokens aren't widely supported, I'd argue the essential tools simply aren't available to users.
What kmoser said :)
I support your argument about Yubikeys - I myself use them for any financial site that allows it. A lot of companies do use them to check for fraudulent logins. But the friction of it is high enough that companies would much rather take the loss than force their customers to authenticate every time a transaction has to be made. Also, I think until it is normalized in the industry, there is a consumer perception of physical keys being too technically difficult to obtain, set up and manage. Not to mention, all the Yubikeys in the world still don't help if one goes and gets phished/socially engineered :)
velavar commented on TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users noyb.eu/en/telesign-profi... · Posted by u/puresick
>Let me be the devil's advocate here:
The question here isn't (primarily at least) whether this is a good or bad thing, the important question is if this arrangement is legal under EU law. It can be the most beneficial thing in the world and still be illegal.
That's very true. I think my comment was more in response to other comments talking about "surveillance" and "trust", but you're right that if the data collection itself is illegal, there are no two sides about it :)
velavar commented on TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users noyb.eu/en/telesign-profi... · Posted by u/puresick
What I want to know is how "the regularity of completed calls, call duration, long-term inactivity, range activity, or successful incoming traffic" translates to a trust score. Do less trustworthy people tend to make longer or shorter phone calls than more trustworthy people? And what even is range activity, not to mention how does it relate to trustworthiness?
I haven't worked with Telesign data but I can attempt a guess. Think of how a fraudster uses a phone versus how a legitimate customer uses a phone:
1. The former is likely using a throwaway phone number, the latter is using an established phone number. You can tell the difference with the number of completed calls over time, call duration etc. Burner phones will have bursts of high intensity activity to several different phone numbers whereas legitimate phones will have lots of successfully completed phone calls over a long period of time to repeating phone numbers.
2. The former will likely place calls all over the country or world as they attempt to raid several bank accounts digitally. The latter will probably have more local calls since they're calling their doctors, schools, etc. This is probably where range activity plays a role.
I'm not defending Telesign or how they collect data - I'm merely saying this data has value in account protection.