skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly, this reminds me of the trope in a lot of fiction where the main protagonist has a super twisted back story.

It is super tiring and doesn't seem to actually be necessary or informative.
I don't equate sex to manual labor, they are of course different. But it won't do to reduce manual labor or disability care to "kicking a shovel into the dirt" either. Each of the physical occupations I listed plays a critical social role and involves the mind and body of its occupants in a unique and significant way. See Metaspencer's critique on this point, "what is a knowledge worker".[1]

Much of the criticism of normalizing sex work seems to be masking a motivation based in religious morality which considers sex shameful. I believe that adequately protected professionals can be successful in sex work, just as they can in other fields.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDXPkor-Wxk
The shadowy business of international education
Well I certainly lose sleep, but I actually eat less and am not a fly.
Interesting tidbit about Chrome using POSIX_SPAWN_NP_CSM_ALL now. But I would point out that according to the open-source Chromium code base, these CPU security mitigation APIs offer process-wide protection rather than thread-based protection (commit message at https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/46e23c81... )

Some more digging shows that Chrome started using a weaker version of CSM, TCSM (thread CSM I assume) two years ago in NaCl: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/_/chromium/native_clien...

Firefox of course uses TCSM too: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cd1ccb74af7c And so does Safari: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/244233/webkit

I hope this at least somewhat assuages the fears of people who prefer Firefox or Safari over Chrome.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

>"... Of course the thing to emphasise is that, whilst it might break through, the vaccine still stops serious illness to a high degree...."

Important to note, vaccines do not protect you, its the
immune response they trigger and the level of antibodies that will protect you.

What really should be happening should be a mass vaccination program and a mass antibodies level testing program at the same time. Except for a few clinical studies, whose results are only now starting to come out I do not think any country is doing that. Frankly it puzzles me a little bit.

There is not enough data yet to see how these antibodies levels reduce with time, but there is already plenty of information to show they drop dramatically after 6 months, hence the talk now of the third shot.

Hence I think its better to say vaccines will produce level of antibodies that will protect...for now.

"Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
Simple, manage by objective. Full stop.

P.S. allowing yourself to get into this position was a mistake to begin with. One is none and two is one. Always have a backup/spare. To that end, if you cannot institute the burden of documentation for everything- at least then if you lose this person you’ll have a decent shot at picking up the pieces.
I beg to differ. HN is free because the contributors and audience provide a significant input funnel for founders, employees, and investors who directly participate in the YC economy. It's a recruitment and promotional tool for all three groups.

However, YC does not charge people to play HN in the way that Roblox charges for that game. No one is counting my minutes on HN and sending someone a payment, or a bill. There is no direct monetization of my UGC.

Mod.io is a gaming add-on (for mods) that also has no in-platform direct monetization of UGC assets. Of course, the games that use mod.io do it because having UGC at all brings the right kind of players and those players do pay.

So it is possible to make money, have UGC, and not be exploitative. I don't think Roblox can say that's where they are right now.
The key phrase is identity politics - I hope internet discourse begins to move away from this framework, but as of now politics is entirely focused on the nouns - who, what, when. The immutable states of ones’ person. The answer is to move to a verb-based politics: what does this person do? What have they done? What do they say? What do they think? Are the dialectics good? Is the methodology sound? Does it make sense? Does it help? Does it hurt?

People will say “listen to black people” while simultaneously dehumanizing all black people into a monolithic and tokenized opinion-vessel. I personally know black people, gay people, trans people, disabled people, who are exhausted of being that vessel. Of being a walking textbook for other people to memorize. The truth is that black people, and all people of color, are diverse culturally, emotionally, and intellectually and in order to be a good ally you have to not only listen to All of them, as well as your own heart, and you must use your critical thinking skills to determine what you personally think is correct - and act on it. You must be active and competent, and you must not regurgitate. At the end of the day there will be black people who agree with you and black people who disagree with you, but you can hope your efforts at activism will help both groups regardless.
I have a friend that is an ER nurse that works at Cedars and she's ready to quit because of the attitude that "covid is over". She loves her job and helping people but the shitty attitudes of patients and people in general over this issue have caused her to rethink her life choices.
> Because mass vaccination combined with a vaccine that does not necessarily prevent infection and transmission creates selective pressure that is likely to further enhance the fitness of the virus and will lead to variants that escape the immune response in both vaccinated and naturally infected individuals.

And yet, the Delta variant evolved in an 100% unvaccinated population - and is quite happily punching through some of the protections afforded by vaccines, despite not having any evolutionary pressure to do so.

> "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

Doesn't this mean that the problem is in having a large number of infected individuals? Which is exactly what happens when a virus sweeps through the unvaccinated population - see, delta.

Also, since Covid and its variants seems to happily re-infect people who have already had it, the same evolutionary pressures will still be present, as long as there's a large reservoir of sick people, regardless of whether they are rubbing shoulders with vaccinated individuals, or 'caught it eight months ago' individuals.

We have two broad options for reducing the number of dangerous COVID mutations.

1. Harsh lockdowns, Australia/NZ/China style, to bring cases down. It works, but everyone hates it.

2. Mass vaccination, that gets us to herd immunity against the most prevalent strains of COVID, so that we no longer have millions of active cases. We're not there with 50% of the population vaccinated. We might be there if we were at 85%.

Since you seem to think that #2 is not the solution, what is your plan for stopping the evolution of the virus? #1?
Facebook's walled garden around oculus is really disappointing. Updates frequently broke mods, and the last time I tried to get it working again my Quest got bricked. Need to try factory resetting or something to see if I can get it working again, but it's left such a bad taste in my mouth I'm considering just selling it instead and buying a better VR system.

The only people I've heard have positive experiences with the Quest either:

- haven't had it for very long, or

- use Virtual Desktop or sideloading to break out of the walled garden. And are willing to frequently repair the issues that arise after frequent breaking updates.

I predict that gap in the fence will closed off and non-Oculus Store games will no longer work within the next two years and Quests will be junk. Please consider other options if you're thinking about buying oculus.
> the responsibility of white people to help fix past injustices

Keep hearing that, but it's bullshit, who are the "white people"? Suddenly, and conveniently, cultures disappear, everyone gets bunched together in the "guilty bucket" and extorted penance for things a tiny fraction of specific people within specific cultures are responsible.

Justice is built on the principle of individual responsibility for a reason, collective punishments don't have a place in just society.

But I'll indulge the thought that white owe collectively some kind of reparations... So, what's the amount, and to whom do I pay to be free of the burden? Do I get a certificate after I pay? After wich percentage of payment from the whites can we start removing poc subsidies in job and education?

People keep towing the "white responsibility" line but somehow never talk of what happens after, I wonder why.
Good read! Thanks for posting
First off, I'm sorry you had to suffer like that - and I don't want anyone to be denied healthcare.

> I’d rather vaccinate and mask up then be denied healthcare

You've presented a false dichotomy here - mass vaccination and masking will not necessarily prevent overwhelmed hospitals.

Israel is a prime example - with one of the highest vaccination rates in the world - their hospitals are being overwhelmed right now due to the variants. The CDC is reporting similar data from the U.S. [1][2][3]. There's no doubt that vaccination is saving some lives, but it also may be partly to blame for the increasing dominance of variants of concern. [4][5]

And counterintuitively, compulsory masking is likely setting us up for a very bad winter in terms of endemic illnesses such as influenza and RSV - which poses an increased risk of overwhelming medical facilities even further.

I only raise these counterpoints to help inform others and bring much needed nuance to these discussions.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/library/covid19/08132021_covidupdate.htm...

[4] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[5] Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...

[6] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
Sure, I doubt anyone who in the history of programming has even fired up a headless browser and thought "whew, I'm glad that work is finished, never to be touched again!"

But if it's a choice between _me_ (a) remembering every 3 months (b) then opening Chrome, authenticating, recalling the 18 clicks to get to the right settings screen, copy-pasting the 3 text fields, hitting submit, then logging out, or puppeteer doing that, there's absolutely no contest which of those is the better use of the company's series-A

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Separately, I'm not sure where this falls on the HN etiquette guide, but the word is "scraper", because a "scrapper" is someone who collects and recycles metal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapper

It's just a pet peeve of mine
Great read thank you
We don't have vaccines for the 200+ viruses that cause "the common cold". The flu, which is usually a more serious disease, has a vaccine that is updated and offered yearly.

80% of US medical personnel already take the yearly flu shot.
It's also possible that viral disease dynamics are just like that, with one virus dominating at a time (amongst this class of highly contagious respiratory viruses).
What is the delta variant R₀ in fully vaccinated communities though? Certainly it's not in the range of 5 to 9. If it's something like 2, then sure, a mask mandate makes sense for everyone. But if it's much lower than 1, then is it fair to force the vaccinated to wear masks? Is this sort of information hidden from the public because officials are too cowardly to force vaccine passports? There are so many information gaps like these that leave room for doubters.
Thank you for posting this! Very interesting
Long covid often includes easily quantifiable issues such as lung and heart issues.
You might find this project in India informative
https://youtu.be/-8nqnOcoLqE?t=60
I decided to stop going out alone the other weekend thanks to Alcohol. I don’t have any sort of chronic issue, but notice if I end up at the bar by myself, I tend to overdo things by a lot.
I’ve been wanting the government to roll out a zero proof ID mechanism so that businesses don’t need any info. Just have a unique ID that’s a representation of that one unique representation. Visit a new Dr’s office? Instead of an SSN generate a new ID they can use to contact you with the government as the intermediary. The business never gets your PII and the government already has your PII and needs to keep it secure (and is politically culpable to breaches). Some care needs to be taken to ensure that the government is actually blinded to the identity of the entity you connect with so that they can’t connect the dots about activity, but I think this is tractable.

Same thing with medical records. The current design is abhorrent. Every medical provider has an independent copy of your records. You should be the only one with a copy (or with a storage provider you designate) with strict timely access controls (eg doctor gets the records for 30 days for review or something). That I have to fill out a form to get my own medical records is retarded.

This stuff isn’t hard, but it’s hard to make money on so there’s perverse incentives to keep the status quo.
I've built 2 km radio bridge to my parents house over congested city area using 2 ubiquiti airFiber routers. Wasn't even that hard. I think they were using 60ghz spectrum
This article completely destroy the CDC's report: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/more-voodoo-e....

The CDC's report is a fantastic example as to why the CDC don't deserve our trust. They are dishonest. They cherry pick data to fit their narrative. They are unburdened by the constraints of peer review. They admit in their own study that it can't apply causation and yet they remain silent as the media run wild and report the study as causative fact.

This analysis has, to my knowledge, not been debunked at all: https://arieh.substack.com/p/inside-israels-delta-outbreak-p....

It shows natural immunity far outclassing vaccine immunity in Israel.

In terms of peer reviewed studies, they all show that natural immunity is fantastic:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2781112

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370(21)0...

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209951/pdf/RMV...
I've lived in a relatively big city for about 4 years now. I started my career in a small town and commuted into a city by car every day for a year.

I think for personal happiness, it depends on what makes you happy, and if your chosen location will lead you to happiness. This is different for everyone.

My reasons for moving into a city were many:

Career opportunities

Shorter commute via transit or bike

Environmental (sold my car and don't drive anymore)

Entertainment

Diversity of people and culture

Social

Food options

Exercise (biking on designated trail to destinations is easy)

Retail options (supporting locals is easier)

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There are definitely negatives to living in a city, and some cities have more of those negatives than others. I would never live in certain cities because of them (lived in NYC for a few months and hated it. Still enjoy visiting though). But overall, I have found myself much happier with richer life experiences because I moved to a city. It's not for everyone, but I would say give it a shot for a year if you have that freedom. You can always move again later, but the next time you move you'll have that city life experience to help with your decision.
Not sure why you were downvoted but you're right. YouTube, in a total inversion of the TV business model, doesn't pay creators for anything until after it's been monetized -- and then they take a cut first. The cut is so early in the process that millions of videos are monetized and the creators are not even aware, much less paid.

This is the reverse of the Hollywood TV model where you paid creators first and then tried to monetize the content you owned. It's certainly still labor to create it. The only things that have changed are the ownership, licensing, and payment stream.
I recall studies showing significant efficacy even in acute settings, which was slightly unexpected, at least to me.
Regarding that claim about the carcinogen gas (ethylene oxide) see https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-swabs-... , for example

That an object has been exposed to a compound during that object's lifetime doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be exposed to that compound upon touching the object.
"Its a feature not a bug"

You are claiming that this behavior is intentional. But Google's posts say otherwise.

As outsiders, we can't know either way. Search engines were doing this loose matching in 2010 (I worked in one such team).
Sure, it's anecdotal not proof and in no way scientific my self assessment. I've just noticed a trend amongst friends recently.
Huh? If you have a heart attack or a stroke or a grave accident you need a regional ER asap, not one 5h away.
...the history of the colors predates slavery...

This is an interesting claim. My Bible has numerous instances of slavery, and none of chess.
This is one of those things westerners say to make themselves feel better: corruption is what the foreign oligarch are perpetrating. Considering that the Afghanistan war was used to funnel 2 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex at the cost of tens of thousands of civilian lives (not to speak of the Iraq war), it's pathetically chauvinistic to keep focussing on the ghost of foreign corruption, of which one is served with information with the greatest confidence from the absolutely most biased source imaginable.
The PC + freestanding desk phone was an interesting variant. It went through a few iterations, from sneakernet to dumb terminal to (locally) networked, to fully globally interconnected. I've lived through virtually all of that, and worked through much of it.

The O'Reilly book UNIX Power Tools gives a number of examples of (mostly terminal-based) tools that could be used for office productivity. I went through a number of grep-based (or similar) phonelist iterations myself.

There's a critical difference between the disconnected, and fully integrated system. The ability to look up a number on your desktop (either directly or as a terminal), and manually enter the number on a phone, is useful. It's not fully automated (so no call-centre automation), but it also means that the phone itself cannot exfiltrate data.

Note that phone numbers themselves are typically short and a relatively dense namespace. The US 10-digit number allows a theoretical maximum of 10 billion numbers ... actually somewhat fewer given technical limitations. That's only about 30x the current population of the US, meaning that if each person has an assigned number randomly dialing digits will connect 1 time in 30. That's a tractable search.

If the phone-number length were doubled, then wardialing would connect only about 1 time in 10 billion. Exhaustive search for active numbers would be infeasible.

But we'd all have to dial 20-digit numbers.

Or you could shorten the sequence by switching to lowercase alphabet (14 characters), alphanumeric (12), or mixed-case alphanumeric (11). If you used an 8,000 word dictionary (roughly the length of EFF's Diceware passphrase generator long wordlist), you'd need five words to provide a similar namespace.

That is: there's a trade-off between the conciseness of the namespace and the ability to abuse it for unsolicited calls.

(This is assuming that all phone spammers dial randomly, which of course isn't the case, but it's the start of one approach to addressing the problem.)
I second this. I bought iPads for my parents and in-laws and I gave them the choice between iPad Mini and iPad thinking they will prefer mini because it's lighter. Both of them chose iPad precisely because it has a larger screen. I don't think it was just because of the ease of typing.
The Day Topps Lost Its 70-Year Grip on the Baseball-Card Market–and Its SPAC
One clarification - between 0.01% and 0.29% (actually 0.54% now) of fully vaccinated people are affected by breakthrough infection, while 88% effective means in a situation where an unvaccinated person would become infected, the vaccinated person would have an 88% chance of not being infected. So the difference between the two is exposure, which is a function of prevalence.
your company made it easy... If you left on bad terms, or with an immature company/boss/process, you might need days to go through the process... Or the company might argue and say your number is on to many cards/documents/etc and want to fight you to keep it... Even if it's clear on paper the number is yours.

I get where Rachel is coming from here. I think a decade ago when I had a separate phone for work was my least stressful time working... Unfortunately (in this case) I work for a University which I also attended school as a benefit, so the work/personal line got blurred for 6-7 years. Even though I finished my masters degree, it's become familiar to have "work" on my personal device now, when I used to be like Rachel -- separate work phone for the first 7-8 years I was working.

I'm happy she wrote this article, it's encouraging me to consider a low cost provider like Google Fi with an old phone and going back to the work/personal separation.
There's a significant difference when "master" being used in contrast to "slave", such as with PATA drives.

The term "master" as used in git is thought to be derived from master-slave terminology by way of it borrowing the term from bitkeeper:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
In your first paragraph, that's the point that the OP was making: you're assuming that we won't reach a point of diminishing returns. That's not guaranteed.

We might be able to guarantee infinite creativity... but will you be able to invest in it? If you're not the one writing the game/movie/novel, why would the artist permit you to invest and reap the benefit of their creativity?

Until recently, you could gain that power by owning key industries: the cinemas, the advertising agencies, etc. But those middle men are increasingly squeezed out; what would you offer that they can't get elsewhere? They'd cut your marginal return to the bone by playing you off against other people who have money to invest but nothing of their own to invest in.

In the best case, the resources would be distributed well enough that you could write your own novel, or whatever creative project, and not care about who will pay for it. In the worst case, you could find that all of the money ends up in the hands of a very few, who would out-compete you for any investment opportunity that arose.
As far as I know, it is part of a long-term D&I initiative which has much more aspects to it. For example, your review weights your D&I performance as important as your technical performance.
Yeah but (a) by not supporting U2F they suck (b) I don't want them to use 2FA as a magic excuse to get my phone number