skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have we perhaps forgotten about Sweden which:

- Did not force lockdown / masks onto anybody

- Has one of the least vaccinated population in Europe (around 40% afaik)

- Has had 0 covid deaths in the last couple weeks.

- Has not had it worse than countries with stricter mandates.

Are we also forgetting about Iceland / Israel which are among the most vaccinated countries in the world (on top of having stringent mandates) and are basically experiencing their largest spike in cases since the beginning of this pandemic?

At the end of the day, it's also good to realise so called experts do not seem to have all the answers even though it's "backed by science". Going back to common sense and taking a step back is what will get us all out of this.
I would suggest looking closely at making shared ownership easier for friends and family, rather than a complex partnership of strangers. We know of people that would buy a vacation home together, but the purchase,
management, maintenance and use scheduling is complicated enough to shelve the idea.
This is so very much a thing and I love how it's structured here.
They get pleasure out of treating you <3 I hope you can find ways to return the favor and spoil them without embarrassing them.
Money and all of the above.
Hanlon’s first corollary: sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
What significant advantage does that have over a conditional branch followed by an RTS?
Literally nothing in your comment is true.
Good points in here. If you want to read a good book that discusses all the different players in healthcare, i recommend “An American Sickness” by Elisabeth Rosenthal.

It does a great job pointing out the various players and the conflicting interests between them. Highly recommend for anyone looking to learn more.
All of them - plus long long long timeframes to get anything done.
I've seen people do well by targeting specific processes around an illness. IMHO the landscape is so fragmented that a holistic approach would never make sense except as a government initiative.
Yes, anything that takes the work of a person (making a video, writing a game, writing a blog) is labor.
I was under the impression you were screwed in that case, thanks for pointing out that I was wrong. It's lot less secure than I thought.
The problem is when corporate policy considers that the device you work with essentially belongs to them and can be managed remotely or audited at any moment.
100 years ago, a similar question was posed by Lenin:

"Who, whom?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who,_whom%3F)

This isn't really about definition of the word; it is about political power, because whoever gets this word branded on their forehead, loses.
To be fair, there was only one item on the list of microagressions that didn't have at least 1/5 of all african-americans classify it as something other than "not offensive" (not sure what the other options are).

If a black person is answering "Is this offensive to me" and the white person is answering "Is this offensive to some black people" the numbers make total sense.
XR pioneer sees Facebook's XR plans as Trojan Horse threat To society
> I stopped following news since being fully vaccinated some time ago

You're mostly fine, but you should not get disconnected completely from the news.

Vaccine efficacy seems to wane slowly (faster for old people). Probably before the 1 year mark you should get a booster shot.

The Delta variant is skewing some of the initial estimates, for the worse.

The odds that you will catch the virus but have no symptoms or repercussions are still rather substantial, but definitely less than 50% (estimates vary). So there is a chance that you can still transmit it. Please wear a mask indoors in public places.
Yubikey is one - it requires the user touch a hardware device which signs something locally that I think is never sent? I don’t know enough of the implementation specifics, but it’s supposed to guard against this kind of thing.
The US behaviour in this is disgusting. They should be paying freaking reparations to Iran for breaking their end of the deal like this. (Not that there's any chance of that.)

The fact that they have the power to bully the rest of the world into complying with their unilateral 180 decision is infuriating.
I feel absolutely violated by Apple. Privacy and Security are now words I would not associate with that brand.
Hmm, I recall profiles being talked about in the past, but seem to have missed when they rolled out, or forgotten about them. I don't think they necessarily solve the problem entirely, but I'll definitely look into them to see if they're useful to me now that you've reminded me. Thanks!
So, popping up three comments, this explains which types of 2FA are not phisable:

> I wish he'd mention what kind of 2FA. The reason you _really_ should use U2F/WebAuthn is because it does origin binding which, unlike entering a TOTP, a code from your hardware token/authenticator app on your phone/SMS/etc is not phishable, i.e. you can't enter it by accident on accounts.google.com.totallylegit.ru and then have them enter it on real accounts.google.com. This is so because the U2F/WebAuthn security key signs a request, sent by your browser, which embeds the requesting page's domain, so a signature on attacker.com will not pass victim.com's verification checks, whereas a code from your authentication app is trivially copied.
Depends on the VPN; at a previous job that used one, it was anyconnect, so I could just use openconnect on my local machine and never need anything that the company truly controlled locally
I’ve often heard the argument that we need to change all GitHub repos from master to main because master has etymological origins in the concept of slavery, and is therefore a racist term. But I’ve always heard this argument made by white people. I wonder what percentage of black people working in technology find the term so offensive that it should be changed in every context.
I am reminded of Noteplan https://noteplan.co/
A model is just another form of analysis. A SQL statement is already built on levels of abstraction. An “AI” model is only one more level. At the bottom it’s all ones and zeros. But no matter how high you make the tower there’s always a human at the top.
One thing that might or might not matter, depending on why you are doing the project, is that a 6502-based computer is less opaque.

A 6502 is a CPU in the "traditional sense". It has limited internal state in the form of a few registers, and communicates with the outside world with address lines and data lines; I only simplified a little there. Everything else is external: RAM, ROM, any external devices on a different bus (I2C etc.), even timers and GPIO need external circuitry with usually other ICs.

An AVR on the other hand tends to have all of that stuff (or at least a sizable subset) built in. That's, obviously, enormously convenient, and often means that with the AVR itself and just minimal external circuitry you have your needs covered. But it's less educational, you've rather plugged a computer into your circuit than built a computer.
At some point this is just arguing semantics, but my understanding is that the herd immunity threshold is defined when Reff < 1. You could have Reff=0.99999999, which counts as herd immunity being reached, but it would take a very long time for the virus to actually disappear. Even if we do momentarily hit Reff < 1 for the delta variant, there could be mutations/waning immunity that causes it to stay around 1 becoming endemic.
> And Facebook refuses so much as to pick up the phone to discuss it.

It's part of the business model - each FB user generates so little revenue for the company that you can't afford to offer anything resembling "real" support channels. The company is massively profitable by sheer scale - by making a small amount of money per year off of a vast number of users.

This applies to Google as well - or really any ad-based engagement-centric business. Your individual users aren't worth enough to have human-intensive labor assigned to them, hence heavily automated support channels and little to no ability to ever have something processed by a human.

One of many reasons I pay Google to host my email rather than use a free Gmail - when you are generating a non-negligible revenue stream suddenly companies' willingness to answer emails and pick up phones increases.

When it comes to FB there's often the pithy "when you're not paying for a service you're not the customer, you're the product" - which is a simplistic take. In this case though at the very least this is true: "when you're not paying for a service your support needs are dead weight".
With a really good physics engine that can simulate complicated mechanical contraptions https://youtu.be/P-WP1yMOkc4
<sarc>What could go wrong?!</sarc>
It is correlated, but I am not aware of even a single study that shows actual causal determination.
The first comment in this thread describes why U2F is unphishable.
The article reads like it's about general-purpose computing, but computing is viewed through a web interface in it.
Here are a couple of preprint studies that show naturally acquired immunity provides protection.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33948610/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33907755/

Meanwhile the CDC published this study showing the opposite:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

I can understand why people are confused.

There appears to be two camps, one that believes that science can defeat this disease, and in the other camp people that believe we need to learn to adjust to our new reality.

I don't understand how a man made vaccine can provide better protection to the virus better than my body after recovering, but I'm not specialist.

Aren't the pharmaceutical companies financially incentivized to provide minimal protection, and annual booster shots? Why would they make something better?

As long as fear navigates our course, we won't see an end to this.
Wouldn't that be obvious to the victim the moment their phone didn't work? Or will the carrier leave the old SIM activated?
This is what happened in my case. Not my first older German car, nor my first experience with the dealer. I knew what I was getting myself into. :-)

I don’t hold it against them. In fact, I think it confirms my original assertion that there’s no malice involved.
> There are way more people that want to live in these places than houses available.

That's like the saying "government bonds are 0 risk." It's usually true, til it isn't.

These problems with housing costs in these cities absolutely will make the cities less desirable, I think we will see a large deurbanization period in north america very soon and you'll see most of these cities that are constricting supply of housing crumble like Detroit.
Your numbers are wrong (see other responses for why.)

The herd immunity figure (1) legitimately changed with the variants, and (2) is always going to be a shot in the dark so personally I don't find much point in paying attention to government figures anyway. Government is providing figures to achieve an outcome; it's fundamentally a policy tool. If you want the science, listen to scientists.

The delta variant is currently overwhelming a large number of hospitals, and it wouldn't have done so with higher vaccination rates. Whether or not you view that statement as vilifying unvaccinated people is beside the point.

If it is going to become endemic, and there are very good arguments that it will, then I agree that we'll need to move on. But "moving on" != "ignoring". Flushing the existing vaccines down the toilet and letting the cards fall as they may is not a winning strategy, yet that's exactly what 40% of the US population is presently choosing.

"Moving on" means treating it like chickenpox or at least the flu. Not like meteor strikes.
> so called experts do not seem to have all the answers

You are drinking misinformation from the firehose. That quote is a clear symptom of it.
This idea is approached in an interesting way in the book “Against the Grain” by James C. Scott.
Or PCem if you want a more authentic experience.
I would totally rock a hobbit hole, however I don't think that is a scalable solution for massive population bases.
The argument you’re making could just as easily be applied to having kids “compete cleaning tables at a restaurant” where the winner for the day gets $10.

Once money is in the equation, all of the incentives change and it’s not about “learning opportunities” or fun.
In the long term, they cost more than the code that is just optimizing delivery of what's in the warehouse to "what each consumer has been surveyed as preferring/purchasing".

This seems like an inflection point for the company where their software is starting to be more useful than their employees. It's the equivalent of McDonald's replacing counter people with kiosks.
Their output is prodigious, it's like putting out a masters thesis every month.
DevTools Leverage
Have the algo do the work, have a human present the solution.
I'd add to also keep a copy of any substantial agreement/clarification alongside the proper legal paperwork. The PTO wording was a bit confusing, you ask for clarification and they tell you it's 21 work days and not 3 natural weeks? Keep a copy of those email/slack/etc., preferably one from HR and one from your manager where they both agree. Just push them in the same binder, they are probably not so many situations to make this bothersome but it can be helpful.

Luckily I've never needed it in any kind of legal situation, but a couple of times they saved me of a "he said she said" kinda conversation.
I know you're rebutting GP, but your question is irrelevant to US foreign policy.

They don't want a better government, they want a puppet state.
> NO_SMT disables Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), the CPU feature better known under Intel’s trade name of “Hyper-Threading”. SMT allows a CPU core to execute two or more threads at the same time, for improved performance at the cost of contention for per-core resources, such as caches, TLBs etc.

> Letting multiple threads share invisible resources carries the risk of letting a malicious thread steal secrets from a “sibling” thread running on the same core—a risk that over the years has materialized into multiple attacks, like TLBleed, PortSmash, Fallout, ZombieLoad, RIDL. A straightforward mitigation for this entire family of attacks, past and future, is then to simply disable SMT, which is what NO_SMT does.

BAHAHA cperciva was right! It’s a decade later and people care now! Linus didn’t care at the time!

I’m on mobile otherwise I’d link to relevant refs, but it was an “I told you so” 10 years in the making. Maybe longer? When was cperciva’s cache stealing research?
> "healthcare is the Afghanistan of tech where giant empires go in thinking they can solve it and leave beaten years later wondering what happened."

Great metaphor. It's kinda like Education: if you come in thinking you're going to make money, all the existing players say "Hello, sailor!"

I joined Google in 2005. Even then, executives who were out of favor were sent to the "health care division" which was commonly understood as the one-way door out of Google.
Do you have a reference? I would be interested sin reading the paper
I assume the Scene class is called into from some other part of the engine. So, your code needs to at least enter via those functions and return the right value / have the required side effects.

There are probably other methods defining the scene interface defined in the base class definition.
The threshold for loan size which requires a jumbo loan is set per county and is much higher in the expensive coastal states. In California it's $548,250 in the rural counties where homes are around $250/square foot, so the vast majority of homes will qualify for conforming loans. In the sf bay area it's $822,375, which is well below the average price in some but not all cities.
An Epic Treatise on Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage(2017)
Download and Install Gapps for Android – Android Google Apps
Hah, the editor must have banned the term "phase noise"!

Impressive accomplishment.
Days ago a user who declared to be a Google employee wrote that many of his colleagues have no idea what RSS is. (No, sign of the times.)
Humanity has changed the food it eats
You do not understand what a capitalist means by "infinite growth." We do not need to completely re-think our economy because people are about to feel the consequences of their bad financial decisions.
Don't conflate "meaningful" with "predictive". The attributes are indeed predictive. The intention of the model is to make accurate predictions optimally given the data its fed. If you give it data that contains predictive correlations with race and gender, yes, it will learn them. It should be pretty clear that the root problem there though is the data, not the model.
I think changing master/slave terminology is justified, but to me master branch suggests something like master key or master prints. That which is the superior and definitive example of the collection from which it comes.
It's virtue signaling. That use of "master" is just tiny compared to all other uses in history. "Master record", "master of science", "master artisan". Should conductors no longer be called maestros? It's dumb, and should be ridiculed, if not called out for the deliberate harm of detracting from the real issue of institutionalised racism. If you feel something should be done, this isn't it, and we shouldn't get to feel better by renaming a git branch.
Thanks for the detailed answer.

You seem to be loving what you do :)
With friends like these… (Facebook buys protection from the establishment).
Old school phishing is the most common MFA bypass.

Here is a description how it works:

https://github.com/wunderwuzzi23/KoiPhish

Unless you use Yubikeys (webauthn) etc these phishing attacks just continue to work. I do consultancy in this space at times and about 95+% of folks who enter their password will also enter their MFA token.
Chick-fil-a? You can say that here without getting sued.
Okay? The original statement was,

> The shameful thing is that there is no earthly reason why we need separate devices. There should be appropriate isolation mechanisms so that corp-ware stays in corp-land and personal crap stays over on its side of the fence.

And we have that. Companies not trusting the tech is a separate problem.
Sure! https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108453 Pan-Sarbecovirus Neutralizing Antibodies in BNT162b2-Immunized SARS-CoV-1 Survivors, Tan et al, NEJM 2021 Aug 18.
What is your definition of very sick?

I too had a similar series of events and my second infection was both worse and better than the first. My first bout was longer but consisted of just a mild cough with a tolerable shortness of breath but 9 months of long haul hell. My second was rife with congestion, headaches, and muscle pains but it came and went in the span of a week, no long covid this time around (so far).
More like it's against their cultural identity to ever validate "the liberals".
Yeah, as long as COVID-19 fills up hospitals we should do this. Not having hospitals seriously compromises quality of life.

I had untreated kidney stones for about a week at the peak of the pandemic. When I was in the middle of an attack I could not work, the pain was too severe. I was missing several hours of work everyday just dealing with pain.

I finally got to the emergency room which did basic imaging and gave me painkillers and muscle relaxers.

I didn’t get the actual stones removed until 6 months later!

So yes, I’d rather vaccinate and mask up then be denied healthcare.
But can it ignore your firewall settings?
Why Twitter’s New Interface Makes Us Mad
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16082909

cperciva's paper from 2005 (linked above):

http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf
Is that obstacle removed in countries with national healthcare programs of some sort?
It's very similar to education. Neither health care nor education function anything like a "free market" so the normal business strategies don't apply.

And it's so many things -- it's regulation, it's slow-moving, it's hyper-local and non-uniform, it's privacy concerns, it's vested interests, it's interoperability, it's political.

Both health care and education have huge amounts of money poured into them -- the money spent on a child's education per-year is orders of magnitude greater than a Netflix or Spotify subscription. Same with your monthly health insurance costs. So despite all the challenges I listed above (and more), it still seems like if you can pull it off, it's a bet worth making. But that doesn't stop it from being really, really hard.
IBM, Red Hat Bring Load-Aware Resource Management to Kubernetes
When banks grant credit, they create a bond on the asset side and credit (bank money) on their liability side. The debt is your liability, the credit is your asset. You can spend that credit on anything you want, it can even be used to repay a different debt than the one you agreed to. Banks took a contract (debt = promise to sell goods and services) and essentially turned it liquid. Each bank dollar is basically a micro bond with no terms written on it.

QE basically buys the bond off the bank and gives the bank central bank reserves. It increases liquidity and that is about it. The bank doesn't own the bond it sold, it owns a claim to a small portion of the bonds the central bank has on its balance sheet. It doesn't have to buy the same bond back. (the same way you can use your borrowed money to repay a different debt). It helps banks get bad debt off their balance sheet but in no way does it encourage people to borrow more money.
What open market? There's no liquidity there.
Code density, and you could potentially save a few cycles with a single instruction. Whether that matters at all depends on how much slack you have in your utilization of available memory and CPU cycles. (Strictly talking about "old" CPUs here.)

It's worth noting that the 8086 got rid of conditional returns, you only have unconditional ones there.
>If you need to reset 2FA, go somewhere in person with a government-issued photo ID (which we already have procedures to replace) that all of the details of match.

Very few people are going to want to pay for this labor if the perception of risk of using a free account is as low as it is now.
BYOD have clear separation of work and personal containers. Wiping all work stuff comes down to deleting the work profile from your personal device. This automatically removes all work related apps, accounts, media, etc.
> Around 2009 or 2010, the company decided to try to pull a fast one on some of us. They said that our original NDA somehow hadn't gotten signed (what?), and that we needed to re-sign it...Sure enough, they delivered, and sent me the original NDA. Note: they didn't send me AN original NDA they were using circa 2006 when I started. They sent me THE original NDA, complete with my signature from the day I started! Yes!

> So then I started reading along, doing my best to do a 'diff' in wetware, and found that they had actually added some clauses. One of them amounted to 'taint' for your personal devices. Basically, if you signed in to your corp gmail from a device, they claimed the right to audit it at any point in the future.

This kind of psychotic behavior is one reason I'll never work at a megacorp. I'm sure some smaller companies do it too, but it seems less common, and they won't have as many lawyers on retainer just waiting for the chance to justify their salary by pursuing it.

And if I ever did find myself at a company that tried to pull something like this, I'd probably quit on the spot. I won't work in an environment where I'm having to constantly watch my back.
I always leave it blank on the forms at doctor's offices and other medical facilities, no one has ever brought it up and asked for it.