skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely anecdotal but I'm double vaccinated (Astra Zeneca) and I caught Covid recently. It was probably Delta as 99% of cases in UK are. I know of quite a few vaccinated friends who've caught it recently too. Mainly AZ I think but one was Pfizer (single jabbed).

Anyway, none of us had severe illness although I felt pretty rough for a few days like I had a really bad cold and smell went for a week completely. I was basically fine though and everyone else I know is too who got it recently. The point is that it does seem like this Delta variant breaks through regularly and it does seem (again, purely anecdotal) like it's v infectious. Of course the thing to emphasise is that, whilst it might break through, the vaccine still stops serious illness to a high degree. It does highlight however the need to not be complacent. Vaccines don't seem to be stopping the spread right now as much as you might think, and the high number of cases combined with high vaccination rates is an obvious selection pressure. More variants are inevitably coming and it does seem like this virus is bucking the trend and not necessarily becoming less potent despite increased tranmissability in some variants

My conclusion is that, whilst I welcome the UK being sort of "back to normal", let's keep up the mask wearing, hygiene standards and so on. It's a balance but I sense things are getting a bit too lax. I'm not overly anxious but let's stick to the precautionary principle a bit more.
I suppose it's that deriding stay-at-home parents is commonly and socially acceptable (in media, articles like this, etc), more so than in the other direction. I can't think of an example, e.g. in media or press, where the working mother is ridiculed.

But anyway, it's a matter of perspective, I suppose, and which social bubble one inevitably inhabits.
Addendum: Another alternative that might be interesting: https://www.skrill.com/en/business/
Those are reproducible. You can make more food. You can't produce land.
The only reason I've ever considered Stitch Fix is specifically because there might be a person with better taste than me on the other end.

If the ex-workers in the article are representative, they aren't trained stylists at all; they're housewives and other normal people looking for extra income. Using StitchFix is basically letting your Uber driver select your wardrobe.
Show HN: Tempus – View and manage YouTube comments with timestamps efficiently
Hi everyone, this is Sarthak Mangla, a high school student from New Delhi, India. Over the past two months, I have been working on Tempus, a Chrome extension that allows you to efficiently manage and view YouTube comments with timestamps. It just went live on Chrome Web Store — install it here: https://bit.ly/3iZejEF

Features:

1. View concentration of comments using opacity of displayed markers.

2. View comments containing a particular timestamp.

3. While playing the video, view comments with timestamps like a live chat replay.

4. Customize the primary colour, block size of the markers.

To use Tempus, just make sure the extension has been installed and enabled in your browser. Then, you can head to any YouTube video, where the extension will collect timestamps from the comments and display them under the video progress bar. The settings, which are accessible through the Tempus icon on the top-right of your browser, allow you to:

1. Configure the block size of the marker

2. Toggle HeatMap markers

3. Toggle the comment live replay

4. Toggle the marker on-click comment view

5. Configure the primary colour for markers

Check out the source code here: https://github.com/knightron0/tempus

View the demo video here: https://youtu.be/5gX7_4qrazA

I would love your feedback; please do try it and let me know what you think!
What if they don't put out the money for the cost of upgrade because they didn't vote for it?
> held to the same standards

And they will be: accidents per mile. Or some variation on that that takes into account severity of the accident. We already revoke driver licenses if there are too many incidents.

Having a car give up 30% of the time when it encounters an edge case, but driving better than 99% of the other humans the other 70% of the time, is still better driving than a single human... the same way a human speaking and reading books at age 7 is still more advanced than the most experienced, cutting-edge dog.
I was with you all the way, til you said:

>Gimp is still great...

It's not. It's fucking shite. Just because it's free people seem to have this 'Emperor's New Clothes' mentality about it, where they have to convince themselves it's a worthy piece of software. It's not. It's awful and perpetuates the stereotype that free / OSS / Linux apps have to be inferior, clunky and unintuitive.

Applications like Krita, on the other hand, show that you can actually have free Linux software that can be as good [and as good looking] as the commercial 'pro' offerings.

I still wish they'd lose the hideous cutesy Manga splash screen imagery though [Similar is also used by Ibis Paint on Android [0]] as, for me anyway, it really undermines the "professional design software" message.

[0] https://ibispaint.com/?lang=en-US
I own a Pixel 3. Is that now considered an ancient handset?
Ancana steps in and takes over the share and finds another buyer. Other co-owners are protected in this case.
> Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing death

Yes individuals who have been vaccinated or recovered from natural infection will have durable immunity and significantly lower risk of severe outcomes like hospitalization and death. [5][6]

The real question: is mass vaccination effective at preventing the spread and increasing trasmission/virulence of variants of concern? A growing body of the scientific literature and evidence suggests not. [1][2][3][4]

This doesn't mean we shouldn't be using vaccines, rather we should use them in a highly targeted way, and supplemented by other therapeutic modalities.

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

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

[3] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

[4] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[5] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[6] Rapid induction of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells is associated with coordinated humoral and cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00308-3
PSVR 2: Everything we know about PS5 VR
I can't tell you how many obviously-fake profiles and scammers I report, and see other people commenting about reporting, only for them to still be around days, weeks, sometimes even months later.

All of these were obvious scammers directing traffic to a single profile - some forex guru or whatever. Shilling get-rich-quick schemes doesn't meet Facebook's definition of "spam", apparently.

https://imgur.com/a/xihRPwE

What a garbage app.
I own a Pixel 3. Take from that information what you will.
> the ad hominem fallacy, where we might trust a doctor just because they are a doctor

That's not an ad hominem fallacy. At worst it's an argument from authority. Ad hominem is something like: the person advancing this argument has done something bad, therefore the argument they are advancing must be false (or the converse -- the person advancing this argument has done something good, therefore the argument they are advancing must be true).

An argument-from-authority fallacy is a kind of ad hominem, usually employed with respect to some third party not involved in the dispute: "This person has a credential, and they say X, therefore X must be true." The problem is that this might not be a fallacy depending on the specific credential and the value of X. If someone is a doctor, then what they have to say about medicine is actually more likely to be true than someone who is not, all else being equal. Asking your doctor for advice on how to fix your car, on the other hand, is something you probably ought to avoid, unless your doctor also happens to be into cars.
The Atmel has a modified harvard architecture, so it's easier to use as a microcontroller than to run an OS on. Where there are lots of available OSes for 6502, Z80, etc.
A while back I tried writing an Atari 2600 game and got about half way (got sprites, collisions, level, just no goal)

The console uses a slightly cheaper version, the 6507 I think. Same chip, just smaller address line and no interrupts (!)

Instead you ran a "wait for the cathode ray to reach the right side of the screen" in order to time everything correctly.

Very fascinating stuff, I recommend anyone interested in the above dive in and give it a shot.

All you need is an editor[1] (I found one online!) and the stella manual[2].

There's something nice about having the entire machine spec in one book instead of leaning on stack overflow...

[1] https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.8.0/?platform=vcs&file=examples%...

[2] https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1646277043401568/stella.pdf
And they believe it works.

During the recent Cuban protests, republican pointed towards the fact that some protesters were waving american flags as a proof that the cuban government was Satan and any measure was justified in trying to bring them down.

Anybody pointing out that US sanctions were responsible for a fair share of the suffering of these protesters was denounced as a commie sympathizer.
In general I agree, but I think only the one viewpoint is commonly acceptable today in media and with thought leaders. Maybe that's my bubble talking.
Your first paragraph is called the Motte and Bailey fallacy [1]. You can't win your original argument, so you pick a different one that's easier, and then pretend that you won the original.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
I was surprised how grounded he was. It’s pretty much the opposite of a cult.

When you talk with him about a technical idea, you come away feeling that whatever Carmack said, it was plausible. So you start questioning your own assumptions.

I’ve learned to trust his thinking. It doesn’t mean that I don’t think for myself. Quite the opposite; I don’t think anyone else in the AI scene insisted to him that it was crucial to have a loss function.

But in matters like this, where he’s clearly given it more thought than I have (see tweet) and has more experience than I have (see son), I am perfectly content to outsource my thinking to him.

I’ll wager you $500 he’s right. (The problem with such wagers is that it’s hard to define the terms precisely. But, if it were possible to make it precise the way a mathematics formula is precise, I would happily bet you the $500.)
>In technology or really professional fields more broadly, saying you're a consultant is probably the best way to obfuscate a lot of travel, sort of vague job duties, etc. especially with friends and family who never really understood what you were paid for anyway.

This is also what young women just out of college, typically having played varsity sports, do after setting themselves up as a call girl working for a madam: They say they are working in consulting.
That's fair – I wasn't being particularly rigorous when I implied "delusion".

Resiliently optimistic is better. Reminds of me of the Stockdale Paradox:

"You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale#The_Stockdale_...
I will throw out a personal un-favorite. When talking about the fear of violence from the mentally ill, someone will say -- almost as if the string were pulled on a talking doll -- "the mentally ill are more likely to be subject to violence than to ..." and away we go.

It may be true, but it does not actually address the question. The question is, are they more violent than those who are not mentally ill?
Yes, exactly.

More info on the 1889 pandemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889–1890_pandemic
This isn't actually about the content, but I will say I find this style of using external links really annoying to read. If you're going to sprinkle so many links through your article at least give me an idea of what they're about.
It's not normal until we can forget about it all. (So it will take time!)
“If you lose your key and are still signed in on one of your devices, visit account.google.com to add or replace a key. Otherwise, submit a request to recover your account. Google may take a few days to verify that it’s you and restore your access.”

I trust that it would be (potentially much) harder than normal, but it still seems to be possible.
It is definitely possible to do structured dynamic updates without page reloads with SSR because that is what we did 15 years ago before the JSON hype. I know because I worked with it then.

The need to separate the team into frontend & backend engineers is a direct consequence of the over complicated frontend frameworks.

That is another tragedy of this heavy frontend trend. We are undermining the team’s performance and makes it harder to finish deadlines.

Usually what happens is that the frontend & backend engineers get out of sync and starts working on other things until they can sync again.

When this happens too often there is push to put the backend and the frontend in different teams.

After the split the teams start evolving separate cultures and mindset how to solve things and soon enough both teams has their own build and deploy pipes.

Eventually the teams no longer feel that they share a mutual idea of common ownership and the project stagnates.

If we keep things nice & simple we can work as fullstack engineers together as a team.
Why Is It So Hard to Decide to Buy? (vs. Build)
The attacker should have replicated the browser fingerprint and IP on top of stealing the cookie - or just flat out used his computer remotely while he was sleeping.

I haven't used FB in a while but I remember login from other places were detected.
I have a beta service I set up to issue certs via let's encrypt, which helps you circumvent the requirement to update DNS records yourself: https://certs.bx.tc/faqs
For $100, not bad though. Sure you could do Ubiquiti, but not for $100 and since a lot of Ubiquiti gear is sold out right now, at least he got it done.
> I think we are about to face...

I feel like this is what most experts were saying from near the beginning: this is not a few months problem. This is an ongoing problem that will require us to adapt just as it adapts. I remember many articles in 2020 projecting what the virus might look like 5 or 8 years out.

Lockdowns and other extreme measures were about flattening infection curves to keep from overwhelming health systems, not about eradicating the virus outright.

Masks and distancing are about getting the virus to a manageable infection rate to minimize impact on our new normal lives.

Vaccines are the only way out without high mortality and extreme pressure on our health systems. Whether it requires vaccines like polio (one or two and safe forever) or flu (annual) is yet to be determined AFAIK. It seems like somewhere in the middle is most likely at least for many years to come.
Most likely functioning higher reasoning ability are a negative selection pressure in modern society.
Yes, this is the most stoic/zen prayer that I've ever heard from a Christian context. I like it a lot.

Unfortunately Christianity suffers from excessive moralizing and mythology, which turns me away from it. But it definitely has lines of thought that descended from stoic thinking.
yeah, most of the details of my life, I cannot recall, even recent ones...however, on the other hand, my wife remembers minor mistakes I made 20 years ago
You can put certificates (signatures) in DNS so that clients can look up the appropriate record and verify that certificate that the (e.g.) web server is sending matches:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

However, DNS records themselves are not protected by default: they can be fiddled with in transit. So you have to enable DNSSEC to prevent them from being altered.

So yes, there are standards in place to do what you are suggesting. You'll 'just' have to convince people to enable all of this infrastructure and then have TLS clients use it.
demand for this model of ownership is exploding. From a buyer's perspective there is no functional difference between the primary and secondary market. It is certainly more liquid than a timeshare and in most cases easier to sell than an entire home given the lower upfront and maintenance costs
They can already solve that problem, it’s literally a rate they program. They don’t need a shitcoin to do that.
As others have already noted, the game is used more as a prop to explain real history.

However, if you don't like this approach, there are posts on ACOUP that approach history more directly. For example, here's an excellent recent series that tackle the issue of the Roman ethnic identity:

https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
IMHO every fringe OS community should invest effort into developing good full-fledged drivers for at least one reference hardware configuration. I wouldn't mind buying a specific video card, a specific motherboard etc even if they were rather old and overpriced in case if Haiku had stable hardware-accelerated drivers supporting all their features.

Given open-source Linux drivers which can give a good clue about how to interact with specific hardware this task doesn't seem impossible.
> if you lose them your account is gone

IMO, this is way too extreme for almost everybody. There needs to be some sort of happy medium so that a person who's lost everything they own (e.g., house fire) can get their account back somehow still. Two ideas I had:

1. When you set up your account, provide your legal name, date of birth, and a photo. 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.

2. When you set up your account, provide 5 trusted contacts. If you need to reset 2FA, get 3 of them to agree.
There's plenty of evidence we are in a bubble.

I know this guy, and he's not smart. One of the stupidest people I've ever met actually. Washed his clothes with dish soap stupid. He bought a house 2 years ago with less than 10% down and he's got equity totaling more than 150% of the value of the house when he bought it. Even monetary inflation aside, if an investment can bring windfalls to anyone who can fog up a piece of glass, something isn't right in that market and it isn't sustainable.

There's an anecdotal indicator, but housing prices are rising significantly faster than monetary inflation and population nationwide, that's pretty good evidence for a deviation from fundamentals.
> my wife who works remotely overnight
As much as I love the 6502, I have to say the 8080 has some very neat features that I wish I had with 6502, such as conditional returns (in other words, do a RTS only if a certain flag is set or not).
Those transactions are likely to be reversed thanks to the practically unlimited chargebacks practice which is rampant in our banking system.
That's why any sane person only wants to tax the land because taxing land reduces the value of land and increases the importance of the building on top of the land.

When you tax land people don't suddenly stop producing more land.
Yeah, I think it’s the shape of the transition that makes the difference, and even then it can be weird.

If you’re an executive at a large company, you’ve spent so much time working on that that your social circle has changed. Even if you’re a startup founder, you’re not surrounded by the kids you went to high school with, you’re surrounded by enough other rich people that they aren’t gonna mooch off of you.

Winning the lottery is more like a rookie in a professional sports league signing their first contract. Sometimes that works out fine—they buy their mom a house and a new car—and sometimes they go broke supporting an entire entourage.
Could you describe the types that are non-phishable?
> If iOS apps are all supposed to be sandboxed, I should be able to just install a different Mail app for my work email, and continue on my way with my one iPhone, right?

If you're talking about keeping them logically separated on the device, you already get this on any Android phone. You can install different mail apps and use a different one for each account if you like. You can even do it with GMail accounts if you're willing to use GMail through IMAP (but I think you're out of luck for whatever Google calls their chat platform this week).

The problem is that it's hard to distinguish between work and personal notifications when not working (and vice versa). Giving me the ability to take a VMs running and mute them (or mute them except if they blow up with notifications, or provide a single notification on the main interface telling me there's X notifications waiting on the work VM that updates once every hour or so) would be a real benefit. Not as much as a totally separate device, but also it wouldn't necessarily be as expensive or require more physical space.
Anti Mask protests in the US get violent
If the session cookie was stolen, there's no new login to detect and send a security notification about.
> But don't give to the mainstream EA causes, they already are sitting on billions.

I have to partially disagree with this, because EA organizations do select causes with a decent amount of "room" for more funding. It hardly matters that they're getting billions, your money will still easily contribute 100× or plausibly 1000× to society-wide benefit compared to just spending it on yourself. Of course some people might be aware of some kind of neglected opportunity with even larger returns, but that's surely not that typical. And efforts like the Open Philanthropy Project exist to focus on higher-variance causes than what GiveWell deals with, that for this reason might not appeal to mainstream donors.
I think you're probably limiting yourself to the idea that "selection can be applied to human breeding" which I do agree seems to be scientifically possible. They were roughly correct about that (but far from being able to exploit that knowledge).

The ethical concerns in eugenics weren't about that at all, though, they are about removing autonomy from people based on morally and scientifically questionable ideas (the eugenicists had many more scientific ideas which were just not supported by data, then ones that were).
But does it scan your pictures???
https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949

> A work profile can be set up on an Android device to separate work apps and data from personal apps and data. With a work profile you can securely and privately use the same device for work and personal purposes—your organization manages your work apps and data while your personal apps, data, and usage remain private.

There are other features aside from keeping apps separate. You can deny location data to apps running under the work profile. You can pause a work profile so you don't get work interruptions on the weekend. You can make phone calls from a separate dialer in the work profile, and it keeps a separate call history.