skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-... argues that people are misinterpreting the Israeli data due to Simpson's paradox:

In the case of vaccine efficacy vs. severe disease, it is
the fact that both vaccination status and risk of severe
disease are systematically higher in the older age group
that makes overall efficacy numbers if estimated without
stratifying by age misleading, producing a paradoxical
result that the overall efficacy (67.5%) is much lower
than the efficacy for either of the age groups (91.8% and
85.2%).
Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
https://archive.is/qbvCf

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QNxwL
Stupid answer: Sometimes!

Inflation is really an indirect measurement of the rate of change in a currency's value. It usually is approximated by sampling the price of a "basket of goods", including labor, real estate, and other commodities. If the prices of those goods are going up, overall, we have inflation.

Sometimes, though, the prices of some things are going up and the prices of other things are going down. In that case, it can be hard to discern between "the value of this good is increasing" and "the value of the money spent on this thing is decreasing".

In the current situation, we have both inflation (by some measures at a ~5% annual rate) and shenanigans in the real estate market (to some extent related to very low interest rates for mortgages) that are causing prices to rocket.
Thanks I was wondering too. I think it means “it happens partially” but that can’t be right as it doesn’t seem noteworthy. Although glad that GP isn’t breaking NDAs with that fortune teller statement.
[2] states:
> The UK should continue to proactively support a strategy of worldwide effective vaccination in order to drive down global viral load reducing the likelihood of dangerous variants emerging in other parts of the world.

In any case, even if vaccines lead to stronger variants (as some of the research you cited states is possible), a game theoretical situation is created where enough people are vaccinated that those who are not are just leaving themselves in greater danger. And in the case of a mutation breaking out of the vaccine, [2] suggests just to immediately start making a new one with the same technology.
Are any of these properties available for U.S. buyers, or only to those that live in Mexico?
What were you doing to reach the API limit? Were you circumventing the terms of use?

Also, what do you mean, "it's my device. Don't rate limit me"? Do you own Nest's network? If not, why are you mixing owning a network with owing a device?
Maybe I wasn't very clear, I don't think every single machine learning model should be subject to regulation.

Rather I view it more along the lines of how the US currently regulates accessibility standards for the web or enforces mortgage non-discrimination in protected categories. The role of government here is identify a class of tangible harms that can result from unfair models deployed in various contexts and to legislate in a way to ensure those harms are avoided.
Curious why you think this is awful. The order rotates each year so for a home sold in 1/4 fractions, every owner would get 1st choice once in a 4 year period. Then it starts over again. All buyers pay the same rate, the priority selection rewards people who buy first, it's a benefit for moving fast.

We are contemplating a snake draft system if we decide to allow people to schedule more than 1 priority date each year. So if you go last on your 1st choice, you'd get 1st pick on your 2nd choice. Does that seem more fair from your perspective?

A lottery is an interesting concept, but it's only really equitable over a long time horizon. What if I got a bad luck fo the draw 3 years in a row? Scheduling is hard, and we are constantly looking for ways to improve so we really appreciate the feedback!
> Of course, then I refused to sign the updated one, because I'm a jerk who thinks "unlimited PTO" is a scam.

Unlimited PTO is only a scam if you are a) bad at taking care of yourself, and b) have a shitty manager.

I've been taking every other Friday off since last summer, and in addition to that take 4-5 weeks off during the year (a week or two at a time). Hasn't been a problem because I get my work done, and I have a manager who understands we all need downtime to be healthy (and productive).

In my experience, most of the people who end up taking less time off when their company switches unlimited PTO are just bad at taking care of themselves, and (incorrectly) believe they'll be penalized for taking time off.
If you read the Wikipedia page for Vector Graphic, you’ll clearly see it states they produced microcomputers, not PCs. Contrast with IBM, Compaq.
Mikrotik has gear for punching that far. Mikrotik > ubiquiti. If the setup is overwhelming you probably don't have the knowledge to legally throw a WiFi >500m and not get arrested. (You need acma license in aus for any links >800m off memory). You shouldn't be doing long WiFi links if you don't know what your doing.

On the shorter end of things tho lol mikrotiks new app make setup as pleb as ubiquiti if you need that level of simplicity. Devices cost about 1/3rd too. I don't sell anything else for WiFi or networking unless you need >10gb mmwave....which you don't.
>My belief is that they are making tons of money allowing unauthenticated calls into their network, that they have no desire to actually block any calls.

I've been waiting for that to happen on cell and landline numbers. Authentication for the party calling. At this point, there's no other option than legislation. Just mandate how common voice services like landline and cellular operate their business.

It needs to happen otherwise the only solution is to give them up and only do our own outbound calling, never to actually receive any calls at all.

Other options like blocking all calls from non-contacts is risky because a call from a delivery driver or babysitter in an emergency will be missed. It's about the only option though for enduser today.
If they were forced to change, I feel like the most likely outcome would be to remove the chance of renumeration for young developers, to sidestep any possible legal implications altogether. To turn experience-making, for kids at least, into a purely hobby effort. Maybe that's not bad, but I figure the same negative pressures would still exist, for the most part.

It would be interesting to see the company's reaction to a completely free, hobby Experience becoming the most played (and unpaid) game on the platform. It's unlikely, but fun to imagine.
Related:

https://www.llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html

https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
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Looks like me, trying to skateboard. When the robots can skate, we're in real trouble.
Second greatest. Antibiotics take the crown.
For people in a similar situation. Chanca Piedra might help.
"Selective pressure". I find this phrase really confusing, because I think people use it differently. I'm still trying to nail down my own knowledge about this, but here's the gist I have so far.

Viruses are not like bacteria. Bacteria can mutate in direct response to antibiotics. Viruses cannot mutate in direct response to vaccines. Some people use "selection pressure" to describe what happens with bacteria and antibiotics. Others use it in a looser sense.

Viruses mutate purely randomly. Now, if a virus happens to mutate in a way that escapes vaccines, and if vaccinated people are more likely to party because they are vaccinated, then yes, you could argue the mutation has an advantage against other variants the vaccine has protected against, in a social sense. Some people use "selection pressure" in this sense, which I think causes confusion.

So the more relevant question is, if a virus mutates in an unvaccinated person, and that mutation happens to have the ability to escape all current vaccines, then, can the virus spread faster in a 50% vaccinated community than a 0% vaccinated community?

Answers as far as I can tell:

- Arguably yes, if the 0% vaccinated community is so sick from other variants that they aren't out and about to get exposed to the new variant. But I think this answer is cheating and doesn't get to the heart of the question. So, control for population activity and assume that both the 0% and 50% populations have the same chance of being exposed.

- If the 0% vaccinated community is infected with variants that can "crowd out" the newer mutation, then it could grow faster in the 50% vaccinated community. But I don't know if this is actually possible - I do know it's possible to catch multiple variants at one time, and I'd expect that usually a mutation that is more fit in terms of escapability might also have fitness advantages with transmissibility.

- If the mutation responded to the vaccine, in a direct biological sense, then it would clearly grow faster in the 50% population since it wouldn't have existed otherwise. But this is the scenario that not possible as I understand it, since it is based on a misunderstanding of how viruses work.

I welcome any corrections from those who are more familiar with this.
I had the opposite experience (in my well funded tech company days). We got free food at my job, and we had to pay tax on it as a benefit (for which we were reimbursed). The food, and cafeteria, were not my thing at all, and 95% of the time I either skipped lunch or grabbed something outside. I had no problem with my salary, but given the choice, I would have been happy to get more money and no food. (Just to be clear, it was very popular, I just would have liked the choice)
> is it equal work and are you an HR company that happens to write software or a tech company?

In my software we deal with complexities in OSI layers 4-8, in multiple languages, with multiple protocols. As long as I've been working in core infrastructure software it's always been this way, and I think that's why I stay in the domain. The challenges are always new and this space sees a lot of constant iteration, but it's usually iteration down in the stack. We deal in systems technology all the way up to HTTP. There's a big variance to the nature of work you'll take on is my point. Additionally, this team seems to benefit from fundamental knowledge in math, systems, and software engineering.

When I worked strictly on web backends the most amount of Layer 4 I ever touched was a load balancer. I dealt in a few protocols but they were all fairly predictable. The system was not really something that we touched, improved, or even really relied on. It was more a consequence of development, so patch solutions were okay. I don't see the kind of fundamental knowledge on my team being required when I filled these kinds of positions, but maybe it could.

The thing I have trouble reconciling is whether I judge web backend development more harshly (and thus think, this is not the same work) purely because it wasn't interesting to me, or because my company doesn't mandate that kind of attention to detail (or tries to provide broad solutions and discourages individual problem solving), etc... It's hard for me to tell on an individual level.
I’ve been pondering for a while why Google never tried to acquire PayPal, and/or perhaps most importantly Venmo (which is part of it). With Android & Chrome being the platforms that they are, the ultra tight integration of payment of PayPal/Venmo should be interesting to unlock more payment growth. Yes Google has the technical ability to build competitors to those, but the market of consumers/SMB’s don’t appear to understand the Google payment offering. Whereas with PayPal/Venmo as the frontend brand, it’d be hard to argue that the market would be confused given the already existing uses and brand appeal. Of course this sort of merger may raise all sorts of antitrust flags so maybe it’s just a thought experiment and nothing else for now.
FDA Expected to Fully Approve Pfizer Vaccine Next Week
>People have guess that patents prevented it from actually being an open standard.

Not guessed. Apple was actually sued and had to change how FaceTime works.
This is another good part of steam - even if your account is banned from the entire community for site-wide spam, you don’t lose access to your game library.
Shameless plug: I’m mentoring a student who is building a beginner-friendly version of manim on top of p5.js for his Google Summer of Code Project - check it out!

https://two-ticks.github.io/p5.teach.js/

https://discourse.processing.org/t/animating-maths-in-p5-js
Can anyone tame the identity access beast? Okta aims to try
I would think that a temporary loss of security guarantee is tantamount to a complete loss of security guarantee.
Is that why the CDC has not updated the stats on breakthrough hospitalizations/deaths?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

https://archive.is/yaPLs
I wish I was a Google employee getting paid tons of money to get nothing done. Being Bighead is the American Dream.

[1]:https://youtu.be/ZpL-ZBNiGjE?t=203
But like-to-like isn't just "resolution" and "size". I'd never buy a tv with a comparison like that.

My comparison would be as if I took a "low/mid/top end tv" in 2000 and compared it with a "low/mid/top end tv" in 2021. In that case, it is still about the same price, especially adjusted for inflation.
lldb with a graphical interface. I grew up with graphical debugging interfaces, could probably use console based ones if i had to but never bothered to learn
Depends. I use debuggers like pdb when I can’t quickly figure something out as it lets me interact with the running state. I’m less likely though in languages like Golang where I haven’t had as easy of a time using one, and have ended up avoiding them often in UI work as I more often end up in frameworks than code I care about
I am Not Sure.
Charts CSS – a non-JS charting solution for the web
I'm curious to know how much the reaction to the second or subsequent jabs correlates to antibody/immunity level. I had no reaction to the first jab and a 12-hour flu-like reaction to the second jab the next day (both Moderna).

NOT having a similar reaction to a third booster would be concerning, but I wonder how much the reaction actually correlates with protection for shots beyond the first.
Really love this idea. We started Ancana to make this opportunity available to everyone, even if they didn't have a group of people they knew who wanted to co-own a home. But there is absolutely room to tailor a product for people who already have a group and just don't want to deal with the overhead of setting up the fractional model and ongoing maintenance. We're going to look into this, thank you for the feedback!
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252026
I'm not sure they should be. As a customer, I wouldn't want everyone poking holes in it. Also, seeing a new version of it, could cause unnecessary headaches (it also could let me know of stuff that's really important, but they should communicate that another way).

That said, I do like standardized agreements in a lot of situations. I just am not sure it's best for these.
> After that date all liability for fraud perpetrated using an SSN as a shared "secret" will be assigned to the party who accepted the SSN as "authentication". That would solve the problem.

Except that the problem isn't which party is legally liable. The problem is that the legal system is almost entirely inaccessible to the vast majority of people.
FWIW the equivalence between NFA and DFA requires an exponential space increase to encode the NFA as a DFA, with an exponential space blow up you can encode a lot of things as DFAs (I'm pretty sure you could encode a Turing machine that uses bounded space on the tape as a DFA with exponentially more space, "just" make each possible configuration one state in the DFA)
One difference is that eating is such a normal and low effort activity for us that there is no point for the brain to remember it. But if you were surviving in the wild, I bet you’d have much better memory of meals since they would all be somewhat ‘special’ in the sense that you are still alive!
> Lesson: don't be too clever.

A few other lessons from this: 1) test your scripts, 2) be clever enough, 3) email obfuscation stopped working in 2000 for preventing spam, 4) handle spam at your receipt
To be fair, people don't often challenge that. I usually say "It's how I'm used to doing it, but I'd be happy to hear a better alternative". I don't think anyone ever offered one.
So it's actually "How two bored 1970s housewives had no impact on the PC industry"? Because the decision to not build an IBM PC clone meant that IBM PC won, and the alternative decision to build an IBM PC clone would have meant that IBM PC clone would have also won? The only difference seems to be the fate of this particular company, not the PC industry.
I remember the 2006 era version of Google Health that also failed and the executive in charge went off to found his own health startup (which itself failed).
> Style is defined at the high end to a very limited audience and derivative variations of it are built on further derivative variations as it flows down the classes

That is a very clichéd haute couture definition — a la “Devil Wears Prada - Cerulean Top” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-KQij0I8I

That trickle-down definition of style is relevant perhaps within some groups of people.

I think that most subcultures have their own highly independent styles, and within that you have people with their own independent riffs on the general subculture style.

Do you not think that many subcultures have their own style that isn’t derivative/trickle-down?
Still sounds like a significant barrier to most phishing attacks.
Racism is when people believe falsehoods about genetics and heritability, particularly when they believe that humans form multiple races. It's that simple. We should require sociologists to take an introductory course in molecular biology so that they grok this part of human nature.

Edit: Downvoters should be required to also take a molecular biology course.
If you can present evidence you can prove or falsify it, right?

So it's falsifiable. Otherwise you couldn't ever present any evidence.

Whether someone is willing to believe in some evidence shown doesn't change anything about the fallibility property.
Every individual citizen is getting punished. And "That's not an answer."
Unfortunately I think the media has really mixed up the words "presymptomatic" and "asymptomatic". You're right there is little evidence that people who never develop symptoms can spread COVID. But it seems likely that COVID can be spread up to 48 hours before symptoms develop, which still presents roughly the same problem.

Here is a paper looking at viral shedding over time in COVID patients: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5

I also anecdotally know a few different people who caught COVID from someone who felt fine at the time they interacted, so I'm quite confident it is possible, although I'm not sure I'd make a strong statement about the prevalence.
Maybe we should just have everyone without a vaccine wear a star on their arm. /sarcasm
The spike proteins allow Covid to enter your cell where its actual RNA coopts the cellular machinery of the cell to reproduce. After enough copies of the virus are assembled the RNA coopted cell is made to kill itself by self-lysis releasing the new viruses.

The spike protein itself is not dangerous.
I'd say we are streamlining the decades-old co-ownership model more than we are reinventing timeshares :)
It's still lower than the peak of 3300 (7-day average) during the winter season, and that's when we had 250k cases daily. We're almost at 150k daily cases, but with only 1k daily deaths. At least based purely on numbers, the CFR is lower. The CFR is lower because most of the infections are happening in younger people.
Look at GA Tech’s options. Not sure about associates level, but have good online programs.
Is it the left that endlessly wines about cancel culture, and social media taking away their platform? I could have sworn it was a different group...
Yeah there’s definitely a cool niche there for an easy to use tool to build games in a way that deals with the mess of networking and servers that isn’t just siphoning all the money away from the users at every turn.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/a8K2S

https://archive.is/2DeTT
Same here, got the email stating unusual activity, tried logging in and was pushed back that they were working on tech difficulties, the phone # is indeed invalid. Did not get any other contact after trying to log in. Something is def up, doesn't look good. I hadn't connected anything to it so not too worried, but still sus af
It is insanity that a company as “big” as Lyft is not providing a Corp phone to employees and forcing them to install and connect to so many work related apps and network elements on their own non-work-supplied phone. Absolute insanity.
Looks like the email was an error. I'd agree with KingFelix that their servers are overloaded because of it.

https://support.acorns.com/hc/en-us
> and insisted on staying away from producing IBM compatibles

That didn't turn out well for them in the end since they eventually had to build machines 90% similar to IBM PCs that were still able to run Windows in a VM, just so they wouldn't become obsolete after the G5 fiasco.

So I'm not sure how you can conclusively claim that "it worked out for Apple".
You would have to show that people 50 years ago were getting more fiber than people are now for that to even be something worth researching.
I wonder how much of this has to do with protectionism than anything else, given that Pfizer has been used for months in other countries.
> In October 2010, Jobs declared at a corporate strategy presentation that a key company aim would be to use the cloud to "tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem."

On promoting competitor apps:

> No promotion... we are not going to promote something that puts it's goal as replacing our music player unless it is significantly better than our player and this is not.

There is a lot of anti-competitive shit here, I'm pretty appalled.
Every employer wishes magical AI would come along and replace all of their workers. It doesn't mean it's actually a feasible goal. To be honest, if you could build an AI to do what stitch fix does, it probably just devalues what stitch fix does.
I miss landlines, talking on the phone was actually enjoyable. I rarely have a cellphone conversation (verizon/iphone x) anymore that feels anywhere near as natural or enjoyable as the landline did. I keep thinking it's the phone, a setting or the network and it's not. The latency and talking over one another just doesn't work for me. We used to have multiple people on a POTS call and it worked fine and now it's always "sorry, go ahead" even when there's one other person on the phone.

The BEST cell phone call I've ever had was back in 2004 on a sony ericsson in Bangkok of all places calling my parents on their landline in Chicago. Crystal clear, almost zero latency, it felt like I was in their living room talking to them. I've never had that in the states and I would like to.
> refunding a significant portion of the cost of the user's Oculus library when they ban the account

This incentivizes abusive behavior by users who want refunds, and cheapens the cost of abusive behavior. This mechanism was discussed in relation to OnlyFans somewhat recently -- creators that wanted to ban abusive "fans" had to refund them. (Unfortunately, I don't have a link handy.)

The problem here is that Facebook couldn't tell OP had been impersonated by an abuser -- as you say, "actions outside the user's control."
> What is the point of setting up a hardware or Google Authenticator-type 2FA solution when most companies will fallback to SMS?

One possible point is that you could still log in somewhere that has internet but no cell service
The CDC estimates that 36% of Americans have been infected so far.