skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone notice the comparison of vaccine-based immunity to natural immunity in the findings within the source PR [0]? With a little work, you can compare them.

If we convert the measure used in finding 2 (relative risk of reinfection) to finding 1's (relative protection), then the study found that natural immunity from Delta variant gives 60% protection against Omicron; roughly double the vaccine's protection.

Unfortunately, no stat was given for natural immunity's protection against hospitalization.

From finding 1: individuals who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had 33% protection against infection, relative to the unvaccinated

From finding 2: People who were infected with COVID-19 in South Africa’s third (Delta) wave face a 40% relative risk of reinfection with Omicron

Am I reading this right? Wonder why they used different metrics?

0: https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room#/pressreleas...
How's that going with Aids?
The article highlights JAX as a framework to watch in several places.
Remind yourself that this is observation bias. One in maybe 10000 prostitutes earns the FAANG salary money. If you are the one in ten thousand developers out there, you would be making much more than them without the stalking, abuse, and psychological damage of objectivising yourself.
People are really suffering from this attitude. They think “well a leftist was smug about vaccines on twitter, so it’s their fault I’m not vaccinated” and then they die.
I'm wondering why is that, which part of the effort was dedicated to research and how much time and money would it cost to build a new JWST?
To take this to extreme: We’ve failed to solve deaths. We should have solutions to aging and indefinite life.

Since we have 100% death ratio, show us your health history along with your verifiable ID. We are the ministry of Truth and Safety.

In all seriousness: We need to push back on robbing of civil liberties. No one cared to check for flu vaccine. It should be the same for COVID now that it’s getting weaker and it won’t end forever.
I think it's more shocking when, as a genre aware viewer, you don't think it's appropriate to question why the world can only be saved by giant robots being piloted by teens.
It'd probably be worse on a 2 year basis. I'm seeing prices having risen much more than 9%.
I think it might be stronger than just "identity". Say I am a Republican, and you are a Democrat. That's still OK. We might not be able to have a conversation about politics, but we don't have to be at open warfare with each other. We can still coexist, we just cant talk about politics.

But now comes an issue like, say, abortion. You feel like you have to have a country where abortion is freely available, and I feel like I have to have a country where fetuses are safe from being aborted. Now we're at open war with each other. We can no longer coexist.

So I think it's a step past identity. It's this idea/feeling that one must have some political result.

In politics, sometimes you lose. In fact, in a two-party system, about half the time you lose. People no longer consider that acceptable. That makes it really hard to have a functioning political system.
College athletes in Utah can now make money off their name and likeness
Earlier this year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) put out an interim policy that allowed college athletes to profit off of their name, image, and likeness (NIL). In response to this, the faculty and staff at the University of Utah created Elevate U.

In partnership with the David Eccles School of Business and the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Elevate U empowers the university’s 500+ student-athletes to understand how to best approach NIL opportunities and protect their brand and business interests long-term.
The hand-helds gave access to the web without a the burden of a large personal computer. Which could and can be a PITA to maintain. And were slow. The hand-held OSs are in some ways easier to use.

My Uncle was a headmaster for about 35 years. When I presented a laptop to him, he couldn't use it. Told me he had never had to use a typewriter and couldn't use one. It was a really hard hurdle for him to adapt to a keyboard. And he still struggles.

The thing I'm really uneasy about is the Googles tracking everywhere you go, and all of that. It's very difficult to opt-out of tracking. I desperately tried to suppress my location from Google for years, and in one afternoon with a product activation via location/bluetooth they finally appeared to get it. Play services etc., make harvesting your contacts, reading your mail, and following you much easier. And it then becomes that bit easier to turn you into a commodity.

My Samsung was pre-loaded with Facebook. These are shitty little tricks. But advert networks in the browser also make it very difficult to escape the big trackers without a fight. Fingerprinting is everywhere.

We also dump files into the cloud these days. Which is very trusting.
On the other hand, crows commonly partake in murders.

((I had to.))
We should experiment on rotating artificial gravity anyway, if only to expand our knowledge of space colonization:

https://www.nasa.gov/careers/our-mission-and-values

> Mission: Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and bring new knowledge and opportunities back to Earth. Support growth of the nation's economy in space and aeronautics, increase understanding of the universe and our place in it, work with industry to improve America's aerospace technologies and advance American leadership.

But I agree that it should be a completely different mission than the International Space Station.
Microsoft teams up with iFixit to bring repairability tools to repairers
> Where I disagree is with the idea that the physical world and the digital world are increasingly “being overlaid and coming together”; in fact, I think the opposite is happening: the physical world and digital world are increasingly bifurcating.

Usually I agree with Ben, but on this I think he's dead wrong.

For a simple example, text messages are technically virtual, but they arrive on a physical device (your phone).

More and more we will see these sorts of interactions increase - whether it's maps displayed on your windshield (or your computerized glasses), the ability to checkout using crypto (Paypal, Visa, etc), or play games (Pokemon Go), we are at the very beginning of the integration of the virtual with the physical.
I got their Citizen Messenger Bag. I love their aesthetic, especially with the belt buckle across the chest: https://www.chromeindustries.com/product/citizen-messenger-b...
Question re. your site: "By using this website you agree to our Policy." refers to what policy?
That risk is an order of magnitude lower. Moreover, you're not taking that risk "...every time you drive". That risk is much lower, of course, given that most people drive more than once a year.
The majority of this article is history telling, told through the lens of one persons particular narrative, cutting that history up into conveniently sized chapters (1.0, 2.0, etc).

Then the article shifts gears to the authors own transition to living in a new place, adapting to that change, and then describing the now as a bifurcated existence (real life proximal, and through the invisible network society/work).

The second part would have stood on its own fine and didn’t need the “history as I see it” preamble. I don’t know why authorship on the net, in this bifurcated space, has to choose between tweets and long form. It’s ok to write a longer-than-a-tweet developed point.
The rebound effect will take care of whatever progress you make in energy efficiency. As they say, it's not about the energy consumption of a single toaster, it's about the combined energy consumption of all the toasters.

Plane engines are more efficient than ever but we also fly waaaaay much more than we used to, same for cars, &c.

There aren't any ways to solve the problem without taking away personal convenience. At the end of the day you're still burning insane amount of non renewable energy for leisure.
OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)
Makes me wonder if it would have been smarter to build it in a modular way with different pieces being sent up one at a time, assembled on the ISS, then launched in the direction it needed to go.
There is a whole science behind communicating requirements to developers. Some of the keywords you might be looking for are: roadmap, user story, UML, technical specification, business requirements, and ui/ux prototype/wireframe.
When the form of wealth is stock, the functional difference between having 1 or XX billion is corporate control of the company.
Why My Family Loves Giving Leftover Junk
It's pathetic. So many egos that need to be assuaged every time a clever execution they didn't do is brought to their attention.
>By the time you're done creating the perfect "Information Security Certification" test everything will have changed.

>The only way for companies to effectively manage it is to hire people who constantly fuck around (with technology) and are always learning (the limits of) new things

Then make the curriculum about fucking around with technology, taught by people who fuck around with technology for a living. Then you get a nice certificate that says you fucked around with technology for a bit and showing that you're capable of fucking around with more technology.

You're right about all the previous certs, but the solution is simple: make the curriculum match how people actually learn in the industry.

>The "safest bet" for someone who really wants to be a great InfoSec professional is to get really good at Linux systems administration

Don't get really good: get pretty good then go learn programming. You talk about jumping between embedded and supercomputers later, but programming/AppSec is more important and way more useful (esp. if you don't already know how to program)

>Learning Windows systems administration isn't as useful IMHO because there's fewer systems

Oh no mate, AD is everywhere and those skills are immensely useful to a large amount of companies. Offensive Security even changed their OSCP exam to have an AD target set.
Labor costs would devour shipping costs instantly. The US is approaching full employment again. Even if we had factory capacity, there aren't 10M spare workers to do the jobs. Not without wage inflation.
Before speed dial, I used to have everyone's number memorized because it had to be hand dialed.

A couple numbers I don't put in speed dial so I will remember them.
> WOW SUCH INSURRECTION

Your emphasis here isn't helping at all. You just seem angry and unwilling to participate in civil debate when you do that. For what it's worth, I (and others, I assume) find you less convincing now, regardless of the claims you're making.

This is a good example of the type of discourse social media (hacker news) can bring out when we talk about partisan subjects. At no point did you treat the opposition with respect. You just wanted to get more people from your side to up-vote you; changing zero minds in the process.
> ...there are never solutions put forward. Only negativity.

What are you supposed to do when you recognize a shortcoming or a way society/technology has regressed, but the thing is out of your or anyone's control to actually fix? Not talk about it?

> What do we get from these endless articles about why some product or technology sucks?

Recognition of the problem, so that no one could just claim that everything is great, when there are good demonstrable historical reasons to rightfully claim otherwise. Sure, on one hand some of it might make you feel worse, but on the other, i think it's nice to document how things were in a time where many weren't around to experience all of it. Not everyone should grow up with only the knowledge of walled gardens, closed platforms and largely centralized and corporation driven Internet.

Very rarely (but still) you also get actionable steps to take, or the ability to build communities with like minded individuals, such as: https://512kb.club/

Or maybe just fun little projects, for example, by people like Luke Smith: https://based.cooking/ (there is information at the bottom of the site about it)
I think my only answer is ... yes but ...

but the value to every other player in the supply chain is so high, it feels inevitable
It will just encourage the lower orders to move around needlessly.
> With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? Have studies about the mental health and anxiety levels of this group of professionals been conducted?

Yes. Risk is the primary part of the job, and the job is lucrative.

In other words, it's business as usual.
Who cares?

If you die with Omicron, you are very old and dying above the average life expectancy, or already sick with chronic preventable illnesses caused by poor lifestyle choices. We should be banning McDonalds advertising, not deputizing waitresses to be vaccination police.

If you are not very old or already sick and get omicron, whether you have antibodies or not, you’re going to experience mild symptoms, if anything at all, and achieve broader and more durable immunity than you would get from vaccine alone.
Announcing that you're gonna tip big is just baiting others to witness your wealth. Do it quietly and get on with it.
Ironically if this is true, then the people loudly handwringing about "long covid" are the ones who are inflicting it on others, by encouraging people to fear it.

To combat this, perhaps we could swap the masks out with gags. /s
Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs
The reasoning that I heard (and I hope I'm relaying this right) was that if it doesn't work then it will most likely be because of something that needs to be redesigned, so there's no point in producing an exact replica.
It's a long path to go down. Retro gaming is a boutique cottage industry. It's not at all like audio because it isn't snake oil. People perceive differences in CRTs, sound chips, analog video and audio drivers, etc. Does any of it matter? Does anything matter?

I like to tinker and I'm a display junkie. Playing retro games revitalizes me by bringing my headspace back to when I was young. Little me loves these toys. It would be trivial for me to fall down a cynical nihilistic cliff any moment of any day. If a utilitarian wants an explanation, they can have that one.
This is our only shot. They didn't replicate the build.

https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-the-James-Webb-Sp...
> "We should all stop flying only if Steve puts out the campfire in his back yard" - ok, but that one of these things dwarfs the other.

The carbon footprint of a single commercial space flight is orders of magnitude higher - in fact, it's higher than the entire lifetime carbon footprint of the median human being, and approximately equivalent to the lifetime carbon footprint of the average American.

One doesn't have to depend on the other, but this comparison is wrong because it ignores the fact that commercial space travel is, in fact, one of the single most environmentally-damaging activities imaginable.
The mode of transport matters.

The largest possible carbon footprint would in be something like a cross country flight in an ICE flying car like a (vaporware) Moller.

Trains run 6-60 g/km whereas single-passenger vehicles are 90+.

The smallest might be in a solar-powered glider or solar-powered "car", effectively 0.

Also, if you can personally offset your footprint by actively participating in carbon capture and sequestration permanently, then some luxuries are okay in small quantities.
X, Y, and Z corporations are the ones that finance those cronies. Good luck running against them without either being completely ignored or painted as an anti-semitic child molester by any media that could reach more than 100 voters.
Staff/principal level here. I accelerate my team. Sometimes that involves writing code, sometimes that involves teaching/mentoring others, sometimes it means improving our tools and processes, sometimes it involves hammer out our architecture and security approach, and sometimes it involves figuring out what baroque process I need to go through in order to get legal’s approval to launch our new product. I make sure almost all of what I do is well documented and communicated to the rest of my team.

The three rough metrics I’ve heard for how staff/principals are evaluated are “creating clarity”, “impact”, and “leadership.” Those metrics are all very difficult to perform on if I were focused on my code related output as an individual, although there are people who make and achieve within that level in my company who do more straight up coding then I do. The important thing is good judgement on where to spend your time to have the most impact.

If you wanted me to put numbers on it, I’d say my time is probably 25% coding, 20% meetings, 20% working on infrastructure and tools, 20% documenting/communicating, and 15% mentoring/recruiting.
How PayPal Uses Real-time Graph Database and Graph Analysis to Fight Fraud
Assuming that OP is a teenager or toddler...I guess that could be called "passive-aggressive optimism."
Right, but I just don't understand how you can generalize your subjective experiences to objective truth, especially in the face of people disagreeing. If a truth requires some particular perspective our outlook to become apparent, then it just isn't objective.
That is, pardon the directness, bad pop psychology.

If A players could recognize another one, our industry's hiring wouldn't be so incredibly broken.

The idea that there are clear layers of engineering skill is... just plain wrong, and that's obvious to anyone who's worked on more than a few teams. It's a spectrum, and more, it's multidimensional. So is the idea that somehow people not in the top layer automatically hire worse people. I've worked with top skilled people (think "starting an entire new segment") who couldn't hire their way out of a wet paper bag. I've work with solid performers who weren't outstanding in any way, except they consistently hired excellent people.

I've also worked with people who were mediocre performers by themselves, but who significantly accelerated any team they were on. Not by visible output, but by being clearly necessary "glue" that bound the team closer together and helped people to shine.

I've seen superstars go to mediocre, and vice versa, just based on managers and or team they were on.

If you can't think about people in more subtle ways than "A,B,C" or "Revolutionaries vs Evolutionaries", you are significantly shortchanging yourself and your team.
I can understand the skepticism. I have aphantasia and am equally skeptical that most people can actually "see" anything. When I'm supposed to visualize a beach, for example, for me it's merely a list of things I would tell the setup crew to make if this were a movie. Chair, umbrella, lifeguard stand, ship on the horizon, trail of footsteps along the water's edge, film it at sunset.

I have found differences between myself and others, though. When I need to meet someone I don't see very often in a restaurant, I get stressed. For most people it's no big deal, but I can't picture what the person looks like, I can only thing in general terms of build, hair color, age, etc. I have to look at everyone, and hope that a spark of recognition happens. Similarly, when driving to a place I haven't been very often (if I'm not relying on digital navigation) I have to hope to recognize certain buildings or intersections. I only remember them as "look for the house with large rocks along the edge, then it's three farther down". I'll even "disappear" when I'm thinking deeply enough about a problem occasionally, only coming back with an answer and no idea if I was thinking visually, verbally, or in some other abstract manner. I can almost never tell you what someone I saw intermittently throughout the day was wearing unless I make a special note about it.

It is really difficult to put into words, especially since the vocabulary is against those with aphantasia. "Picture a sunset". For me it's more like: describe a sunset. It's not a complete binary, either. I can close my eyes and "picture" a wireframe cube in front of me. In no way do I actually "see" it, but I can tell you it's there, and I can rotate it around an axis. All I'm doing though is thinking about where the corners would be if I could see it and where they would be if it rotated. When I talk to people about this, they adamantly tell me they "see" something.
I look at it like this for most things:

I'm not the richest person in the world and I'm not the poorest person in the world. So, I'm like 99.999999% of the population somewhere in the middle.
> Are you expecting to be able to literally summon a visual hallucination of these objects?

It seems to me that many people describe it that way. That's why I think it may have more to do with the language people are using to describe the experience than the experience itself. Like you, I can describe (and probably draw pretty accurately) the layout of my house or a Counter-Strike level.
I agree it's impractical, but I believe you're double counting the force on the cable. Each end of the cable pulls with 1.3 MN, which means that the cable itself can be in static equilibrium (in the rotating frame of reference). The same is true if you hang a 1.3 MN space station from the ceiling. The space station pulls down with a force of 1.3 MN, while the ceiling pulls up with a force of 1.3 MN.
It's not their individual flights that are the problem, it's starting a business unit that burns an average lifetime's worth of carbon for a couple day recreational trip that's the problem.

It's not a "campfire".
I've found Reddit improved by careful curation of my subscribed subreddits. If I spent most of my time in there rather than /r/all then it's great. I still feel like scrolling through memes on /r/all from time to time and that has the beneficial side effect of helping me add to those subscriptions.
These statements don't follow from anything anyone has said.

You would need to compare the benefits of driving to the benefits of living a normal life, and compare that to the risks of dying from each.

Why would getting infected with COVID have benefits? What are you trying to say?
I’ve just tested a few searches and I can’t see any Pinterest. I used to really struggled with Pinterest contamination and it looks there is none now?
Soo... essentially a clone of Reuters?
Failing to see why this is new.
> From my first quoted example, the tone implies that the issue is China itself which is where I got that impression.

Well, there's an issue there too. The Thousand Talents program has a pattern of paying people to break US laws.
Are you suggesting founders are A players?

They’re the B players who suck up to wealth holders.

Are there A players? Everyone gets a handout at some point. The ultra rich get one in the form of no taxes. An A player would surely just be a billionaire.

Sure is easy being an A player when your handouts from decades ago earned a lot of interest.

How are we still this oblivious? We spent the last decade making building these things this easy on purpose.

Where is the A game in using the machine how it was intended?
Most of SoCal coast is not characterized by bluffs. Not sure what you are referring to? NorCal?
People perceive differences in the audio equipment too, right up until you try a double-blind test.