skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal attacks are against the rules on HN. I realize you must feel extremely upset over the loss of your friend, but the data is extremely clear on this. A recent study examined the relationship between comorbidities and deaths from COVID. Of the deceased COVID-19 patients in the study, 83.29% had a preexisting comorbidity, while only 16.71% did not.[1]

Age is also a major risk factor. According to the CDC's latest numbers, people 65+ account for 79.6% of all COVID deaths in US.[2]

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Vesting is monthly (for the FAANGs I'm familiar with), you can even set it on auto sale to automatically sell your shares as they vest and just take the cash every month if you never want to see stocks. I feel like I shouldn't have to explain that publicly traded stock is highly convertible for cash!
But it's not a pool of sick days + personal days, with the "sick" days only available to you if you are sick. I imagine the situation in Norway is pretty similar to that in Netherlands, where if you're sick, you're sick- and beyond a certain point you are obliged to consult a doctor. Time management plays no role.
If you think it's a good move to complain to HR against the visible activists who have assigned themselves to a legally protected class, you don't understand this workplace.
"Uber argues that its drivers "provide critical transportation services for essential workers such as hospital workers, caregivers and first responders" and have become even more important as "major cities have reduced service hours for mass transit." Uber also points to its delivery services, insisting it has provided "an economic lifeline to small businesses and restaurants"

It's a shame that they (Uber, Amazon etc) don't seem to view those same people as being so critical when it comes to wage and working conditions negotiating time.

When a Cxx (Snowflake) can earn $95M per month things just don't seem to be even close to being a level playing field right now.

Uber etc cannot have it both ways. Their workers cannot be both 'essential' and 'like it or lump it because a thousand others will take your place' employees.
Do you have actual information or just randomly speculating about the nature of that "approval" under a newly created anonymous HackerNews account?
That assumes Apple won't be growing its PC market share.

Given the M1's benefits, the ability of Big Sur to run iOS apps, and Apple's marketing prowess, I'd be surprised if they don't double their market share in the next 3 to 4 years.

Then there's the (highly lucrative) server market.
Linus had like one outburst a year in between spending all day every day reading/writing emails.

And a bunch of them weren't actually hostile to his team, they just got taken out of context. He'd refer to a userspace program they had to keep from breaking as a "braindead abortion" or something and people would report it as if he said it to/about a kernel developer.
I did not know this. Thanks for the tip!
There are reversible bit hash functions too.

I've used twang's 64 bit mix in places where the domain is just as big as the hash space - 64 bit to 8 byte hash to 12 byte Y64 strings.

That said, the results are almost always ugly, if I had to do it again, I'd do it the way gfycat does (adjective, adjective, animal).
The chair I'm sitting in isn't an illusion for any practical meaning of the word illusion.

Its solidity of the chair is, to a certain extent, illusory inasmuch as the odds of measuring a particle in any particular point in it at any given time are approximately zero, but my classical experience of the chair quite similar to any other human's experience of the chair, so the fact that there is an object there, it can be approximated by the word "chair" is pretty objectively true.
The 'Google Ai ethicist resigns...' headlines wouldn't have been any better unless she was willing to sign a gag clause as a condition of getting her preferred leaving date (which sounds highly unlikely) and I doubt they had any particular need to pay her to finish anything off or hand over to fellow staff. Ultimately if she felt strongly enough about something to indicate she would leave if they didn't budge and they felt strongly enough about not budging to let her go then the finishing date is moot.

Edit: also you put the stuff about 'agreeing a leaving date' instead of 'I will quit' in your ultimatum to make it clear that you're dead serious about leaving and are trying to be reasonable rather than threatening, not because you need next month's paycheque.
> Non-maleficence, which is derived from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts of bioethics that all students in healthcare are taught in school and is a fundamental principle throughout the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere
I'm not surprised that the architecture isn't new, I'm surprised that web apps were already being talked about this way using JS specifically. JS's early design flaws are often written off as, "well it was never intended to be a real programming language like it is today". But from reading this, that doesn't sound to be the case.
Tesla short sellers lost more than the US airline industry this year
I mean, even if he said it internally, that's a dumb thing to say.
Not mostly empty space, entirely empty space. All fundamental particles are point like and have no physical size.

Except ..... that's not the right way to measure size, you measure the size of a particle by the forces interacting with it.

By that measure an electron has an infinite size (since an electric field is infinite), and a chair has exactly the size it appears to have, because that's the size measured when you interact with it electromagnetically.

Objects don't have one single size, their size varies depending on what tool you use to measure them.
I think you nailed it. When a company stands behind "process", well, they shouldn't be surprised when employees do the same.

At one of my earliest jobs, I would take a short lunch at my desk (I was very young and didn't know better). Management decided that they wanted to gauge how long I was lunching for, and insisted that I clock in and out for lunch. Well, you can be sure that I took the full time allotted to me after that.
A more or less capitalist system is more or less self correcting. Yes, billionaires gain their wealth, and yes, workers, businesses and even governments can have a poor experience with it in the process of the billionaire's company succeeding. The exploitation is real and should be discussed and appropriately addressed.

A couple of thoughts...

New, billion-dollar business are, many times, transformational. Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, DropBox and Stripe all transformed the market they profit from. For sure, it is difficult if not impossible to foresee how the business activities will impact the general population et al. Without foreseeing that impact, it's also difficult to mitigate the impact that the billionaire may genuinely have a moral reaction to. Is it not the nature of the beast to grow as fast as possible, damn all torpedoes, while investors and boards of directors push the business leadership forward? Running at an all out sprint means you have no opportunity to identify these moral slights, let alone address them. Perhaps the boards of directors needs a 'Moral Consequence Committee' to keep an eye on it on behalf of the CEO. I am not asking that rhetorically, by the way. Give it some thought.

The second thought is that in order for the business to prevail, it must provide real value to many, many customers and make their world a better place. Uber transformed the taxi experience and yes, may have wound up in the 'vehicular maintenance arbitrage' business for a while, but anyone with faith in market capitalism should believe that this will eventually balance out and Uber and its drivers will reach a mutually acceptable compensation level.
I'm not arguing that good comments aren't useful. Of course even the best comment can later be invalidated by someone carelessly changing the code and failing to update that comment. However, that doesn't make pointless repetitive comments somehow better or more useful.

For me comments should concentrate on the why and maybe the how but mostly ignore the what. That should be obvious from the code.
I really like 21x9 on the desktop since you can split it in half and be pretty close to two 4x3 monitors (1.16 vs 1.33).
Thank you for the part in round brackets, I wish more submissions were formed in this way.
Will central-bank digital currencies break the banking system?
Interestingly, most caves are too cold to dress like that, even if the climate itself is otherwise warm enough. (I'm not aware of any place where you could safely sleep naked every day, though some nights are that warm)
I'm not sure I'd heard of fun before his death. It sounds sad, and somewhat of a loss.

Nice, evenly and non-judgemental written piece.
It's not outdated, it holds true for ARM SoCs. Consumer ARM devices are ARM SoCs, and not server hardware. It's cheaper and easier to design custom SoCs than it is to build consumer hardware that conforms to the standards that ARM servers do.
If the app lives in full isolation and your focus is data ownership desktop is probably better, but I struggle to understand how it can be better tech for any other use case. I work in a big company so maybe I am biased but 1) every app eventually has to integrate with some other app; 2) every app eventually is used by more than 1 person; in both 1 and 2 desktop pretty much breaks (unless you use version control for 2). In fact we are still dealing with desktop issues as we port this amazing 80's-90's MS era workflow into the cloud and still train users to "save" files.
Yes, it's not 1:1, but the comparison is apt, IMO. I worked in a factory that had a semi-technical assembly line, in other words we had to train the workers to some level of technical competence (medical devices) and I see parallels in how I was onboarded at my current company. They don't care about your technical designs or how good your algos are, they just want you to pump out ticket completions as fast as possible, ensuring you follow the procedures to the letter, no matter what. As someone who thinks highly of my own abilities (why wouldn't one think highly of themselves?) I feel like my growth is stunted and my full abilities aren't being used because of the strict environment and procedures. I understand why they are there, I know they are important for quality (I was a QA manager at that factory) but I think there are better ways than treating coders like assembly line workers.

Don't take the comparison too literally, the actual work of putting a machine together is different than coding, and I'm not talking about "sticker applicators" type assembly lines, I'm talking about high-tech assembly lines like what I experienced (medical devices, in this case). I did base my comment on more experience than a few "How It's Made" episodes, though.
The argument for a shared pool from the employee side is "I don't get sick much and, as a shared pool, I almost certainly get more vacation time off than if I had a sick pool and a vacation pool."

However, historically, when the two were commonly separate, the sick time would often actually be a very significant chunk (maybe a month) with the understanding that actually burning through most or all of your sick time would be a rare event because of an operation or whatever.

Just to throw out rough numbers, you might have 4 weeks of a combined PTO pool today. 20 years ago you might have had 3 weeks of vacation time and 4 weeks of sick time.
They would have had a lot less flack if they had just put a low price tag on it.
Activision files lawsuit against Netflix over talent-poaching allegations
I can recommend the Remarkable. The nice thing about it is that I don’t even see it as a screen. It just exists as a more organised and versatile version of the paper notes I normally keep. But it’s a lot closer to paper than to a digital device (good for me, maybe limiting for some).
I am currently in school for ce and I take the same algorithms courses as cs students, I feel like it is super dependent on school.
Wish you could read the internal forums or Blind. Most of us are happy that we have one less bully in Google.
I certainly recognize your attempt to reframe your previous comments as actually addressing the content of the article, even though they were mostly "sure there's [this], but what about [not this]?".

Talking about an article's "undertone" and "what it's designed to do" as though those things are not completely subjective simply does not convince.

And thank you very much for the laugh you gave me when you compared D&D scaremongering to the literal exploitation of children.
This quote often comes up when people discuss Tolkien's works. However:

- either "allegory" is meant to be a very strict one-to-one map, like Gandalf is really Jesus but has a different name in this story. Then the quote is irrelevant to almost discussion because nobody is trying to make such a point.

- or "allegory' is meant to be some loose inspiration, like the War of the Ring drawing from Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, the role of providence being similar in Catholic theology & in the legendarium, or more controversially the description of evil men or women being a product of its times. If such is the meaning of allegory, and Tolkien denied using it, then he is wrong.

I think Tolkien meant meaning 1. In either case it is irrelevant to most claims of some connection between a real word thing and a legendarium thing.
Previously-unionized industries declined in America, and new industries have been slow to unionize; I am not sure unions have been 'destroyed'.
I'm also in the "why don't you take it first" group personally because I'm not at very high risk personally. But my 80-something mother is bucking the vaccine and she should absolutely take it ASAP because of her age and comorbidities, but here we are.
You're being downvoted without comment, the implication being that calling the safety into question is heresy and that all vaccines are 100% free of side effects.

I am NOT an anti-vaxxer by any means so hold your fire, you who downvote.

When we don't admit of nuance it makes us just as dogmatically blind as the anti-vaxxers. I think the framing here is really: "who cares what the side effects are, anything in service of a cure". That's fine and all things considered I agree with it. But that's what it is. There very well could be some long-term ill effects. To deny it is ignorant at best, dishonest at worst.

There's a reason why https://vaers.hhs.gov exists for example. Have some intellectual honesty and we'll make greater strides in getting more people vaccinated in the long run.
>Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of cancer. And about 14,000 of that ten million will die, out of usual all-causes mortality. No one would notice. That’s how many people die and get sick anyway.

So why is it all year long the world has been operating the complete opposite to this?

Why is it every covid death with a comorbidity was classed solely as a covid death and why is it every couple hundred deaths in places with populations of millions was treated as such a big deal if now we shouldn't be so worried about 14000 deaths in 10 million and shouldn't be in a rush to attribute side effects to the vaccine?

All year long there's been a rush to attribute everything to covid. All year long every death has been a massive deal.

Now it's the entire opposite to everything everyone's been saying all year because...vaccine?
If you're referencing Baudrillard (points to HN profile), Simulacra and Simulations ought to go up there too, for this technology crowd.
Fast MP4 Encoding in the Browser with WASM SIMD (Chrome Only)
Open and Shut
Granted, in USA you're paid 10 times more than in the rest of the world.
>I feel the bitterness

Elaborate on it then.
No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding
Because Android is arguably worth a hell of a lot more than the $50 million + salary that he received and if they didn't kick him some money, they would never be able to make a similar acquisition deal in the future. Nobody would sell a technology like that for that little and Google would have to forever compete with future-Androids.

If they had fired him under more favorable circumstances his payout would have been significantly higher.
https://blog.prototypr.io/are-we-designing-for-children-an-a...
And how does one determine if a claim is made in bad faith?
Also in Meetups you will find highly motivated people, the kind of people you want to work with.
It's good to see that web scraping is not associated only with "hackers" and spammy websites anymore.

I'm working on simplifying web scraping for developers with https://webscraping.ai and see how important it is for almost any business or researcher.
I went back to using a 1080p screen last year, mainly because a few old programs i use some work well on high res displays. this was on windows. I honestly didn't even think about it until now and even didn't notice when I got the laptop first. maybe if you sit really close to the screen you might notice something
> Aircraft maintenance checks happy every 500 flight hours. Engines get overhauled completely every 1,500 hours.

Maintenance and overhauls don't address design issues. Exactly the opposite; the people that perform checks and maintenance are expressly not supposed to deviate from approved designs and published processes. Conflating these tasks with regulatory scrutiny shows a fundamental misunderstanding about this discussion.

And airliner engines are not 'completely overhauled' every 1,500 hours. Figures that low are related to small aircraft engines, usually piston engines.
You don't actually know that. Neutrons are made of quarks, which are probably point like, i.e. the inside of a neutron is entirely empty space.
With the exception of gravity, the behavior of macroscopic objects is pretty well understood in a quantum sense.

Probability, when averaged over an astronomical number of cases, becomes certainty. The interference pattern of a bowling ball is a bowling ball! Any single particle in the bowling ball could end up off from the classical, but the aggregate probabilities suggested by the wave function implies classical mechanics.
So did you train on a CPU or a GPU? I.e. it the total cost is 1000 cpu hours or 1000 gpu hours?
The M1-based MacBooks don’t even blink when the display configuration changes
Why would you ever sign an employment contract that does not even mention overtime?
Spat my coffee out. That's not great customer service! They sent you a defective product, and then made you pay for returning it! WTF? Good customer service would be paying to ship the defective product back and then, once they have the laptop, selling you the laptop that you want. Or better yet, shipping you the one you want immediately.
Thank you for the full quote, it does give it much more perspective! (It wasn't in the linked article).

If a manager within the company wants to publicly express her frustration with leadership, then this is an alright message to send — leaving aside the very implicative final sentence.

It still seems reasonable to fire anyone who sends such a message to their colleagues rather than working through the office's politics more quietly, but it also seems reasonable for staff to protest and rally behind that person in support of them.
Leadership needed to look firm and serious here. They needed to send a message that ultimatums will not be tolerated in this business.
Agreed. It feels like there is a lot of tone policing that happens around the way women and people of color talk about these issues (especially with regard to their Twitter posts) which is pretty disappointing.
If you ever feel the need, remember that US patients can report any adverse event using the HHS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. That way you can ensure your reaction is counted in all statistics, reporting, etc.. But to be clear, filling in a VAERS report does not substitute talking to your doctor if you feel sick.

https://vaers.hhs.gov
There are 2 key tax advantages: Qualified Small Business, and avoiding AMT. (But should both be considered playing on expert mode, higher risk/reward.)
The standard is a phase III trial, in this case the trials were with around ~40,000 people each for the current vaccine candidates. Then you look at the observed efficacy and the observed side effects and decide whether the benefits are worth the side effects.

There is nothing even close to a formal proof here, that is simply far outside of what science can do today. In the end we always have to run trials and observe.
Secondhand clothes are not good for the development of African countries. There were strong industries in many African countries before globalization kicked in.

You have this strange situation where Westerners donate free clothes which are sold in Africa and undermine development of local industries. So called NGOs simply do the dirty work of Western corporate interests.

The Dirty Business of Old Clothes (Youtube) - https://bit.ly/3g9IuG8

The U.S. Is Fighting Rwanda Over Trading Used Clothes - https://bit.ly/3op1BPp

It is even worse with tomatoes -

Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana's farmers - https://bit.ly/3qsLbHG
I'm not sure why everyone refer to the process as "retracting" rather than "withdrawing", given the paper was not accepted yet. It sounds for me pretty reasonable to withdraw the paper which has flaws to fix and resubmit it, rather than rush into fixes before conference deadline (given that those fixes should probably be reviewed too). I didn't see any claims that the requirement was to never publish this paper.
It also seems to be reasonable that the papers published by company are internally reviewed, like the papers by lab members are reviewed by PI before submission.

I see different claims from Google researchers, but it seems that at least for some internal review is used to access quality of the work [1,2]. It might potentially harm the freedom of the researcher, but once again, unless I missed something, there is no evidence that Google asked her to withdraw the paper and never resubmit.

As I already wrote in different comment, I can not think of a single reason to ask for reviewers identities unless she wanted to confront them personally.

[1] https://twitter.com/julianibarz/status/1334623651719643141
[2] https://twitter.com/vivnat/status/1334710506045669376
All phase 3 clinical trials should include odds ratios of side effects of drug versus placebo (should be usually found in the drug instructions for use). These side effects will be reported.
Hmmm... I think I totally agree with you on the premise that it could be very easy to overestimate the motivation of other engineers.

It might take more than a "group of hackers" but "a group of hackers that know each other"...

It might be that I'm hopelessly optimistic but one of my favorites quotes is by William Wilberforce, and he said:

“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.” :-D