skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't really trust correlational studies that link hospital capacity and mortality rate during covid. You want to look for causal studies that try to isolate variation in hospital capacity using some sort of instrument to get to a causal estimate of the increase in capacity on mortality. A lot was going on during the covid pandemic that was probably correlating with hospital overcapacity that will bias the estimates from a correlational study.

Out of curiosity, which mechanism are you thinking about that would lead you to the conclusion that hospital capacity doesn't impact mortality? The story that I have heard the most is that hospitals start to turn away people if they don't have beds from them, leading to either delay in care or no care at all. Both delay or no care lead to higher mortality. I cannot really think of a story where an over-capacity hospital leads to the same or reduced mortality.

If you believe that hospital closures lead to hospital overcapacity or delays in care, you can find some literature that shows that closing hospitals leads to an increase in mortality in the community [1].

1: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26182
Am I the only one that doesn't see that as unreasonable? It's not like you aren't accruing equity during that time; you still get the full year's worth of options at the 365 day mark. And the ramp-up time with new engineers can be so long that the first year isn't nearly as productive as consecutive ones.

A buddy of mine who worked at a giant company (not strictly tech but you'd recognize it) said he heard from his boss that the company effectively considers the first year of a software engineer's employment a wash as far as cost/benefit. I can't imagine they're the only ones. In that case, why would you reward people who jump ship before your break-even point?
I bought it a few weeks ago after I got a newsletter about it (I guess I signed up after playing that first demo), but I haven't had time to play it yet.

The main menu art and music is cool, though.
Looking at the example of their harmful content, half is videos about pro-republic videos talking about the US 2020 election. If that is representative of their study then that seems very much self-selected in both nationality and politics.

It should be noted that those that classified if content was harmful or not was a team of 41 research assistants employed by the University of Exeter.
I think you are correct that science alone cannot tell us a meaning of life. But I think you’re wrong that traditional sources of meaning don’t make any scientific claims. They make tons of them: about the creation of the Earth and its place in the cosmos, about the creation of humans and our relationship with other species, about the nature of the human mind, about human history, about geological history, about health and nutrition, and so on. And that’s just religion. Tribalist ideologies like ethnic nationalism make tons of claims about the group’s history and origins, and often make claims about the group’s innate superiority. These claims are all subject to scrutiny by science, and they have done very poorly under that scrutiny.

Of course it is always an option for religion to try to explain the old claims away as allegorical or misunderstood, but that leaves one with a very different kind of faith than someone who believed all of the claims fully and literally, with no reasonable doubt in their mind. Everything from the spread of disease to the fortunes of war to the success and failure of crops was once earnestly believed to be caused by the will of god or gods. Even the most ardent fundamentalist today cannot really get away without accepting—at least implicitly—materialist explanations for why many things happen. Even fanatics check the weather forecast.

Modernity has also worn down the appeal of the old sources of meaning in other ways than through science.

Affluence, health, and security have taken a lot of the appeal out of religion. Getting on the good side of an all-powerful god was a lot more appealing when famine, disease, and violence could strike at any time. We all still feel like we’re at the mercy of the world sometimes, but many of us are fortunate enough to avoid the kind of physical insecurity that our ancestors faced, and religion has declined over a few generations in every place where these fears have receded.

Tribalism too has been sapped of its potency by the decline of endemic violence. Fear of the out-group is a lot more powerful when a violent death at their hands is a common fate of the people you know. In addition, the rise of fast, cheap travel has made it harder to believe that your home and your people are “the greatest on Earth” while all others are inferior. Among the classes with the disposable income to travel internationally, nationalism has grown very weak indeed.

Ideally we would find something better than consumerism and celebrity-worship with which to replace these crumbled idols. We certainly cannot go back: the damage is real and it is done. Each new wave of religious or tribalist revival crests lower than the last. Not to mention, the traditional sources of meaning had awful drawbacks and excesses, as you alluded to. I hope we can do better than a choice between nihilism and the miserable past.
CCP buys media influence by paying millions to US dailies, magazines
We got to pitch a bunch of top VCs for a (wellness/health) consumer app that we were building and it made me really sick that the only thing that they cared about was engagement. DAU/MAU, time spent in app and growth were the only things that mattered.
Hitler reacts to functional programming (YouTube)
Hm, I never really thought about it this way - but I guess it does generalize to continuous space in a pretty natural way.
Either we work at the same place or that’s very common.

When I joined I got a random email that said “your rsu $ to shares conversion was X shares and here’s your schedule” and my schedule is all in # of shares not $
yes, have been lucky enough to exit 2 IPOs including DD. When there are hockey stick growths during pre-IPOs, you miss out on a lot of $$ on the table.
I'm confused by your ad blocker comment, because most listings like this won't be recognized as ads. They look like product suggestions, and they are entirely first party.

(On the other hand, I think the law as you're proposing it would cover them)
No officer was killed, looks like you're a victim of a Russian propaganda spread on reddit.
Capitol riots: New video released from FBI probe
Not surprised. I'm probably a fair bit older than the average HN reader (finished undergrad in 1995). This is the hottest job market I've seen since the height of the dotcom bubble (mid 1999 to early 2000), and if it continues along it's current trajectory it will pass that by year end.
Nothing in the current fleet of new capsules have arms or airlocks.

There is hope for the robotic refueling type mission though, or at least the kind where a new utility bot attaches to an old satellite and takes over propulsion to extend its life.

https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/rrm_refueling_task.html
If anyone wants the plain text transcription of the slides, this site appears to have that:

https://digitalwellbeing.org/googles-internal-digital-wellbe...

>"A Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users’ Attention."

>"by Tristan Harris."

>"I’m concerned about how we’re making the world more distracted. And my goal with this presentation is to create a movement at Google to create a new design ethic that aims to minimise distraction and I’d like to get your help."
15M infections means 15M people of potentially life altering conditions. It could be worse than death
Was it not super loud?
> Please cite a source for 150K

Read the parent of the comment you responded to.
it means you are vesting (and paying taxes) every quarter, so you won't see growth on that pre-tax amount
I think you're very confused on the context of my comment. The link that this thread goes to is a simulator that mimics controlling COVID spread in the Czech Republic based on player-controlled government initiatives. I'm replying to someone who said they got 150k deaths in the game. My comment has nothing to do with real world COVID numbers in the Czech Republic.
>The article really isn't fair to Apple when it lists the "Top 20 Applications". For iOS the top 5 are: Phone, Weather, Photos, Camera, Clock. All of these apps except for Weather maybe, I would consider essential to a smartphone.

You may consider it unfair, but two of the antitrust bills making it through Congress would likely make it illegal for platform vendors to bundle any applications that could be considered "products and services". It's very unclear what would be considered "products and services" in case law, but valid argument can be made that this would prohibit the bundling of Photos, Weather and perhaps even the Clock and Phone apps on iOS.

The exact text is, "it shall be unlawful for a covered platform operator to own, control, or have a beneficial interest in a line of business other than the covered platform, that utilizes the covered platform for the sale or provision of products or services[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1412782358659481601...
You and GP have shown me new even more scary depths here. Not sure whether I should thank you for that. (When does the next flight off this rock go?)
What I've seen is generally the conversion happens once for the whole package, when you sign. So if the stock grows during your vesting period, the value increases (goes both way obviously).

I think here they are mentioning value based, which means that instead of being given X amount of shares/rsu over 4 years, you're given "the equivalent of $X" at the begining of each years. So after 1 year, of the stock doubled in price, you will effectively receive half the amount of stocks (still the same $ value tho).
I've been at Google fairly recently, that's not how it works.

Your offer states that you will get $X of shares, vesting over 4 years. The $X is converted to a number of shares shortly after joining, based on market price, and is locked in from that point forward.

Your friends are mistaken.
There Are Growing Calls to Finally Tax the Catholic Church
This looks really interesting! I am relatively new to a tech role in finance and am still learning all the terminology. Does anyone know of a book that teaches markets from a historical, narrative perspective? I have found textbooks explaining the main asset classes and so on, but I think it would be really interesting to see an explanation of eg the repo market, invoice swaps etc as the evolution of solutions to problems.
It baffles me that Tucker Carlson is taken seriously by a large chunk of US population. This is not the first time he pulls this sort of stunt.
These are serious allegations. Allegations of such seriousness should require proof of equally serious merit before conclusions are drawn. Also, why does it seem this particular website or sites like Reddit become personified through action whereas Facebook, YT, Video Games etc don’t? We don’t say “a crazy person from counter strike” we say, “a crazy person playing X or Y game”.

The framing here to this story is strange to me.
With Google doing front loading(33/33/22/11) and other companies also shifting away from conventional 25% per year vesting to make first few years more attractive, they gotta catch up to stay competitive. Uber recently did the same of removing cliff.
The oldest galaxies that have red shifted off the spectrum and are only visible with this. You can’t do IR telescoping except at L2 because earth is giving off its own IR reflection or radiation or something like that
There are plenty of places where the runway is the road
Is Amazon the best example of this? Their retail arm was never long term loss making in the way e.g. Twitter was, if I recall correctly, but rather more like break even because all profits were ploughed into growth. I don't know how much money Amazon raised but back when Bezos started out there weren't the same kinds of insane sums being tossed about by VCs.

Also Amazon's moat isn't really its website, which is mediocre at best, but its backend systems like fulfillment. Plus brand recognition, size, general efficiency etc.
- Dev holds contest to name new fork

- 4chan meme reference wins contest (Sneedacity)

- Dev declares results invalid
The article seems to intentionally obscure whether the previous vesting period was quarterly or not.

My cynical read of this is that they are changing the vesting schedule to quarterly (instead of monthly, which is more typical), and burying the lede on that by painting this as a benefit to employees (when it really only impacts new employees).

Does anyone know if this is true or not?
I hear you. I live in a so-called "purple" state where the vaccination rate is 50%. The state law is to wear a mask in public if you're not vaccinated. It's based on an honor system. Almost no one is wearing a mask any longer. We're having 4th of July parades, fireworks with thousands in attendance - things are back to "normal" and no one is wearing a mask. As others have commented I think there's going to be hell to pay this Winter. We'll see.

As for me, I'm fully vaccinated and I only wear my mask to the grocery store, figuring that's where everybody has to go to get food including those who through no fault of their own aren't able to get vaccinated. Otherwise I'm pretty much "back to normal" too (well, almost - I see no reason to go to restaurants and movies anymore, there's something that changed during the lockdown).
that sort of inches at my point. how exactly would this criminal liability work? it would be comprised of two classes of evidence:

1) unassured/untrusted digital evidence that can be fabricated to say anything, leaving no trace of its previous state. (unless digital forensics has advanced well beyond what i know to be possible)

2) personal testimony that can also be fabricated.

i suppose what's new here is that in a digital world, bits can be set however one likes with no trace of their previous state, where physical evidence left behind physical manifestations of itself.

imagine rootkits that seek not to steal or hide their existence, but rather exist to plant fabricated evidence or hide actual evidence. in today's untrusted computer systems, this is all possible, and terrifying.
Definitely don't stop at CB. Get a CB, yes, but go get your technician level amateur radio license. While studying for that license, you'll learn that output power on CB's is limited by the FCC to 4 watts[1], but with a technician license you can go to far more watts than you actually need (1500W)[2]. I have a CB and a HAM radio in my both of my Jeeps, and the HAM radios blow the doors off what the CB can do. Even the handheld HAM radios run circles around the CB's-- both in terms of communication distance, but also in the wealth and variety of people you can talk to both locally and around the world. For emergency communications you have a lot of better options once you have your ham radio license. Best of all, in the process for preparing for the exam, you'll learn all about what those options are.

The exam itself is not hard; my wife crammed for it starting on a Thursday evening and passed it on Saturday. If you're actually interested in learning about the options and the technology though, taking your time to read and learn is a better idea. There's a wealth of information online and in widely available exam guides about preparing for the test and getting your license.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_radio_in_the_United_States#...

[2] http://www.arrl.org/frequency-allocations

[3] https://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Radio-License-Manual-Spiral/dp/1...
For the record, I am very interested in trying to improve my mental model of how covid interacts with the blood. So maybe anyone who does happen to remember my name can keep that in mind in the future when I ask seemingly stupid questions or post articles related to covid.

Please and thank you.
Yes, but then they take that calculation to grant you a set number of shares (ISOs, RSUs, etc.) that doesn't change. The value of your award grows with the growth of the company.

ESPP-like programs, on the other hand, are always dollar denominated and exchanged at a set rate at the end of the offering period.
You might also consider a GMRS (the blister pack radios you see everywhere) radio instead of or in addition to CB. The license is inexpensive and radios are plentiful. The range isn't nearly that of CB but you'll probably find a lot more local users.

Also look into the sibling comments about Ham radio. The lowest class license is really easy to get and gives you pretty wide permissions on various bands.
There doesn’t have to run anything special on the IPhone.
In the early days iTunes could make backups on the local pc when the iPhone was connected via usb. Later on apple extended this to wifi: so if you had an iTunes running in your wifi and the iPhone joined a backup was done at the iTunes side.

I‘m not sure if this feature is still there, but I would have found this very useful if it would have been possible with the computer that is running anyways (as in the pi).
Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
Adhering to social norms in civic activities signal buy-in, or not.

Sure, wear dirty hiking boots to the ballet.

Snort and fart thru the sermon.

Talk loudly in the phone riding crowded publuc transit.

Every day is halloween and you need to unambiguously alert all other participants the esteem you hold for them, or not. So choose your costume wisely.
Ometepe, an island in Nicaragua also has this. There is virtually no traffic control either. You've just got to look both ways... and up, before you drive across it.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@11.5238261,-85.7012237,1228m/da...
Browsing /r/cscareerquestions it looks like entry level folks are having a hard time breaking into the industry. Employers are mostly recruiting senior levels it seems.
The thing with this kind of project, we're not punching out the 10 millionth Honda Civic or something. There's a tremendous amount of stuff here that's never been done before. There's no good way to have an accurate estimate for how much it will cost. You pretty much have to just keep spending until you get it right. This works the same way whether it's Government or Private Industry. Just ask Intel how far over budget they've gone getting EUV working.
How do you survive the keyboard long term?
It looks like DoorDash just put up a big banner at their front door saying if you want to stay less than a year and still get paid highly apply here.

Wouldn't this move incentivize employees seeking short term employment thus diluting stocks given out to existing long term employees?
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That’s interesting, I would’ve been concerned about what happens to the tires when a plane taking off/landing hits those tracks, but I guess it isn’t an issue.
> law doesn't need to be technically detailed or envision every single technological adaptation: it just needs to be sufficient for a judge to be able to recognise it when a prosecutor describes it and a defence lawyer attempts to pull the wool over their eyes

This is a terrible philosophy for legislating. It undermines the rule of law, i.e. that you should ex ante be able to determine if what you're doing is legal or not.

What you're describing is rule making. Congress regularly does this, in passing a law that requires such and such agency propose (or even implement) rules that achieve this or that within so many days.
Reward? They only join in the first place because of the expected total compensation.
I wasn't defending the study. I doubt crowdsourced measurements of "regret" are good at measuring the accuracy of a video's content.
This doesn't seem like that much of a burden to endure.

There are many many places in the USA where vehicular traffic must defer to rail traffic at level crossings. Which can easily occur more often than 30x per week (30 number is from the article).

At some crossings it's not unusual to have a slow moving freight train take 15 minutes or more. How long is the road crossed for each plane? I'd expect 5 or 10 minutes max for a takeoff, I can understand they would want more time for a landing?
A cliff forces one to consider decisions with a different time horizon and tends to avoid short-term thinking (e.g. attempt to tune financial results ahead of a certain quarterly report).

Sometimes, companies include in their annual reports the conditions of employee shareholding plans. In Europe, for management, plans with 1 year vesting and 1-3 years blocking period is a practice. This means that you cannot exercise the options until 2-4 years in. Further, all unexercised options are forfeited if the employee moves to the competition within a defined timeframe.
Several startups have already amended their plans to allow expanded post-termination exercise windows. The impression I get, although I'm not a tax/legal/financial professional, is that the options remain ISOs all the way through the first 90 days of the exercise window and only then convert to non-qualified options.
In most large cities, the CB bands are filled with people playing with voice modification and trash talking. All day long, all channels. It's almost useless and has been that way since the 80s. If you aren't very close to a highway, expect not to hear anything.

Serious users are all HAMs, but then it's all "serious business".
The whole reason for this change is to limit the damage drivers can do.

Because of that, nobody would be stupid enough to make those APIs (in the wide sense, as in “what kexts can do, not what they are supposed to do) as rich as kexts.
Author of the game here. I don't mention it in the article or the video, but AI Dungeon is exactly what I didn't set out to do. GPT-2/3-based games are cool, but they have no ground truth.
Your complaint is that you think putting liquid into soup would make it disgusting? I did not expect that.

And similar does not mean identical, I'm fully aware there are differences.
Heavy projection there. Racism falls within the purview of the right.
Nauru's airport also crosses a road.

https://wikitravel.org/en/Nauru
Because it's unscientific fear mongering. There's plenty already around covid 19, it doesn't make people trust the experts so to speak more if such flimsy "evidence" are being thrown around.
In case anybody doesn't feel comfortable downloading a PDF within the context of the title :)

https://github.com/chip-red-pill/udbgInstr/blob/main/paper/u...