skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father's cousin has been living in social care for the last few years. He was put into a home associated with the council, but as he owned a home (that he'd lived in his whole life) he was forced to sell it to pay for his care. He is able to do most things by himself, but just needs someone to provide a bit of mental support - basically a friend. My father is his closest relative, but lives on the other side of the country.

Currently he pays ~£800 per week, which when the house was sold was backdated to pay for all the care he received. The thing is though that is just the care, the private landlord of the home has now decided he needs to pay another £700 per week for rent. The home is rather run down and he only has a tiny bedroom for himself (the bathroom is shared). As I understand the company providing the care is a private for-profit company too.

I'm not really surprised most council taxes is spent on social care if this is how much private companies are charging them.
Show HN: Ideapackets – a law/policy crowd-sourcing platform
"The drone project involves young tech enthusiasts from the Jinkui Community Youth Science and Technology Innovation Center. Every day — for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon — youngsters wearing masks and gloves fly drones to patrol the community.

The drones carry loudspeakers which announce: “Please stay at home as much as possible. If you have to go out, don’t forget to wear a mask.”

The drones can also scan car plates and record which vehicles have entered the community.

The drones are also equipped with thermal scanners which can measure the temperatures of people idling in the community.

Those found with normal temperatures will be encouraged to return home. Officials will be alerted of people found with fever."

https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2002051335/
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Pretty nice work, and a great write up. It looks just like the real app.

Also, did you create those tweening stars on the "Spotlight" button?
You don't have to be ex-TLA to read enough.
If the only possibility for sick people is to either come, or stay home, then I think there will always be some of them that would prefer to come even though they might contaminate others.

In Asia, there is a culture of wearing face masks when you're sick. This serves as both a signal to others, and also helps reduce your infected droplet emission. Also it means you can still go to events and not have to stay home.

Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Once the critical mass of people decide to do so, then people won't feel weird about it and will all start to take that habit.
Hey all,
I've created a crowd-sourcing law platform that focuses on more easily being able to offer replacements to specific parts of a proposal (either crowd sourced or one being currently debated by a country's legislature) and efficiently communicate viewpoints for and against those parts while presenting evidence for such views. This way, I hope, we can share our viewpoints and come to consensus by debating detailed evidence to a given idea's effectiveness or ineffectiveness.

It may be a little buggy (if you find anything please let me know on the "alpha page" link I've got at the bottom of the site) and still a work in progress but I wanted to share it with you all to see what you think. I've thought that a good testing ground to test this concept would be with local, national, and international approaches to climate change and its future effects, so I posted the Green New Deal as a starting point to debate and praise or improve. If you've got any other legislation you'd like to post on there, please do so (there is a "Create Proposal" tab). You can post original or nonoriginal works, like proposals in your country's legislative body.

Thanks for taking a look and let me know what you think and why.

By the way, I'm not much of a visual designer so the site looks pretty drab. If anyone wants to help design a better look for it let me know.
That's why China slapped together two hospitals in a few days: to cope with demand.

It wasn't just 'face', it's trying to stay ahead of that capacity and deal with the influx of new cases.

Ukraine is also kind of interesting right now, I'm reading that they have a lot of suspected cases of 2019-nCoV, but no means to send samples for testing to are unable to confirm any cases. That may be the same case in some African nations right now as well.
Personally, I'm fine with the nuke strikes on Japan during WW2. The committed numerous atrocities (just look at the rape of Nan King).

They had also prepared all of mainland Japan to fight to the death, involving all aged men, women and children.

My grandfather was to be part of that invasion force. I likely wouldn't be here had the nukes not been used. Estimates of US losses in invading mainland Japan were over a million (sorry, I dont have a reference to quote, but it's a number I remember hearing from some random History channel episode a few decades ago). I'm not remise in the slightest. Around 300k lost their lives in the 2 strikes, yes, this is an awful loss of life, but in a time of war "us vs them" does play a rl. Over 450k lost their lives in the firebombing of Tokyo. A near similar number lost their lives in the firebombing of Nuremburg.

But, we dont talk about Tokyo and Nuremburg like we do Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just because of the nuclear element. Each city only had around ~50k dead, immediately more may have died due to radiation induced cancer, bit thats hard to prove.

Less damage was done in the nuclear cities, less people died, but we focus on them because of nuclear.

I expect to be downvoted, but my points hold.
Would this serve as a supporting statement?

Why Most Published Research Findings
Are False

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?type=pri...

It was true in 2005 and the situation only got worse since.
Tracking Coronavirus News with MongoDB Charts
Those all sound like concerns that probably aren't your top priority when you have 10 users unless your product is performance critical, and then none of this guidance applies anyway. When you have 10 users, your database concerns are more likely to be: Is my database up? Is my database secured? Do I have automated backups? Am I otherwise at risk of losing data? Is the database fast enough for now to not be a blocker to my business? All of which are concerns that tend to be well covered by managed database services.
I just tried "coronavirus map" and it showed maps or an article with map from WP, CNN, NYT. And one from CDC. That looks reasonable to me.

Edit: checking the result again, the first page also has a europe.eu page with a map, and another from arcgis.com with a map. So most of the first page results seem highly relevant and good quality.
Yes. However a lot of the discussion on this quickly converge to culture difference or misinformation based straw man. At this point they are driven majorly by racism.

An example of the former case is people tend to blame others for consuming meat they don't usually do, even if the animals were bred in a farm. Check the controversy around bamboo rats for a more specific example.

Example of misinformation: see the controversy around a video showing Chinese woman eating bat soup. Except it is not even filmed in China, it is in Palau and being a tourist thing. The behavior is still questionable and should not be encouraged, but the public reaction on this is almost entirely missing the point. Unfortunately video spreads across language burden, but words don't, it is almost impossible to debunk.
Of course it does, but those are still the interests that protect Wexner and I don’t think it’s controversial to say as much. I’m sure no shortage of Democrats would rush to protect Bill Gates if his ties to Epstein were more fully exposed.
Don't rest your argument on official data coming out of China. There is evidence they are even burning bodies now (SO2 levels) to get rid of the evidence.
Fortunately you normally only need to access the NVR from the Internet, not the cameras.

You can put the NVR behind a VPN as well, but one trustworthy enough to skip the VPN is much more convenient.

Plug: I'm developing a secure, reliable Free Software NVR, in Rust. Functionality is very limited now: embarrassingly, no motion detection yet, no live view, and a very "written by a backend engineer" UI. But it's slowly improving. I'd welcome help! https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr
The buffer mapping strategy is still a big perf pitfall, but it could be solved with an extension.
And the Fed...
That sounds exactly like some sort of population control mechanism from a dystopian novel. All it needs is a tazer for those that don't comply.
There are google forms that you can setup that populate a spreadsheet. People don't need access to see the spreadsheet. One problem is that you have to authenticate it is the legit precinct captain, presumably they have some pin/password that they'll enter that is unique to their precinct. You can't prevent people from entering the wrong stuff, you'll have to cull the spreadsheet, but still, it seems pretty damn manageable.
Spotify buys The Ringer
What is wrong in this case w/ multiple VPS's? For instance, I run a shipping system that our entire operation depends on. I can't afford downtime either, as that would shutdown our entire shipping department. However, 1 server running on-prem, 1 remote in shared hosting and 2 failover servers on DigitalOcean costs ~$120/month.

What would a managed cloud like AWS or Azure provide besides higher expenses? Last I checked, AWS would be ~$550/month based on their calculator.

IT departments managed redundancy long before cloud was a thing, and it's certainly possible to achieve acceptable uptime without the managed services. I realize that I still rely on DO for their uptime, and I'm pricing renting rackspace for that reason. However, uptime is currently within acceptable levels (ie I haven't had to explain to the CEO why all his employees are standing around). We had tried 2 SaaS vendors before our current on-prem solution, and both had had downtime that cost us money. Both were hosted in AWS, so clearly that isn't the panacea for ultimate reliability. If our on-prem server goes down, I get a call. However, I got calls when our SaaS vendor went down as well; sitting on line with their tech support wasn't any great comfort.

The same graceful failover processes are accessible on machines you control, there's no reason that you have to run on one machine if you avoid the cloud. The biggest hurdle for me to implement this was database concurrency with multiple servers, but a cloud solution wouldn't have done anything to solve that problem.

[edit:] typos and miss-typed AWS pricing due to mobile keyboard.
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AWS' p99 is very impressive for hot functions. Pleasantly surprised by IBM's performance here. Google seems to perform the worst of the lot. It's also odd that Google's median cold start is faster than a hot function. Maybe the concurrency is triggering some sort of back-off?

PS: Adding cost per request as a comparison would be nice.
If employees are partially compensated in options, it makes sense to negotiate a price that's at or above the strike price so that some of their options can be cashed out at the time of going public.

If Asana is profitable and their valuations check out, that would be a scenario where maybe the banks aren't needed. But if they're not, leaving it up the market to decide can be dangerous.
That’s all entirely beside the point of whether a gigantic for-profit corporation that runs the de facto public square should be policing true and false.
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The Sinister Realities of Google’s Super Bowl Commercial
Given the amount of unused space in the toolbar I believe you can safely add some handy features without making it worse in any sense so even more people would appreciate it. I'd add regex search&replace (with support to add/replace newline and tab symbols) and codepage conversion (including support for decrypting wrong codepage text and encoding/decoding the selected text as a URL replacing non-latin symbols with their codes and vice versa).
“In the past, small "plutonium cells" (very small 238Pu-powered RTGs) were used in implanted heart pacemakers to ensure a very long "battery life". As of 2004, about ninety were still in use. By the end of 2007, the number was reported to be down to just nine. The Mound Laboratory Cardiac Pacemaker program began on 1 June 1966, in conjunction with NUMEC. When it was recognized that the heat source would not remain intact during cremation, the program was cancelled in 1972 because there was no way to completely ensure that the units would not be cremated with their users' bodies.“
For those who might be confused: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
2 weeks ago I used OSXFUSE to read an old Linux hard disk. It was running ext4 and I was able to install OSXFUSE and EXT4FUSE under Catalina.

It let me browse and copy files off. I had a few directories that were password-protected and I wasn't able to access them. There might be a way to do so but they just weren't important enough to me to do more investigation.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/mount-access-ext4-partition-m... is the instructions I followed. I've since removed the components since I don't have any other old Linux drives lurking around. Removal seems to have worked just fine.
I don't want foam. I'm not sure if it's the competition or what, but I wanted to replace a mattress from Ikea that had gradually self-destructed (springs sagged and broke) and found that a regular furniture store was selling regular mattresses under a brand name (Serta or Sealey or something that's been around forever) for like $300 (maybe less, I don't remember exactly). I did not want to spend $600, or $1000, or $2000, and I expected buying a mattress to be like buying from a used car dealership and was surprised it wasn't. I feel like things were different in the early 2010's. And because it wasn't mail order, I was able to take it home the same day.
People already do this. You can submit your sitemap to bing and google. But I doubt you will get anyone to bother with a small player or p2p service.
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WebGPU does not supercede Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX, and especially not OpenCL/CUDA. Please at least try using CUDA before claiming WebGPU even approaches anything near its functionality.

WebGPU has tradeoffs and issues like anything else. AAA game engines, like the ones I work on, are still going to continue to have to support console platforms without WebGPU support, and will still have their own platform interfaces around stuff like that. Don't get me wrong, WebGPU is a very nicely designed API, but it is still lowest-common-denominator, and is about 2 years behind schedule.
Loved it. Their top ten restaurants in SF list was gold. Almost like an early, less nerdy Blind.
> China made risky decisions and that others are suffering for them

Western people do eat "exotic" meat during special occasions too.

In France, for Christmas and New Year's eve, a lot of people will eat boar or roe, which is pretty much not consumed at all during other times of the year. Hell, I have even heard that ostrich and kangaroo were trendy some years ago.

We are just more lucky that western "exotic" meat does not carry as much viruses as tropical / equatorial wild animals do.
To be sure... the main message here is don't be a jerk, treat people w/ respect, and try to be humble...EVEN if you're right and someone else is wrong! These aren't tough principles and they're not exclusive to academia - they are universal.
Just for the note:

Here is the scan of original Stalin's letter to Soviet ambassador in Britain:

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/yuripasholok/765139/15022510...

about situation when Britain decided to left to itself 156 American Aerocobras that was shipped to USSR as one of Lend-Lease shipments. This was before Stalingrad - at the time when Germany advance was perceived as unstoppable.

Yet to note that GB received 3 times more stuff on Lend-Lease than USSR.
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My (Asian-American) wife wears a mask at work because half of the people around her are sick. A few of the other Asian folks in her office do the same thing. No idea about the effectiveness of wearing a mask as protection, but if I had to go into an office for work I would do the same thing during flu season, weird or not.
The seminar story is sort of the opposite; dazzle and confuse them with your genius by giving bad talks no one can understand, or else they won't respect you. But both regard dealing with massive egos, a common problem in research.
In your scenario Twitter should not be allowed to hide behind section 230 of the CDA. Thus, they could be sued for liable just as CNN was in the Covington case.

Twitter wants it both ways, they want to editorialize but they don’t want to be bound by the regulations in place for news publishers.
Other networks have lists of banned hashes. You can just hash the banned domains/links and users can subscribe to ban lists. You could even distribute them in plain text tbh. The issue is not about having the links, but accidentally clicking on them.
Heh, I took a couple classes from Bill back at UVic and, being young and full of myself, I occasionally pointed out mistakes in his teaching in front of all the other students. Luckily, unlike the faculty in his story, he never took personal offense. :)
My argument still fundamentally applies to your characterisation of the people involved.

Who is the authority that is saying these people are unwilling to entertain different viewpoints? Why does anyone feel they haven't just examined those viewpoints thoroughly and decided they aren't worth holding?

Is the motive and character of these people something quantifiable?
The main post is not about alternatives though - it is about a new thing that Nature is trying out. To which I posted that the whole thing is rotten from inside

I don't think this is the right avenue or thread to talk about alternatives.

If you want my opinion, it is the scientific publishing model the is broken, starting right with the structure of a scientific paper.

The way research papers are written dates back to a time where your only source of information was the printed paper.

Every single scientific publication today is overdone, exaggerated, overly verbose and almost impossible to comprehend. If you make a single, true and noteworthy observation that helps others, you cannot publish that alone. It has to be dressed up. You have to exaggerate, dress it up, bury it deep into "more" content to make it publication-worthy. The inablity to get credit for small but important research findings is the what, in my opinion is killing science from within. The big papers are a thing of a past, but scientists cannot let go, because that's what they were taught as being important.
This was my favorite kennel extension. It allowed for accessing memory via a device that you could call `cat` on, grep etc. https://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter8/kma/
I found the results to be utterly useless. I wasn't able to perform a single search that came back with sane results. I searched "youtube" and the first few pages were random blogs. I couldn't not find "youtube.com" anywhere in the results.
No.

The Industrial Plant I work at uses Service Now (For IT and Helpdesk support) and SAP (For Payroll, HR, Purchasing, Maintenance Scheduling etc.). Service Now is much, much worse. IT department is so dysfunctional and Service Now is a big part of that.

One of my coworkers refers to it as "Service Eventually"
That's the ideal, and you're not wrong, but it ignores the behavioral piece of what really goes on in the world.
Zero, in almost all cases: https://www.upcounsel.com/liability-of-company-directors
There is though; it’s why the Covington kids went after publishers and not platforms in their law suits.
> even in Fiji, Vanuatu kava is sold at a premium

Not true. In fact Vanuatu kava is hard to Fiji in Fiji despite the fact that so much of it is imported. Tudei kava, when imported to Fiji (and the US) is usually mixed in with Fijian kava to temper the horrible side-effects.

> The cheaper/stronger varieties are known in pidgin as tudei kava (as in, 2 day) because that's how long the buzz/hangover lasts.

Stronger yes, but not at all in a good way. Think headaches, horrible nausea, and worse. Hence the export of tudei kava is banned in Vanuatu except for if the buyer explicitly requests it. Tudei kava should not be sold for recreational consumption and its use is strongly discouraged.
Liberum Veto
There are already at least two languages like this I can think of with good standard libraries, and good frontend support (Elm and Dart). But adoption of both is low. I don't think it's a coincidence, nor do I think it's just a product of circumstances. People are still going to use JavaScript, no matter how many better things are out there.
Yes, I think he meant "brash".
> "If you say hurtful things when you don't mean to, that's one thing. Denying the other party's feelings are valid and continuing to say hurtful things for really no reason other than to be stubborn makes you a jerk."

I note that this says nothing about the original speaker's feelings and opinions. If the other party denies the validity of the speaker's feelings and opinions, are they not also jerks?
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I could be wrong but tritium on watches usually wasn’t typically used on the face itself, but in gas tubes or vials on the hands and hours markers. Ball, Marathon and Luminox are three popular watch brands that use them currently.

Evidently radium stopped being used for lume in 1970, and while tritium faces may have been a replacement around that time, tritium as used only has a lifespan between 12-24 years.
Does anyone know if this will impact:

- FUSE

- XQuartz

- LittleSnitch
Wow! How do you know it has over 15k monthly users?
People with Bipolar: Seriously talk with your psychiatrist before trying Kava - it was great for me at first, but then I noticed some undesirable mood changes. I wish we knew more about Kava and also drug interactions.

(This comment doesn't really need a thread or arguments about natural solutions :-P ... just a note/data point to maybe save someone a bit of trouble)
I shouldn’t have said “Pro” as the recent non-Pro iPads under $400 have Pencil support too.
Don’t Democrats control Albany?
I’m not tracking with you. Who’s compelling Twitter to impose restrictions on what they, Twitter, reckon is hate speech? And why isn’t this entity compelling 4chan to do the same?
I'm curious which ones -- CDC drivers are supported automatically and since Mavericks there is built-in support for FTDI and CH340G written by Apple. I think there is still a PL2303 driver but I've not used something with one of those for a couple of years.

I definitely do not miss the kernel panics from unplugging an older FTDI based Arduino while it was sending serial data!
This is only true for closed systems (having no entropy-adding or -subtracting flow of matter or energy across their boundaries), and within them, there are usually more high entropy states than low entropy ones, so, on average, its evolution is more likely to end up in a higher entropy state than the one it started from, than in a lower one.
Drank enough to upset my tummy but no real buzz beyond young numbness. Tried it at multiple sources in Fiji always the same effect or lack thereof
Incomplete. Its all the DNA business.
I'm going to bet the overwhelming majority of users don't care about either. This is Netflix cutting costs by requiring less data to serve their content at the quality that's good enough to make most people happy.

Any time I talk to anyone outside our nerd bubble I'm reminded and humbled by what simply doesn't register as relevant to them.