skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(US based)

It sucks but dementia tends to equate to living in a nursing home. Not always of course, but often because the level of care is high and the prognosis for many forms of dementia is the grimness of progressive severity. Hence, the present tends to be as good as it is going to be. And absent other morbidity the future is likely to be long.

It’s a hard decision that sucks.

Even a person who is committed to avoiding nursing home placement is best served by looking into power of attorney and getting on waiting lists right now. The likely alternative is discovering how long waiting lists for better dementia facilities are and what is required legally to act on another adult’s behalf later. The typical later being in the midst of legal/social/medical crisis.

For most people there are only better and worse. There’s no good even in the best likely case. Again, it sucks.

Finally, without power of attorney or permission of the patient healthcare providers can’t discuss medical records with anyone, even next of kin.

Good luck

(Edit: none of these change whether your friend is in Michigan or Florida. The difference between locations is providing direct physical assistance and proximity. These are not nothing. They don’t make a difference in terms of legal hurdles or public, and private resources.)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Metrics (GOTO 2019, Roy Osherove)
Ha I think every game team I was on debated this at some point. It’s almost a running joke. Navel gazing is not part of the industry that I miss.
> for e.g. Switzerland still uses points for fonts! Not mm.

Anybody who deals with typography in any professional capacity does so. It is the normal, not some obscure Swiss habit.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765435
Which is what they have been doing the i7/i9 line. Suddenly you can buy a i7/i9 laptop, despite it not having anywhere near the performance of the desktop class processors except maybe for a few seconds of burst activity.

A few years ago i7 also meant basically the high end desktop market (socket 2011) which meant more ram and IO. But then they slapped it on the dual channel desktop socket market.

So, yah the brand becomes meaningless when its just marketing for "this one will cost you more".
Deaths is not a metric that can determine which stage of this pandemic we are in. Immunity is the figure you're looking for, which will not increase under a shelter-in-place order. Deaths are down, but will immediately shoot back up if the shelter-in-place is lifted.

The only goal posts you should care about are herd immunity or vaccination. Nothing else matters when discussing how much longer this pandemic will last.

edit: Wow you guys are really mad at me judging by all these downvotes. You're right, the pandemic is over, lift the stay-at-home orders!

For a long time I thought HN had higher quality discussion than Reddit, but in reality it's just the same BS with slightly larger words.
One more thing if you installed on ZFS:

/var/snap is a subvolume. Purging snapd wants to remove the /var/snap directory, but it being mounted subvolume, it will fail. Purging snapd will therefore also fail.

Destroy (-r) the /var/snap subvolume before apt purge snapd.

Similarly, if using flatpak, create a new subvolume for /var/lib/flatpak before installing the first one. You don't need to snapshot your flatpaks together with the /.
> "have a network that knows you do good work and is in a position to hire you."

Which is an extremely important insight.
Are you saying Amazon didn't do the things the other user noted?
Unrelated, but base64 encoding feedback is a great idea.
I think they just realized it gives them a way to package proprietary apps like Skype, Spotify, and Slack a bit more simply than would be required to apt-ify/dpkg-ify them. I really think that's the primary motivation.
Interesting but it raises the question of what the effects of removing those snap packages are? I note that he doesn't mention installing anything to replace them, so it's probably not serious but still...
You might want to read upon horizontal gene transfer. But it's not reproduction.
The iPhone SE (2020) Hands on Quick Review: A Reinvigorated Classic
If we're doing YouTube critique of JP, it should at least include ContraPoints' bath scene. Otherwise it kind feels a bit toothless.
Not having enough money to survive isn't a made up thing. However you want to define it, people need to make ends meet including right now.
Oh, this is fascinating. Just a bit disappointing that the article doesn't mention at all why it's possible for random people in Brazil to access these satellites.
> my usage was 99.2% identical

What does that mean? If you're talking about S3, things like PUTs are way more expensive than GETs for example (by two magnitudes). So your usage can be "nearly identical", you can still spend money on precious GETs.

Example: Last month I spent around 300 EUR on food. The month before, I spent 150 EUR, yet my food was "97% identical", the 3% being those two times I ordered 75 EUR of sushi takeout.

PS: A lot of people get frustrated/confused by AWS pricing and, fair enough, but for a lot of businesses it's often a feature that they allow developers to architect their applications with costs in mind. It's a knife that cuts three different ways.
I am both the author as well as an engineer on the Brave team.
This newer one from University of Chicago Press is really nice.

https://www.amazon.com/Aristotles-Nicomachean-Ethics-Aristot...
Note however that Paradox's strategy engines are notoriously buggy.
Twitter to start removing tweets containing fake news about Covid-19
That's sort of my point, private corporations run sites that are used by hundreds of millions of Americans, but they're not held accountable by our laws the way, for example, news corps are.

> once you were as big as YouTube you'd deal with the same dilemmas

Yeah I'm not saying only YouTube should be regulated, I'm saying sites like YouTube and Facebook should be properly classified as publishers and held to standards as such.

> They don't control the flow of information.

This is a false statement. The vast majority of Americans get their news from Facebook, and yes, YouTube. They do control the flow of information. If it's not on Facebook or YouTube, it might as well not exist for over 50% of Americans. That's huge power that these corps wield with no oversight, dontcha think?

> get off your high horse

Uh there's no horse anywhere around here sir.
Pointing out the green new deal won’t fix climate change doesn’t mean you’ve given up trying to fix climate change.
The death rate with proper medical care is very low. The avoidable deaths are a direct result of a swamped medical system.
> This is an opportunity to reduce use of one-use packaging. Simply ship the flour in a gaylord to the point of distribution and have people bring their own canisters, tare them, and fill them.

One of the first things to go at our local grocery stores were bulk-binned products that weren't fresh produce. They've also banned reusable shopping bags. I don't anyone is going to try an idea like yours soon.
Kudos to the OP, I'm glad this got posted on hacker news because Snap is so ridiculously broken.

Since 16.04, Snaps have been a huge pain for me with running LXC in production environments.

By default, Snap applies updates and restarts Systemd services anytime it likes, and there's no way to turn this behavior off! The only way to get around it is to download the Snap package binary and install that directly. Then Snap won't "know" where to get updates.

(Caveat emptor: "Workarounds" like this can easily lead to a bad security scenario, since any critical security patches won't be installed by any standard system update process)

Did I mention that a fair percentage of the time the Snap updates would leave LXC in a completely broken state? In production (and development, too)!

The final nail in the coffin in this scenario comes in the form of Snap being the official recommended way to install LXC. I don't know if Stéphane and friends even publish Debian packages anymore.

I get the idea behind snap and appreciate it, but the lack of configurability and no clear definition of what stable really even means . . .
Breathe new life into old photos with colorization with Ainize
https://refinery.io/ is a similar service and YC alum.
What makes you think I'm discussing the current state of US law? I think it's pretty obvious that I'm discussing what ought to be, not what is.
So the most charitable interpretation of my comment is to convince yourself I’m a sociopath?

Excess deaths is a term of art to describe a number of deaths over a baseline. It can be used in general, or specifically, as I was using it, to describe the repercussions of an overloaded health care system. Here, for example, is a Sky News story from today using the term in its headline. [1]

I think you owe me an apology, but I won’t hold my breathe.

“Flattening the curve” is absolutely not intended to buy time to develop a cure or vaccine. The timeline over which the economic devastation of flattening the curve can be sustained is measured in weeks not 12-18 months.

The purpose of flattening the curve is to be sure there are the necessary number of hospital beds and ICU beds to provide effective treatment. If effective treatment can not be provided it leads to “excess deaths”.

Bad projections based on a 10% hospitalization rate and based on assumptions that ICU ventilators wouldn’t kill 80% of patients, have led to disastrously bad public policy which is causing untold suffering throughout the country. This suffering, which many people seem to be blind to, is notably self-imposed rather than natural, and through logical and reasonable interpretation of factual data we can stop this suffering.

This is very much unlike the suffering caused by people who are dying from COVID, for which unfortunately we have no effective cure or treatment, and for which it is not reasonable to assume we will develop one in the timeline of this current pandemic.

This is the key takeaway from “flattening the curve”. It cannot and will not decrease the total number of people who are ultimately exposed at this stage of the pandemic. Once the health system capacity is high enough to handle the number of cases coming in with effective care, continuing social distancing causes extraordinary damage without any benefit.

Since effective care at this point has proven to be both simple and extremely scalable (non-invasive ventilation, antibiotics, and frequent repositioning) the resource curves for effective care are extremely larger than projected, back when they were based on availability of ventilators.

Simply put, the data has changed, and it’s time to update the policy. It’s extremely incompassionate to do otherwise.

[1] - https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-englands-excess-d...
Not related to your main point, but would you reconsider calling them 'exorbitant salaries'?

Engineering is one of the only professions that is paid commensurate to the value they provide

Calling our salaries 'exorbitant' leaves you without superlatives left to describe executives that get paid thousands of times our wage, and at least they do work compared to the owners of capital who are 'paid' incredible money without doing any work at all.

To call an engineer salary 'exorbitant' you must be comparing it to the salary of people who function as modern serfs, and are not paid commensurate with the value they provide, or even enough to live a safe and satisfied life. Being paid enough for modest freedom and security is not 'exorbitant' though- no matter what you're comparing it to.
The app is still in its beta stages with many more features to come in the coming weeks. Feedback is welcome!
Snaps have benefits. Canonical sells 5 year service subscriptions in addition to the 5 years they already offer for free on LTS. Snaps enable a way to get the latest VSCode and other apps on very old versions of Ubuntu. Snaps allowed me to try out Debian and Fedora with minimal issues and easily integrate them into my dotfile manager with Ansible.
The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete
I think it comes from that the rule is titled "Do not let your children do anything that...". The language states to restrict the child's agency if you disagree with it.

I was fortunate enough to grow up with good parents, but there were times where they were misguided and myself disobeying them helped us both in the long run.
The funny thing is that Steve Jobs vision was that all apps would be web apps. Apple don't want to sell apps, they want to sell devices. And for people to buy devices there need to be great app's. The reason why they didn't go with web apps is that you wouldn't be able to utilize 100% of the hardware capabilities. But it seems to get harder and harder to do low level stuff on Apple devices, so maybe they will eventually get to something that is close to web apps... But if PWA's works on other devices too, I don't think Apple would want that.
Hinton Nature Paper Revisits Backpropagation Understanding Learning in TheCortex
Just because some of his trial balloons are abandoned to drift away on the winds of public ridicule does make it OK. What of the fact that his tweets are often followed up with orders that do have the force of law?
I don't know about Spotify, but both Skype and Slack are distributed with private apt repositories and it works just fine.
To me, completely untrained in medicine, their guidance seems much more nuanced than you suggest.

https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1274280/retrieve (pdf)
For anyone looking for flour, here's a nice resource I found that lists local grains & flours. (It looks like they list a couple options in England. Truthfully though, I'm not sure how close they are to you).

https://challengerbreadware.com/where-to-buy-grains-flours/
> it’s not the “working classes” like Marx liked to predict but social/political systems

What's the difference, exactly? the social/political systems create the group of under-paid, under-served people. Call them working class or not, the problem is still there.

In the US, employers pay drastically less for physical labor than knowledge work, government does not offer a social safety net, and social services are offered almost exclusively as paid services. People get trapped in a multi-generational cycle of lower wages, which means less desirable housing, worse schools, worse health care, which means their children have less opportunity for better-paying jobs. This creates, effectively, a low-wage-jobs-only group of people.
Fair point! Thanks for pointing it out. My knowledge on Eastern Europe is pretty bad.
It's at a minimum simply a high signal on a certain frequency indicating the device is there and then you use math to gather telemetry data (position, speed, etc).

At most, it's packets of data that indicate telemetry data such as position, speed, temperature, and the current state of any instruments on board.

Telemetry data is typically pushed out at regular intervals to allow it to be recorded and graphed in a time series.
I for one doubt that home-made reusable masks have much effect especially considering that it is unlikely that people use them and clean them as required.

The surface of the mask might end being the a source of infection that keeps exposing people to the disease. I recall reading a research paper stating the especially the outer side of the mask had the heaviest viral loads.

While I understand the sentiment, I can't help but wonder whether these homegrown mask solutions only end up doing more harm than good when used at such a wide scale and so haphazardly.

I also understand that people really really wish they worked - thus any doubt expressed here is met with scorn.
No, but saying look at all they're doing without addressing kind of the key part of the article does kind of miss the point, and makes your response seem more like a response from PR then a comment on the text.
> I have no particular standard of evidence I'm trying to impose on you; I'm just asking for what convinced you of your opinion that complying with civil rights laws is incredibly expensive. As long as your opinion is genuine, you are able to share its basis.

Were the individual examples listed in my link not evidence of increased costs? I define those as incredible costs. Do you understand how insurance works?
During times of extraordinary economic stress, the government should be acting as the employer of last resort [1] (which it's currently performing indirectly with programs such as the PPP, paying people to not work). This is likely to not be enough to bring many of the jobs back that will be lost from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking that into account, if you're going to employ people regardless so that you don't have millions of hungry homeless citizens (which is not good, obviously), the most pressing work for them to perform would be that related to decarbonizing the economy (referring to both fossil consumption and CO2 emissions). This isn't only an environmental and climate change issue, but also a national security imperative (unless we intend to allow OPEC to dictate our economic wellbeing for another 40 years).

It's too early to tell if we can "fix" climate change (we might only mitigate the worst of it depending on the atmospheric CO2 PPM high water mark we land at) but if we're going to implement extraordinary socioeconomic policy, we should head in the right direction and adjust as needed along the way. Many can be trained to install solar panels and wind turbines, to upgrade electrical infrastructure, to install EV charging stations, or rooftop solar. These are all jobs that you cannot outsource to a developing country, jobs that have traditionally paid a reasonable wage.

We're going to spend the money we're printing [2] anyway, we might as well give success an honest shot. There are much worse ways we've spent trillions of dollars our economy has produced, or that we've borrowed from a future that couldn't consent to said borrowing [3]. We're already on the right path [4], it’s time we deliberately choose to succeed.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." -- JFK

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

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL (St Louis Fed: Federal Reserve Total Assets)

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/us-spent-6point4-trillion-on... (America has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says)

[4] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... (NPR: Pandemic Shutdown Is Speeding Up The Collapse Of Coal)
Higher RPM drives also generally have a slightly lower linear density (the TPI should generally remain the same), meaning for the same capacity they require more platters. Frequently with little in the way of throughput increases (due to said lower density).

The one thing faster spinning drives do buy, is lower seek time because rotational latency tends to be the largest contributor to average seek.

That is part of the reason you don't see a lot of drives spinning faster than 7200RPM these days. SSD's ate the market which wanted speed over capacity,

I've been patiently waiting for 3600/4200 RPM 5.25" drives to make a comeback.. <chuckle>
> The Green New Deal moves us in the right direction. You can raise questions about the specific form in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced it. But the general idea is quite right.

I really wish the "Green New Deal" wasn't mentioned in these pushes for the future. I don't think there was ever agreement on what the "general idea" of it was, and I don't think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain. Sure, it's recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.
Who knows what's going to happen with the climate? No one, because the climate is a chaotic, non-linear, dynamic, multivariate system. Right now, as we speak deep sea thermal vents are leaking geothermal heat into the oceans. Underwater and aboveground volcanoes are erupting. One good solid eruption and you can have a whole year without a summer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer). A string of Mount Tamboras or one good super volcanic eruption could plunge the earth back into a deep glacial period for the next 100,000 years. You pair the above with the geomagnetic reversal that's going on (https://www.space.com/earth-magnetic-north-passes-prime-meri...) along with the really deep solar minimum period that's likely to dominate for the next few solar cycles (https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/04/10/experts-predict-t...)...and who knows? One thing I know is CO2 may push the temp ceiling slightly higher but it doesn't provide any kind of floor for base temperature (see Mars).
Drive and Listen – drive around cites while listening to their local radio
I don't use Fresh, but tipping in Prime Now and Instacart is optional. Although I've been doubling my usual tip around this time. These shoppers are taking a risk doing this job.
Frankly, I'm quite surprised Amazon, FedEx, UPS and USPS have done as well as they have under these conditions.

Yes, you can plan to some extent... but these are PEOPLE heavy issues. The only way this would have gone without issue is if it was pretty much ONLY robots, and had 3-4x the number of people needed, skilled and trained to support those robots, and that the robots themselves were under 25% utilization to begin with.

Telling a company they need to spend 4-5X as much for operations, just in case of a once a centuray global pandemic, is pretty unlikely.

Now, if you want to talk about getting domestic sourcing of more products, particularly in infrastructure, defense, medicine and communications/tech, I'm all ears. There's no reason more than half of medicine and telecom/tech equipment should be foreign sourced for a country the size/scale of the US as a matter of defense. With where we're at with China and Iran (effects on Taiwan of particular concern), it's even more amazing there aren't more talks about this.
https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
That's what a good Ph.D advisor does. However, Stackoverflow does not have that many people who can play that role. So, it ends up in the range of answers described there.
I learnt it from someone I know[0]

0: https://lobste.rs/s/lhijk2/horrifically_dystopian_world_soft...
Insanity vs Intelligence: Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy Theory
And it's a pretty good one since the experience with having a large catalog of useful software in Flatpaks has been awesome and largely seamless. I just wish Canonical wasn't off doing their own thing or had started out in the open from the start so it would have a chance of being a useful standard instead of the weird Canonical store.
We haven't found anything better to replace animal trials yet, but they aren't close enough to deliver good results.

Animal trials precede the first (Phase I) clinical trials in people.

93% of drugs that make it past animal trials and into Phase I clinical trials fail to make it all the way to final approval:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/05/09/th...

It's also not clear how many drug candiates we're missing out on because animal models give false positives for toxicity in humans. Compounds that are extremely poisonous to experimental animals may be tolerated much better in humans.

Humans survive exposure to TCDD at levels that would be more than 50 times higher than the lethal dose in guinea pigs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodiox...

Acetaminophen is a deadly poison to cats even at modest doses.

It's impractical and unethical to try novel druglike compounds in humans right away, so we may not know how many premature rejections come from animal models until/unless we're able to grow whole human organs for drug testing.