skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done both -- at-home hospice for my dad and a nursing home for my mother-in-law. Ultimately, each was the best choice in the circumstance.

My dad was easily scared and cognitive decline was, for a while, outpacing the physical decline. Having him at home, with my mom nearby and in familiar surroundings, was a comfort to him and -- despite my mom constantly being scared of having medical strangers in the house -- I'd like to believe she preferred it as well. And it's hard to argue with the cost; my parents didn't have much money and think 18 months (three six-month cycles -- dad held on longer than anyone thought) of at-home hospice resulted in <$1,500 out of pocket. At the end, he died with three generations of people he loved literally standing over him and holding his hand.

My mother-in-law? She was always proud of her health and, to be fair, it was well earned. So after her second hip fracture, a planned rehab stay turned into permanent nursing-home residence as it became clear she needed 24-hour care. Could she have gotten that at home? Yeah -- but she once said, years ago, that death was very private and she decided to stay in a facility. It ran about $8k/mo for moderately-OK care and she passed in her sleep about a year later.

I don't know there's any wisdom to be found in any of this other than the obvious: Have clarity about what you want before you're too old and too incapacitated to make a nuanced choice. Write it down. Communicate it with your kids and loved ones.

Anything else is just creating needless pain.
Pretty much overheating something, leading to a relatively boring shutdown and a long, potentially costly repair.
It's a bit slow to get a message out, but at least you can send a message. A traditional PLB might be faster but you can't transmit anything so the responders know zero about your situation. What the problem is, where you are exactly, how urgent it is, etc. I'll take InReach any day.
There are a substantial number of "lost in the wilderness"/"death by GPS" scenarios that fit exactly those requirements.
What about the train drivers? They seem to still be necessary.
Supposing these tests have any validity, using them for hiring is a terrible idea. People are likely to be very reluctant to hire people who they know they are likely to clash with. But in reality that's what you actually need to provide the variety of perspectives (one might call it diversity) necessary for resilient decision making.
Diversified as always. I moved to a rural area 10 years ago, so firewood is always a must. Also plenty of land. Also any tools that I think I would need. Savings only in BTC and some physical gold. No stocks or fiat.
I don't know why Apple patched that 1 bug in iOS 12. But they didn't patch it in iOS 14 or 13. Moreover, iOS 14 hasn't received any security updates since October, and other than that 1 bug, neither iOS 13 nor iOS 12 have received security updates in an even longer time.

You're treating the exception (12.5.6) as if it's the rule, but it's not.
>> This is apparently a weird mostly unique to the USA thing, probably driven by complex subsidies

Before the 1930's, 5 year fixed-rate interest-only loans with a 50% down payment were typical in the US. At the end of 5 years the borrower would either have to pay off the remainder of the mortgage or negotiate a new loan at a new rate.

Of course this caused a crisis during the Great Depression.

During the 1930's, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) were created to regulate and insure mortgages. Instead of 5 years, 15 years was common at first, then 20, then 30. Instead of being interest only, loans were amortized to pay off principal, instead of a 50% down payment, 20% or even 10% was common.

During the 1970's the interest rate mismatch (short term interest rates which banks used for financing rose, while their 30 year interest rates on loans were fixed) led Congress to allow FNMA and other entities to buy mortgages from lenders to get those loans off their books - that was the creation of the secondary mortgage market.

Loans were still all fixed rate though, variable rate wasn't allowed in the US until 1982 (the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act).

By the 2000's, you had variable rate mortgages, interest only loans were back, and banks could originate and then sell them into the secondary market, so they could make money on the origination (or if not that, the servicing) of the loan, while getting rid of the default risk (that was left to the US taxpayer under the guise of the supposedly private "government sponsored entities", the GSE).

Of course this caused a crisis during the Great Recession.
>That was one thing I liked about Ford, their tech stuff is (currently) free forever

Wait until some exec gets a bright idea on how they can make more money.
>as we would walk in the door, the requests (demands?) would begin.

old age can be like wealth and power in that it magnifies character defects.

Many awful people are going to get old and I kinda wish they could be written off the same way they would in middle age, without the social pressure to be compassionate.

There is no innocence regained.

Brings out a lot of underlying personality/ cultural /freudian entitlement in people who barely enjoyed getting thru life but are afraid of death.

Some old people, it's like they can't wait to regress... (I did my part, I get to be the baby now!)

also, immigrant kids have a special hell

lots of cultural/ethnic and class differences that makes this burdensome, suffocating, manipulative, and "politically incorrect" to talk about in ways that feels lonely.

A lot of these kids never got to be kids, since immigrant parents become low-agency children in practice: can't speak english, can't fill out basic forms, often too poor to do basic stuff by the book (legal, banking, etc), don't know the area to have risk assessment or make decisions adults are supposed to make. The kids have to grow up fast without help, succeed in some way without financial or cultural capital, and then take care of their parents without help. They are often being criticized and their decisions undercut the whole way.

Offensive to say but real for many, some immigrant parents often just have god awful personalities: poverty and war and refugee trauma have misshaped them into people that can be hard and unpleasant. Depending on age, many are closed-off, unwelcoming by default, they feel too old to learn new things, racist and endlessly judgmental especially if they never moved out of the self-segregating enclave many start out in the host country. The next generation often feels embarrassed or ashamed of them while having to assimilate, can't bring friends or dates around. Growing up with two different sets of norms and expectations.

Leads to simmering resentment and anger covered with guilt and duty and never ending ethnic responsibilities of the religious, Confucian, and/or gendered type. (Women expected to be servant-nannies for their middle-aged in-laws makes me fume.)

A lot of immigrant kids who 'made it' despite their crummy families can't really share/talk about it with middle-class suburban Americans... I feel this loneliness and often rage myself and see hints of it just go unspoken in my 'scholarship kids' peer group (asian, indian, latino and post-soviet kids in city gifted programs) now that we're all grown up.
What is a milan?
The group putting this together almost certainly didn’t have “clearance” to see those images before they were publicly released today.
If you only have W2s and (most) 1099s and make <$200,000 it's pretty straightforward to use free file fillable forms for federal and your state's free electronic filing service. You can also mail the forms in. You just do 1040 and skip all the schedules.

Only about a third of tax returns have no schedule 1-6 or schedule a, which was very surprising to me. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/filing-season-statistics

I've only had such simple taxes for like a couple adult years. I've had at least 1 other complication every year since. The stats seem to imply a similar pattern broadly too since each schedule is only filed by a minority of returns, but most returns file at least one schedule.
The article title: "Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types"

The article's answer: "We just don’t know."

Whole bunch of words in that article and some interesting background, but zero effort to address the title of the piece. It's like they meant to be going somewhere, provided some interesting background information, and then just stopped. No hypotheses, no interviewing a company to ask them why, just a shrug.

If you wanted to say "Companies shouldn't use Myers-Briggs," you should have made that the title.
I think I've known this for years. When I was a kid I had a book entitled "How things work". In it was a large picture, spread across 2 pages, showing birds, land animals, people in cars, trains, aeroplanes etc, all moving from left to right as if in a race. Above each participant was a figure indicating something like Joules per gram. The "participants" in the "race" were ranked according to this figure, with the front-runners having the lowest associated values.

Waay out in front was a man on a bicycle. Add in the help of cumulative drag and sharing the load against the wind resistance, it makes sense.
Dear god I am glad they stopped this by the time I got there. I probably wouldn't have quit on the spot or anything, but I do not think that there exists a universe where it wouldn't taint the job in my eyes.

Though Apple did a pretty good job of doing that already.
> It's a limitation of Bluetooth's available bandwidth, especially with bidirectional audio.

I've often read this is the problem, but I don't buy it.

BTLE is up to 1 megabit. A high-quality audio stream is typically up to 320 kbps compressed. Voice can be compressed as low as 64 kbps and still sound as if the person is standing right next to you.

That's still less than 400 kbps, well under the 1 mbps BTLE supports.

So tell me...how is there not enough bandwidth?
Can someone please explain the fascination that people have with other people quitting their jobs? Quitters don't accomplish anything. Where are the articles about the members of the workforce who are contributing beneficial things to society? That would be a lot more interesting and inspirational. Sheesh.
Of course that's the hard part. But if you do survive the landing you'll be very glad you have communications available :)
A previous company used Real Colors, an MBTI knock-off, and it was striking how attached people got to those results. People openly stereotyped whole groups of people because they appeared to cluster in one sector (e.g., SDEs must be Green). They disregarded all counter-examples because they conflicted with these biases. It was weird.
Ahh here it is.

https://youtu.be/2QBcc87yoc8

Yeah, that looks insanely dangerous. I wonder how much higher the COG is in that pose. At least the example you provided looks dense and lower.
I have no desire to support the UCI, but I need to add that the main reason for not allowing e.g. faired recumbents in races is the reduction in awareness that comes with the change in position (and being enclosed). Although crashes do happen in races held under UCI rules, in generals cyclists all being seated at about the same height and in the same general position heightens everybody's awareness when the peloton is moving fast and tight, and makes crashes somewhat less likely. Same sort of reason that prevents the use of full-length aero-bars in events where pelotons or just regular pace lines may form.

If you want mass-start races where riders can agglomerate to reduce required power, then you're probably stuck with rules that make the bikes all much more alike than they are different.

If you want bicycle innovation, you have to go to time trial or endurance events, where drafting isn't a thing and thus the equipment could be anything.
44% of Meta employees are women.

51% of Stanford Undergraduates are women.

51% of Harvard Undergraduates are women. MIT is close to that ratio as well.

49% of new businesses in the US in 2021 were started by women.

48%+ all US businesses are owned by women.
Ah yes, the old "imagine how much money we would save if you would just kill yourself already" play.

Assisted suicide is terribly difficult to do properly; to certify that the decision was made free of external influence, and that the person is of sound mind at the time the decision is made is in most cases impossible.

It's an incredibly cruel thing to do, and yet it keeps happening wherever it is allowed.
Conda sucks because it always wants things its own way, and introduces yet another site-packages and environment I need to track. Absolutely hate Apple for requiring it for their metal and M1 support.
Can you explain the areas in which Zig is safer than Rust?

I'm under the impression that crashes are considered perfectly safe because they don't lead to memory unsafety. They're inconvenient, but eliminating them is more or less impossible: if you don't want stack overflows, you have to ban recursion; if you don't want integer overflow, you have to ban addition or insert checks for overflow; etc.
Also taking into account the embodied energy of the bike?
Stargate did have an overarching plot, but was still very episodic (like many other shows at the time). To me, Farscape was far more in line with the new idea of a continuous narrative.

This type of TV was enabled by TiVo/DVRs. Before then, producers couldn’t rely on people not missing an episode, because if they did they’d be lost. (Not coincidentally, Lost was also enabled TiVos for the same reason).
Wonder if Apple is using a phase array like starlink
For me, the Apple Watch is an Apple product that doesn’t unduly benefit from being all in on the Apple ecosystem but that may be just how I use it (or don’t).
1%ers ;)
I'm told ungoogled android distros exist, and are decently usable.
Fusion produces neutrons, not photons.
T-Mobile sells Sprint fiber assets to Cogent for $1
How does that mean that?
Less space than a nomad.
It's not sly, it's just a correct succinct headline.

I don't see an equal or more terse way of saying the same thing.
I think usually is a stretch but some bills certainly are written by lobbyists (or think tanks/do tanks)
It might solve the greenhouse side of climate change, but you can't run away from thermodynamics. All electricity generated eventually turns into heat. Earth can only radiate so much heat into space in a given time period. If you generate more heat than Earth is capable of radiating, the planet warms. Don't start thinking that "free energy" from fusion reactors means that we can generate infinite power (as nice as that would be). It just means that the new negative externality would be heat itself.
Again, 3-10 feet rising is NOT expected - that just represents the TOTAL ice melt of the entire glacier, including it's base.

That is not a realistic outcome.
There are a lot of alternatives noted for their performance. Jabra, Bose, Sony all have earned high marks from reviewers.
Does this reboot mean they'll be able to pay to get their CGI assets recreated, and re-render the original 90s-era series?

For those who don't know. The original B5 was shot on film for maximum definition, but the CGI (which was used heavily for a show of that era) was only rendered at NTSC resolutions to save money. The thought was they could just re-render at a higher resolution later. However the special effects company that did it went out of business, and all the CGI assets were lost. IIRC, they've never had the money re-do the CGI, so the best they've been able to do to re-release it is upscale the NTSC (which is far from ideal).
InReach uses the same 16xx Mhz Iridium frequency for everything. It does not have a 400Mhz PLB transmitter (which usually come with extendable antennas by the way, due to the ~ 70cm wavelength).
Some GitHub pages are down
I always figured those guys were on something else other than booze.
Isn't the fact that they were not implemented part of the definition of their failure? Since it's supposed to be the backbone of the solution that allows the neoliberal model to continue without significant changes, the fact that it was not adopted is a clear indictment.
If we had a Busybox for every platform, and you compiled your app for every platform, you could bundle it all as one compressed shell script. Not as cool as one binary that works everywhere, but much simpler.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
set -eu
FILE="${OS:-$(uname -s)}/${ARCH:-$(uname -p)}/${MACH:-$(uname -m)}/exe"
unzip -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}" -X -b -o "$0" "$FILE"
[ $? -gt 1 ] || exec "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/$FILE"
echo "$0: Error: could not execute '$FILE'" ; exit 126
########################################################
# After here the Zip file is concatenated into the file
Almost all new jobs created in Canada during the pandemic were in public sector
I knew a woman who was told by insurance sales guys "You? You don't merit insurance as a homemaker."

Lots of people seriously undervalue what homemakers do.
Given that the energy used for both humans and electric cars is about 50% from dinosaurs, an internal combustion engine car has better efficiency on dinosaur to joule conversion than an electric car. So a human is basically not competitive with any form of transportation.
I don't think their reasoning for switching to iOS was because of Chrome specifically, it was because of Google as a whole.

There are browsers for iOS with really good ad and tracker blocking. I use Orion, whose blockers are based on uBlock.
I've seen 2 programs in my life that checked for CHAR_BIT (and one was a toy decimal -> binary converter). My guess is basically all of it.
>Testament to the strength of Peloton's brand that most of us related to the exercise bike

I think in this case it's simply that people don't know where the term originally comes from.
Because the sensors aren't simple and there would be too many variables to account for.

The riders are not exact clones of each others. The bikes aren't going to be exactly identical either. You won't be able to have them ride in an exact straight line with zero wind and zero temperature fluctuation. You won't be able to track the position of 100+ riders to within sub-centimeter precision while moving at 60km/h.

The actual power measurement is easy: they already have sensors for that. But good luck trying to get them to give you that data: it's like asking a Formula 1 team for their engine performance data!
Anyone surprised by the Island notch software/hardware design? I don't mean the idea of a pill shaped notch. But the fact they're pouring so much software resource into it (even building dev tools) when the shape/size of that cutout should in theory change in the future when technology allows for smaller (or non-existent) cutouts.

They will either feel commited to that hardware design and stick to it longer than they should, or they will have to abandon a lot of software.
Is this GitHub issue typical of the Python community nowadays?

A two-year old CVE is picked up by gpshead as suddenly urgent enough to justify a fairly significant breaking change in a patch release, despite another issue (#90716) already tracking better solutions to the same problem.

gpshead submits a PR which doesn't solve the issue (the DoS still happens, and then a ValueError comes afterwards!), so mdickinson submits a PR which works around the problem in the first PR. Nobody else is apparently involved in discussing whether this change should even be made, and whether the fixed fix genuinely eliminates the DoS.

mdickinson then has to fight for several comments to convince gpshead to make an obviously-correct and zero-cost change to the integer type, with gpshead dropping a passive-aggressive "pedantically correct" when they finally fix it.

Then when other people finally notice the issue and start to question the need for the change, especially in the context of another issue discussing a better solution, they are ignored and the discussion is shut down with a reference to the Code of Conduct.

Why would anyone want to participate in a community this toxic?
So? How is that relevant? Did Apple promised that it supports it but it turned out it does not?
Apple's always-on pingback no matter where you go in the globe, even if you disable cell networks. I do believe they care about privacy, though if you look at features like this it's easy to see that they can be worse than Google if they wanted.
Not entirely true, Play framework for example will continue to depend on Akka without restrictions placed on its users -- mentioned in the blog post, see "usage grant".
>Capital gains tax is a horrendous idea that mostly punishes the middle class for doing well in the stock market.

That's simply not true. The top 1% own 50% of all stocks: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-richest-1-own-50-of-stock...

The whole other 99% of the population share 50% of all stocks. Most of "middle class" own little to no significant amount of stocks.

Also, if you must work, you're working class. The "middle class" is a propaganda term to keep the working class divided between those who feel like they're successful from those who are struggling. And speaking to the success of that propaganda: 22% of people think they're "middle class" and aren't: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/22-americans-mistakenly-think...
direct direct link: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338....
Game studios were quite recession proof in the past. During bad times, people look to entertainment.
A speed running cheating expert on YouTube has observed that many cheating scandals start with a genuinely skilled player breaking records legitimately. However, that player starts cheating later in their career to maintain their status when they can't keep up with the brutal grind of being the best.
Reminiscent of how google maps (on cellphones) killed standalone GPS trackers, this may hurt Garmin InReach type devices quite a bit, not that there is a huge market for that in the first place.
The remedy is awareness and control over our info diets, just like our food diets.

Supersweet beverages are available at virtually every restaurant and grocery store in my area (and advertised incessantly), but that doesn't mean I have to drink em every day and get diabetes.
>This covers the most important thing that backcountry types pay monthly fees and carry an extra device for, which are emergencies,

I am not a backpacker, so maybe I am missing something but if it is JUST for emergencies what do the Paid services offer than a NOAA Registered PLB Device would not?
Zoom's automatic gain adjustments aren't responsive enough in my experience. You can disable it and pick a manual level for mic input. But that's hardly a fix for this issue, of course.
Actually GlobalStar has some of the weakest satellite coverage in the satellite market. It covers North America and Austrailia very thoroughly. But only covers other continents partially. It covers 3/4 of South America, only western Europe, and only really covers Japan and Singapore in Asia. There is almost no ocean coverage.

The Iridium network (which is what Garmin uses) covers nearly everything outside of the north and south poles. This includes all the oceans and basically all habitable land. That is why Iridium has dominated the satellite market for so many years over GlobalStar. Garmin satellite devices (like InReach) uses Iridium. But they also have non-trivial costs associated with that coverage.

As someone who has used these satellite communicators for years, don't get your hopes up on using these all the time like an extension of your phone. Sending messages over satellite is painfully slow, even with devices with advanced helix antennas (which the iPhone doesn't have). It can take minutes to send a single text message. Phone communicators sometimes have 20-30+ second lag in them.