skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#2 is not true about funding for employees not yet born. The law unfairly requires the USPS to save money for its accrued future promised benefits, especially healthcare benefits.

However, the problem isn’t that the USPS is required to recognize the cost of these benefits, the problem is no other governments are required to. There’s a reason only taxpayer funded entities offer retiree healthcare benefits, and that’s because it’s a ludicrously costly benefit to give if you don’t have the power to tax.

The same applies to defined benefit pensions. If anything, all other entities promising defined benefit and retiree healthcare benefits should be subject to the same laws. Maybe then, politicians and current taxpayers wouldn’t be able to steal from future taxpayers for today’s labor costs.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-usps-losing-money-because-...
This is so awesome. Let me customize my guy.

EDIT: You could develop this into a full-blown virtual movie theater experience. Add a snack bar and rows of seats. Maybe you could even sell virtual popcorn to people.
We still need someone to do it.
I'm directly refuting a substance-free political assertion ("flame"). You're sea-lioning.
We both know that 100 of those came out as soon as the original started making money!
"Like having a pool with a 'peeing section'" is how I've read this piecemeal approach described.
Why do you love the Urbit system? What applications are you currently using it for? Why did you choose it over an alternative?
https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/visitation.htm

April is when visits ramp up.
Sometimes it isn't as nefarious as convincing people to buy a product they wouldn't normally buy, and simply just showing the right people that your product exists.
Didn't Holland and other central European countries privatize their mail systems? Maybe HN users from those areas could share their perspectives.
I can see your point but I disagree with it. There is nothing wrong with having a "winner" in a debate competition so long as you have good judging standards towards what constitutes winning. Winning should be about having a well thought out and defended argument. It should be about being able to address the points someone makes with relevant counter points. It should be about being able to articulate your position well enough to convince someone else that it's the best choice. Competitive debate also serves to make you look at both sides of an issue and be able to understand them well enough to make arguments for either side. You have to argue successfully on both sides to win a competition. I think teaching children to be able to weigh both sides of an issue is something we could use more of, not less. I think a well structured debate competition can serve as an educational opportunity to steer kids away from the sort of behavior that you are advocating against.
Probably related: all of the ads I’m being shown on Facebook and Instagram the last few weeks are really low quality. I’m assuming the ad inventory is really low right now and therefore rates have plummeted, making ads for sketchy products more cost effective. I think the quality of YouTube ads has gone down as well, but it’s not nearly as bad as Facebook and Instagram.
Is there a way to install the v1 release candidate with brew on Mac?
I see what you're getting at, but a virus that can infect everyone and easily spread is impossible to use in any sort of directed way. A student could easily catch it from another student at school, then go home and infect their father, who may be an older high-ranking CCP official, for example. It does way more than discourage large gatherings, kills pretty indiscriminately (beyond some factors like age and history of smoking), and of course is a massive hit to the economy and society as a whole. And it'd also be very likely to spread to the rest of the world.

It'd be like trying to deal with overpopulation by setting a computer program to randomly select 20 of your own population centers to nuke, then launching nukes. Then a week later choosing other random cities around the world to nuke. Plus, it'd probably be discovered eventually, and would obviously be the most severe pre-emptive act of war ever known. It would inevitably cause WWIII, leading to much more death and chaos. It's a completely illogical and self-destructive strategy.

Now, if it were a virus that, say, couldn't infect those with a gene found in all Han Chinese people, and which isn't found in any other groups, that would be worthy of some investigation. Or only infected Uyghurs.

I know this is just playing Devil's advocate, but I think the odds are so low as to essentially be zero, unless the CCP has some sort of bizarre motivation that's extremely distant from nearly everyone else's motivation (like trying to end the world and make humans extinct).
aren't you mixing models of reality here ? You're describing a universe in which there's free will and determinism, somehow combined with many-worlds. It's hard to follow such hypercounterfactual logic
This was my thought as well. It is a desirable incremental move toward a regional definition of statehood.

For those unfamiliar, Cascadia is an independence movement around the NW bioregion of the United States:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movemen...

Edit to add more info:

While many Pacific NW folks are not familiar with Cascadia as an independence movement, fans of the Portland, Oregon soccer (football) team Portland Timbers often carry or fly the Cascadia independence movement's flag during games. Shown on the right side of this giant tifo:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/jun/28/portla...
In a post fossil fuel economy, and assuming CO2 from concrete manufacture is captured, CO2 emissions are zero.

The question of CO2 emission before then, as fossil fuels are being phased out, is less important. During that process the better question is how much CO2 emission can be avoided per $ invested. By that metric, renewables will be much better than new nuclear.
Every time I watch this video, I get a sense of existential crisis. Another cool video that relaxes me is this one [0]. It feeds another type of Turing complete cellular automaton called Rule 110 [1] into Game of Life.

[0] https://youtu.be/P2uhhAXd7PI

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
Meanwhile, 7 northeastern states are forming a "multi-state council"
Also relevant is that the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware made a similar pact today.

Edit: Massachusetts has also joined this pact as well (I thought it was surprising that it hadn't when I first read the news).
The USPS has been secretly recording to and from information and handing it over to feds for decades.
I love the United States' flexible decentralized model. Different states have sufficient autonomy to tinker and try different approaches, allowing the best ideas to emerge from the collective. It's one reason why the US is such a dynamic place, similar to Europe but with the additional benefit of unified language, culture (broadly), economy, and high level regulations.

It's truly a great system.
I don't agree with it.

A good deal of complex software is abstracting away on existing complex systems that you run on. without understanding the underlying system, you can make guesses about what something is doing but that wouldn't be ideal always.

For example, package management.
Your package manager might verify the files, check for existing configuration, setup permissions, directories, do dependency resolution, and lot more.

In practice, it is just package manager install something.

How will you modify the package manager without understanding what exactly is it abstracting away from you?
> Stop scapegoating landlords

If rent collection at the very top, above the landlord, above the management company, if they have to take the hit from this the most, there will be many less recessions.
If the bank, credit cards and mortgage owners have payments suspended in recessions, there would be many less recessions.

If the top of the chain, that is the elusive 'trickle down' source, felt the pain for recessions the most, there would be many less recessions.

If 'too big to fail' banks and companies were immediately broken up on commencement of recessions, there would be many less recessions.

If you let the bottom just suck it up, extract all value and wealth from them while they take the hit and are the value creators and workers, then there will be many more recessions and incentives to go bigger every single time.

Stop incentivizing bigger and bigger recessions and companies that get 'bailout big' from 'too big to fail'.

It is only going to get worse if the top doesn't feel the pain, instead they gain with the current setup. This isn't a normal market, you can't put it on the bottom again. We shouldn't only care about the rent-seekers, they add little value and the assets still exist if they change. We should be focused on the value creators, workers and consumers, not just the value extractors and rent-seekers.

Incentives and regulations drive markets to targets, set the targets better, and take the target off the backs of the lower/middle class.

Markets are garden, they mostly just grow, but it takes some maintenance. The in trouble lower/middle should be brought up and focused on, the massively growing top should be scaled back or harvested regularly.

If you run any projects or have any game designs for markets, you know this is something that requires maintenance and balance, not inequality. Life is a free to play game, whales should provide most of the funds for a good game design for all.

More in this comment so I don't have to repeat it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852799
The same laws I described, along with pricing. While the laws don't directly prohibit private delivery to those areas, they greatly reduce the economic incentive to do so by (1) prohibiting delivery to regular mailboxes and, (2) allowing USPS to charge such low rates so as to lose money on every delivery (no one can compete with that).
It's more of a network effect though that keeps me using prettier. These days I end up using prettier in codebases so my code looks like everyone else's, not just so it's self-consistent. It just makes it easier to read.

You're right though if Rome has a formatter that looks nice I suppose I wouldn't care, but at that point it's sort of like why not just use prettier?
Six Eastern States Ally to Reopen Economy
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You can also hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-e to edit the command line in your preferred text editor, and run it when saved and closed in the editor. So you can type the mv, tab-complete the current filename, and use the editor for the new filename.
Coronavirus could attack immune system like HIV by targeting protective cells
I think you're correct, but the announcement is still welcome. People are gonna be waiting forever for any semblance of federal guidance, so at least these 3 states has decided they'll make calls together.
You're not the only one who has had the same immediate take.
The art of getting stuff going (2017)
Angled Jacks
I've not used it, but Adguard also has an ad blocking DNS[0].

[0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
I would like to see a fee for unsolicited bulk mail senders to help pay for the service, along with a "do not mail" list.

I would prefer that nobody subsidies the delivery of landfill to my mailbox.
There are countries, this may or may not include the USA, please forgive my ignorance, where only sellers of "essential" goods/services and their suppliers have been allowed to operate during lockdown.

During this time what is the motivation for companies to spend on internet advertising for "non-essential" goods/services.

The longer consumers are given to adapt to a lifestyle of purchasing only "essential" goods/services, spending more time with family, cooking for themselves, staying local, enjoying simpler, less expensive pleasures and leaving a lighter environmental footprint, how susceptible will they be, in the long-term, to internet advertising that aims to motivate them to purchase non-essential goods/services.

Perhaps it is only temporary, but lockdowns are providing a paradigm shift away from internet advertising and toward increased non-commercial use of the internet.

Those who advocate web advertising as necessary in order to support a functioning internet may have to change their arguments in the event that the internet does not become "useless" as advertising spend decreases.
Sounds like you've never had a flyer stuck under your windshield wiper, then :)

My point, though, is that the "unsolicited advertisement" functionality of USPS is minor compared to its significance as America's top parcel carrier, and to write off USPS as "just a source of junk mail" is throwing not only the baby, but also the tub and half the house, out with the bathwater.
best revision of MDHP is https://satoshis.place/ because it replaced the payment rails with lightning for instant gratification and lets you over wright stuff for a never ending income stream, and paid responses.
Statistically reliable purchases studies are very challenging. People have multiple credit cards and sometimes pay cash. If you are buying a car you don't put it on the credit card. Additionally, you have multiple cookies/MAIDS that may or may not be associate with the same person/credit card. Even companies with Google or Facebook resources can't get this to work reliably. If it is a direct response advertiser, of course, you tell Google/Facebook that a purchase is made, but these advertisers are not the bulk of the market and many advertisers don't want to give Google that data.
Most definitely, which is why we mandate USPS to do it, even if at a loss. They are not a business, they are a transportation utility.
Tubulin as diagnostic marker of depression and antidepressant treatment target [pdf]
What percent of YouTube's revenue goes to YouTubers?
Indeed, the original site had many copycats, most of them a 1:1 copy but with a different name, like the million (British) pound site, or the million cents one, but none of them had the novelty, which was the thing that got the original page news coverage and fame...
Well, that was quick.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22828354

Today it is pandemic resolution. I fear that tomorrow, it might be economic ties, lockstep voting at the federal level, and National Guard drills, deployments, and contingency planning, where the West Coast slowly splits away from the rest of the country, with other states teaming up and following suit.

This isn't the end, and it's the only appropriate response to a federal government that cannot or will not execute on behalf of all states. It is, however, a reflection of the true state of our Union, and a sign of things to come if we don't reconcile our national identity.

I'm saddened, but not surprised, that a step like this was necessary given the circumstances.
I found \h by trial and error
I'm not sure why this is downvoted, as it is correct.

https://apnews.com/c90b24e60a4853cebe96ec995b626f9b
If wonder if Barr will sue, arguing that the pact violates the Interstate Compact Clause, especially considering that Trump has recently tweeted that only he gets to decide when to lift restrictions.
Minor nitpick for the second case:

mv foo-bar{,-baz}.txt
Yes, he wanted to dodge responsibility for the unpleasant job of shutting things down. Now he wants to enjoy positive publicity for opening things back up.
That’s not what I asked but okay. Also the reference is what looks to be on some persons blog post.
Zsh users can instead add this to their .zshrc:

autoload copy-earlier-word
zle -N copy-earlier-word
bindkey '^[,' copy-earlier-word

Then it's the default Alt-dot to copy the final argument of the previous command, and Alt-comma to copy the final argument of the current command. The move command is then "mv filename <Alt-Comma>".

Also, given this:

echo 1 2 3
echo 4 5 6
echo 7 8 9

Then on the next command, Alt-dot will copy/replace 9→6→3. Pressing Alt-comma after Alt-dot will replace that with 8→7→echo.
Still a little skeptical of the layout. but i've already found two cool sites that i wouldn't have known of before

- https://polypane.app/

- https://www.hackerpaper.com/
>It's easier to keep a phone number or email address active for many years, but an address for a large percentage of the population is temporary.

Working with low-income folks daily, this is not true in total. We have to check phone numbers and e-mail addresses every time we interact with our clients, because they cycle through them almost monthly. Physical addresses tend to change annually.

>And public libraries provide internet access for those who don't have it otherwise.

There is no public library with internet access within 100 miles of my current address.

>How is an essential government service entirely ad-supported like USPS is?

They're not entirely ad supported?

>I just think all these arguments about how essential it is to the fabric of modern society are bit outdated.

And this is my take - your view is of a young, middle- to upper-middle-class person with no problems accessing the modern world today. For poor people, for rural people, the mail is essential. I receive all of my bills via mail, because the internet is so bad here. My bank does not offer bill-payment, and I don't want to link my bank account to a third party site, outside of using my bank to auto bill pay, if that's even an option.
It's an idea that's past it's prime. Weekly delivery is all anyone needs, it's all junk mail anyway
It’s the economic core of Cascadia. It’s a necessary thing.
This is great work! Really simple but well executed idea.
Maybe by quantity, but certainly not by volume, weight, or dollar value / revenue.
MA joined in as well on that pact
> I find it a little strange that Cloudflare would support RDP? Shouldn't RDP be used solely behind a VPN, much like other services Cloudflare already offers?

Of course. But...

As we both know, people have running RDP on the standard port, wide open, with zero firewalling or other access controls since the beginning of time and continue to do so regardless of "common sense", best practices, or anyone suggesting that maybe they shouldn't.

At some point, it doesn't take much to decide, "Well, if they're gonna do it anyways, we might as well try to make a dollar off of it".
Since Cascadia does not exist, compromise to include northern California is possible. The proposed Pacific State Jefferson would likely join a successful independent Cascadia if only to have easier succession to its own state down the line.

Regardless, this can be seen as a shot in the arm toward Casacadia because it is a demonstration of cross-state regional cooperation that would be necessary to further an independence movement.
> it's just lying to get people to buy something

Much of the most effective advertising is honest and factual. For a discussion of this by one of the advertising greats, see the book "Ogilvy on Advertising." [0]

[0] https://amzn.to/2wGGovm
Your fears are very valid because we have already seen (prior to this formal coalition) the varying responses of states. Regarding your last sentence: I think there was a united group of all of the states waiting for central command and assistance which never truly materialized and now we have the states working together in the void.
Hi Pieter,

Thank you for sharing your story again.

I am one of your biggest admirers and you have been a constant source of inspiration for me for a very long time. I'm currently working on my MVP to do something similar to you.

Thank you so much for everything. Hope to catch up for coffee or something when it all clears.
I think this is a polite way of these states saying that they're not going to follow any 'national plan to reopen the economy' put out by the White House.
I’m not going to run a different browser for one application.

I don’t even install anything derived from Chrome in my computer, and I’m not going to change that policy.
Pretty clever little gimmick.

As a marketer, I can't imagine that there is a ton of long term value here. But it seems like that's baked in because it's a one time payment, and the prices are very reasonable.

There's also just enough customization options that I am already thinking of clever ways I could try to stand out.

This is like marketing catnip.
> That’s not what I asked but okay.

You asked what laws stopped them delivering mail to rural locations. You can't deliver mail anywhere, rural or otherwise, if you can't use the mailbox when you get there. That's the law you were asking about.

> Also the reference is what looks to be on some persons blog post.

Yes the blog explains the context around the law. Is this one better if you want to appeal to authority https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0...?
Using GUIDv4 presents an infinitesimal risk of collision, particularly given that GUIDv4 space is partitioned by the clock, and globally clocks are roughly synchronized.

It's the kind of edge case that you worry about when you are also optimistic that you might win the Powerball lottery in your lifetime. IOW: bad at math.
I've used Voltage for bank communication. Voltage messages are usually sent with prior notice (e.g., someone in regular email tells you they are going to use Voltage).

Chase is a large organization with multiple domains, including both chase.com and jpmchase.com.

I generally trust Voltage messages because they are typically received after another persons tells me to expect one, or I request one when transmitting PII or other secure data.

If you received this message out of the blue, do your due diligence. If your business is actually relying on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and you do business banking with Chase, you should already know what's going on here and continue the application.