skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular mail to a contact has circumstances where it can be searched:

The expectation that personal correspondence should remain private is centuries old. In the 1750s, for example, Postmaster Benjamin Franklin instituted a policy forbidding postmasters from reading individuals’ letters.

So it is dismaying that the Postal Service, the Inspection Service and the DOJ are not upfront with the public as to when they feel fit to open private mail.

https://www.rstreet.org/2014/11/19/yes-the-government-can-op...

Electronic mail does not enjoy enhanced protections over regular mail. Arguably, as electronic mail is sent through a chain of third parties without an envelope, the expectation of privacy is less.

Email is like postcards: “privacy” depends on being one in a sea of items, and a postal worker averting their eyes.
> I want to know why these folks won't LEAVE shitty redneck states and head to places with more opportunity.

Sometimes you just don't know any better, or you're stuck for what ever other reason. I am 100% certain if it was easier to walk away from situations, anyone really would.

Regardless, congratulations on being sober for 22 years.
Somehow New Zealand is a special country with principles of freedom. I failed see that how it is culturally fundamentally different from other western nations.

IMO, the acceptance is mostly linked to the effectiveness of the initial implementations of the lockdowns. And the effectiveness is seemingly only determined by the initial strategies. Countries which went for elimination/eradication had better outcome, and thus higher lockdown acceptance. In countries which went on flattening the curve, people had the same (if not more/longer) disturbance, but less success (more deaths).
The China tech bubble is bursting. That’s not a bad thing for investors
This is only me guessing, but I'd assume this kind of behaviour would be noted in his files as some kind of insubordination and used against him if he ever applied for parole or similar.
> Where in Europe you have lots of companies in lots of different markets

In Europe you have lots of companies in lots of limited local markets unable to grow out of them because they have no funding options available to them.
Long time user of Metabase, and I completely agree with the limitations on the visualisations being an issue.
It doesn't help that the cursive Cyrillic T looks like a Latin M.
Did they not provide a VPN config? Or was it something you were able to re-setup yourself?
Even with a rear-facing car seat behind you? I find it extremely uncomfortable, and even unsafe, if your knees are touching the dash and/or your head is touching the roof.

"Two cars colliding are safer than two SUVs colliding, it's simple physics. More energy = more damage, generally speaking."

There's also more energy absorbing material from the amount of energy the crumple zone can absorb. And the interior space make it less likely that it will crush you if the crumpling does extend into the cabin.

"There are 20 percent fewer deaths when two SUVs collide than when two cars collide."

This is an older article with some outdated info (like A pillars are larger and impact zones on cars have gotten higher), but this seems to refute your claim.

https://issues.org/graham/
An European founder could do the same, hire only self-employed contractors.

However, e.g. in Germany, that's only possible if the contractors work independently and have more than one customer long-term.
I guess someone will notice eventually?
Well... Jesus is also old testament God.

People popularly think he is more forgiving than he is, in new testament (he isn't, for example he explicitly says he "brings the sword", he more than once displays he is at least annoyed with people, and the famous passages about giving the other face and so on are more about civil disobedience than forgiveness)

And people like to portray old testament God as unforgiving (he isn't either. he did forgive people a bunch of times, and was very patient, and some of episodes that understood today as cruel, were necessary for one reason or another, for example when he told Israelites to execute the children of their enemies after a particular battle, the reason for that is the battle happened in the middle of the desert in a place with not enough food for both groups, it was either execution or abandon them to starve on the desert on their own).
Then they will experience pain at some point, and that pain will cause them to seek out ways to not have that pain in the future.

Ask anyone who makes diligent backups why they do it. You will hear a story of pain that taught them.

This is sadly just how most humans work.
For the guy I knew who was into flat earth, the signal was that the scientific establishment sometimes lied to him and he didn't have the resources to know when it was and wasn't telling the truth. He didn't seem that interested in the fact that I, a friend he trusted completely, did have those resources in this specific case. Given that behavior, I am not sure how much he really believed the earth was actually flat. Even if he didn't trust the system, he should have been able to trust me. That leads me to think it was about the system, not the literal truth of the matter. It was a statement of distrust in the face of an inability to personally verify, an attitude many of us share when it comes to such things as governments and corporations. It is perfectly true that the scientific establishment does get it wrong sometimes, which must be very creepy when you know you can't tell. For this individual, I think flat earth was an objection and a demonstration of how much trust had been lost and how powerless he was and how impossible it was to establish belief without trust even in such a simple case.

I think the topic of the flat earth, like the topic of the faked moon landings, is not chosen because the evidence is particularly convincing in these cases. It is a shot directly at things perceived to be sacred to science. An insult out of rebellion, not an intellectual assessment of the sufficiency of evidence. I do wonder how much of this psychology plays into the vaccine issue, that also having big elements of perceived sacredness to the distrusted establishment.

Anyway, this is is not the only person I know who is into such egregiously anti-scientific theories. I can think of one other guy in the same boat, and he also is coming from a similar psychological place: not that smart, not that well educated, knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the establishment sometimes lies, chooses intellectual rebellion over powerlessness. I am not sure how seriously he believes this stuff either. I am not sure he even knows. I don't think that's the point.

There certainly is a truth to the creepiness of both the intellectual power imbalance and the occasional betrayal of trust. I can feel it too, in fields I don't have time to critique closely.

And indeed, even for those of us who don't go quite so far as to shake our fist in defiance and declare unbelief, the idea of this power imbalance being both extreme and sometimes possibly sinister is so well embedded in the consciousness that it is a recurring trope in our mythology. Dangerous, possibly sinister scientific research, hidden from the public by either lies or intellectual impenetrability, is an extremely common premise in fiction. It reflects this same reality. Perhaps we keep it to fiction, but the stories wouldn't work if we didn't feel it too. A thousand years ago, in Beowulf, Grendel is the product of a curse from God. That made a story work back then. Our monsters now escape from government labs. This tells you something about us, about something we all sort of seriously perceive and fear.

This is the signal behind the conspiracy.
That's due to ACA, which is only about 7 years old and has an uncertain future. The cancer survival rates are a few percentage points better in the US than many other countries, but this is not uniform and still depends upon your level of insurance. If you are uninsured or underinsured your survival rate is significantly less than if you are fully insured.

The "everything plus the kitchen sink" approach isn't ideal in all scenarios and the US healthcare system has a high level of overtreatment, often with potentially harmful interventions. It also pushes up the cost for everyone.

However there are economic models that provide for a high level of universal healthcare equal to what the US has now and also cost less than the US spends right now. The difference is that is moves from a combination of clear personal cost and obfuscated public costs, to purely public costs and many in the US seem opposed to that relatively minor shift. It also means the politicians are even more responsible for their society's healthcare and I imagine many of them don't want that responsibility.
> helsinki, stockholm, berlin, amsterdam, etc you’re talking 5X less salary than in Silicon Valley.

Certainly not for the same seniority level (and not considering stocks, which people in those places do get)

Or you're telling me that someone making 60kEUR in Berlin could be transferred to SV and their salary would immediately flip to $300k on the payslip? (no promotions/stock/etc)

Realistically, more like 2x, 2.5x, 3x if we're stretching it for the mentioned cities

> Given the tech talent in those cities, there must be some arbitrage opportunity there.

Absolutely ;) Though on SV salaries you're getting paid for the less PTO, the stretched hours, etc so probably not such a big arbitrage
As IBM i would worry that might eat into z (mainframe buisness) profits.
>allows them to keep costs manageable

~$400M/year, for a company with negative income so far
@dang: sdf.org is a multi-tenant domain. It would be nice if HN's site link would treat it as such, i.e.:

- /from?site=thomask.sdf.org

- not /from?site=sdf.org
> . “Buy” says you literally are buying the home

As they said, with leasehold or some things with freehold it's not quite so simple.

I used to have a leasehold house, which I "bought" but also sort of rented, or at least rented-ish the land while owning-ish what was within the bricks.

I have a freehold house now, but there are restrictive covenants which technically govern what I am allowed to do to my own property (these are not council/etc permissions but private ones).
> It’s a very different situation than Microsoft’s antitrust in the 90s, where consumers strongly supported the antitrust actions.

Customers mostly didn't care about Microsoft antitrust trial in the 90s either. It was mostly affecting third party developpers and companies selling computers. The situation is not particularly dissimilar except Microsoft had a clear monopoly while Apple and Google are a duopoly and Apple is seen as a lifestyle brand to defend by a rabid minority of its customers while Microsoft was strictly seen as a tech company then.
What a horrific article. This is showing me that I am naive in a lot of ways - how much suffering is our society built on?
> I want to know why these folks won't LEAVE shitty redneck states and head to places with more opportunity.

Friends, family, fear.
They become so after 5 years, and we yet to see them falling like rain after that period
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I used trackballs for a longtime until my favorite and discontinued Logitech one eventually gave out.

I didn't like any of the current ones on the market and, by that time, there were trackpads on the market, at least the ones for Macs, that I actively liked rather than barely, if that, tolerated.
It's not just "a" private company, it's the private company which sold you the device.
I kind of agree, it's better to have generics from the start (we'll see if there are difficulties added), and the error handling was rejected. But the fact that those proposals have been proposed, discussed, studied and for one of them accepted show that the language can evolve.
Switzerland even has four official languages :)

If the US had as many official languages per capita, it would have over 150.
Just because you filled in a form doesn't mean a human looked at it.

They could automatically approve/reject and store the form in case they need to review it later.
Science works very well for things like not getting sick, understanding physical phenomena or getting to the moon. But for some goals like being happy, finding meaning in life or cooking a tasty meal science is only of limited use.

Also I don't think the author necessarily proposes to replace science, but rather being aware of the limits of science. There is no one scientific or rational way of coming up with scientific hypotheses or determining how to apply scientific discoveries best to the real world. There is always a gap between the ideal world of science and reality.
send the mods an email (link is in the page footer) instead of hoping they randomly see your comment
Information like this reveals just how fundamentally unserious the search for pandemic origins is. All of the energy around it from all sides is about crafting politically advantageous narratives, not uncovering factual evidence to help prevent the next pandemic.

If the information in this article is true, then it shows an extremely geographically dispersed and low level of infection across the US in December of 2019. This is notably different from the pandemic pattern in China where illness was extremely concentrated in Hubei province with limited and mostly contact traceable chains of infection leading back to Hubei in other provinces.

My completely unscientific WAG is that the zoonotic origin of the virus could have happened anywhere in the world and the virus was circulating worldwide at low levels, undetected for months before Dec 2019. Some mutation of the virus happened in Wuhan in Dec 2019 that caused it to explode across Hubei. Another mutation happened in Europe to cause the D614G strain that spread across the world and then another mutation in India caused the Delta variant that we have today.

We've seen that each successive mutation effectively wipes the previous one off the map over the course of about 2 months. This coupled with early testing in other countries being restricted only to those with travel history to China means we lost key parts of the evidence. This would explain why animal testing in China failed to find the origin of the virus and how we have so many puzzling (frustratingly ambiguous) reports of early COVID (in France, Italy, Brazil, the US) that complicate the timeline.

The media has been shockingly complicit in not airing the totality of the early covid evidence. eg: 3 deer were recently found with COVID antibodies across different states in the US in Jan 2020 but this news barely made a ripple: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wild-us-d...
From Wikipedia:

>A big-endian system stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address and the least significant byte at the largest. A little-endian system, in contrast, stores the least-significant byte at the smallest address.

So if you count the address "fields" from top to bottom in ascending order, putting the country first and street address last would be big-endian. If you put the street address first and the country last, that'd be little-endian.

Yeah it doesn't make that much sense to me either.
A huge amount of western industrialized life is built upon wage slavery, the constant threat of being made homeless at gunpoint if one does not work long hours at a completely shitty job.

It takes a LOT of garbage haulers, floor sweepers, line cooks, dishwashers, and the like to keep our society humming along.

It's ostensibly voluntary, so not the same thing as in TFA, but close.

There is also a huge amount of slave labor used in the US's world-leading prison population. Slavery was never really abolished in the US, just limited to prisoners. Correspondingly, the number of black people in prison skyrocketed.
I'd go further than that, using Jesus's name to enslave and abuse for the benefit of private companies is nothing short of blasphemous.

I have a lot of time for Jesus's teachings, but no time for institutions using his name as an instrument of control and abuse. Would the man who famously threw the merchants and money-changers out of the temple and went to his death with the intention of attaining forgiveness for all mankind want abusive slave camps built in his name? The mental gymnastics required to make that work would be worthy of Olympic gold. I hope the people behind this awful system really do have a powerful spiritual/religious experience and seek forgiveness for the horrors they've inflicted on their fellow human beings.
> This seems a very strange observation to make about London.

It was an observation about the UK.
The 'science' isn't conclusive that salts of glyphosate are harmful to insects. Please stop with your anecdotal experiential evidence. Hopefully you've been in the 'home of the brave' long enough to get sarcasm.
The whole bible is about liberation from slavery (of sin) and quite clear about being against slavery (physical).

Read of Israel's salvation from Egyptian slavery? Joseph? Limits on slavery (7 year max) because people were too stubborn to accept not having slaves. The year of Jubilee?
You consider a few thousand satellites hundreds of miles above the surface of the earth to be litter, but the existing network of cables is beneath your notice? The internet is a web of copper, plastic, and glass that literally touches every place on Earth. It’s like a fungus that grows beneath our feet and over our heads.
RMS?
Genesis EV can be charged without a plug
And not having an immune response can turn you into a little mutation factory.

https://www.biospace.com/article/south-african-hiv-patient-w...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-1461_article
I used to think so as well, but someone pointed out to me that Germany has a similar % of public sector jobs as the USA, and Spain is not that much higher, and all seem to be shrinking. Belgium on the other hand seems to be stable at 21% (21.5% 2013, 21.1% 2019) so it would seem to fit the hypothesis :-). I still think that it's a contributing factor, but perhaps it's more of a symptom and less of a factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_se...
Agreed, but aren't there ways not to be a Christian?

What Janet Wilkerson is doing goes against every quote I've heard in the Bible about Jesus. Love thy neighbor, do unto others as others would do unto you and more.

Christianity has a code of ethics, they vary by interpretation, but what Wilkerson is doing is so out of the mainstream that I'm giving her a red card. Same with Westboro Baptists and the other televangelists that cloak themselves in religion as a tool to rake in cash.
My guess is that Apple will say: “You’re free to root it and do what you want, but we don’t cover that with a warranty.”

In that sense, you do own an Apple product. But if you want to stay in their nice little walled garden, that ownership is more like buying a house that comes with a benevolent dictatorship HSA.
VIM bindings everywhere, not only for text editing but for all core editor functions.
The company needs not to be shut down, but could, for example, be acquired by Bain Capital.
I am not a Christian, but the Bible is quite clear that forgiveness is conditional.

"Go and sin no more."

"Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth."

Also, if you reject the Old Testament then you cannot accept the New:

"Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil."
Maybe these days that should be updated to "(only) Eight Megs and Consistently Snappy"
I think you're missing my point.

I understand being banned from <<starting a new business>> after failing repeatedly. A bit extreme, but ok, it makes sense a bit. But he was saying he was banned from <<getting a bank account>> due to that.

It is extremely unlikely that you won't be able to get a simple checking/deposit account at a commercial bank just because you went bankrupt.
Exactly, it should use the same process as other “advanced” features like payments or push notifications: you toggle a flag in the app entitlements file, it works by default for local development, but you can’t distribute on the App Store without a review.
Aggregate results are being disclosed to health officials?
I would also guess they don't give a fuck about the night sky either.
That only talks about strength, not muscle mass.

Also there is a difference in what kinds of muscle fibers are added, and which are removed or replaced by others. Some are better for endurance, others more for peak strength.

My main point is that it is impossible to gain muscle mass faster than you can loose body fat with a proper diet. A proper weight loss in my opinion starts at one kg a week. Extremely obese people should, with medical consultation, aim much higher, though. There is no way you can gain 52kg of muscle mass in a year. Also for shorter periods it doesn't add up.
Same here. After trying every alternative ergo mouse on the market I landed on a trackball and I love it. It has no wrist movement so makes all those ergo mice decisions irrelevant and it quickly becomes second nature and feels faster than using a traditional mouse. Agreed fps games are weird but on the few games I can’t use a controller it actually works pretty well and more than enough for my needs.

Also yes the sofa usage is awesome. Didn’t even think about this being an advantage, but I do it all the time
Indeed, until recently I lived in a freehold house which had a covenant saying my hedge could be no higher than 4' high, couldn't change the colour of my front door, couldn't park a van on my drive, that I had to pay a specified private company money each year to do various things, with no say over that company.

The term "buy", at least in the UK when it comes to housing, is a sliding scale.
>No reason to repeat mistakes. The whole point of Unicode was to fix it all.

The whole point of Unicode was to be The One True Encoding that served as a superset of all the others, so that anything expressible in any other character set could be expressed identically in it (after mapping code points, of course).
“Turns Out the Hardest Part of Making a Game Is Everything”
> "even if the vaccine has terrible side effects, we will take care of you as well as we can and as well as you could wish, even if the side effects are exctremely rare"

I don’t think this will work, because if it did then people would be taking the vaccine right now.

The issue is multi-faceted of course, but the discussion of “extremely rare events” is a red herring and a wink wink to vaccine skepticism.

It’s like why would we even talk about these extremely rare events and taking care of someone if those events happen, when instead they’re millions of times more likely to suffer from Covid-19? I mean why aren’t you saying “if you drive to the clinic to get a vaccine and get in a car wreck we’ll take care of you” when that is far more likely to occur? Let alone any number of other things like walking outside and getting struck by lightning.

The probabilistic case for the vaccine is well beyond settled and even if there was some long-term unknown boogeyman vaccine issue that for some reason causes this vaccine (even the “natural” JnJ one) to behave unlike any other vaccine you would still get the vaccine because of the known probabilities of contracting and suffering/dying from Covid-19 versus an unknown and unknowable probability of some unknown thing occurring at an unknown future date.
Welcome to the USA. This sort is story is common there.
Pinterest voluntarily entered this agreement, which provides better pricing in exchange for committed use - an offer AWS provides to many of its customers. This is a highly sensationalized headline.
Really lame to leave out the “through 2029” part in the title. Take those sleazy clickbait talents to Buzzfeed.
> I guess it’s like buying a house in a gated community with very strict home owners association

So it is buying then.