skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can come back from it - other companies have. Do we even remember the scandals Nesle and Monsanto (etc) have weathered? And don't forget that Pfizer and Moderna have been given immunity against any side effects from their COVID treatments.

If there's any long term effects, the drug companies are well insulated from any blowback.
Choice quote:

> In my tests, I found that wireless charging used, on average, around 47% more power than a cable.
Subjectless photographs.
For large installations where land is plentiful, it comes out that way. In other conditions, it might not be the case?
The role those fill isn't that different from scooters, which are common in a lot of places. The traditional solution is to let them crowd the road, slowing car traffic and incentivizing using more scooters and other vehicles better able to navigate the congestion.

I am genuinely sincerely in favor of this. It's inelegant but effective. Driving a car should be more frustrating and uncomfortable than it currently is in the US. Giving slight advantages to slower, non-car road traffic can improve safety and increase the costs of driving over other options, which is long term good.
> Meanwhile, Apple or their "third-party provider" could of course play this game, but historically tech companies have been super uninterested in doing this.

Apple notoriously "extorts" developers to be in the app store.

> Basically, what everyone wants is for companies like T-Mobile to be a dumb pipe. They invested in spectrum and a network, and they should just lease that network for cost + profit margin.

I don't think you've considered the alternatives if T-Mobile can no longer monetize traffic:

* Go back to subscribers pay per kb usage

* Eat the costs themselves

* Raise cost of mobile data plans

> Can you imagine what it would be like if other utilities did this kind of shit?

They side step this problem by charging per-use. During peak demand, prices go up. Each customer pays their share. Downside see Texas snowstorm.
By specifying Crimea and ruling out existing payment structures for journalism based around traditional banking like Substack or Patreon, you imply that the journalist in question is in some way committing an illegal or transgressive act that requires a degree of anonymity from governmental authorities.
Show your math on 0.2%. This does not appear to hold true for any country I can think of off the top of my head. US and Canada are somewhere around 1.3-1.5% last I checked.
> When I stand up, my heart skips another beat. Weird. This is getting annoying, I think to myself.

Wow, I can relate. Had some tests done because I was having so many palpitations I couldn't sleep. Multiple per hour. They became far worse whenever I shifted positions (standing -> laying down, vice versa). I've always had some infrequent palpitations, but those scared me. Tests, as usual, didn't catch anything. Only reason my doctor even saw something is that I managed to capture some with the Apple watch.

This was even during a break so it wasn't even work-related stress.

I was drinking a whole lot of caffeine (couple of big mugs) plus maybe 1L of Earl Gray tea.

I cut caffeine - palpitations got _worse_ (initially). Then they subsided. It's been one year. I even went back to some coffee again. There seems to be a threshold.
I was once looking to see if there were any projects or discussions regarding <insert niche domain> via the google search "<niche domain> Hacker News". I clicked on the top link because, read the comment, and was annoyed that it didn't actually address the <niche> things I wanted it to.

Then I realized I wrote the comment. I didn't address the <niche> things because I was looking for it then and I'm stilling looking for it.
You make good points for why it does not have to be the way it is. I agree there should be no constraint on higher density housing. Hopefully, people come around to this and supply of housing increases!
In the article:
"Now, in addition to some carriers in Europe, it appears that T-Mobile/Sprint in the United States is also blocking iCloud Private Relay access when connected to cellular data."
> People enjoy ownership and power.

What "ownership" and "power?" Discord controls it all.
Same reasoning here, my back is not well and even though I am starting physiotherapy in a few days, I am looking for a setup I can actively practice from a couch-like position. Even bought a very nice and sturdy (and comfy) folding bed. And will soon order a lap desk.

Makes me a bit salty because the Steelcase Gesture is an absolutely EXCELLENT chair and I paid a lot for it but... health is more important. Hopefully I will be using it more in the future if my physiotherapy progresses well.

Thank you for the anecdote. I am pondering Manjaro with XFCE but might look at KDE Plasma as well; a lot of people praise it.
>"There’s likely not much that Apple can do here, but it underscores another limitation of Private Relay as a feature as well as the power that carriers hold."

Doesn't Apple have a lot that can do there? Wouldn't there be TOS set by Apple that would cover interfering with functionality? I would hope apple would flex some muscle here as this would otherwise set a new dismal precedent where features were only available on a carrier by carrier basis. At one time T-Mobile seemed to try to cultivate a pro-customer perception. I guess those days are long over?
EU regulations aren't necessarily designed for privacy, they're designed to troll US tech companies. Covering the screen in cookie dialog boxes didn't accomplish much.

One of the upcoming ones seems to just ban Kickstarter.
I have one across the street. Slightly less great when the birds eat the berries and your deck, house, sidewalk, and cars are covered in splotches of purple dye all the time.
We will know more in a month. Doesn't mean the news will be good.

JAMA article from last summer.[1] "Long COVID" is still hard to understand, but there are objective measurements, and they are not encouraging.

"Increased oxygen requirement was reported in nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 survivors (3 studies; median [IQR], 65.0% [39.3%-76.1%]). ... Overall, chest imaging abnormalities were present in a median (IQR) of 62.2% (45.8%-76.5%) of survivors (4 studies)."

That's from August 2021, so that's the original variant. Omicron, it's too soon to tell.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
The 1798 Sedition Act - during the second Presidency in the history of the country - expired in 1801. Which does a better job of debasing the point you're trying to make than supporting it. It was less than a blip.

> I think you might have a grandiose mental image of America’s past.

And your attempt to use the historically trivial 1798 Sedition Act in the manner that you did indicates you may have the opposite and mistaken mental image. If anything the US learned from the Sedition Act and became better for that very short-lived mistake.
And there may be hundreds of similarly "unique" marriage certificates sold, and the person you're supposedly married to has never even heard of you, yet you're absolutely convinced she's in love with you forever.
I would expect YC just to write off $500000k.

For a lawsuit against a founder the reputation risk to YC is high. YC needs to keep their reputation for integrity high with their founders, and any lawsuit against a dishonest founder has a high risk of negative perceptions against YC with extremely costly outcomes for YC (regardless of how unfair that might be). Founders have enough worries without the added fear that YC might sue them.

Also the opportunity cost of chasing a lawsuit is high: I would expect YC to focus their resources on their successful investments instead.
From Wikipedia...

> The foundation was started with an initial $50 million loan from Acton, who had left WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, in September 2017.[8] The Freedom of the Press Foundation had previously served as the Signal project's fiscal sponsor and continued to accept donations on behalf of the project while the foundation's non-profit status was pending.[4] By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured and at 0% interest.

Appears it wasn't an outright donation. I've always wondered about the details behind this. Don't think I've seen something like this before.
My read is that yes, they are vocal, but precisely because they are vocal it is easy to overestimate how numerous they are.
> My friend, you need to entertain the possibility that pharma companies would do be bad things...

Do you mean "be bad" or "do bad"? I'm quite aware pharma companies can do bad things, but that doesn't mean everything they do is bad, and in any case it's of limited relevance to the kind of conspiracy-theory implications about media coverage that are the topic here.
We have a chat box that pops up for all support, and offer support@bit.io. Both get routed to our Intercom instance, and both generate opsgenie alerts for some cases. We do an on-call rotation for answering the support requests.

We don't _yet_ do support on-call on the weekends.
Edited to better inflation-adjust what graduate students make; it's $30-40K these days :).
Occam's razor is that COVID-19 spreads in the outdoors.
I previously served as CTO of the FCC Enforcement Bureau. A couple thoughts on the regulatory dimensions of this report.

* This could be a Federal Trade Commission problem. T-Mobile, like all major ISPs, has made public representations about upholding net neutrality principles [1]. These voluntary commitments were part of the Trump-era FCC's rationale for repealing net neutrality rules. Breaching the commitments could constitute a deceptive business practice under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

* This could also be a Federal Communications Commission problem. When repealing the Obama-era net neutrality rules, the Trump-era FCC left in place a set of transparency requirements [2]. Making an inaccurate statement about network management practices can be actionable under that remaining component of the FCC's net neutrality rules.

I haven't seen a comment from T-Mobile, so to be clear, that's just based on the report.

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/responsibility/consumer-info/polici...

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
>If someone went around saying that your beliefs come from subconscious influence operations, is there any way you could prove them wrong?

I get the point you're making that this seems like an individually unfalsifiable proposition. Fair point. It would require massive amounts of data to show the arc of people's beliefs and I'm not certain it's a tractable problem.

That said, I already believe that many things I care about I only care about because they are issues that society (or rather members/organizations there within) dedicated time to considering. I think that discourse is inherently limited because attention span and time are limited and, as an extension, I believe that there are issues that most people/all people never think about but by metrics that we deem relative importance we'd find worth major consideration. I would give an example but you can understand the difficulty of describing something no one finds important that is important.

By extension of the above, I believe that organizations, through concerted effort, are able to crowd out the marketplace of ideas (either at societal level or at organization level) with issues that they deem less threatening to their interests, so long as they have hooks that draw attention. I don't think this idea is particularly unbelievable because we can see similar concepts outlined by even the government in the forms of documents suggesting how to disrupt organizations [1]. I think that this idea also dove tails quite clearly with the concept of propaganda and mass media influence like that discussed by Chomsky.

I would argue that there are many arguments that are valid (and sometimes valid from both sides) but at a societal level not productive. I think the American issue of abortion is a great example of this: would you agree that in 70 years of debating the issue, we as a society have made the implicit choice to not debate other issues? Not that we discuss nothing els, but certainly we'd have filled that time with some other issues if there had been a conclusive resolution on the issue. There is no resolution to the debate which is what makes it such an effective tool for politicians to rouse support, so why would they seek a longstanding resolution instead of this continue back and forth of the judiciary as members die and are added? I am happy to continue this conversation but I've rambled enough now and must work.

[1] https://corporate-rebels.com/cia-field-manual/
That would mean Google Fi VPN wouldn't work.

I was using my own always-on VPN w/ GrapheneOS on T-Mobile's network and was having tons of problems with calls and texts not getting through.
> By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT.

Tell me more....
Welcome to the internet. Some of it stems from exhaustion. People sense any sort of deviation from the official dogma and they assume you're another idiot who they'll end up arguing with. It's sad. There is a lot of nuance to many of our cherished positions and discussion strengthens the truth but many people just get offended by genuine curiosity.
I am guessing 'blocked_again' is from India, which means English is not their native language. Having to translate ones thoughts to a foreign language itself is hard, so I am with 'blocked_again' on this.
I always say: "Code happens."

Software quality cannot be pinned to a single individual. Software quality emerges from your software development process.

So, for me, it is more: "Who approved this shit?"
> crash an airplane full of people?

A bit too dramatic, no? If you could actually crash a plane with a laser there would 1000s of such attempts. In reality they just had to turn around and maybe let autopilot land it.

Same with drones - there hasn’t been a single accident yet people so overreact.
Your response inferred something from the OP that was clearly never implied. Nobody expects perfect knowledge of the future, and suggesting the OP was asking for that is (charitably) a snarky way of pointing out a logical inconsistency.

But pointing out the the messaging from the government has been, at best, muddled--and at worst, misleading, if not downright dishonest--you interpret as "anger"? I find that pretty disingenuous. You are again inferring that which is not implied.
No one would call it gouging. Gouging had to do either necessities in a time or of need. Not a manufacturer raising the price due to higher demand
> We're still very unclear on the long-term effects of COVID, after all.

And even less so the vaccines.

When your kids catch COVID they will have mild symptoms for a day or two and bounce back much faster than you or I. And yes it's a "when", not an "if". Vaccinating them against this virus is lunacy. There have been no long term studies on these shots.
Private relay doesn't apply to apps, only Safari. (though the app could use a web sheet)
Blockchain refers specifically to a linked-list-like data structure which utilizes cryptographic hashes at each node to store an authentication of the tail of the list on each head (node). If you have a similar structure using trees, it's a merkle tree. Replication + message signing does not imply either (necessarily).
...they throttle at the phone-number/SIM. Even with a VPN your phone is still auth'ing itself to the cell towers, and those towers know what device is sending which traffic.

What this prevents is allowing say Youtube to pay TMobile to never throttle their traffic.
I empathize with you. Don't worry; you're not alone in how you feel.
Now this is a case where I’d use a blockchain like Ethereum instead
> The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits.

The fact that they declare themselves center-left is not a violation of 501(c)(3)?
These deals are old. FaceTime when it came out was in the era of 3G. FaceTime over 3G could be a bandwidth hog.. and iPhones were not nearly as popular, so the negotiations were more give-and-take.
I encountered this word for the first time a couple of months ago and have been seeing it everywhere since.

For anyone in New York, there’s a pretty good art exhibit in Brooklyn about liminality called the Museum of Future Experience. (The museum might do other exhibits, but it’s been liminality for as long as I’ve known it).
This is also true outside of this in functions like finance. We inherited an important spreadsheet from the contingent finance team brought in to hold things together while the company went through a structural transition. The spreadsheets were horrible - bad logic, lots of “Easter eggs”(points where people hard coded a number in a sea of formulas number where you would have excepted a calculation which is very hard to catch), and just overall poor incremental design that didn’t take much into account except to fix an immediate problem.

It was a pain but all the collective griping and work to improve it made us stronger as a group and also made us way better excel designers.
I've seen enough already to know the risk reward isn't worth it for myself or my children. Myself and my immediate relatives suffered too many negative side effects. FIL still in ICU for stroke two weeks after vax, wife severe migraine for ninety days and me with blood clots.
4/10s is better than 5/8s, but I think the 4 day workweek movement is trying to reduce the hours worked to 32 hours as a matter of principle. The idea behind 5/8s was 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours sleep. For that lifestyle to work it assumed a wife at home doing a similar amount of work to keep the household running.

Now most families have both parents working 40 hours a week. Which means they're working for 8 hours, coming home and doing a bunch of chores, then going to sleep. Leisure activities are often done at the expense of sleep.

A 32 hour work week would give people back some of the leisure time they lost.
I think the CDC did as good as you could when you design by committee. I didn't have any trouble following their recommendations or logic. It was an ongoing problem with incomplete knowledge on their part. It's certainly better than what Fox News was spewing. Science is ugly, but it is self-correcting, Fox and antivax people are not. At least that's how I see it.
As an FYI to others who might jump to conclusions... my experience as a VC involved in several tech companies as well as a founder is that older people generally do not like to apply to work for early stage startups. The compensation and risk profile of early stage startups often does not appeal or work well for older developers.

Second to that, the number of software developers doubles approximately every 5 years, meaning that developers 40 years and older make up only about 20% of the workforce [1] [2]. The end result is that it's not unusual that older developers are not well represented at smaller tech companies and one should not jump to the conclusion that there is age discrimination on that basis alone.

[1] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2004/2004.05847.pdf

[2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
In a First, Man Receives a Heart from a Genetically Altered Pig
I had the delta variant a few months back and it was so mild, I first thought it was just allergies. 2nd day, got a little bit of a tingly nose, stuffy, couldn't quite smell, but could still taste fine. 3rd day, same symptoms, 4th day, I was almost better completely. Fast forward about 1.5 months after I had that Delta coronavirus variant, and I got bronchitis from my young daughter. My ears became stuffed up for weeks, I had a bad cough for nearly 20 days before it was out of my system. The Delta variant was nothing to me. Here's more of that "anecdata."
Suffering is bad. Abuse is bad. Enjoyment is good.

Suffering is inevitable, abuse is not. The best we can do in life is minimize abuse while maximizing enjoyment.

Meat is not immoral, abuse is. It's really that easy. Unfortunately, most meat comes from abused beings.
Still require SIM to sign up
> The bugs are not at fault here. The people who created the environment for them to thrive are.

And when species like this thrive in the native environment?
While I agree with your comment almost fully, I think it's a bit too early to judge Apple. They probably found out just a few days earlier than we did and are still weighing their options.
There's no avoiding it.
But that---a $50m donation from an individual, then sustaining the organization off investing that donation---is exactly what, whether it makes sense or not, a public charity in the US is usually not allowed to do. That would make it a private foundation in the eyes of the IRS.

With that said, if I'm interpreting their 2019 filing correctly, it appears that they are making enough in donations that they may have a legitimate claim to being able to eventually repay the loan, and they are now including imputed interest on the (interest-free) loan as revenue.
> Those refusing the vaccination are operating with the same level of information about long term effects as those that get it: none

When I create a website, hire someone, fire someone, etc., I have no knowledge of the decision’s long term effects. My one simple act could make the world a paradise or destroy it, but I have no evidence or reason to believe in either of those scenarios so I ignore it and focus on outcomes that seem reasonable given the information I have at the moment.

It’s fine to question the long term effects of a decision, but if you’re doing so with no information or insight, you are just randomly guessing.

So better than “what if X happens?” Is “what if Y causes X to happen because of Z?” Then we have the basis of a hypothesis that we can discuss.

In the veggie example: “What if eating veggies causes heart disease because of Z?” “Z” is where the beef is :)
Clarida to Resign from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
This topic had a major thread just a few weeks ago. We try to avoid too much repetition here, because it's not good for curiosity.

Popular projects often get submissions of every step of the release lifecycle, from major commits, to PRs, to merges into main branches, to alpha releases and beta releases and GA releases. These are all significant milestones for people who care about the project, and the project is deservedly popular! But from an HN point of view, they are distinctions without differences, because the underlying topic of discussion is always the same—the project in general.

I wrote a detailed explanation about just this sort of situation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428.

Further explanations at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Yes it does. It's curious since he's listed as the first owner on this, and just announced he was making an Excelchain (like CSVchain but with Excel -- the more technology the better I guess?)

Matt Levine is a great writer. I have little interest in finance but enjoy his newsletter immensely. Highly recommended.
Yeah, those poor emphatic NFT merchants. What’s next? Ridiculing MLM?
You spread it too. Assuming we're both vaccinated, we both spread it at an equal rate.
I accept the risk of sharing air with you. If you don't, in my opinion, it's your responsibility to avoid contacts with me.