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> The quarantine against chol era has been lifted in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Pravda re ported today, but Soviet travel organizations said they were still limiting travel to the city.

From the New York Times archive, 1970 [1]. The Soviet government quarantined Odessa in 1970 during the cholera outbreak in a rather cruel way - information about the outbreak was suppressed but since it was a popular vacation spot, people kept coming only to be trapped there [2]. It's hard to find much information on the event due to the iron curtain but I've heard several personal accounts and the similarities are striking.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/21/archives/cholera-quaranti...

[2] https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chorela-quarantine-odess... - My apologies for a long form article but search for "quarantine" deeper into it.
Unless you know some specifics that is not public, he would be leaving significant money on the table. That is, financially sacrificing. If a portion of salary is paid as RSU, that portion would have unvested portions carried over from prior years. My best guess would be that he is losing at least $50k until he closes the gap in about 2 to 3 years at the new job. of course the new job could pay him lot more, I am not ruling that out.

Give him credit for what he did. He is losing a lot more than us armchair pundits.
Imagine if all the people that are in a privileged position just say "fuck it, let's do something about it" how life would be better for all.
> There would be no Tesla without the EV1 (at least not as we know Tesla today).

Can you elaborate on that? How did the EV1 influence Tesla?
Can you advise us on how to change such systems from within?
Even peaceful protesters get at times attacked. Just last weekend a car drove into peaceful protesters twice in Portland, OR. A few months ago someone who regularly organized counter-protests against heavily armed, white supremacists protests got run over by a car and died as he left a pub known to be frequented by leftists.

Look at all the cases of unprovoked, retalitory police violence over the last week.

I understand why people are scared and want to stay anonymous. The US might not be run by the Nazi party or the CCP yet, but do I want to bet my safety that it won't in the next ten years or so? Especially given the trend over the last years.
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Maybe he wasn't threatening ("I'll shoot you" or "I'll order the police/army to shoot you") but instead warning ("violence might result in someone starting shooting").
What about just using Facebook for its chat features and ignoring the timeline altogether?

I use this even on desktop: http://m.facebook.com/messages

Alternatively you could bridge to Facebook from some more open system like Matrix or Bitlbee.
Did you get a quick hit of superiority when you agreed that "those" people are stupid, or did you consider that divisive?
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Ah I see now. Yes I could have extended the quotation. I was assuming the context was given by the start of the second paragraph:

> OSSFuzz has been reported bug 23003 against SQLite.
In German speaking countries this is a thing. It's bizarre, but there's a kind of unofficial meaning given to certain phrases in the reference letter.

Not sure anyone with a brain actually cares about it, but they do ask about it if you apply for a job.
Hmm, I guess I got the URL's wrong, and can't edit now:

https://gitlab.com/seclorum/groupie/

Works on Linux and Darwin, just type 'make'. ;)
Levels.fyi disagrees with you
and then perhaps only one comment per user per day - because some users may be more vocal than others, right ?

How about no ? Voting and Speech are separate issues, lets' not confound them
For the last one, worth mentioning CDPATH:

CDPATH The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for destination directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is ".:~:/usr".

This works with tab completion.
Somehow I thought Vietnam was a democratic country.
>reduce routing table sizes by using explicit AS routing

>that would require a decent network prefix to AS number lookup service

I don't see the advantage of this. All you're doing is offloading the routing table to every client device rather than at core routers only. Also, the "AS number lookup service" would be like a DNS request, which adds latency to every connection.

> - maybe reduce IPv6 address sizes to 64 bits

why? The only advantage I can think of is that it's easier to remember/enter for humans, which isn't really a good reason because there's DNS anyways.
What a pity, I was hoping to read the code and see what I could have improved in my implementation.
That’s not true at all. USPS offers notary services, passport services, money orders, and many other services besides.

The reason USPS is having financial troubles is because conservative extremists in the American government have put huge financial burdens on them like fully funding their medical plan 10 years in advance in a blatant attempt at bankrupting one of the few Federal agencies specifically enumerated in the Constitution so they can then sell this services to FedEx and UPS and make huge gains for shareholders.
First of all, I'm glad this person has seen the light and hopefully others that work at Facebook will see the light and stop working for this evil company.

With that out of the way though, I'm obligated to say that there have been many stages in the lifecycle of Facebook where one could have said "how could they do something this despicable" and leave for another "high impact" job, and it saddens me that things have to reach such a high boiling point (what with all the protests, riots, and so on going on in the US) in order for people to actually realize that they've been propping up an extremely disingenuous and immoral organization.

There have been many opportunities in Facebook's history to say, you know what, what they're doing is really messed up, and it's really immoral, and I can't put up with it anymore.

The cynic in me is saying that this person is piggybacking off of this incredibly tense situation to go viral basically everywhere. His LinkedIn post has north of 200K likes [0] and he'll have absolutely _no_ problem finding work. I truly wish him the best of luck in doing so. But I'm honestly disappointed that it's taken people this long to realize that Facebook is not the bastion of good that they thought it was.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmat...
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Didn't his white privilege land him the job/education/connections in the first place. How is him finding another job using his privilege make any sense.

These guys lack any sort of self awareness.
Sure the OP is generalizing, but I don’t think the US military is seen in a positive light.

We spend an insane amount of GDP on the military complex. We know for sure military strikes have killed many civilians in other countries. Now with the President’s orders of “Dominate the battle space”, the Military with the police is hurting their own citizens.

It’s not about Bravery, the individual soldiers could be brave, but they’re still following directions of superior leaders with personal selfish motives.

The military and police are supposed to protect their country and citizens. They are doing the opposite. I don’t respect them.
> He’s doing the right thing.

He worked at Facebook, let's not get carried away.

Working at Facebook and then leaving because of the non-intervention wrt to the President is a bit like manufacturing landmines quite happily, but having a change of heart because you saw a dog stepping on one. You've still been manufacturing landmines all that time, making money and not giving a damn.
> For example, hackintosh PCs that act identical to genuine Mac hardware can use all macOS features except iMessage, which has been locked – so far as we can tell – to only allow network activation on devices that have “blessed” NICs that officially shipped with Apple hardware.

This isn't true! The computer I'm typing on right now can send and receive iMessages just fine, and I'm not using a donor MLB. You just need to get all of various parameters right, so Apple's servers are presented with logical information.
Bike couriers already can jump on buses with their packages to save on time and energy. Not a new concept.
Certainly sounds like making a judgement. That taking a moral stance has a different values based on one's socioeconomic position.
Came back to vimwiki after using it for years previously:

Things I've liked:

* Now supports Markdown, including for internal linking instead of just the Vimwiki markup

* I'd use just straight Vim, but being able to select a phrase, and quickly make a page to that and link them is nice.

* The HTML and link handling is nice, and it will auto hide the long URLs unless you're actively on them

* Outlines, outlines, outlines. I use them for everything, and they're handled well

* I'll even throw in the occational table, and the auto formatting also works for tables.

* At the end of the day, everything is Markdown text files.
This underlines how the actual bipartisan system winner-takes-all much too sensitive to minor (postal or otherwise) hiccups. In a proportional system wouldn't matter much if the difference between the lead positions was plusminus 1%... but okay, it is how it is.
Facebook usage scales with controversy. Rage is a more reliable predictor if virality than other emotions, so they want the controversy.
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Are you sure about that? I have a regen meter in my Toyota and am often able to get 15-30Wh out of a single braking from 50-70km/h to full stop.
As a former FB employee, I can almost assure you that he will get to stay until June 12. The PR trainwreck that would be firing him not is not worth 7 days of his salary.
Except the entire thing is reusable!
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Hi,

At work we use enterprise Vault to manage microservice secrets (think api keys, database passwords, signing keys etc)

My engineering teams have raised that they don't really like using vault, and haven't been impressed with the quality of the software (both the server and the clients)

My question is, what are you people using?
Ford's only EV is just a pre-order page, so it's not yet evident to me that they know how to build an electric vehicle.
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We need a better framework for discussing speech issues in general. Even here arguments devolve into semantics over what the first amendment applies to when we should really be discussing how we actually expect/want society to function. Maybe we can adopt RFC language. Example:

must: A law should/does enforce this
must-not: A law should/does forbid this
should: You have the right to NOT do this, but I believe this is what should be done
should-not: Although you have the right to do this, I believe you shouldn't do this

social media platforms (must|must-not) have the right to police speech
social media platforms (should|should-not|must|must-not) police speech
He did no such thing. He blew the whistle on treason.
Zuckerberg has always made it clear to investors and employees that Facebook is not a democracy. Mark is in charge and has full control of the company to do as he pleases when he pleases. When they IPOed he made it clear that’s how the company works. IPO materials made it clear that if you don’t like that don’t invest in it.

Not saying I agree with his actions (or inactions) and decisions but he’s been very clear about how Facebook works as a company and who’s in charge. Part of the big issue I see here with these “employee protests” at Facebook is that it seems employees didn’t pay attention to what they were signing up for when they joined. Mark is doing exactly what he said he would do in running the company. It’s not a democracy.
What has become clear is levels of testing and how deaths are recorded vary greatly. So somebody in the UK who tested or even suspected of COVID-19 dieing from a heart attack - that is recorded as covid-19 death, in somewhere like Germany - that would be recorded as a heart attack, even if it is clear that the illness caused the issue.

But one thing that has struck me as worrying, is the faily recorded cases - looking at WHO data, always a spike on a friday! Why is that, backlog, testing pattern or rush to get to the weekend - dunno, but a very clear trend until recently and now seeing spike more common than that 7 day trend. IMHO, all the signs of a second wave and a\ll the actions to enable it. Governments be damned if they don't ease lockdown and damned if people still die.

But I do wished there was some better universal defined way deaths are recorded as currently it is a fallacy to compare countries due to the nuances of how deaths are recorded.

One thing I do know and been a concern of mine for months, once things ease - how many poor postman and postwoman are going to be asked to record buildup of mail at address - a solid indication that somebody died inside. Those deaths are the ones which we are still to realise and they are out there awaiting to be found.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... You can view the stats for daily cases there bottom right, expand that and hit the daily cases tab - you can see the week trend most prominent and also the changes to that recently that are not a good sign IMHO.
> I don't understand why doesn't Facebook just: -Allow all posts [...] To me effectively everyone wins.

"Everyone", including racists, terrorists, drug cartels, human smugglers, child pornographers, scammers, phishers, hackers, gun nuts, anarchists...

I know you say you'd be fine with all that stuff, but if I write long enough I'll find something you're not OK with. And everyone else has a different something. Finding common ground on which we can all agree isn't a mistaken goal or an unnatural side effect of having a public forum. It is the purpose of having a public forum.

This is just another variant of the "forums should be unmoderated" argument. No one wants that. And the proof? You're making the point on a heavily moderated forum.
We are discussing Facebook censoring the POTUS.
I am just amazed that people are for private companies censoring politicians. You really don't want to see everything politicians want to tell you? Even if it's a complete lie? You want Mark and Jack and others to hide that info from you?

What is going on? I feel I am completely losing touch. It's scary.
Congratulation to new found insight.

I am wondering though, how much eye closing exactly is needed, to work for FB for any stretch of time.

I guess for some people the glass can still overspill and they can only take that much. At some point some reason comes along, that makes it easier to just leave and give the exterior a good explanation for leaving. That's actually a good thing. Shows, that some conscience is still there.
I didn't know the space shuttle reused it's boosters. Apparently the two solid rocket boosters deployed parachutes after separation and were refurbished. Interesting! However the main booster could not be reused...
I think image based social media is a beast of its own.

The emotional swings I get from images far exceeds what I get from text.
The next sentence of GP is

> To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with.
Viewed another way: If he waited to vest, that means he took away a substantial sum of Facebook's money.

It is a good thing when thoughtful people have resources.
Because unless you are a bootlicker (or the company is yours), the company cannot possibly have all of the same values as you.

There are too many actions that are political when they come down to it (pricing products, marketing products, choosing partners, choosing tools, choosing customers, choosing features, choosing charities, etc). There is no possible way that all of them are going to align with your views.

The reason that works is that you’re just able to not care that they don’t.
The more disconnected the hiring process gets from the people who will actually be working with the hire, the more farcical it becomes.
Then it seems the poster does find some value in social media. I'm saying that HN is social media - descended from Reddit, in fact - to point out that the popular stance of Facebook being inherently evil seems to forgive this website for doing the same thing.

This kind of scare has happened with all media: games, TV, film, fiction books. If there's a difference between the fast-food social media and this website, I'd like to hear what it is.
Breaking up the 2 party duopoly would be good too. I have no idea how.
What do you do about illegal content?
Can you please explain why would you not hire this person?
A big empty frunk makes the car a lot safer and filling it with batteries would make it a lot more expensive.

I agree with your general point, but at the same time, the cost of batteries are getting exponentially cheaper. It's just a matter of time for all transport to be BEV, so it makes sense for companies to want to be ready for the new market realities.
I feel the trigger of social media is getting dopamine-like reward signal when people like/share your posts. Its underlying acceptance of "you" aspect of it, rather than the idea itself that you share. In a forum, being an anonymous user, it doesn't affect you as much on a personal level which allows for a more rational discussion by detaching the "personal" side of you from it. Of course, that is only true in theory as we are all prone to taking everything personally (myself included) but I try consciously to change that.
You're cherry picking data points. JP Morgan amongst others have studied all the data and found no correlation or even declines in infection rates before and after lockdowns:

https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/20/jp-morgan-infection-rates...

Sweden is about middle of the pack. Most of that is because of the virus getting into care homes, which a lockdown can't prevent anyway given the staff have to come and go, and blocking the elderly from all visits forever is deeply inhumane. Given their age many of them would rather catch the virus than live longer but always be alone, and have said so.

So far it appears lockdowns didn't affect the virus much at all. However, they are definitely killing people if you look at the changes in suicide rates, the backlogs for cancer treatment that have built up and so on.

The problem with believing that Taiwan and South Korea are doing better for fundamental reasons is that it may simply be random. Japan did very little or nothing, probably due to trying to avoid the Olympics getting cancelled, and had similarly good results. The differences in testing levels and definitions between countries alone make comparisons based on reported infection and death rates meaningless.
> Also, the assumption that everyone with a good paying job at Facebook is going to be able to quickly pick up a comparable job in a short amount of time is a huge stretch.

Especially since at some companies such a public statement can put you on a no-hire list. Some companies avoid potential "trouble makers" or avoid hiring, which might be interpreted as making a point.

Still risk of high total loss is quite low for individuals from FAANG companies.
> i resigned because my employeer refuses to censor a user (in this case, the POTUS) who says things i disagree with

wow, imagine being this entitled
Cities are not going up in flames.
To be fair, quitting a high-paying job for moral reasons in the midst of a pandemic and a major recession takes courage. I don't agree with his view, but I'll give him that much at least.
This is where education becomes a poverty issue- if you're poor, you're often not well-incentivized to make sure you kid goes to school. He can do work, or she can be married off, or a dozen other opportunities. School is seen as an investment with heavily, heavily diminishing returns. Imagine trying to explain to a person that can't read, and who has gotten by fine, why his child needs to read. "So he can be rich?" "But ah, I have my farm and he will work on that farm etc etc etc"
>> The police, Chief Walter Headley warned, would use shotguns and dogs at his command.

The undertones of the original comment Trump is echoing imply differently.
Facebook doesn't have anything more that the dream of a promise that some day they'll have AI smart enough to curate content as well as humans can. They don't even have a hope of doing so in a way that all humans can agree is fair.

They are criminally negligent in allowing themselves to be what they are: a publishing platform designed to divide humanity into smaller and smaller subgroups in order to ease marketing, without regard to public safety or any conception of common good. Social media does not care about the blood it spills.

Want the good old web back? Enforce responsibility for content published on the publisher. Let's see facebook moderate every post. Let hateful shitheads find a place to host them, and let them start their own blogs, with their identifiable information publicly available. Failing that, maybe we can do something like this idea I posted this morning. (https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/gwhiie/trust_a...)
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I don't need to engage in politics in my workplace. I can work with people with differing political opinions in terms of activism and advocacy, though.

"Liberal" and "conservative" aren't the only political flavors, either. Lots of leftist activists don't work with liberals and lots of right-wing activists don't work with conservatives, for example. It's also difficult to work with someone whose beliefs conflict too much with your own or whose views are dehumanizing (like, I wouldn't want to work with someone who regards themselves as superior because of their race).
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Switzerland has the exact same system.

It used to be that you signed the inner envelope, but it changed a couple of years ago in order decrease the likelihood to link your signature to your vote.
I find this approach really weird. I’m not sure about Poland, but at least in the the UK, for a mutual agreement (or settlement agreement) to be valid, the employee _must_ receive independent legal guidance.

Anything else and the dismissal would be completely illegal.

I’m not sure, but I would guess the Poland has similar or equivalent worker protections (the EU is generally pretty hot on worker protection). Which means that Revolut are opening themselves up to quite a bit future legal liability and pain. Doubly now that it’s in the press and there’s probably lawyers who see an opportunity to earn a paycheque and do some public good.
I've seen a few homemade electric cars from around fifteen years ago that combined batteries with a bank of ultracapacitors for exactly that purpose.
Don't forget we are in the middle of a pandemic, it's not the easiest time to find a job.

Also I don't think it ads much to the conversation to try to minimize someones sacrifice, you don't know their personal situation, and even if its not that hard on them personally who cares, it's still a principled stand of where to invest ones time and energy.