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How would the diplomacy work here between NZ and Fiji's government, if NZ was to rule that having/bringing kids in Fiji is negligence?
This story is awful, but you should also know that Trev Ponting's application decision was reversed 24 hours after this made headlines. Yes, it should absolutely have been approved in the first place, but he made it home to Christchurch in February and passed away in April.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/12410323...
I think you're under the impression this doesn't happen with other countries too. That's the job of embassies. Obviously the State Department has more funding and resources, but that's really only relevant to how big of a trouble you got yourself into.

One thing the US has is more bargaining power to force early release of some people accused of crimes (like Liangelo Ball in China, Anne Sacoolas in UK). That's significant leverage, but again: most people will never find themselves in that situation. But even then it's not like other countries will not imprison you if you're American.
Same question for text-to-speech!
Politics has become a religion substitute in this country. People are becoming blinded by dogma, but instead of the dogma being about unfalsifiable claims, it's about facts and real world happenings.
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On the “star” icon-paintbrush thingie, there was one or two glyphs that just render as slightly rounded big black squares, which I’m pretty sure is a result of the glyph (font?) not loading properly for whatever reason.

On iOS.
As far as I can tell, you agree with the articles main point. `plus` is a honest name for adding days to a date but dishonest when it comes to adding months. `advanceMonths` is an awkward but more honest name for adding months. An even more honest name would be `addMonthSameDayButCapIfShorter()` or something like that which reflect the gnarly behavior. A weird operation deserves a weird name.

I don't like if `advanceMonths` returns an interval though, since this indicate that the interval is a meaningful unit separately from the initial date. It should return the new date, not an interval.
> ...it would seem that the IRS is trying very hard make this process unappealing

IANAL, but I believe that all the unpleasantries which you note were decided by the U.S. Congress. (Most probably with the President's sign-off.) Making the IRS out to be the Real Villain(tm) here only helps a bunch of self-serving politicians to evade responsibility.
Not just travel - many people can travel to all of the EU. A Cyprus citizen has the right to live and work anywhere in the EU.
I can see why there is a difference between being medevacked (accompanying a minor child with a medical need) and someone who wants to see their family and friends before they pass away (tragic, but not an urgent medical need).
TIL about Universal International Freephone Numbers (+800 country code)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-free_telephone_number#Uni...
Because not everyone is like Aesop's fox -- some grapes can be delicious indeed.
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Creative (Soundblaster) now have a phone app that you can take a picture of your ear and it uses a machine learnt model to produce a somewhat better head related transform function based on it. It is an improvement on SBX and CMSS before it but its not perfect either.
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I am an EMT and talk to a lot of nurses, PAs, and physicians in various circles. This wave is worse for a few reasons.

- Healthcare staff have great animosity towards the unvaccinated patients. They aren't victims here, they did this to themselves. Nobody can muster any more compassion, especially for these people. Patients and people at large, not even just the total-nutjob anti-vaxxers, are tired of restrictions. "Things are opened back up, I deserve to have a good time."

- Staffing shortages building over the pandemic are making nurses hate the hospital administrations even more than before. Many were furloughed or laid off 6-12 months ago, and are now asked to work mandatory overtime with ridiculously unsafe nurse:patient ratios.

- ... all while traveling contract nurses and providers are being utilized by the hospitals at a pay rate 3-4 times what staff are paid. Many nurses are leaving their jobs that pay $30/hour to take a traveling assignment at $90+/hour. These people are working side by side, there's disdain towards the travelers, but who cares they're making bank.

- The "healthcare heroes" messaging is so obviously just a scam and the healthcare staff are now almost 18 months into a kafkaesque, double-speak nightmare. Previously this was reserved for veterans, and of course they were similarly screwed.

It's all just been building up since the beginning of the pandemic - issues with skilled staffing are very real and happening across the country.
> Is New Zealand not even allowing their own citizens to return to their home country?

Only the rich ones, same for Australia. At least NZ is still letting people leave the country. The behaviour of both countries during this has put them near the bottom of the list for places I'd ever want to go to.
Im probably an above average user and im reading this on FF for whatever thats worth. Theres more to a browser than accommodating any individuals personal short-comings.
Eric Schmidt renounced his US citizenship even though he owns 2 California homes and one in Massachusetts.
>Discrete values and relationships aren't an issue and can be easily dealt with using embeddings.

This is good to hear even though I don't know what it means. Is there some kind of canonical example of this that I could use to learn how to apply it?
That's built-in echo-cancelling module, allowing you to easily getting correct direction to the true source of sound
So you ripped off helloSystem, basically.

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

Why?
> This is why politics and voting are completely pointless at this point…

That's patently false. The government, and in particular the executive branch, holds immense and immediate powers whose implementation materially changes when a change of officeholder takes place, even sometimes within the same party.

It's not clear that Biden's platform would have been as worker focused were it not for Sanders' run or as America-first were it not for Trump.

Also consider that within an 10 year span legislation as opposed to each other as Obamacare and the Trump tax cut took place.

Voting matters a great deal.
The old media see Google as its mortal enemy. The new media hates/envy anyone with money
> I've always found it a bit ironic when people intending to advocate for better treatment of the homeless proclaim that homeless shelters are havens of violence, full of dangerous people with drug and mental health problems.

Homeless shelters typically lack privacy and security from other residents (something most, even high density, regular housing does not lack for very good reasons). So, even if dangerous people were no more common in the homeless population than the general population, the small number of them would drive others out of shelters, and they'd become super concentrated there.

And advocates for better treatment of the homeless tend to acknowledge the greater incidence of serious drug and mental health problems in the population as something services need to address.

So, where is the irony?
I also have no idea how to properly do memory management, every language I've worked with has had garbage collection. I know the languages I write in use malloc or something to get more memory, but that's it. Never called it, don't know how it works. For flabberg-ammo for that gasty feeling.
Australia’s borders are currently very closed.
> The solution is to build new technologies that are privacy preserving, transparent, don’t place trust in a central authority but are resistant to attack.

I actually completely agree with this.

> This is possible but nobody has built it yet.

Doesn't mean we should stop trying. Here's my $0.02 - I've been building an email solution based on Self-Sovereign Identity ideas, still in progress, but check it out: https://ubikom.cc or https://github.com/regnull/ubikom
Congrats to the ETH development crew for another smooth upgrade. Good luck and please be careful with the transition to POS!
Yeah. This kind of delusional hand-waving of the material conditions of billionaires is terrifying. Their wealth is upon our and our children’s backs. With their capital they could push to revolutionize healthcare or housing for the poor.

But they’re not. They’re hiding from a pandemic in Fiji and buying their way into quarantined nations that aren’t even letting their own citizens in.

Let me know the next time Page or Schmidt has to worry whether they’ll ever be destitute due to an injury or accident out of their control.
Can someone explain to me how PoS is not centralized? The whole point of crypto and the blockchain is decentralization, no? I feel like crypto/blockchain will end up looking nothing like how it was intended, and be regulated to the point that it's just the next iteration of the traditional banking system, where the current power holders continue holding the power. Maybe I was naive to ever think it would be any different.
The article is not drawing an arbitrary line:

> The IRS publishes a quarterly list of the names of people who have renounced their citizenship or given up their green cards, but it only includes people with global assets over $2 million

It may be an arbitrary line, but if so, it's the IRS drawing it.
I was watching a youtube video of some guys sailing in the ocean who found a loophole to enter NZ just for tourism i guess.
Yup.

They also were not developed by the same company.
3.5 and 3.9 were developed by Haage & Partner, 3.1.4 and 3.2 were developed by Hyperion Entertainment.

There's even an AmigaOS 4.0 from Hyperion which is PowerPC only.

For extra bonus points, there's MorphOS which is a heavily AmigaOS influenced OS. PowerPC only, runs on some of the older PPC Macs.

And there's also the open source AROS reimplementation of AmigaOS 3.1 (with a lot of extras).

(I'm sure I got a lot of details wrong, been years since I last did Amiga stuff.)
Because it is something that naturally flows from having an understanding of boolean logic and that computers store data in binary digits.

Being a "software engineer" who doesn't understand this seems to me like being an architect who doesn't understand trigonometry or something.
Something I've been wondering is, assuming that the brain works at a couple dozen hertz frequency, how can we perform any sub-10ms task?
Most Western countries have some level of extraterritorial benefits. At least in the UK they're nominally "paid for" by the cost of the passport. If you're a dual citizen with another country you have no obligation to get a passport - but shouldn't expect help without one.
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Correct. Just like the eu was good for the uk until they decided it wasn't. Except the issue of secession was settled in the affirmative there and in the negative here.

You'd be hard pressed to argue the confederacy wanted to take over the union and then impose slavery on the free states. I mean, you could make the argument, but it's more likely to me they simply wanted to leave and continue enslaving people.

I don't know how this turned into a discussion on slavery. The issue was secession. The civil war answered that us states cannot secede. Itll be interesting to see how the dynamic in the eu changes since this is a possibility there (although I'm doubtful they'd let a continental member leave).
Cyprus is in Europe
I use the 'dont have the money' excuse all the time for some people. As the other side seems to be a consistent lack of respect for my time, for some people. 'what why? you are not doing anything anyway'. Basically they have decided whatever I was going to use that time for is better spent with whatever activity they cooked up. Sometimes that is true. But the money thing seems to get them to think it through. The impulsive people seem to get it more, as they are usually short no mater how much cash they make. They seem to find a way to burn through it. The more thoughtful people approach it with a respect of my time and I can discuss it rationally with them.
correct. you re not in any way confined to the island
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We're in the attention economy. We've been A/B testing stealing people away from things they ought to be focusing on. Which is family and friends, not through social media, but through the telephone.
Link is broken, this one works for me though https://octo.github.com/projects/repo-visualization
According to the article, he has been "based" there. It doesn't seem like a vacation, so much as a place to isolate. Is it fair that Larry Page gets to go to Fiji to isolate while the rest of us are at home? No. But it's not exactly irresponsible either (from a health perspective).
>we're pretty good at getting our people out of thorny situations, even at great national expense. If someone isn't paying to support that, it makes sense to force a revocation decision.

how many American get into that kind of shit storm? it seem like this benefit isn't worth the taxes that you pay
True progress is the freedom for everyone to be an asshole.
Good for them. Despite the mantras of "support our frontline workers" many of these employees have been treated like shit by their employers[1], their government who refused to take measures to limit the spread, and their patients - some of whom will continue to actively deny COVID even as they die from it.

[1] https://www.nwahomepage.com/knwa/mercy-employees-frustrated-...
Yes, if push comes to shove, "best" is always best ... but I couldn't be happy in a country like that.

I don't how you post that so comfortably and without qualification.
It's not that they haven't come up in their job that's strange, but that they were never exposed to this level of base computing principle at any point in their career.
If you ever have an opportunity play around with an SGI Irix box, an Indy or an Indigo.
Do you know how many stories cannot be published because people sit on the IP? There are unpublished "movies" that only exist to maintain exclusive licensing deals that outright prohibit studios from sitting on the IP, letting the original authors work rot until it is forgotten.

Or we can talk about the mess you get with too many groups involved? Do you know who has the rights to Westwoods Dune? Westwood itself had a limited time license for games based on the movie Dune, which also had a license based on the Dune books. So you would have to deal with three license owners to make a Game involving the Ordos faction. Have fun convincing EA, whoever owns the movie rights and the original authors family that you can make a new game worth their signature on a new licensing agreement (you could probably manage if you have a small country to sell).
I think "ultrarich" is far too tame. He controls a company that mediates our very relationship to "facts" and information. Together with Facebook, Google controls what the world thinks about. You can see that power being exercised forcefully over the past year in regards to vaccines, politics and conspiracies.
oh no!

yeah, I don't remember the stamps repeating as quickly on the original but otherwise this seems pretty right on.
Life isn't fair, never was. What good does it do to be upset about stuff that you can't change in a country you're not even citizen of?
Names are funny things, the name in question has been used for the entire archipelago, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Maybe part of the problem is the casual use of Britain to mean "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", it doesn't help that most people who live in Great Britain don't realize that the "Great" just refers to it being the largest island in the archipelago.

Personally I think that the UK should be separated back into England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. They can then individually decide whether to beg to be allowed back into the EU. The Windsor née Saxe-Coburg-Gotha clan should become private citizens like anyone else (if any country will have them)

On a more serious note, I feel that a lot of problems would be resolved by dividing much of Europe into smaller polities
We just going to ignore that this was the first one in 70 years?

> It just goes to show, it's never about gender, just about choices, ambition and how brave you choose to be.

Then why is this newsworthy?
Any corporate culture messaging is a scam really. A company cares with its money (and this can be shown in working you less too, so not just cash comp). No money, they don't care about you.
Its amazing how much difference .5ms can make in stereo imaging. Any decent home audio receiver has the ability to set the distance of each speaker individually so that you can compensate for physical placement constraints.

If you get a stereo pair perfectly locked in on delay to eardrums, you can produce an extremely compelling listening experience for those in a very specific region of the room.

Finding out about all this can be revolutionary for some music enthusiasts. Once you get a good listening setup (or headphones), you start going through old things to see how the "stage presence" sounds, or if you are now able to physically place each instrument in the virtual space.
If invites are sent, then it’s at least a little bit about the guests. If people would be happy to get married at any place at any time, and don’t care in the slightest whether any other people show up, then you could say that it’s not about the guests. But you can’t.
What we have been doing would have worked if the majority would have followed.

Chose open standards, use and contribute to FOSS, avoid social networks, get involved in your local community, etc.

No need to go to extreems or complicated plans, corporations follow the customers.

But nobody did listen. Quite the opposite. I never had a facebook account, and now today people are boasting when they leave FB. But 10 years ago ? Oh we were the paranoid extremists .

Even today my friends regularly pressure me to get whatsapp.
> January 2020

May I know what the significance of January 2020 is? Isn't that before Australia closed their borders?
That's clear enough, but I've never been able to wrap my head around why anyone would want to muck about with that. If I was working on the OS kernel or drivers or network implementations maybe? But even then if one wanted to do math with numbers wouldn't they do it with int and let the compiler optimise?
If the listener is relatively further away from the orchestra than the orchestra members are to each other, it mostly all balances out, especially when you add the room and bandshell reverberation (which tends to wash the note onsets to some degree).

This is also helped by the instruments in the back of the orchestra favoring the low frequencies, where the listener has less access to precise timing information.
and TLB is also a scarce resource.
> I’ve even gotten sucked down the hole of “what happens when an mRNA lipid nanoparticle crosses the blood-brain barrier?”, which is quite interesting.

Would you happen to have any links/references to share on that subject? I'd be quite interested to read, especially since having received my first mRNA jab a week ago.
I also noticed that you created your HN user to post just this, and the telegrap.ph link doesn't allow comments (nor show who you are). Given that you've decided to publish this without asking first if it's correct, I'd appreciate that you either make a reference to this item on HN or amend the specific points I mentioned.
I noticed some E2E error messages coming from the trace which means that you (I assume it was you) have been tinkering with it/trying to break it. This is fine, and if you manage to do that, power to you. But if you fail to compromise the encryption then please also consider being a bit less harsh in your conclusion (considering what I've told you)

Finally, I am happy to let you have a peek at the source code if you want to know more about it. I want to OS it but can't get around my paranoia of doing so. You'd just have to make your identity known and offer an email address or similar
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> Larry Page had a 12 year old son that was sick enough that a 1500 mile medivac seemed like the best option.

Best option for whom? It is entirely possible that the child wasn't especially sick and could have been treated in Fiji, but paranoid billionaire parents didn't believe that Fijian medical care was good enough.

The fact is we don't know and likely never well. I have no doubt though that billionaires are given privileges that are supposedly not for sale.
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I'm curious about which places (FAANG or otherwise) that would be a good place for someone to work on / learn about programming languages.

I consider myself a hobbyist / hacker comes to PL*, but I'd love to know where I could work on stuff full time.

PL might be too broad of a category. Things that I had in mind were compilers, interpreters, language design etc.
"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends."

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But this is against TOS, isn't it?
It's completely corrupt. I don't know why we cannot change it.

Remember that you need not ever even have been to America to be a citizen. Second, America can decide who is a citizen according to their own laws, which is a bit of a conflict of interest.

So currently children of Americans are American, but there's no reason they couldn't arbitrarily decide that grand children, or great grandchildren are as well. Or if you want to be really silly, in theory they could grant citizenship to anyone if they amended the laws to do so.

So ive been given a status at birth by a foreign country that I have no wish for. They then grant me the privilege of paying them to renounce the status that they declared me to have!

Why thank you land of the free!
The pacific islands seem to have done rather well in preventing Covid to take hold. Because they basically closed all borders early on. Fiji seems to have gotten quickly rid of covid with the first wave and ever since had no cases. Besides Fiji being said to be an overall nice place to be in, it certainly was pleseant as there were no restrictions for those on the island.
Is there a way to make it return an error on type mismatch? At least during development to catch bugs early.
> Since this article concerns itself with rich overseas Americans, I think it's relevant

Not many millionaires are getting arrested in general, due to the availability of lawyers and so on.

The US support might be very relevant for a war reported captured by ISIS.

But most millionaires are not going to be in those locations and/or able to afford good private security.
The difference that I see immediately is that all of your anxieties are focused on yourself, while this article is specifically about providing medical care to Mr. Page's son.

My own anxieties have largely to do with my children, and while some can probably be bought away (is my kid getting an OK education at this public school?), there isn't an amount of money to instantly solve "my kid is sick".

I agree on the whole with the sentiment that the situations of the super rich are not comparable to ours, but there are some things that money won't solve, and likely some problems that you and I cannot conceive of that money creates.
Doesn't make sense as a dark pattern, people will just reverse the sale and cause increased workload for Tesla. Why make such a bad faith assumption?