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- direct bank transfer = debit. When you send money using SEPA you have no right at all to charge the money back, as it's always a voluntary authorized transaction. The marchant got you by the balls.

- In DE at there are fast "instant" payments called paydirekt or giropay, which make "checkout" using your giro account fast and simply. However, it's debit again. Balls grabbed.

- Your checking account usually receives your salary, and you have to monitor it for fraudulent charges, which can just "happen" if somebody knows your IBAN. Therefore, entering my IBAN on any site that is not 100% trustworthy and liable is a no-go.

Debit is really bad for buyer's protection, and even when using "reverse debit" which means authorizing a party to draw money from your giro account, you in theory can reverse such charges, but the reversals are handled by your home bank and in many cases the reversal is getting rejected based on intransparent reasons or takes _very_ long. Customer service is simply bad at banks.

So what about credit card processors like Stripe?

- German credit cards are issued largely by banks in the visa/mastercard system. That means the banks themselves are responsible for accepting or rejecting chargebacks. Bad customer service by banks again, very high burden of proof => high chance of chargeback not going through, paper tiger wars.

- Most merchants have really shitty payment gateways in place or even store credit card information on site. The smaller the business, the shittier the storage and you can basically guarantee that data protection is effectively handled at most SMB like trash. => I do not enter my main credit card info on random sites.

So what does Paypal offer?

- almost no questions asked chargeback of any amount if you return the goods (proof = shipping label)
- masks credit card number IBAN and other information from merchant

That's it. I'm ok paying small amounts using direct debit but expensive purchases, like electronics, gardening equipment and so on, go through either (a) Amazon w/ its no-fullshit refund policy (b) a merchant offering PayPal. PayPal is expensive, but customer friendly. Germany has _no_ true competitor to PayPal's service except notarized escrow, and I don't want to lawyer up just to buy a lawn mower.
Odd that someone capable of obtaining 50k in crypto was able to be scammed in that fashion, particularly when the real phone number shows up in big bold font when googling "coinbase support number"..

To be fair, the search results may well have changed in between now and then but the support number isn't that hard to find on the coinbase site.
Are you sure this person is being truthful, and not running their own scam?
Very interesting idea, I'll discuss it with my co-founder and we'll probably add it to the pipeline.
Thank you!
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One thing I think the Julia core team should look to get professional help on is human computer interface design in programming languages. I know there’s been a lot of strides in the right direction, but having used rust I can say that Julia is waayyyyy far behind. I’m mainly thinking of general naming, error messages and stack traces. My opinion on the naming is that it feels like it is written by scientists for scientists (which can be good, but is also a barrier to entry).

Specifically w.r.t. to stacktraces, I think the Julia core team should just pay someone like Jonathan Turner to review their stacktraces and see how they can improve it. JT was involved in the rust stacktraces and when he was using Zig on stream he was immediately able to identify ways to improve Zig’s stacktraces. I think his kind of insight could go a long way in helping Julia be more friendly.

Another place is Pkg error messages. I’ve opened projects from a few years ago and things have just failed. I think it is because I’m not using the same Julia version that I did when I recorded the Manifest (weird that Julia doesn’t record the Julia version number in the Manifest). But I will never know I guess because I get almost cryptic error messages from Pkg. It is borderline infuriating.

I say all of this because I really like (or at least really want to like) Julia. And I know fellow coworkers who share this sentiment about some of these pain points. If these are fixed (and latency becomes better) I for one would pull fewer hairs out of my already balding head :)

I would ask that Julia advocates take all my criticism kindly. I know you are all passionate and have worked on a lot of these features yourselves. I’m expressing some opinionated frustrations.

Edit:

w.r.t. HCI in programming languages, here’s a comment shared by one of my grad school friends that is doing a thesis on HCI in programming language syntax:

“It (sic, It -> Julia syntax) is inconsistent in a lot of ways. There’s "primitive type", "abstract type", "struct" and "mutable struct" that are all keywords for defining "struct" like things. Why not use "struct" or "type" everywhere consistently? …”

My friend’s comment is long and winding, but I’ll check with them if I can post a link to their thesis here. It might be an interesting read for some folk.
good description of the practices, but it doesn't answer the question, which was _why_ they arrange the schedules and duties that way
I explained it as Facebook the city still existing, but they'd taken down the signposts.
A bunch of folks are concerned about their ability to build healthy companies under conditions of such hostility from the legal system.

... so same problem, different layer of abstraction.

Doesn't change the fact that running a company creates a duty of care.
It's hard to build safe cars if your workers worry that they're going to get shouted down with something that belongs in the 1920s.

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I really would be keen for a deeper understanding of what went wrong in Tesla's sociotechnical systems that led to someone in such a position of leadership responding exercising power with such little attention to their word choice.
At least they’re coming down somewhat gracefully. ‘Raining’ makes it sound a lot worse!
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And there is no "punishment" beyond Brexit itself: All the "punishment" is just Britain getting exactly what it asked for.

The laughing and snide comments are just A) Schadenfreude at being so stupid as to ask for that "punishment", and B) intense annoyance growing into anger at the fuckwittery of whining about "punishment" for getting what one asked for.

As such, it's all utterly well-deserved IMO.
A very common trap when using your credit card abroad too. If you don't insist on being charged in the local currency the payment processor may "convert" it for you with a worse rate and pocket the difference.
Zero day sshd vulnerability would be bad.

On the other hand if you had to break through wireguard first, and then go through your single well-secured bastion, you'd not only be harder to find, you'd have two layers of protection, and of course you tick the "VPN" box
In the UK, most people don't need to do anything at all. Generally only self-employed or those with "unusual" incomes need to manually declare and pay taxes. It's your duty to check your tax code, but if it's correct (it almost always is) you can just let the system work.
Merchant fees for both debit and credit cards are significantly lower in all EU countries (and UK), compared to the US, thanks to the interchange fee regulation (IFR) that caps interchange fees at 0.2% for debit card and 0.3% for credit cards.

This translates into much lower merchant fees. Even a tiny startup with zero transaction volume can easily get less than 2% on their physical card transactions (using something like iZettle or SumUp). Big retailers will be paying well under 1%.

Also, merchants are banned from adding surcharges for debit and credit card transactions in the EU & UK.
I consider hard work to be a lazy substitute for figuring out what you want to do. Just fill your day with busy hard work and you don't have to think about what you want to do. If you knew what you wanted you wouldn't have to work so hard and even the hard work you have to do wouldn't feel very hard compared to what you want.
If PSTN (public-switched telephone networks, a/k/a direct-dialed general telephony) doesn't get its act together very soon, my sense is that it will cease to be a viable communications channel simply because so many people will have abandoned it, and quite possibly sooner than anticipated. The disruption to general communications will be huge for people, businesses, governments, emergency providers, and others.

I'm not referring merely to landline phones, but any predominantly voice-based communications system in which any user anywhere can presume to reach any other person without some additional requirement.

I've asked this question a few times --- asking when people think PSTD might die, in 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32+ years. Results are of course nonscientific, though interesting, and have varied widely. (My pessimism isn't especially widely shared.)

I did discover a while back though that telephone engineers share the same concern and for largely the same reasons:

[S]ince mid-2015, a consortium of engineers from phone carriers and others in the telecom industry have worked on a way to [stop call-spoofing], worried that spam phone calls could eventually endanger the whole system. “We’re getting to the point where nobody trusts the phone network,” says Jim McEachern, principal technologist at the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS.) “When they stop trusting the phone network, they stop using it.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/how-to-stop-spam-rob...

When the telephone was first introduced, and as it expanded through the 1950s and 60s, it was, as Facebook in the aughts, an aspirational instrument. Truman beat Dewey, but pollsters, relying on wealthy- and Republican-skewed polling, got the race wrong. Service was expensive, long distance was insanely expensive. There was little automation, and if someone was calling, odds were quite good that you really wanted to talk to them.

What killed the phone is the same thing that killed email, Usenet, and is killing the Web: it got too cheap. Good for those with legitmate business, but unfortunately, a far larger improvement to those with illegitimate business. Penny-ante schemes become viable when launched at scale and from low-overhead locations.

A couple of instances of the poll (and discussions), here:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102357651020681668

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106869063626188801

For anyone keeping tabs on my accuracy, I'd suggested on 17 July 2019 that death of PSTN telephony was <5 years away. That's looking somewhat overambitious from here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20373645
That would have been accurate for a DNS outage ; but with my layman understanding of BGP, I would say the analogy would be something between "...but their phone line is broken" and "...but they disappeared from the phone book because they don't have a phone line any more" .

Is that right ?
For how long? Windows 10 was also a free upgrade, until it wasn't
> it’s not Lisp

At the very least it includes a lisp:

$ julia --lisp
I felt some discomfort. It may be time to buy a new pillow.
The mobile whatsapp app should notify that the whatsapp servers are down and not allow you to just send messages that won't arrive for six hours
No, it wasn't.

If you genuinely believe it was, i suppose you're just incredibly unaware of how gated information was before the internet.

The poster said "easily accessible". The wealth of knowledge and information i have at my fingertips today was before hidden behind public libraries I'd have to plan a trip to, in courses i would have to attend, in the brains of experts i would have to interview in person, i would generally have to dedicate years of my life in order to match what I can today learn in a matter of days just because of the difficult process of sorting through the information and finding what I'm looking for.
I like that, too. The only thing that bothers me is that Maestro cards can't be used for online payments, so if I buy something from other countries (where shops don't support iDeal) I still need to use credit card, and support for credit cards in NL is pretty bad.

Btw these high transaction fees are the reason why loyalty programs are so good in US while so bad in EU. EU caps credit card fees at around 1.5%, while in US it's much higher, so basically banks give people part of the fee in form of loyalty points
PSA: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp went down for 6 hours;
The Graffomat is a giant plotter that automates graffiti art
They don't appear to be viable for people outside the US.
Content of expressions shifts over time, especially in politics.

Contemporary Pope would probably be horrified if someone suggested to him to initiate a crusade against the unbelievers. The combination of Christianity and politics has shifted over time, there is much less hard force and much more sentimentality involved.

But that does not mean that Crusaders weren't true Christians while Francis I. is, or vice versa.

The traditional left is gone because its proponents died out, but before they died, they introduced the young wokesters into their parties. The shift from blue collar workers to academia took decades to complete and there is a clear continuity in the process. So I think the label still fits, only the relevant institutions changed their priorities.
Sue for what, that they couldn't do with zero information? I don't buy that excuse. (Not that I blame you for the excuse.)
I think those are DNS round trips. So 1 packet to request and 1 to respond. E.g. 9.9k total requests of which 5.1k fail.
I completely agree. Julia stack traces are abysmally bad. The only worst stacktraces I have to endure is Shiny... Essentially useless at best or deceptive at worst.
Even better, many PayPal payments are from PayPal funds, Checking acct debits or EU/AU/NZ cardholders with capped charges, so PayPal pays 0% or under 1% to visa/MC for those transactions, but charges the same 3%+ to vendors. Plus additional charges for cross-border payments (even if there’s no forex) and terrible rates for forex which they probably self-settle anyway.
One of the key features of these apps is that you only need the phone in order to make transfers, that allows you to avoid asking for the account number to anyone.
People who talk bgp should be above mundane & cruel human dynamics and culture because their function is too important.
All bgp speaking people i know are and perhaps thats both why this discussion is held and why the internet is still up and running.
"If you don't know what you are doing, don't do it"
Intuit didn’t get Credit Karma’s tax filing business. That got spun off and went to Square.
Speaking of conspiracies, one that is floating around is that this was done to cover up spread of information around the Pandora Leak.
elster.de is the official means to input your tax info supported by the tax office. However, it's largely an online form with some legalese and dry formal explanations in a sidebar.

You can largely use it if you know what you are doing or have the most simplest tax case, but it won't offer you suggestions how to optimize taxes, and doesn't include large lists of items that you could possibly deduct. This service is offered by proprietary tax tools like WISO or QuickSteuer which offer questionnaires trying to cover more details of your tax situation to find out opportunities to optimize, and include large help files that contain examples and explanations.

Cost for these proprietary tools can be very low, they go on sale for like €5-€10 at discounters during tax season or are like €20 for the fully featured versions.

These tools also manage items like long-term deductions over the years, so that's their lock in effect.
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So is anything in your system for example 10 years old? MacBook can easily last 10 years for the right person. Just because I replace mine often doesn't mean people who buy it from me will.
You need to believe that vaccines stop an adequate proportion of the infections between vaccinated individuals to believe full vaccination would end the pandemic[1].

But you don't even have to believe that when it comes to the relevance of the pandemic. Looking at the number of people who are vaccinated (or bellow vaccination age) and go to hospital or die in my country it would be a severe but acceptable flu season. Does every severe flu season need a pandemic response?

(1- Within the round of first infections. You can actually believe that it is insufficient on contagion but ends viable mutation and will end the pandemic by using delta as a booster.)
Why couldn’t you just statistically drop traffic?
I still think the carriers should just reject calls with obviously fraudulent caller-ids.

Call coming from an external interface, but presenting an id owned by the carrier? Reject the connection. And tag the network partner for follow-up investigation.
yup, they should. I couldn't send the messages as well and thought my mobile had some issues and tried rebooting it
In summary: Henceforth releasenotes will consist of mostly automated dependency bumps and the same commit messages that you can also see in the commit history.
Curiosity being a prerequisite to being smart is probably more true.

Intelligence I guess you can be born with, but you don’t get smart without effort, and curiosity is about the biggest forward driver you’ll find.
not necessarily, because WA offers options that normal calls and text don't, like group conversations/calls, easier documents and picture sharing and video calls. I mean I have rather affordable texts for my usual correspondents, but I'm mostly using WA to chat with them
If it was something truly idiotic or malevolent, sure. Otherwise, that would be a really crap culture to work in.
A friend of mine had this idea but with opioids. He invented an opioid painkiller which was, IIRC, a positive allosteric modulator of the mu opioid receptor - I'm not an expert, but I believe the gist was that it enhanced your endogenous opioid system, and was therefore less prone to addiction.

He ended up finding a handful of papers scattered across the last decades where people had come to the same realisation, but nothing came of it. Now, it's very possible there was something wrong with the idea. He did synthesise the molecule and we both took it, but not for long enough to really assess - even in a Shulgin-like way - whether it was addictive. But he ended up suspecting that the reason nothing came of it is that a non-addictive drug is simply not profitable, and is dominated, in the game-theory sense, by addictive drugs which bring consistent and greater revenue streams.

Also, apropos of:

> reset the brain chemical state in such way that tolerance and addiction could not come up

You may want to look into ibogaine. It doesn't give you both the high and the 'resetting the brain' functions - it only does the latter - but it's a very interesting case in that it has a very successful track record in resetting addiction. Though research is hampered by the fact that its cardiotoxic properties have killed a bunch of people who didn't do proper ECGs etc to check for heart abnormalities before taking it.
Mechanical or electronic ringer?

Is there absolutely no volume control?

Mechanical bells can be damped, muted, or removed. This was frequently done in offices back in olden times.
The discussion environment is worse because there're more people online. Being online alone was a great filter for fruitful discussions.

At least we have Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, which fit the vision of "tech utopia". It would have been great if there's more stuff like that (I left out the vibrant open source landscape, because it also sort of existed in the 90s, in a (way) smaller scale though.)
arguing on the the basis of a strong cultural differentiation between the us and aus might not work as well as you think.
The problem with iDeal is that there is 0 consumer protection. If you pay for an order using a credit card and it’s a scam, you do a chargeback. If you pay for an order using iDeal and it’s a scam, the money is gone the moment you pay. There is no way to get the money back.
Dutch banks, unlike their American sisters, are not archaic. iDeal was a direct response to e-commerce and a preemptive strike against Visacard.

The Dutch banks all work together to prevent a US fintech takeover which they saw coming.
Why don't people with high trait curiosity have high state curiosity?
> Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge? Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong? Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses? Is it a motivation sparked by novelty or uncertainty?

It would be odd to describe it as an emotional motivation and not a behaviour.

I'd say the behaviour is a pursuit of not immediately necessary information. The subject is drawn to unravel unknowns in their environment. It might be broadly focussed to flip every stone or narrow to a subject e.g. people or a topic.

The various motivations for this behaviour probably encompasses all human motivations. It might be delight/entertainment/play of discovery, collector/completionist type obsession, fear/anxiety/pessimism/paranoia of unknowns, ego preservation to be the "one who knows", procrastination in the face of aversive tasks...
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Probably worth citing a competitor: Firefox Relay https://relay.firefox.com/ , that has also an handy extension to do the same thing.

I personally created the same behaviour with zoho, basically I created a catchall rule and when I register to internet services I write google.com@mydomain.com, netflix.com@mydomain.com, etc.
Do you think DLT/ blockchain can minimize this from happening again in the future?
Do what the father did.
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One thing to add, if I may - It's super-stupid but super-common and maybe not 100% applicable here ?

If you have invoices,accounts or statement pages/API's.

Please make sure ONLY the real user or admin can see the data.

Example:

myfintech.co/accounts/?invoice=123

myfintech.co/accounts/statement/?user=456

I've seen this COUNTLESS of times with big and small companies.
It's my favorite thing to do when signing up for a new service. See if I can wiggle-waggle the account-statements.

Like I said, it's a really simple thing, and maybe most of HN readers are "above these sort of errors", but I see a few times a year, with just the services I use.

Also a good little tip(again might be preaching to the wrong crowd) is to use some form of non-deterministic ID-schemes for accounts,statements and of course user-ids.

UUID's are great for this, If for some reason you do have a gap in you system and your id's are deterministic, the bad-actor can just enumerate ALL accounts and users.

Sorry if I'm insulting the "average HN reader" with this "simple and obvious mistakes", but I like I said, I see this A LOT. YMMV
On the subject of language servers my pet peeve is that I can never get method documentation or parameter completion for the method I intend to use. Instead I have to scroll through 27 different methods with the name to find the right type.

It's usually faster to alt-tab, lookup the method and alt-tab back. Surley the language server can guess which method I am using based on types or existing usage.