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Society has been experiencing pandemics for as long as society has existed. There is literally nothing humanity has more experience with than disease.

Herd immunity is a moving target because people like Fauci change their assessment of it depending on opinion polls. That's by his own words, not anyone else's. The guy admitted it to the New York Times. The "science" is not evolving and people who keep claiming it is, are just hurting the credibility of actual science even more than it's already been hurt. After all, a "science" that is constantly asserting things with 100% confidence and then next week asserts something totally different, also with 100% confidence (which they do), is actually pretty worthless to society.
Yes, I have also gotten those. Pretty nice to get a check that you weren’t expecting, from the IRS no less. In my experience a lot of CPAs are very dependent on tax prep software anyway. It might be more advanced “professional”tax software, but still has limitations. A good CPA will be more aware of those limitations ahead of time, but mistakes are almost inevitable over the course of a few years.
Robocalls and support scams only really arrived with a vengeance last year in Ireland. Even still I would answer and call back pretty much every call from an Irish caller id today. I reckon at least 19/20 calls are legit...
I suppose we've been flying under the radar up to now...

That said, there has been a definite deterioration in the last 24 months...
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Same, I have a i7-6600k that should be more than sufficient (there are people that have upgraded with that processor), but I really won't bother. I've been toying with the idea of going Linux full-time again. I've done that 3 times in the last ten years and I really would like to just do it once and for all. Problem is there's always something small and nagging or an update that breaks something that worked and I was back on Win... The Linux experience is just not as polished as Win/Mac unfortunately :/
And now starbucks has 20 bucks sitting there waiting for her to eventually use another 5 bucks, all the while making interest on it.

As the poet Elon Musk would say: Stonks!
No one should have to have a 'tough skin' about things like racism, sexism, homophobia, and the like. They simply shouldn't be in the workplace. Period.
That's not guaranteed. Compilers do fix existing warnings that missed some existing cases.
Plus complex corporate taxation is one of these domains where the venn diagram of domain skills vs programming skills is completely disjoint. Tax specialists will model it in unnecessarily convoluted way in Excel, and the domain will be forever opaque to people who can produce software efficiently.
It’s an incredibly common phrase which has nothing to do with Libertarianism.
BGP on the internet and inside your datacenter isn't any different though. It has different rules for iBGP and eBGP neighbors, but it's common to have multiple AS in your own datacenter, especially at Facebooks scale.
Wow, FreeBSD! Cool.
Finland has it even simpler. If I don't want to add anything they just send me calculation and if I do nothing either I get transferred money or they send me a bill.
Curiosity can cause you to be smart, but being smart alone does not necessarily make you curious.
Health officials have spent nearly two years claiming that all of society has to shut down because they cannot increase staffing capacity at all. That's why so many of the emergency hospitals that were built ended up shutting down having never seen a single patient.

This claim was always implausible on its face, but having so adamantly claimed this, public health does not now get to claim that huge numbers of workers can be trivially hired and trained within a few weeks. If that actually is the case then the justification for lockdowns evaporates.
I don't know the applicable US law, but there might be a difference between mandatory arbitration and civil law suits on one hand, and criminal law on the other.
It couldn't be that you sign something with a company, and that contract also means police can't do shit about shit.
I guess racism is part of criminal law? And besides, it is really easy to not be racist.
The elephants in the room are the countless "governments" around the world that not only have sold their citizens' data sovereignty lock stock and barrel but generated a strategic vulnerability of major proportions.

In the name of what and why? Free markets? How is a total monopoly a free market. Modernity? How is this neofeudalism / neocolonialism in any shape and form progress?

Hopefully the 600+ journalists that just released the pandora papers (documenting the widespread deceit and corruption of worldwide elites) will also cast some light into how we came to be in this deplorable state (who benefited, who signed of, who didn't ask any question)
Obviously, this wasn't based on country of origin but rather, the color of someone's skin and racist stereotypes about Africans of all nationalities. It doesn't matter where Musk is from in this scenario.
I like iDEAL. My bank is dutch (bunq) although i live in Belgium, i got to use it a few times.

I don't know if it's really easier than cards though given all the tools that are available for cards now, from auto fill to contactless.

To be honest, google pay / apple pay are just so damn convenient. Being able to just hold my phone and have payment happen in a second is fantastic. And here in Europe let's not forget visa and mc fees are capped at something like .7%.
I believe the intended reference is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
Mini rant incoming.

I have a love/hate relationship with Julia. I’ve been using Julia professionally since 2018, and in my spare time since before that. And after writing a lot of code and reading and reviewing even more, my biggest complaint is that tooling suuuccckkssssss.

LanguageServer takes up to 10 minutes to start (5000-7000 line Julia project with lots of Julia dependencies). I usually open vim, go get coffee and then come back to start working on the project. And if the LanguageServer crashes or I have to restart vim for some reason, oh boy.

Even after 10 minutes, updates are SO slow. You can type something incorrectly and the LSP diagnostics won’t pick it up for at least 30-40 seconds. By then you may have moved to a different point in the codebase. Forget about switching branches when you are doing all this. I’ve tried PackageCompiler and weirdly it doesn’t really help here for some reason.

The worst part is there’s no way to run a subset of tests. You HAVE to run ALL the tests every time. This makes IDE driven development and test driven development absolutely non starters. REPL driven development is the ONLY way to go, and even the REPL has its readline quirks. And god bless Revise.jl. I shudder to think of life, it weren’t for Revise, the giant hack that it is.

There’s no officially blessed language formatter. LanguageServer.jl uses a formatter and JuliaFormatter.jl kind of exists on its own. And even these formatters don’t do enough, by the way (imo). Two examples that come to mind is converting explicit returns to implicit returns and changing using Foo -> import Foo: x,y. Not to mention the vim plugins for LSP and formatting are not great. Even the most popular Julia-vim plugin has some super odd opinionated un-vim like choices like high jacking TAB and the choice of commentstring syntax etc.

All this in daily development is painful as it is, and even more so when I have to review someone’s code. I’m a software engineer by training, and when I have to read domain specific code written by a scientist or a domain specific engineer, or worse when I have to refactor and clean it up, I cringe all the time. Try figuring out which method gets dispatched without using a repl, fun times. Maybe few people port a Pluto notebook script into a production application as much as I do but yikes is it painful. There is SO much down time. Wait for tests, wait for LSP, wait for formatter, wait for static analyzer with JET, make a change, rinse and repeat.

Contrast this to using Python, Rust, Zig, or Go and feedback is immediate! And unlike Julia, vscode isn’t the only golden editor. You can use pretty much any editor and you get first class support.

All in all, Julia as a language is super interesting. I would probably only use it for small personal projects though. Professionally, I would still stick with python / pypy, or even writing python and rust or go. Multiple dispatch alone isn’t worth the other pain points when working with a large team (>50 people).
Almost as if their job is to make sure that you pay taxes correctly... It really makes sense that they would want it to be correct as it is less potential work for them.
Offtopic reminder that Matrix supports voice and video calls via p2p
Actually proximity fuzed rounds should work the best, each taking outv many swarm memvers. Its not like these things could be armored rather than as light as possible.
In the UK 80% of the population don't even have to sign anything and send it back. The rest have some employment income information on a website and have to supply the rest of the data, I found it pretty straight forward when I did it for the first time.
Ask HN: Why does the west, especially USA, not clone TSMC?
People who worked like crazy, got COVID, recovered, and now don't want to take the vaccine as a consequence. Selfless heros to bad garbage, in less than 12 months.

Public health in a nutshell. The world will not forget.
Thanks, I know all of that. What made you think I don't?
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Something like that. $27 if it's 9 cents now. The 25 cent gap has grown to 40, and the 2.1% rate difference has shrunk to 1.5%
Right now, an infinite amount of time. Instagram is well alive (beside yesterday...), and has a fair amount of shared users with TikTok.
That’s precisely what happened. From the article:

> The jury awarded more than attorneys asked for their client, including $130 million in punitive damages and $6.9 million for emotional distress.
Phones - the old, analogue, direct cable ones - were self-sustaining, and kept running even when there was a power cut in the house.
You should take a picture with better lighting. Really makes your product look bad on first impression.
Doesn't matter in this case. If you use fb's platform in any way, deal with it - especially if that's the only straw in use.

People really should have other means and platforms to use and gravitate toward them. There is no good reason to prefer fb for anything.
>All of this was possible before the internet.

Sure, and before the invention of the telephone and telegraph you could just write someone a letter, and before the invention of the printing press you could just hire a scribe. Before the automobile you could just ride a horse. Before the cotton gin, just put some slaves in a field. Nothing is new under the sun.

Having all of this information available at one's fingertips and having the ability to communicate and publish globally, and practically for free, has been revolutionary in and of itself.
Paypal is a pretty scammy service also on the consumer side.

When paying in foreign currency, they try to trick users into using their "conversion" service, which helpfully charges a bit more money to your credit card than you would have paid without their "assistance".
I find it weird that it's STIR/SHAKEN that's constantly being mentioned. It won't actually change anything apart from people getting a more accurate source displayed.

The part that actually changes something is this:

> When the FCC notifies a gateway provider about an ongoing robocall campaign, the provider would have to [...] and "promptly block all traffic associated with the traffic pattern identified in that notice."

That's all that was needed for years. Make it the telco's problem to either point the finger at the next peer responsible, or block their customer. We didn't actually need the caller authentication for this - you can identify and flag calls without it. I'm happy this rule is coming, but I wish that was done earlier before the effort of fixing the callerid.
Deregulation of lobbying seems to have been the trigger, but any two party state with silly electoral systems like the U.K. and US is vulnerable to such polarisation.
Do you want a workplace culture where people hide their mistakes? Because this is how you create such a culture.
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Where are you scraping these listings from? Seem to have a ton in my area
I once have heard the phrase "the poor have every reason to work". Why not let them?

I know its overly simplistic but isn't the reason why the Matthew effect exists that we deny opportunities to poor people? If there are opportunities that make people not poor then shouldn't we allocate them to the poor first?
Intel is trying but hasn’t succeeded
It's better to just ask people about their experience and not to lead them with the question, not to exaggerate and assume they got disconnected from the world, not to call a website outage a global phenomenon. Otherwise it comes across as manipulative - it's like you're telling people what their experience was and only pretending that you're asking a question.
Yeah same here in Germany.

Zero ever on my mobile phone (and I know the number has been leaked by at least one breach).

Maybe 1 per month on the landline of my parents and these days it's exclusively "Microsoft" trying to "fix" their computer (weirdly enough with an English speaking scammer).

Either Germans are not a valuable target for "legit" companies or some regulation is working it's magic behind the scene.
> I’ve tried to engage with someone who blamed “the EU” for Russia annexing the Ukraine.

You mean someone blamed the EU for what Russia did under Catherine the Great (or whenever it was they originally annexed the Ukraine), or you mean someone blamed the EU for Russia annexing Crimea in 2014?
You should read Range, by David Epstein. I'm sure you'd find it enlightening.
I don't get this post. Yes a lot of people rely on Whatsapp, but what does the fact the company had an outage have to do with regulation?

There are other means of communication that people can fallback to. Your smartphone can still make calls and send SMS.
If I say I like the aesthetics of a MacBook, I don’t need someone telling me it’s because of the industrial design and the materials. I know that.

He knows what an e-ink display is. He knows it’s not lit. You don’t need to explain it to him.
Hey! There are several sites which provide this service. A while ago I put together a basic comparison of their features and pricing for different GPUs: https://mlcontests.com/cloud-gpu (best viewed on desktop).

Some offer both notebook and ssh, some just one of the two. The cheapest are often the p2p ones, where you essentially rent someone else's consumer gpu
Cost and lack of skilled workers. Fabs cost billions to build, then you need to have lots of guys working there who have lots of knowledge and experience.

The difficult part about bringing manufacturing back to the US is not the cost of rebuilding the factories but the loss of all those skilled workers over the last 30 years who have retired, died, or been retrained, or just plain old forgotten what they once knew.
I would find it entirely sensible to have something like 100M fine to government. And then a few tens of thousands to worker and attorney fees.

Paying the massive payout to worker and attorneys, just seems insane and resulting frivolous suites. Not saying this one was one.
I wonder if PayPal’s consumer protection is also part of the appeal?

I had to use the dispute resolution once. The merchant become unresponsive to all other means. PayPal ruled in my favour and provided a refund.

I’m not sure a credit card chargeback would have been as simple.
what part of their comment brought you to that conclusion?
>air quality

And that’s the reason why covid is still “not airborne”, despite the fact that, semantics aside, it’s anything but. The whole issue has become over politicized and academia has let itself take center stage of public policy.

So now we have this fixation on pharmaceutical intervention, as it could have been some miracle panacea. The more time passes, the less reasonable it is sounding and the more the same academia turned public policy maker is doubling down on them.
> If every claim of hostile workplaces resulted in similar settlements, every company would be bankrupt within a few years.

If every claim of hostile workplace involved a high up person yelling at black people to go back to Africa maybe a whole bunch of companies deserve to get hit with fines that actually encourage them to stop enabling that stuff, or go bankrupt and be replaced by companies that don’t tolerate their leadership doing that stuff.
> verbal abuse and bathroom grafiti, which most of us developed thick skin

Tesla claims to have a zero tolerance policy in place, so that excuse doesn't work for long term harassment. They basically admitted to a complete enforcement failure of their own policies. So the question is if Teslas management is that incompetent or racist and why their meme lord in charge hasn't done anything to fix the issue (outside of forced arbitration to silence workers).
>Now there is 1 single megacorp that a sizable portion of humanity depends on for phone/text communication.

Not out of necessity. It's not as if any one corporation controls the internet and has a monopoly on mobile communication the way JP Morgan used to control the railroads. Plenty of options to text and communicate other than through Facebook exist. People are dependent on one specific app because they choose to be, not because they have to be.

And "sizable portion of humanity" is overstating it. For the vast majority of humans, this was a non-event, or at worst, a slight annoyance.
I hadn't considered defining curiosity before. I looked up curiosity on wikipedia but didn't see an answer that I liked. A simple definition is that curiosity for something comes from the desire for a better mental model of that thing.

From my perspective in psychology and anthropology, evolution provides a better definition. The desire for a mental model is created mostly by the nature/nurture split in gene-culture coevolution, in which information is expensive when stored in DNA and cheap when stored in culture, hence creating a generic need for information intake, and thus a generic emotion to drive that need. "Curiosity" can then be defined as that emotion.

The circumstances which prompt that desire are determined by what "fun" is. Defining "fun" has a short and universal answer with a severe discursion into a long heuristics-and-biases approach. Judging fun requires the mind to make evaluations which are inherently difficult for System 1 to approximate, so behavior in practice very poorly approximates the short-form answer, especially as videogames explore its boundaries past what evolution is able to capably fit.

Both "curiosity" and "fun" have the problem that they are only linguistic concepts which converge as approximations to what people feel. These feelings have an unambiguous origin through evolution, which is the best way to create a description free of "common knowledge" (which relies on shared understanding to cover up vagueness). Even though the underlying definition is clear and consistent, people's usage is not so clear or consistent, and some tolerance for linguistic fuzziness is needed.

There are a few adjacent emotions which don't cleave in canonical ways, so the definition is also not canonical. I picked the emotion for mental modeling because that seems to be the origin of humans' approximate definition, and hence will best align with what people refer to in normal conversation. But you could also pick the exact concept that this emotion tries to approximate, and that would be an equally valid definition, just different. Or you could talk about information instead of modeling, but I won't.

Defining things through evolution may not be useful for laymen, because it's hard to tie evolution to behavior. But at least the definition can guide understanding even if the details are impossible to figure out. And this way, I get to sidestep your 4 questions by embedding them in the heuristics and biases that inevitably stem from an evolutionary approach.
Sure, this fits under the "few actual reasons" but think for a moment: does it make sense that access to a building is controlled only (keyword here) through a centralized location somewhere? Some DB who knows where? With no fallback?

You might need a break-glass account/badge somewhere. Sure, the angle-grinder works, but probably cost you 2h maybe?

> it's likely not on an fb subdomain, but something like office.security.fb-infra.com

Thanks, yeah, makes sense
Thank you very much, I also believe there is a decent market for such solution.
> faced a hostile work environment in which, he told the court, colleagues used epithets to denigrate him and other Black workers, told him to “go back to Africa” and left racist graffiti in the restrooms and a racist drawing in his workspace.

How do you even prove such a thing? Especially 5 years after you have left the place. And how does it not become a case of he said, she said?
And at 100 million plus, frivolous lawsuits really start look enticing. Maybe it really starts to makes sense to try even if the case is not very strong or even doesn't exist.

And this puts burden on both companies and legal system in general. Which I don't think is very desired.
“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”

— Thomas J. Watson, allegedly
I have a plan: You and me both get hired there, then you yell racist stuff at me, then I sue the company, then we split the $137M.

edit: we can switch roles if you prefer
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Not per se. Depending on the type of error made, that person might have become a pariah no one wants to peer with.
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I wonder if each participant in that class action is awarded similar amount to this 137 million.
Yes, they are spelling errors. Thank you for looking closely at the website. We definitely need to check it for some errors like this.
There are places in those and similar countries where that sort of income will let you own a house and car, raise a family and pets, even fit in a fairly cost-intensive hobby such as sailing/horseriding/cars/light aircraft if you don't go crazy. It's genuinely a slightly confusing situation to be in, compared to reading about Google employees making half a million a year - are you living a great life, or falling behind the modern world?

As a person living in a (relatively for the western world) low-cost-of-living area, making a decent income for a low-cost-of-living area, it sometimes feels like a local maximum. It would take a sizeable income jump to offset low cost of housing. No doubt the top world cities are the place to be, in terms of all kinds of fun and opportunities, but lifestyle would be worse there unless or until you'd broken into a really high income bracket.
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For me `a desire to know or learn` also has to do with being smart vs being wise.

Personally I think wise > smart.

Maybe the difference is that being smart means that you know how to apply knowledge and being wise means when to apply knowledge.

And maybe wisdom is about a desire to learn and being smart about a desire to know.
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