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> The numbers are probably not accurate, but there is no place where the numbers are accurate.

There's a huge difference between accuracy and unadulterated deception. If the numbers are off by 10%, you can claim it's inaccurate, but if the numbers are off by a lot more, it starts moving into deception territory. Right now, assuming the stories about urns being delivered to funeral homes are accurate, it sounds like numbers might be off my 2x or more. That's deception.
EU can't do anything meaningful under the current rules because far-right populist parties in Poland and Hungary veto everything EU could to against one of them.

I think things are allowed to get worse until main EU members decide that it's worth risking breaking the EU to get all countries to play with normal rules again or get them thrown out.

Fidesz–KDNP has been eroding the laws and norms more than a decade and they have put their people into universities, media and courts. I don't see easy way back to normal any time soon.
> Increasing entropy mitigates brute force attacks but not necessarily rainbow table attacks

No. All time-space trade-offs need to expend the entire attack effort once (and usually it's considerably more). Their advantages are that you can do this in advance (timeliness) and that you can re-use the product (which is what salt mitigates).

You can very simply increase entropy until the attack effort cannot be deployed at all, regardless of when. For example the 'pass' tool lots of people have mentioned in this thread defaults to 24 character random passwords, far more than 128 bits of entropy. As a result it simply isn't possible to deploy the attack effort even once, you can neither do a Brute Force attack nor build the Rainbow Table to find these passwords.

The way the Rainbow Table got famous is its application to the LM Hash, an old (but already terrible when it shipped) Microsoft password hash. LM Hash uses two 56-bit values to represent a password, naively this looks like 112-bits of entropy but you can attack each independently so it isn't.

Rainbow Tables took attacking this from something that could in theory work on any password but you'd get bored waiting for your "crack" program to finish if it wasn't trivial to a few minutes on a fast laptop for every possible password. Because it's a time-space tradeoff, so somebody put all the effort in once and then you can re-use it.
I like the idea of WireGuard as a simple tunnel, but I wish people would stop comparing it with VPNs. VPNs have lots of extra functionality that is necessary to support a variety of use cases, both functionally (like pushing routes or scripts to clients) and security-wise (like real key management and SSO).

I literally can't replace any VPN I currently use with Wireguard because I would lose needed functionality. I could maybe replace the tunnel to a bastion host, but even then I would actually be worse off security wise, because I'd be losing cert-based key management. (ex. https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/)
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From the outside it really seems like Orban is doing a good job defending his people from all sorts of onslaughts. Is that not the case? Would you have preferred to have a weaker leader, and open borders all this time?
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Yes. 86% globally, 70% from Seattle currently at the moment.

Here's a report on the state of things from a New Orleans ER doctor:

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/fpwc1y/front...
true, i dont know for sure, but i used to work in the space and it's how everyone i knew thought about courier compensation. theres only so many dollars a customer will pay for delivery[during normal times, its probably less elastic now] whether it's tips or delivery/service fees, and after cost of goods only so much left.
If your credit card bounces, I'm sure they'd have no problem killing your infrastructure
Ask HN: Anyone else find something odd about the Covid-19 crisis?
My argument is that the national security mechanisms of western nations are not so fragile to be brought to their knees by some people eating bats and snakes.

In WW2 the Japanese threatened to destroy key infrastructure using biological agents. the militaries of the world have had almost a century at the very least to prepare for this contingency. I don’t buy how unprepared they are.

I am curious to hear the thoughts of some smart people who hang out here.
That's what I've been doing, but I would like more official support for something as critical as VPN. I don't forward many ports across my NAT, so I really rely on the VPN to be rock solid. I am considering getting a second raspberry pi and running wireguard on two ports on two pis for redundancy (the ability to fix stuff after a bad update or me breaking something).
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The Chrome Extension "Dark Reader" has given me months of dark mode for hundreds of websites to include Stack Overflow. Given the long hours and late nights, it has been invaluable to both my productivity and eyesight.
If you haven't seen it, the new Dirk Gently tv adaptation is awesome. Not super connected to the books though.
Prison time isn't generally a risk for someone with enough wealth and connections to even catch wind of the offer to purchase a stolen Van Gogh painting.
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There are loads of shady poor people. Those of us in cities see them daily. Makes sense that there would be shady rich people, too.
That would be the Colorado river. I did a trip like that two summers ago (on rafts rather than kayaks), and there's (essentially) no communication with the outside world. I did think about how I would react if there were some major world event, but I can only imagine what it feels like for them.
> If my coworker says "I strike" and I stay at my desk, does that make me a "scab"?

Yes. Call it scab, strikebreaker, whatever; you are undermining your coworkers' demands and weakening the strike. Of course it's not easy to strike, but it's necessary if you support their demands. You show solidarity and support by striking with your coworkers. It's most powerful when done as a whole block.
>If my coworker says "I strike" and I stay at my desk, does that make me a "scab"?

Yes.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wuhan-residents-dismiss-...

> Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual numbers is at least 40,000

https://www.newsweek.com/wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-may-tens-...

> Some Wuhan residents estimate that the coronavirus death toll could be 26,000, based on the amount of urns being delivered and distributed across the city. Citizens on Chinese social media have said that seven Wuhan funeral homes will likely distribute 3,500 urns per day on average from March 23 to April 4, which marks Qing Ming, the traditional tomb-sweeping festival. By that estimate, 42,000 urns would be given out in the 12-day period.

Just a few sources, you can find many others if you look though.
The killer apps for tablets are art (like Procreate) and being able to use the tablet while lying down on the couch or on a bed.
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Yes. And / or a law : ).
Easy - sell for cash to drug cartels.
I recall looking at pg8000 in particular, but it didn't inspire confidence for our production use case. It had only 20 commits in 2019 and fewer than 100 stars. I also didn't have a good understanding of the performance tradeoffs (pypy/pg8000 vs C library).
> "Why do people on HN consistently presume that they somehow know better than the experts?"

There's actually a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism on HN, as evidenced by the persistent "People don't truly need a CS degree to be a qualified software developer; it's just gatekeeping." rhetoric one sees.
I agree and considered this as well. An anime Snowcrash could be great.
that sounds like an ideal candidate for orchestration tools like ansible, puppet, etc. Have them build/template out the config files for you
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Hello, would you please link us to the report made from Taiwan which reports H2H transmission in Dec 2019? My Google-fu failed me on this, thanks!
But what if they use company electricity to charge their personal devices?
There has been userstyle scripts for this for years as well.
Algo vpn is the best way to set up wireguard.
Reason is new. F# is not
Yes, but if you have comorbidities, it's easy for people to claim the cormorbidity is the cause of death.
There some bad judgment around, due, in my opinion, to a couple of main reasons:

- heavy Go marketing, which (intendedly or not) makes devs think that Go is "great at everything": you can't tweak memory management? that's a feature¹.

- simplified/misguided categorization into old language models: Golang is the new C, Rust is the new C++.

I think with a long enough time, the roles of the two languages will become significantly clearer.

¹: to clarify, that's a feature in some contexts, but not in others (therefore, not appropriate for "everything").
The simple reason for the difference is that poisons are only dangerous if they end up somewhere they shouldn't be. When we put lead in gasoline, it was going everywhere in the environment, including the air. Lead which is in a large enough chunk that it doesn't spontaneously become airborne is much less likely to end up inside of a human.

Brass also contains lead, which you almost certainly have inside of your house in a few places. Even 'lead-free' brass for plumbing contains some lead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass#Lead_content The key is that it has to be in low enough concentrations that it doesn't end up leaving the part and ending up in dangerous amounts inside of humans.

Unless you have occupational exposure, you have most likely not even come close to poisoning yourself even if you didn't follow any safety precautions. Lead is pretty bad, but it's not something that causes issues with any amount of exposure... you body can tolerate some lead exposure. A hobbyist that solders a dozen PCBs per year has a way different potential exposure than someone who solders a dozen per hour for 2000 hours per year.

> Like I don't see home depot selling liquid nitrogen wily nily. Same with oxygen tanks.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bernzomatic-1-4-oz-Oxygen-Gas-Cy...
For a VX-contaminated area, you can put your troops in NBC-ready vehicles (which most of your vehicles are) and simply drive through it. You can't do that for a minefield.
I remember seeing somewhere a video of Steve Wozniak showing off his old soldering technique, which involved holding a length of solder in his mouth so both his hands could be free... In the days before lead free solder...
Lisp is a compiled language with a REPL.
Isn't moving in itself solving the problem of location? I guess one of the issues is that the word "problem" has a broad definition and can lead to a lot of misinterpretations since many people use different definitions. Because it does not feel like the same type of problem solving that would befit solving a math problem, for example.

Other than that, whenever I did unskilled work I had to solve problems like: what to do if too many guests show up and you have too few chairs, because management calculated the wrong amount of people showing up?

Potential solution: get more chairs.

Alright, but how will you make it look aesthetically pleasing? The place is full!

Solution: ask some people to stand.

But some will politely stand, and will then have a bad taste in their mouth of the experience.

So on and so forth.
In some states, not all. Although I think the cares act may provide its additional unemployment money in either case.
"This should be done by the government. It feels unfair to pass this on to consumers"

Where do you think the government gets its money?

We tip our delivery / pickup people 5 bucks for orders which are well south of $100. Masks and hand sanitizers and gloves are what they need to do their jobs. That and customers keeping away from them 6-10 feet. You can't let yourself just walk up close to someone you see working in a store to ask them a question, like you could in the beforetime.

The take away is this- truck drivers, stocking clerks, checkout people are essential to a functioning society. Hollywood stars, entertainers and media personalities are not.
Here's a good thread on the issue, with Google Ngram evidence for the original phrase (we know which one that is ;), and another post with a hypothesis, echoed in a couple of subsequent posts, for the emergence of the rephrasing: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/283149/when-did-...

That rephrasing hypothesis is the best I've seen yet, but still not especially persuasive.
Ireland has started sending its flag-carrier passenger airline to China for PPE. https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127076-ppe-equipment-chin...
“Your Postmate is picking up your order from RIJKSMUSEUM. It should be ready for delivery on: the next quiet, moonless night.”
People just like owning things. Even if you didn't steal something like a street sign when in high school or college, surely you know somebody who did. They have no monetary value, just having one is proof of crime, and you could can go look at a stop sign any time you want. But there's still a thrill to having it up on your wall, and it can increase your status with your peer group.
The general public is only going to support strikes to the extent that they look like protests against unacceptable treatment. If the strikers start "flexing their labor muscle" - if it looks like they're exploiting rather than responding to the crisis - the millions of unemployed Americans are going to sour on it very quickly.
Personally, I think the technology just isn't there yet and there's a user interface design issue as much as there is a lack of software.

What could make a tablet come alive for me? First, a precise stylus technology like wacom or similar is a must. The only tablets I've ever found regular use for had this feature. I currently use my remarkable tablet the most, if you want to even call it a tablet. If I can't write on it, I think a tablet is pretty useless. It's clunky and hard to hold and move around with. But I regularly carry books or a pen and writing pad, etc.

Next up, the real breakaway technology would be some type of hybrid screen that can act as both an E-ink screen and something more conventional with back-lighting and color. Something good enough to watch a movie on.

Next, input technology on a tablet sucks. I think tablets should have physical buttons and multiple USB ports and things like that. Bluetooth can be done right, but it's so often done with such cheap hardware that the end result is just unusable, and it's not a real option. A better wireless connection standard could work, particularly one that specified hardware capabilities that were actually sufficient.

Finally, in terms of software, I think the real breakaway technology would be a really seamless and effortless cloud syncing where you never really have to leave one computing environment for another. If I'm reading something on my computer, and I realize its time to make dinner or something, I'd love to be able to just pick up my tablet and carry on where I left off without really having to do anything. Just turn on my tablet and it acts like a seamless extension of my desktop or something.

There's a LOT of technologic magic that would have to happen to make that work though! It may not ever be quite possible, and worse, it may not even be desirable for a broad user base! And none of the above really address the complete scope of user input issues. Keyboards are great. Most modern UI design is crap compared to old-school keyboard navigation. (Though I must once again give a shout-out to Microsoft's Office approach to this. No need to remember an impossilby long list of shortcuts. One press of the alt key and your path is illuminated before you. Whoever designed that concept deserves a medal.)

I think a lightweight 2 in 1 workstation concept with a stylus is probably just a superior idea all around.
Convincing people of what?

I openly acknowledge that I'm incompetent at soldering. Are you encouraging me to use leaded solder?
I wonder if the thinking was to make it deliberately uninviting and difficult like the Bloomberg terminal to make people feel cooler while using it (which is a legitimate thing - i'm not saying that glibly at all. People that master the bloomberg terminal feel like wizards which certainly contributes to lockin, and that sort of needlessly difficult UX is somehow associated with being "cool" or being like a "real command center" somehow)
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> Channels are just queues and passing methods.

My understanding is channels in `go` are 0 sized by default- and thus turn into "rendezvous channels" that can be used to synchronize progress between threads.

This article compares Go and Rust threads and includes an example of how go uses channel's to synchronize. [0]

[0] - https://medium.com/@deckarep/paradigms-of-rust-for-the-go-de...
Sure — but the point is that it isn’t a viable discount for most people who are laid off — regardless of your income level. A decade ago, when I went off my parents insurance (and before the startup I worked at offered insurance), COBRA was $1200 a month — it was more than my rent at the time. But my medication costs were $1500 or $1600 a month (primarily for an ADHD drug that was still under patent and no generic was available), so I paid it anyway. That was in part because my parents had really good insurance — and you’re paying to extend the same plan, you’re not able to negotiate for a different plan. When I last switched employers a few years ago, the COBRA amount was similarly high (I didn’t use it because my new employer had insurance but I saw the COBRA forms). Unemployment wouldn’t cover rent for many people — let alone COBRA.
Thank you -- yes, this ventilator work is the modern equivalent of a side project, as far as it's possible in the covid age. Advice and communications work takes less of my time on the ventilator front since it's the companies doing the actual manufacturing.
Yeah, especially as the idea that adding windows support won't end up affecting public APIs is pretty naive. Windows and unix-like systems have very different APIs for lot's of things, and it's very easy to fall into designing something unix-specific if you don't make it cross-platform from the start.
>contributing employees who are not understood by their bosses

Indeed, this is a problem too. In that case I'd point the finger at the boss who can't recognize what is and isn't a valuable contribution.

None of this is 100% exact science, but have you worked with someone who did nothing but somehow kept their job, no problem, not even an eyebrow raised? I have, and these types of people won't last if the performance metric changes from time in seat to work produced.
> The concentration of surviving retail businesses into big box stores and higher-end retailer

$/ft^2 is the metric to look for. That correlates with "high end" retail (high dollar items that take up less floor/warehouse space).

I think we could see a boon of brick and mortars that are smaller and more optimized. Just an anecdote, I know of a local music shop that cut its floorspace in half about 5 years ago and started offering staple items as a subscription service (e.g. reeds, guitar strings, bow rosin, whatever), while the bigger items had their shelf space rented out to vendors rather than taking commission on sales. Another anecdote, StitchFix and Bonobos have both provided solutions to the problem of selling clothes without stocking various sizes at a retail location.

There's a lot of opportunity to innovate retail in my opinion. The issue has always been the sales model, and I think that focusing on "big box" stores is wrong - they're just more equipped to weather the storm. Department stores died a decade ago, it just took this long for their bodies to hit the ground. Same for big box retail.
On the other hand, that level of centralisation of soverignty isn't popular.
Ditto Firefox
> Panic buying: the action of buying large quantities of a particular product or commodity due to sudden fears of a forthcoming shortage or price increase.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+panic+buying
Ask HN: Advice for Raising from Family Offices?
Hi! We're working on an esports brand that we previously raised pre-seed for by doing traditional VC.
However, for our seed round, we've received some advice to look into raising from family offices and UHNW individuals. This is completely out of my expertise. Are there any strategies/guidelines/suggestions for doing so?

Thanks!
That's because insurance is expensive. The price you pay for COBRA is identical to how much that policy cost while employed, except that while employed the employer is paying a large share of the cost, and while on COBRA you pay the full cost yourself. Spending some time on COBRA is a good way to appreciate the high cost of insurance.

I spent 12 months on COBRA when I started my startup, and while I didn't enjoy paying close to $2,000 per month for insurance I couldn't buy a comparable plan on the open market for my family for less.
There is a difference between taking seriously in the sense of "I am reporting a crime, please actually investigate it" (which, yes, often doesn't cause a crime to be investigated) and "I am afraid for my well-being and/or am being held hostage in my own home; please send a police escort to rescue me from my house; and then, optionally, please take me into protective custody, so that I may be safe for a few days while filing a motion of a restraining order."

The police are very well-trained to respond to the latter request. They might not have the capacity for protective custody (some do, some don't), but they'll at least do the "ensure you are escorted safely away from your home" part 100% of the time. They'll usually be willing to take you to a relative's home, if they live nearby; or, if not, to an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence, if your city has one. You'll usually be asked to file a police report; you'll be given a case number, and the contact information of someone in the police department you can reach out to if your abuser is stalking you. It's sort of a "pre-restraining order"—the police can't legally stop the other person from being where you are, but they'll usually be willing to come and intercede if your abuser just shows up near you in public and tries to intimidate you. (This helps the police as well on what is now your open case, because they'll be witness to whatever happens between you and your abuser.)
EDIT: I am wrong and can't add. Jan 30th was two months ago. Leaving this here to remind me not to post on HN pre-coffee.

> Three months ago there were rumors that there was something brewing in some part of China most people had never heard of.

Three months ago was January 30th. The number of cases on that date was 7,711 and the number had been increasing at roughly 50% every day for WEEKS at that point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–20_coro...
But how do they even know? If the driver stuffs it away in their sock or whatever how do they even know ?
You think that mentality is the reason for all the fake products on Amazon? Don't go blaming be if the customer can't tell the difference.
Congress was even briefed as such. They then went and sold their stocks, while downplaying it to the rest of us.

AOC is right, it's time to make stock trading flat-out illegal for members of congress. They hold index funds or nothing.
My experience is that the more powerful the employer, the harder it is to organize.

To your direct point, this is why you organize entire industries within a given geography for service work rather than employer by employer. (It's also why there's been a big push over the last year towards sectoral bargaining.)