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Can you tell me what your graph is supposed to show?

Bear in mind that Nembro has a population of 11,616 according to google. That would mean an excess death rate of approx 1000 out of 100,000 if we use the 123 excess deaths from the article. Compare that to 40.2 from here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31401203/

Now I’m not saying that Nembro is typical or even that all my data is apples to apples, it’s just the only data I’ve found where we can compare death rates in any way. The crude death rate for the whole of Italy here: https://knoema.com/atlas/Italy/Death-rate

It’s interesting that you call the data poor - this is exactly the data we should be looking for. I’d love to see this kind of data for the whole of Italy for the last 10 years to compare to the last few months.

The other data coming in is the dangerous stuff to me. We can’t tell if someone died of covid, or simply had it when they died. Every country has different testing regimes. Ultimately the death stats will give us the full picture.

Differing perspectives welcome.
I've been revisiting Crichton lately, and I guess I never realized how big of an impact he had on pop culture. Him and Tom Clancy were such a big part of the 90s, and I am enjoying their slight resurgence.
I was responding to a comment that explicitly said they couldn’t find the information in the Twitter thread.

I was clearly also making a meta-comment about Twitter misinformation, so the patronizing part was inevitable.
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I'm well aware that popularity does not equate to quality, but at the same time surviving every effort to replace it denotes SOMETHING, that critics routinely fail to address.

My comment was not to the article directly, but rather to the above poster who seemed so joyous at a "takedown". That's the attitude that is so tiresome. Good-natured pointing out of idiosyncrasies like the "wat" video ARE funny, but people that use them to look down on others aren't. Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but that could be to having my profession belittle me for the past several years...
Has it? I've literally only heard about it today because of an article posted here. Is it just a bubble effect going on?
Man, I shoulda jumped shipped last time I upgraded and taken advantage of some deal some other carrier had for switching. Maybe that's the lesson for me: always switch carriers when it's time to upgrade.

I appreciate what John Legere did to stir some competition in the carrier space, so it's a bummer to see him go, and I have no doubt T-Mobile will slowly rollback all its consumer-friendly changes (not that they've continued to make many more in recent years).
> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland

I'm a single data point but I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 and I'm not running Wayland. I don't remember if I opted out during the installation or if I wasn't given the choice.

The top reason to stay on X11 is that no screen sharing application work with Wayland (Meet, Slack, Skype) and I need them a few times per week to work with my customers.

This was more or less your point but from a different perspective.
The 2008 remake scared the crap out of me as a kid. I should rewatch it sometime.
Legere really turned around TMobile and changed the industry by getting rid of contracts and doing better prices.
Winston Churchill. Also, Iraq was allied with the US and other capitalist interests and had effectively a crony-capitalist economy.
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There is nothing that offers a "brady bunch" view in as scalable way as zoom does. It's enabling types of interaction that aren't available on any other platform.
Florida, only state w/5000+ cases that has not to issued 'stay-at-home'
Sorry, I am going to be the insensitive sleazeball here.

The point of staying at home is not that if you get this disease you are going to die. The issue is that if we ALL get it then a larger proportion of people are going to die because we don't have enough hospitals.

We had to choose some people as being important enough that they are allowed to be out and about and use some of that valuable limited healthcare resources while the rest of us try really hard not to get sick and risk going to the hospital. If this goes south, you may wish that you were one of the people who got the disease early.

Farm labor has always gotten the short end of the stick and this is an added burden. I would vote to give them extra income during this period if that was being considered. But the fact is that they are part of the food chain in this country and so are considered "essential" people to continue doing their jobs.
MRIs are expensive. X-Rays are dangerous, but if you’re about to give someone radiotherapy I would think negligible. Especially if it means you can better target the treatment dose.

Also getting secondary cancers years down the line isn’t an issue for palliative type treatments.

So plenty of uses.
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Thanks! This is actually an interesting distraction.
How do you explain successful fully remote orgs such as Gitlab, Hashicorp, and Zapier (in no particular order, just off the top of my head)?
Agree. Fast food workers are more likely to come in contact with super spreaders in the network than farm workers.

Would be interesting to see Italian, Spanish, French data on infections by profession.

I'd guess its going to be biased to travelers(travel related professions), travel sector(airports, hotels, stations etc), health workers, seniors/patients already in hospital for something else, and families of all of the above.
I found out the main reason why passwords are limited length even when using modern hashing techniques.

The problem is caused by the way multi-round password hashing algorithms are designed. Specifically, in each round, the full contents of the password is concatenated with the previous round's hash result as the input to the next round. This means that the processing complexity of password hashing is proportional to `number of rounds * password length`. Because the implementation has to tune the number of rounds to their authentication server's performance, and because the tuning is performed on "normal length" passwords, this opens the authentication servers up to a DOS attack by overwhelming them with very long passwords which is only a problem because password hashing has quadratic complexity thanks to this design. Thus, in response, administrators are forced (!) to limit password length just so their authentication servers can't be attacked.

This design flaw (imo) could be pretty easily solved by hashing the user provided password once first, and then using that hash to concatenate each round. This changes the complexity to `number of rounds + password length` (note the "+" !). As a secondary benefit, the multi-round hashing step actually becomes constant time because all inputs are the same length! In fact, I wonder if the current design makes it possible to infer a user's password length from timing attacks on the authentication servers while a user is logging in.

I've not got any satisfactory cryptographic reason why we still use this design for password hashing besides platitudes like "don't roll your own crypto", appeal to authority "It's been designed by the experts", or stupid reasons like "but network bandwidth!" -- as if an http authentication request that's 4kb is gonna slow down the network vs a 3kb request (and this is a worst case of a relatively huge 1kb password!). Availability is an important part of security, and sacrificing both availability (vulnerability to DOS) and security (admins forced to limit password length) seems like a doubly whammy argument against the current design.
But in answer to "why is HN shitting all over Zoom", I think the answer is "because they aren't doing good enough".

There's no malice there (on the posters' side). If Zoom does better people won't have cause for shining a flashlight on their data privacy policies or security holes. We will see if Zoom grows up fast, since the momentum towards them is already so large I don't see it changing prior to the Fall when schools might risk re-evaluating their tools.
"no true scottsman" is irrelevant at the level of the philosophy of Marx/Engels. Communism is a stateless, classless society where mass productive capacity allows for the maxim "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" can prevail. Such a society has never existed, and the so-called communist governments of the USSR and CCP bear no resemblance to it. If you want to criticize Marx, you have to actually criticize his ideas, not some paper-thin kindergarten response that misunderstands both Marxism and Capitalism.

It should be obvious that Capitalism is not a "decentralized" system. It is consolidated in the firm through monopoly, it is consolidated in the state via coercive bodies like the military and the police, and it is consolidated in finance which to a large extent plans the international economy. The Ron Paul idea of competitive free markets has never been real, and capitalists themselves would be the first to destroy it.
You say "increase the cost of labor" like it's nothing. Fact is, industries like this couldn't be operated on the up and up in the US- people wouldn't buy the product at the price it'd need to be sold for.

I'm not saying this to justify the current conditions, I'm just pointing out that it's this or an eradication of the industry.

edit: an eradication I'm totally fine with.
Voice controls are a living hell with kids in the car.
Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
> That's a reasonable option for what "Catalina" might mean from context clues.

Agreed! But my comment was in reply to someone who wants you to believe that he genuinely read "99.999%" as a claim about the size of the Mac user base. His game is not one of context clues, and you don't need to play it.
april fools commits, in THIS economy?
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That is a really important detail I must say.
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Would love to see the source of those macros
I use webex multiple times, every day of the week, and audio, video and scree sharing.

Maybe it depends on your timezone, but I honestly haven't noticed any issues at all with webex.

One of my colleagues was complaining about it the other day - I asked if he was connected to the company VPN, and sure enough, he was. Once he disconnected, he said webex was back to normal again.

Like many others, our company has had to quickly buy a lot more VPN licenses, and is finding out it doesn't have the bandwidth to service everyone using the VPN.
If this is an issue that really bugs you, perhaps consider working for a company that has similar values to you.

Working for tech in the valley is going to be extremely biased on focused differentiation, so cost containment has a lower priority.

On the other hand, the people I know in logistics and manufacturing are extremely concerned about cost containment. For them, charging more for the product/service is orders of magnitude more difficult than cutting costs—indeed, improving efficiency is often the primary method of growing the company (through lower prices or increased output). Such companies, even ones making hundreds of millions in revenue, would be very interested in proposals that save $100k/year.
What is with Zoom misspelling everything? Their shady installer pops up "System request administrator privileges", and the code it runs misspells "retina" as "reitna".
You can't convince me that welfare services like medicine or food programs aren't part of the "production or distribution of goods and services". The reason you can't convince me is because you're wrong.
I don't think kids today are as "hacky" as before, or rather, systems of today are just more polished and there's less reason to understand underlying details vs. abstractions.

For a DNS service that could become a kind of LetsEncrypt of DNS, its use case will be a little bit of everything. Cloudflare already has to make moral and social policing decisions, but then again, the bigger your company, the more morally interesting decisions it has to consider. This is especially the case when you're the kind of infrastructure company that serves the world.

Moral filters are going to be about the enforcement of moral norms. Are sites about condom usage, abortion, STD's, premarital sex, and homosexuality an adult topic? Are race relations an adult topic? Are shootings an adult topic? Is this going to be the kind of filter you lift at precisely the age of 12?

There's naturally going to be a lot of questions about how a filter is going to interact with situations, because it's going to be Cloudflare's vision of the web. In my view, DNS settings are often things other people set up for you and you don't really think about it.
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Your icon is very close to the BDSM icon! example: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/20/5e/5f/205e5fa719e6063ed5c3cfba8...
Yep. I keep checking for availability announcements from Starlink. 5 Mbps ADSL was "acceptable" for casual use, but is not so good for working from home.
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I wonder if the people that are condescending about Patrick's effort have ever done cold outbound prospecting and sold anything in their lives. But who am I to make assumptions...

Patrick, great job for:

1) trying something different and being persistent and polite, but not annoying

2) reaching your objective, and

2) documenting it in a post.

You've got the result on your side, and you found one possible way to get there. Are there others? Sure! Get an intro via a mutual connection, etc. You chose the one that worked for you given your constraints / circumstances.

When I saw your slide, my immediate reaction was "he must have been at Accenture". Looks like the templates haven't changed since I left in 2013 :-)
South Korea is an extremely democratic country. They have one of the highest voting rates of any country and have a very strong culture of protesting against injustice. The reason they are doing OK is because they rose up to remove their former president, who was the daughter of the former dictator and who was abusing her power, and replaced her with a much less corrupt leader. The entire country is working together from the bottom up instead of being forced to do things from the top down. Koreans feel allegiance to their country, rather than their leader (although their president is fairly popular among most people), so when they are asked to wear masks and such they do so willingly. I guess I don't see how caring about your neighbors is authoritarian.

The US actually has a problem because our government is a bit too centralized. The state governors are often afraid to take initiative because Trump may withhold resources if they don't go along with his narrative. We also put too much faith in the CDC and FDA to develop tests quickly.

Strong leadership is different from authoritarianism. Non-authoritarian leaders produce results by inspiring their communities to help willingly. Authoritarian leaders have to micro-manage everything, which can sometimes work, but fails miserably if they are not competent. We are paying the price for electing an authoritarian who values obedience and loyalty over everything else.
I am currently running Gnome in wayland and multiple displays with different fractional scaling settings, it works fine. On the other hand in Xorg I can't set different scaling factor for each monitor (at least gnome doesn't allow it), neither can I use fractional scaling.
>that force is held back by governmental units because of the threat of backlash by residents. this keeps their power in check. don't give that up.

You seem to be implying that, absent such a threat, the government would be employing force against citizens regardless of their compliance, simply because they could get away with it. If so, is it not more likely that restraint is due to the purpose of the state's monopoly on force being to coerce compliance, and as such is simply not necessary when the public is already compliant?

In other words, that the government is holding itself in check far more than the public is?
It's possible to succeed while being non optimal.
But some people are going to have to be exposed. Farmworker's exposure helps us flatten the curve.
Certain topics, combined with the (relatively) low bar in order to comment, and an intellectually dishonest approach that drive-by commenters may take, make HN a very poor place for such topics (as you noted, given the amount of 'grey').

For those who have not yet been exposed to a particular topic that has those characteristics, such a warning is prudent, and appreciated.

Whether it's even possible to have constructive discussions on some topics on the wider Internet at all, remains to be seen.
The question is more about how to compete.

For example, there are few indie games that managed to get a lot of sales because they innovated in terms of technology or ideas, like factorio or minecraft. Yet those games are pretty ugly, they're not "HD", while there are too many indie games that are HD with high poly graphics.

Indie devs don't have money, so they obviously cannot compete on the art and content. They have to make games nobody is making, and not hesitate to make pixel art or low poly content to concentrate on the gameplay. They cannot compete with big studios on content. It's too time-expensive.

This is the most important thing that people forget about games: the content doesn't matter. 3D artists don't matter. Games are not CG movies. Unless you're Kojima or final fantasy, nobody cares about cinematics. Game developers must focus on the gameplay and stop advertising about fancy graphics. This is a never-ending problem of video games since the 3D era: too much focus on the graphics, and no efforts on the gameplay, game balance, game theory, mechanics, reward system, difficulty, game lifespan, etc.

> What engines are you suggesting

If you're not aiming for bleeding edges graphics, you can use an graphics engine, or make your own. For physics and other stuff, there are plenty of libraries. I'm just saying unreal and unity are not engines, they're framework/platforms. They impose too many contraints, and you can't do everything you want with them. Not to mention the IP or business side.
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In some ways, the NSA is actually not a bad choice: it's constitutionally required to uphold free speech (can't censor anything), and I don't think it can sell your data to advertisers either. And, the NSA can collect your data anyway from US based providers via PRISM or NSLs. The main risk is it creating a MITM.
Another win for Big Business. The 2nd Gilded Age is alive and thriving.
I dunno, personally I enjoy working with Matt and like that he feels this way about us. FWIW I don't really believe it's even possible to rank people based purely on talent. I worked with some incredibly talented engineers in my time at Mozilla and I came to realize that we all have our specialties and we work best by using our individual skills to work together. (I was a little fanboy-ish about working with Brendan Eich when I started but had my "aha" moment when he started asking me toolchain questions. :)
Is it possible to use XWayland for X forwarding? I've used X forwarding on macos with no problems, using XQuartz.