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> Mine is 0.

To be perfectly fair, the current lockdown _IS_ going to kill people that would've survived otherwise. People that now won't go into emergency rooms out of fear of contracting Covid19, poor people whose source of income is completely dried out. And longer term, this is going to cost massive amounts of money, a fraction of which would of course be used to prolong someone's life in some way, eventually. I think the question raised in this thread is simply one of "what's the trade-off". It's very clear that there are costs to this lockdown, and at least to me it's also very clear that that some of those costs are human lives.
However, we can't estimate those costs. We do have a guess of the rough fatality rate of covid19, and we do have models that will tell us how many people will die if we don't go into lockdown. But we don't have the same luxury for estimating the amount of people hurt and dead because of it that could otherwise be saved. We can quantify the monetary loss, but not how much of that loss would've otherwise gone towards saving lives. I think the question of "what are the human costs of this lockdown" is a fair one to ask. Don't get me wrong, I too think the lockdown makes sense and overall does save lifes. But the lockdown is not without risk, and even more importantly: I have not seen any estimate of the risk. Is it lower than 0.5-5% of the population? I think so, but both of us haven't done the math, so you talking down to people who ask about it is wrong.
Personal data is data that identifies a natural person, or that can be used to identify a natural person, not that is produced by a natural person.

What do you think the new subject access rights, notably the right to data portability, are intended to achieve, if you interpret the definition of personal data so narrowly?

The GDPR actually defines personal data as "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)...", which is significantly different to what you wrote.

It seems to be widely understood, including acknowledgement in various statements by EU officials, that these provisions were aimed squarely at businesses like social networks to avoid them locking users in by holding the user's data hostage. That seems to be exactly the scenario we're talking about here.
I bought a jfk sfo ticket last week. By Sunday, Delta had lopped off almost all of the transcontinental service, had eliminated red eyes, and replaced most planes with a220s, which are the smallest main line jet they use.
Essentially they’re selling disks as “raid compatible”. This implies the disk will perform well under constant pressure: resilvering a raid disk of these sizes can easily take several days.

However, they have cut corners / optimized costs that assumes the drive is not under constant pressure, but rather mostly idle. What this implies is that they likely just have a hybrid magnetic/ssd backend, which is what the outrage is about.
This has been discussed a bit on r/DataHoarder, you might want to go read there.
Quite the opposite. The ads I still see often advertise how these companies can help during Covid 19. The only companies making money at the moment are those that help people work from home or manage their life and business despite the virus. If done right, that can be a powerful message.

And I don't think many companies are concerned appearing next to a Covid article, they're ubiquitous anyway. They just need to save money and online marketing can be cut within minutes.
If they worked so far, they will continue to work in the future.

With my limited understanding, the new models will fail under intensive work-loads. For example adding them to existing RAID setups to replace a failed drive, where in the beginning they have to be sync-ed and they fail under load after a few hours (either by dropping in performance or not being recognized at all).

They will work reasonable well under lower loads (more common for home NAS setups).

The biggest problem, and what the article is trying to point out, is that Western Digital (and Seagate) are doing all they can to hide this info from customers. They even advertise the HDD as being NAS/RAID friendly, when they are clearly not meant for that type of loads.
Mainly the grammar.
The days when the primary mission of IS&T was to develop custom software to run Apple are probably long past. The big exception is Radar, an ideosyncratic issue-tracking system which was developed in-house by IS&T around 1990. As far as I know, Radar is still used in R&D and elsewhere at Apple.

Tim Cook probably couldn't care less about the internal affairs of IS&T. As long as they do their job, play by the rules, and don't impose too much overhead on the company, it's all good.
If you think a comment is inappropriate, flag it. Don't complain about it -- the guidelines ask you not to. Just flag it.

I found that guideline when looking for the 'discourage joking' guideline.

I never found the joking one, though. I don't think that it exists.

I sort of get what you mean that it's discouraged, but I don't think it's something as broad as 'joking', more like "Jokes require substance and relatability to the topic, class, and cleverness".

HN has quite a few funny people.
The problem is that as the lock downs work, it's easy to lose sight of what could have been, they stop it getting out of control and it still looks bad as there was the initial clump of infections, but the abstract hundreds per day that are dying are still fairly remote for most of us as only 1%-2% of many of our populations got infected. One can still throw around figures of "it's less death than this" or "the lock down is causing X amount of economic + societal misery".

The scientific consensus seems to be that if the disease had just been left to run it's course, even with people being moderately careful given how infectious it is, it would have caused huge death figures. Perhaps that might be proved wrong when we see some countries that simply socially distanced instead of locking down, but was it ever worth the risk?

All these "well, it's bad, but look at the economic damage" have to be weighed against what could have been, not what is. And we just can't imagine this, we can say it, but how many of us can imagine 10,000s dead per day?

Your Aunt dead, a colleague dead and your best-friend's Dad dead, your Butcher's Grandmother dead, your barista's sister dead, a teacher at your primary school dead, your football team's goalie dead. And more, and more. Of the few hundred people you know you would have known several people who would have died, or the thousand or so you are a 2nd connection to you would have heard of many deaths.

On top of that all, New York and the UK only really have Italy and Spain to look at as any sort of predictor. They now have to watch just two countries to see what happens when they start easing the restrictions, and due to the massive lag between infection and hospitalisation/death and insufficient testing capacity, it's all still guess work.

Lift it a week or two too early, and you might have to go into another lock down in a few months time.
They have a higher average failure rate but even backblaze still uses them. If you're defending against defects in product lines you want the most diverse set of drives possible to make the failures uncorrelated. Having to use drives with higher failure rates doesn't invalidate that benefit.
Are there specific drugs you think would be helpful in treating COVID?
In my experience many of those "outside dwellers" aren't exactly pacifists themselves..
Not sure if that isn't just an easy way for companies to save money. Not all companies want to go around telling others they're struggling. Cutting ad budgets online or with newspapers due to Covid can be an easy way to cut expenses without getting public attention.
I am well past 10,000 hours of waste on this one.

Still, I vastly prefer it due to the greater ability to customise my graphical environment based on my own preferences and ergonomic needs. The biggest advantage for me is being able to choose my own window manager. I use bspwm + sxhkd now, which I haven't quite mastered, but has allowed me to choose how it works, rather than forcing me to adopt its own vision.

I even split my time between a MacBook Pro and my Linux laptop for ~4 years just to try it out. OS X is almost hassle-free, and relatively well-designed, but not as openly customisable.

The biggest time sinks on desktop Linux for me have been the usual suspects:

- graphics

- monitors

- sound

- poor battery life

- wifi (although I have not had issues since I adopted iwd)

- sleep/hibernate (or rather, awakening from them reliably, 100% of the time)

- and, of course, having to deal with outsiders who expect you to have things like Adobe Acrobat, and then you have to find a workaround or go to the library to use a Windows box.

I admit that some of these are self-inflicted, and would likely not be a problem if I just used something like Ubuntu in its default setup.
> Why does that happen?

Because with DM-SMR drives there is usually a non-shingled area on the drive used as a buffer. Once the buffer is full, performance tanks dramatically as tracks are being rewritten. This is especially true in my experience when writing lots of smallish files vs several very large files.
Its behaviour isn't reproducible unless you've frozen your dependencies, and once you've frozen them it becomes very difficult to upgrade any of them. And if your project is itself a library then freezing is basically not viable, so every developer is testing with a slightly different set of dependency versions.

This combines poorly with the fact that venvs are stateful and easy to get mixed up. If you accidentally run the pip install for project A in the terminal window for project B, then you have quite possibly permanently fucked up that venv - there's no reliable way to roll back to the previous state - and if you regenerate it from scratch then, per the previous point, you'll probably get different versions of your transitive dependencies. If your tests were previously passing and now fail - or, worse, were previously failing and now pass - then you're gonna have to abandon whatever you were previously doing for an unknown length of time and deal with this.

Beyond that, those two commands (already twice as many as I'd like) don't tell you anything about how to run unit tests or package up your application for distribution, so you've got a bunch more commands to memorise, which tend to vary between one project and another because how to do those things also changes every two years. And since venv and pip were only included in quite recent versions of Python, if you've got some projects that are using older versions too then you have to memorise a couple more sets of commands for that stuff as well. The whole thing's such a mess that it almost makes docker seem like a sensible idea.
Write performance (particularly random access writes) is degraded because of the way data is written to the disk.

Unfortunately, the nature of RAID means that you can be dealing with a lot of random writes. Further, when a drive fails and you want to replace it, you are pushing massive amounts of writes to the new disk.

A lot of this is due to the Shingling. Like shingles on your roof, the physical locations where data is written overlap. The problem is that if you need to update an already written location, you may also need to update surrounding bits. This is where the random write performance degradation comes from.
> At the end of the day, if a doctor is prescribing medication against clinical guidelines, surely the doctor is at fault?

Even if you assume that's the case, there's no reason a doctor being at fault would mean nobody else can be at fault.
No raises is gonna be the new norm then.

And the stock market has been pumped globally, which shows the Economy has nothing or very little to do with the stock market.
> Try suggesting that you can run a software business without using GitHub as your single point of failure^W^W^W^Wsource control system, and a lot of young developers will just laugh and wonder what you've been smoking.

TBH, I've never worked at a company that would host their source code at a third party service. At my first job, we wouldn't even use a web UI for the repositories (I still think that's not all that useful to begin with). At my current job, we use cgit. We use Jira (that we pay for, obviously), but as to source control --- a company hosting it on GitHub? Never seen it with my own eyes. But I work as a C++ dev, so maybe it's different here than, say, in webdev world.
> It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles.

Profiles in Chrome and their ease of use (Cmd+Shift+M to open a new window in a different profile) is the primary reason I still use Chrome over Firefox. I have a Personal, a Work, and a Development profile. The development profile is where I install dev extensions like React Devtools, Redux Devtools, etc. because they require full access to all sites in order to function. I don’t do regular web browsing with devtools installed. These tools seem trustworthy, but why risk giving them access to everything I do on the web?

I’ve tried Firefox Containers and can’t find the same power and ease of use Chrome Profiles have.
Didn't leave I just went out for cigarettes.
> Traditional unices allow arbitrary bytes with the exception of 00 and 2f, NTFS allows arbitrary utf-16 code units (including unpaired surrogates) with the exception of 0000 and 002f.

For just Windows -> Linux you can represent everything by mapping WTF-16 to WTF-8.
I tried QEMU on my Linux laptop to try to use a Windows VM for testing some of my projects... it was extremely slow, difficult to setup, and after I restarted my laptop, the VM wouldn't boot anymore... googling the error, I just found some people asking for lots of magic commands to be run, then I was supposed to understand the error and run some more commands appropriately to fix things... I just uninstalled QEMU instead.

I get it that this is the Linux experience :D you fix stuff by knowing your CLI... but this makes it a huge time-waster for times when all you want is test your actual product.

Is this experience typical for anyone else? Or am I, after all these years using Linux, still challenged on the terminal and need to tough the hell up?
I hope IMF is wrong as usual.

https://www.ft.com/content/60581224-3335-11e8-b5bf-23cb17fd1...
Unproven means exactly that. It means customers will not plop down billions to buy them. They will wait until it's demonstrated that the reactors will almost certainly work for their projected lifespans, that all the new parts aren't going to fail early, from all the unknown unknowns that new technology is subject to.

And all that means that new reactor technologies are not going to be really available for decades, and will be competing not with renewables and storage now, but the renewables and storage that will be available for purchase decades hence.
> What this implies is that they likely just have a hybrid magnetic/ssd backend

No need for hybrids. DM-SMR drives usually have a non-SMR zone acting as a write buffer, similar to the SLC write buffers in non-SLC SSDs.
Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain
After seeing entire books presented in a hosted Git repo (generally Github), I am really thinking about presenting more writing this way. Things can be in any order, in any number of files. It can be a 5- or 500-page "book"/wiki.
Why is payment relevant to lawsuits?
You're right, but I'd classify Sweden as medium response. They still have measures in place, just not as harsh.

With poorer countries (which applies to most of Africa), I guess it'll take several months or years until we know what the excess death rate was. Esp. in rural communities, that data probably often won't be reported as a Covid death. Even Northern Italy had an excess death rate 2x as high as the reported deaths and they had all the attention.
> Elon Musk/Thiel made billions, well they happen to be at the right place at the right time with Paypal. Once you make billions, then making more billions is super easy, that's not luck, but a function of wealth.

If anybody thinks building a Space and a Car company is 'easy' is just delusional.

Space in particular has messed up many billionair investors.
The Long-Term Effects of Spaceflight on Human Brain Physiology
I hope you're not looking at case numbers, because Sweden is so far behind on testing compared to most of europe.

Look at the rate of growth for deaths per day (filtering out weekends because obviously swedes refuse to die on weekends)

Most places are seeing a plateau in number of daily deaths while Sweden is still growing exponentially
Yes, it happens to me also. Sometimes is just frustrating. :/
If there's one thing the past 4 years should have shown you, it's that "sensible heads will prevail" is no longer a safe assumption to make about the US government. I'm not being glib - we are now faced with a situation where the people in charge of the government are actively dismantling its own institutions with no regard for knock-on effects. Don't catch yourself thinking "Surely they wouldn't $foo". They absolutely would $foo, and $bar too if they could get away with it.
Well, you’re right, but technically that makes it “hybrid SMR”.
Rich Hickey's ants simulator ported to Clojure on the BEAM
To be fair your parent did say SMR is fine for your usecase of backups (archive).
While I am a fan of Emacs (IMO any one of Org, AUCTeX, or Magit is in itself a worthwhile reason to use Emacs, though of course the ease of customizing nearly anything with just a few lines of elisp is the main comfort), I think it's also worth looking at lessons from the failures of Emacs — what prevents or prevented Emacs from being even more successful? (As the post says, Emacs's "success" is only when considered relative to other malleable systems.)
> Using hyperbolic emotional appeals to drown out discussion is not the right move.

But isn't that what you just did here?

> Do you understand that millions of people are now out of work and won't be able to support their families, businesses are collapsing, calls to suicide lines are up massively, and society is general is not functioning?

So let's do some math instead.

The last stats I had were that 5% of people who catch it will die without a ventilator, 0.5% will die with it. So suppose we go "fast burn" to try to get "herd immunity" as quickly as possible, forget about overwhelming the health care system. 80% of your friends, family, acquaintances, and coworkers will catch it, and 5% of those will die.

I reckon most people have about 500-1000 people they feel connected to. So think about your network: which 20-40 people do you want to die so that the rest can go back to work?
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Some companies are actually having to turn work down. I work for one. I'm not expecting a no raise policy anytime soon.
And acts as if their project won't work unless they add a code of conduct?
> Does the revelation that they use SMR somehow change their reliability or performance ?

As I clearly stated: my concern is about brand damage.
This makes me realize that I never understood macroeconomy.

After shutting down the economies for the developed world for multiple months the prediction for the global economy is ONLY 3% down? I don't get it. Makes no sense frankly.
So we can conclude that Atlassian started its journey fucking up Trello?
I can offer one data point.

The company I'm an on-site (well, usually) contractor for, whose network I use at work, proxies web traffic over HTTP. It's encrypted at the proxy for HTTPS, but everything outbound from the internal network is effectively plain text.

Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP, so in order to use the package repositories, I have to use my phone as a hotspot.
Just to be fair/clear, I meant "secondary email" in terms of how the user treated it, ie they weren't actively using it log in and presumably didn't know it was still there.

As far as I'm aware, Trello didn't actually have one email marked as more important in any way. Although they absolutely should have.

I still think Atlassian should have been able to predict this situation, and should not have considered it acceptable.
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A lot of people comparing this to 1929, but there are a few things that are substantially different:

* unprecedented scale and speed of QE and government stimulus

* the Federal Reserve has stated they will provide "unlimited QE"

* the markets are a lot more efficient now than they were in 1929

* in the 1930s, credit and banking was, in many ways, still in its infancy

* today's widely available technology was science fiction in the 1930s

PS: There's an interesting documentary on YouTube about the Great Depression, part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCEJ65H_1XE part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO42ZfCN9ug. It's worth watching if you want to understand what happened in the 1930s.
I was curious, so I did the math:

It’s $5M/mo to rent 1 PB of RAM on EC2 and $21,000/mo per PB in S3.

Conceivably, your dreams will be possible in a decade — they are feasible, but likely too costly now.
I expected to see a list of the startup names and how much they raised.
You weren't. But I'm sure pretty much all politicians got quick polls before enacting measures. That measures that strictly were enacted was only because politicians knew there wouldn't be large scale protests or riots.

Now I don't want to speculate why people are in favor. Maybe because they believe experts but that usually doesn't work well.. I guess public opinion during the outbreak is also going to be a heavily researched area for years to come.
Probably someone on the remote machine with restricted or no internet connection and admin privileges. It happens e.g. on company or academic clusters.

It is much easier to ask admin to install emacs and use defaults than to ask to install emacs and packages (and resolve problems that may happen on the way).
The story really should have lead with “repeal the 2006 PAEA” which imposed funding requirements given to no other business:

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...

The USPS would have been cash-flow positive for years had it not been deliberately sabotaged by Republicans seeking to privatize it.
The reason to attribute these successes to luck is its fundamental to a lot of industries and particularly to software that success is self-fulfilling. It's not luck that a company became the dominant operating system company in the 90s - it was inevitable, economies of scale and the advantages of a software ecosystem built on top of one common operating system are enormous. It was luck that that operating system happened to be MS DOS/Windows and not one of the dozens of other basically interchangeable operating systems - hell, a different CP/M clone would've ended up on the IBM PC.

You can say it's some sort of coping mechanism, but actually I believe that most of my own success is luck. I would say I'm successful, I'm good at what I do and I'm rewarded very well for it. Skill and hard work are a prerequisite of my success but the success itself is largely down to luck. Skill and hard work are table stakes.

To put the equally uncharitable interpretation of your view of the world: The fact is that most success is significantly down to luck, but people don't like that because everyone wants to be the hero in their own story rather than just someone who got lucky.
I think the most recent wars we've been involved in have been very tilted towards standoff weapon strikes. I suspect, although I don't think there are real numbers to really look at, that the vast majority of deaths over the last few years in wars the US has been involved in have been from weapons where no pilot was physically in danger.

To your last point, I think we've reduced the civilian death toll greatly by use of precision weapons. Compare what we do now to what was done in WWII or even Vietnam to an extent.