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chupa-chups··on Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Fair enough. Let's define hacking as js-level patching of 3rd generation games :)

Deleting my account now, this is getting ridiculous.

chupa-chups··on Coronavirus death total 60% higher than reported (no paywall)
Title should be "Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported"
chupa-chups··on Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies (2019)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S05315...

In the german wikipedia edition 814 mSv/a is mentioned (based on the linked study) for Ramsar, Iran. To be fair, a comment has been added stating:

"Allerdings dürfte bei etwa 33.000 Einwohnern Ramsars die Kohortengröße von weit unter 5 % für die über 100 mSv/a Exponierten wahrscheinlich zu gering sein, um statistisch signifikante Gesundheitsfolgen festzustellen."

Translated: The size of the measured cohort of 33.000 inhabitants of Ramsar of less than 5% for >100 mSv/a exposed participants is probably too small to allow to derive statistically significant health-related conclusions.

chupa-chups··on Gravity assist maneuvers in space
Nice article. For even more information regarding gravity assists (and related effects like the Oberth effect) I found these articles in my comfort zone between too much detail and too superficial:

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.2341882 - sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.5126818 (Oberth Effect)

chupa-chups··on OpenSSL high-severity bug – affects 1.1.1d, 1.1.1e, 1.1.1f
Both SSH and SSL base on TLS. The leak in question has a problem

> during or after a TLS 1.3 handshake

Sure, openSSL is not SSH, but it is not unreasonable to assume this leak may affect web servers as well (e.g. by being based on the same underlying TLS implementation).

"SSH != SSL" is a bit short to invalidate the assumption of the OP. I'd not be so sure this problem does not affect "web server X".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

OK, learnt something new today: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/60255/why-doesnt-...

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Thanks! :)

chupa-chups··on Ask HN: Do you have any projects you'd like input or collaboration on?
We're working on an (at the moment manually curated, rule-based) AI devops solution, generating build definition(s) and deployment scripts automatically. Deployment may be docker based, single-instance test deployments, blue/green, hardware backed production deployments and anything above.

You're picking the environment you deem necessary and affordable, and our solution will automatically create appropriate build + deployment scripts for you. We promise no lock-in, generated scripts are downloadable and executable on-premises.

Our working MVP currently supports Java/Gradle based backends and angular / react based frontends. Supported databases are currently PostgreSQL. Supported cloud platforms are currently AWS, Azure to come next.

Roadmap:

* Azure support

* Google cloud support

* .net core backend support

Our own platform runs using our own product. We're searching for a select few alpha customers (lifetime free, incl. support).

If you're interested post a public comment here. No public details will be provided. The planned public alpha launch date will be around September 2020.

chupa-chups··on Getting to the bottom of line height (2019)
Could you provide a TLDR which audience should consume the linked content?
chupa-chups··on Higher Education Today Resembles Ponzi Scheme
A TLDR wouldn't hurt much. The article seems to be circling around students not qualified enough, but still considered qualified due to Covid-19 related circumstances ("Higher education today resembles a massive Ponzi scheme. Colleges desperately recruit ever more marginal students who stand little chance of graduating.")

Also, it seems to focus on non-diversity ("Elsewhere, campus diversocrats enjoyed similarly enviable mobility while the rest of the country was shutting down", "The frenzied desire to boost “diversity” creates the pretext for much of the bureaucratic bloat. Colleges admit so-called underrepresented minorities (URMs) with academic qualifications far below their white and Asian peers.")

chupa-chups··on Coronavirus and Credibility
So true, and in my point of view one of the, if not the, most relevant aspects of the fake news pandemic: journalists not strictly adhering to known and provable facts.

This opens a flank to bullshitters, and in the matter of bullshit they will outperform anyone else, since that's their ground.

In my view of a non-fake-news world, journalists would always (1) provide a link to independent sources where possible.

(1) if possible, i.e. when it doesn't endanger someones life.

chupa-chups··on Problem of Time
Maybe i misunderstood your comment, if so I like to apologize.

In any case, would you please explain to me how you consider the title "The problem of time" being wrong. It appears to me as one of the most fundamental questions in physics. The wikipedia article does - from my PoV - a reasonably good try to explain the problem at hand in laymans terms. It touches the relevant aspects of the problem (no absolute time, time/space interdependency) and expands to a more speculative theory (thermal time hypothesis).

I will not at all claim to have even a basic understanding of the covered topics, despite being an avid reader of related bloggers and papers.

I just am astonished how people disregard work of others even without (basic) knowledge of the domain. Maybe I'm wrong, but noone in this thread even tried to show her/his accomplishments in the mentioned domain.

And thanks for replying without simply downvoting.

And please don't think i automatically included you in the perceived group not having "even a basic understanding o the topic". Maybe you have, but since this is even less recognizable than the merits of the wikipedia author it is - from an outside PoV - even less credible.

chupa-chups··on TLS 1.3: Slow adoption of stronger web encryption is empowering the bad guys
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet...

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-camwinget-tls-use-cases-03.h...

https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

Let's agree to disagree.

chupa-chups··on Problem of Time
TBH, >95% of the commentators here don't reach the education level of the editor of the article by far in terms of the specific domain, but still this doesn't stop them from criticizing it.

Not meant to be snarky, and in general imho it is good the be critical always - but this should include oneself. The latter part is often lacking, and the amount of lacking very often appears to be proportional to the lack of knowledge of the commentator.

chupa-chups··on Mixing Node.js and OpenJDK (2019)
Discussion from 12 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19588156

chupa-chups··on Launch HN: Taiv (YC W20) – Replace TV commercials with content people care about
I'm so tired of people exploiting other people. Especially if they're trying to upsell that fact.

What needs to happen that we humans start to think?

chupa-chups··on Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657717
chupa-chups··on Ask HN: How can people use N95 masks effectively?
The correct answer is: wear them always (this is only the right answer if you passed high school mathematics).

If you expect a significant percentage of the population to be infected, wearing a mask significantly reduces the infection rate of others (as demonstrated by all asian countries).

By reducing the reproduction factor (which causes the exponential increase ignoring people having developed resistance), it also reduces strain on health workers.

And if you're able to grasp how and why this is so, it even reduces the infection risk for yourself.

chupa-chups··on Sen. Rand Paul Has Tested Positive for the Coronavirus
This is another demonstration of how (some) elected politicians are unable to grasp reality.

Imagine the person at your workplace, who is liked by most people. Is that the person which is most capable of deciding what should happen to steer the community as a whole?

Most probably not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657717

chupa-chups··on [dead]
A high IQ doesn't guarantee anything, a low IQ does. If you're in a position to decide over the fate of lots of people, you should demonstrate you're able to reason that far.
chupa-chups··on Lessons from the lockdown: What happens when everyday life suddenly changes?
Why doesn't anyone question the intellectual ability of our politicians?
chupa-chups··on Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
Yeah, sure. I know I'll be downvoted for this into oblivion, but hell, the collective stupidity of mankind really surpasses the probability of the universe being infinite.

Einstein was right :)

Just one small thing to consider: if even one person of google was a federal agent (of an offending country). Fill the missing parts of the sentence.

And yes, as much as I despise the EU in its current form, that's the intention of GDPR: to prevent spilling personal data into a pool of people with potentially malignant actors, and, if this happens, to be responsible to full disclosure.

@dantheman: I guess you still won't be considered to be hired by google for this post.

chupa-chups··on Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
The really funny thing about this thread is that:

* google appears to make all of our data available to most of its developers

* we complain that brave wants to boost its reputation

wtf, seriously, wtf?

I mean, granted, brave sucks and wants to have an easy buy-in to some folks, but still: what's hiding behind this is huge.

If I were google I'd buy brave for this kind of burying.

chupa-chups··on Coronavirus: France imposes 15-day lockdown
This amplified by the availability of really good translation tools today. bing translate really rocks and seems not to be as prone to censorship as google translate at the moment.

E.g. https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TVert&from=&to=en&a=Cor...

chupa-chups··on Covid-19 World Statistics – A Perspective with Less Panic
I'd recommend this if you added the rate of growth per day in percent (between 30-40% worldwide additional cases per day, applying also to deaths per day).

E.g.:

2020-03-14: 0.0019%

2020-03-21: 0.02% ( = 0.0019% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-03-28: 0.21% ( = 0.21% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-04-03: 2.22% ( = 2.22% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-04-10: 23.43% ( = 23.43% * (1,4 ^ 7))

etc.

(Assuming a constant daily growth rate of 40%, which will probably decrease due to deaths of hosts).

chupa-chups··on Neofascism in Germany in public channels (Corona-related)
"Das Coronavirus sorgt für Panik und Hamsterkäufe. Doch profitieren wir am Ende sogar von Covid-19?"

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"The corona virus inflicts panic and hoarding. But will we profit from Covid-19 in the end?"

chupa-chups··on WHO: Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Situation Dashboard
If you're interested just in the numbers with the option to show the development over time with logarithmic axes, i found this site quite interesting:

https://coronavirus.arik.io

chupa-chups··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
HN likes to downrank anything regarding the current outbreak. This was posted 53 minutes ago and received around 100 votes in 20 minutes, but was downranked shortly after:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550623

Now this post has inevitably been downranked as well. I'm setting up a HN downranking-watch site right now ;-)

If you know some crowd-funding site where one can donate money to health care workers, please let me know (berthold dot alexander at googlemail dot com)

chupa-chups··on Italy to close all stores apart from food shops and pharmacies
Yes, but if you look closely at italy, that's what matters: spread the amount of people requiring intensive care until it is below the threshold your region is able to provide.
chupa-chups··on Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Upends the Most Basic Routines and Joys
Tbh, i think we should employ wuhan-style lockdowns globally as early as possible to reduce the rate of infection as low as possible for some defined time span (e.g. for 2 weeks). After this the number of people requiring ICU should be known and stable, and then lift the lockdowns appropriately according to the percentage of people requiring intensive care.

I live in germany and currently it seems we're approaching that. The US still seems to be in denial.

chupa-chups··on Italy to close all stores apart from food shops and pharmacies
If you can decrease the spread factor (R0) by 0.1, you're going to help a lot of people. t^(r0-0.1) is a lot less over time than t^(r0).

That's averaged, of course. If your refrigerator breaks, your individual value will increase. But as a whole, it will still decrease.

chupa-chups··on Italy to close all stores apart from food shops and pharmacies
I hope everyone does her/his best to tell their peers this is real.
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