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I graduated with a CSE degree 41 years ago. My tremendous good fortune was obtaining student employment at the University computing center during my second year. While my fellow students queued for keypunch machines in the CS labs, I had my own terminal in the office, documentation for everything, and maybe best of all, was treated as a full colleague by the regular staff. They gave us real work to do. The university's budgets were severely reduced during the mid to late 70's, and the student labs were pathetically underequipped and overcrowded.

All of the students working at the computing center realized how lucky we were, and received multiple good offers despite graduating in the middle of a recession.
Yeah, imagine the janitor gets exposed to the virus, they then expose their entire family, those people then expose more, etc. You could easily kill someone.
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How many civil engineers are building bridges on the side? Why has it become the "norm" that CS students pay tons of money to attend universities that leave them ill-equipped to find a job in the real world?

The problem is rather the expectation of the employers: No civil engineer is expected to build huge bridges in his free time.
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They can certainly say you consented. But most likely it's going to get recorded. If it's not recorded and the LEO had a body cam the DA, judge, and potential jury are going to start questioning the LEO why. That takes the heat off the defendant and puts the entire case into question.
No. In the less formal event last Sunday, the e-sports drivers dominated the race and the highest finishing "real" F1 driver was in 8th, and incredibly proud of that achievement.

Edit: this is for a variety of reasons. The greatest of which is that when you're actually going 200 MPH and risking hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, and moreso your own life and limb and those of your competitors, your risk aversion is higher than when it's a video game.

Secondly, the drivers train massively to withstand the physical forces that F1 racing causes on the body. Take away those physical aspects and a) the barrier to entry is much lower and b) the drivers are probably used to being able to feel what the car is doing, and that tactile connection is completely broken in a video game.
Hell, I can get any game I want off Amazon, too. It'll just show up on my doorstep a few days later.
How about streaming some previous races? I could always watch last years German race again.
This comment reads to me as a sort of spiteful anti-capitalist view. But... Gamestop is _already_ living paycheck to paycheck and they could actually just run out of money and need to close shop.

Does that excuse trying to stay open right now? No. But let's not pretend they're not already dying.
This was a labor of love, so it’s definitely not that I don’t have time - more that no project of mine has ever been this popular, so normally no one asks for the tutorial!

As others have commented, this project is mostly software and would be a great introduction to building physical electronic gadgets.

How about this - I think there’s enough context in the blog post and source code to recreate it, but if you start out and run into any issues, send me an email and I’ll get you unstuck. In exchange, I’d ask that you take detailed notes of your process and post a blog post/github readme of how you got it running for others to follow, and I’ll link to it.
HN post for vice's version of this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22631264
Meanwhile, I push pixels for a living. Sure gives you an inferiority complex.
i dont know if im stoked or depressed that "risky hack" manifested in my mind after reading the title, as it has in irl
The "simple group projects" we made during my 5-year degree were the result of 3-5 people putting in ~200 hours each (over 4 months). They were of higher quality, better designed, tested and documented than most I have encountered in the industry now 5 years later.

I would not say that I am much better technically now, than I was 5 years ago. Much of what I have learnt in the industry is about coping with working in an office, having pointless meetings, doing design by committee, etc.
Then you should definitely listen to that podcast that Cenk linked to... it will be very infuriatingly relatable!
At least working at a GameStop in 2020 is pretty close self isolating.

TBH I don't quite understand the outlash against some business deciding to stay open. A GameStop doesn't take more than 1 or 2 people to run, especially right now, and transactions are pretty simple and inovlve minimal contact. And they have a point about selling products people may want during this time.

As far as I know, Walmart will still sell video games despite only being exempted because they sell food & essential supplies. It's probably more dangerous to have to go to a Walmart either food or video games compared to going to a GameStop given the # of people typically at Wallmart.
Virtual choir and full Duplex conferencing
HI Joe,

I saw this comment by you while searching for a way to create a big virtual choir
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JoeAltmaier on Mar 15, 2016 [-]

Sigh. We used to make a really good tool, but it was all proprietary. It supported up to 20 participants with full-duplex audio and multiple doc sharing. But it was part of a full product for collaborative teams, and we couldn't figure out the sales process fast enough.
It scaled well - hundreds of different conference participants per server node; media nodes that supported hundreds of simultaneous streams. Stream switching was on the order of scores of milliseconds (not seconds like all the webrtc stuff)."

A choir has to hear what it sings very fast and people need to hear themselves, seeing other singers is hardly important at all, so I only need one video feed from a director going out to all the members but they each need a mixed feed of all the other singers and themselves with near zero latency.

When you mentioned "full duplex" (which I believe means all the people can speak ( or in this case sing) and be heard simultaneously, I wondered if you still had the software available in the midst of the covid-19 outbreak? This is the sales opportunity you lacked. I am not the only person associated with a choir that is looking for a solution. I'd need to have 100 to 200 members of the choir.

Any thoughts?
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ThinkGeek will be the asset to emerge from the ashes of GameStop.

It was a smart acquisition by GS executives. Unfortunately, they weren't smart enough to manage the brand as well as they should have. The parent company should have inverted to become ThinkGeek immediately after the acquisition because it's pretty obvious to even layman that the retail market for video games is dead within a generation or so, while the market for pop-culture tchotchkes is evergreen.
It's possible that they were missed because so many people list their GitHub where it contains absolutely zero work written by them (or even nothing at all).
Hopefully there's a class-action lawsuit on behalf of any employees who become sick as a result of this decision.

But then, this company is clearly on its way out. I'd be very suspicious at the moment that the execs are finding ways to funnel remaining funds to their golden parachutes before they declare bankruptcy.
Really? PCR was pretty new at that point.
I don't see a contradiction! And yes, trees have a really big effect on the soil moisture content.
Sure, agreed. The point there is just that copying IP isn't that meaningful if it can't be effectively utilized. Many parties have presumably copied Boeing and Airbus IP related to their jets, and yet none have effectively utilized it.

Stealing the golden eggs is not the same as stealing the golden goose.
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> It's probably more dangerous to have to go to a Walmart either food or video games compared to going to a GameStop given the # of people typically at Wallmart.

This might be a reasonable point, except that there's no reason to leave your house at all if the only thing you want to buy is a video game. (And of course, if you need food and video games, making an additional trip to Gamestop can only hurt compared to getting everything at Walmart.)
As a licensed CPA and someone who got a degree in accounting, I don't think this comparison is really valid.

In university, we learned the concepts. We applied the concepts in internships and learned how to do things hands-on. When it comes to applying for jobs, internship experience is considered more important than academic coursework. So this is kind of parallel to how 'real world' experience developed from personal projects is more important than academic training in software.

So in this sense, this kind of reinforces what the original poster said. This kind of hands-on experience is important, and there are different ways of demonstrating it in different fields.

You are right though, no one is expected to do Quickbooks on the weekend. You have to realize that there aren't a ton of professional fields where people do what they do professionally as a hobby.
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as much as we'd like to think everyone is a reasonable person who will stay home and do their part to prevent the spread of coronavirus, there are always selfish/foolish people who will not be inclined to heed the advice. you gotta throw them some kind of bone to keep them more or less occupied while they (hopefully) stay inside.

it's absolutely not necessary for a physical store that sells games to stay open when you can download them or have them shipped, but it might be essential for people to have access to an indoor pastime they enjoy.
You confirm you are completely oblivious to what is happening around you, good for you. Even visual proof is not enough. Enjoy your "hospitals are not at full capacity" fairy tale, maybe you are lucky enough to not need to find an hospital. If you knew at least one person in the first line you would know better. But please do keep reading your comorting fairy tales if that helps you.
> In a lot of ways, it feels like I should be able to buy one and then just buy a license to play games designed for the other system

This is slowly becoming the state of reality for Xbox, at least in regards to PCs. They've dropped exclusivity for all of their titles, meaning every game Microsoft produces will be also released for PC. And for many of those, if you buy the game, you get it for both the Xbox and PC.

It remains to be seen if the trend continues to grow outside Microsoft though, and it seems unlikely that it would occur between Xbox and Playstation.
Yeah, that's a very fair addendum. My line of reasoning was based on the proposition that Netflix would roll with that.

If they don't then that would invalidate the proposition, rendering all that stems from it moot.
> People don't expect aspiring accountants to spend their weekends managing their personal finances or imaginary companies in QuickBooks or (shudder) Oracle.

That's because imaginary companies are too simplistic to learn real lessons about accounting. And it's prohibitively expensive to start a new company just to practice accounting.

In programming, however, it is not prohibitively expensive to bring in even all the HN-hated build and dependency boilerplate of the Javascript ecosystem to publish a project to the world. You understand this and for some reason think that the sensible solution is to replace the imaginary teaching of university group projects and replace it with on-the-job "couple thousand of hours" teaching to develop proficiency. What happened to the weekend personal projects? That's a much cheaper and resilient form of learning by writing actual programs the student actually cares about. It's too bad that accountants can't do the same but what has that got to do with anything?

Edit: typo
Is it because they do sick ass shit or because they're rad as hell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVNDfDSE44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbgKCENqn0
Because compulsory taxes that pay for a public good are exactly the same as a private company where users may elect to pay for one of several tiers of service.
Next up in remote work: the Olympics.

There's a great tradition of video games in Japan, surely if Formula 1 can do it, they can do it for the Olympics, too?
Are there places in the world that ban tourism?
Stanford Makes Giant Soft Robot from Inflatable Tubes
Yup... they bought something they could've switched a ton of (far too close post-retail-apocolypse) stores over... and then all but shut it down.
There's two different problems here: how you interpret arbitrary strings of bits and how you interpret arbitrary buts of matter as representing bits or not. Yes, figuring out/assuming that the bit cells in the thumb drive represented bits might be difficult. Then again, if you can look and see what the internal physical structure of this thing is, you might see a pattern of highs and lows.

But sure, getting from an inefficient physical structure to a series of digits is a step. But once you're there, maths has things to say about the possible information content of strings of bits.
The problem is that failing now empowers Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Steam. There are no small chains that can seize the opportunity to fill the void. We're going to end up with defacto monopolies I think; maybe only Walmart for people to get new physical games.
>We have an extreme wealth disparity with many having no savings and no social safety net

I was under the impression that the wealth disparity in CHina was even more extreme than in the US. How brainwashed am I?
Software engineering is not civil engineering. Software is "soft", "plastic", you can build and change anywhere.

If one could build bridges that easy, I am sure people will do it.
The shrines would've been better when they were part of the overworld. I don't like the fact that they feel like an extension.

I hope for the second part to include more surprises into the world itself and not in shrines.
The parasites to our society is the meat packing industry which causes all of these issues to begin with. Get rid of them and not only do you élimante these viruses, you also eliminate the obesity epidemic saving folks the viruses end up killing, and take the world a step closer to fixing climate change.
I’ve found graphql-codegen (https://graphql-code-generator.com/) to be very robust and easy to use. It takes in your schemas and can generate typings for your resolvers, queries, fragments etc. it can even generate helper hooks and HOCs for Apollo client or Relay.
It's a technique you can use in software estimation too.

There's an implied difference between saying something will take about 2 months vs 8 weeks vs 57 days, even if they're all technically the same amount of time.
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People keep talking about ventilators. The only study I've seen w.r.t. ventilator success for COVID-19 treatment showed something like 3% survival for those mechanically ventilated.

Do we have more data showing they even move the needle?
Both my current and previous landlord cheaped out on windows, which were badly sealed in both cases leading to these apartments being rather pleasant to be in for longer(think days).

Well, at least after we bought a Roomba which took care of all the dust generated by people and animals inside.
Unrelated but I love this 'I've never had a situation yet where waiting for a more lucid picture was a bad move.'

Good advice in general.
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> A top tier smartphone from a few years ago, maybe.

Well the switch was release several years ago, so it makes sense.
Thank you! I’m not a designer, so the advice of my designer friends was “pick exactly 2 fonts, use lots of white space, and left align edges.”

The code for the site is open source, feel free to borrow/steal.
The real life state of things is that most of students don't have personal portfolios. They get hired by companies that do not require them and work with them as with juniors.

They are also likely getting salary according to what their advisers or statistics tell.

Also, real life state of things is that for non-juniors, most companies dont actually care about side projects. And overwhelming majority of developers dont have them. It is meme on hacker news that it matters, but I think that is some bias here.
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Tether is printing crazy amount of USDT to inflate Bitcoin prices during financial crisis situation to take advantage of panic
Elon Musk is apparently pushing bullshit cures,

specifically chloroquine

This is a malaria drug. Also, it can be fatal if not properly dosed.

It is especially problematic that Musk is promoting this, given that part of his reputation is that he gets his science right; he is bold, takes risks, but he at least has science/facts/truth/math on his side.

https://decrypt.co/22946/elon-musk-shares-coronavirus-cure-p...
Cloud egress costs killed the business I'm now trying to save. I won't fall into that trap.
Make sure they understand that they were previously receiving the hugely discounted introductory rate, that you love working with them, and give them your "normal" rate, which is whatever price structure you think will work better going forward.

They may try to negotiate your new rate. Give yourself a little wiggle room so that you can accommodate a negotiation if necessary. If they flat out refuse, then take it as a learning experience and spend your time finding a new client.
Ya I've listened to that. However you left out the portion of that where they dive into the route origins of high end vodka.

And the part at the end where they compare high end to other vodkas.

My ultimate point is in marketability, no vodka markets it self as "the one that gives you less of a hangover" nor do they even report the compound composition to inform of consumer choice.
You’re not entirely wrong though. We produce way too much milk and then struggle to sell it for a profit. If we produced less, there would be less waste. If we use more byproducts even at a modest price, it reduces the back pressure and you get the same amount of product for longer or even more of it.

So the question I suppose is, does the new use remove any major “con” from the item in question, shifting the cost-benefit enough to defend such quantities?
Aren't unemployment benefits usually a fraction of actual wages?

How much does GameStop pay?
This is completely off-topic. This virus came from bats and most was mostly likely transferred to pangolins that were illegally killed and traded.
that's why stockpiles should be kept by government. they don't need to make money on it. should be easy enough, have 6 months worth in a warehouse, ship the oldest out the front of the warehouse to the supply chain while topping up with new product at the back. rotating it like this acts like a buffer,rather than something that is only accessed in dire emergencies and would be out of date or less effective due to age. the relatively small costs of a warehouse would be negligible
GameStop is explicitly not making that argument, surprisingly.

> GameStop's essential items include webcams, microphones, mice, keyboard, monitors, chargers, audio equipment, and more.

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1240797972427874304
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Around the time you posted this, my internet in Seattle was down for near around 12 hours yesterday. I'm not fond of my ISP, but that's unusual even for them.
With HTTP2, it's now almost always better to go with a RESTful API, especially if you need to do heavy calculations and display dashboards with a lot of data.

You will be able to fine tune your cache settings and monitor the performance of your endpoints (https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/why-graphql-performance-monit...)

You will be able to fetch resources in parallel and start displaying data faster (GraphQL Apollo is also able to do some king of streaming, but it relies heavily on non-standard network hacks).

You will be able to use Vulcain (https://vulcain.rocks/) which will allow you to fetch your whole resource graph at once using HTTP2 Server Push.

The only reason you may choose GraphQL is if you need to go fast and want to profit from the DX of the awesome React libraries available such as Relay or Apollo.
This is true, but there is a huge difference psychologically between choosing not to go out and not being allowed to go out.
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Yes; perhaps that's why they made this article.

(Just to be clear, the reason for linking to previous threads is just to satisfy curiosity. If it were a dupe we'd mark it as such.)
> GitHub Actions do not support fork-based workflow properly

Could you elaborate on this?
Well, I'm lighting kharma on fire to educate you @spats1990, so at least I'm trying.

Here's the timeline.

Nov 17 - First known case of coronavirus

https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.htm...

January 3 - Whistleblower Dr Li thrown in jail

"Li warned colleagues on social media in late December about a mysterious virus that would become the coronavirus epidemic and was detained by police in Wuhan on 3 January for “spreading false rumours”. He was forced to sign a police document to admit he had breached the law and had “seriously disrupted social order.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/07/c...

Jan 18 - Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a potluck. (Hosted by the Mayor of Wuhan)

Jan 23 - Wuhan put on lockdown

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coro...

The research also found that if interventions in the country could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively – significantly limiting the geographical spread of the disease

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/03/covid-19-china.pa...

Looks like a couple months to me.
This position is flawed IMO.

We postpone the hard conversation to get through the crisis. Then after the crisis the hard conversation never happens.
That's been my question as well. Why doesn't spraying N95 masks with isopropyl alcohol work?

1. Spray mask with alcohol.

2. Place in the sun or under UV light.

3. Wait as many hours/days as possible before reuse.

Seems better than re-using a highly contaminated mask day after day. I'm not an expert so I could easily be wrong though.
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Thats incredibly strange especially given how retro gaming is a huge thing, and isn't buying/selling used games and equipment kind of GameStop's thing?
You can make smart people less intelligent.
Plenty of 'creative' jobs often ask to see some work samples or a 'portfolio' - hard to get hired as a wedding photographer if you can't show prospective employers a single photo you've taken.

I don't know if it's just or wise - but it's not unique to programming.
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Also, I want my gym to be open after this crisis so I am still willing to financially support them until I potentially lose my own income.

Especially for local brick&mortar businesses I do not understand the, in this context, egocentrical "why should I pay you for something I cannot use" mentality.

Nobody here asked for this crisis and we should all support each other as much as possible. People lives are already being destroyed by the necessary measures taken.
It's not proven to be bullshit. The evidence we have is suggesting otherwise.