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> The group projects organised by the uni have always been a joke, thus it is time to work on a serious project by yourself.

This always bothered me until a teacher told me they are less about the project and more about working together as a team which most of the time is where these projects failed. With this perspective I led my senior design group project to develop a proof of concept IMSI Catcher[1] detector that ran on a Raspberry Pi with a software defined radio in one semester. None of the other students had any prior experience with python, GNU Radio, low-level networking, or software defined radios.

A good team can accomplish so much more than an individual and you can learn a lot more with one too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
Provided the testing strategy doesn't change (as the parent poster has stated may be the case), then it is a reasonable assumption that the testing is sampling the population in the same way, day by day.

So the important thing to look at is the growth rate. On that measure, it looks like the growth rate of cases in the US is outpacing that in Italy. That's worrying.
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or set up your various TOTP in KeePassXC which is Free (and FOSS), set a very strong password and sync the database via Dropbox or others.
You even see it among states in the US:

- New York: 4152 cases / 29 deaths

- Washington: 1228 cases / 75 deaths

In this case at least it appears that in Washington there was a connected set of old age homes that got hit pretty early before more preventative steps were being taken -- https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-18/corona...
Why are you trying risky behavior? Is it so hard to stay indoors to avoid spreading the virus further? Do we focus on doing the bare minimum here?
Yes, I agree. There is no syntax highlight
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Been working 10-ish years from home. When the job is finished, last thing I wanna do is stare at the screen even more..."to have fun".
That applies to you as well. Nothing in the comment came across poorly. Maybe you should assume good faith on his part.
So, to be clear, skeptic helps with extra markdown files you've written. Rustdoc will already do this with every example you write in your API documentation. It's very good though! (mdbook has a similar feature)
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At least some of that growth in the US is probably due to increased testing availability, not infection rate, so I'd suspect "actual" numbers of infected in the US on 3/17 were higher than the data showed. But that's dealing with lots of unknowns.
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I think the issue (although I don't know for sure tbh) is that there is potential damage to the fibers which make it such a good filter. For example, our infection control policy is that we are supposed to throw away the N95 if it gets visibly soiled or liquid gets on it per our infection control. I would imagine damage from UV light could also cause issues.

The reality is that we all need to have our own individual PAPR systems but we simply don't have the supplies and probably won't for weeks or months so we need to do the best we can with what we have and try to minimize the amount of healthcare workers who get sick and spread it or get taken out of rotation and place a bigger burden on the system.
I focused on building stuff, and I've never stopped. I've worked weekends and evenings doing that throughout my career. I dropped out of college because I wasn't gaining anything from the degree, it would have just been a credential for me. It made it harder to get that first job, but since then it hasn't held me back. I have gone further in my career than the very best students in my classes who stayed and finished their degree with honors, and in some cases continued on to their masters in computer science.

Now at 35 nobody even asks about the degree anymore. So a degree is not worth that much in this industry compared to practical skills. However, I think many people might struggle to learn on their own and might lack the self-discipline or initiative to guide their own learning - in which case get that degree! But keep in mind those same skills are required on an ongoing basis to keep up with this fast moving industry, and you won't get as far without them. I was home-schooled so for me it's just business as usual - that's actually been the biggest thing I got out of my schooling.
Agreed.

What separates own-projects from previous job experience is the ownership.

Anyone can be a "valued member of a team", go to meetings, collaborate, open and close lots of Jira tickets, be super helpful, check in code which "should fix the problem", etc.

But it's not the same as if you have your own project, which fails or succeeds based on how much effort and debugging you put in.
Again, learn how to have a conversation without the condescending attitude. This is a complex issue with multiple variables and costs. You are not automatically right because you agree with the mob. A cursory reading of history should make this obvious, but unfortunately that seems too much to ask of people nowadays. They'd rather spend their time looking down at those with the "wrong" opinion.

> You think the risk is negligible. The rest of the world does not.

The catch here is that people are really short-sighted evolved primates. While shutting down the entire world will indeed stop the virus, it is already having an innumerable number of unpredictable effects like putting millions out of work, crashing the economy, diverting resources from other medical issues, to name a few.

The statistics are pretty unconvincing so far, to me personally, in order to justify a long-term shutdown.

> This is not an abstract argument, we are watching thousands of people die from this, and we believe that community transmission comes from otherwise healthy people passing it around long before they have any symptoms at all, and those carriers need not die to cause the deaths of others.

Millions die from obesity, car accidents, war, and the regular flu every year. Where's your outrage for that? Why are you not calling for the shutdown of McDonald's? The restriction of car use? These are vastly bigger issues that are actually controllable.

As I said above: the actions being taken now will have consequences which have only just begun.
Small world. I found your appp and really wanted to try it. Unfortunately, when I sign in, I get redirected to the sign-in page (https://www.actionspanel.app/auth/sign-in?next=/app) in an endless cycle.

Do you know what could be the issue?
Yes, I suppose it would work like that when you set up a false dichotomy.
Due to current circumstances, I believe it unlikely unemployment insurance claims will denied in this situation.

If you work at GameStop, call the local authorities, get a copy of the police report, go home and file for unemployment.
The basis for “significant outpacing” is only one day / data point. Previous days follow Italy closely.

Besides that, we have a much larger total population. We’ve asserted counter-measures earlier. We are able to change our course based on our observed response of Italy.

This seems irresponsible to reactively share a “trend” based on a single data point of notable deviation.
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Same response as the other one you commented on.
If you just assume that all the participating programs are correct, then type safety has no meaning. Part of type safety is being able to check, statically or dynamically, that a program isn’t going to interpret a value of type t as an incompatible type T. GRPC has no such facilities. It does not pass around or assert anything about the scheme that was used to encode the message such that the decoder can check safety. Nothing prevents you from sending a wire-compatible EmployeeVacationMessage to the ReactorSelfDestructService.
If you look at China and South Korea, they both took about 11 days between crossing 100 cases to having a strong effect on their case# curve. (18 if you ignore the roughly 7 day incubation + getting tested period)

With incubation time removed:

Italy: 19 days from crossing 100, and counting

Iran: 15 days and counting

Spain: 11 days and counting

France: 12 days and counting

US: 9 days and counting
Let GameStop run out of business. The company has had it coming for years, and I'm hoping coronavirus is the reason it finally dies.
It was my understanding there isn't much difference between the prince and the company and the country. Is that inaccurate?
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That’s correct. Weed is worse.

>Beyond just what's in the smoke alone, marijuana is typically smoked differently than tobacco. Marijuana smokers tend to inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than cigarette smokers, which leads to a greater exposure per breath to tar.

https://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/marijuana-an...

Cigarette smoke isn’t magically bad because it’s cigarettes. ANY smoke tends to be bad. Smoking anything is like voluntarily exposing yourself to extreme air pollution.

Marijuana lovers go to a lot of lengths to rationalize this, but smoking it is not good for lungs.
I think it's cause tea is so much more expensive over here. I can buy a gourmet type of coffee for like 10-15. To get the same level of tea for maybe half the amount of servings I get out of the coffee, it costs the same if not more.

I do like certain types of those gourmet teas where you need a kettle for them. They're great, but I like something warm and I can have it everyday, especially in winter. I simply could not afford that with the teas.
Its the shear physical impact on the driver - I recall seeing drivers having difficulty at the end of the race getting out of the car.
Thanks for your feedback. How would the marketing differ between the 2 types of users? Do you have any good examples of technical marketing collateral?

We are indeed hoping to start off with a self-service offering mainly geared towards AI startups or data scientists at smaller companies.
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Professor Shih has been sounding the alarm for at least a decade [1],[2].

His has not been a popular narrative among the Cambridge intelligentsia, who skew pro-corporate and anti-producer.

[1] (2010) "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to do New Things"

[2] (2012) "Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance"
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> The problem you describe only becomes an issue if you use <table>s for layout in the first place, so just don't do that.

I could just as easily say that the "problem of overloaded operators" only becomes a problem if you try to use + to add anything other than two ints. So don't do that.

But OK, assuming I accept the premise, what should I do instead? The CSS community has been dithering about the answer for years. Only very recently has there been anything even remotely approaching an acceptable solution i.e. a solution that actually reproduces table layouts without having to pile on a ton of hacks. In the intervening years, a lot of legacy code was produced that used <table> for layout because it was the only thing that actually worked.

There also the fact that <display-table><tr><td> or something like that just looks a lot cleaner and is easier to read than <div class=table-for-display><div class=table-row-for-display><div class=table-cell-for-display>. When you make complex table layout you end up with a lot of TR and TD tags, so it makes sense to keep those short to avoid cluttering things up.
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For a clock you would be better off with a transflective LCD, if you can find one. There's a couple different variants and they're generally very small, but have high refresh rate and no ghosting.
So, I disagree that it "sucks," but what I will say is this: rustdoc has basically been maintained by one or two people over the last ~5 years. It is very hard to contribute to, because it has to use the compiler itself to actually generate the documentation. This means that changing it means changing the compiler, which means a long development cycle. Additionally, this also means working on it isn't really like working on a normal web app. We've tried to get folks to contribute, but they all bounce off. So this means that any improvements we would like to do are really difficult, and there's not a lot of help.

I am hoping that the rust-analyzer work lets us completely fix this, in the same way I was hoping the rls would before, but it's just not ready yet.
The US is terrible. But Italy is still limited, the only country that I'm aware of that is able to test everybody they need to test is South Korea. Everywhere else there are still pre-qualifications.
>There is something of the DIY, can-do, participatory side of 90s computer culture in there.

I've really enjoyed reading Greenspun's stuff and this is a great way to describe his writing style.
I agree with your points. I am still a little surprised that the US outpaces Italy, because the social distance there is traditionally much shorter than in the US, e.g., people kiss each other on the cheeks, and give each other hugs more frequently than what I observed in the US.
I got given it as a child in the form of coffee.
Hmmm. I submitted it and know the author, so biased, but I thought this was a good reminder to take a step back and focus on the things we can control.

I get it isn't the normal startup/business/tech content on HN, but (obviously) thought it was worth sharing.

Oh well, different strokes and all that.
Significantly, the input is a sparse dataset.

ie. Few source images vs. traditional photogrammetry.

...but basically yes, tldr; photogrammetry using neural networks; this one is better than other recent attempts at the same thing, but takes a really long time (2 days for this vs 10 minutes for a voxel based approach in one of their comparisons).

Why bother?

mmm... theres some kind speculation you might be able to represent a photorealistic scene/ 3d object as a neural model instead of voxels or meshes.

That might be useful for some things. eg. say, a voxel representation of semi transparent fog, or high detail objects like hair are impractically huge, and as a mesh its very difficult to represent.
there's an abundance of this kind of webpages. there's so many of them that it's easy get in the doubt of "should I follow page X recomendations or page Y recomendation?".

The sad thing is that there is pretty much no equivalent page for other industries (law, medicine, computer-unrelated-engineering to name a few).
You could also turn it into brunost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost
I want to copy paste screenshots and images. Ideally it should store the screenshot in a folder and automatically link to it. Do you use anything like that?
Those group projects dont really teach good troubleshooting tools - my dad was an EE, he was self taught having started as a bench tech, and moved up. He told me of countless newly minted engineers who couldn't troubleshoot the circuits and boards they designed. I've seen the same thing in software, they can write code, but are often horrible at diagnosing why something goes wrong - they're also often missing a depth of knowledge in platform behaviors and will reinvent the wheel because they just dont know of a less complex way to do it.

Novel solutions for solved problems are generally non-optimal.
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I built this over the last few days to try and provide a better way to provide help within our communities.

This is still rough around the edges, I'm dropping it here to collect feedback so that I can continue to iterate on it in a way that would be useful to the disadvantaged members of our respective communities.
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I’ve been pretty out of the loop in crypto but I am so anti Justin Sun. He’s obnoxious, attention hungry, inarticulate, but with enough money that none of those negative traits actually matter to people. The BitTorrent acquisition was sort of brilliant, though.
As long as shelves remain empty, people will panic. You can not be panicked, see other people panicking, and then become panicked yourself. So it's going to be difficult for supermarkets to reverse what's happened unless they implement quantity limits.
I can only speak for France, where I live, but the situation is possibly the same in Spain and Italy.

Over here they only test people who are "very sick", in other words people who need medical attention. They are not testing people with no or "mild" symptoms. Basically this means if you don't feel like you're about to die, you're not tested and therefore you're not counted.

So to answer your question, they're actually not measuring enough.
As a 3rd year CS student, I see this a lot. I personally love CS and programming is a hobby for me, so naturally I have projects on my GitHub. I always list my three personal projects I'm most proud of on my resume. I only list a language if I have proof of competence on my GitHub or in previous employment.

Some of my peers will list everything they've written a "hello world" in, and from the employers I've spoken to, a good chunk of them see a long list of languages without any proof to mean they're over projecting competence. Doesn't mean there is no interview, but it hurts the chances of getting one. The interview ends up being the point where they can test how truthful they are.
At the moment, you shouldn't be going to a lower than a biosafety level 4 lab at all.
The bay area shelter in place area had 467 cases yesterday and 107 on March 11. On that day New York had about 200 cases and today, 9 days later, it has close to 4000. Does it really matter if we have 5x more people if we grow that fast? We can catch up on that 5x in a pretty short time.
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And there part where they rate the makeup of the high-end vodka as inferior to at least on of the other samples.
I don't disagree with the regulations. I'm saying that there are enough regulations that land doesn't directly translate to means of production anymore.

>I don't think you'll encounter too many building code problems if you buy a parcel of remote land, if all you wanted was to live in a geodesic dome?

But you probably aren't allowed to live there. You might be fine if you're entirely alone, but your kids would probably be taken away from you if you had kids.
I'm pretty sure free speech being used the justify making society worse is the bigger more real danger we experience in the present day.
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Sure, this is a legitimate concern. But I don't think black-and-white thinking is really the answer here. There are solutions in between shut everything down and keep it all open.
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That’s interesting. The rule of thumb in Australia for speciality coffee is to rest it for a few days (around 2-4) in a bag or container with a one way valve, so it can degas before using it.
You still need thousands and thousands of dollars for a decent Sim racing setup, a stable internet connection, and a room to do it from.

Sure, it's not formula racing, but there are still massive barriers to entry for sim racing.
Then she said, "So it looks like we'll start plateauing."

Could you qualify how that statement is to be read? Is that an observation about what the results are going to look like as a result of limited testing, or is it a statement about the intention beind behind decreased testing (to make the number appear to be plateauing artificially).

Aside: 'Plateauing' is a funny word to type with all those vowels together.
panic != concern. The point is abridged, but valid.
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math.sqrt(x[0]2 + x[1]2 + x[2]2)

can be simplified to:

math.sqrt(sum(v2 for v in x))
They're modeling a scene mathematically as a "radiance field" - a function that takes a view position and direction as inputs and returns the light color that hits that position from the direction it's facing. They use some input images to train a neural network, in order to find an optimal radiance field function which explains the input images. Once they have that function, they can construct images from new angles by evaluating the function over the (position, direction) inputs needed by the pixels in the new image.
Elon said on Twitter that he thought it was stupid.

I personally agree. It's a flu and it's way overhyped by the media and the left-wing crazies who just echo the sentiment and shame those who don't follow as religiously as them.

Also, this pandemic wouldn't be as big of an issue of the US government would acknowledge the need for better workers rights. Sick leave, better policies about vacation and days off, etc. But what does the Trump admin do? Here's 1000 bucks for your troubles.
All of those break down the mask fibers or screw up the electrostatic qualities used to grab particles. There have been studies on it, but there's not really an ideal way that doesn't damage the filtering capacity over time.
Is sugar a drug? If not, what would the differentiation be?
Not many.

But lots of architects design things in their spare time.

Is software engineering closer to civil engineering or closer to architecture.
I think there is a probability P>0, that you overestimate the technologic and mathematical sophistication of YC audiences.
great talk! :)
I got Doom Eternal for myself, Animal Crossing for my wife. All online though.
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We can solve that too by reinforcing the old antitrust regulation.
Any link to the process or research? I’d love to learn how this is done.
What?!? It's one the most addictive drugs there is.

Those migraines you mentioned are one of many terrible withdraw symptoms.

It is the only drug I truly have been unable to quit. Despite weeks of being off of it, I always relapse after the cravings get too much.

It was easier to quit cigs for me than it is to stop drinking coffee. If it's a stimulant it's going to be very hard to quit.

The only reason it's not considered an addiction by experts is because you don't destroy your life when you run out, BECAUSE IT'S EVERYWHERE and super accepted (you can do it at work), also because I assume $$$.

So it's sort of like mobile/social media addiction but worse because it's more acceptable and it has physical withdrawal/cravings.

Now I'm going to go have a coffee because I have a headache and I'm irritated.
Take a look on my blog post about it https://dev.to/derberg/github-actions-when-fascination-turns.... I already reported this to GitHub Actions team and seems they are working on that. For reference https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/GitHub-Action-wor...
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