raphaelj

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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   Could the working culture also affect the average salary? For example, an average US employee will on average work 30% more hours per year than a German employee [1]. Working in the Netherlands, I also know that a lot of engineers will deli
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   Some times it does not make sense to associate a time component to a date, just because it happens on a day, not at a certain time. For example, in a lot of countries, Labor Day is on May 1, Christmas on Dec 25. These do not happen at a cer
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   Is the durability of batteries also improving? Having a significant improvement in this area would have a magnificent effect on some industries. Making batteries last twice as long (e.g. from 2000 cycles to 4000) would basically reduce batt
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   So the author is writing a compiler but only learned about hashtables?
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   I had the same issue. I developed a legit and anonymous contact-tracing app [1], and there is no way I can easily distribute it on the app stores as Google and Apple unconditionally ban any app that makes any reference to the current pandem
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   Could it explain why we are seeing more improvements in rendering quality compared to physics and AI? As you said, AI and physics are inherently not really parallelizable while rendering is. AI and physics from the Athlon 64/Pentium 4
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   I designed and released an opensource contact tracing app. This was designed around the time Google and Apple announced their partnership, and the overall idea is similar (renewed anonymous identifiers). https://github.com/R
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   > He has built a $150 billion company from the ground up Are we talking about Tesla? Because Elon didn't fund Telsa.
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   by raphaelj 6y ago

   Note that you can avoid the currency conversion fees using a Transferwise account. You'll get bank credentials for USD, EUR, NZ$, AU$ and GBP, and not pay the fees for these currencies: https://transferwise.com/help&#x2
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    You can create a TransferWise multi-currency account. That will provides you bank accounts for USD, EUR, GBP AU$ and NZ$, thus avoiding conversion fees.
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Wrong. The average user does not give a shit if the page is rendered server-side, or of it's a SPA. Geeks prefer speed, like everyone. There are plenty of papers that show that a reduction in latency improves the conversion rate. And i
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Quite sincerely, it's a total failure. I got the chance to try the new interface, and it's so slow that it's barely usable. It's even slower than the old website, that was already painfully slow. Loading a random profile
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Not if you don't want the hash table to change while doing some read only processing on it. Immutability ensures that the reference you get always point towards a object that is in a consistent state.
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    I always preferred immutable sorted trees (such as found in Haskell or Scala) to concurrent hash tables when dealing with concurrent sets or maps. You can add or remove a node from such trees without modifying the original trees, by only cr
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    New discussion here: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer/blob/master/README....
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Hi, OP here, I started working on this app a couple of weeks ago, trying to iterate on Singapore's contact-tracking app by adding data anonymization and decentralization features. I ended up with a solution that is similar to the D3P-T
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    Show HN: An open-source and decentralized COVID-19 contact-tracing app(github.com)

    3 points by raphaelj 6y ago|1 comments
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Indeed ... I might try to repost it later this week.
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    It's totally possible to create an anonymous and decentralised contact tracing app that does not share private data. That is what Apple-Google are working on, and what projects such as D3P-T, or my hobby contact tracing app [1] are try
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    That's very bad. Anonymous and (mostly) decentralized contact tracing is definitively possible, and is exactly what the D3P-T and Apple/Google protocols are trying to achieve. Developing a reasonably anonymous contact-tracing app
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    The Apple+Google solution is technically very similar. The main issue with contact tracers today is on iOS: Apple does not allow an application to perform a Bluetooth scan if the application is not on the screen and the phone unlocked. Appl
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    Hi, OP here, I started working on this app a couple of weeks ago, trying to improve Singapore's model of using Bluetooth tracking by adding data anonymization and decentralization features. I ended up with a solution that is similar to
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    Show HN: A decentralized and anonymous contact-tracing app(github.com)

    4 points by raphaelj 6y ago|6 comments
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    The government actually issues the two numbers [1]. Current (Apr 26) toll is 7,094 if you include suspected deaths, but is 3,596 if you only count positive cases. -- [1] https://covid-19.sciensano.be/sites/default/
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    It looks like Germany put lockdown measures in place about a week earlier than France, Belgium or the Netherlands, if you compare the number of deaths at the time the mesures were enforced. Getting a lockdown in place a week earlier mathema
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    r0 can stay the same, it can just means that the epidemic "took off" earlier than what our tests show.
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    by raphaelj 6y ago

    As a side note, Android requires an app to get location access when using Bluetooth (not sure about iOS). So any Bluetooth contract tracing app will request location access.
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    by raphaelj 7y ago

    That makes sense. But what about prioritising partial nationalisation of these companies by injecting cash in exchange for shares? That way it would have no impact on the net public debt, as the gouvernement assets increase at the same rate
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    86% of all SARS-CoV2 infections might be undocumented(science.sciencemag.org)

    5 points by raphaelj 7y ago|0 comments
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    by raphaelj 7y ago

    While you're correct in the term being wrong, I don't think anybody misinterprets it. Moreover, the recommended 2m/6ft gap makes it clear that we are talking about physical distance, not purely social.