It's definitely possible that there are more infected then reported. The issue is Italy is testing only people who are suspected to be sick in the first place.

Most of the people who got covid, are asymptomatic thus they probably won't be tested and added to the count.

This means that 10% is taken from a population of people who are both sick and symptomatic.

Since China is testing asymptomatic people as well, they should have a more precise ratio.

First of all, thanks for posting this - it's very impressive! Do you have any resource to suggest for digging a bit more in this topic?

Thank you for the questions, I would suggest you a couple of really good resources on YouTube that makes learning this kind of notions quite enjoyable and profitable.

If you already have some basics of electronics and you want to deepen the computational aspect, Ben Eater did an exceptional video series on how to build a Computer on a breadboard. You can check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...

and here: https://eater.net/.

He goes through the definition of a logic gate, on how to build each module of the Computer, up to the meaning of computation and Turing completeness.

If you're more concerned on the electronic side you here are a couple of very good channels to start with:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi4UZoZM0Iw9_tTeRjZd_bA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosnWgi3eorc1klEQ8pIgJQ

Thanks for the prompt response! Book-wise do you have any suggestions? I would be interested in acquiring some more knowledge on circuit prototyping and so on. As a side, was this your first design / iteration?

A must-have book is "Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson. The board shown in the video is the very first iteration of the project. As you may see there are some patches and rewiring that I have fixed already. I also improved the design considerably in v2, the schematics and code on GitHub are up to date. This new version will include more general-purpose registers, improved stack pointer, and expansion bus, together with an LCD display interface.

I'm writing a supervisor / init system in Rust, called Horust (from Horus "the one from the above" + Rust). It's inspired by supervisord, you define a service in toml with a bunch of properties (like start delay, restart strategies, start after another service and so on) and then you just let horust manage the system.

I've designed it with the use case of running multiple processes in a single container in mind. I know this is not a nice thing to do, but still people do it. I've not tried using it as an init system (yet) but it should be possible with the current features.

It's not released yet (https://federicoponzi.github.io/Horust/) but I hope to release it this week (MIT license). If anyone with some knowledge in Rust / Linux want to join the fun, feel free to hit me with a message @federico_ponzi.

I've got a great use case for horust, or at least a container init process capable of running multiple child processes (kubernetes nodes inside containers).

Consider me interested. Contact me via the email listed in my profile.

Really interesting comment thanks! Do you have any more tips for improving in technical writing? Do you know of any other good book / course on this matter?

First of all - I kind of like the design of the website! It sucks a bit the broken back button though.

Also, a kind of funny thing: open dev tools, network tab, start monitoring, click on a tag or search for something and boom:

    location: "toronto"
    companyId: "cf4dc3ce-07b0-4c73-94ca-e6b0b05298d3"
    config: {isHighlighted: true, hasLogo: false, isPromoted: false, hasSocialMedia: true}
    status: "active"
    companyNameLower: ".."
    createdAt: "2020-01-20T02:25:08.078Z"
    views: 114
    text: "test automation engineergit, python, selenium, java, sentry, redistorontofull-time"
    expiresAt: "2020-02-20T02:25:08.040Z"
    updatedAt: "2020-02-04T15:26:41.590Z"
    desiredPosition: "Test Automation Engineer"
    amount: 59
    jobType: "full-time"
    applyUrl: "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/viewform?entry.1432237434=c7dd38b9&entry.1192563077=cfc6f88f"
    description: "....."
    id: "4c7ad16a-eecc-482c-a6a1"
    timesApplyClicked: 3
    productId: "ca731006-d129-4623-9991"
    tags: "git, python, selenium, java, sentry, redis"
    totalVotes: 0
    logo: false
    

Kind of TMI, like "views" or "timesApplyClicked". Not sure this was meant to be public.

edit: formatting

Update: there are also information about the company itself, which looks kind of sensitive data.

This is a 2014 article, the links points to an "authors correction" section and it's an update from 01 October 2019. They wanted to add very relevant references not listed in the original paper. Because scientists usually have to back their statements. And while in the linked article we have independent groups coming to the same conclusion (which doesn't necessarily make it right, but enhances the chances), I don't see you citing your sources.

I read this article before.

From the study: The largest was a 9.3 percent drop in the zinc level in wheat. They also found reduced levels of protein in wheat, rice, and peas, but not in soybeans.

Ok. A 9.3% drop in zinc on a per unit basis. First of all, not an alarming figure at all. Second of all, wheat is not a great source for zinc. It has phytic acid that prevents the absorption of zinc and iron [1].

Also says reduced levels of protein in wheat rice and peas, all single digit drops (again on a per unit basis more than made up for by increased yields under higher CO2). And again, these are not significant sources of protein. Soybeans are, and it clearly states that soybeans are not affected.

Plants evolved under CO2 conditions in the thousands of PPM. The carbon we're releasing into the atmosphere is ancient plant material. If you think CO2 has an adverse affect on nutrition, then you've got to explain to me how the dinosaurs got so big.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-foods-high-in-zinc...

> If you think CO2 has an adverse affect on nutrition, then you've got to explain to me how the dinosaurs got so big.

That’s terrible argument. There are plenty of creatures much larger than us whose diets we cannot survive on.

No it's a not a terrible argument. I agree that diets aren't the same from species to species, but the plant life had to be thriving in order to support creatures that large and that abundant.

But for what it's worth, birds are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs and we have no trouble digesting birds for nutrition. In fact, chickens are the closest living relatives to Tyrannosaurus Rex. So we would have no trouble at all roasting a T-Rex and consuming it for nutrition were we able to hunt one.

> the plant life had to be thriving in order to support creatures that large and that abundant

Size: “thriving” is incredibly vague. Would you say plant life is “thriving” in the environment of the Blue Whale?

Abundant: how abundant? I have seen no estimates for primary production in the Cretaceous, as googling gave me paywalls.

Third point: Even plant species evolve to fit their environment, so for a discussion about plants that exist today (and, worse, which humans selectively bred to be full of calories) it doesn’t matter how much other life there was c. 100 MYA because the plants around now didn’t evolve for what was around 100 MYA.

Fourth point: depending on which era of dinosaurs you’re referring to, plate tectonics radically shifted global geology since then, changing how much coast there was, how much land was desert, where mountains were, and global ocean currents, so even if the plants and animals were the same as now, the total living biomass would be different.

Fifth point: the plants can still “thrive” even if they’re no longer what we consider “nutritious”. They can also still thrive even if something else does. Grass/cattle comes to mind, although the reasons are almost the exact opposite to this scenario.

I'm too lazy to back with some links my following statement, but usually in industry diversity is good. There are many frameworks and libraries, that have overlapping use cases. But with more choice it's easier to get the right tool for the job. Also maybe this framework is solving the same problem in a more clever way. So: yes, it's good to have smart developers contributing instead of starting new projects, but it's also good to have more diverse frameworks to choose from.

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Thanks, but why tho

Interesting link, thanks for sharing.

It seems like the github repo of that site is being flooded with issues:

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues

Not sure if they are fake users or not

No english subtitles?