skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's am R0 for initial strain and then ranges for the other variants. I thought it was in Wikipedia but either it's been edited out or I saw it elsewhere.

What I recall (so huge grain of salt here) was R0 at 2.3 for initial strain then around 2x for Alpha and another 2-3x for Delta. Not. Great.
> Race has nothing to do with genetics; it’s a sociological invention.

I'm pretty sure that modern genetics disagrees. You can predict your "sociological invention" from multiple genetic markers in like 99.9% of cases or something like that. It's hard to argue that "A has nothing to do with B" if B extremely successfully predicts A.
That's really cool stuff. I wonder if Hacker rank and related competitive coding websites would become a mere formality going forward - especially for clearing machine coding interviews.

Curious to know how you got access to beta testing this tool?
Per the article that 500/week is reduced to only the incidents with non-Starlink satellites. Assuming the article is presenting apples-to-apples, then the 80/week for OneWeb should correspond to that 500/week for Starlink.

Starlink's total with their own satellites as well was 1600.

It's also worth noting that Starlink/SpaceX does coordinate with other satellite operators, it's their responsibility to do so.

I was actually working on an edit when I saw your reply and decided to put it here instead.

EDIT:

Reread a section of the article:

> OneWeb, by comparison, currently has 250 satellites and passes another operators’ satellite 80 times per week.

So yes, I've made an apples-to-apples comparison here. We don't know OneWeb's total incident count from this article alone and I'm insufficiently motivated to track down that statistic.
> is ultimately the ordering of a table

Clustered index leaf nodes contain the actual row data of the table itself, which is why there can only be one.
Working moms get those comments everyday, so I don't really get your point.
Ok, I will bite. What will cause interest rates to rise? Do you expect a war that destroys Taiwan or something? (a permanent semiconductor shortage would have a massive impact on modern life). Increasing trust, stability and keeping inflation low will keep interest rates low forever. Japan had decades of deflation.
More than JVM, it's the new Java Garbage Collectors (GCs) like ZGC. You can read more about their impacts here:

https://www.scylladb.com/2020/10/06/c-scylla-in-battle-royal...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lpb would be my guess
It depends on a lot of factors. It's almost always down to cardinality and organization.

How many records are in the table, and what proportion of records are estimated to be necessary to read? If it's more than a given threshold, then the query engine may decide to just read everything than waste time sorting out which pages it needs and which it doesn't. I/O is slow, but CPU is not free.

Is the table clustered on the `createdAt` field? If not, the system will not assume that the table records are going to be stored in any particular order that benefits the query execution. After all, the field may not represent when the record was created in this particular system. It will then estimate how many pages it thinks it will need to read. Again, at a certain threshold it will decide to just read every page in the table. Sometimes it's more expensive to figure out what to read and still end up reading 50% of the table instead of just reading everything and scanning through it quickly.

Remember, databases almost always read from disk in pages that contain multiple records. They can't read just one record. They read the whole page and then read the records out of that. That's the smallest unit of I/O. If records are evenly distributed, then the system will need to read almost every page anyways. That's why clustering indexes help so much, but you can only cluster on one set of fields.

As an aside for datetime thresholds it's a better idea to specify `WHERE createdAt >= '2020-01-01 00:00:00' AND createdAt < '2021-01-01 00:00:00'`. Different systems have different time precision. You don't want to miss records because of fractional seconds. Yes, it probably won't matter, but you can also just write it this way and not have a hole in your logic. BETWEEN is just syntactic sugar, too.
Grant from 3b1b is actually explicitly encouraging people to try to make more mathematical education videos this summer [1] - and Freya Holmér cites that as being what encouraged her to expand from little gif explanations into a full-length exposition video for that piece on Bézier curves, so this is all connected!

And in the spirit of sharing a bit of the ‘how it’s done’ - obviously while Grant uses Manim, Freya uses Unity3D and her ‘Shapes’ library [2] to produce her visualizations - she also streams a lot of her dev work so if you want to follow along with how it’s done, that’s another avenue to look at.

1: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1

2: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effect...
> Is the main problem, the unvaccinated, or that the Delta (and co.) variants are still, too dangerous for vaccinated people? Or is it the fear, that they will get more dangerous?

Lots of problems.

- The virus causes serious sequela; people who have been infected may have life-long damage, and some of that damage looks really bad. There's little correlation between severity of the initial infection and severity of the damage, so we don't know if vaccines help either.

- Not all people can be vaccinated. Young children can't be (their immune systems don't work the same way), people with some other underlying diseases can't be, etc. It's by no means just anti-vaxxers who are at risk.

- People aren't dying enough. Historically, this sort of pandemic only ended once the people who were genetically at risk had all died, and we're not letting that happen. Now, to be very clear: I'm not saying we should!

- Having a vaccinated population intermingling with an infections population means there's immense pressure on the virus to evade those vaccines. Many of the means by which it might do so will make it far more deadly to anyone who isn't vaccinated; Delta, for example, has adopted 'human wave tactics' to overwhelm the antibodies.

However, this does mean that history is a poor guide to what might happen.

Viruses don't generally have any reason to want their hosts dead, but there's also little evolutionary pressure for having that not happen.

We're helpfully adding pressure that's well suited to make it more deadly. Yay.
I already get vaccinated every 12 months for the flu, so that seems like a fine plan to me.
> Get vaccinated every 6 - 12 months indefinitely and always wear masks

An annual Flu and COVID shot seems perfectly reasonable. Wearing masks in public is already normal (or at least not uncommon) in many places, and I don't have a problem with where I live being one of those places.
For a balanced perspective and as a parent of ineligible children about to enter a new school year, Covid is far from over! We have no idea how long our school will be open or if we'll need to split attention between work and quarantined children at home. Similar to the evaporation of empathy for unvaxxed people who are admitted to the hospital, I'm concerned about a similar fatigue of tolerating working parents who are still partying like it's 2020, except we have no choice in the matter.
Covid-19 Nowcasting: A Bayesian Evidence Synthesis Model
Have we even figured out what bias we care about? Race, gender, age, etc. are some potential problems, but is that it?

These sorts of problems are often formulated theoretically (“suppose we want fairness with respect to variable Z”). It seems that half the battle is to figure out what to be fair with respect to. Often, the fairness variable in question isn’t even a feature, but is implicitly in the data (e.g., race in human photos). Therefore, the fairness space is potentially infinite.

For example, maybe life insurance models are biased toward those predisposed to developing cancer. Maybe ads target those suffering depression. You can continue partitioning the space in this way forever, and, therefore, it seems that the algorithms are relatively straightforward if you could formalize the bias requirements.

This is before you even consider the fairness variables interacting (e.g., age and gender and race), which requires potentially normalizing across exponentially growing feature combinations.
Last I checked the US was sequencing about 1% of patients. In the Houston Methodist hospital system, they sequenced the viral genomes of 56% of patients, which they estimate is about 4% of Covid cases in the Houston metropolitan area: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000294402...

Of course, there is a sampling bias there for variants that result in hospitalizations.

Variant-specific proportions can be found here:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?ACSTrackingID=USCD...
Yes I completely agree with this analysis. The only solution in my opinion is to elect leaders willing to dismantle this structure a bit, i.e. there are a number of senators and house members on the far left (and probably even on the right) that would vote for a bill that sets a per-entity yearly political donation cap at $500 if given the chance (meaning an individual or a corporation can only donate $500 per candidate per year). Centrists would never do this because they get tons of corporate money, but if we remove the incentives completely through legislation, we'd probably see a much less corrupt governmental structure at the end of the day.
I've seen this play out so many times though.

If you use SimCity and play optimally, everyone's life-expectancy sucks and remains uneducated, because those two stats literally don't matter. So you end up never building a hospital or school.

So people then point out mega-cities or whatever, and argue that the dystopian future has terrible health care and education. But... this is more a function of the game rather than the actual real world.
Flagging article for clickbait. Why are people posting this type of nonsense.
Why indefinitely? If that was the case we would need shots for the other cold viruses as well, which we don't. As you say, Sars-2 will turn into an endemic virus and thus we will get used to it over time, death rates will drop and it will turn into a cold. There is absolutely no historic precedent to think it will turn out differently.
> the "SpaceX Bad" narrative basically boils down to saying we should not develop space further because reasons

How much of that is linked to people hating the founder?
The study of obesity is the study of mysteries
I did read it. Why do you think I said "saved you from having to read a wall of Reddit lottery porn"?
Yes it is. That is what they make their money off of, the difference between what they earn off of the labor of the video creators and the money they pay out. If nobody uploaded videos, youtube could not sell attention just like if no steelworkers arrived, the steel mill can not sell steel. That applies to all social media/user generated content platforms.

Now, you might argue that this does not feel like labor because it's more voluntary than labor usually is. Which is totally correct and exactly why this industry is so lucrative.
> iOS is your operating system, it can send what it likes where it likes without you knowing about it. Why does this particular thing cause concern?

Then I guess it's not my operating system after all.
Land is non reproducible. The fact that it goes up in value when money is cheap is not very surprising. Yet nobody tries to tax the problem away. You know, everyone pretends that the government is doing MMT or whatever. If MMT were a recipe book of economic policy (which it isn't) then the government would simply raise taxes on land.
I'm not sure what you mean by "false anthropomorphization".

If you mean "it's not reasonable to hold all drivers, whether humans or AI, to the standards required to pass a driving test (left turns, sharing the road with bicycles and construction workers, rain)", then ... uh, I dunno what to tell you.
> For example, there is far more genetic diversity within Africa than outside of Africa. All of that diversity is mostly collapsed into "Black" in US racial classification though.

That's actually a very nice example of how genetics does matter for race because it shows the bottleneck of the small population that made it out of Africa.
For the downvoters:

"The single most important question in investing this year is whether the rampant inflation of the moment is temporary, as the Federal Reserve believes, or marks a historic shift. I argued last week that we are on the cusp of a major change and long-run inflation is now more likely."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-inflation-is-coming-here-is-...
How do you know that's when the rows were created? Maybe it means when the orders were created, but the records are from a foreign system and they were inserted in a completely different order.

More relevantly, how does the query engine know that the `createdAt` field has anything to do with the order of records stored on disk?
If it was in the US the woke mob would have tried to get the parade cancelled because those Pharo's had slaves.
At least Instagram algorithm is going towards direction where this is not possible. It might hide content from persons which you have followed, if you haven’t liked or reacted their posts in the past. It wants to show the most appealing content.
OK, 1,600 close encounters every week.

And how many collisions each week? Didn't see mentioning any, so none.

So this "close encounters" seem as dangerous as the close encounters anytime I drive on highway, or even less.

Pure FUD
The term "Regular Expression" is very often misused, it had a very well defined meaning in the field of formal language theory, but like most terms when barrowed by another field some of that meaning is lost or transformed.
Some documentation has shifted to using terms like "pattern" or "pattern matching expression" to convey the meaning without the baggage.

> Some REs (i.e. the “Perl-compatible” or “extended” Regular Expressions) are Nondeterministic Finite-state Automata or “NFAs”.

That those engines are implemented using an NFA or a DFA does not actually matter for the question of being regular or not. A given pattern may be Regular while another may not be. There are multiple technical reasons these engines are built on NFA's and not DFA's, supporting non-regular expressions is one, but not the only, reason.

Ironically the library called "PCRE" or "Perl-compatible Regular Expressions" is in-fact not "Perl-compatible" (nor regular). It is at the same time both named "Perl-compatible" and absolutely not Perl-compatible. Both PCRE library and the Perl language have evolved and added mutually incompatible features which results in a valid PCRE matching expression failing to compile in Perl and a valid Perl matching expression failing to compile in PCRE.
Just because that is the name doesn't make it true.
Due to COVID not mutating as quickly, I think the end game is everyone getting immune, through a combination of repeated vaccinations and infections.
X16 is going to be more for folks who want something that just works and they can play around with in software

Projects like this are more for folks who are looking to build their own computers from scratch. Typically, this is for someone who's more into hardware.

Personally, I enjoy both. I have probably 6 or so kit computers at this point. FWIW, the two that I've enjoyed the most are Ben Eater's breadboard 6502 project and the nand2tetris series which is all done in software.
If a kitten latched onto my skin to just hang out and engorge itself, that'd be gross too. Being gross isn't a matter of intent or etymology, it's an action.
It's sad that this comment (and probably mine) downvoted despite being a reasonable long-term response to this virus.

Instead of mandating this vaccine worldwide, why don't we focus on collectively building a better / stronger health that would prevent the large majority of severe cases?
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That should be a clue that something is wrong with your numbers. 10% of unvaccinated people getting COVID are absolutely not ending up in the ICU. It's not even remotely close.

Also, as good as the vaccines are against delta, natural immunity is doing even better: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/dr-makary-says-natu...

https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2021/7/20/22584134/whats...

https://arieh.substack.com/p/inside-israels-delta-outbreak-p...
2.76 assumes normal conditions, social distancing literally changes the equation.

Mask use for example pushes that down. It’s easier to get below 1 with a 50% vaccination rate than a 0% rate. Meaning we can open up more without overwhelming hospitals.
Sincere question - can you point me to such markets where interest rates can wiggle up and down without having as dramatic an effect on prices?
> Every disease throughout history has eventually reached equilibrium with humans which is essentially herd immunity.

Not a biologist here but can you elaborate on this? Do you consider all circulating diseases such as HIV, yellow fever, malaria, hepatitis etc. having reached "equilibrium"?
I don't really care about that. I have provided a source for the fact that cities attributed infrastructure to cars exclusively before the event you cited, and I have provided a source for the fact that this was done because cars would kill people otherwise.

Saying that the reason for cars dominating the urban landscape and replacing the "anarchy" that came before them as GP said it is something that happen 30 years after it becoming illegal to walk in the street and cars legally becoming the preffered denizen of the road is ahistorical. Unless you believe Robert Moses is the reason these laws were passed.
> It seems to me that Starlink is quite precise (or optimistic, I can't tell) at locating their satellites which makes sense.

The satellites have GPS on board. If your car can be placed to a resolution of meters, so can satellites. That is true of most satellites as well.
I see all of your anti-working-mom points regularly. It's a matter of your social info bubble.
The main problem is that the U.S. federal government in particular has been pretending for a while that we can get to zero COVID, then blaming the unvaccinated when it doesn't happen. First, they said we need 50% vaccination to achieve, herd immunity. Then 60%. Then 70%. Then 80%. When things don't work out, they vilify and blame the unvaccinated.

In reality, unvaccinated with natural immunity are likely more protected against the virus than the vaccinated. Israel's vaccination rates are among the highest in the world, and they've suffered the same delta outbreak as everyone else. Further, Israel has the most accurate and comprehensive data to date, and their numbers clearly show the naturally-immunized outperforming the vaccinated during their delta wave. They've since resorted to giving 3rd booster shots to the most vulnerable to compensate.

https://arieh.substack.com/p/inside-israels-delta-outbreak-p...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/israel-delivers-boos...

The real issue is that COVID is likely going to become endemic, and at some point the world needs to face this and move on. Unfortunately, our politicians have been lying to us and using COVID as a tool to gain political power for so long, that they are unwilling to admit they were wrong and to steer us in the right direction. The best we can do is elect these people out.
I disagree. I think it's one of the worst. I've used it around the world and it's often terrible.
I don't think bars in Iran can give free beer to 20-year-olds.
It probably can't. You'll hit a massive floor at -10% interest.
What is the right way to do it then? Can share any resources on this topic? I think it's very interesting.
Porn of those things is illegal since 2014.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30454773
I wonder how much that translates into actual use. A lot of internet providers (in Germany) technically include a landline using VoIP, but that doesn’t reflect the number of calls necessarily.

I’ve made some calls, but less than five in the last few years.
Plenty of these ”breaking news” are also heavily missleading. Causing side effects and heavy opinions, regardless if truth comes later. It is too late then.
They have a lot of work to do if that is the case. The beta experience at present is downright poor, particularly on the non-Apple end of things.
Sigh... Every timeshare starts this way and ends up in the same place once they need to get profitable...

Even then they're not all bad: I had friends who owned a $$$ place on the California coast but liked to travel so they bought a Wyndham timeshare and used it all over the world and loved it.
I don’t think there’s anything intrinsically unhealthy about processing foods.

The issue is that if humans are exerting effort and money to process food, it’s almost always to make it more hyperpalatable, calorically denser and faster to digest. All of those features are strongly associated with low satiety and overconsumption.
I still call my buddies and they call me - spontaneously - I pick up if I am available. No formality. No scheduling. Just pick up the damn phone and chat!

Slack added huddles recently to cut the friction to call someone. Phone lines before cell phones used to be like that - just call! Instant voice communication. So much better than text.

I feel like I am showing my age now :-)
Will [US-collected] fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?
I live a couple hours north of San Francisco, about a mile from the ocean. There is pretty much always a prevailing ocean breeze. Last summer, about 10 in the morning, I walked out on my lawn, and couldn't believe how hot it was. There was no breeze, pretty high humidity, and I could just feel the sun beating down. It was so bad that I couldn't stand there.
I stick to John Berardis post workout drink, he did his Phd in Nutrition about it. He works as nutrional advisor for the canadian olympic team and other elite athletes.

50g of glucose to trigger the insulin response and 30g of whey protein.

I add frozen fruit (usually blueberries) to counter the acid buildup from the protein metabolism.

Since i turned vegan i use 20g of rice-, 10g of pea- and 12g of hemp protein powder. Amounts to ~30g of pure protein, magnesium + manganese from hemp is nice as well. Tastes worse, but costs half as much while being organic.
Mostly because the low orbit means any junk would suffer atmospheric drag pretty quickly and decay.
> ML model trained on this past data will likely learn that bias

That's the opposite of what the author is saying, though - or rather, she's saying that data bias exists, but the algorithm itself introduces bias that would be there even if the data itself were somehow totally fair, for some unspecified definition of "fair".
Social Security Act forbade government agencies even using SSN's as a National ID number as I recall.

Pity that in the U.S., business does not feel bound by the same normative structures we place on Government. Heck, the government hasn't even done great at following that.
I mean the whole gimmick is about off-loading hard-to-sell inventory at immense mark-ups by bundling items together. Yea some absurd combinations will be sent back but it will still profit an order of magnitude more then displaying it in a department store for months. A lot more room for JIT style and data-driven logistics without the lag-time of presenting within a store.

You can't be that mad at a company when it is so obvious what their value proposition and consequences are to a consumer.
>We are talking about desktop operating systems here, so this is completely irrelevant.

You can use Omni OS or Solaris as a desktop and i bet it's vastly more Desktop capable the Haiku.

>Not an OS.

No ZFS is a filesystem, and the Omni OS installer copies the image from the iso to the disk, the haiku installer is not a OS too.