skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic's every up and down.

At some point this definitely needs to happen. I don't know whether now is that time. But at some point, this thing is going endemic. Reporting purely on case numbers ad infinitum is just going to cause warning fatigue, and people are going to stop listening. Again, I'm not saying I think now is the time to make this transition. But I recall watching a nightly news report over Thanksgiving saying that in vaccinated adults, the rate of hospitalization with Delta-variant breakthrough infections at that point was... 0.0 in 10,000. That's not to say no one is going to the hospital; obviously that's not true.

But we run the very real risk of making people stop listening to the warnings. It's like those who live in hurricane regions; after years of hearing "better put your SSN on your arm so we can identify your body," and then evacuating - and coming back with nothing amiss because the storm missed you by 100 miles - they stop listening. And when the big storm does hit, they don't evac because they just roll their eyes and think "Oh, not this again."

Obviously you can't stop warning people about incoming hurricanes. And just like in COVID, there are serious complications with hurricane forecasting that cause overwarning to be necessary to some extent. But if there's a serious COVID variant that is actually a ruthless killer that arises, we will need people to listen.

I was reading yesterday that the Omicron wave appears to have already peaked in South Africa, just 3 weeks after its identification, and they expect it to peak here by end of January. That is significantly shorter than Delta. On top of that, they are finding the Omicron cases much milder than Delta. They seem to believe that Omicron has migrated out of the lungs and into the upper respiratory tract, where it is less dangerous but better able to spread. A researcher quoted in the article called it a "best-case scenario."

Yet we are still having warnings as if the apocalypse is about to come.

Again, I don't know what the right timing is for this, and until we figure it out I'm 100% on board with listening to the CDC. But - we don't report on the daily number of cold cases because the cold is part of life. And if/when COVID becomes something that is a mild upper respiratory infection for the near-entirety of non-immuno-compromised people, I think continuing to report daily on how many thousands of new cases we have serves no purpose other than continuing to stoke fear.*

And because this is important context for some sorts of people, I am an extremely progressive liberal who is steadfastly continuing to wear masks in public, and have been booster-ed for 2 weeks now.

*(This is a concern of mine because, as we know from 9/11 and the terror alert warning system that we now know was totally bogus, but had to deal with on the nightly news for years, there are elements in this country who are happy to take advantage of tragedies to stoke fear.)
It's not really a bit slower. It's a lot slower. Germany has also recently gone through a long period without a legitimate government, it's not some one-off Belgian thing.

Europeans like to call what happens after an indecisive election a "caretaker government" but this is a fantasy to cover up the ugly truth - caretaker governments invariably keep ruling as if nothing had happened. They often struggle to accept that legitimacy was lost and they should do nothing, especially leftist governments that are ideologically pre-disposed to government action in the first place. Even Merkel was still turning up at global conferences and speaking for Germany months after her coalition had failed.

PR often results in bizarre, unwieldy and politically contradictory coalitions, like libertarians trying to make alliances with hard-left Greens. Hence the popularity of flag-colour names for German coalitions. The resulting governments are unstable, yield completely incoherent policymaking and frequently collapse.

In places that don't have this problem they've often evolved other deeply questionable workarounds. Switzerland has some semi-formalized mechanism for dishing out cabinet seats across parties (literally called the "magic formula"), with the result that the government is run by people who fundamentally disagree on the most critical and foundational issues of government. Worse, they constantly pretend that they don't really disagree (collective responsibility), and that this state of affairs is normal. It normalizes and institutionalizes lying to voters about their actual beliefs. The result is a federal politics that feels fake and the whole thing becomes unaccountable because the politicians end up being more loyal to each other than their voters (e.g. Berset scandals, what happened to Blocher).

I used to favour PR and thought it would be an improvement over the Parliamentary or US systems. These days I'm much more ambivalent. PR systems look more democratic on the surface but when you look at how they actually behave, I think they actually create perverse incentives. For example, the business of coalition building is pushed to politicians instead of voters themselves, although a stable society ultimately requires coalitions and understanding between citizens.
I disagree. The fact that this is affecting healthcare workers makes it worse, because it reduces our ability to deal with the virus in the first place.
> I think it's fine to think of those as equally valid.

Only for extremely limited purposes. Both approaches are about properties of the organism as it currently exists. The paraphyletic approach will let you know about similarity in maybe three dimensions of a ten-thousand-dimensional space. The monophyletic approach captures the other 9,997.
This is also a thing with mushrooms.

The Common Earthball [1] f.x. is more related to a Porcino [2] than to a Meadow Puffball [3] which itself is related to the Field Mushroom [4].

Seems like genes are more like a toolbox where evolution takes from what it needs. After all we share a significant amount of common genes with totally different animals like flies.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma_citrinum

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoperdon_pratense

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_campestris
It would depend on method of transmission. Bubonic plague was spread by rats. The hosts could be very ill or even dead; it didn’t matter.

Respiratory viruses that only or mainly have human hosts need ambulatory vectors.
I think it is unethical if you're lying about the amount of work you do, using fake excuses like "it's harder than I thought it would be", "I got stuck on x" when you're just not working or working for your second company. Yes, you're paid for an output, but how can your manager give you a reasonable output when you're constantly lying and deceiving them about how hard/long something is? People are always complaining that they are not trusted enough by their manager, but when you see the comments here, I kinda feel bad for said managers. A good manager will be able to see through it eventually without resorting to micromanagement, but it can take a while and do a lot of damages until then.

I also see arguments like "some companies do worse to employees". I understand where this is coming from, but this can be used to excuse pretty much any kind of behaviour and just leads to a deleterious environment.
So looks like - as expected - the Virus is getting "weaker" i.e adapting itself better to your host, without killing it, or is it to early to come up too a conclusion? I read the same report from different countries too...
With socketed BIOS chips, You could buy preprogrammed updates… no need to program yourself.
I used to use it when it was XBMC, but for some reason that escapes me now, I ended up switching to Plex, and stayed there.

I think it was just after they rebranded to Kodi, something happened and it didn't work right - my memory is a bit hazy
Which Wikipedia pages in India are abused the most?
I really am not sure why you got downvoted. Here is a NYMag article that supports what you're saying: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/and-now-for-the-good...
Another +1 for EasyDNS here. Been migrating all of our domains to them from hover over the last ~6 months or so after, after repeated terrible support experiences with Hover.

EasyDNS clearly has staff that know their stuff, and get things taken care of, even if their web interface is a bit clunky in comparison to Hover.

Looking at the Heroku page about custom domains, it lists EasyDNS directly:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#configu...

* ANAME at easyDNS

With a link to: https://kb.easydns.com/knowledge/aname-records/

So, looks like it should work. :)

As a bonus, EasyDNS is one of those places that's known to _not_ automatically roll over to legal requests. So, that reduces the risk of having your online presence disrupted by anyone sending dodgy legal request (or even a forged one).
I felt the same way but recently I've been learning a bit of Inkscape and it's easier than it initially feels even with a mouse and keyboard. 2dgameartguru has some nice tutorials you can reference to get an idea for how the tools are used https://2dgameartguru.com/category-selection-inkscape/
I use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 3. It plays everything 1080p apart from h265 sources. Can't recommend enough.
And this being an RNA virus it can and will change again, and what the parameters of that next version will be is anybody's guess.
Finland has researched and invested quite a lot in the ability to dispose of the nuclear waste in a way it's safe underground for the next 100 000 years.

The research includes extensive geological surveys and every possible simulation you can run on a cave system.

Beats hands down the option which would be to burn fossil fuels and let the planet enjoy the negative externalities (CO2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-reckoning
You might think so but this is the nuclear energy industry - where building a plant typically takes at least a decade (or not-uncommonly 2 decades or more). In fact, this is currently the most modern production reactor design in the world.

It's an EPR[1] - a third generation reactor design. But so far it's been plagued by massive cost and schedule overruns and of the two reactors of this design to become operational, Taishan 2[2] has already been taken offline after less than a year in order to investigate problem with the fuel rods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant
I’m a bit confused by this example. Are you saying that the model showed higher cases in a non-lockdown analysis compared to fewer cases in the real world with lockdowns? If so, wouldn’t that be expected? If not, what does “business-as-usual” mean?
I found it an interesting and useful explanation, but the bit in the middle where he just says "now categorize each node, I colored them in!" is the bit I always had more trouble with, so I was disappointed to see basically the same explanation as I've heard before.
Someone built one out of a Audi Q7!

https://www.facebook.com/bilmetro/posts/2359290594094797/
Manhattan Project....also, seriously?
I was working at a big serious game company when this debuted. One day I looked around and every dev on our serious game engine team was alt-tabbing to it while they worked. They were pretending to play it ironically, and I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen, until I tried it.
Hi, my name is Shijith, and I'm a freelance data journalist from India (Worked previously at Hindustan Times and IndiaSpend).

Just posting a data story I did recently about wikipedia abuse in India. Such abuse is an old problem, but it's getting more media attention with users distorting facts on pages about the Delhi riots or farmer protests. Sometimes users engage in straight out vandalism where they delete whole sections from a page.

I tried to determine which wikipedia pages faced the most abuse this year, and also introduce a twitter account that allows people to track wikipedia abuse weekly.

This is the twitter account for tracking wikipedia abuse every week: http://twitter.com/abuse_checker

And here's the python code I used for the project: https://github.com/shijithpk/wikipedia_abuse_checker

(Am in the process of re-working the code. Right now it's querying the wikipedia API every week for edit histories of over 150k articles, and the whole run is taking 2 days now. Discovered an API endpoint for recent changes that should make things more efficient.)

Have any questions or feedback, do let me know below!
Maybe this is of interest, but the first social network I remember using was actually a "dating" site, when we were in our early teens, around y2k, there were no other kinds of websites (that we knew of) that were general-purpose enough.. So everyone I knew rushed onto some site called weblove, and we used it as a general hangout, it had forums, chats, "mail" and the ability to build a profile and upload pictures.
Sure, boys and girls talked, but dating was not a focus. It was actually a very nice social platform, encouraging meeting and communicating with other people in exactly the way facebook does not. Also, it was free to use.
Ember 4.0 Released
How come 16 year old kids can drive just fine in the US?
Lots of comments here about how annoying these are. And of course i can also feel the devils horns growing on my forehead when I am behind 2-3 of these taking up the road in 30km/h. (I live next to a highschool with forestry/farming profile, so...)

But then I take a deep breath and think about the perspective of the teenagers here. Often stuck in rural parts of Sweden with little or no public transport. And taking the bicycle or the moped in -10C is not very appealing.

The freedom it brings means everything for them.

That said - in my area (relatively populated) I have not seen them speeding.
Cool. That's definitely useful then. :)
A small nitpick as the resvg author: the repo located here https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg I'm not sure why the author linked some random, outdated fork. If you're trying to beat SVG, you should have done a better research.

But yes, SVG is extremely bloated and under-documented. Especially SVG 2. The core resvg codebase is close to 20 KLOC, while the whole package is like 50 KLOC.

On the other hand, resvg is an exception, because it doesn't rely on any system and/or 3rd party libraries. 95% of the code in the final binary was written by one person (me). Not because it was strictly required, but because it was fun. resvg is basically an epitome of RIIR.
I've been working on reducing the habit of repetition. I think it comes from (feeling like) people not listening to you.

Some things that have helped me:

- care less that people listen to you (see also: The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck). If they didn't get you the first time, their loss.

- Keep in mind that repeating points doesn't actually help most listeners, as you're just overloading them with information. (for advanced writers only: there's an art to repeating points for reader memorization)

- Remove a random sentence. Does your point still make sense? Then the sentence wasn't crucial. Does it not make sense anymore? Then can you add a qualifier or clause to another sentence to make sense again? Counter to this: make your sentences as short as possible. Be liberal in splitting your sentences. Iterate these two steps.

- Remove adjectives and adverbs

- (always valid) review what you wrote 5, 10 minutes, and/or a day later. It's fascinating how a bit of distance makes you realize the flaws in your past writing. When you're writing, you still have your idea clear in your head, and your understanding of what you wrote is informed by the live idea. After you step away, you're left with just what you wrote, and it must make sense on its own.

Addendum: are you feeling that people aren't listening to you because they're not acknowledging you? Many people are bad at acknowledging what they hear, so learn to do without. Conversely, learn to acknowledge what someone else is saying ;)
I have sent this article to some folks and plenty of them had the same reaction. A bit like math envy, it is normal to have when you lack a formal education and all you did professionally was writing CRUD apps. It does _not_ mean your work is in any way less meaningful though.

And yeah it is indeed impressive and maybe the coolest thing I've seen this year.
With hardly more than 10% recovered, total, vs almost everybody vaccinated that's not much of a difference. Very well within the range of methodical difference like in which group those recovered and vaccinated are counted and so on.
The spectator has, however, had a strong anti-lockdown skew (I avoid the word bias.) since the start which is worth bearing in mind when viewing any statistics that they put out.

Not saying that they're wrong, but their general libertarian-right stance is worth noting.
Does this mean that y'all are open to the self-hosted compiler supporting CPU architectures unlikely to ever have LLVM support? I know that's one of the blockers for the oft-asked "Will OpenBSD consider adopting Rust/Zig/Go/whatever?", as one example of a project that targets platforms which LLVM does not.

My guess from the preliminary Plan 9 target work mentioned in the release notes is that something like a SuperH backend (for example) would indeed be in scope (provided someone's willing to contribute one, of course), but a confirmation would be neat. I suppose the C backend would do the job in these cases, too, but I'm sure it'd be nice to not have to include GCC (or some other C compiler besides zig cc) in the mix (especially for projects like OpenBSD that try to minimize copyleft code).

Speaking of: how is zig cc anticipated to work with a self-hosted Zig? Will there be a dependency on clang (as suggested by the punt_to_clang(...) call in the current main.zig)? Will it be possible to swap that out with something else that could turn C into ZIR (or something else the self-hosted compiler could then punt to whatever backend)?

Relatedly, would zig cc support the planned C backend? If so, would the resulting C output be equivalent to the input (notwithstanding the current limitations re: macros, struct bitfields, etc.)?
No, that's the norm. The people that are repeating the 'viruses evolve to become more benign' line are about 40 years behind the times in terms of science as it is currently accepted.

Viruses evolve to spread as efficiently as possible, what happens to the host after they have spread is from a viral evolution point of view utterly irrelevant. So they can and do evolve to be more lethal. Maybe it takes a bit longer before you die but that's perfectly fine.
That's been a plex feature since day 1 (?)
I got an old PC my job was dumping(Haswell, I think), installed kodi, and put it under the TV. Then copied all our DVDs on the hard disk. Use the android app as remote.

It works flawlessly. The startup time is a bit slow, but once running, my 4 year old kid can choose his bed time series and watch 1 or 2 episodes on his own. My wife also knows her way around.

Now there are tons of unused options in there, but who cares. But I never had to mess around with the settings like the other poster experiences, it just works.

Only problem is I can't manage to play from the Nickelodeon website, but maybe a bit of googling might unearth a webbrowser plugin.
+1 for LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi. Zero hassle, zero fiddling, everything just works, and it feels like it's built into the TV as it uses its IR remote as the only input device.
Oh no, that just a typo from me. ;)
Even the linked domain is blocked in the UK (on some ISP's)
The real question is why 15 year-olds are still allowed to drive tractors on roads in the first place.
At current energy prices in Finland, it would take less than 1/10 of the time expected.

(Of course the current price is a bit of an anomaly.)
Assuming electricity cost $110 MWh and OPEX of the reactor on the level of $25 MWh with 90% capacity factor without accounting for interest (since it's near zero nowadays), it will take slightly more than 10 years for the reactor to pay for itself. Realistically, with decommissioning I would say it will be 15-20 years. So in addition to positive impact on economy due to lower electricity prices and improved reliability, for at least 40 years it will produce a pure profit. Also in reality it probably will operate for 80-100 years.
> I'd say protect the weak properly, have the current vaccination restrictions on everybody, but otherwise let the rest get on with their lives. Even if it means some will die. From my perspective its criminal to fuck up children's future even if it would protect their grandparents a bit more.

If you are going to go this path then you also need to say that the unvaccinated do not receive covid treatment beyond meds they can take home and stay out of hospitals. The primary concern has not been just how many will die, but the effects of those who do not die upon the rest of the medical system. We must be allowed to deny care to those who choose to put themselves and others at risk to keep medical resources available for everyone else.
And at 100% capacity only in June, at which point the current price spike is hopefully over…
Big +1 for Porkbun. I feel a bit bad because I use them only for domain registrations, and then point out to Bunny DNS or Cloudflare DNS. I don't host websites or email with Porkbun either, mostly because moving existing setup from elsewhere is a pain.
No, what I was getting at was your incorrect statement that the market will make sure whoever values it more wins.
I’ve used Lottie to render animations (used in place of images rather than as UI elements) on a couple of websites and was impressed how smoothly it worked and how easy it was to get up and running. I’ve no idea how complex it is to make the actual animations though!
I don't disagree with most of what you say, however I do want to point out that "mental health" is something that commentators and politicians on the right have only recently actually started to care about, especially in the UK.

Mental health services in the UK have seen decades of real-terms cuts by parliaments of all colours. Getting mental health support on the NHS is next-to-impossible in a meaningful timeframe so watching anybody in parliament say "lockdown bad. mental health important." is outrageous.

Say you're anti-lockdown if you are (not you, OP), but don't for a second let Conservative MPs make you believe that they actually care about the nation's mental health.
I've been finding it somewhat telling that people that make the argument you are making presume that no one else has any agency. And won't take precautions without the government forcing them to.
WebAssembly with Suborbital and WasmEdge
Isn't the distinction as simple as "does the language let you define anything and use recursion?", where I'm going to be a bit handwavy with "define anything" but I think we all get what I mean.

You can't name functions in Brainfuck or recursively call them. You can do so in LISP and Forth. That is also the entire reason Brainfuck explodes in size: it lacks the "semiotic" capabilities required to compress source code (and therefore, structure and refactor code, which is what humans need).
Until they don't.

France's EDF takes more nuclear reactors offline after faults found - 2021-12-17

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc...
So I have been trying to think about the major contextual frameworks - could we for example create a Ted talk that told you "everything you ever needed to know"

- Earth revolves round sun (transit of venus??)

- Earth spins (Foucaults pendulum)

I started this in "important experiments for kids" on github.