skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chart towards the bottom of this page [1] provides another source.

Like others my initial reaction was “deaths lag” but upon closer inspection the data is more nuanced: While deaths do lag, in previous waves deaths had risen substantially by the time cases peaked, but with omicron in South Africa cases have already peaked but deaths have barely risen. This could be partly because the omicron wave has peaked faster (~3 weeks) than previous waves (~1 month or more), partly because the population has more immunity, and partly because omicron is less severe?

I’m not sure yet. All in all, I’m optimistic but will wait another week or two to be convinced.

[1]: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/za
It would be foolish to think that either of the companies would move an inch in tackling this. Governments need to enforce policy to lower the ridiculous amount of influence this platforms have. They can start by forcing open standards on these platforms like SMS used to be for messaging. There is barely any technological challenge to the basics of Facebook and Twitter.
Here in the Netherlands the PM had a phase where he exclusively posted his messages on Facebook instead of government websites. Acts like that are ridiculous and only feed the hand. Of course the PM and his party gets helpful marketing in return which fuels the cycle.
This comment links to Reuters, which says "Denmark reports its largest number of coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic: 57". Where are you getting your data?

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654645
I think parent meant that they have a high (prior) infection rate, not exposure rate.
Quantum information comes from Von Neumann entropy, while classical information comes from Shannon entropy. Regardless of where the "source" of information/uncertainty comes from or how "physical" it is, they're related but distinctly different tools which can each be applied to both "physical" or "non-physical" systems at any scale.

"Quantum" is turning out to have very little to do with how tiny or physical stuff is, and much more to do with assumptions about how observations emerge from interaction.

> rather than simply due to imperfect knowledge

That's the key right there... Quantum probability and quantum models don't rely on the existence of "perfect knowledge" or "underlying" objective states. States themselves are intrinsically probabilistic and contextually embedded. Measurements/observations cannot be cleanly decoupled from the states being measured, and are modelled as projections from a high dimensional space of possibilities onto some lower dimensional subspace.

This kinda thing works really well for social/cognitive systems which are incredibly sensitive to measurement process. For example, when conducting polls or surveys, the ordering of the questions is well known to impact the outcome. It turns out that this can be very well modelled using tools from quantum theory, and it has been.

Check out this book and all the books/papers citing it for a window into this fascinating world

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-05101-2
He means they were already exposed to another variant so they have some immunity.

That immunity may very well work better than the vaccines on omicron - I don’t think we’re far enough in to it to have a great idea of that yet.
Not necessarily. The load that the healthcare systems must carry depends not just on the absolute number of cases, but also on how long the average stay in hospital is. Think of it as IT notorious "man-days", in this case "patient-days".

If the infection is milder across the board, hospital stays will be shorter on average. People will improve faster and will be discharged sooner.

500 people who on average need 3 days of hospitalization are less of a load than 200 people who on average need 10 days of hospitalization - unless those 500 arrive at the same time, of course.
Why is there not an official WHO site?
I don't want to know about things from news agencies with an agenda - I want a horses mouth facts.
Merkel... Did not come to the conclusion that nuclear power is too risky.
She wanted to do more nuclear, well aware of CO2, but Fukushima happened (killing zero victims, but hey) and she saw her policy would get her voted out office, and no potential replacement was going to do better, so she folded, in the hope that large investment in renewables would help. It didn't, because a renewable world is a 18th century world, and now we're going there
You specifically mentioned “any major US markets”. Are you admitting to voter fraud now?
> The third myth is that there’s a clear dividing line between diseases of the body, such as cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the mind, such as depression.

"The Widowmaker", the 15th episode of "Circle of Willis", also touches this topic, where heartache and uneasiness may, and often do, kill: http://circleofwillispodcast.com/episode/3c339c578a884870/th...
The Republicans and Democrats are the same as US gov.

> It's a free market

It is not a free market. The US govt. can't influence popular media inside China.
This is meaningless without knowing how the base rate (what portion of people in your country are vaccinated) compares to the US. If more people are vaccinated and vaccination is anything less than 100% effective against hospitalization, then by definition a smaller portion of those hospitalized will be unvaccinated.
I can't wait until public opinion seems to catch on to the fact that we will never eliminate covid. It blows my mind that we see 100% vaccinated universities going back to online-only learning. What exactly are they waiting on?
AWS Account Takeover via Log4Shell
Windows Terminal shows a "visual bell" in the tab bar whenever BEL is emitted (even though I have it set to "audible" in advanced settings of the profile, hmm).

Edit: Uhm, right. I have also silenced all system sounds in Windows.
Brain cells don't "want" either.
Platform reports by whom?
What kind of grid scale storage can be built quickly?
No Edge browser? Just kidding....
I couldn't understand what you meant by multiplayer till I watched the video. That's interesting... you basically made all web apps instantly collaborative
It's not a free market for manipulation.

There are laws and rules designed to safeguard open and free exchange of information and opinions, and covert influence is regularly forbidden.

The big difference is that domestic influence is much easier to (eventually) unveil (see Watergate, Snowden, panama papers etc.). Foreign influence is harder to detect if it comes from a country that executes its whistleblowers and disappears its critics.
This sounds like the same group of pearl-clutching parents The Onion was making fun of 20+ years ago: https://www.theonion.com/98-homosexual-recruitment-drive-nea...

Why, next thing you know these activist teachers will be telling our kids that racism is bad. The horror.
>13/21 is 61% which is failing score. I think section three of the test should be removed.

You didn't know any of the material, no wonder.

But my guess is that section 3 is there to improve pass rates - teachers who can't do basic math but can read and regurgitate slides/notes. It probably pushes a lot of people over the 70% pass. I got 16/21 on that section just guessing what sounded reasonable. If I had read a book or notes on it I'd probably ace it. It's a gimme.
At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim. From May 11, 1940, to October 27, 1940, only a few people were able to beat the machine in that six-week period; if they did, they were presented with a coin that said Nim Champ. It was also one of the first-ever electronic computerized games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nim&oldid=1056951...
I am almost certain that Bumble shadow banned me as well (mostly over my past political and public spotlight). Switched to hinge, much better platform. I am very very bearish on Bumble, lots of fake profiles and shenanigans going on at Bumble.
Oh, interesting. I wonder if Germany is more reliant on France for providing a baseload when renewables dip while France relies on Germany for peaking and supplementing daytime loads.

Thanks for the website. It'll definitely come in handy.

Edit: With Germany shutting down their nukes, I'm curious if them being a net exporter remains true.
If you're right, that would be disappointing, because it means there's less immunity gained than I was hoping, for the (relatively small) amount of hospitalization we've seen. And I (uneducated on the matter) would expect that if it's not really getting around that much, it would not displace delta.

But I've heard some claims that it already has started to displace Delta, though not from a source I'd feel confident citing. But just looking at it, if you believe the CDC estimate of 73% Omicron the other day, Delta must have dropped a lot despite it being winter. Appears like displacement happening.
For anyone who wants to look at the raw data then you can find it here

https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covi...

This is direct from the SA government including archives of all the daily data for the duration of the pandemic.

Pay attention to the data lag. But it isn't _that_ laggy.
Yes, I agree that IDE tooling is nice and that it doesn’t conflict with having good build tooling; my only point is that, given the choice between good tooling and generics (or any type system feature), I would choose the tooling hands down every single time.
Well, you can try sync v3 today via sync-v3 proxy (which is written in Go) and Hydrogen, as per the video linked in the post. It solves the initial sync problem completely; it’s not hype; it’s real.

The main thing that bogs down Synapse is if users join massive federated rooms and you end up replicating huge amounts of traffic onto your server. So we’re working on that too via Fast Joins and better-than-full-mesh federation for P2P.
Let those dinosaurs that can't let ICE go, fail, who cares.
Every time I read criticism of WebSockets it reminds me about WebSuckets (https://speakerdeck.com/3rdeden/websuckets) presentation :)

I am the author of Centrifugo server (https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo) - where the main protocol is WebSocket. Agree with many points in post – and if there is a chance to build sth without replacing stateless HTTP to persistent WebSocket (or EventSource, HTTP-streaming, raw TCP etc) – then definitely better to go without persistent connections.

But there are many tasks where WebSockets simply shine – by providing a better UX, providing a more interactive content, instant information/feedback. This is important to keep - even if underlying stack is complicated enough. Not every system need to scale to many machines (ex. multiplayer games with limited number of players), corporate apps not really struggle from massive reconnect scenarios (since number of concurrent users is pretty small), and so on. So WebSockets are definitely fine for certain scenarios IMO.

I described some problems with WebSockets Centrifugo solves in this blog post - https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2020/11/12/scaling-websocket. I don't want to say there are no problems, I want to say that WebSockets are fine in general and we can do some things to deal with things mentioned in the OP's post.
I should hope that eavesdropping anyone is illegal under Polish law.
Robert Erdmann's keynote at PyCon: https://youtu.be/z_hm5oX7ZlE

The talk centers around Erdmann's use of python in "combining materials science, computer science, and imaging science to help the world access, preserve, and understand its cultural heritage".

The technical complexity and nuance that went into the project was truly jaw-dropping. This was the first talk I immediately felt the urge to share with multiple co-workers & friends.
So much of social media pre-supposes that no entity would spend the kinda money to influence an issue. They didn't take a state with limited resources into account.
Same for game mods
https://www.rfa.org/about/info/mission.html

Says right in their about page they are under a govt. mandate. The local language pages also have this information.

> Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and few, if any, free speech protections. All broadcasts are solely in local languages and dialects, which include Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, and Korean.

Edit: A discussion like this wouldn't even happen inside China.
Exactly.

If anyone wants such a reference, there's the "Missing Semester" which is all about practicum. Lecture 6 is on Git:

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjqTHE0zok
Colorado Cyclists Traced Thieves Down to Mexico Using Facebook
From memory, SA has 3.3mil confirmed cases, and an estimated 7.8x total when you include unconfirmed. So roughly 75 percent of the population have caught covid. Plus vaccinations, that adds up to a lot of mild reinfections.
One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource. The Red Book says there are about 3.3 million tons that are extractable for a price of 130 USD/ton. In 2017 the total uranium production was 60.000 tons. Thats about 55 years of uranium left at the current production rate. The Red Book assumes there are another 2.1 million tons likely to exist from geological data, but not found yet and another 4.8 million tons assumed to exist but yet to be discovered.

Now imagine that nuclear power production would be greatly increased. How many years of uranium supply would we have left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
Cloudfare reporting TikTok saw more traffic than Google.com in 2021
The line of reasoning in this post is a fallacy. If you're not familiar with the concept, it's worth a read:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I think it is helpful to have Element to test out the spec. I think the problem is that the "bar" for accepting features is too low for my taste.

> While I’d have loved us to have infite manpower getting all the security features in from day 1, we had to bootstrap and we prioritised usable apps over optimising for a perfect spec.

I get the decision. But it leaves a sour taste in my mouth that Matrix advertises itself as "secure" but almost any user is leaking sensitive information without knowing. I suspect that 95% of users would be surprised if you told them about the number of things that leak in E2EE rooms. Probably the better approach would have been to skip pushing E2EE as the default, and disable all insecure features in Element for E2EE rooms (or have an explicit opt-in). The marketing team would hate this approach but it least it is honest and safe.
Shhhh, don’t tell them about the n in nanpa.

But given the number of countries under nanpa, I bet they filter at the area code level. Can’t turn away that sweet Dominican Republic opportunity.

How does data work if you get NSO’d? There’s gotta be some Canadians facing massive mobile phone bills because of NSO shenanigans.
Is it not reasonable to use the word "want" in reference to natural selection tending to optimize for something?
It is extermely unlikely that The Netherlands will build two new reactors. My interpretation is that two political parties keep bringing up nuclear power to basically derail the discussion on how the Dutch government is not doing enough with respect to green energy.

Given the costs at Hinkley Point C, Olkiluoto 3, Flamanville 3, it very unlikely that any political party will actually sign off on building one.

Furthermore, starting to build a nuclear power plant doesn't help the 2030 goals one bit. And those are already hard to reach.
Microsoft notifies customers of Azure bug that exposed their source code
Okay, but in all seriousness

q
[a-z]
Some sequence of actions that you might want to automate
q
Now use the macro with @ and the letter you chose earlier

I used vim for longer than I care to admit without realizing macros are useful.
By platforms.

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms regularly publish (and in some countries are required by law to publish) reports on coordinated inauthentic behavior.

Example: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/07/june-2021-coordinated-inau...
>Sounds like a personal problem. In all seriousness, your clients should handly any sort of network disconnect gracefully

That can be complex. Corporate MITM filtering boxes, "intrusion detection" appliances, firewalls, etc, can just decide to drop NAT entries, drop packets, break MTU path discovery, etc. Yes, there are things you can do. But then customers restart/reload when things don't happen instantly, etc. I don't know that there's a simple playbook.
Thoughts and prayers to the Go team. I suspect they got kinda forced into implementing this, otherwise generics would be available from the start.
Weekly deaths have doubled 3 weeks in a row.

Yes from a low base, but they have still done multiple doublings.

Fortunately they are on track to only rise 50% this week.
Death of the vulnerable is a thing, which I referenced, but it’s a relatively minor factor compared to vaccinations and immunity build up from past infections. Most people who would die from covid if they caught it did not catch it.

I think it’s a bit silly to fixate on the base stats of the virus rather than it’s actually efficacy against the human population.
This whole section relates to that...maybe you can suggest an addition to the author?

There are lots of possible explanations for the massive amount of non-coding DNA - one of the most appealing (to a coder) has to do with ‘folding propensity’. DNA needs to be stored in a highly coiled form, but not all DNA codes lend themselves well to this.

This may remind you of RLL or MFM coding. On a hard disk, a bit is encoded by a polarity transition or the lack thereof. A naive encoding would encode a 0 as ‘no transition’ and 1 as ‘a transition’.

Encoding 000000 is easy - just keep the magnetic phase unchanged for a few micrometers. However, when decoding, uncertainty creeps in - how many micrometers did we read? Does this correspond to 6 zeroes or 5? To prevent this problem, data is treated such that these long stretches of no transitions do not occur.

If we see ‘no transition,no transition,transition,transition’ on disk, we can be sure that this corresponds to ‘0011’ - it is exceedingly unlikely that our reading process is so imprecise that this might correspond to ‘00011’ or ‘00111’. So we need to insert spacers so as to prevent too little transitions. This is called ‘Run Length Limiting’ on magnetic media.

The thing to note is that sometimes, transitions need to be inserted to make sure that the data can be stored reliably. Introns may do much the same thing by making sure that the resulting code can be coiled properly.

However, this area of molecular biology is a minefield! Huge diatribes rage about variants with exciting names like ‘introns early’ or ‘introns late’, and massive words like ‘folding propensity’ and ‘stem-loop potential’. I think it best to let this discussion rage on a bit.

2013 Update: ten years on, the debate still hasn’t settled! It is very clear that ‘Junk DNA’ is a misnomer, but as to its immediate function, there is no consensus. Check out Fighting about ENCODE and junk for a discussion of where we stand.

2021 Update: eighteen years on, the debate is nowhere close to being settled. It is now somewhat consensual that ‘Junk DNA’ has important and diverse functions, but new discoveries are being made on a daily basis. https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/that-junk-dna-is-full-of...
*Unlimited resources
Congrats! Codecademy intro'ed me to coding. Glad there's a good outcome for you all.
They have something like 23% vaccination rate. It is about as raw as it is going to get.

My friends who have it now indicate it is very mild.
For me 21:9 is the ideal resolution right now. It can be split in 2 or 3 screens side-by-side and it still works well. A single 4:3 doesn't really give a lot of flexibility in the same way and bezels are annoying.
The Swiss wanderer who found the soul of 1950s Japan
Unusual doesn't mean unique or better, just different enough to make doing a straight port harder.

For example, Go's interface types and its lack of constructors seem different from most languages you might borrow from.
Not the original poster but genuinely curious here and I do agree with your long term covid statement. We do not know. But I strongly disagree with you calling the health agencies "most-respected (not-perfect)".

Didn't these same health agencies approve opioids saying they weren't dangerous or addictive? Then spend a decade trying to cover it up with the pharma companies? Then they got hired by the same company's whose drugs they approved? Today fentanyl overdoses are the number one cause of deaths for my age group (18-45 https://www.google.com/search?q=fentanyl+overdoses+number+on...) in the US. That is a direct result of these pharma companies and health agencies. All it took was a little bit of money and our lives became meaningless.

How can I trust any agency that was willing to kill me for a couple bucks?

If you are unsure what I am talking about (https://www.google.com/search?q=opioid%20epidemic%20document...). IMO HBO's Crime of the century does a good job of laying out just how ridiculous the whole thing is.
Jurisdictions set their own rules for time of residency before being allowed to vote (e.g., registration X days before an election, Y days of the past Z days in the district, etc). Some people do decide where to live based on political considerations. If they are voting in accordance to the rules set by the relevant jurisdictions, I don't see a problem. This happens on "both sides."

I will note that it's easier to break the rules and commit voter fraud when you can vote by mail. In person voting at least requires that you be physically present on Election Day. I moved to California and got voting materials from whence I came. I did not elect to commit voter fraud and vote, but I could have pretty easily.
Biological computers may be messy but they've got a First Mover Advantage of 5 billion years.
I don’t understand why you think it matters lol. Must you be a paying patron of a restaurant to merely ask for a menu?
That graph is pretty impossible to read; I can't draw any conclusions from that.
Anyone take a look into the code and see why it can't be parallelized? The bottom of the FAQ mentions that but I'd think at least certain aspects should be parallelizable or at least be prioritizable (like maybe forgoing leaderboard updates to focus on more important events?)
The ones Im seeing designed have been moving the DC out to the cabinets with A/B 480VAC power feeds on the bus, and integrated DC inverters/rectifiers/batteries at the rack level.

More modular and a lot less copper at 10x the voltage. Still a lot of copper.
> because it's so significantly more contagious, that even though a smaller percentage of infected people will require ventilators, the absolute number will be high enough to overwhelm hospitals.

This is a legitimate theoretical concern, however empirically it looks like South Africa's hospitalizations are peaking at slightly more than half their previous wave, with deaths on pace to peak even lower[1][2]

[1]https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1473642495095496704
[2]https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covi...
Nice try

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
Would you mind keeping me updated with their response? Email in the profile.

It reads to me like standard FUD - and I dare say if it were about Tesla you'd be the first to insist on more evidence.

But if it turns out to be true it will be shocking. Especially damaging coming from the leader of the pack of ICE companies ramping up BEVs.
Awkward is seeing your coworkers, mentioning it to them and them not knowing it happened either.