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You didn't read the article, did you now? The numbers say - according to the article itself - that of the patients hospitalized and diagnosed with Covid 44% had a positive test before being admitted - 43% had a positive test within 2 days and the remaining 13% tested positive within 2 weeks [they don't mention the distribution].

What I find repulsive about this article is that they never say 'someone with a broken leg was counted as a Covid case after the mandatory testing' - they just dance around it, make innuendos and let third parties dance closer to it.

Nowhere in the article they state 'asymptomatic cases with an other unrelated diagnosis were counted as Covid cases' - and I am guessing they don't because the don't have the numbers to prove it.

A real journalist would track down the cases - would try and find the 'I went in with a broken leg and was released with a Covid diagnosis', get the discharging papers and write about it.

Now: if there were really so many cases of people hospitalized with a different diagnosis and attributed to Covid to 'jack up the numbers' - where are they? Where are the articles about it?

Until you have these, please: go back to your little green field to play with your friends - the adults are trying to have a conversation here.

Great journalism at work here! So - the expectation is that people with symptoms of Covid19 would be tested before being hospitalized? I am actually impressed that 44% were.

It would be standard operating procedure for an hospital receiving a patient showing symptoms to give a test. In fact 88% received the test results within two days of hospitalization.

I am still waiting for an explanation of ICU occupancy [0] if it wasn't for Covid 19.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/23746/icu-bed-occupancy-rates...

How is adding features a reduction in impedance mismatch just because they are from the same vendor? For example: Redis timeseries is a separate setup - how does it reduce complexity?

Edit: fixed typo

I may be stupid and missing the point - but this part from the BMW page made me laugh: "This nanostructure paint finish, among the blackest ever made by man, tricks the viewer’s perception of the car as a three-dimensional shape." -- oh, the magic. You paint a 3D object with this paint and it looks 3D.

I am guessing they meant 'two-dimensional'.

An interesting thought on peer reviews: https://alexdanco.com/2020/05/28/lets-just-get-rid-of-peer-r...

Interestingly enough: the highest temperature recorded in the 1930's is 4.6C lower than the current record.

But all that spam would come into play with "generic" feeds. You don't expect spam from people, groups and organizations that you subscribe to.

You can think of "discovery feeds" as an addon - and maybe even not provided by the same company providing the social network itself.

Cherry on top? You would have to actively subscribe to those feeds, forcing them to be interesting/relevant.

I am confused.

This is your tweet about the article [0] - it's from 18 hours ago. The last tweet from Alexandra [1] is from the 9th of May.

Am I missing something?

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/lpfeed/status/1411543135944073217 [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/139160709025538...

I had the "stupid moment" of the day. The thermal effects of evaporation on a surface is that the surface actually cools down -- so I could not get the "it produces heat" part.

After drinking my morning coffee I realized that the heat transfer is from the surface to the water droplets/vapors that then carry it to the next layer of this still.

Ergo: coffee makes you smarter and I shouldn't be on HN so early in the morning.

Seven months of access and they did nothing with it? I find this strange - not impossible, but quite strange.

You can get you own armed guards - but you will still subsidize other people's police force.

You pay taxes to provide a minimum service to all of the community, you can then take advantage of it or not - that's your prerogative.

I pay for school taxes, but I don't have kids - should I get my money back?

This is not the first time I see "(not our best model due to commercial issues)" in a model release. Am I right thinking the the fully trained model may have been sponsored by a provate entity and it's being kept for a commercial release?

None commented yet on the suggested issue? They ran out of space? Really? Azure Monitoring, Azure Sentinel - surely they have the simplest metric: used vs remaining space.

Or did they hit a limit in the blob/file storage. Still: no monitoring?

You may have noticed I have so many questions on Microsoft Ops.

I miss text. It seems now that whenever I search for 'how to do X?' there is a lot of video results for sometimes very trivial things.

A 10 minutes video with the usual 'subscribe and hit the bell icon', a word from the sponsor, a long winded introduction and then "click on menu, then click on this item, then select the size".

Nitpick: 'Simply copy a few lines of code and utilize to our API' - I am guessing that's a stray 'to' in there?

Yes, they will - as they did with Swiss bank secrecy [0].

It's actually quite simple: if you want to do business with the G7 countries - with close to 40% of the world economy [1] - you follow their rules.

While 60% is a lot, it's a much different blend of markets to work with - hundreds of other countries, legislations, etc. - and it would be a much larger effort to cover.

So: wether I like it or not the truth is: if the G7 countries agree on something, other countries will follow.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-secrecy-idUSKCN1MF1... [1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/groups/Group-of-7-...

After the bombs on Lebanon I was mainly angry at myself. I overheard the news during dinner - "Beirut has been bombed" - and kept eating. Somehow growing up I ended up in a mental state where bombs being dropped on Beirut was 'normal'. It bothered me to no end: it would have been a completely different reaction if I heard "Paris has been bombed".

I ended up taking up an international cooperation job in Beirut, worked there for about three years. I danced, drank, worked, ate, drove around and enjoyed time with people that to this date consider very close friends.

I guess I just suck at blogging.

I see no true Scotsman, am I right?

You can see the results I see [0] -- and I am now on a different device.

That's the Ubuntu torrent - with the correct hash - but indexed by Google as a Rebirth torrent. At the bottom of the page [1] there is a link to the Lumen Database.

The first link has the hash in the URL. The Lumen Database one - even if I look at the full URLs - doesn't have the hash in the list. I am guessing that one of the pages had a link to the Ubuntu torrent.

This seems like a good reminder that Google decides what we see out of the interwebs!

[0] https://postimg.cc/30R85HHy [1] https://postimg.cc/Z9MjF8K1

I think that 'most items' mentioned in the sibling comment is the problem. Who decides what's included in that subset?

Practical example: "Mockingbird Lane" was released by NBC in 2012, they decided it was 'not worthy' and removed it from their streaming library.

Can you guess what's the only way to watch it now?

I do understand the concept of 'What NBC giveth, NBC taketh', but that doesn't mean I have to be happy with it.

Interesting tidbit: the hash they have for the infringed work it's the correct hash for ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso [0] - this removes any good faith argument on their part.

There is an infinitely small chance of collisions - but I would like them to produce a DMCA notice with the actual name of the infringed upon protected media, not just the hash.

I believe Canonical should step in, since this is someone claiming to act to protect their interests.

[0] https://torrent.ubuntu.com/tracker_index

Edit: searching for the hash returns two odd links; the first one is indexed by Google as a link to a software - Rebirth - that comes under the same hash as Ubuntu [1]; the other is the usual Lumen link for removed content [2] -- a DMCA notice from Disney.

Could this be a case of "automated DMCA notice" gone wrong?

[1] https://kat.rip/torrent/4ba4fbf7231a3a660e86892707d25c135533... [2] https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/22636605?access_token=...

It definitely depends on what you're doing with it. In the article the author is using it to parse only nginx logs to report page hits counts - I probably would have not gone with Elasticsearch to begin with. I find it strange that the issue with InfluxDB was the lack of 'Group by'; you can use 'Distinct' with other aggregation functions with the same result - and without having to write and maintain your own stack.

I appreciate - and often indulge - in writing stacks of software that are better implemented other open source, but I wouldn't say that the article describes a solution that is viable as a replacement for Elasticsearch.

The vaccines do work on variants [0] with different degrees of efficacy. This actually demonstrates that the virus - after infecting millions of people over a year - hasn't significantly changed the spike protein.

Also: major changes in he spike protein could impact the ability of the virus to infect humans, so -- there is that.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2104974

Glad to help, I have been in your spot; until you get the structure in place just make sure that the team is in agreement on the response.

I always believe in good faith and positive intent - call me naive - so I assume the managers have their own pressure to respond to and business needs to satisfy.

The 'understanding' first step is needed to see if there is an interim solution that takes the fire away from the business, the manager and the dev team. IE: The feature with the bug is not as urgent as other features in the same drop; squirrel away the bug behind a feature flag and deliver the rest. Now you can go ahead and fix the bug with a proper pace.

First: discuss with your development team the issue, make sure you get buy-in on replying to management with one voice. A.K.A.: avoiding you saying "We can't do X" and someone else goes: "Of course we can!".

Second: talk to your manager. Don't send an e-mail. That would just turn in a long, and possibly bitter, battle of 're:re:re:re:' or be interpreted as a C.Y.A. fig leaf. Make sure you start by understanding where that timebox is coming from and how 'un-elastic' really is. Then proceed to explain that for your team it's hard to commit to a timeline when the - currently unknown - fix to the bug could be a line of code or rewriting a whole component of the software. Reach an understanding that - of course - your team will try an deliver in the gives timebox if at all possible, but that you will keep him informed of any findings that may indicate that it will take longer.

Third: proceed working on the analysis and fix keeping them in the loop; make the messaging short, meaningful and to the point. "We found the issue: X", "We're designing a fix: Y", "Current estimate for the fix is Y". Make sure that the communication is timely. One thing is to say at 10AM: "We think it's going to take two days", and another is to say the same thing at 5PM.

Ideally this should come from the Dev team lead - which is what I do for a living. We are there to take the fire.

If you get pushback, no answers and management doesn't respond well to this pattern - well, you want that career destroyed and to move to some other place.

I think if I had to start new project based on Java I would definitely have Micronaut [0] on my shortlist. I have used it in small personal projects and I have to say that it was a nice change of pace compared to Spring Boot.

My understanding is that Micronaut and Spring can be used together [1].

[0] https://micronaut.io/ [1] https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-spring/latest...

Something about the statement 'So inequality is not the problem, poverty is the problem' is wrong. I can't quite put my finger on it -- it sounds along the lines of 'So falling from the 20th floor is not the problem, hitting the sidewalk is the problem'.

Can someone explain me to myself?

Consumer Reports shows how easily Tesla's driver assist can be fooled into driving without anyone in the driver's seat.

OK - I didn't want to be 'that guy', but here I go: DevRant is garbage! I like the concept, but the execution is a marketing black hole.

First of all: the linked page doesn't scroll on an iPad - they are trying to be clever with scrolling and it actually breaks scrolling.

Secondly: they take pushing their app to an insane level: none of the links works, they all point to 'Get the app'. This fact alone has just gained the site a place in my DNS blackhole.

Archive.org link - that actually works better than the original site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210420050504/https://devrant.c...

This ring using old 'pay for documents' spy techniques was found by old investigation techniques.

Some times we are so focused in the 'cyber warfare' that we forget the meeting in parking lots handing over SD cards part of the spy world.