Looking the graphs that report the number of deaths by coronavirus in worldometer, I have noticed that for many countries there is a clear oscillation with a one week period. See for example the graph for the UK and the US:   Why do you think this is happening? It seems to me that for some reason, the number of deaths is under-reported during the weekends.
The covid19 death data for US shows strong periodic trends. It does not make sense to me that people die periodically.   What could be the reason to having such data? I thought it might be the reporting artifacts, for example, people always update data at Monday, but the period seems to be 3-4 days.
Bash : compare two strings with space I am trying to write a bash script which run a command and compare the result with another string.   #!/bin/bash -x  STATUS=`/root/setup_ha show --password-file=/root/password | grep "&gt;HA State" | awk '{print $3}' |  cut -c 2-`  TEST=`echo $STATUS` if [[ "$TEST" == "ON Master" ]]; then echo CLUSTER CRITICAL else   echo CLUSTER OK MASTER fi   As the Original string is on two lines, I echo it in a new variable TEST. The New variable have the output of the command on one line.  Here is the Bash debug output :  ++ /root/setup_ha show --password-file=/root/password ++ grep '&gt;HA State' ++ awk '{print $3}' ++ cut -c 2- + STATUS='ON Master' ++ echo 'ON' Master + TEST='ON Master' + [[ ON Master == \O\N\ \M\a\s\t\e\r ]] + echo CLUSTER OK MASTER CLUSTER OK MASTER   I also tried the following test :  if [[ "$TEST" =~ "ON Master" ]]   The thing is bash is not able to compare the strings it is always false.  Any idea ?   EDIT :  Here is the output with the first answer :  + STATUS='ON Master' ++ echo 'ON' Master + TEST='ON Master' + '[' 'ON Master' == 'ON Master' ']' + echo CLUSTER OK MASTER CLUSTER OK MASTER   Still  not working ON seems weird on line 3, plus in my bash it takes green color ! Lazy Eye in Infants, Preparations for Seeing a Specialist My youngest (14 months) has started showing signs of either strabismus or ambylopia (both commonly referred to as "lazy eye", where one eye seems to track differently than the other when the child is tired or isn't focusing).  We're going to see an ophthalmologist once the pediatrician weighs in and recommends one, and I'm interested in suggestions for what I should look for in an ophthalmologist, and in what we should do to prepare for the visit.  Particularly, how important is it that we find one that specifically mentions these conditions as things they specialize in?  They're fairly common conditions (affecting over 4% of children), so I would expect most pediatric ophthalmologists to have as one of their main purposes helping to diagnose and treat lazy eyes; but many do not mention them in their list of specializations.    And, in terms of preparation, do we need to keep track of time or length of lazy eye bouts?  Should we take any videos?  Our pediatrician hasn't noticed this in her periodic checks, but I suspect that he's more focused during these visits (a person he's not that used to, who is talking a lot to him).  I worry the ophthalmologist will have the same problem - not be able to diagnose because of lack of presentation during the visit. With the advent of the WordPress Answers Stack Exchange site, there's undoubtedly going to be overlap.  But I just want to get some advice:  I'm a developer and I kinda hate WordPress, but have to use it occasionally. My WordPress questions are usually development ones (when I have them), and most often related to 'how WordPress handles things', which are pretty obvious in straight programming terms.  But with the WordPress layer of abstraction, they become problematic.  I find that most developers that have gone near WordPress are usually also PHP/JS/CSS/MYSQL guys who dabble with WordPress and, as a result, hangout more on SO. And theres a die hard bunch who are heavy into the WP.SE site, but generally the WP site is for people trying to muddle through the day to day operation of using WordPress and its many themes/plugin etc.    As a result, if I were to ask something pretty in-depth about writing / integrating new &amp; strange features or something, I'm talking to a much smaller group of devs than I would be on SO.  So, enough of the ramble, my question:  Should I be posting heavy development questions relating to WordPress on the WP.SE site or to SO? Can I post to both, or is cross posting frowned upon in these cases still? Hiding winforms app from taskbar My wife and I are preparing to sell our home and are discovering some weird things. Our home was built in 1958, so it is older. We found this in a corner that had some furniture in front of it.   We are wondering    What kind of wiring is this?  Is it safe to handle or remove? Prove that:  $$\displaystyle \sum_{n=m+1}^\infty \dfrac{1}{n!} \le \dfrac{1}{m\cdot m!}$$  I have tried induction on $m$ but it does not work very well. Any suggestion? Let $G\times K$ be a finite group. Suppoose $G\times K\cong H\times K$. Is this sufficient to imply $G\cong H$? Let $F$ be a field, let $\omega$ be a primitive $n$th root of unity in an algebraic closure of $F$. If $a$ in $F$ is not an $m$th power in $F(\omega)$ for any $m\gt 1$ that divides $n$, how to show that $x^n -a$ is irreducible over $F$? Division by $0$ I came up some definitions I have sort of difficulty to distinguish. In parentheses are my questions.   $\dfrac {x}{0}$ is Impossible (  If it's impossible it can't have neither infinite solutions or even one. Nevertheless, both $1.$ and $2.$ are divided by zero, but only $2. $ has infinite solutions so as $1.$ has none solution, how and why ?) $\dfrac {0}{0}$ is Undefined and has infinite solutions. (How come one be Undefined and yet has infinite solutions ?) $\dfrac {0}{x}$ and $x \ne 0$, it's okay for me, no problem, but if someone else wants to add something about it, feel free to do it. Access Denied using TakeOwn.exe I have got this file that I can't delete. It happened after a system crash, so the CHKDSK kicked in upon next reboot. After that, I can't delete the file.  THis is on Windows Home Server, and the file is one of those hidden Thumbs.db, and my WHS reports a "File conflict" on the file, the reason: Access Denied"  What I have tried so far, running as an Administrator: Delete: Access Denied TakeOwn.exe : Access Denied Attrib.exe -s -h : Access Denied cacls.exe : Access Denied   (even whe trying to display the current owner) Rename: File not found (its hidden) Re-boot in to safe mode and tried the above: Access Denied Running the above commands as Local System: Access Denied   Tizer Unlocker: Fail (Doesn't find anything locking the file) File Assasin: Crashes ("FindRemoteFileHandles returned NULL value.")  I have used the CHKDSK /f again, rebooted since some suggestions is that the file has been corrupted, but that didn't change anything. Any suggestions ?  Update: In a total separate scenario, I experienced a similar situation; Access Denied when trying to take ownership of a file. It turned out that the file was owned by TrustedInstaler, which is not possible to override just by being an Administrator. In this case, one can use psexec /ids cmd to elevate yourself to System and then TakeOwn.exe /a nameref (hyperref) evaluating counter instead of section name What's the proper way to reference a section with a counter in the title? The TOC generates correctly, but the cross references aren't so lucky.  MWE:  \documentclass[letterpaper, 12pt, twoside]{exam}  \usepackage{hyperref}  \newcounter{KSRLessonNumberCounter} \setcounter{KSRLessonNumberCounter}{1} \newcommand{\KSRSection}[2][\value{KSRLessonNumberCounter}]{         \setcounter{KSRLessonNumberCounter}{#1}         \section*{Lesson \arabic{KSRLessonNumberCounter}: #2}         \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Lesson \arabic{KSRLessonNumberCounter}: {#2}}         \stepcounter{KSRLessonNumberCounter} } \newcommand{\KSRSubsection}[1]{         \subsection*{#1}         \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{#1} } \newcommand{\KSRLessonNumber}{ }  \begin{document}  \KSRSection{Sample}  This is the first lesson. The second lesson is \nameref{sec:blah}.  \KSRSection{Blah} \label{sec:blah}  This is the second section  \KSRSection{Lorem Ipsum}  Dollars are Set in \nameref{sec:blah}.  \end{document} When you suggest an edit to a post and view the post while it's pending, . But as noted in the , this linking hasn't been implemented for tag wikis/excerpts yet, partly because there are potentially two links to include and the wording is not entirely obvious, and partly because they're orders of magnitude less common.  Here's my suggested wording for the three cases.   Tag wiki excerpt only     Thanks for your edit!   This edit will be visible only to you until it is .  Tag wiki only     Thanks for your edit!   This edit will be visible only to you until it is .  Both     Thanks for your edit!   These edits will be visible only to you until they are peer reviewed (, ).        I can't directly address the prioritization of tag wiki edits, but I'd appreciate the corresponding  or  mark, at least. apt-get install vs pip install I am a bit confused about the cases in which the above commands must be used when downloading python packages. I was trying to download a package named pyudev in accordance with an answer with this . I executed this command :  sudo pip install python-pyudev   but received the following message :  Downloading/unpacking python-pyudev    Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement python-pyudev Cleaning up... No distributions at all found for python-pyudev Storing complete log in /home/vineet/.pip/pip.log   However the following worked fine :  sudo apt-get install python-pyudev   When is apt-get supposed to be used to install packages and when is python-pip used? The only 1-manifolds are $\mathbb R$ and $S^1$ I recall having heard somewhere that the only 1-manifolds (second countable, Hausdorff, connected spaces locally homeomorphic to $\mathbb R$) are $\mathbb R$ and $S^1$. Is this true? If so, is there a reasonably elementary proof? How can I find non-ASCII characters in MySQL? I'm working with a MySQL database that has some data imported from . The data contains non- characters (em dashes, etc.) as well as hidden carriage returns or line feeds. Is there a way to find these records using MySQL? What are the subcategories of ordered sets / groups? I launch a batch which call a lot of scheduled job. But I reach the governor limit :     Maximum number of Apex classes scheduled concurrently : 100   I'm wondering what happens when this limit is reached. The next scheduled jobs are waiting the number of scheduled jobs is lower than 100 for being executed or are they all cancelled ?  And is there to way to manage the number of scheduled jobs to avoir reaching this limit ? For example wait before schedule a new job if we are near the limit. Cannot remove any bluetooth device Forced to Quit PhD although the hard and proved work I am a first year Ph. D student, and I have been working on a new topic of research.  I worked day and night to prove something new and verified it. I began my Ph. D while my supervisor was on travel, but he returned before I had been here for long.  When he returned, he told me we have to stop and not continue without any reasonable reasons.  After a few months he began treating me poorly---always belittling and underestimating---although I got two grants from a top conference, made videos and podcasts, and constantly received praise for my good work and personality.    It seems that I have been treated as a competitor, not a collaborator.  Although agreeing with my approaches in private, my supervisor said false words to the committee to take the decision and stop my Ph. D work!  It is not surprising, as there was another former senior Ph. D student who I met on campus, who was not allowed to defend his Ph. D: this same supervisor claimed he was not able to finish his dissertation although he had published in a peer reviewed journal and having citation as well, it was scary and not familiar.  In front of committee, he lied, and said something without proving. I asked if he can make a detailed constructive criticism, but he could not.  All I can say that they are a gang literally, and he said words that show that he is jealous and doesn't want to see me having self confidence in my self. I know no one will believe me, but this is the truth.  Honestly, I am distressed and I'm losing sleep.  I had this dream where there were many people who saw me fail.  All things considered, I don't know whether what happened is good or bad, and I definitely don't know what I should do next!  I would be grateful for your advice and whether there is someone has encountered any similar situation. How to cancel a jquery.load()?