skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The researchers hypothesised that most Spaniards disagreed with Catalonia’s independence, which would create experimental conditions in which a greater dissemination of tweets with negative content was expected – while fewer positive tweets were anticipated to spread – irrespective of other features which contribute to tweet diffusion.

And then shortly after:

> “The researchers suggest that positive tweets were shared less due to the negativity surrounding the referendum. Therefore, these tweets would have resonated more. In a sense, negative tweets about this topic were mainstream,” she said.

I.E. the title and premise of this article (Just say no: negativity is secret of political tweet success, study finds) is pure bollocks, and not at all what the study said.
Is privacy feasible?
History shows that reducing costs of computing, and the availability of on-demand large scale computing, will make is exponentially cheaper to do such tracing as time goes.

I would not be surprised if there will be agencies that will bid on tracing services.
Six European Union institutions affected by SolarWinds hack [pdf]
Western govs are going to let greedy capital pour into China and thus monetarily support the CCP finishing the civil war against the Taiwanese people in a couple of years?
This is very poor advice.
“If the FBI is in your box you’re already dead.”
No, in this case, they are fixing a hack. I don’t want them touching my stuff, but that’s hardly “dead”.

“Cheaper to buy a new box”
Reinstalling and reconfiguring is always cheaper than buying new and reconfiguring.

This reasoning is very poor, why did you feel the need to make this comment?
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My own reason was mostly, that do to the dance with mobile; non-free/free/non-free, I thought it was about time to look into self hosting. The post is not really meant to convince you, just that it's definitely doable, with a bit of effort.
To be in (3) though you have to isolate your country right at the beginning before the action can be politically justified.

I'm quite surprised that China was able to pull it off, because they're a major trade economy and must have millions of people coming and going. Of course it helps to have a government that can take any action without regard for rights or political consequences.

This is impossible I think for a country like the US with vital land borders and constant trade across them. I think it's also very hard for democratic counties where people have rights.
Once given full approval and not just emergency use, they can sell directly to the people.
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Another great example of science journalism /s
That may be the case, but unless someone clearly marks it as such or are ridiculously hyperbolic I assume they are serious. I don't know how else to function on the internet.

Edit: Internet was too broad. Hacker News I mean specifically.
Author here!

You even included in the quote: It’s important to warm-up the code is so you don’t measure a mixture of performance characteristics between interpreted JS and compiled jS. How long the warmup takes is _incredibly_ device dependent, so instead I measured Ignition and SparkPlug independently so you get a feel for the speedup. I did not discard that at all in the comparison.
Is there an easy way to set up wide protect for an entire area code properly? The last time I tried it, it just kept freezing my phone and timing out instead of finishing all the lists.
“ we need imperfect interim solutions”

This is probably how the whole world was made, interim solutions hacked together. I wonder what social system will have evolved by the time our descendants are no longer recognizably homo sapiens (or even biological)
It's kinda complicated, while I'm 100% on board with vaccinating, I do see the problem..

"You have some chance of getting Covid" then "If you get Covid you have some chances of getting seriously ill, permanent damage or die"

vs

"You have 100% chance of getting the vaccine" then "If you get the vaccine, you have come chance of dying"

So it's not super simple to calculate the risk, especially not for me, so I shouldn't comment at all..
It should also be noted that public health officials are usually the lowest rungs of the ladder when it comes to ability in medicine. Running your own practice, running a research institute or chair or even just working in a hospital is far more interesting financially as well as for the challenge. Becoming a public servant as a doctor is a way out when your marks are just above passing or your motivation is insufficient for anything with even minimal amounts of stress (of course not atm, but that is an exception).
It can only spill if it’s not already present. Since it’s already present, the STD will have a larger “concentration gradient” to “flow” faster.

But, really, the STD rates will always be lower among the boring “square” population than the adventurous, promiscuous, one.

I’m sure this will be about as popular a soiled diaper here, but “promiscuity” and “adventurous” sex is mathematically welded with risk. Monogamy, and vanilla sex are essentially risk free (barring a botched blood transfusion or something along those lines)
I really think a lot of young people going for a hedonistic sex and drugs lifestyle are simply being drawn for a very different reason than people in depressed Rust Belt towns.
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This is what holds me back. Thanks for helping other see this.
Thank you for the thorough response!
FTR that article is from 2009, which is only three years after the arrival of the first HPV vaccine (2006). I'm not sure when broad vaccinations have started, seems around that time. For boys/men they started even later. Furthermore, these cancers often have incubation times of years to decades, so we still don't see the full effect of the vaccination campaign. A newer source would certainly be helpful.
"small casual transactions" is described as a goal of Bitcoin in the opening paragraph of the introduction of the whitepaper
> The main flaw of SQL, however, lies in its very limited support for abstraction.

This is objectively bullshit.

What SQL database engine doesn't provide views, stored procedures and/or user-defined function support?

Failure to construct higher-order abstractions in SQL is a failure of the engineer to understand the problem domain, not a failure of the tool.

SQL is capable of operating at any level of abstraction you wish for it to. It is all engineering from there.
what kind of headset are you using? try fixing the lens in a position that fits your head and make sure it's strapped well. confirm your refresh rate matches the game you're playing.
I don't doubt it, but a link would be good?
It is exactly the terms by which the jews were prosecuted in Nazi Germany, the view was they had too much hereditary opportunities: too much wealth, too much influence and you know the outcome.
Unfortunately on https://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/prep-on-the-nhs/ it looks like it's still via closed trials, unless you're in Scotland or Wales. I'm not holding out much hope for it being generally available any time soon, based on how they've acted so far.
Cigarette use was very common among people before it was shown that nicotine is a carcinogen. Since then, people have cut down cigarette usage drastically and most countries now require manufacturers to have warning labels on cigarette packets. I hope social media services suffer the same fate. It was cool to be on social media when it was new and people were genuinely happy that they could keep in touch with their friends and relatives so easily. Since then, harmful effects of social media—from privacy concerns to disinformation to psychological problems induced by their usage—have been widely discussed and established. So, just like it happened with cigarettes, I think it's time for people to collectively reject social media services and go back to communicating and expressing their thoughts like they did before.
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It's like this everywhere except in those countries without democratic elections. It's a big part of democracy.

Edit: Changed 'with' to 'without'. Woops.
That doesn't appear to be the case, even if you limit it to "enough for rich countries".

Pfizer is predicting that they will be able to produce 250 million doses month by the end of the year, so I guess they are getting there (depending on how long a period is acceptable).
America also didn't care when straight people were getting infected, lots of black people died from AIDS too
"so whatever you are stating here is none of my concern, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with anything I wrote about, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with me."

Why are you commenting on a thread about X and Y, and then saying 'X and Y are none of my concern and have nothing to do with me?'

You original response was in a thread concerning public welfare systems.

You commented extensively about financial systems in response to issues concerning mortgage debt and credit.

"You are so deep into classical economy thinking,"

This has nothing to do with 'classical economics' it has to do with a working financial system.

What you just did was more effectively explain why Croatia is poor. If banks are corrupt and/or don't offer credit, and if consumers have no interest in it, then of course, a credit system won't exist and it will keep Croatia poor.

If, as you say, Croatia won't have anything but a 'cash economy for hundreds of years' then Croatia will be poor for hundreds of years.

It's like not having electricity or water.
Look, in The Netherlands, the largest grocery chain ( AH, Albert Heijn, Ahold ) has empty cheese shelves because their cheese-logistics-company got hacked through this vulnerability.

The Dutch, without cheese. Do you see the severity of the problem now?

Jeez.
I've been working on Encore for the past 3 years.

I was at Spotify for the past 8 years as a Staff Software Engineer. We grew frustrated with the disproportionally large effort needed to build even simple backend applications, and created Encore to solve this problem.

Encore uses static analysis and code generation to reduce the boilerplate you have to write, resulting in an extremely productive developer experience. It's a combination of a framework that combines with a cloud platform in order to simplify all aspects of building distributed systems, from how you write code to shipping it to production.

I shared some more background on Encore here [1]. Feedback very much appreciated :)

[1] https://twitter.com/_eandre/status/1381668476662734849
> No matter what happens behind the pinhole, all of the light rays entering the eye must pass through the pinhole from the environment, traveling in straight lines. For any given viewpoint, the relationships of which objects are occluded by which other objects will be exactly the same for an eye as for a camera.

This is too simplified.

1. The light falls onto a curved surface of the retina, not a flat screen behind it, but more importantly

2. Our brains interpret the light that falls and creates the experience of a 3D space in front of us.

If you actually simply flattened out the retina and mapped out, point to point, the light that falls, it would look a bit like their linear perspective example. The center would be clear, and the edges would be horribly stretched. And yet that's nothing like the way we perceive our vision. Looking at the image on the back of our retina rolled out like a painting, we wouldn't recognize it at all as what we see.

This is attempting to create a flat image that looks like what we see in front of us when we're standing in a space.
What are you suggesting that by setting this precedent the US Government would use it to illegally and unconstitutionally harm people who are politically unpopular.

I do not think this would happen the US government is good the US government is right they protect you and keep you safe from evil terrorists who would try to hurt you. Please do not think about this too much, please go consume your next television show and remember to support any unpatriotic activity to your local authorities.
You are literally 100% wrong.
Less human contact, more stress, more suicide.
We are social creatures and crave human contact.
(Generally of course.)
Well, what makes you think that some new company would get any users then? Whatsapp requires sign in by the way. They take your phone number for that reason.
Well, dugs like vaccines are not sold to private parties. At least in country I know.

EDIT: To clarify, vaccines are not sold without a prescription. At least not that I am aware of and where I life. So for me, a sale to a private party was understood as "you walk in and order it". Obviously you can do that with a prescription. That being said, doctors practices are already administering the Covid shots in the EU. Not as unbeaurocratic as the US so.
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They are incentivized to have that confusion. So no surprise.
Messaging around masks is a perfect example of politics ignoring science and public health officials just trying to justify political decisions by cherry-picking studies or plainly stating falsehoods "for the greater good".
do you have an alternative? would you feel better if it wasn't FBI? or if these remained unfixed?
Maybe we’ll eventually deploy nano-tech antibiotics.

But what if the nano-bots get a virus!
No, the outcome is really simple. You had your DS420j humming along yesterday, then this DSM update comes around and installs overnight, and this morning you have no access to your files.

Synology provides no recourse, effectively bricking the device you own. See how Consumer protection agency likes that.

You being unable to access files miss out on some important work, or deadline. See how courts like that if you decide to bring a civil suit against Synology.
Maybe people don’t like your idea because it reeks of the rich being able to buy their way to vaccines ahead of everyone else?
No, There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago (2017)
You can ask for such a a thing now but most people do not. I think especially if you’re pursuing the kind of extreme level of sex described in this piece it’s not likely
Author here.

It’s a trade-off for simplicity. It’s a small team and they are still working towards feature completeness. Deferring optimization to Binaryen is the easy way out at the cost of not having high-level optimizations. If they finish their IR, that will most likely change.
> more suicide

Except the actual statistics linked upthread say otherwise thus far.
To be honest, I don't see any maths. I see a document titled "investigation" which contains a bibliography consisting of a single forum post from 2013 by someone named Adam, and then the author goes on saying that he has invented some maths that allegedly would allow confidential transactions. Forgive me if I'm a bit sceptical... better wait until some experts review this material.
I need to state that both methods are evil. One is just better for lots of normal people (my case). Punishing bankers sounds good but in reality all of the fines I’ve seen are nothing but slaps on the wrist. So if that’s the case, then it doesn’t work, no?
I don't use a particular system. I am using Evernote to take all my notes because I take notes on many machines and when I started note taking Evernote was the only one I found with multi-device support.

Rarely, when I come across an interesting sentence structure or a great way to express an idea I write the exact words that is in the books.

Usually, I paraphrase what I have read, and jot down why I find it worthwhile. If the idea leads to new ones I follow those as well. I used to skip these thoughts because I thought reading the book was more important, but now I am focused on getting the most out of a book and following my thoughts, and thinking about the information is part of it.

Before, the title of the notes used to be the book's title and I would organize my notes based on titles. But for a couple years I have been taking notes around subjects. Since I also read around subjects, my note taking and my reading support each other nicely. If you consider starting to take notes while you are reading, I'd suggest going with subject based organization. If a note can be part of more than one subject, I copy the note to the other notebooks.

This subject based note taking also helps with understanding my interests, because some subjects grow dramatically while others grow marginally.

It also works as an early alert system when you are slacking off on areas you have to know but skip because you find them boring. This early alert system is extremely important for people with ADHD. I don't know about you, but I tend to over-focus on areas that I find interesting and don't touch areas that I don't. Then I try to make the areas that are important more interesting.
That's pretty commonplace to clean up worms and the like. Once security professionals decompile the code enough to figure out where the control mechanism is and how it works, they will take control of it and use its own methods to get rid of it.
> there is a much deeper problem with Apple

Which might as well be greed — after all 30% of 5Mn = 1.5Mn USD. They make a lot of money by allowing scammy apps to continue operating.

I hope these cases becomes a major reason why they have to open up the App Store.
Looking at the mass surveillance revelations by Snowden and other whistleblowers I'd say many people do care.

What makes you say people don't?
You beat me, I skipped to yours :)
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A good trick to convince JS engines that you are dealing with integers is to use the "`|0` operator":

let a = 1;
let b = 2;
let c = a+b|0; // c is guaranteed to be a 32 bit signed integer

This not only ensures correct 32 bit integer semantics (like wrapping around), but also helps the engines to use actual integer instructions in the generated machine code.

For unsigned 32 bit integers, there is `>>>0`, and
for multiplication, there is Math.imul().
Reducing size or switching to WASM are both things that you can do.

You should measure the cases you actually care about. For a long running app, start-up time is probably not the most important thing, for other apps its very important.
lol "rm shell.js or if that's too bothersome buy a new machine"
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The trouble is that most people are somewhere between one partner for life and regular participation in sex with strangers and that gap is enough for plenty of relatively square people to end up affected.
That's how I am. I mowed for a job two years ago, and that was the perfect activity to listen to an audiobook for me. It keeps me physically busy, but requires no thought. I can autopilot all day while listening.

I always describe multitasking this way as needing two different stimuli. I need something to engage my brain, and something to engage my body. I went though a phase of learning a Rubik's Cube while watching movies. That helped me focus greatly while it lasted.

I try to slot everything I can into one of those two categories. Things that take little thought, and things that require little physical action. Then I can mix and match them.
The point was to call into question their misplaced confidence.
Not only were they wrong, they stated it boldly.
They had no grounds to “strongly suspect”

Yes, language is a funny thing.
tech my child uses I didn't expect: robloxfpsunlocker and an autoclicker.
I didn't say anything about the rich. A vaccine costs pounds, everyone can afford it. Only thing preventing you from being covid protected is a random lazy bureaucrat in Brussels.
It also seems that different countries have different criterias for what side effects they tolerate.
This is not an argument though.

Of course government services can have too many or too few workers, that's a matter of efficiency.

All rich nations have mostly socialized infrastructure: water, electricity, roads and partially socialized retirement and healthcare.

That's partly why they are rich.
Or a blockchain for sex! We can verify who slept with who and got what virus.

Actually, maybe let’s not do this
Not sure if you're replying to me or the flagged comment, but I have no issues with anyone's sexual identity or choices. I downvoted the flagged comment because judging from the tone, that commenter DID have a problem with it.
> Please, consult with a medical professional instead.

I feel like this might be a dumb question, but what brand of medical professional should you go to? I've discussed with my GP, but those discussions usually don't have any meaningful advice.
> The WHO themselves were advising people NOT to wear a mask and that it might be even more dangerous to wear one than not to wear it months into the pandemic.. They also only revised this in June

To protect yourself. The revised and current advice is to wear masks to protect the others and avoid propagating the virus. Why does everyone complaining about the masks thing miss that?

And as others have already said, the lack of PPE across the world would have made recommending masks for everyone highly irresponsible.
There’s a lot to unpack in the story - some of the ‘god smites ‘em’ passages can be read as a warning that bad things will happen only because the behavior contains the seeds of it’s own destruction - or punishment if you will.

For example - The passage about “visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” sounds absolutely like God is a rotten SOB.

But if you ever see the pain that flows though generations because one father abused his children, you can see that it more of a warning - do something horrible and not only will you suffer, but you’ll cause generations to suffer. So don’t do that.
Yes but funding the research and buying vaccines that doesn't work or won't be used for whatever reason is not the same thing though. You can help fund research without buying the vaccine. It would be quite the waste to buy stuff just to throw it out.
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As far as I can tell people are just looking for excuses. It might very well be the case that whoever wrote that WHO statement actually believed it.

Either way - my point was that people here can and do often outperform 'decisions made by experts', no matter the reason why that's the case.

> The WHO's statement lacked transparency but if they had stated that everybody should wear masks in March 2020, the effects would have been disastrous for health authorities all over the world

Even if that's what was happening, the way they did it - saying they are ineffective rather than, say vaguely saying they dont advise them - has fueled an anti-mask movement still alive today. It's very hard to believe that it was a good decision overall on top of being straight-up wrong.
It all boils down to personal preference, do what works for you.

I personally have found typing to be the best, nothing beats plain text files that you can later search on.

The only exception is when you want to draw diagrams or similar stuff, I mean you can sort of draw a diagram with ASCII but is far from practical.
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They are in Europe. You can go to your family doctor and ask for a flu shot even if you are young and don't get it recommended by default. Same as you can go to your doctor and ask for lots of other vaccines because you want to travel abroad for instance. I paid for many vaccines in private in Austria in order to travel to certain countries. Don't see why I shouldn't be able to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine the same way.
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