skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does it have to be in the US or Canada, places known to have extremely few protected bike lanes, and almost no protected intersections?

Because then you can make a direct comparison in terms of crash rates, counts, etc. between roads that have these facilities and those that don't, or compare the data before and after facilities have been put in place.

> Now, how many six year olds do you think can safely 'take the lane' on busy American arterials independently from their parents?

How many 6 year olds do you see traveling independently around places outside their immediate neighborhood? It seems you're using an example of a need that simply doesn't exist. As a parent and knowing other parents, I've and they have never sent a 6 year old child to travel independently to some destination that requires they ride their bicycle for a couple of miles to get to.

In contrast, how many 6 year olds understand where to look for approaching traffic when cycling in the pedestrian position. Do they understand the risk of a right hook, left cross, or drive out? I tried asking my 9 year old and she wasn't able to figure it out even with me showing a picture of a barrier separated bike lane approaching an intersection and asking her leading questions about where to look for approaching vehicles.

That being said, I would never let my children ride in a barrier separated bike lane because they don't understand where they need to check for traffic when crossing an intersection.

As for taking the lane, one must understand the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles prior to doing that. I'm still working on that with my 9 year old. I don't think that most 6 year olds are capable of that.
Not sure I agree with him. What does something being real mean? It's got to mean that observations are consistent with the description of that something. That's actually all we can do, check that observations aren't disagreeing with what the model said. So if an electron is a tiny little thing that is deflected by a magnetic field, has a certain mass, etc, then it's real insofar as we observe those qualities. In the same way if Santa Claus isn't real, it's because there's issues with the evidence.

This doesn't preclude there being a better model of course. Observations can get more sophisticated, revealing that your model needed adjustment. Or parsimony can drive and someone finds a way to describe multiple phenomena at once, eg electromagnetism.

As for why mathematics is great at describing nature, it's because there's loads of it, since it's an extensible system of logic. Someone somewhere is going to find a way of describing how asteroids go round, and being a kind of logic there's no way you would say it wasn't math, regardless of what exactly it was. Epicycles are math too, despite not being the exact right way to think about it.
Which brings us full circle, to state sanctioned firewalls (China).
Neutrons are countable with integers.

Waves -- even in classical mechanics -- are not "countable", and are best represented in physical models with a continuum, such as field of real numbers.

They're fundamentally different. Quantum Mechanics glosses over this difference because when it was developed, this was too hard to deal with.

A lot of people who briefly studied QM at an undergraduate level assume that it "keeps going" and is applicable to all small-scale processes. In reality, it is not applicable to a wide range of phenomena, including explaining why particles come in countable units.

Similarly, the "infinite size" of electron clouds or the probability distributions of particles such as neutrons are a mathematical shortcut that was explicitly called out as such in the first QM papers. After a century, people just forgot and assumed that QM has a direct correspondence to reality, when it is a simplified abstraction designed to be analytically tractable.

Lastly, many people think that QM predicts that EM waves come in "countable" units called photons. This isn't true in general, and again, was called out as a simplification for the treatment of the emission and absorption of EM waves by atomic matter specifically. Atoms have electron orbitals that can take on only specific values, hence they can only absorb or emit EM waves with specific values. This is not a property shared with free particles or other fields that interact electromagnetically.

QM pedagogy needs to be rethought from the ground up, because nobody seems to be learning QM, but instead they're internalising a limited model they don't actually understand.
Ask HN: How to learn to be more persuasive?
Looking specifically for becoming more persuasive in a business setting, from managing up and getting buy-in to convincing customers and improving persuasive writing.

Thanks !
Very interesting to see very little counterpoint here and the struggle to guess what that counterpoint is. Is it because HN consistently downvotes views countervailing to the Silicon Valley PC position? Arguing in a vacuum.
That kind of construction involves storing whatever is required for login in plaintext on the backend side. You can get around that limitation by using something like SRP, but that is even more complex than using RSA. On the other hand SRP-like construction would have real security benefits while passing RSA encrypted password over the same channel you got the public key (and implementation of the whole thing) from is of somewhat questionable benefit.
They should also remove all containing "Communism is bad".
Well why should they be forced to carry content they disagree with, right? And if they're the only ISP in town, well I guess that's just too bad. As a corporation they have unlimited freedom to censor what their customers see.
It's not hard to understand when you realize it's just the paradox of tolerance. The ISP won't tolerate curated "speech" from those intolerant of free speech.
> They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form

It comes off like this statement is what big tech really has a problem with.
What about the dude with the zip ties and sidearm? What about the dudes who left IEDs in the building? What about the crowd who beat a police officer to death?

No, of course the dude in the viking outfit wasn't going to single-handedly overthrow the government. There was a very real possibility that members of Congress would have been murdered for political reasons by a very large, violent, deadly crowd.
> For now, don't attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government.

In the US. For countries we don't like, coup away.
Note how you are ascribing Mathematical meaning to a snail shell.

You are somehow insisting that the mathematical expression (1 + sqrt(5))/2 is in some ways similar to a snail shell.

Don’t you find it even a little strange that just about anyone not schooled in algebra/arithmetic would doubt your claim?
This comment highlights how ridiculously politicized HN has become. Just an hour ago this post was downvoted, and somehow has been upvoted despite not adding anything to the discussion

>You know what's even more toxic? Literal Nazis and fascists, the ranks of which have been, if not growing, then clearly emboldened.

What does the word literal even mean at this point? What is fascism to you? What is Nazism to you?

>This group "feels oppressed" because they are not able to exert their will to oppress others.

How is this sentence even appearing on a thread about an app getting removed because they refused to force more stringent moderation onto their users?
> the retailer must accept the equivalent appliance you are replacing and recycle.

Interesting - to be honest I'm not sure if Switzerland has the same rule or not - so far I always brought my old stuff to local retailers even if I didn't buy anything from them - usually we just leave the stuff outside of the shop in some designated areas. It could be that the retailers then "get a cut" on what is sent to be recycled, I honestly don't know, but so far nobody ever complained to me.

One thing that is not so great is that outside of those shops there are usually "scavengers" (trying to find something valuable that can be reused or sold - quite good chances for that to happen in Switzerland) that can make quite a mess (e.g. they might break a TV-panel trying to reach for whatever is behind them => glass everywhere on the floor).

I usually position my own stuff tactically to avoid that and leave on it a post-it stating something like "panel has broken pixels" or "device works but battery cannot be charged" or "works perfectly it was just old", etc... => little effort for me, less effort for the scavengers and the shop's recycling area doesn't get messed up :)
“Paradox of tolerance”
This is not hard to square.

If you believe in free markets as the most efficient mode of production and the most liberal way of life you will be against anything that undermines the freedom of the markets, be it private monopolization or governmental subjugation.

The question hotly debated is whether the Cabal of Twitter, FB, Reddit, and the like are large enough to distort the playing field through the sheer gravity of their scale. If you agree that they are you have to agree they have undermined the free market, and markets need to be rescued.

In the similar vein - you can argue that the only valid use of violence is to stop unsanctioned use of violence. There is no contradiction in both supporting and opposing use of violence at the same time.
Dems have been calling for the repeal/replace/amendment of Section 230 because they believe that 230 shields social media platforms from too much liability.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkeamz/elizabeth-warrens-pla...
Endless sea of trump flags starting just north of Moscow.
I think it means that if you blatantly violate their ToS and don't fix it after multiple conversations then you won't be able to use their service.
>>> The article touches upon something that I think most people that learn about physics don't realize. The models physicists use to describe nature do NOT exist in reality. They are mere concepts that work well to describe natural phenomena.

Indeed, having completed a graduate degree in physics, by the time you've been introduced to a different model of the electron for the third or fourth time, it begins to sink in.
The same website has, as the top article:
"Capitol rioter filmed hitting officer in head with fire extinguisher"

Which quotes: "Two law enforcement sources told the Associated Press that Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to The Post. He later died at a hospital Thursday night"

Link : https://www.lawofficer.com/capitol-rioter-filmed-hitting-off...
I can't edit my comment, so here's a citation in reply:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/tr...
I use a Microtik hAP AC (Small little SOHO style router with an sfp and PoE). You can easily flash it with OpenWRT and use wireguard on that. All open source too.

It's great hardware but I'm no personal fan of RouterOS.
Did you put a hole in your boat ? I will teach you a lesson by putting an even bigger hole in my own boat.
If they can prove that they were wrongfully shut down, then they can sue for damages, which is what keeps companies from abusing their power.

This isn't a new form of justice, this is how the civil legal system works.
yes, northern idaho, I remember all the left leaning skin heads. . . /s

It has more leftists than southern Idaho, but still, it's not exactly a bastion of progressive thinking. In fact, the state legislator doesn't have a single dem elected north of the boise metro, so I'm not sure how you're quantifying it?
I don't know how to assess the credibility of that document, but as a plan to overthrow the government that seems laughable to me except for that fact that a whole lot of people are going to get hurt as it utterly fails.
That's my understanding.
The users in question likely wanted the site blocked for everyone, not just themselves.
Historical times!
>assuming that "neutrons" have definite boundaries and are unambiguously distinguishable from the soup they inhabit.

How do free neutrons, etc. work into this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay
A superintelligence wouldn't be bothered by it - shielding is both possible and practical.

Plus nothing would be able to stop the AI from controlling the Sun to prevent such events - it's a superintelligence after all, so I'd expect it to consider such case.
Also remember that Facebook is (partly?) to blame for the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election.
> Even here on HN any attempt at putting forth the wrong opinion on the election will result in a ban.

I haven't seen this, all the bans I have seen are the result of ideological warfare and flamebait.

However you will get downvoted to -4 for questioning the integrity of the election. So don't do that ;)
Or it was because of a literal coup attempt last week.
Yes, good old days of 28 kbps internet.
Completely true that twitter and Facebook were being used as right wing echo chambers. But you fail to mention that's literally by design. Twitter/Facebook etc were completely complicit in all this until recently, their chronic inaction lead to the buildup of right wing radicalism.
It appears that this entire comment and all of its replies have been hidden from public view. Oh the irony! We are the only ones discussing this now lol.
Aaaaand moral high ground: lost
Well, I got "an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization" from the New Oxford American Dictionary.

We could also go with Wikipedia's "Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe" if you're down with crowd-sourced definitions.

If you're not, there's historian Kevin Passmore's more verbose one: "Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right."

And, of course, we could go right to the source. Benito Mussolini wrote, "Granted that the 19th century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the 20th century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century."

If you really want to argue with the claim that fascism is a far-right, authoritarian movement, have at it, but that claim has a whole pile of evidence on its side.
Likely not the only ISP in town. T-mobile, Sprint, Verizon, etc.
I think you’re right. This is the thesis behind my current startup. Before you build anything, you have to know what community is being underserved. I’ve believed one of those areas is esports but over time generalized that to current events. Decentralization will only work out if it benefits that community somehow.

Shameless plug: my social network is in alpha if anyone wants to offer feedback. https://trophy.gg
Nio makes a supercar, the EP9 which while impractical because it requires a team of technicians to operate and has a rather large price tag (2.5M GBP), it seems to be quite an impressive vehicle (see The Grand Tour's episode on it [0]).

I wonder how much of that engineering has translated into the ET7.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilEG53Cl3LE
I'm not sure what the current sales are, but for pre-orders 59% were for PC.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-10-cyberpunk-...
A new WSJ op-ed on how Big Tech is threatening the Constitution
Its fascinating how the civil rights movement changed the enforcement of sedition law but did not lead to the repeal.
I have a feeling this is spreading a lot. People are becoming puritans.. too much negativity in the world makes one become too tense on what he considers the best solutions maybe.
> I can't tell if this announcement is parody.

You have to imagine they realize the nature of it. But it's kind of like "this statement is false." It's a challenge to have somebody stop them. And if that happens, they turn it around the other way.
I have flagged this because it is an old article and so the title is misleading. We do have some covid restrictions, including mandatory masks on public transport in Auckland and on domestic flights, and two weeks of isolation, in government managed isolation facilities (hotels), for anyone arriving from overseas and businesses must display QR codes for people to scan with a tracer app.

https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-system/alert-level-1/
Liquid drum and bass mixes

https://youtu.be/YIWFNVb7whk
To be fair, not all protected classes are symmetric:

Veteran status and age over 40 are notable examples; you are absolutely permitted to discriminate against non-veterans and against people under 40.
Republicans are a fusion of quite a few different people: https://dailycampus.com/2020/09/14/break-up-already-fusionis...

> Buckley used the pages of National Review to promote a ‘fusionism’ of sorts between paleo-conservatives, neo-conservatives, tea-party enthusiasts, the deeply religious, libertarians, social conservatives and free-marketeers.

Particularly since Trump, a lot of the base is now economically moderate or even liberal, but socially conservative. The social conservatives are the ones who are most worried about the social liberals having increased power over online media platforms.

Apart from that, the deregulatory conservatives don’t believe that criticizing some practice of private business means going further to impose government regulation. To them, there is a role for self regulation. And the social conservatives and traditional conservatives don’t care about using the power of government for perceived proper ends at all. They are quite mad, in fact, at the limited government conservatives for giving up so much ground on things like healthcare and unions over those issues.
I believe the commenter is referring to the coordinated collusion of the activity, which is reminiscent of anti-competitive cartels.
The mob of people who stormed the Capitol building beat a police officer to death. If the mob had reached the rooms with Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, I think they would have been assaulted, too, killing them by accident or deliberately. That would have triggered a Constitutional crisis which could have given Trump grounds to keep power.

Was this a well thought out plan? No. But would it have been enough to derail the process of formally choosing the next President? Quite possibly.
Probably nothing. Especially since GDPR isn't enforced that heavily.

But I also understand why US companies are doing this. It's kinda like when my dad got parking and speeding tickets sent home from a foreign country. Most likely nothing would happen if he didn't pay them, but you never know when you want to go back to holiday in $country, and the border agent sees them in your "permanent record".

It's at least imaginable that the EU _could_ do something similar, ask for a fine and if not dealt with, the company (or even worse directors of the company) getting some kind of dent in the proverbial permanent record.

(I'm not saying that it's likely, but if EU visitors aren't a big user base for your local regional news paper, I see why it's so tempting to just check the "Block EU visitors" checkbox.)
Thanks for that source, a talk by frightfully brilliant Stanford mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis. It contains another cute anecdote:

> One of my most endearing memories of the great psychol- ogist of decision making under uncertainty, Amos Tversky, recalls his way of ordering in restaurants: “Barbara? What do I want?”
>"A SSH session does not generate any traffic, unless there’s new output or input. The same is true for TCP. That is why,

after the TCP and SSH sessions have been established, no more packages are sent for a long time

."
The timing to me makes this clearly playing a political game of chicken. I wonder how many more people threaten to take their ball and go home, and who blinks and walks this back first.

Edit: it seems the ISP is walking this back already.
Should the US government make its own social network? That would cut off all kinds of issues. Only content that is literally illegal would be removed. Everyone would be guaranteed access.
NOT killing black people for sport and letting poor people see a doctor is radical leftism
In order to fight censorship we must implement censorship...
For those coming to the comments later, it was bullshit. No one from that group was claiming admin accounts were able to be created. Just that you could easily create regular accounts with a script because email verification wasn't required anymore. That original reddit explanation was mostly bullshit.

That so called technical person that knew much more than the poster apparently was misinformed.
This is nothing but the Paradox of Tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance in action. Intolerant websites shouldn't be tolerated in our society.
It's like people have never heard the word "boycott"
Let's examine two cases for an ISP utility. They both lead to the same conclusion without turning everything downstream of ISPs into utilities.

1. The utility of an ISP is that of an ad hoc communication platform. Here we must ask why an ISP is an ad hoc communication platform and Facebook is not. Either both are or neither is.

2. The utility of an ISP is derived from providing access to Facebook. Again it is either both or none.

edit: s/an ad hoc/a/
Why it's time to stop pursuing happiness
> The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Similar idea, but with Turing machines rather than physical computers.

Simplified a bit, the n-th busy beaver number is the number of 1s which can be written out by an n-state Turing machine.

For 2-symbols and n-states, the sequence goes: 6, 21, 107, >= 47176870, > 7.4×10^36534, > 10^10^10^10^18705353 — and those inequalities are because the numbers themselves cannot be computed directly, you have to run the program to see what it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Paradox of intolerance claims a society must be intolerant of intolerance. Should that apply for censorship as well?
this is what i thought. His followers will follow him wherever he goes. Probably his own branded services if he's smart (and not in jail etc)
Yes! Or, sort of at least.

I’d like what they did to be a formal promise with a proper process. A guarantee from Sony that “with our console you’ll never pay money for a broken game”. I don’t think they have a public “program” for it.
Finally you can have ice cream at home thanks to ice cream pods
I haven't used Parler, but from what I read there were loads of people actively calling for violence. Sure, there's no set line, but Amazon shouldn't have to support that if they don't want to.
For USB 2, widely-available battery packs compatible with whatever current negotiation standards your devices require work just as well, and have the added benefit of storing power.

Less generally, these batteries can also break ground loops, which comes in handy when connecting a power supply to both a USB device and an attached analog audio device (e.g., iPhone and wired noise-canceling earbuds).