skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And none of those are scientific inquiries where I proffer rigorous methodology.

But it obviously works, I did not confuse the ship and the plank or you and the TV series, which tells us that identity is a useful concept we can use to navigate the world. The fact, that it may be hard to formalize the concept and deal with all the edge cases, does not change that.

Yet various exact scientific inquiries work very well without assuming it's existence or that there be a difference between same and different identity.

Can you provide any example?

It is a very simple problem. The answer is: “identity is a pseudoscientific concept that is “not even wrong”.”.

It is so vague, so bereft of any definition that the claim of whether that two references share the same identity is “not even wrong”.

I am pretty sure people doing homotopy type theory [1] would disagree. And I am just picking this because it has gotten quite a bit of attention in recent years but people have put a lot of work into thinking about identity and equality over the centuries.

And that is why the various models of exact sciences typically to not require that such arbitrary lines be drawn of what is and isn't a different “thing”.

Same as above, I would like to hear an example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_type_theory
It depends, but yes. There are a lot of deaths each year, and the law is not in favour of the cyclist either. In fact, it gets worse: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45154708

Stay away from the cities, and it's generally safer, but at the same time you'll find cars doing 60 mph on single carriageway roads (the national speed limit), which can also be marked as a national cycle route. If you cycle somewhere where cars don't normally encounter cyclists, it can be "fun" as the motorists don't know how to behave.

The trouble with the UK is that even so-called cycle paths are shared with footpaths, so pedestrians are all over the place, and cycle paths that are getting built as 'joint' footpaths, mean as a cyclist you also stop at every road junction. Compare that to Europe, where the cycle path is an additional lane next to the road/main carriageway and is usually physically separated in some way for safety. In the UK this has the unfortunate effect of making a large percentage of cyclist just us the road (which they are legally entitled to do), because the cycle path next to the road "stops" every 100 yards because there's a road joining the main carriageway that you have to cross.
Make them memorable then - Facebook do:

host -6 www.facebook.com
www.facebook.com is an alias for star-mini.c10r.facebook.com.
star-mini.c10r.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2a03:2880:f158:82:face:b00c:0:25de
Yes that's a great movie. Issues of speech though are a bit different than issues of anticompetitive behavior, I don't think an unsympathetic and probably incompetent litigant works as well in the latter.
> And they are, and they might help you, but trying to ask scientific or metaphysical quæstions about it, is an exercise in futility.

What non-futile metaphysical questions are left, then? Is metaphysics completely futile? If so, is philosophy of science itself pseudoscience?

As far as I understand, most logical positivists would indeed reject philosophy of science. On the other hand, philosophy of science mostly put an end to logical positivism — and showed that we do need metaphysics after all. This paradigm shift also brought useful concepts such as falsifiability.

Of course, we are all free to choose whatever philosophy we want. I just personally find logical positivism and its rejection of metaphysics unconvincing.
Most likely explanation is that Amazon simply doesn't want problems with the party that controls the whole government now, and was threatening to split them up. So banning parler was essentially a form of lobbying.
> I refuse to believe they've got banned because of the lack of user management features.

> you can always let know authorities about any danger, report and ban users

One contradicts the other? They didn't do #2, so #1 happened.
Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
Is there a list of Danish ISPs that do this?

I've had YouSee since I moved here, and I have a single public IPv4. I didn't realise that was not standard.
> it's "obvious" until you learn that most games (with way higher perf requirements than anything else) are immediate mode rendered.

Games also tend to be the only/main thing running at a time and constantly update large parts of their display. This is not true for most applications.
More full spectrum surveillance and INSTANT FINE!1!!
At least in the UK, it would be very abnormal to either let your 6 year old child cycle to school, or to let them walk unaccompanied. Let alone both.

Only when children reach about 11 would it be normal to allow them to travel unaccompanied.
My understanding is that this, or something like it, is already done for flu vaccines; that's exactly how they're able to release updated versions each year.
Your statements about the world provide a theory that can be used to do an experiment to support or disprove your theory, but there is nothing that can prove that theory like proofs in a mathematical theorem.

Scientific theories are used to support a wide range of phenomenon, but are later superceded by better theorems that can encompass more phenomena. Experimental evidence can provide support for the theory, can disprove a theory, but cannot prove the theory.

Unrelated to mathematical proofs, but there are counter examples for each of your statements.

1.

The acceleration due to gravity on earth is not constant, it varies depending on location (easy to experimentally refute that it's not 9.8 everywhere). For example, being on mount everest versus at sea level in the Arctic would give different rates of acceleration.

Adding a tilde in front of 9.8 m/s^2 doesn't help make the statement look like a proof.

2.

Given that acceleration due to gravity is not constant, then the trajectory will no longer be a parabolic curve.
Aren't large neural network already black boxes we don't understand built by machines we understand?
The best user behaviour on receiving a potentially 'fishy' email is to not click any inks, but to go directly to the site in question and change your password, if you feel the email is genuine in anyway.
The link doesn't work anymore.
In the US, maybe, but Facebook definitely failed in case of the Rohingya genocide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

For a company based in the most racism-sensitive part of the Western world, they do not seem to care as much for non-American instances thereof. Their response in Myanmar was far from adequate. They took down a few accounts after a few months and that was that.
Building a virtual coffee bot for Mattermost and Matrix
I think teleconferencing needs more spatial flavoring. I have always thought that what virtual meetings lack is 3D awareness. Maybe do some 3D representation visually and audibly of each person sitting in a chair across a table.
Unrelated: I'm sure we have our own fantasies of potential employers (or past-employers) begging us to work for them with them increasing their offers or offering other benefits - but I'm curious if that's ever actually happened to anyone.
WhatsApp is, or used to be, based on a heavily modified version of ejabberd, which is a XMPP server written in Erlang.
The USA is going on a path that is quite similar to CCP's "one party one rule" system and they're not even aware of it
Same in Parler. I can't believe Parler doesn't ban any account who breaks the their Terms and Conditions
Brazilian trial had 13,060 participants. (Source: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04456595) So publication of Brazilian trial data mostly should settle the matter.
Inexplicably it matters a lot because people behave to only buy those things. It's why you get CA HSR (a project that's already pie in the sky) reporting that they'll use a signaling system like nothing else in the world. How about just doing something that's like everything else in the world? Doesn't sell. NIH syndrome is America. But that's okay, that's why startups happen here more often.
I don’t know about him, but I do, quite frequently.
A declaration of "sustainability" funded by BP, HSBC, BoA, Blackrock, Heathrow Airport among others... I guess "sustainability" means something other than we commonly understand.
My interpretation is that isn't that they were fearful of government control but rather welcomed the controversy to their platform as it resulted in more eyeballs on their inlined advertisements.

Trump's departure from office plus the riot was where the balance was tipped (ie Twitter's potential future income from Trump's controversies was no longer greater than the reputational cost in keeping him on the platform).
IIRC CRTs store charge in a rather large capacitor. Neon transformers don't. So touching unplugged CRT internals could shock you across the room, whereas neon transformers don't have that risk.
How you've described the social sciences being mudded with politics is the same in large parts of STEM, particularly the Technology and Education parts. Of course, as GP stated, everything is political so securing tenure, being invited to speak, etc, are political and social decision making processes that impact all aspects of STEM.
if you're not being facetious,

in English vernacular being a frustrated X (as in a frustrated academic, frustrated poet, etc.) means that the person is actually not that, but have in some way been prevented from being the thing (frustrated) and have perhaps rancor in regards to the frustration and towards those who actually are the thing (this second feature being sometimes implied depending on who is doing the description of the person as frustrated)

on edit: formatting, clarification
Surely you've heard the arguments against people making this same case for COVID. "I'm young, so it's not going to kill me - what's the big deal?" First of all, even if it's unlikely, it could kill or debilitate you. (Both covid-19 and, to a lesser but still present extent, the flu.) More importantly, if you don't get it, you can't pass it on to someone else who might be at higher risk.

And on top of those excellent reasons, getting a flu shot is a momentary discomfort, so why not, even if just to avoid the potential discomfort of a flu?
*laughs in My First Errand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMZp8KsZ5k

It's fairly normal in Japan to let five year olds travel alone by train, apparently.

I have to say I noticed before that the Anglo-Saxon often considers the minor to be seemingly mentally deficient and incapable of making the most basic choices and having the most basic responsibilities.

It's too much of a culture of “Children are incapable; adults always know better, and must make every decision for them.”.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Is “The Greatest Hoax Ever Forced on an Unsuspecting Public
Salesforce ‘Takes Action’ to Prevent RNC Emails from Inciting Violence
May I recommend "Het recht van de snelste" to you? I read it a few weeks ago and it was mind blowing to learn the things we take for granted, and how they came to be, when it comes to public space and transport. Unexpected gem of a book and a delight to read.
Filling a Cup with Drops of Water
Thank you very much, I'll give it a try. I use Sphinx software Windows Firewall Control now.
You can actually skip 2, if you model yourself as part of the system as well (i.e. have an Ideal Observer who changes from “has XYZ knowledge of the system” to “observed ABC about the system” for all possible ABC, with respective amplitudes) – but then you're doing a lot of computation you're never going to use for prediction. (It's more elegant, though – even more so if you model yourself as a human, though this'll take more computational power than we have.)
This is after two shots.
IMO that's a bit of a stretch. "Oligopolies embedded with the inbound political administration are collaborating to shut out oppositional voice" seems to be a hallmark of modern American politics, on both sides.

Easy enough for the free market to fix, right? There needs to be a way to set up a free-speech/right-wing-friendly social media company that also manages not to automatically become a hotbed of conspiracy nuts and antisemites. Weirdly that seems quite difficult to do. /s
We have options of either to trust the company or some other auditor. We can try getting some laws made to ensure honesty, but I personally don't like that route this early in the technology.

What we need a completely independent organisation like EFF to audit and certify basic guarantees around privacy/safety. The companies should also prefer this route as it would give take some heat off in EU/Congress without creating bureaucratic bottlenecks.

One problem I see that such an organisation can act as front for the cartel to prevent entry of new startups/players.
I think they have a case here, proving parler is exclusively for violence is massive overreach. However, in this political climate they may not get a fair trial.

I'm wondering why nobody talks about the recently arrested BLM activist who was armed and in the crowd in Capitol hill seen encouraging people to commit violence and destroy property property.
Funny. As I remember from the times of early GSM, that carrier lock was the default, because subsidized by them in exchange for long term contracts like 2 years. Otherwise you had to pay much more intitially, but it could make sense to calculate this, instead of blindly trusting the advertisements.

/me mumbles something about "Kids these days..."
Nope, in the US you go to jail https://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrest...
tl;dr The same debate that rages on HN every day with both sides talking past each other. I flagged it because it has become a predictable flame war with the exact same arguments on either side and no indication of anyone learning anything.

In this case, the authors of this opinion piece make this extreme and unusual statement early on:

> "Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines."

Their argument is essentially that Congress is using Section 230 as a censorship tool, and therefore any firm covered by Section 230 must be treated as a government entity.

If you're on board with them there, chances are you aren't going to change your mind today while reading HN comments (and vice versa).
I'm not surprised that he's read a prepared measured speech.

What I haven't seen, and I would love to see "cherry picked" is the rhetoric I posted but reversed between the two groups. I'll make a bet and say that that's never happened.

Which brings us back around to; he's condoning the specific group storming the capitol, while fast and loose condemning every unruly edge case of the BLM movement.
Are there real antitrust questions here? If you get booted from AWS, you can always go to Azure or GCP, or Digital Ocean/Linode/Rackspace/etc.

I believe there are real antitrust questions regarding Amazon but getting booted from AWS doesn’t seem to connect with any of them. Amazon does not compete with Parler.

Seems like one of the funny things about the internet is that as “free” as it seems to be sometimes, there is no part of the internet that is really a public space. Everything on the internet is owned by somebody. There are no public roads, no sidewalks, no easements on the internet. If this were about a physical space like a store, you can get banned from the store but still protest outside on the sidewalk. If AWS were a “common carrier” then it would need strong justifications for banning customers.

I don’t see any of these legal arguments playing out here.
I was just looking for something like this the other day when talking with someone about how they should be thinking of their investment returns in terms of BTC and not USD (which has increased in supply > 25%) in the past year.

This website, though a bit barren, nicely illustrates the point.

Another related one is: https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/
It's more about how we should always be weary of extreme examples which can set precedence with regrettable repercussions.

If I had proposed as a thought experiment, a hypothetical "proto-fascist social media site that facilitated a failed insurrection based on outlandish conspiracies and disinformation" to argue something, most would claim it's an absurd outlier and shouldn't be used because it's not generally representative.

But here we are. That's the risk. Arguments that normally would be summarily dismissed will be taken as legitimate. This is also exactly the window of time where otherwise unacceptable laws will be accepted (like the AUMF after 9/11) It's potentially a dangerous time with long lasting effects that will be hard to claw back and we should tread lightly and carefully knowing these tendencies.

We still haven't been able to spin down the military expansionism from 80 years ago after pearl harbor for instance. These systems can take on a life of their own and become really hard to undo. Careful careful.
Unfortunely when these things actually suceed on the market, we only get IBM and Unysis mainframes, Android, watchOS and .NET Native/WinRT, which are always a kind of compromise of the whole idea.
> My problem with The Ship of Theseus, is that it prætends to be scientific, whereas it is merely a futile quibble of semantics.

It doesn't pretend to be scientific (it does not purport to offer or relate to testable empirical hypotheses), it is a philosophical thought exercise illustrating that the concept of identity of a composite of mutable composition (pretty much every concrete thing in the real world) is arbitrary.
Now we just need another person educated enough to verify this blogpost.
Stuff like INTEGRITY OS and QNX.
Discovery of quantum behavior in insulators suggests possible new particle
>If you see something objectionable on Twitter, report it. It will be addressed.

And as we all know twitter applies their community guidelines equally on all its users regardless of their political stance.
> I think they have a case here, proving parler is exclusively for violence is massive overreach.

Fortunately, Amazon does not need to prove that it is exclusively for violence.
> the level of understanding we have of a microprocessor all the way from transistors to the algorithms running on it

Good example, because the vast majority of people don't understand that. I tried and I still don't, nevermind someone who doesn't even care.

I mean, I know the theory, I know the individual parts, but can't quite fully understand how a complete processor works.

If someone from as early as 1920 would find an advanced robot that is a combination of some Boston Dynamics model and offline/autonomous Google Assistant (so it could walk, listen/talk/reply, and maybe pick stuff up), they would not be able to figure out how its "brain" works. At best they'd have a general idea/theory.

Same thing with our brains and current understanding of it. I believe it is possible to reverse engineer it completely, but not with today's tools.
It's also not uncommon to have a "24 hour flu", which aren't actually caused by flu viruses, but result in flu-like symptoms for roughly a day, then a rapid recovery. Sounds like that was the case for OP, and I doubt elderberry had anything to do with it.
Incorrect, see my sibling comment. It's strange that there are so many misconceptions around CPI, while the BLS has extensive layman-language docs about most their procedures https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi
Wait a minute, does this paper include various hypercomputers or is it only about conventional computation?

Although I personally believe hypercomputers are not physically possible, I'm not aware of any general proof that they are physically impossible. I've seen papers that suggest physical models for hypercomputers. Notice that there is a hierarchy of hypercomputers of varying powers and some of them can solve the Halting Problem.
> Yes, any Dutch expat you meet is silently judging your country on the safety of its cycling infrastructure.

And so you should. The UK's cycling infrastructure is embarrassingly bad.

An example. Local to me, recently, the government spent over £100m on a new road junction, to replace an old one. One of the main reasons that they had to build a new junction was that they claimed they could not remove traffic lights from the roundabout to improve traffic because pedestrians and cyclists both crossed the junction at 'street level'. A local cycle organization submitted a proposal with modelling (I can't find the link atm.), that showed that the desired increase in capacity could be achieved by adding bridges for pedestrians and cyclists, removing traffic lights, and altering the road layout.

And save about £90m.

Needlessly to say, the junction was built. I have no idea whether their proposal was considered, or not, unless I submit a freedom of information request to the UK government.

Regardless, the bridges should have been built anyway, because the junction is between two suburbs.

The new junction did get a new cyclist/pedestrian bridge to replace the old one. Except it's about 1km further away from the suburbs that the previous junction, so adding 2km to bike journeys.
This is true of the large scale vaccine trials, yes. However, there have been several small long term monitoring studies that test immunity persistence post infection recovery, and they seem to show that replication is effectively prevented when exposed to blood serum with acquired immunity with a fairly short time delay (this is what motivated the attempt to do serum transfusions from recovered patients as treatment, but I'm not sure what came of that). That said, you're right that my comparison is overstating the confidence we currently have in this.
It’s notable that per the CEO of Parker, law firms, banks and payment providers, mail and texting services have also cancelled on them.
How to kill process in Unix/Linux?
Do you have any reputable sources for that BLM agent provocateur?
Singapore Has Kept the Coronavirus Off Campus
Correct, you do care about sterilizing immunity, but you need to do PCR tests on everybody, I'm not sure it was the case there. That is not what this number is referring to though.
IBM and Unisys mainframes also support POSIX filesystems, as does Windows, so now they are UNIXes?
Factor for sure
60th Parallel South
Great to see Groningen represented so much in this video. I think about 50% of all traffic movements are by bike in this city. This includes walking, so IMO it's pretty special.

The urban planning in this town has been the product of decades of bike and pedestrian friendly planning. Making the city really nice to live in.

It probably takes decades to convert a car centric city like Seattle into something like Groningen. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't strive for it. It makes a city much more friendly to live in, makes the population healthier and is more sustainable on the environment.
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Intention matters, as does scale. Cars kill far more people than serial killers, yet any sane person prefers the company of car dealers to serial killers. This is so obvious, it's stretching my ability to feign an assumption of good faith.
Maybe in company he is referred on first name basis. In my company we always refer CEO by first name, even when we had never met him personally.
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would be good to see more argument behind this?
Yes it is already factored in. Influenza vaccine efficacy is usually calculated separately for "matched" influenza and all influenza. 60% range is for matched.
The comment you replied to was specifically asking how the trial would work given PrEP though.
President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship
does signal not accept pull requests or something? currently there's two signal forks on the frontpage, would be much better to upstream the effort if that's viable