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>It was the deadliest year for cyclists and pedestrians on American roads since 1990.

Less traffic means higher speeds. Also those long straight roads with four lanes aren't suitable for urban areas.

See https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos for some great examples of what and what not to do.
I love the fact that they goofed the physics involving a wrench in one of the earlier episodes, so they got help fact checking the physics for future shows and the wrench has been included as an easter egg / running joke to remind them to strive for realism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyV3GZ9xnGM&t=3140s (NSFW language)
I fail to understand the strategy behind this. They're driving all users away. What is the plan?

I'm genuinely baffled. Anyone know why?
Oh, sure. That's why yearly flu shots are a mix against the most likely flu strains for the given flu season. For Covid, I am not aware of a particular mutation defeating the existing vaccines. Besides the Indian one, which seems to cope better with a population that is to large extent vaccinated. And even that variant is then only dangerous for those not vaccinated.

Short version: Any vaccine is better then no vaccine.
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Western monopoly capital is aware that Afro-Asian unity is a potential economic threat. Dividing these communities is a priority to some... The narratives will be mainstreamed, any problems will be amplified, and I have a feeling covert elements have/will fund the conflict.

This also potentially results in the side effect of Asians (specifically Chinese) fleeing the country and/or siding with the majority against African liberation and civil rights issues. This is seen as a win-win scenario.

Anyone that's closely studied colonial history intuitively understands what might be going on and recognizes the pattern.

The structures capable of this kind of sabotage (that historically operated in Asia, Africa and South/Central America) didn't die off, they just became dormant/less-active temporarily.
No, not always. And "insights" might not even be a part of your job as a data scientist. (I wrote a longer comment about this in the thread, I don't want to repeat it here)
Around 20 percent of their population got also killed during the war.

>Douglas visited Korea in the summer of 1952 and was stunned by the “misery, disease, pain and suffering, starvation” that had been “compounded” by air strikes. U.S. warplanes, having run out of military targets, had bombed farms, dams, factories, and hospitals. “I had seen the war-battered cities of Europe,” the Supreme Court justice confessed, “but I had not seen devastation until I had seen Korea.”

And instead of Marshall help they got global economic sanctions.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/why-do-north-koreans-hat...
The government forces me not to hit my neighbor with a baseball bat on the head! They cut my freedoms! This is a human rights crime against me!
>Why there is no light on space Sci Fi series or movies?.

Besides artistic choices, for the same reason many devs prefer to work in near darkness with dark mode UIs.

I for one wouldn't be letting bright light anywhere near my spaceship's interior...

That said, many sci-fi movies/series have plenty of light internally: Star Trek and Star Wars for two big ones...

>We know that we need strong light exposure in order not the develop illnesses like myopia. Mood is affected badly by lack of light.

Not a problem in 2520 A.D.
Why did the USSR overspend? Was it trying to keep up with the west?
I'd choose the separate infrastructure. We already spend billions on highways every year (often new highways which will end up being liabilities down the road as opposed to maintenance) we can spend a little on better infra. I'd rather not treat the situation as zero sum and basically wish more drivers and car riders die in larger numbers.

Again the situation isn't zero sum, we can save both car rider lives and bike rider and pedestrian lives.
This thing communicates at 1MB/s. A “performance feature” it ain’t.
Lukashenko first comments since plane seizure
I think some stuff is improved in the series though.

For example, the story from Cibola Burn seemed a lot better on the show than the book in my opinion and some of the characters are better.

In particular, Ashford's character is massively improved (it helps that David Strathairn plays the role incredibly well).

The books are very good though and I can't wait for Leviathan Falls. Also, it seems the series will stop at the end of Babylon's Ashes.
That's incredible. I'm particularly blown away by the memorization from a 200 ms observation, and the fine motor skills -- so effortlessly precise with that finger.
There’s a pretty salty rebuttal to this on https://freenode.net. You can feel the hurt ego in the prose. It saddens me to see how far the original openprojects.net (renamed to freenode) has fallen since the early 2000s, when I was an admin/server sponsor.
I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that speed limits are not effectively enforced on cars. And if they are, what is the cost to making the limitation (+10mph or whatever as required for safety) automatic?
I don’t really follow a lot of your points. Why are making cars visible making other things less visible? If everything is just a bland surface, and the eye can more easily make out a car, that doesn’t mean that pedestrians blend into their backgrounds any more or less noticeable than they were before. How are crush zones related? If it was just the surface of a less-crushable area, isn’t that just the same or worse for people getting hit?

I mean, your overall point is right. Cars are mostly not compatible with pedestrians and small vehicles like bikes and scooters. There does need to be more separation between these modes. One example is flashing yield signs for pedestrian crossings. This separates pedestrians from traffic and makes them more noticeable. Separate-ish bike lanes are getting more common too. I think making certain streets car-free is a good idea in dense areas too.

Another note is that (IIRC), cars are already required to yield to pedestrians and bikes in many areas.

But when it comes to most roads outside of dense areas, cars aren’t going anywhere because cars are the mode of transportation which makes most sense when things are spread out and there aren’t a lot of people.
Couldn't it be that our memory adapted in the sense that we don't really need short term memory as much as our ancestors did?
Well nowadays the government is much better and basically tolerable. Torture and death sentences are still present, but I would not say widespread, unlike in the hardest years of communism.

There are political prisoners, but it’s not random and widespread.

Coincidentally, Vietnamese communist government nowadays tries to be Best Friend with USA.
Indeed. Lol

The only difference between the twos is that Geohot does a lot of thing for the fame (or at least it seems so), and marcan does that only for fun.

I'm okay with both tbh, if you are at this level you deserve some fame
That, and the schools can be, on average, better.
Yes, the world is a chaotic reflexive system and trying to manipulate it always creates unintended consequences. The US absolutely does dumb stuff all the time, and power always gets abused.

But for a contrarian view on the “US Bad” narrative, check out a book called The Accidental Superpower

Here’s a good summary of the book: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-a...

It presents an interesting case that the relative peace of modern society is entirely due to US military over-investment brought on by the Cold War—which allows for uninterrupted global supply chains, safe global trade, and enforces the intertwining of economic interests through global markets.

Absent the US existing, the world doesn’t suddenly become a utopia of people living happily ever after. Humans don’t have a great track record of being nice to each other. Unfortunately the alternative options to US power don’t look all that great.
Spitballing: a large screen in the middle of a space ship being transparent would allow someone to see the entire bridge while still seeing what’s on the screen, maybe?

Personal hand held decided though? Not at all
The site design means that any sufficiently popular post will have one big deep comment thread, while other top level comments are hidden under 'more'. That incentivises users to read/comment on the first thread, which invariably goes on a tangent, recursively too.

Reddit for all its woes does better in that regard by hiding deep comments.

HN is depth-first, Reddit is breadth-first.

I find it particularly bad that you can't comment on a popular post that's just a few hours old because no one will ever read it.
Archived link, in case of cowardly edits: https://archive.is/LGsY2
Body, and panels. Suspension parts like tie-rods should be coming in short order.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Yeah, I guess it was kind of a marketing-based statement, too.

So cool that someone with 20y of experience shares the view of our tips!

And yes, you should definitely try the emojis, it's a great way to clarify the "mood" :)
But "world", "separate" and "parts" are all language concepts too. I feel the inconsistency in your (circular) argument is not getting through.

That divisions are arbitrary and "exist just in our imagination" doesn't line up with your admission that imagination is real, and using words to describe it. That line between "real" vs "arbitrary / imaginary" is not as clear cut as you (unconsciously, apparently) draw it.
Not in 2050 A.D., where humans have developed medical technologies in the eyes that optimize for transparent UIs...
Also Apocalypse Now extended cut has a part with the French elite still trying to live their old privileged life. I get why it's cut from a writing perspective, but it shows some important context.
The graphics there seem less than scientific somehow. Like messing with the y-axis marks. They also seem to only cover from April in at least one graph, but show dates from February 2020. Kinda seems suspect.

I think the Spanish Flu and others ended by tapering off. Ie over a period of several months? I imagine society needs to learn it can trust the threat has passed by seeing an extended period of time without large surges.
I second this (although I'd just stick with JSON-RPC 1.0). REST has its uses case, but alas it's now so ubiquitous that developers don't even think about wether they should or should not use it.

For machine to machine communication between heterogenous systems, the simplicity of JSON-RPC means one can implement a client easily in any language. Also creating method stubs is trivial. The payload is still human-readable should you use it from the browser and it's not prone to debates and interpretations around the meaning of HTTP verbs. All you have to know is what method you want to call and with what arguments... something that is natural to all developers, while they almost always get the endpoints/resources/verbs thing wrong.
We just got started. SARS, Mexican Flu, MERS, SARS v2. Following each other up in increased velocity due to ever increasing inter-connectivity.

The same seems to be happening in the bio-industry : nowadays there always seems to be some infectious disease present, be it affecting chickens, cows or pigs.
Is there a React Native analog for FlutterFlow? (ie ReactNativeFlow)
The team will host a release party on Monday, May 31st at 6pm CET (18:00) - 10:00 AM PDT.

If you have questions about immudb, you are welcome to join us!

https://www.codenotary.com/blog/immudb-release-1-0-release-p...
Enigmatic designs found in India may be the largest images made by human hands
The passage of time can't be measured in the absence of matter (with mass). "Particles" that whizz along at the speed of light can't be used to measure the passage of time.

So if there's nothing in the universe but photons, the passage of time makes no difference to anything in the universe; so there's grounds for saying that time exists.

Something can only be said to be "real" if its existence or non-existence makes a difference to something else.

/me is not a physicist or a mathematician; just regurgitating what I've read in popsci books and articles.
So now we are talking about re-infection, not about simple infections anymore. But ok, I'll bite.

Every clinical testing procedure has to be approved. Every used machine has to be approved and regularly calibrated. So you don't need a confidence intervall for each test, just one for the used procedure / equipment combination. That combination is tested and approved. Are the reults perfect? Of course not, no test is. And no, how many cycles and how the test is conducted is not up to the lab tech. And for re-infection, that's were you need a doctor to properly diagnose, don't you? And that doctor would use PCR test results as part of his diagnosis.
What my team does, is every 1 or 2 months we would all go to work at the office for 1 day (not mandatory of course, but people usually like to come), at the end of which we would all go to a really nice restaurant, and order anything we'd like, paid by our boss. 90% of us are WFH, and I find this works really well and helps with bonding.
nice to see this freenode situation is finally calming down... /s
So despite a lot of comments here saying that can't tell the difference, there are still people out there determined to pay more money for Tidal's "HiFi" sound quality and with both Amazon and Spotify (Apple also?) also now coming out with "lossless" quality options. It may be considered snake oil by some but snake oil sells (not news).
The behaviors differ as the rewards differ. There is no punishment, on HN, to distracting away to a side conversation so long as that tangent is informative and logically connected to the primary conversation. Even if this were punished there is a maximum ceiling to that punishment: 5 down votes.

Reddit, on the other hand, is an echo chamber. Conformity is king dictated by populism of votes subdivided by subjective criteria into subreddits. There is no ceiling there to the maximum punishment for defiance of the populism.
What risk of injury have you calculated for a 30 year old for each choice?
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There are better ways of doing that. This type of knowledge, we're prone to overapply to others and underapply to ourselves. You see the many flaws of the enemy camp and don't see as many in your own. So you pigeonhole yourself into staying in your camp without realizing.

Better to focus on such mantras as "What do I know and why do I think I know it?" or "If homeopathy is effective, I desire to believe homeopathy is effective; and if homeopathy is ineffective, I desire to believe homeopathy is ineffective. Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want."

Or if you like memorizing things, anti-epistemology (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/anti-epistemology) seems better to spend time on than logical fallacies.
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Not sure if it's outside of the brain, but it seems to me that indeed different types of memories are stored differently.

As an example, I can only recall my own phone number if I try to type it on a keypad, either a real phone or mentally visualizing me hitting the digits. I only have this for a few phone numbers though, and not other numbers in general.

I also have some childhood memories that on the one hand seem vivid when I recall them, yet I struggle to describe when I want to tell others about them. Then the memory suddenly feels elusive, like a dream. Yet when I think about them, it's like I'm there in the moment... Other childhood memories are crystal clear and I can tell you all about them in great detail.

I also have a sequencing error, I'll fairly consistently swap the last two digits of a sequence when recalling. This was especially annoying when I worked at a grocery store, and would tell the customer the total was 371 say rather than 317 as the register showed. Yet I've never noticed any other sequencing issues, and being a programmer there's plenty of opportunity for noticing.
Leetcode is just a proxy for intelligence, just like SAT is
Bitcoin price bounces back above $40k after a wild week of trading
Whilst it's somewhat hypocritical there is some false equivalence there to consider. An ebike can still go beyond the engine cut-off speed and exceed the local speed limit, so would act differently to a speed limiter on a car, which would be more restrictive. So, for ebikes at least, these are different things. Also in some countries larger vehicles already require a speed limiter (although not cars) so the political will is there in some form.

Part of the reasoning for the speed limiter seems to be linked to the absence of mandatory training & licensing for ebikes & scooters. By limiting the speed governments are aiming to limit the risk to both rider and others and that risk has a direct correlation to speed.

A non-limited ebike is similar in many ways to a light petrol powered moped and so in much of Europe you can get non-limited ebikes but you need a light motorcycle license and wear a helmet, as you would riding a moped. So there's some equivalence in law there.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288673
Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Down?
I get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when i try to access the site
Let's say you ban cryptocurrency in the US. What happens? Bad actors now instruct their victims to get their BTC, XMR, etc from a p2p market, an offshore exchange, or from the black market. You got nothing but lost the ability to regulate domestic exchanges.

Ransomware doesn't magically disappears because your specific country decided to ban access to cryptocurrencies. Bad actors don't care where victims get their coins from as long as they are paid. Pushing exchanges and cryptocurrencies in general to the black market doesn't kill the system, that makes it just less visible and difficult to monitor and oversee.

Instead of this you can decide to keep exchanges around and heavily regulate them. From this point of view they are very important asset as they are the entry and exit points, you can easily define new regulatory rules, such as blacklisting addresses associated with coin mixers/tumblers and other shady tool, any address associated with criminal activity, etc.
Near the end of Cibola Burn, there was this part that gave some extra details about the hand terminals they use. I almost cried when reading it.

A computer that's designed to work off-line just as well as on-line, that can form mesh networks with other hand terminals on the fly when needed, not tied to any specific vendor in any particular way. It's how smartphones should obviously work, except they don't, because real humanity is shitty in so many subtle ways in which even most dystopian sci-fi humanity isn't.
I agree with much of the essay, but I can't tell if it's a parody either. I associate the author, who cohosts an InfoWars-style podcast, with some of the kinds of bad content he complains about in this essay. It's also possible he's trolling for pageviews, which he has, by his own admission (ie: https://youtu.be/NMQv0j29WHA), done in the past.
This is such a dystopian comment, sounds like straight out of a William Gibson / Neal Stephenson / Vernor Vinge book.
Interesting read. thanks for sharing.
Like for example in the EU where all cars sold after 2022 will be required to have speed limiters?
I remember a comment by Adam Savge on one of his YouTube videos where he visited the sets. He also had a brief cameo in one episode (as a ceew member of the Arboghast, I believe), sitting at a terminal. He remarks that the terminal screen wasn't just showing a random animation, but had a fledged out menu system that changed screens on touch input. So he could actually "use" the station while acting instead of just making stuff up.

As far as I know, a lot of films had only blank screens on set and the computer display was added in post, trying to match whatever "interaction" the actors came up with on the set.
> I fell that makes an incredibly convincing case for vaccination, but I have not been able to convince any anti-vaxer with it, so there's that.

People who don't want to be vaccinated with the new vaccines are not necessarily anti-vaxers tho. You didn't spell it out, but you speak about COVID in the previous sentence. Vaccination is also not meant to be some cult rite where you need to believe in it. It needs to be tested and that did not yet happen properly, so it is actually more sane to wait. This becomes even more important because even the basic mechanism is not studied for vaccinations long-term at all.

In Germany they push for vaccinating kids which is especially cynical given they have a COVID death rate which is lower than the death rate of some established vaccines. And COVID vaccines have way higher death rates even by official numbers (which are the lower bound).

Just to make it more obvious: In Germany in total 21 people died with/because COVID in the age of 0-19 (~15M pop in that age). Do you not see the insanity of this?
I read this piece and kept reading hoping that they would mention the real reason for this and it didn’t happen.

The vast majority of data scientists are terrible at their jobs. They lack fundamental skills on how to extract business value from data and share that value with the organization.

The fact of the matter is the majority of organizations don’t need FANG style data science with esoteric models and pipelines.

It’s very similar to the current software developer trend of over/pre optimizing or resume driven development that is ravaging the industry today.
Well, as far we know
Liking this kind of thing correlates highly with being extraverted. In the general population, off the top of my head, "you people" (tongue in cheek) represent about 60%. In tech, I'd wager it's skewed heavily in favour of introverts.
> For instance, the Dutch still claim that their Constitution dates from 1815 (though it has been substantially rewritten several times, most recently in 1983).

Peaceful rewrites are good. Treating Constitutions as holy texts is a problem.
I understand that there are many ways of looking at it, but this seems backwards to me. Consumption does not meaningfully grow the economy; it shrinks it. Once something is consumed, it is used up, gone, no longer available. The notion of consumption being almost some sort of civic duty that appears to be pushed recently (for example, as a rationale for returning to city offices) seems to me like absolute nonsense.
Is the trend of "publish with sensational title, switch to benign version to continue growth" creeping into HN or is it the fate
The Universe is hotter than expected
Very unbecoming of someone in his position. Seems people were right to be concerned.
On Abstraction – Zach Tellman (2017)
I've noticed a type of fallacy that's not a true logical fallacy, but it's a definite barrier to finding the truth.

It's arguing to defend one's ego, group affiliation, job, or simply doubling down on an incorrect position to avoid being wrong.

I guess it's more of a motivational fallacy?
I absolutely love how they changed "Ashford" in the books from an elitist obstructive middle manager into "Klaes Ashford" - legendary OPA member, space pirate and "The Ghost Knife of Callisto".

The show really gives the opportunity to explore the individual motivations of the characters; the books are also great and they complement each other, but I feel that the books are almost too fast paced to really savour the environment and setting.
There's a good chance that the AZ and Sinopharm vaccines don't work as well.