skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Disabled citizens are clearly better served by waiting for the oversized "Super Commission of Wheelchair Access" that takes three months to put a stamp on a project that has wheelchair access.

There is no such commission, no such stamp. What there are, as the video says, is rules (and by the way, the guide shown is for visitors, nothing to do with construction). And yes, maybe disabled citizens are better off with those, because from what I can tell, the so-efficiently-renovated Bryant Park restroom has no wheelchair accessible stalls.

Again: is there waste? Absolutely, and it would have been nice to see some proper journalism covering it.
I’ll be honest, I haven’t read into it much, but maybe they can make the frequency emitted relatively high in order to reduce the amount of distance the sound travels? I know it can’t be too high or elderly or the hard of hearing may struggle to hear it, but just a thought.
Why?

* The "noise" will be a sound designed by sound specialists.

* The designers will be smart enough to design sounds that increase safety without being needlessly loud.

* Since the low frequencies of an ICE are not directional, a sound at higher frequencies (which is directional) is going to be an improvement. [edit: ICE frequencies are not as low as thought, so this point isn't too strong.]

* The motor sound of an ICE is only the dominant noise component at low speeds. Most of the time, the noise of the wheel on the asphalt dominates. At high speeds, the aerodynamic noise becomes dominant.

As a pedestrian and cyclist I'm quite happy to be able hear the 2 tons of battery that are coming up from behind. And the one person I know who drives a Tesla will also be happy about this. He had a close call with a cyclist once because the cyclist didn't hear him.
"In Europe, it is still used."

Wow. Your comment prompted me to ask my dad whether he still uses teletext. I assumed the answer would be 'no', because he can read and watch news on his iPad.

But apparently he still uses teletext for quick access to news headlines and share prices.
Nah, the geeks need to go there first. The rest always follows. But i think there are not enough geeks in decentraland
I know the right guy for the job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj5IGSb-W18
This is really a pity. Maybe, instead of noise, other options are available that nobody is exploring.

Maybe projecting a laser in the road ahead or something like that.
What is AOV? I've observed the same thing with groceries here in the UK too, and never understood how it benefits the supermarkets.
> obviously illegal activities, e.g. child pornography.

Right.

There was another recent incident which generated some drama due to the lack of transparency by Wikimedia, but it ultimately fizzled because the banned user in question was silent and so absent any alternative people assumed that the ban was well justified.

In this case, the banned user has written a calm and clear description of events from their perspective, including paraphrasing the communication they received from Wikimedia.

This discussion has essentially foreclosed the possibility that it was something like child pornography in question-- and, in fact, the specific citation of a rude remark towards arbcom stands out in particular because arbcom apparently had no involvement in the ban.
« a remaining challenge of implementing their roadmaps is that they require coordination across political boundaries »

Maybe it’s the main one ?
The reason this only applies under 12 mph is that tire noise (and aero drag later) takes over as cars start to go faster. Even without this mandate (many already have it), you would not have had silent traffic.
I saw this posted on HN before and it received a lot of negative feedback, so I would like to offer a positive experience.

I live in the Netherlands and there are electric cars here that already make these sounds. Its like a really faint 'vmmm' found. Its great because when I'm cycling I can hear a car coming up behind me, but its still way softer then regular car sounds so its still a decrease in night noise pollution vs regular cars (the 'vmmm' is really soft and doesn't carry far).

I also noticed it already when walking around parking lots, if there wasn't a 'vmmm' i would never realize that there are cars driving around. Sound really is one of the most important senses for situational awareness.

(I live in the City where cars crawl around slowly so the sounds are active)
> but my disappointment is that we have the chance to be free from widespread traffic noise

No, we don't have this chance unless you implement a 20 mph speed limit everywhere. Above that speed it matters less and less that you have an electric engine because the tires and aerodynamic noise will be the main sources of sound.

That's why this regulation only requires the artifical sound up to 12 mph, above that speed they car is loud enough anyway.
I run a one-man project and I write test first unit tests for all of my code. This has enabled me to advance the code with new functions without breaking current API’s. The tests are not in the way and usually doesn’t need to change because I change the implementation. It has been tremendous for productivity because I don’t need to worry about if stuff breaks. I can trust my tests for changing those and so far they have always done that.
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Yeah there was definitely an article on HN some time ago explaining how the "imperfect" produce movement achieves exactly nothing - ugly fruits and veggies are used for other things, so to actually bring those to the stores you're not taking them from a supply going to waste - you're taking it from a supply that would be fully utilized anyway.
It's a forum.
> your generation is lower in the winter months, you'll drain your battery each day, and the overabundance in the summer months doesn't help you.

Certainly in the UK, you sell your over-generation back to the grid. This will offset the cost of buying from the grid on the days when your generation is lower than consumption. Certainly in the UK you may never get 100% net zero cost (not enough winter sunshine hours I suspect), but will help since most homes in the UK are heated via gas (as in gas, not petroleum)
Where's the difference? Nobody (tm) is using the latter anyway.

The best example of something decentralised, that is/was actually used, in the linked FAQ seems to be RSS/Atom. In the age of medium, aggregators like iTunes/Spotify and whatnot, that doesn't seem like something that's on a rising slope either. Despite the Twitter conversation in there I'd be hard pressed to see any incentive for this type of corporation to embrace openness when their current alternative is more lucrative.

Even if this strike gains momentum in the tech-savvy niche it's unlikely to even be noticed by regular users or even the non-tech influencers those people follow. It lacks an immediately actionable goal and common incentive. Another open standard, another decentralised social $X, that's not something that drives a critical mass away from any of these platforms. The platforms also have enough money to just buy up new players and continue their current paradigm.

I like the rules put forward by that decentralisation manifesto, I'm just not sure the general public cares or can care. A general user today likely didn't experience the internet as a set of communities. The experience is, imho, one of commercial interests that drives the masses, which drowns any visible incentive a regular user might gain from the technical approach this movement suggests.
AOV = average order value
Hey!
I just started blogging in English and thought you wonderful people on here might find it interesting. :-)

Enjoy your sunday and I'm looking forward to your thoughs on this topic.
> Hollywood is vile. "Let us mutilate you because you have a dream that will otherwise die."

If there was a way to condense that one to just a few words, it would make one hell of a T-shirt slogan.
I consider that failure to be evidence that the cuts which can be made without consequences have already been made.

Also the fact that the UK has spent the last 9 years trying to cut everything to balance the budget and instead mainly managing to damage the nation.
While fun, I hope the will pull all registers of psychoacoustics and sound design to create something that maximizes safety and minimizes noise.
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Handle currency exchanges to avoid loss in pricing and split payments
MicroG's latest version (0.2.7.17455) switched to Mapbox for map rendering. MicroG's implementation of Mapbox is currently buggy, although the performance is much improved. This version should have been marked as a preview release, in my view, since it's not stable enough for use.

Can you try the previous version (0.2.6.13280)? If you're using LineageOS for MicroG, the latest build on or before June 2 contains the previous version.
I wonder what data, if any, this decision is based on. The only reference is to the organization Guide Dogs, which makes me think, maybe it's sufficient for them to emit noise that dogs (and children) can hear?

On a semi-unrelated note, the other day I was thinking that difficult road sections should be fitted with beacons that cars can talk to in order to get a more accurate understanding of the roads during difficult weather situations, such as snow.

Maybe such beacons could emit light/sound as well, when they're actively talking to a car, rather than the car itself having to emit noise. Though I understand that this puts the responsibility back in the hands of politicians/road authorities, which of course they don't want.

Though to be fair, I get the reason for this decision. I was just looking forward to quieter cities.
Aren't there apps to do that for you nowadays? :-D
If you prefer text that's fine. But you must be cognisant that a very large number of people do not, and that in many cases you're losing a lot in the translation - including that the translation may never be made in the first place. Personally, I am fine with both. There is a right tool for the job.

> I don't have sound because it'd be a security vulnerability

This just sounds to me like a kind of narcissistic paranoia. Dude, the NSA isn't spying on your youtube habits, and if they were - the VM, or anything else, wouldn't help you.
No. But I think the people who know how to install a windows can also install ubuntu.
Wouldn’t it be wiser to stop selling packs ? Like when you go to outdoor markets where you can buy 3 carrots if that’s what you only need.

And it’ll stop all the plastic waste too.

But I understand it will be a supply chain nightmare
> Why don't they just stop using tax deductions, tax planning and tax havens?

Given that this isn't signed by every rich person ever. Wouldn't that just mean that the people left at the top are the assholes? If 10% if the richest 1% (not necessarily the richest 10% of them) stopped using tax havens, they get punished, while the other rich people her to reap the rewards.
I drive an electric car which already does this. Is a very futuristic and smooth sounding noise, and it sounds nice. Not like an ICE engine. People immediately notice you and recognize that you are in some new type of car. It feels positive, not negative at all as some comments here suggest.

Also, there is a button to disable that noise if you want to (at least in the Ioniq)
The implementation requirements are defined in Annex VIII of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52... and there's an upper bound (as in: not louder than an ICE car) but no lower bound.

From reading that Annex, Renault Zoe should be compliant (sound engine below 30km/h, can be disabled, sound adapts to speed) and while it's clearly audible on the sidewalk, it's significantly more muted than an ICE car: I don't think it's audible through a closed window, and probably not even through an open window that's somewhat raised.

Plus, such a system doesn't _allow_ for the more pronounced noises ICEs can make in urban traffic (eg. cranking up the engine speed to show off).
If you're interested, please be warned that these betas are extremely buggy. I don't mean 1 or 2 bugs experienced per day, I mean a bug in almost every minute of interaction. You will incur severely reduced battery life and many broken apps, particularly on the iOS beta. On the upside, this is an invaluable preview particularly for an app developer or Apple enthusiast.

At the very least you should back up your device first so that you can roll back if necessary - officially there is no other way other than performing a factory reset.
The point of the strike is to promote another kind of social media, not protesting against it all. A No Internet day could still be done, but conflating the two would miss the point.
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> As long as the US has enough strivers and hard workers it can afford plenty of slackers.

That's an uncomfortable idea - growth of a nation being dependent on a few people working their ass off. Like sacrificial lambs. Though almost all of these people probably do it willingly.
i don't know how strict it is with having no props. i think a blindfold could be acceptable because it can be used from the materials of the people in the room but i don't know about actual labels (maybe post-it notes) or a marker pen. so the first person can't see the people and can only like touch their back to put the label on.

edit: but then it gets to where you may as well just put the numbers in a hat :P
Not that it has anything to do with Wikipedia, -- you're right that you might get arrested, but in the US the arrest may not go well for the arrester: See Cohen v. California (1971) (or something more recent: Thurairajah v. Arkansas).

In this case a closer analog would be someone saying "Fuck you" to a judge in court (arbcom), and then the property manager of the courthouse comes (WMF) unbiden by the court and evicts that person from the property and declines to provide any detailed explanation for their actions either to the public or the court.

It might well be that the judge would have eventually found the party in contempt and no one would have had an issue with it... but as it is the public is left confused and concerned about the property manager's use of their right to prevent trespass effectively undermining the authority of the established system of governance.
The wikipedia link shared above by aunty_helen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavagada_Solar_Park ), which matches the name in the google maps link, says 53 km^2.

It also says that it could produce 600MW by the end of January 2018, can produce 1400MW now, with 650MW more under construction.
It also says 2000MW capacity being planned for by the end of 2019.

I'm not sure how much of the 53 km has active solar panels, but they'd only need 3.8% efficiency to hit 2000MW with that much area.
Google Maps doesn't require the Google Play Store, but it does require Google Play Services (like most Google apps).

https://developer.android.com/distribute/play-services/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

MicroG can replace the Google Play Services requirement for Google Maps. To download Google Maps without the official Google Play Store client, you can use the free and open source Aurora Store:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dragons.aurora/
> In China, there seem to be no moral boundary in between just any legit banking business, and the most crazy high finance tricks being done with creditors money.

How is this a "chinese" problem? The recent sub-prime loan bullshit took place in the US and almost sank the global economy.

The bond pricing fixing took place in the UK and cost investors billions.

This is endemic to banking globally. The only thing that seemed to help was Glass–Steagall in the US which of course, banks got repealed because it worked too well.
> Wikipedia is one of the few very large venues online that I feel really had moderation done right

For years Wikipedia has given a pass to abusive harassing arseholes because those people were also prolific editors.

That puts at risk the main principle of wikipedia - the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, because lots of those anyones are driven away by those toxic but prolific editors.

And wikipedia just isn't very good at acknowledging they're bad at dealing with toxic editors. A bunch of admins will see clear pattern of abuse and will excuse it. "That's not so bad", "it's pretty bad but it's not as bad as it used to be", "no-one has told that person to stop" (despite there being many requests to the person to stop), "it's pretty bad but they're prolific", "I don't think it's bad and so anyone else who think's it's bad should toughen up". (We see most of these in the Fram discussion.)

The worst thing about wikipedia (and we also see this on HN) is the refusal to trust process unless every single intimate detail is litigated in public, and that's something that often cannot happen when you have a person harassing others.
Why do you do laundry at night ?

Is it like in France where you can have different prices during day and during night ? The night price being the lower ?
We used to have something like that in the US.

Namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla...
Its very hard to believe in their sincerity. Most likely, they feel like the tide is turning against them and they want to do damage control, by influencing the way they will be more taxed.

Remind me of an episode of house of cards when Franck (the president) is aware of a scandal about him about to be released in the press, and prefers to release it himself first and orientate the story in a certain direction.
>article

I remember it was a Twitter rant

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18954018
One of the biggest benefits of building a close platform is that you have the freedom to ignore open letters like this one.
>Labeled Buttons >> Unlabeled Hieroglyphs >> Morse Code Button >> Morse Code Side Channel
> Why do I so often find products where the designers have chosen a less usable option even though size constraints would have easily permitted a more usable option?

I assume the designers were responding to management's insistence of reducing BOM costs.

And by "designer" we're talking about EEs -- high volume low-cost hardware applications rarely have any UI team at all.
*they: Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou

See here for a bit of explanation: https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc
If anyone else found this comment about poisoning defected spies oddly familiar, you might also be thinking of the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko[0], indeed using Po-210.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
Even without kids I work like this. Just because I'm not a parent doesn't mean I'm going to take on work that could potentially stress me out eat into vacation time...

It seems like more of a work-life balance philosophy thing than parenting thing, I simply couldn't imagine working more than 50% of the year but others are content doing 60hr weeks with 2 week vacation.

If that's what makes them happy then power to them.
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Thank you very much for sharing!

I'm afraid atm it doesn't work for me (iPhone SE - iOS 12.3.1 - Firefox & Safari).

Nevertheless their work is awesome and the idea to aggregate all the things and let user's enjoy them without having to promise their first-born to providers is just amazing ^_^
Check out this fellow on Youtube. A few months ago he did a whole series on the cinematography of 2001 which is well worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7GV-3hrA9kDKrren0QMKMg/vid...
I hope they sound like tie fighters.
I cycle a lot in a city which has a lot of electric Toyota cabs. I'm always terrified by them because I can't hear them and only notice them when they are already very close to my bicycle.
There's an easy solution to the problem you describe: intermittent fasting once a week. You eat your dinner, and then eat nothing at all until the next dinner. Longer intervals are also possible, but I've found that for me 24 hours works the best. You won't believe how appetizing even the most unappealing items in your fridge will look after just one day of not eating anything, especially if you're physically active.
I see that point.

But, what’s the new norm we want to establish?

“Let’s all use 20% less energy”

Vs

“Let’s produce all energy from renewable sources”

I feel like the second option is the only one that’s going to save us, and option 1 is a distraction.

If you were to, say, mount a solar panel on the roof of your electric car, that would probably be a better message to send than to drive less.
> Wouldn't putting "everyone in a numbered sequence unknown to them" require a random number, which we don't have?

Yes. The above answer just obfuscates the issue. Consider ten people overwhelmingly biased towards 7. The suggested approach in all likelihood gets you 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Then what? You're clearly not much closer to getting a single random number without a random way of picking one of them.
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“They later had five sons through in vitro fertilization – twins in 2004, followed by triplets in 2006.” is the sentence following the quoted one in that wikipedia link.
You get a short-term boost out of announcing something. Some companies feel they cannot wait for that boost until they’re done.
If you don't have a garden (ie live in an apartment etc), is there any benefit (reduced methane?) to composting food scraps before throwing the soil in the trash/landfill?
> Wikipedia's community has a long established set of processes for self-governance, but they were bypassed in this case.

This is untrue.

The processes were used and they failed to work. They failed to protect people from this abusive admin. Read the discussion about fram - there are plenty of people there saying "he's a bit of an arsehole but he edits a lot". Clearly the existing processes were aware that fram was abusive.
Is there a port of DOS for RISC-V?
This is a very good point, and I'd like to make a lesser one. For some reason bigger breasts are considered better by the fashion industry and, err, some scummy agents, but as a hetero male I don't find them attractive at all, and talking to other guys I find much the same view in a majority of them (not a big sample thought).

Seems a caricatured femininity has taken over the real thing (and not just in men's minds!) and I never hear it questioned.

Also large boobs hurt. A girl I know in her early twenties has plenty of, and she's considering breast reduction surgery because of back problems.

To be clear here, the issue is not about breasts but stereotypes coming to dominate without question, at a human cost.

(and in a british court I can imagine a case might be construed against those shitty agents for assault)
Maybe people don't get the point because they don't walk that much with light traffic around, but we do this all the time in my city old town area... and you just don't hear the Prius cab that's right behind you after popping out of nowhere. It's been years now and it still gets me every time, luckily they drive carefully.