skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about.

Like everything on Wikipedia the answer is some messy mixture of formal and informal processes, automation, and 8.2 kilotons of thinking meat ... which often gets it wrong but gets it right often enough to produce something truly great.

I haven't been involved in wikipedia gnoming for quite a while but I think: I think in practice what happens is that various editors who care about such things go around proposing stubs for deletion based on whatever criteria they think makes sense, and then other people sometimes oppose those proposed deletions (or moves to draftspace) with arguments and improving edits. So the criteria essentially is a measure of literal care put in by editors to preserve the article.
Email from a country in denial – observations on Sweden compared to the US
If I'd drive a car, which is a dangerous thing on its own, I'd be for minimizing the risks of harming someone or myself. My current mitigation of this risk is not driving a car at all.
There are other feedback mechanisms in governments besides elections, which are pretty much the same as those you get in businesses. Shareholders ~= party donors (varies by country, certainly in UK and US, my German is nowhere near enough to follow politics); opinion polls ~= customers surveys; exchange rates (yes, I know the Euro is shared by many nations) ~= share prices; tax base ~= business-to-business (not B2C!) customer base; EU-internal migration ~= B2C customer base.

For much the same reasons as in the private sector, anyone who can demonstrate a way to save 20% — heck, even 5% — of a national budget would have their idea taken up by any party: a big-government party has more national improvements to spend on (e.g. “let’s put half the country through university!”); a small-government party would want to pay off the national debt.
Good. I've been calling Priuses and Teslas silent killers for years now. Can't tell you how many times I've almost been run over by one, despite the fact that I'm always looking around when near cars. Sound is an important part of situational awareness.

Maybe once all the cars are self driving we can get rid of the sound.
Thank you for confirming, I was quite certain it was you.

And I do agree with you, within reason: financial industry tech regulation is largely fine. ("Sane") The regulations tend to state the intent of a rule, and may even specify something that clearly is not fine.

More recently I have come across different sets of rules. While it is obvious that these particular regulations have been written with the best intentions in mind, they end up making things worse. Instead of specifying what the goal and the reason for any rule is, they state only The One True Way. Reason has to be inferred, because it is unstated.

Doesn't matter if the truth in The Way may have been induced by bad 'shrooms. Once written down, it's gospel.
> This is an intervention that realistically should have been dealt with by the community.

The community had years to deal with fram, and they decided not to.
What sort of road building / improving did you have in mind?

We’re talking about city centre slow (<12mph) driving, I’m really not sure what road improvements could improve safety of silent cars?
Have you ever played with Return Infinity's BareMetal OS?
Elaborate?
is it bad for drivers? for pedestrians? for people inside houses/apartments? why is bad for those people and can the sound be engineered to be more targeted int the forward direction and only for the required safety range?
I really don't think so. Societal pressure can be even more convincing than violence. If you are going to lose all of your friends and family if you complain about something, that is not healthy. If you have to tell your followers that independent thought is coming right from the devil (lol btw), somethings not quite right with your faith. Else you would not fear independent thought.
Hans Zimmer is composing the sound for BMW's electric vehicles. Zimmer is the guy behind soundtracks for The Dark Knight, Inception and Interstellar.
Supermarkets sell loose fruit and veg too. Not for everything of course, but most of the more popular things (including carrots)
People go their entire lives without knowing what it is like to go without food for a day. They take it for granted.

Also, I believe parents generally don't teach kids to respect food. It probably starts by letting a toddler feed him/herself too early and in the process normalizing food wastage.

There is also a first world etiquette of leaving some food in the plate. I have seen people habitually do it.
So where are the github repositories with the source code of drivers of the companies?
From Observability to Significance in Distributed Information Systems [pdf]
The motor is louder than the tires until around 40 km/h for cars and 60 km/h for trucks [1]. And it matters even a bit after that because noise is adding up. Those speeds are pretty close to how fast cars go where people live.

[1]: http://www.leiserstrassenverkehr.bayern.de/entstehung/index....
Twitch is closing in on its Christchurch trolls
On the scale of months and years children are amazing, and I agree it’s fascinating to watch as they develop into their own people.

However, on the scale of hours and days they can be mind-numbingly boring, as anyone who’s played hide and seek with a four year old who repeatedly goes and hides in their bedroom cupboard can probably attest. I love my boy dearly, but I am so, so, bored of playing the first hour of Minecraft now - he loves it though, so every few days we start up a new world, and we mine our way down to some diamonds, at which point he loses interest.
Keanu Reeves should got on the #fediverse. Cyberpunk77 hordes would fill the Mastodons.
> But I understand it will be a supply chain nightmare

I'm not sure why? It's standard practice in UK supermarkets, although prepacked bags are also available.
Not sure whether this is sarcasm.
I use a very similar setup (based on unbound): for Stackoverflow to properly work you need to whitelist ajax.googleapis.com.

> it makes life bearable in China without a VPN

If you're already a firefox user, you might try the "FoxyProxy Standard" extension to selectively bypass the GFW for the domains you need. Friends in China are reporting a varying degree of success with setting up forwarding on Apache (TLS1.3 with padding). Obvs, don't forget to set authentication. Once you're there you can add your own DoH to the mix.
For clarity: "fuck arbcom" wasn't what led to the banning.

The sustained pattern of behaviour that the community failed to deal with was what caused the ban.

"Fuck arbcom" is the reason the ban was handed out by WMF and not arbcom.
We are doing more with software now than ever before so I think we need to move away from the word 'compute'
> For years Wikipedia has given a pass to abusive harassing arseholes because those people were also prolific editors

Can you suggest a similarly large service that does better?

I can tell you first hand that reddit and twitter absoltely give not the slightest shit about constant harassment, impersonation, and posting threats and personal information: Except when I pick up the phone and directly apply pressure to the legal or executive staff via connections.

> is the refusal to trust process unless every single intimate detail is litigated in public,

This isn't the case here. Wikipedia has a established governance process for dealing with trouble making administrators, who regularly handle highly private confidential information-- and they're equally in the dark here. There is a process, but it isn't the users who aren't trusting it-- It's the WMF that is not trusting, bypassing the process, and not acting in a transparent manner.
Isn't the gut moderately anaerobic?
Thanks, I didn’t see the link earlier. I’m glad to see it’s the array which is bigger than estimated. :)
Reached my 100th *paid* customer for Charty
So the road should create the sounds? or have some lights or other SciFi or software+hardware combination when a simple solution is possible.
I saw a subway ad for this a few weeks ago and immediately downloaded it. During setup, it asked for my home and work addresses so it could save my commute.

I trusted the app when it said, “We won’t share this info with anyone.”

Here’s a screenshot:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nicholasbs/status/113532302185253...

After setting it up I wondered how a free app with no ads or in-app purchases and which didn’t share your data could possibly make money, so I googled it.

I discovered that Pigeon is made by Google. I went back to the App Store listing to see how I could have possibly missed this and found there is no mention of Google anywhere in the App Store or the app itself unless you click through to the Privacy Policy.

There are, however, plenty of reviews from people confused why an app like this would only support sign in with Google.
I have been running the betas on 2 laptops and 1 iPhone since they came out.

I had my main laptop crash exactly once - and I think it was due to a buggy kext trying to force its way into the kernel. It hasn't happened again.

There have been a few aesthetic bugs related to the automatic handling of dark/light mode, which can now be enabled without external help (I used to rely on f.lux to get dark mode in the evening). These are pretty benign and don't cause me trouble.

Other than that, macOS Catalina has been smooth sailing, even at compiling software, installing stuff via homebrew, developer tooling - I do mostly Python and Golang stuff but Ruby has been rock solid too.

iOS 13 also brought me a few visual bugs which don't (gah) bug me too much, and I had a few app crashes but nothing horrible either. My bank apps don't work on it yet so I'm currently relying on desktop browsing or other banks, depending on the situation. Not a huge deal either.

Battery life doesn't seem to be suffering on either platform, differently from my experience with previous betas.
My vote is on the signature 1910s car horn: "aaooogah!" every 3 minutes or so.
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Why is Apple at this list? What have they done?
I find a good way to reduce food waste is to plan your meals a week in advance, so you do 1 big shop and get everything you need for the coming week.

That way, you buy exactly what you need.

You also know when you're going to need everything, so if there are any short-lived things (cut herbs, for example) that you need for a meal later in the week, you can get them just in time.
Organoid-Induced Differentiation of T Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
I think the Renault Zoe makes the sound you are describing? Sounds a bit like a science fiction sound effect, a slightly metallic humming
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Wikimedia is currently not even providing information about their actions to the arbcom. How can you argue that the process didn't work when it is apparently contingent on information which is being concealed from it?

People in the discussion aren't for the most part arguing that fram shouldn't be banned-- the discussion is almost exclusively about the constitutional issues and accusations of impropriety. ... but "bit of an arsehole" could mean a lot of things and doesn't necessarily mean abusive.

Edit: The arbcom has issued a statement-- a fairly strongly worded one, by arbcom's standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_t...
The switching noise of the IGBTs is a good start, they are already associated with electric motors. Some nicely sounding harmonics can also be produced with it: https://youtu.be/-SDYdHzT7Qw
with karma. and a lot of groupthink. surely it doesnt compare to the dross u see on facebook, but HN , reddit and twitter are on a similar level of socialmedia-ness to me
The culture war bit is about the fact that a small number of white het cis men dominate wikipedia to the disadvantage of the project. They drive away new editors, they fail to take action on clear harassment, and it skews articles in weird directions.
Read chapter 4 (I recall) of Andy Grove's book High Output Management. He literally has a whole chapter devoted to meetings.
Sound is important, not sure if lasers on the road will give you instantly a 3d spacial position as sound does. I did not enountered electric cars so far but I had this problems with silent bicycles, you walk minding your own business and something appears besides you without you expecting it to be there, if you did a side step in that moment you would have been hit.

Our brain and ears are evolved to interpret sounds so laser workarounds won't be as effective.
Wouldn't hurt to have a demo video. How easy is this to actually use as a WM, and is it any different to say EXWM?
Each time this discussion pops up, Domino's electric scooter safety noise starts playing in my head.

https://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA
What about other bicycles and escooters? They don't make any noises. I think quiet noise from cars is ok, but maybe bicycles and e-scooters (and anything on wheels) should also make some noise.
Here's a little thought experiment to test whether or not it's a bad idea.

Imagine the noise is optional. As a driver you can turn it off. However, when the noise is switched off giant spikes pop out from the car's body that are guaranteed to kill anyone who gets in the way.

Do you think it would ever be acceptable for someone to drive with the noise switched off?
Don’t Be a Victim of Fake Video Games
Decentralized Social Media already exists, like the recycling bins at our apartment complex.

The problem is the network effect. But then who are the protestors protesting to? They should protest to their friends to switch over to decentralized SM. Maybe they are just not important enough to have their friends follow them to better services?

Instead of going on a strike, why not evangelize those solutions to your friends?

As for losing weight: it is true that sometimes people like to have their hands forced. It is called an Ulysses contract, from Ulysses tying himself to the mast so that he couldn't jump into the sea to follow the sirens.

Calling for the government in the case of Social Media seems way overblown, though. There are no health issues involved like with unhealthy food. And for unhealthy food, people make those choices by buying smaller packages or using different shops. Arguably not really a case for government intervention, either.
Whitelisting AWS Roles in Kubernetes
I started using them for my TUI apps in late 1997, so sometime before that.
Meal planning in advance helps with that (both in not eating out and in using all the food purchased before it goes bad), but it's time consuming and you have to stick to it.
I don't think so, if they were all lined up in alphabetical order and you took them in pairs from that ordering, it would be just as good.
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Bicycles and escooters are rarely 1 tonne travelling 30mph.
The author, in recommending attendance at a US university as opposed to a Swedish one, mentions cost almost as an afterthought. Higher education in Sweden is free. If you attend a U.S. university you come out not just with a degree, but with crushing student loans.
This tips the scale in favor of Sweden.
Can't We Have Anti JavaScript-Only-Sites Search Engine?
Am I the only one who wants a search engine that will prioritize sites that with with Javascript Off?

And also can be filtered for pages size say under 1mb

Won't this be a better solution than AMP?
I don't think this is necessary but it won't do harm either except for adding cost.

Where I live the electrics dominate and you can easily hear them unless they sneak up on you on purpose (i.e. drive 1 km/h on fresh asphalt towards your back). The electric motors emit a whine that is very distinct you also hear the tires.

A much bigger problem in this area is people walking around with headphones / earplugs getting injured.
If you want to eliminate traffic noise, you have to rip horns out of cars. And I'm not sure how many are actually advocating for that.
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Cops accidentally record themselves debating the best way to frame a man [video]
What does "parsing" mean in the context of images?
If you live in a city in the Netherlands, you are surely used to 90% of vehicles (as in, bikes) not making a sound?
Most electric vehicles emit such a whine, but Tesla's don't. While I up to now thought that was caused by superior engineering I now wonder if these vehicles already carry such a sound generator instead.
When I was kid you could buy pharao's serpents over the counter at joke shops in the UK.

This is a mercury compound that gives off mercury vapour when lit: "If the reaction is performed inside a container, a gray film of mercury coating on its inner surface can be observed"

The instructions told you to be in a well-ventilated place. Oh yeah. Helpful.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%28II%29_thiocyanate#Ph...

Really good video, well worth watching if you've never seen this before <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdK7gaZS0k>
I found the source of confusion. I was under the assumption that a heat pump and electrical resistance heating were the same thing. But they are not, however, a heat pump is never used in actually cold places, because:

>In most cases, an experienced HVAC technician will opt to install a furnace over a heat pump if they have access to natural gas. The exception to this is when a home is located in the coastal areas of California and the gulf states.

>Because heat pumps are transferring heat from one area to another, what happens if it is -20 degrees outside in the middle of a North Dakota winter? Is there any heat to transfer into your house? That’s the catch.

>A heat pump only works well if the temperature is above freezing, and is almost useless in the middle of a harsh northern winter. Ideally a heat pump is used when the temperature outside is over 40-50 degrees fahrenheit (and are VERY inefficient below 30-32 degrees), so heat pumps are out if you live in Montana unless you also have a supplemental means of heating your house. In fact, heat pumps are actually designed for coastal climates in the southern states. So what do people in Bozeman, Montana do? They use a furnace, or a wood-burning stove!

https://asm-air.com/hvac/heat-pump-vs-furnace-pros-cons/
Isn't using your horn banned in most major cities anyways? It is in Vienna at least.
Relevant Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/c751ca/cops_illegal...
If it's equal to or less than the volume of current motors, great! As any city dweller will know the real noise pollutant is mopeds anyway.
You really think that there is no savings potential for the German government? I think there is lots and lots.

And BER is costing money every day. It might be cheaper to tear it down and start again from scratch.

I think there is publication by the "society of tax payers" listing all the wasted tax payer money. Too few people read it though.

https://www.schwarzbuch.de/ - I see it is even free. And I have never read it, either. Will order a copy now :-)

I think as long as people are reasonably pampered (enough money left after taxes), they don't care enough.

In my opinion it is also the way the system is set up: taxes for employees are deducted before people even receive their money. So they have less feel for how much is being deducted. Self employed people see it differently.

I had an employed person deny this recently, but I am not convinced.
GAFA(M) omits Netflix but not Amazon, since it stands for Google Amazon Facebook Apple (Microsoft)
In my 22 or so years of writing software professionally I don't think there's ever been a day where I or anyone I've worked with actually coded for 9 straight hours. This is not typical.
Yes and I think in many European countries to.

I was referring for the US (or maybe the biaised vision I have of it)
You can create a self-signed certificate for Google domains and trust it on your machines. Then you can MITM. This won't work well if you want to do it at a scale, with a number of 3rd party users, but if the only user is you or your family, it should do the trick.
There was an interesting BBC show the other day about plastic waste and they were pointing out that buying loose vegetables in major supermarkets was between 20-50% more expensive than buying them prepackaged.
>You're clearly not much closer to getting a single random number without a random way of picking one of them.

That’s a characteristic of the original formulation of the question, not specifically in my solution. It’s implicit in the article that you can choose an arbitrary person in the room without bias.
Germ Warfare a Graphic History
Plenty of millennials grew up with IRC.
"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"

The noise is supposed to tell other road users where the car is, how would this help, except to tell road users that there is a car on a junction.
One big issue is that there’s nothing decentralised that currently exists that can rival the quality & user experience of mainstream social networks, and decentralisation comes with its own problems (I personally think the problem with mainstream social media is its ad-based business model and not centralisation).

Mastodon (which seems to be the biggest alternative being proposed) is still a joke, even the name and branding sounds awful IMO. And who in their right mind thought calling a post a “toot” (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/toot) was a good idea.

Besides the branding, decentralisation comes with its own issues like the lack of network-wide content moderation and agreement on what content is acceptable. There are solutions (more like hacks) around this where instance admins can choose not to federate with instances they don’t like the policies of, but it then causes problems for end-users where they can’t communicate with their peers on those banned instances despite all of them being on Mastodon. Good luck explaining to a non-technical person why they can’t talk to/see the posts of certain people despite them all being on Mastodon, and the solution is to spend time choosing an instance with policies you agree with and making sure your friends are on it or on a similar instance that’s not banned by yours, and then hoping the instances stay online without any kind of funding (there’s also no knowledge of whether they would scale to the size of mainstream social networks).

The solution IMO is not Mastodon or any of these fringe social networks. The main problem is the lack of an ethical business model in mainstream social media. The solution would be to vote with your wallets and fund a better Facebook alternative - it could even show the current social networks that there’s profit to be made treating their users with respect and make the situation better for everyone else too.
Are there any things that don't traditionally make noise that we should also add noise to? Sharp drops near pedestrian areas? Bicycles? Low hanging branches over walkways?
That's a Siemens ES64U2 if anyone wants to research it further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroSprinter
Yes! Mopeds, vans, lorries.

Most modern engines in cars going under 12mph are pretty quiet in terms of overall noise pollution.

I guess it's handy in car parks etc to be able to hear cars.
But if you're playing a board game, don't you already have dice at hand?
>For some reason bigger breasts are considered better by the fashion industry

A momentary look at any catwalk would disabuse you of this notion.
I can't wait for my car to sound suspenseful.
Think of a number between 1 and 10. Multiply it by 9. Add the digits of that number. Subtract 5. Convert it to a letter using A = 1, B = 2, ...). Think of a country beginning with that letter. Take the second letter of the country. Think of an animal beginning with the new letter.

I predict you thought of (rot13) Ryrcunag.

Not exactly the same trick, and not guaranteed to work, but this one impressed me at a young age.