skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and silent bike interactions happen all the time. But a silent bike interaction is like this:

'Cyclist behind some pedestrians, other slow cyclists'

'Cyclist either rings bell or says 'excuse me''

In a car situation, the car would have to honk its horn which is much more interrupting to people trying to sleep then small 'vmmm' which is only hearable in a small radius around the car.

Peds and cyclists often share spaces, and cyclists and cars also often share spaces. The issue is how can a faster silent vehicle safely and socially share a space with slower more vulnerable vehicles.

We have daily accidents with peds walking into a bike path unpredictably and causing conflict. (Not necessarily a crash but annoyance by cyclist having to do evasive maneuver). However if an crash happens its not usually do bad, while even a low speed collision with a car will damage your bike and the car and cost $$$.

So I wouldn't look at the bike as an example of a silent vehicle working well in a city environment. We have many accidents they are just also very minor accidents.

For the people who will point out that this could also be solved with better infrastructure, I agree. Most of the accidents happen at places where e.g. peds get a green light to cross the road and then continue to cross the cycle path on the other side because in their mind they are protected by the green light, but actually now cyclists have right of way. Sometimes we put zebra crossings across bike paths but then everyone is confused because the cyclists don't stop anyway and it just causes more conflict because still the rules are being broken but just by the other party now.

tl;dr rules are confusing and people don't follow them anyway. A city environment is super dynamic, and often infrastructure cannot be changed. Adding 'vmmm's makes those interactions much easier, and its really doesn't cause the noise pollution people keep talking about.
Is German the most commonly spoken language in North America?
The app NewPipe and its web version https://invidio.us/ were recommended in the comments here. They allow you to use YouTube quite well without an account and without the official website/app. However, I imagine through loading videos, YouTube can still collect some data. (I might be wrong though, I don't know exactly how much they pipe through their servers.)

If you want to be completely private, you'll probably have to use TOR together with those alternative clients.
I skipped iOS 13 beta 1, but I installed beta 2 and I haven’t had any major problems. There was a problem in my banking app, which they fixed, and I get some odd audio things here and there, but otherwise it’s relatively fine.

But that’s just my experience.
Ah yeah, coal lobby.. Thanks Heaven, they aren't too strong in USA/EU.
Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
Get a smaller home, reduces costs of lighting, heating and cooling proportionally. Move to a city with good public transit and stop using a car. Take a train for vacation instead of flying, or just don't travel for vacation.

Do all of those and cutting your emissions by 2/3 is very easy with most of your quality of life intact. Big homes, cars and flights don't make people happy, so moving to such a lifestyle wont be a catastrophe. I am not sure why so many in the western world dreads it.
Europe battles record-setting Heat-Wave
> Sorry, but men prioritizing their jobs over their kids has never been historically accepted.

Men (and for that matter upper and often also middle class women in roles that aren't actually jobs, though that's also true of upper class men in either the hereditary aristocracy or th
e capitalist haut bourgeiosie) prioritizing their job—or, where they don't have a job as such, their externally-focussed class role over personally providing direct care and attention to their children (which is what I said and what is, despite the less precise language, actually being discussed in the article), has, in fact, been widely historically accepted.
And he boasts about sleeping at the factory. What a dick.
Should We Call Detention Centers Concentration Camps?
Please do not conflate anti-vax and beeing critical about global warming/cooling/"flavor of the week".
The Kinesis Advantage 2 is an absolutely wonderful keyboard.

It costs an arm and leg and takes a while to learn, but it makes every other keyboard I've touched feel downright archaic!
This sort of thinking might have been understandable back during the '90's. However, today, people have plenty of free space on their hard disk. The track record of Windows 10 has been so poor lately that it's surprising that MS got so overconfident that they decided that they didn't need safeguards like this any longer.
My guess would be 1.0, since WatchOS is now 6.0.
I've used gandi.net for years without any issue.
Maybe the most likely number of the ones they haven't picked? So 5 if you picked 7 and 7 if you picked anything else. This should be tested.
Global cooling was a fringe theory that got a lot to popular media attention (at a time when global warming was already established); anti-vax and climate denialism are very much the same, mixtures of bad/pseudo-science with ideology which finds the actual science inconvenient.
To me, a forum is about topics and people can discuss them at their own leisure, bumping them in the process. In contrast slashdot, reddit, HN are more like "what topics are currently on", and if only few people are interested in a topic and visit the site apart from each other, no story they are interested in will make it to the front page, and they can't even discuss it "slowly, sometimes", like they could on a forum with a search function.

On reddit you at least get informed of replies to your comments, but discussions older than X are automatically closed, so that's not enough use to shift the balance for me.. I remember when a topic being locked felt like something rather grave, where either mods or users fucked up - now it's built-in. And sometimes discussion even gets substituted with clicking buttons.. which is also not about the topics, but another form of using outside force (something other than words) on words.
How often would you go to the supermarket otherwise? My impression was that going once a week was the norm (I've never consistently done grocery so I dont know...)
It's a shortcoming specifically introduced by your proposal. If you've got a random way of picking one of ten people, then you've already got a random number between one and ten. Your answer essentially reduces to: ask one person to think of a number then add an actual random number and mod 10.
There is a supermarket between my university and my home, so it was extremely easy for me to hop in every 2 or 3 days.
If you don’t wake up, the dream never dies.

Or

Body chop, dream shop.
Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers (or why you need two cc resistors)
Seriously, ditch the dryer. You'll be amazed at how much power you don't use. You can even line dry inside although you have to be careful of the humidity in your house. If you live in a cold climate and heat your house, then probably you'll be doing yourself a favour by drying indoors. We have a combination dryer washer (the dryer uses a heat pump), but use the dryer maybe 2-3 times a year (only during the rainy season when it rains for weeks on end).

If you want to simply save energy, avoid the car. It's really apparent if you have an electric car because you have units that you can compare with other things, but for example, we burn probably 6 kWh per day in the car and this absolutely dwarfs our daily consumption in our apartment. If it's close enough to walk, then walk it.

Just dryer and car may get you close to your goal.
Thanks. My two children are doing amazing. My long term goal is to raise them into healthy adults with a good chance of being happy (nothing is guaranteed).
"The Shining" is, among other things, a giant metaphor of human (and in particular, western) civilization. The constant references to the moon landing (and 2001: A Space Odyssey) can imho be understood as an one of the many illustrations of the great and unprecedented things that came out of a civilization that is masterfully portrayed in the movie as a fading grand hotel built on a burial ground that is trapped in a seemingly eternal winter. Seeing it as Kubrick's confession that he staged the moon landing is not only silly, it doesn't even begin to describe the film's poetic depth. However, I watched the documentary where this clip is taken from (Room 237 [0]) and can recommend it with reservations. But I remember that it "jumps the shark" somewhere around the middle of the documentary.

Just to elaborate: I often hear people discredit "The Shining" because it didn't scare them enough, or because they think King's book is better, or because they find Duvall's and Nicholson's performances over-the-top. In my opinion, "Shining" is Kubrick's masterpiece. It is arguably deeper than 2001, has a very high artistic quality (some scenes are staged like a ballet) and at the same time, the movie is constantly entertaining and thrilling (which is a quality 2001 clearly lacks, as I have experienced again and again when I tried to watch it with friends who were unfamiliar with Kubrick's work).

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of "The Shining" interpretations, you should start with the Wikipedia article [1] and end with the shot-by-shot-analysis [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_237

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Social_inte...

[2] http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_toc.htm
I keep reading and hearing what you're saying, but I have been running iPadOS since beta 1 and iOS since beta 2 without many issues. If these are considered so buggy that we need warnings, then we really have been spoiled with the high quality of production releases.

Bugs I've seen:

- Random graphical artifacts/issues related to dark mode.

- BT sometimes disconnects/reconnects - is this really any different than BT normally? ;) - just hit play again usually works.

- Camera app occasionally crashes.

- Tapping the lock screen with the pencil brings up the last note, but sometimes I still have to FaceId to make the note editable.

Battery life has seemed slightly worse to fine.

It's good to remember this is beta software, but the adjectives used to describe the poor quality of this beta have been a little over the top IME.
Damn, maybe I should have kids. I've played the first hour of Civ V over 500 times now and never finished a game.
I use ublock origin with scripts and large media blocked by default (which makes sites load faster, like AMP is supposed to as well).

For some sites, depending on their purpose, it would be unreasonable to expect them to not use JavaScript. For example https://www.openstreetmap.org (where the scripts are even free/libre).

In such a case, it is easy to (permanently) unblock scripts and large media in ublock origin, but it would not be fair for a search engine to deprioritise a map site for that reason, would it?

Also, most news sites pull in massive pile of JS, but they still work when it's blocked. Yet, even some blogs can fail to show any text when JS is blocked. So I feel the issue is not so much about JS alone, more about graceful degradation.

Because surely it's fine to have add a bunch of non-existential JS? Salon has a Monero miner on their site[0], but works fine without it being loaded.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/salon...
> the WSL IP changes every time you restart it

That'd suck! is there no way to nail it down?
out of curiosity, how wide apart do you place the two halves of your split keyboard?

i recently got one, and been wondering if i should place them full shoulder width apart or not.
I'm using the same technique but at the checkout. Once my reusable bags fill up, I leave the rest. Also this technique helps in letting go of that packaged/junk food at the checkout.
The company was valued $3.3M, but how much money was extracted eventually?
Same here - been using Google Container for 6+ months now and very happy with it. Highly recommended - you can do this yourself with just normal containers in Firefox, but this comes preconfigured with all the non-obvious domains you might not know about. No connection - just a satisfied user.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Only problem with it is now reCAPTCHA sites are a huge pain to use since you have to answer about 15 challenges before you can get (since you look totally unknown to Google outside of the container). It is often better to just ignore these sites now, but it is not always possible.
Yes, Javascript can be annoying. But what matters is the quality of the content that is being searched, not if a website has annoying Javascript or not.

Would you rather read a really bad article that has no JS or a very well written one with JS enabled?
The Colemak Keyboard Layout
If you're going for empirical, why not ask for between 1 and a very large number? May as well extract as much entropy per person as possible for post-processing.
>Another approach is whitelisting. Like a default firewall rule of "block all" and a set of specific exceptions, I find this approach can be easier to manage.

I tried the whitelisting approach but quickly found out this breaks many websites with shopping cart and credit-card checkouts because they use payments api gateways. Because the url for the card processing gateway is a different company from the ecommerce site you're visiting, it has a totally different spelling so you can't predict what to put in a whitelist beforehand. In turn, if you do whitelist the payment gateway url, you might then find out it makes another api call to a fraud detection url which is another totally different url that you didn't know you had to whitelist.

Whitelisting DNS entries is workable for use inside of a single virtual machine that deliberately restricts a web browser to access a few websites like youtube.

However, I don't see how it's possible to use the whitelisting strategy on a PiHole that globally filters the entire family accessing it with multiple desktops and smartphones. It's not easy to tell if a spinning hourglass or beachball is happening because the a website is slow or whether the whitelist is missing some url entries. The family members would constantly be visiting new and legitimate urls so it seems very cumbersome to try and keep up with adding new whitelist entries for everybody.
Any William Morris fans in or near London should visit the William Morris Gallery, in Walthamstow: https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/

It includes wallpaper as well as furniture.
This article seems to ignore the fact that unit tests are typically made for other programmers down the line as a form of documentation, as an informal description of business rules, and as a way to gauge whether new code will break the product in a very obvious way.
tmux tab number can be clicked too.
I agree with you all the way until the middle of your third paragraph.

You're not gonna suggest Mastodon to someone, you're gonna point to a specific community (probably the same one you're a member of). Only one set of rules you need to worry about. Federation? You don't have to pay attention to it at all. It's a nice feature to have for sure, but it only becomes relevant once you don't have people to follow inside of your own instance. By recommending an instance, you're recommending a community, not the software behind that community.

There have been plenty of attempts of taking Facebook's crown (both VC-funded and user-funded), and they've all failed spectacularly. The reason for that is simple: people don't want a global network. Facebook was the first and last one to succeed. Nobody wants to be on the same network as their parents, so they indeed decentralize: they decentralize in group chats, Facebook groups, Discord servers, Slack servers, Twitter communities, Discourse instances, Mastodon instances, forums like HN, subreddits etc. Facebook and Google+ failed immediately simply by having a real-name policy. That's okay if you want to communicate with people around you, but terrible if you want to truly express yourself to a bunch of strangers. The younger you are, the bigger the odds that you belong in the latter. Nothing wrong with communicating with people around you, but that's not the group that drives your numbers up drastically.

Mastodon surely can't be the new Facebook simply because that's not what it aims to become. It aims to become the software of choice for the communities. The easier you make it to jump on board (and the less personal data you need to provide in order to do so), the bigger the odds that you'll be the home for a community.
Is Medium in a Downward Spiral?
Doesn't account for the technology needed to make solar and wind reliable, you won't get the same numbers.

See some numbers in https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/05/sustainability-off...

> Both solar and wind are far better than the hydrocarbon alternatives.

Agreed, of course. I'm only mentioning nuclear because people tend to think that merely replacing fossil with pv/wind is good enough. Not only is it not enough, it's also more expensive and barely getting us to the right track. Nuclear isn't perfect of course, but all things considered it's still better.
Yup, I am so glad you posted this. I remember watching this video a month ago and enjoyed being reminded of it.

The part about how they live-patched the game to simulate input was very cool to hear, because that's exactly how I would have approached it and it was with the drawbacks/challenges I knew would come with.
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Gandi.net is France-based and apparently one of the best in the business.

( I had a rough move at first with them, coming from using another service for a decade, but they've been solid so far. )
> because the Internet is no longer built for it

I’d say the Internet is no longer optimised for it because the use-case is no longer possible for the majority of people.

You can’t run a server on a phone due to power constraints and yet more and more people are using phones as their only computing device.
That's also how the auxiliary content in digital TV works -- the content that isn't video, audio or subtitles.

The channel guide and semi-interactive text content (i.e. "modern" teletext) are special packets in the MPEG stream, and are cached by the receiver.
>I had picked the date, not the judge, because I knew that the other side wasn’t ready. Delaying even a few days would have meant losing a crucial advantage.

Doesn't our paradigm of adversarial justice require that lawyers subscribe to an idea of fair competition? I don't see any difference between using the trial date or venue setting to attack your opponent and, say, using trick make-up and a wig to make your client look nothing like the person the witnesses saw.
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There's an app (I know) called toogoodtogo that let businesses to sale things that won't be allowed to be sold next day. It's a cute step in the right direction.

ps: also, who made a kind of compost bin to at least avoid bagging organic material to go into the recycling system ?
mine changed when I decided that since I passed the supermarket on the way home that I should only buy fresh foods I would consume from one day to the next.

plus stopping daily meant I could more easily vary my eating
Any real technology has dual uses; I cannot say that the things I've worked on are always a positive good for humanity as a whole, they depend on the people wielding them.

I wish I could have lived in a bubble, developing "tech" that didn't matter and was only positive, but even the most disconnected web jockey is paid for by the surveillance-capitalism dollars of the modern internet. That tech might be worse for society overall - it gave us the creeping global eye at a pace faster than legislation could keep up with it, or that society could adapt, and it seemed innocuous at first.
Not sure Google, whose favourite past time is shutting down every couple of years services millions use would be the best option particularly when absolute reliability is a requirement.

Ars Technica has a 'graveyard' mini site somewhere devoted to listing everything Google shuts down.

Edit : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-pro...
Surprised to read this, as they have been very solid here.
> That is true. However, those less performant chips, due to the way NAND storage functions, could easily be used in place of the newer chips.

I was mostly thinking of serial flash chips there, which use a very different interface from plain NAND; they have their own little controller built into them. They are used in relatively big numbers for firmware etc. Even if they had the same interface, there is still a huge gap between a 128 MBit chip and the densities you find in PC storage, where we now have 512 GBit chips.

Samsung & Co. might make them too, but you mostly see other semicons badged on them.
Isaiah Austin is willing to risk his life for basketball
I assume they are at a fixed angle and don't change tilt throughout the day. Usually in the northern hemisphere south-facing is the best (the sun spends most of the day in the southern part of the sky but equal parts in east and west). Similarly you think of a south-facing side of the building as getting "the most sun" and design accordingly.
Meanwhile Microsoft steals 7GB for "reserved storage" just in case they happen to have a giant update to install without your consent. "we disabled registry backups and made the dialog box lie to the user to save storage space" is a nauseatingly transparent lie.
They are called a “smallish lender” - their balance sheet is $90 billion. We are truly in an age of mega systemic banking risk.
>Members are assigned "ministers", two people who check up on them, are officially assigned to love them, and report back to the leadership of each ward (congregation) regularly about any problems the people they minister to may have. All this in addition to the friendships that naturally form with people you see once a week.

I have friends who left the mormon church after decades because of these "ministers". They were always asking when the couple was going to have another baby and constantly prying into their lives and reporting back. They found it creepy.

When they finally decided to leave, it got so bad (mormons ambushing them in the strangest places with aggressive questioning) that they had to file for a restraining order to keep them away.

The churches stance on homosexuality didn't help either, but it was the ministers that were the most invasive part.
v13, likely just because it is basically iOS whereas WatchOS differs from iOS in big ways.
> harder if you have kids.

Bea Johnson's family of four produces less than a mason jar of trash per year. https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeroWasteHome

Not speaking to atoav in particular, but it's tempting to make excuses why we don't do what others do that we want to but aren't. If we look for role models instead of excuses, we motivate ourselves to reach more of our potential.

In her case, reducing the waste seems to have brought her family together more. It doesn't seem to be a burden, just a one-time shift.
At the moment things like youtube, twitter have become culture and 'technical solutions' to both unrestrained greed, surveillance and this rich fabric of human communication seem to miss the big picture of their cultural value.

The value of these platforms are not technical, they are entirely from the human element and everybody should be able to participate without opening themselves to surveillance and abuse.

Like everything else to run a civilized society we need laws and its unfortunate that this basic first principle of organizing human society needs to be reiterated and debated right untill 2019 because of propaganda by Koch brothers and their ilk on a self serving libertarianism which is as fantastic as a disneyland version of reality.
You can do that but most home cooks don't make soups or sauces from scratch and don't know how.