skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I use PayPal is because it doesn't trigger the credit card SMS confirmation that is enforced in europe and I don't have a phone number to receive them.
> Another weird observation is the flush performance of European toilets. They don't clog up

Oh, they do. I have them clogged up weekly.

US ones are funny because there is so much water there and you always end up wet :)
I like Apple in general, but using Siri is the most frustrating experience Apple has ever rolled out to the public. It's absolutely awful and useless in its current state for anything but setting a timer or alarm.

Google Assistant is several galaxies above it in every aspect.
This kind of thinking hasn't made its way to iPhones. When it's auto-updating an app I'm not allowed to open it (separately, it seems optimized to start updating an app moments before I'm about to open it).
> 15% of which kids ?

Of all PCR confirmed cases [0]. Disclaimer: preprint.

[0]https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-798316/v1
It is insane compared to how workers that has been maimed physically at Tesla plants have been compensated.

The courts could have put this money into a accidents found or a orphanage or what ever.
That's the thing. The stress of lockdown is causing its own population-level problems which are getting mixed in with this. That doesn't make the stress-related problems any less real, nor does it make the actual post-covid complications any less real. It just makes them two separate things.
Facebook just had an actual whistleblower go on 60-minutes last night.
Lol I had the exact same lesson too. Saw people spewing falsehoods as facts and being misled by others. I’ve started to take everything I see online with a pinch of salt.
Anecdotes only count if they agree with the zeitgeist propaganda, I’m afraid.
I agree, I have the same love/hate relationship with Julia. When the stars align, the language and its ecosystem are incredibly fast and pleasant to use.

But most of the time, it is waiting for the incredibly slow doc website; trying to reverse engineer the lib that everyone presents you like the best there is, but is woefully underdocumented – if it is documented at all; delving through bad stacktraces; struggling with the abysmal multithreading experience; hoping for small syntaxic sugar such as a better syntax for one-line conditional execution than &&, do/while loops, or if-as-expressions while we get an nth unicode operator; waiting for plots; the REPL being unable to redefine structs; getting enthusiastic about AD, until understanding that it is so slow that is basically only works on toy problems; etc.

All in all, the language and its ecosystem gives the impression that it is not much more than heaps over heaps of promising PoCs stacked on each other, but would need thousand of CS engineering man-hours to go from promising academic project to actually usable environment.
I don't know many democrats backing riots and snarfling horse paste so maybe just stop.
Does anybody remember this little piece of advice: “don’t covet your neighbor’s goods?” I guess that’s old school now.
As long as they don't break RSS feed support for releases... I use that feature heavily.
I suspect a lot of it is down to consumer preference. Americans seem to favour big houses as a kind of absolute priority. If you’ve decided upfront that the house must be 3000sqft, then it will either be really expensive, or cheaply built. And Americans are more okay than most with the style of very low density remote suburban development that makes really big houses feasible.
If my carrier goes down, it doesn't help me I can't just switch at the drop of a hat to another carrier who is still up.

Likewise, when Whatsapp goes down I can still talk to people on iMessage or Discord or SMS.
From what I've heard about these products since their introduction, setting alarms is the one thing that they're unambiguously useful for.

edit: For that they don't need to be networked, of course.
How do you expect to control for the world-wide psychosocial impact of the pandemic?

It's also pretty widely known that virtually all viruses can have a post-viral syndrome so if it would be MORE surprising if there wasn't a long covid.

I've had long covid for the last 10 months, and finally seem to be coming out of it. At its worst, I would get "episodes" where my entire body would start buzzing, so extreme that it felt like I was plugged into an electric socket. I can't convey to you how extreme this was, and if anyone were to suggest that this was caused by pandemic stress, they would be liable to a stressed response from my fist.
My favourite Siri bug: If it fails to understand the name of the person I want to call, it suggests to call myself! "OK, so you want to call <your name>?" This bug exists since about 10 years, and apparently has never been fixed.
Many computers were designed entirely out of NAND gates. Most famously the Cray-1.
I don’t have an internal voice. I mostly think in concepts or shapes.
Also note that NAND is actually simpler to implement in CMOS than AND, because inversion comes naturally.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/uploads/articles/CMOS-AND-g...
If you have chronic fatigue, it’s not an option TO get out of bed. Your body physically doesn’t have energy. And if you push it, it punishes you by making you even worse.

I myself have a relatively mild case so I can still mostly do my everyday activities, but what has gone is my ability to push myself past my comfort limits. Stay up late onto get something done? Go for a 15 minute run? Previously I’d have felt a bit tired and shit the next day. Now it might leave me ill and in bed with heart pain for 3-5 days.
Mutation in animals typically lower it's viability in humans. So the question is if I have been vaccinated and there aren't enough unvaccinated people to jam hospitals, why do I continue to care about viruses in animal populations that are just like any other virus that might pop up the next time someone licks a bat?

If I'm willing to take any sort of vaccine for it when it becomes viable again in humans, then I'm safer once it is purely in animals than I was before it was present in humans.
Study shows 14% of world’s coral lost in less than a decade
I held off doing PCB stuff for a long time because the tools seemed incredibly complex and intimidating, and now I wonder how I ever did anything without it. The things I wish someone had told me:

- all a PCB is, is a flat version of your hand-wired prototype - all those crazy lines are just the wires - there's no special hidden EE magic until later

- the schematic editor shows your intent

- the pcb layout editor shows where things go

- the hard part is actually just finding schematic and layout editor files for the components you're using - github search is great for this

- you will make lots of mistakes and need a few goes - everyone does, debugging is half the fun, don't be afraid

- online PCB houses make those mistakes cheap

Things I have made with little more than introductory-Arduino knowledge:

- A wearable bluetooth ring:
https://twitter.com/gmurphy/status/1372368637332389888

- A hall-effect volume control knob for my PC:
https://twitter.com/gmurphy/status/1179831446204121088

- A long range garage door opener:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B11m1y5J3qc/

- And currently working on a keyboard:
https://twitter.com/gmurphy/status/1443048243101777921

Also, the debugging step for me got orders of magnitude easier when I got a set of PCBite probes - just drop them on and they mostly stay in place. e.g: https://mobile.twitter.com/gmurphy/status/136575328654495744...
In some countries that use 24 hour time notation it's really uncommon to use that in spoken language[0]. When I say four past four in Dutch, it could be 04:04 or 16:04. So even if you've set the clock to 24 hours, that doesn't mean you would actually say sixteen when referring to 16:xx.

You can set the region in the settings, maybe that influences the way Siri interprets time? (I would be surprised if it does, but you never know)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_b...
Thus accomplishing twice as much "Nothing, with a PR stunt on top" in the next 20 years? That doesn't sound like a winning strategy for BO.

(BO's pointy-haired bosses and their consultants might consider it one...but maybe that's the real problem...)
Setting alarms and timers is the only thing where Siri works for me more than it doesn't.

Asking it to play a certain song or band or anything more than a 3 word command will fail or result in long stalling with an eventual "sorry didn't get that" reply. This is on WiFi.
I'd be very interested to know how many of these drones the company got back...

It really says something about the culture of a group of people if they return someone else's property that ends up in their hands or not.
This is so crazy. Now that I have read your comment I can clearly hear a high pitch sound which won't stop.
The prion was essentially ubiquitous in the UK's meat supply in the mid-1980s, when it was common practice to grind up the spinal and brain tissue of downed cattle into meal for other cattle. Estimates for how many ingested the prion were in the millions. But very few humans seemed to get vCJD. Instead they either got Alzheimer's or their brains melted and they joined the antivax movement.
"Feigned incredulity" can be every bit as caustic as outright hostility.

It's all a matter of perception and context, of course. And though you say there's only one way to interpret it, even you describe it as a continuum.

Sadly, this is all just a sad missed opportunity.

MS could have been less defensive and more open to possible solutions. The genius programmer could have slowed his roll a bit and could have been more collaborative.
Yeah, but so what was always annoying about it is that they don't just automatically give you the better rate on transactions where it makes sense, considering that they explicitly would suggest you create multiple accounts--one with micropayments set and one without--and split your payments between them depending on which would be better. I guess maybe the bulk fee rate threshold would then be separate? Amazon Flexible Payments (which was amazing but was killed with no migration path and for a shitty expensive replacement) just did it all automatically for you to give you good rates (and even had fee tiers for tiny transactions down to I think even less than a penny, if you were working with an internal balance transfer and not an external payment like a credit card).
>>You've said "study" but you're quoting an article from The Guardian.

An article which describes the results of a study..

>>Also, I feel you are either misquoting or being disingenuous. The article you quoted quite clearly states that "The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety or depression."

I'm referring to the graph in that article, which shows that anxiety/depression is the most commonly cited symptom, at 15% of survey respondents:

https://i.ibb.co/27yyhGG/long-covid-symptoms.png

>>Your article does not refer to the incidence of long COVID-19.

Yes it does. Long-COVID typically refers to any expression of any of the symptoms listed, following a COVID infection.
Yep, I agree, seems like battery failure. They do a controlled descent for most of the altitude, and then drop out of the sky and bounce off the ground/cars/trees (better seen in other videos).

I’ve never done this large a coordinated display before, but have ten years UAV flying experience (quads, hexes, octo, and double stacked octo) and have done smaller scale test flights with a dozen choreographed drones.
Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
WhatsApp Windows – System Error after bad update
Then just personal. Yes business might finance development if business taxes were handled, so perhaps personal first or as an additional intention.
> That’s fallacious. There are loads of professors spewing bullshit,

No, not really. The fallacious bit is blindly and outright dismissing any statement, along with attacking and accusing anything a researcher says as being "spewing bullshit", just because you didn't liked hearing it.

Eve though I agree that appeals to authority are no way to get close to the truth, what we are seeing here is pure denialism and a primal anti-intellectual attitude directed towards a researcher from a reputable university just because he dared point out that initial conservative estimates might have been conservative.

To be quite clear, John Bell does not dictate the truth just because he is a professor of medicine at Oxford. But that is not the problem. The problem is actually trying to attack him just because he had the audacity to quote statistics on the real-world incidence of long Covid and state that initial estimates were off.
It's frustrating because even if you were willing to pay more for better quality the market doesn't provide what you want.
The french initiative started in 2013 is still alive (last commit a few days ago), and passes the gov test suite (they keep in touch with our version of the IRS): https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france

The way we got this is interestingly twisted.

French citizens requested the software used by the administration, and they managed to get it!

But, it was written in Mlang, a proprietary language created by the french administration in the 90: https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang.

Someone then decided to create an OCaml compiler that takes mlang and emits python: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966

As a result, we got Open Fisca. I now think there are other techs in the mix...

A slide of the story: https://www.slideshare.net/Etalab/opening-up-the-french-tax-...

But I believe it should be mandatory for the state to provide the source of every softwares they use internally to manage our lives. Also a test suite to allow any citizen to validate their own effort to comply with the law.

Just like laws should be published as diff of the previous laws, in a VCS repo.
In Poland majority of houses are built using some kind of hollow bricks + concrete for foundations/basements (basements in newer house are rare)/ floors and beams to support floors.

Houses that are built using wood are so rare that most people would stop by and to some photos.
So one professor of medicine at Oxford says that long Covid is idiopathic. As Bell is an academic professor and not a clinician in the field handling patients, or a virologist tasked with studying this particular situation, his opinions are educated but not necessarily informed enough to be authoritative. And, of course, no amount of theorizing negates the fact that a great number of people with Covid seem to be suffering from prolonged and in many cases debilitating symptoms from, well, something that didn't cause them before these people had Covid. And a great many other doctors very clearly don't share his opinion, including actual practicing doctors in hospitals and surgeries and virologists.

So as a "gotcha" political point against all these "sky is falling" liberals, it's not actually very useful. What it sounds like is right-wing contrarians looking for any authoritative figure to bolster their claims that all the sick people and dead people didn't really die or get sick and stay sick, or if they did they were already sick, so they can simply return the economy - which is the only thing they give a shit about - to making them money.

It's not actually very convincing or compelling if you're not, y'know, a free market loony or a sociopath.
Not for nothing but in many places — including Israel and Palestine — WhatsApp is used as the de facto phone and text messaging platform. Ostensibly, a utility is down right now for millions of people. The billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook. - Abraham Gutman
https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573
Not peer-reviewed. Only 13.5% of the children completed the 3-month online questionnaire. After 3 months, 30.3% of test-positives and 16.2% of test-negatives had 3+ symptoms. Possible response & recall bias. No control group for other respiratory infections. Did not assess whether symptoms were continuous for the entire 3 months.
Author here, you are correct.

I guess I was trying to express the "saudade" of finding a new topic but not having the time to learn it properly.
>>How do you expect to control for the world-wide psychosocial impact of the pandemic?

You use antibody tests to find undiagnosed prior cases, where the patient was unaware they had it during their infection. Then you can compare those who had COVID, without the associated psychosocial impact and two week isolation, to those who did not, to try to determine what long-term impact COVID has.
Even then, in a commit message/PR description I (as a contributor) expect to read the origin/big picture of the bug, how it was discovered/narrowed down, references to where it was introduced, what other solutions were tried — those kinds of things. Those aren't relevant to users though.
Wow, this is a great example of how crap Siri is. Let's do this – all of these work perfectly with Google Assistant:

"Time in PST" gives me 3 links. The first 404's, the second has no clock but alerts "No locations currently on PST" (which is true, its PDT right now – but come on), and the 3rd has no clock but prompts me to install a "FREE iOS app." Fail, big time.

"What time is it in PST" gets me a web snippet showing "PST is 8 hours behind UTC." Fail.

"What's the current time in Pacific Standard Time" runs it through Wolfram, giving me a LOT of unrelated info but admittedly also a clock showing the correct time. Success... sort of. Wouldn't help while driving.

"What's the current time in PST" gives me "Sorry, I can't help with that, but you can ask me the time for a specific city." Fail.

"What's the current time in Los Angeles" correctly shows me a Siri prompt with the time. Success.
Any tips on how to find/book those freelancers? I've been looking for similar help
Why DuPont's been poisoning you with PFAs for 70 years
Interesting take. I am kinda excited about voice assistants and the command-line style use cases for them, too, except the closed nature of Siri and the dominance of Apple has probably set them back 10 or 20 years.

Yes, if Siri was open and any iOS app could easily make a "voice CLI" to their apps that would awesome. But, that's not the case at all.

I am a heavy user of Siri, too, with an Apple Watch and a HomePod in every room of my house. It's better than nothing. But it is still objectively terrible. It can barely do more than set timers, send text messages, and control the lights and music.

That's not useless, but it's not even close to what I wish I could do with my voice (which is basically what you describe).
That's where Siri absolutely and completely fails for me. It doesn't understand 90% of the song or band names I ask to play.
Maybe it's good when all you ask it to play is "The Beatles" or "Kanye West", but anything more ambiguous than that, it will produce a wrong result.
Google Assistant is way better at nuances.
In standard NMOS or PMOS circuitry, both a NAND gate and a NOR gate require two transistors each (and a resistor, which is usually actually a transistor as well). CMOS requires four transistors for both a NAND gate or a NOR gate. It's only in TTL logic, where you can have a single transistor with multiple emitters that a NAND gate uses fewer transistors.
It complements the UI by summarizing properly: “Will it rain tonight?” and “Set an alarm for 6am” are the only two usecases I’ve been satisfied with, but they work much better than the UI.

I’m not sure it’s worth the development time. But it’s like: Let’s create a UI with all info we think the user wants, and everything else will be done by Siri.
Well, looking at the skills offers by alexa, I am not sure if a siri appstore would be worthwhile. 99.9% of alexa skills are totally and utterly useless.
I guess so - I suppose contributors should be interested in the 'why', whereas users are more interested in the 'what' and, more importantly, 'how will this affect me?'
Well, quoting him is not major-breakthrough-worthy but I reckon he deserves an article based on the quote. Toutes proportions gardees ofc.
Some of my annoyances:

* What’s the weather for tomorrow? > I can’t see the weather that far out but here’s the weather for the next ten days.”

* “When will it stop raining?” > It looks like it’s raining right now.
They are also handy at dimming/turning lights on/off or starting Spotify playlists while in the shower. Nothing essential TBH.

[Edit] Google Home seems to be pretty good at separating your voice from background noises, like shower/TV.
The thing is, what is "smart"?

For me "smart" is not just IQ, it is a set of things that make people successful in what they want to do includes raw intelligence but also education, people skills,... and curiosity, so it is part of it. "Rain men" are usually not called "smart" (except when compared to other autists) even if they can show almost superhuman feats of intelligence.
The Taliban are using private messaging apps to threaten Afghan journalists
I don't. I know a friend who doesn't as well. Both of us mainly think through an awareness of some kind of graph structure (non-visual).

But what's more interesting is that through talking with others we've discovered one interesting thing about what it's like for other people to hear a voice in their heads:

In most people's dreams, when someone talks, they can hear the voice, which has a specific pitch, rasp, etc. For me and my friend, in our dreams we can never characterize the voice. We just become aware of the sentence spoken and the time passed (even though in a way it feels immediate), but if we focus, it's clear that we cannot recall any sensation of hearing a voice in any way. It blew our minds off when we realized that other people's dreams are different in such a way.

I can think of sentences. But they are not spoken in my head. There is no voice, which would be male or female etc. And I only do that when the sentences are the goal. They are not the means.
> While I don't question the veracity of the claims, it's genuinely difficult for me to believe that that kind of cartoonish racism still exists, especially in California.

You should think long and hard about this comment.

You should not believe a random person over yourself.

Especially when they are in court for anything. By that stage they are commited.

Certainly not when they are in it to win 100 million.

It is good to think about if they might be correct and yourself wrong.
Just pipe bombs, loaded hand guns with high capacity magazines, boxes of Molotov cocktails, bear spray, tasers, zip ties.

Note that most crimes are still crimes even if you suck at committing them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/04/fac...
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I felt like it was really helping me when we had kids, and I was like, holding a baby a lot of the time. But that is form of temporary disability, maybe.
Did you try answering "yes"?
Where did you hear that from? He doesn’t even say that in his video, he says he was fired for having side income on YouTube.
I'd never think of asking it what the time in my particular city is. I reckon that's how "normies" think time works, and Apple has tuned Siri to their needs? As opposed to the needs of people who may have some knowledge about nerd things like time zones?
Definitely property.

Get back to normal, back to work peasants. Crowd onto trains and herd yourselves back into the super-expensive office blocks clustered in super-expensive cities.

Property underwrites a huge portion of investments and pensions. If we suddenly discovered that 80% of us could work from home, anywhere on the planet, why would anyone pay £1.5m for a house that would cost £400k if it were just an hour away?