skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent of two small kids, I would struggle to notice if I had "Long Covid". Most of the symptoms sound like my every day experience!

ps. In my subjective opinion, Long Covid is completely overblown. I know even fewer people that have suffered from it (0) than people who have had symptomatic Covid (2).
This could be a space-saving measure. A bathroom also needs to be used by other occupants of the house/apartment (children, guests staying over etc.) and if it's only available by passing through the master bedroom, it becomes a privacy issue.

As a consequence, you need to add more bathrooms (which requires additional space and money) or make the primary one accessible in a more public way (from the hallway).
The American diet, thicker toilet paper, and tendency to use half a roll at a time contributes as well.
We use technologically hidden costs to make up for a lot of the difference. For instance, European homes seem to be built to self-regulate temperature much more effectively than American homes are. Americans then make up for the difference with air conditioning. The initial costs may be lower, but there's an ongoing (and often massive) recurring cost that isn't readily apparent. My mom's home in Indiana, for instance, has an electric bill in the range of $600/month during peak of the hot months which is just nuts to me. The place just wasn't built to use passive cooling techniques.
He says, "well it's great", but the subtititles say, "we're safe". That itself could be interpreted as an interesting window into the mindset of our own society at the moment. People are absorbed in thoughts about turmoil and danger, and preoccupied with safe spaces, bullying, offense, and disgust. Yada yada, special snowflakes, something something.
I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of shipping brick over large distances were actually enormous. This might be one of those things that is just way better off if produced close to where it is consumed.
Having seen quite a few wood frame houses under construction in Japan, at least the framing seems much higher quality than in Canada. Studs are thicker, cut more precisely, and spaced closer together with more cross bracing than I have ever seen in Canada.

The insulation and other fittings are of course not at the same level. But winter is much milder and earthquakes much worse.
I'm convinced they've swapped out the microphones used by Siri for cheaper and cheaper ones over the years because it no longer seems to be able to pick up your requests across the room which it could at the launch of Hey Siri reliably.

Presumably because the whole AI assistant thing kinda turned out to be a fad and not as world changing as people were thinking around the time Siri/Alexa launched.

Turns out the thing it's good for it setting timers not ordering soup like Apple originally envisioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1YAatv1Mc
I remember a blog entry about a guy who took Amazon offline for some minutes and was fired, even while the change had beend aproved by several people.

I can't find it right now but that's the kind attitude you would expect from Amazon. I guess what FB is going to do.
The leader of Bell Labs at the time was so incredibly racist that he dedicated tons of resources in eugenics and “scientifically proving” that black people were inferior to white people. You are really going to use William Shockley as an example for why it was ok that everyone at Bell Labs looked the same?
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2711641
> That's not a scientific answer. Physical symptoms of stress include:

I feel you inadvertently tried to misrepresent the symptoms of long Covid.

Please check wikipedia's article on long Covid for an objective and we'll sourced reference on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID

Among the typical symptoms we have "fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath, anosmia (loss of smell), parosmia (distorted smell), muscle weakness, low fever and cognitive dysfunction".

Feeling fatigued alone does not pass off as long Covid, jus like coughing alone does not pass off as Covid.

For the sake of having a non-inflammatory discussion, please do your best to substantiate and source these sort of claim so that we avoid spreading disinformation.
And what would you expect? A secret gathering of company elders to commit the change? I guess this change was approved by someone, but in the end someone has to push the keys to perform the operation.
Then again, training efficiency isn't the same for every employee. If this particular employee has been trained for this situation in the past and still required training, then this employee might need more training in future. Perhaps it is more cost effective to work with a different employee.
If it's really the same thing I see only upsides: once long covid gets addressed due to this much attention, CFS will get addressed too. I call it win-win.
did the Russians invade HN when Facebook shut down, or what?
Are you american ? I love it when people that are more than 5th generation immigrant still identify with the place they "originate" from lmao. If we did this in Europe, I'd be german, belgian, portugese, spanish, and Italian all at once! Ah and that's on top of actually being french, is it rooted in the deep racism or the fact people kept to their "group" ? Is that why people are fascinated with those DNA test that tell you nothing but where your ancestors lived only 200 years ago ?

Regarding houses, the luxury you talk about being absent must be because most old houses weren't even built when there was electricity, running water, or a centralized sewage system, let alone built with where to place a TV in mind. Most houses need to be renovated/remodeled to better fit today's lifestyle.

You should come to Europe, you'd feel the same way about luxury with those meter large walls, it feels like a cavern, cold inside in the summer, and no sound to be heard. Truly relaxing.
> In the 90s we all thought the Internet would lead to a decentralization of power, but literally the exact opposite happened

I completely disagree.

Corporate power changed, and sure, companies like Google and Facebook probably hold more power globally than companies in a single country.

But, individuals have gotten more power also. People can be more informed, and affect more change than they could previously, which is both a good and bad thing.
Even if for the sake of the argument we accept that natural catastrophes incentivise cheaper construction over sturdiness (which is very debatable), surely the entirety of the USA + Canada are not subject to the same risk of natural disasters, nor is Europe as a whole safe from them altogether. As far as I know, construction is not sturdier in the safer regions of North America, nor is it cheaper in the less safe parts of Europe.
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> One, houses are built out of the most abundant/cheap materials. In some places this is literally concrete. In North America it is lumber.

By that standard all Austrian houses should be made mostly from lumber but they are not. While lumber plays a huge role in the _design_ of buildings here, they are still built rigidly with a lot of concrete etc.

Even the lowest standard house in Austria overranks even well built American houses for reasons that make little sense to me. I can only assume it's a fact of hitting a local economic maximum of what people are willing to pay for.
Are they? I live in a house built in 1927, converted from a multi-family to condos in 2009, and it seems fine. I don't live in an earthquake, fire-, or flood-prone area. I'm not aware of any major structural issues.

As far as I know, it's a stick-built structure. I'm not sure what type of sheathing we have, if any. Plywood was certainly in use in 1927.

I do agree about the quality, but in this case, that's more due to the insanity of the local real estate market than anything else. A house flipper can do a piss-poor job renovating and then sell for a substantial sum, leaving the owners with the choice of whether to re-do a bunch of work or just live with it. (So far we just live with it).

There are some builders in the area who do a really great job. I've seen some very nicely finished houses with great energy efficiency, and they do command a premium, but not enough to encourage the flippers to build to the same standard.

Regarding the comments about bulldozing and rebuilding, almost every American city I know of has a historical buildings commission. Good luck getting approvals through to demolish buildings that are under their purview! Lots of renovations happening in the urban cores.

If anything, a bit more demolishing and rebuilding should be happening in America's cities. There's a lot of low-rise light industrial and retail in high demand areas that really ought to be at least 3-4 stories with housing above instead. Lots of light rail stops with parking and low-density building around them.
Just goes to show the validity of anecdotes thrown around anonymously online, right?
Stop faking comments
The point is, that they usually plan one bathroom per floor, not per bedroom. The primary reasons for that are prices and available space. At the moment it is quite hard to buy land on which you can build a large house in Germany. It is not only expensive, but there is often almost nothing available.
That's just an extension of my (I believe common) pet peeve of commit subjects/PR titles that describe 'what' rather than 'why' isn't it?
If you leave aside the price of the plot, how do houses of a similar size compare when built US style vs. European style? European seems to require more money up front, but has lower maintenance costs and less wear and tear. But the money you spent up front is no longer available for investments, or you need to pay interests for a larger loan. After how many years is the break-even point reached?
I don't think so, because there are companies in Germany that build American-style houses that adhere to German energy efficiency rules, like https://www.bostonhaus.de . They use different windows and doors to achieve this, and it's certainly more expensive than a house built to American standards, but it's not fundamental issue with American style construction.
Same in Finland. Wooden stick frames are most common but I wouldn't describe them as "flimsy". There is heavy regulation for energy efficiency etc.

Judging purely from stereotypical perspective[1], the houses in US seem to emphasize (big) size and fancy look. You can't build that cheaply unless you give up in quality, thus the flimsyness, I guess.

[1] https://mcmansionhell.com
Have you ever done a chargeback in NL? Which card? Which bank? What kind of proof was required?

ICS requires you to snailmail them printouts of your purchase etc. within a small time window.
I did a little arithmetic, at 1.16 dollars per euro and 11.11 sqft per sqm, and reulted in 1228 eur/sqm in the US, compared with 2-3000 eur/sqm in Germany.
So half or a third the cost. That is significant.
[Edited: I see others have had the same idea to regularize the units, now we can check each other's work ;)].
At certain age and health conditions, the only viable communication media you have left are voice and/or visual.
? What is the site guideline on duplicate postings ?

Searching on the article link gives a thread less than a week old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684544

It has two posts and is still open for discussion.

Just curious.
Brazil implemented a neutral QR with direct payments which been there are basically no fees if you use this system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28757537

It is incredible how, very few times, developed countries can directly build a new infrastructure that beat the infrastructure of most developed countries.
I know three people who continue to experience it and, again, they are not malingerers. If you've never had a debilitating disease that knocks you off your feet, it might be difficult to comprehend. Imagine having kids AND not being able to walk to the bathroom without losing your breath and getting dizzy.
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> I think reddit is basically the anti-twitter, and is a lot less toxic as a result.

Of course, this completely depends on where you are on both Twitter and Reddit. There are bad and toxic parts of Reddit, and there are good and wholesome parts of twitter.

The one main difference though that's useful to compare between the two is that a post escaping the original audience, with the context collapse and everything else that brings, is a foundational feature of Twitter. It's a lot harder for that to happen on Reddit.
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> Oh he's got the "authority thing sorted out" eh?

Yes, he's no rando posting stuff on his Facebook page, nor is he a rapper or media personality. He's an expert from a reputable university that made solid contributions to the fight against COVID-19 , and he is quoting data from the Office for National Statistics. In the very least we should give him the benefit of the doubt.

Even though it's true that appeals to authority don't cut it, that does not mean you are entitled to dismiss any comment you don't like by resorting to personal attacks.
You cannot rely on anecdotes. I know people who claim that many of their relatives suffered severe adverse effects after taking the vaccine. We do not draw scientific conclusions from anecdotes.
That's a valid concern, I wouldn't want guests to have to move through my bedroom to access the toilet either. However I've seen lots of American apartments with a two door bathroom - one to the master bedroom, the other to the hallway. That definitely does make the most sense in my opinion.
Aside from this, even in spacious and expensive German flats or houses, this isn't common.
Although pattern matching is a good improvement, I'm more excited about the better error messages.

This is going to make using python anywhere I don't have an IDE much easier: while teaching, on a remote server, on someone else machine, on repl online, etc.
The reason is simple: Americans build what is attractive in the short term, big floor plans, lots of features, the latest technology. The long term durability, beyond say 50-60 years, isn't a concern. They plan to rebuild or rennovate (upgrade) with the latest technology by that time anyway.

For commercial buildings this makes even more sense, because Americans expect their needs to grow by orders of magnitude.

There are exceptions to this rule, of course. But having spent a lot of time in both Europe and the US, I've noticed that many buildings in Europe are built with brick and stone and are hundreds of years old. In the US, everything is built with wood and metal, and it's rare to find a building that stays around for more than 100 years, or was even intended to.

For me the best illustration of this difference is European cathedrals which are built to last centuries or maybe even millennia, compared to American megachurches which are essentially temporary warehouse structures, decorated with fancy lights and smoke, that will be replaced in less than 50 years. There are advantages to each approach.
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Sure about low-quality housing in Japan? They have a tradition of highly-skilled woodworking over there eg Shoji.
Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge?

Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong?

Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses?

Aren't these the same thing, or at least very closely related? If you learn whether you are right or wrong, you gain knowledge (or purge ignorance) and vice versa; and testing hypotheses is how you find out if you are right or wrong.

I think the defining trait of curious people is that they understand that they are ignorant. Socrates is a great example of a curious person, he even taught by asking questions rather than providing answers, and a large part of what he seems to have wanted to teach is his method of asking questions. I certainly found myself employing that method of engaging with the world after reading Plato, and it just eroded away a lot of assumptions I had never thought to challenge. Which just raised more questions.

It's humbling discovering that things you thought you knew as truth were just notions that sound true. Like why do we value freedom in society? Beyond "it seems true to lots of people" I genuinely don't know, and it's kind of terrifying that I can't seem to find a good answer for that. Now some of you are already typing an answer to why we value freedom, do yourself a favor and repeat the question "Ok, why is that?" a couple of times and don't take "it's obvious!" for an answer and you will see what I mean.

It creates a desire to engage with the world as it is, rather than our notions of what it is. Overall curiosity is something I associate with people who are skeptics, like Michel de Montaigne or David Hume.

It requires a rare sense of detachment to go "huh, I wonder why he thinks like that when things appear quite different through my eyes?" when you hear someone say something you disagree with.

If you play a game and you lose, you can either get involved in the loss and be upset that your strategy didn't work even though it should have, or you can go "huh, I thought that would work, I wonder why not?"

I think curiosity hinges on not identifying yourself so much with your preconceived notions of the world. If we pride ourselves on how much we know, then facts that disagree with what we know threaten to unravel our self-esteem, so we push them away and refuse to consider such possibilities.
Do you know if there is a non-self-reported 'trait curiosity' factor? I.e., regardless of how curious they say they are, are some people just curious about more things than others? And if so, does that correlate with intelligence? That would match my intuition.
OMG stop. In that same survey 30% of non-Democrats agreed that chances of going to the hospital are > 50%. Maybe Fox News stop scaring the sh*t out of people re COVID too. Except obviously that is not what is going on.
This looks like lack of product-market fit, very common with a lot of communist products.

From reading article it does break, but not that easy...

If they're too expensive and breaking is not really an issue/not fully solved then it's not a good fit for bars or homes.

It would need to find a market that needs such properties and doesn't already have better products. I'm struggling to think of one.
I'm confused - SMS and other telephone services already go down. Regulating something doesn't make it more reliable.

Arguably the regulation of "classic" telephony services is what lead to the innovations of Whatsapp and everything else.
It happens, when the kids bring back a particularly nasty disease from nursery. We recently had RSV, and that lasted a month for me.
You know, I wondered for a long time about why "mad cow disease" didn't slowly manifest in a much larger percentage of the British population. But I think it did... they're just calling it Alzheimer's.
If you look at the airplanes that are coming back, you can see clearly that the enemy is targeting our wings
God bless exponential backoff!
Net of land costs in both cases. Though to be clear they’re just the first figures I found, and the German figures in particular are all over the place.
No, it's not insane. Emotional abuse isn't a one time thing, by several employees. It's a systemic problem because of particular employees with abusive tendencies, and/or toxic company rules. In either case, there is no need for such surveillance to see such abuse from miles away. I'm 100% everyone knew about this ongoing abuse. There would be no need whatsoever for any of the suggestions you mentioned to have prevented this from happening.
There is some newish research that suggests that tinnitus can be treated by lowering chronic inflammation. This worked in my personal experience. Going low carb weakened my admittedly moderate tinnitus to below where I rarely notice it anymore.

https://www.audiology-worldnews.com/research/3554-is-treatab...
Ask HN: How to raise money when the revenues are down but the product is liked?
Dear HN,

We are a startup based in Denmark and have been operating in the space similar to 'NextDoor'. In fact we consider them as our biggest and important competitor.
We have been in operation for close to 4 years now. The first two years we had our MVP tested in the market and then we had good feedback and had paying users. Our revenues grew from approx.. 20k USD to approx. 50k USD over the first two years. One thing that helped increase the revenue was, we were on Danish reality TV show which is similar to 'Shark Tank' and we got funding from 2 investors for a very low valuation. We were excited and took it which we think was wrong as we were early and lost good equity.

Then COVID hit us. However we did not think it will affect us since we had good interest in the platform and started building a new web facing product and added features by outsourcing dev to increase roll out speeds.
Also we had an annual pricing strategy which is costing us on support. We have lot of tech debt and bugs in the product and needs to be addressed. The customers are still showing interest and asking to be on platform. But we cannot scale since we are cash crunched and revenues are down to year 1 numbers.
We are a small team of 3 founders and the have been working on this with very less to no salary for few years now.

We also have a good advisory board but less said of that the better.

Some suggestions we got is to join an accelerator program. I have already been in one of the top programs in EU and feel we are little ahead and might not be right fit. Second is to raise money from crowd funding platforms. But we do not have real expertise to do this nor importantly have something to give back of value.

I am trying to raise funds, and getting some interests but only if there are other investors. So, getting a group of them excited on the mission is what is challenging. We have learnt a lot very quickly and adapting to these hard times also but still having a challenge to raise funds.

Looking for suggestions and advice. Thanks.
Two things struck me when watching documentaries about US big houses: the very narrow corridors (as a rule, two people could barely cross) and the minimalist bathrooms (rarely a bathtub and when yes then a tiny one for one single small person). And I was watching villas with at least 6 rooms, pools... Could you comment on why those particularities?
I'm currently reading "The big bang never happened" by Eric Lerner which makes a case for a plasma theory of the universe. Even though I'm a physicist by training I don't know enough about the subject to make an assessment.

He made a youtube series about it that is... well let's say he focused on the content rather than production value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkhRibBllU&list=PLBg1fqjrUV...
>>Feeling fatigued alone does not pass off as long Covid,

That is not true. Here is a typical study purportedly showing evidence for long COVID:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/covid-37-of-pe...

>>One in three people infected with coronavirus will experience at least one symptom of long Covid, a new study suggests.

The most common symptom associated with "long-COVID" is anxiety..
Yes and no. As a computer engineer I'm probably biased about what it can and can't do technically, so I ask things that it can do. From a user perspective, I use a very natural language instead of robotic/feelingless commands and it just works anyway.
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I still have zero desire to speak to any computer with my voice. Not saying it's a bad product feature. Probably just a psychological profile some of us fall into.

EDIT: Yes I'm already aware it can be useful/quick for doing X :)