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Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid for...
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:57PM (#36098237)
It makes me sick to my stomach to hear entirely reasonable anger about the catalogue of ill-judged, immoral and inhumane policy cooked up on the hoof by ignorant politicians, egged on by should-know-better power-tripping scientists, belittled as mere quibbles about interferences with thier preferred daily routines.
Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:30AM (#36095118)
The whole service has gone to pot since their absurd rebranding as Border Force (also causing they customer facing staff to act as if they're the hero of a Gerry Anderson production).
Re:Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:21AM (#36095041)
I'm going with the whole system hinging on a free tier ifttt.com applet which was shut down yesterday after they issued a "final" (and first) warning about this a couple of days before.
Re:Experiences Won’t Make You Happier Than Possessions
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:02AM (#36092904)
The buy experiences meme has always had a slight air of having been engineered in travel industry laboratory somewhere and released into the wild.
Re:It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:02PM (#36076879)
Shoes off is still (occasionally) a thing in UK airports. As is (consistently) utterly ill-mannered, power tripping, unprofessional security staff.
Re:Alien was released 44 years ago today
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:06AM (#36071656)
> Excitement possible even in those days.
I am aghast at this comment!
Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025
on Sunday May 21, 2023 @06:36PM (#36025277)
That quip doesn't really work like it does for its more usual target, the Eiffel Tower, because unlike the tower you also can't see the Pompidou Centre from pretty much everywhere in Paris, except right next to the Pompidou Centre
Re:No Screens Cafe
on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:33PM (#36024042)
Wouldn't it do just to hook it up to an online processor, as if a web page?
Re:Dandelion Root Recipes
on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:52AM (#36001300)
That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop
It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is literally that, pissenlit, which they must have had good reason to choose over the perfectly fine English name for them, dent de lion.
Re:Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for te...
on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:50PM (#35923532)
Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?
Re:What if we tolerated diseases?
on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:39PM (#35923427)
How would it be less likely to induce confusion? What is it even supposed to mean in that form? I had no idea what you were talking about until someone explained your error.
Re:‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’
on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:03PM (#35910543)
Isn't that exactly how the the greatest acts of stealing are performed?
Re:Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:11PM (#35877345)
Your high latitude health service must be better than mine. I can hardly imagine my GP's receptionist's reaction if I tried to book an appointment to check my baseline vitamin D levels!
Re:UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public...
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:38AM (#35876025)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200...
Restrictions on movement
6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.
Re:UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public...
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:55AM (#35872963)
No, it was law. Immoral law which deserved to be broken, but that is no consolation to the millions who suffered greatly by going along with it.
To hear one of the most shameful periods in our legal history being brushed off as couple of months of half hearted barely observed lockdown is pretty disturbing.
Re:UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public...
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:45AM (#35872365)
You broke the law and got away with it. That doesn't mean millions of people weren't having a thoroughly miserable time of it observing the law, and for a lot longer than "a couple of months in 2020".
Re:It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:43PM (#35854305)
> questions which you could've easily included in your first e-mail
That's not really how conversation/chat works is it?
Re:It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:01PM (#35844878)
If I wanted to have a conversation about it, and you wanted to charge me a flat fee per utterance on the basis that you had to reread the text anew every time, I wouldn't be paying you at all.
Re:It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:47AM (#35841870)
The more token capacity that's added the more wasteful it seems to have to use this statelessly. Is there any avoiding this?
Wonderous as this new tech is, it seems a bit much to be paying $2 a question in a conversation about a 32k token text.
Re:66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:04PM (#35823771)
"Just build more houses", yet alone when framed as "it's up to you to convince your neighbors to let you to build more houses" just doesn't cut the mustard any more.
We need serious changes that are actually going to make a difference, along the lines of (for residential property):
* Outlawing mortgages for non occupiers.
* Sharing of capital gains with tenants.
* A complete end to no fault evictions.
* Universal right to buy for tenants.
* Putative tax for rental income.
Re:66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:56PM (#35823199)
I seriously doubt there's a $120k countryside house within 500 miles of me.
Re:66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:53PM (#35823175)
Western leaders had better start coming up with radical solutions to housing market driven inequity or there'll be ructions.
Re:Why America will soon see a wave of bank mergers
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:59PM (#35795940)
Fair point. It's a sorry state of afairs when you have to speculatively reverse engineer the algorithms run by a state-sanctioned oligopoly of private firms holding your own data gathered with, at best, coerced consent, and artificially structure your affairs in an attempt to present yourself as a dependable and unadventurous cash cow
Re:Why America will soon see a wave of bank mergers
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:40PM (#35795773)
That doesn't make sense. A credit card provider may profit more from a customer who carries a balance and maybe makes the odd late payment, but a mortgage provider inherently has a customer who carries a balance, and the ideal is a customer who makes every payment on time every time, for the life of the mortgage.
Re:Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:01PM (#35734519)
What exactly is supposed to have happened to that cat? Leading with that photo with no explanation is completely ridiculous.
Re:Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: The End Is Nigh
on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:16PM (#35694993)
Why are these even remotely necessary? I've got a fair sized garden, surrounded by deciduous trees, and half an hour with a rake on a few weekends in Autumn is all it takes to keep on top of things. What am I missing?
India's population to surpass China this week – UN
Re:I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymor...
on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:30PM (#35679664)
It doesn't really do arithmetic. But if you'd asked it to write a script or formula for working it out, it likely would have made a good job of that. So when it gets the ability to execute its own such scripts, things will get even more interesting.
Re:The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:42PM (#35671573)
I'm no linguist but it seems to me that that word doesn't really work for that definition. It sounds like it should pertain to hidden form, not hidden similar form, like say, cryptoisomorphic.