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mastodon.social 1mo ago

Iran Is Back Online

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www.bbc.co.uk 1mo ago

Jazz legend Sonny Rollins dies aged 95

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old.reddit.com 3mo ago

ChatGPT thinks I speak Hindi. I don't

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www.expressvpn.com 6mo ago

ExpressVPN phasing out support for routers other than Aircove

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news.ycombinator.com 9mo ago

Ask HN: How many 9s did AWS lose due to the last outage (us-east-1 incident)?

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www.bbc.com 11mo ago

Italy gives final approval for longest suspension bridge to Sicily

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what3words.com 1y ago

///Developers.developers.developers

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discussions.apple.com 2y ago

AirPods Causing Tinnitus?

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Oak Processionary Caterpillar

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github.com 2y ago

An Open Source Demonstration Using LLMs to Explain Health Records

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Mass Extinction

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Multi-cancer blood test shows real promise in (UK) NHS study

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What is the best browser “new tab” hack that keeps you productive?

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docs.opencb.org 3y ago

A suite of high performance tools for Genomics

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Outline VPN for Iranians

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www.bbc.co.uk 4y ago

Study strongly links EBV with multiple sclerosis

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www.forbes.com 4y ago

Iran’s Gas Stations Stop Pumping After Hack

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techcrunch.com 4y ago

Google to Pull the Plug on Stream

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www.statnews.com 4y ago

Epic's AI algorithms under scrutiny

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

The Ciphers of the Monks

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

White's

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www.medrxiv.org 6y ago

Risk factors in Covid retrospective study 2756 UK electronic health record data

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www.thelancet.com 6y ago

Effect of strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of Covid pandemic

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Dividend stripping

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news.sky.com 7y ago

Dutch kicked out 'Russian spies' over alleged hack to lab investigating novichok

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theconversation.com 7y ago

Ten strategies to lose weight – backed by new research

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Encrypted file drop for the masses?

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priceonomics.com 8y ago

Of Guinness, Student's, and the foundation of statistics

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: After iOS 11 problems with battery. I am alone?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Ideas for wedding website?

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The Vespa at 80 18 days ago

Still remember driving one with my dad (I was 6) back from a vendemmia (grape harvest) with the back fully loaded of at least 18 100-litre harvest buckets, on a 7-10% slope, which the ape did effortlessly.

Sharing as I’ve not seen this mentioned by anyone. I have achieved something similar with Karabiner and the custom reassignment of the play button to actually run Spotify and play the last song from there rather than Apple Music and it worked like a charm.

I was just referring to specifically the cruise control which seems useful only in traffic conditions. As soon as the road gets a bit cleared up it has a tendency to accelerate too much, and a bit too eagerly.

But we have similar conditions, 2kids and in need of space and Sealion 7 won over many other EVs for number of features, platform, and especially price.

The OTA updates are quite regular and for us one fixed a bug that did not let the doors lock entirely when the car was off.

Had ChatGPT keeping inserting Hindi words in its responses to my clearly English prompts and had to kept asking to re-think carefully in English. Low and behold, others have been experiencing the same thing.

In the south of Italy where families were very close to each others, children abundant, and passing the name of grandparents to first and second borns was expected people ended up with tons of namesakes. I have 6 people in my direct family who all share same name and last name.

Still find the Copilot transcripts orders of magnitude worse than something like Wispr Flow and they tend to allucinate constantly and do not adapt to a company's context (that Copilot has access too...). I am talking about acronyms of products / teams, names of people (even when they are in the call), etc.

With Three UK I used gathered evidence over the course of 4 months to wiggle myself out of a £46/month 28-month 5G contract (had to pay £200 remaining on my iPhone 16 Pro) when I demonstrated that my phone was basically useless whenever in the postcode are where I live, even if I always had 1 bar 5G signal.

Not even phone calls would go through, let alone calls on Whatsapp et al, or loading websites using something heavier than just text.

Have raised a _formal_ complaint (they must report it to Ofcom), and after that it was just a matter of ensuring I lost enough phone calls to demonstrate how many ended up in my answering machine.

The fact that Wifi calling is also super buggy and almost never work, played also a big role.

My problem is, all other mobile providers in my area are even worse, showing LTE or 4G. So I just need to wait for them to strengthen signal, or move!

Tutorials are all but spoon-feeding. Tutors are strongly encouraged not to give just solutions, but actually to teach the approach to solving problems and creating connections with adjacent topics where possible.

I used to teach tutorials at Keble college (Oxford). Not sure how they were run in Manchester.

Tutorials in Oxford are impressive for me for many reasons: 1. Those teaching were generally of a higher level beyond Ph.D., post docs or professors, all paid, all assessed against an NPS from students, and the performance of the students in exams 2. Tutors are generally teaching more adjacent topics (creating connections), students are challenged to think beyond the assignments (which are generally tough), 3. Tutorials are calibrated and personalised to students and made sure all students are challenged at the right level, I had tutorials where I had to teach 1:2 because the students were excellent and needed a higher level of complexity.

Let’s not forget another data point. South was richer before unification than the north. The north regions regularly at war with France and Austria were pretty much debt fuelled, whilst the south was considered the bank of Italy, solvent and very rich due to flourishing economy. After unification, Piedmont dumped its war debts on the whole country and drained the south’s cash reserves, using them to modernise the north while the south was left weakened.

Have agreed in previous comments that this was subjective (as a family but also as a driver) experience.

Maybe one thing that amplified the effect was the high expectations we had for those highways, and maybe that's what made it more shocking for us.

Again, I consider myself a 'decently skilled' driver, having driven in many countries over the course of the years, and easily adapting to driving styles (US/Italy/France/Iran/UK/India/etc). Some of these styles are indeed chaotic, but they (generally) operate at slower speed, which allow for corrections and precautions. The thing that threw us off is the combination I have mentioned before:

[...] the speed that those roads allow. The style was quite aggressive, very fast in every lane, loads of overtakes (car constantly zig-zagging), people coming from the back _FAST_ and staying there, people switching lanes immediately after signalling rather than giving some time for people to notice. Overall, that combination made for a very stressful experience which we have agreed (as family) not to repeat in the future.

Agree, though an intensive one (8500km in 6 weeks) that is just subjective experience, which is why I caveated it mentioning that it was our own family personal experience.

I lived in a mountainous area of Italy (very narrow roads, full of ups and downs) so I am a fairly confident driver (probably why I was not too stressed driving in Italy) and drove in countries like India and Iran in the past (so very familiar and happy with slow, but very crowded and unpredictable traffic).

To clarify, the anxiety we had on Autobahn and Swiss' highways was not a reflection on the quality of the roads, and more a reflection on the driving 'style' combined with the speed that those roads allow. The style was quite aggressive, very fast in every lane, loads of overtakes (car constantly zig-zagging), people coming from the back _FAST_ and staying there, people switching lanes immediately after signalling rather than giving some time for people to notice. Overall, that combination made for a very stressful experience which we have agreed (as family) not to repeat in the future.

Just back from a 8500+km road trip (car, wife, and two kids 6 and 1) around Europe where we visited 9 countries (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece). For us as a family, France and UK had the safest and more relaxing roads. Italy was OK compared to the usual standard, Slovenia and Croatia had highways with too many slopes but people drive carefully. The ones where we struggled and developed high anxiety were (surprisingly!) Germany and Switzerland. In both latter countries we seriously struggled to relax as driving in any lane becomes a stressful experience. We have decided NOT to cross those countries anymore in our next trips sadly.

In the UK, Newborn hearing screening (https://www.nhs.uk/baby/newborn-screening/hearing-test/) is a mandatory test that happens in the first weeks of life.

Genomics-driven diagnosis of several (treatable) conditions is not science fiction anymore, but requires support from governments and national health systems. The technology is there, and can be scaled up.

With studies like this: https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/initiatives/newborns

and initiatives like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ljg7v0vmpo#:~:text=Eve...

Or commonly referred to as “bum guns” in the UK. We have three toilets in our house and have one in each. They’re so good I can’t even explain. I find it so inconvenient whenever I travel that these don’t come with every toilet.

There’s tons of extra work in double blind (for the author mostly, but also for peer reviewers and editors/chairs). Speaking from direct experience as author, reviewer, and chair at conferences. And generally the benefit is totally lost as you can easily circumvent it especially if you have already published in the field by just citing your previous work.