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The fact that there isn't a feedback mechanism to let the Siri team know that it responded incorrectly tells me everything I need to know.

Until they have real metrics around how often Siri fails they will continue to think that their correct response rate is great.

Rt of .88 according to https://rt.live I agree some restrictions could be relaxed. Hospitals were a good first step. More of the outdoors could be a good next one.

That we have dropped 50% from the peak is true according to the site you linked as well...

https://update.covid19.ca.gov

115 deaths on April 22nd.

45 deaths on April 26th.

I just noticed that it’s 75 days between March 17 and May 31. Wuhan’s lockdown was 76 days long.

We are down 50% from the peak of Covid deaths in California. It seems likely we will have one or more days of zero Covid deaths before the end of May. That is the measure I assume they are going for at this point.

Source: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/cali...

I'm in the East Bay and was quarantining for almost a month before my symptoms showed. I also assume I got it at the grocery store since that was my only outing.

This is exactly what I was thinking. The article doesn't mention if there is a setting to temporarily allow the battery to charge to a higher percentage.

I assume checking the box to not use this setting will work the same way but I want to make sure I switch it back. Just like how Tesla prompts you intermittently.

I didn't know that Lime shut down either. I haven't been out to see but I wonder if they collected up their scooters, or if they are all just sitting with their batteries draining. If the batteries go out entirely how will they find the scooters later?

I've just gotten the paperwork for our disaster loan. The COVID loans do not have a personal guarantee. That was one of the items on the first relief bill that specified this program on March 6.

Normal SBA loans require a personal guarantee. The Disaster Loans for Coronavirus do not.

One of the last lines threw me off...

"Would Tim Berners-Lee have used a BeBox to run the world’s first web server instead?"

The BeBox didn't ship until 1995. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first version of the web in 1991. So nope, that wouldn't have happened.

I enjoy his early work as well. I read his newer ones but mostly out of an appreciation for the old stuff.

I find the new books to be about things that are very low stakes, like an ad agency, or rich people from the future messing with people as a hobby. Because of that I'm less engaged.

But even with the low stakes the language is very high minded. I spend a lot of time with the lookup feature, which makes me glad I use an e-reader.

I haven’t seen an mention if anyone was injured. Was there someone on the cherry picker?

I'm not looking forward to setting an alarm for 5 am on Friday. I understand those on edt didn't like a 3 am time but it seems that there could have been a different compromise. Like 8 am pdt. Is that so they can say everything is sold out before the morning news cycle?

Thanks for including Suiteness Foti, we are always happy to help other founders.

I can’t stop looking at the missing </p> tag in the recommended example.

As a Tesla Model S owner I'm not at all surprised that the sales of the S and X are down. They are pushing the Model 3 hard, so hard that they dropped the reasonably priced S and X models from their lineup.

There is a huge price gap between the 3 and the S now and the differences between the cars is so slight that it doesn't make sense to buy an S today. Even worse the S and X haven't had their interior update yet so they look old compared to the 3.

It took me a while to find out why locals were saying solar farms cause dust storms. The locals claim solar farms destabilize the soil. Dust isn’t in the interest of the energy producer because it lowers efficiency so my assumption is that they would do everything to limit dust.

I guess I’m surprised that the LA Times would publish a claim like that without comment or caveat.

I'm wondering if it's worth uninstalling Office and reinstalling. If it uses the App Store update mechanism instead of Microsoft Autoupdate I would prefer it. Autoupdate presents a window almost every time a launch an Office application.

Unfortunately this article doesn’t load for me, I wanted to see it because I really enjoyed reading Strange Angel by George Pendle. There is a series on CBS All Access that is very, very loosely based on the book which is fun to watch if not at all accurate.

When I was starting Suiteness (YC S16) I found out after talking to hotels that it costs tens of thousands of dollars to connect to their backends. So I wrote a basic app in a weekend for "booking suites" but what actually happened was...

1. The user was filling out a form that was sent to me.

2. I would email hotels asking if they had suites available on the users dates.

3. I would enter their responses manually and the app would send a push notification to the user to see what I had entered.

4. Payment and everything else was done over email.

It looked legit, and during its peak I was doing it up to a hundred times a day. We are directly connected to hotels now so this doesn't happen anymore thankfully.

Hey there, I'm one of the founders. AMA about hotels legacy technology preventing them from being able to compete against Airbnb.

This does a better job of explaining why your attitude is incorrect than I would...

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/9-things-drivers-need-stop-say...

Not being able to flag requests that Siri failed to parse tells me that the Siri team isn't serious about making Siri better.

Just adding a small "That isn't what I asked" button or letting me say something like "Hey Siri, you got my last request wrong" would give Apple a mountain of usable data.

I ask Siri for the closing time of different stores all the time. "Hey Siri, when does X close?" works for me. On Siri most things don't work for me but that does.

Roomkey is a joint effort by a number of large hotel groups, similar to how Hulu started. Their goal is to increase hotel direct bookings.

We've been using RankScience for months at Suiteness. They've given our indexed pages a consistent boost every week.

I've had a couple of fill-ups with Yoshi since signing up a few weeks ago. It's been great for my Mountain View commutes so I don't have to lose more time with my family because I had to stop for gas on the way home.

Whew, this has finally been resolved. Vegas is up and running at 100% again.

We found a few main reasons and lots of little ones. The main ones were:

1. Brand Safety - The hotels we work with are high-end luxury resorts and they don't want to be seen as discounted.

2. Limited inventory - Many of the suites we sell are one of a kind like penthouses.

3. Technology limitations - This is a huge one but most hotel reservation systems max out at 4 adult occupancy. They can't just put these suites on the GDS.

4. Personal approvals - Some of the suites have decor like $50K vases that if they are broken they are out of commission for weeks.

So we had to overcome all of these issues before we could sign the first hotel. But by overcoming them and bringing great customers to the hotel the sales process has become easier (not easy, easier). I hope that helps.