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- some version of asking for a recommendation (ie, "what's good here?")

- in a social event, try "Hi, we haven't met yet, I'm ______"

The actual sound file, which is just a vowel sound ("ehh"), is below.

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

I looked into Lingq, watched a few short videos on it, and saw an interview with the founder, but I'm still not sure I get it. The site is mainly a text-based vocabulary acquisition tool, right?

Not exactly the same thing, but the following is happening now, in Spain. Citizens can opt-out by either turning off their phones or putting them in airplane mode during the dates mentioned.

"Spain’s National Statistical Institute (INE) plans to track the movements of millions of Spanish citizen’s cellphones to conduct a ‘sociological study’, El Pais and EFE reported. The INE will analyze user’s movements between November 18 to 21, November 24, on December 25 and during July 20 and August 15, using data from the ‘big three’ telecom companies in Spain. Data however will be anonymized before processing, the INE stressed."

HN discussion of the WSJ book review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908728

The talk is 29 minutes total. I'd suggest watching from the 9m40s mark when the author starts talking about smart homes.

And here [1] you can see what the region would look like with rising coastlines, based on a Climate Central interactive map (which can be used for any global coastal city).

1 - https://ss2.climatecentral.org/index.html#8/44.984/11.272

This also strikes me as odd. I've recently been seeing extremely short reviews for places. That is, 10+ reviews per place that are basically "was great, would recommend!" or "the host was responsive, I'll come back!".

I can't tell if this is a thing people do or if they are somehow fake 5 star reviews.

For which this was the HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408178

The service AirBnB offers is rife with problems, as can be gleaned from reading the comments.

>The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.

I just spent 7 days (20h total) trying to make one booking. Tons of reading between the lines and analyzing involved, as well as bad or non-responsive potential hosts. To top it off, AirBnb Support the whole time was very poor.

Peter Robinson (of the Hoover Institution) is a good example of a master interviewer, with his Uncommon Knowledge series. Here's one of the last ones I saw:

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment” (Sept 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRleB034EC8

Also, from another article (by Axios):

"SoftBank will pay former WeWork CEO and current non-executive chairman Adam Neumann around $200 million to leave the board of directors, give up his voting shares and support SoftBank's takeover, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation."

https://www.axios.com/adam-neumann-wework-softbank-takeover-...

Genuine question: Is there a name for saying "past evidence hasn't shown this to be true, thus it's likely to remain untrue"?

I was debating a different technology with a friend and he made such a comment, but my response was that the frequency, scope and importance of past technological advancements won't hold a candle to those of the future.

If you copy the URL fast enough after clicking, you can check Archive (.is) to see if it's been archived. In this case, it was.

http://archive.is/NLqpE

There's also Outline. Not sure if one service is better than the other.

I've touch-typed for 20 years and sometimes a random friend (whose job isn't related to computers) catches me doing it and is either amazed or thinks I'm showing off. To me, I'm just typing. Like other commenters, I also self-correct while doing it.

In Puerto Rico it sure does a lot of butchering, after having taken Ubers there

>You talk about governments as if they were an alien sentient life form ("governments ... feel entitled"). They're not. They are groups of people who serve constituencies.

Lately, I've been thinking about what's happening in HK, and how the protesters were pulling down facial recognition towers. Without that, the social credit system is crippled (a bit). If enough people made it their business to take down a tower, here and there, with enough frequency, the govt would probably find a way around it but, still, that big, powerful government weakens when the right/wrong citizens get together.

And even when the govt says no masks are allowed, there are ways around that, too [1]

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/ddu3eh/ho...

In case anyone is interested

Great Big Story: The Vultureman of Spain (3m14s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKaYUEknCU

"Manuel Aguilera wants you to know there’s no reason to fear vultures. The ornithological guide has gone as far as climbing into an animal carcass to get closer to the birds of prey. He’s spent 40 years studying the griffon vulture, and has dedicated his career to changing peoples’ perceptions of the birds, hoping to have others realize that they are majestic creatures to revere and protect."

Sometimes it's through reading comments on how others use the apps that I discover a new way to use it. I thought Maps was restricted to looking at a map and zooming in and out.

>Consider how willing you would be to hold your wrist up in front of you for 30+ seconds.

I'm likely an outlier as I keep it in front of my face for 2-3 minutes at a time when playing games, but I admit that it's a limited use scope, and my raised arm is usually supported in some way.

After a week of inital usage, the more quick interactions I discover, the more I like the watch. But when that fades, I'll at least be left with the ability to read full Wikipedia articles and browse Reddit, thanks to 3rd party apps.

>I see it in my youngest daughter as well, and I do worry for her

It's good that you worry. As children of staunch loners, my siblings and I all turned into loners as adults. Edit: We don't even talk to each other.

A simple form of this was done in Prague recently, to see what tourists were throwing away (5 min video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Vj8wb5jAs

Though unrealistic, all things considered, there needs to be a single site for everything (akin to pirated tv/film sites, incidentally).

The user would go to a central place where all streaming options are available to be browsed and watched. The point of differentiation would be at payment, as the cost to the user, for whatever they just selected, would go to those who own the rights. No walled gardens, everyone wins. The user pays one monthly price, or within a fixed range. How to figure that all out, well, that's where complexities arise.

My personal soltuion, thus far, is to pay for the service I'm using the most (currently, MhZ Choice), then find other solutions for that which I don't pay for.

Youtube comments are the worst for written memes. The smaller or more niche the channel, the less it seems to occur. It's always a breath of fresh air to see informational/interesting comments on the smaller channels (and to have responsive Youtubers). I don't really use FB much so I don't know if it's equally as bad these days, in terms of memes as comments.

Regarding the Show HN, personally I'd like such a repo for WhatsApp conversations, but nothing work-related for the reasons others have mentioned.

>What would it take to build a sustainable dating platform?

Since finding the right person is a numbers game, I'd say the best path is an easy path. Something between speed dating and a normal date, where the goal is to check for chemistry as well as advance past the initial, in-person interaction. Start with having a few like/dislike parameters met, then get you both face to face.

Here's my idea for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356401

If we simplified and just went for a real-world, slower version of speed dating, where each pair would get 15 minutes with each other, it wouldn't control for like/dislike parameters. IE: I definitely wouldn't date a smoker. Having it start online then move to real-world, asap, helps to match likes and dislikes more closely.

I came to cite the same part of the article, but for the reason that it makes no sense, after the word "because".

It's legal to search people because they have a right to decline? I think the author meant it's legal to request a search. Of course, it's legal for anyone to _request_ anything. Small change in wording but I'd say it matters.

>unsymbolised thinking, a trickier concept to get your head around, but essentially a thought that doesn’t manifest as words or images, but is undoubtedly present in your mind.

I've always been good at producing mental white noise (or TV static), for lack of a better term. I wonder if it's actually unsymbolised thinking. When I'm not actively thinking, there's just a massive wall of static. In these moments, I'm not thinking of nothing but I'm also not thinking of something.

Why contactless cards haven’t caught on in the U.S. (3 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZ4OodETr8

My mistake. Hopefully my submission can be flagged for removal. I recall HN recognizing dupes and using a new submission of an already posted URL effectively as an upvote (rather than allow the dupe through). I guess they don't do that any longer.

I think São Paulo is a city that takes time to discover. The only people who like it are those who've lived there long enough to be very familiar with it...since it obviously lacks the "postcard" sights of Rio.

I lived in both cities and I loved Rio, despite its problems. I found SP to be quite boring, grey and overcrowded (save for select places like Liberdade, Ibirapuera, the former Portuguese Language Museum, Serra da Cantareira, etc), yet I always thought that if I had lived there much longer, I could have grown to really like it. There's a feeling that something pulses under the surface and you can only experience it via serendipity, word of mouth and curiosity, if that makes sense.

One of those grey areas is that there's a large portion of people who do pixação that see their art as an art form.

As an aside, I remember a short Brazilian documentary on São Paulo's "reverse graffiti" (doing a drawing or mural by skillfully removing dirt from a dirty wall, so that the white spaces create an image) where the police detained the artist doing it, despite the fact he was literally cleaning the wall.