decimalenough

C'mon, how bad can it be...

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...OK, that's not just bad, that's positively disturbing.

This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans.

This is, sadly, not even remotely the case anymore.

Nope, unless you count things like this: https://www.kryalcastle.com.au/

Although there are plenty of old coastal fortifications, which don't appear to count even though things like Fort Siloso in Singapore (a WW2 vintage concrete bunker) apparently do.

it is literally the hardware-software-businessmodel matrix which creates and maintains conditions of oppression through unprecedented surveillance and other late-stage capitalistic evils.

No, that would "literally" be Palantir. Like, literally literally, that's their actual business model: selling surveillance and murder drones to intelligence agencies.

That's not how it works. Maps will see that the average speed of cars around Chinatown has slowed to a crawl, and it will route drivers elsewhere. They also get lists of planned closures from local traffic agencies, and you'll see these clearly displayed in black and red with little stop signs. (The quality of this data obviously varies wildly though.)

Accidents on highways are a different story because there are rarely any alternatives, or if there are, they're so much slower that it still makes sense to suffer through the 30 min jam.

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938252

Scrubbed at T-00:00 after the engines had already started firing, apparently four of them didn't light properly. Never seen that before, but still glad they kept it under control.

It's not about morals, it's about regulatory heat and risk. Cannabis in the US remains illegal on the federal level, and the chargeback rates on adult services are through the roof.

France was far and away the pre-tournament favorite for 2026, if anything it's somewhat impressive that OP's model correctly predicted that they wouldn't make it.

Here's hoping they were right for England as well, but we'll find out soon enough.

You'll find plenty of people on HN who grew up with Commodore 64s, thus named for having 64 kilobytes of memory, the approximate size of a website favicon in 2026.

But of course real hackers chiseled their own 0s and 1s out of rock by hand.

And Australia. He lived in Sydney and the Aussie PM just posted a tribute.

Sure, if you're starting from nothing and expect to live a Western lifestyle. But you can draw down $5000/year from that sum for a very long time, and make twice the average Indian yearly income.

If you're earning $100k in Silicon Valley, your expenses will swallow up almost all of that. A sudden $100k windfall, on the other hand, tax free and suitably invested,will let you live for years quite comfortably in many poor countries.

Trust me, other companies are watching this case already and will adjust accordingly.

Of course, they won't stop firing employees who point out inconvenient truths, they'll just be more careful about the reasons they put in writing.

The paper has a lengthy section entitled "The Crucible of Ukraine: The Transparent Battlefield".

FWIW, this is no longer true for North Korea: a few years back they removed all references to reunification from the constitution and designated South Korea as an enemy state. They even refer to it by its South Korean name now (Hanguk/Daehanminguk), instead of the previous Namchoson.

I've switched to non-SOTA models, which deliver comparable value at a fraction of the cost. A full day of coding with Deepseek is approx $1 in tokens, and at least for my use cases the quality is equivalent to Claude.

Battery chemistries have changed and technology has improved a lot in that time frame. Those 15 year old Nissan Leafs have terrible battery degradation, because they're not liquid cooled (hot = bad) and used batteries that degrade fast (LMO, which autocorrect thinks should be spelled LMAO). Manufacturers learned their lesson and every EV built in the last 5 years is far better on both counts.

Invented? Ancient Rome would like a word: the Vigiles Urbani date back to 6 AD.

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

And private firefighters were active even earlier, with Crassus particularly notorious:

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

I'm agreeing with you here? All I'm saying is that one company raising prices and raking in profits by itself is not a crime. The key parts here are conspiring with other producers to make sure everybody does the same, and manipulating the index to make it look legit.

QB House and its many imitators would like a word. It's a genuine mystery to me why these "fast haircut" chains are ubiquitous in Asia but unknown in the West.

https://medium.com/@justin.tan/qb-house-back-to-basics-busin...

On its face, this is a normal market response: if demand is unchanged and overall supply goes down, prices go up.

The criminal conspiracy part here was manipulating the index prices in tandem so that everybody raised prices in lockstep.

Well, yes and no, because that 10000 yen room was US$100 back then, not $60.

You can still get a shoebox-sized business hotel for less, but if you want a room with enough space to open your suitcase, yes.

Have you checked Tokyo hotel prices lately? Thanks to the travel boom they're through the roof as well: the business hotel that was Y10,000 before COVID is now twice that, and Western branded hotels that were Y30,000 or so are now Y100,000+.

You're the one who started with the "complex, vague machinery of reason with more scaffolding" here. I'm simply pointing out that that's not actually a thing: it's just floating point numbers.

Sigh indeed, since that's patently obvious and the study thus controlled for it.

Indeed, but scapegoating people who are Different(tm) has a long history of being a successful political tactic, at least if you measure success solely in terms of getting elected.

it can work through the complex, vague machinery of reason with more scaffolding

No, it can hold more floating point numbers.

I'm not an expert in the field, but I've yet to see a solid rebuttal to this paper;

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

How would you describe North Korea?