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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?

> Brown people existing doesn't hurt you.

In Sweden, brown people are heavily overrepresented in violent crime, so many people are getting hurt.

Obligatory disclaimer: the problem is not caused by skin color, but by a complex mess of poverty, lack of opportunity, societal attitudes within and against immigrant groups, etc. But voters hearing about a steady drum beat of robberies, rapes, drive by shootings (yes, in Sweden!) don't really care.

Never mind geopolitics, how many people still believe that AGI is just around the corner and LLMs will get us there?

But they do so much more efficiently, and the speed difference is minimal (Boeing 747-8 cruises at 706 mph, 787 Dreamliner at 690 mph).

Have you seen Polestar's pricing? They're very much positioned as the premium EV option and their pricing is pretty much the opposite of dumping.

The spread of totalitarianism as, perhaps, exemplified by the US government arbitrarily deciding that certain cars can't be sold in the US, even if they're manufactured in the US and meet all applicable regulations?

Nothing in the article contradicts their (IMHO accurate) claim. Three years ago boardrooms were not drinking the LLM Kool-aid yet, while ML-powered QC has been around for years. Remember Silicon Valley's hot dog vs not hot dog? That's pretty much all you need, only the hot dog is a car part.

Obligatory link to Bill Bryson describing cricket:

https://www.eetimes.com/bill-bryson-on-cricket/

The book goes on to spoof radio commentary on cricket, which is even more hilarious:

https://sidewaysstation.com/2017/07/10/stovepipe-with-a-quic...

My first attempt to open the archive link took me to a Brazilian radio station that wanted me to install Adobe Flash. Second try worked fine.

I am genuinely baffled by how you could possibly parse my comment as suggesting we allow "only" big tech companies.