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Some searching led me to this report from an NGO called "AirWars" [1] which, in connection with The Guardian, reports that "at least 22,679, and potentially as many as 48,308 civil…

Also, price of an Nvidia RTX 4090 according to a random website [1]: Jan. 2023: $1920 Jan. 2024: $1811 Jan. 2025: $1639 Jan. 2026: $2193 [1] https://bestvaluegpu.com/history/new-an…

> Yeah I was in Europe for a month last month and this summer was the best ever. I imagine you don't intend it like that, but last month killed an extra five thousand people in Ger…

> What other better solution do you imagine? I believe there are two ways to deal with a system that's not working as intended. One alternative is to have shock buffers for unexpec…

Without writing my entire life story, here are some pointers. Best city: Leverkusen. Easy to get appointments, incredibly friendly personnel. Honorable mention for Potsdam. Worst c…

On the topic of rules: > [Rules mean that] someone, or a group of people, sat down and thought about that specific thing and decided on a standard for everyone. When you have to do…

The bid was accepted in 2018, during Trump's first presidency. So both yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_bids

Mildly off-topic, but also mildly interesting. The Wikipedia page for "Ratlines" [1] discusses "systems of escape routes used by Nazis and their collaborators" and how they settled…

I agree that something must be done, but the hydration break is the wrong solution for two reasons. First, plenty of countries have been regularly playing under these conditions an…

Speaking for the *ACL conferences, they are not "random people" in the sense that they must have "(a) at least two papers in main ACL events or Findings, plus (b) at least one more…

The best answer to that question is the development blog they made for the first game: https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/archives.html At a quick glance: four months for the engine …

If you feel like trying a hail Mary to perhaps improve the ending I have two theories that I couldn't muster enough strength to check. Also, spoilers from here on. First, there's a…

Let's say I'm one of such people. How would you convince me that your comment is any different from the ones we've been getting since roughly GPT-3 claiming that AGI is finally her…

I may have a smaller one. I don't know exactly where it is, but at least I know exactly how fast it's moving.

I would like to offer this comment from three days ago as counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013694

I deleted my account when they deprecated i.reddit.com. It's mildly funny to read comments lamenting the death of "the good mobile interface" when the amazing one was already kille…

I suggest reading the original linked article, if only because it includes a video with the zipper in action: https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504

The problem with spam is that it's not a technology like AI is. So I suggest taking cars instead. Cars have plenty of advantages, and yet no one would say "the number of pedestrian…

I recently desk-rejected a paper where every single citation in its Introduction was hallucinated. That means that the entire connection between what the author(s) did and how it r…

Since we're off-topic, most of the information in that article (as it's often the case) is based mostly on Christopher Hitchen's work (book and documentary), a man who describes hi…

I cannot speak for the intended purpose of ArXiv by its creators but I can tell you that, in the conference circles, its main intended use was flag planting: people were afraid tha…

Two weeks ago a heatwave linked to climate change killed in Germany an excess 1300 people [1, 2]. It was the deadliest single day of the last 25 years [3] - the mean numbers of dea…

> Cece went into her room, flopped onto her bed, and pulled up her text thread with Tomo. “Honestly,” she typed, “all this drama makes me wanna end it all.” (...) “if these thought…

I disagree with that conclusion: even if the chainmail were indeed very uncommon (no idea), getting it from China was so easy that he even got it when actively trying to avoid it. …

More like the new "America can't manufacture a grill scrubber" [1]. For those who haven't seen the video, YouTuber Destin Sandlin ("Smarter every day") tried to build a grill scrub…