Readit NewsFWIW, the fake smiles and hidden gazes, to me the least, were always a North American thing.
In fact, in Switzerland we have its opposite, the infamous "Swiss stare" :-)
https://www.zeit.de/campus/zeit-germany/2023/01/culture-face...
I didn't click on it. I don't think I want to. I bet it's about ublock origin because I don't see any ads on any websites already.
There are about 40 Mc Donald's restaurants in Berlin. About 1 per 100K citizens. There are a few other chains operating of course but they are similarly small. There are 4000 kebab restaurants in Berlin. And loads of pizza, pasta, currywurst, sushi, etc. restaurants too. Probably close to 10K restaurants or so. The vast majority of which are not franchises. It's great.
Germany just seems to have a lot of rules that prevent franchising from being very lucrative. Whatever it is, I love it. I'm from the Netherlands. That's more like the US. Restaurants are expensive. Sitting down for a quick, affordable lunch is not much of a thing. It's either cheap fast food or self-catering in the super market/bakery. With all the health consequences as well. Obesity is on the rise and it's a poverty correlated thing. Food poverty means lots of fast food.
“ The RAC’s head of policy, Simon Williams, says many people are overwhelmed by the multitude of apps they have to use, “when in reality you want one that you like and you’re happy using and that you can use everywhere”.
Six years ago the Department for Transport started developing a “national parking platform” (NPP) designed to enable drivers to use one app of their choice to pay for all their parking. It has been trialled by a number of councils, but a big question mark hangs over its future as public funding for the project looks likely to be withdrawn.
The RAC’s head of policy Simon Williams says many people are overwhelmed by the multitude of apps they have to use, “when in reality you want one that you like and you’re happy using and that you can use everywhere”.
Six years ago the Department for Transport started developing a “national parking platform” (NPP) designed to enable drivers to use one app of their choice to pay for all their parking, and it has been trialled by a number of councils. However, a big question mark now hangs over its future as public funding for the project looks likely to be withdrawn imminently.”
I think the other one was an npr piece posted on HN yesterday? Is there a bug with wordpress or are people just getting sloppy?
I have made a few preparations since then.
I always keep a few thousand euros in cash at home, enough to keep me going with a frozen bank account. Even when all goes well, ATM limits can be restrictive. In a worse situation, money can be hard to access.
I keep a bit of money with my family abroad. Enough to soften the landing even if I arrive with just the clothes on my back.
I have citizenship on another continent. I refused to become a EU citizen until I was guaranteed dual citizenship.
I keep a lot more liquid assets than most. I would prefer to keep more of it out of Europe but that is not so easy.
My pension is not tied to any country. This was an important feature for me.
I can work from anywhere. I can leave early while most people would wait until things get really bad.
That being said, I try not to worry too much. These things are set up precisely so I don't have to. They're a sort of insurance policy.
Other models have generally failed that without a system prompt that encourages rigorous thinking. Each of the reasoning settings may very well have thinking guidance baked in there that do something similar, though.
I'm not sure it says that much that it can solve this, since it's public and can be in training data. It does say something if it can't solve it, though. So, for what it's worth, it solves it reliably for me.
Think this is the smallest model I've seen solve it.