PNRs also contain info on the Form of Payment used to pay for the ticket, in case you were ever wondering who's paying for their airfares in cash...
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tadzikpk commented on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages eurollm.io/... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
Some cursory clicking about didn't reveal to me the actual corpus they used, only that it is several trillion tokens 'divided across the languages'. I'm curious mainly because Irish (among some other similarly endangered languages on the list) typically has any large corpus come from legal/governmental texts that are required to be translated. There must surely be only a relatively tiny amount of colloquial Irish in the corpus. It be interesting to see some evals in each language particularly with native speakers.
I think LLMs may be on the whole very positive for endangered languages such as Irish, but before it becomes positive I think there's an amount of danger to be navigated (see Scots Gaelic wikipedia drama for example)
In any case I think this is a great initiative.
That tracks. I learnt Gaeilge Uladh growing up and standard Irish feels like reading or writing a legal agreement compared to the spoken word…
tadzikpk commented on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math apnews.com/article/naep-r... · Posted by u/bikenaga
In the US there are a few obvious things, but everyone acts as if we are powerless to solve them:
1. Cell phones in classrooms.
I don’t know how or why they were ever allowed. They should have to be in a backpack or in a locker and off during class.
2. Not removing students with bad behavior from classrooms and schools.
The current thinking on how to handle a student who is seriously misbehaving and potentially violent is to remove all of the other students from the classroom versus just removing the problematic student in question. This is because there have been instances where a child has been physically removed and has gotten seriously injured. The thinking on expulsion is that it should essentially never happen because kids who get expelled have bad outcomes later in life. But the net effect is that one bad student can hold an entire classroom hostage and there is nothing the teacher can do. This is obviously detrimental to all of the kids who are compliant and behaving. It also causes burnout which leads me to the next major issue facing public schools.
3. Good teachers are quitting
It isn’t worth it to teach in America. You need a lot of expensive education. You get paid very little. You have no power to remove a student who are major disruptions and make it impossible to teach. And, in many districts, teachers are being accused of trying to indoctrinate children because we live in a politicized world.
4. Too many parents aren’t parenting
The number of kids who are not potty trained by kindergarten continues to rise. This is an issue of parents not wanting to do something that is hard and takes patience.
5. Lowering Standards
When faced with kids failing the solution should never be to lower long held standards. The kids are the same, they are just as capable, it is all of the above that is different.
Bonus. We feed kids junk in schools
This has been going on for decades. Why is it so hard to make fresh food for kids? It could probably cost about the same if done properly. The answer is it takes some effort and people have to think about it.
> 2. Not removing students with bad behavior from classrooms and schools
This is basically _the_ reason people send their kids to private schools
tadzikpk commented on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? jamal.haba.sh/its-2025-wh... · Posted by u/kamikazee
The friction of changing bank accounts is high, and few people choose their bank accounts based on how easy the online authentication is. Unless a bank does this meaningfully much worse than their competitors (low bar) they have little incentive to fix it.
If you think TD is bad, try some European countries where there's only a handful of banks...
tadzikpk commented on Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods plasticlist.org/report... · Posted by u/jeff18
This is so informative, thank you. I always got my kids baby food in glass, thinking it would reduce their microplastics exposure as well as reducing plastic waste. Turns out only one of those was true :(
> Cars are getting too big; why are manufacturers pushing “crossovers” and SUVs on consumers and why are consumers buying them? I could write pages on this point alone.
I’ve got 3 kids under 5. Car seats are absolutely enormous these days — it’s impossible to fit 3 across in even the largest “crossovers” (VW Atlas / KIA Telluride). I don’t want a big car (my dream car is something along the lines of the Audi A4 Allroad Saloon) but I also sometimes need to bring all my kids to the same place.
Figure out a way to safely downsize car seats and I bet SUV purchases would drop 10% or more.
There’s whole sites dedicated to this problem, example https://thecarseatlady.com/narrowest-car-seats/
But if you pick narrow seats you can make it work. I have 3 car seats in the back of a 2016 Subaru Legacy, which also generally a bloatfree car
Some things were not plainly spelled out:
* July 11 2023 this was caught, April 2021 it was suspected to have happened. So, 2+ years they had this credential, and 2 months from detection until disclosure.
* How many tokens were forged, how much did they access? I'm assuming bad if they didn't disclose.
* No timetable from once detected to fix implemented. Just "this issue has been corrected". Hope they implemented that quickly...
* They've fixed 4 direct problems, but obviously there's some systemic issues. What are they doing about those?
If this credential is still valid 2 years later, what is their credential rotation policy?
tadzikpk commented on Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007) greem.co.uk/otherbits/jel... · Posted by u/mgliwka
You simply need a colder wall…
This very rarely happens in MA, because when it does the store has to give you the item for $10 off, including if that makes it free. And they have to post a sign at the register explaining the law, which means when you're invoking it all you need to do is point at the sign.
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/consumer-pricing-accuracy-...