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The stacking two tickets thing is pretty much a relic of the past now. Your first ticket (local fare) is your Suica/Pasmo card, and your second ticket (express surcharge) can be loaded into the same Suica/Pasmo straight from the smartEX app where you bought your ticket, meaning all you need to do is tap the card once.

It's admittedly a PITA to set up the first time around, but once you've done it, it's silky smooth.

It's a Japanese pun. 5489 = goyoyaku = your reservation.

Many of these used to be/still are phone numbers as well.

JR East is currently rolling out a new, streamlined booking portal. However, in classic Japanese style, attempting to access it from a non-Japanese IP returns a 403.

https://go.jreast.co.jp/

There was also news earlier this year that all the major JRs will introduce a unified booking portal in 2027, but I was unable to find any proof of life that this is actually happening.

This doesn't sound terribly different from eg Alaska's Permanent Fund payouts? The main difference seems to be that PF payments fluctuate a lot, while the Marshalls plan seems to be a fixed, predictable sum.

One nuance not mentioned in the blog is that this particular "without" is expressed with the archaic negative verb conjugation -zu (ず). It lives on in set phrases and literary use, but it's not usable without a verb to negate (you can't say "pan-zu ikiru" for "live without bread") and it's going to sound pretty weird if you try to use it for quotidian things like "live without eating bread" (pan tabezu ikiru).

Cloudflare's incident response usually gets high praise from HN. Look at the remarkable lack of hate here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973709

This only impacts LXD.

AI subscription plans are selling $100 bills for $10, they are way more expensive to the company than people buying metered tokens.

And, more importantly, the dollar is inflating.

I'm glad you apparently live in an ideal world where every incident is fully root caused and fixed at the origin, and all your coders produce perfect, bug-free code.

Most of us, however, do not.

Mt Gox was widely reckoned to be a clown show long before they got hacked (it was originally a Magic the Gathering trading site for chrissake).

Binance's reputation is hardly impeccable, but by crypto standards they're kinda sorta the adults in the room. Then again, so was FTX.

Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. This is the crypto equivalent of JP Morgan Chase getting hacked.

Literally every modern browser descends from Webkit. If anything Chrome diverged from it by switching to Blink in 2013.

"Passive method of control" is a remarkable euphemism for being packed off to the gulag for crimes like being related to someone who fled to South Korea.

Bybit was hacked for $1.5B last year.

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

You misspelled "turn it into more nuclear weapons in North Korea", where Kim Jong Un is already living like a king.

CZ has confirmed that this "looks like a hack on Binance": https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/breaking-bina...

Huh? It was built entirely in-house at Google.

The vast majority of that money is going to AI. Some part of it is for internal consumption, some of it is for resale to GCP customers, but it is not some sort of loss making subsidy to prop up GCP.

If your business is tech and compute is a major cost of business, then sure, you want to avoid lock in.

But if your business is not tech, it makes a hell of lot of sense to pay a few bucks extra for a managed service like Cloud SQL to host your databases and let Google handle the security patches and backups etc, instead of hiring your own DBA to do it for you.

https://wallhop.io/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-en... (for connoisseurs who prefer their paywall circumvention without malware)

If I was afraid of competition from China, I don't think robotics is a field I'd enter to try to escape it.

Maybe Tesla should expand into Mexican restaurants or something.

Export regulations make it basically impossible for SpaceX to transfer their tech to other countries, and the current admin certainly isn't interested in granting exceptions.

Citation needed. SpaceX seems to be doing just fine developing new rockets and better satellite internet without NASA.

WAP Push is a specially formatted SMS that triggers your phone to download a URL. Unfortunately the vuln here appears to hit at the SMS parsing phase, which I don't think can be turned off easily.

The same decline is visible on all Stack Exchange sites, regardless of moderation policy.

One fun line from the results: Google assets are up in one year from $595,281M to $1,003,312M, in other words one trillion dollars. Not market cap, mind you, but assets that could in theory be sold today to raise a trillion dollars in cash.

Liabilities also increased from $180,016M to 325,763M, but in comparison that seems almost puny.

https://wallhop.io/ is useful, but it doesn't support many top-tier news sites.

It also automatically redirects you to archive.today as backup if its own attempt fails.

Every year that passes, Japan's record of zero fatal high-speed train accidents since the Shinkansen was inaugurated in the 1960s becomes more and more incredible, with 10 billion passengers and counting.

(Excluding suicides/people falling on tracks, that is. And that one poor student in 1995 who got stuck in the door of a departing train and was dragged to his death.)