"While the cross-stock mean buy-and-hold return is over 30,000%, the median is -6.9%. Shareholders' wealth was enhanced by $91 trillion over the century, but long-term investors in nearly 60% of stocks incurred wealth reductions"

Better article with pictures (2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526

From BBC:

  The officials say it could have been created to redistribute the pyramid's 
  weight around the entrance or another as yet undiscovered chamber.

From TFA:

  Specialists have linked the corridor to the pyramid’s internal load 
  management. Its position near the entrance and behind the gabled stonework 
  suggests it may have helped redirect the immense weight pressing down from 
  above, much as the relieving chambers over the king’s chamber were designed 
  to protect spaces below. 

Yeah, looks like a "relieving chamber" [0] to me. It'd be interesting to take the densities from muon tomography and plug them into finite element analysis. A recent paper using the muon tomography data to inform comparisons of ramp styles [1] says that further data is needed:

  The possibility that the NFC functioned as a relieving chamber has been 
  previously suggested, though without consensus.  . . . where the NFC’s gabled 
  vault—an architecture well known for load redirection—could act as a 
  stress-moderating feature, limiting transmission toward the Descending 
  Passage. This interpretation remains hypothetical and does not imply 
  intentional design integration; it is based solely on geometric compatibility 
  and structural plausibility. Verifying a load-management role will require 
  dedicated finite-element analyses constrained by ERT geometry and improved 
  characterization of internal stratigraphy. 

0. https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/37189/engine...

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02405-x

(The ‘sword’ is called leeboard in English)

Thank you, I did not know the term!

This account is an LLM IMHO.

> This account is an LLM IMHO.

I like HN, and I'm not a native speaker.

I do use LLMs to refine my wording, but I am not an LLM.

I think many prefer poor English over LLM English.

Understood. But my priority is whether the words express my thoughts crystal clear — clarity over style.

I think many prefer AI writing to whining about AI writing.

Yes, but HN is dominated by the latter aggressively irrational folks. Look at how many of kindkang2024's comments with perfectly reasonable content are dead--the nuttiness has infiltrated mod policy.

This is getting more annoying than the LLMs.

Right? But it's now HN policy ... look at how many of kindkang2024's comments are dead.

Sextants were used for coastal mapping though, albeit specialized ones called hydrographic sextants.

You can see one here: https://sextantbook.com/2019/01/13/a-french-hydrographic-sex...

The linked article is by W.J. Morris, and his book on sextants is in my opinion one of the standard works and much recommended.

On top of the stringent border checks and Minneapolis, Brits are now seeing things like this and thinking twice: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...

I don't think it's entirely due to US politics. The strength of the dollar against the pound, the perception of the US as not being a fashionable place to go, the fact that most news about the US in the UK media is either war, Epstein, or ICE, measured against some very competitive offers for other destinations that don't have those problems, makes me believe it's certainly a high percentage. FWIW in my teams (approx. 100 people, all in the UK) I can only think of one person who travelled to the US in the last year, and that was a trip to Disney they'd had booked in for a while. The rest have all been going to southern Europe, Japan etc.

72% is just not a believable figure. I assume we're talking about TUI here, and they haven't announced anything about this 72% as far as I can tell.

TUI is German rather than UK-based, and they're not a package operator (although they do own several.)

LOL. Why not? I wouldn't want to travel here. We're arresting people off the streets for no reason. It's fucking horrible.

There's different models from several suppliers as well: https://www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Interceptor-Drones.html

Thanks for the link, that was the same source I couldn't re-find.

It is dead because it is an LLM.

Wow, they are improving. None of the usual tells, fairly accurate. That’s a little concerning.

Still has the "it's not A, but B" rhyme, if not literally the pattern. But yes they are getting better.

And it's a pretty new account.

Paper: https://andrewbenjaminhall.com/asher_et_al_LLM_sycophancy.pd...

> However, you can save 1 byte of RAM by using the branch instructions instead, as long as you know which flag(s), if any, are guaranteed to be on or off at the jump point.

> For example, if you know the carry flag will always be clear at the jump point, and if the jump distance is within branching range, you can replace JMP with BCC.

However if the BCC crosses a page boundary it'll take 4 cycles, one cycle longer than a JMP.