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This refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper... . Here's a popular game based on it: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Sounds about right. How I understand it: Mary is 24, Ann is a few (n) years younger M = 24 A = M-n Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. So we have to…

The Finder has an interesting take on this: copy a file with ⌘C, then move it somewhere with ⌥⌘V. This is much nicer than the Windows Explorer's CTRL+X and CTRL+V, where the user i…

The Mac now has a clipboard history as well, it's just a bit awkward. You can open Spotlight with ⌘Space, and within Spotlight open the clipboard manager with ⌘4.

I remember that there had been a discussion about providing free Interrail tickets to all EU citizens at some age (18 or 19 maybe?), which I found a brilliant idea. I don't know wh…

This is how I learned cursive in school, and it never occurred to me that this may interrupt my writing flow. I agree that doing the backtracks after writing the entire word would …

Similarly, why don't photos get auto-straightened, maybe with an option to revert to original? I spend too much time aligning the horizon properly on snapshots that I took while cy…

A different UX issue I have with these buttons is that the designers seen to have chosen the wrong rotation direction. I almost always need to rotate photos 90⁰ to the right, so I …

I was too, and I was going to ask whether this is a good use of taxpayer money, as the ICANN fee for registering a TLD is $227,000. But given the fact that the Web was invented at …

As an aside, Rogue Amoeba are one of an ecosystem of great and greatly passionate indie software houses for the Mac. All of them create excellent software with polished UIs, provid…

Let me correct myself: Too bad that these images predate the wide availability of popcorn in the old world and its common usage as a snack eaten during entertainment .

Gotta love how some of the spectators on the larger Joseph Heintz the Younger painting enjoy the entertainment. Too bad that these images predate the invention of popcorn!

A bit unclear - it says > Weller’s largest study yet is due to be published later in 2019 But in the header, it also says > Updated May 31, 2024 I'd still love to know whether ther…

Let me be the first to say that this is a lovely website in a lovely, slightly modernized turn-of-the-millennium style.

Probably hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of people still suffer from this truth each and every day.

This may not always be an option for the somewhat more than 8 billion people who don't live in areas served by Waymo.

*Every* time I try to be smart on HN, there's ~someone who outsmarts me~ an opportunity to learn - and that's one of the reasons why I keep coming back. Thank you :)

If you're referring to the mag covers, they're Norwegian in fact. (Bokmål or Nynorsk, you ask? Idk)

I'm fairly certain that the YouTube logo, especially the original one, is meant to symbolize a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV like this one: https://spencertified.com/cdn/shop/collectio…

As a kid I loved these illustrations that made it so transparent (pun semi-intended) how a particular car is constructed, and how all the individual components work together. I nev…

It's been thepiratebay.org for ages now (or so I heard, not that I'd ever go there ever, of course).

Seems like this discussion creates a lot of interest in the Minibook X - researching the device on Google shows lower prices than on the actual pages behind the search results, so …

That I didn't know, thanks!

As someone has pointed out in the post's comments, there's the Wombat ADB-USB converter as an alternative. Doesn't look as good, but requires no battery or other power supply. IIRC…

She sells seashells in the Sahara was my first association, but then the article clearly states that we're talking about a different desert.