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For anyone who, like me, wasn't sure what's going on in the linked, archived PR: this is Mythos attempting to socially engineer a malicious PR during a test run by the UK AI Safety…

I was SO excited when I first read this article, as I was at the time implementing shared-global multithreading in a fork of JS Interpreter [1][2] and it was thrilling to think tha…

On the one hand, if you grew up in the baazzar, moving to the cathedral might feel like the "death of open source" even if it is really just a return to an earlier way of working. …

> Yes, I use a lot of emdashes. If only you used them properly—like this.

I am completely confused about the orbital mechanics in this game. They seem completely broken; at any rate they do not work remotely like any other simulation I've played with (e.…

> when it became impossible to ask on SO Can you explain what you mean by that?

I have various ill-informed hypotheses, mostly connected to the cult of shareholder value and the decades of short-termism that have resulted. As the author notes: MBAs are not inc…

This reminds me of an interesting security incident that occurred on the undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca unix cluster while I was an undergrad, circa 1996. When I'd started, the cluste…

Seems interesting but for some reason on Chrome on my iPhone 13 mini the page is too big for the screen: I have to pinch zoom out to see the X that dismisses the instructions, and …

You know what else is infuriating? Pages that won't load (at all—just show a blank page, or in this case a too many redirects error—if you do not have cookies and local storage ena…

Did you mean to post this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917 ?

"I just use the stock wired earphones that come with the phone" If only that were still a thing.

Well, their "About" page explains that it's a journal "dedicated to two big ideas…: equality under the law and global federalism." But more relevantly, also that they publish "shor…

Not to disparage Stijn's efforts, but he's about a quarter century late to the AR ad-blocking game: when Steve Mann came give a talk at the University of Waterloo whilst I was an u…

I am obviously not the target audience for this, because it seems to be the opposite of what I want: I'd much rather just have a text-only homepage than anything with thumbnails. I…

Technology (e.g. highly addictive short-form video apps) seems like a likely explanation; fear of fentanyl is less plausible (it would not deter drinking or vaping). Surely the big…

Well, given that it's in _The Guardian_, there's a pretty good chance that she is indeed now aware of it. Minor quibble: the current Magic Circle is not "different from the last on…

Folks in the UK are likely to: it is the professional guild for magicians.

Indeed, the headline is… technically accurate but seems clearly designed to mislead. The article body is a bit more clear: > The Manchester Evening News reported that passengers ac…

Doing open source releases takes engineering time, and the internal tooling teams are amongst those that have been hit by layoffs[1], so keeping GitHub up to date is probably not a…

As I understand it: - The base movement turns the date wheel every day at (or, typically, just before) midnight via the 31 teeth on that wheel. - The single tooth on the date wheel…

Since reading this I've gone looking for the setting in Maps (on iOS) but not been able to find it. Can you tell me where it is?

In the UK it seems that almost all online banking transactions are now verified by SMS. As far as I can tell this is required by law, and replaced the previous, bank card + card re…

I would. The new building is huge and tickets are $30 for kids and $40 for adults (though I suspect that many of the visitors get discounted or free admission because their employe…

Similarly: I remember spending quite a lot of time exploring [National Capital Feenet]( https://www.ncf.ca/en/)'s Gopher pages in an attempt to find a link-to-a-link-to-a-page that…