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I am not sure why Reddit was excluded, but the implied reason for the view I outlined in my comment is not about preferential treatment for one of the mainstream media firms so muc…

I am not the parent, but there is a view that this was, alongside the earlier News Media Bargaining Code in 2021, the under-16s ban legislation was at least partially motivated by …

I agree that it has been left to the reader to infer, but then again this is not really a how-to guide! And he gestures at the need for this at least once. To be able to balance ex…

> "The training use was a fair use," [the judge] wrote. "The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative." > However, the judge rule…

This is a beautifully designed website. But I also think it's quite... problematic that the child's journey begins with the egg, as if the unfertilized egg is the child — and skips…

> But I think the most remarkable thing about this document is how unremarkable it is. > The line at the top about being a ‘god’ and the line about championing free speech may have…

This article is mostly based on NBER working paper 34836, which was published this month, and the data was collected from September 2025 to January 2026[0] [0]: See page 2: https:/…

I'm skeptical that it's easier. On the numbers alone, artisanal and small scale gold mining (apparently) accounts for 15-20% of global gold production. But coal accounts for 35% of…

It seems to have originated in the US with Fire Departments: > These reports show that a dry run in the jargon of the fire service at this period [1880s–1890s] was one that didn’t …

> Let's take another high trust activity we do on the internet - banking. Internet banking gives a hacker the ability to steal millions while sitting across the world. This is the …

Yes, and the reasons are outlined by the Australian Electoral Commission, the independent body that runs Australian elections (see the first FAQ)[0]. There are scrutineers that wat…

If others are interested in getting something like this — there's an Australian firm already doing a good job at scale (but slightly different to parent). https://www.thenightsky.c…

I wonder if what you're experiencing is something called "ripple control" (in Australia). Distribution companies send 10-40V signals through the system at much higher frequencies t…

I posted this because I thought HN would find it interesting, and agree that the methodology is a little thin on the ground. Having said that, they have another page (a little hard…

This article (as it makes clear) owes it's analysis at least largely to what Tufte has written about the Challenger disaster (1986) and Columbia Disaster (2003). He wrote about the…

For what it's worth, this is still quite loaded, and I think it's far more helpful to drop the stuff about lies and protection of loved ones and simply say: It's good to weaken or …

For any others reading this, the _illiteracy_ rate is 23.1% in California according to the parent's source. This is indeed the highest illiteracy rate in the US thought. Having sai…

The Australian Federal Police and the US FBI launched a similar attack a few years ago where they sold a few thousand phones to underworld figures. The phones had an apparently enc…

Neat website, and lovely to use. I wonder if the test needs to be slightly more sophisticated? My results seem to depend on whether the starting colour is blue or green. If it star…

Is there a good reason to exclude abductive reasoning from an analysis like this? It's even considered by at least one of the referenced papers (Fangzhi 2023a). Abductive reasoning…

If people are interested in pumped hydro, Andrew Blakers et. al. from ANU have put together a global atlas of potential pumped hydro sites. They've got greenfield, brownfield, etc.…

Until OP delivers (and in case OP does not); I suspect it's the following quote: > "The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at, not to compute, not …

In theory, the following things: The 3:2 ratio suits reading and editing text, because our eyes have trouble following in lines of text that are too long (think about how a paperba…