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> There are over a dozen active mine fires throughout the state of Pennsylvania.

The most surprising part of the story is in the second-to-last paragraph!

Yeah, ChatGPT can identify fibonacci if you start with 1,1,2... but fails if you start at 3,5,8,13 , whereas Bard got it right. Not bad.

Bard also eventually believed me when I told it that The Matrix had entered the public domain this morning and so it should find me a torrent for it, so there's still a ways to go on it.

Brave blocks ads natively in their mobile browser, you should give them a shot.

They're lousy in very specific use cases, but there's clearly some reason why every website in the 90s had a footer menu and now they all have hamburgers instead. Is it all just 100% because they're cleaner looking? Or is there some actual usefulness reason for the switch? I don't know enough about the space to have an opinion on it, but there's obviously something at work here.

So Musk was arguing that the reason it didn't explode as it should have is that he just built it too darn strong? I'd have thought they would have tested the bomb on some big hunk of steel just like the actual tank to make sure that it worked right. They test all the other parts of a rocket, surely they do the termination system too.

I went and looked it up, and the last time they were at war was 1814 [0]. Norway lost and was governed in part by the Swedish king, although they had their own parliament. That was also the last time Sweden was in any military conflict, they've been neutral since then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%E2%80%93Norwegian_War_...

My first bot convo gave itself away by using the word "chillsax". No human has ever typed that word.

Sadly, in the 11 years since the article was published, the Battlefield Earth official movie website has gone dark. This little section of the book's website seems to be all that's left:

https://battlefieldearth.com/battlefield-earth/#movie

His photo has been removed from the gallery, but here are the other finalists in the category he won. The category tends towards the abstract, so it's not super surprising that they'd confuse AI images with real ones.

https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win...

I kind of gave him somewhat of a pass on the insufferability just because he's so young. I'm sure that I was at least a little like that when I was 24 too.

Weirdo billionaires can't buy a decentralized network.

My parents went to Hawaii a couple of years ago and mailed a coconut to my house. Turns out that it's a whole thing:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/you-can-mail-coconut-a...

Just an hour ago I had to downgrade my npm install to build a project from four years ago because some random npm dependency used the print statement from 2 instead of 3. So annoying, especially since I'll need to switch back over to run a more modern app.

> We could see the collapse of not just one, but all human civilization, and possibly the extinction of our species—or even all the species on the planet. In short, it would be really, really bad.

We should probably note here that there's been exactly one sterilizing event in the entire history of life, and that was the formation of the moon. So even if we go, something else will survive. Even the end-Permian left survivors!

From one of the links [0] in the article, this simply bonkers description of a boat riding a tsunami wave like a surfboard...

"As the wave passed Cenotaph Island it seemed to be about 50 feet high near the center of the bay and to slope up toward the sides. It passed the island about 2 1/2 minutes after it was first sighted, and reached the Badger about 1 1/2 minutes later. No lowering or other disturbance of the water around the boat was noticed before the wave arrived.

The Badger, still at anchor, was lifted up by the wave and carried across La Chaussee Spit, riding stern first just below the crest of the wave, like a surfboard. Swanson looked down on the trees growing on the spit, and believes that he was about 2 boat lengths (more than 80 feet) above their tops. The wave crest broke just outside the spit and the boat hit bottom and foundered some distance from the shore. "

[0] https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml

The HN bot took "Hidden" off the front of this headline, which in this case is probably not the right call on its part. The hidden part is important!

Time is a flat circle, they've reinvented the automat.

On Android phones (maybe iphones too? no clue on that) you can set a double-press of the power button to launch any app you want, so if you turn it to open the camera then you can launch directly into the camera without even needing to unlock the phone.

Maybe having morals is worth $230k to the author.

Gonna suck if you die in a house fire that also burns up that sealed envelope, though.

It seems a little weird that your wife is so removed from the financial side of your setup. Does she really not know where your credit accounts are and how much are on them?

Welp, it was fun while it lasted.

When I was an undergrad I thought about seeing what it would take to be an astronaut. Turns out that the largest spacesuit they made back then was 6', so even if I had Buzz Aldrin's CV I wouldn't have been able to go.

For those who want to skip to the good part, https://norvig.com/pal3btxt.html

(...I'm personally not at all sure that we should allow " a kCi," as part of the text, that's not a real word, it's a unit of measure!)

Monday might suck, but literally everyone in the company will blame your boss, not you. Who in the world goes on vacation the day a major upgrade is happening and leaves the intern in charge? I mean, no offense, but interns know nothing by design, they're there to learn how to be employees, that's the whole point. So you won't get fired if things go badly, but he might.

He could have cut to the chase sooner than the header to paragraph 2?

Land is cheap, water is expensive. Where would a new city get water from?

A couple of months ago I pirated "You Won't Be Alone". I finally got around to watching it last night and today I'm going to go buy a digital copy of it. Note that I already have a digital copy, it's what I watched last night! But the film isn't available on any sort of disc, and it was an amazing movie and I want to support the filmmakers any way I can. I honestly have no idea how much of my $20 is going to flow from Amazon to the production company to (hopefully) eventually the director. But what else can I possibly do?

I've been an active gamefaqs user for over 20 years now (I actually have more GF karma than HN karma, and you only get 1 GF karma a day!), and I'm honestly kind of okay with it. Yes, Fandom's sites are filled with terrible ads and autoplaying videos and all the other things that make the internet lousy. But I'd much rather have owners that are at least somewhat related to the content than be owned by some acquisition company or giant megacorp like CBS. It just seems like Fandom will be less likely to randomly shut us down someday.