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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:14PM (#50331825)
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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:12PM (#50331810)
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The truth is still tying it's shoes, in that metaphor.

Analysing all the proofs and finding contradictions or not takes time.

Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:46AM (#50166365)
There's probably something with sunshine / moonshine /artimis or something but I'm not up to date on that cluster of things.
Re:Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:38AM (#50166246)
.. humanity will be replaced by the subset of it which continues to have children.

If a subgroup actually has children at above replacement, then as the other groups shrink, they will be a larger and larger fraction of the population.

I think the models were stuck on impossible problems, and the only want to get a positive score was to hack.
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:44AM (#49979287)
Sometimes Smarthome Scene does do teardowns and checks which chip is used. I guess they didnt' this time due to the number of devices.
Re:EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:30AM (#49522538)
Copyleft is built on copyright, do you think removing copyright protections is going to get people to release their source code?? I don't think so. Not unless you want to try and legislate some general copyleft law, but that's probably a nonstarter.
Re:Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:09AM (#49521491)
Your lists formatting got eaten by HN.
Re:The Deadly Global War for Sand (2015) on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:11PM (#49482358)
You'd also care about angular sand vs round sand grains.
Re:U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:04AM (#49447522)
Behind the meter power generation is being included on site with the data centers.
Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @07:06AM (#49431862)
And you are tipping before you even see the service in that case, as you pay before the food.

Of course, the staff also see how you tio before they prep your food...

Then don't visit? Or realize how bad they are with ads and bounce? They probably track bounce rate as ads load.
Re:The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) on Friday July 31, 2026 @11:18AM (#49124223)
You can prove something is in NP by providing a (polynomial) reduction from a known NP hard task, and vice versa. All the known NP problems (Knapsack, SAT, etc) are mutually reducable in this way, so solving one lets you solve the others. So if X was shown to be NP, then given a polynomial time solution to X, you can stack the polynomial time reduction from X to SAT to solve SAT in polynomial time too.
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:45AM (#48775701)
That's handwashing right?
Re:Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:52PM (#48560155)
Man, I always wonder what would have happened if Bill Watterson had been around for the era of webcomics. Much more creative freedom, and no editor or syndicate to tell you how to layout your panels. Would he have loved it?

Or would he have hated it? He certainly wouldn't have wanted to build a website for it.

Re:Every Frame Perfect on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:50PM (#48520776)
Ty but the animations don't seem to animate on mobile chrome on Android.
Same blog eh?
Can I do

  echo blah blah >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
And that'd be auto approved?
> None of this bites evenly. The editing falls hardest on broadcast and promotional push; the notifications people actually want tend to pass through untouched or amplified.

Sounds fine with me?

What's the best way to play on Linux? I'm sure proton would work but it's not on steam...
Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:09AM (#47962771)
My instructor for Epsilon Delta proofs and limits would always talk about "his cousin in Romania" picking the Epsilon and him picking the Delta.

i.e. forall epsilon > 0. exists delta > 0. forall d with |d| < delta. |f(x) - f(x+d)| < epsilon.

If we had a proof, no matter what epsilon his cousin from Romania picked, we could always find a new delta which would satify his cousin and let him pick the worst d in range.

This worked better than just saying "pick any epsilon", as it convayed the adversarial approach better.

Another book I read used the Devil as the one you are trying to convince, but it's nowhere near as fun as "his cousin from Romania".

Re:Aspartame is not that bad? on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:48AM (#47890267)
Health outcomes of lottery winners suggest it's not great.
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:38PM (#47725288)
I second this proposal. Three weeks shift can feel about right.

But we lost a lot of nice symmetries that way, which is unfortunate

Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:44PM (#47344752)
Ah but then you'd need to hard shut down to carry it home. The battery should keep the ram active to commute while sleeping
Heck, doing a self review when you wrote the code catches stuff like forgetting debug prints.
Re:The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:34PM (#47318138)
Hey hey, 15 = 3*5 is factoring.
Re:Banned in California on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:10PM (#47160002)
Being unable to start a project without doing 5 years of legal wrangling once you put shovel to earth may not be a "ban", but it sure doesn't encourage development.
Re:Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:39PM (#47065299)
Funny you'd mention that, when Notepad had a CVE in it's markdown parsing recently.

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