I remember when I was a very young child - more than half a century ago - getting into trouble for eating dirt. I was amused more recently to hear about my nephew doing the same thing. It seems, from my point of view, to be instinctive. I wonder why?

Bored? Low on minerals? Too many parasites?

Dogs do this instinctively too when they might need something from the dirt.

don't little kids sometimes eat play-doh, bugs, crayons, etc? new experiences/curiosity i'd imagine

There's this in London and Birmingham:

https://f1arcade.com/uk

They have 50-odd full-motion Formula One simulators in each location and they seem to be aiming for a much higher quality experience than an arcade.

It wasn't a hack. The company used an external AI service.

ETA: They didn't ship data off to e.g. ChatGPT. They hired a subcontractor to build them a secure AI service.

Details in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035141

leading to this:

https://endaleahy.substack.com/p/what-the-minister-said

The government is behaving disgracefully.

They'll update the required brain state to "alert but not enjoying yourself".

Where? According to Wikipedia, suicide is no longer illegal anywhere in Europe.

you’re correct. I was just using it to emphasize how all encompassing regulation sometimes feel. I was annoyed and didn’t think; when seeing just another European regulation piling on then endless sea of things you can get fined for here.

Cypress was the last placed in Europe to remove laws against suicide in 2021 it seems.

This is already a thing in Eastern Europe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8655gn84ego

Same here. And I just noticed yesterday that Firefox had added and enabled a "Suggestions from sponsors" feature. Which I've now disabled, but presumably it's been sending anything I type into the address bar to Mozilla since 2021. I am tired of Mozilla but Chrome is very much worse.

ETA: I only noticed yesterday because a "sponsored suggestion" popped up when I was typing, which I've not seen before. So either they actually enabled it recently, or advertisers don't bid on the kinds of things I usually type.

Stopping someone committing a crime is not harassment.

You might be familiar with these, but GP wrote a couple of excellent pieces on Euler spirals:

https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/02/19/parallel-curve...

https://levien.com/phd/euler_hist.pdf

If you choose uniformly from a set then all possible selections are equally likely, by definition. The set is the interior of a circle, which is an area. There's no ambiguity.