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Embeddable key-value storage for events and time-series data (v1.0 released)

github.com
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How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

theguardian.com

We’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have guessed. Let’s delve...
We’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have guessed. Let’s delve deeper.If you’ve spent enough time using AI assistants, you’ll have noticed a certain quality to the responses generated. Without a concerted effort to break the systems out of their default register, the text they spit ou...
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AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source

nature.com

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23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki Plans to Take Company Private

wsj.com
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Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin

kut.org

Editor's note: On Thursday, Austin City Council voted to amend the building code to ban the...
Editor's note: On Thursday, Austin City Council voted to amend the building code to ban the construction of windowless bedrooms. Find that story here.For two decades, UT Austin professor Juan Miró has given his undergraduate architecture students an assignment: Draw the window in your bedroom. The task for a class c...

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Why Ukraine Is Losing the War

politico.eu

eu affairs eu-russia relations european politics russia sanctions russian politics
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Is society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modeling societal demise and reversal

frontiersin.org

Ants rely on each other for survival and often hunt for prey together. They use pheromones...
Ants rely on each other for survival and often hunt for prey together. They use pheromones to locate each other and they follow the ones in front of them. This usually works quite well, although sometimes the ants get locked in what is called an “ant mill” or “Death Spiral.” This can happen when a subset of ants get...
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The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and a Texas Legend

texasmonthly.com
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Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring a Research Scientist

ycombinator.com
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SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

seamonkey-project.org

Which operating system are you using? Windows x64 Windows x86 macOS x64 Linux x64 Linux x86...
Which operating system are you using? Windows x64 Windows x86 macOS x64 Linux x64 Linux x86 Would you like to select a different language? Chinese (Simplified) — 中文 (简体) Chinese (Traditional) — 正體中文 (繁體) Czech — Čeština Dutch — Nederlands English (British) English (US) Finnish — suomi French — Français Georgian — ქა...
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Developer tool secrets that shouldn't be secrets

christianheilmann.com

Update: As this is blowing up on Hackernews I added information to each of the tips...
Update: As this is blowing up on Hackernews I added information to each of the tips in which environment they are supported in parenthesis after each heading. When I state “Chromium browsers”, this refers to all browsers that use the Chromium core and also feature all the Developer Tools. This is Chrome, Microsoft E...
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Why is it called the Ribbon? (2005)

archive.org
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US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 has been dogfighting with humans

theregister.com
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Rents Are the Fed's 'Biggest Stumbling Block' in Taming US Inflation

bloomberg.com

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US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on account suspensions

apnews.com

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It's the Information, Stupid

mojeek.com
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Tex. hack may be first disruption of U.S. water system by Russia

washingtonpost.com
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Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China's cities sink

bbc.com
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Erasure Coding (Forward Error Correction)

wikipedia.org

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to...
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Erasure code" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template mes...
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Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021,...
Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021, federal law has required hospitals to publicly post their prices, allowing Americans to easily anticipate costs and shop around for affordable care—as they would for any other marketed service or product. But hospitals h...
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Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking – some 'rapidly'

nature.com

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Netflix blows past estimates as subscribers jump 16%

cnbc.com

A couple sits in front of a television with the Netflix logo on it.Picture Alliance |...
A couple sits in front of a television with the Netflix logo on it.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — Netflix will no longer provide quarterly membership numbers or average revenue per user starting next year, the company said Thursday as it reported earnings that beat on the top and bot...

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Dickey Betts, hit-crafting mainstay of Allman Brothers Band, dies at 80

washingtonpost.com
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Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made (2018)

newstatesman.com

(Photo By Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. Credit: WARNER BROS/GETTY IMAGES) For many, Casablanca...
(Photo By Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. Credit: WARNER BROS/GETTY IMAGES) For many, Casablanca is not just any old movie but the old movie. When Woody Allen was looking for a heroic exemplar for his nebbish cineaste in Play it Again, Sam, it was to Bogart’s Rick Blaine that he turned. When Nora E...
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