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China successfully tests maglev trains in vacuum tube, eyeing speeds of 4k kph

abc.net.au

China's new high-speed train doesn't roll along railways, it flies through tubes.There are hopes it will...
China's new high-speed train doesn't roll along railways, it flies through tubes.There are hopes it will one day connect cities and villages across the country, running at speeds of up to 4,000 kilometres per hour.The magnetic-levitation (or maglev) train can clock speeds of 623 kph in tests — almost 200 kph quicker...

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Sigbovik 2024

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A brief, weird history of brainwashing

technologyreview.com
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New Florida law signed to prevent protection for workers from extreme heat

npr.org

A man works in a Florida agricultural field on a hot, humid day in July 2023,...
A man works in a Florida agricultural field on a hot, humid day in July 2023, one of the hottest months ever recorded in the state. There are no federal heat regulations. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for work...
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Cipherleaks is the first demonstrated attack against AMD SEV-SNP

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Tesla Model 3 Traps TikToker Inside 115-Degree Car During a Software Update

jalopnik.com

A TikToker got locked inside of her Tesla Model 3 for 40 minutes in the hot...
A TikToker got locked inside of her Tesla Model 3 for 40 minutes in the hot sun while it was installing a software update, and as of this writing her video has over 10.7 million plays after a single day of being online. Before you go jumping to conclusions about her ineptitude, Brianna Janel was actually following t...

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ULIDs and Primary Keys

daveallie.com

When it comes to picking the type for your database's primary keys, there are a few...
When it comes to picking the type for your database's primary keys, there are a few divided camps. When making this decision for Visibuild I had to choose between the simplicity of sequential IDs and the longevity/future benefits of non-sequential IDs. I chose non-sequential IDs to make it easier to deal with shardi...
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House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program

wired.com

A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to...
A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence community’s spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend Sectio...
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California battery plant is among largest as power storage booms

reuters.com
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The Silver or the Lead: How White Collar Crime Prosecutors Get Punished

thebignewsletter.com

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign...
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here.A few days ago, it came out that the CEO of health care goliath UnitedHealth Group, Stephen Hemsley, sold $101.5 million of stock before a government antitrust probe of his compan...
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Why Russia's Democracy Never Began

harvard.edu
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Secretary Problem

wikipedia.org

Mathematical problem involving optimal stopping theory Graphs of probabilities of getting the best candidate (red circles)...
Mathematical problem involving optimal stopping theory Graphs of probabilities of getting the best candidate (red circles) from n applications, and k/n (blue crosses) where k is the sample size The secretary problem demonstrates a scenario involving optimal stopping theory[1][2] that is studied extensively in the fi...
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Hawaii Moves to Ban Short-Term Rentals to Address Housing Crisis

perfectunion.us

By Paul Blest, More Perfect UnionAfter years of watching Airbnb steamroll state and local governments and...
By Paul Blest, More Perfect UnionAfter years of watching Airbnb steamroll state and local governments and housing markets, lawmakers are fed up — and finally doing something about it.The state legislature in Hawaii, where residents are facing one of the worst shortages of affordable housing in the country, is curren...
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Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Annotate: Create walkthrough guides in the style of the Stripe docs

annotate.dev
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Elon Musk's Worst Predictions and Broken Promises of the Past 15 Years

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk has spent his entire career making predictions about the future. Some of those ideas...
Elon Musk has spent his entire career making predictions about the future. Some of those ideas have panned out—mostly thanks to his brilliant team of people at SpaceX. But for every promise Musk has helped make a reality through a company like SpaceX, there are many more the billionaire would probably like people to...

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Adobe's AI Firefly Used AI-Generated Images from Rivals for Training

bloomberg.com

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Moderna mRNA-4157 (V90) news for head and neck cancer patients like me

jakeseliger.com

The best treatment candidate for keeping me alive that I’m aware of is Moderna’s mRNA-4157 personalized...
The best treatment candidate for keeping me alive that I’m aware of is Moderna’s mRNA-4157 personalized cancer vaccine: in very early data from 2020, a 10-person dosing study found that the treatment “shrank tumors in five patients with head and neck cancer (50%), eliminating the tumors in two of those patients.” By...
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DeepMind's New AI Saw 15B Chess Boards [video]

youtube.com

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We need more calm companies

justinjackson.ca

It's been hard to watch the recent layoffs in the tech industry. Seeing so many good...
It's been hard to watch the recent layoffs in the tech industry. Seeing so many good people being let go has been heartbreaking.Getting laid off doesn’t just rattle your career; it shakes the very foundation of your life. I've seen friends lose their jobs and go into an existential tailspin. It's not uncommon for th...
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Three Genocides

lrb.co.uk

On 11 January , at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa argued...
On 11 January , at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa argued that Israel’s actions in Gaza have been ‘genocidal in character’, since ‘they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic group.’ Lawyers cited the killing of ...
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate

politico.com
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Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

zerosheets.com
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"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

dezeen.com

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