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‘We’re losing IQ points’: the lead poisoning crisis unfolding among US children
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the Guardian
‘We’re losing IQ points’: the lead poisoning crisis unfolding among US children
The US banned lead 30 years ago. So why are thousands of kids being poisoned every year?
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
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David Colson’s Blog
Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
My exploration into making a 90s style fantasy console inspired by the PS1
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Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
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MacRumors
Report: iOS Users Who Opt-Out of App Tracking Continue to Be Tracked by Facebook and Snapchat
"Loose" interpretations of Apple's privacy policies allow apps such as Facebook and Snapchat to continue tracking users for targeted...
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Improving GitHub Code Search
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The GitHub Blog
Improving GitHub code search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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The Microsoft paradox: Contributing to cyber threats and monetizing the cure
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Fortune
Commentary: Microsoft can't be the fireman and the arsonist
Microsoft could move slower to ship better code, discontinue old features (like Apple), or get its customers to a good security baseline (like Google).
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Gopher – A 280B parameter language model
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Google DeepMind
Language modelling at scale: Gopher, ethical considerations, and retrieval
Language, and its role in demonstrating and facilitating comprehension - or intelligence - is a fundamental part of being human. It gives people the ability to communicate thoughts and concepts, expr…
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Mu: A Human-Scale Computer
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GitHub
GitHub - akkartik/mu: Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More…
Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More resilient society. - akkartik/mu
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The Serverless Shell
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GitHub
GitHub - crucial-project/serverless-shell: Shell noscripting for serverless
Shell noscripting for serverless. Contribute to crucial-project/serverless-shell development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
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Quanta Magazine
Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
The “gravitational memory effect” predicts that a passing gravitational wave should forever alter the structure of space-time. Physicists have linked the phenomenon to fundamental cosmic symmetries…
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Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword
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avi.im
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword - blag
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Secretly Signed $275 Billion Deal With China in 2016
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MacRumors
Apple CEO Tim Cook 'Secretly' Signed $275 Billion Deal With China in 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook "secretly" signed an agreement worth more than $275 billion with Chinese officials, promising that Apple would help to...
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The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
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Nature
The $11-billion Webb telescope aims to probe the early Universe
Nature - Three decades after it was conceived, Hubble’s successor is set for launch. Here’s why astronomers around the world can’t wait.
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Queue Despair: Ordering and Poison Messages
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www.openmymind.net
Queue Despair: Ordering and Poison Messages
My struggle using queues / rabbitmq in the face of high availability, ordering and poison messages
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DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World’s First Warp Bubble
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The Debrief
DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World’s First Warp Bubble "Engage."
Warp drive pioneer Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported research results that he believes could theoretically manifest a warp bubble under laboratory conditions.
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Alexa.com
is shutting down after 25 years
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Groups never admit failure
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Naval
Groups Never Admit Failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced…
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Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
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Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
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Bloomberg.com
Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
If history is a guide, President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion investment may not fund nearly as much transportation as it would in much of the rest of the world.
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The Futurama Theorem
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AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law
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IEEE Spectrum
AI Training Is Outpacing Moore’s Law
According to MLPerf’s new AI benchmark, the answer is… maybe?
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Why do antibiotics exist?
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mBio
Why Do Antibiotics Exist? | mBio
In the struggle with antibiotic resistance, we are losing. There is now a serious
threat of moving into a postantibiotic world.
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