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Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms
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vks.ai
shrynk - Using Machine Learning to learn how to Compress
30% less disk required compared to using the single best strategy
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When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence (2018)
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the Guardian
When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence
The long read: Though unrecognised by the international community, this self-declared state in the Horn of Africa has its own flag, parliament, currency and national identity. What has to happen before its status changes? By Joshua Keating
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After a bone marrow transplant, a man has two sets of DNA
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NY Times
When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away (Published 2019)
After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.
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A Quick Primer on Dig
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mrkaran.dev
A quick primer on dig
Learn how to use dig (DNS lookup tool) effectively with practical examples
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Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
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The New Yorker
A Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
Yegor Zhukov’s message about responsibility and love shows what political dissent can be and seems to describe American reality as accurately as the Russian one.
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Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
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How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA (2017)
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Miami Herald
How often you hold your baby actually affects their DNA, study finds
A loving mother’s caress is more than simple comfort to an infant. Scientists have known for decades that touch is critically important for a child’s healthy development, according to an article in the journal Pediatric Child Health.
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Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
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ROUGH TYPE
Larry and Sergey: a valediction
Photographer: “How ’bout we do the shoot in a hot tub?” Larry and Sergey: “Sure!” Never such innocence again. Can billionaires be tragic figures? Lear must have been w…
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Studying the effects of interruption on motivation
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Bbc
How to conquer work paralysis like Ernest Hemingway
The author wasn’t all about literary masterpieces, dry martinis and rakish charm – he also invented a technique that can beat procrastination and boost productivity.
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A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers
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WSJ
A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers
By offering as little as a few bucks at a time to new borrowers, a microlending business of Chinese technology giant Ant Financial has quietly swelled into one of China’s largest providers of personal credit lines.
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Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
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Climate Liability News
Vulnerable nations call for ecocide to be considered an international crime
The island nations of Vanuatu and Maldives are spearheading an effort for the International Criminal Court to consider ecocide a crime against peace.
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Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
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Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
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GitHub
davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner
Chrome extension designed to help automate the signup to Yahoo Groups - davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner
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Sequoyah – Inventor of the Cherokee Script
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Wrong about US Healthcare spending effects
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Random Critical Analysis
A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns elsewhere; obesity, drugs, etc drive down the intercept (mostly)
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How TiKV reads and writes
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tikv.org
How TiKV reads and writes
This article introduces in detail how TiKV handles read and write operations. Together we will explore how TiKV, as a distributed key-value (KV) database, stores the data contained in a write request and how it retrieves the corresponding data with consistency…
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Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mint: Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability Demonstrates What We Had (And What We Lost)
In 2006, Aaron Patzer founded Mint. Patzer had grown up in the city of Evansville, Indiana—a place he described as "small, without much economic opportunity"—but had created a successful business
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Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig
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GitHub
GitHub - wendigojaeger/ZigGBA: Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programming language.
Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programming language. - GitHub - wendigojaeger/ZigGBA: Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programm...
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
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AI Dungeon 2 (recent Show HN) was costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
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Nick Walton
@waxpancake @GoogleAI The BYU PCCL lab I'm apart of is covering it now. But it's at 10k+ per day now so they can't sustain that more than a couple days
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
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