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Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab–and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
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Mother Jones
Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab—and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
As part of the sale, the Atlantic is making layoffs.
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Intel Takes Lidar Indoors
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ZDNet
Intel's new RealSense camera brings hi-res LiDAR to a small form factor
With its proprietary LiDAR technology, Intel says the new camera is ideal for indoor use cases that require high levels of depth perception, such as the automation of inventory management.
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Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists
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Ars Technica
Deep Learning breakthrough made by Rice University scientists
Rice University's MACH training system scales further than previous approaches.
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Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement
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ProPublica
Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement — ProPublica
New research and Facebook’s own ad archive show that the company’s new system to ensure diverse audiences for housing and employment ads has many of the same problems as its predecessor.
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Tony Booker, inventor of assembly code, has died
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NY Times
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies at 94 (Published 2019)
After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer.
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The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer
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Wired
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer
A new generation of reactors will start producing power in the next few years. They're comparatively tiny—and may be key to hitting our climate goals.
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America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
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PubMed Central (PMC)
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective With Implications for the Present
Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the ...
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New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster
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Substack
Why New York City Is On the Verge of Disaster
(BIG issue 8-20-2019)
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Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)
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The Millions
Confessions of a Book Pirate
"TRC" is a self-described bibliophile who has "pirated" thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
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CIA Gift Shop
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Win32 on macOS
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Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US
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Nsenergybusiness
Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US
California-based company Oklo has announced the launch of its Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in California, US.
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Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
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Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)
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Emily S. Damstra
Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra
We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more
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Abbott Labs uses copyright law to shut down open diabetes monitoring software
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Boing Boing
Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law
Abbott Labs makes a continuous glucose monitor — used by people with diabetes to monitor their blood-sugar levels — called (ironically, as you’ll see below) the Freestyle Libre.
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Hypertext Literal
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Observable
Hypertext Literal
Inspired by lit-html and HTM, and referencing the fantastically precise HTML5 spec, we built hypertext literal: a tagged template literal for HTML which interpolates values based on context, allowing automatic escaping and the interpolation of non-serializable…
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Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)
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Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons
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Sanity.io
Introducing Glush: a robust, human readable, top-down parser compiler
Glush is a new parser compiler based on Glushkov’s construction algorithm – . It offers a human readable grammar, is naturally top-down and maintains worst case cubic performance for even the most ambiguous grammars.
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Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us
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Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approval in Europe
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What Happened to Software Development?
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Hackernoon
What Happened to Software Development? | HackerNoon
I don’t even recognize it anymore
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