The sleep of reason brings forth monsters – a continuing series

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@samizdata.net | 3 years ago

World's first liquid cooled 5G base station deployed in Finland

Finnish telecom operator has deployed the world's first commercial liquid cooled 5G base station. The technology has been developed by Nokia and allows using the waste energy of the mobile network device to heat a building or hot water. Liquid cooli… | Continue reading


@metropolitan.fi | 3 years ago

Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

The game that only exists in your title bar | Continue reading


@titlerun.xyz | 3 years ago

Scientists engineer human cells with squid-like transparency

Octopuses, squids and other sea creatures can perform a disappearing act by using specialized tissues in their bodies to manipulate the transmission and reflection of light, and now researchers at the University of California, Irvine have engineered human cells to have similar tr … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

New research deepens understanding of Earth's interaction with the solar wind

As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere with satellites and global positioning systems. Now, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton Universit … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Antibiotic-destroying genes widespread in bacteria in soil and on people

The latest generation of tetracyclines—a class of powerful, first-line antibiotics—was designed to thwart the two most common ways bacteria resist such drugs. But a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fo … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Study reveals continuous pathway to building blocks of life

Researchers have long sought to understand the origins of life on Earth. A new study conducted by scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), and the University of New South Wales, among other participating institutions, marks an impor … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Asguard, a security solution for bringing sensitive code into the Cloud

This article presents a security solution implemented as part of a project led by Stack Labs on behal... | Continue reading


@dev.to | 3 years ago

Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture

Researchers from Monash University and the CSIRO have set a record for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) using technology that resembles a sponge filled with tiny magnets. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Study casts doubt on usefulness of Ofsted ratings

The usefulness of Ofsted ratings as guides for parents and students in choosing a secondary school has been called into question by the findings of a new study. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Key Takeaways from Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing

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@resources.whitesourcesoftware.com | 3 years ago

How to Share System Audio in Microsoft Teams

How to easily share system sound in Microsoft Teams Live Events with the free and open-source Blackhole virtual audio driver. | Continue reading


@bastiankroggel.com | 3 years ago

Punctuated equilibrium in large-scale evolution of programming languages (2015)

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@royalsocietypublishing.org | 3 years ago

'Major gaps' in understanding how land-use changes affect spread of diseases

The quest to discover how new diseases—such as COVID-19—emerge and spread in response to global land-use change driven by human population expansion still contains "major gaps", researchers have claimed. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Selection results: Support to European Cooperation Projects 2020

Selection results: Support to European Cooperation Projects 2020 | Continue reading


@eacea.ec.europa.eu | 3 years ago

Malawi: Ensure Free, Fair, Safe Elections-HRW

Safeguard Citizens Against Violence During Presidential Rerun Vote | Continue reading


@africabrief.substack.com | 3 years ago

When the scope of your project doubles overnight

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions across various industries and communities, but the consumption of some services, like online shopping, has skyrocketed. Consequently, a last-mile delivery project for e-commerce I’m overseeing for a partner in another continent nearly … | Continue reading


@linkedin.com | 3 years ago

How I would put voice control in everything

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@interconnected.org | 3 years ago

Disassembling a Celtic Coin Hoard

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@archaeology.org | 3 years ago

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance

The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s poorest 3.8 billion … | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 3 years ago

Major tropical cyclones have become ‘15% more likely’ over past 40 years

Tropical cyclones across the world have become more intense over the past four decades, a new study concludes.Major tropical cyclones with winds of 115 miles per hour or more became 15% more likely at a global level from 1979-2017, according to the analysis. | Continue reading


@carbonbrief.org | 3 years ago

iXsystems Announces TrueNAS Scale as a Linux-Based Offering

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@phoronix.com | 3 years ago

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force

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@nber.org | 3 years ago

Atom-Thin Switches Could Route 5G and 6G Radio Signals

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@spectrum.ieee.org | 3 years ago

CodeSOD: Synchronize Your Clocks

Back when it was new, one of the “great features” of Java was that it made working with threads “easy”. Developers learning the language were encouraged to get a grip right on threads right away, because that was the new thing which would make their programs so much better.Well, … | Continue reading


@thedailywtf.com | 3 years ago

New decade, new theme

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@lea.verou.me | 3 years ago

Why the universe I invented is right – but still not the final answer

Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos – but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says. | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 3 years ago

A subtle trap when formatting Go time.Time values

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@utcc.utoronto.ca | 3 years ago

Boris Johnson says 3m people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship

PM offered to make what he says would be one of the "biggest changes" in the history of the British visa system | Continue reading


@telegraph.co.uk | 3 years ago

OpenDoor Python Monorepo

At Opendoor we started putting all our Python services in a single repo. This article explains what worked well for us… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 3 years ago

Covid-19: How Docker Is Helping the Biggest Italian IT Continue Business

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@docker.events.cube365.net | 3 years ago

A police officer's disciplinary history is confidential in 50% of US states

Is police misconduct a secret in your state? WNYC investigates. | Continue reading


@project.wnyc.org | 3 years ago

Ratemycop.com

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@en.wikipedia.org | 3 years ago

Intels 8th generation coffee lake processors reach end of life this year

Chipmaker also calls time on Compute Sticks and NUCs that use 8th-gen chips | Continue reading


@techradar.com | 3 years ago

Ubuntu Studio: Ardour 6.0 Information

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@ubuntustudio.org | 3 years ago

Ubuntu Studio: Ardour 6.0 Information

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@ubuntustudio.org | 3 years ago

Fossil find is the oldest known parasite

510 million-year-old rocks in China preserve brachiopods and their parasites. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Visualizing Layoffs at Prominent Startups Triggered by Covid-19

As unemployment levels rise, we navigate the fallout of COVID-19 as layoffs ripple across the once-thriving startup ecosystem. | Continue reading


@visualcapitalist.com | 3 years ago

Workman Keyboard Layout

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@workmanlayout.org | 3 years ago

Intro to Ps Command

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@dev.to | 3 years ago

Logical Components in Blockchain

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@dev.to | 3 years ago

GPT-3 and Scaling Trends

From the LW comments on my GPT-3 post, it looks like a lot of the people there think the GPT-3 paper is valuable because it shows there is room for even larger models to do better. (That is, the point... | Continue reading


@nostalgebraist.tumblr.com | 3 years ago

I Cannot Remain Silent

Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Instant Town Building

191295 views and 9203 votes on Imgur | Continue reading


@imgur.com | 3 years ago

Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Why Protests Must Continue

Racism is “one of the more dangerous infectious diseases,” says an infectious disease doctor. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 3 years ago

Why so Many Organizations stay White

Understanding how race is historically and structurally built into the workplace | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 3 years ago

Zoom decides against encrypting calls of free users to aid in state surveillance

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Prix Voltaire alla Liberal Publishing House

Siamo un network informativo che dal 1888 ascolta, aggiorna e sostiene i professionisti dell'editoria. | Continue reading


@giornaledellalibreria.it | 3 years ago