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Power of Libraries

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The coveralls, hoodie, snow cap, scarf and gloves I’m wearing are not enough to stop my...
The coveralls, hoodie, snow cap, scarf and gloves I’m wearing are not enough to stop my face from falling victim to windburn as I walk down the snow covered roads. Skin exposed to the air stings. My thermal-subzero boots feel weighted and my glasses are fogged. A vision of pink, purple and orange hangs in the sky ah...
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Do Not Try to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at This Time

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) was released just a few days ago. So you might want...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) was released just a few days ago. So you might want to jump to it from 22.04 LTS or 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)—the excitement is big! But let me be direct and a bit intense here: JUST DON’T! I’ll explain why below. For your information, traditionally, Canonical provides an official upgra...
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Ask HN: I can no longer like React, do you?

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If you resonate with what I said, there is no need for me to write anything...
If you resonate with what I said, there is no need for me to write anything here, and if you disagree then no amount of reasoning will be enough. Instead I'll just say where I am coming from and avoid going into technical reasons too much..I started frontend as a hobby in 2010, I've been working as one for 8 years. ...
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Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades

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29. April 2024 The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now...
29. April 2024 The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks. Physicists have been hoping for this moment for a long time: for many years, sc...
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Overuse of certain words suggests ChatGPT used in many scientific studies

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Librarian Andrew Gray has made a “very surprising” discovery. He analyzed five million scientific studies published...
Librarian Andrew Gray has made a “very surprising” discovery. He analyzed five million scientific studies published last year and detected a sudden rise in the use of certain words, such as meticulously (up 137%), intricate (117%), commendable (83%) and meticulous (59%). The librarian from the University College Lon...

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Russian central bank warns of slower drop in inflation as it holds rates at 16%

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GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming for Release Around 7 May with C23 and AVX10.1

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Note Taking in Anki

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'We need to slow down scientific publishing'

elpais.com

Elisabeth Bik, 57, does the work of a detective. She spends hours reading and rereading documents,...
Elisabeth Bik, 57, does the work of a detective. She spends hours reading and rereading documents, delving into pages, making notes, asking questions and solving cases. But her cases have nothing to do with murders, scams, robberies, infidelities or state secrets, but rather science. A microbiologist by profession, ...

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Foreigner's request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society

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Such an odd encounter that we’re hoping it was a YouTube prank. Visiting a foreign country...
Such an odd encounter that we’re hoping it was a YouTube prank. Visiting a foreign country can be an unsettling experience, especially when you’re in a place like Japan, where a lot of the signage is written in kanji characters and most of the locals only speak Japanese. Our reporter Seiji Nakazawa, who’s travelled ...
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Tesla Clears Key China Assisted-Driving Hurdle with Baidu Deal

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The wealthy are building "passport portfolios"

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Apple Vision Pro Successor Not Expected Until End of 2026

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The demand for Apple Vision Pro is slowly dwindling, but the company’s long-term goals have not...
The demand for Apple Vision Pro is slowly dwindling, but the company’s long-term goals have not budged an inch. A new report states that the successor to the $3,499 AR headset could launch sometime by the end of 2026. However, there is a huge glaring issue that Apple needs to address, or this product category will m...
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Step Differences in Instructional Video

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Why China Keeps Making More Cars Than It Needs

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Show HN: Link Pantry – a repository of links on various topics

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Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, and They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

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Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds...
Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds of firing sensory analytical neurons. Crows can do jobs, share knowledge, and even ritualistically mourn their dead.Recent research suggests crow brains tightly pack neurons to help make them smart.Crows ...

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Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February

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Nurses and other health professionals look after newborns in the maternity ward of a postpartum care...
Nurses and other health professionals look after newborns in the maternity ward of a postpartum care facility in Seoul in February. (Yonhap) The number of live births in Korea fell below 20,000 in February, a record low for the month.According to a report on population trends for February published by Statistics Kor...
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Forget moonshots, investors want profit now

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Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD for the first time since 1990

cnbc.com

The Japanese yen weakened to 160 against the U.S. dollar in Monday morning trading in Asia.The...
The Japanese yen weakened to 160 against the U.S. dollar in Monday morning trading in Asia.The yen has traded around 150 or weaker against the dollar since the Bank of Japan ended its negative interest rate regime in March.Japanese authorities have repeatedly warned against "excessive" moves in the yen, but have mad...

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Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself

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Dynamic Slots in Web Components

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Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

postgres.ai

schema migrations
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The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem

natesilver.net

These days, I use Twitter in two ways: first, to blatantly shill for this newsletter and...
These days, I use Twitter in two ways: first, to blatantly shill for this newsletter and other things I’m trying to promote. And second, as a sort of staging area for takes. Sometimes those takes are intentionally trollish, while others contain the seed of something more serious. Here is one recent example:Wait, was...
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