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DNA stores data in bits after epigenetic upgrade

nature.com

How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

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Amish have low cancer rate, but why?

dispatch.com

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1-Click Models Powered by Hugging Face

digitalocean.com

We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean now offers 1-click Model deployment powered by Hugging Face. Affectionately...
We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean now offers 1-click Model deployment powered by Hugging Face. Affectionately known as HUGS on DO, this new inference solution provides deployable, popular, third party generative AI models, optimized to run on DigitalOcean GPU Droplets. With 1-Click Models, users can now la...
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An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS

quantum5.ca

Border Gateway Protocol (often abbreviated BGP) is a critical protocol that makes the modern Internet possible,...
Border Gateway Protocol (often abbreviated BGP) is a critical protocol that makes the modern Internet possible, yet remains one of its most poorly understood parts even among its long-time users. At the same time, it has played a significant role in several high-profile outages on the Internet. As someone who has be...
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Bay Area cops are getting a new Siri-type tool for fighting sideshows

sfgate.com
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Why that one coworker got fired for no reason

wordpress.com

Your manager calls you into a virtual meeting and, after wading through the requisite bullshit small...
Your manager calls you into a virtual meeting and, after wading through the requisite bullshit small talk, asks what you’ve been working on for the last month. “Well I fixed that showstopper bug! And everyone agreed it had a big impact.” “It looks like the fix was just one line of code.” “Yeah but it took me two day...
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The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese: Isotopic Analyses Confirm It

archaeologymag.com

A new study has revealed that the iconic bronze-winged lion in St. Mark’s Square, Venice, may...
A new study has revealed that the iconic bronze-winged lion in St. Mark’s Square, Venice, may have originated in 8th-century China.Lion of Venice, Piazzetta San Marco. Credit: Didier Descouens (CC BY-SA 4.0)The discovery comes from a multidisciplinary team of experts in geology, chemistry, archaeology, and art histo...
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Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule

arstechnica.com

The FTC declined to comment on the lawsuits today. The agency's rule is not enforced yet,...
The FTC declined to comment on the lawsuits today. The agency's rule is not enforced yet, as it is scheduled to take full effect 180 days after publication in the Federal Register. Cable firms don’t want canceling to be easy The NCTA cable lobby group, which represents companies like Comcast and Charter, have compla...
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Show HN: PreCog AI – Automatic AI Model Selection for Any Task

ubik.studio

auto chatbot auto choose best llm best ai chatbot llm router ubik ai
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Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes

nbcnews.com

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease...
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. The study adds to evidence that GLP-1 drugs — the class of medications that also includes Mounjar...
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Svix (YC W21) Is Hiring a Developer Marketer (US Remote)

svix.com
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The Rise and Fall of IQ: The Cognitive Divide

substack.com

For most of the 20th century, IQ scores steadily climbed, a phenomenon so consistent it was...
For most of the 20th century, IQ scores steadily climbed, a phenomenon so consistent it was named the “Flynn effect” after the psychologist James Flynn, who first documented it. Generations across the globe were getting smarter, or at least, their scores on intelligence tests were improving. Explanations ranged from...
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Data Lifeboat

flickr.org

You have probably been affected by web services that go dark or disappear, often with little...
You have probably been affected by web services that go dark or disappear, often with little or no warning. Just think about how many services have been removed or “sunsetted” since the web began, and how much of our content and culture has just disappeared. It’s all at risk—though Flickr is certainly not in imminen...
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Post World War II Food

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Associated Press (2000) “Nestle Pays $14.6M for Holocaust.” Associated Press, August 28, 2000. Berbey, Gabrielle and...
Associated Press (2000) “Nestle Pays $14.6M for Holocaust.” Associated Press, August 28, 2000. Berbey, Gabrielle and Julia Longoria (2022) “Uncle Spam.” The Experiment (podcast), February 3, 2022. Chicago History Museum (2021) “Say Cheese!” Chicago History Museum. DeJesus, Erin (2014) “A Brief History of Spam, an Am...
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React Native – New Architecture is here

reactnative.dev

React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm! In the...
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm! In the 0.76 release blog post, we shared a list of significant changes included in this version. In this post, we provide an overview of the New Architecture and how it shapes the future of React Native. The New Architecture adds full su...

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First black hole discovered with two orbiting stars

cosmosmagazine.com

For the first time, a black hole has been discovered with two orbiting stars, leading astrophysicists...
For the first time, a black hole has been discovered with two orbiting stars, leading astrophysicists to suggest a surprising way such systems could form. Many black holes have been discovered in binary systems. These pairs involve a central black hole and another object such as a star, denser neutron star or anothe...

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Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source

gazetteer.co

Some slightly unsettling billboards and ads have recently popped up around the city. They feature phrases...
Some slightly unsettling billboards and ads have recently popped up around the city. They feature phrases like “Chief Freeload Officer” and “Chief Excuse Officer” accompanied by unsubtle caricatures, including one of a creepy guy with dollar signs for eyes, and money flying out of his drooling mouth. The billboards ...
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Against /Tmp

dreamwidth.org
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Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)

riotgames.com

Hello everyone! We’re Matt deWet, gameplay tech lead on VALORANT, and David Straily, project tech lead...
Hello everyone! We’re Matt deWet, gameplay tech lead on VALORANT, and David Straily, project tech lead on VALORANT - and we're beyond excited to be here with you all to share some of the technical details behind how we’re addressing some common issues in the FPS genre - peeker’s advantage, poor hit registration, and...
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Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, we’re Suchintan and Shu from Skyvern (https://www.skyvern.com). We’re building an open source tool to...
Hey HN, we’re Suchintan and Shu from Skyvern (https://www.skyvern.com). We’re building an open source tool to help companies automate browser-based workflows using LLMs.Our open source repo is at https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern, and we're excited to share our cloud version with you (https://app.skyvern.com) :)...
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Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia

scientificamerican.com

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road,...
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand years ago.A team first noticed one of the lost cities in 2011 while hiking the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan in sear...
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He Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Shortage of Skilled Workers: Many blame immigrants for taking American jobs, but some trades face serious shortages — the U.S. needs 300,000 more welders — and immigrants have he...
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Reddit Bot CLI: tool to monitor subreddits for keywords and post comment

github.com
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JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use

jetbrains.com
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